When you run the government, you can replace qualified staffers with whoever will hump your leg the hardest.
So no Muslim registry yet. President Trump please kindly add me to your enemies list as a member of the loyal opposition to your bullshit. Be sure to include a high res version of my avatar.
re: #1 Unshaken Defiance
So no Muslim registry yet. President Trump please kindly add me to your enemies list as a member of the loyal opposition to your bullshit. Be sure to include a high res version of my avatar.
May I stand next to you when we are put up against the wall? /s, maybe
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
And there it is, confirmation that Trump really did insult Australia today. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/nBbcR8AZx4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #2 Anymouse
May I stand next to you when we are put up against the wall? /s, maybe
Better idea-We’ll stand together for the struggle. Come what effing may.
I’d love to live and work in Australia. But at this point I doubt they’d have me.
And like clockwork, here come the Nazis again to defend Trump. @realDonaldTrump
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #4 Unshaken Defiance
Better idea-We’ll stand together for the struggle. Come what effing may.
There is the problem of snuffing out this pale blue dot that lives in a sea of red.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Money on the barrelhead—Trump isn’t even thinking about Australia or international relations.
He’s (1) still exercising his grudge versus Obama, (2) campaigning, (3) taking the entire issue and making it all about how awesome he is.
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
By the way - these “illegal immigrants” Trump is ranting about? They’re actually refugees. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/nBbcR8AZx4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #7 Anymouse
There is the problem of snuffing out this pale blue dot that lives in a sea of red.
Are the people in your neck of the woods still happy with their vote?
NYT also just published this, saying Kushner and Bannon were at the table when Trump made the call to move in Yemen https://t.co/OaBsrH1SrX pic.twitter.com/j8RGYXbTJ4
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) February 2, 2017
So all the experts were there.
I’m working on some new Bannon nicknames. What do y’all think of “éminence grease”?
#BREAKING Sky News sources say Donald Trump was ‘yelling’ during his phone conversation with PM Turnbull and hung up after 25 minutes pic.twitter.com/xqrebcOv84
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) February 2, 2017
re: #10 JasonA
Are the people in your neck of the woods still happy with their vote?
They are fading fast - it’s starting to become apparent to some of them they were conned.
Those that are coming to that realisation might be reachable that Mr. Trump was not the only Republican that conned them.
re: #12 jaunte
All that for some fucking cell phones that could be monitored remotely. WTF.
@nytpolitics I’ve heard the name but I’ve no clue what he did either. I challenge you intellectual snobs to recite facts without google.
— Patrick (@pstarf) February 1, 2017
RT if you’re an intellectual snob who knows who Frederick Douglass is. https://t.co/YO5Hu2RBkJ
— Myka Fox (@MykaFox) February 1, 2017
The word you’re looking for is “Debacle”https://t.co/yLxRb3A8O5
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
“U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.
As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.”
re: #16 GlutenFreeJesus
It’s just theater to Trump, but real people get killed.
re: #13 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)
I’m working on some new Bannon nicknames. What do y’all think of “éminence grease”?
I think that Baron Harkonnen might fit him better than it does trump.
Reposted from downstairs:
re: #537 ckkatz
To my mind there is much we do not know about the current regime’s final goals. And therefore why it is doing what it is doing.
I suspect that the weakening and destruction of our current organizations and beliefs are one goal. With the replacement by Regime organizations and goals. The purge at the State Dept is one example.
Meanwhile the GOP leadership apparently thinks that they can contain the Regime.
I would guess that a few stumbles are probably viewed as nothing more than acceptable casualties. As are, most likely, the thousands of deaths that these policy changes are likely to cause.
As always, ymmv. I have been wrong before. And will likely be wrong many times in the future. I certainly hope that I am wrong here.
Bannon is suicidal. He just wants to destroy everything.
The GOP rank-and-file can’t control this regime; the regime can’t control themselves. They are both malicious and stupid. But as has been shown time and time again, these types of regimes fail in nightmarish scenes. 1793 France. 1917 Russia. 1990 Romania.
The last thing I want to do is add “2017 United States” to that list.
Also, there’s nothing bizarre about a serial philandering, contract-breaking tax-cheat having a…malleable conception of loyalty.
Rumor has it Senator Fischer is considering a NO vote on DeVos. Nebraskans, this is your chance! [no phone numbers allowed] #DeVosvote
— Anna Wastell (@annawastell) February 1, 2017
Our President deciding what country to start an international incident with today. pic.twitter.com/Di835FCfSW
— Greg Tepper (@Tepper) February 2, 2017
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Specifically, many of them are the people stuck on Nauru, because the camps there (which were basically for-profit, Nauru having basically no other worth) are knownfor terrible conditions, disease, and sexual abuse.
I mean, not that the whole thing isn’t stupid, but there’s an especial level of ugly
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Just over an hour ago, the US embassy in Canberra said the White House and State Dept had assured it was a done deal. Then this. #whatafarce https://t.co/nWkpP3kjLI
— Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) February 2, 2017
re: #12 jaunte
Wait. Trump decided on this raid… OVER DINNER?
re: #12 jaunte
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So all the experts were there.
Who said it previous thread, I want to give credit.
They wanted a Bin Laden style win.
They are fucking children. Playing with our military.
The leaks are sieves. More to come I’m sure.
It’s so cool to get a text message on my iPhone from LGF. Pardon me while I humble-brag.
Australia. At some point last spring the world warned US voters they had no confidence in Trump. This disaster is home grown. pic.twitter.com/Tp5cg1uc1j
— Steve Redmond (@sjredmond) February 2, 2017
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
@pstarf @nytpolitics Intellectual snob = paying attention in 8th grade history class.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) February 2, 2017
re: #30 jaunte
Trump will suddenly have a different opinion about Pew. lol
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Jeeebus, he’s moved on to drunk dialing.
re: #22 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)
In my considerable experience with utter bastards…they’re the people that have the strongest desire for a one-sided “loyalty.”
Whereas any whim they feel about another person justifies betrayal.
re: #30 jaunte
Ukraine couldn’t be reached for the poll…
Rob Portman of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska have not committed to vote for Betsy DeVos yet. If you live in their state, call them! pic.twitter.com/htvjpMumsl
— New York Mama (@NYCMama2) February 2, 2017
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Senator Deb Fischer’s mailbox is full (I just called).
I’m originally from Michigan. I would have left a message noting the DeVos family’s half-century crusade against public education, and how politicians in my adopted state of Nebraska repeatedly cite the state’s proud history of supporting public education.
Well, I can’t add a phone call to the cause, but I can hope that mailbox is stuffed with outraged Nebraskan messages.
The Nation (Sarah Posner, who really knows her religious stuff) has a copy of the leaked draft of Trump’s “religious freedom” order.
It’s insanely broad.
If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity.
Includes grainy pictures of the thing.
This is a Simpsons episode, isn’t it?
How will Homer get us out of this mess?— John Aziz 🖖🏼 (@azizonomics) February 2, 2017
I used to get spam from PA’s Senator Toomey because someone somewhere decided I was a woman in Western PA with the same first initial and last name. I always just deleted them. Now, when I’d like to give him an earful, I’m not getting his spam.
I wonder why he isn’t inviting lots of random people to email him at the moment?
/
For those of you who aren’t keeping track, the religious faction that Donald Trump is being super-cozy with are of the Dominionist stripe, as seen by his nominations of DeVos and Gorsuch.
This group has a specific end-game when it comes to political influence - and is stated as such by one of their founders:
First, he came for Australia, and I said nothing, because I was so confused
— Alena Smith (@internetalena) February 2, 2017
re: #42 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
For those of you who aren’t keeping track, the religious faction that Donald Trump is being super-cozy with are of the Dominionist stripe, as seen by his nominations of DeVos and Gorsuch.
This group has a specific end-game when it comes to political influence - and is stated as such by one of their founders:
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Yeah, I’d like to kick George Grant in the ‘nads.
re: #12 jaunte
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So all the experts were there.
These dangerous dumbasses could easily lose a war. Nothing but scores of wasted American lives for no purpose other than to inflate Trump’s ego.
re: #20 HypnoToad
I think that Baron Harkonnen might fit him better than it does trump.
The spite must flow!
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mailbox full
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re: #42 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Hmph. If God’s word were truly supreme, and God so almighty, then how come the entire world isn’t already under the dominion of Christians?
US could resettle zero refugees from Manus and Nauru and still ‘honour’ deal
The secretary of Australia’s immigration department, Mike Pezzullo, told a Senate inquiry in November the number of refugees resettled was up to the US to determine, and there was no “numerical” commitment.
“There is, within the arrangement that we have struck, an agreement that all the persons who fall within the definition can express an interest. Then the American government will decide, once they have reviewed the cases, how many people they will take. So it is a process-driven arrangement rather than a numerical arrangement.”
I am shocked—shocked—to discover that Trump has misrepresented the agreement with Australia.
re: #42 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
But SHARIA!!!!!!
Please. PLEASE. Some reporter that has access to Trump. Ask him if he’d be willing to set up a meeting with Frederick Douglass to work out race relations!
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
One more point— shouldn’t Trump have ‘studied this dumb deal’ *before* he spoke with Australia’s PM? https://t.co/btHomyYgoo
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 2, 2017
I don’t want to hear shit from the right about the next president having to go on an apology tour.
Assuming we have another one.
BREAKING: Leaked Draft Of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination https://t.co/lDbNr8Bzg6
— The Nation (@thenation) February 2, 2017
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you’re into long-distance calling of course:
If Portmans line is busy, here are all of his numbers:
Cbus:[no phone numbers allowed]
Cincy:[no phone numbers allowed]
CLE:[no phone numbers allowed]
Toledo:[no phone numbers allowed]— sportsyelling. (@sportsyelling) January 31, 2017
Aren’t we now living under a kakistocracy with no end in sight?
Triple word score pic.twitter.com/AcWdrIBS26
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) February 2, 2017
Man. In which Frank Gaffney, whose connections to the Trump Administration run deep, compares Muslims to termites: https://t.co/W5BGWXvsYG pic.twitter.com/04kmNGZSOv
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 2, 2017
re: #45 Myron Falwell
These dangerous dumbasses could easily lose a war. Nothing but scores of wasted American lives for no purpose other than to inflate Trump’s ego.
And the lives of whatever hapless nation’s citizens they choose by throwing darts at a world map.
Lichtenstein? San Marino? Why not a two-front war!! Take their oil!
re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter
Aren’t we now living under a kakistocracy with no end in sight?
This is worse than a kakistocracy. This is a malignant-dumbassocracy.
re: #53 JasonA
I don’t want to hear shit from the right about the next president having to go on an apology tour.
Assuming we have another one.
Sure we’ll have another President — Donald Trump Jr. Or, perhaps Mike Pence in April
re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter
Aren’t we now living under a kakistocracy with no end in sight?
+1 just cause I had to look that word up.
re: #28 Stanley Sea
Who said it previous thread, I want to give credit.
They wanted a Bin Laden style win.
They are fucking children. Playing with our military.
The leaks are sieves. More to come I’m sure.
I swear to Zod that a nontrivial portion of the bullshit we now find ourselves hip deep in is due to Republicans looking at the Obama presidency and thinking “well shit, if that fucking niCLANG can do it, this presidenting stuff must be easier than people say”.
Things were relatively peaceful when I left for dinner. I’ve returned to discover we declared war on Australia.
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) February 2, 2017
Homeland Security chief wants to complete border wall with Mexico in two years https://t.co/51AA8NgI8G pic.twitter.com/Ib8JOpMkTC
— The Hill (@thehill) February 2, 2017
He obviously has no idea how construction projects work in Texas https://t.co/7gYE2dSb0M
— Missandrei (@OHTheMaryD) February 2, 2017
That fucking exit south of Waco after the Brookshire’s has been fucked up since before I was in grad school https://t.co/N2cy1INvIm
— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) February 2, 2017
re: #66 FormerDirtDart
Maybe he likes Jon Stewart’s idea.
Why is this not trending yet??? pic.twitter.com/cJwoTMfPCX
— WSHH MUSIC (@WSHHMUSlC) February 2, 2017
TONIGHT ON GRANDPA’S YELLING AGAIN, WE PRETEND THE LAST 8 YEARS INCLUDING A SEX HARASSMENT CHARGE AGAINST ME FOX JUST SETTLED DIDN’T HAPPEN pic.twitter.com/o0IFq1yJjl
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 2, 2017
Trump declares war on Australia.
He can’t even get annexing the Sudetenland right.#ResistTrump— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
Someone on the Reason Omaha Yahoo group snarked just now that we could make China dismantle their wall and make Mexico pay for it.
re: #18 Kragar
When they say “without sufficient intelligence,” they’re talking about Trump.
“It was at the end of a long day & he was tired & fatigue was setting in.”
CNN on White House’s response to Trump’s hanging up on Aussie PM.— Karen DaltonBeninato (@kbeninato) February 2, 2017
Wait, so the WH is admitting @realDonaldTrump is physically unable to handle the stress of the job? https://t.co/QjbimWa9ub
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 2, 2017
Trump aide Sebastian Gorka says on NPR that Bannon’s experience crushing “left-wing rivals” on Breitbart partially qualifies him for NSC: pic.twitter.com/ZOK6e2TK4a
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 2, 2017
Well shit. Broken clock time for Baby Whiplash.
Two possibilities:
1. It’s true, and horrifying.
2. It’s the intel/defense community destroying Trump. pic.twitter.com/dQl69drI2X— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 2, 2017
Both are possible. https://t.co/Ojs8v3quTJ
— Karoli (@Karoli) February 2, 2017
@Karoli @benshapiro and not necessarily mutually exclusive.
— nadinevanderVelde (@nadinevdVelde) February 2, 2017
re: #68 jaunte
Univision is an American company…
re: #74 JasonA
That’s like me getting on SEAL Team Six because of my Overwatch skills.
re: #76 FormerDirtDart
“Sounds like a buncha furriners!”
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
You should have read up on the history of our relationship with Australia before you made the call. And read a book. You sound stupid. https://t.co/yxwHaMFZV0
— Jeffrey Campagna (@JeffreyCampagna) February 2, 2017
re: #77 JasonA
That’s like me getting on SEAL Team Six because of my Overwatch skills.
I was in the Navy and would not have qualified for the SEALs. And I know what the SEALs do; why is NPR allowing such crap on their network?
Here are six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out life on Earth: https://t.co/XVsLBph1cn pic.twitter.com/woTpo6h0eh
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 2, 2017
finally, some good news tonight https://t.co/abt2IXHzH9
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 2, 2017
re: #74 JasonA
“cruishing left-wing rivals…”
Breitbart is propped up by billionaire Robert Mercer.
But Sebastian Gorka is so mentally ill that he believes such tripe.
THIS JUST IN: DHS Inspector General to review roll out of Trump immigration executive order pic.twitter.com/naULp0v457
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 2, 2017
OMG. Everyone has to watch the video at the link. BRUH!!!!
Governor of Chicago? Rauner? lol (Rahm Emmanuel is Chicago’s MAYOR)…
But that’s not the best part!
Trump’s Justice Department going stop investigations and prosecution of white supremacists groups and individuals like Dylann Roof. Focus all resources on muslims.
mobile.reuters.com
Also, Aussies know that hand/whistle trick to move livestock off the road. The invasion force must know this TTP in the upcoming US-AUS war
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) February 2, 2017
i dont want to fight a people raised in a country whose flora and fauna has tried since birth to kill them https://t.co/5hKya1O549
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) February 2, 2017
re: #81 JasonA
Hang on is that a civil war uniform? From a movie… Who wears that hat?!
re: #85 Anymouse
Nope. They’re ignoring us. They don’t care.
I called Ratcliffe yesterday and told him he needed to tell Trump to obey the courts, even if he thinks they are wrong, because it’s required in our system. I got an email reply, though I didn’t read it.
re: #84 Kragar
We know that whenever a Republican attacks a Democrat, it’s projecting their own problems on someone else. So Trump and his aides know that he is physically and mentally unfit for this office. And, as someone downstairs suggested, perhaps he is sundowning. A scary thought about a person with access to nuclear weapons.
ETA: They attacked Clinton for being unhealthy to divert attentions from Trump’s health
So when are the committee hearings for the botched operation in Yemen?
Donald Trump is already getting people killed with his lack of knowledge and egomania. https://t.co/eCcL5H8svd pic.twitter.com/un5qt0SiRA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #90 DodgerFan1988
Trump’s Justice Department going stop investigations and prosecution of white supremacists groups and individuals like Dylann Roof. Focus all resources on muslims.
mobile.reuters.com
Damn the hits just keep coming. It’s a blitzkrieg.
re: #92 Unshaken Defiance
Hang on is that a civil war uniform? From a movie… Who wears that hat?!
Fake news. It’s the end of a long day and I’m tired and fatigue is setting in…
re: #81 JasonA
Fake picture. It’s a still from a movie.
re: #81 JasonA
As bad as that picture is, it’s not real.
@jlina @DJCPI No, this is a still image from the film “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”. Here’s the original. pic.twitter.com/j97lsmefW9
— KB (@sorrykb) February 2, 2017
One of my Twitter friends @Tonya_Song has been tirelessly trying to update ppl regarding the DAPL fiasco. 50 people were arrested and will legitimately need legal defense, but the protest camps weren’t burned down. YET.
re: #99 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Fake picture. It’s a still from a movie.
I took another look. Deleted it.
re: #97 Unshaken Defiance
Damn the hits just keep coming. It’s a blitzkrieg.
That is likely the idea: Overwhelm opposition with a mountain of bullshit.
re: #97 Unshaken Defiance
Damn the hits just keep coming. It’s a blitzkrieg.
Why would his Justice Department investigate his base?
I was out most of the day, and came back to find out that the President threw a tantrum at the Prime Minister of Australia and hung up on him mid-call.
Where can I go to escape from it all?
I for one welcome our new Australian Overlords. pic.twitter.com/ObMxVn5HCJ
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
Raid that killed 8 yr old American girl & a Navy Seal? Pres. Obama vetoed due to bad intelligence. Trump gave the okhttps://t.co/oF9aDltcpJ
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) February 2, 2017
re: #97 Unshaken Defiance
They have the element of surprise until we get mobilized.
New book “Why Trump Deserves Trust, Respect & Admiration” has nothing but 206 blank pageshttps://t.co/WH44CrXbrm pic.twitter.com/yqHX3Z6MUi
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 2, 2017
The Elders of Zion would like to apologize for this absurd feud with Australia. We were out of ideas.
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 2, 2017
re: #106 Kragar
I will sell out my country for a Doof Wagon.
On Earth 2 right now they’re debating the legality of Hillary Clinton’s executive order waiving licensing fees for taco trucks.
— Glenn Mann (@yourdamnnews) January 31, 2017
Raid that killed 8 yr old American girl & a Navy Seal? Pres. Obama vetoed due to bad intelligence. Trump gave the okhttps://t.co/oF9aDltcpJ
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) February 2, 2017
The intelligence was not good. Not ready for a raid. https://t.co/ccqq5m9h4c
— Patrick Thornton (@pwthornton) February 2, 2017
Look, he knows more than the generals, ok? https://t.co/KtCvmHrrHz
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) February 2, 2017
re: #103 JasonA
It’s all good. I’ve fallen for stuff before, as have everyone else.
I know it’s Shaun King, but he has links to legal defense funds for the DAPL protesters:
URGENT :: Here are 5 Standing Rock Legal Defense Funds that you can support to stop the Dakota Access Pipelinehttps://t.co/QVOR70fuvS
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) January 25, 2017
Reminder, 50 were arrested today. They need your help. https://t.co/OdGKwfMK2i
— Tonya’s Revenge (@Tonya_Song) February 2, 2017
The twitterati need to keep humiliating Trump, not necessarily because he might read that (although that’s a plus), but because his followers and supporters will read it.
Things like that spider picture above are just the right sort of satire and humiliation of their God-Emperor.
re: #116 Anymouse
I guarantee you he reads all of it.
re: #114 JasonA
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I think the sentiment expressed downstairs is exactly right, he wanted an OBL-style raid victory that he could parade around. “See, this presidentin’ stuff ain’t so hard! I sent in Seal Team 6 and they brought me back all this intel! Obama shied away from killing these terrorists but I gave the go-ahead and it went off without a hitch!” You can tell because of the effort and lengths they’re going to sweep it under the rug.
#BREAKING San Francisco Police Department suspends participation with FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. https://t.co/PMSdAvjavG
— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) February 2, 2017
Following pressure by civil rights groups, this happened. https://t.co/gDKgQmpUc9
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) February 2, 2017
So I managed to knock a dish out of the cupboard and it broke into two main pieces and not that many more, but I then managed to find one of the not many more with my foot.
Got to play the “extract porcelain from the bottom of my foot” game. Stupid sliver was maybe 3/16” long.
Democrats should tread carefully with obstructionism. Republicans did it for eight years and only ended up controlling everything.
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) February 1, 2017
#miloprotest
Antifa scum maced us. Wer’e trapped in the bathroom pic.twitter.com/rmeTB8zaei— janey (@janeygak) February 2, 2017
“BEING NAZIS IS HARD!” https://t.co/GPOmndQE6w
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
“We were just going to talk about sterilizing blacks and make fun of jews! We never expected this!”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
re: #120 Targetpractice
I think the sentiment expressed downstairs is exactly right, he wanted an OBL-style raid victory that he could parade around. “See, this presidentin’ stuff ain’t so hard! I sent in Seal Team 6 and they brought me back all this intel! Obama shied away from killing these terrorists but I gave the go-ahead and it went off without a hitch!” You can tell because of the effort and lengths they’re going to sweep it under the rug.
So is it time for the House to launch 7 investigations into what happened here?
Meanwhile in Wingnut field, Jim Bakker (ex-con and Felon) says women in the March on Washington were possessed by demons, and that they need people at the next protest that springs up to pray for casting out demons in those protesters.
Yes, Jim Bakker is still a thing, and is back on the Wingnut Welfare circuit grifting Evangelicals again.
