New From Keith Olbermann: Trump Is Steering Us Toward International Disaster
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Why a know-nothing ego-maniac has no business on the phone with world leaders.
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https://t.co/m2B4SV3TKT pic.twitter.com/L8TGFaGo2Y
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) December 6, 2016
Not creepy at all. pic.twitter.com/pirxAdJI50
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
Missed this
That moment First Daughter Sasha Obama sang the words to Sunday Candy.
The Obamas are so freaking cool!pic.twitter.com/i4T2OnrR48— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 6, 2016
@deray @NerdyWonka @chancetherapper @WhiteHouse and this!!https://t.co/4lgPWRSs3d
— MaggyResistant (@Maggyw519) December 6, 2016
This thread will never go dry for at least 3 years. Trump will fuck up. How large and how many bodies or how many fortunes lost is yet to be seen. But he will fuck up. Where the bones end up is besides the point. The dead do not bleed.
re: #7 HappyWarrior
There really is something creepy about this family.
They are extremely superficial. Led by a narcissist. What else can they be?
re: #8 Stanley Sea
They are extremely superficial. Led by a narcissist. What else can they be?
Lots of narcissistic superficial families out there. Not a lot that have the stepmom posing that way with her step son.
So did you guys want to provoke a war over the fucking Spratley Islands in the South China Sea?
Guess we get to find out!!!!
re: #9 HappyWarrior
Lots of narcissistic superficial families out there. Not a lot that have the stepmom posing that way with her step son.
That’s her son.
That’s all she does.
The maid cooks. The driver picks up.
The first two pictures are posed. THAT’S RIGHT THEY ARE POSED FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER.
re: #11 Stanley Sea
That’s her son.
That’s all she does.
The maid cooks. The driver picks up.
Wait that’s Barron? Man I’m off tonight. Even more creepy AF.
re: #12 The Vicious Babushka
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Jared is such a cuck.
Agh now I’m going to have to delay bed time.
re: #10 Scottishdragon
So did you guys want to provoke a war over the fucking Spratley Islands in the South China Sea?
Guess we get to find out!!!!
CNN had Chris Coons on and Blitzer was trying to bait him by saying what Trump did wasn’t that different from Obama contacting Iran or Cuba.
re: #10 Scottishdragon
So did you guys want to provoke a war over the fucking Spratley Islands in the South China Sea?
Guess we get to find out!!!!
Oh what fun! Remember the Falklands? I ‘member.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
CNN had Chris Coons on and Blitzer was trying to bait him by saying what Trump did wasn’t that different from Obama contacting Iran or Cuba.
Except for the fact that both of them are independent countries, and neither picked up a phone to talk to Obama directly. About the only thing they have in common is that they have people.
re: #19 Belafon
Except for the fact that both of them are independent countries, and neither picked up a phone to talk to Obama directly. About the only thing they have in common is that they have people.
Exactly and he wasn’t trying to talk to them to do a deal for a business.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
CNN had Chris Coons on and Blitzer was trying to bait him by saying what Trump did wasn’t that different from Obama contacting Iran or Cuba.
I wasn’t under the impression that China considered Iran and Cuba provinces.
re: #21 Weaselone
I wasn’t under the impression that China considered Iran and Cuba provinces.
Coons basically made the point that stirring up shit with China is the last thing we want when we have so many other problems going on. But yeah it’s a stupid analogy.
Bob Dole - Bob Dole! - set up the call between Taiwan and Trump: https://t.co/tQvJbM0fvv pic.twitter.com/BBXgL2RgGN
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) December 6, 2016
re: #24 Stanley Sea
I thought Dole was one of the few Republicans with a brain, if not a heart.
re: #24 Stanley Sea
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Maybe Taiwan accepted Trump’s call to stop Bob Dole from talking in third person.
re: #25 jhncsy
I thought Dole was one of the few Republicans with a brain, if not a heart.
Dole endorsed Trump early on in the campaign.
(Must resist making a Viagra joke…)
re: #25 jhncsy
I thought Dole was one of the few Republicans with a brain, if not a heart.
He’s gotta earn the paycheck.
$ is what it all boils down to. We know this. We’ve known this.
It’s just going to be in our face 4 the next 4.
#4thenext4, a rather good hashtag I think.
re: #29 Myron Falwell (no relation)
And every time I think the Republicans can’t disappoint me, they surprise me.
re: #29 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Dole endorsed Trump early on in the campaign.
(Must resist making a Viagra joke…)
He really hated Cruz as I recall.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
He really hated Cruz as I recall.
Yup. The NYT’s Maggie Haberman wrote about it back on January 20.
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better
Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer “cataclysmic” and “wholesale losses” if Mr. Cruz were the nominee, and that Donald J. Trump would fare better.
“I question his allegiance to the party,” Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. “I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word ‘Republican’ — not very often.” Instead, Mr. Cruz uses the word “conservative,” Mr. Dole said, before offering up a different word for Mr. Cruz: “extremist.”
“I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress,” he said. “Nobody likes him.”
But Mr. Dole, 92, said he thought Mr. Trump could “probably work with Congress, because he’s, you know, he’s got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.”
So the president who can’t separate fact from fiction will have a Nat Sec Adviser who can’t either. @TheLastWord 10pm
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) December 6, 2016
Lawrence O’Donnell now talking about the fact-free incoming administration with Adam Schiff.
re: #34 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Yup. The NYT’s Maggie Haberman wrote about it back on January 20.
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better
He’s not wrong about Cruz honestly but seeing Trump as an alternative makes me wonder.
.@lawrence is calling CNN to the carpet beautifully for employing Scotie Nell Hughes and propagating fake news. #lastword
— Light, Joy & Latkes (@leenie909) December 6, 2016
Not fake news. Lies and propaganda. https://t.co/DebYuMk2vV
— Karoli (@Karoli) December 6, 2016
I haven’t read all the threads today, so pardon if this has already been posted.
I hope people that were so damn impressed with the Trump Carrier deal read this story and/or watch this video to get a feel for what United Technology actually thinks about the American job market, Free Trade and Feeding the Stock Market and where the average American worker fits in.
(Note: Real Conversation about jobs starts about 5:00 in. Prior to that it is about jet engines)
United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes told Jim Cramer in an exclusive interview on Monday about his conversation with Donald Trump last week, and says there was no “quid pro quo” with the president-elect.
“I think we came up with a relatively good solution for everybody … We still got to do the preponderance of the restructuring, which we were going to do anyways. So it’s — I would say no ‘deal,’ but at the end of the day a good deal for UTC,” Hayes told the “Mad Money” host.
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Hayes stated that he received a phone call from Trump a week before Thanksgiving, with a request from the president-elect to reexamine the decision to close the Indianapolis Carrier factory.
“He said, ‘We are going to do a lot of things in this country that are going to make it a lot more conducive to manufacturing. We are going to take the tax rate down; we are going to reduce all of this burdensome regulation. When all that happens you are going to be printing money, but I need you to relook at your decision to close the factory in Indiana,’” Hayes said.
Hayes confirmed that there is approximately 1 million manufacturing square feet in Mexico already, thus he considered it to be a natural evolution to close facilities in Indiana and move them to Mexico,
“Nor was there any, I would say, deal,” Hayes said about his conversation with Trump, “There was no quid pro quo for him to say ‘look, I am not going to tax you, if you don’t do this.’ He simply said ‘take a look at this.’”
And while Hayes did agree to keep employees in Indiana, he said he still considers free trade to be essential for the growth of the U.S.
“This country was founded on two principles, right - immigration and free trade. And that is what made America great over time because we had to develop and innovate in the U.S. and take those products and sell them around the world,” Hayes said.
Carrier will still close its Huntington, Indiana facility and move 700 jobs to Mexico.
Edit…not sure why so much trouble getting the video to embed.
CNN Host Jake Tapper Comes Unhinged at Michael Flynn Jr Over #PizzaGate pic.twitter.com/Y6DXuCaItC
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) December 5, 2016
There’s absolutely nothing unhinged about what Jake Tapper said here. https://t.co/YqbY30dW1j
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 5, 2016
I wish I could believe there will be enough faithless electors to stop this nightmare from happening.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #18 The Vicious Babushka
‘Member Granada? I ‘member!
I remember how Grenada was a wag the dog moment to make people forget about 241 dead Marines that Reagan was cutting and running over.
Bob Dole has been a big supporter of Trump almost from the beginning.
So, been reading this book. “The Gift Of Fear” Big bestseller by this guy that evaluates the potential for violence from individuals. One of the concepts is trusting your intuition. All that evolution gives us humans a keen sense of threat, aka intuition. He puts some hard reality to it via a variety of ideas. One of those is the rule of opposites. How many times does a guy show an opposite from the expected normal reaction in the presence of women? amazon.com
Trump flunks the test.
re: #42 Charles Johnson
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Too many Republicans care more about Team GOP than anything else.
— Nadya (@tolokno) November 11, 2016
Sergey on another vaycay?
@GlennF At this point I’d be more than willing to punt.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #48 Stanley Sea
He’s been by in the past day or two.
Warning about plot to blow up Universal City station prompts heightened security across L.A.
Not good but I’m not changing my routine.
Telling your followers they can’t trust the media, then sharing a bunch of nut job conspiracies is a real cult leader play.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 6, 2016
re: #50 klys (maker of Silmarils)
He’s been by in the past day or two.
Yeah saw him yesterday after wondering about him on Friday.
We’ve got such great things to look forward to here in NC…
(－‸ლ) pic.twitter.com/rVejKNSV1c— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) December 6, 2016
So much shit.
Ding dong! It’s us, the dishonest press, here to fill your brain with lies tonight! Tune in to @TBSNetwork tonight at 10:30. #samanthabee
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) December 6, 2016
No, the question is: why do you think that’s a good analogy, faced with a manifestly dangerous & unqualified president-elect? @Wojciehowicz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #58 HappyWarrior
I find the MAGA hats cultish too.
And a pathetic, kneejerk clutching at the small change of his supporters.
Stupid people absorb fake news because they’re stupid. Smarter people use it because it serves their purposes manipulating stupid people.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 6, 2016
re: #43 William Lewis
I remember how Grenada was a wag the dog moment to make people forget about 241 dead Marines that Reagan was cutting and running over.
Acting!!!
re: #62 Stanley Sea
Jury still out on Gen. Mike Flynn.
re: #52 Unshaken Defiance
Not good but I’m not changing my routine.
With Trump’s refusal to attend intelligence briefings, coupled with his supporters harassing Muslims for no reason, his staffers openly expressing white supremacism AND Trump’s business holdings and name licensing agreements plastered on products and buildings worldwide…
We are truly sitting ducks for a cataclysmic event.
re: #64 jaunte
Jury still out on Gen. Mike Flynn.
Def Sec goes up before committee, correct?
They just need to quote passages from his book.
No, it’s a matter of what’s happening in the real world. And in the real world Trump is a serious danger to America. @Wojciehowicz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #67 Charles Johnson
The electors are not going to do anything but vote as planned.
The bottom line in this disaster of trump is everyone wants to keep the peace.
See: Al Gore etc.
re: #61 Stanley Sea
It’s all SEC Go Team!
Trump really does represent the sports teamification of politics more than anyone else I’ve seen.
re: #69 HappyWarrior
Trump really does represent the sports teamification of politics more than anyone else I’ve seen.
Fitting that Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame.
re: #70 Stanley Sea
Speaking of SEC, has Deb been around?
I’ve seen DD off and on. I believe his vision is still recovering from eye surgery and he has to limit his screen time as a result.
Trump selling “official” presidential hat for $40 https://t.co/gjFbftWher pic.twitter.com/1LFimWhWXj
— The Hill (@thehill) December 6, 2016
Because there’s still some sofa change from suckers to be had.
re: #68 Stanley Sea
The electors are not going to do anything but vote as planned.
The bottom line in this disaster of trump is everyone wants to keep the peace.
See: Al Gore etc.
There are going to be faithless electors. I don’t think that it will be enough to stop this, though.
re: #73 jaunte
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Because there’s still some sofa change from suckers to be had.
PUKE.
OK, enough for me
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
re: #73 jaunte
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Because there’s still some sofa change from suckers to be had.
And where are the profits of this “official” US presidential hat going?
///As if
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
But no one has the courage.
Share: Harvard Professor Calls Trump A ‘Walking, Talking Violation Of The Constitution’ https://t.co/B5XJ0Ljtxc via @thedailybanter
— Carol Falk (@CAFalk) December 6, 2016
I gave this guy some time because he didn’t seem completely nuts, but JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE LIKE THIS.
This is no time to posture about “moral standing.” We’re in serious, serious trouble.
Trump camp spends nation into default over Tweets undoing decades of treaties and safeguards. Gets into spitting war with fake accounts. Trolled by pros, Trump strikes back with threat to fuck his own people. Doubles down. Fucks own people. Not family. Or GOP bag men. “Mericans. Fuck us.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
The majority of voters will have to become dissidents of a sort. The EC can’t stop that. This is going to get thick. We can stand to for our rights. Our neighbors rights.
re: #73 jaunte
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Because there’s still some sofa change from suckers to be had.
Sheesh.
re: #83 HappyWarrior
And for all his purported marketing genius, he failed to set the price at $45.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
I swear they think because the hated black guy got the job and didn’t tank the country, then anyone can do it.
Now they get the big business man so they think this in the bag. They are willing to let him do whatever he wants to do.
It’s arrogant ignorance and gives no credit at all to how hard the job of president is and how good at it Obama was in the midst of all the obstruction.
So damn unfair, but when you get idiots backing idiots nothing makes any real sense.
re: #46 Unshaken Defiance
So, been reading this book. “The Gift Of Fear” Big bestseller by this guy that evaluates the potential for violence from individuals. One of the concepts is trusting your intuition. All that evolution gives us humans a keen sense of threat, aka intuition. He puts some hard reality to it via a variety of ideas. One of those is the rule of opposites. How many times does a guy show an opposite from the expected normal reaction in the presence of women? amazon.com
Trump flunks the test.
Outstanding book! I found it an important and valuable read.
