I’m almost embarrassed to admit I just discovered the wonderful Becca Stevens, and her brilliantly unexpected chord changes, insanely close-voiced harmonies and very creative band. This great track is from her latest album Perfect Animal.
Well, look at what shows up in the NRO comments:
TRV Dante • a minute ago
The main trend here seems to be “I’m not with Trump, I’m a conservative.” Well folks, I hate to burst your bubble here, but in the eyes of the American public, conservatism has failed. Rush was discussing this a few days ago- The American people are sick of “conservatism” and want populist nationalism. What you’re seeing with Trump is the transformation of the GOP on a base level. Indeed, maybe the base has already transformed, and the party simply is just now getting the memo.[…]
The party is changing. As Milo Y. pointed out on twitter, NRO has made no effort to engage the tons of young, disaffected right-leaning young people. In fact, in the replies to Milo’s tweets, distinguished NRO columnist Jonah Goldberg went out of his way to disparage them! And of course, you have Rick Wilson’s little meltdown on MSNBC which was embarrassing by any measure. I don’t know a single right-wing guy my age who reads national review or cares about its staff- most guys my age who lean towards the right prefer guys like Milo Y. and Chuck C. Johnson, hard-hitting firebrands who might not fit the NRO purity standard, but take the fight to the left with more gumption than anyone I’ve seen in the above column.
[…].
I just went through the last thread. It’s happening. It may finally be happening.
Republicans:
re: #1 freetoken
I don’t know a single right-wing guy my age who reads national review or cares about its staff- most guys my age who lean towards the right prefer guys like Milo Y. and Chuck C. Johnson, hard-hitting firebrands who might not fit the NRO purity standard, but take the fight to the left with more gumption than anyone I’ve seen in the above column.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhh *cough*
lolwut
I really dig this tune! Charles, thank you as always for the music.
re: #1 freetoken
And that, friends, is why I keep describing the internal struggles of the Republican Party using old school burlesque terminology.
Given a choice between the tease and the blow off, the mopes chose the latter.
re: #4 teleskiguy
I really dig this tune! Charles, thank you as always for the music.
The whole album is really great.
The racists are really coming out now:
Alphonsus_Jr • 2 minutes ago
From Jared Taylor’s great “An Open Letter to Cuckservatives” (if necessary, first see “Cuckservatism: The Cuckoo In The Conservative Movement’s Nest” on Vdare):You tell yourself that the things you love about America-and I love them, too-are rooted in certain principles. That is your greatest mistake. They are rooted in certain people. That is why Germans, Swedes, Irishmen, and Hungarians could come and contribute to the America you love. Do you really believe that a future Afro-Hispanic-Caribbean-Asiatic America will be anything like the America your ancestors built?
[…]
Now, some commenters are pushing back against his overt racism. But how many of them know of NR’s tight history with racists?
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
I have never seen someone look so regally beautiful while sitting with a monkey.
Don’t worry, alt-right weirdos. National Review isn’t really coming out against racism. Donald Trump’s just a little too obvious for them.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 22, 2016
re: #10 Pawn of the Oppressor
I have never seen someone look so regally beautiful while sitting with a monkey.
Have you seen “conservative intellectual” Glenn Beck with a chimp in his morning zoo days?
re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea
The corollary of this statement is, by the way, that’s it’s going to be hilarious when “party discipline” reasserts itself, and the pseudointellectual portion of the party starts trying to pretend it’s not dependent on the jerks and nutters who went astray.
re: #1 freetoken
Smells like the shitlord weev to me.
re: #7 freetoken
The racists are really coming out now:
Now, some commenters are pushing back against his overt racism. But how many of them know of NR’s tight history with racists?
An “Afro-Hispanic-Caribbean-Asiatic America” is going to have good food and great music.
re: #9 jaunte
“Amy Kremer, a key leader in the tea party movement who formerly served as chairman of the Tea Party Express and will serve as TrumPAC’s spokeswoman and co-founder.”
Tea Party Express. They better keep the good silver under lock and key.
re: #1 freetoken
I don’t know a single right-wing guy my age who reads national review or cares about its staff- most guys my age who lean towards the right prefer guys like Milo Y. and Chuck C. Johnson, hard-hitting firebrands who might not fit the NRO purity standard, but take the fight to the left with more gumption than anyone I’ve seen in the above column.
So, if I understand this right, the ideal model for the future of the Right is crude, mendacious shock-jock “journalism” in the service of Dudebro Conservatism - IOW, retreating even deeper into the right-wing bubble?
In the immortal words of our esteemed bloghost …. LOLWUT?
I’ll give the National Review credit. This is the most attention they’ve gotten since the last time they had to fire one of their racists.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 22, 2016
Reading Freeper Madness.
Yoga!
Actually in Encinitas CA the RWingers tried to stop a class for students. They lost.
Christians are quite paranoid.
Shery is pretty sure Palin did some Yoga and it made her atheist or something:
Yes, that Sara Palin is gone, for sure, but I sensed it coming when she commented about getting into Yoga. Scripture warns about other religions and God not liking the mixture…different religions, even working together, because what has Light to do with Dark? Yoga changes your mind about things. Now she apparently sees things differently. That is sad. I pray that it has not changed how she sees Christianity, because that would be a disastrous act, to adopt Yoga with Christianity.
re: #21 Jay C
Yup. A pair of pro-rape turdmonkeys (one who wants to be raped, another who wants to afflict it on others) who would otherwise have to confine their misery to the four walls of their local lonely watering hole, were it not for the internet.
That’s the leading edge of the right wing movement in their minds.
What. The. Fuck
Edit: Notice no mention of little Benji Baratheon. I bet he’d be pissed. LOL.
My favorite band is playing this song at the Beacon Theater in New York City right now. They’re doing it justice, too.
Encore: Space Oddity debut, David Bowie #umphreys #rip
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) January 22, 2016
re: #26 Stanley Sea Toujours
The Grand Poobah of the Southern Baptists, Al “Mullah” Mohler, has actually laid down an official statement that yoga and Christianity don’t mix.
Hah!
National Review was asked by the RNC to partner in the GOP debates. We agreed. Our initial partner was NBC, with whom we were to help moderate the pre-Super Tuesday debate, originally to be held on February 26 in Houston, then suspended by the RNC in retribution over the antics of CNBC moderators in its now infamous debate last month. A new main host was picked this week — CNN. National Review was to partner, along with Salem Radio and Telemundo, the debate rescheduled for February 25.
Tonight, a top official with the RNC called me to say that National Review was being disinvited. The reason: Our “Against Trump” editorial and symposium. We expected this was coming. Small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Yet another sign of a party implosion in process.
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
The Grand Poobah of the Southern Baptists, Al “Mullah” Mohler, has actually laid down an official statement that yoga and Christianity don’t mix.
Imagine feeling spiritually endangered by stretching exercises.
If there was a god, I’d thank him every day for not being born in his country, among his “people”.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
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The Brietbarters’ response to this article is going to comedy GOLD.
Hah! The RNC has kicked the National Review out of hosting the Houston GOP debate because of their anti-Trump issue. Popcorn! More popcorn!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 22, 2016
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
The Grand Poobah of the Southern Baptists, Al “Mullah” Mohler, has actually laid down an official statement that yoga and Christianity don’t mix.
Fucked up people.
re: #24 Reality Based Steve
Still one of my favorite soundtracks from the 1960’s, maybe my favorite.
Once Upon A Time In The West may have been better, in the sense of being more polished, but I prefer the rawness of the TGTBaTU sound.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Hah!
“Next up. the Republican Debate, presented by The Onion, Mad Magazine, and the Comedy Channel.”
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
Mullah Mohler has been on a tear of late, gone fully political and seems not a whit bothered that his “scholarly” position now is nothing more than a shell.
re: #38 freetoken
Mullah Mohler has been on a tear of late, gone fully political and seems not a whit bothered that his “scholarly” position now is nothing more than a shell.
Tax the fuck out of them.
Biggest fail of the democracy. Giving a loophole to religion.
And here we are.
re: #36 freetoken
Still one of my favorite soundtracks from the 1960’s, maybe my favorite.
Once Upon A Time In The West may have been better, in the sense of being more polished, but I prefer the rawness of the TGTBaTU sound.
and in both of them, the score (and the attention to background sounds in OUATITW) plays such a huge part in making them as effective as they are.
RBS
re: #35 Stanley Sea Toujours
Fucked up people.
The concept of an immortal soul that can be tainted by mortal life is pretty terrifying. It means that real people are less important than their hypothetical spiritual selves.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Hah!
I’m surprised Telemundo is still being allowed to co-host. If they’re allowed to ask even one question they’re going to direct it at Trump and make it count.
re: #42 goddamnedfrank
Doesn’t matter. He won’t answer it.
I can tell that my productivity is going to be way down tomorrow. I’m gonna be way too busy watching this train wreck.
re: #42 goddamnedfrank
I’m surprised Telemundo is still being allowed to co-host. If they’re allowed to ask even one question they’re going to direct it at Trump and make it count.
I thought Telemundo was scratched from all future Republican debates?
re: #7 freetoken
My reply:
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I am no cuckold, for I never married myself to White Nationalism. Pity the fools who do so.
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re: #30 Charles Johnson
The comments on that article are even crazier than the comments on their big anti-Trump article.
NRO so deserves the crazies it has attracted.
re: #45 freetoken
I thought Telemundo was scratched from all future Republican debates?
No, it was NBC that has been given the gate. For the Super Tueday Debate CNN is replacing NBC.
re: #44 makeitstop
I can tell that my productivity is going to be way down tomorrow. I’m gonna be way too busy watching this train wreck.
Heh, my contact person is duck hunting in North Carolina. Lite day for sure. I’ll be at Trader Joe’s in the am.
re: #48 Dark_Falcon
Won’t Trump and Telemundo collide, sort of like matter and antimatter?
LOL!
TBH I thought this cover was real https://t.co/JG5WluF7aS
— Mike (@mcgee_gorgo) January 22, 2016
re: #48 Dark_Falcon
No, it was NBC that has been given the gate. For the Super Tueday Debate CNN is replacing NBC.
I thought that Trump banned them after the Jorge Ramos incident.
Dag, my headache won. Hope sleep & advil cures. Night all.
re: #52 makeitstop
I thought that Trump banned them after the Jorge Ramos incident.
Trump banned Ramos, not Telemundo. Presumably they will send a moderator who will not irk The Donald.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOoooooo
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) January 22, 2016
Watching Colbert. Josh Homme is so thrilled to be working with Iggy. Ig did the entire interview and Josh sat there hanging on every word, just like me.
re: #55 ausador
.@JeffersonObama Isn’t the Department of Commerce the one Rick perry forgot? #oops
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 22, 2016
re: #55 ausador
How are they going to replace Sotomeyer? Do they have something in mind?
re: #58 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I think they want to impeach her.