Wonkette’s non-commentariat defenestrates him with snark.
I learned tonight that my second cousin was one of the Navy SEALs injured in the operation in Yemen that President Trump authorized.
His parents were told that his injuries are NOT life threatening. He should be just fine.
The family of another SEAL did not get such good news.
Things are not totally clear, but it seems like at least 13 others are dead, possibly including a young girl who is a US citizen.
As reported at the link above and elsewhere, this operation was considered but rejected under the previous administration.
Unfortunately, it is possible that I will grow weary of saying FUCK YOU to those on the left who thought we’d be better off with Trump over Hillary on foreign policy.
However, that time has not yet arrived.
FUCK YOU.
re: #118 Ace Rothstein
I guarantee you he reads all of it.
Good. He can’t take criticism, and with hits coming from all directions he might fall apart.
Assuming Mike Pence were to become President or Acting President (and is not linked to the Trump/Russia scandal), he might be a disaster but he won’t destroy the country physicially, and would likely clean out that den of Nazis and replace them with others who are on the normal scale of wingnut.
re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)
So I managed to knock a dish out of the cupboard and it broke into two main pieces and not that many more, but I then managed to find one of the not many more with my foot.
Got to play the “extract porcelain from the bottom of my foot” game. Stupid sliver was maybe 3/16” long.
Ouch! Sounds painful!
When I break stuff on a linoleum or tile floor, I have found that laying a lit flashlight on the floor helps me to find slivers.
From NY Times -> the mission “was compromised” but went ahead anyway https://t.co/3iPXrGNEnn pic.twitter.com/3dhwFyaFtP
— Jimmy Rushmore (@JimmyRushmore) February 2, 2017
It gets even worse.
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re: #129 bratwurst
Please keep us posted re: your cousin… And if you’re ever able to get word to him, please thank him. From all of us here.
New book “Why Trump Deserves Trust, Respect & Admiration” has nothing but 206 blank pageshttps://t.co/WH44CrXbrm pic.twitter.com/yqHX3Z6MUi
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 2, 2017
He’s got the greatest blank pages; the best, most luxurious blank pages… you’ll get tired of seeing all of the blank pages! https://t.co/qFQVjv6Ey6
— Nathan Obral ✏️😸🖌 (@myronfalwell) February 2, 2017
Questions Cloud Risky Raid That Killed an American Commando in Yemen by @EricSchmittNYT and @SangerNYT https://t.co/CoXcTcXb1h
— Scott Shane (@ScottShaneNYT) February 2, 2017
His bone spurs, acting up, Trump fought through the excruciating pain and ordered the SEAL to his death. https://t.co/9FdasLapoW
— Gargoyle (@Patztense) February 2, 2017
re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
So is it time for the House to launch 7 investigations into what happened here?
Of course not. After all, a Navy Seal died, it’s not like an ambassador is dead.
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I should add to my earlier assessment that it was not only an effort to “get one over” on Obama for having made fun of him as the OBL raid was going on, but I’d also hazard a guess that Bannon or Kushner pushed him to approve the raid in the hopes that a win would give him something to take the country’s attention off how big of a fuck-up he’s been domestically. Instead, all it’s done is further highlight just how out of his depth he is.
re: #131 ckkatz
Ouch! Sounds painful!
When I break stuff on a linoleum or tile floor, I have found that laying a lit flashlight on the floor helps me to find slivers.
but bare feet is a guaranteed way to find them… for days to come, in fact…
I made a map of countries that President Trump has angered in his first two weeks. It’s probably not comprehensive. pic.twitter.com/f42wCG3INe
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) February 2, 2017
Yes, as long as you’re a complete idiot, they sound exactly the same https://t.co/z7hCDKNPR6
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
but bare feet is a guaranteed way to find them… for days to come, in fact…
Very True!
re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter
Why would his Justice Department investigate his base?
One would hope out of a loyalty to our ways over Orange Cheeto. IT’S NOT HIS justice Department. It’s ours.
re: #132 jaunte
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It gets even worse.
So they knew the mission was FUBAR but they pressed ahead anyway. Was that a decision made by the SEALs or one made in Washington. Because if the latter, then somebody’s head should be rolling over this.
@janeygak BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/Y0ytN672Ry
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) February 2, 2017
“It was at the end of a long day & he was tired & fatigue was setting in.”
CNN on White House’s response to Trump’s hanging up on Aussie PM.— Karen DaltonBeninato (@kbeninato) February 2, 2017
It’s a good thing no one tried to make a big campaign issue over who had the most stamina https://t.co/l2n06aYZPH
— Scott Madin (@ScottMadin) February 2, 2017
Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S. Policy-Making https://t.co/Bj6hs8uKnO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
You can bet every single Benghazi motherfucker on Facebook is gonna get his nose rubbed in this shitpile of a failed mission.
In better news, UC Berkley shut down Milo tonight. Good on them.
Are people really supposed to be insulted over being called “Antifas?”
I mean, I kinda take pride in being anti-fascist. Am I missing something?
re: #134 GlutenFreeJesus
Please keep us posted re: your cousin… And if you’re ever able to get word to him, please thank him. From all of us here.
To best honest, only ever met him once since he was a child. I have known his dad my whole life, he is like 12 years older than myself. He and his wife got the news something VERY bad was happening this time last night, do not imagine either of them slept a wink.
re: #126 Kragar
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You’ve got to work especially hard to mispunctuate “we’re” THAT badly.
That alone merits a face punch, IMO.
re: #135 Moebym
Crying for the poor, put-upon little wannabe Nazis.
Crying from laughter.
And when folk talk about “punching Nazis” remember both Richard Spencer and these hapless fools. They make themselves look ridiculous - we’re just helping them along.
#BREAKING San Francisco Police Department suspends participation with FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. https://t.co/PMSdAvjavG
— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) February 2, 2017
re: #119 JasonA
And I’ll keep apologizing, goddammit.
Sorry, I’m so behind on the thread. I saw that you got it.
I’ll live, we’ll all live from misguided tweets.
Other shit? Who the fuck knows.
:)
re: #149 JasonA
Are people really supposed to be insulted over being called “Antifas?”
I mean, I kinda take pride in being anti-fascist. Am I missing something?
Their organization is called Antifa. I’m thinking they’re actually pretty proud of it.
re: #131 ckkatz
Ouch! Sounds painful!
When I break stuff on a linoleum or tile floor, I have found that laying a lit flashlight on the floor helps me to find slivers.
The anti-bacterial stings. I’d swept afterwards, but clearly not well enough.
Sigh.
But these worries are small compared to the news some have had tonight. Hoping that the recovery is swift and smooth, bratwurst.
re: #155 makeitstop
Their organization is called Antifa. I’m thinking they’re actually pretty proud of it.
Ohhh. I didn’t know it was the name of an actual group.
re: #157 JasonA
Anti-Fascist Network
antifascistnetwork.org
Left wing media? LOL pic.twitter.com/xDc7ejeK7M
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 31, 2017
re: #155 makeitstop
Their organization is called Antifa. I’m thinking they’re actually pretty proud of it.
re: #157 JasonA
Ohhh. I didn’t know it was the name of an actual group.
Antifascistic action. Very anarchistic group. Can also be typed anti-fa.
May not be confused with anti-antifa, which is the reich wingers counter to antifa.
re: #73 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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My dad is in his late 60s, just a few years shy of Trump’s age. He still puts in a full day’s work at the office and typically comes home and works on home improvement projects or goes for a several-mile bike ride.
LOW ENERGY.
It’s The Daily Mail, so there is that…
well then https://t.co/OwX9hM8QFF
— Becca Laurie, PI (@imbeccable) February 2, 2017
re: #157 JasonA
Ohhh. I didn’t know it was the name of an actual group.
Yeah, some musician friends have started a Long Island chapter, an offshoot of NYC Antifa. I think I’ll throw down some support money. These LI punks are some of the most stand up people I’ve ever met. Gives me hope for the future.
re: #132 jaunte
This raid should have never happened.
I wonder what Chuck Todd thinks about Trump’s actions w/r/t the raid in Yemen. I mean, he didn’t like his presidential candidates “overprepared”, so he must be pleased.
re: #126 Kragar
Aww. Betcha they did Nazi that coming.
re: #162 A wild WITHAK appeared!
My dad is in his late 60s, just a few years shy of Trump’s age. He still puts in a full day’s work at the office and typically comes home and works on home improvement projects or goes for a several-mile bike ride.
LOW ENERGY.
So one of those guys who makes others of us - okay me - feel like lazy slugs. (looking at an ever-growing pile of laundry that I wake up to every morning and go, naw, I’ll do it tomorrow)
So the WH, apparently unaware of EU law re trade negotiations, has contacted indiv member states to negotiate bilateral deals? SMH pic.twitter.com/yNfF3fr1OK
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) February 1, 2017
re: #168 allegro
So one of those guys who makes others of us - okay me - feel like lazy slugs. (looking at an ever-growing pile of laundry that I wake up to every morning and go, naw, I’ll do it tomorrow)
I was good and did the non-workout-clothes load today.
re: #168 allegro
So one of those guys who makes others of us - okay me - feel like lazy slugs. (looking at an ever-growing pile of laundry that I wake up to every morning and go, naw, I’ll do it tomorrow)
Don’t get me wrong, my dad can be lazy with the best of ‘em, but I’m glad I inherited his work ethic.
re: #145 Scottish Dragon
@nbcbayarea @janeygak You are literally asking Nazis to stay safe.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) February 2, 2017
Trump is insane. We have proof now. He needs to be removed from office. Peacefully, one hopes. @GOP, you know what you have to do — do it.
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 2, 2017
From a very conservative international-security guy. https://t.co/GYCkV6JkI7
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) February 2, 2017
re: #170 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I was good and did the non-workout-clothes load today.
I washed my shiny new car. So there’s that.
re: #126 Kragar
@janeygak pic.twitter.com/bU6FWOEag8
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #13 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)
Yes!
[WAR ROOM]
Trump: Should we launch the Yemen raid?
Mattis: No
Bannon: Yes
Chuck Johnson: Yes
Trump: That’s 2-1 in favor LET’S ROLL— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) February 2, 2017
re: #163 JasonA
Oh he was just a young spirited college aged boy back then!
So ‘splain this to me… who is in charge of actually planning these raids and is our ire being misplaced? So yeah, we know Trump et al are fools and shouldn’t be in charge of kindergarten pudding snacks, but someone put forth this plan and apparently more than once if Obama rejected it.
Mr. Johnson here noted only a couple days ago that Twitter was going to do something about people using their platform to promote extremism and violence, and predicted Twitter would do nothing.
How many people have reported those two butthurt Nazis? After getting maced, getting booted from Twitter (if Twitter is serious) would just add more butthurt.
re: #158 FormerDirtDart
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@jasoninthehouse Bruh. The Yemen raid. When do the investigations start?
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) February 2, 2017
re: #180 HappyWarrior
Getting in a fight with Australia? SMDH.
We’re picking a fight with the men who survived to maturity on an island nation where everything is constantly trying to kill them.
We’re fucked!
re: #186 Targetpractice
We’re picking a fight with the men who survived to maturity on an island nation where everything is constantly trying to kill them.
We’re fucked!
I can’t believe we’re only two weeks into this shit storm. I picked a good time to start drinking more again.
re: #133 Unshaken Defiance
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re: #168 allegro
So one of those guys who makes others of us - okay me - feel like lazy slugs. (looking at an ever-growing pile of laundry that I wake up to every morning and go, naw, I’ll do it tomorrow)
You and me both. I need my cleaning lady to come so I can get my shit together.
re: #185 GlutenFreeJesus
@jasoninthehouse Bruh. The Yemen raid. When do the investigations start?
The thing is, you know that any hearing/investigation about the Yemen raid by Congress would focus on identifying the leakers, and punishing them
This girl..is a dumbass but getting pepper-sprayed for just standing there with a MAGA hat after giving props to peaceful protesters is fucking gross and so are the other vids of people getting beaten with flag poles and I wish people here were not cheerleading this shit just because it’s anti-Milo, anti-Trump.
My friend was giving an interview when some coward peppersprayed her #Berkeley pic.twitter.com/CDpEqDsw2A
— janey (@janeygak) February 2, 2017
re: #191 DuckDharma
This girl..is a dumbass but getting pepper-sprayed for just standing there with a MAGA hat after giving props to peaceful protesters is fucking gross and so are the other vids of people getting beaten with flag poles and I wish people here were not cheerleading this shit just because it’s anti-Milo, anti-Trump.
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They want that. I have little sympathy.
I made a map of countries that President Trump has angered in his first two weeks. It’s probably not comprehensive. pic.twitter.com/f42wCG3INe
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) February 2, 2017
You forgot America. https://t.co/txBdVpJBfX
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) February 2, 2017
re: #188 William Lewis
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re: #191 DuckDharma
She chose to stand with the enemy. I have no sympathy.
re: #189 Stanley Sea
You and me both. I need my cleaning lady to come so I can get my shit together.
My cleaning lady got busted for selling grass and got thrown outa the park. True story. LOL (but she still gets me great herb)
re: #191 DuckDharma
This girl..is a dumbass but getting pepper-sprayed for just standing there with a MAGA hat after giving props to peaceful protesters is fucking gross and so are the other vids of people getting beaten with flag poles and I wish people here were not cheerleading this shit just because it’s anti-Milo, anti-Trump.
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She wasn’t pepper-sprayed or maced, fully dressed, the photo shows her standing in a bathroom (of the opposite sex) with cops, not rinsing off her face in water. She’s lying for support from her special snowflake friends.
Nazis stand for genocide. In the Seventies the National Alliance was one of the most dangerous groups ever spawned in the USA.
Nope. I will defend myself from Nazis, as they want me dead. I would hope when it comes to it you will defend me to rather than a “magic balance fairy let’s get along” argument.
They. Want. Genocide. (and apparently sympathy for it)
Pacifism does not mean ignoring defending someone.
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re: #116 Anymouse
The twitterati need to keep humiliating Trump, not necessarily because he might read that (although that’s a plus), but because his followers and supporters will read it.
Let’s not forget to go after liar extraordinare Kelly Ann Conway, too.
re: #197 Anymouse
The girl in Duck’s post is different than those two Nazis further up.
re: #197 Anymouse
Look who didn’t watch the video. Also, I don’t think those girls are “Nazis” from looking at their social media.
re: #196 allegro
My cleaning lady got busted for selling grass and got thrown outa the park. True story. LOL (but she still gets me great herb)
Double whammy!
Would you invite a pedophile to come speak about his beliefs?
No.
So why would you invite a fucking Nazi to do so?— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 2, 2017
re: #197 Anymouse
You are talking about a different video.
re: #203 GlutenFreeJesus
Correct, but they were there together.
(spit)
nytimes.com
In an opinion piece at the New York Times, Robert S. Young (who says he is a coastal geologist) says a Science March is a bad idea, because it would make science look political to wingnuts.
Dude: Lead, follow, or get out of the way, but “why can’t we get along” is not going to work with “Burn him, he’s a witch.”
You are the enemy, they politicised it not you. You are a climate change researcher. It is projection with conservatives, always.
I am a coastal geologist. I direct a center where our mission is to conduct scientific research and then communicate that science to elected officials, regulators, even private entities and the public. There is no question that the proposed March for Science will make my job more difficult and increase polarization.
Please understand, I don’t shy away from openly presenting the facts about the changing climate and rising seas. But I’ve learned that doing so is not without risk.
So you’re an intelligent educated idiot. Ask Galileo about “risk.” You’re whinging about what, funding? They’re going to take that anyway. Censorship? They’re already doing that. Your job? Damn it, man you study sea level rise (or so you claim).
But, but my job!!! Can’t we all get along!!!
Don’t worry, we high school educated protesters out here will defend your right to academic freedom and the right to publish your work, even if you just want to say “hit me again that felt good.”
Uh, wow. Reuters has US officials talking about that botched raid in Yemen https://t.co/SsShsbJEhF pic.twitter.com/iREnSiBW5O
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) February 2, 2017
Confirms what many were whispering: the mission itself was ill advised. Trump was unready, and seemed to say yes only b/c Obama had said no. https://t.co/GG62TCA1AX
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) February 2, 2017
re: #204 DuckDharma
Look who didn’t watch the video. Also, I don’t think those girls are “Nazis” from looking at their social media.
I didn’t watch the video. I clicked on the link to the Twitter feed where Kragar and others are mocking them relentlessly.
re: #209 Anymouse
Please understand, I don’t shy away from openly presenting the facts about the changing climate and rising seas. But I’ve learned that doing so is not without risk.
That’s why. There should never be risk involved in sharing research findings and facts. That there is, by his own admission, is his answer.
re: #211 FormerDirtDart
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I checked over at FR and the Freepers are absolutely aghast at how badly Trump botched this whole thing and want his head for the death of the SEAL and…and…
Sorry, I’m just joshin’ ya, they’re making excuses and think any “officials” who are speaking anonymously are lying their asses off to make Trump look bad.
re: #214 Targetpractice
I checked over at FR and the Freepers are absolutely aghast at how badly Trump botched this whole thing and want his head for the death of the SEAL and…and…
Sorry, I’m just joshin’ ya, they’re making excuses and think any “officials” who are speaking anonymously are lying their asses off to make Trump look bad.
Because he learned his lesson about firing Sally Yates after she spoke out publicly.
According to folk like them, she should have simply resigned.
Like projection, conservatives also want everything both ways.
re: #210 Moebym
This is what too many people don’t get:
Everything is political. Everything.
A FB friend posted a comment pleading with people to quit being political and hostile and just be nice to each other. She seems to want FB to be a safe place where people share happy thoughts and family pictures, and avoid all conflict.
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
A FB friend posted a comment pleading with people to quit being political and hostile and just be nice to each other. She seems to want FB to be a safe place where people share happy thoughts and family pictures, and avoid all conflict.
Let me guess, she voted Trump and is now trying to get people to forget about it.
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
A FB friend posted a comment pleading with people to quit being political and hostile and just be nice to each other. She seems to want FB to be a safe place where people share happy thoughts and family pictures, and avoid all conflict.
I had an acquaintance post up “I’m bored with this political crap. Trump won. Get over it.”
I replied with:
“Trump didn’t win. We’ve all lost.”
Way more likes than her original post. lol
I suppose if she is so upset about politics on Faceplant, she could make her page private and invitation only. Then she only has to listen to the political opinions she agrees with.
Ex-secretaries of State Albright and Rice condemn Trump’s “ill-considered” immigration order https://t.co/xLlkZDKp3j pic.twitter.com/iHsq4gkfcL
— The Hill (@thehill) February 2, 2017
These bipartisan alliances of former USG officials (Rice-Albright, Eisen-Painter, etc) are proving to be an incredibly powerful force. https://t.co/F9HO8azkJS
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 2, 2017
It also advances a strong framing of “It’s not Trump v. Liberals, it’s Trump v. People who know what they’re talking about.”
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 2, 2017
re: #217 Targetpractice
Let me guess, she voted Trump and is now trying to get people to forget about it.
I don’t think that’s it. The Trump voters I know are still aggressive in defending him and talking about how Presidential he is and how proud they are of his performance. I have some friends who really try to avoid anything political — including voting — and she seems to be one of those.
FOX News Channel continuing to spread the derp that California’s voter system is subject to “voter fraud”:
Experts: California voter registration system ‘highly susceptible’ to fraud https://t.co/7mGiGzG5rH pic.twitter.com/fHX1LWmlSX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 2, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP-controlled House passes measure to scuttle Obama regulation protecting streams from coal mining debris.
— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) February 1, 2017
Tell me again about your protest vote for Jill Stein, I fucking love that story. https://t.co/gXspQWxVIg
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 1, 2017
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t think that’s it. The Trump voters I know are still aggressive in defending him and talking about how Presidential he is and how proud they are of his performance. I have some friends who really try to avoid anything political — including voting — and she seems to be one of those.
I’ve noticed that while wingnuts are still hardcore Trump, more and more the “Well, he’s better than Hillary” crowd are quickly beginning to give into the buyer’s remorse.
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
I have some friends who really try to avoid anything political — including voting
It must be nice to avoid the consequences of elections by not voting.
What do you mean it doesn’t work that way?
(/s, by the way)
Amid cry of ‘traitors,’ Council makes Cincinnati a sanctuary city.https://t.co/Xhv1ABRkP6 pic.twitter.com/uAyyQnmfJr
— Carolyn Cerbin (@carolyncerbin) February 2, 2017
At least, Mike Pence would only start wars that he meant to start.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 2, 2017
re: #225 Moebym
It must be nice to avoid the consequences of elections by not voting.
What do you mean it doesn’t work that way?
(/s, by the way)
My mother never voted in her life before this election. She would have crawled over ground glass with a broken arm to vote against Mark Kirk and Donald Trump.
As a veteran she felt it was her duty to stay neutral in elections, even after she was long out of the military.
Trump came along and she changed her mind right quick.
re: #223 Anymouse
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I think we have to stop and remember that current circumstances are actually acceptable to a lot of Bros, because they’re convinced that this will aid the “revolution,” that anger against Trump will magically sweep in a Bernie-style socialist in 2020 and give him the Congress he needs to pass their entire wishlist.
re: #229 Targetpractice
I think we have to stop and remember that current circumstances are actually acceptable to a lot of Bros, because they’re convinced that this will aid the “revolution,” that anger against Trump will magically sweep in a Bernie-style socialist in 2020 and give him the Congress he needs to pass their entire wishlist.
First they came for the socialists… . Yeah, no. Such people are engaged in magical thinking. To move toward a more socialist system (or any other), you have to do it a bit at a time, or you’ll likely wind up dead.
re: #229 Targetpractice
I think we have to stop and remember that current circumstances are actually acceptable to a lot of Bros, because they’re convinced that this will aid the “revolution,” that anger against Trump will magically sweep in a Bernie-style socialist in 2020 and give him the Congress he needs to pass their entire wishlist.
