Seth Meyers: Mueller Goes for the Kill, as Trump Pushes Tax Cuts
Seth takes a closer look at how President Trump is dealing with new developments in the Russia scandal as he tries to push his domestic agenda.
Seth takes a closer look at how President Trump is dealing with new developments in the Russia scandal as he tries to push his domestic agenda.
Gah, I CL’d myself in the last thread. I wouldn’t repeat it but I think it’s kinda important.
I just got this in email from Credit Karma.
You might have heard about the recent Equifax data breach, which affects about 143 million people. Whether you’re part of that group or not, we want you to know we have your back.
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This is a free service. I recommend them. You see your credit scores and your accounts. It shows inquiries into to your file so you should be able to spot fraud. And they email you with changes.
Check out Breitbart. A turning point tonight.
“Amnesty Don” pic.twitter.com/wqvv2mTwyD— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 14, 2017
re: #2 jaunte
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My phone is like a flickering candle right now. 11:24 p.m. The nationalist/conservative base is lighting up. Texts to reporters, each other.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 14, 2017
re: #4 jaunte
It’ll be short-lived. Very short-lived. Like a few hours short-lived, if that.
Excuse me while I sit here and LMAO.
Ted Cruz: Consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms; “The media and the left seem obsessed with sex” pic.twitter.com/UlJOIoPjcI
— CNN (@CNN) September 13, 2017
Well Mitch GREAT JOB! You failed so miserably with Healthcare and “excessive expectations” now @POTUS has to deal with Dem Leaders!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) September 14, 2017
He’ll be licking McConnell’s scrotum and taint once again this time tomorrow.
re: #1 MsJ
Gah, I CL’d myself in the last thread. I wouldn’t repeat it but I think it’s kinda important.
I just got this in email from Credit Karma.
This is a free service. I recommend them. You see your credit scores and your accounts. It shows inquiries into to your file so you should be able to spot fraud. And they email you with changes.
Thanks for reminding me. It turns out I had already signed up for Credit Karma, but had not set up its notifications.
re: #1 MsJ
Gah, I CL’d myself in the last thread. I wouldn’t repeat it but I think it’s kinda important.
I did the same after you …
Well, if Rep. Pelosi and Sen. Schumer were successful:
5 Marines in critical condition after Camp Pendleton training accident https://t.co/WK7Ofhd2TY
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 14, 2017
re: #6 MsJ
Ted Cruz: Consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms; “The media and the left seem obsessed with sex”
Says the guy who argued as Texas Solicitor General over the right to own sex toys and once argued you have no right to “self-gratification.”
You go with that argument, Ted. Oh, yeah, and your roommate from college had something to say about the second item up there in the press yesterday… .
I’m agreeing and retweeting Noah fucking Rothman. The world is going to end.
🚨The White House press secretary, from the podium, calls for a media company to fire a commentator over her criticism of the president. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/CEJggX8WNn
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 13, 2017
Anathema to any conservative to call for the career of someone who offended with speech. Grotesquely irresponsible from the White House. https://t.co/x285wuYEXP
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) September 13, 2017
Steve king has a sad.
BREAKING: Schumer, Pelosi announce deal with Trump to protect young immigrants; will include border security, but no wall.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 14, 2017
@RealDonaldTrump If AP is correct, Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair. No promise is credible. https://t.co/uJjxk6uX5g
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 14, 2017
Followed by “You can’t always get what you want” by the Stones.
— hellmouse (@hellmouse) September 14, 2017
Great, just got quote tweeted by a senior editor of The Federalist. Bring on the flying monkeys!
re: #8 wheat-dogg
Thanks for reminding me. It turns out I had already signed up for Credit Karma, but had not set up its notifications.
I follow the idea of “you get what you pay for.” Who is paying for Credit Karma, and how do I know they would keep my information any safer than Equifax did?
I called the three credit agencies and put holds on any new applications for credit. (That would be suspicious since I am credit-shy and use money or cheques for nearly everything.)
That prevents anyone from applying for credit in either my or my wife’s names. (You can still permit your own credit applications to go through by telling them.)
I suppose different solutions work for different people. I probably don’t have any room to talk since I embarrassed a state police officer this afternoon by making him pull over a speeding Smart car. (One might question my judgement.)
re: #13 VegasGolfer
BREAKING: Schumer, Pelosi announce deal with Trump to protect young immigrants; will include border security, but no wall.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 14, 2017
@RealDonaldTrump If AP is correct, Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair. No promise is credible. https://t.co/uJjxk6uX5g
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 14, 2017
“No promise is credible.”
Most Americans already knew this about Trump, which is why he lost the popular vote by millions https://t.co/tH9POKDrkK— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 14, 2017
re: #7 teleskiguy
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He’ll be licking McConnell’s scrotum and taint once again this time tomorrow.
I did NOT need that image in my head!
Interior layouts vary for different models, but this is the basic size loadout pic.twitter.com/RGRygIEYx9
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 14, 2017
3 man crew, with space for a infantry squad appx 13 men
re: #19 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I did NOT need that image in my head!
We didn’t need Fuckface Von Clownstick as president, yet here we are.
re: #18 Kragar
.@Kragar_LGF Atlantic city knew, Trump U knew, Reality TV knew, his supporters knew him best!
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 14, 2017
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
I follow the idea of “you get what you pay for.” Who is paying for Credit Karma, and how do I know they would keep my information any safer than Equifax did?
I called the three credit agencies and put holds on any new applications for credit. (That would be suspicious since I am credit-shy and use money or cheques for nearly everything.)
That prevents anyone from applying for credit in either my or my wife’s names. (You can still permit your own credit applications to go through by telling them.)
I suppose different solutions work for different people. I probably don’t have any room to talk since I embarrassed a state police officer this afternoon by making him pull over a speeding Smart car. (One might question my judgement.)
They pull the info from the agencies. They don’t have their own data. They make money trying to sell you credit cards (they make suggestions for you). I never got one. I appreciate their service and it’s available via Web browser and an app.
re: #15 teleskiguy
Great, just got quote tweeted by a senior editor of The Federalist. Bring on the flying monkeys!
I is disappoint.
I’ve only blocked one far-right knucklehead since I got quote tweeted by a “senior editor” of the @FDRLST. Fuckin’ weak sauce!
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) September 14, 2017
Man, this is delicious.
He’s really pissing off his base right now
— Bill (@bill4990) September 14, 2017
If reports true 100%. I blame R’s. They caused this. They wanted him to fail and now pushed him into arms of political suicide—IF TRUE. https://t.co/WTqe6jzfa9
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) September 14, 2017
This is gaining some legs.
I’m in television and I’m also calling President Trump a white supremacist. Anyone else?
— Michael Green (@andmichaelgreen) September 13, 2017
I’m an attorney and a literary agent and I’m also calling Trump a white supremacist. https://t.co/0KFHa5A8VF
— Eric Ruben (@TheEricRuben) September 14, 2017
I’m a sports writing guy. I am also calling Trump a white supremacist. Come fire me, @SarahHuckabee. #StandWithJemele https://t.co/94eFf6Yvg8
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) September 14, 2017
Went looking for Trump’s approval ratings, found this poll by YouGov, and there are some numbers that we probably need to address…
1% think Canada is an enemy. 12% are not sure if Canada is an ally, friendly, unfriendly, or an enemy. TWELVE FUCKING PERCENT!
1% say that Iran is an ally. 7% say friendly. I wonder how much cross over there is between the Canada and Iran numbers.
2% say North Korea is an ally, 3% say friendly, and 13% are not sure. (Relatedly 9% think South Korea is an enemy)
4% say Mexico is an enemy (which might actually constitutes Trump’s true bottom). Speaking of 4%, that’s the same number that think Russia is an ally.
Just keep in mind, there’s about 325 million people in this country, so that means 1% is about 3.25 million. There are, potentially SIX AND A HALF MILLION people in this country that think North Korea is an ally. And thirteen million who see Russia as an ally and/or Mexico as an enemy.
Quite possibly the most amazing numbers, and probably where I would be on the questions, is when people are asked what they think Trump sees these countries (and a few others) as, about 25% say they aren’t sure. That’s how I’d answer, because I’m willing to bet he doesn’t know who are allies are.
On a more serious note, 57% favor a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (poll used the term illegal immigrants), and another 12% favor something like green card status.
I dont’ HATE anyone. The vast majority of Muslims have major issues with homosexuality but if you want to stick your head in the ground fine
— Peter McConnell (@jonasnjoonas) September 14, 2017
This moron
re: #25 MsJ
Ha!
Think of how a doomsday cult rationalizes when the planet doesn’t blow up. That’s Trump voters if the wall doesn’t happen.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 14, 2017
re: #29 electrotek
“The vast majority of Muslims” — as in almost 1 BILLION people? He’s got some Professor X mindreading skillz there.
re: #31 wheat-dogg
“The vast majority of Muslims” — as in almost 1 BILLION people? He’s got some Professor X mindreading skillz there.
He also said that progressive Muslims are NOT real Muslims.
Progressive “Muslims” are NOT real Muslims, they just hail from Muslim countries. Those people should not be included in surveys.
— Peter McConnell (@jonasnjoonas) September 13, 2017
re: #32 electrotek
He also said that progressive Muslims are NOT real Muslims.
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I stuck my nose in the discussion. I’m in that kind of mood right now.
Hooray for the Cash family!
Very proud we threatened legal action and got hate radio to stop using my dad’s music. https://t.co/qLyaDJfiWg
— rosanne cash (@rosannecash) September 13, 2017
The tears are so delicious!
I think Breitbart is having a cardiac event…. pic.twitter.com/Lu1z7qjZRL
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) September 14, 2017
re: #35 MsJ
Vaporware. Smoke and mirrors. Their God Emperor will tweet tomorrow morning that the ‘Demoncrat’ party are liars and murderers.
re: #36 teleskiguy
Remember when they lost their shit when Bannon was fired?
Mm hmm everything with the bigot cult will be fine again soon.
OK, another variation on the guy ogling the girl passing by.
This is the best one ever pic.twitter.com/pUDUO2Gz6J
— Orwell & Goode 🇨🇱 (@OrwellNGoode) September 12, 2017
Could be redone with Trump.
re: #35 MsJ
The tears are so delicious!
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So Bannon is doubling down on the nose candy tonight…
Is there any anime films that deal with social or political commentary? Especially international commentary?
re: #40 electrotek
Is there any anime films that deal with social or political commentary? Especially international commentary?
