New From Olbermann: Did Trump Spot the Indictment’s Most Damning Phrase?
With three well-chosen words, Mueller hints that more people are going down.
With three well-chosen words, Mueller hints that more people are going down.
McConnell, Ryan, WH Cos Kelly, Nat’l Sec Adviser McMaster & DefSec Mattis all had dinner tonight
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 1, 2017
This strikes me as the kind of thing that could make Trump incredibly paranoid. https://t.co/vQ9Q4b77On
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) November 1, 2017
He wouldn’t know about it unless it was on Hannity.
Chances are you know many news agencies are no longer honest. So we developed the @NoSpinNews on https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C. See you there. pic.twitter.com/v8EAO77FtN
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) October 30, 2017
Oh thank God.
This is where you’re gonna explain why you paid $32 million right? https://t.co/9PFT2n5JqK— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) October 31, 2017
Looks like the World Series is heading to a 7th game unless something drastically changes. Would be second year in a row it goes the distance.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Looks like the World Series is heading to a 7th game unless something drastically changes. Would be second year in a row it goes the distance.
That’s fine with me.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg,
Looks like the World Series is heading to a 7th game unless something drastically changes. Would be second year in a row it goes the distance.
Fine with me, because
A) Vin Scully,
B) What happened to Yu Darvish.
From the previous thread:
re: #203 b_sharp
It’s a constant fight to retain the social/economic gains made in the name of socialism even in SK. The province has leaned right for the past 30 yrs in the rural areas, & Regina has been invaded by AB conservatives since oil has become our big economic driver.
We also have a small but vocal group of pro-life assholes who hold gatherings so they can yell at people. I’m sorry you had to go through that shit.
You don’t need to be sorry, that wasn’t your fault. It was only one incident in a very pleasant trip. Regina is a very diverse and beautiful city; 13-10, will go again.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart
You were on Fox, the most dishonest “news” agency in America, really a propaganda arm of the Republican party.
— Jeff Fearlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #9 gwangung
,
Fine with me, because
A) Vin Scully,
B) What happened to Yu Darvish.
I hope they invite Vin to the booth tomorrow night if it happens. The man is a baseball treasure.
Will the NYPD please make the two helicopters, which I assume are press, that have been hovering above my Tribeca apartment building for the past hour and a half go the hell away? People gotta work in the morning!
re: #3 FormerDirtDart
Chances are you know many news agencies are no longer honest. So we developed the @NoSpinNews on https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C. See you there. pic.twitter.com/v8EAO77FtN
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) October 30, 2017
“Now get all your bullshit reactionary talking points in one convenient location. Subscribe now and get a free dick pic!” https://t.co/sBT2EK6IEM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
re: #10 Anymouse 🌹
From the previous thread:
You don’t need to be sorry, that wasn’t your fault. It was only one incident in a very pleasant trip. Regina is a very diverse and beautiful city; 13-10, will go again.
Good to hear. Next time give me notice & we’ll have coffee.
re: #15 b_sharp
Good to hear. Next time give me notice & we’ll have coffee.
Hey, thanks.
My wife suggested a really good Indian food restaurant there for my birthday; I’d never been in an Indian cuisine restaurant before. She told the proprietor that and the fellow directed his staff to load our table with so much food the table legs were straining under the weight.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
Hey, thanks.
My wife suggested a really good Indian food restaurant there for my birthday; I’d never been in an Indian cuisine restaurant before. She told the proprietor that and the fellow directed his staff to load our table with so much food the table legs were straining under the weight.
Which one was it?
Real Benghazi. Win For Us.
US Effort to Find Those Behind the Benghazi Attack Nets a Second Suspect
thedrive.com
On Oct. 30, 2017, the U.S. government confirmed that it had launched a mission in an undisclosed location in Libya to apprehend Mustafa Al Imam in connection with the Benghazi incident. At that time, the U.S. Justice Department said that American authorities were transporting Al Imam, a Libyan national who it said was approximately 46 years old, back to the United States to stand trial.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
Hey, thanks.
My wife suggested a really good Indian food restaurant there for my birthday; I’d never been in an Indian cuisine restaurant before. She told the proprietor that and the fellow directed his staff to load our table with so much food the table legs were straining under the weight.
My favourite is Da India Curry House.
re: #11 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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The only answer to BillO is 32 million and vibrators.
Nothing else.
re: #17 b_sharp
Which one was it?
It is the Caraway Grill … just down Broad Street from the Wingate Hotel (where we were staying).
re: #18 Unshaken Defiance
Real Benghazi. Win For Us.
US Effort to Find Those Behind the Benghazi Attack Nets a Second Suspect
thedrive.com
But but, I thought it was Hillary and Obama who went there personally to slaughter them!
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Wait… Little girls ask if *you* want some candy?
I’ve had it backwards this whole time!— gullywompr (@gullywompr) November 1, 2017
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
It is the Caraway Grill … just down Broad Street from the Wingate Hotel (where we were staying).
I’ll have to try that one.
re: #26 b_sharp
I’ll have to try that one.
The place doesn’t look like much from the outside, and it’s rather small on the inside. My wife and I arrived right between the normal lunch and dinner hours, so we had the whole place to ourselves. The food and service were superb.
The only way you will recoup that $32 million is to win a Powerball jackpot!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) November 1, 2017
How about I copy and paste my #157 from last night onto his comments?
We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2017
If you’re referring to NYC the guy was from Uzbekistan - which (ahem) was part of the Soviet Union before it gained its independence.Enough! https://t.co/9wDoEeudkA
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 1, 2017
re: #23 Belafon
That and the squatty potty ads are the only ones I never skipped
Are you going to show the gay porn before or after this?
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) November 1, 2017
#MAGA pic.twitter.com/ACu5DKB4G5
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) November 1, 2017
Wow I see how much Hate all these Liberal Democrats have on here for a Gold Star Father. #goldstarfamilies #Manhattan
— Deplorable Patriot (@candleguyrn) November 1, 2017
Five of the victims were Argentines in New York to celebrate 30 years since graduation https://t.co/G4kNqhB6j4
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) November 1, 2017
Lre: #36 Anymouse 🌹
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Bring a gold star father doesn’t give him a pass for rationalizing slavery.
When Fats Domino died, millions mourned and spoke well of him.
When Bill O’Reilly goes, some cemetery gate guard will make a small fortune letting people piss on his grave.
re: #39 whitebeach
Ben Franklin’s grave is close to the sidewalk in Philadelphia, and people toss pennies onto the site. Shouldn’t they be throwing 100 dollar bills?
Images of our yard today, after getting everything out, before it got dark.
The fence my dad made with wood, PVC, and some of the little decorative fence pieces on top. The creature right behind it is my 12 year old son, who had fun scaring people by standing very still until they got really close. If you look on his left, you will see a small cross. That is the one my dad made to mark my grandmother’s grave until she got her final marker. We put it out every year.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
L
Bring a gold star father doesn’t give him a pass for rationalizing slavery.
Yup. And said Gold Star Father attacked a new Gold Star Widow on top of that.
While it’s terrible that John Kelly’s son was killed, that does not otherwise excuse racist and deplorable behaviour (or his contempt for officials, which is a crime under the UCMJ).
re: #31 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
That and the squatty potty ads are the only ones I never skipped
We weren’t going to watch it but it just kept being good.
I can guarantee that any citizen who voted for Trump is more devoted to him now than ever. This incessant assault has steeled their resolve.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 31, 2017
Cultists usually need to be deprogrammed or they continue to be a danger to themselves and others https://t.co/lgt4AgG9EP
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
re: #38 HappyWarrior
L
Bring a gold star father doesn’t give him a pass for rationalizing slavery.
Nobody gets a pass on the idea of owning people. Nor rape, nor murder.
Anathema to civilization.
Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there.
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Twitter’s “safety” system appears to be mostly based on a combination of keywords and frequency of reports, so if a group of extremely alpha gamergate types decide they don’t like someone, all they need to do is wait to see the right word and then coordinate a mass-reporting.
In my case, I decided to mock festering panic over an exceedingly fake Civil War plot for which thousands of FOX News grandparents may, at this very moment, be boarding up their windows in panicked preparation. Right wingers have a predilection for fearing Antifa, despite the fact that they only seem to show up at neo-Nazi rallies and to protest police brutality. Anyone with a single crease in their brain could see that my post was satire, but alas, the internet has no shortage of morons, and the tweet was apparently reported into oblivion.
The ensuing suspension was so thorough that my work account was axed for using the same phone number. (I reached out to Twitter for comment in connection with this story, but had yet to hear back at the time of publication.)If you doubt the utter gullibility of the people I’m referencing, look no further than this article from the Gateway Pundit, which breathlessly reported the obvious parody, after it was tweeted again by someone else, as factual news. (This is a “publication” that at least at one point had White House press credentials, by the way.) I should qualify here that while I have no love whatsoever for fascists, I am neither the president, the chairman, nor the CEO of Antifa. Either the author of the aforementioned piece was cynically using the joke to stoke the fears of elderly conservatives, or else he is just a fucking idiot.
People have screamed for years about the weird shit Twitter inexplicably tolerates, chiefly the ability of coordinated hate mobs to drive people off of the site. But if you weren’t familiar with my account before, all I can say is that it was significantly less toxic than that of the American Nazi Party. I may have poked fun at the Scaramucci Post’s editorial strategy or Mike Huckabee’s inconceivably bad attempts at jokes. But weren’t those jabs less worthy of punishment than say, calling for America to return to an all-white ethno-state?
Maybe it’s just me.
Read the whole thing
I will submit my probably monthly plea/commentary
I wish you of LGF would not post poisonous, idiotic tweets from the dregs of society who, without your posting would never see the light of day.
It feeds outrage. They are not worth a second beyond reading their stupid tweet when you decide to go into the replies.
And they are probably bots.
TY
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹
Yup. And said Gold Star Father attacked a new Gold Star Widow on top of that.
While it’s terrible that John Kelly’s son was killed, that does not otherwise excuse racist and deplorable behaviour (or his contempt for officials, which is a crime under the UCMJ).
Precisely.
re: #45 Kragar
Maybe the incessant incompetence has steeled them as well.
re: #48 gocart mozart
Trolling white supremacists = bad.
Being a white supremacist = good.
Some wacko jacko logic there.
re: #41 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
Ben Franklin’s grave is close to the sidewalk in Philadelphia, and people toss pennies onto the site. Shouldn’t they be throwing 100 dollar bills?
Dunno. It was Franklin who said, “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
re: #49 Stanley Sea
It does is identify who I need to block.
But that’s all I’ll give it.
9WqxPiNBom5m0uAqkGpTCAgK4rliYfomxjdTYuU15MbJphcrT+Offgh7fC/ULtwg1oND2EfuT8Th2RXLf7EW7w==
re: #51 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
Maybe the incessant incompetence has steeled them as well.
Trumps or their own? Because if it’s Trumps, that might not be incessant incompetence, that may be intentional. Basically, running things into the ground as part of some plan.
re: #53 whitebeach
Inflation.
re: #42 Belafon
Images of our yard today, after getting everything out, before it got dark.
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Bravo. Especially your son.
On Fox News, @LindseyGrahamSC says he talked to @POTUS again tonight and likes that “he understands that we’re in a religious war.” #scpol
— Jamie Lovegrove (@jslovegrove) November 1, 2017
I wonder how many new things suddenly came to mind that Papadopoulos should share with Mueller after Trump called him a “low-level” “liar”
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 1, 2017
Useless rhetoric. I saw what Christians do as well. Convert or die.
— Machar (@machar131) November 1, 2017
You’re seriously asking this when ROY MOORE is the standard-bearer for your party besides the #dictatorinchief?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) November 1, 2017
re: #59 electrotek
The Right is attempting to destroy religion in this country. The question is where are the one who detest their poisoning of Christianity.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) November 1, 2017
re: #54 SteelPH
It does is identify who I need to block.
But that’s all I’ll give it.
Thing is, I’ve survived on twitter without blocking anyone, except Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Pence & Louise Weirdo. Maybe a couple of others.
If you don’t engage, they don’t bother you.
I like my twitter feed.
re: #59 electrotek
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Yes, Miss Lindsay and his fellow RepubliKKKlans are in a KKKristian War…
re: #42 Belafon
Looks great!! Love that it’s a family affair.
re: #64 Stanley Sea
Of course, if you don’t engage, they also have their views out there unquestioned to convert a couple more of the people who were thinking about visiting Daily Stormer or Stormfront for the first time right around when we shut them down…
re: #64 Stanley Sea
Thing is, I’ve survived on twitter without blocking anyone, except Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Pence & Louise Weirdo. Maybe a couple of others.
If you don’t engage, they don’t bother you.
I like my twitter feed.
True.
re: #68 Chrysicat
Of course, if you don’t engage, they also have their views out there unquestioned to convert a couple more of the people who were thinking about visiting Daily Stormer or Stormfront for the first time right around when we shut them down…
Go for it! It’s just not my cuppa.
I check the followers of the idiots who’s tweets are posted and often they are 100ish.
they are getting amplified & in my opinion shouldn’t be.
re: #66 Stanley Sea
I can voice an opinion every once in awhile OK?
You are a jerk.
He’s our Moral Better, Stanley. When all of us think like our Moral Better, then we shall all finally be free of the corruption of Wrong Thinking.
Have a Super Halloween! pic.twitter.com/sUlx2stilX
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 31, 2017
re: #59 electrotek
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On Fox News, @LindseyGrahamSC says he talked to @POTUS again tonight and likes that “he understands that we’re in a religious war.” #scpol
— Jamie Lovegrove (@jslovegrove) November 1, 2017
When @ShannonBream told Graham that some people would take issue with him calling it a “religious war,” he appeared taken aback. “Who?” https://t.co/S7dbdl6N0R
— Jamie Lovegrove (@jslovegrove) November 1, 2017
re: #48 gocart mozart
Twitter’s “safety” system appears to be mostly based on a combination of keywords and frequency of reports, so if a group of extremely alpha gamergate types decide they don’t like someone, all they need to do is wait to see the right word and then coordinate a mass-reporting.
I think this is what happened to me. I used a keyword “goatfucker” against some unhinged troll who was calling Obama a “crackhead” and his fellow goons unleashed a mass reporting on me. “Nazi” seems to also be a flagged word because I once l got a day suspension for calling a Holocaust denier that.
re: #42 Belafon
Images of our yard today, after getting everything out, before it got dark.
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Look I’m not saying that’s a little over the top, but…
Actually, yeah, I guess I’m saying that’s a little over the top,
:-)
Wow I see how much Hate all these Liberal Democrats have on here for a Gold Star Father. #goldstarfamilies #Manhattan
— Deplorable Patriot (@candleguyrn) November 1, 2017
And they wonder why so many people write off deplorables as disingenuous morons https://t.co/pqwZELhRuv
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
re: #74 gocart mozart
I think this is what happened to me. I used a keyword “goatfucker” against some unhinged troll who was calling Obama a “crackhead” and his fellow goons unleashed a mass reporting on me. “Nazi” seems to also be a flagged word because I once l got a day suspension for calling a Holocaust denier that.
I’ve been trying to avoid using the F-bomb when I tweet in response to people, specifically to try to keep that from happening to me. (I’ve been far from successful, because “fucking douchemook” is more satisfying than “freakin’ douchemook.”)
re: #77 scottslemmons
I’ve been trying to avoid using the F-bomb when I tweet in response to people, specifically to try to keep that from happening to me. (I’ve been far from successful, because “fucking douchemook” is more satisfying than “freakin’ douchemook.”)
Also, I tend to just mute/block every Trumper/Nazi I come across, rather than tweet at them. I don’t want to engage with them at all — ideally, I’d like to deprive them entirely of any eyeballs pointed their direction.
re: #49 Stanley Sea
I will submit my probably monthly plea/commentary
I wish you of LGF would not post poisonous, idiotic tweets from the dregs of society who, without your posting would never see the light of day.
It feeds outrage. They are not worth a second beyond reading their stupid tweet when you decide to go into the replies.
And they are probably bots.
TY
Many of us don’t post Tweets, and agree with you.
My 12 year old scary son from above also wrote a Halloween song I used in the audio I had playing. I thought you might be interested. He used Finale PrintMusic.
What caused the Civil War? We have over 400 programs you can learn from. Watch every Saturday at 6pm ET on C-SPAN 3. https://t.co/9Zdt7siZLn pic.twitter.com/ZVyrMVvkG5
— American History TV (@cspanhistory) October 31, 2017
And @cspan is quick with the programming note. https://t.co/lObe58HqjH
— Kimberly Atkins (@KimberlyEAtkins) October 31, 2017
Well at least he’s back
wow antifa plz rethink this banner pic.twitter.com/8i59fF7NJ8
— KRANG 👻 NELSON (@KrangTNelson) October 31, 2017
Will be speaking with @ShannonBream tonight on @FoxNews tonight at 11:00 pm about New York and the threat posed by radical Islam.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 1, 2017
You just declared on air that the President thinks we’re in a holy war & you’re happy about it.