It’s amazing how delusional so many Bros remain At least my Bro friends all supported her, though they still think he could have won.
re: #230 Anymouse
First they came for the socialists… . Yeah, no. Such people are engaged in magical thinking. To move toward a more socialist system (or any other), you have to do it a bit at a time, or you’ll likely wind up dead.
When it’s all or nothing, you’re going to get nothing before you get anything, assuming you’re one of the lucky. Otherwise, you’ll be fortunate to die quietly, rather than, say, in a line of people shot on the roadside.
re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s amazing how delusional so many Bros remain At least my Bro friends all supported her, though they still think he could have won.
I am still wondering how many of those so-called bros are actually rodent copulators.
I supported Sanders. I caucused for him. He won my state. I campaigned locally for Clinton when it became obvious he was going to lose the primary.
If he couldn’t win the primary, how the heck would he win the General Election? “He polled better with independents than Clinton” is not an argument worth entertaining.
I think Senator Sanders is actually positioned better in the Senate.
Trump to block immigration of doctors & nurses, but don’t worry, the Market will turn unemployed coal workers into doctors in no time!
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 1, 2017
Record-breaking 3.6M N.Y. residents sign up for Obamacare despite Trump’s vow to repeal law https://t.co/U6cqemUS1A pic.twitter.com/lxGt8wvEov
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 2, 2017
re: #233 Anymouse
I am still wondering how many of those so-called bros are actually rodent copulators.
I supported Sanders. I caucused for him. He won my state. I campaigned locally for Clinton when it became obvious he was going to lose the primary.
If he couldn’t win the primary, how the heck would he win the General Election? “He polled better with independents than Clinton” is not an argument worth entertaining.
I think Senator Sanders is actually positioned better in the Senate.
I can only speak for the Bros I personally spoke with, but they were (for the most part) true-believers who really did think that the election of Bernie was going to lead to socialist revolution that would turn America into a utopia. And that if Trump won, then they’d reach the same goal because he would so badly ruin America that the legions of voters would rise up and demand a socialist be installed in the White House.
I don’t doubt that a good-sized slice of the Bernie Bros were rodent fornicators, but most of them have since dropped the act and gone back to being Trump supporters. The Bros are still out there, screaming that the DNC screwed Bernie and it’s time to burn down the party to usher in their “revolution.”
re: #222 Anymouse
FOX News Channel continuing to spread the derp that California’s voter system is subject to “voter fraud”:
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Yeah, because we use paper ballots and check. every. one. by hand when they come in — that’s why it takes us so long to count them.
(Even the Daily Caller (!) knew better.)
OK, it’s time to
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Bacon prices set to rise as supplies hit historic low https://t.co/qEXJdcwyTT pic.twitter.com/FCFWIkFlpV
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 2, 2017
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t think that’s it. The Trump voters I know are still aggressive in defending him and talking about how Presidential he is and how proud they are of his performance. I have some friends who really try to avoid anything political — including voting — and she seems to be one of those.
I don’t talk politics on Facebook.
I also don’t read Facebook much and when I do, I try to stick to a heavily curated list of people whose opinions I am actually interested in (and who, for the most part, don’t talk politics).
It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I think it’s one of those things best discussed in person with people. Also it reduces the number of family members I want to scream at.
This is for all you gaming nerds - just a little project I’ve been working on to keep my own sanity (click on images for bigger views).
re: #242 Ubiq
This is for all you gaming nerds - just a little project I’ve been working on to keep my own sanity (click on images for bigger views).
Hah, I’ll be passing that along to a friend or two.
re: #241 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I don’t talk politics on Facebook.
I also don’t read Facebook much and when I do, I try to stick to a heavily curated list of people whose opinions I am actually interested in (and who, for the most part, don’t talk politics).
It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I think it’s one of those things best discussed in person with people. Also it reduces the number of family members I want to scream at.
I keep politics on my Facebook to a bare minimum. It’s mostly music or skiing over there. With the politics I try to keep it at a once-a-month level. It’s worked well for me.
And you should say it klys! You only get political *here* at LGF. Your social media is so tame, serene, and fraught-free. Y’all, for politics-free shit, follow @sylk!
😛
re: #244 teleskiguy
I keep politics on my Facebook to a bare minimum. It’s mostly music or skiing over there. With the politics I try to keep it at a once-a-month level. It’s worked well for me.
And you should say it klys! You only get political *here* at LGF. Your social media is so tame, serene, and fraught-free. Y’all, for politics-free shit, follow @sylk!
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Hahaha I’ve actually talked politics on Twitter! Occasionally! But also hockey and to do lists and running stuff and cats and cross stitch and reminders to take care of yourself.
I did make a semi-political Facebook post yesterday for probably the first time ever, about how we’re at the point where this is a “are we a democratic republic” issue and not a Democrat versus Republican issue. And also that I wasn’t really open to debating that. Of course his aunt comments that she won’t say anything and we probably know where she stands (old white lady in GA? yeah, I have my suspicions that you just pretty much verified) but could I wish her favorite nephew a happy birthday.
Some people really don’t understand Facebook.
re: #240 FormerDirtDart
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That was predicted after the record drought in Iowa and Nebraska in 2012-2013. Swine were slaugtered in record numbers (along with beef cattle), which flooded the markets and dropped prices, but devastated herds.
Law of supply and demand is now driving prices back up.
Sadly I didn’t think to can a sufficient supply of bacon to ride out the high prices.
re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Some people really don’t understand Facebook.
And also take it too fucking seriously. Like it’s their *sole* source of information for everything. I see that a lot.
re: #247 teleskiguy
And also take it too fucking seriously. Like it’s their *sole* source of information for everything. I see that a lot.
My sole source of information is magazines and newspapers (well, the Internet news services too). I’ll bet I can name the ones I read, unlike Sarah Palin my answer wouldn’t be “All of them, Katie.”
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I just learned last night that an anagram for Donald Trump is “Lord Dampnut”
Pass it on.
re: #161 Teukka
Antifascistic action. Very anarchistic group. Can also be typed anti-fa.
May not be confused with anti-antifa, which is the reich wingers counter to antifa.
The anti-antifa name just slays me-if you’re against anti-fascists, doesn’t that simply make you a fascist?
@squintsNY also Republican: *voted for Trump even though he says vets with PTSD are weak and wants to reinstate torture for POWs*
— nasty woman (@deirdrizzy) February 2, 2017
I saw in passing that Sergey said hi. Hi Sergey! We weirdo fucks missed you!
I honestly think at this point the problem for Democrats is that there’s just an avalanche of shit that has come down on this country’s head all at once, such that getting momentum on any one outrage is difficult because each day is so jam-packed that it all blends together into a general anger.
re: #249 BeachDem
The anti-antifa name just slays me-if you’re against anti-fascists, doesn’t that simply make you a fascist?
It’s something akin to antidisestablishmentarian (there’s a word I don’t use every day in a sentence): One who is opposed to those that are opposed to the withdrawal of government support of an established church (in other words, Christian wingnuts).
Sydney Morning Herald:
Malcolm Turnbull Learns Donald Trump Doesn’t Make Nice
Turnbull almost got away with remaining silent on the Trump call - the old diplomatic sensibilities kicked in and the White House at first issued a sanitised account of the phone call - which was the usual “blah, blah, blah…enduring strength…closeness…critical for world peace…Australia/America loves us”.
But if Trump wants to be a bully on the world stage, he needs victims; and a bully is only as good as his reputation - so his victims must be humiliated by the telling of their humiliation, either in a tweet or, as in this case, a background briefing to The Washington Post.
Infuriating for Turnbull, it didn’t have to be Australia. The Trump team could have just as easily slipped the name of any other leader into their account of how tough the new president is.
(more at the link)
Anyone found photos of trump at the arrival at Andrews AFB of the Seal Team 6 member who was killed in action? You know he wants to twitter about how compassionate he is.
To me, it’s just an attempt for trump to “look Presidential”, just like President Obama at these sad events. It’s even worse now that we’ve learned the mission was botched.
Another article today at the Sydney Morning Herald.
Guess they are subtle with their headlines:
Malcolm Turnbull’s Approach Vindicated by President Donald Trump’s Madness
(I wonder what they really mean. /s)
They are also speculating in Australia who leaked details of the phone call. It would appear one of the Fantastic Four is a turncoat:
There were only a handful of witnesses to the conversation which took place early on Saturday afternoon, Washington time.
Mr Trump’s controversial chief strategist Stephen Bannon, national security adviser Michael Flynn and White House press secretary Sean Spicer were in the Oval Office when the call was made. Mr Turnbull was the fifth world leader Mr Trump had spoken to that day. It was just after 5pm and the newly minted president had earlier finished calls with the leaders of Japan, Germany, Russia and France.
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Some in Canberra have speculated that Mr Bannon, Mr Trump’s close and most ideologically fierce adviser, may have leaked the details about the call in order to demonstrate that even if Mr Trump eventually accepts the refugee deal, he is doing so only grudgingly and angrily.
@coachdieselball @delrayser @chrislhayes and you know that how? I remember a lot of gold star families being visited by Obama
— Dede Stephenson (@antypynky55) February 2, 2017
re: #257 Anymouse
They are also speculating in Australia who leaked details of the phone call. It would appear one of the Fantastic Four is a turncoat:
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You know, two months ago, if you told me this was how the first TWO WEEKS would go, I’d have said you were full of shit. And I have always figured Trump was a reactive malignant narcissist whose only talent was convincing enough people that he isn’t as colossal a fuckup as he really is. But I didn’t think he could POSSIBLY be this bad.
Worse than that, instead of finding people to help whose calmness, intelligence, and emotional balance would mitigate his worst tendencies, he appears to have fastened onto someone who’s worse than him in every conceivable way.
re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White
I got asked by a Sanders supporter here in my E-mail stable during the campaign why I’d chosen to support Hillary Clinton after Bernie Sanders bowed out.
I pointed out that whether I supported Hillary Clinton’s proposals or not, when faced with a choice between the fascist and the not-fascist, you vote for the not-fascist. It’s really that simple a choice.
re: #239 teleskiguy
The one that got me was “The Day After”. I was in the military at the time. After seeing that, I spent a lot of time thinking about nuclear war and what it meant to me. Remember that this was in the time of Reagan and his off the cuff remarks like “We begin bombing in 5 minutes”.
Laura Ingraham is trying to push the idea that it is liberals showing disrespect to Gold Star Families rather than Donald Trump.
On her putative parenting blog Momzette (which is filled with a whole lot of politics and not too much parenting advice), she has article after article of putative unsourced reports of liberals mistreating Gold Star Families (boos on an airplane, spitting on a Gold Star Family, &c)
I think I am beginning to figure out why the narrative is being shifted with motorised goalposts from “Trump Insults Gold Star Families” and “Paladino Accuses Gold Star Families of Supporting Terrorism” to “Liberals Hate Gold Star Families.”
Momzette is spreading propaganda.
I won’t link her swill Website here, but if you are interested you can go look.
Donald Trump fucked up big time.
Australia has been a stalwart US ally since WWII, so unshakeable that we even signed on to that wretched Iraq expedition. In the past, I was one of those who jumped aboard the anti-American bandwagon during the Bush years. My position has matured since then and I recognise now the importance of our relationship with the US. Much of what we hope to acheive in the region can only be guaranteed by the ANZUS treaty.
That said…
Our feckless PM has made a point to not criticise Trump over his Muslim ban. Partly because, as the junior partner we don’t make waves but mostly because, as regards immigration policy, our conservative government doesn’t have a moral leg to stand on. Ghost of a Flea linked to pieces on how we’ve thrown refugees into offshore detention centres where they have been subjected to incredibly inhumane treatment which has led some to self-immolate. It’s utterly dreadful. Those refugees are refused access to Australia, and were at one point told that even if those people gained residency in another country, they would not be permitted to come here later. We are an incredibly petty, racist country.
Flash forward to today. Trump now has this refugee resettlement agreement (negotiated by Obama in an example of his amazing mastery of three-dimensional chess) sitting on his desk.
PM Turnbull wants him to honour it because if he scraps the deal, he has over a thousand people sitting in limbo offshore, further tainting our humanitarian reputation.
He can’t soften his position and he also can’t criticise Trump, because he’s in perpetual fear of his ultra-conservative backbench which includes ex-PM Abbott.
So, in spite of what was clearly an unpleasant phone call, Turnbull is playing it coy, using the diplomatic platitudes that are all too often nowadays, proving to be useless.
So… to recap. Turnbull looks like a humiliated submissive. Trump is so out of his depth he can’t even parlay with a lapdog. Both look like fools because they can’t agree on a deal that treats twelve hundred vulnerable people like chattel.
Hopefully we see the arse-end of these two galahs and their shitty coteries as they’re kicked to the curb before they fuck up worse than they already have.
*spit*
:)
re: #263 Alyosha
My sincere apologies for a few ten thousand fools in the USA electing this guy. I believe I have an appropriate gif that explains Mr. Trump.
(rummaging through image library)
Here it is:
re: #263 Alyosha
I second Anymouse’s apology to Australia and Australians for the behavior of my alledged President. I truely regret the baffoonary he inflicted upon your Prime Minister.
re: #264 Anymouse
If you knew me circa 2003, we wouldn’t even be talking. I read antiwar .com on the reg (sounds legit, but it’s a libertarian, Putin-humping site) and hated everything about the US.
Now I’m a US liberal. I know better. There are so many dedicated, awesome people in the States and I intend on educating people on that fact.
re: #265 ckkatz
I second Anymouse’s apology to Australia and Australians for the behavior of my alledged President. I truely regret the baffoonary he inflicted upon your Prime Minister.
Any injury inflicted on Turnbull is his own damn fault.
No apologies necessary.
But thanks, regardless.
re: #267 Alyosha
Any injury inflicted on Turnbull is his own damn fault.
No apologies necessary.
But thanks, regardless.
We wouldn’t even be having this conversation about Prime Minister Turnbull and what he should or should not have done if we were on alt-Earth and Hillary Clinton was now President.
Wingnuts here instead would be decrying her first executive order mandating taco trucks on every corner. /s
re: #268 Anymouse
Believe me, we feel the loss of Clinton as President very accutely.
On said alt-Earth I would win the Powerball this week too.
By the way, Anymouse, did you see the Omaha World Tribune article about the Nebraska State Flag being flown upside down for 10 days at the State Capitol before anybody noticed?
I’m not as familiar with Australian politics as I probably should be since Australia has long been a great friend to the United States, but my understanding is that Prime Minister Turnbull is trying to be a cautious and pragmatic politician.
Cautious and pragmatic is definitely the wrong position to take with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump is not a rational actor and every advisor he has is even unmoored from reality than the last.
In a parliamentary system you at least have an option denied to us: You can have a no-confidence vote in the government followed by snap elections if the government proves incompetent.
We embrace the crazy here. Ousting the President is nigh-impossible save an impeachment bill in the House and trial in the Senate. Since the Republicans control both, they will only do it if they think their party will be destroyed.
When one of your advisers helping you pick cabinet members is known as “The Stupidest Man on the Internet” you know there is a problem in the government.
I suppose stupid is a step up from crazy. Alex Jones’s Infowars in the press briefing room? Setting up Skype chats to ask questions? Gaaaa.
Wingnut: Mr. Trump, when are you going to launch the investigation about Hillary Clinton’s knowledge, coverup, and suppression of the alien landings at Roswell, New Mexico, and the secret alien base at Area 51?
If nothing else, those press conferences could get entertaining, in a watching-a-train-wreck-in-slow-motion kind of way.
re: #275 Anymouse
When one of your advisers helping you pick cabinet members is known as “The Stupidest Man on the Internet” you know there is a problem in the government.
I suppose stupid is a step up from crazy. Alex Jones’s Infowars in the press briefing room? Setting up Skype chats to ask questions? Gaaaa.
If nothing else, those press conferences could get entertaining, in a watching-a-train-wreck-in-slow-motion kind of way.
I’m with Eric Boehlert on this, the media should get up and walk out, but they’ll instead roll with it because “access.”
re: #274 ckkatz
G’Night All
Sleep well. I’m off to bed as well; my wife and I are headed to Sidney (our Sidney, not Australia’s Sydney).
re: #271 ckkatz
By the way, Anymouse, did you see the Omaha World Tribune article about the Nebraska State Flag being flown upside down for 10 days at the State Capitol before anybody noticed?
Yes I did. It was not to protest Mr. Trump (this state overwhelmingly voted for him).
The problem is the design of our flag. (I have accidentally run it up the village flagpole upside down as well: Now I have marked the hoist of the flag with the word TOP to make sure I don’t do that again.)
Vexiollogists in the United States routinely rank Nebraska’s flag last for its design. There is yet another bill before the Unicameral right now to change our flag design.
re: #273 Anymouse
Yeah, Turnbull is a semi-charismatic, somewhat socially liberal-minded business leader (who recently admitted he donated 1.75 million to his own part during the last election)*. Also a republican, like me.
At the moment he’s got the tail of the conservative tiger and is afraid to make policy decisions of any kind that might expose him to attacks, not just from the Labor opposition (under the steady leadership of Bill Shorten; a wooden character who still has the job presumably because he’s a master of factional warfare) but from the ultra-cons in his own party.
We’ll see if his brand of pragmatism works out.
*big news here, but small potatoes in the US.
In response to something said earlier, Trump’s actions of the last two weeks haven’t surprised me so much as the rapidity of them. I expected him to at least wait until his cabinet was seated before he began going bugfuck insane, which is why I continue to suspect that he or somebody in his inner circle *couBannongh* know that there is something coming down the pipe that will nuke his presidency.
re: #279 Targetpractice
In response to something said earlier, Trump’s actions of the last two weeks haven’t surprised me so much as the rapidity of them. I expected him to at least wait until his cabinet was seated before he began going bugfuck insane, which is why I continue to suspect that he or somebody in his inner circle *couBannongh* know that there is something coming down the pipe that will nuke his presidency.
Maybe “Gish Gallop” will have to be renamed “trump gallop”…or, maybe “trump trots”.
re: #279 Targetpractice
Nothing has really surprised me… yet.
re: #280 Cheechako
Yup, Trump Gallop. This is his strategy.
The real world, as we now see with Australia and Mexico, is that Trump is untenable to be President. You and me and most people here knew that, of course, but many Americans live in a fantasy land, it would appear from my Facebook feed.
It’s pretty clear that the Republican hierarchy still think they can benefit from Trump. I expect them to go along for awhile. At least until Trump wants to start messing with the appropriations in Congressional districts and to States. Then it will get interesting, as even the religious right in Congress like to protect their own slices of pie.
re: #278 Alyosha
Yeah, Turnbull is a semi-charismatic, somewhat socially liberal-minded business leader (who recently admitted he donated 1.75 million to his own part during the last election)*. Also a republican, like me.
At the moment he’s got the tail of the conservative tiger and is afraid to make policy decisions of any kind that might expose him to attacks, not just from the Labor opposition (under the steady leadership of Bill Shorten; a wooden character who still has the job presumably because he’s a master of factional warfare) but from the ultra-cons in his own party.
We’ll see if his brand of pragmatism works out.
*big news here, but small potatoes in the US.
My brother-in-law just told my wife his students in his classroom in Texas have already told him in private they miss President Obama.
I’ve got a deal for you: We’ll take somewhat timid but otherwise pragmatic PM Turnbull, and we’ll offer you three picks from a field including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Alberta), Sen. James Infofe (R-Snowball in February), SMOTI, Steve Bannon, Richard Spencer (R-Nazi), Sen. Paul Ryan (R-Galt’s Gulch), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Turtle).
I suspect none of them would survive a day with your flora and fauna. We have deadly stuff here in W. Nebraska (scorpions, rattlesnakes, wolves, and mountain lions) but nothing like your spiders the size of my car.
I don’t even check Google News anymore, haven’t since the election. Part of it is simply that there isn’t much more to be learned, I think, about how disaster upon which we have embarked, and I find little entertainment in watching trains crash.
The other is that Google has gotten rid of many of the pre-defined categories that I used to like.
Anyway, I now look at the “news” from afar, sort of how one looks into an old spider-infested storm cellar that hasn’t been opened in years.
re: #146 MsJ
“It was at the end of a long day & he was tired & fatigue was setting in.”
CNN on White House’s response to Trump’s hanging up on Aussie PM.
Poor Donald, he gets so tired just working banker’s hours:
Trump made the call to Turnbull about 5 p.m. Saturday from his desk in the Oval Office, where he was joined by chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, national security adviser Michael Flynn and White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
re: #193 JasonA
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And Australia should be orange and blue since they are also a TPP signatory.
Actually I wouldn’t want to send any of those guys to Australia, I don’t hate the country that much.
Perhaps a nice windswept beach on South Georgia Island.
re: #284 freetoken
I don’t even check Google News anymore, haven’t since the election. Part of it is simply that there isn’t much more to be learned, I think, about how disaster upon which we have embarked, and I find little entertainment in watching trains crash.
The other is that Google has gotten rid of many of the pre-defined categories that I used to like.
Anyway, I now look at the “news” from afar, sort of how one looks into an old spider-infested storm cellar that hasn’t been opened in years.
I was checking the Washington Post a couple times a day before the inauguration, now I can’t stomach looking at it once a day.
re: #285 Timothy Watson
Poor Donald, he gets so tired just working banker’s hours:
Xi Jinping to secretary: Take a note. Launch invasion of Guam at 2 AM US Eastern Time to secure the Second Island Chain.
Australia contributed 60,000 men to the Vietnam War with 521 killed in action and over 3,000 wounded.
Trump, meanwhile, was waging his own “personal Vietnam” with STDs.
re: #291 Timothy Watson
Australia contributed 60,000 men to the Vietnam War with 521 killed in action and over 3,000 wounded.
Trump, meanwhile, was waging his own “personal Vietnam” with STDs.
That statement by Mr. Trump more than anything makes me despise his narcissistic bone-spur infested self. Refer to my avatar.
re: #281 freetoken
Nothing has really surprised me… yet.
Yup, Trump Gallop. This is his strategy.
