“You don’t hear the bomb ticking? TO HELL WITH YOU! Now you own the bomb.”
Keith is STILL on fire. His Resistance is an American epic.
Trump will be treated like Dubya was by the GOP: He’ll be made an “unperson” who the GOP will magically break all ties with the moment he leaves office “Oh, we were never in support of him, we were just looking out for the party!” And millions of Republicans will disappear into the aether, to be replaced by “independents” who lean to the right of Genghis Khan.
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel
From the last thread…very well done video.
The defining feature of the post-Nixon GOP is the continuous reconstruction of what just happened, such that the negative consequences of their choices don’t have to be dealt with.
They’re just going to do it again.
The pseudointellectuals will long for an “authentic” conservatism that needs to be restored, but never actually dig too hard in to who corrupted it and how that went down. The normal party hacks will continue to fondle any back-alley rhetoric that gets through tax cuts and their pork. The demagogues will re-name themselves…again…and double down on their rhetoric…again…and get away with it…again…because the former two groups can only win by injecting their venal goals into a crazy/stupid host cell.
Which is why we haven’t pulled out of the cultural death spiral wherein there’s a bunch of voters who vote only because of a mash bill of (1) alternate opinions are axiomatically wrong, (2) ego investment reinforced with a wicker man full of straw men, (3) revanchism again imaginary crying hippies. The “smart” ones still have to fall back on pretending that no liberal, ever, has ever said something substantive (case in point, the entire “David Brooks and his band of David Brooks” industry), the venal ones fucking love having a evergreen patsy, and crazies basically live to knife-fuck anything that allows them to feel slightly more alive.
re: #4 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
I think driftglass puts it pretty well:
Well kids, here we are once again. That moment after every Republican catastrophe whence comes the most solemn and sacred ritual in the business: the excavation of a memory hole big enough to bury the whole fucking fiasco, root and branch as fast as possible. Dig the pit, dump the body, quicklime it, pour enough Chernobyl-grade bullshit over the site to sarcophagize the whole thing and then post signs warning future generations of the Dire Consequences of poking around anywhere near the truth.
re: #5 Targetpractice
It is very hard to convince a man of something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
Look at the state I live in Fuckwad VanFuckerstein. My non-Hillary vote meant nothing. You’re staying blind to the single biggest fact (1/2)
— Timothy Ryan Pearson (@BestGoalieNever) June 2, 2017
This is the exact same brand of “look what you made me do” logic deployed by domestic abusers. It’s classic DARVO. https://t.co/f5E60pOHzz
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 2, 2017
I think this is the key analogy in understanding Busters, that they’re basically abusive at heart. That in spite of their ideals and desires to make the world a better place they would ultimately rather see it ruined than watch it move forward, however incrementally, without their explicit approval.
Trump’s withdrawal from #ParisAgreement would condemn us to #climate catastrophe. We need a #GreenNewDeal instead! https://t.co/Tp5UpjEvki
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) May 31, 2017
It’s largely your fault, you imbecile https://t.co/JmXmlEc7mz
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 2, 2017
re: #7 goddamnedfrank
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I think this is the key analogy in understanding Busters, that they’re basically abusive at heart. That in spite of their ideals and desires to make the world a better place they’d would ultimately rather see it ruined than watch it move forward, however incrementally, without their explicit approval.
It is a very abusive mindset. In the minds of Bros, if the country won’t do what they want, then they deserve every bit of pain that they experience. It’s the abusive husband who breaks his wife’s face, then argues that “maybe next time,” she won’t do whatever it is that sent him into a frothing rage.
I think he’s mad.
Fuck you, asshole… Try to equate me to a domestic abuser. You are a perfect example of the dipshit lefties who are no better than #MAGA.
— Timothy Ryan Pearson (@BestGoalieNever) June 2, 2017
You cannot reason with the Bros. They are as bad as the Trumpers. They really believe that Bernie would have won if he were nominated and nothing you say can persuade them otherwise; they also believe that Hillary was as bad as Donald so there would be no benefit supporting her. They should be ignored and the focus should be on those who voted for Trump out of desperation because their lives had deteriorated under both Bush and Obama. We also need to work to reverse the Republican voter disenfranchisement laws that contributed to the decline in minority votes.
re: #9 Targetpractice
Sounds like privilege that often intersects with abuse and certainly doesn’t work towards fighting against the inherent benefits of it.
re: #12 JordanRules
Sounds like privilege that often intersects with abuse and certainly doesn’t work towards fighting against the inherent benefits of it.
The Bros position is totally one of privilege. If I had a nickel for every time I heard “I lived through Bush, I can live through Trump” from a Bro.
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m all in on reaching out to non-voters. Those who were “desperate” and voted for Turnip, the famed economically anxious, are another case but if others want to pursue them be my guest. I don’t think that should be a party aim because we know enough about them to know what the deal is.
Agree on the Bros for sure. And agree on the disenfranchised community of voters too.
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel
“You don’t hear the bomb ticking? TO HELL WITH YOU! Now you own the bomb.”
Keith is STILL on fire. His Resistance is an American epic.
I didn’t like Olbermann when he was on MSNBC, even though I usually agreed with him, because he made it a habit to lean into the camera and YELL AT THE AUDIENCE.
Thankfully, someone told him not to do that anymore.
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
He just proved your point.
I think I’m starting to get a hang of this new Twitter mentions thingy.
You’re an abusive irrational dudebro who has probably punched a woman. You’re a loathsome sack of slime.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 2, 2017
Most of the GOP, like the rest of us, just assumed that Trump’s rhetorical excesses would go too far, or something from his past would come out to derail his candidacy. So none of the other candidates attacked him in the hopes of then being in a more favorable position to pick up his supporters.
But Trump sold himself as the anti-politician, and as a result, none of the rules or conventions of campaigning applied to him: he survived disasters that would have wrecked any “normal” candidate.
Shameless page promotion. Author Gary Silverman sits down with non-wingnut Baptist minister Wayne Flynt to try to answer what might be the question of the age.
How the Bible Belt Lost God and Found Trump
He’s a divorced adulterer who ran a gambling empire, so how did America’s Moral Majority get so evangelical about Donald Trump?
Non-spoiler Wonder Woman review: an excellent offering. Well worth seeing in theaters. Some great comedic spots. Gorgeous sets. Maybe falters just a little bit at the end but it’s amazingly strong to that point so it’s forgivable. I haven’t seen any of the other DC universe offerings so I can’t compare this to them but there is actual color in the film so that seems to set it apart.
I just had a frightening and disturbing thought about the whole anti-ACA thing especially relating to pre-existing conditions like epilepsy.
They want us to die.
The Nazis wanted us to die.
They’re not willing to actually kill us.
The Nazis were willing to actually kill us.
The anti-ACA crowd are more pathetic than literal Nazis.
These kids have some seriously Pollyanna ass ideas about how shit works.
Akin to saying medicine needs to taste better before you’ll take it instead of swallowing poison. Her campaign was historically progressive.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 2, 2017
One last thing, running without donor money against the GOP is unilateral disarmament, like fighting a modern war using sticks and stones.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 2, 2017
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
These kids have some seriously Pollyanna ass ideas about how shit works.
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Purity pony nonsense. Bernie burned through pretty much all of his donor money before July, he had virtually nothing in the bank by the time he threw in the towel. And the FEC was sending him letters on a monthly basis to reprimand him for the millions in questionable or illegal donations he’d received. So even when he played it “pure,” he was still doing so in such an unethical fashion that it was a matter of time before the FEC did more than send him harsh letters.
re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Most of the GOP, like the rest of us, just assumed that Trump’s rhetorical excesses would go too far, or something from his past would come out to derail his candidacy. So none of the other candidates attacked him in the hopes of then being in a more favorable position to pick up his supporters.
But Trump sold himself as the anti-politician, and as a result, none of the rules or conventions of campaigning applied to him: he survived disasters that would have wrecked any “normal” candidate.
The GOP primaries have been conveniently forgotten by the GOP.
Otoh, Lubbock’s “Mr. Conservative,” Dr. Don May, knows who the real scientists are:
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel
Otoh, Lubbock’s “Mr. Conservative,” Dr. Don May, knows who the real scientists are:
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Yet Russia is party to the Paris Climate Accord, as is every other oil-exporting nation aside from Syria.
re: #27 Shiplord Kirel
Yes, but the fundamentalists, they’re no more real Christians than my Anglican so our opinions don’t matter. Still, I am glad to see them standing up.
re: #30 William Lewis
Yes, but the fundamentalists, they’re no more real Christians than my Anglican so our opinions don’t matter. Still, I am glad to see them standing up.
It just proves to them that those Papists are beholden to a foreign potentate.
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
The GOP primaries have been conveniently forgotten by the GOP.
Just as well all learn to repress traumatic memories…
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel
Otoh, Lubbock’s “Mr. Conservative,” Dr. Don May, knows who the real scientists are:
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So too does France, a country making a serious play as the world leader in real, actual science by backing CERN’s planned ultra-collider and now this:
France enticing real actual American scientists to move to there.. to a country whose leaders appreciate real actual scientists.
re: #33 Rocky-in-Connecticut
So too does France, a country making a serious play as the world leader in real, actual science by backing CERN’s planned ultra-collider and now this:
France enticing real actual American scientists to move to there.. to a country whose leaders appreciate real actual scientists.
FUCK THE FRENCH!1!! WE’LL HAVE FREEDOM SCIENCE!!1!
100 years ago automobiles were not as reliable and consistent as horses, you narrow-minded frothy fucktard.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 2, 2017
re: #2 Targetpractice
Trump will be treated like Dubya was by the GOP: He’ll be made an “unperson” who the GOP will magically break all ties with the moment he leaves office “Oh, we were never in support of him, we were just looking out for the party!” And millions of Republicans will disappear into the aether, to be replaced by “independents” who lean to the right of Genghis Khan.
