Wednesday: “He’s finally pivoted! He’ll stop tripping over his own dick! Happy days are finally here!”
Thursday: “Well, so much for that…”
There’s always a crooked surprise with this administration. I think the best type of candidate to beat him will be a reformer type with real results.
Had to fix it:
RWNJs 2017 “You liberals can’t fool us with your conspiracy theories that Trump is some how linked to Russia.”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 2, 2017
Historians will refer to this as The Funny Period pic.twitter.com/M2cXUO8kGx
— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) March 2, 2017
He looks like he’s about to eat a bug out of the air. https://t.co/Hu8dJb6klu
— Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) March 2, 2017
re: #3 Kragar
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They thought Obama wearing a beige jacket was proof of Obama’s Islamic sympathies ffs.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Or that time the nation went on a drunken binge and elected a groper with ties to Putin instead of someone eminently qualified.
breaking image of jeff sessions getting arrested for treason pic.twitter.com/pbcmC1gVae
— INVISIGOTH (@spacecrone) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/QOEpCw78x7
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 2, 2017
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
How did he get that outfit on over the bone spurs?
Meanwhile today, you may have missed Egypt’s Mubarak going free of all charges in Arab Spring killings. My latest: https://t.co/oDaoiciZrc
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) March 2, 2017
These fucking people, man.
Evangelist Franklin Graham Compares Planned Parenthood Fundraiser to Building “Nazi Death Camp” https://t.co/wNugL8tzx2 pic.twitter.com/dY2ySVNJSK
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) March 2, 2017
GOP rep says holding town halls is like being yelled at in a ritual by “Orientals” https://t.co/KrgDawzzAh pic.twitter.com/4YEkpko5R1
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 2, 2017
This ritual?
Did you pay for it? And did it involve being peed on in any way? https://t.co/AQ5kq4F28R— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/5hS135Xe8s
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 2, 2017
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? pic.twitter.com/daiVndPuhk
— ACLU National (@ACLU) March 2, 2017
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Can’t handle your constituents, don’t be in fucking office.
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think he definitely perjured himself. Franken’s question was straight forward.
He’s here! With our @aribra_1 @DullesJustice pic.twitter.com/gtC2k5zMLZ
— Mirriam Seddiq (@mirriam71) March 2, 2017
Khizr Khan is volunteering with immigration lawyers at Dulles. https://t.co/NXBDOR2KYR
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/QYPUKGsgeS
— bellesouth (@bellesouth) March 2, 2017
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I had forgotten that Mr. Khan was an immigration lawyer. Good man. Glad to see him at Dulles.
re: #20 HappyWarrior
I think he definitely perjured himself. Franken’s question was straight forward.
what’s so weird is that Sessions felt he had to give a lie for an answer to a question that Franken didn’t even ask.
@BuzzFeed The future liberals want!https://t.co/R2UPu1nz1a
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) March 2, 2017
Statement from Carter Page to @CBSNews on report of meeting w Kislyak in July: pic.twitter.com/k5bxBzy0p7
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 2, 2017
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
what’s so weird is that Sessions felt he had to give a lie for an answer to a question that Franken didn’t even ask.
Yeah that was odd.
In all of the hullaballoo of the Sessions thing, the joint address, the gutting of the EPA, I think this needs more attention (how much o’that we got, anyroad?): The State Department is being gutted as well.
re: #14 teleskiguy
These fucking people, man.
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Wasn’t there something in the bible about not bearing false witness against your neighbor? Not in Leviticus or Deuteronomy, but smack dab in the middle of the Ten Commandments?
re: #30 Blind Frog Belly White
Wasn’t there something in the bible about not bearing false witness against your neighbor? Not in Leviticus or Deuteronomy, but smack dab in the middle of the Ten Commandments?
In Franklin Graham’s church those are the “Ten Suggestions”///
re: #29 retired cynic
In all of the hullaballoo of the Sessions thing, the joint address, the gutting of the EPA, I think this needs more attention (how much o’that we got, anyroad?): The State Department is being gutted as well.
Yes, that definitely needs more attention. So many state department programs being cut are vital to fostering our relationships abroad.
re: #29 retired cynic
In all of the hullaballoo of the Sessions thing, the joint address, the gutting of the EPA, I think this needs more attention (how much o’that we got, anyroad?): The State Department is being gutted as well.
Well, it’s not like we’ll need anyone doing foreign policy, what with Jared Kushner on the scene.
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
what’s so weird is that Sessions felt he had to give a lie for an answer to a question that Franken didn’t even ask.
“I am definitely a real boy, and also there is no hint of Pino-American in my family tree.”
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/by7jTBc3Sg
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 2, 2017
re: #7 Dr. Matt
He’s a fucking embarrassment to
that flight jacketthis country.
Small modification. Bigger meaning.
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/rbp1FYzjTx
— Fembot (@mynxpnks) March 2, 2017
Statement from Carter Page to @CBSNews on report of meeting w Kislyak in July: pic.twitter.com/k5bxBzy0p7
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 2, 2017
Page is neither a journalist nor a practicing lawyer, and Kislyak isn’t a protected source or client. He has no business whatsoever holding confidential off the record meetings with representatives of foreign governments, especially while he was working for a US presidential campaign.
re: #26 Scottish Dragon
@Celticlassy10 @BuzzFeed pic.twitter.com/vtW91AHmoD
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 2, 2017
re: #9 gocart mozart
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(Well, umm, no — that’s the past us Boomer liberals drink to forget and hope our children never ever get hold of the Polaroids… Goes to find shovel to bury the 1970’s Playboys a few feet deeper…)
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
what’s so weird is that Sessions felt he had to give a lie for an answer to a question that Franken didn’t even ask.
I wonder if in a strange way he was trying to build a case that he knew he may need because he knew he was in deep. Deny you had anything to do with the Russians and hope everyone buys it and they never ask again.
OK, let me try this twitter thing.
This is the future liberals want. pic.twitter.com/hVgfTkEprr
— PawnofTheOppressor (@rideandpaint) March 2, 2017
The basic decency and candor of Attorney General Sessions is a rebuke to his critics who lack the wisdom to feel shame or to express remorse
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) March 2, 2017
This is a direct quote from that Coretta Scott King letter, right? 🙃 https://t.co/hWldgPJj2H
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) March 2, 2017
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
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Page is neither a journalist nor a practicing lawyer, and Kislyak isn’t a protected source or client. He has no business whatsoever holding confidential off the record meetings with representatives of foreign governments, especially while he was working for a US presidential campaign.
The fact that they apparently had agreed upon “confidentiality rules” is pretty strange, to say nothing of the fact that there would be no enforceability for these alleged rules.
re: #42 ObserverArt
I wonder if in a strange way he was trying to build a case that he knew he may need because he knew he was in deep. Deny you had anything to do with the Russians and hope everyone buys it and they never ask again.
That’s my thought. Sounded like he was trying to be clever and pre-empting a follow-up question.
PUTIN DEMANDS SESSIONS RESIGN FROM RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
Speaking at the Kremlin, Putin said that the controversies swirling around Sessions in Washington “no longer make it possible for Jeff Sessions to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.”
Putin asserted that Sessions had “become a distraction,” and ordered the Alabama native to clear out his desk at the Kremlin “by Friday morning at the latest.”
While Kremlin sources said that forcing Sessions’s resignation was “a necessary measure,” they would not guarantee that he was the only member of the Trump Cabinet who would be expelled from the Russian government.
“We’ve put a dozen of them on notice,” one Kremlin source said
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
what’s so weird is that Sessions felt he had to give a lie for an answer to a question that Franken didn’t even ask.
It’s like he panicked while making sandwiches.
re: #50 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
J. C. Leyendeckeroid Aztec Cosplay for the win.
Fox News host: “Somehow now everything little thing is Watergate” Uhm….
Fox News host: “Somehow now everything little thing is Watergate” Uhm…. pic.twitter.com/5nnEvSNEKi
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 2, 2017
Fox News: How dare Democrats say Trump/Russia is Watergate
Also Fox News: Everything Obama did was Watergatehttps://t.co/z0wWhEve9e— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2017
This is the future liberals want. pic.twitter.com/DNmQ4WfrY6
— Sean Bonner Ⓥ (@seanbonner) March 2, 2017
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/mxDFUbYVFL
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 2, 2017
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
So this is what Trump watches every night, after he puts on his jammies and get settled into his high chair?
Y’all has the meme gone full circle or something? What happened to quirky pics of diversity?
this is the future that liberals want pic.twitter.com/khPrLkfWMX
— sam (@_motherbrain) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/s9Gkfs1i4w
— Five Star Ordo (@PlanOrdo) March 2, 2017
Just because it’s received 2,300 retweets in the last 2 hours doesn’t mean all y’all have already seen it, right?
You know Russian Amb Kislyak who Jeff Sessions met w/ last year? He was on the House flr on Tues ahead of Trump’s #JointAddress (Via Getty): pic.twitter.com/xpKiLOuivt
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 2, 2017
Start here
Not threaded.
Former Trump campaign nat sec adv JD Gordon tells me he and other nat sec adv’s met with Russian Amb in Cleveland during GOP convention.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/4iY9bnC22T
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 2, 2017
Salmonchanted evening. pic.twitter.com/Fghz0EjlFl
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 2, 2017
This portrait of Elliot Richardson, who stood up to Nixon, was in AG’s conference room. Sessions had it replaced. https://t.co/6Q9vcOjzCS pic.twitter.com/yBArJ6FjEx
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 2, 2017
This is actually the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/lgAaWwNtCP
— precious snowflake (@what_the_beck_3) March 2, 2017
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
Of course he did…probably had it destroyed too, that seems Sessions’ speed.
Congratulations to our new Secretary of @ENERGY, Rick Perry! pic.twitter.com/gt7VWGrmu7
— President Trump (@POTUS) March 2, 2017
. @realDonaldTrump (via @privateeyenews) pic.twitter.com/3WuhGTETrh
— Bill Hicks (@Bill_Hicks_RIP) March 2, 2017
re: #73 Dave In Austin
These days when I see one of these things the first thing I look for is the misspelled word(s).
Has a Russian ambassador ever been so directly involved with a U.S. President as much as Kislyak? He’s all over the damn place. Convention, Congressional address. Calling and meeting Trump staff before during and after the elections.
Has any country’s ambassador?
If someone gets the ambassador to start talking the Trump administration is in a world of hurt. Kislyak has more power than anyone in the Trump camp…more power than Trump.
It now can be used to get more out of Trump or to totally destroy him.
Trump has got to be sweating big lea…
What a good idea.
Want to comment on a story? Take a quiz first, says Norwegian broadcaster https://t.co/VIKjPHkF63 pic.twitter.com/s5NSxrOeLL
— CBC News (@CBCNews) March 2, 2017
yes.
yesssssssss
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss pic.twitter.com/rbVpcA6wSB— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2017
Awaiting Fuckface Von Clownstick’s tweet parroting this.
re: #77 MsJ
Oh man, the RWNJs would go ballistic.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, if you lied under oath to the American people and Congress, you need to resign. https://t.co/3A41x3nTbf pic.twitter.com/AcZeleFttZ
— Sen. Al Franken (@SenFranken) March 2, 2017
re: #76 ObserverArt
If someone gets the ambassador to start talking the Trump administration is in a world of hurt. Kislyak has more power than anyone in the Trump camp…more power than Trump.
And the Russian ambassador has no fear of prosecution; no matter how many crimes he may have committed, diplomatic immunity means the worst they can do to him is send him home.
re: #79 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh man, the RWNJs would go ballistic.
