Another Excellent Video From Regina Spektor’s Latest Album: “Black and White”
From one of the best albums of 2016, Remember Us To Life.
From one of the best albums of 2016, Remember Us To Life.
From the last thread since I killed it:
re: #418 Anymouse
re: #423 Anymouse
My wife is hopeful that since Mr. Smith’s office called us back at home, she can call again and press on the issue of the National Security Council and its rearrangement (along with Mr. Steve Bannon placed on it.)
She intends to point out the makeup of the council is set in law, and thus a rearrangement of who is on it is illegal (citing the specific law in the US code).
(Mr. Smith’s offices automatically shunt me to dead air, which makes me think I am on disconnect before hearing.)
She also intends to convey the idea that the legislature is giving up its constitutional powers. She is concerned for him that he will be made irrelevant if he does not stand up for the US House’s independence.
After Texas Mosque Burned Down Local Jews Offer Their Synagogue, Because Decent People Do That.
Here’s one to put in your “Look for the Helpers” file and maybe remember to come back to when there’s entirely too much Trump in your day. And like too many Nice Times, it starts with something terrible: In the early hours of Saturday morning, not long after Trump’s immigration ban (it’s not a Muslim ban, really, even though he campaigned on that! Total coincidence!) went into effect, some jerk set fire to the Islamic Center in Victoria, Texas, and although fire crews arrived quickly, the building was a total loss. Now, of course this wasn’t Trump’s fault, and there’s no reason to think a Trump supporter might do such a despicable thing. It was probably a false flag like all other bad things that happen (and indeed, the cause is still under investigation — we can’t rule out an electrical fire or some ordinary cause, because the universe does like to fuck with us that way).
…
The mosque, built in 2000, was a total loss, but then a Christmas Miracle happened: Robert Loeb, the president of the local Reform Jewish congregation, Bnai Israel, and other members of the congregation, showed up to hand Hashmi the keys to their synagogue for his congregation to use until the mosque is rebuilt. “Jewish community members walked into my home and gave me a key to the synagogue,” Hashmi said.
More at Wonkette
Betty’s snarking
Frederick Douglass spoke out against the Bowling Green Massacre. A true American Hero.
— Betty F*ckin’ White (@BettyFckinWhite) February 3, 2017
Was it over when the Germans Iraqi refugees bombed Pearl Harbor?
Reports coming in that some Secret Service mgr level personnel forced 2 resign 2nite & escorted out of EEOB. Two out but source says more
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) February 3, 2017
Repeat. Two (& perhaps more) @SecretService Mgr level staff abtuptly forced to resign tonight & escorted out of EEOB #trump #whitehouse
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) February 3, 2017
Not clear 2 @SecretService staff why they were abruptly forced 2 resign 2nite. individually terminated, escorted out #secretservice 1/3
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) February 3, 2017
This is Nancy Wake. She killed a metric shit-ton of Nazis during WWII, even strangling a German sentry with her BARE HANDS. #DressLikeAWoman pic.twitter.com/GxK6yjcG5p
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2017
Her only regret in life was reportedly not having killed even more Nazis.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2017
re: #6 Kragar
Well, while it’s tempting to think that they were fired for “disloyalty to the Fuhrer president or something, it could also be for something like conduct unbecoming (as the Secret Service agents in Colombia were).
re: #8 Anymouse
Well, while it’s tempting to think that they were fired for “disloyalty to the
Fuhrerpresident or something, it could also be for something like conduct unbecoming (as the Secret Service agents in Colombia were).
They were probably caught snickering at Hair Furor.
In today’s anti-abortion merry-go-round of WTF:
(Note there is a correction at the bottom of the article)
Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed a a bill that bans the safest of abortion method, dilation and evacuation.
It also allows the family of someone who obtains an abortion to sue the doctor who performed the procedure if that provider is in violation of the new law.
The bill’s co-sponsors are two men, Rep. Andy Mayberry and Rep. Dave Sanders, who, to my knowledge, have never personally received or considered receiving an abortion. Sanders, however, has seen abortion footage and found it disturbing. “You see a baby, an unborn life, a fetus, engaging in fight or flight reaction to the forceps going into the womb, trying to remove an arm, remove a leg,” he said.
Mr. Sanders is a shameless Christian liar for Jesus.
Asked about rape or incest exceptions, Mr. Mayberry noted the bill doesn’t ban an abortion by any other procedure. (Nice dissembling there, senator.)
You would be unsurprised to learn senators Mayberry and Sanders have never needed an abortion because they always keep an aspirin between their legs and dress modestly.
A report at Politico stating that Federal workers in agencies targeted for gutting have turned to encryption methods such as Signal to avoid having their messages detected by the administration.
That’s sure to improve morale, to need to hide private conversation from the boss in case he might use it against you.
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administration’s agenda.
Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.
More at Politico.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. The #BowlingGreenMasacre.” pic.twitter.com/anbRwFQnJi
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2017
1. You know who will now forever be certain that there was a Bowling Green Massacre or an attempt at such? All of America’s Islamophobes.
— Emily L. Hauser (@emilylhauser) February 3, 2017
3. They don’t need you or me to believe the Bowling Green story. They need people who hate Muslims to believe it.
— Emily L. Hauser (@emilylhauser) February 3, 2017
Excellent Usual Suspects reference.
Kellyanne Conway leaves the room. Anderson Cooper drops a mug onto the ground. It shatters. On the bottom: Bowling Green Glassware
— Mikey Neumann (@mikeyface) February 3, 2017
re: #13 Kragar
And that’s how gaslighting goes; she tossed that out there, knowing full well that it would be blindly accepted by a sizeable chunk of the American populace. She even tossed in a little conspiracism by saying the massacre was never reported.
It’s blatant and risible bullshit, of course, but she knows that the MAGAtards will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
I would like to personally thank @seanspicer for shielding my body with his during the #bowlinggreenmassacre - you’re an amazing human!
— Bart Fargo (@AgentBartFargo) February 3, 2017
Bruce Springsteen, coincidental ambassador to Australia, sang “Don’t Hang Up” in Melbourne after news of Trump call. https://t.co/CunLRRn0qU
— Matt Flegenheimer (@mattfleg) February 2, 2017
@JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/piy0Bp1fm6
— The Joss Group (@thejossgroup) February 2, 2017
Aaand, Nikki Haley firing coming in 3 … 2 … 1
BREAKING: US Amb. to UN Haley: “I must condemn the aggressive actions of Russia” in eastern Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/rj7YQURxNO
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) February 2, 2017
Freepers are in disarray over Haley’s UN remarks. The Putinistas are convinced she’s “gone rogue” or that McCain and the other “neocons” traded Trump their votes for a harder line on Russia. The anti-Putin crowd, meanwhile, think this means that Trump is stepping up to show how strong America is and is going to finally get the upper hand against Putin.
More popcorn!
re: #21 Targetpractice
Freepers are in disarray over Haley’s UN remarks. The Putinistas are convinced she’s “gone rogue” or that McCain and the other “neocons” traded Trump their votes for a harder line on Russia. The anti-Putin crowd, meanwhile, think this means that Trump is stepping up to show how strong America is and is going to finally get the upper hand against Putin.
More popcorn!
I looked over there quite some time ago and a Freeper referred to the Putin supporters as the “Borscht Brigade”. Genuinely made me laugh.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
And that’s how gaslighting goes; she tossed that out there, knowing full well that it would be blindly accepted by a sizeable chunk of the American populace. She even tossed in a little conspiracism by saying the massacre was never reported.
It’s blatant and risible bullshit, of course, but she knows that the MAGAtards will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
Did Tweety push back that it wasn’t true?
“Fox News: DHS Secretary Says Parts Of Border Wall Will Be ‘See Through’”
Translated: “We priced 2000 miles of chain link fence and it ate our whole budget.”
Totally unrelated headlines, probably pic.twitter.com/Nd0ZN6uL4w
— Captain Antagonist (@AnOrangeSNES) January 31, 2017
Of course I had to address the Chuckie revelation on the blog:
re: #25 Kragar
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Republicans “begin to break” with Trump, still approving of his nominees.
Amazing how that works. One might almost suspect the media is trying to disguise the taste of this shit sandwich we’ve been served.
JAPAN: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is not devaluing the Yen and that he is prepared to explain monetary policy to Trump
— The Int’l Spectator (@spectatorindex) February 3, 2017
re: #28 Kragar
JAPAN: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is not devaluing the Yen and that he is prepared to explain monetary policy to Trump
Abe must be an eternal optimist.
Well, this apparently just happened in Paris:
A major security operation is under way near the Louvre museum in Paris after a man attempted to attack a soldier who was patrolling in the area.
A man carrying a rucksack attempted a knife attack on the soldier, according to the public broadcaster France Info. The soldier opened fire.
The attempted attack took place in the Carousel du Louvre, a commercial underground shopping centre near the entrance to the Louvre, which is one of the world’s most-visited museums.
The soldier was patrolling as part of the Operation Sentenelle foot-patrols around French landmarks that have been in place since the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher supermarket in January 2015.
A spokewoman for the Louvre said the museum was “closed for the moment” but would not confirm reports it had been evacuated.
Well, Tass sure likes the idea of the Treasury Department lifting sanctions on Russia buying computer security equipment.
I’m guessing that even party over country is not the Republican way. It’s authoritarianism over party over county.
Not only that, it was the very first foreign license issued by Treasury.
From the Russian News Agency, more at the link:
MOSCOW, February 2. /TASS/. By easing sanctions against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Washington paves the way to setting up an anti-terrorism coalition, member of the State Duma, former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolai Kovalyov told TASS.
“This shows that actual joint work on establishing an anti-terrorism coalition is about to begin,” Kovalyov said. “This is the first step on the way leading to cooperation in the war on terror.”
“Without easing these sanctions it would have been impossible to take the next step,” the lawmaker said. “These practical actions indicate that US President Donald Trump has been consistent,” he stressed.
According to the General License No. 1 posted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department on Thursday, the US authorities have eased sanctions against Russia’s FSB.
Trump security’s use of force questioned https://t.co/v1HHwukLA2
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2017
re: #28 Kragar
JAPAN: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is not devaluing the Yen and that he is prepared to explain monetary policy to Trump
Is there not some saying about “Don’t try to teach a pig to sing” ?
Purely coincidental no doubt:
Russian Stocks, Currency Soar On Reports US Will Lift Some Sanctions
If you can’t remember the #BowlingGreenMassacre it only means that you, too, died that terrible day.
Go in peace, gentle shade.— Alyosha (@mediocremensch) February 3, 2017
re: #34 Anymouse
Purely coincidental no doubt:
Russian Stocks, Currency Soar On Reports US Will Lift Some Sanctions
Making Russia Great Again.
re: #35 Alyosha
This administration remembers fake massacres, but can’t acknowledge the one conducted by one of its fans in Quebec.#bowlinggreenmassacre
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) February 3, 2017
Someone’s worried about reelection in Northern Virginia:
A prominent Republican lawmaker sent letters to colleagues this week saying five bills, most of them related to abortion, would not be taken up in committee, sparking outrage among abortion-rights advocates who said important legislation dealing with women’s health had been buried without a hearing.
Del. David B. Albo, R-Fairfax, also unilaterally quashed two anti-abortion bills from conservative lawmakers, including a measure to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
In letters dated Wednesday, Albo said the House of Delegates courts committee he chairs would have to meet late tonight or over the weekend to take up political bills that he thinks have no chance of becoming law. Lawmakers are coming up on Tuesday’s deadline to finish work on their bills and, if passed, send them to the other chamber.
re: #37 Anymouse
Presumably the portrait of Andrew Jackson hung in the Oval Office is to remind Trump of The Trail of Tears of Joy.
At this point I would not be surprised to see a photo of Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini (or both) soon.
huffingtonpost.com (with video)
Mikhail Baryshnikov, the famed Russian ballet dancer and actor who defected from the former Soviet Union in 1974, warned in a video released Wednesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could bring Soviet-style authoritarianism to the United States.
“Take it from one who knows: Hundreds of thousands of people like me have fled countries led by dangerous, totalitarian opportunists ― like Donald Trump,” Baryshnikov says in the video, produced by an organization called Art Not War.
The video is part of a campaign called Humanity for Hillary, in which artists have collaborated to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and advocate against Trump.
Baryshnikov’s involvement in the campaign draws attention to Trump’s divisive and inciteful rhetoric, as well as his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has discriminated against LGBT individuals and censored reporters and artists critical of him. Some have been murdered.
“I left a country that built walls to come to a place without them,” Baryshnikov says in the video. “But today, as a citizen of the United States, for the first time, I am hearing rhetoric that reminds me of the Soviet Union of my youth, where it was a crime, and continues to be a crime, to be different.”
Last thing I want to find out is that Kellyanne is an Ohio State Buckeyes fan.
Our hearts go out to the victims of the Bowling Green Massacre…. #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/6cjtwOQwPx
— McNeil (@Reflog_18) February 3, 2017
A random fact for “fiscal conservatives”:
According to farm.ewg.org, total US subsidy for peanuts between 1995 and 2014 was $3,920,251,738. Over 20 years that’s $196,012,586.90 per year. Now we have a reference point in discussions about government spending. Anything less than $200M is literally peanuts.