If the GOP thought Obama went on an apology tour, wait until they see what the next President has to do. He/she will be washing Merkel’s feet.
re: #36 Mike Lamb
If the GOP thought Obama went on an apology tour, wait until they see what the next President has to do. He/she will be washing Merkel’s feet.
Trump wants to be President For Life. The GOP will abolish the 22nd Amendment for him.
re: #35 Dr. Matt
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Yet Germany gets 18.2% of its power from solar and wind.
Those evil, crafty bastards!
re: #37 The Vicious Babushka
Trump wants to be President For Life. The GOP will abolish the 22nd Amendment for him.
Hopefully Trump will die soon.
Got excited for a minute pic.twitter.com/FGILRMfLet
— Franklin (@franklinftw) June 2, 2017
re: #35 Dr. Matt
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Someone could also explain to him pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which has been used for years for nuclear plants and is also used with solar and wind now.
The man with access to the greatest minds in the world turns to a tv personality to make a world altering decision. Let that sink in.
— Ginn Toxic (@Ginny_ficaddict) June 2, 2017
re: #42 Dr. Matt
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Really? Because there were leaks last week that Trump was furious at her for her trying to get Spicer’s job.
re: #41 Timothy Watson
Someone could also explain to [Santorum] pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which has been used for years for nuclear plants and is also used with solar and wind now.
His concepts of morality are from the 17th century, his concept of technology is also bound to be a century or two behind…
re: #43 Timothy Watson
Really? Because there were leaks last week that Trump was furious at her for her trying to get Spicer’s job.
He just can’t stay mad at a nice pair of legs.
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I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
Yep, it launched at least a whole day’s worth of jokes. Then people got really bored with it.
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
He spazzed out while trying to type ‘coverage.’
Oh, and good morning from lovely Connecticut. Played a gig at the casino up here last night…
re: #47 Timothy Watson
Yep, it launched at least a whole day’s worth of jokes. Then people got really bored with it.
Because we would rather dwell on irrelevancies than discuss issues of climate change, voting rights, health care, foreign policy, international trade and finance, etc…
Long before opioid abuse exploded into a public health crisis, before drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives and ruined countless others, one respected Boston University doctor had a question he wanted answered.How often, Dr. Hershel Jick wondered, do hospital patients grow addicted to their narcotic pain treatments?
To find out, Hershel and his assistant, a graduate student named Jane Porter, reviewed troves of hospital records. Their conclusions were optimistic: Out of nearly 12,000 hospital patients treated with such painkillers, just four had become addicted. Only one case was considered severe. They wrote up the good news in a one-paragraph, five-sentence letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
“We conclude,” read the letter, “that despite widespread use of narcotic drugs in hospitals, the development of addiction is rare in medical patients with no history of addiction.”
That was in January 1980. Over the following decades, the letter was invoked by doctors, academics, pharmaceutical companies and others as evidence that few users would develop addictions and that liberal prescription was justified. Of course, the analysis proved nothing of the sort, nor did it set out to. But the widely misread letter — now so well known it’s been nicknamed “Porter and Jick” — has been blamed for fueling the country’s opioid epidemic.
On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a note from four Canadian researchers that shows the true scope of the letter’s influence, in what may be a first for the academic journal. The authors, led by Pamela T.M. Leung of the University of Toronto, found that “Porter and Jick” had been cited 608 times by other scholars — often inaccurately and uncritically.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because we would rather dwell on irrelevancies than discuss issues of climate change, voting rights, health care, foreign policy, international trade and finance, etc…
Hey, at least on here, I think we need some levity every once and awhile.
re: #51 Timothy Watson
Hey, at least on here, I think we need some levity every once and awhile.
Yes.
re: #51 Timothy Watson
Hey, at least on here, I think we need some levity every once and awhile.
It is worth a chuckle, but it really reached such a mass of coverage that did not justify its substance
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is worth a chuckle, but it really reached such a mass of coverage that did not justify its substance
Welcome to the viral world.
re: #51 Timothy Watson
Yeah, we’re dealing with an psychotic infantile person with the power to destroy the earth.
But even in such times, some of us just need to take some time and smell the covfefe.
Lre: #55 I cannot.
Yeah, we’re dealing with an psychotic infantile person with the power to destroy the earth.
But even in such times, some of us just need to take some time and smell the covfefe.
Snicker. Gotta be able to laugh. If we could have cartoons poking fun at the Axis, we can have our covfefe.
re: #56 HappyWarrior
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Snicker. Gotta be able to laugh. If we could have cartoons poking fun at the Axis, we can have our covfefe.
“Hitler Has Only Got One Ball”
re: #54 makeitstop
Welcome to the viral world.
Internet viral is one thing, but ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable item of TV news coverage, I have been predicting the imminent demise of Western Civilization…
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Internet viral is one thing, but ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable item of TV news coverage, I have been predicting the imminent demise of Western Civilization…
Really? I don’t do Twitter but trending on Twitter is a decent way of gauging what people are talking about.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Although, to be fair, they were predicting the imminent demise of western civilization back during the Sumerian Empire…
re: #61 I cannot.
Although, to be fair, they were predicting the imminent demise of western civilization back during the Sumerian Empire…
And they were right.
So before I leave CT, I have to do a little remote work for the NYC Mason’s union, who runs their apprenticeship recruitment online. We expect to collect 2,000 applicants in approximately 9 minutes. We’ve been pretty successful with it in the two years we’ve been running the recruitment online.
The Steelworkers’ union tried running their recruitment online yesterday, and just as it kicked off they were hit with what looks like a DDOS attack. They’ve got a message up on their home page, complete with a Beastie Boys track that sums it all up.
Hoping we’re not the next target.
re: #61 I cannot.
Although, to be fair, they were predicting the imminent demise of western civilization back during the Sumerian Empire…
Yeah, but Twitter wasn’t so big then.
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Really? I don’t do Twitter but trending on Twitter is a decent way of gauging what people are talking about.
Every once in awhile something interesting pops up. Today is Kurosawa. And while there is stuff that doesn’t interest me about pop stars and anime characters with the name Kurosawa, there have been some great posts about Kurosawa Akira and some of his films.
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Really? I don’t do Twitter but trending on Twitter is a decent way of gauging what people are talking about.
I guess we can argue whether it’s a cause or a symptom.
re: #67 Timothy Watson
I guess we can argue whether it’s a cause or a symptom.
I’d say like Trump, a symptom.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Internet viral is one thing, but ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable item of TV news coverage, I have been predicting the imminent demise of Western Civilization…
Get offa my lawn, ya punk!
.. if feel ya, Man. But I finally gave in and joined up(sigh).
Welp, I broke my neighbor’s tiller so it looks like I’ll be dropping it off at the repair guy’s garage along with the trimmer that’s been sitter all winter in a shed. Small carbs will clog.
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel
It’s quite simple: tRump will keep ‘those people’ in their place.
Passenger films moment the engine on the United Airlines plane he’s on catches fire; flight was forced to return to Chicago after takeoff. pic.twitter.com/eenomIX6e6
— ABC News (@ABC) June 2, 2017
He’s sure MAGAing
U.S. job market weak in May, adding just 138,000 jobs
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Really? I don’t do Twitter but trending on Twitter is a decent way of gauging what people are talking about.
I am referring to broadcast news…rather than investigate what is happening, they report what people are chattering about.
People like Breitbart and Drudge figured out that if they can just get a story, no matter how unfounded or far-fetched, floating out on Twitter and the Internets, it will get picked up by the broadcast media and treated as if it had some merit…
and that is part of what led to our current Presidency.
re: #72 Timothy Watson
He’s sure MAGAing
U.S. job market weak in May, adding just 138,000 jobs
Yeah, and he touted ‘millions of new jobs’ at his stupid Rose Garden announcement yesterday, facts be damned.
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
Covfefe is love; covfefe is life.
Promise her anything, but give her Covfefe.
It’s a classy, gilded Sadaam-chic dank meme.
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
My favorite take on the meme:
Yo covfefo
Tu covfefes
El covfefe
Nosotros covfefemos
Ellos covfefen— LaVendrick Smith (@LaVendrickS) May 31, 2017
re: #69 (Bert the Turtle)
Get offa my lawn, ya punk!
.. if feel ya, Man. But I finally gave in and joined up(sigh).
Welp, I broke my neighbor’s tiller so it looks like I’ll be dropping it off at the repair guy’s garage along with the trimmer that’s been sitter all winter in a shed. Small carbs will clog.
Constant problem with little-used ICEs. I found it far cheaper the last time to just buy a new carb on Amazon and bolt it on. A rational economy would market two sizes of engine modules with families of twist-on sharp ends. (Getting good service from 24v electrics.)
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am referring to broadcast news…rather than investigate what is happening, they report what people are chattering about.
People like Breitbart and Drudge figured out that if they can just get a story, no matter how unfounded or far-fetched, floating out on Twitter and the Internets, it will get picked up by the broadcast media and treated as if it had some merit…
and that is part of what led to our current Presidency.
True enough.
re: #79 Decatur Deb
Constant problem with little-used ICEs. I found it far cheaper the last time to just buy a new carb on Amazon and bolt it on. A rational economy would market two sizes of engine modules with families of twist-on sharp ends. (Getting good service from 24v electrics.)
First drain the bowl, get the water out with some denatured alcohol. Check for spark. Then order a part if need be.
Probably-real Orwell quote showing up on RWNJ sites:
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”
re: #82 Decatur Deb
Probably-real Orwell quote showing up on RWNJ sites:
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”
Are they projecting or did some self-awareness seep into their brains?
The main reason the jobless rate dropped to 4.3% in May was probably because the labor force shrank by 429,000
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 2, 2017
re: #83 Timothy Watson
Are they projecting or did some self-awareness seep into their brains?
