Live Video of a Dying Party: GOP Convention Nominates Donald Trump
It’s official now. The GOP has passed the point of no return. Donald Trump is the nominee. pic.twitter.com/qGPERgKfR4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2016
It’s official now. The GOP has passed the point of no return. Donald Trump is the nominee. pic.twitter.com/qGPERgKfR4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2016
@AdamSerwer pic.twitter.com/sVqybRaZSG
— Patrick LaSalle (@PatrickLaSalle) July 19, 2016
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…
Vermont delegate is babbling about Calvin Coolidge
re: #6 The Vicious Babushka
Vermont delegate is babbling about Calvin Coolidge
Ugly glasses, thick red beard, ill fitting “Make America Great Again” hat?
Meanwhile, outside Quicken Loans Arena, let’s go to Rinsed Pubis…
And now my state just voted for Trump with fucking trees on their heads.
Oy, gevalt.
BREAKING: The Republican Party.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) July 19, 2016
Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. #FamousMelianaTrumpQuotes pic.twitter.com/TdCzWnzTr6
— Ivan Roberson (@Ivanroberson) July 19, 2016
This nomination process has all the energy of a loose bowel movement.
It’s strange. Trump has been the presumptive nominee for months, so making it official at last isn’t really news. Longer term, the appearance of a GOP candidate like Trump was inevitable, given Republican fear-mongering and propaganda.
So why does it feel like a gate to the Ninth circle of Hell has just opened?
Gotta love the voters of Utah being ignored. The party of Lincoln and Reagan is dead #RNCinCLE
— Devin M. Bilski (@dbilski4) July 19, 2016
re: #1 lawhawk
AC/DC should let the RNC use this as the new RNC theme:
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This ain’t no technological breakdown, this is:
He is not bringing your coal jobs back, stupid suckers.
re: #14 EPR-radar
It’s strange. Trump has been the presumptive nominee for months, so making it official at last isn’t really news. Longer term, the appearance of a GOP candidate like Trump was inevitable, given Republicans fear-mongering and propaganda.
So why does it feel like a gate to the Ninth circle of Hell has just opened?
Emailzgate always had the chance to upend everything at the last moment.
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re: #13 darthstar
This nomination process has all the energy of a loose bowel movement.
I am sooooo stealing that…
re: #13 darthstar
This nomination process has all the energy of a loose bowel movement.
An explosive loose bowel movement?
i believe article 12 of the constitution states “any candidate for the office of president of the united states must reveal what the fuck is up with his hair”
re: #14 EPR-radar
So why does it feel like a gate to the Ninth circle of Hell has just opened?
Because a major political party just officially made Idiocracy real.
You need to file a report - they don’t monitor the @Support account. Everyone needs to report @ChuckCJ0hnson @annamerlan
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2016
@Green_Footballs @Support @ChuckCJ0hnson @annamerlan I sense a disturbance in the force as if 1000000 cucks cried out at once @Cernovich
— Cuck Tracker 9000 (@lampwork007) July 19, 2016
re: #17 The Vicious Babushka
He is not bringing your coal jobs back, stupid suckers.
I’m not sure at what point I stop feeling pity for willful, aggressive counter-factualism, but we’re getting close.
If you believe in the Coal Fairy hard enough, surely the jobs will come back. The Donald will make it so!
w-w-wha happened?
i thought never trump was going to make one last stand!
Spare me the disbelief, #GoodGOPers. For years you’ve solicited the psychos, racists, xenophobes & morons. Now you’ve found their nominee.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 19, 2016
re: #20 Blind Frog Belly White
An explosive loose bowel movement?
No…just a lazy, dissatisfying one.
re: #24 Testy Toad T
I’m not sure at what point I stop feeling pity for willful, aggressive counter-factualism, but we’re getting close.
If you believe in the Coal Fairy hard enough, surely the jobs will come back. The Donald will make it so!
I ran out of that kind of patience long ago. Anyone who is still voting for Republicans in contested elections at this time has no excuse for their bigotry and self-chosen feeble mindedness.
re: #26 Lidane
I like the “GoodGOPers” there. After all, we’ve all heard the stories about the good Germans.
Never Trump was never going to be anything but Stop Hillary. Push met shove.
This is all over mental gymnastics to show that they will survive the post 2016 purge of the overt racists and bigots while the covert bigot brigade attempts to reassert themselves.
The GOP spent years peddling all the hate, fear, and outright lies, courtesy of their mouthpieces over at Fox Show Some Leg News and Talking out their ass Radio. Trump is all on you.
You can’t blame anyone but yourselves.
We warned you. Repeatedly. Even the President warned you guys how mindless this idiot is. But still you voted and then nominated this carbuncle on the bottom of an anal fissure
re: #24 Testy Toad T
Reminds me of the self induced plight of Kentuckians.
re: #21 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
i believe article 12 of the constitution states “any candidate for the office of president of the united states must reveal what the fuck is up with his hair”
I just would like to see his tax returns.
Say, what is up with that? Does he realize he may have sloughed off on his own party but now that he is headed for the general election America is going to want to see those.
Let’s do this. pic.twitter.com/DtYYBDTWE6
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 19, 2016
This has never happened before. Nativism used to exist in both parties. Now it has swallowed one of them whole.
— Adam Servianski (@AdamSerwer) July 19, 2016
re: #23 Charles Johnson
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As one of those new to the Twitter-verse, how precisely does one report Chuckie properly (what category)?
The Republican Party will never recover from this. They’ve nominated an overt white nationalist with a following of racists and bigots.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2016
Trump going to address the convention live via satellite at 9 PM from Trump Tower in NYC, per CNN.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 19, 2016
Don’t worry delegates. We can still get rid of Trump through a procedure I like to call “everyone dies in an asteroid apocalypse.” #RNCinCLE
— Sweet Meteor O’Death (@smod2016) July 19, 2016
re: #31 lawhawk
I will need to see the purge of overt racists and bigots from the GOP after the 2016 election before I believe in it.
In fact, I think the exact opposite will happen, i.e. the party will get even more openly racist and bigoted than it presently is. This is based on the assumption that Trump will not lose by enough of a margin to really force the GOP to see the problem it has with bigotry in the ranks.
7 Times Donald Trump Has Sold Out American Workershttps://t.co/hDYYMnnl6w pic.twitter.com/Np0eImetUT
— The National Memo (@NationalMemo) July 19, 2016
While they figure this out, they are chanting “we want Trump”. You got him, idiots. Now the band plays…
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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Nonsense!
They dominate state governments and are within three percentage points in the Presidential race. Democrats and liberals need to stop trying to insult, make fun of, or be cute about the Republicans and accept that they’ve been kicking our asses for the last six years.
We need to get fucking serious! We need to stop wasting time on Bernie Sanders-type nutjobs! We need to treat these guys as the mortal threat to the Republic that they are- and to recognize that it’s going to take long, hard work to defeat them, state by state, county by county, town by town. And we need to make sure that moderates are driving the bus, to win over the voters who will never sign up for a left-wing revolution but which we need for 50%+1.
re: #40 EPR-radar
I will need to see the purge of overt racists and bigots from the GOP after the 2016 election before I believe in it.
In fact, I think the exact opposite will happen, i.e. the party will get even more openly racist and bigoted than it presently is. This is based on the assumption that Trump will not lose by enough of a margin to really force the GOP to see the problem it has with bigotry in the ranks.
The thing is, there’s nowhere for the overt racists and bigots to go. They’re not just going to shrug and say “oh, oh well, I guess we’d better let the brown people have the country now”. There is no Democratic Nixon who will welcome them with open arms.
I don’t see how any recovery can happen but with the dying off of a few generations. Best-case, maybe we see a fracture of the Democratic party as the GOP dies on the vine.
re: #35 wrenchwench
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Is that true? There were some pretty wacky candidates and personalities in the 50’s.
It seems fitting to illustrate Dumbageddon with images from the Doré Bible.
a trump presidency:
- the wall is never finished
- the clusterfuck of a half assed attempt to deport 11 million essential workers only utterly disrupts several vital industries just like it did in alabama
- saudi arabia’s friends in the gop block the muslim ban, half hearted immigration security measures passed and hailed as Great Success
- trump increases obama’s bombing of isis somewhat after a speech resembling the threats of a motorcycle gang leader
- trump signs ryan’s tax bill giving millionaires big breaks
- trump signs ryan’s bill destroying ss and medicare
- trump submits high tariff bill which is killed in congress
- economy slowly grinds to a halt
- no new factory jobs, no muslim ban, no wall, mexicans still fastest growing ethnic group, recession and terrorism - trump voters denounce him as never a real conservative and talk about how he “went to washington and became corrupted by the establishment”
re: #44 Brian J.
Nonsense!
They dominate state governments and are within three percentage points in the Presidential race. Democrats and liberals need to stop trying to insult, make fun of, or be cute about the Republicans and accept that they’ve been kicking our asses for the last six years.
I would encourage you to perhaps calm down a notch. The Republicans have successfully achieved nothing on a national level, because nothing is all they can agree upon and all they can set their minds to. That’s frustrating, and it’s damaging for the country, but it’s all they can manage to do.
ANOTHER RICK ROLL
Such a great honor to be the Republican Nominee for President of the United States. I will work hard and never let you down! AMERICA FIRST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2016
re: #40 EPR-radar
I will need to see the purge of overt racists and bigots from the GOP after the 2016 election before I believe in it.
In fact, I think the exact opposite will happen, i.e. the party will get even more openly racist and bigoted than it presently is. This is based on the assumption that Trump will not lose by enough of a margin to really force the GOP to see the problem it has with bigotry in the ranks.
Thing is, the GOP can’t completely disavow the racists and the bigots, because that would be disavowing over forty years that the GOP spent building up to this, including the Southern Strategy and Saint Ronald of Reagan.
No, the GOP is well and truly fucked.
re: #38 Jenner7
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Trump going to address the convention live via satellite at 9 PM from Trump Tower in NYC, per CNN.
i guess that same tech doesnt reach as far as Alaska
re: #50 Testy Toad T
I would encourage you to perhaps calm down a notch. The Republicans have successfully achieved nothing on a national level, because nothing is all they can agree upon and all they can set their minds to. That’s frustrating, and it’s damaging for the country, but it’s all they can manage to do.
Quick quiz: which party has its largest Congressional majority since 1928, and also control of the Senate?
You’re taking these guys far too lightly. Democrats need to start taking these guys seriously. No more attempts to be Oscar Wilde, just hit them, hit them, hit them!
re: #44 Brian J.
There’s just something about the zeal of a convert that I can’t quite put my finger on…
re: #57 Brian J.
Quick quiz: which party has its largest Congressional majority since 1928, and also control of the Senate?
You’re taking these guys far too lightly. Democrats need to start taking these guys seriously. No more attempts to be Oscar Wilder, just hit them, hit them, hit them!
Explain how this is any more meaningful than “we have to declare war on ISIS”.
Just gotta, like, hit ‘em harder! Gotta be REAL serious now!
Trump will again pollute the airwaves with yet another appearance before the RNC - this time by videophoning it in.
It’ll be yuge.
re: #60 Testy Toad T
Explain how this is any more meaningful than “we have to declare war on ISIS”.
Just gotta, like, hit ‘em harder! Gotta be REAL serious now!
We’re being too sarcastic on the Internets, not freaking out enough, I guess.
re: #61 lawhawk
Trump will again pollute the airwaves with yet another appearance before the RNC - this time by videophoning it in.
It’ll be yuge.
Hope it works as well as videocons have been working for me.
I thought they were supposed to work this stuff out before prime time.
Another debacle tonight.
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re: #46 Pawn of the Oppressor
Is that true? There were some pretty wacky candidates and personalities in the 50’s.
It seems fitting to illustrate Dumbageddon with images from the Doré Bible.
Among the major-party winners, I think it’s true. The 50s were all Ike and Adlai Stevenson.
re: #57 Brian J.
Quick quiz: which party has its largest Congressional majority since 1928, and also control of the Senate?
You’re taking these guys far too lightly. Democrats need to start taking these guys seriously. No more attempts to be Oscar Wilder, just hit them, hit them, hit them!