It’s awake, and already lying about the media “lying.”
Thank you to Prime Minister of Australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation that FAKE NEWS media lied about. Very nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
Hmm.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) asks President Trump to pardon a convicted murderer. He previously petitioned President Obama for the same.
The case is fraught with problems, but one of the claims is that forensic evidence not presented at his courts-martial including fingerprints and DNA
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a Marine combat veteran, sent a letter to Trump asking him to personally review the case and pardon 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who was sentenced to 19 years at Fort Leavenworth for unpremeditated murder after his platoon shot to death two Afghans while on patrol in 2012. Lorance is appealing the court-martial conviction, which also included attempted murder and making a false official statement.
“This is one of those cases that stands out as a stupid decision where someone who should not be in jail is going to jail,” Hunter said. “And not just that, a platoon commander who was on the ground and in his mind made a life-and-death decision in real time. Again, this is combat.”
Trump was asked about Lorance’s case during a Jan. 26 interview with conservative TV commentator Sean Hannity and said only that, “We’re looking at a few of them.” If the president agrees to Hunter’s request, he will be opening a murky and emotionally charged criminal case.
Fellow soldiers with the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment gave damning testimony against Lorance during his trial - and were not prosecuted. A staff sergeant told the New York Times that the killings were “straight murder” directed by Lorance as platoon leader.
And:
Lorance claimed he ordered the attack on three motorcyclists - killing two - because he was trying to protect his platoon in a dangerous area frequented by the Taliban.
But during the Fort Bragg trial in 2013, prosecutors painted a picture of a soldier without combat experience who pushed his soldiers to threaten, endanger and kill local Afghans and who then attempted a cover-up. He was convicted of unpremeditated murder, attempted murder, reckless endangerment, communicating a threat, eliciting a false official statement and obstructing justice.
The case has numerous convolutions: If the military courts system is your bag, the article is quite interesting.
As for myself, I read of the case in Navy Times but do not know enough of the issues and evidence (or lack thereof) to come to a reasoned opinion on whether this guy should be in Leavenworth or not.
stripes.com
A bit on the scary affinity between @realDonaldTrump and #Holocaust #denial https://t.co/z9NaY4lew7 #holocaustdenial #trump
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) February 3, 2017
re: #41 Anymouse
huffingtonpost.com (with video)
Mikhail Baryshnikov, the famed Russian ballet dancer and actor who defected from the former Soviet Union in 1974, warned in a video released Wednesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could bring Soviet-style authoritarianism to the United States.
“Take it from one who knows: Hundreds of thousands of people like me have fled countries led by dangerous, totalitarian opportunists ― like Donald Trump,” Baryshnikov says in the video, produced by an organization called Art Not War.
The video is part of a campaign called Humanity for Hillary, in which artists have collaborated to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and advocate against Trump.
Baryshnikov’s involvement in the campaign draws attention to Trump’s divisive and inciteful rhetoric, as well as his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has discriminated against LGBT individuals and censored reporters and artists critical of him. Some have been murdered.
“I left a country that built walls to come to a place without them,” Baryshnikov says in the video. “But today, as a citizen of the United States, for the first time, I am hearing rhetoric that reminds me of the Soviet Union of my youth, where it was a crime, and continues to be a crime, to be different.”
Next level of warnings will likely feature the Virgin Mary.
(note lack of ///)
re: #43 Anymouse
A random fact for “fiscal conservatives”:
According to farm.ewg.org, total US subsidy for peanuts between 1995 and 2014 was $3,920,251,738. Over 20 years that’s $196,012,586.90 per year. Now we have a reference point in discussions about government spending. Anything less than $200M is literally peanuts.
And farmers, who almost universally conservative, don’t think they’re moochers.
re: #43 Anymouse
A random fact for “fiscal conservatives”:
According to farm.ewg.org, total US subsidy for peanuts between 1995 and 2014 was $3,920,251,738. Over 20 years that’s $196,012,586.90 per year. Now we have a reference point in discussions about government spending. Anything less than $200M is literally peanuts.
There was a quote from a Deutsche Bank manager to the effect that the sum of $50 million was “peanuts”. But that was years ago, must be inflation.
82nd Airborne vet who was deported as an undocumented immigrant to Mexico (and set up a help support group service there for other deported veterans) has hope he will be granted citizenship.
He was brought to the USA at age 8. He joined the Army with the understanding he would become a citizen. After his honourable he did not follow up the paperwork, and when convicted of a Felony (aggravated discharge of a firearm) was deported to Mexico and banned from ever returning.
That crime has since been reclassified as a misdemeanour.
A report released this month by the American Civil Liberties Union brought the issue back into the headlines, saying that the federal government failed to ensure that immigrant servicemembers became citizens and later deported “an untold number” without considering their service.
Barajas-Varela is featured on the cover of the report, called “Discharged, Then Discarded,” and is credited by the ACLU with giving deported veterans “a collective voice whose cries are finally being heard.”
He has been encouraged by recent events.
With help from the ACLU and legal experts, deported Marine veteran Daniel Torres became a U.S. citizen in April.
Mr. Barajas-Varela is a combat veteran of the Iraq War.
He has helped twelve deported veterans and one civilian DOD worker obtain reëntry into the USA.
More at Stars and Stripes
stripes.com
re: #50 Anymouse
82nd Airborne vet who was deported as an undocumented immigrant to Mexico (and set up a help support group service there for other deported veterans) has hope he will be granted citizenship.
He was brought to the USA at age 8. He joined the Army with the understanding he would become a citizen. After his honourable he did not follow up the paperwork, and when convicted of a Felony (aggravated discharge of a firearm) was deported to Mexico and banned from ever returning.
Only Trump cabinet appointees can get away with that…
Not good news for my wife’s health after doctor visit today:
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Conway: Bowling Green Massacre
Spicer: Iranian attack on US Navy
If they’re gonna to keep using alt-fact, they should have to wear goatees— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 3, 2017
I heard the Bowling Massacre terrorists forced everybody to get gay married. Can anybody confirm that?
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 3, 2017
re: #52 Anymouse
Not good news for my wife’s health after doctor visit today:
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re: #53 Anymouse
I heard the Bowling Massacre terrorists forced everybody to get gay married. Can anybody confirm that?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
re: #54 Fineday
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re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
What would be a problem is spokesliar Kellyanne Conway so brazenly lied about something so easily debunked, and did it on television. Moreover, that sounded planned: Who the heck would make up a story like that off the cuff?
It almost sounds like either A) trying to deflect attention from the failed Yemeni raid, B) trying to create justification for deporting refugees (or worse) particularly after the Muslim Ban and disastrous phone call with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, and C) Press liar Sean Spicer with another totally fabricated story about an Iranian missile attack on a US Navy ship (also debunked immediately).
It would appear they are seeking justification for their immigrant/refugee ban and a war with Iran simultaneously.
re: #57 Anymouse
What would be a problem is spokesliar Kellyanne Conway so brazenly lied about something so easily debunked, and did it on television. Moreover, that sounded planned: Who the heck would make up a story like that off the cuff?
This is what happens when the Press does not immediately call out and dogpile on people who spread lies like this: it only emboldens them.
I am afraid it is too late to change that negligent practice or that malignant behavior.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is what happens when the Press does not immediately call out and dogpile on people who spread lies like this: it only emboldens them.
I am afraid it is too late to change that negligent practice or that malignant behavior.
Well, we have Reuters noting that the administration should be treated as any other authoritarian regime.
We need reporters like this woman who worked for The Telegraph and The Economist again.
Clare Holllingworth, Foreign Correspondent, Died Age 105
This woman was the bloody Indiana Jones of Journalism. She is the person who broke the news of the invasion of Poland by stumbling across German armour formations massed and camouflaged on the Polish border (after stealing a car from the UK Embassy in Poland to go to Germany).
She lead a raid in Algeria to free other foreign correspondents from kidnappers in Algeria. She climbed a bloody lamppost when she was eighty years old to get a better view of the crackdown in Tienanmen Square in Beijing. She once avoided arrest by the police in communist Bucharest by answering her hotel door wrapped only in a towel, reasoning the police might strip a woman but not forcibly dress one.
She could ski, ride horses, fly a plane and parachute jump, and shoot. She kept a pistol under her pillow at all times.
She scooped the story that Ken Philby was a Soviet spy, and her editor sat on it. When it came out in the press, she took his job.
This is journalism (who said writing can’t also be filled with darring-do).
Her story is fascinating and well worth a read (one page in the print edition, not sure on the Web).
economist.com
re: #59 Anymouse
Well, we have Reuters noting that the administration should be treated as any other authoritarian regime.
Problem is, we have lotsa people who want an authoritarian regime right now…
“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” - Les Moonves.
re: #54 Fineday
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Meanwhile, looks like the GOP-controlled Senate is up to some hijinks:
The Senate voted strictly along party lines Friday morning to repeal a regulation requiring disclosures for the payments that energy companies make to foreign governments.
The measure passed 52-47 in a pre-dawn vote.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) foreign payments rule was mandated by a key provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and was meant to reduce corruption in resource-rich countries by detailing the royalties and other payments that oil, natural gas, coal and mineral companies make to governments.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, looks like the GOP-controlled Senate is up to some hijinks:
The Senate voted strictly along party lines Friday morning to repeal a regulation requiring disclosures for the payments that energy companies make to foreign governments.
This is when we need people like Anonymous and Wikileaks.
Of course, but for the damage they did in 2016, we would not need them in this case….
So the Senate votes on Straight Party lines to advance Betsy Wetsy’s nomination to dismantle the Department of Education and take us back to the glory days of child labor.
Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for Saint Susan Sarandon to chime in and tell us just how much worse off we would be with Hillary. I know it’s coming any day. Perhaps when Susie Spotless stops sipping tea in her French chateau while she reviews her stock portfolio…
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is when we need people like Anonymous and Wikileaks.
Of course, but for the damage they did in 2016, we would not need them in this case….
I’m so sorry friend, but Wikileaks is too busy tearing down Angela Merkel in Germany and boosting Le Pen in France. After all, when their master Putin calls, they must obey!
re: #61 Anymouse
“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” - Les Moonves.
Yes, Anymouse! And there is that business deal Les has been trying to pull off to dump the See B.S. radio division for years. But now with Trump in office and packing the FCC with a GOP rubber stamp majority, Les can now dump the radio division and make See B.S. even more profitable. Oh, and be assured! The See B.S. News Division will continue to kiss Trump ass 24/7!
Fascist Free Republic has an article citing wingnut libertarian blog Zero Hedge that Mr. Milo Yiannopolis’s book Dangerous is the #1 “Mover and Shaker” on amazon.com.
freerepublic (dot) com/focus/f-news/3520761/posts
Zero Hedge has it’s sales up 12,740% over some previous period. (I suppose if he sold one book in that period, then sold 12,740 …)
Curious they didn’t link to Amazon itself.
Well, their page might explain it:
Caveat: Amazon updates that page every hour. They have the book at #3 and at a much lower 3,000%.
In the Best Sellers category, Mr. Yiannaopolis’s book is #1 and George Orwell’s 1984 is #2. (1984 has been at the top of the list for several days now.)
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is when we need people like Anonymous and Wikileaks.
Of course, but for the damage they did in 2016, we would not need them in this case….
“Secret DNC E-mails reveal Democratic Party suggested to Mitch McConnell that removing regulations might get Dem support for other bills down the road” - Wikileaks possibly
Nope, we’ve had enough of their “help.”
re: #69 Anymouse
“Secret DNC E-mails reveal Democratic Party suggested to Mitch McConnell that removing regulations might get Dem support for other bills down the road” - Wikileaks possibly
Nope, we’ve had enough of their “help.”
We need people like them, ones willing to risk revealing crimes against the American people. You are right, WL and A are without principles and less than zero.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We need people like them, ones willing to risk revealing crimes against the American people. You are right, WL and A are without principle and less than zero.
“Hey Julian, about that promise to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy if Mr. Trump won the election to face charges in Sweden” … oh right, using a motorised goalpost mover.
Protest march (with many photos) at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
wonkette.com
The march was organised by two Hispanic women who speak limited English. From the start, they wanted the march to be as inclusive as possible to protest the Muslim Ban/Green Card Roundup.
The marchers surrounded the Muslim protesters so they could pray without being disturbed during the event.
re: #72 Anymouse
Protest march (with many photos) at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
wonkette.comThe march was organised by two Hispanic women who speak limited English. From the start, they wanted the march to be as inclusive as possible to protest the Muslim Ban/Green Card Roundup.
The marchers surrounded the Muslim protesters so they could pray without being disturbed during the event.
Isn’t Lorraine Motel where MLK was shot?
Pres Trump is taking first steps to scale back financial services regulations with Treasury review of Dodd-Frank Act https://t.co/DRLf9IuYU8 pic.twitter.com/gMtsn6z1Wj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 3, 2017
Make Depressions Great Again https://t.co/n5yCDqcJti
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) February 3, 2017
re: #61 Anymouse
“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” - Les Moonves.
Les Moonves is getting rid of CBS’ radio division in a quick and tax-free way. You bet he’s grinning from ear to ear right now.
re: #73 The Vicious Babushka
Isn’t Lorraine Motel where MLK was shot?
