New From Olbermann: Donald Trump’s Odd Obsession With “Hookers”
Donald Trump has an odd obsession with clearing himself on one particular point
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Alex Jones wants Trump to make a “military move” against his enemies in Washington: https://t.co/8lckVOqLfL pic.twitter.com/LbxlqmKJ8J
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 13, 2017
So he may fire Mueller? What limit will finally appear to stop Donald Trump? Only that which we have already seen. Our courts are doing the hard labor so far. Congress simply will not act.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Yeah, so let’s give this dangerously unstable rabblerouser a platform on NBC.
NBC spent $15 million so a lady who’s offended at the prospect of a black Santa Claus can interview a man who thinks 20 dead kids is a hoax.
— Bae Talese (@elongreen) June 12, 2017
I had no idea what Melania’s dad looked like until now and um… pic.twitter.com/bbEMUayZCw
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) June 12, 2017
Girls always end up marrying their fathers… https://t.co/91sdVb8XbB
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
“Extraordinary” item from Josh Marshall about some US/Israeli cyberspying:
One of the stand-out cyber-warfare or spying feats against ISIS was carried out by Israel. And it was that operation that President Trump blabbed to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak.
***Even one of the rare successes against the Islamic State belongs at least in part to Israel, which was America’s partner in the attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Top Israeli cyberoperators penetrated a small cell of extremist bombmakers in Syria months ago, the officials said. That was how the United States learned that the terrorist group was working to make explosives that fooled airport X-ray machines and other screening by looking exactly like batteries for laptop computers.
Two things:
1. So the “laptop ban” wasn’t just Security Theater bullshit.
2. Good job, Mr. President! If you’re gonna burn an intelligence source, might as well make it an important one.
Asshole.
Trolls Tricked Conservatives Into Holding A Massive Rally To Defend A Texas Monument https://t.co/UUoQIu7dtr
— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) June 13, 2017
re: #9 Kragar
Alcede said that spirits are still high and his band of patriots “accomplished their mission,” despite them being tricked.
“We were there to let people know that this is our history and we’re now going to make this group official. We’re trademarking the logo and going to continue fighting,” Alcede said on Monday.
“It’s the patriots against the snowflakes. That’s what this is about.”
Sounds like he’s ready to stand around aimlessly in the heat whenever called.
re: #9 Kragar
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I followed that story for a while. The amazing thing is that the RWNJs still insist the threat was real and it was only their fearsome presence that scared away the Antifa snowflakes and saved the monument. It did no good to point out that Sam Houston was not a Confederate and even if Antifa and Antichrist were going around destroying secesh idols with nuclear backpack charges, they would still not target that one. One yokel on my FB page said, “No, he wasnt a Confderate but they still want to destroy our heritage.” It is a classic demonstration of ignorantredneck conservative strawman attacks and confirmation bias.
A US District Court Judge orders the Justice Department to produce Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ clearance form https://t.co/FAsKcy9Nu4 pic.twitter.com/B7KLM2qLAF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 13, 2017
re: #13 bratwurst
Twitter really needs to pay some people to police the fake accounts.
Don’t buy drugs from these narcs. pic.twitter.com/8ZvUFZBWQL
— The Phunion™ (@thephunion) June 12, 2017
re: #16 TedStriker
Flavor Town is just down the road from Innsmouth.
You get a discount if you show your Miskatonic U ID.
Incidentally, pets don’t last very long in Flavor Town.
Still windy as shit here, been like that for days now. There’s a wildfire that closed U.S. 40 northwest of my twenty, so it’s been getting more and more hazy around these parts. Explains why I’ve been sneezing more. *groan*
Chris Ruddy to @JudyWoodruff: President Trump is considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who he considered for another position. pic.twitter.com/X4IIHlh8at
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 12, 2017
A source close to Chris Ruddy tells me he never spoke to Trump about the possibility of firing Mueller. https://t.co/ATgEHBdayY
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) June 13, 2017
re: #18 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Explains a lot about Guy Fieri if you look at him as one of those eccentrics that survived an encounter within an unknowable Lovecraftian horror.
He’s just trying to communicate the madness with his cuisine.
re: #21 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Explains a lot about Guy Fieri if you look at him as one of those eccentrics that survived an encounter within an unknowable Lovecraftian horror.
He’s just trying to communicate the madness with his cuisine.
Some say Fieri had an “intimate” encounter with the FSM…
re: #20 FormerDirtDart
I would say that Trump isn’t that stupid, but that would assume facts not in evidence
If Trump fires Mueller & Congressional Republicans defend it, will be worst moment for rule of law in our history. https://t.co/GkfD1pjOHH
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) June 13, 2017
Quick rhetorical Twitter question. Is there anyone still left on Twitter that Soledad O’Brien ISN’T following? / sorta
re: #24 jaunte
The critical, ‘then what’ question is haunting.
The drummer for my favorite touring rock ‘n’ roll circus just did this. I’m all like SQUEEE!
Oh hai @KrisMyersDrums! Love your work! pic.twitter.com/BXOVsb6t3X
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 13, 2017
re: #26 JordanRules
The critical, ‘then what’ question is haunting.
Grab our ankles and kiss our asses goodbye? Semi-///
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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A year ago, Jones would have sooner sold his testicles than defend the gov’t and would have gone apeshit over the suggestion that the Feds would use military force to put down critics.
Now he’s openly doing both.
Fuck this, I want off this ride!
Colorado ranch for sale for $149M is described as ‘one of the finest residences and land parcels in the world’ - https://t.co/hxkdPA8NW7 pic.twitter.com/WYPzJO8JeH
— FOX31 Denver KDVR (@KDVR) June 12, 2017
Brother can you spare $149 million? https://t.co/Dqp6caeHKE
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 13, 2017
re: #30 teleskiguy
Plus the property taxes every year.
re: #30 teleskiguy
The kind of house that says “I’ll take your grandma’s healthcare away if it helps me with the electric bill.”
re: #9 Kragar
Juanita Jean dot com was all over that!
re: #30 teleskiguy
It has an on site Observatory. That’s kind of cool.
re: #31 Belafon
Plus the property taxes every year.
Pretty sure anyone who could drop $149 mil on that could easily afford the property taxes.
re: #30 teleskiguy
All I need is a staff to take care of me so I can enjoy all of that without maintaining it!
re: #30 teleskiguy
You’re gonna need a riding lawn mower.
… and a helicopter. Or does that come w/ the package?
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty sure anyone who could drop $149 mil on that could easily afford the property taxes.
Yeah, but if someone is going to give teleskiguy that much money, they’ll need to give a little extra or he’ll only get a year of use out of it.
re: #41 Belafon
Yeah, but if someone is going to give teleskiguy that much money, they’ll need to give a little extra or he’ll only get a year of use out of it.
All I need is a year. Just need to find a way to orchestrate some accidental fires to collect insurance monies.
re: #43 Shiplord Kirel
OH HELL NO!
This week’s acrophobia pic. From Ironworkers.
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oh, no, no, no,
no.
re: #43 Shiplord Kirel
OH HELL NO!
This week’s acrophobia pic. From Ironworkers.
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I want to know how they got the picture.
re: #38 makeitstop
My cat Bean is approaching critical mass.
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Do not taunt Happy Fun Cat.
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re: #42 teleskiguy
From the looks of it, it’ll be one helluva year. Mind if I stop by for a little star-gazing and bong hits? I’ll bring a six-pack… you know, if you’re cool with it.
The property also includes irrigated equestrian and bison pastures, stables, a trout stream, fishing ponds, and an astronomical observatory with a professional-grade 20-inch Meade telescope, and rotating copper dome for star-gazing.
re: #43 Shiplord Kirel
Aaack!!!! That picture gives me so much anxiety.
I am glad they exist to do the kind of work they do though.
re: #47 (Bert the Turtle)
From the looks of it, it’ll be one helluva year. Mind if I stop by for a little star-gazing and bong hits? I’ll bring a six-pack… you know, if you’re cool with it.
Of course! I’m privy to IPAs.
Worse. Look at a map. Freedom is winning…slowly. Uber will live. Vaping will be legalized. Technology will not be banned.
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) June 12, 2017
Voting Rights shredded. Consumer and Enviromental protections destroyed.
But hey, Uber and Vaping are doing okay. https://t.co/FxGmXCCmwc— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
re: #55 teleskiguy
Great minds think alike, yo!
Note to media: please stop saying you “can’t imagine” Trump would actually fire the special prosecutor. Of course you can imagine it.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) June 13, 2017
re: #59 Belafon
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Not only can I imagine it, I can imagine the shills in the media rushing to make excuses for the blatant effort to obstruct an ongoing federal investigation.
Thread:
1/ Fire Mueller. Do it. Fire mueller.do it, because it’s time for the final divorce between the clickservatives and any pretense they….
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 13, 2017
re: #20 FormerDirtDart
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Oh, I still remember when Press Whore Ruddy’s Sugar Daddy was Richard Mellon Scaife. Ruddy published lie after lie about the Clintons in Scaife’s right wing Pittsburgh Tribune.
re: #43 Shiplord Kirel
Topping off the Wilshire Grand in L.A.
ladowntownnews.com
An Intercept podcast appears to have motivated Reality Winner to, allegedly, leak an NSA report on Russian hacking. https://t.co/PtjcQ3LZyi pic.twitter.com/JEsrUpM05I
— Charles Davis (@charliearchy) June 13, 2017
Yikes: ABC reporting alleges Winner may have leaked to The Intercept because she wanted Greenwald to stop doubting Russian interference. https://t.co/ztTHUywmev
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 13, 2017
re: #43 Shiplord Kirel
OH HELL NO!
This week’s acrophobia pic. From Ironworkers.
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That’s one block away from my office in Downtown Los Angeles and just the thought of an earthquake unsettles me!
re: #68 jaunte
nononononononononononononononono
Cheers to @jrezaian on Warriors title. Imprisoned in Iran when Ws won NBA title in ‘15, they then lost in ‘16. American can be great again.
— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) June 13, 2017
So last month it was “Star Trek is engaged in white genocide!,” now this month:
White nationalists are having a meltdown because new ‘Wolfenstein’ video game Nazis aren’t portrayed as heroes https://t.co/zpxc61SaJg pic.twitter.com/4sbsqI3vya
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 13, 2017
FFS.
re: #55 teleskiguy
Drone.
and
re: #56 wheat-dogg
Drone, is my guess.
nope. From the facebook page:
Brian De Haro I’m one of the Hoist operators on this job that brings these guys up the building. Funny reading all these comments/opinions .No, not photo shopped ! The photo is real. The L.A. city photo journalist was in a Man Basket, hung by the crane to get this shot. The guys climbed up the ladder Inside the Spire.
He uses Nikon gear with a 14mm wide angle lense to get this shot.
Now take a moment to think about this. Yeah, you’ve got five guys who climbed a ladder, hooked up their safety lines, and arranged themselves around the top of the spire. And that’s pretty good for spiking the agoraphobic meter.
But there’s also the guy behind the camera. He’s in this cage, hanging from a crane, leaning out to get this picture. He also has his safety harness hooked, but he’s swaying in the wind with absolutely nothing below him. (fair point - if there’s wind the spire is swaying a bit too. But you get the point.)
Have we pegged your agoraphobic meter yet?
re: #77 kirkspencer
and
nope. From the facebook page:
Brian De Haro I’m one of the Hoist operators on this job that brings these guys up the building. Funny reading all these comments/opinions .No, not photo shopped ! The photo is real. The L.A. city photo journalist was in a Man Basket, hung by the crane to get this shot. The guys climbed up the ladder Inside the Spire.
He uses Nikon gear with a 14mm wide angle lense to get this shot.Now take a moment to think about this. Yeah, you’ve got five guys who climbed a ladder, hooked up their safety lines, and arranged themselves around the top of the spire. And that’s pretty good for spiking the agoraphobic meter.
But there’s also the guy behind the camera. He’s in this cage, hanging from a crane, leaning out to get this picture. He also has his safety harness hooked, but he’s swaying in the wind with absolutely nothing below him. (fair point - if there’s wind the spire is swaying a bit too. But you get the point.)
Have we pegged your agoraphobic meter yet?
News photogs will do anything for great shot.
re: #77 kirkspencer
and
nope. From the facebook page:
Brian De Haro I’m one of the Hoist operators on this job that brings these guys up the building. Funny reading all these comments/opinions .No, not photo shopped ! The photo is real. The L.A. city photo journalist was in a Man Basket, hung by the crane to get this shot. The guys climbed up the ladder Inside the Spire.
He uses Nikon gear with a 14mm wide angle lense to get this shot.Now take a moment to think about this. Yeah, you’ve got five guys who climbed a ladder, hooked up their safety lines, and arranged themselves around the top of the spire. And that’s pretty good for spiking the agoraphobic meter.
But there’s also the guy behind the camera. He’s in this cage, hanging from a crane, leaning out to get this picture. He also has his safety harness hooked, but he’s swaying in the wind with absolutely nothing below him. (fair point - if there’s wind the spire is swaying a bit too. But you get the point.)
Have we pegged your agoraphobic meter yet?
acrophobic. Acrophobic. not agoraphobic. (aaack. learn to double check THEN post.)
re: #76 Targetpractice
So last month it was “Star Trek is engaged in white genocide!,” now this month:
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FFS.
Wait, am I missing something here?
When was it ever vogue to portray Nazis as HEROES????
This is the kind of shit that makes WWII veterans roll in their graves.
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait, am I missing something here?
When was it ever vogue to portray Nazis as HEROES????
This is the kind of shit that makes WWII veterans roll in their graves.
Personally I’m wondering where these fuckers have been hiding for the past 30 years, since the Wolfenstein franchise has been portraying Nazis as the enemy since ‘81.
Carl seems like a real straight shooter.
Why is #white #nationalism and #nazism considered related? #Nazi’s were #occult, genocidal killers. W.N. want to preserve their #culture?
— Carl Behrens (@carl_behrens) June 13, 2017
re: #81 Targetpractice
Personally I’m wondering where these fuckers have been hiding for the past 30 years, since the Wolfenstein franchise has been portraying Nazis as the enemy since ‘81.
EXACTLY! What the hell?
re: #64 Belafon
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And the perfect response from one of my favorite authors.
I need a cigarette.
— Harlan Coben (@HarlanCoben) June 13, 2017
re: #64 Belafon
Reply from one of my favorite authors:
I need a cigarette.
— Harlan Coben (@HarlanCoben) June 13, 2017
re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg
EXACTLY! What the hell?
Similarly, Star Trek has had non-{white male} admirals, captains and bridge officers since TOS. Now, all of a sudden, ST:Discovery is the end of the {white male}.
Like I said yesterday, these people like to live in fear. With no real enemy present, they have to invent one to remain afraid (and/or outraged).
re: #76 Targetpractice
So last month it was “Star Trek is engaged in white genocide!,” now this month:
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FFS.
It’s freaking Castle Wolfenstein. Of course, the Nazis are going to be the enemy. *facepalm*
re: #82 (Bert the Turtle)
The fact that they also go around wearing actual Nazi paraphernalia, defend Nazis, and get Nazi tattoos on their faces doesn’t help either
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
re: #86 wheat-dogg
Similarly, Star Trek has had non-{white male} admirals, captains and bridge officers since TOS. Now, all of a sudden, ST:Discovery is the end of the {white male}.
Like I said yesterday, these people like to live in fear. With no real enemy present, they have to invent one to remain afraid (and/or outraged).
I’d say the fear is in part real, but the reality is that they’re set to become the racial minority. For a people who are born into privilege that they simultaneously refuse to acknowledge and yet expect to cover for their asses, the idea that they or their descendants will be the odds ones out in a future America scares the ever-loving shit out of them.
re: #92 MsJ
Because he is AWESOME!
