Seth takes a closer look at how President Trump has retreated to Fox News in the wake of recent scandals in an effort to push his domestic agenda.
It’s white supremacy all the way down.
— It’s FrănkenSTĒĒN (@goddamnedfrank) October 24, 2017
I think this is a good time to sit back with a bit of fruit as a snack & listen to one of my favorite jazz albums, Money Jungle by the trio of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach. A glorious set to relax to.
Night all!
On a Sinclair station, Gorka refers to “black African crime on black African crime” & says black men are killing each other “by the bushel” pic.twitter.com/Cbtqm39tTd
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 24, 2017
Thanks, Sinclair, for piping this gross nonsense into millions of people’s homes! https://t.co/6WS0IZIcj3
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2017
Whitefish, one of America’s smallest electric companies, landed Puerto Rico’s biggest contract to get power back on. https://t.co/EubQRiFosS
— Aaron C. Davis (@byaaroncdavis) October 24, 2017
Ryan Zinke is from Whitefish. Worthwhile investigative thread here: https://t.co/xmGCkNjd8B
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 24, 2017
Trump is funneling the money for rebuilding Puerto Rico to his cronies. Imagine my surprise. https://t.co/Z3Bxv3o4zo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 24, 2017
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Oh, NO, those poor people! This is SO not right!
re: #2 William Lewis
Added to my apple music. Thanks.
Carried over from the previous thread:
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
On Whitefish Energy’s outrageous contract, I wonder how it is connected to a GOP grifter (such as Rep. Gianforte of Montana)?
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Carried over from the previous thread:
On Whitefish Energy’s outrageous contract, I wonder how it is connected to a GOP grifter (such as Rep. Gianforte of Montana)?
The designated puncher. I wonder, too.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
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Imagine my surprise that Trump continues to be exactly the sort of president that Bros warned us Hillary would be.
re: #10 Targetpractice
Imagine my surprise that Trump continues to be exactly the sort of president that Bros warned us Hillary would be.
And the Berniebots, Jill Shills and their ilk STILL repeat the bullshit that Hillary would have been worse!
#UnlikelyThingsInTheJFKFiles a printed copy of the email from Stephen Miller saying “release these as a distraction.”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 24, 2017
UPDATE: Ratio’d like you read about! pic.twitter.com/hLhlgxe1yZ
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 24, 2017
@realDonaldTrump when did you start hating #goldSTARfamilies? You hate America so much that you go after widows of our fallen heroes! SHAME!
— Steve (Quiv) (@getquiverish) October 24, 2017
Report: Woody Allen’s New Film Includes a Sexual Relationship Between an Adult and a 15-Year-Old Girl https://t.co/hPs6fH7egC pic.twitter.com/3mhvgV60i0
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) October 23, 2017
I’m thinking maybe the NYPD should open a criminal investigation into Woody Allen’s sordid disgusting life. https://t.co/jNb6kjRlSc
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 24, 2017
re: #15 teleskiguy
Is he doing a film version of “Lolita?”
8 prototypes for a Trump border wall have been built.@jacobsoboroff shows what they look like now on @NBCNightlyNews. pic.twitter.com/DTpVbFI881
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 23, 2017
I like the one on the far left that looks the most like the Berlin Wall. Now, some machine guns and mines… https://t.co/2UDQYsa12B
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 24, 2017
8 prototypes for a Trump border wall have been built.@jacobsoboroff shows what they look like now on @NBCNightlyNews. pic.twitter.com/DTpVbFI881
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 23, 2017
I call it “Douchehenge” https://t.co/BpXXdLLfe2
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 24, 2017
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
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Jim’s joking, but there’s plenty of wingnuts who think that’s the answer. That we need a Berlin Wall-style edifice backed up by machine guns, mines, concertina wire, and electrified fencing. With perhaps a few crucified corpses to serve as “warnings.”
“Sebastian Gorka” sounds like one of the losing admirals at the Battle of Tsushima. I like people who don’t get defeated by the Japanese. He also looks like a villain from Dr. Zhivago. I like people who don’t sell out to Bolsheviks, or Russians of any kind for that matter.
re: #19 Targetpractice
Jim’s joking, but there’s plenty of wingnuts who think that’s the answer. That we need a Berlin Wall-style edifice backed up by machine guns, mines, concertina wire, and electrified fencing. With perhaps a few crucified corpses to serve as “warnings.”
Heads on pikes.
Oh my, my! Asshole Alex loses it and goes into a NSFW rant when he responds to accusations that he’s a Russian agent…
Time to lighten up a bit. Here’s a vid of Alex Jones after being called a foreign agent of Russia. Warning NSFW.
https://t.co/iZzWGIKYii— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 23, 2017
re: #21 austin_blue
Heads on pikes.
There used to be a freeper who used “Heads on Pikes” as his handle. He was banned, possibly too liberal for them.
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh my, my! Asshole Alex loses it and goes into a NSFW rant when he responds to accusations that he’s a Russian agent…
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The gentleman doth protest too much.
Hey @realDonaldTrump this explains why you never shut up. https://t.co/NUdqUJ1StX
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) October 24, 2017
Very subtle shade from @FormerBu. 👏 As Trump Melts Down, Comey Is Living His Best Life on Twitter https://t.co/B7kPR6QVM3 via @vice
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 24, 2017
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
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Can we please bring in a few middle-aged Berliners with sledgehammers to treat these things with the respect they deserve?
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
He’s unstable and goofy. Geeez.
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
That’s a classic among classics of the Alex Jones raging cockhead genre. It’s also kind of old, from last April.
re: #29 teleskiguy
That’s a classic among classic of the Alex Jones raging cockhead genre. It’s also kind of old, from last April.
Still waiting for the clown to bust an artery!
#PuertoRico
1M have no water. People drink contaminated water.
80% of people have no electricity.
Only media covering? Weather Channel. pic.twitter.com/XgIlku05fr— Tony Stark 2017 💥 (@1IronMan2017) October 23, 2017
We remember our fallen heroes & those they left behind. We have a duty to honor their memory by defeating the enemy that took them from us. pic.twitter.com/jHXmHIdKHb
— Vice President Pence (@VP) October 23, 2017
We will never forget the 241 American service members killed by Hizballah in Beirut. They died in service to our nation. https://t.co/BaQZDA3s2e
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2017
Shut your piehole. Draft dodging POS don’t get to say a god damn thing about the troops. You’re just using them as cover for your BS. https://t.co/44hezDEcwN
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 24, 2017
These “prototypes” are 30ft tall. Meanwhile, the deepest point of the Rio Grande is 60ft deep. Unless El Jefe Naranjo is preparing to cede portions of sovereign American soil to Mexico.
Even as it loses its “caliphate,” ISIS is engaging in mass executions. What a horrible twisting of Islam. https://t.co/mbqY0wZfFF
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) October 23, 2017
re: #34 JordanRules
Gen. Dunford: Believe ISIS will try to establish physical presence outside of Iraq and Syria now that they’ve lost “caliphate” there.
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 23, 2017
Really wish we had a stable, competent administration in charge.
A 30ft tall wall will be totally impossible to get over…provided you don’t go down to the local hardware store and buy a 32ft ladder.
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
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“I like gay people, but there’s something about this fairy… .”
re: #34 JordanRules
One result of DT’s horribleness is that he soaks up so much of our outrage that we are losing track of atrocities all around the globe. And it seems like too much. Just too much to take.
I remember wondering, during President Obama’s time in office, how he was able to handle all of the pain that was occurring around the world. Somehow he was able to handle it, to soak it up, so it didn’t seem so unbelievable for the rest of us. What a wonder he was, and his staff, too.
re: #35 JordanRules
I have this very uneasy feeling that Johnson was caught and tortured.
JUST IN: @usairforce Chief @GenDaveGoldfein Helps Young Airman Locate Family In Puerto Rico https://t.co/alGSYVXx2v pic.twitter.com/ZOabRTlxz7
— Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) October 24, 2017
Powerful moment when a kid who hasn’t heard from his family in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico for a month tells general “service before self” https://t.co/yPMxVML2ox
— Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) October 24, 2017
re: #33 Targetpractice
These “prototypes” are 30ft tall. Meanwhile, the deepest point of the Rio Grande is 60ft deep. Unless El Jefe Naranjo is preparing to cede portions of sovereign American soil to Mexico.
Such a wall would be set back from the river without ceding territory (unless you are a private landowner on the border, then you would cede property to the Federal government - meanwhile, court cases are still going on about Geo. W. Bush’s fence that would have done the same thing).
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
If Trump really cared about illegal immigration he would build a moat and fill it with sharks that shoot lasers from their eyes. The fact he is not proposing this proves he is a low energy flaccid loser.
Much cheaper than you think.
Spread the word: Most people can find health coverage for $50-$100 per month. #GetCovered pic.twitter.com/OVmSNYAmQC— Get America Covered (@GetUSCovered) October 24, 2017
During Obama Admin, this was our most exciting time—1 week before ppl started 2 enroll.
Now we need your help 2 generate interest. Pls RT. https://t.co/x2szDVyISe— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) October 24, 2017
HappyWarrior, here’s something for you (though I’m not sure what you, personally, can do about it…I guess it depends on what kind of GOTV/volunteering you’re involved with and what contacts you have…?)
The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race
One simple statistic highlights the folly of much of the Democratic Party’s strategy and spending. If every person of color who voted for Hillary Clinton in Virginia last year turns out to vote in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest on November 7, Democrat Ralph Northam could win without getting a single vote from a white person. Not one. And yet most Democratic strategists and donors overlook and undervalue voters of color in general and African-American voters in particular. As a result, Democrats are at real risk of losing eminently winnable contests in Virginia this year, as well as in myriad races in 2018.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Such a wall would be set back from the river without ceding territory (unless you are a private landowner on the border, then you would cede property to the Federal government - meanwhile, court cases are still going on about Geo. W. Bush’s fence that would have done the same thing).
In the summer, Army Corps of Engineers guys went in and bulldozed around in the National Butterfly Center in Hidalgo County, Texas, which is on the border. One of my friends is a public librarian in the area and a supporter of the center. She goes there to take pictures. She was *pissed*.
re: #44 Interesting Times
Yup, we white folk (well, Slavs have only been “whites” in this country for a few decades) are no longer an absolute majority, but a group amongst equals.
I don’t mind being equal to others, but there are a whole lot of people in my demographic that would rather eat barb wire than give up a millimetre of ground.
re: #45 Kragar
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Come on now, we know that drug cartels would never think to blow up the wall, tunnel under it, or just fly over it. A 30ft wall will be an impenetrable barrier that will totally stop all drug and human trafficking!
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re: #44 Interesting Times
HappyWarrior, here’s something for you (though I’m not sure what you, personally, can do about it…I guess it depends on what kind of GOTV/volunteering you’re involved with and what contacts you have…?)
The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race
Thanks man. Good read. Didn’t know about how little attention Fairfax has gotten from donors. It’s disappointing because this is an increasingly diverse state. I think Northam will prevail in the end but we need to be a more inclusive party when it comes to our message. We’re too busy trying to win back these white voters rather than creating a diverse coalition like Obama did.
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anytime someone throws a “f***ing f***er” at me I can’t stop myself from laughing my ass off. I do admit my humor is pretty simple though.
re: #48 Targetpractice
Come on now, we know that drug cartels would never think to blow up the wall, tunnel under it, or just fly over it. A 30ft wall will be an impenetrable barrier that will totally stop all drug and human trafficking!
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With Trump proposing to travel to the Korean DMZ, perhaps he’s looking for ideas to incorporate.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹
Yup, we white folk (well, Slavs have only been “whites” in this country for a few decades) are no longer an absolute majority, but a group amongst equals.
I don’t mind being equal to others, but there are a whole lot of people in my demographic that would rather eat barb wire than give up a millimetre of ground.
As a heterosexual white male, I know even without a penny in my pocket I’m starting out with inherent advantages.
re: #38 retired cynic
Really good point about the leadership of the previous administration empowering and projecting characteristics we all needed.
We can’t trust this regime with the easiest, rote executive stuff and, as HRC kept telling us, these are serious times. We are just so horribly positioned for all the major decisions required of a superpower now.
re: #52 HappyWarrior
As a heterosexual white male, I know even without a penny in my pocket I’m starting out with inherent advantages.
