Seth takes a closer look at the Trump team’s effort to ramp up attacks on the Russia probe and news media despite the President being on vacation.
The moon, framed by ash from Indonesia’s Mt Sinabung volcano, is seen at peak of a penumbral eclipse, when Earth’s shadow falls on the moon pic.twitter.com/Snlbj6fCYW
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 8, 2017
I see Robert Wright is continuing down the path of woo:
Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?
[…]
But all is not lost. In his new book, Why Buddhism is True, Wright makes the case that some Buddhist practices can help humans overcome the biological pull towards dissatisfaction.
“I think of mindfulness meditation as almost a rebellion against natural selection,” he says. “Natural selection is the process that created us. It gave us our values. It sets our agenda, and Buddhism says, ‘We don’t have to play this game.’ “
[…]
Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that thinking differently can change a person’s emotions and patterns of behavior.
But Wright seems to be going a step farther and pushing into Buddhist dogma.
Only 42 more hours until I can tweet again!
re: #4 teleskiguy
Lizard tweeters, spare yourself the trouble and block this account, @kikobrown
That’s the wench that reported me and put me in Twitter jail for a week, all because I called her some nasty names and told her she was late for a cross burning.
re: #5 teleskiguy
You still think calling her a c*** was cool?
re: #7 JordanRules
Never said it was cool. She deserved it nonetheless because she really is a ****.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Okaaaay. Carry on.
It was fun when you mentioned how Charles banned that word and the N word.
I’ve got a shit ton of savage nomenclature in my aresenal that doesn’t illicit side-eyes in allies.
re: #9 JordanRules
I would like to think I’ve got a good vocabulary. And sometimes I like simple direct language. So sue me.
re: #10 teleskiguy
I would like to think I’ve got a good vocabulary. And sometimes I like simple direct language. So sue me.
Your simple, direct language is what got you suspended. If you’re okay with that, carry on.
re: #11 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Your simple, direct language is what got you suspended. If you’re okay with that, carry on.
I accept the consequences, and have learned my lesson. That lesson being never interact with outright RWNJs on Twitter, just block and move on.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Pro tip: If you want to call another dude that word fine but saying it to a woman is never a good look. Neither is defending its use to another woman.
Also, if you really want to pull it off it helps to be British.
I am an asshole, have been for a little stretch. Dog days of summer getting to me. I miss skiing. I am an asshole.
I am a comedian and a poet so, anything that doesn’t get a laugh… is a poem.
— Bill Hicks (@Bill_Hicks_RIP) April 11, 2016
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
Ha! I considered that British part the other night too. I really did.
PEACE YA’LL.
— Wu Tang Clan (@WuTangClan) August 8, 2017
getting upset at google for firing a man who said women were inferior is why “never trump” conservatives were so inept at stopping trump.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2017
And not just at Google, this is a well understood variation on the universal “don’t shit where you eat” rule for keeping your job anywhere.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 8, 2017
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
What depresses me is how that piece demonstrates the gaping holes in how people think in general, but in specific how dudes are taught that their internal lives are “factual” not subjective and emotional. Furthermore, it’s a perpetuation of the mythos in which “smart” is some kind of omnicompetence…leading to the software guy making a hash of biology, psychology, sociology, business management, and political science, with zero pause to consider his qualifications relative to his audience.
There’s a “logic” but little to no testing of base assumptions. The author’s “feelings” about being excluded are treated as True, and the validity of his thoughts is taken for granted, and thus that is the only idea exchange that matters.
My Internet service was out (again).
On the end of the last thread I suggested that in regards to sending the NYT and Wash. Post to our town, it might be better for me to simply look into print subscription prices and for me to subscribe to one print edition each, for the public library.
Someone mentioned net nanny software. Our state requires that in public libraries. The librarian can override it if someone (adult) wishes unfettered access to the Internet.
An interesting thing happened at our board meeting tonight.
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True story.
Acting like a sexist douche on your company’s time & creating an epic shit show for the PR & HR depts to clean up WILL get your ass fired.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 8, 2017
Unless you work in, say, health insurance, in which case they’ll just wait for you to quit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #truestory https://t.co/zP7FTDyD7I
— MissAnneB (@abroshar) August 8, 2017
Once, when I was working in kitchens during college I was being trained by a lady who had an active restraining order against the head chef.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 8, 2017
And by creepy I mean violent, I know fuck all about the particulars except they were enough for the courts but not the restaurant’s owners.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 8, 2017
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled Benjamin Netanyahu must reveal phone call logs with casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. https://t.co/oGa8hgXWZI
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 7, 2017
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
What change in access to media do you think would help? You’ve been very clear that this is a problem.
I’m cool with any answer. I just want to see if there is something we can do and if it’s worth pursuing.
re: #25 JordanRules
What change in access to media do you think would help? You’ve been very clear that this is a problem.
I’m cool with any answer. I just want to see if there is something we can do and if it’s worth pursuing.
I’m not sure.
A new radio station opened up in the county seat, run by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The overwhelming majority of radio here is either RWNJ or Christian hate radio. There are a couple music stations but they don’t do news. The only NPR station in this area is out of range for us (I can only get it in my car).
The regional newspaper leans conservative. (Hence little reporting on the raging Dumpster fire in the White House - mostly fluff pieces)
Television is controlled by Sinclair (regardless of network).
There is no cable service. In theory someone could get satellite service but it is very expensive; ditto with Internet service.
The area is pretty much a captive audience for RW propaganda; we were written off long ago as no longer important by the left or the media.
From the last thread:
re: #144 sagehen
Can I just point out… significant portions of the Netherlands are below sea level. If you care enough to build proper sea walls, this is doable.
I would note that The Netherlands has been building dikes and sea walls since 1000 CE. The area of SE Louisiana that would need to be protected is considerably larger.
re: #24 FormerDirtDart
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For the purposes of an American network posting to an American audience, “U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson” may be a reasonable identifier.
But for the purposes of the Israeli court that issued this order, the more relevant point is that Sheldon Adelson owns (and exercises strict editorial control on) the largest-circulation newspaper in the entire country. And he gives it away for free.
Stephen Marche attends the Ohio Preppers and Survivalist Summit and discovers the contradictions in American life are the very conditions that are slowly crumbling it from within
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
- reach out to NPR and see what the landscape looks like for a wider signal
- research regional papers for alternatives and how we can distribute those if there are any worth it
- research any grants that push internet access to rural areas and consider some targeted subscriptions (library, a few houses etc)
- remind AM that nobody comes to the South Side of Phoenix to interview us about this Admin, but I’ve seen tons of pieces about the ONLY working class, aka Drumpf supporters
re: #30 sagehen
Ryan Murphy, in interviews, says the political commentary is intended as subtext… but I’m beginning to think it’s possibly not very subtle.
Not much “sub” in the text, eh?
Never watched the show… but I might be drawn to check out the first episode of this season, given what you’ve shared.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
The overwhelming majority of radio here is either RWNJ or Christian hate radio. There are a couple music stations but they don’t do news. The only NPR station in this area is out of range for us (I can only get it in my car)..
Maybe someone could raise money for a repeater for one of the Nebraska Radio stations?
I see on the map that there already are three small stations in their network.
netnebraska.org
re: #31 JordanRules
- reach out to NPR and see what the landscape looks like for a wider signal
I’m not sure what the station could do. It’s in Chadron, ninety miles away.
- research regional papers for alternatives and how we can distribute those if there are any worth it
The next nearest papers would be the Cheyenne Tribune-Eagle or the Denver Post, neither of which covers issues here. The county paper here only covers county issues.
- research any grants that push internet access to rural areas and consider some targeted subscriptions (library, a few houses etc)
My wife did that for two years, including using the fund set up for the FCC to distribute funding to rural areas. We have access, it just costs too much (much like the GOP “healthcare” plan). The FCC plan is such a cluster that she gave up after two years trying to get funding, and the library already has Internet service. (The fund doesn’t pay for service, it pays only part of it. The GOP is targeting it for elimination anyway. There are consultants that will help you navigate the FCCs requirements but it turns out they cost more than what you get from the FCC. She wrote the Gates Foundation about getting one new computer - they originally supplied the village library two on a grant back in Windows 95 days, but they turned down her grant request.)
- remind AM that nobody comes to the South Side of Phoenix to interview us about this Admin, but I’ve seen tons of pieces about the ONLY working class, aka Drumpf supporters
I’m still waiting for someone, anyone, anywhere, to interview a Hillary Clinton supporter living in a Trump territory. The media in its desperation to normalise the Orange Terror have not yet interviewed all the Trump supporters who cast ballots from overseas or outer space yet.
re: #33 freetoken
Maybe someone could raise money for a repeater for one of the Nebraska Radio stations?
I see on the map that there already are three small stations in their network.
netnebraska.org
That chart showing the coverage area of KTNE Alliance is -ah- quite optimistic.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
:D Ish…I mean, that word is used as a comma, but it’s still “The Killing Word.” I still have trouble saying it.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
Stephen Marche attends the Ohio Preppers and Survivalist Summit and discovers the contradictions in American life are the very conditions that are slowly crumbling it from within
Good article. At this point, I should say that not all preppers are crazy but the crazy majority are where the money is. I am especially puzzled by the fad for “bugging out.” As the article intimates, albeit gently, much of this is based on anti-government cultism and plain racism. “The government can take your stuff and give it to the ‘others’.” More directly, they fear that numberless hordes of others will swarm out of the inner cities to pillage their way through suburbia “as soon as the welfare checks stop.”
I swear, some of the doofi in this area seem to think there are 50 million black people in Dallas alone, they are all on welfare, and they have a zombie-like resistance to gunfire, let alone reason and decency, when there is loot to be had. In any case, running down the road to a “retreat” 200 miles away might be the very worst place you could be in a real collapse, the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it (TEOTWAWKI) situation. In a nuclear fallout situation, it would kill you stone dead with no doubt at all. Indeed, I have considered that one good post-fallout strategy in a true TEOTWAWKI situation might be to cautiously prowl the nearby interstate for wrecked SUVs loaded with bug out supplies.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
That was a very good article.
Lots of apocalypticism in the US - I remember it when I lived there. It’s a constant thread running through American culture. “The end is nigh!” and all that jazz.
And you know what? All the prepping in the world ain’t gonna mean shit if something like this happens one fine day:
That’s an extinction level event right there. And all the AR-15’s, all the dehydrated foodstuffs, all the stores of water won’t mean anything if our planet becomes a dead rock floating in the vastness of space.
