New From Olbermann: 40 Shady Things We Now Know About Trump and Russia
After a deluge of revelations, here’s what we’ve learned so far
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This is a good summary, but I seriously wish Keith hadn’t cited John Schindler and Claude Taylor’s fake news.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Shit. Wishful thinking is rampant among the liberal left, prolly out of desperation - hence reliance on the likes of Mensch, Taylor and Schindler among some segments.
Fox News Poll: ObamaCare opinion. #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/sG21ZU85Et
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 24, 2017
re: #2 Nyet
Notably, at least 2 of the 3 are right-wingers (know nothing about Taylor).
re: #3 FormerDirtDart
Wait, Faux News actually aired that?! They must be slipping.
Nothing unusual to this, I’m sure. (At least in this administration.)
First on CNN: Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose Russia meetings in a security clearance form, DOJ says https://t.co/u6CtbCvFYZ pic.twitter.com/vJFYzhxKmV
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 24, 2017
re: #5 thedopefishlives
Wait, Faux News actually aired that?! They must be slipping.
SNAPSHOT IN TIME! OUTLIER! NOTHING TO SEE HERE! MOVE ALONG! SHUT UP! THAT’S WHY!
re: #5 thedopefishlives
Wait, Faux News actually aired that?! They must be slipping.
The intern accidentally switched the columns back to the way they were supposed to be.
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
just further proof that they did in fact, “drain the swamp”, the problem is, that they’re now all in Trump’s Cabinet and administration……
it’s like a one stop shopping mall, you can find bigots, stupidity, racism, greed, avarice, perversity and ignorance, all in one place.
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Nothing unusual to this, I’m sure. (At least in this administration.)
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Mr Law and Order Guy.
For everyone else.
I used to not really care about Jeff Sessions. Now, I care too much about his damaging ways and just want to see him gone.
I don’t know anything about this Rep from Wisconsin, but I like his style:
“I just want to ask you,” Pocan said to DeVos, “would you send your kids to a school where they have 93 percent of the students aren’t English proficient and zero percent are math proficient?”
DeVos thanked the congressman for his question and mused for a moment on how nice it was that he’s from Wisconsin.
“I only have five minutes,” Pocan prompted DeVos.
She deflected, saying the charter schools experiment was begun by Democratic Milwaukee city councilwoman Polly Williams. Pocan replied that yes it was and the councilwoman is no longer living, but before she passed away, she declared the voucher program a failure that “failed to live up to its promises.”
This set off a tense back-and-forth before he gave up, saying, “I can see you’re not going to answer my question.”
Gah—Betsy DeVos is the worst of the worst.
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Nothing unusual to this, I’m sure. (At least in this administration.)
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While I’d love to see Trump impeached and barred from future service, Sessions is also on that list. Sadly, I don’t think we’re in sane enough times that “impeached and removed from office” would be enough to prevent him from getting a gig in the Senate again.
re: #4 Nyet
Notably, at least 2 of the 3 are right-wingers (know nothing about Taylor).
Claude found a way to make a LOT of money fast on the grifter circuit.
re: #10 ObserverArt
Mr Law and Order Guy.
For everyone else.
I used to not really care about Jeff Sessions. Now, I care too much about his damaging ways and just want to see him gone.
It’s easy to not care about 1 out of 100 Senators. Hell, there’s probably at least 80 Senators that I don’t really care about. But having a position of power like AG, that makes me care a lot more.
re: #11 BeachDem
I don’t know anything about this Rep from Wisconsin, but I like his style:
Gah—Betsy DeVos is the worst of the worst.
DeVos really is a pathetic hack. She’s not qualified for this job at all.
Always a day late and a dollar short.
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re: #12 KGxvi
While I’d love to see Trump impeached and barred from future service, Sessions is also on that list. Sadly, I don’t think we’re in sane enough times that “impeached and removed from office” would be enough to prevent him from getting a gig in the Senate again.
Well we haven’t had a President leave the presidency and then return to office since Andrew Johnson who curiously enough was impeached and nearly removed from office.
re: #4 Nyet
Notably, at least 2 of the 3 are right-wingers (know nothing about Taylor).
Same. Where the hell did he come from all of a sudden?
re: #15 HappyWarrior
DeVos really is a pathetic hack. She’s not qualified for this job at all.
I think it goes way beyond not being qualified. She has an agenda and it is heinous.
Trump’s historic arms deal is likely a jobs creator - in Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON
In keeping with his campaign promise to put “America first,” President Donald Trump framed a massive $110 billion arms deal signed with Saudi Arabia over the weekend as a historic agreement that would result in “jobs, jobs, jobs.”
“That was a tremendous day,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Industry analysts agree - if you’re talking about Saudi jobs.
The new agreements foresee a massive influx of defense technology and job training into the country, and that, analysts say, will result in hundreds of new, high-skilled positions - in Saudi Arabia. The analysts even foresee the day when the Saudi arms manufacturing could compete with U.S. defense industries.
That awarkward moment when you went to visit #PopeFrancis right before auditioning for the next Addams Family movie pic.twitter.com/y2ZVJjRAIv
— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) May 24, 2017
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Obama would have been, figuratively, buried alive…
re: #14 KGxvi
It’s easy to not care about 1 out of 100 Senators. Hell, there’s probably at least 80 Senators that I don’t really care about. But having a position of power like AG, that makes me care a lot more.
We should not have an AG that wants to bring back the bad old days of mandatory minimum sentences packing for-profit private prisons with poor black kids, but here we are. Republicans are openly-evil these days. They know that we see that they’re totally corrupt, ruining lives to line their pockets, but they don’t care.
Fox News Poll: ObamaCare opinion. #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/sG21ZU85Et
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 24, 2017
@FoxNews Something is happening here,
but you don’t know what it is,
do you, Mr. Murdoch? https://t.co/GyD87UJM3K— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 24, 2017
re: #19 BeachDem
I think it goes way beyond not being qualified. She has an agenda and it is heinous.
Yep not qualified and having an agenda.
re: #22 Nyet
Obama would have been, figuratively, buried alive…
I think that’s one of my biggest issues with the Republican party. (Well, maybe. There’s so many issues it’s hard to say for sure. But.) Integrity is something that has meaning to me. Building your reactions from your principles and not just reacting to every little stupid thing. Which means if you care about it when the other side would do it, you should ALSO care about it when your side does it.
I’d like to think I try to live up to that standard, even if I don’t always succeed. I never see Republicans even trying.
Per the CBO, seems the AHCA will cause a yuge rise in premiums.. oh and a pesky little matter of 23 MILLION PEOPLE losing health coverage… pic.twitter.com/MH5wmlwMSJ
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) May 24, 2017
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think that’s one of my biggest issues with the Republican party. (Well, maybe. There’s so many issues it’s hard to say for sure. But.) Integrity is something that has meaning to me. Building your reactions from your principles and not just reacting to every little stupid thing. Which means if you care about it when the other side would do it, you should ALSO care about it when your side does it.
I’d like to think I try to live up to that standard, even if I don’t always succeed. I never see Republicans even trying.
Hear, hear!
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think that’s one of my biggest issues with the Republican party. (Well, maybe. There’s so many issues it’s hard to say for sure. But.) Integrity is something that has meaning to me. Building your reactions from your principles and not just reacting to every little stupid thing. Which means if you care about it when the other side would do it, you should ALSO care about it when your side does it.
I’d like to think I try to live up to that standard, even if I don’t always succeed. I never see Republicans even trying.
It’s like when they complained about executive power and EO’s under Obama but now they’re just fine with them under Trump. Not to mention that Obama was in fact pretty conservative in his executive orders even with the GOP Congress he had for much of his time in office.
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think that’s one of my biggest issues with the Republican party. (Well, maybe. There’s so many issues it’s hard to say for sure. But.) Integrity is something that has meaning to me. Building your reactions from your principles and not just reacting to every little stupid thing. Which means if you care about it when the other side would do it, you should ALSO care about it when your side does it.
I’d like to think I try to live up to that standard, even if I don’t always succeed. I never see Republicans even trying.
I suppose this is bad English and that should have been “there are so many issues” but I’m allowed to get away with that shit as a native English speaker. :D
It is the lack of integrity. It’s unquestionably supporting the NSA in the Bush years and then complaining when Obama uses the same program but actually makes it more judicious.
re: #17 HappyWarrior
Well we haven’t had a President leave the presidency and then return to office since Andrew Johnson who curiously enough was impeached and nearly removed from office.
True, but imagine this scenario:
Either the Dems take the House in 2018 or the Russia story hits critical mass for Republicans and the House goes through with impeachment. The Senate, in a moment of clarity, removes Trump from office. But they don’t bar him from future service.
Trump, being Trump, rallies his now pissed off true believers, barnstorming and giving speeches about how he was draining the swamp and the swamp fought back. So he’s running again, as a Republican, because fuck those guys. And he sweeps his base into a frenzy, riding it to another nomination (and taking out that traitor Pence along the way with new VP nominee Newt Gingrich), not only that, he rides this wave of resentment to primary several Republicans that voted against him in either the House or Senate impeachment proceedings.
Suddenly we have a general election of Trump vs ??? Hopefully, whomever the Democrats nominate can fight the crazy and inspire at the same time.
For all of Glenn Greenwald’s trolling of the Democrats/left for ‘double standards’, he never goes after the right for the same.
re: #24 Charles Johnson
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What it is ain’t exactly clear…”
re: #34 KGxvi
True, but imagine this scenario:
Either the Dems take the House in 2018 or the Russia story hits critical mass for Republicans and the House goes through with impeachment. The Senate, in a moment of clarity, removes Trump from office. But they don’t bar him from future service.