Yup.
It’s not my fault those advantages existed when I was born (and still exist today). Working toward equal treatment (and listening to others to find out what they think that should entail) seems to be the way to make a society that is fairer for all people.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
Thanks man. Good read. Didn’t know about how little attention Fairfax has gotten from donors. It’s disappointing because this is an increasingly diverse state. I think Northam will prevail in the end but we need to be a more inclusive party when it comes to our message. We’re too busy trying to win back these white voters rather than creating a diverse coalition like Obama did.
I suspect it’ll be another close race that will be spun by pundits not as a repudiation of Trump, but instead as an indication that Republicans will need to go even further up his ass if they wish to win next year.
re: #55 Targetpractice
I suspect it’ll be another close race that will be spun by pundits not as a repudiation of Trump, but instead as an indication that Republicans will need to go even further up his ass if they wish to win next year.
Whatever happens, Stewart will be the nominee against Kaine next year.
I had to take down my flag, as very high winds damaged my flagstaff. I’m not sure when I can get to repairing it.
I need to hit the rack … g’night y’all. Try to hold together the Republic whilst I sleep… .
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹
You are sleeping at night now?
Ben Carson dodged questions about budget cuts & Congressman Al Greene let him have it. This is awesome! 👊pic.twitter.com/GRkLKyhbUl
— Ricky Davila 🇵🇷 (@TheRickyDavila) October 24, 2017
This is not a gotcha success story to feel good about. Don’t get distracted by the “burn” righteous vibe… People are in the crosshairs. https://t.co/uWUz27LdSZ
— Sean Astin (@SeanAstin) October 24, 2017
re: #59 Kragar
Hey, Sean Astin on the good side.
re: #59 Kragar
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Damn, Sam Gamgee is woke.
Night all. Sweet scaly dreams. Tweet storm from the Cheeto Shit Gibbon tomorrow? They seemed to shut him down this PM, so we’ll see what happens when Drumpf takes his morning Drumpf.
My block list is up to 17945 assholes.
ABB, always be blocking. pic.twitter.com/glVY9lbTAm— It’s FrănkenSTĒĒN (@goddamnedfrank) October 24, 2017
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“And that’s how, with a few minor adjustments, you can turn a regular gun into five guns.” pic.twitter.com/ZaGIxyLoG4
— SimpsonsQOTD (@SimpsonsQOTD) October 23, 2017
re: #2 William Lewis
Fleurette Africaine is a glorious song.
A Puerto Rican and a Nuyorican, that is.
Not that Trump and his ilk recognize them as Americans.
Show a Trumper that video and ask them what nationality they think the singers are.
Nicaragua has officially joined the Paris Climate Accord.
That leaves only two countries in the world that are not members:
a) Syria, which has no effective or functional government
b) the USA, which willingly withdrew from the accord under direction from Donald Trump
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹
Nicaragua has officially joined the Paris Climate Accord.
That leaves only two countries in the world that are not members:
a) Syria, which has no effective or functional government
b) the USA, whichwillingly withdrew from the accord under direction from Donald Trumphas no effective or functional government
As for Goebbels Gorka…
I created a gif of @SebGorka’s white nationalistic tongue thrust. It’s like a beacon – it only moves RIGHT.
👀 pic.twitter.com/4336Dc7Xwx— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) October 24, 2017
re: #3 JordanRules
I see late night last night was kind of a horror show. In addition to this, we have yet another example of grift as well as how unserious this administration is about actually doing anything about PR:
NEW. Admin give $300m contract to fix power in Puerto Rico to firm with only 2ppl from Sec. Zinke’s hometown.https://t.co/84qp8o99Qa pic.twitter.com/BAJchYGlLt
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) October 24, 2017
And far as Gorki goes:
On a Sinclair station, Gorka refers to “black African crime on black African crime” & says black men are killing each other “by the bushel” pic.twitter.com/Cbtqm39tTd
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 24, 2017
The tell is that he can’t even call black people “American”. That’s how far the racism in this goes. #ThisIsNotNormal https://t.co/jPxlYHacUH
— Horrified K (@Citizen_Kryptik) October 24, 2017
re: #4 Charles Johnson
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A humble addition to this thread: the engineer that represents the PREPA (PR electric power authority) was nominated and confirmed by the current PNP administration. He already has had some controversies, where he paid a legislator to guarantee (sorry, I couldn’t find it in English). Business as usual, sadly, especially from a Rosselló administration.
the president.
of the united states.
cant compose a coherent thought
any thought.
repeated from below because it is blistering and brutal
It’s not exactly a news flash at this point that Donald Trump isn’t very fluent on questions of public policy, but his interview over the weekend with Fox Business Channel’s Maria Bartiromo is really a sobering reminder of the levels of ignorance and dishonesty that the country is dealing with
That makes the extent to which he manages to flub the interview all the more striking. He’s simply incapable of discussing any topic at any length in anything remotely resembling an informed or coherent way
read it all and the comments
the comments at political-wire too
All around the globe, the anti-globalists are organizing.
the nazis are extremely smart, guys pic.twitter.com/aZyiwlWpDX
— Bog Witch Jules (@julesprom) October 24, 2017
re: #78 I Would Prefer Not To
All around the globe, the anti-globalists are organizing.
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Cognitive dissonance not only isn’t a detriment to these folks, it’s a pre-requisite.
Keep in mind, there seems to be a genuine right-wing wave that seems to be constantly winning world-wide anyways, so they’re still clearly winning on this measure, depressing as that is.
WTF
.@PressSec: “If anyone colluded with any foreign government in last year’s election, it was the Clinton campaign.” pic.twitter.com/7iXBFRmVJh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 24, 2017
re: #81 The Vicious Babushka
WTF
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Has any administration been this insistent on the guilt of an election opponent post-election?
Some big news buried…
As many as 212,000 people could move from Puerto Rico to the mainland over the next year. Wow.https://t.co/PPtqLdBGc1
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 23, 2017
212k ppl would be about the highest single-year migration rate in U.S. history.
Roughly equal to peak of the Irish potato famine in 1840s. https://t.co/YuBq0GPs7P— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 23, 2017
BREAKING: @MilitaryTimes has just released a scientific poll of U.S. military troops. The things it found are game-changing. 1/
— Vets Against Trump (@commondefense) October 23, 2017
And some LOLZ
I tried to set up a joke with my dad about Pennywise, but I think he unwillingly turned it into the sickest burn of all time. pic.twitter.com/gfVYjWgvWl
— Duskaster (@RycasterOnline) October 22, 2017
re: #82 Citizen K
Has any administration been this insistent on the guilt of an election opponent post-election?
Projecting like an IMAX in outer space, as usual. Why would Clinton collude with Russia to LOSE THE ELECTION?
— Witches BaBOO!shka (@viciousbabushka) October 24, 2017
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
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Because clearly they’re selling the myth that they won despite Russia being SUPER DUPER in the tank for Clinton, with the power of REAL ‘MERICA.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. We’ve got scattered power outages here in NJ and some downed trees affected mass transit. 23,000 without power in NJ, thousands more lost power in the Carolinas as tornadoes and severe weather came through.
That gets major news coverage.
The fact that more than a month after Maria hit, more than 77% of Puerto Rico is still without power. A third of the island is still without safe drinking water. Telcom is still spotty.
That’s a month after the storm hit.
The media has dropped the story from its coverage.
They spent more time covering Haiti earthquake than they are with the failed disaster response from the Trump admin. This is absolutely unconscionable.
Major news outlets can run a graphic showing power restoration efforts in a 150x150 bug somewhere on the front of their websites. It takes next to no effort to make and update, and it would be a visual reminder that Trump has completely fucked up the disaster response and he’s funneling money to his cronies to do work they’re unqualified to do.
Everything about this administration is a kakistocracy and kleptocracy. What isn’t bolted down is something they can pilfer and exploit, if they know how to undo the tie-downs. Trump is doing lasting damage to the nation, all to the applause of a know-nothing GOP base who thinks they benefit from tax cuts that are funneled to millionaires like Trump while everyone else gets fucked over with higher taxes, more burdens, and less services.
Yeah, who do you think is hurt when Medicare is cut $400 billion and Medicaid $1 trillion over 10 years? It isn’t millionaires like Trump. It’s Trump’s know-nothing base who believes everything the con artist says. There’s more than $5 trillion in cuts over 10 years, which is a massive gutting of basic services and government services.
The GOP is insuring that Trump’s response to Maria will be the model for all future disaster response because the government is incapable of doing the job. They are actively sabotaging functioning government in every conceivable way, up to and especially by putting know-nothing and extremist judges on the bench to tilt the playing field even further to help the wealthy and screw minorities, women, and all the rest.
GOP delenda est.
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
Well there was that meeting Hillary had with the Russians who promised dirt on DJT…oh no wait it was DJT who met with the Russians who promised dirt on Hillary because “anybody would have taken that meeting”.
In the Times of London this morning: pic.twitter.com/b3iclazDJa
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) October 24, 2017
re: #86 lawhawk
Is this the worst time to be an American? At least in the depression we came together.
re: #90 Unshaken Defiance
Not sure. I think there’s a 1/3 of the country who thinks this is awesome - that they’re giving it to the minorities who have struggled for centuries to get some measure of civil and legal protections and equal rights and are now watching those protections get eroded so the bigot brigade can feel better about themselves.
I think there’s about 1/3 of the nation who is seriously concerned about the harms, but wonder what they could do to change things. Of this number, probably half don’t vote regularly and don’t care about who is put on the judiciary.
There’s probably 1/6 who think that Clinton would be even worse than Trump having bought the Russian Kool Aid. This includes the die hard far right wraparound to the far left (Bernie/Stein rainbow connection).
The remaining 1/6 are probably shruggie. In that mix are the billionaires who think they’ll make money no matter what and can ride out whatever political inconveniences they might experience and would stand to profit no matter who’s in office.
Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
…Corker dropped out of the race in Tennesse when I refused to endorse him, and now is only negative on anything Trump. Look at his record!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
🚨 Donald Trump again goes after Bob Corker, who labels him an “utterly untruthful president.” 🚨 pic.twitter.com/0SWLDX646z
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 24, 2017
re: #91 lawhawk
Not sure. I think there’s a 1/3 of the country who thinks this is awesome - that they’re giving it to the minorities who have struggled for centuries to get some measure of civil and legal protections and equal rights and are now watching those protections get eroded so the bigot brigade can feel better about themselves.
I think there’s about 1/3 of the nation who is seriously concerned about the harms, but wonder what they could do to change things. Of this number, probably half don’t vote regularly and don’t care about who is put on the judiciary.
There’s probably 1/6 who think that Clinton would be even worse than Trump having bought the Russian Kool Aid. This includes the die hard far right wraparound to the far left (Bernie/Stein rainbow connection).
The remaining 1/6 are probably shruggie. In that mix are the billionaires who think they’ll make money no matter what and can ride out whatever political inconveniences they might experience and would stand to profit no matter who’s in office.
This is no way to run a country.
It IS a way to run a country into the ground, however. And it seems like this administration is intent on doing that while grifting every cent they can before they make out like bandits in the night.
re: #91 lawhawk
Watching so many of the best things we do as a country (edit come apart bit by bit) is why I say that. Just bearing witness is hard enough. The dis empowered majority of us.
Hello, everybody! I now finally have Internet access in my apartment here in China, so I’ll be around more than I’ve been the last several days.
I’ve been here a week and a half, and hit the ground running, teaching about 20 hours a week. I took over another teacher’s classes, so the first few days were spent learning what she had already covered with the students. I’m surprised how many of my fellow expat teachers are old farts like me — five of the nine are over 60, and the others are in the late 20s and mid-30s. Apparently, there was some serious turnover before I arrived, with one bloke obviously suffering from Alzheimer’s symptoms and another just plainly mentally ill. They got sent home. The teacher I replaced has some problems with her documentation not being in order, so she’s had to sort all that out back home in South Africa and in her former place of employment - South Korea. And one prospective teacher, who was supposed to arrive a few days after I did, up and decided he didn’t want to deal with all the documentation hassles and stayed home.
One of the old farts here has to go home very soon to Newfoundland for prostate surgery.
We’re running with only half the expected staff positions filled. Peachy, eh?
