Watching this Samantha Bee segment featuring the fabled Dumbest Man in Congress, Louie Gohmert, I had to fight off a bout of nostalgia for those bygone days when Gohmert was the worst, craziest Republican in Washington.
Now that coveted title is held by the malevolent toad squatting in the Oval Office. But Louie can still be pretty funny in his own special dim-witted way.
Dang it, first post all week and a new thread pops up! Repost from downstairs:
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Quick vacation anecdote:
Making a sand castle with my 6yo who insists on using dry sand. I tell her to go closer to the water to get the wetter sand. She insists and I tell her I have 35 years of experience and she should take my advice.
She builds her dry-sand castle and it falls over quickly.
I turn to my wife and tell her this is what Hillary must feel like.
re: #1 HappyWarrior
Maybe Steve King.
Steve King and Louie Gohmert are a really really horrible version of McCain/Graham.
Michele Bachmann left a giant void and various nincompoops have vied for the title.
GOHMERT is an idiot but King is dangerously stupid.
and yet these uninformed civic paragons keep getting elected….
re: #5 piratedan
and yet these uninformed civic paragons keep getting elected….
Perhaps they are the best and brightest of their constituents.
Surprise, surprise. HHS scored the Cruz amendment instead of the CBO, and thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread. Didn’t see that coming.//
Holy crap, my regional newspaper actually reported something negative about Donald Trump.
William Jeffress, a longtime defense attorney at Baker Botts who represented former President Richard Nixon, said Mueller’s inquiry will almost certainly involve examining financial information as he looks for any connections between Trump associates and Russia. And he said Trump’s threats toward Mueller aren’t helping his case.
“If I were his lawyer, I would be telling him to dial it down,” Jeffress said.
The White House push against the special counsel’s probe comes as the outlines of the investigation are beginning to become clearer.
I’ve been watching nuclear holocaust flicks. Current one is Aftermath, which has a young doctor and a group of yokels taking refuge in a farmhouse cellar in Texas. It’s pretty good but it does fail on plausibility when the group is attacked by organized cannibals just a couple of weeks after the big blow up.
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I’ve been watching nuclear holocaust flicks. Current one is Aftermath, which has a young doctor and a group of yokels taking refuge in a farmhouse cellar in Texas. It’s pretty good but it does fail on plausibility when the group is attacked by organized cannibals just a couple of weeks after the big blow up.
If you are going to go cannibal I would certainly suggest going cannibal early and organizing.
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The Congressional Budget Office’s math doesn’t add up.
Faulty Numbers = Faulty Results pic.twitter.com/zdf4bZ01ma— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 12, 2017
The CBO continues to prove its models simply can’t be trusted to accurately predict the outcomes of important healthcare legislation. https://t.co/iNOxKaFomc
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 20, 2017
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If you haven’t seen any of The 100, it’s a pretty good post nuclear holocaust series. First four seasons are on Netflix. Fifth and final season due early next year.
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Organized Cannibals would be a good band name.
re: #4 b.d.
Michele Bachmann left a giant void and various nincompoops have vied for the title.
GOHMERT is an idiot but King is dangerously stupid.
King wants Nuremberg citizenship laws. Evil and stupid.
I am so glad that the GOP can’t get any of their hurtful policies passed….yet.
The FoxNews strategy of continuing to talk about Hillary is sure to fail as the people who try and push those talking points getting laughed at.
The GOP, wingnut welfare and Trump are wounded animals, there is nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal.
Coulter’s weekend antics didn’t help their cause.
re: #11 b.d.
If you are going to go cannibal I would certainly suggest going cannibal early and organizing.
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The really smart cannibals get organized before the nuclear exchange.
re: #11 b.d.
If you are going to go cannibal I would certainly suggest going cannibal early and organizing.
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Ishmael’s famous line from Moby Dick might be appropriate in these circumstances: “Better a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
re: #12 FormerDirtDart
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So IOW, the White House is saying that the CBO’s “models” and numbers don’t support the result that the WH wants them to, so therefore, they should be ignored?
Swell!
re: #14 teleskiguy
Organized Cannibals would be a good band name.
I’m afraid the Fine Young Cannibals have them beat.
As a cloud of negative news hangs over Trump’s administration, Fox News turns to a familiar face: Hillary Clinton https://t.co/7i77Zyk16i pic.twitter.com/tXpqOqCsbp
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2017
re: #19 Jay C
So IOW, the White House is saying that the CBO’s “models” and numbers don’t support the result that the WH wants them to, so therefore, they should be ignored?
Swell!
That’s how you manage to go bankrupt six times owning casinos.
re: #21 FormerDirtDart
As a cloud of negative news hangs over Trump’s administration, Fox News turns to a familiar face: Hillary Clinton
That could cost her Florida.
re: #20 Big Beautiful Door
I was just watching She Drives Me Crazy on YouTube because of that
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I’ve been watching nuclear holocaust flicks. Current one is Aftermath, which has a young doctor and a group of yokels taking refuge in a farmhouse cellar in Texas. It’s pretty good but it does fail on plausibility when the group is attacked by organized cannibals just a couple of weeks after the big blow up.
I’d believe I’d have to do some indirect cannibalism.
When Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was taken as a slave by the Karankawas he talked about that when they would catch a fish they’d leave it out in the air until the maggots took over and then eat the maggots.
I’ve heard about not liking seafood but really….
re: #25 sauceruney
I was just watching She Drives Me Crazy on YouTube because of that
Well share with the class!
re: #24 Decatur Deb
That could cost her Florida.
My belief is that Fox assumed Hillary would win so they stockpiled a couple of years worth of negative programming against her. Wouldn’t want to let that go to waste.
Waves of awesomeness. 📷: #MattCrawley #Sunset pic.twitter.com/dcgfoHF0ZB
— Snowbird (@Snowbird) July 20, 2017
To anyone keeping score at home: Dennis Prager has now added American universities to the list of Existential Threats to Western Civ. pic.twitter.com/XwOxrajzxG
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) July 20, 2017
re: #29 Skip Intro
My belief is that Fox assumed Hillary would win so they stockpiled a couple of years worth of negative programming against her. Wouldn’t want to let that go to waste.
I can here it now, “Todays news, Trump was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator by the grand jury today; and now a special report on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal!!!!”
re: #29 Skip Intro
My belief is that Fox assumed Hillary would win so they stockpiled a couple of years worth of negative programming against her. Wouldn’t want to let that go to waste.
Worst thing to happen to FoxNews and the wingnut media was Trump winning.
Hard to blame all of the problems of the US government on Nancy Pelosi when the GOP runs EVERYTHING.
re: #33 bill d
Worst thing to happen to FoxNews and the wingnut media was Trump winning.
Hard to blame all of the problems of the US government on Nancy Pelosi when the GOP runs EVERYTHING.
They will do it anyway.
Origins of TrumpCarehttps://t.co/GdtKvy0sDL
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 20, 2017
re: #34 Big Beautiful Door
They will do it anyway.
Trump blaming the failure of Trumpcare on the democrats to the republican senators he solely invited to the White House was ironically funny.
re: #33 bill d
Trump winning was the worst thing to happen to everyone.
If Mueller starts handing out subpoenas, he should make sure this son of a bitch gets one.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has made several trips to Moscow during his 15 terms in Congress.
But the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats canceled a publicly announced trip to meet with the Russian parliament last spring with little notice.
Rohrabacher (R-
Costa MesaMoscow) told the Times on Wednesday that he decided not to go because he was worried the national focus on Russia would make it difficult to have serious conversations with Russian officials.“In the middle of a chaotic, public brouhaha, you’re not going to be able to get the serious job done that you need to get done,” he said.
But a senior House GOP aide who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to reporters said Thursday it was House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) who declined Rohrabacher’s request to travel to Moscow shortly after President Trump’s inauguration. The aide said such a trip would have been inappropriate.
Let’s ask Twitter
Who is the most insane current member of congress?
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 21, 2017
re: #38 stpaulbear
Trump winning was the worst thing to happen to everyone.
We are living in a kakistocracy.
Apologies if this has already been posted, just catching up here:
Tweet like Louise Mensch: Sources tell me, [1] has confessed to [2]. [3] - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered [4]. pic.twitter.com/WUlUnHvECB
— Sunrise Bollock (@SchrodngrsTaint) July 20, 2017
re: #41 gocart mozart
well they are all spectacularly bad in their own special way…. if only they could re-enact the MP Upper Class Twit of the Year contest, at least we would be rid of some of them….
re: #44 plansbandc
A friend was talking about this beautiful song and now I share it with you, my latest earworm…
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It’s one of my favorite BB songs.
re: #43 bratwurst
Sources tell me Ivanka Trump has confessed to treason. Interpol and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by impalement.
re: #43 bratwurst
Apologies if this has already been posted, just catching up here:
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Had to look up “barratry”.
re: #44 plansbandc
A friend was talking about this beautiful song and now I share it with you, my latest earworm…
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That was from the ‘Holland’ album. ‘Leaving This Town’ is another really good track from that album.
I’d say that we need to get rid of Trump until I look at the order of succession….
Not so sure we aren’t better off with this do nothing, Russian owned, criminal distraction in office?
1 Vice President Mike Pence (R)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R)
6 Secretary of Defense James Mattis (I)
7 Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R)
8 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (R)
9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R)
10 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R)
11 Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (R)
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (R)
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (R)
- Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (R)[a]
14 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R)
15 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (R)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin (I)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly (I)
re: #50 b.d. (bill d.)
He’s doing plenty. All of it really bad for us and the country.
re: #46 TedStriker
Been a favorite for a long time, just got obsessed with it again. :D
re: #50 b.d. (bill d.)
We need to go the Agnew/Ford route to break that chain.
re: #38 stpaulbear
Trump winning was the worst thing to happen to everyone.
Outside of the USA? Maybe not so bad. His cocaine 8-ball of crazy has many other countries (France, Canada, Korea …. maybe Japan) running toward sensibility as fast as they can.
re: #49 makeitstop
Yeah, the album is going to be my walk music tomorrow. : )
re: #47 teleskiguy
Sources tell me Ivanka Trump has confessed to treason. Interpol and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by impalement.
