Jon Stewart to the Media: It’s Time to Get Your Groove Back
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Worried that the mainstream media’s breakup with President Trump has reporters feeling blue, Jon Stewart stops by with relationship advice.
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BoingBoing: National Enquirer thinks Trump is almost too smart for his own good
The “explosive report” by the crack investigative team of medically-trained ‘Enquirer’ reporters promises to blow the lid off Trump’s “shocking psych file!”
What does the iconoclastic tabloid that routinely excoriates celebrities for being too fat, too thin, too wrinkly, too surgically-enhanced, too rich or too poor, now reveal about the psychological flaws of America’s Commander in Chief?
Its “investigation” uncovers this startling discovery: “He’s got the mind to be a great president.”
Say what?
“Natural-born leader Donald Trump is a highly focused, driven and charismatic genius who thinks outside the box - and is almost too smart for his own good!”
That’s the “remarkable analysis of 13 top psychotherapists and behavioral health specialists” who studied Trump for the ‘Enquirer.’
Well, no fake news to see here. Move along, move along.
It’s almost refreshing to see the ‘Enquirer’ resume its normal fact-challenged service with claims that singer Cher has been “brought back from the dead” (because zombies are all the rage this year), Ellen DeGeneres’ girlfriend Portia de Rossi has moved into a “lesbian love shack” (because she couldn’t just move into any old house - it had to be a lesbian house), and analyze “Hollywood’s best boobs - Fantastic or Plastic?’ which presumably comes under the heading of public service journalism - though evidently few stars can say: “They’re real, and they’re spectacular.”
re: #1 Eric The Fruit Bat
They also keep claiming that Hillary is terminally ill…a line of bullshit they will continue to push as she outlives President Pee Pee
re: #2 Joe Bacon
They also keep claiming that Hillary is terminally ill…a line of bullshit they will continue to push as she outlives President Pee Pee
We’re all going to die. The due dates are not written down.
Soy vey…
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Subway’s “chicken” reportedly contains only about 50 percent actual chicken DNA https://t.co/NVSDMtd6aC
— New York Post (@nypost) March 2, 2017
re: #3 retired cynic
We’re all going to die. The due dates are not written down.
Perhaps the GOP will repeal death for rich people, since they are working on that with taxes… .
From the clip: John Stewart says you can tell he is lying because he says “believe me.”
LOL
I am reminded of an orientation lecture given by the Chaplain at NAS Oceana when I first reported in to that command:
You know what the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is?
A fairy tale begins “once upon a time” and a sea story begins “no shit.”
Will he throw his detractors a bone or won’t he?
re: #6 Anymouse
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re: #4 FormerDirtDart
I eat Subway from time to time, and I always order the exact same thing: foot-long on honey oat, cold cut combo with swiss cheese, toasted, and everything except spinach and jalapeños, with a little yellow mustard and salt pepper.
I’ve always suspected their “chicken breasts.” It’s chicken nuggets with grill marks.
Shameless plugging of another post by the esteemed Birth Control Works:
littlegreenfootballs.com
(Moral Outrage is Self-Serving - from Reason magazine)
re: #10 teleskiguy
I eat Subway from time to time, and I always order the exact same thing: foot-long on honey oat, cold cut combo with swiss cheese, toasted, and everything except spinach and jalapeños, with a little yellow mustard and salt pepper.
I’ve always suspected their “chicken breasts.” It’s chicken nuggets with grill marks.
The cold cut combo is good. I’ll get that, or sometimes the tuna salad. When I’m near a Subway, that is. None here where I live.
“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Jeff Sessions said during his confirmation hearing.
But he did. https://t.co/ZTgf0ckUT9— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) March 2, 2017
Legal experts, based on what we now know, is this perjury? https://t.co/BPpMD1JQQ7
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) March 2, 2017
Looks like it to me: it was a knowing & deliberate falsehood made under oath on a clearly pertinent matter. https://t.co/5HCXHBySso
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 2, 2017
In all seriousness, DOJ spox statements tonight are really limiting Sessions’ options for potential perjury defensehttps://t.co/HlqaWBDJ0Z
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) March 2, 2017
REMINDER: Kislyak was a VIP at Trump’s first foreign policy speech last Aprilhttps://t.co/qWR94ONpdg pic.twitter.com/YS2zTZ5Xzi
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) March 2, 2017
re: #13 Kragar
I think maybe because I ate a lot of bologna when I was a ski bum in Steamboat that I always go for my go-to cold cut combo. Maybe I’m addicted to the salt?
re: #16 teleskiguy
I think maybe because I ate a lot of bologna when I was a ski bum in Steamboat that I always go for my go-to cold cut combo. Maybe I’m addicted to the salt?
I love salami, especially with peppercorns inside. Yum!
Bologna is meh, but I’ll eat it.
When I was a kid, I liked liverwurst and would happily eat liverwurst sandwiches my mom made. Then I found out it was made from liver. ;-)
re: #17 wheat-dogg
I really, really do love sandwiches.
Well, this should go over well…
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“Beauty and the Beast” features Disney’s first gay character https://t.co/pRVmwIoEyr pic.twitter.com/C1E2O2IcVU
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 2, 2017
re: #13 Kragar
I only get turkey
“What’s a Subway?” (No fast food joints within sixty miles)
Okay, being silly. On the rare occasion I find myself in Subway, I always get a Veggie Delight. Extra black olives.
.@VP on President Trump’s agenda: “We all now have our marching orders … Congress is going to get to work.” pic.twitter.com/lI04nT9oh2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2017
@FoxNews @VP @Stonekettle I assume you’ll be handing out knee-high, polished, black jackboots to all GOP Reps before you get started, Mike? https://t.co/wwwSPhcnGw
— Una Bubba (@UnaBubba) March 2, 2017
re: #19 FormerDirtDart
RWNJs are pissed there is a gay character.
LGBT groups are mad they made him a over the top pathetic caricature.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Me too. My wife thinks I am weird lol
As long as it’s not poutine or Tim Bits on sandwich bread you should be alright.
Jewish donors raise money to repair Tampa mosquehttps://t.co/RmcHL3KnMi pic.twitter.com/FOvgCjAC0E
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 1, 2017
seems to me like Jews and Muslims are having to crowdfund for each other a little too often lately https://t.co/QmTMoOWIpF
— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) March 2, 2017
re: #24 Anymouse
And why are the supposed “loving Christians” not stepping up?
Flash protest being held @ Noon in DC later today 3/2, organized by @MoveOn! pic.twitter.com/XQvKv22iAo
— Diane Russell (@MissWrite) March 2, 2017
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
And why are the supposed “loving Christians” not stepping up?
Because, IMO, they are neither.
GOP strategist seems to have helpful goal for Ossoff, running as the Democratic candidate for GA-6.
As a matter of fact, it sounds like an awful lot of people here on running Democratic candidates in areas considered deeply Red districts.
Republicans target Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s Sixth with ‘Han Solo’ ad https://t.co/C0VoBjB2dX
— Jim Galloway (@politicalinsidr) March 1, 2017
It’s a deeply silly ad and nothing in it really is that bad for Ossoff, but if the point is to “Josh Mandel” him then mission accomplished. https://t.co/EEVwD7xW6s
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) March 1, 2017
He has absolutely zero chance at winning this seat and I am stunned how Democrats continue to learn all the wrong lessons of 2016. https://t.co/lo4kD6MZk1
— Ellen L. Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) March 1, 2017
The difference between liberals and conservatives is that *our* conspiracy theories are real. #Sessions #TrumpRussia
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 2, 2017
Ha! Imagining this is just lovely.
So Biden memes were really happening, but instead of removing all the light bulbs, Biden was leaving intel under the couch cushions.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) March 2, 2017
Fifth anniversary post of Rebecca Shoenkopf’s purchase of Wonkette
Remembering Five Years of Dead Breitbart - Just Kidding Remembering Five Years of Me
On this day five years ago, Wonkette owner Ken Layne played the WORST TRICK ON YOU GUYS EVER, and announced he had sold this little mommyblog and suicide hotline to MOI.
Also, Andrew Breitbart keeled over dead of his own anger, which led to Steve Bannon taking over breitbart.com and getting Donald Trump elected president.
Wow, *life comes at you fast gif*!
(more silliness at Wonkette)
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik’s rights are not violated by prison isolation https://t.co/97KiTAoP1R pic.twitter.com/Srjnb65Boi
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 2, 2017
re: #33 FormerDirtDart
Nice to see they remember how to deal with nazi scum.
re: #26 FormerDirtDart
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So, if Sessions resigns, does he get to kick Big Luther Strange out of his former Senate seat, or does he just ride off into the sunset waving his confederate flag?
Heh—double whammy for Jefferson Beauregard—Strange has already been sworn in, right?
re: #35 BeachDem
So, if Sessions resigns, does he get to kick Big Luther Strange out of his former Senate seat, or does he just ride off into the sunset waving his confederate flag?
Heh—double whammy for Jefferson Beauregard—Strange has already been sworn in, right?
Yes. Senator Strange was sworn in on February 9.
re: #35 BeachDem
So, if Sessions resigns, does he get to kick Big Luther Strange out of his former Senate seat, or does he just ride off into the sunset waving his confederate flag?
Heh—double whammy for Jefferson Beauregard—Strange has already been sworn in, right?
Wouldn’t have mattered if Strange had been sworn in or not, Sessions resigned on 8 Feb.
Wasn’t his seat anymore.
So, if Strange had not been sworn in, either Strange would have to decline from his appointment, or the AL gov. withdraw it, and appoint Sessions to the seat.
Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves here, in regards to Sessions?
While he’s getting a lot of heat, can’t he just ride it out? The GOP controls Congress, and even if they ever do an investigation, it could just be for show. Once they clear Sessions of wrongdoing, then the Republicans can say “see, all those Democrats were just crying wolf.”
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time …
The link is a tool where to find the nearest Girl Scout troop selling cookies and what time and date.
Nearest place to my Zip Code is sixty miles from my house. I like Girl Scout cookies but not that much.
re: #39 freetoken
Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves here, in regards to Sessions?
While he’s getting a lot of heat, can’t he just ride it out? The GOP controls Congress, and even if they ever do an investigation, it could just be for show. Once they clear Sessions of wrongdoing, then the Republicans can say “see, all those Democrats were just crying wolf.”
Well, there is that. It depends on how radioactive the GOP sees Sessions now.
If they think he’ll hurt them in elections, or covering up Russian involvement with him will, they’ll sacrifice him in an Alabama minute.
It wasn’t the crimes that got Reagan’s and Nixon’s cabinet members (and Nixon himself), it was the cover-up.
“What do you mean there’s eighteen and a half minutes missing?”
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re: #40 Anymouse
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time …
The link is a tool where to find the nearest Girl Scout troop selling cookies and what time and date.
Nearest place to my Zip Code is sixty miles from my house. I like Girl Scout cookies but not that much.
My wife was a GS leader for 10 years. We are addicted to GS cookies.
re: #39 freetoken
Yeah, I don’t feel comfortable that anything major will happen to him quite yet. I have some hope, but I’m also hella cynical because he should have never been approved as AG in the first place and everyone knew it.
re: #39 freetoken
I mean, it’s not like he made Pence lie for him.
Since according to Trump, that’s the only thing Flynn did wrong, expect the administration to ossify around him. At this point it might save Sessions, since I doubt the Republican Congress is going to care very much, but this sort of thing is likely to get worse, implicating Trump himself.
He didn’t surround himself with these people for no reason.
Experanza Base at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula sets record high (63.5 degrees F, 17 C).
reuters.com
Those Chinese are busy with their global warming hoax, apparently.
The Expanse sure ended on a weird note tonight.
Let’s keep in mind Obama had scandals early on in his administration pic.twitter.com/qjp2XQDU2s
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) February 15, 2017
re: #42 Single-handed sailor
“What do you mean there’s eighteen and a half minutes missing?”
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My wife was a GS leader for 10 years. We are addicted to GS cookies.
Mine will be coming on Friday—I ordered from a scout in Florida and they were shipped today.
eff.org
FCC blocks rule to require ISPs to protect privacy.
Worse, the GOP is advancing a bill to make it illegal for the FCC to eliminate all broadband privacy rules over your private data, and prohibit the FCC from enacting privacy rules in the future.
This is a potential area where even the most wingnut of Republican voters could be potential allies in a pushback against Republicans in Congress and the FCC chairman. More at the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Internet users won a significant victory last year when the FCC issued its Broadband Privacy Rules. As part of these rules, ISPs would be required to protect their customers’ sensitive information. For instance, ISPs would need to take reasonable steps to protect Social Security numbers, financial information, health information, and Web browsing data against hackers. In the wake of major ISPs like Comcast suffering huge data breaches, this would clearly be sound policy—but Chairman Pai apparently disagrees. And of course, ISPs are gleeful about his decision because they’d prefer not to be scrutinized when they fail to properly protect your data.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the worst of it.