And another point that de Becker (the author) makes, is how much effort predators make to try and convince you to ignore your intuition.
Just listen to the apologists and propagandists for Trump who are doing exactly that gaslighting.
You all recall “Freedom Fries” right? Just wait. Next up “Misfortune” cookies at the Chinese take out.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) December 6, 2016
re: #86 ckkatz
CuriousLurker put me on to it. *waves”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
— endless screaming (@infinite_scream) December 6, 2016
Such diversity.
Secretary of state candidates. #Hannity pic.twitter.com/3iGvfWTI2u
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 6, 2016
re: #84 jaunte
And for all his purported marketing genius, he failed to set the price at $45.
Tweeted this.
Still, I’m puking that he will hold that # & have that portrait.
1 in 5 adults in America live with some type of mental illness.
60% didn’t receive care in the previous year.
Help is on the way.→ #CuresNow— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) December 6, 2016
Why do I feel like this tweet is announcing Paul Ryan’s new homeopathy or acai berry pill scheme 🤔 https://t.co/KJ6WaQCRGI
— i have died (@ChrisCaesar) December 6, 2016
re: #61 Stanley Sea
It’s all SEC Go Team!
Except that even the SEC gave up on all-white and token black teams forty years ago.
re: #90 teleskiguy
Such diversity.
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All old angry white males profiled on a show viewed by old angry white males hosted by an old angry white male.
As I watch Trumpites slowly realize he’s a lying carnival barker I wonder if there’s a German word for schadenfreude where I’m fucked also.
— Clue Heywood (@ClueHeywood) December 6, 2016
I believe the word is schadenfucked. https://t.co/cHgo8AXz8l
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 6, 2016
I think Keith is taking the right path with his righteous outrage with the orange President-elect. He could never cuss on TV like he does in a YouTube video provided by GQ. I hope he keeps doing this, it’s really good.
That tweet I saw here somewhere tonight is sticking to me.
Paraphrasing:
He won. Get over it!
No. He didn’t win. We’ve all lost.
re: #71 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Fitting that Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame.
The Kayfabe Administration
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #98 GlutenFreeJesus
That tweet I saw here somewhere tonight is sticking to me.
Paraphrasing:
He won. Get over it!
No. He didn’t win. We’ve all lost.
Give the asshole credit for one thing: He was right when he said the election was rigged. I mean, in most places, when a candidate loses by two million votes, he loses. Here he’s the president-elect.
Gore on MSNBC: “no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 6, 2016
It might be the best kept secret ever. https://t.co/YUN1YzqgUp
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) December 6, 2016
re: #73 jaunte
Trump selling “official” presidential hat for $40 https://t.co/gjFbftWher pic.twitter.com/1LFimWhWXj
— The Hill (@thehill) December 6, 2016
Because there’s still some sofa change from suckers to be had.
Such a lousy businessman. Should be priced at $45
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re: #101 whitebeach
It’s rigged, but he doesn’t want a recount!
Proves to me he didn’t expect to win.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #103 FormerDirtDart
If you’re gonna grift, don’t settle for grif.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
I’m looking forward to his administration opening up deep core fracking in the Yellowstone Caldera.
I intend to take my folding chair and a cooler with some Sam Adams to the South Rim and watch the massive phreatic explosion and pyroclastic flows wipe out the western third of the continent. Of course, I will have about 15 seconds to actually observe all of this before I effectively become part of the atmosphere myself…but I won’t have to be around to see the last of this sorry shit.
An example of why Twitter isn’t a bad thing.
@teleskiguy I know. It’s just unreal. How did this happen? How did we become so fucking pathetic of a people? I hate feeling despair.
— Kelly Carlin (@kelly_carlin) December 4, 2016
@kelly_carlin All we can do at this point is keep our sense of humor, laughter always cures what ails me mentally! Kelly, Much ❤️! 2/2
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 4, 2016
Old ignorant angry white male doing old ignorant angry white male things to an audience of old ignorant angry white males.
Hannity Singles Out CNN’s Stelter and NBC’s Chuck Todd to Go Off on Anti-Trump Media Bias https://t.co/xcxL0iHWDG (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/jbhlgkuez5
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 6, 2016
re: #111 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Old ignorant angry white male doing old ignorant angry white male things to an audience of old ignorant angry white males.
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Hannity bringing back his show “Enemies of the State”.
@JayneDoe777 @Xyxox @Stonekettle The tunnels in your mind lead to many pizzarias full of the abused children of your imagination.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) December 6, 2016
We can all relate to this scene: forming a vaguely sexual tableau with a parent in our home that resembles a gold-decked Greek temple. pic.twitter.com/DBapVZBSlu
— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) December 6, 2016
re: #108 Scottishdragon
I’m looking forward to his administration opening up deep core fracking in the Yellowstone Caldera.
Fracking is for cucks. Unleash the free market and American know-how. Want energy independence? Let Exxon and BP go for oil using atomics.
re: #110 teleskiguy
I think it’s a very cool thing that Kelly Carlin and Moon Zappa and Chris Davenport and … ok, I’ll stop … follow me on Twitter. Kelly and I have chatted about UFOs, drugs, what is fun, and other topics - on Twitter. Let’s hope over the next four years Twitter becomes something more positive than it is with the hate and abuse it’s known for today.
re: #108 Scottishdragon
I’m looking forward to his administration opening up deep core fracking in the Yellowstone Caldera.
I intend to take my folding chair and a cooler with some Sam Adams to the South Rim and watch the massive phreatic explosion and pyroclastic flows wipe out the western third of the continent. Of course, I will have about 15 seconds to actually observe all of this before I effectively become part of the atmosphere myself…but I won’t have to be around to see the last of this sorry shit.
Cool! We should be able to see the proceedings on Periscope before your camera vaporizes! /s
re: #115 whitebeach
Fracking is for cucks. Unleash the free market and American know-how. Want energy independence? Let Exxon and BP go for oil using atomics.
Operation Plowshare…back for the bucks and radiated groundwater for the cucks!
The electors going against Trump would be an extremely calculated risk. You KNOW the RWNJs would completely lose their shit were that to happen and violence may not be far behind.
It’s a question of which outcome is the LEAST damaging?
re: #116 teleskiguy
I’m seriously questioning my grammar on this comment. Eh. It’s a fucking internet comment.
re: #114 jaunte
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I’ll say it - I believe a shit ton of incest has gone on in that house.
re: #108 Scottishdragon
I’m looking forward to his administration opening up deep core fracking in the Yellowstone Caldera.
I would laugh, but these fuckers would be criminally stupid enough to issue a permit for that.
re: #118 Sherlock Hound
Cool! We should be able to see the proceedings on Periscope before your camera vaporizes! /s
This was what Vine (RIP) was created for.
re: #42 Charles Johnson
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I wish I could believe there will be enough faithless electors to stop this nightmare from happening.
But do you really want it to be Dem electors who defect and choose Kasich? (I’ve also heard Mitt and Huntsman’s names suggested, but Kasich is the frontrunner in this scheme.) This “Hamilton Electors” thing just makes me nauseous—so the Dems should abandon our party and vote for someone besides Trump. Of course, the Trump electors will do no such thing, so they’ll raise holy hell against the Dems (and, I have to say, it would pretty much make me throw in the towel as well.)
Of course, it’s beyond comprehension that enough Republican electors would cross over, do the right thing and vote for Hillary, but the faithless Dem electors are expected to break away and vote for fucking Kasich. Ugh. The whole thing makes me sick.
I hate and fear Trump as much or more than anyone else, but I think this Hamilton Electors thing is the worst possible solution.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
I am bad person, because when I saw the objects on the couch next to Melania I was reminded of condom wrappers.
What a marathon village board meeting (just got back, three hours long). Much of the village was there about the boil water order (let’s say they are upset).
Thanks to PepsiCo for donating sixty cases of water to the village.
Board reorganisation: The Chairwoman pro-tempore’s term expired. She did not run for reëlection, leaving two seats open on the board. Before the reorganisation, she nominated a rancher who lives in town to fill the empty seat instead of my wife. Rancher was accepted.
Cherokee woman who ran on a write-in campaign was sworn in.
I was made chairman pro-tempore, the other trustee who was elected in 2014 was made chairwoman.
That makes me vice-mayor, in charge of hookers and blow.
I was also appointed to be public health committee chair (state law says that must be the chair or chair pro-tempore). I retained my position as sewer superintendent, so things are still looking down, and flag committee chair.
I am somewhat surprised the Democratic Socialist of America member was appointed vice-mayor in an uber-conservative Nebraska Panhandle village, the dude who wears fedoras and has hair below his shoulder blades. (I think the real reason is I am now the longest-serving board member.)
It might also be because the job doesn’t pay anything.
On holiday bonuses, it is traditional the village pays its employees a holiday bonus. I advanced a motion to raise the amount paid by 50%, it was passed after discussion. I then advanced a motion to raise the village clerk’s wages by 25%. She waived her right to go into Executive session, so the discussion was before the assembled members of the village over her pay.
After much heated discussion about the amount of work she has to do for such a small town, the board passed the wage increase.
Set next month’s agenda, broke for holiday party.
Heh, While checking on sportsball scores I saw this about the Cleveland Cavs and some other NBA teams not staying in Trump Hotel(s) when in New York city for games.
ESPN - Sources: LeBron James among Cavs not staying at Donald Trump-branded hotel in New York
A group of Cleveland Cavaliers players have been excused from staying at the team’s planned accommodations, the Trump SoHo hotel in lower Manhattan, when the defending champions visit New York City this week to play the New York Knicks, multiple team sources told espn.com.
Other members of the team’s traveling party will stay at the 46-story luxury building opened in 2010 and branded through a licensing agreement with President-elect Donald Trump, as the Cavs have a contract with the establishment.
LeBron James is included in the faction of players who will not be staying at the Trump SoHo, according to multiple sources. James publicly endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton about a month before Clinton lost the election.
espn.com previously reported that at least three other teams will cease their business relationships with Trump-branded hotels this season.
Since Trump’s win Nov. 8, several Cavs players have expressed their disappointment in the results. Reserve forward Richard Jefferson suggested on his Snapchat account that the Cavs’ trip to the nation’s capital to celebrate their championship with President Barack Obama would make them the “last team to visit the White House.” Jefferson later elaborated, “I just look across this league. There’s been other players with ‘scheduling conflicts’ as they like to call it — not necessarily a political stance. But I could see other scheduling conflicts coming up.”
Reserve guard Iman Shumpert echoed Jefferson’s take, telling Complex, “I’m not going to the White House,” should the Cavs win a second consecutive championship.
“I understand people’s stance on Trump,” Shumpert said. “I can’t get caught up in the racial, sexist bulls—- he’s got going on. That’s his personal thing, ya dig? But I just don’t think he can make anything shake like that. He not finna start no civil war out here. I do think he’s crazy — straight-up. I think he did that stuff to get people to think he’s willing to shake it up. But did I vote for him? No. The other stuff that comes with him, I can’t get with. But now that he’s here, I’m not finna drag my feet. I gotta work here, at least until the offseason, if I wanna go get a crib in the islands.”
Cavs shooting guard J.R. Smith also posted on Instagram his dismay with the election through the prism of his daughter.
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re: #18 The Vicious Babushka
‘Member Granada? I ‘member!
Trey and Matt have introduced an insidious little thing in their show, methinks. They’re good.
You ‘member Nirvana and Kurt Cobain? YAA! I ‘member! Entertain Us! YAA! I ‘member!
Oy …
Hey, is there a link to our fraudulent news source list?
re: #104 jaunte
No one voted for Ivanka Trump.
But actually, in their fevered dreams they did.
They are going to be rewarded.
Trump played the ‘mericans.
re: #128 Anymouse
HOW ABOUT THAT FOR A CHANGE IN FORTUNES!
i see where our president elect is initiating his new foreign policy by pissing on china
re: #133 joe90
Thanks.
I’m pretty sure LGF has our own list of such sites. They’re prohibited from being posted here ‘cause Charles is a wizard.
So, heh! I’ll re-word that. Is there a link to a list of prohibited sites at LGF?
re: #134 Bass Reeves
HOW ABOUT THAT FOR A CHANGE IN FORTUNES!
Surprised the crap out of me.
The outgoing chairwoman pro-tempore consulted the village attorney on reorganisation of the village board. His suggestion was I either be placed as chairman or chairman pro-tempore because of my length of service on the village board and she agreed.
Amazingly, so did everyone else.
re: #136 teleskiguy
Yeah, sorry about that, a second read and the penny dropped.
And yes, apparently there is a list but I’ve no idea where to find it.
re: #93 Myron Falwell (no relation)
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It’s sweet that Paul Ryan has discovered 1 in 5 Americans has a mental illness and 60% got no treatment last year. And that he thinks he is going to somehow provide help with….what?
A mental illness can be chemical, a personality disorder, ADHD, PTSD and abuse recovery, wrapped up in substance addiction and recovery, anxiety disorders, so many things. And medications can be different for EVERYONE.
It’s freaking complicated in a way Paul Ryan cannot IMAGINE. Government interference in treating mental health issues by any means other than providing funding to patients and research organizations scares the SHIT out of me.
I am bipolar with an anxiety disorder, both genetic gifts from my father. My brain is very finely wired. My medications have been calibrated over 15 years with my psychiatrist. I have a psychologist when needed to get me back on line with the world. I have a tremendous support system in my family and friends and coworkers. I am ridiculously compliant with my meds. And I function “normally.” I have to tell people or they don’t know about any of it.
If even one thing in the paragraph above is missing, there is no more “normal.”
That’s what it takes. Not, “help is on the way.”
Neil Finn takes a punt on why our Prime Minister resigned yesterday.
NZ PM John Key resigns over failure to stop Crowded House induction into Australian Hall Of Fame @AJemaineClement
— neil mullane finn (@NeilFinn) December 5, 2016
re: #137 Anymouse
Surprised the crap out of me.
The outgoing chairwoman pro-tempore consulted the village attorney on reorganisation of the village board. His suggestion was I either be placed as chairman or chairman pro-tempore because of my length of service on the village board and she agreed.
