Watch Live: The Latest Session of Dishonesty in the White House Press Room
Climate change denier and head of the EPA Scott Pruitt is now lying to the world. Soon to be followed by liar Sean Spicer, who will do some more lying.
Climate change denier and head of the EPA Scott Pruitt is now lying to the world. Soon to be followed by liar Sean Spicer, who will do some more lying.
A Friday news drop from Pruitt? What kind of additional shit will they put on top of this turd burger?
“We need to export ‘clean coal’ technology.”
“Clean coal” DOES NOT EXIST. It’s a right wing fantasy. https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR pic.twitter.com/Pw5OEbMYYj— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Fuck every one of these fucking bastards.
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
America First!
Earth Last! #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/O0PixEKCyw— DER SPIEGEL (@DerSPIEGEL) June 1, 2017
Oh FFS he’s citing Bret Stephens fucking NYT op-ed.
EPA climate denier Scott Pruitt: “There are climate change exaggerators.” Now he’s quoting Bret Stephens. https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR pic.twitter.com/kG7qbCpNo3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Pruitt says he personally accepts global warming is occurring and human activity contributes—then he refers to that Bret Stephens op-ed.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 2, 2017
re: #3 Charles Johnson
China is exporting solar panels, and a lost America is still promoting the fossil fuels that drive climate change. Madness!
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Pruitt just recited the FALSE right wing talking point that there’s been no global warming since the late 1990s. https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR pic.twitter.com/Lx3biErmPE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Wow, Pruitt seems to be claiming Trump has never told him whether he believes Climate Change is real.Check out the reaction #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/PXhzD78nRV
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) June 2, 2017
re: #11 Charles Johnson
The sad thing is, that it doesn’t matter any more if they just tell bald-faced lies. Fox and Hate Radio will tell their captive audiences that this is true. Or not refer to it at all.
And they will swallow it uncritically.
Variation on “the world was laughing at us for joining Paris.” Scott Pruitt is a scumbag.
This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.
NO YOU ASSHOLE, PUTIN WANTS THAT.
Useless mother fucker.
I was going through some boxes earlier this week while housecleaning and I found in one a copy of State of Fear someone had given me.
I’ve only read it once. Crichton got pretty wacky on that one.
Pruitt is now theorizing that the world applauded the Paris Agreement because everyone else hates America
— dead by millennials (@jesseltaylor) June 2, 2017
Pruitt: “We are going to stay engaged with the UN [Climate Change Forum].”
United Nations: No, you’re not. pic.twitter.com/TsWKwUdy9d— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 2, 2017
And now Bullshit Spice is vomiting out lies like wet insulation dropping from my ceiling.
re: #17 The Vicious Babushka
This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.
NO YOU ASSHOLE, PUTIN WANTS THAT.
Useless mother fucker.
We’re the EU’s largest trade partner by a long margin (in terms of exports). In what fucking universe is it beneficial for the EU to have a US with a weak economy?
re: #16 Barefoot Grin
Variation on “the world was laughing at us for joining Paris.” Scott Pruitt is a scumbag.
Wingnuts always invert reality. They have to because they want to think of themselves as heroes while being scoundrels.
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
I checked the latest figures available, and it’s actually dropped to 50,000 jobs…fewer than are employed by Whole Foods https://t.co/BEOsggqia0
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) June 2, 2017
Pruitt repeats Trump’s insane BS that Europeans applauded when US agreed to Paris because they want us to fail https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR pic.twitter.com/v2PhO1zCzp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #19 jaunte
Paranoia-driven policy never turns out well. Republicans learned nothing from Nixon.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Pruitt: It’s a bad deal. 26% to 28% reduction is just too much. But we’re not even close to that anyways, so we might as well just pull the plug.
What. The. Fuck.
The Sierra Club fully supports the Paris Agreement. Scott Pruitt is a liar.
— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) June 2, 2017
Told that solar has seen significant job growth, Stephen Moore—wrong-headed economist to the President-on CNN says, “well, it was a low base, but coal has seen significant gains since Trump came into office.” Speaking of low base.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
In their paranoid worldview, it can’t possibly be that they were happy to save civilization. (R)s are too insane to govern.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
As Scott Pruitt left the briefing room someone asked him “why did you celebrate at a French restaurant last night?”
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) June 2, 2017
I love it when Spicer says “the president has been very clear” - and then dodges the climate change question https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #31 Kragar
Surely it’s been renamed a “Freedom restaurant” by this administration.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Spicer’s go to phrase - “very clear” even when it isn’t. Great for avoiding answering the question.
Sean Spicer is looking kind of shell-shocked lately.
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: #17 The Vicious Babushka
This Mother Fucker is saying the European nations want the US to suffer economically.
We have always been at war with Europe and NATO.
/
re: #28 jaunte
If there are any honest Republicans left, they all need to work to end the mad Trump administration.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
12-year-old breitbart employee asks spicer about kathy griffin
— Mдтт Иegяiи 🔮 (@MattNegrin) June 2, 2017
re: #29 Barefoot Grin
Told that solar has seen significant job growth, Stephen Moore—wrong-headed economist to the President-on CNN says, “well, it was a low base, but coal has seen significant gains since Trump came into office.” Speaking of low base.
Production of coal and coal jobs have exploded since I became president. FACT.
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
RBG would like to have some words with you CNN https://t.co/lCAp2OMM62
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) June 2, 2017
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman cnn.com pic.twitter.com
— CNN Politics
OFFS
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Despite her initial popularity, a growing number of the population eventually came to dislike her, accusing her of being profligate, promiscuous,[2] and of harbouring sympathies for France’s enemies”
en.wikipedia.org
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe they’re trolling the bigoted Trump supporters.
Spicer just promised that Trump is going to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians. #facepalm https://t.co/cgHO3R4DmR pic.twitter.com/haupWy7KuF
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Exactly.
Trumpers all pretend science is fake until they need to prove they know what they’re talking about, and then they present fake science. 😡
— Nai Mei Yao (@naimeiy) June 2, 2017
re: #47 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Heh. You know this is going to drive the Bannon contingency right out of their already addled minds.
If I got to ask Sean Spicer one question at a press conference it’d be “So, what was it like getting to meet the Pope?”
— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) June 2, 2017
Spicer blows off @AprilDRyan question about what Trump thinks of nooses found at African American History museum pic.twitter.com/Fc46aYf15p
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) June 2, 2017
re: #39 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Honest Republicans are completely extinct by now. One cannot be a Republican in 2017 without a deep-seated and fundamental commitment to the art of the lie in all its forms.
My thoughts on the Kushner vs Bannon “feud” https://t.co/FlaTsqvg3u pic.twitter.com/Ot6TrUpTMP
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 25, 2017
Exactly - it’s a puppet show. https://t.co/rOuYYObv3R
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
A sampling of Trump’s past repeated labeling of global warming as a hoax, (with a bonus Manti Te’o throwback!) pic.twitter.com/e51WI6J54V
— Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) June 2, 2017
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
Anyone can provide the answer to that little question: Trump doesn’t give a shit about the nooses found at the African American History Museum.
LOL, OT
I just pulled my comforter off my bed & a cat popped out on the floor.
Poor baby was passed out.
1/2 The far-right wanted a President who’s just as dangerously-clueless as they are, and they got one. There doesn’t seem to be a …
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
2/2 moderate-right anymore to keep the crazies marginalized.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
If Sean Spicer were honest, he’d say, “I think the president has been very clear that he believes climate change is a hoax.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
Betsy DeVos applauds Trump for pulling U.S. out of historic climate accord - She funded climate change deniers. https://t.co/0nSYnlSgeF
— Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) June 2, 2017
Reporter asks why renegotiate Paris when US has authority to decide its own voluntary commitments. Spicer says cuz wants to renegotiate
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 2, 2017
Policy driven by narcissism https://t.co/pk8aVZSX9B
— Ethan Holmes (@RealEthanHolmes) June 2, 2017
re: #37 gocart mozart
This happening is more likely than you being waterboarded for charity.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) June 2, 2017
re: #60 jaunte
We have an executive branch that’s full of fantasy-prone victims of far-right-wing propaganda. These idiots have to go.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Republican administrations keep placing lunatics in key positions. They’re unfit to govern.
re: #61 jaunte
Narcissism, dementia, and a total lack of understanding of how government works.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Gallup shows why rejection of Paris is a political winner for Trump. Environmental concerns as #1 issue: 2%. https://t.co/OjJ9taPR6a
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) June 2, 2017
The New York Times’ climate change truther shifts into overdrive. https://t.co/EDIc9j1qBN
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 2, 2017
For #fridayreads, this week’s Thigh-High Politics is on Kathy Griffin & performative OUTRAGE https://t.co/WryuIoK83u pic.twitter.com/VjbeGHgSeD
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) June 2, 2017
“an era of unbalanced pitchforking in which one can be shamed out of CNN and NBC, but not the Oval Office”
Reuters reporting that Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George, has withdrawn from becoming Trump’s Justice Dept. Civil Division chief.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another one bites the dust…
re: #68 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?
I’m thinking there’s a mistress in equation.
So, I looked up the new PA coal mine that Trump touted.
The local news had a very pro-Trump piece on it, but when you get down to the details, it is a lot less impressive.
Naturally, it is significant for Somerset County, but 70-100 jobs for maybe 15 years (and maybe not) isn’t really going to turn their economy around.
They expect to hire 70 new employees in 2017, with that number growing to 100 in 2018.
He expects a number of indirect impacts, as well.
“In terms of the economic impact on the area, we see a five to six times multiplier on that in this local area, so that’s everything from truck drivers to machine guys to bartenders to everything, hospital employees. So, we think for the local Somerset County area, 500 to 600 indirect job impact,” he explained.
He expects the jobs they create and the mine to last well over a decade.
re: #56 EPR-radar
Anyone can provide the answer to that little question: Trump doesn’t give a shit about the nooses found at the African American History Museum.
Did he ever get to use the museum as a photo-op like he wanted?
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
I thought I had already read the most nauseating hagiographies to Ivanka, but I was wrong. This one surpassed the others for inducing gag reflex.
It was a rare moment in which the First Daughter’s carefully guarded faith was on public display
Except for her instagram, twitter and facebook posts…oh, and her “book.”