Republicans in Congress are planning a much bigger assault on the Internet, by making it illegal for the FCC to protect consumer privacy online. With heavy support from the cable and telephone industry, they are hoping to use a rare and far reaching tool known as a Congressional Review Act resolution, which would not only completely eliminate all of the FCC’s broadband privacy rules (not just the data security rule), it would prohibit the FCC from ever enacting any “substantially similar” privacy rules in the future. Because of the current regulatory landscape, the Federal Trade Commission is also barred from policing ISPs, leaving no federal cop on the beat to protect consumer privacy in this space.
In other words, ISPs would have carte blanche when it comes to rifling through, sharing, and selling your private data.
re: #48 BeachDem
Mine will be coming on Friday—I ordered from a scout in Florida and they were shipped today.
My daughter has been procuring cookies from Girl Scouts stationed near the UC Berkeley BART station. We also tend to see them in front of grocery stores, but this year not so much.
re: #49 Anymouse
Moving to make this a post over on the right-hand side.
re: #2 Joe Bacon
They also keep claiming that Hillary is terminally ill…a line of bullshit they will continue to push as she outlives President Pee Pee
And yet, on the back of last weeks edition, they were selling a collectible Obama figurine.
Wisconsin faces ‘tidal wave’ of costly roadwork delays
Gov. Scott Walker’s transportation plans would result in more congestion, deteriorating road conditions and decades of delayed projects, reviews by his own administration show.
The plans will also force more money to be spent on temporary repairs as the state puts off major projects because of a funding crunch, according to a Department of Transportation memo written in January.
The situation will only get worse.
“The tidal wave is coming, as this critical work can’t be delayed forever,” the January memo says.
The memo was prepared for Secretary David Ross and Deputy Secretary Bob Seitz to get them up to speed as they took over the Department of Transportation. The memo and other briefing documents were released to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel under the state’s open records law.
re: #37 Alyosha
I know there’s shit going down but allow me to shift gears on you. This is why Pixar is important. And why I find it difficult to watch their films. The latent sadness can become too much.
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These backstories are in a lot of so-called kid’s movies or TV shows, though the sadness is often glossed over for TV. Think about how many single-parent families there are in Disney flicks or TV shows, even going back to the 1960s. Lots of widows, widowers and divorced couples with kids. Orphans, too.
Pixar, to its credit, doesn’t gloss over those traumas, but includes them in their plots, very subtly, as the video suggests. And TBH some of them had not occurred to me before. For example, Wall-E. It’s no wonder the little guy wants companionship and love so much: he’s watched all his co-workers die one by one. I’ve watched this film several times, and frankly that bit never sunk in. So thanks for the clip.
re: #40 Anymouse
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time …
The link is a tool where to find the nearest Girl Scout troop selling cookies and what time and date.
Nearest place to my Zip Code is sixty miles from my house. I like Girl Scout cookies but not that much.
Can you mail order? Maybe the nearest troop can organize a relief mission for a merit badge.
re: #45 Anymouse
Experanza Base at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula sets record high (63.5 degrees F, 17 C).
reuters.comThose Chinese are busy with their global warming hoax, apparently.
Beijing has decided to replace its gazillion taxis with electric models over the next several years. Electric buses are also becoming more common, even in podunk towns like mine. Plus, the Chinese are building more wind farms so they can slow down the Earth for more working hours, and more solar energy installations, so they can suck all the Sun’s energy out and resell it to the rest of the world.
But don’t tell anyone. It’s a bigly secret.
re: #56 wheat-dogg
Can you mail order? Maybe the nearest troop can organize a relief mission for a merit badge.
LOL. A relief mission to the “largely rural areas of Morrill County.”
Maybe I can call the nearest Girl Scout Troop and ask them.
When I was stationed in Spain, the Navy would fly in pallets of Girl Scout cookies on a C-130 for the local base Girl Scout troop.
It was volunteer duty from the base personnel to unload cookies, and boy did they get lots of volunteers.
Since Rota is really a Spanish base with the US Navy as a tenant command, there were also lots of Spanish seamen, as well as civilian workers from Rota on the base.
US Girl Scout cookies would flood half the province when they went on sale.
re: #58 Anymouse
LOL. A relief mission to the “largely rural areas of Morrill County.”
Maybe I can call the nearest Girl Scout Troop and ask them.
When I was stationed in Spain, the Navy would fly in pallets of Girl Scout cookies on a C-130 for the local base Girl Scout troop.
It was volunteer duty from the base personnel to unload cookies, and boy did they get lots of volunteers.
Since Rota is really a Spanish base with the US Navy as a tenant command, there were also lots of Spanish seamen, as well as civilian workers from Rota on the base.
US Girl Scout cookies would flood half the province when they went on sale.
If China permitted the GSA to operate within its borders, those cookies would be a guaranteed hit. OTOH, with Chinese bakeries’ poor QC taken into account, it might open the Girl Scouts to a major food doctoring scandal.
re: #55 wheat-dogg
These backstories are in a lot of so-called kid’s movies or TV shows, though the sadness is often glossed over for TV. Think about how many single-parent families there are in Disney flicks or TV shows, even going back to the 1960s. Lots of widows, widowers and divorced couples with kids. Orphans, too.
Pixar, to its credit, doesn’t gloss over those traumas, but includes them in their plots, very subtly, as the video suggests. And TBH some of them had not occurred to me before. For example, Wall-E. It’s no wonder the little guy wants companionship and love so much: he’s watched all his co-workers die one by one. I’ve watched this film several times, and frankly that bit never sunk in. So thanks for the clip.
The bit in the clip about Hopper from ‘A Bug’s Life’ bothered me alot because the context of his employment was to simply to terrify. When I was a kid, Hopper seemed to embody the nameless dread of another human being animalised (atavism in what is essentially an anthropomorphic narrative is now so technically meta that it raises my estimation of a fairly weak film retrospectively) but the bits where he was clearly unable to conceive of his tribe’s ultimate aim and thus the problematic nature of his role, was lost.
Hence my amazement.
re: #48 BeachDem
Mine will be coming on Friday—I ordered from a scout in Florida and they were shipped today.
I’m going to intercept them before they get there. (Not really, I’m just jealous.)
One thing about conservatives, they are consistent and don’t give up easily.
• The Texas Supreme Court is hearing a case that conservatives and religious fundamentalists hope can eventually lead to an overturning of legalized gay marriage nationwide.
• Opponents are suing the city of Houston over its decision to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees.
• Houston officials argue that they are required to provide them under a US Supreme Court 2015 ruling that same-sex marriage is a legal right nationally.
• The court had initially chosen not to hear the legal challenge.
• However, under pressure from Republican state lawmakers, including Governor Greg Abbot, the all-Republican court reversed that decision in January and allowed the trial to begin.
• In several amicus briefs (advisory opinions to the court), lawmakers asked the court to reject the “‘ideology of the sexual revolution” that federal judges had passed into law.
bbc.com
More proof that demonstrations work:
washingtonpost.com
Rubio Evicted from Tampa Office over Demonstrations (goes to the Washington Post with additional information)
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is looking for a new office location in Tampa after the owner of his current space decided not to renew his lease because of constant disruptions from protesters.
The Tampa Bay Times (goo.gl) reports that the owner of the nine-story Bridgeport Center notified Rubio’s staff Feb. 1 that it would not renew its lease. They have to be out by Friday.
re: #60 Alyosha
The bit in the clip about Hopper from ‘A Bug’s Life’ bothered me alot because the context of his employment was to simply to terrify. When I was a kid, Hopper seemed to embody the nameless dread of another human being animalised (atavism in what is essentially an anthropomorphic narrative is now so technically meta that it raises my estimation of a fairly weak film retrospectively) but the bits where he was clearly unable to conceive of his tribe’s ultimate aim and thus the problematic nature of his role, was lost.
Hence my amazement.
Really good children’s literature and cinema always have deeper themes embedded in simple plots. An adult reading or watching a kid’s book or flick can enjoy the experience as much as the child, but for different reasons.
This is one reason for China’s massive show of force in Xinjiang recently.
ISIS releases new video starring Uighur fighters vowing to ‘shed blood like rivers’ in China https://t.co/Y0bJbjraYK pic.twitter.com/eBVDdpv1AC
I read Rodong Sinmun (DPRK news) daily, day after day, I don’t really know why. Reading the pure propaganda of North Korea kinda prepares me for the likes of Fox News and right wing blogs, I guess. One thing I’ve noticed is they build lots of schools for orphans and I just wonder why they have so many orphans, and why are they so proud of it. OK, two things I noticed about North Korea…. (insert Monty Python skit here)
/Things that make you go hmmmm.
re: #19 FormerDirtDart
Well, this should go over well…
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With both sides, yet. Yeah, put the f-word on the villain’s side (and IIRC, he’ll get hit with Bury Your Gays for that, too—I don’t think I remember just Gaston dying in the animated version). And he looks like an absolute fop in that shot, though maybe not 20th-century-level flaming.
A good number of non-cishet people are going to see the 21st-century version of Stepin Fetchit (well, at any rate, until the real thing’s the only position available to Black actors again with the Confederacy rising). I think I’m kinda one of them. Maybe a serious and non-cowardly villain later, and even later than that comic relief, but the first appearance should be a semi-serious hero, by my way of looking at it. Especially since, if he actively expresses his desire to anyone, he’ll already be an anachronism, so make him an openly-gay heroic one!
And of course, even his being a villain and getting his comeuppance in the end won’t be nearly enough for the Teavangelicals, who I think at this point have started lobbying to have the Hays Office reopened and expanded to, as well as cinema, any television that doesn’t require an individual-channel subscription. And they actively boycott and sometimes violently picket media they don’t approve of.
GJ, Disney! Way to anger both extremes, and probably not alter minds in the middle much either way!
@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ic3iGy22cb
— Leigh Van Bryan (@LeighBryan) March 2, 2017
There was a telling moment last night when Trump recalled how Harley-Davidson employees visiting the White House told him they’re getting crushed by foreign tariffs, and Trump vowed to fix that. “They weren’t even asking for change—but I am,” he said. In fact, Harley-Davidson’s CEO has asked for change in the form of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free-trade deal that would have drastically reduced some of those tariffs, the very same “job-killing” deal that Trump boasted about scuttling in his speech.
re: #68 Dave In Austin
I wonder if he’ll blame Obama whenever the markets sink, because it will happen. It’s what the market does.
Sardar Ahmad, Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan who has lived in the US and is now a Canadian citizen, held for five hours at US border:
re: #71 Lupin
Sardar Ahmad, Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan who has lived in the US and is now a Canadian citizen, held for five hours at US border:
Naturally. Just as Trump said, keeping out undesirables, in this case, smart people.
This ought to be good: Alec Bladwin has co-authored a satirical “memoir” of the first year of Trump’s administration.
Reuters is reporting that Ivanka had a hand in forging Trump’s address to Congress. I wonder how common it’s been for children of presidents to help write major speeches. I’d guess never, but I could be wrong.
re: #19 FormerDirtDart
Beauty and the Beast” features Disney’s first gay character
so between the conservative family values boycott and foreign tourists too scared to want to deal with US Customs and Immigration, attendance at Disney World is really gonna be down this year…
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
And why are the supposed “loving Christians” not stepping up?
because they are not a minority….minorities know that they need to overcome their differences and stick together when the majority starts turning on them or refusing to aid them in need
re: #54 Anymouse
Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law.
I don’t know if he reads Little Green Footballs (I’ve suggested it to him), but if he does, then here’s a birthday cake.
Okay, so I don’t bake very good cakes.
looks totally gay
/
re: #71 Lupin
Sardar Ahmad, Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan who has lived in the US and is now a Canadian citizen, held for five hours at US border:
And when US tourism tanks because foreigners are afraid of the whims of our Customs and Immigration officers, DT will blame it on the lying press for exaggerating and making America look bad in the eyes of the world.
re: #19 FormerDirtDart
Well, this should go over well…
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Timon the meerkat was basically Nathan Lane in toon form. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… 😉
White House staff enjoying “post-speech euphoria,” per @axios: “We decided not to sh*t on ourselves” pic.twitter.com/kb79faPrXg
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) March 2, 2017
Yeah…Far better to have Jeff Sessions give them a Cleveland Steamer. https://t.co/oecE5sZeSi
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 2, 2017
So, The Expanse episode 6. Just wow.
