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NEW - Trump reached out to Bharara on Thursday. Bharara alerted Sessions office given protocols re contact. https://t.co/WVmF3Knqrj
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 12, 2017
Highly inappropriate. Trump shouldn’t be calling US attorneys in any event, but especially with his campaign under active DOJ investigation. https://t.co/gUPZzsSTDj
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 12, 2017
what a clusterh*ck
Trump just sees it as firing another brown person…
This is the first chance I’ve had to see the entire clip.
When the baby comes into the room in the walker, LOLOLOLOL!!!
And mom does indeed have some mad ninja skills.
Our favourite live TV moment of the week by far 👶😂 pic.twitter.com/GXSCUl5hYI
— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) March 10, 2017
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t know why he pushed away his daughter. The very essence of a “home office” is the “home” part.
I have confirmed this on Snopes, it is true.
A baseball re-enactment of how Trump won the election.
This video is basically a baseball reenactment of how Trump got nominated and won the election. pic.twitter.com/v9jFyHinkJ
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) March 11, 2017
As far as pushing the girl back in her face, without turning around and looking, the dad could tell his hand was at face level and lowered his hand to her chest for the push.
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump just sees it as firing another brown person…
You know Trump loved the shit out of doing the deed.
Trump makes his ninth golf course visit as president. He’s been in office seven weeks.https://t.co/Cru95dTeCU pic.twitter.com/rGq7gBxQSh
— The Hill (@thehill) March 11, 2017
.@POTUS met with senior members of his team to discuss #RepealAndReplace #Immigration - the picture in this tweet misleading and wrong https://t.co/xBGKX6CWpH
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) March 12, 2017
Perhaps there’d be less confusion if they held meetings at the White House instead of at Trump golf courses. https://t.co/ntBmhp1imF
— Neil Frankham (@Arkenor) March 12, 2017
Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge, who recorded ‘We Are Family’, dies at 60 https://t.co/TGDVGRsFl9 pic.twitter.com/rrKKNJU9vH
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 12, 2017
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #10 FormerDirtDart
That’s sad. Danced my ass off to that song with sorority sisters back in the day.
Swallow what you’re drinking, make sure you’re seated
Megyn Kelly wants to be NBC’s answer to Oprah Winfrey, is seeking to ditch hard news in favour of ‘helping people’ https://t.co/ENsMJH8vP2 pic.twitter.com/GIzq3VaHm4
— Olivia Messer (@OliviaMesser) March 10, 2017
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
Swallow what you’re drinking, make sure you’re seated
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Thanks for that warning.
Those crazy rabid Bernie Sanders supporters we saw posting crazy fake stories and conspiracy theories during the campaign, many of which were picked up and circulated by people like Shaun King? A lot of them were probably Russian trolls.
The Bernie Sanders Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From?
WASHINGTON ― Last June, John Mattes started noticing something coursing like a virus through the Facebook page he helped administer for Bernie Sanders fans in San Diego. People with no apparent ties to California were friending the page and sharing links from unfamiliar sites full of anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda.
The stories they posted weren’t the normal complaints he was used to seeing as the Vermont senator and the former secretary of state fought out the Democratic presidential primary. These stories alleged that Clinton had murdered her political opponents and used body doubles.
Mattes, 66, had been a television reporter and Senate investigator in previous lives. He put his expertise in unmasking fraudsters to work. At first, he suspected that the sites were created by the old Clinton haters from the ’90s ― what Hillary Clinton had dubbed “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
But when Mattes started tracking down the sites’ domain registrations, the trail led to Macedonia and Albania. In mid-September, he emailed a few of his private investigator friends with a list of the sites. “Very creepy and i do not think Koch brothers,” he wrote.
Mattes and his friends didn’t know what to make of his findings. He couldn’t get his mind around the possibility that trolls overseas might be trying to sway a bunch of Southern Californians who supported Sanders’ run for president. “I may be a dark cynic and I may have been an investigative reporter for a long time, but this was too dark ― and too unbelievable and most upsetting,” he said. “What was I to do with this?”
By late October, Mattes said he’d traced 40 percent of the domain registrations for the fake news sites he saw popping up on pro-Sanders pages back to Eastern Europe. Others appeared to be based in Panama and the U.S., or were untraceable. He wondered, “Am I the only person that sees all this crap floating through these Bernie pages?”
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, Russia fucked all of us in this election.
Big time.
This is why this is a story that needs to be dragged into daylight, aired in public testimony, adjudicated in court. This is more than one party or the other. This is our democracy!
Still trying to wrap my head around people like @cassandrarules that were all Bernie and went to Trump. Total derangement.
I have to say, judging by my conversations with guccifer, I don’t think he was out to help trump. He wanted to help Bernie. https://t.co/vMhr9jE04h
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) March 11, 2017
re: #20 BigPapa
Still trying to wrap my head around people like @cassandrarules that were all Bernie and went to Trump. Total derangement.
I think they saw it as status quo (Clinton) or Change (Bernie or Trump.) It makes some sense in the same way gambling the rent money does if you feel you are in a situation that requires more than you can expect to come up with otherwise.
I’m not saying that it is necessarily the wise choice, but it is one people make.
The only people stupider than @gatewaypundit: his audience. I’ll never understand how any human can read that rancid garbage and believe it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 12, 2017
Anyway, about to head out for the rest of the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.
Remember to change your clocks! https://t.co/ImwZL8GmHY pic.twitter.com/ae4PtRxZ4q
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 12, 2017
I don’t know if all of them believe the crap on the fakery blogs: some of them are living in a fantasy world and want to perpetuate it. And some are just trolls so anything that constitutes the throwing of shit they’re all for.
Don’t wanna kiss me huh?
these faces get me every time! pic.twitter.com/BxbFdckuoZ
— deray mckesson (@deray) March 12, 2017
re: #20 BigPapa
Still trying to wrap my head around people like @cassandrarules that were all Bernie and went to Trump. Total derangement.
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She is a freak. I followed her before & during her switch to trump.
Deranged. She hearts Richard Spencer.
Flipping through the channels, and a farmersonly.com commercial had a black woman signing onto the site, and a white man walks in to, it’s implied, date her.
I’m curious what the reaction to it will be.
About that study from the previous thread showing that Clinton’s campaign was devoid of policy in a way that campaigns in the previous 4 elections were not, the title and top level message were misleading.
It should have been: Trump as a candidate was devoid of policy positions in a way that candidates in the previous 4 elections were not.
IMO Clinton had no choice except going after Trump on the non-policy stuff because Trump is a total bullshitter whose ‘policy positions’ are whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear in that moment.
re: #10 FormerDirtDart
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Brings back memories of watching the Pirates in 1979 all the way to their last World Series win!
RIP, Joni!
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
Must have a shot of espresso because the cerebrum cannot process what it just encountered…
re: #29 EPR-radar
About that study from the previous thread showing that Clinton’s campaign was devoid of policy in a way that campaigns in the previous 4 elections were not, the title and top level message were misleading.
It should have been: Trump as a candidate was devoid of policy positions in a way that candidates in the previous 4 elections were not.
IMO Clinton had no choice except going after Trump on the non-policy stuff because Trump is a total bullshitter whose ‘policy positions’ are whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear in that moment.
Trump’s incompetence and mental problems were policy issues, IMO.
Filed under ‘Funny but not Funny’
TImes up.
Everyone guessed Glenn Greenwald; the correct answer was: Roger Stone. Weird how their talking points are word-for-word the same. pic.twitter.com/RN1DTkSQ1v— Benghazi Jim Halpert (@Wilson__Valdez) March 12, 2017
The Atlantic: Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?
Angus Deaton studies the grand questions not just of economics but of life. What makes people happy? How should we measure well-being? Should countries give foreign aid? What can and should experiments do? Is inequality increasing or decreasing? Is the world getting better or worse?
Better, he believes, truly better. But not everywhere or for everyone. This week, in a speech at a conference held by the National Association for Business Economics, Deaton, the Nobel laureate and emeritus Princeton economist, pointed out that inequality among countries is decreasing, while inequality within countries is increasing. China and India are making dramatic economic improvements, while parts of sub-Saharan Africa are seeing much more modest gains. In developed countries, the rich have gotten much richer while the middle class has shriveled. A study he coauthored with the famed Princeton economist Anne Case highlights one particularly dire outcome: Mortality is actually increasing for middle-aged white Americans, due in no small part to overdoses and suicides—so-called “deaths of despair.” (Case also happens to be Deaton’s wife. More on that later.)
Deaton sat down with me after his speech. We talked about whether poor people are better off here or in low-income countries, the moral ambiguities of companies making money off of Medicaid-financed OxyContin prescriptions, which is the nicest conservative think tank in Washington, what is going on with white people and mortality, and the charms of former-President Obama. The transcript below has been edited for concision and clarity.
Read the whole thing.
re: #33 allegro
Trump’s incompetence and mental problems were policy issues, IMO.
That works for me. I took a quick look at the referenced study, which talks about how Trump’s ads were more conventional compare and contrast ads on policy points.
Such ads coming from an incorrigible liar like Trump are truly meaningless.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
It didn’t wear a condom either.
Nothing unusual happening…
Hate crime suspect attacks employee at Middle Eastern restaurant with pipe https://t.co/LR9fopJrLU via @fox4kc
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) March 12, 2017
“… The suspect, Jason Kendall, told police he was walking past the restaurant on what he called “a warrior’s path” when he spotted a woman inside the building.
Kendall said he believed the woman was being held as a slave because of the type of shirt she was wearing. He said the shirt was a signal and it was “what Arabs do.”
According to Kendall, he walked into the restaurant, told the woman she was “free to leave,” and started yelling at an employee who Kendall claimed looked like Saddam Hussein.
Officers said Kendall yelled several hateful and explicit statements at the employee, including “go back to your country terrorist” and “get out of America (expletive).”
Employees asked Kendall to leave, but he returned five minutes later with a pipe he dubbed his “horn of Gabriel” and a plastic object that he called an “evil totem.” …”
re: #39 FormerDirtDart
Jason Kendall is auditioning for a job in the Trump administration. Nothing to see here.
i hope Elon Musk creates a self-titled perfume
— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) March 12, 2017
re: #29 EPR-radar
About that study from the previous thread showing that Clinton’s campaign was devoid of policy in a way that campaigns in the previous 4 elections were not, the title and top level message were misleading.
It should have been: Trump as a candidate was devoid of policy positions in a way that candidates in the previous 4 elections were not.
IMO Clinton had no choice except going after Trump on the non-policy stuff because Trump is a total bullshitter whose ‘policy positions’ are whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear in that moment.
And he is still winging it as president. The only identifiable policy so far is tear it down, and stop brown people. And that’s all a mess.
Really everything Clinton was criticized for campaigning on and saying about Trump is true and is the exact shit everyone should have been worried about and are now finding out why.
People wanted her policy on things like jobs. Simply it was all along: Don’t vote for Trump, here is why. You will not get jobs, he’s incapable, don’t buy the great businessman bullshit.
Actually her whole campaign had one very simple solid policy that outweighed everything by it’s importance. Don’t vote for Trump. Bad shit will happen.
The honest truth wasn’t good enough. She needed rainbows and unicorns.
This is such a simple observation about public goods. Anyone proposing public libraries or fire protection today would be seen as a madman. pic.twitter.com/MwkVscRXis
— Mike Soron (@MikeSoron) March 12, 2017
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Those crazy rabid Bernie Sanders supporters we saw posting crazy fake stories and conspiracy theories during the campaign, many of which were picked up and circulated by people like Shaun King? A lot of them were probably Russian trolls.
The Bernie Sanders Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From?
I ran across that article an hour ago or so, a position I’ve held forth here (there were a whole lot of rodent copulators acting on Sanders’s supporters).
While my own county went for Sanders in the caucuses, when it came down to the General Election I found absolutely no person who supported Sanders that did not vote for HIllary Clinton.
(This also adds to my belief that this phenomenon was largely Internet-driven, since we have almost no Internet service here.)
re: #43 FormerDirtDart
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His message might ring true if he offered one single example of liberal “too-clever-by-half social engineering.” All his examples are of conservative messaging fails followed by the completely unsupported raw assertion that the left has been doing the same thing.
I was going to make this comment downstairs, but decided to drop it in the new one.
If nursing homes lose a fair amount of their funds from the GOPDonTCare Act, what’s going to happen to all those old folks? Let me share some observations from China, where there is no mature nursing home system.
Losing those federal funds will require nursing homes to raise prices, which in turn will either mean families will need to take granny in or make some big sacrifices to pay for her care.
China has had a one-child policy since 1979. Those kids are now in their mid-30s and are facing the 4-2-1 problem: one child, two parents, four grandparents. In addition to caring for raising their own child, many Chinese now also have to care for their aging parents and often grandparent, many of whom have no pension or very small pensions. Even in families with more than one child (there are many loopholes, trust me), caring for an elder who needs living assistance is a large burden for couples who are already struggling to make ends meet. In other words, lack of an effective elder care system in China places a heavy burden on the lower and middle classes. The government is aware of the economic problems facing these families, and the revised “two-child” policy is an attempt to ameliorate the situation for the future.
The USA doesn’t have the same demographic problems as China, but in many ways Social Security and Medicare have enabled lower and middle class families to maintain, or even improve their economic status. Gutting that system will in turn require families to take on sizable expenses, and could even impoverish upper middle class families who have elders with severe medical issues, regardless of where granny ends up living.
IOW, the poor get poorer. When SS and Medicare were created lo these many years ago, economists and politicians understood the broader picture. Providing some basic safety net for older people benefits everyone in society, not just the oldsters and their families. It enables and ensures prosperity. I haven’t done the necessary research, but I’m sure entire treatises have been written analyzing the longterm benefits of Social Security and Medicare (and Medicaid) to the US economy.
But the Ryan plan, with its short-sighted goal of reducing costs for the insurers and the upper classes will totally fuck that up. People with oldsters needing nursing home care will forgo buying a new car, or a new house, or a vacay to DIsneyworld. Some old folks will be left with no care at all, leading to even more expensive medical emergencies. Or they’ll just die and decrease the surplus population. In the end, the economy will slow down and the already slow progress of the poor into the middle classes will come to a halt.
China knows this grim reality. It seems the GOP doesn’t.
re: #45 goddamnedfrank
His message might ring true if he offered one single example of liberal “too-clever-by-half social engineering.” All his examples are of conservative messaging fails followed by the completely unsupported raw assertion that the left has been doing the same thing.
Geez, even my wife the former Libertarian Party member is a library director. (She got better.) I’d like to get a sticker for my car that says “Taxes are the price of civilisation.” Bumper sticker messaging does work (with the right message).
re: #46 wheat-dogg
On nursing homes:
I suspect I might face that problem in the future, and my fixed income of around $20,000 isn’t going to help me (or my mother). While my mother is still active at seventy-six (and still doing the musician thing at O’Hare), I suspect she cannot go on forever. My step-father is already quite ill and gets support from my step-brother.
Medicare/Social Security/Medicaid would be what would help my mother and me - and the GOP is trying to kill that off. (Thank you for your military service, Mrs. Anymouse’s mother, die quickly.)
re: #46 wheat-dogg
1920’s Americans know it as well. Problem is, they aren’t around to talk about it.
re: #45 goddamnedfrank
I honestly think when lefties say liberals are “too clever by half” what they really mean is that Democrats took stands fighting for things like transgender equality and against things like black people dying in police custody. They’re upset that we acknowledged the fact that identity unfairly impacts individual reality in America instead of just focusing on enacting utopian socialist economic policy.
re: #49 prairiefire
1920’s Americans know it as well. Problem is, they aren’t around to talk about it.
Indeed. That’s also the problem with the anti-vax movement. People who had to live through epidemics of measles, whooping cough and polio could tell anti-vax idiots what a difference vaccines have made, and what no vaccines could mean.
re: #51 wheat-dogg
Absolutely. Let some of those anti-vax moms live through a polio summer. Smh
re: #52 prairiefire
Absolutely. Let some of those anti-van moms live through a polio summer. Smh
I’m old enough to remember. Our neighbor got it, and was paralyzed, and in a wheelchair the rest of his days. He had traveled around the world on business before, and afterwards the family lifestyle (3 young children) was quite restricted.
Senator Dean Heller held a town-hall/Q&A in a 55+ gated community in the largely Republican area where I live. It seems like he didn’t want just any of his constituents to show up and possibly ask him tough questions.
re: #53 retired cynic
I’m old enough to remember. Our neighbor got it, and was paralyzed, and in a wheelchair the rest of his days. He had traveled around the world on business before, and afterwards the family lifestyle (3 young children) was quite restricted.
