And Now, the Saddest Song Ever, by Jason Isbell
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Grammy winner Jason Isbell has written plenty of songs with dark themes, but until now, he had never written the saddest song ever.
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the New York City Subway banned dogs unless they fit in a bag and the people of New York did not disappoint. pic.twitter.com/vluNcZHBmW
— C (@meanboysclub) June 6, 2017
Ok, just got CL’ed in the last thread after resizing all my my pictures on my iPad and all. So, reposting
And, now for a tasty intermission and comparison between proper blue crabs and the crab from the wrong coast, the dungeness. I’m in San Fransisco for a probiotic conference (Probiota 2017) and I was down exploring the various piers. Sea Lions!!! Alcatraz!!! Dinner!!!
Dungeness good. Blue crab sweeter and better. Dearth would need to feed me some fresh caught one that he raves about for me to consider a switch in allegiance from Chesapeake Bay crab to something else.
Ed-Stupid spletcheck
re: #2 Colère Tueur de Lapin
My favorite San Francisco seafood place was A Sabella’s. Best crab dishes ever. Broke my heart when they closed. Second place for me is Alioto’s.
Carried over from the last thread, as I seem to excel in killing threads:
re: #116 Targetpractice
We already know Handel’s full of shit, because Republicans are always cool with raising taxes…if you’re not rich.
But that “no new taxes” is a good bumper sticker catch phrase. “She’s right I pay too much in taxes already! She understands me!”
All it took for Saudi Arabia to get the United States to abandon its alliance with Qatar was to throw a nice party for Trump…
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 6, 2017
I have no more Kleenex for a sad song. Just watched A Dog’s Purpose. Still sniffling.
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Top intel official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey to get FBI to back off Flynn https://t.co/sYWyG00VdF
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 7, 2017
Note to top federal employees: when @realDonaldTrump asks everyone else to leave the room, leave with them. Seriously. Just leave. https://t.co/VS1ZO1zv6P
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 7, 2017
Eric Trump: My father has ‘zero conflicts of interest’ https://t.co/1SP6PhAz6e pic.twitter.com/0cM5OgMs4D
— POLITICO (@politico) June 6, 2017
Eric Trump looks like the head vampire in a remake of The Lost Boys set in New England. https://t.co/ZjXfGPNCYb
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 7, 2017
Poking around Twitter at random can yield some funny nuggets:
What if soy milk is just regular milk just introducing itself in Spanish?
— donaldtrumpnewstoday (@irishrygirl) June 6, 2017
Today’s guinea pig for CL:
HURRY JEEVES! TO THE SALAD BAR! #guineapig #cavy pic.twitter.com/keFzN1vw1I
— Guinea Pig Lips (@DailyGuineaLips) May 30, 2017
I’m going to duck out for a while. Catch y’all later.
— Moon Zappa (@MoonZappa) June 7, 2017
Um. I just got a text from a source: “the Department of Justice is on fire.”
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 7, 2017
re: #15 Single-handed sailor
Too many jalapenos in the cheese dip?
So I’m spending my night going page by page through old newspapers online (genealogy type of research)… and I wonder to myself how many fellow Americans actually look at what their ancestors wrote and left way back when?
Why do people just consume whatever Fox (or for that matter any TV outlet) tells them about the past?
There are great no-charge-to-you resources out there for access to things like old newspapers.
Furthermore, in the English speaking world there has been since the advent of modern printing quite a large compilation of material done by historians (of varying degrees of capability.) Our libraries are full of documentation and analysis done over a century of looking at America and the rest of the world.
So what accounts for all the stupid stuff on Facebook and Twitter?
I used to think it was because a lot of people were just downright dull of mind.
Now I think it has more to do with laziness.
re: #15 Single-handed sailor
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I’d honestly be surprised if the DOJ wasn’t melting down at this point. I mean:
-Roughly 8 hours until Rosenstein’s testimony, Trump has to be shitting bricks already.
-Coats also testifies tomorrow, will confirm that Trump asked him to intervene with Comey and that he refused.
-32 hours until Comey testifies.
-Qatar vs GCC feud isn’t over, and Trump made it MUCH worse with his ridiculous reckless tweets.
-Then we learned FBI investigators believe Russian hacking and planting stories on Qatari news servers started the feud. So Trump played into yet another Russian plot, possibly endangering American soldiers stationed in Qatar.
-Add to that all of Trump’s tweets that horribly undermined the DOJ court arguments defending the Travel Ban EO.
Can’t wait to be on @seanhannity at 10pm on @FoxNews - discussing the ugliness of politics. pic.twitter.com/zpnnHSwuOI
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) June 6, 2017
“I steal from children with cancer.” https://t.co/6Ll2fcrUXJ
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) June 6, 2017
I have raised $16.3 million dollars for terminally ill children at @StJude with less than a 12.3% expense ratio. What have you done today?! https://t.co/4jf7GIJaBN
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) June 6, 2017
I read some asshole coming up with weak ass excuses for why people should ignore treason, theft and corruption https://t.co/ZgZSGpPTl0
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 7, 2017
re: #18 freetoken
Original research is hard.
I’ve posted my family history on line. It took years of research. Every once in a while I get a query from someone who has found it, and just copy-pasted the whole thing into their own family history, without bothering to check if their ancestor is the same as my ancestor. Sometimes, they are just two unrelated people who happened to have the same name.
It’s how you get people who swear they are descended from Charlemagne or Alexander the Great. Right. Good luck tracing that paper trail.
re: #22 Anymouse
I’m back. My wife wanted to watch the MST3K treatment of the driving safety film from the Fifties by Union Pacific Railroad that both of us were subjected to, “Last Clear Chance” (twenty minutes).
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A small bit of useless trivia: The guy who plays the highway patrolman would go on to play police officers in two separate episodes of “Star Trek The Next Generation.”
#NowPlaying Minutemen > Introducing The Minutemen > I Felt Like A Gringo https://t.co/qAg4mc0B1U
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) May 25, 2017
“I’m glad you could both make it. I’d like to talk to you about… The Avengers Initiative” pic.twitter.com/dUsaiwkSrG
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 7, 2017
If your best excuse for stealing from sick children is “I didn’t take ALL of it”, you have a problem.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 7, 2017
re: #21 wheat-dogg
Genealogy is the most common example of where simply copying what someone else claims can lead one astray.
But in general, about what we think of as “the past”, there is nothing that can replace (1) original sources, and (2) critical analysis of those sources.
Reading 19th century American newspapers, the ubiquity of bigotry is quite apparent.
Another easy observation is that the over-arching quackery that filled newspapers with adverts disappeared once the gov’t began regulating medicine.
How bored am I? I’m watching MST3K’s treatment of Space Mutiny.
re: #29 Targetpractice
How bored am I? I’m watching MST3K’s treatment of Space Mutiny.
“Move! Move! Move!”
—Blast HardCheese
re: #29 Targetpractice
How bored am I? I’m watching MST3K’s treatment of Space Mutiny.
LOL I’ve seen that one. The first minute threw me because of their shameless use of Battlestar Galactica original series footage.
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
LOL I’ve seen that one. The first minute threw me because of their shameless use of Battlestar Galactica original series footage.
“Special effects by Industrial Light and Morons.”
re: #32 Targetpractice
“Special effects by Industrial Light and Morons.”
“Hold on! We’ll be reaching speeds of 3!”
re: #29 Targetpractice
Starring Sting, Debby Reynolds, and God
re: #37 Targetpractice
“I’m sitting in something wet.”
re: #28 freetoken
Genealogy is the most common example of where simply copying what someone else claims can lead one astray.
But in general, about what we think of as “the past”, there is nothing that can replace (1) original sources, and (2) critical analysis of those sources.
Reading 19th century American newspapers, the ubiquity of bigotry is quite apparent.
Another easy observation is that the over-arching quackery that filled newspapers with adverts disappeared once the gov’t began regulating medicine.
Now the quackery is on YouTube and Internet ads: “This one weird trick will cure you of XXXX.”
re: #43 Targetpractice
“Finally, Christmas comes to Santa.”
“There’s a ferret cage by the door if you need one.”
re: #44 Kragar
“There’s a ferret cage by the door if you need one.”
“So, uh, we’ve got some Benedictine monks in the floorboards, unfortunately. We have set some traps with fresh bread and brandy, though.”
re: #45 Targetpractice
“You’re too stupid to know anything about dentistry.”
Follow up by
“The laser that sounds like a drill.”
re: #46 Kragar
“You’re too stupid to know anything about dentistry.”
Follow up by
“The laser that sounds like a drill.”
“It’s a Wicca tupperware party.”
re: #48 Kragar
“Look alive everyone… Oh sorry Susan.”
“You know, Captain…”
“I have a whole colony of people living in my beard.”
re: #24 Scout
A small bit of useless trivia: The guy who plays the highway patrolman would go on to play police officers in two separate episodes of “Star Trek The Next Generation.”
Interesting career path that guy had.
We just watched another MST3K treatment, “The Beginning of the End” where giant radioactive locusts destroy an Illinois farming community due to an Agriculture Department experiment gone bad. In rapid succession other towns in Illinois are destroyed (including Peoria where the grasshoppers played really well apparently) on the way to Chicago.
The Army holds the last line of defence after the Illinois National Guard is wiped out. The plan is to nuke Chicago, but the plucky scientist whose experiments accidentally created the giant locusts comes up with a plan to attract them into Lake Michigan to drown.
re: #49 Targetpractice
She’s got an armadillo down her trousers.
re: #52 Targetpractice
“We need both horsepowers on this thing.”
“You can get another 2mph if you drop the waxing compound.”
re: #29 Targetpractice
How bored am I? I’m watching MST3K’s treatment of Space Mutiny.
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
LOL I’ve seen that one. The first minute threw me because of their shameless use of Battlestar Galactica original series footage.
re: #32 Targetpractice
“Special effects by Industrial Light and Morons.”
Hulu does not have it available, even on their premium service. It is available from Hulu via YouTube for $2.99, which I ain’t paying for since we already pay for Hulu’s premium service.
re: #53 Kragar
“You can get another 2mph if you drop the waxing compound.”
“We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese.”
Televangelist Assholes Pretty Sure Manchester and London Asking for It Like Common Godless Sluts (with a headline like that, it can only be Wonkette, with over three thousand comments):
More at the link:
It’s a truism that when something terrible happens, be it terrorism or a natural disaster, certain wingnut Christians will declare it to be an act of judgment by a loving God, as a comeuppance for some sin or another. Hurricane Katrina? Gays. Those awful tornados in Joplin, Missouri, a few years back? Gays and abortion and porno. Hurricane Matthew? Totally the fault of Orlando and Savannah, which are known sanctuary cities for gays. Haiti earthquake? God’s judgment against voodoo doers who do voodoo. 9/11? Gay abortion pagan feminists. Family Research Council hate group leader Tony Perkins losing his Louisiana house in terrible floods? Totally random. (How’d that one get in there? Our bad.)
Shootings reported at Iranian parliament and shrine of Imam Khomeini in Tehran say Iranian media.https://t.co/HrID66X37r
— Moments UK & Ireland (@UKMoments) June 7, 2017
First picture emerges of the attack on Imam Khomeini shrine in #Tehran, a suicide-bomb attack. pic.twitter.com/aCOcpfIl5M via @RudawEnglish
— ARnews 1936 (@ARnews1936) June 7, 2017
My money is on Trump gloating or talking shit about Tehran when he does tweet something about
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 7, 2017
re: #60 Dr Lizardo
Well, shit.
We’re looking at a possible intra-Muslim-nation war, and the USA has an idiot as its chief exec.
Fun times.
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re: #58 Kragar
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I’m seeing unconfirmed reports that one of the attackers on the Iranian Parliament building has detonated a suicide bomb. He was apparently on the fourth floor of the building.