Though they removed most of the Ganymede battle details, the way they did present it was just as effective. And probably cost a lot less to produce.
Yes, I have read the books.
Here is Jeff Sessions in 1999 talking about the seriousness of committing perjury under oath
Here is Jeff Sessions in 1999 talking about the seriousness of committing perjury under oath pic.twitter.com/qsBb9bcpSo
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
re: #80 darthstar
This regime is a non-stop Danny Thomas omelet.
Beyond the moral reasons I think Jefferson Sessions is a fucking soulless shit eater, something about his mouth is unnerving. pic.twitter.com/XjKayAOSqS
— sportsyelling. (@sportsyelling) March 2, 2017
That’s the mouth hole of a person in a movie who smiles while they make the girl they kidnapped lick their shoes.
— sportsyelling. (@sportsyelling) March 2, 2017
I know this mostly points to me watching too much ID channel in my lifetime BUT WHERES THE LIE HERE.
— sportsyelling. (@sportsyelling) March 2, 2017
What people will say sometime in the future to the idiots who nominated Trump.
“You knew then, and you did nothing!”
{Said in the style of Judd Hirsch}
re: #85 wheat-dogg
What people will say sometime in the future to the idiots who nominated Trump.
“You knew then, and you did nothing!”
{Said in the style of Judd Hirsch}
Party over country. Welcome to our cold civil war (and I think we have to start thinking in terms of civil war, because one side is now using intervention from a hostile foreign power)
Yeah, today’s not gonna be a good day in Yamland.
Good. A bad day for Trump and his cult is a good day for America.
This cartoon is kinda gross but it’s so spot on
@docrocktex26 @ruthmkb brought back memories of this meme pic.twitter.com/htKSqVuy5S
— tracey (@mustangmadd) March 2, 2017
BREAKING: Republican House oversight panel chairman says Sessions should ‘clarify his testimony’ on Russian contacts
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 2, 2017
Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail https://t.co/qH0s6sTMJ9
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 2, 2017
George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer —-> https://t.co/bvEDKUwVMl
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) March 2, 2017
re: #90 The Vicious Babushka
That’s gonna sting.
Ah, joy, if it’s not one damn thing it’s another. I’m supposed to give my son a ride to school after I get done with work each morning at 6:00 AM while my ex recovers from her broken leg (fell on ice about 2 weeks ago). The cooling system went to hell on me this morning. Been leaking and I topped it up with coolant this morning but got about 2 miles into the 17 mile trip there and was massively overheating. Overflow tank is overflowing which means the thermostat is probably dead now too. Now to try to rearrange the budget yet again and find somewhere to get it worked on or even a garage to work on it in… Not really able to do much today with the temp at 2 degrees F.
re: #28 Anymouse
GOP strategist seems to have helpful goal for Ossoff, running as the Democratic candidate for GA-6.
As a matter of fact, it sounds like an awful lot of people here on running Democratic candidates in areas considered deeply Red districts.
Republicans target Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s Sixth with ‘Han Solo’ ad https://t.co/C0VoBjB2dX
— Jim Galloway (@politicalinsidr) March 1, 2017
It’s a deeply silly ad and nothing in it really is that bad for Ossoff, but if the point is to “Josh Mandel” him then mission accomplished. https://t.co/EEVwD7xW6s
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) March 1, 2017
He has absolutely zero chance at winning this seat and I am stunned how Democrats continue to learn all the wrong lessons of 2016. https://t.co/lo4kD6MZk1
— Ellen L. Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) March 1, 2017
So, should we, or should we not, run people in every election we can?
The thing is, even if Ossoff ultimately loses, we’re finally showing a willingness to step up.
Merriam-Webster just keeps on keeping on…
@MerriamWebster What about “perjury”?
— Jordan Meehan (@JordanMeehan) March 2, 2017
Also trending, but not as high—’recuse’ has over 10x as many lookups. https://t.co/7WGw5gwHpU
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) March 2, 2017
re: #96 Belafon
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So, should we, or should we not, run people in every election we can?
The thing is, even if Ossoff ultimately loses, we’re finally showing a willingness to step up.
I really disagree that it sounds like a lot of us here. In fact Trump only beat Clinton by two points in that district and I have repeatedly said we should try to find candidates to run wherever we can but that we should have fair expectations of them too.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
I really disagree that it sounds like a lot of us here. In fact Trump only beat Clinton by two points in that district and I have repeatedly said we should try to find candidates to run wherever we can but that we should have fair expectations of them too.
Agree. It would be great if he wins, but it’s not the end of everything if he doesn’t. And if there is a lot of anger and frustration about Trump, we’re not going to be able to take advantage of it if people don’t run.
re: #100 Belafon
Agree. It would be great if he wins, but it’s not the end of everything if he doesn’t. And if there is a lot of anger and frustration about Trump, we’re not going to be able to take advantage of it if people don’t run.
Exactly.
Yeah it’s Chris Cilice but look at this picture of Jeff
It’s now political suicide for Republicans if they don’t call for deeper investigations on Russia https://t.co/MhXgdjwbZO pic.twitter.com/YeH5YWyWfo
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) March 2, 2017
re: #102 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah it’s Chris Cilice but look at this picture of Jeff
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Jiminy Cricket’s Alabama cousin?
We need an independent investigation IMMEDIATELY.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 2, 2017
It must be completed before the GOP:
*Takes away anyone’s insurance
*Explodes the debt with massive tax breaks for the rich
*Starts wars https://t.co/myUiEGWwS4— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 2, 2017
This isn’t hard: Trump was broke, Russians floated him, helped his campaign, were stunned that he won, and now everybody’s fucked. Plus pee.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 2, 2017
re: #100 Belafon
And it sounds like that area has a lot better chance of a Democrat winning than say, my district, which went 75% for Trump.
re: #106 Belafon
And it sounds like that area has a lot better chance of a Democrat winning than say, my district, which went 75% for Trump.
Right, I disagree with AM characterizing it as a bright red district, it’s not, in fact it sounds a little like mine except mine is a little more blue.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance. The NYC metro area is under high wind warnings/watches, and there’s already scattered power outages and transit issues.
But that’s not what worries me.
It’s that practically every last person involved in the Trump administration has ties to Russia, lies about their ties to Russia, and they keep spinning.
Sessions just follows Flynn, who follows Trump.
Sessions needs to be fired or resigned. And then prosecuted. Perjury.
So, what’s Trump going to do today? He’s going to Newport News to the USS Gerald Ford to do a photo op showing the need for a bigger Navy and more military spending.
Oh, wait - irony watch.
The USS Gerald Ford’s motto: Integrity at the helm.
Trump has none.
re: #108 lawhawk
The USS Gerald Ford’s motto: Integrity at the helm.
As long as they don’t invite Trump onto the ship, he won’t be able to go in. Vampire rules.
re: #107 HappyWarrior
Right, I disagree with AM characterizing it as a bright red district, it’s not, in fact it sounds a little like mine except mine is a little more blue.
I wasn’t thinking of Anymouse, more the last tweet in the chain. I’m just curious what the “right” lesson was we were supposed to have learned.
They’re seriously going after Ossoff for dressing up like Han Solo? I mean really. Anyhow, I’m rooting hard for this guy since we would have been in the same grade and more young people is a good thing.
re: #110 Belafon
I wasn’t thinking of Anymouse, more the last tweet in the chain. I’m just curious what the “right” lesson was we were supposed to have learned.
No, AM made a comment that the person saying that sounded a lot like people here. Maybe I’m cranky and read it the wrong way. Yeah I don’t understand that tweet either. I’m glad he’s running. Why any Dem would be bothered by him running is beyond me?
re: #108 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance. The NYC metro area is under high wind warnings/watches, and there’s already scattered power outages and transit issues.
But that’s not what worries me.
It’s that practically every last person involved in the Trump administration has ties to Russia, lies about their ties to Russia, and they keep spinning.
Sessions just follows Flynn, who follows Trump.
Sessions needs to be fired or resigned. And then prosecuted. Perjury.
So, what’s Trump going to do today? He’s going to Newport News to the USS Gerald Ford to do a photo op showing the need for a bigger Navy and more military spending.
Oh, wait - irony watch.
The USS Gerald Ford’s motto: Integrity at the helm.
Trump has none.
The admin is crooked from top to bottom.
So if the Attorney General lied to Congress, who brings the charges? Asking for a friend.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 2, 2017
re: #114 The Vicious Babushka
The House of Representatives.
AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) March 2, 2017
The important criminal thing is who leaked???? Was someone spying on Sessions???!?!?? PROSECUTE THE LEAKERS THAT HERT AMERICA! Doesn’t matter anyway if Sessions talked to some Russians. Get over losing libards! MAGA!!!!!
re: #115 Belafon
The House of Representatives.
Which will find all sorts of reasons not to act on this.
What did they use for Kellyanne pitching Ivanka’s products?
“No nefarious motives”?
Jeff Sessions’s denials of contact with Russians are falling apart quickly https://t.co/oovjbKODME
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) March 2, 2017
re: #102 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah it’s Chris Cilice but look at this picture of Jeff
The Fix will forget all about this by tomorrow this afternoon.
If we can impeach a president for lying under oath about a sexual tryst, we can an AG for lying about this.
re: #116 The Vicious Babushka
Which is controlled by Republicans.
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which will find all sorts of reasons not to act on this.
What did they use for Kellyanne pitching Ivanka’s products?
“No nefarious motives”?
I know, and until it starts to actually hurt Republicans, they won’t do all that much. I was just answering the question. Congress has prosecutorial authority over the executive branch was all I was saying.
re: #74 wheat-dogg
Reuters is reporting that Ivanka had a hand in forging Trump’s address to Congress. I wonder how common it’s been for children of presidents to help write major speeches. I’d guess never, but I could be wrong.
It’s fine but if Chelsea had helped HRC with a speech there would need to be an investigation.
/
re: #122 HappyWarrior
If we can impeach a president for lying under oath about a sexual tryst, we can an AG for lying about this.
Nah, just a mistake, no big deal, also talking to Russians for Trump not anything anyway.
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Personal note: I’ve been involved as a volunteer for Special Olympics Ohio and their North Section Basketball tournament for 15 years as of this weekend. Any extra good vibes are always appreciated. 🙂😺
I’ll be at @lorainccc tonight and this weekend as a PA announcer for @SOOhio’s North Section Basketball tournament! Stop on by! @SOHoopsLCCC pic.twitter.com/elcNmDTrSh
— Nathan Obral ☀️😸🌷 (@myronfalwell) March 2, 2017
re: #124 Sir John Barron
It’s fine but if
Chelsea had helpedHRCwithhad given a speech there would need to be an investigation./
More like that
It’s now political suicide for Republicans if they don’t call for deeper investigations on Russia https://t.co/MhXgdjwbZO pic.twitter.com/YeH5YWyWfo
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) March 2, 2017
@TheFix Shouldn’t you still be writing about how wonderful Trump’s speech was? Ride that wave. Ride it home. https://t.co/lo3RF62PcD
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 2, 2017
re: #124 Sir John Barron
And the reality is that Ivanka’s child care plan is nothing more than yet another tax shelter giveaway to the rich. It helps no one who is struggling to pay child care needs and can’t save money as it is.
Considering most Americans don’t even have $500 in emergency savings, a child care tax credit for saving money for child care needs is an awful way to deal with a problem facing most Americans.
But it is a great way if you need to find another way to cut your tax burden if you’re rich.
re: #129 lawhawk
And the reality is that Ivanka’s child care plan is nothing more than yet another tax shelter giveaway to the rich. It helps no one who is struggling to pay child care needs and can’t save money as it is.
Considering most Americans don’t even have $500 in emergency savings, a child care tax credit for saving money for child care needs is an awful way to deal with a problem facing most Americans.
But it is a great way if you need to find another way to cut your tax burden if you’re rich.
This is, of course, more tax-free shelters IN ADDITION to their HSA’s.
White House statement on Jeff Sessions says it’s a partisan attack by Democrats pic.twitter.com/gSny2DX4Yw
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
David Rubinger, the mythological photographer that documented Israel’s history, passed away. This might be his most famous picture pic.twitter.com/sAc8QWPOPK
— Amb. Dani Dayan (@AmbDaniDayan) March 2, 2017
This is one of the most iconic photos in Israeli history, as it shows Israeli troops at the Western Wall following Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967.
re: #132 The Vicious Babushka
AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) March 2, 2017
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said during an appearance on MSNBC that Sessions should bow out to maintain “the trust of the American people.”
Minutes later, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) joined McCarthy’s call, tweeting that “AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself.”