Too bad the quiz is based on the story to ensure they read it. It should be on the topic to make sure they have the first clue.
What a group shot of all the people in Trump’s administration that do not have ties to Russia would look like pic.twitter.com/xeCnsKw9ML
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) March 2, 2017
Will Smith is Barron Trump in that pic https://t.co/xt4L9PFwzp
— Aaron Medlyn (@morningveiw) March 2, 2017
Tucker Carlson always looks like this. pic.twitter.com/RGgGTgbjbT
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 2, 2017
Here’s what the USS Donald Trump will look like: pic.twitter.com/9XCoOucngT
— Robby Scharf (@Robby525) March 2, 2017
Justice in this case would be everything that helped get Trump elected turned 180° and helps get him ejected from the White House.
Rep Trey “Benghazi” Gowdy a few moments ago on MSNBC pushing agst Congress investigating pic.twitter.com/e3hIwKaccX
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 2, 2017
re: #78 teleskiguy
yes.
yesssssssss
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss pic.twitter.com/rbVpcA6wSB— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want… https://t.co/zClvGoVos0
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 2, 2017
re: #76 ObserverArt
Has a Russian ambassador ever been so directly involved with a U.S. President as much as Kislyak? He’s all over the damn place. Convention, Congressional address. Calling and meeting Trump staff before during and after the elections.
Has any country’s ambassador?
If someone gets the ambassador to start talking the Trump administration is in a world of hurt. Kislyak has more power than anyone in the Trump camp…more power than Trump.
It now can be used to get more out of Trump or to totally destroy him.
Trump has got to be sweating big lea…
Well, considering that Kislyak is considered by the US and Western ICs to be Putin’s premier spymaster and recruiter in the US, the only thing that I can divine from his busyness before and after our election is to check on his assets and make sure they stay in line, if you catch my drift.
re: #86 Timothy Watson
Yeah. :(
Just glad it’s not the “how come he don’t want me” ep. That one gets me cutting onions every time.
Rick Perry is now in charge of our nuclear arsenal. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/feBcqEFa6d
— Mr. Jameson Neat (@MrJamesonNeat) March 2, 2017
Cats do pretty well going over walls. Especially big cats.
New jaguar photographed in Southern Arizona https://t.co/PANNUysg2l pic.twitter.com/E6uO37Mcoh
— Arizona Daily Star (@TucsonStar) March 2, 2017
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
@flowertimezones @charles_gaba Comparative value, it only takes one to balance out that many dudes. That’s my story & I’m sticking w/ it.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 2, 2017
Honesty to god. Fuck these people.
A Georgia bill designed to limit rape investigations at colleges has advanced https://t.co/BTlgSZel6i pic.twitter.com/wmX6b5u45A
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 2, 2017
Rep Trey “Benghazi” Gowdy a few moments ago on MSNBC pushing agst Congress investigating pic.twitter.com/e3hIwKaccX
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 2, 2017
Correct me if I’m wrong but Gowdy seems to be saying this is a criminal matter.
re: #97 goddamnedfrank
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Correct me if I’m wrong but Gowdy seems to be saying this is a criminal matter.
and apparently Gowdy is unfamiliar with is actually involved in the entire impeachment process, well, except for anything Clinton…
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 2, 2017
This is the future liberal want.https://t.co/DHFBo5KOAb
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 3, 2017
Either Sessions KNOWINGLY lied to Congress or he’s too goddamned incompetent to serve as Attorney General. There is no third possibility.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 3, 2017
Former Trump campaign nat sec adv JD Gordon tells me he and other nat sec adv’s met with Russian Amb in Cleveland during GOP convention.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
“At RNC, Gordon says he and others advocated for GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels” https://t.co/hhNUV71aIg
— Julie Laumann (@Zegota42) March 2, 2017
WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March.
WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March. pic.twitter.com/7zp7IpupwA
— Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017
The Russia-Trump connections are an endless series of scandals within scandals. But ultimately, they’re all leading to Trump https://t.co/xwEvy0NSfj
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 3, 2017
‘Colorblind’ Kentucky student aims to trick teacher by matching friend: https://t.co/TLrNwGzisg pic.twitter.com/jwltVHZ5Iz
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 2, 2017
LOUISVILLE (WAVE / CNN Newsource / WKRC) - A pair of pre-school kids had a plan to trick their teacher.
Reddy Wilson and Jaxon Rosenbush wanted to make it difficult for their teacher to tell them apart.
Jaxon wanted to get his hair cut short to look like Reddy. The only problem is, Jaxon is white and Reddy is black.
But the kids didn’t see it that way.
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/OitvgtI66x
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 3, 2017
re: #105 goddamnedfrank
re: #106 lawhawk
Former Trump campaign nat sec adv JD Gordon tells me he and other nat sec adv’s met with Russian Amb in Cleveland during GOP convention.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
Gordon says he discussed goal to forge better US relationship with Russia. But there was no conversation about Russians helping Trump camp. https://t.co/qJZdkJUNFR
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
At convention Gordon says he and others advocated for GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels https://t.co/RdkGjuKxlg
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
Gordon says this was in line with Trump’s views, expressed at March national security meeting at unfinished Trump hotel in March. https://t.co/JkctLBGl2f
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
Gordon says Trump said at meeting at unfinished Trump hotel in March that he didn’t want to go to “World War Three” over Ukraine. https://t.co/ye2qib07u1
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 2, 2017
UPDATE: Sessions says he never met Russian to talk about campaign; Critics say he misled senators
by @etuckerAPhttps://t.co/Fw50vm0fV6— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) March 2, 2017
Critics say?
“Sessions misled the Senate, but some news editors are hedging the truth. That’s a disservice.”
dailykos.com
At least 1,800 workers will leave Boeing through voluntary buyouts amid job cuts announced in December https://t.co/pOPywYd3Fs pic.twitter.com/m0U2fEsLMh
— CNN (@CNN) March 3, 2017
Trump’s fault?
re: #81 sagehen
And the Russian ambassador has no fear of prosecution; no matter how many crimes he may have committed, diplomatic immunity means the worst they can do to him is send him home.
I don’t fault the Russians at all in this mess — if one of their main rivals opens themselves up for foreign intervention in their internal affairs and elections, the Russians would be idiotic not to take advantage of it.
She was arrested after speaking to the media, and now she will be deported without a hearing. This is not America. https://t.co/YuNpurjqTw
— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) March 2, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/7aCFNxFFVW
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 3, 2017
re: #113 EPR-radar
I don’t fault the Russians at all in this mess — if one of their main rivals opens themselves up for foreign intervention in their internal affairs and elections, the Russians would be idiotic not to take advantage of it.
This is key. It shows either willful invitation by Trump or complete ineptness. Neither look good on Trump and Gang. Add money and or power to it all and it becomes criminal.
.@TGowdySC: “AG Sessions incorrectly answered a question. That happens almost every day in Congress and there aren’t perjury referrals.” pic.twitter.com/EMFOSkPjm7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
there’s that pesky bit about “under oath”, Trey…
re: #114 gocart mozart
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re: #116 ObserverArt
Add money and or power to it all and it becomes criminal.
There’s so much that’s out in the open already. As Sessions has indicated, they “don’t know the rules.”
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
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there’s that pesky bit about “under oath”, Trey…
He was under fucking oath you imbred piece of shit. It’s one thing to misspeak in casual conversation, it’s another to do what he did under oath. But I get it Trey, Benghazi was the crime of the millennium but this is perfectly okay because it involved your party.
re: #116 ObserverArt
This is key. It shows either willful invitation by Trump or complete ineptness. Neither look good on Trump and Gang. Add money and or power to it all and it becomes criminal.
Any Russians implicated in real crimes can be charged accordingly or made persona non grata if they have diplomatic immunity.
But the larger point remains that if the Republican party and Trump administration want to turn themselves into Putin’s lackeys, that is all on Trump and the Republicans.
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jeff Sessions and the September 8th Meeting https://t.co/gePgZryHfh Smells like perjury.
— Martin Longman (@BooMan23) March 2, 2017
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” Thoreau #utpol https://t.co/OWqwBJQ0db
— Rep. Brian S. King (@RepBrianKing) March 3, 2017
re: #121 HappyWarrior
The whole goddamn GOP is rotten to the core.
I still miss WindUpBird, and his summary of the GOP can’t be beat for brevity and accuracy:
The Republican party is shit.
after dinnner and I still feel like it’s morning
re: #124 EPR-radar
I still miss WindUpBird and his summary of the GOP can’t be beat for brevity and accuracy:
The Republican party is shit.
Yeah I liked WUB. He was right.
re: #119 jaunte
There’s so much that’s out in the open already. As Sessions has indicated, they “don’t know the rules.”
Not knowing the rules is irrelevant in many circumstances. If you had the intent to do something and then did it, or took steps to do it, and it turns out “it” was a crime, you’re criminally liable. Now, there’s a chance that you only get hit with criminal negligence, but the key word is still “criminal”… and of course you get into real trouble when you start the discussion of “knew or should have known”, especially in this case, because if you’re working on behalf of someone who may become POTUS, you probably should have known.
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
Notice that “Fox Fact” in the background.
“Yeah, the Ruskies tampered with the election but there’s no evidence they were successful.”
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
The guys on Hardball just now called bullshit on that. Any statement made under oath by an incoming AG is real heavily lawyered, and Sessions knew exactly what he was doing.
re: #128 Skip Intro
Notice that “Fox Fact” in the background.
“Yeah, the Ruskies tampered with the election but there’s no evidence they were successful.”
Which is such crap. If I get caught cheating on a test, it doesn’t matter if I get an A or F, still cheated.
re: #127 KGxvi
I think Trump and his inner circle have been flouting multiple laws for so long they’ve forgotten how to keep things hidden, and are just relying on size and momentum to carry off the heist.
re: #129 Scottish Dragon
The guys on Hardball just now called bullshit on that. Any statement made under oath by an incoming AG is real heavily lawyered, and Sessions knew exactly what he was doing.
The guy’s been a lawyer for a very long time. He knew what he was doing. The bastard perjured himself.
re: #127 KGxvi
It’s funny that the clowns who write the laws aren’t supposed to be familiar with them.
re: #119 jaunte
There’s so much that’s out in the open already. As Sessions has indicated, they “don’t know the rules.”
We haven’t really gotten the actual evidence and connections the FBI, CIA and others probably are building day by day. Once it is decided to be used to build a case for an investigation there might not be enough popcorn in the world.
Really, the damage so far is coming from Trump and The Gang covering up what they probably know is out there and what they may fear is out there.
There is self-built fire going…pour some of the intelligence on it as an accelerant and we get real serious.
re: #128 Skip Intro
Notice that “Fox Fact” in the background.
“Yeah, the Ruskies tampered with the election but there’s no evidence they were successful.”
“I don’t see any evidence, I haven’t really looked, because, hey, Team Red won this round, so obviously fuck it, who cares? Oh you have some evidence? Nah, brah, I’m not really interested in taking a look at it. Why would I? We won, so just get over it.”
re: #128 Skip Intro
Notice that “Fox Fact” in the background.
“Yeah, the Ruskies tampered with the election but there’s no evidence they were successful.”
It’s that focus-shift deflection. “I never met Russians in my campaign capacity, only my Senatorial capacity.”
As Governor of Indiana Pence discussed Nat Sec matter over his personal fucking AOL account!
Karmic solar storm like we’ve never seen before https://t.co/cuJOUpzf18 pic.twitter.com/ZCmbWdo5VJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 3, 2017
My opponent was a down to earth funny popular guy who likes Star Wars in college! Don’t vote for him!”