Have you tried any Linwood Barclay? VB recommended him as very Coben-esque, and I’ve read about 6 of his books and really like him. (Oddly, somebody made the same comparison/recommendation to my sister, who is also a Coben fan.)
“Why is white nationalism and nazism considered related?”
Its a real mystery.https://t.co/TqYBgyTkLN— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
As I read yet another “Bernie’s the future of the Dem party!” article, I can’t help but find myself noting that everybody thinks the woman who went to Election Day and lost should go away, but the old white guy who didn’t make it past Super Tuesday should be seen as the way forward.
Oy vey.
re: #97 Targetpractice
As I read yet another “Bernie’s the future of the Dem party!” article, I can’t help won’t find myself noting that everybody thinks the woman who went to Election Day and
lostWON THE POPULAR VOTE should go away, but the old white guy who didn’t make it past Super Tuesday should be seen as the way forward.Oy vey.
re: #94 BeachDem
Have you tried any Linwood Barclay? VB recommended him as very Coben-esque, and I’ve read about 6 of his books and really like him. (Oddly, somebody made the same comparison/recommendation to my sister, who is also a Coben fan.)
Nope. But I will now!
I’m currently rereading all Jonathan Kellerman books. I’ve recently reread all John Sanford, Michael Connelly (Bosh and Haller), and Coban books. I got tired of mediocre $.99 self published books. While some are good, some suck badly. I needed a “really really good books” break.
Off to check Barcley now.
I’m out. Tomorrow I either clean the garage or I blow it up. I’ll try the whole cleaning route first, then we’ll see. Be well.
re: #93 Targetpractice
I’d say the fear is in part real, but the reality is that they’re set to become the racial minority. For a people who are born into privilege that they simultaneously refuse to acknowledge and yet expect to cover for their asses, the idea that they or their descendants will be the odds ones out in a future America scares the ever-loving shit out of them.
I’m not sure most are capable of such long-range thinking, but just follow the scary predictions of the WN/WS/neoNazi leaders that someday soon(!) America will not be majority white. “The new XXXXX is only the beginning! Soon, white men will only be lackeys to the growing numbers of non-{white males}. We must stop XXXXX now!”
Hence, the constant trumpeting about “white genocide” in South Africa. There is no such thing happening, but the rubes don’t know that, so they get all worked up about something like it happening in the States. Won’t happen here either.
re: #100 (Bert the Turtle)
I’m out. Tomorrow I either clean the garage or I blow it up. I’ll try the whole cleaning route first, then we’ll see. Be well.
Maybe you’ll find a nice spider to help make the decision. //
Really Looking Forward to tomorrow’s Presidential Tweet Storm
JUST IN: Senators announce bipartisan agreement on Russia sanctions pic.twitter.com/80CL5WBMY7
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 13, 2017
History of White People in America Vol.1
re: #104 darthstar
Really Looking Forward to tomorrow’s Presidential Tweet Storm
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Good on them, I say!
SIXTY NINE!!!
Jupiter now has 69 moons: two new satellites join the gas giant’s family https://t.co/cU70jUqepA pic.twitter.com/nmSh7hNGyn
— Scientific American (@sciam) June 13, 2017
In the same sense that a malignant tumor is. Meaning it should be done in private, with the utmost discretion & a treatment plan in place.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 13, 2017
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
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“Worthy of examination.”
Yeah, by mental health professionals.
A man constipated from birth was carrying over 28 pounds of feces in his colon: https://t.co/UnZRPosFqS pic.twitter.com/WCLyknDlPX
— Inverse (@inversedotcom) June 12, 2017
I hope he named it Trump. https://t.co/or19fEgRXb
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 13, 2017
re: #99 MsJ
Nope. But I will now!
I’m currently rereading all Jonathan Kellerman books. I’ve recently reread all John Sanford, Michael Connelly (Bosh and Haller), and Coban books. I got tired of mediocre $.99 self published books. While some are good, some suck badly. I needed a “really really good books” break.
Off to check Barcley now.
I think you’ll like him—he used to write for the Toronto Star, so eh.
re: #112 darthstar
Ah, can you put that in private tags?
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
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Alex Jones is about as “worthy of examination” as a weird growth on my ass.
Thread.
1/ Fire Mueller. Do it. Fire Mueller.
Do it, because it’s time for the final divorce between the clickservatives and any pretense they….— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 13, 2017
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
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Yeah, good analogy (which means wingers won’t get it, because they don’t understand analogies.) Plus, Kelly does NOT have the chops anyway.
re: #114 retired cynic
Ah, can you put that in private tags?
I want to add that I have been in on equine autopsies, and can tell you all about their delicate digestive systems, but that is truly gross!
Report: J.P. Morgan Chase pulls NBC News ads over Megyn Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones https://t.co/XqEKWLo7Uc pic.twitter.com/vPjGNyiPrO
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 13, 2017
re: #115 Targetpractice
Alex Jones is about as “worthy of examination” as a weird growth on my ass.
Do NOT underestimate any weird growths on your ass my brother.
re: #123 goddamnedfrank
Do NOT underestimate any weird growths on your ass my brother.
You’re right, one of them might one day be president.
/
Trump administration cancels proposed limits on marine mammals and sea turtles trapped in fishing nets https://t.co/iN1POLhBe7
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 13, 2017
Wholesale slaughter of wild animals in the name of profits is how you make America great apparently https://t.co/BVzz5yXSG4
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
Hey Bethesda, I understand Skyrim was a totally awesome game that really helped define the western RPG genre for a good year or so. But it was released in 2011. Just how many times are you gonna try to make me buy that damned game?!
re: #128 Targetpractice
Hey Bethesda, I understand Skyrim was a totally awesome game that really helped define the western RPG genre for a good year or so. But it was released in 2011. Just how many times are you gonna try to make me buy that damned game?!
Until they can release a game that isn’t half finished and unplayably buggy at launch.
//
I saw tonight that they’re doing a television version of Candy Crush.
Civilization as we know it is over.
Good night.
re: #116 darthstar
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I read that thread. There are a few former Republicans that are really freaked about having to confront what their party has become; this was one.
One of the best, most accurate takes was in the replies, where it was noted that “Fox News and Roger Ailes have ruined the United States of America.”
The derangement of the GOP started with the Southern Strategy. Continued with the Reagan deal with the devils of the “Moral Majority.” We thought it reached its nadir with Dubya.
And then along came Trump.
True story.
Just found out Nikon made a 105mm f/1.4. Currently assessing non-essential organ value on the black market.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 13, 2017
So yeah, if I should disappear from about July 19th to July 24th, I’m not dead. I’m just playing Destiny 2. And swearing oaths against PS4 players who got to start playing a day earlier.
re: #134 Targetpractice
So yeah, if I should disappear from about July 19th to July 24th, I’m not dead. I’m just playing Destiny 2. And swearing oaths against PS4 players who got to start playing a day earlier.
5 more days…
The kind where I’m flying but KNOW I’ve been drinking plenty of water and thus am not going to die in the morning.
Fight me.— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 13, 2017
re: #137 goddamnedfrank
What you need right now is some fried food to soak up that alcohol
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
re: #137 goddamnedfrank
Water is so clutch! Happy flying and landing!
All this makes me think having Preet front and center at the Comey hearing was a nice return volley on Twitler’s mind games.
#BREAKING: Trump is reportedly “considering terminating” special counsel Robert Mueller… (?!?!) pic.twitter.com/pC09z7kyjN
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 12, 2017
Technically, I don’t believe Trump can make this call. He could, however, direct the DOJ to fire Mueller. But..
1/https://t.co/T5ctNKUs5R— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 12, 2017
It would be a monumentally stupid decision (to fire Mueller). This seems more like an attempt to intimidate him.
2/https://t.co/YQ6EpxwlU5— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 12, 2017
Notice a pattern here…?
-Sally Yates: Did her job
-Preet Bharara: Did his job
-James Comey: Did his job
-Robert Mueller: *Doing* his job— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 13, 2017
Really good thread wrapping this whole thing up in a nice package for the idiot Rep Duffy.
Hi, @RepSeanDuffy. It seems like you have some questions about the Russia investigation, so I thought I’d help clear things up for you…1/ pic.twitter.com/tTrVrZTRjT
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 13, 2017
re: #142 JordanRules
Really good thread wrapping this whole thing up in a nice package for the idiot Rep Duffy.
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The people who were prepared to spend 4 years investigating everything going back to Whitewater want you to believe that the only reason that Trump would be investigated is because of bitterness over the election results.
re: #143 Targetpractice
Right, even though this was being looked at before the election. So they are full of it as usual.
Teeheehee!
When Sessions testifies tomorrow, someone should ask him “are you racist” just to make sure he perjures himself.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) June 12, 2017
Oh wow. Have had a rude awakening. Lots of police cars driving by, get up and look outside, see unmarked police cars drive by, then the characteristic NI (Nationella Insatsstyrkan / State SWAT) cars. A bit later, news media has the initials, a small truck has crashed into several cars and then ended its journey in a pole.
1 injured so far, and 15 or so unmarked police vehicles past my window so far.
2017, go fuck yourself.
Goddammit which one of you motherfuckers invited the bed spins?!
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 13, 2017
I had this shit all planed out and then BAM!
re: #76 Targetpractice
So last month it was “Star Trek is engaged in white genocide!,” now this month:
White nationalists are having a meltdown because new ‘Wolfenstein’ video game Nazis aren’t portrayed as heroes
If Nazis cannot be heroes in a video game, when can they be heroes?
This is white genociders genocide!!!
re: #146 Teukka
Oh wow. Have had a rude awakening. Lots of police cars driving by, get up and look outside, see unmarked police cars drive by, then the characteristic NI (Nationella Insatsstyrkan / State SWAT) cars. A bit later, news media has the initials, a small truck has crashed into several cars and then ended its journey in a pole.
1 injured so far, and 15 or so unmarked police vehicles past my window so far.
2017, go fuck yourself.
According to Fuckface Von Clownstick your account of police activity and violent crime has absolutely destroyed America and only he can save us.
re: #149 teleskiguy
According to Fuckface Von Clownstick your account of police activity and violent crime has absolutely destroyed America and only he can save us.
Update: Bomb Squad en route.
*smh*
Well, if it is a plain crimmie, he gonna shit himself when the police find him.
re: #150 Teukka
Update: Bomb Squad en route.
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On topic:
can’t be involved with russian hookers if you deny being involved with russian hookers pic.twitter.com/vw603mwx2d
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) June 7, 2017
re: #154 teleskiguy
can’t be involved with russian hookers if you deny being involved with russian hookers
I didn’t do it and stop talking about my mother!!!
re: #154 teleskiguy
“Jokes on you. They were Polish hookers in Russia, not Russian hookers. Your whole scandal just fell apart!”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
re: #156 Kragar
More likely Southeast Asian hookers. Or poor girls from Ukraine.
Update on Stockholm situation:
Looks less like terrorism than it does like a hit-n-run with a stolen vehicle.
One perp still at large, with growing brown spot on seat of pants.
re: #158 Teukka
Update on Stockholm situation:
Looks less like terrorism than it does like a hit-n-run with a stolen vehicle.
One perp still at large, with growing brown spot on seat of pants.
It’s a sad comment on our times when our first thought when hearing sirens is “terrorism!”
re: #159 wheat-dogg
It’s a sad comment on our times when our first thought when hearing sirens is “terrorism!”
Not terrorism, it was “oh, big bluelight jerb”. It was when I heard the 5th or 6th vehicle pass and had climbed down from the bed and looked out and saw NI’s vehicle pass and a bit later heard of a truck being involved that I thought terrorism.
re: #160 Teukka
Not terrorism, it was “oh, big bluelight jerb”. It was when I heard the 5th or 6th vehicle pass and had climbed down from the bed and looked out and saw NI’s vehicle pass and a bit later heard of a truck being involved that I thought terrorism.
Yeah, all that commotion would suggest something serious. Still, it wasn’t long ago our first thought would be “tragic auto accident” and not “tragic car bomb.”
re: #159 wheat-dogg
It’s a sad comment on our times when our first thought when hearing sirens is “terrorism!”
DT has learned that he can shout “terrorism” whenever he hears of any report, real or fake, and suffer no consequences if it turns out to be wrong, but declare himself “vindicated” if it is correct.
I never should started playing this cricket webgame that Google cooked up for its start tab.
Up early since I’m doing poll watching. Earky musings, BBs need to stop acting like no one can criticize their guy while acting like it’s perfectly legit for him to attack the Democratic Party.
re: #76 Targetpractice
So last month it was “Star Trek is engaged in white genocide!,” now this month:
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So…they never played the original Wolfenstein 3D, where you play a Polish-American who gets to kill Adolf Hitler?
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— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) June 13, 2017
re: #166 Timothy Watson
So…they never played the original Wolfenstein 3D, where you play a Polish-American who gets to kill Adolf Hitler?
Yeah I don’t get these complaints. I bet these babies hated Inglorious Basterds.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
Yeah I don’t get these complaints. I bet these babies hated Inglorious Basterds.
Nazis were heroic anti-communists long before that became the American standard…
re: #166 Timothy Watson
So…they never played the original Wolfenstein 3D, where you play a Polish-American who gets to kill Adolf Hitler?
I played that game *a lot* when I was a kid, on my 286 PC. Even though distribution of the game was illegal in Germany due to the graphic violence. (Interestingly not because of the Nazi imagery, at least not officially.)
Ah, good times.
re: #170 DanielKi
I played that game *a lot* when I was a kid, on my 286 PC. Even though distribution of the game was illegal in Germany due to the graphic violence. (Interestingly not because of the Nazi imagery, at least not officially.)
Ah, good times.
Germans allow nudity on TV, decriminalize prostitution and teach sex ed in schools, but to them, video game violence is the “slippery slope” that must be avoided, especially for young & sensitive audiences.
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germans allow nudity on TV, decriminalize prostitution and teach sex ed in schools, but to them, video game violence is the “slippery slope” that must be avoided, especially for young & sensitive audiences.
Yeah, there are a lot of confused people when it comes to video games. But they don’t really have legislative traction and are generally laughed at by anyone younger than 50. Games like Counterstrike are super popular around here.
The more recent Wolfenstein titles are not illegal to distribute; just restricted to 18 or older. The 90’s were a different time.
Bloomberg summary of the extent of hacking, and the affect on voter confidence is damning.
Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database. Details of the wave of attacks, in the summer and fall of 2016, were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter. In all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states, one of them said.
Remember when Germany banned the KISS logo because it resembled SS runes? This for a band whose bassist was born in Israel as Chaim Weizman, better known to us as Gene Simmons…
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nazis were heroic anti-communists long before that became the American standard…
I know.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember when Germany banned the KISS logo because it resembled SS runes? This for a band whose bassist was born in Israel as Chaim Weizman, better known to use as Gene Simmons…
Don’t remember that, but it sounds like something that could and probably should have been challenged. Sometimes the lower courts just make erroneous decisions. Intent is absolutely crucial when it comes to displaying Nazi imagery. Otherwise all historical films covering that time would be illegal, which they clearly aren’t…
re: #176 DanielKi
Don’t remember that, but it sounds like something that could and probably should have been challenged. Sometimes the lower courts just make erroneous decisions. Intent is absolutely crucial when it comes to displaying Nazi imagery. Otherwise all historical films about covering that time would be illegal, which they clearly aren’t…
There was a big blowup that started in Stuttgart over banning clearly ANTI-Nazi images because they contained a “forbidden symbol”.
So now there is a big section of paragraphs noting exceptions to the rules and rules covering the exceptions.
Skinheads were fond of wearing T-shirts by a fictional brand called “Lonsdaple”, becuase when you wear an open shirt over it, you see the letters “NSDAP”.
