Seth takes a closer look at the fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision to indict three former Trump aides.
Michael Flynn Followed Russian Troll Accounts, Pushed Their Messages in Days Before Election https://t.co/dGH9Og4RQB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 2, 2017
Rep. Adam Schiff nails down why the question of Trump campaign collusion with Russians has already been answered. pic.twitter.com/n4SeVCCcOL
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) November 2, 2017
⚾️Sports Illustrated Cover, June 2014:
— Your 2017 #WorldSeries Champs, the Houston @astros pic.twitter.com/wIZRaRLYyR— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) November 2, 2017
re: #2 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Praise Ceiling Cat!
re: #4 JordanRules
Quick, someone ask this dude for the lottery numbers!
Pre-season, I knew they would be good, and thought they had a shot. I’ve been a fan since I was 5, and I finally got to see it.
re: #8 Ace Rothstein
Pre-season, I knew they would be good, and thought they had a shot. I’ve been a fan since I was 5, and I finally got to see it.
I’m happy for you and other Houston fans.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
They had a cover earlier this year calling the Dodgers the best team ever as well so they were gonna curse somebody.
re: #12 RiverBoy
They had a cover earlier this year calling the Dodgers the best team ever as well so they were gonna curse somebody.
Heh true.
I have waited 59 years to say this: the Houston Astros are World Series CHAMPIONS!!!!! #khou11 pic.twitter.com/J55tj7jbUn
— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) November 2, 2017
Lots of long time fans are pretty happy tonight.
re: #14 jaunte
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Lots of long time fans are pretty happy tonight.
This lifelong Orioles fan hopes that he can enjoy that soon. Best thing of all though if you’re a Houston fan, these guys will be back. But the first one is always the sweetest.
Carlos Correa just asked his gf to marry him on the field during the post-game and she almost forgot to say yes. Serious making out ensued.
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) November 2, 2017
re: #14 jaunte
I feel for them. It’s been 50 years since my favorite hockey team won a Championship.
Rings on rings! 💍💍 pic.twitter.com/6EiCyaDUAW
— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) November 2, 2017
Congrats to Houston though. Being a Giants “fan” I am supposed to be laughing at the Dodgers pain but baseball has never really sparked my emotions enough to relish in other people’s agony.
she only loves aryan men:https://t.co/e6JO1lOhmD
— Steffen H. (@GaJokerPS) November 1, 2017
She is so creepy, even the NAZI is creeped out by her! https://t.co/fdutlNMuhr
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 2, 2017
Can’t wingnuts keep their stories straight? Antifa (liberal) super-soldiers? I thought we were supposed to be afraid of guns or something like that.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Congrats Springer.
Expand that! Congrats, Houston! It’s been a tough summer. That team has been playing since 1962, and in the summer of your destruction, the stars came together and gave you a rock upon which to hope and rebuild.
Good for you. Godspeed, and let’s hope those parsimonious, lying motherfuckers in DC give you what you need to do that.
And the same goes for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Sometimes, you just have to hate the heartless cocksuckers in charge of the purse strings for being heartless cocksuckers in charge of the purse strings.
Do the right thing or quit, you selfish, soulless, and money grubbing bastards.
Neat note about Houston rather its namesake Sam, Sam Houston was a Unionist who warned against secession in 1860-61.
re: #24 austin_blue
Expand that! Congrats, Houston! It’s been a tough summer. That team has been playing since 1962, and in the summer of your destruction, the stars came together and gave you a rock upon which to hope and rebuild.
Good for you. Godspeed, and let’s hope those parsimonious, lying motherfuckers in DC give you what you need to do that.
And the same goes for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Sometimes, you just have to hate the heartless cocksuckers in charge of the purse strings for being heartless cocksuckers in charge of the purse strings.
Do the right thing or quit, you selfish, soulless, and money grubbing bastards.
Oh certainly but that congrats was extended the minute they gave him the MVP award. Definitely congrats to Houston as a whole. What a wonderful feeling.
Somebody forgot to tell Dave Roberts this was game 7 of a seven games series. Dont know why he left darvish in so long. There is no game 8. I feel sorry for the players, this series loss is all on his shoulders.
Congrats Astros from being total crap 4 or 5 years ago to today.
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
The child consumed a little too much of the brown acid…
Never trust the brown acid. Go for the Owsley micro-dots every time.
re: #27 VegasGolfer
Somebody forgot to tell Dave Roberts this was game 7 of a seven games series. Dont know why he left darvish in so long. There is no game 8. I feel sorry for the players, this series loss is all on his shoulders.
Congrats Astros from being total crap 4 or 5 years ago to today.
I think he made mistakes but speaking from the perspective of a fan of neither team, LAD blew it at clutch hitting tonight.
re: #25 HappyWarrior
Unfortunately he wanted union, but also a continuation of slavery in the south.
civilwarcauses.org
re: #30 jaunte
Unfortunately he wanted union, but also a continuation of slavery in the south.
civilwarcauses.org
No surprise there unfortunately but at least he didn’t want to destroy the nation over slavery.
re: #27 VegasGolfer
Somebody forgot to tell Dave Roberts this was game 7 of a seven games series. Dont know why he left darvish in so long. There is no game 8. I feel sorry for the players, this series loss is all on his shoulders.
Congrats Astros from being total crap 4 or 5 years ago to today.
I don’t know, he only gave him all of five outs…
As predicted, Houston Astronauts to triumph over Los Angeles Dodgers.
Winner goes on to face Pyongyang Devil Rays in World Cup of Baseball.— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 2, 2017
These are both good teams though. I wouldn’t be surprised if both in the thick of things again next October. Always sad when baseball ends because you know it’s not getting any warmer from here on in. Anyhow offseason is always fun. Maybe my O’s will get the pieces they need to go all the way.
Those weird Bernie fanfic memes that were everywhere online last year? Bunch of ‘em were Russian. https://t.co/Rlp7CmmkKB pic.twitter.com/WhuIYSlv5a
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 1, 2017
re: #25 HappyWarrior
Neat note about Houston rather its namesake Sam, Sam Houston was a Unionist who warned against secession in 1860-61.
Sam was an interesting guy. Nearly got lynched when he said he wasn’t for secession. Only two counties voted against: Travis (Yo!), and Gillespie (county seat Fredricksburg) where the population still remembered the German civil wars and wanted nothing to do with it or with slavery. Many died at the hand of Confederates who, such as the Nieces Massacre, thought of them as foreigners.
History may not repeat, bit it surely echoes.
re: #35 Kragar
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I think that is part of why so many Bernie fans are convinced that he’s more popular than he was. What you see on social media isn’t always reality. I mean yeah I knew that people were excited by Sanders but it was nowhere near what the Sanders supporters claimed it was and while I don’t think Sanders is a tool of the Russians himself, I definitely do wonder about his campaign adviser, Davine who like Manafort helped Russia’s guy in Ukraine, Yankouvich.
re: #36 austin_blue
Sam was an interesting guy. Nearly got lynched when he said he wasn’t for secession. Only two counties voted against: Travis (Yo!), and Gillespie (county seat Fredricksburg) where the population still remembered the German civil wars and wanted nothing to do with it or with slavery. Many died at the hand of Confederates who, such as the Nieces Massacre,b thought of them as foreigners.
History may not repeat, bit it surely echoes.
Well that makes me proud of my German roots! Second great grandfather was a Hessian emigrant to Pennsylvania who fought for the 123rd Pennsylvania. And man I can’t believe they nearly lynched him but then again I read that excellent Twiter read on George Thomas and how JEB Stuart said Thomas should have been hanged for choosing the Union over Virginia.
re: #32 austin_blue
Think five runs matters more.
re: #39 VegasGolfer
Think five runs matters more.
I don’t doubt you but the Dodgers really killed their own shots by not getting the RISP. Darwish struggled no doubt but I think the lack of timely hitting is the better explanation here.
Warhammer Time
A Perpetual was an individual who was a member of a mutant branch of the human species who possessed seemingly superhuman abilities. Some were born with their abilities naturally, while others received them through artificial genetic intervention using advanced technology. However, every Perpetual was known to be effectively immortal, never aging and capable of ultimately healing almost any injury as a result of their extraordinarily rapid and efficient cellular regeneration. It is this capability that is responsible for their name. Perpetuals have been known to survive dismemberment, suffocation, decapitation and even directed energy assaults, their bodies always regenerating and even bringing them back to life after clinical death.
re: #30 jaunte
Unfortunately he wanted union, but also a continuation of slavery in the south.
civilwarcauses.org
There were a lot of people like that in the South. I was reading a book by/about one of them today: “Parson” Brownlow of eastern Tennessee. He was a Methodist preacher and editor of the principal Unionist newspaper in his part of the state, a region that itself was heavily Unionist. He was a no-holds-barred writer such as Mark Twain immortalized in the story “Journalism in Tennessee.” He would probably have been a success on the Web today.
His position was simple: He supported slavery and abhorred northern abolitionists, but he loved the Union and hated secessionists even more. If there was a choice between slavery and the Union, he would choose the Union. He was imprisoned for treason by the newly seceded state and sentenced to hang, but this was eventually commuted to exile to the North. He returned when Federal forces took Knoxville, and after the war served a term as governor of Tennessee.
The point of all this? Simply that the South, and in 1861 the nation, would have been better off with more men like Sam Houston and Pastor Brownlow, even if they did believe in slavery, because they would put their country before their prejudices. God knows this is a rare enough quality even, or especially, today.
re: #42 whitebeach
There were a lot of people like that in the South. I was reading a book by/about one of them today: “Parson” Brownlow of eastern Tennessee. He was a Methodist preacher and editor of the principal Unionist newspaper in his part of the state, a region that itself was heavily Unionist. He was a no-holds-barred writer such as Mark Twain immortalized in the story “Journalism in Tennessee.” He would probably have been a success on the Web today.
His position was simple: He supported slavery and abhorred northern abolitionists, but he loved the Union and hated secessionists even more. If there was a choice between slavery and the Union, he would choose the Union. He was imprisoned for treason by the newly seceded state and sentenced to hang, but this was eventually commuted to exile to the North. He returned when Federal forces took Knoxville, and after the war served a term as governor of Tennessee.
The point of all this? Simply that the South, and in 1861 the nation, would have been better off with more men like Sam Houston and Pastor Brownlow, even if they did believe in slavery, because they would put their country before their prejudices. God knows this is a rare enough quality even, or especially, today.
As much as I dislike Andrew Jackson, I believe he too would have been among them.
