Video: Samantha Bee Plumbs the Depths of the Deep State, Finds Alex Jones Lurking
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just two presidents, talking about their love of literature pic.twitter.com/o2cdxeuZ6p
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 17, 2017
@_MealsOnWheels
Please retweet.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017
re: #2 Charles Johnson
“All the books, Tucker. Believe me.”
Our country is in serious danger with these villains in charge. We’re headed for disaster.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2017
“I’m ashamed of the United States.” That’s something I never thought of or said *even when George W. Bush was president.* And he sucked.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #3 gocart mozart
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I’ve seen first hand the good MOW can do. This is just awful.
re: #6 teleskiguy
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I hear ya. I mean yeah Bush sucked but I didn’t think he was this cruel.
That was pretty good. Too bad we still don’t have Jon Stewart, but at least some of his alumni are kicking butt.
re: #7 HappyWarrior
I’ve seen first hand the good MOW can do. This is just awful.
My very Christian mother has spent a lot of time and gas doing volunteer work for MoW.
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
My very Christian mother has spent a lot of time and gas doing volunteer work for MoW.
Props to your Mom. My Nana was a beneficiary. The program does so much to help our seniors and it’s such a small percentage of our overall budget. When we talked about it at dinner, my mom was making the argument that it could be even better than it already is.
More economic anxiety from Trump supporters. https://t.co/GD67UGSbkT pic.twitter.com/7PSnxaLaPu
— TC (@tchopstl_) March 17, 2017
re: #8 HappyWarrior
I hear ya. I mean yeah Bush sucked but I didn’t think he was this cruel.
The W Bush wrecking crew deserve their share of the blame for their part in this catastrophe, as well as for the many evil of their own administration.
But I now have a much greater appreciation for that veneer of civilization they pretended to have. Having the naked Id of Movement Conservatism incarnate as Fuckface von Clownstick really is disturbing.
When you utter the phrase “You’ve not seen the last of me,” you’ve got to stop and say to yourself, Wait, am I the villain here? pic.twitter.com/Tf15hTfYZk
— Tom the Dancing Bug (@RubenBolling) March 16, 2017
It’s okay for them to bitch at black people but we’re doing “class warfare” if we point out that many CEOs make bonuses far more than the median income.in this country. These fucking people.
re: #15 gocart mozart
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Holy shit, is Geert, Milo’s long lost father? I didn’t realize how much they look alike.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
Props to your Mom. My Nana was a beneficiary. The program does so much to help our seniors and it’s such a small percentage of our overall budget. When we talked about it at dinner, my mom was making the argument that it could be even better than it already is.
(Reposted from previous thread) Balancing the US Federal budget is actually very simple. There are only four things to consider:
1) Defense
2) Medicare
3) Social Security
4) Taxes
Everything else is in the noise in terms of fraction of the budget.
re: #18 EPR-radar
(Reposted from previous thread) Balancing the US Federal budget is actually very simple. There are only four things to consider:
1) Defense
2) Medicare
3) Social Security
4) TaxesEverything else is in the noise in terms of fraction of the budget.
To put it on personal budget terms, cutting MOW of the annual budget is like cutting getting a Shamrock Shake once every St. Patrick’s Day.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
Props to your Mom. My Nana was a beneficiary. The program does so much to help our seniors and it’s such a small percentage of our overall budget. When we talked about it at dinner, my mom was making the argument that it could be even better than it already is.
I’ve written about it here before, but one of the ironies of our lives has been how some of the young (now 50-somethings) rich kids I went to church with became the local versions of the Christian GOP we know today and wrecked the church my parents were instrumental in maintaining. Granted, it was a centrist upper-middle class Presbyterian church, but my mom especially (and after retirement, my dad) used it to do work for the underserved in our town. My dad is a bit like Jimmy Carter. He is an engineer and still works to repair and build homes; he’s 90. Anyway, the rich members of the church were pissed off over things like gay marriage and left to build their own church (with gym and school facilities) on the outskirts of town. That’s how it happens. All over America these people want to stop paying taxes for what they don’t like and to divert the taxes they pay to their private religious/educational projects.
Meals on Wheels National Website.
I just sent a donation their way, in memory of my mother.
Heh. The replies are a hoot too:
But do they have any guns? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Mh70X66aJw
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 16, 2017
An early look at tomorrow’s front page…
MADNESS https://t.co/D1jFrLRXMz@POTUS budget axes NYPD terror funds, puts NYC “in cross hairs” pic.twitter.com/K3fXGIn8qf— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 17, 2017
re: #20 Barefoot Grin
I’ve written about it here before, but one of the ironies of our lives has been how some of the young (now 50-somethings) rich kids I went to church with became the local versions of the Christian GOP we know today and wrecked the church my parents were instrumental in maintaining. Granted, it was a centrist upper-middle class Presbyterian church, but my mom especially (and after retirement, my dad) used it to do work for the underserved in our town. My dad is a bit like Jimmy Carter. He is an engineer and still works to repair and build homes; he’s 90. Anyway, the rich members of the church were pissed off over things like gay marriage and left to build their own church (with gym and school facilities) on the outskirts of town. That’s how it happens. All over America these people want to stop paying taxes for what they don’t like and to divert the taxes they pay to their private religious/educational projects.
My Dad’s parents were much the same way when they were alive. They were RCC unlike your parents but had a lot of the same kindness towards those less off than them. Nana’s older brother was actually a parish priest for a very poor African-American community in Louisiana before and after he went off to war as a chaplain. I think Nana even though she lived a comfortable middle life when she got married to my grandfather always had a real empathy for people since she had grown up fairly poor and she had lost her mother young. I’ll always remember her greatest gift even with several grand and great grandchildren, she always fond a way to make us all feel special and loved. I think she more than anyone shaped my ideology and compassion for those less well off than me.
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel
Meals on Wheels National Website.
I just sent a donation their way, in memory of my mother.
Thanks. I’ll do the same for my Nana.
re: #24 HappyWarrior
My Dad’s parents were much the same way when they were alive. They were RCC unlike your parents but had a lot of the same kindness towards those less off than them. Nana’s older brother was actually a parish priest for a very poor African-American community in Louisiana before and after he went off to war as a chaplain. I think Nana even though she lived a comfortable middle life when she got married to my grandfather always had a real empathy for people since she had grown up fairly poor and she had lost her mother young. I’ll always remember her greatest gift even with several grand and great grandchildren, she always fond a way to make us all feel special and loved. I think she more than anyone shaped my ideology and compassion for those less well off than me.
So wonderful, and that’s so important. It makes me wonder what was missing in the lives of people like Paul Ryan, or if their minds were simply hijacked by a sparkly cult leader.
Steve Bannon’s Most Common Google Searches https://t.co/6pPicmrzbK
— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) March 17, 2017
We’ve strengthened the Canada Pension Plan so Canadians can retire without worrying about making ends meet. Details: https://t.co/hTXHVQEMkg
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 16, 2017
Canadian man trolling Americans, when they’re down. How special. https://t.co/qIuo2TwCKY
— Kontra (@counternotions) March 17, 2017
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
So wonderful, and that’s so important. It makes me wonder what was missing in the lives of people like Paul Ryan, or if their minds were simply hijacked by a sparkly cult leader.
I really wish I knew. Not to go No True Catholic but I really wonder about Ryan’s upbringing. You’d think he might be empathetic since he lost his own father pretty young.
re: #28 jaunte
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It really is that simple. Of course, to our right wing assholes, it’s always about “personal responsibility” and shit. There’s no compassion with any of them but they want us to understand why they voted for Trump while they’ll cheerlead shit like this.
re: #23 FormerDirtDart
He wants another attack so he has a reason to use those nukes he’s so fascinated with.
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
So wonderful, and that’s so important. It makes me wonder what was missing in the lives of people like Paul Ryan, or if their minds were simply hijacked by a sparkly cult leader.
Limbaugh isn’t sparkly, but he’s sold his cult under the illusion of “being an entertainer.”
Fox News and Breitbart (sans Milo) are also not sparkly, but highly effective propaganda outfits that manipulated the conversation and forever poisoned the minds of their readers. The Daily Stormer wishes it was as effective.
re: #32 Myron Falwell
Limbaugh isn’t sparkly, but he’s sold his cult under the illusion of “being an entertainer.”
Fox News and Breitbart (sans Milo) are also not sparkly, but highly effective propaganda outfits that manipulated the conversation and forever poisoned the minds of their readers. The Daily Stormer wishes it was as effective.
Yeah I blame right wing radio and stuff like that for why so many people are so heartless.
@MSNBC Or OSHA, EPA, Family leave, nothing that could help them should be funded.Soul-less bastards.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) March 17, 2017
re: #29 HappyWarrior
I really wish I knew. Not to go No True Catholic but I really wonder about Ryan’s upbringing. You’d think he might be empathetic since he lost his own father pretty young.
I don’t know either. History shows that conservatives with a moral compass work with progressives with the same. And I’ll admit that I may be wrong about Ryan, but I see a flawed person who is desperately trying to bend reality to his ideology while presenting the face of the Knights of Columbus do-gooder.
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
He wants another attack so he has a reason to use those nukes he’s so fascinated with.
And it’s so fucking transparent.
It’s also not by accident that some European countries are quietly considering their own missile defense system, especially if they are starting to consider the US as a hostile nation alongside Russia.
I’ve seen my fair share of these. This one is pretty big.
Snow devil. #Alaska
Snow devil. #Alaska pic.twitter.com/54aGYGvWMK
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) March 17, 2017
If a white person is worried about becoming a minority within “their own country”…ask them to think about why that is.
Just an experiment.— casersatz (@casersatz) March 13, 2017
re: #23 FormerDirtDart
The target should be on Trump Tower.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
Yeah I blame right wing radio and stuff like that for why so many people are so heartless.
Remember this?
Happened in 2010.
re: #35 Barefoot Grin
I don’t know either. History shows that conservatives with a moral compass work with progressives with the same. And I’ll admit that I may be wrong about Ryan, but I see a flawed person who is desperately trying to bend reality to his ideology while presenting the face of the Knights of Columbus do-gooder.
My view of Ryan is much simpler. Scum of the earth, heartless bastard, and out and proud evil-doer.
In other words, ‘generic Republican’.
re: #41 EPR-radar
My view of Ryan is much simpler. Scum of the earth, heartless bastard, and out and proud evil-doer.
In other words, ‘generic Republican’.
My view of Ryan is that he’s someone who had help in his life using a lot of the same programs he’s all too willing to cut. The shame of it is that Ryan isn’t a dumb man but he’s a cruel man. And often in this world, cruel men are far worse than dumb man. The dumb man may simply be lacking in knowledge, knowledge can be acquired but empathy and kindness really don’t seem to be something that gets better with age. Indeed, it seems to get worse.
re: #38 Belafon
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I want to ask those whites how they think people who have been minorities here for centuries feel. I don’t feel threatened by the decline in white Anglo population. I really don’t. Societies change. The people fretting about this are no different who couldn’t accept that the country became less Protestant because of the immigration waves of the 19th century.
re: #43 HappyWarrior
My view of Ryan is that he’s someone who had help in his life using a lot of the same programs he’s all too willing to cut. The shame of it is that Ryan isn’t a dumb man but he’s a cruel man. And often in this world, cruel men are far worse than dumb man. The dumb man may simply be lacking in knowledge, knowledge can be acquired but empathy and kindness really don’t seem to be something that gets better with age. Indeed, it seems to get worse.
Americans are now being urged to pull themselves up by their bootstraps by a bunch of billionaire trust funders.
— Gus Deep State™ (@Gus_802) March 17, 2017
I’m sad that I can still be amazed by the depths rightwingers can plunge to. There is a rightwing website, CARM, I comment on, which has its share of racists. But tonight when I mentioned that Sebastion Gorka is a literal Nazi, one of them actually praised the Nazis for being anti-communist. Not neo-Nazis, mind you, but the Adolph Hitler, genocide committing Nazis of the thirties and forties. Makes me sick.
Posted way to late to the last thread, so I’ll just bring it in here, then watch the Samantha Bee clip.
re: #99 EPR-radar
I’ve never understood why people put up with car brands that are notorious for maintenance issues. I mainly want three things in a car: 1) reliability, 2) a decent amount of engine power for those exciting freeway moments of the CA lifestyle, and 3) longevity.
In other words, you want a Smart car. /s It did all those things for me (especially the California freeway moments) when we went to California.
I just stopped at Fox for some reason. Hanitty has a CT guy on claiming that “an agent” created the illusion that Russian banks and Trump servers were communicating. This will be gospel.
I got to Fox via MSNBC where a very discouraged David Frum said, “none of this matters to the people Trump was tweeting to; it’s a scandal to us, but to them he is now a victim.” I think Frum is right.
re: #48 Barefoot Grin
I just stopped at Fox for some reason. Hanitty has a CT guy on claiming that “an agent” created the illusion that Russian banks and Trump servers were communicating. This will be gospel.
I got to Fox via MSNBC where a very discouraged David Frum said, “none of this matters to the people Trump was tweeting to; it’s a scandal to us, but to them he is now a victim.” I think Frum is right.
Lumpy will do anything to rationalize Trump’s bullshit. He’s such a hack.
@AngryBlackLady Soylent Green?
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
@goddamnedfrank @AngryBlackLady whoa spoiler alert
— (((Frumiosa))) (@djkomisar) March 17, 2017
re: #46 Big Beautiful Door
I’m sad that I can still be amazed by the depths rightwingers can plunge to. There is a rightwing website, CARM, I comment on, which has its share of racists. But tonight when I mentioned that Sebastion Gorka is a literal Nazi, one of them actually praised the Nazis for being anti-communist. Not neo-Nazis, mind you, but the Adolph Hitler, genocide committing Nazis of the thirties and forties. Makes me sick.
I have little doubt that many of our wingnuts would have loved Hitler’s Anti-Communism and seen him as a hero had he been around now. Yeah, some of them may take issue with the Antisemitism but they would ignore it the same way they ignore the antisemitism of the current Eurofascists.
I don’t understand how anyone could support this evil if they knew about it.
White House budget chief: Proposed cuts to Meals on Wheels are compassionate to taxpayers https://t.co/N8QyfBx2gX pic.twitter.com/6O2nCf6MjY
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2017
So, we’re called bleeding heart liberals. I embrace that term. A heart bleeds. I am glad that I think about people other than myself too. So much is made about individualism and don’t get me wrong, some individualism is good but so is some sense of being part of something greater than yourself.
re: #54 Anymouse
I don’t understand how anyone could support this evil if they knew about it.
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Because they just don’t give a shit about people that will be negatively impacted by policies they support. It’s how conservative ideology thrives even among people who are far from wealthy themselves.
re: #37 teleskiguy
In that cold air. Temp is relative. Seen many dust devils in the heat
re: #55 HappyWarrior
John Donne knew what he was talking about.
Stuff like arts funding is all but meaningless in budgetary terms. It’s not about budgets. It’s about vengeance.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 17, 2017
#MealsOnWheels
I volunteered for Meals on Wheels & every home I went to was a white poor Elderly person. Trump will starve them to death! pic.twitter.com/cmYpHwZqFt— Mompreneur #DemForce (@ArethadKitson) March 16, 2017
Federal government resources were devoted to looking into a Breitbart conspiracy for two weeks. Think about that.
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) March 17, 2017
re: #22 Interesting Times
Heh. The replies are a hoot too:
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I’m going to bed, but I can’t suppress the bitter and sarcastic thought of—
It’s not fair that the lives of the people in rural and sparsely populated America be dictated by the coastal elites, so let’s support a system where fringe extremists from the edges of America get to radically alter the lives of the majority who voted against their candidate….
Probably troubled dreams ahead. G’night.
re: #55 HappyWarrior
So, we’re called bleeding heart liberals. I embrace that term. A heart bleeds. I am glad that I think about people other than myself too. So much is made about individualism and don’t get me wrong, some individualism is good but so is some sense of being part of something greater than yourself.
This.
Nobody should ever feel ashamed for giving a care for another human being. And much more but just to stay on a sharp point to skewer extreme fiscal conservatism-I give a care for Hispanics and Muslims and the people in my life that have been good to me. Just try to tell me that’s wrong. States rights? CA has the right to be more kind then. To smoke that cannabis as we please. To have our own relationship with that vibrant country south of us.
I guess I’m saying don’t even think to apologize. The kind view is the moral high ground period.
re: #64 Barefoot Grin
I’m going to bed, but I can’t suppress the bitter and sarcastic thought of—
It’s not fair that the lives of the people in rural and sparsely populated America be dictated by the coastal elites, so let’s support a system where fringe extremists from the edges of America get to radically alter the lives of the majority who voted against their candidate….
Probably troubled dreams ahead. G’night.
Unfortunately, the Electoral College is not going to go away. (Start counting states that would vote against that, including liberal states like Vermont and Connecticut, and when you get to thirteen the amendment fails.)
As such, we’re going to have to work with the voting system we have, not the voting system we wish we had.
Here’s why Honey Nut @cheerios pulled its mascot: https://t.co/B7sPaWsQ3d #Denver7 #BringBackTheBees pic.twitter.com/EOESeckqI2
— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) March 17, 2017
(CNN) — In a stark reminder that the world’s population of bees is plummeting, Cheerios pulled its mascot, Buzz the Bee off the box of Honey Nut Cheerios.