The Iranian Parliament building:
re: #62 wheat-dogg
We’re looking at a possible intra-Muslim-nation war, and the USA has an idiot as its chief exec.
Fun times.
/
Yep. The worst possible person in the worst possible place at the worst possible time. Brace yourselves, everyone - possible F5 shitnado coming.
That was fast. #ISIS Telegram followers using @POTUS #torture fantasy for recruiting & revenge inspiration. pic.twitter.com/K4hKKOuLjs
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 27, 2017
Its simple.
Trump destabilizes the Middle East & removes Russian sanctions
Oil prices skyrocket.
Putin profits.#ResistTrump https://t.co/eYmy4yxr6B— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 27, 2017
re: #66 Kragar
More pluses:
a) Qatar is one of the biggest oil producers in the world. If their oil is taken off the market, prices go up.
b) That makes the Keystone XL Pipeline viable again, with only Nebraska standing against its construction.
Ewick has some serious Daddy issues. Ewwww……
— glitter bug (@glitterybug79) June 7, 2017
re: #67 Anymouse
There is a coalition of ranchers, farmers, liberals, environmentalists, sportsmen, and hunters that are holding up the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Trump’s approval of a route across the US border is meaningless as long as no route is approved across Nebraska.
So now we see: Do liberals from outside the state actually support us here, or is this a fight we have to take on alone for the whole nation?
Debate over the atheism group on Yahoo I manage over the best way to answer the question “Have you been saved?” (in reference to Christianity) drew the answer I’m going to use from now on:
No, I know how to swim.
Trolling the ESLCafé employment listings, and I come across this one:
Principal Needed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
It seems they need a bilingual principal for the Zarrow International Primary School. I suppose advertising for free on an ESL teacher site makes sense, but it’s unusual.
re: #72 wheat-dogg
Trolling the ESLCafé employment listings, and I come across this one:
Principal Needed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
It seems they need a bilingual principal for the Zarrow International Primary School. I suppose advertising for free on an ESL teacher site makes sense, but it’s unusual.
Don’t do it! My wife and I escaped Oklahoma when Mary Fallin was elected; she took a 60% loss on her house she wanted out of there so bad.
We need bilingual teachers and principals in Nebraska. Rural school districts that operate one-room schoolhouses here ofttimes offer an attached house for the teacher to live in.
re: #70 Anymouse
There is a coalition of ranchers, farmers, liberals, environmentalists, sportsmen, and hunters that are holding up the Keystone XL pipeline project.
Trump’s approval of a route across the US border is meaningless as long as no route is approved across Nebraska.
So now we see: Do liberals from outside the state actually support us here, or is this a fight we have to take on alone for the whole nation?
Uh, what?
Environmental groups sue Trump administration for approving Keystone pipeline
Me mowing my lawn (actually I’m much better wielding a scythe than this guy, so maybe I should take over his job):
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re: #74 Timothy Watson
Uh, what?
Environmental groups sue Trump administration for approving Keystone pipeline
Kewl. Glad to see they joined the fight a couple years after we took it on. We’ll take the help.
That said, I doubt they can win their fight; it is the President who approves such things. President Obama held back his approval whist we were going here through our state supreme court - Bold Nebraska (the coalition I mentioned above) got very little out of state help fighting off the GOP here violating the state constitution. (The project was eventually rejected by the state supreme court for constitutional violations.)
The immediate result of that was Dave Domina (the chief lawyer for Bold Nebraska) ran for the Senate against Ben Sasse (Domina lost), and Jane Kleeb became the leader of the state Democratic Party.
re: #73 Anymouse
Don’t do it! My wife and I escaped Oklahoma when Mary Fallin was elected; she took a 60% loss on her house she wanted out of there so bad.
We need bilingual teachers and principals in Nebraska. Rural school districts that operate one-room schoolhouses here ofttimes offer an attached house for the teacher to live in.
No worries there. I’ve been to Stillwater, OK, and I think that will be my last encounter with that state.
As for Nebraska, honestly, it’s not high on my places to teach. I am not a certified teacher, so to teach in a US public school I would have to take those certification courses to get my teaching license. Private schools, where I once taught, don’t require state certs, so I never bothered getting mine. If I had finished my MA in Teaching program, I would have, but by that time I was already employed F/T, newly married with a baby on the way, and school just kinda got left behind.
The credits I lacked? “Student teaching” — though I was already employed as a teacher! At the time (mid-80s) Kentucky had not made provisions for MAT candidates who were already teaching. A few years after my program lapsed, the rules were changed to include a teaching practicum, which required a certified teacher as an observer and hella paperwork for me. Seemed more trouble than it was worth.
The price of freedom:
A woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend “accidentally” (there is no such thing as a gun accident) only hours after her parents gave him a gun for a present.
He was trying to put the gun away.
He will not be charged, because negligent handling of a gun resulting in death is apparently not a crime in Tennessee.
re: #77 wheat-dogg
Avg. Elementary Teacher Salary: $50,710
Avg. Secondary Teacher Salary: $51,320
Vacation Weeks Per Year: 15
Rural school districts are hurting for teachers (mine included). My brother-in-law in Texas is looking to relocate here when he is vested in his Texas teacher’s retirement to continue here (where it is a buttload cheaper to live).
certificationmap.com
(Becoming a teacher in Nebraska)
Just yesterday, @GEsfandiari wrote this excellent piece on how ISIS propaganda is increasingly targeting #Iran https://t.co/al01pwlYwK
— Holly Dagres (@hdagres) June 7, 2017
BREAKING: Islamic State group claims attacks on Iranian parliament, Khomeini shrine.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2017
re: #79 Anymouse
Rural school districts are hurting for teachers (mine included). My brother-in-law in Texas is looking to relocate here when he is vested in his Texas teacher’s retirement to continue here (where it is a buttload cheaper to live).
certificationmap.com
(Becoming a teacher in Nebraska)
Not bad pay, considering.
The other thing is that I am pretty much over teaching high school, but a one-room schoolhouse would be quite a different experience.
Yet another idea to consider.
Iran, ISIS, Trump won’t be able to tell the difference.
re: #83 Targetpractice
Iran, ISIS, Trump won’t be able to tell the difference.
Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, India — they all look alike!
BBL. Time to meet some folks for dinner.
I gotta listen again later to slow down that list of “saddest” themes. I think I caught “drunk at the custody hearing,” which is something I’ve actually read about more than once, sad to say.
re: #82 wheat-dogg
Not bad pay, considering.
The other thing is that I am pretty much over teaching high school, but a one-room schoolhouse would be quite a different experience.
Yet another idea to consider.
The Valentine Consolidated School District in Cherry County (if you look at a political map of Nebraska, it is the gigantic county in the north - bonus, not far from me) is the school district that operates one room schools on a regular basis. (They have several schools out in the county they open when there are children in the area. The only incorporated town in Cherry County, Valentine, has a bit over 1,100 people - we first considered buying a house there before we bought the one we live in).
Ack. The second wasp in two days in my parlour.
Continuing plugging teaching in my state:
Nebraska will accept some teaching credentials from all but the following states: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, and New Jersey. Contact the Nebraska Department of Education to inquire about your specific situation. Please see our interstate reciprocity disclaimer for more information.
Incentives to teach in high-needs schools or shortage subject areas: The Nebraska Department of Education provides loan forgiveness support for teachers teaching in low-income schools and in shortage subject areas as designated by the U.S. Department of Education.
re: #87 Apocalypse
How tall is the grass?
Well, from the guy in that gif clip, it would appear his grass is about two feet high.
I can mow my lawn to about a half-an-inch with a scythe. (All this rain we’ve gotten, I need to mow nearly every other day. On the other hand, good aerobic exercise.)
re: #89 Anymouse
That makes more sense now (to use a scythe, rather than a lawnmower). I imagine a a single blade is easier to maintain than am engine plus a blade that requires to be balanced.
re: #90 Apocalypse
That makes more sense now (to use a scythe, rather than a lawnmower). I imagine a a single blade is easier to maintain than am engine plus a blade that requires to be balanced.
Yup. If you have a giant yard (an acre or something like that), using a scythe would be a bit time-comsuming.
My (large for my town) lot on the other hand is much simpler. (My neighbours do give me a bit of side-eye when I’m out mowing my lawn, but the farmers all think I’m “down with the real folk” around here.)
With practice, you can use the tool to get right up to the edge of a building or over rough areas that a lawnmower cannot go.
A scythe requires no oil, no maintenance (other than occasional peening and sharpening), no gasoline. Best time to mow is in the morning, when the dew is still in the grass and the grass is still heavy (both for lawns and hay). The scythe cuts through better.
Next door to me a person has a “garden lot” (an empty lot used for a garden here in town) planted in winter wheat. They harvest the wheat with scythes. The owner can clear the whole lot in a couple hours.
On the one hand, I wanna be awake for the Rosenstein’s testimony this morning, on the other this head cold’s been kicking my ass and sleep is gonna be awful hard to fight.
Curse you, traitorous body! CURSE YOU!
re: #76 Anymouse
Uh:
In October 2009, a suit was filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council that challenged the pipeline on the grounds that its permit was based on a deficient environmental impact statement. The suit was thrown out by a federal judge on procedural grounds, ruling that the NRDC lacked the authority to bring it.[200]
In June 2012, Sierra Club, Inc., Clean Energy Future Oklahoma, and the East Texas Sub Regional Planning Commission filed a joint complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma seeking injunctive relief and petitioning for a review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ action in issuing Nationwide Permit 12 permits for the Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast portion of the pipeline. The suit alleges that, contrary to the federal Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 701 et. seq., the Corps’ issuance of the permits was arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion.[201]
re: #81 Kragar
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ISIS claims credit if someone stubs their toe, so I don’t believe them automatically.
re: #94 Timothy Watson
ISIS claims credit if someone stubs their toe, so I don’t believe them automatically.
ISIS’ Amaq News Agency is posting vids of the attack taken by the attacker inside the Parliament building in Tehran.
Shameless page promotion:
Rural Intelligent Life: Sickles and Scythes (goes to the right hand column of LGF)
Since we’re talking about scythes, I published here an article for a column I write called Rural Intelligent Life. The rights attached to articles published in that journal remain with the author, so I can re-publish it here.
The article is a (short) history of the sickle and scythe, along with further sources for more information.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
ISIS’ Amaq News Agency is posting vids of the attack taken by the attacker inside the Parliament building in Tehran.
Okay, that’s a little different.
Just in the past, they’ve claimed credit for everything that has happened in Europe without any substantive proof, like a martyrdom video or anything.
re: #97 Timothy Watson
Okay, that’s a little different.
Just in the past, they’ve claimed credit for everything that has happened in Europe without any substantive proof, like a martyrdom video or anything.
And you’re right to be skeptical; to be honest, if I’d eaten a bad burrito and tweeted about it, I have almost no doubt that ISIS would try to claim responsibility.
re: #98 Dr Lizardo
And you’re right to be skeptical; to be honest, if I’d eaten a bad burrito and tweeted about it, I have almost no doubt that ISIS would try to claim responsibility.
“eaten a bad burrito.” LOL
They’ll pretty much claim responsibility for anything, because FEARFEARFEARFEAR amongst conservatives in other countries.
My irises around my house wilted, must have been ISIS. Or gay lesbian farmers.
People say films, tv, comics, etc. influence kids. Yet none of these kids 9or their parents) appear to have been influenced by the positive messages of tolerance put out by hollywood (or marvel and DC Comics) for well over 50 years. What gives?
re: #100 Lupin
People say films, tv, comics, etc. influence kids. Yet none of these kids 9or their parents) appear to have been influenced by the positive messages of tolerance put out by hollywood (or marvel and DC Comics) for well over 50 years. What gives?
Fearmongering and blame-shifting. Hollywood makes a good boogeyman (it always has, since it is filled with liberals like Chuck Norris and such).