So the law has been amended that it is okay to wear Lonsdaple but not to cover up the first and last two letters…
There is generally some confusion about the laws against Nazi propaganda, even among Germans. E.g. the claim that Hitler’s Mein Kampf is illegal in Germany — it never was, and we read excerpts from it in history class. It’s just that the copyright of the book went to the city of Munich after Hitler’s death and they decided not to allow any further prints (and that copyright ran out recently).
re: #99 MsJ
Nope. But I will now!
I’m currently rereading all Jonathan Kellerman books. I’ve recently reread all John Sanford, Michael Connelly (Bosh and Haller), and Coban books. I got tired of mediocre $.99 self published books. While some are good, some suck badly. I needed a “really really good books” break.
Off to check Barcley now.
Sounds like your reading tastes are similar to mine. As in, identical to mine. So therefore let me recommend:
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (the Pendergast series)
Jeffery Deaver (the Lincoln Rhyme series)
Kathy Reichs (the “Bones” series)
Christopher Brookmyre (Scottish author)
Mark Billingham (UK author)
Mo Hayder (UK author)
BTW the “Bones” books are totally different from the TV show. The Tempe Brennan character in the books is not the same person as the TV series. Tempe in the books is 50something, has a grown-up daughter in the military, and a Canadian boyfriend. Also, she’s a recovering alcoholic.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Skinheads were fond of wearing T-shirts by a fictional brand called “Lonsdaple”, becuase when you wear an open shirt over it, you see the letters “NSDAP”.
Yep. That particular thing is actually just an evolutionary step from wearing “Londsdale” shirts while emphasizing the letters “nsda”. Londsdale is a British brand which has since then emphatically denounced the practice and that particular segment of their customers.
This must sound totally crazy to non-Germans, but this kind of silly trolling is actually a very real thing in the German neonazi scene. Good thing is it keeps them occupied.
re: #178 DanielKi
There is generally some confusion about the laws against Nazi propaganda, even among Germans. E.g. the claim that Hitler’s Mein Kampf is illegal in Germany — it never was, and we read excerpts from it in history class. It’s just that the copyright of the book went to the city of Munich after Hitler’s death and they decided not to allow any further prints (and that copyright ran out recently).
I often found that it was used simply an excuse to avoid uncomfortable discussions. And it shows again that freedom of speech is a tricky bitch to master…
In any case, the law makes an exemption for fascist symbols if they are used in a clearly anti-fascist manner. That did not keep the band DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft) from having its song “Dance da Mussolini” banned for ostensibly glorifying fascism…
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That did not keep the band DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft) from having its song “Dance da Mussolini” banned for ostensibly glorifying fascism…
As I said, some of these decisions can and should be challenged. Sometimes the courts are just ignorant.
re: #182 DanielKi
As I said, some of these decisions can and should be challenged. Sometimes the courts are just ignorant.
Courts in Germany have a hard time with irony, especially the sort that goes around several corners to make its point.
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
BTW the “Bones” books are totally different from the TV show. The Tempe Brennan character in the books is not the same person as the TV series. Tempe in the books is 50something, has a grown-up daughter in the military, and a Canadian boyfriend. Also, she’s a recovering alcoholic.
My daughter is a TV Bones fan, so I’ve seen quite a few of the early episodes. I imagine they young-ified Tempe to make the show more palatable to 20-somethings (such as my daughter) than to old farts (like her father). But AFAIC Emily Deschanel is worth watching in any role. (BTW she’s now 40.)
Reichs is executive producer of the show, so I guess she’s got no problems with a younger Tempe.
And I especially like the TV show’s connection to ZZ Top by way of Billy Gibbons playing Angela’s musician dad.
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Yes and Republicans have shown that they care so much about the rule of law…
We’re screwed.
re: #185 Patricia Kayden
Yes and Republicans have shown that they care so much about the rule of law…
We’re screwed.
Trump is getting away with things that even Nixon would have hesitated to pull off…
re: #180 DanielKi
Yep. That particular thing is actually just an evolutionary step from wearing “Londsdale” shirts while emphasizing the letters “nsda”. Londsdale is a British brand which has since then emphatically denounced the practice and that particular segment of their customers.
This must sound totally crazy to non-Germans, but this kind of silly trolling is actually a very real thing in the German neonazi scene. Good thing is it keeps them occupied.
Trolls are trolls. There are plenty in the USA who just get all tingly by offending people with neo-nazi tats, slogans, and white supremacist social media posts. Rage Furby would be one prime example.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump is getting away with things that even Nixon would have hesitated to pull off…
Nixon would not have sold his soul to the Soviets.
re: #184 wheat-dogg
My daughter is a TV Bones fan, so I’ve seen quite a few of the early episodes. I imagine they young-ified Tempe to make the show more palatable to 20-somethings (such as my daughter) than to old farts (like her father). But AFAIC Emily Deschanel is worth watching in any role. (BTW she’s now 40.)
Reichs is executive producer of the show, so I guess she’s got no problems with a younger Tempe.
And I especially like the TV show’s connection to ZZ Top by way of Billy Gibbons playing Angela’s musician dad.
I started watching the show thinking it would be like the books and I was disappointed at first but it seems like Reichs was having a lot of fun.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
Trolls are trolls. There are plenty in the USA who just get all tingly by offending people with neo-nazi tats, slogans, and white supremacist social media posts. Rage Furby would be one prime example.
And that is a problem: sorting out the trolls, bored teens, sociopaths and attention-seekers among the neo-Nazi movement from the ones who would really re-open the concentration camps and start filling them with undesirables and useless eaters.
re: #67 Belafon
And then Greenwald turned her over to the government because he could care less whether or not Russia interfered with our election. He’s completely in Putin’s pocket along with Trump.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
Trolls are trolls. There are plenty in the USA who just get all tingly by offending people with neo-nazi tats, slogans, and white supremacist social media posts. Rage Furby would be one prime example.
Ah, but in Germany you have the added element of the neonazis playing hide’n’seek with the prosecutors by using all kinds of elaborate codes instead of just tattooing swastikas on their foreheads.
As I said, it keeps them occupied.
re: #189 The Vicious Babushka
I started watching the show thinking it would be like the books and I was disappointed at first but it seems like Reichs was having a lot of fun.
I’ve given up expecting books and TV or film versions to be at all alike. I try to enjoy them as they come.
One of these days, I’m going to start reading the Spenser series. I liked the TV version back in the day.
I’ve also watched the Jesse Stone and Longmire series, and enjoyed them. Only read one Jesse Stone novel so far.
re: #192 DanielKi
Ah, but in Germany you have the added element of the neonazis playing hide’n’seek with the prosecutors by using all kinds of elaborate codes instead of just tattooing swastikas on their foreheads.
As I said, it keeps them occupied.
They think they are so clever.
re: #194 wheat-dogg
They think they are so clever.
Sort of like all the young guys on the net trying to pretend Pepe is not what he’s obviously become.
re: #167 FormerDirtDart
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I hope that is satire or parody. Please. Trump is such an embarrassment.
re: #196 Patricia Kayden
I hope that is satire or parody. Please. Trump is such an embarrassment.
It’s a real tweet put on White House stationery by a bot.
re: #196 Patricia Kayden
That account takes tweets and puts them on official looking stationary.
It makes the tweets more concrete.
And given the courts now take tweets as statements of the Executive, it’s not even a parody.
re: #192 DanielKi
Ah, but in Germany you have the added element of the neonazis playing hide’n’seek with the prosecutors by using all kinds of elaborate codes instead of just tattooing swastikas on their foreheads.
As I said, it keeps them occupied.
I saw a fellow here in Germany in a black T-shirt with white lettering containing the text of the “fourteen words” speech… in English, which I guess is not forbidden…it contained a number of grammatical and spelling errors…I debated whether or not to approach the fellow with a black marker and offer to “correct ” them.
And they ran “The Producers” in German TV, but did not dub the songs…
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that is the point: those are official public statements by the highest elected official in the country…
Yep, and Spicer even said that his tweets were official statements.
You can use the Google Doodle to play cricket (with animated crickets). Very addicting. I got 45 points, but had to get back to work.
re: #202 I Would Prefer Not To
So simple but so addictive.
re: #202 I Would Prefer Not To
You can use the Google Doodle to play cricket (with animated crickets). Very addicting. I got 45 points, but had to get back to work.
My high score is 68 points so far.
How did we not see this back then? pic.twitter.com/VTfBsfs9nh
— Kokujin 黒人 (@Kaibutsu) June 12, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states “from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.”
In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would “inhibit [the Justice Department’s] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act.” He continues:
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re: #202 I Would Prefer Not To
I just went yard!
re: #208 Timothy Watson
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re: #208 Timothy Watson
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re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #208 Timothy Watson
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When I was doing data entry work I would use industrial grade earplugs. Everyone laughed but I was able to do my work with very few interruptions.
re: #213 Timothy Watson
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re: #216 PhillyPretzel
When I was doing data entry work I would use industrial grade earplugs. Everyone laughed but I was able to do my work with very few interruptions.
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re: #218 Timothy Watson
I would play Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Most of my co-workers hated my guts.
re: #219 PhillyPretzel
I would play Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Most of my co-workers hated my guts.
Hehe, I would be evil and play some Grouplove, that would probably drive them crazy. Trying to think if I have anything more obnoxious on my playlist.
I’m guessing someone is in the bathroom…
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/BtVeeHvlWu
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) June 13, 2017
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/3KkrWB3QNy
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) June 13, 2017
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re: #221 FormerDirtDart
Some serious butthurt in the bathroom this morning.
The 2 senators from my state are woke, should I still call them?
re: #223 freetoken
Some serious butthurt in the bathroom this morning.
It is so good that they are finally being framed as what they are…
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
The 2 senators from my state are woke, should I still call them?
Quick call to thank them might bolster the staff’s spirits.
Escaped from Lubbock. Finally. I cannot express to the lizardoid community what an absolute shithole this place is. It is not because of economics, or the scenery, or even directly because of the absurd religion that prevails there. It is because of the people. A lethal combination of demographic, historical, and cultural factors has created the most reflexively, unrelentingly dishonest large group of people in the world. A typical goddamn Lubbockite cannot open its mouth without lying or misrepresenting something or trying to unfairly abuse someone. No wonder 70% of them voted for Trump.
re: #221 FormerDirtDart
I’m guessing someone is in the bathroom…
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Has anyone gone to the trouble of syncing up what he says versus what’s on Fox News at the given time he tweets?
re: #222 Timothy Watson
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re: #228 Timothy Watson
Has anyone gone to the trouble of syncing up what he says versus what’s on Fox News at the given time he tweets?
I think LGF needs to hire an intern, might need two, to watch/record FAUXNews and Orange House tweets.
re: #230 FormerDirtDart
I think LGF needs to hire an intern, might need two, to watch/record FAUXNews and Orange House tweets.
Maybe we can start a fundraiser for Media Matters for a special endowment since they have someone watch that crap anyway. :)
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel
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OK, is everyone here now? Good. I’d like to go around the room and invite everyone here presently logged onto LGF to say a few words of praise of my huuuge accomplishments and how great a president I am being.
re: #232 freetoken
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re: #233 Sir John Barron
OK, is everyone here now? Good. I’d like to go around the room and invite everyone here presently logged onto LGF to say a few words of praise of my huuuge accomplishments and how great a president I am being.
*crickets*
*breeze*
That was quite the spectacle. Another National Facepalm Moment brought to us By Trump US INC
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the vitamin supplements began to take hold. pic.twitter.com/kRQzl8V27O
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) June 13, 2017
re: #229 (Bert the Turtle)
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Warriors to Trump: Sorry, busy that day.
It didn’t take the Golden State Warriors long to decide to skip the traditional championship White House visit.
Less than 24 hours after winning the 2017 NBA Finals on Monday night, the Warriors unanimously voted to decline the White House ceremony honoring their Finals win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to several reports including one by CNBC analyst Josh Brown.
I imagine your apology is right behind the 8-year-long apology Fox “News” still owes President Obama #FakeNews #FoxAndFriends #TheResistance
— Frost-Barnes (@FrostBarnes) June 13, 2017
re: #233 Sir John Barron
You’ve done one heckuva job, Sir! It’s been an honor to serve both you and your every whim.
There is nothing I enjoy more than going home around 8 o’clock, having my teenager mock, laugh at, and ridicule me, my wife throw dinner at me, and have my loyal Black Lab take a huge dump on my recliner while I stand idly by and watch. I just cannot, for the life of me, wait to see what tomorrow brings!
The pleasure, Sir, Is all mine!
First, I’m glad all my cabinet members are here. I’m very great for having appointed you. And you’d all be nothing without me. Now before we go around and ask what you all are doing in your crappy agencies, because really who cares, I would like each of you to tell me what you most like about me, and what my greatest accomplishment has been in my presidency, which has already been the most beautiful successful presidency of all time.
If only there was a word to describe Trump wanting an apology from people he has insulted. Chutzpah?
re: #238 makeitstop
Warriors to Trump: Sorry, busy that day.
Damn.
Faux Noise will be on this all day.
re: #242 Sir John Barron
I know I would be thrown out of the uncouth one’s presence for my response. The middle finger.
re: #239 The Vicious Babushka
What’s this about? Is Faux and Fiends demanding we all apologize to the orange one?
Maybe the Warriors can all show up at the Obama’s.
re: #234 Shiplord Kirel
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re: #247 Sir John Barron
What’s this about? Is Faux and Fiends demanding we all apologize to the orange one?
Cheeto Pendejo is demanding that the media apologize to HIM for publishing news stories that are not slobbering flattery.
re: #233 Sir John Barron
OK, is everyone here now? Good. I’d like to go around the room and invite everyone here presently logged onto LGF to say a few words of praise of my huuuge accomplishments and how great a president I am being.
It’s been a blessing reading your posts. A blessing, Sir!
re: #250 The Vicious Babushka
Cheeto Pendejo is demanding that the media apologize to HIM for publishing news stories that are not slobbering flattery.
“OK, everybody settle down. First, I would like to issue an apology, from YOU to ME! And that apology is NOT accepted!”
Very late reply from the previous tread. Sorry for the belated answer KGxvi…
re: #128 KGxvi
I’ve been contemplating something today after seeing there was another referendum in Puerto Rico regarding statehood (apparently statehood won big, but a lot of opponents boycotted the election). What are the odds that Puerto Rico and DC (in some manner) could become States?
I mean, procedurally, for Puerto Rico it’s pretty straight forward, Congress passes a statehood law and the president signs it. DC is a bit more complicated because of the 23rd Amendment and Article I Section 8; but even still… statehood wouldn’t be that difficult - you announce that DC will become a state, you pass a constitutional amendment repealing the 23rd Amendment and pass a statehood law at the same time (or have one become effective on the passage of the other).
What I’m considering is more the political implications. Puerto Rico becomes the 29th largest state in the Union, entitling it to 5 seats in the House; DC would get one seat in the house. Do we increase House membership (at least temporarily, I’d prefer it being a permanent increase) to 441? Between 5 new Representatives, and 4 new Senators, what are the political calculations? I’d figure all three Congressional members from DC would be Democrats, figure the PR Senators get split (complete guess), you’re looking at a 53-51 split in the Senate.
Would that be tenable for the parties? Also, one more interesting question, what if Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands were made into a single state?
Puerto Rico would be a giant political clusterfuck (and I’m not talking about the debt crisis). The three traditional political parties are not aligned with the traditional Liberal/Conservative spectrum, but in the status solution they aspire for PR. If it were my guess, we’d have a strong minority looking to revert the statehood composed from the splintered sovereign movements, the an anemic Republican Party (at least, when compared to the other states) composed from some of the pro-statehood leaders, and a bewildered Democratic Party composed mainly from people of both local big parties. How anemic (or if they are) the Republicans would be can be explored.
The PR/Virgin Islands statehood proposal might have more weight though.
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/iq2FqOpqIU
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) June 13, 2017
re: #250 The Vicious Babushka
Cheeto Pendejo is demanding that the media apologize to HIM for publishing news stories that are not slobbering flattery.