Bees play a critical role by pollinating 35% of the world’s food supply. The fate of many species and billions of dollars of global crops ride on their tiny backs.
But bee colonies are collapsing around the world as parasites, pesticides and habitat loss take a deadly toll. For the first time this year, a bee species in the US was declared endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
“Buzz is missing because there’s something serious going on with the world’s bees. Bee populations everywhere have been declining at an alarming rate, and that includes honeybees like Buzz,” Cheerios posted.
@mattyglesias NO IT WAS OBUMMER’S FAULT, LIBTARD!
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #38 Belafon
FFS, Time had an article about this demograpich shift ten years ago….
re: #54 Anymouse
And I had a friend via FB trying to convince me that there was no cut coming to MoW.
Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed’; Pyongyang warns of war. This seems to be escalating quickly. https://t.co/sBYu1WU7DE
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 17, 2017
Here we go. @Fahrenthold https://t.co/jJ7Tb51skk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 17, 2017
re: #67 teleskiguy
Beekeeping is something I want to do when I retire. Assuming there are bees left to keep.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
I thought Jared Trump was the Secretary of State.
A suspected U.S missile strike hit a mosque full of 300 people tonight in Al-Jinah, west #Aleppo.
57+ killed so far.#Syria pic.twitter.com/EwjDF0frm5— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) March 16, 2017
re: #54 Anymouse
I don’t understand how anyone could support this evil if they knew about it.
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@politico The White House is full of sociopaths and psychopaths. The gullible Trump voters really screwed vulnerable Americans.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) March 17, 2017
Retweet if you’ve ever missed a meal—or more than one—due to poverty.
— Elizabeth Bear 💫 (@matociquala) March 17, 2017
re: #67 teleskiguy
Well-intentioned, but an entomologist of my acquaintance has pointed out that Cheerios is trying to distribute non-native wildflower seeds….which would not have the desired effect of encourage all the various kinds of local bees, which are adapted to local flora.
Most bees aren’t the apis mellifera.
Definitely find out what your local bees harvest from and grow that.
ETA: same deal with ragweed stands for monarch butterflies. Find out what your regional ragweed type is.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
It’s a mystery why the CEO of Exxon would want a job watching Jared Kushner run foreign policy while the State Department is dismantled. Unless there’s some fantastic sweetener involved.
re: #79 Skip Intro
It does seem like Tillerson could do better/there is something hidden.
re: #78 jaunte
It’s a mystery why the CEO of Exxon would want a job watching Jared Kushner run foreign policy while the State Department is dismantled. Unless there’s some fantastic sweetener involved.
a $500 billion deal with a Russian oil company?
re: #77 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Well-intentioned, but an entomologist of my acquaintance has pointed out that Cheerios is trying to distribute non-native wildflower seeds….which would not have the desired effect of encourage all the various kinds of local bees, which are adapted to local flora.
Most bees aren’t the apis mellifera.
Definitely find out what your local bees harvest from and grow that.
My wife used to be a bee keeper as a hobby.
We now set out various blocks and such for native bees.
bugguide.net
A list of hundreds of bee species, with photographs.
So Team Trump kills a bunch of Syrian civilians, gears up for war w/ NK and guts the US budget.
Hows that protest vote working out?— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017
re: #80 jaunte
It does seem like Tillerson could do better/there is something hidden.
I suspect we’re talking billions.
Oh my fricken’ cat. “Defuse” not “diffuse.”
I wanna’ edit key @jack— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) March 17, 2017
Surely the geniuses at Twitter could come up with a system like we have here at LGF, a short window to edit typos and misspellings in tweets. Alas…
re: #83 Kragar
Yadda, yadda, two evils; yadda, yadda, neoliberal warmonger.
Rachel @Maddow onto an important story: the way the Guccifer2.0 hacks targeted not just Clinton, but Democrats more broadly. #maddow
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017
Both in trying to seed pro-Bernie social media with Clinton conspiracy theories, create what seemed like an army of Bernie-to-Trump voters..
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017
…and to target about a dozen Democratic House primaries in order to weaken those candidates in the general election and help Republicans.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017
I know I saw a lot of Bernie avatars repeating “Clinton is a murderer” conspiracy theories during the campaign. I assume most journos did.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 17, 2017
re: #85 teleskiguy
I’d settle for unlimited time to edit, but your original tweet would still show in addition to the edit.
Standing challenge: if anyone can show me where Bible calls for a secular government to impose wealth redistribution, I’ll delete my account
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) March 17, 2017
Hi Steve. I don’t want you to delete your account but @ebruenig makes an excellent theological case here:https://t.co/jFW0juQnwl https://t.co/rKFgFlfrbz
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) March 17, 2017
re: #88 GlutenFreeJesus
That’s a good idea!
.@jack, a compromise. We’d settle for an edit button and you can keep the original tweet that was edited attached. @jjmacnab
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #90 teleskiguy
And no delete option! But I admit that’s reaching. I’d settle for my original idea. For now!
REVEALED: Deposed Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Was Also Paid By Kremlin TV Network - https://t.co/vdRT6CcwyJ pic.twitter.com/uHm3sKftS7
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 16, 2017
It just doesn’t end with this fucking guy
And remember: Flynn was fired from DIA. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? https://t.co/qbCmKnB6vt— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 16, 2017
@RubenBolling That motherfather looks like he’s going to tie Angela Merkel to the train tracks.
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) March 17, 2017
re: #46 Big Beautiful Door
I’m sad that I can still be amazed by the depths rightwingers can plunge to. There is a rightwing website, CARM, I comment on, which has its share of racists. But tonight when I mentioned that Sebastion Gorka is a literal Nazi, one of them actually praised the Nazis for being anti-communist. Not neo-Nazis, mind you, but the Adolph Hitler, genocide committing Nazis of the thirties and forties. Makes me sick.
Are you talking about the CARM run by Matt Slick? You know, the website that makes a point of saying who’s in and who’s out in the salvation sweepstakes? As in, if you’re not conservative evangelical Protestant, you’re out and on your way to hell CARM?
Body type remind you of anybody?
William Howard Taft, 1909 pic.twitter.com/5Z9MDvslx6
— OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) March 17, 2017
Admittedly WHT was an accomplished (albeit flawed) statesman, who served as Solicitor General, a judge on the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals, Governor/General of the Philippines during our occupation there, a provisional Governor of Cuba, Secretary of War, President of the U.S., and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
These ridiculous fucking idiots …
@keithellison Probably because HRC (and her followers) used underhanded tactics to railroad Bernie out of the race and then lost the general
— Daniel Hofheinz (@DanielHofheinz) March 16, 2017
@keithellison Because she was fine with rigging an election in her favor and against the man who would have beat Trump. Um, duh.
— Shannon B-Salisbury (@tpollyannas) March 16, 2017
@keithellison Cause we dont have an ulterior motive in what we do. She was a crook. And u benefited from her. Therefore u r blinded.
— Mr. Big (@BDaddy881) March 16, 2017
Larger scale corruption/self dealing put our national security at risk.@keithellison
— Noelle Green (@Greennoelle1) March 16, 2017
re: #89 jaunte
Send him to Fred Clark: Slacktivist. He is excellent. Here he is on feeding the hungry, including the meals on wheels debacle.
re: #89 jaunte
@SteveDeaceShow There’s a reason Jesus spoke in parables: He expected us to act as adults, not use the Bible to justify our sins.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 17, 2017
I’m just so tired of these people acting like God somehow gives them the authority to be assholes.
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-allied group claims top Trump aide Sebastian Gorka as sworn member:https://t.co/YyRyaCLu0Z
— The Forward (@jdforward) March 16, 2017
Who among us hasn’t hired a Hungarian fascist for a key national security position? https://t.co/RVHtYkh2DH
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 16, 2017
re: #97 goddamnedfrank
These ridiculous fucking idiots …
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re: #97 goddamnedfrank
Christ. I just give up with this shit…
Just…fuck it. Go ahead. Crucify Hillary. Ban Clintons from politics forever. Grind their name into the dirt and make it a crime to ever be connected to them. Just don’t fucking bitch at me when Trump tears down everything that works about this country, because apparently you assholes will think it’s all Clinton’s fucking fault anyway.
re: #100 Anymouse
@mattyglesias Hungarian fascists are exactly what economically depressed rust-belt voters clamor for to bring prosperity once and for all.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
Meanwhile, in the land of people who Steve King considers backwards savages…
#LeftAlternative Kerala vows to provide free WiFi to all state citizens after declaring it a basic human right.https://t.co/pF9BaFpn5r
— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) March 17, 2017
Gohmert tells Dobbs he’ll look at impeaching Hawaii judge who TRO’d Travel Ban II
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 17, 2017
Tone from the top. Trump’s war on the judiciary spreads. https://t.co/sseCttKrvE
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 17, 2017
re: #105 Scottish Dragon
Okay, now I’m convinced President Bannon will turf Paul Ryan and install him as Speaker of the House.
Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed’; Pyongyang warns of war. This seems to be escalating quickly. https://t.co/sBYu1WU7DE
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 17, 2017
If Jared Kushner had said this I might actually be worried. Tillerson has zero pull, US State Dept effectively has a mascot not a Secretary. https://t.co/BrkpWYg8DT
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
Funny thing I read at @Playboy about the @Trump_Regrets account. Two out of well over 1,800 tweets. https://t.co/EONHGxQgod pic.twitter.com/AkgreRaX2P
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
Have they come out and said there’ll be a “Stage 4” yet?
You know what I think will really turn this whole healthcare reform thing around for Republicans? If they just add more invisible bullshit.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
My God you all need to see this one:
NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic’s son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump.
“I think it was just because of the tax credit,” said McComic, 52, a former first-grade teacher who traveled to Trump’s Wednesday night rally in Nashville from Lexington, Tenn., with her daughter, mother, aunt and cousin.
The price change was actually thanks to a subsidy made possible by former president Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which is still in place, not by the tax credits proposed by Republicans as part of the health-care bill still being considered by Congress.
It has been difficult for many Americans to keep up with the changes brought by Obamacare and exactly how the Republican proposal, if enacted, would affect their lives. But for Trump’s most dedicated supporters, it’s simply easier to trust the president is making things better and will follow through on his promise to provide “insurance for everybody” and “great health care for a fraction of the price.”
McComic said she’s not worried about her disability benefits changing or her 3-year-old granddaughter getting kicked off Medicaid or her 33-year-old son’s premiums going up.
“So far, everything’s been positive, from what I can tell,” she said, waiting for Trump’s rally here to begin Wednesday night. “I just hope that more and more people and children get covered under this new health-care plan.”
McComic says she has never trusted a president the way she trusts Trump. Ahead of the election, she and her relatives turned their cars into a “Trump train” and drove across Lexington, waving flags and shouting: “Trump! Trump! Vote for Trump!”
“We said: ‘Who else would we do this for, besides Trump?’ ” McComic said. “We agreed on the Lord. We would stand here for the Lord, but that’s about it.”
This is the strength of invincible racist ignorance. They are crediting TRUMP with their Obamacare premiums.
Words fail.
Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed’; Pyongyang warns of war. This seems to be escalating quickly. https://t.co/sBYu1WU7DE
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 17, 2017
Well thank goodness our Secretary of State has lots of diplomatic experience and our president has impulse control! https://t.co/rowBVlsyyQ
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) March 17, 2017
I love how this British guy who is Tweeting from Doha, Qatar is talking about how Arabs are backwards, and assumes that I’m Arab somehow:
@danja84 Morgan. Now, tell me a European country that wants you brainless Arab scum? 😂😂😂… I’ll let you drive your shitty Toyata
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 16, 2017
@midoo0 ….. The Quran! You invented that!…. Sharia!… Liberal democracy! You’ve got loads or that in the Arab world! 😂Oh no! Sorry! 🥃🍾👍
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 16, 2017
Name me a British auto manufacturer that hasn’t been taken over by foreigners yet. I’ll be waiting while you scoot in ur shitty Vauxhall https://t.co/KeUpGXjYVq
— دانیال (@danja84) March 16, 2017
Tell me anything that Arabs have produced - including yourself - that civilization wants? You need the West … We don’t want you 😂 https://t.co/mvndFeHM8m
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 16, 2017
@danja84 Name me anything that the Arabs have produced - including you - that is of any value. You and your ‘culture’ are useless. ..Proud?😂
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 17, 2017
“ha, nice try. healthcare is about consumer choice. get a job and enroll in a market-based plan.” pic.twitter.com/h5Ep7CStB7
— Jordan Uhl (@JordanUhl) March 17, 2017
Trump’s budget director says climate funding is “a waste of your money” https://t.co/ya4fXVkbVc pic.twitter.com/LScG7U0pk9
— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2017
Your mom letting your dad impregnate her was a waste of sperm. https://t.co/3fRic2Jtlr
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) March 17, 2017
re: #113 Interesting Times
Erick, Son of Erick was bleating about that earlier:
If you don’t support Meals on Wheels you’re not a good Christian, according to people who aren’t Christians and don’t believe in Jesus.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 16, 2017
Because, of course, government should never fund a charity. All that money should be donated freely. Or something.
Sean Hannity: Judges who rule against Trump’s Muslim ban put American lives “literally in jeopardy” https://t.co/vBjCOvPxOE
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 17, 2017
Meanwhile, cutting people off from healthcare, letting crazy people buy guns, cutting life saving social programs, all A-OK with Sean https://t.co/snn0LRQdrU
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017
re: #112 electrotek
Gee, too bad he can’t be deported after questioning.
re: #115 Lidane
Erick, Son of Erick was bleating about that earlier:
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Because, of course, government should never fund a charity. All that money should be donated freely. Or something.
Governments should only kill people, not feed them.
Not just trump. The entire fucking GOPFoxBreitbartInfowars Industrial Complex owns this forever:
Fuck you, Trump and everyone who voted for you https://t.co/eRO9LlPy0Z
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) March 17, 2017
re: #12 The Vicious Babushka
“More economic anxiety from Trump supporters.”
What she doesn’t know while she’s talking about black females living in “Section 8” housing having weaves and better hair color jobs than she does is that black females have access to sources for these things she probably doesn’t have. There are usually some black females living in the same housing complex who make their living under the table by doing weaves, perms, hair coloring, and nails for lower prices than the residents could get if they patronized beauticians’ places of business and had their nails done at nail salons. I can’t really comment on what she said about the cars they drive being better than the one she drives, but I imagine they have car payments just as she does. Here in GA, our RW lawmakers have made it extremely difficult for one to receive public benefits without having a job.
At the rate Trump and the GOP are going, they’re going to reinstate the Draft and call it their Jobs Program
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017
re: #93 Joe Bacon
“That motherfather looks like he’s going to tie Angela Merkel to the train tracks.”
I’m laughing here because your twitter response reminds me of old “Mighty Mouse” cartoons I watched as a kid that actually had a character named Oil Can Harry who used to tie MM’s girlfriend to train tracks, and MM would appear on scene just in time to save them.
re: #96 teleskiguy
Body type remind you of anybody?
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Trump’s health is worse than we thought.
GOP Takes Away Food Stamps From Hundreds Of Thousands Of Low-Income People https://t.co/oIVCjNTC3y via @Bipartisan Report
— Disabled Veteran (@cj_disabledVet) March 16, 2017
GOP Policy: Kick’em when they’re down! https://t.co/Dsj2wb7cGi
— Pete Jones (@drj0nes57) March 16, 2017
I am fucked. No Meals on wheels, heating, insurance. Thank you - Legless veteran https://t.co/RfPHrnaBkB
— Disabled Veteran (@cj_disabledVet) March 16, 2017
Fuck Trump, all his spawn and all his hangers-on.
re: #122 jaunte
Toyata?
@danja84 Morgan. Now, tell me a European country that wants you brainless Arab scum? 😂😂😂… I’ll let you drive your shitty Toyata
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 16, 2017
It’s Toyota, moron. Are you upset that Indians own Jaguar and Land Rover still? At least “shitty” Toyotas won’t rust like a POS Morris Minor https://t.co/Af0nvEfqhh
— دانیال (@danja84) March 17, 2017
And just to fuck with him:
@danja84 Morgan. Now, tell me a European country that wants you brainless Arab scum? 😂😂😂… I’ll let you drive your shitty Toyata
— Andy Carter (@andyinqatar) March 16, 2017
Don’t make me send your tweet to the Qatari authorities bruv 😂😂😂 https://t.co/Af0nvDXOSH
— دانیال (@danja84) March 17, 2017
lol
Enjoyed the Snarky Puppy performance at Hill Auditorium tonight!
re: #17 HappyWarrior
Holy shit, is Geert, Milo’s long lost father? I didn’t realize how much they look alike.
I think there was a ferret in the mix also.
Right-wingers always claim they support Christians in the Middle East but refuse to support Hispanics who share the same family values they claim to purport.
re: #111 Lidane
Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed’; Pyongyang warns of war. This seems to be escalating quickly. https://t.co/sBYu1WU7DE
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 17, 2017
That’s what happens when you deal with a crazed dictator’s sycophantic party hacks rather than real diplomats. And the NORKs aren’t real smart either.
