It’s a couple of days old, which can seem like years in the era of the Trump Horror, but this Samantha Bee segment actually made me laugh out loud. More than once.
Isn’t the point of having a “chief” of a staff: in order to organize said staff and keep the chaos and drama at a minimum?
It seems like Trump is intending on increasing the drama, increasing the chaos.
What will ‘mucci do when the GOP in Congress decide to write their own budget and ignore Trump’s wishes? When ‘mucci fails to deliver a budget that brings Trump glory, how will ‘mucci escape being the fall guy when relations with Congress hit the point that even Trump has to acknowledge he’s not going to get what he wants?
How awesome would it be if the Trump-thing fires Steve Bannon next? This is the age of miracles and wonders.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2017
re: #2 freetoken
Isn’t the point of having a “chief” of a staff: in order to organize said staff and keep the chaos and drama at a minimum?
It seems like Trump is intending on increasing the drama, increasing the chaos.
What will ‘mucci do when the GOP in Congress decide to write their own budget and ignore Trump’s wishes? When ‘mucci fails to deliver a budget that brings Trump glory, how will ‘mucci escape being the fall guy when relations with Congress hit the point that even Trump has to acknowledge he’s not going to get what he wants?
Also, Kelly may have good organizational skills but zero experience with legislative/government issues.
Over at We Hunted the Mammoth, reporting on the latest MRA idea to get women to love them:
Replace Women’s Brains with Dog Brains So They’ll Have Sex with Us, Incel Proposes
WHtM exists to take apart the wacky ideas of so-called “Men’s Rights Activists” and their various iterations.
re: #6 Anymouse 🌹
“involuntary celibate”? Oh, for the love of God, these men are stupid. If they weren’t self-righteous, stuck-up, arrogant blowhards who couldn’t buy a clue with a billion dollars, they’d figure out that the way to get laid isn’t by bitching that no one will sleep with you.
How did we get all the way to 2017 and things are still this fucked up?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2017
re: #4 Charles Johnson
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You’d see Russian mobsters showing up at Breitbart to give a little editorial guidance, I’m guessing.
re: #5 BeachDem
Also, Kelly may have good organizational skills but zero experience with legislative/government issues.
When you reach the rank of general, you’ve likely held a chief-of-staff position within the military. I suspect Gen. Kelly is familiar with how that function of the job works.
Moreover, he should be familiar with bureaucratic issues, because the military is one giant bureaucracy. So Gen. Kelly is likely to be able to handle that as well.
There is no training or class for “White House Chief-of-Staff.” Gen. Kelly’s big issue will not be whether he can do the job (he likely can), but whether people like President Bannon, Trump, and Scaramucci get in his way or go round him. (If Gen. Kelly gets the authority that goes with his responsibilities, he might actually be able to bring some order to the chaos. I’m betting unlike the military, he won’t get that authority from Trump.)
Eris weeps.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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Paging Zefram Cochrane… Dr. Cochrane, we need you to get on that warp drive, sir. Like, yesterday.
Can someone remind me which week this is? Jobs week? Heroes week? The winning goes by like a Bullet Train.
re: #6 Anymouse 🌹
Over at We Hunted the Mammoth, reporting on the latest MRA idea to get women to love them:
Replace Women’s Brains with Dog Brains So They’ll Have Sex with Us, Incel Proposes
WHtM exists to take apart the wacky ideas of so-called “Men’s Rights Activists” and their various iterations.
Umm, without having actually read the piece, do I want to know why that idiot thinks that a dog would want to have sex with him if its brain was in a woman’s body?
re: #14 calochortus
Umm, without having actually read the piece, do I want to know why that idiot thinks that a dog would want to have sex with him if its brain was in a woman’s body?
Because he didn’t think it through all the way?
re: #13 Barefoot Grin
Can someone remind me which week this is? Jobs week? Heroes week? The winning goes by like a Bullet Train.
Last week was American Heroes Week, hence the speech to a bunch of cops. God knows what next week is supposed to be.
re: #15 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Because he didn’t think it through all the way?
What scares me is that maybe he did think it through.
Japan Imposes Emergency Beef Import Tariffs (Goes to the Scottsbluff, NE Star-Herald, more at the link)
World Trade Organisation rules allow Japan to impose this tariff if beef imports rise too fast (I would presume to prevent dumping, though I am not a rancher nor an economist).
In unwelcome news for the beef industry, Japan said Friday that it was imposing emergency tariffs of 50 percent on imports of frozen beef, mainly from the U.S.
[Nebr.] Gov. Pete Ricketts [R] said the move “will have a serious economic impact” on Nebraska’s beef industry, which is looking to expand exports as the state’s cattle herd grows.
He did not quantify the expected impact, and the U.S. Meat Export Federation said the impact is not clear. Japan is the nation’s and Nebraska’s largest export market for beef. Nebraska exported $316 million worth of beef to Japan in 2016 out of total exports worth more than $1.1 billion.
Ricketts is scheduled to make a trade mission to Japan in September.
“Our beef community can rest assured these tariffs rate increases will be at the forefront of our discussions in Japan,” Ricketts said.
re: #16 calochortus
I had to go look it up. Apparently next week’s theme is “American Dreams.” You know what my dream for America is? Yeah. Maybe he’ll resign.
re: #17 calochortus
What scares me is that maybe he did think it through.
Well, if he did, he’d realize that even a dog wouldn’t stoop to having sex with him willingly. Dogs are too smart for that shit.
re: #14 calochortus
Umm, without having actually read the piece, do I want to know why that idiot thinks that a dog would want to have sex with him if its brain was in a woman’s body?
Probably not. It was a lunatic on Reddit that made the proposal. We Hunted the Mammoth reported on another of these charming fellows saying that sex with a woman’s corpse up to two days after death would be okay (and she can’t object).
The photo on the article is of a dog wearing a brassiere.
re: #19 calochortus
I had to go look it up. Apparently next week’s theme is “American Dreams.” You know what my dream for America is? Yeah. Maybe he’ll resign.
They have something for every single week?
Reality TV America.
I love reading about all of the “geniuses” who were so instrumental in my election success. Problem is, most don’t exist. #Fake News! MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
I don’t think Putin will appreciate being disrespected like that. https://t.co/eNzwf4GqFC
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 30, 2017
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
Probably not. It was a lunatic on Reddit that made the proposal. We Hunted the Mammoth reported on another of these charming fellows saying that sex with a woman’s corpse up to two days after death would be okay (and she can’t object).
The photo on the article is of a dog wearing a brassiere.
Yes, I understood that David Futrelle was only reporting on this moron. It’s what he does best. I can never decide if this stuff is funny or just way too creepy.
These people are insane.
“…As [friend and fellow Hunt & Fish co-owner Nelson] Braff said: “He’s a blue collar personality. … He’s very likeable and brash and gets away with saying things that other people, if they said it, might be deemed offensive.”
……..
“…[Kellyanne] Conway says that loyalty helped get Anthony into the White House.
“Absolutely, and he didn’t whine about [being passed over], which goes a long way,” she said. “I think it’s oxygen for the soul to have him here.”
pagesix.com
re: #1 freetoken
How will the story of ‘mucci in the WH end?
I have a feeling we’ll find that out shortly. He seems crazed and will either burn out or do something so spectacularly foolish that Trump will have no choice but to cut him loose. Can’t imagine him lasting for the remainder of Trump’s term.
re: #28 Patricia Kayden
Depends on how much longer Trump’s presidency lasts, doesn’t it?
I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
Trump once again sees trade as a win-lose proposition, with whoever is selling being the winner and the buyer the loser. This is idiocy. https://t.co/SlBAvmAAZU
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 30, 2017
re: #19 calochortus
I had to go look it up. Apparently next week’s theme is “American Dreams.” You know what my dream for America is? Yeah. Maybe he’ll resign.
Are we really expected to keep up with these silly themes as the White House is engulfed in chaos? This is just as nonsensical as that letter from Pickles, the child Trump lover.
re: #30 jaunte
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Boy, I’m sure glad we put a businessman who knows what he’s doing in the White House, right guys?
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re: #32 Targetpractice
He used to buy things, but he didn’t pay for them. That’s just how sharp a businessman he was.
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
Are we really expected to keep up with these silly themes as the White House is engulfed in chaos? This is just as nonsensical as that letter from Pickles, the child Trump lover.
I know, it’s like they just haven’t noticed that no one is paying attention to what they’re trotting out to distract us. It’s incoherent as well, which isn’t a huge surprise looking at how the White House is being run. If you’re going to do these “theme” weeks, you really have to focus and pound on the theme. It also helps if there is an actual piece of policy associated with the theme, so there is a focus.
Shameless page promotion (been a while for me):
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re: #35 Anymouse 🌹
And there are still people in PA who want to make this state dry. They do not seem to understand that Prohibition was repealed and that you cannot legislate behavior.
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
And there are still people in PA who want to make this state dry. They do not seem to understand that Prohibition was repealed and that you cannot legislate behavior.
MN just got rid of their ban on Sunday liquor sales. The liquor stores opened the Sunday before the 4th of July. It is a glorious thing.
re: #37 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In PA one has to wait until 12 noon before buying alcohol.
re: #22 Stanley Sea
They have something for every single week?
Reality TV America.
Here’s some scenes from next week’s show
re: #12 Belafon
The “master” race:
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Ah, jeez. The guy has on a patch that says “Kentucky.”
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹
There’s no link to the article you quote.
re: #40 wheat-dogg
Ah, jeez. The guy has on a patch that says “Kentucky.”
We just spent the last 4 days moving my son to Kentucky for grad school. Luckily, he’s in Lexington, right across the street from UK.
Okay, so, put a dog’s brain in a woman so it will have sex with him. Well, if it’s a MALE dog’s brain, it’ll probably try to hump HIM.
And if it’s a female, she’ll only want sex during the right stage of estrus, so maybe 1-3 times a year, or if they luck into human hormone cycles, about 1 week of the month.
Clearly, they didn’t think this through.
Unless they’re currently having sex with their dogs. In which case somebody should call the SPCA.
Link here and in the article now.
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
And there are still people in PA who want to make this state dry. They do not seem to understand that Prohibition was repealed and that you cannot legislate behavior.
Some years ago when we lived in PA the State Stores had a sale. People were outraged for one of two reasons. A Labor Day sale would encourage drunkenness, or the state would be losing money.
State stores make too much money for PA to ever go dry.
re: #46 calochortus
I remember the sale because I was able to get a bottle of Mouton-Cadet. It was worth every penny.
Keep Trump away from news from Pakistan. He might get ideas.
“They want to keep power in the family and possibly lay the ground for succession by a younger generation” https://t.co/xisITwCyqY
— Andreas Paleit (@ndreasp) July 30, 2017
re: #39 dangerman
Here’s some scenes from next week’s show
I just saw a tweet that said, “why do these people who are fired go right to a TV interview???”
Someone responded, they do the on camera exit interview on reality TV.
re: #37 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
MN just got rid of their ban on Sunday liquor sales. The liquor stores opened the Sunday before the 4th of July. It is a glorious thing.
As long as I’ve lived here there hasn’t been a ban on Sunday liquor sales.
Liquor sales are controlled by counties and municipalities, but licenses are issued by the state government. Thus, some municipalities prohibit sales on Election Day, others on Sundays, &c. State law does not prohibit children from being in a bar, but municipalities and counties can put restrictions on it. (Our village ordinances require children to be in the company of an adult and out of the bar by 9PM.)
We have only two places that sell liquor (the general store and the bar). Municipalities and counties can also issue special alcohol permits for specific events (thus we issue them for the annual town party and the occasional fund raiser for the fire department).
re: #47 PhillyPretzel
I remember the sale because I was able to get a bottle of Mouton-Cadet. It was worth every penny.
What? Don’t Delaware liquor stores ever have sales?
We used to pick up our wine in Maryland on the way to my sister-in-law’s house. It would take a very dedicated PA ABC agent to track us down there, wait for us to head home and then arrest us. It was cheaper, the selection was better, and oh yeah, they didn’t store the bottles standing up so the corks could dry out…
So if the trump adminstration isn’t scary enough, read this. I guarantee you’ll be shitting your pants when you’r done.
I can’t even copy parts. Read the whole thing.
Fuck. Me.
Due to that video of the cop planting drugs, 134 Baltimore cases are under review:
Maryland prosecutors have tossed 34 criminal cases and are re-examining dozens more in the aftermath of recent revelations that a Baltimore police officer accidentally recorded himself planting drugs in a trash-strewn alley.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said that, in all, 123 cases are under review in the wake of a scandal in which one officer has been suspended and two others put on administrative duty. Body cam footage revealed nearly two weeks ago showed one of the officers planting drugs when he didn’t realize his body cam was recording. The Baltimore Police Department’s body cams, like many across the nation, capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button. The footage was turned over to defense attorneys as part of a drug prosecution—and that’s when the misdeed was uncovered.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹
As long as I’ve lived here there hasn’t been a ban on Sunday liquor sales.
Liquor sales are controlled by counties and municipalities, but licenses are issued by the state government. Thus, some municipalities prohibit sales on Election Day, others on Sundays, &c. State law does not prohibit children from being in a bar, but municipalities and counties can put restrictions on it. (Our village ordinances require children to be in the company of an adult and out of the bar by 9PM.)
We have only two places that sell liquor (the general store and the bar). Municipalities and counties can also issue special alcohol permits for specific events (thus we issue them for the annual town party and the occasional fund raiser for the fire department).
State law mandated that liquor stores could not sell alcohol on Sundays, but bars could (perhaps having to do with bars also selling food… I haven’t looked into the technicalities). This came up on a referendum in November and passed with flying colors, to be enacted at the beginning of this month. We may be known as a progressive liberal state, but we aren’t as much the shining paragons of the North as I wish we were.
LOL Tomi is such a stupid tool.
.@TomiLahren: “Luckily I’m 24 and I’m still on my parents health care.” #Politicon2017
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) July 29, 2017
re: #42 Belafon
We just spent the last 4 days moving my son to Kentucky for grad school. Luckily, he’s in Lexington, right across the street from UK.
I’d love to go back to Lexington. Yes, I know that just about the time we were leaving Transylvania University was changing the name of a dorm named for Jefferson Davis at the same time someone was opening the Jefferson Davis Pub about a mile away.