Yes. The protest was about the Immigrant Ban and Muslim Pogrom, but also about the erasure of African-Americans from the Black History Month proclamation.
One commentator noted the motel is near the National Civil Rights Museum. The Museum exists to show the quaint examples of XX Century civil rights that people today discarded.
So we’re holding the NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER FOR QUESTIONING AT DULLES now. Solid stuff. https://t.co/0yjXPaTzUR
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) February 3, 2017
re: #77 The Vicious Babushka
We’ve always been at war with Islam Eastasia China Norway.
Betsy Nichols, aka @betsythebeaver, redid my Twitter avatar last night. The more I look at it, the more it actually looks like me. LOL
Headshot for @myronfalwell pic.twitter.com/2zynOQxnbZ
— proud clown (@betsythebeaver) February 3, 2017
re: #79 Myron Falwell
Betsy Nichols, aka @betsythebeaver, redid my Twitter avatar last night. The more I look at it, the more it actually looks like me. LOL
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Mine looks like me too, but you look like you are having more fun.
re: #8 Anymouse
Well, while it’s tempting to think that they were fired for “disloyalty to the
Fuhrerpresident or something, it could also be for something like conduct unbecoming (as the Secret Service agents in Colombia were).
Hard to think what would be “unbecoming” to this admin other than not bowing to the king and kissing his … ring.
re: #81 Eventual Carrion
Hard to think what would be “unbecoming” to this admin other than not bowing to the king and kissing his … ring.
Go on, say it. You know you want to. /s
re: #24 Single-handed sailor
“Fox News: DHS Secretary Says Parts Of Border Wall Will Be ‘See Through’”
Translated: “We priced 2000 miles of chain link fence and it ate our whole budget.”
Actually an invisible fence. We just need to get all those Mezzicans to wear the collars.
Side effects of the drug Mr. Trump is alleged to be using for hair growth includes inverted nipples.
Make inverted nipples great again!
re: #77 The Vicious Babushka
Forget the next president — the next SIX PRESIDENTS IN A ROW will have to continually apologize for the past two weeks.
A plaque made for a Martin Luther King Jr. event mistakenly thanked James Earl Ray (his assassin) rather than James Earl Jones, the invited speaker at a celebratory event in Florida. The plaque was contracted to a Texas company.
snopes.com
Snopes rates it as true.
Ya gotta wonder if that mistake was an honest one.
re: #88 Myron Falwell
Forget the next president — the next SIX PRESIDENTS IN A ROW will have to continually apologize for the past two weeks.
Don’t you remember the halcyon days when wingnuts were so outraged at President Obama’s so-called “Apology Tour?”
How many people have had to apologise on behalf of Mr. Trump in the last two weeks?
I swear I can hear crickets outside in January in the middle of a thunder snowstorm right now.
I’m guessing consistency is not their strong suit.
re: #91 Myron Falwell
Do those affected get to go topless?
I don’t want to see Mr. Trump topless, thanks.
re: #93 Anymouse
I don’t want to see Mr. Trump topless, thanks.
Neither does Melania. Why do you think she’s not moving to DC?
re: #43 Anymouse
A random fact for “fiscal conservatives”:
According to farm.ewg.org, total US subsidy for peanuts between 1995 and 2014 was $3,920,251,738. Over 20 years that’s $196,012,586.90 per year. Now we have a reference point in discussions about government spending. Anything less than $200M is literally peanuts.
Y’all should come down in November for our National Peanut Subsidy Festival. Be sure to visit the Hall of Klan Police Officials and family-friendly games like Dipping for Yankee Dollars.
re: #74 Myron Falwell
And from CNN:
He’ll also force the delay of an Obama-era rule that required retirement advisers to act in their clients’ best interests.
Yes. Really!
re: #94 The Vicious Babushka
Neither does Melania. Why do you think she’s not moving to DC?
I say she has to carry her marriage to term.
Moreover, where are all the fiscally-responsible conservatives howling about all the extra expense of posting the Secret Service in New York for four years until he’s impeached until he flees the country in exile?
re: #96 GlutenFreeJesus
And from CNN:
He’ll also force the delay of an Obama-era rule that required retirement advisers to act in their clients’ best interests.
Yes. Really!
Wtf.
Always looking out for the women, conservatives are.
One lawmaker in favor of keeping the law in place feels Sunday mornings should be used for your wife to make you breakfast in bed.
“Spending time with your wife, your husband. Making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed and then after that go take your kids for a walk,” says Representative Bernie Satrom.
re: #52 Anymouse
Not good news for my wife’s health after doctor visit today:
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re: #99 Anymouse
Always looking out for the women, conservatives are.
One lawmaker in favor of keeping the law in place feels Sunday mornings should be used for your wife to make you breakfast in bed.
“Spending time with your wife, your husband. Making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed and then after that go take your kids for a walk,” says Representative Bernie Satrom.
Also shows how two faced they are on businesses.
re: #99 Anymouse
Always looking out for the women, conservatives are.
One lawmaker in favor of keeping the law in place feels Sunday mornings should be used for your wife to make you breakfast in bed.
“Spending time with your wife, your husband. Making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed and then after that go take your kids for a walk,” says Representative Bernie Satrom.
Conservatives don’t want to get rid of job-killing regulations?
re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter
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Kleptocracy doesn’t seem to do this administration justice. We need a stronger term.
Sigh my youngest brother has bought the bs about SJWs. He’s in an odd quasi libertarian phase.
re: #102 Timothy Watson
Conservatives don’t want to get rid of job-killing regulations?
Keeping women in their place is always a higher priority.
re: #80 Anymouse
Mine looks like me too, but you look like you are having more fun.
Heh. It doesn’t hurt to occasionally have a little fun now and then.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
Yup.
And then there’s this:
The official conceded a complete gutting of the law would require Congress to act — “This is not an attempt to undo Dodd-Frank” — but identified areas where Trump could make unilateral changes, like placing his own directors at key regulatory bodies.
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I wonder what salt scum of the earth he will appoint by EO for this.
re: #104 HappyWarrior
Sigh my youngest brother has bought the bs about SJWs. He’s in an odd quasi libertarian phase.
Ask him what’s wrong with social justice.
re: #104 HappyWarrior
Sigh my youngest brother has bought the bs about SJWs. He’s in an odd quasi libertarian phase.
How old is he?
We are in a post facts world. Spicer blaming Iran for that attack. And Conway making things up out of thin air. Orwell would be amazed to see this.
Well, I am off to bed. G’night y’all, for varying definitions of night.
re: #108 Anymouse
Ask him what’s wrong with social justice.
He’s not against it, he’s just naive and believes a lot of the problems of the past have been settled. I really think getting outside our overwhelmingly white exburb may help him see things better. My other brother and I are a lot older and grew up in a diverse area.
re: #103 Anymouse
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re: #5 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)
Was it over when the
GermansIraqi refugees bombedPearl HarborBowling Green ?
Fixed for accuracy. /
Greets and saluts from the resistance. Today’s IOKIYAR:
Obama: new Israeli settlements bad
Trump/GOP: Obama is enemy of Israel
Trump: new Israeli settlements bad
GOP: *crickets*— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 3, 2017
Yes folks, that’s right. Trump goes and criticizes Israel for building new settlements. Calls it not helpful.
The silence from the GOP is deafening considering that it is the SAME EXACT POSITION TAKEN by President Obama, but back then, the GOP called Obama the enemy of Israel who was doing everything to undermine Israel’s security.
Top that off with the fact that Israelis, Jordanians and others in the region are worried that Trump’s insistence on moving the US Embassy to Jersualem would cause a war (or at least another Intifada). The GOP doesn’t care about that either, and when Israelis are worried about their security because of a US leader’s actions, that would suggest that the US is not operating to further Israel’s security (or the US’s own for that matter). More instability in an already unstable region is bad for everyone.
Well, not for everyone. Russia wins.
In other news, we’ve got Bannon/Trump/GOP looking to undo Dodd/Frank, and Conway lied her ass off as she claimed that there was a Bowling Green Massacre, but wasn’t clear on where this happened: Kentucky, Ohio, or NYC, and I’m convinced it was all three - that’s why everyone knows where they were when it happened. Trump fans will be polled on this next week and will be convinced that it happened. It’s just more sauce for the goose so that Bannon/Trump can move towards a full ban against Muslim immigration to the US, and even begin agitating towards deporting Muslims who are here lawfully - legal residents on visas, US citizens, etc. It’s priming the pump.
re: #52 Anymouse
Not good news for my wife’s health after doctor visit today:
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I ain’t too worried though. Our other brother once flirted with Ron Paul libertarianism for a little while and now he’s a big environmentalist/indigenous people’s rights guy. And TBH I am glad he’s not a parrot of me and has shown that he’s trying to get information from everyone but I do get annoyed when he pulls a lot of MBFs and shit like that. If it reminds me of anyone, it’s honestly our old pal KT.
re: #119 GlutenFreeJesus
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GOP in a nutshell:
This sums things up rather perfectly, doesn’t it? #USA pic.twitter.com/wPlwjYhBLs
— Scott Steele (@WScott_Steele) February 3, 2017
I don’t believe people like Milo or Spencer should be jailed for their beliefs but I definitely don’t think it helps a damn to normalize them and make them celebrities and I definitely don’t think it’s right to describe them as advocates for free speech.
re: #52 Anymouse
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re: #52 Anymouse
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re: #7 goddamnedfrank
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re: #125 Decatur Deb
SHE’S PROBABLY GOT CALVES THE SIZE OF CANTALOUPES!!!
re: #114 HappyWarrior
He’s 16 so I cut him some slack.
Yeah, I was supporting the Iraq War when I was 16.
That’s one reason why I cut anti-Trump Republicans some slack. It took me awhile to come all the way around, starting from 2008 or 2009.
re: #7 goddamnedfrank
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re: #130 Timothy Watson
Yeah, I was supporting the Iraq War when I was 16.
That’s one reason why I cut anti-Trump Republicans some slack. It took me awhile to come all the way around, starting from 2008 or 2009.
Yeah he’s just a kid and as I said our other brother was briefly a Ron Paul fanboy and now he’s Mr. Indigenous People and Environment, I mean that as a compliment, he has a huge heart for those issues. I just think he’s getting a mis-characterization of what the left actually stands for and I think he’s naive to why feminists do what they do. As I said though, just a kid and we do live in an overwhelmingly affluent white area. And you know kids, he might be “rebelling” in a way since me, our parents, and grandmother are boring liberals. I might I understand where he’s coming from on free speech but I think he really does misunderstand, we don’t want people like Milo in jail but we think it’s our free speech to make Milo the pariah he should be rather than the cause celebrity he wants to be.
re: #123 HappyWarrior
I don’t believe people like Milo or Spencer should be jailed for their beliefs but I definitely don’t think it helps a damn to normalize them and make them celebrities and I definitely don’t think it’s right to describe them as advocates for free speech.
They should be shunned. Near nobody watches, reads or pays attention. The one hit wonder fade away.
re: #131 Timothy Watson
Not a lot of people know Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian Muslim SOE agent who was executed in Dachau:
Pam Geller always wants to talk about the Mulfti but she’d never talk about people like this. Thing is the mulfti was an awful guy but I never see her or any of the other Islamaphobes using the existence of Christian priests and pastors that supported the Final Solution to discredit their religion. It’s true that a lot of Bosnian Muslims did collaborate with the Nazis but the Nazis themselves were predominately German Lutherans not to mention they had Italian Catholics and other ethnic and religious groups. Some countries collaborated and resisted more than others but no one group can be said to be purely guilty or innocent of collaboration with the Nazis. We only had individuals.
re: #133 Unshaken Defiance
They should be shunned. Near nobody watches, reads or pays attention. The one hit wonder fade away.
Yeah, that’s why I think the UC student body could have handled this differently.
New progressive, anti-Trump effort by LinkedIn’s Hoffman, Zynga’s Pincus + Adam Werbach, fmr Sierra Club. My scoop: https://t.co/lCSUXKct4a
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) February 3, 2017
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re: #99 Anymouse
Always looking out for the women, conservatives are.
One lawmaker in favor of keeping the law in place feels Sunday mornings should be used for your wife to make you breakfast in bed.
“Spending time with your wife, your husband. Making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed and then after that go take your kids for a walk,” says Representative Bernie Satrom.
Sunday Blue Laws were already being challenged in the EIGHTEEN FUCKING FORTIES.
re: #134 HappyWarrior
Pam Geller always wants to talk about the Mulfti but she’d never talk about people like this. Thing is the mulfti was an awful guy but I never see her or any of the other Islamaphobes using the existence of Christian priests and pastors that supported the Final Solution to discredit their religion. It’s true that a lot of Bosnian Muslims did collaborate with the Nazis but the Nazis themselves were predominately German Lutherans not to mention they had Italian Catholics and other ethnic and religious groups. Some countries collaborated and resisted more than others but no one group can be said to be purely guilty or innocent of collaboration with the Nazis. We only had individuals.
And Catholic Croatians tried to kill as many Serbs as possible too.
So apparently the real reason Trump has gone to war against NBC and the Apprentice is that he wanted his girlfriend/daughter to host it.