Fox News legal analyst breaks with Trump: Sending NYC terror suspect to Guantanamo is “unconstitutional” https://t.co/hiAlWfiRsc pic.twitter.com/ClnIuRJEyD
— The Hill (@thehill) November 2, 2017
BREAKING: White House: Trump administration considers New York truck attack suspect to be ‘enemy combatant’
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2017
Article III courts have convicted 600+ terrorists since 9/11.
Military commissions at GTMO have convicted 3.
Let’s go with what works. https://t.co/w5zvThOkac— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 1, 2017
One month after the Las Vegas massacre, Slide Fire (which pulled bump stocks from the market) is selling bump stocks again.
The Oroville Dam in California (the dam where the spillway failed when the dam overfilled due to rain) was supposed to have its new spillway work completed. It’s not, and the rainy season is beginning.
Currently the lake behind the dam is two hundred feet below the top of the dam. There is concern if the rainy season is particularly wet, the dam will overflow again.
The article at Daily Kos goes into great detail about the repair work that happened this summer, with photographs as it progressed. It includes links to various state Websites for more information.
The Kos article also notes that the dam repairs are already way over budget.
re: #39 VegasGolfer
Think five runs matters more.
Yeah, but that’s baseball. A game of infinite options.
I’m for the rack.
Good night Lizards, sweet scaly dreams.
What a lovely night for the City of Houston, which surely needs one. It can only be hoped that the US Congress gives Texas, and Florida, and Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, what they need to make US citizens safe and secure in their homes.
I find it significant that 75% of the people killed in the attack in NYC were foreign tourists or residents- one Belgian and five Argentines. We need to understand that the security of the world is directly related to the security of this country. These senseless attacks do not respect borders, as mourning families in Belgium and Argentina will be the first to tell you tonight. We all have to work together to end this evil.
MAGA may sound good, bit it is a piss poor policy for dealing with these random attacks. I fear that The Man In The White House is incapable of grasping this, as he seems totally unable to understand the fact that internal gun attacks by US citizens are far and away more of a clear and present danger to the US than International Terrorism, whatever its source.
Then again, I am sure that right now, his mind, such as it is, sees this as a gnat, an annoyance, to what could be the destruction of his business empire, and his reputation, which is foremost in his mind. He’d sell his children to save it, and he just yet might do it.
What a sad, lonely little man, powerless in the hell that he has created for himself. I want him to suffer for his sins.
I’m off to bed. G’night y’all … keep the Republic safe for me whilst I sleep… . I would like a country to wake up in tomorrow.
re: #30 jaunte
Unfortunately he wanted union, but also a continuation of slavery in the south.
civilwarcauses.org
The problem was not so much the continuation of slavery where it existed - there were plenty of Northerners who were okay with that - but its expansion into the territories and new states.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
I’m off to bed. G’night y’all … keep the Republic safe for me whilst I sleep… . I would like a country to wake up in tomorrow.
It will be a Greater Place, with swift justice, secure borders, lower taxes and less government meddling!!!
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The problem was not so much the continuation of slavery where it existed - there were plenty of Northerners who were okay with that - but its expansion into the territories and new states.
The North understandably did not want the 3/5ths rule to be extended into the new territories and states, because it had already given the slaveholding states more representation in the House than they would have gotten otherwise. Allowing the new areas to be slaveholding states would have meant slavery would be a near-permanent fixture in the USA — or at least a longer lasting fixture.
Every time these tragedies happen I lite up a candle. List is long of INNOCENT people killed and injured for no reason.Why are you a racist?
— Wim Verharen (@verharen_wim) November 2, 2017
re: #55 wheat-dogg
The North understandably did not want the 3/5ths rule to be extended into the new territories and states, because it had already given the slaveholding states more representation in the House than they would have gotten otherwise. Allowing the new areas to be slaveholding states would have meant slavery would be a near-permanent fixture in the USA — or at least a longer lasting fixture.
The settlers in the territories who brought their slaves with them also saw their property rights as having precedence over any state laws concerning slavery, which would have resulted in the de facto expansion of slavery everywhere they settled.
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The settlers in the territories who brought their slaves with them also saw their property rights as having precedence over any state laws concerning slavery, which would have resulted in the de facto expansion of slavery everywhere they settled.
Yup. An age-old dilemma of American politics: common-law property rights vs. state or federal laws.
re: #58 wheat-dogg
Yup. An age-old dilemma of American politics: common-law property rights vs. state or federal laws.
That was settled to the slaveholders’ satisfaction with the Dredd Scott decision.
A true story…
A bird has decided to nest in a low garden area with high cat traffic, offset only by the peerless guardianship of two puppers. pic.twitter.com/mMTlm8TFmj
— Alyosha (@mediocremensch) November 2, 2017
Hoping to thread a happy ending :)
re: #55 wheat-dogg
The North understandably did not want the 3/5ths rule to be extended into the new territories and states, because it had already given the slaveholding states more representation in the House than they would have gotten otherwise. Allowing the new areas to be slaveholding states would have meant slavery would be a near-permanent fixture in the USA — or at least a longer lasting fixture.
More to the point, northern factory workers and miners and farmhands knew they couldn’t get jobs to earn a decent living in any place where slaves would be doing that kind of work; and factory owners and mill owners and so on knew they couldn’t compete with companies that didn’t have to pay for labor.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was settled to the slaveholders’ satisfaction with the Dredd Scott decision.
One of Court’s worst mistakes, but the Chief Justice was a favorite of Andrew Jackson and a supporter of slavery.
re: #61 sagehen
More to the point, northern factory workers and miners and farmhands knew they couldn’t get jobs to earn a decent living in any place where slaves would be doing that kind of work; and factory owners and mill owners and so on knew they couldn’t compete with companies that didn’t have to pay for labor.
Interestingly, the book I’m reading now argues that slaveowners were more likely to use slaves in jobs that had a high rate of return, namely, growing cotton, and to a lesser extent, growing tobacco and sugar cane. When cotton prices fell, which they did in the 1820s, slaveowners moved their slaves to textile work and other factory jobs, but once cotton prices rose, it was back to the fields for them.
So, while the northern factory workers may have feared unfair labor competition, chances are there wouldn’t be as much competition as they thought. OTOH, in areas where cotton could not be easily grown, owners might well have used slave labor in the factories.
The book is What Hath God Wrought? amazon.com It covers the years 1815-1848 and it’s a pretty good read.
Did you all catch this story, about the two Hawaiian women who tried to sail from Oahu to Tahiti, and ended up off the coast of Japan?
Their story was they got caught in a bad storm, lost comms, lost their mast, water swamped their engine, and they were unable to signal for help. Sailing with their two dogs, they lived off their ample supplies and attempted to sail to Tahiti. Instead, they were found drifting off the coast of Japan and rescued by the US Navy.
Well, it turns out their story has several holes in it. There was no storm. Their emergency beacon was still operational. Their tales of being threatened by tiger sharks are questionable. Neither of them had any appreciable sailing experience, and the older of the two, Jennifer Appel, had once run a previous boat aground.
Fox News had a story about it, but instead here’s a report from Hawai’i. Beware of autoplaying video.
hawaiinewsnow.com
re: #63 wheat-dogg
Interestingly, the book I’m reading now argues that slaveowners were more likely to use slaves in jobs that had a high rate of return, namely, growing cotton, and to a lesser extent, growing tobacco and sugar cane. When cotton prices fell, which they did in the 1820s, slaveowners moved their slaves to textile work and other factory jobs, but once cotton prices rose, it was back to the fields for them.
Point is that the presence of a large slave population depressed wages.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Point is that the presence of a large slave population depressed wages.
Yes, no argument there.
re: #66 wheat-dogg
Yes, no argument there.
Just like we cannot compete with countries where safety and environmental costs are next to nothing for lack of laws or enforcement thereof.
I have no problem with competing based on wages; that should be our incentive to work smarter and increase efficiency. In fact, American workers are world leaders in productivity and efficiency.
But if we let imports undercut us on health, safety and environment, then we are not only shooting ourselves in the foot, but we are offering those countries no reason to clean up their act.
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just like we cannot compete with countries where safety and environmental costs are next to nothing for lack of laws or enforcement thereof.
I have no problem with competing based on wages; that should be our incentive to work smarter and increase efficiency. In fact, American workers are world leaders in productivity and efficiency.
But if we let imports undercut us on health, safety and environment, then we are not only shooting ourselves in the foot, but we are offering those countries no reason to clean up their act.
See which, China
Can’t believe we’re almost a year into Infrastructure Week.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) November 2, 2017
I was thinking about that as well this morning. All thei talk about tax cuts and I can’t get the potholes patched around here. https://t.co/tyJGG2R3VT
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 2, 2017
If you want him convicted, you need to STFU. He’ll claim he can’t get a fair trial due to your blathering. God you’re stupid sometimes.
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 2, 2017
More Russophobia… UK investigates Brexit campaign funding amid speculation of Russian meddling ///
BOOM! Roger Stone’s other account (@STONEFLIK) has now been banned. #HAHA #rogerstoneJr pic.twitter.com/FQT0GXD3s0
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 2, 2017
So, today in Twitter Idiocy, Cheeto Pendejo calls for a lynching.
NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
re: #73 The Vicious Babushka
So, today in Twitter Idiocy, Cheeto Pendejo calls for a lynching.
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And whichever prosecutor just got handed this case now sits with his head in his hands, as the defense attorney’s grin grows broader. Just sitting an unbiased jury will now be hell, but convincing a judge that this case can be tried fairly when the President* of the United States is railing away on Twitter about summary execution?
re: #74 Targetpractice
The terrorist could plead guilty. Could spend upwards of 60 years in prison, if he maintains his health.
re: #73 The Vicious Babushka
So, today in Twitter Idiocy, Cheeto Pendejo calls for a lynching.
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Because of Trump’s apparent pathological inability to keep his mouth shut, the accused is probably going to walk. I’d think even a reasonably competent rookie public defender could make a very good case on behalf of his client that it would be all but impossible for the accused to get a fair trial.
re: #76 Dr Lizardo
Because of Trump’s apparent pathological inability to keep his mouth shut, the accused is probably going to walk. …
I doubt Trump really cares.
Indeed, the Bannon types would love the outcry if such a thing would happen, given their desire to undo governance in society.
Once again, the coordinated attack between Dotard and right wing media has failed. Reality wins.
Clinton campaign was at center of a vast, Russia-linked hacker hit list, @razhael @jadonn7 @myersjustinc find: https://t.co/73LIostj9a
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 2, 2017
Good morning! This is the first piece of what I hope will be a wider look at the group often known as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, or APT28. https://t.co/j8sq9ew4bD
— Raphael Satter (@razhael) November 2, 2017
“When it was a Nazi, Trump needed more facts. When it was a Muslim, that was the only fact he needed.” Full episode: https://t.co/MT4Vs4gZyE pic.twitter.com/SPLvdj2sRx
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 2, 2017
Please report
— 50 cal val (@50calValery) November 2, 2017
THEY FOUND THE GRAIN STORAGE!!!!!!