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
Are any of these people not tied to Russia?
nzherald.co.nz
Gallup shows why rejection of Paris is a political winner for Trump. Environmental concerns as #1 issue: 2%. https://t.co/OjJ9taPR6a
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) June 2, 2017
Zeroing in on the important issue: who cares about the science, the polling shows that Trump is going to win. This is grotesque. https://t.co/nYUjEjHW3G
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #76 Charles Johnson
This maniac puts pandering to the propagandized, paranoid, far-right over the good of our country every time.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Donald Trump’s Secret Service code name is “Kompromat Covfefe”
Pass it on.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #79 gocart mozart
The far right imagines that being intelligent, compassionate people is some kind of disorder. It just looks that way to sociopaths.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
We’ve seen the @WhiteHouse video about the #ParisAccord. We disagree – so we’ve changed it. #MakeThePlanetGreatAgain. pic.twitter.com/8A92MBwe6c
— France Diplomacy🇫🇷 (@francediplo_EN) June 2, 2017
France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs releases a 🔥 vid on Trump’s Paris Accord decision. https://t.co/MSr5aTvC1c
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017
But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!
How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.
re: #68 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Wait, someone not only married this bullshitter, but they’re still with her after all the mad appearances?!?
Like attracts like. Look him up. Conway was one of the lawyers who represented Paula Jones in her lawsuit against U.S. President Bill Clinton…
re: #77 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Oddly, 2% is the same percentage of your column that your editor thinks should have intellectually honest content. A clear win/win for you.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
I know it all looks shit now, but the Friday witching hour approaches. Come on WaPo we’re counting on you!
NEW: CT Gov. Dannel Malloy announces that he has committed Connecticut to joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, alongside CA, NY, and WA. pic.twitter.com/GAUvGGRHNZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017
Personal note here. Looks like my work will be fixing their internet filter later today, plus my WiFi is down at home. So I’ll be incommunicado for a while. Not sure what I’ll do instead. Interact with my family? I seem to remember having a child….should probably look into that….
re: #80 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The only cure for liberalism is a lobotomy. How’s that working out for you?
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
How many RWNJ could we piss off if instead of calling the United States Climate Alliance a coalition, we called it a confederacy?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 2, 2017
Meet Arizona’s First Man to Display a Pastafarian Colander on His Driver License https://t.co/vwLrwhVx5u pic.twitter.com/MWwJ61eU8j
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) June 2, 2017
re: #82 Timothy Watson
This has been going on for awhile now. You have the folks who worked in the factories that are gone now (along with declining coal related jobs). There were little if any safety measures in most of these places (I worked in one of those places for Goodyear when I was 19. I was around open containers of Benzine all day long, we used it to clean injection molds) and so people got sick or ended up with injuries.
But then when all those jobs went away and it was an hour or more commute to find anything at all that paid above minimum wage, people began to realize that disability checks were all they could hope for. If you can get a prescription for pain meds and a doctor to sign off on you being disabled, you suddenly have two income streams. I know someone who had purposely hurt himself more than once to continue his oxy habit. The first injury was a legit back issue from a work accident, the rest (like the time he left his car in drive on a hill so it could hit him, or the time he broke his hand with a hammer). He’s 45 years old and not only has numerous injuries but also has developed COPD from years of smoking (including smoking heroin and crushed oxy pills), and recently insisted on smoking WHILE WEARING AN OXYGEN MASK and caught his face on fire. I’m sure his story in some form is repeated over and over throughout many of the places on that map. (the person in question here is a family member who refuses treatment, which ironically is covered 100 percent under his state funded health insurance).
We have a problem, lots of them. We could fix this one, but there’s no will to give a shit.
To be clear 1/3
Trump is calling for “rally” on his behalf IN THE EXACT LOCATION where anti-Trump protests occur every day.— leah mcelrath 🗽 (@leahmcelrath) June 2, 2017
To be clear 3/3
Trump appears to be purposefully setting up conditions for a physical confrontation between his supporters and opponents.— leah mcelrath 🗽 (@leahmcelrath) June 2, 2017
Aero Design Solves the Problem of Carrying Bikes in Your Helicopter https://t.co/PTV3s2hGxS pic.twitter.com/evNpvJsRWu
— Bikerumor (@bikerumor) June 2, 2017
Won’t be putting one in stock…It will have to be a special-order item.
re: #82 Timothy Watson
But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!
And what do we do with the people who just don’t seem to be able to get their act together?
jeGAsCeI4pkrukVv8hEYOr9qEcMvXH6mzxQDuDq/JIUgMZAFsBClpiX5E7PfESgndUWn5pR1Paz8+csh4lZY5RLbKvriZwod4uZq1xlPvQAQqft4y4I1ZKb9YUoZnSYPRWA8Absj+JrbDnAozvmyIo393+iShXdW456LOQZjDtQ57YkQJKug/Ks8K5cdo2GSRDCX7i3+ugkvkzPrhk7lqLelQJabLSmDodVD/ux+DN6tXoN0kDhI0LQ3peSU6hy0TycTV4HmJCBoSNdeVDXo+vOI62TiUUm2ICP8SS596CRJ0RrQ5xE6jHYQN90H+zS6f9lLnqjFrmsptLbvURd5jYSdp90gW5q1wmSHhnfHQkBigXXB/bu4SctheRHKWpunRGREUB3kk2B495W50PHCJ9lFhKZAiiYt1BsGLZtGur82q/eECEjtkvtsXdMuO+ym+dQ9/WqVOKRUNu0J6SzdDWc8oYHiiwak/Q2mP5L1AFjr/EbgiDkMCWmKC672gp+CG3+KyDvU+Zrgm+Z1tpes8GAY8t10DlYI/+J36WF7OK9+SkZVXNoKB4P6UFyaJvjcLJ1uCRNJRz+kM7nvy9AAg2shpCdnbVtXk/oVpnBLN83vRPn4bWIuW9/Dm6Cd46Fz8BjCA7ZvJS7rvyAPiXgfqDtUOL7jMoZfBE5U8Y7AN0MTYm3jsZud6WAWti8EStqr
re: #94 wrenchwench
LOL. One never knows when such things will come in handy…snort. Can you build a helipad on the roof of your shop?
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
Why doesn’t he hold it in Pittsburgh so all the citizens there can protest him?
re: #94 wrenchwench
[Embedded content]
Won’t be putting one in stock…It will have to be a special-order item.
Not likely to be an impulse purchase?
1/2 It’s always just been a matter of time until his brownshirts start regularly attacking protesters. Some of them are talking about a …
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
2/2 revolution if Trump is brought to justice.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
Of course he wants that. They all do, so they can point to the Violence of Liberals (cue scary music….now).
How about another creepy Trump/daughter pic?
— Barb Dwyer (@ResistTheRedDon) June 2, 2017
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
I called MN Governor Mark Dayton’s office about that group this morning. I hope he signs on.
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
So sick of these puff pieces. Ivanka’s only accomplishment has been to make Gwyneth Paltrow seem slightly less insufferable. https://t.co/HEGBpbNEk4
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 2, 2017
Is this the time for me to leak the gossip I know about Melania Trump or should I wait. (And I’m serious btw.)
— Monica Byrne (@monicabyrne13) June 1, 2017
The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.
This guy. I swear.
re: #96 A Mom Anon
LOL. One never knows when such things will come in handy…snort. Can you build a helipad on the roof of your shop?
I’d have to move my best friend, the swamp cooler. I used to go up there all the time, great views! But it’s been a couple years. This week, my swamp cooler got its seasonal set-up from Fernando, working for my landlord. He apologized for his poor English, and I said, ‘No es un problemo. Mi Espanol es muy malo.’ He laughed and said, ‘My English…es muy malo.’ I considered it a kind of victory. Doesn’t take much these days.
The amount of coal used to make electricity in U.S. hits 33-year lowhttps://t.co/S2zh4eV31K pic.twitter.com/vZQTbIV9Rd
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) June 2, 2017
re: #105 allegro
The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.
This guy. I swear.
But he really does reflect his base in this way. Their whole thing is “Don’t laugh at us or call us stupid, or we’ll show you just how stupid we can be!”
Enough of this lollygagging around. Must do things.
BBL
so trump wants a rally to celebrate leaving the Paris accords the same day the March For Truth is to take place, how much you want to bet he claims the M4T is really just people celebrating his idiocy in leaving the Paris Accord?
re: #94 wrenchwench
Heh. All you bike people are having a bad impact on me. Why, did you see my comment last night? littlegreenfootballs.com
//// :D
This Twitter thread explains why Trump keeps talking about coal, and Pittsburgh and miners and such. It’s not about JOBS, it’s about GENDER.
Trump’s campaign has announced a “Pittsburgh, not Paris” rally at Lafayette Square across from the White House https://t.co/OlB9IjZaKj pic.twitter.com/hDbUuplQJl
— POLITICO (@politico) June 2, 2017
1) Okay guys we need to talk about this Pittsburgh and Paris stuff. People are confused. It’s about gender. (Thread below) https://t.co/AmR7yzl5V4
— Michael Sweeney (@mtsw) June 2, 2017
re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White
Interesting sidebar on one of the tweets in that thread is this one:
11) Sidebar: A lot of this has been cultivated on Madison Avenue to sell shit to people, notably shitty beer and trucks pic.twitter.com/JOAG7RhGIY
— Michael Sweeney (@mtsw) June 2, 2017
Budweiser actively advertises against it’s own craft beer divisions.
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
CNN Politics ✔ @CNNPolitics
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman cnn.it
1:15 PM - 2 Jun 2017
79 79 Retweets 125 125 likes
Why does anyone actually watch CNN?
White House confirms: They are reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent Comey from testifying before a congress next week.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 2, 2017
His Excellency, Idiot Amin, DJT, Lord of All Wingnuts and Ruler of the American Empire in General and Trump Industries, Inc. in Particular pic.twitter.com/JM9IinygWk
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #116 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]
Per Lawrence Tribe, you don’t get to claim Executive Privilege for a conversation you’ve talked about in public. Trump opened the door when he opened his trap.
Trump can’t prevent Comey from testifying, but he could invoke exec privilege to get the hearing canceled.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
I listened live to the Spicer shit show. I don’t know why the news networks even bother. In fact, it’d be awesome one day to have the reporters just sit silently while he waits for questions. Then put their phones and notebooks away and just stare at him and see what he does.