What type of commentary? I’ll have to ask my son for particular answers, bit I’m sure there are. There’s one called C, for Control, that is a game representation of capitalism, specifically the idea of credit.
For the record: A boring Government has never looked so good!!
Signed: An Australian which has never known a different type of government.
(P.S. I didn’t vote for John Howard, (I wasn’t old enough to legally vote then) but at least he was sane.)
re: #40 electrotek
Is there any anime films that deal with social or political commentary? Especially international commentary?
Yeah, not entirely sure what you are looking for. Can you explain?
re: #41 Belafon
What type of commentary? I’ll have to ask my son for particular answers, bit I’m sure there are. There’s one called C, for Control, that is a game representation of capitalism, specifically the idea of credit.
Moreso towards the military-industrial complex and the WoT.
Cleveland cop pleads guilty to using sex toy on women during traffic stop: https://t.co/T1m2fDL6gI pic.twitter.com/c0nokKcq05
He stands for the National Anthem tho. https://t.co/Zi6iGHSXpt
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) September 14, 2017
Since Trump invoked China as an example for this country earlier today:
As bomb threats paralyze Russian capital of Moscow, ordinary Russians yearn for return to prosperity and good government of Joseph Stalin.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) September 13, 2017
Uncle Joe did know how to get things done, if you overlook that whole genocidal mass-murdering tyrant thing. In 1941, for example, aircraft production was lagging so he sent this note to a couple of plodding factory managers:
You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government’s patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning. (emphasis added)
EEK! Production tripled almost overnight.
re: #41 Belafon
What type of commentary? I’ll have to ask my son for particular answers, bit I’m sure there are. There’s one called C, for Control, that is a game representation of capitalism, specifically the idea of credit.
Eden of the East is the closest that I can think of when it comes to C.
re: #48 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Since Trump invoked China as an example for this country earlier today:
Citing China as a model is wrong on so many levels, it’s hard to know where to begin. But, suffice it to say that China’s economy is teetering on the brink of disaster, because it’s dependent on a real estate construction boom that the government encouraged. There are also rumors that China will soon devalue the yuan.
And the People’s Bank of China (equivalent to the Fed) is in a frenzy trying to shut off channels of capital flight, such as Bitcoin and package tours to the casinos of Macau.
Speaking about the corporate brand versus journalism, Pierce pens a good piece for SI.
Calling for Jemele Hill’s firing is nonsense (by @CharlesPPierce) https://t.co/DoQgT8Lida
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) September 13, 2017
In Case Of Nonsense, Break Glass column on L’affaire Jemele Hill. https://t.co/SfM8iLim3z
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 14, 2017
re: #45 electrotek
Moreso towards the military-industrial complex and the WoT.
Terror in Resonance involves domestic terrorism in Japan. Although there’s no specific connection to real world issues. I do applaud the use of cryptocurrency in the show though.
Trailer link
There is some 9/11 like imagery in there. If I remember, it’s in the first episode.
Edited for clarity.
Man, wouldn’t it be good to see even one white male sportscaster at @ESPN raise up right now & use status/privilege to support a colleague?
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 14, 2017
It would, yes.
Say Mueller comes out with criminal charges for a bunch of people and they just ignore it. Trump refuses to step down or be taken into custody himself/whatever. Then what? As bad as things are now, this kind of scenario could be a complete shitshow.
Want to chug wingnut tears? Go check out the comments on the DACA article at Breitbart.
It’s fun when you wake up at 2:00 am with heartburn/indigestion so bad you think you’re going to throw up.
re: #55 GlutenFreeJesus
Katy Tur wrote in her latest book that she fears that Fuckface Von Clownstick will be president* until he dies, that he’ll completely ignore term limits.
re: #58 teleskiguy
Katy Tur wrote in her latest book that she fears that Fuckface Von Clownstick will be president* until he dies, that he’ll completely ignore term limits.
That would require a new amendment to the Constitution, or a complete breakdown of our government’s checks and balances. For the latter, both Congress and the Supreme Court would have to be wiling to let the executive branch supplant them.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s unlikely, IMO.
Also, Trump is no spring chicken. I’m not sure he could survive eight years as president.
re: #1 MsJ
Gah, I CL’d myself in the last thread. I wouldn’t repeat it but I think it’s kinda important.
I just got this in email from Credit Karma.
This is a free service. I recommend them. You see your credit scores and your accounts. It shows inquiries into to your file so you should be able to spot fraud. And they email you with changes.
Followed your advice and signed up with Credit Karma. Thanks for the tip.
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re: #59 wheat-dogg
Trump is no spring chicken. I’m not sure he could survive eight years as president.
HE HAS ADONIS DNA! SHUT UP!!!
Motel 6 chimes in. They know this isn’t good for business on a number of levels.
Motel 6 admits Arizona locations were reporting guests to ICE without chain’s approval https://t.co/9QMTAwRq5d w/ @carlalove
— Matt Ferner (@matthewferner) September 14, 2017
Another helpful article re: Equifax: medium.com
Time for bed here. See y’all later.
re: #63 JordanRules
Motel 6 chimes in. They know this isn’t good for business on a number of levels.
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The DM and RM are probably hearing a lot from the corporate office today.
re: #62 teleskiguy
Apparently orangutans only live to like 50-60, so he’s on borrowed time.
re: #56 Amory Blaine
Want to chug wingnut tears? Go check out the comments on the DACA article at Breitbart.
“Yes…..yes; let the butthurt flow through you!!”
Many of the Breitbrats are absolutely apoplectic - and if Breitbart/Bannon turns against Trump, it’s gonna get truly interesting.
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
Many of the Breitbrats are absolutely apoplectic - and if Breitbart/Bannon turns against Trump, it’s gonna get truly interesting.
The Breitscum is being run by Steve Bannon at present. He just said on 60 Minutes on Sunday that he would be a champion of everything Fuckface Von Clownstick is about.
🤔
re: #47 Belafon
This is good: m.dailykos.com.
Fabulous. And leads me to plug, once again, emergeamerica.org.
Emerge America is the premier training program for Democratic women.
We inspire women to run, we hone their skills to win.
Our goal is clear: to increase the number of Democratic women in public office.
We just hired our state Executive Director and are having 3 announcement events around the state later in September.
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re: #52 JordanRules
Speaking about the corporate brand versus journalism, Pierce pens a good piece for SI.
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Pretty perfect—Charlie comes through again—and the close is, well, pure Pierce:
Jemele Hill is a tribute to the people who raised her and an ornament of great value to her profession.
The President of the United States is a white supremacist and a racist, just like his odious father was before him.
Go ahead, Sarah.
Tell them to fire me.
Thanks for sharing.
DW has a about Japanese women joining Da’esh for anyone interested.
Though it’s too early conclude if they are really Japanese or if they are of immigration extraction from Japan, but either way, it’s fucking alarming to find idiots as far east as Japan who would join such a murderous death cult.
It just boggles the mind for me. Even at the mosques I’ve visited in the country, I’ve seen Japanese converts who combine the kimonos with the hijab and it works so well and not out of place.
I’m just at a loss of words here.
re: #18 Kragar
“No promise is credible.”
Most Americans already knew this about Trump, which is why he lost the popular vote by millions
Millions of illegal votes!
re: #69 BeachDem
Love what Emerge America is doing! Please keep updating us here.
It’s funny, I think the nature of sexism might mean a wave of women candidates goes unnoticed and/or underestimated. I can’t wait for the big surprise!
re: #42 wheat-dogg
Trump is going after Spanish olives*.
* pronounced as Charo did, “olips.”
Glad to see that laser-like focus on coal miners getting back to work. /s
a) Trump could not care less about California: They didn’t vote for him.
b) Good to see he’s still going after one of our allies (Spain’s olives) on trade issues, rather than one of our rivals (China’s solar panels and steel).
re: #55 GlutenFreeJesus
Say Mueller comes out with criminal charges for a bunch of people and they just ignore it. Trump refuses to step down or be taken into custody himself/whatever. Then what? As bad as things are now, this kind of scenario could be a complete shitshow.
On others not named Donald Trump: The US Marshals Service has the ability to apply sufficient force to take someone into custody. Ignoring any charges would likely not be an option, though fleeing the country like some tin-pot dictator’s cronies certainly could happen.
On those named Donald Trump: I would not be adverse to him fleeing either.
Fleeing might actually be the best outcome for our political system (though I don’t wish these guys on any other country). It would utterly discredit the GOP.
re: #77 alloutofcrazyhere
I imagine that some of you have seen something similar to this, but in light of the whole “voter fraud” and other such nonsense, I thought that this was worth a gander.
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If Sen. Rand Paul gets his libertarian wish to eliminate the Voting Rights Act, we might see such tests again.
(In practice during Jim Crow, such tests were arbitrarily scored to allow white voters to pass them, as were tests on laws or the Constitution. They also sometimes had “question pools” where whites got very easy questions and minorities got esoteric and difficult ones.)
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹
Speaking of the Paul’s, apparently Ron Paul doesn’t like SpaceX.
My solution is to crowdsource a SpaceX rocket, duct tape some of these looney libertarians to it, and send them to another galaxy.
Only there can they realize their ultimate libertarian utopia. They can call it Galt’s Galaxy.
Oh!
If the reports of killings, rapes and landmines are true, these are egregious and unacceptable acts. #CrisisInBurma pic.twitter.com/cgy1lhq0Sx
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) September 13, 2017
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) September 13, 2017
re: #80 alloutofcrazyhere
Ron Paul is a moron.
Teenagers in New Hampshire tried to lynch a biracial boy. He managed to free himself and survive. He is 8 years old. https://t.co/gFMdXxjc7x
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) September 13, 2017
re: #82 Single-handed sailor
No argument here.
Playing now:
The Thinking Atheist Podcast, where Seth Andrews (a former evangelical radio broadcaster) going after The National Review for a massive strawman argument by that magazine, claiming so-called “New Atheists” are a “dangerous secular threat” for defending Islam while criticising Christianity. (Yeah, that defence doesn’t happen in apolgetics.)
The National Review also claims “Leftists” (capital L) are throwing atheists under a bus, and that atheists are “irrational.”
re: #63 JordanRules
Hmmm… not sure it really matters for Motel 6. The only reason someone stays there is because they can’t afford a better place.
