Just another crazy moment out of many in this Republican campaign, but also a perfect metaphor for a political party that just chose an openly misogynistic candidate for president of the United States.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
What is with these Seven Mountain Dominionist types? Elbow their own wives, and can’t get hugs from their own daughters-and if they misbehave, they spank them-what what?
re: #1 Eric The Fruit Bat
It’s that hardcore patriarchy at work. Wives should be subservient, regardless, because they are not their own persons with their own free will.
She’ll have already apologized to him for getting in the way of his elbow.
re: #1 Eric The Fruit Bat
What is with these Seven Mountain Dominionist types? Punch their wives, and can’t get hugs from their own daughters?
Would you hug them? I wouldn’t. With Cruz, it appears he’s not trying to hurt Heidi, he just doesn’t see her.
re: #4 calochortus
Would you hug them? I wouldn’t. With Cruz, it appears he’s not trying to hurt Heidi, he just doesn’t see her.
I suspect ‘he just doesn’t see her’ quite often and in more than one sense.
I see where Trump expects Hillary to win: “She will be a very poor president.” Not “she would be”.
Keep reminding the media employees of this:
Republicans have chosen a reality tv star who believes vaccines cause autism,climate change is a hoax & the president isn’t an American👍🏽👽🦄
— Pete Dominick (@PeteDominick) May 4, 2016
So Bernie Sanders won the Indiana primary. He picked up a whopping 6 delegates. Clearly Hillary’s campaign is doomed.
[cough]— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2016
Troll level upgraded.
Trump’s $10 billion fortune would allow him to easily outspend Hillary this fall, if it actually existed.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 4, 2016
And I thought saying Ted Cruz’s dad was linked to the JFK assassination was the goofiest conspiracy I’d hear today @GroverNorquist
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
re: #7 jaunte
Keep reminding the media employees of this:
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And to think, it all began with the simple yet powerful belief that the first black president is a Kenyan imposter.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 4, 2016
Ted Cruz kept saying God wanted him to be President, and this is what happened. So either there is no God, or he reeeeally doesn’t like Ted.
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) May 3, 2016
Planned Parenthood? @Marmel @CarlyFiorina
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
CNN confirms that Abraham Lincoln has left his seat at the Monument and was last seen plunging into the Potomac
— Linnen (@ScottLinnen) May 4, 2016
re: #14 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Yeah, but God had to get that rock down the court and past the Hindu pantheon.
Like if Dikembe Mutumbo had eight arms and was riding a peacock.
re: #17 Der Flohgeisteffekt
Yeah, but God had to get that rock down the court and past the Hindu pantheon.
Like if Dikembe Mutumbo had eight arms and was riding a peacock.
I am now imagining deities playing basketball.
.@thehill Sanders entire primary strategy at this point hinges upon the undemocratic strategy of convincing SDs to reverse the popular vote.
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) May 4, 2016
Not usually a big fan of God, but I have admit telling Cruz to run for president then making him lose to a reality TV clown was an A+ prank.
— Molly Manglewood (@undeadmolly) May 4, 2016
re: #18 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I am now imagining deities playing basketball.
I’m picturing the Mesoamerican ballgame.
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
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Pretty much. Bernie just can’t accept that a majority of Democratic voters prefer her over him and he wants to be able to use people who aren’t even Democrats to get his way. I’m tired of Bernie fucking Sanders at this point in time.
re: #17 Der Flohgeisteffekt
I was in line at a Boston Market once next to Dikembe Mutombo. It’s weird to be 6’ 4” and have to look up to someone’s shoulder.
re: #23 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’m picturing the Mesoamerican ballgame.
Would you settle for philosophers playing football?
I’m at the point in my ‘observing politics’ part of my life where I absolutely expect *anything* to happen. I really don’t want to see the unrest that our country saw during the sixties, but if that ever happened I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m at that point.
re: #25 jaunte
I was in line at a Boston Market once next to Dikembe Mutombo. It’s weird to be 6’ 4” and have to look up to someone’s shoulder.
Midget but on a funny note, I did get my photo taken with Georghse Mursean, 7’7 once. I’m about 6 even. Mutumbo is much cooler though with all respect to Mursean. Dikembe was one of my favorites in the 90’s. Excellent at blocking shots.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
Midget but on a funny note, I did get my photo taken with Georghse Mursean, 7’7 once. I’m about 6 even. Mutumbo is much cooler though with all respect to Mursean. Dikembe was one of my favorites in the 90’s. Excellent at blocking shots.
Looks like he blocks lots of things. ;)
‘All around you, the trees are weeping.
A horseshoe falls off the doorframe. A wolf howls mournfully in the distance.
A comet shoots across the sky, leaving a trail like blood.
Every umbrella indoors opens spontaneously without warning.’
washingtonpost.com
re: #16 jaunte
@ScottLinnen where they’ll spend a year looking for him.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 4, 2016
re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader
Looks like he blocks lots of things. ;)
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I love that ad.
GOP Establishment:
August: We support Jeb Bush
January: Rubio is our guy!
April: Ted Cruz…. I guess?
May: *cough* Donald Trump *cough*— Allie Purser (@PurserAllie) May 4, 2016
Well, I am out for the evening … my wife wants to watch Scandal. She says she wishes that was all we were dealing with this year.
@terileemcclain @ibelieveinusa @ActDontReact I didn’t even think about Larry Flynt as VP…great idea!
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 4, 2016
Elizabeth Warren tells us how she really feels about Donald Trump. #NeverTrump pic.twitter.com/7xRfFTaLXU
— Jason Febery (@JasonFebery) May 4, 2016
My senator (Ben Sasse) just weighed in on Twitter about Mr. Trump’s victory in Indiana:
Reporters keep asking if Indiana changes anything for me.
The answer is simple: No.
This from Febr. still holds:https://t.co/yUNSZTHW7E— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) 4 May 2016
Chiropractors and massage therapists are about to make a shit ton of money from “principled conservatives” and the NeverTrump crowd as they rationalize voting for The Donald.
re: #38 Anymouse
My senator (Ben Sasse) just weighed in on Twitter about Mr. Trump’s victory in Indiana:
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Still a lot of crazy in that statement.
Dayum, Gina! pic.twitter.com/9UdCilPsgh
— ☔️ Imani Gandy ☔️ (@AngryBlackLady) May 4, 2016
re: #42 darthstar
Heidi looks like Ted cut a SBD and she smellt it.
Hell, Ted looks like he just cut a SBD…either that, or he’s high.
re: #42 darthstar
is it just me, or does the look on his wife’s say not scream “the process service better be behind the curtain to serve the divorce papers”?
re: #42 darthstar
Anyone know who the two in the background are?
re: #44 KGxvi
is it just me, or does the look on his wife’s say not scream “the process service better be behind the curtain to serve the divorce papers”?
He doesn’t just hit his kids
Ted Cruz ends campaign by accidentally hitting, elbowing his wife in the face pic.twitter.com/epO1tzKgTT
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) May 4, 2016
Live streaming a Ft McMurray radio station …
Actually, the station is off the air. A Calgary station has taken over the Ft McMurray radio station websites to provide information.
player.country933.com
re: #42 darthstar
Big man brought low. What has always puzzled me is Cruz’s cluelessness. He went to Congress and instead of trying to govern well, he tried to tear the entire nation down and make us bend to his will. In the process, he burnt the majority of his bridges with members of his own party to a point where it was extremely difficult to get endorsements from them. He obviously thinks he’s one of the smartest people on the planet, but he couldn’t see that alienating a majority of members of both parties in Congress would not provide a path for him to the WH. He’s not as smart as he thinks he is. One of the things that has helped the current president is his likeability. Even if some members of Congress disagree with him, at least they don’t think he’s a gigantic *sshole like Cruz.
re: #45 retired cynic
Anyone know who the two in the background are?
Monica Lewinsky and Jared from Subway
But but but GOD told him to run and save America!
re: #40 MsJ
Still a lot of crazy in that statement.
A lot less crazy than anything that Mr. Trump or Senator Cruz has said.
Senator Sasse spoke at the CPAC convention and got booed.
My suspicion is that Ben Sasse (who is quite young compared to many Republican senators) is trying to sew the seeds of a conservative renaissance around him (well, not just him, but other politicians who think like he does). He is not looking at this election, but elections in the future.
An awful lot of so-called independents are temporarily embarrassed Republicans who are fed up with the takeover of their party by Evangelicals and wingnuts. (I am minded of Senator Goldwater’s speech on the Senate floor in 1981, where he said the Evangelicals would be a big problem for the Republican Party.)
While Senator Sasse’s path would be quite narrow, if he played his cards right he could build a new movement Conservative around him or politicians who think like he does. We’ll have to see what develops.
(In the meantime, my wingnut senator, Deb Fischer, recently sent out a push poll asking if Nebraskans are fed up with “Federal overreach” pushing Common Core. I wrote her back noting that she has no clue about Common Core since it is a state initiative not a Federal one. I did point out I am in a position in my town at least to educate my village constituents on what Common Core is and that she is either telling an untruth or does not understand what she is speaking about.)
However, all my representatives in Congress (both Senators and Adrian Smith, NE3) have my mail on “shred before reading” so I never even got a form letter response from Senator Fischer.
re: #53 Anymouse
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— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) May 4, 2016
favorability
HRC -12
DT -30
understands challenges
HRC +44
DT -33
qualifications
HRC +22
DT -29
honesty
HRC -28
DT -35
Honestly, this just broke my heart and made me barf at the same time. It’s essentially how I feel about this election. I just have feelings and sadness for everything that what I thought was the USA.
re: #48 majii
Big man brought low. What has always puzzled me is Cruz’s cluelessness. He went to Congress and instead of trying to govern well, he tried to tear the entire nation down and make us bend to his will. In the process, he burnt the majority of his bridges with members of his own party to a point where it was extremely difficult to get endorsements from them. He obviously thinks he’s one of the smartest people on the planet, but he couldn’t see that alienating a majority of members of both parties in Congress would not provide a path for him to the WH. He’s not as smart as he thinks he is. One of the things that has helped the current president is his likeability. Even if some members of Congress disagree with him, at least they don’t think he’s a gigantic *sshole like Cruz.
Boehner did that retirement video with Obama. That says it right there.
re: #55 teleskiguy
You’re six feet four?!? Oy!
I’m five feet nine.
So am I. Probably why I like living in China. I’m taller than most of the people around me.
re: #54 Stanley Sea
Holy Mackinac! I won’t say any more about that page, but if that is a growing movement amongst Republicans, they have a bigger problem than Donald Trump.
re: #59 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
So am I. Probably why I like living in China. I’m taller than most of the people around me.
You probably won’t shrink as much—I used to be 6’3”, but I’ve shrunk close to two inches since senility set in.
I’m simultaneously blown away and blithely nonchalant about the state of U.S. national politics.
I live in a weird place, Colorado. My county will not vote Trump come November (it’ll be close) but there will be a lot of pro-Trump counties in Colorado. Trump will not carry Colorado in November, but he’ll carry a number of counties no problem, especially in rural areas.
I couldn’t resist.
Ted Cruz pulls out of race, Chuck C. Johnson out of $5,400 bet
Can do, can do. Chuck says the Cruz can do!
Way back in February, Award Winning JournalistTM Chuck C. Johnson said he was putting his money where his mouth is — no not there — and plunked down $5,400 on a 35-to-1 bet that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Alberta) would win both the Republican nomination and the presidency.
Yesterday, Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign after a poor showing against front-runner Donald Trump (R-Blowhard) in the Indiana primary.
So far, no reaction from Johnson about that ill-advised bet, but he has been gradually becoming a Trump supporter since February.
More at GotNwes.com
We now go live to the Republican Party. pic.twitter.com/dKKB7B5GlT
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) May 4, 2016
Ted Cruz dropping out proves the #GOP’s “silent majority” was neither.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
@goddamnedfrank Lets check with the pollsters pic.twitter.com/8gJKicxBQ3
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
re: #63 teleskiguy
I find it rather surprising how much more left-leaning your neighbours to the north (the Nebraska Panhandle) are than how we vote around here.
At our village board meeting Monday for example, the board voted unanimously to ditch our commercial liability insurance to enter a collectivised (coop) version amongst Nebraska towns and cities.
I made sure to note in the village board meeting questioning our village attorney and the representative from the collective that this was a socialist model of insurance. (That, and it saves the town $20,000 a year.)
re: #18 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I am now imagining deities playing basketball.
I think that’s what a lot of NBA players do when they are on the court.
Carly is responsible for Ted’s abortion! Quick, Congress, open up an investigation!
re: #48 majii
Big man brought low. What has always puzzled me is Cruz’s cluelessness. He went to Congress and instead of trying to govern well, he tried to tear the entire nation down and make us bend to his will. In the process, he burnt the majority of his bridges with members of his own party to a point where it was extremely difficult to get endorsements from them. He obviously thinks he’s one of the smartest people on the planet, but he couldn’t see that alienating a majority of members of both parties in Congress would not provide a path for him to the WH. He’s not as smart as he thinks he is. One of the things that has helped the current president is his likeability. Even if some members of Congress disagree with him, at least they don’t think he’s a gigantic *sshole like Cruz.
Let me present an alternative view - Cruz’s failings as a candidate are only failings because of the presence of Trump. Cruz’s failure to make friends in the Senate and among the GOP establishment would have paid off handsomely, if he were the anti-establishment candidate, the candidate of fear and hatred. But Trump was always willing to go farther. And Cruz had already chosen his path and burned his bridges to prove his anti-establishment cred, making himself hated among the people he would have needed to truly oppose Trump.
But in a race with no Trump, Cruz’s choices could easily have made him the nominee.
re: #48 majii
One of the things that has helped the current president is his likeability. Even if some members of Congress disagree with him, at least they don’t think he’s a gigantic *sshole like Cruz.
It’s something the GOP consistently failed to see. People disliked Kerry, which meant that the dirt they flung at him tended to stick. It all bounced off Obama but they were too blindered to change the playbook.
re: #31 jaunte
That was the best political writing of the season.
Jihan Jones, a schoolteacher, and Kofi Awuah were among the first #ymmfire evacuees to arrive at @Northlands. pic.twitter.com/NM62JBXUeR
— Ameya Charnalia (@aalooameya) May 4, 2016
re: #48 majii
Big man brought low. What has always puzzled me is Cruz’s cluelessness. He went to Congress and instead of trying to govern well, he tried to tear the entire nation down and make us bend to his will. In the process, he burnt the majority of his bridges with members of his own party to a point where it was extremely difficult to get endorsements from them. He obviously thinks he’s one of the smartest people on the planet, but he couldn’t see that alienating a majority of members of both parties in Congress would not provide a path for him to the WH. He’s not as smart as he thinks he is. One of the things that has helped the current president is his likeability. Even if some members of Congress disagree with him, at least they don’t think he’s a gigantic *sshole like Cruz.
The key to the Cruz puzzle is there in plain sight: He’s a born prick. Last night was about the best possible outcome, save Bernie joining Cruz on the trail west.
re: #48 majii
Cruz believed the conservatives’ own propaganda that being successful in politics is accomplished by being the biggest asshole ever.
No conservative seems to realize that no one wants to be around someone, much less work with someone, who’s a constant asshole to everybody.
re: #73 Decatur Deb
That was the best political writing of the season.
I sent it to several of my “sane” GOP supporter friends.
re: #76 Timothy Watson
Cruz believed the conservatives’ own propaganda that being successful in politics is accomplished by being the biggest asshole ever.
No conservative seems to realize that no one wants to be around someone, much less work with someone, who’s a constant asshole to everybody.