Amazingly, so did everyone else.
I think that you have more people in your town (in positions that matter) that have your back than you realized.
re: #138 joe90
I know of no such link to *our* list. I do know that a list is maintained and anytime you try and post any links from that list it is blocked here.
@speakerryan Yes, your idea of help is cutting off their Social Security checks and throwing them out on the streets!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) December 6, 2016
Please ReLoad my #143, I kind of fucked up …
:P
re: #143 teleskiguy
I guess that’ll be why I can’t find the list.
re: #135 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
i see where our president elect is initiating his new foreign policy by pissing on china
Others more expert than I have already weighed in on Trump’s anti-China tweetstorm, but I can tell you he’s playing with fire. Xi Jinping is hard-nosed and much better informed and educated than Donald Trump. China has a wide assortment of tactics it can apply to make Trump’s term in office a fucking nightmare for Trump.
Here’s my guess as to how this all played out, given my familiarity with the Trump playbook. He has this phone conversation with Taiwan’s president Tsai (who is pro-independence and anti-reunification with the mainland), and naturally tweets about it in his self-serving “Hey, guys, guess who I just talked to — another world leader!” way. Then, Trump is stupefied when everyone says he did a completely stupid thing. The White House is mad. Beijing is mad. State is mad. So, he tweets in his usual kneejerk fashion, “Well, she called ME!” (A lie) Then, he goes on a tweet rampage against China, as he does with SNL, The NY Times and anyone else who crosses him, which only makes things worse. And he doesn’t understand he’s made it worse.
Meanwhile, his numbskull supporters *praise* him for standing up to the Commies and all-but-recognizing Taiwan as a separate sovereign nation, which would have been just peachy if it were still 1966 and we hadn’t signed all these treaties and international agreements with China and Taiwan since then. In their “Red Dawn” version of world politics, there can be no grave consequences to flipping off China in favor of Taiwan, because Wolverines!
I think I need to invest in a T-shirt and ballcap, each with the phrase “I didn’t vote for Trump” in Chinese characters, if I plan to stay here any longer.
The stupid is out in full force. Seeing posts on relatives Facebook pages calling for boycotting Panda Express…Chun King and La Choy products, too.
At least I’m not seeing them do the Freedom Fries shtick and call for renaming a dish “General MacArthur’s Chicken” but something’s telling me that’s coming down the pike…
re: #148 Joe Bacon
The stupid is out in full force. Seeing posts on relatives Facebook pages calling for boycotting Panda Express…Chun King and La Choy products, too.
At least I’m not seeing them do the Freedom Fries shtick and call for renaming a dish “General MacArthur’s Chicken” but something’s telling me that’s coming down the pike…
The stupid, it burns.
re: #147 wheat-dogg
Others more expert than I have already weighed in on Trump’s anti-China tweetstorm, but I can tell you he’s playing with fire. Xi Jinping is hard-nosed and much better informed and educated than Donald Trump. China has a wide assortment of tactics it can apply to make Trump’s term in office a fucking nightmare for Trump.
Here’s my guess as to how this all played out, given my familiarity with the Trump playbook. He has this phone conversation with Taiwan’s president Tsai (who is pro-independence and anti-reunification with the mainland), and naturally tweets about it in his self-serving “Hey, guys, guess who I just talked to — another world leader!” way. Then, Trump is stupefied when everyone says he did a completely stupid thing. The White House is mad. Beijing is mad. State is mad. So, he tweets in his usual kneejerk fashion, “Well, she called ME!” (A lie) Then, he goes on a tweet rampage against China, as he does with SNL, The NY Times and anyone else who crosses him, which only makes things worse. And he doesn’t understand he’s made it worse.
Meanwhile, his numbskull supporters *praise* him for standing up to the Commies and all-but-recognizing Taiwan as a separate sovereign nation, which would have been just peachy if it were still 1966 and we hadn’t signed all these treaties and international agreements with China and Taiwan since then. In their “Red Dawn” version of world politics, there can be no grave consequences to flipping off China in favor of Taiwan, because Wolverines!
I think I need to invest in a T-shirt and ballcap, each with the phrase “I didn’t vote for Trump” in Chinese characters, if I plan to stay here any longer.
I think that’s about right. Clueless was a humorous movie about adolescents in the Valley, but it makes for a disastrous Presidency.
I think I’ll paraphrase a line from Max von Sydow from Hannah and Her Sisters:
If George C. Marshall came back and saw the state of the new American foreign policy, he’d never stop throwing up.
re: #150 austin_blue
I think that’s about right. Clueless was a humorous movie about adolescents in the Valley, but it makes for a disastrous Presidency.
I think I’ll paraphrase a line from Max von Sydow from Hannah and Her Sisters:
If George C. Marshall came back and saw the state of the new American foreign policy, he’d never stop throwing up.
Needs a tweet.
re: #142 TedStriker
I think that you have more people in your town (in positions that matter) that have your back than you realized.
Apparently so. As many people as were at the village board meeting tonight (it was a packed house), not a peep or grumble when my name was advanced for Chairman Pro-Tempore.
Perhaps I was a bit too pessimistic about how the townspeople actually felt about me. Had there been a significant objection, my name would have been withdrawn immediately.
I am familiar with the job, I just have not done it before. I will get with the outgoing chairwoman pro-tempore to make sure I understand all the duties I am to fulfil.
re: #148 Joe Bacon
The stupid is out in full force. Seeing posts on relatives Facebook pages calling for boycotting Panda Express…Chun King and La Choy products, too.
At least I’m not seeing them do the Freedom Fries shtick and call for renaming a dish “General MacArthur’s Chicken” but something’s telling me that’s coming down the pike…
La Choy — founded by a South Korean immigrant and his American-born partner in Michigan in 1922. Currently, it is part of the ConAgra Foods comglomerate, headquartered in the Chinese metropolis of Chicago, Illinois.
Chun King — founded by an Italian-American in the 1940s, it eventually became part of ConAgra Foods, which has phased out the product line. It was briefly owned by a Singapore company.
Panda Express — owned by the Panda Restaurant Group and headquartered in Rosemead, California, it was founded in America by a Chinese-American family in the 1970s.
So boycotting these three (or two, since Chun King is gone now) would in fact harm American businesses, not Chinese businesses. How dumb is that!
re: #148 Joe Bacon
The stupid is out in full force. Seeing posts on relatives Facebook pages calling for boycotting Panda Express…Chun King and La Choy products, too.
At least I’m not seeing them do the Freedom Fries shtick and call for renaming a dish “General MacArthur’s Chicken” but something’s telling me that’s coming down the pike…
Fuck all that Oriental drama. I figure I can make enough for an eighty-foot retirement yacht and a private island in the Bahamas by scoring a contract to build walls around all the Taco Bells.
re: #154 wheat-dogg
Dumb doesn’t begin to describe it, Wheat-Dogg.
I would not be surprised to see China now grab the reins of the TPP and dictate the deal on their terms and also lock out the US in the process.
Trump will then start a trade war with disastrous global ramifications. But it won’t matter to him. Nero Trump will fiddle while Bannon pours the gasoline on the fire to burn the US economy to a crisp.
I’m just waiting for Caligula Trump to appoint his horse to the Supreme Court…
re: #155 whitebeach
Fuck all that Oriental drama. I figure I can make enough for an eighty-foot retirement yacht and a private island in the Bahamas by scoring a contract to build walls around all the Taco Bells.
I’m just waiting for the wackos to demand that the name be changed to “Liberty Bells”…
re: #157 Joe Bacon
I’m just waiting for the wackos to demand that the name be changed to “Liberty Bells”…
Or, to honor the season, Jingo Bells.
re: #155 whitebeach
Fuck all that Oriental drama. I figure I can make enough for an eighty-foot retirement yacht and a private island in the Bahamas by scoring a contract to build walls around all the Taco Bells.
It might even work, since most Trumpistas probably don’t know Taco Bell is a subsidiary of Yum! Foods, based in Louisville, KY, which also owns KFC, Pizza Hut and WingStreet.
If RWNJs really want to boycott Chinese products, they’d really be boycotting most American companies who outsource from Chinese suppliers. If they wanted to boycott Mexican products, they’d need to give up using products made in Mexico which they probably don’t use now, like tequila, hot sauce and Univision. And if they checked their clothing labels, they’d find a fair amount of “western wear” like belts and blue jeans are made in Mexico.
re: #159 wheat-dogg
It might even work, since most Trumpistas probably don’t know Taco Bell is a subsidiary of Yum! Foods, based in Louisville, KY, which also owns KFC, Pizza Hut and WingStreet.
If RWNJs really want to boycott Chinese products, they’d really be boycotting most American companies who outsource from Chinese suppliers. If they wanted to boycott Mexican products, they’d need to give up using products made in Mexico which they probably don’t use now, like tequila, hot sauce and Univision. And if they checked their clothing labels, they’d find a fair amount of “western wear” like belts and blue jeans are made in Mexico.
And they’d have to give up Trump products (father and daughter)
re: #156 Joe Bacon
Dumb doesn’t begin to describe it, Wheat-Dogg.
I would not be surprised to see China now grab the reins of the TPP and dictate the deal on their terms and also lock out the US in the process.
Trump will then start a trade war with disastrous global ramifications. But it won’t matter to him. Nero Trump will fiddle while Bannon pours the gasoline on the fire to burn the US economy to a crisp.
I’m just waiting for Caligula Trump to appoint his horse to the Supreme Court…
The IMF recently decided to make the Chinese yuan a reserve currency, like the euro, the pound and the US dollar. If Trump starts a trade war, the ultimate loser will be the USA. If he tanks the economy, the dollar will be weaker and more international investors will trade those dollars for yuan.
Note that Trump has no properties on the mainland, AFAIK. But his buddy Sheldon Adelson has a few in Macau.
re: #159 wheat-dogg
It might even work, since most Trumpistas probably don’t know Taco Bell is a subsidiary of Yum! Foods, based in Louisville, KY, which also owns KFC, Pizza Hut and WingStreet.
If RWNJs really want to boycott Chinese products, they’d really be boycotting most American companies who outsource from Chinese suppliers. If they wanted to boycott Mexican products, they’d need to give up using products made in Mexico which they probably don’t use now, like tequila, hot sauce and Univision. And if they checked their clothing labels, they’d find a fair amount of “western wear” like belts and blue jeans are made in Mexico.
Remember all the grief when Obama ordered a hot dog with “maybe some Grey Poupon”? What an elitist cheese-eating frog surrender monkey he was for wanting a mustard made in Illinois by a subsidiary of Kraft foods.
re: #163 whitebeach
Remember all the grief when Obama ordered a hot dog with “maybe some Grey Poupon”? What an elitist cheese-eating frog surrender monkey he was for wanting a mustard made in Illinois by a subsidiary of Kraft foods.
They really don’t understand that most of the food products they buy with exotic names are in fact American-made. Haagen-Dazs is not Dutch. Grey Poupon is not French. La Choy is not Chinese. T Bell is not Mexican. Outback Steakhouse is not Australian. And on and on.
re: #151 retired cynic
Needs a tweet.
I’m not on Twitter. Get off of my lawn!
If anyone else thinks it should be posted up, please feel free.
If, as Paul Ryan states, 1 in 5 adult Americans have a mental illness, think about Congress. If that statement is true, then out of 535 members, 107 must have some sort of mental illness.
OH, wait….he said “adult” Americans. Disregard.
re: #158 whitebeach
Or, to honor the season, Jingo Bells.
It’s the new War on Christmas if it doesn’t happen.
re: #150 austin_blue
I think that’s about right. Clueless was a humorous movie about adolescents in the Valley, but it makes for a disastrous Presidency.
I think I’ll paraphrase a line from Max von Sydow from Hannah and Her Sisters:
If George C. Marshall came back and saw the state of the new American foreign policy, he’d never stop throwing up.
Trump in a real sense never grew out of adolescence. His behavior pattern is entirely predictable. He does everything impulsively, for immediate gratification — buying the Plaza Hotel, starting two casinos in Atlantic City, speaking with world leaders — with no consideration of what happens next. He has no long-range strategy for much of anything. Then, when things inevitably go sour, he either lies about what he did or tries to deflect blame onto someone else, or both, while attacking the people who point out it was his fault things went sour.
Basically, we will have the world’s oldest Problem Child in the Oval Office — assuming he ever shows up for work.
re: #166 Cheechako
If, as Paul Ryan states, 1 in 5 adult Americans have a mental illness, think about Congress. If that statement is true, then out of 535 members, 107 must have some sort of mental illness.
OH, wait….he said “adult” Americans. Disregard.
If I have the figures right, 1 in 5 voters picked Donald Trump on Nov. 8.
I rest my case.
re: #169 wheat-dogg
If I have the figures right, 1 in 5 voters picked Donald Trump on Nov. 8.
I rest my case.
Ah, tweet that!!
re: #155 whitebeach
Seriously, dog philosopher, you downdinged this? Why?
This is the real America.
“I come from Ghana. I’m always smiling. People ask me: ‘Isaac, why are you always smiling?’ I tell them: ‘What else can I do?’ I am so blessed to be in this country. I work in customer service at the CVS on 57th Street and I love it. CVS is the best place that I love so much. I help people with their needs and it makes me so happy. I help them with their coupons. I help them with their medication. People bring me their challenges and I solve their problems. You can say that I am their champion. I am not a citizen. But when I help people with their problems, that makes me part of the community. So I do feel like an American.”
re: #168 wheat-dogg
Trump in a real sense never grew out of adolescence. His behavior pattern is entirely predictable. He does everything impulsively, for immediate gratification — buying the Plaza Hotel, starting two casinos in Atlantic City, speaking with world leaders — with no consideration of what happens next. He has no long-range strategy for much of anything. Then, when things inevitably go sour, he either lies about what he did or tries to deflect blame onto someone else, or both, while attacking the people who point out it was his fault things went sour.
Basically, we will have the world’s oldest Problem Child in the Oval Office — assuming he ever shows up for work.
