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Spicy is a snowflake:
Reporter: Is Trump “out of control”?
Spicer: “That’s frankly offensive.” https://t.co/t8FroZPNxc— CNN (@CNN) May 12, 2017
Reposted from previous thread:
I have been doing a lot of lurking lately. Usually I only have a few minutes to scroll down the page on my phone as a general way of seeing what going on (as opposed to a CNN site where there is a sea of headlines and I can’t really go clicking on them. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that with all this stuff going on, it has really put a dent into the lizard community. By that I mean there are hardly any food pics, personal anecdotes, lizard to lizard interaction and so on. It’s like we can’t catch our breath or something.
Bullshit Spice(r) strikes again.
If he says the sky is blue and grass is green, I’d want verification.
Spicer indicates he feels personally victimized in this job.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 12, 2017
What happened to Trump voters saying #FuckYourFeelings https://t.co/eOUN1iNf1x
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) May 12, 2017
Congress needs to subpoena the Comey tapes.
I thought you could embed Comedy Central clips? Anyone know how?
Trying to post this classic Stewart clip mocking Bush after Bush said “I am the decider!”
Spicer is now furiously dodging questions about Trump misquoting James Clapper. https://t.co/QILRIUi9IY pic.twitter.com/CoToLg98Zc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
re: #3 SteveMcG RN
Reposted from previous thread:
I have been doing a lot of lurking lately. Usually I only have a few minutes to scroll down the page on my phone as a general way of seeing what going on (as opposed to a CNN site where there is a sea of headlines and I can’t really go clicking on them. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that with all this stuff going on, it has really put a dent into the lizard community. By that I mean there are hardly any food pics, personal anecdotes, lizard to lizard interaction and so on. It’s like we can’t catch our breath or something.
It’s a valid point. But that being said
(Drumpf tweeted what?!?!?)
Sorry, lost my train of thought there…
Spicer now attacking James Clapper for “changing his story.” (He didn’t change his story.) https://t.co/QILRIUi9IY pic.twitter.com/SkPmWKPAHQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
BWAHAHAA
Asked why Trump didnt think Flynn ‘heads up’ was an emergency, Spicer: “he took the time to do due process.” https://t.co/RUB9yMipVN
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) May 12, 2017
re: #3 SteveMcG RN
True. Thing is, I find that checking in here is my best way of keeping up with the shit as it happens. I work for myself, on the computer, and I cannot spend as much time following the slow-moving but incident-packed downfall of Trump as I otherwise would. The Lizard community is ON IT. Thanks, all.
Now Spicer’s complaining that he works so hard all day long, and then the press “picks apart every word.” https://t.co/QILRIUi9IY pic.twitter.com/K73Fek2AqG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
Press: Was that tweet a threat?
Spicer: pic.twitter.com/fHmYwoqOEe— Jason Kirell (@jaykirell) May 12, 2017
‘Family Guy’ mocks Kellyanne Conway in Emmy ad https://t.co/ssIpdj2h3W#Resist #Resistance #TheResistance #Indivisible#SCROTUS pic.twitter.com/E0ZUG1EboP
— McSpocky™ 👽🖖 (@mcspocky) May 12, 2017
#TheResistance pic.twitter.com/uMODLDXhAZ
— The Anti-Trump (@IMPL0RABLE) May 12, 2017
I don’t think that tweet rises to the level of a threat. It really only targets credibility, as opposed to targeting Comey’s safety. I do have to ask myself, as some guy I heard on MSNBC this morning, whether anybody’s actually running the country right now?
And @PressSec finishes another #PressBriefing with his signature move… pic.twitter.com/Q4ZzgYtzsG
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
The Russians just installed them.
BREAKING: White House refuses to confirm or deny if Pres. Trump has recording devices in Oval Office or Residence. https://t.co/pjNmuI4M0E
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 12, 2017
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Spicer is done. Huckabee Sanders will have his job next week.
re: #20 Kragar
Perhaps they should put some potted plants next to the podium.
Mic. Drop:
— U.S. OGE (@OfficeGovEthics) May 12, 2017
Yeah, that’s the official Office of Govt Ethics.
You gotta wonder when the White House is just going to stop doing press briefings altogether.
They’re like a train wreck that occurs daily. Trump will cut them off at some point.
re: #21 The Vicious Babushka
The Russians just installed them.
This season of The Americans is crazy…
re: #19 SteveMcG RN
I don’t think that tweet rises to the level of a threat. It really only targets credibility, as opposed to targeting Comey’s safety. I do have to ask myself, as some guy I heard on MSNBC this morning, whether anybody’s actually running the country right now?
Oh please. Of course it’s a threat when the president of the US says you “better hope there are no tapes.” It’s naked intimidation.
re: #19 SteveMcG RN
I don’t think that tweet rises to the level of a threat. It really only targets credibility, as opposed to targeting Comey’s safety. I do have to ask myself, as some guy I heard on MSNBC this morning, whether anybody’s actually running the country right now?
Trump doesn’t have a clue about anything, so his staff get the policy positions they want by lying to him.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Oh please. Of course it’s a threat when the president of the US says you “better hope there are no tapes.” It’s naked intimidation.
It’s obvious, and it’s typical Trump. He’s been tweeting these threats since the primaries.
re: #25 makeitstop
You gotta wonder when the White House is just going to stop doing press briefings altogether.
They’re like a train wreck that occurs daily. Trump will cut them off at some point.
That’s exactly what he threatened to do this morning.
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future “press briefings” and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
re: #25 makeitstop
You gotta wonder when the White House is just going to stop doing press briefings altogether.
They’re like a train wreck that occurs daily. Trump will cut them off at some point.
He just threatened to in a tweet.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
That’s exactly what he threatened to do this morning.
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I saw that. Trial balloon.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!.
He lies in his written statements, too, so…
Russia has parades like this & Trump is SO SAD that he can’t have one #TheResistance #TrumpRussia https://t.co/QfTDy3oMiZ
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 12, 2017
re: #30 Charles Johnson
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
— Donald J. Trump
LOL
I fondly remember when this Grand Canyon-wide latitude was given to Obama and his spokespeople.
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James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump what are you so afraid of, Don? Is your own swamp so dirty, that you’re afraid of what your own countrymen might say? https://t.co/iLA6XwxtBz
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) May 12, 2017
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Oh please. Of course it’s a threat when the president of the US says you “better hope there are no tapes.” It’s naked intimidation.
I’d call it a bluff just because we all know there either are no tapes or, if there are, they do not support Trump’s version of the conversation.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I mean in the legal sense. I think a prosecutor would be hard pressed to make the case beyond a reasonable doubt that this statement rises to witness intimidation. A defense attorney would just make the argument I did. If I were a juror and this was the argument i would have a hard time convicting. Now firing the man, that’s definitely obstruction.
There is going to be plenty of things to cram into the articles of impeachment, I just don’t think this will be one of them.
Trump couldn’t just come out and say he has tapes because then he’d have to produce them. That tweet is a desperate gambit by an increasingly shaken and unhinged lunatic.
As FBI Director Louis Freeh sent agents to draw the President’s blood at the White House, and Bill Clinton didn’t fire him.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 12, 2017
Those were the days… that the GOP wishes they could relive - taking the Clintons apart, instead of trying to keep Trump’s cabal of cronies together.
Trump is so active he can’t even keep track of his own statements.
Trump interview from 2014 praises Putin, says he spoke to him personally. And says crash, riots will fix US economy. https://t.co/j2xIipPrUU
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 1, 2016
2014: Trump says give Russia a pass because “We’re going to win something important later on and they won’t be opposed to what we’re doing.”
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 1, 2016
James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
Threatening a potential witness to keep his mouth shut. There’s a word for that… https://t.co/JRbM5BKvNr
— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) May 12, 2017
re: #5 Kragar
@maggieNYT Working for a lunatic is difficult. He’s caught between a lying madman and those who expect accountability.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 12, 2017
It’s Trump’s damn hair. pic.twitter.com/usLOONFS8o
— CAFE (@cafedotcom) May 12, 2017
@cafedotcom Correction: It’s the mother of Trump’s hair.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 12, 2017
Source: Comey is ‘not worried about any tapes’
Good afternoon.
The more reckless Trump gets, the greater the incentives to subvert the electoral process. And Trump is extraordinarily reckless.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 12, 2017
Here’s another well-adjusted, friendly Trump voter suffering from economic angst. Poor thing. pic.twitter.com/6vHClaObtE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
A reminder for Trump Admin staffers:
The people who testify first get the best immunity deals.#FridayFeeling— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
Good morning, meta
An old lady, holding a puppet of an old lady, feeding a squirrel. pic.twitter.com/XamAQaByaL— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) May 12, 2017
re: #42 jaunte
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He sounded absolutely lucid in that interview.
He’s definitely losing his mental faculties IMO.
Spicer indicates he feels personally victimized in this job.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 12, 2017
I feel personally victimized by Spicer’s job too, so we share that much, @PressSec https://t.co/cy5gNZWICQ
— AntiCitizen K 🌊 (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 12, 2017
Trump tells Comey he wins in letter… 😂👌 pic.twitter.com/62iAfpa6lB
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 12, 2017
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. https://t.co/Vij7UUzS2K
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 12, 2017
.@tomcostellonbc Michelle Obama: “Think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap … if somebody is doing that, they don’t care about your kid.” pic.twitter.com/23SRklxt4T
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 12, 2017
re: #24 lawhawk
Mic. Drop:
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Yeah, that’s the official Office of Govt Ethics.
At least there’s one gov’t office whose twitter account hasn’t gone all in on the Trump woo.
re: #49 Kragar
I didn’t catch the very beginning of Rachel Maddow’s show last night, but she hinted that Manaforte might be the first. She noticed that he never registered as a foreign agent (after people assumed he did retroactively like Flynn) and that he is still committing a felony. She said that may give him an incentive to talk.
re: #56 SteveMcG RN
I didn’t catch the very beginning of Rachel Maddow’s show last night, but she hinted that Manaforte might be the first. She noticed that he never registered as a foreign agent (after people assumed he did retroactively like Flynn) and that he is still committing a felony. She said that may give him an incentive to talk.