Nevermind that she has not done anything impeachable, unlike Scalia and Thomas.
re: #58 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
How are they going to replace Sotomeyer? Do they have something in mind?
‘Obama isn’t a citizen, therefore he couldn’t be President, therefore his Supreme Court appointments are illegitimate’, I think.
The level of cognitive dissonance is massive, over in wingnut land.
Take this comment for example, on that brief article where NRO announces they have been disinvited from the GOP debate:
Solid_Facts • 14 minutes ago
It’s so sad to see NR going down this way. It was once a main-stay for conservative news. Now they are only a main-stay for the RINO Establishment. NR probably just didn’t get the memo from Priebus, before writing their editorial. […]
Um… wait. In the very article that says said RINO establishment has disinvited NRO, this commenter concludes that NRO are now the “main-stay” of said RINO establishment.
Something just doesn’t jive.
And this is one of the least trouble-minded of the comments over there.
re: #58 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
How are they going to replace Sotomeyer? Do they have something in mind?
Find something she said about Illegal immigrants, then have President Trump declare her a traitor and tell her to “get back to Mexico if you know what’s good for you!” If she refuses, then shes to be shot dead by men whom Trump will pardon as “pure patriots acting towards the good of the nation.”
And yes, I find that scenario I sketched out as nightmarish as it sounds to others here.
re: #61 Timothy Watson
‘Obama isn’t a citizen, therefore he couldn’t be President, therefore his Supreme Court appointments are illegitimate’, I think.
More like “You’re ugly, you’re mother dresses you funny, and I don’t like you. Nah nah nah nah nah!” (Sticks out tongue)
re: #62 freetoken
And this is one of the least trouble-minded of the comments over there.
Ugliness. Pure hate and fury.
Doctor Mayhem SouthOhioGipper • 28 minutes ago
As if any of the other GOPe candidates could beat Hillary or Bernie. It matters not. Trump wins, the Real Right is emboldened. Hopefully to the point of ostracizing and persecuting leftists with extreme prejudice. If Trump loses? Well… I think I like that more. It tells Real Americans that ballots won’t work, and bullets are the next step.Secession… Revolution… Death to tyrants. Death to the Godless. Death to liberals.
re: #62 freetoken
Trying to apply logic to conservative thinking is like applying lipstick on a shoe. Pointless.
re: #65 teleskiguy
Rush and Rupert must be so proud.
dinodoc Alphonsus_Jr • an hour ago
Seriously though, when exactly did Trump become a rock solid conservative because as of 2013 he was spouting liberal lines?
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Alphonsus_Jr dinodoc • an hour ago
See my posts below. In short, conservatism in the 21st century means nothing other than conserving white people. NR’s disguised liberals (neocons) and unconscious liberals (cuckservatives) don’t give a damn about this most fundamental aspect of conservation.
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Michael Vaughn Alphonsus_Jr • 4 minutes ago
i bet your a hoot at the Klan bakes.
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dinodoc Alphonsus_Jr • an hour ago
I’m sorry but in no way is conservatism limited to benefiting white people. What you’re arguing for is essentially National Socialism.
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Michael Vaughn dinodoc • 4 minutes ago
ding ding ding. he is definitely a white power type, i bet his mother and sister are proud - i should call her.
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Alphonsus_Jr dinodoc • an hour ago
Not at all. I’m simply arguing for the rejection of today’s pervasive white ethnomasochism and thus the survival of white people and therefore Western civilization, that greatest of all civilizations.
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re: #70 Dark_Falcon
The “alt right” is really coming out now over there.
Face it, DF, you’re going to have to own up to the truth someday. “Conservative” these days in American politics is the catch word for a lot of ugly things.
I suspect you would fit in much better as what in the 90’s was called “neoliberal” than you might at first want to admit to yourself.
The infighting in the Democratic party post Reagan was about how to veer away from looking like socialists (with only a few exceptions.) So they created the Bill Clinton that embraced welfare reform, and so on. (Forget Bill’s personal foibles.)
Limbaugh: ‘The Degree of Conservatism in the Republican Party Has Been Overestimated’ https://t.co/4VhXaQczaH AUDIO pic.twitter.com/ij98m9buGc
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 22, 2016
re: #71 Dark_Falcon
Sick sick sick.
Sorry, DF, but you know as well as the rest of us here that he’s the face of the modern Grand Old Fascist Party. If you want to support something even slightly sane and reflecting Burke, you’ll either need to start a new party or find a blue dog you can tolerate. Because there are no sane adults left - Jeb the dumber brother, Cruz the hateful, Herr Trump, Fiorina the Incompetent, Rubio who is nothing more than than a fourth rate trying to sail with the first rate line of battle.- you get the picture even if you don’t want to admit it.
re: #71 Dark_Falcon
Sick sick sick.
Um, that’s your party’s base. The GOP primary is a contest to nominate the candidate that hates brown people the most. That’s why Trump is leading, because he’s promised to institute a ruthless policy of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and to strip people born here to the wrong parents of citizenship.
re: #15 Eric The Fruit Bat
Smells like the shitlord weev to me.
I couldn’t sleep last night so I perused “alt-right” racist asshole Twitter on my iPad. They all sound like weev.
re: #74 William Lewis
Sorry, DF, but you know as well as the rest of us here that he’s the face of the modern Grand Old Fascist Party. If you want to support something even slightly sane and reflecting Burke, you’ll either need to start a new party or find a blue dog you can tolerate. Because there are no sane adults left - Jeb the dumber brother, Cruz the hateful, Herr Trump, Fiorina the Incompetent, Rubio who is nothing more than than a fourth rate trying to sail with the first rate line of battle.- you get the picture even if you don’t want to admit it.
My Governor, Bruce Rauner, he is sane and an adult. I can endure.
And so Good Night. My back is in major pain again, and I need to get a heating pad on it.
@KatrinaPierson More nobodys who will be washed away by the tsunami of righteous truth that is #Trump2016
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@ColonialBoy1) January 22, 2016
Oh please get over yourself, we are going to kick your wanna-be führers ass in November. https://t.co/PddaKpv44M
— why ask (@ausador) January 22, 2016
The racism is flowing so freely over there now. For example:
John J. • 2 minutes ago
Jesus Christ, is it even possible that the National Review could be any more cucked than it already is? I suspect dictionaries of the future will have a picture of the National Review next to the word “Cuckservative.”As the authors of this publication, you bare partial responsibility for the destruction of European values, the demographic replacement of our people with a third world population, and for the downfall of our civilization. You should all be deeply ashamed of yourselves. The national review exemplifies the reason why elites in the Republican party need to be destroyed, and replaced with people who will actually defend the interests of the founding stock.
The racist tones of Trump support could be no clearer.
re: #74 William Lewis
Hey, that is unfair to Rubio.
He is actually just slightly less tampon-sniffing crazy than Cruz. Any sense that he’s the milquetoast in this race is basically the Muller-Liar illusion.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Um, that’s your party’s base. The GOP primary is a contest to nominate the candidate that hates brown people the most. That’s why Trump is leading, because he’s promised to institute a ruthless policy of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and to strip people born here to the wrong parents of citizenship.
At some point, I really hope the reality of standing next to people like this and relying on them so that his team can “win” sinks in, and he realizes what’s happening.
In the meantime, I’m not holding my breath.
re: #81 klys (maker of Silmarils)
At some point, I really hope the reality of standing next to people like this and relying on them so that his team can “win” sinks in, and he realizes what’s happening.
In the meantime, I’m not holding my breath.
Smart. You’d turn blue for no reason.
#UPDATE: Police say a man who appeared drunk entered a showing of “13 Hours” when his gun ‘accidentally discharged’ https://t.co/yHpts8Zieu
— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) January 22, 2016
I think the most WTF response is this one:
@KING5Seattle @nadabakos Regal Cinemas has a no guns policy and they reserve the right to stop and frisk patrons. Someone failed.
— spara (@spara) January 22, 2016
I know where the point of failure was, and it’s not the cinema or the folks working it.
Retweeted by Oliver Willis, shit’s fixin’ to take off.
re: #80 The Ghost of a Flea
Hey, that is unfair to Rubio.
He is actually just slightly less tampon-sniffing crazy than Cruz. Any sense that he’s the milquetoast in this race is basically the Muller-Liar illusion.
In this race being even slightly less crazy is the equivalent of bringing a baseball bat against a sniper. He’s going to lose, hard.
re: #85 William Lewis
In this race being even slightly less crazy is the equivalent of bringing a baseball bat against a sniper. He’s going to lose, hard.
Indeed. This is a wet tshirt contest with a 3 tit minimum.
@Shoq I’m not a Bernie fan and the NRO blows goats, but there’s an argument to be made that Hillary has benefited from having opposition.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
@Shoq The alternative is her going into the general with the narrative being Dems gave her a pass, that she faced no substantive opposition.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
@CHURCHLADY320 @Shoq He clearly is. I find many of his policy proposals and assurances simplistic, but he’s forced a debate on real issues.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
@goddamnedfrank @Shoq Any candidate would have done the same. She is taking her “move left” from real PEOPLE such as BLM. NOT from Bern.
— CHURCHLADY320 (@CHURCHLADY320) January 22, 2016
I’m used to Bernie fans acting this way during this election cycle, it’s weird seeing Hillary supporters get riled when even criticism of Sanders isn’t couched in entirely negative terms. Fuckin’ people man.
re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea
Indeed. This is a wet tshirt contest with a 3 tit minimum.
You just won the internet tonight.
@eclecticbrotha I didn’t know this- Bernie voted yes on the infamous crime bill of 94 they’re painting Hill with? https://t.co/Ee5Tw8U4e6
— Raging #Canary (@freeandclear1) January 22, 2016
Good grief…
God help us all. #trump pic.twitter.com/9jCKXEYED5
— Nathan Lean (@nathanlean) January 22, 2016
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
Has any dem anywhere suggested fucking with GOP primaries like Rush and NRO did? I hope not because that’s appalling.
Politics above all else, including country, is sickening.