Serious nutjobs gave up on the electoral process minutes into the Obama administration. These people hunger for the clarity of civil slaughter.
re: #79 Decatur Deb
There’s a local guy right up the hill from me who fixes just about anything that has to do with yard upkeep and snow removal. He’s been doing out of his garage for as long as I can remember - cash only. He’s a local treasure and he’s saved my butt at least a half dozen times over some brutal winters.
Spread the word.
Oh my god. DO YOU KNOW THIS GUY? He’s suspected of stealing slain Portland hero Rick Best’s backpack & wedding ring. https://t.co/QlNuUZ234u pic.twitter.com/iNDQFWnaHI
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 2, 2017
re: #87 (Bert the Turtle)
There’s a local guy right up the hill from me who fixes just about anything that has to do with yard upkeep and snow removal. He’s been doing out of his garage for as long as I can remember - cash only. He’s a local treasure and he’s saved my butt at least a half dozen times over some brutal winters.
FIL was like that, could keep anything from a Mantis tiller to an M-60 running.
Masons’ union recruitment went off without a hitch - we collected 2,000 applicants in just shy of four minutes. woot!
Now…back in the truck and home to NY. Catch y’all later.
re: #88 Dr. Matt
Spread the word.
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What a waste of oxygen. Since crucifxion is illegal, I vote for 500 years at hard labor.
re: #71 Dr. Matt
Yet one more reason not to fly United.
re: #93 wheat-dogg
I know that air travel, mile-for-mile is the safest by far. Then I see videos like that and my vomeroNOPEal organ triggers…
re: #93 wheat-dogg
Yet one more reason not to fly United.
A jet engine is pretty much on fire all the time.
So, this is interesting. It’s a sidebar to The Guardian’s story about the EU saying FU to Trump.
When can the US withdraw from the Paris climate deal?
The US can pull out of the Paris agreement no earlier than 3 November 2020 - which happens to be the day of the next US presidential election. This is because article 28 of the Paris agreement, which the Trump administration says it will abide by, states that a nation can only submit a withdrawal three years after the agreement entered force - 4 November 2016. This withdrawal then takes effect one year later.
I bet Trump’s loyal minions don’t realize he’s lying to them again.
re: #95 Decatur Deb
A jet engine is pretty much on fire all the time.
Well, yeah, but it’s best the fire stay inside approved containers.
re: #35 Dr. Matt
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The aim for energy independence is to not have to rely on just ONE form of energy. We need solar combined with wind combined with hydro (wave, water flow, waterfall, etc) combined with whatever else might show as a source in the future. No one point of failure or monopoly.
re: #96 wheat-dogg
They don’t. I had a rwnj buddy of mine yesterday all giddy about Trump “tearing that deal to shreds!”.
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
I think he’s mad.
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He refused to vote for Secretary Clinton for bogus reasons and yet has the gall to be running his mouth about Trump? He’s why we’re suffering under Trump right now.
Can any of these Bernie Bros argue with a straight face that President Hillary Clinton would be taking the horrendous actions that Trump has taken? Can they not see how not voting for the Democratic candidate has got us to where we are now?
OT, but I popped up to our summer palazzo house for the day (Berkshires, MA) and just saw a (?)young bobcat casually saunter across my front lawn. I’m guessing “young” because it was smaller and less-markedly-colored than one I saw last fall: it’s just odd that after having a house up here for 25 years or so, these two sightings are the only time I’ve seen bobcats (I had to Wiki it to be sure) - they were/are supposed to be fairly rare hereabouts. Though when I woke up this morning, I glanced out the window to see a pair of rabbits calmly munching away on the grass: I’m guessing their presence isn’t unrelated to Bob and his family hanging around….
I love being in the country…
I was reading this take on Trump’s faulty reasoning for withdrawal, and here’s the absurd logic: The Chamber of Commerce study basically assumes that how we’re going to solve climate change is just to turn off the lights. The footnote mentioned gives it away:
The study “does not take into account potential benefits from avoided emissions. … The model does not take into consideration yet-to-be developed technologies that might influence the long-term cost.”
re: #13 Targetpractice
The Bros position is totally one of privilege. If I had a nickel for every time I heard “I lived through Bush, I can live through Trump” from a Bro.
Because basically they could care less about what minorities are going to suffer through under Trump. It’s not their problem and they’ll be just fine. What a great attitude to have. /s
re: #71 Dr. Matt
Passenger films moment the engine on the United Airlines plane he’s on catches fire; flight was forced to return to Chicago after takeoff. pic.twitter.com/eenomIX6e6
— ABC News (@ABC) June 2, 2017
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“No, you fools! You only pitch unruly passengers into the intake while you are STILL ON THE GROUND!”
re: #72 Timothy Watson
He’s sure MAGAing
U.S. job market weak in May, adding just 138,000 jobs
How many of those are coal mining jobs? Zero?
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
Keep up the good fight, Frank!!
re: #103 Patricia Kayden
Because basically they could care less about what minorities are going to suffer through under Trump. It’s not their problem and they’ll be just fine. What a great attitude to have. /s
They haven’t been told yet that they are a minority.
re: #101 Jay C
OT, but I popped up to our summer
palazzohouse for the day (Berkshires, MA) and just saw a (?)young bobcat casually saunter across my front lawn. I’m guessing “young” because it was smaller and less-markedly-colored than one I saw last fall: it’s just odd that after having a house up here for 25 years or so, these two sightings are the only time I’ve seen bobcats (I had to Wiki it to be sure) - they were/are supposed to be fairly rare hereabouts. Though when I woke up this morning, I glanced out the window to see a pair of rabbits calmly munching away on the grass: I’m guessing their presence isn’t unrelated to Bob and his family hanging around….
I love being in the country…
That’s cool. Apparently making quite a comeback up here in NH.
re: #103 Patricia Kayden
Because basically they could care less about what minorities are going to suffer through under Trump. It’s not their problem and they’ll be just fine. What a great attitude to have. /s
Their precious principles are more important than people whose lives will be or have been affected by this president.
re: #105 Skip Intro
How many of those are coal mining jobs? Zero?
Coal mining data from BLS:
Series Id Year Period Value (thousands)
CES1021210001 2016 M01 55.5
CES1021210001 2016 M02 53.5
CES1021210001 2016 M03 52.1
CES1021210001 2016 M04 51.2
CES1021210001 2016 M05 49.8
CES1021210001 2016 M06 49.0
CES1021210001 2016 M07 48.7
CES1021210001 2016 M08 48.6
CES1021210001 2016 M09 48.6
CES1021210001 2016 M10 49.3
CES1021210001 2016 M11 49.7
CES1021210001 2016 M12 49.7
CES1021210001 2017 M01 50.0
CES1021210001 2017 M02 50.3
CES1021210001 2017 M03 50.4
CES1021210001 2017 M04 50.6(P)
CES1021210001 2017 M05 51.0(P)
re: #110 Timothy Watson
Coal mining data from BLS:
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Cut, here’s a Coal Miner who voted for Trump who now worries..
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel
Shameless page promotion. Author Gary Silverman sits down with non-wingnut Baptist minister Wayne Flynt to try to answer what might be the question of the age.
Atheists are far more “Christian” than evangelicals.
I don’t mean to sound callous but as I’ve said before- economies do transition and the coal mining industry is no exception. It was declining long before Trump and Obama came around.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Their precious principles are more important than people whose lives will be or have been affected by this president.
There are very, very, few people whose lives will not be degraded by this president and his henchmen.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
There are very, very, few people whose lives will not be degraded by this president and his henchmen.
True but i’m talking about the people whose lives will be affected the most. Immigrant families who worry about ICE raids, Muslim-Americans harassed by bigots, etc. The purer than thou didn’t give a fuck about those people when they were having temper tantrums over Sanders not being the nominee.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
I don’t mean to sound callous but as I’ve said before- economies do transition and the coal mining industry is no exception. It was declining long before Trump and Obama came around.
Who remembers Ronald Reagan’s “War on Coal”? Or H.W.’s?
re: #116 Timothy Watson
Who remembers Ronald Reagan’s “War on Coal”? Or H.W.’s?
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It was an industry on the decline when my Grandpa left Pennsylvania in the 50’s. West Virginia was on the decline long before Obama came around. I hate to bring race into it but if this wasn’t an industry primarily in rural, white America, conservatives would have been telling those people to get the hell over it. I mean it’s not that I don’t feel bad, I do but at the same time I do think they should have realized the decline of the domestic coal industry was a long time coming.
And I’m sorry but coal miners need to get over their hostility towards environmentalists too.
re: #35 Dr. Matt
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The replies to Santorum all point out that he’s a stupid person.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
It was an industry on the decline when my Grandpa left Pennsylvania in the 50’s. West Virginia was on the decline long before Obama came around. I hate to bring race into it but if this wasn’t an industry primarily in rural, white America, conservatives would have been telling those people to get the hell over it. I mean it’s not that I don’t feel bad, I do but at the same time I do think they should have realized the decline of the domestic coal industry was a long time coming.
ALL THOSE N*****S IN DETROIT NEED TO SUCK IT UP AND GET A JOB!!1! I DON’T CARE IF THEIR FACTORY CLOSED!1!! IT’S CALLED THE FREE MARKET!!1!
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
Not misspelled, he appeared to have a TIA in the middle of tweeting. He spelled “coverage” as “covfefe”, then sent the Tweet without finishing his sentence.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
True but i’m talking about the people whose lives will be affected the most. Immigrant families who worry about ICE raids, Muslim-Americans harassed by bigots, etc. The purer than thou didn’t give a fuck about those people when they were having temper tantrums over Sanders not being the nominee.