Republican super PAC tries to attack Democratic candidate, accidentally makes him look awesome https://t.co/mZEDbOFb4e via @shareblue
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) March 3, 2017
re: #137 HappyWarrior
Somehow they’ve gotten even worse.
They’ve got power, and they know in a short period of time they won’t any more unless they turn America into an apartheid state.
re: #139 goddamnedfrank
As Governor of Indiana Pence discussed Nat Sec matter over his personal fucking AOL account!
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Master Projection Theater. Starring the GOP. Fuck it, I’m starting to wonder if they have pedophile rings now too after the way Flynn and son ponced on the Pizzagate bullshit.
re: #133 Skip Intro
It’s funny that the clowns who write the laws aren’t supposed to be familiar with them.
“We pass a lot of laws… I mean, not in the last eight years, because fuck that guy, but normally? Yeah, we pass a lot of laws, can’t expect us to know everything that’s in them. I mean, how else did you think we managed to ban internet poker? Shit was actually popular, hell, I had an account on a couple of sites, but we have to cast a wide net in case anyone is actually having fun or spending their money in a way we don’t really like.”
re: #137 HappyWarrior
Somehow they’ve gotten even worse.
Yeah, they aren’t just ordinary shit any more.
They’re more like the last explosion of shit from an Ebola-infected monkey where every bloody drop is lethally infectious.
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re: #24 HappyWarrior
I had forgotten that Mr. Khan was an immigration lawyer. Good man. Glad to see him at Dulles.
I fully expect to see a news report come in within the next week where Khizr Khan and his wife are the targets of ICE raids for deportation. The fact that both have been naturalized American citizens for 30 years? Just a minor detail.
re: #140 gocart mozart
My opponent was a down to earth funny popular guy who likes Star Wars in college! Don’t vote for him!”
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re: #146 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I fully expect to see a news report come in within the next week where Khizr Khan and his wife are the targets of ICE raids for deportation. The fact that both have been naturalized American citizens for 30 years? Just a minor detail.
If ICE does that, I will tell my boss that I think we should take on their case personally and do it pro-bono.
re: #139 goddamnedfrank
Not sure what’s worse: That Pence conducted sensitive public business over a private hacked email account or that he’s an AOL user. pic.twitter.com/rclfRw5BxF
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 3, 2017
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #143 KGxvi
“We pass a lot of laws… I mean, not in the last eight years, because fuck that guy, but normally? Yeah, we pass a lot of laws, can’t expect us to know everything that’s in them. I mean, how else did you think we managed to ban internet poker? Shit was actually popular, hell, I had an account on a couple of sites, but we have to cast a wide net in case anyone is actually having fun or spending their money in a way we don’t really like.”
Not that they don’t like. Whom their masters (casino owners) don’t like.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #85 teleskiguy
Nah, the USS Oriskany (here being sunk as an artificial reef), served her nation well and still serves in her current role. Trump will never be a plus to this nation.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #155 William Lewis
Have they named any vessels after Richard M. Nixon?
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When will Jared take over the Russia investigation?
re: #160 Skip Intro
When will Jared take over the Russia investigation?
I get the feeling he is about to become a big part of it.
re: #158 teleskiguy
Have they named any vessels after Richard M. Nixon?
Some kind of dredger might be appropriate
What could Trump Jr possibly say that would be worth 50K? Another question for special counsel to answer. https://t.co/b64hiRFwAK
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) March 3, 2017
Good thing Trump canceled all that ethics training stuff. https://t.co/FMKN3sgEmc
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 3, 2017
re: #163 ObserverArt
I get the feeling he is about to become a big part of it.
Even more reason for him to run it.
LOLOLOL
So sick of seeing @johnlegend and @chrissyteigen all over twitter. They’re like every other celebrity couple. I’ll give them 5 years
— AustinD (@AceDolan) March 3, 2017
Well we’ve been together for 11 so what was the monetary wager there? https://t.co/qdjpm7fxG5
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 3, 2017
I’ll bet you 10 bucks you won’t make it past 2020 https://t.co/NCumbDM1hk
— AustinD (@AceDolan) March 3, 2017
I’ll bet you 1,000 your mom yells at the Genius Bar https://t.co/jq34OAr0Jo
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 3, 2017
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’m here to collect the bribe for my father.”
re: #128 Skip Intro
Notice that “Fox Fact” in the background.
“Yeah, the Ruskies tampered with the election but there’s no evidence they were successful.”
Isn’t that both the rock and the hard place the GOP are in. They can’t be liking what is happening, but what option do they have but to try and brazen it out?
If they have to impeach The Orange Pork Find because of Russian collusion (won’t call it interference) then how can they possibly expect any legitimancy for Pence. If the Russians help the Toxic Turnip become president, then they helped Pence become VP.
Then the argument becomes what coat tail effect occurred in the rest of the elections.
The whole house of cards should fall.
Watch me shed tiny little tears for their predicament.
Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked https://t.co/0BgBOozqPQ via @indystar
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 3, 2017
Can’t you just smell the karma? @ZekeJMiller https://t.co/GtbpR7Nycj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2017
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Like Rick Perry, Pence is every bit as stupid as he looks.
leaving this here… pic.twitter.com/mbVg67Ii0S
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 3, 2017
re: #167 goddamnedfrank
LOL!! She’s such a savage!
.@realDonaldTrump and I commend the FBI for reopening an investigation into Clinton’s personal email server because no one is above the law.
— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) October 28, 2016
Mike Pence email hacked. Used personal for state business. https://t.co/e4V9OE4oDZ https://t.co/UTSTIXNNdy
— WorkingFamiliesParty (@WorkingFamilies) March 3, 2017
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
{{{VB}}}
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Except me, I’m above the law because I’m an Evangelical asshole who uses my state’s tax money on conversion therapy.
re: #124 EPR-radar
I still miss WindUpBird, and his summary of the GOP can’t be beat for brevity and accuracy:
The Republican party is shit.
GOP Delenda Est.
You used a private AOL email account to conduct state business in Indiana. #LockHimUp! #LockBothOfEmUp @mike_pence @realDonaldTrump
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 3, 2017
re: #166 Skip Intro
Even more reason for him to run it.
Jared upon completion: “I have done a complete thorough investigation of my father-in-law, Mr. Flynn, Mr. Sessions, Myself and this entire staff. I find we are all innocent and this is all fake politics, fake news, fake facts and fake reality conjured up by George Soros®, Obama®, The Clintons™ and our adversaries the Democratic Party and their out-of-control supporters!”
re: #114 gocart mozart
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It’s a warning.
“Don’t even think of rocking the boat. We will have you in another country so fast it will leave a hole in the air.
Learn to live in fear.”
I wonder how long it’s going to be before an American citizen gets deported?
re: #184 HappyWarrior
Fun fact but he also has a geocities pages too. //
I should see if I can hack into his CompuServe account.
re: #186 teleskiguy
I should see if I can hack into his CompuServe account.
I’ll hack his LiveJournal. //
So a bunch of Mike Pence’s AOL emails can’t be released because they’re too sensitive.
Oh, here’s Mike Pence one day before the Election: pic.twitter.com/NQ6G0E1ODp— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) March 3, 2017
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #68 goddamnedfrank
Upding for Buckaroo Banzai reference.
Hacks gotta be hacks and carry water for the Racist Elf.
Apparently @chuckschumer looking into allegations that Jeff Sessions once ate borscht—and liked it!
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 2, 2017
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March.
WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March. pic.twitter.com/7zp7IpupwA
— Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017
GODDAMMIT! Could we just … for an hour maybe just … not. A hour. I need food and shower. Give me an hour, you fly-haired bastard https://t.co/npioNzuKET
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #191 teleskiguy
Hacks gotta be hacks and carry water for the Racist Elf.
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Yep. Continue to act like lying under oath is no biggie Laura.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They fucking sold the Ukrainians out. If I were Ukrainian right now, I’d be so furious right now.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Yep. Continue to act like lying under oath is no biggie Laura.
It’s only bad if it’s about a blow job for a democrat.
EPA halts inquiry into oil and gas industry emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas https://t.co/FGHkQ7PqU1
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 3, 2017
sigh…
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— Thomas Cleveland (@TCleveland4Real) February 19, 2017
.@Acosta Gordon now admits Trump campaign worked to change GOP platform on Ukraine. Manafort had denied. https://t.co/EBqu96giky
— Thomas Cleveland (@TCleveland4Real) March 2, 2017
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re: #194 HappyWarrior
Yep. Continue to act like lying under oath is no biggie Laura.
Being completely devoid of anything resembling principles is characteristic of Republicans in general. This failure is not limited to Republicans shitty enough to end up in DC as elected officials or otherwise in GOP leadership.
ICYMI:
Congrats to President @BarackObama on receiving the 2017 JFK #ProfileInCourage Award. It is an honor that is well deserved. @JFKLibrary pic.twitter.com/n3bPloGeR2
— Governor Dan Malloy (@GovMalloyOffice) March 2, 2017
(Gov Malloy is last year’s winner)
re: #203 EPR-radar
Being completely devoid of anything resembling principles is characteristic of Republicans in general. This failure is not limited to Republicans shitty enough to end up in DC as elected officials or otherwise in GOP leadership.
I’ve found myself in an internal debate for a while now, who is more worthy of contempt, the GOP base or the GOP elected officials.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
I’ve found myself in an internal debate for a while now, who is more worthy of contempt, the GOP base or the GOP elected officials.
Why not settle on equally epic amounts of both?
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re: #206 451_Montag
Why not settle on equally epic amounts of both?
True, true. And then there are those like Laura that feed the base lies just for their own ends.
I’m assuming the “Speech Bump” is not a thing anymore??
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re: #205 HappyWarrior
I’ve found myself in an internal debate for a while now, who is more worthy of contempt, the GOP base or the GOP elected officials.
This is really a package deal, much like two utterly loathsome creatures whose only means of subsistence is mutual coprophagia.
Let’s start a drive to send all those AOL trial discs to the White House.
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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: #68 goddamnedfrank
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re: #211 EPR-radar
This is really a package deal, much like two utterly loathsome creatures whose only means of subsistence is mutual coprophagia.
I always look on the relationship as being like Cymothoa exigua, and a fish.
Warning don’t Google it, just don’t.
re: #214 goddamnedfrank
Wuss, both of them.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
I’ve found myself in an internal debate for a while now, who is more worthy of contempt, the GOP base or the GOP elected officials.
I’ve been watching my father as an avid consumer of right wing political stances my whole life, and it’s still amazing to me how an otherwise relatively intelligent, successful person can swallow such vast quantities of bullshit and describe it as “principle.”
Statement from the president on Attorney General Sessions pic.twitter.com/uetgzNBkFc
— Stefan Becket (@becket) March 3, 2017
re: #218 jaunte
I’ve been watching my father as an avid consumer of right wing political stances my whole life, and it’s still amazing to me how an otherwise relatively intelligent, successful person can swallow such vast quantities of bullshit and describe it as “principle.”
It’s frustrating. I have right wing friends and family as well and I just don’t get it.
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
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Listening to Days of Future Passed in high-resolution audio. Definitely an album worth the resolution boost. September of this year will be the 50th anniversary of its release. Take that, old people!!
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re: #219 goddamnedfrank
I read that in Stephen Colbert’s Trump voice.
re: #219 goddamnedfrank
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Yesterday, I was picked up by a rideshare service. The driver had a strong accent. I asked him where he was from.
— Dave Lauer (@dlauer) March 3, 2017
re: #216 451_Montag
I did. I’ve long known that Mother Nature is a child abuser.
Upding for a hideously appropriate metaphor.
