Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boldly refuted allegations that he called the President a ‘moron’ by refusing to explicitly refute that he called the President a ‘moron.’
RIP cat who thought sunglasses would stop Medusa pic.twitter.com/lpHNuRGdJy
— Joe Saunders (@SaundersJoe) October 5, 2017
Hitler was NOT anti-gay. He refused to purge gay Brownshirts from Nazi ranks saying he had no problem as long as they were good fighters
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 6, 2017
I see my fellow liberals seem to be misunderstanding D’Souza’s intent here. He’s not defending Hitler, he’s attacking gays. https://t.co/vVvNUqBu3Y
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 6, 2017
All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we’ll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx
— AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017
You guys will delete chat history right?
DontBlink182: you up to chill & watch season premiere of 90210?
CoolBeans55: I’m bout it bout it https://t.co/utImFh8bTf— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 6, 2017
re: #2 Ace-o-aces
I really hate to say it, but this is one (small) case where D’Felon isn’t completely wrong; however, the conclusions he’s trying to infer are completely wrong
Old man balls pic.twitter.com/XueNiC8CwB
— Brasilmagic (@Brasilmagic) October 6, 2017
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 6, 2017
re: #4 TedStriker
I really hate to say it, but this is one (small) case where D’Felon isn’t completely wrong; however, the conclusions he’s trying to infer are completely wrong
He is pretty wrong.
re: #4 TedStriker
His statement strikes me as the same as saying Hitler had one Jewish friend, so he couldn’t have been anti-Semitic.
Plenty German Catholics & Lutherans supported the Nazis. No one uses that as rational for treating Catholics and Lutherans like second class citizens
re: #7 Belafon
His statement strikes me as the same as saying Hitler had one Jewish friend, so he couldn’t have been anti-Semitic.
It also ignores that Hitler did in fact purge the brown shirts.
Just paged the latest analysis from the Serious Intellectual Thinkers at the DCCC. They’re going to work to ensure that the GOP nominates the most batshit crazy, fucked-up candidates in next year’s primaries, in the hopes that the GOP base will then choose a Democrat, because that will be the only “reasonable and sane” choice.
Problem: “You always have to watch closely what’s going on on the other side. But you cannot force a fumble in these situations,” warned party strategist Matt Canter, a senior staffer at the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm in 2012, when McCaskill defeated Akin. “Unfortunately, the goal posts have moved on what’s considered sane and reasonable now.”
So. Rather than actually, you know, WORK on coming up with a coherent, marketable alternative to RWNJs, the DCCC’s master plan for comeback is to encourage the very worst the GOP has to offer?
Fuck me. How much is a house in New Zealand again?
re: #7 Belafon
His statement strikes me as the same as saying Hitler had one Jewish friend, so he couldn’t have been anti-Semitic.
That’s because you see defending gays as a good thing. That’s not the audience DD is playing to.
re: #12 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
hitler was a mammal, therefore all liberals are nazis
I ain’t no mammal, libtard!
re: #6 Big Beautiful Door
He is pretty wrong.
No, the base of D’Felon’s tweet-in-question (“Hitler was NOT anti-gay. He refused to purge gay Brownshirts from Nazi ranks saying he had no problem as long as they were good fighters”) was not completely off-base; please see my post about Rohm from downstairs:
The British docuseries Hitler’s Bodyguard has an episode specifically on Rohm, his crew, and the Night of the Long Knives. Hitler and pretty much everyone in his senior staff knew Rohm was gay for years and that he surrounded himself with other gay Nazis as his personal staff, but Hitler tolerated it, despite his personal aversion to homosexuality, because Rohm was an early SA member and because Rohm had been a “hard man” in loyal service to him all that time.
The main reason for the Night of the Long Knives (and why Rohm had to be eliminated) was because Himmler wanted to neuter the SA in favor of his SS; he and Goering planned the whole thing out, down to how they would split the spoils.
At its heart, the Night of the Long Knives wasn’t really about purging Rohm and other gays from the Nazi party (though that was a convenient side effect, one that would have wider significance till the end of the war), it was a good, old-fashioned authoritarian power struggle: Himmler and Goering were the winners, Rohm was the loser.
Now, whatever insinuations D’Felon is trying to make about the “Pink Swastika” is very wrong and full of self-serving shit.
GOP: NO ABORTION!
Us: Yikes ok then birth control?
GOP: NOOO
Us: Wait so maternity care?
GOP: LOL FUCK U!
Us: Childcare?
GOP: ASSAULT RIFLES— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) October 6, 2017
This is going to be some Nick Spencer shit again, isn’t it?
— jay (@random__name) October 6, 2017
Michelle Obama in 2013: Harvey Weinstein Is ‘A Wonderful Human Being’ https://t.co/gi13GxluWB
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) October 6, 2017
These fuckwits are trying to smear Michelle Obama because she said something nice about Harvey Weinstein four years ago. Assholes. https://t.co/Z8sq8258oI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 6, 2017
Hello all. Lurking, and when does Rex roll over and have his belly rubbed? Yeah, what a world. And I hear there is a storm coming….Well, imagine that.
OT musical interlude. My boys have seen Trampled By Turtles every chance they get. Actually turned me onto them a while back. I like them, good stuff. Check out Whiskey, for one. Fine band. I think Charles highlighted them a time or two. There was this sweet movie from 2013 with some great actors, and the theme was catchy, and would creep up in my mind from time to time. It clicked a time back. Yep. The Way Way Back
And the tune? That crawled through my mind forever?
Yep.
Breath. Taking. pic.twitter.com/BMhknmtSmS
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) October 6, 2017
Listening to Limbaugh demonize Harvey Weinstein today I almost forgot he voted for a guy who bragged about getting away with sexual assault.