As the article said, they’re prepping for the catastrophe they want - not the catastrophe they’re going to get. What they’re looking forward to is a variant of the cozy catastrophe. en.wikipedia.org
re: #39 Dr Lizardo
That was a very good article.
Lots of apocalypticism in the US - I remember it when I lived there. It’s a constant thread running through American culture. “The end is nigh!” and all that jazz.
And you know what? All the prepping in the world ain’t gonna mean shit if something like this happens one fine day:
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That’s an extinction level event right there. And all the AR-15’s, all the dehydrated foodstuffs, all the stores of water won’t mean anything if our planet becomes a dead rock floating in the vastness of space.As the article said, they’re prepping for the catastrophe they want - not the catastrophe they’re going to get. What they’re looking forward to is a variant of the cozy catastrophe.
Yeah. A KT Killer sized impactor will mean what it did the last time, that a very likely outcome is that nothing with a body mass of 60 lbs or more will hack it. And very much so if humanity is spread out in small pockets warring amongst themselves.
Even a smallish impactor like “Chelyabinsk Surprise” can have devastating consequences. And I’m not just talking about such a impactor doing a ground burst, but the possibility that it gets mistaken for a nuclear strike due to the similar yields. The Chelyabinsk surprise was about 500 kT yield equivalent. That it didn’t do more damage was because it was a high-altitude burst at 29,000 m. Had it made it down to earth in a populated zone, the body count would have been at least 5 digits.
And twice that and above, and you are in a scale of disaster which will require international assistance and co-operation to deal with the fallout. No time to be hiding in your bunker with your immediate family and your AR15 and food rations, but time to get out and get your hands dirty with your fellow humans.
*shakes head*
re: #40 Teukka
The Chelyabinsk surprise was about 500 kT yield equivalent. That it didn’t do more damage was because it was a high-altitude burst at 29,000 m. Had it made it down to earth in a populated zone, the body count would have been at least 5 digits.
Russia dodged a bullet with that. I’ve often thought “What if that bolide had airburst at about 200 meters over Chelyabinsk instead of 29,000 meters?” The consequences could’ve been catastrophic, and not just for Russia. The initial moments after something like that would be filled with uncertainty, to say the least; it would take a few minutes to figure out if it was simply a natural disaster or a nuclear strike.
re: #39 Dr Lizardo
The world has been imminently coming to an end since before i was born.
re: #41 Dr Lizardo
Russia dodged a bullet with that. I’ve often thought “What if that bolide had airburst at about 200 meters over Chelyabinsk instead of 29,000 meters?” The consequences could’ve been catastrophic, and not just for Russia. The initial moments after something like that would be filled with uncertainty, to say the least; it would take a few minutes to figure out if it was simply a natural disaster or a nuclear strike.
Let me rub my two grey cells together… Given the angle of the impactor, the impact zone would have been elliptic in shape, and depending on composition, it might have had parts of it bounce further down trajectory. There’s an example of this type of impactor in S America.
And that’s just the initial consequences, the secondary ones would be any nuclear facility in the zone, the smoke generated by many uncontained fires, both wildfires and structural fires. It could be enough to cause at least localized climate impact. Then we would have the displacement of the population that survived in the impact zone. And I could go on with the tertiary consequences, but you get my drift…
I would say it would be borderline what the Russian Federation could hack on its own.
re: #43 Teukka
There’s an example of this type of impactor in S America.
The Chicxulub Impact Event? Or another event?
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
There’s an example of this type of impactor in S America.
The Chicxulub Impact Event? Or another event?
re: #42 Pineapple Pizzagate
The world has been imminently coming to an end since before i was born.
For about the last 2,000 years, or at least that’s what a particular apocalyptic preacher was telling his entourage, and who - with all due respect - seems to have been a bit off on his timing.
re: #42 Pineapple Pizzagate
The world has been imminently coming to an end since before i was born.
When Iran gets their nuke, that’s it, that’s when it will finally end.
/
Every serious study of post-catastrophe survival has found that cooperation with others, rather than individual isolation, is the optimum strategy. The prepper culture, though, is fanatically individualistic. If the government did offer a comprehensive civil defense program; with stocked, assigned shelter space (as in Switzerland); the RWNJ preppers would reject it as some kind of collectivist conspiracy.
Each doofus thinks he and his family unit can survive indefinitely on their own. This would be viable if they were alone in the world, like Swiss Family Robinson, but that is not the case here. No group of 4 or 5 people is going to have the necessary cross section of skills.
re: #48 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Every serious study of post-catastrophe survival has found that cooperation with others, rather than individual isolation, is the optimum strategy. The prepper culture, though, is fanatically individualistic. If the government did offer a comprehensive civil defense program; with stocked, assigned shelter space (as in Switzerland); the RWNJ preppers would reject it as some kind of collectivist conspiracy.
Each doofus thinks he and his family unit can survive indefinitely on their own. This would be viable if they were alone in the world, like Swiss Family Robinson, but that is not the case here. No group of 4 or 5 people is going to have the necessary cross section of skills.
If indeed the Toba genetic bottleneck hypothesis is in fact true, I’m pretty sure us Homo sapiens sapiens didn’t make it back from the brink by being “rugged individualists”.
Hell……..most likely, none of us would be here; we would’ve gone extinct millennia ago.
Developing Story - 3 injured as car drives into people in the Stockholm Suburb of Högdalen.
re: #52 Teukka
Developing Story - 3 injured as car drives into people in the Stockholm Suburb of Högdalen.
UPDATE: Elderly Lady of age 80-ish mistook pedals according to Tomas Ibstedt, officer in charge at Stockholm County police.
re: #39 Dr Lizardo
That asteroid looks to be about 400 miles in diameter given the relative sizes of Korea and Japan. We probably haven’t seen an impact like that since the moon was formed. It’s also larger than all but 4 of the asteroids in the entire asteroid belt. Even the largest near earth asteroids are significantly smaller (only a handful exceed 10 miles in diameter). For comparison, the extinction level event that took out all the non bird dinosaurs was caused by an object in the 3-10 mile diameter range.
re: #53 Teukka
UPDATE: Elderly Lady of age 80-ish mistook pedals according to Tomas Ibstedt, officer in charge at Stockholm County police.
Geriatric Terror Cell !!!
Off to second day of jury duty, in the court with definably the highest death penalty production in the country. (We are assured there are no capital cases this week.)
re: #39 Dr Lizardo
Apocalypticism has been an inherent trait among the Dominionists at least since the first Great Awakenings.
Just back from walking the dogs and my hands are sticky with blood.
re: #4 teleskiguy
Only 42 more hours until I can tweet again!
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You are hilarious!!! Twitter really needs to fix its system if good folks like you are being kicked off while open White Supremacists are given carte blanche.
re: #60 Patricia Kayden
You are hilarious!!! Twitter really needs to fix its system if good folks like you are being kicked off while open White Supremacists are given carte blanche.
Twitter’s front office has been scientifically proven to be composed of nothing but ostriches.
Man spraypaints Twitter office sidewalk with abusive tweets the social network refuses to delete https://t.co/pc1QrYfpm3
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) August 7, 2017
…the hell?
Come to Trump Soho right now… pic.twitter.com/nWxmwyKeoH
— Alex C. Ferrill (@AlexCFerrill) August 8, 2017
re: #63 makeitstop
…the hell?
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Does that sign read:
“Laundering services available”?
lol
Is Trump Someone You Are Proud to Have As President?
Yes 34%
No 63%
Trust Most of What You Hear from the White House?
Yes 24%
No 73%— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 8, 2017
re: #48 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Every serious study of post-catastrophe survival has found that cooperation with others, rather than individual isolation, is the optimum strategy. The prepper culture, though, is fanatically individualistic. If the government did offer a comprehensive civil defense program; with stocked, assigned shelter space (as in Switzerland); the RWNJ preppers would reject it as some kind of collectivist conspiracy.
Each doofus thinks he and his family unit can survive indefinitely on their own. This would be viable if they were alone in the world, like Swiss Family Robinson, but that is not the case here. No group of 4 or 5 people is going to have the necessary cross section of skills.
You’d think “The Walking Dead” would have driven home this point…
Thread.
(2) Here’s a follow-up. Nunes is a proven (quasi-clandestine) Trump agent; he’s not part of the House probe anymore. https://t.co/rnkp1ocoX1
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 8, 2017
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹
Hm. It seems I’m oddly fighting an uphill battle here.
Welp I think I stumbled on one area that seems very doable - new computers for the library! Coupled with some additional subscriptions/copies of newspapers it could be a decent start.
I’ve worked on 2 programs that supplied computers to underserved communities.
re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea
What depresses me is how that piece demonstrates the gaping holes in how people think in general, but in specific how dudes are taught that their internal lives are “factual” not subjective and emotional. Furthermore, it’s a perpetuation of the mythos in which “smart” is some kind of omnicompetence…leading to the software guy making a hash of biology, psychology, sociology, business management, and political science, with zero pause to consider his qualifications relative to his audience.
There’s a “logic” but little to no testing of base assumptions. The author’s “feelings” about being excluded are treated as True, and the validity of his thoughts is taken for granted, and thus that is the only idea exchange that matters.
I would be willing to bet that the author is a strong proponent of The Bell Curve, too. I only skimmed the diatribe, but the attempt to use science to explain his obvious biases is exactly the same style of discussion that is used by racists who attempt to explain why the white man (including Asians) are superior to POC. It is, as you note, a giant mash-up of different areas of science, but with no acknowledgement there of, nor any attempt to remove his own inherent fee-fees of not being worshiped as a white male.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
My Internet service was out (again).
On the end of the last thread I suggested that in regards to sending the NYT and Wash. Post to our town, it might be better for me to simply look into print subscription prices and for me to subscribe to one print edition each, for the public library.
Someone mentioned net nanny software. Our state requires that in public libraries. The librarian can override it if someone (adult) wishes unfettered access to the Internet.
Yeah, most libraries have some sort of filter. What I wasn’t sure of is whether it’s set to filter hate sites as well as the standard oh-no-it’s-sex. Does the local librarian have discretion/ability to set the filters themselves, in addition to what the law specifies? More to the point, how much usage do the current computers get, and would more computers — or longer library hours, perhaps — expand the number of people using them?