The calls from two of the House’s most prominent Republicans follow revelations that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador during election season. Under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing in January, Sessions had said that he had not met with any Russian officials.
According to Justice Department officials, Sessions, a top Trump supporter, met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice in 2016, including one September meeting in his office.
In a statement following the revelations, Sessions denied he had met with “any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false,” he said.
McCarthy and Chaffetz are the first prominent Republicans to call for Sessions to recuse himself. Some Democrats went further, calling on Sessions to resign, demanding an independent investigation and, in a few cases, accusing Sessions of lying under oath.
re: #132 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #132 The Vicious Babushka
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‘General Sessions?’ All he deserves is a goddamn prisoner number and an orange jumpsuit.
re: #136 makeitstop
‘General Sessions?’ All he deserves is a goddamn prisoner number and an orange jumpsuit.
Good eye. General Sessions. Yeah that’s not his title.
re: #134 lawhawk
Pelosi and some others released statements yesterday saying that Sessions should resign. You’re not going to hear about them because they’re not Republicans.
Edit: It would have been nice if the article had named them rather than just saying “Democrats” in the last paragraph.
#BREAKING: Sessions offers to recuse himself from Russia investigation https://t.co/NesN8NWMLH pic.twitter.com/iQL5icTMBm
— The Hill (@thehill) March 2, 2017
Offers to recuse himself? He must resign. He’s beyond compromised at this point; we’re talking charges of perjury & obstruction of justice https://t.co/GislfBLqhh
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2017
Heh
@BraddJaffy Hmm..is that General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions of the Confederate States of America or of the Russian Federation or USA?
— James Lutz (@happyhillrd) March 2, 2017
re: #4 FormerDirtDart
Christ they had me worried “only about 50% chicken DNA” — what was the rest? Human? Worms? Roaches?
But it’s soy — probably better for you than the salmonella infested, chlorine washed chicken.
re: #35 BeachDem
So, if Sessions resigns, does he get to kick Big Luther Strange out of his former Senate seat, or does he just ride off into the sunset waving his confederate flag?
Heh—double whammy for Jefferson Beauregard—Strange has already been sworn in, right?
Supreme court next opening.
THIS THREAD
1. It’s important to keep track of how Sessions story has changed JUST IN THE LAST 12 HOURS https://t.co/7RZ1FKoe0y
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
McCaskill tweeted this a.m. she’s never met w/Russian ambassador.
She tweeted in 2013 she was meeting w/Russian ambassador.
h/t @CaseySez pic.twitter.com/nn9VPCJpr9— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
Good morning, America!
And the hits just keep on coming. https://t.co/CMOU5Jvv0X— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 2, 2017
You’d think that if all anyone on Capitol Hill is talking about is Russia and ties to Russians in the administration, you’d damn well check your social media and your daily logs to see if you met with any Russians, including Russian ambassadors before you issue blanket statements you never met any Russians.
Sessions was testifying under oath, and he volunteered he didn’t meet with any Russians. He lied. Period.
Misremembered? That’s a thing with all these Trump officials.
re: #20 Anymouse
“What’s a Subway?” (No fast food joints within sixty miles)
Okay, being silly. On the rare occasion I find myself in Subway, I always get a Veggie Delight. Extra black olives.
Get the soy — only contains a little chicken.
Russia is the entire story with Trump. It was during the campaign, and it’s even more so now that he’s pushing the levers of government.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2017
re: #102 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah it’s Chris Cilice but look at this picture of Jeff
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He looks like he just got a black teenager sentenced to death.
I don’t really get why everyone is piling on Sessions….
It was only a little bit of light treasoning over the blankets.
Have the Huckabee Klan not learnt to just not comment on pretty much anything?
re: #122 HappyWarrior
If we can impeach a president for lying under oath about a sexual tryst, we can an AG for lying about this.
Sorry, no. Wrong party.
.@Stonekettle Kremlin also denied any meetings with Flynn. https://t.co/ARMFOLwpsk so, yeah we can trust them on this as well.
— Bubblehead II (@BubbleheadII) March 2, 2017
So, DC is in turmoil because of the idiotic Republican promise to dismantle the ACA. Like Brexit, it ain’t so easy to undo something that been working pretty well.
Heading to D.C. today. Meetings with policy makers, docs, patient advocates, several health insurance CEOs.
Can’t escape.— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) February 27, 2017
This thread ⬇️ https://t.co/285DJyi1gN
— Micah Dillard (@MicahCRDillard) March 2, 2017
Sessions: I never met with Russia
Also Sessions: OK, I did but not about the campaign.
Kremlin: We never met with Sessions!
Sessions: Guys!?!
Obviously Sessions was getting borscht recipes.//
“I did not have international relations with that country.” pic.twitter.com/8LokclAYsK
— delrayser (@delrayser) March 2, 2017
re: #158 Franklin
Sessions: I never met with Russia
Also Sessions: OK, I did but not about the campaign.
Kremlin: We never met with Sessions!
Sessions: Guys!?!
Apparently his latest statement is:
“There is no truth that I let the Russian Ambassador make me perform angry fellatio on him, while he shouted Lift Sanctions during the money shot.”
re: #137 HappyWarrior
Good eye. General Sessions. Yeah that’s not his title.
Yes it is. Sorry, but the Attorney General’s title is, in fact, General.
re: #162 sagehen
Yes it is. Sorry, but the Attorney General’s title is, in fact, General.
Oh my bad, I’m sorry, I never heard Holder or Lynch referred to as General Holder and Lynch. My mistake.
re: #162 sagehen
Yes it is. Sorry, but the Attorney General’s title is, in fact, General.
It still rankles me. A prison nickname would be more fitting.
Ted Cruz also suggested Sessions may have misspoke because he had been subjected to hours of grilling. pic.twitter.com/ipJNuHMWqV
— Max Weiss (@maxthegirl) March 2, 2017
re: #162 sagehen
Yes it is. Sorry, but the Attorney General’s title is, in fact, General.
That seems odd, you are probably right, but it’s odd. Would the Surgeon General also be called General Vivek Murthy?
re: #166 Franklin
That seems odd, you are probably right, but it’s odd. Would the Surgeon General also be called General Vivek Murthy?
Sadly, yes.
re: #166 Franklin
That seems odd, you are probably right, but it’s odd. Would the Surgeon General also be called General Vivek Murthy?
Different case, the Surgeon General is head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
We all know where this is going…
Morning!
Is that Southern Gentleman Politician butt I smell burning?
I see VB posted a Tweet from Chris Cillizza saying the Republicans better hold some investigations if they know what’s good for them.
When Chris “But Her Emails” Cillizza calls for an investigation you better heed his advice. No one, I mean no one, knows more about investigations.
He still is investigating Hillary. He’s that good.
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
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Cruz again showing how he lacks any integrity at all.
Seems strange that @POTUS @realDonaldTrump is not tweet storming FAKE NEWS abt AG Sessions Russian ties. Who hid his phone this time?
— Bubblehead II (@BubbleheadII) March 2, 2017
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
There had better be 100+ pictures of Hillary sitting through her Benghazi hearing in the timeline.
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
Max Weiss ✔ @maxthegirl
Ted Cruz also suggested Sessions may have misspoke because he had been subjected to hours of grilling.
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I just love the fact that these greasy GOPers like Ted “All Slime” Cruz think everyone is an ignorant Fox News viewer and buys all the BS they put out.
Sad thing though…too many people do.
I just hope enough people with brains and memories are remembering all these lies and dodges.
re: #176 ObserverArt
I just hope enough people with brains and memories are remembering all these lies and dodges.
DT would not be President if we had enough of such people…
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so between the conservative family values boycott and foreign tourists too scared to want to deal with US Customs and Immigration, attendance at Disney World is really gonna be down this year…
That’s ok, come to Euro Disney. It doesn’t rain much, promise.
Oh, this is great!!
Hahaha!!! @twitter MacOS app knows whats what. pic.twitter.com/onybo5dXNh
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 2, 2017
re: #176 ObserverArt
I just love the fact that these greasy GOPers like Ted “All Slime” Cruz think everyone is an ignorant Fox News viewer and buys all the BS they put out.
Sad thing though…too many people do.
I just hope enough people with brains and memories are remembering all these lies and dodges.
That’s what Cruz does and it’s what makes him dangerous. He’s not a stupid man. Instead he plays to the ignorance of stupid people. Not just this whopper but his past claims about net neutrality. I’m hoping Beto O’Rourke beats him good in 2018.
re: #174 Bubblehead II
He’s busy trying to deflect attention by going to the USS Gerald Ford to demand more defense spending aboard the ship whose motto is “Integrity at the Helm.”
My irony meter is pegged in the redline.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DT would not be President if we had enough of such people…
Always mining for those that have some facilities and are on the fence. Those would be the people that bought the “he spoke to me” and “he talked about jobs” that hopefully realize that yes he did, and he was lying the whole damn time.
Gotta look for ways to sway that 7 to 10% that seem to have no idea what they are doing but might have the facilities to at least listen to when they are getting bamboozled.
re: #97 Franklin
I guess most people know what perjury means, don’t have to look it up. Recuse, however…
re: #184 John Hughes
I guess most people know what perjury means, don’t have to look it up. Recuse, however…
Well RECUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!!!
re: #182 lawhawk
He’s busy trying to deflect attention by going to the USS Gerald Ford to demand more defense spending aboard the ship whose motto is “Integrity at the Helm.”
My irony meter is pegged in the redline.
I thought he was using the economy for that this morning.
And the winner of the 2017 #ProfileInCourage Award is… https://t.co/X8xXhlq9Y1 pic.twitter.com/0PJUmlAO7H
— JFK Library (@JFKLibrary) March 2, 2017
Humbled to be recognized by a family with a legacy of service. Who’s your #ProfileInCourage? Tell me about them: https://t.co/euYRxWcost https://t.co/HBgFiRcq9J
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 2, 2017
re: #187 Bubblehead II
My daughter is going to be so happy. She loves her some JFK and BHO.
Poking my head in because I saw the news that Sessions “offered” to recuse himself and figured I’d note that the GOP has no fallback position here. He was approved to the AG post on a purely partisan basis, not a single Democrat voted to approve his nomination. They own this scandal from bottom to top. The more they try to avoid a deeper investigation, the more damage it’s going to do them next year.
re: #187 Bubblehead II
Outrageous outrage and outrage what about our President Donald Trump who left all he had to be are president where is the respect?!??!?!
re: #190 Targetpractice
Poking my head in because I saw the news that Sessions “offered” to recuse himself
And that “offer” to “recuse” himself, plus $4 or $5 will get you a Starbucks coffee.
Josh Marshall makes a good observation here.
Why are there so many unforced errors? Why conceal this meeting? Frankly, why lie about it? As I said, big, big scandals work like this. People who don’t even appear to be that close to the action keep getting pulled under for what seem like needless deceptions. The answer is usually that the stuff at the center of the scandal is so big that it requires concealment, even about things distant from the main action, things that it would seem much better and less damaging simply to admit.
We’ve all heard the old saw: It’s never the crime, it’s the cover-up. This is almost never true. Covering scandals for any length of time is enough to tell you that. People are generally able to make judgments about how much trouble they’re in. We think the ‘cover up’ is worse than the crime because it’s actually very seldom that the full scope of the actual crime is ever known. The cover up works better than you think. The other reason the cover up is a logical response is that it usually works. You only find out about it when it doesn’t. So it’s a good bet.
re: #190 Targetpractice
Poking my head in because I saw the news that Sessions “offered” to recuse himself and figured I’d note that the GOP has no fallback position here. He was approved to the AG post on a purely partisan basis, not a single Democrat voted to approve his nomination.
Schumer has called for Sessions to resign too. Good to see Dem leadership united in this
Let’s not be naive folks. Kislyak obviously was meeting Sessions because of his role in Trump world. That’s his job.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 2, 2017
It would have been naive of Sessions to think otherwise as well. https://t.co/peRXvBKL1P
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) March 2, 2017
Greg Miller is the WaPo reporter who broke the story btw.
re: #194 Interesting Times
Ah, thanks for that correction. Joe can hang with the rest of them. He dared his constituents to vote him out. I think he’s going to regret that in a year.
re: #90 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #194 Interesting Times
Sen. Manchin just now: if Sessions lied about contacts with Russian ambassador he should resign
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 2, 2017
Not sure if this got posted yesterday, saw it on my ride home last night:
Kal-E-Anne pic.twitter.com/9Q1bLmi0lA
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 1, 2017
re: #199 Targetpractice
Ah, thanks for that correction. Joe can hang with the rest of them. He dared his constituents to vote him out. I think he’s going to regret that in a year.