Blog commenters calling the GOP a joke is not the same as saying that no effort is needed to defeat them.
re: #62 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We’re being too sarcastic on the Internets, not freaking out enough, I guess.
If there’s any room left in your soul for humor, you’re not giving it your all.
Obama and Romney were 1 point apart on Day 2 of the Republican primary in 2012.
Hillary leads by 2.7
re: #62 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We’re being too sarcastic on the Internets, not freaking out enough, I guess.
What else do you expect of a Politics ‘N’ Snark blog?
re: #61 lawhawk
Trump will again pollute the airwaves with yet another appearance before the RNC - this time by videophoning it in.
It’ll be yuge.
He can’t stand not to be in the spotlight. I’m guessing this appearance is already recorded so he can call Fox and comment on himself while it’s running at the convention.
re: #58 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There’s just something about the zeal of a convert that I can’t quite put my finger on…
They know the enemy better, there’s that.
re: #48 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
a trump presidency:
- the wall is never finished
- the clusterfuck of a half assed attempt to deport 11 million essential workers only utterly disrupts several vital industries just like it did in alabama
- saudi arabia’s friends in the gop block the muslim ban, half hearted immigration security measures passed and hailed as Great Success
- trump increases obama’s bombing of isis somewhat after a speech resembling the threats of a motorcycle gang leader
- trump signs ryan’s tax bill giving millionaires big breaks
- trump signs ryan’s bill destroying ss and medicare
- trump submits high tariff bill which is killed in congress
- economy slowly grinds to a halt
- no new factory jobs, no muslim ban, no wall, mexicans still fastest growing ethnic group, recession and terrorism - trump voters denounce him as never a real conservative and talk about how he “went to washington and became corrupted by the establishment”
On a positive note, no one will ever want to privatize again. Since all contractors will likely go out of business for not being paid.
re: #69 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If there’s any room left in your soul for humor, you’re not giving it your all.
If I actually exposed myself to the thinking of undecided voters who need to be given reasons to vote for Clinton vs. Trump, I’d lose what little faith I have in humanity.
re: #41 Jenner7
Too many votes, not enough fingers?
re: #72 Skip Intro
He can’t stand not to be in the spotlight. I’m guessing this appearance is already recorded so he can call Fox and comment on himself while it’s running at the convention.
I thought it was traditional for the nominee to stay off the podium until the night of the acceptance speech.
re: #60 Testy Toad T
Explain how this is any more meaningful than “we have to declare war on ISIS”.
Just gotta, like, hit ‘em harder! Gotta be REAL serious now!
It means that too many people on the left and center-left use words like “destroys” and “annihilates” to describe any encounter with someone on the right. Most of those programs do Democrats more harm than good, with their smugness and quips that are designed to alienate voters in the middle. Instead, the party needs to take local races and local attitudes seriously, and not make enemies profligately with extreme promises like “free college” and “shut down Wall Street.”
I don’t like the noises I’m hearing about how you’re assuming Trump will fail, or how every comment about Hillary is larded with hems, haws, and qualifications. She’s our candidate, and criticizing her now serves Trump and no one else.
(And as for ISIS, I think it’d be a good idea to return to daily Pentagon briefings, such as during Gulf War I or Vietnam, to make sure that people have near-real-time knowledge of exactly how much ordnance has been dropped on ISIS and, to the extent possible, the number of ISIS soldiers killed. I’m aware of the risks of body count math, but with no ground troops, that risk should be reduced.)
re: #76 Romantic Heretic
I have one finger they can borrow.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
It is. But the uncouth one has a tendency to break the rules.
re: #62 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We’re being too sarcastic on the Internets, not freaking out enough, I guess.
And in a more serious vein, I’m sorry, I just can’t. Like I seriously can’t. Yes. This is serious shit. That Donald Trump has been nominated is incredible and not in a good way. That Republicans control more than their share of the state governments and the House is not good. Some of that can be directly traced to bad turnout for the Dems in 2010. It’s a pretty big obstacle to overcome at the moment, but not impossible.
But I can’t be in a constant state of outrage and panic and fear and worry over this. It’s not healthy for me. I have to also laugh and post stupid shit and cook and exercise and in general live my life instead of thinking the damn sky is falling every time another poll hits. Because if I don’t, then I turn into a fearful wreck manipulated by my emotions the same way the majority of the GOP voters are and quite frankly, I think that’s stupid. Not to mention exhausting.
Also I find being an absolutist at all times a great way of shutting down conversation and in general making people less likely to listen to you, so there’s that too.
Anyway, the corn and bean salad that’s currently marinating on the countertop has a really tasty dressing mix from the little bit I tried so I’m hopeful it’s going to be fantastic for dinner.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
I thought it was traditional for the nominee to stay off the podium until the night of the acceptance speech.
Yes, but I think others may have videoed in after nomination?
We can thank the Alt-Right for not allowing Baby Whiplash aboard the Trump Train
It’s missives like this that make me wonder whether I really should support Mr. Trump. pic.twitter.com/QrYBm9Adq2
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2016
re: #77 Decatur Deb
I thought it was traditional for the nominee to stay off the podium until the night of the acceptance speech.
We’re talking Trump here. He will never give up a photo op.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
I thought it was traditional for the nominee to stay off the podium until the night of the acceptance speech.
Trump is a malignancy that can only thrive with constant media exposure.
re: #78 Brian J.
Daily Pentagon briefings on ISIS is a bad idea IMO. That would be a toxic mess of propaganda, war pornography and treating anti-terror efforts as war.
re: #81 klys (maker of Silmarils)
One can only produce so much adrenaline at a time, after all.
re: #83 The Vicious Babushka
Hey Benji Baratheon, you helped build this.
“Let’s build a career on hate, what could possibly go wrong?”
re: #78 Brian J.
It means that too many people on the left and center-left use words like “destroys” and “annihilates” to describe any encounter with someone on the right. Most of those programs do Democrats more harm than good, with their smugness and quips that are designed to alienate voters in the middle. Instead, the party needs to take local races and local attitudes seriously, and not make enemies profligately with extreme promises like “free college” and “shut down Wall Street.”
I don’t like the noises I’m hearing about how you’re assuming Trump will fail, or how every comment about Hillary is larded with hems, haws, and qualifications. She’s our candidate, and criticizing her now serves Trump and no one else.
(And as for ISIS, I think it’d be a good idea to return to daily Pentagon briefings, such as during Gulf War I or Vietnam, to make sure that people have near-real-time knowledge of exactly how much ordnance has been dropped on ISIS and, to the extent possible, the number of ISIS soldiers killed. I’m aware of the risks of body count math, but with no ground troops, that risk should be reduced.)
You put too many propositions in a single comment to get a whole-hearted upding. I’d give this one a .75.
re: #87 Blind Frog Belly White
One can only produce so much adrenaline at a time, after all.
I checked, the damn spider cleaned out my supply until at least next Thursday.
re: #69 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If there’s any room left in your soul for humor, you’re not giving it your all.
I know we don’t agree on this, but humor doesn’t accomplish anything by itself. People laughed at every tyrant in history, but that laughter never disturbed their sleep.
re: #83 The Vicious Babushka
Another moron exposes himself. “Decimate” is merely killing one in 10. Hitler did much worse than that in Europe.
Saw earlier today that the first presidential debate will be held at Hofstra University on Long Island.
In the backyard of both Trump and Clinton.
re: #91 Brian J.
I know we don’t agree on this, but humor doesn’t accomplish anything by itself. People laughed at every tyrant in history, but that laughter never disturbed their sleep.
If you really think humor means people aren’t caring, this might not end up being the best fit after all.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
I thought it was traditional for the nominee to stay off the podium until the night of the acceptance speech.
Pfft.
It is time for New Traditions. Great Traditions. The Best…Trump Traditions.
And now you can kiss the ring.
re: #86 EPR-radar
Daily Pentagon briefings on ISIS is a bad idea IMO. That would be a toxic mess of propaganda, war pornography and treating anti-terror efforts as war.
In the absence of timely information, we get the toxic brew that’s now being poured out in Cleveland where people simply don’t know what operations are underway against ISIS. I think the best way to avoid that is with as much information as we can muster, so that people know exactly what our military is doing and why we’re doing it.
Such a great honor to be the Republican Nominee for President of the United States. I will work hard and never let you down! AMERICA FIRST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2016
Trump celebrates his nomination by tweeting the name of an anti-Semitic group that advocated appeasing Hitler. https://t.co/HYCy6jIhig
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2016
The Anti-Defamation League pleaded with Trump not to use the slogan “America First” because of its ugly pro-Hitler history. He ignored them.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #95 ObserverArt
I would like to clean it before I kiss it. /
re: #91 Brian J.
I know we don’t agree on this, but humor doesn’t accomplish anything by itself. People laughed at every tyrant in history, but that laughter never disturbed their sleep.
Who said that humor is the only game in town? You’ll reach some people with the humor and snark, and other people with policy wonkery. So do both.
Preview of McConnell’s pitch tonight.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blaming what he calls are “Clinton Democrats” for a Senate standoff that’s blocked President Barack Obama’s request for money to fight the Zika virus.
Congress is now on a seven-week recess, and left Washington without acting on the Zika money. Democrats objected to a GOP proposal that would block Planned Parenthood clinics in Puerto Rico from getting money to fight the virus.
McConnell is blaming the impasses on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
re: #38 Jenner7
Trump going to address the convention live via satellite at 9 PM from Trump Tower in NYC, per CNN.
He really is going to appear every night, isn’t he?
Attention junkie.
They are invoking the 16F rule and the reallocating. And stuff.
Did Nicolle Wallace just say that the Trump sons are warm and affectionate and great speakers?? Shoot me now.
I love that the shitstorm is holding up the evening’s events.
re: #96 Brian J.
In the absence of timely information, we get the toxic brew that’s now being poured out in Cleveland where people simply don’t know what operations are underway against ISIS. I think the best way to avoid that is with as much information as we can muster, so that people know exactly what our military is doing and why we’re doing it.
I’m sorry to be so blunt, but don’t tell me a single Republican in this country gives a flying fuck about facts, or that they would tone down their rhetoric in the face of additional charts and plots and details.
We are not in this quagmire for want of facts. We’re in it because people would prefer to believe contrary to them.
re: #92 EPR-radar
Another moron exposes himself. “Decimate” is merely killing one in 10. Hitler did much worse than that in Europe.
Also, too…decimation was an official military punishment inflicted on your own troops for malfeasance, not something you do to an enemy.
re: #96 Brian J.
In the absence of timely information, we get the toxic brew that’s now being poured out in Cleveland where people simply don’t know what operations are underway against ISIS. I think the best way to avoid that is with as much information as we can muster, so that people know exactly what our military is doing and why we’re doing it.
You actually think facts matter to Republicans?
Donald Day Trump? Why can’t they get his middle name right? lol
re: #104 Testy Toad T
I’m sorry to be so blunt, but don’t tell me a single Republican in this country gives a flying fuck about facts, or would tone down their rhetoric in the face of additional charts and plots and details.
We are not in this quagmire for want of facts. We’re in it because people would prefer to believe contrary to them.
I recognize that, but I’d at least like to make that as hard as possible. The ISIS kill total should be at least as well known as the Iraq Body Count was back in the day.
Congratulation to @Reince, who history will remember as the man who oversaw the death of the Republican party. #RNCinCLE #GOP
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 19, 2016
bitter tears of conservative true believers mourning the nomination of the trump entity:
re: #110 Brian J.
I recognize that, but I’d at least like to make that as hard as possible. The ISIS kill total should be at least as well known as the Iraq Body Count was back in the day.
God no. “Body Count” is a disgusting example of war pornography. Non-Republicans can’t effectively oppose Republicans by becoming them.
My only hope tonight is trump gets to the podium & goes off about Melania.
re: #110 Brian J.
I recognize that, but I’d at least like to make that as hard as possible. The ISIS kill total should be at least as well known as the Iraq Body Count was back in the day.
Our daily political and social discourse does not need to be steeped in how many people we killed today, or how many people the other guy killed today. I’m sorry, but this is sick thinking.
re: #96 Brian J.
