re: #253 John Carter
Great speech but his supporters only understood every fourth it fifth word.
Trump and Melania arrive to Rome AF1 👋 pic.twitter.com/JjXzgM6Ox3
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) May 23, 2017
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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This “Do not touch me” thing is getting pretty funny.
Mulvaney opens w/ response to cutting of welfare programs: “You also have to have compassion for the folks who are paying for it.”
— Kayla Tausche (@kaylatausche) May 23, 2017
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Damn, she shut him down fierce!
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Yikes. She really hates him.
re: #4 klys (maker of Silmarils)
OFFS.
That’s gotta be some of the dumbest richsplaining I’ve ever seen.
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
The way she holds her hand up stiffly, then gives a little perfunctory wave. This is a woman living in a hell of her own making.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Yikes. She really hates him.
She wouldn’t take his hand so he grabbed her ass.
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Trump and Melania arrive to Rome AF1 👋 pic.twitter.com/JjXzgM6Ox3
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) May 23, 2017
i repeat: NYT once interviewed 50 (!) people for single article abt the state of the Clinton marriage.
why is Trump marriage not news? https://t.co/hQ6xW2H7kg— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 23, 2017
Our hearts go out to those killed and wounded in Manchester. Americans will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of the UK.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 23, 2017
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
She wouldn’t take his hand so he grabbed her ass.
Perfect metaphor for GOP attitudes toward women.
trump not using the magic words “radical islamic terrorism” in his Saudi Arabia speech basically gave the green light and caused the Manchester deal….
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re: #4 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We knew it would be bad when he appointed this Freedom Caucus Teabagger.
After lots of howling and partying, they all passed out pic.twitter.com/JjxQk7DFtP
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) May 23, 2017
re: #9 Charles Johnson
The way she holds her hand up stiffly, then gives a little perfunctory wave. This is a woman living in a hell of her own making.
Let me check….hmmm…mmmm…
Nope, not feeling sorry for her or Orange Pompous.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Yikes. She really hates him.
Naw, that’s just another low five as DimJim calls it.
She’s never going to move in to the White House, is she?
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Yikes. She really hates him.
I’m guessing Donnie Two Scoops is not getting any ice cream from Melania, if you know what I mean.
Just saw that Roger Moore died.
That’s sad but hey, he made it to 89 and lived one hell of a life.
First Bond actor to pass away I believe.
Is it wrong to say that I liked the hat/fascinator Ivanka wore to the Western Wall yesterday?
re: #4 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We do. It’s called “Having the program around in case anyone needs it.”
re: #23 mmmirele
Is it wrong to say that I liked the hat/fascinator Ivanka wore to the Western Wall yesterday?
She wore it because she wants you to buy it. That whole display was just a fashion catwalk.
Former C.I.A. Chief Tells of Concern Over Possible Russia Ties to Trump Campaign https://t.co/VfiqIu7qQG
— ggt (@geegeetee) May 23, 2017
re: #15 b.d.
trump not using the magic words “radical islamic terrorism” in his Saudi Arabia speech basically gave the green light and caused the Manchester deal….
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He didn’t use it in his mention of Manchester either. He used “losers” which might not even mean much to a good portion of the world.
You’d think Fox News would dedicate a 2 hour special on not saying “Radical Islamic Terrorists” but they won’t. The have to protect their Big Orange Ass.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Mr Billlllllll!
re: #17 Charles Johnson
After lots of howling and partying, they all passed out pic.twitter.com/JjxQk7DFtP
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) May 23, 2017
And Mr. Bill lays terrified, completely motionless, fearful that any attempt of escape will roust the savage beasts that surround him…
OHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO…..
re: #25 The Vicious Babushka
She wore it because she wants you to buy it. That whole display was just a fashion catwalk.
Well, I liked it, but I don’t go to occasions where I’d wear something like that.
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I was wondering what demonination of xtianity Trump practiced.
I mean, 2 days after Obama threw his hat in the ring, we new his church and paster.
re: #21 wheat-dogg
I’m guessing Donnie Two Scoops is not getting any ice cream from Melania, if you know what I mean.
Just the ice.
re: #27 ObserverArt
I actually think that the losers bit is more appropriate for describing the actions than Trump’s former descriptor (when he wasn’t in the Middle East, or Israel, which is not a part of the Middle East) of Radical Islamic Terrorist.
The federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is due $22 million this year.
Under Trump budget? It’d get $10 million. pic.twitter.com/llJNQtJd5u— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) May 23, 2017
Staffing/funding PCLOB is such a no-brainer, easy way to earn much needed credibility and good will. This is evidence of no brain. https://t.co/8XVoeXweiS
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 23, 2017
re: #23 mmmirele
Is it wrong to say that I liked the hat/fascinator Ivanka wore to the Western Wall yesterday?
Repeat from last thread (different question/same response)
re: #35 lawhawk
I actually think that the losers bit is more appropriate for describing the actions than Trump’s former descriptor (when he wasn’t in the Middle East, or Israel, which is not a part of the Middle East) of Radical Islamic Terrorist.
I can tell you are not a Fox News watcher.
“You have to understand that I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.” - Al Franken
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 23, 2017
Some wingnut little Yiddel scolded me for criticizing Ivanka’s fashion catwalk at the Kotel yesterday. I told him to read Isaiah chapter 1 & get back to me.
re: #33 Birth Control Works
I was wondering what demonination of xtianity Trump practiced.
I mean, 2 days after Obama threw his hat in the ring, we new his church and paster.
First Church of Expedient False Piety, on the Upper East Side
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Yikes. She really hates him.
Holy Christ. The first time, walking down the red carpet, was maybe just she didn’t want to hold his hand as she was a bit behind him and it was physically awkward.
That there? That was just pure revulsion. An instinctive reaction.
I’ve seen that in battered wives, during the brief time I volunteered to escort them to hearings in Family Court, to keep their deranged husbands from flying at them in a rage. Even being as calming and soothing as possible, I’d reach out to help guide them down one turning in a corridor, and they’d FLINCH like that.
Wow. WTF happened in the last few months? Did the Russians show her the pee-pee tape or what?
Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire https://t.co/7qqZuxiobv
— ggt (@geegeetee) May 23, 2017
re: #46 Birth Control Works
Kushner’s no different than Donny. They are peas in a pod, which is why they get along and have a common worldview.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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So evidently cats don’t induce schizophrenia, but dogs can suffer catatonia.
re: #45 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
Maybe the rumor they were divorcing is true.
re: #45 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
Wow. WTF happened in the last few months? Did the Russians show her the pee-pee tape or what?
I also think she is totally disgusted at the way that he continues to be the arrogant, petulant, thin-skinned, uncultured slob that he always was even though he was given every opportunity and no end of advice on how to at least act Presidential when he is in the public eye.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Just saw that Roger Moore died.
That’s sad but hey, he made it to 89 and lived one hell of a life.
First Bond actor to pass away I believe.
Saw this story about him. Pretty cool.
.@JaySekulow: Anyone Want to Argue Against Trump Travel Ban After UK Attack? https://t.co/DbInnsy4ur
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2017
The suicide bomber in Manchester was born in Britain, @JaySekulow, you unbelievable dipshit. https://t.co/RR6u6QLmXw
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 23, 2017
The Fox News right wing pundit circuit hasn’t quite figured out that the Muslim travel ban and banning people from specific countries doesn’t work, mostly because the recent European terrorists have been homegrown jihadis, not those who have emigrated from elsewhere (or were even refugees). These are people who have bought into the extremism on their own.
It’s yet another reason why Trump’s Muslim ban fails in the courts on the facts and evidence.
Jared, the slumlord:
RT @Fahrenthold: ProPublica on Twitter: “Just a few examples of what it’s like to live in Jared… https://t.co/9Lg4tVn6sj via @twttimes
— ggt (@geegeetee) May 23, 2017
re: #53 lawhawk
xenophobia knows no bounds
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also think she is totally disgusted at the way that he continues to be the arrogant, petulant, thin-skinned uncultured slob that he always was even though he was given every opportunity and no end of advice on how to at least act Presidential when he is in the public eye.
Hm. I think the truth might be closer to the post of a couple of days ago - can’t remember who did it - talking about how they lived in a family with an abusive monster of a father. There’s a common reaction when such arrogant but internally weak men feel disrespected by the outside world…
…they take it out on those closest to them. And we know that Donnie is prone to emotional tantrums in public. Imagine how bad he is behind closed doors.
FOX ‘News’ Just Got Dethroned By MSNBC
For the first time in its 21 years, MSNBC sits atop the cable news universe, knocking FOX News down to its lowest position in 17 years in this week’s Nielsen ratings.
MSNBC finished number one in cable news, and only behind NBA-airer TNT among all cable networks, with a weekday prime average of 2.44 million viewers. Behind them, FOX News, facing internal sexual harassment crises and a growing credibility gap, continued its recent descent with 2.405 million average nightly viewers.
If you haven’t read the Twitter thread that can be found on the second tweet below, take a minute a give yourself a lift today:
On this day in 1967, a show featuring a kindly man in a cardigan & blue sneakers debuted on public television-#MisterRogersNeighborhood. pic.twitter.com/USnzVZVoAf
— Dr. Paul (@DrPnygard) May 22, 2017
50 years … I have a story to tell about this man. https://t.co/4MtEIcrdZE
— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) May 23, 2017
re: #56 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
And we know that Donnie is prone to emotional tantrums in public. Imagine how bad he is behind closed doors.
THE HORROR
seriously, I wouldn’t want to be alone with him even in the back of a cab.
re: #59 Birth Control Works
THE HORROR
seriously, I wouldn’t want to be alone with him even in the back of a cab.
It would be like being trapped in a steel cage with a snarling 260-lb water rat.