Ssssh! :-)
re: #56 SteveMcG RN
Manafort released a letter the other day indicating that he’s in talks to address the foreign agent status and registration, which if one reads between the lines, is an opening to a John LeCarre novel, or that he’s spilling the dirt on everyone else in the Trump admin.
Manafort and Trump go way back - to the 1980s.
Also in that cabal of cronies? Stone.
So now every foreign leader & everyone else will now assume that everything they might have said in confidence in White House IS recorded
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) May 12, 2017
re: #38 SteveMcG RN
I mean in the legal sense. I think a prosecutor would be hard pressed to make the case beyond a reasonable doubt that this statement rises to witness intimidation. A defense attorney would just make the argument I did. If I were a juror and this was the argument i would have a hard time convicting. Now firing the man, that’s definitely obstruction.
There is going to be plenty of things to cram into the articles of impeachment, I just don’t think this will be one of them.
How does suggesting that Comey better not leak because Trump might have tapes of their conversations go in any way towards Comey’s credibility?
re: #60 Mike Lamb
Trump is suggesting that the so-called “tapes” would contradict Comey’s story about the dinner.
re: #61 SteveMcG RN
…and all Trump has to do is get the Russians to release them.
I’m broken-hearted because Hucky Boo Boo took the day off 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
re: #63 Joe Bacon
I’m looking forward to SNL with Cecily Strong as Huck and Melissa McCarthy as Spicey, probably including some potted plants as props.
Trump supporters no joke have got to be some of the most stupid sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. But hey keep on thinking he cares about you while he sells you down the river fuckwits.
re: #58 lawhawk
Manafort released a letter the other day indicating that he’s in talks to address the foreign agent status and registration, which if one reads between the lines, is an opening to a John LeCarre novel, or that he’s spilling the dirt on everyone else in the Trump admin.
Manafort and Trump go way back - to the 1980s.
Also in that cabal of cronies? Stone.
That also may be why Dana Boente was in that meeting with the Intel Committee chairs yesterday. VA Eastern District oversees FARA cases.
re: #65 HappyWarrior
40 years of hearing that govt is bad, taxes are bad, and that the only way they’ll see improvement is if the GOP controls things and cuts taxes for the rich is one hell of a drug.
re: #52 Citizen K
One of the “transition” people at my agency got on the elevator with me at lunchtime. The TV was on in the background lobby with the press conference on. Transition person remarked, mostly in a laughing manner, how Spicer has the worst job or the most difficult job. Almost as if this DT transition person thought the whole thing was ludicrous, too.
re: #61 SteveMcG RN
Trump is suggesting that the so-called “tapes” would contradict Comey’s story about the dinner.
Which is why it’s a fucking threat/witness intimidation!
re: #65 HappyWarrior
Trump supporters no joke have got to be some of the most stupid sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. But hey keep on thinking he cares about you while he sells you down the river fuckwits.
I flipped channels to Fox last night during a commercial, and they were still talking about Bill Clinton meeting Loretta Lynch, as if nothing else has happened since.
re: #70 jaunte
I flipped channels to Fox last night during a commercial, and they were still talking about Bill Clinton meeting Loretta Lynch, as if nothing else has happened since.
Tonight on Faux: Update on Fast & Furious Obama scandal!
Looks like the “NHS Cyberattack” is part of a huge international attack:
Also, a lot of people are noticing that loads of NHS computers are still using Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014, except for paid support. The UK government stopped paying in 2015…
In May 2015 the tories failed to renew the NHS’s contract for extra security for Windows with Microsoft #nhscyberattack pic.twitter.com/zdpvvy86fQ
— will thorpe (@withorpe) May 12, 2017
re: #65 HappyWarrior
Trump supporters no joke have got to be some of the most stupid sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. But hey keep on thinking he cares about you while he sells you down the river fuckwits.
It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the thought process ends, full stop.
They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.
These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the though process ends, full stop.
They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.
These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.
Nailed it, yes.
Perspective needed. Attack map. x #nhscyberattack pic.twitter.com/TOWGT2Ew0F
— Basil Bruschetta 🐟🖕 (@SirBasilBrush) May 12, 2017
re: #72 Alephnaught
Looks like the “NHS Cyberattack” is part of a huge international attack:
Also, a lot of people are noticing that loads of NHS computers are still using Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014, except for paid support. The UK government stopped paying in 2015…
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If that’s the case, the attack came from inside the government. You can’t connect an XP machine to the Internet. It’s just not an option due to security holes.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the thought process ends, full stop.
They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.
These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.
Exactly. As soon as a Republican runs for President on a platform of explicit Nazism, these are the pig-people who will give that Nazism their full support.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the thought process ends, full stop.
They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.
These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.
Charlie Sykes said as much today in the NYT.
The thing is, of course, that this has been obvious at least since Clinton’s era. He talks about Limbaugh especially, but for as long as he’s been popular, Limbaugh’s schtick has not been ‘small government, low taxes, freedom for everyone!’, it’s been all about how bad Liberals are.
This work is not compulsory.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 12, 2017
This is crazy
74 countries to date infected. #nhscyberattack pic.twitter.com/VvseCLIqe5— Freedom (@bebopj3) May 12, 2017
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
Charlie Sykes said as much today in the NYT.
The thing is, of course, that this has been obvious at least since Clinton’s era. He talks about Limbaugh especially, but for as long as he’s been popular, Limbaugh’s schtick has not been ‘small government, low taxes, freedom for everyone!’, it’s been all about how bad Liberals are.
We’ve got to find an alternative to the two options below:
1) Democrats correctly call Republicans evil and maximally obstruct vs. the GOP and the mainstream media uses this to reinforce the both sides narrative.
2) Democrats work with the GOP on some issues and inevitably end up more or less selling out because that how ‘negotiations’ with rabid zealots like the GOP always go.
re: #82 Alephnaught
One glance at that map suggests it is Russia working against France and Europe because LePen didn’t win.
re: #78 EPR-radar
Exactly. As soon as a Republican runs for President on a platform of explicit Nazism, these are the pig-people who will give that Nazism their full support.
Also too, these people are inspired by trump (in a way they weren’t inspired by Gene Eric Republican) because he represents pure distilled asshole wish fulfillment - durr hurr, he FIRED the guy in charge of investigating him! Total badass!!1!!
In other words, an evil, ignorant, greedy sleazebag with no genuine skills or competence rises to a position of ultimate wealth and power and proceeds to live out every fantasy held by his troll-like followers. That’s why every lie he tells and every horrible thing he does only makes these drooling cultists worship him all the more.
re: #77 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If that’s the case, the attack came from inside the government. You can’t connect an XP machine to the Internet. It’s just not an option due to security holes.
My mother uses her Windows 95 machine to write E-mail.
In seriousness, I wonder what the attack vector for this ransomware is? Specially-crafted Webpage? Clicking on an unknown link from someone?
I have never attended the Rocky Horror Picture Show while a stripper sat in my lap the whole time.#WithFewExceptions
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
re: #87 Kragar
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However that certainly sounds like the best way to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
re: #86 Anymouse
It can be an applet surreptitiously activated by visiting a page, a link that downloads malicious code, etc. Or it could be email link/attachment that is opened.
Huge worldwide cyber attack hits UK, US, China, and Russia.
bbc.com
A ransomware attack involving Bitcoin doesn’t really sound like a state actor. It sounds like criminals.
The criminals could be Russian of course, or it could be some guy sitting in a basement in Tennessee.
re: #25 makeitstop
You gotta wonder when the White House is just going to stop doing press briefings altogether.
They’re like a train wreck that occurs daily. Trump will cut them off at some point.
Didn’t he already threaten to do that…by just putting out a daily statement?*
*full of lies.
I have never pissed off the side of a water tower in South Korea.#WithFewExceptions
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
re: #65 HappyWarrior
Trump supporters no joke have got to be some of the most stupid sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. But hey keep on thinking he cares about you while he sells you down the river fuckwits.
They are not stupid. They comprise about 2% of the world’s population and willingly live in a tribal alternate reality that they have constructed over the last 40 years. They are predominately white (about 60% of the white population in the USA) and come from all income groups. They one thing that ties them together is a spectrum of personal racism and racial and cultural fears. They have their own propaganda networks, their own schools, their own governments separate and apart from the reality recognized by rest of the world. 2% of the world’s population has decided that they are going to excercise a campaign of terror upon the rest of 98% of the world by backing a ill-mannered, ill-behaved madman infant with his finger on the button. They are not stupid. They are evil.
“We just don’t have them unless i have them every 2 weeks and do it myself,” Pres Trump tells @JudgeJeanine about daily WH press briefings.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 12, 2017
Interviewed today by @JudgeJeanine, Pres Trump denounces WH briefings for “a level of hostility that’s incredible and it’s very unfair.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 12, 2017
oh……..
re: #86 Anymouse
Anymouse wonders if this is snark, as he posts his response from a Windows XP machine using a carrier pigeon. My mother uses her Windows 95 machine to write E-mail.
In seriousness, I wonder what the attack vector for this ransomware is? Specially-crafted Webpage? Clicking on an unknown link from someone?
To infect a PC with up-to-date security, Flash is the usual vector. For a Windows 95 or XP PC, the machine is wide-open to attack of the OS itself, because exploits are constantly developed, so anything created since your OS was last updated will be a threat.
It’s OK to use old PCs, you just can’t responsibly connect them to the Internet. The risk is to you, and to others if you become part of a botnet. Get a tablet if you can’t keep Internet-connected PCs up to date.
[Beastie Boys reference incoming…]
When attending parties, I have never stuck my d*ck in the mashed potatoes. #WithFewExceptions
— Franklin (@franklinftw) May 12, 2017
A while back, I said of the Right, “If you think they’re thinking, you’re overthinking.” This is even more true of Trump. This Vox piece is frightening in its implications, but I can’t find any flaw in the writer’s logic.
We’ve elected Anthony President, and it seems like all we can do is hope he doesn’t send us to the Corn Field.
re: #89 lawhawk
It can be an applet surreptitiously activated by visiting a page, a link that downloads malicious code, etc. Or it could be email link/attachment that is opened.
NYT says it was circulated via email. 1D10T error.
re: #96 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I’m back on my Windows 10 machine. I was just pointing out you can connect to the Internet with XP.
