White Supremacist Jared Taylor Announces Ann Coulter Is Now Writing for His Hate Site

In 2017, racism is back in style
Politics • Views: 54,855

Far right pundit/loon Ann Coulter has often played the role of apologist for white supremacism, whether through race-baiting or with outright excuse-making for white supremacist websites.

But now, in the era of the Trump Horror, when white supremacism is an integral part of the incoming presidential administration, Ann Coulter is no longer making even a token effort to hide it. Today Jared Taylor, founder of American Renaissance, one of the most popular long-running “white nationalist” websites (and that’s in scare quotes because “white nationalist” is really just white supremacism with a slightly less offensive name) announced that Ann Coulter’s columns will now be appearing next to their articles on eugenics, black crime, and the inherent superiority of the master race.

ReplyReply w/ Quote

In the era of the Trump Horror, all the masks are dropping.

(h/t: @SkeddyRuxypin.)

Also see
American Renaissance | Southern Poverty Law Center

Jump to bottom

383 comments
1
Single-handed sailor  Jan 12, 2017 • 8:47:54pm

I can’t think of anything acceptable to say. I’ll stay quiet.

2
Stanley Sea  Jan 12, 2017 • 8:48:56pm

Just happened to see this.

Her article is cross-posted at Breitbart.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
3
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 8:53:40pm

Well Ann’s moving up in the world. She helped make a President and she just got her robes but they were Klan robes. It’s been obvious to anyone who actually listens and reads what Ann Coulter says that she’s a racist woman who believes a very limited amount of people should be able to participate in our democratic process. I really wish the media would have ignored her years ago and she would just be another bigoted right wing kook but here we are.

4
Myron Falwell  Jan 12, 2017 • 8:59:14pm

She shouldn’t have been ignored. She should have been metaphorically tarred and feathered in the public eye and prevented from spreading her filth. Instead MSNBC, Salem Communications, Bill Maher, Matt Drudge, Lumpy, the entire RWNJ claptrap cabal… they normalized her long ago.

She could lead a mass-scale lynching on 5th Avenue dressed up in full Nazi regalia and it STILL wouldn’t cost Ann her (Salem) Townhall column or syndication deal with Creators Syndicate.

5
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:03:42pm

re: #4 Myron Falwell (no relation)

She shouldn’t have been ignored. She should have been metaphorically tarred and feathered in the public eye and prevented from spreading her filth. Instead MSNBC, Salem Communications, Bill Maher, Matt Drudge, Lumpy, the entire RWNJ claptrap cabal… they normalized her long ago.

She could lead a mass-scale lynching on 5th Avenue dressed up in full Nazi regalia and it STILL wouldn’t cost Ann her (Salem) Townhall column or syndication deal with Creators Syndicate.

Yeah maybe ignored wasn’t the right word. She should have been marginalized not normalized. I don’t like Maher because he constantly defends her. Yes, Bill, she has a right to say what she says and we have every right to call her what she is, a hateful nutjob.

6
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:15:32pm

re: #5 HappyWarrior

Maher’s a hateful nutjob himself.

7
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:17:10pm

re: #6 Ziggy_TARDIS

Maher’s a hateful nutjob himself.

Yeah I don’t think too highly of him either. Never been a fan honestly. He’s got a smugness I detest.

8
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:17:34pm

Music.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
9
Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:21:15pm
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
10
Joe Bacon  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:24:52pm

She is atoning for her relationship with Jimmie JJ Walker…

11
Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:24:53pm
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
12
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:25:50pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Yeah not happening. Pompeo apparently admits that the Russians hacked for the benefit of Trump but he’s still gonna be CIA head.

13
Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:25:52pm

250 pages of illegal campaign contributions! Goddamn.

14
Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:27:17pm
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
15
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:27:31pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Holy shit! The Donald’s™ presidential campaign was crooked all to fuck, up and down!

My surprised face …

16
makeitstop  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:28:11pm

…and when she appears on TV, she’ll be introduced as a columnist for AmRen, further normalizing them. Great.

In other news, Driftglass goes after Lumpy and Scarborough.

driftglass.blogspot.com

17
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:28:18pm

Trump will go down at some point. He doesn’t have Nixon’s intelligence nor Reagan’s ability to make even political adversaries like him. When he goes down, it will be ugly.

18
BeachDem  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:29:26pm

So, does anyone remember CNN having Nancy Pelosi do a town hall
after Obama got elected? Anyone?

WTF are they giving the Zombie-eyed-granny-starver free air time to spew his swill?

19
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:30:06pm

re: #18 BeachDem

So, does anyone remember CNN having Nancy Pelosi do a town hall
after Obama got elected? Anyone?

WTF are they giving the Zombie-eyed-granny-starver free air time to spew his swill?

Yeah I don’t get it either.

20
scottslemmons  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:30:13pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

That letter will get shredded once Trump appoints Lee Atwater’s skeletal remains as the FEC head…

21
jaunte  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:31:01pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

250 pages of illegal campaign contributions! Goddamn.

1. It appears that Schedule A-P of your report discloses the receipt of
anonymous contributions that exceed $50. Please be advised that federal
regulations prohibit an individual from contributing anonymous contributions
which, in the aggregate, exceed $50. If any receipt in question was
incompletely or incorrectly reported, you must amend your original report with
the clarifying information. If the committee has been in receipt of an
anonymous contribution greater than $50, the excessive amount must be
promptly disposed of and may be used for any lawful purpose unrelated to any
Federal election, campaign or candidate. In an amendment to this report, please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately.
(11 CFR § 110.4(c)(3))

I have a feeling this isn’t going to be addressed.

22
scottslemmons  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:31:36pm

re: #18 BeachDem

So, does anyone remember CNN having Nancy Pelosi do a town hall
after Obama got elected? Anyone?

WTF are they giving the Zombie-eyed-granny-starver free air time to spew his swill?

CNN figures if they do enough for the GOP, maybe Trump won’t send them all to Siberia.

23
Joe Bacon  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:32:51pm

re: #16 makeitstop

…and when she appears on TV, she’ll be introduced as a columnist for AmRen, further normalizing them. Great.

In other news, Driftglass goes after Lumpy and Scarborough.

driftglass.blogspot.com

The same press that hounded and destroyed Gary Condit gave Joeyboy pass after pass and he parlayed that into his gig on BSRNC.

Yet there are still millions of brainwashed folks spitting out hated of a “liberal” press!

24
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:33:35pm

Oh, this is just fucking GREAT!!! Is there any slimy, horrid group of people with hideous beliefs that ISN’T feeling their oats?

25
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:35:10pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon

The same press that hounded and destroyed Gary Condit gave Joeyboy pass after pass and he parlayed that into his gig on BSRNC.

Yet there are still millions of brainwashed folks spitting out hated of a “liberal” press!

Yeah always thought it was curious how Condit got treated like a murderer whereas Scarborough rode his dead intern into a cable news show. Anyone who believes the media is liberally biased is a moron.

26
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:36:15pm

re: #6 Ziggy_TARDIS

Maher is hit and miss with me, with more hits than misses.

I’m fully aware that he’s a pothead asshole (and I mean he’s an asshole and pretty proud of it). Thing is, he’s funny sometimes and does pretty good interviews. And his panel on Real Time can be real hellraisers.

ProLifeLiberal, look at the good and the bad. Find those shades of grey. These broad brushes you bring here? No bueno.

27
Joe Bacon  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:38:40pm

I was watching the first episode of Lost In Space tonight and kept thinking of how Putin was Dr. Smith and the Robot was Trump…

28
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:38:42pm

re: #21 jaunte

I have a feeling this isn’t going to be addressed.

It’s like they’re using the novel 1984 as a manual.

I wish that was a snarky comment, but it’s not.

29
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:40:28pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Maher is hit and miss with me, with more hits than misses.

I’m fully aware that he’s a pothead asshole (and I mean he’s an asshole and pretty proud of it). Thing is, he’s funny sometimes and does pretty good interviews. And his panel on Real Time can be real hellraisers.

ProLifeLiberal, look at the good and the bad. Find those shades of grey. These broad brushes you bring here? No bueno.

To be fair, I understand where he’s coming from regarding Maher, Maher is hostile to Muslims in a way many on the left aren’t. For me it’s that, his anti vaccine beliefs, and his berating any liberal critics of his friend Coulter. I don’t hate him and I agree he makes some good points but I find him smug and obnoxious myself. He’s of course better than Coulter.

30
Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:40:57pm
ReplyReply w/ Quote
31
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:41:25pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

The Anti-Vaccine thing is just as offensive as the Anti-Muslim thing for me.

32
scottslemmons  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:41:30pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

It’s like they’re using the novel 1984 as a manual.

I wish that was a snarky comment, but it’s not.

You ain’t kiddin’.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
33
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:41:46pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Hello Donald.

Hello Greenwald.

34
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:43:35pm

re: #32 scottslemmons

You ain’t kiddin’.

[Embedded content]

Yeah the day after he threatened Buzzfeed with consequences not to mention his belligerent attitude towards the press as a whole. I really want to think we’re gonna overcome this because we’ve overcome a lot as a nation but I’m cynical right now, I really am.

35
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:44:30pm

re: #31 Ziggy_TARDIS

The Anti-Vaccine thing is just as offensive as the Anti-Muslim thing for me.

Yeah. I don’t like RFK Jr because of it even before he went to Trump.

36
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:44:47pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

Same.

37
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:45:48pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

Like I said, he’s an asshole. An asshole of a very high order. I fuckin’ hate the dude.

He also produces. He makes me laugh sometimes, I liked his film Religilous.

Like I said, good and the bad.

I’ll give y’all an example. I can say one good thing about Donald Trump. It’s a good thing that he lost the popular vote by three million votes and it’s a good thing that many tens of millions of Americans hopes his presidency goes down in flames ASAP.

Wait. That was two things.

38
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:46:53pm

re: #36 Ziggy_TARDIS

Same.

Likening life with autism to being in a concentration camp. I mean we both know life isn’t always easy being on the spectrum but that infuriated me for how insensitive and stupid it was. It’s sad because his father is one of my political heroes. I have a huge place in my heart for JFK, RFK, & Ted.

39
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:48:15pm

re: #37 teleskiguy

Like I said, he’s an asshole. An asshole of a very high order. I fuckin’ hate the dude.

He also produces. He makes me laugh sometimes, I liked his film Religilous.

Like I said, good and the bad.

I’ll give y’all an example. I can say one good thing about Donald Trump. It’s a good thing that he lost the popular vote by three million votes and it’s a good thing that many tens of millions of Americans hopes his presidency goes down in flames ASAP.

Wait. That was two things.

Yeah I understand where you’re coming from. I got a kick out of his movie too.

40
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:51:18pm

People are complicated though. Most people I can find the good in. I genuinely struggle with that in regards to people like Trump and Coulter. I mean it’s superficial I know but even with a pompous blowhard like George Will, I figure at least I could talk baseball with him.

41
Joe Bacon  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:52:11pm

re: #32 scottslemmons

You ain’t kiddin’.

[Embedded content]

I’m just waiting for Giuliani to contract out cyberdefenses to Life Lock…

42
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:53:52pm

Spider senses tingling…

43
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:55:47pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

People are complicated though. Most people I can find the good in. I genuinely struggle with that in regards to people like Trump and Coulter. I mean it’s superficial I know but even with a pompous blowhard like George Will, I figure at least I could talk baseball with him.

Hunter S. Thompson rode in the back of a limo with Richard Nixon from New Hampshire to Boston.

Hunter S. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo Journalism, was chosen to ride with his self-described nemesis Richard Nixon during the 1968 election. The reason? Nixon felt like talking football, and Thompson was the only journalist who knew anything about the sport.

### The Good Doctor’s recollection of that car ride:

“Actually, I suspected he didn’t know football from pig-hustling and that he mentioned it from time to time only because his wizards had told him it would make him seem like a regular guy. But I was wrong. Nixon knows pro football. He’d taken Oakland and six points in the Super Bowl, he said, because Vince Lombardi had told him up in Green Bay that the AFL was much stronger than the sportswriters claimed. Nixon cited Oakland’s sustained drive in the second half as evidence of their superiority over the Kansas City team that had challenged the Packers in 1967 and had totally collapsed in the second half. ‘Oakland didn’t fold up,’ he said. ‘That second half drive had Lombardi worried.’ I remembered it, and mentioned the scoring play - a sideline pass to an unknown receiver named Bill Miller.

Nixon hesitated for a moment, then smiled broadly and slapped me on the leg. ‘That’s right,’ he said. ‘Yes, the Miami boy.’ I couldn’t believe it; he not only knew Miller, but he knew what college he’d played for. It wasn’t his factual knowledge of football that stunned me; it was his genuine interest in the game. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘the worst thing about campaigning, for me, is that it ruins my whole football season. I’m a sports buff, you know. If I had another career, I’d be a sportscaster - or a sportswriter.’
I smiled and lit a cigarette. The scene was so unreal that I felt like laughing out loud - to find myself zipping along a New England freeway in a big yellow car, being chauffeured around by a detective while I relaxed in the back seat and talked about football with my old buddy Dick Nixon, the man who came within 100,000 votes of causing me to flee the country in 1960.”