In the absence of timely information, we get the toxic brew that’s now being poured out in Cleveland where people simply don’t know what operations are underway against ISIS. I think the best way to avoid that is with as much information as we can muster, so that people know exactly what our military is doing and why we’re doing it.
Presence, absence - what would it matter. These are the people who said, with no obvious irony, that they didn’t want to vote for an AUMF against ISIS that the President requested, because they weren’t sure he’d use it, even though he’d already been bombing them for months.
re: #61 lawhawk
Trump will again pollute the airwaves with yet another appearance before the RNC - this time by videophoning it in.
It’ll be yuge.
OK, correction. He’ll go OFF from a Saddam chair. Prob better.
re: #115 Stanley Sea
My only hope tonight is trump gets to the podium & goes off about Melania.
I have higher hopes for Trump. Dropping his trousers and/or proposing a “final solution” before the end of the convention.
re: #116 Testy Toad T
Our daily political and social discourse does not need to be steeped in how many people we killed today, or how many people the other guy killed today. I’m sorry, but this is sick thinking.
You really think any other way is possible? Americans want ISIS dead, and they need to know how much progress we’ve made on a regular basis. If you think our troops shouldn’t be attacking ISIS at all, you can argue for that position, but I don’t think it will be effective.
You left me out buddy I’m from Indiana and I call Pence an asshole.
re: #78 Brian J.
It means that too many people on the left and center-left use words like “destroys” and “annihilates” to describe any encounter with someone on the right. Most of those programs do Democrats more harm than good, with their smugness and quips that are designed to alienate voters in the middle.
Designed to alienate voters in the middle you say? I sure would like to know where you can make a very wide statement like that? That makes some of the comments malicious on purpose. Really? Most want the voters in the middle.
Is what you are saying designed to put down or alienate a large part of the posters here? You may just be doing what you don’t like yourself.
Take a deep breath. Think it through. Just my opinion.
re: #114 EPR-radar
God no. “Body Count” is a disgusting example of war pornography. Non-Republicans can’t effectively oppose Republicans by becoming them.
Army rejected it, not only because it is a short path to corrupt metrics, but because it measures the wrong thing. It’s as useless as yards of frontal advance in WWI.
OK, Chuck Todd equivocating. I’m off to watch Chopped. Fuck the Republicans and the Trumps.
re: #83 The Vicious Babushka
We can thank the Alt-Right for not allowing Baby Whiplash aboard the Trump Train
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Ben seems conflicted.
I hope you’re happy, Trump enthusiasts. Because what comes next is all on you. ALL OF IT.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2016
re: #120 Brian J.
You really think any other way is possible? Americans want ISIS dead, and they need to know how much progress we’ve made on a regular basis. If you think our troops shouldn’t be attacking ISIS at all, you can argue for that position, but I don’t think it will be effective.
I don’t think the way to win a war of minds is to kill as many of the other guy’s minds as possible, and glorifying that, and reveling in it, is grotesque.
Might as well just voice support for glassing the place if you want to take that tack, at least it’s intellectually honest.
re: #122 ObserverArt
Designed to alienate voters in the middle you say? I sure would like to know where you can make a very wide statement like that? That makes some of the comments malicious on purpose. Really? Most want the voters in the middle.
Is what you are saying designed to put down or alienate a large part of the posters here? You may just be doing what you don’t like yourself.
Take a deep breath. Think it through. Just my opinion.
Eh, it’s pretty clear at this point that we all know nothing about reaching out to the moderate voters here at this hardcore radical leftist stronghold.
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re: #122 ObserverArt
Designed to alienate voters in the middle you say? I sure would like to know where you can make a very wide statement like that? That makes some of the comments malicious on purpose. Really? Most want the voters in the middle.
Is what you are saying designed to put down or alienate a large part of the posters here? You may just be doing what you don’t like yourself.
Take a deep breath. Think it through. Just my opinion.
I’m just trying to point out that we need to differentiate between when we’re doing something effective and when we just think we are. The Daily Show? Contributed nothing to the cause of supporting Democrats or liberals. Laughing at Trump and Pence going to Chili’s? Contributed less than nothing, because millions of people eat at such places every week. Alienating voters by making fun of things they do isn’t a good idea. We need to talk to them, listen to them, change minds.
re: #89 Decatur Deb
You put too many propositions in a single comment to get a whole-hearted upding. I’d give this one a .75.
We (Democrats, liberals and progressives) design programs to alienate the middle ground???
Maybe I am reading this wrong. I’m going to sit on the sidelines a bit. I am not getting it.
re: #129 Brian J.
I’m just trying to point out that we need to differentiate between when we’re doing something effective and when we just think we are. The Daily Show? Contributed nothing to the cause of supporting Democrats or liberals.
Citation needed, unless you want to argue by fiat.
re: #126 Testy Toad T
I don’t think the way to win a war of minds is to kill as many of the other guy’s minds as possible, and glorifying that, and reveling in it, is grotesque.
Might as well just voice support for glassing the place if you want to take that tack, at least it’s intellectually honest.
ISIS are fanatics, and you defeat them not by winning hearts and minds but by burying them. I think we can win against ISIS without using WMDs, but democratic societies lose interest and support for war quickly when it’s not obvious that they’re making progress. We need to make our progress more widely known.
re: #125 Skip Intro
Ben seems conflicted.
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— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 20, 2016
re: #130 ObserverArt
Maybe I am reading this wrong. I’m going to sit on the sidelines a bit. I am not getting it.
I’m not feeling it, either.
Later, lizards. There’s dinner to cook and beer to drink on the porch.
re: #116 Testy Toad T
Our daily political and social discourse does not need to be steeped in how many people we killed today, or how many people the other guy killed today. I’m sorry, but this is sick thinking.
Not only that, but the real danger to civilians in America from ISIS is barely related to military actions against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Attacks credited to ISIS are being carried out by people who’ve had little or no contact with ISIS. Indeed, success on the ground in Syria and Iraq may INCREASE the probability of attacks in the US. I’d bet you that if/when we finally mop up the last ISIS fighters on the ground that they’ll morph into a completely decentralized, web based, loose affiliation.
We did daily updates from the Pentagon during Vietnam, and they were bullshit, designed to convince us that we were winning and NVN and the Vietcong were on the run. How’d THAT work out?
How about for starters, you stop using slogans made by Nazis in your campaign, or is that too much to ask for? @realDonaldTrump
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2016
Congratulations to the Republican Party because they fully opened up the Pete Wilson Portal to Extermination.
What Pete Wilson did to California Republicans now Donald Trump will do to Republicans nationwide. Right now, Gary Johnson is taking a very hard look at what’s going on and he and Weld now have a shot of totally breaking the Republican Party apart and picking up the Wall Street and Libertarian factions.
Looking for Tebow’s helmet cont.
.@erictrump said @realdonaldtrump maybe gave it to “a child.” Please use this delay to interrogate kids in yr house. https://t.co/LFD6qz3rkR
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 19, 2016
re: #129 Brian J.
I’m just trying to point out that we need to differentiate between when we’re doing something effective and when we just think we are. The Daily Show? Contributed nothing to the cause of supporting Democrats or liberals. Laughing at Trump and Pence going to Chili’s? Contributed less than nothing, because millions of people eat at such places every week. Alienating voters by making fun of things they do isn’t a good idea. We need to talk to them, listen to them, change minds.
I’ll need some evidence for the assertion that something like the Daily Show is completely useless for winning hearts and minds. There was a solid foundation of fact under much of that humor.
I’m clueless about how to actually talk to someone who is undecided between Trump and Clinton. However, a self-imposed paralysis before that analysis is done is certain to be a bad idea.
I am a little disappoint. I am worried Dana White will not speak before my bedtime.
Big fan.
re: #125 Skip Intro
No need to be modest @benshapiro, we all know the hard work you put in to making the GOP the shit show it is today. Take a bow.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2016
“Well, it appears science has faltered once again in the face of overwhelming religious evidence.” pic.twitter.com/kosy0S8XMd
— SimpsonsQOTD (@SimpsonsQOTD) July 20, 2016
re: #129 Brian J.
Speaking for myself, I wasn’t laughing at Pence for eating at Chili’s. I was laughing at Pence because his running mate thought so little of him and his family that he couldn’t even have them eat with him at his hotel.
People grovel before Trump and he treats them like shit. People like Pence and Chris Christie. Yet they still think if they just grovel some more he might not treat them like hired help.
re: #130 ObserverArt
We (Democrats, liberals and progressives) design programs to alienate the middle ground???
Maybe I am reading this wrong. I’m going to sit on the sidelines a bit. I am not getting it.
As I said, a comment that groups too many ideas is difficult to support.
re: #78 Brian J.
It means that too many people on the left and center-left use words like “destroys” and “annihilates” to describe any encounter with someone on the right. Most of those programs do Democrats more harm than good, with their smugness and quips that are designed to alienate voters in the middle. Instead, the party needs to take local races and local attitudes seriously, and not make enemies profligately with extreme promises like “free college” and “shut down Wall Street.”
I don’t like the noises I’m hearing about how you’re assuming Trump will fail, or how every comment about Hillary is larded with hems, haws, and qualifications. She’s our candidate, and criticizing her now serves Trump and no one else.
(And as for ISIS, I think it’d be a good idea to return to daily Pentagon briefings, such as during Gulf War I or Vietnam, to make sure that people have near-real-time knowledge of exactly how much ordnance has been dropped on ISIS and, to the extent possible, the number of ISIS soldiers killed. I’m aware of the risks of body count math, but with no ground troops, that risk should be reduced.)
Okay, okay…
We understand, but you have to also understand that the Democratic party is fundamentally different from how the GOP has always operated until now. The Democrats are like the proverbially unherdable cats: grassroots oriented, attention paid in a thousand different directions and not real good at coming to amicable agreement.
The GOP has been a very top-down management affair. The grassroots salute and take their orders and that’s that. That changed this time for them, but still have our basic nature in the Democratic Party. You work with what you have, and that means engagement with your local party grassroots.
South Dakota delegate facepalms as his state announces its votes for Trump https://t.co/7SqyPRF2im #gopconvention pic.twitter.com/BoOkiL3YKK
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2016
re: #135 Blind Frog Belly White
Not only that, but the real danger to civilians in America from ISIS is barely related to military actions against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Attacks credited to ISIS are being carried out by people who’ve had little or no contact with ISIS. Indeed, success on the ground in Syria and Iraq may INCREASE the probability of attacks in the US. I’d bet you that if/when we finally mop up the last ISIS fighters on the ground that they’ll morph into a completely decentralized, web based, loose affiliation.
We did daily updates from the Pentagon during Vietnam, and they were bullshit, designed to convince us that we were winning and NVN and the Vietcong were on the run. How’d THAT work out?
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
Right after the official announcement, lightning, followed by a wall-shaking clap of thunder. Seemed an appropriate response from mother nature.
re: #124 BeachDem
OK, Chuck Todd equivocating. I’m off to watch Chopped. Fuck the Republicans and the Trumps.
Do you find yourself Googling some of the ingredients? I do.
Decimate has chiefly been used in English to mean “destroy a large number of” for centuries. Also, “tithing”. Oxford, Merriam Webster, etc…
Anyone ever wonder what would have happened if Trump had run for the Democratic nomination and ditched the racist stuff, but played up the his other Make America Great shtick?
(12 of 12) The faces of Donald Trump https://t.co/8NGSCTLeTR #FacesOfTrump pic.twitter.com/GLPRWCzDuk
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) July 13, 2016
re: #133 Tigger2
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Let’s put Ben’s tweets in chronological order.
I hope you’re happy, Trump enthusiasts. Because what comes next is all on you. ALL OF IT.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2016
It’s missives like this that make me wonder whether I really should support Mr. Trump. pic.twitter.com/QrYBm9Adq2
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2016
So Ben still wants to vote for Trump if only the racists and anti-semites that make up the Trump base would stop wanting him dead. That’s just plain nuts.
re: #152 Ming5000
Anyone ever wonder what would have happened if Trump had run for the Democratic nomination and ditched the racist stuff, but played up the his other Make America Great shtick?
He did. He went by the pseudonym Bernard Sanders. And his campaign is crippling Hillary’s campaign even after it’s over, because of his false claims of corruption, howls to release the transcripts, and false promises which neither he nor any other Democrat could deliver.
re: #148 Brian J.