At this rate, he might as well be a GOPer. What Dem positions or values does he even support or vote for?
re: #201 Stanley Sea
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re: #203 Interesting Times
At this rate, he might as well be a GOPer. What Dem positions or values does he even support or vote for?
None. He keeps getting reelected on the “You won’t find somebody else who can win!” argument.
re: #190 Targetpractice
Poking my head in because I saw the news that Sessions “offered” to recuse himself and figured I’d note that the GOP has no fallback position here. He was approved to the AG post on a purely partisan basis, not a single Democrat voted to approve his nomination. They own this scandal from bottom to top. The more they try to avoid a deeper investigation, the more damage it’s going to do them next year.
Pence specifically put him over the top. That’s the cherry on top.Whoops. Thanks HappyWarrior for pointing out the difference between incompetent and ignorance. DeVos needed Pence’s vote. Sessions did not.
re: #205 Targetpractice
None. He keeps getting reelected on the “You won’t find somebody else who can win!” argument.
That’s what Webb would have become if he hadn’t gotten bored with his seat.
re: #206 lawhawk
Pence specifically put him over the top. That’s the cherry on top.
No, Sessions was 52-47. The one where Pence broke the tie was Devos.
re: #204 Targetpractice
“If” is going to be the operative word, the word that Republicans hinge his defense on. The insistence that he didn’t “lie,” it was just an “honest mistake.”
“No nefarious intent!”
(worked for Kellyanne)
re: #208 HappyWarrior
Oh, that’s right. I got the unqualified and unprepared confused. My mistake.
re: #210 lawhawk
Oh, that’s right. I got the unqualified and unprepared confused. My mistake.
Wouldn’t those adjectives work for his entire cabinet?
Muslim veterans offer to guard Jewish sites across US https://t.co/a653ogRlBe pic.twitter.com/smVFYaAMZE
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) March 2, 2017
re: #210 lawhawk
Oh, that’s right. I got the unqualified and unprepared confused. My mistake.
It’s cool.
re: #212 The Vicious Babushka
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Now this is what makes me proud to be an American. Props to these vets.
I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 2, 2017
omfg let senator paul take a peek at the plan cmon now https://t.co/cUuG9vHbip
— darth™ (@darth) March 2, 2017
As I say, I think Sessions should recuse himself. And explain himself. But the insistence upon some sinister plot here isn’t convincing me.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) March 2, 2017
Yes, Sessions should recuse himself. He misled the Senate. But it’s time to stop equating speaking/meeting with Russians with treason. https://t.co/4ZzRtelUK5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 2, 2017
Of course it’s premature. They haven’t announced there will be no investigation yet.
Cornyn: “Premature” for Sessions to recuse himself from Russia probe https://t.co/M8amZQtmYW pic.twitter.com/57FXVYChOc
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 2, 2017
re: #216 Stanley Sea
I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view.
…in Al Capone’s vault.
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Be sure to tune in for my press conference today live from the Capitol, where I will address #Sessions. Starts around 10:45.
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) March 2, 2017
And we’re live! Tune in here: https://t.co/XS4ylAOoTt https://t.co/CMAR6OoQZh
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) March 2, 2017
re: #217 A wild WITHAK appeared!
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The difference is McCaskill didn’t claim that under oath and she wasn’t involved with a campaign with tons of Russian connections. Greenwald can shut the fuck up with his concern trolling bs.
I will grant that what McCaskill did was stupid but there is a difference between the two.
re: #221 HappyWarrior
The difference is McCaskill didn’t claim that under oath and she wasn’t involved with a campaign with tons of Russian connections. Greenwald can shut the fuck up with his concern trolling bs.
She needs to clarify that tweet (if she hasn’t already). Her intentions were stated and pure (pushing back against Russia ending foreign adoptions by US). And, as you said, were not under oath.
re: #218 Franklin
Of course it’s premature. They haven’t announced there will be no investigation yet.
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re: #223 Franklin
She needs to clarify that tweet (if she hasn’t already). Her intentions were stated and pure (pushing back against Russia ending foreign adoptions by US). And, as you said, were not under oath.
Right, there’s a difference between the two. I think she should definitely clarify too but the false equivalency reeks here.
re: #217 A wild WITHAK appeared!
But the insistence upon some sinister plot here isn’t convincing me.
— Charles C. W. Cooke
Naturally. Only the Clinton Foundation and Clinton emails are a sinister plot.
You can be fired for lying in a job interview at a fast food restaurant but Greenwald thinks its OK in an interview for attorney general?
— Boney Hurdle (@eclecticbrotha) March 2, 2017
re: #228 lawhawk
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re: #229 HappyWarrior
Precisely. It’s really pathetic for Greenwald who claims to be a watchdog is actually nothing but an apologist for
anyone involved with TrumpPutin.
Tuned that up a little.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
Right, there’s a difference between the two. I think she should definitely clarify too but the false equivalency reeks here.
She did:
Again, As senior member of Armed Serv, never received call or request from Russian Amb for meeting. Never met one on one w/him.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017
4 years ago went to meeting of many Senators about international adoptions. Russian Amb also attended.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017
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A. Big difference remembering something from 4 years ago and 4 months ago
B. She was not under oath or testifying to be AG
C. Could that picture of Charles C.W. Cooke with a pipe hanging out of his mouth look any more ridiculous or pompous?
re: #203 Interesting Times
At this rate, he might as well be a GOPer. What Dem positions or values does he even support or vote for?
When they’re voting for majority leader, he votes with the D’s.
That’s his one and only usefulness to the D’s.
re: #228 lawhawk
@eclecticbrotha GG’s moral compass was crushed years ago. This is a man that supports and defends stealing top secret information.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 2, 2017
re: #235 sagehen
When they’re voting for majority leader, he votes with the D’s.
That’s his one and only usefulness to the D’s.
Which is what his Republican candidate will use as a reason to get him out.
re: #236 Dr. Matt
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re: #238 HappyWarrior
I actually have a report that GG did some years ago about decriminalization of drugs in Portugal. It’s honestly pathetic. I think he could be a good journalist if he didn’t have such a stick up his ass.
He’s the convergence of the far right and far left. It’s a certainty he enjoys the smell of his own farts.
Here’s Claire McCaskill’s response after tweeting that she’s never met with the Russian ambassador — when 4 years ago she tweeted she did. pic.twitter.com/8MJINEkR8W
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
Thankx to @tomhanks for the new coffee machine for the schlubs in the WH press room. pic.twitter.com/DHVhowzd3L
— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) March 2, 2017
The Senate has confirmed former Texas Governor Rick Perry as secretary of energy by a 62-37 vote
— NPR (@NPR) March 2, 2017
Senate votes 58-41 to confirm nomination of Dr Ben Carson as HUD Secretary.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 2, 2017
Both these nitwits admitted they know absolutely nothing about the agencies they’re supposed to lead.
That any Democrat would sign on to either is nuts. But some did.
re: #241 FormerDirtDart
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She clarified. That won’t stop people from engaging in false equiv bs but she did clarify.
re: #244 lawhawk
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Both these nitwits admitted they know absolutely nothing about the agencies they’re supposed to lead.
That any Democrat would sign on to either is nuts. But some did.
Yep Perry seriously thought he was going to be the oil industry’s guy in the government.
re: #244 lawhawk
Both these nitwits admitted they know absolutely nothing about the agencies they’re supposed to lead.
That any Democrat would sign on to either is nuts. But some did.
Hadn’t realized Carson wasn’t confirmed yet. Thought this happened a while back.
re: #244 lawhawk
Right! Democrats should not cosign incompetence!
Amazing how perjury goes from an impeachable offense to “no big deal” when a Republican is implicated…
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/PGbLWyonGb
— Ian Williams (@Brock_toon) March 2, 2017
re: #245 HappyWarrior
She clarified. That won’t stop people from engaging in false equiv bs but she did clarify.
Yeah, four years, with a group of people is different than “four months” and a “personal” meeting.
re: #251 FormerDirtDart
Yeah, four years, with a group of people is different than “four months” and a “personal” meeting.
Exactly.
Republican Sen. Rob Portman says Jeff Sessions should recuse himself pic.twitter.com/L6cCi6LwGk
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
This is the most straightforward, least hedged recusal call I’ve seen from a GOP Senator so far https://t.co/mwQJXntbwK
— KatherineHawkins (@Krhawkins5) March 2, 2017
re: #252 HappyWarrior
Not a huge fan of hers so I’m a little peeved she left herself open to this. But it’s not remotely the same of course.
“A proposal so terrific, they’re literally hiding it in the basement.”https://t.co/evKxU6HiMe pic.twitter.com/QzpFLzvx8q
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) March 2, 2017
re: #255 FormerDirtDart
Behind a sign that says “Beware of Leopard”
re: #251 FormerDirtDart
Yeah, four years, with a group of people is different than “four months” and a “personal” meeting.
And Sen. McCaskill wasn’t this:
Senator Sessions will serve as the
Chairman of my National Security
Advisory Committee. https://t.co/jQed1P6SD9 pic.twitter.com/n83Cbs4jtA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2016
WH official: Objections to undocumented immigrant crime office are ‘un-American’ - from @KFILE https://t.co/QfDwVS5hMF
— Cassie Spodak (@CassieSpodak) March 2, 2017
Must be a lot of heartburn going on right now in the GOP leadership ranks. Sessions was their primary bulwark, their protection against having to deal with the Russia/Trump mess. The hope that if anything came of the FBI’s investigation, they could stomp it flat by having him just say he won’t pursue charges. But now, he’s caught up in the whole mess. Which means they have no way of making the scandal go away without furthering the idea in voters minds that there is a massive coverup.
re: #240 Sir John Barron
Sure. Stop talking bad about Russia!
/
that is basically what it will come down to: who cares, lying under oath about Russia is not perjury like getting a blowjob is not cheating on your wife…
re: #258 Stanley Sea
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re: #258 Stanley Sea
Does Brietbart still have a link on the website to “Black Crime”?
This isn’t any different.
re: #258 Stanley Sea
WH official: Objections to undocumented immigrant crime office are ‘un-American’ - from @KFILE https://t.co/QfDwVS5hMF
— Cassie Spodak (@CassieSpodak) March 2, 2017
Christ on a cracker, you can almost word-jumble that and come up with “House Un-American Activities Committee” https://t.co/Yo0pF2xyD0
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 2, 2017
SEND THEM INTO THE WOODS
Melania Trump calls for the ‘gift of nature,’ not health insurance, to heal sick children https://t.co/wvq4Y8AyAU pic.twitter.com/B0iLlTFSRS
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
re: #258 Stanley Sea
We have undocumented immigrant crime offices. They’re called police stations and the FBI.
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
Nah…the woods has bowers that act as shelter and berries.
Nice rocky outcropping atop a hill. Did wonders for the Spartans.
One of the funnier aspects of this whole scandal for the GOP is they could have simply avoided it by not politicizing Hillary’s emails. But politicize it they did, because it was their only real hope of winning last year. And one of the biggest points in the whole sorry affair was their demands that Lynch recuse herself, if not resign her office, over a conversation she had with Bill. She didn’t lie that she met with him, most certainly didn’t do so under oath, and the spun her refusal to pursue criminal charges even after Comey said none were warranted as covering for Hillary. Not that that will stop them from twisting themselves into pretzels to argue that Sessions’ actions are “different,” but it will only make their hypocrisy more evident.
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
SEND THEM INTO THE WOODS
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re: #267 Targetpractice
I think their bet is that hypocrisy doesn’t matter. They have enough press and “base” to maintain a semblance of addressing the public. They have enough executive and legislative (and coming soon, judicial) domination to tie things up.
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
Melania Trump calls for the ‘gift of nature,’ … to heal sick children
While hubby dismantles the EPA and sells public lands off to the highest bidder…
pwned
statement from Amb. Kislyak: “I’m not attending these meetings for my health. If you have a poor memory, please take notes.”
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 2, 2017
re: #267 Targetpractice
Sessions called for a special counsel after Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton in 2016 https://t.co/qjtwUZmLP6 w/ @samsteinhp
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) March 2, 2017
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
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She was there to plant some seeds in a “healing garden” with sick kids. I’m not going to dump on her for that. She apparently hates being a public figure and isn’t terribly good at it, and that will be its own punishment for her.
re: #267 Targetpractice
…Not that that will stop them from twisting themselves into pretzels to argue that Sessions’ actions are “different,” but it will only make their hypocrisy more evident.
Thank God for IOKIYAR!!!
From Trump shill Chris Cilice:
Analysis: “Jeff Sessions is in deep trouble. Bigly.” https://t.co/fQzGqVlP4E
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 2, 2017
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
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Eh, Melania is sort of getting a raw deal here, she’s no Hillary and has no real say in anything her hubby does. Going after her for Don’s inhumanity in this instance is low-hanging fruit.
re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Selenium-free water is for closers.
re: #272 b.d.