WTF is wrong with you people? https://t.co/gX1bbwa5WG— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
re: #82 gocart mozart
Well at least he’s back
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Earlier I heard he put it up to create outrage. ??
re: #85 retired cynic
Earlier I heard he put it up to create outrage. ??
duh. That he himself put it up.
re: #49 Stanley Sea
I will submit my probably monthly plea/commentary
I wish you of LGF would not post poisonous, idiotic tweets from the dregs of society who, without your posting would never see the light of day.
It feeds outrage. They are not worth a second beyond reading their stupid tweet when you decide to go into the replies.
And they are probably bots.
TY
it’s SPOOKY out there pic.twitter.com/xkZ7cpDPVH
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) November 1, 2017
Citing The Bible, The EPA Just Changed Its Rules For Science Advisers https://t.co/756C2G3ip0
— deray (@deray) November 1, 2017
Wonkette reported on Katy Tur marrying last weekend.
It’s Tuesday afternoon, but this week’s onslaught of news means it feels like Friday already, so we’re going to do happy news for the rest of the day, and FUCK IT WE’RE GONNA DO IT LIVE. Therefore, we have wonderful news, and it is that MSNBC’s Katy Tur and her sexxxy man friend Tony Dokoupil made an honest man and lady out of each other this weekend in Utah. (Picture above! What a dress! Editrix Rebecca would like to point out that all the best bride women people wear red!) They eloped, because that is what cool kids do, and Page Six reports that they did it in the most remote, out-of-the-way spot they could find, where Obamaphones don’t work and nobody can hear Donald Trump yelling, “Something is happening, Katy! You’re not reporting it, Katy!”
(more, with photo)
2017. pic.twitter.com/KYJI0E90fW
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 1, 2017
re: #88 whitebeach
Ummm … that’s really something.
So what’s Mardi Gras look like, chez vous?
Halloween’s our big day, and my wife just kind of buys stuff and then we make it work.
re: #89 JordanRules
This is a constant game of one-downs-manship. Ghastly. All of them. Just ghastly. And they are taking turns devastated our country.
re: #94 retired cynic
And it’s damn near hourly. 10 months. It’s abhorrent.
Well, considering most of these idjits prolly subscribe to #BritishIsraelism, they’d think those covered us anyway :-(
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) November 1, 2017
re: #89 JordanRules
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I updinged you here because you’re pointing out something important, but it feels kind of weird because it’s like updinging somebody for saying, “Jesus Christ! The whole neighborhood is sinking into a lake of black cancerous ooze.”
Okay…now THIS is scary:
Nude Aides Huddled Around Trump Assure Him No One Wearing Wire https://t.co/kfLR3VRhOg pic.twitter.com/KaBAxS6onx
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 31, 2017
re: #99 Interesting Times
“I said, everybody cough!”
re: #99 Interesting Times
Okay…now THIS is scary:
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“Check their hair, Mr. President! No, sir, not that hair.”
re: #30 Kragar
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Uz beki beki stan stan isn’t one of the banned countries, so once again Trump’s ban wouldn’t have stopped the this attack.
re: #92 Belafon
Halloween’s our big day, and my wife just kind of buys stuff and then we make it work.
It looks great. I love Halloween to beat back the fear and ghosties of regular life. Someone got a scream from your son, that’s great. So much better then the actually scary stuff. Rock on dude.
The President is responsible for representing all Americans.
Saying you’ve taken sides in a religious war? You can go fuck yourself— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
I had to smack SMOTI’s pal down again!
My great great Grandfather Peter Bacon was one of the Union Generals who kicked his ass at Appomattox!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) October 31, 2017
re: #84 whitebeach
Basically I like teleski and think he’s a positive force here, on balance. But sometimes he does this kind of high-horse thing, and I don’t know why. I’ve been on the downrange end of it myself once or twice.
Hell, I think all of us over time have posted shit and we later thought “Jeez, did I really do that?”
I once humbly suggested that another Lizard “go lick a dog’s ass until it bleeds”.
re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dear John Kelly,
You know what’s disrespectful to the American flag? Defending a Confederate traitor.
Sincerely,
America— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) October 31, 2017
Anyone with even a remote sense of military history knows what a brilliant general Lee was https://t.co/wyWUciON04
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) October 31, 2017
Raiding Union territory and kidnapping every black person he could find to turn them into slaves sure proves what kind of man he was. https://t.co/nrK3tECbCq
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 31, 2017
re: #97 whitebeach
Ha. I get that.
I upding for sad/bad content all the time because I really do appreciate all y’all lizards being and keeping me informed.
I do think folks should stop shadowboxing with bots tho. LOL
The Texas congressvarmint who almost since-handedly destroyed every banking regulation we got under Obama, is now ready to join Corporate America and reap his rewards while he can.The powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Dallas Republican, announced his retirement from Congress on Tuesday afternoon. He is currently serving his eighth term in the House.
I guess they are saving the fact that he’s evil as hell and never met a puppy he didn’t kick for his obituary.
It’s a strong GOP district, but I am told that the Democrats have a good candidate in Dan Wood. Miracles can happen, my friends, and nobody knows what the hell it’s gonna be like in a year.
I am just tickled pink to get rid of Jeb.
Oh I hadn’t seen this throwback pic yet. Wonder what they were discussing.
I wrote for Newsweek abt a firm of young Reaganites, now clearly the roots of #Trumpism. The pix: L-R: #Manafort, #Atwater, #Stone, #Black. pic.twitter.com/FS3MHrhC7Q
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) October 31, 2017
re: #96 Chrysicat
Matthew 5:17-18
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Christians love to say that the Old Testament only applied to the Jews and not themselves (while promoting the Ten Commandments, despising the LGBT, &c).
Their cherry picking makes for lousy pie.
re: #107 austin_blue
I once humbly suggested that another Lizard “go lick a dog’s ass until it bleeds”.
NTTAWWT.
New in Pages:
Lubbock Best-Prepared City in Country to Survive Zombie Attack, New Realtor Ranking Claims
I believe this is Russian propaganda, since Lubbock has long since been completely taken over by zombies.
re: #80 Belafon
My 12 year old scary son from above also wrote a Halloween song I used in the audio I had playing. I thought you might be interested. He used Finale PrintMusic.
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Talented family Belafon.
Juanita Jean notes the top front page article in her local newspaper: Trump: Podesta Resignation Biggest Story
Keeping ‘em Dumb (with photo of newspaper)
re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹
Joe, any more detail on your ancestor? I don’t find Peter Bacon in Warner’s “Generals in Blue,” which is pretty comprehensive but also fifty years old and certainly subject to update.
“We need EXTREME VETTING!”
“Like background checks so mentally deranged people can’t buy guns?”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 1, 2017
Artist Transforms Abandoned Buildings In New Orleans With Powerful Art
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Laura Loomer can’t handle real news. pic.twitter.com/xaIpsApfEC
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) November 1, 2017
re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹
I had to smack SMOTI’s pal down again!
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Lee frequently threw his soldiers into hopeless bloody attacks, of which Pickett’s Charge is only the most famous example, bleeding the Confederacy dry of its limited manpower. If you check the 1860 census, the 11 states that would make up the Confederacy only had a little over one million white men between the ages of 15-40. Not only did the free Union states have about four times that number, the Union could also augment its total with European immigrants, and eventually arming African-Americans from both the North and the South.
It’s officially 12:01 on November 1. That means the War on Christmas starts now, right?
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re: #119 JordanRules
Artist Transforms Abandoned Buildings In New Orleans With Powerful Art
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I got my tee shirt today, in time for my trip back south.
fucking wingnuts are already coming up with crazy, tortured defenses for the middle class tax increase the gop seems to be writing into its tax “reform” ripoff:
The SALT deduction (State Sales tax) elimination is a good thing.
It pushes voters in a state to demand their state stop or even lower their local sales taxes.
I agree that the Federal Government should NOT reimburse States that practice abusive tax increases on their constitutents.
For the past 20 years, California gradually increased taxes telling the constituents that is for infrastructure renovations.
Well, nothing happened, a road patch here and there, but in an earthquake, the bridges will be destroyed, because there was no retrofitting.
What is California doing with more money robbed from taxpayers? Funds the illegal aliens and their children, even PAYS legal assistance for them.
It is a scandal! So yes, I agree that the Federal Government stop financing abusive regimes like California Government.
re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s officially 12:01 on November 1. That means the War on Christmas starts now, right?
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The War on Christmas never ends!
re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s officially 12:01 on November 1. That means the War on Christmas starts now, right?
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We’re slightly behind the times here in Mythical Time Zone. (We’re still getting trick or treaters at my house.)
re: #117 whitebeach
Joe, any more detail on your ancestor? I don’t find Peter Bacon in Warner’s “Generals in Blue,” which is pretty comprehensive but also fifty years old and certainly subject to update.
Find A Grave shows his tombstone in the Congressional Cemetery and a picture of him
Further information here. He served in various facets of DC Goverment:
Census records
He was the Union General in charge of the defense of DC. Here’s one of his military orders
re: #45 Kragar
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Try it, you out of touch elitist dipshit.re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
Find A Grave shows his tombstone in the Congressional Cemetery and a picture of him
Further information here. He served in various facets of DC Goverment:
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Census records
He was the Union General in charge of the defense of DC. Here’s one of his military orders
Pretty damn cool.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
The Find a Grave site lists my father, but no one else in my family. Perhaps my great-grandparents and grandparents are still alive?
re: #113 whitebeach
NTTAWWT.
When I first started posting, there was still a fairly large Israeli contingent who favored ethnic cleansing of the occupied territories under the rubric of “Transfer”. This was during Charles’ so called “purge” of right wing radicals. I think I posted that to Ben Hur.
In any case, things were chaotic during that time. Charles was calling Bullshit on the climate deniers and the right-wing radical bigots in the US and Europe and their enablers on this board. Their attacks on him for modifying his position on what was appropriate for posting on LGF was just brutal. Some of those people I miss, like Occasional Reader, Reine de Tout (although I hear she has gone full Drumpfenstien), and Ed, who had gotten drunk in pretty much every town in Texas and was a whiz with the weather. Others I surely don’t, like Mandy Manners, one of the Originals, who just became toxic, and Tax Free Killer, who was just as cray-cray as any Freeper.
Things change, often for the better. Night all, sweet scaly dreams. Rain continues to drip outside, but I have a metal roof and the white noise is soothing for a South Austin rest.
Mueller has a plan, and it appears part of it is to drive Drumpf insane, not that he has far to go. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s tweet storm and the next indictment (Hello, Carter Page! You went to meet the Russians! In Russia! Come on down!).
re: #132 austin_blue
I was not here during that time, but have looked at a couple of the articles from back then. Some of those commentators were way out there. Had I run across LGF then, I never would have given this place another look.
(Someone here once pointed me to a creationism debate here that I no longer remember how to find, that had thousands of comments.)
I guess Dark Falcon would be one of the very last of those to go.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹
The Find a Grave site lists my father, but no one else in my family. Perhaps my great-grandparents and grandparents are still alive?
FaG relies on volunteers. I have my second great grands linked with my great grands but not my grands as my father’s parents gave their bodies to medical science.
re: #132 austin_blue
When I first started posting, there was still a fairly large Israeli contingent who favored ethnic cleansing of the occupied territories under the rubric of “Transfer”. This was during Charles’ so called “purge” of right wing radicals. I think I posted that to Ben Hur.
In any case, things were chaotic during that time. Charles was calling Bullshit on the climate deniers and the right-wing radical bigots in the US and Europe and their enablers on this board. Their attacks on him for modifying his position on what was appropriate for posting on LGF was just brutal. Some of those people I miss, like Occasional Reader, Reine de Tout (although I hear she has gone full Drumpfenstien), and Ed, who had gotten drunk in pretty much every town in Texas and was a whiz with the weather. Others I surely don’t, like Mandy Manners, one of the Originals, who just became toxic, and Tax Free Killer, who was just as cray-cray as any Freeper.
Things change, often for the better. Night all, sweet scaly dreams. Rain continues to drip outside, but I have a metal roof and the white noise is soothing for a South Austin rest.
Mueller has a plan, and it appears part of it is to drive Drumpf insane, not that he has far to go. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s tweet storm and the next indictment (Hello, Carter Page! You went to meet the Russians! In Russia! Come on down!).
I’d think Flynn, Page, & Corey are good possibilities for the next round.
re: #135 HappyWarrior
I’d think Flynn, Page, & Corey are good possibilities for the next round.
Uday and Qusay.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹
Uday and Qusay.
I wouldn’t complain about that. We will see though. I’m just relived Mueller is taking this seriously.
I would not be surprised if Mueller lets the indictments drip out, bit by bit, just to see where things go. It’s fairly obvious that the White House had no defense prepared for the revelation that Papadopoulos had turned coat. No telling who else has made a deal, a thought that is probably causing a lot of cold sweats at 1600 Penn Ave.
I guess an armed school is not a polite school after all.
Gun Found at School, Lubbock ISD Student Arrested
LUBBOCK, TX - Lubbock ISD said a student at Coronado High School was arrested Monday after an unloaded gun was found in his backpack.
Parents were notified on Tuesday, LISD said. No threats were made with the gun according to LISD.
1AM. Porch light going out. The Chocolate Is Mine!!!!
By the way, that thread the other day where the print suddenly went microscopic for everyone wasn’t my fault (though it occurred on all comments after the last I made that evening).
I almost never use formatting command here, and I didn’t with that comment. Immediately after I posted it I closed my browser while logged in … maybe that did it?
Ex-Trump campaign staffer charged in Mueller probe sat next to Sessions at campaign dinner: report https://t.co/XniTIBEjvl pic.twitter.com/tSVB1ruFsq
— The Hill (@thehill) November 1, 2017
Just a volunteer who grabbed coffee a few times…
re: #144 Kragar
I’m pretty sure everyone in the White House is going a bit crazy right about now, trying to figure who’s going down next. Trying to recall what they said to who, or what they e-mailed to someone.
Heh. Good.
re: #144 Kragar
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Just a volunteer who grabbed coffee a few times…
it doesn’t matter if he was the pizza delivery boy - if he can testify as to what was really happening, his testimony is as good as anybody’s
re: #145 Dr Lizardo
I’m pretty sure everyone in the White House is going a bit crazy right about now, trying to figure who’s going down next. Trying to recall what they said to who, or what they e-mailed to someone.
Heh. Good.
Warhammer Time
Ciaphas Cain was an Imperial Guard Commissar. He was in active service during the last century of the 41st Millennium, and was over 200 Terran years old when he was recalled into service during the 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler. It is certain that he survived more than a quarter of a century into the 42nd Millennium. Imperial propaganda made him out to be a great hero of the Imperium of Man in the late 41st Millennium, although in truth he was primarily focused on his own survival during his long career. However, Cain differed from many other Imperial Commissars in that he would not readily sacrifice his soldiers unless it ensured his own survival. Cain tried his utmost to avoid engaging in actual combat, but usually was required to do so to maintain his status as a Hero of the Imperium, which ironically would involve him in more dangerous situations than any he would usually have seen as a simple Commissar. He was responsible for many successful campaigns throughout his career and retired to become an instructor for new Imperial Commissars at a Schola Progenium.
Take Bruce Campbell, throw in some Blackadder, complete with trusty sidekick, and you’ve got Ciaphas Cain.
re: #76 Kragar
What kind of further “compromise” should President Lincoln have offered states that wanted to continue owning, raping, slaughtering slaves?
and insisted that Free States return escaped slaves and wanted to expand these practices into the Territories…
re: #149 Kragar
Reminds me a little of Fabius.
en.m.wikipedia.org
re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anyone with even a remote sense of military history knows what a brilliant general Lee was
Erwin Rommel was a brilliant general. Nobody is about to erect a statue to him or display a Nazi flag in his honor…
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Erwin Rommel was a brilliant general. Nobody is about to erect a statue to him or display a Nazi flag in his honor…
Yep……..last time I was in Berlin, I didn’t see any statues honoring Rommel, or Heinz Guderian for that matter.
re: #121 Big Beautiful Door
Lee frequently threw his soldiers into hopeless bloody attacks, of which Pickett’s Charge is only the most famous example, bleeding the Confederacy dry of its limited manpower. If you check the 1860 census, the 11 states that would make up the Confederacy only had a little over one million white men between the ages of 15-40. Not only did the free Union states have about four times that number, the Union could also augment its total with European immigrants, and eventually arming African-Americans from both the North and the South.