They also believe that they are on a mission from God to force America to do What is Right in His Eyes. And they see themselves as the sole arbiters of who is to be sent and what is Right in His Eyes, popular opinion and even existing rights and legislation be damned.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They also believe that they are on a mission from God to force America to do What is Right in His Eyes. And they see themselves as the sole arbiters of who is to be sent and what is Right in His Eyes, popular opinion and even existing rights and legislation be damned.
Moreover, they assume everyone in the USA believes the same way they do, so winning national office should be a piece of cake. See also, Bernie Sanders.
re: #79 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Moreover, they assume everyone in the USA believes the same way they do, so winning national office should be a piece of cake. See also, Bernie Sanders.
Not exactly, they both believe that much of America is unable to recognize and vote in its own best interests.
I know, I know…he’s a lost cause…but it is interesting that he keeps winning states…
RT: Once again, we have beaten the @FiveThirtyEight odds in #IndianaPrimary, We are the change!… #BernieStrong pic.twitter.com/9dxLyN4mxp
— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) May 4, 2016
Cruz and his father won’t learn anything from this. He’s just Job and God is simply testing his faith.
re: #84 darthstar
I know, I know…he’s a lost cause…but it is interesting that he keeps winning states…
Recall that Hillary did not spend any money on advertising in Indiana, as she sees the nomination as only a matter of time and delegates.
It is good to see that there is a substantial share of the US electorate opposed to the 1% economy and in favor of reforms to make the system work for everybody, not just the investors.
And I admire the “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” attitude of BS supporters, as long as they would refrain from attacking HRC and her supporters.
re: #85 Barefoot Grin
Cruz and his father won’t learn anything from this. He’s just Job and God is simply testing his faith.
Not Job, he is Piece of Work…
@rickklein @Hesiod2k11 @GMA GOHMERT!
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 4, 2016
re: #85 Barefoot Grin
Cruz and his father won’t learn anything from this. He’s just Job and God is simply testing his faith.
Closer to Jonah - angry that God forgives us sinners here in modern Nineveh when they’d like to be up on the hill watching the fire and brimstone raining down from heaven.
I really don’t like attacks on innocent bystanders, but I can’t help it: there is a photo of Donald Trump surrounded by his daugher-in-law, daughter, and wife. All have the same hair parted in the same way with the same cheekbones and same lips…. Something very… creepy.
edited: it’s the photo heading up Huffpo right now.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Not Job, he is Piece of Work…
Cruz: I stand before you, Father, knowing that you have placed this burden upon me so that I might grow stronger in faith, as did Job.
God: sheesh, what a piece of work, this guy.
re: #81 Decatur Deb
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re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is good to see that there is a substantial share of the US electorate opposed to the 1% economy and in favor of reforms to make the system work for everybody, not just the investors.
And I admire the “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” attitude of BS supporters, as long as they would refrain from attacking HRC and her supporters.
People can be assholes online. I’ve had Hillary people telling me Bernie is a racist and a sexist and a con man for months. My response has always been the same, “Okay. Tell me something positive about your candidate then.”
If people think fighting against the assholes is helping their candidate, then they’re not getting it. “Hillary has lower negatives than Donald” is a great Twitter argument, but it won’t reach the 30-40 million voters in this country who get their opinions from TV ads and 20 second nightly news clips.
And I suspect when the general heats up the “attacks” from BS supporters will pale in comparison to those from the bigot brigade.
Gotta hand it to Carly, it took her a lot less time to sink Ted Cruz than Hewlett Packard.#ContinuousImprovement
— Barracks O’Bama (@P0TUS) May 4, 2016
quick reminder that ur probably wrong about something ur really sure about pic.twitter.com/ZjBbLB7iyw
— Saved You A Click (@SavedYouAClick) May 4, 2016
@ChrisWarcraft retweeted me last night and I woke up with my notifications blowing up… :)
In other news, Chuck C Johnson lost his bet on Ted Cruz becoming president pic.twitter.com/2hMCzhydsx
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 4, 2016
re: #96 Dr. Matt
In other news, Chuck C Johnson lost his bet on Ted Cruz becoming president
He will not accept the results until Trump is officially nominated
So I’ve got a Trump supporter following me on Twitter whom I’ve not blocked or muted because I was looking forward to watching them melt down when he dropped out of the race. Shit.
re: #96 Dr. Matt
@ChrisWarcraft retweeted me last night and I woke up with my notifications blowing up… :)
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Fundraising bet. Want a piece of the action? Imagine if he’d won…he’d have dudes saying, “I sent you 100 bucks. Where’s my 3500?”
re: #99 darthstar
Fundraising bet. Want a piece of the action? Imagine if he’d won…he’d have dudes saying, “I sent you 100 bucks. Where’s my 3500?”
Instead he’ll have dudes saying, “I sent you 100 bucks, you idiot! You’d better pay me the fuck back!”
Plus the guy collecting the $5,400, if Chuck didn’t already lay the money on the table.
I don’t know if you all have been watching The Flash series on the CW, but the latest episode has cleverly arranged for there to be at least two more speedsters, Kid Flash and Jesse Quick, to battle Zoom.
As a comic nerd, I approve.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, they left Supergirl with a cliffhanger at season’s end, and I don’t know if the network will renew it for another season. It would be a pity if it were canceled, because the TV Supergirl is the perfect anodyne for the cinematic Superman.
Okay…this would definitely bring the end times…
Texas Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick says Trump could unite the GOP by promising to put @TedCruz on the Supreme Court: https://t.co/mHIQ6FD2Xj
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 4, 2016
re: #103 darthstar
Okay…this would definitely bring the end times…
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Yet one more reason not to vote for Trump. Cruz would be worse than Scalia.
re: #103 darthstar
Okay…this would definitely bring the end times…
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“Lying Ted Cruz” with his JFK killing father on the SCOTUS…….SMH
re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My wife and I enjoy Supergirl. And it’s good to see Calista Flockhart in a role that suits her.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but God’s candidates are kind of 0fer lately…
Anyone follow this out last nite?
Soon.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 4, 2016
re: #108 Dave In Austin
Anyone follow this out last nite?
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Another sex scandal or potential VP pick?
The black vote was big in the dem primary and will still be a factor in the general but so will the Latino vote. Good luck trump
— Block Samson (@insanityreport) May 4, 2016
re: #109 Dr. Matt
The vibe I get from it is 3rd party to pull “True Conservatives”. Cryptic as hell.
re: #106 darthstar
My wife and I enjoy Supergirl. And it’s good to see Calista Flockhart in a role that suits her.
Haha! She clearly enjoys the role, and she was an excellent choice for the part. TBH, I didn’t expect much from the series, but the first three episodes proved me wrong. Working in Martian Manhunter and the cross-over with The Flash (from the CW Earth-2) was also clever. The showrunners know their comics lore, which has made the difference.
The character appeals to young girls. Melissa Benoist is a good role model, as well.
Have you been watching Gotham? Young Bruce Wayne was very thoughtful as he watched a caped villain leap around a building like someone we know well. What I don’t get is how Bruce, who is like 13 or 14 in the show, manages to catch up to the villains, who are adults and already well on the way to being super-villains.
This could be the first year where the role of the VP pick isn’t to be the attack dog in the general, but to be the voice of hope and reason.
Trump is in his own element when he’s talking shit about people. He even threw some final punches in his last few victory speeches. Not to equate the two, but Hillary also loves going negative with her opponents. During the debates she always smiled after a particularly nasty barb found its mark.
It’s going to be an interesting six months, I will say. Invest in popcorn futures.
re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
We started watching Gotham. It’s a bit dark for my wife’s taste. But we’ll stream an episode every few months.
Opinion piece on how the Republican primary is effectively over.
After Donald Trump’s victory over Ted Cruz Tuesday night, absent a particularly well-timed act of spontaneous human combustion the unthinkable has happened: Trump will be the GOP nominee facing off against Hillary Clinton in November 2016.
But there’s a second, more calculating reason they’d risk their congressional majority with Trump rather than patch things up with Cruz: They’re looking farther down the road than 2016.
These people look at Trump — his cult of personality, his incredible ability to generate free media, his demagogic vulgarity — as an ephemeral once-in-a-generation phenomenon, a “black swan” event. They suspect that, while Trump will lose and it will go hard for the Republican Party in the short run with his downfall, this is as survivable as the losses of 2006 and 2008 were.
The Republican party tried that with Health Care Reform (defeat it in the Supreme Court), didn’t work. You are either in it to win it or not.
Reince Priebus is quaking in his knickers, he will shortly be out of a job.
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
re: #114 darthstar
We started watching Gotham. It’s a bit dark for my wife’s taste. But we’ll stream an episode every few months.
Watched the final episode of Walking Dead last nite and have decided not to pick up watching any further episodes…found it totally useless.
Screw honest journalism and the public good. Promoting Trump paid off big-time financially for CNN. https://t.co/2WK6WMCokg
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) May 4, 2016
re: #115 Kent Dorfman
Opinion piece on how the Republican primary is effectively over.
The Republican party tried that with Health Care Reform (defeat it in the Supreme Court), didn’t work. You are either in it to win it or not.
Reince Priebus is quaking in his knickers, he will shortly be out of a job.
This will only fuel the ardor of those who insist that Trump is too liberal and they need a more truly conservative candidate….like the one who lost handily to DT in the last primary.
re: #116 JDRhoades
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
Let us not forget that Bernie was an Independent until he tried to hitch his wagon to the Democratic Party to campaign for President. That nuance often gets lost in the shouting.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Let us not forget that Bernie was an Independent until he tried to hitch his wagon to the Democratic Party to campaign for President. That nuance often gets lost in the shouting.
It’s a two party system. Where else could he run and get any traction? And he’s caucused with the Democrats and been a progressive voice in Washington for decades. It’s only when he closed the gap with Hillary his pedigree was called into question.
Australia will use the herpes virus to kill off the invasive carp.
Australia’s new Deputy Prime Minister has launched a large ‘scale’ eradication campaign to wipe out carp — by unleashing the herpes virus on the slippery suckers.
Barnaby Joyce declared “Carpageddon” on the “disgusting” fish, which have pushed other species into extinction, he said in a wild rant announcing the eradication plan Monday.
“We’re gonna get rid of the carp! They’re bottom-dwelling, mud-sucking creatures! Disgusting mud-sucking creatures!” he declared, according to BBC News.
We should release that virus in the current pool of politicians.
re: #114 darthstar
We started watching Gotham. It’s a bit dark for my wife’s taste. But we’ll stream an episode every few months.
Yeah, very Dark Knight-ish. The writers really push the envelope of what can be shown on broadcast TV.
re: #103 darthstar
Texas Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick says Trump could unite the GOP by promising to put @TedCruz on the Supreme Court: t.co
— Patrick Svitek
Please proceed, GOP…
re: #122 Kent Dorfman
Australia will use the herpes virus to kill off the invasive carp.
We should release that virus in the current pool of politicians.
Why not ship them all to Papua New Guinea?
//
The carp or the pols, take your pick.
re: #121 darthstar
It’s a two party system. Where else could he run and get any traction? And he’s caucused with the Democrats and been a progressive voice in Washington for decades. It’s only when he closed the gap with Hillary his pedigree was called into question.
It has been a two-party system since long before BS declared himself an Independent.
Again, I am glad that his campaign has shown that there are a lot of Americans who want to see some serious economic reforms in this country that benefit more than just the 1%. I really hope the DNC sits up and takes notice.
I heard good things about the podcast Welcome to Nightvale, so I downloaded the first four episodes to exercise to last night. I wasn’t impressed with the first one—sounded like an amateurish attempt at Firesign Theatre. But by the fourth I was starting to come around a bit. I’ll listen to a few more to see if I get hooked.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Hillary recently said that Sanders would have a hand in crafting the platform, showing that at least she’s smarter than some of her supporters, like the one who insisted that Hillary should have Sanders arrested if he even shows up at the convention.
The Redstate crew are in total denial. They certainly don’t blame all the hate the tea party has been promoting all these years as the reason Trump was nominated. No, they are blaming the GOP for not backing Cruz from early on. As if that would have changed the mind of any of these “anti-establishment angry voters.”
re: #84 darthstar
I know, I know…he’s a lost cause…but it is interesting that he keeps winning states…
He’s done really well, and it’s disappointing to me that HRC was not able to carry over her “Acela Primary” momentum into Indiana. It’s not quite 2008 but still very competitive.
re: #130 weave
The Redstate crew are in total denial. They certainly don’t blame all the hate the tea party has been promoting all these years as the reason Trump was nominated. No, they are blaming the GOP for not backing Cruz from early on. As if that would have changed the mind of any of these “anti-establishment angry voters.”
Well they should be mad at Cruz himself. Cruz spent most of his campaign kissing Donald’s ass and being silent when Trump said the shit he has. They deserve Trump and the GOP deserves to be eternally tarnished for Trump. They won’t learn a damn thing though. After all Cruz was the runner up.
re: #82 Dave In Austin
What? PM me…
You kids and your “PMs”.
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re: #133 Decatur Deb
Thx, That’s what it was.
re: #51 teleskiguy
I’m Cynic McCynicFace right now.
I like what a palaeontologist wrote about humanity. “We’re a vicious ape with a clever streak.”
re: #131 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
He’s done really well, and it’s disappointing to me that HRC was not able to carry over her “Acela Primary” momentum into Indiana. It’s not quite 2008 but still very competitive.
It is competitive. I still would like to see Bernie win at least one state that actually reflects the party and country as a whole though. I do NOT think Bernie is a racist but there’s no doubt to me that he does not have much sway with key parts of the Democratic party.
re: #136 Romantic Heretic
I like what a palaeontologist wrote about humanity. “We’re a vicious ape with a clever streak.”
I’ll stick with Benjamin Disraeli (and others). We are half ape, half angel.
With any luck the mix is very gradually improving.
I see some of the few Republicans I know weeping for what their party is about to do. I can’t feel bad for them though. The nomination of Trump has been a long time coming. Its genesis frankly is in how in one of his worst moments as President, Eisenhower said little about McCarthy. And how the party despite historically being staunchly pro-civil rights began to move away from that. And frankly the racist dog and pony show Trump has is just a louder version of what Republicans have been doing my entire life. Again Trump is not the Republican party’s sickness, he is merely only a part of the clusterfuck they are. Kasich that so called moderate and voice of reason has told people who were discriminated against to get over it. Cruz in some ways is even more vile than Trump. You know why these people hate Trump? It’s not because he’s a disgusting bigot. It’s because he hurts their name brand. They know that conservatism will be tarnished by Trump and they care more about that than actually finding decent human beings with decent ideas than actually addressing the very real reality that conservatism as they know it is quite frankly in the 21st century is a pretty fucked up and archaic ideology.
re: #136 Romantic Heretic
I like what a palaeontologist wrote about humanity. “We’re a vicious ape with a clever streak.”
We still harbor a lot of hard-wired primate reactions. Xenophobia is one of them: we evolved in small clans, anyone who looked different or unfamiliar was perceived as a potential threat or cause to raise an alarm. We need to use our intellect to overcome this instinctive response.
And then again, there are some politicians who base their careers on pandering to these primate responses…
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
We still harbor a lot of hard-wired primate reactions. Xenophobia is one of them: we evolved in small clans, anyone who looked different or unfamiliar was perceived as a threat. We need to use our intellect to overcome this instinctive response.
And then again, there are some politicians who base their careers on pandering to these primate responses…
Which is ironic considering a lot of those politicians pander to people who think the idea that we could be related to apes to be heresy.
re: #137 HappyWarrior
It is competitive. I still would like to see Bernie win at least one state that actually reflects the party and country as a whole though. I do NOT think Bernie is a racist but there’s no doubt to me that he does not have much sway with key parts of the Democratic party.