For a second there, I thought Cheeto Pendejo was some new guy in the national spotlight…
The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced. pic.twitter.com/SaCN5hKU9R
— VoteVets (@votevets) June 13, 2017
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
I think those are funny, when I can see them. The problem is that, since they are pictures, the restrictions on Twitter at my work mean I can’t tell which tweets are being made “official.” Oh, well.
re: #258 Belafon
I think those are funny, when I can see them. The problem is that, since they are pictures, the restrictions on Twitter at my work mean I can’t tell which tweets are being made “official.” Oh, well.
re: #261 The Vicious Babushka
Thanks. I didn’t mean to imply that you had to go copy it for me, though maybe I did.
It does make it more obvious how ridiculous he is by putting it on official stationary.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Looks like Trump/GOP/Koch are moving ahead with their plan to shred the Bears Ears National Monument so they can exploit this sensitive natural habitat and essential ancestral lands of Native Americans.
Trimming monument in Utah pleases Republicans, angers tribes whose lands are being protected: https://t.co/SthL9F49ca (from @AP) pic.twitter.com/KTQRn1QMJU
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 13, 2017
Local communities were asked for input and everyone associated with the designation process knows it was thorough. GOP doesn’t care.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 13, 2017
And why? Because they think ranchers should get below market rate grazing? Or exploit the land for mining and drilling?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 13, 2017
They don’t care that they are working to violate federal law - the Wilderness Act, which grants the President only the power to establish national monuments, but not the power to reduce the size or eliminate them altogether. It’s just another way the GOP are enabling Trump’s running roughshod over the rule of law.
Bears Ears went through a rigorous process to be designated a national monument and all the parties who were affected had ample opportunity to weigh in. All the stakeholders know that they had that opportunity and the process was thorough and comprehensive.
Trump’s pushing this insanity to benefit a select few, all while ignoring the Native Americans whose lands are protected with this monument designation.
And that’s just the first of many crazy things that this insane administration is moving ahead with today.
There’s Sessions’ testimony under oath where he’ll get to try and spin his way into yet another perjury charge, because you know he’s just not that good of a lawyer and not that quick to realize the damage he’s doing to his own credibility (which was zip to begin with).
Oh, and lest we forget, the GOP continues moving ahead with efforts to destroy health coverage for millions in secret. The Senate GOP continues working in secret on a plan to gut health coverage and destroy both Obamacare and Medicaid, but they don’t want the public to see any of this because it would stop them cold in their tracks if the public realized just what the GOP was up to - seeking massive tax cuts for millionaires while destroying the safety net for millions. That’s millions of our parents and grandparents who rely on Medicaid for their health coverage.
The GOP has fantasized for decades about destroying the safety net, and Trump’s Russia scandal is giving them the cover to work without the kind of scrutiny it deserves.
Oh, and lest we forget, there’s news that the Russia attempts to actively cyberattack online election systems was more widespread than first noted by media outlets.
Illinois was PatientZero pic.twitter.com/YfhmOEMMkN
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 13, 2017
Then-DHS Sec Jeh Johnson wanted to declare electoral systems as natl critical infrastructure so feds could intervene.
…GOP shut him down. pic.twitter.com/fg3EEhCgU5— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 13, 2017
The US govt knew Russia was attacking our electoral systems. The GOP blocked the federal govt’s attempt to respond to it.
Let that sink in. https://t.co/DCV2hsUvnJ— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 13, 2017
Russia hacked systems of 39 states during summer and fall 2016, including voter data https://t.co/RmcfO4XoKQ
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 13, 2017
So of course the GOP is roundly booing and caterwauling over a rendition of Julius Caesar that appears to portray Trump as Caesar.
FU Trump, adults are working.
L.A. and Long Beach mayors sign pact setting zero-emissions goals for ports
The mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach signed an agreement Monday directing the nation’s largest port complex to reduce air pollution by moving toward zero-emission trucks and yard equipment.
The two-page declaration signed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia says the ports “shall advance clean technologies and other efforts to move toward the goal of zero emissions” and establishes targets for zero-emission cargo-handling equipment by 2030 and zero-emission trucks by 2035.
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
Sounds like your reading tastes are similar to mine. As in, identical to mine. So therefore let me recommend:
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (the Pendergast series)
Jeffery Deaver (the Lincoln Rhyme series)
Kathy Reichs (the “Bones” series)
Christopher Brookmyre (Scottish author)
Mark Billingham (UK author)
Mo Hayder (UK author)BTW the “Bones” books are totally different from the TV show. The Tempe Brennan character in the books is not the same person as the TV series. Tempe in the books is 50something, has a grown-up daughter in the military, and a Canadian boyfriend. Also, she’s a recovering alcoholic.
I’ve read most of the Bones series and several from Preston/Child and Deaver. Another is Iris Johansen, whom I’ve read on and off. I’ll definitely look into the UK and Scottish authors. Thank you!!
I also enjoy the lighter side of mysteries and procedurals like Janet Evanovich , Liz Evans (a UK author of the awesomely amusing Grace Smith books - which I think will be my next full re-read), and a ton of others.
re: #260 freetoken
I had a high school friend who was just in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They now offer tours of the Chernobyl power station’s control rooms (not unit four, which was the one that blew up). That’s all because the authorities want people to understand that the risks are now reduced thanks to the New Safe Confinement structure. However, there’s quite a few areas that are off limits due to hot spots. Everyone needs dosimeters when entering the zones, and they’re checked entering/leaving for radiation traces and exposures.
It certainly is a haunting reminder of how things can go dangerously wrong with nuclear power, and how the Soviets hid the dangers for days, not only from the rest of the world, but from its own citizens.
The Jeff Sessions Bingo drinking game has only four squares:
Can’t recall
Executive Privilege
Can’t Discuss in open session
5th Amendment— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 13, 2017
re: #267 darthstar
That is because that is all he can remember.
re: #223 freetoken
Some serious butthurt in the bathroom this morning.
I think he figures he can change the tone on Sessions testimony today by putting out insane “fake news” tweets. It also gets his base revved up ready to attack any Congressperson or media that gets in Donny’s way
Hey Donny, why wouldn’t the news be “fake” when they do factual reporting on a fake president?
re: #267 darthstar
Comey lied.
About what?
Comey lied. Comey lie. He lie.
Can you be more specific?
Lie. Privilege.
Apparently the drone’s batteries died as it searched in vain for a Kodak film drop kiosk in mall parking lots around Seoul.
A suspected North Korea drone photographed a US missile-defense site in South Korea https://t.co/woLjUQS0Lj
— helixion12 (@helixion12) June 13, 2017
Trump’s cabinet offers a postgraduate-level course in ass-kissing.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Congratulations!
‘First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania’ https://t.co/aIRllxNLQA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2017
Now let’s get to work on those VCR factories! https://t.co/qA3qD7PwJS
— Travon Free (@Travon) June 12, 2017
re: #221 FormerDirtDart
I’m guessing someone is in the bathroom…
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Lynch/Clinton has been getting major coverage at Fox, so it figures.
re: #273 FormerDirtDart
Congratulations!
‘First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania’ insider.foxnews.com
— Donald J. Trump
Soon we will have new coal mines in every state where all you people will be required to work 12 hours a day.
re: #274 Barefoot Grin
Lynch/Clinton has been getting major coverage at Fox, so it figures.
President Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Lynch should be impeached.
re: #273 FormerDirtDart
Congratulations!
‘First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania’ insider.foxnews.com
— Donald J. Trump
Isn’t there a Constitutional prohibition against Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
re: #273 FormerDirtDart
Congratulations!
‘First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania’ insider.foxnews.com
— Donald J. Trump
When do Donny Jr and Eric report for duty? Good, old fashioned hard work would be good for the boys.
You know why coal miners never tweet their appreciation for your using them as props? They’re a half mile under the fucking ground.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 13, 2017
re: #267 darthstar
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 13, 2017
re: #273 FormerDirtDart
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Seventy.
I don’t mean to minimize what the work means to those 70 families, but…
Looking for some pre-Sessions entertainment? See Tillerson use words.
COMING UP: Tillerson testifies at a Senate committee, likely to face questions on Qatar, North Korea, Russia https://t.co/b8o3w5ySJB pic.twitter.com/PQ0YZg3Ufi
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) June 13, 2017
The Democratic line need to be, every time: “Comey’s testimony only backs up what Trump already confessed to, obstruction of justice.”
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) June 13, 2017
re: #234 Shiplord Kirel
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#TuesdayTreat - #TheResistance #resist @SheriffClarke How’s that unannounced @DHSgov position working out for ya, Cowboy Rapey? pic.twitter.com/jFXv0OHxRG
— Russian Intelligence (@chance4gardener) June 13, 2017
NBA champion Warriors skipping the White House visit, as a unanimous team decision per reports.
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 13, 2017
This Syrian artist has re-imagined Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and other world leaders as refugees https://t.co/XMj4PUV5U8 pic.twitter.com/iyP7vc93p3
— CNN (@CNN) June 13, 2017
.@JoeNBC not holding back, says it’s “deeply un-American to turn a cabinet meeting…into a cheerleading routine.” pic.twitter.com/KoFdLhgfkc
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 13, 2017
re: #286 darthstar
NBA champion Warriors skipping the White House visit, as a unanimous team decision per reports.
No President has ever been subjected to such persecution…
Sorry if posted - not finished my first cuppa
Big scoop
Trump’s personal attorney has been boasting he got @PreetBharara fired: https://t.co/FVUGUp72LL pic.twitter.com/VZIntogQMP
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 13, 2017
If so, this ties to Sessions as he is the one who fired Bharara.
re: #288 MsJ
Good grief, Joe, can’t you say something about the terrible Shakespeare in the park thing like every other wingnut?
/
re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was reading some of the responses to that tweet. Some good ones, they should visit Obama, they should give a “45” jersey to the pop vote winner. Then someone said they should actually give it to Bernie since he would have won. I closed twitter and resisted the urge to throw my phone across the room.
And a Kasowitz partner is said to be a potential pick to replace Bharara. Whatta town! https://t.co/uyZjsT2HWx
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 13, 2017
re: #278 Sir John Barron
When do Donny Jr and Eric report for duty? Good, old fashioned hard work would be good for the boys.
Builds character.
Shit, they’ll need to work the rest of their lives there.
re: #286 darthstar
No one has been subjected to such viciousness as President Trump has. This is just more proof. /ivanka
re: #267 darthstar
Sean McCabe @darthstar99
The Jeff Sessions Bingo drinking game has only four squares:
Can’t recall
Executive Privilege
Can’t Discuss in open session
5th Amendment
8:48 AM - 13 Jun 2017 * San Francisco, CA
2 2 Retweets 2 2 likes
Given that Sessions perjured himself during his confirmation hearings and suffered no consequences for that action, why should anyone believe anything he has to say today that supports Trump’s narrative?
re: #284 Decatur Deb
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If I were on twitter, I’d definitely follow the Preet tweets.
NEW: Trump personal atty. Marc Kasowitz boasted that he got Preet Bharara fired https://t.co/KIY7OgZ2qj from @eisingerj and me pic.twitter.com/M8LHbmPwlA
— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) June 13, 2017
Sheesh, I haven’t even had my covfefe yet. https://t.co/50v0h1I3uF
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 13, 2017
I want!
“Now, I am the wiper.” pic.twitter.com/iN0HgsAMTJ
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) June 13, 2017
re: #292 Sir John Barron
Good grief, Joe, can’t you say something about the terrible Shakespeare in the park thing like every other wingnut?
/
And in case anyone missed this, a more thoughtful take on the Shakespeare in the Park and Julius Caesar, etc.
re: #281 lizardofid
The story says the facility provided 70 positions.
Seventy.
I don’t mean to minimize what the work means to those 70 families, but…
In an economy in which about a million jobs are lost and 1.2 million jobs are created every month. Tesla has more employees than all the US coal mines combined. Disney World has more employees. The U.S. isn’t going to become a nation of coal miners and steel workers; that era has come and gone.
re: #291 Stanley Sea
Sorry if posted - not finished my first cuppa
Big scoop
If so, this ties to Sessions as he is the one who fired Bharara.
This is fine. Everything is f….
re: #294 darthstar
I don’t think she’s a Trump supporter, though.
re: #306 Sir John Barron
I don’t think she’s a Trump supporter, though.
Maybe not, but she’s got the process all wrong.
re: #304 Big Beautiful Door
In an economy in which about a million jobs are lost and 1.2 million jobs are created every month. Tesla has more employees than all the US coal mines combined. Disney World has more employees. The U.S. isn’t going to become a nation of coal miners and steel workers; that era has come and gone.
Truth. How coal became such a gop talking point is beyond my ken.
re: #142 JordanRules
Really good thread wrapping this whole thing up in a nice package for the idiot Rep Duffy.
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Great explanation, but I think it’s way over Sean Duffy’s head (it uses words of more than one syllable.) Maybe his Fox-guestin’ wife can explain it to him. Nah—she’s even more of an idiot than he is.
re: #79 kirkspencer
acrophobic. Acrophobic. not agoraphobic. (aaack. learn to double check THEN post.)
Pretty sure both phobias fit in this scenario. But, the acrophobia is the one that is going to click in people’s brain more.
re: #309 BeachDem
Great explanation, but I think it’s way over Sean Duffy’s head (it uses words of more than one syllable.) Maybe his Fox-guestin’ wife can explain it to him. Nah—she’s even more of an idiot than he is.
Hey dunno if you saw yesterday but Sellers wrote a very nice piece on Perriello for CNN.
re: #305 Sir John Barron
This is fine. Everything is f….
I won’t be surprised if Rudy is involved in this somehow.
re: #308 lizardofid
Truth. How coal became such a gop talking point is beyond my ken.
It demonstrates how blue-collar the GOP really is. Ignore the tax cuts and the healthcare eliminations.
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re: #312 Barefoot Grin
I won’t be surprised if Rudy is involved in this somehow.
I haven’t seen or heard from him in a while. But he’s no doubt up to no good.
re: #308 lizardofid
Truth. How coal became such a gop talking point is beyond my ken.
Because it’s part of their plan to loosen environmental restrictions and destroy the planet.
re: #303 Sir John Barron
Very good article. I also think the fact the Public is producing this play and also introduced “Hamilton” (which the uncouth one hates) is another reason why the alt-right is going nuts over this. That and most have no idea of the Ben Johnson quote that Wm Shakespeare is for the ages.
re: #311 HappyWarrior
Have you voted yet? :)
re: #300 lizardofid
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re: #312 Barefoot Grin
I won’t be surprised if Rudy is involved in this somehow.
Up to his eyeballs. I hope that comes out.
I’m the only one here. Local Dem organization left. Republicans are long gone. And our opponent (delegate primary) was here but has no surrogates here.
re: #315 Hecuba’s daughter
Because it’s part of their plan to loosen environmental restrictions and destroy the planet.
It ties back to a simpler time, when white men could get a good paycheck for mindless, menial work, lynch a black man on the way home, and expect the wife to have dinner ready.
re: #128 Targetpractice
Hey Bethesda, I understand Skyrim was a totally awesome game that really helped define the western RPG genre for a good year or so. But it was released in 2011. Just how many times are you gonna try to make me buy that damned game?!
I get something from them two or three times a week plugging it.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Alex Jones wants Trump to make a “military move” against his enemies in Washington: Video pic.twitter.com
— Media Matters
Sure can’t wait for Megyn Kelly’s prime time interview with this intriguing man.
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re: #134 Targetpractice
So yeah, if I should disappear from about July 19th to July 24th, I’m not dead. I’m just playing Destiny 2. And swearing oaths against PS4 players who got to start playing a day earlier.
Ooooo. I hadn’t heard the beta release dates yet. And, PS4 wins the day again. First to play and more loot.
re: #325 Sir John Barron
Sure can’t wait for Megyn Kelly’s prime time interview with this intriguing man.