Apparently, we are a “hate group,” not interested in human beings or human rights, only interested in promoting hate, and are “religious.”
Wow, that’s a 70 mm projector from those guys.
Wow, accusing us of being Nazis, a new version of the Ku Klux Klan, being anti-intellectual …
Did I miss the change the dictionary put in to define atheism?
I’m going to log off and listen to more about how we need to be “liberated from dogma.” G’night, y’all.
re: #88 freetoken
That’s not been my experience. Folks may be looking for a budget option but not necessarily because they can’t afford anything else. They can also be the only option in many circumstances.
They disavowed the practice and said it was not sanctioned by corporate. They got a ton of bad social media response.
re: #93 JordanRules
That’s not been my experience. Folks may be looking for a budget option but not necessarily because they can’t afford anything else. They can also be the only option in many circumstances.
Ok. Then if that is so, then it doesn’t really matter what the corporation does because the customer will have no choice.
I suspect the corporate office now finds itself in that awkward position of trying to play as a good corporate citizen in that rarified world of interlocking corporate boards.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
The Loss-of-God Problem has been discussed by many over many years. It is attributed to the world wars in Europe, for eroding any pretense of “Christianity” in European society.
That National Racists Online are squealing is just part of their gig now. In the old days they’d embrace the atheist right (Ayn Rand, etc.)
But today in America the revanchism has definite religious undertones.
One of the more delightful little entries in the last year of TV programs was The Good Place.
Somewhat erudite humor, it doesn’t appeal to everyone.
Still, it is fascinating that the premise of the show, the setting for why the humor can exist, is based on traditional religious belief being modified, and generalized, just enough to not be pinned to any particular sect of monotheism. Or polytheism for that matter.
We can’t escape our religiosity-imbued past. It is what makes us us.
But modernity has closed the door on fundamentalism. Such beliefs just don’t hold water in the light of what we have discovered about reality.
And that scares enough people that a hefty industry is now had in milking these fears.
re: #94 freetoken
Also can, not always is.
I think it was a pretty easy call on corporate’s part. Especially since SCOTUS ruled hotels do not have to hand over their guest list.
forbes.com
So funny to lie to the American people on behalf of their Government!
KIMMEL: About that Inauguration….
SPICER: Now I can say it: the line for Hillary’s book was bigger.#WhatHappenedpic.twitter.com/FgFlUKSgdx— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) September 14, 2017
Hannity assembles a diverse panel of experts to discuss racism pic.twitter.com/FtnWJ52oHl
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 14, 2017
re: #98 JordanRules
So funny to lie to the American people on behalf of their Government!
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And a “liberal” like Kimmel has no problem normalizing this shit.
re: #63 JordanRules
Motel 6 chimes in. They know this isn’t good for business on a number of levels.
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“I’m Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we’ll leave the light on for you white people only….”
re: #63 JordanRules
Motel 6 chimes in. They know this isn’t good for business on a number of levels.
I can understand that it is not company policy, it is probably the work of a few individual employees, but it the company’s own fault if they hire True Patriots and not Seditious Liberals…
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!! Fix the Fence! Fix the Fence! Fix the Fence! Fix the Fence! #FTF #FTF #FTF
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) September 14, 2017
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can understand that it is not company policy, it is probably the work of a few individual employees, but it the company’s own fault if they hire True Patriots and not Seditious Liberals…
Most motels are franchises. The company can say they violated the franchise agreement and make them go independent, but that’s about it. The actual motels are individually owned and operated by the franchise holder and that is where maximum pressure needs to be applied.
re: #106 William Lewis
Most motels are franchises. The company can say they violated the franchise agreement and make them go independent, but that’s about it. The actual motels are individually owned and operated by the franchise holder and that is where maximum pressure needs to be applied.
And I can imagine that the Motel 6 does not attract the cream of the crop when it comes to staffing…
re: #96 freetoken
I love The Good Place. So happy for season 2!
Season 1 is on Netflix btw. Everyone should watch. :)
ELL. OH. ELL.
They’re also a communist state… Should we match that too. LOL #Resist stupidity #TheResistance #NotMyPresident #cofefe
— Grant (@Marley084) September 14, 2017
re: #109 The Vicious Babushka
ELL. OH. ELL.
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And don’t they have to wear masks a lot because of un-breathable air? Yeah, we need to be more like that.
re: #40 electrotek
Is there any anime films that deal with social or political commentary? Especially international commentary?
Song of the South, but it’s hard to find.
BWAHAHAA!!!
Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2017
re: #111 Decatur Deb
Song of the South, but it’s hard to find.
Ow!
Actually saw that in a theater. I think my aunt just thought of it as a “Disney” so good to take me and my sisters to.
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
BWAHAHAA!!!
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There is some major butthurt going on down thread… I’s LOL!!!
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
BWAHAHAA!!!
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The meltdown at Breitbart is continuing. It’s quite breathtaking, really.
re: #109 The Vicious Babushka
China’s corporate tax rate isn’t 15%.
The base rate is 25%. There’s a lower rate for certain business/industries that qualify.
In other words, it’s the same kind of tax preference policies that allow the US to have an average effective tax rate of 19%. It’s how GE was able to get an effective tax rate of under 3% for years on end. Verizon’s effective tax rate was 12.4%. More than a few paid no federal tax at all at least once in a period surveyed - because of tax preference items such as depreciation, amortization, NOLs, cap gains and losses.
All Trump does is lie, and this lie is in service of the GOP dream of cutting taxes on corps and the rich while shifting the burdens to everyone else.
SS/DD.
re: #113 William Lewis
Ow!
Actually saw that in a theater. I think my aunt just thought of it as a “Disney” so good to take me and my sisters to.
Very complex history, that.
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
BWAHAHAA!!!
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Haha Trumpers done got cucked. Trump is still awful of course but nothing like his cult in disarray.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. The media, in particular Maggie Haberman, still think Trump will somehow pivot or show that he cares about policy.
This is wishful thinking and nonsense. Nothing indicates he will ever care about policy or about the consequences of his actions. That’s not who he is, and he’s never shown any interest in anyone other than himself.
Still assuming that he knows what he’s doing about anything that crosses his desk. He doesn’t know anything about anything. He’s reactionary
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
It wont happen. He doesn’t know or care to know about policy, let alone how policy is formulated. He doesn’t have qualified ppl advising him
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
His idea of health policy is to carp on repeal and replace and claim he’s got a better plan - but never did anything other than adopt Ryan’s
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
The GOP is pissed at him for dealing with Democrats again? Why is this surprising to anyone? The GOP are obstructionists and can’t even agree on their own basic agenda - they couldn’t get past repeal and replace because no one among the GOP could agree on what to do.
This is who the GOP and Trump are. They are saboteurs and con artists. Period.
re: #121 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. The media, in particular Maggie Haberman, still think Trump will somehow pivot or show that he cares about policy.
This is wishful thinking and nonsense. Nothing indicates he will ever care about policy or about the consequences of his actions. That’s not who he is, and he’s never shown any interest in anyone other than himself.
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The GOP is pissed at him for dealing with Democrats again? Why is this surprising to anyone? The GOP are obstructionists and can’t even agree on their own basic agenda - they couldn’t get past repeal and replace because no one among the GOP could agree on what to do.
This is who the GOP and Trump are. They are saboteurs and con artists. Period.
He’s an idiot, the GOP leadership are idiots, and the GOP base are the biggest ones of all because they vote for these fools time and time again.
re: #121 lawhawk
This is who the GOP and Trump are. They are saboteurs and con artists. Period.
Boom. Spot on, again.
re: #36 teleskiguy
Vaporware. Smoke and mirrors. Their God Emperor will tweet tomorrow morning that the ‘Demoncrat’ party are liars and murderers.
Winner.
And like clockwork, radio news this am ‘There WILL be a wall” WH version of meet very different etc etc.
Late edit—Good Morning from SoCal. Wishing all those hard at work recovering from Hurricanes all the best. Stay safe with the heavy unfamiliar gear! I don’t expect Teleski to be up quite yet. But he was right. Not a tough one to call but what the heck.
Rexxon, clean up on aisle 1!
Trump’s Weird Threat to Colombia
re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus
I love The Good Place. So happy for season 2!
Season 1 is on Netflix btw. Everyone should watch. :)
Good! Cancelling it after season 1 would feel like a harsh punishment. :P
re: #114 Dave In Austin
There is some major butthurt going on down thread… I’s LOL!!!
My heart bleeds for them.
How long before we find out Hannity harassed one or more of those women? Seems harassment is prerequisite for guys working at Fox News.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #128 lawhawk
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re: #121 lawhawk
This is who the GOP and Trump are. They are saboteurs and con artists. Period.
What lawhawk said. The 2017 RepubliKKKlan Party acts exactly the same way as the 1917 Bolsheviks in Russia. Destroy everything and institute a dictatorship of the 1%…
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
Considering you already decided that transgendered servicemembers can’t serve? Yes, you do. Not just DREAMers, but anyone you don’t like
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #114 Dave In Austin
There is some major butthurt going on down thread… I’s LOL!!!
Give us all the popcorn
Missed the entire Trump/Dem dinner news cycle.
Apparently Trump promised something to someone and later denied it?
Shocked!!
Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.
Drummer Grant Hart of Husker Du has died at 56.
If you go look at Bob Mould’s Facebook page, there is a good post there too.
He put some really good songs in my heart. Rest in peace.
re: #135 b.d. (bill d.)
Missed the entire Trump/Dem dinner news cycle.
Apparently Trump promised something to someone and later denied it?
Shocked!!
It’s almost like he’s a liar with no credibility but don’t blame me, I voted for the person who understood what DACA was.
re: #114 Dave In Austin
There is some major butthurt going on down thread… I’s LOL!!!
Part of me is angry at President Pissface for blocking me. The other part rejoices in seeing the torch and pitchfork holding mob chasing after Frankentrump and his RepubliKKKlan KKKongress!
re: #135 b.d. (bill d.)
Missed the entire Trump/Dem dinner news cycle.
Apparently Trump promised something to someone and later denied it?
Shocked!!
He’s not denying it exactly. Just concedes legislation needed, etc.
Still, it’s hard to know what to make of it all. And obviously nothing Drump says can be taken seriously. Even if Dems agree to the “wall” or to fund it, I can’t imagine the base being happy with a DACA deal, should that come with it.
re: #116 lawhawk
China’s corporate tax rate isn’t 15%.