People were demonising the evils of comic books a century ago, threatening to have Congress censor them (thus comic book companies formed the Comics Code Authority to self-censor).
The problem is, conservative moral scolds are never satisfied and can’t be. Even though comic companies like Marvel, DC, and Archie comics scrupulously abided by their comics code, it wasn’t enough.
Conservatives will never be happy, because they cannot be happy. That is not a problem merely in the USA, but conservatism everywhere.
re: #100 Lupin
If Video games influenced children, why have I not made it my life’s purpose to kill and eradicate the Strogg?
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re: #100 Lupin
People say films, tv, comics, etc. influence kids. Yet none of these kids 9or their parents) appear to have been influenced by the positive messages of tolerance put out by hollywood (or marvel and DC Comics) for well over 50 years. What gives?
Kids are no different than adults in misinterpreting how people want their works to be seen. And we can’t underestimate how the alt right goes after kids too. I’m not a parent but I intend to live by example and also explain how diversity made my child the unique individual they will be and how diversity does make the world a better place.
re: #102 Apocalypse
If Video games influenced children, why have I not made it my life’s purpose to kill and eradicate the Strogg?
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I’m still looking for a dot moving between two paddles on a video ping pong game.
re: #104 Anymouse
LOL
I still can’t decide if pong was a step up or step down when compared to Air Hockey.
re: #105 Barefoot Grin
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He’s got a third grade brain for policy and I’m being unfair to third graders.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
Kids are no different than adults in misinterpreting how people want their works to be seen. And we can’t underestimate how the alt right goes after kids too. I’m not a parent but I intend to live by example and also explain how diversity made my child the unique individual they will be and how diversity does make the world a better place.
The idea that dialogue that could have been written by Stan Lee or Roy Thomas and placed in the mouths of the Red Skull, the Hate-Monger or The Sons of the Serpent is regurgitated by kids raised by parents born in the 1980s is, frankly, beyond me.
Do the same kids (those mentioned in the buzzfeed articles) watch Arrow, The Flash or Supergirl? Do they live in the Hydra-universe of the framework already?
#Breaking| Shooting incident over in the #Iranian parliament, four attackers dead – state broadcaster pic.twitter.com/R4oMCVmPm6
— Asharq Al-Awsat Eng (@aawsat_eng) June 7, 2017
Sweetest burn of the day….
Is this you, Glenn? I know he used to use a lot of sock puppets to sing his own praises…
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 7, 2017
re: #106 Apocalypse
LOL
I still can’t decide if pong was a step up or step down when compared to Air Hockey.
My mother bought a Pong video game when they first came out and cost about as much as a house payment today. It was to entertain her children.
It also had hockey!
Damn I am old.
Ouch.
North Korea accuses US President Trump of being “selfish” over Paris climate pact https://t.co/RaU642XfyE pic.twitter.com/Kk8rs1s45a
— CNN International (@cnni) June 7, 2017
When a country who’s leaders actually starve their own people calls you out for being “selfish”… https://t.co/9x2IW3Hl3G
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) June 7, 2017
Donald J. Trump Foundation used the Eric Trump Foundation to turn donations into revenue for the Trump Organization https://t.co/5KZZ6lMXpz pic.twitter.com/ZWtvqqrNQn
— Forbes (@Forbes) June 6, 2017
re: #113 HappyWarrior
Ha! Unfortunately that’s only gonna make em double down.
Probably. “North Korea wants this? Must be bad.”
North Korea is correct though. It is about selfishness. Gotta make more money, screw the rest of the world.
Did I mention I am not a fan of unregulated capitalism?
I need to log out. I have a dine out to go to in Cheyenne tonight. Catch y’all later.
re: #115 Anymouse
Probably. “North Korea wants this? Must be bad.”
North Korea is correct though. It is about selfishness. Gotta make more money, screw the rest of the world.
Did I mention I am not a fan of unregulated capitalism?
I need to log out. I have a dine out to go to in Cheyenne tonight. Catch y’all later.
Yeah that’s what I meant.
These are the turds you see spewing blatant lies on the tube in the morning. They need to be trolled hard.
re: #118 Dave In Austin
I don’t get it. Did you want me to sign up? I get enough spam already.
Interviews with Kentucky voters who will get killed by the AHCA but will mostly keep voting Republican anyway.
THIS THREAD IS TERRIFYING==>
I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. https://t.co/yAZg1uZnpy pic.twitter.com/o8UltcVhda
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 25, 2017
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He just named the new FBI director on Twitter.
I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2017
Fish monster FTW.
“Hi, I’m Eric Trump. I stole money from kids with cancer and look like a fish monster, but the important thing is Dems aren’t even people.”
— beth argyropoulos (@bourgeoisalien) June 7, 2017
And now, a commercial break:
one-eight-seven-seven-kars-for-kids, one-eight-seven-seven-kars-for-kids….
A sound bite from Mighty Clapper of Thunder:
Ex-DNI Clapper: Watergate pales compared to what we’re confronting now pic.twitter.com/pGc6N1dcK3
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 7, 2017
re: #127 Barefoot Grin
And now, a commercial break:
one-eight-seven-seven-kars-for-kids, one-eight-seven-seven-kars-for-kids….
Did you see the reporting a couple months back on them being a scam?
re: #122 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah. This.
Sean Spicer: John Pistole (https://t.co/I5OHJMcQes) and Chris Wray (https://t.co/B5KkEuPnxK) interviewing for FBI director gig today
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) May 30, 2017
Wray was Christie’s Bridgegate lawyer https://t.co/Ynuzd2Gq5o
— Andrew Seidman (@AndrewSeidman) May 30, 2017
re: #91 Anymouse
Bring on your scythe. I am headed out to more hours of mowing today: My mowing job takes about 36 hours and, this time of year, has to immediately be repeated. The fairways and walking paths on my disc golf courses total about two miles in length.
re: #129 Timothy Watson
Did you see the reporting a couple months back on them being a scam?
No, but my wife just turned and said, “I hear this all the time; what the hell is this?” Now I have an answer.
re: #133 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Bring on your scythe. I am headed out to more hours of mowing today: My mowing job takes about 36 hours and, this time of year, has to immediately be repeated. The fairways and walking paths on my disc golf courses total about two miles in length.
Wait, there’s such a thing as “playing out of the rough” in disc golf?
Chinese government refuses to release activists detained while investigating Ivanka Trump shoe supplier conditions https://t.co/bSqPbLmYDb pic.twitter.com/Yoh2ad6TJG
— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2017
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah. Not holding my breath expecting the Trumps to apply pressure on Beijing to get those people released.
Full press on Comey’s credibility is on. Utter bullshit tactics.
re: #124 The Vicious Babushka
He just named the new FBI director on Twitter.
The most beautiful, impeccable credentials. Just absolutely, impeccable, really. Believe me.
re: #138 Barefoot Grin
Full press on Comey’s credibility is on. Utter bullshit tactics.
But Obama said “I” in his speeches.
/
re: #139 Sir John Barron
The most beautiful, impeccable credentials. Just absolutely, impeccable, really. Believe me.
Trying to drive the news. Fox is all over it; the VA thing, too. Comey? Just to discredit.
re: #141 Sir John Barron
But Obama said “I” in his speeches.
/
That time Obama said “I have a great brain”…. //
re: #57 Anymouse
Televangelist Assholes Pretty Sure Manchester and London Asking for It Like Common Godless Sluts (with a headline like that, it can only be Wonkette, with over three thousand comments):
More at the link:
But terrorism is awful and Muslims must be banned and radical Islam eradicated and hey I wonder if maybe these so-called victims didn’t just deserve to die because…
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re: #70 Anymouse
Maybe Nebraska could garner more sympathy if the state hadn’t voted for the guy who promised to do this. Standing Rock protesters took beatings, for some reason I have a hard time thinking Nebraska protesters will be treated the same, at least until there is proof of ‘outside agitators’.
re: #132 Shiplord Kirel
Snip from a Walmart “Emergency Food” page. One of these things is not like the others:
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Works in a pinch….. After you eat the dog…..
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re: #20 Kragar
Can’t wait to be on @seanhannity at 10pm on @FoxNews - discussing the ugliness of politics. pic.twitter.com
— Eric Trump
“My dad’s campaign rallies and convention featured “Lock her up” chants about Hillary Clinton.”
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel
Fuckers are whipping themselves up for a real pogrom. Be ready. Hell of it is, Muslims cannot really arm themselves for their own defense, though it is their legal right to do so. If Muslims started posting armed guards outside their facilities, as many fundy churches do, the right wing would go berserk. Hate media has already superseded the rule of law in that respect.
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel
Fuckers are whipping themselves up for a real pogrom. Be ready. Hell of it is, Muslims cannot really arm themselves for their own defense, though it is their legal right to do so. If Muslims started posting armed guards outside their facilities, as many fundy churches do, the right wing would go berserk. Hate media has already superseded the rule of law in that respect.
Can you imagine if they tried to start their own police departments a la that church cult in Alabama (I almost wrote Allahbama)….
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel
Fuckers are whipping themselves up for a real pogrom. Be ready. Hell of it is, Muslims cannot really arm themselves for their own defense, though it is their legal right to do so. If Muslims started posting armed guards outside their facilities, as many fundy churches do, the right wing would go berserk. Hate media has already superseded the rule of law in that respect.
I did notice, right away, that the numbers of mosques on that map seem to plot pretty well with the size of the state’s population. IOW, the more people, the more Muslims, ergo, more mosques.
Sinister!!!
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel
Fuckers are whipping themselves up for a real pogrom. Be ready. Hell of it is, Muslims cannot really arm themselves for their own defense, though it is their legal right to do so. If Muslims started posting armed guards outside their facilities, as many fundy churches do, the right wing would go berserk. Hate media has already superseded the rule of law in that respect.
If any of you live in communities with mosques, see if there are Christian churches (y’know the lukewarm backbencher Presbys and Episcopals types) willing to provide “security details” around the mosques, to discourage mischief by the knuckle-draggers.
re: #150 Jay C
I did notice, right away, that the numbers of mosques on that map seem to plot pretty well with the size of the state’s population. IOW, the more people, the more Muslims, ergo, more mosques.
Sinister!!!
And you now what else? More people, more taco trucks! It’s a conspiracy! Wake up, sheeple!
re: #151 wheat-dogg
If any of you live in communities with mosques, see if there are Christian churches (y’know the lukewarm backbencher Presbys and Episcopals types) willing to provide “security details” around the mosques, to discourage mischief by the knuckle-draggers.
“Firewatch”. No weapons but cell phones and the local PD # at hand.
re: #151 wheat-dogg
If any of you live in communities with mosques, see if there are Christian churches (y’know the lukewarm backbencher Presbys and Episcopals types) willing to provide “security details” around the mosques, to discourage mischief by the knuckle-draggers.
There has been some of that in the Dallas suburbs. At least they have had solidarity demonstrations. I don’t know if anyone has provided actual security details.
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel
If they arm themselves, the right goes “AAHHJIHADISTTERROR!”, but if they don’t, then they’re susceptible to RWNJs doing RWNJ things.
I’ve said this before, *if* you can, offer to stand guard at a local mosque. Drive or walk by occasionally to make sure there’s no suspicious activity.
But check with the local mosque FIRST so they don’t report you as the suspicious one.
This is amazing. Not sure who is responsible. pic.twitter.com/4LUi5C11zj
— Mike Denison (@mikd33) June 7, 2017
re: #149 Barefoot Grin
Can you imagine if they tried to start their own police departments a la that church cult in Alabama (I almost wrote Allahbama)….
I’m looking forward to seeing the Church of Satan police. Imagine the uniforms!
re: #150 Jay C
I did notice, right away, that the numbers of mosques on that map seem to plot pretty well with the size of the state’s population. IOW, the more people, the more Muslims, ergo, more mosques.
Sinister!!!
YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN THAT!
re: #155 I cannot.
If they arm themselves, the right goes “AAHHJIHADISTTERROR!”, but if they don’t, then they’re susceptible to RWNJs doing RWNJ things.
I’ve said this before, *if* you can, offer to stand guard at a local mosque. Drive or walk by occasionally to make sure there’s no suspicious activity.
But check with the local mosque FIRST so they don’t report you as the suspicious one.
Hasidic Jews and Muslims in Brooklyn should guard each other’s synagogues and mosques. The wingnut head splosions would be epic!
re: #147 Sir John Barron
“My dad’s campaign rallies and convention featured “Lock her up” chants about Hillary Clinton.”
Also Eric “I retweeted white supremacist Twitter feeds.”
If there was no evidence of collusion, they would have come forward months ago and said as much - of their own volition.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 7, 2017
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel
So, how many batshit fundy gun churches are there? What do THEY have planned?
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re: #146 Dave In Austin
Works in a pinch….. After you eat the dog…..
My wonder-dog, Roswell II the Atomic Pound-Pooch, registers a protest and also points out that he would be very good at locating food supplies the yokels leave behind when they kill each other or die of fallout.
re: #147 Sir John Barron
“My dad’s campaign rallies and convention featured “Lock her up” chants about Hillary Clinton.”
His asshole father calls the media the enemy of the United States. FFS.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
Also Eric “I retweeted white supremacist Twitter feeds.”
I think that’s more Donny Jr. but would not surprise me if Eric was also BFFs with the nazi deplorables.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
Also Eric “I retweeted white supremacist Twitter feeds.”
“The only ugly thing about that is you people pointing out that I retweeted white supremacists.”
/
re: #145 Bass Reeves
Maybe Nebraska could garner more sympathy if the state hadn’t voted for the guy who promised to do this. Standing Rock protesters took beatings, for some reason I have a hard time thinking Nebraska protesters will be treated the same, at least until there is proof of ‘outside agitators’.
I sympathize but we in the “liberal states” have our own things we have to manage.
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel
“These secretive, suspicious mosques are hiding in plain sight but here we have a complete list of them.”
/
re: #165 The Vicious Babushka
I think that’s more Donny Jr. but would not surprise me if Eric was also BFFs with the nazi deplorables.
Ah, I always get the two messed up.
I heard Dennis Prager* this morning saying that his message to Republicans is that “we’re in a civil war with the left” and therefore they MUST support Trump. This is what we’re up against.
*”Intellectual”
I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2017
Christopher A. Wray wakes up and checks his twitter feed, “Aw, fuck…” https://t.co/J3hPQ7e27n
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 7, 2017
re: #166 Sir John Barron
“The only ugly thing about that is you people pointing out that I retweeted white supremacists.”
/
Heh you jest obviously but that’s exactly how Eric and his brother think. That it’s hateful to point out their ties to hatefulness. Really Sean fucking Hannity who complained about Obama’s burger condiment choice has no room at all to complain about anyone criticizing Trump too much.
re: #170 Barefoot Grin
I heard Dennis Prager* this morning saying that his message to Republicans is that “we’re in a civil war with the left” and therefore they MUST support Trump. This is what we’re up against.
*”Intellectual”
But liberals are so intolerant because something something college campuses. You talk about us as if we’re your enemy, we’re going ot push back.
Wray doesn’t sound awful but the resume seems a bit thin for a FBI director.
re: #175 HappyWarrior
Wray doesn’t sound awful but the resume seems a bit thin for a FBI director.
Trump’s requirement: Loyalty.
Eric Trump, the son of the President of the United States, says Democrats aren’t even people. pic.twitter.com/2uhP8o8579
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 7, 2017
I don’t know how to respond to this silliness. https://t.co/PkI2kjVfju
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) June 7, 2017
re: #170 Barefoot Grin
I heard Dennis Prager* this morning saying that his message to Republicans is that “we’re in a civil war with the left” and therefore they MUST support Trump. This is what we’re up against.
*”Intellectual”
I can’t wait to hear Eric Trump condemn this example of very ugly politics.
/
Oh god. Left Twitter has a NEW old reason to hate Hillary Clinton. It seems the Clintons, back during Bill’s time as Governor of Arkansas, used prison labor at the Governor’s Mansion. So, they used what was effectively slave labor.
HILLARY ACTUALLY WROTE ABOUT THAT IN “IT TAKES A VILLAGE”, PUBLISHED OVER TWO DECADES AGO!
Its funny that we went through the primary, the general election and it only becomes an issue over 6 months after the election. And this is why we can’t have nice things.
re: #173 HappyWarrior
But liberals are so intolerant because something something college campuses. You talk about us as if we’re your enemy, we’re going ot push back.
And basically he’s saying, “forget the Russian attack on our sovereignty; gotta support the GOP against liberals.” Can you imagine: “forget Pearl Harbor, we’ve got taxes to cut!”
What a tiny little world this is.
Newsweek flags: Christopher Wray’s law firm advises Trump’s trust, which holds his business assets https://t.co/zFgp0dZfvc pic.twitter.com/AcCGWU9UMM
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2017
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
And basically he’s saying, “forget the Russian attack on our sovereignty; gotta support the GOP against liberals.” Can you imagine: “forget Pearl Harbor, we’ve got taxes to cut!”
Party above all else.
Color me surprised…the $110B deal with the Saudis is carry over negotiations from Obama…and not complete.
Extraordinary: 30-year veteran of CIA checked out $110 billion US arms deal to Saudi & figured out it’s bullshit. https://t.co/3bADbssCV7 pic.twitter.com/TkPy1xmAQa
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) June 6, 2017
re: #179 I cannot.
Oh god. Left Twitter has a NEW old reason to hate Hillary Clinton. It seems the Clintons, back during Bill’s time as Governor of Arkansas, used prison labor at the Governor’s Mansion. So, they used what was effectively slave labor.
HILLARY ACTUALLY WROTE ABOUT THAT IN “IT TAKES A VILLAGE”, PUBLISHED OVER TWO DECADES AGO!
Its funny that we went through the primary, the general election and it only becomes an issue over 6 months after the election. And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Lefty purity will be the death of us all. Funny how Sanders never got every last goddamn thing that happened in his life scrunitized. Sanders- cosponsor of a bill that environmentalists called one of the worst acts of environmental racism in recent history. Sanders, a man whose immigration record Steve King praised when criticizing his Republican colleagues. I’m all for looking at someone’s flaws but it really pisses me off that the people who picked every last scab off of Clinton’s record refused to do any sort of self criticism when it came to Sanders.
It’s not that people are digging up dirt on Wray because he’s the nominee…it’s just there.
Sean Spicer: John Pistole (https://t.co/I5OHJMcQes) and Chris Wray (https://t.co/B5KkEuPnxK) interviewing for FBI director gig today
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) May 30, 2017
Wray was Christie’s Bridgegate lawyer https://t.co/Ynuzd2Gq5o
— Andrew Seidman (@AndrewSeidman) May 30, 2017
FBI director hopeful Chris Wray held onto the cell phone Chris Christie used during Bridgegate and never let go. Was never obtained by feds. https://t.co/KbgEKYBbis
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) May 30, 2017
re: #179 I cannot.
Oh god. Left Twitter has a NEW old reason to hate Hillary Clinton. It seems the Clintons, back during Bill’s time as Governor of Arkansas, used prison labor at the Governor’s Mansion. So, they used what was effectively slave labor.
HILLARY ACTUALLY WROTE ABOUT THAT IN “IT TAKES A VILLAGE”, PUBLISHED OVER TWO DECADES AGO!
Its funny that we went through the primary, the general election and it only becomes an issue over 6 months after the election. And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Uh…every state does that. Hell, Virginia has the Department of Corrections’ “Correctional Enterprises” which makes tables and chairs which state agencies are required by law to buy.
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He’s just doing ‘the will of the American people’…I didn’t know we wanted to destroy our country’s credibility and create global disorder.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 7, 2017
re: #187 Timothy Watson
Some of our toughest wildfire firefighters are trustee convicts. I have seen them work, read of a couple over the years dying on the job. Best bad guys around.
re: #186 darthstar
It’s not that people are digging up dirt on Wray because he’s the nominee…it’s just there.
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— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) June 7, 2017
Wray is well-versed in legal-ish obstruction tactics; Bigly qualified
re: #187 Timothy Watson
Uh…every state does that. Hell, Virginia has the Department of Corrections’ “Correctional Enterprises” which makes tables and chairs which state agencies are required by law to buy.
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re: #153 Unshaken Defiance
“Firewatch”. No weapons but cell phones and the local PD # at hand.
Alabama lefty starts giggling like a schoolgirl.
re: #190 caseyjr
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Maybe Wray has Tom Brady’s too. Sorry sports joke.
Okay…who wants to guess how long it will take to find a Russia connection with Wray?
Answer here:
Wtf!!! The New FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Law Firm Last Year took on Rosneft as a client.. Remember Steele Dossier#TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/nj2j8swX1c
— Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ (@olgaNYC1211) June 7, 2017
re: #194 darthstar
Okay…who wants to guess how long it will take to find a Russia connection with Wray?
Answer here:
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From Wrayussia with love I guess. Is there anyone in this goddamned admninistration that isn’t Russia tied? Maybe Mattis?
re: #192 Decatur Deb
Alabama lefty starts giggling like a schoolgirl.
Your PD may vary… LOL. Good point.
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone in Trump’s circle who’s all Russia’d up.
Does this mean Wray will recuse himself from the Russia investigation if he’s confirmed?
re: #193 HappyWarrior
I hate my home team for consistently demanding more tax benefits and shit from my local and state government, but whenever someone mentions that guy or the team he plays for, I become the world’s biggest Colts fan.
I mean, I’ll be honest though, we were losing the game badly, and those fuckers STILL cheated! You should have your team disbanded for doing something so implausibly stupid, not the actual cheating, that just deserves a forfeit…but to cheat that bigly stupid?
Wait…Tom’s a fan of Trump, right? That might explain some things…
The West Wing is preparing for a world of subpoenas, w legal counsel telling staff not to use “burn bags.” https://t.co/1szuzhIYi4 pic.twitter.com/KJsz83pSZx
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) June 7, 2017
Iran attacks: ISIS Twin assaults on parliament and shrine rock Tehran
Parliament and the Shrine Rock? Tehran? That’s big. Imagine “West Wing” and Lincoln Memorial” for a very rough comparison. Best of luck and my prayers for the victims and responders there.
Wonder what stupidity will come from Trump?
Super effective…the effectivest.
.@RepLeeZeldin says @realDonaldTrump brought up tweets at WH dinner last night. POTUS stood by idea they’re effective messaging
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) June 7, 2017
re: #148 Shiplord Kirel
Fuckers are whipping themselves up for a real pogrom. Be ready. Hell of it is, Muslims cannot really arm themselves for their own defense, though it is their legal right to do so. If Muslims started posting armed guards outside their facilities, as many fundy churches do, the right wing would go berserk. Hate media has already superseded the rule of law in that respect.
If anyone starts shit with my local Muslim community, I’ll volunteer to protect them.
Anyone else getting pounded the last 2 days loading LGF pages and navigating? There has been something trying to get to a site ssp.streamrail.net, and the loading icon just goes round and round. The page becomes pretty much unresponsive every few seconds, and it never seems to stop. Prob a rouge ad or something.
Remember, the Comey testimony isn’t about Comey, it’s about how Trump wanted him to stop investigating this fucker:
Flynn tried to get the Pentagon to work w/Russian military in Syria, despite an explicit congressional prohibition. https://t.co/yi78Arqo0i
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) June 7, 2017
re: #203 covfefe
If anyone starts shit with my local Muslim community, I’ll volunteer to protect them.
A couple months ago I asked a liberal-ish Muslim if her tiny community was sensing any rising problems with our cops. Her answer: “No, they’re all doctors and businessmen—-Republicans.”
re: #199 I cannot.
