Yes, he really did.
.@newtgingrich: “We should…test every person here who is of a Muslim background, & if they believe in shariah they should be deported.”
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2016
He’s not the only asshole on Fox tonight.
Peter King is on Fox right now calling for the surveillance of all American muslims, claiming “you’re not violating anyone’s civil rights”
— Brendan Karet (@SpideyScouting) July 15, 2016
We should… test every GOP pol and if they no longer believe in our constitution, they should be deported.
Just try it Newt. Send your goons.
Are we going to start mass surveillance of those who believe in the Christian version of Sharia? ‘Cause there are a few state governors I’d like to report.
Newt is so distraught at being passed over for VP by Trump that he’s saying kooky stuff even Trump doesn’t say. https://t.co/6drR1v7T5a
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 15, 2016
Fox is wall to wall assholes 24/7. Horrible people, horrible network.
Oh look, conservatives shitting their pants. Cowards.
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
The difference between Dems and Reps is clear! #UniteBlue #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/artYKp5kzH
— Magnum Mutt (@MagnumMutt) July 15, 2016
I don’t know why not. This is the party you’ve been building for the past 20 years. @jpodhoretz @jerrysaltz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2016
And this is the same guy that said this last week:
Surprisingly thoughtful remarks by @newtgingrich about being Black in America https://t.co/ONn5OP9jYc
— Shahed Amanullah (@shahed) July 8, 2016
Uh huh. What about Muslims that are natural-born citizens? Where exactly do you deport them to, Mr. Gingrich?
Repost from downstairs
No words. https://t.co/NK9Kng1XzK pic.twitter.com/MXUYhLmcp5
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) July 15, 2016
Every time I hear one of these idiots say something like this, I want them to define sharia beyond “Islamic law”, like I want specific examples and then I want to know how it is different than the religious actions of others
re: #9 Charles Johnson
He may be referring to the sane comments.
re: #12 Frankie Five Angels
Newt will be the VP pick now.
No…
But, you can look forward to a Trump Universe with Boris Johnson as the UK Foreign Secretary, and Newt Gingrich as the US Secretary of State…
Brought up from downstairs.
@FoxNews @newtgingrich We don’t have to worry about that Hillary will be President and the Republicans wont pass a bill funding testing.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 15, 2016
Just a reminder that we had an event where a man drove a truck through a bunch of bikers, killing 5, but nobody called for mass deportations of methed up rednecks.
Reports: Driver in Kalamazoo bicycling crash that killed 5 cyclists took pills beforehand https://t.co/AjFzCmix0e pic.twitter.com/ST1oSGeqv9
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) July 15, 2016
re: #4 Kragar
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He’s field testing the issue for Trump. I called it first earlier tonight that this would be where Trump would go; its the next logical progression.
re: #11 SteelPH
Beat me to it. “Test” them how, and deport them to where fuckstick?
I’m just beyond words at this point.
re: #4 Kragar
Bill Kristol has been getting slowly more sane in this age of The Donald™. That scares me. This is the same guy that made up that Project For A New American Century think tank that wanted to use our military for absolute hegemony in the world for multiple generations. And now he thinks Newt was beyond the pale on Fox News tonight?
What in the ever loving fuck, man?
“Hello, Space mirrors? Sorry, but you’re no longer on the list of top 10 craziest things @newtgingrich has ever said.”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Didn’t Trump call for some kind of surveillance during a rope line question??
re: #11 SteelPH
Uh huh. What about Muslims that are natural-born citizens? Where exactly do you deport them to, Mr. Gingrich?
If their parents were muslim immigrants, then they were enemy combatants in hostile occupation of US soil, which means their children born here aren’t citizens and can be deported./
If Donald Trump was in charge today, your kids would already be dying in a foreign land for Dick Cheney’s bank account.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 15, 2016
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Believe it, dude. It’s the Southern Strategy biting Republicans in the ass, this bite might be fatal this time. @jpodhoretz
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 15, 2016
And these assholes have the nerve to say they’re for small government and individual rights. Fuck Gingrich and the entire GOP.
“You need to eat this bacon or get deported!”
“But I’m Jewish!”
“Yeah, we heard that before. Get packing!” @SimonMaloy— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Calista’s vaginal secretions must be infecting Newt with her strychnine and botox-it’s finally reached dangerous levels of craziness.
In wake of a terror attack, we have 3 speeds.
-Attack on USA: mourning, unity
-Attack on Europe: Xenophobic hate
-Attack on Muslims: Silence— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) July 15, 2016
Can someone tweet at this prick in French about how National Front scum praised Breivik ?
Un attentat de plus à #Nice. Combien vous en faudra-t-il avant d’oser nommer l’ennemi ? L’Islam est un poison créé pour tous nous tuer.
— Winston Smith ☨ (@Bigorrefds) July 14, 2016
And here’s the source
re: #27 teleskiguy
” I mean, sure the GOP has been pandering to ignorant racist whites for 40 years, but I never expected THIS!” https://t.co/JfFdfWf2mr
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Hat tip to Kragar
Newt’s less-noticed abandonment of the First Amendment. This time, the speech clause. pic.twitter.com/2lqtKrnTop
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) July 15, 2016
re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
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@MagnumMutt Yeah it clear the Dems try and get stuff done and the Reps sit around making stupid memes
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 15, 2016
I get the vague impression that Trump’s supporters are not big fans of Jews, Muslims, or the Constitution. pic.twitter.com/cHRfrh3Bge
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) July 15, 2016
re: #30 Eric The Fruit Bat
Eww. Knowing you, though, I guess this is par for the course?
re: #5 Frankie Five Angels
We ask them because those like Newt just know for a fact that a real Muslim terrorist who wants to enter the U.S. would never lie about it. They won’t even admit that many in their own party who call themselves Christians aren’t actually Christians but pay lipservice to Christianity to win elections. I’m sick of persons like him offering simple answers to complex questions/issues. It gets on my nerves that they seem to think I’m so ignorant as to believe the mess they foul our airwaves with. Frankly, I’m more worried about right-wing terrorism/extremism here than I am about terrorist acts being committed by American Muslims or by Muslims from foreign nations, but Newt and his buddies will never admit that right-wing terrorism is a problem in America.
re: #36 Tigger2
@MagnumMutt You can’t spell Republican without pubic.
— ()(Lonnie Mask)() (@LonnieMask) July 15, 2016
This is not showing respect. This is showing disrespect for American Values and Principles. #NeverHillary https://t.co/WrQ9ZqL8QI
— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 15, 2016
Have we gone completely insane? Is it a full moon or something?
Damn.
re: #10 electrotek
No way I’m believing any comment Newt makes about Black Americans is sincere. I’m black, and I’m from GA, so I have spent decades listening to him and until now, not once has he showed the least bit of understanding of what life in America is like for us. I think the only reason he made the recent statements is because he’s trying to help Trump increase his support among blacks. It’s not working, and it’s not going to work because we know racists and bigots when we see and hear them. Newt is a self-serving b*tch and he’s always been a self-serving b*tch.
@FoxNews @newtgingrich
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
We should test every person here on the 1srt am and religious freedom and if they are against it, deport them.
re: #38 teleskiguy
If it wasn’t for cheap shots, I wouldn’t have any. <snort>
She just ooozes evil with that face-that’s probably why he married her.
re: #41 Jenner7
Specifically, the image was taken from coverage of a 2009 visit to Pakistan by Secretary of State Clinton, during which she donned a head covering while visiting the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi and the Badshahi Mosque.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
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re: #41 Jenner7
I’m guessing American Values to you is a white patriarchy and hard line Protestantism. https://t.co/Fs2WhP1jUC @GenFlynn
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 15, 2016
re: #37 Kragar
He seems nice. And by nice I mean a raging asshole.
How many times are we going to have to show Bush bowing to (yes, I know it’s because the other guy was short) and kissing other foreign leaders over the next eight years?
@BillKristol Yeah, he’s saying the exact same kooky stuff that comes out of your mouth!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 15, 2016
re: #41 Jenner7
@GenFlynn @FieldofFight @realDonaldTrump
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
ISIS gets an erection just thinking about a Trump presidency. Flynn is on the same side as ISIS.
In case you were still wondering whether Gen. Flynn is batshit crazy. https://t.co/Movon9SpFZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2016
Note that Newt is calling to deport, not dangerous terrorists, but people based on their religion (Islam) and their political beliefs (support for sharia law). Doubly unconstitutional!
“I mean, sure the Democratic Party has been coddling criminals and destroying America’s moral fiber for 40 years…” https://t.co/iGC1JUyIvD
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 15, 2016
“And by that, I mean saying a joint doesn’t warrant 30 years in prison, and working to allow LGBT rights.” https://t.co/VhEZ3QxOxG
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
@Green_Footballs @jpodhoretz John’s daddy planted these poison seeds years ago and he’s shocked at the rancid fruit they produce.
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 15, 2016
A Sharia Test:
“Do you believe religion should be used as a basis for laws and to deny civil rights?”
“Yes, I’m a Evangelical Christian.”— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
re: #41 Jenner7
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Have we gone completely insane? Is it a full moon or something?
Damn.
OMFG! I got off the boat….
Newt also said he’d make researching terrorist groups illegal.
Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail.
Imagine being a journalist or academic researching terrorism and being afraid to do your job for fear of being arrested and charged with a felony. The chilling effect would actually hamper counter terrorism efforts as private citizens would face potential charges when calling in tips to the FBI, exposed to self incrimination when asked how they came by information openly available on the internet.
Jesus, what an idiot.
re: #56 Kragar
@Kragar_LGF Isn’t that part of the 2016 Republican Party Platform?
— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) July 15, 2016
@jpodhoretz Watergate, Iran-Contra, S&L looting, Lying us into 2 wars…among the many criminal actions Republicans committed…
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 15, 2016
Newt Gingrich wants to get rid of the constitution in favor of a younger, much thinner constitution.
— (((Popehat))) (@Popehat) July 15, 2016
When you say “everyone who visits a website should be a felon” and it’s the sub-headline, you said something pretty stupid.
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) July 15, 2016
@Popehat One made of lots of plastic just like Wife # 3…
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 15, 2016
Once again, our hearts are broken for our brothers and sisters in France. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) July 15, 2016
Before the advent of Trump the Candidate I would laughingly dismiss any suggestion the 2nd Amendment would ever be in play in my lifetime as a bulwark against governmental oppression. By governmental oppression I do not mean the EPA, taxes or OSHA.
What I mean by oppression is the threat of deportation for being Muslim. An Iranian friend was interred after 9/11 because the government had been remiss in handling his naturalization paperwork and process. They fucked up and he went to INS jail. For days. that is the second most powerful memory I have from the aftermath of 9/11. My government interred a good man because they screwed up.
Elect Hilary so I can keep laughing at the prospect. Because if we elect Trump and he tries what he says, it’s not laughter that will resound.
@GenFlynn @FieldofFight @realDonaldTrump
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
The book Michael Ledeen wrote for you? I haven’t and I won’t bother. Have you read it yet Flynn?
This is what a Muslim lawyer in Texas told me in February. I think about it a lot. https://t.co/TzW8pSkLGX pic.twitter.com/k2youtJfGy
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2016
re: #65 Great White Snark
Before the advent of trump the Candidate I would laughingly dismiss any suggestion the 2nd Amendment would ever be in play in my lifetime as a bulwark against governmental oppression. By governmental oppression I do not mean the EPA, taxes or OSHA.
What I mean by oppression is the threat of deportation for being Muslim. An Iranian friend was interred after 9/11 because the government had been remiss in handling his naturalization paperwork and process. They fucked up and he went to INS jail. For days. that is the second most powerful memory I have from the aftermath of 9/11. My government interred a good man because they screwed up.
Elect Hilary so I can keep laughing at the prospect. Because if we elect Trump and he tries what he says, it’s not laughter that will resound.
The 2nd amendment won’t help here either. What will help is making sure were standing with any person they try to deport, not allowing them to be taken without putting up a struggle.
@MeesterPlow @smokinjoe @daenku32 @VivaRevolt @FoxNews @newtgingrich
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
Well then he should definitely ban the Republican Party.
re: #72 gocart mozart
The president really isn’t. And what they want to do goes beyond “banning.” Banning is not deporting people who might be associated because of some incidental thing.
OT because I’m trying to get my mind off things so I can try to sleep. Saw this a couple days ago on Facebook. Another cool first for our current Prez:
Long since put to rest and you’ve got David Duke praising Trump. SAD! https://t.co/bWNJbws9Kf @NCBenWilliams @jpodhoretz @instapundit
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
If your only response to GOP racism is “Robert Byrd”, you don’t have a point. https://t.co/MMcKT84FR5
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Following up my fellow Coloradan CleverToad’s lead, something lighthearted yet also scary as fuck.
Foundation gave way at the top terminal and a lot of the chairs fell to the ground. The top terminal in this case was not the drive station, it was the return station. The drive station was at the bottom of the lift.
“You are one of the few in this country who knows of what he speaks,” Megyn Kelly to Flynn after he calls on Khomeini* to condemn extremism.
— Samuel Oakford (@samueloakford) July 15, 2016
Khomeini has been dead for 27 years*https://t.co/jdfHTWUNOH
— Samuel Oakford (@samueloakford) July 15, 2016
That moment where @newtgingrich wants to test & deport Muslims who believe in Shariah but he complimented ur hijab. pic.twitter.com/t6j0OlX0FQ
— Noor Tagouri (@NTagouri) July 15, 2016
She’s a nice lady, Noor. :D
re: #75 Kragar
Um the Party of Robert Byrd and the KKK was….. spoiler…. the Democratic Party.
I’m still surprised by adults (presumably) trying to make this argument.
re: #80 jaunte
I’m still surprised by adults (presumably) trying to make this argument.
Dude’s been dead for six years. And yeah, he, uh, evolved in adulthood. Maybe that’s why they keep bringing the Robert Byrd trope up, it aligns perfectly with their hostile views toward evolution.
re: #81 teleskiguy
Or the fact they remain permanently stuck at the age of 16 mentally.
“Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France” —Hillary on the attack in Nice pic.twitter.com/BBGgHucSE0
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 15, 2016
In next 24 hours, I dare Arab & Persian world “leaders” to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must B healed.
— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 15, 2016
re: #84 Jenner7
I think we need some sort of military reform to our officer corps. How did this imbecile become a General?
So Trump postpones VP event due to the attack, goes to a fundraiser and then says he’ll decide over the weekend. https://t.co/eYeLDfS4UC
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 15, 2016
re: #80 jaunte
They make this argument , I think, for two reasons. First, they think time/history is static, and second, they can’t explain how the GOP morphed from a party that once believed in progress to one that currently wants to return to the past. They’re avoiding acknowledging the reason that the GOP “flipped” in the 1960s was primarily due to the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. To acknowledge this would be to admit the reason for the change was based in racism. They expend an enormous amount of time denying the racism that has found a comfortable home in the party.
@GenFlynn We never saw you declare your right-wing ideology to be sick and need to be healed after 70 dead Norwegian kids by Anders Breivik
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
#TNTweeters #USLatino@YerOpinion @GetWisdomDude @_Carja#Tcot #Hillyes #UniteBlue
DEAR REPUBLICANS….. pic.twitter.com/2HDlFbN3aQ— JJ. M. (@JR777771) July 13, 2016
re: #87 majii
You’re right. And we won’t make much progress as a country until they drop the pretense.
Struck a nerve I guess
Just because you wasted your life backing a party which has become a pathetic joke is no reason to lash out. @jpodhoretz
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
re: #65 Great White Snark
Be sure to buy a copy of “The Partisan’s Companion: The Red Army’s Do-it-yourself, Nazi-bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual”. It’s a reprint in English of the 1942 edition.
re: #82 Ziggy_TARDIS
Interesting point. People I knew from primary school is a nice anecdotal study. All the hard core conservatives from childhood in my Facebook regard their days in high school as the greatest days of their lives. It’s so weird.
Mick Jagger’s 29 year old gf is pregnant.
my dog
this is why mosque surveillance in US is waste of time and law enforcement isn’t interested; https://t.co/VURBbBNfTP pic.twitter.com/OYQOPEyjeE
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 15, 2016
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 15, 2016
re: #91 Kragar
I think we’ll witness more right-wingers freakouts before the elections in November because what they’ve sown is bearing fruit, and they never, ever thought their seeds would “grow” a Trump, or that he’d become the face of the GOP. Brooks, Podhertz, Ben Shapiro, McConnell, Flynn, and others who led the party into the electoral abyss are all looking for someone else to blame besides themselves, but deep within their souls, they know they’re responsible. The mirror they’re looking for is in their own homes and offices.
re: #91 Kragar
You’re just some fucking guy! Why are his panties tied in a knot? I mean, you’re just some fucking guy! That goes to comic and video game conventions!
re: #41 Jenner7
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Have we gone completely insane? Is it a full moon or something?
Damn.
I am somewhat stunned that a woman covering her head in a house of worship is considered odd. Are these people very young, or did they never go into a Catholic church?
re: #100 teleskiguy
Podhoretz just wasted his “mirror you call a soul” line on Twitter instead of saving it for a book. Sad.
re: #100 teleskiguy
Kragar brings hard truths to their attention. He’s an anomaly in their world. They avoid truths about themselves like a roach avoids Raid.
re: #101 calochortus
Women in some black evangelical churches also cover their heads. I had some students who something covering their heads to school everyday.
re: #100 teleskiguy
I actually had that with Tom Nichols a few weeks ago.
@a_sumbel @elle_tb15 @FoxNews @newtgingrich absolutely! What you practice there is your crazy business in USA it’s a crime. Stay out !
— JC (@getreal_usa) July 15, 2016
@getreal_usa @a_sumbel @elle_tb15 @FoxNews @newtgingrich Please don’t try to shoot up a youth camp full of kids like your boy in Norway did
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #91 Kragar
Struck a nerve I guess
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Podhoretz wants to turn up his nose at the Trump crowd, but still refuses to see what he did to help bring them into existence. He’s basically a classic right wing asshole who’ll never really change.
re: #91 Kragar
@NCBenWilliams @jpodhoretz @instapundit @Kragar_LGF
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
Uhm, now the KKK, Alex Jones and Trump are … spoiler … in today’s Republican Party
re: #93 Joe Bacon
I should note that I know Noor is a nice lady because…
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Speaking of bad craziness, it turns out that some Bernie supporters may have lost it and gone full moonbat. Even after Bernie himself realized he was no longer viable and gave up, some people still think a Bernie presidency post in 2017 is a real possibility.
@OldElmTree @WarAgainstWomen Sorry, but you have to decide who is the lesser of two evils now, Trump or Hillary 2/2 https://t.co/Djzo1jerVL
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
@CriticalDragon1 @WarAgainstWomen Says you, #BernieOrBust pic.twitter.com/osckatjBEk
@OldElmTree A Bernie presidency come November is not happening, even Bernie sees that, why don’t you? - @WarAgainstWomen 2/2
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
I aint even playing around with this bullshit argument
You don’t need rifles & bombs to kill if you’re the ones making the rules regarding life and death decisions in a person’s life @CLiebenow
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Hmmm, I wonder if a bunch of Religious Right Republicans will crash Milo’s party next week? And will the party crashers open carry as well?
re: #111 CriticalDragon1177
Speaking of bad craziness, it turns out that some Bernie supporters may have lost it and gone full moonbat. Even after Bernie himself realized he was no longer viable and gave up, some people still think a Bernie presidency post in 2017 is a real possibility.
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Ha I saw that since I actually know Pitt from my DU days. A lot of pushback but a lot of agreement too unfortunately.
re: #114 Joe Bacon
Hmmm, I wonder if a bunch of Religious Right Republicans will crash Milo’s party next week? And will the party crashers open carry as well?