Aside from all the employment issues, things are going reasonably well for me. It’s nice to be back in the classroom after my extended holiday.
hey family farms, here’s a gift for ya!
Trump kills Obama rule aimed at protecting independent farmers from big food companies: https://t.co/5cqrXYEJCH pic.twitter.com/VhJXL8Vx1Y
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
hey family farms, here’s a gift for ya!
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But at least killing the estate tax will save them money, right?….right?….
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #98 Citizen K
.@thehill It’s called swamping the drain
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 24, 2017
.@SenBobCorker to @mkraju just now: “Everything” Trump said in his tweets today are “provable untruths”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 24, 2017
Holy #%^ Happening now. Incredible @mkraju intv right now w @BobCorker who all but called @realDonaldTrump a liar and regrets supporting him
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) October 24, 2017
BREAKING: @MilitaryTimes has just released a scientific poll of U.S. military troops. The things it found are game-changing. 1/
— Vets Against Trump (@commondefense) October 23, 2017
BREAKING: US Military joins FBI in acknowledging the gravest security threat to American troops are White Supremacist Terrorists. #Thread https://t.co/Uh5h0bjAip
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) October 24, 2017
He’ll ignore it; @SenateMajLdr knows that he’s flooding judiciary with know-nothing right wing extremists & GOP budgets savage safety net
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 24, 2017
.@SenBobCorker (R-TN): “I would have hoped [Trump] would rise to the occasion … I’m beginning to believe it’s not going to happen” (CBS) pic.twitter.com/cIJrzfAZzj
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) October 24, 2017
Did he sleep through the campaign? https://t.co/yFym3m7oeE
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 24, 2017
Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
Corker vehemently opposed the Iran Deal and literally voted against it.
Your daily reminder that everything Trump says is a lie. https://t.co/Fsf2oAWh0Q— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 24, 2017
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
Surely DJT will take the high road here and not co….
Oh wait, what am I saying.
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did Corker not see @realDonaldTrump from day 1 of the campaign attack minorities, women, and come out and admit to being sex predator?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 24, 2017
Corker’s as much the problem as the rest of the GOP. They’ve all enabled Trump to do tremendous and lasting damage.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 24, 2017
re: #85 Citizen K
Because clearly they’re selling the myth that they won despite Russia being SUPER DUPER in the tank for Clinton, with the power of REAL ‘MERICA.
It’s all they have at this point. The stack of evidence against Donny is growing higher and higher, so their only option is to argue that “both sides” colluded and thus if Democrats go after them then they’ll also have to go after Hillary.
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey, I’m happy he’s come to this realization at all. I know, the soft bigotry of low expectations (or something like that).
re: #108 Targetpractice
It’s all they have at this point. The stack of evidence against Donny is growing higher and higher, so their only option is to argue that “both sides” colluded and thus if Democrats go after them then they’ll also have to go after Hillary.
Although it makes absolutely no sense to simultaneously argue this AND that there was nothing wrong with collusion with Russia, that anybody would have done it, etc.
But the Foxheads and Limbats will eat it up along with everything else forcefed to them because Hurr, hurr the evil stupid libtards hate Trump!
re: #90 Unshaken Defiance
Is this the worst time to be an American? At least in the depression we came together.
Trump time in America is pretty depressing. So, maybe he will make us come together again out of pure need much like the 30s.
Huckaboo couldn’t help herself today:
Sarah Sanders: Comparing Niger to Benghazi is ‘just a cheap attempt to try to taint this president’ https://t.co/GExTwbrBnW
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 24, 2017
No Sarah, it’s not “cheap” because it cost the lives of four of our soldiers. And Niger’s looking worse than Benghazi with each new revelation because it actually does involve our troops being put in a hostile situation and effectively abandoned.
TN Republican Sen. Bob Corker on Pres. Trump: “The President has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.” https://t.co/wsl0PjVhSK pic.twitter.com/1LYS8R9VW8
— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2017
heh
Sen. Corker: Trump is “absolutely not” a role model, and he will be remembered for the “basement of our nation” https://t.co/ukSpl45HNb
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 24, 2017
“see u at lunch!” https://t.co/90UDDRsFEs
— darth:™ (@darth) October 24, 2017
Again, Republicans only grow balls as soon as they’re on the way out the door. If he were running for reelection, Corker’s nose would be buried in Trump’s taint with the rest of his party.
We’re saddened by the loss of retired astronaut Paul Weitz who lived on Skylab & commanded 1st flight of Challenger: https://t.co/s3Hlt8LdYb pic.twitter.com/jdnRsxTIH2
— NASA (@NASA) October 24, 2017
re: #112 Targetpractice
Sarah Sanders: Comparing Niger to Benghazi is ‘just a cheap attempt to try to taint this president’
— Raw Story
Translation: Only we’re allowed to politicize a tragedy overseas.
re: #29 teleskiguy
That’s a classic among classics of the Alex Jones raging
cockcokehead genre. It’s also kind of old, from last April.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “Now anybody with a computer can be a journalist” https://t.co/39jBQqD1Lk pic.twitter.com/WH9Lj3EKqb
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
And any MORON can be President! https://t.co/l7GekQrzDa
— Dennis yazel (@YazelDennis) October 24, 2017
re: #112 Targetpractice
Sarah Sanders: Comparing Niger to Benghazi is ‘just a cheap attempt to try to taint this president’
— Raw Story
Heh, ‘taint’ this president. As if every day isn’t an episode of DJT tainting himself, his office, and the country.
he’s still ranting
Isn’t it sad that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who couldn’t get re-elected in the Great State of Tennessee, will now fight Tax Cuts plus!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.
This made me laugh for nearly a minute.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And any moron who kisses enough ass can join Trump’s administration.
Maybe it’s Karma for your behavior for the prior 8 yrs. @BarackObama
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) October 24, 2017
re: #125 Dave In Austin
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I’m glad Corker is speaking out but at the same time, it’s hollow given that he was silent while Trump attacked other people and now only is vocal after it’s directed at him.
re: #107 lawhawk
lawhawk @lawhawk
Did Corker not see @realDonaldTrump from day 1 of the campaign attack minorities, women, and come out and admit to being sex predator?
9:43 AM - Oct 24, 2017
Easy excuse. The Trump during the campaign was just doing what he needed to win an election. That is called election politics. No one takes that serious you know.
They were sure they could count on him “pivoting” and then turning normal person and learning or being taught on the job.
They were conned, like America was conned. Corker is just the first guy willing to admit he was conned. The other seemed to be prepared to be conned more because they are scared of the Big Bad Bannon.
re: #123 Belafon
I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.
This made me laugh for nearly a minute.
The last foster cat we had before this “new” one was named Nora. I called her Nora the Explorer.
I put “new” in quotes because this one we have now has been with us 2 times before. I am trying to talk my wife into just adopting this one, this cat has had a hard life and needs a permanent place. And she is so cute, jet black and soft as anything.
re: #108 Targetpractice
It’s all they have at this point. The stack of evidence against Donny is growing higher and higher, so their only option is to argue that “both sides” colluded and thus if Democrats go after them then they’ll also have to go after Hillary.
Good. Let’s kick Hillary out of the White House the same time we kick Trump out.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
I’m glad Corker is speaking out but at the same time, it’s hollow given that he was silent while Trump attacked other people and now only is vocal after it’s directed at him.
Yep, the old “this would be funny if it wasn’t happening to me” stance.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
I’m glad Corker is speaking out but at the same time, it’s hollow given that he was silent while Trump attacked other people and now only is vocal after it’s directed at him.
Let’s see how he actually VOTES. My bet? No change.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “Now anybody with a computer can be a journalist”
— The Hill
Is Sarah whining about too much journalism going on in the age of Herr Trump?
re: #134 Targetpractice
I thought we had this discussion during the Obama years, when wingnuts insisted that anybody who slung insults and innuendo at the black man in the White House was a “journalist” if they claimed to be one.
That was fine but everyone needs to shut up now, except Fox News and Breitbart, because Trump is MAGA.
//
re: #123 Belafon
I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.
This made me laugh for nearly a minute.
Dora The Explorer Movie In The Works With Michael Bay Producing - https://t.co/2GT6mAr6D8 pic.twitter.com/PHuDOnPiqj
— Screen Rant (@screenrant) October 23, 2017
Back Pack gonna blow up in the first act https://t.co/mj3nm5rl4f
— Kar L. Stine (@karyewest) October 24, 2017
re: #19 Targetpractice
Jim’s joking, but there’s plenty of wingnuts who think that’s the answer. That we need a Berlin Wall-style edifice backed up by machine guns, mines, concertina wire, and electrified fencing. With perhaps a few crucified corpses to serve as “warnings.”
Heads on pikes is also a favorite. Reminds the natives who is in charge.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t it sad that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who couldn’t get re-elected in the Great State of Tennessee, will now fight Tax Cuts plus!
— Donald J. Trump
Is ‘Tax Cuts Plus!’ the tax cut slogan or is it, ‘Tax Cuts, plus other very good policy stuffs’?
‘Transformers’ director Michael Bay is producing a live action Dora the Explorer moviehttps://t.co/73K5oykkEN pic.twitter.com/fkeB16Iful
— The Poke (@ThePoke) October 24, 2017
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t it sad that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who couldn’t get re-elected in the Great State of Tennessee, will now fight Tax Cuts plus!
— Donald J. Trump
Let’s try this—
Isn’t it sad that lightweight Senator Max Baucus, who couldn’t get re-elected in the Great State of Montana, will now fight Obamacare plus!
—Barack Obama
Nah, doesn’t work, does it?
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Mike, we need another Transformers movie. After the last one, we’ll take pretty much anything.”
“Guys, I do not want to do another one of those movies. I’ll do anything.”
“Well, we do need a director for a live-action Dora the Explorer movie.”
“…fuck it, where do I sign?”
A boil water advisory is in effect for 11 Oakland County communities. Some, such as Novi and Walled Lake, reportedly have no water at all /2 pic.twitter.com/xUmfbIfwKV
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) October 24, 2017
Swiper finally takes it all, and snatches Backpack while she’s helping her Abuela with cookies. To get it back, Dora will have to return to her roots. She will have to master her family’s long lost martial arts skills, and come to terms with a past that Dora never wanted to find on the map.
re: #141 Sir John Barron
Let’s try this—
Nah, doesn’t work, does it?
Because Obama doesn’t talk like a human piece of shit.
re: #142 Targetpractice
“Mike, we need another Transformers movie. After the last one, we’ll take pretty much anything.”
Gah!
good freaking grief
Sen. Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, & look how poorly the U.S. has done. He doesn’t have a clue as…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
…the entire World WAS laughing and taking advantage of us. People like liddle’ Bob Corker have set the U.S. way back. Now we move forward!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017
Well obviously Bay is going to age Dora by twenty years and make her hot. Somehow patriotism will be in the story too.
re: #144 Belafon
Swiper finally takes it all, and snatches Backpack while she’s helping her Abuela with cookies. To get it back, Dora will have to return to her roots. She will have to master her family’s long lost martial arts training, and come to terms with a past that Dora never wanted to find on the map.
Many buildings will explode as Dora finds her way to her lost Backpack.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m reminded of my Army room mate who all but worshiped the SS pushing the lie that the Waffen SS were just elite soldiers out to stop communists (and conveniently forgetting that to the Nazis Communist=Jew) and not guilty of the war crimes. I didn’t have as much history then to disprove his contentions as I do now though even then I knew that stank like the liquid manure the Germans used on their fields. I did like annoying him by pointing out that we were right to stomp on the Nazi’s first before worrying about the Soviets because the Nazi’s were a bigger threat to all free peoples. I didn’t use the phrase “existential threat” in the 80’s but would have had I known it.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
good freaking grief
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The world laughs at you, Donald. The rest of us weep about what you’ve done to our country.
“I think the debasement of our nation will be one thing he’ll be remembered most for,” Sen. Corker says of Pres. Trump pic.twitter.com/wKGOcbi9KF
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 24, 2017
re: #148 HappyWarrior
Well obviously Bay is going to age Dora by twenty years and make her hot. Somehow patriotism will be in the story too.