If you’re a senior citizen, I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether @MealsOnWheels is “working” for you.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 16, 2017
Sorry Frank. The seniors who need Meals on Wheels are not following your twitter feed. And can’t afford broadband/smartphone/laptop. https://t.co/nmKr9DzIne
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 16, 2017
re: #132 jaunte
To be fair
@FrankLuntz @mealsonwheels No only do they bring food, but a person actually lays eyes on the recipients and make sure they are OK./6
— andnothingbuttheruth (@anbtruth) March 16, 2017
@clairecmc: Touché, Senator.
But I still heard some very eye-opening stories from @_MealsOnWheels recipients and/or their loved ones. 👇🏻 https://t.co/fgci9KRKIa— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 16, 2017
re: #132 jaunte
Luntz needs to stay off social media and stay out of sight because he helped pave the way for someone like Trump to become POTUS. I recall him being identified as the GOP’s go-to guy for crafting their BS messages, messages that were based on lies. He sold his soul for cold, hard cash a long time ago.
You want to talk about distractions…the proposed GOP budget is going to take food out of seniors’ mouths…
— My ID is My Politics (@culturedstate) March 17, 2017
…the ACA replacement will have them paying more for healthcare; they’re gutting social programs to fund the military…
— My ID is My Politics (@culturedstate) March 17, 2017
…but some people are still out here trying to snipe the damn Clintons? Are you fucking kidding me right now? That’s your focus?
— My ID is My Politics (@culturedstate) March 17, 2017
Print these three tweets and plaster it everywhere.
This fucking intercine war in the Democrat Party — thanks for absolutely nothing, Bros and JillBots — is what will ultimately destroy the country and ground it into a nuclear wasteland.
re: #134 Single-handed sailor
To be fair
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— Ted Striker (@talon_262) March 17, 2017
re: #136 Myron Falwell
Ask them if they are still believing Russian bots?
re: #111 Lidane
Yeah, if I were living in Seoul, I’d be packing my bags and fleeing for somewhere… anywhere.
Kim Jong Un is going to annihilate South Korea and conquer it, and we’ll look like fucking morons on the world stage.
re: #140 Joe Bacon
They are.
El stupido. (which probably doesn’t mean anything, but my brother and I used to use it when we were kids…)
@laurenduca @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS But, GOD FORBID Barron has to move schools in the middle if the year, you know, like military kids…
— Maile (@wtfisirony) March 16, 2017
re: #142 Anymouse
Not to mention cut his trips to Maralago to once or twice a month. Actually, it is too bad the SS can’t forbid it for security reasons.
re: #89 jaunte
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Show me where it makes a fucking rat’s behind difference whether the bible says anything about wealth distribution or any fucking thing else.
Canadians are brainwashing helpless refugee children into maniacal curling fans. The horror!!
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A Yazidi refugee from Kurdistan laughs as he learns the sport of curling at the Royal Canadian Curling Club during an event put on by the “Together Project”, in Toronto, March 15, 2017. The refugee was learning to curl alongside 45 other resettled refugees. Some who had come to Canada just days before. The event was the brainchild of Anna Hill and the Together Project of which she’s the director. She founded the group last fall to fill a need: Government-assisted refugees lack social supports when they arrive in Canada, she said. The group’s previous outings include trips to taste maple syrup or to the Royal Ontario Museum. This was their first curling excursion. REUTERS/Mark Blinch @mblinch #canada #refugees #reutersphotos #reuters #curling #sports #toronto
re: #110 Scottish Dragon
My God you all need to see this one:
This is the strength of invincible racist ignorance. They are crediting TRUMP with their Obamacare premiums.
Words fail.
Are we down to the last five or so “heartland” Trumpers who have yet to be interviewed? I anxiously await the day when we have heard from each and every one of them…
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Remains of WW2 Pilot Returned After Seven Decades (Goes to the Tampa Bay Times)
TAMPA — Seven decades after he was shot down during World War II, Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John Donald Mumford came home Thursday night.
A flag-draped coffin holding his remains was carried out of the cargo hold of Southwest Airlines Flight 4599 from Chicago shortly after 8 p.m.
Standing on the tarmac on the chilly March night at Tampa International Airport, Mumford’s family watched the dignified transfer ceremony.
Ronald Woolums, an Air Force veteran, saluted. His brother, Lynn Woolums, held his right hand over his heart
Mumford was their uncle.
(more at the link)
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Well, I snarked about this yesterday, that Tillie’s comments about North Korea would provoke a NK response, but a missile launch or a nuclear test. It may yet come to pass.
Trump: Grima, how are my approval ratings?
Bannon: Not great.
Trump: End basic nutritional aid for the poors & increase military spending!— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
re: #96 teleskiguy
My AP US History teacher was fond of reminding us that Taft sat on the Supreme Court.
Haha!
Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Marijuana pic.twitter.com/08aRuuDbFx
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 17, 2017
Hahaha!
The Southern left is fantastic pic.twitter.com/woYK8SgGYo
— Ed Beck (@DEdwardBeck) March 17, 2017
re: #135 majii
Luntz needs to stay off social media and stay out of sight because he helped pave the way for someone like Trump to become POTUS. I recall him being identified as the GOP’s go-to guy for crafting their BS messages, messages that were based on lies. He sold his soul for cold, hard cash a long time ago.
And Trump has called him all sort of nasty names and called for Fox to fire him, but Frankie knows who’s buttering his bread (and his attempt to make it in Hollywood was a Yuge fail.)
re: #71 Charles Johnson
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re: #148 wheat-dogg
Well, I snarked about this yesterday, that Tillie’s comments about North Korea would provoke a NK response, but a missile launch or a nuclear test. It may yet come to pass.
If Li’l Kim does go for it with South Korea, say bye-bye to the global economy, with as much high-tech stuff, heavy machinery, and other major things that are designed and built in SK. The sudden decapitation of the Samsung conglomerate and destruction of its SK production facilities alone would be a big fucking disaster globally, one that everyone’s gonna be affected by.
Remember to take stock of what normal is and also watch your right wing peeps continually move the decency goalposts.
Luckily I don’t have any wingers in my life but I am being vigilant about my values and making sure I don’t start accepting stuff I never would have before because we are now under an autocratic regime. It’s easy to find yourself lost in this environment.
The comrades didn’t take long to pick up on Lumpy’s latest idiocy:
US television clown Sean Hannity frightens children with foolish antics whilst handling real firearm. DPRK shoots clowns as social parasites pic.twitter.com/xEMLIRZDBZ
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 17, 2017
re: #155 JordanRules
Remember to take stock of what normal is and also watch your right wing peeps continually move the decency goalposts.
Luckily I don’t have any wingers in my life but I am being vigilant about my values and making sure I don’t start accepting stuff I never would have before because we are now under an autocratic regime. It’s easy to find yourself lost in this environment.
To me, it’s real simple to be decent:
1) Don’t be a dick.
2) Try to help other people when you can and how you can.
re: #137 TedStriker
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no he was referencing stories that supported meals on wheels, the formatting of that tweet sequence did not come out well in translation to LGF, his tweet was pointing down to those two tweets that wound up above his in my post. I knew I should have pointed that out when I saw it.
One of the better responses to this fuckery.
White House budget chief: Proposed cuts to Meals on Wheels are compassionate to taxpayers https://t.co/N8QyfBx2gX pic.twitter.com/6O2nCf6MjY
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2017
THE ELDERLY ARE LIFELONG TAXPAYERS, YOU PHENOMENAL DOUCHEBAG. #GODONAWHEEL! https://t.co/gJdABqvWuW
— Martha Plimpton (@MarthaPlimpton) March 17, 2017
re: #159 goddamnedfrank
One of the better responses to this fuckery.
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I can visualize her shouting it right now…
re: #155 JordanRules
Remember to take stock of what normal is and also watch your right wing peeps continually move the decency goalposts.
Luckily I don’t have any wingers in my life but I am being vigilant about my values and making sure I don’t start accepting stuff I never would have before because we are now under an autocratic regime. It’s easy to find yourself lost in this environment.
Amy Siskind on Twitter is doing a weekly list of things that are changing. She’s through week 17 now (counting from election). It is excellent. I’m keeping them copied to my computer.
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
Wow, I didn’t mean to post all of those. Sorry!
Edited it (and this) to fix my error.
re: #157 TedStriker
To me, it’s real simple to be decent:
1) Don’t be a dick.
2) Try to help other people when you can and how you can.
Amen to that.
re: #154 TedStriker
If Li’l Kim does go for it with South Korea, say bye-bye to the global economy, with as much high-tech stuff, heavy machinery, and other major things that are designed and built in SK. The sudden decapitation of the Samsung conglomerate and destruction of its SK production facilities alone would be a big fucking disaster globally, one that everyone’s gonna be affected by.
I’m not sure if NK would do anything like that, because SK, Japan and (maybe) the USA would hammer them fast and hard. Big Daddy Xi in China would not be pleased either, since SK and China are trading partners and Xi wants the “little countries” to be docile so China can run the region.
Besides, I think NK can only make one nuke a year, if that. Their access to funds has been sharply curtailed by sanctions.
But Kim is nuts, so what do I know?
re: #162 retired cynic
Don’t worry. I enjoyed reading them. Someone needs to keep a running tab of the Talking Yam’s mistakes.
re: #164 wheat-dogg
I’m not sure if NK would do anything like that, because SK, Japan and (maybe) the USA would hammer them fast and hard. Big Daddy Xi in China would not be pleased either, since SK and China are trading partners and Xi wants the “little countries” to be docile so China can run the region.
Besides, I think NK can only make one nuke a year, if that. Their access to funds has been sharply curtailed by sanctions.
But Kim is nuts, so what do I know?
Well, it can be said that Li’l Kim may just be less insane than our President, so there’s that.
re: #166 TedStriker
Well, it can be said that Li’l Kim may just be less insane than our President, so there’s that.
Incoherent statements of Rex Tillerson are dismissed as the barking of a genetically afflicted simpleton.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 17, 2017
re: #166 TedStriker
Well, it can be said that Li’l Kim may just be less insane than our President, so there’s that.
Kim endorsed Trump, which means he’s either absolutely insane, or knows that Trump is someone he can humiliate, which makes him diabolical.
re: #168 Myron Falwell
Kim endorsed Trump, which means he’s either absolutely insane, or knows that Trump is someone he can humiliate, which makes him diabolical.
It had to be he feared Hillary more than DT. As did Putin.
re: #164 wheat-dogg
I’m not sure if NK would do anything like that, because SK, Japan and (maybe) the USA would hammer them fast and hard. Big Daddy Xi in China would not be pleased either, since SK and China are trading partners and Xi wants the “little countries” to be docile so China can run the region.
Besides, I think NK can only make one nuke a year, if that. Their access to funds has been sharply curtailed by sanctions.
But Kim is nuts, so what do I know?
The threat to Seoul isn’t nuclear though, it’s all about conventional artillery and rockets. It’s often overstated, but very real.
The North Korean military’s most powerful tool is artillery. It cannot level Seoul as some reports have claimed, but it could do significant damage. Pyongyang risks deteriorating its forces by exposing them to return fire, however, which significantly restricts their use.
Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.
— Bill Hicks (@Bill_Hicks_RIP) March 11, 2017
re: #169 retired cynic
It had to be he feared Hillary more than DT. As did Putin.
I am sure most world leaders have concluded Trump can be easily manipulated with a compliment or criticism as need be. And I doubt Australia’s PM will be calling him directly any time soon.
To be honest, I am worried about Xi’s visit next month, because the WH has announced Xi and Trump will meet at Emolu-Lago. Security there is so lax that an internationally embarrassing breach could happen. A lesser worry is Trump insisting Xi go golfing with him. The Chinese Communist Party has deemed golf an overly bourgeois activity not fitting for loyal members of the party. If Xi accepts, he contradicts the Party line. If he refuses, he would be forced to stay inside with Trump for hours on end with nothing to do.
Naturally, there is a boom market in new golf courses in China, because rich guys could give a shit what the Party says.
re: #172 wheat-dogg
I cannot, on this earth, imagine a visit with DT on any terms whatsoever.
Heroic artist makes america great again by tattooing “Make America Great Again” on his anus #MAGA @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/bkK29g7jnW pic.twitter.com/wwqQxEKO6e
— HuffPost Weird News (@HuffPostWeird) March 17, 2017
This is what I like to call “bad art.” https://t.co/E1fWkpkdMY
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
re: #173 retired cynic
I cannot, on this earth, imagine a visit with DT on any terms whatsoever.
Not sure if Xi drinks, but a couple of shots of baijiu would probably make meeting with Trump bearable.
re: #175 wheat-dogg
Not sure if Xi drinks, but a couple of shots of baijiu would probably make meeting with Trump bearable.
And what is that, she said, as she sipped her Jack.
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
Here’s my basic test for “Is this bad art?” Is it simultaneously reductive while also trying WAY too fucking hard? If yes then it’s bad art.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) October 9, 2016
As previously explained, this is my basic test for bad art -> https://t.co/U9ChTrSycO
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
@goddamnedfrank The singing anus in John Waters’ first film “Pink Flamingos” immediately springs to mind.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #176 retired cynic
And what is that, she said, as she sipped her Jack.
Baijiu is Chinese firewater, made with a variety of grains like sorghum and rice. It’s usually between 90-120 proof.
Schoolchildren duck for cover in Japan’s first ever drill simulating a North Korean missile… https://t.co/yWEdXjFprO
— Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) March 17, 2017
re: #179 wheat-dogg
Baijiu is Chinese firewater, made with a variety of grains like sorghum and rice. It’s usually between 90-120 proof.
Yow. Well, I’d give it a try, rather than face DT.
re: #181 retired cynic
Yow. Well, I’d give it a try, rather than face DT.
I think the only baijiu sold in the USA right now is Moutai brand.
re: #182 wheat-dogg
I think the only baijiu sold in the USA right now is Moutai brand.
The odds of my finding that in my neck of the boonies are only slightly better than my meeting DT. For which all be grateful.
#NowPlaying The Rivingtons > The Liberty Years > Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow https://t.co/aRBpZaPCX4
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
But the parallels are pretty obvious, abjectly simplistic acts designed purely around an intent to shock. No real creative effort involved.
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
I don’t really feel anything when I see stuff like this, except maybe sadness that someone can be so starved for attention that they stake their artistic reputation on producing something so uninteresting and intellectually lazy.
Slacktivist rewrote his article on conservatives supposedly caring about homeless veterans any time disaster X occurs in country Y with zero-sum arguments why we should be helping our homeless vets rather than someone else.
It includes more recent issues such as initiatives under the Obama Administration reducing vet homelessness by about 50% and the granny-starvers that want to end Meals-on-Wheels (which helps disabled vets - from becoming homeless disabled vets).
re: #183 retired cynic
The odds of my finding that in my neck of the boonies are only slightly better than my meeting DT. For which all be grateful.
Yeah, I doubt I’ll ever have the chance to meet Trump either. Thank the dogs.
re: #161 retired cynic
Thanks for highlighting this!
re: #179 wheat-dogg
Baijiu is Chinese firewater, made with a variety of grains like sorghum and rice. It’s usually between 90-120 proof.
Are there any good brands or is it all instant violent hangover like shochu in Japan?
in re: Fuckface Von Clownstick’s Muslim ban, his campaign promise to ban all Muslim immigration is still on his website. He’s just trying to keep a campaign promise, with predictably disastrous results.
Lo, and Free Market Jesus said unto those gathered before him
“Let those who have prospered, as the weed does without plan or purpose, reap that which they believe is theirs. For they haven’t tended the garden, but do they not deserve a share none the less? These blessed and bootstrapped souls, so forsaken, continue to plod forward upon trust and hedge funds. Do they not deserve to reap the fruits of not their labor? Blessed are the beneficiaries, for they shall be called the children of god.”
Arkansawyer 1:1
re: #190 teleskiguy
in re: Fuckface Von Clownstick’s Muslim ban, his campaign promise to ban all Muslim immigration is still on his website. He’s just trying to keep a campaign promise, with predictably disastrous results.
Let him keep trying; it keeps him occupied. Except that it terrifies people and makes the rest of us look bad.
re: #189 William Lewis
Are there any good brands or is it all instant violent hangover like shochu in Japan?
There are some good brands, but to get drinkable baijiu you need to part with serious money, like $100 for a 750ml bottle. High end stuff is a little sweet and very smooth, and will get you drunker than shit in no time. Low end stuff is harsh and will also get you drunk fast, but the morning after is murder.
I tried shochu once in Japan, and decided against it. Sake, though, was good.
Analysis: Trump’s budget director understands that the poor prefer jet fighters to Big Bird https://t.co/6Wn3yxNn6I
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 16, 2017
Yes, every morning, single mothers will wake up and thank god that their 50 cents a year for Big Bird can now go to an F-35. https://t.co/hPN12pBoWv
— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 16, 2017
re: #186 Anymouse
One hope I have is that some really amazing people rise to the challenge facing our nation and are able to make authentic connections with some of the groups most likely to be hurt by this Admin and also most likely to have enabled (and voted for) it.