Uhh Bernie, we need to have a talk about how the Supreme Court works…
Any Supreme Court nominee of mine will make overturning Citizens United one of their first decisions.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 22, 2016
I am the only candidate who can unite the corporatist, chickenhawk and Christian Taliban wings of the GOP. #Cruz2016 #AgainstTrump
— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) January 22, 2016
re: #93 ausador
Uhh Bernie, we need to have a talk about how the Supreme Court works…
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re: #93 ausador
Uhh Bernie, we need to have a talk about how the Supreme Court works…
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I’m starting to think Bernie is the democrat’s Trump. He’s populist, full of bullshit (like that SCOTUS thing), and says lots of cringe-worthy things. Unlike Trump, though, he knows better - he knows how government works. And that’s what I find so disgusting.
re: #95 Tigger2
The Republicans in office would be standing in line to vote to get Bernie’s SCOTUS picks confirmed. //
Confirm schumfirm. Just bypass that whole thing.
re: #92 WhatEVs
Has any dem anywhere suggested fucking with GOP primaries like Rush and NRO did? I hope not because that’s appalling.
Politics above all else, including country, is sickening.
No, if for no other reason than it would be pointless. Democratic voters couldn’t possibly fuck up the result of the GOP primary any worse than Republicans would do as the organic outcome of their own process. There’s no GOP candidate running that should be allowed anywhere near the White House.
re: #98 goddamnedfrank
No, if for no other reason than it would be pointless. Democratic voters couldn’t possibly fuck up the result of the GOP primary any more than Republicans would do as an organic part of their own process. There’s no GOP candidate running that should be allowed anywhere near the White House.
Also, it’s very hard to sabotage a sadomasochistic clown orgy.
re: #99 The Ghost of a Flea
Also, it’s very hard to sabotage a sadomasochistic clown orgy.
You’re on a roll tonight!
Back online. Was starting to get withdrawal symptoms.
Checking right wing websites …. there is a full scale war over who is the “true” conservative.
Those people, they’re so lost in their lost-ness. “Conservative” really has become an incantation to them, something magickal, that endows specialness.
This is all nothing that was not anticipated. We all have seen friends/relatives go over the ODS cliff. The irrationality of it all is great, and what we are seeing today is that the apple, having fallen not far from the tree, now is growing a new tree of hate, confusion, madness.
Looks like the hamsters finally got back to work at the server.
re: #103 Timothy Watson
Looks like the hamsters finally got back to work at the server.
Now we see how long all those folks who went “I guess I’ll get something done” come back.
re: #1 freetoken
Milo Y. and Chuck C. Johnson, hard-hitting firebrands
Hahahahahha
Oh, and welcome back, LGF!
Well, the main Against Trump article over at NRO is now over 6500 comments and increasing every minute.
Typical is one just in:
ou812 • 2 minutes ago
I’m Hispanic and not reckless idiots.. The Republican establishment, meaning you, are in bed with the party that has destroyed the very fabric of this country. You have turned this country along with the democrats into a ruling class society. with hints of a dictatorship. You have the same “As long as we throw them scraps mentality” as the other party. You failed to listen to the people, that’s why you are the hole you are in and won’t get out for a very long time. By the people,for the people.. what part of this doesn’t the Republican and Democrat establishment understand. The citizens are fed up and will not let this country become Europestan and erode our Judeo/Christian Values and our freedoms. You along with the Democrats are responsible for the killings of Christians, Children and Homosexuals being thrown off buildings and rapes of women in the middle east. Religious or not.. we are taking the peoples country back from you thieves and liars. Trump doesn’t need to be president.. he wants to be president because he sees you destroying it from the inside. You got your 15 minutes of fame National Repuke.. now go away.
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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
@Green_Footballs And Houston, you apparently have liftoff *knocks wood*
— Teo (@Teukka72) January 22, 2016
re: #103 Timothy Watson
Looks like the hamsters finally got back to work at the server.
I was going through morning check in at LGF withdrawl for about an hour. Whew. Too much fun stuff going on in the Republican world to not have this site going.
re: #79 freetoken
The national review exemplifies the reason why elites in the Republican party need to be destroyed
Wingnuts and their mild language….
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re: #103 Timothy Watson
Looks like the hamsters finally got back to work at the server.
My whole afternoon was shot trying to get on to LGF…
re: #110 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’m just getting a kick out of the likes of Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson being called “RINOs”.
re: #107 freetoken
You along with the Democrats are responsible for the killings of Christians, Children and Homosexuals being thrown off buildings and rapes of women in the middle east.
Well, this seems a little excessive…
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re: #109 ObserverArt
I was going through morning check in at LGF withdrawl for about an hour. Whew. Too much fun stuff going on in the Republican world to not have this site going.
Seeing that NRO cover and no LGF was not a good combination.
re: #78 ausador
@KatrinaPierson More nobodys who will be washed away by the tsunami of righteous truth that is #Trump2016
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@ColonialBoy1)
Does Milo change his handle like every 15 minutes?
re: #103 Timothy Watson
Looks like the hamsters finally got back to work at the server.
Oh, good. I thought it was just me.
So…Is that napalm I smell? How much of the GOP is going to be left after the weekend?
Will Snooki take his ball and go independent now? NRO’s little power play doesn’t seem like they’re treating him very fairly, right?
I’m surprised that there have been no angry or threatening tweets from the Snooki campaign this morning. That first campaign stop today should be a doozy.
C’mon, GOP. Get on the stick and rip your own arm off and start beating yourself over the head with it already. This lull is boring as fuck.
re: #114 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Seeing that NRO cover and no LGF was not a good combination.
I just had a look at NRO and, well: too little, too late.
The GOP handed the microphone over to the Tea Party in 2009 and this is the logical outcome of that move. “Classical” or “Intellectual” conservatism is dead, it has been replaced by a highly repugnant and antibiotic-resistant strain of populism.
re: #112 freetoken
I’m just getting a kick out of the likes of Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson being called “RINOs”.
I think we need to set up the dunking chair. Let’s see who the real conservatives are.
In a way, that seems to be going on right now. At least we will soon know who the floaters are!
In one sense I wonder if NRO finally got a clue - that “Trump” as a brand is a way to garner attention, so they played their Trump card and now NRO is back on the radar.
re: #120 freetoken
In one sense I wonder if NRO finally got a clue - that “Trump” as a brand is a way to garner attention, so they played their Trump card and now NRO is back on the radar.
The thing that makes Trumpism so resilient is that it is terribly media-friendly. There is no killing it now without destroying the host.
re: #119 ObserverArt
I think we need to set up the dunking chair. Let’s see who the real conservatives are.
In a way, that seems to be going on right now. At least we will soon know who the floaters are!
Donald Trump need not fear that, for he already has a duck to stand in for him:
Trump Duckre: #65 teleskiguy
Ugliness. Pure hate and fury.
I really hope that site is used as an FBI honeypot for tracking potential killers. A lot of people there read like they’re one fuse short of a truck bomb.
(And “Death to the Godless?” You first, pendejo.)
The comments over at NRO defending Trump became “race realist” early and continues:
Captain of Mary Celeste • 6 minutes ago
A&&holes all. A long term subscriber to National Review, I
had an epiphany when Chris Buckley (WFB’s son) came out for Obama. His father’s life goal was Conservatism, yet printed positive book reviews of lefty son; but because he wanted to go to the right (left leaning) parties CB came out for a community
organizing, race-baiting, socialist-lite (I hope just lite) other side candidate for President. Subscription stopped.[…]
So, this hodgepodge of thinkers is now against a doer. They
build rarified arguments that hold no illegal immigrants back, Trump plans a wall. They hand out teddy bears and trumpet the Constitution while Trump says this country should be for this country’s citizens. Terrorists invade and the new plebiscite cannot spell Constitution nor have any political lineage to “dead
white men” who wrote one of the most perfect political documents ever. Genghis Khan’s statement is next in line but that is only good for the conquerors. (‘Do unto others as you would have others do to you’ is the shortest and most perfect.)Willfully attempting to export democracy to nations who have
neither the philosophical bent, genetic sense (cousin marriage galore), or economic expense, the National Review continues on, like the merchant ship ‘Mary Celeste’, carrying a cargo intact with no crew, no sense of the famous phone book of common people who want their culture to continue without interruption.[…]
And that is one of the more subtle ones.
re: #124 freetoken
I’m not bothering with those anymore. The next one I answer will be the one that explains how someone who never married themself to White Nationalism can be called a “cuckservative” because they refuse to be a racist.
re: #60 WCBadger
Meh! I want some blues. Rock music is dead.
Have you heard Joe Bonamassa? He’s been featured here several times which is where I discovered him. I now have all his records.
re: #125 Dark_Falcon
The tide of race realism comes in, the tide of race realism goes out… or, maybe not.
But they can’t ‘splain that.
But as I noted last night, someday you’re going to realize that your team, the GOP, is now caught in a massive car crash, a pile-up of true conservatives and real conservatives all blaming each other over who caused the crash.
re: #124 freetoken
I’m still fascinated that race-baiting is pointing out that people are being racist. I wonder if calling 911 is rob-baiting or murder-baiting?
It’s race-realism city over there:
Elric of Melnibone • 7 minutes ago
Patrick Buchanan is more a conservative than any of the editors of this magazine, apparently this magazine is also heavily financed by the Koch brothers whom recently lamented the fact that they have no influence on this race. See how they attempted to take out Pat Buchanan when he ran for office against Bush in 2000. Way to go NR your meddling lead to the disaster we face today.The October 11, 1999, cover story of National Review was a piece by Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru called “A Conservative No More,” which argued that Patrick Buchanan has abandoned conservative principles. The article complained about Mr. Buchanan’s isolationism, opposition to free trade, and support for certain government programs, but the most serious charge appeared in the subtitle: “The tribal politics of Pat Buchanan.” According to Mr. Ponnuru, “Buchananism is a form of identity politics for white people — and becomes more worrisome as it is married to collectivism.” Any expression of white identity is now apparently a betrayal of conservatism. It was not always so.
At least the poster stumbled across something that is true - “conservatism” in this country often includes “white identity”.
The comment making alias-names are all over the place with some odd references.
The one you quote is the name of a fantasy character. A prince-king of a non-human (and dying out) civilization who happens to be an albino. And a group that pretty much has nothing but contempt for the human societies on the rise to finish taking them out.
Another day and poor Ron Fournier is still desperately trying to dump the Flint Water Crisis at the President’s feet pic.twitter.com/YkhzZLWvzG
— Rylo Ken (@Kennymack1971) January 22, 2016
re: #128 Belafon
I’m still fascinated that race-baiting is pointing out that people are being racist. I wonder if calling 911 is rob-baiting or murder-baiting?
No kidding. But then again we’ve seen support for social justice turned into a bad thing so why not opposition to racism.
Somebody wake Snooki up and get his ass on Twitter. I want a meltdown, dammit.
re: #130 Feline Fearless Leader
It’s running hotter over there than even when Derb was dumped.