We know what kind of misogynist Trump is behind closed doors. Recall the Access Hollywood tape.
His supporters didn’t care, and millions of women still voted for the dumpster fire.
We know how he treats women around him - trophies and something pretty to leer at.
It’s no different for the women closest to him.
What we’re seeing in the dynamic between Melania and Donald in public is probably so much more than that in private, though given that they’re not even in the same building most of the time so far is a good thing - for her.
Trump simply isn’t right in the head, and it’s been apparent for way too long, but the GOP simply doesn’t care. His supporters don’t care, because he tells them what they want to hear, regardless of what he actually does.
re: #57 Birth Control Works
Which is pretty wild, since they aren’t even offered in a number of markets, and it’s hard to get them in others.
re: #58 bratwurst
If you haven’t read the Twitter thread that can be found on the second tweet below, take a minute a give yourself a lift today:
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I honestly believe I remember that first show. I was 3 years old and we had this little b&w TV. I remember my mom saying—” there is a new show for you.”
For some reason, I remember a lot about that time of my life. Only children don’t have too many distractions.
@GuyinBrooklyn Don’t you realize you should go fuck yourself? I suggest doing so immediately. Thx bye.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2017
re: #46 Birth Control Works
What a vile little weasel, waging lawfare to drive poor tenants into destitution for a few lousy nickels.
Isaiah had words for this:
When you come to appear before Me, who requested this of you, to trample My courts?
You shall no longer bring vain offerings, it is smoke of abomination to Me; New Moons and Sabbaths, calling convocations, I cannot [bear] iniquity with assembly.
Your New Moons and your appointed seasons My soul hates, they are a burden to Me; I am weary of them.
And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you, even when you pray at length, I do not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Wash, cleanse yourselves, remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes, cease to do evil.
Learn to do good, seek justice, strengthen the robbed, perform justice for the orphan, plead the case of the widow.
re: #61 lawhawk
We know what kind of misogynist Trump is behind closed doors. Recall the Access Hollywood tape.
His supporters didn’t care, and millions of women still voted for the dumpster fire.
We know how he treats women around him - trophies and something pretty to leer at.
It’s no different for the women closest to him.
What we’re seeing in the dynamic between Melania and Donald in public is probably so much more than that in private, though given that they’re not even in the same building most of the time so far is a good thing - for her.
Trump simply isn’t right in the head, and it’s been apparent for way too long, but the GOP simply doesn’t care. His supporters don’t care, because he tells them what they want to hear, regardless of what he actually does.
So easy to get caught in the Madonna/Whore dichotomy. Especially when you are considered a Madonna. White women nearly always are Madonnas by default.
Mueller Approved By Justice Dept. Ethics Team, Despite Former Law Firm’s Ties https://t.co/VqAxqSHFRU
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) May 23, 2017
re: #66 The Vicious Babushka
What a vile little weasel, waging lawfare to drive poor tenants into destitution for a few lousy nickels.
Isaiah had words for this:
Jared seems to be more than vile.
re: #61 lawhawk
Trump simply isn’t right in the head, and it’s been apparent for way too long, but the GOP simply doesn’t care. His supporters don’t care, because he tells them what they want to hear, regardless of what he actually does.
Mentioned this before, but the GOP is perfectly pleased at the way that DT’s near-total immunity to consequences for his words and actions has begun to rub off on the whole GOP. They now feel free to say and do things with impunity that they once would have at least tried to cover up or obscure.
It’s 1:30 in the morning here, so I’m hitting the hay. No classes tomorrow, but I’m trying to keep a semi-regular sleep cycle for when I do have morning classes.
Trump managed not to start a war with Israel. Maybe he can manage not to start one with with the RCC or Italy.
re: #45 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
Holy Christ. The first time, walking down the red carpet, was maybe just she didn’t want to hold his hand as she was a bit behind him and it was physically awkward.
That there? That was just pure revulsion. An instinctive reaction.
I’ve seen that in battered wives, during the brief time I volunteered to escort them to hearings in Family Court, to keep their deranged husbands from flying at them in a rage. Even being as calming and soothing as possible, I’d reach out to help guide them down one turning in a corridor, and they’d FLINCH like that.
Wow. WTF happened in the last few months? Did the Russians show her the pee-pee tape or what?
Is it the last few months? I have a feeling this has been going on for years.
Plus, there was that bit yesterday about a rumor of a divorce settlement that was not finished once The Donny was elected.
He is an asshole, it is very easy to tell that. No doubt all the “money”* doesn’t have the oomph to cover over that simple fact.
*If there is all that much money. Who knows maybe they find that is a con too.
via USA Today https://t.co/8DlPgWAqzW
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 23, 2017
re: #57 Birth Control Works
Wasn’t ‘The Last Word’ second to ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ in popularity? I hope the replacement show loses most of Maddow’s audience just to stick it to Zucker. Maddow and O’Donnell were a good one/two punch.
Right, I’m making people agree with Nazis by criticizing and making fun of Nazis. These alt-right people are not right in the head.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2017
re: #4 klys (maker of Silmarils)
So the new people deserving compassion are the well-off. Great, got it.
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There is a quite simply staggering number of people in Albert Square for the vigil remembering the victims at the #ManchesterArena @itvnews pic.twitter.com/w9xPdwh9ga
— Ben Chapman (@BenChapmanITV) May 23, 2017
Sheriff David Clarke says he’s unsure if Trump administration will still hire him after plagiarism report https://t.co/AHWovs1oor
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) May 23, 2017
re: #61 lawhawk
We know how he treats women around him - trophies and something pretty to leer at.
It’s no different for the women closest to him.
What we’re seeing in the dynamic between Melania and Donald in public is probably so much more than that in private, though given that they’re not even in the same building most of the time so far is a good thing - for her.
Trump simply isn’t right in the head, and it’s been apparent for way too long, but the GOP simply doesn’t care. His supporters don’t care, because he tells them what they want to hear, regardless of what he actually does.
That last graf of yours. That he’s not right in the head.
I keep thinking of the cases of elder abuse fueled by dementia that I saw going through family court. The husband would be a crusty old coot, often a WWII veteran (this was the early 90s when I did the escort-to-court thing), and one of the symptoms of dementia is paranoia and irrational rage.
And yes, in public the men were bad enough. Deputies often had to intervene to drag away a guy spraying me with spittle in a rant. In private?
Can you imagine what the reaction from Fox would be if Michelle Obama was acting this way towards Barack? They’d be unearthing every awful, stomach-twisting racist “ghetto abuser” meme they could find, and there’d be an unending parade of so-called experts on the tube yammering and making shit up.
re: #72 ObserverArt
Plus, there was that bit yesterday about a rumor of a divorce settlement that was not finished once The Donny was elected.
But it was Claude Taylor who was pushing that rumor and he’s as full of shit as Louise Mensch.
re: #74 stpaulbear
Bill O’ being gone has made a dent. However, Maddow’s ratings have been strong.
Unfu…
Nope, totally fucking believable. It’s all the Trump admin does.
Scam alert:
White House official actually tries to claim Trump budget embodies working class nationalism:https://t.co/HID1s4rWZ9 pic.twitter.com/mK99hp80Jd— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 23, 2017
re: #80 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
Can you imagine what the reaction from Fox would be if
Michelle Obama was acting this way towards BarackObama was the twice-divorced father of five children by three different mothers? They’d be unearthing every awful, stomach-twisting racist “ghetto abuser” meme they could find, and there’d be an unending parade of so-called experts on the tube yammering and making shit up.
re: #83 lawhawk
Unfu…
Nope, totally fucking believable. It’s all the Trump admin does.
Hmmm, the new Working Class Nationalism looks an awful lot like the old Upper Class Nationalism…..
THIS MONSTER
Trump budget director “hopes” millions lose Social Security benefits https://t.co/26WthQO3f0 via @shareblue
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 23, 2017
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
THIS MONSTER
“It won’t happen to me because I’m white. Hey, where’s my check?!”
re: #58 bratwurst
If you haven’t read the Twitter thread that can be found on the second tweet below, take a minute a give yourself a lift today:
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Fred did a lot of work with Jonathan Kozol (one of my heroes)—here’s what Kozol said about “one special teacher”
Haters seem to be embolded by the election results.
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
THIS MONSTER
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That motherfucker’s tie costs more than what the average SSD recipient gets to live on for a month. The suit, they could live on for two years.
re: #92 Birth Control Works
Haters seem to be embolded by the election results.
White trash + sense of empowerment = Trump Presidency
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re: #45 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
Holy Christ. The first time, walking down the red carpet, was maybe just she didn’t want to hold his hand as she was a bit behind him and it was physically awkward.
That there? That was just pure revulsion. An instinctive reaction.
I’ve seen that in battered wives, during the brief time I volunteered to escort them to hearings in Family Court, to keep their deranged husbands from flying at them in a rage. Even being as calming and soothing as possible, I’d reach out to help guide them down one turning in a corridor, and they’d FLINCH like that.
Wow. WTF happened in the last few months? Did the Russians show her the pee-pee tape or what?
At first I was feeling a little sympathy for Melania, figuring maybe she hadn’t had the autonomy to be responsible for her circumstances, and she’s from within 100 miles of where my grandmother was born, and gramma was from a poor peasant family, then I remembered that gramma’s marriage was a hell pretty much of her own making, and she made as much hell as she could for everyone around her. After 49 years, gramma and grampa separated, and gramma said, ‘The first year was OK.’
(Thank you for your service.)
re: #58 bratwurst
If you haven’t read the Twitter thread that can be found on the second tweet below, take a minute a give yourself a lift today:
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@EvelynNiessner @Darediva @DrPnygard I remember the story of the guys who stole his car, found out it was his and returned it with a note.
