This has to be one of the most pathetic performances I’ve ever seen from a presidential candidate, as Ben Carson struggles (and utterly fails) to make sense about how he’d deal with ISIS. It goes on and on, getting more and more painful.
Carson says he’d shoot down Russian planes if they violated his no-fly zone over Syria, and if they retaliate — “we’ll see what happens.” Unreal.
He does realize they’re not the enemy, right…?
…Maybe not…
“Reason why Ben Carson should never have executive control of nuclear weapons” #572
It amazes me that someone can be taken seriously as a presidential candidate when they have zero understanding of a situation like this
re: #3 KGxvi
It’ snot so surprising when you consider his supporters are just as clueless.
“Specifically, who would you call first?”
“All of them, Katie.”
I wish our media was less clueless and made people think about things like this. They won’t though, because it’s uncomfortable and uncomfortable doesn’t make money.
It’s only to illustrate a point: not a single person, not a single friend has asked me if my friends & family in Beirut are OK.
— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) November 16, 2015
I just realized Carson sounds incoherent because he’s using both frontal lobes. Both of them at the same time.
I was killing time at a Walmart looking at books when I saw a couple Ben Carson books. SO I picked one up for laughs. One of his thoughts about judges was that they should be selected locally so they would be more accountable to the will of the citizens. He seems to have mixed up judges with representatives.
“We’ll see what happens.”
That’s how we became a great nation.
re: #9 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
In a lot of states, judges are elected. Here in California there’s a hybrid election/appointment system where the Governor appoints a Supreme Court justice, he/she is confirmed by the state senate, and then every few years, the voters get to vote as to whether they should be retained
Sometimes I think Republicans’ entire knowledge of Foreign Policy comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.
re: #11 KGxvi
Better than PA. Supreme court justices are elected.
One of the striking things about Carson is how pleased with himself he sounds after emitting some of this platitudinous bilge.
re: #14 jaunte
One of the striking things about Carson is how pleased with himself he sounds after emitting some of this platitudinous bilge.
That’s the preacher side of him coming out, methinks.
re: #13 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Sorry, mixed up the process. It’s not the senate. Appointees are reviewed by a State Bar committee and then approved by the commission on judicial appointments. Then there’s retention elections
When it comes to Carson, the Republican base gives him pass after pass because he endlessly bullshits about his relationship with Jesus.
Even if Carson said he molested little kids and Jesus forgave him, the insane base of the GOP would double down their support of him!!!!
Now he uses that space to store grain.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) November 16, 2015
It’s a fact!Just imagine the fit the RWNJs would throw if Obama ever said he was just a “conduit” for experts in foreign policy.
Carson has a massive ego, maybe larger than Trumps.
re: #3 KGxvi
It amazes me that someone can be taken seriously as a presidential candidate when they have zero understanding of a situation like this
Then again, one has to remember that this is the “Republican Base”.
“Zero understanding” is taken as the baseline for almost any analysis of foreign affairs - hence “Moar War” is the default position….
Charles Johnson,
Should we expect much better from someone who literally believes that evolution is a lie, the Earth is only thousands of years old, Noah’s flood really happened, and that ancient Egyptian pyramids were built to store grain?
Surprise, Dr. Ben Carson’s Latest Pyramid Scheme Involves Actual Pyramids
Egypt Does Archaeological Dig On Ben Carson’s Brain, Discovers A Idiot
re: #17 Joe Bacon
Even if Carson said he molested little kids and Jesus forgave him, the insane base of the GOP would double down their support of him!!!!
Well, they do by and large still support the Duggars…
re: #20 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
Carson has a massive ego, maybe larger than Trumps.
Really when it comes between Carson, Trump and Fiorina—I don’t know which one of them are the most narcissistic!
re: #3 KGxvi
It amazes me that someone can be taken seriously as a presidential candidate when they have zero understanding of a situation like this
Religion.
I mean this isn’t a video game or movie where you shred tons of bad guys without barely getting hurt and then go home smiling and happy when the credits roll.
This is REAL LIFE and there are REAL consequences if and when you actually manage to beat the “bad guys”.
Carson says he’d shoot down Russian planes if they violated his no-fly zone over Syria, and if they retaliate — “we’ll see what happens.” Unreal.
The 2015 GOP version of “Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”, at a quarter speed.
re: #18 goddamnedfrank
That red-haired girl was one of eleventy zillion things I loved about KITH.
Another flaw in the logic of the GOP is they seem to assume the U.S. Military is strong enough to wipe any other country in the world off the map with relative ease.
That may be true on an individual basis, but if nations start ganging up on us…
I thought i was pretty smart to predict smarmy assholes like Walker and Paul would never take hold a long time ago. And too, months ago, that Jeb didn’t have it in him and Rubio would emerge as the party favorite. And sooner, conceded that maybe Trump was going away any time soon. But I never saw this Carson thing sticking.
Amazingly, I underestimated the idiocy of the american right wing.
I mean this perpetual war garbage that the GOP spouts is EXACTLY why a lot of the rest of the world thinks the U.S. is a bully and self designated world policeman.
The way it played out is the way it should have played out. Terrorists attack France > France bombs the hell out of the terrorists. There’s no reason for the direct involvement of U.S. forces right now.
I’m one minute (one minute!) into this video and I have grave doubts of this man’s character and ability as a politician. Can I make it through the next nine minutes? We shall see!
re: #10 jaunte
“We’ll see what happens.”
That’s how we became a great nation.
“Let’s shoot down a 747 with a U.S. Congressman aboard. We’ll see what happens”.
Can you imagine if that happened today? Who could have imagined there were people stupider and crazier than Reagan?
I just found out about one of the most disgusting hashtags ever! Who the Hell came up with it?
@AndrewNorton77 Seriously there are some sick people out there.
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) November 16, 2015
GAH! Dr. Ben Carson cannot become president! He’s a nincompoop!
re: #35 CriticalDragon1177
And oh God, some people are blaming it on the Black Lives Matter movement?
What proof is there that #BlackLivesMatter started #FuckParis?
— *Woke Up in 1984* (@micahsgrrl) November 16, 2015
“…our Special Ops, who are absolutely terrific…”
Trump starting to rub off on the good Doctor.
“We asked Ben Carson to make sense. You won’t believe what happens next!”
re: #39 Pawn of the Oppressor
“We asked Ben Carson to make sense. You won’t believe what happens next!”
Next on Buzzed: 28 ways Ben Carson made people question his sanity. #12 will bring tears to your eyes!
re: #37 CriticalDragon1177
Looking at some of the posts from earlier in the spring of this year, it looks like a French soccer fan’s hashtag.
“Stop ISIS with this one simple trick!”
“…we need to be very compassionate, understand that these people have been displaced, and we should use our expertise and resources to get them resettled over there, but to bring them over here is a suspension of intellect…” Then he goes on about how big human brains are.
This guy is fucked in the head.
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean this perpetual war garbage that the GOP spouts is EXACTLY why a lot of the rest of the world thinks the U.S. is a bully and self designated world policeman.
The way it played out is the way it should have played out. Terrorists attack France > France bombs the hell out of the terrorists. There’s no reason for the direct involvement of U.S. forces right now.
I’d love to see how the ammosexuals’ war cry of “If only Parisians had guns, this wouldn’t have happened” is playing out there.
Ben Carson and Donald Trump are the presidential picks of half of GOP voters. Let the horror of that sink in for a minute.
re: #41 jaunte
Looking at some of the posts from earlier in the spring of this year, it looks like a French soccer fan’s hashtag.
Really? Wow. Even if that’s true, Its still a disgusting hashtag, even if it has nothing to do with the recent terrorist attack in Paris. Still why is it that I have a hard time believing that’s how it got started.
Well, next GOP debate in a month. Who will drop out??
“…for us to always be backing down because we’re afraid of a conflict, that’s not how we became a great nation, Chris.”
Good fucking grief. This guy is delusional.
re: #46 CriticalDragon1177
Wikipedia:
“[Paris Saint-Germain Football Club] shares an intense rivalry with Marseille and contest the most notorious football match in France, known as Le Classique.”
“Ici, c’est Paris!” and “Paris est magique!” are the club’s most popular mottos.”
en.wikipedia.org.
Sports trashtalk, but lately others have been chiming in.
Oh WOW! Dr. Ben Carson talked to the war criminal Henry Kissinger! I am impress.
re: #47 Jenner7
Well, next GOP debate in a month. Who will drop out??
I got a feeling Chris Christie is the next one getting flushed down the john, followed by Miss Lindsay and Gilmore.
Holy shit. This man is one of the front-runners for the Republican nomination for President. I’m scared.
This is so fucking important. It should be retweeted and shared 10000 times pic.twitter.com/HF5I5KnJHI
— Rebekka (@SimpIyboca) November 15, 2015
re: #13 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Better than PA. Supreme court justices are elected.
That’s why I was glad for Election Day. The Philadelphia TV stations were chockfull of their ads. I am so glad we don’t vote for judges or Supreme Court Justices here in NJ. How am I supposed to know who would make a good jurist?
re: #44 Mattand
I’d love to see how the ammosexuals’ war cry of “If only Parisians had guns, this wouldn’t have happened” is playing out there.
My French is a tad rusty, but I’m sure there’s a handy translation for “how stupid are these asshole Americans?”
re: #49 jaunte
Wikipedia:
Sports trashtalk, but lately others have been chiming in.
And it sounds like they have some kind of political motive to demean France after the Paris attacks. Not sure what exactly.
This is how aliens will react to Carson when they receive our TV and radio signals…
Another reasons why Aliens want NOTHING to do with us!re: #59 Joe Bacon
I think after listening to Ben Carson speak, that alien is going to committed suicide by launching himself into the nearest super massive black hole.
re: #59 Joe Bacon
It’s extremely alien to tell an interviewer you have a human brain, not an animal brain when he asks you how you would solve a problem if you get elected.
re: #56 jaunte
It’s early yet. Rubio and Cruz sneaking up on the inside rail.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Rubio will become the favorite of the GOP establishment/billionaire base and thus the nominee. If they want to make Hillary’s age an issue, it makes sense to go with the (relatively) young and new shiny object.
Just saw on my local news some idiot at a rally for Paris say that more Muslims need to come out against these attacks.
Sigh…
re: #64 Jenner7
Just saw on my local news some idiot at a rally for Paris say that more Muslims need to come out against these attacks.
Sigh…
That’s the chorus. It doesn’t matter what the verse is, that’s the chorus.
re: #22 CriticalDragon1177
Well, that was a waste of Egypt’s time.
You can tell that without digging.
re: #64 Jenner7
Just saw on my local news some idiot at a rally for Paris say that more Muslims need to come out against these attacks.
Sigh…
And this. What could go wrong? I will raise your sigh with a double Ugh!
French Interior Minister: We will start the “dissolution of mosques where hate is preached.” https://t.co/BZwXLnBnp3 pic.twitter.com/sZ7JIvVPp9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 15, 2015
Jamar Clark.
Protests erupt after black man shot by police in Minneapolis https://t.co/ZP9z1vIt6x
— Sun Nation/World (@worldstories) November 16, 2015
G’night.
re: #35 CriticalDragon1177
I just found out about one of the most disgusting hashtags ever! Who the Hell came up with it?
It could have been one of the wingnut commenters from this website here…
re: #68 Jenner7
Not sure about this one. If he was interfering with paramedics and police and they had no luck calming in down. Also not yet confirmed whether or not he was in handcuffs when it happened.
re: #69 Lancelot Link
It could have been one of the wingnut commenters from this website here…
Seriously?
re: #69 Lancelot Link
Yeah, Charles is intellectually and philosophically the very same person that wrote that post a decade ago.
GTFOWTMFBS
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Out of curiosity, when did the dingers become operational? I noticed that there was no dinging in those days.
re: #69 Lancelot Link
Sorry about that. I probably should have put a // there….besides, I did mean the commenters at the time.
Oh well, I finally got some downdings!
re: #76 Lancelot Link
There was a comment containing a link to a website with a URL fuckfrance.com, but it’s just as well the site doesn’t exist anymore.
Here’s a link to a Wall Street Journal article that discusses the bomb attack on the Stade de France. Worth noting that the security guard who spoke to the media was not the one who identified the bomber but is named Zouheir.
This may be another case of Twitter is going off on something that may not be accurate.
re: #76 Lancelot Link
Sorry about that. I probably should have put a // there….besides, I did mean the commenters at the time.
Oh well, I finally got some downdings!
Over the line, that’s a foul.
re: #79 teleskiguy
Sometimes it’s tricky to know how far to go too far.
Don’t be afraid to get downdinged. It isn’t the end of the world.
re: #80 Lancelot Link
Sometimes it’s tricky to know how far to go too far.
I went too far, once.
I’ve already commented on this tonight, I’ll do it again. Once upon a time I said ‘Glenn Beck should be flogged’ (pretty much verbatim). Next comment I made…nothing. I was banned from LGF. I violated the rules in re: violence and violent rhetoric. I’m here because I knew I made a mistake and made amends with our humble narrator.
I’ve seen violence and violent rhetoric here as of late. I don’t like it.
I got banned once, when I was a wee lizard, but I don’t remember why.
I linked to a story from philly.com about a couple of newborn babies that were found dead in a pile of trash. Later I saw a link that they had been autopsied. I thought that was part of the investigation, like anybody would, but they had been autopsied before they were left in the lot.
philly.com
re: #87 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Blessedly, comments are disabled for the story.
re: #87 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I linked to a story from philly.com about a couple of newborn babies that were found dead in a pile of trash. Later I saw a link that they had been autopsied. I thought that was part of the investigation, like anybody would, but they had been autopsied before they were left in the lot.
philly.com
What in the fuck?
The strangest banning I ever saw happened when some guy whose nic had a link to his website which was full of truly disturbing pictures. Otherwise he was carrying on a normal conversation until people starting asking him “wtf”, and then things went weird in a hurry. Somebody was able to make contact with Charles and the guy was obliterated from the site.
re: #90 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Not on this site, but the funniest banning I remember was on Weather Underground back during the 2005 Hurricane Season.
Everyone talking about the Hurricane Season when all of a sudden someone out of the blue posted a picture of a naked woman.
The post and poster disappeared within the minute.
re: #91 The War TARDIS
Not on this site, but the funniest banning I remember was on Weather Underground back during the 2005 Hurricane Season.
Everyone talking about the Hurricane Season when sudden someone out of the blue posted a picture of a naked woman.
The post and poster disappeared within the minute.
Hurricane Season could be name of a porn star, now that I think of it.
re: #90 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
The strangest banning I ever saw happened when some guy whose nic had a link to his website which was full of truly disturbing pictures. Otherwise he was carrying on a normal conversation until people starting asking him “wtf”, and then things went weird in a hurry. Somebody was able to make contact with Charles and the guy was obliterated from the site.
That was MikeySDCA. He was a wingnut who hung on after the right to left switch, and would mostly post passive aggressive bullshit. He turned out to be a pedophile, someone finally noticed that his profile was linking to a page full of pics of young boys.
I reported him to the FBI.
re: #92 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Hurricane Season could be name of a porn star, now that I think of it.
It could work for male or female. It’s a Unisex porn star name.
I know, I’m becoming (heh) obsessed with the Charles P. Pierce ISIS story, but it seems incredible to me that he just posted it at about 2 pm yesterday (and he doesn’t usually even write weekend posts) and it already has 127.8k shares.
re: #95 teleskiguy
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Not only will I snitch on motherfuckers like that, I’ll draw the police a detailed map to their house.
re: #67 blueraven
And this. What could go wrong? I will raise your sigh with a double Ugh!
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Radical mosques connected to terrorists do need to be dealt with though.
re: #98 goddamnedfrank
Not only will I snitch on motherfuckers like that, I’ll draw the police a detailed map to their house.
As you damned well should.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
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Chuck may be feeling the heat during his deposition tomorrow. The National Abortion Federation filed a motion against David Daleiden on Friday, which names Chuck by name. I’ll post the full document later, but I have posted the document (see below for link), but here’s an excerpt.
A week and a half after forcing through this clearly overbroad production, Daleiden’s “great friend,” Charles C. Johnson, began publishing it on the Internet. (Foran Decl. Exs. 5, 7.) Johnson initially claimed that he obtained the recordings from a “congressional staffer.” (Foran Decl. Exs. 6, 8.) He would later tell the Washington Post, however, that he received it from someone with the username “patriotgeist,” and that this individual did not identify themselves as being from Congress. (Foran Decl. Ex. 9.) Rather, they told Johnson that “he” was someone who felt “morally interested in having this material come out.” (Id.) At the very same time, Johnson was in frequent contact with Daleiden himself, [REDACTED].
Whether or not Johnson’s incredible cover story is to believed (NAF will depose him next week), one of two things must be true: either (1) a Congressional staffer, out of the tens of millions of potential candidates, happened to select Daleiden’s “great friend” Johnson to leak materials covered by this Court’s TRO; or (2) Daleiden forced the overbroad disclosure to Congress and then used it as a smoke screen in order to pass the same materials to Johnson, an individual notorious for publishing on the Internet intimate, private details of people’s lives (including, to take one of many abhorrent examples, the names and pictures of rape victims). (Foran Decl. Ex. 10.)
The material Johnson posted included things like a 36-minute clip from a [REDACTED]
, and an hour-and-a-half panel discussion on [REDACTED] (Foran Decl. ¶¶ 17-18, Ex. 11.) Such videos have nothing to do with material sought by the congressional subpoena. Yet the videos, now publicly disclosed, identify multiple physicians by name and show their faces. (Id.) Moreover, as explained more fully in NAF’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction which is incorporated by reference, Johnson’s disclosure of the overbroad materials [REDACTED] notwithstanding this Court’s clear and unambiguous order has led directly to further instances of harassment and intimidation against NAF’s members. (See NAF Mtn. for Prelim. Inj. at 13 (collecting instances of online harassment and death threats as a result of Johnson’s disclosures).)
NAF is asking that Daleiden be held in contempt of court for failing to produce all the documents and videos demanded of him.