The last confirmed native polio case in the USA occurred when I was three years old, sixteen miles away from my home. As my mother tells it, the county went wild trying to get polio vaccinations.
My mother herself developed polio, and was given Sister Kenny’s then-new treatment - she was able to overcome the disease with no damage (hence she could join the Navy later).
My wife’s mother died from post-polio syndrome. She spent her life in a wheelchair.
I’m old enough to remember an outbreak which required me to take a polio shot.
re: #57 Teukka
I’m old enough to remember an outbreak which required me to take a polio shot.
Polio was still enough of a concern that when I was in the Navy in the Eighties, I was required to take the oral polio vaccine, because they could not find a record for me being vaccinated. (I am not sure how I got past medical screening in the Seventies.)
They tell you it tastes like bubble gum: That might be true if the bubble gum is flavoured with all sorts of things I’ve never had in bubble gum.
re: #35 Eric The Fruit Bat
Y’all should watch the related video about a child’s life in Owsley County, KY.
re: #59 retired cynic
I had the sugar cube.
I’m guessing the Navy didn’t do sugar cubes because the vaccine wasn’t as easy to store (whereas the OPV vials are pretty simple to stack in a hold someplace).
re: #46 wheat-dogg
In 2009, years before the One Child Policy was revised to a two-child policy, the Chinese government allowed a couple who each were their parents’ only children to have more than one child, thereby relieving some of the burden.
re: #59 retired cynic
I had the sugar cube.
I recall ingesting an oral polio vaccine when I received my childhood vaccinations in the early 90s.
SNL just had a great Trump routine going on with a dog getting to speak for the first time through computers and the doggie is rattling on like a Trump loving wingnut. And the pooch is ripping Scarlett Johansson (the dogs owner and researcher) as a Trump supporter getting to say whatever cruel stuff has been on their (dog’s) mind all those years. Really a creative way to go after Trump supporters.
Gonna have to put up the video when it becomes available.
re: #35 Eric The Fruit Bat
The Atlantic: Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?
Read the whole thing.
I found this interesting, and it fits right in with my experience:
Lowrey: Have you spent a lot of time in Kentucky or West Virginia or rural Nebraska?
Deaton: No, but I spent five weeks every summer in Montana. And that’s been an eye-opener.
You get these people who are really quite poor, in many cases, who are very right-wing. They’re very anti-government and if you talk to them about why they’re anti-government, you get pretty persuaded pretty quickly. That wolf is eating my cow and I need to get a bureaucrat on the line before I’m allowed to shoot it! And that’s my year’s income!
@LakeJames2 @ColMorrisDavis @realDonaldTrump @thehill HE BANNED SHARIA IN ALL 50 States yesterday!!! Want sex mutilation? Leave.
lol
Millionaires will get $157 billion in tax cuts from ACA repeal, new report says https://t.co/4TSaWOvtaF pic.twitter.com/hRdjExC5j4
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) March 11, 2017
I have some good news (for me) and some bad news (for y’all … and really for me too. This bs isn’t right, ppl)… https://t.co/5tNIBzVMp6
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) March 12, 2017
.@Ehinzle @DonCheadle You’re wrong. The Net Investment Income Tax was a part of the ACA, will be repealed by AHCA.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 12, 2017
@Ehinzle @DonCheadle You misspelled billion, indicating your analysis is off by three orders of magnitude.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 12, 2017
re: #65 electrotek
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I don’t find that funny. I find it unbelievably upsetting. Those are the people whose minds are like steel traps: shut.
re: #66 goddamnedfrank
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re: #67 retired cynic
I don’t find that funny. I find it unbelievably upsetting. Those are the people whose minds are like steel traps: shut.
I’m at the point where I can’t help but to laugh at the stupidity of Trump supporters that spew such paranoid tripe like that.
re: #62 Moebym
In 2009, years before the One Child Policy was revised to a two-child policy, the Chinese government allowed a couple who each were their parents’ only children to have more than one child, thereby relieving some of the burden.
Yes, I am aware of that change. But, in fact most families have chosen to have only one child, even with the more liberal policy enacted this year. The government is now worried enough to offer people financial incentives to have more kids.
Free public education here ends with the 9th grade. Parents have to pay for senior high tuition and university, if the kid passes the national entrance examination. Plus, it’s expected that parents of boys must provide him and his future wife a house. So young couples have all these factors in mind when considering an extra child.
re: #69 electrotek
I’m at the point where I can’t help but to laugh at the stupidity of Trump supporters that spew such paranoid tripe like that.
I wasn’t criticizing you. I just so disheartening.
re: #65 electrotek
Banned Sharia? Didn’t hear about that one.
Does that mean we can get the Bible out of our science classes now? I’m all in.
re: #69 electrotek
I’m at the point where I can’t help but to laugh at the stupidity of Trump supporters that spew such paranoid tripe like that.
Propaganda’s a helluva drug. Not stupid: Brainwashed.
This Democratic congressman had the perfect takedown of Paul Ryan and the GOP’s health care plan pic.twitter.com/j7JE4N62ec
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 10, 2017
sanity and humanity fighting the good fight for people who cannot fight. @SpeakerRyan go suck an egg https://t.co/6tV5yHyT2u
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) March 12, 2017
#NowPlaying Danny Gatton > Cruisin’ Deuces > Sun Medley: Mystery Train/My Baby Left Me/That’s All Right https://t.co/KpK9Dz1pjh
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 12, 2017
re: #51 wheat-dogg
Indeed. That’s also the problem with the anti-vax movement. People who had to live through epidemics of measles, whooping cough and polio could tell anti-vax idiots what a difference vaccines have made, and what no vaccines could mean.
I always thought that was a problem with the Depression Generation:. They underestimated how bad things were because they were children, and their parents were doing the work of the house and the work of worrying for their families.
We don’t hear of this as much now, but when I was in my 20’s in the 1980’s, I used to hear from people who would wish that my generation would have another Great Depression just to teach us some responsibility. You may have heard just a faint echo of this in 2008 amongst the paleoconservatives.
“She doesn’t crave the spotlight, but we see her. Oh, how we see her.” #complicit pic.twitter.com/4tdCKjx3Ja
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 12, 2017
re: #76 Sherlock Hound
My husband and my parents were all children during the great depression, and my grandparents and great grandmother who raised me to a great extent NEVER expressed that sort of wish. It branded all of their lives in ways that showed every day.
Science funny:
Geologists are important for our understanding of rocks on Earth and on other planets. So never take them for granite.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017
And as all chemists know, if you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the precipitate.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017
There are two kinds of people in the world — those who divide everyone into two kinds of people and those who don’t.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017
Actually, as Math-folk know, there are three kinds of people in the world: those who know how to count and those who don’t.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017
re: #76 Sherlock Hound
I always thought that was a problem with the Depression Generation:. They underestimated how bad things were because they were children, and their parents were doing the work of the house and the work of worrying for their families.
We don’t hear of this as much now, but when I was in my 20’s in the 1980’s, I used to hear from people who would wish that my generation would have another Great Depression just to teach us some responsibility. You may have heard just a faint echo of this in 2008 amongst the paleoconservatives.
Anyone born after, say. 1940 or so, is in many ways spoiled. They are often clueless about how much easier their lives have been compared to the previous generations’ lives. Now, we can expect our babies to live long enough to enter school and our parents to have fruitful and independent lives after retirement. Epidemics of dangerous diseases are unlikely. It’s possible to drive from coast to coast on paved roads, and stay in a variety of motels or hotels regardless of your skin color, and eat food that won’t make you sick later. The drinking water is safe almost everywhere (except Flint, for ex.)
Taking all the government programs that made all this possible will not create a population that is suddenly self-sufficient and personally responsible. It will only create a larger income gap between the top and the bottom, and left unchecked could lead to a violent revolution. It’s happened before. Just not here.
re: #78 retired cynic
My husband and my parents were all children during the great depression, and my grandparents and great grandmother who raised me to a great extent NEVER expressed that sort of wish. It branded all of their lives in ways that showed every day.
The late Don Murray of the Boston Globe was of the same bent. He told some really awful stories about growing up in those times. And he was one of the better-off persons!
re: #78 retired cynic
My husband and my parents were all children during the great depression, and my grandparents and great grandmother who raised me to a great extent NEVER expressed that sort of wish. It branded all of their lives in ways that showed every day.
My folks were born in 1914. They had no desire to return to those times. My parents’ families made it through the Depression OK, but Dad had to quit college after two years and Mom went to work beginning age 16. She never finished high school.
So, yeah, another Great Depression is not a great idea. tyvm
re: #81 Sherlock Hound
The late Don Murray of the Boston Globe was of the same bent. He told some really awful stories about growing up in those times. And he was one of the better-off persons!
My mother was very bright. She graduated from high school at 16 and my grandparents were determined that she should be the first to be able to go to college. She loved it, but when they dropped her off after a weekend at home, she realized they had 25 cents to live on, and decided she could not do that to them. If they were living on 25 cents, God knows what my great grandmother was living on. Probably tea. She dropped out, came home and got a secretarial job to help support the family.
My grandfather had a business partner, and the business (small town department store) failed, as so many did. The partner took bankruptcy, and dumped the debts on my grandfather, with a tiny peach orchard in settlement. My mother and her parents worked like slaves doing all of the work on the orchard, finally picking, packing and getting all the peaches to the train for shipment. They did not sell for enough to pay for the shipping. After that, they just buckled down for many years, refusing to take bankruptcy, and finally paid off everything. I don’t know how they lived, but it branded them for life.
re: #82 wheat-dogg
My folks were born in 1914. They had no desire to return to those times. My parents’ families made it through the Depression OK, but Dad had to quit college after two years and Mom went to work beginning age 16. She never finished high school.
So, yeah, another Great Depression is not a great idea. tyvm
My parents were born in 1938 and 1940 - both attended college (my father for Agricultural Science and my mother for Clinical Psychology - the last funded by survivor’s benefits for military spouses).
College was also considerably less expensive compared to income compared to today: My sister started college and dropped out due to cost, I’ve never been. Of my five first cousins, only one went to college (and now she is a RWNJ complaining why her taxes should pay for poor takers: Never mind her own family benefited from such things as food stamps).
So of the seven people in my family’s generation, one has a college degree and she’s a RWNJ.
She is also a really hateful person. Long story why she won’t associate with me any more, but I’m not sure I want to associate with her anyway.
I’m still so stuffed up with a head cold. No meds are working.
Fitful sleep ahead so I better get it started.
‘night.
‘Sir, where are you getting this information from?’
‘A very reputable source.’
‘The FBI? CIA?’
‘Infowars.’pic.twitter.com/OoBP9pUFSU— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2017
The Obamas met U2 frontman Bono for lunch in NYC; diners stood up, applauded and cheered for the former president https://t.co/RN93GWHokD pic.twitter.com/63467Vvr1C
— ABC News (@ABC) March 12, 2017
Polio was not the worst either: Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people. Anti-vaccine nuts who claim catching a disease over getting a vaccine because it’s somehow more “natural” I’m guessing really wouldn’t be interested in exposing their children to that.
Smallpox (goes to Wikipedia, with modern photographs of the disease)
re: #89 Charles Johnson
I notice we don’t see President Obama wearing a lot of ties, these days!
re: #89 Charles Johnson
A pox on the XXII Amendment.
re: #89 Charles Johnson
He’s my 5th cousin, if I can find an “in” I will. Unification, bitches.
I watched the moon rise tonight on my skis at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. It was marvelous.
re: #94 teleskiguy
I watched the moon rise tonight on my skis at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. It was marvelous.
What a wonderful memory to have!
re: #88 goddamnedfrank
The fact that the screaming loon Alex Jones has slithered his snake oil ass into the mainstream makes me want to upchuck blood.
re: #95 retired cynic
What a wonderful memory to have!
The snow was pretty much bulletproof on the descent, lots of loud crunching sounds down below. I still dazzled those watching on the lift with plenty of backwards telemark skiing, and a few dirty jokes for the lifties too. 😊
I could watch this all day. pic.twitter.com/aSesXaL2rf
— Karin Hildebrand Lau (@Karimala1) March 12, 2017
The Latest on firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara: Trump tried to call prosecutor before he was dismissed. https://t.co/lk5Y2iI0SY
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 12, 2017
“… President Donald Trump reached out through a secretary to Manhattan’s top prosecutor two days before he was fired by the Justice Department, but the two men never spoke.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (buh-RAH’-ruh) reported the call to the Justice Department and it was agreed he shouldn’t speak directly to Trump. That’s the latest twist in the unusual dynamic between Trump and the high-profile prosecutor who’s made public corruption a favorite quest. …”
Why does trump hold meetings at Golf courses instead of the White House?
Why he charges himself rent for the room and overpriced charges for the food. Any other President doing this sort of stuff wold be instantly impeached.
And the media apologizes for saying he was playing golf when he was having a meeting!
Such great supporters of democracy the faint hearted media.
re: #100 fern01
Why does trump hold meetings at Golf courses instead of the White House?
Why he charges himself rent for the room and overpriced charges for the food. Any other President doing this sort of stuff wold be instantly impeached.
And the media apologizes for saying he was playing golf when he was having a meeting!
Such great supporters of democracy the faint hearted media.
IOKIYAR
re: #101 Anymouse
IOKIYAR
That really doesn’t cover it. The GOP is using this insanity to attack virtually every person on the planet. It is an absolute conflict of interest that everyone except trump would be fired for anything similar.
The media only seems to fight back when trump attacks them. Most useless media in the history of the US.
Retweet until someone gives a damn pic.twitter.com/R9NwbpcNL1
— Hassan™ (@HassanPRG) March 6, 2017
re: #102 fern01
That really doesn’t cover it. The GOP is using this insanity to attack virtually every person on the planet. It is an absolute conflict of interest that everyone except trump would be fired for anything similar.
The media only seems to fight back when trump attacks them. Most useless media in the history of the US.
While I cannot be certain, I’m guessing there is another Bob Woodward out there who does care and is thinking “Pulitzer Prize.”
It was the traffic reporter for the North Bergen (NJ) Record that broke the so-called Bridgegate scandal, not something like the New York Times or NBC.
More books for everyone!!
This piece is called “the impact of a book” pic.twitter.com/B02RphE3jo
— Persian Rose (@PersianRose1) March 7, 2017
Who’s excited for this extra hour of daylight to go work the fields for harvest tomorrow?!
— Nathaniel Weixel (@NateWeixel) March 12, 2017
re: #107 teleskiguy
My wife’s ex-hub sells Nixie tube clocks.
nixietube.info
Pictured just down from the top on the right is a clock he made for me out of a 1948 GE DC ammeter.
I’ll have to go punch one of the buttons to advance the clock due to Daylight Saving Time. (I’m all for getting rid of it, as are many rural people. Something something agriculture doesn’t follow a clock it follows the sun.)
re: #109 Cheechako
That cute bird looks like a Russian spy.
re: #110 prairiefire
60 minutes.
Well, my clocks are advanced (sigh). It’s not actually time to do that yet in Mythical Mountain Time Zone, but since I was reminded here, it’s done.
I probably wouldn’t have figured it out for a couple weeks if someone hadn’t mentioned it so, thanks I guess?
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
Katie Mack weighs in on one example of what the Clean Air Act does (I’m guessing the nihilists in the GOP don’t really care):
If you ever doubt that public policy & the EPA matter, check out these lead levels from ice cores samples (analyzed at DRI) pic.twitter.com/dUNF0MBWep
— James Temple (@jtemple) March 11, 2017
The voting rights of black voters were restored in Hancock County, Georgia.https://t.co/pxOFpB3yRt
— Rock the Vote (@RockTheVote) March 11, 2017
DST won’t begin here in Europe until 26 March - still got a couple of weeks.
Watch Herbie Hancock Rock Out on an Early Synthesizer on Sesame Street (1983)
openculture.com
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
DST won’t begin here in Europe until 26 March - still got a couple of weeks.
I’m all for DST dying in a fire.
The entire argument for DST (it saves energy and allows people more daylight in the evening) is nonsense, since people then use that energy in the morning.
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’
re: #118 Anymouse
I’m all for DST dying in a fire.
The entire argument for DST (it saves energy and allows people more daylight in the evening) is nonsense, since people then use that energy in the morning.
I’d vote to shift the time once by a half hour and call the situation fixed for all time.
re: #120 Cheechako
I’d vote to shift the time once by a half hour and call the situation fixed for all time.