Is that a gun or are they just happy to see Milo!
re: #111 CriticalDragon1177
Oh Old Elm Tree is really being “rational” now.
@CriticalDragon1 @WarAgainstWomen @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/7KU2zeIbOD
@OldElmTree What if you’re completely wrong & believe in what amounts to a ridiculous Alex Jones style conspiracy theory? - @WarAgainstWomen
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
re: #113 Kragar
I aint even playing around with this bullshit argument
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Not to mention the American religious right does fund Christian groups outside the US that do kill gays.
re: #116 HappyWarrior
Is that a gun or are they just happy to see Milo!
Something tells me it’s gonna be…TOO HARD TO TELL…
re: #118 HappyWarrior
Not to mention the American religious right does fund Christian groups outside the US that do kill gays.
And yet that’s met with crickets by many.
re: #120 electrotek
And yet that’s met with crickets by many.
Of course, remember these are the people who think that Antisemitism is something that is only done by the the left and Muslims.
re: #121 HappyWarrior
Of course, remember these are the people who think that Antisemitism is something that is only done by the the left and Muslims.
Even when you present them evidence of anti-Semitism practiced by the right.
re: #117 CriticalDragon1177
Oh Old Elm Tree is really being “rational” now.
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Conspiracy theories are never good.
re: #122 electrotek
Even when you present them evidence of anti-Semitism practiced by the right.
Of course.
It’s interesting watching my Facebook. I got some old friends who I really think would fit in great here at LGF since they’re reasonably minded folks who don’t take themselves too seriously. Others OTOH who meanwhile are so ideologically inflexible that they don’t care.
re: #125 jaunte
Old Prison Elm Planet Tree
The same ones who propagated 9/11 conspiracy theories during Bush’s presidency years, oddly enough.
NEW POLL FOR THE HORSE RACE FUCKS!!! YAY!!!
New NBC/WSJ/Marist polls:
CO: Clinton 43, Trump 35
FL: Clinton 44, Trump 37
NC: Clinton 44, Trump 38
VA: Clinton 44, Trump 35
July 5-11— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 15, 2016
re: #127 electrotek
The same ones who propagated 9/11 conspiracy theories during Bush’s presidency years, oddly enough.
No surprise there. It’s those types that honestly for a time embarrassed me being on the left but then I realized that they had their own problems.
re: #111 CriticalDragon1177
re: #117 CriticalDragon1177
Now I’m a bully apparently since I’m just telling them the way it is? Seriously people grow up, or we could have Trump as our next president, or would you prefer him over Hillary?
Fuck you. I’m not supporting Trump. And tired of being bullied by Hillary’s army of brownshirts. https://t.co/zL7oAB4gZR
— B̶l̶u̶e̶Green Dupage (@HDGregg) July 15, 2016
@CriticalDragon1 @WarAgainstWomen Hey, do me a favor, stop crapping in my TL. To paraphrase: https://t.co/IxXNFmKYef
@OldElmTree I’m sorry that he won’t be our next president, but its just not going to happen. Face the facts, you guys - @WarAgainstWomen 2/2
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
re: #129 HappyWarrior
No surprise there. It’s those types that honestly for a time embarrassed me being on the left but then I realized that they had their own problems.
You remember the ProtestWarrior clowns from way back when?
re: #123 HappyWarrior
Conspiracy theories are never good.
You can say that again, especially when they start to approach Alex Jones level crazy.
re: #105 majii
Women in some black evangelical churches also cover their heads. I had some students who something covering their heads to school everyday.
Yeah, and Mennonites (usually) and Amish, some Jewish women. It’s Biblical after all.
Telling them who they can marry, or preventing them from accessing healthcare does count, so you can piss right off. @Dudoobrowns
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
The Brussels sprouts mustard slaw was a success.
I know you were all anxiously waiting for that update.
re: #131 CriticalDragon1177
Now I’m a bully apparently since I’m just telling them the way it is? Seriously people grow up, or we could have Trump as our next president, or would you prefer him over Hillary?
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Bernie as you said gave up himself. I already know how and I’d add rightfully furious they’d be if Clinton ahd lost the nomination and was attempting to hijack. They have a bent of authoritanism in how they approach things. It doesn’t matter that a majority of Democrats preferred Clinton over Bernie, the only thing that matters is they want Bernie and they don’t care about the majority of Democrats who think otherwise. No one in their circle supported Clinton so ergo no one did.
re: #134 calochortus
Yeah, and Mennonites (usually) and Amish, some Jewish women. It’s Biblical after all.
Slavic women love the babushka.
re: #128 teleskiguy
I really wish we could find the crosstabs for more polls.
Right now, I throw Quinnipiac and Rasmussen out. Quinnipiac for awfully inaccurate demogarphics, and Rasmussen for just being sleazy.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
Woot.
Clinton ahead of Trump by eight points in Colorado? I’ll take it. It should be in the double digits. Maybe that’ll go down in November. After all, polls are mostly bullshit.
re: #134 calochortus
Yeah, and Mennonites (usually) and Amish, some Jewish women. It’s Biblical after all.
re: #140 teleskiguy
Clinton ahead of Trump by eight points in Colorado? I’ll take it. It should be in the double digits. Maybe that’ll go down in November. After all, polls are mostly bullshit.
I think Colorado will be a good state for Clinton despite her caucus loss there in the primaries.
It’s worth pointing out that the second deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil was committed by a white, Christian, heterosexual, Republican American citizen.
@sahar_salehiii Their throats will be slit, the west will kill them in the hundreds of millions if necessary with nukes.
— Mads Holmgren (@MadNotGnaTkeIt) July 15, 2016
@MadNotGnaTkeIt @sahar_salehiii says the guy trying to channel his inner Anders Breivik,fucking coward your kind kill kids at youth camps
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #111 CriticalDragon1177
re: #117 CriticalDragon1177
re: #131 CriticalDragon1177
Okay, be like that.
@CriticalDragon1 @WarAgainstWomen Oh God, what do I have to do to get you off my TL.. Fuck you, my vote is my choice, not yours or anybody’s
@OldElmTree Yes it is your choice, but if try to get Bernie in the white house at this point. - @WarAgainstWomen
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
@OldElmTree Sorry but he did concede. Did you not read the LGF link that I posted in a previous tweet? - @WarAgainstWomen
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
@MadNotGnaTkeIt @iBeezey @sahar_salehiii Okay Anders Breivik, please dont try to repeat #utoya here in America in response, cumguzzler
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #145 CriticalDragon1177
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Goddamn you’re dealing with a lunatic. I hate this part of the left, I really do and I hope they fail. It’s not even true ideological disagreement for me with them on some issues, it’s the fact that one of us operates under the constraints of political reality and the other wants an oompa loompa now.
re: #145 CriticalDragon1177
Oh and “Old Elm Tree” blocked me, rather than admit that he was wrong and that Bernie can’t be our next president now.
Wow fuck this piece of shit:
Europe’s future, under Islam. pic.twitter.com/VF7BJvKmbl
— Milo Yiannopoulos ひ✘ (@Nero) July 14, 2016
re: #149 CriticalDragon1177
Oh and “Old Elm Tree” blocked me, rather than admit that he was wrong and that Bernie can’t be our next president now.
It’s probably all for the best.
There’s a point where arguing with people on Twitter is really counterproductive. Save your energy to do something positive in the world.
At least that’s how I see it.
re: #150 electrotek
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Go ahead Milo keep on helping the ideology that wants you imprisoned for being gay. Fucking bigoted asshole. England can take his sorry ass back.
re: #153 HappyWarrior
Go ahead Milo keep on helping the ideology that wants you
imprisonedDEAD for being gay.Fucking bigoted asshole. England can take his sorry ass back.
FIFY
re: #148 HappyWarrior
Goddamn you’re dealing with a lunatic. I hate this part of the left, I really do and I hope they fail. It’s not even true ideological disagreement for me with them on some issues, it’s the fact that one of us operates under the constraints of political reality and the other wants an oompa loompa now.
Political immaturity
@falsesong You look like a virgin white guy named Eliot Rodger
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #156 dangerman
Politically immaturity
Sad thing is one could understand if it was people new to the process. A lot of these people bitching about not getting their pony and hoping on the Jill Stein train are adults who have been around the block a few times.
re: #151 calochortus
It’s probably all for the best.
You’re probably right, its unlikely I would be able to get him to accept reality and realize that its down to Trump and Hillary now. Even so I’m going to hold such people at least party responsible if Trump gets in the white house come November. What makes it even more upsetting to me that another person on twitter who I follow, and who is generally polite, @WarAgainstWomen, favorited his original tweet that I responded to, and liked some of his replies to what I wrote, so I know for a fact that he’s not the only one who is this delusional. I like War Against Women and generally I support what she stands for. I hate to think that she’s sabotaging everything she’s fighting for because she won’t accept reality here.
Yeah, and a lot of Muslims look like terrorists. What does that have to do with anything? https://t.co/s4cjjzOVHh
— Richard Mayonnaise ✘ (@falsesong) July 15, 2016
re: #152 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There’s a point where arguing with people on Twitter is really counterproductive. Save your energy to do something positive in the world.
At least that’s how I see it.
True, but in a public forum there is always the possibility of making people in a wider audience think. The hard part is figuring out when to quit. I’ve been intermittently debating someone on another site and I think I’m to the bored/diminishing returns point. She’s very fond of Proof by Verbosity-of both the Gish Gallop and ‘the toss out hour and a half YouTube links that really never get to the point’ versions.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
Sad thing is one could understand if it was people new to the process. A lot of these people bitching about not getting their pony and hoping on the Jill Stein train are adults who have been around the block a few times.
I would be a bit more understanding, if Bernie himself hadn’t thrown in the towel, but even than it was obvious that he was no longer viable, even before this.
I am just glad I’ve had LGF to keep me sane from the crazies on both sides the past seven years.
@falsesong Says the guy who wants to be the American Anders Breivik and shoot up liberal kids at a youth camp
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #163 CriticalDragon1177
I would be a bit more understanding, if Bernie himself hadn’t thrown in the towel, but even than it was obvious that he was no longer viable, even before this.
I mean when the primaries were still going on, that was one thing. If Bernie wanted to stay in until the last primary, I respected that even though I think he was bsing people by telling them they were actually winning but it’s the middle of July and Clinton clearly won the primary fair and square and that’s something that the Senator himself can concede. These people just think the whole world involves appeasing them ideologically. They act like a left wing Tea Party.
re: #165 electrotek
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re: #159 HappyWarrior
Sad thing is one could understand if it was people new to the process. A lot of these people bitching about not getting their pony and hoping on the Jill Stein train are adults who have been around the block a few times.
They didn’t pay attention in class and wasted all that e experience
re: #168 dangerman
They didn’t pay attention in class and wasted all that e experience
For me, the 2004 election was a great learning experience as well as a great disappointment.
@falsesong @SteveBates51 Given the fact that many of them praise Serbian war criminals like Breivik did, it’s not out of the ordinary
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
@falsesong @SteveBates51 Are you fucking blind? Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer themselves have repeatedly denied the Bosnian Genocide
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
Some of us learn grow and evolve. Others not so much
@falsesong @SteveBates51 Keep telling yourself that while thousands of comments on Breitbart consist of mass genocide against Muslims
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #173 HappyWarrior
I have seen a lot of that from anti-Muslim Bigots.
Posted this this morning, but rings even more true tonight. I’m talking to you NEWT and PETER KING.
When our kids are scared by our politicians and policy debates, it’s a sign something has gone badly off the rails. https://t.co/pdphHQEzuk
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 14, 2016
Trump wants to declare World War following Nice attack. (As opposed to keeping vehicles away from public gatherings) https://t.co/7cbMJdTqeV
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 15, 2016
re: #175 Ziggy_TARDIS
I have seen a lot of that from Muslim Bigots.
I have too and it’s fucking sick.
@falsesong @SteveBates51 Would you extend the same courtesy to Turkish nationalists who think the same about the Armenian Genocide?
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #149 CriticalDragon1177
You know what, after I’m done writing the piece that I’m currently writing, maybe I should do something with Old Elm Tree and talk about the dangers of wishful thinking. I should snip his tweets in case he deletes them.
re: #165 electrotek
“You look like the kind of person who would drive a truck into a crowd of people”
@SteveBates51 @falsesong Yes because one person happens to be making thousands of comments calling for mass murder of Muslims on Breitbart?
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #182 jaunte
“You look like the kind of person who would drive a truck into a crowd of people”
He could be Bosnian. //
@falsesong had this guy ran over Hillary supporters, you would be the first to hail him as an American hero https://t.co/t51riyTfQp
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #163 CriticalDragon1177
I think that Sen. Sanders did himself and the Democratic Party a disservice when he misled his supporters by claiming that the party that allowed him to run in its primary had repeatedly done him wrong. He knew better, but his pride would not permit him to tell them the truth which was that more Democrats preferred HRC over him. He appeared to me to live in an alternate reality in which he thought that black and white Democrats and poor white GOPers would automatically support him in the Democratic primaries and caucuses because he was Sen. Bernie Sanders and only he could stand up to the abuses of Wall St. As a black person in America, what offended me and turned me off to consider voting for him was when he criticized the president’s leadership abilities while ignoring the fact that GOPers in Congress had decided not to work with him on the day he was inaugurated. He also refused to acknowledge that he and the Democrats in Congress allowed the GOPers to bully them into turning their backs on key parts of the president’s agenda.
The wingnuts sure like to spread this lie about Breivik’s victims:
@falsesong @SteveBates51 Bullshit. Some of his victims were Muslim. One of them: 18 year old Iraqi-Kurdish girl who fled Saddam Hussein ffs
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
Henry Rollins rips media for featuring ‘piece of sh*t’ Giuliani after police shootings https://t.co/jPQnHX0Fn7
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
“The mainstream media outlets allow this utter crap to slide by unchallenged and, by doing so, legitimize falsehoods that could get people killed,” the former Black Flag lead singer said in response. “Ratings-based, 24/7, for-profit media is the complete death of true journalism and a catapult for propaganda.”
But in contrast to Giuliani’s rhetoric, Rollins also addressed white privilege in his column, saying that if white Americans “would immediately and collectively lose their minds” if they had to deal with even a fraction of the experiences black Americans go through in connection with the justice system.
“I’m an educated, Caucasian, heterosexual male. Does this ensure I will have success and live the American Dream? Obviously it doesn’t,” he wrote. “But it damn sure drops me on second base with a great opportunity to steal third.”
Whoah. Theresa May just eliminated the UK’s climate change department. I don’t even know what to say any more… https://t.co/ihM9PTu0q1
— Dave Keating (@DaveKeating) July 14, 2016
@falsesong @SteveBates51 So now you’re contradicting yourself…great job there no wonder why you support Trump
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #189 Kragar
Just another moderate conservative….
re: #192 HappyWarrior
Yeah Britain you can’t laugh at us for a while now.
They do / did write some of the best comedy. Could this be ….nah
Notice how Busters who say that Clinton is more militant than Trump are remaining silent about his demand that Congress declare a World War.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2016
Off to bed. I’d like to think tomorrow will be a better day, but I’m beginning to doubt it.
Hasta mañana, all.
re: #193 dangerman
They do / did write some of the best comedy. Could this be ….nah
Oh? Theresa May is Sacha Baron Cohen? I would have thought Boris Johnson.
@falsesong @SteveBates51 So now you’re saying that Muslims were “collateral damage” in his massacre? You’re fucking dumber than I thought
— دانیال (@danja84) July 15, 2016
re: #149 CriticalDragon1177
re: #151 calochortus
Actually I apologize. I appear to have made a mistake. It looks like Old Elm Tree didn’t block me now. Either that or he unblocked me, since I now see his tweets in again in my notices and when I click on the tweets where I replied to him. For a moment there I wasn’t seeing them. Either way through I’m not going to waste any more time debating him. If he’s determined not to accept reality no matter what, I’m not going to be able to talk him out of it, especially after he insists Bernie never concede, when even Bernie said he did, and is now openly endorsing Hillary.
Just had to go separate the dog from a hairless possum in the back yard.
Looked kind of like this one: pic.twitter.com/A0Ybj7vcf6— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) July 15, 2016
Creatures of the Night!
re: #200 dangerman
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Creatures of the Night!
Damn, put that behind a spoiler tag…that’s nightmare fuel!
re: #201 jaunte
And I thought shoo-ing off the racoons at my twenty was exciting. That little fucker is weird, man!
re: #204 teleskiguy
I armed myself with a fearsome hoe.
Man, Newt must really want the job. Maybe he thinks Donald will change his mind over the weekend if he says some really crazy shit.
As for support of sharia law, we’re now getting into the territory of thought crime. As long as you’re not imposing it on someone else, you’ve got as much right to believe in sharia as Santa Claus. Of course we should not encourage sharia, but the freedoms of speech and religion require that we allow people to believe in it and even express that belief.
re: #186 majii
I think that Sen. Sanders did himself and the Democratic Party a disservice when he misled his supporters by claiming that the party that allowed him to run in its primary had repeatedly done him wrong. He knew better, but his pride would not permit him to tell them the truth which was that more Democrats preferred HRC over him. He appeared to me to live in an alternate reality in which he thought that black and white Democrats and poor white GOPers would automatically support him in the Democratic primaries and caucuses because he was Sen. Bernie Sanders and only he could stand up to the abuses of Wall St. As a black person in America, what offended me and turned me off to consider voting for him was when he criticized the president’s leadership abilities while ignoring the fact that GOPers in Congress had decided not to work with him on the day he was inaugurated. He also refused to acknowledge that he and the Democrats in Congress allowed the GOPers to bully them into turning their backs on key parts of the president’s agenda.
Even if it turns out that there is anything to the stories about the Democratic establishment doing him wrong, at this point it makes no sense to try to get him into the white house come the next election, since he, himself realizes that its a futile cause now is only going to increase the chances of a Trump presidency. The biggest problem now is with his fanatical supporters who want him to be president so much and can’t bring themselves to accept reality, to the point where they keep fighting for him, even after he has given up. Now that some of the Bernie Or Bust fanatics are embracing outlandish conspiracy theories and refuse to accept the fact that Bernie has conceded and is endorsing Hillary, how long until some of them go full Tin foil hat and say that Hillary kidnapped him, and replaced him with a robot or something?
re: #207 Joe Bacon
Luke Russert is leaving NBC News to pursue a career in journalism.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) July 13, 2016
re: #207 Joe Bacon
“Now that some of the Bernie Or Bust fanatics are embracing outlandish conspiracy theories and refuse to accept the fact that Bernie has conceded and is endorsing Hillary, how long until some of them go full Tin foil hat and say that Hillary kidnapped him, and replaced him with a robot or something?”
Based on what I’m seeing from some of the diehard Berners, it won’t be too long before they say something like this.
re: #209 Kragar
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re: #201 jaunte
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Creatures of the Night!
There is some resemblance to a Thanksgiving Turkey there but I just can’t put my finger on it…..
re: #44 Eric The Fruit Bat
If it wasn’t for cheap shots, I wouldn’t have any. <snort>
She just ooozes evil with that face-that’s probably why he married her.
Johnson Checks Out the 2012 Republican candidates (December 8, 2011):
“With the cain train derailed and burning up chlorine gas in a school zone and frigging Perry drunk and high and gay at all times it is pretty much down to Mitch Ronalds who I hate and this bitch Newt Grinch who looks like a big fat lesbian phil donahue. He seems really smart but he smells like pepperoni all the time and constantly talks about alternate history scenarios.
Bitch if I wanted to know what would have happened if the Chinese discovered America I would have asked.