I like it when people get my metaphors. Thanks!
re: #160 retired cynic
You are doing much to show them that the people in their midst who do not agree with them politically are good human beans.
Well, I’m trying.
In a bit of levity, a resident asked during the village board meeting what someone could do about the boil water order if they didn’t want to take the time to actually boil water.
(Unofficially, our reverse-osmosis units in every home, mandated by the EPA, will actually take care of the coliform problem. Officially, we can’t say that.)
I suggested substituting rum, which got a bunch of laughs.
A retest of our water went to Scottsbluff’s lab a couple days ago; we’re waiting for the results. If it comes back negative, we can rescind the boil order. If it comes back positive again, we have to chlorinate our water supply. (Our water supply is untreated; pumped right out of the ground and into the water tower.)
The iron company we had come inspect the water tower after the first positive test came back noting that birds had built a set of nests in the water tower vents; that might have been the source of the contamination. They cleaned out the bird nests and fixed the screens; the tower was flushed (that’s a lot of water).
The village water pipes were also flushed out by the Fire Department through the hydrants; hopefully this test will pass.
It is Alicia Machado’s birthday. That is all.
Hoy Es Cumpleaños De La Bella y Talentosa Actriz Alicia Machado, Muchas Felicidades!!! @machadooficial. 🎂🎁🎈🎉🎊😘 pic.twitter.com/s4bAyQKo4X
— TVyMAS (@_TVyMAS) December 6, 2016
re: #176 wheat-dogg
It is Alicia Machado’s birthday. That is all.
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She seems nice.
re: #177 austin_blue
She seems nice.
She’s the former Miss Universe contestant whom Trump fat-shamed and later attacked during the campaign for making his remarks public. Naturally, he double-downed on his body-shaming remarks, as every potential world leader does when shown to be an ass.
re: #178 teleskiguy
Currently awaiting a polar vortex at my twenty. These big huge tall mountains to the east is keeping it at bay, for now.
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Highs in the single digits by mid-week.
It’s colder here, 17 degrees. Expecting snow Wednesday, we start our car trip to Sacramento Thursday.
About some of those family photos of the Trumps…
Any woman with young children who have ever endured an abusive relationship knows this look. It’s sad, not a punchline for a joke.
— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) December 6, 2016
(Context, for those who don’t know, is that Anne escaped an abusive ex-husband with her two boys before meeting Wil Wheaton and eventually marrying him.)
re: #178 teleskiguy
Currently awaiting a polar vortex at my twenty. These big huge tall mountains to the east is keeping it at bay, for now.
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Highs in the single digits by mid-week.
Strap in, boyo, we are getting a soft freeze in Austin on Friday morning. Only 29, no reason to run the taps, but that’s pretty early for us in the city.
And good night, dear friends. Sweet dreams and a lovely tomorrow.
re: #184 austin_blue
Strap in, boyo, we are getting a soft freeze in Austin on Friday morning. Only 29, no reason to run the taps, but that’s pretty early for us in the city.
And good night, dear friends. Sweet dreams and a lovely tomorrow.
I only run the taps when it’s well below zero. That only happens a handful of times during a winter, if at all.
This may impact our trip Thursday. Snow expected on I-80 from Sidney, NE to Laramie, WY. Wind chills in our area -25F. Yikes.
I will need to go in the cyclone cellar and turn on the 300W incandescent light which is next to my kitchen pipes (that’s what keeps them from freezing, along with keeping the cupboard under the sink open).
You guys are talking about snow and stuff. Here it’s sunny and 60 degrees. And I have a head cold. Life is unfair.
re: #176 wheat-dogg
Yah, on the Trump scale she’s maybe a six or a seven.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
You guys are talking about snow and stuff. Here it’s sunny and 60 degrees. And I have a head cold. Life is unfair.
Don’t worry, here our low tomorrow is expected to be the un-CA-like temperature of 38.
What snow?
I guess getting a bailout is not enough to increase profits:
The manufacturer that Trump convinced to keep 1,000 jobs in the US is now raising prices
Less than a week ago, Carrier was persuaded by President-elect Donald Trump to keep about 1,000 jobs in Indiana. Now, the air conditioner and furnace manufacturer is raising its prices.
United Technologies Corp., Carrier’s parent company, is raising prices for its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment by up to 5%, starting January 1. The decision to raise prices was first announced on November 23, the week before the Trump deal was finalized.
Until last week, the manufacturer had planned to move 2,100 jobs to Mexico to cut costs. The move would have saved United Technologies an estimated $65 million a year.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
You guys are talking about snow and stuff. Here it’s sunny and 60 degrees. And I have a head cold. Life is unfair.
Yeek. I just looked at Laramie, Wyoming’s upcoming weather (since we have to drive through Laramie), -25F temperatures (not wind chills). Thirty mph winds on top of that.
I am going to wrap the Smart car in five or six blankets. Might consider going into town to buy tire chains if it snows too much. (Somehow the image of tire chains on a Smart seems a bit silly.)
re: #191 Anymouse
Yeek. I just looked at Laramie, Wyoming’s upcoming weather (since we have to drive through Laramie), -25F temperatures (not wind chills). Thirty mph winds on top of that.
I am going to wrap the Smart car in five or six blankets. Might consider going into town to buy tire chains if it snows too much. (Somehow the image of tire chains on a Smart seems a bit silly.)
Please contemplate the fact that people sometimes postpone trips, and that there is often a good reason for this.
re: #190 Cheechako
I guess getting a bailout is not enough to increase profits:
The manufacturer that Trump convinced to keep 1,000 jobs in the US is now raising prices
ask them how much the CEO earns
re: #191 Anymouse
Yeek. I just looked at Laramie, Wyoming’s upcoming weather (since we have to drive through Laramie), -25F temperatures (not wind chills). Thirty mph winds on top of that.
I am going to wrap the Smart car in five or six blankets. Might consider going into town to buy tire chains if it snows too much. (Somehow the image of tire chains on a Smart seems a bit silly.)
I lived in Laramie for 21 years. Be very careful on the stretch of I-80 between Laramie and Cheyenne. Don’t overdrive the conditions and watch out for the other drivers. If there’s not much snow you can take the Happy Jack Road between Cheyenne and the Summit. Much less traffic to worry about. Much less wind on this route.
re: #160 retired cynic
You are doing much to show them that the people in their midst who do not agree with them politically are good human beans.
Well, I still have to deal with “you’re not one of those liberals.”
The hardest part of that is trying to convince everyone that while all liberals are not like me (and that’s a good thing), we really aren’t out to take their guns, kick their dogs, or seize all their businesses in a socialistic orgy.
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He made $10.8 Million last year.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
He made $10.8 Million last year.
Socialism for the rich, bootstraps for everyone else; the conservative way. Thanks, Obama.
Advent calendar to the Apocalypse:
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A story about a woman shouting bible verses on an airline flight ends up getting herself
restrained in plastic cuffs
A white male rabid trump supporter disrupts a flight and nothing happens until outrage at Delta from concerned (terrorized?) fellow passengers and public.
White privilege? Sure appears so.
Now here’s something to be proud of. //
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s future policy stance poses “the single largest risk to the global economy,” according to a client survey by forecasting firm Oxford Economics Ltd.
More than half of respondents said that the probability of a sharp slowdown has increased over the past three months, according to the firm’s Nov. 14-21 survey on global risk perceptions conducted among about 180 clients and contacts.
Twenty-seven percent said a potential trade war triggered by Trump was the top risk to the global economy over the next two years, followed by 23 percent who said a more severe downturn in the Chinese economy was the top risk. Trump also was seen as the most likely source of faster global growth, with 38 percent citing the potential for the U.S. economy to surge on new fiscal stimulus he has proposed.
.@RealGilbert nails the skiing joke. It’s Jerry as all fuck, yet cuts deep … pic.twitter.com/8tpttIlOi6
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 6, 2016
Nice, upstanding member of the community who decided to shoot up Comet Pizza actually had three guns on him:
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re: #46 Unshaken Defiance
So, been reading this book. “The Gift Of Fear” Big bestseller by this guy that evaluates the potential for violence from individuals. One of the concepts is trusting your intuition. All that evolution gives us humans a keen sense of threat, aka intuition. He puts some hard reality to it via a variety of ideas. One of those is the rule of opposites. How many times does a guy show an opposite from the expected normal reaction in the presence of women? amazon.com
Trump flunks the test.
Bought and read that book several years ago when my daughters were teens, on the recommendation of another lizard, somethingManners. Interesting book.
re: #191 Anymouse
(Somehow the image of tire chains on a Smart seems a bit silly.)
Less silly than your cantankerous ass upside down in a ditch. Get the chains.
re: #150 austin_blue
I think that’s about right. Clueless was a humorous movie about adolescents in the Valley, but it makes for a disastrous Presidency.
Not that Clueless alum Stacey Dash would bother to care.
Rage Furby continues his protracted fight to extract money from Gawker Media. IANAL, but this latest filing seems to be sour grapes about Gawker proposing a settlement with two other litigants — and not Chuck C. Johnson and Got Nooz LLC — and the new bankruptcy plan preventing further litigation against Gawker employees. The latter stipulation would mean Rage Furby would be obliged to abandon his vendetta lawsuit against two Gawker writers.
It was filed yesterday.
re: #204 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)
Less silly than your cantankerous ass upside down in a ditch. Get the chains.
Well, we hit a deer with it at sixty miles per hour a couple years ago. Totalled the deer, no damage to the car or us.
Smart cars are pretty tough; that said, I don’t want to have to unbuckle myself and my wife whilst hanging upside-down in the car. Banging my head on the ceiling and fighting with fourteen airbags to get out might be tough too.
re: #206 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Not that Clueless
alumStacey Dash would bother to care.
Looks better that way.
Trump once again proves he’s a shitty deal-maker.
The Sucker at 1600 (soon) https://t.co/jMvv7vK5dA
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 6, 2016
For sure, every CEO in America and abroad will look at the Carrier deal and figure out some way to get a similar sweetheart arrangement.
re: #211 Anymouse
Looks better that way.
I almost wrote “star” but that would have been a grotesque misuse of the word “star.”
re: #212 wheat-dogg
In response to reading that article from Mr. Willis, I sent the following to my Trump-supporting acquaintances (I don’t think I can call a Trump supporter “friend” any more):
(Link included in original E-mail)
Well, after Donald Trump got Governor Mike Pence of Indiana to pay a corporate bribe with taxmoney to Carrier (the heating and air conditioning firm Mr. Trump alleges he saved jobs at for a mere $7million in tax abatements): The CEO of its parent company, United Technologies, notes on video that he essentially swindled Trump and Pence. (Moreover, Pence has been governor of Indiana for four years, and until now, “saving jobs” at Carrier has not concerned him.)
The political commentator Oliver Willis has notes about the deal, and the video of CEO Greg Hayes noting he stiffed Trump, Pence, and the Indiana taxpayers. The article includes a clip from the conservative-leaning business television channel CNBC with an interview of United Technologies’s CEO essentially gloating over how he swindled Trump voters. (Actually, all voters. Moreover, since Carrier pulled this off, other corporations will expect the same. Why not hold the government hostage if the President’s team will cave so readily and shovel taxmoney out the door?)
From that clip, the reveal that Trump, Pence, and Carrier have swindled the Indiana taxpayers (somehow a billionaire claiming to be an outsider when he admits to buying politicians in the past is about as ludicrous as a unicorn in Manhattan):
Hayes told host Jim Cramer how despite Trump’s campaign pledge to keep Carrier jobs from moving to Mexico, “We still got to do the preponderance of the restructuring, which we were going to do anyways. So it’s — I would say no ‘deal,’ but at the end of the day a good deal for UTC.”
Despite Trump’s announcement and public relations stunt, Carrier will still be exporting over 1,000 jobs to their facility in Mexico. While at the same time the company is receiving $7 million in tax breaks to keep less than 900 jobs in Indiana.
The negotiations also excluded the union, so it is possible the workers staying behind may have their salaries cut in order to give Trump a public relations talking point.
This is called socialism for corporations and the rich, and bootstraps for everyone else. Aside from the fascism, overt bigotry, Nazi and Mussolini quotes, and threats to the Constitution’s free speech and freedom of religion clauses, now Trump and his team are setting up the government to serve corporations your tax money. Like Mitt Romney said in 2012, Corporations are People, my friend.
(Donald Trump owns stock in United Technologies. The ball-bearing plant right next door to the Carrier plant is also moving, and Mr. Trump and Gov. Pence did nothing about those jobs. It’s almost as if Mr. Trump intends to run the government like a piggy bank for the Trump Organisation.)
On the other hand, it would appear that Mr. Trump’s Nazi tendencies are what his supporters voted for, not economics (as the economy always improves under Democrats and always falters under Republicans - ever since the turn of the XX Century, without exception). They certainly didn’t care about freedom of speech, press, or religion.
(signed)
“When they come, they come, to build a wall between us, we know that they won’t win.” — Neil Finn (from the song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House, 1986). Neil Finn performs in Auckland on acoustic guitar backed by strings in a mesmerising performance in 2015 (4:44) - very apropos for the upcoming administration.
The Berlin Wall was built to “keep people out” too. Conservative Saint Ronald Reagan (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall) must be rolling in his grave over Republicans selling out our country to Russia and Nazis. In one fell swoop, conservatives repudiated my entire military career, and my family fleeing the Nazis from Poland. Thanks.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Too many people just don’t realize how incredibly dangerous a Trump presidency is going to be. The time for academic arguments about moral equivalence is fucking past.
During the next 4 years, Donald Trump will bring the world to the brink of annihilation over and over again, then brag about his “ratings” on Twitter. I believe he would be happy to let millions die for the goddamn ratings.
re: #215 The Vicious Babushka
During the next 4 years, Donald Trump will bring the world to the brink of annihilation over and over again, then brag about his “ratings” on Twitter. I believe he would be happy to let millions die for the goddamn ratings.
I just watched that Keith Olbermann clip. That called for a heavy dose of rum and cranberry juice.