Dora the Explorer, played by Selena Gomez
re: #151 William Lewis
I’m reminded of my Army room mate who all but worshiped the SS pushing the lie that the Waffen SS were just elite soldiers out to stop communists (and conveniently forgetting that to the Nazis Communist=Jew)
Wow, that’s kind of hard to believe. Ugh.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Again it just comes off hollow. Thanks Bob but at the same time….
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
good freaking grief
What is it now, six tweets about Corker now? Drump’s egoism and sense of grievance is beyond psychopathic.
re: #156 Sir John Barron
Wow, that’s kind of hard to believe. Ugh.
I can believe it. I see people commenting all the time we should have helped the Nazis beat the Soviets.
re: #155 HappyWarrior
Perfect because Selena sings too.
And she knows about economics and playing poker and stuff
(At least enough to do a movie cameo)
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone needs to accuse him of being belligerent and not knowing when to shut up, and then he can prove it.
At least he’s not attacking Mrs. Johnson. Did you guys see they met at age six? Beautiful love story. I feel so awful for her since her kids are so young and won’t have any memories of their Dad.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
I can believe it. I see people commenting all the time we should have helped the Nazis beat the Soviets.
Granted, the Soviets were no bowl of laughs but the Holocaust would have continued otherwise, and there would have been no “Cold War” between US and Germany. It would have been Hot.
Trump once again demonstrating the mindset of a bully, namely engaging in name-calling and empty threats against those who won’t kneel before him.
re: #156 Sir John Barron
Wow, that’s kind of hard to believe. Ugh.
It wasn’t uncommon in the Reagan era Army. You could get away with a lot of shit if you weren’t a druggie and would rah rah the Anti-commie rhetoric. It was … interesting … sometimes to be an out socialist in those days.
re: #160 wheat-dogg
And she knows about economics and playing poker and stuff
(At least enough to do a movie cameo)
Maybe have Javier Bardem play Swiper?
re: #162 HappyWarrior
At least he’s not attacking Mrs. Johnson. Did you guys see they met at age six? Beautiful love story. I feel so awful for her since her kids are so young and won’t have any memories of their Dad.
That was yesterday. Trump has pivoted to a new great enemy.
re: #164 Targetpractice
Trump once again demonstrating the mindset of a bully, namely engaging in name-calling and empty threats against those who won’t kneel before him.
It’s almost as if his overriding impulse is to lash out at those who won’t kneel before him. More important than policy or governing, he requires fawning worship by all his subjects.
“I want to thank President Trump for his leadership,” @SpeakerRyan says of tax cuts. “We are on the verge of doing something very historic.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 24, 2017
As Corker blasts the president, Ryan praises him https://t.co/UDapxCvcM9
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) October 24, 2017
In the Times of London this morning: pic.twitter.com/b3iclazDJa
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) October 24, 2017
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Question to wingnuts: What “leadership” has Trump shown on tax cuts that Obama did not show with the ACA?
re: #171 Targetpractice
Question to wingnuts: What “leadership” has Trump shown on tax cuts that Obama did not show with the ACA?
Yelling.
“Trump pales in comparison to our history of mentally ill presidents” https://t.co/SHIuhBtL2i pic.twitter.com/XqFOro7vCa
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
That point of no-return when the press feels they literally must run this headline. https://t.co/FKeEtvYGG1
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 24, 2017
re: #163 Sir John Barron
Granted, the Soviets were no bowl of laughs but the Holocaust would have continued otherwise, and there would have been no “Cold War” between US and Germany. It would have been Hot.
Yes. I mean Stalin was awful and the USSR deserves its reputation but we did the right thing first with Lend Lease then fighting the Nazis. And for sure, there would have been no Cold War with the Nazis. The Soviets to their credit had much more pragmatic leaders.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
‘Transformers’ director Michael Bay is producing a live action Dora the Explorer movie
So, they’re going to make her a teenager. Really
I wait to see how much they will whitewash the character
re: #175 FormerDirtDart
So, they’re going to make her a teenager. Really
I wait to see how much they will whitewash the character
Get rid of the Spanish?
re: #176 HappyWarrior
Get rid of the Spanish?
As long as she doesn’t have to chamber the charges for a 16 inch gun.
re: #175 FormerDirtDart
There was a preteen version of Dora: Dora and Friends: Into the City.
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I want to thank President Trump for his leadership,” @SpeakerRyan says of tax cuts. “We are on the verge of doing something very historic.”
“I want to thank Odysseus for this horse,” @KingPriam says of the gift. “We are on the verge of doing something very historic.”
Ryan proving himself to be a man without any sort of scruples or ethics at all.Tax cuts uber alles.
re: #40 FormerDirtDart
JUST IN: @usairforce Chief @GenDaveGoldfein Helps Young Airman Locate Family In Puerto Rico defenseone.com …
Now THAT is leadership!
re: #176 HappyWarrior
Get rid of the Spanish?
Well, she’s supposed to be an indigenous Mexican. So, pretty much any Mexican American actress will be a significant whitewashing
re: #183 FormerDirtDart
Well, she’s supposed to be an indigenous Mexican. So, pretty much any Mexican American actress will be a significant whitewashing
Yeah when Dora sounds like a valley girl.
If they ever did the show with an actual little girl, I’d say my niece would be perfect heh. I’m biased but she does speak Spanish as well as English, she’s adorable, and very charismatic. She’s half Peruvian and half Anglo though.
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Ryan proving himself to be a man without any sort of scruples or ethics at all.Tax cuts uber alles.
His purpose in life has always been the destruction of the US economy.
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I want to thank President Trump for his leadership,” @SpeakerRyan says of tax cuts. “We are on the verge of doing something very historic.”
— Sahil Kapur
“Deficits now are merely ‘very large’. We’re close to making them ‘astronomic’. Inequality is also only ‘significant’. We’re about to make inequality ‘atmospheric’. “
Nancy LeTourneau in the Washington Monthly talks about what DT does not know:
There is still much to be written about what Trump doesn’t know. But the one thing we can be certain of is that he maintained an itemized list of Obama’s accomplishments and made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his presidency.
re: #183 FormerDirtDart
Well, she’s supposed to be an indigenous Mexican. So, pretty much any Mexican American actress will be a significant whitewashing
It would be fun if they found a classically Mayan looking young woman to play the role. Some very beautiful people down in the Yucatan area. But yeah, they’ll get out the whitewash instead.
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Until now, paying off the national debt has always appeared possible, if not likely. Those days are over. We’re about to make that likelihood impossible, beyond comprehension. Truly historic. “
#UPDATE Saudi Arabia ‘returning to moderate Islam’, says Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman https://t.co/Ltj3vnelCm
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 24, 2017
This may be the defining battle of the 21st Century for the Middle East. Can the Crown Prince deliver? https://t.co/VRlIn5Yx4x
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2017
re: #192 FormerDirtDart
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That could be huge given Saudi Arabia’s place not just as a leader in the Muslim world but its place in Muslim culture.
re: #174 HappyWarrior
Yes. I mean Stalin was awful and the USSR deserves its reputation but we did the right thing first with Lend Lease then fighting the Nazis. And for sure, there would have been no Cold War with the Nazis. The Soviets to their credit had much more pragmatic leaders.
Ever read Robert Harris’ Archangel? It’s alternative historical fiction (what would have happened if….). Archangel is a re-imagining of post-Soviet Union Russia in the ‘90’s.
In the same vein, Fatherland is Harris’ reimagining of WWII if the Nazis had won. Both are pretty good.
re: #189 William Lewis
It would be fun if they found a classically Mayan looking young woman to play the role. Some very beautiful people down in the Yucatan area. But yeah, they’ll get out the whitewash instead.
Latin America is such a fascinating place isn’t it? That was one of my favorite history classes I took. Made me upset too though knowing our role not just in propping up Pinochet but the Processo in neighboring Argentina.
re: #192 FormerDirtDart
Trump taking credit for this in 5….4…3
re: #194 Sir John Barron
Ever read Robert Harris’ Archangel? It’s alternative historical fiction (what would have happened if….). Archangel is a re-imagining of post-Soviet Union Russia in the ‘90’s.
In the same vein, Fatherland is Harris’ reimagining of WWII if the Nazis had won. Both are pretty good.
No, I have not.
In the Jennifer Rubin — Ana Navarro — Bob Corker spectrum of never-Trumperz, there is Charlie Sykes. Driftglass rips him a new one this morning. Good title!
re: #192 FormerDirtDart
That’s encouraging to see. He’s pushing back at the hardcore clerics.
Saudi Arabia went really ultra-conservative after the 1979 Masjid al-Haraam incident. It looks like the Crown Prince has realized that the King at that time drew the wrong conclusions - instead of liberalizing further, he went in the opposite direction and made the country even more conservative than it already was.
Fnally got around to watching “The Brainwashing of My Dad”. Just watching it was scary enough, being that half of my family is all about watching Fox news and I saw/see the deteriorating of cognitive skills and OTT anger. But, the truly terrifying thing is this country elected an irrationally angry brainwashed Fox News junkie “President”.
The orange bag of shit is the culmination of decades of Right Wing propaganda. I wonder if how things can change given the systematic destruction of truth.
re: #198 retired cynic
In the Jennifer Rubin — Ana Navarro — Bob Corker spectrum of never-Trumperz, there is Charlie Sykes. Driftglass rips him a new one this morning. Good title!
I’m not familiar with Sykes but I’m definitely wary of many of the Never Trumpers. Ana is someone I trust. I’m coming around on Rubin too. Corker seems opportunistic given this has only happened after he announced he wouldn’t run for re-election.
re: #192 FormerDirtDart
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I wonder what MbS is talking about when he says KSA is “returning” to “moderate” Islam: they have never been “moderate” since forever - and the symbiotic relationship between the hard-line Wahhabist religious establishment and the House of Saud has been what has maintained the latter’s rule for many decades (if not longer).
Sounds like “liberalization” BS for the benefit of a foreign audience: enacting a few “reforms” like letting women (finally) drive - and/or easing up on repression of domestic critics (a bit) - but meanwhile ensuring that the ruling family stays firmly on top.
Hope I’m wrong: but most “reforms” in KSA have proved transitory…
re: #200 plansbandc
Fnally got around to watching “The Brainwashing of My Dad”. Just watching it was scary enough, being that half of my family is all about watching Fox news and I saw/see the deteriorating of cognitive skills and OTT anger. But, the truly terrifying thing is this country elected an irrationally angry brainwashed Fox News junkie “President”.
The orange bag of shit is the culmination of decades of Right Wing propaganda. I wonder if how things can change given the systematic destruction of truth.
It sounds like an interesting watch. I wouldn’t be able to relate though. Not only does my Dad dislike Trump and Trumpism but his siblings do too. In fact, I don’t know a single one of my first cousins who does like him. Some of my more distant cousins I’ve met through my genealogy research are a little wingnutty though.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
I’m not familiar with Sykes but I’m definitely wary of many of the Never Trumpers. Ana is someone I trust. I’m coming around on Rubin too. Corker seems opportunistic given this has only happened after he announced he wouldn’t run for re-election.
He’s a conservative radio host from Wisconsin, who has “suddenly realized” the trajectory of his rhetoric.
Shapiro is a “Never Trump” I don’t trust at all given he continues to act like Trump is a product of the left and thus the “left’s fault”. He totally ignores that he had no problem taking Steve Bannon’s money and was chummy with Milo until the Antisemites turned on Ben after Ben to his credit did defend the reporter that Corey attacked.
re: #192 FormerDirtDart
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re: #204 retired cynic
He’s a conservative radio host from Wisconsin, who has “suddenly realized” the trajectory of his rhetoric.
Yeah some of the Wisconsites have mentioned him here. Just not familiar with his past rhetoric.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
I’m not familiar with Sykes but I’m definitely wary of many of the Never Trumpers. Ana is someone I trust. I’m coming around on Rubin too. Corker seems opportunistic given this has only happened after he announced he wouldn’t run for re-election.
Sykes was a small-market hate radio talker who went Never Trump - which happened to coincide with his retirement from hate radio.
Another one who waited until he was beyond consequences before speaking up.
re: #198 retired cynic
In the Jennifer Rubin — Ana Navarro — Bob Corker spectrum of never-Trumperz, there is Charlie Sykes. Driftglass rips him a new one this morning. Good title!