He came within a hair’s breadth of defeating the Union army in the Seven Days’s campaign, but never had that chance again.
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
Yep……..last time I was in Berlin, I didn’t see any statues honoring Rommel, or Heinz Guderian for that matter.
There was a blowup a while back over naming Bundeswehr barracks and installations after former Nazi-era generals.
re: #1 JordanRules
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Naw. Trump is alright with them as long as they get their precious tax cut.
re: #151 Alyosha
Reminds me a little of Fabius.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Reminds me a LOT of Harry Flashman.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And IIRC, he really was a victim-of-circumstance who didn’t hold with the party controlling his country but respected ‘civilian control of the military’. Wasn’t he one of the Valkyrie conspirators, which would make him a lot more statue-worthy than R.E. Lee?
I love it when @JohnJHarwood pulls out receipts. pic.twitter.com/gMImDKTWle
— shauna (@goldengateblond) November 1, 2017
re: #158 Chrysicat
And IIRC, he really was a victim-of-circumstance who didn’t hold with the party controlling his country but respected ‘civilian control of the military’. Wasn’t he one of the Valkyrie conspirators, which would make him a lot more statue-worthy than R.E. Lee?
No, but Rommel was sympathetic to the movement and seen by the conspirators as a figure that the public could rally around, also because was not one of the aristocratic military elite who were behind the Valkyrie plot. In fact, he owed much of his career and fame to Hitler’s patronage.
re: #156 Patricia Kayden
Naw. Trump is alright with them as long as they get their precious tax cut.
With the swirl of controversy surrounding the White House and threatening to engulf others, they might be too busy putting out fires to worry about tax cuts.
So is there any indication that the NYC attacker was involved with any larger conspiracy or simply identified with IS and acted on his own?
That is a major consideration when distinguishing between a terrorist and a “mentally disturbed person” or “lone wolf”.
I missed this yesterday on the day, but still too good to pass up:
Happy Halloween! 🎃 pic.twitter.com/jqVdEU0Wcc
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) October 31, 2017
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So is there any indication that the NYC attacker was involved with any larger conspiracy or simply identified with IS and acted on his own?
That is a major consideration when distinguishing between a terrorist and a “mentally disturbed person” or “lone wolf”.
The police and FBI are still looking into that.
That said, so-called Islamic State has been encouraging people to conduct acts on their own. That’s not original to Daesh: There have been plenty of groups in the past that have used that particular strategy (this is our overarching philosophy, we sanction individuals or small groups to commit actions in our name).
Daesh is big on claiming acts that they didn’t inspire though (primarily for self-promotion and spreading fear).
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So is there any indication that the NYC attacker was involved with any larger conspiracy or simply identified with IS and acted on his own?
That is a major consideration when distinguishing between a terrorist and a “mentally disturbed person” or “lone wolf”.
Not really, since a mentally disturbed person and a lone wolf can be terrorists.
re: #165 Nyet
Not really, since a mentally disturbed person and a lone wolf can be terrorists.
Of course. I was addressing this in terms of modern American media discourse. When attackers are white, the RW press insists are “lone wolves” and that RW ideology played little or no role in their actions, but if they are brown and Islamic, then the entire religion is to blame.
re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Of course. I was addressing this in terms of modern American media discourse.
I missed that in your comment.
That U of Utah shooter killed a visiting Chinese student.
re: #170 wheat-dogg
That U of Utah shooter killed a visiting Chinese student.
Oh geez. There was a visiting Chinese student killed in Urbana, IL earlier this year, too. That’s terrible.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Erwin Rommel was a brilliant general. Nobody is about to erect a statue to him or display a Nazi flag in his honor…
What a waste of military genius….. I can’t remember but was Rommel involved at all with the plot to kill Hitler?
re: #172 Dave In Austin
What a waste of military genius….. I can’t remember but was Rommel involved at all with the plot to kill Hitler?
He was just a coffee boy.
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Oh, man.. if I would’ve come across that the candy would have rained! Awesome.
re: #173 Decatur Deb
He was just a coffee boy.
He was sympathetic to the cause but not actively involved, and the plotters thought that he might serve as a popular figure to rally around had the plot succeeded.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was sympathetic to the cause but not actively involved, and the plotters thought that he might serve as a popular figure to rally around had the plot succeeded.
Enough that, per mainstream accounts, he earned a forced suicide.
re: #176 Decatur Deb
Enough that, per mainstream accounts, he earned a forced suicide.
He was tainted, yes.
It’s awake and pooping….
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
We are fighting hard for Merit Based immigration, no more Democrat Lottery Systems. We must get MUCH tougher (and smarter). @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
re: #171 Barefoot Grin
Oh geez. There was a visiting Chinese student killed in Urbana, IL earlier this year, too. That’s terrible.
Her body has yet to be found, though they have a suspect in custody.
“Senator Chuck Schumer helping to import Europes problems” said Col.Tony Shaffer. We will stop this craziness! @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
re: #179 wheat-dogg
Her body has yet to be found, though they have a suspect in custody.
Thanks, I had lost track of the case. I know he was at a gathering for her with his wife on campus when she first went missing. I can’t believe that they haven’t gotten him to tell.
re: #180 Dave In Austin
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We knew he would jump on the first terror event (excluding white supremacists) to start with the xenophobia and bigotry.
Curious to find out if DT has had any business dealings with Uzbekistan…
re: #181 Barefoot Grin
Thanks, I had lost track of the case. I know he was at a gathering for her with his wife on campus when she first went missing. I can’t believe that they haven’t gotten him to tell.
I’m not sure he’s married, but he was spotted at the vigil. His story has changed several times, so he’s either being very evasive or he’s mentally impaired somehow. It’s very disturbing that someone could go missing so completely.
Who the fuck is Tony Shaffer and why should we GAF what he sez?
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 1, 2017
re: #186 Dave In Austin
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I bet Tony is just another one of Trump’s “Boys In The Hood”…AND Bedsheets!
re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹
No, but he’s a bit of an oddball.
Maybe you should give the some of your daughters Halloween candy. That will show them.
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 1, 2017
Ugh…..
Rep Wilson - you are vacuous - you should actually study the Civic War and try to understand Lee - not remain ignorant for political shots
— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) November 1, 2017
You’re an Idiot.
From a recent Grant auto. Nothing good about Lee. pic.twitter.com/dO8kg8DAhe— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 1, 2017
re: #192 Dave In Austin
On one hand, Lee was simply upholding the law of the Confederacy, but those were laws he chose to uphold and defend.
re: #178 Dave In Austin
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.
— Donald J. Trump
How did the Las Vegas shooter get in?
Probably because of something called “Due Process and the Constitution. Remember those?
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 1, 2017
“He admitted, OK, he lied to the FBI. I think he is 29 years old” pic.twitter.com/MRxUhUHc1q
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 31, 2017
Retweet if you didn’t lie to the @FBI before your 30th birthday. https://t.co/M9xsXBGwcd
— Vets Against Trump (@commondefense) October 31, 2017
JFC on a barbed wire tightrope
.@LindseyGrahamSC: “We’ll find out… more about this guy if you don’t read him his Miranda rights, because that stops the interrogation.” pic.twitter.com/eDCI9Mpym3
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 1, 2017
Wonder? WONDER?
Kakistocracia: ex funcionario EU me dice q Protocolo DptoEstado fue instruido a enfatizar a gobs🌎 usar HotelTrump p/ viajes oficiales a DC
— Arturo Sarukhan (@Arturo_Sarukhan) October 31, 2017
Former Mexican Ambassador to the US says State Department has been told to recommend Trump hotels. We will be FOIAing this. (h/t @Z_Everson) https://t.co/ch0wzTFFtF
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) October 31, 2017
If true, this is a shocking level of corruption. But the mere fact that we even have to wonder is a result of POTUS’s refusal to divest. https://t.co/kq4iGm7sQc
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 31, 2017
HA!
For the record, “Allahu Akbar” has no inherent political/violent connotation meriting instant terror diagnosis.I say it like 20 times a day.
— rabia chaudry (@rabiasquared) October 31, 2017
I just saw a TV reporter pronouncing it as ‘aloo akbar’ which literally translates to ‘potatoes are the greatest’ https://t.co/6qLi52fU2y
— Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) October 31, 2017
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. It looks like yesterday’s vehicle rampage was an act of terrorism, so we know Trump jumped all over it because the driver appears to be Muslim.
When a white supremacist driver rampaged through a crowd in Charlottesville because they were protesting Nazis and white supremacists and KKK defending statues to insurrectionists and traitors, Trump couldn’t bother to mention the word terrorism.
When a shooter killed 59 and injured nearly 600 people, Trump couldn’t muster the energy to propose changes to gun laws even weeks later, mostly because the shooter was a white guy.
But because the driver in NYC was Muslim, Trump thinks we should do more extreme vetting? His bans wouldn’t have stopped any terrorist attacks in the US - none of the countries of origin for the recent terrorists are on the lists he’s proposed. A Muslim ban wouldn’t have stopped the Vegas slaughter or other mass shootings.
The Muslim ban plays well with the addled know nothing xenophobic GOP base though, so that’s his go to action.
The courts see through this though, because they keep striking down his Muslim ban EOs.
Meanwhile, the GOP is all about tax reform, except they don’t have a bill, they can’t figure out what they’re actually doing besides trying to maximize the tax cuts for millionaires and shifting the burdens to everyone else. The GOP is so clueless that they’re delaying the rollout of the tax plan because they couldn’t get it off of the back of a napkin.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because it should. After claiming that the GOP had a better way on taxes and health care, when they’re presented with the opportunity to show their work, they could muster only the barest of outlines that omit key information.
In other words, this is Trumpcare redux - it’s vaporware and malware as applied to tax reform. The GOP doesn’t have a plan and no strategy, but they’re going to go ahead with screwing up the federal budget because that’s the only thing they know how to do.
I’ve been following Yusra Mardini since the 2016 Olympics, when she swam for the Refugee Team. Now she’s an Under Armour representative, and has made many appearances all over the world to represent refugees.
What a great event , I’m so happy to share this video as a new member of the UA family , thanks for the help and support everyone. #IWILL @underarmour @underarmourdach
Geez, even the covfefe boy lies about shit in this administration.
Papadopoulos allegedly lied about being a representative to the Model U.N. https://t.co/vG32fbZ3bj pic.twitter.com/vCo0lgjf3Y
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 1, 2017
This is possibly the saddest Trump admin lie on record. BIGLY SAD! https://t.co/J05jhK0G1F
— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) November 1, 2017
VA cops violently arrested a @Shareblue reporter who covers Ed Gillespie. the video is ASTOUNDING. https://t.co/x4BJw2tN9X pic.twitter.com/WCARMZRjCV
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) October 31, 2017
This video is unreal. https://t.co/pHVM8UVZlC
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 31, 2017
re: #204 makeitstop
Everyone in this admin lied on their resumes and got to where they were because of white male privilege.
Consider that Gorka was initially given an important role, despite not being an actual credentialed PhD; he lied about that - and yet Fox still puts him on to spew sweet xenophobic nothings to the misinformed masses.
re: #206 lawhawk
Everyone in this admin lied on their resumes and got to where they were because of white male privilege.
Consider that Gorka was initially given an important role, despite not being an actual credentialed PhD; he lied about that - and yet Fox still puts him on to spew sweet xenophobic nothings to the misinformed masses.
And the same people accuse the Obamas of using affirmative action to achieve their legitimate academic creds.
re: #204 makeitstop
Geez, even the covfefe boy lies about shit in this administration.
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Extreme vetting doesn’t cover coffee boys.
re: #156 Patricia Kayden
Sure, but 45 is weird and prone to paranoia so he might be a little miffed at not being there right after learning Papadapolous has been cooperating.
re: #205 MsJ
The video isn’t unreal. It’s what law enforcement does all too regularly. They think they’re above the law and can act with impunity.
This is a criminal assault and a 1A violation. All those officers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but the system is fixed to give cops a built in advantage (and get out of indictment card). We’ve seen this for years with failures to indict on unarmed black people being shot and killed by trigger happy cops.
From yesterday, ICYMI.
Opinion | Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork for a Saturday Night Massacre https://t.co/7KExi5XHVL
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) November 1, 2017
And with that I am off to a meeting. Cheers.
re: #208 wheat-dogg
And the same people accuse the Obamas of using affirmative action to achieve their legitimate academic creds.
Yep even though they are living personifications of the American Dream. Michelle’s father was a water plant employee and both her and her brother attended Princeton.
#GOPmath = how can GOP maximize tax breaks for millionaires while shifting all the burdens to those who can least endure them.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
Actually, the Gang of 8, including @SenSchumer, did away with the Diversity Visa Program as part of broader reforms. I know, I was there https://t.co/QQFJzPyRzC
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 1, 2017
Attn: @realDonaldTrump - you’re lying again. And it was the GOP that blocked the reforms. https://t.co/IXSDfRGFDx
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
Trump lies are so blatant that even Sen. Flake has to rebut them.
re: #201 MsJ
For the record, “Allahu Akbar” has no inherent political/violent connotation meriting instant terror diagnosis.I say it like 20 times a day.
Sorry, but to too many Americans “Allahu Akbar!” is the battle cry of Terrorism…
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And yet what she said is still correct.
“…What’s wrong with our politics is a reflection of something that’s wrong with the civic culture,” Obama said https://t.co/dKYRgdKyfs pic.twitter.com/xYzsA3vA6S
— POLITICO (@politico) November 1, 2017
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sorry, but to too many Americans
“Allahu Akbar!”ignorance is the battle cry of Terrorism…
FTFY
re: #215 lawhawk
Can you imagine how worthless Trump is that the first thing he does when we have a terrorist attack is to look for a Democratic opponent to slander? He doesn’t even pretend to be uplifting or unifying.
Just a disgusting human being who is out of his depths.
re: #215 lawhawk
Actually, the Gang of 8, including @SenSchumer, did away with the Diversity Visa Program as part of broader reforms. I know, I was there
— Jeff Flake
Wait, wait, hold on. Are you suggesting that The Donald is lying his orange arse off?
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re: #220 Patricia Kayden
Can you imagine how worthless Trump is that the first thing he does when we have a terrorist attack is to look for a Democratic opponent to slander? He doesn’t even pretend to be uplifting or unifying.
Just a disgusting human being who is out of his depths.
I’m glad 9/11 didn’t occur when he was President.
re: #220 Patricia Kayden
Can you imagine how worthless Trump is that the first thing he does when we have a terrorist attack is to look for a Democratic opponent to slander? He doesn’t even pretend to be uplifting or unifying.
Just a disgusting human being who is out of his depths.
But we still need to wait before passing judgment on the Las Vegas shooter, wait for the facts.
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re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sorry, but to too many Americans “Allahu Akbar!” is the battle cry of Terrorism…
What that woman said was formally true but misleading. AA is not inherently violent, true. A murderer shouting AA while committing murder is absolutely meaningful and points to the motive (no, not establishing it 100%, meaningfulness is a matter of probability).
re: #197 MsJ
Lying to the FBI is no big deal, especially in collusion cases, but Hillary should still be Locked Up Because Emails!
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re: #226 Sir John Barron
Lying to the FBI is no big deal, especially in collusion cases, but Hillary should still be Locked Up Because Emails!
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Lying to the FBI is a rite of passage for any young man just like colluding with a foreign power to subvert an election.
re: #218 JordanRules
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The Russian bots are out in full attack mode with their RepubliKKKlan KKKomrades…
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Yep even though they are living personifications of the American Dream. Michelle’s father was a water plant employee and both her and her brother attended Princeton.
and that is what pissed me off about a lot of conservatives. They could not bring themselves to recognize these people’s achievements, no matter how grudgingly
and when they whine about Affirmative Action, then please explain how GW Bush got into Yale and Harvard on academic merits alone…
re: #227 HappyWarrior
Lying to the FBI is a rite of passage for any young rich white man just like colluding with a foreign power to subvert an election.
re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that is what pissed me off about a lot of conservatives. They could not bring themselves to recognize these people’s achievements, no matter how grudgingly
and when they whine about Affirmative Action, then please explain how GW Bush got into Yale and Harvard on academic merits alone…
He got in because no undeserving minority took his spot
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Yep even though they are living personifications of the American Dream. Michelle’s father was a water plant employee and both her and her brother attended Princeton.
“The blacks should stop wearing hoodies and thugging and also Michelle and Barack shouldn’t have been successful because unfair.”
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re: #232 Sir John Barron
“The blacks should stop wearing hoodies and thugging and also Michelle and Barack shouldn’t have been successful because unfair.”