IIRC, last year, Turkey went to year-round DST. I think Russia does it as well. There’s a few other countries that do it too. The idea of doing that comes up here in the Czech Republic’s parliament every couple of years as well, but it’s never gone beyond the discussion stage.
re: #121 Dr Lizardo
IIRC Hugo Chevez changed the time in Chile by one half hour just because he was an a$$hole.
re: #122 Cheechako
IIRC Hugo Chevez changed the time in Chile by one half hour just because he was an a$$hole.
Venezuela
re: #123 goddamnedfrank
Thanks. Shows the ultimate power of a dictator.
re: #120 Cheechako
I’d vote to shift the time once by a half hour and call the situation fixed for all time.
You’re still left with the problem that chickens and cattle don’t pay much attention to clocks (nor does corn or wheat).
I’m fine for just leaving clocks on standard time myself.
re: #125 Anymouse
You’re still left with the problem that chickens and cattle don’t pay much attention to clocks (nor does corn or wheat).
I’m fine for just leaving clocks on standard time myself.
I agree. Either way the time stays the same year round.
re: #118 Anymouse
I’m all for DST dying in a fire.
The entire argument for DST (it saves energy and allows people more daylight in the evening) is nonsense, since people then use that energy in the morning.
Chyyynaahh does not observe DST or even time zones. The entire country is UTC+8, despite western Xinjiang sharing the same longitudes as India (UTC+5.5) and Heilongjiang as the Koreas (UTC+9). I’m not sure of the logic, but China is weird that way. Probably Mao tweeted it early one morning in 1950 and it became national policy.
So, if y’all don’t mind, please package up all that daylight you’re saving and send it to me. Then I can sell it online and make a bundle here!
re: #126 Cheechako
I agree. Either way the time stays the same year round.
In the meantime, the cat (who is also on standard time) is beating us up - “where’s my insulin shot?”
Clawed me, ran to the refrigerator.
re: #127 wheat-dogg
Chyyynaahh does not observe DST or even time zones. The entire country is UTC+8, despite western Xinjiang sharing the same longitudes as India (UTC+5.5) and Heilongjiang as the Koreas (UTC+9). I’m not sure of the logic, but China is weird that way. Probably Mao tweeted it early one morning in 1950 and it became national policy.
So, if y’all don’t mind, please package up all that daylight you’re saving and send it to me. Then I can sell it online and make a bundle here!
The Atlantic did an article on that in 2013, noting during the Qing Dynasty there were five time zones in China.
China is roughly the same distance from east to west as the continental USA, which explains the problem in the west of China when the whole country uses Beijing time.
They note there are advocates in the USA that want to divide the nation into two time zones (which would make the same troubles for the USA that China has).
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
Looking at this, I’m hoping that Warner Bros./DC may have finally gotten it right.
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Trailer looks great……let’s hope the rest of the film lives up to it.
It shows promise. Gal Gadot seems well suited to the role, despite some fans’ considerable misgivings. Chris Pine gets to play Chris Pine/James T. Kirk again, so that’s OK, too. If they can manage not to introduce extra superheroes and extraneous villains to keep the plot straightforward, it should be fine.
The Etta Candy role seems to be faithful to the 1940s character. Just enough comic relief without being as silly (or as fat-shaming) as the original.
re: #125 Anymouse
You’re still left with the problem that chickens and cattle don’t pay much attention to clocks (nor does corn or wheat).
I’m fine for just leaving clocks on standard time myself.
The Earth’s rotation* also doesn’t care.
*Or the Sun’s orbit, depending on which cosmology you accept.
re: #129 Anymouse
China is roughly the same distance from east to west as the continental USA, which explains the problem in the west of China when the whole country uses Beijing time.
You can imagine my amusement when people in one country ask me, “What’s the weather like (in the other country)?”
Even more amusing: sometimes a Chinese student will ask me during the summer if I have to bring winter clothes when I visit the States.
Back to the coming American apocalypse:
Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you…
Week 17 (1 of 2): https://t.co/OWZeY8MOpb pic.twitter.com/EGMj05kAXB— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) March 11, 2017
re: #132 wheat-dogg
You can imagine my amusement when people in one country ask me, “What’s the weather like (in the other country)?”
Even more amusing: sometimes a Chinese student will ask me during the summer if I have to bring winter clothes when I visit the States.
LOL.
Nebraska is unique with its time zones. Cherry County (the huge county in the north of the state) is divided between Central and Mountain Time Zones. The county seat (Valentine) is in Central Time Zone but about half the county is in Mountain Time Zone.
(Out here in the Panhandle we’re all in Mountain Time Zone, since regional business is more with Cheyenne and Denver and less with Omaha.)
re: #129 Anymouse
Not many years ago Alaska had three time zones. One for the Aleutians, one for Anchorage/Fairbanks, and a third for the SE Panhandle. All an hour apart. With the Capitol in SE Alaska the different time zones created multiple problems. The State finally agreed to go to one zone…Alaska Time. The Alaska zone was selected to be one hour later than Pacific time to make it easier for Alaska businesses to work with folks in Seattle.
Every year year or so a bill shows up in the Legislature to shift Alaska to the Pacific Time Zone. The bill never makes it out of committee.
With the long daylight in summer and very short days in the winter it doesn’t make much sense to change. In the winter up here the kids go to school in the dark and come home in the dark. Not much of a safety reason for changing.
Trump’s administration seeks to throw out a case brought by twenty-one children arguing the government is violating their Constitutional rights by not addressing climate change.
washingtonpost.com
The landmark lawsuit was originally filed during the Obama administration. The 21 plaintiffs, now between the ages of 9 and 20, claim the federal government has consistently engaged in activity that promotes fossil fuel production and greenhouse gas emissions, thereby worsening climate change. They argue this violates their constitutional right to life, liberty and property, as well the public trust doctrine, while holds that the government is responsible for the preservation of certain vital resources — in this case, a healthy climate system — for public use.
#NowPlaying Slayer > Live: Decade Of Aggression > Hell Awaits https://t.co/Qi9EVn7kzZ
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) November 6, 2016
The spat between The Netherlands and Turkey is now at risk of becoming a serious international matter.
The escalating dispute between NATO allies Turkey and the Netherlands hit a new low Sunday, with a Turkish minister escorted out of the country less than a day after Turkey’s foreign minister was denied entry, prompting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to call the Dutch “Nazi remnants.”
The diplomatic clash was over plans by Turkish government officials to campaign in the Netherlands for a referendum back home. Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya had arrived in the country from Germany but was prevented from entering Turkey’s diplomatic compound in Rotterdam, setting up a standoff with armed police. She was later sent under escort back to Germany.
In the evening, a Turkish foreign ministry official who spoke on customary anonymity said the Dutch Embassy in Ankara and its consulate in Istanbul were closed off because of security reasons.
The official said entries and exits were closed to the two locations. Similar precautions were taken at the Dutch charge d’affaires’ house and the ambassador’s residence.
The Turkish foreign ministry also said that it doesn’t want to see the Dutch ambassador, who is out of the country, return to his post for some time because of the increasingly divisive dispute with the Netherlands.
re: #138 Dr Lizardo
Could this end up as a NATO or an EU matter?
re: #139 wheat-dogg
Could this end up as a NATO or an EU matter?
Certainly an EU matter; the EU is so far taking the side of The Netherlands.
I’m guessing any investigation into Russian meddling in the US election is going to be quickly derailed by the GOP:
GOP Chair charged w investigating Trump/Russia Says America Should Thank Mike Flynn for Chats w Ambassador ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/JtoPooLObI pic.twitter.com/mgdWFs90r0
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 11, 2017
re: #139 wheat-dogg
Could this end up as a NATO or an EU matter?
It’s not really a NATO matter (thought the Atlantic Alliance could certainly discuss it or try to work out a solution between the two countries).
A shooting war seems quite unlikely between Turkey and The Netherlands (and if there was one, NATO would not take sides, see also Greece and Turkey over Cypress).
Conservatives eating their own.
Sarah Palin Blasts GOP Health Care Plan as “Socialism”
huffingtonpost.com
More at Huffington Post:
In a strident interview Saturday with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, she also ripped the “quasi-reformed” proposal as a “RINO plan” — “Republican in name only.”
She said she expected Donald Trump to “step in and fix it.”
“Remember this is government-controlled healthcare, the system that requires enrollment in an unaffordable, unsustainable, unwanted, unconstitutional continuation of government-run medicine,” the former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidential candidate told Breitbart. “Even in this new quasi-reformed proposal, there is still an aspect of socialism. That’s the whole premise here.”
Palin’s vociferous opposition underscores the problem the Republicans face in getting their plan off the ground. Not only do they face millions of furious voters terrified of losing insurance under Obamacare, but they must also grapple with stiff opposition from the extreme right who see the program as too soft in granting too much insurance aid to struggling Americans with too many orders.
re: #143 Anymouse
Sarah is barking up the wrong tree if she expects Trump to fix anything. He has the attention span of a gnat, and health insurance is too complex for him to comprehend.
The AHCA is socialism. That’s a new one.
re: #144 wheat-dogg
Sarah is barking up the wrong tree if she expects Trump to fix anything. He has the attention span of a gnat, and health insurance is too complex for him to comprehend.
The AHCA is socialism. That’s a new one.
Health insurance is too complex for Sarah Palin to comprehend as well. (That, and she admitted on FOX that she takes her family across the border to Yukon to avail herself of Canada’s single-payer system.)
If it was socialism, we’d seize the means of production. Failing that, we’d at least get insurance companies out of it.
Yeah, Rep. King. That doesn’t sound authoritarian at all (especially on the heels of yesterday in Arizona at a rally where attendees and Republican politicians were calling for a genocide of liberals).
Steve King Tells An Incredulous Joy Reid A ‘Purge’ Is Coming | Crooks and Liars https://t.co/CDlGIzIDBe via @crooksandliars
— Disabled VET (@cj_disabledVet) March 11, 2017
Note to the Pacific Coast: Y’all go on Daylight Saving Time in about half-an-hour. Too bad we can’t just jump to Election Day 2018.
Sean Hannity goes on a Twitter rant against Chaz Bono after Mr. Bono called him a fascist and unAmerican (with tweets):
addictinginfo.org
Donald Trump Specials
To serve full term
Evens
To leave office via impeachment or resignation before end of 1st term
4/5
NOT to be re-elected as President in 2020
1/2
To visit Russia before the end of 2017
6/4
To win 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
20/1
Ladbrokes betting house in the UK today. Note they are giving even for the odds he will serve a full term.
A Trump campaign manager who is a massage therapist, appointed to the Department of Energy because the two jobs are related apparently, was fired after calling for genocide of Muslims (and of course, calling the Obamas Muslims) on Twitter.
buzzfeed.com (more at Buzzfeed)
A department spokesperson told BuzzFeed News his employment at the agency ended on Friday.
According to two employees at the nuclear weapons agency, who asked to remain anonymous, Sid Bowdidge, 60, began working at the department following President Trump’s inauguration. An internal department database identified the New Hampshire Trump campaign worker as “assistant to the secretary,” a nebulous title given to political appointees at varied levels of responsibility.
re: #150 Anymouse
Trump only hires the best people, the best!
He promised an end to cronyism, which means he’s done the direct opposite. Anyone who gave his campaign money or public support is eligible for a government job, regardless of their qualifications.
Did you read the ProPublica investigation into the 400-odd Trump loyalists now in executive branch jobs? It scares me, because those people have more loyalty to Trump than to the Constitution.
re: #151 wheat-dogg
Trump only hires the best people, the best!
He promised an end to cronyism, which means he’s done the direct opposite. Anyone who gave his campaign money or public support is eligible for a government job, regardless of their qualifications.
Did you read the ProPublica investigation into the 400-odd Trump loyalists now in executive branch jobs? It scares me, because those people have more loyalty to Trump than to the Constitution.
And he has Peter Thiel advising him.
I’m pretty sure the GOP in the House and Senate are having a real time deciding whether they are going to support power for themselves or the Constitution.
Just to recap: the Trump admin hired & placed in DOE,a person w
1) no relevant experience
2) who called for all Muslims to be exterminated— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 11, 2017
Trump wants to build a cemetery on one of his golf courses in New Jersey, overlooking the first hole.
washingtonpost.com
re: #153 Anymouse
Private cemeteries strike me as kind of strange in 2017. If this was 1817 it would not be unusual. But now…?
re: #154 freetoken
Private cemeteries strike me as kind of strange in 2017. If this was 1817 it would not be unusual. But now…?
We still have private cemeteries here, but there’s a whole lot of open space and not too many people.
Reading that Washingtom Post article is really strange as well. First a private deal, then changing it up repeatedly to include varying numbers of others so they can be buried next to Trump, then a mausoleum that would double as a wedding chapel LOLWAT?
Regrettably, as President, Donald Trump also has the option of being buried in Arlington National Cemetery with his bone-spurs and draft-dodging. (Most modern presidents have chosen to be buried on the grounds of their presidential library.)
re: #155 Anymouse
Yes, out in the very empty open country, it might make sense to have a private cemetery on a farm or ranch.
But Trump is a big-city dude (who cons country-folk.) At least out here in California, a famous person is often cremated (an increasing likely choice).
Trump could, of course, be buried at any National Cemetery.
I suspect his desire is to build a shrine to himself. In the old days the very rich could be interred in magnificent structures.
Maybe Trump ought to get such a shrine designed? I can see it now… all marble, with statues of himself, the inside covered in frescos depicting his life story, and in the middle a large marble and gold final resting place, with a pure gold cover…
re: #156 freetoken
Yes, out in the very empty open country, it might make sense to have a private cemetery on a farm or ranch.
But Trump is a big-city dude (who cons country-folk.) At least out here in California, a famous person is often cremated (an increasing likely choice).
Trump could, of course, be buried at any National Cemetery.
I suspect his desire is to build a shrine to himself. In the old days the very rich could be interred in magnificent structures.
Maybe Trump ought to get such a shrine designed? I can see it now… all marble, with statues of himself, the inside covered in frescos depicting his life story, and in the middle a large marble and gold final resting place, with a pure gold cover…
… as long as there’s no hieroglyphics, ‘cause that would be too much.
Trumpankhamun.
***shudders***
re: #157 Single-handed sailor
… as long as there’s no hieroglyphics, ‘cause that would be too much.
Trumpankhamun.
***shudders***
Graffiti target for Bansky.
As noted in the Post article above, one idea he floated was a combination mausoleum/wedding chapel, presumably so you could be married in a windowless room in the august presence of Donald Trump.
re: #154 freetoken
Private cemeteries strike me as kind of strange in 2017. If this was 1817 it would not be unusual. But now…?
Except in Texas……
I wasn’t aware that diplomatic immunity extended to the grave. And what State Department? They’re missing in action.
State Dept asked NYC Medical Examiner not to disclose cause of death of Russian UN ambassador who died last month pic.twitter.com/WiolTsryEi
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) March 10, 2017
re: #156 freetoken
Yes, out in the very empty open country, it might make sense to have a private cemetery on a farm or ranch.
But Trump is a big-city dude (who cons country-folk.) At least out here in California, a famous person is often cremated (an increasing likely choice).
Trump could, of course, be buried at any National Cemetery.
I suspect his desire is to build a shrine to himself. In the old days the very rich could be interred in magnificent structures.
Maybe Trump ought to get such a shrine designed? I can see it now… all marble, with statues of himself, the inside covered in frescos depicting his life story, and in the middle a large marble and gold final resting place, with a pure gold cover…
I figure he’d go for something like this:
Well, my village owns the means of cemetery production (the town owns the cemetery).
As such, if you live here, you get a place to be plunked when you plunk for the last time.
If you don’t live here, then you can buy a cemetery plot (but they are pretty inexpensive).
You get to lie on Rose Hill and look down from the Sandhills over the water tower, village, cornfields, and cattle pasture.
As a former Navy seaman, I could choose to be pitched off a fiddleboard at sea (as well as my wife), but you have to pay to get to the coast first.
This is probably more Trump’s style:
Reason Magazine (the libertarian outfit) is cheering the firing of the New York prosecutor.
reason.com
They claim he “overreached” by subpoenaing six commentators on an article for “hyperbolic” comments.
The comments were death threats to the attorney in regards to the bust of the operator of Silk Road.
(Link in the Reason article to the original court complaint about the commentators.)
The comments are quite vile and I am not going to put them here. I’m not a lawyer, but they sure look like threats to me.
re: #165 freetoken
This is probably more Trump’s style:
I’ve always figured Trump would go for something like this:
Needs more gold for Trump, though.