I’m on the same level as Drift, this sudden outpouring of “shock” and “disbelief” by the #NeverTrump crowd is such a crock that anybody who buys it should have their heads examined. These fuckers are not born-again and suddenly coming to terms with the realities of the modern world, they’re trying to save their sorry asses from the very horrors that they conjured into being over the span of decades.
re: #193 HappyWarrior
That could be huge given Saudi Arabia’s place not just as a leader in the Muslim world but its place in Muslim culture.
I’m not holding my breath on this unless they also tackle rising sectarianism and hatred of Muslim minorities as well.
Although, on the comments section of a story about KSA opening up cinemas soon, many Pakistanis lamented over the downfall of KSA and turning it into Las Vegas. Yes, bringing cinemas in is tantamount to turning it into the next Las Vegas to idiotic Pakistanis obsessed with Islam.
re: #209 Targetpractice
I’m on the same level as Drift, this sudden outpouring of “shock” and “disbelief” by the #NeverTrump crowd is such a crock that anybody who buys it should have their heads examined. These fuckers are not born-again and suddenly coming to terms with the realities of the modern world, they’re trying to save their sorry asses from the very horrors that they conjured into being over the span of decades.
I don’t think much of it is genuine, and there was certainly more that the alleged NeverTrumpers could have done to prevent this calamity. But there is a big part of me that doesn’t care. This gets so deep under Trump’s skin and I love it.
re: #199 Dr Lizardo
That’s encouraging to see. He’s pushing back at the hardcore clerics.
Saudi Arabia went really ultra-conservative after the 1979 Masjid al-Haraam incident. It looks like the Crown Prince has realized that the King at that time drew the wrong conclusions - instead of liberalizing further, he went in the opposite direction and made the country even more conservative than it already was.
You know, as soon as I saw the report on the Crown Prince’s statement, my immediate thought was that there will likely be another attack on the Grand Mosque.
I mean I’m glad to have any help against Trump but at the same time, I want conservatives to acknowledge either their direct role in making someone like Trump palatable to the GOP base or indirect role in continuing to vote GOP. Acknowledge your party and ideology’s problems and stop acting like Trump doesn’t speak for conservatives and conservatism because he does.
re: #210 electrotek
I’m not holding my breath on this unless they also tackle rising sectarianism and hatred of Muslim minorities as well.
Although, on the comments section of a story about KSA opening up cinemas soon, many Pakistanis lamented over the downfall of KSA and turning it into Las Vegas. Yes, bringing cinemas in is tantamount to turning it into the next Las Vegas to idiotic Pakistanis obsessed with Islam.
Certainly. I was simply speaking about the potential.
I might have taken the #NeverTrump crowd slightly more seriously if they hadn’t spent every waking moment they weren’t distancing themselves from Trump to attack Hillary and the DNC. You send hella mixed messages when you’re screaming “Trump would be a disaster, BUT HILLARY WOULD BE WORSE!!!!”
re: #199 Dr Lizardo
That’s encouraging to see. He’s pushing back at the hardcore clerics.
Saudi Arabia went really ultra-conservative after the 1979 Masjid al-Haraam incident. It looks like the Crown Prince has realized that the King at that time drew the wrong conclusions - instead of liberalizing further, he went in the opposite direction and made the country even more conservative than it already was.
Don’t forget the Iranian Revolution either.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
I mean I’m glad to have any help against Trump but at the same time, I want conservatives to acknowledge either their direct role in making someone like Trump palatable to the GOP base or indirect role in continuing to vote GOP. Acknowledge your party and ideology’s problems and stop acting like Trump doesn’t speak for conservatives and conservatism because he does.
As we’ve seen ever since Trump was elected, this crowd wants a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, they want us to act as if there’s a division between them and the wingnuts they’ve been gorging on red meat for decades so they bear no responsibility for their actions. Much like after the Dubya years, they want us to pretend that they were always against all the things Trump stands for, even as they’re pushing them in a quieter tone.
re: #212 FormerDirtDart
You know, as soon as I saw the report on the Crown Prince’s statement, my immediate thought was that there will likely be another attack on the Grand Mosque.
That thought occurred to me as well; the hardline extremists won’t like this one iota.
re: #215 Targetpractice
I might have taken the #NeverTrump crowd slightly more seriously if they hadn’t spent every waking moment they weren’t distancing themselves from Trump to attack Hillary and the DNC. You send hella mixed messages when you’re screaming “Trump would be a disaster, BUT HILLARY WOULD BE WORSE!!!!”
Navarro pretty much screamed “Vote for Hillary!” Actually, I think she did scream it.
re: #219 Belafon
Navarro pretty much screamed “Vote for Hillary!” Actually, I think she did scream it.
There will always be exceptions to the rule.
re: #216 electrotek
Don’t forget the Iranian Revolution either.
Yeah….that turned out to be the really big event in the Islamic world in 1979. The Masjid al-Haraam takeover by that would-be Mahdi nutcase got sort of forgotten in all the chaos of the Iranian Revolution.
re: #219 Belafon
Navarro pretty much screamed “Vote for Hillary!” Actually, I think she did scream it.
Navarro and McMullin have, to their credit, been amazingly consistent regarding their views an opposition to Trump. McMullin still pushes some unacceptably conservative economic views, but he’s been one of the few on the right side of the aisle that’s been battering Trump on all angles, especially on the ‘culture’ side of things. Navarro all but campaigned for Hillary herself, as noted, and has been a consistently sane voice herself.
Rubin’s getting there too, to her credit. Sykes and Shapiro can dig a hole though.
Farewell Rocket Man
And, fair winds and following seas Captain
Paul Weitz, commander of 1st flight of space shuttle Challenger, has died at 85: https://t.co/7YK0QsQIbz pic.twitter.com/UEs9qGiB8O
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 24, 2017
Thing is, most of the #NeverTrump crowd has engaged in the very sort of behavior that they have attacked Hillary for post-election: Going after Trump’s personal and public snafus rather than the policies he’s pushing and the GOP are pursuing. I doubt you’re going to find too many of his conservative critics declaring that tax cuts are a mistake, or that the ACA deserves to be protected and expanded.
re: #222 Citizen K
Navarro and McMullin have, to their credit, been amazingly consistent regarding their views an opposition to Trump. McMullin still pushes some unacceptably conservative economic views, but he’s been one of the few on the right side of the aisle that’s been battering Trump on all angles, especially on the ‘culture’ side of things. Navarro all but campaigned for Hillary herself, as noted, and has been a consistently sane voice herself.
Rubin’s getting there too, to her credit. Sykes and Shapiro can dig a hole though.
Shapiro is someone who only became Never Trump because he started getting attacked. I respect Ana because Ana’s been against his bigoted message from the start. Evan too. And yeah Evan does have some economic views I dislike but I don’t need Evan to run in my party. I just think he’s an acceptable ally.
Pence did a fundraiser for this guy last week, day after walking out of the Colts game. https://t.co/FUNRMnga7A
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) October 24, 2017
re: #224 Targetpractice
Thing is, most of the #NeverTrump crowd has engaged in the very sort of behavior that they have attacked Hillary for post-election: Going after Trump’s personal and public snafus rather than the policies he’s pushing and the GOP are pursuing. I doubt you’re going to find too many of his conservative critics declaring that tax cuts are a mistake, or that the ACA deserves to be protected and expanded.
A lot of them I feel, that their biggest concern about Trump was that he was going to “sully” conservatism’s “good name.” They were afraid that he was going to make their message look like we all know what modern American conservatism has been: An exclusive, xenophobic, elitist, and overall negative vision of America.
re: #217 Targetpractice
As we’ve seen ever since Trump was elected, this crowd wants a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, they want us to act as if there’s a division between them and the wingnuts they’ve been gorging on red meat for decades so they bear no responsibility for their actions. Much like after the Dubya years, they want us to pretend that they were always against all the things Trump stands for, even as they’re pushing them in a quieter tone.
And by “us”, they are definitely including the “mainstream” media - who of course, politely roll over for whatever “respectable” conservative/Republican talking-points are being pushed. Not only are “we” supposed to ignore the “establishment’s” complicity in pushing Cheeto Benito into the Presidency, but under no circumstances at all is anyone ever supposed to criticize - still less castigate - the “Trump voter” (any Trump voter) over the foolishness, or negative consequences of their support for this manifestly unqualified and incompetent buffoon.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
A lot of them I feel, that their biggest concern about Trump was that he was going to “sully” conservatism’s “good name.” They were afraid that he was going to make their message look like we all know what modern American conservatism has been: An exclusive, xenophobic, elitist, and overall negative vision of America.
That’s why I respect Ana Navarro most out of the #NeverTrump folks, since she seems to be the most genuine about realizing ‘this is what the party has always been turning into’ and turning away from it consciously.
re: #230 Citizen K
That’s why I respect Ana Navarro most out of the #NeverTrump folks, since she seems to be the most genuine about realizing ‘this is what the party has always been turning into’ and turning away from it consciously.
It also helps that she is a Latina woman who would be disproportionately affected by Trump’s policies and rhetoric, compared to the other #NeverTrump folks.
re: #230 Citizen K
That’s why I respect Ana Navarro most out of the #NeverTrump folks, since she seems to be the most genuine about realizing ‘this is what the party has always been turning into’ and turning away from it consciously.
Yes. And as I said, she’s been there from the start and she also, she supported Hillary and didn’t try to both sides it. Ana probably does have ideological disagreements with many of us but I do like and respect her because she’s a human being first.
re: #231 electrotek
It also helps that she is a Latina woman who would be disproportionately affected by Trump’s policies and rhetoric, compared to the other #NeverTrump folks.
That is true as well. I think Ana honestly coming from the South Florida GOP, a much more diverse GOP organization than you’ll find most places perhaps didn’t realize how much resentment goes into Republican policies and driving the base. I also think she does have integrity so unlike Rubio, she didn’t jump on board. Not sure what she thinks of him. IIRC Ana was with Jeb.
Argument fodder, if you need it: Thrillist: The Best Band from Every State
Discuss.
Not much I can add here.
“Bannon may run for president” https://t.co/gfsXQMC3Og pic.twitter.com/nn5J90fHrl
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
1/ Hahahahhahahahahahhahhahahahhahhahahhahhahahahahahahahhahhaha
hhahhhahhahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahhahhahahhaahahahahha https://t.co/YZugfJvT8B — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 24, 2017
(The laughter goes on for a while.)
re: #235 makeitstop
Not much I can add here.
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Bannon-Cheap Scotch Bottle 2020!
re: #235 makeitstop
Not much I can add here.
(The laughter goes on for a while.)
Of course we laughed about Trump, too…..
…of Cocaine Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous?
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) October 24, 2017
re: #235 makeitstop
Not much I can add here.
(The laughter goes on for a while.)
In…2024? He looks about 70 now as it is.
re: #238 Sir John Barron
Of course we laughed about Trump, too…..
I still am…..but kinda nervously now.
Jesus fucking christ on a barbed wire tightrope
#BREAKING: House GOP opens investigation into FBI’s Clinton email probe https://t.co/7Vbs0v2LoT pic.twitter.com/FwxPtPI7i6
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
re: #123 Belafon
I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.
This made me laugh for nearly a minute.
Life imitates parody. https://t.co/qutVfQPaAC
— Gary Bleck 📎 (@GaryBleck) October 24, 2017
re: #234 makeitstop
Argument fodder, if you need it: Thrillist: The Best Band from Every State
Discuss.
Television for New York. Me likey.
Isley Brothers for Ohio. Okay…but I don’t consider them a band so much.
re: #243 The Vicious Babushka
Jesus fucking christ on a barbed wire tightrope
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re: #243 The Vicious Babushka
Jesus fucking christ on a barbed wire tightrope
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Focused on what matters.
re: #234 makeitstop
Argument fodder, if you need it: Thrillist: The Best Band from Every State
Discuss.
If Tom Petty wasn’t listed for FL I would have a comment.
But he was, of course.
re: #238 Sir John Barron
Of course we laughed about Trump, too…..
Had to upding this comment for brutal accuracy.
WTF happened?
So, who’s laughing now???
re: #249 Stanley Sea
If Tom Petty wasn’t listed for FL I would have a comment.
But he was, of course.
I was disappointed that Drive By Truckers didn’t at least get mentioned in Alabama.