I think I’ve told the story here before, but what the hell. One Saturday morning, as good members of the local food co-op, we signed up for roadside cleaning—basically, picking up thousands of cigarette butts on the side of the road. In two hours I had two people actively throw cigarette butts at me on a major road. Now, if you were to drive past the UK Hospital any hour of the day at that time, you’d see multiple people in wheel chairs hauling oxygen tanks (with nurses on break smoking alongside) smoking on the street.
That was before ACA and exchanges, I’m guessings that If they bothered to vote, they probably voted for Bevin.
I loved Kentucky and Lexington, but maybe the most self-defeating place I’ve lived.
re: #51 calochortus
I have no idea. Most of the time my parents when we went down to Long Beach Island, NJ would head into one of the liquor stores down there. They had a wonderful selection of wines.
re: #52 MsJ
So if the trump adminstration isn’t scary enough, read this. I guarantee you’ll be shitting your pants when you’r done.
I can’t even copy parts. Read the whole thing.
Fuck. Me.
“…In the run-up to the Trump inauguration the man inside the D.O.E. in charge of the nuclear-weapons program was required to submit his resignation, as were the department’s 137 other political appointees. Frank Klotz was his name, and he was a retired three-star air-force lieutenant general with a Ph.D. in politics from Oxford. The keeper of the nation’s nuclear secrets had boxed up most of his books and memorabilia just like everyone else and was on his way out before anyone had apparently given the first thought to who might replace him. It was only after Secretary Moniz called a few senators to alert them to the disturbing vacancy, and the senators phoned Trump Tower sounding alarmed, that the Trump people called General Klotz, on the day before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, and asked him to bring back the stuff he had taken home and move back into his office. Aside from him, the people with the most intimate knowledge of the problems and the possibilities of the D.O.E. walked out the door.”
re: #14 calochortus
Umm, without having actually read the piece, do I want to know why that idiot thinks that a dog would want to have sex with him if its brain was in a woman’s body?
And one has to worry about their dogs!
re: #57 PhillyPretzel
I have no idea. Most of the time my parents when we went down to Long Beach Island, NJ would head into one of the liquor stores down there. They had a wonderful selection of wines.
NJ would work too. I was just picking a border state. ;)
Our illustrious host get a tweet on Raw story
On the lighter side, Lupita Nyong’o, from Black Panther, went in disguise to wonder around Comic Con.
Pink Ranger:
Such fun to meet and play with all of you as the #PinkRanger! #SDCC2017 pic.twitter.com/XzG0oLdNdN
— Lupita Nyong’o (@Lupita_Nyongo) July 29, 2017
Kylo Ren:
I had a blast on the dark side as #KyloRen, too! The #StarWars cosplay was on point at #SDCC2017. pic.twitter.com/V3P27AqfrW
— Lupita Nyong’o (@Lupita_Nyongo) July 29, 2017
re: #56 Barefoot Grin
I’d love to go back to Lexington. Yes, I know that just about the time we were leaving Transylvania University was changing the name of a dorm named for Jefferson Davis at the same time someone was opening the Jefferson Davis Pub about a mile away.
I think I’ve told the story here before, but what the hell. One Saturday morning, as good members of the local food co-op, we signed up for roadside cleaning—basically, picking up thousands of cigarette butts on the side of the road. In two hours I had two people actively throw cigarette butts at me on a major road. Now, if you were to drive past the UK Hospital any hour of the day at that time, you’d see multiple people in wheel chairs hauling oxygen tanks (with nurses on break smoking alongside) smoking on the street.
That was before ACA and exchanges, I’m guessings that If they bothered to vote, they probably voted for Bevin.
I loved Kentucky and Lexington, but maybe the most self-defeating place I’ve lived.
Smoking around O2 tanks seems unwise.
re: #64 nines09
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re: #66 Belafon
I wonder what Trump’s going to think the first time SNL makes fun of Mooch.
That the conspiracy lives…
re: #66 Belafon
I wonder what Trump’s going to think the first time SNL makes fun of Mooch.
They should have Melissa McCarthy play Mooch
re: #34 calochortus
I know, it’s like they just haven’t noticed that no one is paying attention to what they’re trotting out to distract us.
We’re all paying attention to what they’re trotting out to distract us.
Scaramucci is a rodeo clown.
So, the Mooch has some shady connections with a Chinese firm.
Priebus argued against Scaramucci hiring, fearing he was compromised by China, which overpaid for his company https://t.co/2NW1DfFiUI
— David Beard (@dabeard) July 30, 2017
re: #61 451_Montag
Our illustrious host get a tweet on Raw story
Soo…Say Crazy Things At Inappropriate Times So Beloved Institutions Distance Themselves From You Week was fun. What’s next week’s theme?
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 30, 2017
Ha, this one from George!
re: #65 wheat-dogg
Smoking around O2 tanks seems unwise.
It does, doesn’t it. So does emphysema patients continuing to smoke and to vote to end their own benefits.
re: #69 Pineapple Pizzagate
We’re all paying attention to what they’re trotting out to distract us.
Scaramucci is a rodeo clown.
Possibly, but not paying attention to the theme o’ the week.
re: #67 nines09
That the conspiracy lives…
This is obviously the Deep State at work. Despite the fact that SNL has made fun of literally every President since the beginning of the damn show.
.@TomiLahren: “Luckily I’m 24 and I’m still on my parents health care.” #Politicon2017
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) July 29, 2017
Thanks Obama. https://t.co/o5rVtC4Cq6
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) July 30, 2017
re: #52 MsJ
So if the trump adminstration isn’t scary enough, read this. I guarantee you’ll be shitting your pants when you’r done.
I can’t even copy parts. Read the whole thing.
Fuck. Me.
A long explication of Trump era dysfunction applied to just one federal agency. And it’s happening across the board.
re: #74 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Moves only a Sensei can articulate……If they don’t get to them…..
A chair you can wear! pic.twitter.com/vIBEBO2wuj
— Joshua Baer 🇺🇸 (@JoshuaBaer) July 26, 2017
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
And there are still people in PA who want to make this state dry. They do not seem to understand that Prohibition was repealed and that you cannot legislate behavior.
Philly, I remember the fight put up by the Radical Christinas in the 70s when Pennsylvania’s blue laws were repealed. That action galvanized the Religious Right in PA.
re: #79 Belafon
That would be a nice thing to have on lawns of large outdoor concert venues. Looks kind of cumbersome to walk around in, though.
re: #79 Belafon
I have a feeling airlines will be interested.
— Mikebos617 (@mikebos617) July 26, 2017
re: #82 teleskiguy
That would be a nice thing to have on lawns of large outdoor concert venues. Looks kind of cumbersome to walk around in, though.
I could see it workshops and labs
re: #54 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
State law mandated that liquor stores could not sell alcohol on Sundays, but bars could (perhaps having to do with bars also selling food… I haven’t looked into the technicalities). This came up on a referendum in November and passed with flying colors, to be enacted at the beginning of this month. We may be known as a progressive liberal state, but we aren’t as much the shining paragons of the North as I wish we were.
I never understood the restrictions on Sunday sales to liquor stores but not bars.
If I were a traffic cop, I would think it would be much safer for someone to go to the store, buy a bottle, and drink booze at home, rather than go to the bar, drink it there, and drive home drunk.
re: #84 Kragar
I could see it workshops and labs
That’s what I see. Places where you walk around to different locations, but then have to stand or sit in place for a while.
re: #86 Belafon
Plus, if if they add a motor later, we’re closer to an exoskeleton.
re: #84 Kragar
Exo-light. The whole exoskeleton thing is going to be revolutionary from helping the disabled to specialized uses, some of science fiction fame.
Watch a robotic exoskeleton help a stroke patient walk.
But of course
Russia develops military exoskeleton to give soldiers superhuman capabilities
Priebus warned Trump not to hire Scaramucci, saying SkyBridge Capital’s buyers overpaid because he’d promised them special access to Trump. pic.twitter.com/LArlXgDNo1
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 29, 2017
Reminder that every single accusation Republicans made against Hillary Clinton was really projection of themselves. https://t.co/cRoqQqyhqq
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) July 30, 2017
re: #83 Stanley Sea
I have a feeling airlines will be interested.
They already have “vertical” seating
Going to the restroom is gonna be a nightmare
Kris Kobach says releasing drafts of his proposed changes to voter law would undermine work on fraud probe https://t.co/SwFpMEyUQd
— Sam Levine (@srl) July 29, 2017
I.E. If people had the facts, they would move in to shut his bullshit down before he even gets it started https://t.co/LO7qK8mtKC
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 30, 2017
re: #89 Stanley Sea
JFC every single guy is dirty. It’s as if House Of Cards was a Sopranos spinoff. Except of course this is real af.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
They already have “vertical” seating
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Going to the restroom is gonna be a nightmare
Scary
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
They already have “vertical” seating
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Going to the restroom is gonna be a nightmare
Fuck. That. Shit.
re: #91 Kragar
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I heard his name floated as new Homeland Security.
Hopefully I heard it from a twitter idiot.
re: #89 Stanley Sea
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There just isn’t an end to all this corruption, is there? The mind boggles.
re: #88 Unshaken Defiance
Exo-light. The whole exoskeleton thing is going to be revolutionary from helping the disabled to specialized uses, some of science fiction fame.
Watch a robotic exoskeleton help a stroke patient walk.
But of course
Russia develops military exoskeleton to give soldiers superhuman capabilities
Tim Cruise best em to it.
re: #92 Unshaken Defiance
JFC every single guy is dirty. It’s as if House Of Cards was a Sopranos spinoff. Except of course this is real af.
Businessmen in Govt!
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
“And there are still people in PA who want to make this state dry. They do not seem to understand that Prohibition was repealed and that you cannot legislate behavior.”
The same thing happened here in GA. There was a huge freakout by RW lawmakers and their supporters when citizens wanted the lottery, and another one when citizens wanted alcohol sales on Sunday. Both happened, and best of all, none of the things that RW lawmakers and their supporters predicted has ever happened. They truly do think they can legislate behavior, and that the bad things they believe will happen. They get on my last nerve with their manufactured outrage about things that really don’t affect them and their penchant for trying to control what others do.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
They already have “vertical” seating
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Catheters…
re: #52 MsJ
So if the trump adminstration isn’t scary enough, read this. I guarantee you’ll be shitting your pants when you’r done.
I can’t even copy parts. Read the whole thing.
Fuck. Me.
The scariest part to me was they let go the CFO, who does all the budgets… and is the only person who knows which of our nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment facilities need maintenance and what maintenance exactly and when, and what parts are needed for that maintenance and what suppliers have those parts…
re: #96 calochortus
There just isn’t an end to all this corruption, is there? The mind boggles.
With the exception of President Eisenhower, there has never been a GOP president that was elected in my lifetime that did not do something that would be considered criminal. None.
re: #97 darthstar
Pupdate
Only have my phone so you’ll have to be okay with a link.
OMG What’s his nom de guerre??
Also, only one photo? please.
re: #97 darthstar
You can really see why they call them blue heelers.
re: #101 nines09
Catheters…
Future air travel will include pre-board knock out drug.
Remember the Stephen King short “The Jaunt”
??
re: #107 FormerDirtDart
They could eliminate the tray and get another 5 or 6 inches out.
re: #101 nines09
May as well put that in while they do the secondary search. ///
How did we get here?
re: #108 Stanley Sea
Actually, I’m extremely unenthused about flying, so being rendered unconscious would be a good thing.
The Onion: “Officials Warn Consumers Of Counterfeit Tickets Ahead Of Solar Eclipse”#satire https://t.co/OGdYHjNY9N pic.twitter.com/OlZUZj0Snt
— Jonathan Riley (@JonRiley7) July 30, 2017
Helpfully hashtagged #satire
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹
With the exception of President Eisenhower, there has never been a GOP president that was elected in my lifetime that did not do something that would be considered criminal. None.
Ahem. Gerald Ford.
…they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
You can’t even get a healthcare bill thru a GOP controlled Congress and you’re going to complain China is doing nothing? https://t.co/4HsNpmzX9d
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 30, 2017
Governor Ricketts released a comment today on the issue of the 50% beef tariff Japan is imposing.
(That will be a massive hit to our state economy.)
He is calling on the Trump (mal)Administration to put pressure on Japan.
Good luck with that.
re: #114 sagehen
Ahem. Gerald Ford.
Oh, wait. He wasn’t elected President. So your argument still stands.
re: #110 Unshaken Defiance
May as well put that in while they do the secondary search. ///
How did we get here?
Waxes, lubed or sanded, sir? Finished Luxury Tip or complimentary ‘EEYYYAAAA” model?
re: #111 calochortus
Actually, I’m extremely unenthused about flying, so being rendered unconscious would be a good thing.
That was an insane King story - read the wiki, it sums it up well.
Still sticks with me after all these years.
re: #120 Stanley Sea
That was an insane King story - read the wiki, it sums it up well.
Still sticks with me after all these years.
I did read it. Scary.
re: #104 Anymouse
Remind me what was HW Bush’s crime? I forget.
re: #120 Stanley Sea
That was an insane King story - read the wiki, it sums it up well.
Still sticks with me after all these years.
But yeah, application to travel would work!
One thing I’ve found, after living in CA & traveling back east for 20 years, now there are many non-stops. I’m going in Nov & got each way non-stop 4-5 hrs. There never used to be. Always Dallas for plane change & for thrills, Denver or Pittsburgh. Wonder what created that change?
re: #109 jaunte
They could eliminate the tray and get another 5 or 6 inches out.
A judge has ordered the FAA to investigate possible regulation of seat size and spacing.
Aside from the deluge of complaints from passengers, the issue is safety regarding egress from an aeroplane in an emergency.
re: #122 Unshaken Defiance
Remind me what was HW Bush’s crime? I forget.
Iran Contra, and then pardoning them.
re: #128 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Does anyone else see Michael Jackson’s nose when looking at a photo of the Mooch?
I’m going to say good night.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.
re: #126 retired cynic
Iran Contra, and then pardoning them.
Oh right, I was thinking of Iran Contra as a Reagan thing only.
re: #122 Unshaken Defiance
Remind me what was HW Bush’s crime? I forget.
Invasion of Panama, Vice-President under Ronald Reagan (Iran-Contra, Bush like Reagan claimed he was “out of the loop” on the diversion of funds, pardoned six people implicated, including Casper Weinberger who was about to stand trial, and Elliot Abrams, Robert McFarland, &c)
Our lovely world.