Well, considering the way Putin opponents and rivals seem to disappear due to ill health, yeah, you are meeting these guys for your health. Furthering your regime’s goals and objectives.
We know Sessions lied about not having any contacts. The question becomes what the conversation was about, and the issues raised by both sides and the responses to same.
The question is what you were talking about.
Sure, this could have been regular business of the US Senate, but Sessions was known to all as a surrogate and member of Trump’s team. So the content of the conversation becomes central to just how badly compromised Sessions is.
re: #277 Targetpractice
Eh, Melania is sort of getting a raw deal here, she’s no Hillary and has no real say in anything her hubby does. Going after her for Don’s inhumanity in this instance is low-hanging fruit.
I agree. I read the article and it doesn’t jive with the tweets. Her husband wants to repeal ACA, she wants to make kids happy. I don’t fault her for that.
Trump was interviewed by Russian goverment TV the day Sessions met Kislyek: https://t.co/sHQiGwX2oQ
— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) March 2, 2017
The day Sessions was meeting Russian ambassador, Trump was doing an interview with Larry King…on RT. https://t.co/W7yn1JKuJg
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) March 2, 2017
@neeratanden indeed he did. Here’s a video of Sessions reveling in a “lock her up” chant: https://t.co/27Ov6eN7D6
— Reta (@RetaK47) March 2, 2017
re: #279 lawhawk
Well, considering the way Putin opponents and rivals seem to disappear due to ill health, yeah, you are meeting these guys for your health. Furthering your regime’s goals and objectives.
We know Sessions lied about not having any contacts. The question becomes what the conversation was about, and the issues raised by both sides and the responses to same.
The question is what you were talking about.
Sure, this could have been regular business of the US Senate, but Sessions was known to all as a surrogate and member of Trump’s team. So the content of the conversation becomes central to just how badly compromised Sessions is.
Sessions called for a special prosecutor when Bill talked on Loretta’s plane, I’d say this is a tad more curious?
Drip, drip, drip…
I’ve seen this word several times yesterday and today with regard to GOP; not entirely new, but don’t remember it such a workout in the past:
verb
1.
make petty or unnecessary objections.
“they caviled at the cost”
noun
noun: cavil; plural noun: cavils
1.
a objection seen as petty or unnecessary.
Origin
mid 16th century: from French caviller, from Latin cavillari, from cavilla ‘mockery.’
Translate cavil to
Use over time for: cavil
re: #279 lawhawk
Well, considering the way Putin opponents and rivals seem to disappear due to ill health, yeah, you are meeting these guys for your health. Furthering your regime’s goals and objectives.
We know Sessions lied about not having any contacts. The question becomes what the conversation was about, and the issues raised by both sides and the responses to same.
The question is what you were talking about.
Sure, this could have been regular business of the US Senate, but Sessions was known to all as a surrogate and member of Trump’s team. So the content of the conversation becomes central to just how badly compromised Sessions is.
And one meeting was at the Republican convention. Aside from the obvious question of what was the ambassador doing there in the first place, the next obvious question wold be ‘What the hell else would they be talking about?’
I take it this means he wasn’t even in the slightest bit gay.
JUST IN: Sean Spicer says Jeff Sessions was “100 percent straight with the committee” https://t.co/3d0qzgq3NO pic.twitter.com/fgpDZ8CPfD
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 2, 2017
re: #280 Franklin
I agree. I read the article and it doesn’t jive with the tweets. Her husband wants to repeal ACA, she wants to make kids happy. I don’t fault her for that.
I think she is sincere about the online bullying thing too but I do wish she’d realize that it was her husband that sent out nasty lying tweets about Alicia Machado in the wee hours of the morning.
re: #286 makeitstop
And one meeting was at the Republican convention. Aside from the obvious question of what was the ambassador doing there in the first place, the next obvious question wold be ‘What the hell else would they be talking about?’
Obviously the ambassador was there to see the Indians play and go to the Rock Hall of FAme!
I’m calling for a special prosecutor & a 9/11 style commission to get to the bottom of Russia’s ties to the Trump admin & election hacking.
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 2, 2017
this is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/yPHWqnwexm
— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) March 2, 2017
re: #287 The Vicious Babushka
I take it this means he wasn’t even in the slightest bit gay.
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By the way, Wilbur Ross was just confirmed at Commerce 72-27, and he has more Russian connections than Aeroflot.
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1. Trump has weighed on on Sessions, via Spicer https://t.co/opxhvUh1kw https://t.co/UxBW6mgnYm
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
3. Spicer also said that Trump wants Sessions to continue to oversee the investigation https://t.co/fTaNVPpweZ
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
5. White House and Trump in full gas-lighting mode. Buckle up. https://t.co/fTaNVPpweZ
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
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So who did she steal that from, Sarah Palin?
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
In short, Trump won’t trust anyone else to not get to the bottom of things like Beauregard won’t.
re: #298 A wild WITHAK appeared!
What’s that, Trump? You want more leaks?
Slow learner.
The intel community is sitting there thinking ‘Can this guy really be this stupid?’
re: #298 A wild WITHAK appeared!
What’s that, Trump? You want more leaks?
The dirt on Trump is so bad he can’t afford not to stonewall.
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
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Well, that does it, Sessions’ days in office are numbered.
Hatch says he’s not concerned about Sessions. “My concern is, why are our Democratic senators so doggone rude to a former senator?”
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) March 2, 2017
Hatch says he’s not concerned about Sessions. “My concern is, why are our Democratic senators so doggone rude to a former senator?”
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) March 2, 2017
Lying under oath to current Senators seems “doggone rude” https://t.co/wlEicLsrVA
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2017
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah it’s so rude to expect him to be truthful under oath, Orrin. And if you want to play that game, Hillary was a former Senator too, that didn’t stop you guys from accusing her of being complicit in the deaths of the four guys at Benghazi.
This is the real swamp where Hatch thinks Sessions being a U.S. senator means he can lie under oath.
re: #304 FormerDirtDart
Hatch says he’s not concerned about Sessions. “My concern is, why are our Democratic senators so doggone rude to a former senator?”
You mean like calling them “crooked” and “nasty” and shouting “Lock her up”?
I’m being overwhelmed by the stench of privilege right now.
STFU Hatch!
So let’s pretend Hillary is president and all of this is coming out about her. How many congressional investigations and special prosecutors would be at work right now?
I’m thinking over 100.
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
Break out the fainting couches.
re: #309 Skip Intro
So let’s pretend Hillary is president and all of this is coming out about her. How many congressional investigations and special prosecutors would be at work right now?
I’m thinking over 100.
The special committee on renaming post offices would be doing an investigation.
Many of these meatheads going “So what’s the big deal?” are the same ones who wanted the DOJ to bring criminal charges against Hillary for…wait for it…perjury. They insisted she’d lied to Congress under oath because (they accused) she’d said one thing to them and another to the media. They made a big song and dance about it when they drug Comey in for questioning, had Chaffetz there presiding over the witch hunt while Trey “I got my ass spanked for 11 hours” Gowdy waved his credentials around while running a mock trial and declaring her guilt on live TV.
So yeah, the GOP dug themselves this mass grave.
SEE…TERROR…TERROR…
Why aren’t the libtards paying attention to this, instead of simply innocent, possible multiple past, present and future Trump campaign/administration contacts with possible Russian intelligence operatives…
which, if it did happen, AND IT DIDN’T, was purely friendly chatting, and in no way collusion to disrupt our national elections….
SEE…TERROR…TERROR…
#Brussels #Belgium - Bomb squad now on scene @ Porte de Hal. pic.twitter.com/KyBYx7H9MS
— Terror Events (@TerrorEvents) March 2, 2017
Bruxelles: une voiture contenant des bonbonnes de gaz interceptée, le quartier Porte de Hal bouclé https://t.co/VWEZXzMtD7
— RTBF info (@RTBFinfo) March 2, 2017
Brussels police intercept previously accused militant carrying gas canisters for suspected bomb plot. https://t.co/wD5QEH6lJx
— Mitchell Prothero (@mitchprothero) March 2, 2017
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
3. Spicer also said that Trump wants Sessions to continue to oversee the investigation
What investigation? That there’s an actual Russia Investigation?
re: #312 Targetpractice
Many of these meatheads going “So what’s the big deal?” are the same ones who wanted the DOJ to bring criminal charges against Hillary for…wait for it…perjury. They insisted she’d lied to Congress under oath because (they accused) she’d said one thing to them and another to the media. They made a big song and dance about it when they drug Comey in for questioning, had Chaffetz there presiding over the witch hunt while Trey “I got my ass spanked for 11 hours” Gowdy waved his credentials around while running a mock trial and declaring her guilt on live TV.
So yeah, the GOP dug themselves this mass grave.
Yep and I think it’s going to be their downfall honestly.
re: #64 wheat-dogg
Really good children’s literature and cinema always have deeper themes embedded in simple plots. An adult reading or watching a kid’s book or flick can enjoy the experience as much as the child, but for different reasons.
This is why “Time Bandits” is one of my all-time favorite films. Generally, kids see one thing, adults see something else. There is a lot of different stuff crammed into that movie.
Rude.
You keep using that word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
The word you should be looking for is perjury. Because that’s what Sessions did.
re: #312 Targetpractice
Many of these meatheads going “So what’s the big deal?” are the same ones who wanted the DOJ to bring criminal charges against Hillary for…wait for it…perjury. They insisted she’d lied to Congress under oath because (they accused) she’d said one thing to them and another to the media. They made a big song and dance about it when they drug Comey in for questioning, had Chaffetz there presiding over the witch hunt while Trey “I got my ass spanked for 11 hours” Gowdy waved his credentials around while running a mock trial and declaring her guilt on live TV.
So yeah, the GOP dug themselves this mass grave.
That was different. Because.
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re: #314 Sir John Barron
What investigation? That there’s an actual Russia Investigation?
The investigation to find out who leaked the info about Flynn.
The word here in France (insiders’ gossip) is Trump helped launder money for the Russian mafia/friends of Putin.
Did Hatch say Turmp was being rude to a former Senator when his party’s nominee called Clinton a nasty woman? Asking for a friend.
Connecticut Republicans are trying to kneecap the Republican Chief Justice for being a “liberal judicial activist”
The framers of our Constitution and the founders of our country recognized the need for this independence, and for the ability to have judicial review free of repercussions. Yet the attack on judicial independence has gained steam nationwide under the guise of the rejection of “judicial activism,” which is merely an indelicate euphemism for, “a position I disagree with.”
While Connecticut had remained, for the most part, insulated from this national disservice to our judiciary, it is no longer so. The reconfirmation of Justice Richard Palmer, a 24-year member of our Supreme Court, has been tainted by allegations of judicial activism. These criticisms of Justice Palmer seem to arise from his opinion for a majority of the court abolishing the death penalty in Connecticut, in State v. Santiago, and from a now-infamous footnote in the divisive Richard LaPointe appeal. Palmer, who up until Santiago in 2015 voted repeatedly to retain the death penalty in Connecticut, faced pointed criticism about his opinion in Santiago. One legislator stated that the Legislature “makes policy,” and the Supreme Court “just looks at the law and determines what the law is, not what it should be.” Another cautioned all the members of the court, claiming that they had “wandered into areas that don’t belong to the judiciary.” Palmer was accused of usurping the Legislature’s authority by substituting his judgment for theirs. Other legislators chided the justice about his footnote in LaPointe, which addressed a harsh dissent by Justice Espinosa.
Palmer’s reconfirmation had been held up for a brief time, although now it has progressed to the Legislature at large. This criticism and questioning of Palmer’s qualifications to be a jurist based on his honest, good-faith rulings, on a matter of constitutional interpretation, should be shocking and abhorrent to all lawyers.
re: #320 Lupin
The word here in France (insiders’ gossip) is Trump helped launder money for the Russian mafia/friends of Putin.
That wouldn’t shock me. He has American mob connections too.
re: #314 Sir John Barron
What investigation? That there’s an actual Russia Investigation?
There’s an investigation of the people who want an investigation.
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
Hatch says he’s not concerned about Sessions. “My concern is, why are our Democratic senators so doggone rude to a former senator?”
Because GOP Senators were never rude to Obama, Biden, or Clinton…
re: #325 Timothy Watson
Because GOP Senators were never rude to Obama, Biden, or Clinton…
YOU LIE! (Yes, I know he was a Rep) but I couldn’t resist.
Breaking News: the ENTIRE Trump administration (read swamp) is #CrimingWhileWhite.