The real world, as we now see with Australia and Mexico, is that Trump is untenable to be President. You and me and most people here knew that, of course, but many Americans live in a fantasy land, it would appear from my Facebook feed.
It’s pretty clear that the Republican hierarchy still think they can benefit from Trump. I expect them to go along for awhile. At least until Trump wants to start messing with the appropriations in Congressional districts and to States. Then it will get interesting, as even the religious right in Congress like to protect their own slices of pie.
Trump’s appeal to many of his supporters was his tough-guy approach, saying things that no other politician dared say in blunt terms. They wanted a tough guy in the White House. But as you say, that’s a fantasyland desire, because international leaders need to be diplomatic and careful in their choice of words, lest they piss off the wrong people. Trump believes he can bully his way with everyone like a big shot tycoon (which he isn’t) and they will just fall in line like sheep. The reality is far from that. Heads of state expect to be treated with deference and courtesy, not like minions in a corporation. When that bully is an egotistical billionaire wannabe, their ire multiplies.
He’s managed not only to piss off our allies, but our rivals as well. His Muslim ban BS has embarrassed the USA on the world stage. Only Russia seems exempt, so far. When he manages to piss off Putin, you can expect Trump’s days as president will end rather quickly.
This popped up yesterday in Nature, about some research reported last week:
Human stem cells can integrate into developing pig embryos, a finding that could lead to new ways of growing human organs and studying early human development.
[…]
The original paper:
Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells
Interspecies chimeras… reminds me of Earth: Final Conflict.
Ought to send creationists for a loop, once they hear about it.
As Trump tries to keep power by mollifying his religious right marks, I wonder if such research will be possible in the US in the future. As it turns out, this particular research is from Japan.
So, I blogged about that “speech” Trump gave about Black History Month. I would have failed even my Chinese EFL students had one of them submitted something so bad.
re: #277 Anymouse
The problem is the design of our flag. (I have accidentally run it up the village flagpole upside down as well: Now I have marked the hoist of the flag with the word TOP to make sure I don’t do that again.)
Vexiollogists in the United States routinely rank Nebraska’s flag last for its design. There is yet another bill before the Unicameral right now to change our flag design.
As I suggested earlier: change the motto from “Equality before the law” to “Quality before Law”. It would fit the current administration better. And it would be so classy.
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As I suggested earlier: change the motto from “Equality before the law” to “Quality before Law”. It would fit the current administration better. And it would be so classy.
LOL. We need a quality flag for sure.
Instead of the Great Seal of Nebraska on a blue flag that looks like every other state’s flag that came into the nation at that time (state seals on blue flags), we could put something on it like Chimney Rock rising over the High Plains (or maybe an ICBM rising over the High Plains).
Or we could just adopt the University of Nebraska logo for the state flag, since more people fly the Huskers flag than the state flag anyway.
re: #297 Anymouse
LOL. We need a quality flag for sure.
Instead of the Great Seal of Nebraska on a blue flag that looks like every other state’s flag that came into the nation at that time (state seals on blue flags), we could put something on it like Chimney Rock rising over the High Plains (or maybe an ICBM rising over the High Plains).
Or we could just adopt the University of Nebraska logo for the state flag, since more people fly the Huskers flag than the state flag anyway.
Austin Lounge Lizards doing Cornhusker Refugee
The fucker awakens. And surprise, surprise, Bannon defends fucking Milo.
And California can go back and say, LOL we definitely won’t be giving YOU any revenue.
He’s pissing off everyone AT THE SAME TIME.
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Austin Lounge Lizards doing Cornhusker Refugee
Thanks. Sounds like every bar around here (but they’re better performers).
They’re singing about the flatlands though, that would be the other side of the state.
re: #300 Anymouse
Thanks. Sounds like every bar around here (but they’re better performers).
They’re singing about the flatlands though, that would be the other side of the state.
What sort of dead animals does your family eat on a Sunday afternoon?
re: #299 Myron Falwell
The fucker awakens. And surprise, surprise, Bannon defends fucking Milo.
Even the BBC, whom I usually count on for fairly balanced coverage, did an article painting Milo as a victim and the Berkeley student body as hateful, intolerant radicals.
UC Berkeley cancels Milo Yiannopoulos talk as students protestLink
It does go on to give a lot of background information about Breitbart and Milo, but a cursory reading leaves one with the impression that the poor fellow is being victimized.
Berkeley College Republicans sponsored Mr Yiannopoulos’s visit.
Their spokesman Pieter Sittler said they didn’t agree with everything he said, but “he gives a voice to repressed conservative thought on American college campuses”.
Poor repressed white male conservative bullies…
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What sort of dead animals does your family eat on a Sunday afternoon?
Well that depends. We don’t eat a whole lot of meat primarily due to my marginal cholesterol levels.
That said, beef is usually on order here as it is inexpensive (relative to other states anyway). Chicken, occasionally pork, and we get a steady diet of Canada geese supplied by our ex-mayor. (We have an agreement: He likes hunting but doesn’t like cleaning geese and doesn’t want to hunt for the sake of hunting. He shoots ‘em, we clean ‘em, and split the take. He gets to sit in the cold North Platte River, which is not my idea of fun. He is also a widower, so a home-cooked meal from my wife is welcome.)
Sometimes we have fish, but fish is pretty expensive here since the ocean is a bit of a hike.
re: #299 Myron Falwell
The fucker awakens. And surprise, surprise, Bannon defends fucking Milo.
And California can go back and say, LOL we definitely won’t be giving YOU any revenue.
He’s pissing off everyone AT THE SAME TIME.
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re: #303 Anymouse
Well that depends. We don’t eat a whole lot of meat primarily due to my marginal cholesterol levels.
That said, beef is usually on order here as it is inexpensive (relative to other states anyway). Chicken, occasionally pork, and we get a steady diet of Canada geese supplied by our ex-mayor. (We have an agreement: He likes hunting but doesn’t like cleaning geese and doesn’t want to hunt for the sake of hunting. He shoots ‘em, we clean ‘em, and split the take. He gets to sit in the cold North Platte River, which is not my idea of fun. He is also a widower, so a home-cooked meal from my wife is welcome.)
Sometimes we have fish, but fish is pretty expensive here since the ocean is a bit of a hike.
Germany is big on pork, which I do not eat a lot of, and good fish is hard to come by in most places. So dead chicken is pretty much the default meat setting.
In a few weeks I will start my annual Lenten meat fast: I turn Good Catholic for six weeks before Easter and do not buy or bring home any meat (I am not strict or religious about it, I just avoid it to a great extent).
Milo got what he wanted: to be painted as a victim of “intolerance.” I say though, let him speak, call him on his bluff and let him expose himself for the pathetic wanker he is but the UC students have every right to protest him too. I’m sorry but I’m not taking lectures on free speech from Trump or the right who constantly want to use religion as an excuse to deny someone freedom. And as for freedom, Trump should talk to his new higher education adviser, Falwell Jr, Liberty is far from a tolerant place too.
re: #276 Targetpractice
I’m with Eric Boehlert on this, the media should get up and walk out, but they’ll instead roll with it because “access.”
They don’t need access. The “Trump Admin” leaks like a sieve. You get more truth from those leakers. Fuck access. To what, anyway? Lies and abuse? Nope.
I’m catching up on the news. It seems Trump also had some fightin’ words with Mexico’s president.
Story points to Business Insider, but quotes a Forbes reporter.
So the way to make America great is to badger and threaten everyone in sight. Who knew?
re: #308 wheat-dogg
I’m catching up on the news. It seems Trump also had some fightin’ words with Mexico’s president.
Story points to Business Insider, but quotes a Forbes reporter.
So the way to make America great is to badger and threaten everyone in sight. Who knew?
BEING UNPREDICTABLE IS A GOOD THING!1!!
re: #285 Timothy Watson
Poor Donald, he gets so tired just working banker’s hours:
Can’t wait for that first 3:00 am call.
Meanwhile, I finally bought an HDMI cable so I can connect my tiny Windows tablet to a hotel room’s flat-panel monitor, and have better sound to boot.
re: #311 wheat-dogg
Meanwhile, I finally bought an HDMI cable so I can connect my tiny Windows tablet to a hotel room’s flat-panel monitor, and have better sound to boot.
I need to get a gadget like that for my TV so I can watch Netflix on the big screen ( do not have an apple TV compatible set)
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany is big on pork, which I do not eat a lot of, and good fish is hard to come by in most places. So dead chicken is pretty much the default meat setting.
In a few weeks I will start my annual Lenten meat fast: I turn Good Catholic for six weeks before Easter and do not buy or bring home any meat (I am not strict or religious about it, I just avoid it to a great extent).
Here the primary churches are Roman Catholic. (There are numerous flavours of Protestant churches, but the Catholic Church has a much larger presence.) There is also one Greek Orthodox Church in Bridgeport (pop 1,100) but I am not sure how their calender works as compared to the Roman Catholic adoption of the Gregorian system.
As such, restaurants tend to offer Lenten meals on those Fridays of Lent, and grocery stores will pare back orders of meats as sales tend to drop a bit. The two local butchers (one in town, one way out in the middle of nowhere that also butchers game animals for a price) generally just lower their prices during Lent.
re: #73 klys (maker of Silmarils)
“It was at the end of a long day & he was tired & fatigue was setting in.”
CNN on White House’s response to Trump’s hanging up on Aussie PM.
What is he? Five?
Oh wait. Narf! He is.
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I need to get a gadget like that for my TV so I can watch Netflix on the big screen ( do not have an apple TV compatible set)
My tablet has a 7.5” diagonal 16:9 screen. Using a full-size screen makes a big difference.
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
So if you know about history, you’re an “intellectual snob”? It’s scary how anti-intellectual Rightwingers have become. They revel in alternative facts and stupidity. Hence their support for a dunce like Trump.
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I need to get a gadget like that for my TV so I can watch Netflix on the big screen ( do not have an apple TV compatible set)
You could probably get a cheap Blu-Ray player with a Netflix app.
re: #91 JasonA
re: #318 Patricia Kayden
So if you know about history, you’re an “intellectual snob”? It’s scary how anti-intellectual Rightwingers have become. They revel in alternative facts and stupidity. Hence their support for a dunce like Trump.
We were talking yesterday about why Americans can’t get into engineering schools. Maybe because white people have an anti-intellectual attitude that mocks anyone who does well in school?
re: #308 wheat-dogg
So the way to make America great is to badger and threaten everyone in sight. Who knew?
Someone please never tell Trump that such a tactic is not working in any way.
re: #320 Romantic Heretic
Someone ran the numbers, while the animals can be dangerous, they don’t kill that many people compared to the more mundane causes of death.
In reality, Australian animals are venomous — but they very rarely kill, according to research Welton and her colleagues recently conducted. Their report, to be published in an upcoming issue of Internal Medicine Journal, reviewed hospitalizations and deaths from venomous Australian animals between 2000 and 2013. Based on medical admission data, coroners’ findings and autopsy reports, the scientists determined that venomous bites and stings hospitalized more than 41,000 people over those 13 years — an admission rate of 199 people per 100,000 in the population. Venom killed 64 people during the same time period.
The results surprised even Welton. “I was expecting to see larger numbers,” she told The Post by phone early Thursday. “Just the number of people hospitalized, I thought, would be a lot larger.” By way of comparison, the researcher noted that there were 5,000 drownings and nearly 1,000 lethal burns in the same time period.
re: #316 Romantic Heretic
What is he? Five?
Oh wait. Narf! He is.
HAHAHA! Trump and Bannon really are a real-life Pinky and the Brain! 😹
re: #70 Kragar
Trump declares war on Australia.
I live in Australia. It is difficult to believe that our bff are likely to be Japan & Germany over the next few years. That my father fought alongside US soldiers in WWII makes it even weirder to comprehend.
I would add, Australia is NOT to be commended for our treatment of people who have tried to reach the country outside of the “legal options”. Most of the latter take years.
re: #27 GlutenFreeJesus
Wait. Trump decided on this raid… OVER DINNER?
Over dinner. On the toilet. On twitter. While watching Fox News.
This is how Trump makes important, life-impacting decisions. No biggie.
Legislation in the Virginia General Assembly would make it a criminal offense to name a police officer who is under an use of force investigation.
richmond.com
When we invade Australia, I hope the US military is prepared for Vegemite. That shit’s more potent than mustard gas.
— Phil Richardson (@CelticWombat) February 2, 2017
re: #325 fern01
*waves*
Just saw this. Another Minority Report clip, Wajahat Ali runs a train of unbroken righteousness through what might otherwise be a lackadaisical piece on Trump.
Stick with it.
Even when you think you’re doing nothing, platforms like Twitter are important. It drove the Trump train, it can derail it.
Never give up.
Holy Reimaged 1960 Cartoon Characters Batman!
The first look of Snagglepuss comic that is coming out. I looked at it and I am dying XDDD pic.twitter.com/nOp30G6uh6
— SufferingTilEmployed (@annoyingpajamas) February 2, 2017
(the message couldn’t be any more timely tho)
re: #109 JasonA
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We can use those blank pages to fill in all of Trump’s atrocities during the next 4 years. We may run out of pages.
re: #329 Alyosha
Seriously. Listen to that shit.
People worry about Muslims indocrinating their kids.
‘… they will out-Tweet them, Inshallah, they will forgive them.’
Gimme that Ali family love!
I don’t know about you but this makes me feel better. ///////
Steve Bannon: ‘We’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt’ | US news https://t.co/gRy4Od52LG
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
So both Punxstuawney Phil and Buckeye Chuck saw their shadows, which I guess means that we have six more weeks of the Trump Regime.
re: #333 MsJ
I don’t know about you but this makes me feel better. ///////
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Thank Zod we avoided electing that warmonger Hillary, eh folks?
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There’s a march against racism going on tomorrow in the city. I can’t be there and that makes me sad. But there’ll be marches every day somewhere.
If you can’t march, speak.
If you can’t speak, love.
If you can’t love then there’s nothing I can do for you.
I stand with you.
Don’t give up.
re: #321 Timothy Watson
We were talking yesterday about why Americans can’t get into engineering schools. Maybe because white people have an anti-intellectual attitude that mocks anyone who does well in school?
The USA at least has a strain of anti-intellectualism that goes back to the days of the colonies. In that strain, the combination of conservative authoritarianism combined with religious faith creates the space for anti-intellectualism.
It’s opposite is “facts have a liberal bias.”
Conservative orthodoxy can be summed up (crudely) as “keeping things the way they are” or nostalgia for the past. As such, when some new fact is learned, if it cannot be incorporated into that orthodoxy, it is rejected.
Religious orthodoxy is the same. It does not matter how much evidence piles up for evolution by natural selection, since many (but not all) faiths cannot pretzel-twist what evolution means (no god required), they reject it out of hand. Consider the Scopes Monkey Trial, primarily based on religious faith written into Tennessee law.
The two orthodoxies make affinity fraud an easy task for someone who insinuates themselves into such groups (libertarians are notorious for being scammed). Affinity fraud depends on trust between the fraudster and the target.
Once that trust is achieved, it becomes easy to scam the target - the target is predisposed to reject any new information (I am gullible) in favour of orthodoxy (members of my group are moral and would never scam me). Bernie Madoff and prosperity gospel pastors are notorious for this, as is Bitcoin.
Because facts cannot penetrate the orthodoxy of whatever belief the person holds, they become convinced that “others” are out to “get” them. It leads to everything from science-denial to outright tinfoil haberdashery.
re: #333 MsJ
I don’t know about you but this makes me feel better. ///////
Peter Theil gets to bring out his lawnchair in his New Zealand compound and LOL at the nuclear warheads flying above his head.
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re: #149 JasonA
Are people really supposed to be insulted over being called “Antifas?”
I mean, I kinda take pride in being anti-fascist. Am I missing something?
No different from Rightwingers using SJW as an insult. I still don’t understand why it’s wrong to be a social justice warrior. That sounds like a good thing in my book.
Someone upthread asked what is pejorative about being called ‘antifas’. Suggest a more than cursory study of their history and that of other black bloc organizations. They are at least destructive nutcases poisoning every action they infiltrate. On occasion (e.g. Genoa) they turned out to be police provocateurs who got people killed. The enemy of your enemy might be more dangerous than your enemy.
Oh. I forgot…Fuck them.
re: #339 Patricia Kayden
No different from Rightwingers using SJW as an insult. I still don’t understand why it’s wrong to be a social justice warrior. That sounds like a good thing in my book.
It is a good thing. Fuck a bunch of sociopaths.
re: #340 Decatur Deb
Someone upthread asked what is pejorative about being called ‘antifas’. Suggest a more than cursory study of their history and that of other black bloc organizations. They are at least destructive nutcases poisoning every action they infiltrate. On occasion (e.g. Genoa) they turned out to be police provocateurs who got people killed. The enemy of your enemy might be more dangerous than your enemy.
Oh. I forgot…Fuck them.
Wavering. Hoping that, to corporatise something that will resist rebranding… might.
Media merger bombshell.
CBS Radio To Merge With Entercom - https://t.co/k8nig7IgPz pic.twitter.com/QYwz2wmGvV
Here’s a hint: If you are out with a lot of good like-minded citizens exercising your right to peacefully assemble and present grievances, and some asshole magically produces a Molotov cocktail, you are being fucked from behind.
re: #329 Alyosha
*waves*
Just saw this. Another Minority Report clip, Wajahat Ali runs a train of unbroken righteousness through what might otherwise be a lackadaisical piece on Trump.
Stick with it.
Even when you think you’re doing nothing, platforms like Twitter are important. It drove the Trump train, it can derail it.Never give up.
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The last couple of days the Oz media seems to be waking up to what is happening - Turnbull has really tried to hide it. I laughed till I cried when he said initially that Trump would uphold the deal. “Tell him he’s dreaming”
One positive thing that may come out of this whole ghastly happening - Australians facing what they are doing in regard to refugees. We expect other countries to take in people we are not prepared to take ourselves. I am so hoping the whole “Trump experience” will knock Hanson & her ilk of their perches and maybe start our trek back to looking after those in need.
re: #345 fern01
The last couple of days the Oz media seems to be waking up to what is happening - Turnbull has really tried to hide it. I laughed till I cried when he said initially that Trump would uphold the deal. “Tell him he’s dreaming”
One positive thing that may come out of this whole ghastly happening - Australians facing what they are doing in regard to refugees. We expect other countries to take in people we are not prepared to take ourselves. I am so hoping the whole “Trump experience” will knock Hanson & her ilk of their perches and maybe start our trek back to looking after those in need.
I upding with the leisure of a white man who has finally tired of winning.
I know, I know. I’m about a day behind, but still:
So with Tillerson confirmed, how long before the fucking #JohnnyRebs make “#THEUkraine” the official name in American foreign policy? 👿
— Chrysi Cat (@chrysicat) February 2, 2017
So overnight while I was sleeping this shitshow has deepened into a shit ocean.
It’s a good thing I have a bunch of work to keep me occupied for the next couple of hours but maybe I should get into the bathyscaphe now instead of later?
Good morning Lizards,
Another day that I wake up knowing, for certain, that I am a happier man than the billionaire POTUS ever will be.
re: #349 b.d.
Good morning Lizards,
Another day that I wake up knowing, for certain, that I am a happier man than the billionaire POTUS ever will be.
Good hair, huh?
Regarding Berkeley, if anyone has a way to find the original information, it would be much appreciated. The news is not what it seems.
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re: #350 Decatur Deb
Good hair, huh?
The few hairs that decided to stick around are good and not a cause of world wide snickering.
The merger of CBS Radio with Entercom is certainly damn good for CBS. Les Moonves had publicly wanted to divest himself of the radio division (and under eternal speculation that CBS and Viacom could remerge due to the Redstone family suing each other for control of National Amusements, the holding company for both conglomerates).
It might have happened with Hillary, but you and I know that this merger will be met with a solid rubber stamp.
So when Les said that non-critical coverage of Trump wasn’t good for America, but damn good for CBS… well, mission accomplished.
re: #352 jeffreyw
Wow! Your tux cat looks almost like our Charlie, although ours has a Chaplinstache!
re: #351 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Regarding Berkeley, if anyone has a way to find the original information, it would be much appreciated. The news is not what it seems.
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I simply don’t have the time due to work today and I’m betting there are Lizards out there who can suss out the truth.
Berkeley was a false flag, I recognized some of those “hooligans” as being the same paid crisis actors from previous staged antics.
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(if those guys can do it then so can i)
re: #18 Kragar
And watch Trump and his sycophants claim this too is Obama’s fault.
Raid that killed 8 yr old American girl & a Navy Seal? Pres. Obama vetoed due to bad intelligence. Trump gave the okhttps://t.co/oF9aDltcpJ
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) February 2, 2017
Oh wait.
Obama vetoed raid due to bad intel. Trump went for it because he had to show he’s a tough guy - using our best and brightest - the sharpest tip of the spear - to do it, and screwed them because they didn’t have good intel, the bad guys knew we were coming, and we got out gunned to the point where we had to call in airstrikes to save our guys on the ground. So, sure some bad guys were killed, but the purpose of the raid was to gather intel so we could get even more bad guys and disrupt terror networks in Yemen.
Oh, and Trump’s trying to push this kind of decision down below his level, because it’s too much work to make sure that there’s enough planning, preparation, and logistics for his teeny tiny hands to wrap themselves around.
re: #299 Myron Falwell
The fucker awakens. And surprise, surprise, Bannon defends fucking Milo.
And California can go back and say, LOL we definitely won’t be giving YOU any revenue.
He’s pissing off everyone AT THE SAME TIME.
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I’d penciled in a possible protest at Arizona State University when the notorious campus preacher Jed Smock shows up later this month. Normally, I wouldn’t care, but Smock made a point of being obnoxiously for Trump in the fall, and has been gloating about it and how Trump is “God’s man” and all that. Well, Smock also harasses students and tells them they’re going to hell for sleeping around, etc., which doesn’t exactly go well with his support of the thrice-married adulterer. I just thought I’d show up with a big ole sign saying “JED’S A HYPOCRITE.” I wonder if conservatives will support the rights of a fat, middle-aged woman on a university campus?