Joe Walsh outrage mode (again):
They resurrect their failed lawsuit against Remington.
I’ll just say it: Sandy Hook Parents: Your 15 minutes is up. https://t.co/FakCfa2IbB— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 9, 2017
The section of the Lubbock cemetery where I plan to be planted is on a bluff overlooking the Yellow House Canyon. It is probably the best view in that scenically bereft city, not that I’ll care much. As a similarly irrelevant bonus, Buddy Holly is just a few hundred feet away in the other direction.
re: #169 Shiplord Kirel
The section of the Lubbock cemetery where I plan to be planted is on a bluff overlooking the Yellow House Canyon. It is probably the best view in that scenically bereft city, not that I’ll care much. As a similarly irrelevant bonus, Buddy Holly is just a few hundred feet away in the other direction.
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re: #41 goddamnedfrank
i hope Elon Musk creates a self-titled perfume
who would want to wear a perfume called Elon?
re: #47 Anymouse
Geez, even my wife the former Libertarian Party member is a library director. (She got better.) I’d like to get a sticker for my car that says “Taxes are the price of civilisation.” Bumper sticker messaging does work (with the right message).
And proper spelling is the price of civiliZation
please reset your bloody Anglophilic spelling!!!
re: #156 freetoken
I doubt Trump would know this poem.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.—Percy Bysse Shelley, 1818
re: #174 wheat-dogg
I doubt Trump would know this poem.
I doubt it too; the only way he might some dim knowledge of it is he’d ever seen Watchmen and recognized the Ozymandias reference.
re: #170 Anymouse
You’re wanted.
Can the driver of the SMART car please come to the information desk. We want to ask ‘why?’
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) March 12, 2017
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And proper spelling is the price of civiliZation
please reset your bloody Anglophilic spelling!!!
The publisher I edit books for would object to the letter Z appearing willy-nilly in words. (:: You just can’t have Z roaming about, trampling all over British English. It’s not cricket or something.
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who would want to wear a perfume called Elon?
I’m so happy someone else thought that!
re: #82 wheat-dogg
My folks were born in 1914. They had no desire to return to those times. My parents’ families made it through the Depression OK, but Dad had to quit college after two years and Mom went to work beginning age 16. She never finished high school.
So, yeah, another Great Depression is not a great idea. tyvm
My dad, son of immigrant was born in Iowa in 1914, my mom in Cleveland in 1918. They both dreamed of attending college, but due to the Depression, never made it past high school.
Dad was an amateur author, had some of his short stories published in local anthologies. Mom wanted to study fashion design. But instead he went to work at a steel mill and she stayed home to raise six kids.
But that was the Golden Age of the workingman in the US: dad could afford a house with three bedrooms and two baths, a car and even to send his kids to college.
re: #176 wheat-dogg
You’re wanted.
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LOL.
When my wife and I returned to Regina Airport from Poland, I asked the parking lot attendant if we could have 50% off our parking fee because we only used half a space. The attendant snickered at that … no discount though.
re: #7 prairiefire
As far as pushing the girl back in her face, without turning around and looking, the dad could tell his hand was at face level and lowered his hand to her chest for the push.
that’s one where you just grab your kid and hold her in your lap, and THEN everybody feels all warm inside when you tell them you may have to cut the interview short. But of course, on live t.v., he probably panicked.
re: #125 Anymouse
You’re still left with the problem that chickens and cattle don’t pay much attention to clocks (nor does corn or wheat).
I’m fine for just leaving clocks on standard time myself.
Arizona does that: last state in the nation AFAIK (Indiana used to but adopted DST at some point)
But just to complicate things, the Navajo Reservation, which extends into UT, CO and NM, changes to DST.
The Hopi reservation, which is completely surrounded by Navajo land, does not.
Sometimes the parody accounts on Twitter (like Stansaid Airport above) are quite funny.
The best part of this new healthcare plan is that here at arbys, we were all ready to die anyway.
Eat arbys— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) March 8, 2017
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Arizona does that. last state in the nation AFAIK (Indiana used to but adopted DST at some point)
But just to complicate things, the Navajo Reservation, which extends into UT, CO and NM, changes to DST.
The Hopi reservation, which is completely surrounded by Navajo land, does not.
I get confused just driving across Nebraska with our two time zones.
The general store here sells greeting cards with farming and cowboy themes by a local artist. I have a bunch of the same card I occasionally send out that has a picture of a fellow on a tractor with a fellow on a horse next to him, ploughing a field next to a sign that reads “Entering Mountain Time Zone.”
The fellow on the horse says “you don’t have to stop and change your watch every time you pass that sign.”
re: #170 Anymouse
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What do you call a band from Sanaa that does Buddy Holly covers?
-The Yemeni Crickets!!!
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What do you call a band from Sanaa that does Buddy Holly covers?
-The Yemeni Crickets!!!
Gaaak. That took me about two minutes to get. Need moar brain cells.
re: #167 Dr Lizardo
I’ve always figured Trump would go for something like this:
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Needs more gold for Trump, though.
Victor Emmannuel Monument (officially, the Altare della Patria) Rome.
The monument, the largest in Rome, was controversial since its construction (in 1902) destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake. The monument itself is often regarded as conspicuous, pompous and too large……..
For its shape and conspicuous nature, Romans have given it a number of humorous and somewhat uncomplimentary nicknames, including la torta nuziale (“the wedding cake”) and la zuppa inglese (“English soup” dessert).
re: #187 Shiplord Kirel
Victor Emmannuel Monument (officially, the Altare della Patria) Rome.
It’s not the Taj Mahal though. Could go with something like that.
re: #177 Anymouse
The publisher I edit books for would object to the letter Z appearing willy-nilly in words. (:: You just can’t have Z roaming about, trampling all over British English. It’s not cricket or something.
I do a lot of translations into British English and yes, I have to be careful not to spell like a brasen, crased American sealot!!!
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
Swallow what you’re drinking, make sure you’re seated
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Between her, White Jesus and White Santa, I’m pretty sure that she’ll “help” a whole lot of people with her Rightwing prescriptions for every day living. The key to Oprah’s success was that she had empathy for her guests. I can’t see Kelly convincing anyone that her Conservative behind gives a dang about regular folks’ problems.
re: #187 Shiplord Kirel
Victor Emmannuel Monument (officially, the Altare della Patria) Rome.
When I was in Rome for the first time several years ago, I was immediately struck by how utterly out of place it looked. It’s like someone just dropped it there, said, “Hey, looks great!” and split.
re: #186 Anymouse
Gaaak. That took me about two minutes to get. Need moar brain cells.
What do you call a band from Belgium that does Prince covers?
-The Violet Flems!
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
Back later; off to the shop.
You obviously do not live in Germany! Nearest shop that is open here is the Shell Shop at the gas station. They are allowed to sell “travel requisites”, which the law defines as including beer, wine, schnapps, snacks and titty magazines. Without which I could not travel…
re: #191 Dr Lizardo
When I was in Rome for the first time several years, I was immediately struck by how utterly out of place it looked. It’s like someone just dropped it there, said, “Hey, looks great!” and split.
Even worse, the pile is enormous and glaringly white, so it can’t help but be seen from almost everywhere in the city.
Rep. Steve King (R-Cantaloupes) is not the only Republican alleging with no evidence that President Obama is trying to undermine Trump with some secret deep-state cabal.
Apparently Mike Kelly (R-Pennsyltucky) is also offering that up, along with a side-helping of derp.
washingtonpost.com
President Obama himself said he was going to stay in Washington until his daughter graduated. I think we ought to pitch in to let him go someplace else, because he is only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is going to totally upset the new agenda. It just doesn’t make sense. And people sit back and they say to me, ‘My gosh, why can’t you guys get this done?’ I say, ‘We’ve got a new CEO, we’ve got some new heads in the different departments, but the same people are there, and they don’t believe that the new owners or the new managers should be running the ship.’
Reached by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kelly’s office insisted the comments were supposed to be private and that he was merely reflecting Republicans’ frustration with the deep state. “Rep. Kelly delivered his remarks at a private meeting to an audience of fellow Republicans. He was sharing the frustration of everyone in the room over how they believe certain Obama administration holdovers within the federal bureaucracy are attempting to upset President Trump’s agenda.”
So, saying such things in private to supporters or whatnot is supposed to make it better?
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What do you call a band from Belgium that does Prince covers?
-The Violet Flems!
Is Depeche Mode a sort of French pie with ice cream then?
re: #168 Anymouse
Wow. How cold. How cruel that you think that parents of murdered children are seeking fame when they go after the company selling the product which murdered their children?
re: #196 Anymouse
These people just have to have someone else to blame for their misfortunes. The party of personal responsibility is anything but.
They accused Obama of being a tyrant and also lazy (golfing) for eight years. Now we have a president who acts like a tyrant and is damned lazy, and they still blame Obama. It makes no difference where the Obamas settled. The RWNJs would still find some way to blame Obama.
If BHO were that fcking powerful, he could have foiled the great plan to get Trump elected from the very beginning. But instead, he let Trump win just so he (Obama) could run a shadow government just to fuck with Trump. Makes perfect sense. //
re: #198 jeffreyw
Oh, my, that looks good! I’d probably keel over from the massive cholesterol dose, but at least I’d enjoy it eating it.
We got another Darwin Award winner here who hates Obamacare, wants it repealed but wants to keep her Medicaid.
Good luck with that!
re: #100 fern01
The mainstream media is beyond useless. They’ve normalized all the madness and sleaziness associated with Trump’s regime. Where are the journalists doing hard hitting investigation into all the Trump scandals and mess ups? It feels as if Trump really is going to have to shoot someone in the middle of a busy street to get the media to go after him. No way a Democratic President could get away with all of this nonsense.
I also have to ask where are the Democratic politicians shouting at the top of their lungs about all the corruption in the Trump regime. If the situation was reverse, you know that every Republican pundit and politician would be sticking it to the Democratic President. Look how they treated No Drama Obama.
re: #202 Joe Bacon
I’m already weary of hearing from Trump voters who now realize what a horrible mistake they made. I suppose we need to keep up the anti-Trump pressure by highlighting their buyer’s remorse, but frankly, you hear one, you’ve heard them all.
“He said he’d do XYZ, but he hasn’t done any of it!”
re: #196 Anymouse
President Obama himself said he was going to stay in Washington until his daughter graduated. I think we ought to pitch in to let him go someplace else, because he is only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is going to totally upset the new agenda. It just doesn’t make sense.
Y’know, this is actually even dumber when you think about it.
He thinks that Obama has to be right next door to coordinate a shadow government…like there’s no such thing as Skype, email, phones, couriers…
But at the same time, he doesn’t think Trump has to be anywhere near the White House to coordinate the actual government…well, yeah, we know he actually isn’t doing that, but at the same time, that’s what he’s SUPPOSED to be doing.
Morning.
Here is the video from last evening’s SNL skit called “Translator” (Three scientists (Scarlett Johansson, Kyle Mooney, Mikey Day) receive a shock when they debut their invention, a machine that translates for pets).
I think the doggie has been left with the TV on during the day.
re: #196 Anymouse
Rep. Steve King (R-Cantaloupes) is not the only Republican alleging with no evidence that President Obama is trying to undermine Trump with some secret deep-state cabal.
Apparently Mike Kelly (R-Pennsyltucky) is also offering that up, along with a side-helping of derp.
washingtonpost.comSo, saying such things in private to supporters or whatnot is supposed to make it better?
See why I left Pennsylvania in 1982 and I never went back?
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. the 4 corners (Pittsburgh, Erie, Philly, Wilkes Barre/Scranton/Bethlehem/Allentown) are usually blue but once you leave them the rest of the state is redder than Mississippi.
On today’s agenda here in Los Angeles, I’m going to head to Chez Pazienza’s memorial service this afternoon at The Melrose Umbrella Company. If you’re in the area, sure would like to meet and greet fellow LGFers!
America 2017:
Teaching of evolution, climate change at stake in Naples legislator Donalds’ bill
It never ends. Fundamentalists of all stripes continue to war against modernity.
Japan is slowly coming to terms with their own Trump-lite:
Japan PM Abe’s Support Slips Amid Questions Over Nationalist School Land Deal
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s support rate slipped six points to just under 56 percent, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, after weeks of questions in parliament about a murky land deal by a school operator to whom his wife had links.
Abe has said neither he nor his wife, Akie, was involved in the sweetheart deal for state-owned land purchased by Moritomo Gakuen, an educational body in the western city of Osaka that also runs a kindergarten promoting patriotism.
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re: #207 Joe Bacon
See why I left Pennsylvania in 1982 and I never went back?
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. the 4 corners (Pittsburgh, Erie, Philly, Wilkes Barre/Scranton/Bethlehem/Allentown) are usually blue but once you leave them the rest of the state is redder than Mississippi.
Like Michigan outside of the Detroit (& Ann Arbor)
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Like Michigan outside of the Detroit (& Ann Arbor)
A lot of states are like that. It’s why right wingers try to claim they “represent” more of the country even though those blue counties like Wayne in your state or Allegheny in PA, or Fairfax in mine have tons more peple.
re: #201 wheat-dogg
Oh, my, that looks good! I’d probably keel over from the massive cholesterol dose, but at least I’d enjoy it eating it.
That’s a Big Daddy Biscuit with and egg, cheese, and a garlic pepper sausage patty. Strawberry jam for lube.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
A lot of states are like that. It’s why right wingers try to claim they “represent” more of the country even though those blue counties like Wayne in your state or Allegheny in PA, or Fairfax in mine have tons more peple.
Yes, counties where people actually live tend to have more Democrats in them.
re: #207 Joe Bacon
See why I left Pennsylvania in 1982 and I never went back?
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. the 4 corners (Pittsburgh, Erie, Philly, Wilkes Barre/Scranton/Bethlehem/Allentown) are usually blue but once you leave them the rest of the state is redder than Mississippi.
Carville I believe described it as Alabama in the middle. The part of PA where my mom’s folks grew up- Cambria County. I don’t get the people there. They were able to see through Reagan’s bs but not Romney and Trump’s.
re: #214 The Vicious Babushka
Yes, counties where people actually live tend to have more Democrats in them.
ELITIST. // But yeah. I grew up in Fairfax County, Va and I remember when some of McCain’s surrogates were bragging about how Palin was “governor of our largest state”, I just had to chuckle since my county had more people in it than all of Alaska.
re: #216 HappyWarrior
ELITIST. // But yeah. I grew up in Fairfax County, Va and I remember when some of McCain’s surrogates were bragging about how Palin was “governor of our largest state”, I just had to chuckle since my county had more people in it than all of Alaska.
Luckily, representatives are apportioned according to population, not square mileage.
re: #217 wheat-dogg
Luckily, representatives are apportioned according to population, not square mileage.
No kidding.
re: #146 Anymouse
Yeah, Rep. King. That doesn’t sound authoritarian at all (especially on the heels of yesterday in Arizona at a rally where attendees and Republican politicians were calling for a genocide of liberals).
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That rally was actually last Saturday (March 4). All of the reports have been pretty much stolen from Stephen Lemons’ reporting on the rally for the Phoenix New Times.
re: #207 Joe Bacon
See why I left Pennsylvania in 1982 and I never went back?
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. the 4 corners (Pittsburgh, Erie, Philly, Wilkes Barre/Scranton/Bethlehem/Allentown) are usually blue but once you leave them the rest of the state is redder than Mississippi.
Pennsyltucky
re: #120 Cheechako
I’d vote to shift the time once by a half hour and call the situation fixed for all time.
Can we get rid of time zones, too? I’m having a very hard time of getting that idea accepted. Blah blah blah about “lunch time” being at 2200 some places and other such drivel. Everyone is so fixated on numbers on a dial being associated with certain events. No time zones, much less confusion about events happening in different parts of the world.
I think I am fighting a losing battlh, though.
re: #222 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I think I am fighting a losing battlh, though.
Yes, you are.
I’m quite fine with one time enumeration. UTC is fine by me. But a lot of people would be greatly confused. I also prefer 24 hour clocks.
re: #143 Anymouse
She sounds dumber than ever. What is socialized about the AHCA? She has no idea what constitutes socialism. She needs to go back to seeing Russia from her house.
re: #224 Patricia Kayden
She sounds dumber than ever. What is socialized about the AHCA? She has no idea what constitutes socialism. She needs to go back to seeing Russia from her house.