There’s a void in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Scientists don’t know exactly why. https://t.co/pKaFOBGsYH
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) November 2, 2017
re: #76 Dr Lizardo
Because of Trump’s apparent pathological inability to keep his mouth shut, the accused is probably going to walk. I’d think even a reasonably competent rookie public defender could make a very good case on behalf of his client that it would be all but impossible for the accused to get a fair trial.
First voir dire ever where the number 1 question will be “do any of you have Twitter accounts?”
Poor GG…
Huge: @donnabrazile accuses Clinton campaign of “rigging” the primary w/”internal corruption” & “unethical” finances https://t.co/XKR7eWCDOb pic.twitter.com/VlGajwF3Jd
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 2, 2017
Is Greenwald one of those pathological liars who doesn’t know he’s lying? https://t.co/r2lfXz5nLA
— Winter Expert (@paulythegun) November 2, 2017
BING-THE FUCK-GO!!!
That’s why Obama kept his mouth shut regarding the Ft. Hood shooter. Radical Republicans can’t grasp this. Oh.. Morning!— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 2, 2017
re: #81 The Vicious Babushka
THEY FOUND THE GRAIN STORAGE!!!!!!
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Heh. I wonder if it was a storage area for tools and materials used in construction of the Pyramid’s interior. That seems a fairly logical speculation.
re: #83 Dr. Matt
Hillary Clinton had control of the party’s finances since August 2015.
From the Politico article:
I had to keep my promise to Bernie. I was in agony as I dialed him. Keeping this secret was against everything that I stood for, all that I valued as a woman and as a public servant.
“Hello, senator. I’ve completed my review of the DNC and I did find the cancer,” I said. “But I will not kill the patient.”
I discussed the fundraising agreement that each of the candidates had signed. Bernie was familiar with it, but he and his staff ignored it. They had their own way of raising money through small donations. I described how Hillary’s campaign had taken it another step.
I told Bernie I had found Hillary’s Joint Fundraising Agreement. I explained that the cancer was that she had exerted this control of the party long before she became its nominee. Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position, but here we were with only weeks before the election.
Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express outrage.
re: #82 Mike Lamb
First voir dire ever where the number 1 question will be “do any of you have Twitter accounts?”
Yep. The defense attorney could probably make a decent case for a mistrial due to Trump tainting the jury pool. It makes little difference if a potential juror has a Twitter account or not……Trump’s reckless and fatuous outburst has made the news everywhere, even here.
re: #81 The Vicious Babushka
From the article:
Instead of X-rays, the team used muons, the heavy cousins of electrons that form when cosmic rays from outer space collide with particles in Earth’s atmosphere. The fallout from the collisions creates a constant bombardment of harmless particles that can penetrate deep into the planet. As the muons pass through matter they lose energy and decay, so if the team detected a small amount of muons, that means they were passing through matter. But if they detected more muons, it suggests the particles were passing through empty space or less dense material.
Perfect as always from Mr. Lieu.
🚨US has evidence to charge at least 6 Russian government officials with hacking the DNC. https://t.co/WlLTlYbn39
— erica orden (@eorden) November 2, 2017
Today is Thursday, which means we find out @POTUS lied. It wasn’t another country or 400lb guy hacking US. It was at least 6 Russian hackers https://t.co/oGpeCwhA7o
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 2, 2017
Congrats to all Astros fans. Enjoy.
Plus this
Congratulations to the LA Dodgers for successfully avoiding having to meet the president
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) November 2, 2017
.@PapaJohns I will never purchase pizza from you again, because of your founder’s behavior and most especially his recent comments.
— jay (@random__name) November 2, 2017
re: #81 The Vicious Babushka
THEY FOUND THE GRAIN STORAGE!!!!!!
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I’ll be damned if I ever apologize to Ben Cardin, I don’t care if he threatens to stab me either.
re: #83 Dr. Matt
Poor GG…
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Does Greenwald know that we can read those non-highlighted words too?
Man, he really has gotten even more pathetic.
I’ll bet he’s got the creds on a few USDA Del Monicos. Although he’s prolly been corrupted by Foreign entities such as evil Japanese Kobe’s
— D. E. Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) November 2, 2017
re: #92 I cannot.
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Ditto. He’s a fascist. Forced patriotism is not patriotism. It’s not as if there aren’t competitors which make better pizza.
Is it really a boycott if I have never had Papa John’s pizza, ever?
This is going to be about pineapple again, isn’t it?
re: #98 Decatur Deb
I put pineapple and raisins in my last batch of coleslaw and it was the best ever, I bet it would be the same for pizza.
“Please list all graduate level courses you have taken in natural science,” the second of 10 questions requested.
“None,” Clovis replied.— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 2, 2017
re: #98 Decatur Deb
This is going to be about pineapple again, isn’t it?
Pineapple could not make Papa John’s pizza any better or worse than it already is.
I believe we’ve ordered it once, only because we were buzzed and it was late and everything else was closed. That was about 10 years ago IIRC.
re: #96 Patricia Kayden
The founder of Little Caesar’s personally paid Rosa Parks’ rent until she died, they have a homelessness charity. And their pizzas are REALLY good for that price, with fresh vegetables.
This post has been sponsored by Little Caesar’s.
Kids got me a small clay pizza oven for b’day. I’ve hacked the hell out of it with an aramid shroud, chimney stack, and thickened floor. It can get to 700 degrees or so, which is about enough for a decent pie.
re: #104 I cannot.
The founder of Little Caesar’s personally paid Rosa Parks’ rent until she died, they have a homelessness charity. And their pizzas are REALLY good for that price, with fresh vegetables.
This post has been sponsored by Little Caesar’s.
Little Caesar’s was pretty good. I miss Costco pizza. That was good too.
Czechs are weird sometimes……they put corn and boiled eggs on their pizza. O_o
re: #83 Dr. Matt
Poor GG…
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The people who constantly bitch that Hillary needs to “move on” keep wanting to relitigate the DNC primaries. And only get louder any time a major revelation in the Russia investigation drops.
re: #105 Decatur Deb
Most people don’t realize that. I can only get close with the gas grill outside.
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
Little Caesar’s was pretty good. I miss Costco pizza. That was good too.
Czechs are weird sometimes……they put corn and boiled eggs on their pizza. O_o
A neighborhood pizzeria in Italy will put just about anything you ask for on pizza. Artichoke and eggplant are both favorites. They’ll put ham and pineapple on pizza hawaiia, mostly ordered by tourists. Daughter1 worked in one as a waitress/dishwasher/translator.
re: #98 Decatur Deb
This is going to be about pineapple again, isn’t it?
It’s the pineapple that makes their pizza bearable!
re: #107 Targetpractice
The people who constantly bitch that Hillary needs to “move on” keep wanting to relitigate the DNC primaries. And only get louder any time a major revelation in the Russia investigation drops.
You know what annoys me is how Sanders still refuses to actually be a Democrat. I mean if the DNC were so rigged, Obama never beats HRC. Sanders has limited but large enough appeal that he can be competitive. It was also telling when states that have caucuses held primaries unofficially Bernie lost those.
re: #89 Dr. Matt
Perfect as always from Mr. Lieu.
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“ALL LIES! WE KNOW IT WAS SETH RICH! OR THAT PAKISTANI THAT DWS EMPLOYED! THE WHOLE RUSSIA BUSINESS IS A HOAX!!!!”
It is positively tropical in Austin today. 68’ w/99% hum. No wind.
re: #111 HappyWarrior
You know what annoys me is how Sanders still refuses to actually be a Democrat. I mean if the DNC were so rigged, Obama never beats HRC. Sanders has limited but large enough appeal that he can be competitive. It was also telling when states that have caucuses held primaries unofficially Bernie lost those.
Which is why the Berners in the DNC ranks are trying to swing things over to caucuses, because they are (unironically) aping the GOP in trying to drive down participation in order to skew things in their favor.
re: #114 Targetpractice
Which is why the Berners in the DNC ranks are trying to swing things over to caucuses, because they are (unironically) aping the GOP in trying to drive down participation in order to skew things in their favor.
You don’t get to complain about superdelegates and push caucuses imo.
Busy morning by Dotard
Would love to send the NYC terrorist to Guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the Federal system…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
Republicans spent the Obama years arguing the opposite of this until they had to talk Trump out of actually doing it https://t.co/mA0yIUag7G
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 2, 2017
…There is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
Defense lawyers have in the past used such comments to argue defendants can’t get a fair trial. See Nixon and Charles Manson. https://t.co/wO6JimDZjg
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 2, 2017
re: #108 Dave In Austin
Most people don’t realize that. I can only get close with the gas grill outside.
This one burns clippings from the fruit trees or neighbors’ hardwoods. The trick was a chunk of flame-entry suit I had in the garage. Pretty much afraid to increase the draft any more. Truth be told, a pizza party is a half-day commitment, with preparation of the dough over several days. Haven’t made really good dough yet, and the pre-made stuff from Publix is very uncooperative.
re: #116 FormerDirtDart
Busy morning by Dotard
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He’s going to get this guy off on a technicality due to his bs. FFS just shut up for once in your miserable life Donald.
Loony left NYPD spokesman refuses to reveal terrorist’s name or nationality. I’m guessing a blonde guy named Bjorn from Norway.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 31, 2017
Dear Ann. I’m from Norway. Six years ago a blonde compatriot of mine, inspired by the likes of you, murdered 77 people. Now fuck off. https://t.co/TNOqFt4YaU
— NilsHenrikSmith (@NilsHenrikSmith) October 31, 2017
re: #119 The Vicious Babushka
That should have reduced her to dust. It won’t.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. It’s a gloriously warm morning here in NYC, where federal prosecutors are ignoring Trump’s demands that the latest terrorist get sent to Gitmo and be treated as an enemy combatant subject to the death penalty.
Let’s let that bit sink in.
Trump, who interferes in the federal investigation into the terror attack, has claimed that the judicial system in the US stinks, and then ignores fact that Trump’s words can and will be used by the defendant to show that he can’t get a fair trial thanks to Trump’s statements.
Trump’s sabotaging what would otherwise be a slam dunk prosecution by the extremely capable SDNY (Manhattan). This office has more experience on terror-related cases than any other in the nation, except maybe the EDNY (Brooklyn/Queens/LI).