44
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:57:20pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon

I’m just waiting for Giuliani to contract out cyberdefenses to Life Lock…

Funny story about Rudy but when I told my Dad he was being vetted for a cabinet spot, he freaked. My Dad flat out dislikes Rudy in particular and I had no idea. I mean I dislike him too obviously but it was surprising to hear Dad rant about that. Giuliani would have been as bad as Sessions for AG and as Tillerson for State.

45
petesh  Jan 12, 2017 • 9:59:13pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Trump will go down at some point. He doesn’t have Nixon’s intelligence nor Reagan’s ability to make even political adversaries like him. When he goes down, it will be ugly.

Well put. I have been saying for some time that he won’t last two years. I see one of three scenarios: genuine illness; fake or exaggerated illness in the face of possible impeachment or bankruptcy; impeachment and removal. The last is, I think, the least likely because he’d see himself as “doing a deal” to avoid trial by faking illness. The first seems possible, but he doesn’t really give a shit so the traditional presidential stress may not apply. So my money is on the first, the most chaotic one.

It’s going to be a circus with not a lot of bread.

46
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:00:47pm

re: #43 teleskiguy

Hunter S. Thompson rode in the back of a limo with Richard Nixon from New Hampshire to Boston.

Given what Thompson wrote about Nixon when he died, that’s something. I came to like W Bush more as a person as I realized we could probably talk baseball and not talk politics plus I think to Bush’s credit as a man, he’s someone you can disagree without being disagreeable. Shouldn’t have been president but not someone I’d take an instant disliking to if I ever met him.

47
petesh  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:01:52pm

re: #45 petesh

Er, my money is on the second, the most chaotic one.

48
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:05:39pm

re: #45 petesh

Well put. I have been saying for some time that he won’t last two years. I see one of three scenarios: genuine illness; fake or exaggerated illness in the face of possible impeachment or bankruptcy; impeachment and removal. The last is, I think, the least likely because he’d see himself as “doing a deal” to avoid trial by faking illness. The first seems possible, but he doesn’t really give a shit so the traditional presidential stress may not apply. So my money is on the first, the most chaotic one.

It’s going to be a circus with not a lot of bread.

I just hope whatever brings him down won’t hurt innocent people.

49
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:07:39pm

re: #38 HappyWarrior

I often do think I am in the worst possible spot.

My Autism is so mild that I am almost normal, but not quite normal enough to be able to be able function normally, so I am often lonely.

This is my big frustration with the Dallas Muslim Community. They have a stereotype for what Autism is, and they think they know what that means in regards to help and what my life will be.

All I want is friends in one case, and matrimonial assistance. I would still need the matrimonial assistance if I wasn’t autistic. And I have no idea how to get through to them what I need.

50
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:10:13pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Given what Thompson wrote about Nixon when he died, that’s something. I came to like W Bush more as a person as I realized we could probably talk baseball and not talk politics

Want to hear something funny? I started liking GW Bush while he was president when I found out that he was an avid mountain biker and had built a many miles-long network of singletrack trails on his ranch outside Crawford, TX.

I could relate to that. Mountain biking is fun as fuck! That’s probably the only good thing I can think about the man.

51
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:12:38pm

re: #50 teleskiguy

I can have trouble with it, because Politics is part of my personality, and, at least on Economic Policy, has completely fused with my faith.

52
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:13:34pm

re: #49 Ziggy_TARDIS

I often do think I am in the worst possible spot.

My Autism is so mild that I am almost normal, but not quite normal enough to be able to be able function normally, so I am often lonely.

This is my big frustration with the Dallas Muslim Community. They have a stereotype for what Autism is, and they think they know what that means in regards to help and what my life will be.

All I want is friends in one case, and matrimonial assistance. I would still need the matrimonial assistance if I wasn’t autistic. And I have no idea how to get through to them what I need.

Yeah our autism impacts us similarly. I often feel lonely and misunderstood too. I feel overwhelmed by it in the sense that I feel I’ll never truly fit into society and I definitely feel lonely in regards to finding a SO. I mean it’s difficult and far from easy. I just wish Kennedy hadn’t likened it to being in a concentration camp, I thought that was wrong. If he had said it’s not easy and we should try to understand those with autism better, fine. I’d still have a problem with the anti vax stuff but I would not be as bothered.

53
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:15:33pm

re: #50 teleskiguy

Want to hear something funny? I started liking GW Bush while he was president when I found out that he was an avid mountain biker and had built a many miles-long network of singletrack trails on his ranch outside Crawford, TX.

I could relate to that. Mountain biking is fun as fuck! That’s probably the only good thing I can think about the man.

I think you and my brother would get along great. He likes mountain biking as well. I came along on Bush when I realized it was futile hating him.

54
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:17:32pm

re: #51 Ziggy_TARDIS

I can have trouble with it, because Politics is part of my personality, and, at least on Economic Policy, has completely fused with my faith.

I do understand that. I admit it, I’ve found it harder for me to like one of my good friends as he’s grown more wingnutty but then I remember that he’s been a great friend longer than I’ve understood politics. I do wish he’d ease up though. Posting Shapiro shit isn’t healthy.

55
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:18:40pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

I think you and my brother would get along great. He likes mountain biking as well. I came along on Bush when I realized it was futile hating him.

If I’m not mistaken your brother spent some winters at Tahoe. Is he a skier or snowboarder?

56
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:19:17pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Jr. fell very far from the tree compared to RFK. The greatest what-ifs of the 20th Century for America.

What if JFK wasn’t assassinated? Early end to the Cold War, with Kennedy going to Russia, instead of Nixon going to China?

What if RFK wasn’t assassinated?

57
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:22:42pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

In my case, what my past was, and what I am now are reversed.

During High School and the first 2 years of College, I was a Liberal looking for compromise from Conservatives that were intent on bullying me.

Now, I am a Hardened Socialist that tends to attack and persecute conservatives looking for common ground, with one exception. And that exception came from her admitting that she was willingly letting me emotionally attack her because she thought I had a right to be angry. Which made made me ashamed and made me stop.

58
Scottish Dragon  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:23:15pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Yeah our autism impacts us similarly. I often feel lonely and misunderstood too. I feel overwhelmed by it in the sense that I feel I’ll never truly fit into society and I definitely feel lonely in regards to finding a SO. I mean it’s difficult and far from easy. I just wish Kennedy hadn’t likened it to being in a concentration camp, I thought that was wrong. If he had said it’s not easy and we should try to understand those with autism better, fine. I’d still have a problem with the anti vax stuff but I would not be as bothered.

My son (of whom I posted pictures of our Warhammer game the other night) is autistic. Very high functioning, goes to regular classes in high school and some people don’t catch on right away that he is autistic…but the social thing is very real.

I am almost certainly undiagnosed Asbergers (or least it used to be called Asbergers until the umbrella term of ASD came around)) but I learned to mask it.

59
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:23:27pm

re: #55 teleskiguy

If I’m not mistaken your brother spent some winters at Tahoe. Is he a skier or snowboarder?

Lives in the area actually. He’s a snowboarder mostly. Loves his outdoor solo sports. I was always the team sports guy- baseball, basketball, football but he was a skateboarder and has done some surfing too. He’s more radical than me politically but he’s always telling me fascinating stuff about indigenous civilizations.

60
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:24:24pm

re: #58 Scottish Dragon

I can’t mask. My emotions are far too close to the surface for that to work.

61
Scottish Dragon  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:24:35pm

re: #57 Ziggy_TARDIS

In my case, what my past was, and what I am now are reversed.

During High School and the first 2 years of College, I was a Liberal looking for compromise from Conservatives that were intent on bullying me.

Now, I am a Hardened Socialist that tends to attack and persecute conservatives looking for common ground, with one exception. And that exception came from her admitting that she was willingly letting me emotionally attack her because she thought I had a right to be angry. Which made made me ashamed and made me stop.

No point in attacking people who actually engage in good faith efforts to find common ground.

We need all the allies we can get. Don’t be like the wingnuts.

62
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:27:08pm

re: #57 Ziggy_TARDIS

In my case, what my past was, and what I am now are reversed.

During High School and the first 2 years of College, I was a Liberal looking for compromise from Conservatives that were intent on bullying me.

Now, I am a Hardened Socialist that tends to attack and persecute conservatives looking for common ground, with one exception. And that exception came from her admitting that she was willingly letting me emotionally attack her because she thought I had a right to be angry. Which made made me ashamed and made me stop.

It’s good you stopped acting her. You’ve talked about her before. She’s a good friend it seems to me. I wouldn’t look for confrontation to those who want to listen. Hell as much as I like my friend, he doesn’t want to, I turned him off when he showed how ignorant he was about transpeople and those wanting better wages.

63
Scottish Dragon  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:27:35pm

re: #60 Ziggy_TARDIS

I can’t mask. My emotions are far too close to the surface for that to work.

Hmm.

Not about hiding emotions. It is learning to read social situations and how to be comfortable in social situations.

That took me over 25 years.

It does help that I test very strong as an extrovert.

As far as stereotypical “geek” stuff I like, I said “fuck it” years ago and if people don’t like what I like, what of it?

64
bratwurst  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:27:36pm

I know I am a fool to expect better than this from a House Republican…but still…

ReplyReply w/ Quote

This dickhead couldn’t be gracious as the VP is on his way out the door after 45 years of public service?

65
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:28:38pm

re: #61 Scottish Dragon

No point in attacking people who actually engage in good faith efforts to find common ground.

We need all the allies we can get. Don’t be like the wingnuts.

Yes, I agree, if they’re willing to engage you, don’t attack, listen, you don’t have to agree and you can be firm in your values. Disagree without being disagreeable, they may even come around if you approach it like that.

66
Scottish Dragon  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:30:23pm
ReplyReply w/ Quote
67
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:30:24pm

re: #59 HappyWarrior

Solo sports is the only way to go in my mind. Maybe that’s because my father was a wrestling coach for 30 years and as soon as I was big enough (seven years old or thereabouts) my dad put me in the pee wee wrestling league.

I did okay, got to travel to some big meets, including the pee wee league state championships in Denver (I was nine when that happened).

I quit wrestling right before I hit puberty. I was having way more fun skiing by that time.

I’m glad my father did what he did way back when, wrestling instilled a solo mentality with sports, exercise, and strength.

68
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:30:57pm

re: #58 Scottish Dragon

My son (of whom I posted pictures of our Warhammer game the other night) is autistic. Very high functioning, goes to regular classes in high school and some people don’t catch on right away that he is autistic…but the social thing is very real.

I am almost certainly undiagnosed Asbergers (or least it used to be called Asbergers until the umbrella term of ASD came around)) but I learned to mask it.

It can be tough for people like us. When I’ve had my depression spells, I always bemoaned being more highly functioning because I’m aware of my differences. I don’t tell everyone I meet I’m ASD. My boss knows but my coworkers and our clients certainly don’t.

69
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:33:13pm

re: #61 Scottish Dragon

I understand that on one hand.

On the other hand, it feels like Conservatives get away with a massive amount, and never get comeuppance. That’s where the need to punish comes from, in part, along with still remaining issues stemming from the Norway attacks. Seeing the live footage of the shooting really screwed me up.

re: #63 Scottish Dragon

I have the theoretical ability to read social situations. However, when there is no facial expressions or physical cues (Talking online/texting) I flounder.

70
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:33:14pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

Solo sports is the only way to go in my mind. Maybe that because my father was a wrestling coach for 30 years and as soon as I was big enough (seven years old or thereabouts) my dad put me in the pee wee wrestling league.

I did okay, got to travel to some big meets, including the pee wee league state championships in Denver (I was nine when that happened).

I quit wrestling right before I hit puberty. I was having way more fun skiing by that time.

I’m glad my father did what he did way back when, wrestling instilled a solo mentality with sports, exercise, and strength.

My skill set was always more for the team sports. I think he likes the individual sports since he’s a bit of an introvert. Didn’t realize it as a kid but I realize now he’s by far the most of the three brothers and I’m actually the most extroverted even though I’m a little socially awkward.

71
BeachDem  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:36:01pm

re: #64 bratwurst

I know I am a fool to expect better than this from a House Republican…but still…

[Embedded content]

This dickhead couldn’t be gracious as the VP is on his way out the door after 45 years of public service?

He’s a total asshole, but if it’s any consolation he’s a FORMER rep, having been primaried right out of his seat.

72
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:36:55pm

re: #64 bratwurst

Let me guess: Huelskamp is another one of those Republicans who calls himself a “devout Christian”

73
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:37:09pm

re: #69 Ziggy_TARDIS

I understand that on one hand.