In some ways, Bernie is playing the role and capturing the demographic groups that HRC did in 08. It would be interesting to see a comparison of the states HRC won in the 08 primaries compared to now. Bernie is winning a large share of the white vote as HRC did eight years ago. But much like Obama, Bernie is winning the young vote. HRC is winning more of the minority vote now relative to 08. Whereas I believe Obama won most if not all of the southern state primaries in 08, HRC won them this year. And while HRC won in places like WV and Kentucky in 08, Bernie looks poised to win those more blue collar areas this year.
So there’s some overlap between the Bernie and Obama voters, but also some contrasts. Before the campaign I would have expected someone like Martin O’Malley to play the HRC-alternative vote, but he never got traction.
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
We still harbor a lot of hard-wired primate reactions. Xenophobia is one of them: we evolved in small clans, anyone who looked different or unfamiliar was perceived as a threat. We need to use our intellect to overcome this instinctive response.
And then again, there are some politicians who base their careers on pandering to these primate responses…
On the other hand, sapiens and neanderthals mixed it up some under the furs, so some of our ancestors overcame the fear of the other.
re: #142 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
In some ways, Bernie is playing the role and capturing the demographic groups that HRC did in 08. It would be interesting to see a comparison of the states HRC won in the 08 primaries compared to now. Bernie is winning a large share of the white vote as HRC did eight years ago. But much like Obama, Bernie is winning the young vote. HRC is winning more of the minority vote now relative to 08. Whereas I believe Obama won most if not all of the southern state primaries in 08, HRC won them this year. And while HRC won in places like WV and Kentucky in 08, Bernie looks poised to win those more blue collar areas this year.
So there’s some overlap between the Bernie and Obama voters, but also some contrasts. Before the campaign I would have expected someone like Martin O’Malley to play the HRC-alternative vote, but he never got traction.
I was rooting hard for O’Malley to emerge. I thought and still do think he has a better pedigree than Bernie does.
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Which is ironic considering a lot of those politicians pander to people who think the idea that we could be related to apes to be heresy.
They’re walking away from a really workable excuse, there.
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Which is ironic considering a lot of those politicians pander to people who think the idea that we could be related to apes to be heresy.
Because they believe that these reactions are the product of Intelligent Design.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Because they believe that these reactions are the product of Intelligent Design.
If the designer was so intelligent, why has he spent the last 5,000 years (and one recall) trying to fix the product?
re: #84 darthstar
I know, I know…he’s a lost cause…but it is interesting that he keeps winning states…
In 2008, Clinton netted more delegates from April to June than Obama did on the massive Super Tuesday that year.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Because they believe that these reactions are the product of Intelligent Design.
Oh I know. I just think it’s funny that the GOP base which shows some of the primate responses to society is the most likely to believe that we don’t come from no dirty apes.
Good Morning America had a line at the bottom of the screen saying that it’s now mathematically impossible for Sanders to win.
I don’t mind Sanders trying to get superdelegates, but he has to offer them proof that he’s going to be able to win, and I don’t think he has. In 2008, superdelegates did switch to Obama after initially being for Clinton, but that was because Obama showed he could win, and that he was drawing more voters into the race. Sanders, for all of his projected support, isn’t showing an increase in voters. He just doesn’t have much of an argument for getting them to switch. But it’s also very hypocritical to argue that superdelegates didn’t matter at one point in time, but they really do now.
re: #116 JDRhoades
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
I’m not sure where this is accurate, in fact it’s damn near poppycock and balderdash in one. We (Democrats) haven’t actually forgotten what superdelegates are there for, and acting as a brake is only partially true (it’s also there to provide a mechanism for elected Democrats to have buy-in during the primary process). Democrats haven’t demanded a damn thing from Bernie, and have been very accommodating because HE. IS. NOT. A. DEMOCRAT. The only thing that’s being pointed out in regards to Bernie and SDs is that he’s been whining the entire campaign about how unfair they are (even though he is one and his campaign manager helped create them) and now that he can’t use the ‘will of the people’ narrative, he pivots to badgering them to actually do the one thing they’ve never done. As in, overturn the will of the Democratic electorate.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
I’ll stick with Benjamin Disraeli (and others). We are half ape, half angel.
With any luck the mix is very gradually improving.
Or as Terry Pratchett said, we’re where the falling angel meets with the raising ape.
re: #150 Belafon
Good Morning America had a line at the bottom of the screen saying that it’s now mathematically impossible for Sanders to win.
I don’t mind Sanders trying to get superdelegates, but he has to offer them proof that he’s going to be able to win, and I don’t think he has. In 2008, superdelegates did switch to Obama after initially being for Clinton, but that was because Obama showed he could win, and that he was drawing more voters into the race. Sanders, for all of his projected support, isn’t showing an increase in voters. He just doesn’t have much of an argument for getting them to switch. But it’s also very hypocritical to argue that superdelegates don’t matter at one point in time, but they really do now.
I also find it extremely grating to complain about closed primaries being undemocratic while at the same time benefiting from caucuses. But you’re right. He’s got to show the SDs he can win. Honestly Bernie ain’t Obama. Obama’s a much more intelligent leader because he accesses the big picture more. Bernie to me seems to be a one track mind. I don’t think he’s stupid but he already has his opinions set in stone and personally I’m more amiable to leaders that consider a wide range of opinions and options.
re: #98 darthstar
So I’ve got a Trump supporter following me on Twitter whom I’ve not blocked or muted because I was looking forward to watching them melt down when he dropped out of the race. Shit.
You can watch him meltdown when Trump gets waxed in November.
re: #153 HappyWarrior
I have been living in Europe for over 25 years, and although I do not vote (I am still a US citizen), I follow politics and have never seen anything like an American primary here, open or closed.
Candidates are selected by dues-paying, card-carrying party members at party conventions. Which is why a lot of people do not understand how Donald Trump came to be: they assume that he was selected from above by major players within the GOP, when that is really not the case.
Oxford Alabama passed a bathroom law so medieval that it made the press in England. Now the Ohio Valley Conference has told them they will not play there, including the softball championship that was to inaugurate the new, expensive, ballfield. The city council is mulling it over.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I have been living in Europe for over 25 years, and although I do not vote (I am still a US citizen), I follow politics and have never seen anything like an American primary here, open or closed.
Candidates are selected by dues-paying, card-carrying party members at party conventions. Which is why a lot of people do not understand how Donald Trump came to be: they assume that he was selected from above by major players within the GOP, when that is really not the case.
Yeah in Europe, you have the parties choose their leaders. Honestly, the fact that the GOP rank and file is choosing Trump scares me a lot more than their leaders choosing him. Both are pretty bad though in their own way.
It’s a two party system. Where else could he run and get any traction? And he’s caucused with the Democrats and been a progressive voice in Washington for decades. It’s only when he closed the gap with Hillary his pedigree was called into question.
Being a Democrat is actually not a state of mind. It’s a discrete term that requires an actual act of registration. He’s not a Democrat not because his platform doesn’t resonate well with minorities, he’s not a Democrat because he’s a registered Independent. Allowing him to run for the head of a party he’s not a part of because he votes with them normally is a hell of a concession, and one I’m not sure I’d have made if I was in the position to allow it.
Bottom line, while Bernie is absolutely the second best candidate for president this election season, he could have squashed all that talk about pedigree by simply registering as a Democrat more than 5 minutes before starting his run.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The way Europe does it is the way it should be.
When you hear voices saying that god wants you to be president, maybe it’s time for people to say that you’re the one who needs mental health evaluation. How many of these GOP types have made that very claim in the past two presidential election cycles?
Cruz is just the latest.
Yeah, some might say that’s just pandering to Evangelicals, but these people really believe it - Cruz included.
Besides, what you think is god speaking could very easily be Lucifer. Or Cthulhu.
Then again, it could be G-d. And he likes playing egotistical demagogues and bigots for fools. It’s kind of his thing, you know, dating back to the Bible.
re: #156 Decatur Deb
Oxford Alabama passed a bathroom law so medieval that it made the press in England. Now the Ohio Valley Conference has told them they will not play there, including the softball championship that was to inaugurate the new, expensive, ballfield. The city council is mulling it over.
Money talks.
re: #159 Ziggy_TARDIS
The way Europe does it is the way it should be.
Disagree there. I prefer a system where we choose our executive leadership. Now I would prefer that the primaries be closed so people in said party get to choose them but I think the primary system is fine. Granted part of this is because what I’m used to but I think a mix of party and rank/file is the best way to go.
re: #108 Dave In Austin
Anyone follow this out last nite?
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My congresscritter is BFF with Amash. While technically they are Republican, they are Libertarians in actuality.
I’m certain that Amash is seeing the death of the GOP after last night and sees an enormous opportunity for the Libertarians in Congress to “come out of the closet”, so to speak, and (in their fevered Ron/Rand Paul minds) take up the mantel of extreme conservatism to save the republic from Trump and the Establishment.
Rand Paul has already said that he wouldn’t vote for either Cruz or Trump. Pretty safe to say he won’t vote for Bernie or Hillary, either.
Who’s left? The Libertarian party and Gary Johnson.
I was mildly wary about Chibnall taking over Doctor Who. Now, I am actively concerned.
Even at its worst, Doctor Who is generally of much better quality than the majority of the stuff on US TV, to the point I can not watch much shows now, as they make me actively cringe.
Writing by committee sounds good on paper, but in reality, it just results in a really queasy mush about 75% of the time. There is no need to Americanize Doctor Who anymore than it has been.
I am confident now that Capaldi will leave with Moffat at the end of next year.
But remember, the GOP says that Obama isn’t a supporter of Israel.
Official Israeli Mission to be established at #NATO HQ. https://t.co/h8kjSQWKy7 #Israel @IsraelMFA
— Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) May 4, 2016
You don’t get to be included in NATO in this fashion unless the US thinks it important.
re: #156 Decatur Deb
Oxford Alabama passed a bathroom law so medieval that it made the press in England. Now the Ohio Valley Conference has told them they will not play there, including the softball championship that was to inaugurate the new, expensive, ballfield. The city council is mulling it over.
Rockwall tried that a few days ago with an ordinance was submitted by the mayor. Rockwall is very conservative and one of the wealthiest counties in the state of Texas. The council sat through three hours of hearing from residents, and most residents opposed it. There were two things I think that changed the opinions of the city council members that were originally going to support it: that it would be very hard to enforce it, and the owner of the huge Hilton hotel down at the lake said “I pay about $750,000 a year in taxes and my business and all the others would be hurt by this.” Even here in Rockwall, people understand money. In the end, only the mayor supported it.
re: #158 Bass Reeves
Being a Democrat is actually not a state of mind. It’s a discrete term that requires an actual act of registration. He’s not a Democrat not because his platform doesn’t resonate well with minorities, he’s not a Democrat because he’s a registered Independent. Allowing him to run for the head of a party he’s not a part of because he votes with them normally is a hell of a concession, and one I’m not sure I’d have made if I was in the position to allow it.
Bottom line, while Bernie is absolutely the second best candidate for president this election season, he could have squashed all that talk about pedigree by simply registering as a Democrat more than 5 minutes before starting his run.
He also could have actually raised money for other Democrats that share his views too. Bernie in my observations of him would rather present to his supporters an idea of him versus the system when in reality, he should be working on actually building the change he wants through like minded individuals. A reporter called him out on this in Vermont though and he got really angry. The truth hurt I guess and Bernie didn’t like being told he’s not a teamplayer.
re: #166 lawhawk
But remember, the GOP says that Obama isn’t a supporter of Israel.
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You don’t get to be included in NATO in this fashion unless the US thinks it important.
We’re talking about a party whose previous presidential administrations employed one Patrick Buchanan. They don’t get to accuse Obama of not supporting Israel.
re: #162 HappyWarrior
Disagree there. I prefer a system where we choose our executive leadership. Now I would prefer that the primaries be closed so people in said party get to choose them but I think the primary system is fine. Granted part of this is because what I’m used to but I think a mix of party and rank/file is the best way to go.
And in the end, it is up to the respective parties to decide how they choose their candidates.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I have been living in Europe for over 25 years, and although I do not vote (I am still a US citizen), I follow politics and have never seen anything like an American primary here, open or closed.
Candidates are selected by dues-paying, card-carrying party members at party conventions. Which is why a lot of people do not understand how Donald Trump came to be: they assume that he was selected from above by major players within the GOP, when that is really not the case.
The parties could do that here. They don’t because both major parties (rightly) feel that getting people to choose gets a candidate that will better reflecting the will of the voters and get people more motivated to vote in the fall (if you vote once, you’re likely to vote again because of the investment). Trump just represents the culmination of everything the Republican party has tried for.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
My congresscritter is BFF with Amash. While technically they are Republican, they are Libertarians in actuality.
I’m certain that Amash is seeing the death of the GOP after last night and sees an enormous opportunity for the Libertarians in Congress to “come out of the closet”, so to speak, and (in their fevered Ron/Rand Paul minds) take up the mantel of extreme conservatism to save the republic from Trump and the Establishment.
Rand Paul has already said that he wouldn’t vote for either Cruz or Trump. Pretty safe to say he won’t vote for Bernie or Hillary, either.
Who’s left? The Libertarian party and Gary Johnson.
The thing is Massie, Paul, and Amash have a lot at odds with actual Libertarians too. I actually see these three as being more paleo-cons than actual Libertarians. I mean don’t get me wrong, I have no love for Libertarianism but I think these three use libertarianism to hide their true agenda which is actually paleo-conservatism.
re: #166 lawhawk
I do wonder at what point Israel will be willing to make concessions though.
I do admit I can be unduly harsh to Israel. Back when I was at MSA, the Pro-Israeli group on campus called the police on the MSA, saying we were doing something illegal when we most definitely were not.
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
And in the end, it is up to the respective parties to decide how they choose their candidates.
Correct. I just disagree that only the party honchos should choose. Best way to solve this would be to have closed primaries and not open primaries or caucuses. I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate caucuses. I find them undemocratic because frankly I think they favor the loud and boorish when democracy should be able you being able to choose the candidates you want without outside interference.
re: #174 Ziggy_TARDIS
I’ve long said that a deal will come when the right people are leading both Israel and/or the PA. I don’t think either Abbas or Bibi are the right people.
It takes someone special like a Sadat or Rabin to push the process (Sadat with the trip to Jerusalem that ultimately led to Camp David, and Rabin whose efforts led to Oslo Accords and peace with Jordan). And it works best when the negotiations take place behind closed doors and work out the deal. I don’t see anything resembling the back channels that led to Oslo, and with no one making a grand gesture in public, we’re going to see nothing but a holding pattern that both the PA and Israeli government will tolerate. They’re both accepting the status quo.
None of it helps the Palestinian people let alone the Israeli people.
In the end, it’s all sort of a mess since we’ve created a two party system. Thus you have someone like Bernie who in Europe would never latch on to the Democratic party because he’d have a party that more represented his views. The GOP sort of has this too though I’d argue that a lot of the GOP’s differences within their caucus are more style versus substance than actual ideology.
Saw a news report this morning about the Cruz campaign in NJ. Apparently Steve Lonegan was his campaign honcho. Lonegan is a wackaloon of the first order, which should give people some sense of just how extreme Cruz is; we might have swerved to avoid the Cruz nomination, but Trump’s just as bad on all the issues.
The problem isn’t Trump - it’s the GOP.
That’s ultimately what Democrats and Independents have to recognize. And then be in a position to vote in November to put down the GOP.
re: #176 lawhawk
True.
Part of that was explaining why I can get so cranky with Israel. The group also did that while close friend was President of the MSA. So, I took it very, very personally, especially as their was never an apology.
re: #174 Ziggy_TARDIS
I do wonder at what point Israel will be willing to make concessions though.