Where do folks hang out to talk, and are they susceptible to the lure of free reading material? USA Today? Time or Newsweek? Discovery?
EDIT: screwed up the quote indents. aargh.
re: #68 makeitstop
(20) Upshot: Trump’s just now learning he might not be able to obstruct Mueller directly. I think he’s going after Steele now instead. {end}
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 8, 2017
(PS) I agree with those who say—partly on the strength of this story—that Devin Nunes *must* become a key piece in Mueller’s Russia probe.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 8, 2017
I’d be absolutely shocked if Nunes wasn’t already being heavily investigated as part of this probe.
Las Vegas law mandates legally bought marijuana be consumed in a private residence, putting tourists in a tough spot https://t.co/8cnV3vPxFy pic.twitter.com/J0fYepwtXX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 8, 2017
Remarkable. Son/top aide of GEN Flynn is pushing info from fringe Right to discredit @POTUS’s National Security Adviser GEN McMaster. pic.twitter.com/9TNUQEED2E
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 8, 2017
re: #73 FormerDirtDart
Hence the popularity of vapes. Fancy looking and who knows what is in the liquid? Flavors and tomato derived nicotine? Or cannabis? Joints are obnoxious like cigars for any non smoker. But vapes are almost odorless outside a couple feet away.
Imho
Smoking of tobacco or cannabis bud should be done in areas unlikely to be bothersome. Vapes should get more latitude but still not public indoor space.
re: #62 makeitstop
No rage tweets this morning? Hm.
He’s retweeted Fox and Friends three times already.
But he’s too busy to watch TV and all. /
re: #74 FormerDirtDart
Ah, the internecine war between the Bannon faction and the Kelly faction is starting to heat up again.
And when HASN’T Mike-Mike retweeted the fringe right Nutzis like Paulie Watson and Cernovich?
re: #73 FormerDirtDart
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Do like I did when I was there, go out onto the hotel room balcony :-)
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s busy getting his golf game on at Trump Bedminster, and he’s threatening to come to NYC for some reason next week. Guess he’s decided that he would like to screw up NYC transit some more by dropping in and causing gridlock.
It’s not like he’s going to do anything to help improve infrastructure here or anywhere else in the US. All his talk about infrastructure has been just that - talk. There’s no substantive policies here, and the infrastructure we do have continues to fail.
Meanwhile, an effort to get truckers and train engineers tested for sleep apnea has been scrapped by the relevant federal agencies despite a clear link between the condition and deadly accidents.
US nixes sleep apnea test plan for truckers, train engineers despite link to deadly crashes: https://t.co/tz47D20wbf pic.twitter.com/GL9M7K8vwt
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 8, 2017
There’s more of that freedom we’ve come to expect from Trump and the GOP. They’re going to scrap a rule that would save lives. Metro North, which had one of these kinds of deadly crashes now tests all its engineers and found that 11.6% of the engineers suffered from sleep apnea.
Guess we’ve got the freedom to have a 10% chance a rail/subway/tractor trailer driver is going to fall asleep behind the wheel and cause loss of life.
Shorter NY Mag: Glenn Greenwald is a disingenuous pile of crap.
From the outset, he has reflexively discounted evidence of Russian intervention in the election. “Democrats completely resurrect that Cold War McCarthyite kind of rhetoric not only to accuse Paul Manafort, who does have direct financial ties to certainly the pro — the former pro-Russian leader of the Ukraine,” he asserted last year. (Manafort did have financial ties to that leader, a fact that was obvious at the time and which Manafort no longer denies.) Democratic accusations that Trump had hidden ties with Russia were a “smear tactic,” “unhinged,” “wild, elaborate conspiracy theories,” a “desperate” excuse for their election defeat, and so on.
As evidence of Russian intervention piled up, Greenwald’s line of defense has continued to retreat. When emails revealed a campaign meeting by Russians on the explicit promise of helping Trump’s campaign, Greenwald brushed it off as politics as usual: “I, personally, although it’s dirty, think all of these events are sort of the way politics works. Of course if you’re in an important campaign and someone offers you incriminating information about your opponent, you’re going to want it no matter where it comes from.”
re: #81 makeitstop
Shorter NY Mag: Glenn Greenwald is a disingenuous pile of crap.
If Pepsi can turn in a guy for giving them the Coke formula, Republicans can put country over party, Glen.
re: #80 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s busy getting his golf game on at Trump Bedminster, and he’s threatening to come to NYC for some reason next week. Guess he’s decided that he would like to screw up NYC transit some more by dropping in and causing gridlock.
It’s not like he’s going to do anything to help improve infrastructure here or anywhere else in the US. All his talk about infrastructure has been just that - talk. There’s no substantive policies here, and the infrastructure we do have continues to fail.
Meanwhile, an effort to get truckers and train engineers tested for sleep apnea has been scrapped by the relevant federal agencies despite a clear link between the condition and deadly accidents.
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There’s more of that freedom we’ve come to expect from Trump and the GOP. They’re going to scrap a rule that would save lives. Metro North, which had one of these kinds of deadly crashes now tests all its engineers and found that 11.6% of the engineers suffered from sleep apnea.
Guess we’ve got the freedom to have a 10% chance a rail/subway/tractor trailer driver is going to fall asleep behind the wheel and cause loss of life.
Let me guess, this is under the aegis of preventing unnecessary overregulation stifling independent entrepeneurship?
re: #81 makeitstop
TL;DR: Greenwald is a liar/smear merchant.
*snort laugh followed by a sigh*
This Harvard grad is building a luxury weed business that he expects to bring in $50 million a year https://t.co/CVdZplS8Sn pic.twitter.com/17WsTM3Hwt
— Marijuana News (@WeedFeed) August 7, 2017
Oh wow that’s crazy my cousin just got locked up for doin the same shit. https://t.co/Xwd27HyA7X
— Sunny D 🌕 (@90shero) August 7, 2017
re: #83 Teukka
Let me guess, this is under the aegis of preventing unnecessary overregulation stifling independent entrepeneurship?
Yep, and if your child dies because of a situation like this, they are pushing for tort and liability “reform” so you can’t do a fucking thing about it court wise. Win-win for business, as for the public, eat shit.
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
Just back from walking the dogs and my hands are sticky with blood.
I think you may be doing it wrong…
U.S. spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat https://t.co/BPFXsLffgy
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 8, 2017
the president tweeting something that his UN Ambassador says she cannot publicly discuss because it’s classified for national security https://t.co/8qbiW1o0gv
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 8, 2017
This Edroso column wins on its title alone: Coup Clucks Clan: Rightbloggers Blame ‘Deep State’ for Trump’s Woes
As former FBI head Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian shenanigans in the 2016 U.S. election heads for a grand jury, Donald Trump’s many weird self-incriminating behaviors are beginning to look like the “tells” of a guilty man. And his absent maladministration of the executive branch looks less like a dull political headache we’re all going to have to endure till at least 2020 than like signs of imminent collapse.
Conservatives who’ve bet heavy on Trump, however, don’t see it that way. To them, Trump’s problems are not his fault at all, but the result of a “coup” plotted against The Leader by liberals, ungrateful Republicans, and the “Deep State” — that is, U.S. law enforcement and other arms of the government tasked with oversight of the executive. And some of them are calling to beat back this alleged coup with violence.
The coup idea isn’t new. As far back as last summer, James Kirchick wrote at the Los Angeles Times that “if Trump wins, a coup isn’t impossible here in the U.S.” — though Kirchick’s fantasy involved the military brass refusing to obey some lunatic command by the “brazenly authoritarian” Trump.
After the election, however, conservatives were more likely to talk about the “coup” as led by traitors against Trump.
“The intention of the Obama/Clinton campaign is to explain the election loss in terms acceptable to the Democratic Party, to hamstring and delegitimize the new administration coming in, and to bring about the resignation or impeachment of Donald Trump,” wrote Philip Giraldi at the American Conservative in March. “It is in all intents and purposes a coup…” (Name checks: George Soros, John Podesta, “consigliere Valerie Jarrett.”)
“We Are Watching A Slow-Motion Coup D’etat,” cried James Downton at the Federalist in May. Downton charged “collusion between the various elements of the partisan Left, the media, and the administrative state.” Apparently the kingpin of these colluders, judging from the frequency with which Downton mentioned him in his column, is Eric Boehlert, a writer for Media Matters for America and, later, Shareblue. Congrats on the promotion, Eric!
re: #85 JordanRules
*snort laugh followed by a sigh*
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It’s ok because he’s got a fire extinguisher and the right kind of shirt
Retweets then tweets…
OPIOID CRISIS: Worse than we thought, with a new study showing overdose deaths were under reported pic.twitter.com/27kLJKRXsL
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 8, 2017
I will be holding a major briefing on the Opioid crisis, a major problem for our country, today at 3:00 P.M. in Bedminster, N.J.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
I guess Jared will be telling everyone how their going to solve this now…
re: #93 FormerDirtDart
I will be holding a major briefing on the Opioid crisis, a major problem for our country, today at 3:00 P.M. in Bedminster, N.J.
Something something more prisons…mumble mumble ‘those’ neighborhoods…argle bargle greater law enforcement….MAGA!
Sorry, no questions, I gotta go tee off.
re: #73 FormerDirtDart
Pot BNB! (You’re welcome.)
re: #5 teleskiguy
Oh, I looked at what she posted. Typical Trumpette. And I blocked her….
#MSNBC @HallieJackson Why are journalists surprised by Trump’s tweeting behavior? Does a leopard change its spots? #Distract #Divert pic.twitter.com/V8sPIutYSR
— Pat Fuller Ω 🇺🇸❄🖖 (@bannerite) August 8, 2017
re: #82 Belafon
If Pepsi can turn in a guy for giving them the Coke formula, Republicans can put country over party, Glen.
Why, that would take respect for your competition.
Currently, I don’t think Republicans respect anyone, not even themselves.
re: #53 Teukka
UPDATE: Elderly Lady of age 80-ish mistook pedals according to Tomas Ibstedt, officer in charge at Stockholm County police.
ISIS sleeper agent!!!! Arglebargle!?&@$#%!@”$!
re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus
ISIS sleeper agent!!!! Arglebargle!?&@$#%!@”$!
ISIS Geriatric Division!!!!!!! 111ty!!!111?