Trump, being Trump, rallies his now pissed off true believers, barnstorming and giving speeches about how he was draining the swamp and the swamp fought back. So he’s running again, as a Republican, because fuck those guys. And he sweeps his base into a frenzy, riding it to another nomination (and taking out that traitor Pence along the way with new VP nominee Newt Gingrich), not only that, he rides this wave of resentment to primary several Republicans that voted against him in either the House or Senate impeachment proceedings.
Suddenly we have a general election of Trump vs ??? Hopefully, whomever the Democrats nominate can fight the crazy and inspire at the same time.
Where he’s moving to this in this scenario? I hear ya. Just seems unlikely but these are strange times.
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think that’s one of my biggest issues with the Republican party. (Well, maybe. There’s so many issues it’s hard to say for sure. But.) Integrity is something that has meaning to me. Building your reactions from your principles and not just reacting to every little stupid thing. Which means if you care about it when the other side would do it, you should ALSO care about it when your side does it.
I’d like to think I try to live up to that standard, even if I don’t always succeed. I never see Republicans even trying.
And right in line with that, my new House crush, Mark Pocan (D-WI) joined ALEC so he could investigate their agenda and report on it. Hah.
Pocan said “ALEC is a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests that eventually the relationship culminates with some special interest legislation and hopefully that lives happily ever after as the ALEC model. Unfortunately what’s excluded from that equation is the public.”
Repost from downstairs. Doing a CL here.
tornado warning for Kim Davis’s town.
Heya Kim…god be knocking on your door…
re: #34 KGxvi
True, but imagine this scenario:
Either the Dems take the House in 2018 or the Russia story hits critical mass for Republicans and the House goes through with impeachment. The Senate, in a moment of clarity, removes Trump from office. But they don’t bar him from future service.
Trump, being Trump, rallies his now pissed off true believers, barnstorming and giving speeches about how he was draining the swamp and the swamp fought back. So he’s running again, as a Republican, because fuck those guys. And he sweeps his base into a frenzy, riding it to another nomination (and taking out that traitor Pence along the way with new VP nominee Newt Gingrich), not only that, he rides this wave of resentment to primary several Republicans that voted against him in either the House or Senate impeachment proceedings.
Suddenly we have a general election of Trump vs ??? Hopefully, whomever the Democrats nominate can fight the crazy and inspire at the same time.
Trump will have experienced years more of mental deterioration by then. The real danger is having someone with all his faculties intact use the Trump blueprint to tear down our country.
This @USCBO report again confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums and the deficit. https://t.co/kmjeUP2qqF pic.twitter.com/YJnXUyD3xO
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) May 24, 2017
Shameless as always. The cuts to Medicaid are *just* enough to cover the tax cuts for the rich. Also 23 million lose coverage. Time to brag! https://t.co/5s45O8jEfV
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 24, 2017
In case you’ve never seen it, the TED TALK that inspired the book.
Night Lizards. Going to watch Mad Max, Fury Road. Seem some how appropriate. Sleep well and as usual, may the Deity of your choice smile down upon you and yours.
Good meeting with @POTUS Donald Trump and @FLOTUS Melania Trump at the Royal Palace of #Brussels #Belgium pic.twitter.com/FlmIviMXNQ
— Belgian Royal Palace (@MonarchieBe) May 24, 2017
Thank you for the warm welcome to Brussels, Belgium this afternoon! https://t.co/1AvYSameD4
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2017
LOLOLOLOL:
Tens of thousands in Brussels protesting trump’s visit:
“Hey hey, ho ho, donald trump has got to go!”
Beautiful.❤️pic.twitter.com/fKl6BWYNME— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) May 24, 2017
Dress for the job you want. #widow pic.twitter.com/4dC1Q7GAJy
— carla ciccone (@cciccone) May 24, 2017
OK so I stole repurposed the joke.
@Rschooley She looked like a new widow when she met the Pope.
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) May 24, 2017
re: #16 Amory Blaine
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re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
tornado warning for Kim Davis’s town.
Heya Kim…god be knocking on your door…
re: #50 Bubblehead II
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I do believe today is Bobby Z’s birthday. 76 years young and out on tour somewhere.
“I don’t feed my husband anything,” Melania replied.
“He dines on the pain of others, salted by tears of children.”https://t.co/JTsSkLlZA7— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) May 24, 2017
Trump: Why do you keep saying “the power of Christ compels you” and hitting me with water?
Pope: Testing a theory. pic.twitter.com/V0jnONuFsP— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) May 24, 2017
A manager at Mar-A-Lago, Trump business, now has an official White House email, is helping plan presidential travel: https://t.co/debTN3cfxq pic.twitter.com/XRjObQGMHw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 24, 2017
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ryan is getting precisely 0% love for that tweet. Everyone is MAD. Good.
CBO: Women wanting maternity coverage rider in waiver states can expect to pay EXTRA >$1K/month.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) May 24, 2017
This doesn’t even meet the “life begins at conception and ends at birth” standard we’ve come to expect. https://t.co/jcuejKGNeE
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 24, 2017
I share my bday with one Mr. Bob Dylan. I like that!
Krauthammer just claimed on Fox News that Medicaid, which was originally supposed to be “for the poor”, now covers people at up to 400% of poverty level with the Medicaid expansion . WTF? No it does not.
In states that have expanded Medicaid coverage: You can qualify based on your income alone. If your household income is below 133% of the federal poverty level, you qualify. (Because of the way this is calculated, it turns out to be 138% of the federal poverty level. A few states use a different income limit.)
Maybe he mixed up Medicaid eligibility with ACA subsidies, but nobody corrected him. (as if anyone on the Fox news “all-star panel” would ever correct the “brilliiant” dr K.)
re: #57 blueraven
Krauthammer just claimed on Fox News that Medicaid, which was originally supposed to be “for the poor”, now covers people at up to 400% of poverty level with the Medicaid expansion . WTF? No it does not.
Maybe he mixed up Medicaid eligibility with ACA subsidies, but nobody corrected him. (as if anyone on the Fox news “all-star panel” would ever correct the “brilliiant” dr K.)
As if anyone on FOX would even know that he’s wrong.
re: #11 BeachDem
I don’t know anything about this Rep from Wisconsin, but I like his style:
Gah—Betsy DeVos is the worst of the worst.
Mr. Pocan is outstanding. He’s on Thom Hartmann’s radio show every Thursday. That’s exactly how Bernie got a lot of followers on his weekly Brunch with Bernie segments. He’s very down-to-earth and very progressive.
re: #58 stpaulbear
As if anyone on FOX would even know that he’s wrong.
As if anyone would correct him if they did.
Trolling trolling trolling
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Former Mexican President @VicenteFoxQue has an important message for you. pic.twitter.com/1BqWYtHf1p
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) May 24, 2017
“At the most solemn moment of your life you were wondering how big your ‘crowd’ was and worrying that the last guy had a bigger one than you. Donald, his is much bigger.” (rimshot)
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
Ben texted me the tweet is serious. Gianforte is the GOP candidate in the House special election in Montana. https://t.co/PScLuFbs9T
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) May 24, 2017
re: #57 blueraven
Krauthammer just claimed on Fox News that Medicaid, which was originally supposed to be “for the poor”, now covers people at up to 400% of poverty level with the Medicaid expansion . WTF? No it does not.
Maybe he mixed up Medicaid eligibility with ACA subsidies, but nobody corrected him. (as if anyone on the Fox news “all-star panel” would ever correct the “brilliiant” dr K.)
He may have been referring to the eligibility restrictions on SCHIP, but fuck those kids.
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Gianforte is running against Quist in Montana
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Former Mexican President @VicenteFoxQue has an important message for you. pic.twitter.com/1BqWYtHf1p
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) May 24, 2017
God he’s such a fucking baby.
Trump heading back to Iowa for a June 1 rally, per campaign committee email
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 24, 2017
Days after he returns. https://t.co/thqBPd0iXt
— Yashar (@yashar) May 24, 2017
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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WTF? Ben better get a good lawyer and strip the skin off that thug.
re: #43 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Trump will have experienced years more of mental deterioration by then. The real danger is having someone with all his faculties intact use the Trump blueprint to tear down our country.
I do wonder if the Trump blueprint is transferable. So much of it is built around his personal brand and, for lack of a better term, cult of personality. I don’t know if someone spouting his nonsense, without having 3 decades of publicity and branding could pull it off.
Also:
I figured someone beat me to the Vicente Fox video, but do watch it. The camera re-focusing on the chocolate cake every few seconds to keep Trump’s attention had me rolling.
High school includes student’s service dog in yearbook: https://t.co/f74lLnbAlM pic.twitter.com/zJ18avrRGV
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) May 24, 2017
STAFFORD, Va. (WSET) — Like many high schools, students are getting their yearbooks for the end of the year.
And one yearbook in Stafford had a special student included.
“Seeing a picture of a dog caught my eye pretty quickly,” a student told BuzzFeed News.
Alpha is a service dog for Andrew ‘AJ’ Schalk, a 16-year-old at Stafford High School.
Schalk told BuzzFeed he has Type 1 diabetes and Alpha’s job is to alert him when his blood sugar is getting too low or high.
Schalk said Alpha has been going to school with him since last year to get him prepared for this year.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
@pbump He says police are involved
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) May 24, 2017
re: #62 gocart mozart
Trolling trolling trolling
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It’s really good advice that Trump will not take.
re: #67 Stanley Sea
God he’s such a fucking baby.