Wow. @JoeNBC says Steve Bannon bragged about having damaging info about Kushner days before Kushner meeting w/ Gorkov leaked to the NYT.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 2, 2017
The Leaks Are Coming From Inside The House https://t.co/SA0IEf9tb0
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 2, 2017
And it goes without saying - but this is the action of a guilty man afraid he’s going to be exposed.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #118 Blind Frog Belly White
Per Lawrence Tribe, you don’t get to claim Executive Privilege for a conversation you’ve talked about in public. Trump opened the door when he opened his trap.
It would give the GOP a pretext to cancel the hearing.
re: #122 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]
Comey testimony re his communications w/ Trump can’t be blocked by T because they became non-confidential once T discussed them publicly.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 2, 2017
Not that he won’t try, of course.
re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White
This all rings true to me — Gamergate style testosterone poisoned assholes are definitely part of the RWNJ coalition of the loathsome.
The irony here (as deep as an ocean trench) is that these people are also the most gutless wonders of all humanity.
oh god i think someone is trapped inside this captcha i just got what do i do pic.twitter.com/TAOFbiaWvb
— Matt Silverman (@Matt_Silverman) May 22, 2017
Oh I have another present for you!
21 Chump Street, the 14 minute musical I wrote for @ThisAmerLife, now on Spotify! https://t.co/s59bBKYyXZ— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 30, 2017
re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White
This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”
Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”
There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.
Maybe they can do a Cheerios commercial with a bi-racial family. I mean that is pretty non-controversial right?
Today’s weather story: nearly cloudless skies and temperatures near 80°F. This story has been brought to you by the letter “H.” pic.twitter.com/XF9qfFjNGg
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) June 2, 2017
The Trump gang is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. If they had nothing to hide they’d welcome Comey testifying to Congress.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #128 Jack Burton
This country is starting to remind me of those lottery winners you hear about. They have all this money and become spoiled brats who blow through it all in record time. I honestly have no idea how we come back from this mess. And that’s considering we even find a way to stop the bleeding before it’s entirely too late. In a sane world we’d have an Attorney General who would begin doing his fucking job, but he’s part of the cartel running things. It’s heartbreaking. People should be going to jail, they won’t.
She’s Jewish like Elvis was a black-belt.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White
[Embedded content]
Not that he won’t try, of course.
Good thing we don’t have a smarter criminal in that high office.
re: #128 Jack Burton
This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”
Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”
There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.
There’s a problem with the suggested fixes, but to me the most important part is understanding why Trump keeps talking about a tiny industry - Coal, and what he meant by Pittsburgh vs Paris, and why this resonates with his base.
re: #132 A Mom Anon
This time around. When the real investigations start. When impeachment becomes a real possibility…
People *need* to go to jail. No pardons. No just go away and we wont prosecute. No not this time. There needs to be consequences to this level of shenanigans or the next guy will do it and pretty much *anyone* else is smarter than Trump so they will be better at getting away with it.
This guy is talking about Sheriff “Shiny Buttons” Clarke.
He takes prisoners. Then he lets them die of dehydration. (FYI, that would be the “wrong” way).
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
re: #128 Jack Burton
I honestly don’t know how to thread that particular needle, to combat the ‘manly man’ bullshit. Kerry tried hunting and skeet shooting, but invariably that was seen as pandering.
The thing is, it explains a lot of things, like why Trump survived the ‘pussygrabber’ tape.
Oh, sorry. We’re just trying to fuck with @RealAlexJones.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 2, 2017
re: #82 Timothy Watson
But those damn welfare queens in the inner cities!1!!
How to visualize the growth in disability in the United States? One way is to think of a map. Rural communities, where on average 9.1 percent of working-age people are on disability — nearly twice the urban rate and 40 percent higher than the national average — are in a brighter shade than cities. An even brighter hue then spreads from Appalachia into the Deep South and out into Missouri, where rates are higher yet, places economists have called “disability belts.” The brightest color of all can be found in 102 counties, mostly within these belts, where a Washington Post analysis of federal statistics estimates that, at minimum, about 1 in 6 working-age residents draw disability checks.
Boy are all the Trump supporters going to be surprised if the GOP gets their wrecking ball going like they want.
But then, who knows, maybe they will all be dead from pre-existing conditions and pollution and will never get a chance to realize or do anything about it once it happens.
Trump supporter once the checks stop: “I only wanted to fuck “them people” so why am I being fucked???”
Answer: Because you are ignorant and voted for them. You did this to yourself.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
I know it isn’t going to happen, but what a message it could be if all 50 governors join this list. A slap to Trump and Gang no finer.
Come on Johnny Kasich. Even you can do this. (But probably won’t)
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump appears to be purposefully setting up conditions for a physical confrontation between his supporters and opponents.
I don’t think so.
He’s purposefully setting up conditions for the large crowd of opponents to be dishonestly labeled as supporters.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.
Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
And so he can say SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE SUPPORT ME!
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 2, 2017
re: #94 wrenchwench
bAC3qOSUY/wf0jmTbbXmJERpt5a1+UaRJws8kYZQxa9zw64JBCTG3QUxoCh5MYg/UIpP6Sl5jLSghVttb0QEUhBbXtc3/xDocDKCPKuo8g1+2uOSLzMl6aCa++QLVfAsQ5ndCztIocYM7nXENfJxtM5750sIpzB1
re: #105 allegro
The most telling part of 45’s speech to announce the US exit from the Paris accord was the time he spent whining about the world laughing at us. No, Donnie, the world was laughing at YOU for your embarrassing and juvenile performances last week in the ME and Europe. You are an international laughing stock and you know it. That’s why you needed to pull your little, pointless power trip along with the passive aggressive digs at Macron for besting you in your handshake games.
This guy. I swear.
I swear at him. A lot.
The whole administration.
And all those that voted for him and third party.
Fuck ‘em all.
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
[Embedded content]
This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.
Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.
While it is an apt comparison morally/personality wise, Jezebel was not a Jewess.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
I admit I LOLed.
Nice weather here today, although it’s warming up some. I went out and did my 12 miles. Whether or not that was a good idea is a different discussion, but nobody ever accused me of being particularly bright.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
Just a reminder of a two month old story that was a goodie.
USA Today - Even the Kentucky Coal Museum is going solar
BENHAM, Ky. —Inside the Kentucky Coal Museum, visitors can peruse plenty of memorabilia on mining and the commonwealth’s coal camps. But on the roof, they’ll find a display dedicated to an unexpected industry: Solar power.
In a cost-saving move, this museum in eastern Kentucky is embracing the sun as a source of affordable energy and installing approximately 80 solar panels on its roof.
Tre’ Sexton said he was surprised when his company, Bluegrass Solar, was approached about the project. If there was one building in eastern Kentucky that wouldn’t have a solar-power system, you’d think it would be the coal museum, he said.
“Really the first time that I sat down and was talking about it with everybody, I was like…are you for real? They’re really going to go for this?” Sexton said. “I mean, that would be like showing up at a bank and they ask you if you’d mind taking some of this money out of the vault.”
But putting solar panels on top of the coal museum makes sense economically, Sexton said. Public attractions like this one can’t be profitable if they’re dealing with expensive electric bills every month. And people in eastern Kentucky are becoming more interested in alternative energy options.
re: #150 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Although I suppose that is the point of the comparison, as well…
re: #142 ObserverArt
I know it isn’t going to happen, but what a message it could be if all 50 governors join this list. A slap to Trump and Gang no finer.
Come on Johnny Kasich. Even you can do this. (But probably won’t)
Sam Brownback, Matt Bevin, Paul LePage, Greg Abbot etc. If you got 25 I would be surprised
re: #151 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I admit I LOLed.
Nice weather here today, although it’s warming up some. I went out and did my 12 miles. Whether or not that was a good idea is a different discussion, but nobody ever accused me of being particularly bright.
The weather is turning summery here today - over 80 degrees for the second day in a row. Tomorrow should be similar, and I will be uncomfortably warm underneath Mrs. Fish’s big beastie as I wrestle her new fuel tank into position. I received the tank earlier tonight and fitted it with all of the new fittings and valves required. It should be all prepared for the installation procedure tomorrow.
re: #120 darthstar
I listened live to the Spicer shit show. I don’t know why the news networks even bother. In fact, it’d be awesome one day to have the reporters just sit silently while he waits for questions. Then put their phones and notebooks away and just stare at him and see what he does.
Come on Darth.
You know they would love that. It really is what they want and are trying to achieve. It’s why they even mentioned printing out daily “notes” and handing them out.
No, because he waived any legal privilege he might have had when he described the content of their conversations in a letter & an interview.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 2, 2017
re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White
[Embedded content]
Not that he won’t try, of course.
And wouldn’t the trying just be more evidence of an attempt at a cover up.
Go on Donny, do it. Put on the demonstration that will lead to your ultimate downfall. I know you can do it.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
Damn…I just looked out my window and sure enough the right far edge of the big old H is right there to the west of me, about 5,000 feet up in the clear sky. Probably twenty miles from my house, I’d say.
His Excellency, Idiot Amin, DJT, Lord of All Wingnuts and Ruler of the American Empire in General and Trump Industries, Inc. in Particular pic.twitter.com/JM9IinygWk
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #141 ObserverArt
Boy are all the Trump supporters going to be surprised if the GOP gets their wrecking ball going like they want.
But then, who knows, maybe they will all be dead from pre-existing conditions and pollution and will never get a chance to realize or do anything about it once it happens.
Trump supporter once the checks stop: “I only wanted to fuck “them people” so why am I being fucked???”
Answer: Because you are ignorant and voted for them. You did this to yourself.
I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:
And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.
His supporters don’t care that he’s guilty. They were comparing their boyfriend Putin to Obama for years, and preferred the autocrat.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 2, 2017
Macron better learn. France needs the US, and just because he doesn’t like Trump doesn’t mean he can end a three centuries-old alliance.
— Ellen L. Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) June 2, 2017
Lol. Would say this is a bit of a misread of the situation. https://t.co/vmZJaCTSDh
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 2, 2017
re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White
I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:
[Embedded content]
And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.
One thing I can see on this map…two areas that carried two states for Trump. That black area down on the Ohio River and just up from it carried Ohio. And though I am not a resident of Michigan, I believe all that black in the upper parts of Michigan probably helped win Michigan.
The analysis of Ohio was the Appalachian areas turned out and voted like they have not in years. Jobs? Yeah, a false belief. Hate? You betcha! Would not surprise me if Michigan folks did the same for the same reasons.