My wife discussed the idea of going to Canada from Sacramento. I pointed out that Canada is not far enough and we don’t have enough money to go to Mars. We need to stay and fight this nonsense.
As much as I despise Governor Pence’s political positions, Gov. Pence is not an idiot when it comes to governance. We could survive a Pence Administration (albeit with likely setbacks to progressive gains since the Gilded Age). I’m not so sure about a Trump Administration.
I intend to contact my Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) and exhort him to continue to resist Mr. Trump’s agenda. (My other senator, Deb Fischer, is an early supporter of Trump and a hopeless case.) If nothing else, I hope to appeal to Senator Sasse’s understanding of history (he is a history professor by education) to hold the line, with the Democrats if necessary. (I realise a GOP senator throwing in with Democrats is something like Superman shoving kryptonite down his red shorts, but we have to deal with the senators we have, not the ones we wish we had.)
re: #214 Anymouse
Well said. Corporate Republicans will no doubt see the Trump administration as a cash cow, but the Tea Party types who supported him will not see a dime. Probably, they will lose dimes. We need to remind them constantly that Trump was, is and will never be a friend of the common people. Also, he lies like a rug, which I remind his supporters on FB repeatedly.
This evening and early morning congratulations are pouring in from family and friends for my appointment as the Chairman Pro-Tempore of my village board of trustees.
I pointed out to each that called or E-mailed that I really didn’t do much to deserve the post. It was mostly because I am willing to stick out an unpaid elected position and am willing to fight for villagers’ issues (small as those might be on the national scale of things).
Still, I can’t help but indulge in a bit of self-satisfaction at the idea the most liberal person in town is now in the village government’s second-most important position.
On that note, I feel somewhat ashamed that I should be self-satisfied in that achievement. I have neither done much to deserve a pat on the back nor advance a progressive cause in an insignificant village in the middle of nowhere amongst cattle and corn.
re: #217 wheat-dogg
“We need to remind them constantly that Trump was, is and will never be a friend of the common people.”
Do you think that Tea Baggers care about this? I doubt it. I’ve even noticed that in my blue state of MD, the racists have come out and shown who they are after Trump’s win. They don’t care about the “common people” unless those people are White, straight Christian Republicans. I don’t see anything much that Trump will do to piss them off except not go hard against Brown, Black and gay people.
re: #218 Anymouse
Good for you!! Doing some good in this world, I see.
re: #220 Patricia Kayden
Good for you!! Doing some good in this world, I see.
Well, I am trying anyway. The village has a resident and city government official that stands in direct opposition to the idea that liberals do not care about them, or atheists are immoral and evil.
The particular item that got the attention of my village was a couple years ago. Our village clerk who served the village for starvation wages (good thing she was a millionaire rancher) for over two decades passed away from cancer. She was much-loved by the village.
I pressed the state government for two days, until then-Governor Heinemann declared the day of her funeral a state-wide holiday in a statewide proclamation published in every newspaper in the state.
There were an awful lot of people in the village that appreciated that particular notice from the state governor.
The text of the proclamation, which I wrote and the state governor accepted unchanged in his proclamation:
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston née Lally, was a native of Bridgeport and Broadwater, Nebraska, and graduate of Bridgeport, Nebraska High School; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston served as the Village Clerk of Broadwater, Nebraska for 26 years; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston was named Nebraska Outstanding Water Operator in 2010; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston was named the League of Nebraska Municipalities Municipal Clerk of the Year in 2013; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston served on the Scottsbluff/Morrill County Extension Board; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston was very active in the community, serving on the board of Prairie Winds Community Center in Bridgeport, and taught Sunday School, youth groups, and Vacation Bible School at Messiah Lutheran Church in Broadwater; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston faithfully and honorably discharged her duties as Village Clerk of Broadwater, and worked tirelessly to serve the citizens of Broadwater in fulfilling the mission of the Village Board of Trustees, which is to protect and maintain the public confidence through the fair, efficient and experienced supervision of the state-regulated financial interests of Broadwater and the State of Nebraska; and
WHEREAS, Brandi Livingston passed away on July 19, 2014; her funeral will be held July 26, 2014.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dave Heineman, Governor of the State of Nebraska, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM the 26 of July, 2014 as
BRANDI LIVINGSTON DAY
in Nebraska, and I do hereby acknowledge the contributions Brandi Livingston has made to the citizens of the Village of Broadwater and the State of Nebraska during her successful tenure as Village Clerk of Broadwater.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and cause the Great Seal of the State of Nebraska to be affixed this twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen.
re: #222 Anymouse
Damn. Reading that proclamation even now brings tears to my eyes. Forgive me whist I regain my composure and clean up the tears from my face.
re: #222 Anymouse
The text of the proclamation, which I wrote and the state governor accepted unchanged in his proclamation:
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re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
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Where I live is public information anyway, through my political position and my Amateur Radio and Radiotelephone licenses.
Anyone who would want to cause me harm already knows where I live.
re: #221 Anymouse
Very good bit of work, there. That’s the kind of thing you can keep doing no matter what. Carry on, our wayward Fedora ;)
Betsy DeVos will work hard to guarantee that we will continue to import all our engineers, scientists and programmers from Asia and Russia.
Billionaire Betsy DeVos blocked efforts to hold Michigan’s numerous abysmal charter schools accountable. https://t.co/N2VjzUxHQJ pic.twitter.com/ZCMKZ5x9a7
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) December 6, 2016
re: #175 Anymouse
Municipal, un-chlorinated water supply? I have never heard of such a thing. Time to get a chlorinating and fluoridating!
re: #226 William Lewis
Very good bit of work, there. That’s the kind of thing you can keep doing no matter what. Carry on, our wayward Fedora ;)
Thanks. Someone’s gotta do it. I’m trying to hold a progressive and liberal line in the most conservative part of the nation (according to Nate Silver). I will not allow the light of liberal thought go out as long as I can draw a breath here. This is my home, I will fight for it (even if I am not electable beyond my village board).
Someone’s gotta do it.
re: #93 Myron Falwell (no relation)
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Help is on the way by cutting the ACA? How does that work?
re: #228 Emptor scriptor Remorse
Municipal, un-chlorinated water supply? I have never heard of such a thing. Time to get a chlorinating and fluoridating!
We have never needed to chlorinate our water supply.
The EPA requires reverse osmosis filters in every home because we have unacceptable levels of arsenic and uranium, but our water is very, very clean. It is so clean that multiple state and Federal tests every year reveal our water does not need treatment of any sort. (That saves us money as well.) The Feds and the state closely monitor us, including inspectors when we take water samples for testing, because they cannot accept our water is so clean.
re: #230 Eventual Carrion
Help is on the way by cutting the ACA? How does that work?
Magic, just like how flag burning bans and sagging pants bills would fix every problem in the country.
Damn, you’ll have to excuse me a few minutes; reading the proclamation is too emotional; I miss our former village clerk. She was an irreplaceable member of our village.
Too many tears, years after her death.
re: #195 Anymouse
Well, I still have to deal with “you’re not one of those liberals.”
The hardest part of that is trying to convince everyone that while all liberals are not like me (and that’s a good thing), we really aren’t out to take their guns, kick their dogs, or seize all their businesses in a socialistic orgy.
Convince them that you are WAY WAY crazy more liberal than most of the others (which, as I understand it, has the benefit of being true). That might help them re-calibrate their perceptions of what liberals are like.
Besides, we would never kick their dogs, because liberals are nice to animals.
Watching people meltdown over a Black Santa in the Mall of America. “Santa is white!” Well, in our internment camp he was Asian. So there.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 3, 2016
re: #234 Jayleia
Convince them that you are WAY WAY crazy more liberal than most of the others (which, as I understand it, has the benefit of being true). That might help them re-calibrate their perceptions of what liberals are like.
Besides, we would never kick their dogs, because liberals are nice to animals.
LOL! If I could convince my county I am the craziest (my mother is a psychologist, “crazy” is a technical term for use by professionals only, according to her) moonbat amongst either the Democratic Party or the Democratic Socialists of America (as I belong to both), i could single-handedly flip Nebraska blue.
Forgive me, I am still tearing up about that statewide proclamation I wrote. Perhaps I am too emotional to be a politician.
I can’t upload the formal proclamation document issued by the state governor, because the size exceeds LGF’s permissions (500kBytes).
The image is of the formal document issued by the state governor, with the formal state seal and governor’s signature.
Damn, who invited all the onion ninjas into my home to surround me. Damn, It has been two years and I still can’t hold back my emotional response (crying).
I suppose that makes it a good thing I am not President… , ,
re: #232 Timothy Watson
Magic, just like how flag burning bans and sagging pants bills would fix every problem in the country.
If someone were to enact a flag-burning ban, how would that square with the Flag Code (which specifies burning a flag which is no longer suitable for display)?
Greetings from your nation’s capital. I’m going on a White House tour this morning, along with some of the other office folk. I’ve been on the grounds before, but hoping this tour lets us see more of the People’s House.
re: #239 Anymouse
If someone were to enact a flag-burning ban, how would that square with the Flag Code (which specifies burning a flag which is no longer suitable for display)?
Arrest military personnel and boy scouts for violating the law!
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Well, the sun is up, meaning it is past my bedtime.
G’night y’all.
Thanks for having me tonight.
I asked the one guy I’m going to do some micro-political talk with about Pizzagate. He’d heard a little about it and had heard that Flynn had been tweeting about it. That’s a good sign. He doesn’t want to spend too much time on the politics, so we broke into a discussion of conspiracy theories and how people fall for them. He did mention that he reads some British newspapers to get a different perspective.
Donald Trump has long criticized Air Force One’s age. Day before the election, he mentioned “those big old engines that spew the stuff.”
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) December 6, 2016
They have charter schools & homeschooling in the UK too?
Britain’s teenagers still lagging behind other countries in maths, reading and science, international report finds https://t.co/3hZpMmZzVt
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 6, 2016
@wpjenna What did he mean by “those big old engines that spew the stuff.”? Please, 2016, have mercy on us, don’t let him mean chemtrails…
— jay (@random__name) December 6, 2016
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
This from the guy currently costing New York $1 million a day to protect him. https://t.co/OSSSENkM2v
— Snow Blake (@abradacabla) December 6, 2016
TRUMP: “We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money”
Trump moments ago about AF1: “The plane is totally out of control … We want Boeing to make to make a lot of money but not that much money” pic.twitter.com/A1wpa0ms3y
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) December 6, 2016
re: #247 The Vicious Babushka
Wait for it, he will want his plane all fixed up for the job. Then keep it upon exit.
re: #247 The Vicious Babushka
But Trump will be willing to supply the plane that will be the official president’s plane, as long as you keep the name Trump on the outside.
re: #250 Belafon
But Trump will be willing to supply the plane that will be the official president’s plane, as long as you keep the name Trump on the outside.
Just change the name of the country to Trumpland. Problem solved.
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
The actual number is $1.65 billion to build two new Air Force One aircraft. ($825 million each)
Not $4 billion.https://t.co/OSrsF5U2pY https://t.co/aGTZSBIwlN— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 6, 2016
People are tweeting about Trump tweeting about AF1 costing $4B. Did he really just make Gary Busey Secretary of State? https://t.co/2jroLMdYjq
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 6, 2016
re: #247 The Vicious Babushka
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The PEOTUS is an ongoing threat to the nation’s (and world’s) economy https://t.co/MObMn94FLH
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) December 6, 2016
re: #244 The Vicious Babushka
SAM 28000 and SAM 29000 - the Presidential wing 747s are highly modified 747-200s from 1990. They are kept in tip-top shape, and they are meticulously cared for. To keep the paint scheme looking perfect, they use talcum powder as anything else would scratch the paint job.
The USAF is set to replace the current 747s with a new 747-800s in the next few years (as early as next year in fact). The new plane will have upgraded avionics, engines, and other modifications that are unique to the presidential wing.
re: #252 darthstar
Next, he’ll claim that by complaining, he got the costs down to $825M each.
He wants to keep flying in his own gold-drenched 757.
re: #255 Belafon
Next, he’ll claim that by complaining, he got the costs down to $825M each.
I’ll hold you too that……
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Every day now starts with Fuck Fuck Fuck!!!!
Unfortunately it’s not literally…..
re: #256 The Vicious Babushka
He wants to keep flying in his own gold-drenched 757.
He can’t jack the fuel cost up on AF1, or charge for increased maintenance.
re: #259 Belafon
He can’t jack the fuel cost up on AF1, or charge for increased maintenance.
Or claim depreciation on his company’s taxes.
re: #259 Belafon
He can’t jack the fuel cost up on AF1, or charge for increased maintenance.
He will charge rental fee for use of his private jet.
Part of the reason for the higher costs relates to the fact that Boeing is cutting production of the 747-800 as demand for the aircraft has dropped as other 2-engine widebody planes become preferred. Boeing only has the 747-800 as a 4-engine plane that meets the USAF requirements, and Airbus was not considered due to wanting to buy American.
The presidential wing requires special modifications to the flying White House from telcom to avionics and ECM suites that are typically found on USAF fighters and bombers - to protect the most important asset that the US has - the POTUS.
It’s no surprise that Trump is inflating the costs of the plane, because his supporters will idiotically and blindly repeat anything he says, and they don’t care that the costs aren’t anywhere near the actual cost (which could still be quite inflated since it’s the defense acquisition process, which is how you get multibillion dollar aircraft and ships and trillion dollar weapons systems that will take billions of dollars to get working according to design spec).
So, while the GOP demands slashing the safety net, they don’t want to touch the defense establishment gravy train because of jobs, even though the safety net spending has a multiplier effect that makes it far more effective in boosting the economy. Waste in defense spending programs is well documented, but little has been done because too much money changes hands and there are too few defense contractors to do the work because of consolidation.
re: #256 The Vicious Babushka
He wants to keep flying in his own gold-drenched 757.
I’m sure if someone put some gold spinning rims on AF1 he’d be okay with it.
