‘Face the Nation’s’ ‘John Dickerson had the willpower to ignore the President’s insults during their conversation in the White House. Luckily, Stephen doesn’t have that same constraint.
“I thought it would be…”
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… a cakewalk?
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re: #225 makeitstop
One encouraging sign I’m seeing this week is a real uptick in quotes questioning Trump’s mental state.
We should feed that talking point by any means necessary. Now that Squint and the Meat Puppet have openly talked about it and it’s being mentioned on sites like Politico, it’s a point that could peel back even more of Man-Baby’s already-thin support.
I’ve noticed the same. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the media held off for the first hundred days milestone (or as much as they could with the madness), just to be “fair”. Since Saturday the optics and tone seem to have a shift to the incredulous. CNN especially seem to decided on sniggering at the madness. Quite clever, rather than fire and brimstone as they seem to be pushing his buttons quietly.
@nytimes And why is @VOANews news peddling your book @IvankaTrump . @CREWcrew @RWPUSA @NormEisen please file a complaint https://t.co/DuUMhl3mjk
— Sarah O’Connell (@eatmoreart) May 2, 2017
this is an ETHICS VIOLATION of 2635.702 —selling Ivanka book. same as State Dept promo of Mar A Lago last week. https://t.co/EyFW5nkTDr
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) May 2, 2017
meanwhile, this is also happening on teh twitters:
@McConaughey To find the tower is my purpose. I’m sworn.
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) May 2, 2017
@McConaughey You know nothing of me.
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) May 2, 2017
I know this. Deal with it. #DarkTowerMovie
@idriselba I know this. Deal with it. #DarkTowerMovie pic.twitter.com/NdDw4qtD0w
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) May 2, 2017
I deal in lead. #DarkTowerMovie
@McConaughey I deal in lead. #DarkTowerMovie pic.twitter.com/IvpjVKFHCH
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) May 2, 2017
also, NPS staff noticed that trump put the wrong address on the ceremonial check!!! pic.twitter.com/n2hRSeGjqg
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) May 2, 2017
On Monday night, Colgate University officials warned that there was an armed person on campus and advised people to find a safe place. For several hours, the campus remained locked down.
Everyone was safe. There was no gunman, police later determined. But many students were angry when they learned the reason for the alarm: Someone called Colgate’s Campus Safety when they saw a black student who had a glue gun that he was using for a school project.
The incident reignited a debate over race at the private liberal-arts college in New York.
In an email to the campus community Tuesday morning, school officials wrote: “The events of last night have been deeply distressing to the community.” After the lockdown, they wrote, “At a large gathering at the chapel, which did not conclude until after 2 a.m., many students expressed their profound dismay that a student of color engaged in academic activity could be identified as a threat to the campus.”
(more at the Post)
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile, this is also happening on teh twitters:
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Republicans never seem to grasp how insulting and racist it is to tell black people that they’re too stupid to see that Democrats have bought them off with free stuff (that anyone can get regardless of race, and that most of them don’t ever use) because they’re such greedy, lazy children.
Karen Handel’s husband shared image urging voters to ‘free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation’ https://t.co/3lvcHu3AUI
— Kyle Blaine (@kyletblaine) May 2, 2017
In the last thread Anymouse had commented in regards to The Wall:
And that is really the only infrastructure project Mr. Trump cares about. Not highways or schools or water systems.
I get the feeling somewhere along the line Trump asked about the Great Wall of Chynah and someone said it was built starting as far back as 700 BC and still stands today.
And that thought stuck with him and he thinks a Great Wall of America built by Trump will get him that lasting recognition for as long a period of time.
It isn’t a wall. It is a monument to Trump.
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
Republicans never seem to grasp how insulting and racist it is to tell black people that they’re too stupid to see that Democrats have bought them off with free stuff (that anyone can get regardless of race, and that most of them don’t ever use) because they’re such greedy, lazy children.
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I get really tired of that “Democratic Plantation” line, particularly since the overwhelming majority of people taking public assistance are white. The line plays well with the bigot brigade, though.
re: #9 ObserverArt
Or he’s just the asshole we’ve come to know and cashed in on the racism for votes.
That’s my guess.
re: #10 Anymouse
I get really tired of that “Democratic Plantation” line, particularly since the overwhelming majority of people taking public assistance are white. The line plays well with the bigot brigade, though.