The race realists are unhappy that one of their original dog-whistle machines has the past few years tried, half-heartedly at that, to extricate itself from its racist past. But NRO can no more separate from its racist roots than Christianity Today can separate from its Graham roots, so to speak.
WFB and his NR were part of the anti-civil rights segment of American politics. That’s why the racists were drawn there to begin with.
Donald Trump retweeting @WhiteGenocideTM
“@WhiteGenocideTM: @realDonaldTrump Poor Jeb. I could’ve sworn I saw him outside Trump Tower the other day! pic.twitter.com/e5uLRubqla”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
re: #127 freetoken
Don’t hold your breath waiting for DF to do that. I like DF and do consider him one of the more rational Republicans, but he will never admit to that. Prime evidence is his being willing to wait it out because his (and my) Governor Rauner is “sane and an adult”. Although technically true, Rauner is as sociopathic as many other GOPers, just much better at hiding it.
Instead of being bigoted against the minorities he is bigoted against anyone earning less than a million dollars a year.
Big Koch money is going to be pouring into Illinois this year to try to flip the Illinois legislature so all the moneyed interests are protected no matter what the devastation would be to the normal citizen of the state. I would recommend that every Dem running for office in Illinois use the slogan “A vote for my opponent is a vote for Rauner.”
re: #127 freetoken
The tide of race realism comes in, the tide of race realism goes out… or, maybe not.
But they can’t ‘splain that.
But as I noted last night, someday you’re going to realize that your team, the GOP, is now caught in a massive car crash, a pile-up of true conservatives and real conservatives all blaming each other over who caused the crash.
I am hoping that someday he realizes that his team left him. The only thing left is labels. Conservatives are not conservatives any longer. Republicans are now so far to the right that the Tea Party is the GOP. Centrist Dems are what the GOP used to be.
All that’s left is the labels we grew up with. But they don’t mean the same thing.
@JonahNRO This would not make it past K-Lo https://t.co/SBF2HBsFjW
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 22, 2016
HAHAHA, YES! NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham thinks my NRO Photoshop is the real deal. pic.twitter.com/PGwtZvDm5F
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
“I was angry” Donald Trump explains why he stopped paying for his critically ill infant great nephew’s medical care. https://t.co/X78CBoHZw8
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 22, 2016
re: #136 japa21
Don’t hold your breath waiting for DF to do that. I like DF and do consider him one of the more rational Republicans, but he will never admit to that. Prime evidence is his being willing to wait it out because his (and my) Governor Rauner is “sane and an adult”. Although technically true, Rauner is as sociopathic as many other GOPers, just much better at hiding it.
Instead of being bigoted against the minorities he is bigoted against anyone earning less than a million dollars a year.
Big Koch money is going to be pouring into Illinois this year to try to flip the Illinois legislature so all the moneyed interests are protected no matter what the devastation would be to the normal citizen of the state. I would recommend that every Dem running for office in Illinois use the slogan “A vote for my opponent is a vote for Rauner.”
How is Rauner a sociopath? Because he makes clear that the Chicago Public Schools are insolvent and the teacher’s union’s demand for a state tax increase is a non-starter? All he has in saying that is to tell the truth.
There really is nothing quite as hilarious as the slap-fight going on between the “true conservatives” and the “real conservatives,” with the possible exception of the realization that the “distinction” will disappear the moment both groups step before the polling machines…and pull the lever for the GOP nominee.
re: #135 goddamnedfrank
Oh yeah, the @WhiteGenocideTM account that Trump just retweeted lists its location as “Jewmerica.”
re: #139 goddamnedfrank
.@goddamnedfrank Now imagine a state that didn’t go Donald’s way has a natural catastrophe. #NoFundsForYou He’s Christie on steroids.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 22, 2016
Seems like the Bernie Sanders Simon and Garfunkle commercial has caught a lot of attention. Yes, it is a good commercial. I always loved the song “America” but is it going to do much for Bernie?
A lot of people are thinking it is going to help with the youth vote. Well, that song was in a way a part of my youth and I am in my 60s. I’ll only vote for Bernie if he gets the Democrat nomination. Truthfully, I hope that does not happen as I think Bernie is a one note song. It’s a good note, but one that can be picked up by Hillary. And it is a note that will meet a ton of resistance. What else does Bernie have in his song book if he gets nowhere with sweeping economic change? Will he sit in his office and pout and get nothing done because he has been turned down time and again.
And if anyone thinks the GOP won’t pound Bernie into the ground about being a “commie” they do not pay attention to conservative campaigns. They want Bernie to be the Dem nominee bad. That should tell enough about how the Republicans think of him.
My big thing with Bernie is…he himself identifies as an independent socialist. And that will be how he is sold. Bad enough they will call him a commie, add in that he doesn’t even fully identify with the party and that will be used against him and all Democrats.
Bernie is just not in a good place. He should have announced he was a Democrat about 4 years ago. Then maybe he would gotten more backing from the Democrats. That is how party politics work. Bernie wanted his cake and to eat it to. I think that is a bit arrogant on his part.
re: #135 goddamnedfrank
Donald Trump retweeting @WhiteGenocideTM
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Talk about timing: this TPM article talks about how Republicans are settling on Trump because he’s “less” destructive than Cruz. I put “less” in quotes precisely because of this tweet.
Really, the only difference between Trump and Cruz is that Cruz is a straight-out, God-told-me-to-nuke-the-Middle-East religious fanatic. Other than that, they’re both batshit nuts, driven by egos that would dwarf a blue whale.
Trump is his own special brand of fucked up, though. He’s retweeting professional racists. There’s no fucking way he doesn’t know who these folks are, given all the resources around him. He just. Does. Not. Care.
re: #140 Dark_Falcon
Why is a state tax increase a non-starter?
He is a sociopath because he wants everything his way and his way only. He won’t work with the legislature on a budget unless they meet his demands for things that aren’t budget related.
The only good thing I can say about him is that, so far, he doesn’t appear to be corrupt, a condition that has plagued Illinois politics, with both parties, for a while.
re: #144 ObserverArt
I watched Bernie’s tortured explanation of his “establishment” gaffe last night. He could set his commercials to as many American-themed songs as he wants. Giving him the nomination would guarantee a President Trump.
re: #145 Mattand
Also, Trump knows at this point that Republicans take to racism and bigotry the way a pig rolls in shit.
re: #147 Mattand
I watched Bernie’s tortured explanation of his “establishment” gaffe last night. He could set his commercials to as many American-themed songs as he wants. Giving him the nomination would guarantee a President Trump.
I had heard about that, but did not hear or read it directly. Where did that happen and do you have a link?
re: #144 ObserverArt
Seems like the Bernie Sanders Simon and Garfunkle commercial has caught a lot of attention. Yes, it is a good commercial. I always loved the song “America” but is it going to do much for Bernie?
A lot of people are thinking it is going to help with the youth vote. Well, that song was in a way a part of my youth and I am in my 60s. I’ll only vote for Bernie if he gets the Democrat nomination. Truthfully, I hope that does not happen as I think Bernie is a one note song. It’s a good note, but one that can be picked up by Hillary. And it is a note that will meet a ton of resistance. What else does Bernie have in his song book if he gets nowhere with sweeping economic change. Will he sit in his office and pout and get nothing done because he has been turned down time and again.
And if anyone thinks the GOP won’t pound Bernie into the ground about being a “commie” they do not pay attention to conservative campaigns. They want Bernie to be the Dem nominee bad. That should tell enough about how the Republicans think of him.
My big thing with Bernie is…he himself identifies as an independent socialist. And that will be how he is sold. Bad enough they will call him a commie, add in that he doesn’t even fully identify with the party and that will be used against him and all Democrats.
Bernie is just not in a good place. He should have announced he was a Democrat about 4 years ago. Then maybe he would gotten more backing from the Democrats. That is how party politics work. Bernie wanted his cake and to eat it to. I think that is a bit arrogant on his part.
I wish I could upding that a few more times.
My frustration with Bernie is his lack of understanding. Watching the debates and his speeches and stumps, as you said, he is one note, and that note (a very good one) is not something a POTUS can address. You can’t EO a fix. You can’t make prosecutable laws via EO. You can’t put someone on the SCOTUS to make laws. I am pretty sure (although I find myself doubting this lately) that he knows better.
The GOP will hammer him into the ground. Comrade Sanders. All day. Every day. From nomination night to election day.
You can’t have two populist candidates with nothing behind them. Sorry, Bernie, the more I listen, the less admiration I have.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Storm prep is the name of the game here, although there’s no real consensus on just how much snow we’re going to get. Blizzard conditions are likely, but that only means we’ll see snow and winds of 35 mph or more for sustained period of 3 hours or more.
I’m figuring Northern NJ gets about 6 inches. More in NYC proper, but the real snow totals will be in central NJ along the I-95 corridor to Philly and then down towards DC and northern VA.
Of course, with this significant storm looming, Gov. Christie is in NH and has stated he’s got no intention of returning to the state this weekend.
That’s real good to know. He can stay in NH and watch his presidential ambitions burn while the state who elected him governor deals with a potential major snowstorm without him here (until something significant happens and the state DOT fails to clear roads or some such thing, or there’s a major incident along the coast), in which case he’ll get back here after the disaster’s already in place.
Christie can’t leave NJ and politics quickly enough. His presidential ambitions will collapse soon enough as he’s not even rating 4th place in NH - Kasich has blown past him there. National polls show him lagging badly, and right now, he’s not going to last past opening day of the primary season.
re: #149 ObserverArt
I had heard about that, but did not hear or read it directly. Where did that happen and do you have a link?
Hang on…
re: #148 Mattand
The racist/xenophobic @realdonaldtrump retweets anti-Semite, Media passes on yet another example of Trump extremism https://t.co/NU0XKwAfDd
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 22, 2016
Once is a mistake. Twice is a problem. More than 3 times? This is who @realDonaldTrump is - citing white nationalists time and again.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 22, 2016
I hear that NRO is pissed because Trump’s citing neo-Nazis, not crypto Nazis like NRO. @HeerJeet
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 22, 2016
re: #150 WhatEVs
I wish I could upding that a few more times.
My frustration with Bernie is his lack of understanding. Watching the debates and his speeches and stumps, as you said, he is one note, and that note (a very good one) is not something a POTUS can address. You can’t EO a fix. You can’t make prosecutable laws via EO. You can’t put someone on the SCOTUS to make laws. I am pretty sure (although I find myself doubting this lately) that he knows better.
The GOP will hammer him into the ground. Comrade Sanders. All day. Every day. From nomination night to election day.
You can’t have two populist candidates with nothing behind them. Sorry, Bernie, the more I listen, the less admiration I have.