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
To be clear, it’s $4B for two planes that operate as a flying command post for POTUS in a national emergency, have EMP protection, etc. https://t.co/U9rpQ69FTt
— Todd Harrison (@ToddHarrisonDC) December 6, 2016
re: #245 The Vicious Babushka
Britain’s teenagers still lagging behind other countries in maths, reading and science, international report finds
They have charter schools & homeschooling in the UK too?
They have “public schools”, which is a quaintly misleading British term for private schools. They get the moneyed elite, the rest are dumped in “government schools”, which have been allowed to languish.
Government schools in Scotland have a slightly better reputation, at least outside of the troubled neighborhoods.
Trump doesn’t care about facts. His supporters care even less. They have completely bought whatever Trump sells. Lies. @FrankLuntz
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 6, 2016
I say let Trump fly around in a plane that is not as safe as the new Air Force Ones. If that’s what he wants.
2016 continues to suck:
Veteran British actor Peter Vaughan, who played enigmatic Maester Aemon in ‘Game of Thrones,’ dies at age 93. https://t.co/1OAAanibKk
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2016
Somewhere on Wall Street:
Trump just tweeted about Boeing.
What should we do?
Wait three hours and then buy…— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 6, 2016
re: #208 Dr. Matt
How’s the driving going? Stay safe over there!
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
Someone needs to point out the actual cost to Harrison.
re: #263 darthstar
Fuck you for reminding me of the John Cena spinny belt era of WWE belt design.
Now we return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.
re: #235 Unshaken Defiance
Cannot believe that this is still an issue. Santa doesn’t exist and can therefore be any color/race/national origin. Sigh.
re: #253 Timothy Watson
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His cronies will buy them up and he’ll tweet about the deal being back on.
(missed darth’s tweet above.)
Boeing shares fall after Trump tweets to cancel Air Force One order https://t.co/eyraJLUqMk pic.twitter.com/WxBjj0NVJX
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 6, 2016
A scheme where Trump/family short a stock, plan a tweet to crash it would be a sure-fire way to cash in. We’d never know if they’re doing it https://t.co/NVvInNqFaG
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 6, 2016
re: #176 wheat-dogg
It is Alicia Machado’s birthday. That is all.
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Please let me be as fat as Alicia Machado.
Thank you.
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re: #275 The Vicious Babushka
A scheme where Trump/family short a stock, plan a tweet to crash it would be a sure-fire way to cash in. We’d never know if they’re doing it
The possibilities are endless…
re: #275 The Vicious Babushka
Scams, scams and more scams. This is going to a great four years for Trump and his offspring. Not so much for the rest of us.
re: #275 The Vicious Babushka
Worth noting: Trump reported owning between $50,001 and $100,000 of Boeing stock in his May ‘16 disclosure. https://t.co/iNC9QeQksc
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) December 6, 2016
Why do Carrier jobs count but Boeing ones don’t?
re: #273 Patricia Kayden
Cannot believe that this is still an issue. Santa doesn’t exist and can therefore be any color/race/national origin. Sigh.
But Jesus is white. Megyn Kelly said so. And because Christmas, Jesus and Santa
REASONS.
re: #280 Stanley Sea
Why do Carrier jobs count but Boeing ones don’t?
The only jobs that “count” are the ones that Trump can get a photo op, claim credit for & make himself look good.
re: #275 The Vicious Babushka
Wall Street’s full of suckers as well.
re: #273 Patricia Kayden
Cannot believe that this is still an issue. Santa doesn’t exist and can therefore be any color/race/national origin. Sigh.
There was a comment that appeared here long ago: people who do not understand the true meaning of something are the ones who cling most steadfastly to the arbitrary symbols we attach to it: guns, flag pins, crucifixes, and a figure from a Coca-Cola Christmas advertising poster…
Sigh.
Not long after the election a friend of mine on Facebook left a post that said one of her IRL friends, a trans-woman, had been victim of a hate crime. Said friend was severely beaten.
Just found out that the victim didn’t make it.
I didn’t know the victim, and I know what you resist you become, but right now I’m fantasizing about hunting down the people who did this and making them pay in pain and blood!
Aarrrgh. The guy who sits next to me is having a deskside meeting with another worker and they are WHISPERING. They think by whispering they won’t disturb people nearby but fucking whispering is just about the most annoying sound imaginable.
Putting on my headset. Gah.
re: #286 The Vicious Babushka
Offer them pie. That’ll shut em up.
Repeat after me. There isn’t a blind trust plan. It’s smoke and mirrors. @Newsweek
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 6, 2016
Man Who Shot ex-NFL’er Actually Arrested After Being Released Earlier
HARVEY, La. — The man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight has been arrested and jailed on a charge of manslaughter.
Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested late Monday, after initially being released last week without charges pending further investigation, jail records show.
This is a good thing, but still the racial double standard remains. Why was he released? And if the shooter was black and the victim white, would this have happened?
re: #290 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Man Who Shot ex-NFL’er Actually Arrested After Being Released Earlier
HARVEY, La. — The man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight has been arrested and jailed on a charge of manslaughter.
Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested late Monday, after initially being released last week without charges pending further investigation, jail records show.
This is a good thing, but still the racial double standard remains. Why was he released? And if the shooter was black and the victim white, would this have happened?
What if the victim wasn’t well known?
We’d never hear about it.
re: #290 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Man Who Shot ex-NFL’er Actually Arrested After Being Released Earlier
HARVEY, La. — The man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight has been arrested and jailed on a charge of manslaughter.
Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested late Monday, after initially being released last week without charges pending further investigation, jail records show.
This is a good thing, but still the racial double standard remains. Why was he released? And if the shooter was black and the victim white, would this have happened?
The more one looks at this case, the more you realize that race definitely played a role in the way the police handled the case. The shooter apparently had a history of violent road rage incidents, and was involved in a 2006 incident at this very same intersection. With that as a background, there’s absolutely no reason that the shooter should have ever been released from custody since he was a threat to the public (history of road rage incidents). That he’s been arrested and taken into custody doesn’t diminish the problem that police didn’t think to keep him in custody in the first place.
The manslaughter charge is based on LA law, which fits the situation. Also, given how the police handled the arrest, one has to wonder if all the evidence has been preserved in a way that makes sure that a prosecution can be successful. There’ll be a whole lot of CYA going on now, and the defense lawyers will certainly look at this too (that’s their job after all).
Supposed to be in the 20s around here tonight. Texas cold weather advice:
1. Bring in all brass monkeys.
2. Cease all well-digging operations.
4. Avoid contact with sleeping bears (probably a good idea regardless of weather).
re: #244 The Vicious Babushka
Donald Trump has long criticized Air Force One’s age. Day before the election, he mentioned “those big old engines that spew the stuff.”
Asshole’s about to go plane-shopping, isn’t he?
I’m sure everyone who bitched about Obama using taxpayer money on AF1 will be in full-throated cry over it.
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re: #294 makeitstop
Asshole’s about to go plane-shopping, isn’t he?
I’m sure everyone who bitched about Obama using taxpayer money on AF1 will be in full-throated cry over it.
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Just another distraction from something else he would rather we not find out about.
re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just another distraction from something else he would rather we not find out about.
Short selling Boeing stock?
We’re building a Carrier plant in Mexico… @BlogLiberally pic.twitter.com/byMNQq2uCi
— mrtstur (@mrtstur) December 6, 2016
We just found out that one of the victims of the Ghost Ship fire was a girl we had known.
Her parents had been our friends back before we were married. Her Mom and Mrs. FBW were roommates in a house on Santiago in SF. We lost track of them probably at least 15 years ago, but at one time, their son was our Older Boy’s closest friend, and our families spent many days together. We were close enough that when the Younger Boy was born, they babysat Older Boy, and we babysat their son when Jenny was born.
She was a student at Berkeley. When Mrs. FBW told me this morning, I didn’t quite believe it. Then I saw her picture - she had her Mom’s nose, and mouth.
Hard to know how to feel, exactly.
‘Member when ‘What fresh hell awaits’ was just a phrase and not a daily reality?
I ‘member!
re: #299 makeitstop
I’m pretty sure we’re long out of Hells and are well into working on layers of The Abyss
re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a comment that appeared here long ago: people who do not understand the true meaning of something are the ones who cling most steadfastly to the arbitrary symbols we attach to it: guns, flag pins, crucifixes, and a figure from a Coca-Cola Christmas advertising poster…
Not to diminish your point, but the “Coke created the modern image of Santa” thing is a myth. That version of Santa had been pretty standard for decades before that Ad campaign.
re: #301 danarchy
Not to diminish your point, but the “Coke created the modern image of Santa” thing is a myth. That version of Santa had been pretty standard for decades before that Ad campaign.
So in Europe, today is the Feast of St Nicholas, where it is often common for children to receive a boot full of sweets, oranges, nuts and other small presents. Funny to see how he came to be swept into the vortex of a bigger holiday.
re: #301 danarchy
Not to diminish your point, but the “Coke created the modern image of Santa” thing is a myth. That version of Santa had been pretty standard for decades before that Ad campaign.
The modern version is a creation of Thomas Nast, the same guy who gave us the elephant as the representation of the Republican party.
re: #294 makeitstop
Asshole’s about to go plane-shopping, isn’t he?
I’m sure everyone who bitched about Obama using taxpayer money on AF1 will be in full-throated cry over it.
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He’ll make the Air Force take the Concorde out of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and retrofit it for his use.
Read this thread full of people telling the Doughy Pantload how full of shit he is==>
Access to water in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia may increase in coming decades due to climate change, spurring agricultural growth.
— UberFacts (@UberFacts) December 6, 2016
Shhhhhhh! This sort of thing is against the official narrative. https://t.co/red2SgB1RA
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) December 6, 2016
Trump seems so concerned about the AF1 contract, which is actually reasonable under the circumstances ($1.65 billion for the replacement planes), but doesn’t seem to care that it costs $10+ billion for an aircraft carrier, or over $1 trillion for a plane purchase (F-35) that wont be able to do its mission requirements for years to come, or $4 billion for a single destroyer (Zumwalt) that’s already experienced issues after going to sea for the first time.
re: #307 lawhawk
Trump seems so concerned about the AF1 contract, which is actually reasonable under the circumstances ($1.65 billion for the replacement planes), but doesn’t seem to care that it costs $10+ billion for an aircraft carrier, or over $1 trillion for a plane purchase (F-35) that wont be able to do its mission requirements for years to come, or $4 billion for a single destroyer (Zumwalt) that’s already experienced issues after going to sea for the first time.
Which adds to the theory that this is a way to short the Boeing stock he owns.
Good question, Mr. Lusztig.
#ThankYouTour2016
12/6- North Carolinahttps://t.co/79AHq3NC0v
12/8- Iowahttps://t.co/1IuRTVwMSx
12/9- Michiganhttps://t.co/2UTwAg5V87 pic.twitter.com/QKGpE52Ukg— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 5, 2016
Flying around to thank states that voted for him sends a hell of a message to the ones that didn’t. Will our voices matter at all? https://t.co/KBxH3nY0tU
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) December 6, 2016
re: #309 makeitstop
Flying around to thank states that voted for him sends a hell of a message to the ones that didn’t. Will our voices matter at all?
To the victors go the spoils…now people will think twice before voting against him again.
OT, but the fine Governor of my state has had a brilliant idea. He created the Office of Transformation. The stated goals of said office are to reduce excessive bureaucracy and increase savings. People are rightfully calling bullshit.
A Facebook friend of mine has started using the hashtag #PresidentNeglect.
I like it.
re: #311 Arkansawyer
OT, but the fine Governor of my state has had a brilliant idea. He created the Office of Transformation. The stated goals of said office are to reduce excessive bureaucracy and increase savings. People are rightfully calling bullshit.
Department of Redundancy Department
We’re building a Carrier plant in Mexico… @BlogLiberally pic.twitter.com/byMNQq2uCi
— mrtstur (@mrtstur) December 6, 2016
And the jobs that remain will go in a year. #SuckersForTrump https://t.co/9KsgS549A2
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 6, 2016
re: #266 lawhawk
And the media will report whatever Trump says. He is the PEOTUS after all.
Once he becomes POTUS, all of Kellyanne’s wall of bullshit will also be reported as news.
Even in his darkest nightmares, George Orwell never envisioned a situation like this.
re: #311 Arkansawyer
OT, but the fine Governor of my state has had a brilliant idea. He created the Office of Transformation. The stated goals of said office are to reduce excessive bureaucracy and increase savings. People are rightfully calling bullshit.
That’s taking the Blue Ribbon Commission bullshit to a whole other level, right there. I’m sure the Office will come up with some great recommendations and the response will be “well, shucks, I mean, we don’t really want to cut this program or close this office, but the Office of Transformation has made this recommendation and there’s just really nothing we can do…”
re: #308 Belafon
Which adds to the theory that this is a way to short the Boeing stock he owns.
Problem is that, like most such schemes, it’s only going to cause more headaches down the line. This isn’t the old days when he could have used the possibility of other companies snapping up the contract scare Boeing. The only other companies that are around anymore due to consolidation are Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, and they don’t build anything nearly the same size as the 747. There is also Airbus, but the last time the military tried to procure one of their jets, Boeing drug the Air Force before Congress and got their paid Congresscritters to screech about buying “foreign” jets until the AF quietly bought Boeing’s design instead.
re: #289 lawhawk
It will work perfectly for Trump. Who’s going to call him on it? The GOP? The media?
re: #290 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Man Who Shot ex-NFL’er Actually Arrested After Being Released Earlier
HARVEY, La. — The man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight has been arrested and jailed on a charge of manslaughter.
Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested late Monday, after initially being released last week without charges pending further investigation, jail records show.
This is a good thing, but still the racial double standard remains. Why was he released? And if the shooter was black and the victim white, would this have happened?