— EDDY RULES THE KGB (@ejosh1) May 23, 2017
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
THIS MONSTER
Not sure how the WH Budget is going to affect SSDI payments, since they are budget entitlements, not subject to the annual budget process. The article said something about the admin judges but wasn’t real clear about it.
Surprise! The Kim Dotcom statement is a bust. pic.twitter.com/HwpORtb3Vq
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 23, 2017
Analyzing Children’s Ability to Detect ‘Sins of Omission’
Stanford researchers found that children as young as 4 years old, under certain conditions, can discern “sins of omission” - misleading but technically accurate information. The researchers found that the order in which information is presented makes a dramatic difference for the study’s youngest participants.
Little Kids have nearly infallible Bull Shit Detectors.
re: #99 blueraven
Which means Hannity will talk about it for the next week.
re: #99 blueraven
Sean Hannity: Tune in tonight as my special guest reveals the Truth that has the media and DNC running scared!
re: #79 FormerDirtDart
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The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which outlines the succession of high office if a president dies, resigns or becomes incapacitated, provides a logical process for removing a dementia-stricken president. Yet, Appel asks, will anyone actually apply it?
“Regrettably, our current political climate makes it unlikely that such a measure will be invoked, even when necessary,” he says. “Until the system is fixed, and the political culture changes, medical information is rather useless. … To one side, it will be a smoking gun, and to the other side it will be fake news or alternative facts.”
Well, that pretty much tracks. The Fox Noise audience are all demented old shitbags and they love having “one of their own” in the White House.
9 minutes after @oliverdarcy tweets a letter from Seth Rich’s brother…@seanhannity tweets this… pic.twitter.com/s0uzWAEu7T
— Yashar (@yashar) May 23, 2017
BREAKING: @RepTomMacArthur resigning his leadership post from the ‘clearly divided’ Tuesday Group. https://t.co/mMxqUzbyCk
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 23, 2017
What MacArthur did by crafting provision on pre-ex is make the comparatively mod caucus bear responsibility for last AHCA radicalization. https://t.co/Wt10VzD4Zt
— Taniel (@Taniel) May 23, 2017
MacArthur continues to reap the rewards of trying to gut health care coverage for millions.
Next step is his losing his seat.
re: #104 Stanley Sea
Hannity needs to be fired.
If by “fired” you mean “burning permanently in hell,” we are in total agreement.
re: #101 Belafon
Which means Hannity will talk about it for the next week.
Statement goes on…
I was referring to what I knew when I did an interview with Bloomberg in New Zealand in May 2015. In that interview I hinted that Julian Assange and Wikileaks would release information about Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.
The Rich family has reached out to me to ask that I be sensitive to their loss in my public comments. That request is entirely reasonable.
I have consulted with my lawyers. I accept that my full statement should be provided to the authorities and I am prepared to do that so that there can be a full investigation. My lawyers will speak with the authorities regarding the proper process.
If my evidence is required to be given in the United States I would be prepared to do so if appropriate arrangements are made. I would need a guarantee from Special Counsel Mueller, on behalf of the United States, of safe passage from New Zealand to the United States and back. In the coming days we will be communicating with the appropriate authorities to make the necessary arrangements. In the meantime, I will make no further comment.
re: #99 blueraven
WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORING OUR GREAT CONSPIRACY THEORY TO SABOTAGE OUR PRESIDENT KING TRUMP!!??!??
The first tweet is the start of a 12 tweet thread where he lays out his case.
1) Hey @SoundCloud, one of your customers is Richard Spencer, an outspoken white nationalist who puts out an “alt-right” podcast. pic.twitter.com/faid5VG5J3
— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) May 21, 2017
@alexkotch Thanks for reaching out. We’ve looked into this account. It has been removed due to a violation of our terms of use.
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) May 23, 2017
I told SoundCloud white nationalist Richard Spencer’s podcast violated its terms of use bc of hate speech, so it removed “Altright radio.” https://t.co/yzoX2ja8VY
— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) May 23, 2017
I requested public records from @VirginiaABC on Trump Vineyard Estates. They sent me an invoice for $12,928.84. Cc: @Fahrenthold pic.twitter.com/oFIrrW3dQn
— Jennifer Maloney (@maloneyfiles) May 23, 2017
re: #108 blueraven
I would need a guarantee from Special Counsel Mueller, on behalf of the United States, of safe passage from New Zealand to the United States and back.
Sounds like he’s Martin Luther going before the Inquisition.
A friend sent me a link to this, which has more information on how the Russians, probably through Robert Mercer’s Cambridge Analytica, had such a tight focus for their thousands of bots: justsecurity.org
re: #38 freetoken
That brittle star grabbing the squid and then the resultant fight for the chow was amazing. I never get that kind of action in my fish tanks. Probably be a bad thing in a tank, but oh so amazing.
re: #74 stpaulbear
Wasn’t ‘The Last Word’ second to ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ in popularity? I hope the replacement show loses most of Maddow’s audience just to stick it to Zucker. Maddow and O’Donnell were a good one/two punch.
Andrew Lack is head of MSNBC. He’s the one messing about.
OK Sophist & whitebeach - I had a dream last night that my cat was in a box with a snake. I was freaking out & screaming at the snake owner.
He pulled my cat out & was pissed because my cat ate the snake’s tail.
Thanks for that, the panic is still fresh in my mind.
re: #50 Birth Control Works
ewwwww!
Interesting in comparative reactions. My reaction is, WOW, that is so cool.
re: #81 Timothy Watson
But it was Claude Taylor who was pushing that rumor and he’s as full of shit as Louise Mensch.
Yeah I know…but it is a bit easier to believe that compared to their other crap based on Trump’s known past, etc. and watching the Donny and Melania show.
re: #100 Birth Control Works
Analyzing Children’s Ability to Detect ‘Sins of Omission’
Little Kids have nearly infallible Bull Shit Detectors.
Which is why WC Fields hated kids and dogs: “They can always smell the bum on you.”
re: #80 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
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A picture is worth a thousand words. pic.twitter.com/V5cqGwjyTb
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 23, 2017
re: #46 Birth Control Works
Holy hell, that’s abhorrent. Makes it easy to understand why Trump loves his son in law so much.
re: #111 Stanley Sea
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Similar to the prices quoted when people went after Palin docs in Alaska.
O.M.G.
If the Manchester attacker was Palestinian and the victims Israeli, the terrorist’s family would receive a stipend from Mahmoud Abbas. pic.twitter.com/gmTqzYwZwY
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) May 23, 2017
re: #116 Stanley Sea
OK Sophist & whitebeach - I had a dream last night that my cat was in a box with a snake. I was freaking out & screaming at the snake owner.
He pulled my cat out & was pissed because my cat ate the snake’s tail.
Thanks for that, the panic is still fresh in my mind.
Damn, Sea, in Louisiana that’s not exactly a dream, more of an annual morality play, except good luck finding the snake’s “owner.”
re: #23 mmmirele
Is it wrong to say that I liked the hat/fascinator Ivanka wore to the Western Wall yesterday?
Not at all, it’s your personal aesthetic taste. I liked it too. Doesn’t matter who wore it. I like some of Melania’s clothing as well. Doesn’t mean I like Melania.
Man, it has been ‘Be Social’ day at the bike shop. First, two women from the big city found me coming back from the coffee shop and told me ‘We’ve been here for 3 days and are leaving tomorrow, and we had to get in here, but you’re never open!’ While they were still poking around, a guy who I used to ride with and fix his stuff (not on the ride, we have our policies and procedures) and knew all his friends, but haven’t seen him since 2000 came in, and he said he gets to town about once a year, but I’m never open, and the two women laughed, and he and I chatted for about 15 minutes, then he had to go (on a bike ride, with one of our friends) and the two women spent money, and turned out to work at the place where I had my neuro-evaluation last month. Then a guy who hasn’t been in since my accident came and bought a spare tube for his bike with a motor wanted to show me a picture of it on his phone (just like a guy did yesterday, not my favorite trend…) and I had to nicely tell him I don’t allow motors in here (pictures of them are OK, and he persisted there) then he told me it’s a well-kept secret that I’m open regular hours now. The a couple came in from the out-of-state big city, and enjoyed looking at all my old bikes and hearing about the roads around here, then told me about some of their bikes and rides they have done, and he didn’t even pull out his phone to show me his original Eddy Merckx (eat it, spell-check) with 60,000 miles on it. Then the landlord showed up to find out if the swamp-cooler guy showed up (I heard noise on the roof, but saw no one).
Maybe I should advertise so I get more people in here. Nah, I’d never get any work done.
re: #74 stpaulbear
Wasn’t ‘The Last Word’ second to ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ in popularity? I hope the replacement show loses most of Maddow’s audience just to stick it to Zucker. Maddow and O’Donnell were a good one/two punch.
My heart is heavy to hear that MSNBC has canceled O’Donnell’s show. Even though I no longer watch cable news networks, this is still awful news. Strange that Andy Lack can’t see that having a strong liberal/progressive network is a great way to cash in on the anti-Trump and #resist movements.
Fox News retracts story on Seth Rich murder investigation. https://t.co/x2V3l1Etu8
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) May 23, 2017
3/ Fox News does not specify what was wrong in Rich story or what went awry - but you probably wouldn’t have seen statement under Ailes
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) May 23, 2017
Read the photos. :)
THE WAY I SCREAMED pic.twitter.com/4gwdYYFWag
— OG (@tattedpoc) May 23, 2017
re: #129 wrenchwench
Maybe I should advertise so I get more people in here. Nah, I’d never get any
work donecomments posted.
FTFMe.
Did I mention that the weather turned nice?
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
But since Sean Hannity isn’t really the “News” part of Faux News, I imagine he’ll keep on with the garbage.