What ever happened to the death panels she used to talk about?
re: #224 Patricia Kayden
She sounds dumber than ever. What is socialized about the AHCA? She has no idea what constitutes socialism. She needs to go back to seeing Russia from her house.
The funny thing is she actually governed a state that had what many would had a key provision that many would call socialism. The whole paying people to live in Alaska thing but she never objected to that when she tried to make Alaska the land of rugged individuals and individualism living without “big government.” I wish she’d just go the hell away and actually educate herself.
re: #225 Ace Rothstein
What ever happened to the death panels she used to talk about?
Someone should ask her that immediately when she decides to give her opinion on health care. She’s no different from Alex Jones in terms of nuttery.
re: #226 HappyWarrior
Alaska started out as a government project. It was a federal government land purchase from another sovereign nation. Then statehood was arranged against the natives’ will, in order to benefit certain commercial interests in the US. And as you point out, doling out oil money by law is redistribution by any name.
re: #229 freetoken
Alaska started out as a government project. It was a federal government land purchase from another sovereign nation. Then statehood was arranged against the natives’ will, in order to benefit certain commercial interests in the US. And as you point out, doling out oil money by law is redistribution by any name.
Exactly.
Hell though, a lot of the Midwest where hostility towards “big government” was settled by people who got plots of land through the Homestead Act or went to land purchased by the federal government in the Louisiana Purchase.
re: #231 HappyWarrior
Or the land was given to veterans who fought wars to, among other things, take the land from the natives.
re: #232 freetoken
Or the land was given to veterans who fought wars to, among other things, take the land from the natives.
The Northwest Territories after the Revolution, correct?
re: #225 Ace Rothstein
What ever happened to the death panels she used to talk about?
They were elected to the House and Senate in 2016.
But yeah point is a lot of people who bitch about horrible big government and SOCIALISM are people who owe a lot to it. And don’t get me started on all those veterans who benefit from the G.I. Bill and veteran preferences who espouse right wing bs.
re: #181 steve_davis
that’s one where you just grab your kid and hold her in your lap, and THEN everybody feels all warm inside when you tell them you may have to cut the interview short. But of course, on live t.v., he probably panicked.
I heard on the news today an explanation of what happened. The kids get to talk to grandma on Skype. As soon as the kids heard daddy talking to someone on the computer they thought they were missing out on talking to grandma and rushed into the home office. A cute story.
Gary Cohn on budget: We have no alternative but to reinvest in our military and make ourselves a military power again.
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) March 12, 2017
bruh we’re bombing 7 countries and we barely even think about it much https://t.co/u6XLyB4yP6
— Zedd’s Not Dead (@ZeddRebel) March 12, 2017
re: #237 FormerDirtDart
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What the hell? We already spend well over every other country in the world. We are a military power. Anyone who thinks we haven’t been a military power the past eight years is a moron. Oh wait, I just described Trump’s idiotic base. Meanwhile, a lot of important things are being neglected as Trump attempts a Reagan 2.0.
Heh, Johnny Kasich just said we are watching the end of political parties in America because of all the squabbling. He’s on Meet the Chuck.
I think a lot of people would agree. I wonder if Johnny is willing to address the fact much of the party squabbling started during the time of Reagan when the Republicans decided they were going to make the Democrats evil “L-words.”
I always like a politician that is speaking the truth right up to the point he doesn’t want to admit his part of the problem.
He is right though when he says idealism of the party sometimes needs to go away to fix real problem and issues.
So, Johnny…when you going to start on your own level in your own job?
re: #239 ObserverArt
I suspect that Kasich is just realizing that his role, at the stage he is in life, is to be the “conscious” of the party, a role akin to what Bob Dole was a decade earlier.
But the fundamentalists who now are the key marks in the Trump empire will have no compromise with the spawn of Satan (i.e., the rest of us), so I think that politics (as the art of compromise) is at a dead end with the current political party arrangement.
re: #239 ObserverArt
Heh, Johnny Kasich just said we are watching the end of political parties in America because of all the squabbling. He’s on Meet the Chuck.
I think a lot of people would agree. I wonder if Johnny is willing to address the fact much of the party squabbling started during the time of Reagan when the Republicans decided they were going to make the Democrats evil “L-words.”
I always like a politician that is speaking the truth right up to the point he doesn’t want to admit his part of the problem.
He is right though when he says idealism of the party sometimes needs to go away to fix real problem and issues.
So, Johnny…when you going to start on your own level in your own job?
Indeed, he was a big part of the problem. I appreciate that he’s been pretty anti Trump but he can be just as shitty.
Speaking of fundamentalists… you may have thought you were rid of the Duggars. hah:
Whether or not Jana would be permitted to enter a courtship and marriage, or to leave home on her own for college or career, a recent interview reveals that she’s definitely not happy about all aspects of her role in the Duggar family.
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However, she also revealed something about the dynamics of the Duggar family’s rules and beliefs that may startle some viewers — when the married siblings get together, Jana isn’t able to join in.
“Waiting is not always easy. Especially in those times when all the married siblings are getting together and you can’t go along because your not part of ‘that’ group.”
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What a cult.
Speaking of which, Ben Seewald is apparently upset that a movie ( a religious movie, mind your) that God is portrayed as a black woman:
You know, something didn’t occur to me about the latest ‘Hillary talked no policy in any thing, worst campaign EVARRR!!’ histrionics, and it took Eric Boehlert to point it out to me:
@EricBoehlert Did you see Vox’s report on her campaign’s Advertising 101 fail? Because that’s important to the analysis too, maybe more so.
— Jesus HidalgoCristos (@JesusHCristos) March 12, 2017
i thought it was meh; does anyone think 2016 was decided on TV ads? i.e. Trump won and barely ran any ads. https://t.co/lW4gLJfOYb
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 12, 2017
Seriously, Trump ran almost no ads and subsisted on the free coverage lorded and lavished upon him by news media hungry for the ratings he brought. Often, again as I pointed out before, to the detriment of Clinton when she was actually speaking policy at campaign appearances and pressers.
But I guess Trump won and Hillary is the one true recognized Anti-Christ of All-Time so I guess the point is moot?
re: #242 jeffreyw
Because if there’s anybody’s opinion I value, it’s that of a dead-eyed dudebro who wears a backwards ballcap indoors. Take your hat off and stand up straight.
Yes, I’ve turned into my third-grade teacher…. But appearances still matter to me.
re: #244 Citizen K
So much effort is going into avoiding the obvious.
Namely, that there are enough bigots and atavists in America to get Trump elected.
And that the carnival barkers of old were right - you can fool a lot of people a lot of the time.
re: #243 freetoken
Speaking of fundamentalists… you may have thought you were rid of the Duggars. hah:
What a cult.
Speaking of which, Ben Seewald is apparently upset that a movie ( a religious movie, mind your) that God is portrayed as a black woman:
GAH.
I am stupider now than I was before I saw that. Damn.
Stop making excuses for Americans.
That is my plea to the talking heads, pundits, and the like.
The Observer’s photo essay on internet trolls. I don’t even… pic.twitter.com/qMdWq59Wh8
— Jason Sinclair (@jlsinc) March 12, 2017
.@findtruthlife Out of 15 commissars in the 1st SovGov only 1 (Trotsky) was Jewish. Nazi math strikes again. 🤣😂 https://t.co/Mk0ZtrCseP
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) March 12, 2017
TrumpCare, It’s Insurance Co CEO Approved! Kellyanne is actually pushing this https://t.co/nbzxJJlhkZ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 12, 2017
Another day in hell.
Verdict: you will see soon the Real Holocaust in Hell w yr father the devil, the father of lies
BF IQ:180@S_ergeyR_omanov @380meterspersec pic.twitter.com/jZ32mwM73h— Wake Up World (@findtruthlife) March 12, 2017
Here’s what Holocaust denial boils down to. https://t.co/29uYDzfe0j
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) March 12, 2017
“@codyave: @drudgereport @BreitbartNews @Writeintrump “You Can’t Stump the Trump” https://t.co/0xITB7XeJV pic.twitter.com/iF6S05se2w”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2015
Basic fact of life: frogs neither can nor want to #draintheswamp. https://t.co/6ckmPX3sjq
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) March 11, 2017
re: #243 freetoken
That’s because no matter how old you are, you’re not treated as a real adult until you’re married. So I, 56 years old with two university degrees, a house and car notes and a decent-playing job and helping to care for an elderly mother, I’m not a real adult in their eyes because I never got married. You can imagine how I feel about that, which is to say, I don’t care.
I do feel sorry for Jana, though, because she doesn’t have any way to get out of that mess.
re: #246 freetoken
So much effort is going into avoiding the obvious.
Namely, that there are enough bigots and atavists in America to get Trump elected.
And that the carnival barkers of old were right - you can fool a lot of people a lot of the time.
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But you can fool enough of the people enough of the time for it to not matter.
re: #153 Anymouse
It’s a tax scam. Everything with Trump is a tax scam.
From the ACLU training yesterday
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@ryangrim Not the best use of their time?
That’s LITERALLY their fucking job. That’s what the CBO is supposed to do.— AntiCitizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 12, 2017
re: #245 Pawn of the Oppressor
Because if there’s anybody’s opinion I value, it’s that of a dead-eyed dudebro who wears a backwards ballcap indoors.
Yes, I’ve turned into my third-grade teacher…. But appearances still matter to me.
Sometimes a frog is just a frog.
re: #245 Pawn of the Oppressor
…. a dead-eyed dudebro who wears a backwards ballcap indoors.
Someone with the spirit of the lawd in his heart shouldn’t look like a soulless automaton.
re: #247 The Vicious Babushka
GAH.
I am stupider now than I was before I saw that. Damn.
I deal with these Jesusbots every day at work.
It’s true that ANY religion makes people stupid!
Brings back memories of the truly worst caller I ever dealt with…
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America has no shortage of creeps.
— Gus Deep State™ (@Gus_802) March 12, 2017
What has Fox News created.
— Gus Deep State™ (@Gus_802) March 12, 2017
The scariest part is that we may only be looking at the proverbial tip of the iceberg here. https://t.co/GN9oiha9dp
— Nathan Obral ☀️😸🌷 (@myronfalwell) March 12, 2017
Chaffetz: Americans have to choose between buying an iPhone & health insurance
NYT went to his district. Read this. https://t.co/3wIPgKkjMX pic.twitter.com/qM75IvoQLG— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 12, 2017
re: #255 mmmirele
It’s part of the old patriarchy, which was a dominant force in colonial America. Like all the atavists who want to return to the 18th century, the Duggars have a very particular views about what women can do in society, and that legally a woman derives her standing in society through her husband.
re: #245 Pawn of the Oppressor
Because if there’s anybody’s opinion I value, it’s that of a dead-eyed dudebro who wears a backwards ballcap indoors. Take your hat off and stand up straight.
Yes, I’ve turned into my third-grade teacher…. But appearances still matter to me.
Not sure you are responding to the right comment.
re: #264 Myron Falwell
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Did you see that documentary? I didn’t get the name from my brother but he was telling me that it was about how this woman’s father who was once a pretty mainstream guy started listening to Rush and right wing radio and he just became super right wing. We both saw a lot of our friend in it who’s been getting his info from Ben Shapiro and Steve Crowder. It really is amazing what years or even shorter than that of telling people lies can do to their psyche.
re: #265 The Vicious Babushka
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I’m really hoping his constituents vote his ass out. He’s one of the biggest dicks in the GOP and man there’s a lot of them.
re: #244 Citizen K
Seriously, Trump ran almost no ads and subsisted on the free coverage lorded and lavished upon him by news media hungry for the ratings he brought. Often, again as I pointed out before, to the detriment of Clinton when she was actually speaking policy at campaign appearances and pressers.
But that was obvious to all (i.e. the crap coverage she was getting compared to trump). So, unfair as it was, the job of finding a way to break through all the noise fell to her campaign, and the only way they could have done that was an aggressive ad campaign to counteract trump’s free media coverage (not just TV ads, but social media as well)
As for the argument above about trump’s “policy” proposals being rubbish, it doesn’t matter when the electorate is gullible enough to fall for it. Just as you wouldn’t give a PhD dissertation in front of a class of first-graders, neither should you speak to a gullible, easily misled electorate in terms they can’t understand, even if what you’re saying is 100% true.
There’s also this - yes, a lot of mud was flung at HRC. Trump had high negatives as well. How come the lies stuck to her but the truth didn’t stick to trump, at least in the swing states where it needed to? Doesn’t that suggest that, even if her message about trump being unfit was absolutely true, it just wasn’t penetrating the thick skulls of people who needed to hear it? Hell, some of them even seemed to see his manifest awfulness as a plus: “durr hurr, he’ll shake things up!”
We absolutely have the right to hate the fact that things have degenerated to this point, but if that’s the terrain you’re fighting on, better use the right gear to handle it.
re: #270 Interesting Times
Yep. “Build that wall!” makes a great sound bite even if it is horrible policy.
re: #253 Nyet
Nyet, I had two EXTREMELY DISTASTEFUL encounters with Bobby Fischer here in Los Angeles.
In 1982, I was in the Los Angeles Central Library when a pair of police officers threw Fischer out of the place. He was screaming that they were in the pockets of the Jews. Fischer had a stack of mimeographed leaflets he gave out which stated that the world was run by a secret Jewish government centered in the Kremlin.
Mid 1983, I was going to Pasadena to see the chess match between Korchnoi and Kasparov (Which was aborted because Kasparov did not show up). On the bus was Fischer walking back and forth screaming about the Jews persecuting him and they had to be gotten rid of. I had enough and I said, “Oh shut up, Bobby! Take your hate and shove it up your ass”. He went off yelling at the driver to stop the bus and let him get off. The bus driver was so pissed he stopped the bus, called for the police and sure enough the cops came, one of them said, “Aw shit, it’s that asshole again”. The police got a standing ovation from us…
Hey, I enjoy playing chess, but too much of it knocks you off your rocker…
re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. “Build that wall!” makes a great sound bite even if it is horrible policy.
Build the wall, Make America Great Again. The problem we have honestly is our philosophy can’t really be narrowed down to soundbites. MAGA has more resonance than “Our country is great but we can be better.” There’s a reason why populism sells and that’s because the masses embrace simple messages rather than complex ones. Clinton had the right ideas, the right experience, etc but because it was nuanced, it didn’t have the masses screaming the way Trump and to another extent Sanders did though she did beat both of them in popular vote.
re: #272 Joe Bacon
Nyet, I had two EXTREMELY DISTASTEFUL encounters with Bobby Fischer here in Los Angeles.
In 1982, I was in the Los Angeles Central Library when a pair of police officers threw Fischer out of the place. He was screaming that they were in the pockets of the Jews. Fischer had a stack of mimeographed leaflets he gave out which stated that the world was run by a secret Jewish government centered in the Kremlin.
Mid 1983, I was going to Pasadena to see the chess match between Korchnoi and Kasparov (Which was aborted because Kasparov did not show up). On the bus was Fischer walking back and forth screaming about the Jews persecuting him and they had to be gotten rid of. I had enough and I said, “Oh shut up, Bobby! Take your hate and shove it up your ass”. He went off yelling at the driver to stop the bus and let him get off. The bus driver was so pissed he stopped the bus, called for the police and sure enough the cops came, one of them said, “Aw shit, it’s that asshole again”. The police got a standing ovation from us…
Hey, I enjoy playing chess, but too much of it knocks you off your rocker…
That’s a cool claim to fame heh being able to say you told Bobby Fischer to shut up and take his hate and shove it up his ass. I still need to see that documentary HBO did on him. What a messed up individual he was. Brilliant chessmaster but man so much pathetic hate.
re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. “Build that wall!” makes a great sound bite even if it is horrible policy.
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
Build that wall!
Drain the swamp!
Lock her up!
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Another thing that, counter-intuitively, worked to HRC’s detriment - trump had soooooo many negatives, while she only had a few. Yet hers, due to endless repetition, were clear and memorable, while his blended into an amorphous morass. The way to fix that, I suppose, would’ve been to focus on just a handful of flaws that counteracted his perceived strengths.
He called her “crooked Hillary”? Maybe her campaign should have constantly called him “Don the Con” - 3 words, 3 syllables, easy to remember, and goes to weaken/invalidate every thing he says.
Granted, too late for her campaign, but maybe Dems in special elections this year and the 2018 midterms could use it, and build around it - anything and everything about the GOP is a giant con.
re: #272 Joe Bacon
Nyet, I had two EXTREMELY DISTASTEFUL encounters with Bobby Fischer here in Los Angeles.