Sources tell me Donald Jr has confessed to shrieking. Interpol and I take no joy reporting this- has ordered death by combat in the arena. Come on, I dislike the bastard but that’s harsh.
Jared, still thinking he’s bullet-proof…
CNN Breaking: Jared Kushner’s White House connection still being used to lure Chinese investors https://t.co/esiEgnSorg
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 21, 2017
re: #43 bratwurst
Tweet like Louise Mensch: Sources tell me, [Donny Junior] has confessed to [Treason]. [Interpol] - and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered [death by impalement].
I like this game. 😎
re: #59 Skip Intro
He is. They all are.
Until they aren’t. We have to hope for that to be the way this plays out, because the alternative really is unthinkable.
Steve King is in the lead with 44%
Go-Merde and Dana tied at 22%
Who is the most insane current member of congress?
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 21, 2017
re: #56 HappyWarrior
Sources tell me Donald Jr has confessed to shrieking. Interpol and I take no joy reporting this- has ordered death by combat in the arena. Come on, I dislike the bastard but that’s harsh.
I dunno. If it was on PPV I’d order it. 😳
re: #47 teleskiguy
Sources tell me Ivanka Trump has confessed to treason. Interpol and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death by impalement.
Vlad the Impaler?
It’s all starting to come together and make sense now…..
re: #43 bratwurst
Apologies if this has already been posted, just catching up here:
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Sources tell me, Paul Ryan has confessed to indecent exposure. Your pet and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death, by combat in the arena.
Seems to check out.
re: #65 b.d. (bill d.)
Vlad the Impaler?
It’s all starting to come together and make sense now…..
I used to work with a Russian guy who smoked but never, to my knowledge, bought cigarettes. He was always bumming them from other smokers, who referred to him as ‘Vlad the Inhaler’.
delicious candy treat I guess pic.twitter.com/dTnPfXKOit
— Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) July 20, 2017
re: #70 gocart mozart
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Toro seems a bit too happy to have people eating his balls.
Meanwhile, here’s Rage Furby Chuck C. Johnson crapping on Facebook’s floor with a disgusting attack on John McCain. pic.twitter.com/6W6ZugYh8p
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #68 makeitstop
I don’t accept that. Not for a second.
Agreed. Jared and Dum-Dum Don-Don are being brought down by their own hubris.
re: #67 Myron Falwell
Sources tell me, Paul Ryan has confessed to indecent exposure. Your pet and I take no joy in reporting this - has ordered death, by combat in the arena.
Seems to check out.
Now that Dunkirk is going to be a humongous hit and everybody everywhere is going to see it…
somebody needs to do an essay, or a viral video, that makes obvious what an apt metaphor (allegory?) that piece of history is for our current political moment.
The forces of freedom and decency, about to be overrun and annihilated by fascism, are in need of rescue. Vast numbers of civilians for whom “they’re supposed to be protecting us! why is it my job?!” suddenly realize that in the moment of crisis today it really is everybody’s goddamned job and get your ass out there to save them… the fate of the world is at stake, this is not the time to stay in your lane.
This grotesque pig claims to be connected to the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/kObsQrCqMP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #12 FormerDirtDart
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How disgusting is the Trump regime? Unbelievable. Straight up lying just to get tax cuts for the rich.
It’s a terrible idea to ignore this stuff. That’s why we have Trump in the WH, too many people ignored what was building in the right.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
What’s the first big news story you were aware of as a kid? https://t.co/dTTNyDuUxR pic.twitter.com/q7kOaNeBcE
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) July 20, 2017
Maxine Waters beating up Michael Tracey. https://t.co/JmIEt2Fb9L
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 21, 2017
Makes me want to believe in Hell, so he can burn forever in it.
Sources tell ABC News that Mark Corallo, spokesperson for Trump legal team working Russia probe had resigned. No word yet from Corallo.
— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) July 21, 2017
Sinking ship. Rodents departing. https://t.co/3qySQhWiI3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
What’s the first big news story you were aware of as a kid? https://t.co/dTTNyDuUxR pic.twitter.com/q7kOaNeBcE
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) July 20, 2017
The Great Arizona Llama Escape. https://t.co/dJBpjIhHLe
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #80 b.d. (bill d.)
Your future AG
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Nah, he’d be an ideal director for the National Institute of Mental Health. ////
re: #50 b.d. (bill d.)
Still need to get rid of Trump. Cut the head off the snake and the snake will die. Trump’s base will be demoralized if he’s perp walked out of office and he probably won’t leave the White House alone.
In Chuck C. Johnson’s twisted so-called mind, God gave John McCain brain cancer to vindicate Chuck. This guy is so fucking sick in the head.
re: #88 Charles Johnson
In Chuck C. Johnson’s twisted so-called mind, God gave John McCain brain cancer to vindicate Chuck. This guy is so fucking sick in the head.
We have an entire industry of RWNJ hate-mongering and resentment-fostering that is simply CCJ’s pathologies expressed on a larger scale. CCJ is the very model of a modern Republican.
re: #88 Charles Johnson
In Chuck C. Johnson’s twisted so-called mind, God gave John McCain brain cancer to vindicate Chuck. This guy is so fucking sick in the head.
What a sick, delusional asshole.
Sorry, but I’m not going to ignore these people. You go ahead, though, and see where that gets you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
What’s the first big news story you were aware of as a kid? https://t.co/dTTNyDuUxR pic.twitter.com/q7kOaNeBcE
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) July 20, 2017
When RFK was shot.
It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Fixing Twitter’s Louise Mensch Problem. @mekosoff reports. https://t.co/w9HyJ1WKew
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 21, 2017
re: #91 Charles Johnson
Someone doesn’t understand where the cockroach infesting the White House comes from, and how completely representative he is of RWNJs.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
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Chuck could well be a GOP candidate down the road. Stupid to ignore him.
re: #92 sagehen
Oil shocks and Iran hostage crisis, mid to late 70s. Also stagflation.
re: #95 HappyWarrior
Chuck could well be a GOP candidate down the road. Stupid to ignore him.
GOP presidential timber.
So I’m supposed to believe in a total coincidence OJ will be getting out and Ford is bringing back the Bronco. Suuure it is.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 21, 2017
re: #83 Charles Johnson
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Sources tell ABC News that Mark Corallo, spokesperson for Trump legal team working Russia probe had resigned. No word yet from Corallo.
— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) July 21, 2017
Probably got tired of all of the other Trump legal teams getting all of the attention.
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re: #81 gocart mozart
What’s the first big news story you were aware of as a kid?
The space program under the Kennedy administration, although I didn’t remember any of the astronaut’s names until John Glenn.
Fixing Twitter’s Louise Mensch Problem. @mekosoff reports. https://t.co/w9HyJ1WKew
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 21, 2017
Good points here, but it’s even more disturbing that Twitter verifies outright neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer. https://t.co/tDTc8eKDna
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #81 gocart mozart
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Bowling Green Massacre. That shit is just burned into my soul. The inhumanity of it all, you know, still brings a tear to my eye
re: #98 EPR-radar
Oil shocks and Iran hostage crisis, mid to late 70s. Also stagflation.
MLK assassination is just outside of my memory. Probably moon landing interspersed with Vietnam war clips. Then Watergate. I watched a lot of Watergate even though I had no idea what was happening (I mean, it pre-empted my normal afternoon “Dialing for Dollars” Channel 3 afternoon movie.
re: #105 451_Montag
Bowling Green Massacre. That shit is just burned into my soul. The inhumanity of it all, you know, still brings a tear to my eye
They still haven’t reopened the Corvette factory, they’re still finding bone fragments and such.
re: #92 sagehen
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When RFK was shot.
It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Dad used to wake me up for every Mercury launch, but I was 5, so they mostly blended into one memory. So, probably the Kennedy assassination, when I’d just turned 6.
re: #92 sagehen
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When RFK was shot.
It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Watergate.
re: #92 sagehen
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When RFK was shot.
It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Man walking on the moon (not sure which mission) was my first news memory.
I tell people now that I am so old that I remember when we walked on the moon.
For me (born 1981) it was probably the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Just in: Trump has asked advisers about his power to pardon aides, relatives and even himself in Mueller’s probe https://t.co/S1cKUqIVmZ
— Mark Berman (@markberman) July 21, 2017
Here we go. https://t.co/QNccHcDBP1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #92 sagehen
Probably the O.J. car chase, coincidentally enough. Didn’t know any of the details at the time but I clearly remember the white Ford Bronco being chased by police cars.
re: #92 sagehen
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It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Gulf War I or the Yugoslav Civil War not to be confused with the Serbian genocide of the Bosnians.
Indian court denies abortion for ten-year-old girl raped by her uncle, saying she is too young for an abortion.
smh.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald, dated tomorrow because Australia)
A court in India ordered a 10-year-old girl whose parents say she was raped and impregnated by her uncle to carry her fetus to term, ruling she is too young and her pregnancy too advanced to have an abortion.
The girl, who has not been identified, is six months pregnant and sought medical attention after her maternal uncle allegedly raped her several times, CBS News reported.
The district court in the northern city of Chandigarh based its decision on Tuesday on an opinion by a panel of doctors from the city’s Government Medical College and Hospital, where the girl was examined, according to the hospital’s medical superintendent.
“If you abort then the risk to life is greater,” the superintendent told The Washington Post in a brief phone interview Wednesday.
Related ArticlesA 1970s law in India known as the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act bars abortions beyond 20 weeks, though courts have made exceptions if the fetus is not viable or if the mother’s life is at risk.
According to CBS, the hospital’s eight-member panel determined that the fetus was viable and could survive even if it was delivered immediately. CBS quoted an unnamed senior doctor on the panel who said abortion was “not an option at this stage.”
The hospital told the Times of India on Tuesday: “The victim is six months pregnant, as revealed by her ultrasound reports. We have submitted our medical advice to the court regarding termination of the foetus.”