Graham: Trump’s State Department budget could cause ‘a lot of Benghazis’ https://t.co/56eEkoEIkf @washingtonpost
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 23, 2017
Now you can see how sincere all the Trump/GOP Benghazi concern was. https://t.co/CDP2mxaWXH
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 23, 2017
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting
Hahahahhahhaha
1/2 Always have to laugh when I tell a Nazi asshat to fuck off and they go “that’s not an argument!” Why would anyone waste time …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2017
2/2 arguing with white supremacists and Nazis? That argument was over a LONG time ago. Now it’s just “fuck off, Nazi.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2017
re: #11 FormerDirtDart
Melania doesn’t even pretend to like him. Wowzers!
re: #130 Patricia Kayden
My heart is heavy to hear that MSNBC has canceled O’Donnell’s show. Even though I no longer watch cable news networks, this is still awful news. Strange that Andy Lack can’t see that having a strong liberal/progressive network is a great way to cash in on the anti-Trump and #resist movements.
As of right now, O’Donnell and MSNBC are in contract negotiations. I think Lack wanted to get rid of him, but then the numbers came out that even news is now 1) Rachel, 2) O’Donnell, and 3) everyone else, and the network has forced Lack to reconsider.
re: #139 Charles Johnson
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hmmmmm. Wonder why they decided to retract this one story when they lie about pretty much everything else. Perhaps Rich’s parents cease and desist letter worked some magic.
re: #143 Patricia Kayden
Hmmmmm. Wonder why they decided to retract this one story when they lie about pretty much everything else. Perhaps Rich’s parents cease and desist letter worked some magic.
[Fox News]Damn, somebody is calling us on our bullcrap. What do we do now? OK, well we’ll just drop this story, stick some boilerplate language in there as to why and..[/Fox News]
re: #143 Patricia Kayden
Or maybe that recent ratings report got them thinking that mercilessly attacking Rich actually ISN’T a winning strategy?
Dina Merrill, heiress and actress, dead at 93 https://t.co/Zu0ri4U9v9 pic.twitter.com/vgKKBT9C2J
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 23, 2017
re: #141 Belafon
Whew!! That’s good to hear.
re: #23 mmmirele
Is it wrong to say that I liked the hat/fascinator Ivanka wore to the Western Wall yesterday?
“I like Fidel Castro and his beard.” —Bob Dylan, “Motorpsycho Nightmare”
Strokes, folks.
Out of curiosity, I opened two tabs to check the news. Just because I wanted to see how things are being covered. CNN and Fox News. On CNN there’s three columns, on the left is coverage of Brennan’s testimony, in the middle is an auto-update widget thingy with new stories, and on the right is coverage of Manchester. Meanwhile, on Fox News, there’s a single column, top story: Manchester - big photo and about 20 links on different aspects of the story. Depending on the size and resolution of your monitor, you have to scroll down to see anything on Brennan’s testimony (and even then, the article is titled something like “Brennan fans the flames”).
Fox News really is like the old local 11 o’clock news: we’re going to tell you every bad thing that happened today, right before you go to bed.
Louise Mensch/Claude Taylor’s report says SCOTUS Marshal met Trump on the tarmac of Andrews. I don’t see her?! https://t.co/PbOafMjrig pic.twitter.com/UOuBuJdAAI
— Yashar (@yashar) May 23, 2017
Whatever Yashar 🙄
Everyone knows Marshal Talkin has an invisible cloak… https://t.co/z7C1dn6tdT— (((DuneMyThang™))) (@Kris_Sacrebleu) May 23, 2017
What a whiny bitch (and that’s a slight to actual bitches).
Sheriff David Clarke claims plagiarism report “meant to weaken” Trump’s support for him https://t.co/3oUTAoYGjd pic.twitter.com/2iWa8TYdan
— The Hill (@thehill) May 23, 2017
@thehill @SheriffClarke The fact that he enabled his underlings to murder a mentally ill man by withholding hydration should be disqualifying.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 23, 2017
re: #144 Sir John Barron
[Fox News]Damn, somebody is calling us on our bullcrap. What do we do now? OK, well we’ll just drop this story, stick some boilerplate language in there as to why and..[/Fox News]
They better hope that Lumpy gets that memo before his “preplanned” vacation.
re: #136 Sir John Barron
But since Sean Hannity isn’t really the “News” part of Faux News, I imagine he’ll keep on with the garbage.
[hannity]I’VE NEVER CLAIMED TO BE A JOURANLIST!11!![/hannity]
re: #141 Belafon
As of right now, O’Donnell and MSNBC are in contract negotiations. I think Lack wanted to get rid of him, but then the numbers came out that even news is now 1) Rachel, 2) O’Donnell, and 3) everyone else, and the network has forced Lack to reconsider.
I was hoping something like this would occur.
Lack should realize he has about the only guy on TV that routinely calls out Trump for what he is…a pathetic lying bad business man. That is unique and should be celebrated.
Maybe it is Lack they should hack.
re: #154 Stanley Sea
EASY PEACE
It really is amazing that he’s been around as long as he has been and is still managing to fuck shit up. He’s like an anti-Churchill - he keeps coming back to politics and pissing people off for the wrong reasons (Churchill at least tended to piss people off for the right reasons).
McConnell on GOP not talking to Ds about health care:
We’re not going 2 waste..time talking to ppl who aren’t interested in fixing..problem— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 23, 2017
We can retire now the lifetime gold medal for hypocrisy and chutzpah. McConnell will never be equaled! https://t.co/4XWgHnE42X
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) May 23, 2017
This is the second time Fox News retracted a Rod Wheeler story.
Last time it was about “violent lesbian gangs.”https://t.co/x6nMSD50Xm pic.twitter.com/eG9SNOCFPg— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 23, 2017
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
McConnell on GOP not talking to Ds about health care:
We’re not going 2 waste..time talking to ppl who aren’t interested in fixing..problem— Chad Pergram
And what ‘problem’ would that be that needs fixing?
“The problem of too many poors having health insurance.”
View from my office couch. Can you spot the corgi butt? pic.twitter.com/mfOuY7Q1f7
— Chao Li (@cli6cli6) May 23, 2017
re: #159 FormerDirtDart
Can’t wait for the third retraction.
Not getting as much attention as it should: The Trump budget proposes huge cuts in global health, from AIDS to malaria to TB. Sad.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 23, 2017
Violent Lesbian Gangs would make a fine thrash metal band name.
re: #119 Timothy Watson
339.18 hours? Talk about ridiculous precision.
As a person who has filled FOIA requests, I can say with absolute certainty that 0.19 hours is bullshit. Federal records management goes by 15 minute increments as the smallest fraction. 0.18 hours == 10.8 minutes, I highly question that number as a time keeping methodology anywhere. And, 338 hours for any records search and redaction on a request like that is unheard of. I’ve redacted 1000 page documents with confidential business information (CBI) in them in less time. The statutory privacy and CBI content in 400 pages of that type of information requested would never be that complicated.
re: #149 KGxvi
Ah, Richard Jeni. Another great one gone far too soon.
WH feeling vindicated by today’s hearings: spokesman says “still no evidence of any Russia-Trump campaign collusion.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 23, 2017
Being “unwittingly” lured into compromising positions by Russian intelligence, then possibly obstructing, is better. Still not good. https://t.co/qUJcvz4j0Y
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) May 23, 2017
re: #156 ObserverArt
I was hoping something like this would occur.
Lack should realize he has about the only guy on TV that routinely calls out Trump for what he is…a pathetic lying bad business man. That is unique and should be celebrated.
Maybe it is Lack they should hack.
I believe Lack was trying to get rid of O’Donnell to gain favorability with Trump.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We will eventually take back the House. And the Senate. And when we do, my sweet, gentle nature is going to turn very bloodthirsty on Ryan and McConnell. Like, I want their speaking privileges taken away. They are not to utter a word on the House or Senate floor every again. Not…one…word.
re: #142 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Sartre hit this nail squarely on the head, and his words are still completely on-target with this “alt-right” variation on the theme. They want you to dance for them because it gives them a sick enjoyment. This nonsense about “arguments” is just an obvious trick to get you to play along with their twisted games.
Charlie Pierce rips sweaty Trey Gowdy another orifice. Also, in regard to the traveling DT extravaganza:
“No wonder Ringling Brothers went out of business over the weekend. The competition for traveling circuses is way too ferocious these days.”
NEW: Family of Seth Rich issues statement after Fox News retracts story “that has caused deep pain and anguish to the family.” pic.twitter.com/t2jgggIpAa
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 23, 2017
re: #58 bratwurst
Awesome Mr Rogers story, but I should have closed my door. Wicked super-macho dudes like me aren’t supposed to be teary-eyed at work.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Ah, Richard Jeni. Another great one gone far too soon.
I had a stretch in junior high through high school where I really loved stand up comedy. Still do, really, but I was really into it back then - would watch every comedy special I could find. Jeni was among my favorites. Also loved a lot of Carlin’s older stuff.
That reminds me, I need to watch a few more of the comedy specials that Netflix has been dropping lately.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
No, But I can see the horror of white shoes with black socks.
re: #171 BlueGrl21
We will eventually take back the House. And the Senate. And when we do, my sweet, gentle nature is going to turn very bloodthirsty on Ryan and McConnell. Like, I want their speaking privileges taken away. They are not to utter a word on the House or Senate floor every again. Not…one…word.
McConnell is 75 and would be up for reelection in 2020… I could very easily see a situation where he retires, so we might not get the joy of sending him packing (also, looking at his electoral history, 2008 was his closest election where he got 53% of the vote - perhaps a charismatic presidential nominee and a competent senate nominee could cost him his seat if he runs again). As for Ryan, we can only hope that a Democratic legislature in Wisconsin draws his district in a way that makes it more competitive.
re: #168 Sir John Barron
“True compassion is how many people we get off those programs.”
