After watching this you may ask yourself, “My God, what did I just see?”
A vision of a very sheepish future, that’s what. Better get used to the taste of grass.
I disagree with Norm Ornstein about probably everything when it comes to policies, but at least he’s not crazy. And he has some very perceptive things to say about the Republican Party’s now-total dysfunction.
re: #3 Stanley Sea
Cauliflower sheep.
How to Confuse a Vegetarianhttps://t.co/QlCeCrddu5 https://t.co/JZB1BgujKl
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) April 23, 2016
re: #2 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Norstrilia!
Note the hooves on the throne Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan the Hundred and Fifty-First is sitting on:
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I disagree with Norm Ornstein about probably everything when it comes to policies, but at least he’s not crazy. And he has some very perceptive things to say about the Republican Party’s now-total dysfunction.
He’s willing to call out the GOP leadership and their complicity in Trump’s rise, lots of respect for him on that front.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Skimmed it. Looks interesting, but it’s l-o-n-g. Bookmarked for later.
GOP leaders “tried to fan the flames of populist anger” — but ended up “undermining their own authority”
You delegitimize something long enough…….
re: #9 Stanley Sea
You delegitimize something long enough…….
All revolutions devour their own children is a saying I recall,
Sorry for going off topic and off site, but:
Someone on an earlier thread said that Obama’s commencement address at Howard today was great. John Cole has the whole thing posted over at Balloon Juice, along with a nice poke at the BernieBros.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Earlier today, I had the pleasure of hearing P. J. O’Rourke endorsing Hillary Clinton for president — “she’s wrong about everything, but in a sane way.” (Or words to that effect.) It’s going to be an interesting summer.
(P. J. is one of the people I’d like to slap upside of the head and ask why he hasn’t noticed that his Republican Party is GONE, BEREFT OF LIFE, RESTING IN PEACE, a spectre with its name is haunting America. But that’s another story.)
re: #12 Snarknado!
Earlier today, I had the pleasure of hearing P. J. O’Rourke endorsing Hillary Clinton for president — “she’s wrong about everything, but in a sane way.” (Or words to that effect.) It’s going to be an interesting summer.
(P. J. is one of the people I’d like to slap upside of the head and ask why he hasn’t noticed that his Republican Party is GONE, BEREFT OF LIFE, RESTING IN PEACE, a spectre with its name is haunting America. But that’s another story.)
I heard that, too.
Not surprisingly, there are some similarities with journalism. Some of the pushback Tom and I got when we wrote our book came from the lion’s share of the mainstream journalistic community, who clung and in many cases continue to cling to the idea that they’re both the same, they all do it. I had a lot of difficult conversations with people who wouldn’t give up on that.
I believe that.
“The alternative to democracy is always worse… and democracy requires compromise even if you’re 100% right.” —President Obama at Howard.
So I have to quietly pick the pineapple off my pizza before eating it without comment?
Thanks, Obama.
If you all haven’t checked them out yet, the previews for ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ are dropping on Youtube.
re: #14 freetoken
I believe that.
It’s refreshing to see this and from someone who is a conservative even. The both sides afalse equiv is just really not helping anything.
re: #15 Snarknado!
“The alternative to democracy is always worse… and democracy requires compromise even if you’re 100% right.” —President Obama at Howard.
So I have to quietly pick the pineapple off my pizza before eating it without comment?
Okay, forget “without comment”. You still have to pick them off, but you can complain while you do it.
See, we’re compromising!
re: #15 Snarknado!
“The alternative to democracy is always worse… and democracy requires compromise even if you’re 100% right.” —President Obama at Howard.
So I have to quietly pick the pineapple off my pizza before eating it without comment?
Thanks, Obama.
You only have to pick the pineapple off half the pizza, add it to your half, and don’t snark when your significant other puts peppers or garlic or guacamole or something on the half you’re not eating.
re: #18 Donnie With The Good Hair (AKA Sophist)
Okay, forget quietly. You still have to pick them off, but you can complain while you do it.
See, we’re compromising!
But it’s the juice making the pizza soggy that’s the worst part.