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) October 6, 2017
Gee! Look what we have here! pic.twitter.com/u9YbasykyK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 6, 2017
re: #18 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]These fuckwits are trying to smear Michelle Obama because she said something nice about Harvey Weinstein four years ago. Asshole
as if they knew at the time and she shoulda known, but no one actually did know and , oh why the hell bother
Meanwhile the Republicans have Tim Murphy. You know an actual lawmaker.
re: #21 HappyWarrior
You guys nominated Trump. Shut the fuck up.
an actual self described and admitted molester
re: #27 HappyWarrior
Meanwhile the Republicans have Tim Murphy. You know an actual
lawmakercommandment breaker.
Don’t forget this one! pic.twitter.com/5jC5OlNMXi
— Debbie Cortez Lopez (@valleydoll) October 6, 2017
re: #14 TedStriker
No, it’s wrong. Your post itself says that Hitler tolerated Rohm despite his personal aversion to homosexuality. That’s being anti-gay. Full stop.
re: #26 dangerman
as if they knew at the time and she shoulda known, but no one actually did know and , oh why the hell bother
Ya, don’t do it. Don’t make yourself dumber.
re: #28 lawhawk
You guys elected Trump. /ftfy
Dems are meant to vet donors a lot harder than GOPers are their candidates it seems!
re: #35 bratwurst
Dems are meant to vet donors a lot harder than GOPers are their candidates it seems!
Right now, we’re the only side that cares.
Kind of strange that Republicans are suddenly so upset about sexual harassment, after they voted for a president who boasted about it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 6, 2017
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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Projecting is what they do but yeah it’s pretty brazen after Trump’s “locker room talk.”
Former FBI agent on bureau’s new “Black Identity Extremists” label: “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” https://t.co/QhBR77boNX
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 6, 2017
re: #37 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]Kind of strange that Republicans are suddenly so upset about sexual harassment, after they voted for a president who boasted about it.
…admitted, in fact bragged that he physically, sexually assaulted women (ie without their permission)
re: #39 JordanRules
The FBI has a long history of completely fucking up any law enforcement issue that has a political aspect to it.
re: #39 JordanRules
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Former FBI agent on bureau’s new “Black Identity Extremists” label: “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.”
basically, it’s black people they don’t understand
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House GOP says Las Vegas massacre inspired them to crack down on reproductive rights https://t.co/LwYvP9Csoo pic.twitter.com/938NbO52Lx
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) October 5, 2017
“Its too soon to talk about gun control, but hey, lets ban abortion and gut birth control to prove we’re ‘prolife’. https://t.co/dmgAqFNzYY
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 6, 2017
Trump at record low approval in new AP/NORC poll:
32 Approve
67 Disapprove
NET -35https://t.co/0Znl2YKboO— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 6, 2017
SPLC weekly news:
OCTOBER 6, 2017
Victory for asylum seeker — chain migration myth — new anti-Muslim propaganda
SPLC wins asylum for transgender woman who received death threats in Guatemala
Pamela makes the cut again. (The url is not a donation—just takes you to a page that has a button.)
re: #32 Mike Lamb
No, it’s wrong. Your post itself says that Hitler tolerated Rohm despite his personal aversion to homosexuality. That’s being anti-gay. Full stop.
I definitely wasn’t disputing that; that’s what D’Felon got wrong/was twisting for his own ends. Hitler did, however, treat Rohm differently, exactly because he was a loyal, tough street fighter for him since the early “struggles” of the 20s, because he knew Rohm well; I do agree with you that doesn’t negate Hitler’s aversion to gays and what the Reich did to them, not at all.
re: #46 Stanley Sea
“67 percent of Republicans still approve of the job the president is doing”
He’s lost 1 in 3 Republicans.
re: #45 Kragar
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I thought we weren’t supposed to politicize this. Oh wait. It’s different.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
These are the same jerks who are okay with Trump praising Neo Nazis and White Supremacists who attacked protesters and killed one in Charlottesville. Plus, at the time of that photo, the Obamas didn’t know about Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations — just like most of the rest of us.
re: #45 Kragar
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Republicans are against abortion because somebody’s gonna have to pay for all those tax cuts.
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re: #52 Patricia Kayden
These are the same jerks who are okay with Trump praising Neo Nazis and White Supremacists who attacked protesters and killed one in Charlottesville. Plus, at the time of that photo, the Obamas didn’t know about Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations — just like most of the rest of us.
“these jerks” didnt know either.
re: #53 Targetpractice
Endless wars aren’t going to fight themselves.
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
Hey! Some of us ARE old men!
re: #46 Stanley Sea
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Good. Glad to see that his bizarre and inappropriate behavior in Puerto Rico has come back to bite him in his orange butt. Looks like going after Black NFL players didn’t help him much either. Ha!
re: #55 Kragar
Endless wars aren’t going to fight themselves.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
re: #56 Blind Frog Belly White
Hey! Some of us ARE old men!
talk to happywarrior - he knows what it’s like not being a kid ;-)
Pentagon says fourth U.S. soldier killed in Niger ambush https://t.co/tXKWpdZdl3 #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/Z2zeZvXmL1
— R. Saddler 📎🗽 (@Politics_PR) October 6, 2017
Trump’s response?
They get away with calling their country THAT and I am supposed to be the racist!?!?!
re: #53 Targetpractice
Republicans are against abortion because somebody’s gonna have to pay for all those tax cuts.
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they put in the hyde amendement
they’re not going to free up funds this way
re: #7 Belafon
His statement strikes me as the same as saying Hitler had one Jewish friend, so he couldn’t have been anti-Semitic.
Funny you should say that:
Emil Maurice (19 January 1897, Westermoor - 6 February 1972, Munich) was an early member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and a founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Together with Erich Kempka, he served as one of Hitler’s personal chauffeurs. Unusually, he was one of the few Mischlinge, (a person of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ancestry), to serve in the SS.[1]
Maurice was close enough to Hitler (after Hitler, he was SS member #2; Himmler was #168), he even competed with Hitler for the affections of Hitler’s niece Geli Raubal; that’s what got him removed as Hitler’s chauffeur in 1927 and blunted his rise into the higher echelon of the SS and the Nazi party. However, that long-standing personal relationship with Hitler, strained as it had been over Raubal, was still what ended up saving Maurice and his brothers from the camps (or outright execution) for having Jewish blood.