Nothing says the American justice system is a joke like @realDonaldTrump tweeting sweet obstructions of justice & interfering in terror case
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 2, 2017
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$12 million was the amount a political-law firm received from the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Almost all of that was for law stuff.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 2, 2017
Caught this news bit on ABC last night about Russian Troll Farms (RTF?)… Watch the vid. There’s no way Putin himself isn’t responsible for any of this. And no way Trump and his Russian stooge cabinet were not involved.
Week starts with the first in what promises to be a long list of indictments, moves by week’s end to killing all the previous week’s talk about “the case against Hillary Clinton!” by totally dismantling the talking point that Russia was interested in supporting her campaign. Only way it could get worse for Donny is if more indictments dropped tomorrow.
re: #119 The Vicious Babushka
Here’s something for your spank bank, Ann. pic.twitter.com/8JqA1Le1kZ
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) November 2, 2017
re: #126 GlutenFreeJesus
Caught this news bit on ABC last night about Russian Troll Farms (RTF?)… Watch the vid. There’s no way Putin himself isn’t responsible for any of this. And no way Trump and his Russian stooge cabinet were not involved.
re: #126 GlutenFreeJesus
Caught this news bit on ABC last night about Russian Troll Farms (RTF?)… Watch the vid. There’s no way Putin himself isn’t responsible for any of this. And no way Trump and his Russian stooge cabinet were not involved.
Agh.
re: #127 Targetpractice
Week starts with the first in what promises to be a long list of indictments, moves by week’s end to killing all the previous week’s talk about “the case against Hillary Clinton!” by totally dismantling the talking point that Russia was interested in supporting her campaign. Only way it could get worse for Donny is if more indictments dropped tomorrow.
Hopefully tomorrow will be someone really close to him.
The framework for the GOP plan is out… and it … sucks (did you expect anything different?)
BREAKING: GOP tax plan kills deductions for student-loan interest and medical expenses. https://t.co/MchRNU94R4 @WSJPolitics
— Aaron Zitner (@aaronzitner) November 2, 2017
GOP intends to fuck over people who get sick, and people who want to get higher education. GOP likes a misinformed/sick populace. https://t.co/2p79E68p5e
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 2, 2017
The plan plays with the phase ins to shield the true intent. It’s still a huge giveaway to millionaires as it gets rid of the estate tax. It also eliminates the student loan interest deduction and medical expense deduction (which will hurt even more as GOP fucking around with health care costs means that those medical bills will pile up even further, and you’ll get no tax relief from those either).
But corporations get a huge break as the rate drops from 35% to 20%. Still have to see what happens with pass throughs and the tax brackets are still not identified.
In other words, this is the tax version of Trumpcare vaporware/malware.
re: #95 Dave In Austin
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Republicans will reply, “Who needs Godless Science when you have…Jay-Zuss?”…
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) November 2, 2017
It looks like parroting talking points from dodgy sources isn’t a new thing in the Trump Cult.
A very interesting exchange just occurred at the House Intelligence Committee hearings on Russian disinformation. @repspeier posed this Q: pic.twitter.com/CcIFSI2LOy
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 1, 2017
Notable: FB, Twitter, Google dodge when asked whether they’ve looked at why the Trump campaign & Russia were mimicking each other’s ads. https://t.co/WBlHT9iYQv
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 1, 2017
re: #132 Joe Bacon 🌹
Clovis could have been more general in his response - he has no credentials.
And he shouldn’t be confirmed due to his role in the Papadopoulos case.
All the rage in Moscow now. pic.twitter.com/5KElU4fxH4
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 1, 2017
re: #20 RiverBoy
Congrats to Houston though. Being a Giants “fan” I am supposed to be laughing at the Dodgers pain but baseball has never really sparked my emotions enough to relish in other people’s agony.
We suffered enough pain this past season with what was perhaps that worst team the Giants have had since they moved to SF and since I started following them in 1963. Besides, they’re a recent 3-time series winner and we forget that they hadn’t been in the series since losing to Oakland in 1989. As much as I enjoy the rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants, I don’t relish in any team losing in the series. Afterall, they made it and we didn’t.
re: #134 lawhawk
Clovis could have been more general in his response - he has no credentials.
And he shouldn’t be confirmed due to his role in the Papadopoulos case.
That doesn’t matter to the RepubliKKKlans. They will confirm any asshole annointed by President Manger Merde!
I love this thread.
Xander ran in lead for the first time today, beside his mama Pepe. You can see him looking back like, wait, all these dogs are BEHIND me? pic.twitter.com/LPmy6Z6TYB
— Feminist Jack London (@BlairBraverman) November 1, 2017
re: #131 lawhawk
The framework for the GOP plan is out… and it … sucks (did you expect anything different?)
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The plan plays with the phase ins to shield the true intent. It’s still a huge giveaway to millionaires as it gets rid of the estate tax. It also eliminates the student loan interest deduction and medical expense deduction (which will hurt even more as GOP fucking around with health care costs means that those medical bills will pile up even further, and you’ll get no tax relief from those either).
But corporations get a huge break as the rate drops from 35% to 20%. Still have to see what happens with pass throughs and the tax brackets are still not identified.
In other words, this is the tax version of Trumpcare vaporware/malware.
And let me guess, the truly evil shit doesn’t “phase-in” fully until 2021, allowing them to BS us through Trump’s reelection bid that they’re not cornholing us without lube.
re: #77 freetoken
I doubt Trump really cares.
Indeed, the Bannon types would love the outcry if such a thing would happen, given their desire to undo governance in society.
He wants to see the fellow walk and then get lynched…just to prove what a “joke” our justice system is.
re: #139 Targetpractice
Ding ding ding…
This crapulence also includes a 20% corporate tax rate (from 35%), and passthroughs get a 25% rate, which means Trump sees huge tax breaks from this (coupled with the estate tax repeal).
Everyone else? Scraps and burdens.
Even this crap sandwich isn’t likely to get through a GOP controlled Congress because it’s not sufficiently tilted to the rich. And it’s not sufficiently gutting federal revenues to destroy functioning government.
There’s no way this plan survives in this form (but it’s likely to get even worse).
I’m running on no sleep now thanks to getting riled up over a fucking Facebook post, spent all night arguing.
Goddammit, this is worse than heroin.
re: #37 HappyWarrior
I think that is part of why so many Bernie fans are convinced that he’s more popular than he was. What you see on social media isn’t always reality. I mean yeah I knew that people were excited by Sanders but it was nowhere near what the Sanders supporters claimed it was and while I don’t think Sanders is a tool of the Russians himself, I definitely do wonder about his campaign adviser, Davine who like Manafort helped Russia’s guy in Ukraine, Yankouvich.
I also think this is a problem for a lot of us political junkies, those of us who spend a lot of time on the internet reading about politics. We might know more than the average person, but we get so involved that every little thing gets amplified and that makes us susceptible to manipulation.
re: #141 lawhawk
Ding ding ding…
This crapulence also includes a 20% corporate tax rate (from 35%), and passthroughs get a 25% rate, which means Trump sees huge tax breaks from this (coupled with the estate tax repeal).
Everyone else? Scraps and burdens.
Even this crap sandwich isn’t likely to get through a GOP controlled Congress because it’s not sufficiently tilted to the rich. And it’s not sufficiently gutting federal revenues to destroy functioning government.
There’s no way this plan survives in this form (but it’s likely to get even worse).
The sentiment being expressed on Twitter seems to be that this isn’t even really an attempt at a functioning bill, it’s just the first part in the two-part process of getting this shit to conference so they can craft the bill they actually want.
By the way, that 20% corporate rate? The House bill would make it permanent. Your deductions and all that? Subject to later revision.
So it begins..
Republican tax plan to lower cap on mortgage interest deduction to $500,000 loans, according to a document obtained by The Post
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re: #127 Targetpractice
Week starts with the first in what promises to be a long list of indictments, moves by week’s end to killing all the previous week’s talk about “the case against Hillary Clinton!” by totally dismantling the talking point that Russia was interested in supporting her campaign. Only way it could get worse for Donny is if more indictments dropped tomorrow.
Now, now, true MAGAbots will always believe that colluding with Russia was fine, in fact honorable and necessary for the Trump campaign but that Russia really supported Hillary and fake news and what about Uranium One scandal?
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The Republican tax bill will make it even more expensive for people to adopt kids https://t.co/4RBvASa6WM
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) November 2, 2017
They want to stick it to everyone but the richest of Americans, and want to deny people access to affordable health care, prenatal care, etc
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 2, 2017
re: #143 Belafon
I also think this is a problem for a lot of us political junkies, those of us who spend a lot of time on the internet reading about politics. We might know more than the average person, but we get so involved that every little thing gets amplified and that makes us susceptible to manipulation.
That’s true too.
re: #141 lawhawk
Ding ding ding…
This crapulence also includes a 20% corporate tax rate (from 35%), and passthroughs get a 25% rate, which means Trump sees huge tax breaks from this (coupled with the estate tax repeal).
Everyone else? Scraps and burdens.
Even this crap sandwich isn’t likely to get through a GOP controlled Congress because it’s not sufficiently tilted to the rich. And it’s not sufficiently gutting federal revenues to destroy functioning government.
There’s no way this plan survives in this form (but it’s likely to get even worse).
Sounds like a bargain for small family farms and middle class and hard working Mericans.
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$1182 more in your pocket pic.twitter.com/eMNdSJzsrZ
— Emily Schillinger (@ELSchillinger) November 2, 2017
So much for renovating the kitchen.
You can’t even get a cheap fridge and stove with $1200— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) November 2, 2017
re: #151 FormerDirtDart
I’m going out on a limb here and saying even this figure is likely BS.
re: #121 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. It’s a gloriously warm morning here in NYC, where federal prosecutors are ignoring Trump’s demands that the latest terrorist get sent to Gitmo and be treated as an enemy combatant subject to the death penalty.
Let’s let that bit sink in.
Trump, who interferes in the federal investigation into the terror attack, has claimed that the judicial system in the US stinks, and then ignores fact that Trump’s words can and will be used by the defendant to show that he can’t get a fair trial thanks to Trump’s statements.
Trump’s sabotaging what would otherwise be a slam dunk prosecution by the extremely capable SDNY (Manhattan). This office has more experience on terror-related cases than any other in the nation, except maybe the EDNY (Brooklyn/Queens/LI).
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Donny has proved that he is a bullshitter in a China Shop. He has no clue what his big mouth causes because he has gotten away with being a big mouth punk all his life.
re: #152 Weaselone
I’m going out on a limb here and saying even this figure is likely BS.
That figure is before they start picking our pocket for the increased fees and budget cuts they’re gonna demand in the name of “deficit reduction.”
re: #152 Weaselone
I’m going out on a limb here and saying even this figure is likely BS.