I hate my home team for consistently demanding more tax benefits and shit from my local and state government, but whenever someone mentions that guy or the team he plays for, I become the world’s biggest Colts fan.
I mean, I’ll be honest though, we were losing the game badly, and those fuckers STILL cheated! You should have your team disbanded for doing something so implausibly stupid, not the actual cheating, that just deserves a forfeit…but to cheat that bigly stupid?
Wait…Tom’s a fan of Trump, right? That might explain some things…
Heh I understand, I’m a Steelers fan.
re: #190 caseyjr
Wray is well-versed in legal-ish obstruction tactics; Bigly qualified
Impeccable. The most impeccable. Bigly impeccable.
I appreciate everyone’s patience while I’m in my current Photoshop phase.
AND, I have to share tis one, I think it’s a hoot!
Sunflower and Chihuahua - Yellow & Black https://t.co/m7CqzejLJ9 via @redbubble #chihuahua #dog #sunflower #baby
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 7, 2017
re: #197 makeitstop
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone in Trump’s circle who’s all Russia’d up.
Why would anyone swing a dead cat?
re: #207 Sir John Barron
Hah!
“We’re fully integrated. Uncle Shlomo fought in the Great War; we’re safe here in Bamberg.”
Hillary voters: Neoliberal Corporatist Wall Street Whores who were the only Americans who didn’t fall for any weaponized fake news.
— JEN KIRKMAN (@JenKirkman) March 31, 2017
Bobby Three Sticks is going to wreck these guys. Hope they had fun being treasonweasels on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/USLZmn0dVf
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 7, 2017
re: #216 Birth Control Works
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Never worked a day in Wall Street in my life nor do I ever plan to.
NYT email digest:
ON THIS DAY
On June 7, 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
Here’s how money that outsiders gave to Donald Trump’s charitable foundation apparently ended up as revenue for the Trump Organization. pic.twitter.com/JXC5jP8tq5
— Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) June 6, 2017
re: #214 wheat-dogg
Ever tried swinging a live one?
Did you see my #208 —Yes, I fell into that one —still on my first cuppa
still
I can’t imagine a reason for swinging any cat.
I think you should research the origins of the saying and report back to us.
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re: #218 HappyWarrior
Never worked a day in Wall Street in my life nor do I ever plan to.
I think the joke is that the first part plays to everyone who bought fake news.
re: #222 Belafon
I think the joke is that the first part plays to everyone who bought fake news.
Ah ok.
re: #58 Kragar
Shootings reported at Iranian parliament and shrine of Imam Khomeini in Tehran say Iranian media
That’s what they get for not banning Muslim immigration until they figure out what is going on!
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel accused US President Donald Trump of stirring up conflicts in the Middle East and risking a new arms race as Qatar’s neighbours cut ties with Doha.Saudi Arabia and allies including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced Monday they were severing diplomatic relations and closing air, sea and land links with Qatar.
The dispute comes less than a month after Trump visited Saudi Arabia and called for Muslim nations to unite against “extremism”.
[…]
“Apparently, Qatar is to be isolated more or less completely and hit existentially. Such a ‘Trumpification’ of relations in a region already susceptible to crises is particularly dangerous,” Gabriel said.
Morning…I think.
So, Eric T. says liberals that criticize El Trumpo Blimpo aren’t people but that is not a “deplorable” comment.
Okay slick. Whatever.
re: #209 HappyWarrior
Heh I understand, I’m a Steelers fan.
I’m still a Browns fan. I hate everybody!
the Kinsey Institute reported that only a slight majority of Americans over the age of 60 believed sex using a condom counted as sex. That means, many Olds think you can go buck wild having hot “not sex” with whoever you want because the purpose of that activity isn’t procreation. That explains why the casual sex rate at retirement homes is reportedly through the roof.
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Because the average age of virginity loss has pretty much stayed the same across generations (17-18), that means our parents and grandparents were fucking around like rabbits for three or so years before cooling off, whereas, on average, we tend to take our time committing to anyone, and we have a whole lot of casual sexual activity, which many of us are hesitant to call sex at all.
Trump did not enter the campaign or prosecute it in good faith.
That alone should negate the election.
Heh.
Gotta give a link to this illustration/cartoon from The New Yorker. It’s from two weeks ago and I don’t think it was displayed here. I love this guy’s style.
Barry Blitz - New Yorker - THE POST-PRESIDENTIAL PAINTINGS OF DONALD TRUMP (PROBABLY)
Are the hearings really this boring? I was expecting more chatter.
Keith here is hoping that Reality Winner is murdered before she’s released.
Had the information been about HRC I doubt he’d think this way. pic.twitter.com/qfyREtixgZ— Dawkins Dog (@DawkinsDog) June 7, 2017
But #TheResistance are the “haters” & “not even people” for calling folks like this “Deplorable” https://t.co/at2k2kUD08
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 7, 2017
re: #235 Belafon
Are the hearings really this boring? I was expecting more chatter.
Seeing a lot of stonewalling going on.
re: #221 Birth Control Works
Did you see my #208 —Yes, I fell into that one —still on my first cuppa
still
I can’t imagine a reason for swinging any cat.
I think you should research the origins of the saying and report back to us.
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The cat in question is a cat ‘o nine tails, I believe.
re: #236 The Vicious Babushka
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Marco Rubio: Have you ever been asked to influence an ongoing investigation?
Dan Coats: “I’m not prepared to answer your question today.”— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 7, 2017
I see on the Twitters that, after running with the SETH RICH WAS KILLED FOR LEAKING DNC EMAILS conspiracy for a while, the MAGAbots are back to YES SURE RUSSIA INTERFERED IN THE ELECTION BUT SHOW US ON THE DOLL WHERE ANY VOTING MACHINES WERE HACKED OR ANY VOTES CHANGED and THERE WAS NO COLLUSSION.
re: #241 Sir John Barron
I see on the Twitters, that after running with the SETH RICH WAS KILLED FOR LEAKING DNC EMAILS conspiracy for a while, I see the MAGAbots are back to YES SURE RUSSIA INTERFERED IN THE ELECTION BUT SHOW US ON THE DOLL WHERE ANY VOTING MACHINES WERE HACKED OR ANY VOTES CHANGED.
Those bots are taking jobs away from hard-working American goalpost-movers!
re: #241 Sir John Barron
I see on the Twitters that, after running with the SETH RICH WAS KILLED FOR LEAKING DNC EMAILS conspiracy for a while, the MAGAbots are back to YES SURE RUSSIA INTERFERED IN THE ELECTION BUT SHOW US ON THE DOLL WHERE ANY VOTING MACHINES WERE HACKED OR ANY VOTES CHANGED and THERE WAS NO COLLUSSION.
These are the same people who would think ACORN caused Obama to be re-elected despite being no matter after being defunded. you know morons.
And just last week Democrats had to apologize and denounce Kathy Griffin for her little stunt. The media ranted for days about that.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 7, 2017
re: #243 HappyWarrior
These are the same people who would think ACORN caused Obama to be re-elected despite being no matter after being defunded. you know morons.
Automated Twitter bots are not really people, except that Eric Trump thinks they probably are people.
re: #245 The Vicious Babushka
Automated Twitter bots are not really people, except that Eric Trump thinks they probably are people.
Touche!
I specifically got my mom an oversized Resist Smokey the Bear with pink pussy hat t shirt so she would wear it at home and not be confrontational. Guess what she is wearing for our Trolley tour of Eureka Springs.
Flash flooding sent this camper floating down a rd in Forest County, #MS. 6.32” of rain fell in the area, over 5” of that fell in just 2hrs. pic.twitter.com/paF13JPOod
— AMHQ (@AMHQ) June 7, 2017
Global warming is coming for the Winnebagos
re: #247 prairiefire
I specifically got my mom an oversized Resist Smokey the Bear with pink pussy hat t shirt so she would wear it at home and not be confrontational. Guess what she is wearing for our Trolley tour of Eureka Springs.
Moms always find ways to embarrass their kids in public. :)
Christ, this almost sounds like “Home” from The X-Files. Seriously, not for the weak stomached:
2 sentenced to combined 108 years in prison for sexual abuse of children in Rockbridge
re: #249 Timothy Watson
Who am I to think I could outsmart my mom.
Kevin Swanson: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Could Lead To Genocide Against Christians https://t.co/oS9Y2nbxCd pic.twitter.com/yLGTRjVUN2
In other news: Artist opens felt bodega in NYC.
British artist Lucy Sparrow is paying homage to the classic NYC bodega with an art installation in The Standard, High Line called “8 Till Late.” Her life-size replica of a corner convenience store features over 9,000 items handmade out of felt. The products, which include boxes of Lucky Charms, SPAM, bug spray, Advil, Ruffles potato chips, and mildly anthropomorphic meat, are all for sale, both in person and through Sparrow’s website. It’s just like a real bodega, but softer and infinitely more precious. And yes, of course there is a felt bodega cat chilling near the felt fridge stocked with felt ice cream.
re: #250 Timothy Watson
Christ, this almost sounds like “Home” from The X-Files. Seriously, not for the weak stomached:
2 sentenced to combined 108 years in prison for sexual abuse of children in Rockbridge
Oh My Dog…. :(
re: #252 The Vicious Babushka
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The book’s been out since the mid 80’s you stupid turd. But hey Ted Cruz, great job giving this guy mainstream status. You should be so proud of yourself.
Why is that Evangelical Christians like Swanson project on to other people what they seem to want for others? I don’t consider myself a Christian but I know a lot of people who do who would be genuinely stumped by this weird sense of persecution and desire to persecute at the same time.
re: #250 Timothy Watson
Christ, this almost sounds like “Home” from The X-Files. Seriously, not for the weak stomached:
2 sentenced to combined 108 years in prison for sexual abuse of children in Rockbridge
I’ve read of worse.
re: #253 makeitstop
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Pfffft. Pope Innocent the Third was patron of a felt bodega.
(No, he wasn’t.)
re: #257 Teukka
I’ve read of worse.
Yeah, I am sure, but it was a combination of things for me: the sexual abuse, the age of the victims, the fact that social services received multiple complaints and did nothing, etc.
So, the other day, I was musing how Turkey would react to the ongoing Qatar situation. I guess I more-or-less got my answer.
Mehmet Buyukeksi, the head of Turkey’s main exporting trade body Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), told Reuters on Wednesday that Turkish exporters are ready to meet demand for food and water from Qatar.
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul, said the Turkish government and some opposition parties had expressed support for Qatar during the rift and had said its isolation is not acceptable.
“Since the tension between Qatar and other Gulf states has risen, Turkey has shown great support for Qatar - not only on a political level, but on a public level as well,” she said.
“On the public level, social media has been showing great support to Qatar with the hastag ‘Qatar is not alone’,” she said.
Pro-Qatar protests are also planned in Istanbul for Wednesday night.
The Saudis are gonna be pissed.
re: #259 Timothy Watson
Yeah, I am sure, but it was a combination of things for me: the sexual abuse, the age of the victims, the fact that social services received multiple complaints and did nothing, etc.
It’s happened here in Sweden as well, more than once, healthcare, school and police make complaints to social services, which in turn do absolutely nothing. One of the cases, the girl became pregnant twice and gave birth to the children, and nothing happened, despite the child having very characteristic problems to extremely close cosanguinity.
I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.
A must read thread:
First comes dehumanization, then intimidation, then the actual violence.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 7, 2017
— Jillian D. Bogy (@jillian_bogy) June 7, 2017
Remember he’s saying this because of the Russia probe.
His response to a constitutional process is to turn to DEHUMANIZATION. pic.twitter.com/sfcCRtZfhr— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 7, 2017
2. He’s saying doctors, nurses, teachers and firefighters are NOT people if they are Democrats.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 7, 2017
re: #261 Teukka
I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.