After Himmler had become Reichsführer-SS, Maurice fell afoul of Himmler’s racial purity rules for SS officers when he had to submit details of his family history before he was allowed to marry in 1935. Himmler stated, “without question…Maurice is, according to his ancestral table, not of Aryan descent”.[13] All SS officers had to prove racial purity back to 1750, and it turned out that Maurice had Jewish ancestry: Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger (1805-1896), the founder of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, was his great-grandfather.
Even though Maurice had been a party member since 1919, taken part in the abortive Beer Hall Putsch, for which he was awarded the prestigious Blood Order, and been a bodyguard for Hitler, Himmler considered him to be a serious security risk given his “Jewish ancestry”.[3][15] Himmler recommended that Maurice be expelled from the SS, along with other members of his family. To Himmler’s annoyance, Hitler stood by his old friend.[13] In a secret letter written on 31 August 1935, Hitler compelled Himmler to make an exception for Maurice and his brothers, who were informally declared “Honorary Aryans” and allowed to stay in the SS.[16]
re: #62 dangerman
they put in the hyde amendement
they’re not going to free up funds this way
I think he means more workers.
re: #61 bratwurst
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Trump’s response?
They get away with calling their country THAT and I am supposed to be the racist!?!?!
Jokes aside, until I saw this news item yesterday, I was unaware (probably like 99.9999% of the population) that the US even had any troops in Niger. But of course, like that 99.9999%, I just wasn’t paying attention….
re: #49 Kragar
“67 percent of Republicans still approve of the job the president is doing”
He’s lost 1 in 3 Republicans.
One out of three Republicans is just as stupid as the other two.
re: #24 Charles Johnson
Apart from the company - the way trump is “holding” his wife in this picture is gross.
re: #61 bratwurst
LOL to your joke but it’s interesting how no one is even talking about this — not as a scandal and not as a tragedy. That’s probably because folks on our side (for the most part) aren’t into exploiting the death of our soldiers as pawns in a political flame war.
Hitler was NOT anti-gay. He refused to purge gay Brownshirts from Nazi ranks saying he had no problem as long as they were good fighters
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 6, 2017
Read about persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany https://t.co/ILgWQeoNER https://t.co/Sj3vIfzWHF
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) October 6, 2017
re: #70 Ace-o-aces
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The other thing about D’Souza’s tweet? It’s the “Some of my best friends…” argument writ large.
i’m kinda offended by resident rump’s making fun of the proper spanish pronunciation of puerto rico
he makes it clear he thinks it’s stupid to pronounce it properly, especially when he makes a point of saying “porto rico” immediately afterwards
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
These are the same jerks who are okay with Trump praising Neo Nazis and White Supremacists who attacked protesters and killed one in Charlottesville. Plus, at the time of that photo, the Obamas didn’t know about Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations — just like most of the rest of us.
Logical explanations are not comprehended by republicans - if they do it - it’s the right thing to do - If democrats do it - BIG FAIL. GOPers have no shame - no morals.
re: #70 Ace-o-aces
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pink triangles
it’s absurd to deny that the third reich persecuted gay people
Donald Trump foreign minister Rex Tillerson rumored to be stepping down, to spend more time with his oil barrels and his house made of money pic.twitter.com/fkrrbdo7gx
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 6, 2017
re: #75 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
pink triangles
it’s absurd to deny that the third reich persecuted gay people
Do you know who else persecuted gay people? It was the times and the manners.
1919
Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, a sexology research center, in Germany.
February - an investigation into reports of homosexual activity among sailors in Newport, Rhode Island results in a series of arrests, courts-martial and civilian criminal trials. Details of sailors ordered to act as sexual decoys led to political embarrassment for then-Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt.
re: #71 Blind Frog Belly White
The other thing about D’Souza’s tweet? It’s the “Some of my best friends…” argument writ large.
Or I’m married to a Black man so no way could I be racist or knowingly sing “America the Beautiful” to a room full of Heil Hitler saluting White Supremacists.
New Black Panthers and La Raza must have a sad. Drudge only has time for ONE boogieman now:
Antifa Plans Nationwide ‘Deface Columbus Day’… https://t.co/NwyczjKOKa
— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 6, 2017
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
Or I’m married to a Black man so no way could I be racist or knowingly sing “America the Beautiful” to a room full of Heil Hitler saluting White Supremacists.
Right. I also wonder how long Milo’s Black Husband will continue to tolerate being called ‘My Black Husband’, before it starts to bother him.
re: #79 bratwurst
New Black Panthers and La Raza must have a sad. Drudge only has time for ONE boogieman now:
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Defacing Columbus statues bothers me a lot less than what Columbus you know actually did but thanks for your concern Matt.
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
Before they got married, he was talked about as “my Black boyfriend” so I don’t see that he would be bothered to an “upgrade”. Milo’s treatment of Leslie Jones shows that he is anti-Black and is a-ok with anti-Black harassment/racism when he encouraged his supporters to attack her tweets. I don’t know why any Black person would associate with him.
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
Right. I also wonder how long Milo’s Black Husband will continue to tolerate being called ‘My Black Husband’, before it starts to bother him.
About as long as Hot Asian Wife?
re: #77 Decatur Deb
Do you know who else persecuted gay people? It was the times and the manners.
1919
Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, a sexology research center, in Germany.
February - an investigation into reports of homosexual activity among sailors in Newport, Rhode Island results in a series of arrests, courts-martial and civilian criminal trials. Details of sailors ordered to act as sexual decoys led to political embarrassment for then-Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt.
i was dumbfounded to find out how alan turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality in england, in the early 1950s no less, and even more shocked by the mandated “treatment”
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
Right. I also wonder how long Milo’s Black Husband will continue to tolerate being called ‘My Black Husband’, before it starts to bother him.
