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That Lucian Wintrich thing…not excusing what he did at ALL but I am somewhat confused as to why the girl randomly grabbed his notes.
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re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
That Lucian Wintrich thing…not excusing what he did at ALL but I am somewhat confused as to why the girl randomly grabbed his notes.
Probably just to be a dick… Which deserves a reaction, but not a physical one.
This needs to be torn down pronto:
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— BALKAN NEWS (@balkannews) November 28, 2017
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
That Lucian Wintrich thing…not excusing what he did at ALL but I am somewhat confused as to why the girl randomly grabbed his notes.
To fuck with him. It definitely though doesn’t excuse it at all obviously. So he had his notes taken. That doesn’t justify violence at all.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
To fuck with him. It definitely though doesn’t excuse it at all obviously. So he had his notes taken. That doesn’t justify violence at all.
If it were me, I would totally go off-script and riff off the fact my notes had been stolen. I would not feel obliged to slap a girl. But, hey, what can I say, I’m a librul, obviously I’m not with the times.///////////////////////////
Clinton on Trump: “[W]hat he told people was a fraud. It’s in keeping with his bankruptcies and his Trump University. He is a con artist, and that’s what Mike Bloomberg called him at our convention and every day that goes by seems to prove that.” https://t.co/dmnCihVJCK
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 29, 2017
re: #6 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If it were me, I would totally go off-script and riff off the fact my notes had been stolen. I would not feel obliged to slap a girl. But, hey, what can I say, I’m a librul, obviously I’m not with the times.///////////////////////////
I mean I would have been pissed but it doesn’t justify it at all.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
To fuck with him. It definitely though doesn’t excuse it at all obviously. So he had his notes taken. That doesn’t justify violence at all.
You know when a Very Important Conservative Lecturer has his notes taken by a woman, that’s tantamount to emasculation.
re: #8 HappyWarrior
I mean I would have been pissed but it doesn’t justify it at all.
It would have rattled me. I like to be organized. But in the end, given the choice between giving an impromptu speech and not giving one at all, I would have winged it in the end, and I would have done a halfway decent job of it. I would have been nervous as hell, and pissed as hell, but I would have got through it in the end, without committing assault.
I honestly hate that dipshits like him are what College Republican chapters think are worth inviting. Really says a lot and it’s why I deeply worry about the Millennial right. There was a wrong hope that young conservatives of today would be more open minded than their parents and grandparents but guys that just isn’t true.
I mean when I was in high school and even college. Yeah our college Republicans were jerks but the Republicans and the right have gone from the Country Club assholes (Assholes but relatively harmless) to Swastika and CSA apologizing assholes. And I get that there’s always been that element in the right but the right has grown worse and more and more reactionary minded.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
I honestly hate that dipshits like him are what College Republican chapters think are worth inviting. Really says a lot and it’s why I deeply worry about the Millennial right. There was a wrong hope that young conservatives of today would be more open minded than their parents and grandparents but guys that just isn’t true.
While cult media, including FOX and the epistemic closure afforded by social media, remains active and unchallenged, the cult will only increase in size and degenerate further. Being young is not enough protection. People of all ages, intelligence levels, and classes are vulnerable to cult indoctrination.
Obama hasn’t been President for almost a year now and the RWNJs still can’t let him go.
Donald Trump is not a President. He’s just a loud, vile, walking collection of GOP talking points.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
Obama hasn’t been President for almost a year now and the RWNJs still can’t let him go.
Donald Trump is not a President. He’s just a loud, vile, walking collection of GOP talking points.
Plus his own neuroses and inhumanness.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
I mean when I was in high school and even college. Yeah our college Republicans were jerks but the Republicans and the right have gone from the Country Club assholes (Assholes but relatively harmless) to Swastika and CSA apologizing assholes. And I get that there’s always been that element in the right but the right has grown worse and more and more reactionary minded.
Happy, I remember the Teen Republicans in High School who swooned all over Nixon in 1972 especially when he won the mock election 2-1 against McGovern. Then I was active in Colllege Young Dems where we had to share the same Student Union room as the College Republicans whose majority supported Ford in 1976. But in the last year of undergrad school (1977), they started moving into the Reagan column. The main engine of the move Right was speared first by the churches, then talk radio, next came Jesus TV, then Fox and that opened the door for every right wing asshole to get on a platform AM radio, “ministries” and then the net.