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Michele is “uppity.” Seriously she inspires so much disgusting hatred. Not to mention the pathetic transphobic crap too.
re: #176 Decatur Deb
Enough that, per mainstream accounts, he earned a forced suicide.
He did - he was with the plotters & when Hitler found out his choice was suicide and a military funeral or have his family ruined. He chose the former.
Just amazing how soon after yesterday’s attack the wingnuts began yipping about how if NYC wasn’t so anti-guns the attacker would have been killed instantly, etc. Seriously. These people.
re: #202 lawhawk
And as happens every 4 or 8 years, the democrats will have to clean up the mess republicans create. The sad thing is, some of the things trump is doing will take a generation to clean up.
re: #236 Sir John Barron
You mean like this tough guy?
Hey tough guy, all the guns in Texas didn’t stop mass shootings there. Or Nevada. Or anywhere else. It’s the mass availability that enables
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
I’ve always wondered why there was—is—such great attachment to General Lee as opposed to, say, Jefferson Davis.*
I’ve concluded that it partly has something to do with the glamour of war, and partly that it is a way to subtly affirm the Confederacy without appearing to actually embrace the cause of splittering the Union or supporting slavery (hence all the bogwash about how Lee was supposedly against secession and hated slavery, etc). Likewise, there’s no love for someone like Jefferson Davis whose “mere” political office was less “honorable”, politics being a dirty business, and Davis was rather unglamorously captured after fleeing Richmond.
*I mean I know there are highways and schools and counties named after him and all, but he doesn’t get all the books and titles like “honorable” and “great man”.
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Best costume?
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A couple of years ago, my wife made a tornado costume for our youngest son. It included a cow.
re: #238 lawhawk
You mean like this tough guy?
Here’s what I know. NYC is one of the most anti-gun cities in U.S. If this guy had been in Nashville, he wouldn’t have made it 8 blocks.
With people firing wildly at a moving target, hitting bystanders…right…
re: #239 Sir John Barron
Uniform fetishes are, and have been for some time, quite a thing in the US.
re: #238 lawhawk
You mean like this tough guy?
Yeah. Can’t believe he and others rushed out with that whorry old canard about all we needed was a “a good guy with a gun”. I mean, really. Thought that wingnut myth was about dead and buried, but no, it lives on in zombie form along with all the other lies.
re: #244 Sir John Barron
And Thor ignores that it was a cop that did finally stop the guy. It would have been virtually impossible to stop the guy before he crashed at the end of his rampage.
re: #225 Nyet
What that woman said was formally true but misleading. AA is not inherently violent, true. A murderer shouting AA while committing murder is absolutely meaningful and points to the motive (no, not establishing it 100%, meaningfulness is a matter of probability).
The whole point is fighting back against the concept that ‘Allahu Akbar’ is, inherently , a violent and terroristic phrase, and that anyone who dare uses it (i.e. Muslims) is somehow inherently terroristic themselves. That’s the point they’re trying to get at, because as others have pointed out above, the way the phrase is treated, you’d think it translated directly to ‘Death to the West’. They don’t care about the context, they’re trying to criminalize Islam and Muslims as a whole by making some indelible attachment between that phrase and terrorism as a whole.
“Slave market,” Atlanta, 1864: #LOC pic.twitter.com/Z7j2hmDcln
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 31, 2017
Paul Ryan says that checking an out-of-control president would “derail” Congress from it’s important work. Checking out-of-control presidents IS Congress’s important work. https://t.co/0mz93N6bAT
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 31, 2017
re: #199 The Vicious Babushka
JFC on a barbed wire tightrope
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Did I just wake up in 2004?
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sorry, but to too many Americans “Allahu Akbar!” is the battle cry of Terrorism…
If only Muslims in places like Pakistan and Indonesia would charge them with blasphemy more vehemently, as opposed to those who merely criticize Islam or speak out against Salafism.
re: #239 Sir John Barron
I’ve always wondered why there was—is—such great attachment to General Lee as opposed to, say, Jefferson Davis.*
I’ve concluded that it partly has something to do with the glamour of war, and partly that it is a way to subtly affirm the Confederacy without appearing to actually embrace the cause of splittering the Union or supporting slavery (hence all the bogwash about how Lee was supposedly against secession and hated slavery, etc). Likewise, there’s no love for someone like Jefferson Davis whose “mere” political office was less “honorable”, politics being a dirty business, and Davis was rather unglamorously captured after fleeing Richmond.
*I mean I know there are highways and schools and counties named after him and all, but he doesn’t get all the books and titles like “honorable” and “great man”.
You answered the question. Plus Lee’s admirers and subordinates wrote the Lost Cause History. But you’re right, Davis isn’t a secular saint in the South the way Jackson and Lee are.
re: #248 JordanRules
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Proud of my great great Grandfather who was a conductor and station keeper for the Underground Railroad!
re: #252 HappyWarrior
You answered the question. Plus Lee’s admirers and subordinates wrote the Lost Cause History. But you’re right, Davis isn’t a secular saint in the South the way Jackson and Lee are.
To Neo-Confederates, Lee was the general defending the Confederacy from the Yankee invaders. Davis failed in preventing the invasion.
re: #254 Joe Bacon 🌹
Proud of my great great Grandfather who was a conductor and station keeper for the Underground Railroad!
You should be.
re: #253 HappyWarrior
Coward.
Cowardice presumes that his unwillingness to act comes out of fear. Once again, it’s not fear, it’s complicity. They know damn well that this is their chance to get their golden calves, and that they have the power to derail it if they damn well choose. It’s active, calculated complicity.
re: #255 wheat-dogg
To Neo-Confederates, Lee was the general defending the Confederacy from the Yankee invaders. Davis failed in preventing the invasion.
Yeah I think that’s part of it. Plus Davis is seen as a mere politician and Lee noble warrior though Davis actually had served in the military himself and been Secretary of War. I think it boils down to the fact that Lee had more admirers in the CSA and former CSA to write the history. I know this much. The Lost Causers hated General Longstreet for a few reasons: One, he criticized Lee in his memoirs for how Lee handled Gettysburg, two he became a Republican and supporter of Reconstruction and thus African-Americans having rights, and third he became a Catholic convert. General Longstreet was an as if not more talented general than Lee in many ways- they were still teaching his theories on defensive warfare at West Point well into last century. Anyhow, I’m proud to have had a second great grandfather that fought for the Union. What Kelly gets wrong is simple to me. Yes, our past leaders have had flaws but Washington, Lincoln, JFK, the Roosevelts, John Adams, and Jefferson all have one thing that separates them from Lee. They never took up arms against this country.
re: #257 Citizen K
Cowardice presumes that his unwillingness to act comes out of fear. Once again, it’s not fear, it’s complicity. They know damn well that this is their chance to get their golden calves, and that they have the power to derail it if they damn well choose. It’s active, calculated complicity.
Good point.
un fucking believable that republicans are debating which taxes to raise on the middle class
Awaiting Trump’s coal comeback, miners reject retraining
WAYNESBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.
He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.
“I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner.
Despite broad consensus about coal’s bleak future, a years-long effort to diversify the economy of this hard-hit region away from mining is stumbling, with Obama-era jobs retraining classes undersubscribed and future programs at risk under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.
Trump has promised to revive coal by rolling back environmental regulations and moved to repeal Obama-era curbs on carbon emissions from power plants.
“I have a lot of faith in President Trump,” Sylvester said.
The delusion is strong, and damaging.
“Dems have no message” is an easy narrative; a more correct narrative is “Dems can’t break through Trump news to save their lives.”
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 1, 2017
re: #262 Citizen K
My aunt hailed from that part of Pennsylvania, and it was a depressing (and economically depressed) place even in the late 1970s when I visited there. That was 40 years ago, and coal sure ain’t coming back to SW PA now. That poor guy is pissing in the wind if he thinks otherwise.
re: #246 Citizen K
The whole point is fighting back against the concept that ‘Allahu Akbar’ is, inherently , a violent and terroristic phrase, and that anyone who dare uses it (i.e. Muslims) is somehow inherently terroristic themselves. That’s the point they’re trying to get at, because as others have pointed out above, the way the phrase is treated, you’d think it translated directly to ‘Death to the West’. They don’t care about the context, they’re trying to criminalize Islam and Muslims as a whole by making some indelible attachment between that phrase and terrorism as a whole.
Sure, formally the message could be read as “we normal Muslims say AA millions of times during our lives, doesn’t mean *we* are terrorists”. But due to ambiguity in the way it was written it could also read “just because this guy shouted AA doesn’t mean *he* is a terrorist”. Her subsequent comment goes rather in the latter direction:
He could be mentally ill. Disgruntled recently fired employee. High on drugs. That saying is so common he could have yelled it randomly.
— rabia chaudry (@rabiasquared) October 31, 2017
re: #262 Citizen K
Awaiting Trump’s coal comeback, miners reject retraining
The delusion is strong, and damaging.
I for the life of me don’t get these guys. You see, my grandfather was the son of a miner. Grandpa when he dropped out of high school tried the mines out like his Dad had. He hated it. When he got home from the Army in 1952-53, he went to trade school to learn how to become a bricklayer. As far as I know, none of his brothers finished their careers as coal miners and for Grandpa, it was a good decision, he lived to be 79 years old and all his grandchildren be born. And my grandmother also was the child of a coal miner. She’s still with us. She doesn’t get the nostagia for the mines. She remembers her Dad who died at the age of 63, a few years younger than my Dad is now in fact having a difficult time walking at the time. The tragedy of it is, Great Grandpa was very healthy towards the end other than his lungs. I have no doubt had he worked some place other than a coal mine, he would have like his brother and father lived a long and healthy life. I probably would have never met him still since he would have been 100 years old the I was born but he would have definitely gotten to know my mom and her brother.
Trump nominated 7 new US Attorneys this morning. All men. Which, I believe, brings his ratio to 50 male and 3 female.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 1, 2017
re: #263 JordanRules
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Weigel is correct. And Clinton had a message too. That so many far left and far right didn’t want to hear because they hated her so much.
After the terror attack in New York today, I went looking to see what propaganda #AltWankers were pushing in the aftermath.
— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) November 1, 2017
re: #264 wheat-dogg
My aunt hailed from that part of Pennsylvania, and it was a depressing (and economically depressed) place even in the late 1970s when I visited there. That was 40 years ago, and coal sure ain’t coming back to SW PA now. That poor guy is pissing in the wind if he thinks otherwise.
Yeah I remember going to Johnstown when I was a kid. Went back for the first time in years. The mines reopening isn’t going to happen. The economy there needs to adapt. Economies adapt. That’s how they survive. Pittsburgh itself has actually revitalized itself as a thriving medical center in recent years. And honestly it’s a much more healthy place to live than the city of my dad’s parents youth. So, yes, thank you environmental regulation, thank you renewable energy.
re: #265 Nyet
Sure, formally the message could be read as “we normal Muslims say AA millions of times during our lives, doesn’t mean *we* are terrorists”. But due to ambiguity in the way it was written it could also read “just because this guy shouted AA doesn’t mean *he* is a terrorist”. Her subsequent comment goes rather in the latter direction:
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She makes the worthwhile point though that using that phrase as a prime indicator of not only terrorism but wider, interconnected terrorism, is a fucking terrible metric. And yet that’s precisely what people do instantly when they hear the phrase regardless, even in otherwise innocuous situations.
This is one of the Russian Facebook ads the Senate Intelligence Committee is talking about today… pic.twitter.com/GQlyvgyach
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 1, 2017
re: #271 HappyWarrior
Yeah I remember going to Johnstown when I was a kid. Went back for the first time in years. The mines reopening isn’t going to happen. The economy there needs to adapt. Economies adapt. That’s how they survive. Pittsburgh itself has actually revitalized itself as a thriving medical center in recent years. And honestly it’s a much more healthy place to live than the city of my dad’s parents youth. So, yes, thank you environmental regulation, thank you renewable energy.
It’s just kind of amazing honestly. Growing up in Southern WV, I’ve seen the state that unrestrained mining has kind of not only disrupted the landscape but left people in a lurch, as well as the folk heroism of miner protests, that this mythologizing and nostalgia for coal persists.
re: #259 HappyWarrior
It’s disturbing how this revisionism about the Civil War — or the War of Northern Aggression, as some would call it — has percolated into the daily news cycle. It’s not just the white supremacists marching by the half-dozens in the streets, it’s members of the administration trying to revise history. They’re condoning the bullshit insurrectionism that strengthened during Obama’s terms — that somehow the federal government is a force for evil and therefore it’s permissible to take up arms against it. I doubt Kelly has thought that deeply about what his defense of Lee suggests to would-be seditionists. I would hope that he, as a member of the armed forces, would not willingly encourage insurrection against the government, but with this administration nothing would surprise me.
re: #61 Joe Bacon 🌹
Romper Room!! Now that’s a blast from the past!
re: #272 Citizen K
True. However that also sort of obscures a no less important point: due to him shouting AA the assumption that he is a terrorist - i.e. not simply a mass murderer but an ideologically driven one - becomes the most probable of the listed possibilities. Sure, in the end any of those possibilities could turn out to be true. They’re not equal, however.
re: #275 Citizen K
It’s just kind of amazing honestly. Growing up in Southern WV, I’ve seen the state that unrestrained mining has kind of not only disrupted the landscape but left people in a lurch, as well as the folk heroism of miner protests, that this mythologizing and nostalgia for coal persists.
Ditto eastern KY. Sensible folks know strip mining is bad on several different levels, and that strip mines employ relatively few people, given how mechanized it all is. The days of hundreds of men going bodily into the mines each day is a part of history that will not return.
re: #275 Citizen K
It’s just kind of amazing honestly. Growing up in Southern WV, I’ve seen the state that unrestrained mining has kind of not only disrupted the landscape but left people in a lurch, as well as the folk heroism of miner protests, that this mythologizing and nostalgia for coal persists.
When I think about my mom’s grandfathers, immigrants from Eastern Europe, I think about how they did what they did so their descendants i.e. my grandparents, mom and uncle, me and my brothers, and now my niece wouldn’t have to do that kind of work. As I said, my grandfather ended up becoming a brick mason. He left Johnstown in the mid 50’s before my Uncle was born. Mom and my Uncle ended up becoming the first people in their families to attend college. My brother is about to receive his BA and I have my BA. Brother wants to get his MA. And our youngest brother could be headed for UVA if he keeps on doing well in high school. That’s the American dream. I think they’d be horrified at people still wanting to work in the mines even though there are better alternatives. It frustrates me that people like the Mr. Sylvester interviewed in the article are REJECTING retraining.
re: #282 Nyet
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That’s the thing isn’t it? The American Civil War caused more deaths than any other of our wars. It amazes me that those who want to wave around the patriotism banner would venerate Lee and the CSA or attempt to defend their cause.
re: #279 Nyet
But why are there two empty non-Guinness bottles in her six-pack?
re: #278 Nyet
True. However that also sort of obscures a no less important point: due to him shouting AA the assumption that he is a terrorist - i.e. not simply a mass murderer but an ideologically driven one - becomes the most probable of the listed possibilities. Sure, in the end any of those possibilities could turn out to be true. They’re not equal, however.
The point being that we shouldn’t be the ones making that call. That’s for the authorities that have to investigate and connect the dots themselves.
re: #286 Citizen K
The point being that we shouldn’t be the ones making that call.
Absolutely, if you’re talking about a 100% call.
re: #281 HappyWarrior
When I think about my mom’s grandfathers, immigrants from Eastern Europe, I think about how they did what they did so their descendants i.e. my grandparents, mom and uncle, me and my brothers, and now my niece wouldn’t have to do that kind of work. As I said, my grandfather ended up becoming a brick mason. He left Johnstown in the mid 50’s before my Uncle was born. Mom and my Uncle ended up becoming the first people in their families to attend college. My brother is about to receive his BA and I have my BA. Brother wants to get his MA. And our youngest brother could be headed for UVA if he keeps on doing well in high school. That’s the American dream. I think they’d be horrified at people still wanting to work in the mines even though there are better alternatives. It frustrates me that people like the Mr. Sylvester interviewed in the article are REJECTING retraining.
The nostalgia for coal is becoming as much a tribal thing as anything else politicized these days. They don’t pine for the reality of working in coal mining, they pine for the mythologized symbolism of what being a ‘coal miner’ is
re: #281 HappyWarrior
When I think about my mom’s grandfathers, immigrants from Eastern Europe, I think about how they did what they did so their descendants i.e. my grandparents, mom and uncle, me and my brothers, and now my niece wouldn’t have to do that kind of work. As I said, my grandfather ended up becoming a brick mason. He left Johnstown in the mid 50’s before my Uncle was born. Mom and my Uncle ended up becoming the first people in their families to attend college. My brother is about to receive his BA and I have my BA. Brother wants to get his MA. And our youngest brother could be headed for UVA if he keeps on doing well in high school. That’s the American dream. I think they’d be horrified at people still wanting to work in the mines even though there are better alternatives. It frustrates me that people like the Mr. Sylvester interviewed in the article are REJECTING retraining.