Same goes for fresh tomato—grrr…..
re: #20 sagehen
You only have to pick the pineapple off half the pizza, add it to your half, and don’t snark when your significant other puts peppers or garlic or guacamole or something on the half you’re not eating.
Pick the pineapple off half the pizza, add it to your half — HERESY, HERESY, BURN HER WITH FIRE!!!!
….no wait, compromise, even when you’re 100% right. <calming breaths>
Thanks, Obama
Someone in San Francisco is sticking tiny pictures of Donald Trump’s face into dog poop pic.twitter.com/g8PATwf4Bk
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) May 7, 2016
Something for republicans to consider very carefully-They will be held accountable for what happens next.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
Artisanally placed poop pictures.
re: #25 Great White Snark
Something for republicans to consider very carefully-They will be held accountable for what happens next.
HA!! Like they’ve ever been held accountable for any of what they’ve done.
re: #16 Eric The Fruit Bat
If you all haven’t checked them out yet, the previews for ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ are dropping on Youtube.
Link didn’t work, but I looked up on youtube. So cute.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
“When did you know you’d won the election, President Clinton?”
“When somebody started pinning pictures of Trump to dog poop.”
re: #21 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
But it’s the juice making the pizza soggy that’s the worst part.
Same goes for fresh tomato—grrr…..
And you can whinge about that to your heart’s content. It’s win-win!
GOP Reportedly Telling Candidates They Are Free To Skip Convention @TPM https://t.co/OyIjTxpdDh
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 8, 2016
re: #27 sagehen
HA!! Like they’ve ever been held accountable for any of what they’ve done.
First time for everything.
re: #27 sagehen
HA!! Like they’ve ever been held accountable for any of what they’ve done.
Actually the Trumpsters are holding the Republican party accountable by voting for Trump. They’re chasing rainbows and unicorns (in their own, special right-wing way), but they’re rejecting the current course (= total immobility) of their party.
Anyone watch Supernatural?? Oh my, that was an excellent episode (Wednesday’s).
re: #35 Jenner7
Waiting for it to hit Netflix so I can binge them.
re: #35 Jenner7
Anyone watch Supernatural?? Oh my, that was an excellent episode (Wednesday’s).
NO SPOILERS!! I’m 2 weeks behind.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Write a puff piece about Melania Trump and get Antisemitic ravings, death threats, Auschwitz pictures… now this! Equally as bad!! Both sides do it!!!
Garbage headline. Never mentioned Trump, speech had zero to do with Trump or 2016. But hey, clicks. https://t.co/9djy0BMIMb
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 7, 2016
Obama, wary of Trump’s rise, urges Howard grads to vote https://t.co/RWz9m4WdG7 | Getty pic.twitter.com/rAt56hforH
— POLITICO (@politico) May 7, 2016
Prince had been under a Minnesota doctor’s care weeks before his death
A Twin Cities physician had been treating Prince for withdrawal symptoms from his opioid addiction several weeks before he collapsed April 21 in a Paisley Park elevator, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
The physician, who is the doctor for Prince’s longtime friend Kirk Johnson, had been working with the megastar before the April 15 opioid overdose that took place while Prince was flying home from a pair of performances in Atlanta. Johnson, a personal trainer who ran Paisley Park and played drums for Prince, recommended the doctor, the source said.
The source, and another person with knowledge of the investigation, said in separate interviews Friday that the physician did not prescribe opioids to Prince. The doctor has not been publicly identified.
Still, Prince’s inner circle became so concerned about his health that one of his representatives in California reached out to Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a noted pain and addiction specialist in Mill Valley, Calif., one of the sources told the Star Tribune.
Kornfeld got that call the evening of April 20 and learned that the physician who had been treating Prince had just seen him, the source said. That doctor reported that he had visited Prince at Paisley Park and that the artist was in serious but stable condition that night.
re: #32 Reality Based Steve
It all started with Cows with Guns…..
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RBS
It reminded me of this crazy man’s work.
re: #40 De Kolta Chair
The next headline is going to be “Obama makes student stand and cry at her own graduation ceremony!”
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