Right. It’s not like all the tax cuts they are proposing are ever going to help the poor.
re: #12 I Would Prefer Not To
Right. It’s not like all the tax cuts they are proposing are ever going to help the poor.
Sure it will. With “growth”.
It’s not going awayyyyyy
Our latest: Fmr Acting AG Yates to testify she gave forceful warning to WH re Flynn 3 weeks before he was firedhttps://t.co/2PY6MaJmtv
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 2, 2017
Total TV/radio spending in GA-6 closing in on $30 million. Most ever for House race
— Dan Bayens (@danbayens) May 2, 2017
Costs less than this to get yourself elected mayor of New York (unless you’re Michael Bloomberg)https://t.co/uLpQb0cWTP
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 2, 2017
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #15 GlutenFreeJesus
Sure it will. With “growth”.
Also Republicans have a theory that when they slash the corporate tax rate the corporations will, in their well known generosity to labor, use most of that money to give their workers raises, instead of boosting their stock prices with buy-backs and giving obscene bonuses to top management.
Has the font changed or do I need my eyes checked?
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
yes, yes exactly! Those people of color should naturally gravitate over to the GOP side where they will take care of all of their needs instead, no need to worry about voting or finding work, yes, you can settle down here in this workcamp, generously set up by GOP campaign donors to take away that daily strain of decision making.
re: #13 Dr. Matt
‘Merica.
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Any idea what started that fight?
In Trump World airlines sure are taking it on the chin as far as optics. They have got to be getting real concerned about how life in a Trump World is doing a number on their business.
re: #10 Anymouse
I get really tired of that “Democratic Plantation” line, particularly since the overwhelming majority of people taking public assistance are white. The line plays well with the bigot brigade, though.
It plays well far beyond the obvious bigots. It plays well with regular folks who don’t want to think that the system isn’t fair, because if the system isn’t fair, then they might not really be as self-made as all that.
Oscar Mayer rolls out new weenie-all pork called the GOP. Artificial taste and ingredients. Lose weight—Makes you sick if you eat it.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 2, 2017
I’m genuinely perplexed https://t.co/uZgcDgpHDs
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) May 2, 2017
re: #20 Big Beautiful Door
Also Republicans have a theory that when they slash the corporate tax rate the corporations will, in their well known generosity to labor, use most of that money to give their workers raises, instead of boosting their stock prices with buy-backs and giving obscene bonuses to top management.
You forgot the dividend payouts to shareholders before the buy-backs and bonuses. Also, yes.
re: #23 ObserverArt
Any idea what started that fight?
In Trump World airlines sure are taking it on the chin as far as optics. They have got to be getting real concerned about how life in a Trump World is doing a number on their business.
According to the witness, the guy in the red shirt was calm and cool while boarding and asked the guy behind him (in the black shirt) “where are you from”?. Then he said, “I’m going to kill you”. I’m willing to bet Mr. Rage Red Shirt was highly intoxicated.
I’m going to take a nap … village board meeting tonight. Need to rest up for that.
re: #25 Anymouse
Was he hacked? Or is he upset about the various porkbelly spending necessary to get representatives to vote for a shit bill?
2nd nominee to be Army secretary, the controversial Mark Green, may pull out, according to a report. https://t.co/tNDp5TcV0J @MilitaryTimes pic.twitter.com/H4JjaQHo3l
— Kathleen Curthoys (@KACurthoys) May 2, 2017
“…Darren Morris, a political adviser to Green, denied the reports when contacted by Military Times, saying “there’s no truth to the rumors at all.”…”
Lest we forget, that’s pretty much the same statements that came from the camps of both the last SecNav and SecArmy nominated right before the withdrew…
There’s a thread on OpenVote’s FB page about Clinton’s remarks today. The comments are just CHOCK FULL of BernieBros who still can’t get over losing and move on, bitching that Clinton needs to get over losing and move on.
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
Because Black people should vote for the party whose leader refused to rent them apartments, promoted Birtherism, advocated the death penalty for innocent Black/Brown teenagers, started his campaign with racist claims against Mexicans, is actively trying to pass a Muslim ban, etc., etc.