Interesting factoid about France’s hate speech laws:
In 2013 Bob Dylan was placed under judicial investigation in France for allegedly provoking ethnic hatred of Croats. It followed a legal complaint lodged by a Croat association in France over a 2012 interview Dylan gave to Rolling Stone magazine. [12] In April 2014, the case against Dylan himself was dropped, but the director of Rolling Stone ’s French edition was ordered to stand trial.[13]
re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
And the walls keep closing in…
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
And the walls keep closing in…
These lawyers are going for the jugular, you can bet on that.
I don’t know about y’all, I think @robdelaney is one of the true Kings of Twitter.
@robdelaney @F1 pic.twitter.com/mouZzD1tEJ
— Perry Schaffer (@bmoreravens1fan) November 16, 2015
He’s a big fan of Kyuss. And folks that dig the old stoner metal are my friends.
re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Chuck doesn’t seem to realize that the NAF’s lawyers are getting set to build a criminal case against him. He’s in very serious trouble.
On Facebook he’s asking people if they want to meet him for drinks tomorrow night in San Francisco.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
Chuck doesn’t seem to realize that the NAF’s lawyers are getting set to build a criminal case against him. He’s in very serious trouble.
On Facebook he’s asking people if they want to meet him for drinks tomorrow night in San Francisco.
Hahaha! Maybe after they bail him out of the pokey.
GotNwes files this report:
BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE: Abortion group seeks contempt charges against David Daleiden, mentions his ‘great friend’ Chuck Johnson in motion
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) filed a motion Friday in federal court, seeking contempt of court charges against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and its leader, David Daleiden.
The NAF claims that Daleiden has not complied with a temporary restraining order against release of CMP’s controversial video hackjob of Planned Parenthood. It asks for relief, including NAF’s costs and attorneys’ fees.
A hearing on the motion (see text below) is set for Dec. 18 in US District Court of California, Northern Division.
The motion cites in some detail the related activity of
blogger andAward Winning JournalistTM Chuck C. Johnson, a college friend of Daleiden, who published some of CMP’s Planned Parenthood videos on his website, GotNewsDotCom (which is not this one.)
re: #107 Charles Johnson
Chuck doesn’t seem to realize that the NAF’s lawyers are getting set to build a criminal case against him. He’s in very serious trouble.
On Facebook he’s asking people if they want to meet him for drinks tomorrow night in San Francisco.
I thought the subpoena made it clear that the deposition was taking place in Fresno.
re: #110 goddamnedfrank
I thought the subpoena made it clear that the deposition was taking place in Fresno.
It was rescheduled from an earlier date. Maybe the venue was changed as well.
re: #63 Interesting Times
Rubio is rising in the polls. The internet wisdom is that as Carson flails about and loses true believers that Rubio will benefit.
re: #113 freetoken
Rubio is rising in the polls. The internet wisdom is that as Carson flails about and loses true believers that Rubio will benefit.
Not sure I get the logic, why would Carson supporters go to Rubio over a far more religiously vocal conservative like Cruz?
re: #115 goddamnedfrank
Because supposedly Carson attracts those who are more into the softer (may we say more feminine) touch in politics. Cruz is very abrasive.
I think more women will move to Rubio than to Cruz.
re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
It was rescheduled from an earlier date. Maybe the venue was changed as well.
Since Chuck likely isn’t paying his own lawyer much if anything that makes sense, forcing Chuck to come to him instead of the the other way around.
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
Since Chuck likely isn’t paying his own lawyer much if anything that makes sense, forcing Chuck to come to him instead of the the other way around.
Chuck will be going to Morrison & Foerster’s office in SF, i assume.
re: #114 freetoken
I’m no expert, but I remember reading a magazine story a few months ago (sorry, I don’t remember which one — maybe Time) saying Rubio was probably the most neoconservative of all the GOP candidates.
Since reading that, I’ve been dreading a rise in the polls for him. (You can put me down in that category of American who strongly opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, let alone Iraq).
re: #119 Scout
Rubio keeps repeating PNAC mantras as answers to questions at these “debates”. There is no doubt that Rubio is the guy for the neoconservatives.
re: #121 freetoken
The neoconservatives dream candidate is Ted Cruz, IMHO. Ted Cruz is crazy enough to follow through with all the crazy shit he says. He’s a true believer. His dad has been telling him that he’s the savior for humans since Gawd knows when.
re: #37 CriticalDragon1177
And oh God, some people are blaming it on the Black Lives Matter movement?
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Looking at the timeline for the hashtag, the actual Black Lives Matter movement members were using it almost exclusively before November- thus it having nothing at all to do with the Paris attacks. When I looked at November 13, it was the first the Infowars conspiracy crowd, followed by a very small number of individuals who might well be associated with BLM, then the trolls with fake accounts and white nationalists with accounts pretending to be African Americans (the timelines for those is a dead giveaway) started to dogpile. At that time the rightwingers started noticing and attributed ALL of it to the BLM associated people.
re: #122 teleskiguy
I’m not sure about that. Neoconservatism is driven by hyper-Americanism. The problem with some very religious evangelical groups is that they can be pacifists, or at least have pacifists in their midsts, which gets in the way of the continual war impulse of the neoconservatives. Cruz’s father is still fighting his Cuban version of the cold war so to that extent Ted Cruz fits the neoconservative mold, but I am quite sure that neoconservative masterminds are not really the same crowd as the very evangelical crowd. The former simply use the latter as needed.
My understanding of the neoconservative movement is that it is an outgrowth of Cold War strategy and the so-called military-industrial complex. They don’t want a multi-polar world. They believe that the US should be the single dominant power in the world.
With the onset of cooler weather I’ve tripled my electricity usage, since I use electric to heat my place. Bummer… my summer electric bills were really low. SDG&E is moving to a new price structure (as are all California utilities I believe). It’s supposed to make billing easier by having one fewer tier, and then in the future CPUC is going to reduce the tiers again down to 2 tiers.
In the end, I expect to pay more.
We always seem to pay more.
re: #125 freetoken
Nope. Ted Cruz’s voters and his followers and all those who won’t vote for Donald Trump or Ben Carson are fully in the “biblical end times” shit. And lets not forget those that are voting for Trump or Carson. I think you’re underestimating the frightening possibilities.
re: #128 teleskiguy
Image of Trump 20 years younger and 50 pounds lighter.
re: #126 freetoken
You might consider getting a window AC unit that can run the heat pump in heating mode during winter. A two-way/reversible heat pump gets you 3 or so units of heat for each unit of electrical energy.
re: #125 freetoken
My understanding of the neoconservative movement is that it is an outgrowth of Cold War strategy and the so-called military-industrial complex. They don’t want a multi-polar world. They believe that the US should be the single dominant power in the world.
There have been times when we were briefly in that position, as we were at the end of WWII before the USSR developed nuclear capabilities. We need to recognize that we got there by default, namely from Europe self-destructing in WWII or the USSR collapsing at the end of the Cold War.
And our dominance, however enthralling to policymakers, was only temporary. There is no staving off the inevitable rise of other nations, ideologies and economic systems.
re: #135 Single-handed sailor
Not really. I didn’t get into buying albums till 1971. Steve Winwood was in Traffic by then.
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
I had to hide that album from my mom when I brought it home…
re: #137 lockjawcanbefun
I’m amazed it took this long for some dolt to torch a mosque.
ISISs reaction: This person is representative of all Westerners!!! You see? We warned you! They are all violent extremists who must be conquered or wiped out!!!
FOX HOST: Which world leader would you call first?
CARSON, Um, hem, haw, all of them Katie!
TRUMP:ALL OF THEM WOULD BE CALLING ME! THEY’D ALL BE CALLING ME!!! I’M THE ONE EVERYBODY LOOKS UP TO!!!!11!!
ISIS has no oil. That is why they sell stolen antiquities, sex slaves and porno snuff films.
Remember, I was the one who said attack the oil (ISIS source of wealth) a long time ago. Everyone scoffed, now they’re attacking the oil.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2015
re: #140 The Vicious Babushka
ISIS has no oil. That is why they sell stolen antiquities, sex slaves and porno snuff films.
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ISIS has been smuggling oil it’s been producing:
nytimes.com
re: #46 CriticalDragon1177
Really? Wow. Even if that’s true, Its still a disgusting hashtag, even if it has nothing to do with the recent terrorist attack in Paris. Still why is it that I have a hard time believing that’s how it got started.
hashtags get hijacked and repurposed for stupid shit all the time.
re: #35 CriticalDragon1177
I just found out about one of the most disgusting hashtags ever! Who the Hell came up with it?
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Someone whose hatred of France exceeds all rational bounds.
re: #59 Joe Bacon
This is how aliens will react to Carson when they receive our TV and radio signals…
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Nice to see that phrenology is making a comeback among the GOP.
re: #81 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Don’t be afraid to get downdinged. It isn’t the end of the world.
Tell me about it! Never say Sandra Bland was a mentally unstable idiot who caused her own problems. She was actually a hero fighting for justice and so she was murdered. :)
Morning all!
It is still hazardous in my part of the world. We have a hydrologic outlook report and everything.
you?
re: #145 mroop
Tell me about it! Never say Sandra Bland was a mentally unstable idiot who caused her own problems. :)
So sorry, I’d like to live in a country in which even mentally unstable idiots get treated with respect.
re: #146 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
A bit cool this evening. Monday night/Tues morning we might get down near 40F.
re: #141 Timothy Watson
ISIS has been smuggling oil it’s been producing:
nytimes.com
True, but when we attack things related to oil we go after the refining equipment, not the oil fields themselves. Blowing up oil wells causes them to burn, with resulting severe environmental consequences. Doing so would weaken ISIS, but it would be a massive asshole move.
re: #55 Kafitrar
TI am so glad we don’t vote for judges or Supreme Court Justices here in NJ. How am I supposed to know who would make a good jurist?
In Jersey you get to be a judge by making lots of political donations. It’s still better than elections. They made my last landlord a judge and he’s the most unethical attorney I’ve come across. Fortunately it appears that he made some enemies quick as not everyone buys his suck up bullshit. He was ratted out by the court administrator for waiving fines that he shouldn’t have been waiving. He did it for me but not to be nice. It was more like, “Look at me and how powerful I am. I’m going to waive your client’s fine!” Other judges get away with waiving fines because they don’t make enemies. Word on the street says he won’t be reappointed. Happy dance!!
re: #147 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
So sorry, I’d like to live in a country in which even mentally unstable idiots get treated with respect.
That’s asking too much in many cases. Such people should be treated humanely, but quite often they need to be disrepected as part of humiliating them into changing.
re: #151 Dark_Falcon
That’s asking too much in many cases. Such people should be treated humanely, but quite often they need to be disrepected as part of humiliating them into changing.
Ok, let’s just disrespect all those with a biological abnormality —like narcolepsy. That should work well to humiliate them into changing.
Do you think about what you say before you post it?
re: #152 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Ok, let’s just disrespect all those with a biological abnormality —like narcolepsy. That should work well to humiliate them into changing.
Do you think about what you say before you post it?
You don’t show disrespect because someone is mentally ill, you disrespect them for doing stupid things that they know not to do. What I want to say likely could have been said better, but I’ve got a bad headache and it made it hard to think of a better turn of phrase.
re: #147 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
So sorry, I’d like to live in a country in which even mentally unstable idiots get treated with respect.
So would I! Unfortunately neither of us make the rules. I deal with cops almost every day. Many cops become cops because they like exercising authority over others. If you cause them trouble at a traffic stop they are going to push back. That is the reality of it. I’ve been pulled over and drove away without a ticket and without pulling out my PBA card because I know how to handle cops. Sandra Bland copped an attitude at a traffic stop. When you do that you will never win and you might end up hanging yourself in a jail cell. Don’t be upset with me because I am telling you this is reality.
When will the librul media start reminding the American public about this?
2 years ago President Obama asked Congress to draft an AUMF. As usual, the do-nothing-Congress did nothing. #ISIS #ParisAttacks #tcot
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 16, 2015
re: #154 mroop
So would I! Unfortunately neither of us make the rules. I deal with cops almost every day. Many cops become cops because they like exercising authority over others. If you cause them trouble at a traffic stop they are going to push back. That is the reality of it. I’ve been pulled over and drove away without a ticket and without pulling out my PBA card because I know how to handle cops. Sandra Bland copped an attitude at a traffic stop. When you do that you will never win and you might end up hanging yourself in a jail cell. Don’t be upset with me because I am telling you this is reality.
I’m not upset. I’m pissed that such things are just shrugged-off.
People used to think lots of things were “just reality”. We have the power to change injustices in our country. Complacency in the face of law enforcement power plays is not acceptable.
re: #154 mroop
So would I! Unfortunately neither of us make the rules. I deal with cops almost every day. Many cops become cops because they like exercising authority over others. If you cause them trouble at a traffic stop they are going to push back. That is the reality of it. I’ve been pulled over and drove away without a ticket and without pulling out my PBA card because I know how to handle cops. Sandra Bland copped an attitude at a traffic stop. When you do that you will never win. Don’t be upset with me because I am telling you this is reality.
She “copped an attitude” for the capital crime of smoking a cigarette in her own fucking car?
re: #157 Timothy Watson
She “copped an attitude” for the capital crime of smoking a cigarette in her own fucking car?
I know more than one white man in a suit who has “copped an attitude” and driven away -alive and well.
re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth
hashtags get hijacked and repurposed for stupid shit all the time.
Which is why its origin in sports is pretty irrelevant, since its new use had nothing whatsoever to do with sports.
Also it is true that wingnut racists turned this molehill into a mountain. It is however pretty sad that the molehill - some activists disparaging France at this time - ever existed. France’s dark past and not so perfect present have nothing to do with having some sympathy for the victims of terror.
re: #157 Timothy Watson
She “copped an attitude” for the capital crime of smoking a cigarette in her own fucking car?
When a cop pulls you over you put your cigarette before he even get to the window. If you are still smoking and he asks you to put it out then you put it out unless you want trouble. Again, I do not make the rules, I am telling about cops. When he asks you to step out of the car then you step out of the car or he just might drag you out of the car and then charge you with resisting arrest and aggravated assault .
re: #160 mroop
When a cop pulls you over you put your cigarette before he even get to the window. If you are still smoking and he asks you to put it out then you put it out unless you want trouble. Again, I do not make the rules, I am telling about cops. When he asks you to step out of the car then you step out of the car or he just might drag you out of the car and then charge you with resisting arrest and aggravated assault .
I don’t recall a law saying anywhere that I can’t smoke in my own fucking car.
VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY
PRONUNCIATION:
(SITZ-mark, SITS-)MEANING:
noun: A mark made by someone falling backward in the snow.ETYMOLOGY:
From German sitzen (to sit) + mark. Earliest documented use: 1935. Two related words are sitzfleisch and sitzkrieg.USAGE:
“He’d practically worn a sitzmark in the concrete there, so fond was he of that particular fishing hole.”
Marthanne Shubert; A Woman to Blame; Uncial Press; 2009.
re: #158 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I know more than one white man in a suit who has “copped an attitude” and driven away -alive and well.
And I know a white woman who was arrested and charged with aggravated assault for pulling her arm away when a cop tried to lead her away from her bf that she had just caught cheating on her. Many cops are racist, that is a fact. All the more reason to not cop an attitude when you are dealing with the police.
In re: Chuck’s deposition today, Adam Steinbaugh tells me Chuck’s lawyer filed a second motion today to quash the subpoena, under California’s journalist shield law. So, Chuck may not be deposed in SF at all today.He may still appear for the deposition, but he is not providing the documents demanded under the subpoena.
re: #151 Dark_Falcon
That’s asking too much in many cases. Such people should be treated humanely, but quite often they need to be disrepected as part of humiliating them into changing.
You forgot these ///
I will tell one more cop story and then I gotta go. My brother is a dentist and he worked on a state trooper. The trooper was so happy with the job that he gave him a brass PBA card - this is the gold standard card. What he said to my brother was, “I’m really scared of the dentist and thank you for such a great job. I would rather charge into a room full of armed n*****s than go to the dentist.” This cop did not know my brother at all and he spoke like that. You should hear how cops talk about black people when there are no black people around.
While artists like Foo Fighters and U2 were forced to cancel or postpone their European shows in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks, Madonna decided to soldier on with her own trek with a Saturday night concert in Stockholm, Sweden, where the singer delivered a moving, heartfelt and tearful speech about the massacre in the French capital.Read more: rollingstone.com
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Minneapolis protests erupt after police shoot black man allegedly in handcuffs https://t.co/CafBKoHYgL
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) November 16, 2015
Blow up the oil fields he says. As if that’ll solve anything other than giving Halliburton and other oil companies yet another shot at lucrative rebuilding contracts.
No, you want to retain the oil infrastructure as intact as possible because there’s a lot of people who aren’t involved in ISIL who rely on it for their livelihood. Iraq for starters. Cripple their oil infrastructure, and you’ll only end up radicalizing even more Iraqis who figure that it’s better to join with folks who will at least give them some pay than those who bomb the key infrastructure.
And that doesn’t begin to address the ecological toll of blowing up the oil infrastructure too.
ISIL power runs along the same basic rat lines that the insurgency ran from 2003 onwards. Their center of power is in and along the Iraq/Syria border. That’s got to be the focus, not the oil wealth. ISIL profits from the fear and power vacuum in the region. Oil is an ancillary means (and who are they selling the oil to that enables them to have money in the first place - a question going unanswered). There’s also the human trafficking and other depravities that ISIL engages in that includes sales of antiquities and looting.
And if you’re an Iraqi or a Lebanese and see the outpouring regarding the Paris attacks, you can’t help but wonder why the world didn’t show a similar outpouring when Beirut was bombed just weeks earlier. Or when any of the dozens of terror attacks hit Iraq - and for months and years at a time, attacks with triple digit casualties were all too frequent.
Paris > Beiruit > Baghdad > Nigeria (re: Boko Haram). That’s the calculus that ISIL is using. It’s the one that those living in the Middle East see - both in the terror attacks and the reprisals (that some lives are more covered and seemingly worth more. ISIL knows that its attacks in the ME simply don’t get the coverage as say a Paris attack would, which is why they carry out high profile attacks to serve as recruitment posters, but they continue the slaughter virtually uninterrupted in Syria and Iraq.
The refugee crisis that ISIL has helped spur, likewise helps create new terrorists and radicalization - both as countries seek to shutter their borders against people fleeing the violence and some rage against the governments for turning their backs on the defenseless, while others plum those refugees for those who they can turn to their cause of jihad.
re: #170 lawhawk
Any bloodlust I had after 9/11 is gone. I just can’t see how we or any part of the world is better off because of our response.