In 1982, I was in the Los Angeles Central Library when a pair of police officers threw Fischer out of the place. He was screaming that they were in the pockets of the Jews. Fischer had a stack of mimeographed leaflets he gave out which stated that the world was run by a secret Jewish government centered in the Kremlin.
Mid 1983, I was going to Pasadena to see the chess match between Korchnoi and Kasparov (Which was aborted because Kasparov did not show up). On the bus was Fischer walking back and forth screaming about the Jews persecuting him and they had to be gotten rid of. I had enough and I said, “Oh shut up, Bobby! Take your hate and shove it up your ass”. He went off yelling at the driver to stop the bus and let him get off. The bus driver was so pissed he stopped the bus, called for the police and sure enough the cops came, one of them said, “Aw shit, it’s that asshole again”. The police got a standing ovation from us…
Hey, I enjoy playing chess, but too much of it knocks you off your rocker…
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re: #275 Interesting Times
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Another thing that, counter-intuitively, worked to HRC’s detriment - trump had soooooo many negatives, while she only had a few. Yet hers, due to endless repetition, were clear and memorable, while his blended into an amorphous morass. The way to fix that, I suppose, would’ve been to focus on just a handful of flaws that counteracted his perceived strengths.
He called her “crooked Hillary”? Maybe her campaign should have constantly called him “Don the Con” - 3 words, 3 syllables, easy to remember, and goes to weaken/invalidate every thing he says.
Granted, too late for her campaign, but maybe Dems in special elections this year and the 2018 midterms could use it, and build around it - anything and everything about the GOP is a giant con.
Yeah “Don the Con.” The thing that frustrates me is people are ignoring that she did talk about issues. In fact, she talked about them more than he did.
re: #274 HappyWarrior
I was really amazed at Tobey Maguire’s performance in “Pawn Sacrifice”. He absolutely nailed it as Fischer!
Oh, I wouldn’t call it a “claim to fame” when it comes to Fischer. After each encounter, I felt like I had to wash myself down with Lysol!
re: #267 Nyet
Not sure you are responding to the right comment.
Whoops, mis-click… Meant #243 below it. With what I guess is a Duggar (I thought they dressed better?)
The thing is people want simple solutions and rhetoric to complex problems. That was another thing my brother and I were talking about last night. He’s definitely to my left but we both see that absolutist approaches to economics both socialistic and capitalistic are foolish. I was telling him about the conversation some of us had Friday morning about how the cost of one of those F-35 jets could go to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and it just amazed him. He’s frustrated because he deals with right wingers talking about how abortion is murder and blah blah and these are the same people who are indifferent or even heartless to people who are negatively impacted by laissez-faire capitalism’s environmental pitfalls.
re: #278 Joe Bacon
I was really amazed at Tobey Maguire’s performance in “Pawn Sacrifice”. He absolutely nailed it as Fischer!
Oh, I wouldn’t call it a “claim to fame” when it comes to Fischer. After each encounter, I felt like I had to wash myself down with Lysol!
Heh still pretty neat though.I’ve never told a famous person to shut up.
re: #276 stpaulbear
Oh St. Paul, that’s an understatement!
Pence calls KY “textbook example of Obamacare’s failures.” In fact, state had largest coverage expansion in country. https://t.co/dbKcAMe5uj
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 12, 2017
re: #268 HappyWarrior
Did you see that documentary? I didn’t get the name from my brother but he was telling me that it was about how this woman’s father who was once a pretty mainstream guy started listening to Rush and right wing radio and he just became super right wing. We both saw a lot of our friend in it who’s been getting his info from Ben Shapiro and Steve Crowder. It really is amazing what years or even shorter than that of telling people lies can do to their psyche.
I haven’t seen it either. But stories like those are indeed alarmingly commonplace.
Literal denazification will have to take place with an entire voting bloc of tens of millions of people.
re: #284 Myron Falwell
I haven’t seen it either. But stories like those are indeed alarmingly commonplace.
Literal denazification will have to take place with an entire voting bloc of tens of millions of people.
It’s just amazing how someone smart, kind, and reasonable can listen to shit like that and be transformed into such an asshole. Like my friend, I’ve never seen him belittle people different than him before but now he belittles feminists, transgendered people, refugees, indigenous people, etc. Honestly, if he wasn’t my best friend that I have an almost fraternal bond with (we go way way back), I’d consider ending the friendship. I don’t like ending friendships over politics but what he’s become disgusts me.
Q: How many will lose coverage under GOP health plan?
Paul Ryan: “I can’t answer that question. It’s up to people.”
Q: How many will lose coverage under GOP health plan?Paul Ryan: “I can’t answer that question. It’s up to people.”pic.twitter.com/hqgWoSfDIE
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 12, 2017
#TheResistance #BanBannon
Quiet from Trumpy, wonder what is occupying his time this weekend… pic.twitter.com/3Tswe2oaGM— The Anti-Trump (@IMPL0RABLE) March 12, 2017
More in-depth information on the GOP push to make your genome available to your employer. https://t.co/b1o5WkBA7k
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 12, 2017
Ozymandius uncovered
A colossal 3,000-year-old statue was unearthed from a pit in Cairo https://t.co/YTsR9wPZBj pic.twitter.com/hMjkv5LrDk
— CNN (@CNN) March 12, 2017
re: #286 FormerDirtDart
So is it fair to say that Speaker Ryan is Pro-Choice when it comes to Health Insurance? https://t.co/SExoCXd1Cc
— Nicholas A. Kovach (@TheKovach) March 12, 2017
“…Can you think of any compelling, job-related reason that an employer might need to know if your child has cystic fibrosis? There’s not one. The only use for that information is to avoid covering or employing someone whose family members or who themselves might have a chronic or pre-existing and therefore costly condition. Finding that out after someone has been employed opens a door to usher them right back out again. At the very low threshold of that door is that steep, slippery slope. There is almost no threshold for “we don’t want to pay for that” when it comes to saving a buck.”
forbes.com
re: #281 HappyWarrior
Heh still pretty neat though.I’ve never told a famous person to shut up.
It’s called “twitter”.//
False. Trump specifically said he wants insurance for everybody. pic.twitter.com/bmh1q0O1is
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) March 12, 2017
Well, there’s also this.
— Ignatius 卐 † (@Ignatius4ntioch) July 18, 2016
re: #297 Nyet
You sure know how to find the winners…
Breitbart is simultaneously railing against Trump’s chosen health bill and pretending Trump has nothing to do with it. pic.twitter.com/W2iDPgDipd
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 12, 2017
Sarah Palin too. Trump supporters who hate the bill have decided to ignore Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of it. pic.twitter.com/CPJooJDOMQ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 12, 2017
Which makes sense when you remember that Breitbartians and Palinbots never really liked Ryan.
Their readership (heh) is so gullible that they can whitewash the involvement of Trump/Bannon in this disaster of a bill and get away with it. And perpetuate the lie of the ACA being a failure (when it isn’t) come next election cycle (“let’s bring new true conservative House leadership that will provide the best replacement for Obamacare blah blah blah”)…
re: #297 Nyet
Well, there’s also this.
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I missed that part I guess. Granted I didn’t last long in CCD.
re: #270 Interesting Times
Remember when Trump was railing against Clinton’s vote for the Iraq was under Bush, and when the reporter asked about Pence’s support, Trump said it did not matter? I saw the male double standard right there.
re: #299 Myron Falwell
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Which makes sense when you remember that Breitbartians and Palinbots never really liked Ryan.
Their readership (heh) is so gullible that they can whitewash the involvement of Trump/Bannon in this disaster of a bill and get away with it. And perpetuate the lie of the ACA being a failure (when it isn’t) come next election cycle (“let’s bring new true conservative House leadership that will provide the best replacement for Obamacare blah blah blah”)…
I do enjoy it when they cannibalize themselves. If the petty inner squabbling means ACA can be saved then.
re: #301 Belafon
Remember when Trump was railing against Clinton’s vote for the Iraq was under Bush, and when the reporter asked about Pence’s support, Trump said it did not matter? I saw the male double standard right there.
Pence was a much bigger supporter of the war than Clinton was too. But yeah it just amazed me that Clinton got attacked for that vote but Pence’s was ignored. And Trump had and has a lot of advisers that not just supported it but put the war together. Trump presented it as if Hillary started the war herself.
re: #301 Belafon
Remember when Trump was railing against Clinton’s vote for the Iraq was under Bush, and when the reporter asked about Pence’s support, Trump said it did not matter? I saw the male double standard right there.
Do you think he wouldn’t have said it about his female VP, had he had one?
Tillerson must have left his dignity at the door when he took the office. The Secretary of State is reporting to the President’s son-in-law. And not allowed to choose his own deputies. I’d say all the upset that the CEO of Exxon was made SecState was overblown. It’s essentially a powerless position now.
Senate Foreign Relations Chair, touting Tillerson’s influence as SecState, notes he “talks all the time to Jared” https://t.co/Q9IBUDEOxv
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 12, 2017
re: #304 Nyet
Do you think he wouldn’t have said it about his female VP, had he had one?
True. It was more like the typical IOKIYAR standard.
And of course, there’s another respect in which his “doesn’t matter” statement actually was true - the far-left takes it for granted that GOPers are pro-war, but flips its collective shit when a Dem is perceived as such. The HRC=warmonger meme was always intended to harm her with that group.
re: #305 Blind Frog Belly White
Tillerson must have left his dignity at the door when he took the office. The Secretary of State is reporting to the President’s son-in-law. And not allowed to choose his own deputies. I’d say all the upset that the CEO of Exxon was made SecState was overblown. It’s essentially a powerless position now.
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Pin this tweet. Major promise—HHS Sec. Tom Price says “nobody will be worse off financially” under GOP health plan https://t.co/R3iyn2RG8b
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2017
re: #302 HappyWarrior
I do enjoy it when they cannibalize themselves. If the petty inner squabbling means ACA can be saved then.
What happens when a dog finally catches it’s tail?
Their lack of any thought process beyond REPEAL AND REPLACE for SEVEN FUCKING YEARS is rearing its ugly head on the entire GOP rank-and-file. Plus Ryan and Chaffetz are truly pathetic pitchmen that have yielded unbelievable damage on their efforts.
re: #304 Nyet
Do you think he wouldn’t have said it about his female VP, had he had one?
I don’t think it was a male double standard, in that Trump would have used that line of attack on anyone the Dems nominated if he/she had voted for the Iraq war, and would have minimized the importance of his VP supporting it no matter who it was.
The double standard is that he’s allowed to lie shamelessly and with impunity while everyone else has to be mostly honest.
Frothy just said that ER visits have gone up because of the ACA.
re: #311 Ace Rothstein
Frothy just said that ER visits have gone up because of the ACA.
I wish they wouldn’t give Frothy an audience. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.
re: #275 Interesting Times
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Another thing that, counter-intuitively, worked to HRC’s detriment - trump had soooooo many negatives, while she only had a few. Yet hers, due to endless repetition, were clear and memorable, while his blended into an amorphous morass. The way to fix that, I suppose, would’ve been to focus on just a handful of flaws that counteracted his perceived strengths.
He called her “crooked Hillary”? Maybe her campaign should have constantly called him “Don the Con” - 3 words, 3 syllables, easy to remember, and goes to weaken/invalidate every thing he says.
Granted, too late for her campaign, but maybe Dems in special elections this year and the 2018 midterms could use it, and build around it - anything and everything about the GOP is a giant con.
The elephant here that is being ignored is not the number of syllables or catchiness of the phrases: it’s the meaning of them. Trump’s “magic” is his appeal to the anger and hate and providing targets for it. That we have a large enough population that can be energized by this is our national tragedy.
I agree that Dems can and should improve messaging and brand building. I also see it as the least of the problems alone.
re: #313 allegro
The elephant here that is being ignored is not the number of syllables or catchiness of the phrases: it’s the meaning of them. Trump’s “magic” is his appeal to the anger and hate and providing targets for it. That we have a large enough population that can be energized by this is our national tragedy.
I agree that Dems can and should improve messaging and brand building. I also see it as the least of the problems alone.
That’s true as well. And you’re right. Trump’s “magic” as you get is his appeal to anger and hate and providing targets for it. And I think that can be seen in how he ran up higher margins than usual in many parts of the country among Republican voters. And I agree, it’s definitely tragic that the segment of the population is large enough that it can be energized by that.
Resentment sells and as I believe I said yesterday has been the driving engine of the right wing movement in our country for sometime.
re: #275 Interesting Times
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Another thing that, counter-intuitively, worked to HRC’s detriment - trump had soooooo many negatives, while she only had a few. Yet hers, due to endless repetition, were clear and memorable, while his blended into an amorphous morass. The way to fix that, I suppose, would’ve been to focus on just a handful of flaws that counteracted his perceived strengths.
He called her “crooked Hillary”? Maybe her campaign should have constantly called him “Don the Con” - 3 words, 3 syllables, easy to remember, and goes to weaken/invalidate every thing he says.
Granted, too late for her campaign, but maybe Dems in special elections this year and the 2018 midterms could use it, and build around it - anything and everything about the GOP is a giant con.
“Trump that bitch!”
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
That could be true. You won’t have to pay for something that no longer exists.
The New England Journal of Medicine has a few things to say about Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s pick for HHS. https://t.co/YtpumoIMSQ pic.twitter.com/XuAx7M2xJ7
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 17, 2017
Tom Price voted to let hospitals turn away Medicare & Medicaid patients if they couldn’t afford the copay. Seriously. #priceiswrong https://t.co/ShqaD9DrL1
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 18, 2017
Remember when HHS Sec. Tom Price voted to allow hospitals to turn away Medicaid/Medicare patients if they couldn’t afford the copay? https://t.co/ebjtVh256P
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 12, 2017
Flag—
How many ppl are going to lose coverage under AHCA?
Ryan: “I can’t answer that question. It’s up to people.”pic.twitter.com/qRi8f5zZhI— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2017
Rent, food or healthcare? Free choices, people.
re: #317 Eclectic Cyborg
“Trump that bitch!”
But hey don’t call them deplorable. That hurts their feelings. I’m sick of Trump supporters. I’m sick of them whining that mean liberals don’t understand them when they’re the ones who are constantly going fuck your feelings and not even attempting to empathize with other people.
What allowed Trump to become President?
When politics became an entertainment spectacle instead of a serious discussion.
If you see them at #SXSW ask them, “Should we walk by the river?” #HandmaidsTale pic.twitter.com/3RdpPoZKeC
— The Handmaid’s Tale (@HandmaidsOnHulu) March 10, 2017
Holy HELL im even more excited now https://t.co/LmoaAYLcVe
— Madeline Brewer (@madkbrew) March 11, 2017
@MargaretAtwood I’m here for the rest of the day; if I get a chance I’ll ask ‘em!
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) March 12, 2017
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
What allowed Trump to become President?
When politics became an entertainment spectacle instead of a serious discussion.
Indeed. When people started posting videos of people “destroying” someone rather than realizing it’s about discussion of real and complicated issues that can’t be simplified to some asshole yelling at someone.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Doing A Great Job Of Creeping Everyone Out At SXSW https://t.co/4dUoZ7yGjI
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) March 12, 2017
Eyes are everywhere — they’ll know they can trust you when you say, “There must be an us now because there’s a them.” #HandmaidsTale #sxsw pic.twitter.com/xPZauZJKSI
— The Handmaid’s Tale (@HandmaidsOnHulu) March 11, 2017
A story which the denialists will deny:
Study: Agriculture Sector Should Ramp Up Response To Climate Change
That headline is a bit too optimistic. From the actual paper:
Determining climate effects on US totalagricultural productivity
[…]
Thus, if technological advances and other adaptations to climate-driven change merely keep pace with recent historical rates, the average climate penalty under RCP4.5 will cause TFP [ total factor productivity, the ratio of output to input in agricultural production] to lose, by ∼2035, all of the gains achieved from 1981 to 2010. To overcome this loss, the effect of technological advances would have to double to sustain US agricultural productivity at the current level. RCP8.5 creates a larger penalty but only hastens the total loss of accumulated TFP growth by ∼3 y. Under either RCP, the projected climate penalty will substantially reduce US agricultural productivity in the coming decades.
[…]
Thanks, Donald: 11 Canadians signed up for a New York bus tour that usually draws up to 300. https://t.co/Hlmdc7xT5y
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 12, 2017
“The Toronto Star in January published a commentary calling on Canadians to forgo unnecessary trips to the US until Trump is out of office.”