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) March 2, 2017
In pursuit of money launderers, can regulators unmask the real buyers of Miami and New York’s luxury homes? https://t.co/SggT0GEChy pic.twitter.com/HS0Uy3CgrO
— Thomson Reuters (@thomsonreuters) March 2, 2017
Guess who’d be caught up in all that? Donald Fuckin’ Trump. Why? Because he bought/sold luxury homes (condos) in his various residential projects in the City. His name is going to come up as a seller/developer.
His name has already come up in regards to shady deals at the Trump SoHo involving Felix Satter and others.
re: #268 HappyWarrior
Easy to talk like that when you’re loaded.
I don’t talk like that no matter how loaded I get…oh, you meant financially…no, I still don’t think I’d talk like that.
WSJ: Donald Trump Jr. was likely paid at least $50,000 for October event held by hosts allied with Russia on Syria https://t.co/UfO2ZepNE7
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
re: #332 Stanley Sea
Wonder where was Iran in the equation?
If Sessions placement at DOJ is a vital component for holding this criminal admin together and keeping a cover-up going, there’s no way in hell he’ll resign.
If he does not resign, there is no way in hell the whole GOP isn’t somehow complicit and\or compromised and the volitility of our democracy goes to 11. With that, the racism necessary to make this possible becomes harder to ignore as an ignorant amount of privilege is rubbed in our faces while traitors escape consequences and all us ‘others’ start to live under even greater fear.
re: #333 electrotek
Wonder where was Iran in the equation?
Speaking of Iran, has DT ripped up the nuclear treaty yet? That’s what he vowed to do.
It’s traditional for the Speaker to hide the health care bill at the start of the seder so the children can search for it later.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 2, 2017
re: #335 Sir John Barron
Speaking of Iran, has DT ripped up the nuclear treaty yet? That’s what he vowed to do.
I believe he ran into the problem that there are other countries involved.
re: #335 Sir John Barron
Speaking of Iran, has DT ripped up the nuclear treaty yet? That’s what he vowed to do.
Really. We have all these nuclear weapons sitting around, not being used. What’s the point of having them?
re: #320 Lupin
The word here in France (insiders’ gossip) is Trump helped launder money for the Russian mafia/friends of Putin.
And most likely, he was “pressured” into doing so (or, more likely volunteered to) due to YUUUGE debts owed to Russian lenders. Which, of course, might be revealed by the release of any of his credible financial records, but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for those….
Getting to the bottom of Trump’s dealings with the Russians is likely to be a very long and hard slog. Dolt 45 may have innumerable other failings, but one of the few areas in which he has exhibited truly creative genius is in the crafting of opaque and deflective financial transactions to hide/protect/insure his personal involvement(s). Whatever he has going on with Russia is going to be well-buried….
re: #337 Belafon
I believe he ran into the problem that there are other countries involved.
“This whole Iran thing, who knew it’d be complicated. Very complicated. Obama left me a mess.”
re: #322 gocart mozart
Here is the footnote:
Rather than support her opinion with legal analysis and authority, however, [Justice Espinosa] chooses, for reasons we cannot fathom, to dress her argument in language so derisive that it is unbefitting an opinion of this state’s highest court. Perhaps worse, her interest lies only in launching groundless ad hominem attacks and claiming to be able to divine the (allegedly improper) personal motivations of the majority. We will not respond in kind to Justice Espinosa’s offensive accusations; we are content, instead, to rely on the merits of our analysis of the issues presented by this appeal. Unfortunately, in taking a different path, Justice Espinosa dishonors this court.
— An excerpt taken from footnote 69 of the majority opinion in Lapointe v. Commissioner, written by Justice Richard N. Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court. In that footnote, Justice Palmer attacks Justice Carmen E. Espinosa for her dissenting opinion, where she purportedly misinterprets the meaning of habeas corpus.
Sometimes 140 characters gets it done very well!
Guys, Russian interference and America’s history of bigotry are not competing issues. The former exploited the latter to devastating effect.
— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) March 2, 2017
re: #337 Belafon
I believe he ran into the problem that there are other countries involved.
Including Russia, which was a huge supporter of the deal.
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Rand Paul is upset…
I have been told that the House Obamacare bill is under lock & key, in a secure location, & not available for me or the public to view.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 2, 2017
- This is unacceptable. This is the biggest issue before Congress and the American people right now.
- What is the House leadership trying to hide? My guess is, they are trying to hide their “Obamacare Lite” approach.
- Renaming and keeping parts of Obamacare, new entitlements and extending medicaid expansion are not the #FullRepeal we promised
- House and Senate passed repeal in 2015. They should keep their promises and bring them up again for a vote now
- I demand the House release the text of the bill. Every elected official & every American deserve to know what they’re trying to do
- I will not vote for Obamacare Lite nor will many of my colleagues. We will keep our word. I call on House leaders to do the same
- And I call on them to make this process transparent and to let the sunshine in. Today.
I am heading to the secure location where they are keeping the House obamacare bill. I will demand a copy for the American people.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 2, 2017
re: #345 FormerDirtDart
He’s just pissed off because he thinks some people may still be able to keep their health insurance. Not on Rand’s watch, no fucking way!
re: #335 Sir John Barron
Speaking of Iran, has DT ripped up the nuclear treaty yet? That’s what he vowed to do.
Not yet.
re: #346 Skip Intro
He’s just pissed off because he thinks some people may still be able to keep their health insurance. Not on Rand’s watch, no fucking way!
It also gets him a lot of attention now that he has grown nearly as irrelevant as his dad.
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #12 wheat-dogg
The cold cut combo is good. I’ll get that, or sometimes the tuna salad. When I’m near a Subway, that is. None here where I live.
I would never eat in a Subway. Jersey Mike’s meat looks real to me. Gotta have real looking meat. Not turkstrami, turked beef, turchicken.
re: #350 steve_davis
I would never eat in a Subway. Jersey Mike’s meat looks real to me. Gotta have real looking meat. Not turkstrami, turked beef, turchicken.
Have not been back to one since they cancelled meatball subs.
re: #345 FormerDirtDart
I am heading to the secure location where they are keeping the House obamacare bill. I will demand a copy for the American people.
— Senator Rand Paul
lol
I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!!
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Have not been back to one since they cancelled meatball subs.
They still have meatball subs.
re: #343 electrotek
I believe he ran into the problem that there are other countries involved.
Including Russia, which was a huge supporter of the deal.
And China. Also: we should remember that the “other side” of the Iran nuclear deal (the “P5+1”) were ALL the UN Security Council nations - plus Germany (Iran’s major equipment suppler). Despite the inevitable oversimplifications the Trump gang have tried to promulgate, the JCPOA was NOT an binary us-and-them deal.
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
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re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They do specials on their meatball subs all the time. Time for a reunion for you!
re: #352 Sir John Barron
Eh, this might be a bit dramatic, but he’s actually on point for once. This whole “secret, only for Republicans” thing is fucked up.
Mind you, he then won’t do the larger math about a party that thinks this is a good idea…or consider that maybe the Democrats have a point…et cetera, so it’s a stopped clock thing.
re: #354 Jay C
And China. Also: we should remember that the “other side” of the Iran nuclear deal (the “P5+1”) were ALL the UN Security Council nations - plus Germany (Iran’s major equipment suppler). Despite the inevitable oversimplifications the Trump gang have tried to promulgate, the JCPOA was NOT an binary us-and-them deal.
Ah well that was just to get the rubes all riled up.
re: #350 steve_davis
I would never eat in a Subway. Jersey Mike’s meat looks real to me. Gotta have real looking meat. Not turkstrami, turked beef, turchicken.
Yeah that’s sort of my issue with them, too. Do love the bread though.
re: #354 Jay C
And China. Also: we should remember that the “other side” of the Iran nuclear deal (the “P5+1”) were ALL the UN Security Council nations - plus Germany (Iran’s major equipment suppler). Despite the inevitable oversimplifications the Trump gang have tried to promulgate, the JCPOA was NOT an binary us-and-them deal.
Talking about the Iran deal with people around me is scary.
They don’t know anything, but they’re confident it’s bad on the basis of nothing.
Don’t know about P5+1; don’t know about centrfuges; don’t know the larger doctrinal issue in which it’s about slowing down acquisition because stopping development is impossible; don’t know about the agreement about refinement outside of Iran. Several assumed that Iran already had nukes.
Well, no one ever read the ObamaCare bill, why should we expect anyone would want to read it’s replacement…
Reps Pallone and Schakowsky hoped to find the health care bill in this room but it was locked pic.twitter.com/8rqPQ76CX4
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) March 2, 2017
@anamariecox Clue.
— Andrew M. Seaman (@andrewmseaman) March 2, 2017
The House Speaker, with the axe, in the basement. https://t.co/thDTYbHvIs
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) March 2, 2017
The health care bill is actually just a Breitbart comment thread, which will pass easily on a party-line basis.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) March 2, 2017
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
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Orrin Hatch…the guy right behind Paul Ryan in the order of succession…
My media/entertainment posting for the day…
GOOD
Matt Damon’s “Great Wall” set to lose $75 million https://t.co/mDaInnk4Rz pic.twitter.com/EJd1bxCbSB
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) March 2, 2017
re: #361 FormerDirtDart
The health care bill is actually just a Breitbart comment thread, which will pass easily on a party-line basis.
— Brian Beutler
And then it will be nominated to be the director of the WH Special Office for Eliminating Healthcare Access.
Animated gifs of Oroville Dam spillway
Need a reminder on the immense power of water. Remember what happens when snowflakes get melted.
re: #364 Sir John Barron
And then it will be nominated to be the director of the WH Special Office for Eliminating Healthcare Access.
.@morningmoneyben It’s… IN the computer? pic.twitter.com/nWJ673fUvK
— Chris Joyce (@cjjoyce) March 2, 2017
Imagine the RWNJ shrieking if the Dems had ever physically locked a bill away.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine the RWNJ shrieking if the Dems had ever physically locked a bill away.
No kidding.
re: #256 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Behind a sign that says “Beware of Leopard”
Do I have to go lie down in front of a bulldozer now?
re: #363 FormerDirtDart
My media/entertainment posting for the day…
GOOD
Matt’s character isn’t the one that saves China (I went and looked it up).
re: #363 FormerDirtDart
My media/entertainment posting for the day…
GOOD
OK, I was wrong…
WTF is the matter with you America???
Garfield creator Jim Davis forced to clarify cartoon cat’s gender https://t.co/wjJZ9KlSdC
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 2, 2017
Full disclosure:
My Beagle is named Odysseus. I refer to him as Ody. Both as an homage to Odie, and Homer, the NY Mets first mascot
re: #372 Belafon
Matt’s character isn’t the one that saves China (I went and looked it up).
I have read nothing about this film that would make me want to see it.
This is some tweetstorm from David Frum.
1) Sessions story today is a sinister confirmation of central thesis of my autocracy article: https://t.co/zx5HE02N19
— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 2, 2017
Welp, I see Muslims are still busy exploiting antisemitism with their efforts to make themselves look better by reaching out to Jewish communities in distress.
What a bunch of assholes, huh? //
#Muslim students send flowers to #Jewish organisations and synagogues #interfaith #p2 #tiot https://t.co/sHGeIuxZ7T
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) March 2, 2017
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
Garfield creator Jim Davis forced to clarify cartoon cat’s gender
And what gender was Scooby-do?
If Pelosi’s smart, she’ll have started dusting off the ol’ “Culture of Corruption” canard, because it is more relevant today than it has ever been. There are multiple instances now of members of this administration lying under oath to Congress and the GOP doing nothing about it but making excuses. The only person who got shit-canned over it was because he lied to Pence, not to Congress.
WTH?
Rep. Kevin Brady (R) just came out of H-157 too. He also says no bill inside. The great hunt for a GOP replace bill continues.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) March 2, 2017
This is a fantastic, weird ongoing story. There is a secret bill on Capitol Hill, and various members of congress are trying to find it. https://t.co/OBfccMOp9D
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 2, 2017
re: #253 Stanley Sea
Bradd Jaffy ✔ @BraddJaffy
Republican Sen. Rob Portman says Jeff Sessions should recuse himself
10:53 AM - 2 Mar 2017
Maybe all my emails to Rob are working.
Heh.
re: #378 Targetpractice
If Pelosi’s smart, she’ll have started dusting off the ol’ “Culture of Corruption” canard, because it is more relevant today than it has ever been. There are multiple instances now of members of this administration lying under oath to Congress and the GOP doing nothing about it but making excuses. The only person who got shit-canned over it was because he lied to Pence, not to Congress.