Those are going to be the first to feel it. Everyone with a kid in public school, every disabled person, everyone without private insurance, everyone scraping by on minimum wage, everyone in the school-to-prison pipeline, everyone with a HS diploma…..
re: #120 Timothy Watson
ALL THOSE N*****S IN DETROIT NEED TO SUCK IT UP AND GET A JOB!!1! I DON’T CARE IF THEIR FACTORY CLOSED!1!! IT’S CALLED THE FREE MARKET!!1!
It’s the same thing with drugs. I’m glad we’re worrying about the opoid problem but at the same time, I just wonder where that concern was during the crack epidemic.
Obama’s statement on Trump’s move:
re: #122 Decatur Deb
Those are going to be the first to feel it. Everyone with a kid in public school, every disabled person, everyone without private insurance, everyone scraping by on minimum wage, everyone in the school-to-prison pipeline, everyone with a HS diploma…..
They already do feel it. There are stories of abused spouses afraid to call the police out of fear of being deported.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
And I’m sorry but coal miners need to get over their hostility towards environmentalists too.
It is an old tradition that the job of a politician is to ensure an abundance of well paid jobs with benefits for people with minimal education and training, Mining and heavy manufacturing fall into those categories.
And among those people who support Trump are ones who are too dense to realize that no politician can bring those jobs back, at best all they can do is to halt the decline.
re: #121 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Not misspelled, he appeared to have a TIA in the middle of tweeting. He spelled “coverage” as “covfefe”, then sent the Tweet without finishing his sentence.
and left it up for hours unaltered.
and nobody discussed how this odd means of communicating and behavior is completely inconsistent with being the leader of the United States and commander in chief of the world’s largest military…
re: #125 HappyWarrior
They already do feel it. There are stories of abused spouses afraid to call the police out of fear of being deported.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
I just have a hard time believing climate change extremists when so many of them also believe boys can become girls.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 1, 2017
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
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Needs more Jay-sus.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
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Where’s my Castle reaction GIF?
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
I just have a hard time believing climate change extremists when so many of them also believe boys can become girls.
climate change extremist
feminazi
environmental whacko
white genocide
pc snowflake
and these are standard terms nowadays
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
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This is how stupid even the anti-Trump Conservatives are. They’re lost in their own propaganda-based alternate-reality.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Erick won’t see that. He blocks people who tell the truth about his mistaken beliefs.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
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Why the fuck do you care so much? And transgender is nothing new, you dumbass. It’s been around since before you or I were born even if you are one old 40 year old , Erick.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
It was an industry on the decline when my Grandpa left Pennsylvania in the 50’s. West Virginia was on the decline long before Obama came around. I hate to bring race into it but if this wasn’t an industry primarily in rural, white America, conservatives would have been telling those people to get the hell over it. I mean it’s not that I don’t feel bad, I do but at the same time I do think they should have realized the decline of the domestic coal industry was a long time coming.
Just thought of something else: It’s their pushing for fracking everywhere which has cannibalized the coal industry.
re: #134 HappyWarrior
Why the fuck do you care so much? And transgender is nothing new, you dumbass. It’s been around since before you or I were born even if you are one old 40 year old , Erick.
It just tells us about the mentality of the people we are dealing with.
re: #136 Timothy Watson
Just thought of something else: It’s their pushing for fracking everywhere which has cannibalized the coal industry.
Yes.
re: #136 Timothy Watson
Just thought of something else: It’s their pushing for fracking everywhere which has cannibalized the coal industry.
That is neither here nor there. If we simply removed all environmental and safety regulations, the coal jobs would come rushing back!!!
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It just tells us about the mentality of the people we are dealing with.
Yeah people who claim to be for individual rights but can’t accept people who want to feel comfortable in their own ksin.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
The Right Wing in a nutshell, y’all:
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considering God makes women with XY chromosomes, men with XX, and some with XXX, XXY, and XYY, anything is possible
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 2, 2017
re: #140 HappyWarrior
Yeah people who claim to be for individual rights but can’t accept people who want to feel comfortable in their own ksin.
They grew up in a system of belief in which God created men and women and anything in between was a freak of nature and/or an abomination unto the Lord.
EXCLUSIVE: Watch Russian banker Sergey Gorkov dodge questions about meeting with Jared Kushner from NBC News’ @KeirSimmons pic.twitter.com/QgPPfHPoZb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 2, 2017
How I long for the day when the crazification factor was only at 27%, and Peak Wingnut was a concept that seemed like it was in view.
Fun, more naive times…
re: #145 Citizen K
How I long for the day when the crazification factor was only at 27%, and Peak Wingnut was a concept that seemed like it was in view.
Fun, more naive times…
Be of good cheer. When Trump is done, the country will have lost its taste for crazy.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
And I’m sorry but coal miners need to get over their hostility towards environmentalists too.
And what’s the likelihood of THAT happening? (Guess: about the same as all those coal jobs “coming back”?) Resentment about losing one’s job/livelihood/industry to abstract factors like technological advances or changes in the global energy markets has one major disadvantage (for politicians, anyway). It’s harder to exploit for political gain than if you have a convenient hate-object to focus on. And the “liberal environmentalist” - invariably painted as some arrogant, affluent DFH asshole who’s Not From Around Here motivated mainly by anti-American animus and riding around in a Prius solely to mock and sneer at Just-Plain-Folks - is a useful strawman. Unlike coal, blame-shifting is a perennial growth industry.
re: #145 Citizen K
How I long for the day when the crazification factor was only at 27%, and Peak Wingnut was a concept that seemed like it was in view.
Fun, more naive times…
Peak wingnut is in full view, but like the fires at the edge of the event horizon, we will either push through, or be comsumed.
re: #145 Citizen K
How I long for the day when the crazification factor was only at 27%, and Peak Wingnut was a concept that seemed like it was in view.
Fun, more naive times…
Yes, but then what was once considered major wingnuttery became so mainstreamed that people saw it as something normal and acceptable.
Again, the way that “trending on Twitter” became a viable item for broadcast news contributed greatly to this development.
re: #147 Jay C
And what’s the likelihood of THAT happening? (Guess: about the same as all those coal jobs “coming back”?) Resentment about losing one’s job/livelihood/industry to abstract factors like technological advances or changes in the global energy markets has one major disadvantage (for politicians, anyway). It’s harder to exploit for political gain than if you have a convenient hate-object to focus on. And the “liberal environmentalist” - invariably painted as some arrogant, affluent DFH asshole who’s Not From Around Here motivated mainly by anti-American animus and riding around in a Prius solely to mock and sneer at Just-Plain-Folks - is a useful strawman. Unlike coal, blame-shifting is a perennial growth industry.
Exactly but no one tells them to get over it. The media and candidates do however pander to their resentments.
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, but then Wingnuttery became so mainstreamed that people saw it as something normal and acceptable.
Again, the way that “trending on Twitter” became a viable item for broadcast news contributed greatly to this development.
Meanwhile, empathy and equal treatment managed to get turned into cardinal sins because why the fuck not.
re: #152 Citizen K
Meanwhile, empathy and equal treatment managed to get turned into cardinal sins because why the fuck not.
Indeed, empathy has come to be considered a bad thing in too many quarters. Now it’s considered socially acceptable to be a fucking asshole to people who are different than you i.e. the Milo Y’s of the world.
re: #152 Citizen K
Meanwhile, empathy and equal treatment managed to get turned into cardinal sins because why the fuck not.
because equal treatment became synonymous for White Genocide and empathy was taken for destroying individual initiative and creating dependency.
AnCaps…some of the weirdest of the weird.
— Gourmet Hot Takes (@NuclearTakes) June 1, 2017
re: #155 I cannot.
AnCaps…some of the weirdest of the weird.
drug cartels as a standard for human interaction, yes…
re: #157 Barefoot Grin
Gotta run to the office, do some errands, but I’ll leave with a bit of levity:
Reminds me a bit of this one
When I was working out yesterday, I was thinking about my personal code and how some of my views were helped shaped by learning about Apartheid and how Catholics were treated in Northern Ireland. I just remember watching the film Cry Freedom and two things striking me, the amount of black South Africans killed by the regime and into my lifetime that happened and how we in the Reagan years supported that regime. That’s being a SJW to me. I’m a white kid from the suburbs. I just want to try to understand people different than I.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
When I was working out yesterday, I was thinking about my personal code and how some of my views were helped shaped by learning about Apartheid and how Catholics were treated in Northern Ireland. I just remember watching the film Cry Freedom and two things striking me, the amount of black South Africans killed by the regime and into my lifetime that happened and how we in the Reagan years supported that regime. That’s being a SJW to me. I’m a white kid from the suburbs. I just want to try to understand people different than I.
I grew up a minority, a white kid in Gary, Indiana, one of only about three white families on the block. I have little tolerance for racist assholes who grew up across the tracks from the minorities they are disparaging and generalizing about.
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up a minority, a white kid in Gary, Indiana, one of only about three white families on the block. I have little tolerance for racist assholes who grew up across the tracks from the minorities they are disparaging and generalizing about.
I did grow up in a diverse area. I really think that helped shape my world view too. When I hear Muslim, I’m more than likely to remember an old grade school friend than think about terrorism for example. I’m aware of MS-13 but my SiL’s sister’s husband is El Salvadorian and one of the sharpest guys I know.
re: #141 Belafon
Well. You have yet to become a man, so…
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) June 2, 2017
I’ve been thinking about what this Paris Agreement decision means for American leadership going forward. I’ve gamed it out, and have a couple of possibilities:
1. The US gets sidelined for the next three and a half years because all the other world leaders know that what this diplomatic staffer said is true; but our role as a leader in the world remain intact once Trump is rage tweeting losing 40 states in 2020:
Just got this text from GOP natsec official: “Had to apologize to a European defense attaché just now. ‘I’m sorry. He’s an idiot.’”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) May 25, 2017
2. China and the EU (or more specifically, Germany and/or France) rise to fill the void of world leadership. In this scenario, many of the developing nations line up with China and the other BRIC countries (though I’m not sure Russia really goes along with this); while developed countries line up with the EU. The US gets mostly sidelined and has to spend a decade or two going along to get along.