Could be a typo. Maybe someone forgot a decimal point.
$11.82
Well, some good news
**UPDATE** Suspect identified as SCOTT OSTREM (DOB: 03-08-70), nationwide extradition homicide warrant. Any info tipline #[no phone numbers allowed] pic.twitter.com/8ulfgT6PdC
— Thornton Police Dept (@ThorntonPolice) November 2, 2017
The Latest: Police arrest man accused of killing two men and a woman at a Colorado Walmart. https://t.co/5RTcuI73dd
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 2, 2017
I guess middle age white guys with receding hairlines shouldn’t be allowed to strut around in Walmart across the country today.
Out of respect…
Well, fuck. The kids (white ones, anyway) are NOT alright:
A new survey shows white millennials think a lot more like whites than millennials
More than 1,750 millennials responded to the poll conducted between Aug. 31 and Sept. 16. That means it was started two weeks after white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other assorted bigots unleashed terror on Charlottesville. And during that time, President Trump inflamed racial tensions and squandered the moral authority of his office by repeatedly declaring a moral equivalence between bigots and those protesting them.
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“When asked to compare white nationalist groups with groups that comprise the BLM movement, as in Figure 8,” the survey notes, “white millennials again stand out as the only group where a majority, albeit a slim majority (51 percent), agrees that the two entities are not very different from one another.”
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So, “a slim majority”of white millennials believes blacks protesting police-involved shootings of unarmed African Americans are not very different from white supremacists marching through a town chanting “Jews will not replace us” and the repugnant Nazi-era “blood and soil” while protesting the removal of a Confederate general’s statue.
So while all this is going on with Trump, the Sanders Bros have their new shiny object, Donna Brazile. I honestly don’t care. The Democratic Party infrastructure had every right to favor a longtime Democrat over someone who had no commitment to the party. Not to mention someone who quite honestly wouldn’t have made a good President or candidate.
Politico is reverting to what it does best: Bash Hillary.
re: #157 Interesting Times
Well, fuck. The kids (white ones, anyway) are NOT alright:
A new survey shows white millennials think a lot more like whites than millennials
Speaking from observation, I think the reason why Millenials are more liberal minded as a whole is because we’re more diverse. That doesn’t surprise me at all. Some of the biggest bigots are white millenials.
Come on.
How could I not read the article?
Rick Perry believes fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault https://t.co/hYCi20MJ8B pic.twitter.com/h1ExmtaMMC
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 2, 2017
re: #161 FormerDirtDart
Come on.
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Always use a coaldom.
re: #161 FormerDirtDart
Come on.
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I’m just going to assume it’s about women carrying socks with hunks of coal in them to beat assailants with.
I like Joan McCarters name for the tax cut bill: Massive tax cuts for Donald Trump bill.
re: #164 Belafon
I like Joan McCarters name for the tax cut bill: Massive tax cuts for Donald Trump bill.
Actually, we could just play off the name he chose for it himself:
“The Cut-cut-cut Act: Cut Medicare, Cut Medicaid, Cut Social Security all to give tax breaks to the richest one percent.”
A gif (pronounced ‘gif’) that will make you smile….
re: #163 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I’m just going to assume it’s about women carrying socks with hunks of coal in them to beat assailants with.
Near as I can make out, it’s about fossil fuels generating electricity for street lights
Report: Condé Nast Is Closing Teen Vogue
They say they’re just ending the print version, so Lauren Duca probably still has a job.
re: #167 FormerDirtDart
Near as I can make out, it’s about fossil fuels generating electricity for street lights
I think my version makes more sense. Lights don’t care how the power was generated.
How to get racists to help combat global warming: Whiter skin became advantageous the further north people migrated because of snow. Thus, as global warming reduces the places where snow will accumulate, there will be less of a need for white people.
Yes, I know there’s a whole lot of things wrong with it. But the racists will buy it.
re: #167 FormerDirtDart
“But also from the standpoint of sexual assault,” Perry said. “When the lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will on those types of acts.
Apparently streetlights are…God looking down from on high? Fuck it, I got nothing for this one.
re: #171 I cannot.
Apparently streetlights are…God looking down from on high? Fuck it, I got nothing for this one.
Sexual assaults only occur in the dark. Never in homes or other places with light because then God would see them.
re: #170 Belafon
How to get racists to help combat global warming: Whiter skin became advantageous the further north people migrated because of snow. Thus, as global warming reduces the places where snow will accumulate, there will be less of a need for white people.
Yes, I know there’s a whole lot of things wrong with it. But the racists will buy it.
Given that they don’t believe in evolution and they believe the allmighty made man in his image aka Chuck from accounting who scored really good Toby Keith tickets last year.
Potatoes are the greatest. That is all.
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
re: #171 I cannot.
Apparently streetlights are…God looking down from on high? Fuck it, I got nothing for this one.
How the hell was this guy the nation’s longest tenured Governor? Oh wait, it’s Texas. They’d vote for a Republican for governor pretty much no matter what.
re: #174 darthstar
Potatoes are the greatest. That is all.
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Aloo Akbar indeed. Aloo be with you and yours.
I’m thinking that the next indictments to be handed down may be for Russians.
A ‘digital hit list’ and new DOJ findings offer the clearest evidence yet that Russia hacked the DNC https://t.co/mtGKG0eaFR
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 2, 2017
Tie Manafort and Page (and Popadopoulos) to Russian troll farms, then keep working up the ladder.
re: #174 darthstar
One thing I saw years ago was, “Who the hell is this Alan Akbar fellow? Any relation to Admiral Akbar?”
Made me chuckle.
re: #177 makeitstop
I’m thinking that the next indictments to be handed down may be for Russians.
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Tie Manafort and Page (and Popadopoulos) to Russian troll farms, then keep working up the ladder.
I dunno. The troll farms though. Man, that’s horrifying stuff. People in a St. Petersburg suburb setting us against each other. No wonder why I hate to read stories with comments on them sponsored by Facebook.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
One thing I saw years ago was, “Who the hell is this Alan Akbar fellow? Any relation to Admiral Akbar?”
Made me chuckle.
I remember a SNL skit after 9-11 that had people thinking Al Qaida was Al Kayda, a Czech dude. I know you’ll get a kick out of that one given your current place of residence.
re: #180 HappyWarrior
I remember a SNL skit after 9-11 that had people thinking Al Qaida was Al Kayda, a Czech dude. I know you’ll get a kick out of that one given your current place of residence.
LOL
re: #181 Dr Lizardo
LOL
I forget the exact details on the sketch heh. On a funny note, my introduction to the Ayatollahs was the Two Bad Neighbors Simpsons episode where Homer begs Marge to let him keep his Ayatollah Assatollah t-shirt.
Good guest Esquire article by my fine Senator, Tim Kaine.
The day gets better, and better
BREAKING: Former Trump campaign official linked to Mueller’s Russia investigation withdraws nomination for agriculture post
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 2, 2017
SAM CLOVIS. https://t.co/oJo8fPWJTq
— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) November 2, 2017
re: #184 FormerDirtDart
Former Trump campaign official linked to Mueller’s Russia investigation withdraws nomination for agriculture post
Good. He had zero qualifications anyway.
re: #157 Interesting Times
Well, fuck. The kids (white ones, anyway) are NOT alright:
A new survey shows white millennials think a lot more like whites than millennials
Internet generation on the hook and being reeled in? Thought they might be a little hipper to the dangers of believing everything you see on the ‘Net, guess not. Or could just be the effect of the decline in education of reasonable logical thinking? Or could they be just little, self-centered assholes? Who knows.
I know, broad brush. But 51%.
re: #186 Eventual Carrion
Internet generation on the hook and being reeled in? Thought they might be a little hipper to the dangers of believing everything you see on the ‘Net, guess not. Or could just be the effect of the decline in education of reasonable logical thinking? Or could they be just little, self-centered assholes? Who knows.
I know, broad brush. But 51%.
Could be that. It could be that we like other generations are products of our environments. It is disappointing though do not get me wrong.
re: #161 FormerDirtDart
Rick Perry believes fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault
I believe that renewable energy promotes sexual assault…
This is a good read - Mueller indictments beg the questions: why Manafort? Why Papadopoulos? Why now?
Mueller knows the contents of all of the other documents he has subpoenaed so far. Mueller knows what was said in the interviews with other witnesses he has conducted. And he knows the answer to the biggest question of them all. He knows why he didn’t charge Michael Flynn.
There are only two reasons Mueller didn’t charge Michael Flynn on Monday. The first is that he hasn’t finished with his investigation and he’s going to charge him at some point in the future. The second is, like he did with Papadopoulos, he has already arrested Flynn, charged him and made a plea deal. It’s known that Flynn failed to register as a lobbyist for foreign powers, a charge that Mueller has already brought against Manafort and Gates. It’s known that at the time Sally Yates reported him to the White House for lying to the Vice President about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Flynn lied to the FBI, a charge Mueller has already brought against Papadopoulos.
Michael Flynn spent more time with candidate Trump last year than anyone. Michael Flynn was the cut-out Trump used to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Michael Flynn was in the meeting at Trump Tower between Jared Kushner, Kislyak, and Sergey Gorkov, the head Vnesheconombank, the Russian state bank currently under U.S. sanctions. Michael Flynn knows everything there is to know about Trump and the Russians.
I think Special Counsel Mueller already knows what Michael Flynn knows. When it comes to Trump and the Russians, Robert Mueller knows what happened.
Lots more building up to my snip.
re: #189 makeitstop
The second is, like he did with Papadopoulos, he has already arrested Flynn, charged him and made a plea deal.
I think that’s a distinct possibility. Papadopolous was arrested quite some time ago, earlier this year, and we just now found about it. With a big fish like Flynn, it’s likely something like that would be “need to know” and very hush-hush. Mueller’s playing his cards close to his chest.
re: #189 makeitstop
This is a good read - Mueller indictments beg the questions: why Manafort? Why Papadopoulos? Why now?
Lots more building up to my snip.
I think that sounds right. And Flynn going state witness would be huge.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
I think that’s a distinct possibility. Papadopolous was arrested quite some time ago, earlier this year, and we just now found about it. With a big fish like Flynn, it’s likely something like that would be “need to know” and very hush-hush. Mueller’s playing his cards close to his chest.
Both Flynn and his kid were really chatty on Twitter for a long time, then went completely dark. Either they have a lawyer who gave them the right advice, or Mueller told them to STFU and they listened hard.