/
“Arbeit macht frei.”
Question: can the GOP ram this budget through without Dem help?
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: can the GOP ram this budget through without Dem help?
Can they get enough GOP support?
re: #172 Charles Johnson
What bugs me is that his description stretches so much farther than anti-Semites.
I realize I’m repetitive and an armchair theorist, and thus don’t accept my word to be taken as Truth, but I think it’s important that the GOP is an alloy of belief systems all of which postulate that their intellectual opponents can be dismissed as unserious. Their version of religion, of economics, of culture and social policy: they aren’t a coherent set, but they are unified in peddling contempt of dissent, arguing in bad faith.
It’s what ties the “serious conservatives” to the various absolutist factions.
It’s the how of their thought process that makes them even scarier than they already seem, and why ultimately you can’t trust them to hold even to the things they claim are (their) unchangeable principles. The pattern is that they will presuppose their correctness and moral-ness (right and Right), and work backwards to bend the ideas (and the facts, and the world) to fit their needs. David Brooks and the Prosperity Gospel and supply-side economics drink from the same well.
Addendum: another feature of this trend is that there is nothing conservative about their conservatism. They’re wearing The Treasured Old Ways like a fucking Ed Gein skin suit.
re: #184 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
What bugs me is that his description stretches so much farther than anti-Semites.
I realize I’m repetitive and an armchair theorist, and thus don’t accept my word to be taken as Truth, but I think it’s important that the GOP is an alloy of belief systems all of which postulate that their intellectual opponents can be dismissed as
unseriousparasites, terrorist sympathizers/enablers/apologists, haters of capitalism and general losers.
re: #165 Colère Tueur de Lapin
As a person who has filled FOIA requests, I can say with absolute certainty that 0.19 hours is bullshit. Federal records management goes by 15 minute increments as the smallest fraction. 0.18 hours == 10.8 minutes, I highly question that number as a time keeping methodology anywhere. And, 338 hours for any records search and redaction on a request like that is unheard of. I’ve redacted 1000 page documents with confidential business information (CBI) in them in less time. The statutory privacy and CBI content in 400 pages of that type of information requested would never be that complicated.
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re: #37 BeachDem
One of my very favorite books when I was small!
re: #169 Belafon
I believe Lack was trying to get rid of O’Donnell to gain favorability with Trump.
And because “beautiful bombs” Brian Williams wants the 10 o’clock spot, but Lawrence’s contract specifies that he have a prime time slot.
Daily Caller has taken down its Seth Rich story:https://t.co/ibsAHQ4wOh pic.twitter.com/3OJVMXB5Lm
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) May 23, 2017
No editors note, just:
“4.0.4. - Page not found.” https://t.co/UB1Pjinnhg— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) May 23, 2017
What a fucking joke https://t.co/SsnmTxsnsT
— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) May 23, 2017
Trey Gowdy looks like he sweats baby oil
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) May 23, 2017
*blink*
Trey Gowdy, senior GOP member of House Intel, downplayed Brennan’s testimony, telling me it’s not unusual for Russians to contact campaigns
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 23, 2017
re: #184 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
The unchanging core of the GOP is tax cuts for the rich. Everything else is secondary to getting tax cuts for the rich.
In practice, this has resulted in the GOP becoming an accretion of every kind of resentful crank in US politics. First it was the racists who were resentful about civil rights legislation. A second wave of religious bigots and racists got their start with the GOP over school desegregation, and eventually became the forced birthers. This multi-decade process has led to the extinction of moderate Republicans in elected office.
The GOP no longer bothers making a rational case for its positions because it doesn’t have to. The GOP base has been thoroughly programmed by hate radio and Fox News, and will vote GOP no matter what. Well-paid both-siderists in the mainstream media give the GOP legitimacy it doesn’t come close to deserving.
‘I only have about 90 days to live’: Veteran with cancer surprises wife with wedding https://t.co/8gF4gxbp94 pic.twitter.com/gB7wlyekLR
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) May 23, 2017
ALBANY, Ore. - A wedding 50 years in the making has finally happened, and it was a surprise to the bride.
A terminally ill Vietnam veteran made it his goal to give his wife the wedding she never had.
Charles Upton said during his battle with cancer he made a bucket list. One item on it was a surprise wedding for his wife.
He and his wife met in 1967 when Charles Upton’s sergeant asked him a life changing question.
“‘Do you know anybody that would like to teach a young girl how to speak English?’ Of course I raised my hand. I was engaged to be married at the time so seeing my wife was love at first sight,” said Upton.
The couple is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
Mr. Upton’s 70th birthday is on Saturday.
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trey Gowdy, senior GOP member of House Intel, downplayed Brennan’s testimony, telling me it’s not unusual for Russians to contact campaigns
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 23, 2017
Any Republicans -any Americans- trying to normalize this, have lost their damn minds as well as sense of right & wrong. It. Is. Not. Normal. https://t.co/y72pBVr89B
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) May 23, 2017
9 violators found in the entire state. 7 were white Republicans over 60. https://t.co/0Qs8uNxhZU
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 23, 2017
Trump’s budget director calls public assistance “theft” and “larceny.”https://t.co/gWcUskYsrC pic.twitter.com/p25qz5cxlK
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) May 23, 2017
re: #105 Stanley Sea
@seanhannity @KimDotcom is currently wanted for fraud and racketeering. What’ the matter Sean? Was Bernie Madoff unavailable?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 23, 2017
re: #200 Dr Lizardo
Looks like The Alienist is coming to TV. I read the novel by Caleb Carr and this looks good.
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Cool beans
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
Um, is it just me, or did Gowdy just admit by implication that his campaigns have been contacted by the Russians?
I never imagined we’d have a government so openly hostile to the people it serves.
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
*blink*
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It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone
It’s not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It’s not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die
re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg
I never imagined we’d have a government so openly hostile to the people it serves.
What they’re finally admitting is who they serve.
re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg
I never imagined we’d have a government so openly hostile to the people it serves.
whatever man, this is just the government really serving the people it really represents
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
which should immediately begat the question, how long have the Russians been involved in your campaigns, Congressman?
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sarah Posner:
“…if today’s hearing is any guide, Congressional Republicans are still intent on shielding Trump by undermining the investigation in the mind of the public.
And so, again and again, Republican members of the Committee, particularly South Carolina’s Trey Gowdy, tried to get Brennan to say that no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russian meddling in the election exists. But Brennan repeatedly refused to render a judgment on whether there was collusion. Instead, he only repeated his refrain that, because the CIA is not a law enforcement agency, he turned over its intelligence gathering about contacts between the Trump camp and Russians to the FBI, so that the FBI could conduct its investigation into whether there was collusion.”
washingtonpost.com
re: #205 BeachDem
It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone
It’s not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It’s not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die[Embedded content]
Aw man. Whenever I get nostalgic about Beatlemania and the Stones and Dylan and all that stuff, the antidote is to recall that acts like this were hugely popular at the time too.
Well, good night Lizards. Time to call it a day.
re: #210 whitebeach
i hear ya… I think my Mom would have done Tom Jones or Englebert Humperdinck at the drop of a hat…..
A picture is worth a thousand words. pic.twitter.com/V5cqGwjyTb
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 23, 2017
in Georgia:
Numerous reports of damage coming in from #Crisp Co. after #tornado warned storms pushed through. (📷: Crisp SO) @WFXL @WGXAnews @NWSAtlanta pic.twitter.com/C0gPNuGrjz
— Kerri Copello (@KerriWFXL) May 23, 2017
Nice!
Travel mode for 1Password looks useful. https://t.co/5cjSb7EjLB pic.twitter.com/O06yLCvmJZ
— Eva (@evacide) May 23, 2017
Anyone been watching The Keepers on Netflix?
It’s both nauseating and fascinating at the same time.
Really well done though.
Needed: a way for news media to cover terroristic attacks without engaging in terror porn or using dead children to drive ratings.
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) May 23, 2017
Uber has been taking the wrong commission from NYC drivers for 2 1/2 years@WSJ https://t.co/nmoIpB4Ffn pic.twitter.com/YQQ3keWA8b
— Greg Bensinger (@GregBensinger) May 23, 2017
You’d think this stealing-based business model would at least let Uber turn a profit. https://t.co/S3Yi9Nwpew
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 23, 2017
https://t.co/ODCOqaA6Q1 👈🏻 #SethRich release soon
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 23, 2017
I lay odds he says he needs his followers to donate money before he can release any “evidence”. https://t.co/mJSZHFhHH3
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 23, 2017
I think we’ve seen this scam before.
@BraddJaffy Trey Gowdy looks like Brennan just took a big sip off his soda and then backwashed a little saliva back into it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 23, 2017
Make my day….oh you did. It’s #WorldTurtleDay! Check out this Painted turtle from @CVNPNPS. Image/Jim Schmidt https://t.co/rIWpjmBFSA pic.twitter.com/dqnVdcHGBh
— MidwestNPS (@MidwestNPS) May 23, 2017
Bizzy is sad she doesn’t have much in savings because she keeps blowing it on avocado toys. pic.twitter.com/jnYj1Zl7mV
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) May 23, 2017
re: #174 The Vicious Babushka
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Traditionally you can’t slander the dead. But maybe they can get the bastard for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Just saw that Roger Moore died.
That’s sad but hey, he made it to 89 and lived one hell of a life.
First Bond actor to pass away I believe.
The man was freaking 40 when The Saint went to color episodes. Yeah, he had a good run.
re: #192 EPR-radar
The unchanging core of the GOP is tax cuts for the rich. Everything else is secondary to getting tax cuts for the rich.