*shakes head*
re: #91 makeitstop
One of the most frustrating things about this and something which is also noted in the prepper article above is that people in law enforcement and/or otherwise dependent on the government are some of key drivers of the anti-government movement. Something like 75+% of the US budget is spend on the security state, the care and feeding of the old and infirm, or making the payments on debt used to provide for the same, yet it’s people collecting SS, grazing at below market rates on public land and working for the government/collecting government pensions that seem be involved in the movement.
He makes another mistake…
Martin Shkreli Played The Wu-Tang Album He Bought For $2 Mil In An Interview… https://t.co/sytD1vZkAc
— Wu Tang Clan (@WuTangClan) August 7, 2017
re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus
ISIS sleeper agent!!!! Arglebargle!?&@$#%!@”$!
She was just a heavy sleeper, like Rip Van Winkle heavy sleeper.
re: #81 makeitstop
Shorter NY Mag: Glenn Greenwald is a disingenuous pile of crap.
Color me unsurprised. Even when Greenwald was fighting the “good fight” against Bush, he was viscerally unable to alter his mind when confronted with facts that proved him wrong. I had a long email argument with him regarding some of the legalities of a famous criminal case I won’t mention here, about which he’d made some rash and totally untrue statements on his blog. He never conceded an inch about being wrong even when I confronted him with factual evidence to the contrary, chapter and verse, and quickly resorted to ad hominem insults. He is incapable of arguing with an open mind.
re: #89 FormerDirtDart
the president tweeting something that his UN Ambassador says she cannot publicly discuss because it’s classified for national security
U.S. spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat https://t.co/BPFXsLffgy
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 8, 2017
…
Well…she is only the UN Ambassador. She is not the President.
The President can do anything, Just ask Trump. He seems to be able to do anything he wants.
Gun deaths over the last 15 years is roughly 500,000
Opioid overdoses over the same period: roughly 550,000.
(Source - chart here)
One gets treated as a national emergency. The other is watering the tree of liberty and freedom.
Trump has repeatedly claimed the drug epidemic is the result of our immigration and border policy, and yet most get hooked on drugs as a result of a lawful prescription to deal with pain and other issues.
Also curiously, the majority (overall and by percentage), of those overdosing on opioids are white.
heroin and opioid painkillers today are used at similar rates in rural and urban areas. Johnson, the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment director, attributes this partly to access: Like alcohol, you don’t need to get to a city to have plentiful access to prescription drugs. As the map below shows, many of the states hit hardest by the epidemic—like West Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Ohio—are overwhelmingly rural and white.
That doesn’t totally get into why those states in particular are being hard hit - and only NM is on the border with Mexico.
But rather than address drug abuse, this admin has been behind efforts to gut drug treatment (that’s part of the Trumpcare nightmare that is still lurking in the shadows), and increasing criminal penalties against drug use - along with recriminalizing pot consumption.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart
I will be holding a major briefing on the Opioid crisis, a major problem for our country, today at 3:00 P.M. in Bedminster, N.J.
— Donald J. Trump
Translation: My HHS Sec is going to come over and tell me about this issue and I’ll pay attention for about a minute before talking about what yuuuge crowds I’ve had lately.
re: #105 ObserverArt
Well…she is only the UN Ambassador. She is not the President.
The President can do anything, Just ask Trump. He seems to be able to do anything he wants.
Indications are that North Korea is going to have a seriously shitty harvest. I wonder how much of this activity is related to that? This seems to fit with previous behavior where they ratcheted these activities up to get a deal in exchange for food and fuel. Alternately, maybe they’re actually angling for war this time figuring they have nothing to lose.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart
Retweets then tweets…
I guess Jared will be telling everyone how their going to solve this now…
If we execute all of the drug addicts, then they don’t end up in the “died from overdose” column.
//
Just found something I never knew about. Knew a bit about the Great Lakes, but this is new. To me anyway. Good day all.
Nice story here;
I disconnected from Trump and everything else for a week. And then I wrote this. I hope it does some form of good.https://t.co/i7RM8QHx71
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) August 8, 2017
So what do they look like? Petosky Stone
A State Park named after Them?
I learned something. And some advice. As he says, hope this does some form of good.
re: #105 ObserverArt
Well…she is only the UN Ambassador. She is not the President.
The President can do anything, Just ask Trump. He seems to be able to do anything he wants.
Are we going to go after the leaker who spilled the NK spy satellite info to Fox & Friends?
re: #107 Sir John Barron
Translation: My HHS Sec is going to come over and tell me about this issue and I’ll pay attention for about a minute before talking about what yuuuge crowds I’ve had lately.
Yup, over hamburgers.
Ahh: Trump’s “major briefing” on opioids is a briefing of HIM, from Tom Price, not him briefing the public.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2017
re: #105 ObserverArt
Well…she is only the UN Ambassador. She is not the President.
The President can do anything, Just ask Trump. He seems to be able to do anything he wants.
A periodic reminder the president can unilaterally order anything to be declassified.
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) August 8, 2017
And Presidents before this one have done so on basis of concerted cost-benefit analyses to ensure any disclosure won’t unduly harm natl sec. https://t.co/t4ChitNMx2
— Ned Price (@nedprice) August 8, 2017
Importantly, past presidents vetted declassification decisions through relevant agencies to ensure they can raise equities and be prepared. https://t.co/VFQ0NSmdIx
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) August 8, 2017
re: #112 Stanley Sea
Yup, over hamburgers.
Yeah “I’ll be holding a major briefing…”
Who talks like this?
Oh, sorry, our so-called president.
re: #113 FormerDirtDart
A good reminder would also be that Secretaries of State have that authority as well for information coming from their department.
re: #80 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s busy getting his golf game on at Trump Bedminster, and he’s threatening to come to NYC for some reason next week. Guess he’s decided that he would like to screw up NYC transit some more by dropping in and causing gridlock.
It’s not like he’s going to do anything to help improve infrastructure here or anywhere else in the US. All his talk about infrastructure has been just that - talk. There’s no substantive policies here, and the infrastructure we do have continues to fail.
Meanwhile, an effort to get truckers and train engineers tested for sleep apnea has been scrapped by the relevant federal agencies despite a clear link between the condition and deadly accidents.
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There’s more of that freedom we’ve come to expect from Trump and the GOP. They’re going to scrap a rule that would save lives. Metro North, which had one of these kinds of deadly crashes now tests all its engineers and found that 11.6% of the engineers suffered from sleep apnea.
Guess we’ve got the freedom to have a 10% chance a rail/subway/tractor trailer driver is going to fall asleep behind the wheel and cause loss of life.
And now we have a SCOTUS justice who believes that drivers have an OBLIGATION to die behind the wheel if corporate refuses to give them sufficient rest periods.
OK, nothing like running out of coffee to get me off my lazy rear and onto the bike for a trip to the store.
Well, that and the fact that I’m pretty much out of food. And, I need to pick up this weeks lottery tickets too.
Before I leave, this is a very entertaining thread
Thread alert: so I go on what I think might be a date with a guy my friends set me up on on my birthday (yes it’s a bit hazy).
— Lisette Pylant (@LisettePylant) August 7, 2017
Why is dating in DC so miserable. This thread sheds 💡 https://t.co/rSCsgsLgul
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) August 8, 2017
re: #42 Pineapple Pizzagate
The world has been imminently coming to an end since before i was born.
I may have to steal this.
re: #114 Sir John Barron
Yeah “I’ll be holding a major briefing…”
Who talks like this?
Oh, sorry, our so-called president.
A Czech view; I was talking to a student today and the subject of Trump came up and she said, “My God, what a dangerous fool he is! But the Czech media really doesn’t give it the attention it deserves, so I have to go to US media sources to find out.”
In some fairness, the Czech Republic is now in full-on silly season…….an election is coming up in October, and of course, that dominates public discourse. But she’s right - Czech media, with very few notable exceptions, is largely quiet on Trump’s tomfoolery. The alternative media is slowly but surely being taken over by Russia’s useful idiots, unfortunately.
re: #118 FormerDirtDart
Before I leave, this is a very entertaining thread
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That’s worthy of a Seinfeld episode.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart
Retweets then tweets…
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I guess Jared will be telling everyone how their going to solve this now…
“You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
Just back from walking the dogs and my hands are sticky with blood.
??
Did some really bad thing happen? I hope not!
re: #118 FormerDirtDart
Oh wow!!! Hilarious.
I’d watch the movie.
VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:
ophidian (adj.) Look up ophidian at dictionary.com
“pertaining to snakes,” 1883, from Greek ophidion, diminutive of ophis “serpent” (see ophio-). Hence, ophiolatry “serpent-worship” (1862), and the 2c. sect of the Ophitæ, who revered the serpent as the symbol of divine wisdom.
Pretty quiet out there today…almost too quiet….
On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
I remember this.
re: #129 Birth Control Works
I remember this.
I dimly remember it; my parents made me watch it live on the grounds that it was history in the making.
re: #129 Birth Control Works
I remember this.
I don’t, although I was old enough (almost 8 yrs old). Weird. There wasn’t really a lot of political discussions in my household but it would seem I should recall something as momentous as this.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
I dimly remember it; my parents made me watch it live on the grounds that it was history in the making.
I was in mid-divorce thinking: Eh, you think you got problems!
Unlearning the myth of American innocence
When she was 30, Suzy Hansen left the US for Istanbul - and began to realise that Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
I dimly remember it; my parents made me watch it live on the grounds that it was history in the making.
I watched those hearings like a hawk, every day.
I had not yet been acquainted with the term ‘schadenfreude,’ but I experienced it when Nixon resigned. When Watergate first hit, he seemed absolutely bulletproof.
Maybe that’s why I’m more hopeful than a lot of people that Trump will be brought low. When Nixon got re-elected, the thought of removing him from office seemed pretty much impossible.
re: #111 b.d. (bill d.)
Are we going to go after the leaker who spilled the NK spy satellite info to Fox & Friends?
I’m sure Hannity is working up a story on that for tonight’s show.
Trump is the Deep State. Keep it on the downlow.
re: #133 Birth Control Works
Of this indifference, Baldwin wrote: “White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded.”
Young white Americans of course go through pain, insecurity and heartache. But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be merely the easy winners of an ugly game, and indeed that because of their ignorance and misused power, they might be the losers within a greater moral universe.
re: #136 Birth Control Works
I kind of want to use this as a case study and observe the behavior of Americans as they read this.
re: #136 Birth Control Works
Yeah, It’s a slow learning curve.
re: #129 Birth Control Works
I remember this.