A woman who sparked a bridesmaids brawl after crashing a wedding in Florida says she’s sorry for showing up as an uninvited guest and that she “never intended for it to have gotten so out of control.”Shelby McDowell, 20, of St. Augustine, said she and Darby Johns had been in a relationship for nearly two years when he told her he was going to a wedding in Palm Coast by himself. That prompted a suspicious McDowell to get a disguise and sneak into the wedding, ultimately leading to a brawl among bridesmaids at the ceremony and her arrest on battery charges on Oct. 21.
re: #192 makeitstop
Both Flynn and his kid were really chatty on Twitter for a long time, then went completely dark. Either they have a lawyer who gave them the right advice, or Mueller told them to STFU and they listened hard.
Right.
re: #192 makeitstop
Both Flynn and his kid were really chatty on Twitter for a long time, then went completely dark. Either they have a lawyer who gave them the right advice, or Mueller told them to STFU and they listened hard.
When did Flynn go quiet on Twitter? I can’t remember now. It was a few months ago, but when?
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
When did Flynn go quiet on Twitter? I can’t remember now. It was a few months ago, but when?
His last tweet:
I highly recommend the just out book - THE FIELD OF FIGHT - by General Michael Flynn. How to defeat radical Islam.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2016
Thank you for the terrific endorsement of @FieldofFight by @realDonaldTrump who will B our next POTUS! @MGF_83 https://t.co/JKXSi7CAiq
— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 23, 2016
Gov. Chris Christie’s wife, Mary Pat Christie, was swept up in a crackdown on distracted drivers ordered by his attorney general earlier this year, it was reported Thursday.New Jersey’s first lady was pulled over shortly before 11 a.m. April 10 for holding her cellphone in her hand while driving a white 2016 Chevy Suburban, nj.com reported.
She doesn’t look to happy about it in the pic they chose to run.
Laws for thee, not for me.
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
When did Flynn go quiet on Twitter? I can’t remember now. It was a few months ago, but when?
Just checked his twitter account, there’s two linked posts for his legal defense fund, and before that? A Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah post from Christmas Eve. Not sure if he deleted everything or not, because: fuck twitter.
re: #196 makeitstop
His last tweet:
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His son is still tweeting, his last tweet was about an hour ago.
If someone tweets about a tree falling in a forest, and no one hears it…
Oops, just realized that the Twitter account I linked to has no check mark. nvm
Looks like that ‘professor’ in the Papadopoulos indictment has gone on the lam…
Joseph Mifsud, Papadopoulos’s professor contact, has closed up shop in London, and the Guardian can’t find him. https://t.co/eVC0ObQIIr pic.twitter.com/oVVfHIxqgf
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 1, 2017
re: #204 makeitstop
Looks like that ‘professor’ in the Papadopoulos indictment has gone on the lam…
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Gone to Russia?
re: #205 HappyWarrior
Gone to Russia?
Yep, that’s what I’m thinking. He’s skedaddled back to Moscow.
This is kinda interesting:
Wow, incredible statement from Bob Mercer — on Bannon, Milo, Breitbart: pic.twitter.com/6oSPpYlB7o
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 2, 2017
In other news…
MERCER TO SELL STAKE IN BANNON’S BREITBART TO DAUGHTER REBEKAH - BLOOMBERG TERMINAL
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 2, 2017
Now THIS is intriguing. https://t.co/q6yC25VwHh
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 2, 2017
Well, things just got worse for Carles Puigdemont, ex-President of Catalonia.
Spain’s state prosecutor has asked a judge to issue a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four of his former regional ministers after they failed to return from Belgium to testify in court.
Puigdemont, who is in Brussels, had been summoned to attend Spain’s national court to give evidence on Thursday and Friday.
In a written request to Judge Carmen Lamela of the national court, prosecutors said that Puigdemont and the others were aware that they had been ordered to testify, but had chosen not to attend.
“Repeated attempts to deliver the summons at home and repeated phone calls have been ignored,” they said. “For his part, Carles Puigdemont has publicly stated his intention not to appear and has requested … to make a statement via videoconference, without giving any information about his current whereabouts.”
Consequently, they added, they were requesting Puigdemont be found and arrested.
re: #206 Dr Lizardo
Yep, that’s what I’m thinking. He’s skedaddled back to Moscow.
This will make a good movie once we survive this.
So… I came up with this silly thing.
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(Hereby placed in the public domain, as-is, no warranty, do not inhale etc. etc. etc.)
re: #211 HappyWarrior
This will make a good movie once we survive this.
Netflix series. It’ll be awesome!
Milo has seen the wheels underneath Bannon’s bus. Now he will see Mercer’s. Maybe he sulks back to the UK and fades into obscurity.
🇺🇸On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation establishing a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pic.twitter.com/AmOQiVnJC3
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) November 2, 2017
re: #218 HappyWarrior
Yep. Sam Waterston for Mueller!
And it’s gotta be Alec Baldwin as Trump. But this time, a dramatic take, not Baldwin’s parody of Trump.
re: #220 Dr Lizardo
And it’s gotta be Alec Baldwin as Trump. But this time, a dramatic take, not Baldwin’s parody of Trump.
I think Alec could do that.
re: #219 Teukka
Hmm?
Mercer washing his hands of Breitbart is pretty huge.
Looks like he’s trying to get out in front of…something.
re: #207 bratwurst
Kinda is right. He just sold it to his just as crazy spawn. Pfft, sounds like some financial/business restructuring and nothing more, even with that stupid statement.
re: #222 makeitstop
Mercer washing his hands of Breitbart is pretty huge.
Looks like he’s trying to get out in front of…something.
Take the money and run.
re: #217 makeitstop
Something is up.
I’m guessing you mean this?
Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Department of Agriculture’s chief scientist, withdrew himself from consideration Thursday, the White House announced.
“We respect Mr. Clovis’ decision to withdraw his nomination,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement to pool reporters.
Sources told CNN earlier Thursday that Clovis’ nomination was imperiled over his connections to the ongoing Russia probe. The development is the latest sign that Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign and Russian collusion is impacting the day-to-day of Trump’s administration, despite top White House aides — including Trump himself — claiming that the indictments of former top Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Rick Gates had nothing to do with the administration or the campaign.
What’s the old line about history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as comedy?
re: #222 makeitstop
Mercer washing his hands of Breitbart is pretty huge.
Looks like he’s trying to get out in front of…something.
WOAH.
Seriously. O.O
*Orders more popcorn, checks state of PPE to protect from the splatter when the fecal matter goes sideways in a pear shape into the rotary air distribution apparatus*
re: #225 HappyWarrior
Gary Oldman as Putin?
Oh, yeah…..I could totally see that. Oldman’s one hell of an actor. He could pull that off with no problem.
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
Oh, yeah…..I could totally see that. Oldman’s one hell of an actor. He could pull that off with no problem.
Yeah I was thinking a shorter guy who is a gifted mimic. Who for Pence?
re: #225 HappyWarrior
Gary Oldman as Putin?
If he does the character as he did the cop in Léon: The Professional, I could live with that. XD
re: #227 KGxvi
I’m guessing you mean this?
What’s the old line about history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as comedy?
I’m looking at that Mercer thing.
Maybe he’s just smart enough to jump off now, and his daughter isn’t.
I’d offer up ‘attack of conscience’ as a possibility, but I’m pretty sure Mercer doesn’t have one.
He’s also leaving his hedge fund. Something is up.
re: #236 makeitstop
I’m looking at that Mercer thing.
Maybe he’s just smart enough to jump off now, and his daughter isn’t.
I’d offer up ‘attack of conscience’ as a possibility, but I’m pretty sure Mercer doesn’t have one.
He’s also leaving his hedge fund. Something is up.
How much money or influence do you think he might have contributed to manipulating the election, coordinating with Russia?
re: #234 Teukka
If he does the character as he did the cop in Léon: The Professional, I could live with that. XD
I was thinking a more cool and collected type. Obviously I don’t know what Putin does behind closed doors but I imagine him being calm and collected, the exact opposite as I imagine Trump. He- Oldman was great in Leon though!
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
Oh, yeah…..I could totally see that. Oldman’s one hell of an actor. He could pull that off with no problem.
Malkovich.
re: #234 Teukka
If he does the character as he did the cop in Léon: The Professional, I could live with that. XD
Oh shit, that would be epic!
re: #237 Belafon
How much money or influence do you think he might have contributed to manipulating the election, coordinating with Russia?
Hey, maybe (to cop a phrase from Roger Stone) it’s gonna be his time in the barrel soon…
Maybe Mueller’s got the Mercers, Breitbart and the whole evil lot wrapped up in the Russia thing.
I swear I’d die from sheer joy if that happened.
re: #236 makeitstop
I’m looking at that Mercer thing.
Maybe he’s just smart enough to jump off now, and his daughter isn’t.
I’d offer up ‘attack of conscience’ as a possibility, but I’m pretty sure Mercer doesn’t have one.
He’s also leaving his hedge fund. Something is up.
Leaving his hedge fund? Hmm……yeah, maybe something’s cooking and he’s found about it, or at least he strongly suspects he’s in very deep shit.
re: #243 makeitstop
Hey, maybe (to cop a phrase from Roger Stone) it’s gonna be his time in the barrel soon…
Maybe Mueller’s got the Mercers, Breitbart and the whole evil lot wrapped up in the Russia thing.
I swear I’d die from sheer joy if that happened.
You mean like someone forgot to shred the field manual Vlad & the Kremlin crew supplied them with or something among those lines?
re: #225 HappyWarrior
Gary Oldman as Putin?
Is Henry Gibson still alive? He’d be a lock for Sessions.
Reminder on Brazile’s new piece: Bernie Sanders signed the same joint fundraising agreement - Story from May 2016: https://t.co/dVnfF9knEV
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) November 2, 2017
re: #246 makeitstop
Is Henry Gibson still alive? He’d be a lock for Sessions.
Alas he passed away in 2009. Great choice tho.
re: #247 FormerDirtDart
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Signed the agreement, and then effectively reneged on it to keep all the money he raised to himself. But we’re now to believe that Hillary putting her own money into the DNC coffers was “rigging.”
re: #151 FormerDirtDart
Is that $1182 over 10 years?
re: #247 FormerDirtDart
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Easier to make Bernie out to be a victim. I really wish he’d fade away.
For Pence? Steve Carrel. A little makeup and he could do it. He’d have to play it straight.
re: #244 Dr Lizardo
Leaving his hedge fund? Hmm……yeah, maybe something’s cooking and he’s found about it, or at least he strongly suspects he’s in very deep shit.
At his age, it is just as likely that he just has some chronic health issues and is winding down.
re: #185 makeitstop
Good. He had zero qualifications anyway.
But a 100% chance of being approved the the GOP.