Sure. That sounds like a wise move.
re: #25 Anymouse
@GovMikeHuckabee Someone that is morbidly obese shouldn’t be attempting to make fat jokes.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 2, 2017
OF COURSE THEY WONT
The Justice Department will not charge police in Alton Sterling case. https://t.co/ASZY19pg1Z
— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) May 2, 2017
re: #16 Eric The Fruit Bat
Only in the US. *cries*
re: #33 Patricia Kayden
Because Black people should vote for the party whose leader refused to rent them apartments, promoted Birtherism, advocated the death penalty for innocent Black/Brown teenagers, started his campaign with racist claims against Mexicans, is actively trying to pass a Muslim ban, etc., etc.
Sure. That sounds like a wise move.
Well, you know, black people need to realize that what they’ve experienced all their lives didn’t actually happen, that they’re the REAL racists, and that white people are the ones being discriminated against.
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re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s a thread on OpenVote’s FB page about Clinton’s remarks today. The comments are just CHOCK FULL of BernieBros who still can’t get over losing and move on, bitching that Clinton needs to get over losing and move on.
My fear is that by 2020, Bernie Bros will continue to be a huge problem for Democrats and may cost us that election. They seem determined to make Democrats the enemy and don’t appear to care about what Trump is doing to this country. Democrats are going to have to find a way to neutralize them.
re: #38 Patricia Kayden
My fear is that by 2020, Bernie Bros will continue to be a huge problem for Democrats and may cost us that election. They seem determined to make Democrats the enemy and don’t appear to care about what Trump is doing to this country. Democrats are going to have to find a way to neutralize them.
The number of BernieBros who ended up more comfortable with Trump makes me think that a lot of them are just knee-jerk anti-establishment, rather than pro-anything.
re: #35 Stanley Sea
DOJ will give an award to the cops for taking such decisive action. Sessions will name the award after his favorite White Supremacist. We’re never going to see this DOJ take any actions against police departments for any reason.
Charles Hurt - Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times
Shut up, Jimmy Kimmel, you elitist creep https://t.co/TrpZSHX1d2
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 2, 2017
re: #39 Blind Frog Belly White
The number of BernieBros who ended up more comfortable with Trump makes me think that a lot of them are just knee-jerk anti-establishment, rather than pro-anything.
Present-day swing voters are also morons who necessarily base their votes on stupidity. The Republicans are what they are, and anyone with any political principles is either going to be for that shit or against it.
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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re: #41 FormerDirtDart
Jerk paid by the Moonies says what?
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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They do this just for the reaction. Hateful people.
If America hates Hollywood so much, how come their entertainment is so popular? (And exported around the world).
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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To be fair, maybe I should read the WT piece. But I swear to God, I have watched that Kimmel monologue twice, and if someone can find actual fault, with anything he says, you just ain’t right.
Edit: it’s the Times
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 2, 2017
Douchebag beta-male @CharlesHurt must be jockeying for the soon-to-be-vacant slot that Hannity currently fills. https://t.co/Vau57uJvxR
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 2, 2017
re: #48 lizardofid
To be fair, maybe I should read the WP piece. But I swear to God, I have watched that Kimmel monologue twice, and if someone can find actual fault, with anything he says, you just ain’t right.
Washington Times, not Post. Explains a lot.
re: #48 lizardofid
To be fair, maybe I should read the WP piece. But I swear to God, I have watched that Kimmel monologue twice, and if someone can find actual fault, with anything he says, you just ain’t right.
The headline pretty much sums it up. He’s upset because Kimmel managed to take the opportunity to tie his family’s experience into how government programs including the National Institute of Health effect people’s lives. Apparently, that makes Kimmel an elitest asshole.
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
Republicans never seem to grasp how insulting and racist it is to tell black people that they’re too stupid to see that Democrats have bought them off with free stuff (that anyone can get regardless of race, and that most of them don’t ever use) because they’re such greedy, lazy children.
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True, but they aren’t telling black people this crap (and expecting them to listen): the “Dem plantation” line is more likely aimed at whites to make them feel better about their own tribalistic politics.
re: #25 Anymouse
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re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 2, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
This is why America hates Hollywood.
Late night “funny” man Jimmy Kimmel delivered a heart-wrenching monologue Monday night that every mother and every father could relate to.
That’s some top notch writing there. First class.
By line has the date of Tuesday.
First sentence says “last night” which going by the byline means Monday night.
Then Charles “Makes Me Brain” Hurt proceeds to write “delivered a heart-wrenching monologue Monday night.”
Uh yeah. You need some skills and an editor for your fake journalism. But I realize this is the Washington Times…so…
@AoDespair I’m sure the outrage is genuine, but I have to think you get a little bit of enjoyment when you go all potty mouth on someone.