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I hope he’s still jet lagged as hell and says a bunch of (additional) stupid stuff because of it. Hope he gets an older crowd that’s scared shitless about losing health insurance.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow. That must be some race up there. The Republican physically attacking the Democrat.
re: #67 Stanley Sea
God he’s such a fucking baby.
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re: #51 makeitstop
I do believe today is Bobby Z’s birthday. 76 years young and out on tour somewhere.
Lazy bum is resting. He just completed a European tour (28 gigs in 12 countries [counting Wales and Scotland] over 41 days) and on June 13 starts an eastern US/Canada one, a mere 29 dates in 44 days.
That probably leaves him enough time off to put together another art show, or book, or album …
re: #74 FormerDirtDart
In a sane world, this would ruin Gianforte’s campaign. In our current simulation… “reply hazy, try again.”
There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
I wish this was a joke. This is a Montana congressional candidate. https://t.co/AeEEIhV1QK
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 24, 2017
re: #77 MsJ
Wow. That must be some race up there. The Republican physically attacking the Democrat.
No, Ben Jacobs is a reporter.
Thousands march against President Trump in Brussels: “He is not welcome here” https://t.co/Gi9LuHC7vY pic.twitter.com/HxuBIVIbCO
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 24, 2017
re: #77 MsJ
Wow. That must be some race up there. The Republican physically attacking the Democrat.
Ben Jacobs is a reporter.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
gonna walk away for a while…
I’m thinking these a few /// missing there.
re: #80 KGxvi
In a sane world, this would ruin Gianforte’s campaign. In our current simulation… “reply hazy, try again.”
No kidding. A few years ago one would expect David Clarke to resign as Sheriff of Milwaukee County after the plagiarism allegation came to light. Now, the administration will still likely offer him a DHS position
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
gonna walk away for a while…
Don’t go for too long a walk, you know what happens when you’re away from here too long!
semi-///
re: #91 FormerDirtDart
No kidding. A few years ago one would expect David Clarke to resign as Sheriff of Milwaukee County after the plagiarism allegation came to light. Now, the administration will still likely offer him a DHS position
It does feel like we’re in one of those games like SimCity or Civilization where you get bored and decide to just start fucking around with shit…
re: #91 FormerDirtDart
I understand the FBI job is still open.
re: #93 KGxvi
It does feel like we’re in one of those games like SimCity or Civilization where you get bored and decide to just start fucking around with shit…
I hope people remember that the cheat codes always came with consequences, at least in the DOS version.
re: #93 KGxvi
It does feel like we’re in one of those games like SimCity or Civilization where you get bored and decide to just start fucking around with shit…
“Oh fuck, Gandhi has nukes again!”
re: #3 FormerDirtDart
I got fifty bucks that says the approval would’ve been over 70% if they had called Obamacare the “ACA” instead.
re: #93 KGxvi
It does feel like we’re in one of those games like SimCity or Civilization where you get bored and decide to just start fucking around with shit…
Yeah but we don’t get to roll back to saved game. This is like a Paradox game in Ironman mode. Hopefully Clownstick isn’t going for the ‘I am become death’ achievement.
re: #81 darthstar
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re: #99 Schweppes7
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re: #94 Skip Intro
I understand the FBI job is still open.
Yeah, that requires Senate confirmation. And, I don’t think questions about people dying of dehydration in his jail are something the GOP is willing to add to the pile.
Now, Trump could appoint him as “interim” director and not face confirmation hearings. But, he would likely be called before a congressional committee sooner or later…
re: #3 FormerDirtDart
Reading the replies in that is actually quite funny.
All of a sudden I heard a giant crash and saw Ben’s feet fly in the air as he hit the floor
— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) May 24, 2017
Thread…
re: #103 Belafon
Reading the replies in that is actually quite funny.
@FoxNews STFU FoxNews Unfollowed
— Ambria 🇺🇸 (@ambrialee) May 24, 2017
re: #104 blueraven
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Holy shit, this is completely nuts. I want to know more then ever what question Ben may have asked that led to this violent insane reaction.
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
On scene now where Gianforte flags are posted outside a building. Looks like @Bencjacobs is in a ambulance getting checked out. https://t.co/RuBlxoVywA
— Freddy (@TGIFreddy) May 24, 2017
re: #106 Schweppes7
Holy shit, this is completely nuts. I want to know more then ever what question Ben may have asked that led to this violent insane reaction.
The way Republicans are these days, this question could have been about any of the GOP’s dozen or so Big Lies.
Gianforte sitting in a Jeep. Sheriff’s deputies were talking to him earlier. Now a medic is at the window talking with him. #bdcnews #mtal pic.twitter.com/JsT4tTYt82
— Whitney Bermes (@wabermes) May 24, 2017
re: #109 FormerDirtDart
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Medic’s first question: “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING GOURD?!”
One patient has been transferred off the scene. That’s all officials are able to say.
— Freddy (@TGIFreddy) May 24, 2017
re: #98 Jack Burton
Yeah but we don’t get to roll back to saved game. This is like a Paradox game in Ironman mode. Hopefully Clownstick isn’t going for the ‘I am become death’ achievement.
I’m a huge fan of Paradox Interactive!
He is leaving the event without speaking. I asked his aide what we going on and wouldn’t answer
— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) May 24, 2017
re: #103 Belafon
@weman333 @FoxNews Yeah, the brainwashed rubes want pure propaganda, without any intrusion of reality! Down with reality!
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 24, 2017
re: #60 Maddies Mom
Mr. Pocan is outstanding. He’s on Thom Hartmann’s radio show every Thursday. That’s exactly how Bernie got a lot of followers on his weekly Brunch with Bernie segments. He’s very down-to-earth and very progressive.
I was just reading up on him—I love it that he joined ALEC to punk them. Just sad that Bernie’s WI followers didn’t come out for Hillary—or Russ Feingold (that one will never make sense to me.)
re: #113 FormerDirtDart
He is leaving the event without speaking. I asked his aide what we going on and wouldn’t answer
— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) May 24, 2017
This was supposed to be the final rally of the campaign, in his adopted hometown — in a swing county https://t.co/eZcRe8jSPN
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 24, 2017
Wow…Betsy DeVos is fucking evil
.@RepKClark to Sec. DeVos: “I am shocked that you cannot come up with one example of discrimination that you would stand up for students.” pic.twitter.com/9yns8Np6hz
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 24, 2017
re: #116 blueraven
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I’ve seen politicians crack under the pressure, but never seen one body slam a reporter when doing so. Unless he thinks that this weird form of “manly” action will somehow win over the few remaining rubes.
Well, people on social media and the press should really start asking if he left because he has to surrender at the Sheriff’s office…
I mean, it’s only asking questions, that need to be answered..
Gianforte just left. The event was supposed to end an hour and fifteen minutes from now. pic.twitter.com/2lvWocJQ81
— Blake Montgomery (@blakersdozen) May 24, 2017
Reporter decked by Montana candidate Greg Gianforte was just hauled off in an ambulance: report https://t.co/MktCadclvA pic.twitter.com/4MSgTCt3DJ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 24, 2017
Gianforte just left. The event was supposed to end an hour and fifteen minutes from now. pic.twitter.com/2lvWocJQ81
— Blake Montgomery (@blakersdozen) May 24, 2017
Call me old fashioned, but when you drive off after assaulting somebody, its called evading arrest https://t.co/iR77h74VmU
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 24, 2017
Gallatin County Sherriffs now taking witness statements
— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) May 24, 2017
Quist responds (sort of) pic.twitter.com/cvnfAm0NyE
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 24, 2017
Gianforte just left his own campaign event. pic.twitter.com/BiQmZSBhde
— Blake Montgomery (@blakersdozen) May 24, 2017
Most people who commit assault leave in handcuffs. https://t.co/qSJrGPdWJP
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 24, 2017
re: #121 Kragar
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Hopefully that dooms his campaign. Decking reporters? Stay classy.
Maybe Gianforte is following the Trump model: Trump said he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Ave and not lose any votes. After all, the reporter is still alive — so no harm.
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So will Gianforte be labeled a thug? Asking for a friend. //
So if you’re a white guy in Montana, they just let you drive off after assaulting somebody? Good to know #Gianforte
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 24, 2017
Yes, I was being sarcastic about the victim being a reporter.
But … he drove off? In Montana? Cold-cocked someone and fled? This is not a good look, and I am not being sarcastic.
re: #125 HappyWarrior
Hopefully that dooms his campaign. Decking reporters? Stay classy.
If Gianoforte assaulted someone last week, he’d have lost. But I wonder what % of the voters have already mailed in their ballots?
— Brian Rosenwald (@brianros1) May 24, 2017
Probably two-thirds of total vote or so is already cast https://t.co/ytNED5MZ2O
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) May 24, 2017
re: #127 HappyWarrior
So will Gianforte be labeled a thug? Asking for a friend. //
Obviously no. Gianforte is white…
re: #104 blueraven
@alexis_levinson Someone has already updated his Wikipedia bio. #bodyslammer pic.twitter.com/Thw1AYat34
— Cheryl P (@cploeg_again) May 25, 2017
If it’s close & is covered by the local news ad infinitum it might matter.
If Quint had done this, his campaign and his career in politics would be over.
But it was Gianforte, so his campaign will release a statement accusing Jacobs of actions which warranted the physical assault, then when that fails claim “stress” caused their boss to act like a raging asshole.
re: #131 FormerDirtDart
Obviously no. Gianforte is white…
Missed my sarcasm. In fact, I expect the assholes at Fox to have a good laugh about it and call the reporter a snowflake.
re: #79 petesh
Lazy bum is resting. He just completed a European tour (28 gigs in 12 countries [counting Wales and Scotland] over 41 days) and on June 13 starts an eastern US/Canada one, a mere 29 dates in 44 days.