No matter how many terrorists we we kill or imprison, a new crop of angry, lost young men will be available for a charismatic tyrant to manipulate.
Just read the motion to quash. Chuck’s deposition is tomorrow in San Francisco at Morrison & Foerster’s office, not today. News of further drama will be delayed.
Meanwhile, Judge Shaw in Missouri may hand down an order today about the Gawker libel suit.
More proof that conservatives do not live in reality. https://t.co/vGwib87kb3
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 16, 2015
Joe Scarborough: America needs a counter-terrorism strategy like the TV show Homeland: https://t.co/3s4Sj1CzQB pic.twitter.com/dNmPgxrSGu
— Media Matters (@mmfa) November 16, 2015
re: #172 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Just read the motion to quash. Chuck’s deposition is tomorrow in San Francisco at Morrison & Foerster’s office, not today. News of further drama will be delayed.
Meanwhile, Judge Shaw in Missouri may hand down an order today about the Gawker libel suit.
And Chucky’s thinking - I’m in the News! I’m in the News! It’s glorious to be breaking/making news!
This is the deep breath before the plunge. Chucky’s not going to be happy about where any of this goes.
re: #171 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Any bloodlust I had after 9/11 is gone. I just can’t see how we or any part of the world is better off because of our response.
No matter how many terrorists we we kill or imprison, a new crop of angry, lost young men will be available for a charismatic tyrant to manipulate.
That’s why so many not-rich white people are voting for Donald Trump.
I’m still having a hard time understanding how thousands of people being gunned down in the USA every year because of our gun culture merits no action and scorn while 100+ in a country a continent and ocean away getting gunned down warrant another price is no object war.
re: #176 b.d.
I’m still having a hard time understanding how thousands of people being gunned down in the USA every year because of our gun culture merits no action and scorn while 100+ in a country a continent and ocean away getting gunned down warrant another price is no object war.
Muslims did it. Angry white people get a pass.
DUMBASS==>
It may sound cruel to say, but I think policy wise, President Obama is thrilled with the aftermath of Paris https://t.co/58bmJGvUhE
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 16, 2015
re: #174 lawhawk
And Chucky’s thinking - I’m in the News! I’m in the News! It’s glorious to be breaking/making news!
This is the deep breath before the plunge. Chucky’s not going to be happy about where any of this goes.
Look on the bright side, lawhawk: If Chuckles had the foresight to see how this is likely to end he would be floor-pooping in fear.
re: #176 b.d.
I’m still having a hard time understanding how thousands of people being gunned down in the USA every year because of our gun culture merits no action and scorn while 100+ in a country a continent and ocean away getting gunned down warrant another price is no object war.
Because Islam
Because irrational fear
Because makes good headlines
re: #179 Dark_Falcon
Look on the bright side, lawhawk: If Chuckles had the foresight to see he this is likely to end he be floor-pooping in fear.
What you tryin’ to say there?
re: #176 b.d.
I’m still having a hard time understanding how thousands of people being gunned down in the USA every year because of our gun culture merits no action and scorn while 100+ in a country a continent and ocean away getting gunned down warrant another price is no object war.
Humans don’t like to look at themselves.
It’s so much easier to find fault in another and then force it’s fix.
In my world, it’s also called:
-Martyrdom
-Co-dependence
-Denial
“When you point the finger at someone, remember there are 3 pointing back at you.”
re: #175 The Vicious Babushka
That’s why so many not-rich white people are voting for Donald Trump.
so true
re: #184 Dark_Falcon
That’s much better, thanks. Autocorrect get you?
After a year of airstrikes, why are there still major ISIS targets for France to hit? https://t.co/sP5Jdfstyo pic.twitter.com/CgOe45PbJh
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 16, 2015
Because new ones pop up you insufferable know-nothing.
And apparently the Russians didn’t blow everything up either. Despite their bombing indiscriminately and hitting everything that moves, whether it’s IS, FSA, or innocent refugees.
It’s a war zone. There are targets of opportunity and new targets getting identified all the time.
It’s the same idiocy of GOPers calling for “where’s shock and awe”. As if that failed strategy should be resurrected because it did so well. Oversold and under-performed. Plus, it helped lead to a decade of war.
GOPers on Paris: What happened to US #shockandawe? - You mean a strategy that didn’t actually work and led to decade of war?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
NOT The Onion:
Despicable truthers use photos of four different women to ‘prove’ Paris attacks were staged https://t.co/TS1E4NNhuK pic.twitter.com/AD1Zom9kLi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 16, 2015
re: #187 Dr. Matt
That same exact meme. Again. Figures. Asshats gotta asshat.
.@tomgara Paris > Beirut > Baghdad > Nigeria (Boko Haram), despite the death toll pretty much working in the opposite direction
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
re: #187 Dr. Matt
Well that settles it then. No reason to bomb anyone or anything then. Right? (do I really have to do the sarc tags here?)
Video at link
Watch Sanders and Clinton Go Head-to-Head on Gun Control
She went on to note that since the last Democratic debate, in October, “nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns; 21 mass shootings, including one last weekend in Des Moines, where three were murdered.; 200 children have been killed. This is an emergency.”
I have to agree.
Politifact: Fact-checking a comparison of gun deaths and terrorism deaths
re: #178 The Vicious Babushka
DUMBASS==>
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re: #185 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
That’s much better, thanks. Autocorrect get you?
auto-correct and/or headache.
for once, someone else has the Monday morning migraine.
(((df)))
re: #193 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
auto-correct and/or headache.
for once, someone else has the Monday morning migraine.
(((df)))
If that’s the case, I add my sympathies, though I am not afflicted with migraines.
Current campaign (Inherent Resolve): 8125 strikes, 457 days. 18/day. Kosovo: 10,484 strikes, 78 days. 134/day. https://t.co/lUugXy7yI1
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) November 16, 2015
Ignoring that the pace of attacks relates to how many targets there are, who’s fighting and with what gear.
Kosovo involved targeted actual army units, not merely terrorists who blended into the woodwork. Identifying targets much harder, and trying to avoid collateral damage is important as it’s just as easy to blow up a wedding as a terror cell gathering.
Claiming that pace of strikes is a sign of indifference or inability to take ISIL seriously ignores the facts on the ground.
re: #195 lawhawk
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Ignoring that the pace of attacks relates to how many targets there are, who’s fighting and with what gear.
Kosovo involved targeted actual army units, not merely terrorists who blended into the woodwork. Identifying targets much harder, and trying to avoid collateral damage is important as it’s just as easy to blow up a wedding as a terror cell gathering.
Claiming that pace of strikes is a sign of indifference or inability to take ISIL seriously ignores the facts on the ground.
And probably half of the Kosovo attacks were SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) attacks, not something we have to spend a lot of time on when it comes to ISIS.
re: #196 Timothy Watson
After looking it up, 21.5% of combat sorties during Kosovo were to take out enemy air defense systems, 32.0% during the Bosnian intervention.
#SCOTUS denies review in 14-1273, NH Right to Life v HHS, over dissent by Thomas joined by Scalia
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) November 16, 2015
re: #195 lawhawk
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Ignoring that the pace of attacks relates to how many targets there are, who’s fighting and with what gear.
Kosovo involved targeted actual army units, not merely terrorists who blended into the woodwork. Identifying targets much harder, and trying to avoid collateral damage is important as it’s just as easy to blow up a wedding as a terror cell gathering.
Claiming that pace of strikes is a sign of indifference or inability to take ISIL seriously ignores the facts on the ground.
Right, it’s a totally different situation.
re: #155 Dr. Matt
When will the librul media start reminding the American public about this?
2 years ago President Obama asked Congress to draft an AUMF. As usual, the do-nothing-Congress did nothing. #ISIS #ParisAttacks #tcot
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 16, 2015
Ummm…Your point is valid, but exaggerated.
American-led intervention in Iraq only started 17 months ago.
And, the President didn’t request from Congress an AUMF until mid February 2015, nine months ago.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart
In case you’re forgetting, the @POTUS requested Congress provide him with a AUMF at the SOTU. #GOPcaterwauling continues
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
Ben Shapiro has a gay bro-crush on this nasty little Anti-Semitic shitgoblin==>
No way to defeat @Nero. His hair alone is too much. Add the British accent and the penis jokes, and it was over. https://t.co/dQlvc5KghA
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
Ben Shapiro has a gay bro-crush on this nasty little Anti-Semitic shitgoblin==>
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And this guy flips out over transgender people?
So Neo-Liberals completely and utterly fucked up the Middle East into oblivion, and now it is regular old Liberalisms job to clean up the mess(like it probably should be).
Very well, bomb these fucking death cultists into oblivion. I’m tired of seeing pictures of what looks like a version of the Khmer Rouge in Syria and Iraq.
I really think if Liberals fall back onto an isolationist position regarding this, than we will be seeing the Republicans controlling every lever of the federal government in 2017.
I don’t really think one can call themselves a Liberal if they would do nothing about an apocalyptic cult with enough territory to call itself a state, that enjoys broadcasting it videos of homosexuals, intellectuals, and religious minorities off the tops of buildings or having their heads chopped off.
Trump says he would ‘strongly consider’ shutting down U.S. mosques with terrorist ties https://t.co/uz6Vjd28UR
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) November 16, 2015
This isn’t Al-Qaeda. Which called itself a caliphate but had no apparatus to create one.
This is a cult with a military force, that passions itself as one of the Medieval conquerors such as the Khans or Timur. With the accompanying savagery that those armies brought with them as well.
It has to be stopped. You can’t reason with it, you just have to destroy it. If human beings decide to act as animals against their fellow man, then they deserve to be treated as animals.
DUMBSHIT==>
Pardon my french… => Bernie Blames Terrorism on ‘Climate Change’… Fact-Check Time! https://t.co/wWTU2KGbVY pic.twitter.com/TVFB3uNGGD
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 16, 2015
re: #209 HappyWarrior
Someone has a problem with the first amendment.
Forget it Jake, it’s Donald Trump.
Of course this fascist bullshit reaction to this bombing isn’t going to help a fucking thing.
I see Hollande has pretty much declared Martial Law in France.
Great.
re: #90 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
The strangest banning I ever saw happened when some guy whose nic had a link to his website which was full of truly disturbing pictures. Otherwise he was carrying on a normal conversation until people starting asking him “wtf”, and then things went weird in a hurry. Somebody was able to make contact with Charles and the guy was obliterated from the site.
I remember that. Very strange.
And the guy was all surprised that people were calling him out for the content on his site.
re: #205 subterraneanhomesickalien
The ME has been a mess long before the so called neo-liberals got their war on. AQ was there. So too were regional rivalries. And before those, you had longstanding religious animosities between Sunni and Shia - majorities v. minorities (which in Iraq is flipped as Shia are the majority, Sunni the minority, and Ba’athists were a minority of Sunni dominating the much larger national population). On and on it goes - where if you want to push back in time, you can go to the colonial period after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which arranged arbitrary borders along lines of convenience and brokered in back rooms often without regard to which regional group, tribe, or ethnic group was in control but rather who the European leaders thought should be in power.
Sectarian violence continues as it has, now with more concentrated violence. We’ve got offshoots of already nihlistic terrorist groups that consider even their predecessors to be insufficiently violent and Muslim enough.
All the while, there’s tens of millions of people who just want to be left alone without fear of violence caught in the crossfire.
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
Ben Shapiro has a gay bro-crush on this nasty little Anti-Semitic shitgoblin==>
Ewwwwww. now I need a shower, with bleach, and a wire luffa. *shudder*
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
DUMBSHIT==>
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Ask him what he thinks about Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 on liberalism. The PEnatgon actually agrees that climate change is a national security problem.
re: #215 HappyWarrior
Ask him what he thinks about Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 on liberalism. The PEnatgon actually agrees that climate change is a national security problem.
The last time I asked Steve Crowder anything, my timeline was swarmed by Crowderbots even stupider than he is.
re: #211 subterraneanhomesickalien
Of course this fascist bullshit reaction to this bombing isn’t going to help a fucking thing.
I see Hollande has pretty much declared Martial Law in France.
Great.
He had to- Had he failed to do so and if there were another attack, it would be all but inexcusable.
HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS==>
Thank God global resources are not dwindling. Unless you count Islamically run countries. Then, what else is new? https://t.co/k06SV9xaQZ
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 16, 2015
We now return to our regularly scheduled war on Christmas, now with more capitalism.
Want to sit in Santa’s lap at some malls? Pay up for the “experience”.
Sure. Go for it.
Some people have way too much time complaining about this kind of thing. No one is forcing you to pay for sitting in Santa’s lap (though I thought if you were doing that, you were paying for photos of your kid with Santa?). It’s the same outrageous outrage as when a few malls decided to go modernist and drop the pagan trees in favor of Frozen-tundra backdrops.
What all these folks ignore is that the malls do these displays not for religious reasons but to make money. Drive traffic. Get people to stick around and spend more money (even as more people buy stuff online).
I’m nearly done with all my holiday shopping - nearly all of it online. Of course, that Hannukah is early this year means that waiting until the end of November isn’t totally feasible with items that might need a lead time.
Sometimes I really think Excel is haunted. Damn thing wouldn’t let me put a bottom border on a cell until I restarted Excel for some reason.
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Well, there’s a never ending supply of derp. Crowder proves that part.
re: #221 Timothy Watson
Sometimes I really think Excel is haunted. Damn thing wouldn’t let me put a bottom border on a cell until I restarted Excel for some reason.
left over code from Lotus 1-2-3?
The vast majority of Muslims are “moderate”? Really? A moment for rebuttal… FULL VID >> https://t.co/mpAtxhQXAK pic.twitter.com/bMNaMQydNa
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 16, 2015
re: #220 lawhawk
“Oh, I’m sorry. You’re too poor to pay to see Santa? I guess God doesn’t love you as much.”
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
HEAR IS MOAR STUPIDS==>
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Right, because gasoline is $0.899/gallon back when I (or Crowder) were kids.
I can’t believe that idiot is 5 months older than me.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
He got 900 million people in one video?
Obama said we need to “defeat [ISIS’] narrative.” We defeated their narrative by having working toilets. Now we need to kill them.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
Why do we even give an audience here to this stupid fucking meathead Bropublican?
He is a living stereotype.
I guess he fancies himself a comedian? Some sort of even more mean spirited Andrew Dice Clay, but even more off putting?
Automatic Block Function triggered==>
re: #229 subterraneanhomesickalien
Why do we even give an audience here to this stupid fucking meathead Bropublican?
He is a living stereotype.
We want to laugh at & make fun of it.
re: #232 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t really his type is worth the energy needed to laugh.
I just have nothing but pity and disinterest.
There are six million Mulisms in France. If even only 10% of those were violent extremists that would be 600,000 people. And so on.
Pres. Obama: “If folks want to pop off” about ISIS strategy, they should present plan: “Not interested in posing.” pic.twitter.com/rn1ips3ip3
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) November 16, 2015
I really wish this frame had been a game-decider, but it shows once again what a lifesaver the 200-400mm can be. Saturday night at Kyle Field.
I see the fire hose of knee-jerk stupidity is still wide open this morning. I’ve got lots to do this morning, so I’ll just leave this here as it delves into people’s emotional reactions to terrorism and how they make things worse. The author is an atheist, if that matters:
Three Simple Truths About Terror, Religion, and Islam
One: Terrorism is the illusion of power. It only becomes powerful when people fall for it. […]
Two: Like advertising, terrorism exploits our emotional vulnerabilities. I don’t suppose terrorists sit around studying evolutionary psychology, but they don’t have to. […]
Three: Islam, per se, is not the problem. Neither is religion generally. […]
If you’re going to reply, please read the whole thing first.
BBL
re: #234 HappyWarrior
I have to doubt that the actual number of “violent” types is anything other than a very small percentage of young males in the population.
There may be many traditional types among the older generations that don’t like how their children are being westernized, but a percent of a percent would be willing to counter that westernization with the slaughter of innocent human beings.
Obama rejects calls for a new ISIS strategy. No more ground troops he says, clearly frustrated with repeated questions. #ISIS
— Zach Wolf (@zbyronwolf) November 16, 2015
re: #238 subterraneanhomesickalien
I have to doubt that the actual number of “violent” types is anything other than a very small percentage of young males in the population.
There may be many traditional types among the older generations that don’t like how their children are being westernized, but a percent of a percent would be willing to counter that westernization with the slaughter of innocent human beings.
Right, that’s my point and why acting like we need to treat Muslims like crap over this is a terrible idea.
CNN’s Jim Acosta asks, “Why can’t we just take out these bastards?” After Obama explained strategy & the challenges of the task.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 16, 2015
Pro-lifers from Floriduh contribute exactly as expected….
FBI investigating attack threat against St. Petersburg mosque
“This act in France is the last straw,” the caller warned. “You’re going to f*cking die.”
“I personally have a militia that’s going to come down to your Islamic Society of Pinellas County and firebomb you, shoot whoever’s there on sight in the head,” the caller added. “I don’t care if they’re f*cking 2 years old or 100.”
Carson says he’d shoot down Russian planes if they violated his no-fly zone over Syria, and if they retaliate — “we’ll see what happens.” Unreal.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
“The overwhelming majority of victims of terrorism are themselves Muslims. ISIL is not representative…of the…majority of Muslims” @POTUS
— Norah O’Donnell (@NorahODonnell) November 16, 2015
re: #243 Dr. Matt
Pro-lifers from Floriduh contribute exactly as expected….
FBI investigating attack threat against St. Petersburg mosque
Exactly, why won’t President Obummer just do what the Florida caller says?
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re: #243 Dr. Matt
Pro-lifers from Floriduh contribute exactly as expected….
FBI investigating attack threat against St. Petersburg mosque
And thsee people think they’re better than ISIL how?
re: #178 The Vicious Babushka
DUMBASS==>
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— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 16, 2015
re: #248 No Country For Old Haters
Syphilis does odd things to a mans brain.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #248 No Country For Old Haters
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re: #248 No Country For Old Haters
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It sounds crazy because ERick is self projecting yet again. VB had some quotes of some wingnut pundits who actually did say fuck France if they’re ever attacked but notnitce ERick never directs his bullshit at them but at Potus who actually does give a shit.
re: #247 HappyWarrior
And thsee people think they’re better than ISIL how?