If it hasn’t bothered him yet, it will probably never do so.
Self-loathing’s a hell of a drug…
re: #72 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
i’m kinda offended by resident rump’s making fun of the proper spanish pronunciation of puerto rico
he makes it clear he thinks it’s stupid to pronounce it properly, especially when he makes a point of saying “porto rico” immediately afterwards
And WTF is this supposed to mean?
“I know some of them, and believe me, they’re very tough and they’re very smart,” Trump told the assembled Hispanic leaders. “Sometimes they’re too tough. But that’s OK. I have to deal with it. I have to deal with it. Fantastic people.”
re: #82 Patricia Kayden
Before they got married, he was talked about as “my Black boyfriend” so I don’t see that he would be bothered to an “upgrade”. Milo’s treatment of Leslie Jones shows that he is anti-Black and is a-ok with anti-Black harassment/racism when he encouraged his supporters to attack her tweets. I don’t know why any Black person would associate with him.
I don’t know why any PERSON would associate with him. After reading the Buzzfeed article from yesterday, he seems like a far more odious POS than I’d previously though, and I already thought he was a REALLY odious POS.
re: #86 BeachDem
And WTF is this supposed to mean?
“I know some of them, and believe me, they’re very tough and they’re very smart,” Trump told the assembled Hispanic leaders. “Sometimes they’re too tough. But that’s OK. I have to deal with it. I have to deal with it. Fantastic people.”
Trump thinks he’s a Jet.
Why the fuck did Pence need to go to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico 3 days after the yam’s auspicious visit? Could no one else read from the bible and pass out sandwiches in a church? Wonder what that little boondoggle is costing us.
re: #89 Blind Frog Belly White
Trump Tower is 4,400’ from Doc’s News Store.
re: #87 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t know why any PERSON would associate with him. After reading the Buzzfeed article from yesterday, he seems like a far more odious POS than I’d previously though, and I already thought he was a REALLY odious POS.
He’s a manchild who hangs out with guys much younger than him because he thinks it’s a way of reliving his youth.
re: #94 HappyWarrior
He’s a manchild who hangs out with guys much younger than him because he thinks it’s a way of reliving his youth.
He’s 32, that is his youth sonny ;)
re: #95 danarchy
He’s 32, that is his youth sonny ;)
I’m talking about the college kids. Today’s freshman was born when I was in sixth grade.
The most surprising thing about the Buzzfeed article is how completely unsurprising it is.
Here’s a story I’ve been working on for a few months: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate https://t.co/hx3FksMVyO
— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) October 5, 2017
The line that Joe documents between Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulis, and unapologetic racists and anti-Semites like Weev is a breakthrough. https://t.co/d68iyeufJy
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) October 6, 2017
re: #98 Blind Frog Belly White
The most surprising thing about the Buzzfeed article is how completely unsurprising it is.
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I really hope this ruins the little runt but I doubt it will.
Another fertile line of inquiry for Mueller.
Trump “began fulminating about federal laws that prohibit American businesses from bribing officials overseas.” pic.twitter.com/z7mHMqnfef
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 6, 2017
Trump opposes the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, preventing US companies from foreign bribes. Definitely, no red flags there. No, sir. https://t.co/ZOMZt3tvWa
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 6, 2017
re: #101 Blind Frog Belly White
Another fertile line of inquiry for Mueller.
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Tell us more about economic anxiety and how the White Working Class gets ignored.
re: #101 Blind Frog Belly White
Thank goodness for all of the leakers in the White House. They open a window for the public on just how awful and sleazy Trump really is. It’s all about grifting as much as he can while in the White House.
re: #92 Woods Witch
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LOL!! I bet Trump would love that true-to-life depiction of him walking on water like his personal savior, Donald John Trump.
You guys were saying some people thought Northam was being too meh in his ads against Northam. Here’s an ad he did in response to pandering Gillespie’s ad blaming him for MS-13. By the way, MS-13 was in this state long long before Northam even first got elected to office here.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
Do you know who else persecuted gay people? It was the times and the manners.
1919
Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, a sexology research center, in Germany.
February - an investigation into reports of homosexual activity among sailors in Newport, Rhode Island results in a series of arrests, courts-martial and civilian criminal trials. Details of sailors ordered to act as sexual decoys led to political embarrassment for then-Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt.
Minor point: in 1920 FDR was only Assistant Sec’y of the Navy: and, as I read in a bio once, had gotten handed the Newport “homosexual ring” investigation mainly because it WAS expected to be an embarrassment: and in which Roosevelt didn’t much help himself. IIRC, he delegated the on-site investigation to an ex-NYC detective type: whose method of “uncovering” gays on base was to send in swarms of agents, who started propositioning personnel left and right: without informing the Newport base officials. They, of course, went ballistic and started bombarding Roosevelt with forwarded complaints about even more sailors being sexually importuned by strange men: not the most sterling moment in the future President’s career….
re: #97 HappyWarrior
I’m talking about the college kids. Today’s freshman was born when I was in sixth grade.
ok then you are an old man
I feel that the United States has steadily progressed, improved and evolved since its inception. Republicans clearly do not as they constantly imply it’s fallen from grace and must be redeemed. And yet, to them, I’m the one who hates America, and they’re the patriots.
re: #109 Dragonomics
I feel that the United States has steadily progressed, improved and evolved since its inception. Republicans clearly do not as they constantly imply it’s fallen from grace and must be redeemed. And yet, to them, I’m the one who hates America, and they’re the patriots.
To normal people we rose out of savagery and built a better world. To conservatives, we’re fallen beings made by a god that keep getting worse as we grow out of religion and authoritarianism.
re: #97 HappyWarrior
I’m talking about the college kids. Today’s freshman was born when I was in sixth grade.