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It’s so funny seeing Jones become a bootlicker for authoritarianism. Not surprised but amused nonetheless.
re: #2 Unshaken Defiance
So he may fire Mueller? What limit will finally appear to stop Donald Trump? Only that which we have already seen. Our courts are doing the hard labor so far. Congress simply will not act.
Obama is acting like a king! True American Patriots must overthrow. Also, President Trump can fire whoever he wants and do whatever he wants.
Loading up on Benadryl and hydrocortisone and going back to bed—after 3 days in the woods I got hit by 28+ fire ant bites in my own driveway.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
It’s so funny seeing Jones become a bootlicker for authoritarianism. Not surprised but amused nonetheless.
[AlexJones]President Obama is trying to destroy his enemies and planning something called Jade Helm which will use Muslim Mexican immigrants take over America and we must destroy Obama or be destroyed. Also President Trump should eliminate his enemies by any means necessary. Liberty. [/AlexJones]
re: #328 Sir John Barron
Obama is acting like a king! True American Patriots must overthrow. Also, President Trump can fire whoever he wants and do whatever he wants.
I’m reminded about the constant bitching about EOs in the Obama years.
re: #318 Decatur Deb
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re: #329 Decatur Deb
Drink plenty of fluids. Benadryl can dry one out. I hope you feel better soon.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
It’s so funny seeing Jones become a bootlicker for authoritarianism. Not surprised but amused nonetheless.
It’s his true posture. The 8 years of anti-Obama agitating were unnatural for him.
BTW who’s shocked how quiet Ron Paul is? Always thought he was a crypto-authoritarian at heart.
re: #323 Belafon
It ties back to a simpler time, when white men could get a good paycheck for mindless, menial work, lynch a black man on the way home, and expect the wife to have dinner ready.
And when dinner wasn’t on the table, slap her around without anyone complaining about it.
re: #335 HappyWarrior
BTW who’s shocked how quiet Ron Paul is? Always thought he was a crypto-authoritarian at heart.
He still alive? Rand Paul has been pretty quiet, too.
re: #334 Sir John Barron
It’s his true posture. The 8 years of anti-Obama agitating were unnatural for him.
To be fair, he hated Bush too tho.
re: #338 HappyWarrior
To be fair, he hated Bush too tho.
DJT is his real soul-mate. He probably never liked W for all his “compassionate conservatism” and “Islam is not the enemy” stuff.
re: #340 Sir John Barron
DJT is his real soul-mate. He probably never liked W for all his “compassionate conservatism” and “Islam is not the enemy” stuff.
Very true.
re: #304 Big Beautiful Door
The solar industry employs 4x as many workers as coal mines:
The first number — 260,000 U.S. solar workers — stems from the 2016 edition of the National Solar Jobs Census, which is published by the Solar Foundation, a nonprofit organization aligned with the solar industry. We confirmed that, according to the foundation’s calculations, there were 260,077 solar workers in the United States in 2016.
The second number — unstated in the op-ed, but equaling 87,000 workers employed in coal mining, if you do the math — actually overstates the number of mine workers. According to the Energy Information Administration, a part of the federal Energy Department, the number of people working at coal mines was 65,971 in 2016. The actual ratio between the two numbers would be almost four-to-one.
Coal mining is a dying industry.
Workers in that industry are doing more work to achieve the same output, which is benefit of mechanization, automation, and a longstanding trend in industry.
re: #340 Sir John Barron
DJT is his real soul-mate. He probably never liked W for all his “compassionate conservatism” and “Islam is not the enemy” stuff.
DJT is who the base always wanted. They got saddled with George HW Bush, Dole, McCain, W. But DJT speaks their language, embodies their ugliest instincts.
Most voters are nice. You do get an occasional jerk though.
re: #332 lizardofid
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Anti-gun violence group formed by Sandy Hook parents has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event due to her interview of Alex Jones. It might be worth it if she was going to roast Jones like the British did, but what are the odds of that?
re: #346 Big Beautiful Door
Anti-gun violence group formed by Sandy Hook parents has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event due to her interview of Alex Jones. It might be worth it if she was going to roast Jones like the British did, but what are the odds of that?
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re: #304 Big Beautiful Door
The U.S. isn’t going to become a nation of coal miners and steel workers; that era has come and gone.
It’s about symbolism. The symbolism of hard-working white people doing jobs that require little education and few skills.
And an economy that measures progress and prosperity on how much we produce and consume, not how well or efficiently we do so.
The Wall and the Muslim Ban are also symbols of our resolve to maintain our cultural and ethnic purity.
re: #346 Big Beautiful Door
Anti-gun violence group formed by Sandy Hook parents has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event due to her interview of Alex Jones. It might be worth it if she was going to roast Jones like the British did, but what are the odds of that?
Slim to shit.
re: #346 Big Beautiful Door
Anti-gun violence group formed by Sandy Hook parents has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event due to her interview of Alex Jones. It might be worth it if she was going to roast Jones like the British did, but what are the odds of that?
How did they ever consider her as host to start with? Every Fox person is a gun fucker from the get go. WTF were they thinking?
re: #350 MsJ
How did they ever consider her as host to start with? Every Fox person is a gun fucker from the get go. WTF were they thinking?
Yeah I don’t get it.
re: #310 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Pretty sure both phobias fit in this scenario. But, the acrophobia is the one that is going to click in people’s brain more.
Acro- is the prefix for heights, as in acrobats, who sometimes perform high up.
Agora- comes from the Greek word for public squares, which were wide open spaces.
At least, that’s how I keep them apart.
re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s about symbolism. The symbolism of hard-working white people doing jobs that require little education and few skills.
And an economy that measures progress and prosperity on how much we produce and consume, not how well or efficiently we do so.
The Wall and the Muslim Ban are also symbols of our resolve to maintain our cultural and ethnic purity.
I think so, yes. Symbols. Transparent symbols, the nature of their transparency allowing the them to be seen only from a narrow angle of perspective, in a light that is of just the right, very narrow, spectrum.
The right always does do well on symbols and sound bite politics.
Shutterbug news flash: Tamron is offering $130 off its 16-300mm All-in-One for Father’s Day.
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re: #354 HappyWarrior
The right always does do well on symbols and sound bite politics.
As soon as “trending on Twitter” became a valid news item, I have feared for the future of our republic…
The Democrats are allowing the AHCA to go through without objection so they can focus on Russia. Destroy this party. Leave them.
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 13, 2017
Man, @JStein_Vox has a knack for causing a riot on Left Twitter https://t.co/eeWywHNFBb
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 13, 2017
re: #357 FormerDirtDart
I missed the part where Dems were conceding on the AHCA.
re: #357 FormerDirtDart
Someone needs to supply Eoin with the picture of Stein sitting with Flynn and the Russians and ask who’s trying to destroy everything. Most of us Democrats can handle multiple things.
re: #359 Sir John Barron
I missed the part where Dems were conceding on the AHCA.
Maybe they’re supposed to storm the private meetings with guns.
re: #361 Belafon
Maybe they’re supposed to storm the private meetings with guns.
[moonbat]REVOLUTION!!1![/moonbat]
$23M for accomplishing nothing…
Verizon completes $4.5B Yahoo deal; Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer resigns with $23M severance package https://t.co/xVqbN5QpzA pic.twitter.com/k1luSFmL1O
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 13, 2017
re: #364 FormerDirtDart
$23M for accomplishing nothing…
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Must be nice. I am no socialist but this is the kind of stuff that draws people to it.
re: #337 Sir John Barron
He still alive? Rand Paul has been pretty quiet, too.
The Pauls are being out nutted by Trump craziness. America can only handle so much and we are already at max with Trumpers.
The only hope for any Republican to stand out now is to act like a decent human being and politician.
re: #364 FormerDirtDart
Verizon completes $4.5B Yahoo deal; Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer resigns with $23M severance package
this is why we cannot raise the minimum wage…it would demoralize job creators like this one…
Graham: do political donations disqualify someone from working w/ spec counsel? “No, senator. It is not a disqualification,” Rosenstein says
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) June 13, 2017
re: #337 Sir John Barron
He still alive? Rand Paul has been pretty quiet, too.
Rand was on CNN yesterday spouting BS for the yam.
re: #366 ObserverArt
The Pauls are being out nutted by Trump craziness. America can only handle so much and we are already at max with Trumpers.
The only hope for any Republican to stand out now is to act like a decent human being and politician.
that will just lead to them being ostracized from the party for being disloyal
re: #366 ObserverArt
The Pauls are being out nutted by Trump craziness. America can only handle so much and we are already at max with Trumpers.
The only hope for any Republican to stand out now is to act like a decent human being and politician.
True. The dTump craziness has gone beyond them. The Pauls are like, Hey we never really meant any of this stuff…..
The event was billed as a showdown with “Antifa,” or anti-fascist, protesters. A Houston branch of the left-wing group had allegedly called for a protest June 10 demanding the removal of the Sam Houston Monument on the grounds that Houston was a slaveholder. That appears to have been a hoax, as the Houston Press previously reported. On Saturday, no Antifa demonstrators showed up, disappointing some of the more than 200 counter-protesters who spoke to the Press.Instead, organizers of This Is Texas clashed briefly with a small faction of protestors carrying Confederate flags. The organizers kicked the group out of the main demonstration, and the Confederate flag bearers retreated to a different protest site across the street.
Flying Confederate flags to support Sam Houston? The same Sam Houston, an ardent Unionist, who was ran out of office because he refused to support secession?
re: #321 HappyWarrior
I’m the only one here. Local Dem organization left. Republicans are long gone. And our opponent (delegate primary) was here but has no surrogates here.
Are you there all day or just working a shift?
re: #374 Timothy Watson
Flying Confederate flags to support Sam Houston? The same Sam Houston, an ardent Unionist, who was ran out of office because he refused to support secession?
Houston was a patriot.
🚨 KASICH: “I don’t have a problem with phasing down the enhanced federal payments” for Medicaid expansion. 🚨https://t.co/Ds7WTy3EWs
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 13, 2017
Kasich is not a Senator but he’s *the* face of moderate GOP opposition to Medicaid cuts. Something really could pass soon. https://t.co/csTwEycbYi
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 13, 2017
🚨 KASICH: “I don’t have a problem with phasing down the enhanced federal payments” for Medicaid expansion. 🚨https://t.co/Ds7WTy3EWs
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 13, 2017
So much for @JohnKasich being a moderate or different kind of Republican. Backs throwing 14 million off Medicaid. What a joke. https://t.co/7UU1y9PsIT
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 13, 2017
Update: @JWGOP says that Kasich won’t support any plan that causes people to lose their Medicaid coverage. Hope he talks to Portman. https://t.co/pEQmfr4Qlj
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 13, 2017
re: #376 Timothy Watson
Are you there all day or just working a shift?
There as long as they need me. I was originally going to the office today but my boss said I need not come in. Wrote him a memo on Ralph and Tom, I was fair- I praised Ralph’s record on choice, guns, & his career as a physician.
Chris Ruddy told me Sean Spicer called him last night asking him to issue a statement saying he didn’t talk to Trump about Mueller. 1/2
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 13, 2017
2/2 Ruddy declined: “I never claimed I spoke to the president, so why would I issue a statement saying I didn’t speak to the president?”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 13, 2017
Ruddy also told me Spicer’s shop is “amateur hour” and has “done such a poor job exposing the special counsel and defending the president.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 13, 2017
ha ha
re: #379 HappyWarrior
There as long as they need me.
Just to warn you, never tell an organizer that. :)
re: #381 Timothy Watson
Just to warn you, never tell an organizer that. :)
I’m good. Have had some good conversations actually.
re: #374 Timothy Watson
Flying Confederate flags to support Sam Houston? The same Sam Houston, an ardent Unionist, who was ran out of office because he refused to support secession?
Historical nuance is lost on them. Sam Houston who fought for Texan independence from Mexico so they could retain the right to own slaves…
re: #382 HappyWarrior
Amateurs.
Thank god. Imagine the crazy shit Republicans want to do with qualified people at the top?
And if we don’t smack this down now and for good (HA!) that is likely our future anyway.
re: #380 Stanley Sea
Ruddy also told me Spicer’s shop is “amateur hour” and has “done such a poor job exposing the special counsel and defending the president.”
— Philip Rucker
We have always been at war with special counsels and Robert Mueller.
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re: #380 Stanley Sea
Longtime Trump observer: “Do you really think Trump’s never talked about firing Mueller?” Then notes DJT talks about firing everybody.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 13, 2017
re: #385 MsJ
Thank god. Imagine the crazy shit Republicans want to do with qualified people at the top?
And if we don’t smack this down now and for good (HA!) that is likely our future anyway.
Yep that’s a saving grace.
re: #387 Stanley Sea
The uncouth one lives for firing people.
re: #389 PhillyPretzel
The uncouth one lives for firing people.
Had an entire show based on the idea.
Donald Trump just held the weirdest Cabinet meeting ever
Once Trump finished touting his administration’s accomplishments, he turned to several of his newly-minted Cabinet secretaries like Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Each of those Cabinet secretaries lavished praise on Trump, which he accepted without comment but with a broad smile.
At first, I thought Trump was just going to have the new members of the Cabinet spend a few minutes praising him. NOPE! It soon became clear that Trump planned to have every Cabinet member speak. And when I say “speak” what I really mean is “praise Trump for his accomplishments, his foresight, his just being awesome.”
You think I am exaggerating. I am not. Here’s what White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said about Trump: “We thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda.”I mean, WHAT?!?
re: #390 Belafon
Had an entire show based on the idea.
And now he is living in the Greatest Reality Show Of All Time.
RATINGS!!!!!!!
re: #390 Belafon
Yes. That is why I said that.
re: #311 HappyWarrior
Hey dunno if you saw yesterday but Sellers wrote a very nice piece on Perriello for CNN.
I did—great article. I replied to your comment, but the thread was dead, Jim.
Trump has blocked me from reading his tweets. I may have to kill myself.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Must re-watch this vid!
Congrats to the @Warriors on their #NBAFinals win! (Guess that coaching paid off, @StephenCurry30!) https://t.co/mvX5TvfNHz
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 13, 2017
re: #395 Ace-o-aces
Can’t wait for the first lawsuit saying POTUS blocking someone on twitter is in violation of the First Amendment. Specifically the ability “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
re: #395 Ace-o-aces
Was anyone every blocked by Obama (or his social people)?
re: #386 Sir John Barron
We have always been at war with special counsels and Robert Mueller.
/
“Exposing the special counsel” will now be the gold standard for DJT loyalists.
GOP members of congress will now be required to condemn Mueller to the media and to their constituents.
re: #397 Franklin
Can’t wait for the first lawsuit saying POTUS blocking someone on twitter is in violation of the First Amendment. Specifically the ability “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
People have already sued.
re: #263 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Looks like Trump/GOP/Koch are moving ahead with their plan to shred the Bears Ears National Monument so they can exploit this sensitive natural habitat and essential ancestral lands of Native Americans.
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A thought… Why would you want to hack campaign financing databases? The obvious answer is to see who donated what and use it as leverage.
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re: #397 Franklin
Can’t wait for the first lawsuit saying POTUS blocking someone on twitter is in violation of the First Amendment. Specifically the ability “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I think that is currently in the works.
Yup… forbes.com
re: #355 wheat-dogg
There’s only one lens I crave at the moment, and it’s the Tamron 150-600, which would give me the following lens kit: Sigma 8-16 wide angle; Sigma 17-50 2.8 (my go-to lens); Canon 50 1.8 prime; and a Tamron 28-300 3.5-5.6 zoom. I have a 800mm mirror, but that’s seldom used due to manual focus and it’s a beast to carry around.
re: #400 Timothy Watson
re: #404 MsJ
Thanks, reading this Verge article as well:
It’s just petty as h*ck anyway. Someone with that many followers doesn’t (or rather, shouldn’t) read their Twitter timeline or @’s. Just too much data and spam.