Because only the rich can create more wealth and guide us to prosperity while defending our American values of hard work and more hard work, and then a side job.
re: #205 BeachDem
It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone
It’s not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It’s not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die
featuring kingpin session guitarist Jimmy Page
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
featuring kingpin session guitarist Jimmy Page
Jimmy was okay - but his live guy (and his TV guy) was Big Jim Sullivan.
re: #205 BeachDem
It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone
It’s not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
It’s not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die[Embedded content]
Jealousy is not a good look on you, Tom.
Let the Drifters show you a better way.
@seanhannity Sean I hate to break it to you but @KimDotcom just used you to promote his shitty dance music.
— Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) May 23, 2017
LOL, Kim used Sean for a publicity stunt.
First Lady Michelle Obama did not come to play with y’all. She came to slay and SLAY she did. #Siena #Tuscany #Italy pic.twitter.com/reO0kBkVMm
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) May 23, 2017
Whelp! Looks who else is in Italy?
I don’t know whether to be happy or sad! https://t.co/k8ViSLsbxo— Jillian (@BeautyBind) May 23, 2017
re: #230 goddamnedfrank
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LOL, Kim used Sean for a publicity stunt.
Cool. Hannity the tool.
I guess he was in search of some attention…
Milo Yiannopoulos slams Ariana Grande for being “pro-Islam” after #ManchesterBombing https://t.co/T97370K3O0 pic.twitter.com/uHqDMKkXfS
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 23, 2017
“… “Sadly, Ariana Grande is too stupid to wise up and warn her European fans about the real threats to their freedom and their lives,” the former controversial Breitbart editor wrote Tuesday.
“She will remain ferociously pro-immigrant, pro-Islam and anti-America. Makes you wonder whether they bombed to attack her or in solidarity,” he added. …
WOW
Yeah, that stretch of road is going to be closed for a few years or so…
Massive landslide buries stretch of California’s Hwy. 1. https://t.co/2Qh6EvZJxu pic.twitter.com/dvguCFgVc0
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 23, 2017
re: #235 FormerDirtDart
“She will remain ferociously pro-immigrant, pro-Islam and anti-America.”
Sorry, you don’t get to make that call, Skippy.
re: #236 FormerDirtDart
WOW
Yeah, that stretch of road is going to be closed for a few years or so…[Embedded content]
Whoa
Burr, Warner announce they’re going to subpoena Flynn’s company to get the documents he’s refusing to provide.”Business can’t plead the 5th”
— Ali Rogin (@AliABCNews) May 23, 2017
re: #236 FormerDirtDart
WOW
Yeah, that stretch of road is going to be closed for a few years or so…[Embedded content]
whole lot of new beachfront now
re: #236 FormerDirtDart
WOW
Yeah, that stretch of road is going to be closed for a few years or so…[Embedded content]
I guess they’ll find out in a few months if anyone was on the road at the time.
JUST IN
United Kingdom threat level raised from “severe” to “critical”, meaning an attack is judged to be imminent.
Armed Forces may/can be deployed to assist police.
Source: BBC World News.
re: #241 b.d.
I guess they’ll find out in a few months if anyone was on the road at the time.
The road was already closed for repairs, and work-crews had been removed due to unstable soil.
re: #236 FormerDirtDart
That area’s already been hit pretty hard.
The one blessing is that this is south of the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road and therefore there is still a driving route into/out of Big Sur.
Still a lot of businesses are really going to be hurting. They were already saying it was going to be a year to finish the bridge replacement to the north.
Ugh.
The #HannityInsanity continues. @SeanHannity just now: I’m not @FoxNews, I have a moral obligation to continue talking about #SethRich. pic.twitter.com/JXSD9Jss0u
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) May 23, 2017
.@POTUS’s budget funds our defense, prioritizes infrastructure and balances in 10 years. My statement. pic.twitter.com/m3C0PN1dPI
— Jim Inhofe (@JimInhofe) May 23, 2017
Let’s talk about this, @JimInhofe. Since you won’t hold any public events in OK, this discussion will have to take place on social media. https://t.co/IgrdHYHDTZ
— Indivisible Norman (@IndivisibleNorm) May 23, 2017
Good
JUST IN: FCC won’t take action against Colbert over Trump joke https://t.co/Rx9Njum64w pic.twitter.com/4pzBUlhvpw
— The Hill (@thehill) May 23, 2017
Lumpy doubles down
A remarkable rant by Hannity on his radio show re: Seth Rich. Read for yourself. “I retracted nothing!” https://t.co/t523hnckwd pic.twitter.com/rY0Wu0FOkS
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) May 23, 2017
re: #245 bratwurst
Ugh.
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Ya think that Hannity is trying to get run off of FoxNews since all of his buddies are gone?
Rift over the Mississippi state flag roils in Biloxi, where the mayor has ordered it down. https://t.co/b3Ik0N4hJd
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) May 23, 2017
I don’t know if anyone listens to Ana Marie Cox’s podcast, With Friends Like These, but she has something of a recurring theme, which is basically that white/privileged people need to practice their own sort of respectability politics (the “pull your pants up” sort of politics we saw from certain segments of the black community in the 90s). I think it’s particularly necessary within the conservative movement these days, but I’m not sure there’s anyone around who has the clout and/or wherewithal to actually do that.
—> The family of Seth Rich offered to talk to Kim Dotcom. He didn’t respond to them.
… Instead, he responded to Sean Hannity. pic.twitter.com/KvzjmpEU5T— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 23, 2017
don’t hold back, Cindy…
“If you are 30 years old, you have never had a job as an adult in a healthy American economy.” - Mulvaney on @WhiteHouse budget proposal pic.twitter.com/zLzTcsFn6D
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2017
This motherfucker is on crack https://t.co/vtDJw0ZAfc
— CindyLou (@cindynorth1) May 23, 2017
re: #248 The Vicious Babushka
Lumpy doubles down
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Do you think the Murdoch boys have directed him not to discuss it on his TV show?
And if they did, what will they do if he does mention it?
re: #248 The Vicious Babushka
Lumpy’s auto-fellatio performance there ought to be good enough for 10/10 from the Russian judge.
re: #242 Teukka
JUST IN
United Kingdom threat level raised from “severe” to “critical”, meaning an attack is judged to be imminent.
Armed Forces may/can be deployed to assist police.
Source: BBC World News.
BBC News: UK threat level raised to highest level
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
“This cut to the EPA will right-size the agency and return the focus to protecting air, land, and water instead of churning out regulations.”
Excuse me, Senator, how, exactly, does the EPA protect air, land, and water, if not by issuing regulations for their protection?
re: #257 KGxvi
“This cut to the EPA will right-size the agency and return the focus to protecting air, land, and water instead of churning out regulations.”
Excuse me, Senator, how, exactly, does the EPA protect air, land, and water, if not by issuing regulations for their protection?
Inhofe is just dispensing his talking points, like a good Republican apparatchik. No thought is required.
After all, this is the meathead that ‘thinks’ bringing a snowball to the Senate floor somehow disproves global warming.
re: #256 Teukka
BBC News: UK threat level raised to highest level
Definitely time for a nice cuppa tea
re: #75 Charles Johnson
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re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
don’t hold back, Cindy…
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What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with that man.
re: #247 Stanley Sea
Good
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As if there was any doubt. Trump made worse statements about Obama.
re: #235 FormerDirtDart
I guess [Milo Yiannopoulos] was in search of some attention…
He is badly in need of conservative redemption (and a new book deal)
SurveyUSA has Ossoff up 7, but there are plenty of reasons to be cautious #GA06 https://t.co/rqZdBMfr60
— Daily Kos Elections (@DKElections) May 23, 2017
One test of whether a partisan site is worth reading is whether it handles “good news” with any skepticism https://t.co/Y9PLOR2YKK
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 23, 2017
re: #249 b.d.
Ya think that Hannity is trying to get run off of FoxNews since all of his buddies are gone?
I think his ratings must be falling and he’s gotten desperate.
re: #261 thedopefishlives
What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with that man.
Freedumb Caucus, of course.
re: #265 Jebediah, RBG
Moral suasion?
Moral suasion is well known to be a good technique for getting BigCorps to behave themselves. It’s especially effective in cases where a competitor can gain a competitive advantage by fouling the environment.
re: #268 Skip Intro
I think his ratings must be falling and he’s gotten desperate.
Sean Hannity panic button: “Help my ratings have fallen and I can’t get them back up!”
I’ll say this politely - he’s fucking addled.
good article though.
Trump used to be more articulate. What happened? https://t.co/FKL3OzHBJm pic.twitter.com/oocODVVjXp
— STAT (@statnews) May 23, 2017
re: #236 FormerDirtDart
WOW
Yeah, that stretch of road is going to be closed for a few years or so…[Embedded content]
Yikes. Most beautiful road in America for my money. But the first time I rode it we were almost bumped over the cliff by a (comparatively) tiny landslide that buried only half the roadway. You need drugs or some serious zen, maybe both, to make the trip. Which, as it happens, plenty of Hwy. 1 travelers keep in stock.
re: #216 goddamnedfrank
1Password is a great tool. I’ve been using it for years and they keep making it better.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
That would probably be more effective.
Sean Hannity is having a serious public meltdown, and he could very well end up being the next Fox spokeshole to get dumped.
re: #278 Charles Johnson
Sean Hannity is having a serious public meltdown, and he could very well end up being the next Fox spokeshole to get dumped.
This happens to all wingnuts eventually. If they don’t stabilize and find some semblance of moderation, it just becomes a downward spiral that typically ends at the bottom of a bottle, or worse.
“A New Foundation for American Greatness” - the title on the submitted budget.
Have this title gotten the roasting it deserves?
re: #280 thedopefishlives
This happens to all wingnuts eventually. If they don’t stabilize and find some semblance of moderation, it just becomes a downward spiral that typically ends at the bottom of a bottle, or worse.