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
My issue with the “Body Count” isn’t the picayune issue of double counting.
There is something monstrous about making murder the central focus of reporting on a military engagement. ISIS has made the mistake of trying to seize and control territory. So progress against ISIS isn’t deaths, it is reduction and hopefully elimination of their control of territory.
re: #149 BeachDem
Right after the official announcement, lightning, followed by a wall-shaking clap of thunder. Seemed an appropriate response from mother nature.
re: #148 Brian J.
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
We aren’t lacking for drones and attack A/C. We’re lacking validated targets, unless we go back to destroying villages in order to save them.
re: #153 gocart mozart
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I swear her portraits of Trump look like the Pink Floyd animation art from The Wall.
Wow this woman with a voice even more annoying than Donald J. Trump his very self, is projecting like an IMAX in Outer Space.
re: #156 EPR-radar
My issue with the “Body Count” isn’t the picayune issue of double counting.
There is something monstrous about making murder the central focus of reporting on a military engagement. ISIS has made the mistake of trying to seize and control territory. So progress against ISIS isn’t deaths, it is reduction and hopefully elmination of their control of territory.
And that territorial reduction would be a major emphasis of said briefings. Correcting Body Count Math is necessary to deliver an accurate impression of progress made; so is assessing the strength of the opposing force, and that means estimating the number of enemy soldiers killed and remaining enemy strength.
re: #155 Brian J.
He did. He went by the pseudonym Bernard Sanders. And his campaign is crippling Hillary’s campaign even after it’s over, because of his false claims of corruption, howls to release the transcripts, and false promises which neither he nor any other Democrat could deliver.
As I recall, polling results as reported by others here are showing 80% of Sanders voters plan to vote for Clinton in November. I expect the Democratic convention to improve that a bit.
This doesn’t look like a crippled campaign to me.
BILL CLINTON SECKUALLY ABUSED WIMMENS
re: #91 Brian J.
I know we don’t agree on this, but humor doesn’t accomplish anything by itself. People laughed at every tyrant in history, but that laughter never disturbed their sleep.
The main thing that is needed is to get people out to vote this year, and just as important, get them out to vote in 2018.
The lack of Democratic interest in off-year elections is why the Republicans do so much better.
A unique hat on the floor pic.twitter.com/tc58F2Ci0H
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 20, 2016
re: #148 Brian J.
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
You are thinking about this in very conventional ways that remind me of how the Bush Administration could not conceive of a non-state actor carrying out attacks like 9/11. Here, you seem to think that ISIS needs to hold physical ground to exist. They don’t.
Here’s an analogy - when Terminator came our in 1985, we all thought in terms of mainframe computers which had to physically BE somewhere, which had to be BIG, and therefore vulnerable.
Terminator 3, whatever its vices or virtues as a film, turned that on its head. Skynet became a web-based, decentralized AI that was everywhere and thus nowhere.
THAT’S what we’re facing now. It’s comforting, but terribly simplistic, to think we can ‘wipe out ISIS’ with boots on the ground, or more bombs, or whatever. I suspect that for some time we’ll have to deal with homegrown stochastic terrorism, like Orlando or Nice.
Judging from the knuckle-draggers showing up in my mentions, the white supremacist crowd is partying tonight.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
Lady you’re going to get your wish kind of but you will see a Lady President in NOV.
re: #150 MsJ
Do you find yourself Googling some of the ingredients? I do.
I don’t because I’m lazy—never know what half of them are. Kids are on now, and I’m paying close attention because I’m watching my great-nieces next week and they like to cook, so I might devise some kind of chopped competition for them (or not!)
Lets see if Burt Reynolds comes out and discusses Trumps impact on the USFL after Dana White from UFC finishes.
re: #168 Charles Johnson
UpChuck did retweet you.
A star-studded evening of speakers starts with the president of Ultimate Fighting. pic.twitter.com/sKofhpWQ4g
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #151 LastYearsMan
Decimate has chiefly been used in English to mean “destroy a large number of” for centuries. Also, “tithing”. Oxford, Merriam Webster, etc…
10% *is* a lot of something, especially people. (Decimating the US population would remove 30 million people.) But we’ve gotten so much more efficient at killing that it is no longer that impressive.
Steroided up guy says Trump supported his Steroided Up Guys Fighting Each Other business.
The terrorist truck attack in Nice, France reportedly killed around 30 Muslims - making up 1/3 of the total killed. https://t.co/djoCRfK4Qx
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) July 19, 2016
France is only about 6% Muslim, so they were over-represented by 5.5 times.
Wow, Dana is really bringing it home for Donald.
re: #170 BeachDem
I don’t because I’m lazy—never know what half of them are. Kids are on now, and I’m paying close attention because I’m watching my great-nieces next week and they like to cook, so I might devise some kind of chopped competition for them (or not!)
Tell them to make you a pasta sauce but ban garlic and see what that gets you.
;)
re: #167 Blind Frog Belly White
You are thinking about this in very conventional ways that remind me of how the Bush Administration could not conceive of a non-state actor carrying out attacks like 9/11. Here, you seem to think that ISIS needs to hold physical ground to exist. They don’t.
Here’s an analogy - when Terminator came our in 1985, we all thought in terms of mainframe computers which had to physically BE somewhere, which had to be BIG, and therefore vulnerable.
Terminator 3, whatever its vices or virtues as a film, turned that on its head. Skynet became a web-based, decentralized AI that was everywhere and thus nowhere.
THAT’S what we’re facing now. It’s comforting, but terribly simplistic, to think we can ‘wipe out ISIS’ with boots on the ground, or more bombs, or whatever. I suspect that for some time we’ll have to deal with homegrown stochastic terrorism, like Orlando or Nice.
ISIS has a hold on the imaginations of Islamic radicals like the killers in Orlando and Nice precisely because it is a force in being, even if unrecognized. Without territory, without imitating a state, it’s one more terrorist gang among many. Stochastic terrorism can’t be completely stopped, but eradicating ISIS can slow it down greatly, I think, by showing sic semper tyrannis.
We have had someone that loves the Country and has fought for the Country for the last 8 years fuckhead.
re: #167 Blind Frog Belly White
You are thinking about this in very conventional ways that remind me of how the Bush Administration could not conceive of a non-state actor carrying out attacks like 9/11. Here, you seem to think that ISIS needs to hold physical ground to exist. They don’t.
Here’s an analogy - when Terminator came our in 1985, we all thought in terms of mainframe computers which had to physically BE somewhere, which had to be BIG, and therefore vulnerable.
Terminator 3, whatever its vices or virtues as a film, turned that on its head. Skynet became a web-based, decentralized AI that was everywhere and thus nowhere.
THAT’S what we’re facing now. It’s comforting, but terribly simplistic, to think we can ‘wipe out ISIS’ with boots on the ground, or more bombs, or whatever. I suspect that for some time we’ll have to deal with homegrown stochastic terrorism, like Orlando or Nice.
The metric for success or failure in fighting ISIS is: “How many people in the world think like ISIS?” It’s a bitch to manage.
re: #174 Charles Johnson
I was wondering who the screaming neck-beard was…
re: #172 teleskiguy
UpChuck did retweet you.
I saw that. Immediately got insulted by some racist fucks.
re: #176 The Vicious Babushka
Steroided up guy says Trump supported his Steroided Up Guys Fighting Each Other business.
It’s only a matter of time before those Roidheads file for the very Social Security Disability benefits they detest…
re: #148 Brian J.
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
1. We are getting a tad off track here.
2. Airpower is only effective as long as Daesh continues to employ set piece warfare strategies. That will change at some point (sooner rather than later) and Daesh will be forced to resort to asymmetric tactics.
3. Airpower has very limited application when this occurs and reports just in today indicate a heavy collateral civilian body count in airstrikes over the past few days.
4. The Sultanate ruling over the Ummah is an idea that has been around since the 9th century and it will not go away in our lifetime nor those of our grandchildren and great grandchildren. If Daesh is eventually swept away, another radical group will there to take its place and claim the mantle of leadership.
Nevada State chair doesn’t know what city is the capitol of his state.
“Mr. Chairman, thank you,” said Michael J McDonald, chairman of the Nevada Republican party. “The great state of Nevada, where blue lives matter. We are battle born, brought in by the first Republican president in 1864,” he said. “We are very proud of our nation. From the great shores of Lake Tahoe to the most entertaining capital city Las Vegas, Nevada. What happens in Las Vegas will not stay in Las Vegas.”
In fact, Carson City is the capital of Nevada.
A party of, by, and for idiots.
LATEST: Plagiarized portions of Melania Trump’s speech added after speechwriter’s draft https://t.co/wFV5S2e7JM #Decision2016 #RNCinCLE
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 20, 2016
re: #184 Charles Johnson
Damn, Charles, you really suck at being irrelevant.
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On another note, I’d like to say thanks for the comment refresh feature. So nice to be able to hide things again after revealing them and the brain says NOPE.
Just blamed Benghazi deaths on “Clinton’s bad judgement”
Kerfuffler, if you’re still reading, from last thread:
re: #248 KerFuFFler
Thanks!
It can certainly wait a few days :)
I think I’ve too found someone who may help, btw…
re: #188 The Vicious Babushka
I think I can just make out the initials. They look like D.T. to me.
re: #190 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Just blamed Benghazi deaths on “Clinton’s bad judgement”
Hey, that was last night. Tonight they’re supposed to blame her for cancer.
For those of you who missed it, this is what the #GOP did at the #RNCinCLE today pic.twitter.com/wjsLMDRuqR
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2016
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson currently oozing charisma. pic.twitter.com/KvQ0uuSbuk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
How would Donald Trump handle sensitive classified information? He would Tweet it out! #RNCinCLE #tcot #UniteBlue
— (((Beelzebabushka))) (@viciousbabushka) July 20, 2016
re: #148 Brian J.
Some of the factors that led to Body Count Math back then aren’t present today; we don’t have troops in country except for maybe some Special Ops, and with drone and satellite reconnaissance, we can more easily reduce (or hopefully eliminate) double-counting. I know the problem can’t be eliminated entirely, but we’ve got the lessons of MACV to learn from.
As for the risk of terrorism when we mop up ISIS, all the more reason to finish them as quickly as possible. If we can ship more bombers and drones to the fight, we ought to do it. If our allies (and even the Russians) want more logistical aid for their efforts, we should provide it if at all possible. Once they’re gone, it gets a lot harder to pledge allegiance to ISIS when there is no ISIS.
If we had learned a single fucking thing from MAC-V and the whole Vietnam debacle (including body counts—BTW, how did those work out for the Dems in ‘68?), then we would never have been in Iraq in the first place and ISIS would be as nonexistent as it was in the spring of 2003.
As for the pledging allegiance to ISIS business, I heard the rightwing talkshow creep Joe Pags making the same point in the same words Saturday while I was driving into Bossier City. That where you heard it?
re: #193 Skip Intro
Hey, that was last night. Tonight they’re supposed to blame her for cancer.
GOP convention speaker: She turned me into a newt!
The crowd wouldn’t even bother to ask how he recovered from being a newt.
IMA CHRISTIAN GUN CARRYIN’ WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These speakers are just wash, rinse and repeat.
re: #186 Scottishdragon
1. We are getting a tad off track here.
2. Airpower is only effective as long as Daesh continues to employ set piece warfare strategies. That will change at some point (sooner rather than later) and Daesh will be forced to resort to asymmetric tactics.
3. Airpower has very limited application when this occurs and reports just in today indicate a heavy collateral civilian body count in airstrikes over the past few days.
4. The Sultanate ruling over the Ummah is an idea that has been around since the 9th century and it will not go away in our lifetime nor those of our grandchildren and great grandchildren. If Daesh is eventually swept away, another radical group will there to take its place and claim the mantle of leadership.
We are ranging a bit afield, but I appreciate the serious discussion. Daesh has a hold on radical thought precisely because they physically occupy territory that has importance in Islamic eschatology. If they lose the Raqqa area and are forced into asymmetric tactics, their USP (so to speak) is gone. They become just one more bunch of thugs instead of a unique and uniquely attractive threat to the Dar el Harb.