On the other hand, it feels like Conservatives get away with a massive amount, and never get comeuppance. That’s where the need to punish comes from, in part, along with still remaining issues stemming from the Norway attacks. Seeing the live footage of the shooting really screwed me up.

I have the theoretical ability to read social situations. However, when there is no facial expressions or physical cues (Talking online/texting, I flounder).

I think what SD is saying is save your anger for those who deserve it. I feel ya about conservatives getting away with shit especially now but most people you’re interacting with no doubt were as horrified by Brevik’s act as you. I mean obviously if you deal with someone who likens that Norwegian Youth Labour Party to the Hitler youth, your anger is justified but don’t be angry just to be angry.

74
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:38:12pm

re: #71 BeachDem

He’s a total asshole, but if it’s any consolation he’s a FORMER rep, having been primaried right out of his seat.

One of the few who lost their jobs for being too wingnutty I’m told.

75
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:41:37pm

Put it this way Ziggs, I’d curse Alex Jones out if I ever met him but if I met a staffer for a Congressional Republican, I’d be pleasant. I’d stand up for my beliefs obviously but I wouldn’t go out of my way. And I know you can do that too. You got along good with DF until he beclowned himself which I guess I can see speaks to your frustration with conservatives. And I admit it can be tough knowing these people support and vote for policies that do hurt those we love.

76
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:43:46pm

re: #75 HappyWarrior

GOiT2l6Jv82xv1oZ5fz0jq+4votJRuREs4vdnPM5nXrEXuCkVO7bxJk2xHSl+FbZa42yJNZR+6e44h5KzNj9tIF4/6Cj+mZxrbdv1fHe26XmH3b0hLs4WHzY1I5Pa+6OsWo3KHPfRC16uz7IqeWycF2L/DyuiquF8bVCtvswyYA84mCjg0ibMoXzFZXIYOjASbir+/a3kgSpeTRSZbj+fhgNcUWB7kCm2qCul+/6OWo=

77
William Lewis  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:46:23pm

re: #28 teleskiguy

It’s like they’re using the novel 1984 as a manual.

I wish that was a snarky comment, but it’s not.

Serious question for everyone here - is that better or worse than how Ayatollah Pence wants to use The Handmaid’s Tale?

78
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:48:41pm

re: #76 Ziggy_TARDIS

[Embedded content]

WVhtM9AW+yyXbOqrEE+j59Qj44F1xKiwZBHCGpSGa9ugi08O/z9HvK6OWccOtXRIz/vx3wiQTTsOsf0RBWb53USN12K6yHBk+as6h4ob9f86znlBUwdqtuaCCnooHl73ljuKgLg9uOlsrX71fbamYGYAafybvMUvYZx6TwM+AQqkSKR5CF7HNuF6TFEwfrjbJcx9tOHtEf7XUN8dVdZffzoUGmXrS7dTDW4Y5vSkATfbth5qOgPpwk3IIr5+vcngT2gbsmwdxDa4oUpTCd/M3bODkyLU/2ZlX2fnKmaeh/eHDEzBYp3h+FbN02S/Ct/Q

79
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:50:14pm

re: #77 William Lewis

Serious question for everyone here - is that better or worse than how Ayatollah Pence wants to use The Handmaid’s Tale?

Both are bad. Pence scares me in a way Trump doesn’t. He really thinks his religion should take precedent before everyone else’s beliefs or lack of.

80
Ace-o-aces  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:52:26pm

NRA tried using Twitter to mock gun control advocate, and it has backfired spectacularly.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
81
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:53:34pm

re: #77 William Lewis

Serious question for everyone here - is that better or worse than how Ayatollah Pence wants to use The Handmaid’s Tale?

Which is worse, dying by drowning or burning?

82
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:54:56pm

re: #80 Ace-o-aces

NRA tried using Twitter to mock gun control advocate, and it has backfired spectacularly.

[Embedded content]

Love it when those turds lose even a little bit.

83
teleskiguy  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:54:59pm

re: #80 Ace-o-aces

This kind of FaceSpace stuff is the good FaceSpace stuff.

84
Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 12, 2017 • 10:57:50pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

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

85
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 11:03:35pm

re: #84 Ziggy_TARDIS

[Embedded content]

xT5L9gMl34l6L2R7M9AipYJok0j/W7BS2B1lS0s1bwlToph5wu77zyAWxMg+8bT2GGM8OYJSEn0j2jsQvtR5vw1sICc4aC9vrHE6pCYQUwYWlkBr8u0qJU1hT6sdxIxpf+RwJxl+jwY01jLqwnI0/PBi6P4lO/xWsfchaESGRbetU4V3jzFTMpptZ8k68ljip82L/hgfj+qPy+w6bAUeyZH7wJsKAi9jMaMKPST0c42+hnN9CnRA+26o4o1gwruNBQWvwGKktPbrvfIk/b+CuDp/q6xn6IJy6I1rbHXHRM7MRU7YaS8TqIXCEZ85mq7zQ2hSzVXSsGSOrviEVj7cyysKbG6XNL/wHYxrTYQtAuKwBvZxKAMIODmHg21UcT2lO1f7pKbEoJtuWpG1KbHnVKzjbniQAqDvqhZDq/8GXtdk6jw1hKcBHFqADJTRXIcp+GdkL4eHdG4B0RC7FyConSCtNTptgQQsm/qilXmIn6k=

86
HappyWarrior  Jan 12, 2017 • 11:04:20pm

Yawn it’s late. Good thing only have a half work day tomorrow.

87
Alyosha  Jan 12, 2017 • 11:58:02pm

Watched Biden’s medal ceremony.

Not ashamed to say that I shed a few tears.
Still smiling.

88
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:06:10am

re: #64 bratwurst

I know I am a fool to expect better than this from a House Republican…but still…

[Embedded content]

This dickhead couldn’t be gracious as the VP is on his way out the door after 45 years of public service?

Didn’t Huelskamp lose his primary? So he’s not a Congressman anymore? What the fuck would a guy who lost his seat know about serving his country? He clearly didn’t even serve the small part of the country he was representing.

89
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:31:22am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

Yeah maybe ignored wasn’t the right word. She should have been marginalized not normalized. I don’t like Maher because he constantly defends her. Yes, Bill, she has a right to say what she says and we have every right to call her what she is, a hateful nutjob.

And that is what we are seeing on a Presidential scale.

90
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:33:36am

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Trump will go down at some point. He doesn’t have Nixon’s intelligence nor Reagan’s ability to make even political adversaries like him. When he goes down, it will be ugly.

We kept saying that all through the campaign, and all it took was a bad performance in a few primaries to knock him out. Now he is in the seat of power and it will take a lot more to remove him, and I do not see how those levers can be set in motion without a first some major national catastrophe.

91
goddamnedfrank  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:56:25am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We kept saying that all through the campaign, and all it took was a bad performance in a few primaries to knock him out. Now he is in the seat of power and it will take a lot more to remove him, and I do not see how those levers can be set in motion without a first some major national catastrophe.

We’re giving a malignant narcissistic psychopath nuclear launch authority and all the powers of the police state. Nothing short of a very well planned coup is going to pry him from office before he inflicts devastating damage upon our world.

92
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:01:23am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We kept saying that all through the campaign, and all it took was a bad performance in a few primaries to knock him out. Now he is in the seat of power and it will take a lot more to remove him, and I do not see how those levers can be set in motion without a first some major national catastrophe.

I’m afraid a major national catastrophe could make Trump Hair Furor for real. His team could convince him to demand emergency powers from Congress, which the GOP majority would probably grant — you know, like just for now (they’d think) — and somehow that national emergency would never go away, and we’d be stuck with Trump & Co. forever.

Any national disaster has to obviously be Trump’s fault, so Congress would have grounds for impeachment. An external source — terror attack, earthquake, etc. — could be used to Trump’s advantage.

I wish I could say I’m just spitting into the wind here.

93
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:02:32am

Yeah, I’m a little scared for America’s future.

94
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:12:08am

re: #91 goddamnedfrank

re: #92 wheat-dogg

Yes, the GOP had every chance to take him out without having to resort to Constitutional powers. They failed. I cannot see them coming through at this point.

I just hope we can recover from this some day.

95
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:15:26am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, the GOP had every chance to take him out without having to resort to Constitutional powers. They failed. I cannot see them coming through at this point.

I just hope we can recover from this some day.

Only Trump can remove Trump from the picture, through illness, mental breakdown, or whatever. Pence does not have charisma or the cult-like following Trump has, and his presidency would marginally be better. Marginally.

96
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:19:25am

re: #95 wheat-dogg

Only Trump can remove Trump from the picture, through illness, mental breakdown, or whatever. Pence does not have charisma or the cult-like following Trump has, and his presidency would marginally be better. Marginally.

Marginally unless you are woman or LGBT…

97
William Lewis  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:20:19am

re: #93 wheat-dogg

Yeah, I’m a little scared for America’s future.

Putin won the last battle of the cold war on November 8.

98
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 1:20:27am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Marginally unless you are woman or LGBT…

Yeah, they’re in trouble no matter it’ be Trump or Pence in office.

99
Odie Hugh Manatee  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:07:28am

I’m hearing on ABC news radio that California is looking to address the fake news problem through education and teaching young people critical thinking skills. Knowing how this stuff usually unfolds, I can’t wait to hear the protests from winger parents in Cali who don’t want their kids being indoctrinated by evil liberal teachers. The last thing those parents want is for their kids to come home with pesky facts and details that show that the parents are uninformed morons.

I bet they demand that their kids be excused from those classes.

100
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:13:37am

Some anti-UN types are squawking on Twitter that the US contributes $8 billion a year to the UN. But I find only $600 million for 2016 came from the USA. un.org

So where does this fanciful $8 billion number come from?

101
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:16:47am

Heck, the UN’s budget for 2016-17 is not even $6 billion. un.org

102
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:17:00am

re: #100 wheat-dogg

Some anti-UN types are squawking on Twitter that the US contributes $8 billion a year to the UN. But I find only $600 million for 2016 came from the USA. un.org

So where does this fanciful $8 billion number come from?

Fox News judging from the Googles
google.com

103
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:24:49am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

Fox News judging from the Googles
google.com

I figured some RWNJ site is the ultimate source, because it’s quoted on every RWNJ site including Faux Noise. Maybe it’s the total US contribution for the last decade? smh

104
Alyosha  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:25:11am

re: #97 William Lewis

Putin won the last battle of the cold war on November 8.

It’s not done yet. It might have been a Russian victory, but it only looks so daunting now because their inside man was so weak. The temptation to say that the powers of evil are insurmountable because their tools were ingeniously simple and their agent so obviously and abysmally awful is understandable. A terrible frailty in the American democratic system has also been exposed, but autocratic systems of power rise and fall. The psychological multiplier of this defeat is that Earth itself, is at a tipping point. That has been the major source of my darkest feelings of apathy.
Trump may do a lot of damage, but I have to have faith in the American people. In America’s institutions.
Without that faith, I’d have given up on day one.
Putin will live to see his precious plot fall apart.
One day, America will be free of this horror and one day, Russia too, will be free.
We might not see it, but hope is all we really have.

105
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:30:40am

re: #97 William Lewis

Putin won the last battle of the cold war on November 8.

I do not like using Cold War terminology or analogies. Those ended with the demise of the USSR.

Putin’s plans are different: he wants to restore the Russian Empire and its sphere of influence.

But this is nonetheless Russia’s greatest political coup: they have turned America into a totally dysfunctional state and can go off and pursue their own agenda without any significant interference on our part.

106
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:31:00am

re: #103 wheat-dogg

I figured some RWNJ site is the ultimate source, because it’s quoted on every RWNJ site including Faux Noise. Maybe it’s the total US contribution for the last decade? smh

All right, the writer at the link is including contributions to the peacekeeping budget, which had a $7.87B budget for FY2017, and the US share of that was 28.57%. un.org

That’s still not $8 billion coming from the USA.

107
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:32:50am

re: #104 Alyosha

Putin will live to see his precious plot fall apart.
One day, America will be free of this horror and one day, Russia too, will be free.
We might not see it, but hope is all we really have.

Even in my most optimistic moments, I realize that things have to get a lot worse before they can even begin to start to get any better.

And that is my best-case scenario.

No point in looking for the light at the end of tunnel at this point, the train is still just picking up speed before driving into it…

108
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 2:43:46am

OT, a heartwarming moment, twin Chinese girls separated at birth meet for the first time on GMA.

Twin Sisters Separated at Birth Reunite on ‘GMA’

109
Dave In Austin  Jan 13, 2017 • 3:14:17am

Good Morning!!

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
110
Alyosha  Jan 13, 2017 • 3:31:01am
ReplyReply w/ Quote

An unfortunate tweet break heh

111
Ace-o-aces  Jan 13, 2017 • 3:39:06am

Ahhh, good morning America! Time for your new leader’s daily tweet storm!