Trump’s busy threatening the place Berkeley with 1A violations over a riot started by people who have yet to be identified. Trump’s assuming that they’re anti-Milo liberals, but the way things are going these days, it’d be just as likely that James O’Keefe hired a bunch of goons to disrupt things as proof that the liberals in Berkeley are bad.
So, I’ll wait to see what the evidence actually turns up about who did what in Berkeley last night.
I don’t need to wait to see that once again Trump shows his fascist flair for the dramatic and complete and utter disdain for the 1A. He showed it all through the campaign, and he again shows that he’s ready to violate the Constitution at a moment’s notice because that’s what fascists like him do.
re: #361 lawhawk
Trump’s busy threatening the place Berkeley with 1A violations over a riot started by people who have yet to be identified. Trump’s assuming that they’re anti-Milo liberals, but the way things are going these days, it’d be just as likely that James O’Keefe hired a bunch of goons to disrupt things as proof that the liberals in Berkeley are bad..
My guess is they are black-bloc anarchists who always show up for a good arson garbage fire.
Oh, and some folks are now saying that Trump/Bannon’s actions are proof that he finally needs to be removed from office.
Sorry, the time was months ago when people were all EMAIL! and thinking that there was no difference between Trump and Clinton and that they could throw away their vote for a 3d party candidate, because there’d be no difference in policies or procedures, or that life would go on and they’d be insulated from the consequences.
Right.
Trump is insane. We have proof now. He needs to be removed from office. Peacefully, one hopes. @GOP, you know what you have to do — do it.
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 2, 2017
We had proof during the campaign and no one cared. Now? Nothing will happen until there’s a massive body count and it’s too late. https://t.co/O6lk5NYg5I
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 2, 2017
You cannot count on impeachment here. The GOP would need a massive body count for that to happen - and many of them would be swept up for being complicit. No, the path is via the 25th Amendment at the moment, and even there, the GOP wont act because they’ve been fine with all of this. They’ve gained the power they crave. They stole a supreme court seat and have suffered no consequences for that. They’ll go along with what Bannon and Trump are doing, because they think they’ll be fine.
re: #337 Anymouse
The USA at least has a strain of anti-intellectualism that goes back to the days of the colonies. In that strain, the combination of conservative authoritarianism combined with religious faith creates the space for anti-intellectualism.
I always saw it as cultural and intellectual inferiority complex towards Europe: but for that, we promoted the myth that we were morally superior to those decadent, effete Europeans.
I have observed a similar attitude among Russian nationalists.
And that strain of virulent anti-intellectualism has now developed into a proper plague on our nation and all three branches of government.
People waking up this morning like pic.twitter.com/ebS8EfsYP0
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) February 2, 2017
First the WH liars denied that Trump threatened Mexico, now they say he was just “joking”
White House official confirms President Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ commments were meant to be ‘lighthearted’ https://t.co/yl2Q3p26np
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 2, 2017
re: #366 The Vicious Babushka
First the WH liars denied that Trump threatened Mexico, now they say he was just “joking”
Take him (un)seriously but not literally.
Like. Clockwork. pic.twitter.com/OIkQZYqIxE
— (((Danielle Blake))) (@abradacabla) February 2, 2017
Want to pick stocks and make millions?
Get on TV at 5 AM, rant about a company, and then watch Trump go on a Twitter tear at 8.
It’s a guarantee that stock prices will follow Trump’s tweets.
re: #344 Decatur Deb
Here’s a hint: If you are out with a lot of good like-minded citizens exercising your right to peacefully assemble and present grievances, and some asshole magically produces a Molotov cocktail, you are being fucked from behind.
The long game is endorphin deficient.
re: #359 lawhawk
And watch Trump and his sycophants claim this too is Obama’s fault.
Oh wait.
Obama vetoed raid due to bad intel. Trump went for it because he had to show he’s a tough guy - using our best and brightest - the sharpest tip of the spear - to do it, and screwed them because they didn’t have good intel, the bad guys knew we were coming, and we got out gunned to the point where we had to call in airstrikes to save our guys on the ground. So, sure some bad guys were killed, but the purpose of the raid was to gather intel so we could get even more bad guys and disrupt terror networks in Yemen.
Oh, and Trump’s trying to push this kind of decision down below his level, because it’s too much work to make sure that there’s enough planning, preparation, and logistics for his teeny tiny hands to wrap themselves around.
“The raid was a success. We killed AlQ. Period.”
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Just going to post this and run. MN Public Radio’s rock music station, 89.3 The Current, had an interview with Al Franken this morning which is worth a listen. He talked about how the hearings are going and suggested ways that we should become involved. It’s worth a listen. Can’t leave a link right now.
The feeling of waking up since the election. #GroundhogDay #6MoreWeeksOfTwitler pic.twitter.com/TUdM3cHOTG
— Citizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) February 2, 2017
EDIT: I see #365 The Vicious Babushka beat me to it.
re: #308 wheat-dogg
I’m catching up on the news. It seems Trump also had some fightin’ words with Mexico’s president.
Story points to Business Insider, but quotes a Forbes reporter.
So the way to make America great is to badger and threaten everyone in sight. Who knew?
I think this is actually for his Base. They want him to badger and threaten everyone in sight, especially Mexico.
re: #315 Anymouse
In Nebraska? Hmm, I figured that for Protestant country.
CNN Breaking News Banner:
Trump asks to pray for Schwarzenegger’s ‘Apprentice’ ratings at National Prayer Breakfast…
re: #339 Patricia Kayden
No different from Rightwingers using SJW as an insult. I still don’t understand why it’s wrong to be a social justice warrior. That sounds like a good thing in my book.
If I remember correctly, “Social Justice Warrior” was originally coined to mock keyboard warriors of the left, a.k.a. our version of the Chairborne Reaction Team, as it were. People who superficially took up causes but didn’t actually fight for them. As it tends to do, the internet latched hold of the label and appropriated it, and reappropriated it to mock anyone who dare tries to fight for anything empathetic, because being empathetic is the new greatest fascism in the world now.
re: #375 b.d.
CNN Breaking News Banner:
Trump asks to pray for Schwarzenegger’s ‘Apprentice’ ratings at National Prayer Breakfast…
Nah. Can’t believe he’d go that far at a prayer breakfast.
Oh wait….
Spectacular footage of Kiluea volcano erupting. Apparently a lava delta had collapsed and exposed a lava tube so the lava is flowing freely into the ocean, where it’s cooling and causing the explosive ejection of rocks and steam from where the lava is now pooling.
This second video is notable, not only because it shows size and scope of the eruption, but because there’s a couple of people who managed to get dangerously close to the erupting lava.
re: #351 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Regarding Berkeley, if anyone has a way to find the original information, it would be much appreciated. The news is not what it seems.
Here is the ongoing problem we face and the reason we are in the situation we are in: chaos, misinformation and violence all favor the DT cause. And misinformation, chaos and violence are much easier to generate than truth, order and peace.
Pres. Trump: “Terrorism is a fundamental threat to religious freedom. It must be stopped, and it will be stopped.” pic.twitter.com/K2bjGdKQOJ
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 2, 2017
Once again, we’re declaring war on a tactic, like it’s a tangible thing to be surgically removed. #HistoryRepeats #GroundhogDay #DejaVu https://t.co/iQlyVMA2Vf
— Citizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) February 2, 2017
Military convoy spotted near Louisville flying Donald Trump flag belonged to SEAL unit, U.S. Navy spokesperson says. https://t.co/JKMCpcDoBA pic.twitter.com/yF0ktSiEgV
— ABC News (@ABC) February 2, 2017
So, it truly was active US military unit after lots of denials. This violates UCMJ at bare minimum. https://t.co/ZVmedeA4hS
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 2, 2017
Hear Something Say Something.
At a local High School (Troy High School) 2 teen were planning an attack “bigger than Columbine” but were overheard, and a sneak picture taken. The students plot has been stopped cold. Excellent work people.
re: #377 Sir John Barron
Nah. Can’t believe he’d go that far at a prayer breakfast.
Oh wait….
Bringing class back to the White House!!
“I want to pray for Arnold’s ratings” — Donald Trump at the national prayer breakfast attacking Celebrity Apprentice.
— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) February 2, 2017
re: #379 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Here is the ongoing problem we face and the reason we are in the situation we are in: chaos, misinformation and violence all favor the DT cause. And misinformation, chaos and violence are much easier to generate than truth, order and peace.
“A lie’s halfway round the world before the truth gets it’s shoes on”
~somebody
re: #360 mmmirele
I’d penciled in a possible protest at Arizona State University when the notorious campus preacher Jed Smock shows up later this month. Normally, I wouldn’t care, but Smock made a point of being obnoxiously for Trump in the fall, and has been gloating about it and how Trump is “God’s man” and all that. Well, Smock also harasses students and tells them they’re going to hell for sleeping around, etc., which doesn’t exactly go well with his support of the thrice-married adulterer. I just thought I’d show up with a big ole sign saying “JED’S A HYPOCRITE.” I wonder if conservatives will support the rights of a fat, middle-aged woman on a university campus?
OMG, I remember Reverend Jed from my undergrad days at ASU back in 1978-81.
He is one fucked up character. Seems that he started out in the 60’s as a university counselor and used to advise naive & uptight young undergrads to loosen up, experiment with drugs and sex and alternative religions, and has spent past decades trying to atone for what he once did…and proably really enjoyed.
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
Trump’s SCOTUS pick founded club called ‘Fascism Forever’ https://t.co/70aAUtFQVL
— Maria Sohn (@MariaSohn1) February 2, 2017
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
And now the Narcissist in Chief is rushing to the defense of misogynist pig Milo Yiannopoulos. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/ILSP2ejw21
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #386 lawhawk
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
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I caution about using the Daily Mail as a source for anything, no matter how juicy it seems. Any other outlets that’ve been able to corroborate?
re: #386 lawhawk
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
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It is The Daily Fail, so I would take everything with a grain of salt.
re: #367 Belafon
Take him (un)seriously but not literally.
To paraphrase Kellyanne:
Listen to his heart, not what seeps out of his pie hole…
re: #373 Sir John Barron
I think this is actually for his Base. They want him to badger and threaten everyone in sight, especially Mexico.
Badger? We don’t need to stinkin’ badger!
re: #391 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Badger? We don’t need to stinkin’ badger!
Wolverines!!!
Trump speaking about admitting people into our country who fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty.
Pres. Trump: We’ll develop a system to ensure people “admitted into our country fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty.” pic.twitter.com/GJZ9zPJUUh
— ABC News (@ABC) February 2, 2017
All while Trump violates the core tenet by imposing Muslim bans and attacking the 1A at every opportunity.
Irony is dead.
re: #386 lawhawk
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
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That was prep school antics…I had posted a pic from his college yearbook yesterday where he quotes Kissinger, “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” I’m hoping he’s grown out of his rebel ways by now.
re: #393 lawhawk
Trump speaking about admitting people into our country who fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty.
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All while Trump violates the core tenet by imposing Muslim bans and attacking the 1A at every opportunity.
Irony is dead.
Of course. When he says ‘embrace our values of religious and personal liberty’ he means only THEIR religious liberty, not anyone else’s. And we already know what they think about ‘personal liberty;.
re: #381 lawhawk
I don’t know how that law reads. If we connect this dot with the SEAL Team 6 recent scandal of conduct unbecoming…Maybe war crimes. It’s damn chilling. Is that flag gonna fly over Federals going to the Chicago gang areas? Or at the airport to thwart another TRO?
re: #386 lawhawk
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
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I will wait till that is debunked/confirmed
You have GOT to be kidding: Trump asks to pray for Schwarzenegger’s ‘Apprentice’ ratings at National Prayer Breakfast #NationalEmbarrassment
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
I can only say that @realDonaldTrump the @POTUS is a #NationalEmbarrassment Dear World, I sincerely apologize for this loud-mouthed lout.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #398 The Vicious Babushka
Doubly true for the DailyFail.
The next POTUS (assuming Orange Fuckstick doesn’t declare himself PRESIDENT FOR LIFE G-D FORBID) will have to go on a Worldwide Apology Tour
re: #389 Timothy Watson
It is The Daily Fail, so I would take everything with a grain of salt.
Our skepticism of media organizations is going to bite us on the ass one day. CNN=fake news. Daily Fail. Faux News - okay…that last one’s a tossup.
re: #386 lawhawk
I was in theater groups in college and high school. I was in Hillel.
Gorsuch founded a fascists forever group.
Talking point preps:
He was forced to do so because of the excesses of evil liberalism.
He was just a good old boy havin’ a bit o’ fun.
We all have our youthful excesses.
Get over it, snowflakes!!!
But if it is true, it would just be one more strange … coincidence.
I know, I know…another photograph of an old yearbook…paper never refused ink…someone call Snopes.
#TheResistance #ImpeachTrump
Fiercely conservative at prep school, #Gorsuch wrote in yearbook he founded & led “Fascism Forever Club” pic.twitter.com/lnkqYgfYZy— The Anti-Trump (@IMPL0RABLE) February 2, 2017
White House’s Steve Bannon thinks war with China is imminent: ‘There’s no doubt about that’ https://t.co/Xy6S5DB0QY pic.twitter.com/eJIB51bt0Z
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 2, 2017
The US will go to war with China over the South China Sea dispute in next 5-10 years.
These comments by Bannon were made last March, but they resurfaced Thursday at a time when Washington and Beijing’s relations have soured after Trump questioned the “One China” policy and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said China should be barred from islands in the contested region.
“We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years, aren’t we? There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face — and you understand how important face is — and say it’s an ancient territorial sea,” Bannon said on a radio show hosted for Breitbart in March 2016.
China has been accused of showing its might by laying claims to almost all of South China Sea, from where about $5 trillion worth of maritime trade passes every year. Beijing also has been reportedly building runways and ports on islands in the contested waters to further its claim over the region. However, the country has consistently defended its actions, saying it does not intend to start a conflict and that its operations will actually add to the safety of the region.
This isn’t some historian. It’s Bannon who has Trump’s ear. And he’s more likely to take actions that will make that prediction reality than any of us can possibly imagine.
re: #402 darthstar
Our skepticism of media organizations is going to bite us on the ass one day. CNN=fake news. Daily Fail. Faux News - okay…that last one’s a tossup.
The difference is that the Daily Mail has been absolutely notorious in UK the same way Fox is amongst us for years. Sensationalism and shoddy, slanted reporting galore. It’s not a new thing to take anything Daily Mail says with a grain of salt. The only real surprise is that it’s remained out of Murdoch’s banner somehow.
EDIT: Related - Youtube Video
re: #406 lawhawk
It’ll have to be in the next four years.
re: #405 darthstar
I know, I know…another photograph of an old yearbook…paper never refused ink…someone call Snopes.
Yeah, lots of stuff floating around. Not sure I believe this either. Somebody in my TL used a David Duke quote and attributed it to DT’s nominee.
re: #406 lawhawk
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The US will go to war with China over the South China Sea dispute in next 5-10 years.
This isn’t some historian. It’s Bannon who has Trump’s ear. And he’s more likely to take actions that will make that prediction reality than any of us can possibly imagine.
War with China would be like nothing this country has ever seen before.
re: #410 HappyWarrior
War with China would be like nothing this country has ever seen before.
They would greet us as lib——
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re: #409 Sir John Barron
Yeah, lots of stuff floating around. Not sure I believe this either. Somebody in my TL used a David Duke quote and attributed it to DT’s nominee.
Wish people wouldn’t do that. Gorsuch is a bad pick but he’s not David Duke.
re: #411 Sir John Barron
They would greet us as lib——
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Goddamn and to think of all the idiots who think Trump was more “dovish” than HRC.
re: #406 lawhawk
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The US will go to war with China over the South China Sea dispute in next 5-10 years.
This isn’t some historian. It’s Bannon who has Trump’s ear. And he’s more likely to take actions that will make that prediction reality than any of us can possibly imagine.
Go to war with China and watch troops perish by the thousands. Never mind the economy going down faster than you can make a run on the bank.
re: #393 lawhawk
Pres. Trump: We’ll develop a system to ensure people “admitted into our country fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty.”
Not sure how something like this could possibly be enforced or ensured or how it would even be measured, beyond verifying the person is not affiliated with terrorist groups.
re: #414 darthstar
Go to war with China and watch troops perish by the thousands. Never mind the economy going down faster than you can make a run on the bank.
Not to mention that China is a nuclear power with a significant amount of troops, which means this could escalate to a nuclear exchange.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Donald Trump seems to believe it is “illegal” to flee war and dictatorship.
Interesting.
re: #415 Sir John Barron
Not sure how something like this could possibly be enforced or ensured or how it would even be measured, beyond verifying the person is not affiliated with terrorist groups.
Can’t measure it? Can’t identify it?
You can’t come in.
Easy peazy.
re: #409 Sir John Barron
Yeah, lots of stuff floating around. Not sure I believe this either. Somebody in my TL used a David Duke quote and attributed it to DT’s nominee.
The quote I posted was from someone who saw it first hand…and whom I know well and trust.
re: #417 John Hughes
Donald Trump seems to believe it is “illegal” to flee war and dictatorship.
Interesting.
I’m pretty sure the administration’s line is the same as Lahren’s: If you’re not fighting, you’re cowards, therefore you don’t deserve to escape.
re: #416 Teukka
Not to mention that China is a nuclear power with a significant amount of troops, which means this could escalate to a nuclear exchange.
China wouldn’t have to launch any nukes. Just wait us out, occasionally sinking our ships. We have a whole lot of water to cross just to engage them.
White House official confirms President Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ commments were meant to be ‘lighthearted’ https://t.co/yl2Q3p26np
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 2, 2017
Just 12 hours ago they were denying he threatened to invade Mexico. Now it was a “joke.” @AP https://t.co/FI2UQSC3yg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2017
re: #410 HappyWarrior
War with China would be like nothing this country has ever seen before.
Keep in mind that China, as a result of its one-child policy and selective female infanticide, has a surplus of tens of millions of unmarriageable males.
They could afford to lose lots of these fellows in a war, even against minimal gain, and it would still favor their demographics.
re: #419 darthstar
The quote I posted was from someone who saw it first hand…and whom I know well and trust.
He was just joking can’t you libtard snowflakes take a joke!???!!?!?
And imagine how much it benefits the Chinese to significantly weaken our Navy.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Of course it must be said that Australia deserves insults over this scummy deal — it is disgusting that Australia is refusing to allow these refugees entry into Australia, instead fobbing them off on an third country for the spurious reason that the traveled to Australia in boats instead of flying.
Arguably Obama was rather too nice to the Australians — they should clean up their own mess. However a solution is needed, and the needs of the refugees should come first.
Never let Australians kid you into thinking they’re “nice”. They’ve been voting for racist scumbags for years.
re: #414 darthstar
Go to war with China and watch troops perish by the thousands. Never mind the economy going down faster than you can make a run on the bank.
China has at least as valid a claim to those sandbars as I do to this 1/4 acre of Chief Eufaula’s turf.
And they haven’t even polled on threatening to invade Mexico, or berating the Australian PM…
So in the past week Trump’s approval rating in the Gallup poll has gone from 46%-45% favorable to 52%-43% unfavorable. cc: @Chris_amade. pic.twitter.com/a22wDWVdFy
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) February 2, 2017
Reminder: It is HARD to move approval numbers. Many events that get tons of press have no effect. Wait for more data, but pretty remarkable. https://t.co/7tP8N43QNt
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) February 2, 2017
re: #423 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Keep in mind that China, as a result of its one-child policy and selective female infanticide, has a surplus of tens of millions of unmarriageable mails. They could afford to lose these fellows in a war, even against minimal gain, and it would still favor their demographics.
Yep.
re: #426 John Hughes
Of course it must be said that Australia deserves insults over this scummy deal — it is disgusting that Australia is refusing to allow these refugees entry into Australia, instead fobbing them off on an third country for the spurious reason that the traveled to Australia in boats instead of flying.
Arguably Obama was rather too nice to the Australians — they should clean up their own mess. However a solution is needed, and the needs of the refugees should come first.
Never let Australians kid you into thinking they’re “nice”. They’ve been voting for racist scumbags for years.
Pretty sure the nice ones are Canadians, unless I’ve conflated my colonials again.
re: #426 John Hughes
Indeed, xenophobia seems to be on the rise in Australia, with the election of Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party.
The National Prayer Breakfast? pic.twitter.com/KYUqEZbJIE
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) February 2, 2017
Ouch, that’s got to cause some tiny little orange fists to ball up…
Arnold Schwarzenegger spokesperson responds to President Trump at National Prayer Breakfast —> pic.twitter.com/VMJlBoDlYE
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) February 2, 2017
re: #428 FormerDirtDart
And they haven’t even polled on threatening to invade Mexico, or berating the Australian PM…
So he’s at 52% favorable?
From Sarah Proud and Tall at Balloon Juice:
Malcolm Turnbull may be a bit of a cock, but he’s going to come out of this looking quite good domestically, if only from sheer relief he isn’t Donald Fucking Trump. Standing up to a rich dickhead gets you a fair bit of kudos down here (even if you’re a rich dickhead with a sideline in migrant scaremongering yourself). Malcolm might be a folk hero in the line of Ned Kelly and Breaker Morant come morning.
Trump is now gainsaying his own private commitments, via Twitter. This is an extraordinary situation and one that is almost impossible to manage. American prestige is on the line.
World leaders be warned: Trump’s conversations are not private and his word, unreliable.
Australians take their relationship, and their long history of mateship, with America very seriously. This won’t damage that greatly long term, but I don’t think Lord Dampnut (h/t Anymouse at LGF) will be getting an invitation for a Presidential* tour of Australia any time soon.
re: #430 Decatur Deb
Pretty sure the nice ones are Canadians, unless I’ve conflated my colonials again.
Checks hand with current and former British commonwealth info, Canadians- nice, Aussies- fun to drink with, and Welsh- Do not ever call them English,
re: #434 Sir John Barron
So he’s at 52% favorable?