I like Bernie Sanders and think he’s got some good ideas…but I also think he and his supporters are hopelessly naive. It’s the same feeling I get with Paulians, this belief that a White House win will mean that Congress has to give him what he wants or face the wrath of voters. Even in theory it’s a joke, because we know that a lot of shit can go wrong in four years and all of it will be blamed on Bernie, and by extension Democrats. A Bernie win means four years of nothing getting done, things going to shit, and then going to the polls in four years with Republicans able to run Attila the Hun and being guaranteed at least 51% of the vote.
re: #146 japa21
Why is a state tax increase a non-starter?
He is a sociopath because he wants everything his way and his way only. He won’t work with the legislature on a budget unless they meet his demands for things that aren’t budget related.
The only good thing I can say about him is that, so far, he doesn’t appear to be corrupt, a condition that has plagued Illinois politics, with both parties, for a while.
Didn’t Rauner’s people straight up threaten an editor’s wife?
Rauner also, according to this story that we have a very hard time not believing, bullied veteran Sun-Times reporter Dave McKinney out of his job for the crime of reporting a story that was not especially favorable to Rauner. The original story, strangely enough, was about Rauner being an asshole to a former employee who was suing him and whose life and family he threatened to destroy. According to McKinney, Rauner basically did the same thing to him. Notice any recurring themes yet?
Rauner’s campaign sent “an opposition-research hit piece” to McKinney’s boss, about his wife — basically, a “nice career your wife’s got there, would be a shame if anything happened to it” intimidation tactic. McKinney was then pulled off his beat; his reporting was removed from the paper’s website; he was put on leave; and he was told, when he returned, that he shouldn’t do any more reporting on the original story. The paper shortly thereafter “reversed its three-year, no-endorsement policy and unequivocally embraced the very campaign that had unleashed what Sun-Times management had declared a defamatory attack on” McKinney. Yes, after all that, the Sun-Times endorsed Rauner. All of which kind of sort of very much had a chilling effect in the newsroom and led McKinney to resign in a letter he made public, describing what certainly seems like retribution for reporting an unfavorable story about Bruce Rauner.
re: #151 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Storm prep is the name of the game here, although there’s no real consensus on just how much snow we’re going to get. Blizzard conditions are likely, but that only means we’ll see snow and winds of 35 mph or more for sustained period of 3 hours or more.
I’m figuring Northern NJ gets about 6 inches. More in NYC proper, but the real snow totals will be in central NJ along the I-95 corridor to Philly and then down towards DC and northern VA.
Of course, with this significant storm looming, Gov. Christie is in NH and has stated he’s got no intention of returning to the state this weekend.
That’s real good to know. He can stay in NH and watch his presidential ambitions burn while the state who elected him governor deals with a potential major snowstorm without him here (until something significant happens and the state DOT fails to clear roads or some such thing, or there’s a major incident along the coast), in which case he’ll get back here after the disaster’s already in place.
Christie can’t leave NJ and politics quickly enough. His presidential ambitions will collapse soon enough as he’s not even rating 4th place in NH - Kasich has blown past him there. National polls show him lagging badly, and right now, he’s not going to last past opening day of the primary season.
He’s a lame duck governor so I guess therefore doing the job there is not a priority as compared to working towards his next desired job. And he doesn’t need to spend time in NJ right now campaigning since there isn’t the governorship to campaign for.
I sort of hope that he really hurts the GOP down the line in NJ the next couple of elections. However, NJ needs more than that to right their boat politically since the Democrats supplied Corzine and laid the groundwork for Christie’s rise.
re: #150 WhatEVs
I wish I could upding that a few more times.
My frustration with Bernie is his lack of understanding. Watching the debates and his speeches and stumps, as you said, he is one note, and that note (a very good one) is not something a POTUS can address. You can’t EO a fix. You can’t make prosecutable laws via EO. You can’t put someone on the SCOTUS to make laws. I am pretty sure (although I find myself doubting this lately) that he knows better.
The GOP will hammer him into the ground. Comrade Sanders. All day. Every day. From nomination night to election day.
You can’t have two populist candidates with nothing behind them. Sorry, Bernie, the more I listen, the less admiration I have.
Bob and Chez talked about this exact same subject on Tuesday’s show. You nailed this perfectly. All I can think off is Karl Rove gloating over Kerry’s Iraq War 2: Electric Boog-a-loo vote, calling it a gift that gave on giving.
re: #155 Targetpractice
The president, whether it is Bernie or Hillary, would face a Congress as currently constituted hostile to anything that they propose.
The only way a candidate like Bernie or Hillary could get even the slightest bit of their agenda accomplished is to make sure that all the down-ticket races - the Congressional races - come out in favor of a Democrat tide. That means a GOTV unlike anything Democrats have seen in quite a few cycles.
It means getting Democrats to understand the consequences of doing nothing except focusing on the president. It means setting aside differences between Hillary and Bernie - which aren’t nearly as stark as the difference between any Democrat candidate and what the GOP (any of the candidates) would want to do, especially with a Congress in GOP hands.
A GOP president combined with a GOP held Congress would mean rolling back, or even eliminating Obamacare. And that’d be just the start, despite the huge costs of repealing Obamacare and the personal toll of eliminating access to health insurance for millions.
Democrats have to focus on getting as many tossup seats to go in their favor. It’s much more likely in the Senate than House, but Democrats have to do much more to accentuate the difference between what the nation looks like with a GOP controlled government, and what it’d mean to rolling back decades of social progress (particularly with Supreme Court nominations in the balance) while GOPers in Congress itch to roll back the CRA, VRA, and other laws meant to protect minorities and the poor.
re: #157 Feline Fearless Leader
He’s a lame duck governor so I guess therefore doing the job there is not a priority as compared to working towards his next desired job. And he doesn’t need to spend time in NJ right now campaigning since there isn’t the governorship to campaign for.
I sort of hope that he really hurts the GOP down the line in NJ the next couple of elections. However, NJ needs more than that to right their boat politically since the Democrats supplied Corzine and laid the groundwork for Christie’s rise.
Yeah, as I’ve payed closer attention to NJ politics over the last few years, I’ve come to the realization that this state is one of the few places where it’s entirely appropriate to Magic Balance Fairy all politicians.
As for Christie hurting the GOP: it probably won’t. I’m willing to let people slide on voting for him the first time, as Corzine was no real prize, as it turns out. Personally, between his being a Republican and a fucking bellicose asshole, that was more than enough for me to avoid him.
Voting for him the second time, though? I really don’t know what people were thinking. That was fucking dumb.
re: #150 WhatEVs
I wish I could upding that a few more times.
My frustration with Bernie is his lack of understanding. Watching the debates and his speeches and stumps, as you said, he is one note, and that note (a very good one) is not something a POTUS can address. You can’t EO a fix. You can’t make prosecutable laws via EO. You can’t put someone on the SCOTUS to make laws. I am pretty sure (although I find myself doubting this lately) that he knows better.
The GOP will hammer him into the ground. Comrade Sanders. All day. Every day. From nomination night to election day.
You can’t have two populist candidates with nothing behind them. Sorry, Bernie, the more I listen, the less admiration I have.
In an ideal world, Bernie would be my man. In the real world, I guess I will be stuck voting for HIllary.
re: #135 goddamnedfrank
“Trump retweeted an account literally named ‘White Genocide’” “So we should expect his numbers to go up, then?” *beat* “yeah…. yeah…”
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) January 22, 2016
re: #160 Mattand
Yeah, as I’ve payed closer attention to NJ politics over the last few years, I’ve come to the realization that this state is one of the few places where it’s entirely appropriate to Magic Balance Fairy all politicians.
As for Christie hurting the GOP: it probably won’t. I’m willing to let people slide on voting for him the first time, as Corzine was no real prize, as it turns out. Personally, between his being a Republican and a fucking bellicose asshole, that was more than enough for me to avoid him.
Voting for him the second time, though? I really don’t know what people were thinking. That was fucking dumb.
For some people I know it was local politics run out a step or two further. They were annoyed repeatedly by the local Democrats and thus took it out on the entire party to at least the state level. ( I did not query how they voted at the national level.)
re: #160 Mattand
His second election was the result of Democrats essentially ceding the race to him. A poor opponent without the kind of support needed to beat him.
I voted for Christie in his first election versus Corzine because I saw just how awful Corzine was, and thought Christie might be better. Boy was I wrong. Christie turned out to be as bad or worse, and the state is now in a far worse position fiscally - the state keeps getting downgraded by the credit markets, the transportation trust fund is bankrupt, and his pledge to properly fund pensions (he sought and got laws changed to reform the state pension system) died the moment he realized he might need to hike taxes on the rich to make the scheduled payments, so he refused to make proper payments on state obligations.
And his refusal to hike any taxes manifests itself in multiple places, including the potentially illegal use of Port Authority funds to rebuild the Pulaski skyway instead of raising the gas tax to fund the transit trust fund. Roads and mass transit continue to crumble, and his adminstration oversaw the massive failure during Sandy to protect the NJ Transit rail fleet - and now the repercussions of that failure means 4x the national averages in breakdowns of the rail fleet (and it’ll only get worse with each passing year given the corrosive nature of saltwater in electronic gear).
BWHAHA.
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re: #164 lawhawk
His second election was the result of Democrats essentially ceding the race to him. A poor opponent without the kind of support needed to beat him.
I voted for Christie in his first election versus Corzine because I saw just how awful Corzine was, and thought Christie might be better. Boy was I wrong. Christie turned out to be as bad or worse, and the state is now in a far worse position fiscally - the state keeps getting downgraded by the credit markets, the transportation trust fund is bankrupt, and his pledge to properly fund pensions (he sought and got laws changed to reform the state pension system) died the moment he realized he might need to hike taxes on the rich to make the scheduled payments, so he refused to make proper payments on state obligations.
And his refusal to hike any taxes manifests itself in multiple places, including the potentially illegal use of Port Authority funds to rebuild the Pulaski skyway instead of raising the gas tax to fund the transit trust fund. Roads and mass transit continue to crumble, and his adminstration oversaw the massive failure during Sandy to protect the NJ Transit rail fleet - and now the repercussions of that failure means 4x the national averages in breakdowns of the rail fleet (and it’ll only get worse with each passing year given the corrosive nature of saltwater in electronic gear).
So, in other words, he behaved like a Republican.
I’m shocked things turned out the way they did. Shocked.
re: #165 lawhawk
BWHAHA.
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It’s gonna be really funny watching lines be drawn, erased and re-drawn all weekend.
You can’t buy entertainment on this level.
re: #165 lawhawk
BWHAHA.