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
112
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 3:49:02am

It is ugly and shameless, but they are fighting Trump with his own weapons. The smell of urine is going to stick to him just like Benghazi and e-mails stuck to “crooked” Hillary.

113
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 3:55:57am

The Bush sisters have written a touching and somewhat self-deprecating letter to the Obama girls. Somehow I can’t imagine any Trump offspring being so … normal.

bbc.com

I liked this line: “Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did.”

I never thought I’d feel wistful about George W. Bush and family, but Trump has made it possible.

114
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:26:00am

Trump has no intention of doing “The People’s Work” he will leave that to Pence and other underlings. He just wants the glitz and the glamour of “being” POTUS, soaking up the adulation of the cheering crowds, not in actually DOING the job. This is why “the stress of the job” will not affect him as it has affected other Presidents.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
115
William Lewis  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:26:27am

re: #113 wheat-dogg

The Bush sisters have written a touching and somewhat self-deprecating letter to the Obama girls. Somehow I can’t imagine any Trump offspring being so … normal.

bbc.com

I liked this line: “Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did.”

I never thought I’d feel wistful about George W. Bush and family, but Trump has made it possible.

I always respected his dad for his WWII service - he did not have to become the youngest combat pilot in the Navy and get shot down and rescued by submarine. His kids seem to be alright too so he had to have been able to do something as a parent. But that’s about the best I can think of right now for Dubya.

116
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:31:18am

re: #115 William Lewis

I always respected his dad for his WWII service - he did not have to become the youngest combat pilot in the Navy and get shot down and rescued by submarine. His kids seem to be alright too so he had to have been able to do something as a parent. But that’s about the best I can think of right now for Dubya.

I actually agreed with Dubya’s immigration policies…but his own party shut him down.

117
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:32:33am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Trump has no intention of doing “The People’s Work” he will leave that to Pence and other underlings. He just wants the glitz and the glamour of “being” POTUS, soaking up the adulation of the cheering crowds, not in actually DOING the job. This is why “the stress of the job” will not affect him as it has affected other Presidents.

[Embedded content]

“Charm offensive”: only one of these words remotely applies to DJT. His charm is as phony as a Trump University education.

118
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:36:50am

re: #115 William Lewis

I’ll give him partial credit for actually doing some service, granted, it was TANG, but that was more than Trump ever considered (never mind avoiding STDs was Trump’s Vietnam…), I think W. has done some legit charity work (maybe?) and he’s avoided the limelight since then (better for him, but it’s also been good for the country).

119
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:37:23am

re: #117 Barefoot Grin

“Charm offensive”: only one of these words remotely applies to DJT. His charm is as phony as a Trump University education.

His charm is the charm of a con artist working his mark.

120
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:39:28am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteRetweetVideo
121
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:41:44am

More things to admire and emulate about our Russian friends and allies:

Bill Decriminalizing Domestic Violence Passes First Reading in Russian Parliament

122
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:52:45am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
123
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:55:43am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
124
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 4:59:55am

re: #114 The Vicious Babushka

Trump has no intention of doing “The People’s Work” he will leave that to Pence and other underlings. He just wants the glitz and the glamour of “being” POTUS, soaking up the adulation of the cheering crowds, not in actually DOING the job. This is why “the stress of the job” will not affect him as it has affected other Presidents.

The only weakness to that plan: Pence, McConnell are Ryan are incredibly unpopular. The choices they make further imperial his already ruined approval rating (outside of the brain-dead GOP rank-and-file) if he’s shown to be fucking worthless.

Being unpopular and despised by a clear majority does a number on a sociopathic narcissist.

125
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:02:39am

re: #124 Myron Falwell (no relation)

The only weakness to that plan: Pence, McConnell are Ryan are incredibly unpopular. The choices they make further imperial his already ruined approval rating (outside of the brain-dead GOP rank-and-file) if he’s shown to be fucking worthless.

Being unpopular and despised by a clear majority does a number on a sociopathic narcissist.

When his approval ratings sink even lower, Trump will need to find someone to blame.

126
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:03:17am

re: #87 Alyosha

ReplyReply w/ QuoteRetweetVideo

I joke that they just consummated their bromance publicly, but they really are good friends. You can see that in how they interact and respond to each other.

I’m almost sure that they probably sent a few of those Biden memes to each other after the election too. Both do have a good sense of humor, which is something a good leader needs.

127
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:05:09am

re: #125 wheat-dogg

When his approval ratings sink even lower, Trump will need to find someone to blame.

Is Trump that self-aware? I have serious doubts.

128
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:05:59am

re: #126 lawhawk

I wouldn’t be surprised if either of them MADE some of those memes themselves, and then passed them to others to be “leaked”…

129
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:07:40am

re: #125 wheat-dogg

When his approval ratings sink even lower, Trump will need to find someone to blame.

Democrats. And the press. So unfair. So bitter. So awful. Bigly.

Trump approval ratings keep cratering even before the inauguration, and there’s no sign they’ll improve either. He’s done nothing to indicate otherwise. Not that his supporters or the GOP care - they’ll get their regressive agenda implemented, including rolling back decades of progress. I’m just not quite sure how far back they’ll go - 1950s or the 1850s. Because that’s exactly the policies that they’re championing.

Know who’ll be hurt the most - the Trump twits who hate Obamacare but like their ACA. Or the useful idiots who claimed that Obamacare made health care worse, and will now return us to the days of medical bankruptcies for patients saddled with costs because they’re uninsurable and hospitals going bankrupt because they cant’ get reimbursed for services. We’ll also see an increase of homelessness and mentally ill people getting sucked into the criminal justice system because they aren’t getting medical care they need to keep their conditions in check, so it adds yet more costs to society.

130
Odie Hugh Manatee  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:08:06am

I have to think that there are some in the Republican party ‘leadership’ who, as much as they would like to impeach Trump and install Pence as their Christian savior and king, are scared shitless of Trump’s low IQ supporters come election time. Seriously, they are screwed if they leave him in office as he’s going to end up blowing shit up and if they impeach him they may kill their careers. Hmmm, save the nation or risk their careers? Being that they are Kraven Kowardly Konservatives, we all know that they sure as Hell aren’t going to risk their careers.

Selfish, chicken shit bastards, all of them.

131
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:10:14am

re: #125 wheat-dogg

When his approval ratings sink even lower, Trump will need to find someone to blame.

“The media is so dishonest and unfair, believe me. I have the best ratings, the top ratings! You never saw such beautiful ratings, very, very terrific ratings!”

132
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:12:39am

re: #130 Odie Hugh Manatee

I have to think that there are some in the Republican party ‘leadership’ who, as much as they would like to impeach Trump and install Pence as their Christian savior and king, are scared shitless of Trump’s low IQ supporters come election time.

That is why they could not bring themselves to Dump Trump back when they did not need Constitutional authority to do so.

And those voters really do not like the GOP: they voted GOP downticket, as far as I can tell, because the GOP was willing to line up behind Trump and present itself as the party of plucky insurgents standing up to the Evil Empire, but if GOP turns on Trump and goes all “establishment” on him, they will be seen as part of the same.

133
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:13:30am

re: #131 The Vicious Babushka

“The media is so dishonest and unfair, believe me. I have the best ratings, the top ratings! You never saw such beautiful ratings, very, very terrific ratings!”

Yeah, he’ll tweet that while trying to find a scapegoat in his own org to blame.

Media or not, when people get mad, they always blame the president for causing their troubles.

134
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:16:26am

re: #130 Odie Hugh Manatee

What makes them different from a suicide bomber? They want to destroy as much as possible and don’t care if you are hurt by them.

The mindset in the GOP rank-and-file currently is, “fuck you all and we don’t care if you die by our hands because we get a government pension and we’ll pack the courts with Heritage Foundation-approved hacks so you can NEVER EVER EVER undo what we’ve done BWHAHAHAHAHAHA”

135
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:17:03am

Listening to this reporter’s comments on the “culture of lying” within North Korea, I’m reminded of the Right Wing noise machine and the Trump org.

propublica.org

136
Odie Hugh Manatee  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:20:06am

re: #125 wheat-dogg

When his approval ratings sink even lower, Trump will need to find someone to blame.

Trump will never take responsibility for any failure on his part, it’s not in his nature to do so. Instead, he is surrounding himself with his controversial cast for his new series, The Apprentice President. The premise of this show is for his cast to be so outrageous that people will just have to tune in every single day to see who failed at what and if they will be replaced with a new, exciting cast member! Fox News will be carrying the show and they are looking forward to the advertising revenues that the high ratings for show are going to bring them. The star of the show will never be responsible for anything that goes wrong because he will have canned and replaced the person who failed so problem solved!

Seriously, Trump will never admit failure because he never fails, it’s always everyone else that fails him and tries to make him look bad. Much like conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.

137
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:28:38am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
138
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:30:31am

re: #137 The Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

“Tell them to put their stuff in my garage. They’ll be moving back in on January 20 just after noon.”

139
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:31:08am

LOL Penthouse claims to have obtained the “Trump Golden Showers” video.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
140
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:31:54am

Quick tech question for all y’all on Teh Twitters…

An artist friend of mine seems to have lost everyone whom she was following practically overnight, and it looks to have been a pure glitch (there is no reason why she would unfollow close to 800 people). Is this resolvable without her spending hours and hours trying to refollow people? Moreover, has this happened to other Twitter accounts in recent days?

141
klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:34:53am

Well Lizards, in about 24 hours and again in 48, I will be off at the races. The 10k tomorrow, half on Sunday. Thanks for putting up with all my running commentary as I’ve trained for this crazy idea and I’ll be back on Monday after it’s all over and we’ve made our way back home. :)

In the meantime, if you’re dying to know if I make my desired time, there’ll always be updates over at my Twitter. ;)

142
dharmamark  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:36:50am

re: #141 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Good Luck! My next race isn’t until May at this point.

143
Patricia Kayden  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:38:16am

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Trump will go down at some point. He doesn’t have Nixon’s intelligence nor Reagan’s ability to make even political adversaries like him. When he goes down, it will be ugly.

And hopefully, the GOP goes down with him. They’re the ones who enabled him to get this far.

144
Shiplord Kirel  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:38:29am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Penthouse claims to have obtained the “Trump Golden Showers” video.

[Embedded content]

They offered a million bucks for it, iirc. It’s just possible some downtrodden FSB clerk saw that and hopped on the plane to Vienna.

145
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:40:18am

re: #140 Myron Falwell (no relation)

This sounds like a Twitter glitch, I’ve never seen that exact problem, but I would bet that it would resolve itself soonish. However if that doesn’t work, Twitter’s @support is…sub-optimal.

146
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:48:27am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
147
wheat-dogg  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:57:31am

re: #146 The Vicious Babushka

These will be issued in April. I’m going to be sure to get one.

148
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 5:59:14am

re: #145 I cannot.

Sounds reasonable. Will keep an eye out.

She’s drawn quite a few things for me on commission, including my avatars and other silly stuff like this from last night:

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
149
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:00:26am

re: #146 The Vicious Babushka

The gold bug nuts will be conflicted - it’s gold, so that’s good, but teh black! That’s bad. What to do, what to do? Oh right - bitch about how their rights are being harmed because others now have the rights they’ve taken for granted (or denied to others for far too long).

150
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:02:10am

re: #147 wheat-dogg

These will be issued in April. I’m going to be sure to get one.

Just like the $20 bill; they’ll revert that to Andrew Jackson bayoneting someone from the First Nations in short order.

151
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:03:53am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
152
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:07:47am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
153
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:17:06am

re: #152 Belafon

That’s what so mind-numbing. Every single one of his properties and those who are licensed to carry his name are sitting targets. When they inevitably get attacked by some loon, we’ll all be facepalming to infinity…

154
ipsos  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:19:02am

re: #149 lawhawk

The gold bug nuts will be conflicted - it’s gold, so that’s good, but teh black! That’s bad. What to do, what to do? Oh right - bitch about how their rights are being harmed because others now have the rights they’ve taken for granted (or denied to others for far too long).

When this design was first unveiled in the coin collecting community last year, the comment sections got ugly indeed for a while.

155
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:19:54am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
156
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:21:05am

i just can’t anymore

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
157
Mike Lamb  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:23:01am

Uh, Donny, your “people” will have a report on hacking in 90 days? The CIA, FBI, NSA, and DNI are your “people”, aren’t they? Or are we waiting for the FIS sel-evaluation?

158
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:23:02am

So, I read the comments from the new gold coin Tweet…

One of the people in that thread was someone I put myself through a great deal of financial hardship for a decade ago. I did that willingly and enthusiastically.

She is going to the DeploraBall, retweets Cernovich and Roger Stone, has a gab.ai thingy, the works.

I’m…not in one of my better moods.

159
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:25:54am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

In private, we cuss out those independents. When we’re talking to them one on one, we try to coax them into remembering this behavior whenever a Republican talks. In public, we tell them that the Democrats are trying to help as many people as possible, but we need their help.