That’s it.
Breakfast in bed is overrated.
The only time I ever had breakfast or any other meal in bed was when I had pneumonia many years ago and I was too weak to get out of bed. My son (who was 6 years old at the time) was afraid I would starve to death so he brought me grapefruits and cereal.
I was too sick to eat but I managed a few mouthfuls because he was so concerned about me.
Also it’s no fun to sleep in a bed full of crumbs.
re: #139 Timothy Watson
And Catholic Croatians tried to kill as many Serbs as possible too.
Right, the Utasse.
re: #140 Skip Intro
So apparently the real reason Trump has gone to war against NBC and the Apprentice is that he wanted his girlfriend/daughter to host it.
That’s it.
Typically petty.
re: #140 Skip Intro
So apparently the real reason Trump has gone to war against NBC and the Apprentice is that he wanted his girlfriend/daughter to host it.
That’s it.
For someone supposedly really smart, he doesn’t understand business at all. Arnold is definitely going to get more ratings than Ivanka. Have to say, I like Arnold tweeking Trump. It’s funny.
re: #144 HappyWarrior
For someone supposedly really smart, he doesn’t understand business at all. Arnold is definitely going to get more ratings than Ivanka. Have to say, I like Arnold tweeking Trump. It’s funny.
re: #138 The Vicious Babushka
Bergen County NJ still has the blue laws. All but bookstores, restaurants, and supermarkets are closed. A few stores get dispensations to be open - like Costco, because they sell food, but they can’t sell stuff like clothes or electronics.
Efforts to repeal the law have repeatedly failed - mostly because people cite the additional traffic it would cause on Sunday (it’s a break from the nonstop traffic, even though traffic would be reduced on Saturday as people no longer need to do all their errands either in county or have to travel elsewhere).
And that also affects alcohol sales (no sales before noon on Sunday).
Noticed in Europe that a lot of places are closed on Mondays. Anyone know why that is?
So, you ever go years without seeing someone you cared for anywhere, and then you find them by accident…and then you regret caring for them ever?
I can’t help people with closed minds and hate in their hearts. I’m here for the open minded only @random__name @PrecGorgRalf
— Melyssa Hubbard (@SpankCityHall) February 3, 2017
I am in her batshit crazy book though…and she says things that I actually did…however, I’m PRETTY sure that I had made it clear to her that I did NOT want that particular thing that I did in the book, and I’m pretty sure she agreed not to put it in.
I’ve been stalking up and down my hallway screaming in incoherent rage.
I’m glad I own the place.
Someone at the New York Times is worried about “access” to the administration…
Kellyanne misspoke on Bowling Green then clarified her remarks. Better to debate merits of her argument than gotcha https://t.co/GYpKcf3vq6
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) February 3, 2017
Meanwhile, from the linked article:
Very grateful no one seriously hurt in the Louvre attack …or the (completely fake) Bowling Green Massacre. Please don’t make up attacks.
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) February 3, 2017
re: #152 FormerDirtDart
Someone at the New York Times is worried about “access” to the administration…
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re: #144 HappyWarrior
For someone supposedly really smart, he doesn’t understand business at all. Arnold is definitely going to get more ratings than Ivanka. Have to say, I like Arnold tweeking Trump. It’s funny.
And since both Arnold and the yam are making money from the ridiculous show, they’re both eager to contine the “feud.” And the media look like a bunch of fools. SSDD
re: #154 Myron Falwell
Trump is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, and Linda McMahon is his pick to
leadtear asunder the Small Business Administration.I’m just sayin’…
I had to research McMahon. One of the services our firm does is to provide a newsletter to small business owners so I prepared a biography and analysis of McMahon’s qualifications. On paper, looks good, but then you see how the WWE quashed its smaller competitors through shady tactics.
re: #152 FormerDirtDart
Someone at the New York Times is worried about “access” to the administration…
Bowling Green wasn’t an isolated incident with KellyAnne. That’s why it can’t be left alone.
vre: #155 BeachDem
Yeah, but I have a hard time believing Trump’s ego would allow him to agree to Arnold belittling him in that video. I don’t think it’s staged.
re: #155 BeachDem
And since both Arnold and the yam are making money from the ridiculous show, they’re both eager to contine the “feud.” And the media look like a bunch of fools. SSDD
I am glad I’ve never watched Reality TV. The Apprentice flat out never appealed to me at all long before Donald became the nation’s mots famous birther.
re: #156 HappyWarrior
The WWE also treated their wrestlers like shit. They still do. It’s all about the company’s profits, and who cares how the wrestlers deal with all the injuries, pain and suffering for ratings. Treat them as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes/benefits.
It’s pathetic that anyone would buy that excuse. So what, she really meant to say, “They were the masterminds of the Bowling Green Terrorists”? She didn’t misspeak, she’s an infowars grade lunatic that feeds on and spreads utter bullshit.
re: #160 lawhawk
The WWE also treated their wrestlers like shit. They still do. It’s all about the company’s profits, and who cares how the wrestlers deal with all the injuries, pain and suffering for ratings. Treat them as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes/benefits.
Yep, I wrote about that as well. I’m not a fan of professional wrestling but if I were, I’d be appalled at how the McMahons treated the men and women that made them fuck-you-wealthy.
Yes, my husband’s gone to Bowlin’ Green
To do some business there.
Then Caleb threw that bottle down
And grabbed me by my hair.
The county seat for where I live is Bowling Green, Virginia. Been trying to make a joke about it since I heard Conway’s comments…
re: #158 jimmyvluv4u
You’re right, in the “Battle of the Billionaires” storyline in WWE, Trump did come out ahead, and Vinnie Mac came out without a head of hair.
You KNOW there was no way Trump would have let his champion lose the match…especially not with his “awesome” hair on the line. Although, Trump did look like he did a credible clothesline for an unfit 50+ yr old, who’s never wrestled before…
re: #157 Belafon
Bowling Green wasn’t an isolated incident with KellyAnne. That’s why it can’t be left alone.
Yeah, the purveyor of “alternate-facts” isn’t entitled to any benefit of the doubt
re: #165 Timothy Watson
The county seat for where I live is Bowling Green, Virginia. Been trying to make a joke about it since I heard Conway’s comments…
One of my favorite baseball players as a kid, Chris Hoiles was from Bowling Green, Ohio.
So…it’s Friday.
What fresh hell is Bannon going to unleash on us all after sundown tonight?
The only way to respond to Conway when she makes shit up:
Laugh at her. Laugh at her lying ass. Laugh your ass off at her lying to defend the indefensible Bannon/Trump admin.
Added: And yes - this is edited footage. This is how she should be treated, not with any kind of respect. Liars get no respect.
re: #170 lawhawk
The only way to respond to Conway when she makes shit up:
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Laugh at her. Laugh at her lying ass. Laugh your ass off at her lying to defend the indefensible Bannon/Trump admin.
What’s he actually laughing at? It looks edited. But yeah that’s what she should be.
re: #52 Anymouse
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You know though, regarding that military vehicle that had the Trump flag? Gee wonder how well it would go over if they had an Obama campaign flag? Rhetorical question o course.
bwaaahaaaa!
The “Make a Donation” button redirects to the perfect place.https://t.co/upd2EZm5iU
— johnwintertweet (@johnwintertweet) February 3, 2017
re: #159 HappyWarrior
I am glad I’ve never watched Reality TV. The Apprentice flat out never appealed to me at all long before Donald became the nation’s mots famous birther.
I used to watch American Idol and Project Runway. I still watch the latter because I love fashion (I watch Fashion Police every time it is on). I always prefer those who get along vs all the shows where there is a “villian”. I like talent. I don’t appreciate the personal made-up drama.
Personal drama is all trump knows.
Anymouse has gone to bed, but here is some news that would cheer him up:
Eyeing the House, Democrats move to hire operatives in 20 GOP-held districts
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.
re: #170 lawhawk
The only way to respond to Conway when she makes shit up:
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Laugh at her. Laugh at her lying ass. Laugh your ass off at her lying to defend the indefensible Bannon/Trump admin.
Good strategy, but that is a parody/spoof video.
re: #175 MsJ
I used to watch American Idol and Project Runway. I still watch the latter because I love fashion (I watch Fashion Police every time it is on). I always prefer those who get along vs all the shows where there is a “villian”. I like talent. I don’t appreciate the personal made-up drama.
Personal drama is all trump knows.
Idol was fun. I admit I liked watching more when Simon Cowell was a judge but it was cool to people try to make their dreams a reality. I’m with you on talent. The drama on these reality TV shows is often so stupid and so played up.
re: #171 HappyWarrior
What’s he actually laughing at? It looks edited. But yeah that’s what she should be.
It’s edited, I assume with off-air footage. I wish the media would treat her this way in real life.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Anymouse has gone to bed, but here is some news that would cheer him up:
Eyeing the House, Democrats move to hire operatives in 20 GOP-held districts
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.
Good.
re: #179 A wild WITHAK appeared!
It’s edited, I assume with off-air footage. I wish the media would treat her this way in real life.
Yeah I thought it was edited given the pauses. They should treat her that way. If she’s going to act ridiculous and make absurd claims and use Orwellean language, laugh at her.
re: #165 Timothy Watson
The county seat for where I live is Bowling Green, Virginia. Been trying to make a joke about it since I heard Conway’s comments…
Bowling Green KY is Western’s university town. There are Bowling Greens all over the place. Perhaps we should check to see if any of them are missing.
BREAKING: U.S. Treasury Dept. announces new sanctions against Iran: 13 individuals and 12 entities impacted. pic.twitter.com/iLvBD7ajud
— ABC News (@ABC) February 3, 2017
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Yeah I thought it was edited given the pauses. They should treat her that way. If she’s going to act ridiculous and make absurd claims and use Orwellean language, laugh at her.
NO. There is no reason to interview her. She never tells the truth or even tries to come close. She adds nothing to the discussion.
re: #182 Decatur Deb
Bowling Green KY is Western’s university town. There are Bowling Greens all over the place. Perhaps we should check to see if any of them are missing.
Cage the Elephant, a pretty good band is from there I believe.
re: #182 Decatur Deb
Bowling Green KY is Western’s university town. There are Bowling Greens all over the place. Perhaps we should check to see if any of them are missing.
CT: in order to cover up the BG massacree, they simply erased the town from the map.
re: #184 I Would Prefer Not To
NO. There is no reason to interview her. She never tells the truth or even tries to come close. She adds nothing to the discussion.
I agree with that as well.
re: #183 lawhawk
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But the FSB, which just charged several people for being American spies, gets their sanctions removed.
re: #152 FormerDirtDart
Someone at the New York Times is worried about “access” to the administration…
Chelsea is starting to kick some as$
I take solace in the words of Frederick Douglass following the Bowling Green Massacre.
re: #190 darthstar
I take solace in the words of Frederick Douglass following the Bowling Green Massacre.
He was really inspiring in whatever it was that he said…
re: #190 darthstar
Isn’t that the Sojourner Truth.
re: #182 Decatur Deb
Bowling Green KY is Western’s university town. There are Bowling Greens all over the place. Perhaps we should check to see if any of them are missing.
So many Bowling Greens, surely there’s been an attack in one of them.
/
re: #185 HappyWarrior
Cage the Elephant, a pretty good band is from there I believe.
So was GM’s Corvette museum, until a sinkhole swallowed most of it. Maybe that was the Iraqi/Miata plot.
The hypocrisy of these crybabies pic.twitter.com/CRH5jWTtIz
— Kelly Ellis (@justkelly_ok) February 3, 2017
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was really inspiring in whatever it was that he said…
It was on Snapchat and disappeared after 10 minutes…but it was powerful.
re: #194 Sir John Barron
So many Bowling Greens, surely there’s been an attack in one of them.
/
Bowling Green Massacre pic.twitter.com/p3UquibSKA
— Daily Snark (@DailySnark) February 3, 2017
re: #165 Timothy Watson
The county seat for where I live is Bowling Green, Virginia. Been trying to make a joke about it since I heard Conway’s comments…
Bowling Green, Ohio is home to Bowling Green State University… where their football Falcons lost to THE Ohio State Buckeyes by 60+ points this past September.
If daddy keeps hurting her brand she could get power of attorney over him and then we’d have a real leader in Washington.
Nordstrom 86s Ivanka for poor sales. Pity Daddy couldn’t get the million invisible people from inauguration to shop! https://t.co/WWzCJZ3d7L
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 3, 2017
A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
Get smart. He says that alot. What Bannon/Trump means is a Muslim ban, and ultimately to throw out Muslim immigrants - who entered country legally.
He keeps dancing around the subject (which is funny since he’s a supposed straight talker), because it would be unconstitutional on its face, but his followers know exactly what he means. Everyone knows, even the media, but they dare not speak it publicly, because the media thinks that access is more important than writing the facts.
PR person just told me he briefed client who is meeting w/Trump on what to say if Trump asked him about his crowd size or Electoral College.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 3, 2017
@sahilkapur @ASlavitt For gods sake, stop saying HOUSE, it is REPUBLICANS who voted to do this.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
re: #202 lawhawk
He keeps saying Radical Islamic Terrorist, but they keep coming. Why won’t they stop if Trump says Radical Islamic Terrorist?!!