The girl’s parents found out their daughter was pregnant after she complained stomach pains, according to the Indian Express. She later reportedly told her mother that her uncle had raped her a half-dozen times when he visited the family home. The uncle was arrested and the parents petitioned the court for an abortion, the Indian Express reported.
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Munich Olympics 1972
Everyone in my office this morning is talking about Akie-san. We’re all kind of chuckling because it seems none of you guys over there are bringing up any of the scandals that she and her husband are currently caught up in.
Genetics Research Explains Why Dogs Are Very Good Boys
A study published Wednesday in Science Advances reveals that dog genes made them especially open to domestication and hypersocial behavior. In short, the scientists report that genetic mutations leave dogs in a state of childlike social and cognitive development, where they seek out contact and attention.
Aside from the fact that we give them food and belly rubs, there was no compelling science before this study that explained why dogs like us so much.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹
I misread that at first as Indiana.
re: #112 b.d. (bill d.)
Man walking on the moon (not sure which mission) was my first news memory.
I tell people now that I am so old that I remember when we walked on the moon.
If we were going for any news, then watching the moon landings on television would be my first memory of important news. I thought the question was dealing with political news, hence my answer of “Watergate”
re: #115 Charles Johnson
I’ll bet he’s think if President Ford pardoned Nixon before he was convicted of anything, maybe Trump can just pardon everybody and force Mueller to stop.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹
Indian court denies abortion for ten-year-old girl raped by her uncle, saying she is too young for an abortion.
smh.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald, dated tomorrow because Australia)
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ggt would bang her head against the wall, but I don’t have any walls left.
“you’re paying $12 a year for insurance”
… $12? pic.twitter.com/5VsPQqS2ot— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 20, 2017
Listen to this: 12… $… health insurance
That’s good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with $11 Ins., then you’re in trouble, huh? 1— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 21, 2017
12 angry men, 12 maids a milkin’, man, that’s the number. 12 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 21, 2017
I remember Walter talking about all of it….
Trump is looking into ways to PARDON HIMSELF. Where do you even start with something this insane?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 21, 2017
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
If we were going for any news, then watching the moon landings on television would be my first memory of important news. I thought the question was dealing with political news, hence my answer of “Watergate”
Walking on the moon was political!!
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Watergate for me too if it is politics.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
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It would be the first time in his life he’d utter the words “pardon me.”
Just talked to my mother to wish her a happy birthday.
She is concerned about flooding on the Fox River - Chicago is about to get another round of thunderstorms with heavy rain, and the Fox in her area is only eighteen inches below flood stage.
The Bronx is Burning… and Reggie’s 3HRs in the WS.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
If we were going for any news, then watching the moon landings on television would be my first memory of important news. I thought the question was dealing with political news, hence my answer of “Watergate”
I remember war pictures of Beirut. It looked a lot like Detroit —so I figured all big cities looked like that.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
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He’ll pardon Ivanka for free, wonder what he’ll charge the other kids?
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
Just talked to my mother to wish her a happy birthday.
She is concerned about flooding on the Fox River - Chicago is about to get another round of thunderstorms with heavy rain, and the Fox in her area is only eighteen inches below flood stage.
A friend is having a time of it. Two of the family homes are FUBAR.
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
Still need to get rid of Trump. Cut the head off the snake and the snake will die. Trump’s base will be demoralized if he’s perp walked out of office and he probably won’t leave the White House alone.
As long as there are any REPUBLICANS left, that head can’t be cut off.
The assassination of Indira Gandhi
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re: #70 gocart mozart
It’s comforting to know they’re gluten free.
re: #112 b.d. (bill d.)
Man walking on the moon (not sure which mission) was my first news memory.
I tell people now that I am so old that I remember when we walked on the moon.
Moon landing was mine too.
Trump “was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns”
Ha ha, fucker. A lot of people don’t know that Special Prosecutors can subpoena financial records. A lot of people don’t know that.
re: #139 Birth Control Works
A friend is having a time of it. Two of the family homes are FUBAR.
I’m sorry to hear about that. My mother lives in the area in the extreme NW of Chicago. That area tends to flood with enough rain.
JFK assassination, clearly.
John Glenn orbiting the Earth, dimly.
re: #143 FormerDirtDart
Moon landing was mine too.
Probably not a major story, but the first one I remember being very aware of, that just hit me in the gut, was the Lisa Steinberg case.
Man, this is just sad…
Ah, yes, Mueller is doing this because he’s pissed about those club fee hikes from 6 years ago https://t.co/TtnsXSFh7B pic.twitter.com/DwQqm1FRNk
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 21, 2017
re: #144 makeitstop
Ha ha, fucker. A lot of people don’t know that Special Prosecutors can subpoena financial records. A lot of people don’t know that.
Overnight forecast calls for a tweet blizzard.
re: #148 makeitstop
I try to look away for just one evening, but this exploding evil clown carnival just keeps rolling.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
I’m sorry to hear about that. My mother lives in the area in the extreme NW of Chicago. That area tends to flood with enough rain.
Same area. Luckily, they are financially ok, it’s just all the work —sandbagging, clean-up etc.
“Nothing you can do while carp are swimming in your kitchen”
Mueller to investigate Trump businesses after Trump warned him not to: report https://t.co/hgbMOdhrtC pic.twitter.com/eiZOxCZEeT
— The Hill (@thehill) July 21, 2017
Because apparently Mueller, unlike the Republican Congress, remembers his oath to the nation. https://t.co/SGFSGe9RIQ
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 21, 2017
Broken clock, blind squirrel, etc.
Who’s going to tell Trump? It wasn’t Sessions’ recusal that led to Special Counsel; It was Trump’s own boasting to Lester Holt 2 mos later.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 20, 2017
Trump’s legal team is exploring ways to limit Mueller’s probe, including by alleging conflicts of interest. https://t.co/2GFOefsI0a pic.twitter.com/nJ26sONFQC
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 21, 2017
Remember No Drama Obama? Good times man, good times. https://t.co/Dxavmris67
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 21, 2017
re: #148 makeitstop
Man, this is just sad…
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I love the smell of tr*mp desperation at any time. It smells like victory.
re: #112 b.d. (bill d.)
Man walking on the moon (not sure which mission) was my first news memory.
I tell people now that I am so old that I remember when we walked on the moon.
That is my first big moment memory. I was almost 8 at the time. Grandpa was an aircraft mechanic in the Pacific during WWII and was a huge fan of the space program. We would go at least every other year to Wright-Patterson AFB museum as a summer trip (about 4.5 hours away). My biggest memory of it was how excited he was during the whole mission.
re: #148 makeitstop
Man, this is just sad…
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I knew this was nuts but I never figured that the Trump Russian investigation would start to look like the movie Caddyshack….
re: #153 teleskiguy
Broken clock, blind squirrel, etc.
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Holy shit. If you’ve lost Coulter.
re: #115 Charles Johnson
— LisaMarie (@Las4Liberty) July 21, 2017
Man, there’s a lot of shit coming out this evening about Fuckface Von Clownstick. Good thing it’s Friday, right?!?
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Pardoner and the Pardoned!”
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 21, 2017
re: #159 Varek Raith
The First Gulf War.
I was busy in Rota helping fix every aircraft coming in before the war, and every aircraft leaving afterwards. I remember not getting much sleep.
Trump and Snowden rooming together in a new version of The Odd Couple.
7. The “conflicts” that Team Trump has uncovered are a joke. Mueller resigned from Trump’s golf club in 2011! That’s the best you’ve got? pic.twitter.com/YSXo5uyvba
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 21, 2017
Is there just like a 1099-MISC from the Kremlin in there?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 21, 2017
NEW: Trump has asked about his ability to pardon aides, family members — and even himself. https://t.co/0AQNEZCgxt
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 21, 2017
a selfie pardon https://t.co/jTkZRhEU0z
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) July 21, 2017
re: #165 FormerDirtDart
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Wasn’t Mueller leaving the FBI Director’s office during that time?
I’ve been thinking about the first news story I remember. I think it was the assassination of Martin Luther King. But it didn’t really affect me…I was like eight years old and didn’t really understand the issues. My Lai was probably the first one that affected my soul.
Trump is just casually asking around about his pardon powers, no big. https://t.co/DYmNxnr3eI
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 21, 2017
re: #158 HappyWarrior
Holy shit. If you’ve lost Coulter.
He lost Coulter a while ago for not being enough of an asshole.
Think about that.
Here’s your periodic reminder that the acceptance of a Presidential Pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. cf Burdick v United States
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 21, 2017
re: #172 MsJ
He lost Coulter a while ago for not being enough of an asshole.
Think about that.
That’s right.
re: #170 HappyWarrior
Because that’s the act of an innocent man.
All the world knows that tr*mp is a crook. There are only two real questions:
1) How much can be proven?
2) How much proof will it take to materially reduce tr*mp’s support from Congressional Republicans?
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 21, 2017
re: #172 MsJ
He lost Coulter a while ago for not being enough of an asshole.
Think about that.
Or as the DPRK NEWS calls her: “throat model Ann Coulter…”
So not looking forward to the next round of pardon-related propaganda on Fox News.
“Look, the president’s authority to pardon people is absolute. ABSOLUTE. So, let’s not dwell on the past. It’s over. Move on.”
re: #171 Charles Johnson
Trump’s lawyers know that Trump pardoning himself would end up in the Trump Supreme Court.
Don’t kid yourselves he won’t do it.
re: #178 Barefoot Grin
Borderline questionable taste. Not gonna downding, but this is borderline transphobic. Ann Coulter often gets accused of being a man.
Forgive my ignorance.
Are (presidential) pardons carte blanche, or do they have to be for specific acts written out in legalese?
re: #171 Charles Johnson
“Trump is just casually asking around about his pardon powers, no big.”
He’s asking his staff about it? Why doesn’t he just tune in to Fox to find out.
(I bet Fox is feverishly preparing a story for tomorrow morning about his rights to pardon everyone)
re: #176 HappyWarrior
Doubt he knows that.