It’s the parents fault…
Cage William Edwards, they labelled him a dude-bro from birth
UPDATE: Mug photo released of 19-year-old UNF student accused of pulling gun on roommate — https://t.co/5JOV8gryWJ pic.twitter.com/hsxV8sEwRc
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) October 24, 2017
re: #255 ObserverArt
Hey Joe! Thanks for posting my ‘shop.
I got to admit that he never looked better!
re: #243 The Vicious Babushka
Jesus fucking christ on a barbed wire tightrope
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One of those “you can’t make this shit up” moments:
The two Republican leaders said they have questions about the FBI’s decision to openly declare the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, while quietly investigating Trump campaign associates.
The people who spent much of the past two years bitching that the FBI wasn’t loud enough about its “criminal investigation” into Hillary are now accusing the FBI of being too loud about said “investigation” while quietly looking into Trump.
My bullshit-o-meter just exploded.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
I was disappointed that Drive By Truckers didn’t at least get mentioned in Alabama.
Yeah, they seem to have focused on Philly for Pennsylvania. No mention of Halestorm. I didn’t expect Donnie Iris because of the BAND designation they used for selection criteria. No mention of Rusted Root either, oh well.
But wait, there’s more:
#BREAKING: House committees to investigate Russia uranium deal https://t.co/4wq5GkB6Tt pic.twitter.com/U9W8MREplM
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2017
Two new investigations into Hillary, announced on the same day, and both into the actions of the FBI. I’m sure it’s pure coincidence.
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re: #252 HappyWarrior
I was disappointed that Drive By Truckers didn’t at least get mentioned in Alabama.
Yeah, but the Swampers, dude. Legendary.
re: #259 Targetpractice
But wait, there’s more:
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These guys need to lose their majority like now.
re: #260 makeitstop
Yeah, but the Swampers, dude. Legendary.
Oh I’m sure. Anyhow I need to look at some of these bands. Kentucky has quietly a good scene i.e MMJ and Cage the Elephant.
re: #260 makeitstop
Yeah, but the Swampers, dude. Legendary.
I would have gone with a different band from Texas - Kings X or those guys with the beards…
Nunes just announced that the House Intel Committee is opening an investigation into the US-Russia-Uranium deal struck under Clinton.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 24, 2017
Nunes is not interested in wrestling w/issues that matter most to our intelligence community: Adequacy of collection assets vs. Russia, etc. https://t.co/E8qKvcnkwn
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) October 24, 2017
“We’re not going to jump to any conclusions but we’re going to try to get the facts,” Rep. Nunes says https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/Pt818L7zyt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 24, 2017
Nunes should be a carnival barker, given how hard he works to promote sideshows. https://t.co/cLdQ1ljPn9
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) October 24, 2017
1. Yiannopoulos appears on Murdoch-owned channel, suggests Ellen was complicit in Las Vegas mass murder https://t.co/RRCXMtqKfK pic.twitter.com/BDE0jPSpuH
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 24, 2017
re: #80 jeffreyw
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Unless you live next door to a park or golf course, now I’m going to have to hate you not only for breakfasts you make but also for your lawn. The dog’s OK, though.
re: #265 FormerDirtDart
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Well at least he’s in Australia doing that. It seems his fifteen minutes ran out here. But it seems like he’s going the Alex Jones route. He’s such a pathetic little loser.
re: #264 FormerDirtDart
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After months of trying to push the conclusion that the Russia probe is a “witch hunt” and deliberately attempting to sabotage it such that he eventually “recused” himself, David Nunes decides to bullshit us all that he’s going to give a genuine investigation into the “facts” of the latest Republican effort to smear Hillary.
Milobis nothing but a grown up version of that kid who would try too hard to be funny in class but just came off like an obnoxious jackass.
re: #269 Targetpractice
After months of trying to push the conclusion that the Russia probe is a “witch hunt” and deliberately attempting to sabotage it such that he eventually “recused” himself, David Nunes decides to bullshit us all that he’s going to give a genuine investigation into the “facts” of the latest Republican effort to smear Hillary.
Devin not David, don’t smear that good name and no my nane’s not Dave.
Somehow, it gets worse from here.https://t.co/4AH2ksN0YZ pic.twitter.com/deS7dP0Z7z
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) October 24, 2017
re: #263 makeitstop
I would have gone with a different band from Texas - Kings X or those guys with the beards…
How is Stevie Ray Vaugn and Double Trouble not the best band from Texas?
bob corker - courage
He added: “I think at the end of the day, when his term is over. I think the debasing of our nation, the constant not truth telling, just the name calling, the things… I think the debasement of our nation will be what he’ll be remembered most for and that’s regretful.”
watch me do it with one word: lying
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I posted it on my FB and of course the usual dissenters claim it was “stupid” and here’s the kicker:
Give how unscientific the methodology was I’m surprised the numbers were not higher. I dont expect the Army Times to be a bastion of market research but the way they conducted the study was embarrassingly poor. Research done in an open methodology like that is usually conducted to prove a point
/facepalm
Re Puerto Rico: In private tag because it’s just a rumor right now.
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The general theme of today’s two announcement from the House GOP is that the FBI is either incompetent or deliberately criminal, which goes hand-in-hand with their efforts to claim that those charged with investigating Trump and Russia are actively working to undermine him.
re: #272 Stanley Sea
Somehow, it gets worse from here.https://t.co/4AH2ksN0YZ pic.twitter.com/deS7dP0Z7z
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) October 24, 2017
re: #63 goddamnedfrank
My block list is up to 17945 assholes.
Damn, I’ve only blocked 62 accounts, and some of those are bots rather than actual assholes.
re: #74 Joe Bacon 🌹
Pure evil. pic.twitter.com/YTNutkLRpe
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 24, 2017
Video of the incident pic.twitter.com/MtpQFTc7bv
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) October 24, 2017
Longer, includes more post throw activities
Full video: Chaos erupts as President Trump enters the Senate GOP lunch and a protester posing as a reporter begins yelling about treason. pic.twitter.com/GiYMwt9g5l
— Emma Loop (@LoopEmma) October 24, 2017
Protester ID’d self as Ryan Clayton from Americans Take Action got very close to Trump and threw these flags at him pic.twitter.com/hIk1v2qpHS
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) October 24, 2017
Ugh, just ugh. And I am pretty sure this guy is still not telling the complete truth.
Mathews admitted to removing #SherinMathews’ body from the home pic.twitter.com/jMQ0QvotYv
— Shannon Murray (@ShannonMFox4) October 24, 2017
The little girl disappeared on Oct. 7. Her body was found in a culvert on Sunday.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
So it’s just like any other day. Trump acquired his delusional base by lying on Twitter.
— Jeff Fearlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 24, 2017
re: #286 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Can’t people just start using the very excellent word “lies”?
re: #287 Skip Intro
Can’t people just start using the very excellent word “lies”?
you beat me be mere minutes
my lying was bigger
re: #269 Targetpractice
After months of trying to push the conclusion that the Russia probe is a “witch hunt” and deliberately attempting to sabotage it such that he eventually “recused” himself, David Nunes decides to bullshit us all that he’s going to give a genuine investigation into the “facts” of the latest Republican effort to smear Hillary.
I look forward to Nunes in 2018 saying he regretted supporting Drumpf and obstructing justice in regards to the Russia collusion.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart
Next Erick son of Erick: Antifa Left is violently throwing flags at Republicans.
another thought about this Whitefish Energy thing: the company describing the linemen being hired as “subcontractors” raises all sorts of red flags on several levels.
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
Re Puerto Rico: In private tag because it’s just a rumor right now.
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re: #283 FormerDirtDart
Full video: Chaos erupts as President Trump enters the Senate GOP lunch and a protester posing as a reporter begins yelling about treason.
— Emma Loop
Tip: Trump brings the chaos with him. He is chaos.
re: #267 whitebeach
Unless you live next door to a park or golf course, now I’m going to have to hate you not only for breakfasts you make but also for your lawn. The dog’s OK, though.
That’s Katie, a rescue that escaped a few days after we brought her from the shelter. She hung around but we could not get close enough to catch her for a couple of months. Finally trapped her on a cooperative neighbor’s porch where she was sneaking meals off of scraps he put out. She’s still very shy after four years with us. Here she is the day we finally recaptured her:
On another note, I was bummed that I lost out on the auction of a car I really wanted overseas last week :(
And no it wasn’t eBay. It was the Japanese car auctions that move 10,000-20,000 vehicles weekly.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart
When will Hillary disavow?!?!??!?!
re: #282 FormerDirtDart
Who wants to bet that the Trump administration uses this as a reason to further restrict press access to the President?
re: #234 makeitstop
Argument fodder, if you need it: Thrillist: The Best Band from Every State
Discuss.
Honestly, outside of Minnesota (Prince & the Revolution) and Florida (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) i disagree with just about every pick they made.
For example, California - how the hell do you put the Beach Boys ahead of groups like The Eagles and The Grateful Dead? Surfer music during the 1960s was relatively short-lived in popularity, and Brian Wilson wasn’t exactly a musical revolutionary.
Washington State is even worse - Sleater-Kinney? Over Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and The Jimi Hendrix Experience? At least put some effort into writing this list, guys.
re: #264 FormerDirtDart
Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi Congressional Committee was the height of ridiculousness.
Nunes: Hold my beer.
re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth
another thought about this Whitefish Energy thing: the company describing the linemen being hired as “subcontractors” raises all sorts of red flags and several levels.
in simple terms, if whitefish is telling them what to do when to do it and how to do it they are employees.
they’d have to be supplying their own tools, equipment, trucks, supplies, billing whitefish for time and materials for their services, have other clients, advertise, have a phone number, business cards, solicit business from others in the market, …..
what most people dont get is re: irs and taxes, “subcontractor”, “independent” “1099 payee” status etc is not based on an agreement between two parties. its based on facts and circumstances, not any sort of contract or understanding
one really neat thing is if they are paid as independents and so they pay their own self employment tax, if the company is audited later on, the irs can collect the same payroll taxes all over again (with hefty penalties and interest). the individual doesnt get his portion back.
re: #299 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Wisconsin
Garbage
America’s most dairy-laden state has given the world so much more than the Packers and extra-sharp cheddar. Mainly Garbage. The Madison group served as the Midwestern vanguard of grunge-twinged alternative rock, with Butch Vig — the guy who produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, Sonic Youth’s Dirty, and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream — on drums and a viciously blasé Shirley Manson belting out lyrics to massive hits like “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains.” Early indie stars like Violent Femmes and guitar god Steve Miller’s eponymous band also deserve mentioning in any record of notable Wisconsin bands, but none of them put out a song as good as “Queer.”
Fact Check: True
Whoa. https://t.co/g1r05i4P4z pic.twitter.com/tPN4uHiQqQ
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) October 24, 2017
re: #245 Ace-o-aces
[[Dora trailer by College Humor]]
Even though it was College Humor, I am still not convinced it is not a parody.
re: #302 dangerman
in simple terms, if whitefish is telling them what to do when to do it and how to do it they are employees.
they’d have to be supplying their own tools, equipment, trucks, supplies, billing whitefish for time and materials for their services, have other clients, advertise, have a phone number, business cards, solicit business from others in the market, …..
what most people dont get is re: irs and taxes, “subcontractor”, “independent” “1099 payee” status etc is not based on an agreement between two parties. its based on facts and circumstances, not any sort of contract or understanding
one really neat thing is if they are paid as independents and so they pay their own self employment tax, if the company is audited later on, the irs can collect the same payroll taxes all over again (with hefty penalties and interest). the individual doesnt get his portion back.
Bolded part is exactly what MrBWS said when I told him about the Whitefish thing. Only he said “bullshit” not “red flags”.