3. The reaction from Trump and his base to being sidelined, which I think is inevitable, is… less than good. So, he starts lash out. What form that takes, I don’t know. Hopefully it’s just a whole bunch of tweets sprinkled with misspellings. But perhaps its a trade war, or worse, a shooting war. At which point, the US economy tanks because countries decide to stop trading with us, the Euro becomes the default reserve currency instead of the dollar, and the US gets reduced to being a “regional power.”
THE RAPE OF AMERICA CONTINUES
BREAKING NEWS → Next week, the House will vote to dismantle #DoddFrank. The era of taxpayer bailouts and #TooBigToFail is over. pic.twitter.com/oxNmnxY6xC
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) June 2, 2017
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
THE RAPE OF AMERICA CONTINUES
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Says the guy who voted for the bailouts. Fuck off, Paul.
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up a minority, a white kid in Gary, Indiana, one of only about three white families on the block. I have little tolerance for racist assholes who grew up across the tracks from the minorities they are disparaging and generalizing about.
I’m Jewish. My parents made sure I understood that bigotry of any sort, no matter where it starts, no matter who’s first… is always ALWAYS ALWAYS going to get to the Jews eventually. That’s why our own survival depended on opposing any of it, all the time.
The replies to Paul Ryan are worth reading the entire thread.
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
THE RAPE OF AMERICA CONTINUES
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It’s time for the destructive Republicans to resign. You’ve done enough harm already.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
If a company or financial institution is too big to fail, it needs to be either regulated or broken up.
Otherwise, the Free Market no longer functions in the manner for which it was intended, namely to benefit all participants: producers and employers as well as consumers and employees.
Our current system is weighted in favor of those with the most resources to spend on lobbying and purchasing influence, namely the former.
re: #164 KGxvi
4. The next time we want something really badly, and try to negotiate any sort of terms for anything, nobody will sit down with us because “why waste time negotiating a deal with a country that’ll back out anyway after the next election.”
re: #167 sagehen
I’m Jewish. My parents made sure I understood that bigotry of any sort, no matter where it starts, no matter who’s first… is always ALWAYS ALWAYS going to get to the Jews eventually. That’s why our own survival depended on opposing any of it, all the time.
My Dad’s Dad made it clear to him at an early age that the n-word was never acceptable. The alt-right wing assholes would call him a “Beta cuck.”
re: #160 HappyWarrior
When I was working out yesterday, I was thinking about my personal code and how some of my views were helped shaped by learning about Apartheid and how Catholics were treated in Northern Ireland. I just remember watching the film Cry Freedom and two things striking me, the amount of black South Africans killed by the regime and into my lifetime that happened and how we in the Reagan years supported that regime. That’s being a SJW to me. I’m a white kid from the suburbs. I just want to try to understand people different than I.
Yeah, I managed to have an uncharacteristically diverse neighborhood for Southern WV, being raised Filipino and Catholic, with Mexican neighbors, an Indian best friend, and a Catholic School class that was just as uncharacteristically diverse. Not to mention a theology teacher who was a serious social activist (he had a picture of Martin Sheen from one of the protests he attended, as well as one from a School of the Americas protests), and I’m pretty sure was the son of legitimate hippies.
Catholic School was, ironically, where I lost my faith, but only because I was disillusioned with institutions, but it informed my philosophy enough where I gelled with all the messages of empathy in the Gospels. So even if I’m way lapsed, I still feel my hackles raised up when people use Christianity as an excuse to tell people that they are somehow undeserving of even basic respect.
Pelosi: “Almost every school child in America knows more about the climate challenge than apparently the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/5YpqCosdrJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017
re: #173 Citizen K
Yeah, I managed to have an uncharacteristically diverse neighborhood for Southern WV, being raised Filipino and Catholic, with Mexican neighbors, an Indian best friend, and a Catholic School class that was just as uncharacteristically diverse. Not to mention a theology teacher who was a serious social activist (he had a picture of Martin Sheen from one of the protests he attended, as well as one from a School of the Americas protests), and I’m pretty sure was the son of legitimate hippies.
Catholic School was, ironically, where I lost my faith, but only because I was disillusioned with institutions, but it informed my philosophy enough where I gelled with all the messages of empathy in the Gospels. So even if I’m way lapsed, I still feel my hackles raised up when people use Christianity as an excuse to tell people that they are somehow undeserving of even basic respect.
A lot of my philosophy more or less was shaped by devout Catholics or people who were raised by them. IT’s yeah the messages of empathy. And I really think empathy is sorely lacking these days.
The Daily’s Beast’s Conservative con-man is at it again:
Paris Can Wait—It Was a Bad Deal
Gotta have “balance”.
Wall Street hits record highs after Trump pulls out of Climate pact https://t.co/PDmwj13Lus
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) June 2, 2017
Wall Street hit a record high after I drank my coffee yesterday. Those two events are just as closely related as these two👇 https://t.co/a9BXXlIIvY
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 2, 2017
re: #175 HappyWarrior
A lot of my philosophy more or less was shaped by devout Catholics or people who were raised by them. IT’s yeah the messages of empathy. And I really think empathy is sorely lacking these days.
Just think of the outpourings of empathy for poor Barron Trump when he was exposed to those scary pictures of that mean, intolerant liberal lady beheading his daddy!!!
re: #177 sagehen
I wish they weren’t related, but allowing Americans to destroy the air and water is good for short-term profits, and that’s what drives stock prices.
Putin just now to US businessmen: “Help us restore normal political dialogue. I ask on behalf of Russia…help the new US president.”
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) June 2, 2017
I think the new US president has gotten more than enough help from Putin already. https://t.co/DpFrZyXyAy
— Karoli (@Karoli) June 2, 2017
re: #176 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The Daily’s Beast’s Conservative con-man is at it again:
Paris Can Wait—It Was a Bad DealGotta have “balance”.
Panel at #SPIEF17 has turned into sparring match between @megynkelly and Putin, who mentions how many kids she has and age of youngest.
— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) June 2, 2017
Also their routes to school and the names, ages, & license plate numbers of their security guards … https://t.co/C0qixIQt4X
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2017
Putin tells @megynkelly “a 3-year-old can perpetrate such an attack” on US election hacking allegations https://t.co/u0OhmosP7H
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 2, 2017
The entire coal industry employs 76,000. Not just miners - everybody. WashPost has some interesting comparisons here https://t.co/XYhwajfXmV
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2017
But I prefer this one: There are more yoga instructors in the US than all coal employees, miners & non-miners https://t.co/Bz4lMCXvOV https://t.co/vPUjZZlvC9
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2017
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
“a 3-year-old can perpetrate such an attack” on US election hacking allegations
he has a point, it is way too easy to hack into the US election system.
but that has nothing to do with any questions of his role in doing so
re: #182 sagehen
We need the propagandized far-right to accept that Putin is our enemy, rather than seeing him as a way to bring back bigotry here
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
.@VP: “For some reason, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left - in this country and around the world.” pic.twitter.com/1UgRsgVkj1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 2, 2017
“For some reason”
What a git. https://t.co/XpyfeU0Qqr— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 2, 2017
re: #189 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
We need the propagandized far-right to accept that Putin is our enemy, rather than seeing him as a way to bring back bigotry here
Putin stands for an oligarchic, authoritarian, homophobic, theocratic state.
Which is near to the GOP ideal, other than they would have us be fundamentalist Protestant rather than Russian Orthodox.
re: #46 The Vicious Babushka
I was offline Wednesday & Thursday and this morning there is this “covfefe” meme everywhere.
The Googles says it’s another misspelled Trumptweet
Chag sameach covfefe!!
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yes, Mike all those 100+ nations that signed the agreement are “the left.” Maybe we want to leave the Earth a good place to live to our children and grandchildren? Ever figure that out you sexually repressed Trump lackey
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
“For some reason, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left - in this country and around the world.”
Al Gore’s fault…
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Putin stands for an oligarchic, authoritarian, homophobic, theocratic state.
Which is near to the GOP ideal, other than they would have us be fundamentalist Protestant rather than Russian Orthodox.
Different between the Fundies and the RO is the RO have better beards. But I don’t like homophobic antisemitic Santas much.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
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For some reason? Climate change is an issue to everyone who wants to preserve our civilization. We have crazies in the WH.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
There are a lot of good replies.
re: #164 KGxvi
Despite abdicating its role as a global leader in some ways, America remains the single remaining military superpower. This cannot be ignored. It is highly unlikely that its role as world leader will vacate quickly, leaving a void. The Roman Empire took centuries and major invasions to decline - the USA will not vanish quickly.
At the moment, the rest of the world is waiting and watching in disbelief as America aggressively shoots itself in the foot diplomatically and politically. Like many Americans, they are probably waiting for a correction - for adults to come back into power and to resume a status quo after that.
This will ultimately prove false, because Republicans will continue to make gains for the foreseeable future. If Trump runs again in 2020, he will win again easily. Even if he doesn’t run, Republicans will continue to increase their power politically for the next two to six years. Most of the rest of the world doesn’t realise that, I suspect, because they don’t know how debased and awful the American electorate has become. (Yes, I’m aware that it’s about 40% of the American electorate. It’s enough. More than enough.)