160
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:25:54am
ReplyReply w/ Quote

In a Jan. 4 letter to the president-elect, McConnell said Trump “inspired the American people with your vision of less regulation, free and fair competition and enhanced job opportunities.” McConnell said he personally appreciated Trump’s public commitment to “provide relief for coal communities” such as Kentucky, the state that is the third-largest producer of coal in the U.S.

McConnell’s letter decried what he and other Republicans describe as Obama’s “war on coal,” a series of regulations that the GOP says has made coal more expensive to mine, transport and use for energy production.

U.S. coal production has declined sharply in recent years amid stiff competition from cheap, easy-to-produce natural gas. But McConnell said those who attribute coal’s decline simply to low gas prices “are not seeing the full picture,” which he said includes costly federal regulations that place an unfair burden on coal.

McConnell called the stream-protection rule “a direct assault on coal mining operations” that “must be stopped.” He pledged to use the rarely invoked Congressional Review Act to overturn the stream rule and asked for Trump’s support in that effort.

good fucking grief.

161
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:27:07am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
162
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:27:28am

re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth

If there are only two people left in Kentucky, do they still get three electoral votes?

163
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:30:32am

My recollection from my time in Kentucky a couple of years ago was that in many places mountain-top removal is the mining procedure of choice (remaining seams too hard to mine conventionally) and there are communities living with poisoned water and other environmental hazards. There won’t be a whole lot more jobs, just more poison.

164
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:30:38am

re: #162 Belafon

Yup.

165
HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:30:54am

re: #143 Patricia Kayden

And hopefully, the GOP goes down with him. They’re the ones who enabled him to get this far.

I’m hoping for a landslide in 2020. It’s a census year.

166
HappyWarrior  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:32:23am

re: #163 Barefoot Grin

My recollection from my time in Kentucky a couple of years ago was that in many places mountain-top removal is the mining procedure of choice (remaining seams too hard to mine conventionally) and there are communities living with poisoned water and other environmental hazards. There won’t be a whole lot more jobs, just more poison.

It’s sad honestly. My grandparents grew up in an industrial town in PA. Population has dropped a lot since they lived there. We need to retrain people not return to the past.

167
jeffreyw  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:33:20am

Imgur


Good morning!

168
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:35:22am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
169
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:35:31am

re: #166 HappyWarrior

It’s sad honestly. My grandparents grew up in an industrial town in PA. Population has dropped a lot since they lived there. We need to retrain people not return to the past.

I have a lot of sympathy for those folks. I had several students from small Appalachian communities who told me about their lives and how torn they were—hard to leave friends and family behind, but no hope in staying.

170
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:37:13am

re: #145 I cannot.

This sounds like a Twitter glitch, I’ve never seen that exact problem, but I would bet that it would resolve itself soonish. However if that doesn’t work, Twitter’s @support is…sub-optimal.

It is indeed a glitch… she also was locked out of her account.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote

Then there’s this: ???

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
171
Franklin  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:38:52am

Ha!

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
172
sagehen  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:40:34am

re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

good fucking grief.

I must be really old. I remember when the gun fetishists were mostly outdoorsmen, who desperately wanted their hunting and fishing grounds to have vigorous environmental protection.

173
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:42:36am

re: #165 HappyWarrior

I’m hoping for a landslide in 2020. It’s a census year.

A repeat of 1930 in 2018 and 1932 in 2020 wouldn’t be bad IMO.

en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org

174
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:43:51am

re: #171 Franklin

Ha!

[Embedded content]

Lady Liberty proudly displays her boobies. When are they going to put that on the money?

Click to Reveal
175
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:46:14am

re: #172 sagehen

I must be really old. I remember when the gun fetishists were mostly outdoorsmen, who desperately wanted their hunting and fishing grounds to have vigorous environmental protection.

There are a lot of hunters who could be appealed on this. We’ll just have to overcome the NRA’s “they’re doing this to take your guns” message that will follow.

176
sagehen  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:46:45am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Lady Liberty proudly displays her boobies. When are they going to put that on the money?

[Embedded content]

That’s not Lady Liberty; that’s Columbia.

177
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:46:58am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Lady Liberty proudly displays her boobies. When are they going to put that on the money?

[Embedded content]

The mint could offer little curtains to put over the coins for those that need to be more modest.

178
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:46:59am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Lady Liberty proudly displays her boobies. When are they going to put that on the money?

[Embedded content]

Looks like there’s a black guy on the left, too.

179
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:48:58am

re: #176 sagehen

That’s not Lady Liberty; that’s Columbia.

The painting is titled Liberty Leading The People

180
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:49:19am

#GOPDontCare:

ReplyReply w/ Quote

Only 18% in that poll want full repeal (and I have no doubt they have no clue what that actually means). So, while a higher percentage want repeals of some parts (again, doubt they know what the hell that actually entails or the consequences of same), the GOP is running 100% towards a full repeal of the ACA with little actual support outside their bubble for this BS.

Oh, and no replacement. #GOPDontCare

This isn’t to say that Obamacare/ACA isn’t flawed. There are flaws - as with any program. But you don’t repeal a law just because there are flaws. You fix the flaws, not burn down the whole structure. But that’s not what these GOP saboteurs are after. They’re about tearing down the entire safety net so that a privileged few can get even wealthier.

#GOPDontCare about what the consequences are to families dealing with serious illnesses or accidents. We have people here at LGF who’d be denied coverage because of preexisting conditions (or family histories of conditions). Heck, it’s possible that with genetic testing, you’d find insurers denying coverage or charging higher premiums because someone might have a genetic marker for an ailment that occurs 50-70 years down the road.

#GOPDontCare. It’s not just their health care plan, but it’s their plan for everything. Screw the environment and screw clean water and air. Screw the safety net that helps people make ends meet.

The GOP is so pro life that their policies kill. That’s what happens if the ACA is repealed. People will die from lack of care (estimated at 40k per year would die needlessly from lack/delayed care). People will needlessly die from exposure to pollutants allowed by the rollback of environmental protection. #GOPDontCare

181
sagehen  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:50:17am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

The painting is titled Liberty Leading The People

oops

182
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:51:30am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

The painting is titled Liberty Leading The People

This all reminds us that people who do not understand what something is about cling to arbitrary symbols that we have come to associate with those concepts: flag lapel pins, crucifixes, guns, and women on coins.

183
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:53:46am

John Aravosis with the body slam:

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
184
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:56:40am

re: #180 lawhawk

The GOP rank-and-file claim to be Christians and Patriots, when in reality they are nothing but nihilists.

185
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 6:59:10am

re: #184 Myron Falwell (no relation)

The GOP rank-and-file claim to be Christians and Patriots, when in reality they are nothing but nihilists.

I think it is the work of a body of nihilists who have grown expert and inciting and manipulating the masses of “Christian Patriots” out there.

186
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:06:58am

So I see that Philippines president has had 4800 people killed in his first six months in office. I wonder how many Dictator Trump and the GOP will have killed I his first 6 months?

187
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:07:02am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImages
188
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:08:45am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
189
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:08:46am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
190
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:09:07am

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I wonder how long it will take him to prove the premises behind this image after he sees it.

191
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:12:20am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
192
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:15:20am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
193
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:17:45am

re: #186 Skip Intro

So I see that Philippines president has had 4800 people killed in his first six months in office. I wonder how many Dictator Trump and the GOP will have killed I his first 6 months?

Considering how many people are killed in this country by guns and car accidents, it’ll take a pretty good number for it to rise above the noise. //

Realistically, though, there’s a difference between there and here: Even amongst the engaged people, there are more people against Trump than supporting him. And while I’m annoyed at independents for how a lot of them seemed to have voted, I don’t think they’re going to take too kindly to a lot of the tactics.

Think about Spencer’s home town. His mom has seen her business go down while she supporters her son. When the KKK tried to respond, the town made it known that they weren’t welcome. And this is Montana.

194
Targetpractice  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:17:58am

re: #191 Myron Falwell (no relation)

[Embedded content]

Somewhere in the bowels of Hell, Nixon is looking on with dismay because when he did this shit, he nearly got impeached over it.

195
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:19:28am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
196
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:21:17am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cancer patient tells Paul Ryan the ACA saved his life.
Ryan responds with a brazen falsehood.

An unfettered Free Market is more important than a few people’s paltry lives.

That is the point of the whole ACA debate. And most of the GOP regulatory agenda.

197
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:23:18am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

An unfettered Free Market is more important than a few people’s paltry lives.

That is the point of the whole ACA debate. And most of the GOP regulatory agenda.

The market won’t truly be unfettered until there are no people left.

198
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:23:50am

re: #194 Targetpractice

Somewhere in the bowels of Hell, Nixon is looking on with dismay because when he did this shit, he nearly got impeached over it.

That would explain the fire at the Watergate a few days ago…

199
Targetpractice  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:26:42am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Conservative pundits aren’t listening to what Ryan is actually saying because their ideology demands Obama’s legacy be torn down while liberal pundits are too far up their own asses about how the ACA is a “failure” and it’s all Obama’s fault because he didn’t try to impose a single-payer system.

200
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:33:58am

As someone in the comments at Huffpo noted, conservatives like Mr. Jeans only care about issues like the ACA when it suddenly impacts them as individuals; progressives think beyond themselves to the needs of others.

201
Joe Bacon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:35:20am

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

Let me guess: Huelskamp is another one of those Republicans who calls himself a “devout Christian”

Yes, Brother EC! Why Tim has a $pe¢ial Relation$hip with de Lawd Ayn Rand!

202
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:42:41am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
203
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:44:54am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has to see if they can be converted to oil first.

204
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:51:21am

How much would it twist Trump if he had to call Romney to be his SoS?

205
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:55:50am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
206
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 7:58:00am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

Today is my brother’s 45th birthday. I also jointed the Navy 25 years ago today, did one enlistment, and got out.

Edit: I had to compute my start time, because I’ve been keeping up with my end time. Next year, I will have been out of the Navy for 20 years.

207
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:02:07am

re: #203 Belafon

He has to see if they can be converted to oil first.

Soylent Green is people!

208
Big Beautiful Door  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:08:16am

re: #180 lawhawk

#GOPDontCare:

[Embedded content]

Only 18% in that poll want full repeal (and I have no doubt they have no clue what that actually means). So, while a higher percentage want repeals of some parts (again, doubt they know what the hell that actually entails or the consequences of same), the GOP is running 100% towards a full repeal of the ACA with little actual support outside their bubble for this BS.

Oh, and no replacement. #GOPDontCare

This isn’t to say that Obamacare/ACA isn’t flawed. There are flaws - as with any program. But you don’t repeal a law just because there are flaws. You fix the flaws, not burn down the whole structure. But that’s not what these GOP saboteurs are after. They’re about tearing down the entire safety net so that a privileged few can get even wealthier.

#GOPDontCare about what the consequences are to families dealing with serious illnesses or accidents. We have people here at LGF who’d be denied coverage because of preexisting conditions (or family histories of conditions). Heck, it’s possible that with genetic testing, you’d find insurers denying coverage or charging higher premiums because someone might have a genetic marker for an ailment that occurs 50-70 years down the road.

#GOPDontCare. It’s not just their health care plan, but it’s their plan for everything. Screw the environment and screw clean water and air. Screw the safety net that helps people make ends meet.

The GOP is so pro life that their policies kill. That’s what happens if the ACA is repealed. People will die from lack of care (estimated at 40k per year would die needlessly from lack/delayed care). People will needlessly die from exposure to pollutants allowed by the rollback of environmental protection. #GOPDontCare

I’ll tell you what the GOP cares about. An average $7 million tax cut each for the 400 richest Americans that Obamacare repeal will allow.

209
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:10:03am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
210
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:11:41am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
211
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:15:34am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
212
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:16:45am

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

At least one of the Democrats needs to call Paul Ryan out on his town hall last night, where a former Republican told Ryan that the ACA saved his life.

213
jeffreyw  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:18:13am

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

With a full moon and an ice storm!

214
Franklin  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:18:33am

File under: No Shit (but recognition is important)

ReplyReply w/ Quote
215
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:22:15am

re: #109 Dave In Austin

Good Morning!!

[Embedded content]

I just can’t stand (among many, many other things) that this is the level of discourse from the fucking president-elect. Junior high slambook whining—it’s just so disgusting. He’s a petulant child.

216
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:44:08am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I still don’t understand why ZEGS was given free airtime for his “town hall” to begin with. Don’t recall Nancy Pelosi ever being granted a free hour to promote ACA during her time as Speaker. Anyone?

217
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:45:37am

Interesting choice of words from an RT panel.

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

Decapitate? Purge?

Hell, why don’t they just disband the intel agencies altogether? Daddy Putin would like that.
///

218
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:46:22am

re: #217 makeitstop

RT?