Details of the latest @MilitaryTimes Poll online now: Enlisted troops love Trump, officers don’t https://t.co/yB2Gp5dyGz pic.twitter.com/YYHgOCdWVM
— Leo Shane III (@LeoShane) October 23, 2017
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bolded part is exactly what MrBWS said when I told him about the Whitefish thing. Only he said “bullshit” not “red flags”.
yup
the whole contract is such an obvious scam - there’s no company infrastructure there so they have no capacity for a job like this. they’d have to buy it fast - lots of people and equipment, or rent it which is what they’re trying to do
this small part - fleecing the workers, is just an attempt to save on the benefits and probably transfer some liability
re: #295 jeffreyw
That’s Katie, a rescue that escaped a few days after we brought her from the shelter. She hung around but we could not get close enough to catch her for a couple of months. Finally trapped her on a cooperative neighbor’s porch where she was sneaking meals off of scraps he put out. She’s still very shy after four years with us. Here she is the day we finally recaptured her:
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Wasn’t there another photo just like the one you posted, sitting in the chair, but with a cat? Or is my memory faulty?
re: #299 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
For example, California - how the hell do you put the Beach Boys ahead of groups like The Eagles and The Grateful Dead? Surfer music during the 1960s was relatively short-lived in popularity, and Brian Wilson wasn’t exactly a musical revolutionary.
I’d disagree vociferously with the bolded. Wilson brought pop music to a level of sophistication that was so astounding, even The Beatles saw his work as the standard they should try to meet.
I would easily put Brian Wilson in the pantheon of American composers of any Genre. He’s right up there with Gershwin and Aaron Copeland in my book.
Washington State is even worse - Sleater-Kinney? Over Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and The Jimi Hendrix Experience? At least put some effort into writing this list, guys.
Read the rules. Native bands.
Eddie Vedder was from San Diego.
Dave Grohl was from Baltimore.
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were from England. Hardly locals.
And the Foo Fighters are literally from all over the country.
re: #254 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s unfair to Zippy to associate him with T.G.
re: #307 FormerDirtDart
Look at the group that gives him almost a 60% approval rating o_O
…is this the type of thing that led to the old expression “Tell it to the Marines”…?
The supposition that Trump offended a grieving soldier’s widow on purpose isn’t just unfair, it’s highly illogical.https://t.co/Cryh0mioZN
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) October 24, 2017
Listen, libtards. That thing no one was arguing? It’s incorrect! https://t.co/maGh2siIh2
— Bae “Boo” Talese (@elongreen) October 24, 2017
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
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I’m taking the widow’s words over some hacks who want to project Trump as some sort of gentleman. It’s not illogical to suggest it at all.
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
If Obama had said to someone “I heard your mother has cancer. That’s sad, but she had you, so that’s good, right?” they would have torn him apart.
What’s unfair is how Kelly continues to not apologize for dragging Wilson’s name through the mud.
re: #316 Belafon
If Obama had said to someone “I heard your mother has cancer. That’s sad, but she had you, so that’s good, right?” they would have torn him apart.
No doubt. And they’d did everything possible to portray Obama and his administration as not respecting the armed forces.
re: #278 Targetpractice
The general theme of today’s two announcement from the House GOP is that the FBI is either incompetent or deliberately criminal, which goes hand-in-hand with their efforts to claim that those charged with investigating Trump and Russia are actively working to undermine him.
I would think all of this is really going to piss off the FBI. And since Mueller was FBI, I think he will be even more interested in these new investigations. I’m sure he sees all of this as Congress covering for Trump. The danger too is by hinting the FBI is undermining Trump you are throwing conservatives under the bus too as the FBI is not made up of one party.
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
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Trump’s intent was pretty obvious, namely to make the call just so he could tell the press the call had been made and to shut up about it. So the call was given the same total lack of attention he gives every task he doesn’t wish to do but is doing to please someone else. He wouldn’t even stick to the respectful (if hackneyed) script that Kelly had approved, which became obvious when he couldn’t remember the name of the man whose widow he was supposedly trying to comfort.
We don’t question his intent behind making the call because it’s obvious his only intent was to make the issue go away. We question why in the holy hell he couldn’t acknowledge that the effort was substandard and apology, instead launching into an attack on a witness and trying to lie to the nation.
re: #287 Skip Intro
Can’t people just start using the very excellent word “lies”?
I always give Lawrence O’Donnell props because he never hesitates to call Trump a liar. And he does it often.
re: #320 Targetpractice
Trump’s intent was pretty obvious, namely to make the call just so he could tell the press the call had been made and to shut up about it. So the call was given the same total lack of attention he gives every task he doesn’t wish to do but is doing to please someone else. He wouldn’t even stick to the respectful (if hackneyed) script that Kelly had approved, which became obvious when he couldn’t remember the name of the man whose widow he was supposedly trying to comfort.
We don’t question his intent behind making the call because it’s obvious his only intent was to make the issue go away. We question why in the holy hell he couldn’t acknowledge that the effort was substandard and apology, instead launching into an attack on a witness and trying to lie to the nation.
Exactly. Just say you fucked up. Oh wait, it’s Trump. He has no humility at all.
re: #316 Belafon
If Obama had said to someone “I heard your mother has cancer. That’s sad, but she had you, so that’s good, right?” they would have torn him apart.
Don’t have to imagine anything, just look at the still smoldering “outrage” over Hillary’s remarks to the families of Benghazi victims.
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
The supposition that Trump offended a grieving soldier’s widow on purpose isn’t just unfair, it’s highly illogical.
— The Federalist
The Federalist can always be counted on to serve up a pro-DrumpF take on any subject at any time, no matter how indefensible.
re: #324 Sir John Barron
The Federalist can always be counted on to serve up a pro-DrumpF take on any subject at any time, no matter how indefensible.
Can I brag again about how awesome it is that Sean Davis at The Federalist has blocked me?
Once again Trump would be nothing without his lackeys.
re: #314 FormerDirtDart
The supposition that Trump offended a grieving soldier’s widow on purpose isn’t just unfair, it’s highly illogical.
— The Federalist
After eight years of anti-Obama hysteria and slime, The Federalist is wailing about something being unfair to Trump.
re: #326 HappyWarrior
Once again Trump would be nothing without his lackeys.
Can we get someone to defend me on Twitter? How much $$$$ will it take?
[John Kelly]No problem, won’t cost anything at all. The Federalist will come up with something any minute now.[/John Kelly]
re: #123 Belafon
I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.
This made me laugh for nearly a minute.
Last spring I saw the brilliant Japanese anime movie Your Name.
Then this happened a couple of weeks ago…..
The recent announcement that the Star Wars director JJ Abrams is to make a live-action version of the record-breaking animated film Your Name has prompted a backlash among fans of the original, who fear another Hollywood “whitewash” of a Japanese masterpiece.
Makoto Shinkai’s fantasy about a teenage girl living in a picturesque but unexciting village and a Tokyo schoolboy who are drawn together by gender-swapping dreams has proved a global hit since its release in Japan last year and made more at the box office than any other animated film in history.
The universally positive reception to its visual brilliance and a storyline that skilfully combines body-swapping, the search for love and a dramatic attempt to save a town from destruction have prompted talk of Shinkai as the successor to the acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki.
The prospect of a Hollywood remake of Your Name - which made $350m (£260m) in 90 countries - has been greeted with both intrigue and concern over the possible loss of the film’s distinctively Japanese flavour, from its Radwimps original soundtrack to Shinkai’s painstakingly recreated Tokyo landmarks and scenes from Nagano prefecture, where he grew up.
Can’t be long before The Federalist churns out an anti-Bob Corker piece.
re: #329 Scottish Dragon
Last spring I saw the brilliant Japanese anime movie Your Name.
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Then this happened a couple of weeks ago…..
The recent announcement that the Star Wars director JJ Abrams is to make a live-action version of the record-breaking animated film Your Name has prompted a backlash among fans of the original, who fear another Hollywood “whitewash” of a Japanese masterpiece.
Makoto Shinkai’s fantasy about a teenage girl living in a picturesque but unexciting village and a Tokyo schoolboy who are drawn together by gender-swapping dreams has proved a global hit since its release in Japan last year and made more at the box office than any other animated film in history.
The universally positive reception to its visual brilliance and a storyline that skilfully combines body-swapping, the search for love and a dramatic attempt to save a town from destruction have prompted talk of Shinkai as the successor to the acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki.
The prospect of a Hollywood remake of Your Name - which made $350m (£260m) in 90 countries - has been greeted with both intrigue and concern over the possible loss of the film’s distinctively Japanese flavour, from its Radwimps original soundtrack to Shinkai’s painstakingly recreated Tokyo landmarks and scenes from Nagano prefecture, where he grew up.
Hollywood can’t even do faithful live-action adaptation of American cartoons without fucking them six ways to Sunday.
re: #299 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Honestly, outside of Minnesota (Prince & the Revolution) and Florida (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) i disagree with just about every pick they made.
For example, California - how the hell do you put the Beach Boys ahead of groups like The Eagles and The Grateful Dead? Surfer music during the 1960s was relatively short-lived in popularity, and Brian Wilson wasn’t exactly a musical revolutionary.
Washington State is even worse - Sleater-Kinney? Over Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana and The Jimi Hendrix Experience? At least put some effort into writing this list, guys.
I have no problem with your comments about the Beach Boys maybe not being the best California band, but saying Brian Wilson was not a musical revolutionary is just plain wrong.
Maybe you are caught up in only their early and most popular surfer stuff, but to say songs and arrangements like Good Vibrations, Wouldn’t it be Nice and some others ignores what he did for music and the influences on other bands. And Pet Sounds sent reverberations all through the pop music industry.
re: #331 Targetpractice
Hollywood can’t even do faithful live-action adaptation of American cartoons without fucking them six ways to Sunday.
I liked “Beauty and the Beast”
“Cinderella” sucked tho. I mean if they are going to make it about the Stepmother (and let’s face it IT WAS TOTALLY ABOUT THE STEPMOTHER BECAUSE CATE BLANCHETT) shouldn’t she have her own movie, like “Maleficent”)
re: #310 makeitstop
I’d disagree vociferously with the bolded. Wilson brought pop music to a level of sophistication that was so astounding, even The Beatles saw his work as the standard they should try to meet.
I would easily put Brian Wilson in the pantheon of American composers of any Genre. He’s right up there with Gershwin and Aaron Copeland in my book.
Read the rules. Native bands.
Eddie Vedder was from San Diego.
Dave Grohl was from Baltimore.
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were from England. Hardly locals.And the Foo Fighters are literally from all over the country.
Shirley Manson is from Scotland and Garbage was still best from Wisconsin. Guess the rest of the crew being native to there allowed them credit for that.
re: #310 makeitstop
I’d disagree vociferously with the bolded. Wilson brought pop music to a level of sophistication that was so astounding, even The Beatles saw his work as the standard they should try to meet.
I would easily put Brian Wilson in the pantheon of American composers of any Genre. He’s right up there with Gershwin and Aaron Copeland in my book.
Read the rules. Native bands.
Eddie Vedder was from San Diego.
Dave Grohl was from Baltimore.
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were from England. Hardly locals.And the Foo Fighters are literally from all over the country.
Thank You. Had not Brian wigged out early on, can you imagine the body of work the guy would have put out?
re: #304 FormerDirtDart
California needs to build a wall between it and Nevada and Arizona.
re: #332 ObserverArt
Maybe you are caught up in only their early and most popular surfer stuff, but to say songs and arrangements like Good Vibrations, Wouldn’t it be Nice and some others ignores what he did for music and the influences on other bands. And Pet Sounds sent reverberations all through the pop music industry.
But even early Beach Boys songs like ‘In My Room,’ ‘Don’t Worry Baby,’ ‘Surfer Girl’ and ‘Caroline No’ were extremely sophisticated for the time they came out. Miles beyond what anyone else was doing at the time.
Brian Wilson is an American visionary. There, I said it.
Chris Christie on Trump: “He gets mad at me at times, he yells at me at times, but he respects me.” https://t.co/fRpDlCwbDp
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) October 23, 2017
Once proud Fat Man Chris Christie grovels in the fashion of a cringing slave, kissing the boots of his wrathful Master Donald Trump. https://t.co/lUY68yW3CF
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 23, 2017
re: #334 The Great Eye
Shirley Manson is from Scotland and Garbage was still best from Wisconsin. Guess the rest of the crew being native to there allowed them credit for that.
Good point. I guess they figured they’d relax the rules for favorite son Vig. :)
But by that measure, neither the Eagles nor the Dead would make the cut - Mickey Hart is from Brooklyn, and Bernie Leadon was from Gainesville.
re: #329 Scottish Dragon
The recent announcement that the Star Wars director JJ Abrams is to make a live-action version of the record-breaking animated film Your Name has prompted a backlash among fans of the original, who fear another Hollywood “whitewash” of a Japanese masterpiece.