Vets, Coal Country folks, Law Enforcement, Union peeps, Religious people and Rural populations, for example. There is an opportunity and moral messenger vacuum there.
But make no mistake, this wave cannot ignore racism, sexism and other civil rights issues or we’re just buying one election and not a true future. The message has to be tough, true and grown up! It cannot dismiss me, history, and what truly makes America great!
re: #192 retired cynic
Except that it terrifies people and makes the rest of us look bad.
I hear on social media from friends of mine abroad, and they all say to me WTF?!? and I’m all like IDK! and then I say “I’m surrounded by idiots.”
re: #197 teleskiguy
I hear on social media from friends of mine abroad, and they all say to me WTF?!? and I’m all like IDK! and then I say “I’m surrounded by idiots.”
I’ve been saying that for decades, but nobody listened….
Riding out from #rabbitearspass after a close look climbing up under the north face aspect. Very cool rock formation. Thanks Scott for letting me take your sled for a ride. Mike and I had a blast…full gas. @steamboatsprings
re: #199 teleskiguy
Have mercy that’s gorgeous!
re: #196 JordanRules
One hope I have is that some really amazing people rise to the challenge facing our nation and are able to make authentic connections with some of the groups most likely to be hurt by this Admin and also most likely to have enabled (and voted for) it.
Vets, Coal Country folks, Law Enforcement, Union peeps, Religious people and Rural populations, for example. There is an opportunity and moral messenger vacuum there.
But make no mistake, this wave cannot ignore racism, sexism and other civil rights issues or we’re just buying one election and not a true future. The message has to be tough, true and grown up! It cannot dismiss me, history, and what truly makes America great!
I agree entirely. Civil rights, racism, sexism and other such issues are not negotiable. Those issues are core principles of what it is to be a liberal.
It’s been noticed in my town that over the last few years fewer coal trains come east through town. (Wyoming is coal country as well.) Given the opportunity, I have explained what’s really killing coal (technology has rendered it obsolete as a fuel source at any price). It is not foreigners taking jobs or other such nonsense.
The inevitable question comes along “well, what to do about it?” The answer would be to elect politicians that want to promote new technologies.
The problem is getting the question in the first place. (That would apply to any of the issues you brought up as well.) Others have pulled themselves out of extremist hatred and changed (Shirley Roper-Phelps comes to mind), but they have to be interested first (and she had a lot less to work with in her insular world at Westboro Baptist).
The refugee issue is particularly interesting here. Nebraska is very conservative, yet per capita it has the highest number of refugees from other nations. (Lots of room here.) The state government put up some argument over the original quest to ban Syrian refugees under President Obama but got pushed into dropping that argument by the people who live here.
It isn’t a hopeless fight, but it will take a long time to change minds. Propaganda’s a helluva drug and the GOP has been at it for my whole life. It can’t be overturned until someone tries though.
We are two mariners
Our ship’s sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It’s ribs are ceiling beams
It’s guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill…
You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But, I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave…
re: #203 Kragar
How can I not up-ding a sea shanty?
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
My very Christian mother has spent a lot of time and gas doing volunteer work for MoW.
and that is the point, for a small government contribution, it garners millions of dollars’ worth of volunteer support.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
It’s okay for them to bitch at black people but we’re doing “class warfare” if we point out that many CEOs make bonuses far more than the median income.in this country. These fucking people.
Our definition of “individual freedom” has come to mean “the right of individuals and families with limited incomes to bargain one-on-one for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services with companies whose CEO’s make more in one year than most people will make in a lifetime”.
re: #204 Single-handed sailor
How can I not up-ding a sea shanty?
Well, then:
chicagomaritimefestival.org
(The rotund dude a few over from the left in the hat at the top of the page is my step-father)
Some rando from Finland.
@teleskiguy All it needs is a bit of perspective and the man doesn’t seem all that bad after all XD
— Cataleast (@cataleast) March 17, 2017
@cataleast Can you imagine Fuckface Von Clownstick doing something like this? pic.twitter.com/mFZXhHbtUn
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #202 Anymouse
It’s been noticed in my town that over the last few years fewer coal trains come east through town. (Wyoming is coal country as well.) Given the opportunity, I have explained what’s really killing coal (technology has rendered it obsolete as a fuel source at any price). It is not foreigners taking jobs or other such nonsense.
Coal is symbolic. It stands for well-paid jobs with benefits for poorly educated white people. That is the promise that DT got elected on.
re: #208 teleskiguy
I doubt Trump would even make it more than a couple of kilometers on a mountain bike. The shape he’s in? LOLOL
wonkville.net
Donald Trump’s Budget: It’s Got What Plants Crave
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Coal is symbolic. It stands for well-paid jobs with benefits for poorly educated white people. That is the promise that DT got elected on.
If we’re going for the education angle, there are a lot of jobs in renewable energy fields that don’t require a whole lot of education either.
re: #213 Anymouse
If we’re going for the education angle, there are a lot of jobs in renewable energy fields that don’t require a whole lot of education either.
But solar is for west coast elites. White people want to get dirty to prove how hard they have worked.
Really, it is all about symbolism and appealing to a certain mindset for whom solar or renewable is just “too liberal”
wonkville.net
Baseball and Apple Pi
The Colorado Rockies lined up in their uniforms, with their numbers in the same order as pi.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
I hated GWB as President, I think he was a disaster. Nonetheless, there’s things like GWB the mountain biker that allows him as a human being to hold on to a thread of humanity in my mind. It’s tenuous, at best. But goddamn, I’d rather GWB were running the show right now than Fuckface Von Clownstick.
re: #216 teleskiguy
I hated GWB as President, I think he was a disaster. Nonetheless, there’s things like GWB the mountain biker that allows him as a human being to hold on to a thread of humanity in my mind. It’s tenuous, at best. But goddamn, I’d rather GWB were running the show right now than Fuckface Von Clownstick.
There were even points on which I agreed with GWB: like immigration reform and the need to work with the Muslim world against terrorism instead of conflating and equating the two.
re: #215 Anymouse
wonkville.net
Baseball and Apple PiThe Colorado Rockies lined up in their uniforms, with their numbers in the same order as pi.
and photoshop
re: #215 Anymouse
wonkville.net
Baseball and Apple PiThe Colorado Rockies lined up in their uniforms, with their numbers in the same order as pi.
Oh yeah! Got all kinds of play in my Twitter and Facebook when it happened. I’m not into professional sports, but this was cool, and I hope it affords the Rockies a good season.
Palm Beach County Commission considering reclassifying Mar-a-Lago as a “municipal service benefit unit.”
The objective is to apply a tax to Mar-a-Lago to recoup some of the losses Palm Beach County has to expend for Mr. Trump’s weekend jaunts to West Palm Beach.
In mid-February, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw estimated that the cost of providing help during Trump visits had reached about $1.4 million.
An analysis provided by PBSO on Tuesday, which included non-overtime costs for Trump’s three trips in February and the one earlier this month, included about $570,000 in costs.
County Commissioner Mary Lou Berger said she, Bradshaw and Assistant County Administrator Todd Bonlarron recently held a conference call with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make the case for reimbursement.
“I was very firm and to the point that we expected this money to be reimbursed, that it shouldn’t be this difficult for them to figure out,” Bradshaw said in describing the call.
Berger said she was discouraged.
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were even points on which I agreed with GWB: like immigration reform and the need to work with the Muslim world against terrorism instead of conflating and equating the two.
He also was instrumental in appropriating more federal funds than any other administration to fight AIDS in Africa.
I’m ashamed of the United States. RT @ditzkoff: just two presidents, talking about their love of literature pic.twitter.com/RnMp7qbvoV
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
Did you know that George W. Bush held book reading contests with his Chief of Staff Karl Rove? Those were better times. ;(
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 17, 2017
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were even points on which I agreed with GWB: like immigration reform and the need to work with the Muslim world against terrorism instead of conflating and equating the two.
Right after 9/11, had the US president engaged in demagoguery vs. Muslims I’m sure we would have had at least lynchings of Muslims and possibly even full scale anti-Muslim pogroms. To his great credit, W Bush did not go down that dark path.
re: #223 EPR-radar
Right after 9/11, had the US president engaged in demagoguery vs. Muslims I’m sure we would have had at least lynchings of Muslims and possibly even full scale anti-Muslim pogroms. To his great credit, W Bush did not go down that dark path.
He had some redeeming features. I find none in our current President.
wonkette.com
John McCain and Rand Paul Are Fighting Like Meow Hiss Grrr Argh
The issue? Montenegro is being considered to join NATO. Virtually no senator opposes this on either side of the aisle. Paul does however, because money libertarianism whatever.
McCain accused him of being in the pocket of the Russians (Russia doesn’t want Montenegro in NATO). Paul objected then promptly left the Senate, after which McCain called into question Paul’s reasoning for objecting at all.
(Note the comity of the Senate rules here: It’s OK if you’re a Republican. McCain basically called Paul a Russian stooge in the Senate and no objection from Mitch McConnell. Elizabeth Warren tries to read a letter from Coretta Scott King, she gets shut down.
The Satanic Temple is trolling the Texas town of Springtown, which changed its school’s corporal punishment rules to allow middle-aged male administrators spank teenage girls.
The link is to a project advanced by the Satanic Temple, which reminds people that they can register in any state that has corporal punishment that school’s spanking your children is a violation of your (and their) religious rights.
They also put up a trolling billboard in the town (pictured at the site) reminding children and teenagers of their religious right not to be spanked.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But solar is for west coast elites. White people want to get dirty to prove how hard they have worked.
Really, it is all about symbolism and appealing to a certain mindset for whom solar or renewable is just “too liberal”
This.
With the added bonus that pushing the use of coal provides another handy opportunity to bash the entire fundamental notion of “environmentalism” as Un-American DFH anti-business “elitism”. Which has to be done away with in the name of “jobs!” ( corporate profits, actually, but who’s counting?)
re: #227 Jay C
This.
With the added bonus that pushing the use of coal provides another handy opportunity to bash the entire fundamental notion of “environmentalism” as Un-American DFH anti-business “elitism”. Which has to be done away with in the name of “jobs!” ( corporate profits, actually, but who’s counting?)
yes, renewables are too decentralized to be controlled by a large industry with a lobby
re: #227 Jay C
This.
With the added bonus that pushing the use of coal provides another handy opportunity to bash the entire fundamental notion of “environmentalism” as Un-American DFH anti-business “elitism”. Which has to be done away with in the name of “jobs!” ( corporate profits, actually, but who’s counting?)
Interestingly though, renewable energy usage doesn’t seem to be weighted by “coastal liberal elites”
energy.gov (map of USA and each state’s mix by percentage of renewable energy sources: hydro, solar, wind)
For example, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania are all under under 20%, Vermont is between 20 and 40%, &c.
Red states like Idaho, South Dakota, and Iowa are in the 80-100 bracket, while my own (Nebraska) is in the 60-80% range.
In the Intermountain West, regardless of the state’s political makeup, they are all under 20% except western Nebraska.
re: #225 Anymouse
wonkette.com
John McCain and Rand Paul Are Fighting Like Meow Hiss Grrr Argh
I actually have to agree with RP on this one issue: Why does NATO even need to exist, much less expand? The Warsaw Pact, which it was designed to counter, was disbanded decades ago.
re: #229 Anymouse
Interestingly though, renewable energy usage doesn’t seem to be weighted by “coastal liberal elites”
It is not about objective facts, it is about subjective impressions. Environmentalists are presented to us as extremists who want us all to live in lean-tos and wipe our butts with leaves.
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I actually have to agree with RP on this one issue: Why does NATO even need to exist, much less expand? The Warsaw Pact, which it was designed to counter, was disbanded decades ago.
NATO exists as a mutual defence pact for its member nations. While the Warsaw Pact was its perceived principal rival, the Atlantic Alliance is a mutual defence pact against any nation’s depredations against member states.
Moreover, Russia is hardly friendly now that the Warsaw Pact is defunct. Note in places like Ukraine and Georgia they continue to make military moves.
Any rogue state could trigger Article V of the Atlantic Alliance. An example might be North Korea attacking a member state’s naval forces (the UK or USA for instance).
re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not about objective facts, it is about subjective impressions. Environmentalists are presented to us as extremists who want us all to live in lean-tos and wipe our butts with leaves.
Well, there’s that. On the other hand, it was interesting to see Jane Kleeb put together a coalition here of ranchers, farmers, hunters, fishers, environmental groups, &c - all to fight off the Keystone XL in the state supreme court. (Bold Nebraska won on the argument the Unicameral ignored the state constitution in approving a route.)
For all of Mr. Trump’s bluster about approving the Keystone XL, he’ll still have to go through Nebraska, which still will not approve any route. Anything resembling a pipeline route would require eminent domain (which is really frowned upon by conservative ranchers and farmers that make up the base of the GOP voters for our state legislature).
re: #233 Anymouse
For all of Mr. Trump’s bluster about approving the Keystone XL, he’ll still have to go through Nebraska, which is white people’s land
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
which is white people’s land
The proposed route also went through the state Ponca native reservation.
Knoxville woman dies of epileptic seizure after government benefits stopped.
With epilepsy myself (treated by the VA), it would seem the government is out to kill us.
Amy Schnelle, 31, died of an epileptic seizure on February 17. She died less than half a year after the government cut her benefits, including medication.
To her friends and family, Amy Schnelle, a former factory worker, was kind, fun loving and vivacious. She battled with epilepsy most of her life.
On disability for several years, Amy Schnelle was receiving powerful anti-seizure drugs and had been seizure free since 2015. Then the United States Social Security Administration threw her a curve ball in September 2016 when they informed her she was no longer sick.
Between states using my epilepsy medication for the death penalty (which is manufactured in Denmark and which nation is considering stopping sales to the USA because of its use to kill people) and Republicans that simply want to kill me, I’m beginning to think that “compassionate conservatism” is mostly propaganda /s.
re: #236 Anymouse
Between states using my epilepsy medication for the death penalty (which is manufactured in Denmark and which nation is considering stopping sales to the USA because of its use to kill people) and Republicans that simply want to kill me, I’m beginning to think that “compassionate conservatism” is mostly propaganda /s.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Between states using my epilepsy medication for the death penalty (which is manufactured in Denmark and which nation is considering stopping sales to the USA because of its use to kill people) and Republicans that simply want to kill me, I’m beginning to think that “compassionate conservatism” is mostly propaganda /s.
Ah, Ron Paul. Compassionate libertarian.
I really wonder if my medications (which now are like pulling teeth with a pair of pliers to get) become impossible to obtain between the DEA and pro-life conservatives wanting to kill people with said-same drugs, if I can use that as a reason to obtain political asylum elsewhere.
re: #238 Anymouse
Ah, Ron Paul. Compassionate libertarian.
I really wonder if my medications (which now are like pulling teeth with a pair of pliers to get) become impossible to obtain between the DEA and pro-life conservatives wanting to kill people with said-same drugs, if I can use that as a reason to obtain political asylum elsewhere.
And people wonder why prescription drugs are sold on the darkweb.
Morning All
US vs N. Korea is particularly dangerous because of a desperate leader whose paranoia leads to irrational actions; also there’s Kim Jong Un.
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) March 17, 2017
I would note that the very first groups the Nazis went after were the disabled, elderly, and epileptics, using the very drug I use to control my seizures.
It wasn’t out of nowhere that Virginia and Oklahoma decided to execute prisoners with Phenobarbital. That particular bit of information comes from the Nazi Aktion T4 programme.
Because I (once again thanks to the voters) live in a death penalty state, I have to sign affidavits stating I will not transfer my medications to the state, and am limited to a thirty-day supply. (It is really difficult to get more than that for something like a vacation.)
Scotland keeping pressure on the UK gov’t over Brexit:
An independent Scotland could abandon sterling union - Salmond tells FT
re: #242 freetoken
Scotland keeping pressure on the UK gov’t over Brexit:
An independent Scotland could abandon sterling union - Salmond tells FT
There is such a thing as a Scottish Pound, the Bank of Scotland, The Royal Bank and the Clydesdale Bank all issue their own notes, which are legal tender in Scotland but not “abroad”.
I’ve got a young Christian Bernie Bro who voted for Trump in my Twitter feed right now. Probably the dumbest motherfucker imaginable.
@jkfecke @MiniLunch4240 @keithellison If it makes you feel any better, I voted for Donald Trump and so did many other Democrats like me.
— Andrew Landreville (@Landreo55) March 17, 2017
@Landreo55 LOL. YOU voted for Trump, so you’re blaming the DNC for making you kill people? Lame. @jkfecke @MiniLunch4240 @keithellison
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 17, 2017
It devolves from there.
America 2017, land of magickal thinkers:
The first solar eclipse to cross America in 99 years is coming. To some, it’s an act of God.
[…]
The eclipse will also, for many people of faith, be evidence of God’s majesty - and even, to a few, a harbinger of the coming end of the world.
“I don’t think it’s an accident that God put us human beings here on Earth where we can actually see total solar eclipses. I think God wants us to make these discoveries,” said Hugh Ross, who is both an astronomer and a minister. “I would argue that God on purpose made the universe beautiful, and one of the beauties is a solar eclipse.”