That probably leaves him enough time off to put together another art show, or book, or album …
But was it “grueling” and “exhausting” like the yam’s big nine day adventure? Because, you know, it’s so understandable that the yam was just so exhausted by day 2 of his trip that it’s totally understandable that he had to cancel events and all. What’s that you say? He’s older than the yam? Unpossible.
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Fuck. Okay, erstwhile allies, be warned: ANYTHING you share with this administration goes straight to the Kremlin and Tehran. You’ll have to work around it.
Theresa May to tackle Donald Trump over Manchester bombing evidence
May will confront Donald Trump over the stream of leaks of crucial intelligence about the Manchester bomb attack when she meets the US president at a Nato summit in Brussels on Thursday.
British officials were infuriated on Wednesday when the New York Times published forensic photographs of sophisticated bomb parts that UK authorities fear could complicate the expanding investigation into the lethal blast in which six further arrests have been made in the UK and two more in Libya.
It was the latest of a series of leaks to US journalists that appeared to come from inside the US intelligence community, passing on data that had been shared between the two countries as part of a long-standing security cooperation.
re: #135 Targetpractice
If Quint had done this, his campaign and his career in politics would be over.
But it was Gianforte, so his campaign will release a statement accusing Jacobs of actions which warranted the physical assault, then when that fails claim “stress” caused their boss to act like a raging asshole.
He’ll try to make Jacobs into the bad guy and himself the victim. It’s right wing 101.
Damn Republicans aren’t holding back their dislike of the media these days. I guess Trump gave them the A-Okay!
You can tell they have been wanting to do this for some time. For some it’s been a tough period in their lives where they had to share the planet with people that didn’t give them money and had liberal tendencies.
Now with Trump, let it be known how much you dislike someone, back it up with physical threats and violence.
Making America Great Again for Assholes by The First Asshole.
re: #129 petesh
Yes, I was being sarcastic about the victim being a reporter.
But … he drove off? In Montana? Cold-cocked someone and fled? This is not a good look, and I am not being sarcastic.
The reporter was not knocked out. He was body-slammed, and his glasses were broken. It’s really bad, but you’re exaggerating what happened.
re: #129 petesh
You should always add // to indicate sarcasm.
Ahhhh…some background
Gianforte bodyslammed @Bencjacobs who reported his ties to sanctioned Russian companies https://t.co/NuOzzZbSeP
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) May 25, 2017
re: #129 petesh
Yes, I was being sarcastic about the victim being a reporter.
But … he drove off? In Montana? Cold-cocked someone and fled? This is not a good look, and I am not being sarcastic.
with a name like “Jacobs” he must be a J&w-B*y, amirite? /////
re: #141 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I don’t take cold-cocked to mean knocked out, but punched yes. In this case he didn’t just punch one part of his body, it sounds like he assaulted his whole body via slam.
re: #143 FormerDirtDart
Ahhhh…some background
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I guess he took notes from his Russian friends on how to deal with the media too.
re: #146 JordanRules
I don’t take cold-cocked to mean knocked out, but punched yes. In this case he didn’t just punch one part of his body, it sounds like he assaulted his whole body via slam.
cold-cock
[kohld-kok]
verb (used with object), Slang.
1.
to knock (someone) unconscious, as with the fist.
In any case, a candidate shouldn’t be getting physical with reporters.
UPDATE: @Casper becomes the 4th advertiser to drop Hannity https://t.co/j3dPr2SU6t
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 25, 2017
re: #150 FormerDirtDart
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I took down quite a few hoodlums, low-lifes, wife beaters, and other scum during my days as a deputy sheriff, including a 300 pounder who charged me, Michael Brown style. Unlike Brown, he survived; though he might have briefly wished he hadn’t since the method was a snap kick to the groin. A 56 year old grifter thug should be child’s play. Just saying.
haven’t listened yet myself
Guardian had now posted the audio of what happened between Greg Gianforte and @Bencjacobs :https://t.co/XBEUWG0sNJ
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 25, 2017
re: #148 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Definition 2 on urban dictionary is how I knew it coming up. Blind-sided.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
In any case, a candidate shouldn’t be getting physical with reporters.
Of course not. The guy is a lunatic. I expect that they had him drive to the station to be booked, rather than cuff a candidate. Why else would he just leave? They should have cuffed him and put him in the back of a police car.
re: #146 JordanRules
I used cold-cocked to mean a surprise attack; apparently many people think it means knocked unconscious. This could be regional, or even international differences in usage. I am fluent in English and American, and have dabbled in Australian; I understand them all but sometimes the wrong one comes out when I speak.
Having Montanan friends (whom I have visited in their native habitat) I would think that not giving someone a chance to put their dukes up would compound the offense.
re: #155 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Of course not. The guy is a lunatic. I expect that they had him drive to the station to be booked, rather than cuff a candidate. Why else would he just leave? They should have cuffed him and put him in the back of a police car.
Yeah I wasn’t disagreeing with what you said. Was just trying to make the point clear.
Gianforte is a piece of…….work:
Gianforte has outlined his position on retirement by using the Biblical example of Noah. He said, “There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach… The example I think of is Noah. How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn’t hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”
Gianforte is a believer in Young Earth creationism, the pseudoscientific belief that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. He donated $1.5 million to the Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in Glendive, Montana, a creationist museum which teaches visitors that evolution is false, the Earth is about 6,000-6,400 years old, that dinosaurs were on the Ark and that they likely died out 4,300 years ago during the flood described in the Book of Genesis.
re: #156 petesh
I used cold-cocked to mean a surprise attack; apparently many people think it means knocked unconscious. This could be regional, or even international differences in usage. I am fluent in English and American, and have dabbled in Australian; I understand them all but sometimes the wrong one comes out when I speak.
Having Montanan friends (whom I have visited in their native habitat) I would think that not giving someone a chance to put their dukes up would compound the offense.
I think the idiom you were looking for is “sucker punched”.
re: #153 FormerDirtDart
I just listened. The guy sounds like a total lunatic. Showed absolutely no remorse either. God I hope he loses and that the police and Ben press charges.
re: #153 FormerDirtDart
haven’t listened yet myself
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It’s pretty fucked up. Jacobs should press charges against this asshole.
re: #156 petesh
Yeah, same as a lot of the usage I heard as a youngin.
re: #153 FormerDirtDart
haven’t listened yet myself
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LOCK HIM UP! Assault on tape.
And he files the story
Listen to me get body slammed in Montana https://t.co/I8hAUsmuWw
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 25, 2017
re: #156 petesh
I used cold-cocked to mean a surprise attack; apparently many people think it means knocked unconscious. This could be regional, or even international differences in usage. I am fluent in English and American, and have dabbled in Australian; I understand them all but sometimes the wrong one comes out when I speak.
Having Montanan friends (whom I have visited in their native habitat) I would think that not giving someone a chance to put their dukes up would compound the offense.
dictionary.com thinks it means knocked unconscious. Where I live, an unexpected punch would be a sucker-punch, but I don’t know a word for an unexpected body-slam.
I would use cold-cock the way I’d use sucker punch. Blind siding someone.
re: #164 Stanley Sea
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re: #167 HappyWarrior
I would use cold-cock the way I’d use sucker punch. Blind siding someone.
But is there a word for when it’s a body slam? I’ll bet the Germans have a word for it. They have a word for everything.
re: #169 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Ha! Indeed.
Chris Hayes is interviewing Jacobs by phone.
He says both candidates have been squirrelly in their handling of the media and his whole time following the campaign has been a bit contentious.
Sounds like Gianforte just completely lost it. Wow, that guy doesn’t deserve a political office. He deserves some court time for assault.
re: #171 ObserverArt
Chris Hayes is interviewing Jacobs by phone.
he says both candidates have been squirrelly in their handling of the media and his whole time following the campaign has been a bit contentious.
Sounds like Gianforte just completely lost it. Wow, that guy doesn’t deserve a political office. He deserves some court time for assault.
Listen to @Bencjacobs speak with @chrislhayes about the Gianforte incident: “It’s the strangest moment in my entire life reporting.” pic.twitter.com/cHNPkljZP7
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2017
re: #171 ObserverArt
Chris Hayes is interviewing Jacobs by phone.
He says both candidates have been squirrelly in their handling of the media and his whole time following the campaign has been a bit contentious.
Sounds like Gianforte just completely lost it. Wow, that guy doesn’t deserve a political office. He deserves some court time for assault.
I expect he’ll get the latter, and hope voters don’t fuck this up.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I would use cold-cock the way I’d use sucker punch. Blind siding someone.
(This is more fun than working.) Note that a “cold call” is an unexpected call, by a salesperson or someone. Other than that, I am drawing on my deep investigation of Dashiell Hammett and Leslie Charteris and Sapper and other important writers of my early youth. Possibly even Robert Parker.
That said, sucker punch is clearly what I should have used.
re: #118 darthstar
Wow…Betsy DeVos is fucking evil
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I hate that woman with every fiber of my being. She won’t answer a single question. Just spouts her ignorant bullshit over and over. I though Clark was going to come across the room and deck her (maybe I’m projecting…)
re: #174 petesh
(This is more fun than working.) Note that a “cold call” is an unexpected call, by a salesperson or someone. Other than that, I am drawing on my deep investigation of Dashiell Hammett and Leslie Charteris and Sapper and other important writers of my early youth. Possibly even Robert Parker.
That said, sucker punch is clearly what I should have used.