I hated how they treated Kennedy, therefore, I will stand up for McCain.
Looks like Don Surber is a McCain cancer truther https://t.co/1WiC8mjZa4 pic.twitter.com/DzActTWqFH
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 30, 2017
JFC — the Trumpists are starting to question whether McCain’s cancer is serious or not. https://t.co/YyQ7alkPVG
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 30, 2017
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹
A judge has ordered the FAA to investigate possible regulation of seat size and spacing.
Aside from the deluge of complaints from passengers, the issue is safety regarding egress from an aeroplane in an emergency.
You’re an American. You shouldn’t be spelling it aeroplane.
re: #134 Stanley Sea
Our lovely world.
I hated how they treated Kennedy, therefore, I will stand up for McCain.
We go high, &c &c. I disagree with many of Senator McCain’s policy positions.
I do not need to make up crap about him.
re: #135 sagehen
You’re an American. You shouldn’t be spelling it aeroplane.
His computer is set for British English for his job.
re: #135 sagehen
You’re an American. You shouldn’t be spelling it aeroplane.
My dictionary is set to UK English, as my publisher requires that. I don’t normally bother changing spellings for words or phrases such as cheque or centre.
(Lots of people around here accuse me of having a Canadian accent, though I’m pretty sure a Canadian wouldn’t confuse my speech as Canadian English.)
re: #135 sagehen
You’re an American. You shouldn’t be spelling it aeroplane.
Can’t tell if your joking or not, but why the hell should people spell words a certain way because they’re from a certain country? Fuckin’ stupid jingoistic bullshit.
re: #135 sagehen
You’re an American. You shouldn’t be spelling it aeroplane.
As said above, Anymouse’s language settings are set for UK/Canadian English for his writing/editing gig, so I imagine his autocorrect does a lot of that.
Otherwise, who gives a damn…
Wheeeee!
So important shit. Chickens are safe, cats didn’t eat all the food & there was a cat fight heard at around 4…..
Dogs are those hippy like Goldens, so no stress. The young one, Apollo brought a huge branch into the house. It stays.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
My dictionary is set to UK English, as my publisher requires that. I don’t normally bother changing spellings for words or phrases such as cheque or centre.
(Lots of people around here accuse me of having a Canadian accent, though I’m pretty sure a Canadian wouldn’t confuse my speech as Canadian English.)
Eh, you’re still a hoser…you have any back bacon or tuques to spare?
///
re: #139 teleskiguy
Can’t tell if your joking or not, but why the hell should people spell words a certain way because they’re from a certain country? Fuckin’ stupid jingoistic bullshit.
Raised & educated British, lived in the US more than half my life (and not going back save the odd visit), I’m bilingual in understanding but occasionally use the wrong term. Some of my British friends complain when I use American spelling. And the occasional illiterate American thinks I’m talking British when I’m jes’ talkin’ all grammatical-like. These things are unimportant. But occasionally amusing.
re: #143 petesh
Raised & educated British, lived in the US more than half my life (and not going back save the odd visit), I’m bilingual in understanding but occasionally use the wrong term. Some of my British friends complain when I use American spelling. And the occasional illiterate American thinks I’m talking British when I’m jes’ talkin’ all grammatical-like. These things are unimportant. But occasionally amusing.
Traveling or Travelling?
I hate that one
Save us from English to English translations. Or transliterations. Next thing you know Trump will ban them from the military.
I like how he’s pulling people out of agencies with no hope of getting replacements confirmed now that Congress hates him
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 30, 2017
re: #142 TedStriker
Eh, you’re still a hoser…you have any back bacon or tuques to spare?
///
No, but my wife makes pretty mean poutine. (Curry poutine will get up off the plate and strangle you.) (::
re: #139 teleskiguy
Can’t tell if your joking or not, but why the hell should people spell words a certain way because they’re from a certain country? Fuckin’ stupid jingoistic bullshit.
I only took it as a question, not jingoism. Since I do live in the USA, seeing words such as “aeroplane” or “whinge” might look a bit unfamiliar.
The replies here are glorious!
Gang members arrested and drugs recovered by @NYPDPSA9 officers. Keeping #Flushing #Queens safe - that’s #NYPDprotecting pic.twitter.com/eeKHQnc5UX
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) July 28, 2017
re: #141 Stanley Sea
Wheeeee!
So important shit. Chickens are safe, cats didn’t eat all the food & there was a cat fight heard at around 4…..
Dogs are those hippy like Goldens, so no stress. The young one, Apollo brought a huge branch into the house. It stays.
How were the eggs?
re: #150 MsJ
oftened wondered what the political landscape might look like if they hadn’t pardoned Nixon…
to this day it seems that many GOPers don’t think he did anything wrong… which just shows that they have a seriously warped idea of ethics and morals over there that is at the core of a LOT of their issues.
re: #151 MsJ
How were the eggs?
I did not go get bacon. I made an egg salad to die for.
Have you ever seen this mayo? it’s what they had. Amazing. AMAZING (Japanese market or online)
re: #152 piratedan
oftened wondered what the political landscape might look like if they hadn’t pardoned Nixon…
to this day it seems that many GOPers don’t think he did anything wrong… which just shows that they have a seriously warped idea of ethics and morals over there that is at the core of a LOT of their issues.
The GOP also got very upset that Nixon’s hatchetman in the Saturday Night Massacre, Robert Bork, didn’t get a Supreme Court seat. (They seem to think Bork should have been rewarded for firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.)
My guess would be they’ll feel the same way about whoever is put up to firing Robert Muller as Special Counsel (if it comes to that).
re: #152 piratedan
oftened wondered what the political landscape might look like if they hadn’t pardoned Nixon…
to this day it seems that many GOPers don’t think he did anything wrong… which just shows that they have a seriously warped idea of ethics and morals over there that is at the core of a LOT of their issues.
There has to be consequences. And there especially have to be consequences for trump. If this slides there is no rules of law.
https://t.co/GGXbZ60fOu. ON THIS NOTE, I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT
— clae (@clae48) July 30, 2017
re: #156 MsJ
Yes!! We are at the point where rule of law and equal justice has to be strongly affirmed.
It’s been set aside for most of the good ole boys government club for too long and it’s part of the reason we are here.
I sometimes think about if a white male could’ve had more leeway to pursue some obvious crimes of the Dubya admin. I do not think, sad as it is, the Obama or an HRC admin could do it without losing too much.
re: #156 MsJ
I do not disagree at all…
to be honest, I don’t want ANYBODY skating. I want EVERYONE involved…
The Trump Campaign
The GOP leadership (if it can be proven that they took illegal money/targeted voter disenfranchisement/colluded-conspired with a foreign power)
The Media - namely those folks that coordinated with the Russians to damage the Clinton campaign and made the decisions to alter the focus on what was covered.
I went it down in stone, if you act with a foreign government to influence our national elections, its a crime and if proven, your ass is in jail.
period.
I’m still waiting on the subpeona for Clinton indicating just how she broke the law and what law was broken with the entire e-mail issue. What specifically did she do that was against the law. To my mind, no one has ever indicated what she did (not what was sent to her that was in violation) that equaled a crime.
re: #149 JordanRules
The replies here are glorious!
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re: #157 MsJ
Come thruuuuuuu Senator ‘IDGAF any more’!!!!
I’m not granting him a pass on other things. I’m not reading too much into what may come after this interview. I’m just enjoying the fuck out of this sentiment being expressed at all by ‘that one’s’ formal rival.
re: #162 JordanRules
Just saw this was an old interview. Would mean a lot if he strongly affirmed this given all of the dangerous fuckery that’s happened since then. Or….it may not mean much but I’d surely enjoy it!
re: #159 piratedan
On criminal activity, if shown:
(clip)
The Media - namely those folks that coordinated with the Russians to damage the Clinton campaign and made the decisions to alter the focus on what was covered.
I’m not too sure I want to go there. As far as the media is concerned, the press is covered by the I Amendment. Note that Daniel Ellison absolutely broke the law with the Pentagon Papers and the government tried to go after the New York Times for printing them.
If the government or its lawyers can determine that “this media outlet is covered by the I Amendment but this one is not” then we have abandoned freedom of the press.
Does interviewing a Daesh fighter then printing an article about it constitute support for terrorism? Does taking an advert from a foreign country or foreign power constitute sedition? Is playing a clip on a news programme from the BBC or RT or Al Jazeera about US politics trying to influence elections? How about writing an op-ed or a letter to the editor of a newspaper?
If you take freedom of the press away from someone else, then someone else can take it from you. There are foreigners who post here at Little Green Footballs. Are they trying to influence elections, or are they colluding with a political party, or are they just expressing political opinions about American politics?
I don’t want to open that can of worms, because it would allow shuttering of “opposition media” outlets.
WikiLeaks couldn’t get any more pro-Trump even if they started putting #MAGA on the end of their tweets. pic.twitter.com/Gi2FsL4GTe
— Zachary Fedell 🌐 (@zatchry) July 30, 2017
re: #162 JordanRules
Come thruuuuuuu Senator ‘IDGAF any more’!!!!
I’m not granting him a pass on other things. I’m not reading too much into what may come after this interview. I’m just enjoying the fuck out of this sentiment being expressed at all by ‘that one’s’ formal rival.
I wonder how things are with his BFF Lindsey these days. Things are probably a bit “chilly,” I’d guess.
re: #165 Kragar
Think the key point on that leak is this. Always good to read the whole thing. pic.twitter.com/HZyivhSLu7
— Ray Gin (@pureraygin) July 29, 2017
Another account that seems to want to cultivate the dumbest audience on Twitter is @wikileaks. Only the slowest fall for it’s tricks anymore https://t.co/OE5w6ZRjvs
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) July 30, 2017
President Trump donates his 2nd quarter salary — $100,000 — to the Department of Education https://t.co/x8QG4VdGIT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 26, 2017
Chance the Rapper donated $1 Million to schools in Chicago, our President donates $100,000 for a whole country…just let that sink in https://t.co/i04CMoKdWi
— Dominic Ibarra (@dominicibarrar) July 28, 2017
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
c’mon now…
what I’m talking about is how the story that the Trump campaign was in cahoots with the Russian government, the money ties that were omnipresent, the financial relationships that were long established and in place…
now, compare what reported about those stories with the amount of column spaces that were allocated to the Clinton e-mail “scandal”
someone is making that decision, I think it’s certainly acceptable to find out if someone was paid to make that decision.
If not, fine, we can readily chalk it up to CDS, but I do believe its fair for the question to be asked and determined if true.
Keep in mind - everybody in the original Trump administration? That was the A team.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) July 29, 2017
I gotta say, I saw a lotta love at the Roger Waters show tonight.
re: #169 piratedan
Mmmhmm.
These organizations who fall under profit model rule with scant regulation cannot be granted a nostalgic pass just for existing in the open media universe. That would continue to be an oversight of epic proportions.
re: #172 JordanRules
well, I think what I’m getting at is trying to determine if there’s any difference between journalism and propaganda…
what I want to know is are the editors that slanted the coverage at the NYT (or even CNN or any other media outlet) getting payola to slant their coverage. Seems to me that doing so would be a violation of certain FCC rules.
Don’t get me wrong, if your hatred of all things Democratic party allows you a soapbox to wax rhapsodic regarding all of her sinister ways that’s one thing, see Breitbart or The New Republic… but if you’re supposed to be representing the supposed paper of record and you’re being slipped money under the table to push certain narratives and suppress others, I think that the public should have a right to have that exposed.
re: #173 piratedan
Agreed. And I think nostalgia about how media was previously regulated and largely regarded sometimes leads to knee-jerk defenses of it as a special industry. They still hold some lawful business exceptions and they are living off the fumes of their past glory but the new work product is much more likely to fall victim to the real business model they now operate under.
re: #168 JordanRules
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re: #30 jaunte
Trump once again sees trade as a win-lose proposition, with whoever is selling being the winner and the buyer the loser. This is idiocy.
There was a Golden Age when America sold industrial products to the rest of the world in exchange for cheap natural resources. That seems to be his idea of beneficial trade.
re: #38 PhillyPretzel
In PA one has to wait until 12 noon before buying alcohol.
That was the law for Arizona on Sundays as well.
It was originally promulgated to keep people from getting drunk and disrupting church services.
“They’re scared of you who don’t know if you have a penis or a vagina!” pic.twitter.com/ltyXT9QoC3
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 30, 2017
re: #169 piratedan
c’mon now…
what I’m talking about is how the story that the Trump campaign was in cahoots with the Russian government, the money ties that were omnipresent, the financial relationships that were long established and in place…
now, compare what reported about those stories with the amount of column spaces that were allocated to the Clinton e-mail “scandal”
someone is making that decision, I think it’s certainly acceptable to find out if someone was paid to make that decision.
If not, fine, we can readily chalk it up to CDS, but I do believe its fair for the question to be asked and determined if true.
As it happens, it is not illegal for writer to write a series of one-sided stories. It is also not illegal to pay a writer to write a story. It is not even illegal for a foreigner to pay a writer to write a story.
If you have an honest publisher or editor, the proper response in finding out a writer is subverting your news outlet is to fire that person.
On the issue of Hillary Clinton and the endless E-mails, that was pushed long before she announced she was going to run for office. Do we go after all the writers that wrote about that story, or just the ones who wrote a bunch of articles about it? How many articles is too many articles? Jail for ten, a fine for five, no crime for one?
As much as I despise how that story took off, I do not want writers placed in the position of having to wonder if “this is the article that gets me put in jail, so I better not write it.”
re: #178 Kragar
Wayne Allen Root is an idiot. Did he interview a sufficient number of “straight men” to be able to determine “most straight men are afraid of transgender people?”
That argument has been used by conservatives throughout history to suppress minority groups, be they of Slavic, African, Asian, Native, or any other sort of descent. Root probably wouldn’t know a transgender person if he was sitting next to one on a bus.
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
I want to be clear here, I’m not as much concerned with the writers, guess what, writers/juornos get assigned stories by editors. Guess who I am concerned with?
perhaps I’m naive in wanting my free press to be free of outside forces setting an agenda instead of free to the highest bidder
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
Wayne Allen Root is an idiot. Did he interview a sufficient number of “straight men” to be able to determine “most straight men are afraid of transgender people?”
That argument has been used by conservatives throughout history to suppress minority groups, be they of Slavic, African, Asian, Native, or any other sort of descent. Root probably wouldn’t know a transgender person if he was sitting next to one on a bus.