After it becomes apparent that the US will continue to elect authoritarians for a generation or so, eventually, the rest of the world will start to give up and look to other things. China will not miss an opportunity to exert economic leadership, and they will be all too happy to make deals with developing nations. This will be sad for a bit, as China is not going to demand freedoms and human rights in the same way that the US has, so human suffering throughout the world will increase, but China’s assumption of this role was ultimately inevitable. The West will increase its own military spending to take the place of the US military, but the expense of doing such a thing will impact their own economies significantly, and they will have to face their own difficulties with social services. The reality of things is that a nation can have two out of three: a big military, an extensive social safety net, low taxes.
The question is, what becomes of the US military as America retreats within itself? Will there be a small war or two as America attempts to maintain with force what it is no longer willing to do with diplomacy? That’s certainly possible. Will America decide to pack up bases in other countries, as countries make them unwelcome or the cost and political difficulty in maintaining an overseas presence becomes unpopular?
It will take decades for America to retreat from world leadership. And there’s still a huge elephant in the room, in the form of a huge nuclear arsenal and a dozen carrier groups that the entire rest of the world put together cannot match. Military respect alone will keep the rest of the world at least guardedly watching America, until such a time as the economic realities of massive income disparity mean that America cannot maintain such a military. But that will take a long time. Long enough for the world to realise that America has gone mad, and it won’t be coming back in this generation.
Merkel probably cracking up being referred to as the “left.”
Them lefties, with their obsession with “breathing” and “the continued existence of mankind!”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
When did caring about your planet become a left-right issue?
re: #199 Ace-o-aces
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— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
That gif is so versatile!
re: #37 The Vicious Babushka
Trump wants to be President For Life. The GOP will abolish the 22nd Amendment for him.
No way!
It takes a lot to abolish an Amendment. The GOP doesn’t have that kind of power for such an important move.
Hell, they are having trouble getting legislation through with control of Congress and the Presidency.
I don’t think everyone is understanding there are splits in the party…one of the reasons they are struggling right now.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
When did caring about your planet become a left-right issue?
when you were sold on the notion that climate change was just a Trojan horse to introduce one world government and destroy capitalism and private ownership…
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
when you were sold on the notion that climate change was just a Trojan horse to introduce one world government and destroy capitalism and private ownership…
Rhetorical question.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
When did caring about your planet become a left-right issue?
Science too. The right is so superstitious and dogmatic that they fear good things, and cherish terrible things.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
Those damn elites will probably tell us to start drinking water next! I’m gonna drink coal dust and show them!
Too late.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
When did caring about your planet become a left-right issue?
Honestly? Probably since anti nuclear power advocacy groups aligned. 1960’s maybe ‘70’s. Ironically nuclear was thought to be far worse than continuing fossil fuels. Still is by many.
re: #209 Unshaken Defiance
Honestly? Probably since anti nuclear power advocacy groups aligned. 1960’s maybe ‘70’s. Ironically nuclear was thought to be far worse than continuing fossil fuels. Still is by many.
True, I was actually speaking quite rhetorically TBH. It just amazes me if you seem to care about the environment, you’re treated like some kind of damn hippy freak by these people* Not there’s anything wrong with being a hippy or a freak.
re: #209 Unshaken Defiance
Honestly? Probably since anti nuclear power advocacy groups aligned. 1960’s maybe ‘70’s. Ironically nuclear was thought to be far worse than continuing fossil fuels. Still is by many.
Because people remember meltdowns, and are not familiar with the concept of safe, modern reactors that can’t melt down. People suck at both internalizing new information, and assessing risk.
Dodd-Frank was passed in order to PREVENT the bundling of high-risk contracts into “securities” which is what caused the ‘08 crash!
Ryan & gang want to do that all over again.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Internet viral is one thing, but ever since “Trending on Twitter” became a viable item of TV news coverage, I have been predicting the imminent demise of Western Civilization…
Heh. Twitter kills The World 140 characters at a time.
Twitter seems to be the digital equal to the meaty opening sentence or two of a long story that everyone glances at and then thinks they read the whole story and now have a complete understanding of what is going on.
Problem is everyone knows that many times the opening sentences are just a tease to read the rest to really learn something.
Conclusion…no one is learning anything.
The most chill dog ever.
My milkshake brings all the chicks to the yard. | Video by @the_fancy_chicken_farm
#babyanimalshd
re: #207 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Science too. The right is so superstitious and dogmatic that they fear good things, and cherish terrible things.
That goes back to Galileo, except nowadays it is the Catholic Church defending science, evolution and climate change against Protestant fundamentalists.
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Really? I don’t do Twitter but trending on Twitter is a decent way of gauging what people are talking about.
Yeah, in a way like fashion is telling men to wear rompers.
And what if the “bots” are doing the trending? Hello Donny Trump!
Generalissimo Gotsflair speaks up
Obama sidesteps the Constitution and Senate in signing the Paris Climate accord. Libs had no problem with that. Now apoplectic over pullout? pic.twitter.com/k5bIY4Prlz
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) June 2, 2017
.@VP: “For some reason, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left - in this country and around the world.” pic.twitter.com/1UgRsgVkj1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 2, 2017
“For some reason”
It’s not some reason, dipshit. It’s millions of reasons. https://t.co/5ZSlXCGlKS— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 2, 2017
re: #218 The Vicious Babushka
On the left side of your keyboard is a key labeled “Caps Lock”. Hit it.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
re: #220 Ace-o-aces
The dumbest of the propagandized far-right may actually believe that. These fantasy-prone people are why we have a clown-President.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #212 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Because people remember meltdowns, and are not familiar with the concept of safe, modern reactors that can’t melt down. People suck at both internalizing new information, and assessing risk.
People also remember The China Syndrome - which, while it was a very good film, further hardened anti-nuclear attitudes, especially as it was released shortly before the Three Mile Island incident.
Dear @IvankaTrump: Another busy day of pretending to influence your irresponsible father. You must be exhausted! Have a champagne popsicle! pic.twitter.com/4H6WpYaLHe
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 1, 2017
re: #220 Ace-o-aces
Holeeeeee Shit. Did you check out Billie’s timeline? Prime candidate for the PT Barnum sucker of the year award right there.
re: #218 The Vicious Babushka
Generalissimo Gotsflair speaks up
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Whatever Sheriff Fascist.
Fuckin’ try something Antifa. #HeWillNotDivideUs pic.twitter.com/fokSVeY5ba
— [Brandon] (@D3F4ULT3D) February 5, 2017
This guy seems like he’s a hit with the ladies https://t.co/53YDc4GaXF
— Black Aziz Ansari 👏 (@Freeyourmindkid) June 2, 2017
Pauly Shore is the Aryan Milk God of the Alt-Right!https://t.co/OxMWG7oAIY
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
People also remember The China Syndrome - which, while it was a very good film, further hardened anti-nuclear attitudes, especially as it was released shortly before the Three Mile Island incident.
People also remember Chernobyl and Fukushima…and will continue to do so for years and years…for some leftist reason Mike Pence cannot understand.
Someone should tell Pence that he and Trump are in line with Daniel Ortega on this issue.
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
Dodd-Frank was passed in order to PREVENT the bundling of high-risk contracts into “securities” which is what caused the ‘08 crash!
Ryan & gang want to do that all over again.
Why do you hate Freedom?
/
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And as an accompaniment—dumb as a stump (but with more Jeebus)
.@VP: “For some reason, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left - in this country and around the world.” pic.twitter.com/1UgRsgVkj1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 2, 2017
Edit to add—that’s what I get for falling behind on a thread.
re: #234 BeachDem
And as an accompaniment—dumb as a stump (but with more Jeebus)
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He thinks it’s just the left. Keep on leaving a yugge bubble.
What Kathy Griffin did was stupid as fuck, but this is MOAR STUPID
#republicans outraged over @kathygriffin picture. Where was the outrage when Obama’s kids had to see this:@senategop = #racist party @potus pic.twitter.com/JGEx6xOzxw
— 🌴rrhoop🌴 (@rrhoop) June 2, 2017
Megyn Kelly asks if “squabbles” in the West help Russia. Putin says that if the squabbles dismantle NATO, then yes.
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 2, 2017
Sometimes I admire Putin bluntless. Read this @realDonaldTrump . You are advancing Putin’s agenda. Clear as day. https://t.co/32XrfJx2Y1
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 2, 2017
The @TSA are seeking people to adopt dogs who failed TSA training or are retired: https://t.co/9kSJszS5dm pic.twitter.com/SQTdKPquEP
— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) June 2, 2017
re: #236 The Vicious Babushka
What Kathy Griffin did was stupid as fuck, but this is MOAR STUPID
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Nugent gets treated as a hero by the GOP.
How can it be both unenforceable AND defy sovereignty?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
These are the kind of people who thought Obama was a Gay-Muslim Extremist-Communist.
re: #236 The Vicious Babushka
What Kathy Griffin did was stupid as fuck, but this is MOAR STUPID
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Objection: I contend what Griffin did was stupid.
What’s shown in those pics, on the other hand, is malicious and more of an overt threat than any dumb piece of performance art by Griffin. What it isn’t is ‘stupid’, because these assholes want what their signs portray and support the idea of it actually happening. People behind those may be personally stupid, but the sentiment and intent is transparently violent and malicious in a purely intentional way
re: #239 HappyWarrior
Nugent gets treated as a hero by the GOP.
Just good ol’ boys havin’ theyselves some fun down on the farm…
re: #232 Sir John Barron
The high DOW during Obama was a bubble.
//
For the Dow to equal the Obama-era performance, it will have to close at about 52,000 at the 2024 inauguration.
re: #238 FormerDirtDart
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Good news.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
When did caring about your planet become a left-right issue?
Since about 1970 and the first Earth Day. Which was associated with those “dirty hippies” at the same time there was big fight over “red necks” and “hippies” over the Vietnam war.
For some reason those two sides were iced permanently and have remained against each other ever since.
FOX News built a business model off of it. Here we are.
re: #241 Ace-o-aces
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These are the kind of people who thought Obama was a Gay-Muslim Extremist-Communist.