About that Mercer leaving his hedge fund breaking news…
Two weeks ago @thinkprogress published this story. And then Mercer stepped down from Renaissance today. https://t.co/2YBjk4Lst1
— Neera Tanden🖖🏼 (@neeratanden) November 2, 2017
Robert Mercer tells Renaissance staff that supporting Milo was a mistake and he is “severing all ties with him” pic.twitter.com/QTNCcKLdQV
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 2, 2017
Mercer email to staff also contains most extensive public account of his conservative politics he’s ever given. Denies being racist. pic.twitter.com/PkGyYGFbL1
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 2, 2017
re: #250 Targetpractice
Yup. Really fortunate framing for Bernie on this thing after yesterday revealed the Kremlin op was using his campaign as a key point in their info push.
re: #250 Targetpractice
Signed the agreement, and then effectively reneged on it to keep all the money he raised to himself. But we’re now to believe that Hillary putting her own money into the DNC coffers was “rigging.”
He’s a terrible teammate in politics. He endorsed Perriello. Did one event for show. Compare that with Tom himself who has been helping the ticket and other Dems seeking office here. But Bernie has plenty of time for his “Town Halls” aka free publicity for 2020.
re: #253 Dr Lizardo
For Pence? Steve Carrel. A little makeup and he could do it. He’d have to play it straight.
No he wouldn’t. He could do Brick Tamlin and be fine.
re: #237 Belafon
How much money or influence do you think he might have contributed to manipulating the election, coordinating with Russia?
I was kinda thinking along those lines also.
re: #163 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s dumber than that.
re: #260 Eventual Carrion
I was kinda thinking along those lines also.
Wasn’t Mercer a big contributor to Brexit?
re: #253 Dr Lizardo
For Pence? Steve Carrel. A little makeup and he could do it. He’d have to play it straight.
David Thewlis as Mitch McConnell.
re: #263 Dr Lizardo
Wasn’t Mercer a big contributor to Brexit?
That I don’t know, but they sure seem to have their hands in a lot of rabble rousing and manufactured outrage.
re: #266 Eventual Carrion
That I don’t know, but they sure seem to have their hands in a lot of rabble rousing and manufactured outrage.
And they like to remain in the shadows. Shining some light on them seems to have shaken Bob Mercer up.
Midday sanity break
Sea Wars: The Otter Awakens pic.twitter.com/S6YnyMYobz
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) November 2, 2017
Trying to think of someone for Ryan. Who’s a good mid 40’s some that plays sleaze well?
re: #256 FormerDirtDart
And the pressure was coming for the public entities that were revealed to get out of RenTech.
Michigan State students pressure school to divest from Robert Mercer’s hedge fund
thinkprogress.org
goodbye to sam clovis, the only man who truly understood the three pillars of american life pic.twitter.com/gtXMZyeu0Z
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 2, 2017
re: #266 Eventual Carrion
That I don’t know, but they sure seem to have their hands in a lot of rabble rousing and manufactured outrage.
It’s alleged that Mercer played a role in Brexit.
A US hedge-fund billionaire who helped finance Donald Trump’s campaign to become US president reportedly played a key role in the campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
Robert Mercer, co-owner of right-wing news organisation Breitbart, allegedly directed his data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to provide expert advice to the Leave campaign.
Mr Mercer, whose firm was paid £4.8m by the Trump campaign to persuade swing voters, offered his firm’s help to Ukip leader Nigel Farage for free, leave.eu communications director Andy Wigmore told The Observer.
“They were happy to help. Because Nigel is a good friend of the Mercers,” Mr Wigmore said.
“What they were trying to do in the US and what we were trying to do had massive parallels. We shared a lot of information.”
The firm is said to have advised leave.eu by harvesting data from people’s Facebook profiles to decide how to target them with individualised advertisements.
However, the electoral commission was not informed of Mr Mercer’s work. All services worth more than £7,500 must be declared.
leave.eu declined to tell the paper why it had not declared the donation of services.
Cambridge Analytica is the Mercer entity that I think has the most dirt associated with it, here and across the pond.
re: #274 JordanRules
Cambridge Analytica is the Mercer entity that I think has the most dirt associated with it, here and across the pond.
Yep….see my #273.
So now Brazille is someone they trust after going apeshit over her appointment as temporary DNC head? Anyhow. Here’s what I think and it’s simple. I think the DNC had good reason to favor Clinton over Sanders. Sanders until this past year had never campaigned for any Democrats. Meanwhile Clinton and Obama too are people I can remember campaigning for other Democrats. Furthermore, the Sanders campaign had their own shadiness going on. And most importantly, we need to get over the 2016 primaries already. We also need to see that a 76 year old white guy from Vermont isn’t our party or movement’s future especially one that has shown himself to be let’s be honest racially insensitive and insensitive to issues important to women. Yes, he’s pro choice but at the same time, he dismisses the issue’s importance.
All the families standing behind House GOPers during presser told us they couldn’t comment when asked if we could talk to them on tax plan
— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) November 2, 2017
House GOP had families to stand behind them in photo op…but won’t let them tell their stories. https://t.co/4gedZpeg6q
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 2, 2017
I’m sorry but as someone who has immigrants in his family. I’m out of fucks to give for Bernie Sanders who had his immigration record praised by Steve King no less.
re: #275 Dr Lizardo
Lots of smoke when it comes to CA. They paid Bannon money too.
Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance
theguardian.com
Oh and we can’t forget what just came out recently about good ole Julian.
re: #280 JordanRules
Lots of smoke when it comes to CA. They paid Bannon money too.
Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance
theguardian.comOh and we can’t forget what just came out recently about good ole Julian.
There’s a lot going on here and it ain’t pretty.
re: #277 Dave In Austin
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I see tRump is following through with his “most transparent administration we have ever seen” claim.
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OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
They’d have to ask the Mars aliens to be sure.
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
They really want to do anything to distract that Trump is free falling don’t tehy?
The classic Hollywood epic Gone With the Wind aroused a powerful surge of admiration and romanticism in audiences when it was first released in 1939. But it sent one of its biggest enthusiasts, Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, into a jealous rage. The German version of the picture (Vom Winde verweht) was reportedly one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite films, but, for Goebbels, it was a reminder of how far from beguiling the budding Nazi film industry was by comparison. “Goebbels,” as Life magazine reported in 1941, “would not even allow party officials to see it for fear that they might contrast it too unfavorably with the trashy but expensive films now being produced in Germany.”
But Gone With the Wind was not the only thing the Nazi elite admired when it came to the American South. According to historians Johnpeter Horst Grill and Robert L. Jenkins, “the American South, with its long-established system of white supremacy, was a source of interest to the Nazis as they, too, sought to work out their own system of Aryan supremacy.”
For the Nazis, the South represented a sociopolitical structure that had successfully maintained the separation between the races for centuries. In the 1930s, Nazi publications, which were anti-black in addition to being anti-Semitic, praised the “southern way,” pointing out that many Americans were also working against “racial bastardization,” evident from, among other things, the 30 or so U.S. states that had legal restrictions on interracial marriage. Hitler himself greatly admired America’s “wholesome aversion for the Negroes and the colored races in general” and warned of German culture being “negrified.”
ozy.com
also this jstor.org
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
No, he was killed by Capt William J Blazkowicz in a final showdown in his bunker, which he fought using a mech suit armed with gatling guns.
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re: #289 gocart mozart
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Hasn’t it been said that the Nazis took their cues on segregating German Jews- who were by the way very well integrated into Weimar German society from how the South had implemented Jim Crow.
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
A racist xenophobe with stupid hair? Just asking questions.
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
“Just asking questions….”
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re: #286 Eventual Carrion
They’d have to ask the Mars aliens to be sure.
the Nazi’s are laying low in the Moon
re: #151 FormerDirtDart
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“typical middle income family of four”
do we have to get out the apples again?
re: #277 Dave In Austin
House GOP had families to stand behind them in photo op…but won’t let them tell their stories.
— Kasie Hunt
Thare standing behind them families! What more do you people want!??!
re: #296 dangerman
I think we should bring in the tomatoes for this demonstration…high-velocity tomatoes.
re: #272 FormerDirtDart
Is Clovis out? What a shame. Truly.
Here’s another entry in the ‘Who gets the next indictment?’ sweepstakes…
Revelation Papadopoulos floated Putin mtg w SESSIONS present has sens raising new concerns over testimony. Our story https://t.co/5NdJlEOL5h
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 2, 2017
Marshal Kim Jong-Un said to be torn between allowing United States to destroy itself, and “mercy killing” out of sheer humanity. pic.twitter.com/G3Uer14zem
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 2, 2017
re: #301 Skip Intro
Oh god, is that Pamela Geller in the “coming up next” corner? Jesus, will the floor shitter be guest hosting?
re: #300 makeitstop
Here’s another entry in the ‘Who gets the next indictment?’ sweepstakes…
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Coffee guy huh.
re: #304 HappyWarrior
Coffee guy huh.
‘Sessions? He was just some old dude who came around, emptied the waste paper baskets. Nobody really talked to him or took his suggestions seriously. Nothingburger!’
re: #306 makeitstop
‘Sessions? He was just some old dude who came around, emptied the waste paper baskets. Nobody really talked to him or took his suggestions seriously. Nothingburger!’
Sessions? You mean that wasn’t Granny from Beverly Hillbillies!
Asshole is positively giddy about screwing America
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dagnabit
Picture yourself being Sessions and have this 29 year old kid comes up to you and offers to broker a meeting with Putin.
re: #309 FormerDirtDart
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Hate when that happens! What was it?
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Picture yourself being Sessions and have this 29 year old kid come up to you and offer to broker a meeting with Putin.
He apparently had the ears of Clovis and Lewandowski, so it’s not exactly out of the question.
And remember, Sessions has already perjured himself on this point.
Who the fuck is Broadcom? And why do I care?
Speaking of Guantanamo, things have gotten weird there. Currently, the general in charge of the defense attorneys has been jailed for 21 days (presumably for contempt of court) for allowing three civilian defense attorneys to leave the case.
The judge in Gitmo also tried to force the civilian attorneys to go to Cuba on Monday and their response was basically, “Hell no, that’s a foreign country.”
Now a writ of habeas corpus has been filed on Bakers behalf by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to spring the general. It was filed with Judge Royce Lamberth so we’ll see how that goes. This is a press release from the NACDL:
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Well, things just got worse for Carles Puigdemont, ex-President of Catalonia.
It’s springtime in Buenos Aires. Lovely city, and they speak Spanish (but not Catalan).
Was there no one in this campaign who said “No, we shouldn’t work with the Russians.” I’m reminded of a quote often attributed to a famous conservative here.