The base rate is 25%. There’s a lower rate for certain business/industries that qualify.
In other words, it’s the same kind of tax preference policies that allow the US to have an average effective tax rate of 19%. It’s how GE was able to get an effective tax rate of under 3% for years on end. Verizon’s effective tax rate was 12.4%. More than a few paid no federal tax at all at least once in a period surveyed - because of tax preference items such as depreciation, amortization, NOLs, cap gains and losses.
All Trump does is lie, and this lie is in service of the GOP dream of cutting taxes on corps and the rich while shifting the burdens to everyone else.
SS/DD.
And most small business aren’t even taxed as corporations, but on an individual’s Schedule A or as a partnership, right?
re: #138 HappyWarrior
It’s almost like he’s a liar with no credibility but don’t blame me, I voted for the person who understood what DACA was.
“Almost”??
re: #129 b.d. (bill d.)
I watch zero sitcoms but stumbled across The Good Place and really liked it. Glad it is coming back I certainly could see them axing it.
I got one of my students into Sanford and Son. She’s on sick leave now and she’s been binge watching it, LOL.
re: #137 meteor
Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.
Drummer Grant Hart of Husker Du has died at 56.
If you go look at Bob Mould’s Facebook page, there is a good post there too.
He put some really good songs in my heart. Rest in peace.
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O man.. i was just talking to a good friend of mine about him. He was a major influence on me growing up east of the Twin Cities. RIP you madman.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
re: #140 Sir John Barron
I like his way of governing.
[trump]”Hey Mitch and Ryan: Nancy, Chuck and I came up with this deal let’s get this thing through…ok, thanks.” [/trump]
Thing is that the wingnuts are so invested in Trump that they are trying to spin this as a genius move….keep that genius sh*t coming wingnuts!
re: #141 Timothy Watson
Small businesses, such as LLC, LLP, partnerships (aka pass through entities), pass through income and losses to the member, partner, etc., and those members, partners are taxed at their individual tax rate or corporate tax rate (if the LLC or LLP or partnership is comprised of corporations) based on the income they have derived in the tax year.
They have to report the income - and show that the income was passed through to the members who pay tax, or else they’d be required to pay the tax themselves.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
The meltdown at Breitbart is continuing. It’s quite breathtaking, really.
Surprised the base isn’t saying that This is Our Dear Leader playing 5th dimension chess on Dopey Dems! MAGA!
re: #143 I cannot.
Naw, that’s just the Friday night news dump supply.
I haven’t gone over to Breitbart. This is a new puter and I don’t want it’s nasty cookie on me.
Someone should go over and post pics of rainbow unicorns just to do it.
re: #137 meteor
Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.
Drummer Grant Hart of Husker Du has died at 56.
If you go look at Bob Mould’s Facebook page, there is a good post there too.
He put some really good songs in my heart. Rest in peace.
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Wow; that’s sad to hear. I was a big fan of Hüsker Dü.
RIP.
re: #149 lawhawk
I’ll put in a rush order for more then.
Looks like it’s gonna be a Zen Arcade kinda day.
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can understand that it is not company policy, it is probably the work of a few individual employees, but it the company’s own fault if they hire True Patriots and not Seditious Liberals…
It’s complicated even more by the fact that the individual motels are franchises, so “corporate” didn’t hire them.
re: #137 meteor
Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.
Drummer Grant Hart of Husker Du has died at 56.
If you go look at Bob Mould’s Facebook page, there is a good post there too.
He put some really good songs in my heart. Rest in peace.
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Aw crap. The Mats, The Who & Husker Du were the soundtrack of how I stayed sane in high school.
re: #153 (Bert the Turtle)
Looks like it’s gonna be a Zen Arcade kinda day.
New Day Rising followed by Candy Apple Grey.
Dear Trump, Are you breaking up with me? Please respond. Chuck #Chucked
— REYD*ANCE (@thereydiance) September 14, 2017
re: #158 Dave In Austin
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Uh-oh, Chucky’s going to break his deal with Trump to go easy on Don Jr. in exchange for Trump’s support for ethanol mandates.
re: #157 William Lewis
New Day Rising followed by Candy Apple Grey.
Yep! There’s a doc on Amazon(i think) where Hart says those three albums were the peak of the Husker du experience. I agree.
Here’s Bob’s post from the Book of Faces:
It was the Fall of 1978. I was attending Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. One block from my dormitory was a tiny store called Cheapo Records. There was a PA system set up near the front door blaring punk rock. I went inside and ended up hanging out with the only person in the shop. His name was Grant Hart.
The next nine years of my life was spent side-by-side with Grant. We made amazing music together. We (almost) always agreed on how to present our collective work to the world. When we fought about the details, it was because we both cared. The band was our life. It was an amazing decade.
We stopped working together in January 1988. We went on to solo careers, fronting our own bands, finding different ways to tell our individual stories. We stayed in contact over the next 29 years — sometimes peaceful, sometimes difficult, sometimes through go-betweens. For better or worse, that’s how it was, and occasionally that’s what it is when two people care deeply about everything they built together.
The tragic news of Grant’s passing was not unexpected to me. My deepest condolences and thoughts to Grant’s family, friends, and fans around the world.
Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember.
Godspeed, Grant. I miss you. Be with the angels.
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
Proof OAN is awful: They attacked Beyonce for Hurricane relief speech
Ledger: “Activists like Beyonce” “couldn’t keep their big mouths shut” pic.twitter.com/PKvZ6YjhIb— Lis Power (@LisPower1) September 14, 2017
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
What’s got them bent? Did she say that hurricanes impact the poor more than others, and that a lot of poor are blacks? In other words, the truth?
re: #163 Belafon
What’s got them bent? Did she say that hurricanes impact the poor more than others, and that a lot of poor are blacks? In other words, the truth?
she said ALL HURRICANE VICTIMS MATTER. You would think that wingnuts would agree with that.
re: #158 Dave In Austin
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Heh. I first read Sen. Grassley’s tweet as “Mom” news, and wondered why his mother had to fill him in on Trump’s supposed “deal”….
(Yeah, I know, it’s m-o-r-n )
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
No matter how bad the economy gets, there will always be a TV or radio station to give a wingnut a job.
re: #166 Sir John Barron
No matter how bad the economy gets, there will always be a TV or radio station to give a wingnut a job.
And if there aren’t enough wingnut TV/radio stations, more can be created.
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
Sucks that Verizon includes this and Newsmax TV in my cable package. Isn’t Faux bad enough?
My ex-wife and I saw Grant Hart perform at the old O’Cayz Corral in Madison on Dec 31, 2000. After he got done playing we sat around and talked for quite a while. He was a kind and erudite man and I enjoyed the moment considerably.
Regrettably, his was the last show there as it burned down Jan 1, 2001 from a cigarette butt in the trash in the comedy club next door.
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
And she said absolutely nothing that was offensive or untrue.
OAN is trying hard to draw in the people who think Fox isn’t fascist enough.
re: #171 makeitstop
And she said absolutely nothing that was offensive or untrue.
OAN is trying hard to draw in the people who think Fox isn’t fascist enough.
SHE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GLOWBALL WARMING WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS TEH FAKE NEWS & TEH JUNK SCIENCE BECAUSE AL GOAR IS FAT!!!1!!!1!!!!!
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
How many adjectives can he put in there in one minute? Jesus fuck.
From yesterday’s attempted bodega-bash:
I’m starting a startup called Nah, that aims to disrupt the launching of startups aiming to disrupt things that don’t need disrupting.
— Dennis de Groot (@punchdouble) September 13, 2017
There’s been a big story here in Chicago, about a 19 year old woman who was at a hotel party. She went missing and was eventually found dead in a walk-in freezer of the hotel. Hotel staff and police didn’t help search for her until the afternoon. Apparently some surveillance video spotted her at the front desk. But no word if there is any more video.
I have worked at several hotel kitchens in my career, and this story just doesn’t add up. You cannot lock yourself in a walk-in cooler/freezer. Someone has to do it from the outside. It’s been code for a long, long time, and I find it impossible to believe a hotel in Rosemont would be in violation of this code.
And there has to be more surveillance video throughout the hotel.
If I were to speculate, hotel staff is protecting one of their own. I hope I am wrong to suspect foul play. Perhaps she simply passed out in the freezer (she had been drinking).
re: #158 Dave In Austin
Try this. pic.twitter.com/GkXgFjbW14
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) September 14, 2017
re: #170 William Lewis
My ex-wife and I saw Grant Hart perform at the old O’Cayz Corral in Madison on Dec 31, 2000. After he got done playing we sat around and talked for quite a while. He was a kind and erudite man and I enjoyed the moment considerably.
Regrettably, his was the last show there as it burned down Jan 1, 2001 from a cigarette butt in the trash in the comedy club next door.
I saw Hüsker Dü at the old Pine Street Theater in Portland, OR - it was the tour for “Warehouse: Songs and Stories”. Had the chance to meet Hart, Bob Mould and Greg Norton. All of them were mingling with the audience, talking, autographs.
re: #175 GlutenFreeJesus
….this story just doesn’t add up. You cannot lock yourself in a walk-in cooler/freezer. Someone has to do it from the outside. It’s been code for a long, long time
Yeah, from what I understand, it’s impossible to lock yourself in. I know it’s a common TV/movie trope, but that’s all it is.
Sounds suspicious.
You’re asking the WH to brief you…over Twitter.
Is there ANYTHING here that doesn’t sound completely dysfunctional and broken?— jay (@random__name) September 14, 2017
re: #95 freetoken
The Loss-of-God Problem has been discussed by many over many years. It is attributed to the world wars in Europe, for eroding any pretense of “Christianity” in European society.
That National Racists Online are squealing is just part of their gig now. In the old days they’d embrace the atheist right (Ayn Rand, etc.)
But today in America the revanchism has definite religious undertones.
I don’t believe the old NR ever supported Ayn Rand. William Buckley detested her because of her atheism.
Someone is clearly enjoying this.
BREAKING: I’m in a fine mood this AM. pic.twitter.com/BwfidAvg3l
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 14, 2017
re: #135 b.d. (bill d.)
Missed the entire Trump/Dem dinner news cycle.
Apparently Trump promised something to someone and later denied it?
Shocked!!
Unless you have an actual recording (both audio and visual), he will deny anything. And, actually, even if there exist both audio and visual, he will still deny it.
re: #182 makeitstop
Someone is clearly enjoying this.