It’s the wingnut belief version of involuntary cold turkey.
A very literal and messy DT (in more inadvertently-related acronyms than one), if you will…
“My name is Sean Hannity and I’m here to tell you not to trust the CIA, the FBI, or the NSA. Now please welcome Kim dot Com to the show.”
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) May 23, 2017
re: #281 freetoken
“A New Foundation for American Greatness” - the title on the submitted budget.
Have this title gotte the roasting it deserves?
Not to be crass, but considering who supports it, can we kill this thing in its shell by calling it N-FAG?
re: #278 Charles Johnson
Sean Hannity is having a serious public meltdown, and he could very well end up being the next Fox spokeshole to get dumped.
Not that it wouldn’t be a Majorly Good Thing to see Lumpy publicly blow a story and get the axe thereby, but I really have to wonder why THIS story?
It’s not like Hannity hasn’t promoted bullshit conspiracy-theory nonsense before: and as big an asshole as he is, I’d have more expected him to “retract” - but in way that still made him out to be the victim - of the “liberal media” or whatever.
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Inhofe and similar tools are sublimely sure they can keep the peasants on their side. In this they are reminiscent of the French aristocracy and its sycophants, circa 1789. They even rely on the same methods, superstition and misdirection (with suitable updates).
I wonder if they realize the risk? Probably not, since they have been brainwashed from birth to dismiss all European radicalism as “Marxism,” not realizing that Marx had not even been born when the French revolutionaries were going around lopping heads and pitchforking fatcats. Ironically, the risk is magnified because today’s peasant masses are armed with AR-15s and Glocks rather than pitchforks, something for which Inhofe and his gang can take full credit.
Make America Great Again
A man went on a racist tirade after hearing another man speak Spanish on the phone cnn.it
And scumstain of first order Ezra Levant keeps being scummy. At least he doesn’t have a TV network any more.
Never one to let dead kids go to waste, Ezra registers the URL https://t.co/DxKbAPScIn. Feel free to donate when you stop by. pic.twitter.com/tWDZ5IZ5kK
— CC (@canadiancynic) May 23, 2017
@kylegriffin1 More winning!
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 23, 2017
re: #291 petesh
What the actual …
That Roger Moore story had me thinking their might be some hope for the species yet, but this …
Watch this clip from 1987. What happened to this Donald Trump? https://t.co/ZSvgsdvVoo
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) May 23, 2017
re: #292 petesh
That Roger Moore story had me thinking their might be some hope for the species yet, but this …
Quite the juxtaposition, isn’t it?
re: #285 makeitstop
Found on Facebook - the best Roger Moore story ever.
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The story has another whole level if you’re a fan of Roger Moore back when he was the star of The Saint.
Oh, and there’s a BIG ass thunderstorm just north of Downtown.
In case you missed it, Gallup did its semi-regular update on creationist views in America, complete with misleading headline:
In US, Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low
Sounds great, until you get down to the details.
Namely, what is declining, barely, is young-earth creationism.
The acceptance of the scientific view of the human past has not changed over the last few years of the survey.
The young creationist category has lost, in a very small measure, to a “God guided” view of evolution, whatever that means.
And this is the real problem - the terminology in this poll, like so many other polls, is the driver. Unless a poll dives into the details of meanings of words then what we are seeing may simply be a semantic change.
And just like clockwork…
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
TXC021-28[no phone numbers allowed]00-
/o.new.kewx.sv.W.0126.170523T2219Z-170523T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
519 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2017
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Southeastern Williamson County in south central Texas…
Northeastern Travis County in south central Texas…
Northeastern Bastrop County in south central Texas…
Central Lee County in south central Texas…
* Until 600 PM CDT
* At 519 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Pflugerville,
moving east at 60 mph.
HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include…
Austin, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Elgin, Giddings, Lexington,
Windemere, Manor, Fedor, Paige, Coupland, Camp Swift, Circle D-Kc
Estates, Knobb Springs, Northrup, Cedar Hills, Loebau, Hills,
Lincoln and Butler.
re: #288 FormerDirtDart
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Republican media poison. 50 years ago you could speak Spanish to someone on the phone anywhere in the country, and nobody would raise an eyebrow. I know because I did it 50 years ago. Maybe you were talking to a friend in Chile, or a teacher or a fellow student. If you were an adult, you might be talking to a diplomat or making a business deal that would benefit the United States. The point is, not even the hard right thought it was a bad thing.
re: #295 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
The story has another whole level if you’re a fan of Roger Moore back when he was the star of The Saint.
Roger on the saint; dat hair doe!
re: #293 gocart mozart
it’s the same Trump. He repeats words and phrases 2-3 times, doesn’t get into specifics, and talks about putting Americans first… then he doesn’t do anything about it because he doesn’t really care.
Still, that poll tells us why Donald Trump is President.
I have some 1940 era magazines, Popular Mechanics and National Geographic and the like. They feature some prominent full page ads for the Berlitz Language School, “The Swing is to Spanish,” with suitably colorful maps and charming illustrations of Latin hospitality. With access to Europe largely closed by the war, many enterprising Americans were looking south for new opportunities. It helped a lot if you knew the language, though, and Berlitz saw an opportunity of its own.
@LaughedOff I have no intention of arguing with Nazis. Just fuck off, please.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2017
First they came for Sean Hannity, and I did not speak out— because seriously, fuck that guy.
— (((Jeff Tiedrich))) (@jefftiedrich) May 23, 2017
re: #110 FormerDirtDart
@alexkotch Score one for the good guys.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) May 23, 2017
LOL
@NRCC @NancyPelosi get ya mans first pic.twitter.com/GjSptMd1xI
— Colby (@colby_as) May 23, 2017
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Ivanka really messed up on installing that fascinator on her head…the band part should be tucked into her hair, not over.
The fascinator is supposed to appear to float over your head, Ivanka, not be tied down.
jeez…she is so not a fashionista.
DEVELOPING!
Huge announcement tonight about Seth Rich, Trump/Russian Collusion corrupt media, the liberal effort to silence me. And my future at Fox!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
re: #305 Charles Johnson
Lol @Green_Footballs blocked me. What an argument pal, so original
— Bridger T. (@LaughedOff) May 23, 2017
re: #305 Charles Johnson
The only argument with Nazis that matters ended in 1945. They lost.
re: #312 The Major
What part of Nazi Punks Fuck Off didn’t he get?
re: #313 Jebediah, RBG
Sadly, it’s now becoming the second lost-cause in America, it seems.
re: #315 freetoken
Which I find really unexpected and weird, but here we are…
There is remarkably good correlation between groups who believe in creationism and those who vote for Trump.
re: #311 bratwurst
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re: #315 freetoken
Sadly, it’s now becoming the second lost-cause in America, it seems.
We let the first one get away with acting like they won and let them have their loser participation trophies for over a century. It’s much harder to overcome that than it should be to overcome this nonsense.
re: #311 bratwurst
@seanhannity The Major will let you in on a little secret: You are Ambassador Mollari: https://t.co/i7Ko7iGEbv
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) May 23, 2017
@seanhannity Sean, you are starting to sound desperate and like a #Whineylittlebitch. #FireHannity
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) May 23, 2017
re: #311 bratwurst
DEVELOPING!
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I hope he says he has tiger blood and is duh winning.
Seriously I haven’t seen a public meltdown of this magnitude since Charlie Sheen a few years back. What the hell.
OH NOOOOS!
IMPORTANT! Mediamatters is trying to silence me, get me fired, pressure my advertising on radio & TV. Liberal Fascism. I need your help!!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
Whiny little bitch.
re: #328 thedopefishlives
Revenge is a dish best served cold, Hannity. You made your bed, now lie in it.
How This Man’s Movies Are Getting People out of Prison https://t.co/MmSMjaK2uE via @ozy
— ggt (@geegeetee) May 23, 2017
re: #317 freetoken
There is remarkably good correlation between groups who believe in creationism and those who vote for Trump.
No!!!
Hello Captain Obvious.
(Not directed at you freetoken, but I think it is pretty easy to see it takes a basic type of belief to buy totally into Creationism. It is not too difficult to understand that same kind of thinking went into voting for The Orangeness of Pompoudus.)
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Whiny little bitch.
sucks when reality intrudes . .
As part of the bigger Gallup social survey, they also have been tracking opinions on “morals” - an even more ambiguous thing than creationism.
Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows
I suspect this Gallup creation is quite marginal. If one looks at the response to the two questions:
what springs to mind immediately is that there is a fundamental flaw in trying to interpret answers to these questions.
re: #327 Skip Intro
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Whiny little bitch.
Capitalism — by virtue of boycotts and pulled advertising — will do him in, just like it did for Bill O’Reilly.
How poetic.
shit
#WATCH: Unprovoked attack on rabbi walking to morning prayers caught on video; not being investigated as hate crime https://t.co/0GN0wLK3tn pic.twitter.com/koWjeciHVg
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) May 23, 2017
re: #327 Skip Intro
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Whiny little bitch.
Wait, there’s a campaign against his advertisers to get him off the air?
Where do I sign up?
re: #326 Charles Johnson
Twitter provides The Major with such a target-rich environment…Right Now its Alex Jones and Sean Hannity in The Major’s cross-hairs…
re: #337 Skip Intro
This brings tears to The Major’s eyes…. pic.twitter.com/XF8izedRnv
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) May 23, 2017
I assume Hannity has a boss at FoxNews? They can’t be too happy.
Donald has done every single thing he accused Hillary Clinton of.
So I want to remind you that he said Hillary would rig the election.— Molly (@bitchyologist) May 23, 2017
Lemme guess, @seanhannity. The huge announcement is that your Fox bosses have decided to assist your continuing self-defenestration. Right? pic.twitter.com/sc1xTIpmVy
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 23, 2017
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re: #340 b.d.