— Matt Derechin (@derechin_matt) May 2, 2017
It’s contractual. As an HBO showrunner I’m obliged to use a profanity at a maximum interval of twenty-one words. Fucked up, I know. https://t.co/Diyr04kw7A
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 2, 2017
@AoDespair This is the most poetic dialogue in TV history sir.https://t.co/L47SWKb0xn
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) May 2, 2017
Rabbi Shmuley tweeted this photo from the white house. What’s all that on the whiteboard behind them? pic.twitter.com/JkefsbmfyM
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 2, 2017
Save and zoom in.
re: #51 KGxvi
The headline pretty much sums it up. He’s upset because Kimmel managed to take the opportunity to tie his family’s experience into how government programs including the National Institute of Health effect people’s lives. Apparently, that makes Kimmel an elitest asshole.
How dare he use his own personal story to point out that politics has real consequences for real people! How elitist of him!
Our PBS station will be starting a little series entitled “Victorian Slum House” tonight.
Modern-day people move into an 1860s-era London tenement, where their living quarters consist of sparse rooms, a shared water pump, and outhouses, and where they must make a living by making matchboxes, turning wood and trading rags.
I believe they meant “trading in rags” rather than “trading rags,” but I think this may offer some handy tips for surviving in a Trumpian economy.
Reporters ask Rep. Issa his position on the revised healthcare bill. “None of your business,” he says.
— Cristina Marcos (@cimarcos) May 2, 2017
That’s not really how being an elected official works. https://t.co/wbLaejY2wW
— Sylvan Lane (@SylvanLane) May 2, 2017
re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s a thread on OpenVote’s FB page about Clinton’s remarks today. The comments are just CHOCK FULL of BernieBros who still can’t get over losing and move on, bitching that Clinton needs to get over losing and move on.
LOL!
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
Republicans never seem to grasp how insulting and racist it is to tell black people that they’re too stupid to see that Democrats have bought them off with free stuff (that anyone can get regardless of race, and that most of them don’t ever use) because they’re such greedy, lazy children.
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re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL!
And they don’t even see the irony of telling Clinton not to relitigate the General while relitigating the Primary.
re: #60 FormerDirtDart
It’s going to be such a joy to watch Issa finally lose in 2018
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
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Action can be taken:
Not for nothing, but @WashTimes had ads for @comcastcares and @uber on the Kimmel article. Pretty tough juxtaposition for a brand. pic.twitter.com/Gb71MMBdyG
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) May 2, 2017
re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s a thread on OpenVote’s FB page about Clinton’s remarks today. The comments are just CHOCK FULL of BernieBros who still can’t get over losing and move on, bitching that Clinton needs to get over losing and move on.
re: #65 wrenchwench
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It’s not like Uber is providing healthcare to its drivers.
re: #67 I Would Prefer Not To
It’s not like Uber is providing healthcare to its drivers.
They still don’t want to pay for ads that make them look like they support assholes.
re: #68 wrenchwench
They still don’t want to pay for ads that make them look like they support assholes.
There is a certain tinge of redundancy in your comment.
I think it has to do with assholes not wanting to look like assholes…or sumptin’.
re: #68 wrenchwench
They still don’t want to pay for ads that make them look like they support assholes.
or do they?
re: #70 I Would Prefer Not To
or do they?
As the whole deleteuber thing showed, they do still give a shit about their public perception.
It may be entirely too late, but that’s a different topic of discussion altogether.
re: #69 ObserverArt
There is a certain tinge of redundancy in your comment.
I think it has to do with assholes not wanting to look like assholes…or sumptin’.
re: #70 I Would Prefer Not To
or do they?
Here, in the middle of nowhere, we’re still waiting for the long-sought Goober to give us rides. I swear, I just had a guy walk into my bike shop trying to get a ride back to his motel. When I told him I have no car here, he said he’d try the insurance place next door.
re: #57 Dr. Matt
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Bannon’s white board is all the campaign promises.
SICK! Late Show Host Colbert’s Anti-Gay Rant Against Trump: His Mouth Is “Vladimir Putin’s Cock Holster”(VIDEO) https://t.co/VvjKf0jea6
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) May 2, 2017
@gatewaypundit Here’s Jim Hoft, being ridiculously dim-witted as usual. https://t.co/JgiFz8G7Xp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 2, 2017
re: #74 Stanley Sea
Bannon’s white board is all the campaign promises.