The Lugenpresident pic.twitter.com/Mr8NSQvYUA
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White
I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:
[Embedded content]
And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.
I see 17.7% for Lewis County, Idaho.
Wonder how many of them are sovereign citizens/militia.
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
[Embedded content]
This article made me want to throw up. I have heard it says among some very silly Juice that Jared and Ivanka are “The American Mordecai and Esther!” They are totally wrong.
Jared and Ivanka remind me of another Bible couple: Ahab and Jezebel.
This will make you feel better (I also felt nauseated after reading that bullshit)
NOW THEREFORE, WE, YOUR LOYAL WONKETTE, by the authority invested in us by BECAUSE WE SAID SO, do hereby proclaim June 2, 2017, as the day Ivanka Trump should really go fuck herself and stop acting like her nepotism hire in the White House is in any way useful to the human beings of the United States of America.
wonkette.com
Trump to decide whether to block Comey testimony: White House adviser https://t.co/GnEQsS8SAl pic.twitter.com/Ywedv3ErN3
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 2, 2017
This would be politically suicidal and would likely be quickly rejected by a court. In other words, Trump will probably try it. https://t.co/ymLHKw0CGp
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 2, 2017
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see 17.7% for Lewis County, Idaho.
Wonder how many of them are sovereign citizens/militia.
Same with that area of northern Michigan. Complete militia country up there.
re: #169 MsJ
Same with that area of northern Michigan. Complete militia country up there.
These are the areas where about 1 in 5 working age people are on disability, bitching about their tax dollars supporting drug-addicted Those People in the inner cities.
Enes Kanter says his father has been arrested in Turkey https://t.co/abs4Ql6n7E
— Herald-Leader Sports (@KentuckySports) June 2, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY
NBA center Enes Kanter’s father has been detained in Turkey, the country’s official news agency reported Friday.
Mehmet Kanter was detained in his Istanbul home for an investigation undertaken by a prosecutor’s office in northwestern Turkey, according to the Anadolu news agency. He is being sent to Tekirdag province for questioning. In Turkey, people are detained, then prosecutors may seek an arrest pending trial or release the detainee.
Anadolu does not specify the scope of the investigation, but Dogan news agency says it is part of an investigation into connections to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The father had disowned Kanter for his public support of Gulen, who the Turkish government blames for last summer’s failed coup attempt when nearly 270 people were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded while trying to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish government considers Gulen’s movement a terror organization. Gulen has denied all allegations of involvement in the coup attempt.
My statement on my Father’s politically motivated arrest!https://t.co/uEUkGi2qvE pic.twitter.com/2QqDAq5VSy
— Enes Kanter (@Enes_Kanter) June 2, 2017
BREAKING: Trump can’t even spell his own fuckin’ lawyer’s name right. pic.twitter.com/pfE56GzfJZ
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 2, 2017
the yam’s twitter banner is now a photo of one of his airport hanger rallies.
can you smell the inadequacy?
Trump campaign plans ‘Pittsburgh, not Paris’ rally to cheer climate deal exit https://t.co/tzliIpb0Z6
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) June 2, 2017
A “Pittsburgh, not Paris” rally in *LAFAYETTE* Square.
Irony is dead. cc @GerardAraud @franceintheus https://t.co/obBF3c5Y8Y— Josh Rubin (@Rubin_Josh) June 2, 2017
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
the yam’s twitter banner is now a photo of one of his airport hanger rallies.
can you smell the inadequacy?
That’s not the Minnesota one, is it? I remember seeing the photos and it was incredibly manipulative… not that many people actually showed up, IIRC.
re: #150 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
While it is an apt comparison morally/personality wise, Jezebel was not a Jewess.
Jezebel converted when she married Ahab, just like Ivanka.
White House confirms: They are reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent Comey from testifying before a congress next week.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 2, 2017
Trump seems to be deliberately mimicking all of Nixon’s Watergate fuck-ups. Why? Maybe he doesn’t know the history. https://t.co/a0auKFKa2b
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 2, 2017
Residents transform slum to Rainbow Village tourist mecca https://t.co/4o4Dg6cGg5
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #175 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s not the Minnesota one, is it? I remember seeing the photos and it was incredibly manipulative… not that many people actually showed up, IIRC.
Looks like it’s the Melbourne FL rally in February.
denverpost.com
re: #4 Kragar
For some reason: my reason - I would not like to die.
re: #176 The Vicious Babushka
Jezebel converted when she married Ahab, just like Ivanka.
As I said in the follow-up, I guess that was part of the comparison. I didn’t think about it until after I said it.
re: #180 meteor
For some reason: my reason - I would not like to die.
Oh, you’ll be fine. Your grandkids are fucked, but hey, who cares about the future? For the present, we’re A-OK!
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
An immigrant you know and love who’s unafraid to step in!
He’s constantly confusin’, confoundin’ the British henchmen
Ev’ryone give it up for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman!
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.
It’s hurricane season, and NOAA and FEMA are without leaders — positions appointed by Trump and confirmed by Senate https://t.co/kCJHP9Q0PZ pic.twitter.com/COV4H0kreJ
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2017
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.
[Embedded content]
My initial response was, “Wait, wut?” Then I realized who was President. Then I shook my head. Then I went for another drink.
If Trump reverses the U.S. Cuba policy, airlines and cruise lines could lose $3.5 billion https://t.co/JQxQB3DgRn pic.twitter.com/a7JJYk0GT2
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) June 2, 2017
re: #88 gocart mozart
It’s fun to add crazy people to my block list.
Pauly Shore is the Aryan Milk God of the Alt-Right!https://t.co/OxMWG7oAIY
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
In years to come we will be looking on the response to Hurricane Katrina as a model of competence & preparedness.
[Embedded content]
They haven’t found anyone who believes in scientific models of hurricane prediction that doesn’t also believe in AGW. They’re probably working their way through readers of chicken entrails.
Or, more likely, doing nothing.
DtGJ4vAHMHbZgW31SWUrgV4nuDRq2Jlr/NBwEx6A9PtoUxrnJuLbFH3wHMp4+4A9dQQtlg3RmMC53VR/Bykk0v/pgzkVozZlXij3EGaz7a0bDM9E/6tLLR9zJcf5UO0/4PWa75Zej7WB5Oa64/vAWZMDiKcDdzzT
Could reporters stop asking if political leaders “believe” in climate change and start asking if they understand it instead
— Megan Collins (@megan_styleGF) June 2, 2017
WHEN JULIE ANDREWS HAS TO TAKE TIME OUT OF HER DAY TO TELL YOU SHE’S SICK OF YOUR CRAP, YOU ARE AN AWFUL PRESIDENT. pic.twitter.com/GG8NtHnHhX
— Kenneth 🤷🏻♂️ (@ItsKennyAgain) June 2, 2017
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, given the way DT runs his business, he probably thinks losses are a great thing. Excellent for the tax write-offs and all that.
re: #190 Nyet
Done. Might want to wash up with some rubbing alcohol or neosporin after that bugger.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
Please RT if u think my wife (who’s Jewish) &delivered meds, wheelchairs, microscopes& mosquito nets to Kenya is more powerful than Ivanka pic.twitter.com/tVw8ULdLlg
— Candice Loren (@artist4ever) June 2, 2017
Haha, no surprise.
Reuters digs into Trump’s interviews with FBI candidates: “Trump spoke mostly about himself and seemed distracted” https://t.co/dNsptyt9sq
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 2, 2017
*snerk*
POTUS is reportedly claiming that the #MarchForTruth won’t be as big as his inauguration.
So, we just need like 10 people to show up. pic.twitter.com/2ZdFpLZsqf— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) June 2, 2017
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
*snerk*
[Embedded content]
BUTBUTBUT YUUUUUUUGEST INAUGURATION CELEBRATION EVER!!!! IGNORE THE FAKE NEWS SIDE-BY-SIDES WITH OBUMMER’S “INAUGURATION”!!!!!
re: #145 MsJ
The “Fuck Trump” signs may be a clue.
Reuters digs into Trump’s interviews with FBI candidates: “Trump spoke mostly about himself and seemed distracted” https://t.co/dNsptyt9sq
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 2, 2017
Has it really only been 3 weeks? It seems as if it was 3 months ago.
re: #205 Single-handed sailor
The Age of Trump has time-distortion.
re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White
I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:
[Embedded content]
And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.
They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?
We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.
/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)
re: #201 Stanley Sea
Haha, no surprise.
[Embedded content]
trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.
He should just give that job to Kushner.
re: #205 Single-handed sailor
[Embedded content]
Has it really only been 3 weeks? It seems as if it was 3 months ago.
I wonder if rejected candidates are sworn to secrecy. All interview questions and comments are subject to Executive Privilege.
re: #210 darthstar
I wonder if rejected candidates are sworn to secrecy. All interview questions and comments are subject to Executive Privilege.
I normally disapprove of excessive executive secrecy, but I’m willing to make an exception for the talent show part of trump’s FBI director interviews.
I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.
But here it is: word is, for many years, Melania’s been having an affair with the head of security at Tiffany’s in the Trump Tower lobby.
— Monica Byrne (@monicabyrne13) June 1, 2017
Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:
Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)
“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity
I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////
re: #214 darthstar
I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.
[Embedded content]
If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)
re: #208 EPR-radar
trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.
He should just give that job to Kushner.
Wait a week.
re: #216 allegro
If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)
She’s the FLOTUS. She can fuck anyone she wants anywhere she wants. And she definitely doesn’t want to fuck the President…anywhere.
re: #216 allegro
If she’s fucking some guy in the lobby…. (that tweet was unfortunately worded)
I thought the exact same thing when I saw those tweets earlier today.
:D
re: #214 darthstar
So that’s why she doesn’t want to move to the White House…
re: #208 EPR-radar
trump must be having difficulty finding a sufficiently craven lickspittle to serve as his personal FBI director. Too bad.
He should just give that job to Kushner.
Why do all these people have so much integrity? Can’t a guy buy a cop around here?
re: #214 darthstar
I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.
Let this be true…
BREAKING: Special counsel’s Trump campaign investigation includes Manafort case, may expand to include Attorney General Sessions.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2017
1st of its kind airborne radar will measure ocean currents & winds to help us understand their delicate balance: https://t.co/f7YbbxP9da pic.twitter.com/RnEQsly0om
— NASA (@NASA) June 2, 2017
re: #223 darthstar
Let this be true…
[Embedded content]
Ha! BOOM!