Wayne checked out a cute ass once at a bar in college, then realized it was a guy, and never recovered.
re: #182 Kragar
Wayne checked out a cute ass once at a bar in college, then realized it was a guy only after he woke up next to him the following morning, and never recovered.
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
As it happens, it is not illegal for writer to write a series of one-sided stories. It is also not illegal to pay a writer to write a story. It is not even illegal for a foreigner to pay a writer to write a story.
However, what we’re talking about here is a multimillion dollar foreign-enabled military psyop, the results of which were designed to eliminate those rights that allowed it to happen in the first place. Under the Russian security strategy, this is considered to be an act of war.
Of course there is a judgment call involved to differentiate it from a journalist saying something people in power dislike, but the legal system makes these distinctions all the time. To say that you are disallowing all discretion by the legal system means you believe the legal system is completely compromised and broken, which would seem to be a much bigger problem than the original one.
re: #181 piratedan
I want to be clear here, I’m not as much concerned with the writers, guess what, writers/juornos get assigned stories by editors. Guess who I am concerned with?
perhaps I’m naive in wanting my free press to be free of outside forces setting an agenda instead of free to the highest bidder
A lovely thought.
But Fox News and Sinclair Media, as privately owned companies, can promote whatever editorial policy suits their owners’ whims. William Randolph Hearst used his many newspapers to deliberately foment an anti-marijuana panic, mostly because he thought hemp posed a competitive threat to his timber interests.
The only available remedy to dishonest “journalists” is exposure and embarrassment; like when Armstrong Williams used to pretend to be an independent writer with his own point of view, and it turned out his syndicated column took payment to promote somebody’s preferred positions.
Someone is selling more than 40 million voter records on the dark web https://t.co/qycWWO13iH via @MotherJones
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 27, 2017
I was attacked by the Association of Secretaries of State for claiming US voter records were hacked. I’ll accept that apology now. https://t.co/HJBg6PiKQR
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 27, 2017
re: #181 piratedan
I want to be clear here, I’m not as much concerned with the writers, guess what, writers/juornos get assigned stories by editors. Guess who I am concerned with?
perhaps I’m naive in wanting my free press to be free of outside forces setting an agenda instead of free to the highest bidder
All publishers have an agenda of sorts. So do editors. They choose what direction an outlet will go, what stories are important, even what style manual will be used for writing.
If a government could choose, for example, that a newspaper gave “too much column space” to Benghazi or E-mails or whatnot, that same government can choose that a newspaper gives too much column space to Russia investigations or money-laundering.
If a free press is “free of outside forces,” it is not free. All sorts of forces have been brought to bear on the press throughout the nation’s history, including readers who vote with their money.
“The press” does not exist in some sort of absolute truth vacuum. Outlets report on things they think their readers or viewers have an interest in. I have zero desire to see the government regulate anything beyond criminal activity (inciting violence, &c).
Here’s an example: Cannabis is unlawful under Federal law (whether we like that or not). High Times magazine continually reports on all sorts of things about cannabis.
It would appear to me that if you say reporting on something about a politician the public seems interested in (even if that thing is not true) is somehow different than reporting on something that is clearly criminal activity (even if you don’t think it should be), then you are making a special pleading argument for reporting.
The New York Times reporting on Hillary Clinton’s nonsensical E-mail scandal should result in writers or editors being jailed, but High Times reporting on (and encouraging) criminal activity should be protected speech.
At least one person killed and several injured in nightclub shooting in German city of Konstanz, police say https://t.co/8CI4OOhiY9
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 30, 2017
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹
I am not saying that people should be jailed on writing about HRC and her e-mail issue, I think I’ve stated that multiple times…
I’m saying if people were in the paid employ of a foreign government and influencing our media, say in an equivalency to the payola scandal of the 1950s, then that should be exposed. If any penalties apply, enforce them, if laws were violated, prosecute them
re: #189 piratedan
I am not saying that people should be jailed on writing about HRC and her e-mail issue, I think I’ve stated that multiple times…
I’m saying if people were in the paid employ of a foreign government and influencing our media, say in an equivalency to the payola scandal of the 1950s, then that should be exposed. If any penalties apply, enforce them, if laws were violated, prosecute them
I am not a lawyer, but I can’t think of any law that prohibits foreigners or foreign powers from trying to influence the media in the country.
When the Venezuelan Embassy, for example, creates a press release to assert or clarify its position on a subject, it is trying to influence people in this country. If a news outlet runs that press release, does that make the news outlet complicit in Venezuelan government policy?
I’m unclear on what payola scandal to which you refer.
Back to my previous argument: High Times promotes criminal activity. Should we arrest their writers and publisher?
re: #181 piratedan
To paraphrase Hunter S Thompson, the only objective journalism is in the box scores.
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹
the payola scandal is what nearly killed Rock and Roll in its cradle..
at the time it was illegal to pay DJ’s to play records on the radio… namely pay for play. The same thing that the Trump folks are guilty of with their Foundation and what they accused The Clinton Foundation of…
namely, being paid to facilitate access, call it being paid to create fake news.
re: #192 piratedan
the payola scandal is what nearly killed Rock and Roll in its cradle..
at the time it was illegal to pay DJ’s to play records on the radio… namely pay for play. The same thing that the Trump folks are guilty of with their Foundation and what they accused The Clinton Foundation of…
namely, being paid to facilitate access, call it being paid to create fake news.
Thank you for clarifying the payola scandal. I was unfamiliar with that.
If I had a printing press, I can pretty much print anything I wanted. Others can pay me to print things, subject only to my choosing to print them. As long as I am not advocating for criminal activity, or slandering someone or some entity, it is not illegal and protected by the I Amendment. (A whole bunch of religions would go down under your scenario for promoting falsehoods.)
It can be demonstrated that High Times promotes criminal activity. You are avoiding answering the example. Should they be rounded up for promoting criminal activity, yes or no? Under your claim, they should all be in jail. There are specific laws on the books against promoting criminal activity. So, should AG Sessions go after them or not, for clearly promoting crime?
re: #193 Anymouse 🌹
well, I guess its a matter of what you choose to prosecute…
if you want to say that misdemeanor use of marijuana should come to the attention of whatever agency enforces those particular laws (say like National Lampoon and their use of nudity in their panels that caused them to be placed, like High Times into the restricted adult section) then no, I think that’s picayune shit..
for some reason I don’t find that as having any equivalency as say treasonous activity for misleading the public and influencing a national election, naturally, ymmv.
One can say, there is a loophole here and advocate fixing it.
re: #194 piratedan
well, I guess its a matter of what you choose to prosecute…
if you want to say that misdemeanor use of marijuana should come to the attention of whatever agency enforces those particular laws (say like National Lampoon and their use of nudity in their panels that caused them to be placed, like High Times into the restricted adult section) then no, I think that’s picayune shit..
for some reason I don’t find that as having any equivalency as say treasonous activity for misleading the public and influencing a national election, naturally, ymmv.
Cultivation of cannabis (even for personal use) under Federal law is a Felony. Sale of paraphernalia is also a Felony. Possession over two offences is a Felony.
Promoting Felonies is a Felony. Doing that in concert (several writers, editors, and a publisher) is a conspiracy to commit a Felony.
Indeed, prosecution is up to the discretion of a prosecutor. You’ve still dodged the question. High Times argues they have a I Amendment right. Federal law says they are promoting a crime. Should they be prosecuted for promoting Felonies?
If your argument is no, then you are engaging in special pleading. High Times is exempt from a provable Federal offence, but a newspaper with a slant but not breaking a law (at least one I am aware of) should be prosecuted.
With Trump-trashing spectacle, Roger Waters divides in Milwaukee, and conquers
Here’s something you don’t see at every concert: someone actually screaming “(Expletive) you” at the performer a dozen times while flipping him the bird.
That’s what the guy in front of me did at Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters’ first Milwaukee show in a decade Saturday night, at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
To paraphrase Lisa Simpson, why would he buy a ticket just to boo Waters? The intense reaction was actually a response to Waters’ own seething kiss off aimed at President Donald Trump during “Pigs (Three Different Ones),” from Pink Floyd’s “Animals.”
On a wall of screens running through the middle of the arena, a photoshopped Trump appeared as a baby grabbing a cat, a doll cradled by Vladimir Putin, a KKK member, and as Adolf Hitler, while a pig brandishing Trump’s face with smeared black dollar signs over his eyes floated over the crowd.
Federal law on cannabis:
NORML, by the way, also promotes criminal activity (whether you believe it should be a crime or not). Should we round up those activists?
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹
if you want to make the two equivalent, the felony for the promotion of the sale and use of cannibis to that of say, libel, racketeering, treason, election fraud
feel free to do so… you get back to me when states go ahead and authorize treason as a state and local statute.
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹
We need a Ministry of Fairness and Balance.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Well, we did have a Fairness Doctrine, but Ronald Reagan’s administration obliterated that.
re: #199 piratedan
if you want to make the two equivalent, the felony for the promotion of the sale and use of cannibis to that of say, libel, racketeering, treason, election fraud
feel free to do so… you get back to me when states go ahead and authorize treason as a state and local statute.
(Treason is a state crime in Nebraska.)
It is a state crime in most states (and under tribal laws as well).
re: #199 piratedan
A far better solution would be to require kids to have debate, rehetoric & practical logic classes as graduation requirements. Teach them to think instead of trying to criminalize constitutionally protected speech.
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹
Well, we did have a Fairness Doctrine, but Ronald Reagan’s administration obliterated that.
There was a time when there were a limited number of broadcasters, and the costs were prohibitively high for many.
Now there are as many “broadcasters” as there are IP addresses and the costs are minimal.
And it means that people can now insulate themselves from any sort of reporting that does not fit their preconceived notions.
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a time when there were a limited number of broadcasters, and the costs were prohibitively high for many.
Now there are as many “broadcasters” as there are IP addresses and the costs are minimal.
And it means that people can now insulate themselves from any sort of reporting that does not fit their preconceived notions.
That’s where the Fairness Doctrine would fall apart nowadays; it costs next to nothing to register a domain name and start publishing the most outrageous bullshit; and of course, there’s always going to be a market for that outrageous bullshit.
The ulimate niche information marketplace - literally something for everybody.
re: #204 Dr Lizardo
That’s where the Fairness Doctrine would fall apart nowadays; it costs next to nothing to register a domain name and start publishing the most outrageous bullshit; and of course, there’s always going to be a market for that outrageous bullshit.
The ulimate niche information marketplace - literally something for everybody.
And the established broadcasters find themselves forced to cut costs to keep up, which diminishes their quality of reporting.
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a time when there were a limited number of broadcasters, and the costs were prohibitively high for many.
Now there are as many “broadcasters” as there are IP addresses and the costs are minimal.
And it means that people can now insulate themselves from any sort of reporting that does not fit their preconceived notions.
There is that. And it works both ways (I suspect for example the denizens of Mr. Johnson’s hospitality here do not spend copious amounts of time at places like Barb Wire or Daily Caller either.)
Costs being minimal depend on where you live though. Large swaths of the nation do not have inexpensive access to the Internet or have things like cell service. (I’ve held forth on this before so I won’t do it again.)
I would note though that conservatism thrives on a lack of education or reason: It was precisely for that reason a few years ago that the Texas GOP inserted a plank in its platform to eliminate teaching critical thinking to children in school as “undermining parental authority.”
It is why all manners of religious groups want to equate their faith with science in education.
Such things lead many to believe that atheists are evil and criminal, epileptics are demon-possessed, or Slavs are mentally inferior (I’ve gotten all those, and my divorce was predicated on the second one up there, secular court system be damned).
I need to hit the rack for now … I had a long day wrestling with the water system, and negotiating with the state over what we’re going to do about it. (Here: a day and a half of state school, now fix our paperwork nightmare going back forty years and five pages of state discrepancies.)
re: #206 Anymouse 🌹
There is that. And it works both ways (I suspect for example the denizens of Mr. Johnson’s hospitality here do not spend copious amounts of time at places like Barb Wire or Daily Caller either.)
I regularly check in at Fox and Newsmax for the same reason I used to read Pravda and Izvestiya: to find out what the Party Line and Talking points are for a particular issue.
And when we see the two former start to turn on Trump, we will know the game is up…
re: #206 Anymouse 🌹
You mentioned about Slavs in your posting. One thing I noticed in reading the comments sections of the Daily Mail or The Express in the run-up to last year’s Brexit referendum was a great deal of anti-Slavic prejudice. The occasional complaint about Muslims (naturally) but they were vastly outweighed by bigoted comments regarding Poles (largely) and Czechs. Mostly rabbiting on about how they were “intellectually inferior” or “suffering from subnormal intelligence”; even saw a couple of “subhuman” comments thrown in for good measure.
Sickening to read, I can tell you that.
re: #208 Dr Lizardo
You mentioned about Slavs in your posting. One thing I noticed in reading the comments sections of the Daily Mail or The Express in the run-up to last year’s Brexit referendum was a great deal of anti-Slavic prejudice.
“They were fit enough to fly for the RAF in the Battle of Britain, but not to live here!”
Research has found that up to 90 percent of all spreadsheets have errors that affect their results. I’ve written about the Harvard professors whose basic Excel mistakes led to untold misery for millions of people.If you search for spreadsheet errors, you’ll get lots of stories, other than the Harvard fiasco.
- Hiding cells — instead of deleting them — cost Barclay’s bank millions during the 2008 meltdown.
- A cut and paste error cost TransAlta $24 million.
- Another cut and paste error cost JP Morgan $6 billion when a Value at Risk model was miscalculated.
There are many more, but you get the picture. Errors are so common that there’s a 15-year-old spreadsheet risks interest group.
A pet peeve of mine is people hiding columns/rows with no documentation in spreadsheets. Drives me fucking nuts.
And if I have this conversation against at work:
Other person: “Don’t delete the spreadsheet, just copy and paste the new data in, you don’t want to mess up the links!”
Me: “The new data is irregular in both columns and rows, I’m going to have to relink everything anyway. At least deleting the sheet wholesale will generate REF errors that I can search for!”
re: #172 JordanRules
Mmmhmm.
These organizations who fall under profit model rule with scant regulation cannot be granted a nostalgic pass just for existing in the open media universe. That would continue to be an oversight of epic proportions.