With check marks randomly assigned to promises that may or may not have been kept.
Marshal Kim Jong-Un declines Donald Trump invitation to visit Trump’s filthy and vulgar swamp-side miniature golf resort at Mar-A-Lago. pic.twitter.com/Kbdiu80vff
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 2, 2017
re: #76 jaunte
BREAKING: Jim Hoft Reports That Trump Is Gay.
Please, we all know Trump’s orientation is narcissist.
re: #3 Anymouse
Another day, another ethics violation.
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
Wow. Kimmel spoke from his heart about his son and this infuriates members of the Party of family values. Speechless.
Ryan tells fellow Republicans behind closed doors to pray for the health vote they may be about to take this week.
— Billy House (@HouseInSession) May 2, 2017
Dear God, help us to immiserate the poor. To enfeeble the sick. And to secure a monster tax cut for Donald Trump. In your name we pray. Amen https://t.co/qYM3PlQ1cy
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 2, 2017
re: #78 Skip Intro
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re: #82 jaunte
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re: #17 Stanley Sea
It’s not going awayyyyyy
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Lindsey Graham has already signaled he’s going to make this as much about Susan Rice. Because those fuckers just can’t help themselves.
BREAKING: Trump administration reverses course on Obamacare’s civil rights protections https://t.co/YWJzqHl8Sk @chgrimaldi
— Rewire (@Rewire_News) May 2, 2017
@Rewire_News @chgrimaldi Remember when Trump said he’d be the best friend the LGBTQ community ever had? Here’s a shock: he was lying. https://t.co/fCydrtrjC1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 2, 2017
re: #86 Charles Johnson
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re: #82 jaunte
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They are so disgusting. This is the same Paul Ryan who pretended that he gave a damn about the poor.
“There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.”
- Rumi pic.twitter.com/brBkVsGIGi— CrowDog (@TheCrowDog) May 2, 2017
re: #88 Patricia Kayden
They are so disgusting. This is the same Paul Ryan who pretended that he gave a damn about the poor.
I almost want to hear a Catholic bishop say he should be excommunicated just so Ryan can feel what the pro-choice Catholic politicians have felt.
re: #85 Barefoot Grin
I don’t get this fascination with other people’s sexual orientation. I have a simple flow chart to deal with this.
Are you Mr. C.?
Yes: great, I’m glad you are heterosexual.
No: I hope you find love, but with whom is not my business.
Yours will probably be a little different, mine was a little broader back before I found Mr. C. but you get the picture.
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Believe me. Nobody is better at the gays than I am. Nobody.
re: #92 Jack Burton
Believe me. Nobody is better at the gays than I am. Nobody.
“That, I promise you.”
re: #91 calochortus
I don’t get this fascination with other people’s sexual orientation. I have a simple flow chart to deal with this.
Are you Mr. C.?
Yes: great, I’m glad you are heterosexual.
No: I hope you find love, but with whom is not my business.Yours will probably be a little different, mine was a little broader back before I found Mr. C. but you get the picture.
From what I observe they like to say “I don’t have a problem with it, I just wish you wouldn’t rub it in my face.” Why shouldn’t gay couples be able to hold hands without someone pissing and moaning about it? They have every right to show affection the same way heterosexual ones do. And then there’s “Why can’t we have a straight pride parade.” To which I feel the need to ask, when the last time someone was murdered for being heterosexual or told they needed to have it “repaired.” Gay pride like racial pride exists because the majority group told these minority groups for generations that they not only were inferior but they should be killed because of it.
Normalizing Trump? Not as big a problem as normalizing 38 years of Republican insanity by treating DJT like an anomaly? Big problem.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 2, 2017
Eventually make Mexico pay
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) May 2, 2017
re: #94 HappyWarrior
From what I observe they like to say “I don’t have a problem with it, I just wish you wouldn’t rub it in my face.” Why shouldn’t gay couples be able to hold hands without someone pissing and moaning about it? They have every right to show affection the same way heterosexual ones do. And then there’s “Why can’t we have a straight pride parade.” To which I feel the need to ask, when the last time someone was murdered for being heterosexual or told they needed to have it “repaired.” Gay pride like racial pride exists because the majority group told these minority groups for generations that they not only were inferior but they should be killed because of it.