I have to follow him around and get stared at like a baby mouse being looked at by a scorpion by his wife Callistus. I’m just waiting for her to spray me with some perfume and I start melting and then she can siphon me up through her hidden feeding nozzle thing while her husband tells me about what if the Apache discovered submarines.”
#BREAKING: Nice truck attack death toll rises to 84: interior ministry
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
Stupid psychopath. What a horrible needless tragedy. Just awful.
Refuse to commit a war crime? Hell yes … I’ll defend him personally pro bono. https://t.co/W3qXObALes
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) July 15, 2016
At this point the RNC is a drunk man trying to find his house keys in the dark.
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) July 15, 2016
Just because I love this:
Whatever Bitch Cake with Fuck Off FrostingJust noticed that Steam has Transistor on sale at 80% off. An absolutely gorgeous game, beautiful design, artwork, setting and music. There isn’t a ton of replay value but for $4 ($6 if you want the soundtrack too) it’s a steal.
Speaking of paranoia, OMG guys this is not the onion!
RD @Gizmodo ISIS Will Use #Pokémon Go to Murder Innocent Christians and Spawn Demons https://t.co/PbOB30Sp7c #Wingnuts #Paranoia #VideoGames
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 15, 2016
Yes Pokemon are “digital demons.” Oh and how are terrorists going to use Pokemon go to track down and kill Christians, or anyone for that matter? The program isn’t designed to track down people, its designed to track down monsters who aren’t even real, so they’re probably even randomly generated when people are nearby. The technology isn’t designed to find anyone.
re: #220 CriticalDragon1177
Someone needs to be sent to the Funny Farm.
re: #221 Ziggy_TARDIS
I don’t know, those Pokemon sure are deadly, except for the fact that you know, they’re not real. ;)
Boy who survived Dallas ambush tells Obama he wants to be police officer https://t.co/25a44BdWOR pic.twitter.com/PKgET5CqIO
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) July 15, 2016
The state just killed another human.
Georgia executes man who beat friend to death in 1982. https://t.co/9zLbxg3ziF
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2016
I don’t know why, but I have a strong urge right now to listen to George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” and I’m not even remotely a religious person.
This is from last month, but I just now saw it in my FB feed. A lonely, abandoned satellite calls for help 46 years after it was launched.
There was some kind of malfunction when LES-1 was launched, and it never reached its intended orbit. Plus, it’s tumbling end over end. But when sunlight falls on its solar panels it sends out a signal at 237 MHz about every four seconds. A ham radio operator picked it up by chance and recorded the signal to share on YouTube.
re: #42 majii
No way I’m believing any comment Newt makes about Black Americans is sincere. I’m black, and I’m from GA, so I have spent decades listening to him and until now, not once has he showed the least bit of understanding of what life in America is like for us. I think the only reason he made the recent statements is because he’s trying to help Trump increase his support among blacks. It’s not working, and it’s not going to work because we know racists and bigots when we see and hear them. Newt is a self-serving b*tch and he’s always been a self-serving b*tch.
I can’t claim to understand all the crap African-Americans have to put up with from police, citizens, and the government, though I can empathise.
I have had a small but significant example of this where I am now. I am currently in The Pas, Manitoba. The overwhelming majority of people here are members of the Cree Nation. Because of the car I drive (a Smart) with Nebraska plates, my wife and I are getting instant attention from the RCMP (they turn around and follow us around, &c).
A lot of it is simply curiosity, but there is a fair share of distrust because of who we are and where we are from.
Fortunately, I am in Canada, where people don’t shoot first and ask questions later. If I had to live under a microscope every day I am not sure how I would respond; I know that (other than the RCMP) no one looks at me as a derelict or a criminal, just a curiosity (itself sort of disconcerting). I also know this will end when I return to the USA (assuming the GOP convention doesn’t explode into a nationwide derpsplosion, in which case we will ask for political asylum).
Continuing north, we drove across the 54th parallel and went to Flin Flon, where we were a decided curiosity; nearly everyone we met wanted to know why we were in their town (answer, to tour the area).
You talking about orthodox Jews? @Erik_The_Fem @NTagouri @newtgingrich
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 15, 2016
caption this photo pic.twitter.com/PCwosU8nFj
— The National Nerd (@Moon_Clinic) July 15, 2016
“I’m just a boy, standing in front of the world, asking it to act like a douchebag.” @Moon_Clinic
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Yesterday:
This restaurant told cops they’re no longer welcome
The sheriff of a county about 70 miles north of Seattle says a restaurant owner has asked that law enforcement no longer dine there.
Skagit County Sheriff Will Reichardt said on Facebook that after four deputies finished lunch at Lucky’s Teriyaki in Sedro-Woolley Thursday, the owner asked them not to eat there anymore.
Reichardt says the deputies were told that customers didn’t like law enforcement there.
A few hours later:
Restaurant owner says it’s all a misunderstanding, cops can eat at his place — and for free Monday
The owner of the Lucky Teriyaki broke down in tears Thursday night and said cops are welcome at his restaurant — will even get free meals on Monday — after a public backlash to a report by the Skagit County sheriff said the man had told deputies that law enforcement officers were no longer welcome at his establishment.
The man’s son said in a heavy accent that it had all been a misunderstanding and he apologized for the incident.
Man who called for ethnic cleansing of Sunni males in Iraq can’t believe GOP would propose deportation of Muslims https://t.co/7WFUJ1rTU0
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) July 15, 2016
“What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn’t kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything? Wasn’t the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?” -John Podhoretz, 2006
Weird having Newt Gingrich come out against Sharia law right after the GOP adopted a solid chunk of it as their platform.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 15, 2016
Yeah, it’s anti-gay, restricts women’s rights, and calls for religious indoctrination!
Oh wait, that’s the GOP platform. @SheriffClarke— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 15, 2016
re: #234 Ace-o-aces
“Sharia” is already banned in the USA. By the First Amendment.
Newt knows that, he is just using it to stir up controversy. He knows it is a serious buzzword for the Right Wing, to them it conjures up images of beheadings, stonings and women forced to wear veils.
There are instances (in England) where Sharia judges are allowed to preside over civil cases (divorce and property settlements) if both sides agree to it and the ruling is compatible with local law.
But there are people who insist that Sharia is taking over Europe…
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are instances (in England) where Sharia judges are allowed to preside over civil cases (divorce and property settlements) if both sides agree to it and the ruling is compatible with local law.
We have that in the US too. It’s called binding arbitration. There are Jewish “courts” as well used by some religious Jews to settle disputes.
Anyone having a problem with stuff not showing up in mentions? I see stuff to me on the home page, but it never shows up as a mention
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
Had a conversation with the person, but had to look at their tweet replies to see them respond, noting in mentions at all. Weird
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2016
re: #236 Ace-o-aces
We have that in the US too. It’s called binding arbitration. There are Jewish “courts” as well used by some religious Jews to settle disputes.
Kosheria!!!
re: #37 Kragar
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve seen an attack on a Jewish person with a “go back to Israel”. So used to Black people being told to go back to Africa.
re: #239 Patricia Kayden
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve seen an attack on a Jewish person with a “go back to Israel”. So used to Black people being told to go back to Africa.
Funny, that what they were trying to do for over 900 years…
@Auroch5555 no only if it’s for Financial gain
— Old Trap Messiah (@HoustonedHippy) July 15, 2016
The GOP is trying again to frame the “clash of civilizations” as Christianity vs Islam when the true struggle is between Enlightenment and Fundamentalism
What a thing to wake up to here in Europe. Another terrorist atrocity.
French authorities have launched an investigation, of course, and the state of emergency, which was slated to be lifted on July 26th, has been extended for another 90 days. Apparently, police are now searching the home of the perpetrator who was, by all accounts, a petty criminal “known to the authorities”.
As the Czechs say, “Ach jo”; the closest equivalent to that one would be “Oy vey”.
Report: People in red states super into cuckold porn - deathandtaxes https://t.co/zzbGKIqLiB
— Westeros Pipes (@rodimusprime) July 15, 2016
re: #244 Kragar
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I said before that the RWNJ’s usage of the word “cuck” as a slur had IMAX level of projection to it.
I am reminded of the assertion that people who have no control over their own urges need a very tight moral corset to keep them in line: without it, they really would spend all their time out whoring, gambling, drinking and fighting.
Others of us do not stand on that same slippery slope and are able to go out occasionally and blow off a bit of steam without falling into a pit of moral depravity.
It also explains why Arkansas, which is the very buckle of the Bible Belt, is also the state that gave up Bill Clinton…
Sometimes feels like a strong correlation between WWII passing from living memory, and autocracy seemingly getting more popular.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 14, 2016
re: #247 Alyosha
Sometimes feels like a strong correlation between WWII passing from living memory, and autocracy seemingly getting more popular.
we had authoritarianism all over the world, it was certainly popular in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, but yeah, for some reason it seems to be gaining favor in what used to be the Enlightened West
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we had authoritarianism all over the world, it was certainly popular in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, but yeah, for some reason it seems to be gaining favor in what used to be the Enlightened West
“Look at where liberty and reason have got us!!”
re: #249 Alyosha
“Look at where liberty and reason have got us!!”
all useless without an educated populace, and we are starting to see what happens when we fail to educate our people in history, civics and basic logic and rhetoric.
Ironically, it was in right wing sf that I first started seeing this love autocratic society - especially monarchy. See Jerry Pournell for lots of examples.
re: #251 William Lewis
Ironically, it was in right wing sf that I first started seeing this love autocratic society - especially monarchy. See Jerry Pournell for lots of examples.
Starship Troopers
Oregon man shouted racial slurs, told resident that black people ‘get hung in these parts’
An Oregon man toting a Confederate Flag drove to a biracial man’s house late at night and told him black people “get hung in these parts,” police said.
Rodney Blomberg, 45, attached the flag to a Polaris off-road vehicle and showed up as part of a group of four men in two cars in a suburban area outside Eugene, according to charging documents obtained last week by The Register-Guard.
re: #251 William Lewis
Ironically, it was in right wing sf that I first started seeing this love autocratic society - especially monarchy. See Jerry Pournell for lots of examples.
Fantasy is heavily into monarchies, feudalism and the like, too.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Movie more so than the book. Remember in the book, the Federal Service covered all sort of non-military options, and while you had to be a veteran to serve politically, you still had civilian control of the government.
re: #244 Kragar
Since I write the stuff I study it as well. It helps to understand your market.
But the whole ‘cuckoldry’ thing is like “WTF?”
re: #253 Shiplord Kirel
Oregon man shouted racial slurs, told resident that black people ‘get hung in these parts’
Aryan superman Rodney Blomberg.
HERITAGE NOT HATE!1!!
And we all know the valiant efforts of the state of Oregon as part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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re: #257 Romantic Heretic
Since I write the stuff I study it as well. It helps to understand your market.
But the whole ‘cuckoldry’ thing is like “WTF?”
What consenting adults choose to do in their own time, thats up to them.
Except foot fetishes, those guys are freaks.
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re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Arguable. Heinlien had a habit of throwing up a society and exploring the consequences without regard to his belief in it.
re: #253 Shiplord Kirel
Another fine example of the master race. /
re: #247 Alyosha
It also correlates, in my opinion, with the divisions growing in America.
In WWII, people from all over the country fought and worked besides one another. So they stopped, for the most part, regarding people from other parts of the country as ‘others’.
It’s my belief things like the Civil Rights Act etc. succeeded when they did because, for a while most people were Americans.
Now they’re back to being Yankees, Southerners, Angelenos, etc. With the expected consequences.
re: #251 William Lewis
Ironically, it was in right wing sf that I first started seeing this love autocratic society - especially monarchy. See Jerry Pournell for lots of examples.
The society of Mote Prime should have been a Utopia for Niven and Pournelle—wonder why they portrayed it as something to be feared?
re: #260 William Lewis
Arguable. Heinlien had a habit of throwing up a society and exploring the consequences without regard to his belief in it.
RAH liked to explore future social history in many of his books and stories. Line marriages on the lunar penal colony, Fair Witnesses in Stranger in a Strange Land, etc. he wasn’t just about hard science.
re: #199 CriticalDragon1177
I agree with your earlier comment where you said even though you may not get through to Elm you might help others.
Also, your answers to Elm are so reasoned, level, and fact based that I think you have a shot at even helping Elm over their crisis.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Starship Troopers
Um, no. Unless you’re talking about the movie.
The book was positing about how to improve democracy. One of the important things was a mandatory civics class in school.
Most important was that people had to earn the right to vote or hold public office. Unfortunately thanks to the title people think that meant serving in the military. It did not. It was ‘Federal Service’ and your obligation could be fulfilled by cleaning floors in a spaceport.
What it proved was that the potential citizen regarded their nation as important enough to spend at least two years of their lives in service to it.
re: #266 Romantic Heretic
Yup. Main character’s best friend ended up as a researcher on science station, while he was worried he might end up digging tunnels on an airless rock somewhere.
re: #266 Romantic Heretic
Also, they noted how all the screening and testing were not meant to disbar anyone from service, but to find out that they were capable of doing. One of the screeners noted that if a deaf, blind quadriplegic came in and requested to enlist, they were obligated to find him a position so he could serve.
re: #256 Kragar
Movie more so than the book. Remember in the book, the Federal Service covered all sort of non-military options, and while you had to be a veteran to serve politically, you still had civilian control of the government.
The movie had almost nothing to so with the book…
and also recall in the novel that the military did not seize power in a coup, it was simply the only sort of order that remained after world governments collapsed at the end of WW3…they then went on to expand membership to anyone who demonstrated that they were willing to put the common good above personal interests.
re: #268 Kragar
Also, they noted how all the screening and testing were not meant to disbar anyone from service, but to find out that they were capable of doing. One of the screeners noted that if a deaf, blind quadriplegic came in and requested to enlist, they were obligated to find him a position so he could serve.
That movie must have been an absolute stinker. I could tell just from the commercials that it had absolutely nothing to do with the book, so I never watched it, but it seems to have soiled Heinlein’s reputation permanently.
re: #270 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That movie must have been an absolute stinker. I could tell just from the commercials that it had absolutely nothing to do with the book, so I never watched it, but it seems to have soiled Heinlein’s reputation permanently.
I spent a lot of time imagining those cool powered Mobile Infantry suits and how they would look in a movie…they were totally ignored, as was the notion that they needed only a handful of troopers to occupy neutralize an entire planet, not boatloads of marines…
re: #270 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
As a stand alone B sci-fi movie, it was mildly entertaining.
As an adaption of the book, it was utter shite.
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I spent a lot of time imagining those cool powered Mobile Infantry suits and how they would look in a movie…they were totally ignored, as was the notion that they needed only a handful of troopers to neutralize an entire planet, not boatloads of marines…
Yeah, I see cuts from the movie, and it looks like they’re fighting like Braveheart. You’d think the powered armor would be a huge point of interest for movie makers…but nothing.
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mobile infantry in the book: “we’ll insert via orbital torpedo barrage, while nuking enemy targets, while our 30 man unit lays waste to an area 30 miles wide and 500 miles long before we make a precision extraction via shuttle and escape before the enemy can react.”
Mobile Infantry in the movie: “Why do we need anything resembling infantry tactics when we can just gagglefuck along in a disorganized mob towards the enemy?”
re: #273 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We do have this from the late 80s, early 90s which is actually a far more accurate adaption
re: #274 Kragar
Mobile infantry in the book: “we’ll insert via orbital torpedo barrage, while nuking enemy targets, while our 30 man unit lays waste to an area 30 miles wide and 500 miles long before we make a precision extraction via shuttle and escape before the enemy can react.”
Mobile Infantry in the movie: “Why do we need anything resembling infantry tactics when we can just gagglefuck along in a disorganized mob towards the enemy?”
One thing from the book that you couldn’t reproduce in the movie: It’s 1959, remember—the reader’s going along with a mild frisson of “How enlightened am I?” following the adventures of a hero with a Spanish name. Then on literally the last page, we learn he’s a Filipino.
re: #276 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
One thing from the book that you couldn’t reproduce in the movie: It’s 1959, remember—the reader’s going along with a mild frisson of “How enlightened am I?” following the adventures of a hero with a Spanish name. Then on literally the last page, we learn he’s a Filipino.
In the movie, he and his crush are Argentines from Buenos Aires.
re: #277 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
In the movie, he and his crush are Argentines from Buenos Aires.
I guess that’s a nod to the fact that in the book, the Arachnids get a missile through, obliterating Buenos Aires, and initiating the war.
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP is trying again to frame the “clash of civilizations” as Christianity vs Islam when the true struggle is between Enlightenment and Fundamentalism
The true struggle is between decent people and shitheads.
re: #272 Kragar
As a stand alone B sci-fi movie, it was mildly entertaining.
As an adaption of the book, it was utter shite.
The director or one of the producers admitted that he couldn’t get through the first chapter of the book.
So I guess Golden Yam sez he would ask for a Declaration of War against “someone” last nite on O’Lolly. That says alot about what to expect in the future. Would he reinstate the draft as well?
If he were to be elected the buyers remorse and butthurt 2 months in would be so great and the collective howl so loud we’d end up with a Pence….
Fuck
re: #281 Timothy Watson
The director or one of the producers admitted that he couldn’t get through the first chapter of the book.
It was the director, Paul Verhoeven. From Wikipedia:
The movie started life as a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine.[3] When similarities, especially the “bugs,” were pointed out between this and the novel Starship Troopers, plans were made to license the rights to the book and tweak character names and circumstances to match. Verhoeven had never read the book, and attempted to read it for the film, but it made him “bored and depressed”, so he read only a few chapters:
I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring,…It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn’t read the thing. It’s a very right-wing book.[6]
re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
It was the director, Paul Verhoeven. From Wikipedia:
Verhoeven had never read the book, and attempted to read it for the film, but it made him “bored and depressed”, so he read only a few chapters:
I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring,…It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn’t read the thing. It’s a very right-wing book.
David Lynch had also never read “Dune” before making the movie…which is why, aside from a few scenes, it totally misses the point: again, we are dealing with an alternative post-world war future human history in which all technology that replaces humans is banned. There are no computers, no genetic engineering.
Hence the need for “spice”: so that starship navigators can see into the future and plot a safe course through space, and the reason for the Bene Gesserit multi-generation human breeding program and of course, the mentats, the trained “human computers”
re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
*Rolls eyes really hard*
I’m about as left wing as you can get without being an actual Marxist, and Starship Troopers is still one of my favourite books.
One lesson I carried from it is that authority and responsibility were linked and equal concepts. Something you could never get the modern GOP to comprehend.
What? My fault? Inconceivable! We just haven’t fucked enough people tried hard enough yet.
re: #285 Romantic Heretic
*Rolls eyes really hard*
I’m about as left wing as you can get without being an actual Marxist, and Starship Troopers is still one of my favourite books.
One lesson I carried from it is that authority and responsibility were linked and equal concepts. Something you could never get the modern GOP to comprehend.
What? My fault? Inconceivable! We just haven’t
fucked enough peopletried hard enough yet.
exactly, it is a novel, not a political manifesto. And I really did appreciate the notion that before we entrust people with our safety and well-being, they should first demonstrate that they are willing to put the common good above their own personal safety and well-being.
UC just put up a video that may be of interest to some here:
In his new book, Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals, author Joel Dimsdale draws on decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience since the Nuremberg Trials to take a fresh look at four Nazi war criminals: Robert Ley, Hermann Goring, Julius Streicher and Rudolf Hess. Dimsdale, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, is presented by the UC San Diego Library.
re: #80 jaunte
I’m still surprised by adults (presumably) trying to make this argument.