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Time to go out and do a supply run before the crowds descend.
Apparently a five minute stump speech doesn’t go over well with people who wait in line for hours.
But she’s got Demi Lovato and has locked up the 12-15 year old girl vote. https://t.co/DC5FQlzk7h
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 22, 2016
re: #144 ObserverArt
Seems like the Bernie Sanders Simon and Garfunkle commercial has caught a lot of attention. Yes, it is a good commercial. I always loved the song “America” but is it going to do much for Bernie?
A lot of people are thinking it is going to help with the youth vote. Well, that song was in a way a part of my youth and I am in my 60s. I’ll only vote for Bernie if he gets the Democrat nomination. Truthfully, I hope that does not happen as I think Bernie is a one note song. It’s a good note, but one that can be picked up by Hillary. And it is a note that will meet a ton of resistance. What else does Bernie have in his song book if he gets nowhere with sweeping economic change. Will he sit in his office and pout and get nothing done because he has been turned down time and again.
And if anyone thinks the GOP won’t pound Bernie into the ground about being a “commie” they do not pay attention to conservative campaigns. They want Bernie to be the Dem nominee bad. That should tell enough about how the Republicans think of him.
My big thing with Bernie is…he himself identifies as an independent socialist. And that will be how he is sold. Bad enough they will call him a commie, add in that he doesn’t even fully identify with the party and that will be used against him and all Democrats.
Bernie is just not in a good place. He should have announced he was a Democrat about 4 years ago. Then maybe he would gotten more backing from the Democrats. That is how party politics work. Bernie wanted his cake and to eat it to. I think that is a bit arrogant on his part.
I agree with just about every word of this. I think the “America” commercial is very well done and a breath of fresh air compared to the obnoxious GOP ads. Kudos to the producers and editors. And I also always loved the song. When I went to play it for a 26-year old, I was describing the song (belting out—It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, as she stared at me as if I’d lost my mind.) She’d never heard the song before—not that it would make the ad ineffectual, but I think there’s a more emotional connection for “olds” like us, who remember the song as part of our youth.
I like Bernie’s zeal and most of his ideas, but the concept that all he needs to do is be elected and a wave of wonder will sweep over the nation is extremely naive and I keep hearing it more and more from his fans. That’s not how it works, and Bernie, who has been in government for 30+ years, knows that.
re: #150 WhatEVs
I wish I could upding that a few more times.
My frustration with Bernie is his lack of understanding. Watching the debates and his speeches and stumps, as you said, he is one note, and that note (a very good one) is not something a POTUS can address. You can’t EO a fix. You can’t make prosecutable laws via EO. You can’t put someone on the SCOTUS to make laws. I am pretty sure (although I find myself doubting this lately) that he knows better.
The GOP will hammer him into the ground. Comrade Sanders. All day. Every day. From nomination night to election day.
You can’t have two populist candidates with nothing behind them. Sorry, Bernie, the more I listen, the less admiration I have.
For a change I decided to spend the night with a US expat and his friends who live here in Melbourne. I was genuinely excited to be able to discuss American politics with a native and get some first-hand perspective.
It was excellent. The guy is an excellent griller. Had some shitty Aussie sausages bbq’d wrapped in American bacon and the latter part made the former more than palatable.
Conversation turned to politics as I hoped it would.
Can I just say that the Bernie phenomenon seems, from just this small data set (which included otherwise well-informed but also white Antipodeans), an appeal to progressive victimization.
‘Well, when Obama entered office, people said he wouldn’t last a month before some James Earl Ray had had enough.
‘But Bernie; the way he’s come out against corporate greed? He’ll have a black ops team putting a bullet in his brain come sundown of Inauguration Day.’
I had to point out, like you have, that the corporations don’t need no dirty wetwork team, they have a gerrymandered Republican-dominated Congress.
The Bern’ll have at least as much trouble getting legislation through that as Obama has. So the assassination ideation is at this point, pretty masturbatory.
I mentioned the importance of SCOTUS nominations but it didn’t seem to land like I thought it would.
And yet all and sundry were in agreement that the Republican field was bereft of any merit.
The Fabian Society ought to have a unicorn farting a rainbow as a gesture to our implacably puritan fellow-travellers.
Ed.
re: #172 BeachDem
I agree with just about every word of this. I think the “America” commercial is very well done and a breath of fresh air compared to the obnoxious GOP ads. Kudos to the producers and editors. And I also always loved the song. When I went to play it for a 26-year old, I was describing the song (belting out—It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw, as she stared at me as if I’d lost my mind.) She’d never heard the song before—not that it would make the ad ineffectual, but I think there’s a more emotional connection for “olds” like us, who remember the song as part of our youth.
I like Bernie’s zeal and most of his ideas, but the concept that all he needs to do is be elected and a wave of wonder will sweep over the nation is extremely naive and I keep hearing it more and more from his fans. That’s not how it works, and Bernie, who has been in government for 30+ years, knows that.
He’s trying to do “HOPE and CHANGE” without explicitly saying so. And the realists are not buying it since they saw the past seven years of obstruction and the conditions are new worse towards making changes.
re: #173 Alyosha
The Fabian Society ought to have a unicorn farting a rainbow as a gesture to our implacably puritan fellow-travellers.
Well, all I can offer is a unicorn pooping soft-serve ice cream. Sorry about that.
We’re watching #Blizzard2016 from space. Here’s a new satellite view from 2:35am ET today: https://t.co/6YTbRO5KiS pic.twitter.com/R8n3OemO3r
— NASA (@NASA) January 22, 2016
Got about 4 inches on the ground here in Lexington right now. Just a relaxing day reading LGF, the Twitterverse, and having the computer being walked on by the new kitten.
re: #177 Alyosha
Fuckin’ sold!
Here’s the source, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
NSFW, so in a spoiler tag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
re: #160 Mattand
Voting for him the second time, though? I really don’t know what people were thinking. That was fucking dumb.
IIRC, Christopher the Massive won his re-election in 2013 by basically conniving with the state’s Democrats Democratic bosses in some sort of backroom deal to ensure that their candidate (the hapless Barbara Buono) would be a little-known, poorly-supported and badly underfinanced one. Given that Christie was still basking in some of his post-Sandy hero-glow, it was a strategy that was sure to work.
But you’re right about the Magical Balance Fairy: New Jersey is one of those places where she has a pretty good gig going. Of course, in the Garden State, it means that she manages to make the voters utterly sick and tired of dealing with the Governor (any Governor) - and booting them out, Democrat or Republican in alternation. And it works almost every time. As if by magic!
re: #179 Dr Lizardo
I also have glitter in my leavings. But I think that’s unrelated to how I am reposed whilst… moving…
Weird cover. pic.twitter.com/Lw5x58xGL8
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 22, 2016
re: #171 darthstar
Apparently a five minute stump speech doesn’t go over well with people who wait in line for hours.
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“WhiteGenocideTM,” Twitter user Trump RT’d, lists hometown as “Jewmerica.” profile pic = American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 22, 2016
The tide of race realism at NRO comments has now become a flood of biblical proportions.
Real Republicans don’t publicly promote white supremacists. This is why we have code. #RINO https://t.co/9TOknAeCah
— Speaker Cruz (@HavanaTed) January 22, 2016
Who could ever have guessed that Trumpites were racists?
re: #185 freetoken
The tide of race realism at NRO comments has now become a flood of biblical proportions.
How soon until they claim it’s all “liberal plants” and shut down comments?
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
Who even came up with that?
Aren’t you in Czech Republic? What do you think of Milos Zeman?
re: #189 Ziggy_TARDIS
Who even came up with that?
Aren’t you in Czech Republic? What do you think of Milos Zeman?
I have no idea who came up with it.
I’m not a fan of Zeman. He’s a populist demagogue.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
That’s what I think too. Is the Prime Minister any better? I thought he was in Putin’s pocket.
Daughter2 had to leave work—school closed early on rumor of snow. Just as well. By the time she got to the kid he had tumbled out of his desk (clothing malfunction) and needed transport to the doc.
re: #191 Ziggy_TARDIS
That’s what I think too. Is the Prime Minister any better? I thought he was in Putin’s pocket.
Zeman is Putin’s toady. PM Sobotka is better by far, at least in my opinion.
Shlomo-Bergblatstein • 11 minutes ago
NRO has my thanks for standing up for real conservative principles and defending them from a hostile working class White base. This country could be 100% non White tomorrow but as long as we stick to the constitution and conservative principles like defending Israel and defending big business’s right to export American jobs to Pakistan and China we will be fine. America is an abstract set of ideas principles that are just as universal to African bushmen as they are descendants of Jamestown settlers. Appealing to shared heritage and blood and soil is inherently left wing and I honestly would rather vote for Hillary then Trump. I don’t to conserve anything “White” thank you very much I’m not a leftist nazi.And let’s not get into Trumps snubbing Bibi. The man should be on trial for warcrimes for that one.
Surely this has to be librul plant, no?
Well, here is the sole reply, by someone taged as a “moderator”:
Forum Defense Team nro Shlomo-Bergblatstein • 13 minutes ago
@spam
That’s right, the moderator thinks the racist rants is just “spam”.
Conservative Texas Monthly writer starting to get worried:
9. So to the Establishment Republicans knocking Cruz & stoically starting to carry water for Trump, I say: Are you out of your fucking minds
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) January 22, 2016
10. Trump as the nominee would be the end of the GOP—if Trump as frontrunner hasn’t already guaranteed as much.
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) January 22, 2016
re: #194 freetoken
Surely this has to be librul plant, no?
Well, here is the sole reply, by someone taged as a “moderator”:
That’s right, the moderator thinks the racist rants is just “spam”.
From the choice of handle, a white supremacist pretending to be “Jew”
OMG IT’S SNOWING RUN FOR YOUR LIFES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD PANIC!!1!!!!!!
re: #197 Timothy Watson
OMG IT’S SNOWING RUN FOR YOUR LIFES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD PANIC!!1!!!!!!
Or run to New Hampshire if you’re Chris Christie.
re: #197 Timothy Watson
OMG IT’S SNOWING RUN FOR YOUR LIFES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD PANIC!!1!!!!!!
I went to buy some kosher salt ‘cause I’m an idiot. The water aisle, cleaned out; frozen pizzas, mostly gone; charcoal, CHARCOAL, cleaned out. How many people are going to off themselves with CO this storm trying to cook or stay warm with CHARCOAL?
re: #197 Timothy Watson
OMG IT’S SNOWING RUN FOR YOUR LIFES IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD PANIC!!1!!!!!!