I hear ya. Three of my grandparents were peasants and tradesmen from Sweden. They came to the USA to enable their kids to escape that kind of life if they wanted to. And they did. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are all white-collar workers.
I can’t fathom why any family would want their kids to stay in the mines, or why any miner’s kid would want to be a miner. It’s definitely Old World mentality.
re: #289 Citizen K
The nostalgia for coal is becoming as much a tribal thing as anything else politicized these days. They don’t pine for the reality of working in coal mining, they pine for the mythologized symbolism of what being a ‘coal miner’ is
Yep and then you have those who actually lived it like my grandmother who remembers her father being unable to walk towards the end of his life. But yeah, it’s this macho bullshit where being a miner or steelworker is more “manly” than working in an office or something like that. Ya know, my one great grandfather was a pretty smart guy, spoke a few different languages other than his native Rusyn and the English he adapted here, who knows what he could have done in a post-industrial economy.
re: #290 wheat-dogg
I hear ya. Three of my grandparents were peasants and tradesmen from Sweden. They came to the USA to enable their kids to escape that kind of life if they wanted to. And they did. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are all white-collar workers.
I can’t fathom why any family would want their kids to stay in the mines, or why any miner’s kid would want to be a miner. It’s definitely Old World mentality.
Yeah I just don’t get it. I mean. Am I proud of how hard my great grandfathers worked? Absolutely but I’d be just as proud of them no matter what. They shaped my grandparents and by shaping my grandparents, they shaped my parents and thus me.
Who among us would not happily give up our health insurance so that the hyper-wealthy can enjoy another tax cut?
Wouldn’t it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cuts…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
re: #286 Citizen K
Investigations are really important and instant public designations of crimes seem unhelpful. I wonder how accurate ear witness accounts are.
Retirement experts, please chime in. I have a hard time understanding if I’m on the right path or not.
Here’s some info:
- I’ll be 33 in a couple of weeks.
- Started contributing to my 401(k) account in July 2014, at 29.
- $150 a month deducted from my bank account until January 2016
- Increased to $200 for the calendar year
- Currently deducting $250 a month from my paycheck for 2017
- Company matches 6% of my contribution
Currently, my stats are as follows:
Daily Balance: $16,232.20
Rate of Return: 21.47%
How am I looking currently? Do I still have some catch-up to do as a result of my late start? If it helps, I am looking to increase my contribution to $350 for the next calendar year and continue to do so.
re: #294 The Vicious Babushka
Who among us would not happily give up our health insurance so that the hyper-wealthy can enjoy another tax cut?
Wouldn’t it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cuts…..
we’re not only going to take your guy’s nine apples and give them to that guy, we’re going to sell your 9 umbrellas and buy him even more apples
re: #222 HappyWarrior
Instant nuclear war. Dead glass planet.
re: #296 JordanRules
Investigations are really important and instant public designations of crimes seem unhelpful. I wonder how accurate ear witness accounts are.
Exactly. I forget whether it was Las Vegas or another attack (and it’s pathetic I have to admit that confusion) where someone swears they heard something along the lines of ‘Allahu Akbar’ and it ended up someone else shouting ‘get down’ or something similarly innocuous.
Good live tweeting on the continuing hearing today. It’s being broadcast on C-SPAN 3.
Warner:
One study indicated “bots generated ONE out of every FIVE political messages” on Twitter during the 2016 campaign.— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) November 1, 2017
Thread https://t.co/aTxwaw9Zil
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 1, 2017
I can imagine that Ta-Nehisi, if he even saw this “challenge” would say “Go fuck yourself”
I wonder if @tanehisicoates would take me up on a challenge to debate on a campus which is the party of racism & white supremacy
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 1, 2017
re: #261 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
un fucking believable that republicans are debating which taxes to raise on the middle class
No. It’s totally fucking believable.
The GOP has no shame about what they’re doing. They’re intent on fucking over everyone but the rich so that the rich get bigger tax breaks than they already enjoy. All the burdens fall on the least able to afford/endure them.
Why would anyone want to debate a felon belonging to a racist party?
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) November 1, 2017
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
I can imagine that Ta-Nehisi, if he even saw this “challenge” would say “Go fuck yourself”
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The ol’ “match of wits with an unarmed man” and so forth and so on…..
re: #297 electrotek
Retirement experts, please chime in. I have a hard time understanding if I’m on the right path or not.
Here’s some info:
- I’ll be 33 in a couple of weeks.
- Started contributing to my 401(k) account in July 2014, at 29.
- $150 a month deducted from my bank account until January 2016
- Increased to $200 for the calendar year
- Currently deducting $250 a month from my paycheck for 2017
- Company matches 6% of my contributionCurrently, my stats are as follows:
Daily Balance: $16,232.20
Rate of Return: 21.47%How am I looking currently? Do I still have some catch-up to do as a result of my late start? If it helps, I am looking to increase my contribution to $350 for the next calendar year and continue to do so.
cant answer your question - i can raise a few more
- when do you expect / want to retire - ie how many years are you going to contribute?
- how would you expect / want to live when you retire - that determines to an extent how much money you will need to have saved
- there’s a lot of assumptions between today and your future - changing jobs, tax laws, raises, all sorts of stuff
in general, all other things being equal, save as much as you dont think you’re going to need to live on, or need to tap in an unforeseen emergency.
and 21.47% - not a chance
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
I can imagine that Ta-Nehisi, if he even saw this “challenge” would say “Go fuck yourself”
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Considering you use what the parties were 150 years ago as your evidence Dinesh, you’d be laughed at louder than WFB was when James Baldwin schooled him at Oxford.
You really are that stupid, you adulterer and convicted felon!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) November 1, 2017
Dinesh’s arguments suck. The Dems were racist 150 years ago ergo all Democrats are racist now. There were gay Nazis ergo it’s okay to discriminate against gays. For someone with a college education, it amazes me how stupid he is.
re: #297 electrotek
Without getting into too much detail, if you’re maxing out your company match, and increase your contributions annually (figuring that you probably increase when you get your salary increase/raise), then you’ve got a good foundation.
There are retirement calculators you can use that can make sure that you’re going to hit your targets - how old do you want to be when you retire, what other retirement income you might have, how much you want to save at retirement, your cost of living, etc.
All the major brokerages have this, and many 401k systems have that kind of feature.
re: #301 JordanRules
Good live tweeting on the continuing hearing today. It’s being broadcast on C-SPAN 3.
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i’m still going with Franken yesterday:
“Mr. Stretch, how did Facebook, which prides itself on being able to process billions of data points and instantly transform them into personal connections for its users, somehow not make the connection that election ads, paid for in rubles, were coming from Russia?” asked Franken. “Those are two data points: American political ads and Russian money, rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?”
Dear everyone in the White House, we know this new era can be exciting and scary. Allow us to recommend some light reading. pic.twitter.com/lCpiG3kv9X
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) October 30, 2017
You know the thing about Coates and this is why I respect him is he’s not afraid or unwilling to point out problems the left has with race. He discussed the Sanders wing’s blindness on the issue in the “First White President” article. Dinesh would never ever criticize racism or racial insensitivity on the right.
Dinesh just got pwn3d
I’m sure he’d also be delighted to debate you on why you think economic discrimination against blacks is rational. pic.twitter.com/woak0E89e3
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) November 1, 2017
re: #310 HappyWarrior
Dinesh’s arguments suck. The Dems were racist 150 years ago ergo all Democrats are racist now. There were gay Nazis ergo it’s okay to discriminate against gays. For someone with a college education, it amazes me how stupid he is.
I think he might not be that stupid, rather exploiting the rubes. Which is worse.
re: #316 Nyet
I think he might not be that stupid, rather exploiting the rubes. Which is worse.
True, true.
re: #205 MsJ
Well Trump did tell them to rough up suspects, didn’t he?
re: #314 HappyWarrior
You know the thing about Coates and this is why I respect him is he’s not afraid or unwilling to point out problems the left has with race. He discussed the Sanders wing’s blindness on the issue in the “First White President” article. Dinesh would never ever criticize racism or racial insensitivity on the right.
Frankly, I think Dinesh got his start by lying like hell about what he saw at Stanford.
re: #320 gwangung
Frankly, I think Dinesh got his start by lying like hell about what he saw at Stanford.
I’m not familiar with that. Expand if you don’t mind. He’s such a pathetic jerk IMO. Like it’s one thing to ideologically disagree with someone. He’s literally mocked Obama for having his father not in his life.
re: #315 The Vicious Babushka
And the irony of trying to use Coates to make himself some money and notoriety, for even more money, is a cute little dynamic.
It is now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump gets his daily intel briefing from Fox & Friends
Left: Rand Paul calls for eliminating Obamacare indiv mandate to fund tax cuts, 10:37 am.
Right, Trump tweets, 10:59 am pic.twitter.com/WiFVMvYj8O— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 1, 2017
Wyden: Ads are a small part of a much bigger problem: fake users posting content to hurt people. You should shut down bad actors.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 1, 2017
re: #324 The Vicious Babushka
It is now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump gets his daily intel briefing from Fox & Friends
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Well we know he asked Lumpy Hannity for advise on the Iran Deal so why not get his daily briefing for Fox and Friends?
Statelemate:Facebook’s Stretch says committee,not it,should release Russian troll ads.Heinrich: there is “disagreement” on panel to do so
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) November 1, 2017
Gee, I wonder which side is against releasing them.
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Dinesh was racist when I saw him speak over 20 years ago — and he has not improved with age. At that time he seemed to have no awareness or perhaps it was no concern of the systemic discrimination African-Americans endured since the Civil War. He was a liar then and remains a liar today.
—Edited to clarify
re: #266 HappyWarrior
I for the life of me don’t get these guys.
Agreed. Mining is hard, shitty work. It’s dangerous (and getting more so due guys like this and their faith in Trump). So who cares if it can make a comeback? Someone is offering an alternative (on their dime) and you don’t take it? Dumb.
Witnesses are the attorneys from @Facebook, @Twitter, and @Google.
We have no explanation for why the CEOs of these firms are not appearing. pic.twitter.com/xD4jlWqn4p— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) November 1, 2017
Guess it’s time for the Senate to subpoena @jack and Mark Zuckerburg. I for one would love to see them testify under oath.
re: #329 Mike Lamb
Agreed. Mining is hard, shitty work. It’s dangerous (and getting more so due guys like this and their faith in Trump). So who cares if it can make a comeback? Someone is offering an alternative (on their dime) and you don’t take it? Dumb.
Yeah it stumps me.
re: #327 makeitstop
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this is bizarre
they were already posted on facebook - people saw them, right?
in essence already public, no?
re: #322 HappyWarrior
I’m not familiar with that. Expand if you don’t mind. He’s such a pathetic jerk IMO. Like it’s one thing to ideologically disagree with someone. He’s literally mocked Obama for having his father not in his life.
It was nonsense about how multicultural student groups at Stanford were oppressing and discriminating against white students at Stanford. Since I was a member of these groups shortly before he encountered them, I thought it was nonsense. We counted some white students as part, but there was a lot of self segregation going on (granted, some by POC students, but just a lot by white students).
re: #332 dangerman
They want people to think there were only a few outlier ads planted by Russians, not the thousands that actually were.
re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter
Dinesh was racist when I saw him speak over 20 years ago — and he has not improved with age. He seemed to have no awareness or perhaps it was no concern of the systemic discrimination African-Americans endured since the Civil. He was a liar then and remains a liar today.
I think Dinesh’s only problem with the Confederacy is its leaders were mostly Democrats. Anyhow, can I just say something though about the Democratic Party. Yes, there were a lot of Democrats who supported slavery and secession in those days. But there were other Democrats like Martin Van Buren who later opposed slavery and Lincoln’s old famous debate rival, Stephen Douglass who supported the Union fully. Plus a lot of Lincoln’s top generals were Democrats too like Winfield Scott Hancock. The Republican Party of that day deserves its due. They were anti-slavery but the narrative pushed by psuedo-historians of the Civil War being Anti-Slavery Republicans versus Pro-Slavery Democrats is inaccurate.
re: #333 gwangung
It was nonsense about how multicultural student groups at Stanford were oppressing and discriminating against white students at Stanford. Since I was a member of these groups shortly before he encountered them, I thought it was nonsense. We counted some white students as part, but there was a lot of self segregation going on (granted, some by POC students, but just a lot by white students).
Ah okay. Thanks.
re: #334 Eclectic Cyborg
They want people to think there were only a few outlier ads planted by Russians, not the thousands that actually were.
All those Libertarians would sell out the country to make a few more dollars (or in this case, rubles).
re: #332 dangerman
this is bizarre
they were already posted on facebook - people saw them, right?
in essence already public, no?
Might become too obvious that we were being fucked with. It’s better for those who took advantage of it to not have to deal with shit like this (noted date and location):
Howdy!
I was checking out ESPN this morning to see the baseball results from last night since I did not watch.
I saw this article with Pappa John’s Pizza owner (and noted conservative asshole) John Schnatter bitching about the anthem protests by the players hurting his business.
I don’t suppose Schnatter would consider the fact that his pizzas suck and his business is dropping off from NFL fans because as they try them, they decide they don’t like them.
But hey…those damn players.
ESPN - Papa John’s says anthem protests are hurting deal with NFL
Executives from Papa John’s, the official pizza company of the NFL, expressed disappointment on a conference call Wednesday about the league’s ongoing player protests during the national anthem.
“The NFL has hurt us,” company founder and CEO John Schnatter said. “We are disappointed the NFL and its leadership did not resolve this.”
Executives said the company has pulled much of its NFL television advertising and that the NFL has responded by giving the company additional future spots.
“Leadership starts at the top and this is an example of poor leadership,” Schnatter said, noting he thought the issue had been “nipped in the bud” a year and a half ago.
In revising sales estimates for the next quarter, Papa John’s president and chief operating officer Steve Ritchie said on the call that the NFL deal was the primary suspect behind the decline and that “we expect it to persist unless a solution is put in place.”
Ritchie said that research has found that Papa John’s has been the most recognized sponsor associated with the NFL for two years running, which he said means the company’s performance can track with that of the league.
Papa John’s has a deal with not only the NFL, but also with 23 individual teams.
Company executives declined to disclose exactly how much money in projected sales Papa John’s lost from its association with the NFL and declining ratings, which mean fewer people are ordering their product for game days, they said.
re: #334 Eclectic Cyborg
They want people to think there were only a few outlier ads planted by Russians, not the thousands that actually were.
right, now i see
whatever the committee has in its possession, it’s a fraction
the company would have to identify all of them
re: #339 ObserverArt
Howdy!
I was checking out ESPN this morning to see the baseball results from last night since I did not watch.
I saw this article with Pappa John’s Pizza owner (and noted conservative asshole) John Schnatter bitching about the anthem protests by the players hurting his business.
I don’t suppose Schnatter would consider the fact that his pizzas suck and his business is dropping off from NFL fans because as they try them, they decide they don’t like them.
But hey…those damn players.
ESPN - Papa John’s says anthem protests are hurting deal with NFL
His pizza is so overrated.
re: #339 ObserverArt
Howdy!
I was checking out ESPN this morning to see the baseball results from last night since I did not watch.
I saw this article with Pappa John’s Pizza owner (and noted conservative asshole) John Schnatter bitching about the anthem protests by the players hurting his business.
I don’t suppose Schnatter would consider the fact that his pizzas suck and his business is dropping off from NFL fans because as they try them, they decide they don’t like them.
But hey…those damn players.
ESPN - Papa John’s says anthem protests are hurting deal with NFL
shorter papa john’s: the free market sux
re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter
Dinesh was racist when I saw him speak over 20 years ago — and he has not improved with age. He seemed to have no awareness or perhaps it was no concern of the systemic discrimination African-Americans endured since the Civil. He was a liar then and remains a liar today.
He clearly has no concern about it given that in the excerpt from the Tweet above, he specifically advocates for “rational discrimination” in at least the lending context. He’s advocating for systemic discrimination while at the same time arguing that such discrimination isn’t racist. (All for the ostensible purpose of allowing banks to “save time” when making lending decisions.). I’m developing a migraine.
re: #284 HappyWarrior
That’s the thing isn’t it? The American Civil War caused more deaths than any other of our wars. It amazes me that those who want to wave around the patriotism banner would venerate Lee and the CSA or attempt to defend their cause.