Years ago, shortly after moving out here, the Not-Yet-Mrs. FBW and I went to a movie a the Castro Theater, the heart of the Castro District. Afterwards, we went to a local cafe for dessert. At a nearby booth, there was a pair of guys, leaning on each other affectionately, occasionally smooching. They looked happy together. It was probably my first exposure to homosexual behavior.
I found the PDAs to be as annoying, but no more so, than heterosexual PDAs.
To this day, I don’t understand what the fuss is about.
It’s less weird for a defeated candidate to muse about why he/she lost than for a president to keep bragging about how many counties he won.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 2, 2017
re: #100 Blind Frog Belly White
Years ago, shortly after moving out here, the Not-Yet-Mrs. FBW and I went to a movie a the Castro Theater, the heart of the Castro District. Afterwards, we went to a local cafe for dessert. At a nearby booth, there was a pair of guys, leaning on each other affectionately, occasionally smooching. They looked happy together. It was probably my first exposure to homosexual behavior.
I found the PDAs to be as annoying, but no more so, than heterosexual PDAs.
To this day, I don’t understand what the fuss is about.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of PDAs beyond a little hand holding or the occasional little smooch, but that’s just me. You know, a repressed northern European… ;)
Yay the ibuprofen has finally triumphed over the headache I’ve had since this morning’s wake-up alarm.
Jenefer Rubin continues to be lucid.
Washington Post - All of Hillary Clinton’s ‘but for’ excuses
Hillary Clinton is taking all kinds of grief for saying she takes responsibility for the lost campaign but:
I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28th and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off.
Critics on Twitter and elsewhere fussed that you cannot really be taking responsibility for the loss if you are saying you would have won but for FBI Director James B. Comey’s interference in the election.
The critics miss the obvious point: Clinton can take responsibility for losing while still attributing blame to Comey. “I should have run a much better campaign so that it never would have been close.” If that is what she meant, she is probably right.
When you lose by 78,000 votes — or less than 1,000 in Florida as Al Gore did — everything is a “but for” cause of defeat, as Ron Klain (who was closely involved in multiple tight, losing campaigns) likes to say. So here goes, one more time:
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re: #59 calochortus
Our PBS station will be starting a little series entitled “Victorian Slum House” tonight.
I believe they meant “trading in rags” rather than “trading rags,” but I think this may offer some handy tips for surviving in a Trumpian economy.
are they gonna put 20 people in each room, and have fathers fucking their daughters when they aren’t busy pimping their wives out? That’s basically London through the first world war. Jack London writes in People of the Abyss about walking along with a couple of blokes who were also down and out, and how the one kept picking up stuff off the sidewalk. London finally realized to his horror that the guy was picking up little bits of garbage, like rotting bits of oranges, and eating them, because basically everybody who was down and out was fucking starving. The other thing that made it all surreal was that like many big cities, London had a policy of not allowing vagrants to sleep in public spaces at night, which meant that everyone who couldn’t find a salvation army bed literally spent the entire freaking night walking the streets. Then, they would collapse during daylight hours when apparently it was okay to sleep in public areas. And the then the idle rich and the folks with jobs could walk by and tut-tut about how the lazy scum was down and out because they were too idle to get off their asses in the daytime and look for work.
re: #103 calochortus
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of PDAs beyond a little hand holding or the occasional little smooch, but that’s just me. You know, a repressed northern European… ;)
This reminds me of….
Rusty: Hey dad, he’s got his hand on her tits right there on table.
Clark: Uh Rusty, European standards of public behavior are very different than in America. Rusty: Yeah but they’re from Akron.
Rusty: Dad I think he’s gonna pork her.
Clark: He may pork her Rusty, just eat.
re: #109 steve_davis
I suspect verisimilitude won’t go quite that far.
re: #109 steve_davis
People of the Abyss is one of the greatest all time novels about social injustice.
With @SteveBannon in the White House on #israelindependenceday. Steve is a great, stalwart friend of the Jewish State pic.twitter.com/PFxSCK7blc
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) May 2, 2017
Really good point from @joshgreenman, this bullet undermines DOJ’s case in the sanctuary cities EO litigation. https://t.co/ndMHtkPYTQ pic.twitter.com/2OQSgaA2pv
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 2, 2017
re: #94 HappyWarrior
From what I observe they like to say “I don’t have a problem with it, I just wish you wouldn’t rub it in my face.” Why shouldn’t gay couples be able to hold hands without someone pissing and moaning about it? They have every right to show affection the same way heterosexual ones do. And then there’s “Why can’t we have a straight pride parade.” To which I feel the need to ask, when the last time someone was murdered for being heterosexual or told they needed to have it “repaired.” Gay pride like racial pride exists because the majority group told these minority groups for generations that they not only were inferior but they should be killed because of it.