Both groups are radical extremists with fundamentalist views on religion. Both groups hate liberalism, gays, women, and anyone that doesn’t abide by their worldviews.
It Is A Day:
Wingnuts are complaining that POTUS is “WUSS” “COWARD” “SEEKRIT MUSLIM!!!” “TRAITOR” “GAY” “NOT A PATRIOT!!!” “HATES AMERICA!!!1!!” because he doesn’t want to bomb Syria to smithereens.
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
It Is A Day:
Wingnuts are complaining that POTUS is “WUSS” “COWARD” “TRAITOR” “GAY” “NOT A PATRIOT!!!” “HATES AMERICA!!!1!!” because he doesn’t want to bomb Syria to smithereens.
Also because Prolife.
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re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
It Is A Day:
Wingnuts are complaining that POTUS is “WUSS” “COWARD” “TRAITOR” “GAY” “NOT A PATRIOT!!!” “HATES AMERICA!!!1!!” because he doesn’t want to bomb Syria to smithereens.
I really wish wingnuts who want war so badly would actually get off their rascals and fight themselves.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
It sounds crazy because ERick is self projecting yet again. VB had some quotes of some wingnut pundits who actually did say fuck France if they’re ever attacked but notnitce ERick never directs his bullshit at them but at Potus who actually does give a shit.
France can go f*ck itself and how come Obama won’t bomb Syria and do something?
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re: #252 HappyWarrior
It sounds crazy because ERick is self projecting yet again. VB had some quotes of some wingnut pundits who actually did say fuck France if they’re ever attacked but notnitce ERick never directs his bullshit at them but at Potus who actually does give a shit.
Freedom Fries™!!!
And let us not forget that just two weeks ago Jeb Bush was criticizing the “French work week” during the GOP clownfest debate.
For the GOP to pretend they care about France is a complete and utter farce.
We don’t have religious tests for our compassion: POTUS.
— GottaLaff (@GottaLaff) November 16, 2015
Obama here is clearly referring to Jeb Bush, who said on MTP that Christian Syrian refugees should get preference
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) November 16, 2015
Obama apparently fears evil Westerners going insane and striking out at Muslims more than evil Muslims attacking Westerners.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
Maybe the President could wait until after mourning to condescend to everyone about how ISIS defines themselves.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 16, 2015
This is what presidential cowardice looks like in real time.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
re: #256 HappyWarrior
I really wish wingnuts who want war so badly would actually get off their rascals and fight themselves.
They’re fighting courageously from their basements and computers and radio talk show booths.
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ASK these Whackos if they would have been ok with Obama’s mom aborting her pregnancies? Somehow, I think they’d be OK with it.
Our media is fucking pathetic.
“Why won’t you wave your magic wand and wipe out ISIS, Obama??!?!?!”
Reprehensible that he launches a partisan attack on the back of a terror attack. Omg.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 16, 2015
Obama hates Republicans far more than he hates radical Islam. At least he acknowledges Republicans exist.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
I’ve posted a couple articles— that seemed eerily to relate to themes in this morning’s thread.
Monday . .Monday …
re: #258 Dr. Matt
Freedom FriesTM!!!
And let us not forget that just two weeks ago Jeb Bush was criticizing the “French work week” during the GOP clownfest debate.
For the GOP to pretend they care about France is a complete and utter farce.
Exactly. France has always been a punchline to thse fuckers. Our current SoS has been mocked by the right for being a Francophone.
re: #256 HappyWarrior
I really wish wingnuts who want war so badly would actually get off their rascals and fight themselves.
The problem is that they’ll attack mosques, women wearing hijabs, and Sikhs here.
re: #265 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #265 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah, the wingnuts waited…all of five minutes after the first reports to start attacking the President.
re: #268 Belafon
The problem is that they’ll attack mosques, women wearing hijabs, and Sikhs here.
Yep sigh.
The media have their narratives, and they simply can’t stray from them, even when the facts suggest otherwise. The President is loathe to use force (except for the 8k airstrikes, killing 10s of thousands of ISIL, AQ, and other insurgents, terrorists, and threats from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, all the way to Afghanistan and Pakistan).
.@owillis OBL, Awlaki, and 1000s of other AQ and ISIL terror thugs could not be reached for comment. +8k airstrikes against ISIL
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
The President isn’t adverse to using military force. It’s knowing where and how to apply it to maximum effect to further our interests while denying ISIL benefits (as say in killing innocents, arming rebels who aren’t up to fighting ISIL and would end up losing their lives and their weapons to ISIL, inadvertently making ISIL stronger), etc.
Of course, trying to enunciate a strategy that doesn’t fit into 140 characters doesn’t play well with the right wing crowd that has snappy comebacks like bomb ‘em., rock’em, and sock’em, etc.
Why does it seem like Obama is being blamed for the attack in Paris???
Oh, that’s right, because he is.
Tonally, the most striking element of this presser is the president’s lack of emotion.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 16, 2015
1. JV team, 2. ISIS is contained, 3. ISIS doesn’t have capabilities to strike here. https://t.co/xs3z3BrTl4
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) November 16, 2015
strikingly different tone from President Obama at ongoing presser https://t.co/cQPzIoND8f
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) November 16, 2015
Our media want American’s coming home in coffins…
Media doesn’t seem to understand that, as Obama pointed out, people who don’t care about dying and can get gunz can do a lot of damage and is you just can’t bomb them out of existence.
Is it a prerequisite to being a right wing or Republican star that you have to be an awful human being?
There is just so much mean spirited hateful crap that spews out of that media/industrial complex these days.
re: #274 Jenner7
Why does it seem like Obama is being blamed for the attack in Paris???
Oh, that’s right, because he is.
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Our media wants American’s coming home in coffins…
Do we even know for sure this was ISIS?
re: #273 lawhawk
I wish I could get on Twitter at work, here would be my reply: “So, you think your guns will stop the same military you think should be thrown at ISIS?”
At the risk of coming off as an a complete asshole…
I was listening to WTOP most of yesterday while working and they kept running a segment where the newscaster made some comment along the lines of “people in the D.C. are terrified about a possible attack here in the D.C. area.”
Okay, I don’t officially live in the D.C. area, but I’m not living in terror of a possible attack, and there are plenty of soft targets in my area and I am attending Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia at night.
I am hell of a lot more likely to be killed in a car accident than any other method/manner of death.
Are there really people sitting in their homes terrified to go outside here in the United States?
Aaron Rodgers Criticizes Packers Fan Who Screamed “MUSLIMS SUCK!” During Moment Of Silence
Morons at Lambeau Field interrupted yesterday’s league-mandated moment of silence for Paris terrorism victims with all manner of ejaculations, including “MUSLIMS SUCK!” (We isolated a crowd-level audio feed of the moment in the above video.) Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers addressed the remark in his postgame presser, and the result is one of the more thoughtful reactions seen from an NFL star in a long time:
re: #56 jaunte
It’s early yet. Rubio and Cruz sneaking up on the inside rail.
Interesting. HuffPost has Trump with a distinct lead.
HuffPost Republican primary pollsre: #273 lawhawk
You can debate whether its good public relations or not, but I think the president does not mind dropping bombs on death cultists, its just that he doesn’t like to toot his own horn about it.
Its a very noble and humble position to have, but makes you look timid in the eyes of the really stupid sections of the populace.
re: #281 Dr. Matt
Aaron Rodgers Criticizes Packers Fan Who Screamed “MUSLIMS SUCK!” During Moment Of Silence
Why does Aaron Rodgers hate America?
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re: #160 mroop
When a cop pulls you over you put your cigarette before he even get to the window. If you are still smoking and he asks you to put it out then you put it out unless you want trouble. Again, I do not make the rules, I am telling about cops. When he asks you to step out of the car then you step out of the car or he just might drag you out of the car and then charge you with resisting arrest and aggravated assault .
I’m not going to downding you, but I also want to note that that kind of attitude in a LEO is bullshit. And exactly the attitude that needs to change. If I am stopped for nothing more than a traffic violation I do not need to be treated like a fucking mass murder.
re: #276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Media doesn’t seem to understand that, as Obama pointed out, people who don’t care about dying and can get gunz can do a lot of damage and is you just can’t bomb them out of existence.
And yet, the bolded is exactly what they want to hear, that he’s gonna “Bomb them back to the Stone Age” or some he-man bullshit like we got from Havana Ted. In an age of smart bombs, we got a lot of dumb people who think the only way to win wars is to go back carpet bombing that doesn’t discriminate against “the enemy” and “the people we’re trying to save.”
re: #281 Dr. Matt
Aaron Rodgers Criticizes Packers Fan Who Screamed “MUSLIMS SUCK!” During Moment Of Silence
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Aaron Rodgers is a class act, on and off the field.
re: #280 Timothy Watson
At the risk of coming off as an a complete asshole…
I was listening to WTOP most of yesterday while working and they kept running a segment where the newscaster made some comment along the lines of “people in the D.C. are terrified about a possible attack here in the D.C. area.”
Okay, I don’t officially live in the D.C. area, but I’m not living in terror of a possible attack, and there are plenty of soft targets in my area and I am attending Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia at night.
I am hell of a lot more likely to be killed in a car accident than any other method/manner of death.
Are there really people sitting in their homes terrified to go outside here in the United States?
Statistically you have a greater probability of being in a mass shooting HURR HURR DON’T BLAME ALL GUN OWNERS!!!!!1!! than an ISIS terror attack.
WHUT
Ingenious misogynists somehow manage to blame the Paris attacks on women https://t.co/iZmwigZgDz pic.twitter.com/dXf49T4SMf
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) November 16, 2015
JUST IN: Texas Governor Greg Abbott says his state will not accept any Syrian refugees in wake of #ParisAttacks. pic.twitter.com/WjWKfCxjgU
— ABC News (@ABC) November 16, 2015
re: #287 It’s on his hat!
Aaron Rodgers is a class act, on and off the field.
I hate him…..not because what you said isn’t true, but because I’m a [butthurt] Lions fan and I’m jealous of his talents.
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wish I’d been able to keep him out of office.
re: #281 Dr. Matt
Aaron Rodgers Criticizes Packers Fan Who Screamed “MUSLIMS SUCK!” During Moment Of Silence
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His team may have beat mine in the SB but between this and the Packers payers support of the unionized workers that Walker was trying to union bust, this is another reason why I respect the hell out of that organization. Trump supporting Tom Brady and Jeb supporting Peyton take note of tis, this is how someone sould act about politics and sports.
ICYMI:
.@iamjohnoliver addresses the Paris attacks in a ‘moment of premium cable profanity. https://t.co/9y83s5ZPEC pic.twitter.com/NdTTdtXBH0
— Maxim (@MaximMag) November 16, 2015
re: #292 Dr. Matt
I hate him…..not because what you said isn’t true, but because I’m a [butthurt] Lions fan and I’m jealous of his talents.
I’m supposed to hate him, too, but I just can’t. Thanks to your Lions doing their best not-Lions impression yesterday, my Vikings are in first place in the division. ;-)
As an actual, authentic Jew, I am embarrassed by this walking piece of garbage person==>
It’s un-American not to accept Muslim refugees we can’t vet. It’s totally American to run from radical Muslims who want to murder us.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
President Obama is an embarrassment. Let’s elect his Secretary of State after him because she has no Y chromosome.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
This is either cowardice or outright desire to castrate the West in the face of its enemies. From the president of the United States.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Media: this unsophisticated attack in Paris proves our strategery isn’t working and we should change strategery and do something else but no American boots on the ground.
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re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
As an actual, authentic Jew, I am embarrassed by this walking piece of garbage person==>
Isn’t there something in the Torah about Jews and accepting foreigners?
re: #295 HappyWarrior
I don’t think that its a coincidence that the business model that the Green Bay organization employs would engender solidarity.
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
As an actual, authentic Jew, I am embarrassed by this walking piece of garbage person==>
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HE really needs a nice long nap and his diaper changed. You’re a coward Ben. You’re a young neough guy. Why aren’t you fighting ISIS? The Muslim people have far more victims of ISIS than non-Muslims. Go ahead tough guy, enlist.
re: #304 subterraneanhomesickalien
I don’t think that its a coincidence that the business model that the Green Bay organization employs would engender solidarity.
It’s not. If I werent’t a Steelers fan, I’d probably be a Packesr fan even though I have no ties to Wisconsin.
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
As an actual, authentic Jew, I am embarrassed by this walking piece of garbage person==>
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Baby Ben know what is and what is not America and who is and who is not a true American.
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re: #237 CuriousLurker
Things like these and Obama’s reponse are the only thing keeping me from just chucking in my membership card for humanity. It’s a thin relief though, since the more I see and read outside of safe havens like this, the more I come to realize that the rest of the country is far more in tune to the Ben Shapiros and Bobby Jindals than to the President Obamas.
The Xenophobia and hate of the silent majority is real and it’s pretty much ubiquitous. And it feels like no matter how hard I do my part to fight it, the result is either angry rejection, angry contrarianism, or simple apathy. It feels like any contribution I can have to change minds instead changes minds toward the other way. I’ve seen liberals go full on xenophobia over shit like this and immigration and never any similar vice versa reaction. It’s always a lurch rightward toward hate and knee-jerk retaliation.
Paris has only convinced me further that this country is hard-wired for the right and its brand of hate and prejudice, and any attempts to fight it seem to only feed it the more as people decide to shun you.
I fucking hate feeling like this to, because it underscores one simple thing: I am not American. I am not American because I’m not allowed to be American. I am an outcast in the country, and I’m not even Gay, Black, or Muslim, the unholy trinity of Truly Super Motherfucking Not-American.
This country was never meant for someone like me and it never will be, because it feels like any attempts to fight will simply cause the rest of the country to hate me and ideas like mine all the more.
re: #303 Belafon
Isn’t there something in the Torah about Jews and accepting foreigners?
The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:34
Funny how the same people who love to quote Leviticus chapter 19 all the time miss this part.
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
He’s just a boy with a pen.
Making up for the fact that is very much a boy in appearance with what he assumes a man should be, which is a overly aggressive moron.
re: #288 The Vicious Babushka
Statistically, you’ve got a better chance of being killed driving or by a DUI than a terror attack. Especially if you live outside NYC metro area (which has been targeted more than any other US city, and which suffered more casualties than any other US city) or OKC, which on a per capita basis suffered more than NYC.
Risk of dying from health maladies far exceeds those of terrorism.
But it’s the perception of risk that leads to media outlets stoking demands of war.
I never seem to shake the feeling that if these mother fuckers really were in charge, I’d be in shackles or in front of a firing squad.
re: #248 No Country For Old Haters
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re: #312 subterraneanhomesickalien
I never seem to shake the feeling that if these mother fuckers really were in charge, I’d be in shackles or in front of a firing squad.
I really think they have authoiriaran wet dreams. A lot of thse guys admire Pinochet.
re: #305 HappyWarrior
HE really needs a nice long nap and his diaper changed. You’re a coward Ben. You’re a young neough guy. Why aren’t you fighting ISIS? The Muslim people have far more victims of ISIS than non-Muslims. Go ahead tough guy, enlist.
Hey, Ben is the Colonel of the 101st Keyboard Brigade.
re: #285 Eventual Carrion
I’m not going to downding you, but I also want to note that that kind of attitude in a LEO is bullshit. And exactly attitude that needs to change. If I am stopped for nothing more than a traffic violation I do not need to be treated like a fucking mass murder.
Reality - if you’re white, even a mass murder (see Dylan Roof) is treated better than a black traffic stop victim.
re: #287 It’s on his hat!
Aaron Rodgers is a class act, on and off the field.
Only person worth his paycheck over there these days.
WorldNetDaily columnist says the U.S. must ban Muslims (like Obama!) from holding public office https://t.co/p9RCwPDC90
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 16, 2015
re: #320 Lidane
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re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
As an actual, authentic Jew, I am embarrassed by this walking piece of garbage person==>
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Ask the little chicken hawk for me when he’ll be enlisting. If he wants a fight he can lead the way.
This is pretty much the classic Fascist critique of Democracy. That is doesn’t have the fortitude to stand up to its enemies.
A world war seemed to answer that question, but it still seems to float back up now and again.
As Governor I will oppose Syrian refugees being relocated to Arkansas.
— Gov. Asa Hutchinson (@AsaHutchinson) November 16, 2015
#Breaking: Arkansas governor joins Texas, Alabama, Michigan to oppose Syrian refugees
— Squawk on the Street (@SquawkStreet) November 16, 2015
Sigh. That’s three governors doing exactly what we shhould not be doing.
Wait…NOW you care about the citizens of Alabama? You didn’t care when they needed health insurance https://t.co/zSnotztFKK
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
This pattern is seriously depressing.
Alabama, Texas, and now Arkansas. How many more supposedly Christian governors will display their complete lack of actual Christian values?
Jindal will probably be the next one because he’s already whining about 14 refugees that just showed up in Louisiana.
Arkansas just announced it won’t accept any more Syrian refugees. Number of refugees it’s already accepted: one. https://t.co/MxAFXr88Vh
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 16, 2015
When I look at the Jesus described in the Bible, the one trait I do not attribute to him is cowardice.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
Sigh. That’s three governors doing exactly what we shhould not be doing.
All of them Republicans, which further illustrates the need to get strong Democrats running at the state level again.
re: #330 It’s on his hat!
It pretty much doesn’t matter. It comes from the same fearmongering about the current refugee crisis leading to ‘TOTAL MUSLIM TAKEOVER!’ in countries where the Muslim population doesn’t even break 10% including refugees.
But it makes for good bait and these assholes will probably pay not one whit of consequence for this bullshit because too many Americans agree with this sort of shitty xenophobic fever dream.
re: #336 Targetpractice
All of them Republicans, which further illustrates the need to get strong Democrats running at the state level again.
Yep. And you know as well as I do that had we elected Cuckook for Cocoa pufs two years ago, he’d be the first to the line with this crpa.
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 16, 2015
He should add pandering scoundrel to his Twitter bio.
re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jindal will probably be the next one because he’s already whining about 14 refugees that just showed up in Louisiana.