Again, my favorite quote from Virginia-born Union General Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas:
[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, my favorite quote from Virginia-born Union General Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas:
[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
I am glad Thomas is getting his due more in history. He was a great general and patriot.
re: #345 HappyWarrior
I am glad Thomas is getting his due more in history. He was a great general and patriot.
and a rock
re: #335 HappyWarrior
I think Dinesh’s only problem with the Confederacy is its leaders were mostly Democrats. Anyhow, can I just say something though about the Democratic Party. Yes, there were a lot of Democrats who supported slavery and secession in those days. But there were other Democrats like Martin Van Buren who later opposed slavery and Lincoln’s old famous debate rival, Stephen Douglass who supported the Union fully. Plus a lot of Lincoln’s top generals were Democrats too like Winfield Scott Hancock. The Republican Party of that day deserves its due. They were anti-slavery but the narrative pushed by psuedo-historians of the Civil War being Anti-Slavery Republicans versus Pro-Slavery Democrats is inaccurate.
The tripe about the Dems being the racist party is just horseshit all the way down. It was a regional/cultural divide, not a political divide. Northern Dems didn’t support slavery (certainly not in a party platform type of way). The South became Dems largely as a backlash to the fact that Lincoln was a Republican. And last but not least, regardless of the historical origins the Democratic Party in Southern states and their espousal of racism, what dipshits like D’Souza can’t grasp/hand wave away is that the descendants of the racist Southern Democrats are now the core of the modern fucking GOP—and that is absolutely by design.
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, my favorite quote from Virginia-born Union General Henry “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas:
[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
That’s where the north failed.
The idea that the GOP cares about law and order and the Constitution went out the window a long time ago. This is just more proof.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
Stealing a Supreme Court seat revealed that the GOP no longer plays by the rules. Electing Trump proved them depraved
— Jeff Fearlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #350 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Now that it’s November, are you going to become Featherlington.
NY Gov. Cuomo: The president’s tweets “were not helpful. I don’t think they were factual.” https://t.co/MyuBSYjAh6 pic.twitter.com/jZcc0CDrHs
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 1, 2017
re: #347 Mike Lamb
The tripe about the Dems being the racist party is just horseshit all the way down. It was a regional/cultural divide, not a political divide. Northern Dems didn’t support slavery (certainly not in a party platform type of way). The South became Dems largely as a backlash to the fact that Lincoln was a Republican. And last but not least, regardless of the historical origins the Democratic Party in Southern states and their espousal of racism, what dipshits like D’Souza can’t grasp/hand wave away is that the descendants of the racist Southern Democrats are now the core of the modern fucking GOP—and that is absolutely by design.
Yep.
I’m late to the NYPD press conference because I couldn’t find a non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver for over 30 min! This is insanity.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 1, 2017
Then walk, bitch. https://t.co/S0Mt4orZk9
— Real Fake P0TUS (@RF_P0TUS) November 1, 2017
Who the fuck is this Laura Loomer. Oh wait, she’s a Jimmy O’Keefe special kind of nut. That explains much, including the inability to get on an MTA bus or subway or just walk to the destination.
The fact that there are so many Muslims in NYC and so little actual crime should disabuse of the notion that Muslims are particularly dangerous.
But these are xenophobes and Islamophobes who need to hate so badly that they spew nonsensical ravings that Fox News just loves to regurgitate.
re: #351 Belafon
Now that it’s November, are you going to become Featherlington.
Only if I’m the turkey that gets pardoned.
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
I’m just going to leave this here pic.twitter.com/GCatHGndxx
— HudsonRiverCroc (@HudsonRiverCroc) November 1, 2017
Why did we ever let this immigrant criminal into the US? He obviously doesn’t share our values!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 1, 2017
re: #355 lawhawk
The fact that there are so many Muslims in NYC and so little actual crime should disabuse of the notion that Muslims are particularly dangerous.
But these are xenophobes and Islamophobes who need to hate so badly that they spew nonsensical ravings that Fox News just loves to regurgitate.
And again, this fellow came from a country that was not on the Muslim Ban list…
re: #355 lawhawk
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Who the fuck is this Laura Loomer. Oh wait, she’s a Jimmy O’Keefe special kind of nut. That explains much, including the inability to get on an MTA bus or subway or just walk to the destination.
The fact that there are so many Muslims in NYC and so little actual crime should disabuse of the notion that Muslims are particularly dangerous.
But these are xenophobes and Islamophobes who need to hate so badly that they spew nonsensical ravings that Fox News just loves to regurgitate.
Waaaaah. Stupid ignorant nutcase. Anyhow, she doesn’t know whether they’re all Muslim not that it matters.
re: #355 lawhawk
By her profile pic it looks like she wants to be a Fox News Deplorablonde
I saw some idiots claiming Laura wasn’t a bigot in a story about her and the university of Minnesota.
re: #361 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
By her profile pic it looks like she wants to be a Fox News Deplorablonde
She fits the template: Blonde, sounds like a 60 year old balding white guy who gets all his information about the world from Rush, making a good living but somehow in a rage about liberalism.
re: #355 lawhawk
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Who the fuck is this Laura Loomer. Oh wait, she’s a Jimmy O’Keefe special kind of nut. That explains much, including the inability to get on an MTA bus or subway or just walk to the destination.
The fact that there are so many Muslims in NYC and so little actual crime should disabuse of the notion that Muslims are particularly dangerous.
But these are xenophobes and Islamophobes who need to hate so badly that they spew nonsensical ravings that Fox News just loves to regurgitate.
I guess she never got that tire fixed.
re: #335 HappyWarrior
I think Dinesh’s only problem with the Confederacy is its leaders were mostly Democrats. Anyhow, can I just say something though about the Democratic Party. Yes, there were a lot of Democrats who supported slavery and secession in those days. But there were other Democrats like Martin Van Buren who later opposed slavery and Lincoln’s old famous debate rival, Stephen Douglass who supported the Union fully. Plus a lot of Lincoln’s top generals were Democrats too like Winfield Scott Hancock. The Republican Party of that day deserves its due. They were anti-slavery but the narrative pushed by psuedo-historians of the Civil War being Anti-Slavery Republicans versus Pro-Slavery Democrats is inaccurate.
Political mud slinging has never needed accuracy.
re: #358 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So, Germany, France, UK, and the US itself?
Oh, and what about Ireland? Can’t forget them. Or Spain.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
re: #359 HappyWarrior
Waaaaah. Stupid ignorant nutcase. Anyhow, she doesn’t know whether they’re all Muslim not that it matters.
She’s the kind of bugnut who thinks a Sikh is a Muslim or that anyone who isn’t lily white is a terror threat.
re: #366 lawhawk
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re: #367 lawhawk
She’s the kind of bugnut who thinks a Sikh is a Muslim or that anyone who isn’t lily white is a terror threat.
Sikh, Hindu. They’re all dark skinned with facial hair that makes me feel uncomfortable! I’d love to see Laura’s reaction if she ever went to Sarajevo or Tirana.
You? Why would he? You really don’t matter much, Dinesh.
— Faaaaaaaaah Q (@FaaaaaaaaaaaH_Q) November 1, 2017
He’s a serious person. Why would he want to debate someone who missed the last fifty years, and mistakes the Dems for southern Cons?
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
I met this guy when we visited Moscow 10 years ago. He’s hilarious!
Lenin impersonator ekes out a living on the edge of Moscow’s Red Square https://t.co/jSMC7n5xzy pic.twitter.com/KggzEAVg7S
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 1, 2017
You self identify as a deplorable bigot, the kind of person Derpy D. is trying to associate with the Democrats.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #367 lawhawk
She’s the kind of bugnut who thinks a Sikh is a Muslim or that anyone who isn’t lily white is a terror threat.
Shorter Laura Loomer: I’m running late putting on all my makeup and teasing my hair so I need an easy excuse all my followers will buy.
Tweet the hate.
Yeah, this. Cardin: Russia’s election meddling is ‘an act of war’
Russian efforts to interfere in last year’s presidential election amount to “an act of war,” Sen. Ben Cardin said Wednesday, and to question otherwise plays right into Russia’s hands.
“You’re falling into Russia’s trap. Russia is spending money in this country to convince us that this is nothing more than what’s been done since the beginning of time,” Cardin (D-Md.) said Wednesday at an event hosted by the National Democratic Institute. “It’s a conscientious effort to say ‘we all do this, so why is America getting upset?’ And we’re falling trap to it because we’re giving legitimacy to this.”
“Cyber is an attack against our country. When you use cyber in an affirmative way to compromise our democratic, free election system, that’s an attack against America,” he continued. “It’s an act of war. It is an act of war.”
Knocking off a couple of points for use of the hated ‘cyber.’ Otherwise, dead on.
re: #147 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
it doesn’t matter if he was the pizza delivery boy - if he can testify as to what was really happening, his testimony is as good as anybody’s
Monica Lewinsky was an intern, and that seemed to be fine with the GOP.
re: #375 makeitstop
Yeah, this. Cardin: Russia’s election meddling is ‘an act of war’
Knocking off a couple of points for use of the hated ‘cyber.’ Otherwise, dead on.
I would not go that far, but it is a hostile act, and anyone involved in collusion with them should be prosecuted.
To the full extent of the law.
Someone needs to create a non Islamic form of @uber or @lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 1, 2017
…and if you believe this story, I’ve got a “slashed” left tire to sell you.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 1, 2017
re: #378 Ace-o-aces
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Trump picks Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s son for U.S. attorney in Houston https://t.co/tsbPVSxw0t via @dallasnews
— Todd J. Gillman (@toddgillman) November 1, 2017
re: #355 lawhawk
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Who the fuck is this Laura Loomer. Oh wait, she’s a Jimmy O’Keefe special kind of nut. That explains much, including the inability to get on an MTA bus or subway or just walk to the destination.
She’s a Jewish woman who dates Baked Alaska, the guy who posted a photoshop of her in an Auschwitz gas chamber.
That’s all you need to know.
re: #378 Ace-o-aces
No one can legally set up bigoted alternative versions of services to ban a religion. This is still America.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #248 JordanRules
The one that got me, and I mean like a gut punch, was seeing an ad in a newspaper that had a list of things for sale like butter…and a little black boy. In print. In a newspaper. I will never forget seeing that as long as I live.
This is what they want compromise on? Fuck them. Fuck them all.
Trump now complaining immigration reform hasn’t been passed.
GOP **won’t allow vote** on immigration reform.
the stupidity hurt.— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 1, 2017
re: #383 MsJ
The one that got me, and I mean like a gut punch, was seeing an ad in a newspaper that had a list of things for sale like butter…and a little black boy. In print. In a newspaper. I will never forget seeing that as long as I live.
This is what they want compromise on? Fuck them. Fuck them all.
But hey they were men of honor. Never mind the fact that all captured black soldiers were forced into slavery and their white officers often executed.
24 hours haven’t even passed. Give the families time to grieve!
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 1, 2017
If Lincoln were the actual tyrant the CSA lovers claim him to be, we wouldn’t have a Lost Cause mythology because no one would have been able to write the Lost Cause mythology. Lincoln’s charitableness unfortunately is why the Lost Cause exists.
re: #282 Nyet
There are a number of good comments to that post. Not just the knee-jerk kind.
re: #386 The Vicious Babushka
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Now wouldn’t it be something if one of the victims was a victim of this same visa program?
re: #387 HappyWarrior
If Lincoln were the actual tyrant the CSA lovers claim him to be, we wouldn’t have a Lost Cause mythology because no one would have been able to write the Lost Cause mythology. Lincoln’s charitableness unfortunately is why the Lost Cause exists.
Yeah, if Lincoln really were the tyrant the CSA supporters say he was, it wouldn’t have been “With malice towards none and charity towards all”…..it would’ve been more like “Execute Order 66.”
re: #390 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, if Lincoln really were the tyrant the CSA supporters say he was, it wouldn’t have been “With malice towards none and charity towards all”…..it would’ve been more like “Execute Order 66.”
Also, if you want proof of the CSA’s hypocrisy. Look at how secession movements were treated within the Confederacy.
A judge just ruled Paul Manafort isn’t entitled to attorney-client privilege. Huh? https://t.co/8rOcucFUFU pic.twitter.com/hXm3QfezrX
— Slate (@Slate) November 1, 2017
This is what happens when one’s lawyer is used as a cover for spying/co-conspiring. https://t.co/xwIKPYXAYV
— Counterchekist (@counterchekist) November 1, 2017
re: #381 Nyet
She’s a Jewish woman who dates Baked Alaska, the guy who posted a photoshop of her in an Auschwitz gas chamber.
That’s all you need to know.
So, she is a mess with a goofball boyfriend.
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
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*sniff*
I smell nervous sweat.
And poo.
Nervous sweat and poo.
And the poo could be my 1 week old son.
re: #392 Nyet
Meanwhile our little Nazi sympathizer retweets that same neo-Nazi.
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It’s amazing how gamergate flipped so many gamers who were once seemingly-reasonable people into right-wing extremists.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
Find A Grave shows his tombstone in the Congressional Cemetery and a picture of him
Further information here. He served in various facets of DC Goverment:
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Census records
He was the Union General in charge of the defense of DC. Here’s one of his military orders
Thanks for this fascinating information. That and some googling also explain why General Bacon isn’t in “Generals in Blue”: He was a commander of the D.C. militia, not of regular U.S. Army forces. His responsibilities were certainly greater than those of many regular generals in the field, but Warner’s book includes only the regulars.
re: #396 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s amazing how gamergate flipped so many gamers who were once seemingly-reasonable people into right-wing extremists.
I’ve read about Gamergate. It’s really amazing how it made them flip their shit.
re: #396 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s amazing how gamergate flipped so many gamers who were once seemingly-reasonable people into right-wing extremists.
Exposed not flipped. They were simply able to pretend to be reasonable till they presumed that everyone must believe like they did.
re: #396 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
re: #398 HappyWarrior
Could I get the crib notes of gamergate? I didn’t follow it at all - and I would be a gamer (more so in my past - less since mid 2015 - dating, marriage, and children seem to stop that activity - but I got an itch to play some Destiny 2).
re: #400 CongoJack
Could I get the crib notes of gamergate? I didn’t follow it at all - and I would be a gamer (more so in my past - less since mid 2015 - dating, marriage, and children seem to stop that activity - but I got an itch to play some Destiny 2).
Okay someone can explain it better than I can but the gist from what I get is some reviewer wrote a positive review of an Indy Game in 2014. The ex of the woman who developed the game alleged that the reason why the game got favorably reviewed is because his ex (the developer) slept with the reviewer and it got all the bros in a frenzy. It’s also I believe how Milo made his name and rep even though he had mocked gamers previously but Milo being Milo the attention junkie he is saw an opportunity and it jump started his 15 mins of fame. I like games too. In fact, I was playing MGS V just last night and I very much enjoy gaming as a form of entertainment but these guys.
NYPD Dep Commish John Miller says “this isn’t about Islam”, warns that any hate/bias crimes will be aggressively prosecuted. pic.twitter.com/sk2Rf5D4Ks
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 1, 2017
re: #330 No Depression
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Guess it’s time for the Senate to subpoena @jack and Mark Zuckerburg. I for one would love to see them testify under oath.
Especially since Zuck wants to run for president. I can’t imagine how Facebook could help in that effort. Nope. Can’t imagine it at all.
heh
I’m late to the NYPD press conference because I couldn’t find a non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver for over 30 min! This is insanity.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 1, 2017
You’re a despicable person and a racist. I would encourage both @lyft and @uber to ditch you as a client. https://t.co/dLMyGHTcIC
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) November 1, 2017
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Cue the Trump whiners who live in lily white places whining about PC run amok.
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Slate article notes that the attorney client privilege is a bedrock legal principle, but there’s a very limited exception (crime-fraud exception) where a person uses that privilege to try and engage in a criminal act. The article details just how Mueller identified exactly what the criminal/fraudulent act was and the court agreed that this was a textbook example.
The court made it abundantly clear that they understood exactly what Manafort was doing and how the privilege would be waived as a result of Manafort’s actions.
The crime-fraud exception holds that if a client seeks legal advice in furtherance of a crime, privileged communications between the attorney and client are waived. In effect, the distinction is as follows: You can safely tell your lawyer where you buried the bodies, but you can’t ask your lawyer how to bury the bodies.
Manafort was asking the latter (money laundering). Mueller wanted the answer to that - and got the court to agree that the lawyer had to answer that.
In effect, Manafort was pulling an Office Space (how do you money launder? go to the dictionary).
re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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I love Soledad. She’s great. Anyhow, that’s the free market Laura. You could have gotten to the presser another way but you chose not to. As for your likely bs sotry about being denied service because you’re Jewish, uh aren’t you on the ideology who thinks businesses can discriminate against whoever the hell they want to?
re: #394 ObserverArt
So, she is a mess with a goofball boyfriend.