I remember it well too. I was working maintenance crew at a small plating/plastics factory on the 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM shift.
I used to go straight to bed for a few hours after I got home. I woke up and went out into the living room where my mother had the TV on. Nixon was on (around noon?) giving his resignation speech.
Even though I was stupid enough to have voted for him in my first election in 1972, I was glad to see him go. I had learned my lesson.
Edit: Summer Job between Sophomore and Junior year of art college.
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
Just back from walking the dogs and my hands are sticky with blood.
But you got the body in the trunk, right?
Question. Would a male or female engineer have a public hissy fit because an airline moved them to an isle seat? #askingforafriend
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 8, 2017
re: #135 ObserverArt
re: #111 b.d. (bill d.)
Are we going to go after the leaker who spilled the NK spy satellite info to Fox & Friends?
I’m sure Hannity is working up a story on that for tonight’s show.
Any guesses on who Lumpy is likely to blame for this leak?
1. HIllary Clinton
2. Gen. McMaster
3. Robert Mueller
4. Hillary Clinton
etc….
re: #104 Lupin
Color me unsurprised. Even when Greenwald was fighting the “good fight” against Bush, he was viscerally unable to alter his mind when confronted with facts that proved him wrong. I had a long email argument with him regarding some of the legalities of a famous criminal case I won’t mention here, about which he’d made some rash and totally untrue statements on his blog. He never conceded an inch about being wrong even when I confronted him with factual evidence to the contrary, chapter and verse, and quickly resorted to ad hominem insults. He is incapable of arguing with an open mind.
Greenwald’s fatal flaw is his ego. Tell him he’s wrong or imperfect, and he loses his shit. He could’ve been a decent analyst/columnist/reporter, but he chose permanent war against liberals who said he was wrong about stuff…
Turned on MSNBC a few minutes ago to hear Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle saying “we’re getting a lot of email and tweets complaining that we’ve had Eric Prince and Seb Gorka on, but those are the representatives”; then Stephanie: “do I like to have Gorka come on and say ‘gu-reeeetings’ [mimics his pompous speech]? It’s irrelevant; that’s who the administration has out there!”
Sometimes I love Stephanie Ruhle.
Better Business Through Sci-Fi https://t.co/gF7AiDRxBv
— ggt (@geegeetee) August 8, 2017
re: #143 Jay C
Any guesses on who Lumpy is likely to blame for this leak?
1. HIllary Clinton
2. Gen. McMaster
3. Robert Mueller
4. Hillary Clintonetc….
You forgot Obama.
Rick Wilson loves slapping down Trumpers, especially the ones who claim they ‘don’t support’ Trump.
I didnt support Trump but the psychotic way many (like you) have reacted to him winning makes me and others want to. pic.twitter.com/HUBNwxiZrX
— James (@Turn_and_Tempo) August 8, 2017
Your list is a farrago of wishcasting, incidentals, accidentals, misinterpretations, cargo-cultism, and hoo-ha. https://t.co/J5JgHc9LVB
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 8, 2017
re: #145 Barefoot Grin
Turned on MSNBC a few minutes ago to hear Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle saying “we’re getting a lot of email and tweets complaining that we’ve had Eric Prince and Seb Gorka on, but those are the representatives”; then Stephanie: “do I like to have Gorka come on and say ‘gu-reeeetings’ [mimics his pompous speech]? It’s irrelevant; that’s who the administration has out there!”
Sometimes I love Stephanie Ruhle.
I haven’t seen her a lot, but she seems to be fearless. I saw her tear into Chris Matthews one night when he had her on his panel about something to do with New York and Trump. Chris said something like she was reporting rumors, she snapped right back and said with Trump there are always rumors and 95% of the time they are true, and she emphasized she knew New York and Chris did not. More or less telling him to piss off.
re: #82 Belafon
If Pepsi can turn in a guy for giving them the Coke formula, Republicans can put country over party, Glen.
Greenwald has made it clear that the country he serves is Russia.
re: #117 FormerDirtDart
OK, nothing like running out of coffee to get me off my lazy rear and onto the bike for a trip to the store.
Well, that and the fact that I’m pretty much out of food. And, I need to pick up this weeks lottery tickets too.
I almost forgot to grab coffee
re: #150 ObserverArt
I haven’t seen her a lot, but she seems to be fearless. I saw her tear into Chris Matthews one night when he had her on his panel about something to do with New York and Trump. Chris said something like she was reporting rumors, she snapped right back and said with Trump there are always rumors and 95% of the time they are true, and she emphasized she knew New York and Chris did not. More or less telling him to piss off.
Yes. She is not afraid to go after deflection and dissembling, at least in the few cases I’ve seen.
re: #149 makeitstop
Rick Wilson loves slapping down Trumpers, especially the ones who claim they ‘don’t support’ Trump.
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What’s that term for when bullshitters try to bury you in an endless chain of lies to obfuscate the truth?
re: #149 makeitstop
Jeez, what a load of horsepuckey - this list - even leaving aside the blatant partisan happy-talk spin - of Trump’s “accomplishments” is the best some hack (“non-supporter”, yeah, right!) can come up with? And about the only real “accomplishments” on there are mainly refugee- and immigrant-bashing.
When first scanned this, I read the tag at bottom as “And the Bust is Yet to Come” - I think I was right the first time.
And: “Selling American-made energy to Poland”?? WTF?
re: #153 Barefoot Grin
Yes. She is not afraid to go after deflection and dissembling, at least in the few cases I’ve seen.
My boss, who’s from NYC himself, still can’t get over Trump getting elected. His view is that New Yorkers have known for decades that Trump is a con-man and a swindler, a self-aggrandizing buffoon.
Apparently, a whole lotta people didn’t know that - or more likely, they simply didn’t care.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s that term for when bullshitters try to bury you in an endless chain of lies to obfuscate the truth?
Are you thinking of the Gish Gallop?
The 2020 Democratic purity Olympics are already under way https://t.co/tkfJPqhWpo pic.twitter.com/QsKrbWAp3p
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 8, 2017
reminder: Obama would’ve been deeply maligned if the Purity Olympics were a thing in 2008. (yay they weren’t!)
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 8, 2017
p.s. this is how Dems ended up nominating McGovern
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 8, 2017
Maiden batch of cookies in my new wifi enabled oven.
The ULTIMATE INDIGNITY! Morons who bought Trump hats from “Nicole Mincey” never received their hats!!!! https://t.co/Pn0dY4aw6b via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 8, 2017
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s that term for when bullshitters try to bury you in an endless chain of lies to obfuscate the truth?
Gish Gallop.
re: #158 FormerDirtDart
Bernie and his people aren’t Dems.
But they keep trying to impose this BS on us. So frustrating!
re: #158 FormerDirtDart
Purity rules:
1. Can’t have ever received corporate money
2. Can’t have ever received campaign donation from really rich person.
3. Unequivocally support Single-Payer
4. Unequivocally support $15 min wage everywhere immediately.
5. Pledge to arrest all the bankers.
6. Pledge to withdraw U.S. military forces from everywhere.
7. Free college and university tuition.
8.
re: #155 Jay C
Never mind about Poland: I Googled it* and it seems that when Trump was in Poland, he pitched some sort of deal for them to possibly buy LNG from the US (supposedly to relieve their reliance on Russian gas supplies).
Now I’m no expert on the international energy trade, but I’m not seeing any economic advantage for Poland to import American LNG (no matter how big the supertanker), vs. simply diverting the supply from the Euro-Russian pipelines which (I think) are right there.
Political “advantage”, maybe (though “poke-in-the-eye-for-Russians” is a dubious goal just for itself)
*stories from July: nothing since
re: #164 Sir John Barron
Purity rules:
1. Can’t have ever received corporate money
2. Can’t have ever received campaign donation from really rich person.
3. Unequivocally support Single-Payer
4. Unequivocally support $15 min wage everywhere immediately.
5. Pledge to arrest all the bankers.
6. Pledge to withdraw U.S. military forces from everywhere.
7. Free college and university tuition.
8. Bend the knee to that fucking interloper.
re: #164 Sir John Barron
Purity rules:
1. Can’t have ever received corporate money
2. Can’t have ever received campaign donation from really rich person.
3. Unequivocally support Single-Payer
4. Unequivocally support $15 min wage everywhere immediately.
5. Pledge to arrest all the bankers.
6. Pledge to withdraw U.S. military forces from everywhere.
7. Free college and university tuition.
8.
8. Must be Bernie Sanders.
re: #164 Sir John Barron
Purity rules:
1. Can’t have ever received corporate money
2. Can’t have ever received campaign donation from really rich person.
3. Unequivocally support Single-Payer
4. Unequivocally support $15 min wage everywhere immediately.
5. Pledge to arrest all the bankers.
6. Pledge to withdraw U.S. military forces from everywhere.
7. Free college and university tuition.
8.
Forgot to include that any/all of the above do not apply if you’re Bernie Sanders or have the Bernie Sanders special seal of approval.
re: #164 Sir John Barron
Purity rules:
1. Can’t have ever received corporate money
2. Can’t have ever received campaign donation from really rich person.
3. Unequivocally support Single-Payer
4. Unequivocally support $15 min wage everywhere immediately.
5. Pledge to arrest all the bankers.
6. Pledge to withdraw U.S. military forces from everywhere.
7. Free college and university tuition.
8. All previous rules not applicable to Bernie
Alt-right activists say Trump and Bannon are giving them “space to destroy” by keeping FBI away https://t.co/DlvExAwMAD
— ggt (@geegeetee) August 8, 2017
re: #168 nines09
Today is the 13th Aniversary Of The Great Chicago River Poop Dump.
Will there be cake?
Haruo Nakajima, the man who wore the Godzilla suit in the original film, died on Monday. He was 88. https://t.co/FsXgZ67sYH pic.twitter.com/tO7Tj1F4Sc
— CNN (@CNN) August 8, 2017
I am an ex-smoker, but I can really relate to this. I still miss smoking, but I know I am powerless against it.
Or maybe I’d bum a cigarette at a bar after one too many drinks—back when you could still smoke in bars, before smoking became regarded as an atrocity on a par with kitten-kicking and ethnic cleansing. I’d do this on occasion not because I liked the taste. (I didn’t.) Smoking during a rigorous drinking bout somehow brought on a hangover, which we drinking professionals consider the mark of an amateur. And that nicotine-induced hangover taste the next morning made my mouth feel, in the words of Kingsley Amis, like it had been “used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.”