219
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:46:42am

re: #45 petesh

Well put. I have been saying for some time that he won’t last two years. I see one of three scenarios: genuine illness; fake or exaggerated illness in the face of possible impeachment or bankruptcy; impeachment and removal. The last is, I think, the least likely because he’d see himself as “doing a deal” to avoid trial by faking illness. The first seems possible, but he doesn’t really give a shit so the traditional presidential stress may not apply. So my money is on the first, the most chaotic one.

It’s going to be a circus with not a lot of bread.

I don’t see Trump being willing to go the second route. His bankruptcies were always about saving/maintaining his status, he’d come out unscathed and look like a winner. There’s no way that he could pull that off in a threatened impeachment - especially with his bullshit I NEVER SETTLE CASES!!!111! line. To fake an illness and resign is essentially taking a plea deal, The Donald would never go along with that. He will fight to the bitter end, 140 characters at a time.

220
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:48:33am

re: #218 Belafon

RT?

The second official news agency of the GOP after Fox. Breitbart makes three, and that’s enough, don’t you think?

221
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:49:59am

re: #220 Skip Intro

The second official news agency of the GOP after Fox. Breitbart makes three, and that’s enough, don’t you think?

OK, Russia Today.

222
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:50:04am

re: #216 BeachDem

I still don’t understand why ZEGS was given free airtime for his “town hall” to begin with. Don’t recall Nancy Pelosi ever being granted a free hour to promote ACA during her time as Speaker. Anyone?

I vaguely remember there being town halls in 2009 on health care reform, and that at least some of them got national coverage.

223
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:50:20am

re: #220 Skip Intro

Don’t forget the National Enquirer as the official fishwrap…

224
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:50:31am

re: #218 Belafon

RT?

Russia Today.

225
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:51:04am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
226
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:52:40am

re: #222 KGxvi

I vaguely remember there being town halls in 2009 on health care reform, and that at least some of them got national coverage.

They got coverage, but did they get a free and promoted hour on CNN? CNN even ran that damn countdown clock to ZEGS event.

227
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:53:02am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
228
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:54:23am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
229
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:57:37am

So—C-Span suddenly gets blipped to RT; the lights go out during the Pompeo hearing while the topic is Russia/hacking; Tweetie’s show on MSNBC freezes and “Russia, Russia, Russia” repeats.

rawstory.com

Coincidence or things that make you go hmmm or a callout to Alex Jones?

230
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:58:14am

re: #226 BeachDem

They got coverage, but did they get a free and promoted hour on CNN? CNN even ran that damn countdown clock to ZEGS event.

That’s a good question, and I don’t know. My guess is Ryan probably requested coverage and CNN figured it was an easy way to generate ratings on a live event. My second guess is that in 2009, the Dems were deferring to Obama as the newly elected president as the face for their policies. The GOP in 2017 apparently still doesn’t trust Trump, so they’re running Ryan out there.

231
(alpuz)  Jan 13, 2017 • 8:59:04am

I sorta remember seeing the hole. It was dusk so I had a difficult time making out the shadows. I don’t remember leaping, and honestly the older I get gravity really has my number, but I apparently did.

So this is it… this is down the rabbit hole.

232
scottslemmons  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:02:14am

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Dang! And not just a writer — he directed my favorite sequel of “The Exorcist,” too.

233
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:06:12am

re: #229 BeachDem

So—C-Span suddenly gets blipped to RT; the lights go out during the Pompeo hearing while the topic is Russia/hacking; Tweetie’s show on MSNBC freezes and “Russia, Russia, Russia” repeats.

rawstory.com

Coincidence or things that make you go hmmm or a callout to Alex Jones?

“Release the Kracken Stuxnet - on Russia!!”

Or whatever. Do it. Disable their whole goddamn network, every fucking thing. Banking, media, military, police, burn it all down to the ground. Let Putin sit on his throne, looking down upon his Empire of Shit.

Grrr.

234
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:11:32am

I’m wondering what Comey said to provoke this reaction…

A number of House Democrats left Friday’s confidential briefing on Russian hacking fuming over the actions of FBI Director James Comey and convinced he’s unfit to lead the agency.

“I was non-judgmental until the last 15 minutes. I no longer have that confidence in him,” Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), ranking member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, said as he left the meeting in the Capitol.

“Some of the things that were revealed in this classified briefing — my confidence has been shook.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), senior Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, delivered a similar condemnation.

“I’m extremely concerned — extremely,” he said.

“I’ll just — I’m very angry,” echoed Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.).

235
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:12:19am

Lord have Mercy, someone opened a joint that sells miniburgers here in Ostrava.

New Year’s Resolutions? Fuck that.

It’s called Bistro Boule za Ušima and it’s downtown. May have to check that out this weekend.

236
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:16:39am

re: #235 Dr Lizardo

Lord have Mercy, someone opened a joint that sells miniburgers here in Ostrava.

[Embedded content]

It’s called Bistro Boule za Ušima and it’s downtown. May have to check that out this weekend.

Those things are popular with caterers here…but they are not White Castles by a long shot.

237
jimmyvluv4u  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:17:10am

re: #234 makeitstop

I’m guessing an admission that (pre-election) they had far FAR worse information on Trump than ‘maybe some new emails’ on Weiner’s laptop. Not that it should be a shock to any of them, just confirmation.

238
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:17:22am

re: #234 makeitstop

I’m wondering what Comey said to provoke this reaction…

“Like everyone else, I thought she was going to win, so I was holding her to a higher standard. If I thought he really had a chance to win, I’d have more thoroughly vetted him.”

239
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:18:02am

The psychopath in chief is at it again.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote

“Guilty as hell”. No trial, no judge, no jury. Just Trump pronouncing guilt.

Unpresidented in America, but not in totalitarian countries, which is where we’re headed on the fast track.

240
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:19:20am

re: #239 Skip Intro

The psychopath in chief is at it again.

[Embedded content]

“Guilty as hell”. No trial, no judge, no jury. Just Trump pronouncing guilt.

Unpresidented in America, but not in totalitarian countries, which is where we’re headed on the fast track.

Remember the Stalinist show trial where the state-appointed defense lawyer simply got up and said that due to the heinous nature of the crimes his client had committed, he simply could not present any legal defense?

241
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:19:42am

re: #239 Skip Intro

The psychopath in chief is at it again.

[Embedded content]

“Guilty as hell”. No trial, no judge, no jury. Just Trump pronouncing guilt.

Unpresidented in America, but not in totalitarian countries, which is where we’re headed on the fast track.

Is that a typo, or am I missing a joke?

242
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:19:52am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those things are popular with caterers here…but they are not White Castles by a long shot.

True that, but the odds of White Castle opening up an outlet here are zero. Have to take what I can get.

243
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:20:09am

re: #241 KGxvi

It’s how Trump spells it.

244
KGxvi  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:20:43am

re: #243 Skip Intro

It’s how Trump spells it.

Ah, gotcha, bigly.

245
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:21:46am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

So basically Ky has a law mandating a token black guy on the board?

246
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:22:25am

re: #239 Skip Intro

The psychopath in chief is at it again.

“Guilty as hell”. No trial, no judge, no jury. Just Trump pronouncing guilt.

Unpresidented in America, but not in totalitarian countries, which is where we’re headed on the fast track.

Which is why the FBI, even Comey, said they had nothing to charge her with, Donald. Get your head out of Putin’s ass.

247
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:23:04am

re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember the Stalinist show trial where the state defendant simply got up and said that due to the heinous nature of the crimes his client had committed, he simply could not present any legal defense?

Wasn’t there one show trial where a “defendant” addressed the court and stated his case that his crimes were so monstrous, so heinous and appalling, that he deserved nothing less than summary execution?

Or am I remembering something else, maybe some work of satirical fiction?

248
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:23:27am

What we’re seeing from Trump is what we would have heard from Nixon had the tape recorder been a Twitter auto-feed.

249
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:26:02am

‘Scuse me while I barf.

According to Radar Online, 75-year-old crooner Paul Anka will perform his most famous song, “My Way,” at Donald Trump’s inauguration, with the lyrics re-written for his long-time friend and incoming president. “Paul was asked by the members of the Trump inauguration committee and he was only too happy to do it for his longtime friend,” one insider told the tabloid outlet. The source indicated that Anka’s special version of the Frank Sinatra classic would be performed during the inaugural dance between Trump and his wife Melania Trump.

250
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:26:52am

Trump bothers me, and I worry about all the people he will affect. And while I know there is going to be damage to recover from, more of America opposes him that likes him. We can keep this country from becoming totalitarian. It will take work - and people like my coworker who likes to say “will of the people” a lot won’t make it easy - but we can keep it from happening.

251
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:27:22am

The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan

For the past 18 months Congressman Sessions has worked with Senator Cassidy and Dr. John Goodman, doctors and healthcare providers, and hundreds of business owners in North Texas and across the country to discuss ways that we can improve and reform the unsustainable policies in ObamaCare. H.R. 5284 The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan isn’t full of onerous regulations, unnecessary mandates, or discriminatory policies. This bill empowers all Americans to make their own healthcare choices, save money in an account that is not use-it-or-lose-it, and ensures that not one person will be forced onto ObamaCare.

Under this bill, every American citizen is eligible to claim a $2,500 tax benefit as well as a $1,500 tax benefit per dependent minor. This benefit can be assigned to an employer, transferred to a Roth Health Savings Account, or advanced for annual distribution. With this benefit, individuals and families have the freedom to use their tax benefit to plan and save for their health care futures.

This plan offers a unique, free-marketplace alternative that unleashes doctors, patients, and all individuals from the constraints of ObamaCare, and gives them the opportunity to be in charge of their own healthcare. This is more than a bill- it is a solution that will provide an affordable, predictable, competitive marketplace that will create a healthier society and a stronger economy.

Texas GOPER’s “health plan”.

sessions.house.gov

252
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:27:28am

re: #249 makeitstop

Ugh, Anka is from my hometown too.

253
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:28:25am

re: #249 makeitstop

“I did it Putin’s way.” Not quite the same flow, but it might work.

254
KingKenrod  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:28:36am

Trump’s twitter account is 99% dedicated to keeping his core audience outraged and engaged. It has nothing to do with logic or defense or truth or facts, his audience doesn’t care about that stuff.

255
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:30:28am

re: #251 Skip Intro

So their master plan is a tax break? Yep, definitely a republican approach.

256
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:31:19am

re: #253 Belafon

“I did it Putin’s way.” Not quite the same flow, but it might work.

The only version of “My Way” that might work with Trump is this one:

Sid Vicious - My Way (Original and Complete Version)

but I feel bad denigrating poor Sid’s memory like that.

257
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:31:27am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

ReplyReply w/ QuoteVideo
258
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:31:28am

re: #254 KingKenrod

But it’s also covered by media around the world and that’s a big fucking problem.

259
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:32:39am

re: #239 Skip Intro

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
260
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:32:50am

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

The only version of “My Way” that might work with Trump is this one:

[Embedded content]

but I feel bad denigrating poor Sid’s memory like that.

Yeah, let’s leave Sid out.

I always thought that was the best version of that song, actually.

261
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:33:14am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because this kind of “ministry” will totally bring people to Jesus.

*spit*

262
Targetpractice  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:33:23am

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

So their master plan is a tax break? Yep, definitely a republican approach.

Tax breaks and HSAs. Wow, they’re really breaking new ground here.

//////

263
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:33:53am

re: #247 Dr Lizardo

Wasn’t there one show trial where a “defendant” addressed the court and stated his case that his crimes were so monstrous, so heinous and appalling, that he deserved nothing less than summary execution?

Or am I remembering something else, maybe some work of satirical fiction?

something like that…the point is, once you are charged, there is no going back.

was just reading about how Hermann Göring conspired to get the popular and respected head of the German Army, Werner Fritsch, expelled on trumped-up charges of homosexuality in 1938, to further cement Nazi control over the armed forces

A cursory check showed that it actually involved another person entirely, namely a Colonel Fritsch, but the General was never reinstated…

That is a lesson in the power of the Big Smear.

General Fritsch did, however, return to the army, commanding a division, and proceeded to get himself killed in the early days of the invasion of Poland by standing up into a burst of enemy machine-gun fire.

264
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:34:20am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
265
Stanley Sea  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:35:28am

???

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

but he told TMZ he ultimately had to back out because of family commitments.

His wife (and daughters if he has em) probably said “NO Way”

266
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:35:34am

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

So their master plan is a tax break? Yep, definitely a republican approach.

Eggszackly. It only “pays” you if you have a tax bill higher than the “benefit”. Plus Sessions seems to have completely forgotten about those pesky pre-existing conditions.

267
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:36:15am

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

So their master plan is a tax break? Yep, definitely a republican approach.

Fine if you have enough taxable income.

268
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:37:01am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
269
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:37:30am

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

One week today. 1/20 is going to be one hell of a day.

Are protests being planned all over the country?