//
Now, what is he talking about? I missed some news about a Louvre attack.
re: #205 Belafon
He keeps saying Radical Islamic Terrorist, but they keep coming. Why won’t they stop if Trump says Radical Islamic Terrorist?!!
//
Now, what is he talking about? I missed some news about a Louvre attack.
Soldiers shot a guy who had a machete.
Man, stop this stupid shit. Call them out!
House votes to repeal Obama-era regulation aimed at stopping people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns. https://t.co/qQFaY3Vs3C
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 3, 2017
Correction: REPUBLICANS vote to repeal regulation to keep severely mentally ill from buying guns. REPUBLICANS putting guns in their hands! https://t.co/MQaa64V6xl
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
re: #206 Timothy Watson
Soldiers shot a guy who had a machete.
The only “good guy with a gun” was an armed French servicemember with suitable training.
re: #207 MsJ
A subtle use of the Magical Balance Fairy. Makes it seem like both sides are equally responsible.
re: #207 MsJ
Man, stop this stupid shit. Call them out!
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White mass shooters = mentally ill (to those on the right)
Republicans lower the bar for the mentally ill to obtain weapons.
So…do they want more mass shootings by mentally ill white guys?
I would be an awful person to interview Trump, mostly because I’d get no more than 2 minutes in before he’d run off claiming that he’d been railroaded into an interview. And I wouldn’t care that I don’t get a second chance to interview, because I’d have exposed this bigot for the Islamophobe who’s running roughshod over the Constitution to deprive people of their constitutional protections.
Q1) you keep talk about being smart and need to act about Islamic terrorism. What specific things do you think are smart?
A) sputtering. I have great plans. Best plans. I laid them out.
Q2) Does this include the Muslim ban you enacted days ago?
A) Yes… no wait, that wasn’t a ban. It was just preventing Muslims from entering for a limited time.
Q3) So, a ban that is temporary but can be extended indefinitely, and which has already caught up Muslims living in countries other than those you originally banned.
A) So? It’s working perfectly.
Q4) Does this mean a ban on Muslims entering the US - yes or no?
A) Yes… no wait.. Yes.
Q5) What about Muslims who are here legally on visas, legal immigrants, and naturalized citizens; are you ultimately seeking to deport them/deprive them of their US citizenship.
A) This interview’s over!
re: #209 Dr Lizardo
Not the ~House~. The GOP voted to overturn Obama drilling rules and environmental protections. Not Democrats. GOP controls House @thehill
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 3, 2017
And another day begins in the magical land of unicorns, mbfs and maga hats.
I just heard Tom Brokaw, the man who invented World War II, drone on sonorously about how the Democratic minority in the Congress is making a mistake by slowing down the confirmation process because that’s “the Republican playbook” and that they’d be better advised to go out and seek the wisdom of “middle America” (Say “white people,” Tom. Go for the gold.) as regards the issues of the day. This is good advice, provided there’s one angry shut-in anywhere in western Pennsylvania or rural Michigan who hasn’t yet been interviewed by a major newspaper or television correspondent.
re: #211 lawhawk
I would be an awful person to interview Trump, mostly because I’d get no more than 2 minutes in before he’d run off claiming that he’d been railroaded into an interview. And I wouldn’t care that I don’t get a second chance to interview, because I’d have exposed this bigot for the Islamophobe who’s running roughshod over the Constitution to deprive people of their constitutional protections.
Q1) you keep talk about being smart and need to act about Islamic terrorism. What specific things do you think are smart?
A) sputtering. I have great plans. Best plans. I laid them out.
Q2) Does this include the Muslim ban you enacted days ago?
A) Yes… no wait, that wasn’t a ban. It was just preventing Muslims from entering for a limited time.
Q3) So, a ban that is temporary but can be extended indefinitely, and which has already caught up Muslims living in countries other than those you originally banned.
A) So? It’s working perfectly.
Q4) Does this mean a ban on Muslims entering the US - yes or no?
A) Yes… no wait.. Yes.
Q5) What about Muslims who are here legally on visas, legal immigrants, and naturalized citizens; are you ultimately seeking to deport them/deprive them of their US citizenship.
A) This interview’s over!
I would have just one question. “How come you aren’t jailing/deporting the 3 million people who voted illegally?”
Trump: “227,000 jobs, great spirit in the country right now so, we’re very happy about that.” So job numbers are considered real for now.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 3, 2017
re: #213 BeachDem
And another day begins in the magical land of unicorns, mbfs and maga hats.
I just heard Tom Brokaw, the man who invented World War II, drone on sonorously about how the Democratic minority in the Congress is making a mistake by slowing down the confirmation process because that’s “the Republican playbook” and that they’d be better advised to go out and seek the wisdom of “middle America” (Say “white people,” Tom. Go for the gold.) as regards the issues of the day. This is good advice, provided there’s one angry shut-in anywhere in western Pennsylvania or rural Michigan who hasn’t yet been interviewed by a major newspaper or television correspondent.
What they call “Middle America” is a part of the country stuck in a timewarp. the Democrats are called out of touch but they represent constituents that resemeble our nation’s demographics much more as a whole than Republicans do. And a kind reminder again that HRC won the popular vote by over two million.
The Bowling Green Massacre lie is funny as hell & all that, but I bet we’ll find that 38% of trembling, petrified Americans will believe it’s true.
It’s dangerous to lie like that, so I’m not laughing anymore.
The Bowling Green Massacre affects us all. It shows how casually the Trump Administration will lie to us to justify the unjustifiable.
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) February 3, 2017
& good morning!
re: #216 HappyWarrior
What they call “Middle America” is a part of the country stuck in a timewarp. the Democrats are called out of touch but they represent constituents that resemeble our nation’s demographics much more as a whole than Republicans do. And a kind reminder again that HRC won the popular vote by over two million.
Middle America shows up at the fuckn’ voting booth.
@samjcharles @Suntimes if by “misspoke” she meant “totally pulled something out of my ass” then yes…she “misspoke”.
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) February 3, 2017
re: #218 Decatur Deb
Middle America shows up at the fuckn’ voting booth.
They do this kind of thing as well (read the whole thing - invaluable advice from behind enemy lines)
re: #218 Decatur Deb
Middle America shows up at the fuckn’ voting booth.
They do but I resent the implication they’re “real America.”
re: #94 The Vicious Babushka
Neither does Melania. Why do you think she’s not moving to DC?
She supposedly is now in the Summer.
re: #218 Decatur Deb
Middle America shows up at the fuckn’ voting booth.
Wearing red, white & mutha-fuckin’ blue. Seen it, been there.
So much for looking out for the USA workforce. I remember almost losing my job because of the 2008 financial meltdown. Recession 2021. pic.twitter.com/IAMxpsoP7b
— MC Stompalicious (@TwitchDaWoof) February 3, 2017
@TwitchDaWoof @Mandog202 At the rate he and the GOP are pissing off the world economic community, recession is a certainty well before 2021.
— Nathan Obral ✏️😸🖌 (@myronfalwell) February 3, 2017
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Yeah I thought it was edited given the pauses. They should treat her that way. If she’s going to act ridiculous and make absurd claims and use Orwellean language, laugh at her.
The big tell that it’s fake were the NBC and ‘Meet The Press’ ‘bugs’ (branding) at the lower right of the screen. Anderson’s a CNN guy.
re: #155 BeachDem
And since both Arnold and the yam are making money from the ridiculous show, they’re both eager to contine the “feud.” And the media look like a bunch of fools. SSDD
The media fools cater to the number of fools that watch and we are all the worse off because of it.
I swear, most of today’s mainstream TV (Traditional and Cable) would have been on the spot to cover the first day the Nazis started rounding up Jews and putting them in camps.
Fox, CNN, (MS)NBC, CBS and ABC would have a reporter there asking “Why are they taking you to a camp, what did you say or do to upset the government? Why don’t you support the Nazi movement…do you have issues with them?”
And then at Dachau they would have another reporter showing the conditions of the camp and reporting: “This is one of the dormitories, I must say the conditions are not all that bad. You have a bed, a cafeteria, a yard for exercise and wonderful shower rooms. I don’t see why all these people are fearful. The Nazi tell me this is only temporary.”
///x infinity.
re: #213 BeachDem
I may disagree with Jimmy Dore on some things but he sure hit a home run when he smacked down Brokaw showing what an asskisser that presstitute really is!
re: #221 Interesting Times
They do this kind of thing as well (read the whole thing - invaluable advice from behind enemy lines)
That’s very interesting, Interesting. One of our local activist grassroots groups has been (literally) travelling with Pantsuit Nation, ‘helping’ to organize resistance to the established Alabama Dem Party. Will follow-up.
re: #222 HappyWarrior
They do but I resent the implication they’re “real America.”
In all endeavours, reality is defined by those who show up.
re: #231 Decatur Deb
In all endeavours, reality is defined by those who show up.
We do need to get our base out for all elections. That’s why I’m working on local campaigns.
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Everything is fine. The implementation of the Muslim ban is going perfectly.
No worries.
Most bizarre immigration ban story: Former Norway PM detained bc he visited Iran in ‘14 for human rights conference. https://t.co/AZyEKzQLV4
— Alt Dept of State (@AltStateDpt) February 3, 2017
re: #226 Myron Falwell
So much for looking out for the USA workforce. I remember almost losing my job because of the 2008 financial meltdown. Recession 2021.
You mean what they will refer to as “The Obama Recession”?
re: #234 lawhawk
Did they ask what websites he visits? /
re: #221 Interesting Times
They do this kind of thing as well (read the whole thing - invaluable advice from behind enemy lines)
Went back and finished reading that. It deserves preservation as a page.
re: #226 Myron Falwell
At the rate the Trump Administration is going, they’ll tank the economy before the 2018 mid-terms.
re: #182 Decatur Deb
Bowling Green KY is Western’s university town. There are Bowling Greens all over the place. Perhaps we should check to see if any of them are missing.
Well, I haven’t been by it in some time, but if you are on Interstate 75 just outside of Bowling Green Ohio and before getting into Toledo you’ll see this.
I mean, come on, they already have missiles aimed at us.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You mean what they will refer to as “The Obama Recession”?
Nah, the 2009 Great Recession was called the Obama Recession by RWNJs.
They’ll name THIS one after Trump’s successor, assuming that the successor is voted in and not installed…
re: #239 ObserverArt
Well, I haven’t been by it in some time, but if you are on Interstate 75 just outside of Bowling Green Ohio and before getting into Toledo you’ll see this.
I mean, come on, they already have missiles aimed at us.
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And a surplus Buckminster Fuller DEW line radome.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
Cage the Elephant, a pretty good band is from there I believe.
Yep. Now based out of London England. I was listening to a bunch of their stuff before our Friday night jam session a week ago.
re: #238 Dr Lizardo
At the rate the Trump Administration is going, they’ll tank the economy before the 2018 mid-terms.
I have dibs at the end of the year, or whenever China pulls their money out of our country and sanctions/tarrifs the shit out of us.
re: #242 ObserverArt
Yep. Now based out of London England. I was listening to a bunch of their stuff before our Friday night jam session a week ago.
Caught one of their shows a few years back. Never heard of them at the time. They put on a fun concert.
re: #243 Myron Falwell
I have dibs at the end of the year, or whenever China pulls their money out of our country and sanctions/tarrifs the shit out of us.
Doesn’t China have an absolute shit-ton of US securities? Last figure I’d heard was somewhere around two trillion dollars.
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from living in Wisconsin for last 8 years it’s that the right-wing is ruthless. They do not pull punches.
re: #229 Joe Bacon
I may disagree with Jimmy Dore on some things but he sure hit a home run when he smacked down Brokaw showing what an asskisser that presstitute really is!
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Best line—“If you wonder how Luke Russert happened? It’s because Tom Brokaw is his real father.”
Never understood the admiration for Brokaw. I always found him to be terrible. Thought Rather and particularly Jennings ran rings around him.
re: #246 (alpuz)
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from living in Wisconsin for last 8 years it’s that the right-wing is ruthless. They do not pull punches.
What’s their consensus on punching Bolsheviks?
re: #245 Dr Lizardo
Doesn’t China have an absolute shit-ton of US securities? Last figure I’d heard was somewhere around two trillion dollars.
Enough to really mess with our currency situation, perhaps cause the Dollar to lose its status as the World Reserve Currency…which would totally knock the wind out of our economy
only way to recover would be to start a war somewhere…
re: #246 (alpuz)
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from living in Wisconsin for last 8 years it’s that the right-wing is ruthless. They do not pull punches.
And yet the Dems are considered “overly aggressive” when they try and fight fire with fire.
re: #244 Arkansawyer
Caught one of their shows a few years back. Never heard of them at the time. They put on a fun concert.
Very interesting band. No one particular style…good song writing.
re: #246 (alpuz)
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from living in Wisconsin for last 8 years it’s that the right-wing is ruthless. They do not pull punches.
never, ever admit to your mistakes.
re: #245 Dr Lizardo
Doesn’t China have an absolute shit-ton of US securities? Last figure I’d heard was somewhere around two trillion dollars.
China has about $1 trillion, and they (along with Japan) have been selling since before the election last year.