Pffft, today’s college freshman was born about six years after I graduated from high school (1993), but about a year-and-a-half before I myself became a college freshman (January 2001).
I’m older than you, ya whippersnapper…
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Investigators say they foiled an ISIS-inspired attack on NY concerts.@PeteWilliamsNBC has details now on @NBCNightlyNews.
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 6, 2017
re: #84 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
i was dumbfounded to find out how alan turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality in england, in the early 1950s no less, and even more shocked by the mandated “treatment”
Every IT development — computers, internet, smart phones, etc etc, would have happened 20 years sooner had they not driven this man to suicide.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump Justice Dept releases guidance allowing religious groups to discriminate based on religion https://t.co/DzzspruuVy pic.twitter.com/kqQdeb57ku
— The Hill (@thehill) October 6, 2017
Welp, looks like we’re all ISIS now. https://t.co/B4YNST1IHS
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 6, 2017
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Okay, I’m starting a religion that says Fundies like Sessions should get kneed in the balls every day.
re: #109 Dragonomics
I feel that the United States has steadily progressed, improved and evolved since its inception. Republicans clearly do not as they constantly imply it’s fallen from grace and must be redeemed. And yet, to them, I’m the one who hates America, and they’re the patriots.
“Steadily”?!!?
Three steps forward, two steps back. With occasional tangential meandering before getting back on the path.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
Okay, I’m starting a religion that says Fundies like Sessions should get kneed in the balls every day.
It’s for his own good…
More seriously though. Stop hiding behind your religion as a reason to discriminate and just admit that you’re just being a dickhead.
#TrumpsAmerica
Muslims: stay away.
Dreamers: go away.
Blacks: must obey.
Transgenders: not okay.
Women: have to pay.#HandsOffMyBC— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 6, 2017
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #127 electrotek
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The last one is truly special, because it pretty much kills dead the whole “bump stocks are just accessories!” BS. They turn an AR-15 into a poor-man’s machine gun (totally bypassing the NFA) and that’s why they’re so popular.
re: #114 whitebeach
Oh fer Chrissakes. You kids play nice or outta the sandbox. And no TV tonight.
“kids” heh
re: #128 HappyWarrior
When you’re too nuts for the NRA………..
re: #129 Targetpractice
The last one is truly special, because it pretty much kills dead the whole “bump stocks are just accessories!” BS. They turn an AR-15 into a poor-man’s machine gun (totally bypassing the NFA) and that’s why they’re so popular.
If you guys need some entertainment, feel feel to go through my public posts where I’ve triggered the gun nuts on my FB to new heights LOL
Any patent attorneys here?
I have an extremely useful invention that combines old tech and cutting edge digital facial recognition. Whenever Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears on your TV screen or computer monitor, a projectile-proof barrier drops between you and it, preventing you from damaging your property by throwing bottles, chairs, etc. through it.
I swear, she pisses me off more than the Frito Bandito himself.
Sessions is trying to persecute anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian male. He wants to restore the U.S. to the idyllic days of the 1950’s. When the 21st century Gibbons writes the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Sessions will play a leading role. Almost everyone in the Trump Administration will be singled out for their malevolence, incompetence, and hostility to our country and their contribution to the destruction of our future. Of course the 63 million who voted for him will be given honorary mention for their participation in this fiasco.
re: #127 electrotek
The Gun Owners of America exists to make the NRA look reasonable. It looks like they will be getting some new members shortly.
re: #132 electrotek
Gun nuts in the wilds of the internet are something else. It doesn’t take much to get them to say they flat out don’t give a shit how many people die because of lack of gun control in the US.
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Sessions is trying to persecute anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian male. He wants to restore the U.S. to the idyllic days of the 1950’s. When the 21st century Gibbons writes the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Sessions will play a leading role. Almost everyone in the Trump Administration will be singled out for their malevolence, incompetence, and hostility to our country and their contribution to the destruction of our future. Of course the 63 million who voted for him will be given honorary mention for their participation in this fiasco.
It’s worth noting that when one of my wingnut friends was asked when America was last great (pertaining to the “MAGA” theme of the Trump campaign), he responded, “1940’s or early 1950’s”. They truly do think of the racist, sexist, Christian-dominated post-WWII era as America’s peak.
re: #134 whitebeach
Any patent attorneys here?
I have an extremely useful invention that combines old tech and cutting edge digital facial recognition. Whenever Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears on your TV screen or computer monitor, a projectile-proof barrier drops between you and it, preventing you from damaging your property by throwing bottles, chairs, etc. through it.
I swear, she pisses me off more than the Frito Bandito himself.
The gun nut embodiment would be something else — fire away at ‘librulz’ on TV in the comfort of your own home!
re: #134 whitebeach
Any patent attorneys here?
I have an extremely useful invention that combines old tech and cutting edge digital facial recognition. Whenever Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears on your TV screen or computer monitor, a projectile-proof barrier drops between you and it, preventing you from damaging your property by throwing bottles, chairs, etc. through it.
I swear, she pisses me off more than the Frito Bandito himself.
Could you create an add-on that hides those hideous pearls she insists on wearing?
re: #139 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It’s worth noting that when one of my wingnut friends was asked when America was last great (pertaining to the “MAGA” theme of the Trump campaign), he responded, “1940’s or early 1950’s”. They truly do think of the racist, sexist, Christian-dominated post-WWII era as America’s peak.
Brown v Board of Education is the dividing line. US conservatism has been batshit insane ever since that moment, and it has grown much less able to conceal that insanity over time.
re: #142 EPR-radar
Brown v Board of Education is the dividing line. US conservatism has been batshit insane ever since that moment, and it has grown much less able to conceal that insanity over time.
McCarthyism too I’d argue.