The problem here is more likely related to understaffing at the agencies that are supposed to do something.
re: #262 Dr. Matt
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— Teo (@Teukka72) June 7, 2017
Did that idiot Eric Trump honestly say, ‘I’ve never seen hatred like this’? #MSNBC #TrumpRussia @EricTrump #TheResistance #NotMyPresident pic.twitter.com/B7YouvjWfU
— Vindra (@nylitgirl) June 7, 2017
re: #264 sagehen
The problem here is more likely related to understaffing at the agencies that are supposed to do something.
Understaffing and undertraining, as well as the wrong training, aye.
re: #264 sagehen
The problem here is more likely related to understaffing at the agencies that are supposed to do something.
Compounded by conflicting organizational goals/guidance regarding due process, privacy rights, and viable alternatives.
re: #261 Teukka
It’s happened here in Sweden as well, more than once, healthcare, school and police make complaints to social services, which in turn do absolutely nothing. One of the cases, the girl became pregnant twice and gave birth to the children, and nothing happened, despite the child having very characteristic problems to extremely close cosanguinity.
I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.
re: #264 sagehen
The problem here is more likely related to understaffing at the agencies that are supposed to do something.
There was a grand jury investigation into that social services agency because they refused to do their job for years. They wouldn’t enter complaints into the state’s computer system as required, they shredded complaints and investigative files in violation of state policy, etc.
Despite what one attorney called “subhuman” conditions in the home, Rockbridge social services workers were slow to respond to complaints from concerned neighbors.
A former supervisor at the agency refused to enter the reports into a computer system as required by state policy and told caseworkers not to be bothered with the case, according to the special grand jury’s report. The Roanoke Times is not naming the supervisor because she was not charged with a crime.
“We don’t do it that way … because that’s the way I want it,” the woman reportedly said when asked to explain her inaction.
The former supervisor, who was accused of shredding some reports of child abuse that were made to the agency, also expressed little sympathy for the plight of the two young girls.
“They’re used to living that way so what’s the big deal?” she was quoted as saying in the grand jury report.
re: #261 Teukka
“?
It’s happened here in Sweden as well, more than once, healthcare, school and police make complaints to social services, which in turn do absolutely nothing. One of the cases, the girl became pregnant twice and gave birth to the children, and nothing happened, despite the child having very characteristic problems to extremely close cosanguinity.
I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.
Here in the US I think the biggest problems are due to it being a subject with multiple conflicting interests and a shortage of appropriate funding.
By conflicting interest, consider all the ways “do what’s best for the children” can mean to various parties.
And consider simple practicality with this fork. Social worker gets call, comes, and decides to take children away? hammer. Gets call, comes, and decides it’s not quite at that level? hammer (once/if the sordid details - which would have required a warrant and a bit of luck to discover - come out).
The most cynical people I know work in child services. They beat prison workers, attorneys, and soldiers by miles.
re: #269 Timothy Watson
That’s a whole ‘nother problem.
re: #266 The Vicious Babushka
It’s entirely possible that Eric Trump has lived a very cloistered, insular, and protected life. That’s typically what happens when you’re a spoiled child of a very rich person, you don’t ever have to hear that bad things.
re: #261 Teukka
Upding for cosanguinity.
re: #259 Timothy Watson
Yeah, I am sure, but it was a combination of things for me: the sexual abuse, the age of the victims, the fact that social services received multiple complaints and did nothing, etc.
“They’re used to living that way so what’s the big deal?” she was quoted as saying in the grand jury report.
THAT comment by the supervisor at Social Services about the children…good grief…
At intel. comm,, McCain questioning is lackadaisical. Meandering. Pointless. Truly sad.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 7, 2017
and the yam has landed in Cincinnati
Air Force One is here. Taxiing slooooooowly toward us @Enquirer pic.twitter.com/fA7dmSmxtC
— Hannah Sparling (@hksparling) June 7, 2017
…in an effort to keep Trump busy & away from his Twitter account. WH officials want response to Comey to come from outside the White House
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) June 7, 2017
That the president of the United States needs babysitters to keep him distracted so he doesn’t get into trouble is amazing. https://t.co/ae2MTSFGAy
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2017
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
“They’re used to living that way so what’s the big deal?” she was quoted as saying in the grand jury report.
THAT comment by the supervisor at Social Services about the children…good grief…
Yeah, here’s the full text of the grand jury report.
Caseworkers kept hidden copies of files because the supervisor would shred them and made calls on their personal phones to other agencies because the supervisor told them not to talk to the police, schools, etc. without her permission.
re: #270 kirkspencer
“?
Here in the US I think the biggest problems are due to it being a subject with multiple conflicting interests and a shortage of appropriate funding.
By conflicting interest, consider all the ways “do what’s best for the children” can mean to various parties.
And consider simple practicality with this fork. Social worker gets call, comes, and decides to take children away? hammer. Gets call, comes, and decides it’s not quite at that level? hammer (once/if the sordid details - which would have required a warrant and a bit of luck to discover - come out).
The most cynical people I know work in child services. They beat prison workers, attorneys, and soldiers by miles.
You’re completely right, IMO: but that horrific story from Rockbridge County seems to have been made far worse by what sounds like an utter abdication of responsibility by the local social-services administrators. Sending a social worker out who has to make hard decisions (and have them backed up) is one thing: not even bothering to send anyone out (due to prejudice, or, apparently, just plain assholishness) is another.
Damn two year olds.
There was a girl sitting with many toys around her at ‘my coffee shop’. I admired two stuffed kittens, skritched them, and asked, ‘They won’t run away, will they?’ She said, ‘They’re pretend cats.’
It’s something when the two year olds see a need to educate the elders. And do it.
HILARIOUS
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Here’s a friendly reminder from @VicenteFoxQue that Mexico will not pay for your wall. pic.twitter.com/Osg8ZUYLlG
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) June 7, 2017
Violence against peaceful demonstrators will not be tolerated. Ankara should accept responsibility and apologize to those who were harmed.
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) June 7, 2017
Hey!
Look who learned some geography. I’ll be goddamned, Republicans CAN learn if you slap them around enough. https://t.co/Frq8qSaEKP— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2017
The ants won’t go in the poison traps so I made some modifications to lure them in pic.twitter.com/9xMFrWlbhK
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) June 7, 2017
Rubio: “Has anyone ever asked you now or in the past to issue a statement that was not true?” Rogers and Coats both firmly refuse to answer.
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2017
re: #212 Birth Control Works
Why would anyone swing a dead cat?
Today there are so many other high tech options….
(Don’t hit me!)
Ohio River backdrop for @realDonaldTrump infrastructure speech in Cincinnati. pic.twitter.com/jHw60pBRgt
— Randy Ludlow (@RandyLudlow) June 7, 2017
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Interviews with Kentucky voters who will get killed by the AHCA but will mostly keep voting Republican anyway.
Fixed the headline:
re: #281 Jay C
You’re completely right, IMO: but that horrific story from Rockbridge County seems to have been made far worse by what sounds like an utter abdication of responsibility by the local social-services administrators. Sending a social worker out who has to make hard decisions (and have them backed up) is one thing: not even bothering to send anyone out (due to prejudice, or, apparently, just plain assholishness) is another.
It was worse than that. The local supervisor knew there was a problem but didn’t want those kids in her system. The case workers went around behind her back to get the kids removed, the parents drug tested and basically to work the case.
re: #289 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
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BWS and other Kentucky lizards, I hope you don’t take offense but these people frustrate the bejesus outta me.
good fucking grief…
Beyond the stage where Trump is set to speak in Cincinnati, a coal barge with American flags pic.twitter.com/gs03PHLar2
— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) June 7, 2017
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Interviews with Kentucky voters who will get killed by the AHCA but will mostly keep voting Republican anyway.
Didn’t they run that same story like three months ago?
I’m still waiting on the story about Clinton supporters (maybe even onetime Republicans like myself) who realized what a fucking disaster Trump would be.
Angus King was on fire this morning.
This exchange: King presses McCabe, Rogers, Coats on refusal to discuss convos w/ Comey & Trump, demands legal basis https://t.co/UoGXtJlTQT
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2017
re: #293 Timothy Watson
Didn’t they run that same story like three months ago?
I’m still waiting on the story about Clinton supporters (maybe even onetime Republicans like myself) who realized what a fucking disaster Trump would be.
I just don’t get it. You’d think that would be just as compelling. I feel bad for these people, I do but at the same time, it’s hard for me to sympathize too much since they certainly do resent “elites” like myself because of my social liberal positions.
re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
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He didn’t know jack shit about coal miners until he saw them as easy marks for his political career. Sickening how so many miners fell for that crap.
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Interviews with Kentucky voters who will get killed by the AHCA but will mostly keep voting Republican anyway.
“Yeah but surely some AA’s who don’t deserve healthcare like I do will be kicked off so all’s good.”
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re: #289 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
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These folks need to listen to more talk radio, read moar facebook posts about how OBAMACARE IS ALREADY FAILING AND A TRAINWRECK!
re: #300 HappyWarrior
He didn’t know jack shit about coal miners until he saw them as easy marks for his political career. Sickening how so many miners fell for that crap.
Coal is a great symbol for jobs for the (white) working class, self-reliance and progress (the more we burn, the more prosperous we are).
Just like The Wall and Travel Ban are symbols of our resolve to keep America white and Christian, and repealing ACA is a symbol of Fuck Obama!
re: #303 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Coal is a great symbol for jobs for the (white) working class, self-reliance and progress (the more we burn, the more prosperous we are).
Just like The Wall and Travel Ban are symbols of our resolve to keep America white and Christian, and repealing ACA is a symbol of Fuck Obama!
Believe me I know. It’s just revolting. My great granddads did not suffer from Black Lung so 65 years later some bufoon could use miners as a political prop.
re: #294 blueraven
Angus King was on fire this morning.
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What the hell. So, Trump’s legal team is more or less shutting up any statements.
Yeah, this looks good to the people interested in knowing if there is some kind of coverup.
re: #304 HappyWarrior
Believe me I know. It’s just revolting. My great granddads did not suffer from Black Lung so 65 years later some bufoon could use miners as a political prop.
Ah yes, coal is also a symbol of how many jobs we could reclaim if we just got rid of pesky government environmental and safety regulations…
re: #301 Sir John Barron
“Yeah but surely some AA’s who don’t deserve healthcare like I do will be kicked off so all’s good.”
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And it’s that type of mentality that many conservative voters that gets me angry. I think AM earlier was trying to say liberal voters should feel bad and help the voters in Nebraska out, okay I feel bad but when are the voters in these places going to realize that the Dems for all their flaws are trying to help them while the Republicans use gays, guns, and abortion to distract them from what really matters.
re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ah yes, coal is also a symbol of how many jobs we could reclaim if we just got rid of pesky government environmental and safety regulations…
Which is such bullshit.
No Tiny Dancer, Backstreet Boys or Rolling Stones…this Trump rally’s got Muzack pic.twitter.com/XFPiQBguCB
— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) June 7, 2017
I sympathize but I sympathize more with the Latino immigrant, the inner city resident, etc who wants to listen to us who doesn’t fall for shit like OBAMA’s COMING FOR YER GUNS and WANTS TO MAKE YOUR KIDS TRANS! Obviously not every voter in those parts is that way but enough are that in the parts of the country that ought to benefit most from liberalism are some of the most hostile to it.
re: #262 Dr. Matt
I got into it with that Buda guy. He actually lives in Chicago’s city limits. So not sure how much shooting he’d actually be doing. Meanwhile me in the suburbs? Well. No restrictions except for NFA/AOW type stuff. But whatever. He’s just talking shit. At least the FBI was made aware of his threats.
And I don’t give a fuck if that sounds elitist. I’m tired of being assumed to be some kind of snob since I’m a social liberal, not religious, like the city, and think cultural diversity is great.