.@realDonaldTrump may be skirting transparency law on advisory boards https://t.co/eYns5K4eRp via @joshgerstein pic.twitter.com/P4fx9NUrrj
— POLITICO (@politico) February 3, 2017
No shit, Sherlock. https://t.co/fAFliNAiqo
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) February 3, 2017
In case any of my fellow Lizards missed it, please spread the word to make sure this deplorable dickhead gets his comeuppance:
This employee of yours made these comments on a @FoxNews story & his FB. Is this what your business values represent @SawyerComposite? pic.twitter.com/0CtH9dLd6Z
— دانیال (@danja84) February 3, 2017
re: #185 HappyWarrior
Cage the Elephant, a pretty good band is from there I believe.
Absolutely love those guys. Great band in my opinion.
re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Enough to really mess with our currency situation, perhaps cause the Dollar to lose its status as the World Reserve Currency…which would totally knock the wind out of our economy
only way to recover would be to start a war somewhere…
Going into war with [insert name of any country in the world that isn’t named Russia] with Russia as the only ally. No one else can win unless the attacked country — and all other nuclear powers — dump their entire nuclear arsenal at us and at the Kremlin.
Evil will have triumphed.
And the fucking over of America continues apace:
“We have some of the bankers here. There’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than Jamie, so you’re going to tell me about it,” Trump said, referring to Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and leader of Trump’s business roundtable.
re: #242 ObserverArt
Yep. Now based out of London England. I was listening to a bunch of their stuff before our Friday night jam session a week ago.
I think you’d get along good with my Dad. He likes hearing new stuff too. Tehy’re really good. Didn’t know they were London based now.
I like that we can discuss music here too. Nice to see other lizard CTE fans.
@bleiby527 Jared Kushner is the textbook definition of a “Shonde for the Goyim”.
— sarah apfel (@apfel_sarah) February 2, 2017
re: #261 BeachDem
And the fucking over of America continues apace:
“We have some of the bankers here. There’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than Jamie, so you’re going to tell me about it,” Trump said, referring to Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and leader of Trump’s business roundtable.
We’re going to make corporate American great again. I’m going to do all I can to help mine (owners) and bank (owners) rich. Miners and customers will get the customary GOP screwing.
And the GOP voters fall for this EVERY time. The GOP has pulled the wool over the eyes of so many so often that they buy into the baffling BS and voted for the guy who lies better than everyone else, and whose only interest is enriching himself and his cabal of cronies.
Yeah, what better way to make America great again than to gut consumer protections put in place after the last time the banks put their profits ahead of rational actions.
re: #265 The Vicious Babushka
Seeing as Kushner’s from my neck of the woods, the opinion of him and his family is even lower. People have an incredibly low opinion of him in these parts, and it isn’t overcome by the amount of money his dad threw around.
Well I just got done writing on NAFTA and TPP. This really is an interesting issue. I don’t see myself as a pure free trader but I don’t like protectionism either. I do think Hillary articulated ohw I feel trade deals should be. Believe she said something to the effect of benefitting our country, creating jobs, and being good for the environment.
re: #264 HappyWarrior
Holy shit! I woke up with that song in my head!
… I always wake up with a song in my head(like and alarm clock where I can’t hit snooze). Mostly Beatles songs(argh!) but today it was that one.
re: #234 lawhawk
Everything is fine. The implementation of the Muslim ban is going perfectly.
No worries.
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I read that last night and was trolling both that and the @Trump_Regrets timelines. This was my response to a brave conservative,
@Kevin_D_Jones @VeraMBergen @McCormackJohn Kevin You always been scared of your own shadow or is that new? #HomeOfTheBraveUnlessConservative
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
And this is where I trolled the most ignorant amongst us.
@netanyahu @POTUS I voted for Trump & I am ashamed I did. How can you defend a racist, fascist and narcissistic individual such as Trump?
— Arnold McGall (@amcgall) January 28, 2017
Regrets voting Orange. Apparently never saw or heard Trump*even once* before voting because it was all right there; in your face style. https://t.co/LYSFc49eKe
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
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@realDonaldTrump stop acting like Hitler. I supported you all the way. But your actions are making me ashamed.
— KORAKING (@Koraking) January 29, 2017
Regrets voting Orange. Now ashamed of Trump. Can only assume he completely missed the campaign; was all right there in front of his eyes. https://t.co/oVcsCwiuWz
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
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@realDonaldTrump what are you doing. Stop this nonsense now. You can be so good but this out of control. This not what I voted for.
— Michael (@MikeReilly77) January 29, 2017
Regrets voting Orange. Doesn’t realize this is PRECISELY what he voted for. https://t.co/6bqDf0VYcI
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2017
re: #261 BeachDem
And the fucking over of America continues apace:
“We have some of the bankers here. There’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than Jamie, so you’re going to tell me about it,” Trump said, referring to Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and leader of Trump’s business roundtable.
Seems fairly candid >> Trump: We’re Gutting Dodd-Frank Because My Friends Can’t Get Loans (VIDEO) https://t.co/5KpfFvJ9jJ via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 3, 2017
re: #267 lawhawk
Seeing as Kushner’s from my neck of the woods, the opinion of him and his family is even lower. People have an incredibly low opinion of him in these parts, and it isn’t overcome by the amount of money his dad threw around.
It’s probably driven by the crimes that Jared’s daddy was convicted of. Just sayin’
re: #269 (alpuz)
Holy shit! I woke up with that song in my head!
… I always wake up with a song in my head(like and alarm clock where I can’t hit snooze). Mostly Beatles songs(argh!) but today it was that one.
I listen to Sirius XM in my car, including the Alternative and Indie stations, and I keep getting indie pop songs stuck in my head.
Really annoying.
The removal of #realFrederickDouglass account are what some are calling a high-tech lynching: https://t.co/3vTKiyohuR pic.twitter.com/w3UI7AfJQE
— The Root (@TheRoot) February 3, 2017
re: #269 (alpuz)
Holy shit! I woke up with that song in my head!
… I always wake up with a song in my head(like and alarm clock where I can’t hit snooze). Mostly Beatles songs(argh!) but today it was that one.
I have this habit of singing made up lyrics to myself, mostly about whiskey!
re: #273 Timothy Watson
I listen to Sirius XM in my car, including the Alternative and Indie stations, and I keep getting indie pop songs stuck in my head.
Really annoying.
Aww indie pop is pretty good.
re: #269 (alpuz)
Holy shit! I woke up with that song in my head!
… I always wake up with a song in my head(like and alarm clock where I can’t hit snooze). Mostly Beatles songs(argh!) but today it was that one.
My wife asked me the other night why I don’t listen to music. I told her it’s because I can ‘play back’ any song I know in my head (as long as I know the song).
re: #273 Timothy Watson
I listen to Sirius XM in my car, including the Alternative and Indie stations, and I keep getting indie pop songs stuck in my head.
Really annoying.
I get Nickelback stuck in my head when I’m hungover. I think it is subconscious punishment for the night before.
I immediately thought of Gillian Welch’s Caleb Meyer when Kellyanne drpped Bowling Green.
re: #276 HappyWarrior
Aww indie pop is pretty good.
Gets annoying when you’ve listened to the same song a 100 times in a week. :)
Especially when it’s a band like Grouplove and their Goddamn earwormy songs.
IF I ever had a band, it’s be a little punk and a little folk. Yep I’m a Pogues fan. I like storeis but also raw energy.
re: #280 Timothy Watson
Gets annoying when you’ve listened to the same song a 100 times in a week. :)
Especially when it’s a band like Grouplove and their Goddamn earwormy songs.
Thjat’s why I love my iPod classic. But yeah certain songs do get overplayed. I like fun’s We Are Young but it got way overplayed.
re: #281 HappyWarrior
IF I ever had a band, it’s be a little punk and a little folk. Yep I’m a Pogues fan. I like storeis but also raw energy.
I always go for that classic combo of power and melody. Like my beloved Wildhearts…
re: #281 HappyWarrior
IF I ever had a band, it’s be a little punk and a little folk. Yep I’m a Pogues fan. I like storeis but also raw energy.
Ever listen to Shovels & Rope? My fiancee turned me on to them.
Interesting story:
Block by block, Baltimore is demolishing its blight – and pieces of its past https://t.co/6t1B6aXmf2
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) February 3, 2017
re: #284 Arkansawyer
Ever listen to Shovels & Rope? My fiancee turned me on to them.
No, don’t know them. I’ll youtube em.
re: #277 makeitstop
My wife asked me the other night why I don’t listen to music. I told her it’s because I can ‘play back’ any song I know in my head (as long as I know the song).
I not only play them back…I add extended jams and alternate arrangements. Been doing that since I was a kid. Even though I never played any drums or guitars until my sophomore year in college, I always knew I could.
re: #282 HappyWarrior
Thjat’s why I love my iPod classic. But yeah certain songs do get overplayed. I like fun’s We Are Young but it got way overplayed.
Oh, I was overplaying it. I’ve downloaded songs and listened to them a 100+ times in a week according to iTunes.
I re-watched O Brother Where Art Thou. I have Big Rock Candy Mountain stuck in my ehad.
re: #286 HappyWarrior
No, don’t know them. I’ll youtube em.
We listen to them when we go canoeing. Good river music.
re: #266 lawhawk
We’re going to make corporate American great again. I’m going to do all I can to help mine (owners) and bank (owners) rich… and whose only interest is enriching himself and his cabal of cronies…
He even flat out says it—“We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank, because frankly I have so many people, friends of mine, that have nice businesses and they can’t borrow money…
Yeah, middle America—the man really has your best interests in mind.
re: #288 Timothy Watson
Oh, I was overplaying it. I’ve downloaded songs and listened to them a 100+ times in a week according to iTunes.
I do get what I call musical OCD. I get obsessed with a certai nsong. I’m like Brian Wilson in that way and i too have been obsessed with Be My Baby.
re: #290 Arkansawyer
We listen to them when we go canoeing. Good river music.
I’m listening to Birmingham right now. Good stuff. Singer kind of gives me a Emmylou Harris vibe but with more fast pace.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I don’t know if that counts as “leaking the location” when it’s a giant bus with his face and name on it pic.twitter.com/IgW0iYxgjz
— Jae Bearhat (@fussybabybitch) February 3, 2017
This is poetic justice because someone outed his information to the public for this to happen; just as he did to the trans student at U Wisc https://t.co/nc2IWtaOYd
— Tonya’s Revenge (@Tonya_Song) February 3, 2017
re: #280 Timothy Watson
Gets annoying when you’ve listened to the same song a 100 times in a week. :)
Especially when it’s a band like Grouplove and their Goddamn earwormy songs.
I am a man, man, man, man up, up in the air
And I run around, ‘round, ‘round, ‘round this town town and act like I don’t care…
Got you!
re: #295 Myron Falwell
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Given what Milo encouraged on Leslie JOnes, I am not exactly cryign that his bus got spraypainted. Sorry not sorry.
re: #294 HappyWarrior
I’m listening to Birmingham right now. Good stuff. Singer kind of gives me a Emmylou Harris vibe but with more fast pace.
They’re touring right now. We’re going to see them next month.
re: #291 BeachDem
He even flat out says it—“We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank, because frankly I have so many people, friends of mine, that have nice businesses and they can’t borrow money…
Yeah, middle America—the man really has your best interests in mind.
He’s talking about the mob, predatory lenders and scammy credit card issuers again…
re: #299 Arkansawyer
They’re touring right now. We’re going to see them next month.
YEah, I see they’re up in Baltimore in a few weeks. PowerPlant Live is a fun venue. I saw Reel Big Fish there.
re: #300 ObserverArt
He’s talking about the mob, predatory lenders and scammy credit card issuers again…
Yes, and?
/
re: #302 I cannot.
re: Milo and vandalized tour buses…
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I mean vandalism sucks but going around singling out trans students for harassment sucks more. Milo is that bully who doesn’t like being hit back.
re: #295 Myron Falwell
And here I am wondering why that hateful fucker gets his own bus.
re: #301 HappyWarrior
YEah, I see they’re up in Baltimore in a few weeks. PowerPlant Live is a fun venue. I saw Reel Big Fish there.
It’s tough finding a good show to go to around LR. Most of the newer groups go through Tulsa and Fayetteville then bypass us. We had a great little bar called The Afterthought that showcased local acts, but it got bought out and hasn’t reopened.
Apparently, Eminem and Big Sean have a new song out that is making waves. It’s called No Favors.
Some of the lyrics:
I’ve been talking to God like that’s my therapist
I’m African-American in America
I ain’t inherit shit but a millionaire under 30
So He must be hearing shit
Don, don, don, life, I do this for the crib
The D to Flint who get sick with lead
Others get the hit with the laugh
From where they need a handout
But they tell you put hands up
Only deals I have is from the Sam’s Club
———
And fuck Ann Coulter with a Klan poster
With a lamp post, door handle shutter
A damn bolt cutter, a sandal, a can opener, a candle rubber
Piano, a flannel, sucker, some hand soap, butter
A banjo and manhole cover
Hand over the mouth and nose smother
Trample ran over the tramp with the Land Rover
The band, the Lambo, Hummer and Road Runner
Go ham donut or go Rambo, gotta make an example of her
That’s for Sandra Bland ho and Philando
Hannibal on the lamb, no wonder I am so stubborn
I’m anti, can’t no government handle a commando
Your man don’t want it, Trump’s a bitch
I’ll make his whole brand go under (yeah)
It’s on Spotify if you have an account.
re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg
And here I am wondering why that hateful fucker gets his own bus.