You can even connect with this, which is unlikely to be hit with a virus at all, therefore much safer than Windows or Linux:
re: #99 makeitstop
NYT says it was circulated via email. 1D10T error.
So, you’re saying I SHOULDN’T open the email with naked pictures of Anna Kournikova?
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re: #99 makeitstop
NYT says it was circulated via email. 1D10T error.
A modern email client would block most malicious attachments, but someone using ancient software would have no warning that anything was wrong. The file-extension could even be hidden.
re: #58 lawhawk
Manafort released a letter the other day indicating that he’s in talks to address the foreign agent status and registration, which if one reads between the lines, is an opening to a John LeCarre novel, or that he’s spilling the dirt on everyone else in the Trump admin.
Manafort and Trump go way back - to the 1980s.
Also in that cabal of cronies? Stone.
Manafort has that look of a shark. I wouldn’t trust him at all if I were Donny T.
re: #99 makeitstop
NYT says it was circulated via email. 1D10T error.
The Virginia State Police had to shut down their e-mail for almost a week to remove malware.
re: #100 Anymouse
I’m back on my Windows 10 machine. I was just pointing out you can connect to the Internet with XP.
You can even connect with this, which is unlikely to be hit with a virus at all, therefore much safer than Windows or Linux:
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You can’t responsibly connect to the Internet with XP.
Whoot. Long work week is done. Looking forward to Happy Hour with friends. My cousin that resides in the UK is going to be there. I’m going to get the inside sports scoop of what our friends across the pond think of his Orangeness.
@olgaNYC1211 @funder @TrueFactsStated EVERYDAY ………
SOMETHING NEW ! pic.twitter.com/Ff9oE8lLNY— Corey B. (@Coreybez1) May 12, 2017
re: #64 SteveMcG RN
I’m looking forward to SNL with Cecily Strong as Huck and Melissa McCarthy as Spicey, probably including some potted plants as
propsthe President.
re: #67 lawhawk
40 years of hearing that govt is bad, taxes are bad, and that the only way they’ll see improvement is if the GOP controls things and cuts taxes for the rich is one hell of a drug.
It sure is. It alters reality and causes bad judgment. Long term effects are permanent delusions, loss of memory and early death.
I have never jumped off a 3 story building into a pile of mattresses.#WithFewExceptions
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
In my business users need to verify a passcode to for me to do anything on their account.
The number of times I see passcodes of 1234. 7777, 0000 etc, is maddening.
There’s also a disturbingly high number of people who think it’s ludicrous they need a passcode at all.
Some people do not give a shit about security.
re: #106 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can’t responsibly connect to the Internet with XP.
And yet a whole bunch of bank and private ATM machines use a modified version of XP themselves. Banks aren’t interested in upgrading because it costs money.
Fortunately, since my bank doesn’t have ATM machines or credit cards, I don’t have to worry about that.
This, from Wittes at the Lawfare blog is flat-out brutal:
Et Tu Rod? Why The Deputy Attorney General Must Resign
Read the whole thing. This is his close:
Do you really want this to be you? Do you really think Trump will not leave your reputation as so much roadkill on the highway after enlisting you in sliming someone else a week or two after you take office?
The lesson here is that these are not honorable people, and they will do their best to drag you down to their level. They will often succeed.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Trump couldn’t just come out and say he has tapes because then he’d have to produce them. That tweet is a desperate gambit by an increasingly shaken and unhinged lunatic.
Notice that the word tapes was in quotation marks which suggests that they don’t exist at all (which is probably the case) and that he will get his folks to make up tapes if he’s pushed to produce them.
Breitbart “News,” focused like a laser beam on the most important aspect of Lester Holt’s interview with Trump. pic.twitter.com/rIOufrBoJC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
re: #86 Anymouse
Anymouse wonders if this is snark, as he posts his response from a Windows XP machine using a carrier pigeon. My mother uses her Windows 95 machine to write E-mail.
In seriousness, I wonder what the attack vector for this ransomware is? Specially-crafted Webpage? Clicking on an unknown link from someone?
Lawhawk had a good explanation in the overnight/morning thread.
heh
If only there were some one-word name for this product (“there will always be an England” dept) pic.twitter.com/tBi888NU5X
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 12, 2017
re: #69 Mike Lamb
I have a relative who’s a prosecutor in the Treasury Dept. and she tells me she wouldn’t even try to make that a case of intimidation. Forget that the judge would throw it out in an instant, her peers would question her sanity. And she’s no wallflower, her next promotion would require a senate confirmation (which she has no desire to endure).
re: #117 Patricia Kayden
Notice that the word tapes was in quotation marks which suggests that they don’t exist at all (which is probably the case) and that he will get his folks to make up tapes if he’s pushed to produce them.
Or…he put it in tapes because of the kerfuffle he caused with the whole “tapped my phones” business. Seems similar since who the hell tapes anything nowadays.
re: #109 gocart mozart
Interesting that hype and grandiloquence were there from the get-go.
re: #118 Charles Johnson
They didn’t seem to mind when Bill O’Reilly interrupted President Obama 48 times in a similar time span.
What’s with all this “Holt interrupted 9x” bs?
O’Reilly interrupts President Obama 48 times https://t.co/lStpmfZDTW— Marlon Weems 👨🏾💻 (@GeekTrader) May 12, 2017
IOKIYAR.
Yeesh. Somebody must have called out the flying monkeys on me. It’s one whack job after another in my Twitter timeline. One just told me to “go hang yourself in your mother’s closet.”
re: #126 Charles Johnson
The messenger must be destroyed, especially because they have no message of their own.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
Yeesh. Somebody must have called out the flying monkeys on me. It’s one whack job after another in my Twitter timeline. One just told me to “go hang yourself in your mother’s closet.”
Awfully sensitive aren’t they?
Also, Lester Holt is black.
There’s always a racism angle with these people.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
Good Christians, one and all.
At WH press briefing, WH does not rule out canceling WH press briefings.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 12, 2017
Here are some other countries that don’t regularly brief press: China, Russia, Venezuela. https://t.co/5d0GSx9iTL
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 12, 2017
re: #125 lawhawk
They didn’t seem to mind when Bill O’Reilly interrupted President Obama 48 times in a similar time span.
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IOKIYAR.
More like IOKIHIB (It’s Okay If He Is Black).
re: #130 Eclectic Cyborg
Did they post it under Breitbart’s “Black Crime” heading?
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe all three of those nations have state run media as well.
re: #133 Blind Frog Belly White
IOKIYARAEIHB
It’s OK if you’re a Republican, and especially if he’s black.
re: #130 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, Lester Holt is black.
There’s always a racism angle with these people.
White interviewer interrupting Black President = GOOD
Black interviewer interrupting White President = BAD.
I thought everyone knew this rule.
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re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Gee and we saw how much Fox flipped out when Obama called them bs. But hey all is well. // Let’s get Fabio’s take on crime!
re: #96 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s OK to use old PCs, you just can’t responsibly connect them to the Internet.
Well, apparently, this is exactly what happened with respect to the NHS and other organisations which have been hacked. And a lot of people on Twitter are asking questions about it.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
I believe all three of those nations have state run media as well.
Hey! Us too!
Should avocados have warning stickers? Some doctors think so. https://t.co/oD87Cv6u1L pic.twitter.com/JO2PHaiejD
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) May 12, 2017
“don’t add peas” https://t.co/axv8ASVPNZ
— darth:™ (@darth) May 12, 2017
re: #125 lawhawk
They didn’t seem to mind when Bill O’Reilly interrupted President Obama 48 times in a similar time span.
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IOKIYAR.
@GeekTrader They have to give the wingnuts the misleading reporting that makes them feel comfortable, to prop up an absurd worldview.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 12, 2017
It’s just like the Bush years. The media has to kiss the President’s ass if he’s a Republican. If he’s a Democrat especially a black one, he ahs to be treated like an emeny agent. Them’s the rules.
“Conservative politics is now less about ideas than about making the right enemies cry out in anguish.” https://t.co/iGTsVaZh6N
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 12, 2017
“Now” https://t.co/Sv3hf5u9Tk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 12, 2017
re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White
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It’s been like that Charlie. You just weren’t paying attention because you were enjoying it. From McCarthy’s red baiting General Marshall to Buckley’s blatant racism and Reagan’s condescending crap disguised as being a witty grandpa, conservatism has been being a condescending dick for a long time.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
Yeesh. Somebody must have called out the flying monkeys on me. It’s one whack job after another in my Twitter timeline. One just told me to “go hang yourself in your mother’s closet.”
If only the person who said that could get a job as a coal miner and alleviate their obvious economic anxiety!
Ex-CIA officer: ‘Give the president of the United States a pacifier and a rattle and put him in the crib’ https://t.co/j63YKc4Ef9
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
re: #78 EPR-radar
Exactly. As soon as a Republican runs for President on a platform of explicit Nazism, these are the pig-people who will give that Nazism their full support.
They’ve made being a Trump supporter or a Republican supporter a part of their identity…and no one does well when their concept of who they are is threatened. They tend to dig in deeper. And there’s really nothing that can be done about it. It’s psychology.
I’ve noticed Democrats don’t tend to do this. They don’t get their identity tied up in being a Democrat. We’re a lot of other things and one aspect is our political affiliation. But it’s not WHO WE ARE.
I exclude the True Believers on the Left from this. Die-hard Berners have taken that on as an identity too. Their gang.
Basically, people need to get a life with their politics as one aspect of it.
NEW: In an interview with Judge Jeanine, Trump repeats his threat to cancel daily press briefings and won’t comment on Spicer’s future. pic.twitter.com/an0sXPllad
— Yashar (@yashar) May 12, 2017
re: #146 HappyWarrior
It’s been like that Charlie. You just weren’t paying attention because you were
enjoyinggetting paid a lot of money to help it.
Fixed for accuracy.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
Charlie Sykes has done a lot of damage in this area for decades. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.
re: #155 Amory Blaine
Charlie Sykes has done a lot of damage in this area for decades. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.
I thought I had you and some of our other Wisconites talk about him before. Don’t know a otn about him but it seems to me this would be like Limbaugh or Savage decrying the present sate of conservatism.
re: #123 Franklin
Or…he put it in tapes because of the kerfuffle he caused with the whole “tapped my phones” business. Seems similar since who the hell tapes anything nowadays.