The funny thing about privilege, oftentimes, is that you don’t know you’re experiencing it until it is pointed out, or the roles are reversed. The little things, like having a picture of your significant other at your desk at work, or wearing a wedding band, or holding hands as you walk through the mall… a lot of straight people don’t realize that there are a hundred things they do on the regular that if a gay couple were to do, they would find offensive. I’ve been lucky enough, I suppose, to have friends who could call me out on my privilege.
Then again, I am in something of a weird spot, I typically identify more with my Cuban heritage than my gringo heritage, but I have a very “white” name (seriously, both my first and last name can be traced back to the British isles) and “pass” as white. Took me a while to realize I was benefiting from white privilege in typically subtle ways.
Oh dear…. pic.twitter.com/vV42vOGMd9
— Yashar (@yashar) May 2, 2017
re: #115 gocart mozart
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Hillary attacking the media is totally misguided: We asked Trump for specifics on his plans over and over again.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 2, 2017
And then when he told you to go pound sand, you wrote 50 more articles about Clinton’s emails. https://t.co/AUvyGwsHXD
— sam (@verysimple) May 2, 2017
re: #113 Stanley Sea
It’s been said many times, but it bears repeating… we are presently being protected from the Trump Administration’s malevolence by their incompetence.
re: #118 KGxvi
I would add “solely” to your statement.
re: #115 gocart mozart
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Fuck. It’s The Omen in real life. Insanity Hannity really shouldn’t go anywhere near a church.
“I think they think he’s a fool, frankly.”
—Fmr Nixon WH Counsel John Dean on how he thinks world leaders see Trump
“I think they think he’s a fool, frankly.”
—Fmr Nixon WH Counsel John Dean on how he thinks world leaders see Trump https://t.co/PERSNkx59i pic.twitter.com/Ck1a2dhjZz— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 2, 2017
Crows on top of other birds https://t.co/VZT1YLElDi pic.twitter.com/1K1tQuYypC
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) May 2, 2017
re: #109 steve_davis
are they gonna put 20 people in each room, and have fathers fucking their daughters when they aren’t busy pimping their wives out? That’s basically London through the first world war. Jack London writes in People of the Abyss about walking along with a couple of blokes who were also down and out, and how the one kept picking up stuff off the sidewalk. London finally realized to his horror that the guy was picking up little bits of garbage, like rotting bits of oranges, and eating them, because basically everybody who was down and out was fucking starving. The other thing that made it all surreal was that like many big cities, London had a policy of not allowing vagrants to sleep in public spaces at night, which meant that everyone who couldn’t find a salvation army bed literally spent the entire freaking night walking the streets. Then, they would collapse during daylight hours when apparently it was okay to sleep in public areas. And the then the idle rich and the folks with jobs could walk by and tut-tut about how the lazy scum was down and out because they were too idle to get off their asses in the daytime and look for work.
Looking up my Dad’s ancestors in Pittsburgh was enlightening. Turns out the George Smiths were pretty much middle class going back to at least 1850. Less true of my Great Grandmother. In the 1870 Census, she and her family were in the Allegheny County Home. She and her siblings show up on one page, but her Mom and Dad showed up on other pages (and that was tough, because the parents must have been illiterate - I only found their names phonetically)
Interestingly, that family - the Dignals (also seen it as Degnan, Dignol, Dagnal, and, most peculiarly Buignal) all died pretty young - like 50s and 60s.
The Smiths lived into their 80s. Benefits of growing up not dirt poor in the mid 19th Century?
re: #123 wrenchwench
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Hmmm. I never knew crows were liberals. Obvious now because they want a free ride.
re: #125 ObserverArt
Hmmm. I never knew crows were liberals. Obvious now because they want a free ride.
No, they’re conservative! They’ve figured out how to make other birds work for them!
#BREAKING: Balch Springs police fires officer Roy Oliver who fatally shot 15-year-old #JordanEdwards with rifle https://t.co/h5JWSL357A
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) May 2, 2017
Now lock his ass up! https://t.co/5nnIgEVaDs
— The Grand Pooh–bah (@MrTamhas) May 2, 2017
re: #127 Stanley Sea
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Read the story, they arrested his brother who was driving & his father who showed up to the police station.