His lawyers should’ve told him that by now. If he pardons his kids and they accept it, using the pardon to avoid prosecution they’ll be confessing to crimes according to established precedent. If he tries to pardon himself the act itself is an impeachable offense as he’ll be tacitly admitting to the prerequisite high crimes & misdemeanors.
None of this however means that Congressional Republicans will do their job and choose country over Party.
re: #182 Scout
Forgive my ignorance.
Are (presidential) pardons carte blanche, or do they have to be for specific acts written out in legalese?
Here is the text of President Ford’s pardon of President Nixon.
It is not specific as to the nature of the crimes alleged against Nixon. (Alleged since they never went to an impeachment or trial.)
re: #181 teleskiguy
Borderline questionable taste. Not gonna downding, but this is borderline transphobic. Ann Coulter often gets accused of being a man.
Maybe. Maybe not. Her neck is damn near a foot long.
re: #181 teleskiguy
Borderline questionable taste. Not gonna downding, but this is borderline transphobic. Ann Coulter often gets accused of being a man.
I wonder if trans folks would find the problem with such jokes insulting because it implicitly says ‘trans = bad’, or because being associated with Ann Coulter would be deeply insulting.
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
Bit of both, probably.
re: #184 goddamnedfrank
His lawyers should’ve told him that by now. If he pardons his kids and they accept it, using the pardon to avoid prosecution they’ll be confessing to crimes according to established precedent. If he tries to pardon himself the act itself is an impeachable offense as he’ll be tacitly admitting to the prerequisite high crimes & misdemeanors.
None of this however means that Congressional Republicans will do their job and choose country over Party.
True.
re: #184 goddamnedfrank
His lawyers should’ve told him that by now. If he pardons his kids and they accept it, using the pardon to avoid prosecution they’ll be confessing to crimes according to established precedent. If he tries to pardon himself the act itself is an impeachable offense as he’ll be tacitly admitting to the prerequisite high crimes & misdemeanors.
None of this however means that Congressional Republicans will do their job and choose country over Party.
Congressional Republicans will never put country over party. However, if the tr*mp circus starts threatening their reelection prospects, then steps will be taken.
re: #181 teleskiguy
Borderline questionable taste. Not gonna downding, but this is borderline transphobic. Ann Coulter often gets accused of being a man.
Understand. Downding would also be understood. I didn’t think of that.
re: #190 EPR-radar
Congressional Republicans will never put country over party. However, if the tr*mp circus starts threatening their reelection prospects, then steps will be taken.
Yep.
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder if trans folks would find the problem with such jokes insulting because it implicitly says ‘trans = bad’, or because being associated with Ann Coulter would be deeply insulting.
Probably both.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹
Here is the text of President Ford’s pardon of President Nixon.
It is not specific as to the nature of the crimes alleged against Nixon. (Alleged since they never went to an impeachment or trial.)
Thanks. It seems the only specifics were the dates covered — crimes committed from January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974 — which I assume was the time he was president.
re: #190 EPR-radar
Congressional Republicans will never put country over party. However, if the tr*mp circus starts threatening their reelection prospects, then steps will be taken.
One would think all of the recent special elections should greatly concern Republicans. While they won some and lost some they should have easily won in all of them. They lost two in OKLAHOMA. They almost lost GEORGIA.
Given Trump’s existing pattern of behavior and lack of competence, he’d manage to screw up his own pardon.
After all, Crooked Jay Sekulow is advising him on this stuff. That’s all we need to know.
The National Rifle Association made another vaguely threatening advert, this time attacking the Washington Post - vaguely implying the Post is some sort of threat (along with “violent leftists” and “organised anarchists”)
(with video of the advert)
re: #92 sagehen
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When RFK was shot.
It was the one and only time in my entire life I ever saw my grandfather cry (he lived until 1989).
Launch of Sputnik
The President’s power to pardon and cleanse any sinner’s soul will Not Be Questioned.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹
The National Rifle Association made another vaguely threatening advert, this time attacking the Washington Post - vaguely implying the Post is some sort of threat (along with “violent leftists” and “organised anarchists”)
(with video of the advert)
NRA needs scapegoats.
Trump aides are said to be investigating Robert Mueller’s team, looking for ways to discredit his Russia inquiry https://t.co/9AWtmTQ0m8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 21, 2017
This is exactly the mentality that launched the Nixon WH to order break-in of office of Daniel Ellsberg’s shrink. https://t.co/MCKi3rQx8t
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 21, 2017
re: #202 jaunte
The President’s power to pardon and cleanse any sinner’s soul will Not Be Questioned.
I’d love to see the outrage if he offered to pardon Hillary…….the entire thieving Trump clan, meh…..Hillary OMG!!
re: #132 Dr. Matt
They make shelves?
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 21, 2017
Ron Howard (voiceover):
He wasn’t. pic.twitter.com/ZbVgS9IVAZ— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 21, 2017
Trump totally innocent, interested in whether he can pardon himself because he loves learning about complex legal issues
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 21, 2017
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder if trans folks would find the problem with such jokes insulting because it implicitly says ‘trans = bad’, or because being associated with Ann Coulter would be deeply insulting.
I had to quit calling her a snake when my herpetologist nephew took offense on their behalf. Snakes have done nothing to deserve that kind of disparagement.
Mr. President, I’m not sure if you can pardon Putin or not……
They’re going to get caught going to Russian sources for dirt on Mueller.
re: #213 stpaulbear
They’re going to get caught going to Russian sources for dirt on Mueller.
And they’ll see it as fine.
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
Frankly My Dear 🐁 @goddamnedfrank
Here’s your periodic reminder that the acceptance of a Presidential Pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. cf Burdick v United States
9:51 PM - 20 Jul 2017
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Thank you. “Guilty” or not, you are saying you are not fit and are giving up the office. Too many questions to allow in the sensitive top political position of the country.
And then he can pack up the family on the fucking Trump plane and fly to Moscow where they can live owing Putin for the rest of their un-American con artist treasonous lives.
Fuck you Trump you ugly piece of shit.
Grrrr.
His attacks on Mueller tell me a lot. He KNOWS how bad it is. His “warning” to Mueller tells me finally understands how bad it is.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 20, 2017
The fact that he is willing to risk consequences of firing Mueller tells you how bad underlying offenses are. https://t.co/KQvjGmbAgJ
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 20, 2017
He was named VP of the US Export-Import Bank last freakin’ month
— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) July 21, 2017
“I’m innocent, of course. But, and I’m just wondering here, can Marine make it to Bolivia without refueling or appearing on radar?”
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 21, 2017
re: #219 FormerDirtDart
The Circle of Trust is tightening.
re: #184 goddamnedfrank
His lawyers should’ve told him that by now. If he pardons his kids and they accept it, using the pardon to avoid prosecution they’ll be confessing to crimes according to established precedent. If he tries to pardon himself the act itself is an impeachable offense as he’ll be tacitly admitting to the prerequisite high crimes & misdemeanors.
None of this however means that Congressional Republicans will do their job and choose country over Party.
If they accept a pardon, they can’t take the 5th when they’re subpoenaed by anyone who wants to ask questions under oath. And if they lie in that testimony, the perjury charges would require another set of pardons?
re: #175 EPR-radar
All the world knows that tr*mp is a crook. There are only two real questions:
1) How much can be proven?
2) How much proof will it take to materially reduce tr*mp’s support from Congressional Republicans?
1. All of it, this is why the panic to pardon the clan and himself.
2. Once the stench of this trash administration starts stinking enough everyone abandons them to save what is left of their political careers for allowing this to occur.
It’s political physics somewhat like a roller coaster taking awhile to climb the hill but when it reaches the top there is no stopping the speedy fall.
re: #221 jaunte
The Circle of Trust is tightening.
Trump weighs dumping Garrett as Ex-Im nominee https://t.co/DqrVuIVezx pic.twitter.com/0piFoItBMq
— POLITICO (@politico) July 21, 2017
I really didn’t think about the implications of hate for the transexual community in repeating the DPRK News, but it’s true and I’m glad I was corrected.
I don’t apologize for my recent comment on Sam Clovis as a man who knows biscuits and how to get them buttered because, even though it could be perceived as body shaming, it really was truly political in intent.
Comedy suffers in the explanation.
re: #224 ObserverArt
1. All of it, this is why the panic to pardon the clan and himself.
2. Once the stench of this trash administration starts stinking enough everyone abandons them to save what is left of their political careers for allowing this to occur.
It’s political physics somewhat like a roller coaster taking awhile to climb the hill but when it reaches the top there is no stopping the speedy fall.
In reading history, I’ve concluded that there are certainly occasions that when things finally do fall apart, it happens with shocking speed.
Armstrong walking on the moon was the first news story I vividly remember. We were crowded around grandma’s TV watching the wobbly footage. Amazing.
Still a big space nerd.
re: #227 Barefoot Grin
I really didn’t think about the implications of hate for the
transexualtransgender community in repeating the DPRK News, but it’s true and I’m glad I was corrected.
FTFY
This review for DOOM pic.twitter.com/hRIsiEElnR
— Darren Weekes (@tdDaz) July 19, 2017
If Mueller is fired, will Congress pass a new independent counsel statute? 1/X
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 21, 2017
If Mueller is fired, will any high-level DOJ officials resign in protest? 2/X https://t.co/vi53NdyTnU
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 21, 2017
If Mueller is fired, how much obscene & horseshit character assassination will Trump & allies level against this honored military vet? 3/X https://t.co/1WKSffFGic
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 21, 2017
re: #218 HappyWarrior
Yep something is up here.
All his moves have been meant to obstruct. Period.
It cannot be more clear. And that is the simple part of this. It goes way deeper and Trump knows it.
August is going to be a hell of a month. And watch the actual heat and maybe a crazy fall weather season go along with all of this. Things are out of control and it all goes together sometimes.
Trump cannot define or constrain Mueller investigation. If he tries to do so this creates issues of constitutional and criminal dimension.
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 21, 2017
re: #233 HappyWarrior
A lot. Anyone who crosses Trump is the enemy.