The GOP has the “Culture of Corruption” canard under lock and key. No one else can use it.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
OK, I was wrong…
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I thought that was obvious to anyone who caught Garfield and friends.
re: #380 ObserverArt
Maybe all my emails to Rob are working.
Heh.
Someone will make Portman walk this back.
And all of this crap coming out of the Trump admin: Democrats have no power to start any investigations that might have uncovered stuff like this. This is all stuff that is being done by the media (finally) and leaks. Imagine what’s truly hiding.
Dammit I have work to do today, lots of it. Yet I can’t pull myself away from here…
re: #379 JordanRules
Clearly, they’re supposed to go inside the room and realize that beneath Darth Vader’s helmet is their own face.
re: #382 HappyWarrior
I thought that was obvious to anyone who caught Garfield and friends.
Just because Garfield has a “close personal friend” (can we even use “girlfriend” anymore) named Arlene doesn’t necessarily make him male….
You genderphobe…
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re: #267 Targetpractice
Not that that will stop them from twisting themselves into pretzels to argue that Sessions’ actions are “different,” but it will only make their hypocrisy more evident.
I don’t think it is possible to make the current GOP’s hypocrisy any more evident.
Every day some GOP politician opens his mouth it is another hypocritical moment.
I think we have a preponderance of evidence!
re: #388 FormerDirtDart
Just because Garfield has a “close personal friend” (can we even use “girlfriend” anymore) named Arlene doesn’t necessarily make him male….
You genderphobe…
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Well I figured the fact that the cat sounded like Bill Murray was a giveway.
lol, abandon ship!!!
Senior administration official says White House learned of Sessions’ contacts with Russian ambassador from press reports
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 2, 2017
re: #375 makeitstop
Most Trump voters would be perfectly fine with an autocracy. A flag waving, Jesus Christian-only, preferably white only autocracy.
Lie to me constantly about Russian involvement in Trump’s election? Fine, just as long we get more Jesus in our schools.
Take away my healthcare? Wow, that sucks. But at least we get more Jesus in our schools.
Deny entry into the US at will as a prelude to loaded boxcars heading to camps? Hmmm. That sounds familiar and sort of uncomfortable. But at least Jesus and schools.
Make me pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest when the deficit starts to eventually explode again? Time to pick up the pitchforks and torches- and vote more Republicans into office to get more Jesus. …Schools.
Sir Patrick Stewart: I’m applying for US citizenship to ‘fight and oppose’ the Trump administration https://t.co/2OzShEGhyK pic.twitter.com/2JXNrxtIVB
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 2, 2017
re: #392 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Most Trump voters would be perfectly fine with an autocracy. A flag waving, Jesus Christian-only, preferably white only autocracy.
Lie to me constantly about Russian involvement in Trump’s election? Fine, just as long we get more Jesus in our schools and Roe v. Wade overturned.
Take away my healthcare? Wow, that sucks. But at least we get more Jesus in our schools and Roe v. Wade overturned..
Deny entry into the US at will as a prelude to loaded boxcars heading to camps? Hmmm. That sounds familiar and sort of uncomfortable. But at least Jesus and schools and Roe v. Wade overturned..
Make me pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest when the deficit starts to eventually explode again? Time to pick up the pitchforks and torches- and vote more Republicans into office to get more Jesus. …Schools and Roe v. Wade overturned..
Fixed that (in the name of Jesus) for ya
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
The rest of us can’t give up, we’ve got both Captain Pickard and Charles Xavier on our side.
re: #391 b.d.
Are we seeing the Flynn timeline play out here?
Spiceys denial and this…
re: #398 Belafon
The rest of us can’t give up, we’ve got both Captain Pickard and Charles Xavier on our side.
Pretty sure we got The Dude too.
@BraddJaffy
Here is Jeff Sessions in 1999 talking about the seriousness of committing perjury under oath
Here is Jeff Sessions in 1999 talking about the seriousness of committing perjury under oath pic.twitter.com/qsBb9bcpSo
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 2, 2017
re: #392 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Most Trump voters would be perfectly fine with an autocracy. A flag waving, Jesus Christian-only, preferably white only autocracy.
Lie to me constantly about Russian involvement in Trump’s election? Fine, just as long we get more Jesus in our schools.
Take away my healthcare? Wow, that sucks. But at least we get more Jesus in our schools.
Deny entry into the US at will as a prelude to loaded boxcars heading to camps? Hmmm. That sounds familiar and sort of uncomfortable. But at least Jesus and schools.
Make me pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest when the deficit starts to eventually explode again? Time to pick up the pitchforks and torches- and vote more Republicans into office to get more Jesus. …Schools.
I was talking more about the tweetstorm than the article (which I didn’t read). Here it is in text form.
2) Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous president because he harbors so many guilty secrets (or maybe 1 big guilty secret).
3) In order to protect himself, Trump must attack American norms and institutions - otherwise he faces fathomless legal risk
4) In turn, in order to protect their legally vulnerable leader, Republicans in Congress must join the attack on norms & institutions
5) Otherwise, they put at risk party hopes for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to remake US government in ways not very popular with voters
6) American institutions are built to withstand an attack from the president alone. But …
7) … they are not so well-built as to withstand an attack from a conscienceless president enabled by a hyper-partisan Congress
8) The peculiar grim irony in this case is that somewhere near the center of Trump’s story is the murky secret of Trump’s Russia connection
9) Meaning that Trump is rendering his party also complicit in what could well prove …
10) … the biggest espionage scandal since the Rosenberg group stole the secret of the atomic bomb.
11) And possibly even bigger. We won’t know if we don’t look
12) Despite patriotic statements from individual GOPers, as of now it seems that Speaker Ryan & Leader McConnell agree: no looking.
13) So many in DC serenely promise that “checks and balances” will save us. But right now: there is no check and no balance.
14) Only brave individuals in national security roles sharing truth with news organizations.
15) But those individuals can be found & silenced. What then? We take it too much for granted that the president must lose this struggle
16) The “oh he’s normal now” relief of so many to Trump’s Feb 28 speech revealed how ready DC is to succumb to dealmaking as usual.
17) As DC goes numb, citizen apathy accumulates …
18) GOP members of Congress decide they have more to fear from enforcing law against the president than from ignoring law with the president
19) And those of us who care disappear down rabbit holes debating whether Sessions’ false testimony amounts to perjury or not
20) Meanwhile job market strong, stock market is up, immigration enforcement is popular.
21) I’m not counseling despair here. I don’t feel despair. Only: nobody else will save the country if you don’t act yourself. END.
@HotlineJosh @jaketapper what does @TomCottonAR have to hide? We should look into his campaign finances.
— SpockYoda (@DarthTargaryen1) March 2, 2017
We just released our software catalog, granting the public free access to technologies for earthly applications: https://t.co/glGcUdao7F pic.twitter.com/IFDEf1flql
— NASA (@NASA) March 2, 2017
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
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Awesome! Sir Patrick Stewart framed my young mind in his role as Captain of the Enterprise (and it my favorite Star Trek - followed closely by Deep Space Nine). I’d follow that wonderful human being into any wormhole.
re: #397 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Fred Clark makes a convincing argument that the entirety of the wingnut ethos hinges off the way that they can write off everyone they disagree with as “baby killers,” and isn’t at all about sanctity of life.
Looking at how they’ve expanded what counts as abortion to include chemical contraception and Plan B; and become particularly focused on late-term procedures that aren’t contraception, and that nobody “chooses” for convenience; and their total lack of interest in the context of why people choose abortion…up to and including medical necessity.
Considering the GOP has hidden its markup of a #GOPDontCare replacement to Obamacare from its caucus, LMAO @markknoller @frameusa @VP pic.twitter.com/nebYKKoQie
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2017
This transition to a “better way” as @SpeakerRyan says is nonsense, GOP had 8 years for a plan; all we see is BS @markknoller @frameusa @VP
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2017
re: #405 CongoJack
Sir Patrick has drawn the line. Trump must be fought here. @RawStory pic.twitter.com/Usyz05BSxg
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2017
re: #96 Belafon
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So, should we, or should we not, run people in every election we can?
The thing is, even if Ossoff ultimately loses, we’re finally showing a willingness to step up.
And get the message out. That is critical win or lose. If the message is carried via Fox and RW radio, we are never heard. I know it is a waste of money and resources but that might pay off down the road.
re: #405 CongoJack
Awesome! Sir Patrick Stewart framed my young mind in his role as Captain of the Enterprise (and it my favorite Star Trek - followed closely by Deep Space Nine). I’d follow that wonderful human being into any wormhole.
Must be a generational thing: I recall as a kid watching the original Star Trek downstairs on the b&w portable (my folks didn’t like it, so we never got to watch it on the upstairs color set).
I liked most of the films, but never really got into any of the follow-up series. I liked Captain P, but to me at least, the rest of the cast were just characters, not really personalities.
#BREAKING: @AdamSchiffCA accuses Comey of withholding info on Russia probe#trumprussia #russiagate #firesessions #resist #shadychaffetz pic.twitter.com/AOLvNZd2Nk
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) March 2, 2017
Cotton and Sessions. Come on y’all. You guys want to be the bad guys in a movie about the pre-war debate over slavery don’t you/
re: #406 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Fred Clark makes a convincing argument that the entirety of the wingnut ethos hinges off the way that they can write off everyone they disagree with as “baby killers,” and isn’t at all about sanctity of life.
It also hinges on looking upon women as chattel who are owned/controlled by their fathers and then their husbands.
One source tells me both Ds and Rs are quietly making calls around town to see who might serve on an independent commission on Russia.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) March 2, 2017
re: #394 FormerDirtDart
CBP/ICE will detain him upon entry and deport him on the next flight back to Britain.
No sarc.
re: #412 lawhawk
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Since this tweet is taking off, here’s Nunes’ full quote. pic.twitter.com/oPlgnc7PpQ
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) March 2, 2017
And if anybody would know which Americans are in contact with the Russian Ambassador, it’d be @DevinNunes, who’ll be seeking asylum there https://t.co/8FxVodt3W9
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 2, 2017
re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth
If they expand their scope a bit, I’ll serve. Not in my usual interests, but I’m way more qualified than the current president.
@ajjaffe pic.twitter.com/5Ztm2TkBLw
— The Resistance (@TaritaC) March 2, 2017
re: #418 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The DNC should begin questioning just what it is that the Russians have on Nunes that he’s actively working to deep-six this investigation.
re: #416 Bubblehead II
CBP/ICE will detain him upon entry and deport him on the next flight back to Britain.
No sarc.
I believe he’s here. His current wife is American IIRC.
LOL…because the yam is much beloved in Scotland…..
#UK state visit by @realDonaldTrump will ‘shift to #Scotland’ to deter mass protests https://t.co/h8qoQ6lyy7 pic.twitter.com/IyA9WiANpM
— The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) March 2, 2017
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL…because the yam is much beloved in Scotland…..
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Oh my cousin’s in laws will love this.
re: #376 CuriousLurker
Welp, I see Muslims are still busy exploiting antisemitism with their efforts to make themselves look better by reaching out to Jewish communities in distress.
What a bunch of assholes, huh? //
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TAQQIYYA!!!1!!!
Baseball play of the year.
Yeah, I said it:
— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) March 2, 2017
That’s a Met catching a flying bat heading into the dugout after a Marlins player lost the bat after swinging.
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
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One source tells me both Ds and Rs are quietly making calls around town to see who might serve on an independent commission on Russia.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) March 2, 2017
re: #416 Bubblehead II
CBP/ICE will detain him upon entry and deport him on the next flight back to Britain.
No sarc.
I was already think that the comment would likely make it very easy to deny him citizenship under the current administration
re: #398 Belafon
The rest of us can’t give up, we’ve got both Captain Pickard and Charles Xavier on our side.
Now if we can Magneto on our side, fuckin’ hell!
re: #383 Sir John Barron
Someone will make Portman walk this back.
I don’t know. I get the feeling he is really feeling the pressure from Ohioans.
re: #391 b.d.
lol, abandon ship!!!
Jake Tapper ✔ @jaketapper
Senior administration official says White House learned of Sessions’ contacts with Russian ambassador from press reports
12:48 PM - 2 Mar 2017
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Damn, these bozos have no idea what they are doing. This isn’t the first time we’ve been told the White House staff learned from the press.
It almost seems like no one is really in control.
Which actually means they are out of control.
Taking my first Lyft in about 15 minutes. Been using Uber for about three years - like Uber…don’t have anything against the drivers…avoided Lyft because of the big pink mustaches they had on their cars for a while…but figured I’d give it a shot.
Their Mobile UI is fucking awesome, btw. Registering was actually so easy it was pleasant.
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