Take Sinclair and fox. Both are propaganda outlets. Fox went to court to be able to lie on air. And won. There needs to be repercussions. Media consolidations are rewards for bad behavior. There is little real journalism anymore. It’s all bothsider mbf horserace bullshit.
re: #211 MsJ
Take Sinclair and fox. Both are propaganda outlets. Fox went to court to be able to lie on air. And won. There needs to be repercussions. Media consolidations are rewards for bad behavior. There is little real journalism anymore. It’s all bothsider mbf horserace bullshit.
We do have laws against fraud, slander, and libel, which make it clear that a person’s right to free speech has limits. If you represent yourself as a news outlet and make statements that you know are false or misleading, with reckless disregard for the truth, and so on, why should you not be held to the same standard as everyone else trying to sell a product?
It’s not like the courts haven’t litigated this sort of situation before. The US gives a great deal of deference to anybody who calls themselves a news outlet, which is being exploited by adversaries foreign and domestic.
re: #212 ericblair
We do have laws against fraud, slander, and libel, which make it clear that a person’s right to free speech has limits..
But to pursue such a case takes time and a lot of money, which tends to protect those with resources against those without.
re: #197 Amory Blaine
It’s funny how people on the right run their mouths about free speech but get angry when people exercise their free speech rights. Waters’ disdain of Trump is something that is shared by millions of Americans so if you don’t like it, don’t go to his concerts. Or go because he gets paid even if you’re angry and can’t control yourself.
I was actually sued for libel some years ago. A professional aura reader took exception to me calling her a quack in print. The judge threw it on the grounds that she was, well, a quack. It was a bit more formal than that but that was the gist.
re: #211 MsJ
Except for 20 or so years from Ed Morrow to Cronkite’s retirement, that’s all “journalism” really ever was. Don’t forget how the newspapers started the Spanish-American war and fanned the flames for WWI. For a short time we had people who thought news was more than propaganda or entertainment, but once it became unprofitable, back to the old model the media ran.
The best thing to do is the same as ever - read enough different sources that their inherent bias cancel each other out.
As the Russians used to say, there is no truth (Pravda) in the news (Izvestia) and no news in the truth. Not much different here…
re: #186 Kragar
Well, that’s not scary at all.
/s
re: #216 William Lewis
We should not, however, dismiss the rise of modern journalism as having no importance.
While I agree that the concept of “the news” was shaped for us by the likes of Ed Morrow and Cronkite, there has been, I propose, since the development of the modern concept of “history”, a concerted effort by many to be more objective in the relating of facts.
In this sense, journalism is history writing in near-realtime. Contrast to regular history writing, which looks backwards from today.
Now the real problem is mimicry - propagandists who now have perfected the ability to appear like they are attempting to be objective.
In the era when there were only a few major news networks, they placed a great premium on maintaining a certain reputation for balance and accuracy. In the end, that reputation was what gave them their market share and affected their revenues.
That has all changed with cable and Internet news. Now it is all about attracting a viewer base and appealing to their sense of reality.
So folks, I’ve met one in the wild. An honest-to-Dog Flat-Earther. The unfortunate part is he’s my new coworker, so for the sake of workplace harmony, I spent most of the night just nodding my head along to his rambling.
re: #220 Targetpractice
So folks, I’ve met one in the wild. An honest-to-Dog Flat-Earther. The unfortunate part is he’s my new coworker, so for the sake of workplace harmony, I spent most of the night just nodding my head along to his rambling.
And I thought I had it bad with the unReconstructed Confederates at my previous job.
re: #221 Timothy Watson
And I thought I had it bad with the unReconstructed Confederates at my previous job.
I hit the trifecta with this one: Flat-Earther, conspiracy theorist, and an anti-vaxxer. If I believed in a higher power, I’d assume this was some sort of test.
re: #222 Targetpractice
I hit the trifecta with this one: Flat-Earther, conspiracy theorist, and an anti-vaxxer. If I believed in a higher power, I’d assume this was some sort of test.
Letting you pay back some of that bad karma in this life instead of waiting for the next? :)
re: #223 Timothy Watson
Letting you pay back some of that bad karma in this life instead of waiting for the next? :)
Look, those nuns had it coming.
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re: #188 Kragar
I was in Konstanz a number of years ago. It’s a lovely little city and I’m shocked and saddened by this.
re: #223 Timothy Watson
Or loading up the karma bank so you’ll have a good life the next time around.
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹
I am not a lawyer, but I can’t think of any law that prohibits foreigners or foreign powers from trying to influence the media in the country.
When the Venezuelan Embassy, for example, creates a press release to assert or clarify its position on a subject, it is trying to influence people in this country. If a news outlet runs that press release, does that make the news outlet complicit in Venezuelan government policy?
I’m unclear on what payola scandal to which you refer.
Back to my previous argument: High Times promotes criminal activity. Should we arrest their writers and publisher?
You’re truly being pendantic.
re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I was actually sued for libel some years ago. A professional aura reader took exception to me calling her a quack in print. The judge threw it on the grounds that she was, well, a quack. It was a bit more formal than that but that was the gist.
truth as a defense!
re: #220 Targetpractice
So folks, I’ve met one in the wild. An honest-to-Dog Flat-Earther. The unfortunate part is he’s my new coworker, so for the sake of workplace harmony, I spent most of the night just nodding my head along to his rambling.
i dont care what anyone “believes” . You want to believe “in” a flat earth - as in faith without proof, go ahead. if that informs your decision making, i’ll that it into account when i evaluate your positions on anything
if you want to believe “that” - i.e. something is conventionally, objectively true - then you better “show the math” for all to see and replicate independently. otherwise your idea has no merit on its own and is merely rhetorical twaddle. You’ve tried to jump to the end without doing any of the work… a solution in need of a perverse and twisted premise to have any validity at all
re: #229 dangerman
i dont care what anyone “believes” . You want to believe “in” a flat earth - as in faith without proof, go ahead. if that informs your decision making, i’ll that it into account when i evaluate your positions on anything
if you want to believe “that” - i.e. something is conventionally, objectively true - then you better “show the math” for all to see and replicate independently. otherwise your idea has no merit on its own and is merely rhetorical twaddle. You’ve tried to jump to the end without doing any of the work… a solution in need of a perverse and twisted premise to have any validity at all
I have a buddy who just likes arguing and takes up points like that to be a gadfly and prove that he knows a list of arcane facts that you don’t.
re: #210 Timothy Watson
A pet peeve of mine is people hiding columns/rows with no documentation in spreadsheets. Drives me fucking nuts.
And if I have this conversation against at work:
Other person: “Don’t delete the spreadsheet, just copy and paste the new data in, you don’t want to mess up the links!”
Me: “The new data is irregular in both columns and rows, I’m going to have to relink everything anyway. At least deleting the sheet wholesale will generate REF errors that I can search for!”
Two of my favorites:
— Range references that fail to cover the entire range
— Columns where the formula suddenly changes, occasionally just for a single record.
re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter
Two of my favorites:
— Range references that fail to cover the entire range
— Columns where the formula suddenly changes, occasionally just for a single record.
That last one, at least in MS Excel, will get called out by a cell annotation so that you can inspect it. But if everything else in the spreadsheet is FUBAR, then you might not even notice.
My wife saw inline that Neil Gaiman is writing a sequel to Neverwhere.
re: #232 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That last one, at least in MS Excel, will get called out by a cell annotation so that you can inspect it. But if everything else in the spreadsheet is FUBAR, then you might not even notice.
Except if you have several hundred columns and 50000+ rows — it can be easy to overlook the annotation, especially when you are trying to help someone diagnose an apparently different problem associated with their workbook.
re: #220 Targetpractice
So folks, I’ve met one in the wild. An honest-to-Dog Flat-Earther. The unfortunate part is he’s my new coworker, so for the sake of workplace harmony, I spent most of the night just nodding my head along to his rambling.
I’d be unable to keep my mouth shut, workplace harmony be damned. Who knows what other crackbrain ideas he has.
re: #235 Hecuba’s daughter
Except if you have several hundred columns and 50000+ rows — it can be easy to overlook the annotation, especially when you are trying to help someone diagnose an apparently different problem associated with their workbook.
Yes, exactly. I wish they made certain kinds of inconsistencies more obvious.
Atheism: At least I don’t claim to be a Christian and then not act like Jesus would want.
re: #238 Belafon
Atheism: At least I don’t claim to be a Christian and then not act like. Jesus would want.
Walking in the shoes of the carpenters lad is not easy.
re: #239 Teukka
Walking in the shoes of the carpenters lad is not easy.
But people want to make it easy, because it’s their nature. So they invent a bunch of bullshit rules to make themselves comfortable, and then delude themselves into thinking they’re doing it right.
re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
But people want to make it easy, because it’s their nature. So they invent a bunch of bullshit rules to make themselves comfortable, and then delude themselves into thinking they’re doing it right.
You know what’s the really sad part? In terms of your conscience, it’s easy compared to the bullshit route.
re: #241 Teukka
You know what’s the really sad part? In terms of your conscience, it’s easy compared to the bullshit route.
Not going to disagree with you there. It’s an obvious choice to me. But then, I didn’t follow the rest of the lemmings off the cliff.
re: #241 Teukka
You know what’s the really sad part? In terms of your conscience, it’s easy compared to the bullshit route.
All one has to ask is “does this spread love? Does this give life?” If the answer is yes, it is godly. Otherwise walk away.
re: #241 Teukka
You know what’s the really sad part? In terms of your conscience, it’s easy compared to the bullshit route.
The problem is that they are so wedded to it that to stop would be an admission that they are wrong, and, as we see with Trump, they can never admit that.
re: #244 Belafon
The problem is that they are so wedded to it that to stop would be an admission that they are wrong, and, as we see with Trump, they can never admit that.
The sunk cost fallacy, as applied on a life-choices scale.
re: #245 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The sunk cost fallacy, as applied on a life-choices scale.
Amen Brotha! TESTIFY!!!!
And, for the record, my decision to be an atheist has nothing to do with other people. The thought above was just a convergence of some things that popped into my head.
re: #241 Teukka
You know what’s the really sad part? In terms of your conscience, it’s easy compared to the bullshit route.
But are we born with a conscience? Certainly those who are psychopaths cannot develop one. We have to be taught what’s right or wrong. I don’t think it’s intuitive.
re: #247 Belafon
And, for the record, my decision to be an atheist has nothing to do with other people. The thought above was just a convergence of some things that popped into my head.
For many, “Atheist” means “not believe in in (my choice of) God”.
That would put me in the same category.
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
But are we born with a conscience? Certainly those who are psychopaths cannot develop one. We have to be taught what’s right or wrong. I don’t think it’s intuitive.
We are born with a capacity for empathy, which IMO is a cornerstone of conscience. And not all psychopaths are born that way, some are made. The trick is to tap into and encourage our natural capacities.
Wish I could be more into the conversation but it’s to e to put on the robes and be lector and Eucharistic Minister today. Later all.
Defcon vote-hacking village shows that “secure” voting machines can be broken in minutes https://t.co/uTKcBEGewq
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) July 30, 2017
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
They already have “vertical” seating
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re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
But are we born with a conscience? Certainly those who are psychopaths cannot develop one. We have to be taught what’s right or wrong. I don’t think it’s intuitive.
I think we have to be taught as well, but, to agree with Teukka’s comment, it takes more effort to be assholes than to be nice. Look at how many new things they have to come up with in order to maintain their world: trans people are men going after their daughters, contraceptives are mini-abortions. It’s a whole lot of work to stay angry.
These “Christians”, to me, are stuck on an Old Testament definition of morality. The Old Testament was written for people who needed everything spelled out. While this was useful when you wanted to survive, it limits growth. The New Testament, specifically Jesus teachings, is more flexible, but requires you to think. “Love my neighbor? Why would I love that brown skinned woman with the scarf over her head if she doesn’t worship Jesus?” “But I do love gays. I just think they shouldn’t be so icky. Is that wrong?”
I would love to have the “Did I stutter?” meme on a t-shirt.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
They already have “vertical” seating
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I thought that’s what those triangular plastic things on the seats were for…..
In Today’s Doonsbury Reince is still COS.
When you lose the national review
“Death of a F***ing Salesman”
Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA at 9:39AM.
It is his 43rd day at a golf course as president.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 30, 2017
re: #254 Belafon
I think we have to be taught as well, but, to agree with Teukka’s comment, it takes more effort to be assholes than to be nice. Look at how many new things they have to come up with in order to maintain their world: trans people are men going after their daughters, contraceptives are mini-abortions. It’s a whole lot of work to stay angry.
These “Christians”, to me, are stuck on an Old Testament definition of morality. The Old Testament was written for people who needed everything spelled out. While this was useful when you wanted to survive, it limits growth. The New Testament, specifically Jesus teachings, is more flexible, but requires you to think. “Love my neighbor? Why would I love that brown skinned woman with the scarf over her head if she doesn’t worship Jesus?” “But I do love gays. I just think they shouldn’t be so icky. Is that wrong?”
I would love to have the “Did I stutter?” meme on a t-shirt.
Can’t comment at length from my phone, but that’s not fair to the OT.
re: #243 William Lewis
You can also flip that and ask if your relationships with people make you feel loved and leave you with a feeling of happiness most of the time. No one is perfect and relationships have down and up times, but if your interactions with people leave you sad, baffled, angry or feeling worthless, it’s time to let it GO. I try very hard to make sure I don’t mess with people and make them feel like crap, but I mess up sometimes. I own it though, I find apologizing is not really that hard. You just have to humble yourself a bit, not forever.
It’s only taken me about 50 years to get that one right, lol. I’m now to the point where I no longer give a flying monkey’s behind whether people like me or not. I wish to hell I could get all the time back I wasted worrying about what I did wrong to make someone not like me. I still fall back into it sometimes, but it doesn’t worry me much anymore. I think if we could be less embracing and rewarding of assholes, some of this proliferation of shit we’re seeing would die down. It’ll never go away, but maybe, just maybe, if there was less of a reward for being an asshole, they’d be confined to their tiny clusters of hate or maybe even be forced to confront their own demons. Maybe.
re: #261 dangerman
I wonder if the mooch is caddying this morning.
re: #257 dangerman
When you lose the national review
“Death of a F***ing Salesman”
They did not like him from the start, but acquiesced and gave him his chance to deliver. he did not.