I do admit I can be unduly harsh to Israel. Back when I was at MSA, the Pro-Israeli group on campus called the police on the MSA, saying we were doing something illegal when we most definitely were not.
And what concessions exactly are you suggesting Israel should make? Be specific.
re: #178 lawhawk
Saw a news report this morning about the Cruz campaign in NJ. Apparently Steve Lonegan was his campaign honcho. Lonegan is a wackaloon of the first order, which should give people some sense of just how extreme Cruz is; we might have swerved to avoid the Cruz nomination, but Trump’s just as bad on all the issues.
The problem isn’t Trump - it’s the GOP.
That’s ultimately what Democrats and Independents have to recognize. And then be in a position to vote in November to put down the GOP.
It was like that here in Virginia too LH. Cruz’s campaign co-chair was Dick Black, who has actually written letters to Al-Assad in Syria praising him. He’s also extremely homophobic and sexist. And Ken Cuccinnelli was another big backer of Cruz’s here in the Commonwealth. You’re absolutely right. It’s not Trump. It’s the GOP itself. It’s always been the GOP itself.
first pebbles of the avalanche pic.twitter.com/afdQE25JrK
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) May 4, 2016
re: #182 The Vicious Babushka
I would say that it didn’t matter whether Trump or Kasich were the nominee or President. The GOP would still carry on the same way, suppressing voters, pushing Christianity into the government, and favoring big business. Kasich would be powerless to stop it, and Trump would let it go so he could get what he wanted.
re: #169 jeffreyw
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Add some bacon to the mixre: #185 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I would say that it didn’t matter whether Trump or Kasich were the nominee or President. The GOP would still carry on the same way, suppressing voters, pushing Christianity into the government, and favoring big business. Kasich would be powerless to stop it, and Trump would let it go so he could get what he wanted.
Kasich after all is the one who wants to use taxpayer funds to push Christianity in the Middle East and told LGBT people to get over being discriminated against.
re: #180 sagehen
All of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian state should not be in any way fragmented. In addition, the Palestinian State should have full water rights in its territory.
Alternatively, Palestine and Israel can both give up Jerusalem, and have it become a City-State like Singapore, with an Andorra-esque arrangement for the Religious sites in the city, with The President of Israel, the King of Jordan, and the Roman Catholic Pope serving as the mediators on the issue of religious sites.
In exchange, Palestine will be full demilitarized, with its defense taken care of by Jordan, Supplemented with a force from the UN similar to the one currently in the Sinai. Palestine will also accept any settlers who wish to remain in the area, as long as they recognize that the land is not going to go to Israel. That will likely be a deal-breaker to most settlers, I would imagine.
The shorter NRO though- I know who historical Republicans are. I know that that Trump being nominated by the same party as Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan is appalling but I’m going to vote for him anyway because I hate Democrats and love the GOP more than I want my country to select someone competent and sane.
You folks have put it better on numerous topics pertaining to the US and what falls under the purview of your foreign policy (which so often includes citizens such as myself); but I’ve got to say, all your shit has cooties in it :)
I was thinking about myself in the PM’s boots - as I assume most politically-conscious people do at some point or other - and wonderered how I’d honour the ANZUS treaty if Trump were president.
Short answer is Simpsonian: ’ yes, with a but; no, with a GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!’
Not meant as a reprimand. The US is acceptable as a superpower.
When the captain isn’t a sober or drunk Republican.
At least until they pass nautical training FFS.
Love you guys, seriously.
re: #191 Alyosha
What the US was clearly the wronged party and China had been overly aggressive and predatory?
<INSERT POPCORN JOKE HERE> https://t.co/Ewgk6pZLyh
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) May 4, 2016
UPDATE:
To be clear, this is linking to RedState urging the GOP to confirm Merrick Garland because they see that Hillary would end up nominating someone far more liberal. Heh.
Senator McCain’s namesake son issues a backhand to the Twitter racists who got pissy about Old Navy using photos of an interracial couple:
To the people upset about the #OldNavy “Scandal” of an a picture of a mixed race marriage, eat it. @Reneeitchka pic.twitter.com/yA5YwbZRcm
— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) May 2, 2016
I hope this one burns too, you ignorant racists. Here is us on our wedding day. @Reneeitchka pic.twitter.com/1VSd2gqH9W
— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) May 2, 2016
re: #189 Ziggy_TARDIS
All of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian state should not be in any way fragmented. In addition, the Palestinian State should have full water rights in its territory.
Alternatively, Palestine and Israel can both give up Jerusalem, and have it become a City-State like Singapore, with an Andorra-esque arrangement for the Religious sites in the city, with The President of Israel, the King of Jordan, and the Roman Catholic Pope serving as the mediators on the issue of religious sites.
In exchange, Palestine will be full demilitarized, with its defense taken care of by Jordan, Supplemented with a force from the UN similar to the one currently in the Sinai. Palestine will also accept any settlers who wish to remain in the area, as long as they recognize that the land is not going to go to Israel. That will likely be a deal-breaker to most settlers, I would imagine.
“Not in any way fragmented” — so you’re proposing a 3-state solution? Because Gaza and the West Bank are not contiguous.
Jordan taking care of Palestine’s defense? Jordan has zero interest. Jordan has waived all interest in the territory. Totally. Wants nothing to do with it.
Putting Jerusalem into the hands of people who’ve historically, repeatedly, for centuries on end, prevented Jews from visiting the most important Jewish holy sites? When Israel has demonstrably *not* prevented people from other faiths from having full use and control and authority over the sites holy to those other faiths?
re: #193 Dark_Falcon
What the US was clearly the wronged party and China had been overly aggressive and predatory?
If the first word is meant to be ‘that’, I’d have to assume what chain of events has led to the mutual obligation part of commencing hostilities.
And unless your imagination is rather limited, I’d suppose a Trump presidency might massage the definition of self-defence; as at least one previous Republican administration has demonstrated.
re: #116 JDRhoades
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
Bernie isn’t a Democrat and he hasn’t done shit for the party. It’s not his place to demand/whine/change anything.
re: #197 Alyosha
If the first word is meant to be ‘that’, I’d have to assume what chain of events has led to the mutual obligation part of commencing hostilities.
And unless your imagination is rather limited, I’d suppose a Trump presidency might massage the definition of self-defence; as at least one previous Republican administration has demonstrated.
Democrats have done likewise, a la the Gulf of Tonkin.
And there should have been an ‘if’ after the ‘What’.
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rage Furby’s delusions know no bounds.
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The same Rage Furby who’s backed Cruz all these months because he had supposedly “vetted him”.
Anyway, I don’t think linking one’s name with the Trump campaign will be positive thing should Trump lose in November and be regarded as RINO-non-grata.
re: #182 The Vicious Babushka
That the buffoon would mention Reagan in the same breath as Lincoln and Eisenhower is a pretty good indication that he was disposed to vote for Trump anyway.
Man sprayed mouse poison on produce in several grocery stores, FBI warns https://t.co/k3TO1oqZIg pic.twitter.com/2vxbeZhcW0
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 4, 2016
re: #199 Dark_Falcon
Democrats have done likewise, a la the Gulf of Tonkin.
And there should have been an ‘if’ after the ‘What’.
Yep, the Tonkin Affair is part of what made me suspicious of any US intervention.
Yes we committed to Vietnam (‘all the way with LBJ’ as our dissappeared PM said back in the day) but I’d have to assume better firewalls are in place for committing troops to fighting China.
Just what scenario are you proposing?
re: #195 Dark_Falcon
Yeah saw this the other day. Hadn’t known there was a Jack McCain but good for him. Meagan gets all the McCain press.
All those food pron pix? Getting me hungry, even though I’m not a fan of eggs done that way.
Guess that’s trying to smoke out Glenn Beck who promised to go on a hunger strike because of Trump?
There’s only one candidate left who can stop a Trump presidency.
Chip in now if you’ve got Hillary’s back: https://t.co/HkpiIXhekF— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2016
re: #196 sagehen
Gaza Strip should be dealt with later, unless Hamas is willing to give up the ghost. I was speaking only on the West Bank.
Personally, the fact that polls from Channel 99 showing 49% of Israelis, along with recent polls showing increasingly nasty attitudes towards Arabs, means that I think it is legitmate to be concerned that both Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock could have the fate of the Babri Masjid in India.
In regards to recent polling, I have this.
A Pew Research poll released in March 2016 showed that close to half of all Israeli Jews are in favor of “transferring or expelling” Israel’s Arab population. 48% of Israeli Jews strongly agree or agree with the idea, and 46% strongly disagree or disagree. The in-person polling was conducted in a relatively “calm” from late 2014 through early 2015.
If I am missing something here, tell me, but it looks like Muslim sites in Jerusalem could be at risk.
re: #116 JDRhoades
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
The democratic party is backing the only democrat in the race.
re: #206 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Yeah saw this the other day. Hadn’t known there was a Jack McCain but good for him. Meagan gets all the McCain press.
Jack is a serving naval officer who graduated from the Naval Academy as his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather did before him. He’s the millennial generation part of the McCain USN dynasty.
re: #207 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Writing for takimag again, I see.
This was hilarious too:
Also, he has a new post up:
that child ain’t right in the head…
Trump’s path to 270 - if it exists - goes through the Rust Belt. Romney states (206 EVs) +
PA +20
OH +18
MI +16
WI +10
IA+6
=276— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) May 4, 2016
This is why you can’t take Democrats winning in November for granted.
re: #211 Eventual Carrion
The democratic party is backing the only democrat in the race.
That, and the Bernie camp’s hypocrisy on the superdelegates is a tad infuriating.
When the pledged-delegate race was closer: “Superdelegates are undemocratic! We don’t need those establishment cronies to win! They shouldn’t count!”
Now that the pledged-delegate race is out of reach: “Superdelegates are the only thing that matter now! We’ll change their minds at the convention!”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
.@newtgingrich: “If you’re not for Trump you functionally are for @HillaryClinton, & she’s going to create the most radical Supreme Ct…”
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 4, 2016
If you’re for Trump you functionally are for a man unfit to be president, & for the degradation of Am. conservatism. https://t.co/xqvrtLvBO9
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 4, 2016
Obama proved you needed the entire Democratic coalition to get elected. Any Democratic nominee has to prove they resonate with the whole Democratic coalition. Clinton has done that. The Democrats cannot run a race that does not draw out the entire Democratic party, not just one part.
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
the hubris is mind-boggling.
re: #210 Ziggy_TARDIS
Considering the Dome is atop the Western Wall (probs not a coincidence) any destruction is totally unlikely.
Israel is an assiduous curator of antiquities and would never allow such destruction to take place.
re: #154 Big Beautiful Door
You can watch him meltdown when Trump gets waxed in November.
Her…and no…I’ve had enough bigoted replies. Silently muting next time they crop up.
re: #210 Ziggy_TARDIS
You’re wrong. Israelis don’t want the PR disaster that harming any holy sites would provoke. And regardless of which party in charge, the Israeli government has not taken any steps that could even lead in that direction.
The main danger relating to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock is Palestinian incitement spread by social media accusing Israel of trying to harm those sites. That sort of dishonest web-circulated propaganda leads to terrorism, even after Netanyahu made very clear that Israel would take no action that might harm either site, nor would it permit Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
re: #215 withak
That, and the Bernie camp’s hypocrisy on the superdelegates is a tad infuriating.
When the pledged-delegate race was closer: “Superdelegates are undemocratic! We don’t need those establishment cronies to win! They shouldn’t count!”
Now that the pledged-delegate race is out of reach: “Superdelegates are the only thing that matter now! We’ll change their minds at the convention!”
Yeah, the turn-around on super-delegates is a bit of a surprise.
AB Transportation escorting a fuel tanker on Hwy 63 to assist stranded motorists. https://t.co/iJmNHsU5kI #ymmfire pic.twitter.com/1g6JwXiDh6
— Edmonton Journal (@edmontonjournal) May 4, 2016
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
This was hilarious too:
Also, he has a new post up:
that child ain’t right in the head…
Yeah, he was all in for Ted until February or so, then slowly became a Trumpist as it became amply clear Cruz has a snowball’s chance in hell of being president. He’s trying to grab onto Trump’s coattails, or he’s grasping at some position with Trump’s administration by being suck-up.
He’s right about Trump running a CCJ campaign, though. Birds of a feather, those two, except one has money and the other not.
re: #214 lawhawk
This is why you can’t take Democrats winning in November for granted.
I could make up states that fit whatever path I want as well. Just saying “They’re going to vote for Trump” doesn’t mean they will.
ABC had a map showing Clinton winning the states that Democrats have reliably won the past 30 years. This did not include VA or NC, basically the North East, the pacific states, and the Great Lakes states. All she needed was Florida to win.
No, we can’t take any election for granted. But imagining losing scenarios that have no real chance of happening isn’t going to help.
re: #214 lawhawk
This is why you can’t take Democrats winning in November for granted.
Yes, Trump could win. I’m not buying into the Democratic landslide Trump’s nomination is supposed to automatically create. HRC may win and Dems may make gains in Congress, but it’s far from inevitable.
re: #228 Belafon
I could make up states that fit whatever path I want as well. Just saying “They’re going to vote for Trump” doesn’t mean they will.
ABC had a map showing Clinton winning the states that Democrats have reliably won the past 30 years. This did not include VA or NC, basically the North East, the pacific states, and the Great Lakes states. All she needed was Florida to win.
No, we can’t take any election for granted. But imagining losing scenarios that have no real chance of happening isn’t going to help.
Unless something extremely wacky happens between now and November (which wouldn’t surprise me at all, given this election so far) I will be extremely confident that HRC will win handily.
However, Trump is too much of a wild card — and there is too much at stake — for anyone to get complacent.
I am optimistic the American public will make the right choice, but I’m going to do what I can to make sure it happens.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Emergency crews have been called to a building in the 20400 block of Franz Road in west Harris County near Katy for reports of an active shooter.
A man with a shotgun entered the building and fired multiple shots, officials said.
The building is located across the street from Franz Elementary and Morton Ranch High School, which are on lockdown.
Police: Multiple people reported injured in shooting near Katy, Texas; shooter down - KPRC 2 https://t.co/NSB1W1fekh
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) May 4, 2016
But for sheer eeriness you can’t beat the following:
The Navy SEAL who died fighting Daesh yesterday was like Sen John McCain the 3rd man in a direct line to have the same name. He was also the grandson of the financier whose shenanigans got McCain in hot water. His name was Charles Keating III.
re: #214 lawhawk
Not only do Democratic voters have a terrible reputation for not showing up, you have the porspect of many of them still feeling the butthurt of Bernie Sanders’ loss. Those stupid butterfly ballots in FL wouldn’t have mattered if thousands of Democratic voters didn’t vote for Ralph Nader.
re: #230 withak
I am optimistic the American public will make the right choice, but I’m going to do what I can to make sure it happens.
I will be donating to Clinton, some Congressional races, and any GOTV groups, especially here in Texas.
Trump on @Morning_Joe says he’ll decide in the next week whether to welcome super PAC support. But adds: “We do need money for the party.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 4, 2016
Meh. All Chuck did is reprint most of something he wrote for Takimag in July. At the end, he says, “GotNews(dot)com hedged our bets by betting on the last Republican — Ted Cruz.”
No, GotNews(dot)com did not bet on Ted. You did, Chuck. And you said you were sure Ted would win, because he was your man then.
Trying to cover his ass, and failing miserably.