Keep on telling yourself it’s just LEFTISTS that support Paris, shit for brains.
re: #246 ObserverArt
Since about 1970 and the first Earth Day. Which was associated with those “dirty hippies” at the same time there was big fight over “red necks” and “hippies” over the Vietnam war.
The counter to environmental arguments was always: what do you want: pristine streams and flowery meadows, or PROGRESS and PROSPERITY?!?
Putin: The Kremlin didn’t use cyberattacks to meddle in U.S. election but “patriotically minded” Russians might have https://t.co/dHTov7xPrO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 2, 2017
If said “patriotic Russian hackers” step forward, they are almost guaranteed to receive both the Order of Lenin and the Congressional Medal of Honor at a joint East Room ceremony in recognition the their service to their mother country and the GOP.
re: #238 FormerDirtDart
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so… stupid, untrainable dogs. with no sense of smell. just what i was looking for.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The counter to environmental arguments was always: what do you want: pristine streams and flowery meadows, or PROGRESS and PROSPERITY?!?
This is what Pittsburgh looked like back in the heyday of coal. pic.twitter.com/T7LpeWDn3K
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) June 1, 2017
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re: #250 caseyjr
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If said “patriotic Russian hackers” step forward, they are almost guaranteed to receive both the Order of Lenin and the Congressional Medal of Honor at a joint East Room ceremony in recognition the their service to their mother country and the GOP.
The classic “I’ve got a friend” talking point.
re: #250 caseyjr
If said “patriotic Russian hackers” step forward, they are almost guaranteed to receive both the Order of Lenin and the Congressional Medal of Honor at a joint East Room ceremony in recognition the their service to their mother country and the GOP.
DT will continue to blame the US IC, the Washington Post, the NYT, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, American voters, etc.
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
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BLACK LUNG IN 2017! Ky. miners paying with their lungs https://t.co/xR5lPyVD4R
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 2, 2017
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is what Pittsburgh looked like back in the heyday of coal.
I grew up in Gary, Indiana, back in the days when the Calumet River used to catch fire and burn…playing in heaps of industrial waste outside the Purex bleach plant.
I know what PROGRESS and PROPSTERITY look like…
re: #250 caseyjr
If said “patriotic Russian hackers” step forward, they are almost guaranteed to receive both the Order of Lenin and the Congressional Medal of Honor at a joint East Room ceremony in recognition the their service to their mother country and the GOP.
We’re getting a lot closer to the day when DT, the GOP and Faux News and dudebros all say, ‘Yeah, Russia did it, Trump colluded with the Russians, it’s all good, shutup stupid libtard America-haters who want WWIII.’
re: #259 Dr. Matt
Is that available for purchase?! I want one.
yes, but it’s not mine. American Horror Mug
re: #225 (Bert the Turtle)
Holeeeeee Shit. Did you check out Billie’s timeline? Prime candidate for the PT Barnum sucker of the year award right there.
Yeah…she’s a lover of Freedom!
Freedom for White people that think just like Billie.
Everyone else get off my country!!!
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in Gary, Indiana, back in the days when the Calumet River used to catch fire and burn…playing in heaps of industrial waste outside the Purex bleach plant.
I know what PROGRESS and PROPSTERITY look like…
Have you seen Gary lately?
re: #265 Birth Control Works
Have you seen Gary lately?
Was last back there about 13 years ago…I have seen that it is an empty shell of itself, having lost 1/3 of its population since I left there.
re: #263 Birth Control Works
yes, but it’s not mine. American Horror Mug
mmmmm, $55 for 2 coffee mugs. I don’t love it that much.
re: #252 sagehen
so… stupid, untrainable dogs. with no sense of smell. just what i was looking for.
Well, definitely pet quality. These dogs usually fail because they don’t have enough prey drive. Something I don’t want in a pet.
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
Dodd-Frank was passed in order to PREVENT the bundling of high-risk contracts into “securities” which is what caused the ‘08 crash!
Ryan & gang want to do that all over again.
Republicans working on creating the next global financial crisis. If you liked 2008 you will love 2019 when the whole world crashes.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 2, 2017
Kathy Griffin is digging and it won’t get any better for her.
re: #269 MsJ
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oh yeah, don’t get me started!
Robber Barrons didn’t learn the first time.
The most important piece @snopes has published in its 22 years. https://t.co/YjTTnjmx6p
— Chris Clarke (@canislatrans) June 2, 2017
The usefulness of the article depends on how much you’re willing to trust their verification, but it’s still interesting.
re: #269 MsJ
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So, You want MORE ways to hide illicit drug money?
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 2, 2017
re: #273 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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The usefulness of the article depends on how much you’re willing to trust their verification, but it’s still interesting.
love the bird
Pittsburgh mayor issues executive order committing the city to Paris climate accord objectives pic.twitter.com/qcn3BWaAoi
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 2, 2017
re: #252 sagehen
so… stupid, untrainable dogs. with no sense of smell. just what i was looking for.
HEY! Don’t be hating on the dog.
The Pittsburgh Trump talks about was the city my grandparents grew up in. It’s also one where their siblings and close family members died fairly young too.
YOU’RE FIRED! New @DerSPIEGEL cover. #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/llIqCzmobS
— DER SPIEGEL (@DerSPIEGEL) June 2, 2017
re: #269 MsJ
The Tree of Liberty should be refreshed every generation nine years with the cash of patriots.
re: #276 sagehen
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The summer of 1978 I was 16-17years old and traveled to SoCal for the summer where I stayed with relatives. In downtown LA, the gutters and sidewalk joints were full of particulate smog/soot. On a hike to Sturdivant Falls, I was overcome with a bronchitis attack, something I had never experienced. I thought it must be what a heart attack felt like. The air was dangerously bad.
re: #272 Birth Control Works
oh yeah, don’t get me started!
Robber Barrons didn’t learn the first time.
They learned their lessons from the first time very well. Unfortunately, that ‘lesson learned’ was to secure complete ownership of the media before starting up the Gilded Age v2.0 program.
All you have to is see Beijing now to know that the right’s vision for the environment is wrong. Maybe I’m just a “leftist” but you know what, I want to walk and not have to wear a surgical mask.
Here’s how much Exxon paid Republicans who urged Trump to ditch Paris climate deal
never heard of this site before
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in Gary, Indiana, back in the days when the Calumet River used to catch fire and burn…playing in heaps of industrial waste outside the Purex bleach plant.
I know what PROGRESS and PROPSTERITY look like…
I grew up in a smaller city in Ohio that was very industrial. I too lived across the tracks.
In my neighborhood there were warehouses, steel plants, brass casting, trucking, paint manufacturing, etc. And yes, railroad tracks galore.
In a big area just behind our houses the neighborhood kids played on pieces of steel structures lying out in the field. There were railroad ties soaked in creosote. 55 gallon drums of paint production waste leaking out of the rust or loosened lids.
Don’t want to see that again for anyone. I’m glad I survived it when you consider all the dangers of all that crap just laying around in a field with kids playing around it.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is neither here nor there. If we simply removed all environmental and safety regulations, the coal jobs would come rushing back!!!
Yep, I’m gonna run out and replace my gas furnace with a coal fired one. And re-purpose my wood workshop back to the coal bin storage area it used to be, and unseal the chute door for the tons of coal delivery. Get myself back to those cold mornings going to the basement to stoke up the furnace in the winter, the joy.
re: #287 Birth Control Works
Here’s how much Exxon paid Republicans who urged Trump to ditch Paris climate deal
never heard of this site before
Hey, they bought themselves a nice Secretary of State. That should be worth the multi-millions they laid out.
In a time of OVERPOPULATION -we need to TRUST WOMEN and provide Birth Control for those who want to use it. It’s economically stupid not to.
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 2, 2017
re: #283 caseyjr
The summer of 1978 I was 16-17years old and traveled to SoCal for the summer where I stayed with relatives. In downtown LA, the gutters and sidewalk joints were full of particulate smog/soot. On a hike to Sturdivant Falls, I was overcome with a bronchitis attack, something I had never experienced. I thought it must be what a heart attack felt like. The air was dangerously bad.
I remember that growing up in L.A. in the 1970s. All of us being sent home from school because of smog alerts, even tasting the smog in the back of my throat.
Not exactly good times.
re: #266 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Was last back there about 13 years ago…I have seen that it is an empty shell of itself, having lost 1/3 of its population since I left there.
It hasn’t gotten any better.
re: #285 EPR-radar
They learned their lessons from the first time very well. Unfortunately, that ‘lesson learned’ was to secure complete ownership of the media before starting up the Gilded Age v2.0 program.
Oh that damn liberal media.
Mayor Peduto: Pittsburgh is rebuilding its economy with hopes for the future, “not on outdated fantasies about our past.”
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) June 2, 2017
Trump Targets German Trade, and the South Grimaces https://t.co/L1wlgDLwKM
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 2, 2017
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
I remember that growing up in L.A. in the 1970s. All of us being sent home from school because of smog alerts, even tasting the smog in the back of my throat.
Not exactly good times.
The pain subsided in a couple days, but I had a bad cough, jefe.
been dying to use that one ^_^
REQUIRED READING: https://t.co/ZvvFmgvYkm pic.twitter.com/RDxn2WV65k
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 2, 2017
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy. I think I’ll buy something from a foreign company.
re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some Americans are still responsible adults, despite the election of a clown with the mind of a spoiled child.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #297 caseyjr
The pain subsided in a couple days, but I had a bad cough, jefe.
The pollution in Los Angeles in the 70’s was pretty damn bad. People here love to complain about pollution, but what they have here nowadays is nothing. To be fair, I’ve heard that Ostrava was really bad in the 70’s as well; this was a big-time steel town until the 1989 Revolution.