After the disaster that was the live-action version of the Avatar: The Last Airbender I can understand that fear. Animation and techniques used in said do not always translate well to RL even with special effects.
And, more importantly, once a big American studio gets its hands on something, so much stupid can develop. Along with the loss of all cultural nuance. American’s aren’t so good at nuance in film.
Kid Rock Calls The New York Times ‘A Little Bit Gay,’ Isn’t Running For Senate After All
“F**k no, I’m not running for Senate,” the musician said. “Like who the f**k couldn’t figure that out?”
re: #342 Skip Intro
Kid Rock Calls The New York Times ‘A Little Bit Gay,’ Isn’t Running For Senate After All
Casual homophobia…
I hope some congressional aide is taping the yam’s meltdown at lunch.
After the russian flags, you know he’s losing it
re: #344 Stanley Sea
I hope some congressional aide is taping the yam’s meltdown at lunch.
After the russian flags, you know he’s losing it
Did he even see them? It looked like he’d passed before the guy threw them…
OTOH, he must have heard the guy yelling.
re: #342 Skip Intro
Kid Rock Calls The New York Times ‘A Little Bit Gay,’ Isn’t Running For Senate After All
Republicans around the country thought he was, or hoped he was, because Republicans around the country are insane.
Guess who, under TrumpCare, won’t be able to health insurance after they retire
There is an alarming rise in cancer among America’s firefighters. @tomcostellonbc explains. https://t.co/sUSfKGb366 pic.twitter.com/iUG1PiecaJ
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 24, 2017
re: #346 Sir John Barron
Republicans around the country thought he was, or hoped he was, because Republicans around the country are insane.
He created a website to “gauge support” for a run, so obviously he was seriously considering it at one time. But I guess he decided that being a foul-mouthed critic screaming from the sidelines was better for his bank account.
re: #338 Skip Intro
Chris Christie on Trump: “He gets mad at me at times, he yells at me at times, but he respects me.”
— Joe Perticone
Drumpf doesn’t respect anyone.
re: #342 Skip Intro
Kid Rock Calls The New York Times ‘A Little Bit Gay,’ Isn’t Running For Senate After All
The fact that the RSCC was seriously looking at you. But okay has been.
re: #329 Scottish Dragon
No. Just no.
No more of this. The original works are entirely good enough without Hollywood having to fuck them up. Your Name is a brilliant film - I have here at home. I enjoyed it greatly, along with The Tale of Princess Kaguya, another animated masterpiece.
BREAKING: @MilitaryTimes has just released a scientific poll of U.S. military troops. The things it found are game-changing. 1/
— Vets Against Trump (@commondefense) October 23, 2017
BREAKING: US Military joins FBI in acknowledging the gravest security threat to American troops are White Supremacist Terrorists. #Thread https://t.co/Uh5h0bjAip
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) October 24, 2017
re: #339 makeitstop
Good point. I guess they figured they’d relax the rules for favorite son Vig. :)
But by that measure, neither the Eagles nor the Dead would make the cut - Mickey Hart is from Brooklyn, and Bernie Leadon was from Gainesville.
Yeah, Don Henley is from Texas.
re: #342 Skip Intro
Kid Rock Calls The New York Times ‘A Little Bit Gay,’ Isn’t Running For Senate After All
Eminem getting cheers while Rock got booed did him in. :-)
re: #337 makeitstop
But even early Beach Boys songs like ‘In My Room,’ ‘Don’t Worry Baby,’ ‘Surfer Girl’ and ‘Caroline No’ were extremely sophisticated for the time they came out. Miles beyond what anyone else was doing at the time.
Brian Wilson is an American visionary. There, I said it.
You will get no argument from me.
re: #356 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, Don Henley is from Texas.
I thought he was an Okie?
Also, this happened - Bob Dylan and His Band doing a fine cover of a Petty song.
Honestly, 10 years ago I heard nothing about racism or race hate crimes. Obama set race relations back generations. Sad.
— Lori Hendry (@Lrihendry) October 23, 2017
I think Twitter keeps certain really stupid people on salary to provide pivots for interesting commentary and snark. Thanks, Twitter. https://t.co/61YfWA02h5
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 24, 2017
re: #360 Kragar
Who is this troubled heart?
re: #349 Targetpractice
He’s covering his ass after he got impressively booed at a Pistons game. Now it was all just a joke. Suuurrrrre.
US considering sanctions on Myanmar over Rohingya persecution
Not enough, I’d say.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I wouldn’t mind military action against Myanmar in the same vein against Da’esh.
re: #364 Kragar
Some RWNJ radio host
If Obama had been really evil, he would just have eliminated AM radio. Impoverished more wingnuts than the Great Depression.
Can you think of three foods where any two of them taste good together, but all three combined taste disgusting? https://t.co/S5bjs2nOx8
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) October 24, 2017
Hmmmm…Maybe I’ll test some combos at lunch.
re: #348 FormerDirtDart
Guess who, under TrumpCare, won’t be able to health insurance after they retire
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A local Columbus TV station (NBC channel 4) did a long series on cancer in just one of the Columbus fire stations. It is way off the clock as far as statistics.
They didn’t come out and say it, but a lot of modern building materials are probably the cause of many of the cancers. The thinking is the firemen have all kinds of nasty stuff on their fire suits after a fire and much of the debris is being inhaled, etc.
They are now looking at ways of cleaning off their suits and other protective gear after a fire.
It is bad enough what the fireman go through just fighting fires. To be getting cancer and dying so early from the work is just tragic.
re: #359 makeitstop
I thought he was an Okie?
Also, this happened - Bob Dylan and His Band doing a fine cover of a Petty song.
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I think Dallas/FW area is his hometown
re: #350 Sir John Barron
Drumpf doesn’t respect anyone.
That’s okay, because Christie is basically admitting he doesn’t respect himself.
re: #360 Kragar
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Honestly, 10 years ago I heard nothing about racism or race hate crimes. Obama set race relations back generations. Sad.
— Lori Hendry (@Lrihendry) October 23, 2017
You were how old then, 4-1/2? #Idiot https://t.co/XJzGQXitZm
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 24, 2017
Bill O’Reilly Dropped by Talent Agency After $32M Settlement Reveal https://t.co/3JCjLOFgaM
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 24, 2017
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Moscow) is hanging outside Trumps meeting, says he just wants to see Trump and wave, per @JoePerticone
Dana, basically: pic.twitter.com/HS3sRJKO5Q— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) October 24, 2017
re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth
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James Byrd, Matthew Shepherd. But yeah all Obama’s fault.
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s been around a long time. He’s part of why you can’t blame the GOP being pondscum just on Trump.
re: #367 JordanRules
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Hmmmm…Maybe I’ll test some combos at lunch.
White bread, chunky peanut butter, pureed ripe durian sauce.
re: #235 makeitstop
Not much I can add here.
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(The laughter goes on for a while.)
Sorry, I’m not laughing.
I laughed at Trump running for President.
Which reminds me, are any of the parties doing ANYTHING to fix their primary systems to prevent another catastrophe from happening in the future again? It’s clear in this age of easily manipulated internet public opinion that any demagogue kind get a party’s nomination now.
McConnell on Corker calling Trump dishonest: “i don’t have any observation about that”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 24, 2017
amazing how mainstream media lets him get away with punts like this. https://t.co/mJwuFgNBSi
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 24, 2017
re: #379 Skip Intro
Now that is a truly scary clown.
re: #371 Stanley Sea
That was excellent.
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re: #382 JordanRules
McConnell on Corker calling Trump dishonest: “i don’t have any observation about that”
— John Harwood
Very courage leadership
re: #381 weave
Good point and I haven’t seen any major primary changes yet. Dems are fighting about proposed changes with the Bernie wing (i.e. caucuses). Not sure if the GOP sees anything wrong.
Very little has been done to fix a large number of disenfranchising issues in our elections. Same for the national security issues. We’ll see the same foreign interference and the like in 2018. Why wouldn’t we?
re: #388 JordanRules
Good point and I haven’t seen any major primary changes yet. Dems are fighting about proposed changes with the Bernie wing (i.e. caucuses). Not sure if the GOP sees anything wrong.
Very little has been done to fix a large number of disenfranchising issues in our elections. Same for the national security issues. We’ll see the same foreign interference and the like in 2018. Why wouldn’t we?
They should get rid of caucuses.
Whoa. Another one!
Sen. Jeff Flake is retiring: https://t.co/mitLlz610v
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 24, 2017
re: #390 JordanRules
Agreed!
Even my Bernie supporting brother when I explained the concept to him didn’t like it.
re: #391 JordanRules
Whoa. Another one!
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He knew he’d be prinaried. That seat could be won with the right candidate.
re: #386 HappyWarrior
Of course he doesn’t. Mitch is a spineless wimp.
It’s not just Mitch. It’s Paulie and GOP members of both houses of Congress.
What a bunch of spineless and clueless fools they all are.
If American had a quarter of a brain in the voters they would all be voted out of office on principle.
re: #391 JordanRules
Whoa. Another one!
So, we’re probably going end up with an even wackier Senator from AZ than is there now.
Translation: The Republican Party is a raging dumpster fire of white nationalist racism that I will take no meaningful action to oppose.
— It’s FrănkenSTĒĒN (@goddamnedfrank) October 24, 2017
re: #368 ObserverArt
A local Columbus TV station (NBC channel 4) did a long series on cancer in just one of the Columbus fire stations. It is way off the clock as far as statistics.
They didn’t come out and say it, but a lot of modern building materials are probably the cause of many of the cancers. The thinking is the firemen have all kinds of nasty stuff on their fire suits after a fire and much of the debris is being inhaled, etc.
They are now looking at ways of cleaning off their suits and other protective gear after a fire.
It is bad enough what the fireman go through just fighting fires. To be getting cancer and dying so early from the work is just tragic.
Here in Sweden, at least in Stockholm Muni, the fire depts always was the suits after a shout which contaminated them. Has been so for years.
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
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as i’ve said, my mom turned 89 last week
i want that family guy “mommy, mommy, mommy” etc to be her ringtone when i call her
she wont have it (doesnt really get it )
re: #384 Joe Bacon 🌹
I loved smearing a slice of Roman Meal bread with this. I thought it tasted great, but my Mom and sister would howl about how bad it smelled…
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dare i say you would?
You know it’s a wake-up day in America when —- top trends are#ThingsITrustMorethanFOXNews#ThingsITrustMoreThanTrump#TrumpDaycareActivities ⛳️
@realDonaldTrump— CleanTheWhiteHouse (@PhillyFlorida) October 24, 2017
re: #309 Stanley Sea
Wasn’t there another photo just like the one you posted, sitting in the chair, but with a cat? Or is my memory faulty?
Well, actually (pause a beat), I noticed that I have posted that same photo before. Imgur tries to keep track of the views each picture gets and that one, when I checked just now, had more than I expected to see.
re: #270 HappyWarrior
Except he’s being financed by Evil, INC. Hopefully most little kids grow out of being immature brats before they reach Milo’s age.
I will never understand people like the Mercers. They have all the money a single human could spend in several lifetimes. The taxes they pay are literally a pittance compared to what they have for themselves. And it’s not enough. They could use their wealth and be loved, adored, renowned the world over as a family who leaves an awesome legacy behind. But nope. These rich assholes sit and enjoy watching the infighting and suffering of others, while claiming to be perfect saints. We’re watching an updated version of the Gilded Age and Robber Barons. They need to be stopped.
re: #405 A Mom Anon
Except he’s being financed by Evil, INC. Hopefully most little kids grow out of being immature brats before they reach Milo’s age.
I will never understand people like the Mercers. They have all the money a single human could spend in several lifetimes. The taxes they pay are literally a pittance compared to what they have for themselves. And it’s not enough. They could use their wealth and be loved, adored, renowned the world over as a family who leaves an awesome legacy behind. But nope. These rich assholes sit and enjoy watching the infighting and suffering of others, while claiming to be perfect saints. We’re watching an updated version of the Gilded Age and Robber Barons. They need to be stopped.
The Mercers are just evil. That’s all there is to it. Not content with having more money than God, they seek ever more personal power for themselves.
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