But what I was after, on my occasional smoking safaris, was something other than tobacco flavor or diminished lung capacity. I liked the ceremony of the cigarette. The implicit danger of starting a fire near your face. The punctuation that talking while smoking affords, giving your words animation and shading: the stops and starts, the dramatic pauses, sitting still after exhaling while letting the smoke do all the work around you. It could make even some suburban hump drinking piss-water beer at the Greene Turtle on a Tuesday afternoon feel like Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past or like Keith Richards in life.
re: #149 makeitstop
Rick Wilson loves slapping down Trumpers, especially the ones who claim they ‘don’t support’ Trump.
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That list looks like the flip side of the wingnut memes about Obama.
Teen Goes on Anti-Tampon Rant, Internet Destroys Him
Today the British tabloids have given us a story that is such an absurdist mix of the infuriating and hilarious, it would be brilliant if it were a hoax. Meet Ryan Williams, or tampon boy: a self-identified “meninist” who feels that tampons are a “luxury item.”
Ryan began his controversial rant after learning about the movement to eliminate taxes on tampons.
“People are saying tampons shouldn’t be taxed because they are a necessity,” Ryan said, according to The Mirror. “but why can’t those women just learn to control their bladders?”
“If they are going to bleed then they should wait until they get to the toilet,” he continued. “It’s all about self-control.”
Youtube Video by The Atlantic
The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound social and political implications. At 45 percent of the population, white Christians are a shrinking demographic—and the backlash from many members of the group against the increasing diversification of America has been swift and bitter. “People fight like that when they are losing a sense of place, a sense of belonging, and a sense of the country that they understand and love,” says Robert P. Jones, the author of The End of White Christian America, in this animated interview. “How do they reengage in public life when they can’t be the majority?”
re: #184 Birth Control Works
I regret I only have one upding to give.
What is your favorite thing about this idiotically overwrought cartoon? For me, it’s the “reagan dot com” e-mail address. *kisses fingers* pic.twitter.com/C279szMITt
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 8, 2017
“Free speech means never having to pay any consequences” is my favorite canard, bar none. https://t.co/yf4a441Qih
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 8, 2017
re: #181 Birth Control Works
Teen Goes on Anti-Tampon Rant, Internet Destroys Him
“If they are going to bleed then they should wait until they get to the toilet,” he continued. “It’s all about self-control.”
The school nurse at my elementary school did an evening intro to periods for girls and their mothers who couldn’t do it themselves. The school nurse was a scary small lady of a certain age, and offered a Q&A session. When one girl asked, ‘Do you bleed when you’re asleep?’, the nurse hollered, ‘YOU BREATHE WHEN YOU’RE ASLEEP, DON’T YOU?’ which I found to be an unsatisfactory answer, but nobody else had any questions after that.
re: #180 The Vicious Babushka
That list looks like the flip side of the wingnut memes about Obama.
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That’s basically a phrasebook for Wingnut.
“Valerie Jarrett.”
“Reagan, with fist open.”
“Clinton, at Benghazi.”
re: #171 Birth Control Works
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So they’re say I need to pick up where my grandpa left off in Europe in ‘45?
We used to hold-up lit lighters at concerts.
Now, the kids hold up their smart phones with the flash light app on.
re: #189 Eventual Carrion
So they’re say I need to pick up where my grandpa left off in Europe in ‘45?
Who TF knows what their thought process is. If they have one.
re: #188 Renaissance_Man
That’s basically a phrasebook for Wingnut.
“Valerie Jarrett.”
“Reagan, with fist open.”
“Clinton, at Benghazi.”
I would have let the beast kill him had he said that.
re: #183 Birth Control Works
At 45 percent of the population, white Christians are a shrinking demographic—and the backlash from many members of the group against the increasing diversification of America has been swift and bitter.
And because they tend to vote en bloc, it amplifies their voice. But I agree with the gist of that video - white Protestant Christians are a shrinking demographic and as time passes, their numbers will decline further. As noted, the difficulty is going to lie in them accepting the fact that they’re no longer the majority - and I think Trump is just the tip of a Texas-size iceberg of resentment.
re: #186 FormerDirtDart
I was kinda wondering what Andy Branco was up to now that he doesn’t have Obama or Hillary to kick around any more.
Fun Fact: The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the East India Co.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 8, 2017
re: #181 Birth Control Works
Whut???
Kid must live under a rock. Yet, he has a the net to find out about such things…so how did he come to that thinking???
Whut???
re: #197 ObserverArt
Whut???
Kid must live under a rock. Yet, he has a the net to find out about such things…so how did he come to that thinking???
Whut???
“Men’s Rights” websites.
re: #159 jeffreyw
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Maiden batch of cookies in my new wifi enabled oven.
A Wi-Fi Oven! WOW!!!!!
re: #197 ObserverArt
Whut???
Kid must live under a rock. Yet, he has a the net to find out about such things…so how did he come to that thinking???
Whut???
“Redpill” bullshit.
re: #197 ObserverArt
Whut???
Kid must live under a rock. Yet, he has a the net to find out about such things…so how did he come to that thinking???
Whut???
Believe it or not, most males are woefully ignorant about women’s health. Unfortunately, I think their knowledge tends to fall into two categories —“can I get some or not”. I know men who still mark their calendars when their female co-workers are “irritable”.
re: #201 Birth Control Works
I know men who still mark their calendars when their female co-workers are “irritable”.
If I were a woman and I worked around such men, I would always be irritable. Ok, I’m actually pretty irritable 24/7, but….
Princess-Turned-Spy Noor Inayat Khan Is A Forgotten Hero Of World War II https://t.co/HjXlZ7Fcxw via @curiositydotcom
— ggt (@geegeetee) August 8, 2017
re: #188 Renaissance_Man
That’s basically a phrasebook for Wingnut.
“Valerie Jarrett.”
“Reagan, with fist open.”
“Clinton, at Benghazi.”
Temba, his arms wide!
Putin, his chest bared riding a horse
**shudder**
re: #204 Birth Control Works
Noor Inayat Khan was, without a doubt, one of the bravest women to ever live. She was a British secret agent during World War II, working as a radio operator in occupied Paris. In fact, working as the only radio operator in occupied Paris. The average life span for that job was six weeks, and she lasted almost five months. She escaped the Gestapo numerous times and went out fighting. All this even though everything about her work went against her basic nature.
A great website, and a great book.
Edit: Here’s the book: amazon.com
‘The most well-organized campaign in the history of the alt-right’ is targeting HR McMaster, with help from Russia https://t.co/G6i0fGIe90
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 8, 2017
re: #202 Colère Tueur de Lapin
If I were a woman and I worked around such men, I would always be irritable. Ok, I’m actually pretty irritable 24/7, but….
If I worked around some guy who did that I’d become irritable. I do the sarcastic irritated guy really well.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s that term for when bullshitters try to bury you in an endless chain of lies to obfuscate the truth?
Libertarianism.
re: #198 The Vicious Babushka
“Men’s Rights” websites.
Ahh…I guess they really are Men’s Wrongs websites.
White House defends silence on mosque bombing, says it might have been faked by liberals https://t.co/o3V82Ckz9R pic.twitter.com/dKTUl6uJbi
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 8, 2017
re: #209 Birth Control Works
Not exactly Georgia O’Keeffe, there.
Clothing Company Attempts to Reclaim Swastika for LGBTQ People: https://t.co/tIEJ3FRitF pic.twitter.com/8rZwX80pCs
— Out Magazine (@outmagazine) August 7, 2017
Absolutely terrible idea. This symbol will never be “reclaimed.” Just stop with this.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
Remarkable. Son/top aide of GEN Flynn is pushing info from fringe Right to discredit @POTUS’s National Security Adviser GEN McMaster. pic.twitter.com/9TNUQEED2E
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 8, 2017
re: #183 Birth Control Works
When you’re used to privilege equality feels like oppression.
re: #214 Shropshire Slasher
It’s easy, just draw the Dodge Ram logo
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Uhhh…she said draw genitals. Fail.
If you want to discuss organs then…
ah, I still have some googlefu:
2014: We Asked Men to Draw Vaginas to Prove an Important Point
re: #159 jeffreyw
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Maiden batch of cookies in my new wifi enabled oven.
wait…you can download cookies??????
not “cookies” but COOKIES?
Carl Sagan predicted 2017 on page 40 of The Demon Haunted World. Published in 1996. pic.twitter.com/lhR6HVFKHc
— KStreetHipster (@KStreetHipster) August 7, 2017
re: #192 Belafon
That’s basically a phrasebook for Wingnut.
“Valerie Jarrett.”
“Reagan, with fist open.”
“Clinton, at Benghazi.”
“Clinton and Jarrett at Benghazi when the walls fell”
re: #219 ObserverArt
You didn’t get you x-ray glasses yet?!
Remarkable. Son/top aide of GEN Flynn is pushing info from fringe Right to discredit @POTUS’s National Security Adviser GEN McMaster. pic.twitter.com/9TNUQEED2E
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 8, 2017
Not remarkable. This entire administration is riddled with conspiracy theorists, and led by a conspiracy theorist. https://t.co/MPdEtCHqLI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #217 Kragar
It’s amazing how many parrots on twitter shriek “fake news” at every turn.
I have one question that covers so much.
What the hell ever happened to good ol’ curiosity?
I was always curious. If I didn’t know about something…even if it was something I wasn’t supposed to know about…I would find out one way or another.
And I didn’t have the internet.
So, Roland Corporation gets clever with the rollout date of a new version of an old product…
I used to own one of the originals. I never liked the sounds, but as a brain to drive a drum sampler it was pretty brilliant.
Do you trust communications from Trump’s White House?
30% Nothing
43% Some of it
19% Most of it
5% Almost all of ithttps://t.co/xXZapvFbVt— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) August 8, 2017
re: #228 ObserverArt
I have one question that covers so much.
What the hell ever happened to good ol’ curiosity?
I was always curious. If I didn’t know about something…even if it was something I wasn’t supposed to know about…I would find out one way or another.
And I didn’t have the internet.
it:
E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
Maybe you should be paying attention to North Korea instead of repeating Fox News propaganda. https://t.co/07S1JCf0Cb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
Fooling himself.
scoop by @AlxThomp: 2x/day Trump gets a folder of positive news chyrons, known to staff as the “propaganda document” https://t.co/k87lJs7IIk
— noah kulwin (@nkulw) August 8, 2017
re: #227 jaunte
It’s amazing how many parrots on twitter shriek “fake news” at every turn.