At this point I’m waiting for a Charlie Hebdo cover of Las Vegas to truly trigger the gun nuts to unseen heights.
re: #140 EPR-radar
The gun nut embodiment would be something else — fire away at ‘librulz’ on TV in the comfort of your own home!
I envision the line as being diverse. For the prospective clients you describe here, the “Ricochet” model might be appropriate.
re: #145 electrotek
At this point I’m waiting for a Charlie Hebdo cover of Las Vegas to truly trigger the gun nuts to unseen heights.
NRA officials and Republicans swimming in the blood of shooting victims and drinking it, while the NRA officials bribe the Republicans to have the Republicans offer their “thoughts and prayers”.
re: #141 BeachDem
Could you create an add-on that hides those hideous pearls she insists on wearing?
That’s a very basic model. At a somewhat higher price point, we can have her hide them herself, in a very kinky fashion, then make them reappear.
Ashley makes me laugh.
Ashley feinberg works for @WIRED but seriously needs her brained REWIRED. The dubm liberal has nothing else to do beside blaming @FoxNews
— Khal Drogo (@robkhaldrogo) October 6, 2017
It brings me no pleasure to inform you that I have been brutally and irrevocably owned https://t.co/zexeioWDTT
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 6, 2017
im fucking dead. its over. bye. pic.twitter.com/2awDDlwYE6
— Mike Boossina (@xieish) October 6, 2017
This is Thomas Friedman…”If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim” https://t.co/SKGRJMMByq
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) October 4, 2017
Well that’s handy.
An hour before Tillerson was confirmed, a rule in Dodd-Frank that Exxon had lobbied against for years was rescinded. https://t.co/jcwgUrFCVI
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 7, 2017
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why is there a podium in the oval office?
re: #153 MsJ
Just checking in. Has Rex left the building yet?
How would we know? There isn’t anyone at the State Department left to tell us.
Trump Justice Dept releases guidance allowing religious groups to discriminate based on religion https://t.co/DzzspruuVy pic.twitter.com/kqQdeb57ku
— The Hill (@thehill) October 6, 2017
It just gets worse and worse with this gang of malevolent toads. https://t.co/BBSsqPgKwI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 6, 2017
BREAKING: Two soldiers killed, six injured in accident on Fort Jackson https://t.co/UvEGtTvWzt
— Michelle Tan (@MichelleTan32) October 6, 2017
#SCNews #FortJackson pic.twitter.com/Y15YX7pXDA
— Fort Jackson PAO (@FortJacksonPAO) October 6, 2017
Kinda surprised we got past 5 pm without Rex Tillerson “resigning.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 7, 2017
re: #156 Ace Rothstein
Why is there a podium in the oval office?
SNL inspired Trump to get a real motorized one.
re: #20 JordanRules
I got fifty bucks that says Dana Mahgunz!!!! will criticize that cover by pointing out that some of the bullets illustrated weren’t used in the shooting.
re: #158 Charles Johnson
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re: #160 Charles Johnson
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I guess Moscow hasn’t told him to quit yet.
Honestly, why the hell was he picked in the first place?
What a f*cked up choice. He got the highest civilian honor that Russia awards.
I assumed he was a billionaire buddy of Trump but apparently he didn’t even know him at all, they obviously don’t like each other.
Bizarre.
re: #162 Ace Rothstein
I got fifty bucks that says Dana Mahgunz!!!! will criticize that cover by pointing out that some of the bullets illustrated weren’t used in the shooting.
I’m so glad there are no resident gunsplainers here any more. I have no patience left for that crap.
re: #162 Ace Rothstein
I got fifty bucks that says Dana Mahgunz!!!! will criticize that cover by pointing out that some of the bullets illustrated weren’t used in the shooting.
Silly stupid liberals don’t know one bullet from another.
re: #164 b.d. (bill d.)
I guess Moscow hasn’t told him to quit yet.
Honestly, why the hell was he picked in the first place?
What a f*cked up choice. He got the highest civilian honor that Russia awards.
I assumed he was a billionaire buddy of Trump but apparently he didn’t even know him at all, they obviously don’t like each other.
Bizarre.
Because Putin told Trump to pick Rex.
re: #164 b.d. (bill d.)
I guess Moscow hasn’t told him to quit yet.
Honestly, why the hell was he picked in the first place?
What a f*cked up choice. He got the highest civilian honor that Russia awards.
I assumed he was a billionaire buddy of Trump but apparently he didn’t even know him at all, they obviously don’t like each other.
Bizarre.
I always thought Tillerson was SOS because of the $ 1/2 trillion Exxon-Russia deal that would go through once sanctions got lifted.
But getting rid of these sanctions isn’t happening any time soon.
re: #156 Ace Rothstein
Why is there a podium in the oval office?
He’s done that several times.
Remember when he wandered away to the oval office dining room & left everyone there?
re: #141 BeachDem
Could you create an add-on that hides those hideous pearls she insists on wearing?
The power button
re: #168 EPR-radar
I always thought Tillerson was SOS because of the $ 1/2 trillion Exxon-Russia deal that would go through once sanctions got lifted.
But getting rid of these sanctions isn’t happening any time soon.
Russia probably could have gotten that through if they weren’t so obvious in their stealing of and appointing their puppets in the Executive Branch.
Subtlety never has been a Russian virtue.
OK, the LGF Pages posting script now won’t let people post Pages less than 10 minutes apart, if their karma is less than 10. This should prevent massive spam barrages like we had a few days ago, and give us time to shut the fuckers down.
This isn’t just an academic problem, either — Google penalizes sites that have tons of spam pages, and your Adsense account can even be shut down because of it. When these creeps manage to post hundreds of spam pages, they’re damaging my ad income that’s already suffering badly because of ad blockers.
re: #171 b.d. (bill d.)
Russia probably could have gotten that through if they weren’t so obvious in their stealing of and appointing their puppets in the Executive Branch.
Subtlety never has been a Russian virtue.