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re: #219 goddamnedfrank
Do you need a spade or do you want me to get the backhoe?
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re: #231 PhillyPretzel
I believe the wood chipper is in order…
re: #222 steve_davis
Listening to Days of Future Passed in high-resolution audio. Definitely an album worth the resolution boost. September of this year will be the 50th anniversary of its release. Take that, old people!!
That is like the meanest thing anyone has said today. 50 years?!! Damn, where is my wheelchair… and fattie cuz that is still the best music EVER to mellow to while tokin’.
re: #230 HappyWarrior
Great story.
One of my great-grandfathers was also an illegal alien from Ireland to Canada and then to upstate NY. He must have been really something: my great-grandmother was of the famous Sheridan line.
This seems like kind of a big deal that would seem to add more ammunition to notion that Sessions should step down: https://t.co/bbnQTULx6m pic.twitter.com/edVXQfZmpG
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) March 3, 2017
I’ll be breaking a major story tonight on the muslim/refugee/travel ban. Exclusive story. Potential game-changer. 9PM ET MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 3, 2017
re: #235 allegro
That is like the meanest thing anyone has said today. 50 years?!! Damn, where is my wheelchair… and fattie cuz that is still the best music EVER to mellow to while tokin’.
In Search of the Lost Chord was a criminally underrated album IMHO - not as much as chill music, but one that goes on my rotation whenever I do a road trip.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
She was your mother and that is what makes it so hard. When I lost my mom I thought I lost the only person who really understood me. I found amongst family and co-workers people who understood how I felt about her and what it was like to no longer have a mom. I still miss her and I have accepted the fact that I will always miss her.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign reportedly accepted illegal contributions https://t.co/TnDifdpwT8 pic.twitter.com/qo1OoxG1Fk
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) March 2, 2017
Another hour, another scandal for the Donald Trump. https://t.co/CnS09v76x2
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) March 3, 2017
When he said Make America Great Again, I honestly didn’t have very high expectations but I wasn’t expecting a new scandal every HOUR
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my great-grandfathers was also an illegal alien from Ireland to Canada and then to upstate NY. He must have been really something: my great-grandmother was of the famous Sheridan line.
I don’t know how many or men were legal or illegal and that in a way is why I really don’t care if someone is legal or illegal or not. This man is a polyglot, someone who helped out this country in Afghanstan, and it’s a damn shame that he has to live his life in fear.
Your regular reminder that at the center of this engima wrapped in a riddle tucked inside a mystery are the tax returns.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 2, 2017
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Seriously, these guys make the Ohio Gang look like paradgons of ethics and they make Nixon’s gang look look ethical.
Democrats trump up a ‘red scare’
https://t.co/OaWBoxFmx2 pic.twitter.com/hwkMdEx2wn— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) March 3, 2017
Fun Fact: The Toronto Sun has published countless articles suggesting Pierre Trudeau was a Soviet agent. https://t.co/7O9YYGotPi
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 3, 2017
So my wingnut cousin is doing the McCaskill lied to. Big difference is that McCaskill wasn’t under oath. I swear he’s a nice enough guy but his politics blind him big time and he likes some truly dishonest shit.
White House pushing back against Mattis appointment https://t.co/l1hJh80Ait
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 3, 2017
Apparently Bannon is trying to run the Pentagon, too.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
So my wingnut cousin is doing the McCaskill lied to. Big difference is that McCaskill wasn’t under oath. I swear he’s a nice enough guy but his politics blind him big time and he likes some truly dishonest shit.
She also isn’t Attorney General.
re: #250 jaunte
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Apparently Bannon is trying to run the Pentagon, too.
This could get interesting.
re: #216 451_Montag
I always look on the relationship as being like Cymothoa exigua, and a fish.
Warning don’t Google it, just don’t.
Well, that was most enlightening and truly revolting. The day has not been wasted.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
Is the TS basically the NY Post for Canadian wingnuts?
Yes:
Wherein the Toronto Sun longs for those halcyon days when blacks, natives and women knew their place. pic.twitter.com/F1CIpYU9mC
— CC (@canadiancynic) November 7, 2016
LEGO honors Hidden Figures’ Katherine Johnson in its new ‘Women Of NASA’ set https://t.co/vPAZawrPqb pic.twitter.com/goz2GqRjEu
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 3, 2017
To consider: Everyone on the planet knew Russia was interfering in US election…and the entire Trump team kept on meeting w/them anyway.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 2, 2017
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #250 jaunte
Well, after all, Trump knows more than the Generals, you know.
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re: #257 HappyWarrior
Figured. Murdoch owned?
Nope, they’re home-grown wingnuts. But we did call their flop of a cable news network “Fox News of the North.”
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Two girlfriends and I went to see that Tuesday evening (fuck Trump) at a theater/grill and had a wonderful time. Excellent movie!
JUST IN: President Trump releases a statement on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, says “It is a total witch hunt!” pic.twitter.com/Jogoc25Ggt
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 3, 2017
Jeff Lebowski explaining to the Big Lebowski what happened to the money was less scattered than this https://t.co/uJbC4G7mdG
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) March 3, 2017
If Republicans are charged, convicted or impeached, how far down the line of replacement must we go before we get to Carlos, the janitor?
— CC (@canadiancynic) March 2, 2017
re: #235 allegro
That is like the meanest thing anyone has said today. 50 years?!! Damn, where is my wheelchair… and fattie cuz that is still the best music EVER to mellow to while tokin’.
there’s actually a kind of easter egg in that album. “The Afternoon” has the mega-hit at the front, but it’s paired up with a really cool prelude to “Evening” that is just absolutely mellow and haunting as hell. And of course, then there’s Nights in White Satin, which was so good, it didn’t even become a massive hit until sometime in 1972 when it got re-released as a single for some reason. I guess it was just one of those songs that needed time for people to appreciate it.
re: #263 teleskiguy
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re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my great-grandfathers was also an illegal alien from Ireland to Canada and then to upstate NY. He must have been really something: my great-grandmother was of the famous Sheridan line.
My husband is from a rather less-famous Sheridan line, as his grandfather didn’t leave Ireland till about 1883 — left home about age 14 to be a cabin boy; settled in Key West somewhere about the turn of the century. Who knows, there may be a connection back there on the auld sod.
re: #264 Interesting Times
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re: #267 CleverToad
My husband is from a rather less-famous Sheridan line, as his grandfather didn’t leave Ireland till about 1883 — left home about age 14 to be a cabin boy; settled in Key West somewhere about the turn of the century. Who knows, there may be a connection back there on the auld sod.
My Sheridan line came from County Cavan.
re: #267 CleverToad
My husband is from a rather less-famous Sheridan line, as his grandfather didn’t leave Ireland till about 1883 — left home about age 14 to be a cabin boy; settled in Key West somewhere about the turn of the century. Who knows, there may be a connection back there on the auld sod.
I’m a Joyce on my dad’s grandmother’s side. Was in Galway and my cab driver pointed out to me the cemetery where Lord Haw Haw is buried and I said I hope I’m not related to him. The plus though, I’m also an O’Malley so I like to claim Grace O’Malley or Grainne Ní Mháille as a distant relation.
But this is why, traditionally, we try to prevent people who have no idea what they are doing from becoming president.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 3, 2017
re: #272 teleskiguy
“Her life was in your hands!”
“Her life was in your hands, dude.”
“Brandt, give him the envelope.”
Fiona was introduced to the swimming pool today:
Get a glimpse of Fiona’s underwater moves! She’s working hard on doing a roll but hasn’t quite made it 360 yet. #teamfiona pic.twitter.com/HlTlnO22l8
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) March 2, 2017
One challenging thing about government, as opposed to a family owned real estate company, is you need to work with career people.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 3, 2017
Yglesias really bangs on the Trumpco Achilles heel in this thread.
re: #276 jaunte
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Which is another reason why the run government like a business is stupid.
WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March. pic.twitter.com/7zp7IpupwA
— Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017
GODDAMMIT! Could we just … for an hour maybe just … not. A hour. I need food and shower. Give me an hour, you fly-haired bastard https://t.co/npioNzuKET
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #274 Blind Frog Belly White
“You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways, dude, you don’t want to know about, believe me. Hell I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon, with nail polish.”
That’s not good enough, you need to resign.
— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) March 3, 2017
Sessions was looking kind of dumb, with his finger and his thumb, in the shape of an “L” on his forehead. https://t.co/rx5KKJU0wP
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) March 3, 2017
re: #279 teleskiguy
“What in God’s holy name are you blathering about?”
“Well I’ll tell you what I’m blathering about! I got information, man! New shit has come to light and… and… shit, man! She kidnapped herself!”
@allinwithchris Just watched that interview w/Page. Either the man is an utter idiot or he is a Russian FSB asset. I’m going w/ door #2.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) March 3, 2017
Yes, Chris Hayes interviews Carter Page. It was cringe inducing.
re: #282 Scottish Dragon
Chris Hayes asking direct questions, Carter Page bobbing, dodging, weaving and basically sliding down an icy hill riding the brakes.
— YesBiscuit (@YesBiscuit) March 3, 2017
@GottaLaff @chrislhayes Watching now! He digging in! Page’s expressions are interesting.
— Den E. B. (@denneb_77) March 3, 2017
Page dropped his eyes a lot when answering tough questions but not when he was giving answers he felt comfortable with. https://t.co/kfGacSc90a
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 3, 2017
re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He used a lot of DARVO techniques also, very passive aggressive…blamed Obama for “digging in” inconvenient intel info across the spy agencies.
He is a Russian asset. Bought, sold, cash on the barrel head.
re: #273 jaunte
That was before know-nothingism because a core value of the Republican party.
!!!
The AG Sessions controversy: it makes the idea of swearing an oath seem like a farce.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (@zbig) March 3, 2017
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/PGbLWyonGb
— Ian Williams (@Brock_toon) March 2, 2017
Immigration agents deport Houston father of two https://t.co/PsQN0ZdajV
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 3, 2017
ICE working hard deporting those dangerous criminals.
re: #287 Eric The Fruit Bat
Vox: The Trump-Russia scandals: a quick visual guide
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re: #289 teleskiguy
OMG I don’t even want to know what bad 60’s movie that came from…
re: #290 jaunte
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ICE working hard deporting those dangerous criminals.
Heartbreaking on so many levels.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
A Republican swearing the oath of office truly is a farce. The oath they had in their minds reads more like this:
“I do solemnly swear to lie, cheat and steal absolutely everything that isn’t nailed down, and to use a crowbar to steal anything that is nailed down. To the best of my ability, I will violate, defecate on and attack the Constitution of the United States.”
@Kopacevich @zbig Russian bots getting a little obvious now, eh?
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) March 3, 2017
re: #295 Scottish Dragon
This one’s as subtle as a fart in a diving bell.
Popular Twitter account @dog_rates now has a cute mobile game https://t.co/xNpt6ZQ2uI pic.twitter.com/l7CP35FE9a
— Mashable (@mashable) February 3, 2017
This is Waffles. He’s a ship captain in real life and in @GoodDogsGame. Must’ve gotten to the max level (wink) 13/10 would sail with pic.twitter.com/Z3LAaV2pKz
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 3, 2017
Hey you Texans who talked about Dale Hansen having a rant on the Texas HS wrestler. I caught it. This guy Hansen is always a pleasant surprise. with his genuine attempts to understand those who are different than him.