Trump did that. I hate that bastard so much for doing that to us.
He has built his own excuse for everything with that phrase.
He is a complete dumb ass, but somehow smart enough to use phrases like that to communicate to the other dumb asses. It’s like code for idiots.
It is going to be real hard to clean up after he is gone. He has put a real hurt to reality.
E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
Probably has something to do with the story being as important as a fart in a whirlwind https://t.co/4vhL1HO7No
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticizes President Trump’s “excessive expectations” https://t.co/s8MStoS5NE pic.twitter.com/WJaDVsOHt8
— CNN (@CNN) August 8, 2017
E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
It was The New York Times that first broke the Clinton email server story, you insufferable circus sideshow freak. https://t.co/Tu7M974GKN
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 8, 2017
re: #233 Charles Johnson
Maybe you should be paying attention to North Korea instead of repeating Fox News propaganda.
On that subject, this is a hell of a thread.
(2) Obama TOLD Trump his priority HAD to be North Korea. Instead Trump focused on Mika Brzezinski and a healthcare bill that everyone hates.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 8, 2017
re: #199 Joe Bacon 🌹
A Wi-Fi Oven! WOW!!!!!
It slow cooks at 2.4GHz, broils at 5GHz. I have yet to get it to quit opening the garage door. Hoping for a firmware update.
Whoa, did nazi that coming
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
re: #213 Kragar
It’s a good thing no one was injured or we would have seen the white house jumping for joy.
.@sebgorka’s excuse for why WH hasn’t made a statement yet re MN mosque attack is hilarious when you consider who his boss is pic.twitter.com/wMDf8vYXKh
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) August 8, 2017
re: #237 FormerDirtDart
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Mitch, you imposed the artificial deadlines to ram your abomination of a healthcare bill through the Senate. That was all you.
Chuck Norris has endorsed Alabama mystic Roy Moore for the Senate.
Set your Norris Phrasers to ‘stun’.
re: #150 ObserverArt
I haven’t seen her a lot, but she seems to be fearless. I saw her tear into Chris Matthews one night when he had her on his panel about something to do with New York and Trump. Chris said something like she was reporting rumors, she snapped right back and said with Trump there are always rumors and 95% of the time they are true, and she emphasized she knew New York and Chris did not. More or less telling him to piss off.
The two most offensive things I’ve ever heard Chris Matthews say:
2006, shortly before the election. “If the Democrats take back the house, Nancy Pelosi will become speaker. This would be bad because a speaker has to be forceful and aggressive, a speaker has to enforce party discipline and punish those who won’t comply. Nobody wants to see a woman do that.”
2008, in the primaries — did a whole spiel comparing Hillary and Michelle’s looks on the campaign trail. Andrea Mitchell responds: “Those are Ivy League lawyers you’re talking about. Are their haircuts and necklines really the most important thing about them?”
Not on the ground, but could they just be maintaining the levee? I know Trumps intent, but this does not look like the right equipment.
— David Dockter (@dwdockter) August 8, 2017
You may want to read the article.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #221 dangerman
wait…you can download cookies??????
not “cookies” but COOKIES?
You download the recipe and it prints the cookies with a dough-jet nozzle, still working out the kinks: raisins,etc.
re: #239 makeitstop
North Korea has 60 nuclear warheads ready for ICBM miniaturization…
Trying to make real-world sense of that statement. Not succeeding.
re: #234 jaunte
Fooling himself.
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Fuck me, why do Trump’s advisers and staff feel so compelled to coddle this overgrown toddler?
*spit*
Sessions continues to shrink the vote.
Wow. The DOJ now says it’s totally legal for Ohio to purge voters from the rolls if they fail to vote for 2+ yrs. https://t.co/c1h3y7KH3X
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 8, 2017
re: #238 jaunte
[ the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.]
I thought it was Clinton and Lynch on the Tarmac.
re: #227 jaunte
It’s amazing how many parrots on twitter shriek “fake news” at every turn.
And yet they get their “Real News” from Infowars, Breitbart, and Hannity.
Thread
.@SebGorka on MSNBC: “There’s no such thing as a lone wolf…that was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) August 8, 2017
After 200 days, rarely has any Administration achieved what we have achieved..not even close! Don’t believe the Fake News Suppression Polls!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
Its true! Most Administrations were able to pass some sort of legislation in its first 200 days. Failing to do that is quite impressive. https://t.co/SXeznvbtfh
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
re: #237 FormerDirtDart
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I bet that pisses off Trump and there will be a big crack in the relationship between Trump and McConnell.
That is a good thing. It pretty much will kill any cooperation to get anything done because Trump will not work with anyone that is that critical of him. And, it also might make it easier for McConnell to turn the Senate against Trump and maybe boot him out.
The Democrats can also use it to gain some cooperation with the Republicans in the Senate…they can both ignore Trump.
re: #250 Dr Lizardo
Fuck me, why do Trump’s advisers and staff feel so compelled to coddle this overgrown toddler?
*spit*
To keep him in office long enough for them to push their agendas.
After 200 days, rarely has any Administration achieved what we have achieved..not even close! Don’t believe the Fake News Suppression Polls!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2017
You do realize this whacked out fact-free boasting isn’t working any more, right? Reality: one fail after another. https://t.co/0WCIubvenW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #259 wrenchwench
To keep him in office long enough for them to push their agendas.
Personally, I’d have no patience for that kind of horseshit. Zip. Zero. None. Nada.
I’d never make it in Trump’s White House: I’d be calling him a “fucking whiny little three-year old” by the end of the first day.
At least I’d have to decency to say that to his face.
Trump takes a 17-day break at his private golf club in NJ. It’s not a vacation. No, nothing like a vacation, really. https://t.co/NmySqEwEve pic.twitter.com/QuO4f4ZFuM
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 8, 2017
Troll Level: Expert. https://t.co/3RrVF8WTF7
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 8, 2017
Today in 1976, the White Sox play in goddamn shorts. pic.twitter.com/ESpbm2SBBv
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 8, 2017
re: #246 sagehen
The two most offensive things I’ve ever heard Chris Matthews say:
2006, shortly before the election. “If the Democrats take back the house, Nancy Pelosi will become speaker. This would be bad because a speaker has to be forceful and aggressive, a speaker has to enforce party discipline and punish those who won’t comply. Nobody wants to see a woman do that.”
2008, in the primaries — did a whole spiel comparing Hillary and Michelle’s looks on the campaign trail. Andrea Mitchell responds: “Those are Ivy League lawyers you’re talking about. Are their haircuts and necklines really the most important thing about them?”
Well I dunno, it was really creepy when he said that Obama sent chills down his leg. I was like, Dude TMI!
The Trump-thing is really bad today. I guess his whole vacation is gonna be like this.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #240 jeffreyw
It slow cooks at 2.4GHz, broils at 5GHz. I have yet to get it to quit opening the garage door. Hoping for a firmware update.
I read a novel recently about a killer who hacks a guy’s wi-fi enabled oven and burns his house down.
August 2017 v. November 2016 pic.twitter.com/fe4TWI9dxl
— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 8, 2017
It was clear after Romney lost that there could not be a quick Obamacare kill shot. But McConnell kept saying it. https://t.co/Jg4NUwZR97
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 8, 2017
Is John Kelly still the White House Chief of Staff???
Trump’s tweets yesterday and today are crazier than ever. He also has his goon squad (Gorka, Conway and others) out working the cable news. I can’t believe Kelly likes that either.
Kelly is not long for this job. Will he last another week, or the length of Trump’s vacation?
If he gives in and resigns, I think that pushes the Republicans into a no-win-with-Trump situation.
re: #234 jaunte
Fooling himself.
scoop by @AlxThomp: 2x/day Trump gets a folder of positive news chyrons, known to staff as the “propaganda document” https://t.co/k87lJs7IIk
— noah kulwin (@nkulw) August 8, 2017
You have got to be freaking kidding me. https://t.co/ljH8eBtFg2 pic.twitter.com/cB6l4Sj87P
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 8, 2017
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
Personally, I’d have no patience for that kind of horseshit. Zip. Zero. None. Nada.
I’d never make it in Trump’s White House: I’d be calling him a “fucking whiny little three-year old” by the end of the first day.
At least I’d have to decency to say that to his face.
I’ve done a lot of babysitting. I would do what I did then; raise my price until they quit calling. (In the old days, I went from 75 cents to a dollar an hour. Calls stopped.)
re: #269 FormerDirtDart
“Sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.”
Must be a channel I don’t get.
re: #269 FormerDirtDart
2x/day Trump gets a folder of positive news chyrons, known to staff as the “propaganda document”
Gotta feed the (man-) baby…
re: #269 FormerDirtDart
I hope Kellyanne is saving those folders for his presidential* library.
NORTH KOREA HAS A NUCLEAR
WEAPON & FKNG. trump IS TWTG
ABOUT,NYT,POLL#‘S,HILLARY,
AMAZON.WE’VE GOT A 🤡‼️WHAT WE NEED IS A REAL PRESIDENT‼️— Cher (@cher) August 8, 2017
.@Cher is my inner monologue. https://t.co/x6nDNNEAsX
— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) August 8, 2017
These (bad) numbers have held for a week or so. Actually getting a bit worse, if anything… pic.twitter.com/1fuZ08gAgE
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 8, 2017
Breaking: @realDonaldTrump negotiates #ISIS surrender. pic.twitter.com/IrJTjasfPb
— David Fagin (@nikchapman) August 8, 2017
She (ISIS) looks a bit like my ex-wife Jennifer. #IWasMarriedToISIS
Google Adsense gave LGF a policy violation for a 2-year old post with a YouTube video that was removed. WTF, Google.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #266 The Vicious Babushka
I read a novel recently about a killer who hacks a guy’s wi-fi enabled oven and burns his house down.
I’ve also seen TV episodes where a killer hacks somebody’s car, and runs it off a cliff/into a river/etc.
I don’t want my house or car to be web-accessible. Ever.
Meet the newest hero of the alt-right, James Damore, an engineer just fired by Google for posting a manifesto internally at Google explaining that diversity programs are worthless because women are too neurotic to be good engineers.