There was no punch. We’re both still looking for the right word for this.
re: #118 darthstar
Wow…Betsy DeVos is fucking evil
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Yep. DeVos was asked specifcally about whether she would block federal funding for schools who engaged in racial discrimination. Her answer was that she would respect the state’s and school’s choice - in other words she had no problem with schools excluding students based on their race.
re: #177 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
There was no punch. We’re both still looking for the right word for this.
Shoved. Hard.
re: #178 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Yep. DeVos was asked specifcally about whether she would block federal funding for schools who engaged in racial discrimination. Her answer was that she would respect the state’s and school’s choice - in other words she had no problem with schools excluding students based on their race.
Which is the whole point of “state’s rights”.
re: #179 MsJ
Shoved. Hard.
And unexpectedly. Do we have any German speakers here to provide a word for this?
Gianforte’s statement: pic.twitter.com/WVNdA1yZ8w
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 25, 2017
The internet connects us all like never before
@GregForMontana Hi Greg, I’m managing editor at fact-checking website https://t.co/9DPFHyMLQ9. Is it true that you just body-slammed a Guardian reporter?
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 24, 2017
re: #179 MsJ
Shoved. Hard.
Body slam seems to fit. As in a wrestler picking a guy up by his ass and waist and slamming him to the mat for a take down. Pounce on him could be another. Tackle with extra verve another yet.
re: #150 FormerDirtDart
Our friend The Major must be pleased.
re: #182 FormerDirtDart
@kyledcheney Republican personal responsibility.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 25, 2017
re: #182 FormerDirtDart
@kyledcheney except the audio doesn’t play or that way.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 25, 2017
re: #153 FormerDirtDart
haven’t listened yet myself
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re: #185 thedopefishlives
Our friend The Major must be pleased.
I’m sure our friend Eric is pleased. I hope the whole TheMajor thing just goes away.
re: #187 MsJ
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They probably assume, like most Republicans usually do, that there’s no evidence to contradict their self-serving version of events.
Our official statement on the #CBOScore for #AHCA: pic.twitter.com/Y6ch17zJg1
— NARAL (@NARAL) May 24, 2017
re: #187 MsJ
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It would be beautiful if he made up that statement before he knew there was a recording.
re: #185 thedopefishlives
Our friend The Major must be pleased.
Please be kind. He’s obviously having some problems.
Gianforte’s statement: pic.twitter.com/WVNdA1yZ8w
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 25, 2017
Did they know there was audio?????? https://t.co/p1obsWDPkT
— Yashar (@yashar) May 25, 2017
@CNNPolitics Are the calls in Russian or English?
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 25, 2017
re: #192 stpaulbear
It would be beautiful if he made up that statement before he knew there was a recording.
“Alternative audio!!!” ///
re: #184 ObserverArt
Body slam seems to fit. As in a wrestler picking a guy up by his ass and waist and slamming him to the mat for a take down. Pounce on him could be another. Tackle with extra verve another yet.
Ah, how’s about just settling for criminal assault and leaving it at that?
I am genuinely afraid that Trump’s hair is going to achieve liftoff in this wind.#WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/zUU6SI65a1
— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) May 24, 2017
re: #179 MsJ
Shoved. Hard.
The way you execute this move is to simultaneously block your leg behind theirs while shoving them by the throat. They trip backwards.
re: #197 Dave In Austin
Did Eric get bounced last nite?
He came on this morning to explain that his 20-year old cat was dying. I was away much of the afternoon so no idea if he was reprimanded or not.
re: #178 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Yep. DeVos was asked specifcally about whether she would block federal funding for schools who engaged in racial discrimination. Her answer was that she would respect the state’s and school’s choice - in other words she had no problem with schools excluding students based on their race.
This has been the hard-right position on public education for at least a century. Someone should really get DeVos on record with respect to the Brown v Board of Education decision.
re: #197 Dave In Austin
I read the thread in the morning, and he may have flounced, but it was a nice flounce.
I hope he takes care of himself, levels-out, and comes back.
re: #16 Amory Blaine
Always a day late and a dollar short.
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re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I read the thread in the morning, and he may have flounced, but it was a nice flounce.
I hope he takes care of himself, levels-out, and comes back.
Same here.
re: #204 Myron Falwell
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re: #202 stpaulbear
Alternative police report probably too.
Alternative arrests and alternative charges…
re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I hope so too… I was beginning to wonder what was happening.
re: #201 Charles Johnson
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OT: And on the lighter side of the news, it is the 40th anniversary of the movie Star Wars. And here is my page. littlegreenfootballs.com
Seen at Wapo:
Republicans: “If you like your healthcare you can’t keep it.”
re: #205 EPR-radar
This has been the hard-right position on public education for at least a century. Someone should really get DeVos on record with respect to the Brown v Board of Education decision.
She just refuses to answer any questions like that. She’s been asked multiple times directly and she just ignores the question and babbles about parents and states. What do you do to someone like this other than take them to court and try to make them answer under examination under oath? She’s pathetic.
re: #212 Stanley Sea
So funny, he knows the tricks - he shifts his head just a little to change the direction the wind is hitting. Same actions when he was disembarking the plane a while ago.
I look at him and am embarrassed. How can he wear that dead animal in his head and go out in public? It’s like he’s screaming he can’t afford a haircut.
re: #216 Stanley Sea
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re: #216 Stanley Sea
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Not Eric.
See top comments.
re: #183 Myron Falwell
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Apparently Batman (Michael Keaton lives in Montana) has endorsed Quist. Always knew I liked Keaton.
re: #177 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
There was no punch. We’re both still looking for the right word for this.
In pro wrestling, they often refer to a surprise assault as “he was Pearl Harbored”.
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Bullshit and the lying sack of shit knows it.
Ever since King Beta got elected, it’s been a complete and utter shit show for the pajama boy, conservative betas:
Flynn is shit canned
O’Reilly shit canned
Ailes dies
Fox ratings are in the dumper
Lumpy loses his mind…..completely
King Beta is on the verge of impeachment
re: #225 Dr. Matt
Ever since King Beta got elected, it’s been a complete and utter shit show for the pajama boy, conservative betas:
Flynn is shit canned
O’Reilly shit canned
Ailes dies
Fox ratings are in the dumper
Lumpy loses his mind…..completely
King Beta is on the verge of impeachment
It’s easier for conservatives and wingnuts when they’re out of power. It’s easier to just bitch than actually have to do something. It’s nowhere near as profitable either. I really doubt Rushbo, Savage, and the otehr kooks get the listeners they do in the Obama years. You forgot something else though. Gun sales are down.
re: #204 Myron Falwell
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re: #215 stpaulbear
She just refuses to answer any questions like that. She’s been asked multiple times directly and she just ignores the question and babbles about parents and states. What do you do to someone like this other than take them to court and try to make them answer under examination under oath? She’s pathetic.
The answer is very simple, and the media will never, ever go there:
This level of obfuscation can have only one reason — Betsy DeVos is a stone cold racist and confederate who would instantly repeal Brown if she had the power to do so.
More to the point, there are 4 RWNJs on SCOTUS that would happily repeal Brown, and if Trump gets any other person from that Heritage Foundation list onto the Court, they will have 5.
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re: #193 MsJ
Please be kind. He’s obviously having some problems.
I just got caught back up on the thread. I wish him all the best.
re: #225 Dr. Matt
Ever since King Beta got elected, it’s been a complete and utter shit show for the pajama boy, conservative betas:
Flynn is shit canned
O’Reilly shit canned
Ailes dies
Fox ratings are in the dumper
Lumpy loses his mind…..completely
King Beta is on the verge of impeachment
It’s been a constant drumbeat of bad news. Every time they’ve thought they’d “won,” it turns to shit and they’re left in an even worse position than before.
Gah. The WaPo has an opinion piece up now by Newt Gingrich. What are they thinking?
The president just made a titanic foreign policy shift. The media missed it.
I’m not going to link to it.
Newt is always the smartest guy in an empty room.
Confirmation bias is a plague in the Internet era, and we all need to learn how to recognize when we’re falling prey to it.
Did not expect to be covering a GOP congressional candidate body slamming a reporter tonight, but here we are.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 24, 2017
re: #232 Targetpractice
It’s been a constant drumbeat of bad news. Every time they’ve thought they’d “won,” it turns to shit and they’re left in an even worse position than before.
There are some encouraging signs, but these GOP assholes still have way too much real power for “worse position” to be in any way applicable. Their first chance to get into a markedly worse position is if they lose the House in 2018.
Gianforte lost his shit over a question about the CBO score, if you want to know how confident Republicans feel about defending their bill.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 25, 2017
1/2 Confirmation bias is a plague in the Internet era, and we all need to learn how to recognize when we’re falling prey to it, because …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2017
2/2 there are bad actors and con artists out there who know exactly how it works and how to exploit it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2017
re: #235 Charles Johnson
Confirmation bias is a plague in the Internet era, and we all need to learn how to recognize when we’re falling prey to it.
Indeed.
Confirmation bias also seems to have plagued some in the FBI who used a Russian document alleging communications between Lynch’s DOJ and the DNC to push the email story publicly even though they were told it was likely bogus. I wonder if any agents who so hated Hillary that they would believe this have changed at all.
re: #230 BeachDem
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CNN just discussed the Rich conspiracy stuff. I hope the Rich family ruins Gingrich, Hannity, and all these other assholes. It’s bad enough for them to lose their son. It’s another for them to have their son’s death used this way. And that whiny little shit Hannity has the fucking nerve to cry about liberal fascists? Fuck you Sean. There’s a special place for people like oyu.
re: #213 PhillyPretzel
OT: And on the lighter side of the news, it is the 40th anniversary of the movie Star Wars. And here is my page. littlegreenfootballs.com
A couple threads ago everyone was posting how old they’ll be. Thanks for making me feel ancient, I’ll be fifty-seven at the end of the month.