She’s a mess, and her boyfriend’s a white supremacist/Nazi.
re: #402 HappyWarrior
Okay someone can explain it better than I can but the gist from what I get is some reviewer wrote a positive review of an Indy Game in 2014. The ex of the woman who developed the game alleged that the reason why the game got favorably reviewed is because his ex (the developer) slept with the reviewer and it got all the bros in a frenzy. It’s also I believe how Milo made his name and rep even though he had mocked gamers previously but Milo being Milo the attention junkie he is saw an opportunity and it jump started his 15 mins of fame. I like games too. In fact, I was playing MGS V just last night and I very much enjoy gaming as a form of entertainment but these guys.
Even though the person who wrote the review is not the person the ex- slept with.
Gamergaters developed the tactic of swarming their critics, pinpointing those who were POCs or women.
re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter
Dinesh was racist when I saw him speak over 20 years ago — and he has not improved with age. He seemed to have no awareness or perhaps it was no concern of the systemic discrimination African-Americans endured since the Civil. He was a liar then and remains a liar today.
Does he think he is white? Or that the people whose approval he seeks would consider him white?
re: #249 Belafon
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Gee. When the President was a D, doing “out of control” things like trying to appoint judges, or sending special ops teams on successful missions that didn’t kill any of ours, they thought checking him was the single most important thing they could possibly be doing.
re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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Yes, you’ve clearly gone insane from your bigotry.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
Driving Miss Dixie. Taking my 80 year old mom and 2 girlfriends from high school around their old neighbors for a look at their old stomping grounds.
re: #402 HappyWarrior
Even dumber than that. The guy that wrote the article talked with the female dev about a game/games, not even HER game.
And because of that, she was fcking everyone in sight to get good press.
re: #396 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s amazing how gamergate flipped so many gamers who were once seemingly-reasonable people into right-wing extremists.
If you look at some of them, I think it is reasonable to think they are still playing games.
When shit gets real serious they will cry like the little asses they are.
And speaking of Baked White guys…I just came across this.
re: #411 gwangung
Even though the person who wrote the review is not the person the ex- slept with.
Gamergaters developed the tactic of swarming their critics, pinpointing those who were POCs or women.
Yep. Nasty nasty stuff.
re: #417 I cannot.
Even dumber than that. The guy that wrote the article talked with the female dev about a game/games, not even HER game.
And because of that, she was fcking everyone in sight to get good press.
JFC. I knew it was petty shit but not that kind of petty shit.
re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth
This ass has a shitload of reportable tweets on here timeline. Popped 5 different tweets with no doubt. How many can you find.
Trump: “we demand merit-based system”
Dems put that in 2013 bill. GOP WOULDN’T ALLOW A VOTE— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 1, 2017
re: #402 HappyWarrior
re: #411 gwangung
re: #417 I cannot.
So its just stupid shit that the male population that play vidya get all riled about because of a woman and POC.
Is it safe that I can ignore this - I have a lot IRL gamer friends - this has never been mentioned in any discussion (granted my gamer friends all are college educated and are not assholes).
Waiting for the tape from the WH that has someone saying, “this is the best thing that could’ve happened”
re: #424 CongoJack
So its just stupid shit that the male population that play vidya get all riled about because of a woman and POC.
Is it safe that I can ignore this - I have a lot IRL gamer friends - this has never been mentioned in any discussion (granted my gamer friends all are college educated and are not assholes).
I think you can stop after “shit.”
It just revealed there there is a lot of racism and sexism out.
re: #424 CongoJack
So its just stupid shit that the male population that play vidya get all riled about because of a woman and POC.
Is it safe that I can ignore this - I have a lot IRL gamer friends - this has never been mentioned in any discussion (granted my gamer friends all are college educated and are not assholes).
I dunno. And you know here’s the thing, I’m a guy on the spectrum, I’m someone who they certainly would target to go with their misogyny but you know what, I know personally how hard my mom worked to get where she is and I know other women work hard too.
re: #418 ObserverArt
If you look at some of them, I think it is reasonable to think they are still playing games.
When shit gets real serious they will cry like the little asses they are.
And speaking of Baked White guys…I just came across this.
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Damn forget to add: Baked Alaska made Nance’s point simply by saying “White Pride” while being a leader of the White Nationalist group. Exactly what Nance was saying…it always comes from the racist asshole white guys.
I’m as white as it gets. I’ve never yelled “White Power” at anyone and never had the need to say I am proud to be white. Of course, I am also not a White Nationalist/KKK/Aryan Nation kind of guy.
re: #341 HappyWarrior
His pizza is so overrated.
Fuck him. He was against Obamacare because it would cost an extra 10 cents a pizza. 10 cents. What person wouldn’t want to pay an extra 1% for everything if it meant that workers would get health insurance?
re: #429 I Would Prefer Not To
Every single Republican.
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
I can imagine that Ta-Nehisi, if he even saw this “challenge” would say “Go fuck yourself”
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Why would debating a dishonest sleazebag accomplish anything?
re: #381 Nyet
She’s a Jewish woman who dates Baked Alaska, the guy who posted a photoshop of her in an Auschwitz gas chamber.
That’s all you need to know.
Wait. A woman (who is not in a coma) dates Baked Alaska?
re: #427 HappyWarrior
I dunno. And you know here’s the thing, I’m a guy on the spectrum, I’m someone who they certainly would target to go with their misogyny but you know what, I know personally how hard my mom worked to get where she is and I know other women work hard too.
Most online video gamers are teenage males or young adults. This is a demographic that is prone to antisocial behaviour, and has a tendency to cluster in groups with a gang-type mentality. This is not limited to teenage males, naturally - most online video gamers are males in general with a similar mentality. Add the anonymity and freedom of consequences that the internet provides, and there is a huge subsection of online game players that are, in short, humongous assholes. And they’re free to be because there are no real consequences, due to anonymity.
You are who you are on the internet, and as a species, we have failed this test of character. This is a large part of my avoidance of all social media, and why I reveal very little about myself in any online forum. The mentality of Gamergate goes hand in hand with the mentality of Facebook and Twitter trolls, and, further out, the mentality of the know-nothing far right and their media cult. As a species, part of our next step of evolution must be to incorporate the social norms and responsibilities we feel when interacting in person to our online interactions.
re: #428 ObserverArt
Damn forget to add: Baked Alaska made Nance’s point simply by saying “White Pride” while being a leader of the White Nationalist group. Exactly what Nance was saying…it always comes from the racist asshole white guys.
I’m as white as it gets. I’ve never yelled “White Power” at anyone and never had the need to say I am proud to be white. Of course, I am also not a White Nationalist/KKK/Aryan Nation kind of guy.
I’ve never felt proud to be white. I’ve never been ashamed necessarily either. Certainly
aware of terrible things done in the name of the white race. I guess the thing for me is I’m proud of my accomplishments: my ba, my paralegal certification, etc. I’m proud of my ethnic background but that’s because I love the culture. I’m happy to be sharing my country with people of all backgrounds. This land is just much theirs as it is mine.
— Jazz Tehara (@jazz_tehara) November 1, 2017
This is definitely my favorite gif now. https://t.co/XZNlzEPLlf
— 👻Imani Gandy👻 (@AngryBlackLady) November 1, 2017
mine, too.
re: #426 gwangung
I think you can stop after “shit.”
It just revealed there there is a lot of racism and sexism out.
Anyone who played a multiplayer game with voice chat already knew that, but I think Gamergate flipped some people who weren’t the problem players.
Crazed bigots are one reason that I use Discord to chat with friends-only in games.
VR games don’t have that problem yet, since the bar for entry is pretty high, but it’ll happen there too when headset prices come down.
Report plz.
Jews build a thousand Holocaust museums because the story keeps people from doing that thing they always do
You kno
Kick them the fuck out— f r o g w a v e (@___ribbit) October 31, 2017
re: #437 Nyet
Report plz.
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I’m blocked form see this jerk.. Not sure why. I don’t tweet much. Mostly use it to report people that you ask me to.
Keep up the good work.
It’s really unfortunate because I think my youngest brother is a bit of a gamer bro in a way. My other brother and I enjoy gaming but it’s more as something to pass the time. His passion is the outdoors while mine is my genealogical research. Nothing wrong with gaming as a hobby mind you but I agree about the culture of teenage boys.
re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth
Applicable to all Trump tweets.
Applicable to anything Fox spews.
Applicable to deplorables.
Applicable to right wingers/GOP.
And
Applicable to all McConnell, Ryan, and Pence tweets.
re: #432 I Would Prefer Not To
Wait. A woman (who is not in a coma) dates Baked Alaska?
Low self esteem. Probably also anorexic.
re: #429 I Would Prefer Not To
Fuck him. He was against Obamacare because it would cost an extra 10 cents a pizza. 10 cents. What person wouldn’t want to pay an extra 1% for everything if it meant that workers would get health insurance?
Wrong way to state that…who wouldn’t pay an extra ten cents to ensure that you wouldn’t have preexisting conditions kill you, basic mandatory coverage (shots, annual physicals, pap smears, prostate exams), and you couldn’t lose insurance by various companies whims? Oh, and everyone would get coverage, so that sick people who work in restaurants won’t infect you because they had no insurance to see a doctor? Oh, and so that those incredible ER charges that don’t get paid don’t increase the cost of YOUR insurance because everyone pays when someone skips out? Who skips out? People with no insurance and shit jobs who can’t pay…so everyone does.
re: #432 I Would Prefer Not To
Wait. A woman (who is not in a coma) dates Baked Alaska?
There are as many hateful women out there as there are men.
Wouldn’t it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cuts…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
OK, show of hands. Who thinks @realDonaldTrump was touching himself when he tweeted this? https://t.co/tBUFnP6p9S
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 1, 2017
I’m probably one of the few liberal white males that my brother’s friends know honestly. This is a county that went for Clinton, yes but we’re in a conservative part of it with GOP representation. Anyhow. I try to lead by example when talking with them. They know that my brother and I’s niece is Hispanic due to her mother’s Peruvian background. I just want them to understand this fundamental point. Never be a dick to someone because he or she looks different than you or comes from a different background. I was very lucky to grow up where I did in a more diverse area. I think that’s why perhaps me and my other brother- the father of my niece have more empathy for people of different backgrounds than our youngest brother. Now, I’m not saying my youngest brother is hateful or anything like that but he can’t empathize as well and maybe part of that is age too.
re: #355 lawhawk
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Who the fuck is this Laura Loomer. Oh wait, she’s a Jimmy O’Keefe special kind of nut. That explains much, including the inability to get on an MTA bus or subway or just walk to the destination.
The fact that there are so many Muslims in NYC and so little actual crime should disabuse of the notion that Muslims are particularly dangerous.
But these are xenophobes and Islamophobes who need to hate so badly that they spew nonsensical ravings that Fox News just loves to regurgitate.
Oh my God I fell off the floor laughing so hard I spilled by Turkish covfefe all over my desk.
re: #448 Nyet
Try reporting the account in general, this is allowed even if you’re blocked.
The vertical row of three dots on the right side.
Dones. Thanks.
When you turn the NY attack into hatred, fear, and divisiveness, you HAND THE TERRORISTS A VICTORY! Idiocy parading as leadership.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) November 1, 2017
It consistently blows me away how few people understand that massive overreactions like this are exactly what terrorists want to elicit https://t.co/MLJObyqNra
— Horrified K (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 1, 2017
re: #433 Renaissance_Man
Most online video gamers are teenage males or young adults. This is a demographic that is prone to antisocial behaviour, and has a tendency to cluster in groups with a gang-type mentality. This is not limited to teenage males, naturally - most online video gamers are males in general with a similar mentality. Add the anonymity and freedom of consequences that the internet provides, and there is a huge subsection of online game players that are, in short, humongous assholes. And they’re free to be because there are no real consequences, due to anonymity.
You are who you are on the internet, and as a species, we have failed this test of character. This is a large part of my avoidance of all social media, and why I reveal very little about myself in any online forum. The mentality of Gamergate goes hand in hand with the mentality of Facebook and Twitter trolls, and, further out, the mentality of the know-nothing far right and their media cult. As a species, part of our next step of evolution must be to incorporate the social norms and responsibilities we feel when interacting in person to our online interactions.
Yeah, this is a big part of it. It’s not so much people ‘flipped’ as they exposed their ass. They showed who they really were under the facade.
re: #437 Nyet
Report plz.
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pretty sure it has blocked anyone obviously connected with LGF.
I’m blocked but still reported it.
re: #454 Citizen K
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Yeah, this is a big part of it. It’s not so much people ‘flipped’ as they exposed their ass. They showed who they really were under the facade.
Can I just say I love that we have “Helllboy” Ron Perlman on our side?
re: #436 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I don’t use voice ever, unless I’ve received assurances from friends that everyone is “safe”. I play games to be frustrated by boss fights and take out my rage from the real world, not to be enraged in-game.
And usually I play single-player, because I…play MMOs to…avoid people…
re: #447 Ace-o-aces
Wouldn’t it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cuts…..
— Donald J. Trump
Use what savings? Please show your work.
hoo boy…
“You Can’t Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment https://t.co/OW2OBrxSXM
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) November 1, 2017
“After indictments, Trump blamed Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller” https://t.co/ZeuOYpAV8i
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) November 1, 2017
re: #457 I cannot.
I don’t use voice ever, unless I’ve received assurances from friends that everyone is “safe”. I play games to be frustrated by boss fights and take out my rage from the real world, not to be enraged in-game.
And usually I play single-player, because I…play MMOs to…avoid people…
I prefer single player too. Multiplayer really isn’t my thing. I like single player because I like to get involved in a great story and most single player modes have stronger stories than MP.
A black cab has smashed into pedestrians after mounting a pavement in Covent Garden.
It is not yet clear if the incident is terror related or an accident.
re: #384 FormerDirtDart
Trump now complaining immigration reform hasn’t been passed.
GOP **won’t allow vote** on immigration reform.
Trump does not mean “immigration reform” in any other sense than “Deporting all illegals and hermetically sealing our borders to non-white non-Christians”.
The NYC suspect was bragging about his attack from his hospital bed.
Unbelievable.
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
After indictments, Trump blamed Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller
I’d say that’s a pair of gloves he would forever regret taking off.
re: #460 HappyWarrior
I prefer single player too. Multiplayer really isn’t my thing. I like single player because I like to get involved in a great story and most single player modes have stronger stories than MP.
I was exclusively single player for a long time. Now that I play some games that have lobbies, or the one multiplayer game I play, GunHeart, having used my real name as my Steam name is a problem.
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
hoo boy…
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He’s even more disgusting-looking out of focus.
Weird.
CONFIRMED: Osama bin Laden had the Charlie bit my finger video on his computer pic.twitter.com/6t2ILBT6ZA
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) November 1, 2017
For those not familiar -
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
Envisioning the three of those assholes pictured in prison orange makes me tingle all over.
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2017
Diversity Visa provision was part of Immigration Act of 1990 – passed Senate via bipartisan 89-8 vote – signed by HW Bush. #FactsFirst https://t.co/fM8MQrDPUZ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 1, 2017
McCain: “There’s no miranda rights for someone who kills Americans.”
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) November 1, 2017
…does anyone else want to break it to St. John of Arizona? Because I’m not sure it’ll get through to him. https://t.co/IUysyW0CVH
— Horrified K (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 1, 2017
re: #473 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah Jeff Flake already smacked Donald down about this. But I’m sure Donny will keep repeating the lie.
re: #474 Citizen K
McCain: “There’s no miranda rights for someone who kills Americans.”
— Andrew Desiderio
Doesn’t mean the attacker will talk.
re: #474 Citizen K
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Uh Senator. Anyhow, that’s just proof in the pudding that even “moderate GOPers” are insane.
re: #474 Citizen K
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Five of the eight killed were Argentinian, a sixth was Belgian.
So for those keeping count, that means two Americans.
re: #335 HappyWarrior
I think Dinesh’s only problem with the Confederacy is its leaders were mostly Democrats. Anyhow, can I just say something though about the Democratic Party. Yes, there were a lot of Democrats who supported slavery and secession in those days. But there were other Democrats like Martin Van Buren who later opposed slavery and Lincoln’s old famous debate rival, Stephen Douglass who supported the Union fully. Plus a lot of Lincoln’s top generals were Democrats too like Winfield Scott Hancock. The Republican Party of that day deserves its due. They were anti-slavery but the narrative pushed by psuedo-historians of the Civil War being Anti-Slavery Republicans versus Pro-Slavery Democrats is inaccurate.