Walter Fitzpatrick, antigov extremist out of prison for “arresting” jury foreman, accuses Robert Mueller of treason: https://t.co/TKjKbvUcW9
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) August 8, 2017
re: #63 makeitstop
…the hell?
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Last night at Trump SoHo, video journalist Robin Bell’s messages: ‘Laundering services available,’ ‘Follow the money’ ‘Happy to help, bro’ pic.twitter.com/UVHVaBab5q
— RiotWomenn (@riotwomennn) August 8, 2017
re: #280 sagehen
I’ve also seen TV episodes where a killer hacks somebody’s car, and runs it off a cliff/into a river/etc.
I don’t want my house or car to be web-accessible. Ever.
IOT (Internet Of Things) devices are notoriously insecure, because (1) manufacturers use older software (2) users don’t know how to update their appliances.
Why would I even want a wifi-enabled toaster?
Why not??😂 pic.twitter.com/g2hOM4W4rA
— Awesome Planet™ (@Awesome_planet_) August 8, 2017
fucking scam
The @pbpost checked the fax line listed for US workers to apply to @realDonaldTrump’s Mar-a-Lago. It doesn’t work. https://t.co/QPrYbjIz2L
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) August 8, 2017
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
— Moby Dick (@MobyDickatSea) June 3, 2017
re: #246 sagehen
The two most offensive things I’ve ever heard Chris Matthews say:
2006, shortly before the election. “If the Democrats take back the house, Nancy Pelosi will become speaker. This would be bad because a speaker has to be forceful and aggressive, a speaker has to enforce party discipline and punish those who won’t comply. Nobody wants to see a woman do that.”
2008, in the primaries — did a whole spiel comparing Hillary and Michelle’s looks on the campaign trail. Andrea Mitchell responds: “Those are Ivy League lawyers you’re talking about. Are their haircuts and necklines really the most important thing about them?”
My dislike of Tweety goes back much further when he was one of the Four Horsemen demanding Clinton’s Impeachment (along with Maureen Dowd, Tim Russert and Michael Kelly). Back then Matthews tore the Clintons to pieces every time he opened his mouth…
Then fast forward to 2000 when Tweety along with his fellow presstitutes trashed Al Gore and endlessly kissed Dumbya’s ass…And don’t forget the 2000 New York Senate Race when Tweety’s pal Tim Russert was “moderating” the debate and trashed Hillary all through that incident. Tweety was cheering Russert on, calling Hillary a carpetbagger…
And who can forget in 2003 when Tweety was slobbering all over Dumbya flying the jet on the carrier deck. Tweety had Gordon Liddy on with him when this ocurred. Tweety kept gushing over what a man Dumbya was…
re: #249 Decatur Deb
Trying to make real-world sense of that statement. Not succeeding.
Probably because it’s “experimental journalism” that embraces “the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative.”
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The guy fired by Google for that pseudoscientific misogynist screed is now a hero of the right wing. Because of course he is.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
And Rage Furby Chuck C. Johnson is already working his usual grift. pic.twitter.com/ilTgU92p24
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #239 makeitstop
On that subject, this is a hell of a thread.
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Didn’t Clinton tell Bush that his main priority/threat was bin Laden and his group?
re: #291 BeachDem
Probably because it’s “experimental journalism” that embraces “the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative.”
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Ah. Post-modernist deconstruction applied to fissile materials.
re: #286 The Vicious Babushka
IOT (Internet Of Things) devices are notoriously insecure, because (1) manufacturers use older software (2) users don’t know how to update their appliances.
Why would I even want a wifi-enabled toaster?
My one buddy bought a Samsung smart TV. He liked to watch YouTube videos with it. After about 6 months the Adobe Flash player software was out of date and would no longer play the videos.
Samsung had no real easy way to update the flash player.
He was pissed.
I tried to help him out so I went online and did a search and found out a ton of people were pissed off about the same problem. There were some shaky sights that said they had updates, but you had to buy some kind of a service or something.
He bought a Google Chrome Cast. Still hasn’t hooked it up yet. He bought a newer Sony Smart TV. The old one went to his wife’s office.
re: #293 Eventual Carrion
Didn’t Clinton tell Bush that his main priority/threat was bin Laden and his group?
There was that ‘bin Laden determined to strike within the US’ briefing that Dubya blew off while he was on vacation…
#FireGorka because America should not have Nazi Sympathizers like @SebGorka anywhere near the White House
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
re: #293 Eventual Carrion
Didn’t Clinton tell Bush that his main priority/threat was bin Laden and his group?
yes.
re: #281 Big Beautiful Door
Meet the newest hero of the alt-right, James Damore, an engineer just fired by Google for posting a manifesto internally at Google explaining that diversity programs are worthless because women are too neurotic to be good engineers.
Man, dude can’t catch a break out there. Rough.
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re: #288 Stanley Sea
fucking scam
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Chris Hayes did a bit on that last night. They also did ads in the paper that were very small and placed in a way they would hardly be seen.
It was all to meet the regulations they had to advertise for American citizens before they could get the VISAs for foreign help.
Just more fake news.
If his bozo base knew what he was really doing they might get pissed off. Then again, they probably wouldn’t.
re: #294 Decatur Deb
Ah. Post-modernist deconstruction applied to fissile materials.
In the immortal words of Wonkette’s Dr. Zoom:
Against this barren Eve of Deconstruction, Abramson places Metamodernism, which is so post-postmodern that it can rebuild where deconstruction has strip-mined meaning.
re: #290 Joe Bacon 🌹
My dislike of Tweety goes back much further when he was one of the Four Horsemen demanding Clinton’s Impeachment (along with Maureen Dowd, Tim Russert and Michael Kelly). Back then Matthews tore the Clintons to pieces every time he opened his mouth…
Then fast forward to 2000 when Tweety along with his fellow presstitutes trashed Al Gore and endlessly kissed Dumbya’s ass…And don’t forget the 2000 New York Senate Race when Tweety’s pal Tim Russert was “moderating” the debate and trashed Hillary all through that incident. Tweety was cheering Russert on, calling Hillary a carpetbagger…
And who can forget in 2003 when Tweety was slobbering all over Dumbya flying the jet on the carrier deck. Tweety had Gordon Liddy on with him when this ocurred. Tweety kept gushing over what a man Dumbya was…
Tweety is big on optics.
He is also about 20 years behind on modern communications and doesn’t seem to want to learn.
I think he should hang it up. The world really has passed him by.
This one left a mark. They original tweet screen cap is in the ownage thread.
I am an aeronautical engineer with credentials from on working on the F-35 and the International Space Station. https://t.co/fmWaB2unLr
— Defending Cville (@EmilyGorcenski) August 8, 2017
re: #302 ObserverArt
Tweety is big on optics.
He is also about 20 years behind on modern communications and doesn’t seem to want to learn.
I think he should hang it up. The world really has passed him by.
Tweety is the very personification of “The so-called Liberal Media”: Gets credited/blamed as a liberal, actually isn’t one.
Honorable mention: The late Tim Russert
In light of dangerous NKorea threat, I’m stopping all petty political disagreements for at least next 12 hours. Let’s see what others do.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 8, 2017
Sean finally admits his whole career is nothing but rabble rousing off of “petty political disagreements” https://t.co/8WnQCwqYU6
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
re: #306 Kragar
Hannity in two minutes: Phew, that was the roughest 12 hours of my life, hateful liberals won’t give me or the best president in the history of the world a chance.
re: #306 Kragar
Hmm…..
Knowing he and his network are coordinating with the WH, I think this threat he’s uncharacteristically deferring to means we may be ginning up.
12 hours ought to do it. I’m sure it’ll all be cleared up by then
— Erin Lindsay (@ErinELindsay) August 8, 2017
so, i’m waiting for trump’s opioid briefing to start and just noticed … the white house spelled opioid wrong pic.twitter.com/nyCvLlOp4Y
— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) August 8, 2017
In light of dangerous NKorea threat, I’m stopping all petty political disagreements for at least next 12 hours. Let’s see what others do.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 8, 2017
Real question: What BS story do you think Fox News and Trump are working together on this time? https://t.co/8WnQCwqYU6
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
re: #306 Kragar
Second sentence negates significance of first.
If he’s watching what other people are doing to pick and choose who’s still caught up in “petty” stuff, then he’s not actually disengaged.
So this is a middle school level bit of theater.
re: #310 Stanley Sea
WHY WONT THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT TRUMPS PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON OPIOD CRISIS IS SO GREAT AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!!!
re: #303 JordanRules
This one left a mark. They original tweet screen cap is in the ownage thread.
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A guy on the receiving end of that thread just needs to go to a city where they still have streetcars so he can step in front of one.
re: #310 Stanley Sea
[Embedded content]so, i’m waiting for trump’s opioid briefing to start and just noticed … the white house spelled opioid wrong
that’s odd
re: #311 Kragar
“I will spend twelve hours not tweeting for the purpose of dragging everyone that keeps tweeting during that arbitray amount of time that in no way relates to the timeframe of the cited emergency.
Because I really care.”
BREAKING: Trump: If NKorea escalates nuclear threat, ‘they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.’
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 8, 2017
We’re all gonna die. https://t.co/5FxLqSdTt6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 8, 2017
re: #317 Charles Johnson
Damnet GOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damnet!!!!!!!!! You own this!!!!!!!!!!!
BREAKING: Trump: If NKorea escalates nuclear threat, ‘they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.’
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 8, 2017
So glad we have a calm, cool, and collected President, known for making well thought out, rational decisions in the White House https://t.co/ZeFIdPGxTS
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 8, 2017
Trump: N Korea “best not make any more threats to the US. They will be met with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 8, 2017
@DrJillStein But Hillary is more dangerous than Trump, right? https://t.co/VJNDVJSIma
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 8, 2017
congrats to John Kelly, the last White House chief of staff
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) August 8, 2017
re: #317 Charles Johnson
BREAKING: Trump: If NKorea escalates nuclear threat, ‘they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.’
That’ll show them.
re: #320 Dr. Matt
Trump: N Korea “best not make any more threats to the US. They will be met with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen.”
That stupid son of a bitch.
re: #323 makeitstop
That stupid son of a bitch.
Sounds like Stilgar is the new communications director.
Firefighters bicycle. 1905. pic.twitter.com/69QWWr2iRg
— 78 Derngate (@78Derngate) August 7, 2017
That news sure did a number on the stock market.
re: #317 Charles Johnson
Jesus Christ he sounds just like Kim Jong Un.
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