Evergreen tweet:
A modest proposal for President Trump. #SNL pic.twitter.com/VbbDQqm9VQ
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) February 12, 2017
re: #295 Scottish Dragon
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— John McNamee (@Piecomic) March 2, 2017
Only Dem senator who voted to confirm Sessions says he should resign if he lied about Russia contacts https://t.co/mLnJhKe1rS pic.twitter.com/xOUfZeHfpS
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2017
*spit*
“Smoke is what kills you, not the fire itself” - Malcolm Nance on Carter Page shenanigans. Preach!! #inners
— Cori (@Cori2424) March 3, 2017
Y’all might want to check out Maddow’s show right now….
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
@Piecomic Some bot-programmer is going to earn themselves a shiny used Lada for their hard work.
— Bart Fargo (@AgentBartFargo) March 2, 2017
WATCH——Malcolm Nance has a message for Carter Page on @allinwithchris #inners
WATCH——Malcolm Nance has a message for Carter Page on @allinwithchris #inners pic.twitter.com/oyVk2v0pJD
— Dem Texas Girls (@TexDem16) March 3, 2017
JUST IN: President Trump releases a statement on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, says “It is a total witch hunt!” pic.twitter.com/Jogoc25Ggt
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 3, 2017
Up until this administration, I’d never seen a statement from a president that ended in an exclamation point
Now? Every time. https://t.co/h1B77LOegO— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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His press releases are like his tweets. Pathetic and whiny. More he acts like this, the more obvious is that he’s involved.
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
One could say that we’ve still never had an official statement from a president that ended with an exclamation point.
After all, popular-vote loser and Russian stooge Fuckface von Cocksplat is barely a president*.
Rachel has a new Homeland Security document.
oh, my…
After all this ends, we won’t say (scandal)Gate anymore. We will say refer in some shorthand to this administrations decline and tumultuous fall.
A law professor who served as the White House ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions over reports that he lied to Congress about his communications with Russia.
According to the The Washington Post, Sessions spoke to the Russian ambassador twice last year and did not mention the conversations in his confirmation hearings.
If the report is true, it’s “a good way to go to jail,” said Richard Painter, who served as White House ethics lawyer between 2005 and 2007 and is now law professor for the University of Minnesota.
Edit sorry late with the link
And the hits just keep on coming …
WATCH: Trump said he had nothing to do w/ Ukraine/RNC platform. JD Gordon, Trumps NatSec advisor just said Trump ordered it last March. pic.twitter.com/7zp7IpupwA
— Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017
— darth™ (@darth) March 2, 2017
so glad darth is back in our time of need. https://t.co/uvKrzXXXe1
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) March 3, 2017
re: #312 Unshaken Defiance
After all this ends, we won’t say (scandal)Gate anymore. We will say refer in some shorthand to this administrations decline and tumultuous fall.
I believe I used something Painter wrote when writing a piece on campaign finance reform for my boss. In fact, I paged it here.
Details on the GOP platform change to be Pro-Russia after Trump/Kislyak meeting at the RNC convention. Totally normal!! #TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/u1pzBWPKA3
— This Is Not Normal (@NetworkJunkyz) March 2, 2017
JD Gordon, Trump advisor who met with Rus Ambassador: Trump personally directed effort to change Ukraine stance. https://t.co/313XNLubs9
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 3, 2017
In other words, Trump just got exposed telling yet another whopper of a lie.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Key phrase at the end of the clip: “If there’s a FISA warrant, all of that (due process protections) goes out the window.”
Page 7 #TrumpRussia dossier
Things to note 1:It says Paul Manafort & Carter Page were colluding w/Russians #trumpleaks #russiagate #resist pic.twitter.com/2rqSgS57j0— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 14, 2017
Anybody keeping track of how much of the “fake news” dossier has become established fact? https://t.co/NLMeZfvL1J
— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) March 3, 2017
“So much for extreme vetting.” Via @maddow pic.twitter.com/XGZqZoACbZ
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 3, 2017
re: #319 FormerDirtDart
@KenLayne @PeterHamby so it’s gonna be wild when the proof of golden showers shows up
— Patrick Eckelkamp (@STL_PJ) March 3, 2017
re: #316 goddamnedfrank
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In other words, Trump just got exposed telling yet another whopper of a lie.
That Trump and senior Republican officials in Congress and in his administration are incorrigible liars stands proven beyond doubt.
The very least the mainstream media could do in response is start peppering their headlines with ‘notorious liar’ etc. when reporting on statements by Republicans. Of course the articles should rigorously back up the headlines.
re: #321 William Lewis
Oh, I dunno. Puppet-Gate sounds good to me.
Or perhaps Comrade-Gate? ;D
How would you say gate in Russian?
Sigh. Mike Pence used an AOL email account for official business. And it was hacked. https://t.co/Nbhq1sbHfM
— Mashable (@mashable) March 3, 2017
Rachel says the document was leaked to her from someone within the agency.
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
Which the Trump nuts will spin as all the more reason to ban all Muslims. You’ll never know which ones will radicalize.
Of course, that same logic doesn’t apply to mass murderers like Roof or any of the other serial killers or mad right wing bombers who radicalized under Christian identity/white supremacist/etc. doctrines.
re: #323 HappyWarrior
The GOP needs to be tarnished by this.
The pig-people won’t change, so any effect will have to be among swing voters and perhaps getting more people to vote than previously.
re: #325 Belafon
How would you say gate in Russian?
Knew I should have stuck with Russian in college.
re: #331 EPR-radar
The pig-people won’t change, so any effect will have to be among swing voters and perhaps getting more people to vote than previously.
Oh yes, the GOP base is a big part of the problem.
re: #321 William Lewis
From now on, all toilets will be known as Johns…
In that vein, all scandals of epic proportions will be known as Trumps.
This is the Mother of all Trumps.
With all of the Trumpian insanity breaking this week, I’m now wondering how long before the “golden showers” video appears on YouTube.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2017
Kislyak wasn’t caught on CSPAN camera for Trump Tower meeting w/Kushner and Flynn in December, so was deliberately brought in the back way
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 2, 2017
Oh, like you’ve never snuck a Russian ambassador and spy through the back door to avoid recording? https://t.co/svW08WgZwP
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 3, 2017
How do you say “back gate” in Russian?
re: #330 lawhawk
Which the Trump nuts will spin as all the more reason to ban all Muslims. You’ll never know which ones will radicalize.
Of course, that same logic doesn’t apply to mass murderers like Roof or any of the other serial killers or mad right wing bombers who radicalized under Christian identity/white supremacist/etc. doctrines.
And there is no federal law that covers homegrown terrorism. Only immigrant-related terrorism is terrorism.
re: #332 HappyWarrior
Knew I should have stuck with Russian in college.
I know only a few words of Russian, from hanging out with chess players while I was in grad school. They are appropriate for describing president* Trump’s maladministration.
re: #338 EPR-radar
I know only a few words of Russian, from hanging out with chess players while I was in grad school. They are appropriate for describing president* Trump’s maladministration.
I only remember da, nyet, tovarich, and vodka. Needless to say I did not last long.
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How do you say “back gate” in Russian?
Dunno, but I wouldn’t google that. At least not without some kind of filter.
A fish rots from the head on down. It’s no coincidence that Trump’s early Administration has become so mired in scandal and dysfunction.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 3, 2017
LOL, he does!
Jeff Sessions: “[I] was not meeting with Russian officials on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda.” #Tucker pic.twitter.com/n9D7no0bJH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
Seriously, the guy looks like the head Illinios Nazi from the Blues Brothers and his middle name is Beauregard
Let’s talk about that https://t.co/YnULzli4lY— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
I think the first questions that Session’s should be asked by any reporter should be something like:
“How many times, since 16 June 2015 have you met with any Russian government officials, or their surrogates, in any capacity?”
“Can you provide transcripts of what was discussed in these meetings?”
Jeff Sessions: “[I] was not meeting with Russian officials on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda.” #Tucker pic.twitter.com/n9D7no0bJH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
depends on what the meaning of “basis” is…. https://t.co/6nUfCUc2cl
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 3, 2017
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, he does!
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You fucking met with them during the RNC. Why should we fucking believe a word you say?
Man Republicans you really drained the swamp and created a Great Dismal one.
Articles on Sessions are more fun to read if you replace “recuse” with the f-word. Here, give it a try!
Go recuse yourself, Jeff Sessions. pic.twitter.com/NhagMXPwKJ— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 3, 2017
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
“[I] was not meeting with Russian officials on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda.”
How may caveats can you pack into one sentence?
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
“[I] was not meeting with Russian officials on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda.”
THAT seems oddly specific.
re: #324 EPR-radar
That Trump and senior Republican officials in Congress and in his administration are incorrigible liars stands proven beyond doubt.
Now would be a good time to primary every Republican Congresscritter with a New Republican Congressman untainted by scandal and purge the party of racists, hypocrites, and the batshit suicide crazies once and for all. Get folks like the Liberal Redneck to run, and start putting the Sky Grifters back into the churches and out of meddling in the federal government.
We got one shot at this, folks-let’s not blow it.
re: #348 jaunte
How may caveats can you pack into one sentence?
I dunno, but maybe you might just possibly be able to put in at least one, maybe more, I think,
“I didn’t consider it to be advancing the agenda, per se…”
re: #347 Interesting Times
It’s even better if we search and replace ‘recuse’ with ‘take a flying fuck at a rolling donut while riding a weed whacker’
re: #334 lawhawk
From now on, all toilets will be known as Johns…
Upding for “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” reference.
Totally random surprise racism is the best.
GOP Rep Says Holding Town Halls Is Like Being Yelled At In A Ritual By ‘Orientals’ https://t.co/HJlUqmgrxJ via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 3, 2017
re: #349 Blind Frog Belly White
THAT seems oddly specific.
You can dodge by either being super broad or super specific. Lawyers almost always go for super specific. In part because most of us think we’re smarter than everyone else and we can parse things out by being super specific. What most lawyers don’t realize is that when you do that, everyone else just comes to the conclusion that you’re full of shit.
Like when Bill Clinton pulled the “that depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”.
re: #356 goddamnedfrank
Totally random surprise racism is the best.
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re: #358 HappyWarrior
And it shows you like his fellow Illinoisian Kirk that blue state Republicans are no better than their red state counterparts when it comes to pathetic racism.
You have to be a racist piece of shit to vote for Republicans in general elections. This is true anywhere in the country, so the elected officials act accordingly.
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, he does!
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Henry Gibson as the head Nazi in Blues Brothers…
Oh yeah, dead ringer for Sessions:
re: #357 KGxvi
You can dodge by either being super broad or super specific. Lawyers almost always go for super specific. In part because most of us think we’re smarter than everyone else and we can parse things out by being super specific. What most lawyers don’t realize is that when you do that, everyone else just comes to the conclusion that you’re full of shit.
Like when Bill Clinton pulled the “that depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”.
In this case, only an idiot or a Republican (but I repeat myself) would believe that Session’s communications with the Russians weren’t related to the Trump candidacy.
I think even the pathetic mainstream media can follow this trail persistently enough to cause trouble for Sessions.
Want some whine with that cheese, Papa Bear?
O’Reilly: Democrats’ ‘Hypocrisy is on Full Display’ in Sessions Case | #oreillyfactor https://t.co/GyUVsl2Qxh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
Karma is having a field day with Fox News people.
Trump - we’re going to stop the drug dealers and illegals streaming across our borders.
Trump - we’re going to cut the Coast Guard budget by $1.3 billion (which is a ~10% cut).
Me: How does that improve national security when you’re cutting the service responsible for drug interdiction and border control of our nation’s waterways.
Yet that’s ~exactly~ what Trump’s proposing - cutting the Coast Guard budget by $1.3 billion. https://t.co/0Jnbh6nk1p
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 3, 2017
Anyone who buys Trump’s baffling BS is kidding themselves.