No, unfavorable. They didn’t put the numbers up consistently, but he went from being 1 point favorable, to 9 points unfavorable.
re: #438 Belafon
No, unfavorable. They didn’t put the numbers up consistently, but he went from being 1 point favorable, to 9 points unfavorable.
Thanks. It actually wouldn’t surprise me if his favorable ratings went up some. The sheer fact of his being president as opposed to just a candidate is likely to cause some people to judge him favorable so long as the country doesn’t completely literally fall to pieces.
re: #432 Bubblehead II
And people are saying they’d switch from D to R to vote for him. Like voting for fucking celebrities hasn’t shown to be a fucking disaster.
We’re done. There’s no coming back from this level of stupidity. If there is even something to come back to.
Shoot me in the head.
re: #411 Sir John Barron
No, but at this point those of us outside of whatever boundaries the Republic of California gets allowed, might do so for them!
And I’m afraid I’m no longer joking.
Remember how Drudge used to obsess over Presidential approval numbers?
re: #442 weave
Remember how Drudge used to obsess over Presidential approval numbers?
Irrelevant! Fake polls!
What’s up with the botched up Yemen raid?
Here (in France) we’re seeing photos of a cute 8-year (?) old girl allegedly having been gunned down by one of your soldiers, plus allegations of other civilians (non-terrorists) also having been down in cold blood. It looks like My Lai.
Here you seem mostly to talk about a dead SEAL.
What’s going on?
re: #440 MsJ
And people are saying they’d switch from D to R to vote for him. Like voting for fucking celebrities hasn’t shown to be a fucking disaster.
We’re done. There’s no coming back from this level of stupidity. If there is even something to come back to.
Shoot me in the head.
Well at least Arnold has some experience with Governing unlike the pumpkin pinochet.
re: #349 b.d.
Good morning Lizards,
Another day that I wake up knowing, for certain, that I am a happier man than the billionaire POTUS ever will be.
Thanks.
I love a good shot of positive thinking in the morning.
re: #393 lawhawk
Trump speaking about admitting people into our country who fully embrace our values of religious and personal liberty.
All while Trump violates the core tenet by imposing Muslim bans and attacking the 1A at every opportunity.
Irony is dead.
But doublethink is getting a shot in the arm.
re: #444 Lupin
What’s up with the botched up Yemen raid?
Here (in France) we’re seeing photos of a cute 8-year (?) old girl allegedly having been gunned down by one of your soldiers, plus allegations of other civilians (non-terrorists) also having been down in cold blood. It looks like My Lai.
Here you seem mostly to talk about a dead SEAL.
What’s going on?
Because dead little girls are far more comon than dead SEALs.
re: #439 Sir John Barron
Thanks. It actually wouldn’t surprise me if his favorable ratings went up some. The sheer fact of his being president as opposed to just a candidate is likely to cause some people to judge him favorable so long as the country doesn’t completely literally fall to pieces.
In order for that to happen, he would have to sit down and not move or do anything for days or weeks at a time.
That’s his inherent flaw. Anything and everything he does is meant to antagonize. Even supposedly non-inflammatory events like the inauguration become a (tiny) male appendage waving contest for Trump.
It’s at the likelihood that his ratings will forever remain subterranean. But with the GOP rank-and-file unable to pull their heads out of their Dominionist agenda imposing asses, it will remain that way until he’s forced out… democratically or…
…
re: #427 Decatur Deb
No, they really don’t.
They’re doing it to turn the entire SCS, outside Vietnam’s and the Philippines’ 20-mile limit, into Chinese internal waters.
And that’s even more asinine than Canada trying the same thing with the Northwest passage.
There really are no good guys between the Confederate States of America, the Red Chinese, and Putinist Russia.
Just the EU and parts of the non-American Anglosphere, and the RoCalifornia if it’s let escape the CSA.
Since everybody needs a juvenile moment:
Added benefit - judge who sentenced him is named “Doody”. https://t.co/ilD53gAdBc
— Ed the Sock (@EdtheSock) February 2, 2017
re: #445 Bubblehead II
Well at least Arnold has some experience with Governing unlike the pumpkin pinochet.
True. Not that CA was doing spectacularly under his leadership.
re: #451 Chrysicat
No, they really don’t.
They’re doing it to turn the entire SCS, outside Vietnam’s and the Philippines’ 20-mile limit, into Chinese internal waters.
And that’s even more asinine than Canada trying the same thing with the Northwest passage.
There really are no good guys between the Confederate States of America, the Red Chinese, and Putinist Russia.
Just the EU and parts of the non-American Anglosphere, and the RoCalifornia if it’s let escape the CSA.
Really wanted to upding that, but my old folks didn’t join the Anglosphere willingly. And Chief Eufaula gave up the deed at the point of Andrew Jackson’s sword. We have a mural about it downtown.
re: #387 Charles Johnson
Try also “non-citizen.” Milo is Greek but may have some sort of immigration status in Britain. What a hypocrite Trump is.
re: #455 mmmirele
Try also “non-citizen.” Milo is Greek but may have some sort of immigration status in Britain. What a hypocrite Trump is.
Seriously? Hater ain’t even an official, real American citizen?
re: #444 Lupin
What’s up with the botched up Yemen raid?
Here (in France) we’re seeing photos of a cute 8-year (?) old girl allegedly having been gunned down by one of your soldiers, plus allegations of other civilians (non-terrorists) also having been down in cold blood. It looks like My Lai.
Here you seem mostly to talk about a dead SEAL.
What’s going on?
Sorry, but it takes a tremendous level of ignorance to suggest even the slightest similarity to My Lai
re: #449 Decatur Deb
Which one of those is an American?
re: #454 Decatur Deb
Sorry, should have known you were mostly First Nations (or First American. ‘Native American’ really does seem a bad call for me, not least because there has to be some legitimate term for non-descendants-of-First-Americans, who were born within the 20th-century bounds of the USA).
No idea how that slipped my mind.
re: #449 Decatur Deb
Because dead little girls are far more comon than dead SEALs.
And the little girl was the daughter of an American who was fighting against Navy SEALs until he got his ticket punched.
In other news, someone released direct phone umbers for White House staff. Fun times…
re: #460 Chrysicat
Sorry, should have known you were mostly First Nations (or First American. ‘Native American’ really does seem a bad call for me, not least because there has to be some legitimate term for non-descendants-of-First-Americans, who were born within the 20th-century bounds of the USA).
No idea how that slipped my mind.
Nah. My kids have the fashionable trace of Cherokee and Creek from my wife. Mom’s side was Irish.
re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Shoes. Shoes are good.
Trump said he would “totally destroy” limits on political activity by churches. Congress would have to act https://t.co/OtgKlKnf1i
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) February 2, 2017
Unfu…
Nope. Totally fucking believable.
re: #462 Decatur Deb
Ahh. Yes, I guess that does count, though I really do think that the Celtic languages aren’t quite so well suited to even wrapping a tongue around, let alone being an international-communication language, as English.
Though that might only be because the latter language is the only one I can even imagine thinking in, and there are concepts that I believe to be indispensable to technological society in it.
And I like technological society! :-P
re: #465 Chrysicat
Ahh. Yes, I guess that does count, though I really do think that the Celtic languages aren’t quite so well suited to even wrapping a tongue around, let alone being an international-communication language, as English.
Though that might only be because the latter language is the only one I can even imagine thinking in, and there are concepts that I believe to be indispensable to technological society in it.
And I like technological society! :-P
I’m so old I remember when “helicoptoris” was introduced to Church Latin.
re: #457 FormerDirtDart
Sorry, but it takes a tremendous level of ignorance to suggest even the slightest similarity to My Lai
You may well be correct, but that is not the impression given by the articles I’ve read.
Let me translate a passage from the one I linked to, which is among the least “controversial”:
According to the child’s grandfather, Nawar-al-Awlaki was killed while she was at home with her mother. “A bullet hit her around 2:30 in the morning. Other children living in the same house were also killed.”
Nawar-al-Awlaki, known as Nora, was the daughter of US al-Qaeda leader Anwar-al-Awlaki, who was killed by a US strike in 2011.
The overall number of dead is estimated at 59 civilians according to Yemeni authorities, including 14 militants.
By “militantsa” I assume they mean “terrorists”.
While there were no gang rapes and mutilations here, according to wiki, 22 people were killed in My Lai; even subtracting the terrorists you’re talking about 45 dead civilians here.
Maybe the analogy isn’t correct, but you don’t seem to realize the impact on public opinion this is having.
Fun times.
Fed Ex says I wasn’t home when they delivered my phone.
I fucking well was here.
They say there’s a door tag that says where I can pick it up or when they’ll try again.
There’s no FUCKING DOOR TAG!
re: #468 I cannot.
Fun times.
Fed Ex says I wasn’t home when they delivered my phone.
I fucking well was here.
They say there’s a door tag that says where I can pick it up or when they’ll try again.
There’s no FUCKING DOOR TAG!
They attempted to deliver to the wrong address?
re: #363 lawhawk
Oh, and some folks are now saying that Trump/Bannon’s actions are proof that he finally needs to be removed from office.
Sorry, the time was months ago when people were all EMAIL! and thinking that there was no difference between Trump and Clinton and that they could throw away their vote for a 3d party candidate, because there’d be no difference in policies or procedures, or that life would go on and they’d be insulated from the consequences.
Right.
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You cannot count on impeachment here. The GOP would need a massive body count for that to happen - and many of them would be swept up for being complicit. No, the path is via the 25th Amendment at the moment, and even there, the GOP wont act because they’ve been fine with all of this. They’ve gained the power they crave. They stole a supreme court seat and have suffered no consequences for that. They’ll go along with what Bannon and Trump are doing, because they think they’ll be fine.
Strange times.
I met with a client yesterday to drop off final files of some illustration work I did for their gun dealership. Yes…they specialize in AR and AK style rifles.
He is an ex-Marine with Iraq tours. Big guy, all buffed up and he and his business partner run fitness centers in the central Ohio area. Originally from Texas and still has people there.
What would most people think his politics would be? Probably many would say he is a conservative Trump lover.
He told me yesterday he just joined MoveOn.
100% does not like Trump…can’t figure out why America didn’t see it.
Also told me they had their best month in their new rifle sales business in October. Pre-election loading up by the scared conservative gun nuts.
Looks for a surge in liberal/progressive sales as he figures they will be buying to protect themselves from the scared conservative gun nuts and newly pumped up Trumpers.
Yep…strange times indeed.
As I listened to him I had visions of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck…with Elmer Fudd the typical American Trump voter.
re: #464 lawhawk
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Unfu…
Nope. Totally fucking believable.
A thank you to the fundies that overlooked everything wrong with him.
Trump promised that he would murder the families of terror suspects. Mission accomplished. #Yemen #failedraid #ImpeachTrump
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) February 2, 2017
“Result: -
-Union tactical victory.
-Confederate strategic victory
-Slavery Abolished
-Confederate racialist ideals spread throughout USA”— Chrysi Cat (@chrysicat) February 2, 2017
re: #467 Lupin
You may well be correct, but that is not the impression given by the articles I’ve read.
Let me translate a passage from the one I linked to, which is among the least “controversial”:
By “militantsa” I assume they mean “terrorists”.
While there were no gang rapes and mutilations here, according to wiki, 22 people were killed in My Lai; even subtracting the terrorists you’re talking about 45 dead civilians here.
Maybe the analogy isn’t correct, but you don’t seem to realize the impact on public opinion this is having.
The difference is that it wasn’t done deliberately on company-level orders. And there hasn’t been a real opportunity to deny it (yet).
“It’s not the Zippo squad, it’s the cover-up.”
re: #471 HappyWarrior
A thank you to the fundies that overlooked everything wrong with him.
Although they want DT to “destroy” limits on church political activity. So, feature, not a bug, etc.
re: #340 Decatur Deb
I’ve little evidence but something similar happened here in Toronto during the G20 in 2010.
Despite months of preparation, $1.8 billion spent on security, police forces from all over the country plus some Armed Forces units about 2 dozen ‘Black Bloc’ people performed acts of vandalism downtown for about 90 minutes. Then they took off their balaclavas and disappeared into the peaceful protestors.
Only then did the security act, kettling protestors and arresting large numbers of them. As far as I know not a single ‘Black Bloc’ member was arrested and charged.
As I said, little evidence, except that the police didn’t do jack shit until the damage was done.
re: #378 lawhawk
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This second video is notable, not only because it shows size and scope of the eruption, but because there’s a couple of people who managed to get dangerously close to the erupting lava.
Is it me, or are the two videos of the lava flowing into the sea fittingly symbolic of the times?
Good chance it is me…but…
DAY 12: I have not casually started a war on Twitter (I don’t even really know how to use this account, tbh).
— ALT-POTUS 45 (@IfHillaryHad) February 2, 2017
Oh, and Hills sent Bill on another food run:
DAY 12: Had a good chat with Australia’s PM. Hacked into Chaffetz’s FB & posted “Hillary’s the best.” Sent Bill to Georgetown Cupcake.
— ALT-POTUS 45 (@IfHillaryHad) February 2, 2017
Schwarzenegger to Trump: Why don’t we switch jobs and people can finally sleep comfortably again?
My thoughts on the Nat Prayer Bf earlier…
Couldn’t we just not tell Trump about certain events like the #nationalprayerbreakfast ?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 2, 2017
re: #467 Lupin
You may well be correct, but that is not the impression given by the articles I’ve read.
Let me translate a passage from the one I linked to, which is among the least “controversial”:
By “militantsa” I assume they mean “terrorists”.
While there were no gang rapes and mutilations here, according to wiki, 22 people were killed in My Lai; even subtracting the terrorists you’re talking about 45 dead civilians here.
Maybe the analogy isn’t correct, but you don’t seem to realize the impact on public opinion this is having.
The My Lai massacre involved the deaths of hundreds of civilians, estimates ranging from around ~350 to 500.
Not tens of people during a massive firefight. Hundreds of people executed.
re: #480 lawhawk
Thank you for pointing out an account I should have followed sooner! :-D
re: #387 Charles Johnson
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
6:13 AM - 2 Feb 2017
26,394 26,394 Retweets 85,673 85,673 likes
So, does this mean if Trump moves to stop any forms of demonstrations and protests against him then the American people can call for Congress to cut off FEDERAL FUNDS to any Trump programs, legislation and the like?
I’m in!
re: #474 Decatur Deb
The difference is that it wasn’t done deliberately on company-level orders. And there hasn’t been a real opportunity to deny it (yet).
All true, yet subtleties that will fly over the simple crowd.
What folks see here is a shockingly photogenic war crime, which will drive an appetite for revenge, which, with information-sharing being imperiled between the EU and the US, increases the probability of a successful strike on US soil , which in turn will be the last excuse needed to go from the current democrature to full-blown junta.
I mean, you’re not playing with fire, you’re smoking in a bathtub full of gasoline.
re: #483 FormerDirtDart
The My Lai massacre involved the deaths of hundreds of civilians, estimates ranging from around ~350 to 500.
Not tens of people during a massive firefight. Hundreds of people executed.
Thank you for the correction, I genuinely had no idea so many people had been killed.
re: #381 lawhawk
I’m sure the SEALs that were in Yemen are going to have things to say to these people. Most of it will be profane.
re: #486 Lupin
All true, yet subtleties that will fly over the simple crowd.
What folks see here is a shockingly photogenic war crime, which will drive an appetite for revenge, which, with information-sharing being imperiled between the EU and the US, increases the probability of a successful strike on US soil , which in turn will be the last excuse needed to go from the current democrature to full-blown junta.
I mean, you’re not playing with fire, you’re smoking in a bathtub full of gasoline.
Bush’s approvals weren’t negative at the time 9/11 happened. Plus, there had not been a 9/11. Trump doesn’t get the “we didn’t know it could happen” benefit.
There were a few heroes at Mai Lai. Decades later the Army recognized these ones. Our office turned out for the decoration ceremony.
For whatever this is worth.
POTUS angry at hearing about Arnold S reply to pray-for-ratings dig. “I won! If I don’t know how to be Pres then how come I won?”
— Rogue POTUS Staff (@RoguePOTUSStaff) February 2, 2017
re: #488 Romantic Heretic
They will be professional and they will mourn their loss and will demand that those above them provide them with the intel and capabilities to make their mission a success.
This was not a success by any stretch. Lost personnel. Injured personnel. Mission objectives missed. They basically walked into a trap, and they knew it. They persevered despite the odds.
The President used the SEAL’s death as a op for showing toughness.
re: #452 lockjawcanbefun
Added benefit - judge who sentenced him is named “Doody”.
Judge Judy, meet Judge Doody.
re: #491 MsJ
My opinion on that account: if it’s real, than holy shit. And if it’s not, then hopefully the paranoid wackjobs in the WH still think it is and it drives them crazy.
re: #464 lawhawk
Trump said he would “totally destroy” limits on political activity by churches. Congress would have to act
why should he not reward those people who made his success possible?
@aravosis @Sonic_Screwup pic.twitter.com/gwr7gVFeRt
— Garry Bacon (@gbacon85) February 2, 2017
Trump’s briefing before his call with Australian Prime Minister. https://t.co/dmTVFfZmBu
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 2, 2017
re: #490 Decatur Deb
There were a few heroes at Mai Lai. Decades later the Army recognized these ones. Our office turned out for the decoration ceremony.
I remember reading about Thompson when I worked for the history magazine firm. Guy was a hero.
Those that tell me not to tweet politics because I’m an uninformed celebrity are the same people that voted for… an uninformed celebrity.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 2, 2017
re: #490 Decatur Deb
There were a couple heroes at Mai Lai. Decades later the Army recognized these. Our office turned out for the decoration ceremony.
“Don’t do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come.”
damn straight
re: #498 lawhawk
Love Alyssa. And she’s actually pretty informed.
re: #492 lawhawk
They will be professional and they will mourn their loss and will demand that those above them provide them with the intel and capabilities to make their mission a success.
This was not a success by any stretch. Lost personnel. Injured personnel. Mission objectives missed. They basically walked into a trap, and they knew it. They persevered despite the odds.
The President used the SEAL’s death as a op for showing toughness.
And even the attempt to frame this as Trump’s own ‘Benghazi’ falls flat. Benghazi was a surprise attack that caught us off guard. This was something we willingly walked into despite earlier intel that this was a mistake. And people suffered for it, civilians and personnel alike. This was a much, much, much more avoidable mistake. And Trump will likely pay no consequence for it either because, Trump.
Back to back tweets in my feed:
McCain:”I called Australia’s Ambassador to the United States this morning to express my unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 2, 2017
.@SenJohnMcCain also tells me he has concerns about what he’s seen/read on the Yemen operation.
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) February 2, 2017
mccain always has “concerns” then on everything but torture he lines up like a good bootlicker https://t.co/bqee7R4zRU
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 2, 2017
McCain is simultaneously trying to clean up Trump’s shit show and enabling it.
re: #504 lawhawk
Back to back tweets in my feed:
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McCain is simultaneously trying to clean up Trump’s shit show and enabling it.
He likes to have it both ways. He talked tough on Tillerson and ultimately voted to confirm him. McCain’s a party guy. through and through.
re: #504 lawhawk
McCain:”I called Australia’s Ambassador to the United States this morning to express my unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance.”
This should keep DT occupied on Twitter all afternoon.
re: #505 HappyWarrior
He likes to have it both ways. He talked tough on Tillerson and ultimately voted to confirm him. McCain’s a party guy. through and through.
Seriously, he did some mighty about-face on Tillerson.
re: #491 MsJ
For whatever this is worth.
Who doesn’t think Trump could have said this? If I were making an Oliver-Stone-like movie about Trump, I would include this even if it wasn’t true.
re: #381 lawhawk
re: #488 Romantic Heretic
I’m sure the SEALs that were in Yemen are going to have things to say to these people. Most of it will be profane.
Military convoy spotted near Louisville flying Donald Trump flag belonged to SEAL unit, U.S. Navy spokesperson says. https://t.co/JKMCpcDoBA pic.twitter.com/yF0ktSiEgV
— ABC News (@ABC) February 2, 2017
1/ “We’re supposed to be ‘quiet professionals.’ So the guys representing us in public are inevitably the biggest tools we ever worked with.” https://t.co/7f06p5GAC9
— Phil Klay (@PhilKlay) February 2, 2017
2/ Said an active duty SEAL to a friend. I think of it whenever I see stuff like this.
3/ Seems a good time to link to this: SEALs gone wild: publicity, fame, and the loss of the quiet professional Link
4/ There are folks in the community pushing back against this kind of nonsense.
5/ “The individuals mentioned in this thesis, and others out promoting themselves as SEALs, represent the minority…
6/ “If politics are allowed to cloud the apolitical nature of elite military organizations like NSW, credibility and capability
7/ are diminished, and the fabric of civil-military relations is strained. Society must not fall victim to the current ‘SEAL Mythos,’
8/ which, as retired SEAL Bob Schoultz correctly says “speaks more of bravado than quiet professionalism,
9/ more in-your-face, than humble servant of our country.” The people of this nation should be suspicious
10/ of SEALs who speak too loudly about themselves or act too interested in undermining their elected leaders.”
57 U.S. Jewish centers receive bomb threats in past month: ‘Why is no one talking about this?’ https://t.co/DOA7EI0Von
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) February 2, 2017
And at end of same month, what’s Trump White House do?Tells FBI to stop counter-terrorism work against white supremacists. https://t.co/yM6iVeX6Cv
— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) February 2, 2017
This bothers me to no end. I worry that my shul will be next. We have an active congregation, and others in the NYC metro area have been targeted with threats. It doesn’t take much to turn a threat into an actual attack. In fact a few years ago, someone did engage in firebombing shuls. They’re in jail now for attempted murder and arson and hate crimes, but here we’ve got Bannon/Trump pushing to end FBI program that identifies right wing terror groups and threats, not just Islamic terror groups.
Who benefits? Not those who are targeted by right wing terror groups and white supremacist/neo Nazi groups, who are increasingly active and coming out of the shadows thanks to Bannon/Trump.
re: #449 Decatur Deb
Because dead little girls are far more comon than dead SEALs.