Remember, Rand Paul was surprised that an auditorium of African-American students at Howard University knew that the founders of the NAACP were Republicans.
re: #94 teleskiguy
I’ve noticed some of that too. Not exclusively the conservatives, but a large majority. The past is comfort, the present hard, and the future scary…
re: #288 freetoken
Wow! That JUST went up. Good catch.
re: #81 teleskiguy
Dude’s been dead for six years. And yeah, he, uh, evolved in adulthood. Maybe that’s why they keep bringing the Robert Byrd trope up, it aligns perfectly with their hostile views toward evolution.
It is a fixed talking point and it works fine on people who have no sense of history or politics.
re: #128 teleskiguy
NEW POLL FOR THE HORSE RACE FUCKS!!! YAY!!!
CO: Clinton 43, Trump 35
FL: Clinton 44, Trump 37
NC: Clinton 44, Trump 38
VA: Clinton 44, Trump 35
The “horse race” will consist of making a big news item out of every time Trump edges up by a few tenths of a percentage point…”If he keeps up this momentum, he could overtake Hillary by May of 2019!”
re: #10 electrotek
And this is the same guy that said this last week:
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Newt’s schtick last week had an evil subtext too.
Normal white Americans. As somehow everyone else isn’t.
The GOP has thoroughly gone off the rails, and this primary season has been the devolution/exposure that everyone needed to see. The GOP has been cultivating this kind of institutional rot for generations, and now it’s at the top of the ticket.
Bigotry?
Hate?
Ignoring the Constitution (4A, 1A, General Welfare Clause, advice and consent, etc.) but putting the 2A above all else?
Check. Check, and Check.
This is a party that refuses to address its own problems, and instead wants to destroy the safety net, slash and burn the government, and give the rich tax cuts that push the burden on to everyone else in service cuts or massively grow the debt.
Hell to the bells no. Just no.
It has to stop. And it’s up to us to make sure that this does stop. The GOP wont stop it.
re: #282 Dave In Austin
Reminder: @potus requested @speakerryan and rest of Congress provide him with AUMF against IS in the 2015 SOTU. He’s still waiting.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 15, 2016
Trump thinks he can just declare war, and not identify the who/what/where/how?
Then again, most of his supporters don’t care about any of that either, so they just think we should launch the bombers and let the hellfire rain down.
Mind you, the US has been dropping ordnance on IS for years, even without the AUMF. We’ve been coordinating with the EU, and France in particular since Syria and Lebanon is in their wheelhouse (they were the former colonial power there). IS keeps getting pushed off the territory they claimed, and have been losing ground to the coalition forces across Iraq and Syria.
Assad benefits from this, but that’s seen as the lesser evil at this point, even if Assad’s a democidal war criminal who’s killed hundreds of thousands of his citizens to put down the uprising against him.
re: #299 lawhawk
Reminder: potus requested speaker ryan and rest of Congress provide him with AUMF against IS in the 2015 SOTU. He’s still waiting.
That is not the point. He has not uttered the words “Islamic Terror” and declared war!!! President Trump would do that in an instant!!!
A chilling graphic
A trail of terror in Nice, block by block: https://t.co/rvzTdJrMIj pic.twitter.com/lRlJGevC4u
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2016
from waaaay up top:
@MagnumMutt Why is your “American” wearing a treasonous flag? Google images has thousands of ‘murican bikinis. JK I know why
— Charles Kent (@ChuckJager95) July 15, 2016
@MagnumMutt You almost had to go out of your way to be a seditionist piece of shit. pic.twitter.com/hRq4uzLqY2
— Charles Kent (@ChuckJager95) July 15, 2016
re: #298 lawhawk
Newt’s schtick last week had an evil subtext too.
Normal white Americans. As somehow everyone else isn’t.
The GOP has thoroughly gone off the rails, and this primary season has been the devolution/exposure that everyone needed to see. The GOP has been cultivating this kind of institutional rot for generations, and now it’s at the top of the ticket.
Bigotry?
Hate?
Ignoring the Constitution (4A, 1A, General Welfare Clause, advice and consent, etc.) but putting the 2A above all else?Check. Check, and Check.
This is a party that refuses to address its own problems, and instead wants to destroy the safety net, slash and burn the government, and give the rich tax cuts that push the burden on to everyone else in service cuts or massively grow the debt.
Hell to the bells no. Just no.
It has to stop. And it’s up to us to make sure that this does stop. The GOP wont stop it.
I’m wondering how much pushback Trump and Newt’s statements will get today - or if the media will just dismiss it as ‘There go those wacky Republicans again, talking crazy talk.’
In a sane world, these statements would be an automatic DQ from executive office at any level. But I’m pretty sure we don’t qualify for ‘sane world’ status any more.
This rapper has the Secret Service on his tail thanks to Malia Obama.
Last year, Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$, a member of the New York hip-hop collective Pro Era, experienced an overnight surge of government-level interest when a picture of Malia Obama wearing a Pro Era T-shirt began circulating online. A mutual friend of Barack Obama’s older daughter and the collective had apparently leaked the picture, and Joey (real name Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott) realized that he had become a person of interest to the president’s men. On the plus side, he got some gardening done for free.
“There was a tree outside my door that shaded my whole house,” he tells The Post. “It had been there for years. But when that s-t with Malia went down, the tree was gone,” he says with a laugh. “The timing was too suspicious. I guess they [had] to get clearer pictures!” He also claims that his phones have been tapped ever since, but remarkably, he doesn’t seem overly concerned about Big Brother watching. “It’s all good. I’m only doing positive things!”
re: #11 SteelPH
Uh huh. What about Muslims that are natural-born citizens? Where exactly do you deport them to, Mr. Gingrich?
Gitmo, of course.
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.@newtgingrich: “We should…test every person here who is of a Muslim background, & if they believe in shariah they should be deported.”
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2016
Stripping individuals of a particular religion of their citizenship under the guise of “security of the state”. Where have we seen this playbook before?
Oh. I remember now.
Next step, banning Muslims from mixed marriages?re: #20 Frenchy
Beat me to it. “Test” them how, and deport them to where fuckstick?
I’m just beyond words at this point.
And who exactly is supposed to carryout this mass “testing”?
And would those subject to such “testing” be warranted in defending themselves, 2nd Amendment style, against such government tyranny? After all, that’s why he have the 2nd Amendment, right?
re: #285 Romantic Heretic
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
exactly, it is a novel, not a political manifesto. And I really did appreciate the notion that before we entrust people with our safety and well-being, they should first demonstrate that they are willing to put the common good above their own personal safety and well-being.
There are a few authors (Ayn Rand, for one) who write novels to illustrate their personal philosophy. Others explore alternate ways of life, or make us think. Most write stories that are meant to entertain. RAH was in the second and third categories, though it could be argued his political views were very cynical.
re: #311 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
There are a few authors (Ayn Rand, for one) who write novels to illustrate their personal philosophy. Others explore alternate ways of life, or make us think. Most write stories that are meant to entertain. RAH was in the second and third categories, though it could be argued his political views were very cynical.
He was a an ex-military, and one could also see him carrying on the old argument between those serving on the merchant marine and active duty sailors in the Battle of the Atlantic.
WaPo and HuffPo apparently believe it is news that a religious right winger is in denial of reality:
Mike Pence Apparently Doesn’t Believe In Evolution
Watch Mike Pence question global warming and demur on evolution
re: #302 unproven innocence
It is probably enough to get me in trouble with the anti-sharia crowd, or with anti-terrorism AI dependent on badly flawed spell-check/autocorrect, but I’ll take my chances. I remain a fan of Sara Shahi:
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Shaw/Shahi would make a great Lara Croft. Or a superhero. She’s pretty badass.
I should mention I’ve just begun watching season 3 of PoI, so I’m skipping those YouTube vids above.
re: #315 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I should mention I’ve just begun watching season 3 of PoI, so I’m skipping those YouTube vids above.
Definitely don’t watch them then!
re: #85 Ziggy_TARDIS
I think we need some sort of military reform to our officer corps. How did this imbecile become a General?
1.Go to West Point, so that you can’t be RIF’d. 2. Make it to full colonel. 3. Be generous giving blowjobs to the brass above you.
As another thought, I wonder if Newt would consider doing the same for his Dominionist friends who have openly advocated doing exactly what he’s baselessly accusing American Muslims of?
In their own words.re: #306 Emptor scriptor Remorse
This rapper has the Secret Service on his tail thanks to Malia Obama.
He’s in the new season of Mr Robot, him and Eliot eat all their meals together.
re: #315 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I should mention I’ve just begun watching season 3 of PoI, so I’m skipping those YouTube vids above.
Oh yeah, them clips are off limits. And enjoy the rest of the POI run of course (one of my personal favorite shows ever) :)
So, in less serious matters, it now appears that, despite Trump having announced Tim Tebow as a convention night speaker, Tebow is in fact not speaking at Trump’s sshitstorm parade.
I was bit surprised to see his name mentioned in connection with Trump. Doesn’t really seem like Tebow who I think is sincerely religious and a decent citizen. Conservative, sure. But not a Trump type guy.
Seems like Trump is running a pretty smooth convention process. ///
re: #318 Bill and Opus for 2016!
As another thought, I wonder if Newt would consider doing the same for his Dominionist friends who have openly advocated doing exactly what he’s baselessly accusing American Muslims of?
“…We must reinstate the authority of OUR NARROW-MINDED, MISOGYNIST, BIGOTED, SELF-SERVING INTERPRETATION of God’s Word…”
Got my Kindle Fire and Echo last night.
Have fired up the Kindle Fire, signed up for Audible, listened to a book on it. It sounds good.
Have not started with the Echo yet. There’s remarkable little product information material with it, and with the Kindle Fire as well. Guess I’ll have to turn it on and start playing.
I’ve bought cheap toasters that come with more instructions than the Echo.
Good morning! Call me Gabe. I’m new around here but it seems a nice place.
re: #322 Archangelus
Oh yeah, them clips are off limits. And enjoy the rest of the POI run of course (one of my personal favorite shows ever) :)
Thanks. Following the recs of people here, I started watching it from the beginning. There have been a couple of episodes that logically were pretty bad, but I appreciate the scripts for avoiding the rampant gun battles, a la NCIS: Los Angeles. I’m at the point where the AI aspects of The Machine are beginning to manifest.
ON CNN, Manafort says Trump “emotionally reacted” to Nice attack and canceled VP announcement
— Holly Bailey (@hollybdc) July 15, 2016
This is just incredible. Imagine Hillary reacting this way and her staff saying this. She’d be donezo.
re: #328 Jenner7
But he wasn’t so torn up that he canceled a fundraiser, right?
Brodie Copeland, 11, & his dad Sean from Texas are among the 84 killed in France. They were on fam vacation in Nice. pic.twitter.com/5ZsKMdLGqW
— Erica Rakow (@EricaRakow) July 15, 2016
re: #329 Jayleia
But he wasn’t so torn up that he canceled a fundraiser, right?
The spice grift must flow!!
Morning…
Just saw a commercial here in Columbus with the theme: If your representatives represent the Republican Party and Donald Trump then they may not represent you.
Just the kind of ad spots that need to be run. Blame all the Republicans in Congress for Trump.
re: #330 Jenner7
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This isn’t going to be good for the French tourism industry, which may sound like a petty point, but another effect of terrorism is economic damage, and people losing their jobs takes a severe toll, adding to the victims.
re: #323 Sir John Barron
So, in less serious matters, it now appears that, despite Trump having announced Tim Tebow as a convention night speaker, Tebow is in fact not speaking at Trump’s sshitstorm parade.
I was bit surprised to see his name mentioned in connection with Trump. Doesn’t really seem like Tebow who I think is sincerely religious and a decent citizen. Conservative, sure. But not a Trump type guy.
Seems like Trump is running a pretty smooth convention process. ///
Actually, from what I’ve read recently, it sounds like the RNC is smoothing out the process for him: it seems they’ve decided to permanently squelch any sort of “Dump Trump” movement; so all those pleasant fantasies of convention-floor chaos in Cleveland are probably going to remain just that. I’m guessing it’s a matter of desperation: having to “unite” the Party around the least popular and least appealing candidate in living memory, they probably feel that managing the convention to be any kind of improvement over Chicago 1968 is the absolute least they need to do. For the GOP’s survival.
CNN reporting driver was known to police, but didn’t have a “jihadi record”.
re: #328 Jenner7
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This is just incredible. Imagine Hillary reacting this way and her staff saying this. She’d be donezo.
At bottom, Trump is scared out of his mind of anyone who is not in his immediate circle. It’s obvious that despite all his bluster, he’s just a frightened old dude who talks tough to hide it.
And as Olbermann pointed out last night, he’s so scared of them that he lets the very thought of them completely throw him off his game. That’s not how a president should react to the world, but his fans seem to want a president who’s as hysterical and shook as they are.
That’s their main complaint with how Obama handles world events - his steadiness and cool demeanor just isn’t hair-on-fire enough for them. I’d feel sad for them, but fuck ‘em. They’re all prisoners of their own fear, from Trump on down.
They deserve every bit of the irrational anguish they bathe in on the daily. But the country deserves someone who doesn’t act like my frightened cat when something in the world goes wrong.
re: #329 Jayleia
But he wasn’t so torn up that he canceled a fundraiser, right?
Or mutiple phoners on cable TV.
re: #332 ObserverArt
Morning…
Just saw a commercial here in Columbus with the theme: If your representatives represent the Republican Party and Donald Trump then they may not represent you.
Just the kind of ad spots that need to be run. Blame all the Republicans in Congress for Trump.
The ‘Standards’ ad? That’s a good one.
re: #335 Jenner7
CNN reporting driver was known to police, but didn’t have a “jihadi record”.
I am sure he would have failed a Sharia test…
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re: #334 Jay C
Actually, from what I’ve read recently, it sounds like the RNC is smoothing out the process for him: it seems they’ve decided to permanently squelch any sort of “Dump Trump” movement; so all those pleasant fantasies of convention-floor chaos in Cleveland are probably going to remain just that. I’m guessing it’s a matter of desperation: having to “unite” the Party around the least popular and least appealing candidate in living memory, they probably feel that managing the convention to be any kind of improvement over Chicago 1968 is the absolute least they need to do. For the GOP’s survival.
They don’t have much choice since there really isn’t any alternative candidate to Trump. None of the men who are viable for 2020, such as Cruz, Ryan and Rubio want to be responsible for tearing the party apart and thwarting the will of the GOP primary voters this year.
re: #333 Big Beautiful Door
This isn’t going to be good for the French tourism industry, which may sound like a petty point, but another effect of terrorism is economic damage, and people losing their jobs takes a severe toll, adding to the victims.
I visited Nice and Antibes three years ago and would love to go back there…
re: #335 Jenner7
CNN reporting driver was known to police, but didn’t have a “jihadi record”.
I’m thinking it may be just the opposite, judging by the number of Muslims killed.
A local dude maybe pissed about Muslims in his midst.
Indiana elections office says withdrawal papers can’t be emailed/faxed. Pence needn’t show in person but someone must deliver doc by noon.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 15, 2016
If Pence drops out of gov race - signaling he’s veep pick or believes he will be - the paperwork will show up here: https://t.co/HJL8O4FIW3
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 15, 2016
Amazing distortions of my interview on Hannity last night.i will do a lengthy facebook live later this morning on the issue of sharia
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 15, 2016
Um…
re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I visited Nice and Antibes three years ago and would love to go back there…
Which is rational. But our lizard brains aren’t very good at calculating odds, and people tend to greatly overestimate the odds of dying in a terrorist attack.
re: #344 Jenner7
Amazing distortions of my interview on Hannity last night.i will do a lengthy facebook live later this morning on the issue of sharia
Dude, they quoted you ver-fucking-batim.
The ‘distortions’ charge is straight out of the Trump playbook. Newtie wants that VP gig really bad.
Trump is Brave Sir Robin. Tough talking bully, but a crap in the pants fool who runs away at the slightest bit of pushback.
And oh will there be pushback from the Democrats who don’t have to chase his bigot brigade supporters.
re: #348 makeitstop
Dude, they quoted you ver-fucking-batim.
The ‘distortions’ charge is straight out of the Trump playbook. Newtie wants that VP gig really bad.
Newt invented the concept: “Quoting what I said is a lie.” I forget the exact quote, but that’s pretty close.
@newtgingrich Will you be doing that between going on Adult Friend Finder to spot your next mistress?
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 15, 2016
re: #344 Jenner7
Amazing distortions of my interview on Hannity last night.i will do a lengthy facebook live later this morning on the issue of sharia
— Newt Gingrich
Translation: Excellent! Just the response I needed for VP!
Distortions? Quoting verbatim is a distortion. You’re a liar & a bigot who ignores the 4A and 1A. No wonder you’re with Trump. @newtgingrich
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 15, 2016
So, apparently this guy was pretty close in type to the Orlando shooter or Dallas shooter. Complete waste of space
French media identified the perpetrator as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel (1985 - 14 July 2016), a 31-year-old man of Tunisian nationality. His identity papers were found in the truck.[20] Reportedly, he was born in Nice to Tunisian parents, had a residence permit and was married, but in the course of divorce. He was reported to have had financial difficulties and to have worked as a driver, acquiring a truck permit less than a year before the attack.[20]
Also according to media reports, Bouhlel was known to police for five prior criminal offenses, notably regarding armed violence. He was last arrested less than a month before the attack after a traffic accident in which he had been sleeping at the wheel, and remained subject to judicial supervision. He was, however, not registered as a national security risk (fiche “S”) with French authorities.[20]
Bouhlal’s parents are divorced live in France. Reports say that Mohamed used to often visit Tunisia, saying the last time he did so was eight months ago, before he went back to France. The 31-year-old, said to have been married with three children, was not known by the Tunisian authorities to have been involved in any terrorism activities on Tunisian soil. However, he was known to the authorities in connection with drugs- and alcohol-related offences.
re: #349 lawhawk
Trump is Brave Sir Robin. Tough talking bully, but a crap in the pants fool who runs away at the slightest bit of pushback.
And oh will there be pushback from the Democrats who don’t have to chase his bigot brigade supporters.
I predict that next week’s GOP Convention will now be focused on trying to terrify the American people with the specter of Islamic terrorists hiding under every bed waiting to slit your throat while you sleep, unless we elect Trump to protect us.
re: #342 makeitstop
I’m thinking it may be just the opposite, judging by the number of Muslims killed.
A local dude maybe pissed about Muslims in his midst.
Nope: the driver WAS a Muslim: originally from Tunisia. He appears not to have, AFACBD at this point, been associated with any jihadist or radical groups/movements, but according to BBC:
Sounds more like an Omar Matteen situation: disgruntled loser burns out and spins out and decides to take a bunch of folks with him. But, of course, as a Muslim, it gets spun as “jihadi terrorism” regardless…
However, he was known by to the authorities in connection with drugs and alcohol-related offences.
re: #355 Big Beautiful Door
That was going to be their strategy, starting with the opening salvo of Benghazi.
re: #355 Big Beautiful Door
I predict that next week’s GOP Convention will now be focused on trying to terrify the American people with the specter of Islamic terrorists hiding under every bed waiting to slit your throat while you sleep, unless we elect Trump to protect us.
I’m wondering if there’s a saturation point with that approach, though.
They’re already doing a Benghazi themed night. At what point does ‘I’m the only one who can protect you’ stop sounding authoritative and begin sounding desperate?
That’s walking a fine line, and I don’t think Trump can do it.
re: #354 Ziggy_TARDIS
So, apparently this guy was pretty close in type to the Orlando shooter or Dallas shooter. Complete waste of space
The face of Islamist immigrant terror…
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re: #342 makeitstop
I’m thinking it may be just the opposite, judging by the number of Muslims killed.