Guess you have not been watching Better Call Saul!
re: #157 KerFuFFler
Guess you have not been watching Better Call Saul!
Ha! Well played.
This past episode was brilliant. Michal McKean is such a phenomenal actor.
re: #85 Interesting Times
Also too, these people are inspired by trump (in a way they weren’t inspired by Gene Eric Republican) because he represents pure distilled asshole wish fulfillment - durr hurr, he FIRED the guy in charge of investigating him! Total badass!!1!!
In other words, an evil, ignorant, greedy sleazebag with no genuine skills or competence rises to a position of ultimate wealth and power and proceeds to live out every fantasy held by his troll-like followers. That’s why every lie he tells and every horrible thing he does only makes these drooling cultists worship him all the more.
In other words, Trump is Wingnut God. That model really fits, IMO.
re: #122 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I have a relative who’s a prosecutor in the Treasury Dept. and she tells me she wouldn’t even try to make that a case of intimidation. Forget that the judge would throw it out in an instant, her peers would question her sanity. And she’s no wallflower, her next promotion would require a senate confirmation (which she has no desire to endure).
Just because proving a claim beyond a reasonable doubt would be difficult does not make your argument plausible. Suggesting that the Tweet goes to Comey’s “credibility” is absurd on its face.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
It’s been like that Charlie. You just weren’t paying attention because you were enjoying it. From McCarthy’s red baiting General Marshall to Buckley’s blatant racism and Reagan’s condescending crap disguised as being a witty grandpa, conservatism has been being a condescending dick for a long time.
Please send your comment to Charlie Sykes. The guys like Charlie that think they are moderates need to know they fed the beast. Your comment is spot on.
From http:// www.rightwisconsin. com/about-us/(email)contact-us : cjaysykes@gmail. com
(Extra Spaces before com)
re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White
@SykesCharlie The far-right has been taught to hate competent Americans. They’re a mess, and have become a menace to our political system.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 12, 2017
re: #151 makeitstop
Oh, my. Florida Man (and wife).
In a story resembling elements of the Pina Colada song…..
LOL
re: #158 Franklin
Ha! Well played.
This past episode was brilliant. Michal McKean is such a phenomenal actor.
I loved the most recent episode and agree that McKean did a fantastic job. I have read lots of comments that he should get an Emmy nomination for that performance. But really, the whole episode was great all around———-acting, writing and cinematography!
NEW: While denying he asked Comey for his loyalty, Trump tells Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro, “I don’t think it would be a bad question to ask.”
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) May 12, 2017
re: #161 Mike Lamb
Just because proving a claim beyond a reasonable doubt would be difficult does not make your argument plausible. Suggesting that the Tweet goes to Comey’s “credibility” is absurd on its face.
I’d say that the tweet is problematic in so many ways, and all of them for Trump.
First, he hints at secret recordings that the Press Secretary won’t deny exist, and which precedent has established can be subpoenaed by Congress, and which are subject to the same restrictions as all official records, i.e. they can’t be legally destroyed.
Second, he’s clearly trying to intimidate Comey, whether it fits someone’s legal definition of ‘intimidation’ or not. EVERYONE sees this.
Third, if he’s bluffing, and he almost certainly IS, Congress can, and probably WILL call his bluff.
Fourth, between his characterizing the conversation to Holt, and the tweet hinting at recording, EVERYONE who enters the Oval Office, or talks to Trump, now will assume not only that they’re being recorded, but that anything that’s said there, no matter how confidential they may think it is, is likely to be blabbed by Trump, on a whim. This goes for foreign leaders, too. They’ll probably pre-leak, defensively.
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FFS. He took an oath to uphold the Constitution not to kiss your orange ass.
I want people to physically injure themselves reaching this far:
James Comey Is the Latest Victim of the Clintons
by Michael Barone May 12, 2017 12:00 AM @michaelbarone
They leave chaos in their wake and retreat back into their wealthy, privileged existence.
O_O
So a con woman from the Russian Law Firm of the year who showed up with the blank pages at Trump’s news conf. releases a 2-month old letter? pic.twitter.com/ZV6kINjppg
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 12, 2017
re: #165 KerFuFFler
I loved the most recent episode and agree that McKean did a fantastic job. I have read lots of comments that he should get an Emmy nomination for that performance. But really, the whole episode was great all around———-acting, writing and cinematography!
Love that show! At the end of each episode, I think, “Oh, MAN! Now I have to wait a whole WEEK!!”
re: #170 Belafon
I want people to physically injure themselves reaching this far:
Saw that bullshit earlier. I’m sure someone at NRO is blaming the Clintons for Hitler. I’m erally sick of their pedantic bullshit disguised as “intellectual discussion”, no you’re just Breitbart for high class snobs like your founder Buckley who was a racist and elitist piece of shit.
re: #151 makeitstop
re: #164 Stanley Sea
re: #167 I cannot.
Fake news :( (same with the marries-own-granddaughter story linked by the same site)
…though in a world where a trump presidency is real, who can be blamed for believing it?
Pres Trump also told @JudgeJeanine that he “can’t” and “won’t” talk about possible WH recordings of his dinner with Comey.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 12, 2017
“All I want is for Comey to be honest. And I hope he will be. I’m sure he will be – I hope,” says Pres Trump about his dinner with Comey.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 12, 2017
re: #172 Blind Frog Belly White
Love that show! At the end of each episode, I think, “Oh, MAN! Now I have to wait a whole WEEK!!”
Me too! Yay, it’s Friday so next Monday is not far off…..
Not quite sure how well this is going to work out.
National Black Gun Association Gives Voice to Black Gun Owners that NRA Doesn’t
Seen in “CurlyNikki”. A hairstyle/beauty magazine aimed at African Americans. Black interest story. Maybe not fake news.
So I Google the organization. This link comes up.
NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN GUN ASSOCIATION
aka NAAG. Perhaps an unfortunate acronym.
re: #174 Interesting Times
I was starting to wonder. Seems a 49 year old advertising herself as a 28 year old wouldn’t work out very well.
Later Lizards.
I will be back this evening if:
1. My wife falls asleep early.
or
2. “Shit does down.”
Have a great weekend!
re: #172 Blind Frog Belly White
Love that show! At the end of each episode, I think, “Oh, MAN! Now I have to wait a whole WEEK!!”
I have a big crush on Kim Wexler, so I’m watching in fascinated dread as Jimmy pulls her down with him. Hope she somehow gets out of this with her legal career intact.
via @SuspendedCofees pic.twitter.com/75VzBS34Zw
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) May 4, 2017
Whee! My first use of my new Instant Pot. Homemade hummus. Om nom nom.
Exactly 2 hours from when I put the dried, unsoaked chick peas in the IP to now enjoying warm, delicious hummus. I am impressed. :)
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re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
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No way that doggie did that…look at that face. Innocent as h*ck. 12/10
Afternoon/Evening Lizardim from the warm, beautiful, partly cloudy wild north country. I am exhausted and it has been a week to forget (which I may, later tonight, if my whiskey bottle has its way). How are things among the lizardfolk on this Thank-God-it’s-Friday? What fresh hell has been unleashed in the hour and change since I last connected to the Interwebs?
re: #118 Charles Johnson
Reality: Trump lies 9 times in 3 minutes
re: #149 BlueGrl21
They’ve made being a Trump supporter or a Republican supporter a part of their identity…and no one does well when their concept of who they are is threatened. They tend to dig in deeper. And there’s really nothing that can be done about it. It’s psychology.
I’ve noticed Democrats don’t tend to do this. They don’t get their identity tied up in being a Democrat. We’re a lot of other things and one aspect is our political affiliation. But it’s not WHO WE ARE.
I exclude the True Believers on the Left from this. Die-hard Berners have taken that on as an identity too. Their gang.
Basically, people need to get a life with their politics as one aspect of it.
To some extent, the far right and the far left are both so embedded in the tribalism aspects that they’re difficult to reach, if not impossible. (A large amount of time, someone who is willing to work with you, carefully approaching the topic over a long period of time …you might get somewhere, but no guarantees.)
It’s the people in the middle who are reachable. But even then, if you approach the discussion as this one aspect (like, say, voting for Trump) completely defines who they are …that’s not setting the conversation up for success because that’s putting them on the defensive. People don’t respond well on the defensive and most people aren’t going to stop and work through the emotional reaction (driven by our fight or flight reflex) to think about things logically or rationally.
I don’t know. I’m well aware of why the inclination is to push that way - it’s simple logic, this should be easy and straightforward, why are you being so idiotic and refusing to see reason?!? - and this is a huge part of why I don’t talk politics much outside of here.
I suspect this reaction is maybe slightly less ingrained in a system where there are more than two parties, but since most of my observation comes from the US, it’s hard to say for sure.
This video is absolutely nuts. They seal themselves into a plexiglas box and the director shoots fireworks at them.
There’s also a 360-degree version here.
(Good band, too. I keep waiting for them to become as huge as they should be.)
re: #86 Anymouse
Anymouse wonders if this is snark, as he posts his response from a Windows XP machine using a carrier pigeon. My mother uses her Windows 95 machine to write E-mail.
In seriousness, I wonder what the attack vector for this ransomware is? Specially-crafted Webpage? Clicking on an unknown link from someone?
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re: #86 Anymouse
Anymouse wonders if this is snark, as he posts his response from a Windows XP machine using a carrier pigeon. My mother uses her Windows 95 machine to write E-mail.
In seriousness, I wonder what the attack vector for this ransomware is? Specially-crafted Webpage? Clicking on an unknown link from someone?
Vector appears to be link or attachment in email. Software in question is WannaCry/Wcry/WannaCrypt0r.
re: #77 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If that’s the case, the attack came from inside the government. You can’t connect an XP machine to the Internet. It’s just not an option due to security holes.
Well, you CAN connect it to the internet. It’s kind of like walking into a lion’s den wearing a meat suit, but there’s nothing stopping them.
Trump, after appearing to threaten the FBI director he just fired with a possible secret WH recording, now says he won’t talk about it pic.twitter.com/qJnVJSqFdw
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 12, 2017
Q: Did you ask Comey for loyalty?