But the damage that Russia is doing to the US and its interests via its puppets in DC greatly exceeds the value of that Exxon deal, so I’m sure Putin is very happy.
The Neocon pipe dream of a ‘New American Century’ is toast, and it was the Republicans that did it in.
re: #173 Charles Johnson
Good. I was not here when that happened but I an happy to hear something like that will not happen again.
This is utterly depraved but we are so used to it almost nobody notices anymore. OF COURSE they will openly try to profit from mass murder. Candi’s artlessly open grin is the most offensive part.
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re: #158 Charles Johnson
Trump looks absolutely thrilled to be there.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump looks absolutely thrilled to be there.
t**** wants to get behind the wheel of the big truck again. Nuking someone would be an acceptable substitute.
t**** doesn’t care at all about the religious freedom shit the Racist Keebler Elf is spouting, but he’s been told he has to put up with Sessions.
re: #176 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Hip-deep. In molten lead. Eternally.
re: #176 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
This is utterly depraved but we are so used to it almost nobody notices anymore. OF COURSE they will openly try to profit from mass murder. Candi’s artlessly open grin is the most offensive part.
That one is two years old. Thought it looked familiar.
Scoop: Trump phones Schumer for help on health care, worrying GOP https://t.co/BzORGOO8Wc
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 7, 2017
re: #181 Ace Rothstein
Someone posted that in the last thread. Hide it, please.
re: #182 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That one is two years old. Thought it looked familiar.
It’s oddly appropriate that reactions from a previous shooting be applied to the shooting du jour. After all, nothing changes.
re: #186 EPR-radar
This is true and incredibly depressing.
re: #183 Stanley Sea
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lol, I wonder who leaked that story.
I am impressed with Schumer, I wasn’t expecting much good when he took over the leadership spot.
re: #187 Stanley Sea
{{{ hugs }}} and ::: tissues :::
Some of the States continue to act as the speed bumps we so desperately need.
California sues Trump for rollback of Obama-era birth control mandate https://t.co/mFP1pp7nIr pic.twitter.com/nxAdscIBSn
— The Hill (@thehill) October 7, 2017
re: #191 JordanRules
ACLU To Sue Trump Administration Over Birth Control Coverage Rollback: LAist https://t.co/ydjJviKQVI
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 7, 2017
re: #191 JordanRules
Some of the States continue to act as the speed bumps we so desperately need.
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Nobody’s looking at Trump’s tiny hands in this photo. pic.twitter.com/754aibuSPx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 7, 2017
re: #192 lawhawk
And thank goodness for the ACLU and other advocacy groups!
While we still have some of the judiciary uncorrupted, I’m glad we’re pushing forward aggressively on the legal front. We’ve won a good number of the cases too!
re: #189 b.d. (bill d.)
lol, I wonder who leaked that story.
I am impressed with Schumer, I wasn’t expecting much good when he took over the leadership spot.
He knows how to handle Trump.
re: #194 Charles Johnson
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re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This is true and incredibly depressing.
Even now, a spike in gun sales due to the Las Vegas shooting is making its way through the system, eventually to show up in quarterly earnings of gun makers, and thence to the larger stock market. Once there, it will give a little blip to the accounts of 401k participants who are in plans that do not specifically exclude investments in merchants of death.
re: #196 makeitstop
He knows how to handle Trump.
The right man for the job. I think Reid would have done well but I think Schumer’s style fits better against Trump. Now if only he could be majority leader.
Always good thoughtful stuff when Chris Hayes has TNC on.
.@tanehisicoates: The GOP “has been playing with fire” https://t.co/9zJ1nG1Hrs #inners
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 7, 2017
re: #200 JordanRules
Always good thoughtful stuff when Chris Hayes has TNC on.
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re: #200 JordanRules
Always good thoughtful stuff when Chris Hayes has TNC on.
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Coates is one of those pundits who flat out gets it.
re: #201 Stanley Sea
Cool! Didn’t see any mentions on the Twittah.
Trump cutting an HC deal with Schumer is like a gambler getting a payday loan for a run to cover his losses. He will get fucking rolled.
— HaveaCigar (@PinkFloydboxset) October 7, 2017
re: #202 HappyWarrior
Earlier this week there was some criticism of him being too cynical that kinda caught a little momentum. I can get that reading his stuff might get heavy. You should balance it out with other works if it starts to take a toll. I have to do that with a lot of things.
There’s also an undercurrent of haters who can’t stand that he doesn’t have a degree and he’s not ashamed in the least. I love that about him!
re: #205 JordanRules
Earlier this week there was some criticism of him being too cynical that kinda caught a little momentum. I can get that reading his stuff might get heavy. You should balance it out with other works if it starts to take a toll. I have to do that with a lot of things.
There’s also an undercurrent of haters who can’t stand that he doesn’t have a degree and he’s not ashamed in the least. I love that about him!
I love his sense and understanding of history.
re: #189 b.d. (bill d.)
lol, I wonder who leaked that story.
I am impressed with Schumer, I wasn’t expecting much good when he took over the leadership spot.
After years of Harry Reid as Senate Dem Leader, anyone might seem a comedown: but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the good job old Chuck has done so far: given the crappy hand the elections dealt him.
Maybe it’s that aura of “New York” - Schumer’s down-home* airs and Brooklyn accent that puts The Yam at ease: but when it comes to legislating, I get the impression that Trump and Schumer could appear at a presser, Chuck could stab him in the back right on camera, and Trump would just go back to the Oval Office and bitch to Gen. Kelly about finding out where the hell that annoying knife came from….
or “haimish” to be precise….
Coates to me seems to be asking what I ask myself often- What do I find more deplorable, the GOP base that votes for hate time and time again or the GOP establishment that panders to it. No doubt you all have seen or at least know about Gillespie’s MS-13 ad. Virginia has had El Salvadorian immigrants for as long as I can remember. We have a large El Salvadorian-American community here in NoVa and I had many El Saldavorian-Americans as classmates and friends over the years. MS-13 is a problem but Gillespie is being dishonest.
re: #205 JordanRules
Earlier this week there was some criticism of him being too cynical that kinda caught a little momentum. I can get that reading his stuff might get heavy. You should balance it out with other works if it starts to take a toll. I have to do that with a lot of things.