Oh I’m sure of that.
so, not to minimize the seriousness of the attacks, but the killers rented a car or cars in Belgium? Rented? Did they want to be tracked?
re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jindal will probably be the next one because he’s already whining about 14 refugees that just showed up in Louisiana.
These fuckers are doing exactly what Da’esh wants.
Yes, because if any country reflects Daesh’s values, it’s Belgium:
Fox News host wonders if Belgium is possibly in cahoots with ISIS: pic.twitter.com/184LR2AWnh
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 16, 2015
re: #342 CuriousLurker
These fuckers are doing exactly what Da’esh wants.
They’re being willing tools of terrorists.
re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jindal will probably be the next one because he’s already whining about 14 refugees that just showed up in Louisiana.
invasion!!!!!
CHASE DOWN MY GISH GALLOP!!!!!! U CAN’T CATCH ME LIBTARDS!!!!!!
Terrorist turns out to be “refugee immigrant.” ISIS stronger than ever. Job-force participation all-time low. Quick, leftist media, SPIN!
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 16, 2015
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
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I’ve said before that I sometimes catch the first half hour of Morning Joke on MSNBC to see what Joke is going to be popping off about for the day. It is also a good way to know the day’s Republican talking points…they get them out early for Joke Scarborough to get everyone going on for the day. It’s the Republican version of caffeine.
I knew it would be quite the show because of the Paris attacks. No disappointment.
The big thing outrage for the day was “President Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’ and call it for what it is…and so do all the Democratic presidential candidates.”
And everyone on the panel was mouthing off about Obama/Democrats can’t say ‘Radical Islam’ and how they are in denial, etc. Apparently saying Jihadists or terrorists is not enough…you have to get Islam in there.
Then he had a guest on (Black guy, I didn’t catch his name/position but seemed to be a terrorist expert) who came on an shot a big hole in the whole stupid plea to say ‘Radical Islam’ and said ISIS really is not Muslim, they are nutcase terrorists that use Islam as an excuse. He went on to say that Muslims do not use the term ‘Radical Islam’ because there is no real radical Islam. He made a point that Muslims do not want “Radical” associated with “Islam” and I think that is the thinking of Obama. I think he made a speech/statement about it a few times.
Well, that apparently didn’t meet the needs of Joe. No one on the panel said anything to contest the guy, they just moved on. I changed the channel after that.
Why is it so damn important to say Radical Islam??? I don’t get it.
re: #341 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
so, not to minimize the seriousness of the attacks, but the killers rented a car or cars in Belgium? Rented? Did they want to be tracked?
The same way that the 1993 WTC bombers rented a box truck, and then one of them came back wanting his deposit back.
Fox contributor in NY Post: Obama should give in to right-wing demands on ISIS or resign: https://t.co/AS3Ibex5Dk pic.twitter.com/VVYjKo4B9H
— Media Matters (@mmfa) November 16, 2015
re: #346 The Vicious Babushka
CHASE DOWN MY GISH GALLOP!!!!!! U CAN’T CATCH ME LIBTARDS!!!!!!
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I think Steven is of fighting age. I’ll leave it at that.
Jindal on Sunday Saturday:
My letter to @POTUS: In light of Paris terrorist attacks, time to pause process of refugees coming to the US pic.twitter.com/v2K7wuigX0
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) November 14, 2015
The ideological descendants of those who turned Jewish refugees away in the 30s because of fear that they’re bring “socialism” with them.
re: #343 Lidane
Yes, because if any country reflects Daesh’s values, it’s Belgium:
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Makes perfect sense if you’re a mornn.
re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jindal on Sunday:
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@BobbyJindal is yet another bed-wetting Conservative, too afraid to help people in need. We need real leaders like @POTUS
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 16, 2015
re: #347 ObserverArt
I’ve said before that I sometimes catch the first half hour of Morning Joke on MSNBC to see what Joke is going to be popping off about for the day. It is also a good way to know the day’s Republican talking points…they get them out early for Joke Scarborough to get everyone going on for the day. It’s the Republican version of caffeine.
I knew it would be quite the show because of the Paris attacks. No disappointment.
The big thing outrage for the day was “President Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’ and call it for what it is…and so do all the Democratic presidential candidates.”
And everyone on the panel was mouthing off about Obama/Democrats can’t say ‘Radical Islam’ and how they are in denial, etc. Apparently saying Jihadists or terrorists is not enough…you have to get Islam in there.
Then he had a guest on (Black guy, I didn’t catch his name/position but seemed to be a terrorist expert) who came on an shot a big hole in the whole stupid plea to say ‘Radical Islam’ and said ISIS really is not Muslim, they are nutcase terrorists that use Islam as an excuse. He went on to say that Muslims do not use the term ‘Radical Islam’ because there is no real radical Islam. He made a point that Muslims do not want “Radical” associated with “Islam” and I think that is the thinking of Obama. I think he made a speech/statement about it a few times.
Well, that apparently didn’t meet the needs of Joe. No one on the panel said anything to contest the guy, they just moved on. I changed the channel after that.
Why is it so damn important to say Radical Islam??? I don’t get it.
There was this Malaysian Muslim guy at work who told us that Daesh is just a gang of criminals who are into organized theft, human trafficking and murder. He insisted that their videos of horrific executions were just trailers for the porno snuff films they sell on the dark Internet.
re: #353 Targetpractice
The ideological descendants of those who turned Jewish refugees away in the 30s because of fear that they’re bring “socialism” with them.
Nailed it.
re: #349 Lidane
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Yet, what are the “right wing demands”? Seriously, what do wingnuts want done that isn’t already being done? If its carpet bombing, then they’re no less monsters than ISIS. If its boots on the ground, then they need to grow some balls and call for it. And if they truly want war, then they need to get their asses in gear and demand Congress finally sign off on the AUMF that’s been sitting in the House for almost a year.
re: #349 Lidane
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He is leading us you fools, he’s just bot being a mroon like you wnat him to be.
FFS, we are embarrassing. Yeah, we are a great country with the freedom to say stupid shit and look xenophobic. America, fuck yeah!
If the GOP is ever going to impeach Obama, now’s their chance.
re: #359 Targetpractice
Yet, what are the “right wing demands”? Seriously, what do wingnuts want done that isn’t already being done? If its carpet bombing, then they’re no less monsters than ISIS. If its boots on the ground, then they need to grow some balls and call for it. And if they truly want war, then they need to get their asses in gear and demand Congress finally sign off on the AUMF that’s been sitting in the House for almost a year.
Inded frankly a lot of the leack of the leadership has bene on the Congressional Republicans who view Obama as the devil incarnate.
Pretty sure drunk ass hunters in the deer woods are a greater threat to Arkansans then Syrian refugees.
— julie…dame (@vintagegoddess) November 16, 2015
Hard reality: it’s tough to see what military action Obama can take in Iraq/Syria that will truly prevent a repeat of Paris.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 16, 2015
And, it’s pretty damn easy (for people that aren’t idiots) to see that the military actions being called for by the neocon warhawks would likely lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of noncombatants that are essentially being held hostage, while dramatically increasing terrorist radicalization and recruitment efforts
re: #365 FormerDirtDart
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And, it’s pretty damn easy (for people that aren’t idiots) to see that the military actions being called for by the neocon warhawks would likely lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of noncombatants that are essentially being held hostage, while dramatically increasing terrorist radicalization and recruitment efforts
And there be the rub. There is a fantastic amount of idiots in this country, and a significantly large amount are willfully so.
Ben, you are the damn disgrace.
Barack Obama is a damn disgrace. https://t.co/GtxZ4JWstH
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
You know what makes Ben Shapiro a pathetic asshole, aside form the shitty things he says about POTUS & liberals? The way he refers to terrorists. He rarely calls them radical Islamists, radical Muslims, Muslim extremists, etc. he simply says Muslims (or sometimes “evil” Muslims). Yet if someone were to refer to Jews in the same way, e.g. to call Kahanist types “evil” Jews or simply Jews, he’d be screaming about antisemitism (and rightly so). He’s a massive fucking hypocrite & bigot.
re: #366 Kryptik
Eh?
It’s short hand for a big hug.
Our nation has it’s flaws, yet this socialist also did 16 years in the military. We have the ability to make things better and I will be damned if I will surrender my homeland, much less my hometown, to the chicken hawks and moral cowards of the GOP.
re: #369 CuriousLurker
You know what makes Ben Shapiro a pathetic asshole, aside form the shitty things he says about POTUS & liberals? The way he refers to terrorists. He rarely calls them radical Islamists, radical Muslim, Muslim extremists, etc. he simply says Muslims (or sometimes “evil” Muslims). Yet if someone were to refer to Jews in the same way, e.g. to call Kahanist types “evil” Jews or simply Jews, he’d be screaming about antisemitism (and rightly so). He’s a massive fucking hypocrite & bigot.
HE treats Muslims the same way generations of AntiSemitic assholes have trated Jews and he doesn’t see anything wrong with that.
Yes, Obama, step down for not preventing an attack in Paris.
re: #369 CuriousLurker
You know what makes Ben Shapiro a pathetic asshole, aside form the shitty things he says about POTUS & liberals? The way he refers to terrorists. He rarely calls them radical Islamists, radical Muslim, Muslim extremists, etc. he simply says Muslims (or sometimes “evil” Muslims). Yet if someone were to refer to Jews in the same way, e.g. to call Kahanist types “evil” Jews or simply Jews, he’d be screaming about antisemitism (and rightly so). He’s a massive fucking hypocrite & bigot.
ALL THE UPDINGS!!!!!!1!!
re: #349 Lidane
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re: #372 Jenner7
Yes, Obama, step down for not preventing an attack in Paris.
But yet Jeb’s brother dseerves no criticism at all for 9/11. ///
I can’t get the photo of the tiny Syrian boy washed up on the beach out of my head. And neither should these assholes.
I guess Obama and the US should have bombed parts of France and Belgium where all the Radical Islam folks hang out. I’m sure there are signs clearly indicating these locations.
Trump: “Why didn’t he bomb them before all this happened, TRUMP would have.”
re: #376 Stanley Sea Toujours
I can’t get the photo of the tiny Syrian boy washed up on the beach out of my head. And neither should these assholes.
They already blamed the kid’s own parents, do you think they have any compassion whatsoever?
I can’t get over what a genuinely heartless ideology conservatism has become thoguh frankly it’s not new.
re: #376 Stanley Sea Toujours
I can’t get the photo of the tiny Syrian boy washed up on the beach out of my head. And neither should these assholes.
He was a budding terrorist, no doubt. All the refugees are really terrorists in disguise…except the Christian ones, they’re cool.
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re: #370 William Lewis
It’s short hand for a big hug.
Our nation has it’s flaws, yet this socialist also did 16 years in the military. We have the ability to make things better and I will be damned if I will surrender my homeland, much less my hometown, to the chicken hawks and moral cowards of the GOP.
Ahh, right. My internet shorthand is a bit rusty these days, but defintiely grateful for the intent.
But it’s also not hard to see why so many tune out on the left side of things now. It feels ridiculously Sisyphean, and the lingering feeling of people scorning you and your every belief out of spite the more you try to preach the good word is is hard to buck.
re: #377 CuriousLurker
And thanks again. Like I said, internet shorthand.
I hope this is just some butthurt IRL troll desperate for attention:
‘Threat’ directed against Swedish parliament
re: #376 Stanley Sea Toujours
I can’t get the photo of the tiny Syrian boy washed up on the beach out of my head. And neither should these assholes.
OMG, I saw a political cartoon the other day about that, except the artist had replaced the little boy with a skeleton wearing an Uncle Sam outfit.
re: #378 ObserverArt
I guess Obama and the US should have bombed parts of France and Belgium where all the Radical Islam folks hang out. I’m sure there are signs clearly indicating these locations.
Trump: “Why didn’t he bomb them before all this happened, TRUMP would have.”
For wingnuts, yeah. They’d would bomb the places where migrants are being housed.
gaaahhhhhh
CNN anchors berate innocent Paris Muslim because he won’t ‘accept responsibility’ for attack https://t.co/n9Byll3Bwd pic.twitter.com/pm25DZ8byS
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 16, 2015
ISIS are Muslims like the Mafia was Catholic & the Purple Gang was Jewish #tcot #UniteBlue #ParisAttacks
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 16, 2015
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Some of the victims were Muslims, you monsters.
People seem to think that if an ISIS operative came into the country disguised as a Syrian refugee, he’d come already equipped with a bomb in a back pack. Newsflash idiots…a person hell bent on committing a terrorist act could get in nearly as easily through “normal” channels. The refugee charade creates a metric shit-ton of unnecessary difficulties.
If Jesus Christ comes back he won’t be allowed to live in America.
He’s a Radical Christian!
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Sir, the Muslim community has nothing to do with these guys,” Louati insisted. “Nothing. We cannot justify ourselves for the actions of someone who claims to be Muslim.”
“Why not?” Vause interrupted. “What is the responsibility within the Muslim community to identify people within their own ranks when it comes to people who are obviously training and preparing to carry out mass murder.”
Monday morning quarterback “it was obvious” fantasy.
Did Lutherans et held accountable for Nazism the way people want to treat Muslims for ISIS and Al Queda? Nope.
Look, a young man! It’s obvious that he’s planning to kill a bunch of people!
re: #391 Mike Lamb
People seem to think that if an ISIS operative came into the country disguised as a Syrian refugee, he’d come already equipped with a bomb in a back pack. Newsflash idiots…a person hell bent on committing a terrorist act could get in nearly as easily through “normal” channels. The refugee charade creates a metric shit-ton of unnecessary difficulties.
I pointed out to a wingnut the other day that the 19 9/11 hijackers came in through perfectly legit visas.
His response? “Well, they weren’t legit when the attack went off!”
Oy vey.
re: #398 Targetpractice
I pointed out to a wingnut the other day that the 19 9/11 hijackers came in through perfectly legit visas.
His response? “Well, they weren’t legit when the attack went off!”
Oy vey.
CHrist.
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOL why would he accept responsibility for something he didn’t do?
CNN go die in a fire. Get off the air. You suck.
Some idiot on FB said that Putin has done more to ISIS in two weeks than Obama has ever done.
Really.
Why did I get out of bed today?
re: #400 Dr Lizardo
LOLOL why he accept responsibility for something he didn’t do?
CNN go die in a fire. Get off the air. You suck.
FOX lite.
re: #401 Jenner7
Some idiot on FB said that Putin has done more to ISIS in two weeks than Obama has ever done.
Really.
Why did I get out of bed today?
I wish these fuckers would go live in RUssia if they love Putin so damn much.
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #401 Jenner7
Some idiot on FB said that Putin has done more to ISIS in two weeks than Obama has ever done.
Really.
Why did I get out of bed today?
Some days, it’s not worth chewing through the restraints.
re: #394 jaunte
Monday morning quarterback “it was obvious” fantasy.
Yeah, these idiots seem to think that terrorists walk around their neighborhoods & mosques or whatever and just announce their plans to go on a murderous rampage. WTF? What about all the mass murderers here in the U.S.? Does anyone in the media demand that their communities “accept responsibility” for their actions?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Gah, the stupid, it burns!
re: #405 Dr Lizardo
Do you like your Fox but without Bill O’REilly shouting and Sean Hannity’s smug punchable face. Drink Fox lite.
Some days, it takes good music to remind us why it’s worth it Targetpractice…
Gov Abbott just said that members of Hezbollah had been caught in Texas (he didn’t specify when). I live here in Texas and I’ve never heard that.
re: #407 CuriousLurker
Yeah, these idiots seem to think that terrorists walk around their neighborhoods & mosques or whatever and just announce their plans to go on a murderous rampage. WTF? What about all the mass murderers here in the U.S.? Does anyone in the media demand that their communities “accept responsibility” for their actions?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Gah, the stupid, it burns!
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And when we do bring up things like guns, we’re told it’s too soon ta;lk about guns.
re: #274 Jenner7
Why does it seem like Obama is being blamed for the attack in Paris???
Oh, that’s right, because he is.
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Our media want American’s coming home in coffins…
@JoeNBC I see Fox Joe Scarborough stuck his worthless 2 cents in the discussion.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) November 16, 2015
And now he just said that Syrians had crossed the northern border of Texas and when pressed on what evidence he had to back that claim he started stuttering and wouldn’t say. Fucking pandering liar.
re: #407 CuriousLurker
Yeah, these idiots seem to think that terrorists walk around their neighborhoods & mosques or whatever and just announce their plans to go on a murderous rampage. WTF? What about all the mass murderers here in the U.S.? Does anyone in the media demand that their communities “accept responsibility” for their actions?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Gah, the stupid, it burns!
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I sometimes wonder if parts of Missouri are ever going to accept some responsibility for some of their actions. Maybe we should demand it.
re: #413 Kid A
And now he just said that Syrians had crossed the northern border of Texas and when pressed on what evidence he had to back that claim he started stuttering and wouldn’t say. Fucking pandering liar.
Syrians are hiding in Oklahoma???
Who knew????
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re: #407 CuriousLurker
Yeah, these idiots seem to think that terrorists walk around their neighborhoods & mosques or whatever and just announce their plans to go on a murderous rampage. WTF? What about all the mass murderers here in the U.S.? Does anyone in the media demand that their communities “accept responsibility” for their actions?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Gah, the stupid, it burns!
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HURR HURR BUT DON’T BLAME ALL TEH INNOCENT LAW ABIDING GUN OWNERS!!!1!!!!!1!
re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth
Arkansas governor joins Texas, Alabama, Michigan to oppose Syrian refugees
And that will automatically make them immune from terrorists driving into Arkansasa or Texas or Alabama or Michigan.
Maybe they’d better get to work sealing themselves off from the Interstate Highway System, just to be sure.
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re: #410 Kid A
Gov Abbott just said that members of Hezbollah had been caught in Texas (he didn’t specify when). I live here in Texas and I’ve never heard that.
True, but a tenuous connection:
mysanantonio.com
Amal Militia
en.wikipedia.org
re: #410 Kid A
Gov Abbott just said that members of Hezbollah had been caught in Texas (he didn’t specify when). I live here in Texas and I’ve never heard that.
LOLOLOL he’s talking out of his ass.
re: #416 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR BUT DON’T BLAME ALL TEH INNOCENT LAW ABIDING GUN OWNERS!!!1!!!!!1!