Like clockwork, there’s mah bombshell.
re: #220 covfefe
So that’s why she doesn’t want to move to the White House…
She’d have to rely on the Secret Service then.
What?
re: #214 darthstar
I’m glad Melania’s getting some love from someone. Poor woman looks so miserable all the time.
[Embedded content]
Fuck her. She’s an enabler who’s probably going to get a massive payday when she divorces him. I feel zero compassion for her. I hope the press is as brutal as they can be because BLOW JOBS are the worst thing that ever happened to America. Amirite?
Fucking hypocrites.
re: #207 Timothy Watson
They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?
We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.
/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)
It was good, but I feel it needs a bit more “moocher” and perhaps a “taker”?
re: #215 BeachDem
Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:
Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity
I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////
If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎
re: #215 BeachDem
Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:
Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity
I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////
“Makes for great toilet paper if you ever run out.” Me
re: #218 darthstar
She’s the FLOTUS. She can fuck anyone she wants anywhere she wants. And she definitely doesn’t want to fuck the President…anywhere.
Who would? Blech!
re: #231 MsJ
If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎
You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.
re: #231 MsJ
If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎
Make the fire pit great again!
Was at Costco. Saw Senators Warren and Franken’s book but also Mike Lee who has a book about the “litlte known” patriots who went against big government. I guess Lee doesn’t know the story of why the Constitution itself was written because the Founders wanted a bigger government.
re: #227 BeachDem
[Embedded content]
(If only she could open them all the way)
New movie “Eyes wide squinty”
“A delightful fantasy with unbelievable characters including a father who lusts after the main character’s sister while also thinking he can be President.”
re: #234 allegro
You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.
Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.
Big development: *Republican* Gov. Charlie Baker announces that Massachusetts will join the U.S. Climate Alliance, alongside NY, CA, WA, CT. pic.twitter.com/ySuqO8wAQE
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017
re: #231 MsJ
If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎
Well, at least it would then serve some purpose.
MacBook Pro, late-2011 model. Lately, when running LGF on Safari, the fan goes crazy. On the Activity Monitor, the CPU% on LGF is running over 300%. Anyone have any ideas?
The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.
re: #241 MsJ
Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.
I suppose it depends on where the beach is, the Caribbean or Antarctica.
re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)
The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.
HEh that’s how I feel. I got up early today and exercised but I’m sleepy.
re: #235 HappyWarrior
Himself. He wants to fuck himself hence his weird Ivanka crush.
He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.
re: #247 HappyWarrior
HEh that’s how I feel. I got up early today and exercised but I’m sleepy.
It was one of those mornings where the alarm went off at the wrong spot in the sleep cycle and so I started all zombie like. We’re just going downhill from there, I think.
re: #248 Ace Rothstein
He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.
I’m not joking. He really is creepy around her. I didn’t like W but he treats his daughters like well his daughters. There was nothing creepy or weird at all about W Bush as a father and husband.
re: #249 klys (maker of Silmarils)
It was one of those mornings where the alarm went off at the wrong spot in the sleep cycle and so I started all zombie like. We’re just going downhill from there, I think.
I hear ya. I am stil getting used to this.
re: #250 HappyWarrior
He is a very strange man. He has nothing, and I mean nothing, of value to this planet. Not a fucking thing.
re: #248 Ace Rothstein
He did say he’d fuck his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.
Wouldn’t it be funny if after all this time, and after she finds her business dead due to association with Trump the President, she tells the media her daddy is not her type, she’d never fuck a sexist pig.
re: #252 Ace Rothstein
He is a very strange man. He has nothing, and I mean nothing, of value to this planet. Not a fucking thing.
Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.
Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.
Spicer looks like he’s been on a bender for two weeks.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.
I posted yesterday that I couldn’t stand him back in the 80s when I was a teenager. I found him to be a total phony. Gary Trudeau NAILED IT for YEARS with his mocking of Trump in the Doonesbury cartoons back in the day.
re: #246 allegro
I suppose it depends on where the beach is, the Caribbean or Antarctica.
If I was stranded on Antarctica it would be a result of being kidnapped. I’d be dead within seconds and wouldn’t have worry about pooping.
re: #238 HappyWarrior
My copy of Franken’s book just arrived today. Pretty funny.
“…Here’s another [Washington cliché] that drove me crazy. It’s just the word “robust.” As in “robust funding.” Which just means “a lot of funding.” Or as in a “robust response.” Which just means a strong response.” No human being uses this word in casual conversation. But everyone in Washington uses it all the time.
That’s why I issued a fatwa against it in my office.”
re: #255 HappyWarrior
Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.
And remember, he perved out on the Paris Hilton sex tape, after perving on her when she was a little girl.
He should just have them paint ‘Free Candy’ on the side of the presidential limo and call it a day.
re: #241 MsJ
Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.
So that’s why you never catch a fish with a dirty butt.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
Right, I felt that way about him before he became Mr. Birther. I always thought he was an obnoxious jackass.
Likely because he’s always been an obnoxious jackass.
re: #234 allegro
You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.
Oh, I don’t know about that. The pages are already covered with shit.
re: #207 Timothy Watson
They don’t have bootstraps in Appalachia?
We need to break the culture of dependency in these communities and instill some personal responsibility.
/// (Did I mess any of those old canards?)
I wonder if some people blame the Dems for turning them into those people they blamed for their own problems? Small town/rural people have often thought of themselves as the “true” Americans, backbone of the country, more godly than everyone else, and all that. Now they look around and they are dependent on drugs and welfare themselves. Their families are dysfunctional, they’re not getting respect, and they’re not sure what to do about it except try to survive. The GOP promises to right all that and return life to how it once was. They can’t, but the Dems aren’t even trying to make that promise (because it’s an empty one.)
re: #128 Jack Burton
This seems like it’s simply a rebranding of “Bernie was right” and “We need to listen to rural white males in the Red States.”
Which in other words means: “Who gives a shit about the concerns of PoC, women, and the LGBTQ community? Joe Sixpack thinks brown people are taking his jobs and Nancy Pelosi is going to force him to wear a dress.”
There has to be another way to not let them win, without becoming just like them.
I don’t disagree that we could frame a positive masculinity that places concern and stewardship of community, honor, diligence, respect for all, etc. as primary virtues and calls out what passes for “manly” in Trump as the thinking of a 12-year-old (and apologies to 12-year-olds who are more grown up than Trump). This is kind of a long term project though.
re: #215 BeachDem
Keerist on a cracker—just what we need:
Understanding Trump
by Newt Gingrich (Author), Eric Trump (Foreword)“Inspiring and informative — I highly recommend it!”― Sean Hannity
I KNOW everybody here wants to pre-order it!
//////////////////////////////////
I want to see what Rush Limbaugh has to say first.
re: #241 MsJ
Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.
I never drink water, fish fuck in it. —W.C. Fields
re: #232 HappyWarrior
“Makes for great toilet paper if you ever run out.” Me
Wouldn’t work. I’m guessing even shit has standards and would recoil in horror.
Doesn’t bear thinking about.
re: #231 MsJ
If I was stranded in a desert island and that was my only reading material, I’d burn it. 😎
And go back to wiping with banana leaves?
Heh…this lady’s still a fuckin’ piece of work…
Dear Clients: Please don’t call opposing counsel’s office and (using a voice changer) ask about your case. #CallerID https://t.co/rYzy4AF4Qn pic.twitter.com/arYowwyziC
— Brian Hildreth (@ElectionsLawyer) June 2, 2017
re: #245 klys (maker of Silmarils)
The problem with long runs is all I want to do afterwards is nap.
Normal. The old bike racer saying is, ‘Don’t stand if you can sit, don’t sit if you can lay down.’
re: #255 HappyWarrior
Trump let’s be honest was Paris Hilton before there was Paris Hilton.
He kinda wanted to fuck her too—remember, he and Melania watched Paris’ sex tape together.
re: #234 allegro
You’d be sorry you did. Those pages would be useful butt wipers.
Damn. Gotta start reading all the way down the threads.
re: #273 Decatur Deb
Damn. Gotta start reading all the way down the threads.
How far back you gonna go?
re: #259 jaunte
My copy of Franken’s book just arrived today. Pretty funny.
Franken probably hates the word ‘robust’ for the same reason I hate it. Norm Coleman, who Franken defeated for senate, used the word incessantly. He was the first person I ever hear using that word and he used it for everything. It really jumped out to me back then, and I completely associate that word with Coleman. It still makes me wince. Funny to see that it affected Franken too.
re: #275 stpaulbear
Franken probably hates the word ‘robust’ for the same reason I hate it. Norm Coleman, who Franken defeated for senate, used the word incessantly. He was the first person I ever hear using that word and he used it for everything. It really jumped out to me back then, and I completely associate that word with Coleman. It still makes me wince. Funny to see that it affected Franken too.
I always associate it with an australopithecine, but I think they went and renamed it.
If Fox News existed in 1960s, they would have spent hour upon hour undermining Kennedy’s goal to get to moon because he was a democrat.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 2, 2017
re: #276 Decatur Deb
I always associate it with an australopithecine, but I think they went and renamed it.
It’s Paranthropus robustus now.
re: #274 wrenchwench
How far back you gonna go?
If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.
re: #275 stpaulbear
I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”
Public service announcement:
Two months into this quarter’s grift-a-thon FR contributions are at 67% of the goal. This is the slowest I’ve seen (though I’ve only been paying attention, and intermittently at that, for a few years) If they keep up this blazing pace, they’ll be lucky to make their goal before they start the next cycle.
It’s always more fun to snipe at the evil government than to defend your preferred one.
re: #277 Ace Rothstein
[Embedded content]
FNC would have treated George Wallace the way tehy did Kim Davis.
re: #279 Decatur Deb
If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.
I got my clever shot off once. Hurt like hell and left an ugly scar.
re: #279 Decatur Deb
If you don’t get your clever shot off in a dozen comments, some lizard is going to scoop you.
You better read all the threads since the Great Flouncing. Most of the clever shots have been done.
“Curses, foiled again!” pic.twitter.com/X9VUAXW3D1
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #286 wrenchwench
You better read all the threads since the Great Flouncing. Most of the clever shots have been done.
Over and over and over…
re: #270 darthstar
Heh…this lady’s still a fuckin’ piece of work…
[Embedded content]
What’s that all about? Who’s Wilding?
re: #282 Jebediah, RBG
Can I see something in a “holistic?”