Rhetorical question?
re: #316 KGxvi
That’s taking the Blue Ribbon Commission bullshit to a whole other level, right there. I’m sure the Office will come up with some great recommendations and the response will be “well, shucks, I mean, we don’t really want to cut this program or close this office, but the Office of Transformation has made this recommendation and there’s just really nothing we can do…”
As the “Office” is likely to be stocked with his hand-picked lackies, of course it will be little more than a way of making the cuts and changes he wants seem like recommendations of “experts.” “I didn’t want to do it, but they said it’s the only way!”
re: #320 Targetpractice
As the “Office” is likely to be stocked with his hand-picked lackies, of course it will be little more than a way of making the cuts and changes he wants seem like recommendations of “experts.” “I didn’t want to do it, but they said it’s the only way!”
The woman tapped to head the office was an associate for Hutchinson Group, LLC. Officers listed for the company include Gov. Hutchinson. So, I think you hit the nail on the head.
NEW: @Boeing releases statement in response to Trump Air Force One tweet, puts contract at $170 million https://t.co/ORuM5EtpUx pic.twitter.com/lGVoV5C6Sc
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 6, 2016
It’s going to be a long four years. Is our country strong enough to withstand a corrupt and incompetent President who lies all the time? https://t.co/vda7jq7CeU
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) December 6, 2016
re: #315 Skip Intro
And the media will report whatever Trump says. He is the PEOTUS after all.
Once he becomes POTUS, all of Kellyanne’s wall of bullshit will also be reported as news.
Even in his darkest nightmares, George Orwell never envisioned a situation like this.
If there was such a thing as a “guardianship” for countries, the way there is for people suffering from dementia, the US would be eligible for such a thing, at this stage. We are becoming a danger to others as well as ourselves.
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
To the victors go the spoils…now people will think twice before voting against him again.
Which only breeds resentment, anger and the drafting of someone else under a platform that ostensibly punishes the Branch Trumpidians in retribution.
re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
To the victors go the spoils…now people will think twice before voting against him again.
I don’t think it makes any difference. the only voices he listens to are the ones in his head.
re: #317 Targetpractice
Problem is that, like most such schemes, it’s only going to cause more headaches down the line. This isn’t the old days when he could have used the possibility of other companies snapping up the contract scare Boeing. The only other companies that are around anymore due to consolidation are Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, and they don’t build anything nearly the same size as the 747. There is also Airbus, but the last time the military tried to procure one of their jets, Boeing drug the Air Force before Congress and got their paid Congresscritters to screech about buying “foreign” jets until the AF quietly bought Boeing’s design instead.
Doesn’t matter. At least on person on FR thinks that Donald has saved us $4 B by canceling the contract already. No one called him on it so it must be true.
He also has a history of alleged racist comments https://t.co/EGYQ9BwBn3
— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) December 6, 2016
TEEN VOGUE OUT HERE DOING THE WORK. https://t.co/9yYwVoGBQa
— sportsyelling. (@sportsyelling) December 6, 2016
re: #324 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Which only breeds resentment, anger and the drafting of someone else under a platform that ostensibly punishes the Branch Trumpidians in retribution.
And being Democrats, we’ll punish them by passing Medicare for All and increasing the minimum wage and linking it to inflation.
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
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If Trump really wants to save money he should just hop on Amtrak!
Trump finds the president’s top-secret time machine https://t.co/PswNJb6B7Z pic.twitter.com/wE0dIEh4l5
— The Nib (@thenib) December 6, 2016
re: #280 Stanley Sea
Why do Carrier jobs count but Boeing ones don’t?
Because Indiana is Real America, Seattle isn’t? //
re: #331 Donkey With No Name
Because Indiana is Real America, Seattle isn’t? //
Because he could use a photo op with Carrier to make himself look good. He tried to do that with Ford but they told him to go fuck himself (actually using nicer words).
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Hot conservatalker-on-conservatalker action
So, what was your best memory of when Rush was a conservative? “If Trump does stimulus right, people will love it” https://t.co/nauhaWoKss
— Real Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) December 6, 2016
If he can plunge a stock with an irresponsible tweet, just think of the wars he can start.
Awesome.
BREAKING NEWS
It’s outrageous that @mflynnJR probably just thinks he can rape goats and get away with it. Think of the poor goats.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) December 6, 2016
The Trump transition website link has been removed from his twitter profile!! He’s hiding something! Lock up your goats, people!! https://t.co/wmayLto9oW
— Breakthrough Fitness (@fitness_linda) December 6, 2016
Obviously, #goatrapegate has affected the very foundation of the Trump transition. https://t.co/EBDqTN7f3z
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) December 6, 2016
re: #333 Myron Falwell (no relation)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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As I said yesterday, it’s all about rooting for Team R, nothing more, nothing less.
re: #334 Jenner7
If he can plunge a stock with an irresponsible tweet, just think of the wars he can start.
Awesome.
I just found myself wondering if Twitter will survive the next four years. Trump is not going to stop tweeting, short of an act of Congress, and he utterly refuses to admit when he’s wrong. He simply deletes the evidence of his actions when they become inconvenient to him. So eventually he’s going to send out a tweet that’s going to cause a massive row, try to delete it permanently, and then we’ll watch as Twitter gets drugs into court either to produce the deleted tweets or explain why it’s shielding Comrade Combover.
re: #280 Stanley Sea
Why do Carrier jobs count but Boeing ones don’t?
Because his VP is Governor of Indiana, not Washington state. And he has access to the IN state purse strings.
re: #335 gocart mozart
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#goatrapegate is appalling. Will someone think of the goats?
— Bad Hombre (@franklinftw) December 6, 2016
Here a story Trump may have been trying to hide with his Boeing tweet
WATCH: Trump may privatize tribal lands, unlocking $1.5 trillion in oil, gas, and coal. https://t.co/uBgM4tQ1mb pic.twitter.com/86rDthcXZB
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 5, 2016
re: #337 Targetpractice
I just found myself wondering if Twitter will survive the next four years. Trump is not going to stop tweeting, short of an act of Congress, and he utterly refuses to admit when he’s wrong. He simply deletes the evidence of his actions when they become inconvenient to him. So eventually he’s going to send out a tweet that’s going to cause a massive row, try to delete it permanently, and then we’ll watch as Twitter gets drugs into court either to produce the deleted tweets or explain why it’s shielding Comrade Combover.
I assume that people are making immediate screenshots of everything he tweets…after all, once he becomes POTUS, they will fall under the Public Records and Freedom of Information Acts.
Trump apparently tweeted 22 minutes after Chi Trib pubbed an article about Boeing’s worry abt Trump’s trade policies https://t.co/9hwRZ6wgrg
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 6, 2016
re: #340 The Vicious Babushka
Which is why who Trump picks for the Interior Department and Bureau of Indian Affairs may decide what happens and who profits (no doubt Native Americans will get screwed again).
re: #342 Jenner7
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So either he’s shorting stock, he’s monumentally stupid, or he’s so petty that he’s prepared to risk getting his future administration drug into court by a major corporation.
Or all three, knowing him.
Good point.
how do we know if ivanka, uday or qusay didnt short boeing today? “thanks dad”
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 6, 2016
re: #345 gocart mozart
how do we know if ivanka, uday or qusay didnt short boeing today? “thanks dad”
Sounds more like a short-sighted fit of pique rather than a contrived plan…but we will never know.
re: #336 KGxvi
As I said yesterday, it’s all about rooting for Team R, nothing more, nothing less.
Remember too that Sykes is retiring from radio and TV at the end of the month. It’s very apparent that he’s setting himself up to be a “voice of reason.”
Very important bit of info: pic.twitter.com/mQRvIdPD7w
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) December 6, 2016
Russian fingers are in lots of places.
Some brain bleach from all the toxic Derp
Muslim-owned London restaurant offering a free Christmas meal to the elderly and homeless. https://t.co/8VMt7utAwE
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2016
re: #348 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Remember too that Sykes is retiring from radio and TV at the end of the month. It’s very apparent that he’s setting himself up to be a “voice of reason.”
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Yeah, and he’s done his share of damage here in Wisconsin. Sykes is a snake.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge can go to hell.
/Stupid swaying ass bridge.
President Trump Said To Be Still Issuing Orders And Statements From Confinement In The Oval Office
ivanka says father still allowed to have twitter account because it distracts his fanbase and “keeps him from getting overexcited”
Pence, Ryan, and Mcconnell Assure National Priorities Of Outsourcing Labor And Destroying Medicare And Social Security Will Go On Despite President Being Ruled Mentally Incapable Of Performing His Duties
re: #343 lawhawk
Which is why who Trump picks for the Interior Department and Bureau of Indian Affairs may decide what happens and who profits (no doubt Native Americans will get screwed again).
The First Nations have had hundreds of years experience in getting screwed over. I would be shocked if they weren’t preparing themselves for that scenario.
It could get really ugly. Only the old angry white male will approve.
It just gets harder and harder to even. Nobody can even.
The worst part of this story is the misspelling in the listing. https://t.co/S7W8taNcYu pic.twitter.com/68n37yhgfA
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) December 6, 2016
So this is what happened.
Trump apparently tweeted 22 minutes after Chi Trib pubbed an article about Boeing’s worry abt Trump’s trade policies https://t.co/9hwRZ6wgrg
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 6, 2016
For no apparent reason
Omar Comin’ pic.twitter.com/yODOhE9FFV
— The Wire (@WireFans) November 26, 2016
— The Wire (@WireFans) December 6, 2016
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
It just gets harder and harder to even. Nobody can even.
I really have given up commenting, I just observe and remind myself that things will have to get a shitload of a lot worse before they can even begin to start getting any better.
Trump Tower is advertising Secret Service protection as a hot new amenity —> https://t.co/tLgoGbvoIi
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) December 6, 2016
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
It just gets harder and harder to even. Nobody can even.
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The Aminityville Horror.
President Elect Trump Given Copy Of Defense Budget To Play With
said to have kept him busy for almost five minutes
Heh.
Save $5 on any order at https://t.co/DQ00ghzO99 w/Promo Code WIREFANS. Order now for worldwide Christmas delivery! pic.twitter.com/MDFwhnGKsA
— Isiah Whitlock Jr. (@IsiahWhitlockJr) December 6, 2016
It’s the Isiah Whitlock, Jr. Talking Money Head. Sheeeeeeeee-it!
re: #363 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
President Elect Trump Given Copy Of Defense Budget To Play With
said to have kept him busy for almost five minutes
He tried making paper airplanes but his fingers were just too short and stumpy.
re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really have given up commenting, I just observe and remind myself that things will have to get a shitload of a lot worse before they can even begin to start getting any better.
I don’t know how it can get any better without punishing the GOP rank-and-file. They will never learn otherwise.
Get on with it pic.twitter.com/mqlk2a5Non
— The Wire (@WireFans) November 24, 2016
Trump team has not released documents to prove stock sales, nor given indication of how Trump spent windfall. https://t.co/ipyMqIikqu
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) December 6, 2016
re: #366 Myron Falwell (no relation)
I don’t know how it can get any better without punishing the GOP rank-and-file. They will never learn otherwise.
Whatever winds up happening, it will be ugly and difficult to watch without wincing.
Do people really expect the Japanese PM to apologize, thereby angering his conservative base that he relies on for support in Tokyo?
Japanese leader Abe won’t apologise at Pearl Harbor https://t.co/SdgnNItZJM #Japan #ShinzoAbe #apologize #PearlHarbor pic.twitter.com/tYx3ox5ojM
— The Gulf Today (@thegulftoday) December 6, 2016
Trump lied to me directly in 1987, claiming to have sold all of his stocks before market crash. SEC filings proved false. Sold now in June?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 6, 2016
re: #370 electrotek
Do people really expect the Japanese PM to apologize, thereby angering his conservative base that he relies on for support in Tokyo?
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Are these the same people who complain about Obama supposedly apologizing all the time?
re: #372 Sir John Barron
Which people? I don’t believe Japanese conservatives complain about Obama “apologizing” all the time. *shrug
re: #372 Sir John Barron
Are these the same people who complain about Obama supposedly apologizing all the time?
The ones who think he apologized at Hiroshima.
re: #368 The Vicious Babushka
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Post last month that Trump had in June also sold his shares in Energy Transfer Partners, the majority stakeholder in the $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline project that has drawn protests from environmentalists and Native Americans.
The Department of the Army said Sunday it would not allow the oil pipeline to be drilled further near a Standing Rock Sioux reservation, but Trump has said he supported completing the pipeline. The company’s chief executive was a major campaign donor to Trump, but its stock had declined in value in the face of protests.
So Trump cashed out on ETP before the stock declined (and presumably will continue to decline). What a swell guy. //
re: #373 electrotek
Which people? I don’t believe Japanese conservatives complain about Obama “apologizing” all the time. *shrug
I meant conservatives who complain that Obama apologizes for America.
re: #340 The Vicious Babushka
Here a story Trump may have been trying to hide with his Boeing tweet
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Shorter Trump.
What? Those savages still have land? We’ll steal that too.
re: #377 Sir John Barron
Gotcha, just making sure lol
Fuck the soulless husk that is Paul Ryan.
@nehedari @TIME “Going hungry builds character!” Hey, maybe that’s why so many leading Repubs are so soulless.
— Kryptik (@Citizen_Kryptik) December 6, 2016
I’m sorry…I’m a bit bleary eyed at the moment, but did I just see Frank Fucking Luntz fact check Trump?
Trump is priv citizen. $4 bill, Air Force One falsehood cratered Boeing stock. He “sold” shares in June. Shareholders can sue him 4 fraud.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 6, 2016
I’d rather have a full stomach since, you know, souls aren’t real.
/Flame suit
re: #380 Citizen K
Fuck the soulless husk that is Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan Says Free School Lunches Give Kids ‘An Empty Soul’
I remember that argument. In an ideal GOP world, kids go home at lunch to the stay-at-home mom, or eat the lunch that she lovingly packs every morning before sending them off…
re: #384 Varek Raith
I’d rather have a full stomach since, you know, souls aren’t real.
/Flame suit
And if you’re peculiar, you have two. /
re: #380 Citizen K
Fuck the soulless husk that is Paul Ryan.