Kislyak wasn’t caught on CSPAN camera for Trump Tower meeting w/Kushner and Flynn in December, so was deliberately brought in the back way
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 2, 2017
@IsaacDovere Maybe they thought he was a musician? https://t.co/SkHMAtGmf7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2017
Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
…intentional. This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
…to win. The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. The real story…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
still waiting for him to finish his thought about this…it takes him a long time in between tweets…
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
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still waiting for him to finish his thought about this…it takes him a long time in between tweets…
there it is…WITCH HUNT!
…is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total “witch hunt!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
re: #362 EPR-radar
In this case, only an idiot or a Republicans (but I repeat myself) would believe that Session’s communications with the Russians weren’t related to the Trump candidacy.
I think even the pathetic mainstream media can follow this trail persistently enough to cause trouble for Sessions.
If this plays out the way I hope it does (with 85 Senators voting to convict on at least one article of impeachment), the ultimate question will be whether Pence gets swamped up in this. If he doesn’t, he could easily come in, fire any cabinet member or staffer implicated in the Russian affair and appoint new people. Anyone fired in that circumstance is going to be done with politics (in America, at least). If he does get swallowed up in this, then the question becomes, who will be the Speaker when it happens?
@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Tyxt9WVbVt
— Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) March 3, 2017
You don’t say… pic.twitter.com/GxhRnZLjs1
— JC Tarp (@jctwritesstuff) March 3, 2017
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
there it is…WITCH HUNT!
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The thought and format of those tweets indicates that it’s not Trump saying that. That is somebody in communications spinning like a 45. No caps, no exclamation points, no one word statements like “SAD!”. C’mon guys, you can better capture the president’s voice.
re: #373 KGxvi
The thought and format of those tweets indicates that it’s not Trump saying that. That is somebody in communications spinning like a 45. No caps, no exclamation points, no one word statements like “SAD!”. C’mon guys, you can better capture the president’s voice.
The tweets are from the Android.
It’s him wandering around the WH in his bathrobe.
…is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total “witch hunt!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
It took you 17 labored minutes to emit this laughable series of excuses. Sad! @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/6111kROmqx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2017
Tomorrow’s front…
WELL, RECUUUSE ME! https://t.co/jOg7UhOphx@jeffsessions: I’ll step aside from probe of @realdonaldtrump ties to Russia pic.twitter.com/m3dxtxK66o— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 3, 2017
You know Russian Amb Kislyak who Jeff Sessions met w/ last year? He was on the House flr on Tues ahead of Trump’s #JointAddress (Via Getty): pic.twitter.com/xpKiLOuivt
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 2, 2017
Who blew a hole in Session’s perjury defense today? Answer @TheLastWord 10pm.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 3, 2017
Headline Idea: Wise Men Say “FOOLS! RUSSIAN!”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 3, 2017
…is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total “witch hunt!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017
It’s your people leaking. And Sessions confirmed the meeting. You have no personnel judgment at all, do you? https://t.co/Jvt6T8cGQb
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 3, 2017
re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth
The tweets are from the Android.
It’s him wandering around the WH in his bathrobe.
Possible, but I think they’re too coherent, the format of ellipses is not something I’ve seen him do, and again, they lack the usual Trumpisms.
re: #370 KGxvi
If this plays out the way I hope it does (with 85 Senators voting to convict on at least one article of impeachment), the ultimate question will be whether Pence gets swamped up in this.
The real question that needs to be asked is how long can this hold out for before the I-trigger gets pulled?
re: #365 Eric The Fruit Bat
Want some whine with that cheese, Papa Bear?
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Karma is having a field day with Fox News people.
Lynch A) wasn’t a Clinton campaign official and B) didn’t perjure herself under oath. Fuck off Billy.
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump’s dinner must not be agreeing with him.
breaking image of jeff sessions getting arrested for treason pic.twitter.com/pbcmC1gVae
— INVISIGOTH (@spacecrone) March 2, 2017
re: #384 Eric The Fruit Bat
The real question that needs to be asked is how long can this hold out for before the I-trigger gets pulled?
Until he’s signed every bill that the Granny Starver needs to destroy the social structure of America.
re: #382 KGxvi
Possible, but I think they’re too coherent, the format of ellipses is not something I’ve seen him do, and again, they lack the usual Trumpisms.
The other clue that it is him, is how much time there is between tweets.
It is now fairly plain that Republican concern for the security of private e-mail servers may have been insincere.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 3, 2017
Hah
re: #388 William Lewis
Until he’s signed every bill that the Granny Starver needs to destroy the social structure of America.
You forgot the prefix “Zombie-eyed.”
You’re welcome. (:
Life comes at you очень быстро pic.twitter.com/RJLeolvTWF
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 3, 2017
blasphemy use of the VB dolls…
The unfolding Trump Russian story reminds me of a Russian nested Matryoshka doll. How many dolls do we have to reveal before we reach Trump? pic.twitter.com/bE6FkxqmN5
— Steve Redmond (@sjredmond) March 3, 2017
re: #378 Lidane
He was there to remind Trump who’s boss.
re: #384 Eric The Fruit Bat
The real question that needs to be asked is how long can this hold out for before the I-trigger gets pulled?
The GOP leadership will pull the trigger as soon as they determine their agenda is in danger. McConnell isn’t up until 2020, and by then he’ll be almost 80. Ryan will probably make a deal with Pence that if this happens, he gets to be VP or they’ll find a way to implicate him in the affair as well (making Ryan the next POTUS). In the Ryan as VP scenario, I could see something where Pence says he won’t run in 2020 in order to help the country put all this behind us.
Since November 8th, Election Day, the Stock Market has posted $3.2 trillion in GAINS and consumer confidence is at a 15 year high. Jobs!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2017
Which of your policies did that?
or was it because you tweeted “JOBS”? https://t.co/77zxV49V8j— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 3, 2017
‘It is News’: Fox’s Bret Baier Pushes Back Against Viewers Who Say Russia Stories Are ‘Fake News’ https://t.co/t9mOEjZlaF (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/BND4aFUiPe
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 3, 2017
re: #402 Lidane
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Could have fooled me Mr. I have an even more punchable face than Sean Hannity.
@maramcewin And the march, that was amazing.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) March 3, 2017
re: #402 Lidane
That’s sad. You put so much time in building an army/audience of zombie fake news consumers and one day they turn on their creator.
re: #404 HappyWarrior
Could have fooled me Mr. I have an even more punchable face than Sean Hannity.
I’m fairly certain that there’s nobody in media that has a more punchable face than Hannity. I think it’s because his face is square and somewhat… meaty… reminds me of a heavy punching bag.
re: #393 jaunte
I love the internet because it allows the best people to get a chance to be great:
@CharlesPPierce The real crime here is that we have to live with the knowledge that our leaders still use AOL.
— Kas (@aformist) March 3, 2017
re: #407 KGxvi
I’m fairly certain that there’s nobody in media that has a more punchable face than Hannity. I think it’s because his face is square and somewhat… meaty… reminds me of a heavy punching bag.
Okay, good point. Baier does have a qutie punchable face tho.
re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth
The tweets are from the Android.
It’s him wandering around the WH in his bathrobe.
A 300 some pound guy on the bed in the White House bedroom.
You don’t know!
re: #400 KGxvi
Bottom Line is that the GOP has until the mid-terms to ram their heinous agenda through. With the Congresscriters taking heat and the nearly-hourly scandals of the Trump administration occurring, what chance do they have of seriously pulling that off?
re: #410 ObserverArt
A 300 some pound guy on the bed in the White House bedroom.
You don’t know!
and your point?
;)
re: #401 Kragar
The market is up because the market movers are doing all they can to pump up an asset bubble and take profit before the inevitable Trump-induced crash.
re: #411 Eric The Fruit Bat
Bottom Line is that the GOP has until the mid-terms to ram their heinous agenda through. With the Congresscriters taking heat and the nearly-hourly scandals of the Trump administration occurring, what chance do they have of seriously pulling that off?
Not much of one at all. And they run another risk: if they try and push everything through between now and the midterms (or more accurately, the primaries for the midterms), and things go to shit, they risk losing elections and power. Dismantling government, like they want to, has to be done slowly, so people don’t really notice until it’s too late. Doing it all at once and the shit hitting the fan, that’s a recipe for losing 300 seats in the House and 70 in the Senate.
re: #411 Eric The Fruit Bat
Bottom Line is that the GOP has until the mid-terms to ram their heinous agenda through. With the Congresscriters taking heat and the nearly-hourly scandals of the Trump administration occurring, what chance do they have of seriously pulling that off?
Way the Hell too high a chance.
Just like Trump had way the Hell too high a chance of winning the 2016 election.
Important OT: TechCrunch: As Supreme Court case nears, tech takes a stand for transgender rights
Many of tech’s largest and most powerful companies have signed an amicus brief in support of transgender student Gavin Grimm as the first case on transgender rights makes its way to the highest court in the land later this month.
Following the news that Apple was drumming up interest in such a brief, a full list reveals 54 U.S. companies have signed on to date. The amicus brief, authored by law firm BakerHostetler, argues in support of 17-year-old plaintiff Gavin Grimm, a transgender Virginia high school student who alleges that his school board violated Title IX when it denied him access to the boy’s restroom at his school.
Apple in particular took initiative in mobilizing the technology community around the upcoming Supreme Court case, working with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to reach out to potential signatories and securing their commitments to signing on. The “friend of the court” brief is dominated by well-known names in tech, but includes some names beyond the industry, including clothing retailer The Gap, eyewear designer Warby Parker and homewares store Williams-Sonoma.
Last week, many tech companies were openly critical of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind guidance that instructed schools to allow trans students to use the restroom that matches their gender identity.
“We invest in the practice of inclusive diversity to ensure we are supporting and incorporating the broadest set of perspectives throughout our corporate community,” said Yahoo’s Global Head of Inclusive Diversity Margenett Moore-Roberts, in a comment on Yahoo and Tumblr’s decision to join the brief. “As part of this philosophy, we stand with Gavin and all transgender people seeking equality.”
re: #414 KGxvi
Not much of one at all. And they run another risk: if they try and push everything through between now and the midterms (or more accurately, the primaries for the midterms), and things go to shit, they risk losing elections and power. Dismantling government, like they want to, has to be done slowly, so people don’t really notice until it’s too late. Doing it all at once and the shit hitting the fan, that’s a recipe for losing 300 seats in the House and 70 in the Senate.
I’d dearly love to see the GOP gerrymanders in the House backfire on that party of corrupt, incompetent racists.
However, that will take a real effort from the Democrats in every house district, which will be quite the change from past (D) practice.
re: #417 EPR-radar
I’d dearly love to see the GOP gerrymanders in the House backfire on that party of corrupt, incompetent racists.
However, that will take a real effort from the Democrats in every house district, which will be quite the change from past (D) practice.
Yes, but they are running someone in Price’s district.
re: #417 EPR-radar
However, that will take a real effort from the Democrats in every house district, which will be quite the change from past (D) practice.
That’s why you need to primary the incumbent Republicans and throw them out with sane moderate to liberal Republicans. And yes, that means primarying the spineless zombie-eyed granny starver Paul Ryan.
re: #420 ObserverArt
Of course there is YouTube of it…
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I was thinking more along the lines of “well…that could be an accurate description of the yam himself…”
Lawrence is nailing Sessions to the wall right now.
re: #421 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was thinking more along the lines of “well…that could be an accurate description of the yam himself…”
Yep…he’s my 300 pounder.