In the 1860 presidential race, the Democratic convention at Charleston couldn’t pick a candidate due to differences over you-know-what, basically. So they held a second convention, in Baltimore I believe, and still couldn’t agree on a candidate. Whereupon they split into northern and southern factions, with the north running Stephen Douglas and the south John Breckinridge. So, yeah, anybody trying to paint this house a single color is painting with poop.
re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth
Five of the eight killed were Argentinian, a sixth was Belgian.
So for those keeping count, that means two Americans.
I mean even if all the eight killed were Americans, “You kill Americans, you don’t get Mirandaized.” Huh?
re: #481 HappyWarrior
I mean even if all the eight killed were Americans, “You kill Americans, you don’t get Mirandaized.” Huh?
I think it’s the tumor talking.
re: #434 HappyWarrior
I’ve never felt proud to be white. I’ve never been ashamed necessarily either. Certainly
aware of terrible things done in the name of the white race. I guess the thing for me is I’m proud of my accomplishments: my ba, my paralegal certification, etc. I’m proud of my ethnic background but that’s because I love the culture. I’m happy to be sharing my country with people of all backgrounds. This land is just much theirs as it is mine.
On occasion, my Vietnamese son says he is proud to be not white because of the shit we have done. I rarely disagree.
re: #473 Backwoods_Sleuth
The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.
— Donald J. Trump
Merit. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You’d think they’d have the decency to not walk around in hijabs @ cross street of the attack. But they don’t. I bet they’re loving this.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 1, 2017
Laura, I hate to give you the attention, but I need to tell you- You’re a f**king moron. https://t.co/fCezijj2Ao
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) November 1, 2017
re: #476 Sir John Barron
Doesn’t mean the attacker will talk.
The point isn’t to make them talk. The point is to make them suffer. They want a pound of flesh from ‘terrorists’, to make themselves feel better, rather than actually finding reasonable ways to prevent further attacks. It’s all reactionary and retaliatory.
re: #485 William Lewis
On occasion, my Vietnamese son says he is proud to be not white because of the shit we have done. I rarely disagree.
Hard to argue with that.
Folder labeled “hot blow jobs” ends up being filled with suicide bombing training videos.
— Alexander Hollins (@AlexanderDSoSo) November 1, 2017
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
Really interesting video at that Vanity Fair article. The article is good but the video is equally interesting.
re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth
Five of the eight killed were Argentinian, a sixth was Belgian.
So for those keeping count, that means two Americans.
re: #481 HappyWarrior
I mean even if all the eight killed were Americans, “You kill Americans, you don’t get Mirandaized.” Huh?
Yep. It’s doubly stupid on all accounts.
BUSTED: Evidence mounts that Jeff Sessions perjured himself under Al Franken questioning https://t.co/xM7MK2JGfo
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) November 1, 2017
“Sessions told Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) at the January hearing that he was “not aware” of evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government during the campaign.”
re: #495 HappyWarrior
He neds to join Manafort and Gates on the docket.
Patience, grasshopper.
I’m pretty sure there’s an indictment with his name on it in the pipeline.
With the release of these materials, the information remaining in the collection that has not been released publicly includes materials that are protected by copyright; sensitive such that their release would directly damage efforts to keep the nation secure; pornography; malware; and blank, corrupted, and duplicate files. The entire collection has been available to the US Intelligence Community and Department of Defense organizations for years.
re: #495 HappyWarrior
Our top lie enforcement officer.
re: #496 Dr Lizardo
Patience, grasshopper.
I’m pretty sure there’s an indictment with his name on it in the pipeline.
Oh I know. I trust Mueller.
Yeah,he doesn’t have a clue what is going on.
How can he possibly be less engaged than 2nd term Reagan?
President Donald Trump describes his tax plan and the process of passing it: pic.twitter.com/KNsPruV1zK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2017
re: #498 jaunte
Our top lie enforcement officer.
Sur, You have insulted mah on her even though I have been lying my ass off the entie time
re: #487 electrotek
You’d think they’d have the decency to not walk around in hijabs @ cross street of the attack. But they don’t. I bet they’re loving this.
— Laura Loomer
Poor little snowflake.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Uh oh Jared.
But then there is Ivanka.
Who knows, maybe Donny breaks up the entire family over all of this.
Choosing sides in the White House. It is the newest game!
re: #503 ObserverArt
But then there is Ivanka.
Who knows, maybe Donny breaks up the entire family over all of this.
Choosing sides in the White House. It is the newest game!
That would be too funny.
re: #500 FormerDirtDart
But I have a better alternative https://t.co/wI5mlEPtEn
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 1, 2017
Muslims walking down street.
Loomer: “OMG! HOW DARE YOU!”
Nazi: “GAS ALL TEH JOOS”
Loomer: Hey baby, wanna date?”— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 1, 2017
New post:
Trump’s response to NY terror attack is undercut by leaked DHS memo on problems w/vetting:https://t.co/4RagWk8Ado— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 1, 2017
Also in here:
It looks like Trump is bringing up the diversity program in hopes of killing it as part of deal on the dreamers: https://t.co/Pa88rDYUR6— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 1, 2017
oh…
President Trump labels the US justice system a “laughing stock” https://t.co/kyi9sX4avZ pic.twitter.com/Z4xJm31bbJ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 1, 2017
Reading that POTUS wants to make his tax reform bill the Cut Cut Cut Act (yes rly)
Richard Scarry: pic.twitter.com/l3sRHl1bqC— jessicashortall (@jessicashortall) November 1, 2017
re: #487 electrotek
It doesn’t occur to you that you’re a stupid bigot? People don’t have to hide just because idiots are bigoted against them.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹
The place doesn’t look like much from the outside, and it’s rather small on the inside. My wife and I arrived right between the normal lunch and dinner hours, so we had the whole place to ourselves. The food and service were superb.
When were you there?
Because he hasn’t been brought to justice yet? They’ll get to him.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 1, 2017
re: #509 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh…
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Yeah i know innocent until proven guilty, the right to counsel, due process, all things that Vlad told you are bad.
re: #481 HappyWarrior
I mean even if all the eight killed were Americans, “You kill Americans, you don’t get Mirandaized.” Huh?
Mirandize him, try him, convict him, then execute him. Or lock him in a supermax cell on 23/hour a day lockdown for the rest of his life. This isn’t rocket science.
re: #42 Belafon
Images of our yard today, after getting everything out, before it got dark.
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Makes mine look pedestrian.
re: #503 ObserverArt
But then there is Ivanka.
Who knows, maybe Donny breaks up the entire family over all of this.
Choosing sides in the White House. It is the newest game!
Jared’s investment partners Vornado are about to send his 666 Fifth plans to the bottom of the sea. Maybe Ivanka’s looking for a new sugar daddy. All she has to do is get rid of Melon.
re: #509 Backwoods_Sleuth
President Trump labels the US justice system a “laughing stock” cnn.com pic.twitter.com
— CNN Politics
Well that is true, disparity in sentencing for drug cases, ultra high rates of imprisonment relative to other developed countries, countless numbers of improperly convicted individuals whose cases were later overturned by DNA evidence and…oh wait, you mean that isn’t what he means?
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And he will prove it when he pardons all his stooges!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) November 1, 2017
re: #511 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You’d think they’d have the decency to not walk around in hijabs @ cross street of the attack. But they don’t. I bet they’re loving this.
because a hijab is nothing more than a terrorist rallying symbol in the minds of these bigots
Putting aside the usual ugly content, what is up with this weird random capitalization? Is he translating these tweets from German?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2017
Crazy president* surrounded by mad incompetents, giving insane advice.
“….Roger Stone believes defunding Mueller isn’t enough. Instead, Stone wants Trump to call for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s role in approving the controversial Uranium One deal that’s been a locus of rightwing hysteria (the transaction involved a Russian state-owned energy firm acquiring a Canadian mining company that controlled 20 percent of the uranium in the United States). It’s a bit of a bank shot, but as Stone described it, a special prosecutor looking into Uranium One would also have to investigate the F.B.I.’s role in approving the deal, thereby making Mueller—who was in charge of the bureau at the time—a target. Stone’s choice for a special prosecutor: Rudy Giuliani law colleague Marc Mukasey or Fox News pundit Andrew Napolitano. “You would immediately have to inform Mueller, Comey, and [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein that they are under federal investigation,” Stone said. “Trump can’t afford to fire Mueller politically. But this pushes him aside.”
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re: #523 jaunte
Instead, Stone wants Trump to call for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s role in approving the controversial Uranium One deal that’s been a locus of rightwing hysteria (the transaction involved a Russian state-owned energy firm acquiring a Canadian mining company that controlled 20 percent of the uranium in the United States). It’s a bit of a bank shot, but as Stone described it, a special prosecutor looking into Uranium One would also have to investigate the F.B.I.’s role in approving the deal, thereby making Mueller—who was in charge of the bureau at the time—a target. Stone’s choice for a special prosecutor: Rudy Giuliani law colleague Marc Mukasey or Fox News pundit Andrew Napolitano
So you’re saying Stone wants to create a yuuuuge giant clusterfruckmonster in the middle of the nation’s political and governing system.
re: #524 Sir John Barron
“Judge Nap Quizzes Mueller, Tonight On Fox”
! Ryan said he’d let Trump name the tax bill but Trump wants to name it The Cut Cut Cut Act so now they’re stuck https://t.co/OPI77lFMS0
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2017
Tax Cut McTaxface https://t.co/R2dgLWHb84
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 1, 2017
Why didn’t a single person in the campaign over all those months say seeking stolen documents from a hostile power is wrong, and tell FBI?
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) October 31, 2017
Reminder that when Gore was anonymously mailed Bush debate prep materials, he immediately gave them to the FBI. https://t.co/YZp67zzjEP https://t.co/KNbFHk8pMU
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 31, 2017
re: #523 jaunte
Crazy president* surrounded by mad incompetents, giving insane advice.
Not Judge Ducklips? She will be SOO PISSED!!!!!!
Former police chief said black people are ‘like ISIS’ and he’d like to be ‘on the firing squad,’ feds say
The former chief of a small township in New Jersey has been arrested on federal hate crime and civil rights charges for what federal authorities described as a pattern of racist comments and behavior — including slamming an African American teen’s head into a metal door jamb and saying that black people are “like ISIS.”
Frank Nucera Jr., 60, who had been chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department, was arrested Monday, and the charges against him were unsealed Tuesday. The allegations are notable for the blatant racism they describe in a law enforcement leader.
Again, GOP wants to ignore the Constitution, federal law, & the Bill of Rights. They aren’t law & order. They’re authoritarian extremists
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
We had this discussion going back decades, and I can pretty recall what should happen with terrorists.
Captured overseas, they get military tribunals because constitutional protections and evidence gathering was insufficient to meet civil criminal justice standards.
Captured on US soil? They get processed through civilian criminal justice system, including the protections under the Constitution against self incrimination, right to counsel, etc.
It’s worked in prosecutions against dozens of terrorists captured here in the US. This is no different.
Why treat this guy any different than the domestic terrorist who drove through crowd in Charlottesville? That white supremacist was part of a dangerous group intent on doing harm to America and a large number of American citizens. He was radicalized here in the US by right wing agitprop that swap out names and places would be almost indistinguishable from the extremists anywhere else in the world (including the Islamic terrorists that the GOP loses their shit over).
Once the person is incarcerated, that’s it. They’re in prison - and we’re not denying anyone their civil rights or abrogating the Constitution to do it.
The GOP has given up its claim to support and defend the constitution with this crap. They aren’t even trying; they’re just an authoritarian party intent on ramming their agenda through without regard to the consequences.
Further update on Zeena the Worrier Princess - we have our old chowhound back! She’s starting to gain back all the weight she lost, she’s active, and of course, she’s deliriously happy that Mrs. FBW is home again (as am I).
Here she is, 20 minutes after dinner, demanding more dinner.
The ear thing - she seems to always do that when she’s hungry. Must be semaphore.
re: #529 JordanRules
Former police chief said black people are ‘like ISIS’ and he’d like to be ‘on the firing squad,’ feds say
But why kneel.//
re: #526 FormerDirtDart
! Ryan said he’d let Trump name the tax bill but Trump wants to name it The Cut Cut Cut Act so now they’re stuck
— Daniel Dale
Ryan on phone to Boehner: What the frock do I do now? The loony in the WH wants to call it the Cut, Cut, Act?
Boehner (laughing in background): You could create a phony bill called the Cut, Cut, Cut Act, which doesn’t do anything. He won’t know the difference. Or just name it whatever you want and trust that Trump won’t remember what he wanted to call it anyway.
Another way to frame headline; Mueller’s acting in absence of GOP taking their oaths of office seriously.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
re: #526 FormerDirtDart
Dumbasses. @ddale8
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 1, 2017
re: #529 JordanRules
Former police chief said black people are ‘like ISIS’ and he’d like to be ‘on the firing squad,’ feds say
The good news is that law enforcement continues to deal with monsters despite a monster in the White House. We’re also seeing a lot of harassers go down. The toxic-right continues to lose ground.
re: #535 lawhawk
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Can’t wait for the Nazi Alt-Right to start calling it the Cuck, Cuck, Cuck Act.
re: #535 lawhawk
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Ask a stupid question person, you get a stupid answer.
Holy shit. It’s like he’s 5 years old.
re: #539 Blind Frog Belly White
Ask a stupid
questionperson, you get a stupid answer.Holy shit. It’s like he’s 5 years old.
He’s entered his adult diaper years.
re: #540 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
He’s entered his adult diaper years.
So, he’s becoming Depend-able?
re: #530 lawhawk
McCain says NYC terror suspect should be taken to Guantanamo.
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) November 1, 2017
We had this discussion going back decades, and I can pretty recall what should happen with terrorists.
Captured overseas, they get military tribunals because constitutional protections and evidence gathering was insufficient to meet civil criminal justice standards.
Captured on US soil? They get processed through civilian criminal justice system, including the protections under the Constitution against self incrimination, right to counsel, etc.
It’s worked in prosecutions against dozens of terrorists captured here in the US. This is no different.
Why treat this guy any different than the domestic terrorist who drove through crowd in Charlottesville? That white supremacist was part of a dangerous group intent on doing harm to America and a large number of American citizens. He was radicalized here in the US by right wing agitprop that swap out names and places would be almost indistinguishable from the extremists anywhere else in the world (including the Islamic terrorists that the GOP loses their shit over).
Once the person is incarcerated, that’s it. They’re in prison - and we’re not denying anyone their civil rights or abrogating the Constitution to do it.
The GOP has given up its claim to support and defend the constitution with this crap. They aren’t even trying; they’re just an authoritarian party intent on ramming their agenda through without regard to the consequences.
Even FOX’s own Andrew Napolitano is throwing up a big ass STOP sign on this nonsense.
Fox News legal analyst breaks with Trump: Sending NYC terror suspect to Guantanamo is “unconstitutional” https://t.co/nmHniecpf3 pic.twitter.com/SvQWiqdW70
— The Hill (@thehill) November 1, 2017
re: #542 FormerDirtDart
Even FOX’s own Andrew Napolitano is throwing up a big ass STOP sign on this nonsense.
When you lose Judge Nap….
re: #534 lawhawk
“…Republicans are not moved. Top Republicans on the committees probing Russian election meddling say this week’s developments do not change their investigation, nor do they add up to collusion.
“I’m not sure that it changes anything for our investigation,” Burr said. “I don’t think the indictments were a surprise to any of us who had been involved in the investigation for nine months.”
“It looks to me like it’s disconnected from what we’re looking at,” said Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, another senior Republican on the intelligence panel”
They better get their heads out of the sand.
re: #542 FormerDirtDart
Even FOX’s own Andrew Napolitano is throwing up a big ass STOP sign on this nonsense.
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I don’t like Nap but that’s not surprising from him.
re: #544 jaunte
They better get their heads out of the sand.
After Trump is indicted:
Top GOP committees: Not surprising, doesn’t change our investigations, not even related really.
re: #534 lawhawk
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s moves complicate the Russia investigations on Capitol Hill cnn.it
It’s complicating the goopers’ plans to shove it all under the rug, yes. It’s interfering with their ability to not see shit that’s directly in front of their eyes.
I expect we’ll see a couple of congresscritters being marched off before this thing is through as well.
re: #546 Sir John Barron
“Another troubled loner, nothing to do with anything else.”
re: #544 jaunte
Republicans are not moved
Well, it’s not like we’re talking about felony email possession here.
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re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
hoo boy…
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Trump’s lawyer Ty Cobb has been advocating the view that playing ball will lead to a quick resolution
I’m not even a baseball fan and I see what they did there.
Even Lauren Southern of all people has called her out
— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) November 1, 2017