BUSTED: Trump supporter charged with threatening to murder Ted Cruz’s family https://t.co/FCbrObTpbO pic.twitter.com/BIs61ZtFHm
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 20, 2017
Trump Exploring Gigantic Escape Spaceship For Family And Self
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 21, 2017
I say we still have the know-how to put people on the moon.
Turning into a real horse’s ass race with Gohmer behind King 40% to 44%
Who is the most insane current member of congress?
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 21, 2017
First political memory: Eisenhower’s heart attack (my father worshiped him). I’m old. Get off my lawn.
Trump’s last western creditor, Deutsche Bank agreed Thursday to hand over its financial records of Mr. Trump’s dealings with the bank, something it has previously declined to do citing privacy laws.
Deutsche Bank may often be reluctant to cooperate with US authorities, but they’ll make an exception when Angela Merkel asks them to.
I voted for @realDonaldTrump because – unlike Obama – he doesn’t talk down to Americans or lecture us!
Retweet if you agree…#MAGA 🇺🇸— Harlan Z. Hill (@Harlan) July 17, 2017
In other words you wanted a safe space and to be flattered rather than dealt with like an adult capable of processing honest criticism. https://t.co/H6oyiNJmf4
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 21, 2017
re: #242 retired cynic
My first political news memory was watching both the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1964.
re: #243 sagehen
Deutsche Bank needs the shit kicked out of it, forensic-accounting wise.
Memo to Trump: Anyone you pardon can be compelled to testify without any grant of immunity, and that testimony could undo you.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 21, 2017
re: #244 goddamnedfrank
.@Harlan Dude. You just admitted your a fucking moron like @realDonaldTrump Why would you embarrass yourself like that?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 21, 2017
re: #239 jaunte
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I say we still have the know-how to put people on the moon.
Maybe we can convince him to the the first human to land on the Sun.
re: #250 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Tell him the landing will be safe, at night.
re: #244 goddamnedfrank
Your comment is offensive to his rube cultural heritage.
He’s simply continuing the traditions of his ancestors, who bought linament from guys driving wagons painted in stripes and got yoghurt enemas.
re: #252 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Your comment is offensive to his rube cultural heritage.
He’s simply continuing the traditions of his ancestors, who bought linament from guys driving wagons painted in stripes and got yoghurt enemas.
LOL that sounds like something Gwyneth Paltrow would be promoting.
A traveller in Australia carried measles around to a bunch of different places before being reined in at a dentist and medical office.
New South Wales is urging people to get vaccines (free, pesky government medicine). The measles exposures were in central Sydney, at a number of popular tourist spots (primarily restaurants) and public transportation.
It is believed the person was a foreign tourist, who entered the country about a week ago.
re: #244 goddamnedfrank
The “Z” in his middle name has to stand for something.
re: #252 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
“My grandpappy died in the War so that I could have the chance to be this bamboozled! During the Depression, he and Grandma had to make do with only the occasional palm reading or emu farm stock purchase.”
re: #248 jaunte
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This is vitally important. The kids would have to bear witness against their father on his business dealings.
re: #245 jaunte
My first political news memory was watching both the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1964.
The first one that knocked me down was Jack Kennedy’s assassination.
In 50 years, when they write about this, I hope it’s still in English. Not Russian. Not pictures scratched into cave walls.
re: #256 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
“My grandpappy died in the War so that I could have the chance to be this bamboozled! During the Depression, he and Grandma had to make do with only the occasional palm reading or emu farm stock purchase.”
“…and I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time!”
re: #253 Dr Lizardo
Actual thing, but from an earlier generation’s GOOP: John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium.
re: #262 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Actual thing, but from an earlier generation’s GOOP: John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium.
Ah, yes……….Paltrow’s spiritual grandpa.
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹
A traveller in Australia carried measles around to a bunch of different places before being reined in at a dentist and medical office.
New South Wales is urging people to get vaccines (free, pesky government medicine). The measles exposures were in central Sydney, at a number of popular tourist spots (primarily restaurants) and public transportation.
It is believed the person was a foreign tourist, who entered the country about a week ago.
Do they specify if this foreign tourist was an American Moonbat?
re: #263 Dr Lizardo
Ah, yes……….Paltrow’s spiritual grandpa.
A clean colon is a happy colon. What a scam.
re: #259 retired cynic
The first time I recall being sad about a famous stranger dying: I was on a camping trip with my family somewhere in Oregon in 1962. Walking across a diner parking lot I saw a row of newspaper vending machines, and saw this:
Ominous sign:
Former Attorney General just RTed his call to @TheJusticeDept & @FBI:
Duty. Honor. Country.
NOW IS THE TIME.#TickTickTick pic.twitter.com/AT7Mb87Z5P— Alice Stollmeyer (@StollmeyerEU) July 21, 2017
Interesting. There is a guy on Lawrence O’Donnell thinking Trump’s lawyers may be filling Donny in on the reality of his situation.
One of the points he is making is Trump probably was informed Mueller has access to his tax forms and the announcement today about Mueller saying he was looking into his and his family’s finances probably means he already has all their tax forms and he never had to let Trump know he was getting them.
Trump is fuming. He’s gonna blow* any minute and take himself out.
*He already blows…sucks too.
re: #264 sagehen
Do they specify if this foreign tourist was an American Moonbat?
All they say is the tourist flew in from Melbourne. It might be a homegrown variety moonbat or wingnut.
Celebration of the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. Grandfather explained what was going on.
re: #268 JordanRules
What’s interesting is this little nugget from the WaPo article:
He has told aides he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns.
Trump’s scared - maybe for the first time in his life, he realizes he’s in truly deep shit and it’s not so easy this time to BS, bully, or sue his way out of it.
When all is said and done, it could well be that winning the Presidency was the single worst thing that ever happened to him. I know it’s been rumored that Melania was deeply unhappy that he was running - and presumably, even less happy that he won. Maybe she had an inkling as to how it could all possibly go sideways.
Alice Stollmeyer ✔ @StollmeyerEU
Ominous sign:
Former Attorney General just RTed his call to @TheJusticeDept & @FBI:
Duty. Honor. Country.
NOW IS THE TIME.#TickTickTick
9:43 PM - 20 Jul 2017
Yeah, well, black man without any influence whatsoever, BORING!!!
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Sorry, Two Scoops…
Aug. 5, 1974 OLC memo: “the president cannot pardon himself” https://t.co/NgJoUQsFLp (h/t @AndyMcCanse)
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) July 21, 2017
re: #269 ObserverArt
Interesting. There is a guy on Lawrence O’Donnell thinking Trump’s lawyers may be filling Donny in on the reality of his situation.
One of the points he is making is Trump probably was informed Mueller has access to his tax forms and the announcement today about Mueller saying he was looking into his and his family’ finances probably means he already has all their tax forms and he never had to let Trump know he was getting them.
Trump is fuming. He’s gonna blow* any minute and take himself out.
*He already blows…sucks too.
Yeah, that is what I was guessing when I said we’re in for a rough night of Trump tweets ahead.
re: #272 Decatur Deb
Celebration of the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. Grandfather explained what was going on.
I bow.
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
Worst deal of his life full of shitty deals.
re: #269 ObserverArt
Interesting. There is a guy on Lawrence O’Donnell thinking Trump’s lawyers may be filling Donny in on the reality of his situation.
One of the points he is making is Trump probably was informed Mueller has access to his tax forms and the announcement today about Mueller saying he was looking into his and his family’ finances probably means he already has all their tax forms and he never had to let Trump know he was getting them.
Trump is fuming. He’s gonna blow* any minute and take himself out.
*He already blows…sucks too.
MY GOD… SHE’S GONE FROM SUCK TO BLOW!
re: #278 JordanRules
Worst deal of his life full of shitty deals.
Yep - almost Shakespearean, with a strong element of farce thrown in for good measure.
re: #276 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, that is what I was guessing when I said we’re in for a rough night of Trump tweets ahead.
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
re: #113 makeitstop
JFK assassination.
Probably the 1960 election. Then the Bay of Pigs and the Berlin Wall (can’t remember the order). And the assassination - I will always remember the screams when my mother heard the news.
I am old, glad I saw the wall come down and President Obama get elected. Hope I survive to see another democrat in the White House.
Chief of Staff Reince Priebus had no idea Trump just hired Anthony Scaramucci to be the new communications head https://t.co/GXGbWTpxKD pic.twitter.com/zDBhKy9C43
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 21, 2017
Before tomorrow’s tweetstorm… pic.twitter.com/jkhWs75AI6
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 21, 2017
re: #283 Kragar
“Running the country like a business.”
re: #281 Dr Lizardo
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
Then he’s going to fire Mueller.
re: #281 Dr Lizardo
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
I’m thinking explosive diarrhea that gets him close to light speed in the West Wing. It’s all about the money, and with the Russians, it’s all about the money laundering.
Dead Man Walking.
I turned transcripts of the President’s @nytimes intv into poetry, word-for-word with a few liberties on punctuation!!!! pic.twitter.com/TkJB5t60Tc
— Eliza Cossio (@elizacossio) July 20, 2017
re: #281 Dr Lizardo
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
I’m reading that just the fact that they announced they were looking meant Mueller already has them.
Another quote from the legal team - ‘This is Ken Starr on steroids.’
Mueller is coming after him like Elliot Ness.
Can Presidential pardons be rescinded/annulled if the President is complicit in the crimes involved?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 21, 2017
re: #291 Barefoot Grin
Then we will be in “interesting times.”
I’d call it a “Constitutional Crisis.”
Baltimore cop suspended after body camera shows him planting drugs then “finding” them to make an arrest.
washingtonpost.com
re: #292 teleskiguy
I’d call it a “Constitutional Crisis.”
I’d call it a coup by an organized crime family getting aid from a foreign power
Warner ups the game a little.
Mark Warner warns Trump: “Pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line.” pic.twitter.com/Fu772erdxU
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 21, 2017
These guys are not afraid of Trump in the least. They must have him and his family dead to rights.
re: #286 Skip Intro
Then he’s going to fire Mueller.