Lawrence quoting the yam about Sessions: “he could have stated it more accurately…”
Lawrence says that means the yam admits Sessions lied.
re: #419 Eric The Fruit Bat
That’s why you need to primary the incumbent Republicans and throw them out.
Problem is, who/what is going to replace said thrown-out Republicans? It would be nice to assume that the seat would be filled by a Democrat, but what are the odds that (to our enduring national disgrace) the Republicans thus primaried won’t simply be succeeded by even more wingnuttier Trumpistas?
Official Numbers are in: More people have met with the Russians than were at Trump’s Inauguration.#Sessions #TrumpRussia Kushner Kislyak
— Frederick Douglass (@HITEXECUTIVE) March 3, 2017
Just had to page this - VP Mike Pence used a private email server.
On it, he discussed terrorism and homeland security matters.
It was hacked.
By a Filipino “I’m lost in a foreign country! Please wire money!” scammer.
There will be no investigation. Move along because fuck you, that’s why.
Oh yeah - here’s the original tweet that alerted me to this. Made me yell at my poor kitteh. And drink.
By the way, give it up for Tony Cook & the Indianapolis Star: this is some top notch reporting https://t.co/0CfjoTE0jn
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) March 3, 2017
I am not healthy these days.
re: #413 EPR-radar
The market is up because the market movers are doing all they can to pump up an asset bubble and take profit before the inevitable Trump-induced crash.
Let’s not leave the Eurozone out of the fun and frivolities, shall we? After all, we got Prime Minister Teresa May ready to pull the trigger on Article 50, destroying the UK economy starting the negotiation process of striking new trade deals between the UK and its Eurozone trading partners……
(And then there’s Deutsche Bank (Trump’s alleged main bank)-but we won’t go there right now…..)
re: #334 lawhawk
From now on, all toilets will be known as Johns…
In that vein, all scandals of epic proportions will be known as Trumps.
This is the Mother of all Trumps.
Obligatory:
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, he does!
Jeff Sessions: “[I] was not meeting with Russian officials on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda.” #Tucker pic.twitter.com
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
Uh-huh…and I’m the goddamn queen of England!
frmr Trump adviser tells @ChrisLHayes he met w/Russia Amb; on Feb 15 he told me he met w/NO Russian ofcls last yr https://t.co/sjQXxEvSmb
— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) March 3, 2017
New photo of the Russian official that nobody can remember meeting or talking to pic.twitter.com/E7XW103dvR
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 2, 2017
re: #426 Jay C
I have modified my response since my initial post. I know it’s a reach……
Sessions says he met Russians at convention as senator. But he used campaign $ to pay for it https://t.co/NfaIQgdJZN pic.twitter.com/fNtABmWPtL
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 3, 2017
Oops
Heh.
I found him, the saddest Nazi. pic.twitter.com/mIDY7DRTP0
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 3, 2017
re: #437 Lidane
What is it with alt-right/Nazi’s and anime? I don’t get it, don’t know how it started…I’z confused.
Carter Page on @MSNBC: “I’m not going to deny that I met Kislyak.” Next breath: “I may have met him, it may have been in Cleveland.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 3, 2017
Page says he doesn’t know “anything about those accusations” when @chrislhayes asks whether he believes Russia tried to influence election.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 3, 2017
re: #438 Eric The Fruit Bat
What is it with alt-right/Nazi’s and anime? I don’t get it, don’t know how it started…I’z confused.
Real women have opinions and rights and stuff.
Oh - won’t you look at the happy couple!!
In Russia.
2014
pic.twitter.com/iHFhQWucWL— Thomas B. Malone (@TBrianMalone) March 3, 2017
@Lubchansky i figured out why this tweet haunts me so much pic.twitter.com/ce25jnKnOw
— chris randle (@randlechris) March 2, 2017
Chilling read…….(stolen from fellow travelers at Balloon Juice)
NYTimes: Department of Justification
Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, have long shared a vision for remaking America. Now the nation’s top law-enforcement agency can serve as a tool for enacting it.
One night in September 2014, when he was chief executive of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon hosted cocktails and dinner at the Washington townhouse where he lived, a mansion near the Supreme Court that he liked to call the Breitbart Embassy. Beneath elaborate chandeliers and flanked by gold drapes and stately oil paintings, Jeff Sessions, then a senator from Alabama, sat next to the guest of honor: Nigel Farage, the insurgent British politician, who first met Sessions two years earlier when Bannon introduced them. Farage was building support for his right-wing party by complaining in the British press about “uncontrolled mass immigration.” Sessions, like other attendees, was celebrating the recent collapse in Congress of bipartisan immigration reform, which would have provided a path to citizenship for some undocumented people. At the dinner, Sessions told a writer for Vice, Reid Cherlin, that Bannon’s site was instrumental in defeating the measure. Sessions read Breitbart almost every day, he explained, because it was “putting out cutting-edge information.”
Bannon’s role in blocking the reform had gone beyond sympathetic coverage on his site. Over the previous year, he, Sessions and one of Sessions’s top aides, Stephen Miller, spent “an enormous amount of time” meeting in person, “developing plans and messaging and strategy,” as Miller later explained to Rosie Gray in The Atlantic. Breitbart writers also reportedly met with Sessions’s staff for a weekly happy hour at the Union Pub. For most Republicans in Washington, immigration was an issue they wished would go away, a persistent source of conflict between the party’s elites, who saw it as a straightforward economic good, and its middle-class voting base, who mistrusted the effects of immigration on employment. But for Bannon, Sessions and Miller, immigration was a galvanizing issue, lying at the center of their apparent vision for reshaping the United States by tethering it to its European and Christian origins. (None of them would comment for this article.) That September evening, as they celebrated the collapse of the reform effort — and the rise of Farage, whose own anti-immigration party in Britain represented the new brand of nativism — it felt like the beginning of something new. “I was privileged enough to be at it,” Miller said about the gathering last June, while a guest on Breitbart’s SiriusXM radio show. “It’s going to sound like a motivational speech, but it’s true. To all the voters out there: The only limits to what we can achieve is what we believe we can achieve.”
The answer to what they could achieve, of course, is now obvious: everything. Bannon and Miller are ensconced in the West Wing, as arguably the two most influential policy advisers to Donald J. Trump. And Jeff Sessions is now the attorney general of the United States. The genesis of their working relationship is crucial to understanding the far-reaching domestic goals of the Trump presidency and how the law may be used to attain them over the next four years. Bannon and Sessions have effectively presented the country’s changing demographics — the rising number of minority and foreign-born residents — as America’s chief internal threat. Sessions has long been an outlier in his party on this subject; in 2013, when his Republican colleagues were talking primarily about curbing illegal immigration, he offered a proposal to curb legal immigration. (It failed in committee, 17 to one.)…
At a time when other, more libertarian conservatives had begun to embrace critiques of the criminal-justice system, each man saw crime as yet another way that the fabric of society was deteriorating. While Bannon was chief executive, Breitbart created a specific tag for articles called “black crime” and ran article after article demonizing the Black Lives Matter movement (calling protesters “blood-lusting junkies”) and showing Latino immigrants as violent (“One Sex Offender Illegal Alien Caught After Another Alleged Offender Legalized”). The site also frequently covered Sessions’s condemnations of criminal-justice reform. Opposing a bipartisan bill to reduce sentences for some nonviolent drug offenses, Sessions said last May that Republican supporters of the legislation “in no way represent the conservative movement” and warned against “signing death warrants for thousands of American innocent citizens.”
As the Republican primary season progressed, it became clear to Sessions and Bannon that Trump could be the vessel for their brand of Republicanism. Back in August 2015, Bannon emailed a friend, according to The Daily Beast, that while he felt good about other candidates like Ted Cruz, he was ready to pick Trump, because he was “a nationalist who embraces” Sessions’s immigration plan. Six months later, Sessions became the first senator to endorse Trump for president. Last August, Sessions helped create a new immigration policy for Trump, which called for reducing immigration by, among other things, tightening the rules about visas for high-skilled workers. That same month, Bannon took over Trump’s campaign.
Their shared view was central to Trump’s Inaugural Address, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, Bannon and Miller principally wrote…
It is through the Justice Department that the administration is likely to advance its nationalist plans — to strengthen the grip of law enforcement, raise barriers to voting and significantly reduce all forms of immigration, promoting what seems to be a longstanding desire to reassert the country’s European and Christian heritage. It’s not an accident that Sessions, who presumably could have chosen from a number of plum assignments, opted for the role of attorney general. The Department of Justice is the most valuable perch from which to transform the country in the way he and Bannon have wanted. With an exaggerated threat of disorder looming, the nation’s top law-enforcement agency could become a machine for trying to fundamentally change who gets to be an American and what rights they can enjoy…
Keith Ellison isn’t just calling for Sessions’ resignation, he’s bringing up jail time: pic.twitter.com/C8Xmr31Dmi
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) March 2, 2017
re: #354 EPR-radar
It’s even better if we search and replace ‘recuse’ with ‘take a flying fuck at a rolling donut while riding a weed whacker’
OK, you win the “memorable phrase on the internet that I saw today.”
The contest is now closed.
Sorry for posting the Pence stuff without reading thru the whole thread. Figures that you’d all be on this way, way faster than I was.
Newt Gingrich is on Hannity saying the Sessions Russia meetings — which his spokeswoman confirmed and led to recusal — were “all fake.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 3, 2017
re: #435 Eric The Fruit Bat
I have modified my response since my initial post. I know it’s a reach……
So I see, and yeah, “a reach”?? Finding any appreciable numbers of ” sane moderate to liberal Republicans”?? Good luck with that….
this is a real graphic on rush limbaugh’s website AND I AM HERE FOR IT pic.twitter.com/ZcXHRydJob
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2017
Sessions: Meeting with Russian envoy ‘hyped beyond reason’; criticism ‘unfair’ https://t.co/7TaGg6QEvP pic.twitter.com/2qF1lA4Xy4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2017
Suck it up, Beauregard. https://t.co/oNtoECyJ5O
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #448 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shadow government my ass. That’s just Democracy.
re: #438 Eric The Fruit Bat
What is it with alt-right/Nazi’s and anime? I don’t get it, don’t know how it started…I’z confused.
They’re Asian, not American.
I do find it interesting, since so many of the anime women can kick your and about 10K of your friends’ butts. One of the things that fascinates me about a lot of anime and manga is how the hot super powerful girl is attracted to the barely average boy. The writers know their audience (and are probably the boy in the story).
The DHS doc that @maddow just reported on is here: https://t.co/XfUWQzei0j
— Cory Gnazzo (@CoryGn) March 3, 2017
re: #448 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rush is not going to let go of the scary black man imagery just because a president steps down.
White House says Keystone XL is exempt from Trump’s “buy American” requirements, @bjlefebvre reports - https://t.co/dId1mV5RZV
— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) March 3, 2017
re: #447 Jay C
Finding any appreciable numbers of ” sane moderate to liberal Republicans”?? Good luck with that….
Someome has to take back the GOP from the God-botheres and Norquists/NRA-fetishers…..
“My oath demands I ride around the desert in my pickup looking for Mexicans!”
“My oath demands I keep Russians out of the WH.”
“TRAITOR!”— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 3, 2017
re: #437 Lidane
@ParkerMolloy that pillow has seen some terrible, terrible things
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) March 3, 2017
Ok so the bill has been moved to a new secret location after the old secret location got too much heat. The hunt continues.