270
calochortus  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:38:41am

re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg

One week today. 1/20 is going to be one hell of a day.

Are protests being planned all over the country?

That would be on 1/21. Just found out my daughter is going to DC-need a pussy hat, stat!

271
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:39:24am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Most people in the US don’t have enough savings for retirement. That’s even with mandatory 401ks and SS payments.

Now the GOP thinks that HSAs are going to fix health care? #GOPDontCare that you can’t save for a medical contingency. An HSA helps only those who have capacity to save, or are already saving money elsewhere and can shift money into this tax benefit account for later. It does nothing to help someone making minimum wage should they have to go to the ER, let alone the middle class family who’s income earner gets diagnosed with cancer or their kid falls and breaks a bone requiring surgery.

272
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:40:09am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
273
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:41:48am

re: #262 Targetpractice

Tax breaks and HSAs. Wow, they’re really breaking new ground here.

//////

And once you have $2,500 in your HSA, if you ever have enough spare cash to fund it, you’re halfway to that $5,000 deductible (if you can find one that low) on a policy that doesn’t cover shit. Been to that movie—know how it ends.

274
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:45:06am

re: #260 makeitstop

Yeah, let’s leave Sid out.

I always thought that was the best version of that song, actually.

Same here.

Speaking of Sid, when I was last in the USA, back in 2008, I was visiting with a friend and her son walked in. Her son was now 19 years old, really tall, and when he turned to face me, I spit coffee out my nose because in that intervening 12 years since I’d last see him, he’d grown into an absolute doppelgänger for Sid Vicious. To say the resemblance was uncanny is an understatement.

I said to my friend, “J___________, you do know that T_____ looks identical to Sid Vicious, don’t you?”

She didn’t believe me until I used her computer to show her photos of Sid from the height of his fame with the Sex Pistols.

On another note, I have a former student here who’s a dead ringer for Gwyneth Paltrow, and a new student who’s joined my classes - and who I met today for the first time - is pretty much Scarlett Johansson’s twin sister.

275
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:45:40am

re: #265 Stanley Sea

???

[Embedded content]

His wife (and daughters if he has em) probably said “NO Way”

Wow. When even your friends won’t perform at your little show…

276
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:47:33am

re: #265 Stanley Sea

???

[Embedded content]

His wife (and daughters if he has em) probably said “NO Way”

Well, he does have 5 daughters from first marriage, but supposedly his personal commitment is about a custody fight over his son, Ethan.

277
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:49:09am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Somebody described his cabinet picks as a “rolling coal” move. Thought it was an apt description.

278
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:51:28am

re: #249 makeitstop

‘Scuse me while I barf.

Why do people keep assuming that Trump will be dancing with Melania? Ivanka’s younger and hotter so why not her?

279
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:54:38am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
280
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:55:07am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
281
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:58:25am

re: #280 Timothy Watson

Further Evidence Of Monica Crowley’s Plagiarism

What does uncle Aleister have to say about that?

282
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:58:52am

Wow, whatever Comey said this morning has really pissed a lot of people off.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote

And I don’t have a link, but I’m hearing that the WSJ has called for Comey’s resignation.

He must have let something really bad slip out.

283
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 9:59:05am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
284
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:00:31am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

She didn’t testify about her needing birth control pills. She testified about women she knew needing birth control pills because of chronic medical conditions.

285
jimmyvluv4u  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:01:03am

re: #282 makeitstop

thehill.com

286
Patricia Kayden  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:01:31am

re: #200 Barefoot Grin

As someone in the comments at Huffpo noted, conservatives like Mr. Jeans only care about issues like the ACA when it suddenly impacts them as individuals; progressives think beyond themselves to the needs of others.

That’s what I noticed. Mr. Jeans thanked President Obama for the ACA only because it saved his life. Otherwise, he was prepared to shut down his small business to avoid the ACA’s impact on his personal life. It’s really “all about me” when it comes to Conservatives.

287
MsJ  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:01:44am

re: #139 The Vicious Babushka

LOL Penthouse claims to have obtained the “Trump Golden Showers” video.

[Embedded content]

Where’s Larry Flynt when you need him? He would release that tape in a heartbeat.

288
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:03:22am

Also, this…

Robby Mook questions Comey’s impartiality

“The election is over, and Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated as our next president. That’s not the question here,” Mook said. “I think the question is whether outside actors influenced the outcome of the election, whether that be the Russians or the FBI.”

Asked if Comey should resign his post, Mook declined to say one way or the other and said “we need to get the facts.”

“If he has acted improperly and that the American people can no longer have faith in his ability to carry out justice, I think at that point someone should step down,” Mook said. “I think it’s hard to be director of such an important institution when that trust is no longer there. And let’s let this process play out and look at the facts.”

289
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:04:07am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

ReplyReply w/ Quote
290
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:05:52am

re: #288 makeitstop

Also, this…

Robby Mook questions Comey’s impartiality

And the FBI is the agency responsible for conducting counterintelligence operations in the United States against countries like Russia.

The fox is guarding the fucking hen house at damn near every level now.

291
Stanley Sea  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:06:05am

I’m switching channels trying to find something to listen to while I work & just stumbled onto THE STAND.

At the beginning.

Fuck me & work today. (It’s the whole thing, on all day)

292
Skip Intro  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:06:05am

re: #282 makeitstop

Wow, whatever Comey said this morning has really pissed a lot of people off.

[Embedded content]

And I don’t have a link, but I’m hearing that the WSJ has called for Comey’s resignation.

He must have let something really bad slip out.

I think it’s because he didn’t have Hillary arrested. Seriously. This is a Murdoch rag, after all.

hotair.com

293
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:06:11am

So, Anne Coulter is “incomparable”.

LOL

294
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:08:55am

re: #293 Sir John Barron

So, Anne Coulter is “incomparable”.

LOL

The only comparisons that come close are

1. Rabid weasel
2. Axe murderer
3. Insane ex-girlfriend

295
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:13:13am

I get from the Hill article why Dems are stepping back before demanding Comey’s resignation: think of the horror awaiting if and when Trump gets his own FBI chief. I would place bets that it would be “noun-verb-9/11.”

296
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:14:04am

re: #13 Charles Johnson

250 pages of illegal campaign contributions! Goddamn.

DT will respond to this with a very angry tweet. With many very angry tweets.

/

297
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:14:36am

re: #293 Sir John Barron

So, Anne Coulter is “incomparable”.

LOL

Maybe Aaron McGruder was right. Totally NSFW.

Click to Reveal

The Real Ann Coulter Revealed

298
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:15:07am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
299
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:15:45am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
300
jeffreyw  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:16:07am

Imgur


Lunch! Red beans with smoked ham hock and a Perfect Corn Muffin.

301
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:18:58am
ReplyReply w/ Quote

Team Trump’s efforts seem intended to both damage the credibility of CNN and cow other networks into shying away from similarly critical journalism — as Gingrich put it, to “shrink and isolate” the network. But the Fox News contributor wants the incoming administration to go even further and use the incident as an excuse to “close down the elite press.”

Gingrich laid out this strategy during an interview on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, one of the most pro-Trump venues available. He urged Spicer to learn “a couple of big lessons” from the incident. First and foremost, he suggested that Acosta be banned from reporting on Trump events for 60 days “as a signal, frankly, to all the other reporters that there are going to be real limits” for proper behavior.

But Gingrich’s recommendations went far beyond chastising Acosta. He urged Trump to stop prioritizing questions from major news outlets due to their tough coverage and confrontational attitude. Instead, he suggested that he “extend the privileges to reporters from out of town, folks that fly in from all over the country to be allowed to be at a briefing.” Those reporters, Gingrich suggested, would be “a lot more courteous” and “responsible” rather than being “adversarial.”

Gingrich went on to explain his theory of the press under the Trump administration. “You don’t have to think of The New York Times or CNN or any of these people as news organizations,” he explained. “They’re mostly propaganda organizations. And they’re going to be after Trump every single day of his presidency.”

O_o

302
Big Beautiful Door  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:21:09am

re: #234 makeitstop

I’m wondering what Comey said to provoke this reaction…

I don’t know, but Comey is probably the single most responsible person for saddling us with Trump for President.

303
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:21:15am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let’s bring in some reporters from small towns where citizens are about to lose their health care coverage. I’m sure that will go over well for Trump.

304
lawhawk  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:21:22am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
305
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:21:22am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

Imagine if a pro-Obama commentator had said this on CNN in 2009 about some Fox reporter.

306
Stanley Sea  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:22:53am

The beginning of The Stand is just the best. When the virus is taking hold.

307
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:24:24am

re: #306 Stanley Sea

The beginning of The Stand is just the best. When the virus is taking hold.

It’s not on on my teevee. I is deprived.

308
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:24:29am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

This, right here, is the key:

But Gingrich’s recommendations went far beyond chastising Acosta. He urged Trump to stop prioritizing questions from major news outlets due to their tough coverage and confrontational attitude. Instead, he suggested that he “extend the privileges to reporters from out of town, folks that fly in from all over the country to be allowed to be at a briefing.” Those reporters, Gingrich suggested, would be “a lot more courteous” and “responsible” rather than being “adversarial.”

The relationship between the press and the government is SUPPOSED TO BE adversarial. Press conferences are SUPPOSED TO BE tough. Questions unanswered, or answered with bullshit are SUPPOSED TO BE followed up, till the question IS answered. The press is SUPPOSED TO dig into the corners officials don’t want them to.

Fuck courtesy. If you want a COURTEOUS press, you want a COMPLIANT press.

309
GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:26:01am

re: #214 Franklin

Was running local errands this morning. Just about every place with a TV had people in front of it watching. Everyone had their “No shit!” faces on.

310
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:26:01am

re: #308 Blind Frog Belly White

This, right here, is the key:

The relationship between the press and the government is SUPPOSED TO BE adversarial. Press conferences are SUPPOSED TO BE tough. Questions unanswered, or answered with bullshit are SUPPOSED TO BE followed up, till the question IS answered. The press is SUPPOSED TO dig into the corners officials don’t want them to.

Fuck courtesy. If you want a COURTEOUS press, you want a COMPLIANT press.

Are there actually any reporters who fly in from small town newspapers for these press conferences?

311
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:26:41am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

more:

Alexey Kovalev, a Russian journalist who has covered Vladimir Putin’s annual press conferences, warned of the use of such tactics in a searing “message to my doomed colleagues in the American media” that he authored following Trump’s press conference.

“A mainstay of Putin’s press conferences is, of course, softball questions,” Kovalev wrote. These include both “hyperlocal issues that a president isn’t even supposed to be dealing with,” which nonetheless provide “a real opportunity for him to shine.” Putin also benefits from “people from publications that exist for no other reason than heaping fawning praise on him and attacking his enemies.”

“But there will also be one token critic who will be allowed to ask a ‘sharp’ question,” Kovalev added, “only to be drowned in a copious amount of bullshit, and the man on the stage will always be the winner (‘See? I respect the media and free speech’).”

312
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:27:18am

re: #214 Franklin

Jefferson Bureagrad Sessions III will make this go away I’m, sure.

313
jaunte  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:28:47am
ReplyReply w/ Quote

This is the way dictators behave.

314
GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:29:31am

re: #313 jaunte

Jan 21. Russian paratroopers descend on DC.

315
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:29:53am

re: #310 Sir John Barron

Are there actually any reporters who fly in from small town newspapers for these press conferences?

No. I suspect Gingrich is proposing inviting reporters from small regional outlets, with the expectation that they’ll be awed by the spectacle and be obsequious to the President, just like we want the press to be in a free, self-governing nation.

316
Stanley Sea  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:30:02am

re: #307 Sir John Barron

It’s not on on my teevee. I is deprived.

The channel is “Chiller”

never heard of it before.

317
Franklin  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:30:12am

re: #306 Stanley Sea

The beginning of The Stand is just the best. When the virus is taking hold.

I HATED reading when I started HS. Got sick with mono and my mom bought me The Stand. Read it in a week, all 1472 pages of it. That book is what made me a lifetime reader.

318
MsJ  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:34:23am

re: #239 Skip Intro

ReplyReply w/ Quote
319
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:36:04am

re: #318 MsJ

[Embedded content]

Yes. Never let him forget!

320
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:36:14am

re: #314 GlutenFreeJesus

Jan 21. Russian paratroopers descend on DC.

Red Dawn. ‘Cept this time, the “Wolverines” are on the side of the Russians.

321
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:38:06am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
322
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:39:09am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
323
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:40:57am

re: #317 Franklin

I HATED reading when I started HS. Got sick with mono and my mom bought me The Stand. Read it in a week, all 1472 pages of it. That book is what made me a lifetime reader.

What really started me reading were collections of Peanuts comics, collected in paperback anthologies. Of course, there were a lot of words I didn’t understand, so my mom would make me take the time to go look them up in the dictionary.