But these guys are the intellectual wing of the GOP, the base idiots will continue to admire and support the man they all want to be more like.
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
But are we born with a conscience? Certainly those who are psychopaths cannot develop one. We have to be taught what’s right or wrong. I don’t think it’s intuitive.
Actually… it is intuitive. Experimental data has shown that babies, chimpanzees and dogs have an innate sense of “fairness”. It takes a lot of socialization to train that out of them.
This is addressed to lizards in the Los Angeles area. I’m serving as kind of an employment broker.
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re: #145 teleskiguy
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Getting ready for a packed show this morning: @SecPriceMD, @SenatorCollins, and @CLewandowski_ join me live on @MeetThePress
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) July 30, 2017
Lewandowski is on for balance. Because even though Trump is a lunatic, anti-Democracy bully, there must be someone to lie and say he isn’t. https://t.co/382jl2ZulE
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 30, 2017
Price will lie too.
re: #260 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Can’t comment at length from my phone, but that’s not fair to the OT.
You’re right in that I put too much on the Old Testament in terms of morality. I should have worded it more to say that the Old Testament is much more explicit about the rules of what is right and what is wrong, and has led a whole lot of people to think that if something is not listed there, then it must be wrong.
re: #257 dangerman
Tell us how you really feel, America’s most respected journal of white supremacy.
Damn, that is a brutal editorial piece.
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They did not like him from the start, but acquiesced and gave him his chance to deliver. he did not.
But these guys are the intellectual wing of the GOP, the base idiots will continue to admire and support the man they all want to be more like.
True enough
So, this is interesting. Apparently Ken Ham (of Answers in Genesis fame, also known as “that douchebag who built the Ark Encounter and then tried to dodge his taxes”) is poking fun at the Flat Earthers. Does he not realize that they are a not-insignificant part of his audience?
re: #262 A Mom Anon
I ask myself is this person an anchor or a sail, then proceed accordingly
There’s just not enough time in this world….
re: #275 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
So, this is interesting. Apparently Ken Ham (of Answers in Genesis fame, also known as “that douchebag who built the Ark Encounter and then tried to dodge his taxes”) is poking fun at the Flat Earthers. Does he not realize that they are a not-insignificant part of his audience?
The way I understand it, the YEC crowd doesn’t want the possibly ironic Flat-Earth crowd to intermingle with YEC believers and ruin their brand.
re: #277 wheat-dogg
The way I understand it, the YEC crowd doesn’t want the possibly ironic Flat-Earth crowd to intermingle with YEC believers and ruin their brand.
That’s probably true, but it just strikes me as amusing that they’re basically eating some of their own in the name of “preserving sanity” (not like they have any of that to begin with).
re: #266 sagehen
Actually… it is intuitive. Experimental data has shown that babies, chimpanzees and dogs have an innate sense of “fairness”. It takes a lot of socialization to train that out of them.
It is difficult to believe that there are legitimate reproducible studies that show “fairness” is innate. I can almost see our being born with some level of empathy as Teukka said in 250 above— but it’s really limited to what we perceive as the “same” as us and not the “other”. Some include all of humanity; others only members of their tribe; still others extend the feeling to animals. Yesterday, a friend who is not a vegetarian was castigating scientists for their treatment of animals in research; how they are willing to torture them to benefit humanity.
re: #278 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s probably true, but it just strikes me as amusing that they’re basically eating some of their own in the name of “preserving sanity” (not like they have any of that to begin with).
There are only so many marks out there, and they want to tap as many as possible for their own scam.
re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are only so many marks out there, and they want to tap as many as possible for their own scam.
“Get your own suckers, these ones are mine!”
re: #278 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s probably true, but it just strikes me as amusing that they’re basically eating some of their own in the name of “preserving sanity” (not like they have any of that to begin with).
Sanity or purity?
OK, in my late arrival to the internet today, I obviously missed something
I deleted my tweets re @Reince & apologized to him. Pretty sure he’s not accepting my apology. Can’t blame him. I’m ashamed of what I said.
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 30, 2017
.@Reince is a better man than me; he accepted my apology. I did something stupid and I’m embarrassed. Keep the hits coming - I deserve it. https://t.co/JXRQoX5aWo
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 30, 2017
Schwartz, a friend of Scaramucci, IDed by NY Post as his rep. Now apologizing for accusing Reince of having affairhttps://t.co/nxEKFVsPwh
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) July 30, 2017
re: #270 jaunte
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Lewandowski and Price starring in “The Unwatchables.”
re: #282 dangerman
Sanity or purity?
I choose Sanity, I suppose, but Sister Mary Claver will be terribly disappointed.
Mitch McConnell and his leadership team operated in a way that makes their complaints about what Democrats did seven years ago look ridiculous, at least to any objective, reality-based observer
Another pretty good summary of this week in healthcare dkos
re: #270 jaunte
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Price will lie too.
As usual, the morning shows have all Republican panels. It’s as if Democrats have nothing interesting to say about what is going on in the Trump admin.
Senator Collins gets her due from her constituents; finds it “extraordinary, heartwarming and affirming”
.@SenatorCollins on #CNNSOTU says that receiving spontaneous applause at Maine airport was “extraordinary” https://t.co/PhzY8j0fqB
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) July 30, 2017
re: #270 jaunte
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Price will lie too.
I get home from watching an auto race at a friend’s house turned on the TV that was tuned to NBC for morning news. It’s already 3/4s into Meet the Chuck and who do I get to see?
Corey Lewandowski.
I guess we are back to campaign Trump again. The Man against The Establishment.
It’ll be little Marco and Lyin’ Ted again, but he’ll be attacking Ryan, Mitch and all the GOP politicians for being weak.
Yep, Trump is gonna get tough again. Putting Lewandowski out instead of KellyAnne is a signal. Time to scare America and run roughshod over Congress like you are running against them all.
Trump against The World.
Isn’t this going to be exciting?!
re: #290 sagehen
Senator Collins gets her due from her constituents; finds it “extraordinary, heartwarming and affirming”
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I’m sure none of the Senators voting yes had similar welcomes at their home airports.
re: #290 sagehen
Senator Collins gets her due from her constituents; finds it “extraordinary, heartwarming and affirming”
SenatorCollins on CNN SOTU says that receiving spontaneous applause at Maine airport was “extraordinary”
Trump is off his game: he should have arranged for people to boo her and shout invective at such a traitor to the GOP cause and their President.
re: #285 FormerDirtDart
OK, in my late arrival to the internet today, I obviously missed something
Wow, there’s an urge to chase this whole thing down yet another internet wormhole (if just for the random replies thread), but I’m gonna try and resist.
Have you ever worked for him? You’re quoted in stories as his publicist.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 30, 2017
Again, for the 50th time: No. I have never worked for Anthony. Keep it up and you’ll be hearing from counsel. https://t.co/dkuxnF6bYa
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 30, 2017
Schwartz also threatened @jaketapper with legal action for asking about it.https://t.co/1U9lI7svZF
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) July 30, 2017
Well, at least Fyre Fest didn’t burn any structures down…
More than 22,000 fans were evacuated from the Tomorrowland music festival in Spain as fire engulfs stage https://t.co/EMzPdPtww4 pic.twitter.com/ldSEpnDoY9
— CNN (@CNN) July 30, 2017
re: #295 FormerDirtDart
Oh SHIT.
re: #295 FormerDirtDart
Wonder if that was pyrotechnics or faulty lighting/stage wiring. There are SO many things that can go wrong at a music festival, it’s a wonder there aren’t more incidents like this.
re: #294 FormerDirtDart
Scaramucci friend accuses Priebus of affair, then regrets it
nydailynews.com
re: #299 jaunte
Scaramucci friend accuses Priebus of affair, then regrets it
nydailynews.com
Why apologize? Everybody at Bada Bing was expected to have a little on the side.
re: #298 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wonder if that was pyrotechnics or faulty lighting/stage wiring. There are SO many things that can go wrong at a music festival, it’s a wonder there aren’t more incidents like this.
This video shows it starting, looks like lighting unit started it
Smear
Let the smear hang out for a while
Retract
Threaten to sue anyone who mentions it
re: #301 FormerDirtDart
This video shows it starting, looks like lighting unit started it
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Props to the roadies—they figured out how to take Burning Man on the road.
re: #295 FormerDirtDart
Well, at least Fyre Fest didn’t burn any structures down…
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Is it bad I don’t recognize a single band on the set list?
re: #301 FormerDirtDart
This video shows it starting, looks like lighting unit started it
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That’s definitely a brown-pants moment. Professional lighting rigs are no joke.
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They did not like him from the start, but acquiesced and gave him his chance to deliver. he did not.
But these guys are the intellectual wing of the GOP, the base idiots will continue to admire and support the man they all want to be more like.
I’ve always detested the National Review and its founder William Buckley but I admit that this may be their first article that seems accurate and to the point, not that it will change anyone’s opinion.
the underlying story to all the sunday news shows today is: can the general stop trump from being a big dumb baby? so. not good.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 30, 2017
re: #257 dangerman
When you lose the national review
“Death of a F***ing Salesman”
From the article:
He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.
Really? I did not know that.
That has got to be emasculating. I’m not a guy but damn. That a burn that’s 3rd degree level.
re: #305 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s definitely a brown-pants moment. Professional lighting rigs are no joke.
I’d wager as the light swung back and forth a stray hanging wire made contact, melted to the unit, then caught fire.
re: #305 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s definitely a brown-pants moment. Professional lighting rigs are no joke.
It looks like the set may have been made of the same extruded materials that made the Grenfell Tower fire such a disaster. Flaming stuff was dropping to the lower levels and spreading the fire.
re: #310 stpaulbear
It looks like the set may have been made of the same extruded materials that made the Grenfell Tower fire such a disaster. Flaming stuff was dropping to the lower levels and spreading the fire.
I was pretty floored by how rapidly the thing developed.
re: #299 jaunte
Scaramucci friend accuses Priebus of affair, then regrets it
nydailynews.com
Damn, Reince, thems some rabid dogs you laid down with. One can only imagine just how diseased them fleas are.
So, listen up, Team Trump: “Put that coffee down. Coffee is for closers only.” Got that?Read more at: nationalreview.com
Holy shit, they really put the wood on it.
re: #257 dangerman
When you lose the national review
“Death of a F***ing Salesman”
Daaaaaaamn. That was a scorcher.
Apparently, he still hasn’t read the bill nor has anyone told him what’s in it.
Oh, and he still doesn’t understand how government works…
Don’t give up Republican Senators, the World is watching: Repeal & Replace…and go to 51 votes (nuke option), get Cross State Lines & more.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2017
Why should insurance companies do the one thing they’re designed to do? Checkmate leftists. pic.twitter.com/wNE9JkzTVH
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) July 30, 2017
re: #314 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Daaaaaaamn. That was a scorcher.
Wonder if Trump will lump the National Review with the “fake news” media now. They hit him in all his soft spots: sex, wealth, deal making, ego.
re: #313 Ace Rothstein
So Williamson is upset not that Trump is a vicious asshole, just that he’s not very good at it.
re: #257 dangerman
Note that Kevin Williamson hardly represents all NRO writers. And even more, he tries at times to be the different conservative, and like McCain, wants to be seen as somehow the guy swimming valiantly upstream.
re: #314 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Whew no kidding. Can’t wait to show this to certain Republican friends. MY FB is gonna get more interesting for an hour or two.
re: #317 Ace-o-aces
How is it these people cannot understand how insurance works? I never went to biz school or studied economics, but I understand it. Maybe it’s my math background.
learn How to properly Capitalize Words so you Don’t look like an illiterate Moron!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 30, 2017
re: #317 Ace-o-aces
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re: #324 Timothy Watson
It’s been clear for awhile that the GOP has absolutely no idea how insurance works.
The development of shipping insurance in the 1600s made world commerce possible. Otherwise, what idiot would send a wooden ship across thousands of miles of unpredictable seas to carry cargo?
re: #324 Timothy Watson
kind of sad that we have one political party that is essentially vulnerable to travelling volcano insurance salesmen…
re: #325 wheat-dogg
The development of shipping insurance in the 1600s made world commerce possible. Otherwise, what idiot would send a wooden ship across thousands of miles of unpredictable seas to carry cargo?
Antonio and Bassanio.
Maybe that’s not a good example.
re: #324 Timothy Watson
Insurance for property is fine, but not for useless eaters.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹
In a nutshell, you’re conflating a victimless crime with a crime where the entire country is a victim by virtue of a conspiracy to undermine its very democracy.
“Excuse me, Gen. Kelly, I need to talk to my father-in-law about something and was wondering if you could fit me into the schedule.” Uh-huh.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 30, 2017
Video of Mike Cernovich in the wild
This is exactly what to do when you find “Weird Mike” @Cernovich and wanna get inside his #GorillaMind. Listen to his shaky voice. A+ work!! pic.twitter.com/rCiqFsBRS5
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) July 30, 2017
re: #317 Ace-o-aces
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Insurance is a bridge between capitalism and problems that are not supply and demand. In this case, no one would choose to be sick. No one would choose to get cancer. No rational person would choose to get in their car and get plowed into by the truck that ran a red light. But no one can go “I’ll be a doctor today” and come in and take care of the person who’s suffered a collapsed lung do to part of a car protruding from their chest. There’s a large investment on that side.
re: #260 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Can’t comment at length from my phone, but that’s not fair to the OT.
IMO, the OT is about “The History of The People.” By The People. The NT should be about how to behave. Broadly.
re: #328 jaunte
Cull the poor. That’s the ultra privileged class “solution” to various 1%er ills rarely real and often imagined. Cull enough to have a class desperate for jobs that have hard ceilings on income and especially authority.
Mulvaney: No other votes until Senate votes again on health carehttps://t.co/GIPkVBWftf pic.twitter.com/wYqpOTet08
— POLITICO (@politico) July 30, 2017
Their whole “budget thingy” won’t work unless they strip hundreds of billions out of healthcare
— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) July 30, 2017
The Russians are apparently targeting Malcolm Nance and Joy Reid.
5. Da Hakka Eleet quickly found its Denver location was just a VPN entry into America. It was tracked to Russia & was on Ru bot block lists
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 30, 2017
FFS. I wasn’t aware that rape survivors shoot people with their vaginas.