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
Don’t these people have JOBS?! *snicker*
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) June 7, 2017
re: #309 HappyWarrior
Which is such bullshit.
but bullshit with a high degree of appeal to a certain demographic and voter group
Trump motorcade arrives at Rivertowne Marina. Pres to speak soon. Live on Local 12. @Local12 pic.twitter.com/cxQMaUQMTY
— Jeff Hirsh (@local12jeff) June 7, 2017
BTW, this event is invitation only.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but bullshit with a high degree of appeal to a certain demographic and voter group
I know.
Protesters are marching up Kellogg Ave with signs towards Rivertowne Marina, where #POTUS is scheduled to speak.
— 700WLW (@700wlw) June 7, 2017
How much hair product does this little buttsack & his brother use up in a week?
.@EricTrump said his father is “a great man” who “already has done a great job” for the United States. #Hannity pic.twitter.com/nrgxIvf7w4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 7, 2017
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue speaks before the arrival of #POTUS at the Rivertowne Marina. pic.twitter.com/xHAZzCTLyO
— 700WLW (@700wlw) June 7, 2017
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #321 ObserverArt
BWS, I hope those clouds open up and piss all over Donny in the middle of his speech?
don’t I wish!
re: #229 jeffreyw
Is that your blue(boysen?)berry syrup?
re: #319 The Vicious Babushka
How much hair product does this little buttsack & his brother use up in a week?
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Holy Patrick Bateman. Okay AP reference aside, uh Eric, did you pay attention at all to what your father and his Republican friends did to President Obama? We want the country to succeed, your father isn’t a dictator, it’s called rule of law when the 4th circuit calls his EOs unconstitutional. You got a lot of nerve being a Trump spawn to copmlain about treatment, you entitled goddamned brat.
STAY CALM & CUDDLE A BABY PLATYPUS
#TheResistance #BabyAnimals : But almost nothing is cuter and more calming than a couple of baby Platypuses. Seriously, peer reviewed paper. pic.twitter.com/4bqXPWPuii
— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) June 7, 2017
Rather related to Eric Trump giving away the game again:
Hey, that thing about ‘permission structures’? This is the result: teaching kids to hate for Trump. #Trumpism https://t.co/5dRBdBVOni
— Citizen K-fefe (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 7, 2017
Once again:
Intent > Tone
Impact > Intent
Doesn’t matter if they don’t really believe it, the damage is real and done. #Trumpism pic.twitter.com/bX786C1nox— Citizen K-fefe (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 7, 2017
And just like our kids getting cues from our President that it’s cool to emulate the hate, whether they understand it or not, we’re likely going to see the trickle down effect of this new line of ‘Democrats aren’t people’ bullshit in the coming weeks. Unless there’s some rather drastic backpedaling (and sadly, this is far too consistent with Republicans’ general contempt for Dems to expect that), this attitude will filter down post-haste.
re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth
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BTW, this event is invitation only.
Well of course. He wants to only speak to his followers. Big tough Donny Trump. Pfft.
Kurdish media:
#BREAKING: Turkey’s parliament approves troops deployment to #Qatar. pic.twitter.com/CARKuN4oGW
— Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) June 7, 2017
re: #305 ObserverArt
What the hell. So, Trump’s legal team is more or less shutting up any statements.
Yeah, this looks good to the people interested in knowing if there is some kind of coverup.
King: What is your legal basis for not answering the question?
Coates: Not sure I have a legal basis.
King to Admiral Rogers: Why not answer the questions?
Rogers: “I feel it is inappropriate, senator”
King: “What you FEEL isn’t relevant, admiral”
re: #319 The Vicious Babushka
.@EricTrump said his father is “a great man” who “already has done a great job” for the United States. #Hannity pic.twitter.com
— Fox News
Ah, well, there ya go.
Trump: “It is great to be back in Ohio.” pic.twitter.com/3naX6mXbjX
— Jason Williams (@jwilliamscincy) June 7, 2017
barf
re: #330 blueraven
King: What is your legal basis for not answering the question?
Coates: Not sure I have a legal basis.King to Admiral Rogers: Why not answer the questions?
Rogers: “I feel it is inappropriate, senator”
King: “What you FEEL isn’t relevant, admiral”
“Fuck your feelings.”
90 minutes and $500 worth of broken champagne and wine bottles later, peacock apprehended in LA liquor store. https://t.co/s0xAB9Awdo #odd pic.twitter.com/Q6novN421i
— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) June 7, 2017
re: #335 Sir John Barron
As in against Qatar or in defense of it?
AFAIK, Turkey is supporting Qatar.
This is gonna drive up oil prices, which is good for Donnie’s cronies, both Russian and domestic…
re: #305 ObserverArt
What the hell. So, Trump’s legal team is more or less shutting up any statements.
Yeah, this looks good to the people interested in knowing if there is some kind of coverup.
It sounds like Rogers and Coats are only willing to make those statements in closed sessions. I’m not sure why, though.
WATCH LIVE: Pres. Trump gives remarks on rebuilding America’s infrastructure during visit to Cincinnati, Ohio https://t.co/p0oytAZzjs pic.twitter.com/sPmeAj3vjY
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 7, 2017
America, America, great, me, America, me, me, me, great, me, me, America. https://t.co/1D9888ZBer
— 👓 Tom Wellborn (@TomWellborn) June 7, 2017
Sign in Gravesend, Kent pic.twitter.com/jE9H4hdvku
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) May 21, 2017
re: #330 blueraven
King: What is your legal basis for not answering the question?
Coates: Not sure I have a legal basis.King to Admiral Rogers: Why not answer the questions?
Rogers: “I feel it is inappropriate, senator”
King: “What you FEEL isn’t relevant, admiral”
In a sane world, they’d be held in contempt of Congress and the House Judiciary Committee would at least talk about scheduling a hearing on impeachment.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
WATCH LIVE: Pres. Trump gives remarks on rebuilding America’s infrastructure during visit to Cincinnati, Ohio cbsnews.com pic.twitter.com
— CBS News
Rebuilding America’s infrastructure? What kind of loony leftist George Soros commy crap is this?
/
*thud*
Trump begins his Cincinnati infrastructure speech by reminding everyone that he won Ohio in November.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) June 7, 2017
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
that response forgot “tremendous” and “beautiful” and “like nothing you’ve ever seen”
re: #342 Sir John Barron
Rebuilding America’s infrastructure? What kind of loony leftist George Soros commy crap is this?
/
You’d think he’d be discussing how much we all will enjoy the toll roads…
Trump says it’ll no longer take “14 years” to build highways, bridges, infrastructure.
— Jason Williams (@jwilliamscincy) June 7, 2017
jeebus, it takes longer than that to complete an interstate highway project.
re: #319 The Vicious Babushka
The entire pig-fucking Republican Party is on record as preferring to see Obama fail than to see American succeed. So this little Nazi can take his crybaby attitude, polish it up, turn it sideways, and cram it up his ass.
re: #340 darthstar
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This is even better, and it’s 100% totally NSFW so it’s in a spoiler tag.
re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump says it’ll no longer take “14 years” to build highways, bridges, infrastructure.
— Jason Williams
Wow, who’s gonna pay for all this?
jeebus
At #infrastructure event, Trump #introduces his NYC real estate buddies fr LeFrak and Vornado. Then sez they’re not in it for the money.
— Adele M. Stan (@addiestan) June 7, 2017
I guess you were looking for this. 😉
cc: @SenKamalaHarris #SenateIntelHearing pic.twitter.com/WcYIBS0TNG— Angie🌈 (@angiedam2) June 7, 2017
. @realDonaldTrump in Cincy: It’s time to recapture our legacy as a nation of builders.
— Deirdre Shesgreen (@dshesgreen) June 7, 2017
Trump: “It’s time to finally put America first, and that’s what I’ve been doing in case you haven’t noticed.”
— Jason Williams (@jwilliamscincy) June 7, 2017
I’m 90 miles upriver and can still smell the bullshit
re: #350 Sir John Barron
Wow, who’s gonna pay for all this?
Wait, sorry, I keep forgetting—all DJT does is declare things, and they happen or don’t happen. Like the Saudi missile “deal”. Words don’t mean anything.
re: #350 Sir John Barron
Wow, who’s gonna pay for all this?
He’s got a guy, can get a great deal on a loan from a Russian bank.
Pres. Trump on “so-called Paris accord”: “We will never have outside forces to telling us what to do and how to do it.” pic.twitter.com/7jIyqrG4Is
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 7, 2017
re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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Like good ol’ Don in Indianapolis: “I don’t want to make money; I just love selling guns.”
Trump now says his overseas trip will create “millions” of jobs, an upgrade from the previous hundreds of thousands, which was also wrong.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2017
re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
AFAIK, Turkey is supporting Qatar.
This is gonna drive up oil prices, which is good for Donnie’s cronies, both Russian and domestic…
Oh, and just to make things even MORE fun in the region, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard came out with a statement blaming Saudi Arabia for the Teheran attacks. Apparently, it’s a standard meme in Iran (true or not - WTH knows?) that KSA is supporting ISIL (doubtful) as part of an obsessive anti-Iranian “coalition” (certainly true).
Good times: glad we have a well-staffed and experienced State Department to deal with crises, and possibly help smooth things over. Oh, wait….
re: #341 KGxvi
This was kind of weird for me. They stated in the beginning that they would feel more comfortable answering questions to the oversight committee in a closed hearing.
Also, the demand to put in writing some language that would say Mueller could never be fired seemed, unusual? When the response that Senator Harris wouldn’t accept was “Congress has said they don’t want special prosecutors to have complete freedom, so I can’t give Mueller complete freedom”.
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re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have never seen anyone else pucker up their little rosebud lips and make a little circle while talking with their mouth hole like Donald.
And this is what Trump & Ryan & McConnell’s plan for all of us looks like:
Economic growth predictions were wrong
In 2012, Brownback pushed through aggressive tax cuts very similar to what Trump wants Congress to do. The state increased the standard deduction and lowered taxes on corporations, individuals, and owner-operated businesses. Like Trump, Brownback insisted that the cuts would unleash so much economic growth that the government would make up the lost revenue. The cuts were supposed to give the economy “a shot of adrenaline,” as Brownback put it at the time.Instead, the Kansas economy tanked.
Vox has more: Kansas Republicans end the state’s failed tax-reform experiment
re: #354 Sir John Barron
Wait, sorry, I keep forgetting—all DJT does is declare things, and they happen or don’t happen. Like the Saudi missile “deal”. Words don’t mean anything.
Yes, of course, what matters is in his heart, not in what he says, does or tweets!!!
.@realDonaldTrump: We spend “trillions and trillions” of dollars outside our nation. Fact-check: U.S. foreign aid was @ $49 billion in 2015
— Deirdre Shesgreen (@dshesgreen) June 7, 2017
re: #358 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Unfortunately, all those jobs will be in the military as the world burns.
Trump couldn’t help himself…had to point out the prop.
re: #352 darthstar
That is the look of someone who has conducted a lot of either cross-examinations or depositions. Also a billion percent relateable.
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cool. No more listening to God.
re: #360 Jay C
Oh, and just to make things even MORE fun in the region, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard came out with a statement blaming Saudi Arabia for the Teheran attacks. Apparently, it’s a standard meme in Iran (true or not - WTH knows?) that KSA is supporting ISIL (doubtful) as part of an obsessive anti-Iranian “coalition” (certainly true).
Good times: glad we have a well-staffed and experienced State Department to deal with crises, and possibly help smooth things over. Oh, wait….
In some fairness to the Iranians, there’s very likely individuals within the KSA who are giving financial support to ISIS, though I’d be genuinely shocked if it were some kind of official position of the KSA’s government (covert or otherwise).
LOLOLOLOLOLOL…this is just sad.