When Star Wars came out, it hit the small-town theatre where I grew up on the day of it’s release. My mother dragged my sister and my older cousins to the movie three times the first week.
The plot thickens!
Now it comes out that Gianforte is heavily invested in Russian securities!
A Republican congressional candidate has financial ties to a number of Russian companies that have been sanctioned by the US, the Guardian has learned.
Greg Gianforte, who is the GOP standard bearer in the upcoming special election in Montana, owns just under $250,000 in shares in two index funds that are invested in the Russian economy to match its overall performance
According to a financial disclosure filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives, the Montana tech mogul owns almost $150,000 worth of shares in VanEck Vectors Russia ETF and $92,400 in the IShares MSCF Russia ETF fund. Both are indexed to the Russian equities market and have significant holdings in companies such as Gazprom and Rosneft that came under US sanctions in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of the Crimea.
re: #236 Dr. Matt
Did not expect to be covering a GOP congressional candidate body slamming a reporter tonight, but here we are.
One more bit of fascist sand falling in the hourglass.
re: #245 Joe Bacon
And who wrote that story? Ben Jacobs, the same guy Gianforte assaulted.
re: #244 Anymouse
A couple threads ago everyone was posting how old they’ll be. Thanks for making me feel ancient, I’ll be fifty-seven at the end of the month.
When Star Wars came out, it hit the small-town theatre where I grew up on the day of it’s release. My mother dragged my sister and my older cousins to the movie three times the first week.
Dude. I’m older than you as are probably more than half of the people who responded. Chillax.
You just watch. Some right wing pundit wlil cry that Giaforte is the real victim here and that he’s being “lynched.”
re: #35 HappyWarrior
For all of Glenn Greenwald’s trolling of the Democrats/left for ‘double standards’, he never goes after the right for the same.
You know why. The veil has been removed and his hypocrisy is now plainly seen.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
You just watch. Some right wing pundit wlil cry that Giaforte is the real victim here and that he’s being “lynched.”
That’s how they roll.
I will willingly eat crow tomorrow night if I’m wrong. But the state our country is in these days, and expecting the Montana at-large house seat to go to a Democrat in a state where Fuckface Von Clownstick won by over 20 points? Color my cynical.
The Republican running for the empty Montana house seat might get arrested for assault the night before the election. He’ll win anyway.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) May 24, 2017
re: #250 Patricia Kayden
You know why.
Of course, I do, GG’s the same unprincipled hack that he accuses others of being.
Not the first time a Republican has threatened a reporter:
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Representative Michael Grimm after Obama’s 2014 State-of-the-Union address. (more at the link)
He then walked away, and Scotto said, “So Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances. We wanted to get him on camera on that but he, as you saw, refused to talk about that. Back to you.”
With the camera still rolling, Scotto suddenly looks up, clearly startled.
“What?” Scotto asks.
And Grimm, again on-camera, though off-mike, can be heard speaking to Scotto in a low voice.
Grimm says, “Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this f——-g balcony.”
re: #252 teleskiguy
I will willingly eat crow tomorrow night if I’m wrong. But the state our country is in these days, and expecting the Montana at-large house seat to go to a Democrat in a state where Fuckface Von Clownstick won by over 20 points? Color my cynical.
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EXCLUSIVE: Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs says he was “body slammed” by Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte https://t.co/grp5pVrlCi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 25, 2017
I’m starting to wonder if there are any Republicans who aren’t in the Russian payroll..or are perfectly fine with those who are.
re: #255 Anymouse
Not the first time a Republican has threatened a reporter:
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Representative Michael Grimm after Obama’s 2014 State-of-the-Union address. (more at the link)
Actually this wasn’t a threat. This appears to have actually been an assault.
re: #252 teleskiguy
I will willingly eat crow tomorrow night if I’m wrong. But the state our country is in these days, and expecting the Montana at-large house seat to go to a Democrat in a state where Fuckface Von Clownstick won by over 20 points? Color my cynical.
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re: #258 MsJ
I’m starting to wonder if there are any Republicans who aren’t in the Russian payroll..or are perfectly fine with those who are.
The ones who aren’t are party above all else anyhow, see McCain, John or Graham, Lindsay.
re: #244 Anymouse
A couple threads ago everyone was posting how old they’ll be. Thanks for making me feel ancient, I’ll be fifty-seven at the end of the month.
When Star Wars came out, it hit the small-town theatre where I grew up on the day of it’s release. My mother dragged my sister and my older cousins to the movie three times the first week.
Holy crap you’re old. Ancient. Decrepit. Ready for the rocking chair & walker.
I’ll be 62 in August.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
You just watch. Some right wing pundit wlil cry that Giaforte is the real victim here and that he’s being “lynched.”
Watering down the meaning of ‘lynching’ in this way is a wingnut work in progress.
After all, the brutal truth of what lynchings really were isn’t convenient for these neo-confederates.
The photos House Republicans are really going to regret taking | Analysis by @GregJKrieg https://t.co/ZH7Ahy62jk pic.twitter.com/60dEY0wA9S
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 25, 2017
re: #263 EPR-radar
Watering down the meaning of ‘lynching’ in this way is a wingnut work in progress.
After all, the brutal truth of what lynchings really were isn’t convenient for these neo-confederates.
Dick Morris called the Trump investigation a lynching. He was shockingly silence when that MS Republican called for lynching those who take down CSA participation monuments.
Sessions didn’t disclose meetings with Russian officials on security clearance form https://t.co/cPBq7bqnkH
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 25, 2017
And we have yet another bombshell. https://t.co/aDMpbwuUfO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2017
re: #261 HappyWarrior
The ones who aren’t are party above all else anyhow, see McCain, John or Graham, Lindsay.
Not?
Assumption; not in evidence.
re: #248 MsJ
Dude. I’m older than you as are probably more than half of the people who responded. Chillax.
I was being silly, sorry. (Being taken to the movie wasn’t silly though.)
re: #256 HappyWarrior
I definitely easily see his supporters liking him even more because of it.
Charles Sumner & Preston Brooks.
re: #266 Charles Johnson
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In the Bush Administration someone who lied on a security clearance form would have been out the door within 24 hrs.https://t.co/DHrVR7sKoq
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) May 24, 2017
*groan*
Follow @GarrettHaake and @elysepg, who are en route to Bozeman for what, unfortunately, we must call Ben-ghazi.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 25, 2017
re: #267 MsJ
Not?
Assumption; not in evidence.
True that. I don’t think McCain and Graham are on Vlad’s payroll TBH though. I think they’re asses but I think they wouldn’t take Putin’s money. They suck in their own right.
re: #252 teleskiguy
I will willingly eat crow tomorrow night if I’m wrong. But the state our country is in these days, and expecting the Montana at-large house seat to go to a Democrat in a state where Fuckface Von Clownstick won by over 20 points? Color my cynical.
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Gianforte lost the general election to Montana’s Democratic governor. The same people who voted in that election are voting in this one. Gianforte is really unliked in that state.
I would put it the other way round that I would willingly eat crow if he wins.
That said, my wife has two recipes for crow on one of her Websites.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
The ones who aren’t are party above all else anyhow, see McCain, John or Graham, Lindsay.
McCain and Graham are just as much party uber alles as any other Republican. The fact that they make centrist noises to the press from time to time does not change the fact that they enable the wingnuts.
Yertle the Turtle would shit cinderblocks if McCain and Graham left the party.
re: #271 jaunte
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re: #271 jaunte
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God damn. Now Sessions is in the Russian scandal too. And he was asked that question directly in Congress. This is way beyond coincidence now. Something really bad has been going on with these people.
re: #276 EPR-radar
McCain and Graham are just as much party uber alles as any other Republican. The fact that they make centrist noises to the press from time to time does not change the fact that they enable the wingnuts.
Yertle the Turtle would shit cinderblocks if McCain and Graham left the party.
That’s what I mean. Graham and McCain may not be Putin lackeys but they’re party first above all else. McCain even tolerates the guy who belitlted his POW experience.
re: #262 b_sharp
Holy crap you’re old. Ancient. Decrepit. Ready for the rocking chair & walker.
I’ll be 62 in August.
So far, AFAIK, no one has confessed to being >72. Which is an excellent age that even with diminished eyesight I look forward to.
Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office now updates: “currently investigating allegations of an assault involving Greg Gianforte.”
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) May 25, 2017
re: #279 Charles Johnson
God damn. Now Sessions is in the Russian scandal too. And he was asked that question directly in Congress. This is way beyond coincidence now. Something really bad has been going on with these people.
Bob Mueller needs to be the beginning not the end.
Abusers always rationalize that their victims provoked them.
— Mary Beth Williams (@embeedub) May 25, 2017
A statement by campaign spokesman Shane Scanlon blamed Jacobs for the incident, saying that he “entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face, and began asking badgering questions”.
“Jacobs was asked to leave,” the statement reads. “After asking Jacobs to lower the recorder, Jacobs declined. Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground.
“It’s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”
re: #279 Charles Johnson
God damn. Now Sessions is in the Russian scandal too. And he was asked that question directly in Congress. This is way beyond coincidence now. Something really bad has been going on with these people.
Yeah. They’re all goddamned traitors to the US and the US Constitution.
re: #284 teleskiguy
How can you spin away from someone AND push them to the ground?
re: #265 HappyWarrior
Dick Morris called the Trump investigation a lynching. He was shockingly silence when that MS Republican called for lynching those who take down CSA participation monuments.