Trump: “No I didn’t, but I don’t think it would be a bad question to ask.” https://t.co/A3VUGEC9fT— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 12, 2017
re: #194 Belafon
Well, you CAN connect it to the internet. It’s kind of like walking into a lion’s den wearing a meat suit, but there’s nothing stopping them.
Hold my beer…I’m connecting to the ‘net.
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“I swear to God this sacred oath that to the Leader of the United States and people, Donald Trump, supreme commander of the armed forces, I shall render unconditional obedience and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath.”
A thread that points up that while Trump’s inability to shut the fuck up is Problem #1, having a completely inept communications team is Problem #1a.
One amazing thing about this week is how, even if motives are as bad as can be imagined, a competent White House could’ve sailed thru it. 1/
— Holt Lackey (@HoltMLackey) May 12, 2017
re: #191 makeitstop
This video is absolutely nuts. They seal themselves into a plexiglas box and the director shoots fireworks at them.
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There’s also a 360-degree version here.
(Good band, too. I keep waiting for them to become as huge as they should be.)
Cool song. Just looked them up.
re: #200 Stanley Sea
Cool song. Just looked them up.
They’re great. Currently my favorite rock band in the world.
‘Animal Style’ is my fave song off the new album, but they’ve got a boatload of really good songs.
re: #197 Timothy Watson
“I swear to God this sacred oath that to the Leader of the United States and people, Donald Trump, supreme commander of the armed forces, I shall render unconditional obedience and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath.”
That sounds so familiar……I can’t quite put mein Finger on it.
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re: #24 lawhawk
Guess who just had their funding removed in Trump’s budget?
Chelsea beat the Baggies one-nil and seal the English Premier League.
Go Blues!
I had a nice nap this afternoon, and a wish-fulfillment dream.
The Murdochs meet with UK regulators about maybe possibly being able to buy Sky… and UK (who doesn’t in fact have a 1st Amendment) tells them that Fox News and dishonest partisanship is an issue. If FNC were to become, oh let’s say, a bit more honest and even-handed, that might help make the sale.
Sky is more important to the parent company than US FNC profits. So they do it….
Yeah, I know, unrealistic. I did say it was a wish-fulfillment dream, right?
So Lizards. It’s Friday. Let’s take a moment to breathe. Any fun plans for the weekend? Hummus to share with the group? Other food?
My runs for the week are done, only have to put together 500 words for the book today (which I will start shortly), waiting on a quote from the electrician for a whole house fan, and then I will craft this afternoon.
I’m thinking stitching, but I could do beading or coloring too. I don’t know.
I felt really depressed today, so I ate a whole bunch of chocolate. It cheered me up quite a lot. Chocolate seems to be the answer.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 12, 2017
The world turned into a horror novel, and the horror novelist turned into Cathy. https://t.co/O0YXjqz27t
— Julie Klam (@JulieKlam) May 12, 2017
re: #206 klys (maker of Silmarils)
So Lizards. It’s Friday. Let’s take a moment to breathe. Any fun plans for the weekend? Hummus to share with the group? Other food?
I am going to try and catch up on some sleep and forget this week ever happened. (Accomplishing one may necessarily accomplish the other, depending on how hard I sleep after passing out.) Mrs. Fish made a lovely breakfast bake with Pillsbury biscuits, eggs, ham, and cheese. I will probably consume way too much of this deliciousness.
re: #187 ObserverArt
Sure he did it! He’s a self-motivated go-getter outside-the-box-thinker! Admirable as h*ck, 13/10!
Looks like it’s hit the Czech Republic according to this map.
Pence tells room full of Christians in D.C. their faith is the most persecuted https://t.co/EfNUhPfXI8 pic.twitter.com/XDAc0BRB6e
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 11, 2017
@HuffPostPol The more power the religious right gets, the worse their persecution complex becomes. https://t.co/4imkejqBkV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
re: #203 Romantic Heretic
Guess who just had their funding removed in Trump’s budget?
There is no limit to how much of a cocky asshole he can be.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
Meanwhile, Muslims are like: WTF?
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
Are there really people who can’t slice open an avocado without needing stitches? They should be forbidden from wielding sharp implements.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the thought process ends, full stop.
They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.
These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.
In the novel 1984 (which I last read 40 years ago), the members of the society were ritually exposed on a daily basis to “two minutes of hate” which prepared them to blindly follow the government no matter where it led. Trump and his loyal supporters are daily exposed to hours of hate from Alex Jones, Fox News, Breitbart, etc. I don’t know what it would take to deprogram them but this environment is toxic to a democracy. These people all recite from the same dishonest sources and it’s deeply inculcated into their minds and souls. Hillary won a plurality but the combination of the onslaught of more voter suppression coming our way, gerrymandering, and the EC may doom us, unless we are able to rid government of Trump, Pence, and the whole Republican leadership.
This week I learned that a friend is a devotee of Louise Mensch. Some Lizards don’t seem that fond of her, and my impression is that she is perhaps an Alex Jones of the left (with a superior presentation) but how accurate has she been? Does she have real connections to serious sources?
re: #210 Charles Johnson
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— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 11, 2017
“According to 2015 FBI data, the majority of religiously-motivated hate crimes in the U.S. ― roughly 52 percent ― are anti-Jewish.” https://t.co/5rHypNo1AD
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) May 12, 2017
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Are there really people who can’t slice open an avocado without needing stitches? They should be forbidden from wielding sharp implements.
I’ve got a really cool avocado tool that would take a real effort on the part of the user to do physical damage.
re: #205 sagehen
I had a nice nap this afternoon, and a wish-fulfillment dream.
The Murdochs meet with UK regulators about maybe possibly being able to buy Sky… and UK (who doesn’t in fact have a 1st Amendment) tells them that Fox News and dishonest partisanship is an issue. If FNC were to become, oh let’s say, a bit more honest and even-handed, that might help make the sale.
Sky is more important to the parent company than US FNC profits. So they do it….
Yeah, I know, unrealistic. I did say it was a wish-fulfillment dream, right?
Funny you should mention that. I had a phone chat with my friend who does bumper music for Fox News today.
He was hooked up for the music gig with a high school friend of his, who was personally brought into Fox News at the outset by Roger Ailes. The guy had it made, making in excess of a million a year running the arm of Fox News that handles music for all the shows.
My friend said the guy has been on edge since Ailes got the boot, and he got called into a high-level meeting this week, with FN upper management, Uncle Rupert and his sons. He was told that the company was dismissing everyone brought into the company by Ailes, and they offered him a very generous severance package worth roughly 3/4 of a million dollars. He thought he’d be shrewd and drive for a better deal, so he turned the severance package down thinking he could negotiate more money out of them.
Nope. As soon as he turned down the package they told him that he’d get nothing, called security and had them escort him out of the building. They didn’t even let him clear out his office, they just dumped him on the sidewalk.
They seem to be bending over backwards to get the Sky deal done, so maybe your wish fulfillment isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility.
re: #90 Anymouse
They’d better make sure that they’ve done a really good job of covering their tracks. Russia and China are not the kind of countries you fuck with. It can lead to a sudden case of falling off a high building, a ‘home invasion’ or some such.
And they have the people to do it.
re: #218 Romantic Heretic
They’d better make sure that they’ve done a really good job of covering their tracks. Russia and China are not the kind of countries you fuck with. It can lead to a sudden case of falling off a high building, a ‘home invasion’ or some such.
And they have the people to do it.
Or slipping on a bar of soap and falling off the balcony after shooting oneself 16 times in the head.
Another senseless suicide.
re: #218 Romantic Heretic
They’d better make sure that they’ve done a really good job of covering their tracks. Russia and China are not the kind of countries you fuck with. It can lead to a sudden case of falling off a high building, a ‘home invasion’ or some such.
And they have the people to do it.
I would say that it could be a state actor hungry for what it thinks is untraceable funds. But yeah, this big an attack will ruffle a feather or two.
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Are there really people who can’t slice open an avocado without needing stitches? They should be forbidden from wielding sharp implements.
Heh, perfect time to plug Skillet.
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
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@webjournalist @KagroX @seanspicer Yep…just saw someone on fb posting about this…he’s everywhere now. pic.twitter.com/RJy5jwn17h
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 12, 2017
re: #204 austin_blue
Chelsea beat the Baggies one-nil and seal the English Premier League.
Go Blues!
Shame, really. But they were indisputably the best team all season in the EPL.
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
This week I learned that a friend is a devotee of Louise Mensch. Some Lizards don’t seem that fond of her, and my impression is that she is perhaps an Alex Jones of the left (with a superior presentation) but how accurate has she been? Does she have real connections to serious sources?
Mensch is a British conservative lunatic who is trying to reinvent herself here in the US. She’s deeply manipulative, unstable and habitually deletes her tweets, predictions and stories that turn out not to be true. I don’t trust her at all.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
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re: #217 makeitstop
OMG he must be beside himself.
Well, goodnight Lizards. Time to call it a day.
re: #217 makeitstop
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Kelvin MacKenzie, the former long-time editor of the Sun (a Murdoch-owned paper and Britain’s most popular tabloid) was fired last week from his position as a columnist. It’s pretty clear that Murdoch wants nothing to get in the way of that Sky purchase and that behavior he’s tolerated or even approved in previous years is too embarrassing to permit any longer.
re: #230 Stanley Sea
OMG he must be beside himself.
One horrifically bad gamble on his part.
(To be clear - my friend said that the guy was pretty much a total dick after going to work there. Prior to working at FN he was a pretty solid liberal, but he drank the Ailes Koolaid to the limit and turned into a mini-O’Reilly, just being nasty to the women in his employ. And he somehow thought he was bulletproof even after Ailes got tossed.)
Shows you how badly Rupe wants Sky, though.
re: #188 thedopefishlives
Afternoon/Evening Lizardim from the warm, beautiful, partly cloudy wild north country. I am exhausted and it has been a week to forget (which I may, later tonight, if my whiskey bottle has its way). How are things among the lizardfolk on this Thank-God-it’s-Friday? What fresh hell has been unleashed in the hour and change since I last connected to the Interwebs?