I realize that civilian casualties occur in war, but unless you believe we shouldn’t be participating in these operations at all, we cannot eliminate them entirely. We do our best to reduce them and should continue doing so, for a host of moral and practical reasons.
re: #170 BeachDem
I don’t because I’m lazy—never know what half of them are. Kids are on now, and I’m paying close attention because I’m watching my great-nieces next week and they like to cook, so I might devise some kind of chopped competition for them (or not!)
How fun would that be!! Do it! And please report back.
re: #200 EPR-radar
GOP convention speaker: She turned me into a newt!
The crowd wouldn’t even bother to ask how he recovered from being a newt.
“I got better.”
re: #187 Skip Intro
Lots of dumb people live in my state.
It’s official. https://t.co/54AO1c5Co7
— Paul Ryan (@PRyan) July 20, 2016
@Kragar_LGF @PRyan LOL Hillary’s numbers will get a jump tomorrow when sane Republicans switch to Hillary.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 20, 2016
re: #202 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
These speakers are just wash, rinse and repeat.
Dispensers of GOP talking points are interchangeable parts.
re: #179 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Tell them to make you a pasta sauce but ban garlic and see what that gets you.
;)
Don’t start with me, little girl! If I tell them no garlic, there will be no garlic.
Of course, they probably won’t listen to anything I say, because they’re 9 and they’re twins and they’ll probably gang up on me. Now I’m scaring myself.
I did send them a liittle sewing machine last year, which they’ve never used, so maybe we’ll make American Girl doll clothes instead. They have many (cough more than 20 cough)—spoiled? Nah.
re: #198 The Vicious Babushka
He really would, if he found some personal advantage in doing so.
He’d probably have his kids rifling through the FBI’s files on people who have ever slighted him, too.
About the advisability of fun of Republicans - I suspect a lot of young people get mostof their news from shows like John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert.
re: #202 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
These speakers are just wash, rinse and repeat.
religious nationalism boilerplate. That is why you can have 12 year old kids become conservative hits when they regurgitate this stuff. It’s easy to do.
re: #207 Tigger2
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I’m not optimistic (as if you couldn’t guess). Sanders’ endorsement was worth the square root of sod all, and most polls show nearly all Republicans willing to support Trump. He gives them the white supremacy they crave but couldn’t ask for out loud before.
“Ah’m a Christian pro-lahf gun-carryin’ woman!” pic.twitter.com/K7aESOEyC4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #196 Charles Johnson
@Green_Footballs That’s not charisma. Somebody get a mop.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 20, 2016
The Crypt Keeper has been taking pretty good care of himself.
Each new speaker has a more cartoonish voice than the previous one. They have to SOUND different because all these white people look the same.
You have to yell “LOCK HER UP!” to get them fired up.
Sully is live-blogging the convention. I liked this:
I love these generic platitudes from the dude with no neck. Trump shows up! He calls me on the phone! He sent me a newspaper clipping with a nice note! Seriously, that’s a speech at a national convention.
None of these friends of Trump have a single anecdote that tells us anything about him. They sound as plausible as a North Korean general toasting Kim Jong Un’s birthday.
Did any of these mutha-trukas read the damn FBI report?
Oh yeah, I forgot…
Hey #NeverTrump, we know you’re bummed, but you’ve still got one option left.
Three little words, just say them.#ImWithHer— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2016
They nominate Trump, immediately go back to attacking Hilary.
re: #211 BlueSpotinAL
About the advisability of fun of Republicans - I suspect a lot of young people get mostof their news from shows like John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert.
Of course, since young people vote in ever-lower numbers, that really doesn’t do us much good. Democrats did far better in terms of votes when young people (and everyone else) got their news from Uncle Walter and friends.
Today the Trump campaign was shocked to learn that plagiarizing is wrong even when it’s not from white supremacist Twitter. #RNCinCLE
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 20, 2016
re: #207 Tigger2
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That seems somewhat subdued, for the announcement by the highest elected official of a major political party of the official nomination of their Presidential candidate.
re: #227 Brian J.
Of course, since young people vote in ever-lower numbers, that really doesn’t do us much good. Democrats did far better in terms of votes when young people (and everyone else) got their news from Uncle Walter and friends.
One thing that could be done is automatic voter registration.
Good to see David Duke has gotten to the bottom of who was behind the Melania plagiarism mess. It was the Jews. https://t.co/QIXTtnh4Pf
— Jason Zengerle (@zengerle) July 20, 2016
I hope the next speaker cribbed some lines from an Obama speech or this is going to put me to sleep.
I thought the theme tonight was “Make America Work Again”? It’s still all about Benghazi and emails.
re: #221 teleskiguy
Sully is live-blogging the convention. I liked this:
I miss Sully. He can obtuse as fuck at times, but he usually gets it right in the end and he has had some very sharp observations.
re: #170 BeachDem
I don’t because I’m lazy—never know what half of them are. Kids are on now, and I’m paying close attention because I’m watching my great-nieces next week and they like to cook, so I might devise some kind of chopped competition for them (or not!)
Someone here, I can’t recall who, did a chopped competition with his wife.
Get tips! Do it!
re: #209 BeachDem
Don’t start with me, little girl! If I tell them no garlic, there will be no garlic.
Of course, they probably won’t listen to anything I say, because they’re 9 and they’re twins and they’ll probably gang up on me. Now I’m scaring myself.
I did send them a liittle sewing machine last year, which they’ve never used, so maybe we’ll make American Girl doll clothes instead. They have many (cough more than 20 cough)—spoiled? Nah.
While I was making tonight’s corn and bean salad, I thought of you as I shoved the 9 cloves of garlic through the garlic press.
re: #234 Jenner7
I thought the theme tonight was “Make America Work Again”? It’s still all about Benghazi and emails.
That’s been a GOP cottage industry for four years.
re: #223 Kragar
There’s always Johnson/Weld. If they want to vote for a ticket with solid Republican credentials, and not vote for the guy who panders to Nazis, that’s an option.
Today the Trump campaign was shocked to learn that plagiarizing is wrong even when it’s not from white supremacist Twitter. #RNCinCLE
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 20, 2016
re: #227 Brian J.
Of course, since young people vote in ever-lower numbers, that really doesn’t do us much good. Democrats did far better in terms of votes when young people (and everyone else) got their news from Uncle Walter and friends.
We’re going to have a referendum in November on the subject of whether hate and bigotry is acceptable in this country.
That’s never really been the main issue in a POTUS general election before.
Nothing should be taken for granted, and of course Clinton and the Democrats should run hard and leave it all on the road.
However, I do have faith that the vote will come out the right way (probably with a dangerously close margin).
If you have heard one of these speakers you have hear them all.
re: #233 JasonA
I hope the next speaker cribbed some lines from an Obama speech or this is going to put me to sleep.
Delegates don’t seem very interested either.
re: #199 whitebeach
If we had learned a single fucking thing from MAC-V and the whole Vietnam debacle (including body counts—BTW, how did those work out for the Dems in ‘68?), then we would never have been in Iraq in the first place and ISIS would be as nonexistent as it was in the spring of 2003.
We got within 0.7% of the White House despite a third party run designed to spite Democrats AND going with our third-choice candidate after #1 withdrew (due to the Sanders of the Sixties, Gene McCarthy) and #2 was shot.
As for the pledging allegiance to ISIS business, I heard the rightwing talkshow creep Joe Pags making the same point in the same words Saturday while I was driving into Bossier City. That where you heard it?
Don’t listen to him or any other right-wing radio. Many such shooters pledge allegiance to ISIS, usually via Internet. Here’s an article describing several such cases (in response to Orlando)
re: #230 BlueSpotinAL
“One thing that could be done is automatic voter registration.”
Yes, but that doesn’t actually get their butts to the polls.
re: #193 Skip Intro
Hey, that was last night. Tonight they’re supposed to blame her for cancer.
I thought the focus for tonight was supposed to be Bill Clinton’s dick?
re: #239 jonhendry
Let me know when they have a shot to stop Trump.
re: #237 klys (maker of Silmarils)
While I was making tonight’s corn and bean salad, I thought of you as I shoved the 9 cloves of garlic through the garlic press.
That explains the lack of vampires in California.
I wish they had noted it was “Authentic Frontier Gibberish” night on the #RNCinCLE schedule
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2016
And now… let’s hear it for BUSINESSMAN ANDY WIST! https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/D69Wiuarho
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
Beardy dude in the electric blue jacket that Caesar Flickerman wore in the Hunger Games.
re: #248 A Cranky One
That explains the lack of vampires in California.
If one is going to add flavor, it is better to do it right.
(I’m not all that far from the garlic capital of the world.)
re: #242 Tigger2
If you have heard one of these speakers you have hear them all.
Yeah, I’ve stopped the feed.
re: #241 EPR-radar
We’re going to have a referendum in November on the subject of whether hate and bigotry is acceptable in this country.
That’s never really been the main issue in a POTUS general election before.
Nothing should be taken for granted, and of course Clinton and the Democrats should run hard and leave it all on the road.
However, I do have faith that the vote will come out the right way (probably with a dangerously close margin).
Thinking we’ll win by about 2%, better in the EV. OTOH, if even 40% of Americans vote for this throwback, we have a deep, long-term, problem.
re: #252 klys (maker of Silmarils)
If one is going to add flavor, it is better to do it right.
(I’m not all that far from the garlic capital of the world.)
China?
re: #250 Charles Johnson
Dude, I’m so excited!
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re: #209 BeachDem
American Girl is quite trumpian.
Very keep up with the Jonses. How many do YOU have?
I have the $450.00 bedroom! You?
Sorry BD
re: #252 klys (maker of Silmarils)
If one is going to add flavor, it is better to do it right.
(I’m not all that far from the garlic capital of the world.)
Taegu?
Amazing shirt feed by @nathanrabin pic.twitter.com/2OqlLim0od
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 20, 2016
re: #245 jonhendry
“One thing that could be done is automatic voter registration.”
Yes, but that doesn’t actually get their butts to the polls.
Give everyone a refundable tax credit for voting in federal elections.
Johnson, Stevens Family said they don’t blame Hillary.
Radical Islamic Terrorists never killed anyone until Barack Obama became president I guess.
re: #257 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Didn’t you hear? We moved.
/
Well, I know you were looking at moving, but I didn’t think of China… ;)
re: #248 A Cranky One
The stinking rose is always a welcome guest in my house. That and a couple of tins of Altoids. :)
re: #267 calochortus
Well, I know you were looking at moving, but I didn’t think of China… ;)
I’m fleeing the garlic ice cream. (Seriously, even I have lines that are NOT TO BE CROSSED.)
Giuliani now calling for Hillary to be jailed.
Trump is going to do it in his speech: He will pledge to have Hillary arrested and prosecuted the day after he is sworn in. The GOP is going Mugabe/Putin dictator.
This is a direct assault on the legitimacy of our electoral process when one party announces that the other party leadership will be arrested.
re: #247 Kragar
Let me know when they have a shot to stop Trump.
Any vote by a right-leaning person taken away from Trump, and given to any other candidate, helps Trump lose. Yeah, it’d be nice if the vote went to Clinton. But some people on the right are dead-set on not voting for her.
If their vote goes to Johnson/Weld that’s fine. Johnson/Weld won’t get anywhere close to winning, but will still be a drag on Trump’s vote totals. If the Libertarian party got 15%, thanks to Republican voters, that’d kill Trump’s chances.
They haven’t established any connection to ISIS with respect to the Orlando shooter or the Nice attacker.
But, whatever. They’re coming to kill us all. Or something.
“Lemme repeat that… RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRISTS!” https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/PZRDfhKn1L
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #272 Jenner7
They haven’t established any connection to ISIS with respect to the Orlando shooter or the Nice attacker.
But, whatever. They’re coming to kill us all. Or something.
FEAR FEAR FEAR OGGA BOOGA
re: #264 Big Beautiful Door
Give everyone a refundable tax credit for voting in federal elections.
Not enough, we need GOTV in state and local also.