BREAKING: WMUR: “After Trump win, Ayotte ‘plans to support’ him” https://t.co/Y3s3paKwrP #nhpolitics #nhsen
— Maggie Hassan (@Maggie_Hassan) May 4, 2016
re: #233 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Not only do Democratic voters have a terrible reputation for not showing up, you have the porspect of many of them still feeling the butthurt of Bernie Sanders’ loss. Those stupid butterfly ballots in FL wouldn’t have mattered if thousands of Democratic voters didn’t vote for Ralph Nader.
The lure of purity is strong and the fact that Hillary Clinton can’t even pretend to be pure means that it will be even more alluring to disgruntled leftists this year. I won’t predict if that has a major impact, since its just too soon to tell.
This is our new pitcher.
He throws 95mph with ease.
He also bats well.
He doesn’t like it when he strikes out.
heh
“The GOP woke up in Trump Tower, lying in a marble bathtub full of ice. Its back hurt and a kidney was missing.” https://t.co/17jAddINKu
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) May 4, 2016
re: #238 Dark_Falcon
The lure of purity is strong and the fact that Hillary Clinton can’t even pretend to be pure means that it will be even more alluring to disgruntled leftists this year. I won’t predict if that has a major impact, since its just too soon to tell.
Notice how many Clinton people stayed home in 2008.
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
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— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) May 4, 2016
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
And when they see Trump, the first thing they are going to ask is if he needs the other one.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She has no choice (not that I have any respect left for Ayotte). Her base in NH went overwhelmingly for Donald.
re: #232 Dark_Falcon
But for sheer eeriness you can’t beat the following:
The Navy SEAL who died fighting Daesh yesterday was like Sen John McCain the 3rd man in a direct line to have the same name. He was also the grandson of the financier whose shenanigans got McCain in hot water. His name was Charles Keating III.
He was Charles Keating IV.
Grandpa Keating was “Jr”
re: #241 Belafon
Notice how many Clinton people stayed home in 2008.
2008 was history in the making. Nobody wanted to miss that.
2016 is also history in the making, though it’s getting said so much it’s starting to lose the thrill it should inspire.
re: #246 darthstar
2008 was history in the making. Nobody wanted to miss that.
2016 is also history in the making, though it’s getting said so much it’s starting to lose the thrill it should inspire.
I don’t plan on being part of “electing the first reality TV show star as president” history.
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He got more votes https://t.co/p2igSy5VtR
— HuffPoSpoilers (@HuffPoSpoilers) May 4, 2016
re: #247 Belafon
I don’t plan on being part of “electing the first reality TV show star as president” history.
Good point! It’ll be history making no matter who wins.
re: #233 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Not only do Democratic voters have a terrible reputation for not showing up, you have the porspect of many of them still feeling the butthurt of Bernie Sanders’ loss. Those stupid butterfly ballots in FL wouldn’t have mattered if thousands of Democratic voters didn’t vote for Ralph Nader.
They usually show up for presidential elections, and Trump will galvanize them to do so. Butthurt Clinton supporters ended up voting for Obama in ‘08, and the vast majority of Bernie supporters will do so as well when faced with the prospect of Trump. There isn’t a charismatic third party figure to draw away liberal votes like Nader in 2000. He made great commercials; I still remember them. If we aren’t complacent and work hard to get out the vote, Trump will lose.
re: #232 Dark_Falcon
But for sheer eeriness you can’t beat the following:
The Navy SEAL who died fighting Daesh yesterday was like Sen John McCain the 3rd man in a direct line to have the same name. He was also the grandson of the financier whose shenanigans got McCain in hot water. His name was Charles Keating III.
Correction: The Charles Keating who died fighting Daesh was Charles Keating IV, not III. His nickname within the SEALs was apparently “C4” (as in the plastic explosive).
@samsteinhp That’s cute…he still thinks he’s in the race.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 4, 2016
re: #250 Big Beautiful Door
They usually show up for presidential elections, and Trump will galvanize them to do so. Butthurt Clinton supporters ended up voting for Obama in ‘08, and the vast majority of Bernie supporters will do so as well when faced with the prospect of Trump. There isn’t a charismatic third party figure to draw away liberal votes like Nader in 2000. He made great commercials; I still remember them. If we aren’t complacent and work hard to get out the vote, Trump will lose.
Clinton eased her supporters’ butthurt by speaking for the NY delegation to carry him over the top at the convention, then her husband speaking on his behalf from the stage, then campaigning for him vigorously for months. Her supporters followed her lead.
Is Bernie going to be onboard?
re: #253 sagehen
Clinton eased her supporters’ butthurt by speaking for the NY delegation to carry him over the top at the convention, then her husband speaking on his behalf from the stage, then campaigning for him vigorously for months. Her supporters followed her lead.
Is Bernie going to be onboard?
Clinton to her credit was a very gracious loser.
There is no zombie Reagan, let alone a resurrected Jon Snow that is saving the GOP from itself. Trump was, is, and will be forever linked to the GOP and its moral and ethical rot.
They enabled his rise by refusing to purge itself of the hate. They enabled by pushing years of irrational hate, fear, and bigotry.
Trump is the GOP.
.@BorowitzReport: Senate Officially Mourns Return of Ted Cruz https://t.co/6sAzgOnIUG
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 4, 2016
re: #253 sagehen
Clinton eased her supporters’ butthurt by speaking for the NY delegation to carry him over the top at the convention, then her husband speaking on his behalf from the stage, then campaigning for him vigorously for months. Her supporters followed her lead.
Is Bernie going to be onboard?
If he’s not onboard for stopping Trump a lot of people will lose all respect for him. I don’t mind him spinning stories about how he’s going to get the superdelegates support now, but when the time comes he needs to lock arms with Clinton and get with the program of stopping Trump.
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Reince Priebus: Trump’s win ‘probably good for our party’ https://t.co/Drt1mIGv8y | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/Rsgb5dj5xb
— POLITICO (@politico) May 4, 2016
There’s some mighty fine cognitive dissonance and pretzel logic to come to this outcome.
It’s like saying a 105 fever is good to get rid of the flu. Sure, the fever might kill you, but you’ll eventually get relief (by the sweet embrace of death’s cold grasp).
re: #253 sagehen
Clinton eased her supporters’ butthurt by speaking for the NY delegation to carry him over the top at the convention, then her husband speaking on his behalf from the stage, then campaigning for him vigorously for months. Her supporters followed her lead.
Is Bernie going to be onboard?
No, I think he’s more likely to be butthurt about losing and I think his supporters are going to be less connected with reality. I also think Donald Trump will continue to show up in places where Berniacs will likely rage against him. He will do this if possible to solidify law-and-order folks behind him and also to render Sen. Sanders and his supporters toxic in the eyes of other parts of the public.
So if Bernie doesn’t get out, Trump will troll him in California again.
re: #256 lawhawk
There is no zombie Reagan, let alone a resurrected Jon Snow that is saving the GOP from itself. Trump was, is, and will be forever linked to the GOP and its moral and ethical rot.
They enabled his rise by refusing to purge itself of the hate. They enabled by pushing years of irrational hate, fear, and bigotry.
Trump is the GOP.
ZOMBIES! Biotech company to try bringing the dead back to life https://t.co/0G1JKOvufA pic.twitter.com/Va039NmEiW
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 4, 2016
re: #260 lawhawk
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There’s some mighty fine cognitive dissonance and pretzel logic to come to this outcome.
It’s like saying a 105 fever is good to get rid of the flu. Sure, the fever might kill you, but you’ll eventually get relief (by the sweet embrace of death’s cold grasp).
When I was 21, I thought everclear might be good too. I wasn’t in charge of a political party though.
Hey! Am I the first here today to say “May the Fourth Be With You”?
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
The problem is, he has never campaigned for someone other than himself in his life. He is egocentric.
How can people not see this.
Pres Obama boards Air Force One for flight to Flint, MI. pic.twitter.com/C3iArHxQqZ
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 4, 2016
re: #265 Ziggy_TARDIS
The problem is, he has never campaigned for someone other than himself in his life. He is egocentric.
How can people not see this.
Because they see the platform and look a bird appeared on Bernie as he spoke isn’t that…….well a thing that can happen.
Trump stands by call to ban Muslims: “I don’t care if it hurts me” https://t.co/5lqfI7jvxb pic.twitter.com/TiejXzileE
— The Hill (@thehill) May 4, 2016
Forget landsharks ringing the door bell peddling candy.
Now you gotta worry about gators?!
Alligator spotted appearing to ring doorbell of South Carolina home https://t.co/jPQCrJGpCO pic.twitter.com/FAeGbSsefK
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) May 4, 2016
Oh this is lovely. The black star on the front of Bowie’s last album turns into a galaxy when left out in the sun https://t.co/dqNBxsstZV
— Myf Warhurst (@MyfWarhurst) May 4, 2016
That enormous black star on David Bowie’s last album looks so sombre in light of his death, but it isn’t as bleak as it first appears.
As an Imgur user discovered this week, if the vinyl gatefold is left out in the sun (N.B - not the record itself, you’ll ruin it), its star becomes a galaxy.
It’s quite a touching little secret, and a nice nod to Bowie’s immortality as a musical and cultural icon.
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #272 HappyWarrior
Except Mike Tyson.
To be fair, Trump has made clear he would not try ban Muslims who are American citizens from leaving or returning, so Mike Tyson would have not problem anyways.
re: #270 lawhawk
Forget landsharks ringing the door bell peddling candy.
Now you gotta worry about gators?!
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re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
AB Transportation escorting a fuel tanker on Hwy 63 to assist stranded motorists.
You could not pay me enough money to drive a fuel tanker through that conflagration. Nope.
re: #274 Dark_Falcon
To be fair, Trump has made clear he would not try ban Muslims who are American citizens from leaving or returning, so Mike Tyson would have not problem anyways.
I was sort of being tongue in cheek there. Fuck Trump. I hope he gets a painful case of diarrhea.
re: #253 sagehen
Clinton eased her supporters’ butthurt by speaking for the NY delegation to carry him over the top at the convention, then her husband speaking on his behalf from the stage, then campaigning for him vigorously for months. Her supporters followed her lead.
Is Bernie going to be onboard?
I’m going to be optimistic here and say that he will ultimately be on board, because he cares about the issues he brings up. But, here’s his measure: Whether he’s on board or not will tell you whether he cares more about the issues or the messenger. He’s spent months splitting hairs with a candidate that votes almost exactly like him.
re: #278 Belafon
I’m going to be optimistic here and say that he will ultimately be on board, because he cares about the issues he brings up. But, here’s his measure: Whether he’s on board or not will tell you whether he cares more about the issues or the messenger. He’s spent months splitting hairs with a candidate that votes almost exactly like him.
I hope so. I really hope so or else I’m going to really think there’s something wrong with him.
Like I said: they will all fall in line. https://t.co/xqayd5ZMdN
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 4, 2016
Ok. So the choice is between a fireman with modest preparation and an serial arsonist whom married into the job.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) May 4, 2016
re: #255 HappyWarrior
Clinton to her credit was a very gracious loser.
She knew that a win for Obama was a win for her and all democrats. She helped the party win, so she was also a winner when Obama won.
I’m not sure Bernie will think that working to help democrats win is a win for him too. He keeps moving further and further away from that notion (and becoming more and more of a dick about his adopted hosts).
re: #274 Dark_Falcon
As a Muslim, I am under threat from Trump.
My sister, a Bernie supporter, is saying she is going to sit out the election because Bernie will not be the nominee.
Me and my Dad are upset by this. I am going to press the importance on her of what this election could mean for me and my closest friends.
The Republicans need to be blasted into oblivion during this election. That is the only way Muslim lives in America will be safe.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
Shamalayan twist, Kasich has been dead the entire time.
If he is really staying in the race, the only move that makes any sense is for him to move to California for the next five weeks, because when even Reince Preibus is calling Trump the presumptive nominee, only a landslide Kasich victory in California could possibly shake that sense of inevitability. Not that I think Kasich has a chance in hell of pulling it off, but if he’s going to keep running he has to have some kind of strategy.
UPDATE: Sheriff: Fired worker killed 1, injured 1 in shooting at Tx. business; gunman dead. https://t.co/ZEcHiDw1kZ pic.twitter.com/Z7190YGujj
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 4, 2016
A Texas trucking company worker who was fired Wednesday returned and shot another man before he killed himself, officials said.
Another person was injured in the deadly shooting at Knight Transportation in the Houston suburb of Katy, Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said.
re: #282 Ziggy_TARDIS
Mom wants us to change her mind.
I think I will take the first crack at it. My Dad can be convincing and angry, but unfocused and undetailed, and doesn’t have a good knowledge of history.
I should be able to scare her into voting.
re: #282 Ziggy_TARDIS
As a woman, your sister is under threat by Donald Trump.
re: #264 sagehen
The Fourth has been with me since 1961.
Kasich’s 10:45am press conference has been delayed. His campaign told us he hasn’t left Columbus. The venue’s trying to kick out the press.
— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) May 4, 2016
I mean even if Trump isn’t serious. The message he is sending to people who want to come here is probably the most hateful I’ve ever seen from a major presidential party candidate. Glad Trump wasn’t around when my family emigrated otherwise I may not be here.
re: #280 FormerDirtDart
Aside from the sexism involved in the marrying into the job comment, this was loltastic:
@GroverNorquist @ctjrock George W without the last name “Bush” is just another failed 40ish businessman stumbling drunk through Texas.
— Kevin Bartner (@heshsson) May 4, 2016
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
I knew that.
It’s just, when your a Muslim Male, the right in front of you can sometimes obscure everything else.
In my case, that is no excuse though. All of my friends are women, and because of this, and the fact that I mirror my friends,I have picked up many of my friends habits and taste, including liking Gilmore Girls.
How did I forget that.
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
As a woman, your sister is under threat by Donald Trump.
So many are under threat by him.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) May 4, 2016
re: #282 Ziggy_TARDIS
The Republicans need to be blasted into oblivion during this election. That is the only way Muslim and the rest of American lives in America will be safe.
Slight edit.
re: #290 Franklin
Aside from the sexism involved in the marrying into the job comment, this was loltastic:
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Just as Trump without his daddy’s mullah is just another obnoxious asshole. Ditto Romney. Clinton actually earned her qualifications.
Worth reading to get a boots on the ground view of the never Trump regular people.
Here’s a @storify of my final #NeverTrump rant of primary season…and first of general election season: https://t.co/2kn05JzPTW #ImWithHer
— Mile High Brendan (@MileHighBrendan) May 4, 2016
The latest in gotnwes.com nwes:
ANALYSISIS: Forget what I said about Ted Cruz, Trump’s The One
I may have said Ted Cruz was The One, and he was going to win the nomination and the presidency, but what I really meant was Donald Trump was The One.
And that $5,400 long shot bet I put down on Cruz, saying I was putting my money where my mouth was. Yeah, I was just hedging my bets, because I knew Trump would win even though I didn’t bet on him at all. I was just fooling you.
Just look at this article I wrote in July for the world-famous Takimag, home of whitey-white people. I nailed it! Trump was working the media and the Internet, just like I do, or would if I had still had a Twitter account and if anyone would actually give me any airtime.
More here, complete with historical review.
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
We cannot let our guard down.
re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s kind of cryptic, but it sounds like it may be good for a laugh when clarified.
Today’s Acrophobia/nope/no way in hell picture.
These workers are taking a lunch break during the construction of Rockefeller Center, 1932.
What Trump is creating.
Seven Muslim women sue Urth Caffe for discrimination after they were ordered to leave https://t.co/i4SJNzwUuA pic.twitter.com/jHJO68PHla
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 4, 2016
Trump stands for all the worst our country can be- unintelligent, crude, bigoted, and last night he became the presumptive nominee of a major party. A party that gave the world Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower. If I were a Republican, I’d be ashamed but I wouldn’t just blame Trump. I’d blame the leaders of that party eho allowed an atmosphere where his brand was welcomed with eager arms.