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re: #182 makeitstop
If everyone just responded to every one of his tweets that way….
re: #133 lawhawk
lawhawk @lawhawk
Considering you already decided that transgendered servicemembers can’t serve? Yes, you do. Not just DREAMers, but anyone you don’t like
9:39 AM - Sep 14, 2017
I have a feeling that after Mattis spends six months “studying” the transgenders in the military issue it will never be heard of again and nothing will be done as far as change.
It will be like all those threats to sue Trump tosses around. They all seem to wither away and get replaced by the next blowup and threat.
re: #186 ObserverArt
I have a feeling that after Mattis spends six months “studying” the transgenders in the military issue it will never be heard of again and nothing will be done as far as change.
It will be like all those threats to sue Trump tosses around. They all seem to wither away and get replaced by the next blowup and threat.
And his cultists will swear up and down that TG service members were shown the door, because Trump said it a couple of times.
Being the Perfect Leader is a snap when your followers have the collective IQ of a ball of dryer lint.
re: #187 makeitstop
And his cultists will swear up and down that TG service members were shown the door, because Trump said it a couple of times.
Being the Perfect Leader is a snap when your followers have the collective IQ of a ball of dryer lint.
Also, The Wall is already built. DJT can go down to the parts of the border where a fence is and say, Here is the great Wall I had built, and the Trumpbots will love it. Obamacare has also been repealed because.
Just finished reading this story about a local hockey prodigy that had a brief stint in the NHL. He was (allegedly) molested by his coach when he was 13 and combined with a neck injury as an adult, was hooked on pain medication.
When the money ran out he started abusing heroin and died of an overdose while waiting to be the lead witness in prosecution against his accuser.
Such a tragic tale.
Now, take out the hockey part of it. Sexual abusers, especially with children, can come from any power dynamic. Also, substitute the neck injury from playing hockey with any workplace or other type of injury. That is how we are where we are now with the opiod crisis.
If every person that overdosed got a write up as beautiful as the one linked above, there would be so much more sympathy for those with addictions.
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
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OAN is such a joke. They always manage to get all of their adjectives in every report.
Such as “these radical fascist left activists” and “baseless, agenda driven junk science tripe”
That’s talent. Now, diagram those sentences!
re: #182 makeitstop
I like that Twitter wants to translate the laughing from Hindi.
re: #188 Sir John Barron
Also, The Wall is already built. DJT can go down to the parts of the border where a fence is and say, Here is the great Wall I had built, and the Trumpbots will love it. Obamacare has also been repealed because.
The Rude Pundit put up a post prior to the election that called all of it - that those ‘phony’ employment numbers would suddenly become 100% reliable, that Obama’s ‘failed’ foreign policy would suddenly become Trump’s amazingly successful foreign policy, that the ‘disastrous’ economy would suddenly become ‘great.’
I wish I could find it so I could shove it down Trumpers’ throats.
re: #180 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t believe the old NR ever supported Ayn Rand. William Buckley detested her because of her atheism.
Whut?
I thought Buckley and Rand were both into the religion of me-ism and money?
re: #192 makeitstop
The Rude Pundit put up a post prior to the election that called all of it - that those ‘phony’ employment numbers would suddenly become 100% reliable, that Obama’s ‘failed’ foreign policy would suddenly become Trump’s amazingly successful foreign policy, that the ‘disastrous’ economy would suddenly become ‘great.’
I wish I could find it so I could shove it down Trumpers’ throats.
Rude wasn’t predicting anything that most of us hadn’t already known was going to happen months before the election. Whichever Republican was running, they were going to lie their asses off about how good things were, portraying the country as being on the precipice of collapse into a third-world nation unless we put them in the White House. Trump and Sanders played the same card, taking the promises of their opponents and boosting them way out into the stratosphere without any idea how they were going to make any of it happen.
re: #190 ObserverArt
That’s talent. Now, diagram those sentences!
It is at this point that I would use my safeword…
re: #187 makeitstop
And his cultists will swear up and down that TG service members were shown the door, because Trump said it a couple of times.
Being the Perfect Leader is a snap when your followers have the collective IQ of a ball of dryer lint.
re: #188 Sir John Barron
Also, The Wall is already built. DJT can go down to the parts of the border where a fence is and say, Here is the great Wall I had built, and the Trumpbots will love it. Obamacare has also been repealed because.
Fits in with Obama shirking his duties during Katrina.
Wingnut is a religion. You have to believe in the word.
re: #196 ObserverArt
Fits in with Obama shirking his duties during Katrina.
Wingnut is a religion. You have to believe in the word.
It’s not like ‘reality’ was accepted during the campaign. Why would it be now during Dump’s presidency?
re: #193 ObserverArt
Whut?
I thought Buckley and Rand were both into the religion of me-ism and money?
Buckley professed strong Catholicism, at an end of the spectrum opposite the Berrigan brothers. Today he’d be lunching with the paleo-catholics.
re: #193 ObserverArt
Whut?
I thought Buckley and Rand were both into the religion of me-ism and money?
But he was Catholic and so a Believer in the True Religion. It’s one of the reasons he makes me want to barf at his pretenses. Even though their political goals were the same he couldn’t even pretend long enough to use her to further his aims. Were it legal, I have no doubt he’d simply have had her killed.
Just another Lawful Evil racist pig.
re: #198 Decatur Deb
Buckley professed strong Catholicism, at an end of the spectrum opposite the Berrigan brothers. Today he’d be lunching with the paleo-catholics.
Arguably he was one of the first. Refering to the social justice teachings, Mater Si, Magistra No
re: #199 William Lewis
I’ve noticed that most Lawful Evil people are in fact Neutral Evil. They care more about being a dick than they care about The System. Likewise with Chaotic Evil, they’re USUALLY not actually chaotic, unless they’re truly crazy, or unless they’re from the Abyss…
re: #201 I cannot.
I’ve noticed that most Lawful Evil people are in fact Neutral Evil. They care more about being a dick than they care about The System. Likewise with Chaotic Evil, they’re USUALLY not actually chaotic, unless they’re truly crazy, or unless they’re from the Abyss…
With him I was explicitly choosing Lawful because his whole life was spent in trying to use the law and legal system to enforce his racist and fascist beliefs. Ayn Rand & JBS were like you said - more interested in being dicks - so he was quick to jettison them while snuggling up with the worst elements in the GOP infrastructure.
re: #63 JordanRules
Motel 6 chimes in. They know this isn’t good for business on a number of levels.
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I tweeted Tom Bodett yesterday asking for His help.
Brownshirts. There been doing it since February.
Ugh. Gross. They’re looking right at me. pic.twitter.com/YYPVWJZFau
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) September 14, 2017
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ll take one in each color please!
re: #47 Belafon
This is good: m.dailykos.com.
re: #50 JordanRules
A+ thread!
That tweet thread was very good. Some of the comments over there pissed me the fuck off. I had to chime in.
It’s like they see it but can’t wrap their heads around it. As a woman, it especially ticked me off to see how some guys responded. No, not everyone is a misogynist. But many just couldn’t grasp how what happened to Hillary - and continues to happen - is infuriating to all women and how we internalize it - because it HAS happened to almost all of us (not at the POTUS level, of course, but in real life).
Some people…! GAH!
re: #207 MsJ
I’m not surprised. SMH
That’s why I ran outta there after about 5 comments. Wanted to keep that ‘fired up’ feeling.
re: #53 alloutofcrazyhere
Terror in Resonance involves domestic terrorism in Japan. Although there’s no specific connection to real world issues. I do applaud the use of cryptocurrency in the show though.
Trailer link
There is some 9/11 like imagery in there. If I remember, it’s in the first episode.
Edited for clarity.
Must check that out. Cheers.
Keep trolling madam Secretary!!
If you didn’t like that book, try this one — some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems. Happy to send a copy. pic.twitter.com/7dmVJ44mZu
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 14, 2017
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What is the story with Office Edith? Not familiar with her and not sure of her take in this tweet.
Cute puppers…with some casual tongue slip.
re: #211 ObserverArt
Officer Edith is the San Francisco Animal Control (there is no actual Officer Edith). Foreground doggie is grossed out by us looking right at him.
Excellent follow for cuteness.
re: #211 ObserverArt
Bein snarky. Advocates for San Francisco animal shelter, SFACC. Good animal peeps!
Helping to spread the word on this lost doggo. Have you seen Baci? cc: @darth pic.twitter.com/7Wboem2mYM
— Cynthia Pollock (@mybestcyn) September 13, 2017
SFers please keep your eyes skinned and give us a call if you see this lost soul.[no phone numbers allowed] https://t.co/o68onFq0zE
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) September 13, 2017
.@POTUS departing White House for Florida: “The wall will come later…The wall is going to be built, it’ll be funded a little bit later.” pic.twitter.com/QEPpi6XBtV
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 14, 2017
Yeah, right. If you’re part of this dude’s base, how stupid must he think you are? https://t.co/vwgsXqeJ18
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 14, 2017
Checking-in on Ann Coulter pic.twitter.com/r9ekhEwVa4
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 14, 2017
THAT would be embarrassing.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2017
The right-wing is handling the news well, I see…#DACADeal pic.twitter.com/dgLXQMwZk2
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) September 14, 2017
re: #212 I cannot.
Officer Edith is the San Francisco Animal Control (there is no actual Officer Edith). Foreground doggie is grossed out by us looking right at him.
Excellent follow for cuteness.
re: #213 JordanRules
Bein snarky. Advocates for San Francisco animal shelter, SFACC. Good animal peeps!
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Thanks! I figured it was something like that going on. It helps to know the story.
Rohingya group denies ties to extremist groups
In a statement released on Thursday, ARSA said it had “no links with al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Lashkar-e-Taiba or any other transnational terrorist group”.
In its statement, ARSA used ISIS to refer to the armed ISIL group.
It said it did not welcome the involvement of any of those entities in the conflict and called on countries in the region “to prevent terrorists from entering Arakan and making a bad situation worse”.
This is what I’ve been saying all along, that Rohingya groups know very well how toxic ANY association with Da’esh or AQ can be for their cause.
She prolly should have interned with Pelosi or something before taking this job.
Ivanka Trump: It’s “unrealistic” to expect me to influence my father https://t.co/Tm4HV9vXkz pic.twitter.com/x1KG97EpxY
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) September 14, 2017
re: #218 ObserverArt
Thanks! I figured it was something like that going on. It helps to know the story.