Fucking a.
re: #38 Patricia Kayden
My fear is that by 2020, Bernie Bros will continue to be a huge problem for Democrats and may cost us that election. They seem determined to make Democrats the enemy and don’t appear to care about what Trump is doing to this country. Democrats are going to have to find a way to neutralize them.
The UK has an election coming in five weeks, and the Labour Party is led by Bernie’s transatlantic equivalent in Jeremy Corbyn. Not coincidentally, they’re currently headed for the most one-sided beating in 80 years, worse than the Thatcher vs. Foot election of 1983 or Tony Blair hammering John Major in 1997. That’s our future if Sandbaggers take over the Democratic Party.
re: #128 Stanley Sea
Read the story, they arrested his brother who was driving & his father who showed up to the police station.
Fucking a.
The chief said:
“It did not meet our core values,” Haber said of his officer’s actions.
Understatement of the year, if they have any values at all.
Take it from this white guy. It’s not left/right. It’s a white guy thing. We must always be the norm, the fulcrum, the focus of politics.
— Jake Turk (@71djt) May 2, 2017
To the rest of you (most of you now), do NOT succumb to appeals to “reach out” to Trump voters. They, by definition, are not interested.
— Jake Turk (@71djt) May 2, 2017
re: #127 Stanley Sea
@dallasnews so if I shoot someone in cold blood, I’ll only lose my job and not my freedom? #copprivilege
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) May 2, 2017
re: #131 wrenchwench
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It’s why manufacturing leaving big, rust belt cities, leaving working class blacks stranded was no big deal, but small manufacturing leaving small rust belt cities and towns is apocalyptic.
It’s why during the crack epidemic, we passed mandatory minimum sentences that locked up millions of nonviolent black offenders, but during the opioid epidemic we run heartwrenching tearjerkers about white working class folks losing hope.
re: #127 Stanley Sea
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And in less than 6 months, he’ll be working for another police department.
Another reason to oppose ACA repeal: Republican plan blocks ALL financial help for Calif. because we require reproductive health coverage.
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) May 2, 2017
Is this true? https://t.co/r4NLfntQoW
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) May 2, 2017
Why, yes. Yes, it is.
re: #134 Targetpractice
And in less than 6 months, he’ll be working for another police department.
YUP
Can I tweet for you pic.twitter.com/HJ44PREW39
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) May 3, 2017
re: #10 Anymouse
I get really tired of that “Democratic Plantation” line, particularly since the overwhelming majority of people taking public assistance are white. The line plays well with the bigot brigade, though.
And live in red States.
re: #134 Targetpractice
And in less than 6 months, he’ll be working for another police department.
Don’t think so. This one was SO egregious (a 15-year old freshman honor student, well respected athlete and all-around good kid and a passenger in car driving AWAY from him), they’ll make an example of this POS. Which will put a fade on future similarly egregious acts at PDs without body cameras.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
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One of the cutest Twitter apps I’ve ever seen. So life-like too.
re: #140 Targetpractice
One of the cutest Twitter apps I’ve ever seen. So life-like too.
Man, this animation tech is getting shit hot.
re: #41 FormerDirtDart
Charles Hurt - Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times
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The Moonie Times is getting railed for that bullshit piece on Kimmel.
This is my personal favorite.
@WashTimes pic.twitter.com/mRsyqmcatE
— TheJazzyUte (@TheJazzyUte) May 2, 2017
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
I swear… Trump, Ryan and all the rest of the “christian” GOP are doing more all on their own to destroy Christianity in the eyes of regular everyday people than anyone else.
God bless them all. ///
1/2 Right wingers accusing @colbertathome of “homophobia” is the most ridiculous example of hypocritical projection I’ve seen this …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2017
.@colbertathome 2/2 year. They’re hoping liberals will take the bait and join in this bullshit with them. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS OBVIOUS SCHEME.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2017
re: #117 wrenchwench
@CillizzaCNN How many stories has Cillizza written about this administrations atrocious email practices? Proof the fraud never gave a shit about emails.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) May 2, 2017
@CillizzaCNN FYI Cillizza, no matter how often you perform fellatio on her dad, Ivanka ain’t ever gonna return the favor. She doesn’t like knob polishers
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) May 2, 2017
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