SEALs are heroes. Dead little girls are unavoidable collateral damage.
re: #412 HappyWarrior
Wish people wouldn’t do that. Gorsuch is a bad pick but he’s not David Duke.
Yeah. He’s cleaner and slicker. /
re: #510 lawhawk
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This bothers me to no end. I worry that my shul will be next. We have an active congregation, and others in the NYC metro area have been targeted with threats. It doesn’t take much to turn a threat into an actual attack. In fact a few years ago, someone did engage in firebombing shuls. They’re in jail now for attempted murder and arson and hate crimes, but here we’ve got Bannon/Trump pushing to end FBI program that identifies right wing terror groups and threats, not just Islamic terror groups.
Who benefits? Not those who are targeted by right wing terror groups and white supremacist/neo Nazi groups, who are increasingly active and coming out of the shadows thanks to Bannon/Trump.
And Trump’s administration is going to ignore white supremacist threats in this countr to focus only on Islamic terrorism.
re: #513 HappyWarrior
And Trump’s administration is going to ignore white supremacist threats in this countr to focus only on Islamic terrorism.
They’re not going to ignore them, they are going to RECRUIT THEM.
re: #513 HappyWarrior
And Trump’s administration is going to ignore white supremacist threats in this countr to focus only on Islamic terrorism.
Because Islam is a threat to Our Way of Life.
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re: #510 lawhawk
57 U.S. Jewish centers receive bomb threats in past month: ‘Why is no one talking about this?’
How typical is this? Sounds like an awful lot.
re: #504 lawhawk
Back to back tweets in my feed:
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McCain is simultaneously trying to clean up Trump’s shit show and enabling it.
.@SenJohnMcCain also tells me he has concerns about what he’s seen/read on the Yemen operation.
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) February 2, 2017
mccain always has “concerns” then on everything but torture he lines up like a good bootlicker https://t.co/bqee7R4zRU
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 2, 2017
McCain is holding off any real thoughts or purported principles until we bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. https://t.co/mieTJsgAPz
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #510 lawhawk
Yet DT rages at…an incident involving provocateur Milo at Berkeley.
re: #422 Charles Johnson
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Wish somebody would remind the yam that he’s the fucking president, not an aspiring right wing comic at open mic night.
I know shouldn’t be, but I’m still totally shocked at the stream of consciousness crap he posts on Twitter. That he gives every “thought” voice is utterly amazing. And pathetic. And frightening.
re: #414 darthstar
Go to war with China and watch troops perish by the thousands. Never mind the economy going down faster than you can make a run on the bank.
Troops. Fuck that. I’d be worried about all of us.
I never forget who developed black powder and used it first in fireworks that led to rockets.
And they have scientists too. Good ones. Many trained in the U.S.
re: #519 Sir John Barron
Yet DT rages at…an incident involving provocateur Milo at Berkeley.
Trump, and Fox, are trying to distract from the Yemen operation report.
re: #520 BeachDem
Wish somebody would remind the yam that he’s the fucking president, not an aspiring right wing comic at open mic night.
I know shouldn’t be, but I’m still totally shocked at the stream of consciousness crap he posts on Twitter. That he gives every “thought” voice is utterly amazing. And pathetic. And frightening.
That’s why we love him so much! So much honest!
re: #425 Belafon
And imagine how much it benefits the Chinese to significantly weaken our Navy.
Hmmm. Remember Trump wants to rebuild a strong Navy.
re: #510 lawhawk
If DT isn’t going to speak up about this, somebody in Congress should.
re: #524 ObserverArt
Hmmm. Remember Trump wants to rebuild a strong Navy.
BATTLESHIPS! THE BEST, THE BIGGEST BATTLESHIP FLEET EVER ASSEMBLED!!!!!
re: #524 ObserverArt
Hmmm. Remember Trump wants to rebuild a strong Navy.
Unless we were to convert to a WW2 style wartime economy, we’re not going to build that fast, and we definitely won’t build anything like carriers, cruisers, or subs fast enough for a Trump induced war.
re: #523 Sir John Barron
That’s why we love him so much! So much honest!
Already sick of how honest he is.
Team Trump claim that Obama cleared Yemen raid false;was deferred to Trump so he could run a deliberate process. Instead, he hosted dinner.
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) February 2, 2017
Biden’s top national security aide https://t.co/GaaeZ937Ww
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 2, 2017
re: #529 FormerDirtDart
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Already off to a sterling start. Meanwhlie Obama was cool and collected doing jokes whlie the OBL raid was going on.
re: #505 HappyWarrior
He likes to have it both ways. He talked tough on Tillerson and ultimately voted to confirm him. McCain’s a
party guyMcCain guy through and through.
I will never be convinced that McCain cares about anyone other than McCain.
re: #531 BeachDem
I will never be convinced that McCain cares about anyone other than McCain.
I think that’s right honestly. I’ve actually come to dislike McCain more than I have W Bush.
Anti-Trump graffiti spree a sign of emerging alt-left, liberal activist says https://t.co/l1uBLrUi2i pic.twitter.com/CGlRsYUKKm
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 2, 2017
Notice how @FoxNews automatically interprets someone spray painting “No Fascist USA” on the side of a building as “anti-Trump graffiti? 😂😂😂 https://t.co/DxNliZnJdG
Well today’s work research paper is on NAFTA and TPP. Unlike CFR, this is something I really am not really one side or the other on in. I lean twoards supporting deals like NAFTA and TPP because they expand our foreign relationships though.
re: #535 HappyWarrior
That tweet is some serious four-dimensional projection.
Can’t decide what’s the worst thing about Drudge using this fake photo for fearmongering purposes. pic.twitter.com/BOYm2tnSZf
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) February 2, 2017
Undermines the nature of the threat if you’re reminding everyone that Iran photo edited their missile launch tests/exercises. Oh, and Jar Jar approves.
re: #535 HappyWarrior
Alt-left?
we already have alt-National Park Service. I am glad to see the left is reclaiming the term.
and I would welcome the rise of a folk-hero movement, I think it is just what the nation needs to rally around against such a narcissistic bully.
re: #539 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we already have alt-National Park Service. I am glad to see the left is reclaiming the term.
and I would welcome the rise of a folk-hero movement, I think it is just what the nation needs to rally around against such a narcissistic bully.
They’re saying punk music is going to make a comeback here in the Trump years. Hopefully folk continues to do so too. I like both types.
re: #533 FormerDirtDart
Anti-Trump graffiti spree a sign of emerging alt-left, liberal activist says
Or, you know, George Soros paying leftists to graffiti.
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re: #532 HappyWarrior
Same, as much as I dislike W (ok, hate), I don’t think he was in it only for himself. I get the MEMEME vibe from McCain…except for one issue, and I think its still a MEMEME thing, because torture directly affected him.
And then you get to Trump and I get a mix of that MEMEME vibe, but without the basic intelligence that even W had, and with ego cranked up etc…but beyond that, I get the feeling of this…
And despite whatever I think about W or McCain, I don’t get that feeling from them.
re: #535 HappyWarrior
Alt-left?
@FoxNews So you’re admitting Trump’s a fascist? I didn’t see his name referenced. Also alt-left? I guess that’s a slur on Non-racists.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 2, 2017
re: #542 I cannot.
Same, as much as I dislike W (ok, hate), I don’t think he was in it only for himself. I get the MEMEME vibe from McCain…except for one issue, and I think its still a MEMEME thing, because torture directly affected him.
And then you get to Trump and I get a mix of that MEMEME vibe, but without the basic intelligence that even W had, and with ego cranked up etc…but beyond that, I get the feeling of this…
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That’s what I mean. I think W was in it for people other than himself. McCain is much more self absorbed and image obsesesd.
And despite whatever I think about W or McCain, I don’t get that feeling from them.
Uhh, what?
The U.S. Treasury Department is relaxing sanctions on the FSB…buying IT equipment. What? https://t.co/yyRb5GfHyl
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 2, 2017
John McCain, please pick up the white courtesy phone…
re: #546 HappyWarrior
I’d drink to that but I’m telecommuting today.
I don’t see how those two things are incompatible?
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re: #538 lawhawk
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Undermines the nature of the threat if you’re reminding everyone that Iran photo edited their missile launch tests/exercises. Oh, and Jar Jar approves.
Who cares as long as Drudge gets a nice kickback from Putin and Co. to run it.
re: #540 HappyWarrior
They’re saying punk music is going to make a comeback here in the Trump years. Hopefully folk continues to do so too. I like both types.
we did both at once
not really representative, but here are some tracks from the album I co-wrote (all the songs) and recorded with them (banjo, acoustic guitar and mandolin)
re: #545 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Uhh, what?
John McCain, please pick up the white courtesy phone…
Maybe buying their IT equipment will make it easier for them to hack us.
half sarc
re: #546 HappyWarrior
I’d drink to that but I’m telecommuting today.
I’m telecommuting for another hour. Tree fell and closed highway 92 out of Half Moon Bay, so Highway 1 North has been a parking lot. One of the disadvantages of having only two roads out.
Of little importance in the scheme of things, but illustrates how the yam’s “mind” works (or doesn’t)
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
re: #547 A wild WITHAK appeared!
I don’t see how those two things are incompatible?
/, sorta
Yeah I’m research NAFTA. I should have bought Canadian whisky and bourbon to accommodate my tequlla.
re: #552 BeachDem
Of little importance in the scheme of things, but illustrates how the yam’s “mind” works (or doesn’t)
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
as soon as he says anything, no matter how implausible, people go scrambling to make it sound so…
listen to his heart, not what he emits from his pie hole.
re: #552 BeachDem
Of little importance in the scheme of things, but illustrates how the yam’s “mind” works (or doesn’t)
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
I think the first season finale achieved the top rank of #7 but then it sank after that. Never #1 at any time.
@realDonaldTrump Who you got killed on bad intel.
— Nicholas Bauer (@BioTurboNick) February 2, 2017
re: #552 BeachDem
Of little importance in the scheme of things, but illustrates how the yam’s “mind” works (or doesn’t)
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
It was the number one show on that channel at that time, as long as you exclude the commercials.
re: #518 HappyWarrior
McCain is fucking useless.
And, he’s made a long career out of it.
Thanks Arizona.
I guess it is too much sun…but it is a dry heat!
“Australia is a very important and central ally,” Paul Ryan says, adding: “I typically don’t comment on the tweet of the hour.”
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) February 2, 2017
re: #527 Belafon
Unless we were to convert to a WW2 style wartime economy, we’re not going to build that fast, and we definitely won’t build anything like carriers, cruisers, or subs fast enough for a Trump induced war.
You doubt the Great Trump???
re: #559 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Paul you’re fucking useless. IT wasn’t just a tweet, you twit.
Mick Mulvaney, who wants to gut Social Security and Medicare, just passed Govt Affairs & Budget Committees. Every Republican voted for him. pic.twitter.com/2DC5RICvKs
— SocialSecurityWorks (@SSWorks) February 2, 2017
re: #545 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Uhh, what?
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John McCain, please pick up the white courtesy phone…
The shot and the kicker. Seriously? You have got to be kidding me. pic.twitter.com/m4X7gGSfuf
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #555 The Vicious Babushka
I think the first season finale achieved the top rank of #7 but then it sank after that. Never #1 at any time.
“The Apprentice” was a genuine hit in that first season, ending as the seventh-most-watched TV show of the year, averaging almost 21 million viewers a week.
Its ratings declined steadily each year after that, to 11th place overall in its second season, then 15th, then 38th. When, after its sixth season in 2007, it finished as the 75th
The celebrity show did better, but it has been middle of the pack all the way, with finishes ranking from 46th to 84th
This ratings history hasn’t stopped the notoriously boastful Trump from bragging about the show’s success, of course. Appearing before TV critics last January, he called “Celebrity Apprentice” the No. 1 show on television.
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey Sleuth…see any groundhogs today?
I’m not worried about shadows, sun, all that. I have a fear that in this New Land of Trump little furry marmots might give up and not even show?
Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’ https://t.co/vfaO59rzc9 pic.twitter.com/wx9iiPN6ai
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 2, 2017
WATCH: Kellyanne Conway accuses Australia of leaking Trump’s belligerent phone call with prime minister https://t.co/7rIxmvxLQj pic.twitter.com/ZrkO1L3HPs
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 2, 2017
oh…………
re: #566 ObserverArt
Hey Sleuth…see any groundhogs today?
I’m not worried about shadows, sun, all that. I have a fear that in this New Land of Trump little furry marmots might give up and not even show?
only saw a possum.
I had a friend who posted a stupid meme about “Democrats cheering” when Elian Gonzales for “forcibly repatriated” back to his father in Cuba on my wall.
Just the red herrings, My God. I don’t want to delete people for disagreeing with me, and besides, the more they post, the more it allows me to sharpen my intellect and react accordingly.
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Capitol voice recognition system connected me to the senator and promptly disconnected me.
@SSWorks The are apparently not taking calls.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #567 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The stagecraft of all the messy stacks of papers and folders on his desk continues to intrigue me. I would bet the man has not only not read any of the crap on his desk, but that he has not read that many words in his lifetime.
re: #571 BeachDem
The stagecraft of all the messy stacks of papers and folders on his desk continues to intrigue me. I would bet the man has not only not read any of the crap on his desk, but that he has not read that many words in his lifetime.
It’s all fake. He can’t even read.
re: #569 electrotek
I had a friend who posted a stupid meme about “Democrats cheering” when Elian Gonzales for “forcibly repatriated” back to his father in Cuba on my wall.
Just the red herrings, My God. I don’t want to delete people for disagreeing with me, and besides, the more they post, the more it allows me to sharpen my intellect and react accordingly.
Do they not remember that Gore and his running mate both distanced themselves from the administration on that? HOnetsly I felt conflicted on that case but I ultimately felt that boy belonged with his father in Cuba. Sick of RW revisionist bs though. No one I knew cheered that and I come from a very Democratic family.
re: #430 Decatur Deb
Pretty sure the nice ones are Canadians, unless I’ve conflated my colonials again.
Well, if you ignore that whole oil sands thing.
New Zealanders, they’re nice. Oh, wait, Peter Thiel.
re: #569 electrotek
I had a friend who posted a stupid meme about “Democrats cheering” when Elian Gonzales for “forcibly repatriated” back to his father in Cuba on my wall.
Just the red herrings, My God. I don’t want to delete people for disagreeing with me, and besides, the more they post, the more it allows me to sharpen my intellect and react accordingly.
Is their meme supposed to be a response to DT’s Muslim ban?
If so, yeah, it’s pretty lame.
re: #571 BeachDem
The stagecraft of all the messy stacks of papers and folders on his desk continues to intrigue me. I would bet the man has not only not read any of the crap on his desk, but that he has not read that many words in his lifetime.
He just looks at the pictures.
Of himself.
(I have Groundhog Day on AMC right now…it may have an affect on me. I forgot all the subtle humor in it. I need a laugh)
re: #338 Myron Falwell
Peter Theil gets to bring out his lawnchair in his New Zealand compound and LOL at the nuclear warheads flying above his head.
half //
And how did Peter Thiel get his NZ citizenship when 30,000 apply yearly and only around 12 are accepted?
The old fashioned way. He bought it, of course.
Billionaire Peter Thiel Sparks New Zealand Passport-for-Sale Row
re: #578 Sir John Barron
Is their meme supposed to be a response to DT’s Muslim ban?
If so, yeah, it’s pretty lame.
I’m so fucking tired of memes being a way of debating. I never use memes when I discuss politics on FB. I always speak from the heart and personal experience.
owned, but respectfully. still owned tho pic.twitter.com/Wea1DOSTQw
— huntigula (@huntigula) February 1, 2017
re: #564 MsJ
Trump Treasury amends Obama sanctions v Russia “Authorizing Certain Transactions with the Federal Security Service”https://t.co/RFDBTPJSuy
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 2, 2017
That EO and regs are about to get undone by Trump. He’s gearing up to drop sanctions at the same time Russia’s attacking Ukraine in force.
re: #581 HappyWarrior
I’m so fucking tired of memes being a way of debating. I never use memes when I discuss politics on FB. I always speak from the heart and personal experience.
It’s the further dumbing down of our discourse.
re: #360 mmmirele
Damn. Brother Jed is STILL around? We used to give him huge shit. Dude preached at CU. Said we were the second most sinful campus. Number one? Wisconsin. :D
re: #583 Myron Falwell
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They’re one of the best at hiring veterans. This is exactly why I called out the “You shouldn’t do A without doing B” mentality that I see too often by conservatives I know.
re: #566 ObserverArt
Hey Sleuth…see any groundhogs today?
I’m not worried about shadows, sun, all that. I have a fear that in this New Land of Trump little furry marmots might give up and not even show?
From what I heard, Marion’s Buckeye Chuck saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of either winter or the Trump Regime… I’m not sure which.
re: #585 Sir John Barron
It’s the further dumbing down of our discourse.
Yep and I hate to MBF but I don’t like it when our side does it either. Use YOUR words, YOUR experiences, etc.
re: #581 HappyWarrior
I’m so fucking tired of memes being a way of debating. I never use memes when I discuss politics on FB. I always speak from the heart and personal experience.
I’m convinced that a future presidential debate will involve only memes being displayed on a giant screen above each candidate’s podium. I think that’d make a good short film too.
By 51/37 spread, voters say John McCain has more credibility than Trump: https://t.co/gTWpW3JmTK
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) February 2, 2017
By 51/42 spread, voters say New York Times has more credibility than Trump: https://t.co/gTWpW3JmTK
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) February 2, 2017
Overall 47/49 approval, 45/52 favorability for Trump. Specific actions/policies more unpopular than that though: https://t.co/gTWpW3JmTK
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) February 2, 2017
rest of the thread details particular programs (like National Park Service)
re: #582 Skip Intro
Radio? What is radio?
It’s television without pictures. Only more annoying and more repetitive.
It’s also why Les Moonves effectively made CBS News not cover Trump as aggressively as they should have. Because this merger will be rubber stamped, and that’s damn good for CBS.
re: #588 Myron Falwell
From what I heard, Marion’s Buckeye Chuck saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of either winter or the Trump Regime… I’m not sure which.
I’ll take the winter in exchange for two more weeks of Trump and then out he goes.
(Hey I can hope…)
re: #578 Sir John Barron
Is their meme supposed to be a response to DT’s Muslim ban?
If so, yeah, it’s pretty lame.
Yep.
I’m not sure if this is the correct way to refute it, but feel free to critique:
It’s flawed because it was an entirely different situation. It involved a family dispute involving who had custody of the child. Seeing how as Elian was taken from his father against his will, the mother and the Cuban exile community has no moral ground to stand on. I remember the outrage and I felt it was absurd back then since I was a sophomore when this occurred.
re: #594 electrotek
Yep.
I’m not sure if this is the correct way to refute it, but feel free to critique:
It’s flawed because it was an entirely different situation. It involved a family dispute involving who had custody of the child. Seeing how as Elian was taken from his father against his will, the mother and the Cuban exile community has no moral ground to stand on. I remember the outrage and I felt it was absurd back then since I was a sophomore when this occurred.
It was a difficult situation and very unfortunate that the U.S government had to get involved.
re: #581 HappyWarrior
I’m so fucking tired of memes being a way of debating. I never use memes when I discuss politics on FB. I always speak from the heart and personal experience.
I agree, I normally don’t use memes but I made an exception which triggered the conservative snowflakes on my wall. And boy was it glorious:
re: #594 electrotek
IIRC, didn’t the mother die in transit somehow? I think that was part of the issue. The Miami relatives were not his nearest kin.
My closest brother in age were wondering what happened to Elian though some time ago. He’s all grown up now and may have a family of his own. I wonder how well he remembers his brief time in the U.S and being an international story.
re: #597 Sir John Barron
IIRC, didn’t the mother die in transit somehow? I think that was part of the issue. The Miami relatives were not his nearest kin.
It’s been a while since I remember the details from that controversy so I don’t remember if the mother’s passing while in transit occurred. Anyone else can feel free to chime in.
“They are growing on me,” House Speaker Paul Ryan says of Trump’s tweets, on Fox News. “This is going to be an unconventional presidency.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 2, 2017
In case you were wondering where boneless chicken comes from… https://t.co/pxnmZcpLNT
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) February 2, 2017
re: #597 Sir John Barron
IIRC, didn’t the mother die in transit somehow? I think that was part of the issue. The Miami relatives were not his nearest kin.
Yep the mother died. Which honestly is another reason why I was glad to see us get rid of the restrictions with Cuba. People were risking death in order to flee.
re: #598 HappyWarrior
My closest brother in age were wondering what happened to Elian though some time ago. He’s all grown up now and may have a family of his own. I wonder how well he remembers his brief time in the U.S and being an international story.
He’s all grown up and proud to be Cuban. And he doesn’t have any interest in moving to the U.S., much to the disappointment of the Batista-loving gusanos of Miami.
re: #601 HappyWarrior
Yep the mother died. Which honestly is another reason why I was glad to see us get rid of the restrictions with Cuba. People were risking death in order to flee.
Okay thanks for the clarification. And ditto on the stupid embargo, but the idiotic Cuban exiles still wanted to keep that in.
re: #604 electrotek
Okay thanks for the clarification. And ditto on the stupid embargo, but the idiotic Cuban exiles still wanted to keep that in.
Yep. I never got that. The exiles to me seem to have a lot of Fuck you, I got mine. I see that especially with Ted Cruz and his father.
re: #602 electrotek
He’s all grown up and proud to be Cuban. And he doesn’t have any interest in moving to the U.S., much to the disappointment of the Batista-loving gusanos of Miami.
I just hope he has a happy life regardless of what he decides to call home. It was a tough situation for all involved.
re: #599 electrotek
It’s been a while since I remember the details from that controversy so I don’t remember if the mother’s passing while in transit occurred. Anyone else can feel free to chime in.
She died while trying to get here. Elian’s extended family here fought for custody. It was a sad situation, but Elian belonged with his father. Period.