Ross will be leading a trip to watch the eclipse for about 80 people interested in finding spirituality in science. They’ll travel down a dirt road into a field in eastern Oregon, where they will wait for the sun to be blotted out. Across the country, other church groups will do the same.
[…]
Nowhere in this WaPo syndicated column does the author reveal that Hugh Ross runs a creationist outfit, one of the better known ones, the OEC Reasons To Believe.
The article says Ross is an astronomer, but he’s spent most of his life running a creationism outfit.
Further in the article:
[Gary] Ray, a writer for the evangelical Christian publication Unsealed, views this eclipse as one of several astronomical signs that the day when Christians will be whisked away from the Earth is fast approaching.
[…]
This is America, still stuck in dark-ages thinking.
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is such a thing as a Scottis, the Bank of Scotland, The Royal Bank and the Clydesdale Bank all issue their own notes, which are legal tender in Scotland but not “abroad”.
When I was stationed in Spain, I used to regularly drive to Gibraltar.
In Gibraltar, there were three pounds that circulated as currency: Scottish, English, and Gibraltarian.
Gibraltar’s money is worthless outside Gibraltar. Spanish banks would look sideways at Scottish pounds if you attempted to exchange them for pesetas (I was stationed in Spain before it joined the Eurozone).
Smarter Americans shopping in Gibraltar would insist on receiving any change for a purchase in English Pounds (to ensure convertibility to other currencies).
re: #246 Anymouse
When I was stationed in Spain, I used to regularly drive to Gibraltar.
In Gibraltar, there were three pounds that circulated as currency: Scottish, English, and Gibraltarian.
Gibraltar’s money is worthless outside Gibraltar. Spanish banks would look sideways at Scottish pounds if you attempted to exchange them for pesetas (I was stationed in Spain before it joined the Eurozone).
Smarter Americans shopping in Gibraltar would insist on receiving any change for a purchase in English Pounds (to ensure convertibility to other currencies).
My ex tells me that she once went to Poland with Scottish Pounds and was unable to change them. Fortunately, she was able to swap British Pounds with someone on his way back to Scotland.
re: #245 freetoken
I live on the path of the total eclipse (yay me). I am not interested in any so-called religious significance to the moon blotting out the sun for a minute or two.
I can skip all the religious nonsense and marvel instead on the concept of orbital mechanics (no gods required).
re: #248 Anymouse
I live on the path of the total eclipse (yay me). I am not interested in any so-called religious significance to the moon blotting out the sun for a minute or two.
I can skip all the religious nonsense and marvel instead on the concept of orbital mechanics (no gods required).
Teach the Controversy!!!
btw, it is a Giant Sky Meatball blocking out the sun.
NSA H.R. McMaster has apologized to the UK for Sean Spicer’s accusation that Britain spied on Trump for Obama, at least according to The Sun, quoting intelligence sources.
ADDENDUM: The Telegraph corroborates the story, adding that Spicer has also formally apologized.
re: #250 wheat-dogg
NSA H.R. McMaster has apologized to the UK for Sean Spicer’s accusation that Britain spied on Trump for Obama, at least according to The Sun, quoting intelligence sources.
I hadn’t heard that Nazi Spice made such an accusation.
I am embarrassed for our country. I hope our allies will forgive us after we oust this incompetent nonsense from our government.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Teach the Controversy!!!
btw, it is a Giant Sky Meatball blocking out the sun.
So the Flying Spaghetti Monster is responsible for this. Perhaps he will reach down with his noodly appendage during the eclipse and touch us all on the path of the eclipse with knowledge and reason …
re: #251 Anymouse
So the Flying Spaghetti Monster is responsible for this. Perhaps he will reach down with his noodly appendage during the eclipse and touch us all on the path of the eclipse with knowledge and reason …
May he sprinkle us with the Grated Parmesan of Divine Bliss!!!
re: #251 Anymouse
I hadn’t heard that Nazi Spice made such an accusation.
I am embarrassed for our country. I hope our allies will forgive us after we oust this incompetent nonsense from our government.
Spicer was parroting some nonsense Andrew Napolitano said on Fox Nooz. You know, the official news and intelligence source of the Trump Regime.
The newspaper deliveryman (my next-door neighbour) came by so I was chatting with him for a few minutes (he is suffering from Trump regret but that’s another story).
I asked him to watch Felix Randomkitty while I am at the state water system operator school at the end of the month. (The vet said Felix could skip a day or two of insulin without any significant problems.)
We used to ask him on a regular basis (and paid him) to watch our cat when we went on long trips but have not done that since Felix’s diabetes diagnosis (he doesn’t want to deal with injections - I don’t really blame him).
Since we also pay him when he comes to our house to watch our cat, it is a minor income stream he hasn’t had lately.
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Saint Patrick’s Day: The day millions of Americans celebrate their claimed Irish Catholic heritage by drinking Guinness, a company which discriminated against Catholics for over a century.
re: #99 Belafon
I’m just so tired of these people acting like God somehow gives them the authority to be assholes.
I was thinking about this, the idea that the Bible doesn’t say “enact a progressive tax system” and therefore we it’s un-Christian. How do you think Jesus will react if your answer to his question of “Why didn’t you take care of the least of these?” is “Well, it would have required a secular government and you never said we could do that”?
By the way, I also cannot find in the Bible the proper way to fix the compass on my cell phone.
Anymouse, let me know when you get to the Powerpuff Girl’s episode where they meet Him (one of the best villains ever) in the future.
re: #258 Belafon
I was thinking about this, the idea that the Bible doesn’t say “enact a progressive tax system” …
Our Founding Fathers had the wisdom to understand that the Bible can be the basis for a personal moral code but it is not written or even intended as a document on which a nation or a society can be founded.
Our current VP would disagree, as would a large share of his party.
re: #244 goddamnedfrank
I’ve got a young Christian Bernie Bro who voted for Trump in my Twitter feed right now. Probably the dumbest motherfucker imaginable.
It devolves from there.
So, the Christian Bernie Bro who wanted socialism is pretty happy with the austerity, granny-starving, defense boosting budget put forward by DT’s Freedom Caucus OMB Director?
/
Anyone remember the “Obama Apology Tour”? Man. Good times.
If you are ever surrounded by a group of blood-thirsty clowns, with murderous intent in their eyes, go for the juggler.
re: #261 Timothy Watson
Richard Greer is a 99-year-old WWII veteran who lives in Abingdon. He gets Meals on Wheels. Is taking those away “America First”?
We can’t ask coal miners and single moms to pay for veterans’ care…
re: #266 Henny Penny
She made an impression on him?
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We can’t ask coal miners and single moms to pay for veterans’ care…
And that was the real purpose of this budget, to attempt to further separate poor whites from minorities.
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We can’t ask coal miners and single moms to pay for veterans’ care…
Why are we trying to keep 99-year old people alive anyway?
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re: #270 Sir John Barron
Why are we trying to keep 99-year old people alive anyway?
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I thought old soldiers were supposed to fade away…
re: #270 Sir John Barron
Why are we trying to keep 99-year old people alive anyway?
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They probably vote Republican?
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re: #211 Dr Lizardo
I doubt Trump would even make it more than a couple of kilometers on a mountain bike. The shape he’s in? LOLOL
You kidding. He can’t even RIDE a bike. He never learned.
re: #248 Anymouse
I live on the path of the total eclipse (yay me). I am not interested in any so-called religious significance to the moon blotting out the sun for a minute or two.
I can skip all the religious nonsense and marvel instead on the concept of orbital mechanics (no gods required).
The wife and I are heading out to Oregon to watch the eclipse, since we don’t feel like waiting around until 2024 to view the next one.
Now it looks like we’ll need to keep an eye peeled for roving mobs of god-botherers. Great.
Churn… churn… churn… at least on domestic policy, I suspect that the Trump/Bannon agenda now gets stuck in the clogged up Congress.
But, perhaps even more worryingly, we are seeing international affairs showing some uncomfortable cracks.
NK is probably way beyond the scope of Tillerson/Trump.
Russia can pull strings galore in the Trump Tzaria.
Complex multi-national agreements are targets of being trashed.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
US Secy of State Tillerson cut short his visit to S. Korea because of “fatigue,” Korean officials tell Korea Herald https://t.co/4LQjzeWRUG
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 17, 2017
re: #250 wheat-dogg
NSA H.R. McMaster has apologized to the UK for Sean Spicer’s accusation that Britain spied on Trump for Obama, at least according to The Sun, quoting intelligence sources.
ADDENDUM: The Telegraph corroborates the story, adding that Spicer has also formally apologized.
Add CNN to the news agencies reporting this:
cnn.com
The British government has forced the Trump White House to disavow Sean Hannity’s outright lie that Spicer decided to run with on his insane rant yesterday. Any news whether Hannity, Alex Jones and Dim Hoft are doubling down on their claims even though they have been called out as liars?
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
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Low energy! Sad!
re: #278 Timothy Watson
Low energy! Sad!
Among the new administration, good ol’ Rex looks the most like he’s in a perpetual state of “What the fuck have I gotten myself into?”
re: #279 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Among the new administration, good ol’ Rex looks the most like he’s in a perpetual state of “What the fuck have I gotten myself into?”
“Who am I? What am I doing here?”
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
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I hope that this isn’t a case of Trump and Bannon pulling Tillerson out of South Korea because they have decided that they want to let the nukes fly.
This is a very real possibility.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
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So Trump is really going into to start an unnecessary war with NK? Alright then.
re: #261 Timothy Watson
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And that’s why you know I’ll gladly support Northam if he wins the nomination. Stewart, Gillespie, and Wagner don’t give a fuck but Perriello and Northam do.
re: #244 goddamnedfrank
I’ve got a young Christian Bernie Bro who voted for Trump in my Twitter feed right now. Probably the dumbest motherfucker imaginable.
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It devolves from there.
He votes for Trump and he accuses the DNC of being fake progressives? Doesn’t work that way champ. And I have to say as much as I’ve come to dislike Sanders, he’s probably as upset at the MOW cut too. I guess people like this dickhead just wanted the free tuition and fuck everyone else.
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
That’s a North Korean soldier snapping the camera in the window. At least, that’s what the caption says. Tight security, eh?
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
Probably not his body so much as “This is hard, and it makes my head hurt.” All Tillerson wanted to do was get Exxon the go ahead to drill in Russia.
re: #284 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Orange men, FTW.
Hey now.*
*Says the guy with Ulster and Connemara ancestry
Anyhow, at least Guinness. Better to have a Guinness today than to have green colored Bud Light and proclaim it Irish.
re: #286 wheat-dogg
That’s a North Korean soldier snapping the camera in the window. At least, that’s what the caption says. Tight security, eh?
They were at that “truce village”, they might not be able to restrict DPRK access.
re: #289 Timothy Watson
They were at that “truce village”, they might not be able to restrict DPRK access.
True, but the photo speaks a thousand words.
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
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No stamina! Boss ain’t gonna like that…
re: #288 HappyWarrior
Hey now.*
*Says the guy with Ulster and Connemara ancestryAnyhow, at least Guinness. Better to have a Guinness today than to have green colored Bud Light and proclaim it Irish.
I deleted it because I actually do have a desire for Irish independence. I actually lived in Cheltenham (Dad was a spook and was a cheif liaison officer at GCHQ) for three years during The Troubles. I have an issue with militant Irish Catholics, but not with the end product goal. I regret the post, hence the deletion.
re: #288 HappyWarrior
Anyhow, at least Guinness. Better to have a Guinness today than to have green colored Bud Light and proclaim it Irish.
This is total truth. There are a couple of bars that you can get a proper pint of Guiness at in DC, many are not a good pint, though.
re: #294 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I deleted it because I actually do have a desire for Irish independence. I actually lived in Cheltenham (Dad was a spook and was a cheif liaison officer at GCHQ) for three years during The Troubles. I have an issue with militant Irish Catholics, but not with the end product goal. I regret the post, hence the deletion.
Oh, I was just busting on you playfully. No need to apologize.
re: #295 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This is total truth. There are a couple of bars that you can get a proper pint of Guiness at in DC, many are not a good pint, though.
Yeah the Guinness is better in Ireland than it is in D.C.. I studied in Galway for a month and spent sometime in Dublin two summers back.
Good pint of Guinness = 20 oz, fresh beer, clean lines. Nothing else matters. Guinness tastes better in Dublin because you are in Dublin
re: #298 BlueSpotinAL
Good pint of Guinness = 20 oz, fresh beer, clean lines. Nothing else matters. Guinness tastes better in Dublin because you are in Dublin
I only enjoy a whiskey when I am in Scotland, and then it has to be in a bothy inn with a peat fire, after hiking out in the moors all day.
re: #299 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I only enjoy a whiskey when I am in Scotland, and then it has to be in a bothy inn with a peat fire, after hiking out in the moors all day.
You have whisky in Scotland, whiskey in Ireland. :Pedant mode on :).
re: #300 HappyWarrior
You have whisky in Scotland, whiskey in Ireland. :Pedant mode on :).
I knew there was a difference but did not bother to cheque
re: #298 BlueSpotinAL
Good pint of Guinness = 20 oz, fresh beer, clean lines. Nothing else matters. Guinness tastes better in Dublin because you are in Dublin
Ireland as a whole I’d say. I very much did enjoy my complimentary Guinness at the tour’s conclusion at the Gravity Bar. I’d do that tour again if I ever go back to Dublin. I really want to go back to Ireland since I have a general idea where in Ireland my family came from now. It would be like looking for a needle in a stack of needles in a haystack trying to find cousins. My last Irish relations left years ago.
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I knew there was a difference but did not bother to cheque
Yeah, Americans and the Irish spell it whiskey, the Scots spell it whisky.
re: #276 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Diplomacy hasn’t failed; Rex’s shitty old body has:
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LOW ENERGY! NO STRENGTH OR STAMINA! HE HAS TO GO AND SLEEP FOR 6 DAYS NOW!
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Why should miners be expected to pay for programs that help miners. //
re: #245 freetoken
America 2017, land of magickal thinkers:
The first solar eclipse to cross America in 99 years is coming. To some, it’s an act of God.
Nowhere in this WaPo syndicated column does the author reveal that Hugh Ross runs a creationist outfit, one of the better known ones, the OEC Reasons To Believe.
The article says Ross is an astronomer, but he’s spent most of his life running a creationism outfit.
Further in the article:
This is America, still stuck in dark-ages thinking.
So, will they sacrifice some poor schmuck to the sacred sun-disk?
re: #1 Charles Johnson
By the way, if your browser uses Control-T to open a new tab, you can now use Control-Shift-T to open the LGF Twitter client, and tweet-storm to your heart’s content.
Control-Shift-T opens my last closed tab. :(
re: #306 Dr Lizardo
You know how the movies go, its never a schmuck that gets sacrificed to the sun disc, its always a virgin…who seems to be extraordinarily talented at seksytimes (beginners luck?) when the hero rescues her.
Analysis | Why mandatory vaccinations are critical, visualized https://t.co/IpbaHZTphh
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) March 17, 2017
Precious snowflake is upset:
Tim Allen is apparently being oppressed https://t.co/bDvJRAy9hl
— Jeremy Binckes (@jbinckes) March 17, 2017
BUT HER EMAILS!!
Trump budget proposal includes massive funding cuts for Appalachia https://t.co/RaxtQWZLLM
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 17, 2017
re: #310 Timothy Watson
Tim Allen is apparently being oppressed
Because when a free-market industry will not do business with someone whom they see as damaging their business model, it is the fault of the industry?
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was being discriminated against by the NBA when they refused to let him buy a team?
re: #245 freetoken
America 2017, land of magickal thinkers:
The first solar eclipse to cross America in 99 years is coming. To some, it’s an act of God.
Nowhere in this WaPo syndicated column does the author reveal that Hugh Ross runs a creationist outfit, one of the better known ones, the OEC Reasons To Believe.
The article says Ross is an astronomer, but he’s spent most of his life running a creationism outfit.
Further in the article:
This is America, still stuck in dark-ages thinking.
The only Reason To Believe that I pay any attention to:
re: #310 Timothy Watson
Precious snowflake is upset:
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1930’s Germany? He says this shit as people are actually being attacked by Trump supporters for being different and the general rise in xenophobia. Oh boo hoo Tim Allen, it’s so oppressive being called out for your political beliefs. Really, I love it when conservative actors complain about ohw they’re viewed in Hollywood when conservative actors in the 50’s are the ones who championed literal honest to God blacklists.
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because when a free-market industry will not do business with someone whom they see as damaging their business model, it is the fault of the industry?
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was being discriminated against by the NBA when they refused to let him buy a team?
It was the NFL but yes. I’m so sick of conservatives complaining about shit like this. And to compare it to 1930’s Germany is pathetic as hell.
Unpopular opinion time:
Guinness is a boring beer.
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Unpopular opinion time:
Guinness is a boring beer.
Get out! Though truthfully as much as I like it, I’m disappointed with how pricey it is and how relatively little alcohol it has.
re: #315 HappyWarrior
It was the NFL but yes. I’m so sick of conservatives complaining about shit like this. And to compare it to 1930’s Germany is pathetic as hell.
Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences, nor is it Freedom to be Given a Platform for one’s Speech
“Here’s a free piece of advice should you ever find yourself waiting for the first train to roll into a station after a heavy snowfall: Stand as far away from the tracks as possible, assuming you don’t want to get blasted with a massive shitstorm of snow:”
And last I see, Allen is still employed and there isn’t a full pledge effort to actually blacklist him or other conservative actors. Meanwhile, when Natalie Maines made her pretty mild comments about Bush, Toby Keith and the country music establishment attacked her relentlessly. TBH, I’ve never been a big Allen fan. Just never amused me. No surprise that he’s also a whiny conesrvative dick too.
re: #319 Dr. Matt
“Here’s a free piece of advice should you ever find yourself waiting for the first train to roll into a station after a heavy snowfall: Stand as far away from the tracks as possible, assuming you don’t want to get blasted with a massive shitstorm of snow:”
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I was hoping for slowed down voices.
re: #320 HappyWarrior
And last I see, Allen is still employed and there isn’t a full pledge effort to actually blacklist him or other conservative actors. Meanwhile, when Natalie Maines made her pretty mild comments about Bush, Toby Keith and the country music establishment attacked her relentlessly. TBH, I’ve never been a big Allen fan. Just never amused me. No surprise that he’s also a whiny conesrvative dick too.
I would love for someone to ask him how’s life as a convicted felon and DUIer.
It must be nice to have all those fucking breaks and still bitch about how bad you have it. Maybe if you weren’t a subrate actor with a show that ranks in the 50s and 60s in rankings for season, you might be a little more successful?
re: #320 HappyWarrior
And last I see, Allen is still employed and there isn’t a full pledge effort to actually blacklist him or other conservative actors. Meanwhile, when Natalie Maines made her pretty mild comments about Bush, Toby Keith and the country music establishment attacked her relentlessly. TBH, I’ve never been a big Allen fan. Just never amused me. No surprise that he’s also a whiny conesrvative dick too.
I felt sorry for Natalie, especially over the death threats she received, but she made a big mistake when she bit the hand that fed her. Country Music is such a powerful force in America because it stands for certain values, and those include God, Family and loyalty to the GOP.
re: #321 HappyWarrior
I was hoping for slowed down voices.
Might be difficult to speak when your mouth gets filled with snow traveling at 30 MPH.
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because when a free-market industry will not do business with someone whom they see as damaging their business model, it is the fault of the industry?
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was being discriminated against by the
NBANFL when they refused to let him buy a team?
Corrected the sportsball league…
RT @GlennKesslerWP US Secy of State Tillerson cut short his visit to S. Korea because of “fatigue,” Korean officials tell Korea Herald pic.twitter.com/dZBvWAHWja
— Hercules Mulligan (@johnvmoore) March 17, 2017
re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I felt sorry for Natalie, especially over the death threats she received, but she made a big mistake when she bit the hand that fed her. Country Music is such a powerful force in America because it stands for certain values, and those include God, Family and loyalty to the GOP.
Commercial country that is. Plenty of country musicians and fans who aren’t part of the loyalty to the GOP. And yeah that she got death threats over saying she was ashamed to be from the same state as W. Shaking my head.
re: #280 Sir John Barron
“Who am I? What am I doing here?”
And James Stockdale, who has been dead for 12 years, would STILL be a more appropriate, smarter and more effective SoS than Tillerson.
(I am still not over the horrible way that man was treated.)
re: #317 HappyWarrior
Get out! Though truthfully as much as I like it, I’m disappointed with how pricey it is and how relatively little alcohol it has.
Don’t get me wrong; Guinness is a well-made beer, and a decent representation of the particular style, but there are so many better options you can get nowadays, especially stateside.
As far as dry stouts go, I’d be curious to try Murphy’s version (if you’re looking for authentic Irish-made stuff) or North Coast Old #38.
re: #322 Timothy Watson
I would love for someone to ask him how’s life as a convicted felon and DUIer.
It must be nice to have all those fucking breaks and still bitch about how bad you have it. Maybe if you weren’t a subrate actor with a show that ranks in the 50s and 60s in rankings for season, you might be a little more successful?
Yeah no kidding. It’s not liberals fault that he has only Home Improvement which ended years ago and playing Buzz Lightyear to go on. It’s kind of like when R Lee Ermey cried about being blacklisted. I like R Lee Ermey but he’s extremely limited as an actor and he’s too old to play a drill sergeant these days.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
Commercial country that is. Plenty of country musicians and fans who aren’t part of the loyalty to the GOP. And yeah that she got death threats over saying she was ashamed to be from the same state as W. Shaking my head.
That is what I meant: commercial country is such a lucrative market because it appeals to those lowest-common-denominator values. Belittle those values at your own risk.
I been playing alt-country since long before it was a marketing concept.
re: #328 BeachDem
And James Stockdale, who has been dead for 12 years, would STILL be a more appropriate, smarter and more effective SoS than Tillerson.
(I am still not over the horrible way that man was treated.)
I made the mistake of making a joke at his expense and my international relations professor corrected me big time. That guy was a hero.
re: #329 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Don’t get me wrong; Guinness is a well-made beer, and a decent representation of the particular style, but there are so many better options you can get nowadays, especially stateside.
As far as dry stouts go, I’d be curious to try Murphy’s version (if you’re looking for authentic Irish-made stuff) or North Coast Old #38.
Murphy’s is good. Harder to find here state side but not impossible. I agree though. There’s lots of great stouts out there that aren’t Guinness.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Yeah no kidding. It’s not liberals fault that he has only Home Improvement which ended years ago and playing Buzz Lightyear to go on. It’s kind of like when R Lee Ermey cried about being blacklisted. I like R Lee Ermey but he’s extremely limited as an actor and he’s too old to play a drill sergeant these days.
He does have that Last Man Standing show now, but it ranks in the 50s and 60s in for ratings. And maybe the show would have done better if he didn’t inject his politics into the show:
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re: #331 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what I meant: commercial country is such a lucrative market because it appeals to those lowest-common-denominator values. Belittle those values at your own risk.
I been playing alt-country since long before it was a marketing concept.
Yeah my Dad’s a big alt-country fan. Huge, huge Townes Van Zandt fan. But yeah the commercial country establishment of cheesy patriotism just bothers me. I mean I obviously love my country but those songs are just so tacky.
re: #310 Timothy Watson
Precious snowflake is upset:
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I knew that there was a reason I never watched any of his shows. Good to know he’s another Trump entertainer I can place on permanent ignore.
re: #334 Timothy Watson
He does have that Last Man Standing show now, but it ranks in the 50s and 60s in for ratings. And maybe the show would have done better if he didn’t inject his politics into the show:
avclub.com
I think the problem was that it seems pretty formulaic. A lot of popular new shows are outside the box so to speak. Take Orange is the New Black, set in a prison.
re: #326 b.d.
@johnvmoore @GlennKesslerWP Awwwww, poor whiddle snowflake is sleepy. ZZzzzzzz :( pic.twitter.com/0ABwCa6Lsl
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 17, 2017
There’s actually quite a few conservative actors I like. Interestingly, they’re some of the ones that complain least in comparision to other conservative actors who make a second living of being professional “I’m a victim of liberal Hollywood.”
I just don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for conservative entertainers when left leaning entertainers in the past were literally blacklisted. A lot of tehse conservative entertainers aren’t even that taletned anyhow.
re: #340 HappyWarrior
There’s actually quite a few conservative actors I like. Interestingly, they’re some of the ones that complain least in comparision to other conservative actors who make a second living of being professional “I’m a victim of liberal Hollywood.”
I like Jim Caviezel from Person of Interest. He might be a devout Catholic but he also comes across as a nice and funny guy.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
Yeah my Dad’s a big alt-country fan. Huge, huge Townes Van Zandt fan. But yeah the commercial country establishment of cheesy patriotism just bothers me. I mean I obviously love my country but those songs are just so tacky.
My ex was into it big for a while, I was especially impressed by Toby Keith’s album White Trash with Money: on the back cover it is dedicated to “our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, while the last song on the album, “Running Block” is about getting drunk and having sex in motel rooms with women he and his buddies had picked up at a bar.
Family values, indeed…
re: #342 Timothy Watson
I like Jim Caviezel from Person of Interest. He might be a devout Catholic but he also comes across as a nice and funny guy.
I remember liking him in Frequency, that neat time travel movie with Dennis Quaid. James Caan is another conservative leaning actor I like. He played Sonny Corleone perfectly- a hot head but very sympathetic because you saw how much he loved his family too.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
Ted Nugent can shred an out of tune guitar better than anyone else.
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My ex was into it big for a while, I was especially impressed by Toby Keith’s album White Trash with Money: on the back cover it is dedicated to “our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, while the last song on the album, “Running Block” is about getting drunk and having sex in motel rooms with women he and his buddies had picked up at a bar.
Family values, indeed…
Yeah that stuff is just tacky. I like Townes and others like him because the music is so much more complex. I can’t imagine Keith ever singing about Poncho Villa.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Yeah no kidding. It’s not liberals fault that he has only Home Improvement which ended years ago and playing Buzz Lightyear to go on. It’s kind of like when R Lee Ermey cried about being blacklisted. I like R Lee Ermey but he’s extremely limited as an actor and he’s too old to play a drill sergeant these days.
But the very best right wing actor whine still has to be Craig T. Nelson (and I really like his acting, sigh)
re: #345 Dr. Matt
Ted Nugent can shred an out of tune guitar better than anyone else.
I must admit I’ve never listened to his music much. My Dad remembers seeing him live. His music isn’t terrible from the little I’ve heard but he’s become Ted the gunnut who once played music rather than Ted the musician who is a gun nut.
re: #347 BeachDem
But the very best right wing actor whine still has to be Craig T. Nelson (and I really like his acting, sigh)
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Yeah I remember that one.
re: #332 HappyWarrior
I made the mistake of making a joke at his expense and my international relations professor corrected me big time. That guy was a hero.
Agreed. And a really, really smart guy.
re: #346 HappyWarrior
Yeah that stuff is just tacky. I like Townes and others like him because the music is so much more complex. I can’t imagine Keith ever singing about Poncho Villa.
You mean a real Mexican Poncho or a Sears Poncho?
re: #350 BeachDem
Agreed. And a really, really smart guy.
I’m reading about his academic background now. Muy impressive. I have a lot of respect for POWs. And I have to say as much as I dislike McCain the politician, I definitely do respect how he handled being a POW captive. I couldn’t have done it without cracking.
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You mean a real Mexican Poncho or a Sears Poncho?
Pancho d’oh.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
I must admit I’ve never listened to his music much. My Dad remembers seeing him live. His music isn’t terrible from the little I’ve heard but he’s become Ted the gunnut who once played music rather than Ted the musician who is a gun nut.
He was inescapable in my Freshman dorm at Indiana University in 1976…not bad, but yeah, it would be better if he just shut up and played.
re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was inescapable in my Freshman dorm at Indiana University in 1976…not bad, but yeah, it would be better if he just shut up and played.
I mean he’s entitled to his opinions obviously but he’s really become known as Ted the Gun Nut and if that’s what he wants to be, so be it but he’s a nasty asshole. He’s got a really bad habit of calling people parasites and using language that would make the Nazis proud.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
Yeah my Dad’s a big alt-country fan. Huge, huge Townes Van Zandt fan. But yeah the commercial country establishment of cheesy patriotism just bothers me. I mean I obviously love my country but those songs are just so tacky.
The stuff that’s popular with the youngs nowadays is more about trucks and beer and girls than patriotism (with exceptions - a guy named Brantley Gilbert is making a career of songs about badass soldiers in addition to the beer/trucks/girls content).
Just like ‘bro-country’ took the production values of rock, they also took the time-honored content template for rock, specifically the 80s metal subject matter.
re: #356 makeitstop
The stuff that’s popular with the youngs nowadays is more about trucks and beer and girls than patriotism (with exceptions - a guy named Brantley Gilbert is making a career of songs about badass soldiers in addition to the beer/trucks/girls content).
Just like ‘bro-country’ took the production values of rock, they also took the time-honored content template for rock, specifically the 80s metal subject matter.
Yeah and that stuff just bores me. You know who I also like in alt-country though, Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell. Really really liked Isbell’s album from last year.
re: #352 HappyWarrior
I’m reading about his academic background now. Muy impressive. I have a lot of respect for POWs. And I have to say as much as I dislike McCain the politician, I definitely do respect how he handled being a POW captive. I couldn’t have done it without cracking.
Stockdale and his wife wrote a book “In Love and War” that chronicles his POW experience and her efforts stateside during the same period. I had read the book well before Perot picked him for VP, and had long been a fan. It’s out of print now, but worth a read if you can find it.
re: #356 makeitstop
The stuff that’s popular with the youngs nowadays is more about trucks and beer and girls than patriotism (with exceptions - a guy named Brantley Gilbert is making a career of songs about badass soldiers in addition to the beer/trucks/girls content).
Just like ‘bro-country’ took the production values of rock, they also took the time-honored content template for rock, specifically the 80s metal subject matter.
There was always Bakersfield Country and Rebel Country, and of course Grateful Dead/Country Joe/Flying Burrito Brothers country out there along with hippie bluegrass like Old and in the Way and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. That is what got me into country.
re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was inescapable in my Freshman dorm at Indiana University in 1976…not bad, but yeah, it would be better if he just shut up and played.
The only song of any worth to me was when he was with The Amboy Dukes, long before he became quote-unquote Ted Nugent. The guitar solo in ‘Journey to the Center of the Mind’ still kicks my ass every time I hear it.
But as far as Detroit-area guitarists go, Jim McCarty kicks Nuge’s ass up and down the block.
re: #357 HappyWarrior
I love Jason Isbell solo and also when he was with Drive-By Truckers. I’m also really digging Sturgill Simpson.
The thing is so many of these guys just love to feed this idea that they’re victims. I honestly find it amusing for all the conservative talk about liberals whining all the time that they’re happy to embrace millionaires going on TV talking about how “hard” it is to have different beliefs than most of their coworkers and the thing is a lot of these conservative actors i.e. Woods are huge dicks about it.
re: #361 Flying Squirrel Girl
I love Jason Isbell solo and also when he was with Drive-By Truckers. I’m also really digging Sturgill Simpson.
Yeah DBT is another good group too. I’ll look up Simpson.
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Yeah no kidding. It’s not liberals fault that he has only Home Improvement which ended years ago and playing Buzz Lightyear to go on. It’s kind of like when R Lee Ermey cried about being blacklisted. I like R Lee Ermey but he’s extremely limited as an actor and he’s too old to play a drill sergeant these days.
And Allen’s more recent comedies lack … comedy.
re: #357 HappyWarrior
Yeah and that stuff just bores me. You know who I also like in alt-country though, Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell. Really really liked Isbell’s album from last year.
I did a year as a hired gun with a bro-country band (regional to the NE), and the stuff is a lot of fun to play. But yeah, content-wise there really ain’t a whole lot happening there.
Adams and Isbell are both really good, and they encompass a lot more than country - Adams did an excellent cover of Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’ for the BBC recently.
re: #363 HappyWarrior
He got a lot of exposure on SNL recently (I don’t know how to show the youtube video, luddite here…):
Reminder: the @GOP may have both houses of Congress, the presidency, and even the SCOTUS, but the Democrats have the #DeepState!! pic.twitter.com/opjyA7l2lg
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 17, 2017
re: #366 makeitstop
I did a year as a hired gun with a bro-country band (regional to the NE), and the stuff is a lot of fun to play. But yeah, content-wise there really ain’t a whole lot happening there.
Adams and Isbell are both really good, and they encompass a lot more than country - Adams did an excellent cover of Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’ for the BBC recently.
I think Adams has roots in alt rock.
re: #367 Flying Squirrel Girl
Not as much of a luddite as I thought!!!
The Virginia State Police didn’t get the memo about the difference between shamrocks and four-leaf clovers:
Remember #BuzzedDrivingIsDrunkDriving! Designate a sober driver if you plan to drink this #StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/JHlpyq9jTC
— VA State Police (@VSPPIO) March 17, 2017
Funny that we never heard about “Deep State” shenanigans when any other President, GOP or Democrat, took office. What makes this transition so special?
re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was always Bakersfield Country and Rebel Country, and of course Grateful Dead/Country Joe/Flying Burrito Brothers country out there along with hippie bluegrass like Old and in the Way and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. That is what got me into country.
I love it all and love playing it all - with varying levels of proficiency. :)
re: #373 makeitstop
I love it all and love playing it all - with varying levels of proficiency. :)
I tried a number of other styles, but always come back to country blues, old-timey and bluegrass
I think if I had musical talent, I’d try to combine folk with punk. I’ve come to really appreciate the raw energy and emotion of both genres. I mean I still appreciate Prog Rock but I guess I like music that has more rawness to it. I like an imperfect voice. I like imperfections as a whole I guess. I guess that’s why I like the Pogues. Shane McGowan could be me almost.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I think if I had musical talent, I’d try to combine folk with punk. I’ve come to really appreciate the raw energy and emotion of both genres. I mean I still appreciate Prog Rock but I guess I like music that has more rawness to it. I like an imperfect voice. I like imperfections as a whole I guess. I guess that’s why I like the Pogues. Shane McGowan could be me almost.