A local dude maybe pissed about Muslims in his midst.
I’ve been avoiding most accounts of the attack like the plague, so I don’t know how many Muslims were killed, but I’d remind you that 10 days ago Medina was attacked and, as we all know, in recent years Muslims have made up the vast majority of terrorism victims. The only difference seems to be they’re usually “collateral damage” when a Western target is attacked. I’m guessing the Da’esh types don’t give a shit, as they probably think Muslims who choose to live in the West deserve to die (as does anyone who disgrees with them).
In a sane world, Media would report that Trump is unstable. But apparently that’s not the world we live in.
— Armando (@armandodkos) July 15, 2016
If it were Hillary, you’d bet your ass they’d cover it.
This is just amazing. I mean, it wasn’t even an attack on our soil and he freaks out? None of this makes much sense.
re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The face of Islamist immigrant terror…
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In a prior century, it was the Red Menace. Now, it’s the Green Hordes. That’s how the right wing Islamophobics see it. Creeping sharia, all while they’re pushing their own Christian ideologies into government actions at every opportunity.
re: #361 Jenner7
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If it were Hillary, you’d bet your ass they’d cover it.
This is just amazing. I mean, it wasn’t even an attack on our soil and he freaks out? None of this makes much sense.
He wants to work with the gut panic reaction that all True Americans (TM) should feel about Islamic Jihad Terror.
re: #358 makeitstop
I’m wondering if there’s a saturation point with that approach, though.
They’re already doing a Benghazi themed night. At what point does ‘I’m the only one who can protect you’ stop sounding authoritative and begin sounding desperate?
That’s walking a fine line, and I don’t think Trump can do it.
The GOP will definitely test whether there is a saturation point or not, because as we saw with the comments last night, they are going to go way, way over the top with the anti-Islamic hysterics.
Hard to say people are distorting your words when they’re quoting you verbatim pic.twitter.com/uNIJNI6RMu
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 15, 2016
re: #360 CuriousLurker
I’ve been avoiding most accounts of the attack like the plague, so I don’t know how many Muslims were killed, but I’d remind you that 10 days ago Medina was attacked and, as we all know, in recent years Muslims have made up the vast majority of terrorism victims. The only difference seems to be they’re usually “collateral damage” when a Western target is attacked. I’m guessing the Da’esh types don’t give a shit, as they probably think Muslims who choose to live in the West deserve to die (as does anyone who disgrees with them).
True. And that’s a point missed by the hysterical mob (led by Trump and apparently Newt) who use ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ as their mantra.
It completely escapes them that Muslims are victims of this terror as well as non-Muslims. Kinda shoots down the whole narrative for them if they acknowledge that.
And I understand that our news is covering the attack in Nice (and should cover it), but I’ve been watching for almost an hour and NOTHING on Trump’s erratic behavior.
Looks like I was wrong, and DAESH was not involved. I’m sorry.
Not sure how we could have stopped this. It’s a soft target, you can’t really restrict large trucks because of their use in transport of goods, and his record indicated no radicalism.
It’s not like we can have Loser-Control. That’s simply impossible.
re: #366 makeitstop
True. And that’s a point missed by the hysterical mob (led by Trump and apparently Newt) who use ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ as their mantra.
It completely escapes them that Muslims are victims of this terror as well as non-Muslims. Kinda shoots down the whole narrative for them if they acknowledge that.
And I bet there will be zero acknowledgement of that at the Convention next week.
If Sec. Clinton had said (or staffer had said) she reacted emotionally to the event, how many menstruation jokes would be flying around twitter right now. I mean, how many more above the current average.
re: #356 Jay C
For an ISIS-related act it is customary for the terrorist to declare his or her ISIS allegiance publicly in some way (like Mateen did). I haven’t seen any reports of such a declaration.
Albeit the act was still most probably religiously motivated, as the driver was apparently heard shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
re: #347 Big Beautiful Door
Anyone quoting his exact words is lying about Newt!/
That sounds familiar. Maybe someone can find where he said anyone directly quoting him was a liar.
Figures, as soon as I say that, they cover Trump’s reaction. lol
re: #372 Skip Intro
That sounds familiar. Maybe someone can find where he said anyone directly quoting him was a liar.
Found it.
re: #372 Skip Intro
That sounds familiar. Maybe someone can find where he said anyone directly quoting him was a liar.
I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.
re: #351 Joe Bacon
That makes me wonder if Newt’s in the Ashley Madison data dump. Since he’s all-in to Trump, I suppose Rage Furby will not be “researching” that possibility.
re: #378 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
That makes me wonder if Newt’s in the Ashley Madison data dump. Since he’s all-in to Trump, I suppose Rage Furby will not be “researching” that possibility.
Well, my “Spidey Sense” tingles when it comes to ol’ Tooty Fruity Newty and Ashley Madison…
You couldn’t ask for a more fitting spokesman!re: #366 makeitstop
True. And that’s a point missed by the hysterical mob (led by Trump and apparently Newt) who use ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ as their mantra.
It completely escapes them that Muslims are victims of this terror as well as non-Muslims. Kinda shoots down the whole narrative for them if they acknowledge that.
Yeah, I was on Twitter last night (or early this morning?) and Kragar (I think) was arguing with knuckle-dragger who was claiming 60k people had been killed by radical jihadis in some span of years (don’t remember the exact numbers). I nearly had to sit on my hands to stop myself from asking the idiot how many of the 60k were Muslims and how many were Westerners. I didn’t though, because life is too short to be wasting time on hate-filled, ignorant idiots.
Oh, here’s the guy:
@Kragar_LGF christians and abortion clinics has resulted in less than 12 deaths in 40 years. Islam? 60,000 in 2014/15
— TJ (@BringnThePaine) July 15, 2016
re: #349 lawhawk
Trump is Brave Sir Robin. Tough talking bully, but a crap in the pants fool who runs away at the slightest bit of pushback.
And oh will there be pushback from the Democrats who don’t have to chase his bigot brigade supporters.
Yeah, I remember his reaction to a young American male that jump a barrier and made for Trump in Dayton Ohio during a speech.
But he’ll be just fine with thousands of young Americans from families not named Trump, Cheney, Bush, Romney and the like fighting a war we have been fighting since 2003 and looks like will be a “We are always at War in the Mideast” kind of thing Orwell thought of in his book 1984.
On Czech news, they were interviewing a neighbor of the perp in the Nice attack, and she was saying (and I’m paraphrasing here) that he was distinctly unusual and quite unfriendly towards his neighbors. He wouldn’t open the door for anyone, nor would he even so much as make small talk with his neighbors. She described him as “abnormal”.
Sounds like a hardcore loner, someone with a seriously antisocial personality.
The wingnut problem isn’t confined to the USA, of course - as this story illustrates.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) wrote to CTK on Thursday that deputy Pavlina Nytrova does not express the CSSD’s stance and policy on homosexuals and that he wants to meet her over her statements from which the party has dissociated itself.
Sobotka wrote that intolerance and prejudices must be fought with arguments.
Nytrova made the statements on Wednesday when the Chamber of Deputies debated a draft amendment that would allow registered partners to adopt offspring of their partners.
She said homosexuals are promiscuous in their majority, have an above-average tendency towards alcoholism, have a higher rate of mental disorders than the rest of people and that they will gradually try to legalise sex with children.
On public Czech Radio, she said the homosexual lobby has been gradually taking steps to establish supremacy over the heterosexual group.
Fortunately, the Deputy Premier and Finance Minister, Andrej Babiš (whom I’m generally skeptical of) spoke up:
Andrej Babis, ANO chairman and finance minister, dismissed Nytrova’s statements on Twitter as utter nonsense.
“I attended a boys’ wedding last year and I have many friends among homosexuals whom I esteem,” Babis wrote and attached a picture from the wedding.
re: #363 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He wants to work with the gut panic reaction that all True Americans (TM) should feel about
Islamic Jihad Terrorreality.
FTFY.
re: #358 makeitstop
I’m wondering if there’s a saturation point with that approach, though.
They’re already doing a Benghazi themed night. At what point does ‘I’m the only one who can protect you’ stop sounding authoritative and begin sounding desperate?
That’s walking a fine line, and I don’t think Trump can do it.
Here is the problem. You are thinking like a rational human being with his head on straight.
From what I can tell, the whole Trump declaring war and Newt wanting to test Muslims is being greeted as a great thing by the lesser lights.
Here’s a point that everyone seems to be missing regarding Newt’s proposal to ‘test’ for Sharia - in order to ‘test’ people to find out who’s a Sharia follower, they’ll have to test everyone.
Who’s gonna pay for administering the loyalty oath to every single American?
Way to think things through, “professor.”
re: #383 Dr Lizardo
On Czech news, they were interviewing a neighbor of the perp in the Nice attack, and she was saying (and I’m paraphrasing here) that he was distinctly unusual and quite unfriendly towards his neighbors. He wouldn’t open the door for anyone, nor would he even so much as make small talk with his neighbors. She described him as “abnormal”.
Sounds like a hardcore loner, someone with a seriously antisocial personality.
The wingnut problem isn’t confined to the USA, of course - as this story illustrates.
Fortunately, the Deputy Premier and Finance Minister, Andrej Babiš (whom I’m generally skeptical of) spoke up:
Weren’t there a bunch of ISIS members who were described as sociopaths who just wanted to kill people and had no religious ideology?
re: #388 makeitstop
Here’s a point that everyone seems to be missing regarding Newt’s proposal to ‘test’ for Sharia - in order to ‘test’ people to find out who’s a Sharia follower, they’ll have to test everyone.
Who’s gonna pay for administering the loyalty oath to every single American?
Way to think things through, “professor.”
He is smart enough to be aware that his proposal is unrealistic and in violation of the First Amendment. But he also knows that it plays well with his target audience…
re: #383 Dr Lizardo
All the more reason to indiscriminately bomb foreign countries and “test” foreign looking people in America.
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re: #388 makeitstop
Excellent point, considering that some of those involved in terrorism have been persons converted to Islam. Adam Gadahn comes to mind.
Guess we need a precrime department and a trillion dollar investment in precogs who can sort through all the beliefs of everyone to find the handful who might carry out terror attacks based on Sharia.
Good thing we can ignore the Charleston shooters, the white supremacists, sovcits, and all the regular background violence we are far too comfortable with.
re: #388 makeitstop
Here’s a point that everyone seems to be missing regarding Newt’s proposal to ‘test’ for Sharia - in order to ‘test’ people to find out who’s a Sharia follower, they’ll have to test everyone.
Who’s gonna pay for administering the loyalty oath to every single American?
Way to think things through, “professor.”
Partly Newt is just being stupid and partly Newt and others just want to move the needle, shift the infamous Overton Window.
re: #381 CuriousLurker
I think the Serbians killed at least 80k Muslims during the Bosnian War. Another 10k in Kosovo.
So that would be 80k in 3 years, and 10k in 1 year. Unsure of the numbers in the Central African Republic. The LRA in in Central Africa has killed 65k from 1987 to now.
re: #367 Jenner7
And I understand that our news is covering the attack in Nice (and should cover it), but I’ve been watching for almost an hour and NOTHING on Trump’s erratic behavior.
Well Nicole Wallace on Morning Joke said Trump declaring war resonates with the mothers of this world. And that was about 5 or so minutes into the show…but before I could change the channel.
That would be the mothers that lost over 4000 sons and daughters in our ongoing war so far. I’m sure they are ready for more.
I would point out that the Takbir (saying Allahu Akbar) is an extremely common phrase used by all Muslims used in a wide variety of situations, its use by jihadists being only one of many. IOW, given the type of attack it could very well have been religiously motivated, but the attacker uttering “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t guarantee that it was.
re: #370 Franklin
If Sec. Clinton had said (or staffer had said) she reacted emotionally to the event, how many menstruation jokes would be flying around twitter right now. I mean, how many more above the current average.
If a woman says she wants a war she is hysteric. If a man says he wants a war he is manly.
And as we know, they already say Hillary is a hawk and use it against her while now we see Trump calling for a war but he is Trump.
re: #397 CuriousLurker
I would point out that the Takbir (saying Allahu Akbar) is an extremely common phrase used by all Muslims used in a wide variety of situations, its use by jihadists being only one of many. IOW, given the type of attack it could very well have been religiously motivated, but the attacker uttering “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t guarantee that it was.
I like to go drinking at a place called Ahllau Ak, and you know how they answer the phone there?
re: #389 Timothy Watson
Weren’t there a bunch of ISIS members who were described as sociopaths who just wanted to kill people and had no religious ideology?
Claiming jihad certainly provides them with a “cover” for their pathology.
re: #399 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I like to go drinking at a place called Ahllau Ak, and you know how they answer the phone there?
Heh.
re: #393 Sir John Barron
Partly Newt is just being stupid and partly Newt and others just want to move the needle, shift the infamous Overton Window.
A few days ago I read a John Judis article about Bernie’s campaign (either at TPM or The New Republic) in which the author addressed the impracticality and lack of detail in many of Bernie’s proposals. He basically said that for Bernie and many of his voters the importance was not the details per se but in importance in introducing the political ideas into the discussion, an effort more or less to shift the acceptable window of policy discussion. Kind of a similar thing to what the far-right in its various guises has attempted to do for years, with some success. The author noted that Trump’s campaign has played a similar role, i.e. “the Wall”.
re: #397 CuriousLurker
I would point out that the Takbir (saying Allahu Akbar) is an extremely common phrase used by all Muslims used in a wide variety of situations, its use by jihadists being only one of many. IOW, given the type of attack it could very well have been religiously motivated, but the attacker uttering “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t guarantee that it was.
It’s akin to saying OMG. Holy Crap. Jesus Christ! Etc. It is a common expletive in a wide range of circumstances, and doesn’t automagically confer jihadi outcomes on any incident.
re: #388 makeitstop
Here’s a point that everyone seems to be missing regarding Newt’s proposal to ‘test’ for Sharia - in order to ‘test’ people to find out who’s a Sharia follower, they’ll have to test everyone.
Who’s gonna pay for administering the loyalty oath to every single American?
Way to think things through, “professor.”
School kids!
They need the work and it would teach them some responsibility. They could move up from janitors to citizen test administrators.
re: #397 CuriousLurker
I would point out that the Takbir (saying Allahu Akbar) is an extremely common phrase used by all Muslims used in a wide variety of situations, its use by jihadists being only one of many. IOW, given the type of attack it could very well have been religiously motivated, but the attacker uttering “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t guarantee that it was.
It’s the Arabic equivalent of Hallelujah, which is the anglicized version of a Hebrew exclamation.
It is a transliteration of the Hebrew word הַלְּלוּיָהּ (Modern halleluya, Tiberian halləlûyāh), which is composed of two elements: הַלְּלוּ (second-person imperative masculine plural form of the Hebrew verb hallal: an exhortation to “praise” addressed to several people[1]) and יָהּ (the names of God Jah or Yah).[2][3][4]
So Christians singing Handel’s chorus from Messiah should all be deported multiple times, one for each Hallelujah. //
re: #399 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I like to go drinking at a place called Ahllau Ak, and you know how they answer the phone there?
Hugh Jass there?
re: #396 Dr. Matt
Well that’s because they are the French. No one takes ‘em seriously.
Now when a big orange American bully says it, it carries much more weight.
(do I need a tag?)
re: #403 Sir John Barron
It’s because Obama doesn’t. Don’t they get that?
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Ah yes, Obama the Magic Negro™—if only he would say it, then it would save all the white people, but he supposedly hates white people so…
re: #404 lawhawk
It’s akin to saying OMG. Holy Crap. Jesus Christ! Etc. It is a common expletive in a wide range of circumstances, and doesn’t automagically confer jihadi outcomes on any incident.
Exactly.
The guy who runs @GovPenceIN’s campaign can’t tell you if his candidate is running for governor. Only Trump can. https://t.co/lrRDIpoGSo
— Brad Mielke (@TheBradMielke) July 15, 2016
Just heard from @mike_pence campaign spokesman. Listen for yourself #pencewatch continues in NYC @rtv6 pic.twitter.com/phuPmryz30
— Rafael Sánchez (@RafaelOnTV) July 15, 2016
re: #403 Sir John Barron
It’s because Obama doesn’t. Don’t they get that?
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Click your heels together and say “Islamic Radical Terrorism” 3 times, and everything will be okay.
re: #335 Jenner7
CNN reporting driver was known to police, but didn’t have a “jihadi record”.
Almost sounding like a criminal gun runner that panicked and ran right through a celebration. Certainly not saying that is what happened, but it sure fits the facts I have seen so far.
re: #411 FormerDirtDart
This is going well.
re: #397 CuriousLurker
I would point out that the Takbir (saying Allahu Akbar) is an extremely common phrase used by all Muslims used in a wide variety of situations, its use by jihadists being only one of many. IOW, given the type of attack it could very well have been religiously motivated, but the attacker uttering “Allahu Akbar” doesn’t guarantee that it was.
An example from the Wiki page linked to above:
Takbir » Usage » In times of distress
This phrase is also used in times of distress.
Just before a Garuda Airbus A300B-4 crashed into the jungle near Medan, Indonesia, the pilot screamed “Aaaaaaah! Allahu Akbar!” into his radio. According to a radio communication transcript, the pilot’s conversation with the air controller had been in English, but his last words were this Arabic phrase as the plane crashed on September 26, 1997, killing all 235 people aboard in Indonesia’s deadliest crash. It was suspected that the crash may have been due to either disorientation or engine failure caused by local dense smog resulting from forest fires.[
re: #96 Stanley Sea
Mick Jagger’s 29 year old gf is pregnant.
my dog
And the kids oldest sibling is only 45 and youngest is 17.
re: #416 ObserverArt
And the kids oldest sibling is only 45 and youngest is 17.
Not bad for a guy who can’t get satisfaction.
re: #388 makeitstop
Here’s a point that everyone seems to be missing regarding Newt’s proposal to ‘test’ for Sharia - in order to ‘test’ people to find out who’s a Sharia follower, they’ll have to test everyone.
Who’s gonna pay for administering the loyalty oath to every single American?
Way to think things through, “professor.”
Unless they do it by targeting people fingered by informers. We could form a special FBI branch of sharia police, who will knock on doors in the middle of the night to take people in for questioning. This may be what Newt has in mind.
re: #416 ObserverArt
And the kids oldest sibling is only 45 and youngest is 17.
Geez, and I laughed when I realized that Edward James Olmos’ eldest son, Bodie Olmos, is older than Edward James’ current wife, Lymari Nadal.
I don’t think #NeverTrump means what you think it means…
#NeverTrump is never more. They were crushed last night in Cleveland at Rules Committee by a vote of 87-12. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
re: #411 FormerDirtDart
Or maybe that one gets a tactical facepalm?
Of course, Jean-Luc has the final word:
re: #424 Franklin
I don’t think #NeverTrump means what you think it means…
The presumptive nominee of one of the nation’s two major political parties tweeted this.
re: #360 CuriousLurker
I’ve been avoiding most accounts of the attack like the plague, so I don’t know how many Muslims were killed, but I’d remind you that 10 days ago Medina was attacked and, as we all know, in recent years Muslims have made up the vast majority of terrorism victims. The only difference seems to be they’re usually “collateral damage” when a Western target is attacked. I’m guessing the Da’esh types don’t give a shit, as they probably think Muslims who choose to live in the West deserve to die (as does anyone who disgrees with them).
According to the Koran, those faithful who choose to travel to and live outside of dar al Islam should leave behind their holy book(s) and all related writings. There are many ways to interpret such a rule.
@lmcgaughy That sure is a lot of….hot air.