By forcing Rod Rothenstein to do so, of course.
Trouble is, if Rod says no, and Trump has to fire Rod in order to find someone — anyone — who will fire Mueller, then you’ve crossed the Rubicon.
re: #281 Dr Lizardo
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
This guy I was watching, but never caught his name, said Mueller has full access without notice to Trump or his lawyers and the IRS has to turn all of them over if asked. All legit. Trump apparently thought he was protected by his audit bullshit.
I guess his new Lawyer Ty Cobb has gathered the entire Trump legal team together to explain their reality. Maybe the first guy to cut the bullshit feeding Donny wants to hear to giving him the damn truth.
TRUMP CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
Assuming as much is not to say it will happen so. But civil society in US can no longer take functional constitutional regime for granted.
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) July 21, 2017
re: #291 Barefoot Grin
Then we will be in “interesting times.”
re: #292 teleskiguy
I’d call it a “Constitutional Crisis.”
re: #294 Kragar
I’d call it a coup by an organized crime family getting aid from a foreign power
re: #295 austin_blue
I’d call it a fucking shit show.
How about “All of them, Katie?”
re: #281 Dr Lizardo
If Mueller indeed already has Trump’s tax returns, Trump’s gotta be sweating bullets.
“The good news: You weren’t being audited.
The bad news: You’re now being forensicaly audited.”
re: #301 jaunte
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re: #298 makeitstop
Warner ups the game a little.
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These guys are not afraid of Trump in the least. They must have him and his family dead to rights.
No, they aren’t, and they shouldn’t be. He is a public servant, not a businessman. He is answerable to all of us.
If he’s a crook, he should be prosecuted for his crimes.
Full stop.
re: #172 MsJ
He lost Coulter a while ago for not being enough of an asshole.
Think about that.
He can always win her back with a ride on AF1
re: #299 Myron Falwell
By forcing Rod Rothenstein to do so, of course.
Trouble is, if Rod says no, and Trump has to fire Rod in order to find someone — anyone — who will fire Mueller, then you’ve crossed the Rubicon.
There’s discussion of whether this was behind his scathing comments on Sessions - get Sessions to resign, or fire him, then replace him with an AG who doesn’t have to recuse but WILL fire Mueller.
That’s one way, but it would take a long time, during which Mueller and his team of White Collar Crime prosecutors will be going through his tax returns.
The other way is to go nuclear and fire Rosenstein, and keep on firing successors till he finds his Robert Bork.
re: #307 fern01
He can always win her back with a ride on AF1
Well, as long as she gets her pre-selected seat with sufficient legroom.
re: #309 austin_blue
Well, as long as she gets her pre-selected seat with sufficient legroom.
And gets to repeatedly query the seat selector to be sure it’s still hers.
re: #306 austin_blue
No, they aren’t, and they shouldn’t be. He is a public servant, not a businessman. He is answerable to all of us.
If he’s a crook, he should be prosecuted for his crimes.
Full stop.
I find it funny as hell that Trump thought that shit he always pulled on his contractors would work with Bob Mueller.
And I think Mueller has seen the totality of what Trump has done, and I think he’s going to defend the Constitution like a mofo. There’s just a sense around his team that they see an incalculable wrong and they’re bound and determined to right it.
This is why I really wonder if anyone takes Newt seriously.
Two months apart pic.twitter.com/CJu9F1QnRY
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 21, 2017
re: #311 makeitstop
I so hope you are right. This cancer should be excised.
re: #267 jaunte
The first time I recall being sad about a famous stranger dying: I was on a camping trip with my family somewhere in Oregon in 1962. Walking across a diner parking lot I saw a row of newspaper vending machines, and saw this:
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I remember riding with my dad in our car and hearing about Jayne Mansfield’s fatal car accident, but I was too young maybe to catch the news about Marilyn.
Last comment before conking out.
The last week or so there hasn’t been as much Ivanka in the picture. Maybe I have missed her. But I wonder, will Donny put her out of the spotlights to protect her from all of this?
The boys and Jared may have to burn, but I can see him protecting her big time.
Later. It will be interesting to see what kind of mess there will be by noon tomorrow. Might be time for a lot of resignations. Who knows?
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
This is why I really wonder if anyone takes Newt seriously.
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That’s a long time for him. 24 hours is a long time.
re: #307 fern01
He can always win her back with a ride on AF1
Only if he kills a couple of Mooslem Mexicans on board.
Beschloss: If Trump thinks he can easily pardon himself/fire Mueller—could be Constitutional crisis that’d make Watergate look minor @maddow pic.twitter.com/YW77acDbnF
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 21, 2017
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
This is why I really wonder if anyone takes Newt seriously.
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Does Lumpy still calls Newt “Mr. Speaker” like a hyperactive fanboy?
What’s with this “shove weird foreign objects in/on your hoo hah” trend? First GOOP and their lavender stones, now this.
Literally why… https://t.co/8tS6ghMxS2
— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) July 21, 2017
anyone who thinks the big year-end story in Washington will be tax reform needs to rethink
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 21, 2017
Holy shit. Kasowitz is gone.
News: Marc Kasowitz out as @POTUS attorney - legal team now Cobb, Sekulow & Dowd. Sounds like a law firm but is not. Corrallo has resigned.
— Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) July 21, 2017
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 21, 2017
re: #322 makeitstop
Holy shit. Kasowitz is gone.
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Fleeing the sinking ship whilst on a rocket, self immolating.
New ‘run over a protestor free’ law proposed in Texas.
Pat @FallonForTexas wants to make it legal to run over (and injure!) someone with a car. #notsospecialsession pic.twitter.com/QexzXeqxY3
— emily (@EmilyAMcCann) July 21, 2017
Forecast calls for a strong line of witch hunt tweets in the early morning hours giving way to scattered fake news posts in the PM hours.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 21, 2017
re: #313 retired cynic
I so hope you are right. This cancer should be excised.
Now I’m thinking about John McCain.
sigh…
sniff…
re: #300 ObserverArt
This guy I was watching, but never caught his name, said Mueller has full access without notice to Trump or his lawyers and the IRS has to turn all of them over if asked. All legit. Trump apparently thought he was protected by his audit bullshit.
I guess his new Lawyer Ty Cobb has gathered the entire Trump legal team together to explain their reality. Maybe the first guy to cut the bullshit feeding Donny wants to hear to giving him the damn truth.
TRUMP CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
I’d agree - Trump actually can’t handle the truth. And if Mr. Cobb has finally had a nice little lawyer/client heart-to-heart with the Trump Crime Family, then I wonder what’s coming next.
re: #323 Myron Falwell
Fleeing the sinking ship whilst on a rocket, self immolating.
I think this Cobb guy realizes the depth of the shit Trump is in, and he’s trying to clean house. But if history is any indication, Trump will call Kasowitz for advice anyway.
He has Tweeted!
Billions of dollars in investments & thousands of new jobs in America! An initiative via Corning, Merck & Pfizer: https://t.co/QneN48bSiq pic.twitter.com/5VtMfuY3PM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2017
re: #324 jaunte
New ‘run over a protestor free’ law proposed in Texas.
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Immediate reaction: like “stand your ground” laws, this puts a legal umbrella over a subjective evaluation of “threat” such that in court, it will come down to whose narrative feels right to the judge or jury…and narrative tends to follow cultural norms about who’s considered inherently threatening.
re: #322 makeitstop
Holy shit. Kasowitz is gone.
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Some major shit is going down tomorrow or the day after. Corallo and Kasowitz are fleeing a losing battle.
re: #329 teleskiguy
He has Tweeted!
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It’s not him. The words form a cohesive sentence I can understand.
Earliest news event I remember: the Kennedy assassination. I was 3 1/2 years old. My mother, 7 months pregnant, had me and my sister with her in a department store and it was announced over the loudspeaker. Mom lost it. I learned many years later my dad was back east at a telephone switch school for his job. The school just basically shut down and sent all the students home, which was unexpected.
I learned how to read when I was six and I read *everything.* *Everything*, including the evening paper. Half a century later, the later 1960s seem really violent and unsettling, but I have to remember that I was viewing it through the lens of a six to 10 year old kid.
re: #322 makeitstop
Holy shit. Kasowitz is gone.
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Kasowitz out, huh? That’s a tacit admission they’re in serious shit.
re: #306 austin_blue
No, they aren’t, and they shouldn’t be. He is a public servant, not a businessman. He is answerable to all of us.
If he’s a crook, he should be prosecuted for his crimes.
Full stop.
Yep. The ones afraid of him are the ones afraid of the GOP losing the majority.
re: #322 makeitstop
Holy shit. Kasowitz is gone.
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Ah but his enemies know where he lives. /s
re: #335 mmmirele
Earliest news event I remember: the Kennedy assassination. I was 3 1/2 years old. My mother, 7 months pregnant, had me and my sister with her in a department store and it was announced over the loudspeaker. Mom lost it. I learned many years later my dad was back east at a telephone switch school for his job. The school just basically shut down and sent all the students home, which was unexpected.
I learned how to read when I was six and I read *everything.* *Everything*, including the evening paper. Half a century later, the later 1960s seem really violent and unsettling, but I have to remember that I was viewing it through the lens of a six to 10 year old kid.
I was in 9th grade home room, and the announcement came over the loud speaker that he had been shot. The whole school went silent. The teachers tried to go on, but we just waited. And then got the news we were afraid of.
re: #324 jaunte
New ‘run over a protestor free’ law proposed in Texas.
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Does that include right-to-lifers at abortion/medical clinics?
My earliest political memory is the 1980 election. The news on TV showed Jimmy Carter flying into the airport in Abilene, TX, on green Braniff plane.
Earliest political memory: the election of John F. Kennedy.
re: #332 wheat-dogg
Some major shit is going down tomorrow or the day after. Corallo and Kasowitz are fleeing a losing battle.