This:
Breaking: Dep AG Rosenstein sees no need at this point for special prosecutor in #Russia probe - sources tell @evanperez @mkraju
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 12, 2017
(You’d think a man named Rosenstein would know better than to use the Befehl ist Befehl defense…)
re: #236 Brian J.
Nothing really new about that. Drumpf lackey says “nothing to see here, move along”.
re: #233 makeitstop
One horrifically bad gamble on his part.
Shows you how badly Rupe wants Sky.
It’s like Murdoch is auditioning for the next James Bond Villain.
re: #1 Dr. Matt
Spicy is a snowflake:
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re: #210 Charles Johnson
HuffPost Politics ✔ @HuffPostPol
Pence tells room full of Christians in D.C. their faith is the most persecuted huffp.st
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That right there is one dangerous man.
So put upon those fundie Christians…as they hate on other religions.
I still remember the early 70s and the growth of the Jesus Freaks. Who knew it would grow to this point…but I guess I should have seen it coming.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good—that will give the intrepid White House press corps. time to do some actual reporting rather than attend the daily Punch and Judy Show.
A mango is way more of a pain in the ass to cut than an avocado.
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re: #233 makeitstop
One horrifically bad gamble on his part.
(To be clear - my friend said that the guy was pretty much a total dick after going to work there. Prior to working at FN he was a pretty solid liberal, but he drank the Ailes Koolaid to the limit and turned into a mini-O’Reilly, just being nasty to the women in his employ. And he somehow thought he was bulletproof even after Ailes got tossed.)
Shows you how badly Rupe wants Sky, though.
Cool to know, my empathy for him flat-lined.
re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Josh Earnest: Trump’s press team struggles to keep its story straight because Trump doesn’t tell the truth. https://t.co/hHG3h6Saly
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 12, 2017
re: #3 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
Reposted from previous thread:
I have been doing a lot of lurking lately. Usually I only have a few minutes to scroll down the page on my phone as a general way of seeing what going on (as opposed to a CNN site where there is a sea of headlines and I can’t really go clicking on them. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that with all this stuff going on, it has really put a dent into the lizard community. By that I mean there are hardly any food pics, personal anecdotes, lizard to lizard interaction and so on. It’s like we can’t catch our breath or something.
Yeah, I’ve been lurking quite a bit too. By the time I get caught up on all the crazy, I know I’m going to need to go do something else pretty soon and I hate just posting and running.
Speaker Ryan on today’s news: pic.twitter.com/KUBweFj7DH
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 12, 2017
Profiles in courage. https://t.co/AIsHrC395j
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 12, 2017
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ryan is spinning like a top to deflect from the fact that the Orange Menace is a bumbling clown who is ineptly trying to cover up his connections to Russia.
re: #206 klys (maker of Silmarils)
So Lizards. It’s Friday. Let’s take a moment to breathe. Any fun plans for the weekend? Hummus to share with the group? Other food?
My runs for the week are done, only have to put together 500 words for the book today (which I will start shortly), waiting on a quote from the electrician for a whole house fan, and then I will craft this afternoon.
I’m thinking stitching, but I could do beading or coloring too. I don’t know.
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I’m getting a good chance to breathe at the moment. I got everything I needed to do done by mid morning, hiked for an hour at Windy Hill (no, I didn’t go all the way up) and came back for lunch, some weaving and now a little relaxation. I should be in a car heading for the Cabrillo College plant sale, but someone forgot which weekend this was and scheduled something work-related this afternoon. Grumble, grumble.
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re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, he’s right: “nothing has changed”. Paul Ryan is still a clueless ass…
PS: What “Congressional investigators”?? Devin Nunes and his buffoon-circus of a Committee? Puh-leeeeze!
At this point you have to ask - how deep in is Ryan?
re: #255 EPR-radar
Ryan is spinning like a top to deflect from the fact that the Orange Menace is a bumbling clown who is ineptly trying to cover up his connections to Russia.
Ryan’s watching his entire legislative docket go down the tubes. Tax “reform,” Trumpcare, “Starve the beast” budgeting, all of that is being subsumed under the growing tumor that is Russiagate. The longer that its allowed to grow, the more damage it does to their agenda, but excising it would mean pretty much abandoning said agenda for another election cycle.
this is my new favorite video on the internet
pic.twitter.com/3EYbeC3BTc— I Follow Back 😍 (@Allislovexo) May 12, 2017
re: #258 harlequinade
At this point you have to ask - how deep in is Ryan?
If it were only an inch deep?
He’d still be in over his head.
re: #256 calochortus
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Trump to Fox on whether he asked Comey for loyalty pledge: “I didnt, but I don’t think it would be a bad question to ask”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 12, 2017
@JohnJHarwood In other words, he did demand a loyalty pledge from Comey. https://t.co/0ls0wrOhDi
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
re: #265 darthstar
Whoa…didn’t expect that to display as an image.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #259 Targetpractice
Ryan’s watching his entire legislative docket go down the tubes. Tax “reform,” Trumpcare, “Starve the beast” budgeting, all of that is being subsumed under the growing tumor that is Russiagate. The longer that its allowed to grow, the more damage it does to their agenda, but excising it would mean pretty much abandoning said agenda for another election cycle.
The GOP is like an updated version of Buridan’s Ass, incapable of deciding if keeping Trump or getting rid of him has a better chance of getting tax cuts for the rich.
re: #263 calochortus
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re: #267 BeachDem
I’m gobsmacked that there is a World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians
Worldwide, there’s something to be said for Christian persecution. It is a real thing. Just not in the United States. And we’re certainly not THE MOST persecuted religion.
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re: #264 Charles Johnson
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re: #270 thedopefishlives
Worldwide, there’s something to be said for Christian persecution. It is a real thing. Just not in the United States. And we’re certainly not THE MOST persecuted religion.
They think political correctness is persecution
re: #258 harlequinade
At this point you have to ask - how deep in is Ryan?
No depth.
The answer is dumber and more depressing: most of the Congress are people who—
1. …will do anything to build a permanent GOP majority, including prop up anything Trump does. Trump is a child-king, and they can get him to sign anything, which means he’s perfect for dismantling shit that anybody else in the executive might balk at. This is certainly the case for Mitch McConnell.
2. …won’t ever do anything that upsets the solid GOP “base” that has become more and more populist and cult-of-personality centered. Fucking them over with policy might work, because the base don’t care beyond a certain level of detail…but they won’t have their golden veal calf snubbed without consequences in the next election.
3. …have been raised on the conspiracism and stab-in-the-back mentality launched by Nixon and made the norm by Reagan and talk radio, and turned into an entire fucking mythos by Rupert Murdoch. To these people, party discipline means that an (R) is a seal of approval, whereas a (D) means an un-person who probably is a Satanic baby-killer. These are the people who have rebuilt Christianity, capitalism, government, and “family” into some kind of nightmare Tingleverse where all social constructs exist to jack them off.
4. …are actually invested in Trump because he’s their wish-fulfillment fantasy: a hideous fucking toad with “money”* and “women”* that he flaunts, who’s shielded from criticism and any contradictory thought by his own braying self-assurance that he is a priori the greatest*.
* That Trump’s lost a lot of money, acquires his women through coercion, and objectively is frequently wrong is part of the wish-fulfillment. These are people who scream at the world for not bowing to their mediocrity and filling the self-aware void in them that’s noticed they ain’t actually good or Good.
5. Some of the above.
6. All of the above.
re: #270 thedopefishlives
Worldwide, there’s something to be said for Christian persecution. It is a real thing. Just not in the United States. And we’re certainly not THE MOST persecuted religion.
Dope, I think you have to look at it like you are not one of them in the same sense.
You may not be persecuted, but when you have the VP of the USA saying stuff like that, he either believes it or he is motivating others to believe it.
It almost seems like it is motivation for a God’s Army kind of thing, or a way to get power for all the good people that fit Pence’s thinking. Does he see another crusade, because Trump has been heard to say he is going to “fix” the Middle East. It’s all not good.
re: #272 Mike Lamb
The terrifying portion of that exchange is when Trump waxes philosophic about loyalty to country, patriotism, etc. Thus equating loyalty to Trump and loyalty to country.
If one could get a straight answer out of Tump, I’m sure it would be clear that Trump sees loyalty to POTUS* Trump and loyalty to the US as being identical.
Someone on social media should float the modest proposal that the service academy oaths be revised accordingly where Trump will see it. Trump would think it the best idea ever for these oaths to become personal oaths of fealty to God-Emperor Trump.
That might be too much for congressional Republicans. Perhaps.
Any day now…..
Lil’ Ricky…
Eastern Screech #Owl #LakeTravis TX. pic.twitter.com/GstO7mzzfS— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) May 12, 2017
re: #278 ObserverArt
Dope, I think you have to look at it like you are not one of them in the same sense.
You may not be persecuted, but when you have the VP of the USA saying stuff like that, he either believes it or he is motivating others to believe it.
It almost seems like it is motivation for a God’s Army kind of thing, or a way to get power for all the good people that fit Pence’s thinking. Does he see another crusade, because Trump has been heard to say he is going to “fix” the Middle East. It’s all not good.
Yeah, I know. I’m an apostate backslidden librul.
It’s not that Christians are being “persecuted,” it’s that Christian fanatics like Pence are finding their numbers dwindling as their offspring flee the flock and there are fewer converts with each passing year.
re: #282 Targetpractice
It’s not that Christians are being “persecuted,” it’s that Christian fanatics like Pence are finding their numbers dwindling as their offspring flee the flock and there are fewer converts with each passing year.
Also, people existing in ways that they don’t like is “persecution.”
re: #283 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Also, people existing in ways that they don’t like is “persecution.”
To be more blunt, the oppression these US ‘Christians’ complain about is mainly the state not allowing them to burn heretics at the stake as they please. Many of the pilgrims had the exact same beef vs. the English authorities in the colonial era.
re: #283 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Also, people existing in ways that they don’t like is “persecution.”
“I can’t bash gays in public anymore!? Can’t berate women for wearing revealing clothing?! And I can’t rant at people in public for their unholy lifestyles and expect others to support me?! PERSECUTION!!!”
re: #270 thedopefishlives
Worldwide, there’s something to be said for Christian persecution. It is a real thing. Just not in the United States. And we’re certainly not THE MOST persecuted religion.