So he’s blocking as “punishment” so that user can’t see his tweets. Not to protect him from seeing that users @’s.
Granted you can just log out to view his tweets anyway (or follow @unfollowtrump)
re: #396 Stanley Sea
Must re-watch this vid!
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The contrast with what we have now gives me vertigo.
Nowhere in America can full-time minimum wage worker afford to rent two-bedroom apartment. https://t.co/rdv9Q7PbTw
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 13, 2017
.@ColbertLateShow: Trump’s cabinet meeting was an “unprecedented public stroke-fest” https://t.co/GAqsIZ8xZ9 pic.twitter.com/Zv6NwL53Mh
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 13, 2017
Trump’s Tweets Must Now Be Taken Seriously
The 9th Circuit’s travel ban ruling declares the president’s Twitter feed is a legally binding stream of consciousness.
re: #406 Franklin
His spawn are also blocking people from seeing their tweets - mostly because they’re getting hammered on the fact that their daddy is a liar, fraud, swindler, and incompetent know-nothing.
So, the Flat Earth fad is raging still on youtube…
America, we’re so lost.
re: #412 freetoken
So, the Flat Earth fad is raging still on youtube…
America, we’re so lost.
Because my facts are as good as anybody else’s facts. Why should elitists get to determine what is a “fact”?
re: #405 lawhawk
I just bought the Canon 10-22 from a friend. Seems fair he had not missed it while i borrowed it for months. :-) That filled me in nicely where I want wide. I’m learning the investment in the lens far exceeds the cameras in lasting value. I look at it like this, I have lenses from decades ago I can use. Cameras? None digital, few film. Lenses from the 1950’s are treasured by movie studios and rental houses for them. Well I should say each decade has some sets that are just the thing for a certain look. Be it a movie being filmed or digitally captured on a Red or Arri.
re: #346 Big Beautiful Door
Anti-gun violence group formed by Sandy Hook parents has dumped Megyn Kelly as host of an event due to her interview of Alex Jones. It might be worth it if she was going to roast Jones like the British did, but what are the odds of that?
I’m trying to figure out why they were going to have her as the host in the first place.
CONDITIONS for any interview: Previously granted permission from senator AND Rules Committee of Senate
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
The Senate Radio TV Press Gallery
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Mitt Romney sends fundraising appeal for @karenhandel in #ga06 race #gapol pic.twitter.com/ca78HI41Fe
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) June 13, 2017
Nah.
Here is my statement regarding Sunday night’s interview: pic.twitter.com/iS2VfyLt6S
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 13, 2017
Definitely will need to see her response v. retweet stats
re: #420 Stanley Sea
Nah.
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Megyn Kelly is a freaking idiot if she thinks her fawning, slobbering interview will do anything but promote Alex Jones.
re: #378 FormerDirtDart
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John Kasich is a moderate like Lindsey Graham is a “thoughtful” Republican. Smoke and mirrors, my friends, smoke and mirrors.
A reporter asks Sen. Lindsey Graham if he knows any details on the Senate GOP health care bill. “None.” Would you like to know more? “No.”
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 12, 2017
The action for which then PFC McCloughan is honored for occurred 7 months after young Donald received his first medical draft deferment.
While McCloughan was drafted after graduating from Olivet College, young Donald was reclassified to 1-A status in July ‘68, after graduating from Wharton, before receiving a 1-Y classification (essentially medical exemption since Vietnam wasn’t a “war” nor “national emergency) in Oct ‘68.
BREAKING: President Trump to award Medal of Honor to Vietnam veteran James C. McCloughan. He was a medic who risked his life to save others. pic.twitter.com/Nund3C0OY5
— ArmyTimes (@ArmyTimes) June 13, 2017
What does it say about America when a person like Alex Jones can offer such vile and ignorant conspiracy theories and not be laughed off the air?
re: #416 BeachDem
I’m trying to figure out why they were going to have her as the host in the first place.
That’s exactly what I said above. It makes no sense to me, even if she might bring in money. Gun fuckers (everyone at Fox) goes (or should go) against everything this group is about.
I am completely baffled by this. Completely.
Getting back to my central hypothesis: The reason America is such an easy target for these workers, the reason there are so many marks, is because we have not dealt very well as a society with the loss of God problem.
We are searching for alternative things in which to believe.
re: #350 MsJ
How did they ever consider her as host to start with? Every Fox person is a gun fucker from the get go. WTF were they thinking?
All I can think is people thought Megyn was some sort of big star of the media and were glad to have her speak. And if that is the case it makes me wonder if people really have paid attention to what is going on in this country politically.
When it comes to Fox News, do they watch it critically asking questions and going to other media to check out other angles to the story? Or do they just open up their brains and allow Fox to march in and occupy the empty spaces?
Do people take this stuff as seriously as they should? Well, I’d say no they don’t. That is how we end up with Trump.
Just more ignorance, the biggest problem this country has.
re: #427 FormerDirtDart
The action for which then PFC McCloughan is honored for occurred 7 months after young Donald received his first medical draft deferment.
While McCloughan was drafted after graduating from Olivet College, young Donald was reclassified to 1-A status in July ‘68, after graduating from Wharton, before receiving a 1-Y classification (essentially medical exemption since Vietnam wasn’t a “war” nor “national emergency) in Oct ‘68.
I can’t imagine DJT awarding someone else. This will somehow have to turn into a moment about Him.
re: #431 freetoken
Getting back to my central hypothesis: The reason America is such an easy target for these workers, the reason there are so many marks, is because we have not dealt very well as a society with the loss of God problem.
We are searching for alternative things in which to believe.
We are not dealing well with theological issues: a large section of America has fled into fundamentalist Biblical literalism, others into esotericism and exotic religions to which they have no cultural connection and others into simple godlessness.
re: #420 Stanley Sea
Q: “How does Jones…have the respect of the president of the United States?”
A: Trump is an idiot.
There, now you don’t need interview.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 13, 2017
re: #433 Sir John Barron
I can’t imagine DJT awarding someone else. This will somehow have to turn into a moment about Him.
Maybe he thinks it’s the guy in the Mel Gibson movie. Trump lives Hollywood.
re: #359 Sir John Barron
I missed the part where Dems were conceding on the AHCA.
Yeah…how can Bernie let this happen?
re: #432 ObserverArt
All I can think is people thought Megyn was some sort of big star of the media and were glad to have her speak. And if that is the case it makes me wonder if people really have paid attention to what is going on in this country politically.
When it comes to Fox News, do they watch it critically asking questions and going to other media to check out other angles to the story? Or do they just open up their brains and allow Fox to march in and occupy the empty spaces?
Do people take this stuff as seriously as they should? Well, I’d say no they don’t. That is how we end up with Trump.
Just more ignorance, the biggest problem this country has.
Usually Fox is the employer of last resort. Megyn is the first (IIrC) to leave Fox for a better job at another network.
re: #436 MsJ
Maybe he thinks it’s the guy in the Mel Gibson movie. Trump lives Hollywood.
Nah, that guy was a conscientious objector who wouldn’t carry or use a gun. Trump would probably ridicule him, “I like soldiers who kill the enemy, not pussies.”
re: #434 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We are not dealing well with theological issues: a large section of America has fled into fundamentalist Biblical literalism, others into esotericism and exotic religions to which they have no cultural connection and others into simple godlessness.
“Reality and our Brave New World is too hard, I’ll cocoon myself in church. “
gah
re: #438 Birth Control Works
That’s a parody site. However we know Todd Akin and other Republicans have actually said similar things.
re: #431 freetoken
Getting back to my central hypothesis: The reason America is such an easy target for these workers, the reason there are so many marks, is because we have not dealt very well as a society with the loss of God problem.
We are searching for alternative things in which to believe.
It’s much simpler: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
That’s a parody site. However we know Tood Akin and other Republicans have actually said similar things.
Yeah, parody is too close to reality.
re: #418 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m surmising that the Senate GOP wants to limit how much gets out about their actions, especially their attempts to ram through Trumpcare under cover of darkness.
These fuckers are trying to hide their actions across the board from all Americans. And they’ll do so by hiding behind arbitrary and capricious rules that make no sense given that the existing protocol has worked for years with no issues.
re: #437 ObserverArt
Yeah…how can Bernie let this happen?
Not Bernie’s fault. He’s not a Dem. He’s just in the Senate to bash real Dems.
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re: #420 Stanley Sea
Nah.
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Update on the Truck incident in Stockholm, Sweden earlier this morning:
42-year old male detained on suspicion of attempted murder. Has 55 points in his rap sheet, known customer of law enforcement.
In other news in Sweden this morning:
Wingnut attacks Iraqi refugees with car
Pic of the back of his car: svtstatic.se
re: #438 Birth Control Works
Holy shit. I swear I thought that was bullshit.
West VA Republican Says Rape Pregnancies Are ‘God Putting One In You https://t.co/4Pag1LPPWH and apologizes-sorta https://t.co/iV0GyRMz6k
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 13, 2017
re: #439 Birth Control Works
Usually Fox is the employer of last resort. Megyn is the first (IIrC) to leave Fox for a better job at another network.
The sewer spreading its filth. Like fern spores.
Makes me fucking sick.
re: #440 Timothy Watson
Nah, that guy was a conscientious objector who wouldn’t carry or use a gun. Trump would probably ridicule him, “I like soldiers who kill the enemy, not pussies.”
Trump’s not exactly a details kinda guy. :-)
Christian Extremist Josh Duggar Says He Is The Victim
June 7, 2017 by Michael Stone 47 Comments
Child molester and Christian extremist Josh Duggar says he is the victim, and is suing the parties responsible for releasing information about his child molestation case.
TMZ reports:Duggar filed documents to join the lawsuit Jill, Jessa, Jinger and Joy filed last month. In his docs, Josh says cops assured him his 2006 interview discussing the molestation of his sisters would remain private. He says since he wasn’t charged, the information wouldn’t have gone public … if the reports weren’t released to In Touch magazine.
Duggar says once the story came out, it caused him mental anguish and humiliation. He played up the sympathy card in the docs, saying he was “victimized and forced to relieve the painful and difficult circumstances of a traumatic experience as a juvenile.”
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
That’s a parody site. However we know Tood Akin and other Republicans have actually said similar things.
USA Today says not.
A West Virginia lawmaker has apologized for saying that while rape is awful, a child that results from a rape is beautiful.
The comment from state Rep. Brian Kurcaba was made Thursday when members of the West Virginia House of Delegates debated a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill does not allow for an exemption in cases of rape.
re: #427 FormerDirtDart
The action for which then PFC McCloughan is honored for occurred 7 months after young Donald received his first medical draft deferment.
While McCloughan was drafted after graduating from Olivet College, young Donald was reclassified to 1-A status in July ‘68, after graduating from Wharton, before receiving a 1-Y classification (essentially medical exemption since Vietnam wasn’t a “war” nor “national emergency) in Oct ‘68.
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Where will be the braying of those who complained when the Medal of Honor and other medals were received not for fighting the enemy, but for rescuing comrades in arms (medics).
re: #449 MsJ
Holy shit. I swear I thought that was bullshit.
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Haven’t you learned yet, that with wingnuts we are practically at a Poe convergence?
re: #431 freetoken
Getting back to my central hypothesis: The reason America is such an easy target for these workers, the reason there are so many marks, is because we have not dealt very well as a society with the loss of God problem.
We are searching for alternative things in which to believe.
Yeah that, or there’s an overabundance of dipshits reading these internets & walking these streets.
re: #433 Sir John Barron
I can’t imagine DJT awarding someone else. This will somehow have to turn into a moment about Him.
We may well hear trump opine that he “always wanted a Medal of Honor”
re: #459 The Vicious Babushka
Politicalgarbagechute is a parody site, wvmetronews is not.
So the first link is parody. He didn’t say it exactly like that. But he did say that rapey baby makin’ is a silver lining.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 13, 2017
This @juliaioffe story about Sessions’ activities in 2016 is so so good. My favorite part: https://t.co/HVtmBNwCqI pic.twitter.com/VDfdr9MQH6
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 13, 2017
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
That’s a parody site. However we know Tood Akin and other Republicans have actually said similar things.
Brainwrap/Charles Gaba has kind of dropped the updates, but it’s still an excellent resource.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Secret health care bill getting more secret? https://t.co/gs5JluKma2
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 13, 2017
Vlad is doing a little “happy dance”
European Commission to launch action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to take in refugees. https://t.co/9dNyuoSBvJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 13, 2017
re: #464 FormerDirtDart
Senate Democrats should have a reporter follow them everywhere.
Holocaust survivor delivers scathing testimony about ICE arrests https://t.co/pPOppQFcip via @HuffPostPol
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 13, 2017
Proclamation 342: Questions not ending in “How much do you love the President?” are hereby forbidden! pic.twitter.com/BkVuISz2IA
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 13, 2017
re: #460 lizardofid
We may well hear trump opine that he “always wanted a Medal of Honor”
Actually I already have a gold medal. I don’t show it off because I’m not a showboat like someone else I could name. I was an undercover secret agent who risked life and limb for this country. Believe me.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
This reminds WWR of his many years working in Russia; lack of transparency and accountability will only hurt the American people https://t.co/9F2P5uzs2u
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) June 13, 2017
It kinda makes me ill that Chris Ruddy is getting treated as a respectable representative of anything. Newsmax is only a shade different from Breitbart, and his message is “Spicer should be focused on assassinating Robert Mueller’s character rather than responding to me.”
re: #427 FormerDirtDart
The action for which then PFC McCloughan is honored for occurred 7 months after young Donald received his first medical draft deferment.
While McCloughan was drafted after graduating from Olivet College, young Donald was reclassified to 1-A status in July ‘68, after graduating from Wharton, before receiving a 1-Y classification (essentially medical exemption since Vietnam wasn’t a “war” nor “national emergency) in Oct ‘68.
Thank you for coming Mr. McCloughan. This ceremony is for you to give me a medal of honor for how great my presidency has already been so far.
re: #471 Barefoot Grin
It kinda makes me ill that Chris Ruddy is getting treated as a respectable representative of anything. Newsmax is only a shade different from Breitbart, and his message is “Spicer should be focused on assassinating Robert Mueller’s character rather than responding to me.”
Newsmax was Breitbart before Breitbart.
re: #471 Barefoot Grin
It kinda makes me ill that Chris Ruddy is getting treated as a respectable representative of anything. Newsmax is only a shade different from Breitbart, and his message is “Spicer should be focused on assassinating Robert Mueller’s character rather than responding to me.”
I was going to ask who Chris Ruddy was. No wonder he wants Mueller’s head.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
I was just told I cannot stand outside of the Budget Committee hearing room to interview lawmakers. https://t.co/gBdkztGLfO
— Kevin Cirilli (@kevcirilli) June 13, 2017
This is a profound assault on press freedom by Mitch McConnell. https://t.co/BUhuybfaz8
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 13, 2017
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
Alert the Tea Party which must hate this kind of elite behavior on the part of the Senate.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
The chair of the Senate Rules Committee, which is responsible for this decision is @SenShelby https://t.co/RVoFul0x3g
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 13, 2017
If you care about the press having access to your elected officials, call Sen Shelby’s various offices https://t.co/Ou1jpcjOO6 https://t.co/wwTpTN8AEE
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 13, 2017
And the new war with troops on the ground is about to begin.