All my usual Twitter chatterboxes have gone silent. Probably trying to find out more about the Mercer thing.
Although Rick Wilson’s got some Mercer poetry.
Bob Mercer peers into the math
With algorithmic rigor
Kills off his bad investments
With quite surprising vigor.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 2, 2017
re: #320 makeitstop
All my usual Twitter chatterboxes have gone silent. Probably trying to find out more about the Mercer thing.
Although Rick Wilson’s got some Mercer poetry.
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I dunno why but I heard the tune to Maxwell’s Silver Hammer reading that.
re: #309 FormerDirtDart
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dagnabit
Dropping it down here.
$59k initially entered as $56k
GOP talking points on tax bill say $450k is “low- and middle-income” https://t.co/vqDsIydMzL via @shareblue
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) November 2, 2017
The median household income in the US is about $59k per year. https://t.co/jp0S5falGZ
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) November 2, 2017
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Picture yourself being Sessions and have this 29 year old kid comes up to you and offers to broker a meeting with Putin.
I picture myself looking up the FBI’s phone number online, then making a call to tell them I’ve been contacted by a Russian mole.
re: #320 makeitstop
Mercer is 71, you don’t have to worry about estate tax if you give it all away.
re: #324 Shropshire Slasher
Mercer is 71, you don’t have to worry about estate tax if you give it all away.
Yeah, estate planning is a viable explanation.
re: #322 FormerDirtDart
Dropping it down here.
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So out of touch…
re: #325 gwangung
Occam’s razor and all that. I personally think a lot of people are reading into everything, but it is fun to do so. I am looking forward to the Lifetime movie version.
re: #325 gwangung
Very.
Major trump donor Robert Mercer owes the IRS $7 billion in back taxes. https://t.co/dANmMeMZeW
— Anthony De Rosa 🗽 (@Anthony) November 2, 2017
OK, now that is a rough night
LA Dodgers player Yasiel Puig’s home burglarized during Game 7 of World Series. https://t.co/CdEXEEjwS0 pic.twitter.com/r6NMGqMpug
— ABC News (@ABC) November 2, 2017
re: #324 Shropshire Slasher
Mercer is 71, you don’t have to worry about estate tax if you give it all away.
if you mean “give/gift”, then it depends on to who and how you give it away
the mercer announcement says he’s “selling” not gifting
I keep waiting for my congressman, Andy “I won $10 million from American Family” Biggs, to say something about how wonderful the Trump tax plan is, so I can go after him with facts.
re: #300 makeitstop
Here’s another entry in the ‘Who gets the next indictment?’ sweepstakes…
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I so want to see Little Lord Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III crushed under the law and sent to jail for the rest of his miserable life. Instead of protecting it, he abused it. He needs to pay to understand how the law really works.
I’m with Stephanie. Lots came out of the hearing yesterday, but dayum!
ONE MORE TIME… stunning https://t.co/C2Rua4smRG
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) November 2, 2017
Mercer is very upset people are saying he supported racism just because he supported racists.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 2, 2017
Pizza Hut ‘not seeing any impact’ from NFL protests on pizza sales https://t.co/mDGwWQIH9V
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 2, 2017
Pizza Wars heating up - screw you, Papa John. https://t.co/L1T6km46yW
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 2, 2017
House tax bill will cap mortgage interest deduction, leave 401(k)s unchanged
The plan dramatically scales back the deduction for state and local taxes, limiting it in the future only to property taxes and capping the deduction at $10,000. Americans no longer would be able to deduct state and local income or sales taxes, which currently make up about two-thirds of the deduction.
Republicans embrace tax cuts and ruinous debt
The plan would also repeal the estate tax, which affects only the richest Americans, in six years. The estate tax has long been a target of conservatives.
The $10K deduction cap affects most Chicagoland homeowners. Seriously $1K a month tax on a house is not unusual.
I haven’t been on the computer in a week. I have 1K emails to sift thru and purge.
I only know the news people told me. I don’t have a clue and you know what?
Ignorance is Bliss.
re: #335 darthstar
DiGiorno has been going at their neck on Twitter.
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— DiGiorno Pizza (@DiGiornoPizza) November 2, 2017
They even updated their bio to:
Better Pizza. Better Sales. It’s DiGiorno.
Milo’s next gig… pic.twitter.com/5K5ZSrtYHs
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 2, 2017
re: #338 JordanRules
DiGiorno has been going at their neck on Twitter.
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They even updated their bio to:
Better Pizza. Better Sales. It’s DiGiorno.
WaPo has an article on the “extremely vetted” appointments DT has made to the government. Speaking of making government a joke. Disgusting!
re: #285 Teukka
OH Lawd have mercy! *headdesks*
foxnews.com <— did Hitler survive WWII
No, that was Martin Bormann that was hiding all those years in Argentina.
If you only watch Fox, you’d think that the FBI is going to arrest Hillary and send her to jail for the Russia Scandal.
The arrest of Manafort must have been a *ahem* shock.
re: #343 Birth Control Works
If you only watch Fox, you’d think that the FBI is going to arrest Hillary and send her to jail for the Russia Scandal.
The arrest of Manafort must have been a *ahem* shock.
Doing what they intend to which is distract and distract some more. If Trump finally goes down, they’ll spend the day talking about Clinton.
re: #338 JordanRules
DiGiorno has been going at their neck on Twitter.
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They even updated their bio to:
Better Pizza. Better Sales. It’s DiGiorno.
While I applaud DiGiorno for going after Papa John’s, there is no such thing as good frozen pizza…
re: #342 KGxvi
No, that was Martin Bormann that was hiding all those years in Argentina.
And Albert Eichmann.
re: #346 sagehen
And Albert Eichmann.
Adolf not to nitpick but the story of how the Mossad got him quite honestly would make a thrilling dramatization.
re: #345 danarchy
Meh. I don’t love it generally but I’ve paid much more for way worse “fresh” pizza than the old school Stouffer’s French Bread joints.
Have you tried any of the newer ones?
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Doing what they intend to which is distract and distract some more. If Trump finally goes down, they’ll spend the day talking about Clinton.
To the Whackos she She must the most evil genius of all time.
re: #328 JordanRules
Very.
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Steal a candy bar from a convenience store and you’re a thug. Steal $7 billion dollars from the government and you’re a quirky billionaire.
re: #347 HappyWarrior
Adolf not to nitpick but the story of how the Mossad got him quite honestly would make a thrilling dramatization.
Wasn’t there a movie a few years ago about the Nazi hunters?
This guy!
I believe Russians intefered with our elections, but it’s fair to ask if @DNC affected primary worse than Russians affected general. #Rigged
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) November 2, 2017
*NEWS ALERT*
for Immediate Release
“DO NOT MESS WITH MOSSAD”
re: #345 danarchy
Yes, there IS such a thing as good frozen pizza. Home Run Pizza. It looks like nothing when you pull it out of the box, but bake it up and it’s a revelation. Seriously, shockingly good.
re: #353 JordanRules
This guy!
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Not really, but TYT seem determined to trash the country with disinformation.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 2, 2017
re: #345 danarchy
While I applaud DiGiorno for going after Papa John’s, there is no such thing as good frozen pizza…
I disagree; when cooked right, Kroger’s thin crust extra pepperoni is, frankly IMO, better than most takeout thin crusts, in part because the pepperoni on those (and just those out of the entire Kroger frozen pizza line) is made of just beef and pork, no chicken as a filler.
Reggio’s frozen pizzas are damn good too, but a bit rich to eat more than once in a while (DAT BUTTER CRUST!).
re: #350 Weaselone
Steal a candy bar from a convenience store and you’re a thug. Steal $7 billion dollars from the government and you’re a quirky billionaire.
Sell single cigarettes on a street corner and get choked to death.
re: #358 Birth Control Works
Now I want to try Connie’s!
re: #355 plansbandc
I’ve seen a lot of new craft and localish options out there now so I was really wondering about this. Thanks for the heads up!
re: #358 Birth Control Works
Ooh! Another recommendation. Thanks!
re: #348 JordanRules
Screamin’ Sicilian is good.
How did I miss this?
” A company that few had heard of and only had two employees was chosen to lead power restoration in Puerto Rico for a whopping $300 million. Whitefish Energy, of Whitefish, Montana, is not only linked as a donor to President Donald Trump but the CEO has a financial relationship to Energy Secretary Rick Perry. …”
Montana energy company under fire after ‘shocking’ contract for restoring power to Puerto Rico leaks
“… “Texas-based company HBC Investments invested in Whitefish Energy this past August, a month before Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico and left the U.S. territory in the dark,” Montana Public Radio reported.
HBC Investments’ founder and partner, Joe Colonnetta, has donated more than $40,000 to Rick Perry’s previous campaigns. “As governor, Perry appointed Colonnetta as a trustee to the Teacher’s Retirement System of Texas,” MPR said Thursday. …”
Lots of money to be laundered and even more taxpayer money to be spent
my mentions are like yelp for pizza reviews today
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 2, 2017
When we moved out-of-state I had friends bring me a Connie’s Pizza to reheat.
It’s that good.
.@HillaryClinton urges women to be resilient in the face of sexism and misogyny.
Extended interview: https://t.co/3HLT3h4Jsf pic.twitter.com/Zz89b44X0m— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 2, 2017
Be Resilient. https://t.co/ZaO65tTmgW
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 2, 2017
re: #350 Weaselone
Steal a candy bar from a convenience store and you’re a thug. Steal $7 billion dollars from the government and you’re a quirky billionaire.
Thug who can be shot in the act
Quirky who can sit at home while he “arranges” bail
RESIST
PERSIST
PERSERVERE
BE RESILIANT
re: #37 HappyWarrior
I think that is part of why so many Bernie fans are convinced that he’s more popular than he was. What you see on social media isn’t always reality. I mean yeah I knew that people were excited by Sanders but it was nowhere near what the Sanders supporters claimed it was and while I don’t think Sanders is a tool of the Russians himself, I definitely do wonder about his campaign adviser, Davine who like Manafort helped Russia’s guy in Ukraine, Yankouvich.
This guy?
re: #157 Interesting Times
Well, fuck. The kids (white ones, anyway) are NOT alright:
A new survey shows white millennials think a lot more like whites than millennials
So, “a slim majority”of white millennials believes blacks protesting police-involved shootings of unarmed African Americans are not very different from white supremacists marching through a town chanting “Jews will not replace us” and the repugnant Nazi-era “blood and soil” while protesting the removal of a Confederate general’s statue.
I am going to venture a guess that social media drives that. I can’t count how much bullshit I see surrounding BLM, taking a knee is against America and Veterans, etc.
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