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 12, 2017
re: #309 Myron Falwell
Plus Ryan and Chaffetz are truly pathetic pitchmen that have yielded unbelievable damage on their efforts.
They do suck. I have yet to hear anyone tell me what is supposed to be GOOD in the Trumpcare bill, they just keep talking about how it’s not as horrible as advertised.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s going to impact tourism but hey that’ll show them liberal elites. //
This guy turned out to be a completely unhinged lunatic asshole.
We need an open, bipartisan investigation of Russian influence on our democracy and the White House https://t.co/oXTZmLFvc5
— D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) March 11, 2017
We need open nonpartisan investigation of @DWStweets lies & rigging against @SenSanders, total failure DNC 2010-16, murder of Seth Rich, etc https://t.co/Q7FkZtOCvJ
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) March 12, 2017
re: #331 goddamnedfrank
This guy turned out to be a completely unhinged lunatic asshole.
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Ugh, I am really hoping that Democrats don’t go through a tea party swing like the GOP did in 2009 and on.
I had to listen to a Democrat constantly use “we the people” rhetoric yesterday. Kept having flashbacks to my GOP days, but I disliked the tea party and their rhetoric from the start.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is so fucked up:
“It is not just visitors from the countries targeted by the bans that are souring on U.S. travel; the seven countries included in Trump’s original order in January account for 0.1% of incoming travelers. Rather, an atmosphere of fear at the nation’s airports — and well-publicized incidents of visitors being detained and interrogated — are scaring off people without the slightest connection to the Muslim world.
Washington, New York and four other states will take Trump to court over the new travel ban
“Think twice about visiting America if you don’t want the ‘Mem Fox’ treatment,” read a recent headline in the letters column of the Australian magazine Traveller, referring to the children’s book author who swore she would never return to the United States after being questioned at Los Angeles International Airport on her way to a literary conference.”
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Article also says estimated tourism losses are on pace to hit $11 Billion this year.
Make vacations great again!
*spit*
re: #332 Timothy Watson
Ugh, I am really hoping that Democrats don’t go through a tea party swing like the GOP did in 2009 and on.
I had to listen to a Democrat constantly use “we the people” rhetoric yesterday. Kept having flashbacks to my GOP days, but I disliked the tea party and their rhetoric from the start.
I really hope we avoid that too.
Local wingnuts face hostile crowds:
Issa, Hunter face raucous anti-Trump crowds at town hall meetings
Hunter is probably not going to lose. Issa on the other hand won re-election by a very small margin last time.
re: #331 goddamnedfrank
This guy turned out to be a completely unhinged lunatic asshole.
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Jesus Christ. Man, I think DWS could have done a better job but her leftist detractors are even worse.
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
What allowed Trump to become President?
When politics became an entertainment spectacle instead of a serious discussion.
The mental poisioning of an entire bloc of voters played a role, too. Trump is but an carrier of this decades-long deception by the usual suspects.
As a result, the Democrats had to play a near-perfect game in order to win what turned out to be a rigged game. JillBots and Bros made sure that didn’t happen, even with Hillary’s popular vote margin, which only exemplifies how rigged the system is.
The same thing could be said had Rafael Cruz been elected instead of Trump. I betcha Cruz would have brought someone like Bannon aboard and appointed sycophants like DeVos and Sessions to cabinet positions.
Senator Heller speaks at closed door event in Henderson, draws protest outside. https://t.co/hCYu5qJ1Cl via @LasVegasSun pic.twitter.com/EiFdhVuPOJ
— Ricardo Torres (@rickytwrites) March 12, 2017
Dean Heller, up for re-election in 2018, is a coward who hopes Nevada is too dumb to notice. #NVSen https://t.co/GXI5L1mAle
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) March 12, 2017
We need to provide @Tim_Canova with appropriate psychiatric help. @DWStweets @SenSanders
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) March 12, 2017
Think the end is coming? JeZus (yes, with a Z), a doomsday prophet in Hawaii, says yes. Go inside his world on #Believer w/@rezaaslan at 10p
Think the end is coming? JeZus (yes, with a Z), a doomsday prophet in Hawaii, says yes. Go inside his world on #Believer w/@rezaaslan at 10p pic.twitter.com/lEriUd9fMT
— CNN (@CNN) March 12, 2017
WellI am glad my fairy garden figurines arrived yesterday#StillTime https://t.co/w9Phh8xpCM
— Linda (@GoldieAZ) March 12, 2017
Hardest hit would be 60 year olds making around $30K who in 1500 counties would lose $6000 in health care assistance https://t.co/t7DYpyhtg5
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) March 12, 2017
So I spent 15+ hours over the past 3 days watching Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Wagner’s Ring Cycle epic opera(s). Hot damn, y’all. It’s Lord of the Rings written almost 50 years before Tolkien was born. I knew it was based in Nordic mythology but had no idea how fun it would be with Mean Girl Mermaids, giants, dwarfs in an underworld, dragon protecting gold and the magic dark power ring (sound familiar?), gods and goddesses, Valkyries (warrior goddesses who were all illegitimate daughters of Wotan aka Odin which made his wife, Fricka, Goddess of Marriage, quite testy). And incest, a brother/sister as husband/wife who are also the illegitimate twins (though mortal) sired by Wotan. He was a busy, horny guy. I loved him, particularly because he was played in this Met production by Brynn Terfel, my favorite baritone and all around lovable guy.
I know few will ever sit through this masterpiece but if you were ever tempted to check out opera, this could get ya hooked. It’s a trip.
re: #332 Timothy Watson
The Tea Party only brought out the GOP’s utter divorce from reality. It was fated to happen.
The most obvious danger for the Democratic Party is if the Bros and JillBots are somehow allowed to continue undermining the party on a national scale. Those fringe elements don’t necessarily have the manpower to hijack the party per se, but they still yielded unbelievable damage last year and still can.
And what do the Tea Party and the JillBots/Bros have in common? A call for PURITY!!1!!!1!!
re: #342 allegro
So I spent 15+ hours over the past 3 days watching Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Wagner’s Ring Cycle epic opera(s). Hot damn, y’all. It’s Lord of the Rings written almost 50 years before Tolkien was born. I knew it was based in Nordic mythology but had no idea how fun it would be with Mean Girl Mermaids, giants, dwarfs in an underworld, dragon protecting gold and the magic dark power ring (sound familiar?), gods and goddesses, Valkyries (warrior goddesses who were all illegitimate daughters of Wotan aka Odin which made his wife, Fricka, Goddess of Marriage, quite testy). And incest, a brother/sister as husband/wife who are also the illegitimate twins (though mortal) sired by Wotan. He was a busy, horny guy. I loved him, particularly because he was played in this Met production by Brynn Terfel, my favorite baritone and all around lovable guy.
I know few will ever sit through this masterpiece but if you were ever tempted to check out opera, this could get ya hooked. It’s a trip.
YES! YES! Ring Des Nibelungen is LOTR in the original German.
re: #334 HappyWarrior
I really hope we avoid that too.
We could learn from the Tea Party.
They put up their slates of candidates in the primaries, and a lot of them lost. Then the TP’ers went out and worked like mad to make sure WHOEVER the GOP nominee was won. They didn’t sit around pissing and moaning about how awful the candidate was, or how they couldn’t vote for him because he wasn’t pure enough, or that the GOP had to EARN their vote. Once nominated, the GOP candidate became THE person for that office.
4 election cycles later, they own the White House and control the Congress.
And what do Progressives do? Well, some of ‘held their nose’ and voted for that awful Hillary Clinton “She’s not a REAL Liberal!”. And some of them voted for Stein, because “The lesser of two evils is still evil!” And some stayed home, because they didn’t get their fucking pony.
And now we have Trump. And what are Progressives doing? Well, we’re protesting, and organizing. Great! And some loud assholes are still litigating the 2016 Primaries, because if there’s one thing that’s REALLY important right now, it’s their hurt feelings.
re: #313 allegro
The elephant here that is being ignored is not the number of syllables or catchiness of the phrases: it’s the meaning of them. Trump’s “magic” is his appeal to the anger and hate and providing targets for it. That we have a large enough population that can be energized by this is our national tragedy.
Absolutely. But wingnuts don’t have a monopoly on anger. There’s plenty on our side as well (e.g. all the grassroots protests that have arisen in response to trump&GOP fuckery)
The difference is, our anger is based on reality, theirs is based on bigotry.
We’ll never win over the bigots, but we might be able to grab enough of the low-info bigot-curious to take back congress and the electoral college.
re: #346 Interesting Times
The stresses of modernity may just be too much to process for enough of society, and cause politics to fail.
A lot has happened over the last century. Too much for some.
PLEASE, just ONE article that says: They were poor and sick and voted for Clinton because they fucking KNEW this would happen. pic.twitter.com/cTJ4zMJxk0
— Kelly (@cornax) March 12, 2017
Attention news editors: https://t.co/Cxj51AXe5N
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 12, 2017
re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White
We could learn from the Tea Party.
They put up their slates of candidates in the primaries, and a lot of them lost. Then the TP’ers went out and worked like mad to make sure WHOEVER the GOP nominee was won. They didn’t sit around pissing and moaning about how awful the candidate was, or how they couldn’t vote for him because he wasn’t pure enough, or that the GOP had to EARN their vote. Once nominated, the GOP candidate became THE person for that office.
4 election cycles later, they own the White House and control the Congress.
And what do Progressives do? Well, some of ‘held their nose’ and voted for that awful Hillary Clinton “She’s not a REAL Liberal!”. And some of them voted for Stein, because “The lesser of two evils is still evil!” And some stayed home, because they didn’t get their fucking pony.
And now we have Trump. And what are Progressives doing? Well, we’re protesting, and organizing. Great! And some loud assholes are still litigating the 2016 Primaries, because if there’s one thing that’s REALLY important right now, it’s their hurt feelings.
That’s true.
Which is why I brought up the Duggars earlier.
Bill to Limit Oil Spill Reporting Advances in North Dakota https://t.co/nmpKA7iuLc (via @lastrealindians) pic.twitter.com/xaV8bRIRbl
— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) March 12, 2017
re: #342 allegro
So I spent 15+ hours over the past 3 days watching Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Wagner’s Ring Cycle epic opera(s). Hot damn, y’all. It’s Lord of the Rings written almost 50 years before Tolkien was born. I knew it was based in Nordic mythology but had no idea how fun it would be with Mean Girl Mermaids, giants, dwarfs in an underworld, dragon protecting gold and the magic dark power ring (sound familiar?), gods and goddesses, Valkyries (warrior goddesses who were all illegitimate daughters of Wotan aka Odin which made his wife, Fricka, Goddess of Marriage, quite testy). And incest, a brother/sister as husband/wife who are also the illegitimate twins (though mortal) sired by Wotan. He was a busy, horny guy. I loved him, particularly because he was played in this Met production by Brynn Terfel, my favorite baritone and all around lovable guy.
I know few will ever sit through this masterpiece but if you were ever tempted to check out opera, this could get ya hooked. It’s a trip.
I saw it in 2008 at the Bayreuth Festival; Christian Thielemann was the conductor. It’s impressive, to put it mildly, even though I’m the first to confess opera isn’t really my thing. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it tremendously……one of those “once in a lifetime” sort of things.
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
YES! YES! Ring Des Nibelungen is LOTR in the original German.
One can approach LOTR as Wagner mixed with Tolkien’s WWI experience and forced into a Christian worldview.
re: #346 Interesting Times
Absolutely. But wingnuts don’t have a monopoly on anger. There’s plenty on our side as well (e.g. all the grassroots protests that have arisen in response to trump&GOP fuckery)
The difference is, our anger is based on reality, theirs is based on bigotry.
We’ll never win over the bigots, but we might be able to grab enough of the low-info bigot-curious to take back congress and the electoral college.
What you’ve just said points to something creepy actually. What has energized “our side” here is a hate target, i.e. Trumpists. I agree about it being based in reality since they are indeed hateful but in the end it is still rooted in hate and anger. Not making a right or wrong judgment - I can easily argue that the ends justify the means… to a point but gotta admit it is becoming what we decry.
re: #275 Interesting Times
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Another thing that, counter-intuitively, worked to HRC’s detriment - trump had soooooo many negatives, while she only had a few. Yet hers, due to endless repetition, were clear and memorable, while his blended into an amorphous morass. The way to fix that, I suppose, would’ve been to focus on just a handful of flaws that counteracted his perceived strengths.
He called her “crooked Hillary”? Maybe her campaign should have constantly called him “Don the Con” - 3 words, 3 syllables, easy to remember, and goes to weaken/invalidate every thing he says.
Granted, too late for her campaign, but maybe Dems in special elections this year and the 2018 midterms could use it, and build around it - anything and everything about the GOP is a giant con.
Here is some building around it… refer to them constantly as Republicons.
re: #355 freetoken
One can approach LOTR as Wagner mixed with Tolkien’s WWI experience and forced into a Christian worldview.
Tolkien allegedly insisted that LOTR was IN NO WAY plagiarized from Nibelungenlied except that “both works are about rings that are round” and I’m like NFW.
Hundreds of Islamists shouting “Allahu Akbar” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel pic.twitter.com/dV2SjXg23r
— Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) March 12, 2017
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
I think this is the most openly racist thing I’ve ever heard from a sitting U.S. lawmaker. https://t.co/TGFEZo9LzS
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) March 12, 2017
re: #275 Interesting Times
Actually, that reminds me of a definite pattern I noticed with his fuckery:
All three words, all three syllables. Maybe freetoken can comment on the science behind the effectiveness of that method as “magick” :/
Yes, actually. This is well known in crowd manipulation. If one looks at the chants used in different kind of venues for sports/entertainment, there is a musical quality that is needed for a chant to succeed.
The 3 syllable chants usually follow a simple rhythm, in common time (4/4): ♩ ♩ ♩ ⌇
(if only I could find the right entry for the quarter rest…)
When four syllables are employed, the third one can be emphasized to help people to chant. Locally (to San Diego), this might go like:
Let’s Go Char’ gers
In the world from which Trump arises, the carnival, an example can be taken from how WWE programs their crowds, e.g.
This Is Awe’ som
And so forth.
Crowd manipulation is the bread and butter of the conman, whether it is Trump or your local TV preacher.
re: #307 HappyWarrior
Totally normal for the SOS to talk to the President’s son in law.
Just as snarky to say it like this too:
Totally normal for the fake SOS to talk to the President’s real Secretary of State, his son in law. //
Well, that was supposed to be a quarter rest, but my Mac doesn’t show it….
Afternoon Lizardim as the snow flies in the wild north country.
re: #360 jaunte
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re: #364 ObserverArt
Just as snarky to say it like this too:
Totally normal for the fake SOS to talk to the President’s real Secretary of State, his son in law. //
Yeah taht works too.
“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
He might as well have said “nits make lice.”
Who the fuck made Steve King the arbiter of what our civilization is anyhow?
re: #371 HappyWarrior
Who the fuck made Steve King the arbiter of what our civilization is anyhow?
Donald Trump.
re: #310 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t think it was a male double standard, in that Trump would have used that line of attack on anyone the Dems nominated if he/she had voted for the Iraq war, and would have minimized the importance of his VP supporting it no matter who it was.
The double standard is that he’s allowed to lie shamelessly and with impunity while everyone else has to be mostly honest.
And looking back on it all, once he was allowed to get away with some of his first lies in the primary and both the media and the Republican party were seen to be incapable of shooting him down he was emboldened to let it all rip from then on and he has not stopped.
Really why should he? There is absolutely no punishment for it. No repercussions from the party and his backers for his lying. Media is like the police trying to stop King Kong, a brave soul tries to climb up the Chrysler Building and take town the big ape with a service revolver and the Trump backers read the headlines and laugh.
It was all made clear that day he said “I Could Stand In the Middle Of Fifth Avenue And Shoot Somebody And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters!”
That was the blurring of when a lie becomes the reality and the lie is accepted.
re: #371 HappyWarrior
Who the fuck made Steve King the arbiter of what our civilization is anyhow?
Evidently Steve King did.
@SteveKingIA Your ‘civilization’ was defeated in WWII.
— Varek Raith (@VarekRaith) March 12, 2017
re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth
The story is excellent: washingtonpost.com
re: #375 Varek Raith
You win the internet today.
I’m still in awe at just how blatant that tweet was.
Wowzers.
Anywho, looks like I might actually get some real snow this winter.
:)
re: #360 jaunte
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Oh look..Steve King is a racist asshole. I guess we never figured that out before.
Anyway, glad that he sees the political climate as being conducive to making it clearer. Hey America…Steve King’s a fucking racist. Anyone care???