Again I ask. Does this mean that any need for a new SCJ goes to the next term now?
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 2, 2017
re: #292 Jebediah, RBG
We need solutions that are both over-arching and under-arching.
re: #291 Dave In Austin
Trump won’t be there, of course, because he has golf to catch up on.
re: #295 Timothy Watson
We’re shifting the paradigm into transgressive.
The Trump fails are not getting to me quite so bad, it’s FRIDAY. Payday and the boss chose to be extra $ kind given some recent project results. Yaay. Thinking to run my new to me little Toyota up the California 2 in Angeles Nat’l Forest. Nice twisty mountain road. Maybe a picnic and see what inspires us to photograph. here is a Google image of a piece of that road. LA Lizards probably all know it.
re: #295 Timothy Watson
But a “paradigm shift” is a requirement too.
Makes me think of sexy puritans.
re: #299 calochortus
It’s inter-dimensionally curated.
Good ol’ Frothy.
Dear Mr Santorum, this is why we have invented ‘batteries’ which are magic boxes in which you can store energy.
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) June 2, 2017
As I await the Friday News Dump, a ponderin: when would Trump resign? Would he? He doesn’t seem as smart as Nixon, oodles of more hubris, and Nixon’s crime wasn’t criminally serious whereas Trump’s alleged crimes are actually criminal.
We bypassed Watergate the day Trump elected.
re: #282 Jebediah, RBG
I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”
And to maximize the annoyance, one of my clients uses “robust” constantly as well.
Interestingly I have always hated people using quantum leap. Literally means the smallest distance moved.
re: #301 jaunte
It’s inter-dimensionally curated.
Aaaagh!
“Curated” is getting so weirdly over-used and I can’t decide if I want to laugh at it or hate it.
re: #301 jaunte
It’s inter-dimensionally curated.
OK, now you have crossed a line. “Curated” has started to really annoy me.
re: #298 Unshaken Defiance
The Trump fails are not getting to me quite so bad, it’s FRIDAY. Payday and the boss chose to be extra $ kind given some recent project results. Yaay. Thinking to run my new to me little Toyota up the California 2 in Angeles Nat’l Forest. Nice twisty mountain road. Maybe a picnic and see what inspires us to photograph. here is a Google image of a piece of that road. LA Lizards probably all know it.
[Embedded content]
Man, we gotta get some of those cool guard rails out here…we got nuthin’ on the edges.
re: #307 calochortus
Curated is the new “stakeholder.”
re: #223 darthstar
When does it expand to Jill Stein?
Has anyone on here ever listened to the ads on WTOP (a D.C. news radio station)? You could win a round of buzzword bingo in a single commercial break.
re: #307 calochortus
OK, now you have crossed a line. “Curated” has started to really annoy me.
“Binary” gets on my nerves.
So after my drive to CT and gig last night, then early work this morning, drive home, and even more work since I got home, you can officially call me ‘Punchy.’.
I shall now retire to the veranda with a cup of coffee and some kind bud. I’m finally off the clock!
It’s bad when business types use business-babble. It’s positively frightening when it shows up at general officer briefings.
re: #277 Ace Rothstein
If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.
re: #302 Ace Rothstein
Good ol’ Frothy.
[Embedded content]
Dear Frothy:
Go to Germany. Learn.
Love, Me.
re: #306 Jebediah, RBG
Aaaagh!
“Curated” is getting so weirdly over-used and I can’t decide if I want to laugh at it or hate it.
Let me hurry and say you could “architect” a new paradigm instead.
Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for “unmaskings” of Americans https://t.co/Q0kWEeNGO6
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 2, 2017
The same people that were going after Obama and Rice on “unmasking”. You can’t make this up. https://t.co/MwA3sOhMaS
— ehm (@ekcj1234) June 2, 2017
re: #316 EPR-radar
If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.
Papers of the day did, until Winter came.
re: #316 EPR-radar
If Fox News existed in the 1940s, they would have endlessly bitched and moaned about that communist FDR cooperating with Stalin to take out that freedom-loving Hitler.
“Is he left making too much of a deal about Hitler?”
“Why we should be helping General Franco in Spain.”
re: #314 makeitstop
That’ll be me in a few minutes - finishing up backups, then I can get synergistic with my bicycle and head home and then some bud and hang out with my pups…
Is it just me or has BLOTUS put on a few more pounds lately?
re: #284 HappyWarrior
FNC would have treated George Wallace the way tehy did Kim Davis.
They would’ve treated the Civil Rights Movement like they do Black Lives Matter.
re: #323 Ace Rothstein
Maybe he’s trying to match his electoral number.
re: #319 jaunte
I really wish America at large would learn the Trumpers’ “tell” — that everything they accuse others of, they themselves are guilty of.
A classic quote for the ages from https://t.co/mQQBuozoOZ pic.twitter.com/hNBuQBlweZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 2, 2017
re: #320 Decatur Deb
Papers of the day did, until Winter came.
If Hitler hadn’t been stupid enough to declare war on the US, continued support of Hitler by US conservatives would have been politically useful going forward. For starters, Ike may not have run for president as a Republican if they had had a longer track record of Hitler-loving.
re: #324 SteelPH
They would’ve treated the Civil Rights Movement like they do Black Lives Matter.
I honestly have no doubt about that at all.
This is from an Australian news outlet. pic.twitter.com/yjmj7SzXRk
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 2, 2017
Sir Richard Branson: “He’s the most dangerous President in American history.”
re: #289 MsJ
What’s that all about? Who’s Wilding?
it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.
re: #327 Charles Johnson
This is what it looks like when you report on intrigues in the Presidential Palace of a corrupt kleptocracy. The media really needs to get a grip on what they are dealing with here.
re: #327 Charles Johnson
Trump also reportedly believed that angering Europe was a “secondary benefit” of pulling out of the accord.
re: #330 BigPapa
[Embedded content]
But, but the yam called Gavin’s ex (I cringe whenever I think of that) to get her oh so important opinion on his Paris decision.
re: #334 EPR-radar
This is what it looks like when you report on intrigues in the Presidential Palace of a corrupt kleptocracy. The media really needs to get a grip on what they are dealing with here.
There is no bright dividing line between much of the media and the malefactors they cover.
I’m back, after my Internet service was out for two days. Typical average outage from my telephone company. I’m thinking about paying extra for dial-up service from firm in Denver or Cheyenne so I can get around my Internet problems here.
I’ll have to go back through the articles and see what horrors the GOP are perpetrating today (I won’t read about those in my newspaper or hear them on local radio).
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.
Which should come with the reminder that spoofing numbers for caller ID is really fucking easy.
re: #339 Anymouse
I’m back, after my Internet service was out for two days. Typical average outage from my telephone company. I’m thinking about paying extra for dial-up service from firm in Denver or Cheyenne so I can get around my Internet problems here.
I’ll have to go back through the articles and see what horrors the GOP are perpetrating today (I won’t read about those in my newspaper or hear them on local radio).
If you see a stupid nonsense word attributed to Trump, skip to the next thing. You’ll be caught up in record time.
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
No @CNN Powerful is my bad ass Jewish wife sheltering 30 kids in the Jewish Community Center locker room during a bomb scare lock down. https://t.co/ezzCg95Va2
— FlókiUSA (@FlokiUSA) June 2, 2017
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s one of the Bernie or Bust lawsuits about how the DNC stole the primary from Bernie.
OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.
I’d pay so much to just ask Trump fact questions. What is a Protestant? What is Medicaid? What are the tax rates? Who borders Israel?
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 2, 2017
THREAD https://t.co/yIU7R8gQP6
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 2, 2017
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
Trump has never been able to handle questions.
“What’s the next white note above C” got his music teacher punched.
Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?
Note to Kathy Griffin: it wasn’t “old white men” that ruined your career. It was ONE OLD WHITE WOMAN. Look in the mirror to see who she is.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 2, 2017
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
I’d start off with something simpler, like ‘what’s 2 + 2?’
Next we could move on to advanced concepts like ‘Here’s a budget deficit, reduce revenues, does the deficit go up or down?’
re: #343 MsJ
OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.
Possibly.
Also possible is that someone used a call spoofing service to fake the number from one of her offices and disguise their voice and called to ask about the case. But I’m sure this is just a little case that nobody has a strong interest in, so it must be stupid staff.
Seriously, who the fuck trusts caller ID these days? Do these people not get 5+ daily robo-calls from random numbers, including ones that can’t possibly be real? That cures you of this mistake really damn quickly.
re: #347 EPR-radar
I’d start off with something simpler, like ‘what’s 2 + 2?’
Next we could move on to advanced concepts like ‘Here’s a budget deficit, reduce revenues, does the deficit go up or down?’
Gotcha questions!
re: #346 The Vicious Babushka
Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?[Embedded content]
You really should just delete your account Mike and just shut up. and be grateful you never got the scrutiny Kathy has gotten.
re: #346 The Vicious Babushka
Wow so class
What if somebody said that about Kellyanne Conway?[Embedded content]
The guy whose sociopath of a son stoned, hung, and slit the throat of a stray dog has no place to be lecturing anyone.
re: #320 Decatur Deb
Papers of the day did, until Winter came.
The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
You know he couldn’t answer most of the questions posted.
re: #351 Targetpractice
The guy whose sociopath of a son stoned, hung, and slit the throat of a stray dog has no place to be lecturing anyone.
This is also the guy who claimed Josh Duggar was a victim of the left too.
re: #344 The Vicious Babushka
A guy in Boston named Andy Hiller did that to W during the 2000 campaign. AH was excoriated by the establishment press at the time.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 2, 2017
Of course he was. How dare he?
re: #352 EPR-radar
The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.
Once had an idle couple hours in the UofL library, so I read all the periodicals from the week/month after Dec 7. The most impressive was a blank page in (IIRC) The New Yorker:
“Our regular columnist has enlisted.”
re: #355 gocart mozart
Brand new Roger Waters, very Floydish
[Embedded content]
I like how people are telling Waters to shut up about politics when Nugent does nothing but politics tehse days. Seriously, I almost forget that Ted was once a somewhat successful musician before he became the wingnuts’ go to guy.
I step out for half an hour to do virtual slot-car races with my son, and a hundred posts go by. Geesh, it’s almost like there’s some nutjob in the White House and crap is spewing forth like a busted sewer or something.
re: #352 EPR-radar
The difference is that a Fox News would have continued the pro-Hitler shit after Hitler declared war on the US.