There’s something quite poetic about Kasich not lifting off, and campaign asking media to obscure all the background if he does get here.
— Ben Kamisar (@bkamisar) May 4, 2016
Kasich campaign says they are no longer going to Dulles. Making statement in Columbus at 5
— Kathleen Ronayne (@kronayne) May 4, 2016
re: #214 lawhawk
A Republican nominee for president has not won Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin since 1988. They’ve only once won Iowa since 1984. Ohio is the closest thing to a swing state in that bunch. Add in the recent polls that show places like Arizona, Utah, and Georgia in play for Clinton and the idea of a President Trump becomes even more far fetched. I’m not saying it’s an impossibility, but it still remains highly improbable.
re: #187 Dave In Austin
I’d like to invite Bacon to your pancakes…..
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re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sounds like Johnny is throwing in the towel.
re: #299 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The latest in gotnwes.com nwes:
More here, complete with historical review.
Hahaha.
re: #306 KGxvi
However, we still have to give this everything we got, to make sure Trump loses, and to pick up as many House and Senate seats as possible. And State seats too, so we can un-gerrymander as many states as possible. Looking at Pennsylvania and Virginia on that.
If Sanders wants to use his delegates for something, use them to get rid of Debbie Wassermann Schultz as DNC head. She is hurting the party.
Katrina Pierson just said, with a straight face, that Hillary has “never been truly vetted” before pic.twitter.com/tcsU7ptzhr
— Shannon (@shae_dog) May 4, 2016
Tell me @GroverNorquist, how does @realDonaldTrump’s ass taste?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
This guy:
@realDonaldTrump Sanders is a horrible man, he hates White people! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain pic.twitter.com/yzLU0DVNQI
— Jason Bergkamp (@keksec__org) May 4, 2016
.@keksec__org do you just sit in your mother’s basement waiting for @realDonaldTrump to tweet something so u can be first reply?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
re: #311 Ziggy_TARDIS
However, we still have to give this everything we got, to make sure Trump loses, and to pick up as many House and Senate seats as possible. And State seats too, so we can un-gerrymander as many states as possible. Looking at Pennsylvania and Virginia on that.
If Sanders wants to use his delegates for something, use them to get rid of Debbie Wassermann Schultz as DNC head. She is hurting the party.
We just had our state elections here in Va. The unGerrymandering will have to wait alas but it is absolutely crap that a state with a Dem gov, two Dem senators, and has gone for Obama twice had it set up where Dems only have 3 districts out of 11.
Sigh:
Please tell me the #DropOutHillary hashtag is ironic bc I don’t want to believe there are enough math-challenged BS morons to make it trend.
— Jennifer (@leftyjennyc) May 4, 2016
re: #317 Ziggy_TARDIS
DropOutHillary is trending.
Morons. I can’t wait for her to kick ass in California and to see the excuses.
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #311 Ziggy_TARDIS
However, we still have to give this everything we got, to make sure Trump loses, and to pick up as many House and Senate seats as possible. And State seats too, so we can un-gerrymander as many states as possible. Looking at Pennsylvania and Virginia on that.
If Sanders wants to use his delegates for something, use them to get rid of Debbie Wassermann Schultz as DNC head. She is hurting the party.
I was reading, yesterday, about the blow out presidential elections - ‘64, ‘72, ‘84 - and it seems that only in ‘64 did the winner of the presidential election do particularly well down ticket. But that was also an era of ticket splitting that we don’t see as much of now. Still, I think Trump will be bad for Republicans down ticket - if they try to distance themselves from him, I think he’ll lash out at them; and if they hug him, then they’ll feel a blow back from the other side. My guess is that the Senate is definitely in play and that the House may be. As for State legislatures, I said a while ago that if the Democrats were smart, they would use this election cycle to build a foothold for the next couple of cycles - 2020 will be incredibly important at the state level because that’s the next census and 2021 will be the year seats are reapportioned - that’s three cycles including this one.
I see a lot of people talking about Revolution.
Again, Revolutions rarely go well, and never at first.
Reform is better. That is how Norway, Sweden, and Finland got to where they are now. Through slow and steady reform.
re: #325 Big Beautiful Door
He’s withdrawing.
losing candidates do not cancel last minute events & hastily arrange a symbolic event in their hometown in order to stay in the race
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) May 4, 2016
re: #324 Ziggy_TARDIS
I see a lot of people talking about Revolution.
Again, Revolutions rarely go well, and never at first.
Reform is better. That is how Norway, Sweden, and Finland got to where they are now. Through slow and steady reform.
You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world…
I see this as the other side of the coin of my personal favorite - the wingnuts who call for a constitutional convention. Neither suppose that the other side wouldn’t be involved and that it might turn out badly for their side. This is especially so with the convention folks - it’s like they don’t think things like the right to privacy (and abortion) wouldn’t end up in a newly drafted constitution bill of rights.
re: #328 KGxvi
You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world…
I see this as the other side of the coin of my personal favorite - the wingnuts who call for a constitutional convention. Neither suppose that the other side wouldn’t be involved and that it might turn out badly for their side. This is especially so with the convention folks - it’s like they don’t think things like the right to privacy (and abortion) wouldn’t end up in a newly drafted constitution bill of rights.
They assume that Scalia’s founders Ouija board that conveniently fits present right wing dogma would carry the day.
Revolution implies we need radical change. We don’t. What we need is focused change. And frankly a seventy four year old who has shown little desire towards any causes beyond himself is a terrible chief revolutionary. George Washington, Bernie ain’t.
Driving through Indiana I had to pull over and capture something for TV! I love being in the heart of the country! pic.twitter.com/YniT1hpNaB
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) May 3, 2016
That’s actually a meth lab in the background. America! @glennbeck
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
Odds are….
Guam’s Primary or is in 3 Days, with 12 Delegates at Stake.
If Hillary can win something 75-25, she can actually erase all gains Sanders made yesterday.
re: #332 Ziggy_TARDIS
Guam’s Primary or is in 3 Days, with 12 Delegates at Stake.
If Hillary can win something 75-25, she can actually erase all gains Sanders made yesterday.
Won’t matter to Bernie. He has ascended to a higher plane where math doesn’t exist.
re: #331 Ace-o-aces
I thought meth labs were old RVs? Or hidden inside industrial laundries?
re: #324 Ziggy_TARDIS
I see a lot of people talking about Revolution.
Again, Revolutions rarely go well, and never at first.
Reform is better. That is how Norway, Sweden, and Finland got to where they are now. Through slow and steady reform.
Hard to believe today, but within living memory (1931) Swedish troops opened fire on striking workers at a pulp factory, killing 5.
Ådalen shootings
Protest and reform remained mostly peaceful and orderly, though, and had profoundly changed Swedish society within a generation.
re: #333 withak
Won’t matter to Bernie. He has ascended to a higher plane where math doesn’t exist.
So, he’s a college freshman avoiding Math 120 until his sophomore year?
re: #337 KGxvi
So, he’s a college freshman avoiding Math 120 until his sophomore year?
More like a sixth-year senior retaking a whole bunch of generals for the third time
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tim Robbins said winning SC was like winning Guam…
Well Robbins can kiss my ass. Nice to see Tim values the African American base of the Democratic Party.
You spent 20 years fanning the flames of hatred and paranoia @EWErickson , and @realDonaldTrump is what you got. https://t.co/njiA8w9GYq
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
A senior Kasich adviser tells @mitchellreports that Kasich will be suspending his campaign
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) May 4, 2016
A rather cool conference table from my buddy’s shop:
Here is a view of our latest finished project. It’s a 1947 Chevy Firetruck. Our client wanted to convert the back of the truck to a conference table. We added a few tricks for them also. Led color changing lights and controls on the top of the table that allow you to turn on the siren and control some of the lights! There also is a Usb charging station attached by the table. More details to come. We’ll be featuring this vehicle all day. #creativedesign #anaheimrodandcustom
Tomorrow, Obama national security team will begin debating plan to arm moderate Republican rebels.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) May 4, 2016
re: #280 FormerDirtDart
@GroverNorquist Trump was born into his arsonist job, he didn’t marry into it, and Clinton is fully prepared for the job.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) May 4, 2016
re: #346 No Country For Old Haters
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re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
A senior Kasich adviser tells @mitchellreports that Kasich will be suspending his campaign
What a difference a few hours of sleep makes…
.@JohnKasich chief strategist: “As long as it remains possible, Governor Kasich will fight for the higher path.” pic.twitter.com/h0CRxPGY6W
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 4, 2016
BREAKING: John Kasich to suspend his campaign and return to the one thing he’s really good at… fruit ninja. pic.twitter.com/WDOKqjLPJJ
— chelsea hassler (@chelseaadelaine) May 4, 2016
Alex Jones Celebrates Trump Victory By Telling George Will: “Blow What Little Is Left Of Your Brains Out” https://t.co/8fl4nPw9lD
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 4, 2016
re: #349 FormerDirtDart
What a difference a few hours of sleep makes…
Remember from logic, if the first part is false, it doesn’t matter what the second part is. They could have said “As long as it remains possible, Governor Kasich will give birth to a tie fighter” and it would have been equally valid.
re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #353 HappyWarrior
Maybe someone should suggest Alex do the same when his fueher loses.
Why do we have to wait so long?
re: #354 I Would Prefer Not To
Why do we have to wait so long?
Honestly I’d prefer Jones move to permanent exile on Pluto but you can’t always get what you want.
re: #116 JDRhoades
Y’all seem to have forgotten that that’s what the superdelegates are THERE FOR: as a brake on the “will of the voters” if they nominate someone the party sachems deem unelectable. The Democratic Party put an undemocratic tool in place, now they’re pissed when Bernie uses it. They’ve always demanded that Bernie fight with one hand tied behind his back.
If Bernie had won the popular vote and pledged delegates the Supers would have switched, instead he lost. As he started losing his campaign’s rhetoric switched from claiming the Supers were undemocratic to demanding that the Supers overthrow the democratic outcome. So the only one who’s forgotten anything was Bernie, who hypocritically forgot how to behave like a man with an ounce of integrity.
AF1 landed in #Flint. At 430pm EDT @POTUS will address a community that’s been thru a lot. https://t.co/EfjOH4S1ML pic.twitter.com/240DMtENDs
— Josh Earnest (@PressSec) May 4, 2016
re: #346 No Country For Old Haters
@GroverNorquist where were you the moment Osama Bin Laden was killed?
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) May 4, 2016
They’re the storm troopers this morning, confronting the fact that Trump is Kylo Ren. Someone born into privilege, who has decided to trash the entire system for his own personal gain. They’ve worked for years towards the same goal, but even a few realize that Trump’s batcrap insane. Didn’t stop them from acting the way they have for years on end pumping up the irrational hate and anger and fear for years.
Fear and anger leads to nothing but suffering. There is much suffering that would result from Trump.
VP pick won’t come until July. He’ll have a selection committee to vet candidate. Ben Carson is on the list - Trump https://t.co/yR7WJ4PNJP
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) May 4, 2016
Ben Carson is on the list?! Carson couldn’t string together a coherent thought about politics or policy, and he’s on the short list of Trump running mates?
Why stop there? Bring back Palin. Because you know he’d go there.
re: #269 lawhawk
So what if that child of would be Muslim immigrants who were denied entrance turns out to be the next Einstein? America never needed immigrants. America is for Americans. There. Summed up his position. Like every sociopathic pandering viper, he doesn’t care who he hurts. Change the word Muslim to any other word you choose. How does that sound? Yep. Benito. If the crop of Republicans at the trough support this, you know they care not for America. Not in the least bit.
re: #360 lawhawk
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Ben Carson is on the list?! Carson couldn’t string together a coherent thought about politics or policy, and he’s on the short list of Trump running mates?
Why stop there? Bring back Palin. Because you know he’d go there.
I read that to say Carson is part of Trump’s vetting team. That’s still horrible though.
re: #359 lawhawk
I actually think a Doctor Who clip will work for the Berners. Just the 1st part though. I will quote the relevant part.
DOCTOR: What is it that you actually want?
(After a long pause.)
CLARA-Z: War.
DOCTOR: Ah. Ah, right. And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it’s going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you’re very close to getting what you want. What’s it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who’s going to make the violins? Well? Oh, you don’t actually know, do you? Because, like every other tantrumming child in history, Bonnie, you don’t actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you’ve killed all the bad guys, and when it’s all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?
CLARA-Z: We’ll win.
DOCTOR: Oh, will you? Well, maybe, maybe you will win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
CLARA-Z: Why are you still talking?
DOCTOR: Because I want to get you to see, and I’m almost there!
CLARA-Z: Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A fifty percent chance.
oh man it’s gonna be ugly https://t.co/azdU7PrlnD pic.twitter.com/DIDx0VgZou
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) May 4, 2016
Trump on Rafael Cruz/Oswald to ABC: “You can’t knock the National Enquirer.” Calls it a “major publication.” pic.twitter.com/xAWiConDRP
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) May 4, 2016
re: #360 lawhawk
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Ben Carson is on the list?! Carson couldn’t string together a coherent thought about politics or policy, and he’s on the short list of Trump running mates?
Why stop there? Bring back Palin. Because you know he’d go there.
Trump’s VP choice will be himself. Or maybe Donald, Jr.
re: #362 HappyWarrior
I read that to say Carson is part of Trump’s vetting team. That’s still horrible though.
If Ben Carson is anywhere on any list, the vetting team needs vetting.
Well this news sucks:
Prince was found dead one day before he was scheduled to meet with a California doctor in an attempt to kick an addiction to painkillers, an attorney with knowledge of the death investigation said Tuesday.
Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid addiction treatment, was called by Prince representatives the night of April 20 because Prince “was dealing with a grave medical emergency,” said William Mauzy, a prominent Minneapolis attorney working with the Kornfeld family.
Kornfeld, who runs Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley, Calif., could not clear his schedule to meet with Prince the next day, April 21, but he planned to fly out the following day.
So he sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, who works with him, to Minnesota, with plans for him to go to Paisley Park to explain how the confidential treatment would work, Mauzy said.
Why did he have to bring in a guy from CA when MN has been a groundbreaker in addicton treatment?
re: #367 Franklin
If Ben Carson is anywhere on any list, the vetting team needs vetting.
I’m still betting on Allan West.
re: #368 stpaulbear
Why did he have to bring in a guy from CA when MN has been a groundbreaker in addicton treatment?
Bingo.
re: #368 stpaulbear
Well this news sucks:
Why did he have to bring in a guy from CA when MN has been a groundbreaker in addicton treatment?
Boutique drug counseling.
re: #368 stpaulbear
Well this news sucks:
Why did he have to bring in a guy from CA when MN has been a groundbreaker in addicton treatment?
Privacy?
re: #377 Snarknado!
Privacy?
Robin Williams sought treatment in MN, and while he may or may not have gone out of his way to keep it private, it wasn’t a well-kept secret.
Of course, he didn’t have a house/recording studio here. Who knows.
HAHAHA, That’s hilarious, very droll…oh wait, you’re serious? @JC_Christian
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
Has everyone lost their goddamn minds!
re: #343 HappyWarrior
Time to resurrect Reagan, he’s their only hope.
Trump=Reagan - that’s why he’s dangerous. Sure he’s a bigoted, blowhard, sexist narcissist…who isn’t these days? He knows how to work a room, and that’s how he defeated 16 opponents when he wasn’t even considered a serious candidate.
On some of the issues - he’s not too far off from Hillary - though he can’t articulate them to save his life - but he’s for investing in infrastructure (actually a Bernie position, but we’ll call it even), he’s against defunding Planned Parenthood because it makes economic sense to prevent unwanted pregnancies (though he is against “the abortion”), and he’s said we need to be a fair broker with Israel and Palestine rather than taking sides…that actually puts him to the left of Clinton.