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) July 30, 2017
re: #333 Belafon
Insurance is a bridge between capitalism and problems that are not supply and demand. In this case, no one would choose to be sick. No one would choose to get cancer. No rational person would choose to get in their car and get plowed into by the truck that ran a red light. But no one can go “I’ll be a doctor today” and come in and take care of the person who’s suffered a collapsed lung do to part of a car protruding from their chest. There’s a large investment on that side.
Insurance removes a lot of the risk of being a capitalist.
re: #196 Anymouse
Cultivation of cannabis (even for personal use) under Federal law is a Felony. Sale of paraphernalia is also a Felony. Possession over two offences is a Felony.
Promoting Felonies is a Felony. Doing that in concert (several writers, editors, and a publisher) is a conspiracy to commit a Felony.
Indeed, prosecution is up to the discretion of a prosecutor. You’ve still dodged the question. High Times argues they have a I Amendment right. Federal law says they are promoting a crime. Should they be prosecuted for promoting Felonies?
If your argument is no, then you are engaging in special pleading. High Times is exempt from a provable Federal offence, but a newspaper with a slant but not breaking a law (at least one I am aware of) should be prosecuted.
re: #330 goddamnedfrank
Seems to me the publication of pro marijuana articles, ads etc are fully protected by the 1st A. The conspiracy, if any is to publish cannabis info or even propaganda, not violate the law. As to GDF’s point, I agree but that is beneath the overlay of transition. The public authority, the voters have declared cannabis to be acceptable for consumption. The Feds are behind the states in this transitional phase which by nature tangles all the legalities.
Scotland just made it much harder for Trump to expand his golf empire there https://t.co/gg5DlC8rq5
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 30, 2017
And this week, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, a conservation agency, made things even harder. Both groups are objecting to the Trump Organization’s expansion plan unless significant changes are made. Officials say the current plan breaches strict rules on sewage, environmental protection and groundwater conservation.
Their concerns are myriad. SNH says there is “substantial risk” that significant parts of the course could be damaged by drifting dunes, which happened at Trump’s already-built course in Scotland — Turnberry, on the west coast — in 2016. SEPA objects to the Trump Organization’s use of a “soakaway” (basically, a pit filled with rubble) to dispose of waste water, and it wants the company to connect the course and clubhouse to the public sewage system before building the second course. The agency also worries that the current irrigation plan could contaminate local water supplies. SEPA wants the company to pay to use public water supplies instead.
Local officials also want Trump to make good on his promise to build hundreds of affordable housing units and a school.
heh.
re: #341 Backwoods_Sleuth
Way to go Scotland. :)
re: #336 FormerDirtDart
So their budget thingy won’t work then. Good to know.
I deleted my tweets re @Reince & apologized to him. Pretty sure he’s not accepting my apology. Can’t blame him. I’m ashamed of what I said.
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 30, 2017
.@Reince is a better man than me; he accepted my apology. I did something stupid and I’m embarrassed. Keep the hits coming - I deserve it. https://t.co/JXRQoX5aWo
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 30, 2017
Source close to @reince says he never spoke with @Schwartz and has neither heard nor accepted any apology from him. https://t.co/jzPkXn3rim
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 30, 2017
re: #344 goddamnedfrank
Even the unknowns like Schwartz feel compelled to lie. It must be something about this regime which brings out all the liars in full force.
No, I’m pretty sure that I’m way more informed than you on this particular subject. But I could be wrong. pic.twitter.com/JvD00UQ1qP
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 23, 2017
On July 23rd, @ArthurSchwartz who is now denying he was Scaramucci’s publicist tweeted a link saying he was. —> https://t.co/ugpuUARuGM pic.twitter.com/OtLMetVDnR
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) July 30, 2017
re: #308 MsJ
Especially since the man who occupies a large area in Trump’s brain is in a very loving, long-term marriage. Trump never found his Michelle because he has never been a Barack. He oozes sexism. He couldn’t even control himself upon meeting Mrs. Macron. Crass as hell.
re: #322 wheat-dogg
How is it these people cannot understand how insurance works? I never went to biz school or studied economics, but I understand it. Maybe it’s my math background.
Moreso that you have a functional brain. Insurance isn’t difficult. It’s only so if you’re stupid.
Cat suffers for horrible case of Chickenpox pic.twitter.com/OC3OoMmACc
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) July 30, 2017
re: #349 MsJ
They know how it works, they just don’t want it to work for everyone.
re: #298 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wonder if that was pyrotechnics or faulty lighting/stage wiring. There are SO many things that can go wrong at a music festival, it’s a wonder there aren’t more incidents like this.
It looks like one side of the FOH system is melting down.
re: #343 Patricia Kayden
So their budget thingy won’t work then. Good to know.
Well, their budget thingy really doesn’t work even if they strip hundreds of billions out of healthcare
They have to reuse the same “savings” a couple times and use historically outlandish growth potentials to get the math to work
But, their base will buy it then.
re: #324 Timothy Watson
It’s been clear for awhile that the GOP has absolutely no idea how insurance works.
It is capitalistic socialism. They only want the capitalism part to function…
Assange jumps in with anti-Mueller propaganda. In yellow is the original tweet. In blue is what they deliberately left out. @20committee pic.twitter.com/7FeqjNKjyv
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) July 30, 2017
re: #349 MsJ
Moreso that you have a functional brain. Insurance isn’t difficult. It’s only so if you’re stupid.
Bingo. The GOP in a nutshell — willfully ignorant.
re: #329 Unshaken Defiance
We had so much warning, so much notice and example after example after example of what Donald Trump really is as an “executive”. This is the peril of the angry outsider that never served anyone but himself, not to this very day. So much damage done, so many lies declared as truth.
They were also aware of his extensive dealings with foreign countries and that his business partners were close to foreign governments.
But they did not bring up these points for fear of alienating their base, without whom they could not regain the the White House…now they have the White House and Congress but still cannot pass legislation.
Trump wants Senate to vote again on repealing Obamacare before it takes up any other legislative business. #CNNsotuhttps://t.co/0hzST7Amib
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 30, 2017
I want a unicorn.
Let’s see what happens first. https://t.co/PrV8NOMc9S— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 30, 2017
re: #299 jaunte
Scaramucci friend accuses Priebus of affair, then regrets it
nydailynews.com
What that article doesn’t have is the tweet in question. You can see a screenshot here.
Arthur Schwartz, a friend of Anthony Scaramucci who has been referred to as his publicist, warned Reince Priebus that he would “start dropping oppo” on the former White House chief of staff, adding “Mistress much?” in a Sunday morning tweet. The tweets have since been deleted, but of course, screenshots live on forever.
re: #349 MsJ
Some are stupid, but a lot more are intellectually dishonest.
re: #326 piratedan
kind of sad that we have one political party that is essentially vulnerable to travelling volcano insurance salesmen…
Trump is a more venal, less intelligent,, yet equally yellow hued monorail salesman from the Simpsons. Can’t sing either.
re: #360 Alephnaught
OT I happened by your web site. And as it so happens I just took a good long look at “Thomas Annan: Photographer of Glasgow” at the Getty. One gets the impression he was there as a dear friend. The love of the place and people shines.
Talk about setting your sites low. Quite a goal, Ivanka—I think you achieved it long ago.
Javanka 2/2 2) They are already annoyed w/ Mooch 3) Post-Paris, Ivanka’s goal is to lower expectations she’s in-house lib on LGBT et al.
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) July 30, 2017
re: #348 Patricia Kayden
Especially since the man who occupies a large area in Trump’s brain is in a very loving, long-term marriage. Trump never found his Michelle because he has never been a Barack. He oozes sexism. He couldn’t even control himself upon meeting Mrs. Macron. Crass as hell.
Marriages work when it is a partnership of equals. I’m pretty sure all of Trumps wives are literate.
Sad reactive, nasty little bully who deep down inside just knows he is a know nothing addle minded shite whose only success is down to the speed and stamina of one solitary sperm. He knows he has personally achieved nothing of note. Everything comes from his daddy.
*sigh*
.@BernieSanders opens door to 2nd WH run; he’ll be in Iowa on August 31 to tout his “Guide to Political Revolution” https://t.co/v4XvTnJjm5
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 30, 2017
re: #365 451_Montag
Trump has never been seen in an equal relationship of any kind I can recall.
re: #365 451_Montag
Marriages work when it is a partnership of equals. I’m pretty sure all of Trumps wives are literate.
These were not marriages, just business transactions: he gets a trophy wife and arm decoration, she gets access to millions and a luxury lifestyle.
Trump budget director: It’s White House policy that nothing gets a vote in Congress before healthcare https://t.co/kZMczh7U2M pic.twitter.com/FNkvl7KPCy
— The Hill (@thehill) July 30, 2017
It’s constitutional policy that the White House doesn’t run Congress. https://t.co/G5jAKc3mx6
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) July 30, 2017
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see that we have reached the “holding my breath until I get my way” phase of the Trump presidency.
re: #371 Frenchy
Just like a spoiled brat would do. Oy.
re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth
OFFS. This shit STILL? When’s Jill Stein’s next bid due to drop?
God I am SICK of these people. If they got to work doing actual things to help liberals win, that would be one thing, but they do nothing but help Republicans win. Over and over. GO AWAY.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@morningmoneyben #TrumpDontCare No modern President has had more ignorance of or contempt for the separation of powers that we rely on.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 30, 2017
The Derp State pic.twitter.com/17FdEfQCun
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 30, 2017
Absolutely incredible picture.
Nice detail: The Mooch now wears his tie Trump-style. https://t.co/46hDstRe6D— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) July 30, 2017
re: #363 Unshaken Defiance
OT I happened by your web site. And as it so happens I just took a good long look at “Thomas Annan: Photographer of Glasgow” at the Getty. One gets the impression he was there as a dear friend. The love of the place and people shines.
Thomas Annan’s photos of Glasgow are an amazing social document of Glasgow in the late Victorian era, as the city has changed so much since then. In this collection, the only building still standing is the Tollbooth steeple. The rest have been torn down and replaced at least once. Whole streets and lanes depicted here have not existed for almost a century.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
Healthcare got a vote. It failed.
re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth
@BernieSanders opens door to 2nd WH run; he’ll be in Iowa on August 31 to tout his “Guide to Political Revolution” cnn.com
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 30, 2017
This asshole better not put a “D” after his name ever again.
What kind of hummingbird is this? pic.twitter.com/GT3EqpEOaj
— Ching (@___C_h_i_n_g___) July 29, 2017
*hummingbear.
— Zimmie (@bob_zim) July 29, 2017
re: #368 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These were not marriages, just business transactions: he gets a trophy wife and arm decoration, she gets access to millions and a luxury lifestyle.
I think he truly loved the first wife, for the first half of that marriage.
re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth
*sigh*
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Release you tax returns, Bernie, then I’ll listen.
Order barring refugees without family in US from entering the country shuts out orphaned kids fleeing conflict. https://t.co/uAy3doeTqO
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 30, 2017
re: #336 FormerDirtDart
Mulvaney: No other votes until Senate votes again on health care
Senators who have been here longer than Trump and will still be here after he leaves (or resigns, or is impeached, deposed, etc.) really don’t like being told what to do by the executive branch.
re: #382 sagehen
I think he truly loved the first wife, for the first half of that marriage.
I have doubts that Trump has ever truly loved anything other than praise for himself.
But….but… we have to protect ‘Mericuh from all the terrorists…
Order barring refugees without family in US from entering the country shuts out orphaned kids fleeing conflict. https://t.co/uAy3doeTqO
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 30, 2017
Freddie Gray’s family probably wants to know if officers will protect Trump’s head when he is thrown into the back of a paddy wagon.
— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) July 30, 2017
re: #364 BeachDem
Talk about setting your sites low. Quite a goal, Ivanka—I think you achieved it long ago.
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Javanka 2/2 2) They are already annoyed w/ Mooch 3) Post-Paris, Ivanka’s goal is to lower expectations she’s in-house lib on LGBT et al.
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) July 30, 2017
From the “No Shit Sherlock” file. Cross-referenced to the “You’re Too Late” file. #DumbBunnyThinksShesAWascallyWabbit https://t.co/lY2XQLNUoB
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 30, 2017
re: #365 451_Montag
Marriages work when it is a partnership of equals. I’m pretty sure all of Trumps wives are literate.
Sad reactive, nasty little bully who deep down inside just knows he is a know nothing addle minded shite whose only success is down to the speed and stamina of one solitary sperm. He knows he has personally achieved nothing of note. Everything comes from his daddy.
Trump himself appears to be somewhat illiterate. Perhaps it’s early onset dementia but I don’t think reading is a strong suit.
re: #390 MsJ
.@GlennThrush Remember whatever she does, it’s because her so called husband & bully told her so.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 30, 2017
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
The question is will Congress play along and cede its power to trump.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 30, 2017
re: #356 Ace-o-aces
10g of highly enriched uranium is not enough to make a nuke. That amount of uranium would occupy less than a cubic centimeter — smaller than sugar cube.
IIRC Trump and his minions managed to misquote the amount as 10kg, which would be an entirely different matter.
For reference, the Little Boy A-bomb carried 64kg of U235.
re: #394 MsJ
.@MsJoanne @morningmoneyben At which point we take it to the streets like nothing seen in decades.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 30, 2017
re: #376 jaunte
I think Mooch has a bit of a Napoleon complex. He definitely has an identity crisis; he thinks he is trump.
re: #380 Dr. Matt
This asshole better not put a “D” after his name ever again.
And D’s better damn well not let him!
The MAN! pic.twitter.com/fOTehEGT1k
— RogelioGarcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio) July 30, 2017
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
755 US diplomats out? Damn, that’s a lot.
Obviously, a developing story.
A diplomatic crisis between the US and Russia is threatened after President Vladimir Putin ordered 755 US diplomats to leave Moscow.
The order from Moscow, reported by AFP, comes in response to fresh sanctions against Russia announced by President Donald Trump.
Both houses of Congress backed the sanctions bill, which also includes measures against Iran and North Korea.
The sanctions are over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and alleged interference in the US election.
found link to the actual NYT story:
Putin, Responding to Sanctions, Expels 755 U.S. Diplomats
There is so much going on in this photo….Corey, Scaramucci, Gorka, and Omarosa….. pic.twitter.com/qlvLfbOXHp
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 30, 2017
A photo that oozes villainy. https://t.co/vlEGxjYa9Y
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2017
re: #401 Dr Lizardo
755 US diplomats out? Damn, that’s a lot.
Obviously, a developing story.