“In tonight’s topic: Is FDR in league with Jewish bankers to remove the duly-elected leader of Germany from power? Our sources say the White House instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to push Chancellor Hitler into declaring war.”
Speechless pic.twitter.com/XPF8DbZDuI
— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) June 1, 2017
This isn’t just a matter of “Trump is an idiot”—this is SO dangerous. What about a next attack—or not??—in the US? What will public believe? https://t.co/pyTCiCO0V4
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) June 2, 2017
re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]
“This was an act of terrorism!”
“Actually, it was a gas explosion.”
“It was a joke, you humorless liberals!”
re: #359 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I step out for half an hour to do virtual slot-car races with my son, and a hundred posts go by. Geesh, it’s almost like there’s some nutjob in the White House and crap is spewing forth like a busted sewer or something.
Just another day with a dangerous asshole in the White House, enabled by an entire party full of criminals, traitors, racists, fuckwits and swivel-eyed loons.
Gee I remember the Trumpers saying Trump didn’t comment on Portland immediately because it was “local.”
re: #360 Targetpractice
“In tonight’s topic: Is FDR in league with Jewish bankers to remove the duly-elected leader of Germany from power? Our sources say the White House instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to push Chancellor Hitler into declaring war.”
Quite a few of them already believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag, so.
Oh you know full well that they’d use Lindburgh to push the anti-FDR narrative.
re: #366 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Quite a few of them already believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag, so.
False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?
re: #368 EPR-radar
False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?
The old story, basically LIHOP for WWII. Guess I should have put the “false flag” in quotes because it’s not truly a false flag conspiracy theory in the correct sense of the term.
LOLOLOLOL…
I have filed a lawsuit against Emma Roller of Fusion and the New York Times for defamation over the photo of me and @Cernovich at the WH pic.twitter.com/huQiy4mdtA
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) June 1, 2017
re: #368 EPR-radar
False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?
The latter.
re: #282 Jebediah, RBG
I see government buzzwords are as annoying as business buzzwords.
“So, what do you do?”
“I leverage business solutions in a client-centric, synergistic paradigm.”
“So you sell toner?”
“I’m a solutions architect.”
I placed a clean stock pot on the floor while I cleared room in a lower cupboard. Rupert was fascinated by it. Now I have to wash it again. pic.twitter.com/3DwWs572SC
— Nicole C. L. Day 🇨🇦 (@NicoleCLDay) March 27, 2017
re: #368 EPR-radar
False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?
Depends on how crazy the bastards were. The John Birch Society had its beginnings in that bunch, as well as Phyllis Schlafley’s circle.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think there was a popehat tweet on this yesterday that showed some of her tweets from the time she posted the picture that pretty much undercut her case in its entirety but the power of wanting to nap makes doing a twitter search too hard right now.
(No really, I’m not lying. Brain fog.)
re: #373 Barefoot Grin
“I’m a solutions architect.”
But are you adequately synergistic to meet the needs of a dynamic marketplace?
re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg
But are you adequately synergistic to meet the needs of a dynamic marketplace?
Excuse me, I scored a bingo. Where may I collect my prize?
re: #363 Targetpractice
“This was an act of terrorism!”
“Actually, it was a gas explosion.”
“It was a joke, you humorless liberals!”
They weren’t laughing when Griffith has his stupid bloody head in a picture. They still haven’t gotten over that as it’s their wont to be perpetually outraged.
re: #373 Barefoot Grin
“I’m a solutions architect.”
Bud Fox: Did mom give you fish for dinner?
Carl Fox: Spaghetti! Your mother still makes lousy spaghetti.
Bud Fox: It’s called “pasta” now, dad. “Spaghetti” is out of date.
re: #375 Decatur Deb
Depends on how crazy the bastards were. The John Birch Society had its beginnings in that bunch, as well as Phyllis Schlafley’s circle.
The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.
re: #362 HappyWarrior
A laugh? THis man is really fucked up.
That’s what struck me, too. Who laughs at that?
I was tempted to compare BLOTUS with Gordon Gekko, but Gekko was actually smart.
re: #383 HappyWarrior
The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.
One of my liberal Christian friends and I were talking about the Paris Accords this morning. She said something striking: “All the people I know who are climate change deniers are Christians. Why is that?” I walked through an explanation of how Christianity came to be anti-science - basically, because evolution and abortion.
“And now breaking news, as Fox News has just learned that a telegram informing Admiral Kimmel of the imminent Japanese attack was sent hours before the attack occurred. Our sources tell us that Kimmel received the telegram, but no alarm was sounded and our sailors were allowed to be slaughtered. We don’t yet know whether or not these reports are true, but we will keep you updated as we investigate the truth of this matter.”
re: #383 HappyWarrior
The origins of the modern American right really are something to look at.
Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that doesn’t seem dated at all:
A transcript of Welch’s two-day presentation at the founding meeting was published as The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, and became a cornerstone of its beliefs, with each new member receiving a copy. According to Welch, “both the U.S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government would betray the country’s sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a ‘one-world socialist government.’” Welch saw collectivism as the main threat to western culture, and American liberals as “secret communist traitors” who provided cover for the gradual process of collectivism, with the ultimate goal of replacing the nations of western civilization with a one-world socialist government. “There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general,” he wrote, “but Communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction.”
re: #389 EPR-radar
Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that doesn’t seem dated at all:
Teh more things change the more they remain the same. And I got into a debate with DF over this a few years back but I contend that a lot of American concservatism hostility towards leftism was based in antisemitism.
re: #362 HappyWarrior
A laugh? THis man is really fucked up.
The laughter was general, so it’s worse than just trump laughing. trump has surrounded himself with sociopaths who find this kind of thing entertaining.
CNN banner: “PRESIDENT’S SPOKESMAN SAYS HE CAN’T SPEAK FOR THE PRESIDENT” pic.twitter.com/MyW6owVc9Z
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 2, 2017
BREAKING: This Is Absurd https://t.co/nRc9Mjhru6
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 2, 2017
re: #391 EPR-radar
The laughter was general, so it’s worse than just trump laughing. trump has surrounded himself with sociopaths who find this kind of thing entertaining.
Very true.
The thing is guys American conservatives transition tehir fears. whereas tehy once feared about JEws, they now transfer to Muslims, a lot of the old fears about gays has been trasnfered onto transgendered folks.
re: #395 HappyWarrior
That’s literally your goddamn job.
I imagine the implication is not in the sense of capacity, but in ability; as in, “I fucking give up, I don’t understand a goddamn thing he says and he keeps contradicting me, so I am just going to let him speak for himself.”
re: #385 Ace Rothstein
I was tempted to compare BLOTUS with Gordon Gekko, but Gekko was actually smart.
Uday and Qusay Trump copy the G Gekko hairstyle.
re: #373 Barefoot Grin
“I’m a solutions architect.”
You’re doing it wrong—it’s “I architect solutions.”
/
re: #399 FormerDirtDart
[Embedded content]
Oh those intolerant college leftist snowfalkes. Can’t tolerate a gun threat. // In my day. //
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Mouth of Mauron speaks not for the Dork Lord!
re: #402 Jack Burton
The Mouth of Mauron speaks not for the Dork Lord!
*SNORT*
Well done, sir. An Internet for you.
heh
Documents: Cornel West did not want his speaking fee at Coastal Carolina disclosed https://t.co/UVppVCCPyu #scnews #chsnews pic.twitter.com/tpgsxMhePa
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 2, 2017
“New details about the naval action in the Coral Sea are now coming in, as it appears one US Navy carrier was lost and another severely damaged. We’re told that the USS Lexington was lost was a significant loss of life, while the USS Hornet suffered major structural damage but managed to make it to Pearl Harbor. In addition, several other ships were damaged or sunk in the battle. The War Department has stated that a Japanese carrier was also sunk and two others were damaged, but the Japanese have denied such reports. In light of the conflicting reports, our experts say that the US Navy has suffered a crippling blow and may not be able to stem losses in the Pacific Theater, despite earlier hopes for a breakthrough with this battle.”
(historical context: The Japanese Navy thought the Hornet sunk at Coral Sea, which caught them by surprise at Midway)
re: #403 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
*SNORT*
Well done, sir. An Internet for you.
I’m claiming this one… you saw it here first.
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
[Embedded content]
Didn’t this guy rail against Clinton for taking speaking fees? Hmmmm. Glass houses PRofesosr West.
re: #405 Targetpractice
“New details about the naval action in the Coral Sea are now coming in, as it appears one US Navy carrier was lost and another severely damaged. We’re told that the USS Lexington was lost was a significant loss of life, while the USS Hornet suffered major structural damage but managed to make it to Pearl Harbor. In addition, several other ships were damaged or sunk in the battle. The War Department has stated that a Japanese carrier was also sunk and two others were damaged, but the Japanese have denied such reports. In light of the conflicting reports, our experts say that the US Navy has suffered a crippling blow and may not be able to stem losses in the Pacific Theater, despite earlier hopes for a breakthrough with this battle.”
(historical context: The Japanese Navy thought the Hornet sunk at Coral Sea, which caught them by surprise at Midway)
Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.
re: #401 HappyWarrior
Oh those intolerant college leftist snowfalkes. Can’t tolerate a gun threat. // In my day. //
qAFfMpNfeeo4qEyTJ74cp+7FquSJEL/tEM8+FEeNz0BvNlJmYjjtAXEme3PMKqkvfCngh0psptb5xaOrjRIAYC5TyYZUZhfq0MEAyK55NSJaJZkrjZMTJZK8U7HyPA1a04N1FXHtVnkNKjM7OZzfdPsxh8KLEWnfZxAGZzZdC41ZpjSqPOCHfI28rk4iL72V/UwaxqarxZ4SvEDPNt+4iT3WaffoKTjGcfkGePR60UOSSwiw7JvKGZ+wN4x6RbwvO8OacaWXYtkqiygcxl6Y4aHY1yEWCKErSM4oXd5fLuAzSIPSoFcTq1fotmZYjE+y1WIWX0nqcUK6/b8qAaa4MQ==
re: #368 EPR-radar
False flag as in the US attacking its own ships, or the old story that FDR knew and got the carriers out of harms way?