There’s also an undercurrent of haters who can’t stand that he doesn’t have a degree and he’s not ashamed in the least. I love that about him!
Anyone can be an educated person if they put in the work — having a degree is merely a common way to structure that work.
re: #209 EPR-radar
Absolutely!
And then you have a lot of dumbasses with degrees. Looking at you Dinesh!
re: #209 EPR-radar
Anyone can be an educated person if they put in the work — having a degree is merely a common way to structure that work.
Indeed. He is educated. Just doesn’t have academic creds but Coates knows and understands history and how we need to understand the past to understand the present.
re: #210 JordanRules
Absolutely!
And then you have a lot of dumbasses with degrees. Looking at you Dinesh!
Dumbnesh somehow was an university president. I don’t know how the fuck that happened.
re: #211 HappyWarrior
Indeed. He is educated. Just doesn’t have academic creds but Coates knows and understands history and how we need to understand the past to understand the present.
Long-time readers of his Atlantic blog were privileged to watch him get that education in real time, out loud. Some of his posts, and associated discussion threads, were the equivalent of a graduate seminar.
re: #213 sagehen
Indeed! Some of those discussions were amazing.
re: #213 sagehen
Long-time readers of his Atlantic blog were privileged to watch him get that education in real time, out loud. Some of his posts, and associated discussion threads, were the equivalent of a graduate seminar.
Interesting. Is there a reasonably easy way to get to this material online?
Pres. Trump: “PUerto Rico. We love PUerto Rico. And we also love Puerto Rico.” pic.twitter.com/3fbzGvybd4
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) October 6, 2017
Seriously, how could anyone be this awful? https://t.co/vMfESSXlGI
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 7, 2017
re: #210 JordanRules
Absolutely!
And then you have a lot of dumbasses with degrees. Looking at you Dinesh!
For Dinesh, the statement gets turned the other way around. Anyone can be a pig-ignorant idiot if they are stubborn-stupid, no matter what degrees they have or don’t have.
re: #217 teleskiguy
Melania looks cranky in that photo — or like she’s just about to spear a juicy flying insect as a snack with a foot-long tongue.
I had a conversation with my parents at dinner about the kneeling at football games. They hadn’t read my facebook post, but I don’t think it would have added much. There’s just enough racism in them that nothing I really say is going to completely get through. Mom’s worked at a number of jails, so, as she put it “I’ve seen those people, you haven’t.” When you bring up the videos of the shit cops do, she says “but you’re not seeing all of the video,” even if I bring up those that show the police planting evidence. Like I said, racism. And this is from my mom who rants about injustices women deal with.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
Dumbnesh somehow was an university president. I don’t know how the fuck that happened.
President of a diploma mill called King’s University — until he was fired.
James Woods says he’s retiring to focus on his antiquing https://t.co/ngVfssiWC2 pic.twitter.com/oZaO0fLoJn
— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) October 7, 2017
He collects ancient ideologies. https://t.co/3kxdMPlyt9
— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) October 7, 2017
re: #221 Belafon
I had a conversation with my parents at dinner about the kneeling at football games. They hadn’t read my facebook post, but I don’t think it would have added much. There’s just enough racism in them that nothing I really say is going to completely get through. Mom’s worked at a number of jails, so, as she put it “I’ve seen those people, you haven’t.” When you bring up the videos of the shit cops do, she says “but you’re not seeing all of the video,” even if I bring up those that show the police planting evidence. Like I said, racism. And this is from my mom who rants about injustices women deal with.
What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is not all racism comes in the hood wearing kind or the swastika wearing kind. I hate saying it but my late grandfather definitely had some anti-black prejudice about him. He wasn’t the kind of man that would shout the n-word at black people or call a grown man “boy” but I definitely remember before he died during Obama’s rise that he was skeptical of Obama and I definitely saw it was because of Obama’s race. My grandmother too but she later overcame that and she’s come to like the Obamas quite a bit. I like to think had he not died Grandpa would have done the same but I don’t know.
re: #222 wheat-dogg
President of a diploma mill called King’s University — until he was fired.
That’s right.
re: #223 bratwurst
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re: #223 bratwurst
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Ha! Is he going to get as angry in the antique world as he does with politics? It’s too bad. I used to like him even if he was conservative but he’s shown himself to be a real bigoted prick and a hypocrite too as Amber Tambyn showed.
I present this gift to Beach Dem
Sr. official on what Tillerson thinks of Nikki Haley: “Rex hates her,” the official said. “He fucking hates her.”https://t.co/jcwgUrFCVI
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 7, 2017
WaPo
Lovely, from my first trip to the relatively new digs of the @washingtonpost #ONA17 pic.twitter.com/xZGcHROYxY
— David Beard (@dabeard) October 7, 2017
Hey all, been lurking since work has been so busy (still here just not able to post as much). Came across this photo the other day (left side). That was me in 2014, the right is a couple weeks ago. What a difference a few years makes
re: #230 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Hey all, been lurking since work has been so busy (still here just not able to post as much). Came across this photo the other day (left side). That was me in 2014, the right is a couple weeks ago. What a difference a few years makes
And I always thought you were……taller
re: #216 EPR-radar
Interesting. Is there a reasonably easy way to get to this material online?
The original posts are probably still in the Atlantic archive; the comment threads are probably long gone.
re: #230 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
good job!
re: #230 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Hey all, been lurking since work has been so busy (still here just not able to post as much). Came across this photo the other day (left side). That was me in 2014, the right is a couple weeks ago. What a difference a few years makes
Laid off the fried catfish, did ya?
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