“‘We are not winning in Afghanistan’: Defense Secretary Mattis” - https://t.co/RgsvieHAyS
— Desert Beacon (@DesertBeacon) June 13, 2017
On the plus side, secrecy in the Senate was a major feature of Caesar’s administration too.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 13, 2017
CONDITIONS for any interview: Previously granted permission from senator AND Rules Committee of Senate
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
So… would this be a safe space for Republican Senators trying to gut the US healthcare system?https://t.co/SNlXegxcMl
— Lee Drake (@BLeeDrake) June 13, 2017
And thread
NEW: The Sen Rules Cmte now wants us to request approval from them for EVERY on-cam interview of a Senator in the hallway we want to conduct
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 13, 2017
re: #479 MsJ
“‘We are not winning in Afghanistan’: Defense Secretary Mattis” - reuters.com
— Desert Beacon
I thought DJT was all about winning.
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Handmaids are in the Ohio statehouse protesting a bill that would ban most 2nd trimester abortions (via @ProChoiceOH). pic.twitter.com/vswbwPfqwW
— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) June 13, 2017
With Senate GOP pushing for more secrecy & limiting press action, Senate Democrats should encourage press to follow them around @SenSchumer
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 13, 2017
re: #469 Sir John Barron
Actually I already have a gold medal. I don’t show it off because I’m not a showboat like someone else I could name. I was an undercover secret agent who risked life and limb for this country. Believe me.
I gave myself an Intelligence Star because I’m not a puppet like Hillary!
re: #478 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wait why? https://t.co/JZLObj8K2d pic.twitter.com/d9vICTILww
— Tim Dotcom (@timothypmurphy) June 13, 2017
When someone has reached this place of delusion, their only pressing commitment is preserving the myth they’ve told themselves—and so their minds for all practical purposes are rendered nearly unchangeable. To reach a different conclusion would involve them rewriting the false story they’ve already convinced themselves of and vigorously defended, sometimes for years. To consider another alternative becomes a threat to their very identity—and so rather than arguing with one’s own mind, the much less complicated or time-consuming task is to simply tell it what it wants to hear regardless of whether or not it is real.
The person who has discarded truth is insulated from rationality. He or she will not respond to the presence of a cogent argument or the proffering of measurable facts. Any information not corresponding to the narrative they’ve predetermined will be immediately labeled “fake news” and quickly rejected. You cannot win a debate with such a person, you cannot craft compromise with them, and you cannot appeal to reason—unless you are too are willing to concede to fantasy in order to reach them where they are, and this is a steep and slippery slope.
Senator Manchin asks Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein who would name his replacement if Rosenstein is fired. The answer? President Trump.
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 13, 2017
re: #471 Barefoot Grin
It kinda makes me ill that Chris Ruddy is getting treated as a respectable representative of anything. Newsmax is only a shade different from Breitbart, and his message is “Spicer should be focused on assassinating Robert Mueller’s character rather than responding to me.”
And most of the time, they just refer to him as a yam confidant, not even mentioning Newsmax.
re: #479 MsJ
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No shit, NO BODY wins in Afghanistan except the heroin trade. Have we learned nothing from history.
re: #489 Backwoods_Sleuth
You mean who would name a new special counsel or no special counsel if Robert Mueller is fired?
re: #490 BeachDem
And most of the time, they just refer to him as a yam confidant, not even mentioning Newsmax.
newsmax is where I go when I want to find out what the party line and RW talking points are on any given issue
re: #492 Sir John Barron
You mean who would name a new special counsel or no special counsel if Robert Mueller is fired?
I think it is who would name a new Deputy AG. Which is odd to include as a tweet since the answer is obviously Trump.
re: #487 FormerDirtDart
A number of national park campgrounds are run by concessionaires, Delaware North and Aramark for instance. But this doesn’t help fund the infrastructure improvements that have been deferred/delayed thanks to budget cuts and deferred maintenance over the decades.
It’s another cash grab to privatize aspects of the parks system.
The Deputy Attorney General’s testimony that terms of Sessions’ recusal from Russia/Trump isn’t written down anywhere is deeply troubling
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 13, 2017
re: #495 Franklin
I think it is who would name a new Deputy AG. Which is odd to include as a tweet since the answer is obviously Trump.
Yeah that’s what I would assume.
re: #496 lawhawk
A number of national park campgrounds are run by concessionaires, Delaware North and Aramark for instance. But this doesn’t help fund the infrastructure improvements that have been deferred/delayed thanks to budget cuts and deferred maintenance over the decades.
It’s another cash grab to privatize aspects of the parks system.
There are plenty of businesses the government should not be directly involved in, but running and maintaining national parks, monuments and forests is certainly one that they are best suited to do.
re: #492 Sir John Barron
You mean who would name a new special counsel or no special counsel if Robert Mueller is fired?
After re-reading it, I think ACLU is saying if the Deputy AG is fired, then Mueller is fired, Trump would name special counsel since Sessions is recused. Welp.
re: #29 Targetpractice
A year ago, Jones would have sooner sold his testicles than defend the gov’t and would have gone apeshit over the suggestion that the Feds would use military force to put down critics.
Now he’s openly doing both.
Fuck this, I want off this ride!
i have a tshirt for that!
re: #500 Franklin
After re-reading it, I think ACLU is saying if the Deputy AG is fired, then Mueller is fired, Trump would name special counsel since Sessions is recused. Welp.
And DJT obviously won’t appoint a special counsel. Or he’ll point a bonified lackey, like Ivanka. He wasn’t pleased when DOJ (Rosenstein?) named one.
re: #500 Franklin
After re-reading it, I think ACLU is saying if the Deputy AG is fired, then Mueller is fired, Trump would name special counsel since Sessions is recused. Welp.
So, has anyone discovered a rational shadow goverment yet?
What we have learned (and already knew) is that if the Congress is in-cahoots with the Executive in covering something up, there is nothing the little man can do about it.
When Congress refuses to be a check against the abuses of the Executive, then the system designed by Jefferson and Madison et. al. simply fails.
The news orgs are going to have to get together and sue for access. The senate belongs to us, not McConnell.
re: #504 freetoken
What we have learned (and already knew) is that if the Congress is in-cahoots with the Executive in covering something up, there is nothing the little man can do about it.
When Congress refuses to be a check against the abuses of the Executive, then the system designed by Jefferson and Madison et. al. simply fails.
And that is what we have here. And we have Congress hiding the laws that it is supposedly drafting in our name to avoid discussion.
re: #505 Belafon
The news orgs are going to have to get together and sue for access. The senate belongs to us, not McConnell.
We are going to be bogged down in to inaction because of court cases. Those who are benefiting from chaos will love it.
re: #499 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are plenty of businesses the government should not be directly involved in, but running and maintaining national parks, monuments and forests is certainly one that they are best suited to do.
Didn’t the yam donate his first paycheck to a national park ranger?
The Budget for the National Parks is nothing.
There is reason to privatize.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
The 2 senators from my state are woke, should I still call them?
ACA is scarily close to being repealed. Here’s how to save it. Even if your senators are Dems you need to call them https://t.co/9virRswNZm
— Kathleen Geier (@Kathy__Gee) June 13, 2017
Local media in english about this mornings commotion in Stockholm:
o Radio Sweden: Police seize hit-and-run truck driver in Stockholm
o The Local: Suspect held after truck crashes into cars in Stockholm
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I use rye bread instead of a shovel when eating corned beef
Heh.
On Monday evening, a deranged man appeared in Midtown Manhattan to rant in front of a large and largely helpless audience about world affairs, those involving Russia in particular. The plainly disturbed individual was, by turns, incoherent, disingenuous and condescending. Most troubling of all was his insistence that he be taken seriously, when, in fact, he could only be taken ridiculously.
The man was identified as professional conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone.
Trump’s power broker resigns and sells stock one day after exposé reveals he’s a massive slumlord https://t.co/BYJd2kREZj
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 13, 2017
re: #511 Birth Control Works
Here’s an article that touches on something you’ve often said:
Why Dems who want 2B elected & lefties who want to end economic inequality need to support repro justice. My latest https://t.co/rBQDwqV1bw
— Kathleen Geier (@Kathy__Gee) May 31, 2017
Whenever the Democrats lose a major election, unhappy consequences are sure to follow. Among the most infuriating of these is the party’s unseemly haste to put women’s rights on the chopping block.
…
Abortion is an economic issue in two senses: First of all, it is about what class of women gets an abortion, and thus is most profoundly affected when abortion access is denied. Poor women have a rate of unintended pregnancy five times the rate of higher-income women (those with incomes at least 200 percent of the poverty level), and fully 75 percent of women who have abortions are poor or low-income. The reasons for the class disparity in abortion rates are a bit murky, but we do know that low-income women are less likely to have access to contraception and more likely to experience rape. In any case, the demographics of abortion make one thing clear: the war on abortion rights is a class war on poor women, full stop.
…
In addition to the stark class disparities of abortion, there is also the fact that having a child is among the most consequential economic decisions a woman will ever make. Because we live in a society that provides few resources to families, the burden of unpaid care work falls heavily on the shoulders of mothers.
re: #515 BeachDem
“He’s been through a lot. He’s been insulted and abused,” Stone said.
The audience expressed audible disgust.
“Abused in the press, in the media,” Stone explained dismissively.
Now the audience jeered. Stone flashed his sagging jowls, then continued in the manner of all shameless shills.
Hmm…sound familiar?
NEW: The Sen Rules Cmte now wants us to request approval from them for EVERY on-cam interview of a Senator in the hallway we want to conduct
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 13, 2017
If I hadn’t spent three years working in China, I’d say I’d never heard of such a thing… https://t.co/YRrShb5MkZ
— David J. Lynch (@davidjlynch) June 13, 2017
re: #512 Interesting Times
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re: #515 BeachDem
Heh.
On Monday evening, a deranged man appeared in Midtown Manhattan to rant in front of a large and largely helpless audience about world affairs, those involving Russia in particular. The plainly disturbed individual was, by turns, incoherent, disingenuous and condescending. Most troubling of all was his insistence that he be taken seriously, when, in fact, he could only be taken ridiculously.
The man was identified as professional conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone.
I caught the Colbert interview, and will withhold judgement until I have seen his docu on Putin.
If people make one mistake in assessing Putin, it is to see him in through the lens of a new Cold War. That is now what he is up to: he is a Russian nationalist out to expand the reach of Russian power, economic dominance, language and even Russian Orthodoxy, but only to the borders of the former Russian Empire.
re: #439 Birth Control Works
Usually Fox is the employer of last resort. Megyn is the first (IIrC) to leave Fox for a better job at another network.
I thought Major Garrett was first to leave Fox for CBS????
re: #521 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I caught the Colbert interview, and will withhold judgement until I have seen his docu on Putin.
If people make one mistake in assessing Putin, it is to see him in through the lens of a new Cold War. That is now what he is up to: he is a Russian nationalist out to expand the reach of Russian power, economic dominance, language and even Russian Orthodoxy, but only to the borders of the former Russian Empire.
The first thing you have to do when you want to lose 30 lbs is lose 10.
UPS guy just came by…Hamilton tickets for this weekend are now in my possession.
Incredible defense of cracking down on TV cameras from Senator Tim Scott: cameras could catch the PIN numbers of senators at ATM machines.
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 13, 2017
assuming this is a reference to Sen. Burr from last week, kinda key pt.: cameras aren’t allowed in that part of the Capitol/weren’t there. https://t.co/ewn6EDMr64
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 13, 2017
On cue, Pete Souza trolls Trump again—following reports the Golden State Warriors voted unanimously to not visit the White House. pic.twitter.com/JH8o0r6Cm4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 13, 2017
Some of my Twitfriends think we should allow ratfuckers like Naomi Klein to lead #TheResistance
You dumbass if it wasn’t for the likes of Naomi Klein we wouldn’t need #TheResistance
At this point, I’m just working against @realDonaldTrump. Past disagreements are meaningless in the face of his impact on our Constitution.
— Elanor Gardner (@Sams1stDaughter) June 13, 2017
So, we’re going to see Bob Dylan tonight - my second time in a year seeing him after not having ever seen him in my long life.
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And in April 2016, an Oklahoma court ruled that state law failed to criminalize oral sex with an individual who is unconscious from drinking.
Women Have Been Drugged and Raped by Men for Centuries. This Medieval Woman Fought Back — and Won. https://t.co/n3l7xW8nXV pic.twitter.com/ehxjihx3xi
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 13, 2017
The Mueller thing has really triggered some Trumpers. Those who were lauding Comey and the FBI last fall … no the trumpers are whining about Mueller hiring “Clinton lawyers”, etc.
re: #524 darthstar
UPS guy just came by…Hamilton tickets for this weekend are now in my possession.
so jealous
Barely an hour & senators are already joking about the new press restrictions. One asked me if I had an appointment when I tried to ask a Q.
— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) June 13, 2017
re: #517 Interesting Times
Here’s an article that touches on something you’ve often said:
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thank you!
re: #529 Birth Control Works
And in April 2016, an Oklahoma court ruled that state law failed to criminalize oral sex with an individual who is unconscious from drinking
Jurors deliberating in Bill Cosby’s trial ask judge to define phrase “without her knowledge” in a charge against him https://t.co/rYTvsKsXei pic.twitter.com/ouvPnxh0cN
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 13, 2017
GOP senator: “Most of us are not paying any attention” to the “wildly overblown” Trump-Russia investigation https://t.co/x1woz95M1F pic.twitter.com/cCUl8vkhFd
— CNN (@CNN) June 13, 2017
Toomey was re-elected in Pennsylvania in 2016, site of electoral shenanigans yet to be revealed.
No kidding he wants this to go away. https://t.co/Xd6hqQQroQ— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 13, 2017
Sen. Graham on press restrictions in Capitol: “of all the problems in America, y’all are pretty down the list”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 13, 2017
Comment from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on new press restrictions at Capitol https://t.co/3Pu8G1WOBv
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Deputy AG Rosenstein says only he can fire special counsel Robert Mueller and he has not seen a good cause to do so https://t.co/AJqqSYnvNy pic.twitter.com/MFFUngJJ1v
— CNN (@CNN) June 13, 2017
re: #536 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sen. Graham on press restrictions in Capitol: “of all the problems in America, y’all are pretty down the list”
— Burgess Everett
We agree, Senator, that you and your colleagues, and your president, are higher on the list of problems in America than we the media are. That’s why we need to cover you.
re: #538 Backwoods_Sleuth
Deputy AG Rosenstein says only he can fire special counsel Robert Mueller and he has not seen a good cause to do so
Of course, ‘direct orders from the boss’ has not been introduced yet.
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re: #538 Backwoods_Sleuth
DJT won’t like that.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Do YOU want to see journalists hold your elected representatives accountable? Call the Capitol and say so:[no phone numbers allowed] https://t.co/hTuOioMH87
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
re: #536 Backwoods_Sleuth
GOPers are trolls.
GOPer voters are trolls.
Expecting trolls to ever behave in good faith or do the right thing is the most dangerous naivete imaginable.
re: #521 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I caught the Colbert interview, and will withhold judgement until I have seen his docu on Putin.
If people make one mistake in assessing Putin, it is to see him in through the lens of a new Cold War. That is now what he is up to: he is a Russian nationalist out to expand the reach of Russian power, economic dominance, language and even Russian Orthodoxy, but only to the borders of the former Russian Empire.
But seeing his role much more akin to the tsars than the bolsheviks i expect.
re: #542 MsJ
they’re just making it a safe place so more folks like Gianforte can legislate without worry… ////////////////////////
Some Commander in Chief
The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced. pic.twitter.com/SaCN5hKU9R
— VoteVets (@votevets) June 13, 2017
re: #525 FormerDirtDart
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Warriors have not decided if they’d go to the reports contrary “Downtown Josh Brown” tweet with 20K RTs.https://t.co/aMtTqoUk6k pic.twitter.com/ojPRwLzqHS
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 13, 2017
My advice today: focus 10% of your attention/outrage on Sessions testimony, 90% on the secret health care bill that is speeding to a vote.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 13, 2017
But, remember, DEMOCRATS are the ones distracting everyone with Russia to get Obamacare repealed. //
There are so many things in play that it is easy to be overwhelmed.