The latter: though, IIRC, after the War, when Republicans got control of Congress after the elections of 1946 they made a BFD of opening an “investigation” of the Pearl Harbor attack to try to prove that very point. Of course, what they uncovered was the US’ intelligence operations - both military and civilian - in Hawaii and the Pacific in general were astonishingly FUBARed - and that the absence of the USN carriers was just a (lucky) fluke of scheduling. Not so lucky for the battleship crews, though….
re: #409 BeachDem
[Embedded content]
YoFsk3OZCZDieElg1aySQWRzv1wGCViur2sshGx2Wisk822QDbP7iA/qg0Dfhlm2+KgJyrJCkNbhnrDyg0X+MDc2TIzl830WjH3WyAYItdczBFz0FR5ID2n5eSqn/Szo
re: #408 HappyWarrior
Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.
Today the Thousand-Year Fortress of Freedom in Europe is under renewed assault, as communist sympathizers under FDR and Stalin mount a cross-channel invasion…
JUST IN: Attorney filing complaint over @drafthouse’s female-only #WonderWoman shows https://t.co/uKOw14i7NA pic.twitter.com/yii1gKUKRE
— Austin Statesman (@statesman) June 2, 2017
Oh really? Where’s the lawsuit for the male-only Senate healthcare committee to decide life altering decisions for 170M women? #WonderWoman https://t.co/flgLCtwedN
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) June 2, 2017
What disgusted Truman the most about McCarthy and thus Eisenhower’s weak public response on McCarthyism was that McCarthy and Cohn went after George Marshall. Truman considered General Marshall the finest American of that era.
re: #241 MsJ
Who needs butt paper? Just poop in the ocean. Fish do. Think of it as nature’s bidet.
It’s just like the quote widely attributed to W.C. Fields: “I don’t drink water…fish fuck in it.”
re: #413 klys (maker of Silmarils)
This is why we can’t have nice things.
re: #413 klys (maker of Silmarils)
These ‘men’ making such stupid complaints are a disgrace to both their species and gender.
Everytime I hear from these types how “sensitive” and “weak” others are. They show themselves to be projecting.
On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.
I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.
Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?
re: #408 HappyWarrior
Okay, TP, I wat to see the coverage of D-Day.
“Fox News is learning now that a major invasion of the European mainland is imminent, which is consistent with reports earlier this month of a massive build-up of Allied forces along the British coast. The operation that planners are dubbing ‘Overlord’ appears to have been in the works for several months, despite Nazi assurances that such an invasion is foolhardy. We’ve received word that disgraced General George Patton, who you may remember was removed from his command several months ago due to erratic behavior, has been assigned to lead the operation under the authority of General Eisenhower. Our attempts to get a comment from the War Department have so far been fruitless.”
Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 2nd https://t.co/nfKqAnVOIJ via @newyorker
— Muckmaker (@RealMuckmaker) June 2, 2017
re: #419 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.
I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.
Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?
That’s because Marvel started from (effectively) a blank slate with Iron Man, which set the tone for the pre-Avengers films as light and funny but also with moments of drama.
DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”
re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White
I got frustrated looking for a map in that piece, because, you know, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. So I found this one:
[Embedded content]
And of course, the places where it’s highest are also most strongly pro-Trump.
Well, the most pro-Trump state was mine, which in the map shows it as the counties with the least draw of “disability” (is that SDI, other programmes, VA Disability, or something else - it doesn’t say).
Trying to hang Donald Trump’s victory on a single factor (disability, racism, economics, industry, &c) is an exercise in futility.
The argument has also been raised about “low education” (never mind this area has some of the largest percentage of college degrees in the nation). As a low-educated person on disability myself here, I can confidently say it was the low-educated disabled that voted for Hillary Clinton - because education ain’t everything, and Trump is a Dumpster fire.
re: #422 Targetpractice
That’s because Marvel started from (effectively) a blank slate with Iron Man, which set the tone for the pre-Avengers films as light and funny but also with moments of drama.
DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”
They managed some funny/lighter moments in this one.
There’s still some explosions and carnage too, but …Chris Pine has one hell of a gift for comedic timing, I gotta say.
re: #420 Targetpractice
“Fox News is learning now that a major invasion of the European mainland is imminent, which is consistent with reports earlier this month of a massive build-up of Allied forces along the British coast. The operation that planners are dubbing ‘Overlord’ appears to have been in the works for several months, despite Nazi assurances that such an invasion is foolhardy. We’ve received word that disgraced General George Patton, who you may remember was removed from his command several months ago due to erratic behavior, has been assigned to lead the operation under the authority of General Eisenhower. Our attempts to get a comment from the War Department have so far been fruitless.”
Brilliant.
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
[Embedded content]
From the article linked within that article—even more egregious:
reality TV star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi earned a $32,000 speaking fee in 2011 for telling Rutgers University students to “study hard, but party harder,”
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
Vote for a Trump nickname
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) June 2, 2017
re: #426 BeachDem
From the article linked within that article—even more egregious:
[Embedded content]
Z77he0X79Mg/AFemzWee+7RRwpWlv9xZ+BE4bo+dZf8=
“Ok, shout out to this great Lafayette Square crowd, my next song is ‘fuck the French!’”
re: #425 HappyWarrior
Brilliant.
Again, I should give a bit of historical context. Patton was indeed relieved from command for (among other things) the infamous “shell-shocked soldier” incident. The only thing that really saved his career was the fact that he and Ike were good long-time friends, which meant Patton avoided being cashiered or forced into retirement. The Army actually capitalized on his infamy by assigning him to command of Operation Bodyguard, the massive misinformation campaign used to convince the Reich that the invasion was intended to take place in Calais instead of Normandy.
re: #190 Nyet
Wow, that is one sick jerk following you on Twitter; I need to bathe my computer in bleach after that.
re: #399 FormerDirtDart
So which right wing outlet put a target on that school?
re: #428 HappyWarrior
[Embedded content]
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
re: #422 Targetpractice
DC started from dark and gritty and so basically couldn’t reel audiences in with anything but “Look at all the explosions and carnage!”
DC had serious hits with Nolan’s Batman movies, and decided that was the way to have a hit comic book movie — dark colors, grimdark attitude, very little humor. That may work for Batman, but it’s less effective for a character who’s supposed to be sunny and optimistic, like Superman.
Comey “angry” that Sessions and Justice Department blindsided him with firing: report https://t.co/PY5VbDurzZ pic.twitter.com/urg4gMyCO9
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2017
Good. Good. Let it flow through you. https://t.co/Rb5dT2uCEl
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 2, 2017
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
Cheeto Pendejo
You have the best nicknames VB. I loved the one you had for Clarke earlier.
re: #419 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the plus side, seeing that made me think of the movie again.
I think the best thing I can say is that it felt like a Marvel movie. One of the good ones.
Which, ummm, DC, maybe you should think about what that means?
Hey, the best DC movie I’ve seen in a while is The Lego Batman Movie.
So many in-jokes…it’s funny as hell.
re: #432 Targetpractice
Again, I should give a bit of historical context. Patton was indeed relieved from command for (among other things) the infamous “shell-shocked soldier” incident. The only thing that really saved his career was the fact that he and Ike were good long-time friends, which meant Patton avoided being cashiered or forced into retirement. The Army actually capitalized on his infamy by assigning him to command of Operation Bodyguard, the massive misinformation campaign used to convince the Reich that the invasion was intended to take place in Calais instead of Normandy.
Yeah the slapping incident happened in the Italy campaign IIRC. The public reaction to that incident who contend that this generation is too sensitive should see that.
re: #437 scottslemmons
DC had serious hits with Nolan’s Batman movies, and decided that was the way to have a hit comic book movie — dark colors, grimdark attitude, very little humor. That may work for Batman, but it’s less effective for a character who’s supposed to be sunny and optimistic, like Superman.
DC should know the differences between Batman and Superman better than anyone else in the world.
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr said he sees little hope of the Senate passing a health-care bill this year https://t.co/HNgWXuajIA pic.twitter.com/AIGpm1oC2r
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 3, 2017
re: #444 TedStriker
Hey, the best DC movie I’ve seen in a while is The Lego Batman Movie.
So many in-jokes…it’s funny as hell.
We did enjoy that one a lot.
The more time I have to digest Wonder Woman, the more I like it, honestly. It’s not a perfect movie but I think the flaws stand out a little more because it comes a lot closer than most.
re: #343 MsJ
OFFS. And DWS seriously did stupid shit like that… Calling the opposing counsel? Gah.
It is fairly easy to spoof a caller ID number. (I get calls from telemarketers all the time with alleged local telephone numbers. Makes it pretty easy to ignore them.)
Just because the number is DWS’s number (and there is no reason to believe a lawyer is being truthful in a letter), does not mean the call came from DWS’s office.
re: #446 EPR-radar
DC should know the differences between Batman and Superman better than anyone else in the world.
The people in charge of both DC and Warner’s just don’t get Superman at all. Seriously, just don’t understand what the hell his deal is. They want him to be cynical and angry and tormented and grim. It’s bizarre.
re: #28 jaunte
We need to see more of this …’LIAR’. Not ‘alternative facts’ or the odious ‘false pretenses’. These scum are LIARS.
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
Not a puff piece..naaaahhh….
Good thing we have ‘liberal’ news like CNN, that will keep the ruling class in check
Ivanka Trump: America’s most powerful Jewish woman https://t.co/l3cU8UN1jq pic.twitter.com/NJfaNCJ3yF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2017
No @CNN Powerful is my bad ass Jewish wife sheltering 30 kids in the Jewish Community Center locker room during a bomb scare lock down. https://t.co/ezzCg95Va2
— FlókiUSA (@FlokiUSA) June 2, 2017
Hey @CNN I would MUCH rather hear about this guy’s wife and the actually important thing she did than fucking useless Ivanka fucking trump. https://t.co/if2zpy7Oas
— Jebediah Springfield (@JebediahRBG) June 3, 2017
re: #250 HappyWarrior
I disagree. There is something profoundly creepy about a ‘man’ who sends 10s of thousands of young men and women to be horribly maimed and killed for LIES about WMD, while openly being thrilled about it.
Funny how none of his kids could be bothered to serve.
No quarter for Bush/Cheney. No matter how bad tRump is, he’s got a long ways to go to match Bush’s record of inflicting pain and suffering.
re: #367 HappyWarrior
I don’t think Lindbergh would have been suited for that role, once the war started he volunteered his services and made critical contributions towards teaching fighter pilots to get more performance out of their airplanes at the front.
I believe he also shot down at least one Japanese airplane.