Remember when wingnuts squealed like stuck pigs over the DHS report on the potential for far-right terrorism, despite the worst terrorist attack on US soil prior to 9/11 being perpetrated by a white guy whose far-right ideology led him to believe his attack would spark a race war?
re: #417 makeitstop
And that will automatically make them immune from terrorists driving into Arkansasa or Texas or Alabama or Michigan.
Maybe they’d better get to work sealing themselves off from the Interstate Highway System, just to be sure.
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The GOP….doing the terrorists’ bidding since 2001.
re: #412 Tigger2
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This reminds me. The guy that I was talking about being on Morning Joke in thread #347 mentioned that one of the reasons they attacked Paris is because they are being beaten up pretty good in Iraq and Syria (from all the bombing Obama isn’t doing I guess) and “controlled” so they need to move around and create havoc elsewhere.
Again, that didn’t go over well with Joke.
Funny thing, I was looking to see if I can find video of the Morning Joke guest. On Joke’s own page they have several videos covering today’s show. Guess who is not covered?
re: #221 Timothy Watson
Sometimes I really think Excel is haunted. Damn thing wouldn’t let me put a bottom border on a cell until I restarted Excel for some reason.
Excel is crashtastic and epically buggy.
Steve King says “Ted Cruz is the answer to my prayers. The candidate that God will use to restore the soul of America.”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 16, 2015
we’re at a fun place politically where this isn’t considered an embarrassment https://t.co/RKNBTUFWVV
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) November 16, 2015
I never unfollowed ppl before. But Ive decided certain ppl - particularly @benshapiro - are so stupid its not worth reading their thoughts.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 16, 2015
In wake of Paris attacks, I’m directing all state agencies to suspend the resettlement of addl Syrian refugees in IN https://t.co/Gtg5ccjMsU
— Governor Mike Pence (@GovPenceIN) November 16, 2015
How many European Jews were left to die in the Holocaust because right-wingers like you were afraid they might be Communists?
How many Westerners are you willing to let die in order to bring in unvetted Syrian refugees, President Obama?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
How many European Jews were left to die in the Holocaust because right-wingers like you were afraid they might be Communists?
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re: #418 jaunte
True, but a tenuous connection:
mysanantonio.com
Amal Militia
en.wikipedia.org
Oh gawd. Every time TX wingnuts start spewing I start remembering BMWs, Hezbolla tattoos, the Zetas supposedly taking over a Texas ranch not too far from the border (oh boy, we were up for hours making fun of that one).
It’s kind of amazing what people will convince themselves to believe.
Ben of course immediately blocked this guy==>
In 1930’s, American lawmakers blocked Jewish refugees for fears they were untrustworthy https://t.co/JEo8Qf3nQA
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 16, 2015
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
.@benshapiro clearly ignoring the history of the Saint Louis. Same rationale doomed thousands of Jews due to bigotry/xenophobia
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— jim (@jlcoffeecup) November 16, 2015
re: #432 The Vicious Babushka
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Turht hurts. Ben knows he’s part of the same ideology and hate that treated Jews with contempt and fear for years because of leftism.
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Wait, Didn’t King attack Cruz for being a blockhead several times?
America is fucking losing it today. We are an embarrassment to ourselves. ISIS just changed the direction of American politics in an election year.
How much ‘power’ are we going to grant these terrorists?
re: #436 ObserverArt
Wait, Didn’t King attack Cruz for being a blockhead several times?
America is fucking losing it today. We are an embarrassment to ourselves. ISIS just changed the direction of American politics in an election year.
How much ‘power’ are we going to grant these terrorists?
That’s Peter.
re: #436 ObserverArt
Wait, Didn’t King attack Cruz for being a blockhead several times?
America is fucking losing it today. We are an embarrassment to ourselves. ISIS just changed the direction of American politics in an election year.
How much ‘power’ are we going to grant these terrorists?
As much as they want, apparently.
re: #428 jaunte
Indiana is now officially safe from refugees.
Exactly. From terrorism, not so much. //
So. The majority of the terrorists were from France and Belgium.
Hey RWNJ. When do we start nuking France and Belgium?
re: #393 ObserverArt
If Jesus Christ comes back he won’t be allowed to live in America.
He’s a Radical Christian!
He’d be radical because he wouldn’t be ok with revenge.
Republican governors are literally letting terrorists win by blocking Syrian refugees. This is what they want. Don’t give it to them.
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) November 16, 2015
re: #440 GlutenFreeJesus
So. The majority of the terrorists were from France and Belgium.
Hey RWNJ. When do we start nuking France and Belgium?
It gets better, Greece apparently now thinks the fellow found with the “Syrian passport” is really from Algeria and bought a fake passport in Turkey to cover up his return from training with IS in Syria. If true, then this looks less “IS infiltrated France through refugees” and more “France’s blunders coming home to roost.”
Jews fleeing from the Holocaust were denied entry to U.S. because right-wingers were afraid they might be “Communists” #tcot #UniteBlue
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 16, 2015
Louisiana joins Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan and Texas in refusing to take in Syrian refugees after #ParisAttacks. https://t.co/hKjPNoXwz9
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) November 16, 2015
re: #443 Targetpractice
It gets better, Greece apparently now thinks the fellow found with the “Syrian passport” is really from Algeria and bought a fake passport in Turkey to cover up his return from training with IS in Syria. If true, then this looks less “IS infiltrated France through refugees” and more “France’s blunders coming home to roost.”
France really botched this thing. They let one of the attackers go, and some brothers who were no doubt involved got away too.
.@jimgeraghty right wing pandering to xenophobes. Figures. Parallels to the St. Louis and excluding Jewish refugees from US entry striking.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
.@jimgeraghty That is your response? A non sequitur? How many refugees are you consigning to death instead?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
“WE NEED TO GET OVER THERE AND HELP THOSE POOR SYRIAN PEOPLE FIGHT OFF ISIS!!!”
“There are some Syrian refugees here who are fleeing from the fighting.”
“THEY’RE ALL TERRORISTS OR TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS! SEND THEM BACK!!!”
re: #443 Targetpractice
It gets better, Greece apparently now thinks the fellow found with the “Syrian passport” is really from Algeria and bought a fake passport in Turkey to cover up his return from training with IS in Syria. If true, then this looks less “IS infiltrated France through refugees” and more “France’s blunders coming home to roost.”
Someone got busted here in Europe - I can’t remember where now - but that dude had the exact same passport as the one from the Paris massacre scene; only the photo and the name was different. The passport serial numbers were identical, apparently. Mass-produced forgeries, basically.
re: #410 Kid A
Gov Abbott just said that members of Hezbollah had been caught in Texas (he didn’t specify when). I live here in Texas and I’ve never heard that.
Turns out it’s James O’Queef.
Later Lizards. Gottta get some stuff done and I think I am getting to the fully depressed with many of my fellow Americans stage. I think I’ve had enough for a few hours. Back later.
re: #447 lawhawk
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Yeah that’s a lame as hell comeback. Just adm it conservatives, you’re okay with innocent Syrians dying more than you are with them coming to your countries.
re: #449 Dr Lizardo
Big market for that in Turkey.
re: #453 GlutenFreeJesus
Big market for that in Turkey.
Yeah, definitely. I know forged passports are in high demand worldwide, but it seems in this little part of the planet, Turkey has pretty much cornered the market.
re: #447 lawhawk
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All this outrage coming from conservatives and Republicans with the attack in France is so fake. Just 12 years ago, France was the enemy because they didn’t follow us into Iraq.
This is all just an excuse to let their bigotry and fear fly sky high.
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not just Texas…
MS Governor Phil Bryant says state will refuse Syrian Refugees
Bryant released the following statement on Facebook Monday morning:
“I’m currently working with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Mississippi Office of Homeland Security to determine the current status of any Syrian refugees that may be brought to our state in the near future. I will do everything humanly possible to stop any plans from the Obama administration to put Syrian refugees in Mississippi. The policy of bringing these individuals into the country is not only misguided, it is extremely dangerous. I’ll be notifying President Obama of my decision today to resist this potential action.”
Shapiro stuttering on about “presidential cowardice” as a slew of GOP governors run from refugees.
And going even more philosophical…the President bucking the wishes of a frenzied mob is far from cowardly, presidential, political or otherwise.
Hell, if you really stop and compare notes, the wingnut response to the Syrian refugees is practically a word-for-word remake of the Central America refugees.
“They’re really (gang members/terrorists) in disguise.”
“If they want to fix things, they need to go back and fight.”
“We don’t want them here, putting our people in danger.”
“Obama is letting them in as part of a grand scheme.”
Etc, etc. Who knew that wingnuts were so big into recycling?
re: #448 Targetpractice
“WE NEED TO GET OVER THERE AND HELP THOSE POOR SYRIAN PEOPLE FIGHT OFF ISIS!!!”
“There are some Syrian refugees here who are fleeing from the fighting.”
“THEY’RE ALL TERRORISTS OR TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS! SEND THEM BACK!!!”
I’m sure Da’esh is enjoying the hell out of this massive freak-out—it’s gotta be all they hoped for and then some. It annoys the hell out of me to think of them pointing, laughing and looking smug about how easy it is to yank our chains and turn us into terrified, blubbering children. I think I need to step away for a while also.
BBL
NEW: Ben Carson to call on Congress to defund the Obama Administration’s refugee policy. -@KFaulders
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 16, 2015
They should just stay where they are and deal with it.
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Aw crap - a NRO derplanche of stupidity. (I know, it’s repetitive).
re: #464 Jenner7
Up next: Carson gets a 20% jump in the GOP polls.
Many who wish to block Syrian refugees say the U.S. was built on “Judeo-Christian values.” So here’s Jesus on that: pic.twitter.com/gBGgqJ25HT
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) November 16, 2015
re: #464 Jenner7
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Jeebus fuck. A candidate openly advocating that Congress undermine US foreign policy. How the hell did we get here?
With the pants-shitting freak out going on among the GOP, that reminds me…..I need to buy some stocks in Kimberly-Clark, the manufacturer of Depends.
re: #426 jaunte
Also had to post the below tweet to Pence, he’s always reminding the people of Indiana just how much of a good Christian he is.
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@GovPenceIN You consider yourself Christian and wont help those in need,hang up your cross because Jesus wants nothing to do with you.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) November 16, 2015
re: #464 Jenner7
Lost in him is that the the ones who carried out the attack in Paris were largely French and Belgian.
re: #473 GlutenFreeJesus
Lost in him is that the the ones who carried out the attack in Paris were largely French and Belgian.
PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO NUKE BRUSSELS AND PARIS! THAT’LL SHOW ‘EM!!
re: #417 makeitstop
And that will automatically make them immune from terrorists driving into Arkansasa or Texas or Alabama or Michigan.
Maybe they’d better get to work sealing themselves off from the Interstate Highway System, just to be sure.
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Please to remove sarc tags. I think them sealing those borders would be a brilliant idea. No one in, no one out. Forever.
So we are now up to 7 states saying “No” to refugees. Looks like Oklahoma may be next.
Even Syrian refugees wouldn’t want to go to these backwards states calling to ban them from escaping war that is in large part, our fault.
re: #473 GlutenFreeJesus
Lost in him is that the the ones who carried out the attack in Paris were largely French and Belgian.
But one was a refugees immigrant and therefore your argument is invalid.
re: #478 Mike Lamb
With a fake passport! BAN THEM ALL!!!!!
re: #161 Timothy Watson
I don’t recall a law saying anywhere that I can’t smoke in my own fucking car.
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
re: #308 Kryptik
Things like these and Obama’s reponse are the only thing keeping me from just chucking in my membership card for humanity. It’s a thin relief though, since the more I see and read outside of safe havens like this, the more I come to realize that the rest of the country is far more in tune to the Ben Shapiros and Bobby Jindals than to the President Obamas.
The Xenophobia and hate of the silent majority is real and it’s pretty much ubiquitous. And it feels like no matter how hard I do my part to fight it, the result is either angry rejection, angry contrarianism, or simple apathy. It feels like any contribution I can have to change minds instead changes minds toward the other way. I’ve seen liberals go full on xenophobia over shit like this and immigration and never any similar vice versa reaction. It’s always a lurch rightward toward hate and knee-jerk retaliation.
Paris has only convinced me further that this country is hard-wired for the right and its brand of hate and prejudice, and any attempts to fight it seem to only feed it the more as people decide to shun you.
I fucking hate feeling like this to, because it underscores one simple thing: I am not American. I am not American because I’m not allowed to be American. I am an outcast in the country, and I’m not even Gay, Black, or Muslim, the unholy trinity of Truly Super Motherfucking Not-American.
This country was never meant for someone like me and it never will be, because it feels like any attempts to fight will simply cause the rest of the country to hate me and ideas like mine all the more.
Wonderful post. Only two things I question:
Are the xenophobic mouth-breathers really a majority? I try to think they’re not—for sanity’s sake.
And, I only WISH they were silent.
re: #439 CuriousLurker
Exactly. From terrorism, not so much. //
Why would the terrorists bother attacking Indiana? If you were a terrorist, you might say “Mission accomplished.”
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
Moron leads morons.
Being in a free country means you get to change things, not acquiesce like subjects in a totalitarian country.
I laugh at pitiful fools like you who lack the guts to change things.
I’m sure the next time we have a school shooting, theater, or shopping mall all these same Governors will be calling for banning guns in their states. //
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
If the cop orders you to give him a blowjob, you’ll do so. After all, you don’t want any trouble.
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
IOW you are as corrupt as the murderous gangsters pretending to be police in America. Gotcha.
Gov. Pence wants it to be known that Indiana only allows one flavor of extremism within its borders, and that’s the Christian variety.
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
I never have put my cigarette out when I was pulled over. I had a cop ask me one time to do it, I told him no they were to expensive to waste.
re: #486 GlutenFreeJesus
If the cop orders you to give him a blowjob, you’ll do so. After all, you don’t want any trouble.
Just about.
Ask the woman who was forced to submit to a strip search in view of passing traffic because a cop ordered her.
re: #490 CuriousLurker
Point taken. Stinky will deal with it soon enough.
re: #486 GlutenFreeJesus
If the cop orders you to give him a blowjob, you’ll do so. After all, you don’t want any trouble.
And again, Jello Biafra shows us he’s America’s prophet.
re: #480 mroop
have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
As so many idiots do, you mistake your ‘reality’ for ‘the’ reality. Have another downvote.
Every time I think Ben Carson is nuts, he yet again shows me I underestimated his frontal lobes. I said he lived on his own planet. I was mistaken. He lives in his own Universe with him as the suns and the planets and everything else. And it’s only 6000 years old.
This song always becomes my ear worm when ever stuff like Paris happens.
I’m taking a break from the internet for today. Way too fucking depressing to realize that there are people in the world way crazier than I am and unlike me don’t recognize it so make no effort to double check their thoughts words or actions.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Zero in South Carolina, but I’m sure Nikki will soon be taking a “firm stand” and showing her “courage and conviction” as she continues her screen-test for VP consideration.
Sigh. Spit. I. Hate. People.
re: #498 BeachDem
Yeah. So how many of these Governors banning refugees were going to allow them anyway?
re: #498 BeachDem
Zero in South Carolina, but I’m sure Nikki will soon be taking a “firm stand” and showing her “courage and conviction” as she continues her screen-test for VP consideration.
Sigh. Spit. I. Hate. People.
“If we need to change our policy we will.” Gov. Haley on whether S.C. will take in Syrian refugees: https://t.co/mI4FtEP2NS
— Deanna Pan (@DDpan) November 16, 2015
Do Governors actually have the power to override the Feds/Homeland Security or is this just all theatrics and posturing?
There’s that GOP we know and loathe:
If @SpeakerRyan will not lead & reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East he needs to step down today & let someone else lead.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) November 16, 2015
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
Fuck the “reality of the situation”. These goddamn fucking asshole cop bastards need to be arrested and put in jail for fucking goddamn ever. There is no place in a civilized society for the cop mentality in any way, shape or form, and it needs to be expunged from ours by any means necessary.
re: #504 lawhawk
@RightWingJesus @GovMikeHuckabee @SpeakerRyan More like Anal Bum Cover. Because that’s exactly what Huckabee is.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) November 16, 2015
re: #505 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Fuck the “reality of the situation”. These goddamn fucking asshole cop bastards need to be arrested and put in jail for fucking goddamn ever. There is no place in a civilized society for the cop mentality in any way, shape or form, and it needs to be expunged from ours by any means necessary.
First things first - the MUST lose their immunity. They need to be able to be hauled into court for their abuses by any of their victims at any time. And when they lose, city/county/state insurance needs to be banned from paying the judgement.
Just saw this on Facebook and I honestly couldn’t tell if it was satire or not at first. Poe’s Law is real. pic.twitter.com/8Bk2LmGYMy
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) November 16, 2015
re: #507 William Lewis
First things first - the MUST lose their immunity. They need to be able to be hauled into court for their abuses by any of their victims at any time. And when they lose, city/county/state insurance needs to be banned from paying the judgement.
You’re overlooking one major problem: They don’t lose much.
So when does Chris Christie jump on the Ban Wagon?
re: #486 GlutenFreeJesus
If the cop orders you to give him a blowjob, you’ll do so. After all, you don’t want any trouble.
He told me it was a breathalyzer.
re: #504 lawhawk
There’s that GOP we know and loathe:
[reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East ]
Subtle dehumanization there by using ‘importation’ rather than ‘immigration’.
re: #510 nines09
So when does Chris Christie jump on the Ban Wagon?
Given his polls? I’m sure he’ll be on it by the end of the day.
.@politico no one was asking @MittRomney to run. Glad we sorted that out.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 16, 2015
Here’s How Artists in the Late 1800s Imagined Life in the Year 2000 https://t.co/Rm92Sb0oVA #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/vpOCEh4azi
— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) November 16, 2015
re: #393 ObserverArt
If Jesus Christ comes back he won’t be allowed to live in America.
He’s a Radical
Christian!Jew
Fixed
re: #513 Lidane
Given his polls? I’m sure he’ll be on it by the end of the day.
I know he’s hearing that little voice in his little fat head telling him to be tough.
re: #502 Eclectic Cyborg
Do Governors actually have the power to override the Feds/Homeland Security or is this just all theatrics and posturing?