The steel mills now are closed, and the coal mines have long since shut down.
re: #299 Birth Control Works
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy. I think I’ll buy something from a foreign company.
Electronics are always good…
re: #289 Eventual Carrion
Yep, I’m gonna run out and replace my gas furnace with a coal fired one. And re-purpose my wood workshop back to the coal bin storage area it used to be, and unseal the chute door for the tons of coal delivery. Get myself back to those cold mornings going to the basement to stoke up the furnace in the winter, the joy.
My youth.
We had all that in our house when I was real young. I remember how the snow would be all white and a day later grey from all the soot from the homes in the neighborhood that had coal furnaces.
My dad would be up at 4:00 AM stoking the coals, shaking the grates and then adding bigger pieces to keep the house warm all day while he was at work from 6:00 Am to 2:30 at Westinghouse.
Don’t want to go back to that ever again too.
re: #299 Birth Control Works
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy. I think I’ll buy something from a foreign company.
Make sure it is German or French.
re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seriously, how long before someone files suit saying that the states can’t implement the reduction goals from the Paris Accords?
re: #299 Birth Control Works
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy
I’m trying to finish up work.
Then going to the store to get poster supplies. This is my plan for tomorrow
I’m going to paint it myself.
This is from a book I read years ago, 7 habits of something by Stephen Covey.
I think the GOP is permanently stuck in early adulthood. They hide their drug use, and sex habits —etc.
you get the picture.
re: #305 Mike Lamb
Seriously, how long before someone files suit saying that the states can’t implement the reduction goals from the Paris Accords?
Soon enough. Missouri already voted to NOT allow cities to increase the minimum wage. LOCAL CONTROL!!!!
Trump’s enemies
✔️Germany
✔️NATO
✔️Media
✔️Earth
✔️Muslims
✔️Women
Trump’s allies
✔️Russia
✔️Saudi Arabia
✔️Alex Jones
✔️Ted Nugent— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 2, 2017
re: #299 Birth Control Works
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy. I think I’ll buy something from a foreign company.
Whatever you do, DON’T BUY IVANKA PRODUCTS.
Have Some Bubbly And Take A VIP Tour Of Ivanka Trump’s SHOE SWEATSHOP OF DOOM https://t.co/xR6HIP72yT via @RobynElyse
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) June 2, 2017
re: #7 goddamnedfrank
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re: #307 Birth Control Works
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This is from a book I read years ago, 7 habits of something by Stephen Covey.
I think the GOP is permanently stuck in early adulthood. They hide their drug use, and sex habits —etc.
you get the picture.
It was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the worst book I ever read. Or worst book-reading experience I ever had. I was getting more depressed with each page. I don’t remember why, but Mr. w said something like, ‘Well, look who wrote it.’ Which I did, and don’t remember what I found, but I tossed the book.
Oh, dear. I see he died as a result of a bike accident, 5 years ago. I think I’ll read this obituary:
Stephen R. Covey Taught Me Not to Be Like Him
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The comments on these obituaries include two very divergent types. One group says he was a “snake oil salesman” who “started a wave of BS in the corporate world — all about clichés and posters and one liners.” The other says “he cleared out a lot of BS by making some important ideas simpler to grasp.” Which is it?
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re: #311 The Vicious Babushka
Whatever you do, DON’T BUY IVANKA PRODUCTS.
Shoe Sweatshop of Doom would be another great band name.
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
Dodd-Frank did not create ‘too big to fail’, so it is impossible for repealing it to end ‘too big to fail’. The only real solution to TBTF banks etc. is vigorous trust-busting, which the Republicans will never do.
re: #314 Sir John Barron
With their debut album “Lock the Doors”, featuring the hit singles “Murder for a nickel” and “White collar, Red Blood”.
heh
some asshole wrote to the mayor of Austin (@MayorAdler) to complain about women-only screenings of Wonder Woman, and got this reply omg pic.twitter.com/NnmkFblgx0
— shar 🐣 (@sharcoal) June 2, 2017
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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Nice full brain slam on the knuckle-dragging emailer. Good job Mayor of Austin.
Pence: “For some reason” climate change is a key issue for the left https://t.co/gi7sjtBRUS pic.twitter.com/M9bWLd5BpF
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2017
“For some reason”
Jesus fucking Christ. I’m so sick and tired of these mother fuckers https://t.co/ZrR6dCDJmB— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 2, 2017
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
He sure shows class in his responses which is why I blocked that B-hole!
re: #319 Kragar
People like @VP acquire power by misleading incurious people. They’re not interested in reality, because in reality, they suck.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #319 Kragar
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I’m thinking of writing a book called Loathsome Dunce but it’s so hard to know which GOP leader to base it on….
In today’s episode of the Chuck C. Johnson freak show… pic.twitter.com/HWvwB38gin
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Chuck Johnson just got kicked out of the Kathy Griffin Lisa Bloom press conference
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 2, 2017
https://t.co/J5cc2qfEOL pic.twitter.com/pqzAZrzhqE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s the best thing EVER. LOL.
re: #322 Barefoot Grin
I’m thinking of writing a book called Loathsome Dunce but it’s so hard to know which GOP leader to base it on….
One easy fix is to make the title plural. E.g. something like Legion of the Damned: A Field Guide to the Cesspits of Satan.
I am proud to support my LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 2, 2017
We are not your friends and you can’t sit with us https://t.co/cLX0VLVnjH
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) June 2, 2017
re: #323 Charles Johnson
What did the crackpot propagandist do this time?
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
good grief
The president told mainline Protestant pastors he did great with evangelicals. Then asked if they were Christian. https://t.co/XghYKhQxIc pic.twitter.com/g4JrOvbYhP
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 2, 2017
re: #322 Barefoot Grin
I’m thinking of writing a book called Loathsome Dunce but it’s so hard to know which GOP leader to base it on….
Easy. Change the title to All the Loathsome Dunces.
You can do two or three parts.
OK, so I’m hearing the next abomination coming at us is that there’s a new plan to tax employer provided insurance as income. Anyone know about this? I’m having trouble finding anything except something very brief on ThinkProgress related to Mike Lee (R-Utah, and also too Evil, Inc) trying to push this.
So it’s not enough to get insurance now, they want to take the FULL cost of health insurance, including what your employer pays and tax that as income. WTF? Tell me this is bullshit, someone? Please?
Did Rage Furby make it on video during KG’s presser?
If you had a single true friend, they would advise you to either commit your treasonous father to a rehab, or watch him die in jail.
— kim (@kim) June 2, 2017
If you had a single true friend, they would tell you why it’s best to pay workers more than $62 per week.
— kim (@kim) June 2, 2017
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
[ Then asked if they were Christian.]
He was just making sure they weren’t taking that ‘diversity’ thing too far.
re: #330 A Mom Anon
OK, so I’m hearing the next abomination coming at us is that there’s a new plan to tax employer provided insurance as income. Anyone know about this? I’m having trouble finding anything except something very brief on ThinkProgress related to Mike Lee (R-Utah, and also too Evil, Inc) trying to push this.
So it’s not enough to get insurance now, they want to take the FULL cost of health insurance, including what your employer pays and tax that as income. WTF? Tell me this is bullshit, someone? Please?
Yes, Republicans are that evil.
But of course you would be thrilled to pay tax on the healthcare that you get “for free” from your employer, because you know that the wealthiest 1% will get a big tax cut!!! //
re: #38 Timothy Watson
Yet Germany gets 18.2% of its power from solar and wind.
Those evil, crafty bastards!
Scotland gets over 50% of its energy from renewable sources, mainly wind and water.
Republican representative says God will solve climate change if it’s a ‘real problem’ https://t.co/sKsiZUZhwS
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) June 2, 2017
If they were “real problems”, wouldn’t God also take care of national defense, terrorism, a border wall? Why are we spending $ on them? https://t.co/I9RtgEgtDC
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 2, 2017
re: #330 A Mom Anon
OK, so I’m hearing the next abomination coming at us is that there’s a new plan to tax employer provided insurance as income. Anyone know about this? I’m having trouble finding anything except something very brief on ThinkProgress related to Mike Lee (R-Utah, and also too Evil, Inc) trying to push this.
So it’s not enough to get insurance now, they want to take the FULL cost of health insurance, including what your employer pays and tax that as income. WTF? Tell me this is bullshit, someone? Please?
Apparently some Republicans are kicking this idea around, but amending the already loathed AHCA to raise taxes on 150 million Americans would send its support below zero, so I have a hard time imagining that will happen.
re: #299 Birth Control Works
I’m so pissed-off today. I think I need retail therapy. I think I’ll buy something from a foreign company.
Go buy the new stereo remix of Sgt. Pepper on vinyl. It’s a German pressing. The mix sounds GREAT and the vinyl is actually pretty good (flat, clean and quiet).
No puppet. No puppet.
Report: White House Officials Worked to Ease Russia Sanctions
re: #336 Kragar
It never occurs to these people that their god never, ever shows up to solve a single problem. It can’t even stop tsunamis.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #276 sagehen
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My dad moved us out to LA in ‘61, and by ‘65 we were heading back to Pennsylvania. He said he couldn’t breath there because of the air. I was a kid so I didn’t care to notice much. My mom and 2 sisters came back on a train, dad and I drove back with the truck full of our stuff. That trip back was a great adventure.
re: #319 Kragar
For some reason…she persisted.
Pprofiles in obtuseness
What is wrong with the left that they think these sorts of things are funny? https://t.co/sAxON5xxmh
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 1, 2017
What kind of an asshole spreads a wild conspiracy about someone’s tragic death. Those people are scum and sould be sued into bankruptcy!
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #343 gocart mozart
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They’re tired of the horrible far-right lying to rubes to undermine America.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
The guy lives near St Louis. He’s never been to Austin. What a colossal dick.