Then I was about seven, I was at a garage sale and there was this old book, an anthology of “frightful and weird stories”. It was about 10 cents, IIRC. And what hooked my seven-year old imagination were the following words:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

So I owe it all to Charles Schulz and H.P. Lovecraft. Two very different men from very different times and different outlooks on life, yet both were deeply influential in shaping me.

324
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:41:09am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImages
325
Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:50:05am

Who knew the Russians would end up winning the Cold War after all?

//

326
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:51:02am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Kentucky residents soon may need a passport to enter Fort Knox.

The News-Enterprise of Elizabethtown reports Kentucky licenses and state-issued IDs don’t meet minimum security standards established by the 2005 Real ID Act. Fort Knox issued a statement saying that beginning Jan. 30, the post will no longer accept a license from Kentucky and eight other non-compliant states.

Most people entering the post regularly won’t be affected, as an approved U.S. military ID is an acceptable alternative.

State Rep. Jim DuPlessis is co-sponsor of House Bill 77, which would make Kentucky licenses in compliance with Real ID. The bill will not be up for consideration before Fort Knox changes its admission policy, so DuPlessis recommends frequent visitors to obtain an installation entry pass before changes go into effect.

327
Romantic Heretic  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:51:42am

re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg

Because this kind of “ministry” will totally bring people to Jesus.

*spit*

If a person tries that around me they’ll get to meet Jesus. *snarl*

328
I cannot.  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:52:49am

re: #327 Romantic Heretic

What makes you think they were ever going to get past St. Peter?

329
Romantic Heretic  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:54:28am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Fine if you have enough taxable income.

Which, thanks to Republican policies, will be an extreme rarity. You’ll either be paid too badly to pay taxes, or be too rich to pay them.

330
jaunte  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:54:57am

Digby: “An apocalyptic Islamophobic fanatic at the head of CIA will no doubt bring change to the agency.”

ReplyReply w/ Quote
331
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:58:09am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
332
jaunte  Jan 13, 2017 • 10:58:36am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

Vets: the 42% reduction in uninsured rate will be reversed.
“Thanks for your service,” say Republicans.

333
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:00:03am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

why do they always blame the poor goat?

334
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:01:11am

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

why do they always blame the poor goat?

ReplyReply w/ QuoteRetweetVideo

This is like the GOAT of all Obamacare metaphors.

335
wrenchwench  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:01:54am

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

why do they always blame the poor goat?

Just an excuse for another look.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
336
Kragar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:02:45am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
337
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:02:55am

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

why do they always blame the poor goat?

I refer back to the political cartoon someone posted yesterday of a sky jump instructor telling the student at the door of the plane in mid-flight: “this is how it works: I push you out and then I make a parachute for you.”

338
Dave In Austin  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:06:24am

...

339
Big Beautiful Door  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:07:18am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

We would have complaint IDs already, but Bevin, in his infinite wisdom, vetoed it last year.

340
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:09:54am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage

gotta free up timeslots for those Fox people moving over to MCNBC…

341
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:12:18am

re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

gotta free up timeslots for those Fox people moving over to MCNBC…

Wow, Lockup canceled. Some quality teevee we’re losing there.

342
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:13:13am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

343
De Kolta Chair  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:13:24am

re: #336 Kragar

ReplyReply w/ Quote
344
Jebediah, RBG  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:14:54am

re: #148 Myron Falwell (no relation)

Is that a portrait of you? It’s good!

345
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:15:06am

re: #342 BeachDem

[Embedded content]

[Embedded image]

Which is why it will be very important for the rest of us to support the media, even if you think it could be better.

346
jaunte  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:15:19am

re: #343 De Kolta Chair

“THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE DON”

347
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:16:46am

good grief….

ReplyReply w/ Quote
348
EPR-radar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:17:37am

re: #342 BeachDem

All very true, and the media does need to be defended against attacks from the Trumpfuhrer and his SS-wannabees.

However, this is very painful. For the most part, the media was complicit in the rise of Trump because chasing dollars is more important to them than reporting real news.

349
Barefoot Grin  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:18:19am

re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief….

[Embedded content]

“Wait, there’s a call from the Governor….”

“Oh, shit”

350
Kragar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:18:29am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
351
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:18:59am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
352
Joe Bacon  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:19:49am

re: #351 Myron Falwell (no relation)

[Embedded content]

Whodathunkit??????

353
allegro  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:20:22am

re: #349 Barefoot Grin

“Wait, there’s a call from the Governor….”

“Oh, shit”

And such a simple, cost-free, get-it-done today solution: stop the death penalty.

354
wrenchwench  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:21:00am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
355
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:21:17am

re: #341 Sir John Barron

Wow, Lockup canceled. Some quality teevee we’re losing there.

Lockup was cancelled back in September IIRC.

356
scottslemmons  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:22:25am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

First and foremost, he suggested that Acosta be banned from reporting on Trump events for 60 days “as a signal, frankly, to all the other reporters that there are going to be real limits” for proper behavior.

How you gonna ban a reporter from reporting? I doubt even Scalia would give that a pass.

But Gingrich’s recommendations went far beyond chastising Acosta. He urged Trump to stop prioritizing questions from major news outlets due to their tough coverage and confrontational attitude. Instead, he suggested that he “extend the privileges to reporters from out of town, folks that fly in from all over the country to be allowed to be at a briefing.” Those reporters, Gingrich suggested, would be “a lot more courteous” and “responsible” rather than being “adversarial.”

Honestly, it’s been my observation that the very toughest questions tend to come from small-town, non-Beltway reporters. They have more to prove, while the Beltway kids are the ones asking softball questions so they can get better access.

357
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:22:47am

re: #348 EPR-radar

All very true, and the media does need to be defended against attacks from the Trumpfuhrer and his SS-wannabees.

However, this is very painful. For the most part, the media was complicit in the rise of Trump because chasing dollars is more important to them than reporting real news.

While a lot of the tv media people were doing that, a lot of newspapers refused to endorse Trump. And Fahrenthold and Eichenwald (spelling on both?) were doing great jobs.

358
Dave In Austin  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:23:33am

Facebook Post

359
scottslemmons  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:24:57am

re: #323 Dr Lizardo

What really started me reading were collections of Peanuts comics, collected in paperback anthologies. Of course, there were a lot of words I didn’t understand, so my mom would make me take the time to go look them up in the dictionary.

Then I was about seven, I was at a garage sale and there was this old book, an anthology of “frightful and weird stories”. It was about 10 cents, IIRC. And what hooked my seven-year old imagination were the following words:

So I owe it all to Charles Schulz and H.P. Lovecraft. Two very different men from very different times and different outlooks on life, yet both were deeply influential in shaping me.

For me, it was Charles Schulz, Ray Bradbury, and the Three Investigators novels. :)

360
EPR-radar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:27:15am

re: #357 Belafon

While a lot of the tv media people were doing that, a lot of newspapers refused to endorse Trump. And Fahrenthold and Eichenwald (spelling on both?) were doing great jobs.

That’s why I had “for the most part” in my comment. Taken as a whole, though, the media coverage of this election was abominable. Derping about Clinton’s emails was usually taken to be equivalent to all of Trump’s innumerable show stoppers combined.

361
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:27:48am

re: #317 Franklin

I HATED reading when I started HS. Got sick with mono and my mom bought me The Stand. Read it in a week, all 1472 pages of it. That book is what made me a lifetime reader.

R.L. Stine and Goosebumps got me started pretty young.

362
Kragar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:31:28am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
363
wrenchwench  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:32:02am

When my older brother tired of reading the Sunday funnies to me, he taught me how to read.

364
Kragar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:32:54am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
365
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:34:46am

re: #358 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

I got some samples of treat from our pet food store last year, and one night we had friends over. We were sitting outside on the deck, and Scout was inside, going crazy because he wanted out. I went inside and gave him one of the new treats. After about 5 minutes, it got quiet inside. Too quiet. I went back inside to investigate.

There was Scout, splay-legged on the living room floor. It was only later when my wife read the ingredients that we learned we’d gotten our puppy stoned.

Haven’t been able to get those treats since, though.Too bad, they’d come in handy every so often.

366
Belafon  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:35:25am

re: #364 Kragar

So, any attachment of the prefix alt to a political leaning makes you a white supremacist.

367
De Kolta Chair  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:36:05am

Good to know Hellboy is on our side.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote
368
BeachDem  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:36:14am

re: #348 EPR-radar

All very true, and the media does need to be defended against attacks from the Trumpfuhrer and his SS-wannabees.

However, this is very painful. For the most part, the media was complicit in the rise of Trump because chasing dollars is more important to them than reporting real news.

re: #345 Belafon

Which is why it will be very important for the rest of us to support the media, even if you think it could be better.

I agree with both of these statements. I know I am particularly critical of the media when they kowtow to the yam and his minions and when they use weasel words and mbf tactics to avoid sounding partisan, but I am for fighting to keep the press free and for encouraging them to commit actual journalism.

At that “press conference,” they should have demanded that he answer Acosta’s question before moving on or they should have walked out. We need to encourage the press to do the right thing—they need to be on the front line of defending the 1st amendment.

Supporting people like Fahrenthold and Eichenberg is a start. But the profusion of slime like Conway and Gingrich and Lord and all the rest of the idiots that the msm parade out nightly, and their habit of chasing bright, shiny objects instead of actual news makes me really scared about what’s to come.

369
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:37:24am
ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage
ReplyReply w/ Quote
370
nines09  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:41:56am

Right now the coward Paul Ryan has had all his phone numbers turned off. You cannot get through on any of them. Profiles in Courage.

Paul Ryan. Please contact him. But not today. All phones are disconnected.

371
Kragar  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:43:03am
ReplyReply w/ Quote
372
Sir John Barron  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:44:41am

re: #370 nines09

Right now the coward Paul Ryan has had all his phone numbers turned off. You cannot get through on any of them. Profiles in Courage.

Paul Ryan. Please contact him. But not today. All phones are disconnected.

This post will get you a stern lecture from Sean Spicer.

//

373
Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:49:26am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Oh, for fucks sake! Draw a big circle. Label it ‘democracies’. Draw a smaller circle within it. Label it ‘republics’. Are we clear now?

374
Dr Lizardo  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:50:54am

re: #367 De Kolta Chair

Good to know Hellboy is on our side.

ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote

And that’s pretty much exactly what my boss said about Trump too - he’s a lifelong Manhattanite. “The guy’s a fuckin’ clown, a joke. If he hadn’t been born rich, he’d be a two-bit used-car salesman or something.”

375
Myron Falwell  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:51:18am

re: #344 Jebediah, RBG

Is that a portrait of you? It’s good!

HAHAHAHAHAHA it might be me on a bad day LOLOLOL

Seriously though, @betsythebeaver is a damn good artist and more than worthy of a follow. I wish I had 1/8 of her talent.

376
De Kolta Chair  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:52:20am

Is anyone really surprised that Trump’s first act as president will be to fire a black man?

377
Timothy Watson  Jan 13, 2017 • 11:53:07am

re: #373 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, for fucks sake! Draw a big circle. Label it ‘democracies’. Draw a smaller circle within it. Label it ‘republics’. Are we clear now?

Mitt Romney showed that Republicans don’t understand Venn Diagrams.

378
William Lewis  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:10:15pm

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Lady Liberty proudly displays her boobies. When are they going to put that on the money?

[Embedded content]

The first minting of the the standing liberty quarter, one of our most beautiful coins, in 1916 did. Very proud and even bares the one as she stands with a shield to defend freedom.

379
makeitstop  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:13:08pm

re: #367 De Kolta Chair

Good to know Hellboy is on our side.

[Embedded content]

I’ve come to think of him as Clay Morrow.

380
7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:15:31pm

re: #365 makeitstop

I got some samples of treat from our pet food store last year, and one night we had friends over. We were sitting outside on the deck, and Scout was inside, going crazy because he wanted out. I went inside and gave him one of the new treats. After about 5 minutes, it got quiet inside. Too quiet. I went back inside to investigate.

There was Scout, splay-legged on the living room floor. It was only later when my wife read the ingredients that we learned we’d gotten our puppy stoned.

Haven’t been able to get those treats since, though.Too bad, they’d come in handy every so often.

My cattle dog has gotten into edibles twice and now seeks them out. He did it at Thanksgiving and the following Christmas. My mother in law could not understand why he was sick two holidays in a row.

381
Big Beautiful Door  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:23:57pm

re: #371 Kragar

[Embedded content]

After spending eight years claiming Obama wasn’t legitimate, the Right will go apeshit over Lewis’ statement.

382
GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:38:07pm

re: #370 nines09

ReplyReply w/ Quote
383
Jebediah, RBG  Jan 13, 2017 • 12:40:14pm
ReplyReply w/ Quote
ReplyReply w/ Quote

ETA: And yes, he is a thorough fucking, ducking coward. Not too bright, either.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
Yesterday
Views: 78 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 250 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1