The canonical example of this was Clarence Thomas whining about his “high-tech lynching” during his confirmation hearings. Since Thomas did not end up dead, castrated and otherwise mutilated by a white supremacist mob for sport, he had no business talking about any kind of lynching.
re: #284 teleskiguy
Ms. Williams is correct in that tweet.
re: #281 petesh
So far, AFAIK, no one has confessed to being >72. Which is an excellent age that even with diminished eyesight I look forward to.
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I just get mad all over again thinking about the election results. Thanks “economic anxious” assholes.
re: #281 petesh
Last thread I noted I was LXXIV. Forgot to mentioned I have been replacing parts for the last 10 years…both knees replaced and cataract surgery for both eyes.
re: #265 HappyWarrior
Dick Morris called the Trump investigation a lynching. He was shockingly silence when that MS Republican called for lynching those who take down CSA participation monuments.
Dick Morris — the epitome of irrelevant.
re: #291 teleskiguy
That, my friend, is bullshit level spin.
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re: #289 BeachDem
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Statement from @GregForMontana campaign puts the blame on @Bencjacobs for physical altercation at campaign event. pic.twitter.com/IMwJkXMJjk
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) May 25, 2017
Just talked to a GOP strategist who basically endorsed this statement as a political strategy. Can’t apologize now. Rally base is only move https://t.co/HeqoFkhqwl
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) May 25, 2017
Lying sacks of spin.
re: #280 HappyWarrior
That’s what I mean. Graham and McCain may not be Putin lackeys but they’re party first above all else. McCain even tolerates the guy who belitlted his POW experience.
McCain sucked up to W Bush after the Bushies ran with that illegitimate black baby crap in the SC primary. McCain has been a ball-washer for other GOPers for a very long time.
And Rebecca Shoenkopf of Wonkette (who lives in Montana) goes after Gianforte:
. @gregformontana though …
Montana Dem Rob Quist Bodyslammed NOBODY Tonight, Because He’s FUCKING NORMAL https://t.co/ioB0yNdBEN— Rebecca Schoenkopf (@commiegirl1) May 25, 2017
What is it going to be?#Greggate?#Gianfortegate?#Greghazi?#Gianforghazi?
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 25, 2017
re: #284 teleskiguy
“The last guy who came here did the same damned thing”
“So I will hit you.”
re: #297 EPR-radar
McCain sucked up to W Bush after the Bushies ran with that illegitimate black baby crap in the SC primary. McCain has been a ball-washer for other GOPers for a very long time.
Yep he has. I actually lost most of my respect for him when he stood silent when the Swift Boat vets bashed Kerry and that was after Kerry had defended him in 2000.
re: #300 jaunte
“The last guy who came here did the same damned thing”
“So I will hit you.”
Makes perfect sense, if you’re a thuggish dickbag.
If you physically assault a reporter holding a live tape recorder you may be too stupid to serve in Congress.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 25, 2017
re: #301 teleskiguy
This will endear this fucking goon to the Fuckface Von Clownstick crowd, bigly.
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re: #295 HappyWarrior
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I put some sliced serranos in my salad.
Wowee
Wow: sheriff to hold press conference tonight: pic.twitter.com/I3Kuhr2jG9
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 25, 2017
35 minutes from now.
re: #299 Dr. Matt
@DrMatthew #SlamTheGate which republicans often do… on their own dicks.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 25, 2017
re: #244 Anymouse
A couple threads ago everyone was posting how old they’ll be. Thanks for making me feel ancient, I’ll be fifty-seven at the end of the month.
When Star Wars came out, it hit the small-town theatre where I grew up on the day of it’s release. My mother dragged my sister and my older cousins to the movie three times the first week.
Fella, I’m 61. Counting down the days till I get my discounted transit care when I’m 62.
re: #298 Anymouse
And Rebecca Shoenkopf of Wonkette (who lives in Montana) goes after Gianforte:
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This guy is a total scumbag.
re: #304 jaunte
Come now. It is physically impossible to be too stupid to serve in Congress.
Several members of the GOP caucus need minders to stop them from drowning by looking up at the sky in befuddled bovine stupidity on rainy days.
This is the first time I have been caught up to the latest thread in weeks.
re: #292 Cheechako
Missed that one! Even as a sprightly LXVIII, I do miss things occasionally.
re: #306 BeachDem
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Republican candidate ‘body-slams’ Guardian reporter in Montana https://t.co/QbQ8Bh5e1Y
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) May 25, 2017
Lock him up. https://t.co/QxsnOCNXnt
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) May 25, 2017
Oh, I turned 35 just over two weeks ago, if anybody was curious.
re: #299 Dr. Matt
On a separate note; Gianforghazi? LMAO!
re: #315 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Anyone remember the last time the head of a president’s “blind trust” was actively involved in the campaign of a person the president wanted elected?
Does anybody even care any more?
I keep having to reassure myself that I’m not trapped in an alternate universe, or having a nightmare. This is really happening.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2017
re: #306 BeachDem
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We live in a sick fucking country.
people are actually, without irony, saying Jacobs chose to get assaulted by Gianforte as part of a grand scheme to throw the election. guys.
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 25, 2017
re: #322 Skip Intro
Anyone remember the last time the head of a president’s “blind trust” was actively involved in the campaign of a person the president wanted elected?
Does anybody even care any more?
Apparently no one gives the first shit about how corrupt Trump is.
Another one bites the dust
@somuchweirdness We directed our media agency to stop advertising on Sean Hannity’s show. This will take a few days to take effect.
— Peloton (@RidePeloton) May 24, 2017
re: #326 teleskiguy
We live in a sick fucking country.
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re: #318 teleskiguy
Been reading LGF since I was in my early 20s.
re: #320 BeachDem
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re: #325 Skip Intro
Think Germany, 1933.
At least the Germans had the “excuse” of not having had Democracy for long. What’s our excuse? Oh right, a bunch of sensitive baby right wing snowfalkes couldn’t accept a black guy and then a woman as their commander in chief.
@LOLGOP Beautiful fly-over country! I’ll never leave!
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) May 25, 2017
re: #326 teleskiguy
We live in a sick fucking country.
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— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 25, 2017
re: #326 teleskiguy
So how exactly does this farcical idea work?
Are we supposed to believe that Soros fired up the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to cause Gianforte to attack the reporter?
The simpler explanation is the Gianforte is a GOP thug and unwisely reverted to type before the election.
re: #335 EPR-radar
So how exactly does this farcical idea work?
Are we supposed to believe that Soros fired up the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to cause Gianforte to attack the reporter?
The simpler explanation is the Gianforte is a GOP thug and unwisely reverted to type before the election.
Well they had Krauthammer who isn’t the most stupid right wing pundit try to blame bad weatehr on Obama one time so why not this?
re: #292 Cheechako
How did the cataract surgery go? Do you have bionic lenses now?
I mentioned on another thread that I’ll be 57 next month. I had a meeting with someone this afternoon who gave me the weirdest look when I mentioned “40 years ago” in passing. I said, “How old do you think I am?” He said, “40.” I said, “I’m going to be 57 next month.”
I was terribly amused, but it’s all due to Garnier Nutrisse number 76 Light Blonde Auburn hair dye. If I went natural, I’d have more grey than my 77 year old mother. Nope.
re: #311 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
From that twitter thread:
rewire.newsThis guy is a total scumbag.
I read about that the other day at Wonkette. I suppose California is very glad he moved away from there.
HEAR IT: Montana GOP candidate body-slams Guardian journalist https://t.co/Lulg1FQ4xn
— Ginger Adams Otis (@GingerOtis) May 25, 2017
Very calmly @Bencjacobs says, after you can hear him being thrown to the ground: “You just body slammed me and broke my glasses.” https://t.co/1hlTDaHA1B
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 25, 2017
And very clearly you can hear no one in the room say…anything about that “body slam.” No “Oh!” or “WOW!” Nothing. They tell him to leave. https://t.co/khUDt4nXVf
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) May 25, 2017
Funny thing about horrible people who profit by being horrible is they often travel in packs. But I’m sorry -go on, Daily Caller contributor https://t.co/80mTHhuWS5
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 25, 2017
re: #314 petesh
Missed that one! Even as a sprightly LXVIII, I do
missforget things occasionally.
FIFY
re: #318 teleskiguy
Oh, I turned 35 just over two weeks ago, if anybody was curious.
Get off my lawn…unless you’re mowing it.
And very clearly you can hear no one in the room say…anything about that “body slam.” No “Oh!” or “WOW!” Nothing. They tell him to leave.
People are often shocked into silence when they witness an assault. Especially when the perpetrator is their boss.
When I first started on DU. I was 15. We had people even younger at some points. I don’t think we’ve ever had any teenagers here.
re: #342 Cheechako
Get off my lawn…unless you’re mowing it.
I’m so old I mow my lawn with a scythe.
Scares the children off my lawn.
I understand why Ariana Grande suspended her tour. She’s torn up by what happened and I don’t blame her. But this is exactly why terrorist scumbags perpetrate these crimes.
A better way to handle it would be to say: “I’m continuing the tour because I refuse to be intimidated by these monsters. I hope you’ll join me.”
re: #279 Charles Johnson
God damn. Now Sessions is in the Russian scandal too. And he was asked that question directly in Congress. This is way beyond coincidence now. Something really bad has been going on with these people.
Once is a coincidence, twice or more is a conspiracy.
re: #346 Charles Johnson
I understand why Ariana Grande suspended her tour. She’s torn up by what happened and I don’t blame her. But this is exactly why terrorist scumbags perpetrate these crimes.