At a minimum, Welfare States like AL, MS, etc., who get so much more money from the Federal government than they pay in, should have their welfare checks stopped if they won’t do what they’re told.
re: #504 lawhawk
I’m going to put something like this in all those so called Religious assholes timelines so all their religious followers can see it. If it just makes one of them stop and think about it that’s enough.
There’s that GOP we know and loathe:
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@GovMikeHuckabee @SpeakerRyan One again Huck piss off and turn in your cross if you won’t help those in need. Jesus doesn’t want you.— jim (@jlcoffeecup) November 16, 2015
re: #514 lawhawk
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Apparently there was word from Tiger Beat on the Potomac that the GOP establishment, scared shitless that their choices after Carson and Trump are between Rubio and Cruz, have gotten desperate enough to consider “drafting” Willard to run again.
re: #520 Tigger2
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That piece of shit even acknowledges that they are “fleeing the Middle East”.
My God, what a fucking scumbag.
Oh you know all those LAW ABIDIN’ GAWD-FEARIN’ GUN OWNIN’ LIBRUL HATIN’ TRUMP VOTIN’ GOOD GUYZ
Get a load of this==>
https://t.co/RLGj19l4Ds follow @CONSMILITIA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016 #tcot pic.twitter.com/hefi5GphZf
— Rex Liberatus (@LibertysThunder) November 16, 2015
re: #504 lawhawk
There’s that GOP we know and loathe:
Imagine if Egypt had had this policy when Mary and Joseph were fleeing.
re: #486 GlutenFreeJesus
If the cop orders you to give him a blowjob, you’ll do so. After all, you don’t want any trouble.
See false equivalency.
re: #516 Stuff Happens
Fixed
Beg to differ. He was a Jew. He died a Jew. Once he arose he started Christianity. Therefore, If he comes back, he will be a Christian.
(I am not a theological historian specialist…going on my understanding)
re: #515 The Vicious Babushka
So even in the 1880s they figured we’d have jetpacks by now. Which brings us back to the really important question: I live in the future, so where the hell is my jetpack?
A WELL REGULATED LYNCH MOB BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE THE RIGHT OF THE GUN FUCKERS TO KEEP & FUCK GUNS & SHOOT MUSLIMS & BROWN PEOPLE SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
re: #528 KGxvi
So even in the 1880s they figured we’d have jetpacks by now. Which brings us back to the really important question: I live in the future, so where the hell is my jetpack?
I’m still waiting for my hoverboard.
re: #484 gwangung
I laugh at pitiful fools like you who lack the guts to change things.
I fight the cops on behalf of my clients. In addition to my private practice, I act as public defender and help people who can’t afford a lawyer. I also do work for my county bar association and help out people who don’t have money in civil matters. And what do you do, armchair cowboy?
re: #527 ObserverArt
No, he’s the incarnation (which just about every denomination has a different understanding of, see: Trinity, Holy). Jesus the man was Jewish. His early followers probably considered themselves Jewish. It was probably not until a generation later that the idea of “Christian” even existed. Jesus himself did not create Christianity, his followers did.
re: #509 Eclectic Cyborg
You’re overlooking one major problem: They don’t lose much.
Because with immunity, only a tiny handful of cases reach court. If they have no immunity, simple statistics will put more of them into jail and into bankruptcy court.
Don’t know if true, but couldn’t resist the headline
Christian Anti-Masturbation’s Mascot Arrested For Public Masturbation At Sea World - Fox News
re: #524 The Vicious Babushka
At least they’ve cited the clause we can use when Hillary wins and she has to call forth the National Guard (our present day militia) to stop them from burning shit down as part of an insurrection.
re: #536 KGxvi
At least they’ve cited the clause we can use when Hillary wins and she has to call forth the National Guard (our present day militia) to stop them from burning shit down as part of an insurrection.
“Combinations too powerful to be dealt with by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings” Lincoln called them last time….
re: #536 KGxvi
At least they’ve cited the clause we can use when Hillary wins and she has to call forth the National Guard (our present day militia) to stop them from burning shit down as part of an insurrection.
If the Eleven Oneth (III%) Chairborne were going to do that, they would have already done it when Obama won a second term.
Right-wingers so horrified at tax money paying for “Free College” & “Free Healthcare” can’t wait to get “Free War” #tcot #UniteBlue
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 16, 2015
Syrian Democratic Forces claim liberation of 850 square miles of ISIS territory, destroying/capturing 40+ VBIEDs https://t.co/d0WuGYH2K2
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) November 16, 2015
To put that size in perspective, that’s nearly half the size of Rhode Island. Or bigger than Jacksonville FL. Or 2.6 times the size of NYC. Not insignificant, and definitely a move in the right direction.
re: #368 The Vicious Babushka
Ben, you are the damn disgrace.
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#Wingnuts like @benshapiro pretend that other people are a disgrace, but fail to acknowledge their role in the delusional RWNJ subculture.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 16, 2015
re: #539 The Vicious Babushka
Probably. Though they do seem even more unhinged now then they were three years ago.
Also, what I really love about that meme is the very next clause of the constitution says:
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
The Aye Aye Aye percenters aren’t going to like being disciplined by that durn fedrul govment
why is he talking?
Tired of Obama’s dissembling. No one calling for massive troop intervention. Instead calling for winning strategy to replace current failure
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) November 16, 2015
re: #532 mroop
BWAH HAH HAH HAH AHHAHAH! Clueless.
goat riding a wild tortoise pic.twitter.com/1Yx1MfYV1O
— Sassy Goats (@TheSassyGoats) November 16, 2015
How wild can a tortoise get?
re: #533 KGxvi
No, he’s the incarnation (which just about every denomination has a different understanding of, see: Trinity, Holy). Jesus the man was Jewish. His early followers probably considered themselves Jewish. It was probably not until a generation later that the idea of “Christian” even existed. Jesus himself did not create Christianity, his followers did.
Ah, christology. The single biggest mess in theology. I prefer a fairly early view of following Jesus’ Way of life that was predominantly a slightly modified Judaism that welcomed both Jews and Gentiles. Preferably along the lines of James the Just of Jerusalem, a lot of the Mishna & the Didache rather than Paul but that’s a different argument.
re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nobody is “saying” we need to “send in troops”, all we are “saying” is that the current plan of “not sending in troops” isn’t working. I don’t “understand” why people are “confused” by this.
Dana was live-Tweeting the Rousey-Holm fight, she was very into it. Because of course she is.
We need to Holly Holm neck-kick ISIS.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 16, 2015
re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth
why is he talking?
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Romney just STFU and go rob another company.
re: #549 The Vicious Babushka
Dana was live-Tweeting the Rousey-Holm fight, she was very into it. Because of course she is.
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Trump said it was good that the loser lost. The winner is from Albuquerque, or I would know nothing about it.
Not sure it’s accurate to say states are “suspending” acceptance of Syrians when, like Alabama, they’ve taken zero. https://t.co/MxAFXr88Vh
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 16, 2015
re: #535 Stuff Happens
Don’t know if true, but couldn’t resist the headline
Christian Anti-Masturbation’s Mascot Arrested For Public Masturbation At Sea World - Fox News
While there are Conservatives who are confused enough to be anti-masturbation, and they might be wacky enough to form a group around their perversion, as Conservatives tend to do, the name “fappy” tells us it’s parody.
Eight governors have now said they do not want any Syrian refugees in their states. Illinois is the latest. https://t.co/kbXAMFMNUB
— Mark Berman (@markberman) November 16, 2015
re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought I saw someone in Congress suggesting it would take 10K troops.
re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You got me. I don’t understand why such an intelligent person is playing along with this nonsense; it’s not like he has a political career anymore.
Gallup shows Obama’ approval rating over the weekend at 51/44, its highest in more than two years. Maybe there is still intelligent life in this country.
re: #549 The Vicious Babushka
I’m an MMA fan, and I’ve watched quite a few of Rousey’s fights. I thought about watching the fights over the weekend, but Rousey has been so dominate lately, it was like Tyson in the 80s, the fights barely last a round and don’t seem worth it. All that said, I’m guessing “Holly Holm neck kicking ISIS” is not an actual, you know, competent strategy for bringing peace to the Middle East.
re: #535 Stuff Happens
Don’t know if true, but couldn’t resist the headline
Christian Anti-Masturbation’s Mascot Arrested For Public Masturbation At Sea World - Fox News
Was he named “Fappy”?
How about we round up all the Open Carry defenders of liberty, put them on a plane to Syria and let them fight ISIS? Everybody wins.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 16, 2015
re: #544 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do you have a winning strategy you would like to share @MittRomney ? No? Then good day to you sir.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 16, 2015
re: #543 KGxvi
Probably. Though they do seem even more unhinged now then they were three years ago.
Also, what I really love about that meme is the very next clause of the constitution says:
The Aye Aye Aye percenters aren’t going to like being disciplined by that durn fedrul govment
Yeah, I told him they were an unregulated militia so are not constitutionally anything.
re: #558 KGxvi
In this, wouldn’t the US be more like Rousey than Holm?
re: #561 Kragar
Truth is, you can only defeat Da’esh ideologically, much as we did with the USSR during the Cold War.
But that doesn’t provide fapping material for the apocalyptic nutters, now does it?
Conservative pundit links Paris attacks with #Mizzou protests because both are attacks on “those with white skin” https://t.co/411J4IGndg
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 16, 2015
re: #435 HappyWarrior
Truth hurts. Ben knows he’s part of the same ideology and hate that treated Jews with contempt and fear for years because of leftism.
There must be some quotes from that time that look eerily similar to what we’ve been seeing today.
It would be interesting to see if Been would agree with them.
re: #545 gwangung
BWAH HAH HAH HAH AHHAHAH! Clueless.
Thank you for your reasoned response. I guess the answer is that you do NOTHING. Idiot.
He seems nice:
Lenio is a 9/11 and Sandy Hook “Truther,” a Holocaust denier and anti-Semite who used social media to anonymously spew a barrage of racist and violent invective and frequently made references to “shooting up a school.”
From Dec. 2014 to Feb. 2015, Lenio used Twitter to publicize his anti-Israel, pro-gun, pro-Libertarian views while threatening to shoot children and kill anyone who disagreed with his opinions…
“After obtaining a search warrant, officers found a 9-mm semi-automatic rifle and a Russian-made bolt-action rifle. Lenio’s vehicle contained a .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol and more ammunition. Marijuana and jugs of urine also were found in the vehicle,” wrote Megan Strickland of dailyinterlake.com.
Lenio’s defense team managed to have his trial postponed earlier this year and has been working on a plea deal with prosecutors. Hutson noted, however, that when he was released on the condition that he not use social media at all, Lenio immediately reactivated his Twitter account under the name @PsychicDogTalk3 and proceeded to retweet anti-Israel propaganda and musings on how to satisfy the “urge to kill.”
“He has violated the court’s order and shown contempt for the judge 348 times,”
What white privilege?
re: #568 mroop
Thank you for your reasoned response. I guess the answer is that you do NOTHING. Idiot.
Nope.
You really are clueless. Snicker.
re: #569 BeachDem
He seems nice:
Lenio is a 9/11 and Sandy Hook “Truther,” a Holocaust denier and anti-Semite who used social media to anonymously spew a barrage of racist and violent invective and frequently made references to “shooting up a school.”
From Dec. 2014 to Feb. 2015, Lenio used Twitter to publicize his anti-Israel, pro-gun, pro-Libertarian views while threatening to shoot children and kill anyone who disagreed with his opinions…
“After obtaining a search warrant, officers found a 9-mm semi-automatic rifle and a Russian-made bolt-action rifle. Lenio’s vehicle contained a .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol and more ammunition. Marijuana and jugs of urine also were found in the vehicle,” wrote Megan Strickland of dailyinterlake.com.
Lenio’s defense team managed to have his trial postponed earlier this year and has been working on a plea deal with prosecutors. Hutson noted, however, that when he was released on the condition that he not use social media at all, Lenio immediately reactivated his Twitter account under the name @PsychicDogTalk3 and proceeded to retweet anti-Israel propaganda and musings on how to satisfy the “urge to kill.”
“He has violated the court’s order and shown contempt for the judge 348 times,”
What white privilege?
Chuck C has a new BFF.
re: #563 Belafon
Eh, I guess? I think Loesch was just focusing on the whole “kick them in the neck” thing without much more context. But I’m not on twitter (and if I was, I wouldn’t follow her anyway), so I don’t really know.
Though, if you want to take it further. Rousey didn’t appear have a good strategy, Holm played really good defense (which is something Rousey hadn’t really ever seen in the cage, and never seemed able to adjust) which allowed her to control the fight until she could connect with the big kick.
re: #569 BeachDem
How fucked up of a human do you have to be to get ‘banned from the internet’!!? I’m looking at you CCJ.
re: #571 The Vicious Babushka
Chuck C has a new BFF.
And guess where the misanthrope is serving his conditional release? Grand Rapids, MI.
re: #506 GlutenFreeJesus
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More like Anal Bum Cover.
A reference to #susanalbumparty?
re: #572 KGxvi
Eh, I guess? I think Loesch was just focusing on the whole “kick them in the neck” thing without much more context. But I’m not on twitter (and if I was, I wouldn’t follow her anyway), so I don’t really know.
Though, if you want to take it further. Rousey didn’t appear have a good strategy, Holm played really good defense (which is something Rousey hadn’t really ever seen in the cage, and never seemed able to adjust) which allowed her to control the fight until she could connect with the big kick.
I know. But if she’s going to compare this to that fight, then we’d be the title holder. “Kicking butt neck” isn’t a strategy, which was my point.
Alert: Unconfirmed bomb threat received. Science Ctr, Sever, Emerson, Thayer Halls are being evacuated https://t.co/btUwZffzj2
— Harvard University (@Harvard) November 16, 2015
re: #577 Belafon
I know. But if she’s going to compare this to that fight, then we’d be the title holder. “Kicking
buttneck” isn’t a strategy, which was my point.
Trying to fight a war on terrorism using tactics from three wars ago.
re: #566 Lidane
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Paris wasn’t just an attack on white people assholes. But nice try again.
Heh, just saw that Trump tweeted about being glad that Rousey lost, going so far as to call her “not a nice person.” Apparently, it’s because she endorse Sanders recently. Amazing that Trump is that thin skinned and a “viable” presidential candidate.
So. Let’s keep in mind folks. None of the Paris attackers were actually Syrian refugees.
re: #582 KGxvi
Heh, just saw that Trump tweeted about being glad that Rousey lost, going so far as to call her “not a nice person.” Apparently, it’s because she endorse Sanders recently. Amazing that Trump is that thin skinned and a “viable” presidential candidate.
He really is a whiny little asshole isn’t he? I cannot wait until he loses. The tantrum will be huuuuuuge!
re: #578 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some people are just plain ugly.
@Harvard @Pumpjack_Sally I predict we’ll find it was done by some SJW to get attn back on “the struggle”.
— Au H2O Repub (@TeeKayTex) November 16, 2015
re: #585 HappyWarrior
He really is a whiny little asshole isn’t he? I cannot wait until he loses. The tantrum will be huuuuuuge!
It will definitely be epic…and I, for one, cannot wait to experience that.
If only he would go away completely after that. Alas, he won’t.
re: #528 KGxvi
So even in the 1880s they figured we’d have jetpacks by now. Which brings us back to the really important question: I live in the future, so where the hell is my jetpack?
A band from my home town is ahead of you…
re: #285 Eventual Carrion
I’m not going to downding you, but I also want to note that that kind of attitude in a LEO is bullshit. And exactly the attitude that needs to change. If I am stopped for nothing more than a traffic violation I do not need to be treated like a fucking mass murder.
Of course it’s bullshit! When did I say otherwise? I am only telling you what I know from my experience and advising how to get through a traffic stop without trouble. I’m in traffic court most days. I was in traffic court this morning and will be in traffic court tonight. For someone reason the people on this board think I am endorsing this behavior from cops. It’s ridiculous!
I was explaining to some dumbass cop the other day how my client is allowed to use her cellphone if her car is not moving. The moron doesn’t even know the cellphone law. Can it get more basic than that? After I explain this to him and cite the statute where it says the car must be “moving” he seems to agree with me. Then he says, “Yeah, but when they’re pulled over on the side of the road that is when I get them.” I just explained to this asshole that the car has to be MOVING! This is what you are dealing with. Not only that, I was there on a criminal matter and I get a call from this douchebag telling me that he can’t issue a subpoena without going to a grand jury? WHAT THE FUCK! I get a call from the detective later telling me that he is going to issue subpoena. Of course - NO GRAND JURY!
re: #587 WhatEVs
It will definitely be epic…and I, for one, cannot wait to experience that.
If only he would go away completely after that. Alas, he won’t.
His meltdown would easily beat Rove’s meltdown of election night 2012. It’d be glorious to watch. And the meltdown of his supporters will be equally spectacular, I’m sure of that.
re: #589 mroop
You are indeed endorsing it by saying “Just go along with it and do as the officer says”.
re: #591 GlutenFreeJesus
You are indeed endorsing it by saying “Just go along with it and do as the officer says”.
Treating the symptoms, not the disease.
re: #566 Lidane
[Conservative pundit links Paris attacks with #Mizzou protests because both are attacks on “those with white skin” ]
The dead American was brown. Won’t make Jesse’s job of fear mongering any easier. At least she wasn’t a Missou student. His brain might get so twisted we’d have to let Ben Carson look at it.
re: #560 Kragar
That’s why I want to do a kickstarter to rent some A380’s to send the 88th Chairborne over there, with Coulter and Malkin as morale officers.
re: #591 GlutenFreeJesus
You are indeed endorsing it by saying “Just go along with it and do as the officer says”.
No I am not! You are free to do what you want. I am advising you to put out the cigarette or you could end up in court with a criminal charge, paying bail, paying a lawyer and everything else. It’s my job to advise my clients that cops are trouble and that is exactly what I do. I did not advise to give a blowjob. I advised to put out a cigarette because you could be dealing with a psycho with a badge! That is not endorsing anything. It is a warning.
Help me out, are we still pissed off about red coffee cups or have we moved on?