If you want energy and like punk, check out Bad Brains. :)
re: #310 Timothy Watson
Precious snowflake is upset:
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Another reason why I root for Jerry Seinfeld!
re: #379 HappyWarrior
Thanks.
They’re “hardcore punk” from Washington, D.C. Never heard of them until I watched the episode of Sonic Highways (Dave Grohl’s show) about Washington, D.C.
I was more interested in the go-go part of the episode (love Chuck Brown), but he also covered D.C.’s hardcore punk scene.
re: #379 HappyWarrior
Thanks.
Download Bad Brains’ “I Against I.” That album is one of the greatest albums ever. No bullshit.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I think if I had musical talent, I’d try to combine folk with punk.
You just pretty much described Frank Turner. :)
re: #383 makeitstop
You just pretty much described Frank Turner. :)
Yeah I know. I don’t have any of his musical talent. I can’t sing, I can’t play instruments, etc. I always did wonder how my creative writings would translate to music though.
re: #257 Timothy Watson
Saint Patrick’s Day: The day millions of Americans celebrate their claimed Irish Catholic heritage by drinking Guinness, a company which discriminated against Catholics for over a century.
Details. Details.
And they do not count when you are drunk!
Just another inconvenient political detail, like the 1 million of them people ignored when the voted for Trump. They may have been drunk then too.
Why does Bee reference J-Date? Perhaps just a scriptwriter. It’s not right, no need for it.
Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues https://t.co/ri1SMosO3N
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) March 17, 2017
Trump: “Major meeting” tonight at Mar-a-Lago to “talk all about the VA”
*turns to VA Sec.*
Will you be there?
*awkwardly shakes head no* pic.twitter.com/Up2tPEIxbO— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 17, 2017
re: #389 Timothy Watson
All the state has to do is make abortion drugs illegal, and people will just not do them.
re: #390 Stanley Sea
Trump did actually increase spending on veterans, which is the only part of his budget I can approve of.
re: #323 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I felt sorry for Natalie, especially over the death threats she received, but she made a big mistake when she bit the hand that fed her. Country Music is such a powerful force in America because it stands for certain values, and those include God, Family and loyalty to the GOP.
Seems many of them are more loyal to the GOP party than the U.S. Constitution.
Well, except for one amendment, but they have bastardized that too.
Umm soo this is weird…
A laptop computer containing floor plans for Trump Tower, information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and other national security information was stolen from a Secret Service agent’s vehicle in Brooklyn, police sources told the Daily News.
Why does the USSS possess a laptop with Clinton email investigation data on it in the first place?!?
re: #392 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump did actually increase spending on veterans, which is the only part of his budget I can approve of.
The funding will probably go to pay off somebody he owes a favor to.
re: #390 Stanley Sea
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Trump: “Major meeting” tonight at Mar-a-Lago to “talk all about the VA”
*turns to VA Sec.*
Will you be there?
*awkwardly shakes head no*
re: #393 ObserverArt
Seems many of them are more loyal to the GOP party than the U.S. Constitution.
Well, except for one amendment, but they have bastardized that too.
Unpossible, the GOP spent eight years talking about their devotion to the Constitution.
Are you saying they were lying?
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re: #380 Timothy Watson
They’re “hardcore punk” from Washington, D.C. Never heard of them until I watched the episode of Sonic Highways (Dave Grohl’s show) about Washington, D.C.
I was more interested in the go-go part of the episode (love Chuck Brown), but he also covered D.C.’s hardcore punk scene.
I saw Bad Brains at an outdoor show in Asbury Park back in 2011. They’d mellowed a bit from when I used to see them back in the day, but they’re always a compelling band.
H.R. is still the only vocalist to record a lead vocal for a track by phone from jail (‘Sacred Love’ on I Against I) as far as I know. And Dr. Know and Darryl Jenifer were both indredible musicians.
Woot! We just scored tickets for an ACLU benefit with Gogol Bordello, on the Liberty Belle out of Pier 36 in NYC!
Never seen Gogol, looking forward to it. And it’s for a great cause. Wins all around.
Everyone has dreams. Paul Ryan dreams of killing sick people.
House Speaker Paul Ryan to Rich Lowry on capping Medicaid funding: “We’ve been dreaming of this since you and I were drinking out of a keg”
— Adam Cancryn (@adamcancryn) March 17, 2017
re: #401 The Vicious Babushka
Everyone has dreams. Paul Ryan dreams of killing sick people.
Someone should put up a House resolution that prevents anyone who used SS benefits to pay for college from being Speaker of the House.
re: #401 The Vicious Babushka
Everyone has dreams. Paul Ryan dreams of killing sick people.
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College asshole libertarians are the worst.
Said as someone who was a bit of a college asshole libertarian.
Bunch of idiots.
The White House has now officially recommended this @petridishes item. Reading it is your duty as an American. https://t.co/t2FjP90q29 pic.twitter.com/9ixhM8DhbL
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 17, 2017
This was in today’s email from the White House. So clearly, literally no one read the linked piece by @petridishes, did they? pic.twitter.com/1cqoDbqgTg
— Molly Templeton (@mollytempleton) March 17, 2017
re: #401 The Vicious Babushka
Everyone has dreams. Paul Ryan dreams of killing sick people.
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Asshole scumbag Rich Lowry was hitting the kegs while attending a public university, the University of Virginia. Ditto for Ryan at Miami of Ohio.
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My ex was into it big for a while, I was especially impressed by Toby Keith’s album White Trash with Money: on the back cover it is dedicated to “our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, while the last song on the album, “Running Block” is about getting drunk and having sex in motel rooms with women he and his buddies had picked up at a bar.
Family values, indeed…
A lot of people treat their evangelism as a get out of hell free card. So, they can do anything they want because they see themselves as saved no matter what.
I don’t think that is what the teachings actually mean.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I like an imperfect voice. I like imperfections as a whole I guess. I guess that’s why I like the Pogues. Shane McGowan could be me almost.
To be the Pogues you need Shane MacGowan. And, you need that unrepentant alcoholism and heroin abuser that is intrinsically part of his brilliance.
re: #405 Stanley Sea
If Trump read the Petri piece, he may have thought it was favorable commentary on his budget proposal.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
I must admit I’ve never listened to his music much. My Dad remembers seeing him live. His music isn’t terrible from the little I’ve heard but he’s become Ted the gunnut who once played music rather than Ted the musician who is a gun nut.
I saw the Nuge’ several times (4) and I think he was pretty good back in the early 70s, but as he got older and more political his music turned more and more to crap.
Because, well, nuclear war is back on the menu now…
LLL scanned old films and posted some of the digital ones on youtube:
Digitization Unearths New Data From Cold War-Era Nuclear Test Films
The more interesting one is the 43kt airborne test from 1955:
Slow it down to quarter speed. You can see the obvious tracks of high-speed (supersonic) jets (probably melted bits, maybe plasma) coming off the tower, then the shock wave (presumably at the speed of sound in air) coming up behind and catching up to the bits slowed down in the air… and then you see the ground debris wave being pushed by the air shock wave.
TFW your boss said he knew about the lack of staff on a Saturday night, and that he was looking into it, and it would be taken care of, and you knew better…
…and got something lined up without even bothering to talk to him.
Samuel Smith’s oatmeal stout is good. Not Irish, but a great beer.
I suspect the Russian rep was more than happy that the US is now helping to scuttle talk of climate change at the G20:
Is this Petri woman single? Because I think I’m in love:
Do you have any rivalries?
Our only rival is the legitimately elected government of the United States. Except Congress, which is a part of the Deep States somehow. It makes sense once you accept it. Also we also are rivals with Duke, because nuts to Duke.
Pissed or in an alzheimer’s fog
Photographers: Can we get a handshake?
Merkel (to Trump): Do you want to have a handshake?
Trump: *no response*
Merkel: *makes awkward face* pic.twitter.com/ehgpCnWPg7— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 17, 2017
He looks SO pissed. What happened? https://t.co/kMrRi9Ezmd
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) March 17, 2017
re: #360 makeitstop
The only song of any worth to me was when he was with The Amboy Dukes, long before he became quote-unquote Ted Nugent. The guitar solo in ‘Journey to the Center of the Mind’ still kicks my ass every time I hear it.
But as far as Detroit-area guitarists go, Jim McCarty kicks Nuge’s ass up and down the block.
Jimmy McCarty kicks a lot of guitarists asses…not just those in Michigan. I still play the original Cactus album from time to time. Love their version of Parcheman Farm
Is it too early to bust out some mean Cactus fast chuggin’ blues live from the early 70s??? It is Friday. we often break into the tunes on Friday.
It helps to kick ass when you have a rythym section of Timmy Bogart on bass and Carmen (I am the Best) Appice on drums.
re: #416 Stanley Sea
Pissed or in an alzheimer’s fog
Angela is also in a position that she has little or nothing to lose by telling him exactly what she thinks of him and his policies.
re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funny that we never heard about “Deep State” shenanigans when any other President, GOP or Democrat, took office. What makes this transition so special?
Deep paranoia.
re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funny that we never heard about “Deep State” shenanigans when any other President, GOP or Democrat, took office. What makes this transition so special?
The deeply paranoid POTUS is a huge fan of Alex Jones
re: #420 ObserverArt
Deep paranoia.
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I think if I had musical talent, I’d try to combine folk with punk. I’ve come to really appreciate the raw energy and emotion of both genres. I mean I still appreciate Prog Rock but I guess I like music that has more rawness to it. I like an imperfect voice. I like imperfections as a whole I guess. I guess that’s why I like the Pogues. Shane McGowan could be me almost.
This may not be exactly what you are talking about, but I am guessing you would like this artist. He is a little folk, a little new wave, a little Celtic, a little sadness and comedic story telling and a lot great in my opinion.
Robyn Hitchcock. He’s been in bands, done solo, worked with a lot of others, etc. Check him out. The first YouTube is one of my all time favorites. The second is one of his biggest alt-radio hits.
re: #418 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Angela is also in a position that she has little or nothing to lose by telling him exactly what she thinks of him and his policies.
Merkel to Trump: Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on TV?
re: #416 Stanley Sea
Pissed or in an alzheimer’s fog
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He looks absolutely lost. They’re going to have to start pumping him full of drugs to maintain lucidity (if they’re not already).
re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funny that we never heard about “Deep State” shenanigans when any other President, GOP or Democrat, took office. What makes this transition so special?
It’s because the very angry BLACK guy left his BLACK guy cooties all over the government and is presently plotting a very angry BLACK guy coup to get back in power. Also, this very angry BLACK guy is simultaneously an idiot and an evil genius.
Obviously.
PSA:
Do not listen to the new Weezer song. It is… not good. It’s not really Weezer, it’s more like “21 Pilots ft. Rivers Cuomo”
re: #417 ObserverArt
Jimmy McCarty kicks a lot of guitarists asses…not just those in Michigan. I still play the original Cactus album from time to time. Love their version of Parcheman Farm
Is it too early to bust out some mean Cactus fast chuggin’ blues live from the early 70s??? It is Friday. we often break into the tunes on Friday.
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It helps to kick ass when you have a rythym section of Timmy Bogart on bass and Carmen (I am the Best) Appice on drums.
I saw Cactus last year at a local theater and got to finally meet McCarty. That guy helped write the book of modern rock guitar with his work with the Detroit Wheels IMO, and I told him so.
Bogert’s long gone, a guy named Pete Bremy from Vanilla Fudge was playing bass when I saw them. But now Bremy and McCarty have left - I think Jimmy’s about done as far as playing goes. But I got to see him and he sounded great.
LOL Angela was totally ready to do some martial arts move in case he tried the same shit he did with Shinzo Abe.
WATCH: Pres. Trump ignores German Chancellor Merkel when she asks him if he wants to do a handshake during photo op in Oval Office today.
WATCH: Pres. Trump ignores German Chancellor Merkel when she asks him if he wants to do a handshake during photo op in Oval Office today. pic.twitter.com/1piyf4hze5
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 17, 2017
re: #421 Dr. Matt
The deeply paranoid POTUS is a huge fan of Alex Jones
And a conservative press that is going to try and defend whatever outrageous things this paranoid POTUS spews forth.
This is also where DT’s total lack of skill in public service is showing: he is not used to the concept of there being government employees who plan to still be doing their job when he is gone and want to ensure that there is a country left to govern, not to mention a government capable of doing so.
He is already upset that he cannot make everyone employed by the US government sign a lifetime NDA.
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
LOL Angela was totally ready to do some martial arts move in case he tried the same shit he did with Shinzo Abe.
I wonder if “Why am I talking to a woman?” was going through his mind.
re: #431 Belafon
I wonder if “Why am I talking to a woman?” was going through his mind.
WHY AM I EVEN MEETING WITH HER? SHE’S NOT A 10. WOULD TOTALLY NOT GRAB THAT. GET HER OUTTA HERE!!!!!!
*facepalm*
Trump supporter credits Trumpcare — which hasn’t taken effect — for dramatically lower health costs https://t.co/tHwWQ3uS1s pic.twitter.com/o29B8jPjLa
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 17, 2017
*screams internally* https://t.co/IhT4MRvTHT
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 17, 2017
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
LOL Angela was totally ready to do some martial arts move in case he tried the same shit he did with Shinzo Abe.
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Oh. My. God. So obvious Trump didn’t want to be there.
“I’d rather be golfing” plastered all over his face and demeanor.
re: #434 GlutenFreeJesus
Oh. My. God. So obvious Trump didn’t want to be there.
“I’d rather be golfing” plastered all over his face and demeanor.
It’s must be awful to have to host the leader of the free world.
re: #434 GlutenFreeJesus
I’m sure the feeling is mutual but one of them takes their job seriously.
re: #427 A wild WITHAK appeared!
PSA:
Do not listen to the new Weezer song. It is… not good. It’s not really Weezer, it’s more like “21 Pilots ft. Rivers Cuomo”
Listened anyway. Yeah, kinda not Weezer.
re: #434 GlutenFreeJesus
Oh. My. God. So obvious Trump didn’t want to be there.
“I’d rather be golfing” plastered all over his face and demeanor.
45 may love the limelight and being the center of attention and all that goes with being preznit, but he is not cut out to do the diplomatic thing. And, that’s a big part of the job. I do wonder how much stamina he has to keep doing this for four more years.
That brush off was incredibly rude and won’t be forgotten. He is so crass and just a horrible human being. And, I use human in the most loose sense of the word.
re: #438 Colère Tueur de Lapin
45 may love the limelight and being the center of attention and all that goes with being preznit, but he is not cut out to do the diplomatic thing. And, that’s a big part of the job. I do wonder how much stamina he has to keep doing this for four more years.
That brush off was incredibly rude and won’t be forgotten. He is so crass and just a horrible human being. And, I use human in the most loose sense of the word.
Press conference coming up with the both of them.
I can’t imagine how bad it is going to be.
The enemy of my enemy may also be an asshole, part N:
I resent $20 trillion debt. @JamesSurowiecki @RadioFreeTom
— Doc Washburn (@DocWashburn) March 17, 2017
Then you should have objected to all the entitlements you and the voters demanded, including the ones Trump supports. https://t.co/u486nSGq9n
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 17, 2017
Or, maybe I might resent repeated tax cuts for the richest people in the history of rich people, defense spending that always exceeds the top 10 other nations, a war of choice over nonexistent WMD’s, and a financial crisis triggered by idiots who thought The Market couldn’t catastrophically fail?
re: #438 Colère Tueur de Lapin
45 may love the limelight and being the center of attention and all that goes with being preznit, but he is not cut out to do the diplomatic thing. And, that’s a big part of the job. I do wonder how much stamina he has to keep doing this for four more years.
That brush off was incredibly rude and won’t be forgotten. He is so crass and just a horrible human being. And, I use human in the most loose sense of the word.
Trump is a human being by literal definition. He is also a synthesis of the worst aspects of human nature incarnate as the Orange Wingularity of Malevolence.
Other than that, there is nothing human about Trump.
re: #440 Blind Frog Belly White
The enemy of my enemy may also be an asshole, part N:
Or, maybe I might resent repeated tax cuts for the richest people in the history of rich people, defense spending that always exceeds the top 10 other nations, a war of choice over nonexistent WMD’s, and a financial crisis triggered by idiots who thought The Market couldn’t catastrophically fail?
All that meals on wheels has cost us $20 trillion in debt.
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re: #438 Colère Tueur de Lapin
45 may love the limelight and being the center of attention and all that goes with being preznit, but he is not cut out to do the diplomatic thing. And, that’s a big part of the job. I do wonder how much stamina he has to keep doing this for four more years.
That brush off was incredibly rude and won’t be forgotten. He is so crass and just a horrible human being. And, I use human in the most loose sense of the word.
He is not cut out to do the PRESIDENT thing. He wants to be King, rule by decree, get the adulation. As somebody pointed out this morning, the AHCA debacle comes from having a thoroughly incurious, arrogantly ignorant, lazy man allowing movement types to write legislation and EOs, and tell him they do what he promised.
Photographers: Can we get a handshake?
Merkel (to Trump): Do you want to have a handshake?