Well, since the summit was organized by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and it was led by the odious Franklin Graham, I’ll maintain my skepticism about the whole event.
YMMV
Ooof. A hard read for a Friday afternoon.
(I grew up near that area.)
Maternal mortality is far higher in the U.S. than in other rich countries, and it’s rising. v @ProPublica @NPRhttps://t.co/Pv1ZoiKNtG pic.twitter.com/k2SZ6Auz0g
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) May 12, 2017
Source w/firsthand knowledge tells me Comey turned down Senate invite to testify b/c “wants to lay low for a while & take some time off”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 12, 2017
re: #164 Stanley Sea
In a story resembling elements of the Pina Colada song…..
LOL
I had no idea that’s what the piña colada doing was about. None.
`I don’t think–’
`Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland pic.twitter.com/l3kVik6hzz— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 12, 2017
re: #288 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Ooof. A hard read for a Friday afternoon.
(I grew up near that area.)
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Yeah, but compare that to the SMUG index of Christian conservative moral superiority: it’s never been higher!
I’ve been keeping a casual eye on the quarterly grift-a-thons over at FR. They used to wrap up in a couple months, then in the last year or so the time stretched a bit to end in the second week of month 3. They sped up a bit either side of the election. The current one is on Day 42 and is at 42%. Now, they throw in 10-15% which supposedly comes from their automatic contributions near the end, but even allowing for that, they are running well behind their usual numbers at this point, and if their stats are accurate (which there is no possible way of knowing) they’ll need to start the new fundraiser a day or two after finishing this one.
Since they are all Trump, all the time, I wonder if enthusiasm is fading? They’ve recently changed the format a bit so only 20 topics and 20 comments show at one time which makes it harder to read, but also makes it less obvious if there are fewer comments or fewer topics are posted.
Because it was a big fat lie.
Read this salad
Remember when Trump WH claimed that Comey was fired because he was too unfair to Clinton? Trump blows that right out of the water here. pic.twitter.com/KpcqfCO14q
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) May 12, 2017
re: #187 ObserverArt
No way that doggie did that…look at that face. Innocent as h*ck. 12/10
What does the number mean? I can’t every figure that out. 12/10? And they’re always different.
Trumps tax lawyers have deep ties to Russia (we knew this back in January). You just can’t make this shit up anymore. I’m to the point of laughing out loud so that the neighbors can hear me.
re: #295 MsJ
What does the number mean? I can’t every figure that out. 12/10? And they’re always different.
That’s the joke. One of them, anyway.
re: #295 MsJ
Doggos are rated on a scale of one to ten, but since they are all good dogs they usually score higher than ten.
re: #295 MsJ
What does the number mean? I can’t every figure that out. 12/10? And they’re always different.
Inflated ratings numbers
re: #50 Charles Johnson
That’s a classic.
Oklahoma rep’s proposal to turn over kids who can’t speak English to ICE draws swift rebukes from fellow Republicans https://t.co/VSvyxYws3G pic.twitter.com/6nkzVKOBWY
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 12, 2017
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So I guess that’s where the bar is set? Not holding my breath.
re: #106 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can’t responsibly connect to the Internet with XP.
No shit. I practice personal OpSec like a badass. SInce in on the Microsoft ecosystem, it’s Bitlocker and TPM enabled everywhere. All backups are encrypted at AES-256. I have an insanely large diceware-generated router password, and I’ll soon be limiting my wirless network and going back to hard-wire ethernet.
As the former chairman of Intel Andy Grove famously quipped: “Only the paranoid survive.”
re: #267 BeachDem
I’m gobsmacked that there is a World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians
Persecuted. Bah.
I find this deeply disturbing.
This is theocracy coming to you in movie form. What was the point in doing this? This was completely unnecessary.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 12, 2017
re: #206 klys (maker of Silmarils)
So Lizards. It’s Friday. Let’s take a moment to breathe. Any fun plans for the weekend? Hummus to share with the group? Other food?
My runs for the week are done, only have to put together 500 words for the book today (which I will start shortly), waiting on a quote from the electrician for a whole house fan, and then I will craft this afternoon.
I’m thinking stitching, but I could do beading or coloring too. I don’t know.
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Nothing much for the weekend, since I’m cruising to Alaska at the end of next week.
I’M CRUISING TO ALASKA AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK!
(I’ve been trying to stuff in as much travel as I can manage, since, given the political situation, I’m not sure how easy it’s going to be in the future.)
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He doesn’t know the history of Pete Wilson & prop 187.
Turned CA blue.
Trump — in recorded video — to RNCers this afternoon: “We can pick up a lot of seats, specially if it all keeps going like it is now.” pic.twitter.com/l22EzBLf8K
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) May 12, 2017
re: #305 Puss Power
Nothing much for the weekend, since I’m cruising to Alaska at the end of next week.
I’M CRUISING TO ALASKA AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK!
(I’ve been trying to stuff in as much travel as I can manage, since, given the political situation, I’m not sure how easy it’s going to be in the future.)
Oh you poor thing!
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re: #186 Decatur Deb
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re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Meanwhile, a seat in a ruby red Georgia district is a statistical dead-heat for the first time since Moby Dick was a minnow.
re: #192 mmmirele
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Can someone photoshop out my arm? I need a giant zombie kitten in my life pic.twitter.com/fnEvMrCYTQ
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) May 11, 2017
@OfficerEdith ok officer edith pic.twitter.com/EVSBTsNXJw
— darth:™ (@darth) May 11, 2017
@darth Oh Darth, you’re a gift from above
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) May 11, 2017
re: #308 calochortus
Oh you poor thing!
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And another reason to pity me — I signed on so late (because cost) that I had to take a guarantee rather than picking a cabin. Just saw the assignment, and apparently they’re so full that they had to give me the next category up — a cabin that would cost at least $1000 more than what I paid for.
My life is so miserable….
re: #282 Targetpractice
re: #282 Targetpractice
It’s not that Christians are being “persecuted,” it’s that Christian fanatics like Pence are finding their numbers dwindling as their offspring flee the flock and there are fewer converts with each passing year.
I’ve spent my adult life coming to grips with how good people such as my parents (Southern Baptists) could reconcile the clear teachings in the Sermon on the Mount with the GOP agenda.
My inital teenage confusion soon turned to anger, which eventually mellowed to pity (old story, I know).
LGF has educated me (thank you all) on the decades of political poison that brought them to their riduculous support of such an obvious, clumsy, amoral NY liberal con man.
I now realize they are simply continuing the long, sad tradition of our right-wing economic elites manipulating lower-classes’ fears and prejudices to distract from their true agendas, malfeasance, and failures, as well as Democrats’ successes.
I hold the GOP and its theocrats (Pence appears genuine to me) directly responsible for pushing my father to such an authoritarian extreme that, in the end, he could not even get along with my long-suffering mother and sister who remain committed to their faith.
I am disgusted and hope that their extremist overreach under Trump will be corralled by democratic institutions and opposition, and hasten the secularization and rationalization of the United States’ politics.
.@SpeakerRyan says “for a lot of reasons” he’s doing telephone town halls instead of in person town halls.
— Theo Keith (@TheoKeith) May 12, 2017
Safety
Pride
Independence
Neediness
Energy
Lethargy
Emetic
Soporific
Sassy https://t.co/5Vg0GInnri— darth:™ (@darth) May 12, 2017
re: #277 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
No depth.
The answer is dumber and more depressing: most of the Congress are people who—
2. …won’t ever do anything that upsets the solid GOP “base” that has become more and more populist and cult-of-personality centered. Fucking them over with policy might work, because the base don’t care beyond a certain level of detail…but they won’t have their golden veal calf snubbed without consequences in the next election.
4. …are actually invested in Trump because he’s their wish-fulfillment fantasy: a hideous fucking toad with “money”* and “women”* that he flaunts, who’s shielded from criticism and any contradictory thought by his own braying self-assurance that he is a priori the greatest*.
Also — the pictures of those surrounding Trump and leading Republicans show they are almost all white males. That’s what the supporters (both men and women) want: a world of white men, preferably Christian, running everything — hiring and firing at will without having to comply with any non-discrimination rules. In their ideal world, employment ads would be like those in the 1950’s even in Chicago: specifying the race, age, and gender of applicants. They learned in 2012 that they lost because of minorities and women — and their new order represents the effort to make sure that minorities and women are increasingly marginalized.
NYT’s letter to subscribers who canceled over Bret Stephens includes odd line as justification. Which, um, why are they publishing Stephens? pic.twitter.com/lxefYg6XKi
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 12, 2017
This suggests to me that a lot of people actually cancelled their subscriptions https://t.co/FyrAB6Vidy
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 12, 2017
Important reminder: this is Trump’s approach to just about every problem he faces —> pic.twitter.com/peCTJ23KkW
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) May 12, 2017
@thehill Fun Fact: It is totally inappropriate to ask FBI chief to pledge loyalty to the President pic.twitter.com/mYM8WI906X
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 12, 2017
Trump’s expected pick for top USDA scientist is not a scientist https://t.co/qmk2ebElJN
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) May 12, 2017
“… The USDA’s research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition. Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency’s “chief scientist” and be chosen “from among distinguished scientists with specialized or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics.”
But Sam Clovis - who, according to sources with knowledge of the appointment and members of the agriculture trade press, is President Trump’s pick to oversee the section — appears to have no such credentials.
Clovis has never taken a graduate course in science and is openly skeptical of climate change. While he has a doctorate in public administration and was a tenured professor of business and public policy at Morningside College for 10 years, he has published almost no academic work.
Clovis is better known for hosting a conservative talk radio show in his native Iowa and, after mounting an unsuccessful run for Senate in 2014, becoming a fiery pro-Trump advocate on television. …”
Too bad he couldn’t make Clovis postmaster of some podunk town like in the good old days.
“My mom told me she sent me a box of brownies, but they never showed up!”
Postmaster Clovis: “I have no idea what you’re talking about…”
re: #323 FormerDirtDart
Throwing it in our faces every single day.
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.