Article that will also help:
I spent a day with @OfficerEdith and wrote about the department behind the only good Twitter account online: https://t.co/ATAC7r6ctX pic.twitter.com/JKHUg2nNdl
— patrick (@redford) September 8, 2017
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Must have been love, but it’s oooover now….”https://t.co/CvKkNUfuru
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2017
re: #219 electrotek
Rohingya group denies ties to extremist groups
This is what I’ve been saying all along, that Rohingya groups know very well how toxic ANY association with Da’esh or AQ can be for their cause.
But there Muslims!!!
Under the Constitution, the House tweets. If the Senate retweets, it goes to the President, who favs it into law.
— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) September 14, 2017
re: #224 jeffreyw
Don’t give Ryan-McConnell-Trump any ideas.
re: #220 JordanRules
She prolly should have interned with Pelosi or something before taking this job.
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And yet the media will continue as it has for months: Looking to her to influence daddy to be a nice guy.
re: #162 The Vicious Babushka
The MOAR FASCIST THAN FOX network OAN thinks Beyonce is WORSER THEN TEH HITLERS for her hurricane relief speech.
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OAN is on the cable network in Lansing, Mi. I spent an overnight there last weekend. I was…surprised to say the least.
re: #169 Sir John Barron
Sucks that Verizon includes this and Newsmax TV in my cable package. Isn’t Faux bad enough?
My hotel in Lansing must have had Verizon because I had both Newsmax and OAN in the hotel room.
Life comes at you fast….#DACADeal pic.twitter.com/ZoxINVZIsL
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2017
Uh, “if”?
If the reports of killings, rapes and landmines are true, these are egregious and unacceptable acts. #CrisisInBurma pic.twitter.com/cgy1lhq0Sx
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) September 13, 2017
Javanka: ‘We’re going to China!’
Sane people: ‘Yeah, hold up.’
So, so good. China - with the help of John Kelly - is shutting down this malarkey of Jared as one-man State Dept.https://t.co/Kn54C5c9wC
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2017
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s trip to China may have been cancelled because some officials in the White House decided the couple were not suitable to make preparations for US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing.
Douglas Paal, vice-president for studies in the Asia programme at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said John Kelly, the chief of staff of the White House, did not think Kushner would be an appropriate channel even though he helped to establish contacts between China and US officials in the past.
He said the preparation for Trump’s visit should be made through appropriate channels, for example, through Chinese state councillor Yang Jiechi.
Hee hee hee…
re: #227 MsJ
OAN is on the cable network in Lansing, Mi. I spent an overnight there last weekend. I was…surprised to say the least.
Their HQ is in San Diego, just a few miles from my house. Across the street from the Costco. I’m not sure why this fact amuses me.
re: #209 electrotek
It’s a good show overall, but the second half of it loses focus.
Specifically, I’d say that the first half of it is great, but the second part suffers from some misdirection.
I love how every person that the media has portrayed as the supposed “voice of morality” in the White House has by now stood up and said “I have no influence whatsoever.”
Pitiful.
.@potus gives Little Marco the Handshake (TM) pic.twitter.com/yAmRdCzFX2
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) September 14, 2017
re: #236 Stanley Sea
Pitiful.
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At least this time they got it through their thick skulls that being walking billboards looked tacky as hell. That should last at least another…12 hours.
Ivanka Trump: It’s “unrealistic” to expect me to influence my father https://t.co/Tm4HV9vXkz pic.twitter.com/x1KG97EpxY
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) September 14, 2017
Senior advisor to the President says people shouldn’t expect her to advise the President. https://t.co/0irT8eGZCv
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 14, 2017
re: #236 Stanley Sea
Pitiful.
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No ‘FLOTUS’ on Mel’s hat this time?
She probably told Fatass that she wouldn’t wear it, and he gave her an unmarked one.
‘If I’m wearing a hat, you’re wearing a hat.’
re: #239 makeitstop
No ‘FLOTUS’ on Mel’s hat this time?
She probably told Fatass that she wouldn’t wear it, and he gave her an unmarked one.
‘If I’m wearing a hat, you’re wearing a hat.’
FLOTUSam and JETUSam
re: #238 The Vicious Babushka
Senior Adviser AND DAUGHTER of the President says she has no influence on him.
She allegedly also has some wonderful beachfront property in Arizona she can sell us.
re: #239 makeitstop
No ‘FLOTUS’ on Mel’s hat this time?
She probably told Fatass that she wouldn’t wear it, and he gave her an unmarked one.
‘If I’m wearing a hat, you’re wearing a hat.’
I can totally see Trump being this petty.
re: #214 Ace-o-aces
I see he’s selling hats at a disaster site again.
Friend of mine caught a dumb one on Twatter.
Alt-righters? . anti-diversity? Ok sweetheart, its clear you can see the bigger picture….are those glasses just for”looks” ?
— Brian D Buckley (@Buckwheat79) September 14, 2017
Character that has been my online avatar for more than 2 decades btw…
I sincerely await your ohhhh so expert opinion— Baronesa (@Baronesa1980) September 14, 2017
re: #231 makeitstop
Javanka: ‘We’re going to China!’
Sane people: ‘Yeah, hold up.’
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Hee hee hee…
The national people’s congress, which meets every five years, will convene next month. China’s government basically locks everything down in Beijing well in advance of these meetings, to avoid embarrassing situations. Having the daughter and son-in-law of an unhinged world leader visit China, would sure qualify as one. Besides, Kushner’s visa-for-pay effort in China was shut down, because it was bad press for everyone.
re: #235 Targetpractice
It is curious how that works.
Everyone’s at the book burning and brought their own torches and books, but as the fire rages out of control, each claim that they didn’t have a role or weren’t significant to the fire.
Next up on the list of excuses…. “I was just following orders”.
As a reminder, neither is a successful defense against various criminal charges.
re: #233 Belafon
“If I don’t hear about them, did they actually happen?”
Like blackout drunk, “If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen!”
LOLOLOLOLOL
Let’s play Jeopardy. ANSWER: An Easter egg. QUESTION: What’s
the only thing easier to roll than Donald J. Trump?— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 14, 2017
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
Coulter made an actually funny joke. *begins furiously checking religious texts for signs of the end times*
re: #246 lawhawk
It is curious how that works.
Everyone’s at the book burning and brought their own torches and books, but as the fire rages out of control, each claim that they didn’t have a role or weren’t significant to the fire.
Next up on the list of excuses…. “I was just following orders”.
As a reminder, neither is a successful defense against various criminal charges.
Yes I’m a minion of Satan, but my duties are mostly ceremonial.
re: #249 I cannot.
Coulter made an actually funny joke. *begins furiously checking religious texts for signs of the end times*
I’m not saying it’s the End Times, but I just saw four guys ride by on horseback.
re: #251 Targetpractice
I’m not saying it’s the End Times, but I just saw four guys ride by on horseback.
Was one a pale horse?
re: #236 Stanley Sea
Who shakes hands like that?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2017
The entire family is like a group of aliens trying to imitate human behavior…and failing!
Snowden: Public money shouldn’t fund software the public isn’t allowed to fixhttps://t.co/Vj1iaLqa75 pic.twitter.com/wG2SE9uddx
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) September 14, 2017
Forgive me, Cory, but I’m going out on a limb here and say maybe EDWARD FUCKING SNOWDEN isn’t the best guy to ask about national security https://t.co/tAn071w0gs
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 14, 2017
re: #246 lawhawk
It is curious how that works.
Everyone’s at the book burning and brought their own torches and books, but as the fire rages out of control, each claim that they didn’t have a role or weren’t significant to the fire.
Next up on the list of excuses…. “I was just following orders”.
As a reminder, neither is a successful defense against various criminal charges.
This really feels more like something a lawyer told her to say, i.e. “There’s no way I could have any part in his crimes because I’ve not influence over him!”
Heh
Democrats appreciate Trump dealin’ with Shumer & Pelosi. This way, we get a few days off while the Republicans call for his impeachment.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) September 14, 2017
re: #253 Ace-o-aces
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3rd Cuck from the Sun
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
BZZZZ. Wrong - The correct Q is: GOP supporters who thought Trump knew what he was doing.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #251 Targetpractice
I’m not saying it’s the End Times, but I just saw four guys ride by on horseback.
I prefer the image in Good Omens of four Harley riding bikers…
Watch: While standing next to Marco Rubio, Trump says he hopes Rick Scott runs for Senate https://t.co/9cThL4c0S9
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 14, 2017
@realDonaldTrump remains as he’s always been: absolutely clueless and addled. But can’t help but laugh at making Scott and Rubio squirm https://t.co/NxfcgmZBOi
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #258 lawhawk
The gnashing of teeth, tearing of hair and rending of garments continues apace in the RW corners of the intertubes.
And it’s glorious.
re: #260 lawhawk
I’m sure he means for Scott to run for the Senate seat held by the Democrat (and Rubio was just re-elected).
Then again, DJT gets off on belittling people, especially people he’s “beaten”.
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
The gnashing of teeth, tearing of hair and rending of garments continues apace in the RW corners of the intertubes.
And it’s glorious.
I wonder if we’ll have President Pence by years end?
Then you’ve just indicated that your need for security clearance and a position in admin is unnecessary. Show yourself the door.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #260 lawhawk
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So he’s done a two-fer: He’s made Rubio squirm and he’s given Scott the kiss-of-death.
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
The gnashing of teeth, tearing of hair and rending of garments continues apace in the RW corners of the intertubes.
And it’s glorious.
‘Repealing Obamacare’, ‘locking up’ Hillary Clinton. These were all amusing features of DJT’s campaign, but for the True Believers, ‘immigration’ was the meat and potatoes. Then Drumpf upped the ante by announcing his intention to end the DACA program. Now it appears he’s reneging on the whole thing and worse, cavorting with the hateful Dems to do it.
It is most glorious.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Doctorow is depressingly dumb depressingly often. Such a techno-utopian, he probably sides with the viruses.
I always have to check the book reviews on Boing Boing to see who wrote them. Doctorow’s reviews have just led me to so many unreadable books.
re: #262 Sir John Barron
I’m sure he means for Scott to run for the Senate seat held by the Democrat (and Rubio was just re-elected).
Then again, DJT gets off on belittling people, especially people he’s “beaten”.