“Just please stay tuned through this commercial break and we’ll be back with some important tips on hoarding the perfect snacks to see you through a blizzard.”
Ever get involved in something so stupid you make the Ancient Aliens Guy face? pic.twitter.com/i06T7bsW6o
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 22, 2016
So, honest question… Given where the party is at the moment, if I hear a Republican claim to be of “The party of Lincoln”, would it still be considered rude to laugh in their face? Or is that the expected reaction, more or less?
When your dog forgets how to dog https://t.co/96PQy0mLFa
— Tweet Like A Girl (@TweetLikeAGirI) January 22, 2016
From race realism they are now into a full on anti-semite mode:
Ezra Pound • 9 minutes ago
Why should Americans listen to a bunch of Christ-killing “Israeli” citizens about who we should vote for?
American “conservatives” have finally, in the era of Trump, come into their full glory.
re: #201 jaunte
“Just please stay tuned through this commercial break and we’ll be back with some important tips on hoarding the perfect snacks to see you through a blizzard.”
My ever-brilliant wife ordered from Amazon Pantry, and we had an entire Winter storm’s worth of junk food delivered to the house this morning!
I still have to go out and buy a couple of tarps for covering things up before the snow gets here tomorrow. Maybe the hardware store will be less crowded than the supermarket. Maybe.
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
re: #208 Targetpractice
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed.
Donald Trump is not the only Republican with a little “Neo-Nazi” problem==>
Ted Cruz’s latest endorser says God will raise up a “hunter” like Hitler to kill all Jews who don’t accept Jesus: https://t.co/EGzomBIuaU
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 22, 2016
So, it’s started snowing here in Hampton Roads towards the end of most people’s lunch hour…which means we’ll have at least half a dozen wrecks on I-264 by 2pm, since the locals suddenly forget how to drive.
Ben Shapiro: Donald Trump Is As Bad As Obama - https://t.co/opdBvQb4iE pic.twitter.com/JgGZJvja5o
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) January 22, 2016
Worth noting, Ben did not post this little rant on Breitbart, because that would have been awkward.
re: #211 Targetpractice
So, it’s started snowing here in Hampton Roads towards the end of most people’s lunch hour…which means we’ll have at least half a dozen wrecks on I-264 by 2pm, since the locals suddenly forget how to drive.
Stay safe out there.
re: #208 Targetpractice
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
Any White Walkers yet?
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
Stay safe out there.
That’s the upside, it’s my day off, so I absolutely refuse to go out there.
Submitted without comment.
@realDonaldTrump Hasta la Vista, Jeb! Trump will be the next POTUS. pic.twitter.com/LqVSRLmA4V
— Donald Trumpovitz (@WhiteGenocideTM) January 22, 2016
re: #212 Ace-o-aces
That’s Ben’s “Rasputin” look. Or maybe it’s “Blue Steel”
re: #208 Targetpractice
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
Told you God favored white people.
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So, does Teddy Cruz think he is going to make big gains due to the NR article?
I hope he realizes a GOP explosion will take in everyone and since he has been riding Trump coattail until earlier this month he is right in the same target area of the bombing.
I imagine the Kasich, Rubio, Christie and Jeb campaigns are right now studying how they can turn this into a positive for them.
And on the Democratic side, hopefully they are turning this into a full Republican party problem…which it is.
Thanks Obama…
Umm…wait…this is bad right?
Yeah, yeah…this is bad…
Thanks Obama…
U.S. gas prices to hit seven-year low in February - https://t.co/N0CdNxzWa7 pic.twitter.com/f6sbllO2gr
— Daily News Autos (@NYDNAutos) January 22, 2016
When it rains, it pours:
Former Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett is quietly advising Trump’s top aides
Everybody wants to be on the winning team, eh?
BREAKING NEWS: The D.C. streetcar will suspend its practice runs at 5 p.m. Up to zero travelers could be affected. https://t.co/nRz4oKaZ87
— City Paper (@wcp) January 22, 2016
re: #222 FormerDirtDart
Thanks Obama…
Umm…wait…this is bad right?
Yeah, yeah…this is bad…Thanks Obama…
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Don’t worry, if the prices continue into summer, we’ll be told about how this is the worst thing possible because everybody knows low gas prices means the economy is in the shitter. Wait, you mean Republicans promised low gas prices back in ‘12? Well yeah, but that was through increased oil production, which we know Obama would never allow, so obviously these low prices are due to the economy tanking.
re: #223 freetoken
When it rains, it pours:
Former Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett is quietly advising Trump’s top aides
Everybody wants to be on the winning team, eh?
He did so well on the Carson campaign.
Please RT if you agree “small government” caterwaulers should plow their own streets #UniteBlue #tcot pic.twitter.com/Mhhhkla21c
— David Samples (@NatureGuy101) January 22, 2016
re: #226 jaunte
He did so well on the Carson campaign.
Well, Carson did bloom there for a while, being the only person to challenge Trump.
Now, Carson’s personality did in the Carson-of-our-dreams ideal that existed in many of the uninformed minds who had boosted Carson in the polls.
Still, Carson did out raise in campaign contributions the other candidates.
So I don’t condemn the campaign manager. I really think Carson himself did in his own campaign.
re: #185 freetoken
The tide of race realism at NRO comments has now become a flood of biblical proportions.
What’s the difference between NRO and Trump?
NRO hired racists on their staff for years (a number were since fired).
Trump retweets racists.
Which is worse? The edge still goes to NRO, since Trump’s ideological bent can trace itself to NRO.
re: #153 Mattand
No video, but a transcript. I was not impressed.
Thanks for the link. Some good comments linked to it, like this one…
Lebowsky Dude - AN HOUR AGO
#3.7
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I completely disagree, Senator Sanders is using a 2016 election meme to essentially demonize the “management” or “administration” of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the HRC. Listen carefully to his Hunt interview, he wrongly compares these organizations to labor unions, he tries to imply there is a “rank and file” like a union. These organizations survive on donations, not dues. Sanders seems to think his campaign is more important than these groups getting donations, he is trying to cause a rift between the “management” and the donors by painting the “administrators” as “establishment”. Now all the BernieBots have official backing to threaten to “never donate” to those rascal “administrators” who nefariously endorsed having the first woman elected POTUS. We saw evidence of that immediately. Sanders campaign is all about grievance, and now he even throws Cecile Richards under the bus. Listen to how Sanders says “We have friends in Planned Parenthood and Human Rights “Fund”, but the administrators…” They are not his “friends” now that they endorsed Clinton? This happened Tuesday and he still does not know the name of the Human Rights Campaign? This is not “over”. Planned Parenthood has employees and volunteers all united to provide women’s healthcare, now a major candidate for POTUS has repeatedly suggested nefarious intent using loaded terminology, all to push freaking grievance because in 2016 grievance freaking sells… The Tuesday interview was softball by Rachel, except for that question, and Bernie stepped in crap. I am now asking Rachel to not go softball anymore on Sanders, his “break up the banks” and “single payer” plans are both complete fantasy and unworkable, and its about time he gets asked point blank about them IMHO…
Someone has their thinking cap on and going strong.
re: #221 Targetpractice
Not yet, but they’re not my biggest worry.
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re: #208 Targetpractice
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
Winter is coming… and we will be entertained.
Right wing fav Zogby’s own poll shows Trump overwhelmingly popular among Republicans:
New Zogby Poll: Trump Leads Cruz By 32 Points Nationwide
In a brand new Zogby Analytics Poll of likely GOP caucus and primary voters, Donald Trump receives 45% of the total vote, with Ted Cruz in a distant second place at 13%, followed by Marco Rubio with 8%, Jeb Bush 6%, Ben Carson 4%, Carly Fiorina and John Kasich tied with 3%, and Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum all tied with 2%. Ten percent are undecided.
The new poll of 294 likely Republican voters nationwide was conducted on January 19 and 20 and has a margin of sampling error of +/-5.8 percentage points.
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Now, Zogby is too flaky even for RCP so they don’t include this poll in their totals.
Still, even with Zogby’s own known bad analyses, it is hard to escape that Trump clearly leads nationwide among self-declared Republicans.
GOP Senators proclaim “Mediocrity is good enough for us”,
“want lower Internet speeds to qualify as “broadband
Is there anything these people don’t hate, besides war and tax cuts?
It’s open to interpretation. #globalsecurity #Davos pic.twitter.com/LaHG0GMxJJ
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 22, 2016
re: #235 Skip Intro
GOP Senators proclaim “Mediocrity is good enough for us”,
“want lower Internet speeds to qualify as “broadband
Is there anything these people don’t hate, besides war and tax cuts?
and ketchup is a vegetable!
re: #228 freetoken
Well, Carson did bloom there for a while, being the only person to challenge Trump.
Now, Carson’s personality did in the Carson-of-our-dreams ideal that existed in many of the uninformed minds who had boosted Carson in the polls.
Still, Carson did out raise in campaign contributions the other candidates.
So I don’t condemn the campaign manager. I really think Carson himself did in his own campaign.
It sounds like Armstrong Williams helped by having their foreign affairs specialists talk to the media and reveal Carson was totally out to lunch on world events, etc. That was all revealed in an article linked here last evening.
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) January 22, 2016
In 1966, Mr Whiskers escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a ball of twine, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub.
.@RobMacary @hunterw @YahooPolitics So, if Adolf Hitler had a twitter account and tweeted a real great joke, would you retweet?
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) January 22, 2016
Would you go back in time a block baby Hitler’s Twitter account? https://t.co/Vo3VMCE30D
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 22, 2016
OK this is kind of funny.
This guy “wrote” a Trump, gay-sex book overnight. He submitted it to Amazon and it is now up for sale.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH IT’S UP ON AMAZON HAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/ESfwN1vgJc pic.twitter.com/1SR1mnZ7cB
— Elijah Daniel (@aguywithnolife) January 21, 2016
Edit: sorry for double entry of tweet. fixed.
re: #184 Ace-o-aces
.@JohnJHarwood For Trump supporters the American Nazi Party is a +5 bump in the polls…which Trump will extol in his next stump.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 22, 2016
re: #192 Decatur Deb
Daughter2 had to leave work—school closed early on rumor of snow. Just as well. By the time she got to the kid he had tumbled out of his desk (clothing malfunction) and needed transport to the doc.
Oh, the poor kid! Hope he’s not banged up too bad, and his mom didn’t have to deal with too much slippery stuff on the roads.