I assume Hannity has a boss at FoxNews? They can’t be too happy.
I betcha Lumpy is a sovereign citizen at Fox News. He’s his own boss.
half /
Looks to me like Sean Hannity knows he is gone so he is doing all this as a way to lock his followers in to always remember the last act, his treatment, and then to use that for more grift to come. There will be tell all books, jobs with nut media, speaking engagements to wingnuts and the best thing…his call for his supporters to dump Fox News.
He is going to take as many people and as much money with him as he can. And that means both ways, down and up.
re: #326 Charles Johnson
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re: #345 ObserverArt
The Major already has Mr. Hannity in its cross-hairs….
re: #340 b.d.
I assume Hannity has a boss at FoxNews? They can’t be too happy.
It’s probably contingent upon whether he pushes the point on the air tonight, after News Corp. has retracted the story.
Mentioning Seth Rich on the air might get him escorted out of the building. And he seems to be in the frame of mind where he might just say ‘fuck it’ and go all Network.
Go for it, Lumpy! Then I won’t have to look at that puke-inducing mug of yours.
re: #345 ObserverArt
Looks to me like Sean Hannity knows he is gone so he is doing all this as a way to lock his followers in to always remember the last act, his treatment, and then to use that for more grift to come. There will be tell all books, jobs with nut media, speaking engagements to wingnuts and the best thing…his call for his supporters to dump Fox News.
He is going to take as many people and as much money with him as he can. And that means both ways, down and up.
Rup *really* wants bSkyb, huh?
Read THIS on your POS show tonight instead of your delusional, inhuman, unfeeling propaganda, @seanhannity. https://t.co/OPok3mElVR
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 23, 2017
re: #348 makeitstop
It’s probably contingent upon whether he pushes the point on the air tonight, after News Corp. has retracted the story.
Mentioning Seth Rich on the air might get him escorted out of the building. And he seems to be in the frame of mind where he might just say ‘fuck it’ and go all Network.
Go for it, Lumpy! Then I won’t have to look at that puke-inducing mug of yours.
LOL, make Tucker’s show an hour longer!
Even if Sean Hannity announces his future status at Fox, that still is no excuse for him being a water-carrier for the GOP and his fake news bullshit. Sean Hannity has only one shot at redemption-if he fails to take it……
Finally, a Gallup article from last week that got very little coverage, but is part of the package with the previous two I linked:
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God
It’s only a small decline, though. Yet the long term trends on this topic are a bit clearer than that on creationism.
Which brings me back to the methods behind these polls. They are testing the triggering capabilities of special words, more so than understanding of the topic involved.
your daily dose of happy news:
Mom who went to every class with her quadriplegic son gets a graduation day surprise: Her own MBA. Story: https://t.co/jVnXp5XqGB pic.twitter.com/2lXdlFQOdE
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) May 23, 2017
I realized there actually is one good thing about having Fuckface von Clownstick installed by a Russian cyber agitprop/psy-op.
The complete break down of several GOP institutions under the pressure of trying to pretend this is all OK.
If you told me 6 months ago that Bill O’Reilly would be out at Fox and that Sean Hannity was probably soon to be next I would have laughed in your face.
re: #352 The Major
Even if Sean Hannity announces his future status at Fox, that still is no excuse for him being a water-carrier for the GOP and his fake news bullshit. Sean Hannity has only one shot at redemption-if he fails to take it……
Hannity, like many at Fox News, has had a couple thousand shots at redemption in the last decade and a half. Shepard Smith is the only guy that took one (NSFW version):
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Whiny little bitch.
@seanhannity Lying to ignorant people to undermine America was a very bad career choice, and choices have consequences. #DEALWITHTHEDEVIL
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 23, 2017
re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth
hey, that’s where I went to law school (for about 30 seconds I considered doing the JD/MBA program)… good on them.
Remember that Lumpy had a two-month “key-man” escape clause on his contract that was triggered by Bill Shine getting the heave-ho. From what I understand, he turned it down. Which is baffling as shit that he wants to get fired outright instead.
Seriously, there’s something very, very wrong here … and it goes beyond his ideology.
re: #360 Myron Falwell
I vote Brain Tumour as the wild card reason.
The Major has pinned this Tweet:
Hate is Learned Behavior, taught by our parents and social groups. It must be unlearned if the world is to survive.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) May 23, 2017
re: #361 Apocalypse
I vote Brain Tumour as the wild card reason.
Assumes fact not in evidence, the “brain” part.
re: #349 MsJ
Rup *really* wants bSkyb, huh?
That probably figures in, but really it just seems things are changing at Fox News anyway.
They still have a company and need to make the bucks to keep it going. They have taken some big hits over the last year. I don’t think that is going to be good for building a future audience as the current falls away. So, they need a business model change and the bad happenings over the year has hastened the need.
Megyn Kelly leaves. Greta moves, maybe pushed. Ailes crashes and burns in sex scandals. A few women staff members leave or are bought out. Bill O’Reilly finally gets the boot for being the Creep He Always Was. And now Hannity acting all crazy betting his name for whatever.
Seems Hannity’s moves may be very limited.
Fox clearing the decks for their new show I’ll Take the Fifth, starring Gen. Michel Flynn.
re: #364 ObserverArt
And now Hannity acting all crazy betting his name for whatever.
He’s trying to protect the “Sean Hannity” brand.
It will fail. Especially if he doesn’t repent.
re: #360 Myron Falwell
Remember that Lumpy had a two-month “key-man” escape clause on his contract that was triggered by Bill Shine getting the heave-ho. From what I understand, he turned it down. Which is baffling as shit that he wants to get fired outright instead.
Seriously, there’s something very, very wrong here … and it goes beyond his ideology.
Getting fired makes him a martyr, which if he’s going to create his own online presence is probably a better creation myth then “I left after they started firing all the sexual harassers.” A subscription based on demand streaming podcast/video network could make sense as a business model going forward - especially if he can convince other cast offs to join him in order to generate content.
re: #364 ObserverArt
That probably figures in, but really it just seems things are changing at Fox News anyway.
They still have a company and need to make the bucks to keep it going. They have taken some big hits over the last year. I don’t think that is going to be good for building a future audience as the current falls away. So, they need a business model change and the bad happenings over the year has hastened the need.
Megyn Kelly leaves. Greta moves, maybe pushed. Ailes crashes and burns in sex scandals. A few women staff members leave or are bought out. Bill O’Reilly finally gets the boot for being the Creep He Always Was. And now Hannity acting all crazy betting his name for whatever.
Seems Hannity’s moves may be very limited.
Can’t wait for that disgruntled book.
re: #365 Skip Intro
Fox clearing the decks for their new show I’ll Take the Fifth, starring Gen. Michel Flynn.
Isn’t that just a reboot of “I Lied Under Oath” starring Col. Oliver North?
re: #369 KGxvi
Isn’t that just a reboot of “I Lied Under Oath” starring Col. Oliver North?
Ollie’s still there so it’s a proven concept.
re: #369 KGxvi
Isn’t that just a reboot of “I Lied Under Oath” starring Col. Oliver North?
But with added Russian subtitles! //
Just a heads up:
I’m working on a rebuttal novel to Hillbilly Elegy.
Hard to believe how pissed off I still am at that asshat’s portrayal of life here eastern Kentucky.
Working title is Fuck You JD Vance…
obviously the title will possibly improve during the process…
re: #369 KGxvi
Isn’t that just a reboot of “I Lied Under Oath” starring Col. Oliver North?
A perfect example of the times. That ass is still looked upon with loving eyes by a lot of wingnuts. He gets interviews for being Olie North. Yuck. So many Americans buy the act and miss the toxic sludge behind it.
Speaking of polling, here’s an interesting one, and it pertains to the correlation between religiosity and Trump support one hand, and the affinity of Trump to religious nationalism and the rise of the hard right in eastern Europe:
Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe
This graph summarizes the tight coupling of religion and nationalism:
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The resurgence of religion in the aftermath of the fall of communism in the Soviet Union is one of those phenomenon that would have surprised our comrade ancestors.
BREAKING: @FoxNews retracts #SethRich story https://t.co/O3ZhECzjgc cc: @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/YLQFCgmHpt
— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) May 23, 2017
It’s shameful that it took a cease and desist order to get @FoxNews to retract a false story that was wholly debunked a week ago. https://t.co/jD51E44uPb
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 23, 2017
re: #364 ObserverArt
Plus Rupert’s kids had a history of not getting along with Ailes or his lieutenants. Supposedly they REALLY want to clean house while Rupert is fine with rearranging the deck chairs.
re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just a heads up:
I’m working on a rebuttal novel to Hillbilly Elegy.
Hard to believe how pissed off I still am at that asshat’s portrayal of life here eastern Kentucky.
Working title is Fuck You JD Vance…
obviously the title will possibly improve during the process…
Let me know if you need an editorial assistant! (I like the working title, but that’s just me—maybe something like Requiem for Some Serious Bullshit?)
re: #378 BeachDem
Let me know if you need an editorial assistant! (I like the working title, but that’s just me—maybe something like Requiem for Some Serious Bullshit?)
I shall totally keep you in mind!
re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just a heads up:
I’m working on a rebuttal novel to Hillbilly Elegy.
Hard to believe how pissed off I still am at that asshat’s portrayal of life here eastern Kentucky.
Working title is Fuck You JD Vance…
obviously the title will possibly improve during the process…
How you gonna improve on that?
re: #378 BeachDem
Let me know if you need an editorial assistant! (I like the working title, but that’s just me—maybe something like Requiem for Some Serious Bullshit?)
Would be happy to serve as beta reader! (I’d have to actually read the original Elegy, of course, but it’s a small price to pay)