Trump is so malicious I wouldn’t put it past him to retire from the presidency after one term, then run for the Senate against Rubio in 2022. He has a palace in Florida after all.
re: #266 Sir John Barron
‘Repealing Obamacare’, ‘locking up’ Hillary Clinton. These were all amusing features of DJT’s campaign, but for the True Believers, ‘immigration’ was the meat and potatoes. Then Drumpf upped the ante by announcing his intention to end the DACA program. Now it appears he’s reneging on the whole thing and worse, cavorting with the hateful Dems to do it.
It is most glorious.
And he’s doing it for one reason and one reason alone: He needs a “win.” He feels the need to get something that he can point to and say “I made that happen.” Right now, he has nothing, or at least nothing that helps him with anybody but his brain-dead base.
re: #269 Targetpractice
And he’s doing it for one reason and one reason alone: He needs a “win.” He feels the need to get something that he can point to and say “I made that happen.” Right now, he has nothing, or at least nothing that helps him with anybody but his brain-dead base.
Agreed. But unfortunately for him, when The Trump Presidency® goes bankrupt, he will be personally liable. Whoopsie.
re: #253 Ace-o-aces
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That’s the assault handshake. It’s so lame. Everyone knows about it already and has their counter-move planned out in advance.
Love to see folks figuring out how to use their shiny new vocabulary word pic.twitter.com/KhwgNdDWgE
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) September 13, 2017
re: #263 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if we’ll have President Pence by years end?
The cynic in me would actually like to see Trump stay on……not because of any liking for him or his risible policies, but because he is infinitely malleable.
He can be played like a Stradivarius - all it takes is the right musician. And Schumer and Pelosi seem to understand this. Keep playing the tune, hit all the right notes, and Trump’s base will abandon him in short order; with any luck, the base will become so thoroughly dispirited they’ll choose to sit out next year’s mid-terms en masse.
Sometimes, the best way to defeat your foe is not to confront them, but to sow defeatism within their ranks. Victory without firing a shot.
Feign inferiority and encourage his [the foe’s] arrogance. From Sun Tzu.
re: #34 wheat-dogg
Great!
I don’t believe that Johnny Cash would have been down with hateful racism and bigotry. I am glad the threats worked.
⚡️ “Museum Wars!” by @bednarzhttps://t.co/QoMlCPb79H
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) September 14, 2017
Ben Carson: Americans “manipulated into believing that they’re enemies and that they should hate each other.” https://t.co/CprKgJ8alu pic.twitter.com/4FkUUG2gAC
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 14, 2017
@realDonaldTrump actually encourages white supremacists and hate groups to spread their message of hate and bigotry w/official policies
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2017
re: #266 Sir John Barron
‘Repealing Obamacare’, ‘locking up’ Hillary Clinton. These were all amusing features of DJT’s campaign, but for the True Believers, ‘immigration’ was the meat and potatoes. Then Drumpf upped the ante by announcing his intention to end the DACA program. Now it appears he’s reneging on the whole thing and worse, cavorting with the hateful Dems to do it.
It is most glorious.
And for that “base”, “immigration” has always been a barely-veiled code for “white supremacy”, and hard-line enforcement policies a way to put bigoted prejudices against anyone the Trump True Believers don’t define as sufficiently “Real American” (definitions may vary: I know what standards I think they will apply) into action.
re: #274 Jebediah, RBG
Great!
I don’t believe that Johnny Cash would have been down with hateful racism and bigotry. I am glad the threats worked.
I posted a song Cash wrote with Scruggs a while back around 2001, one verse went like this:
I have turned my back on hatred
Lyin’, prejudice, and greed
Found the future in the present
Found hope within a seed
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
The cynic in me would actually like to see Trump stay on……not because of any liking for him or his risible policies, but because he is infinitely malleable.
He can be played like a Stradivarius - all it takes is the right musician. And Schumer and Pelosi seem to understand this. Keep playing the tune, hit all the right notes, and Trump’s base will abandon him in short order; with any luck, the base will become so thoroughly dispirited they’ll choose to sit out next year’s mid-terms en masse.
Sometimes, the best way to defeat your foe is not to confront them, but to sow defeatism within their ranks. Victory without firing a shot.
Feign inferiority and encourage his [the foe’s] arrogance. From Sun Tzu.
The joint statement Chuck & Nancy (LOL) put out last night was utter genius. They beat the White House to the punch, outlined what they wanted out of the deal, and couched it in verbiage that made it sound like it was a done deal (whether it is or not).
Brilliant on many levels. They White House is back on its heels, the base is freaking out, and even high-profile Trumpers are taking shots at him this morning.
I have to believe that Schumer (who’s dealt with Trump’s shit for years) came up with this strategy, and Pelosi has the smarts to frame it just so.
re: #275 jeffreyw
That was amazing!!! More museum wars please.
re: #279 makeitstop
The joint statement Chuck & Nancy (LOL) put out last night was utter genius. They beat the White House to the punch, outlined what they wanted out of the deal, and couched it in verbiage that made it sound like it was a done deal (whether it is or not).
Brilliant on many levels. They White House is back on its heels, the base is freaking out, and even high-profile Trumpers are taking shots at him this morning.
I have to believe that Schumer (who’s dealt with Trump’s shit for years) came up with this strategy, and Pelosi has the smarts to frame it just so.
I think Schumer has a pretty decent grasp on how to deal with Trump. I’ve dealt with people like Trump before in my own life; such people are easily lead by appealing not to their logic or reason but to their vanity. And the more “alpha” they think they are, the easier it is to lead them around by the nose.
Quiz from Slate:
Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers
14/16 The language/grammar gives many away, but they are all very close.
re: #284 I Would Prefer Not To
Listen to me.
Postmodernism will be appropriated by reactionary conservatives to destabilize commonly-held notions of evidence.
Farewell. pic.twitter.com/pKqZJMlvqi— Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) September 14, 2017
re: #285 jaunte
So postmodernism is really just 12th century thought.
Hackers got into Equifax in May through a hole that was disclosed and fixable in MARCH. (!!!!) https://t.co/KGKo4lcmBq
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) September 14, 2017
Models painting an ominous picture for the NE states from Hurricane #Jose; Excellent agreement in location next Wednesday, though offshore 👀 pic.twitter.com/G9SQhDXksS
— Michael Ventrice (@MJVentrice) September 14, 2017
Hurr #Jose update:
Midday models inch a bit closer to U.S. mainland, still more likely than not it stays out to sea. Concern growing, though https://t.co/grF1eKFnix— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 14, 2017
No worries, my parents installed a whole house generator after Sandy, so the hurricane repellent field is in full effect.
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re: #288 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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No worries, my parents installed a whole house generator after Sandy, so the hurricane repellent field is in full effect.
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I kinda don’t need this…stay away, Jose!
re: #288 klys (maker of Silmarils)
That hurricane/extratropical cyclone repellent better be maximum strength, because most folks (and most infrastructure) still isn’t in any way prepared for another Sandy.
The critical infrastructure was fixed to get it up and working again, but it’s taken years to do the rebuilding of things like the Montague Street subway tunnel (just one of a dozen or so tunnels flooded out by the Sandy flooding). The Hudson River tunnels for the NEC require replacement tunnels to be built (Gateway) before they can do the critical work.
Some infrastructure was fortified - raising it out of the flood plain, building waterproofing, etc., but much more remains to be done.
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
The gnashing of teeth, tearing of hair and rending of garments continues apace in the RW corners of the intertubes.
And it’s glorious.
Have we entered THE CLINTONS FORCED TRUMP ON THE REPUBLICANS! territory yet?
re: #284 I Would Prefer Not To
Quiz from Slate:
Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers
14/16 The language/grammar gives many away, but they are all very close.
11/16 here. I saw no difference in tone or content, so the only available clues were purely language and word choice.
re: #291 Sir John Barron
Have we entered THE CLINTONS FORCED TRUMP ON THE REPUBLICANS! territory yet?
Give it a few more months.
re: #286 Belafon
So postmodernism is really just 12th century thought.
Not really. In the 12th century, better ways of thinking weren’t known.
Political postmodernism as practiced by the GOP is the rejection of thinking that works (rational, evidence-based, scientific etc.) in favor of word-stuff and spectacle that makes their wretched base feel good about themselves.
re: #278 Eventual Carrion
I posted a song Cash wrote with Scruggs a while back around 2001, one verse went like this:
I have turned my back on hatred
Lyin’, prejudice, and greed
Found the future in the present
Found hope within a seed
Cash was a man who hit bottom, found both God and a good woman, and applied all his experiences to his religion. Rather than preach empty words, he did as Jesus taught. I have the greatest respect for Cash, both as a man and a musician.
No shock that Mexicans take a dim view of US under Trump — but this is still pretty stunning. via @katelinthicum https://t.co/6sihUukELO pic.twitter.com/WNHlJiL1zt
— Mitchell Landsberg (@LATlands) September 14, 2017
Well, good night Lizards. Up early for work tomorrow.
Is anyone talking about how the yam & pence both took planes down to FL?
AF1 & AF2
Fiscal conservatism.
I notice memeorandum has quietly begun including outright white supremacist sites in their lists, e.g. “Occidental Dissent.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2017
re: #57 Timothy Watson
It’s fun when you wake up at 2:00 am with heartburn/indigestion so bad you think you’re going to throw up.
It is the fucking worst! My wife had it so bad not too long ago that I was about to rush her to the hospital cuz we thought she might be having some kind of cardiac event.
re: #286 Belafon
So postmodernism is really just 12th century thought.
Anthropologist with a heavy dose of postmodernist reading here.
Postmodernism was basically academics studying how people think within cultural frames, recognizing patterns, and then noting that people still think in ways that are heuristic and based around narratives (learned from their culture)…and that as such people can and will see beliefs and behaviors as both sensible (coherent) and moral by fitting them into their existing framework of just-so stories. So on one had, base assumptions and core beliefs could be powerful enough to override what just observably happening, but on the other, base assumptions and core beliefs could be back-filled with new content as long as the new ideas were presented in manner that mimicked the style and form of the old ideas.
In other words…people don’t think the way the Enlightenment tells us, and formal “reason” and “empiricism” are being treated as another tool, not as an objectively better way of handling reality.
This is was not presented as a prescription, but a description.
And while some of them disappeared up their asses with excessive meta-analysis, others were canaries in the coal mine about how people were actually thinking and the consequences thereof.