Pres. Trump touting infrastructure plan in #cincinnati on Ohio River. “Behind us today are those 12 barges … filled with w.va coal.” pic.twitter.com/YTCVWIyoae
— Byron McCauley (@byronmccauley) June 7, 2017
What it looks like when Trump speaks:
Asshole Trump admin rescinds Obama-era labor guidance https://t.co/gFLnpNxnSO #Resist #Resistance #TheResistancepic.twitter.com/qZR5fP5a1O
— McSpocky™ 👽🖖 (@mcspocky) June 7, 2017
What it sounds like when Trump speaks:
#TrumpSpeech #resist #TheResistance
His voice is like: pic.twitter.com/A2bbGfdwhA— Sandy Smith (@EireEyes) June 7, 2017
fuck off donnie, and I say that as registered republican in eastern Kentucky
Trump: calls Democrats ‘obstructionists’ but asks them to join in infrastructure rebuild. @Local12 pic.twitter.com/YqNFJznTIR
— Jeff Hirsh (@local12jeff) June 7, 2017
Noel Gallagher is a cranky bastard, but he quietly did a very nice thing here.
NME reports that Oasis’ Noel Gallagher is donating royalties from his 1996 single “Don’t Look Back in Anger” to the Manchester Fund, which is dedicated to victims of last month’s bombing at Ariana Grande’s concert. A representative for Gallagher confirmed the news to Pitchfork. The gesture was revealed by Radio X host Gordon Smart, who was defending Noel after he called his brother Liam a “sad fuck” for not contributing to the cause.
“I don’t think this is public knowledge because I’m sure he would never mentioned it, but I found out today that as soon as ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ started to appear spontaneously at the vigils, he made sure all the royalties went to the families,” Smart said.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah but if you multiply 49 bill by 87 cubed squared then you get eleventy trillions.
*blink*
Um, so the president just said the Saudis fund “radical Islamic terrorism” but that they’re going to stop. pic.twitter.com/iUctULKffI
— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 7, 2017
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
fuck off donnie, and I say that as registered republican in eastern Kentucky
Which party controls congress and the white house?
.@POTUS: “The theft of American prosperity has come to a screeching halt.” pic.twitter.com/pQJs3EJ5K2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 7, 2017
Shorter Trump: We’re tired of the middle class ‘stealing’ from Billionaires. That shit ends now! https://t.co/pt7sjjL4WZ
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2017
Trump just now “we’re gonna have clean, beautiful air…we’re gonna have clean beautiful crystal water.”
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 7, 2017
re: #361 Bass Reeves
My contempt statement is just based off of what I’ve seen here. I haven’t watched the hearings. It’s probably not contempt if the position is “we would be better served discussing this in a closed session”. I’d prefer this all come out in open hearings, but given the Mueller investigation, I’m guessing we won’t see a lot of stuff up front, at least not at first.
“Every single thing is obstruction,” @POTUS says of Democrats, asking the party to join with Republicans in “the rebuilding of America.”
— Alexis Simendinger (@ASimendinger) June 7, 2017
re: #261 Teukka
I think it boils down to, not as much as not caring, to something being seriously amiss in in the science on which early detection and prevention is based on.
Yes. But, This quote from the former supervisor of the case workers is horrifying. This is as terrifying as the abuse.
The former supervisor, who was accused of shredding some reports of child abuse that were made to the agency, also expressed little sympathy for the plight of the two young girls.
“They’re used to living that way so what’s the big deal?” she was quoted as saying in the grand jury report.
I seriously question this woman’s mental stability, too. You’re a social worker, you know this is the wrong answer. The perpetrators of the abuse also seem to have serious mental instabilities and seem to been abused themselves, the social worker is just evil.
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
*blink*
Awesome. How come Obama couldn’t just talk to the Saudis and get this done?
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“Next week, we’re opening a big coal mine,” Trump says. It is expected to create 70 to 100 jobs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2017
100 whole jobs?
At the expense of our kids’ future.
Wow. This guy really is making America great again. For 100 coal miners. https://t.co/3s02PfgOEd— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2017
re: #380 Backwoods_Sleuth
He doesn’t mean the royal “we”.
Up early for work tomorrow, so gonna call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards.
Actor Stacy Keach suffers heart attack during the opening night of “Pamplona” in Chicago. https://t.co/0TvpvIXKHg pic.twitter.com/k0LykqczeP
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) June 7, 2017
re: #264 sagehen
The problem here is more likely related to understaffing at the agencies that are supposed to do something.
No. In this case, the supervisor literally stated that she didn’t care and the children didn’t know that they were living a horror story
Trump: “There has never been anything like it in the history of the world.”
Re: His trip to Saudi Arabia last month. pic.twitter.com/zezSZ0L8d8— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2017
“In the history of this world, there’s never been anything like what took place two weeks ago in Saudi Arabia.” pic.twitter.com/h23CUlUYb3
— darth:™ (@darth) June 7, 2017
re: #349 Dr Lizardo
WOW! That whole picture. Click on it. Really. That’s something.
Trump just now “we’re gonna have clean, beautiful air…we’re gonna have clean beautiful crystal water.”
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 7, 2017
But only for those who can afford it. #TheResistance https://t.co/Uq05zvmrCr
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 7, 2017
MORE: Comey says Trump told him ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty’ https://t.co/Vh0L9XM3AA pic.twitter.com/hfFADTlQp6
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) June 7, 2017
From COMEY prepared statement: “the President said, ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.’”
More here: https://t.co/gaWh7ArbaP pic.twitter.com/NZ5qcY9beH— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) June 7, 2017
Such an embarrassment.
“Nobody ever tht any politician wld have the guts to approve that final leg & I just closed my eyes and said do it” Trump - Dakota pipeline
— Noah Bierman (@Noahbierman) June 7, 2017
“I just closed my eyes and said do it.” https://t.co/TuoFvoRxDj
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) June 7, 2017
re: #396 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, what’s wrong with that? That was his job. To be loyal to our president. We all should be loyal to our king.
just-released Quinnipiac Poll shows Trump hitting new low: 34% approve, 57% disapprove
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 7, 2017
these are Nixonian numbers (circa Aug. 1973) https://t.co/JlS78uCzg7
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 7, 2017
re: #399 Sir John Barron
Well, what’s wrong with that? That was his job. To be loyal to our president. We all should be loyal to our king.
For those who aren’t:
Trump’s “inland waterway” speech over. The words “Brent Spence” not uttered a single time. @WCPO
— Pat LaFleur (@pat_laFleur) June 7, 2017
Brent Spence is the aging decrepit I-75 bridge that is dropping chucks of concrete all over the place.
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Kinda like how the GOP was behind Obama and his infrastructure/stimulus spending at the beginning of his 1st term?
Trump’s actually proposed to cut long-run infrastructure investment. Highway cuts eventually outweigh his $200b fund (h/t @jleibenluft) pic.twitter.com/ABYNd7JPXm
— Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) June 7, 2017
This is important: Trump’s “$1 trillion” infrastructure program actually cuts infrastructure spending over 10 years. https://t.co/dIQdq0ZvqK
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) June 7, 2017
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump: “…unless those outside forces are Mother Russia or my Saudi Masters.”
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 7, 2017
Trump was considering ordering a full investigation into the rumored salacious tape of him in Russia pic.twitter.com/fihIwO7Apx
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 7, 2017
re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brent Spence is the aging decrepit I-75 bridge that is dropping chucks of concrete all over the place.
By “rebuild our infrastructure” DJT didn’t mean “actually rebuild our infrastructure.”
It begins: McConnell initiates the “Rule 14” process of putting the House-passed AHCA on the Senate calendar for fast-track consideration.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 7, 2017
Ahem, everyone who was all, this is dead in the Senate, this won’t come up for a vote this year etc. https://t.co/EU2EjOoDX7
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) June 7, 2017
I love how the privacy of US citizens is suddenly of paramount importance to the GOP
— Ash (@ashsrevnge) June 7, 2017
re: #319 The Vicious Babushka
How much hair product does this little buttsack & his brother use up in a week?
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is obviously lying, why else go to a propagandist like Hannity to issue his anti-American statement?
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2017
re: #408 Stanley Sea
Is he done?
in our dreams.
oh, you mean the Ohio River speech.
yeah, that’s finished.
re: #362 The Vicious Babushka
I have never seen anyone else pucker up their little rosebud lips and make a little circle while talking with their mouth hole like Donald.
That is what happens when an orifice not for the intended use is used to spew shit. It turns to a natural state.
re: #362 The Vicious Babushka
I have never seen anyone else pucker up their little rosebud lips and make a little circle while talking with their mouth hole like Donald.
It’s the ‘tell’ that he’s about to shit on some one.
re: #410 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The AHCA may come up for a vote as a way to get it off the calendar so they can move on to something else, win or lose. If they pass it, it presumably will look nothing like the House bill so there will have to be more time sucked up in trying to come to an agreement on it. I think they are desperately trying to get rid of this turkey. Of course, everything else up for discussion also suffers from being ill defined and unpopular, so I’m not sure they’ll get anywhere.
re: #383 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Yes. But, This quote from the former supervisor of the case workers is horrifying. This is as terrifying as the abuse.
I seriously question this woman’s mental stability, too. You’re a social worker, you know this is the wrong answer. The perpetrators of the abuse also seem to have serious mental instabilities and seem to been abused themselves, the social worker is just evil.
I read thru the full text of the Special Grand Jury report linked to in #279 ( well worth while) - and the woman whose quote that was (the Child Protective Services director - since fired) was obviously and blatantly the source of a LOT of the Area’s social-services dysfunction. She apparently lost out on getting the general Director’s job, and seems to have taken it out on everybody for the rest of her tenure. And did so in the classic (if not stereotypical) Bad Bureaucrat manner: ignoring/dismissing her superior’s concerns (where they existed: not often, apparently); bullying subordinates, ignoring or bypassing administrative controls where inconvenient (usually), letting her prejudices run her job, and manipulating what control procedures existed to cover up her mistakes. Coupled with an apparently near-total lack of oversight (or even interest) from the officials nominally in charge, it’s no wonder abuses existed. Thankfully - assuming the SGJ recommendations are enacted and enforced - the problems have been “solved”. Maybe.
re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
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A coal barge that is not going anywhere. Great metaphor for coal!
Watching a fresh documentary by swedish television, “Drottninggatan 14:53”, about the 4/7 attack.
Well oiled machine.
🔥🔥🔥Word among Trump staffers is that both Jeff Sessions AND Sean Spicer will resign over the coming weeks in sign of growing tensions in WH.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 7, 2017
re: #381 KGxvi
My contempt statement is just based off of what I’ve seen here. I haven’t watched the hearings. It’s probably not contempt if the position is “we would be better served discussing this in a closed session”. I’d prefer this all come out in open hearings, but given the Mueller investigation, I’m guessing we won’t see a lot of stuff up front, at least not at first.
If then. The general gist that I got from watching was they first had to clear their answers with both the W.H. Counsel and Mueller. If either said no, then they wouldn’t be answering the questions.
re: #398 Stanley Sea
Such an embarrassment.
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I truly can’t stand to watch/hear him speak. Even just following the tweets (and thanks to all providing them) is making me sick to my stomach.
re: #282 wrenchwench
Damn two year olds.
There was a girl sitting with many toys around her at ‘my coffee shop’. I admired two stuffed kittens, skritched them, and asked, ‘They won’t run away, will they?’ She said, ‘They’re pretend cats.’
It’s something when the two year olds see a need to educate the elders. And do it.
My son at three would sometimes inform me that his sidekick/substitute sibling/partner in crime couldn’t really talk because he was only a stuffed monkey. Then within an hour would insist in indignant sincerity that HE wasn’t responsible for whatever minor mayhem I was chiding him for, because “It wasn’t me, Junior Junior did it!”
Real is what you believe at the moment.
(It’s charming when toddlers do it. Not so much for alleged grown-ups.).
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