If the GOP manages to get him decent handlers and image consultants who know what they’re doing, they could reinvent him so fast for the general that Hillary’s 12 point lead would look less than bullet-proof. I’m not saying I want him to win - I sure as fuck don’t…as I’ve been saying for weeks, #ImWithWhatever…but I’m not going to kid myself and assume she’ll walk to the White House as she is to the nomination. The general election is an entirely different beast…and a 60 point lead in September evaporated by January, so 12 points (or whatever it is…15? 16?) isn’t easy to hold onto for six months.
As a matter of fact, she could use an image consultant as well…her response to the people of West Virginia when they called her on promising to kill the coal industry “My words were out of context with what I meant.” (I wrote that shit down as she said it because I was so baffled) isn’t exactly something that says ‘trust me’…
Yeah, we have to stop Trump. Let’s just not assume it’ll be easy.
re: #380 darthstar
Trump=Reagan - that’s why he’s dangerous. Sure he’s a bigoted, blowhard, sexist narcissist…who isn’t these days? He knows how to work a room, and that’s how he defeated 16 opponents when he wasn’t even considered a serious candidate.
On some of the issues - he’s not too far off from Hillary - though he can’t articulate them to save his life - but he’s for investing in infrastructure (actually a Bernie position, but we’ll call it even), he’s against defunding Planned Parenthood because it makes economic sense to prevent unwanted pregnancies (though he is against “the abortion”), and he’s said we need to be a fair broker with Israel and Palestine rather than taking sides…that actually puts him to the left of Clinton.
If the GOP manages to get him decent handlers and image consultants who know what they’re doing, they could reinvent him so fast for the general that Hillary’s 12 point lead would look less than bullet-proof. I’m not saying I want him to win - I sure as fuck don’t…as I’ve been saying for weeks, #ImWithWhatever…but I’m not going to kid myself and assume she’ll walk to the White House as she is to the nomination. The general election is an entirely different beast…and a 60 point lead in September evaporated by January, so 12 points (or whatever it is…15? 16?) isn’t easy to hold onto for six months.
As a matter of fact, she could use an image consultant as well…her response to the people of West Virginia when they called her on promising to kill the coal industry “My words were out of context with what I meant.” (I wrote that shit down as she said it because I was so baffled) isn’t exactly something that says ‘trust me’…
Yeah, we have to stop Trump. Let’s just not assume it’ll be easy.
It won’t be easy true but he’s toxic to large portions of the public.
re: #379 Ace-o-aces
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Has everyone lost their goddamn minds!
Sigh. She’s not a perfect candidate but she’s qualified and would easy make the most competent and effective president of those that remain.
Bernie Sanders will go to Philadelphia with more pledged delegates than any insurgent in modern history. https://t.co/8aT1UDRjum
— The Nation (@thenation) May 4, 2016
Of course, that ignores that Obama was the insurgent candidate in 2008, and he won the whole thing over Hillary Clinton, who happens to have essentially taken Obama’s playbook to win the nomination.
re: #379 Ace-o-aces
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Has everyone lost their goddamn minds!
That guy used to be pretty funny, but that was a long time ago. So many blogs lost their minds starting in 2008.
re: #384 lawhawk
Of course, that ignores that Obama was the insurgent candidate in 2008, and he won the whole thing over Hillary Clinton, who happens to have essentially taken Obama’s playbook to win the nomination.
Weren’t Obama and Clinton closer than Clinton and Sanders?
re: #362 HappyWarrior
If you’re on the list of people picking the VP candidate, that means you’re on that short list. Just ask Dick Cheney.
re: #387 lawhawk
If you’re on the list of people picking the VP candidate, that means you’re on that short list. Just ask Dick Cheney.
Good point. Carson shouldn’t be anywhere near here but neither should Trump.
re: #387 lawhawk
If you’re on the list of people picking the VP candidate, that means you’re on that short list. Just ask Dick Cheney.
I hope he picks GOHMERT!
re: #379 Ace-o-aces
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Yeah, Hillary is a weak candidate. That’s why she’s secured 92% of the required delegates for nomination. While Trump has secured 82%
@philipaklein @thegarance Just don’t burn your asshole card.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 4, 2016
So as long as his insults are contextual, they’re okay…
Susan Collins: I’ll Be Able To Back Trump If He Stops “Gratuitous Personal Insults” https://t.co/pQ8KXK9o10
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) May 4, 2016
re: #393 darthstar
So as long as his insults are contextual, they’re okay…
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Party first.
The real news is how fast Carly Fiorina destroyed Ted Cruz’s campaign.
That’s got to be a record
Even for her— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 4, 2016
re: #386 Belafon
That’s very true too. Another point the Sanders folks want to ignore. Clinton actually held a lead longer into the race than Sanders ever did.
At this point in the 2008 campaign, Hillary was down to Obama by all of 1,493 to 1,336 excluding supers (2,118 to win). Hillary was ahead as of Feb 10, 2008 when Obama began to take lead, which he gradually extended.
re: #380 darthstar
Trump=Reagan - that’s why he’s dangerous. Sure he’s a bigoted, blowhard, sexist narcissist…who isn’t these days?
Hillary Clinton.
re: #393 darthstar
So as long as his insults are contextual, they’re okay…
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She’s ok with war crimes and white supremacy, but please, no name calling.
re: #331 Ace-o-aces
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Odds are….
Austin, IN, just down the road from John Mellencamp’s “small town” has an HIV rate that rivals sub-Saharan Africa.
Um, no.
I believe the proper response is “fuck you, Snyder”.
Rick Snyder wants Obama to drink Flint water https://t.co/JEBhCleTsD pic.twitter.com/NjaCdY2KJm
— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) May 4, 2016
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good thing Obama has built up a resistance to iocaine powder
re: #400 darthstar
/rimshot!
I refrained from responding to this:
Yeah, we have to stop Trump. Let’s just not assume it’ll be easy.
Because I think it will be easy if I (and everybody else) don’t say so, and act like it won’t.
re: #399 KingKenrod
She’s ok with war crimes and white supremacy, but please, no name calling.
Republicans have to have limits. I mean being a sexist, racist xenophobic prick is one thing but espousing it is out of bounds!
We have successfully evacuated 88,000 people with no reports of injuries or casualties so far #ymmfire
— RMWB (@RMWoodBuffalo) May 4, 2016
Critical Message:
Evacuees north of #fortmcmurray must stay where they are and shelter in place.
We cannot stress this enough. #ymmfire— RMWB (@RMWoodBuffalo) May 4, 2016
Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees give birth to 2 babies in work camp https://t.co/1HkWYqEbbE pic.twitter.com/ZatsjFOUI0
— CBC Canadian News (@CBCCanada) May 4, 2016
Today in history: Ohio Guardsmen open fire at Kent State, first group of Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C. https://t.co/QmVs8nudxB #p2
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) May 4, 2016
re: #393 darthstar
As long as they are not “gratuitous”…..What a load.
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
OMG. What a chilling notice. What do you do to shelter in place during a raging fire? You can’t stay in your house. Most all of the local buildings will have combustible materials. What do you do?
re: #380 darthstar
Trump=Reagan - that’s why he’s dangerous. Sure he’s a bigoted, blowhard, sexist narcissist…who isn’t these days? He knows how to work a room, and that’s how he defeated 16 opponents when he wasn’t even considered a serious candidate.
On some of the issues - he’s not too far off from Hillary - though he can’t articulate them to save his life - but he’s for investing in infrastructure (actually a Bernie position, but we’ll call it even), he’s against defunding Planned Parenthood because it makes economic sense to prevent unwanted pregnancies (though he is against “the abortion”), and he’s said we need to be a fair broker with Israel and Palestine rather than taking sides…that actually puts him to the left of Clinton.
If the GOP manages to get him decent handlers and image consultants who know what they’re doing, they could reinvent him so fast for the general that Hillary’s 12 point lead would look less than bullet-proof. I’m not saying I want him to win - I sure as fuck don’t…as I’ve been saying for weeks, #ImWithWhatever…but I’m not going to kid myself and assume she’ll walk to the White House as she is to the nomination. The general election is an entirely different beast…and a 60 point lead in September evaporated by January, so 12 points (or whatever it is…15? 16?) isn’t easy to hold onto for six months.
As a matter of fact, she could use an image consultant as well…her response to the people of West Virginia when they called her on promising to kill the coal industry “My words were out of context with what I meant.” (I wrote that shit down as she said it because I was so baffled) isn’t exactly something that says ‘trust me’…
Yeah, we have to stop Trump. Let’s just not assume it’ll be easy.
Trump is not Reagan FFS. Reagan had been 2 time gov of CA. He had also run for POTUS twice before he won the nomination. He did have actual knowledge about policy, even if it was disagreeable.
Yes, we have to take Trump seriously, but lets stop the ridiculous comparisons to Reagan.
Emerg officials in #YMM estimate about 1,600 structures damaged . #ymmfire This Super 8 is just one pic.twitter.com/4hQOgN4isN
— Erin Lawrence (@tvchick13CTV) May 4, 2016
Hillary, by contrast, presents voters their latest opportunity to make yet another woman president. Such a pity. https://t.co/JJdkiYqGrS
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) May 4, 2016
Shaun thinks GWB was an outsider? He’s the son of a former president (who was out of office for all of 8 years before GWB ran).
re: #371 Teukka
Don’t click the spoiler’ed link.
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…the hell?
Puppies were cute, though.
re: #414 lawhawk
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Shaun thinks GWB was an outsider? He’s the son of a former president (who was out of office for all of 8 years before GWB ran).
Shaun King is my age, and yet has the grasp of recent history of a high-schooler. It’s just sad.
re: #414 lawhawk
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Shaun thinks GWB was an outsider? He’s the son of a former president (who was out of office for all of 8 years before GWB ran).
Grandson of a senator who had his Dad’s Defense secretary as a VP. Oh and Bernie really isn’t an outsider. He’s been in office on the federal level since 1990.
The GOP should just go El Cid. I say dig up The Cowboy, put him in a limo, drive him all over the nation with recorded soundbites that made him the Cowboy. Who will notice? They bought a reality show born on third base thinks he invented the game adultering con man who has ruined more people than some towns have people and is a lock to be the closest thing to an openly Fascist candidate in American history. What could go wrong?
From Wiki;
After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set atop his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops. In several variations of the story, the dead Rodrigo and his knights win a thundering charge against Valencia’s besiegers, resulting in a war-is-lost-but-battle-is-won catharsis for generations of Christian Spaniards to follow. It is believed that the legend originated shortly after Jimena entered Burgos, and that it is derived from the manner in which Jimena’s procession rode into Burgos, i.e., alongside her deceased husband
re: #414 lawhawk
@ShaunKing In what sense was GWB, the governor of the biggest GOP state and son a of president, an outsider?
— Dan Blondell (@danblondell) May 4, 2016
I’d take that a step further and say in what universe is a 16 year US Representative who is also a 9 year US Senator an outsider?
re: #411 stpaulbear
OMG. What a chilling notice. What do you do to shelter in place during a raging fire? You can’t stay in your house. Most all of the local buildings will have combustible materials. What do you do?
@EmilyHoddinott Stay put, roads are for emergency personnel and equipment.
— RMWB (@RMWoodBuffalo) May 4, 2016
.@HeatherJDup Can’t confirm operational shutdown but stay where you are.
— RMWB (@RMWoodBuffalo) May 4, 2016
@4thmonkeymedia No gas available - do not come south. If stuck call RCMP dispatch at[no phone numbers allowed]
— RMWB (@RMWoodBuffalo) May 4, 2016
re: #416 withak
Shaun King is my age, and yet has the grasp of recent history of a high-schooler. It’s just sad.
It’s very sad. Cannot believe he actually thinks Bush was an outsider.
re: #419 Franklin
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I agree with that as well. Bernie may not be an insider in the way Clinton is but he’s definitely not an outsider. If anything, he’s someone who has had ample time to become an insider and failed to do so. And I’ll add another thing, some of our most successful presidents when it came to legislation like FDR and LBJ were very much insiders.
noone tell Alex Jones https://t.co/pEOVGkn5vs
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 4, 2016
Unmanned cloud-seeding aircraft takes flight in Nevada @DroneAmerica https://t.co/HJYDd8Uu0m
— UAS Insurance (@UASInsurance) May 4, 2016
This @WillMcAvoyACN tweet is mostly true:https://t.co/qhhlN54zTE pic.twitter.com/4YfMxsfADn
re: #424 Kragar
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I was only a kid when the scandal happened but I still remember their grasping at straws talking about how Bill Clinton had corrupted the youth of the country. Turns out that Dennis Hastert knew a thing or two about “corrupting youth” but his was more hands on. I have no patience for the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP when it comes to morality because they’ve shown time and time again that they’re hypocrites of the highest or in the case of Denny, criminals.
This.
He cant win, he can only hurt the Democrats at this point.
Choice facing Sanders even clearer now: How much does he want to bloody up Clinton before she takes on Trump? Is he Ted Kennedy 1980?
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 4, 2016
Bobby Knight (R-Chair Thrower) is another Benghazi cultist: Bobby Knight’s Life Was Never the Same After Benghazi
Knight, who endorsed Donald Trump last week leading into the Indiana primary, indicated on April 27 that his support was tied, at least in part, to a conclusion that “Benghazi” would never occur under a Donald Trump administration.
A bold statement, and one CNN thoughtfully provided airtime for him to discuss today.
“You know, I’ll tell you one thing about Donald Trump. There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration. I‘m not sure in my lifetime I’ve seen anything where our government failed to do something for people overseas that were in trouble. That won’t happen with Donald Trump,” Knight said this morning on CNN. “Those are the things I’m concerned with.”
He’s correct in that “there will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration” because there will never be a Donald Trump administration.
So apparently as recently as 5 years ago, Shaun King was a pastor for a Megachurch.
That explains so much about what I don’t like about him.
re: #419 Franklin
By Shaun’s standards, John Kasich or Scott Walker are even more “outsider” than GWB was. So what went wrong there?
re: #426 blueraven
This.
He cant win, he can only hurt the Democrats at this point.
Let’s wait until after June 4th. As 2008 showed, it doesn’t hurt us to have this go on until the end of the primaries. If he keeps talking about it after then, then the scorn will be justified.
Good grief. Another from Snopes—really awful fake news site. Emphasis mine:
FALSE: Newark Mom Arrested for Son’s Gruesome Death
A fake news site fabricated a horrifying and humorless claim about a Newark mother assaulting and killing her toddler with a sex toy.The claim is typical of the outlandish, fabricated articles routinely published by Empire Herald (which features no disclaimer warning readers that its articles are exclusively in the realm of fake news), but the content of this particular article is far darker than many of the site’s other efforts. It also contains no satirical elements or humor, serving solely to distress readers. Why the claim suddenly gained traction is unclear.
Previous Empire Herald hoaxes included claims about a dog meat restaurant, a serial killer who purportedly carved “Black Lives Matter” into his victims’ skin, a falsehood about a man committing suicide over the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, and a yarn about a mother caught masturbating with a Happy Meal toy in a McDonald’s Playplace. […]
As for why the claim suddenly gained traction, I’m pretty sure I know the answer to that.
re: #402 Barefoot Grin
Austin, IN, just down the road from John Mellencamp’s “small town” has an HIV rate that rivals sub-Saharan Africa.
I’ve worked ERs in both inner city and rural areas. More hunting accidents in the later, but other than that, pathology was more or less the same.
re: #427 Dr. Matt
Bobby Knight (R-Chair Thrower) is another Benghazi cultist: Bobby Knight’s Life Was Never the Same After Benghazi
He’s correct in that “there will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration” because there will never be a Donald Trump administration.