@mattyglesias Apparently ‘Make America Work Again’ is about job opportunities for future congressional committee staff members
— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) July 20, 2016
re: #273 Charles Johnson
And I’m supposed to believe that the utterance of this simple phrase was enough to kill dozens of ISIS fighters on the opposite side of the world.
Magical thinking at its best.
re: #272 Jenner7
They haven’t established any connection to ISIS with respect to the Orlando shooter or the Nice attacker.
But, whatever. They’re coming to kill us all. Or something.
Wingnuts are doing ISIS’ PR work for free.
Sully not impressed with Mukasey:
8:44 p.m. The man whose soul is still somewhere on eBay, Michael Mukasey, is now making the case against Hillary Clinton’s email handling. And, yes, he’s right about her lies. She cannot help herself. But her lies are trivial and pathetic, rather than massive, shameless and endless. She is a mediocre politician in our liberal democratic system. Trump is a direct, grave and imminent threat to the very system itself.
That’s the essential choice this year. It is the easiest choice in my lifetime.
That baby is just as likely to shoot the mom…
And now a word from our sponsors, the NRA. https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/guq03MQzyU
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
Careful, if you repeat “RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST” three times, Osama will appear.
Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka, Eric & Tiffany: Trump’s kids when his nomination becomes official https://t.co/n9iHcaeBy2https://t.co/RuN1tC2jXk
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 20, 2016
Who are 3? 4? people who couldn’t vote for their dad in the primary because they didn’t know how to register to vote in NY (which has motor voter).
re: #284 Nyet
Careful, if you repeat “RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST” three times, Osama will appear.
What do I have to repeat three times to get Obama to appear? I’d like to have a beer/drink of my choice with him.
I’m watching the PBS coverage of the convention and am really impressed with the number of empty seats showing behind them in the arena. You’d think the GOP would have tried to hide that.
In any event, it’s dinner time. I’ll BBL
I might feel bad for #NeverTrump Republicans right now if they hadn’t spent decades nurturing & validating white ethno-nationalist bigotry.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) July 20, 2016
Dana White just endorsed Trump’s bigoted policies, alienating the fastest growing US consumer demographic. Great business decision, cabron.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) July 20, 2016
re: #250 Charles Johnson
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Is he in the porn business? He looks like he would be in the porn selling business
re: #248 A Cranky One
That explains the lack of vampires in California.
Karl Kolchak killed them all.
re: #279 teleskiguy
Alright! NRA shill. Guns Guns GUNS!!!
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Hey, I know I’m just a trans woman and some things escape me utterly, but would somebody explain to me the attraction of under-dressed young women holding German HK assault rifles?
I really do not get this.
re: #291 Scottishdragon
Hey, I know I’m just a trans woman and some things escape me utterly, but would somebody explain to me the attraction of under-dressed young women holding German HK assault rifles?
I really do not get this.
I really think it’s a cis male thing, and not all cis males are affected by it either.
At least, that is my take on it as a straight woman.
So cute listening to the NRA tell us that we’re on the cusp of losing our right to bear arms.
re: #250 Charles Johnson
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Jesus, fuckers! Either shave or grow a beard! Make up your goddamn minds!
re: #290 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Karl Kolchak killed them all.
Except in Santa Carla. Too damn many vampires in Santa Carla.
Now I am throughly depressed. I think I will download a good movie and watch it.
Someone’s auditioning for one of those FOX bottle blonde gigs.
re: #296 PhillyPretzel
Now I am throughly depressed. I think I will download a good movie and watch it.
I sat mr. klys down last night and we watched Tangled again. I love that movie so much. Best recent Disney flick.
re: #298 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I sat mr. klys down last night and we watched Tangled again. I love that movie so much. Best recent Disney flick.
I loved Tangled and Frozen.
re: #166 teleskiguy
A unique hat on the floor pic.twitter.com/tc58F2Ci0H
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 20, 2016
Why do I think that he’s not using that phrase in the same manner as this?
re: #297 lockjawcanbefun
Someone’s auditioning for one of those FOX bottle blonde gigs.
We might be seeing more pant suits soon with Ailes being ousted. Or not.
But I thought the gender gap was a made up liberal lie?
re: #298 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I won’t lie, on our Disney cruise I stood in line to get my picture with Rapunzel. And then bought said picture.
I even had my hair down and pulled in front for it, because I am still five.
Another embarrassment to nevada natile gulbis is speaking. Saw her in person once at the outback (lol) she thought she was so famous that she wore her hat way down so as not to be recognized, but nobody did, except me.
re: #298 klys (maker of Silmarils)
For me it is a toss up between “Sense and Sensibility” or “Chariots of Fire.”
I can’t believe I am watching this shit show again tonight.
So, Donald Trump is officially nominated as the Republican party’s candidate for President of the United States of America…
and this is their tentative plan for tomorrow’s cover
The end is near for Roger Ailes https://t.co/gfAYnjqx7V pic.twitter.com/mWUx7Yi9uC
— New York Post (@nypost) July 20, 2016
re: #305 PhillyPretzel
For me it is a toss up between “Sense and Sensibility” or “Chariots of Fire.”
I might have science geek night with The Martian again.
re: #291 Scottishdragon
I was born a woman, and I don’t understand it. I think it has something to do with some persons thinking having a scantily clad woman holding a huge gun is sexy. I won’t share what I think it looks like to me because doing so would require me to get ugly, very ugly.
re: #291 Scottishdragon
Hey, I know I’m just a trans woman and some things escape me utterly, but would somebody explain to me the attraction of under-dressed young women holding German HK assault rifles?
I really do not get this.
It makes some dudes want to run out and shoot their guns!
“The choice to own a firearm is ours to make.”
(Guns are banned in the convention hall.)https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/V29av5Ty5I— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #309 Scottishdragon
I might have science geek night with The Martian again.
I’d advise that one. Best film of 2015.
And now… professional golfer Natalie Gulbis!https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/9RcW96hvVl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
Reminder that Leslie Jones deserves undying support for this anecdote alone. pic.twitter.com/iSgTlmHOQV
— Weird El Chapovic (@brittonlowe) July 19, 2016
re: #315 Charles Johnson
Anna kornukova of golf, except anna is attractive.
re: #308 FormerDirtDart
So, Donald Trump is officially nominated as the Republican party’s candidate for President of the United States of America…
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DRUDGE reporting exclusively that Greta, O’Reilly, Hannity, “Fox & Friends,” and “The Five” anchors have set meeting to discuss walkout…
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 19, 2016
re: #313 Brian J.
I’d advise that one. Best film of 2015.
Between Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the last three years have been teh awesome for space exploration fans at the movies.
re: #291 Scottishdragon
Hey, I know I’m just a trans woman and some things escape me utterly, but would somebody explain to me the attraction of under-dressed young women holding German HK assault rifles?
I really do not get this.
Sex and power in one image intended to appeal to misogynist cavemen is my guess.
Can you imagine if the media was half as aggressive with RWNJ bullshit or Iraq as it has been with Melania’s plagiarism?
And now… a scowling racist demagogue, reading from a script! https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/ImgMxj4u75
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
re: #315 Charles Johnson
And now… professional golfer Natalie Gulbis!
Why are they doing this?
re: #291 Scottishdragon
I don’t get it either, and I’m a gun-owning single hetero/cis guy. Guns and sex just don’t mix.
It’s a really nice rifle, too (though I want the 7.62 version, not the 5.56). The picture doesn’t make me horny. Frankly I’m more interested in the gun than the modeling agency employee that was paid to stand there, and all I can think is that after 3-4 shots, that poor girl is going to burn her décolletage on the receiver.
I had a co-worker, a little blonde woman as cute as a button, who carried an M240B in the army. I figure she was the smallest person in her group, so they gave her the machine gun. I’d much rather hang around with her. >>
I’ve always felt that there’s something slightly wrong with guys who get off on bikini/gun pics. :P
re: #315 Charles Johnson
I think her claim to fame is she’s one of just a few non-Korean LPGA players. No question why Trump chose her.
LOL.
It’s official. Donald Trump is the @GOP presidential nominee. #gopconvention #GOPinCLE pic.twitter.com/yJ3L3yRlRa
— Juan Escalante (@JuanSaaa) July 19, 2016
re: #279 teleskiguy
Alright! NRA shill. Guns Guns GUNS!!!
But where does she pack the her extra magazines?
re: #321 Scottishdragon
Between Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the last three years have been teh awesome for space exploration fans at the movies.
Didn’t care for Interstellar myself. The mysticism and occasional laughable physics really got in the way for me.
I thought Mitch would put the theme back on track, but it’s the same bs.
Hey, when is Kim Davis going to speak from the podium?
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE AMERICA WORK AGAIN?
Benghazi.
Emails.
Hillary sucks.
I suspect what Mitch is doing is called “projecting.”
Two days, and I have yet to hear anything about policy or even much about the Republican platform. All I have seen is ideologues stepping up to a microphone to claim that Hillary is evil. And even their claims are just so much recycled trash it’s just disturbing. The Republican party is running on fumes.
The most amusing comment from one delusional idiot, was that unlike Hillary, Trump doesn’t lie to the cameras. Obviously, not a reader of Politifact.
I would feel sorry for Melania for all the attention #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes has gotten, if only she hadn’t told NBC prior to delivering her speech that she wrote it herself with as little help ass possible. And now, most appear to be blaming the speech writers and proof readers. So that makes Melania one of two things, a liar or a plagiarist. Take your pick.
re: #331 Jenner7
I thought Mitch would put the theme back on track, but it’s the same bs.
That’s all they have.
re: #323 LastYearsMan
Can you imagine if the media was half as aggressive with RWNJ bullshit or Iraq as it has been with Melania’s plagiarism?
Plagiarism is a safe subject for the main stream media. They can cover that extensively without ever confronting the both-siderist lie at the heart of US politics and their role in perpetuating it.
re: #321 Scottishdragon
Between Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the last three years have been teh awesome for space exploration fans at the movies.
Dunno. Never saw the middle one, but the first and last made me never EVER want to go to space! And I’m a child of the Space Age, whose dad dragged him bodily out of bed for every launch, and who watched both as Apollo 11 landed, and then again when Neil Armstrong stepped of the foot of the LEM and mumbled incoherently about leaps and man.
re: #317 goddamnedfrank
If this is true, it tells me that what I’ve suspected about Coulter is right—-she is good at stabbing others in the back at a distance, but when she’s face-to-face with them and someone says something about her, she flees the scene. Coulter seems to have no idea that her nasty reputation follows her around like a pile of 30-day old sh*t tied around her neck, and that it stinks the place up everywhere she goes. There’s no telling what Larry Wilmore was thinking about her while he was being gracious in greeting her.
re: #259 Stanley Sea
American Girl is quite trumpian.
Very keep up with the Jonses. How many do YOU have?
I have the $450.00 bedroom! You?
Sorry BD
The nieces are spoiled, NOT Republican. Their mom buys a lot of them at garage sales and online . They do have the beds (Xmas from Grandma) and all kinds of other shit. I find it obscene. I made a donation to NO Kid Hungry in their name. But I also bought them little gifts because I didn’t want to be “that” aunt.
re: #298 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I sat mr. klys down last night and we watched Tangled again. I love that movie so much. Best recent Disney flick.
I just got Zootopia from Netflix so I will pop that in the Blu Ray instead of watching this crapfest called the RNC.
re: #326 Pawn of the Oppressor
I don’t get it either, and I’m a gun-owning single hetero/cis guy. Guns and sex just don’t mix.
It’s a really nice rifle, too (though I want the 7.62 version, not the 5.56). The picture doesn’t make me horny. Frankly I’m more interested in the gun than the modeling agency employee that was paid to stand there, and all I can think is that after 3-4 shots, that poor girl is going to burn her décolletage on the receiver.
I had a co-worker, a little blonde woman as cute as a button, who carried an M240B in the army. I figure she was the smallest person in her group, so they gave her the machine gun. I’d much rather hang around with her. >>
I’ve always felt that there’s something slightly wrong with guys who get off on bikini/gun pics. :P
I like women. I like sex. And I like guns, though not as much as I like woman and sex. But guns, women, and sex? Doesn’t do anything for me.
re: #343 The Vicious Babushka
I just got Zootopia from Netflix so I will pop that in the Blu Ray instead of watching this crapfest called the RNC.