It is pretty clear from looking at Facebook, and comment sections on websites of news media, that the Trumper portion of America have gone down the rabbit hole. They are all in for their delusional leader.
Now, the majority of Americans may not be so, but as has been repeatedly shown and discussed, it doesn’t take a majority to cause a revolution. Or devolution, in this case.
One of the houses of Congress has to switch to Democratic control in 2018, or the cumulative damage by 2020 will be very great.
What looms is the undoing of an honest Census, and with that the undoing of Representation according to what we have believed ought to be the case since women’s suffrage was enacted.
re: #549 Belafon
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But Bernie’s Malcontents assured me. Why would they lie?
I wonder how many of trumps handlers and gop lawmakers cringe every time he stumbles and says “tax cuts”, and then quickly changes it to “tax reform”? Talk about freudian.
Also, if this press muzzling story doesn’t lead the evening news cast on every network, shame on the lot of them.
re: #273 FormerDirtDart
Trump sure knows how to time things…..
Congratulations!
‘First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania’ https://t.co/aIRllxNLQA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2017
Global demand for coal falls in 2016 for second year in a row https://t.co/Fkyjg5Zys7
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 13, 2017
Trump disapproval hits all-time high (60%) in Gallup daily tracking poll https://t.co/NLT53ov0tL pic.twitter.com/WtaSqpSu40
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 13, 2017
Failure in Chief. https://t.co/e5FiGCKZVf
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) June 13, 2017
EL OH EL
A Trump Cabinet meeting @PostOpinions https://t.co/RAxK8213dn pic.twitter.com/fL67HPsF3J
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) June 13, 2017
As ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee I call on the majority to allow reporting in the Capitol to proceed as usual.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 13, 2017
BREAKING: Richman, Comey’s friend, says he’s now turning over Comey memos to FBI.
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) June 13, 2017
1978. (sigh) I am so old. It was like yesterday.
Premiere of ‘Grease’, 1978. pic.twitter.com/4N9bhKhwzi
— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) June 13, 2017
what a freakin’ snowflake
DeVos: Criticism of her position on discrimination ‘hurtful’ https://t.co/in4w7HcPfK
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) June 13, 2017
re: #557 Backwoods_Sleuth
you know, if I was a Dem Senator, I’d be more than willing to continue to give interviews wherever. Because maybe, just maybe, we’d finally get some goddamn press coverage instead of the same old mealy mouth shit from the same people sticking a fucking shiv on our traditions and government.
What are they going to do? call the cops? censure the Senators, fine, why not throw down and make these fuckers own it.
re: #475 Sir John Barron
I was going to ask who Chris Ruddy was. No wonder he wants Mueller’s head.
Google “Chris Ruddy Richard Mellon Scaife Arkansas Project” and you’ll see what a press whore Ruddy is!
“Hey, he’s new. Give the guy a chance.”
This @NewYorker cartoon is 💯 https://t.co/2X6yAS7dKc pic.twitter.com/z1JwxhMvFJ
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) June 13, 2017
Sen. Graham on press restrictions in Capitol: “of all the problems in America, y’all are pretty down the list”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 13, 2017
well u are topping the list lindsey tbh https://t.co/w3F6hmmHqy
— darth:™ (@darth) June 13, 2017
re: #505 Belafon
The news orgs are going to have to get together and sue for access. The senate belongs to us, not McConnell.
Yeah. Funny how they put all kinds of regulations on things the first amendment stipulates as our rights when there is no wording at all about any regulations in the verbiage in the constitution. But the second, that actually has the wording regulated in it, cannot be touched with nasty regulation rules.
re: #560 The Vicious Babushka
what a freakin’ snowflake
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Yeah, call the waaaaaaahhmbulance.
Yep. This is gonna hurt.
The attorneys general suit against [45] may be the most dangerous yet https://t.co/ARpDkEUBWD— 🦅 lulu lemew 🕊 (@lulu_lemew) June 13, 2017
re: #565 Eventual Carrion
Yeah. Funny how they put all kinds of regulations on things the first amendment stipulates as our rights when there is no wording at all about any regulations in the verbiage in the constitution. But the second, that actually has the wording regulated in it, cannot be touched with nasty regulation rules.
.@SenatorTimScott suggested to reporters some senators don’t feel safe, so restricting camera access in public hallways is justified.
— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) June 13, 2017
This is the nee plus ultra of the logic of safety as justification for suppressing open discourse. https://t.co/TTBj37k7DU
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) June 13, 2017
re: #506 Birth Control Works
puppies eating peanut butter for the first time
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They enjoy it until they discover that you use it to hide the pills they don’t want to take. At which time they figure out how to devour the peanut butter while discreetly hiding the pill under the table.
re: #568 MsJ
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Isn’t the problem politicians attacking reporters and not the other way around?
Meet Cash. He hath acquired a stick. A very good stick tbh. 12/10 would pat head approvingly pic.twitter.com/lZhtizkURD
— WeRateDogs™ 🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 13, 2017
re: #572 b.d.
But journalists are using cutting words that are deeply hurtful when they report the fact that the GOP are a bunch of self-serving craven know-nothings whose only interests are serving millionaires with bigger tax cuts on the backs of millions who lose health coverage and services - the mass redistribution of wealth to the rich from everyone else. The GOP politicians hate the biting and stinging criticism.
Well, not as much as having their plans uncovered by journalists who want to hold them accountable for their actions (see tax cuts for rich and redistribution of burdens masquerading as health care reform)
Observations. There seems to be a lot of Bernie people who are genuinely decent and pragmatic minded. I have no problem with those people. BoB though, no patience for.
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Do YOU want to see journalists hold your elected representatives accountable? Call the Capitol and say so:[no phone numbers allowed] https://t.co/hTuOioMH87
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Trump has blocked me from reading his tweets. I may have to kill myself.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
I still have access. I’ll DM them to you. https://t.co/MhibEYDBTg
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 13, 2017
CURIOUS AF pic.twitter.com/GP7AcQJs8E
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) June 13, 2017
I’m tired of the Millennials having all the fun.
I’M GEN X, AND I DESTROYED FULL SERVICE GAS AND ROTARY DIAL PHONES!!!— Corey Young (@C_M_Young) June 13, 2017
A lot going on here pic.twitter.com/oCOgFTQx2c
— Eliot Nelson (@eliotnelson) June 13, 2017
feel the emolumentum https://t.co/KE0bUEbOjR
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) June 13, 2017
Shelby statement pic.twitter.com/fPWc5bmR1f
— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) June 13, 2017
re: #544 lizardofid
If people make one mistake in assessing Putin, it is to see him in through the lens of a new Cold War. That is now what he is up to: he is a Russian nationalist out to expand the reach of Russian power, economic dominance, language and even Russian Orthodoxy, but only to the borders of the former Russian Empire.
But seeing his role much more akin to the tsars than the bolsheviks i expect.
Yes, the Cold War was about spreading an ideology throughout the globe. Putin is mainly about resurrecting the Russian Empire.
re: #574 Backwoods_Sleuth
From earlier in June, a disaster just waiting to happen:
Real funny guys. Sending in a pic without a dog in it. Hilarious. We’ll rate the rug tho because it’s giving off a very good vibe. 11/10 pic.twitter.com/GCD1JccCyi
— WeRateDogs™ 🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 3, 2017
“…Last month, the officials who oversee the Senate press gallery wrote a letter to news organizations warning that “the Capitol has reached its capacity for reporters,” according to the Washington Post.
“Collectively, the press following Senators have become large and aggressive,” the letter continued. “We are concerned someone may get hurt.”
There have been no reported injuries of lawmakers or journalists in the Capitol. But Greg Gianforte, a Montana Republican who was sentenced to community service Monday for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, will soon serve in Congress.
thinkprogress.org
re: #544 lizardofid
I’ve thought for years now that Tsar Vlad I already has his crown picked out.
If Trump’s tweets become official Presidential documents, can he legally block people from being able to read them?#TuesdayThoughts
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 13, 2017
Here’s what I think of the Rules Committee telling reporters they can’t question senators in the hallway. pic.twitter.com/Ygk6Ku6iB1
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) June 13, 2017
.@POTUS is illegally obstructing #energyefficiency standards that would save consumers $11.6 BILLION & cut pollution. 11 AGs are suing. pic.twitter.com/QWbV2YOygv
— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) June 13, 2017
re: #585 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m sure that had nothing to do with the Rules Committe 202 number being busy and my having to had to call it 12x before I could get through…with the gal saying the phones are off the hook with people calling to complain.
Will never stop LOLing that the GOP spent 2010 campaigning against opacity of ACA process and Dems who wouldn’t face voters in town halls
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 13, 2017
What did they learn? Nothing.
re: #595 Timothy Watson
Has Trump promised to bring back incandescent light bulbs yet?
Steam catapults!
re: #559 MsJ
I don’t understand why schools keep using Grease in their plays. When I start my goaltending school, we’re gonna do Blues Brothers.
NEW: The Sen Rules Cmte now wants us to request approval from them for EVERY on-cam interview of a Senator in the hallway we want to conduct
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 13, 2017
Sen. Harris: “Senators shouldn’t need to hide. We serve the people and they have a right to know what we are doing.” https://t.co/Y6iVA2LKvf
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) June 13, 2017
re: #578 jaunte
ALERT: Reporters at Capitol have been told they are not allow to film interviews with senators in hallways, contrary to years of precedent
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
Do YOU want to see journalists hold your elected representatives accountable? Call the Capitol and say so:[no phone numbers allowed] https://t.co/hTuOioMH87
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2017
We were just going to start calling them out for on their bullsh*t too!
For reals this time!!
re: #595 Timothy Watson
Has Trump promised to bring back incandescent light bulbs yet?
Trump to bring back whale oil lamps
The Trump Disapproval Crocodile continues to grow teeth pic.twitter.com/zFad5sG4Ik
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) June 13, 2017
I was listening to Rush today. He was ranting, even repeating himself, about how Democrats are losing it and lying about Trump. How they know Trump didn’t collude, but are lying because they have an agenda.
He’s literally telling us what the right has done for decades. All I could do was laugh.
re: #602 Kragar
Trump to bring back whale oil lamps
Declining whale stocks is another hoax perpetrated by the Chinese…
All of Trumpland was fine with Mueller investigating — until the precise moment he added a money-laundering expert to the team.
— 🌿 PanDeism 🌌 (@Pandeism) June 13, 2017
re: #599 Timothy Watson
Goddamn steam!
The man who captures steam will capture the world! (You heard it here first.)
re: #567 MsJ
🦅 lulu lemew 🕊 @lulu_lemew
Yep. This is gonna hurt.
The attorneys general suit against [45] may be the most dangerous yet wapo.st
11:58 AM - 13 Jun 2017
Jennifer Rubin continuing to fight for truth and justice; we need to accept allies wherever we can find them
NBA Champion Golden State Warriors Won’t Visit the White House: Report https://t.co/8ag1KMUWdQ via @TheRoot
— Smiley (@smileyt22) June 13, 2017
Made it into the #SessionsHearing hearing with a seat and got a photo before photos from the public were banned. pic.twitter.com/FCm1bAEoyA
— Diane Russell (@MissWrite) June 13, 2017
re: #596 jaunte
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What did they learn? Nothing.
They don’t need to learn anything. IOKIYAR
The Trump administration seems to be getting ready for a government shutdown in September https://t.co/xZPLZ1VxEa pic.twitter.com/EQxVsXctke
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 13, 2017
If senators can’t answer tough questions about their healthcare bill, they should change the bill, not restrict reporters.
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) June 13, 2017
Ken Ham is Now Blaming Atheists for the Economic Failures of Ark Encounter https://t.co/rd5He9xVxX pic.twitter.com/JukidPITv0
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) June 13, 2017
re: #604 Jenner7
I was listening to Rush today. He was ranting, even repeating himself, about how Democrats are losing it and lying about Trump. How they know Trump didn’t collude, but are lying because they have an agenda.
He’s literally telling us what the right has done for decades. All I could do was laugh.
He’s pathetic.
re: #615 Kragar
Another snowflake, melting in the summer heat.
re: #604 Jenner7
Rush is seriously, projecting or inverting reality.
The Russian Federation spent May 2000 until August 2008 preparing for war against the US and EU.
Ever since then, Russia has been at war with us. Everyone that works in the defense and intelligence industry knows this. Only Glenn Greenwald, and the people who have benefited from this situation, ignore or refuse to see it. Because it’s a different kind of war, no one is shooting or dropping bombs, they are able to get away with this shit and brainwash 60+ million people.
re: #615 Kragar
“Nothing has answered our prayers!”
re: #613 MsJ
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…they control every branch of government and are planning for a government shutdown?
…I got nothing.
re: #619 Jack Burton
Rush is seriously, projecting or inverting reality.
The Russian Federation spent May 2000 until August 2008 preparing for war against the US and EU.
Ever since then, Russia has been at war with us. Everyone that works in the defense and intelligence industry knows this. Only Glenn Greenwald, and the people who have benefited from this situation, ignore or refuse to see it. Because it’s a different kind of war, no one is shooting or dropping bombs, they are able to get away with this shit and brainwash 60+ million people.
Rush has no principles. He just hates liberals.
The #TrumpTrain just took #SocialSecurity off the cliff. https://t.co/yUfGScfM46
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) June 13, 2017
Any of you Lizardim have a link to a stream of the Sessions shenanigans handy?
re: #623 HappyWarrior
Rush has no principles. He just
hates liberalswants more money.
re: #624 MsJ
The #TrumpTrain just took #SocialSecurity off the cliff. nymag.com …
12:41 PM - 13 Jun 2017
And this surprises anyone? The only “promises” he’s interested in keeping are those that improve his financial position. He cares about nothing else.
re: #625 Teukka
Any of you Lizardim have a link to a stream of the Sessions shenanigans handy?
Reminder: @NewsHour will be streaming #SessionsHearing with live coverage from @JudyWoodruff & @LisaDNews https://t.co/9lnveYhm0V pic.twitter.com/tVJtV6okOZ
— PBS (@PBS) June 13, 2017
McCain ‘Very Worried’ GOP Will Lose House: ‘I Don’t Think We’ve Accomplished Much’ https://t.co/ijDlK7i2Vv pic.twitter.com/8TTJaWBBb9
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 13, 2017
re: #627 Hecuba’s daughter
And this surprises anyone? The only “promises” he’s interested in keeping are those that improve his financial position. He cares about nothing else.
Maybe I’m not quite correct there — he also cares about having others laud him and admire him.
re: #632 HappyWarrior
Neither have you Senator.
The entire purpose and mantra of the GOP is just to oppose the Left. They are an evil and soulless party.
re: #592 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A statement from an Ohioan…me.
I am thankful for Sherrod Brown being our one Senator. He at least keeps 50% or more of this state sane.
re: #610 Kragar
“NBA Champion Golden State Warriors Won’t Visit the White House…”
I love how the Warriors’ spokesperson is refusing to comment publicly about the alleged unanimous vote. Hah!
re: #460 lizardofid
We may well hear trump opine that he “always wanted a Medal of Honor”
Trump deserves one for risking STDs during his brave tour of duty in NYC Discos. This guy should show his gratitude and give his to Trump.///
re: #578 jaunte
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Should we route our calls thru Russia to see if they are more readily accepted?
// I know, I know. Calls should be made on unmarked $100 bills to be accepted.
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And here I’ve always said he’s the Keebler elf of doom: pic.twitter.com/jcSE14iW1H
— Shawn Peirce (@_silversmith) June 13, 2017
re: #615 Kragar
Ken Ham is Now Blaming Atheists for the Economic Failures of Ark Encounter https://t.co/rd5He9xVxX pic.twitter.com/JukidPITv0
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) June 13, 2017
Take a bow, atheists, if it truly was you who stopped this disgusting affront to reason. You have the thanks of whatever is left of American civilization.
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