A better way to handle it would be to say: “I’m continuing the tour because I refuse to be intimidated by these monsters. I hope you’ll join me.”
SHe’s also got right wing assholes attacking her too.
re: #345 Anymouse
I’m so old I mow my lawn with a scythe.
Scares the children off my lawn.
My grandfather owned both a full sized & hand scythe. I used them as a kid. Or I tried to.
re: #346 Charles Johnson
I understand why Ariana Grande suspended her tour. She’s torn up by what happened and I don’t blame her. But this is exactly why terrorist scumbags perpetrate these crimes.
A better way to handle it would be to say: “I’m continuing the tour because I refuse to be intimidated by these monsters. I hope you’ll join me.”
Ms. Grande may know other things we don’t from the UK’s Home Office (perhaps information other attacks were planned), or perhaps she simply doesn’t wish to risk her fans.
I suspect she’ll either refund their money or reschedule the events.
re: #279 Charles Johnson
God damn. Now Sessions is in the Russian scandal too. And he was asked that question directly in Congress. This is way beyond coincidence now. Something really bad has been going on with these people.
“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”
-Ian Fleming
re: #352 William Lewis
“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”
-Ian Flemming
Wonder what Ian would say about the Trump campaign.
re: #350 Anymouse
Either way, caving in to the terrorists is always a bad idea because it tells them that what they’re doing is working, and encourages more attacks.
What kind of a wuss files charges over broken glasses? Someone who wants to influence an outcome, that’s who. #JournalismIsDead
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) May 25, 2017
Can I grab your wife by the pussy? https://t.co/bS1XHYT7id
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) May 25, 2017
re: #351 prairiefire
I’m ash blonde 7NN.
When I was stationed in Rota, I decided to dye my hair auburn. Caught a lot of crap for a few weeks from my division senior chief, but it’s not against regulation.
When I reported for duty aboard USS Saratoga (CV-60) I decided to dye it back (partly because you can’t get hair dye at sea). I dyed my hair back as close as I could to its natural colour, and caught crap for a couple weeks over that. I had to explain I’d reported aboard with dyed hair that was not its original colour.
Well, whaddya know! .@RepTomMacArthur had a personal agenda! https://t.co/t5VaDK3N6C
— Indivisible NJ03 (@IndivisibleNJ03) May 25, 2017
Right wingers are all tough Alpha males until people actually stand up to their bullying and then they become victims. See, Shapiro, Benjamin when Baby Whiplash tried to provoke a fight with a transgendered reporter.
re: #353 HappyWarrior
Wonder what Ian would say about the Trump campaign.
He’d probably tell us to remember the Moscow Rules
re: #358 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #323 Charles Johnson
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I saw a commercial for something stupid & started crying.
It’s a huge test of our psyche.
re: #354 Charles Johnson
Either way, caving in to the terrorists is always a bad idea because it tells them that what they’re doing is working, and encourages more attacks.
I am not an expert on terrorism so I can’t say. It might also encourage an attack on a different performer.
Ultimately the call is up to Ms. Grande. If someone bombed a public performance I was at, I would think twice about doing another one.
It was the “pussy” tape for me. I heard it in October and thought to myself “there’s no fuckin’ way this guy wins, it’s fuckin’ game over for him!”
This is real life. This is not normal.
re: #358 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Follow the money. Although IIRC this particular form of corruption has been made legal.
re: #364 teleskiguy
It was the “pussy” tape for me. I heard it in October and thought to myself “there’s no fuckin’ way this guy wins, it’s fuckin’ game over for him!”
This is real life. This is not normal.
No joke man, I acutally think it made his core supporters like him even more.
re: #331 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #363 Anymouse
Ultimately the call is up to Ms. Grande. If someone bombed a public performance I was at, I would think twice about doing another one.
Over a hundred people were killed at Bataclan in Paris during an Eagle of Death Metal concert. Eagles of Death Metal still plays shows.
Though some of the members have hardened their stances on things like guns and Islam.
re: #351 prairiefire
I’m ash blonde 7NN.
I’ve had people ask me (most recently, Monday at the drive up at Burger King) what color I’m using on my hair. I’m happy to tell them and spread the love of red hair around.
re: #366 HappyWarrior
No joke man, I acutally think it made his core supporters like him even more.
That’s how I see it as well. Anyone who actually cared about that news was already not voting for Trump. “Persuadables” making last minute decisions between (R) and (D) obviously can’t care about (R) misogyny, so it would also have no effect there.
re: #337 prairiefire
How did the cataract surgery go? Do you have bionic lenses now?
I had them about 2 years apart. Kept having “clouds” floating around my vision so it was time. The surgery was very easy. The Dr used a plastic lens to replace the human one. At my first follow-up, I told the Dr that my vision was a little blurry on one edge. He used a tool and adjusted the tightness in one of the surgical knots while I was sitting on the exam chair and my vision cleared right up. Been about 10 years now and my vision is starting to become a little bit unfocused so it’s probably time to get glasses.
Whether it’s knee replacement or cataract replacement I’ll always tell you to “Get ‘er done” as soon as you identify the need. Gives you much more time to enjoy the results!
re: #370 EPR-radar
That’s how I see it as well. Anyone who actually cared about that news was already not voting for Trump. “Persuadables” making last minute decisions between (R) and (D) obviously can’t care about (R) misogyny, so it would also have no effect there.
I know someone, he’s more or less an acquaintance of my Dad’s. HE’s every-bit the racist, sexist Trump voter you imagine.
I mean you get some wingnuts who try to insist that liberals are the real racists and then you got otehr wingnuts who don’t even hide what racists they are.
re: #355 teleskiguy
@derekahunter The broken glasses and injured elbow were the result of being attacked by a goon. It’s normal to charge your assailant.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 25, 2017
re: #352 William Lewis
“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”
-Ian Fleming
I was actually thinking about something like that, but couldn’t remember the quote.
re: #262 b_sharp
“I’ll be 62 in August.”
I’m waving at you and Anymouse from the ” Grownups Table.”
Sheesh, kids these days, what are we olders gonna do about ‘em?
I think how old one really feels is related to the way they see themselves. I’m older than both of you, but I don’t feel, think, or act like it! I think my mind will be forever young because I try to stay up on things, and I’m always “up” to something and don’t mind learning/trying new things.
re: #326 teleskiguy
We live in a sick fucking country.
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Gianforte could have thwarted the whole nefarious scheme by simply not picking someone up and throwing them on the floor. Maybe this is the norm in Montana but here in Texas; yes, even Texas; people (especially politicians) are known to go for decades without body slamming anyone.
UPDATE: Two more advertisers drop Hannity.
In total, seven companies have severed relationships w/Hannity todayhttps://t.co/20aza4ESqX— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 25, 2017
Hey @seanhannity I know you’re busy lying your ass off right now, so thought you might appreciate an updatehttps://t.co/9wMUBD6j1D
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 25, 2017
Regarding The Major…Eric the Fruit Bat.
I did a graphic for him a few days ago for his “The Major” project, which is how I understood it, a project to take on internet lying sites, fake news, etc.
Well, it appears The Major got a little over zealous with his new identity last night and got some people rather upset.
He apparently is lingering as he is aware of some of the discussion about him today.
He contacted me and wanted me to pass on this message. This will be the only time I will do this for him. He could say this himself. He still has posting credentials here as far as I know.
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Again…I am not sure all of what he is up to. Just passing this along. I don’t want to be a messenger.
re: #371 Cheechako
Very cool. I will need it in a number of years. I agree about the sooner the better. My Fil suffered with a bad knee for years and now “has a new lease on life” after replacement.
re: #345 Anymouse
I’m so old I mow my lawn with a scythe.
Scares the children off my lawn.
You really need to wear a black robe when you do that.
re: #296 jaunte
In regard to Release: Gianforte Statement
The ratfker lost it in public and revealed who and what he is, but it’s Ben Jacobs’ fault that he lost his mthfk*ng mind in public and left his own campaign event. The press release is a wonderful example of how a bully tries to transform himself into a victim after sh*tting in the middle of Main Street in view of many witnesses and pointing at someone else and saying, “He did that.”
re: #301 teleskiguy
This will endear this fucking goon to the Fuckface Von Clownstick crowd, bigly.
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Freepers endorse the action.
They also think Sessions not disclosing foreign contacts is “old news” and therefore irrelevant.
re: #310 Joe Bacon
Fella, I’m 61. Counting down the days till I get my discounted transit care when I’m 62.
Also $10 Nat’l Parks Pass.
re: #356 HappyWarrior
Typical right wing asshole.
Yep—if journalism is dead, it’s because no-talent assholes like him killed it.
re: #370 EPR-radar
That’s how I see it as well. Anyone who actually cared about that news was already not voting for Trump. “Persuadables” making last minute decisions between (R) and (D) obviously can’t care about (R) misogyny, so it would also have no effect there.
And now various media outlets are staging the Billy Bush redemption tour (translation: Billy wants a job again.) Gag me.
re: #377 majii
My mirrors don’t work so good any more. I swear they are in cahoots with my camera. None of them make an accurate picture. And the scales! Total fabrication.
re: #379 Kragar
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As I was flipping through channels, I momentarily paused on Fox. Kimberly Tinfoil mentioned that Seanny is going on a brief vaca and she’s filling in for a few days. Uh huh.
Then Greg whateverhisname is launched into a story about getting a dog. Yep—they’re covering all the big news.
re: #194 JordanRules
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— Teo (@Teukka72) May 25, 2017
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