I guess Bobby never heard of the Beirut barracks bombings. I’m sorry, Benghazi was a tragedy. No doubt about it but I’m sick of the Republican lies presenting it like it’s the only time one of our embassies or consulates has ever been attacked. It was uniquely tragic since our ambassador was killed I concede but I’m sick of the Republicans exploiting Benghazi when they’re supporting someone like Trump who still probably can’t locate Libya on a map.
re: #428 Kragar
So apparently as recently as 5 years ago, Shaun King was a pastor for a Megachurch.
That explains so much about what I don’t like about him.
That… explains a lot.
*cough* https://t.co/eSZjgtCMC7 @JM_Ashby
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
re: #435 Kragar
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Okay, Shaun just stop, you’re really really making yourself look stupid here.
Top conservative talk show host: Fox News “not a news channel anymore” https://t.co/VrH9tjnjmh pic.twitter.com/BIsDsAy64K
— The Hill (@thehill) May 4, 2016
Anymore? https://t.co/loSm7BsBee
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
re: #430 Belafon
Let’s wait until after June 4th. As 2008 showed, it doesn’t hurt us to have this go on until the end of the primaries. If he keeps talking about it after then, then the scorn will be justified.
True, but I really don’t want to have to put up with the forced narrative from the media about the Dem race.
It’s a selfish reason, but I am just sick and tired of primary season and want it to be over.
#LetMeImproveYourDayBy suggesting a little civil disobedience 🐾🐾#NeverTrump pic.twitter.com/zvXY5oIrrs
— cassandracarolina (@cassandra17lina) May 4, 2016
Personally, paid speeches are a bit lower on my ethical problems with people than oh I dunno refusing to condemn David Duke, encouraging violence directed at protesters, and talking about not allowing an entire group of people to emigrate to our country. I’m not fond of paid speeches but honestly it’s a stupid thing to shit on Clinton for and I’m sure Bernie will be getting his fair share of paid speeches in the years to come.
re: #433 HappyWarrior
I guess Bobby never heard of the Beirut barracks bombings. I’m sorry, Benghazi was a tragedy. No doubt about it but I’m sick of the Republican lies presenting it like it’s the only time one of our embassies or consulates has ever been attacked. It was uniquely tragic since our ambassador was killed I concede but I’m sick of the Republicans exploiting Benghazi when they’re supporting someone like Trump who still probably can’t locate Libya on a map.
The Beirut barracks bombings were Carter’s fault.
9/11 was Clinton’s fault.
Benghazi was Carter’s, Clinton’s, AND Obama’s fault.
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
Um, no.
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Is that what he requested the meeting with Obama for? What an asshole.
re: #427 Dr. Matt
CNN. “Hey! A rabid dog! Let’s get him on and act like he’s special!” So when did Bobby Night (Ah ha ha ha ha…..) become a political analyst? I know he’s anal….
re: #441 HappyWarrior
Personally, paid speeches are a bit lower on my ethical problems with people than oh I dunno refusing to condemn David Duke, encouraging violence directed at protesters, and talking about not allowing an entire group of people to emigrate to our country. I’m not fond of paid speeches but honestly it’s a stupid thing to shit on Clinton for and I’m sure Bernie will be getting his fair share of paid speeches in the years to come.
I give multiple professional talks every year. They are a pain the ass. I wish I got paid for it. Really.
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rick Snyder wants Obama to drink Flint water t.co pic.twitter.com
— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) May 4, 2016.
Translation: Snyder wants to poison another Black citizen.
re: #446 Dr. Matt
I give multiple professional talks every year. They are a pain the ass. I wish I got paid for it. Really.
They honestly are such a low priority for me. I mean yeah it rubs me a little the wrong way that Clinton gets paid more for one speech than I do in a year but in the grand scheme of things, there are so many more things wrong with Trump and for Shaun to overlook that and the fact as already pointed out that Trump’s speeches pay him even more is just idiotic. Shaun’s become a total clown. It’s sad. I still think BLM is a worthwhile cause and I will continue to defend it but Shaun himself is an ass.
re: #439 Dr. Matt
I would try to remove it, but people would notice the Sledgehammer, or Jackhammer. :P
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BREAKING: Multiple Victims After Hummer Slams Into Diner In Tysons Corner, Va. - https://t.co/63oPytabTH pic.twitter.com/9QWnPTEJs6
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 4, 2016
Local government seeks majority approval to buy land to block Islamic cemetery. https://t.co/62KXBRd4kd (cc: @LibyaLiberty)
— ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@DannDeMaina) May 4, 2016
Another example, in Central Massachusetts.
re: #453 Stanley Sea
I knew the name was familiar.
Yeah it’s about a fifteen-twenty minute drive or so from where I grew up. Crazy stuff. I knew immediately it was the Silver Diner when I saw the photo.
re: #454 Ziggy_TARDIS
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Another example, in Central Massachusetts.
Yep, we’re real tolerant up here in the bluest of blue states <eyeroll>.
That they were foreign makes it…a little less terrible.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) May 4, 2016
Perfect choice!
.@realDonaldTrump tells the NYTimes that @RealBenCarson will head up his VP selection committee.
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) May 4, 2016
This is horrible to contemplate
President Trump’s first 100 days? Here’s his description to me: Muslim ban, Mexico wall design, Fed audit underway. https://t.co/rLOtbuzJ0J
— Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) May 4, 2016
re: #443 Dr. Matt
The Beirut barracks bombings were Carter’s fault.
9/11 was Clinton’s fault.
Benghazi was Carter’s, Clinton’s, AND Obama’s fault.
Just like the 2008 financial crisis was Carter’s fault, 30 years later.
Rage Furby is awake posting loads of furious nonsense on FB.
Obviously still drunk.
re: #463 Backwoods_Sleuth
my fave so far:
I believe he’s thinking more Tyrion to his Tywin.
“Say ‘whore’ one more time, motherfucker! I dare you!”
Now that Trump is the nominee, Garland gets confirmed! I’ll bet $5400!
Jane Sanders says Trump would be better than Hillary on trade, says current Cabinet is “full of lobbyists.” https://t.co/pTEG8C4gRk
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) May 3, 2016
re: #467 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
*Redacted for crude insult*
re: #430 Belafon
Let’s wait until after June 4th. As 2008 showed, it doesn’t hurt us to have this go on until the end of the primaries. If he keeps talking about it after then, then the scorn will be justified.
It is not his staying in. It is his attacks, his insistence that he will try to flip SD to overturn the will of the people. I used to like Bernie, but now I think he is a fraud, high on his own supply.
re: #467 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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Jane also said that Trump’s foreign policy is better than Hillary’s.
re: #463 Backwoods_Sleuth
my fave so far:
Chuck: Trump, My master! Together we shall rule!!!!!
Trump: Hey kid, want and autograph? Get in line. Security!
re: #471 Blind Frog Belly White
You’re right. I will redact that. She is proving to be worse than Ann Romney though.
Someone should ask her why she wants Vermont’s Nuclear Waste moved to a poor Hispanic Community in Texas.
See, this is why Bernie drives me nuts. What Jane said is pure bullshit.
Tim F. at Balloon Juice on that Jane Sanders tweet:
I grew up in a Bronx Irish-Catholic enclave in the same time period and not far from where Jane O’Meara Sanders was growing up in a Queens version. If you want to know why Mrs. Sanders is being insanely intransigent about her husband’s chances in the Democratic primary, it’s for the same reason a farm-bred border collie will not be deterred from herding cats, neighborhood children or passing cars when there are no sheep available: Her genetic bias towards muckerdom, nurtured by the demented Celtic romance with martyrdom, compels her to keep resisting long after a “sensible” person would realize it was time to throw down weapons and bargain for terms. And if you think I’m exaggerating, let me remind you — she won’t even be 2016’s most ridiculous standard-bearer for this toxic trope, not while Catherine Grieg is still “protecting” Whitey Bulger’s reputation, out of “loyalty”.
re: #472 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jane also said that Trump’s foreign policy is better than Hillary’s.
Dafuq? You mean the part where he builds a wall on our border with one of our biggest trading partners? Or the part where he tells all 1.6 Billion Muslims they’re not welcome to even visit? Or the part where he encourages Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons? Or the part where he won’t rule out using nukes against an insurgent force embedded in a civilian population? Or the part where he tells our long-time allies to fend for themselves if they’re unwilling to accept our terms?
What the actual fuck?
re: #478 Not a Sparkly Vampire
See, this is why Bernie drives me nuts. What Jane said is pure bullshit.
Jane hates the Democrats more than Bernie does. I wonder what happened to her? Was somebody mean?
#MyTopissueThisElection Which candidate can get the Wu-Tang album from @MartinShkreli?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 4, 2016
Okay, the Sanders campaign is outright supporting Trump now.
Just great.
How perfect would it be if #Trump completes the circle and nominates Palin to be his VP? pic.twitter.com/AkhwDcLSCX
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
In Memory of the Greatest Times Ted Cruz Got Owned on the Campaign Trail
This video will put a smile on your face.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Bernie and Jane Sanders are doing a good cop/bad cop routine.
re: #489 Charles Johnson
But it seems like Both are Bad Cops.
re: #490 Ziggy_TARDIS
But it seems like Both are Bad Cops.
So is this a lesser of two bad cops thing then?
re: #472 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jane also said that Trump’s foreign policy is better than Hillary’s.
I’m not finding that anywhere. Do you have a link?
re: #488 Ziggy_TARDIS
62 #Mexican #firefighters join wildfire fight in northern Alberta: https://t.co/zLiOZUnHHX” #YMM #ABFire #YMMFire pic.twitter.com/sAV41sSOOD
— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) May 4, 2016
[…]
One of the biggest adjustments for his crew will be using more water than they traditionally use against the flames, Trejo said.
“Our resources are limited,” he said. “We don’t have as much manpower or equipment. There’s more water in the forest up here than Mexico so that’s a bit of a challenge for us down there and then a challenge up here using water pumps and stuff.”
[…]
Mimas.
May the Fourth be with you!
Who will be Donald Trump’s running mate? Here are five options
Chris Christie
Newt Gingrich
Mike Huckabee
Mary Fallin
Joni Ernst
So the Sanders campaign is now backing Trump over Clinton. pic.twitter.com/V7BuQjahzX
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 4, 2016
re: #492 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m not finding that anywhere. Do you have a link?
I can’t find one. It was something she said on one of the morning TV shows today.
Maybe she misspoke. In the past she always said Trump’s foreign policy was scary (same thing she has said about Hillary).
DONALD J. TRUMP CAMPAIGN VICE PRESIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT
QUESTION 1.
What were the pyramids used for?— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) May 4, 2016
re: #495 Dr. Matt
Who will be Donald Trump’s running mate? Here are five options
Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Jr.
re: #495 Dr. Matt
Who will be Donald Trump’s running mate? Here are five options
Kill me. Kill me now.
Before Joni Ernst pops out of my chest.I just wrote out a response to something in this thread and then was good and deleted it, because all it would succeed in doing is stirring the pot and honestly it is not worth it.
Here. Instead. Thinking positive thoughts for thedopefish and his family today, as his surgery is ongoing/maybe almost over!
re: #502 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I just wrote out a response to something in this thread and then was good and deleted it, because all it would succeed in doing is stirring the pot and honestly it is not worth it.
That’s not what we’re all here for?
//don’t know if
re: #499 Skip Intro
Paul LePage.
Gotta be a serious Teabagger to shore up his “conservative” credentials. Gotta be a Governor, because that trumps Senator/SoS, right? I’ve been saying LePage for a while now.
#DropOutHillary in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/V0d3amhXpC
— Courtney Enlow (@courtenlow) May 4, 2016
re: #500 The Vicious Babushka
Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Jr.
If she weren’t an immigrant, he could choose Melania, so he could ‘neutralize the woman card’.
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re: #508 Blind Frog Belly White
If she weren’t an immigrant, he could choose Melania, so he could ‘neutralize the woman card’.
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Marla
re: #504 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Here. Instead. Thinking positive thoughts for thedopefish and his family today, as his surgery is ongoing/maybe almost over!
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re: #505 wrenchwench
That’s not what we’re all here for?
//don’t know if
I in general try not to haul in and cause drama all on my own, even if it occasionally means biting my tongue hard.
re: #510 makeitstop
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re: #502 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I’m sorry.
re: #512 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #198 GlutenFreeJesus
Bernie isn’t a Democrat and he hasn’t done shit for the party. It’s not his place to demand/whine/change anything.
Hillary would seem to disagree. She at least realizes that if she dismisses Bernie and her supporters the way you do, it’s likely to bite her, the party, and the country in the ass in the long AND the short runs.
re: #515 makeitstop
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re: #516 JDRhoades
Bernie isn’t a Democrat and he hasn’t done shit for the party. It’s not his place to demand/whine/change anything.
Hillary would seem to disagree. She at least realizes that if she dismisses Bernie and her supporters the way you do, it’s likely to bite her, the party, and the country in the ass in the long AND the short runs.
But it is OK for Bernie and Jane to attack Hillary every day? Never mind what they are doing to party and country!
Hey, nice little political party you got there, it would be a shame…
re: #516 JDRhoades
Just curious: did you really intend to imply that HRC is unelectable and the superdelegates should be overturning the voters’ will in your first comment?
re: #215 withak
That, and the Bernie camp’s hypocrisy on the superdelegates is a tad infuriating.
Hey, Hillary said you can get more done by working within the system. Supers are part of the system. He may not like it, but he’s pulling the levers that are there.
re: #519 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Unelectable? Facing anyone but Trump, probably. And she can still lose to Trump. If you say “no way that’ll ever happen,” you’re part of the reason she could lose. Right now in the national polls she leads Trump. Bernie leads by more.
re: #520 JDRhoades
There is a handy button you can press if you want to quote what someone says. It says “quote” on it. Right next to that “reply” button.
re: #520 JDRhoades
That, and the Bernie camp’s hypocrisy on the superdelegates is a tad infuriating.
Hey, Hillary said you can get more done by working within the system. Supers are part of the system. He may not like it, but he’s pulling the levers that are there.
Supers have never been used to outweigh pledged delegates and popular vote. Bernie would be a first.
Ain’t gonna happen.
re: #523 blueraven
Supers have never been used to outweigh pledged delegates and popular vote. Bernie would be a first.
Ain’t gonna happen.
It’s a year of firsts.
re: #521 JDRhoades
Unelectable? Facing anyone but Trump, probably. And she can still lose to Trump. If you say “no way that’ll ever happen,” you’re part of the reason she could lose. Right now in the national polls she leads Trump. Bernie leads by more.
Bernie hasn’t faced over 20 years of negative attacks on the national scale. You really think his lead will stick around once the Republicans start working on his history of calling himself a socialist? Really?
I don’t think it’s a done deal at all, and I intend to put my money where my mouth is and work to make sure that Trump isn’t elected. But I’m genuinely excited to support HRC in both the primary and the general election.
I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn’t really want to the superdelegates to ignore the results thus far and instead select your preferred candidate, but that was clearly silly.
re: #521 JDRhoades
Unelectable? Facing anyone but Trump, probably. And she can still lose to Trump. If you say “no way that’ll ever happen,” you’re part of the reason she could lose. Right now in the national polls she leads Trump. Bernie leads by more.
You are being obtuse. Don’t know if trolling or serious.
Nobody has touched Bernie with ugly negative ads, gone back in his history and dug up every little thing he ever said or did, put his policy proposals to the test. (Well there was that one disastrous newspaper editorial board interview.)
Get real. He would be crucified.
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