I’m getting a different feel here. Trump is well known for working with people he trusts, and Kasowitz has been his guy for a while. I’m thinking more that Cobb realizes that he can’t run the slash and burn defense that Trump wants because the situation is far too serious. Cobb realizes how much trouble the whole stinking pack of them are.
re: #344 makeitstop
I’m getting a different feel here. Trump is well known for working with people he trusts, and Kasowitz has been his guy for a while. I’m thinking more that Cobb realizes that he can’t run the slash and burn defense that Trump wants because the situation is far too serious. Cobb realizes how much trouble the whole stinking pack of them are.
Maybe so.
If Cobb bails, too, then we’ll know something major is happening.
We may finally see those tax returns — entered as state’s evidence.
re: #344 makeitstop
I’m getting a different feel here. Trump is well known for working with people he trusts, and Kasowitz has been his guy for a while. I’m thinking more that Cobb realizes that he can’t run the slash and burn defense that Trump wants because the situation is far too serious. Cobb realizes how much trouble the whole stinking pack of them are.
But I do fully agree that some heavy shit is about to drop. And Trump’s going to completely lose his shit when it happens.
re: #341 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Does that include right-to-lifers at abortion/medical clinics?
Earliest political memory for me: the election of Jimmy Carter.
I share the same name as his daughter. The first letter I remember writing was to her, to let her know. We are the same age.
Earliest political memory: Watching, in person, President Harry S. Truman give a campaign speech in 1948.
— Sarah Burgess (@sunkist111) July 21, 2017
re: #335 mmmirele
Earliest news event I remember: the Kennedy assassination. I was 3 1/2 years old. My mother, 7 months pregnant, had me and my sister with her in a department store and it was announced over the loudspeaker. Mom lost it. I learned many years later my dad was back east at a telephone switch school for his job. The school just basically shut down and sent all the students home, which was unexpected.
I learned how to read when I was six and I read *everything.* *Everything*, including the evening paper. Half a century later, the later 1960s seem really violent and unsettling, but I have to remember that I was viewing it through the lens of a six to 10 year old kid.
I was a freshman in high school when JFK was shot. I was home from school for a doctor’s appointment and actually saw the first bulletin on CBS, followed by Walter Cronkite’s epic reporting as events unfolded. At first I thought, no, surely he’s just wounded, probably be up and around in a couple of days joking about it. You can’t really kill the President in this day and age, can you? Then the news came, and there was nothing else on TV for 3 days. Some asshole spray painted “Texan go home!” on our neighbor’s car. This was in Colorado Springs and the neighbor, like my father, was in the military. It seemed that the world had fallen apart. The next year, my father went to Vietnam. Eight years later, I went.
Shocked! Shocked I say!
My last deep dive at @OpenSecretsDC: Network of Pro-Trump nonprofits have deep ties to the swamp he pledged to drain https://t.co/CSNWGC60vg pic.twitter.com/LKErrwG6yN
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) May 2, 2017
re: #352 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Same age. Same age.
re: #324 jaunte
New ‘run over a protestor free’ law proposed in Texas.
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Hmm. A protester with a concealed weapon could legally open fire on such a driver under stand your ground laws. Especially since cars have a long record of being considered a deadly weapon.
re: #352 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Vietnam. I am quite grateful that thanks to my youth, I did not visit Thailand until 1986 and then Vietnam twice in 2002 to adopt my son.
re: #92 sagehen
When the Salk vaccine was proven effective and kids were lined up en masse to get the three polio shots. Those shots HURT but I remember the kids that fell ill and became imprisoned in iron lungs…
re: #335 mmmirele
Earliest news event I remember: the Kennedy assassination. I was 3 1/2 years old. My mother, 7 months pregnant, had me and my sister with her in a department store and it was announced over the loudspeaker. Mom lost it. I learned many years later my dad was back east at a telephone switch school for his job. The school just basically shut down and sent all the students home, which was unexpected.
I learned how to read when I was six and I read *everything.* *Everything*, including the evening paper. Half a century later, the later 1960s seem really violent and unsettling, but I have to remember that I was viewing it through the lens of a six to 10 year old kid.
Me too: I was 11 - we were let out of school early that Friday (our normal schedule), and I remember listening to the bulletins on the car radio as we drove home, and how upset my mother was: we turned on the TV as soon as we got home, and that was when I heard that Kennedy had died. And, of course, like most Americans, the TV basically stayed on for the next four days.
I recall some other news items from before then: space shots (Alan Shepard’s and John Glenn’s in particular, but the Kennedy assassination was the first really HUGE news I can remember in detail. Not alone there, I guess.
re: #355 William Lewis
Hmm. A protester with a concealed weapon could legally open fire on such a driver under stand your ground laws. Especially since cars have a long record of being considered a deadly weapon.
You always have an inherent right to self defense. Someone trying to hit you with a car definitely qualifies
re: #349 Flying Squirrel Girl
Earliest political memory for me: the election of Jimmy Carter.
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re: #352 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I was a freshman in high school when JFK was shot. I was home from school for a doctor’s appointment and actually saw the first bulletin on CBS, followed by Walter Cronkite’s epic reporting as events unfolded. At first I thought, no, surely he’s just wounded, probably be up and around in a couple of days joking about it. You can’t really kill the President in this day and age, can you? Then the news came, and there was nothing else on TV for 3 days. Some asshole spray painted “Texan go home!” on our neighbor’s car. This was in Colorado Springs and the neighbor, like my father, was in the military. It seemed that the world had fallen apart. The next year, my father went to Vietnam. Eight years later, I went.
I sold a ton of newspapers on my assigned corner the morning it was announced FDR beat Dewey. Nov ‘44
re: #357 Joe Bacon 🌹
When the Salk vaccine was proven effective and kids were lined up en masse to get the three polio shots. Those shots HURT but I remember the kids that fell ill and became imprisoned in iron lungs…
Me, too. Our “kitty-corner” neighbor was paralyzed. He had been an oil company guy, who traveled around the world. Ended up bitter in a wheel chair. My parents and grandparents were petrified.
I don’t know forensic accounting but it makes sense that you can suss a lot out on tax forms even if they are a little shady. I was always reluctant to think they’d give us a smoking gun or a big ‘told you so’ moment.
This is an interesting take tho…
Yep. Trump may not be declaring “income” but you can bet he never missed a deduction.
— Carol Dacanay (@carol_dacanay) July 21, 2017
re: #360 Semper Fi
Are you around 85 years old??
re: #205 b.d. (bill d.)
I’d love to see the outrage if he offered to pardon Hillary…….the entire thieving Trump clan, meh…..Hillary OMG!!
What a fine idea. “Draw a line,” he says; “Calm the troubled waters,” he says. “In exchange for Hillary, I’ll pardon myself and about a dozen others. That’s fair, amiright? Especially since hers are real and ours were made up by the liberal media.” (Somehow I don’t think Don’s people are gonna read this.)
It seems to me the only way out for Trump is to resign and work out a deal with VP Pence that he’ll issue a blanket pardon for Trump, et al, as his first act as POTUS - much like Nixon did with Ford.
But of course, Trump being Trump…..nah, he won’t do that.
re: #352 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I was a freshman in high school when JFK was shot. I was home from school for a doctor’s appointment and actually saw the first bulletin on CBS, followed by Walter Cronkite’s epic reporting as events unfolded. At first I thought, no, surely he’s just wouned, probably be up and around in a couple of days joking about it. You can’t really kill the President in this day and age, can you? Then the news came, and there was nothing else on TV for 3 days. Some asshole spray painted “Texan go home!” on our neighbor’s car. This was in Colorado Springs and the neighbor, like my father, was in the military. It seemed that the world had fallen apart. The next year, my father went to Vietnam. Eight years later, I went.
I was in second grade in a parochial school outside of Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, in New Bern, NC.
About six months before, Kennedy was at the air station and went to the crowd and shook hands, and he touched mine, and gave my dad a full handshake.
A lay teacher who had our second-grade class came in after lunch and, in tears, told us that Kennedy had been shot. Ten minutes later, the speaker came on and said that he was dead. The lay teacher started sobbing. He was our Catholic President.
I went home (I was the oldest of four at the time, later five), and my Da was sitting on the edge of his bed and weeping.
It isn’t my earliest memory, but it’s the first that made me realize that my parents, and all adults, weren’t gods.
My first political memory is Watergate; the live coverage of the hearings, and after all that, the fall of Saigon.
re: #359 Kragar
You always have an inherent right to self defense. Someone trying to hit you with a car definitely qualifies
My guess is they’d try to figure a way to say the driver feared for his life, and the protesters were committing a crime (by blocking a street). Thus, the protester has no more right to shoot a driver “enforcing the law” than a robber has of shooting a cop (a robber might also credibly fear for his life).
re: #357 Joe Bacon 🌹
When the Salk vaccine was proven effective and kids were lined up en masse to get the three polio shots. Those shots HURT but I remember the kids that fell ill and became imprisoned in iron lungs…
You’ve reminded me of this - I was about 10 - we were lined up the length of the school yard & some of the older kids came by telling us how much it hurt. They were not treated nicely by the teachers who ended up having to cope with a multitude of crying screaming children. My mother came by and bought me an ice cream - which I then demanded for shots 2 and 3.
re: #360 Semper Fi
I sold a ton of newspapers on my assigned corner the morning it was announced FDR beat Dewey. Nov ‘44
I think that makes you the oldest Lizard.
re: #372 Semper Fi
LOL
You do know that the youngs use that to signal their satanic ways, right? It’s an acronym, it means Lucifer Our Lord.
re: #373 sagehen
I think that makes you the oldest Lizard.
Bear might be older, managed to get into WWII.
Night all, sweet scaly dreams, &c.
I have the sneaking suspicion that all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.
I have a big ol’ bag of popcorn for the LOLZ.
re: #373 sagehen
I think that makes you the oldest Lizard.
We talked about ages on LGF recently. Some know I’m one of the senior seniors.
re: #375 Decatur Deb
Bear might be older, managed to get into WWII.