Oooo, report back on that one. We debated seeing it in theaters but never got around to it.
re: #310 majii
I was born a woman, and I don’t understand it. I think it has something to do with some persons thinking having a scantily clad woman holding a huge gun is sexy. I won’t share what I think it looks like to me because doing so would require me to get ugly, very ugly.
It just makes me cringe to think what that cold metal must feel like.
re: #291 Scottishdragon
Hey, I know I’m just a trans woman and some things escape me utterly, but would somebody explain to me the attraction of under-dressed young women holding German HK assault rifles?
I really do not get this.
As a heterosexual man, I can say the model is hot, and if you are the kind of guy who is into guns that is double eye candy. Same reason they drap hot models over cars.
If they were really worried about protecting Southern states about Zika then there maybe wouldn’t be all those pesky provisions in the bill?
re: #330 Brian J.
Didn’t care for Interstellar myself. The mysticism and occasional laughable physics really got in the way for me.
The whole tesseract sequence is…difficult.
I still liked the movie and the black hole was simply jaw dropping. A professional paper on light distortion around the gravity well was published in a peer reviewed journal on the scenes since they were generated on the actual research from some of the top people in the astrophysics field. Nobody had ever seen what a black hole would actually look like when modeled on the known science.
re: #348 JasonA
If they were really worries about protecting Southern states about Zika then there maybe wouldn’t be all those pesky provisions in the bill?
Nothing blocks Zika like a good ol Confederate Flag
re: #347 Big Beautiful Door
As a heterosexual man, I can say the model is hot, and if you are the kind of guy who is into guns that is double eye candy. Same reason they drap hot models over cars.
We don’t use the phrase “gun porn” in a completely ironic fashion.
re: #333 Joe Bacon
As soon as she and Matt Staver can figure a way to get out of her having the contempt charge against her held up. I was kinda looking for her to pop up in Cleveland, too.
So, this is about keeping Republicans in Congress WORKING, not about the country.
re: #244 Brian J.
We got within 0.7% of the White House despite a third party run designed to spite Democrats AND going with our third-choice candidate after #1 withdrew (due to the Sanders of the Sixties, Gene McCarthy) and #2 was shot.
Don’t think so much in percentages. Electoral votes are what count. And maybe LBJ was your first choice, but don’t count me in. Nor was McCarthy a Sanders. He was a decent guy and fairly decent slightly left of center politician who strongly opposed the war LBJ built. And please don’t tell me you think George Wallace siphoned off votes from HHH. Those voters were gone and would never again vote Democratic.
Don’t listen to him or any other right-wing radio.
I only listen to these types when driving, and not too much then, but while I admire your purity, I find it makes sense now and then to hear what the enemy is saying.
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
I like women. I like sex. And I like guns, though not as much as I like woman and sex. But guns, women, and sex? Doesn’t do anything for me.
Exactly. They don’t mix. There’s no sex in my violence tech.
I’m the same way about bikini babes hanging on bikes and cars… I don’t get it. Unless it’s rockabilly pinup style. :D
re: #343 The Vicious Babushka
I just got Zootopia from Netflix so I will pop that in the Blu Ray instead of watching this crapfest called the RNC.
Pixney has gotten really good again at making animated movies since the merger.
What it is, really, is the idea that a woman THAT HOT is just as into guns as YOU, a chubby bearded camo-wearing yokel are, and so YOU have a chance with a woman THAT HOT, if you buy a big gun!!!
It has a profane/sacred element to it that titilates.
I haven’t seen this kind of excitement in a long time pic.twitter.com/wextl1D6Ly
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 20, 2016
My wife from the other room: “Howdy Doody’s on!”
re: #354 whitebeach
I’m not into purity types either. I don’t care, occasionally you have to buy some ice cream.
re: #347 Big Beautiful Door
I have a British Brown Bess 2nd pattern musket. I was teaching my kid how to do Continental drill today with the weapon (prime and load as done in ranks…make ready, fire, forward march, to the right about face etc) since he is now old enough to fire in ranks with our re-enacting unit.
It is a weapon of war. I utterly fail to see a sex connection with it. Of course, I also don’t have a phallic connection to guns :)
Tweety’s chin is positively glistening with spittle.
I cant listen to BSNBC any more. Its time for Bob & Chez!!!!!!!!
re: #142 Ziggy_TARDIS
Which is absolutely NOT helpful right now or ever.
re: #347 Big Beautiful Door
As a heterosexual man, I can say the model is hot, and if you are the kind of guy who is into guns that is double eye candy. Same reason they drap hot models over cars.
Yeah, the important part is the beautiful woman in a bikini. She could really be doing anything. firing a gun…awesome, vacuuming…sweet, eating a meatball sub…fantastic. Anything is better with a model in a bikini.
Men, by and large, aren’t complicated…
Getting back to the convention (is it still on?).
This is the deadest crowd I’ve ever seen at a national convention - and Tampa 4 years ago was pretty dead
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 20, 2016
re: #354 whitebeach
Don’t think so much in percentages. Electoral votes are what count. And maybe LBJ was your first choice, but don’t count me in. Nor was McCarthy a Sanders. He was a decent guy and fairly decent slightly left of center politician who strongly opposed the war LBJ built. And please don’t tell me you think George Wallace siphoned off votes from HHH. Those voters were gone and would never again vote Democratic
A change of just 42,000 votes (MO, NJ, AK) out of 73.2 million would have sent the election to the House where the Democrats still had a solid majority. And I might be persuaded that McCarthy wasn’t a Sanders if he hadn’t come back and tried to torpedo Carter in ‘76. As for LBJ, I think the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and the rest of the Great Society outweigh Vietnam (or at least his support for the war should be offset by Ike’s, JFK’s, and Nixon’s support for the war).
Mitch McConnell has the supreme gall to blame Democrats for blocking Zika funding. Unreal. https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/EJNbs7w6Wf
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
For those you didn’t catch Stephen Colbert last night, he discussed the original Trump/Pence logo and then suggested a replacement, shown below. Behind a spoiler tag for a reason. ;-)
re: #285 lawhawk
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Who are 3? 4? people who couldn’t vote for their dad in the primary because they didn’t know how to register to vote in NY (which has motor voter).
Disregard my previous idea about automatic voter registration. /////
Really, my point is that lack of registration DOES keep some young people from voting. As does having to go to a voting booth during the day, and special elections on squirrilly days for assistant dog catcher only.
re: #339 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d love to go into space if there were a vehicle available like The Enterprise. Since it doesn’t exist, I’m staying on Planet Earth for now. I’m looking forward to seeing Star Trek Beyond. My daughter’s coming home ton Friday for three days, and I’m hoping she’ll want to see it with me. I already know what’s going to break my heart when I’m watching it, though, and it’s seeing Anton Yelchin and knowing he won’t be in future Star Trek movies. He was such a talented actor, and so young, and I think he was perfect for the Chekov role.
And now… a few words from a zombie-eyed granny starver. https://t.co/S2R1Ynpaiq pic.twitter.com/CNdPmrbsKa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2016
Charles Johnson,
I’m sorry. I hate to say this, but the GOP is far from dead, unfortunately. You maybe guilty of wishful thinking. Its still possible that we might have to live through the terrifying nightmare scenario of a Trump presidency.
re: #360 Jenner7
More like despair at seeing what they’ve gotten themselves into.
re: #349 Scottishdragon
The whole tesseract sequence is…difficult.
I still liked the movie and the black hole was simply jaw dropping. A professional paper on light distortion around the gravity well was published in a peer reviewed journal on the scenes since they were generated on the actual research from some of the top people in the astrophysics field. Nobody had ever seen what a black hole would actually look like when modeled on the known science.
Here’s the Sciencemag interview with Kip Thorne about the movie.
Paul Ryan’s budget is very dangerous for the Republicans—just before the election—be careful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2012
The hashtag #RNCinCLe looks suspiciously like a @MADmagazine fold-in…
— Kevin Murphy (@kwmurphy) July 19, 2016
re: #377 CriticalDragon1177
Charles Johnson,
I’m sorry. I hate to say this, but the GOP is far from dead, unfortunately. You maybe guilty of wishful thinking. Its still possible that we might have to live through the terrifying nightmare scenario of a Trump presidency.
The “GOP is dead” meme is resurrected every 5 years or so. Remember “GOPosaurus” from a few years ago? Yeah, how did that work out…
re: #377 CriticalDragon1177
Charles Johnson,
I’m sorry. I hate to say this, but the GOP is far from dead, unfortunately. You maybe guilty of wishful thinking. Its still possible that we might have to live through the terrifying nightmare scenario of a Trump presidency.
This Convention is increasing my optimism that won’t happen. But since Trump is the nominee of a major party, there is a nontrivial risk that he will actually win. Not likely, but nevetheless well within the realm of possibility.
re: #375 majii
I’d love to go into space if there were a vehicle available like The Enterprise. Since it doesn’t exist, I’m staying on Planet Earth for now. I’m looking forward to seeing Star Trek Beyond. My daughter’s coming home ton Friday for three days, and I’m hoping she’ll want to see it with me. I already know what’s going to break my heart when I’m watching it, though, and it’s seeing Anton Yelchin and knowing he won’t be in future Star Trek movies. He was such a talented actor, and so young, and I think he was perfect for the Chekov role.
Re Anton Yelchin, yeah. He brought something to the role that Al Bester Walter Koenig didn’t. Not just a better accent, but more youthful energy.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Koenig as Chekov, but I love the humble frantic genius aspect of the Yelchin version.
I have a bad feeling that the Democratic convention in Philly is going to have WAY more of a problem with protesters - from the left.
re: #355 Pawn of the Oppressor
As a sex object [if you get what I mean] a gun is a poor substitute for the real thing. It’s hard, but it ain’t warm.
7 Ways Paul Ryan Revealed His Love for Ayn Rand
1. Spent the Bush years demanding larger, more regressive tax cuts than Bush himself was proposing, urging them to be less afraid of “class warfare.”
2. Spent the Obama years repeatedly proposing budgets that “would produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history.”
In other words, Ryan’s entire legislative career.
3. Listed Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, as one of the three books he most frequently rereads.
4. Told The Weekly Standard, “I give out ‘Atlas Shrugged’ as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.”
5. Repeatedly divided American society into “makers” and “takers.”
6. Declared that Rand’s thinking is “sorely needed right now” because we are “living in an Ayn Rand novel” and that “Ayn Rand, more than anyone else, did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism, and this, to me, is what is [sic] matters most.”
7. Appeared at a gathering of Rand devotees and declared Rand’s philosophy was “the reason I got involved in public service,” that he makes it “required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff,” and that her philosophy continues to inspire “almost every fight we are involved in here, on Capitol Hill.”
Fuck Paul Ryan.
I can’t take anymore. Later Lizards.
Oh yeah…what jobs have you had again Paul???
re: #386 majii
As a sex object [if you get what I mean] a gun is a poor substitute for the real thing. It’s hard, but it ain’t warm.
Of all the people to make that comment, you weren’t the one I would have expected but it is just perfect coming from you. Many updings.
re: #385 jonhendry
I have a bad feeling that the Democratic convention in Philly is going to have WAY more of a problem with protesters - from the left.
I think the wind has been taken out of their sails for the most part. Plus these days they keep protestors far, far away from the Convention site.
re: #385 jonhendry
I have a bad feeling that the Democratic convention in Philly is going to have WAY more of a problem with protesters - from the left.
I suspect you’re correct. Too many liberals just don’t like imperfect human candidates and are too wedded to being out of power, where they can snark and snipe to their heart’s content.
re: #369 Skip Intro
Getting back to the convention (is it still on?).
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Why isn’t this a storyline as well?
There’s still plenty of time for someone screw up at the convention, so this could change (like last night)
Tomorrow’s front page…
FULL STEAM AHEAD! It’s official: GOP is all aboard the Trump train
https://t.co/dujBFAtGn7 pic.twitter.com/NivR2WiQFv— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 20, 2016
I can’t wait to cast my vote against the GOP in November. Not a single Republican is getting my vote, even if they are the only candidate for the position. Fuck them and everything they stand for.
re: #383 Big Beautiful Door
This Convention is increasing my optimism that won’t happen. But since Trump is the nominee of a major party, there is a nontrivial risk that he will actually win. Not likely, but nevetheless well within the realm of possibility.