Almost all of the bigger “thoughts” I have on this board come from applying postmodern thinking to the last forty years of politics.
Back in the 90s it was a thing in right-wing circles to rave about how postmodernism meant that kids were being taught that nothing means anything…and I’d propose that this was projection in just the same way that we talked about their other slanders as projection. They were slamming postmodernism while specifically created an enclosed culture in which there’s no “truth” beyond the needs of a few authority figures that create narratives.
re: #298 Stanley Sea
Is anyone talking about how the yam & pence both took planes down to FL?
AF1 & AF2
Fiscal conservatism.
I believe it’s policy that POTUS and VPOTUS do not travel on the same plane.
for security reasons.
re: #302 Cheechako
I believe it’s policy that POTUS and VPOTUS do not travel on the same plane.
for security reasons.
Ahh. Thanks.
re: #298 Stanley Sea
Is anyone talking about how the yam & pence both took planes down to FL?
AF1 & AF2
Fiscal conservatism.
Maybe they don’t get along.
re: #302 Cheechako
I believe it’s policy that POTUS and VPOTUS do not travel on the same plane.
for security reasons.
That makes sense, too. ;-)
Telling Republicans that Trump supports liberal immigration policy… makes them support liberal immigration policy. https://t.co/E5KjiuTShH pic.twitter.com/ScJflkgOBJ
— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) September 14, 2017
Bitching about the yam actually being a dem
Steve Deace just said “a dog always returns to his vomit”
on CNN
LOL
re: #306 Kragar
“Trump supports you holding your breath.”
re: #306 Kragar
Oh, lordy. So Trump agrees with the last person to catch his ear, and his fans agree with whatever he says? Just objectively, this is getting nuttier and nuttier. And the scariest implication is that when (if) Mueller reveals proof of prosecutable criminal actions, and Republicans in Congress are so frustrated that they actually impeach him, then the fans will stick with the shit, even if (as would then be likely) the Senate convicted him.
I don’t want to jump the gun here, but there is scary stuff ahead of us either way.
re: #309 petesh
Think it’s easier to say they’re too stupid to think for themselves.
Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’ https://t.co/PTP9vpDkEK pic.twitter.com/cJNDA3asbr
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 14, 2017
re: #306 Kragar
Telling Republicans that Trump supports liberal immigration policy… makes them support liberal immigration policy.
— sean
This is what they all said at my local George Soros club meeting when we agreed to back Trump to get liberal policies.
/
re: #312 Kragar
Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’
— Mediaite
Maybe the greatest F&F ever.
re: #309 petesh
Oh, lordy. So Trump agrees with the last person to catch his ear, and his fans agree with whatever he says? Just objectively, this is getting nuttier and nuttier. And the scariest implication is that when (if) Mueller reveals proof of prosecutable criminal actions, and Republicans in Congress are so frustrated that they actually impeach him, then the fans will stick with the shit, even if (as would then be likely) the Senate convicted him.
I don’t want to jump the gun here, but there is scary stuff ahead of us either way.
IMO there are two possibilities that would cause Congressional Republicans to get serious about impeaching tr*mp:
1) Polling for tr*mp among Republicans in their state or district goes unfavorable.
2) tr*mp screws up the GOP tax cut.
It looks like #1 is simply not going to happen, so I’m reduced to hoping that tr*mp makes a mess of taxes.
re: #239 makeitstop
No ‘FLOTUS’ on Mel’s hat this time?
She probably told Fatass that she wouldn’t wear it, and he gave her an unmarked one.
‘If I’m wearing a hat, you’re wearing a hat.’
I’m sorry, but she looks even more ridiculous in a hat than he does.
The latest right wing anecdote for freak out purposes is College Park MD (pop. 30k or so) city council voting 4 to 3 to allow “undocumented immigrants, student visa holders and residents with green cards” to vote in local elections.
WaPo:
“Despite the passion on both sides, the impact of expanding voting rights to noncitizens has been minimal.”
washingtonpost.com
re: #285 jaunte
Aspects of Postmodernism will be selectively appropriated by reactionary conservatives to destabilize commonly-held notions of evidence.
They will use whichever devices they think will serve their ends.
re: #315 EPR-radar
It looks like #1 is simply not going to happen, so I’m reduced to hoping that tr*mp makes a mess of taxes.
Hopefully it’ll follow the Obamacare Model:
1. House puts up a ridiculous bill
2. Senate tries ‘fixing’ it, making it slightly less Draconian
3. House rejects Senate version, saying it doesn’t go far enough
4. Trump shrugs and tweets that it’ll get done ‘later’
re: #316 BeachDem
I’m sorry, but she looks even more ridiculous in a hat than he does.
And that’s a far throw! :)
re: #317 jaunte
The latest right wing anecdote for freak out purposes is College Park MD (pop. 30k or so) city council voting 4 to 3 to allow “undocumented immigrants, student visa holders and residents with green cards” to vote in local elections.
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WaPo:
“Despite the passion on both sides, the impact of expanding voting rights to noncitizens has been minimal.”
washingtonpost.com
FWIW, College Park, MD is the home of the University of Maryland.
re: #315 EPR-radar
Does anyone think Trump WON’T make a mess of taxes?
In roughly chronological order, over about three weeks, coming soon to a theater near you: “It’s the greatest reform in history. … It’s terribly mean. … Why do Democrats keep holding it up? … I’m not getting a tax break … Well, OK, maybe at the margins, just a little … I deserve it, look how many jobs I create … The Dow is going great, and it’ll hit 30,000 before I’m done with it …”
etc ad inf
re: #317 jaunte
The latest right wing anecdote for freak out purposes is College Park MD (pop. 30k or so) city council voting 4 to 3 to allow “undocumented immigrants, student visa holders and residents with green cards” to vote in local elections.
[Embedded content]
WaPo:
“Despite the passion on both sides, the impact of expanding voting rights to noncitizens has been minimal.”
washingtonpost.com
Noncitizens were often allowed to vote in state/municipal elections back in the 1800s.
re: #324 Timothy Watson
Noncitizens were often allowed to vote in state/municipal elections back in the 1800s.
That’s when we had good immigrants, the voluntary ones that is.
re: #298 Stanley Sea
Is anyone talking about how the yam & pence both took planes down to FL?
AF1 & AF2
Fiscal conservatism.
NO: probably standard security procedure; POTUS and VPOTUS aren’t supposed to take the same plane, ever: “just in case”.
Though why both (or either) of them had to go to Florida is another question…
ETA: Ooops! Slow to read the thread, sorry….!
re: #316 BeachDem
I’m sorry, but she looks even more ridiculous in a hat than he does.
Probably the first time in her life she’s worn a cap.
re: #315 EPR-radar
IMO there are two possibilities that would cause Congressional Republicans to get serious about impeaching tr*mp:
1) Polling for tr*mp among Republicans in their state or district goes unfavorable.
2) tr*mp screws up the GOP tax cut.
It looks like #1 is simply not going to happen, so I’m reduced to hoping that tr*mp makes a mess of taxes.
The Economist/YouGov poll I linked to last night shows Trump’s approval ratings among Republicans at 50% strongly approve, 30% somewhat approve. So 80% of Republicans approve of his performance to some degree. That seems very low for this early in a first term within the party (according to Gallup, going back to Reagan, only Clinton was doing worse among his own party at this point of his first term).
Usually the magic number for turning against a president from your own party, as an elected official, is somewhere around 70-75% approval within your own party. That Trump is so close, so early, suggests that he’s in a tenuous position.
re: #328 KGxvi
As a follow up, Rueters shows Trumps approval among Republicans at 75% (41/29/5 strongly/somewhat/lean). Three polls at the same time showing him in the 75-80% range, and that’s before the last 15 hours of clusterfuckery on DACA/immigration/border security.
When I’ve looked at presidential approval ratings in the past, the patterns that I noticed is that they tend to hold steady and suddenly drop anywhere from five to ten points, and then stay steady for a while and then move again. And it’s always slower going up than going down. That seems to hold true within the president’s party as well, though the even with GW Bush bottomed out, his approval among Republicans was still in the 60% range.
Last thought: in the Rueters poll on page ten they have a map with approval ratings and trends. It does not look particularly good for the The President The Donald.
Who woulda figured that the wingnuts were talking about was going to be against the Trump base of yesterday vs. the Trump base of today?
OT: going to see Matthew Sweet with Tommy Keene warming up tonight. Should be a great show. I haven’t been out in a long time, esp. to see live music.
So on my way to and from lunch, I tuned into Rush Limbaugh to see what he was saying. Essentially, he’s trying to spin the DACA/wall comment from Pelosi and Schumer to a win for Trump because they have had to “walk back” their comments this morning. The one caller I heard explained to Limbaugh that he really didn’t care if Trump worked with the Democrats to get legislation passed if McConnell and Ryan were only going to obstruct him.
This is some truly weird shit. Trump adopts whatever policy Pelosi and Schumer offer up, and all of a sudden his followers are cheering him for sticking it to his own party.
re: #330 b.d. (bill d.)
Who woulda figured that the wingnuts were talking about was going to be against the Trump base of yesterday vs. the Trump base of today?
Strike that, let me try again:
Who woulda figured that the civil war wingnuts were talking about was going to be against the Trump base of yesterday vs. the Trump base of today?
re: #332 Flying Squirrel Girl
Essentially, he’s trying to spin the DACA/wall comment from Pelosi and Schumer to a win for Trump because they have had to “walk back” their comments this morning.
We’re winning! Really! We are. We’re winning! Shut up!
re: #334 Sir John Barron
We’re winning! Really! We are. We’re winning! Shut up!
On the other side I happened upon Mark Levin last night. He was in full meltdown. “I don’t wanna talk to Republicans because they don’t exist; none are interested in saving constitutional democracy; I wanna talk to liberal democrats—get some on the line.” And I was all—“it’s a trap!!”
re: #332 Flying Squirrel Girl
So on my way to and from lunch, I tuned into Rush Limbaugh to see what he was saying. Essentially, he’s trying to spin the DACA/wall comment from Pelosi and Schumer to a win for Trump because they have had to “walk back” their comments this morning. The one caller I heard explained to Limbaugh that he really didn’t care if Trump worked with the Democrats to get legislation passed if McConnell and Ryan were only going to obstruct him.
This is some truly weird shit. Trump adopts whatever policy Pelosi and Schumer offer up, and all of a sudden his followers are cheering him for sticking it to his own party.