Hey Lizards, if you want some easy karma points, post pictures of animals, any animal really. If Bear is lurking you’ll get updinged.
re: #374 teleskiguy
You do know that the youngs use that to signal their satanic ways, right? It’s an acronym, it means Lucifer Our Lord.
About 10 years ago, one of my students asked me, “Say……LOL means lots of love, right?” And I laughed and told her, “No, it means laugh out loud. Why?” She turned white as a ghost and said she’d just sent a text to a friend of hers whose grandmother had just passed away.
Translated into English, it was “Sorry to hear your grandma is gone. LOL”.
John Barrowman is wearing a TARDIS dress and supporting the new doctor being a woman how can some people not love him pic.twitter.com/dZNlEgDhz3
— helena ⋆ . ✵ * (@doctoorwho) July 20, 2017
re: #374 teleskiguy
You do know that the youngs use that to signal their satanic ways, right? It’s an acronym, it means Lucifer Our Lord.
Haven’t heard that one but I’m sure I don’t qualify.
re: #375 Decatur Deb
Bear might be older, managed to get into WWII.
I was a little too young for the big WW.
re: #379 Dr Lizardo
About 10 years ago, one of my students asked me, “Say……LOL means lots of love, right?” And I laughed and told her, “No, it means laugh out loud. Why?” She turned white as a ghost and said she’d just sent a text to a friend of hers whose grandmother had just passed away.
Translated into English, it was “Sorry to hear your grandma is gone. LOL”.
Hope she was able to explain that without losing her friend.
re: #374 teleskiguy
You do know that the youngs use that to signal their satanic ways, right? It’s an acronym, it means Lucifer Our Lord.
My insanely religious aunt repeatedly uttered that. She also chastised anyone who said “Good Luck” in front of her since she equated “Luck” with “Lucifer”.
re: #356 William Lewis
Vietnam. I am quite grateful that thanks to my youth, I did not visit Thailand until 1986 and then Vietnam twice in 2002 to adopt my son.
That was my first thought, too. But possibly since it was on every night and that it not was a “single event” I didn’t say that. I vividly remember nightly body counts by Walter Cronkite.
re: #384 Semper Fi
Hope she was able to explain that without losing her friend.
She did. She told me about it later - fortunately, her friend was understanding. She also learned never to text anything without knowing what it actually means first.
Takeaway from the Post & NYT pieces is we are headed for certain crisis. Trump just will not, cannot allow this investigation to go forward.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 21, 2017
Animation of equakes in Okla. & parts of adjoining states, 2004-16. Size of dots and volumes are proportional to equake strengths. #okquake pic.twitter.com/5qmgZKqKs5
— USGS in Oklahoma (@USGS_Oklahoma) July 20, 2017
Come for the startling earthquake data in OK and TX due to hydraulic fracturing a.k.a. “fracking,” stay for the groovy sound effects. https://t.co/K1VzuMII75
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 20, 2017
re: #349 Flying Squirrel Girl
Earliest political memory for me: the election of Jimmy Carter.
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Watching TV and seeing helicopters landing on aircraft carriers and being pushed overboard to make room for more. It was the evacuation of Saigon.
re: #385 Decatur Deb
I was born a bit after D-Day.
D-Day was big…many, many people stopped in their tracks and prayed for our soldiers the moment they heard the news.
re: #364 petesh
What a fine idea. “Draw a line,” he says; “Calm the troubled waters,” he says. “In exchange for Hillary, I’ll pardon myself and about a dozen others. That’s fair, amiright? Especially since hers are real and ours were made up by the liberal media.” (Somehow I don’t think Don’s people are gonna read this.)
And Hils would be like “Are you nuts? Bring it motherfucker!” Then she cackle in his face, brush her shoulder and saunter of into the sunset.
re: #390 teleskiguy
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re: #393 Semper Fi
D-Day was big…many, many people stopped in their tracks and prayed for our soldiers the moment they heard the news.
That’s about the time news of my father’s death would have reached Pittsburgh.
re: #393 Semper Fi
D-Day was big…many, many people stopped in their tracks and prayed for our soldiers the moment they heard the news.
Sold a lot of newspapers then too
re: #366 austin_blue
I was in second grade in a parochial school outside of Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, in New Bern, NC.
About six months before, Kennedy was at the air station and went to the crowd and shook hands, and he touched mine, and gave my dad a full handshake.
A lay teacher who had our second-grade class came in after lunch and, in tears, told us that Kennedy had been shot. Ten minutes later, the speaker came on and said that he was dead. The lay teacher started sobbing. He was our Catholic President.
I went home (I was the oldest of four at the time, later five), and my Da was sitting on the edge of his bed and weeping.
It isn’t my earliest memory, but it’s the first that made me realize that my parents, and all adults, weren’t gods.
Hubby said the same about his mom. Crying like a baby. He’d never seen her cry. He didn’t understand but seeing his mom cry was a very vivid and lifelong memory.
re: #332 wheat-dogg
Some major shit is going down tomorrow or the day after. Corallo and Kasowitz are fleeing a losing battle.
Their battle is with Trump. Lawyers don’t leave cases because of prosecutorial developments, they adapt to them and adjust their defenses accordingly. They do leave cases because their clients refuse to take their advice, withhold information and sabotage all the work being done on their behalf. If Trump has really been floating trial balloons about issuing pardons, firing Mueller and asserting near imperial authority it’s not hard to imagine him also demanding that his lawyers suborn perjury and falsify evidence. The man has absolutely no boundaries.
re: #396 Decatur Deb
That’s about the time news of my father’s death would have reached Pittsburgh.
Sorry to hears that…so many gold stars hanging in windows signifying such a loss and many windows with 2 or more gold stars.
Movie theaters were popular to escape the reality of the war.
re: #402 Semper Fi
Detroit.
My dad went in on D+1. Came out of the war alright, worshipping Ike, as I said. But it branded him, for sure.
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
it’s not hard to imagine him also demanding that his lawyers suborn perjury and falsify evidence. The man has absolutely no boundaries.
I’m not even demand is the right word. I think he expects those things. As in, that is what lawyers are for.
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
The battle is with Trump. Lawyers don’t leave cases because of prosecutorial developments, they adapt to them and adjust their defenses accordingly. They do leave cases because their clients refuse to take their advice, withhold information and sabotage all the work being done on their behalf. If Trump has really been floating trial balloons about issuing pardons, firing Mueller and asserting near imperial authority it’s not hard to imagine him also demanding that his lawyers suborn perjury and falsify evidence. The man has absolutely no boundaries.
And I’ll bet that’s why Kasowitz stepped down. And hopefully Cobb is reading Trump the Riot Act.
If Cobb quits, then Trump’s in even deeper shit than anyone can imagine.
re: #403 retired cynic
My dad went in on D+1. Came out of the war alright, worshipping Ike, as I said. But it branded him, for sure.
I’m grateful I was just a little too young for the WW.
I’m not familiar with “D+1”
re: #406 Semper Fi
I’m grateful I was just a little too young for the WW.
I’m not familiar with “D+1”
D-day plus one.
re: #390 teleskiguy
Tornadoes and earthquakes. God must really be pissed at OK.
re: #392 Scottish Dragon
Watching TV and seeing helicopters landing on aircraft carriers and being pushed overboard to make room for more. It was the evacuation of Saigon.
Earliest political memory for me: a pollster(!) visiting our apartment and asking my parents who they were voting for: my father supported Nixon, my mother Kennedy, and we three kids were screaming “Kennedy”. Father hated FDR, the Kennedy family and Lyndon Johnson, but supported Truman and Stevenson. He was very idiosyncratic in his politics.
re: #397 Semper Fi
Sold a lot of newspapers then too
I’ve spent the last year or so going through 60+ boxes of my 92-year-old mom’s papers (hoarder gene? what’s that?). One of the finds is a copy of the Great Falls Tribune for VJ Day. She saved the one from VE Day too, but haven’t unearthed it yet.
re: #407 retired cynic
D-day plus one.
Thank you.
Just want to add: On D-Day, a Tuesday, the churches were packed within hours of the announcement that our soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy. It was quite a day.
re: #410 CleverToad
I’ve spent the last year or so going through 60+ boxes of my 92-year-old mom’s papers (hoarder gene? what’s that?). One of the finds is a copy of the Great Falls Tribune for VJ Day. She saved the one from VE Day too, but haven’t unearthed it yet.
Good luck with that.
Both VJ and VE bring a smile to my face recalling friendly scenes on the streets where people were carrying a bottle the their favorite whiskey to offer a drink to whoever. Police just looked the other way unless they got rowdy.
re: #412 Semper Fi
Good luck with that.
Both VJ and VE bring a smile to my face recalling friendly scenes on the streets where people were carrying a bottle the their favorite whiskey to offer a drink to whoever. Police just looked the other way unless they got rowdy.
That sounds like the best time ever had. Very cool!
re: #413 teleskiguy
That sounds like the best time ever had. Very cool!
It was…complete strangers were open, friendly and think somehow relieved that life was gonna get back to the real normal. Families were gonna be together again. So many lives had been interrupted, lost and broken.
re: #414 Semper Fi
It was…complete strangers were open, friendly and think somehow relieved that life was gonna get back to the real normal. Families were gonna be together again. So many lives had been interrupted, lost and broken.
That’s what my mom has said — there were no strangers on VJ Day, just people celebrating together. She was 20, says she wound up joyriding around town in a carful of people she didn’t know, hollering and honking.
re: #387 MsJ
That was my first thought, too. But possibly since it was on every night and that it not was a “single event” I didn’t say that. I vividly remember nightly body counts by Walter Cronkite.
Well, I didn’t watch Vietnam reports on the news, but the war did hit home on the death of my father. (That preceded the Moon landing by a year.)
re: #415 CleverToad
That’s what my mom has said — there were no strangers on VJ Day, just people celebrating together. She was 20, says she wound up joyriding around town in a carful of people she didn’t know, hollering and honking.
Yes! lots of scenes like that. Car loads of people just driving around spreading their happiness. Looking back, I don’t recall any insanity just a wholesome kind of joy.
re: #81 gocart mozart
Russian tanks in Hungary.
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