Trump: *no response*
Merkel: *makes awkward face* pic.twitter.com/ehgpCnWPg7— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 17, 2017
Dear Chancellor Merkel,
Decent Americans are sorry Mr. ShittyBritches disrespected you. Next time please slap Putin’s dick out of his mouth. https://t.co/i0adPuTBZX— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) March 17, 2017
Trump has to be the most impersonal, socially awkward POTUS we’ve ever had.
re: #446 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump has to be the most impersonal, socially awkward POTUS we’ve ever had.
This must be that famous Trump charm I’ve heard tell of.
important news!
BREAKING: Monopoly replacing thimble, wheelbarrow and boot with penguin, rubber ducky and Tyrannosaurus rex. Story: https://t.co/edaHQpQMDe pic.twitter.com/MmrwL3j8w6
— AP Eastern U.S. (@APEastRegion) March 17, 2017
re: #433 JordanRules
And the Lord, but not that black asshole or the Democrats.
re: #447 Blind Frog Belly White
This must be that famous Trump charm I’ve heard tell of.
She wants nothing he’s literally and figurative selling.
re: #448 Stanley Sea
important news!
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This’ll end like New Coke - pretty soon, Monopoly Classic, with all the original pieces, will appear.
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re: #450 Belafon
She wants nothing he’s literally and figurative selling.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we could get along with Russia our own allies?”
re: #376 HappyWarrior
Ha, you might like one of my favorites - the Seattle-based band Kultur Shock - folk’n punk with a Balkan twist (the lead singer hails from Bosnia) - also a very political act (left-wing/anarchist, proudly working-class and pro-immigrants). Saw them live in Belgrade and it was a blast.
Translation of the lyrics: justsomelyrics.com
re: #303 HappyWarrior
Yeah, Americans and the Irish spell it whiskey, the Scots spell it
whiskyouskie.
That’s not allowed. #cocainepants https://t.co/eaNVpNY7PY
— Q104.3 (@Q1043) March 12, 2017
@Q1043
If only the DEA had informed me that that style of clothing was frowned upon, I would have never …— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017
..@CBSnews has learned #Secret Service agent’s laptop stolen in #NY has #national security information about #Trump.
— Jeff Pegues (@jeffpeguescbs) March 17, 2017
Source tells me that protective perimeter pins & other @SecretService communication equipment also was stolen, and that USSS is FREAKING. https://t.co/okuhbRQihH
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) March 17, 2017
re: #448 Stanley Sea
Kind of misses the entire theme of the game, no?
The thimble and wheelbarrow and boot are indicators of jobs and wealth (more specifically, the lack of wealth.)
Monopoly is about money and wealth and property, no?
re: #456 The Vicious Babushka
Thanks Obama.
re: #445 gocart mozart
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Comment on TPM:
She got a Doctorate for her thesis on Quantum Chemistry, and speaks German, English, Russian, and Latin.
He can say “bigly”.
re: #427 A wild WITHAK appeared!
PSA:
Do not listen to the new Weezer song. It is… not good. It’s not really Weezer, it’s more like “21 Pilots ft. Rivers Cuomo”
21 Pilots…Gag.
I do not understand them and their success. And they are from right here in Columbus. Not the first time I do not get someone’s popularity. I don’t begrudge them, just do not get it.
re: #456 The Vicious Babushka
Another in a line of “If you proposed the Trump administration as a movie, you would have been laughed out of Hollywood for being too outrageous.”
re: #457 freetoken
Kind of misses the entire theme of the game, no?
The thimble and wheelbarrow and boot are indicators of jobs and wealth (more specifically, the lack of wealth.)
Monopoly is about money and wealth and property, no?
According to Mrs. FBW, Monopoly is about how wealth naturally concentrates. Once you get ahead in Monopoly and buy a few properties, you’re almost guaranteed to clean everyone else out.
The downside is, playing a full game of monopoly takes FOREVER and most epople lose interest before the lesson is driven home!
“Information about Trump’s security has been stolen”
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017
re: #459 BeachDem
Comment on TPM:
She got a Doctorate for her thesis on Quantum Chemistry, and speaks German, English, Russian, and Latin.
He can say “bigly”.
And that’s exactly why Trump is so incredibly uncomfortable; she’s exponentially more intelligent than he is, and he damn well knows it.
And she’s a woman to boot.
re: #446 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump has to be the most impersonal, socially awkward POTUS we’ve ever had.
I said it the other night and I am sticking to it.
Our President is an asshole.
No way around it.
Pool: POTUS lauded the “successful model” in Germany of “apprenticeship.”
“That’s a word I like,” POTUS said, referencing his TV show.— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 17, 2017
Pool reports note that the president successfully recognized one of his big boy words.
re: #465 Dr Lizardo
Yep. Same thing with the black dude.
re: #445 gocart mozart
Of course. Shook hands with the Saudi prince though. Punk coward motherfucker.
Trump: Welcome to the Oval Offi-
Merkel: lol bish I got more experience leading the world in this room than you sit down pic.twitter.com/v9QqWwRyL4— Marv (@Marv_Vien) March 17, 2017
re: #467 jaunte
Dude!!!!!! Take Arnold’s advice and go back to your damned TV show you inept piece of corrupt orange shit!
re: #467 jaunte
Pool reports note that the president successfully recognized one of his big boy words.
Which the government pays for. Oh, I would actually love if we had the German style education system in this country.
A pool reporter asked Trump if he talked to Merkel about his criticisms of her. The question “went unanswered,” via pool.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 17, 2017
Of course he didn’t, because he’s a coward.
That fence jumper the other day. He was on the grounds for 15 minutes before he was apprehended. 15 minutes.
re: #462 Blind Frog Belly White
According to Mrs. FBW, Monopoly is about how wealth naturally concentrates. Once you get ahead in Monopoly and buy a few properties, you’re almost guaranteed to clean everyone else out.
The downside is, playing a full game of monopoly takes FOREVER and most epople lose interest before the lesson is driven home!
I mentioned it before. Back in college we used to put two boards together and overlap the “go” block and play in a figure eight. Doubles the money, properties and the time. Then we would all go to it, with everyone doing their own banking, etc. It would sometimes last into the wee hours.
Psychotropic drugs may have been used…the guilty will forever be protected as many have passed since those days. Sniff. Those were some fun times as we discussed politics, philosophy, life, etc.
The thing that has surprised me the most about Trump, by far: Zero action on trade.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 17, 2017
Oh, he’s taken action on trade. He flirted with rejecting the One China Policy, and by agreeing to it, got China to grant Trump Org. trademark protection.
And he apparently got Mexico to do something similar.
That’s what he cares about. The trade threats? That was to fool the marks.
re: #477 Blind Frog Belly White
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Oh, he’s taken action on trade. He flirted with rejecting the One China Policy, and by agreeing to it, got China to grant Trump Org. trademark protection.
And he apparently got Mexico to do something similar.
That’s what he cares about. The trade threats? That was to fool the marks.
Don’t know why Matt is surprised by this. Trump’s rhetoric on trade was just to push himself as a friend of blue collar workers which he’s not and has never been.
Nobody in the Trump Admin can read past a headline.
re: #478 HappyWarrior
Don’t know why Matt is surprised by this. Trump’s rhetoric on trade was just to push himself as a friend of blue collar workers which he’s not and has never been.
The trade threats were to get emoluments from the Chinese and other players.
re: #480 The Vicious Babushka
The trade threats were to get emoluments from the Chinese and other players.
Exactly.
re: #475 GlutenFreeJesus
That fence jumper the other day. He was on the grounds for 15 minutes before he was apprehended. 15 minutes.
I’m guessing that security was using those 15 minutes to debate whether or not they should apprehend him or let him commit the mischief he was there to commit.
re: #466 ObserverArt
I said it the other night and I am sticking to it.
Our President is an asshole.
No way around it.
Absolutely. Trump won the GOP primary by being a more unbearable asshole than any other GOP candidate (that was a stiff competition, BTW). Then he took his asshole circus act into the general election where it just barely won because too many voters are also assholes, and these voter assholes live in the wrong states.
Idaho sheriff says a cyanide trap placed by federal authorities to kill coyotes injured boy and killed his dog. https://t.co/QbI7w5P6yN
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 17, 2017
https://t.co/BGQRRVKwuH pic.twitter.com/mm5Ee9CEcP
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 17, 2017
White House sent out an email today highlighting a WaPo piece about Trump’s budget…
…unfortunately, it’s satire https://t.co/lt8deXTarV pic.twitter.com/8OVvQVWZmn— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 17, 2017
WH now sez there was no apology to Brits from @PressSec /McMaster; they fielded complaints & defended Spicer’s mention of wiretapping story
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) March 17, 2017
omfg this day is never going to end i am serious https://t.co/HqR0NTWGdo
— darth™ (@darth) March 17, 2017
re: #486 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s good satire. However, it may be a net loss with that headline if more people see only the headline and view it as support for that budget than read the article and see the satire.
re: #488 EPR-radar
It’s good satire. However, it may be a net loss with that headline if more people see only the headline and view it as support for that budget than read the article and see the satire.
We are a nation of clickbait headline readers…
What is going on???
Banner day guys pic.twitter.com/qeTYGPciHk
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 17, 2017
re: #490 JordanRules
The biggest WTF in this for me is why a secret service laptop has Clinton email ‘investigation’ material on it.
re: #491 EPR-radar
The biggest WTF in this for me is why a secret service laptop has Clinton email ‘investigation’ material on it.
LOL probably a bunch of links to Infowars and Breitbart.
re: #491 EPR-radar
The biggest WTF in this for me is why a secret service laptop has Clinton email ‘investigation’ material on it.
Could the WH be attempting to use the Secret Service as their own little Private Investigative group?
re: #490 JordanRules
What is going on???
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They’re probably looking back nostalgically to the golden days of the Colombian hooker scandal.
@sylk @CuriousLurker @Green_Footballs Happy Friday https://t.co/aRs5pwUd4l
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) March 17, 2017
I fully expect Trump to get us into a war, but I certainly didn’t consider it would be with the Brits until today
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 17, 2017
re: #415 Timothy Watson
Is this Petri woman single? Because I think I’m in love:
I see no mention of relationships in her Twitter, Wikipedia, or Google info.
It’s time to make your move.
OMG this press conference. Merkel is giving Trump the stink eye.
WATCH LIVE: Pres. Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold joint press conference at White House https://t.co/Okz2bwUl4f pic.twitter.com/UWP8aPiRFF
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 17, 2017
re: #415 Timothy Watson
Is this Petri woman single? Because I think I’m in love:
I hear she’s a dish!
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re: #493 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Could the WH be attempting to use the Secret Service as their own little Private Investigative group?
If Trump wants to turn the Secret Service into his personal Praetorian Guard, the lessons on history on this point really shouldn’t be ignored. Roman emperors often got assassinated by their own guards as the empire declined.
This is one of many reasons why the secret service should be absolutely professional when it comes to protecting the POTUS etc.
Trump is slurring his words and stumbling over a prepared speech. Merkel is rolling some epic side eye.
re: #501 The Vicious Babushka
Trump is slurring his words and stumbling over a prepared speech. Merkel is rolling some epic side eye.
The German press knows how to cover Trump. Their coverage of today should be entertaining.
Now Merkel is speaking and Trump is making stupid goofy faces.
Seriously, why is Ivanka in these meetings with world leaders? Has she been given a title yet because this is just getting weird. pic.twitter.com/L3ItPPzuMU
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) March 17, 2017
You know he just wants to blurt out WHAT A NASTY WOMAN!
re: #503 The Vicious Babushka
Now Merkel is speaking and Trump is making stupid goofy faces.
Trump is in close proximity to a woman who outclasses him in every conceivable way where he can’t tell her to shut up and make him a sandwich.
He probably thinks he’s back in a debate with Clinton.
re: #501 The Vicious Babushka
Trump is slurring his words and stumbling over a prepared speech. Merkel is rolling some epic side eye.
Sounds like the end is near. They won’t be able to cover for his cognitive problems if he degrades from a 3rd-grade vocabulary with some mispronunciations, to completely slurred-speech. At some point people will notice that he belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office.
re: #506 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
*Opens Trump-specific brand of mind bleach*
re: #508 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
Sounds like the end is near. They won’t be able to cover for his cognitive problems if he degrades from a 3rd-grade vocabulary with some mispronunciations, to completely slurred-speech. At some point people will notice that he belongs in a care facility, rather than the Oval Office.
This shows faith in the applicability of reason to US politics that I no longer have.
Merkel currently discussing actual issues in Europe, MENA, world economy. Clearly talking a wide circle around Trump.
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) March 17, 2017
“A great health care plan”
“Obamacare is a disaster, it’s failing”
“I had great crowds last night in Tennesee”
I had my first Trump dream last night and it was REALLY weird.
He was being removed from office, and I was trying to cheer him up, telling him that he got to be President for a little while, and it’s time to retire now.
“The best thing I can do is absolutely nothing.”
DO IT. PLEASE DO IT.
re: #504 jaunte
Why is her POS husband Kushner there as well? I though he was supposed to be solving the middle east problem.
re: #515 Skip Intro
Why is her POS husband Kushner there as well? I though he was supposed to be solving the middle east problem.
He’s multitasking. He’s just that good, although he’ll have to leave in couple hours so make sure you say your prays that we will survive the Sabbath.
re: #484 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Awww, that’s sad.
I’m not sure it is a good thing to have cyanide out to where something like this could happen. WTF?
“Well, you know, I love to read. Actually, I’m looking at a book, I’m reading a book, I’m trying to get started”-DJThttps://t.co/SCPDA0x26r
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 17, 2017
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Trump’s ‘Irish proverb’ appears to be a poem by a Nigerian banker who wrote it in college https://t.co/f7bWJQ2vIE pic.twitter.com/JxznOjSchA
— CNN (@CNN) March 17, 2017
Appearing at a luncheon with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Thursday, Trump said: “As we stand together with our Irish friends, I’m reminded of that proverb — and this is a good one, this is one I like. I’ve heard it for many, many years and I love it.
‘Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those that have stuck by you.’”
“We know that, politically speaking. A lot of us know that, we know it well. It’s a great phrase,” Trump added.
But many Irish tweeters pointed out that they had never heard Trump’s proverb before.
OK I’ve found trump’s ‘irish’ proverb. pic.twitter.com/ZsWPUvqDDL
— cólz (@colz) March 16, 2017
We combed Yeats, Heaney, Kavanagh, Joyce. They google “famous Irish proverbs” and pick one from a Geocities page. https://t.co/CiJ7KVA0gT
— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) March 17, 2017
And, low and behold, if you Google the phrase, “famous Irish proverb,” the quote pops up as one of the first results — complete with a shamrock.
re: #517 ObserverArt
Awww, that’s sad.
I’m not sure it is a good thing to have cyanide out to where something like this could happen. WTF?
Not just a hunk of cyanide either. Weaponized cyanide just waiting to kill anyone or any animal.
Nielsen said the cyanide device known as an M-44 was placed in the area by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It’s spring-activated and is typically smeared with bait and shoots poison into an animal’s mouth when it tugs on the trap.
re: #489 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
We are a nation of clickbait headline readers…
And all the more ignorant for it.
I learned a long time ago, the real meat of a story is a couple paragraphs in. And most importantly, look at the source a day or so later for the corrections and rewrites. Oftentimes a story will be completely changed but buried where it might be not so readily viewed.
But that takes work. And a grasp of the language.
re: #513 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
I had a dream a where Jeff Sessions snuck into my house and I beat him up.
re: #519 FormerDirtDart
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Amateur hour. By the way, Enda Kenny speaks better about what America means than Trump does and he’s not even American. So props to my Mayo cousin.
re: #522 Kragar
I had a dream a where Jeff Sessions snuck into my house and I beat him up.
Which you wouldn’t really do to a little fella like that. That’s as weird as mine.
re: #484 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This makes me sooooo angry. There is no excuse for this. The M-44 should never be used as a matter of course and most certainly NEVER where there are residences. This is a direct result of wildlife damage control being moved to Ag from FWS (thanks, Ronnie).
re: #520 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
Not just a hunk of cyanide either. Weaponized cyanide just waiting to kill anyone or any animal.
Actually it is pretty specific to canines. If you watch a canine eat, they tug/pull up on their food and then gulp it down. Other critters don’t do that. The M-44 requires a pretty good tug to set it off and most other critters will never do that. A dog certainly will though and that this was used in a populated area is fucking inexcusable.
re: #527 allegro
Actually it is pretty specific to canines. If you watch a canine eat, they tug/pull up on their food and then gulp it down. Other critters don’t do that. The M-44 requires a pretty good tug to set it off and most other critters will never do that. A dog certainly will though and that this was used in a populated area is fucking inexcusable.
Thanks for the knowledge! I would think kids might pull on anything, but it’s good to know it’s designed to not target other animals. It’s a shame that dogs are so vulnerable. I’m sure the kid is heartbroken at the loss of his buddy.
re: #528 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
Thanks for the knowledge! I would think kids might pull on anything, but it’s good to know it’s designed to not target other animals. It’s a shame that dogs are so vulnerable. I’m sure the kid is heartbroken at the loss of his buddy.
I would fucking throttle whoever did this or approved it. It is beyond irresponsible - it criminally actionable, IMO. At the least the family should sue.
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