I understood why the family may have felt that way but ultimately I felt that the boy belonged with his father.
re: #607 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
She died while trying to get here. Elian’s extended family here fought for custody. It was a sad situation, but Elian belonged with his father. Period.
Yep and I felt bad for the extended family. I don’t think they were bad people but I believe as you do that Elian belonged with his dad. It just happened that his Dad lievd in Cuba.
Bannon to donors: “The days of McConnell picking Republican nominees in Senate races are over.” https://t.co/71TMxgITO5
— Adam Wollner (@AdamWollner) February 2, 2017
I now bring you your daily Shock Event:
Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches
re: #556 Backwoods_Sleuth
No thumbs up picture of Trumpy next to the remains?
re: #602 electrotek
He’s all grown up and proud to be Cuban. And he doesn’t have any interest in moving to the U.S., much to the disappointment of the Batista-loving gusanos of Miami.
In fairness, he probably has to say that publicly, regardless.
Trump does realize China has the world’s largest army right? Right?
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re: #591 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only 33% think best course of action is repealing ACA, 62% say keep it and fix what needs to be fixed: https://t.co/gTWpW3JmTK
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) February 2, 2017
He’s so tough.
What the fuck kind of handshake is this? pic.twitter.com/SaRwz5o445
— Dom Joly (@domjoly) February 1, 2017
What the fuck kind of handshake is this?
re: #613 Sir John Barron
In fairness, he probably has to say that publicly, regardless.
True. I don’t want people to think I’m a Castro apologist here just because I hate the Cuban exiles. I won’t excuse Fidel Castro at all, but I can’t give the right-wing a free pass when they venerate Fulgencio Batista either.
re: #556 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And here is what happens next. Trump will use the excuse of “bad intel” to do what the Sewer Rat Barbie suggested last week and replace the Intel community with his own people.
Trump just relaxed sanctions on the FSB: https://t.co/CdtVCZB5XQ pic.twitter.com/zSSsMN9iFk
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) February 2, 2017
re: #614 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump does realize China has the world’s largest army right? Right?
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Who cares I’ll just nuke ‘em. “Nuke ‘em”. I love saying that. I’ll nuke that John McCain, too, if he won’t lay off me.
re: #603 HappyWarrior
What an ass.
He will agree 100% with everything trump until SocSec and Medicare are gone. Then he will find a spine.
Thank you, @Samsung! We would love to have you! https://t.co/r5nxC9oOA4
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Linked article is from Axios, Trump’s cheerleader Mike Allen
re: #599 electrotek
It’s been a while since I remember the details from that controversy so I don’t remember if the mother’s passing while in transit occurred. Anyone else can feel free to chime in.
Yes, the mother died during the journey. i thought Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe wrote some of the best articles/opinion pieces during the Elian saga—
Imagine how this case would have appeared — even in Little Havana — if the roles had been reversed. What if Juan Miguel had taken the boy on a dangerous ocean voyage in a leaky boat without telling Elizabeth. Would the trip have been considered a heroic break for freedom? Or an abduction?
What if Juan Miguel had died and Elizabeth, safe in Cuba, had asked for her son back? Would we have considered Juan Miguel a martyr whose last wishes should be granted? Or would we have considered him an irresponsible father whose traumatized little boy needed his mother?
deseretnews.com
re: #619 Charles Johnson
A source working on the sanctions says this was “technical fix to avoid unintended consequences…Planned under Obama. Not Trump weakening”
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 2, 2017
re: #616 Stanley Sea
He’s so tough.
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What the fuck kind of handshake is this?
A bullys handshake.
On display is the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is pushing a strong traditionalist agenda. The church was actively behind a recent law banning the “propaganda of sexual minorities,” aimed at Russia’s beleaguered LGBT community. The Kremlin, while perhaps not the main driving force of the conservative wave, has clearly acquiesced to it and President Vladimir Putin is expected to sign the new law.
“Although priests do not play a politically active role, we see the positions of the Orthodox Church gradually attaining official status” as the church attempts to regain its czarist-era place as ideological bulwark of the state, says Nikolai Petrov, a political scientist with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. “This suits the Kremlin, which constantly criticizes the West for abandoning its traditional principles while Russia is supposedly a bastion of good old family values. The international dimension isn’t the main reason for the upsurge of social conservatism in Russia, but it’s definitely there.”
re: #616 Stanley Sea
And then deposits his dna on Gorsuch’s wife….
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Apparently, a lot of people in America may lose their allowances if Daddy gets mad. You can’t blame the school for unruly students. https://t.co/8VLNK6qrua
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) February 2, 2017
re: #627 Birth Control Works
But what about Saudi Arabia???!?!?!
So I did a google and couldn’t find a single response from the international communtiy to Russia’s move to decriminilize Domestic Violence.
IMHO, it warrants Sanctions.
re: #631 Birth Control Works
So I did a google and couldn’t find a single response from the international communtiy to Russia’s move to decriminilize Domestic Violence.
IMHO, it warrants Sanctions.
I haven’t seen ANYONE in the GOP, let alone that dickshit Milo Yiannopolous and his pathetic fanboys, say a damn thing about Russia.
re: #632 electrotek
I haven’t seen ANYONE in the GOP, let alone that dickshit Milo Yiannopolous and his pathetic fanboys, say a damn thing about Russia.
Hail Hydra. /half
re: #575 HappyWarrior
Do they not remember that Gore and his running mate both distanced themselves from the administration on that? HOnetsly I felt conflicted on that case but I ultimately felt that boy belonged with his father in Cuba. Sick of RW revisionist bs though. No one I knew cheered that and I come from a very Democratic family.
The GOP won that on the newspaper image of the immigration officer pointing a gun at the frightened boy and his aunt…
re: #621 MsJ
He will agree 100% with everything trump until SocSec and Medicare are gone. Then he will find a spine.
Ryan will be thrown to the wolves well before that.
Trump approved raid in Yemen without sufficient intelligence: military officials https://t.co/oy7LjiQhuJ pic.twitter.com/YqcQqkGtw8
— The Hill (@thehill) February 2, 2017
Remember when Trump says he knows more than the generals? He took himself seriously AND literally. https://t.co/tV7OgJnZJC
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 2, 2017
re: #632 electrotek
I haven’t seen ANYONE in the GOP, let alone that dickshit Milo Yiannopolous and his pathetic fanboys, say a damn thing about Russia.
If you are waiting for anyone in the GOP to come out against domestic violence, you will be waiting a very long time.
re: #629 Backwoods_Sleuth
When Lee reaches the end of his rope…… Thought Bubble {I want more than anyone for us to all get along in this world. But seriously, Fuck This Guy.}
re: #580 Skip Intro
And how did Peter Thiel get his NZ citizenship when 30,000 apply yearly and only around 12 are accepted?
The old fashioned way. He bought it, of course.
Billionaire Peter Thiel Sparks New Zealand Passport-for-Sale Row
In Switzerland you can gain permanent residence status just by investing more than $1 million in a Swiss bank…
re: #634 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP won that on the newspaper image of the immigration officer pointing a gun at the frightened boy and his aunt…
YEah that was terrible optics. As I said, a difficult situation for all involved.Especially the boy who had lost his mother.
re: #635 Myron Falwell
Ryan will be thrown to the wolves well before that.
I am not going to hold my breath waiting for that one, either.
Wow, @NancyPelosi straight up called Bannon a White Supremacist pic.twitter.com/9VPV3qfz41
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) February 2, 2017
Wow, @NancyPelosi straight up called Bannon a White Supremacist
re: #633 lawhawk
Hail Hydra. /half
Gary Shandling whispering that in “The Winter Soldier” was one of the most chilling things I’ve ever seen.
re: #581 HappyWarrior
I’m so fucking tired of memes being a way of debating. I never use memes when I discuss politics on FB. I always speak from the heart and personal experience.
Tweets, memes and bullet points. That is the level of political discourse that guarantees that people like Trump win.
re: #632 electrotek
I haven’t seen ANYONE in the GOP, let alone that dickshit Milo Yiannopolous and his pathetic fanboys, say a damn thing about Russia.
Nor the UN or any other European Country
re: #636 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump doing something without sufficient intelligence?
Yep, that seems about right.
Just days after a pro-Trump Canadian Nazi murdered Muslims, Adolf Drump threatens to invade Mexico because of ‘bad hombres ‘.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) February 2, 2017
re: #644 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tweets, memes and bullet points. That is the level of politic discourse that guarantees that people like Trump win.
Yep.
re: #644 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
1) yup.
2) memes are easy. Like Brawndo. They’re full of electrolytes.
3) See 1, 2.
/half
@DrMatthew I’m waiting for him to show up in a snazzy uniform with shoulder boards. I don’t think it can’t happen..
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 2, 2017
re: #611 Birth Control Works
I now bring you your daily Shock Event:
Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches
again, why should he not reward those who helped him the most?
re: #611 Birth Control Works
I now bring you your daily Shock Event:
Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches
See what big hands I have now? /
More people in US die by lightning than by foreign terrorists, says data: https://t.co/snQctDCQpa pic.twitter.com/ACTHK5vklF
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) February 2, 2017
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
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You guys see this? Don’t any of these kids have grandfathers or great grandfathers who fought the Nazis? Gee I’m old enough (not even 30) to remember when we all agreed the Nazis sucked.
Trump’s first jobs day is tomorrow! Remember jobs day? https://t.co/hQ3DEMTStD
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 2, 2017
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
As long as the Repubs have a majority in one or both Houses, Alex.
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
I am not one to bet on others’ misfortune (or my own), but I would wager that the Constitution hits the mat long before Trump does…
re: #650 Dave In Austin
@DaveoutofAustin pic.twitter.com/d0u2FbElZl
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) February 2, 2017
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
As long as the GOP is in power, ∞
re: #641 MsJ
I am not going to hold my breath waiting for that one, either.
Well, it depends on the amount of ratfucking Bannon pulls behind the scenes to mobilize the MAGAguards. Why need elections?
I can no longer keep up with all this shit, and he hasn’t been in office two weeks.
re: #662 Skip Intro
I can no longer keep up with all this shit, and he hasn’t been in office two weeks.
I know. Feels like so long ago Obama was president.
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
Constitution Bingo.
Reality is that Trump seems capable of violating all of them and the GOP wouldn’t blink as long as they were getting what they wanted.
re: #653 Backwoods_Sleuth
Instead of lightning, they should say God. It would finally get people’s attention.
The Donald J. Trump Executive Order Generator https://t.co/3Svhpx7oyh pic.twitter.com/xPaYvmLqnD
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) February 2, 2017
re: #664 lawhawk
Constitution Bingo.
Reality is that Trump seems capable of violating all of them and the GOP wouldn’t blink as long as they were getting what they wanted.
A lot of the enver Trumpers are proving to be frauds.
re: #662 Skip Intro
I can no longer keep up with all this shit, and he hasn’t been in office two weeks.
I would suggest generalizing a bit. Just remember if he’s done something constitutional.
.@SeanSpicer just said that to fight homegrown terrorists like #TimothyMcVeigh you need to strengthen the border. 😒 #HowSway?
— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) February 2, 2017
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
Does he leave the office through constitutional means… or otherwise?
Congress abdicated their oath to defend the Constitution. The judicial system is being ignored. The military and intelligence community are being abused. The populace is getting angry.
What a fucking time to be alive.
re: #654 Eclectic Cyborg
Let’s play a game called “How many times can Trump violate the Constitution before he faces serious consequences?”
What Constitution?
If you think you’re having a bad day…
Rattlesnake slithers out of family’s toilet, then they find 23 more underneath house https://t.co/jv8vW8KcKa pic.twitter.com/iEG7U2HxXw
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 2, 2017
re: #653 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We better build a wall. IN THE SKY!
And make GOD pay for it. Who’s going to pay for the wall? GOD!!!!!!
re: #674 The Vicious Babushka
That’s unfortunate.
BREAKING NEWS—major win as Congressman withdraws bill that would have sold off 3 million acres of #OurWild https://t.co/yUMOV2oa8k
— Wilderness Society (@Wilderness) February 2, 2017
Under a recently passed House rule, a new bill would have sold off 3 million acres of public lands—an egregious assault on Our Wild.
UPDATE: Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced in a post on Instagram that he is withdrawing the land selloff bill. The news follows many comments and calls to Congress from our supporters and other conservationists. Thank you!
re: #677 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good. Now let’s sell him off. To the lowest bidder.
re: #677 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just about to post about that. The whine is funny:
I am withdrawing HR 621. I’m a proud gun owner, hunter and love our public lands. The bill would have disposed of small parcels of lands Pres. Clinton identified as serving no public purpose but groups I support and care about fear it sends the wrong message. The bill was originally introduced several years ago. I look forward to working with you. I hear you and HR 621 dies tomorrow.
Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts, local edition:
“Why are we paying $800,000 extra a year when half of the kids we’re teaching are not even here legally?” Defeo said.
WMBF News learned through an investigation there is no way to verify the claim that half of the children enrolled in the ESOL program are in the country illegally.
In order to get more clarity on his position, WMBF News followed up with Defeo regarding his comment that half of the ESOL students are illegal.
He stated his comment was a guess.
Posted to my fb by me:
Russia has decriminalised Domestic Violence. NOT ONE WORD of condemnation from either the UNITED STATES government or the UN.
Knowing that Domestic Violence is the leading cause of PTSD and the that this illness lasts GENERATIONS, I am dissappointed that no one in this country or the international community has addressed Russia’s actions
I guess it’s not profitable enough.
The Russian DUMA was bragging about these changes hours before Congress was notified: https://t.co/XlOJaealLR pic.twitter.com/lnRBrwommM
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 2, 2017
Spicer: “we are not easing sanctions” on Russia
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 2, 2017
re: #680 Belafon
Just about to post about that. The whine is funny:
and that poor puppy he’s holding in the instagram picture looks scared to death.
re: #642 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Go Nancy! Seriously, I only wish she were about 40 years younger. I also miss Harry Reed, though I admit Chuckles is doing better than I feared.
re: #683 Backwoods_Sleuth
Spicer: “we are not easing sanctions” on Russia
— Jim Acosta
At least they aren’t right now. Or they claim they aren’t. But it won’t be long.
THE F*CKING RUSSIAN FSB is BRAGGING the sanctions will be lifted. THE F S B! Are u in bed w/ Russia @SpeakerRyan? https://t.co/hp3BQrw2xd
— waltb31 (@waltb31) February 2, 2017
And we’re learning about it via Russian news agencies while Trump Admin. sneaks a notice about it onto the Treasury website. https://t.co/D1ifr5rRde
— Martha Jackovics (@BeachPeanuts) February 2, 2017
Also recall that the WH claimed that sanctions never came up on the Putin phone call that apparently wasn’t recorded or transcribed. https://t.co/KyRfTJx481
— Martha Jackovics (@BeachPeanuts) February 2, 2017
re: #666 Backwoods_Sleuth
Don’t ever say @realDonaldTrump isn’t as rich as he says he is. (Hint: He’s not, but will be once he pockets all our tax dollars.) pic.twitter.com/aR97kq6UvV
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 2, 2017
re: #684 Backwoods_Sleuth
and that poor puppy he’s holding in the instagram picture looks scared to death.
The problem we have to worry about is the bill to shift the security burden to the states is still on.
re: #680 Belafon
Just about to post about that. The whine is funny:
Translation:
We’re just doing what Bill Clinton advocated, you commy libtards! He says it’s useless land! And this is only the same bill introduced many, many years ago that everyone wanted! But so many of you George Soros paid stooges called me and everybody else now nobody else wants to do it! We’ll get you!!!
re: #684 Backwoods_Sleuth
and that poor puppy he’s holding in the instagram picture looks scared to death.
That puppy is adorable. I WANT!!
oh….
Wow, @PressSec says Trump was NOT in the Situation Room during Yemen raid. #Yemenghazi pic.twitter.com/P13SVvYfmm
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) February 2, 2017
Wow, @PressSec says Trump was NOT in the Situation Room during Yemen raid. #Yemenghazi
Yay, some action:
Democrats are moving urgently to harness the wave of grass-roots protests that have greeted President Trump in his first weeks in office to reclaim the House majority in next year’s midterm elections.
As of this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hiring full-time operatives to do political organizing work in 20 key Republican-held districts — an unusually early investment in House races that do not even have declared candidates yet.
.@CincinnatiZoo says Fiona is showing some energy today! Maybe it’s because @CincyChildrens sent her a care package! https://t.co/z9nUdQ3FB8 pic.twitter.com/TDcF40rags
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 2, 2017
Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Everything Trump says here is false. Iran was not collapsing. Deal is with 6 countries. Iran did not get 150 billion. https://t.co/DuuSZr2WA1
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 2, 2017
re: #666 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Donald J. Trump Executive Order Generator https://t.co/3Svhpx7oyh pic.twitter.com/xPaYvmLqnD
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) February 2, 2017
@xeni
Autosign provided by Failed Polygraph Tests, LLC pic.twitter.com/0DyTMK1FN7— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) February 2, 2017
Donald Trump tried to punish ‘sanctuary cities.’ It’s backfiring. https://t.co/KSLItndLp6 pic.twitter.com/woKAVeFHVS
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 2, 2017
re: #703 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everything Trump says here is false. Iran was not collapsing. Deal is with 6 countries. Iran did not get 150 billion.
OK, but besides all that…..
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re: #704 gocart mozart
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I’m hearing from a lot of voters who have been unable to reach Republican senators for days, phones say mailboxes full for a week now.
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 2, 2017
They are @JohnCornyn box was full. Leaving messages with staff https://t.co/cafUI1PZrf
— pam (@quinnpamala) February 2, 2017
These folks are unable to even leave a message with staff, the phones go nowhere when they don’t go to mailbox full. Not a good look. https://t.co/uCeEp68tNe
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 2, 2017
re: #714 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ted Cruz is not answering his phone and his voicemail claims to be full. At least the staff of Ratcliffe and Cornyn have answered. And I’ve called Cruz before 5 on two different days.
re: #715 Belafon
Ted Cruz is not answering his phone and his voicemail claims to be full. At least the staff of Ratcliffe and Cornyn have answered. And I’ve called Cruz before 5 on two different days.
I was able to to reach Cory Gardner’s office and actually talk to someone, but I had to call the Grand Junction office. The DC office wasn’t even taking messages. So try pulling up a list of all the offices and calling the obscure ones.
“Ground Hog” is disgusting rodent worshiped by primitive United States peoples in misguided belief that vermin have power of weather control pic.twitter.com/bkAWmjxtv6
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) February 2, 2017
re: #716 EmmaAnne
I was able to to reach Cory Gardner’s office and actually talk to someone, but I had to call the Grand Junction office. The DC office wasn’t even taking messages. So try pulling up a list of all the offices and calling the obscure ones.
I’m calling the Texas offices. I figure calling local would be better than DC.
Labor nominee Puzder is facing complications separating himself from his fast-food chain https://t.co/tO78PD5q4v
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 2, 2017
Senate Republicans postpone vote on Betsy DeVos until Monday https://t.co/LOmVoabN87 pic.twitter.com/w0JpPmiDX3
— The Hill (@thehill) February 2, 2017
Senate Republicans are postponing a final vote on controversial Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos until Monday.
Senior Republican aides acknowledged there will be an “attendance issue” preventing a vote from happening Saturday, but said it has nothing to do with the GOP fundraising treat a group of senators plan to attend starting Friday in Florida.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) fundraising event this weekend is at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach.
The Senate is expected to vote Friday morning to end a Democratic filibuster of DeVos and advance her nomination to final vote. Leadership could bring up a final vote as soon as Saturday if they wanted, as Senate rules usually require 30 hours to elapse after a filibuster-ending cloture vote.
But the final confirmation vote will likely be pushed into next week, freeing up GOP senators to meet with donors at the luxury hotel, where a guest room with a view of the ocean costs $699 a night.
Two senior GOP aides said NRSC Chairman Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) was willing to reschedule the retreat, and the attendance problem preventing a Saturday vote is due to a senator who has a “family issue.”
You may be as shocked as I am.
Surprise, surprise @ddale8 @DoktorZoom
After 2 Weeks, Voters Yearn For Obama https://t.co/FFDvqdJ0qG— Schwadevivre (@Charlesthornt) February 2, 2017
re: #720 Backwoods_Sleuth
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) fundraising event this weekend is at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach.
I’ve got a feeling that this fundraiser will go over with the populace about as well as the one in Philadelphia last weekend.
.@PressSec won’t rule out military action against Iran pic.twitter.com/3VH6wJqyWq
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) February 2, 2017
.@PressSec won’t rule out military action against Iran
Steve Bannon has already become an unpopular figure. -21 favorability rating (19/40): https://t.co/gTWpW3JmTK
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) February 2, 2017
#FSB #sanctions not small or routine thing and Russia’s parliament is boasting about it BEFORE CONGRESS EVEN KNEW https://t.co/vDFOuds7ET
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) February 2, 2017
Spicer on US military raid in Yemen: This was a very well thought-out and executed effort
“It is a successful operation by all standards”— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) February 2, 2017
1 KIA, 6 WIA. 1 $75 million aircraft. At least 10 dead civilians including an American child.
I’m tired of winning https://t.co/WxnmtXcBlH— Rogue Rogue One Acct (@ZeddRebel) February 2, 2017
re: #725 jaunte
Need to figure out how related all of this is, see: #625:
A source working on the sanctions says this was “technical fix to avoid unintended consequences…Planned under Obama. Not Trump weakening”
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 2, 2017
Trump Autosignature provided by Failed Polygraph Test Results, LLC a division of the Lookidonthaveaproblemdowntherenosir Corporation. pic.twitter.com/GTrL0Obx0n
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) February 2, 2017
re: #440 MsJ
And people are saying they’d switch from D to R to vote for him. Like voting for fucking celebrities hasn’t shown to be a fucking disaster.
We’re done. There’s no coming back from this level of stupidity. If there is even something to come back to.
Shoot me in the head.
Not a native-born citizen.
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