He got a 600,000 advance deal from SImon and Schuster for his book too. Seems any obnoxious dick with an opinion can get a book deal these days. That’s bad news for me. I’m merely obnoxious and my short stories still need work.
La portada de Der Spiegel. O_O pic.twitter.com/1fgMOSTtAG
— Verónica Calderón (@veronicalderon) February 3, 2017
wooooooooooooooow https://t.co/wc1aozgJLJ
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) February 3, 2017
re: #281 HappyWarrior
IF I ever had a band, it’s be a little punk and a little folk. Yep I’m a Pogues fan. I like storeis but also raw energy.
toured with a band like that in Germany in the 90’s, a bit more sober than the Pogues, but not as serious as the Clash…
re: #307 Arkansawyer
It’s tough finding a good show to go to around LR. Most of the newer groups go through Tulsa and Fayetteville then bypass us. We had a great little bar called The Afterthought that showcased local acts, but it got bought out and hasn’t reopened.
That’s a shame. Those are both college towns I believe. I do like seeing local acts. One of my cousin’s sons is in a Red Hot Chili Peppers like band. Good bassist. They were on hiatus for a couple years and I showed up to one of his shows wearing one of their old shrits and he loved it.
re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
toured with a band like that in Germany in the 90’s, a bit more sober than the Pogues, but not as serious as the Clash…
I do like the Clash as well. I’m definitely more a writer than a musician though. I can’t sing, I can’t play but I can appreciate.
re: #312 HappyWarrior
That’s a shame. Those are both college towns I believe. I do like seeing local acts. One of my cousin’s sons is in a Red Hot Chili Peppers like band. Good bassist. They were on hiatus for a couple years and I showed up to one of his shows wearing one of their old shrits and he loved it.
College towns, and the Fayetteville area has had an influx of people and money due to Walmart moving their headquarters by there. More money to draw in the good bands.
re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg
And here I am wondering why that hateful fucker gets his own bus.
Very likely it’s a write-off by billionaire Breitbart bankroller Robert Mercer.
Even EmergencyPuppy is mocking Trump
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass pic.twitter.com/agW2N465rQ
— The Emergency Puppy (@EmergencyPuppy) February 3, 2017
re: #314 Arkansawyer
College towns, and the Fayetteville area has had an influx of people and money due to Walmart moving their headquarters by there. More money to draw in the good bands.
Right, makes sense. IT’s too bad that LR doesn’t have more. My favorite bar when I was an undergrad always had good local acts. Great po boys too for how far from New Orleans we are.
re: #297 ObserverArt
I am a man, man, man, man up, up in the air
And I run around, ‘round, ‘round, ‘round this town town and act like I don’t care…Got you!
I had managed to avoid that song until now. Already survived Tongue Tied, Welcome to Your Life, and Good Morning.
re: #277 makeitstop
My wife asked me the other night why I don’t listen to music. I told her it’s because I can ‘play back’ any song I know in my head (as long as I know the song).
I listen to music in the car, but it has been ages since I picked out a piece of music and put it on for the purposes of listening to it.
And even longer since I went out and actually bought a recording or paid to download one.
Well, I do so when my girlfriend hands me her device and asks me to find something interesting on Spotify while we play Scrabble, but I would never do it otherwise.
Only exception is if it is a song I am trying to learn, and then only long enough to get the tune in my head.
re: #307 Arkansawyer
It’s tough finding a good show to go to around LR. Most of the newer groups go through Tulsa and Fayetteville then bypass us. We had a great little bar called The Afterthought that showcased local acts, but it got bought out and hasn’t reopened.
We’re seeing Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls at the Beacon in two weeks. I saw him out at Coney Island last summer, and he and his band are excellent.
After that - Biffy Clyro at Hammerstein Ballroom in April.
re: #313 HappyWarrior
I do like the Clash as well. I’m definitely more a writer than a musician though. I can’t sing, I can’t play but I can appreciate.
we did an album, I co-wrote all the songs, contributed vocals and played banjo, mando and acoustic guitars: Tapsi Turtles on myspace (I did not name the band)
But I got to wear gold lamé DM boots and a kilt onstage…
FWIW and YMMV. Is it true or do I just want it to be (sorta…).
We can confirm that POTUS is encouraging people to buy his brands in order to have the “right look” to work for his administration.
— Rogue POTUS Staff (@RoguePOTUSStaff) February 3, 2017
POTUS refusing intel briefing again. Response: “Take the damn briefing! This is why we screwed the pooch in Yemen!”
— Rogue POTUS Staff (@RoguePOTUSStaff) February 3, 2017
re: #321 makeitstop
We’re seeing Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls at the Beacon in two weeks. I saw him out at Coney Island last summer, and he and his band are excellent.
After that - Biffy Clyro at Hammerstein Ballroom in April.
Got my photo taken with Frank. Really nice guy. Made me feel short since he’s fairly tall. I think in the 6’3-4 neighborhood and I’m a mere 5’11-6 even.
re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we did an album, I co-wrote all the songs, contributed vocals and played banjo, mando and acoustic guitars: Tapsi Turtles on myspace (I did not name the band)
But I got to wear gold lamé DM boots and a kilt onstage…
Fun times.
re: #281 HappyWarrior
IF I ever had a band, it’s be a little punk and a little folk. Yep I’m a Pogues fan. I like storeis but also raw energy.
Try the Prodigals—like the Pogues, but they can sing and play their instruments.
Great. Milo’s “book” is #1 on Amazon’s “best seller” list right now. Such an oppressed guy he is, with no free speech rights and all that.
//
I keep on thinking of Wag the Dog when I hear about Bowling Green and the fake war hero they made up played by Woody Harrelson.
re: #326 Decatur Deb
Try the Prodigals—like the Pogues, but they can sing and play their instruments.
Will do. Though I have to say, part of Shane’s appeal to me as a singer is how raw he sounds. Yeah he’s not a great or even good singer but it’s from the heart.
Yes, the only disruption experienced was due to the airport protests…
JUST IN: More than 100K visas have been revoked since Trump’s immigration ban https://t.co/3L9Grp8YL6 pic.twitter.com/KcegeXDCpB
— New York Post (@nypost) February 3, 2017
re: #273 Timothy Watson
I listen to Sirius XM in my car, including the Alternative and Indie stations, and I keep getting indie pop songs stuck in my head.
Really annoying.
I’ve been ear-worming alternately Beethoven’s 7th and Mozart’s Requiem. They’re like a soundtrack of the country right now.
re: #327 Sir John Barron
Great. Milo’s “book” is #1 on Amazon’s “best seller” list right now. Such an oppressed guy he is, with no free speech rights and all that.
//
Yeah poor guy. // I am sorry but he knew he would get a reaction. Of course, he knows that and that’s part of his con but his idiotic rubes don’t. If I were to go down ot Liberty University sayling Evangelical Christians are a bunch of snowflakes who believe in superstitious bullshit and engaged in a harassment campaign against an Evangelical student, I wouldn’t be received well either. it’s not that Milo has “alternative opinions.” It’s that he’s a childish dick that by his own admission likes to stir up shit. And you know what, that’s his right but I don’t want his sycophants making him out ot be a victim of “liberal intolerance” where if someone did the same thing to a conservative campus, they’d get the same if not more violent reaction.
A limerick. pic.twitter.com/SaCPpdImzS
— (((Joshua Malina))) (@JoshMalina) February 3, 2017
re: #324 HappyWarrior
Got my photo taken with Frank. Really nice guy. Made me feel short since he’s fairly tall. I think in the 6’3-4 neighborhood and I’m a mere 5’11-6 even.
Turner was probably the best show I got to see last year. The close second was Garbage at the Kings in Brooklyn, but Turner was so funny and engaging.
And I loved his band. They remind me of those old school Brit Pub-rock bands like Brinsley Schwartz and Ian Dury’s Blockheads - not a star in the bunch, but all solid players that make really special music together.
And Frank’s tunes definitely help with that.
re: #331 allegro
I’ve been ear-worming alternately Beethoven’s 7th and Mozart’s Requiem. They’re like a soundtrack of the country right now.
I think this is the music that plays in Trump’s office. My brother was telling me that this and Ride of the Valkyries were the big inspiration for Darth Vader’s theme in Star Wars.
re: #334 makeitstop
Turner was probably the best show I got to see last year. The close second was Garbage at the Kings in Brooklyn, but Turner was so funny and engaging.
And I loved his band. They remind me of those old school Brit Pub-rock bands like Brinsley Schwartz and Ian Dury’s Blockheads - not a star in the bunch, but all solid players that make really special music together.
And Frank’s tunes definitely help with that.
I really enjoyed him at the Fillmore in Silver Spring. Just seemed like a guy who appreciated his fans. That was a wild night heh. I woke up the next morning with a bottle opener in my jeans pocket.
re: #330 FormerDirtDart
Yes, the only disruption experienced was due to the airport protests…
Only 109! So few people! Media overacting! Sad!
re: #325 HappyWarrior
Fun times.
yeah, we toured all over Germany (including former East Germany before it got too rebuilt) but never made a lotta money at it…
re: #332 HappyWarrior
Yeah poor guy. // I am sorry but he knew he would get a reaction. Of course, he knows that and that’s part of his con but his idiotic rubes don’t. If I were to go down ot Liberty University sayling Evangelical Christians are a bunch of snowflakes who believe in superstitious bullshit and engaged in a harassment campaign against an Evangelical student, I wouldn’t be received well either. it’s not that Milo has “alternative opinions.” It’s that he’s a childish dick that by his own admission likes to stir up shit. And you know what, that’s his right but I don’t want his sycophants making him out ot be a victim of “liberal intolerance” where if someone did the same thing to a conservative campus, they’d get the same if not more violent reaction.
So his stunt at UC was nothing more than book promotion a la Trump style.
re: #339 MsJ
So his stunt at UC was nothing more than book promotion a la Trump style.
His whole life is a stunt.
re: #338 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yeah, we toured all over Germany (including former East Germany before it got too rebuilt) but never made a lotta money at it…
Yeah but that music is what matters right? Got to see a lot of Germany too while you were at it.
re: #339 MsJ
So his stunt at UC was nothing more than book promotion a la Trump style.
In my opinio, absolutely. There’s no such thing as bad publicity so they say. Honestly, I’m just tired of him lecturing the left on “free speech” when he literally supports the guy who wants harsher libel laws and is punishing federal employees for having differing opinions on climate change and whose rallies were far from friendly to alternative opinions. Stir up shit, all you want but don’t you dare tell me that you’re getting the reaction you do because people disagree with you, you’re stirring up shit to increase your brand.Oh and Milo, there’s nothing rebellious about being an ass kisser of Donald Trump. Nothing.
re: #335 HappyWarrior
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I think this is the music that plays in Trump’s office. My brother was telling me that this and Ride of the Valkyries were the big inspiration for Darth Vader’s theme in Star Wars.
Oh goodie, now I got that one crawling about in there too. Thanks ever so.
// actually I love that piece from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
Quickest way to #ImpeachTrump is to prove he colluded w/Russia-so please RT this report! #TrumpRussia #dworkinreport https://t.co/QidyhsPYBQ
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 2, 2017
re: #345 allegro
Oh goodie, now I got that one crawling about in there too. Thanks ever so.
// actually I love that piece from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
I didn’t know it was from Romeo and Juliet just like I didn’t know Morning Mood was from an Ibsen play. My brother and I were talking and he says taht tune just immediately makes him think of Russia and I immediately put my faux British accent on and started taling about the Sa-viet Union.
re: #323 MsJ
I think that account is a fake, possibly even Russian ratfuckery. Unfortunately, the person who pointed it out has protected her tweets, but the most convincing argument she made was how “Rogue POTUS staff” had bizarre typos consistent with Russian ESL speakers (e.g. spelling slang word “vacay” as “vakay”)
re: #285 Timothy Watson
Urban renewal has a very long history - lots of history gets lost along the way. In NYC, Robert Moses used blight as excuse to demolish tenements that were integrated, and built apartment complexes that quickly became segregated. Or highways that ran through hearts of communities that didn’t have wherewithal to resist/block.
The current trend is largely to try and bring back these communities instead of demolishing the past.
re: #291 BeachDem
He even flat out says it—“We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank, because frankly I have so many people, friends of mine, that have nice businesses and they can’t borrow money…
Yeah, middle America—the man really has your best interests in mind.
Oh and why would that be pray tell? Because they borrowed money in the past AND THEN DIDN’T PAY IT BACK?