And also, too: as a New Hampshire person now, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t found positions for “Hillary should be executed” Al Baldasaro and “I’ve never been in politics before” liar and wife of Bundy-supporter Jerry DeLemus, Sue DeLemus.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
BTW, he’s a doctor, the medical kind.
re: #326 Timothy Watson
I’ve been on a Claude Chabrol jag this year and your story sounds like the plots of many of his films. ＾▽＾
(In my day, jag meant going on a tear about something one finds fascinating. Looking it up on the ‘tubes, I see it means something totally different these days.)
Until the Republicans stop enabling Donald Trump, they will be complicit in the erosion of American democracy: https://t.co/VbsGUT04zV pic.twitter.com/uVOFA4deHv
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 12, 2017
It’s going to take some kind of major disaster to get them to stop enabling Trump. He’s making all their regressive dreams come true. https://t.co/DyXOQtdiuf
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2017
James Woods: Hi, I’m Still Raging Douchebag - https://t.co/b7y2FNfv0H pic.twitter.com/SX7TzNLYQs
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 12, 2017
re: #332 Charles Johnson
Senior Congressional Republicans are engaging in treachery and sedition.
re: #333 goddamnedfrank
James Woods not only sounds like Roger Stone, he looks just like him.
A shame really. He was a darn good actor once upon a time in America; for instance, in the aforementioned pun (in which my late friend Fr. Roger Fawcett had a wonderful comedic turn as a drunk in Fat Moe’s Bar — Roger had some great stories about hanging out with maestro Sergio Leone), Videodrome and the sadly overlooked 1985 Canadian film Joshua Then and Now.
I just got free tickets to some playoff sportspuck this week.
Granted, it’s AHL and not NHL but I will take what I can get.
Anyone know of the last 2?
Just in: Four candidates for FBI Director will be interviewed Saturday at DOJ: Cronyn, McCabe, Fisher, Garcia - @LauraAJarrett reports pic.twitter.com/DVz3h9thTS
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 12, 2017
re: #336 klys (maker of Silmarils)
My brother is pushing me to buy tickets for The Trailer Park Boys this summer. I may cave in.
re: #337 BeachDem
Not optimal. SMOTI is not a looker.
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
Theo Keith ✔ @TheoKeith
.@SpeakerRyan says “for a lot of reasons” he’s doing telephone town halls instead of in person town halls.
3:48 PM - 12 May 2017
Most of my work meetings are phone meetings because the participants are in multiple locations. If someone is managing the meeting properly, they can be effective BUT that is only because everyone can voice their ideas. No one is trying to suppress views or prevent opponents from realizing that they are in the majority.
Ryan just wants to silence any who disagree with him and present the illusion of support. Like almost all Republicans today, he is a coward and cannot refute those who have facts to oppose his views.
Where the hell has CCJ been? Has he totally washed out yet?
@GrnEyedMandy @azmoderate The GOP has sunk to a level of depravity that the Beltway media won’t admit to.
— Rod Green (@thetheRedundant) May 12, 2017
re: #343 Amory Blaine
Where the hell has CCJ been? Has he totally washed out yet?
Last I heard he rarely posts on GotNews and his security certificate expired on Wesearchr
re: #338 Stanley Sea
Anyone know of the last 2?
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I don’t know much about Garcia, but Fisher served during the Dubya administration and her last time before Congress was back in March, speaking on behalf of her friend Gorsuch in support of his SCOTUS nomination.
#dogsoftwitter @WeLoveDogsUSA @Berti_and_Ernie @dogcelebration @GlowintheBark
Just three dogs doing tricks….. pic.twitter.com/n84wgliUxc— The invisible man (@invisibleman_17) May 11, 2017
My girl is home from her first year at college! Happy Friday, lizards!
Like it’s not even June how can anyone be a “long time critic?” pic.twitter.com/x2n0q6V4EG
— john sepulvado (@JohnLGC) May 12, 2017
@JohnLGC it only feels like decades
— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) May 13, 2017
re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg
Last I heard he rarely posts on GotNews and his security certificate expired on Wesearchr
He got his certificate back.
re: #338 Stanley Sea
Anyone know of the last 2?
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New LGF page: Little Green Footballs News Network PSA: Patch Your Systems NOW
(updated with BBC News article)
Apropos of nothing, I’m eating the best pizza I’ve ever baked, using the last of a bag of yeast that’s been in my fridge for at least ten years. Crazy!
If Cornyn were to get the FBI job, the mind boggles to think of how bad a replacement Abbott might name to the Senate. And we’d be stuck with that replacement until 2018, right?
Go to this link. Type in your name and zip. If you come up, go to the bottom of the page and click “privacy”. You can request to delete your info. JFC. Stalker Central.
True People Search
re: #355 De Kolta Chair
Does it taste like sour dough?
re: #357 nines09
Go to this link. Type in your name and zip. If you come up, go to the bottom of the page and click “privacy”. You can request to delete your info. JFC. Stalker Central.
True People Search
Jesus Christ. Thanks.
re: #350 prairiefire
My girl is home from her first year at college! Happy Friday, lizards!
Awwwww. Prairiefire’s house is happy!
re: #354 Eric The Fruit Bat
New LGF page: Little Green Footballs News Network PSA: Patch Your Systems NOW
URL needs fix.
re: #358 prairiefire
Does it taste like sour dough?
Now that you mention, yes. I’ve got two books about sourdough on the shelf, but have always been intimidated by the process. (Truth is, I’m a lazy cuss.) You?
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Are there really people who can’t slice open an avocado without needing stitches? They should be forbidden from wielding sharp implements.
Attention avocado lovers: Doctors report an increase in “avocado hand” injuries https://t.co/hvnBir4U3Q pic.twitter.com/4kDKsXGhq2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 13, 2017
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white people < > @monicaisliberal https://t.co/NOhjN0Ql3F— lvdjgarcia (@lvdjgarcia) May 13, 2017
cool stuff:
Night-flight over #Europe with thunderstorms in the distance. Note how the atmosphere changes from green to orange https://t.co/91bzMq1Hgy pic.twitter.com/L05Clp2PCN
— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) May 12, 2017
Thanks, science!
re: #350 prairiefire
My girl is home from her first year at college! Happy Friday, lizards!
We picked up Jr. from Madison yesterday. Enjoy!
re: #315 Puss Power
And another reason to pity me — I signed on so late (because cost) that I had to take a guarantee rather than picking a cabin. Just saw the assignment, and apparently they’re so full that they had to give me the next category up — a cabin that would cost at least $1000 more than what I paid for.
My life is so miserable….
Always bring rain gear…it’s been a wet spring. Also been on the cool side. Yesterday was the second day this year to get into the 60’s. Normally this time of May is the best season to visit SE Alaska. Also, don’t buy tours on the ship. Plenty of dockside vendors offer the same tour but at a lessor cost. Next piece of advice…avoid the dockside jewelry stores. They’re all owned by the cruise ship companies and have huuuge mark-ups.
re: #360 MsJ
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re: #1 Dr. Matt
Oh how I wish a reporter would stand up and look Sean in his beady little eyes and say: “Mr. Spicer, do you know what’s truly offensive? You standing up there at the podium and lying to us and the American people every fucking day.”
re: #367 (alpuz)
You as well! It’s delicious and scrumptious all at the same time.
re: #362 freetoken
Fixed.
re: #371 GlutenFreeJesus
Oh how I wish a reporter would stand up and look Sean in his beady little eyes and say: “Mr. Spicer, do you know what’s truly offensive? You standing up there at the podium and lying to us and the American people every fucking day.”
Another item for the wish list is this — every news article about Trump’s lies to include ‘liar’ or equivalent in the headline with reference to Trump.
re: #357 nines09
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re: #357 nines09
Go to this link. Type in your name and zip. If you come up, go to the bottom of the page and click “privacy”. You can request to delete your info. JFC. Stalker Central.
True People Search
That was entertaining — it had wrong email address and listed unknown people as associates
I’m just gonna put this out there, nickname for Mr. Clownface von F*ckstick:
Kim Don Yuuge
re: #375 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #350 prairiefire
My girl is home from her first year at college! Happy Friday, lizards!
Goes by fast, doesn’t it?
Don’t have any of my own, but a lot of my friends do. I call them “test subjects.” One of my favorites graduated from Bennington last year (doomed to a life of basket weaving and zen meditation, I’m quite sure), and she always remembers me telling her when she was three, “Beer good, water bad.” She’s a great kid.
Six Part Series on trump by the LA Times editorial board. Read it. Seriously.
Our Dishonest President
re: #359 Barefoot Grin
Nice crowd surf then fall onto stage by Bono.
re: #363 De Kolta Chair
I’m not a baker, but I’ve been fascinated at how sourdough “starters” can be over 70 years old.
We’ve sold more cola than any of our competitors #WithFewExceptions 😉
— RC Cola (@OfficialRCCola) May 12, 2017
re: #375 Eric The Fruit Bat
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Outstanding afternoon. “I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.” -Pres. Reagan #VPinMT pic.twitter.com/vagCjbLnxD
— Vice President Pence (@VP) May 13, 2017
Are you all dumbasses @VP ? This isn’t a Reagan quote. It’s a quote by “Sir Winston Churchill” @whitehouse @maddow @Lawrence https://t.co/np2e5BhCnr
— T 🏇 (@southerntalker) May 13, 2017
With honorary doctorate in hand, Will Ferrell keeps the laughs coming for USC grads in commencement speech. Story: https://t.co/um6dGAwond pic.twitter.com/CZh41kPhvr
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) May 13, 2017
U.S. in final stages of $100 billion arms deal for Saudi Arabia: White House official https://t.co/jK41vY8LdE
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) May 12, 2017
re: #359 Barefoot Grin
Many moons ago, my buddy Terry, an American with dual citizenship, lived on the dole in Ireland for a couple of years living the artist life, and used to see U2 playing for spare change on street corners in Dublin.
re: #385 MsJ
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re: #357 nines09
Go to this link. Type in your name and zip. If you come up, go to the bottom of the page and click “privacy”. You can request to delete your info. JFC. Stalker Central.
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Thanks — Last time I checked, I wasn’t there. This time, I was.
re: #357 nines09
Go to this link. Type in your name and zip. If you come up, go to the bottom of the page and click “privacy”. You can request to delete your info. JFC. Stalker Central.
True People Search
And then they put you back on again… I requested removal a few months ago, but lo and behold, there I am tonight.
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