I bet the answer is no from too many people.
re: #376 Ace Rothstein
The story is excellent: washingtonpost.com
It’s heart-breaking. My county in eastern Kentucky is a similar situation.
re: #363 Eclectic Cyborg
Great bit from SNL last night:
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I posted that upthread. Loved that bit. My comment above was the TV was left on and the doggie was listening.
re: #349 Blind Frog Belly White
There isn’t enough updings I can give for this. It makes me actually want to listen to the whole thing.
@BCAppelbaum he could use 3 words to get the same point across: “I’m a fascist”
— Sam Deutsch (@samdman95) March 12, 2017
re: #385 Eric The Fruit Bat
There isn’t enough updings I can give for this. It makes me actually want to listen to the whole thing.
When I was growing up, every Saturday my Dad listened to the live Saturday Matinee broadcast from the Met, with Milton Cross (“Sponsored by Texaco: You can trust your car to the man who wears the star!”). There’d always be a synopsis of the next act during the intermissions, as well as Texaco’s Opera Quiz. So, I grew up with Opera, even though we lived nowhere near an opera house.
NBD, just former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke endorsing Congressman @SteveKingIA’s call for racial purity. pic.twitter.com/225kHU30UW
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 12, 2017
re: #362 freetoken
The “this is awesome” chant is an example of the audience influencing the product, not the other way around. reddit.com
Swastikas carved onto NYC church that has offered sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. https://t.co/zDJcGGL1gR
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 12, 2017
Fake news. pic.twitter.com/QsDm7Z4izf
— John Huey (@johnwhuey) March 12, 2017
Is there are corresponding cartoon from the 1930’s?
In case there was any doubt: The tweet Steve King was responding to was virulently anti-Islamic. pic.twitter.com/KpKciH1JuQ
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) March 12, 2017
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is a pity that they are not reading the paper that is in the background.
Pence: Under this new law, Ohio will be able to help vulnerable people even more.
Ohio Gov. Kasich: No. pic.twitter.com/tKBnd6atNe— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 12, 2017
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I see The National Enquirer is still doing fantastic stories about scary, ugly, out-of-this-world aliens taking over the planet.
This guy dressed as #KateWinslet in #Titanic just won #Purim
This guy dressed as #KateWinslet in #Titanic just won #Purim pic.twitter.com/ihRNzaGMBq
— Tel Aviv (@TelAviv) March 12, 2017
re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Okay, when David Duke approves of your tweet, you should know you are doing something horribly wrong. I don’t think King has that level of awareness, however.
re: #375 Varek Raith
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The election of Trump has started the GOP edging to just outright letting their freak flag fly as a party.
Here’s another Steve King Racist-As-Fuck Tweet
@FraukePetry Wishing you successful vote. Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end. @geertwilderspvv pic.twitter.com/Kp6uieaMDG
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 18, 2016
@KevinMKruse Literal rephrasing of the 14 words. From a sitting congressman. He needs to lose his job as soon as possible.
— AliasHandler (@AliasHandler) March 12, 2017
The 14 Words of white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” https://t.co/bYqahMeEcI
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 12, 2017
re: #399 Targetpractice
The election of Trump has started the GOP edging to just outright letting their freak flag fly as a party.
Oh Lawdy, this is just “edging” there? =O
re: #398 thedopefishlives
I don’t think one is worse than the other any longer. They reinforce each other’s vileness and are proud of the reciprocal endorsements.
re: #402 allegro
Oh Lawdy, this is just “edging” there? =O
Pretty much. The party as a whole will still insist they’re not racists, but that’s for appearance’s sake at this point. King’s just saying aloud what a lot of the party are saying in private.
re: #360 jaunte
My culture and “civilization” must be far more robust than King’s. I think it is doing just fine and not in need of restoration.
GOOD RIDDANCE DEPT: Obama capo @PreetBharara is a familiar Indian type, subservient to those above him but ruthless with those in his power
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) March 11, 2017
From Dept of Maybe Worth Mentioning: @PreetBharaha successfully prosecuted Dinesh for campaign finance fraud https://t.co/8sIzU9RAdw
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 11, 2017
<——— somebody else’s baby. 😊
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) March 12, 2017
i’m cute now give me delicious foods pic.twitter.com/WASRg4UMvY
— Maymo (@maymothedog) March 12, 2017
re: #406 blueraven
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Is the pic of Dinesh with the woman he cheated with or the one he cheated on?
re: #406 blueraven
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Man, what’s the right way to describe something beyond “epic levels of projection”?
sorry kid we won’t pay for your cancer treatment because that would be like buying you fancy furniture and paying for your vacation pic.twitter.com/CCWgIYV5IN
— Tom Bloke (@21logician) March 11, 2017
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
They will never understand healthcare is not like other stuff you pay for.
re: #403 JordanRules
I don’t think one is worse than the other any longer. They reinforce each other’s vileness and are proud of the reciprocal endorsements.
I think I am agreeing with you.
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, maybe if those damn kids would stop buying iPhones, they could afford their cancer treatments.
re: #412 Eclectic Cyborg
They will never understand healthcare is not like other stuff you pay for.
Their simplistic minds, the ones who view the federal budget in the same terms as a household budget, think a person suffering kidney failure has time to shop around for the hospital offering the cheapest dialysis.
re: #414 thedopefishlives
Well, maybe if those damn kids would stop buying iPhones, they could afford their cancer treatments.
Not to mention that they should have selected their parents more carefully.
@JoyAnnReid Forced birth for white women.
— Leila Walsh (@LeilaWalsh8) March 12, 2017
re: #416 calochortus
Not to mention that they should have selected their parents more carefully.
Yeah, if you’re going to get cancer, at least have the decency to be born to parents who can afford to pay for treatment.
re: #406 blueraven
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I forget Dinesh, who was convicted of an actual crime? Hint it was you and not Preet but nice try.
re: #414 thedopefishlives
My bad if I misunderstood. I read it as, Duke’s endorsement cements it as racist when it’s racist on its own and signifies no lack of self-awareness on Kings part because he knows exactly what he’s doing as does Duke.
re: #401 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He won’t though. His constituents would probably replace him with someone even more repulsive.
By the way, now I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 12, 2017
Just in: Bharara says “now I know what Moreland Commission must have felt like”
(anti-corruption body Cuomo shut down midstream)
2015 intv: pic.twitter.com/gh5wt8AT9A— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 12, 2017
It’s great to see Steven King getting notice for his racist Wilder’s loving tweets. But will anything come of it? He’s up for reelection in 2018.
re: #421 JordanRules
My bad if I misunderstood. I read it as, Duke’s endorsement cements it as racist when it’s racist on its own and signifies no lack of self-awareness on Kings part because he knows exactly what he’s doing as does Duke.
King probably is the biggest racist in Congress. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
re: #424 BigPapa
It’s great to see Steven King getting notice for his racist Wilder’s loving tweets. But will anything come of it? He’s up for reelection in 2018.
It’d be nice to see him actually have to worry about getting re-elected.
re: #421 JordanRules
My bad if I misunderstood. I read it as, Duke’s endorsement cements it as racist when it’s racist on its own and signifies no lack of self-awareness on Kings part because he knows exactly what he’s doing as does Duke.
No, you understood. I was saying that you brought me around to your way of thinking.
I have no doubt that King is one of those on Duke’s list that he claimed to have of GOP elected officials sympathetic to his cause.
OT: It looks like Philly is going to get some snow. :(
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re: #427 thedopefishlives
Ahhh! Gotcha ;)
Good shit!
Hundreds of Islamists shouting “Allahu Akbar” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel pic.twitter.com/dV2SjXg23r
— Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) March 12, 2017
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
The fucking fuck did this guy just say? https://t.co/Te7DJkKq2g
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 12, 2017
@Stonekettle
Steve King just went full Nazi. You are not supposed to ever go full nazi.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 12, 2017
It’s crazy how often I vacillate from knowing this admin will go down sooner rather than later to knowing this admin exists in a perfect storm that will spare them.
What I don’t quite get with all this “our culture” stuff is, who cares? Enjoy your culture. Or someone else’s culture. Or a mix. There have never been greater opportunities to watch, eat, listen to, and participate in a variety of things, and find others who enjoy the same things you do.
True confessions: I don’t enjoy most jazz (please don’t hate me for this.) I don’t mind if other people like it. More power to ‘em if it makes their lives happier. I love Celtic and Eastern European traditional music, but you don’t have to.
My life is richer because there are people who enjoy things I don’t necessarily like because they bring a different perspective.
King probably heard about Loving and was horrified.
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re: #432 JordanRules
It’s crazy how often I vacillate from knowing this admin will go down sooner rather then later to knowing this admin exists in a perfect storm that will spare them.
Yes. A perfect storm created them. But I think they will be brought down be their hubris and incompetence.
News: Crazy Man arrested running wild at White House
Me: It’s about damned time!
News: Ha ha. Sorry.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 12, 2017
Steve King yesterday:
@USAGSessions Thank you for purging 46 remaining Obama appointees. We can’t restore Rule of law with people who were tasked to destroy it.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 11, 2017
re: #433 calochortus
What I don’t quite get with all this “our culture” stuff is, who cares? Enjoy your culture. Or someone else’s culture. Or a mix. There have never been greater opportunities to watch, eat, listen to, and participate in a variety of things, and find others who enjoy the same things you do.
True confessions: I don’t enjoy most jazz (please don’t hate me for this.) I don’t mind if other people like it. More power to ‘em if it makes their lives happier. I love Celtic and Eastern European traditional music, but you don’t have to.
My life is richer because there are people who enjoy things I don’t necessarily like because they bring a different perspective.
So much this. Updings forever.
re: #433 calochortus
What I don’t quite get with all this “our culture” stuff is, who cares? Enjoy your culture. Or someone else’s culture. Or a mix. There have never been greater opportunities to watch, eat, listen to, and participate in a variety of things, and find others who enjoy the same things you do.
True confessions: I don’t enjoy most jazz (please don’t hate me for this.) I don’t mind if other people like it. More power to ‘em if it makes their lives happier. I love Celtic and Eastern European traditional music, but you don’t have to.
My life is richer because there are people who enjoy things I don’t necessarily like because they bring a different perspective.
Wonderfully said.
re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve King yesterday:
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Translation: We can’t complete setting up our Klepto-Theo-Kakistocracy with people who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Back.
Went to stock up on milk and half and half.
People can’t drive.
re: #444 Varek Raith
Back.
Went to stock up on milk and half and half.
People can’t drive.
Well, yeah. But that’s a given.
re: #445 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, yeah. But that’s a given.
And in clear weather, no less.
I dread to see them Tuesday morning.
Well, not really. I’ll be home. :)
David Duke is praising Steve King’s white nationalist comments. pic.twitter.com/I0nuIRYtZP
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2017
The circle of white supremacists and nativists. Always intersecting with Trump, GOP, and right wingers.
This is not a coincidence.
re: #436 The Vicious Babushka
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The circle of white supremacists and nativists. Always intersecting with Trump, GOP, and right wingers.
This is not a coincidence.
But the KKK are liberals because of what parties were 150 years ago. //
re: #446 Varek Raith
And in clear weather, no less.
I dread to see them Tuesday morning.
Well, not really. I’ll be home. :)
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!1! IT’S THE END OF DAYS!1!!
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re: #444 Varek Raith
Back.
Went to stock up on milk and half and half.
People can’t drive.
A little less than three months ago I traded in my Ford F150 Supercab for a Hyundai Sonata. It was immediately apparent that people drive differently around those two vehicles. Everyone was nice and courteous when I was driving my big truck. They are out to kill me in my small sedan.
Wealthier people may actually fare better under the House Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act https://t.co/NhXvw0unuT
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 12, 2017
This makes it sound like that’s an accident. https://t.co/okBzAOeTRK
— digby (@digby56) March 12, 2017
@digby56
Hot take #2: slot machines may actually be designed to make casinos money.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 12, 2017
Take a look at this frozen landscape! Cold temperatures helped to freeze the ocean waves that came ashore in New York. #NYwx
Take a look at this frozen landscape! Cold temperatures helped to freeze the ocean waves that came ashore in New York. #NYwx pic.twitter.com/aiErzCyObj
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) March 12, 2017
re: #451 allegro
A little less than three months ago I traded in my Ford F150 Supercab for a Hyundai Sonata. It was immediately apparent that people drive differently around those two vehicles. Everyone was nice and courteous when I was driving my big truck. They are out to kill me in my small sedan.
I know what you mean. I’ve been run off the road in my silver Prius (though I think that was lack of visibility rather than ill intent-and fortunately, there was a wide shoulder,) but still, I get more respect when I drive the Forester.
re: #450 Timothy Watson
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!1! IT’S THE END OF DAYS!1!!
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Also the end of the thread apparently…
re: #452 gocart mozart
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What? Wealthier peopel fare better under a Republican plan? What is this madness?
Also the end of my lunch, so I’d better go do stuff.
BBL
re: #342 allegro
So I spent 15+ hours over the past 3 days watching Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Wagner’s Ring Cycle epic opera(s). Hot damn, y’all. It’s Lord of the Rings written almost 50 years before Tolkien was born. I knew it was based in Nordic mythology but had no idea how fun it would be with Mean Girl Mermaids, giants, dwarfs in an underworld, dragon protecting gold and the magic dark power ring (sound familiar?), gods and goddesses, Valkyries (warrior goddesses who were all illegitimate daughters of Wotan aka Odin which made his wife, Fricka, Goddess of Marriage, quite testy). And incest, a brother/sister as husband/wife who are also the illegitimate twins (though mortal) sired by Wotan. He was a busy, horny guy. I loved him, particularly because he was played in this Met production by Brynn Terfel, my favorite baritone and all around lovable guy.
I know few will ever sit through this masterpiece but if you were ever tempted to check out opera, this could get ya hooked. It’s a trip.
I was lucky to see the most recent live performance of the whole thing in Scotland, which was Scottish Opera’s production at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. It cost about £70 (Which was still amazingly good value, considering how much you got for it, and how it compares favourably to rock concert prices for even mid name acts.) and i had to take time out of work to fit it in, but it was worth it. Bryn Terfel was in this production as well, but he was playing Segfreid not Wotan. (Played by the excellent Mathew Best.)
However, the best of the cast to me was Elizabeth Byrne, who played Brunhilde. Like the rest of the Valkyries in this modernist production, she was styled as a sort of leather jacketed biker-cum-extreme sports fanatic mercenary for hire. (“Ride of the Valkyries” has them mountaineering up a small cliff face set to arrive at a peak complete with beer cooler.), however Brunhilde is more subtly styled, almost in the mode of kd Lang, about as far from the cliche from the old productions with a huge Brunhilde with brass brasseries as you could get. But from the moment she started singing, it was obvious who was leader of the pack.
I’ve seen the cine-cast of the Met’s production of the opening opera (“Take a toilet because it’s 2.5 hours uninterrupted.”) Das Rheingold, and, to be honest, i was a bit disappointed. Bryn Terfel was alright as Wotan, but didn’t quite have the same feeling of authority as Matthew Best. Actually, it was the guy playing Alberitch that impressed me the most- he was teasing.out elements of character in what I’d previously assumed to be a cartoon bad guy.
Actually, my main problem with that production wasn’t actually the cast as such. It was this set they had to work on. It seems like the kind of opera set that’s only really possible in a Met originated production. “Hey, we’re the Met! We the biggest venue for opera! How are we going to do the BIGGEST opera now? Budget be damned!”
And so, I’m watching some of the world’s most famous opera singers scurry like ants over a ludicrous practical special effect- a Met stage sized monstrosity, which at best looks like a lairy robotic xylophone. At some point, the cast have to hurry off to one half of the set while the other half raises up to become a wall on which some irrelevant holograms can be projected on. And some people, suspended on wires, walk up and down these walls, as of defying gravity You don’t really see much of that on cine-cast of course, as the main action is on the other half of the set. I expect, though, that the people that actually paid money for seats in the stalls to view this production might be impressed. Given the money they paid, they’d better be.
So, in other words, I’m glad for Scottish Opera for giving me a decent version of the Ring cycle.
re: #454 calochortus
I know what you mean. I’ve been run off the road in my silver Prius (though I think that was lack of visibility rather than ill intent-and fortunately, there was a wide shoulder,) but still, I get more respect when I drive the Forester.
Cool, there’s somebody else with a Prius and a Forester? We got our little white Prius painted bright sunshine yellow a few years ago, which does seem to help the visibility a bit.
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