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(⌐■_■)— Franklin (@franklinftw) July 15, 2016
re: #426 lawhawk
I think you just combined about a quarter of all of D_Fs posts into one comment.
No doubt the “Gunsplainers” (hat tip to Bob & Chez) will deflect all coverage identifying the weapon as an AR-15 (type) rifle, since it’s technically a pistol
A Baltimore man toting an assault-style weapon is dead after a shootout with police https://t.co/DkL1lsqTnM pic.twitter.com/Xs63YRD3VJ
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 15, 2016
re: #424 Franklin
I don’t think #NeverTrump means what you think it means…
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Michael Steele was wrong again last night, as usual. He said Mike Lee definitely had the 28 votes he needed to get the minority report to the floor
Up and at Twitter
Four more years of weakness with a Crooked Hillary Administration is not acceptable. Look what has happened to the world with O & Hillary!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
re: #431 FormerDirtDart
No doubt the “Gunsplainers” (hat tip to Bob & Chez) will deflect all coverage identifying the weapon as an AR-15 (type) rifle, since it’s technically a pistol
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Another patriot’s blood waters the Tree of Liberty./
Laughing at this more than I should…
Enough golf. Time to terrify some kids https://t.co/884YZfxvFS
— Brian Doyle (@WritePlay) May 18, 2016
Some heroes ride motorcycles….
Guy on a motorcycle tries to forcibly board the Nice attacker’s truck cab. Sadly fell under the wheels. https://t.co/3mAmC0R8xZ
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) July 15, 2016
re: #428 unproven innocence
According to the Koran, those faithful who choose to travel to and live outside of dar al Islam should leave behind their holy book(s) and all related writings. There are many ways to interpret such a rule.
That’s why we have many books on tafsir (exegesis). Using your example, what would happen to the children born to those faithful who left the dar al Islam—how would they learn? And what about converts?
re: #435 Big Beautiful Door
Another patriot’s blood waters the Tree of Liberty./
Well, since he’s from Baltimore’s Western District, he won’t be identified as a “patriot”. More likely as a “thug”
(and, I know when many of you read “Western District” in you head you heard Herc saying “the Western District way!”)
LOOOOLLLL
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
re: #431 FormerDirtDart
No doubt the “Gunsplainers” (hat tip to Bob & Chez) will deflect all coverage identifying the weapon as an AR-15 (type) rifle, since it’s technically a pistol
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And I am sure that he never used that recoil spring tube as a butt-stock.
re: #440 Franklin
LOOOOLLLL
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What a moran. Who is doing his scheduling for him? First he decides to do it on Friday, when no one is paying attention to the news, and now he’s doing it on a weekend?
re: #440 Franklin
LOOOOLLLL
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So much for announcing being ‘inappropriate.’
I’m betting his earlier tweets weren’t generating sufficient attention.
re: #358 makeitstop
I’m wondering if there’s a saturation point with that approach, though.
They’re already doing a Benghazi themed night. At what point does ‘I’m the only one who can protect you’ stop sounding authoritative and begin sounding desperate?
That’s walking a fine line, and I don’t think Trump can do it.
How many times during the convention will they show footage of the Twin Towers being hit and going down? I remember that Keith Olberman walked off the news set during the 2008 convention and vented his disgust from a more private setting. Keith’s comments start at about 3:30 on the video. He was badly shaken.
Trump’s convention is going to make 2008 look like kumbaya.
re: #440 Franklin
In the Trump presidency, all important announcements and “speeches” will be tweeted at random times.
re: #434 FormerDirtDart
I swear that I know the exact scene that his facepalm is from. It’s when he’s got that baby Godzilla.
So your “respect,” @realDonaldTrump, for the dead of Nice was just your standard daily bullshit? pic.twitter.com/cDirEDwZ7v
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 15, 2016
re: #438 CuriousLurker
That’s why we have many books on tafsir (exegesis). Using your example, what would happen to the children born to those faithful who left the dar al Islam—how would they learn? And what about converts?
I assume that long-standing emphasis on memorization is one way of coping with absence of hardcopy.
re: #446 lawhawk
I swear that I know the exact scene that his facepalm is from. It’s when he’s got that baby Godzilla.
blowing out smoke rings instead of fire…
erratic trump veep timeline
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 15, 2016
leaked
denied leak
confirmed leak
announced event
canceled event
complained about leaks
officially announced
Yup!
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of oppo. https://t.co/NJHHVXDxFA
— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein) July 15, 2016
TO RECAP: Trump was all “I’m delaying my announcement due to tragedy in Nice,” then got too antsy and was like, “ok fine, it’s Pence.”
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 15, 2016
So, now that @GovPenceIN is officially @realDonaldTrump running mate, can Donny comment on Pence’s cigarette truther BS?!
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 15, 2016
Trump doing his official VP announcement on Shabbat. Will be interesting to see if Ivanka & Jared Kushner are there. https://t.co/8jsbmDYNqZ
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) July 15, 2016
re: #442 Timothy Watson
What a moran. Who is doing his scheduling for him? First he decides to do it on Friday, when no one is paying attention to the news, and now he’s doing it on a weekend?
People were about to find out when Pence withdrew from the governor’s race. Trump wanted to announce it first.
re: #456 Belafon
People were about to find out when Pence withdrew from the governor’s race. Trump wanted to announce it first.
talk about coordination…
re: #452 FormerDirtDart
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“Cancel everything! I gotta be on Twitter!”
“But Mr Trump, Gov. Pnce has to confirm whether he’s running for reelection, TODAY!”
“I GOTTA BE ON TWITTER!”
“But…”
“Okay, I’ll ANNOUNCE it on Twitter! There, are you HAPPY!”
re: #458 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever the consequences of this year’s trainwreck we call an election…it WILL be entertaining for people like me.
Also terrifying and depressing.
re: #458 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
talk about coordination…
Trump really boxed himself in with yesterday’s announcement. He should have instead done something like “I’m here to announce my VP, Mike Pence. Now, let’s talk about the events in France and an appropriate response.” The pivot would have looked better than what he’s been doing.
Pence couldn’t even clean up shop before the announcement?
My vote goes to @tedcruz because he’s a conservative who will protect our constitutional liberties. https://t.co/nQI6H15cPT
— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) May 2, 2016
Oppo continues apace
What You Should Know About Mike Pence’s Harsh Policy Record on Immigrants and Refugees https://t.co/5wTTeyPq5G via @immcouncil
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) July 15, 2016
Bloomberg, June 8 pic.twitter.com/YzVP11yBwi
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 15, 2016
re: #460 Jayleia
Whatever the consequences of this year’s trainwreck we call an election…it WILL be entertaining for people like me.
Also terrifying and depressing.
Because it is already being viewed as normal and not some horrific aberration…
Team @HillaryClinton was prepared with a video on Pence: https://t.co/iUFr1bDKgF
— Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) July 15, 2016
re: #463 Franklin
Pence couldn’t even clean up shop before the announcement?
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re: #450 unproven innocence
I assume that long-standing emphasis on memorization is one way of coping with absence of hardcopy.
Yes, but rote memorization doesn’t cover tafsir or any of the other aspects such as hadith, sunnah, fiqh, etc. and it certainly wouldn’t be helpful for converts, especially if the memorization was by someone who lacked sufficient fluency in both classical Arabic and modern English to accurately translate/interpret what was being relayed.
It would be like saying Jews could rely solely on the Hebrew verses in the Torah to understand Judaism, completely ignoring the Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash etc. Or, if you prefer, Christian knowledge & understanding being dependent on only the original (Kione) Greek of the New Testament.
re: #36 Tigger2
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plural of nub, a player who exhibits negative skill
Well, you KNEW this was coming…
Because France Doesn’t Regulate Trucks.re: #344 Jenner7
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@newtgingrich Are you also going to talk about Christian sharia law? because they seem to like to tell all Americans how they should live.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 15, 2016
Oppo tweets travel halfway around the world before Mike Pence even puts his pants on, or something like that.
@jbarro Oppo runs 4 seconds faster than thought… pic.twitter.com/sfFBSmdGN8
— Duke (@DukeStJournal) July 15, 2016
If you had any doubts about Trump sticking with his dangerous plan for America, say hello to his VP pick. pic.twitter.com/xuFClfZeLi
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 15, 2016
re: #476 Franklin
Damn, HRC laying the smacketh down right quick.
re: #446 lawhawk
I swear that I know the exact scene that his facepalm is from. It’s when he’s got that baby Godzilla.
Yeah, we won’t talk about those embarrassing films.
re: #473 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, you KNEW this was coming…
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Hurr hurr
Also, too: that snapshot of Krauthammer. Good grief.
“Madame Secretary? It’s official. Mike Pence.”
“Thank you. Release the Pence-Specific Flying Monkeys. FLY, MY PRETTIES! FLY!!!!”
re: #463 Franklin
Pence couldn’t even clean up shop before the announcement?
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Check out this timeline of how trump fucked up the digital release of info (someone said he prob hired his caddy as the it guy)
A few easy digital things Trump’s team didn’t do before announcing Pence:
1) Update Trump’s website with the news. pic.twitter.com/dOzlCTjAkA— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 15, 2016
re: #476 Franklin
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What’s amazing is that everything highlighted in red is, according to the GOP base, a feature, not a bug.
re: #468 Franklin
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Her media team is so on it. Those boys are ion for a rough election season.
re: #481 Stanley Sea
Check out this timeline of how trump fucked up the digital release of info (someone said he prob hired his caddy as the it guy)
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Fucking straight-up amateur hour.
Pence has withdrawn from Indiana Governor’s election
dated yesterday, July 14th
re: #481 Stanley Sea
Check out this timeline of how trump fucked up the digital release of info (someone said he prob hired his caddy as the it guy)
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re: #433 The Vicious Babushka
Up and at Twitter
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@realDonaldTrump Trump one day of you would be unacceptable.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 15, 2016
With so many protestors who were arrested and put in jail yesterday it’s important to understand how broken our entire jail system is.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) July 10, 2016
3 out of 5 ppl in jail haven’t been convicted of a crime & are simply too poor to post bail for release while their case is being processed.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) July 10, 2016
75% of pretrial detainees are jailed for nonviolent offenses. Traffic stops, property offenses, & other examples of broken windows policing.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) July 10, 2016
re: #479 Sir John Barron
Hurr hurr
Also, too: that snapshot of Krauthammer. Good grief.
He looks like a B-movie villain.
Sorry for the torrent of twitter posts this morning, but it’s ripe for the picking:
@KeithOlbermann @newtgingrich how do you really feel Keith?
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) July 15, 2016
10) Again, these are the precious first 30 minutes that hundreds of thousands, even millions, of voters are seeking information about Pence.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 15, 2016
And guess which campaign is flooding social media with information on Pence.
If you had any doubts about Trump sticking with his dangerous plan for America, say hello to his VP pick. pic.twitter.com/xuFClfZeLi
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 15, 2016
re: #488 Franklin
Which is why Philando Castile has four mug shots visible online. None were for felonies or serious misdemeanors.
re: #473 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, you KNEW this was coming…
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If a policy can’t prevent 100% of bad things from happening, then it shouldn’t exist.
//
Did I miss the boardroom hot tub ceremony where Trump gave the rose and cobra to his veep pick?
— John Hodgman (@hodgman) July 15, 2016
re: #493 Belafon
If a policy can’t prevent 100% of bad things from happening, then it shouldn’t exist.
//
“Meanwhile, here is my anti-abortion regulation bill to save women’s lives.”
The first official concept art from Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 has emerged, and I gotta say, it’s looking pretty good.
re: #495 Sir John Barron
“Meanwhile, here is my anti-abortion regulation bill to save women’s lives.”
Or my bill to prevent transgendered people from committing sexual assault. Fucking hypocrites.
re: #440 Franklin
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
WTF. I thought he was holding off his announcement?
re: #488 Franklin
All the fees and fines in Ferguson, MO, which the killing of Michael Brown and the protests ultimately revealed. Might never have come to light otherwise.
re: #496 Dr Lizardo
The first official concept art from Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 has emerged, and I gotta say, it’s looking pretty good.
I am simply not enough of a Marvel comics fan to get anything out of GotG part 1…
re: #498 Dr. Matt
WTF. I thought he was holding off his announcement?
Then they realized that their entire information policy was a total uncoordinated clusterf*ck and that they had to announce before Pence officially withdrew from the IN governor’s race
re: #500 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am simply not enough of a Marvel comics fan to get anything out of GotG part 1…
I knew nothing of GoG before I saw the movie. Turns out it made no difference. It’s just a great movie.
As of 11:30am, @GovPenceIN and @realDonaldTrump do not follow each other on Twitter.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 15, 2016
re: #498 Dr. Matt
WTF. I thought he was holding off his announcement?
The impulsive sonofabitch couldn’t help himself.
It’s like he’s got a bad case of Twitter onanism.
re: #498 Dr. Matt
WTF. I thought he was holding off his announcement?
He was about to get scooped by the Indiana Secretary of State’s office confirming that Pence had not registered to run for reelection. Apparently when Trump cancelled the announcement press conference, nobody realized, or maybe bothered to tell Trump, that this would happen.
re: #500 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am simply not enough of a Marvel comics fan to get anything out of GotG part 1…
I actually enjoyed it. GotG was one of Marvel’s not-so-universally-known properties (like say, Captain America or The Avengers or Iron Man), and it was nice to see it get a feature film. Marvel took sort of a gamble on that one, and it paid off handsomely, both commercially and critically.
I have to hand it to Marvel, they’ve been doing solid work bringing their comic book characters to the silver screen. Better than DC, at least thus far.
What happened Thursday, per Trump aide: Trump was in CA and in mtgs, watching coverage. Didn’t like VP leaks. But was in touch w/ Pence.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 15, 2016
Trump and his clown crew (especially his family) are undisciplined and incapable of managing anything. This should clue you in on how they’d handle national security.
re: #506 makeitstop
The impulsive sonofabitch couldn’t help himself.
It’s like he’s got a bad case of Twitter onanism.
Compulsive Twitterbation.
re: #504 lawhawk
Many of the replies are of the “yeah, so?” variety.
They don’t realize just how much of a clown campaign this is.
re: #503 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I knew nothing of GoG before I saw the movie. Turns out it made no difference. It’s just a great movie.
Kinda went past me…I guess it was well done, but a matter of taste.
A brief break from the ugly seriousness of our world
New @StarWars #RogueOne poster from #SWCE pic.twitter.com/OcqYm1PwzZ
— Andrew Vazzano (@AVSNY) July 15, 2016
Trump: how do I schedule a tweet announcing Pence tomorrow?
Well, you..
Uh, hang on, I got it
No, but
Done! ∗Tosses phone∗
But…..— Dub Pool (@dubpool) July 15, 2016
re: #508 Dr Lizardo
I actually enjoyed it. GotG was one of Marvel’s not-so-universally-known properties (like say, Captain America or The Avengers or Iron Man), and it was nice to see it get a feature film. Marvel took sort of a gamble on that one, and it paid off handsomely, both commercially and critically.
I have to hand it to Marvel, they’ve been doing solid work bringing their comic book characters to the silver screen. Better than DC, at least thus far.
Marvel’s success seems based on a production team grounded in Marvel comic lore. Warner/DC hasn’t quite figured that out yet.
re: #509 lawhawk
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Trump and his clown crew (especially his family) are undisciplined and incapable of managing anything. This should clue you in on how they’d handle national security.
Amateur campaign is amateurish.
re: #504 lawhawk
As of 11:30am, Governor Pence and Donald Trump do not follow each other on Twitter.
who the fuck is in charge of communications there?
It was posted up a few posts but the laundry list of things Team Trump failed to do has grown, have a look through, this is a great breakdown
A few easy digital things Trump’s team didn’t do before announcing Pence:
1) Update Trump’s website with the news. pic.twitter.com/dOzlCTjAkA— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 15, 2016
re: #514 FormerDirtDart
A brief break from the ugly seriousness of our world
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That’s what I will be watching with my kids at Christmas…
re: #517 HappyWarrior
Amateur campaign is amateurish.
Trump himself has poor impulse control. I can’t imagine how anyone working for him could stay sane.
re: #395 ObserverArt
Well Nicole Wallace on Morning Joke said Trump declaring war resonates with the mothers of this world. And that was about 5 or so minutes into the show…but before I could change the channel.
That would be the mothers that lost over 4000 sons and daughters in our ongoing war so far. I’m sure they are ready for more.
Oh, it resonates, all right…
re: #516 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Marvel’s success seems based on a production team grounded in Marvel comic lore. Warner/DC hasn’t quite figured that out yet.
And having directors who actually like the comic book heroes instead of trashing their very identity.
Marvel benefited from great casting choices, starting with Robert Downey Jr, on down the line.
DC’s biggest weakness has been that Zach Snyder can’t stand Superman, which is why the last two movies have been tough to swallow.
re: #514 FormerDirtDart
Which why I have grown to appreciate Star Wars. It may not be as complex, intimate, or smart as Doctor Who, but it is a big romantic epic that is full of hope.
Not that Doctor Who is not also romantic or full of hope, but it does so differently.
re: #521 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Trump himself has poor impulse control. I can’t imagine how anyone working for him could stay sane.
Do you have ANY evidence that he has sane employees? Any?
@KeithOlbermann So this makes Trump-Pence the “TP” ticket. Seems appropriate in many ways
— John Doyle (@HughKares) July 15, 2016
re: #520 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s what I will be watching with my kids at Christmas…
Oh, I’ll be seeing it when that comes out here in the Czech Republic, believe me. I’m very much looking forward to it.
I’m also looking forward to Suicide Squad - I’m basically keeping my fingers crossed. I’m most interested to see Jared Leto’s interpretation of the Joker. Every actor, from Sid Caesar to the late Heath Ledger, has had his own take on the character, and I’ve little doubt that Leto’s promises to be interesting.
re: #523 lawhawk
And having directors who actually like the comic book heroes instead of trashing their very identity.
Marvel benefited from great casting choices, starting with Robert Downey Jr, on down the line.
DC’s biggest weakness has been that Zach Snyder can’t stand Superman, which is why the last two movies have been tough to swallow.
Ugh. Snyder can take a long walk off a short pier. Man of Steel was almost bearable, except for the near total destruction of a city, but BvS: Dawn of Just what the hell was that? was a stinker.
re: #525 I Would Prefer Not To
Do you have ANY evidence that he has sane employees? Any?
OK. You got me there.
re: #518 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who the fuck is in charge of communications there?
Marla?
This is hilarious.
Twitter is eviscerating Trump/Pence for screwing up every aspect of the announcement.
This is a process thing.
Update Facebook, Twitter, campaign pages, etc. so that everything is rolled out simultaneously announcing the selection. None of the pages have updated to reflect Pence is on the ticket.
None.
Instead, the clown show reveals itself to be even worse than anyone can imagine. They are absolutely out of their element and think someone else will fix this.
There’s no training wheels Donny. You have to be ready from day 1, and this campaign shows you aren’t - and never will be ready.
For someone like Trump that has been on twitter forever, this is a killer:
11) And another thing: In Trump’s initial tweet, he didn’t tag @mike_pence so his nearly 10 million followers could follow his VP.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 15, 2016
So, a sax player that I play with is also an ad exec at Grey in NYC. He posted this - a letter from a co-worker who got mail from Trump begging for money.
(I blurred the name, even though it’s going viral on FB right now.)
Ouch.re: #440 Franklin
LOOOOLLLL
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But wait, I thought Rage Furby had talked to Newt’s lawyer or something.
re: #533 Franklin
For someone like Trump that has been on twitter forever, this is a killer:
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Well, that would require Trump to think of someone other than himself.
re: #518 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who the fuck is in charge of communications there?