If you want to turn away #SyrianRefugees b/c you’re Christian and they’re Muslim, just know that you got the ‘they’re Muslim’ part right.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 16, 2015
re: #596 mroop
At what point do you advise not cooperating with a cop that is clearly abusing his authority?
That was the point of the blow job comparison, after all. At some point there is a line where cooperating is no longer an option for most people. We’re trying to figure out which of our rights you advise giving away to cops in order to walk away from the encounter.
Please note, some of us are white and some of us are not. It might help to spell out where you would draw the line for each group, since as you said yourself, cops can be quite racist.
re: #600 klys (maker of Silmarils)
would also be able to take it more serious if we weren’t all referred to as “morons” for daring to disagree.
4. #DeadInternsinmyoffice .@JoeNBC
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) November 16, 2015
re: #543 KGxvi
Probably. Though they do seem even more unhinged now then they were three years ago.
Also, what I really love about that meme is the very next clause of the constitution says:
The Aye Aye Aye percenters aren’t going to like being disciplined by that durn fedrul govment
If they had any conception of what “Well-Regulated” meant in the 18th Century, they’d soil their underoos.
Dailyfail has video of the EODM playing right as the shooting started.
re: #601 Backwoods_Sleuth
would also be able to take it more serious if we weren’t all referred to as “morons” for daring to disagree.
Particularly since the tools are at his free disposal to look at anyone’s old comments and link some proof of moronity, if any exists.
Donald Trump, still a Birther==>
Interesting article from highly respected Wayne Allyn Root https://t.co/1esS0QV46V
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2015
.@JohnKasich: There is no way we can put any of our people at risk by bringing [refugees] in at this point. https://t.co/DlzzcW8P93
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) November 16, 2015
re: #598 b.d.
Help me out, are we still pissed off about red coffee cups or have we moved on?
Red cups are like the red shirts. Disposable and critical to the Christmas story of death, redemption, and survival of a Jesus figure (Kirk/Spock, depending on new/reimagined ST).
Meanwhile,
The South African government on Friday warned of a worsening drought whose severity is impacting negatively on the country in both social and economic terms.
Because of the drought, the country’s current state of water storage is estimated at 64.3 percent of its normal full supply compared with 74.6 percent storage level at the same time last year, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan said at a briefing in Pretoria.
This excessive heat wave, which is the result of El Nino, has grossly exacerbated the dry and arid conditions that the country is currently experiencing and is putting a strain on the already stretched water resources across all provinces.
Yeah, not good. Wars start over things like this. And while a good many are kvetching about the current refugee crisis vis-a-vis the Middle East, all I’mma say is you ain’t see nothin’ yet. Just wait until anthropogenic climate change really sinks its teeth in. It won’t just be a couple million on the move.
it’ll be billions.
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And that’s why I don’t want to hear the two parties are no different from each other crap.
re: #606 The Vicious Babushka
Donald Trump, still a Birther==>
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Of course he links to an article that starts out with the sentence- Donald Trump is brilliant.
You’d think we were considering bitey arthropods as refugees.
.@bug_gwen showing me the gigantic forceps one might use for feeding more bitey Arthropods… pic.twitter.com/AdQCHDADIl
— Maki Scare-o (@sciencecomic) November 16, 2015
re: #609 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile,
Yeah, not good. Wars start over things like this. And while a good many are kvetching about the current refugee crisis vis-a-vis the Middle East, all I’mma say is you ain’t see nothin’ yet. Just wait until anthropogenic climate change really sinks its teeth in. It won’t just be a couple million on the move.
it’ll be billions.
Typical wingnut response: THWWWWWPPPPPTTTT!!!1!!!!
Global warming is a religion whose adherents look to it as an explanation for everything. https://t.co/AAIRHYnRv3
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 16, 2015
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
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When is Bevin’s swearing in? I’m sure he’d love to jump on that bandwagon.
re: #596 mroop
Pay bail, which for some Americans isn’t as easy as reaching for the credit card. In many cases, especially in minority communities where racial profiling is rampant, a police stop, arrest, and subsequent attempt at bail means significant costs and hassle that shouldn’t need to be entertained in the first place had the officer engaged in proper conduct in the first place and not used their power in a corrupt manner. It’s a de facto tax on minorities that these stops result in additional costs to the community - not even beginning to count the legal costs of trying to defend against the charges alleged by the cop.
Police conduct and excessive force, the inappropriate abuse of their authority to detain, arrest, and impose costs on the community are at issue.
re: #614 BeachDem
When is Bevin’s swearing in? I’m sure he’d love to jump on that bandwagon.
I imagine January.
re: #614 BeachDem
When is Bevin’s swearing in? I’m sure he’d love to jump on that bandwagon.
December 8
re: #613 The Vicious Babushka
Typical wingnut response: THWWWWWPPPPPTTTT!!!1!!!!
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And again Erick, you’re awfully silent when your fellow RWNJs blame secularism and gays for mass shootings. By the way, the Pentagon agrees with Bernie and not you. What does that tell you? Maybe just maybe that Global Warming is a big fucking deal.
re: #617 Backwoods_Sleuth
December 8
So close, and yet so far when you’re trying to catch up with the xenophobic clown car.
/
re: #613 The Vicious Babushka
Global warming is a religion whose adherents look to it as an explanation for everything. t.co
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 16, 2015
Unlike fundamentalist conservatives who blame Gay Marriage for hurricanes, mass shootings, and terrorist attacks.
re: #620 Dr. Matt
Unlike fundamentalist conservatives who blame Gay Marriage for hurricanes, mass shootings, and terrorist attacks.
No kidding. He’s got some nerve.
Take the @JihadiJew challenge==>
I am a __________ and I unconditionally denounce all violence against innocents wherever and whoever they are. (cut, paste, insert religion)
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) November 14, 2015
re: #596 mroop
The original comment did not read like a piece of advice at all. The problem is on your side.
re: #622 HappyWarrior
No kidding. He’s got some nerve.
Arizona pastor blames ‘sinful’ France and death metal for Paris terror massacre
Now that didn’t take long.
re: #596 mroop
No I am not! You are free to do what you want. I am advising you to put out the cigarette or you could end up in court with a criminal charge, paying bail, paying a lawyer and everything else. It’s my job to advise my clients that cops are trouble and that is exactly what I do. I did not advise to give a blowjob. I advised to put out a cigarette because you could be dealing with a psycho with a badge! That is not endorsing anything. It is a warning.
I question anyone that claims to be an attorney who advises people to get out of the car if the cop tells you to.
re: #480 mroop
Smoke all you want when the cops pull you over in your fucking car. It’s just more money in my pocket when you have to hire a lawyer. Morons are my bread and butter. Do whatever you want. It’s a free country. I have to laugh when I tell you all the reality of the situation and you downvote me.
Perhaps because in your assholishness you’ve missed where the behavior changes need to be, unless of course you relish living in a country where police are given free hand to abuse their power.
re: #623 The Vicious Babushka
I won’t criticize any people writing this, in fact I don’t find it bad from the practical standpoint, but they should understand that they’re not obliged to do it because they are not responsible. That they share one label out of many with someone is superficial.
ISIS are males. Should all males post disclaimers? ISIS are believers in God. Should all believers in God post disclaimers? ISIS are carbon-based life forms. Should all carbon-based life forms post disclaimers?
re: #600 klys (maker of Silmarils)
At what point do you advise not cooperating with a cop that is clearly abusing his authority?
That was the point of the blow job comparison, after all. At some point there is a line where cooperating is no longer an option for most people. We’re trying to figure out which of our rights you advise giving away to cops in order to walk away from the encounter.
Please note, some of us are white and some of us are not. It might help to spell out where you would draw the line for each group, since as you said yourself, cops can be quite racist.
Good question! I give a general warning to beware of cops because they are dangerous. This is not fact specific. If someone asked me if they should put out a cigarette if the cop asked them to do so, I would advise them as follows: It is their right to smoke in the car. However, consequences could result from failing to comply. I would list those consequences, which could include a criminal charge, sitting in jail, bail money, court appearances, attorney fees, missed work and so on. The client can then decide on their own whether or not they want to smoke after the cop asks them to put out the cigarette.
I will also add that Sandra Bland was asked to put out her cigarette and she got belligerent. She has every right to act belligerent and every right to smoke. That cop was about to let her go with a warning. That is not how it turned out. Was the cop right? NO! But she could have walked away and instead she ended up in a cell. That ain’t right. That is why if a cop asked me to put out the butt I would do so. Call me a kiss ass cop lover if you want, but I have enough problems and I don’t need a psycho cop pulling me out of the car because I have a right to smoke. I will smoke later. Maybe that makes me an idiot or a pussy. So be it.
re: #628 Nyet
I won’t criticize any people writing this, in fact I don’t find it bad from the practical standpoint, but they should understand that they’re not obliged to do it because they are not responsible. That they share one label out of many with someone is superficial.
ISIS are males. Should all males post disclaimers? ISIS are believers in God. Should all believers in God post disclaimers? ISIS are carbon-based life forms. Should all carbon-based forms post disclaimers?
I am a Carbon-Based Life Form and I unconditionally denounce all violence against innocents wherever and whoever they are.
re: #625 Dr. Matt
Arizona pastor blames ‘sinful’ France and death metal for Paris terror massacre
Now that didn’t take long.
My shocked face.
re: #628 Nyet
Lee just wants to collect as many different responses as he can.
re: #628 Nyet
I won’t criticize any people writing this, in fact I don’t find it bad from the practical standpoint, but they should understand that they’re not obliged to do it because they are not responsible. That they share one label out of many with someone is superficial.
ISIS are males. Should all males post disclaimers? ISIS are believers in God. Should all believers in God post disclaimers? ISIS are carbon-based life forms. Should all carbon-based forms post disclaimers?
Hugo Weaving endorses this most heartily!
Ben claims to be the Decider of Who Is A Real Jew but he swaps Jew jokes with Milo Yeahimadumbass.
Sad to inform you that gays beat Jews in the Oppression Olympics https://t.co/ihYtnnx745
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) November 16, 2015
Dammit. Guess we’ll have to buy the Oppression Olympics with loans we give ourselves at usurious rates. https://t.co/rQCWLoy59r
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2015
re: #629 mroop
consequences could result from failing to comply. I would list those consequences, which could include a criminal charge, sitting in jail, bail money, court appearances and attorney fees, missed work and so on.
From that, it looks like all your clients are white.
So no word from Gov. Bridgegate yet? Weird. With his shitty polls you’d think he’d be front and center on pandering to the bigots over the refugees.
re: #634 The Vicious Babushka
I thought Ben hated gays?
Here is our Official Wonkette Editorial Policy on Syrian Refugees: https://t.co/aFUOKKAmgF pic.twitter.com/bcHJ1AG3YR
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) November 16, 2015
re: #632 The Vicious Babushka
Lee just wants to collect as many different responses as he can.
I read it as a counter-point to as well as simultaneous message of solidarity with Muslims writing “not in my name” messages.
re: #637 Nyet
I thought Ben hated gays?
Apparently he is making an exception for a slimy little bigoted shitgoblin like Milo since they have so much in common.
Ben is Milo’s Pet Jew.
Milo is Ben’s Pet Gay.
They take each other on walks.
re: #634 The Vicious Babushka
Ben claims to be the Decider of Who Is A Real Jew but he swaps Jew jokes with Milo Yeahimadumbass.
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lolwhut, why would you give yourself a loan at a usurious rate?
Nice to see that Ben didn’t take any finance courses at UCLA, or any English courses for that matter.
re: #603 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If they had any conception of what “Well-Regulated” meant in the 18th Century, they’d soil their underoos.
They’d probably be on board with it as long as it didn’t apply to them… But Washington would probably have hanged them all.
“Michigan is a welcoming state and we are proud of our rich history of immigration. But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents,” Snyder said in a statement.
But it’s OK fine for this guy to be in Grand Rapids for his conditional release:
From Dec. 2014 to Feb. 2015, Lenio used Twitter to publicize his anti-Israel, pro-gun, pro-Libertarian views while threatening to shoot children and kill anyone who disagreed with his opinions…
re: #629 mroop
I don’t feel like this really answered my question, because everything you say about the consequences of failing to put out a cigarette could also be said about a cop demanding a strip search or blow job. In the end, you are advocating that, at least for a cigarette, you think that it’s not worth it for most people to challenge the police’s authority. That is the end result of your words and indeed, what you say you would do yourself.
I’m asking at what point do you consider it worth challenging the police’s authority, knowing the potential consequences? What rights are important enough to you that even knowing it might be a psycho cop who doesn’t give a shit about your PBA card, you would stand up for?
re: #628 Nyet
I won’t criticize any people writing this, in fact I don’t find it bad from the practical standpoint, but they should understand that they’re not obliged to do it because they are not responsible. That they share one label out of many with someone is superficial.
ISIS are males. Should all males post disclaimers? ISIS are believers in God. Should all believers in God post disclaimers? ISIS are carbon-based life forms. Should all carbon-based life forms post disclaimers?
I have to agree here. I wanted to do it if only to please @JihadiJew because I know he means well and has a kind heart, but IMO it sends the wrong message. Why should ANY person feel the need to say it when they’ve done nothing wrong? It sets a bad precedent, and won’t have any effect whatsoever on the bigots—as I said the other day, they’ll just dismiss it as too little, too late, insincere, etc.
I mean, my default assumption is that most people—regardless of their race, creed, gender, sexual preference, or my personal feelings about them—“unconditionally denounce all violence against innocents wherever and whoever they are.” If yours isn’t, that’s your problem and I’m not going to waste my time trying to change your mind because you’re obviously seriously lacking even the most rudimentary critical thinking skills.
re: #615 lawhawk
Pay bail, which for some Americans isn’t as easy as reaching for the credit card..
I am aware of all this, it’s debtor’s prison is what it is. Good article on the front page of the New York Times a coupe weeks.
re: #642 The Vicious Babushka
Apparently he is making an exception for a slimy little bigoted shitgoblin like Milo since they have so much in common.
Ben is Milo’s Pet Jew.
Milo is Ben’s Pet Gay.They take each other on walks.
LOLOLOL
re: #647 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I don’t feel like this really answered my question, because everything you say about the consequences of failing to put out a cigarette could also be said about a cop demanding a strip search or blow job. In the end, you are advocating that, at least for a cigarette, you think that it’s not worth it for most people to challenge the police’s authority. That is the end result of your words and indeed, what you say you would do yourself.
I’m asking at what point do you consider it worth challenging the police’s authority, knowing the potential consequences? What rights are important enough to you that even knowing it might be a psycho cop who doesn’t give a shit about your PBA card, you would stand up for?
Yes, I think it is not worth it for most people to challenge putting out a cigarette. Anyone who disagrees can continue to smoke.
Are you asking me what I would refuse to do if a cop asked me to do something and risk the above? I don’t know. Why don’t you give me some examples? I am not engaging in sexual activity unless I want to.
I did time in a work furlough center when I was younger because I got caught with a very large amount of pot. I would leave every day to go to law school. Ha ha! A pretty Latino guard followed me out one day and then offered me a ride to school - against the rules. I accepted her offer. She was hitting on me! This is a true story. I stayed away, I just wanted to do my time, didn’t want any trouble.
re: #635 wrenchwench
From that, it looks like all your clients are white.
Hey, you got two likes. Whoo! What in God’s name are you talking about? I have all kinds of clients latino, black and white clients, some Indian. Lots of latino because of the area I was in until this year. Why would you say such a thing? That’s a really dumb thing to say.
re: #653 mroop
Among the ‘potential consequences’ you did not include what happen to Sandra Bland, which is near where this conversation started.
re: #654 wrenchwench
Among the ‘potential consequences’ you did not include what happen to Sandra Bland, which is near where this conversation started.
Be more specific. I listed everything that happened to Sandra Bland, unless you are suggesting that she was murdered. Is that your implication?
re: #655 mroop
Be more specific. I listed everything that happened to Sandra Bland, unless you are suggesting that she was murdered. Is that your implication?
Yep.
re: #368 The Vicious Babushka
Is there anyone on Earth doing less with a Harvard degree?
re: #656 wrenchwench
Yep.
I don’t buy into that as I have seen no evidence. Maybe you should read Bland’s wrongful death suit, which does not allege she was murdered.
On July 13, three days after the arrest, she was found with a ligature made out of a garbage bag around her neck, dead. The lawsuit does not include any allegation that Bland was murdered, or that her death was anything but a suicide.
Now feel free to call me a cop loving right wing asshole since you already implied that I’m a racist.
re: #658 mroop
I’ll stick with ‘idiot’. ‘Death’ should be among your warnings about potential consequences to anyone dealing with an insane cop.
re: #659 wrenchwench
I’ll stick with ‘idiot’. ‘Death’ should be among your warnings about potential consequences to anyone dealing with an insane cop.
I will include death in my future warnings. Thanks for the heads up, counselor.
Trooper to be sentenced for roadside strip search
Warrantless Roadside Body Cavity Searches Are Pretty Much Unconstitutional
Roadside violation: Drivers, passengers say police searched inside underpants
But, always obey the cops orders…
good freaking grief.
re: #661 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trooper to be sentenced for roadside strip search
Warrantless Roadside Body Cavity Searches Are Pretty Much Unconstitutional
Roadside violation: Drivers, passengers say police searched inside underpants
But, always obey the cops orders…
good freaking grief.
Maybe Mr oop doesn’t worry about that kind of violation.
re: #662 wrenchwench
Maybe Mr oop doesn’t worry about that kind of violation.
My advice on that would be to lay back and enjoy it. Happy now?
I guess you’re upset that I debunked your Sandra Bland claim so you’re reaching for anything. Have fun!
re: #661 Backwoods_Sleuth
But, always obey the cops orders...
good freaking grief.
Feel free to quote me if you want to quote me.
re: #663 mroop
I made no Sandra Bland ‘claim’. You’re an idiot, and I’m sticking by that.
re: #665 wrenchwench
I made no Sandra Bland ‘claim’. You’re an idiot, and I’m sticking by that.
Well, I did say “clueless”….
re: #229 subterraneanhomesickalien
Why do we even give an audience here to this stupid fucking meathead Bropublican?
I agree. Seeing all these @scrowder and @benshapiro tweets is just depressing. Their tweets are not even bad in an interesting way, just stupid and boring and annoying.
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