He’s on the golf course, not to be bothered.
re: #391 MsJ
Trump himself appears to be somewhat illiterate. Perhaps it’s early onset dementia but I don’t think reading is a strong suit.
He prefers draw-ring
re: #397 MsJ
I think Mooch has a bit of a Napoleon complex. He definitely has an identity crisis; he thinks he is trump.
I think more Brutus than Napoleon.
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
Breaking News: Vladimir Putin said 755 U.S. diplomats must leave Russia
The sanctions bill (and Trump’s refusal to veto) has Putin shook as hell, from the look of it. Gonna be an interesting week…
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If I was a Republican in Congress, I think I’d be working to invite Mulvaney over for a “friendly coffee,” sometimes known as a “hit him with a ball-peen hammer ‘til he stops saying stupid shit” visit.
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fine with me. F&%k those guys. All we need there is one Ambassador and staff. Americans with interests there need to cope with a major break. How diplos are many are left?
re: #395 wheat-dogg
10g of highly enriched uranium is not enough to make a nuke. That amount of uranium would occupy less than a cubic centimeter — smaller than sugar cube.
IIRC Trump and his minions managed to misquote the amount as 10kg, which would be an entirely different matter.
For reference, the Little Boy A-bomb carried 64kg of U235.
For a gun-type bomb, you need a lot more fissile material than for an implosion bomb. I’ve heard figures in the range of 28 to 64 kg of HEU. Pu is not possible to use because it’s too reactive.
For a implosion bomb however, you really don’t need that much, a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) sphere of Pu and probably a similar mass of HEU is enough to make a nice big bang.
Further reading:
o Demon Core
o Gun-Type Weapon
o Nuclear Weapon Design
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says failed health vote was the last straw for Reince Priebus https://t.co/FKR1mluUiz pic.twitter.com/RMgw0qdKdr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 30, 2017
By contrast Obama gave speeches selling the ACA, answered all questions & defended it in a one on all session with GOP legislators.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2017
One of Trump’s problems:
The illusion you will be able bodied forever interferes with empathy for the ill and disabled. https://t.co/lpSPUcmv4j
— James C.Coyne (@CoyneoftheRealm) July 30, 2017
re: #410 Unshaken Defiance
Fine with me. F&%k those guys. All we need there is one Ambassador and staff. Americans with interests there need to cope with a major break.
So will Rex be snapping into action to try to ease the damage? This will hit him in the pocketbook.
re: #408 makeitstop
The sanctions bill (and Trump’s refusal to veto) has Putin shook as hell, from the look of it. Gonna be an interesting week…
And he’s hoping to rattle Trump.
re: #414 stpaulbear
Right, I don’t expect the right reaction out of any of those people. FTR what I’m saying to do might be the wrong tactic, but I’d need to hear that from experienced pros. Not these guys.
re: #401 Dr Lizardo
The sanctions are over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and alleged interference in the US election.
Lol.
re: #415 Belafon
And he’s hoping to rattle Trump.
Gah! Now I (we maybe?) have something in common with Vlad.
Here’s an interesting report on a basic income project undertaken in Liberia. Households in the bottom 8% of family income in two cities there were granted on average US$25 a month, and their expenses tracked.
Executive summary: Households spent the grant money on food, shelter, clothing, health care, education — not on frills or luxury items. In addition, many used the basic income to start their own businesses, employing others to work for them.
The writer says other basic income projects have had similar results.
re: #417 Ace Rothstein
Lol.
Yeah. But I figure they wanna be careful, that’s all.
Well, good night Lizards. Work week starts bright and early tomorrow. Have a good one.
re: #411 Teukka
For a gun-type bomb, you need a lot more fissile material than for an implosion bomb. I’ve heard figures in the range of 28 to 64 kg of HEU. Pu is not possible to use because it’s too reactive.
For a implosion bomb however, you really don’t need that much, a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) sphere of Pu and probably a similar mass of HEU is enough to make a nice big bang.Further reading:
o Demon Core
o Gun-Type Weapon
o Nuclear Weapon Design
No question of that. None of them are possible to make with only 10g of HEU. That’s an amount only useful for scientific research.
re: #391 MsJ
Trump himself appears to be somewhat illiterate. Perhaps it’s early onset dementia but I don’t think reading is a strong suit.
OK, and as long as we’re doing long-distance armchair analysis, I’m guessing his core problem might be related to some form of dyslexia or other.
Donald seems to have no problem dealing with numbers, or with concepts*; it just seems like dealing with them put down in written form is some level of hurdle for him to have to get over.
Didn’t we read somewhere that Trump’s Daily Briefings were meant, ideally, to be short (like 3-pages short), simply worded, widely spaced, and preferably typed in capitals?
Doesn’t sound to me like someone who is used to, or comfortable, with any sort of “reading” in any fashion. And maybe that explains his fascination with communicating via Twitter - with a 140-character limit, you’re forced to keep things short-and-simple. Of course, it being that he’s POTUS, it comes out short-and-simpleminded: but there we go…
*IMO, anyway, it doesn’t make him any less of an avaricious, malignant narcissist: just a dyslexic one.
re: #404 Charles Johnson
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As said earlier, he has the “heavies” back out working today. Time to get tough on Congress.
Watch the oncoming train wreck one way or the other.
Either Mitch and Paulie get tough (ha!) or Trump gets to back the bus over the GOP.
Popcorn here! Getchur popcorn here!
re: #415 Belafon
And he’s hoping to rattle Trump.
Trump’s pretty screwed regarding the sanctions. It picked up all but five votes in the entire Congress, so it’s veto-proof. Even if Trump get really desperate and vetoed the bill to appease Putin, just about everyone wold start asking ‘What the fuck is up with this guy?’ And then Congress would swat away the veto like Dikembe Motumbo.
I’ll admit to sort of hoping Trump reacts in such a stupid manner that it’ll get even the less-involved-in-politics folks asking where his loyalties lie.
re: #410 Unshaken Defiance
Fine with me. F&%k those guys. All we need there is one Ambassador and staff. Americans with interests there need to cope with a major break. How diplos are many are left?
Russia will be the losers. Financially at least.
re: #424 makeitstop
Trump’s pretty screwed regarding the sanctions. It picked up all but five votes in the entire Congress, so it’s veto-proof. Even if Trump get really desperate and vetoed the bill to appease Putin, just about everyone wold start asking ‘What the fuck is up with this guy?’ And then Congress would swat away the veto like Dikembe Motumbo.
That would be fun because it’d give everyone an opportunity to talk about how weak he is.
re: #414 stpaulbear
So will Rex be snapping into action to try to ease the damage? This will hit him in the pocketbook.
Isn’t Rex napping on vacation?
re: #427 MsJ
Isn’t Rex napping on vacation?
Spending some much-needed quality time with his legal team.
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re: #422 Jay C
OK, and as long as we’re doing long-distance armchair analysis, I’m guessing his core problem might be related to some form of dyslexia or other.
Donald seems to have no problem dealing with numbers, or with concepts*; it just seems like dealing with them put down in written form is some level of hurdle for him to have to get over.
Didn’t we read somewhere that Trump’s Daily Briefings were meant, ideally, to be short (like 3-pages short), simply worded, widely spaced, and preferably typed in capitals?
Doesn’t sound to me like someone who is used to, or comfortable, with any sort of “reading” in any fashion. And maybe that explains his fascination with communicating via Twitter - with a 140-character limit, you’re forced to keep things short-and-simple. Of course, it being that he’s POTUS, it comes out short-and-simpleminded: but there we go…*IMO, anyway, it doesn’t make him any less of an avaricious, malignant narcissist: just a dyslexic one.
Compare his speech from 20 years ago to 10 years ago to now. There is a major difference in cognative ability.
re: #428 Ace Rothstein
No, he’s trying to go back to Exxon.
/
God told him to take the job. Apparently, God doesn’t like Rex.
I just got to thinking. With Kelly, a military man, in as chief of staff, will Trump have to back off on his love of Putin? Will he have to start to say bad things about Vlad? Will he have to back these sanctions with an explanation to the world press? Will he have to start talking about the Russians hacking the election?
I can’t see an actual U.S. military career kind of guy going much for allowing his “President” to be squishy on Russia.
Is this even going to work? I’m thinking this isn’t going to last too long.
re: #426 scottslemmons
That would be fun because it’d give everyone an opportunity to talk about how weak he is.
That should be a main topic of conversation right now. I was away from the internet yesterday until about midnight last night, and that tweet complaining about China illustrates his weakness perfectly. He can’t get a goddamned thing done about North Korea so he blames the Chinese - just like he couldn’t get a deal done on ACA repeal and is now blaming Republicans.
People should be pointing out, over and over, that for a guy who claims to be the Best Negotiator of All Time he sure expects everyone else to do the heavy lifting.
He’s bargaining from a position of weakness, all the time. It needs to be pointed out, often.
re: #433 ObserverArt
This is where we see if they actually have him in a jam by way of blackmail. If they don’t-At the very instant it’s in his interest to go hard on the Russians he will. The more he coddles them well actions speak louder right?
re: #435 makeitstop
That should be a main topic of conversation right now. I was away from the internet yesterday until about midnight last night, and that tweet complaining about China illustrates his weakness perfectly. He can’t get a goddamned thing done about North Korea so he blames the Chinese - just like he couldn’t get a deal done on ACA repeal and is now blaming Republicans.
People should be pointing out, over and over, that for a guy who claims to be the Best Negotiator of All Time he sure expects everyone else to do the heavy lifting.
He’s bargaining from a position of weakness, all the time. It needs to be pointed out, often.
You nice to him. The weakness from which he is bargaining is … ta-dah … the void inside his head where knowledge is supposed to be
re: #432 MsJ
God told him to take the job. Apparently, God doesn’t like Rex.
His wife told him: “See? God isn’t finished with you yet.”
That is some scary shit.
Good thread…
Per CNN, the DPRK might now be able to nuke Boston. We’re looking at being led into our biggest war since WWII by our worst president ever.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 30, 2017
re: #435 makeitstop
That should be a main topic of conversation right now. I was away from the internet yesterday until about midnight last night, and that tweet complaining about China illustrates his weakness perfectly. He can’t get a goddamned thing done about North Korea so he blames the Chinese - just like he couldn’t get a deal done on ACA repeal and is now blaming Republicans.
People should be pointing out, over and over, that for a guy who claims to be the Best Negotiator of All Time he sure expects everyone else to do the heavy lifting.
He’s bargaining from a position of weakness, all the time. It needs to be pointed out, often.
But the whole world now knows he’s all talk and no action. We’ve never been as vulnerable to threats as we are now.
re: #438 Eclectic Cyborg
You need Andy Kaufman next to a record player of to the left with his arm extended… Perfection!!
re: #440 Ace Rothstein
His wife told him: “See? God isn’t finished with you yet.”
That is some scary shit.
OK . It’s his wife that doesn’t like Rex. 🤣😂
re: #442 MsJ
But the whole world now knows he’s all talk and no action. We’ve never been as vulnerable to threats as we are now.
China has him figured out.
re: #424 makeitstop
Trump’s pretty screwed regarding the sanctions. It picked up all but five votes in the entire Congress, so it’s veto-proof. Even if Trump get really desperate and vetoed the bill to appease Putin, just about everyone wold start asking ‘What the fuck is up with this guy?’ And then Congress would swat away the veto like Dikembe Motumbo.
I’ll admit to sort of hoping Trump reacts in such a stupid manner that it’ll get even the less-involved-in-politics folks asking where his loyalties lie.
I thought they were going with “he had a lot of input into the bill”
According to the White House, Trump “read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical elements of it” and “has now reviewed the final version and, based on its responsiveness to his negotiations, approves the bill and intends to sign.”
Yeah, that’s some serious bullshit right there. The article goes on:
In fact, it’s more likely the White House had next to no involvement in changes to the bill and didn’t get anything they wanted. In reality, Congress effectively boxed Trump in, and he now has no choice but to sign the bill.
I’m sure they’re already screaming FAKE NEWS!
And “the mooch” has his own take:
“may sign the sanctions exactly the way they are, or he may veto the sanctions and negotiate an even tougher deal against the Russians.”
Uh huh.
From the execrable Kevin Williamson:
[…]
They want to swagger, to curse, to insult, and to exercise power over men, exercising power over men being the classical means to the end of exercising power over women, which is of course what this, and nine-tenths of everything else in
human affairs, is about.[…]/blockquote>
FTFH
The only decent writer/thinker to have worked at National Review (that I know of) is Robert Costa. KW is one of the worst.
re: #442 MsJ
But the whole world now knows he’s all talk and no action. We’ve never been as vulnerable to threats as we are now.
It appears the “leader” of North Korea might be the one to test that all talk no action thing. He is feeling comfortable in what he is doing with increasing their military capabilities and must think there is no way the “big mouth leader” of the U.S. is going to stop him.
Who knows…China might be egging all this on as a test to see what Trump is made of.
And Trump is getting into tough guy mode at the same time.
Not good. Not good at all.
re: #421 wheat-dogg
No question of that. None of them are possible to make with only 10g of HEU. That’s an amount only useful for scientific research.
Indeed it is. No chance it was a typo?
re: #441 makeitstop
Good thread…
Per CNN, the DPRK might now be able to nuke Boston. We’re looking at being led into our biggest war since WWII by our worst president ever.
Kim Jong-Un fires ICBMs, Putin boots American diplomats, Emperor Commodious plays more golf. @realDonaldTrump leads from the country club? pic.twitter.com/SiuIuD7fYE
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) July 30, 2017
re: #448 ObserverArt
It appears the “leader” of North Korea might be the one to test that all talk no action thing. He is feeling comfortable in what he is doing with increasing their military capabilities and must think there is no way the “big mouth leader” of the U.S. is going to stop him.
Who knows…China might be egging all this on as a test to see what Trump is made of.
And Trump is getting into tough guy mode at the same time.
Not good. Not good at all.
I thought I read somewhere that Russia is the one helping North Korea.
re: #451 Belafon
I thought I read somewhere that Russia is the one helping North Korea.
That may be too. I only mention China because they obviously have some control over North Korea. They may just be standing back and watching instead of influencing anything. It might be one reason Donny was bitching about them in a Tweet. China may have told him to fuck off, you’re such a great negotiator you deal with Dear Leader of the DPRK.
If Trump looks weak, China can then gauge how they deal with him.
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