Rudy’s comments have already made it into a brief, VA’s argument filed yesterday in the EDVA case. Also, do check out footnote 69. pic.twitter.com/LZUbqrJs4c
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 3, 2017
The funny thing to me is when conservative actors and entertainers complain they’re blacklisted when leftist actors and directors literally were. And it’s crap that conservative actors don’t find work because of their views. R Lee Ermey was bitching about and I have to say as much as I liked him in Full Metal Jacket, he’s a pretty limited actor. He’s too old to play a drill sergeant any more and that’s his big niche. Same thing when Milo says he’s a victim of “oppression.” People in this country were literally murdered and beat up for supporting Civil Rights. Oh Milo? You dealt with a hostile crowd that you’ve repeatedly mocked and insulted? YEah that’s going to happen. You have a right to be a dick but please get teh fuck out of my country and stop lecturing my countrymen and women about our 1st amendment rights when you are deliberately trying to piss off people and that’s something you even admit. It’s your right and it’s people’s right to tell you to go fuck yourself.
re: #331 allegro
I’ve been ear-worming alternately Beethoven’s 7th and Mozart’s Requiem. They’re like a soundtrack of the country right now.
Try Faure’s Requiem for a change up. Gives a bit more hope in the music.
Organizers called it the largest Planned Parenthood fundraiser ever held in New Mexico: https://t.co/rSpaEd1K1R
— Santa Fe New Mexican (@thenewmexican) February 3, 2017
re: #353 HappyWarrior
The funny thing to me is when conservative actors and entertainers complain they’re blacklisted when leftist actors and directors literally were. And it’s crap that conservative actors don’t find work because of their views. R Lee Ermey was bitching about and I have to say as much as I liked him in Full Metal Jacket, he’s a pretty limited actor. He’s too old to play a drill sergeant any more and that’s his big niche. Same thing when Milo says he’s a victim of “oppression.” People in this country were literally murdered and beat up for supporting Civil Rights. Oh Milo? You dealt with a hostile crowd that you’ve repeatedly mocked and insulted? YEah that’s going to happen. You have a right to be a dick but please get teh fuck out of my country and stop lecturing my countrymen and women about our 1st amendment rights when you are deliberately trying to piss off people and that’s something you even admit. It’s your right and it’s people’s right to tell you to go fuck yourself.
And there are plenty of conservative actors who get work, e.g., Jim Caviezel and Patricia Heaton. For five years, Caviezel was on Person of Interest, a show created by J.J. Abrams who is a huge liberal.
Milo Yiannopoulos became famous by violating the terms and conditions of a social media site’s user agreement. pic.twitter.com/PWkzWU8Prx
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 2, 2017
I wish free speech actually meant something rather than I’m going to be a childish dick. I’ve got no great love for the communist ideology but communists in the past were trying to draw attention to very real problems in our society when they got blacklisted. A little punk who delights in sicing his douchebag followers on women and minorities who disagree with him? Yeah sorry, nope. Say what you want to say, I say, I don’t think you should be in jail or fined but I am fine with calling you out and thinking you should be a pariah rather than the celebrity you so want to be.
re: #343 HappyWarrior
In my opinio, absolutely. There’s no such thing as bad publicity so they say. Honestly, I’m just tired of him lecturing the left on “free speech” when he literally supports the guy who wants harsher libel laws and is punishing federal employees for having differing opinions on climate change and whose rallies were far from friendly to alternative opinions. Stir up shit, all you want but don’t you dare tell me that you’re getting the reaction you do because people disagree with you, you’re stirring up shit to increase your brand.Oh and Milo, there’s nothing rebellious about being an ass kisser of Donald Trump. Nothing.
My opinion of Milo bolded within your comment.
Milo supports one guy and one guy only—Milo.
re: #104 HappyWarrior
Might be worth pointing out that if you are against justice, you are by definition a villain.
re: #356 Timothy Watson
And there are plenty of conservative actors who get work, e.g., Jim Caviezel and Patricia Heaton. For five years, Caviezel was on Person of Interest, a show created by J.J. Abrams who is a huge liberal.
YEah they love ot insist that their liberal colleagues are so “intolerant” of them. Really stop fucking whining already. Funny how it’s okay for conservative millionaires to complain about being ostracized but it’s not okay for poor people to want better wages.
re: #357 Myron Falwell
Even the Germans get it.
Let that sink in.
The Greatest Generation did their job right.
Now Angela Merkel is the leader of the Free World.
Let _that_ sink in.
Spicer won’t say if US will deport ppl in US now w revoked visas.”I’ll have to get back to you on that; I don’t have the answer to that.”
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 3, 2017
Bannon/Trump enacted policy and don’t care what happens. Their policy affects people holding visas already in the US. These include people who are here legally. By revoking those visas, they’re now in violation of US law - through no action of their own.
The Bannon/Trump admin is playing games with this group of people, including purposefully misstating what these people are (like claiming refugees are illegal aliens/immigrants). Will Bannon/Trump force deportation of these people? No one knows - not even Spicer. That’s dangerous in and of itself since the Administration knew that their actions would affect visa holders already in the US - and didn’t plan for what and how that would play out.
This is a group that doesn’t pay any attention to the consequences of their actions. They just keep doing things that are “bold” and “aggressive” because they can.
re: #363 William Lewis
my new cover art for @DerSPIEGEL magazine pic.twitter.com/Lz4KH8ySGx
— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) February 3, 2017
re: #354 William Lewis
Try Faure’s Requiem for a change up. Gives a bit more hope in the music.
Thanks! Listening to it now. Exquisite.
re: #330 FormerDirtDart
Yes, the only disruption experienced was due to the airport protests…
The thing about these visas being revoked is that when Trump’s ban “ends” like it’s supposed to after 90 days, they won’t be able to come into the country.
re: #356 Timothy Watson
Not just actors; Mel Gibson’s most recent film, Hacksaw Ridge, has received quite positive reviews and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Film and a Best Director nod for Gibson. Clint Eastwood is a director I personally consider one of the all-time best American directors. He knows how to tell a story and get very good performances from his actors - I recently had a chance to see Changeling and I enjoyed it greatly.
Gibson and Eastwood are artists - their respective politics may not be mine, but I would never deny their talents.
re: #349 lawhawk
Urban renewal has a very long history - lots of history gets lost along the way. In NYC, Robert Moses used blight as excuse to demolish tenements that were integrated, and built apartment complexes that quickly became segregated. Or highways that ran through hearts of communities that didn’t have wherewithal to resist/block.
The current trend is largely to try and bring back these communities instead of demolishing the past.
The reason that Long Island’s Northern State Parkway is so winding is because the old money on the North Shore had the political weight to throw around in order to stop Moses from routing it through their communities.
The Southern State Parkway, OTOH, is pretty much a straight shot from Heckscher Park all the way to the Verazano Bridge, because the South Shore was where the rabble lived.
re: #364 lawhawk
That’s what Trump does. He likes to fuck with people he considers “beneath” him, which is just about everyone.
It’s a game. He enjoys it.
re: #367 Belafon
The thing about these visas being revoked is that when Trump’s ban “ends” like it’s supposed to after 90 days, they won’t be able to come into the country.
I am not holding my breath that it will expire at 90 days.
re: #369 Dr Lizardo
Not just actors; Mel Gibson’s most recent film, Hacksaw Ridge, has received quite positive reviews and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Film and a Best Director nod for Gibson. Clint Eastwood is a director I personally consider one of the all-time best American directors. He knows how to tell a story and get very good performances from his actors - I recently had a chance to see Changeling and I enjoyed it greatly.
Gibson and Eastwood are artists - their respective politics may not be mine, but I would never deny their talents.
Yeah I heard about Gibson’s new film. I’d like to see it. I really like Eastwodo as a director. In fact, I think he’s ebtter at that then acting. And I have to say as much as I disagree with what MAtthew McConnaughey said, I am not going ot boycott his films.
re: #373 HappyWarrior
Exactly; Sean Penn is pretty far left, but he’s also a damn fine actor.
I mean yeah if someone’s obnoxious and hateful like Nugent then I might boycott but I honestly never had much use for a lot of his music anyhow. Same thing with some of these sonservative actors. Though two conservative leaning actors, Caan and Duvall are in my favorite series ever.
re: #370 makeitstop
Same with the BQE and the Cross Bronx. In the latter, it’s a straight shot through poor black neighborhoods. The Gowanus route was picked to maximize pain on local community, instead of shifting it over to 2d Ave (closer to waterfront). Heck, the Triboro bridge was sited so as to help out a rich pal.
re: #375 Dr Lizardo
Exactly; Sean Penn is pretty far left, but he’s also a damn fine actor.
Exactly. I can separate the entertainer from his art. Oh and another conservative actor who is doing well for himself is Jon Voight, Ray Donovan is very popular. And I still like Voight even though he comes off like an ignorant boob.
DAY 13: Told Democrats to buck the fuck up. Sent Chaffetz an email with just the 🖕🏼emoji. Had Bill organize my hot sauces alphabetically.
— ALT-POTUS 45 (@IfHillaryHad) February 3, 2017
Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
“Protestors are getting paid” is such a totally BS conspiracy theory.by whom? How are they recruited? How are they getting paid?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 1, 2017
You really are a complete fucking moron. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/wDEAwNM3bl
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2017
re: #315 Myron Falwell
Very likely it’s a write-off by billionaire Breitbart bankroller Robert Mercer.
At least it isn’t Soros, that would be wrong and unacceptable for some reason.
re: #380 Kragar
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Cons just can’t accept that some of us actually have beliefs that don’t cost money. It’s pretty funny given they support Trump who literally paid for people to appear and cheer at his announcement speech.
thehill.com
Troll level Sweden. I think ggt will like this one.
I find it instructive to compare Trump’s tweet on the thwarted Louvre attack to his tweet on the Quebec terror attack that killed 6 people: pic.twitter.com/U2wzUS6UVr
— Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry) February 3, 2017
re: #152 FormerDirtDart
Someone at the New York Times is worried about “access” to the administration…
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@ChelseaClinton Liberals won’t admit this alt-massacre took so many alt-lives. I was alt-killed with my alt-family at alt-Bowling Green.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2017
Relevant to my interests and alignment. #dnd pic.twitter.com/vLUiEirLI1
— Dianna (@GrlpantsGR) February 3, 2017
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Here’s the story of a man named Trumpy………
Who had me bringing up the dinner I had last night …
re: #380 Kragar
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Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
Putin, Erdogan, Orban, Sisi, Iranian mullahs, Communists in the olden days - they all describe legitimate protest as “paid” https://t.co/lh1OVRwogJ
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) February 3, 2017
re: #196 darthstar
@justkelly_ok Maybe he’d rather be called a white supremacist. “white nationalist” is racist political correctness.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2017
re: #202 lawhawk
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Get smart. He says that alot. What Bannon/Lamarr means is a Muslim ban, and ultimately to throw out Muslim immigrants - who entered country legally.
He keeps dancing around the subject (which is funny since he’s a supposed straight talker), because it would be unconstitutional on its face, but his followers know exactly what he means. Everyone knows, even the media, but they dare not speak it publicly, because the media thinks that access is more important than writing the facts.
@realDonaldTrump If the U.S. was smart, we wouldn’t have elected a blockhead who puts us at more risk President.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2017
oh my god the new cover of Der Spiegel pic.twitter.com/9SHruM8mrA
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 3, 2017
re: #377 lawhawk
Same with the BQE and the Cross Bronx. In the latter, it’s a straight shot through poor black neighborhoods. The Gowanus route was picked to maximize pain on local community, instead of shifting it over to 2d Ave (closer to waterfront). Heck, the Triboro bridge was sited so as to help out a rich pal.
In Westchester, there are heavily traveled bus routes that don’t have weekend service because the routes go through neighborhoods where the homeowners just don’t want to deal with the noise on weekends.
Probably paid boycotters.
#GrabYourWallet notches another win: https://t.co/mfvymSlTBX
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 3, 2017
re: #220 bratwurst
@samjcharles @Suntimes It looked like confabulation to me.https://t.co/i6imUboi0Y
Trump is impaired, and surrounded by other damaged minds.— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2017
re: #388 Stanley Sea
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Actually the majority of us voted against you. But go ahead complain about protests, it’s really becoming of an “alpha male” like you.
re: #395 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
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She didn’t misspeak. She fucking lied. Misspeaking is when you mistake one thing for another. She lied. She made up something that had nothing to do with refugees at all as a way of justfying her pig boss’s bigotry.
re: #392 BeachDem
Same with commuter rail routes here. Local communities don’t want the noise, or the car traffic backing up with trains going through.
re: #399 lawhawk
Same with commuter rail routes here. Local communities don’t want the noise, or the car traffic backing up with trains going through.
Yeah—fuck those people who rely on public transportation to get to work. Who do they think they are?
re: #292 HappyWarrior
I do get what I call musical OCD. I get obsessed with a certai nsong. I’m like Brian Wilson in that way and i too have been obsessed with Be My Baby.
Yeah, me too!
Decemberist’s “Calamity Song,” Mike Doughty “I Hear the Bells,” DBT’s “Carl Perkin’s Cadillac,” 13th Floor Elevators’ “Slip Inside This House”
As far as I’M concerned, I have impeccable taste…
re: #390 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
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GET SMART means he wants a shoe phone.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
Will do. Though I have to say, part of Shane’s appeal to me as a singer is how raw he sounds. Yeah he’s not a great or even good singer but it’s from the heart.
In my opinion, any singer who effectively communicates the emotion etc. of a song is, by definition, a good singer.