They were looking at the white supremacist / nazi sites. Thought he might be there.
re: #533 Franklin
For someone like Trump that has been on twitter forever, this is a killer:
That would have been 11 characters Trump couldn’t devote to himself.
re: #535 BeachDem
But wait, I thought Rage Furby had talked to Newt’s lawyer or something.
Rage Furby should sue someone.
With the announcement I felt I needed to get going with the Photoshopping of our newest Trump ticket holder. It’s my patriotic duty!
(By the way…did Pence just get a Friday media Trump Dump?)
I can be real blockheaded…just look at my record!re: #536 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Well, that would require Trump to think of someone other than himself.
Yeah can’t do that.
re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I like the find in the thread posted above that he had people on his website sign up to receive a text of the announcement first.
Then never sent the text.
So… are these the files on the Death Star in Jyn’s hands? #starwars #SWCE pic.twitter.com/WnOk3UCysO
— Andrew Vazzano (@AVSNY) July 15, 2016
@AVSNY I think it’s a ‘Pac-Man’ game cassette
— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) July 15, 2016
Charles gets a h/t for the Track Palin thing:
joemygod.com
re: #489 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
He looks like a B-movie villain.
Images of Krauthammer always remind me of those old images of dead outlaws propped up on a board outside the local sheriffs office for public viewing.
I know that it may not be nice to say it…but…
nNevermind. Deleted to avoid looking like I can’t read English.
I’m going to bed. I must be tired.
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
re: #546 ObserverArt
Images of Krauthammer always remind me of those old images of dead outlaws propped up on a board outside the local sheriffs office for public viewing.
I know that it may not be nice to say it…but…
Well his brain died a long time ago. I think the body is catching up.
re: #546 ObserverArt
Images of Krauthammer always remind me of those old images of dead outlaws propped up on a board outside the local sheriffs office for public viewing.
I know that it may not be nice to say it…but…
Well, he’s a paraplegic and wherever he’s filming might not have the camera correctly positioned for his wheelchair, etc.
re: #548 Tigger2
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
Dunno, maybe he will get a job better suited to his capabilities, like Secretary of Transportation.
re: #518 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who the fuck is in charge of communications there?
His caddy
re: #548 Tigger2
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
Don’t worry, Freepers want him somewhere in the Cabinet. Can’t remember where (but I don’t think it was Transportation…)
re: #548 Tigger2
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
I’m hoping that both Christie and Gingrich just kind of sink into the muck now. There’s no reason to pay attention to them any more until they’re indicted for something.
re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Sarah Palin’s fans are taking the news with their usual aplomb (from c4p)
I have written many times here that in the big picture, I view Sarah Palin as God’s litmus test for this nation. With this development, I am not optimistic about our future as the powers that be continue down the path to God’s judgment.
(same poster suggests she’d be perfect as Trump’s chief of staff or—dog save us—press secretary)
@lawhawk @newtgingrich
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
Quoting Newt verbatim is unfair because it makes him sound like an asshole.
re: #506 makeitstop
The impulsive sonofabitch couldn’t help himself.
It’s like he’s got a bad case of Twitter onanism.
TwitTourette
“TP” is the perfect metaphor for this sh*t campaign. pic.twitter.com/GjAbfs4cb5
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 15, 2016
That logo… is amateurish. Did no one look at the optics, or did they hire the folks who did this:
The University of North Texas’s coffee mug is the most viral thing on the internet https://t.co/qcLdptOyN2 pic.twitter.com/tTMVlq613M
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) July 15, 2016
I’m just gonna drop this here…
without comment…
@JuddLegum That’s one way to look at it. Or, Trump’s initial is giggity giggity Pence’s initial.
— Franklin (@franklinftw) July 15, 2016
re: #561 lawhawk
That logo… is amateurish. Did no one look at the optics, or did they hire the folks who did this:
Sweet baby dog, that logo.
re: #485 FormerDirtDart
Pence has withdrawn from Indiana Governor’s election
dated yesterday, July 14th
Date stamped 11:05 this morning, so a little less than an hour before the deadline. THAT is why Trump announced this morning. He was gonna be scooped at noon otherwise.
That’s how disorganized and amateurish his campaign is - they didn’t realize this would happen, even though it was ALL OVER social media yesterday that Pence had to file by today. They didn’t spend the morning setting up all the stuff that should be triggered by the announcement.
re: #531 lawhawk
This is hilarious.
Twitter is eviscerating Trump/Pence for screwing up every aspect of the announcement.
This is a process thing.
Update Facebook, Twitter, campaign pages, etc. so that everything is rolled out simultaneously announcing the selection. None of the pages have updated to reflect Pence is on the ticket.None.
Instead, the clown show reveals itself to be even worse than anyone can imagine. They are absolutely out of their element and think someone else will fix this.
There’s no training wheels Donny. You have to be ready from day 1, and this campaign shows you aren’t - and never will be ready.
They could have had those pages prepped and ready on a computer, then FileZilla them to the server via ftp connection and it would take all of 2 minutes…maybe less.
Probably the same with Facebook, though I haven’t used it in years. Just get a new post ready and approved prior and post it. Have the tweets written and in a text doc. Copy. Paste. Send.
“when a ‘t’ and a ‘p’ love each other very much…” pic.twitter.com/AH9Zz2s9mZ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 15, 2016
re: #535 BeachDem
But wait, I thought Rage Furby had talked to Newt’s lawyer or something.
No, he talked to Newt’s liar. Not the same.
re: #561 lawhawk
That logo… is amateurish. Did no one look at the optics, or did they hire the folks who did this:
Ivanka made it! It was hanging on Trump’s fridge until the announcement.
(and, yeah. Terrible logo.)
re: #558 BeachDem
Sarah Palin’s fans are taking the news with their usual aplomb (from c4p)
I have written many times here that in the big picture, I view Sarah Palin as God’s litmus test for this nation. With this development, I am not optimistic about our future as the powers that be continue down the path to God’s judgment.
(same poster suggests she’d be perfect as Trump’s chief of staff or—dog save us—press secretary)
You know, that statement from the Palinite is a real puzzler. “Our future” looks bleak because God’s judgment will come, but that same person probably wants the Judgment Day because he/she expects to be called up to heaven. So it seems like they’d want Judgment Day to come kinda soon, so maybe just let the powers that be go ahead and do what they will.
This aspect of wanting/dreading Judgment Day by millennarians has always confused me.
re: #561 lawhawk
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Wait - seriously? The dingus on Trump’s T is sticking into Pence’s P-hole?
#TP2016 Make America Giggity Again pic.twitter.com/dczVT144Jo
— Franklin (@franklinftw) July 15, 2016
re: #571 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
This aspect of wanting/dreading Judgment Day by millennarians has always confused me.
And don’t even get me going on all the Rapture nutbags…
The Trump-RNC joint fundraising committee first out with an fundraising email off Pence news, and new logo! pic.twitter.com/t5XcKZAdjt
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) July 15, 2016
Oh. my. god.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
re: #548 Tigger2
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
Just the thought of Christie getting even by spitting in Trump’s Big Mac…PRICELESS…
re: #548 Tigger2
Trump just made Christie look like a big stooge by picking Pence.
And he’s holding the official announcement tomorrow in NJ. (at one of his golf courses)
New post-Brexit British coinage: the farthing, the ha’ppence, the penny, the tuppence, the thruppence and the trumppence.
re: #581 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
New post-Brexit British coinage: the farthing, the ha’ppence, the penny, the tuppence, the thruppence and the trumppence.
What about the comeupence?
Is a trumpence sorta like a thruppence, but more bigly?
I mean, when your candidate’s initials are “T” & “P” your first objective has got to be avoiding any possible links to toilet imagery
re: #580 Stanley Sea
And he’s holding the official announcement tomorrow in NJ. (at one of his golf courses)
Sure he is that way he can pay himself.
Holy shit!
Interesting you all see something filthy in this. Sickos. My mind went immediately to “The Man in the High Castle.” pic.twitter.com/BghV5DA3mL
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) July 15, 2016
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re: #584 FormerDirtDart
I mean, when your candidate’s initials are “T” & “P” your first objective has got to be avoiding any possible links to toilet imagery
With this campaign, these candidates, and the GOP? That’d be impossible.
re: #571 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
You know, that statement from the Palinite is a real puzzler. “Our future” looks bleak because God’s judgment will come, but that same person probably wants the Judgment Day because he/she expects to be called up to heaven. So it seems like they’d want Judgment Day to come kinda soon, so maybe just let the powers that be go ahead and do what they will.
This aspect of wanting/dreading Judgment Day by millennarians has always confused me.
All based on a woman beater. Yeah.
re: #575 Jenner7
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Oh. my. god.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Seriously. It looks like it was designed by a 14 year old girl doodling in the margins of her notebook.
Said as someone who was once a 14 year old girl doodling in that notebook.
edit: and that’s aside from the, ummm, unfortunate imagery.
Folks, I don’t know about you but I’d rather see “T” sticking it to “P” instead of sticking it to me…
re: #571 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
At some level, I think many of them realize they are bad people.
re: #561 lawhawk
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Did some of my graduate work at North Texas State. When the powers that be proposed the name change to University of North Texas in 1986, they let the alumni vote on it. The main reason for the change was the alleged stigma of the “State” college name. The vote was something like 92-8% against, but the name was changed anyway, showing once again that alumni are only valuable for the occasional monetary contributions they toss into the plate. The change-over reportedly cost more a million dollars, with street signs, stationery, software, forms and documents, and all kind of minor things needing to show the new name. It all went from NTS to UNT.
One thing that did not change was the call letters of the campus radio station, KNTS.
Good job by ESPN’s Jemelle Hill on calling out Lt. Gov. Patrick, while on her show today.
Furious Christie Refuses to Pick Up Trump’s Dry Cleaning
re: #591 calochortus
Seriously. It looks like it was designed by a 14 year old girl doodling in the margins of her notebook.
Said as someone who was once a 14 year old girl doodling in that notebook.
“Mrs. Michael Trump” written 50 different ways.
re: #557 stpaulbear
I’m hoping that both Christie and Gingrich just kind of sink into the muck now. There’s no reason to pay attention to them any more until they’re indicted for something.
This song goes out to Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich. Left standing all alone and crying…crying…crying!
re: #593 Ziggy_TARDIS
At some level, I think many of them realize they are bad people.
I’m sure you’re right.
re: #571 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
You know, that statement from the Palinite is a real puzzler. “Our future” looks bleak because God’s judgment will come, but that same person probably wants the Judgment Day because he/she expects to be called up to heaven. So it seems like they’d want Judgment Day to come kinda soon, so maybe just let the powers that be go ahead and do what they will.
This aspect of wanting/dreading Judgment Day by millennarians has always confused me.
try not to think about it too much. not meant to be logical.
/
Charles needs to modify his bumper sticker generator to include a roll of toilet paper as the official logo.
A very brief history of barbecues at Steve Doocy’s house pic.twitter.com/WdmaGobosG
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) July 15, 2016
“Are you wearing any panties? I wish you weren’t.” was almost Fox News’ original slogan. https://t.co/IT7qzEx0pq
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 15, 2016
Can someone photoshop the very bottom part of the ‘T’ to be the bottom half of a circle rather than a little rectangle? For what we’ve put up with of the Trump campaign, we deserve the right to do something really juvenile.
re: #596 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Good job by ESPN’s Jemelle Hill on calling out Lt. Gov. Patrick, while on her show today.
Patrick is a super butthole.
Things that happen when everyone knows you don’t pay your bills:
The Trump-RNC joint fundraising committee first out with an fundraising email off Pence news, and new logo! pic.twitter.com/t5XcKZAdjt
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) July 15, 2016
This logo is awful, and that’s the best thing that can be said about it.
Trump Pence 2016 - Flag of the Greater Nazi Reich in America - Good Catch @BecketAdams pic.twitter.com/DFqQswwRaP
— Franklin (@franklinftw) July 15, 2016
@morninggloria pic.twitter.com/0EMml9SOCT
— CoPi the Hunted (@coreypierceart) July 15, 2016
re: #596 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Good job by ESPN’s Jemelle Hill on calling out Lt. Gov. Patrick, while on her show today.
.@pastortraci With a visceral statement on tonight’s #POTUStownhall pic.twitter.com/G9qiqKKHdm
— TariqTouré طارق تورى (@TariqToure) July 15, 2016
✔️ Follow @FlipItDem 🔜
A new Twitter account promoting key congressional races we can FLIP. #FlipItDem👈🏼 pic.twitter.com/40ycX6fvZI— Skook (@skookerG) July 15, 2016
Mike Pence arriving for his rub-down:
Race Bannon’s Dopplegangerre: #607 lawhawk
Things that happen when everyone knows you don’t pay your bills:
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This logo is awful, and that’s the best thing that can be said about it.
Looks like the same font and sizes used in eye charts.
And just as blurry.
re: #595 Stanley Sea
Why is every logo blurry?
Could be because they created it in a raster-based format instead of vector-based. The latter, which is what all proper logos are created with, would scale clearly to any size. It’s also entirely possible that they don’t have a clue how to optimize graphics for web use.
Justice Thomas narrowly escaping being in #Nice during the terror attack https://t.co/dwJUT8L8U3 | Getty pic.twitter.com/VjKnFk5hyw
— POLITICO (@politico) July 15, 2016
Sweet jeebus. We are quite lucky that Thomas was not caught up in this. It would have been disastrous, and turned an already corrosive and fractured democratic process into one of sheer mayhem all because the GOP refuses to follow the law and give the President’s nomination their proper respect.
or something@JuddLegum pic.twitter.com/0AJJDFqiSp
— darth™ (@darth) July 15, 2016
oh my
re: #595 Stanley Sea
Why is every logo blurry?
I think someone cropped it from a screen grab of that Trump - RNC fundraising email.
re: #614 CuriousLurker
Could be because they created it in a raster-based format instead of vector-based. The latter, which is what all proper logos are created with, would scale clearly to any size. It’s also entirely possible that they don’t have a clue how to optimize graphics for web use.
It might also be people resaving and resizing images on Twitter in a nonloseless format.
OK, really going to bed now. Later, people!
Perhaps the scariest thing about Pence on the ticket? He might become president when Trump gets bored and quits. That’s a chilling prospect.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) July 15, 2016
What is the T doing to that P? https://t.co/tDvYm2QJYi
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) July 15, 2016
re: #616 lawhawk
Sweet jeebus. We are quite lucky that Thomas was not caught up in this. It would have been disastrous, and turned an already corrosive and fractured democratic process into one of sheer mayhem all because the GOP refuses to follow the law and give the President’s nomination their proper respect.
The panic over a 4-3 liberal majority that would have caused would have been incredible.
re: #608 Franklin
Could we not go that route please? The TP logo is bad enough on its own.
Only Trump could come up with a logo that suggests his VP is giving him a hand job pic.twitter.com/6KQ1IkzTa2
— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) July 15, 2016
re: #624 Belafon
The panic over a 4-3 liberal majority that would have caused would have been incredible.
More than that. Obama would have been blamed, somehow. Not keeping Americans safe overseas, not getting rid of ISIS, regardless of this attacker’s affiliation. Wingnut outrage on steroids.
re: #626 SoundGuy 2016
Crude humor behind the private:
mvQSw8RcPAO6ylFiSMTSvBVR/j5Vplzw1B83kiwWM8giX0A5BrGQ3MpGu2UDH3B6HLxBq60lmoAsyW358wk2pd1FB7sEnahw
Rep Susan Brooks: I have filed to withdraw from the General Election ballot..to pursue the vacancy created by Governor Pence’s decision.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 15, 2016
re: #623 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I can just imagine trump fuming right now as he reads all these tweets.
haha
Where do all of the House Republicans stand on @realDonaldTrump? https://t.co/45aHjg2v2c pic.twitter.com/PgPsZd1gjX
— CookPoliticalReport (@CookPolitical) July 11, 2016
A reminder that the GOP is lining up behind Trump… they need to be held accountable for every batcrap insane utterance, every vile policy suggestion. Everything. Because they stand for the same things.
It takes Trump to make everyone realize how insane the GOP has been all along.
re: #625 stpaulbear
Could we not go that route please? The TP logo is bad enough on its own.
Fair enough. But if it starts showing up as part of a security uniform, I’m gonna get pretty worried.
LOL, don’t know why it wont enbed.
re: #632 Stanley Sea
I can just imagine trump fuming right now as he reads all these tweets.
haha
Trump lives in a bubble. He never sees things he doesn’t like. His “people” tell him about them.
re: #636 Skip Intro
Trump lives in a bubble. He never sees things he doesn’t like. His “people” tell him about them.
Or not. Don’t want to make him mad. You wouldn’t like him when he’s mad…
56: number of times Pence went to House floor to defend the Iraq war
15: number of times Pence delivered speeches declaring victory in Iraq— CAP Action (@CAPAction) July 15, 2016
re: #637 makeitstop
Or not. Don’t want to make him mad. You wouldn’t like him
when he’s mad…
Fixed.
And now off to the dentist. (Just a cleaning. No big deal.)
it’s like toilet paper. get it pic.twitter.com/HhclTjiCTm
— matt: lubchansky (@Lubchansky) July 15, 2016
re: #639 calochortus
Hope it goes well. For me, cleaning hurts more than getting a filling.
Wikipedia has an interesting rundown of the possible Selections for Clinton’s VP.
Representative Xavier Becerra of California
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro of Texas
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti of California
Secretary of Labor Tom Perez of Maryland
Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
Retired Admiral and former NATO commander James Stavridis
The ones in Bold I like for selection.
re: #607 lawhawk
Things that happen when everyone knows you don’t pay your bills:
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This logo is awful, and that’s the best thing that can be said about it.
I had to touch it up a bit…make it more truthful.
What we have here is the big dick ticket.re: #633 lawhawk
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A reminder that the GOP is lining up behind Trump… they need to be held accountable for every batcrap insane utterance, every vile policy suggestion. Everything. Because they stand for the same things.
It takes Trump to make everyone realize how insane the GOP has been all along.
Speaking of people not saving files in a loseless format, that image on their site is almost 5 MBs because they saved it as a JPEG instead of a PNG.
re: #643 ObserverArt
I had to touch it up a bit…make it more truthful.
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My eyes are going wonky looking at that logo. Is there a clean copy anywhere on the internet yet?
Or are they planning on fucking with my eyesight until November?
re: #640 blueraven
Always good to have TP when you feel the need to take a “Trump.”
Yeah, I stole that.
re: #645 makeitstop
My eyes are going wonky looking at that logo. Is there a clean copy anywhere on the internet yet?
Or are they planning on fucking with my eyesight until November?
“Is the image blurry?”
“Yes.”
Whack.
“Is the image blurry?”
“Yes.”
Whack.
“Is the image blurry?”
“No.”
“Exactly.”
re: #642 Ziggy_TARDIS
I seriously doubt Hillary will poach from the Senate, especially in states with Republican governors. The Dems are interested in flipping the Senate in their favor.
re: #506 makeitstop
Isn’t that just exactly the kind of person we want to have the nuclear codes?
Thanks for all the updings on this one above. Hopefully it gets to my network beyond LGF.
Because I learned the lesson Manzanar taught, and sure enough right after 9/11 a friend of mine was wrongly interred, I am just furious at Newt and Trump.
Feature wish-Wayback comment searches for our own comments. I’m sure I wrote that internment about it at the time.
To Newt Gingrich-We should… test every GOP politician and if they no longer believe in all of our constitution, they should be deported.— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 15, 2016
Hubby looked at the news and said “We have the Dreamsicle ticket — white and orange!”
I know it’s the Daily Fail, so bear with me.