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New: Source says Flynn Jr. is very active in Trump transition: helping with vetting, meetings, scheduling https://t.co/Pg3DIpYIZL
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) December 5, 2016
Update from Trump spox 22 hours later: Flynn Jr. “is no longer involved with transition efforts.” https://t.co/walNx5mlnw
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) December 6, 2016
re: #378 Romantic Heretic
Shorter Trump.
What? Those savages still have land? We’ll steal that too.
And they will be totally unprepared for the violence and bloodshed that will follow. Greedy plutocrats are like that.
re: #382 Kragar
Trump is priv citizen. $4 bill, Air Force One falsehood cratered Boeing stock. He “sold” shares in June. Shareholders can sue him 4 fraud.
People wanted a “businessman not a politician”. This is what we got…
trump in 2013:
.@Boeing stock went way down because of 787- so I just bought stock in @Boeing- great company!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2013
Briefing reporters on Air Force One, @PressSec says new Air Force Ones won’t enter service until 2023 and designed with “unique upgrades.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 6, 2016
Hey all! Damn it is depressing reading through threads these days.
Did anyone happen to see any of The Today Show this morning (NBC)?
Matt Lauer and Tamron Hall interviewed Derick Ion Almena the Oakland warehouse manager. It was very uncomfortable.
What got me was Matt Lauer really dogging the guy about his responsibility.
I wish Lauer and Company could have been as tough on one Republican presidential candidate and his talking heads. And when they veered off and not answer cut them off too.
Note: I am not condoning the landlord’s actions. Just the reporting imbalance in something that NBC reporters should have treated with the same amount of importance. In ways Trump is starting all kinds of fires too.
re: #340 The Vicious Babushka
This is modern day colonialism where powerful people (usually White) go around taking over the land/property of those less powerful (usually non-White) where only one side benefits. Disgusting.
re: #380 Citizen K
Fuck the soulless husk that is Paul Ryan.
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Because demoralized hungry children are so damn eager to learn!
1/4 Well, overnight I discovered the “free speech activists” of Gab•ai really don’t like when people use their free speech to …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
2/4 criticize Gab•ai. Got a flood of ugly tweets full of insults saying “how dare you say Gab is full of white supremacists!” Oddly …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
3/4 enough, many of these people had bios with “White Genocide,” “14 Words,” and “Alt-Right” tags, and timelines packed with racist …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
4/4 comments and Pepe memes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
He told Eloise he didn’t want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”
“The left does not understand” that kids want to eat, whether it’s from a brown-paper bag or on a plate?
re: #393 ObserverArt
What got me was Matt Lauer really dogging the guy about his responsibility.
I wish Lauer and Company could have been as tough on one Republican presidential candidate and his talking heads. And when they veered off and not answer cut them off too.
That’s crazy talk. If Lauer and the media aren’t nice to Trump, Trump will just tweet more.
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re: #218 Anymouse
This evening and early morning congratulations are pouring in from family and friends for my appointment as the Chairman Pro-Tempore of my village board of trustees.
I pointed out to each that called or E-mailed that I really didn’t do much to deserve the post. It was mostly because I am willing to stick out an unpaid elected position and am willing to fight for villagers’ issues (small as those might be on the national scale of things).
Still, I can’t help but indulge in a bit of self-satisfaction at the idea the most liberal person in town is now in the village government’s second-most important position.
On that note, I feel somewhat ashamed that I should be self-satisfied in that achievement. I have neither done much to deserve a pat on the back nor advance a progressive cause in an insignificant village in the middle of nowhere amongst cattle and corn.
Someone important (or eccentric) will show up soon asking you to trek across the continent in order to throw an insignificant looking object into a volcano in order to save civilization.
1/3 The term “free speech activist” used to mean something positive, even noble, when it involved protesting government control of …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
2/3 speech and expression. But somewhere along the way, the term was co-opted by the far right to excuse their spewing of hate speech …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
3/3 and white supremacism, and to use as a bludgeon to silence criticism. The very opposite of real free speech.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 6, 2016
Evan Hurst’s apt description of Kellyanne Conway and the upcoming propaganda arm of the Trump administration:
So hooray, Kellyanne Conway might get to do what her guidance counselor never imagined for her, by directing an online Twitter lynch mob. To be honest, it sounds like a perfect fit for her, because she really is a professional asshole.
wonkette.com
re: #398 Sir John Barron
That’s crazy talk. If Lauer and the media aren’t nice to Trump, Trump will just tweet more.
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Exactly: that landlord is not a media entity with a rabid following.
re: #369 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever winds up happening, it will be ugly and difficult to watch without wincing.
Everything around us seems to be a powder keg… something is going to blow up disastrously. It’s only a matter of what will happen.
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
So we asked Anderson when she met this boy and heard his story. Joe Scialfa, communications director for the department provided us with this answer:
In the course of giving live testimony, Secretary Anderson misspoke. What she had intended to say was the following:
“Once I heard someone say, ‘what was important to him as a boy was that he didn’t want school lunch, he wanted a brown bag because the brown bag that he brought with his lunch in it meant that his mom cared about him.’”
Secretary Anderson was referring to a television interview which she had seen with Maurice Mazyck.
JFC
re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Exactly: that landlord is not a media entity with a rabid following.
That landlord is also not someone with his own show on Lauer’s network that’s a cash cow which helps pay Lauer his multimillion dollar salary.
re: #404 Sir John Barron
“Once I heard someone say, ‘what was important to him as a boy was that he didn’t want school lunch, he wanted a brown bag because the brown bag that he brought with his lunch in it meant that his mom cared about him.’”
The person who made up this story thinks poor mothers “don’t care” about their children because they have to be at work (they don’t get flexible hours) instead of at home lovingly packing brown bag lunches.
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
But the story doesn’t end there. Wonkette, a satiric blog, wondered if Anderson’s story was actually derived from a 2011 book titled “The Invisible Thread,” by Laura Schroff, which is about a busy executive and her relationship with an 11-year-old homeless panhandler named Maurice Mazyck. His mother was a drug addict, in jail, who had stolen things and cashed in food stamps to pay for drugs. At one point, Schroff offers to bring Mazyck lunch every day so he won’t go hungry. The exchange goes like this:
So Wonkette busted Ryan’s BS story?
Figures.
But he’s concerned that Palin’s recent erratic behavior might be the result of some type of serious health issues, reported Right Wing Watch.
“Sincerely, has she had a brain aneurysm?” Beck said Monday night during his weekly “Think Tank” television program. “Because I don’t know what has happened to her.”
rawstory.com
The only things more bizarre than Beck wondering about anyone else’s mental state is that his show is called “Think Tank.”
re: #406 The Vicious Babushka
The person who made up this story thinks poor mothers “don’t care” about their children because they have to be at work (they don’t get flexible hours) instead of at home lovingly packing brown bag lunches.
Women should be stay-at-home moms. That is the core of GOP “family values”.
re: #393 ObserverArt
Great White night club fire
Great White’s Band Manager:
On May 10, 2006, State Prosecutor Randall White asked that Biechele be sentenced to ten years in prison, the maximum allowed under the plea bargain, citing the massive loss of life in the fire and the need to send a message.
Night Club Owners:
Following Biechele’s trial, the Station’s owners, Michael and Jeffrey Derderian, were scheduled to receive separate trials. However, on September 21, 2006, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan announced that the brothers had changed their pleas from “not guilty” to “no contest,” thereby avoiding a trial.[28] Michael Derderian received 15 years in prison, with four to serve and 11 years suspended, plus three years’ probation—the same sentence as Biechele. Jeffrey Derderian received a 10-year suspended sentence, three years’ probation, and 500 hours of community service.
That would be a good start for Derick Ion Almena
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re: #406 The Vicious Babushka
The person who made up this story thinks poor mothers “don’t care” about their children because they have to be at work (they don’t get flexible hours) instead of at home lovingly packing brown bag lunches.
My mom was a stay at home mom and we still had to make our own lunches, dinners, do the laundry, water the yard and clean the house because she was usually too zonked out on heavy psychotropic medications to do it herself. Yeah, I would have liked one of these mythical SAHMs. Instead I got a paranoid schizophrenic. These people annoy me.
Trump: Cancel Air Force One! 4 Billion is too much!
Boeing: We’re only contracted for 173 million.
Media: Trump boldly slashes budget!— Sean Kent (@seankent) December 6, 2016
OT, but just got done seeing Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence over there in the USA) and it was great! Nice to see Godzilla back in fine form in the latest release from Toho.
Ryan said there will be an early repeal vote next year, but after that, “clearly there will be a transition and a bridge so that no one is left out in the cold, so that no one is worse off. The purpose here is to bring relief to people who are suffering from Obamacare so that they can get something better.”
OH G-D 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM HAVING HEALTH INSURANCE EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS.
Paul Ryan: #Obamacare phaseout will leave ‘no one worse off’ https://t.co/J2mrxmi5ul @usatoday
— Chad Terhune (@chadterhune) December 5, 2016
Correction from @SpeakerRyan’s office: comments re “no one worse off” just apply to transition period, not eventual replacement plan.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) December 6, 2016
re: #389 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Unfortunately it’s unlikely any of that blood will be the plutocrats.
re: #416 jaunte
He’s hoping Trump’s wars with China and Iran will kill off most of the poor and middle class.
re: #396 Charles Johnson
Well, racists need to express their feelings about the Blacks and Browns and gays and Muslims without any pushback. They’re so oppressed here in this country, doncha know?!!
re: #415 The Vicious Babushka
OH G-D 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM HAVING HEALTH INSURANCE EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS.
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Rep. Ryan was misquoted, he actually said “no one who matters to us will be worse off.”
re: #419 Belafon
He’s hoping Trump’s wars with China and Iran will kill off most of the poor and middle class.
Then who is going to take out their trash and clean their toilets?
re: #421 Targetpractice
Rep. Ryan was misquoted, he actually said “no one who matters to us will be worse off.”
Who actually is “suffering” from Obamacare?
There may be some self employed people who have high premiums because the asshole governors of the states they live in did not approve the Medicaid expansion. But that is not because of the ACA.
Fucking Walnuts. Come on man, stand for something.
McCain just now: “I’m not talking about Trump. I’m not talking about Trump. I’m not talking about Trump. I’m not talking about Trump.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 6, 2016
If you don’t start ‘talking about Trump,’ I’ll take that as tacit approval of everything he does.
re: #423 The Vicious Babushka
Insurance companies who can’t gouge insureds for policies that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on?
Religious groups who can’t impose their religious beliefs on their employees when it comes to kinds of care they seek (and for which the employee pays for through their premiums and payroll deductions)?
You know - the only ones that count in the GOP universe /sarc not sarc.
re: #423 The Vicious Babushka
Well, there’s that poster from Idaho who appears to be hallucinating about his high insurance costs.
It’s so easy & it’s happening in front of our eyes. Beware. From a Facebook post of Jennifer Chernoff: pic.twitter.com/Hp8bp9Ah6h
— Jodi (@jodotcom) December 6, 2016
re: #426 jaunte
Well, there’s that poster from Idaho who appears to be hallucinating about his high insurance costs.
There was a bar in Fort Worth that closed the other day blaming Obamacare. I call bullshit on, but Texas didn’t help in any way.
Kasich: Ohio ‘on verge of a recession’ https://t.co/i1CfONRXpN
— Craig Newman (@craignewman) December 6, 2016
Ohio on verge of recession. Guess GOP tax cuts didn’t have the intended effect, and have left the state in a precarious position.
re: #418 Romantic Heretic
Unfortunately it’s unlikely any of that blood will be the plutocrats.
Considering all the resentment and anger out there, I’m regrettably not sure on that. It could get really ugly in a way we can’t conceive.
About those Carrier jobs: United Technologies CEO says many will now fall to automation rather than Mexico. https://t.co/SO88bmwh6C
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) December 6, 2016
What this means is: taxpayer subsidies are paying Carrier to replace American workers with robots https://t.co/Z1GyUzvInz https://t.co/ITyzlJPTHF
— Bill Scher (@billscher) December 6, 2016
re: #425 lawhawk
Insurance companies who can’t gouge insureds for policies that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on?
Religious groups who can’t impose their religious beliefs on their employees when it comes to kinds of care they seek (and for which the employee pays for through their premiums and payroll deductions)?
You know - the only ones that count in the GOP universe /sarc not sarc.
Yeah, the people who can’t buy mini-meds or “catastrophic insurance” policies and then find out that that broken leg isn’t “catastrophic” enough to be covered. Or the ones who bought “cheap” plans thinking they had all the coverage they needed until they suffered a coronary and found out that things as simple (and expensive) as the bill for the guy who stood at the back of the operating theater to pad his wallet won’t be covered. Or the ones who thought they had awesome insurance because they hadn’t yet filed a claim that was bounced due to a “preexisting condition.” And don’t forget the “young invincibles” who are angry that they have to buy insurance when they’ve never had a cough or sneeze that they couldn’t cure with a bottle of Dayquil.
Those are the people that the GOP are fighting to help.
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How to fold a shirt #HouseCleaningShortcuts pic.twitter.com/8jR0d7VGuG
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 6, 2016
re: #416 jaunte
Correction from @SpeakerRyan’s office: comments re “no one worse off” just apply to transition period, not eventual replacement plan.
— Sarah Kliff
This actually makes less sense.
In the transition, after the repeal, you’re obviously leaving some people, many millions in fact, without health insurance.
re: #430 lawhawk
Ohio on verge of recession. Guess GOP tax cuts didn’t have the intended effect, and have left the state in a precarious position.
No, Obamacare and government safety and environmental regulations wrecked the economy.
Just ask Steve Sladki…
It now looks quite possible Clinton will end up w/ more votes than Obama 65.9 million in ‘12. Now ~400k behind: https://t.co/j58GaxfPmH
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 6, 2016
That does challenge the notion that Clinton wasn’t popular. Still doesn’t overcome fact that she didn’t get enough votes in enough states to get to 270+.
re: #423 The Vicious Babushka
Who actually is “suffering” from Obamacare?
There may be some self employed people who have high premiums because the asshole governors of the states they live in did not approve the Medicaid expansion. But that is not because of the ACA.
Ryan is suffering because other people now have health insurance.
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