The problem is the way you see this convention and the way the other half of america sees it are completely different. Listening to wingnut radio on the way to work this morning they were spewing about how great Sheriff Clarke, General Flynn and Rudy Guliani were.
re: #377 CriticalDragon1177
Charles Johnson,
I’m sorry. I hate to say this, but the GOP is far from dead, unfortunately. You maybe guilty of wishful thinking. Its still possible that we might have to live through the terrifying nightmare scenario of a Trump presidency.
I’d say even aside from a Trump presidency, the harbinger of the GOP’s behavior and the media’s deference to them outside of cheap gaffes that hide purposeful malice is already worrying enough. It’s clear that they’re simply not going to allow the GOP to die even if it means normalizing naked authoritariansim and nativism.
re: #382 Nyet
The “GOP is dead” meme is resurrected every 5 years or so. Remember “GOPosaurus” from a few years ago? Yeah, how did that work out…
Oh, I don’t think it’s dead as a force in election politics. I think the GOP as a rational alternative to the Democratic Party has just died. To be sure, it’s BEEN dying for some time, but despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes, and the fuckups they caused, I didn’t worry about the country going down THIS path with them in the WH. When they were elected, I said, “Aw, shit!” and figured the next 4-8 years would not be so great.
With Trump? Who the fuck knows how bad it can be? With his personality, there’s no stupid act one could imagine that I’d put past him.
And with him, the GOP has officially chosen the path of nativist authoritarianism.
“We have a plan to fix it.”
Okay, I’m listening. What is it?
re: #397 danarchy
The problem is the way you see this convention and the way the other half of america sees it are completely different. Listening to wingnut radio on the way to work this morning they were spewing about how great Sheriff Clarke, General Flynn and Rudy Guliani were.
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re: #397 danarchy
The problem is the way you see this convention and the way the other half of america sees it are completely different. Listening to wingnut radio on the way to work this morning they were spewing about how great Sheriff Clarke, General Flynn and Rudy Guliani were.
True, but wingnuts aren’t a majority. The GOP has to reach beyond that base to get enough votes to win, and I don’t see how this Convention is helping them do that.
I thought Scott Walker was the zombie-eyed granny starver? I can’t keep all the wonder bread service-cutter a-holes straight anymore. It’s like they all come out of a machine.
I’m not declaring the death of the GOP per se, because there’s no limit to self-absorbed self-destruction in American culture. I think the only thing that keeps a third of our populace from organizing into an actual Fascist movement with uniforms, boots, and shooting brown people in the face on the reg, is short attention span and having to be at work at 8 on Monday to pay the truck note. We’re hard-working assholes, but we’re also lazy cowards on the whole, paradoxically.
The idea of Trump in the white house is truly awful, especially after reading the piece in the New Yorker (?) by his ghostwriter. He apparently has the professional disposition of a meth-addled seagull. Just the guy to handle crises!
INT WHITE HOUSE. There is a crisis that demands attention.
General in charge of military stuff: “Mister President, we need to examine options for -“
Prezdunt Trump: “I don’t have time for that! You’re my top guy, you figure it out!”
re: #396 goddamnedfrank
Nobody commented that her finger is on the trigger?
Y’all slippin’.
She’s got fingers?
re: #397 danarchy
The problem is the way you see this convention and the way the other half of america sees it are completely different. Listening to wingnut radio on the way to work this morning they were spewing about how great Sheriff Clarke, General Flynn and Rudy Guliani were.
It’s actually the relevant point that to win an American election, you don’t need to convert the other side or even the independent. You have to motivate your own side to go out and vote and depress turn out for the other guy.
The problem is…if you get lots of talk radio saying how great it is, but people can see empty seats and dead crowds, that’s not going to motivate you.
re: #400 Jenner7
“We have a plan to fix it.”
Okay, I’m listening. What is it?
Now, now, no showing the goods before the wedding. Elect the dipshits first and then they’ll unveil their plan.
If you had people drink every time Trump’s name was mentioned, you’d go home sober.
re: #403 Pawn of the Oppressor
I thought Scott Walker was the zombie-eyed granny starver?
Goggle-eyed homunculus in charge of the Midwestern branch of the Koch empire, IIRC.
That’s right—that’s VDARE on the tweet-ticker inside the GOP convention hall in Cleveland. Up next: Ricky Vaughn. pic.twitter.com/VJ4os8r3DF
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) July 20, 2016
Of course the person to say the nicest things about Trump would be his lapdog.
re: #403 Pawn of the Oppressor
Well Ryan, Walker, Priebus & Johnson were pretty much all spit out of the same machine.
The Wisconsin GoP. Same graduating class thereabouts.
Oh God, here we go.
re: #382 Nyet
Dead? Not yet. Dying? Definitely, but I’m under no illusions that it will happen immediately. The demographics are inexorable - xenophobic nationalism is doomed. Maybe not tomorrow, but it won’t be long.
And here we go, embarrassing night number 2.
Wow. I had no idea Hillary was the chief strategist.
re: #340 majii
Thank god she didn’t breed.
Holy shit. Christie is completely off the rail.
Sieg, HEIL!
Sieg, HEIL!
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s Nine-teen thirty nine…
Blame Obama for girls kidnapped in Nigeria. Jesus. He is accusing her of treason now.
re: #403 Pawn of the Oppressor
The idea of Trump in the white house is truly awful, especially after reading the piece in the New Yorker (?) by his ghostwriter. He apparently has the professional disposition of a meth-addled seagull. Just the guy to handle crises!
INT WHITE HOUSE. There is a crisis that demands attention.
General in charge of military stuff: “Mister President, we need to examine options for -“
Prezdunt Trump: “I don’t have time for that! You’re my top guy, you figure it out!”
Everybody needs to read that piece.
First, this piece from @JaneMayerNYer. Trump’s Boswell Speaks https://t.co/jrXvOqHrVb via @newyorker 2/3
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 19, 2016
And this one, too.
Second, this piece from @mckaycoppins. Confessions Of A Dishonest Slob https://t.co/rVkzd7lQL1 via @BuzzFeedNews 3/3
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 19, 2016
I see Christie and I imagine him as Trump’s Ser Dontos.
At least they’re not chanting for Hillary to be hanged.
Yet.
re: #402 Big Beautiful Door
True, but wingnuts aren’t a majority. The GOP has to reach beyond that base to get enough votes to win, and I don’t see how this Convention is helping them do that.
Hillary bad - emails - Benghazi - her unfavorables are heading skywise. Every speaker is attacking her.
re: #422 Jenner7
“Is she guilty or not guilty?” GUILTY!
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE ECONOMY? No substance whatsoever.
Man behind me in Georgia delegation just said “off with her head” … and everyone around him laughed
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 20, 2016
This pretend prosecutin’ is pretty easy. Maybe Christie should ask Trey Gowdy how it works in real life.
re: #403 Pawn of the Oppressor
…
The idea of Trump in the white house is truly awful, especially after reading the piece in the New Yorker (?) by his ghostwriter. He apparently has the professional disposition of a meth-addled seagull. Just the guy to handle crises!INT WHITE HOUSE. There is a crisis that demands attention.
General in charge of military stuff: “Mister President, we need to examine options for -“
Prezdunt Trump: “I don’t have time for that! You’re my top guy, you figure it out!”
The scary part is that is exactly the scenario I see playing out for all kinds of issues should Trump win. Trump doesn’t have the energy, attention span or work ethic to handle the daily grind of the presidency. I believe he expects he can just sit in the office and make the occasional decision, while somebody else does the daily grind. I expect he would delegate most of the job to his equally non-skilled lackeys.
Given his track record when picking “top people”, it’s a frightening scenario.
This is it, gang. This is the death of our democracy. When the stakes of running for POTUS are win or be imprisoned, you don’t get to be a democracy anymore. This is 3rd world dictatorship shit.
re: #386 majii
As a sex object [if you get what I mean] a gun is a poor substitute for the real thing. It’s hard, but it ain’t warm.
Well, it can be warm, but if it is, there’s a good chance you’re dead.
How ironic that it was John Lennon who wrote, however mockingly, the lyric “happiness is a warm gun.”
re: #434 No Depression
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE ECONOMY? No substance whatsoever.
No, there is substance. This is a skilled and mendacious prosecutor setting up the leader of the opposition as a criminal and a traitor. This is actual, no shit fascism.
re: #385 jonhendry
I have a bad feeling that the Democratic convention in Philly is going to have WAY more of a problem with protesters - from the left.
And will be covered from every possible camera angle.
I’m sort of caught up again. I keep forgetting. Who is the nominee here? Is Trump’s campaign slogan going to be “don’t vote for Hillary?” Somehow I doubt it.
re: #433 fern01
Hillary bad - emails - Benghazi - her unfavorables are heading skywise. Every speaker is attacking her.
Look how many on the left side of things have completely fallen for the bleating of the Wurlitzer on Hillary. It might not keep her from the presidency, but it’s going to do a lot to keep up the aura of illegitimacy that allows the GOP to essentially do what they want without consequence.
re: #427 Scottishdragon
That this convention keeps focusing on HRC being a lying crook and a killer tells me that this is not a political convention, it’s a convocation of judges, jurors, and executioners. They’re trying HRC before the nation since they can’t do it in a legal setting because, see, they just know she’s guilty of something no matter what multiple investigations have shown.
I feel bad for thinking this but… Fatticus Finch.
There. I said it.
re: #444 majii
That this convention keeps focusing on HRC being a lying crook and a killer tells me that this is not a political convention, it’s a convocation of judges, jurors, and executioners. They’re trying HRC before the nation since they can’t do it in a legal setting because, see, they just know she’s guilty of something no matter what multiple investigations have shown.
Yup. We can’t find facts, so let’s go with our gut feelings. No puns intended.
re: #424 Scottishdragon
Blame Obama for girls kidnapped in Nigeria. Jesus. He is accusing her of treason now.
Wouldn’t it be the height of irony if, on Hillary’s inauguration day, Christie got indicted for Bridgegate and Trump got indicted for sexual assaul, or fraud or RICO conspiracy or whatever
.
Hey. a girl can dream…
re: #321 Scottishdragon
Between Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the last three years have been teh awesome for space exploration fans at the movies.
And The Expanse on the TV.
re: #402 Big Beautiful Door
True, but wingnuts aren’t a majority. The GOP has to reach beyond that base to get enough votes to win, and I don’t see how this Convention is helping them do that.
We say this a lot. I worry that it isn’t true.
re: #382 Nyet
The “GOP is dead” meme is resurrected every 5 years or so. Remember “GOPosaurus” from a few years ago? Yeah, how did that work out…
No I don’t remember that, but obviously anyone who thought the GOP would be gone by now, was clearly wrong.
re: #383 Big Beautiful Door
This Convention is increasing my optimism that won’t happen. But since Trump is the nominee of a major party, there is a nontrivial risk that he will actually win. Not likely, but nevetheless well within the realm of possibility.
A truly disturbing possibility indeed.
re: #413 Charles Johnson
Dead? Not yet. Dying? Definitely, but I’m under no illusions that it will happen immediately. The demographics are inexorable - xenophobic nationalism is doomed. Maybe not tomorrow, but it won’t be long.
Sadly I think you might be being a bit too confident.
re: #345 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Oooo, report back on that one. We debated seeing it in theaters but never got around to it.
It’s great.
I’ll need to watch it again to get all the jokes and easter eggs that I missed the first time.
re: #191 Nyet
Kerfuffler, if you’re still reading, from last thread:
re: #248 KerFuFFler
Thanks!
It can certainly wait a few days :)
I think I’ve too found someone who may help, btw…
Hi Nyet,
my husband’s colleague has given me a “gist” translation which is that she is basically asking him about her relatives’ well being and asking him to tell any of her relatives that he is in contact with that she was OK.
A poignant missive highlighting the ongoing struggles of displaced people to find one another in the aftermath of genocide and the subsequent political reorganization in eastern Europe after the war…
Possibly a more detailed translation tomorrow———NY time zone. :)
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