If I were a billionaire, I would undermine the Bundy Bund by recruiting more supporters for them. No, really. A few bags of cash here and there could get every batshit conspira-loon on the planet descending on the place to show support and take advantage of this heaven-sent suspension of federal power. I don’t mean neo-nazis and kooks like that. They are already there. I mean people like Bigfoot proponents, flat Earthers, and ufools. Imagine, for example, how successful a Bigfoot hunt might be if the feds were unable to conduct their standard cover-up and interference in a large wilderness area. Same with Flat Earthers. Federal oppression and cover-ups are a common factor in ALL their claims. The Bundys have freed them from that. Let them come, in droves, hordes of true believers, until the Bundys are drowning in a sea of lunatics.
re: #208 Targetpractice
*looks outside*
OH GOD, THE WORLD HAS TURNED WHITE! WE’RE DOOMED!!!
Not a problem for Hollywood.
re: #241 blueraven
OK this is kind of funny.
This guy “wrote” a Trump, gay-sex, book overnight. He submitted it to Amazon and it is now up for sale.
E-publishing has its advantages
The reviews will be even funnier than the book, one suspects
1.bought food
2.charging up all batteries
3. shovel ready
4.salt is stocked
5.checking movies/TV shows on amazon.
I think I am ready for this snow storm. If I am not it is too late.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
Donald Trump is not the only Republican with a little “Neo-Nazi” problem==>
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End Times, baby! Fuck The World!
I’m sure this will go over well in New Jersey:
I’m sorry, NH but I gotta go home - we got snow coming. #Jonas
— Chris Christie (@ChrisChristie) January 22, 2016
It’s news when Chris Christie does his damn job.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 22, 2016
re: #234 jaunte
Texas Republicans singing Ball of Confusion
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No matter what they do, a black man is still POTUS.
re: #211 Targetpractice
So, it’s started snowing here in Hampton Roads towards the end of most people’s lunch hour…which means we’ll have at least half a dozen wrecks on I-264 by 2pm, since the locals suddenly forget how to drive.
I lived there for four years…hate to say it but the locals never knew how to drive. I have never, ever seen as many multi-car wrecks as I did in VA. It’s like two people can’t accident together…there needs to be a vehicular party. :-)
re: #249 Lidane
I’m sure this will go over well in New Jersey:
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LOL How is he going to get there? Flights are cancelled everywhere. Trains are stopped. Interstates are clogged.
re: #252 The Vicious Babushka
Private jet.
Funny how Evangelicals don’t consider it sign from God when a massive blizzard hits their bullshit march. #Roe43
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 22, 2016
re: #252 The Vicious Babushka
LOL How is he going to get there? Flights are cancelled everywhere. Trains are stopped. Interstates are clogged.
Acting in that classic Republican way: Abusing the powers of his office in the very same manner that, if the President did it, would lead to Congressional investigations and months of screeching on Fox.
re: #253 PhillyPretzel
Private jet.
Aren’t private jets and airfields subject to the same weather conditions as commercial aviation?
re: #254 Kragar
Funny how Evangelicals don’t consider it sign from God when a massive blizzard hits their bullshit march.
He is just testing their resolve.
re: #256 The Vicious Babushka
Honesty I have no idea but there are those folks who like to take risks.
re: #252 The Vicious Babushka
LOL How is he going to get there? Flights are cancelled everywhere. Trains are stopped. Interstates are clogged.
They’re probably clogged because he scheduled a study. He’ll just have the road blocks removed when he gets close.
The late, great, William F. Buckley would be ashamed of what had happened to his prize, the dying National Review!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016
re: #261 gocart mozart
The late, great, William F. Buckley would be ashamed of what had happened to his prize, the dying National Review!
He would be ashamed of what happened to the GOP.
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Yes he would.
re: #249 Lidane
I’m sure this will go over well in New Jersey:
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New Jersey only needs a governor when it snows.
re: #261 gocart mozart
He would take one look at Trump and the rest of the field and go home and open a vein.
This is sad news. I did not know he was in such bad shape.
ESPN - Former Olympic downhill champ Bill Johnson dies at age 55
KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Bill Johnson, the brash American who became the first U.S. skier to win an Olympic downhill title, died after a long illness, the U.S. ski team said Friday. He was 55.
Megan Harrod, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Alpine team, said Johnson died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Gresham, Oregon.
Johnson’s health had been on the decline for several years after a series of strokes.
ohnson won the downhill at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, the first American to capture gold in Alpine skiing’s marquee event. He was also the first American male to win an Olympic gold in any Alpine event.
He became an iconic figure to many Americans by predicting he would win Olympic gold.
“They related to Billy — that brash, throw-it-in-your-face type attitude,” Phil Mahre, who won the Olympic slalom in 1984, said in 2012. “When you tell people you’re going to go do something and then you go out and back it up like in Sarajevo, it’s pretty impressive.”
Johnson tried to make a comeback ahead of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics at the age of 40, but crashed in a downhill training run in 2001 at the U.S. championships at The Big Mountain near Whitefish, Montana. He sustained a traumatic brain injury that erased nearly a decade of memories. He had to learn how to walk, talk and eat again.
Johnson made steady improvement over the years, even returning to the slopes for recreation. But his health deteriorated again because of strokes, and he spent his last years in the assisted living center near Portland.
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It’s really sad,” Lindsey Vonn, winner of the 2010 women’s Olympic downhill title, said Friday. “He’s had a rough couple of years and it’s been sad to watch him deteriorate like that. But you know when you’re in a state like that I think it’s a blessing sometimes. He was an incredible legend in our sport so I just hope he rests in peace and my condolences to his family.”
Johnson, who was born in Los Angeles, grew up racing at Bogus Basin, Idaho, and Mt. Hood, Oregon.
Caught stealing cars as a teenager, the judge gave him a choice: Attend ski school or head to jail. So he went to Mission Ridge Ski Academy in Washington, where he developed his talent.
Johnson established himself on the global scene when he won the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland, in 1984 in his second year on the World Cup circuit.
A month later, Johnson went to Sarajevo and cockily predicted that he would win, annoying his European rivals. He came through, beating silver medalist Peter Mueller of Switzerland by 0.27 seconds.
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re: #264 b.d.
Or when hurricanes come. He wants to make a show of being there.
re: #243 CleverToad
Oh, the poor kid! Hope he’s not banged up too bad, and his mom didn’t have to deal with too much slippery stuff on the roads.
Doc said no stitches likely, recommended staying off the roads, even to the Ped Clinic. Grandma says kid will look like he vas a student in Heidelberg Kindergarten.
re: #268 Decatur Deb
Doc said no stitches likely, recommended staying off the roads, even to the Ped Clinic. Grandma says kid will look like he vas a student in Heidelberg Kindergarten.
Deb…you said he took a tumble and it was clothing related. What happened…something trip him and he fell?
From last year
“Dying fast, doing very little business.” So its a lot like a Trump casino then @realDonaldTrump @NRO @JonahNRO
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 22, 2015
re: #270 ObserverArt
Deb…you said he took a tumble and it was clothing related. What happened…something trip him and he fell?
Teacher says he was sitting on his chair with his arms and legs in his coat sleeves. Did a faceplant. Boys in our family are not blessed with gracefulness.
re: #272 Decatur Deb
Teacher says he was sitting on his chair with his arms and legs in his coat sleeves. Did a faceplant. Boys in our family are not blessed with gracefulness.
Ouch! No stopping his tumble that way. Poor little guy.
re: #274 ObserverArt
Ouch! No stopping his tumble that way. Poor little guy.
We were somewhat afraid state Child Protective Services would get Son2’s emergency room history.
Welp, there it is. #racism pic.twitter.com/lWkPSVduy7
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 22, 2016
Welp, there it is. #racism pic.twitter.com/lWkPSVduy7
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 22, 2016
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
He would be ashamed of what happened to the GOP.
Not nearly as much as Abraham Lincoln would.
Or Ulysses S. Grant. Or Theodore Roosevelt. Or Dwight D Eisenhower. Even Nixon, FFS. Gerald Ford.
For that matter… I’d love to be a fly on the wall when GHWB and Bob Dole discuss their views of today’s GOP.
re: #276 Ace-o-aces
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And this is what LOLGOP thinks of it.
He shouldn’t have a Twitter account and Republicans want to give him the nuclear button. https://t.co/EJtOrnOrFq
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 22, 2016
For @NRO - and its roster of #Trump-bashing wing-nuts - the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost. https://t.co/33vk1cWpEc
— Joe Conason (@JoeConason) January 22, 2016
I enjoy that particular turn of phrase
“Serious” conservatives shocked, SHOCKED to find racism going on in the GOP’s base.
re: #281 Targetpractice
“Serious” conservatives shocked, SHOCKED to find racism going on in the GOP’s base.
“Your sheet and hood, sir”
For what it’s worth, at least this latest foray into white nationalism got the notice of mainstream media.
From CNN:
Donald Trump retweets ‘White Genocide’ Twitter user
CBS News:
Donald Trump retweets apparent neo-Nazi post mocking Jeb Bush
The very numerate people over at 538 trying to convince us that Sanders is not in quite as good a position in Iowa that Obama was in 2008:
Sanders’s Iowa Ground Game Is Good — But It Ain’t Obama’s
I will simply note that Obama was a relatively young, good looking man when he ran in 2008.
re: #281 Targetpractice
“Serious” conservatives shocked, SHOCKED to find racism going on in the GOP’s base.
The GOP had a chance to take these people to task or at least distance themselves from them but did not want to get shouted down at a TP Town Hall meeting.
The result was an attention-getting race to the bottom, and we have not seen the worst of it yet, I am hoping for a great shouting match on the GOP convention floor.
re: #283 Bill and Opus for 2016!
For what it’s worth, at least this latest foray into white nationalism got the notice of mainstream media.
From CNN:
Donald Trump retweets ‘White Genocide’ Twitter userCBS News:
Donald Trump retweets apparent neo-Nazi post mocking Jeb BushNBC News:
Good. This is working out quite nicely. By this time next week there is going to be a clearer look at where the GOP really is these days.
GOP laid bare. It will not be pretty.
re: #284 freetoken
The very numerate people over at 538 trying to convince us that Sanders is not in quite as good a position in Iowa that Obama was in 2008:
Sanders’s Iowa Ground Game Is Good — But It Ain’t Obama’s
I will simply note that Obama was a relatively young, good looking man when he ran in 2008.
The difference, though, is that Obama was a community organizer and knew he had to get people out by having people remind them to go out and vote.
re: #241 blueraven
OK this is kind of funny.
This guy “wrote” a Trump, gay-sex, book overnight. He submitted it to Amazon and it is now up for sale.
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Free download. “Trump Temptation: The Billionaire & The Bellboy” Get it on the top 100! https://t.co/Us8WuWmKML https://t.co/Fcgc8a07v2
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 22, 2016
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