They are reporting the Nice mass murderer was a Muslim, but never went to a mosque, drank, and ate pork. Not exactly the jihadi profile.
So, while we’ve got Peter King demanding we surveil mosques, this guy would never have been on the radar in that fashion. He would probably have passed the Gingrich test about Sharia law too.
He’s become a dead-thread-turd-dropper-and-runner:
re: #331 Ojoe
It is time to physically fight these animals in an all-out war.
Logged out: Ojoe
@owillis
— (((gocart mozart))) (@gocartmozart1) July 15, 2016
“Make America Shit Again”
re: #645 makeitstop
My eyes are going wonky looking at that logo. Is there a clean copy anywhere on the internet yet?
Or are they planning on fucking with my eyesight until November?
I had to work to make the alterations I did look as blurred…and I probably needed to blur my additional type more.
re: #527 Dr Lizardo
Oh, I’ll be seeing it when that comes out here in the Czech Republic, believe me. I’m very much looking forward to it.
I’m also looking forward to Suicide Squad - I’m basically keeping my fingers crossed. I’m most interested to see Jared Leto’s interpretation of the Joker. Every actor, from Sid Caesar to the late Heath Ledger, has had his own take on the character, and I’ve little doubt that Leto’s promises to be interesting.
Umm, you mean Cesar Romero (the Joker in the 60’s TV Batman)?
re: #470 Sir John Barron
Trying to ensure a 0% share of the Hispanic vote.
According to Marist poll, Trump is already at zero percent with African-Americans in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
.@realDonaldTrump love your pivot in branding, girl. #MakeAmericaFuckAgain pic.twitter.com/Gb4ajyQttk
— Zach Stafford (@ZachStafford) July 15, 2016
re: #657 TedStriker
Umm, you mean Cesar Romero (the Joker in the 60’s TV Batman)?
Yep, you’re right. Oops.
Mike Pence: Sarah Palin Without The Charisma
It is too amazing to be true. Donald Trump charged Arthur Culvahouse, the same DC lawyer who vetted Sarah Palin, with vetting his VP choices.
And Trump has ended up picking Sarah Palin, without the charisma.
re: #654 gocart mozart
Wipe America clean again.
Again I will point out that Trump has chosen a James Bond villain for his VP.
re: #653 wrenchwench
He’s become a dead-thread-turd-dropper-and-runner:
Logged out: Ojoe
Well isn’t that lovely.
re: #508 Dr Lizardo
I actually enjoyed it. GotG was one of Marvel’s not-so-universally-known properties (like say, Captain America or The Avengers or Iron Man), and it was nice to see it get a feature film. Marvel took sort of a gamble on that one, and it paid off handsomely, both commercially and critically.
I have to hand it to Marvel, they’ve been doing solid work bringing their comic book characters to the silver screen. Better than DC, at least thus far.
However from what I’ve read, it looks like Suicide Squad is going to be a big hit. The trailers have been fantastic.
If we’re being honest, this logo does accurately reflect what Trump is doing to Mike Pence’s political career. pic.twitter.com/sW6FyAGYxm
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) July 15, 2016
re: #666 Skip Intro
Again I will point out that Trump has chosen a James Bond villain for his VP.
But Trump will be the one ordering red wine with fish.
re: #668 Big Beautiful Door
However from what I’ve read, it looks like Suicide Squad is going to be a big hit. The trailers have been fantastic.
Good to hear. I really want to see it, and I’ve been quite impressed by the trailers so far.
I’m out; off to enjoy a little nightlife. :) Later.
re: #667 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Well isn’t that lovely.
Well, no. You want ‘lovely’? I got fungus and tattoos.
This #FungiFriday brought to you by cedar apple fungus (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) pic.twitter.com/1IP9HIqdF7
— Allyson Salisbury (@AllysonAster) May 6, 2016
Detail after my final touchup session on this one. Art and ink by Austin Huffman at Tiger Claw tattoo. pic.twitter.com/LMmI4ezoXF
— Brian Switek (@Laelaps) July 15, 2016
Embarrassing Chris Christie one more time, Trump is doing his first appearance with Pence in New Jersey.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2016
re: #672 wrenchwench
I’m heading to the state fair this weekend to admire the needlework competition winners. That’s going to be lovely.
Ted Cruz’s college roommate:
The Trump Pence logo is what happens when you can’t find a single gay graphic designer willing to work for you.
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) July 15, 2016
Did the Aryan Nation design that Trumppence logo? Geez. pic.twitter.com/yeWSKHn7HX
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 15, 2016
re: #674 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I’m heading to the state fair this weekend to admire the needlework competition winners. That’s going to be lovely.
For reals!
/sorry for playing ‘sarcasm challenged’
re: #534 makeitstop
So, a sax player that I play with is also an ad exec at Grey in NYC. He posted this - a letter from a co-worker who got mail from Trump begging for money.
(I blurred the name, even though it’s going viral on FB right now.)
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Awesome.
re: #675 Lidane
New Trump Pence logo proves either they drove away every gay graphic designer or hired an amusingly vindictive one. pic.twitter.com/nnPf6blFY8
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 15, 2016
re: #676 Lidane
Typical response from a lib…oh wait.
Rod Dreher retweeted this?! Odd.
Trump-Pence campaign unveils new logo, and car that will carry Trump behind Pence’s Honda Element in motorcade. pic.twitter.com/tCzDo3RZSK
— Michael B Dougherty (@michaelbd) July 15, 2016
re: #670 Timothy Watson
But Trump will be the one ordering red wine with fish.
Is it a coincidence that the villain is in From Russia With Love?
I think not.
I reconsidered the update I did of the TP Trump Pence logo.
I figure we needed a bit of protection…
Practicing Safe Photoshopping of Logosre: #679 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Red State headline (not gonna link to them): ALLEGED. Donald Trump Campaign Hired A Democrat To Design New Trump-Pence Logo ಠ_ಠ
re: #558 BeachDem
Sarah Palin’s fans are taking the news with their usual aplomb (from c4p)
I have written many times here that in the big picture, I view Sarah Palin as God’s litmus test for this nation. With this development, I am not optimistic about our future as the powers that be continue down the path to God’s judgment.
(same poster suggests she’d be perfect as Trump’s chief of staff or—dog save us—press secretary)
White House press conferences would be soooo entertaining, and completely uninformative!
re: #653 wrenchwench
I’m sure there’s a recruiting station somewhere in his general area. Sign up Brave and Mighty One! Please. Then maybe someone who’s on their 5th tour can come the fuck home.
RNC convention organizers insolvent, beg Adelson for $6 million due to companies pulling out bc of Trump https://t.co/VTB9hfNXKs #p2 #tiot
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) July 15, 2016
TRUMP: Paul, you find any good headlines about our logo?
MANAFORT: pic.twitter.com/b3jlWqiUem— RINO Pundit (@RINOPundit) July 15, 2016
Sec. Clinton’s campaign comms team is on fire:
Mike Pence: He’s Donald Trump with a different haircut. pic.twitter.com/R2hYduGaym
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 15, 2016
Dreher loves a good sodomy joke
It’s … penetrating. Shows Mike Pence who’s his daddy. https://t.co/2tO7tan0bX
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 15, 2016
re: #689 CuriousLurker
Everything is f……
re: #564 Sir John Barron
Sweet baby dog, that logo.
Reminds me of the brown circle of quality (logo Dogbert created with the bottom of his coffee cup).
All the black people at Chick-fil-A keep giving their name as Black Lives Matter so that they have to call it out over the PA. Yesssss
— First of all, bitch, (@thejournalista) July 14, 2016
re: #687 A Mom Anon
I’m sure there’s a recruiting station somewhere in his general area. Sign up Brave and Mighty One! Please. Then maybe someone who’s on their 5th tour can come the fuck home.
I’m only beginning to see the metaphor in his numerous old posts of a view of the world from on high.
Wow- Fmr top Romney adviser says he & @mike_pence commiserated about @realDonaldTrump being “unacceptable” https://t.co/LCPhzhzmxh
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) July 15, 2016
It’s disorienting to have had commiserated w/someone re: Trump - about how he was unacceptable, & then to see that someone become Trump’s VP
— Dan Senor (@dansenor) July 15, 2016
re: #695 Franklin
Oh, there go all the fainting couches and clutching pearls at Fox. Michelle Malkin may go into spasms.
Prominent NYC rabbi (who converted Ivanka) pulls out of #RNC after receiving major community backlash pic.twitter.com/walFI9KaJc
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) July 15, 2016
When do the t-shirts go on sale?
FLOTUS &
BERNIE &
BILL &
BIDEN &
OBAMA &
CHELSEA &
HILLARY— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) July 15, 2016
Democratic convention headliners
Mon: Michelle Obama & Sanders
Tues: WJC & Mothers of the Movement
Wed: Obama & Biden
Thurs: Chelsea & HRC— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) July 15, 2016
No Warren. Hmmmmm….
re: #697 Jenner7
Poor Dan. He’s SHOCKED, Shocked I tell you to find out that wingnuts have no moral compass.
Yeah, save it Danny. You lied your ass off as the chief spokesasshole and main mouthpiece for Paul Bremer and for the Coalition Provisional Authority to everyone who would have you on the TV or read one of your bullshit reports. Bite me.
JUST IN: Patriots QB Tom Brady says he will “no longer proceed with the legal process” over #Deflategate. pic.twitter.com/nUpb6KuyNA
— ABC News (@ABC) July 15, 2016
I can’t believe Deflategate ended like this. All that’s missing is Meadow Soprano parking and some onion rings.
— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) July 15, 2016
When asked if he had any comment on Pence, Josh Earnest said
Josh Earnest has his own nickname for Trump VP pick @mike_pence… “TPP-supporting, Medicaid-expanding Mike Pence” #zing
— Marshall Cohen (@Marshall_Cohen) July 15, 2016
No comment.
hahahaha
From last night:
What #Jewish Americans saw when they read these statements—any who didn’t are either fools or in denial. #p2 #tiot pic.twitter.com/RIyJpUHgbz
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) July 15, 2016
And the most vulgar winner is …
@HucksGayBFF @fakedansavage @GovPenceIN @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/znMhQ8c52n
— Viktor Pöytäniemi (@vikipoyta) July 15, 2016
Rand Paul skipping Republican National Convention. https://t.co/HqVaqZmmAR pic.twitter.com/L4gCowXwpa
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) July 15, 2016
and not a single person there will notice his absence.
Trump says he got news on Sterling & Castile shootings from unhinged far-right radio host Michael Savage https://t.co/kLzU59utKx
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 15, 2016
re: #609 Jenner7
Hey, Charles, can we get a new Trump/Pence slogan generator?
re: #704 Stanley Sea
When asked if he had any comment on Pence, Josh Earnest said
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hahahaha
Josh Earnest is the best Press Secretary in recent memory. Much better IMHO than Robert Gibbs was.
Bless this day and this GIF forever and ever. pic.twitter.com/reUTHEiJkF
— Zach Stafford (@ZachStafford) July 15, 2016
Good news for Trump! People are saying that the Westboro Baptist Church will be sending speakers to fill in the slack next week.
re: #707 Backwoods_Sleuth
and not a single person there will notice his absence.
I remember the fond days when Dr. Ayn Rand Paul was the next big thing in the Tea Party GOP.
I bet Pence is the GOP establishment’s last attempt to get rid of Trump.
@ODeeCS @tkdmike “@Farcethemusic: Y’all a bunch of perverts. Nothing wrong with this logo. #trumppence pic.twitter.com/yDfitdtHra”
— Bertrand Boily (@bertrand_boily) July 15, 2016
If you missed it, here’s the storyify of the tweets that described trump’s social media fail of the Pence announcement.
My Trump digital rollout tweet-storm in story form here: https://t.co/cTFra9YHra
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 15, 2016
re: #718 Tigger2
Except a competent team would be worried about that.
Time for a new thread. When they get this long my pc barely functions here.
Dudes, we have spoiler tags for a reason.
I’ll tell you this much, if that P gets pregnant, they will marry and have the baby. pic.twitter.com/DTQlrRDOm7
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) July 15, 2016
Ivanka Trump’s rabbi backs out of RNC role. Had planned to deliver prayer condemning bigotry in the US. https://t.co/u8mdNAOilc
— SportsGirl101 (@Arianna8927) July 15, 2016
re: #323 Sir John Barron
So, in less serious matters, it now appears that, despite Trump having announced Tim Tebow as a convention night speaker, Tebow is in fact not speaking at Trump’s sshitstorm parade.
How fucking incompetent can a campaign be to include someone as a speaker that isn’t really speaking.
re: #652 lawhawk
I know it’s the Daily Fail, so bear with me.
They are reporting the Nice mass murderer was a Muslim, but never went to a mosque, drank, and ate pork. Not exactly the jihadi profile.
So, while we’ve got Peter King demanding we surveil mosques, this guy would never have been on the radar in that fashion. He would probably have passed the Gingrich test about Sharia law too.
Yep. Like I commented earlier. I could see this person as a criminal that got into drug/arms running and was on a mule run. Got spooked and tried to escape. Ended hitting a few people and saw no other chance than to keep going to try to escape since he knew he was already deep in shit.
Dana Bash is on CNN saying that last night at midnight trump was trying to get out of the Pence pick.
LOL
I hope some of the Bernie or Bust people are seeing what could happen if Trump wins,
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law this year that mandated funerals for fetuses https://t.co/OencnIfHmv
— Emily Crockett (@emilycrockett) July 14, 2016
re: #728 Stanley Sea
Dana Bash is on CNN saying that last night at midnight trump was trying to get out of the Pence pick.
LOL
Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July 15, 2016
Breaking the mattress of America. pic.twitter.com/M4Cq62YS2c
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 15, 2016
re: #729 Tigger2
I hope some of the Bernie or Bust people are seeing what’s at stake if Trump wins,
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I mentioned here at LGF yesterday that Pence had done that.
re: #728 Stanley Sea
Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July 15, 2016
re: #725 Jenner7
Ivanka Trump’s rabbi backs out of RNC role. Had planned to deliver prayer condemning bigotry in the US.
That raises the question - did he demur on his own, or was the content of his prayer objectionable to Trump’s people?
I’m inclined to believe it was the latter.
re: #731 FormerDirtDart
That’s frickin’ hilarious. Pound that Pence. None the richer.
re: #734 makeitstop
That raises the question - did he demur on his own, or was the content of his prayer objectionable to Trump’s people?
I’m inclined to believe it was the latter.
Or, his congregation was so horrified at him speaking there, they threatened to send him packing if he went.
Rolling out a VP is 100x easier than 99 percent of what a President does every day, if you can’t pull this off without drama and errors…
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 15, 2016
re: #728 Stanley Sea
Dana Bash is on CNN saying that last night at midnight trump was trying to get out of the Pence pick.
LOL
Well, this sounds fabulous.
.@DanaBashCNN live look at the Trump campaign pic.twitter.com/YRbdxDdkkq
— Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) July 15, 2016
Can’t see the haters when I’ve got my love glasses on. pic.twitter.com/1OBBoKdqfM
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) July 15, 2016
Colorado: Clinton +8
Virginia: Clinton +9
North Carolina: Clinton +6
Florida: Clinton +7
Colorado: Clinton +6
Virginia: Clinton +7
North Carolina: Clinton +6
Florida: Clinton +5
The media responds by talking about polls from two days ago.
re: #737 lawhawk
Or, his congregation was so horrified at him speaking there, they threatened to send him packing if he went.
Also a possibility. I saw a comment somewhere that there was backlash among the congregation.
Ew—good reason to not pick Kaine
David Brat Eyes Senate Seat If Tim Kaine Gets VP Nod
“If that seat opens up in a special election or whatever, yeah I would consider it,” Brat told CNN. “Congress, Senate the executive stuff, that is the stuff I love.”
(I’m still laughing at this guy being referred to as “eye candy.” I guess—particularly in light of today’s logo reveal—different strokes…)
re: #734 makeitstop
That raises the question - did he demur on his own, or was the content of his prayer objectionable to Trump’s people?
I’m inclined to believe it was the latter.
I would not be surprised if they realised that they couldn’t guarantee what reception he was going to get.
Having a religious minority get booed at the Republican convention, would be just another nail in the coffin.
The master musician who created “Chocolate Rain” just followed me on twitter. I guess that means I have become a full citizen of the interwebs.
heh…
Today would be a good day for @realDonaldTrump to release his tax returns.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 15, 2016
re: #741 lawhawk
So, who’d drop that bit of dish about Trump?
My guess? Gov. Christie. Because why not. It’d be the perfect final act for him. Especially as the announcement is going to be in NJ, not IN or NY or FL.
@DanaBashCNN @realDonaldTrump @mike_pence Always ask for a prenup. Rookie move, Donny.
— MoxieMom (@moxiemom) July 15, 2016
re: #689 CuriousLurker
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Why not ask the candidate for the money? It’s less than one-tenth of one percent of his self-declared net worth. Seem it’d be worth it to avoid international humiliation.
If u love freedom u must destroy its enemies
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) July 15, 2016
Trump supporter…
re: #748 Danack
I would not be surprised if they realised that they couldn’t guarantee what reception he was going to get.
Having a religious minority get booed at the Republican convention, would be just another nail in the coffin.
Yeah, would piss off the supremacists.
Trump-Pence, because what’s a little disagreement over major policy issues among friends who just met yesterday.
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) July 15, 2016
TP for my bunghole!!!!
Behold the Trump/Pence logo that’s penetrating the internet https://t.co/BsiGLuOc8D pic.twitter.com/qYw7nyLbDr
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) July 15, 2016
Some of us are at work, if you would please put the dick logos in a private comment box.
re: #760 lawhawk
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Trump supporter…
She could star in another TV series and bore them to death.
re: #766 Big Beautiful Door
Some of us are at work, if you would please put the dick logos in a private comment box.
That’s something that went over my head I haven’t worked in damn near 10 yrs. : ))
Breaking the mattress of America. pic.twitter.com/M4Cq62YS2c
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 15, 2016
“the debut single by American comedy troupe The Lonely Island featuring singer Justin Timberlake”
en.wikipedia.org
So I’m scrolling through the comments seeing all of these comments about the Trump-Pence logo. I keep seeing this blurry graphic, thinking it was created as a rip on whatever the actual graphic is.
Then it hits: Oh. My. God. That’s the logo. Just… wow.
The thing that jumps out at me the most is the fourth red bar is slightly longer than rest, and is trying to fill the space under the ‘P’. It really makes the upper three red bars look really out of whack, and doesn’t relate to them at all.
I would bet both my drawing hand and my graphics tablet that Trump made that decision to move the bar over. It just shrieks of someone going “Don’t give me your shit about negative space! Move it over! It bugs me!”
Welcome to the world of graphic design…
U.S. releases chapter of congressional report about the Sept. 11 attacks that raises questions about Saudi links. https://t.co/eA1osbw64U
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2016
Here it is…The “28 pages” re Saudis and Sept. 11th.https://t.co/0uEjMAgbXI
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) July 15, 2016
Well, I guess that settles it.
It’s true.
This is completely false. Zero truth to it. https://t.co/xC8QAV17W3
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) July 15, 2016
Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July 15, 2016
This logo is not welcome in certain Indiana pizzarias pic.twitter.com/GGcH1TXUm3
— Sam Baker (@sam_baker) July 15, 2016
Breaking the mattress of America. pic.twitter.com/M4Cq62YS2c
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 15, 2016
re: #772 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only up to Page 3, but it seems the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, CA might be a problem.
re: #758 Dr. Matt
But if similarity IS intentional, that’s either an incredibly ham-handed neo-Nazi graphic designer — or one with really odd sense of humor.
— Billmon (@billmon1) July 15, 2016
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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