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) March 2, 2017
So, the new healthcare is going to be like the Patriot Act. It’s gonna keep us safe, but we can’t know what’s in it. Riiiiight. https://t.co/VFNYX06APH
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2017
re: #455 Backwoods_Sleuth
@AndrewRestuccia
White House says Keystone XL is exempt from Trump’s “buy American” requirements, @bjlefebvre reports
Not like he personally stated that they were going to build it with US steel just two days ago during a national address…
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re: #455 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every story you read lately seems to lead back to…
“… while the pipe may be made in the U.S., as DeSmog has shown in previous investigations, ownership tells a different story. Enter: TMK IPSCO, a massive producer of steel for U.S. oil country tubular goods (OCTG) and line pipe, and a subsidiary of TMK Group. A DeSmog investigation has found ties between TMK Group’s Board of Directors and Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
desmogblog.com
“TMK IPSCO, which has said it wants to be a direct competitor of U.S. Steel Corporation in the Marcellus, also makes steel for companies doing fracking in the Bakken Shale basin, located primarily in North Dakota.
TMK Group also has a subsidiary named TMK Completions, which manufactures “multi-stage completion systems and tools for both uncemented and cemented well completion designs” for the fracking process. TMK did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.”
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
@pdmcleod So this is like a Seder treasure hunt, but for adults?
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) March 3, 2017
re: #448 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every time I turn on Limbaugh for a few minutes (all I can stand since the election) he is ranting about Obama. Every. Single. Time.
A Mexican lawmaker climbed the border wall to prove a point to Trump https://t.co/lFeRQhStdd pic.twitter.com/1SAgVCHVAu
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2017
re: #464 bratwurst
Every time I turn on Limbaugh for a few minutes (all I can stand since the election) he is ranting about Obama. Every. Single. Time.
I was going to make a jibe about uptight old white guys and “Once you try black…”…but fuck it. He isn’t worth the effort.
Iowa officials say Gary Johnson received enough votes in 2016 to earn Libertarians political party status in state. https://t.co/bvCjvV3CSJ pic.twitter.com/tId18OGrPW
— ABC News (@ABC) March 3, 2017
Lincoln’s handwritten second inaugural address, delivered this week 1865: pic.twitter.com/JqBAKzvbCv
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 3, 2017
re: #456 Eric The Fruit Bat
Someome has to take back the GOP from the God-botheres and Norquists/NRA-fetishers…..
Esquire: Here’s a Conservative Republican I’d Vote For
To me, the best work is found in the story of Tom Brewer, a 58-year old Lakota man who made a career in the Army and has come home to run for the state senate. (Nebraska never has had a Native in its state senate.) He is riding a mule as his campaign vehicle of choice. His story is an amazing one.
Back then, there were few choices for Indian youth like him, a direct descendant of the famed Sioux Chief Red Cloud. So when a military recruiter came calling, Brewer did the only thing he could think of: He signed up for a hitch, donning the uniform of the country that had destroyed his own. “The Lakota spirit is a warrior spirit and that’s what drew me to the military,” Brewer says. “We’re a warrior culture, and if you’re going to be a warrior, you should do it in uniform.” And so he did, serving 13 tours of duty. Six in Afghanistan. Countless battle wounds. Shot seven times. Blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade. Traumatic brain injury. Two purple hearts and a bronze medal.
So, what have you done for us lately, Tom?Heroes and Horses. It was perfect - a program founded in 2013 and funded by various sponsors that relied on horses and mules to help heal the tormented psyches of wounded war veterans. He’d heard about it through Soldier Angels, an umbrella organization that matches veterans with programs designed to help ease their return to civilian life. The veterans who participate in Heroes and Horses spend several days in Montana learning how to ride, saddle, pack and care for a horse, and then navigate through the mountains on horseback. They also learn the traditional Native way of doing things like starting a fire. Brewer said the idea behind it is to remind the veterans they are capable, that they still have a purpose. Another idea is to use stress as a weapon to help confront the crippling PTSD that saddles many veterans. “We used this stress to give the men confidence in themselves,” Brewer explained. “We rejuvenated them to believe in themselves so the thought of suicide was no longer there.”
Another story.Suddenly, a mother grizzly and her cubs came out of the woods. Brewer was leading the group and summoned the other group leader, Kail Mantle, from the rear. But his horse, Rancher, lost its footing on the narrow path, sliding down the steep, rocky mountain. A dead tree branch skewered the horse’s heart, spraying blood everywhere “like you had opened a hose from your sprinkler or something,” Brewer said. Recalled Anna Mann, a female veteran of the group: “The veteran between Tom and I was starting to experience some serious symptoms from the blood and the yelling and the screaming. So I had to talk the veteran down with my words and tone and get them to look away, look at me, look at their horse.” Brewer and Mantle got the pack saddle off the horse and slowly led the women down the mountain. The grizzly followed behind, staring ominously. “It was nice to know those skills never leave you, of keeping your cool while the world is going pear-shaped,” Mann said.
Tom Brewer is a conservative Republican and I couldn’t care less. I’d walk ahead of a grizzly to vote for this tough old bird. Read the whole thing, as the kidz say. And, thanks to a helpful feature that comes with the series, in the time it took to write these 900-odd words, 77 cans of beer were sold in the stores of White Clay, Nebraska. Oops, sorry, we’re up to 88 now, and climbing.
Sessions, asked if Putin and the Russians wanted Trump to win, says: “I don’t have any idea, Tucker. You’d have to ask them.”
— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 3, 2017
With this answer Sessions dismissing consensus of US spy agencies. And FBI. Which he oversees. https://t.co/uQ4VbZSQtW
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) March 3, 2017
#GreatLakes #ice cover on March 1 averages ~43% over the period of record — more than any other day. Today, we’re at 4.5%. pic.twitter.com/2bmW1GNPfs
— GL Env Research Lab (@NOAA_GLERL) March 1, 2017
Rand Paul on Sessions controversy: Time to move on https://t.co/0QYMExlXAz pic.twitter.com/iyUAEZFAT3
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2017
re: #455 Backwoods_Sleuth
White House says Keystone XL is exempt from Trump’s “buy American” requirements
Christ, didn’t he just brag that up less than a week ago? A couple different times?
What… is going on here pic.twitter.com/WW1U59Zqip
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) March 3, 2017
Here’s an example of the kind of madness that hides behind the bland phrase “onerous regulations.” Sid Miller and his yahoo buddies want to fight feral hogs by spreading rat poison all over Texas.
feral boars were brought to the United States to be hunted for sport before they proliferated across Texas and other states.
Sounds like a problem the sport hunters should have to solve.
re: #474 FormerDirtDart
And the apple didn’t fall all that far from the tree here, either. Racist as his old man is.
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“Even if only hogs can get to the bait, LaCour said, “they’re going to drop crumbs on the outside.” Those crumbs might then be eaten by rodents, which might be eaten by birds, and thus warfarin could spread throughout the ecosystem.People should be concerned too, LaCour said: Millions take low doses of warfarin, like Coumadin, to prevent blood clots. Ingesting more from poisoned game could be “very problematic,” he said.
Miller isn’t worried.”
Of course he isn’t.
re: #35 teleskiguy
One of my brother’s childhood friends was in that movie - Slash (blue/white haired punk dude). He still lives in Squaw Valley - never see him but keep hoping he’ll come over to our mountain so I can run some laps with him. Great fuckin’ skier.
Arrest made in ‘You live in Trump country now’ gay-bashing attack
Kevin Seymour and Kevin Price told police that about 1 a.m. on Feb. 23, they were riding bicycles in the 700 block of Duval when they saw a man swerving on a rented scooter. Seymour says he shouted to warn the scooter rider, identified by police as Davis, that he almost hit a car. Davis yelled, “You guys are a couple of fags,” “I bet you faggots voted for that bitch Hillary” and “You live in Trump country now,” police say.
When Seymour threatened to call police, Davis allegedly told him, “If you do that, I’ll cut you up.”
At one point, the scooter rider struck the rear tire of Seymour’s bike, knocking him to the ground. Seymour and Price got the scooter tag number before he fled.
re: #482 darthstar
I’ve lost count of how many days I’ve had good top-to-bottom powder. The tours I’ve done on Thompson Divide:
re: #265 steve_davis
there’s actually a kind of easter egg in that album. “The Afternoon” has the mega-hit at the front, but it’s paired up with a really cool prelude to “Evening” that is just absolutely mellow and haunting as hell. And of course, then there’s Nights in White Satin, which was so good, it didn’t even become a massive hit until sometime in 1972 when it got re-released as a single for some reason. I guess it was just one of those songs that needed time for people to appreciate it.
“Another Morning” is my favorite on that album (and yes, I owned the ALBUM back in the days, kidlets.) I could listen to that song over and over—then one night I was at a party with a lot of my druggie friends, and they all discovered it for the first time (oooh, it sounds like dolphins, or some such shit) and I was so excited that everyone loved my favorite song—then I realized I was the only one there who wasn’t stoned out of my mind. Memories.
Trump admin delays plan to prevent invasive Asian carp from reaching Great Lakes at request of cargo shippers https://t.co/NLiQiEUp2x pic.twitter.com/ctyBPlVbK3
— Michael Gerrard (@MichaelGerrard) March 3, 2017
re: #265 steve_davis
there’s actually a kind of easter egg in that album. “The Afternoon” has the mega-hit at the front, but it’s paired up with a really cool prelude to “Evening” that is just absolutely mellow and haunting as hell. And of course, then there’s Nights in White Satin, which was so good, it didn’t even become a massive hit until sometime in 1972 when it got re-released as a single for some reason. I guess it was just one of those songs that needed time for people to appreciate it.
My strongest memory of ‘Nights In White Satin’ is from a prom in NW MN (I think it was Crookston) that my band played in 1977 or so. They used Nights In White Satin as the processional march and they just kept going on and on and on for about 50 minutes before they were done and we could stop playing the song.
‘Never reaching the end’ indeed.
re: #487 jaunte
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MN is desperately trying to stop Asian carp from getting into the upper Mississippi. This is a really stupid move. They’re doing so much intentional damage.
re: #490 stpaulbear
MN is desperately trying to stop Asian carp from getting into the upper Mississippi. This is a really stupid move. They’re doing so much intentional damage.
These creatures are destroying our local ecosystems (carp/congress)
re: #489 stpaulbear
My strongest memory of ‘Nights In White Satin’ is from a prom in NW MN (I think it was Crookston) that my band played in 1977 or so. They used Nights In White Satin as the processional march and they just kept going on and on and on for about 50 minutes before they were done and we could stop playing the song.
‘Never reaching the end’ indeed.
‘Nights in White Satin’ was one of the required prom songs in the early 70’s — classic excuse for a snuggling slow-dance shuffle even if you had two left feet. (See also ‘Cherish’, ‘Never My Love’ and ‘Precious and Few’)
Ah, memories. ‘Days’ is one of the albums engrained in my personal soundtrack, so it only takes a few notes to start the flashbacks.
re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth
Henry Gibson as the head Nazi in Blues Brothers…
Oh yeah, dead ringer for Sessions
Here he is, with his boss…
re: #488 Eric The Fruit Bat
I have a dts-encoded CD of that album I bought when it first came out-it was wild when I first played it to hear the orchestra sound coming out from teh rear surrounds-gawd only know what it would be like under some indica….
I actually had two versions of the album—stereo and quadrophonic—of course, I never had a quad sound system, so couldn’t tell the difference.
Best back-to-back concerts I attended were at Blossom—Moody Blues one night; Jimmy Buffett the next.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #494 BeachDem
I actually had two versions of the album—stereo and quadrophonic—of course, I never had a quad sound system, so couldn’t tell the difference.
Best back-to-back concerts I attended were at Blossom—Moody Blues one night; Jimmy Buffett the next.
Sighs in envy! But I did get to see the Moody Blues at Red Rocks, so I can die content.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
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