This is the direct consequence of Pruneface Reagan dismantling the FCC with the repeal of the Equal Time Rule and Fairness Doctrine. All of these came together to become the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine that Louis Powell proposed in his infamous 1970 memorandum.
re: #16 Joe Bacon 🌹
Happy, I remember the Teen Republicans in High School who swooned all over Nixon in 1972 especially when he won the mock election 2-1 against McGovern. Then I was active in Colllege Young Dems where we had to share the same Student Union room as the College Republicans whose majority supported Ford in 1976. But in the last year of undergrad school (1977), they started moving into the Reagan column. The main engine of the move Right was speared first by the churches, then talk radio, next came Jesus TV, then Fox and that opened the door for every right wing asshole to get on a platform AM radio, “ministries” and then the net.
This is the direct consequence of Pruneface Reagan dismantling the FCC with the repeal of the Equal Time Rule and Fairness Doctrine. All of these came together to become the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine that Louis Powell proposed in his infamous 1970 memorandum.
I erally despise Reagan.
re: #17 HappyWarrior
I erally despise Reagan.
I do, too. He ruined us, personally. But he didn’t do it by himself.
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
That Lucian Wintrich thing…not excusing what he did at ALL but I am somewhat confused as to why the girl randomly grabbed his notes.
In order to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest his eternal wisdom, of course.
I think what makes me hate Reagan is he divided people but he did it with all smiles and not too many people to this day see what damage he caused. Someone like Nixon? Yeah Nixon was destructive but Nixon I guess wasn’t as subtle about what a sob he really was. Reagan, he’d smile at you and remind you of your kind Grandpa while he weakened the labor unions and middle class. I guess what I also really hate about Reagan is how two faced he was. He’d talk rightfully about the USSR’s tyranny in Eastern Europe but then have our money go to right wing totalitarians in Latin and South America. He’d talk about how wonderful our country was while using winks and nudges to the people still not over Civil Rights. I really hope one day that historians see beyond the Gipper cult and see a flawed man that I think was a big part of why we have Trumpism today.
re: #18 retired cynic
I do, too. He ruined us, personally. But he didn’t do it by himself.
He definitely had help.
re: #20 HappyWarrior
I think what makes me hate Reagan is he divided people but he did it with all smiles and not too many people to this day see what damage he caused.
When anyone of these brainwashed folks start screaming BENGAZI!!!!, I ask them if they were just as outraged at St. Ronnie when The Lebanese Embassy was attacked by terrorists, killing over 300….
re: #22 The Major
When anyone of these brainwashed folks start screaming BENGAZI!!!!, I ask them if they were just as outraged at St. Ronnie when The Lebanese Embassy was attacked by terrorists, killing over 300….
We had no hearings about that iircand Reagan/Schultz was not called a murderer the way Obama/Clinton was. Btw it was a barracks not an embassy.
re: #22 The Major
When anyone of these brainwashed folks start screaming BENGAZI!!!!, I ask them if they were just as outraged at St. Ronnie when The Lebanese Embassy was attacked by terrorists, killing over 300….
It sure is amazing that the Republicans who called for Hillary to be jailed for Benghazi are absolutely silent about the deaths in Niger…
re: #23 HappyWarrior
We had no hearings about that and Reagan/Schultz was not called a murderer the way Obama/Clinton was. Btw it was a barracks not an embassy.
Also, it was long ago in a distant age, and you need rose-tinted glasses to see it.
re: #24 Joe Bacon 🌹
It sure is amazing that the Republicans who called for Hillary to be jailed for Benghazi are absolutely silent about the deaths in Niger…
What pisses me off about Benghazi to this day Joe is how the Congressional GOP in fact voted to weaken embassy/consulate security funding. And Romney, I’ll never forgive for this saying Obama sympathized with the attackers and that arrogant smirk he had thinking he’d use those four dead men to punch his ticket to the WH. Romney too bears responsibility for Trump. Mitt had no problem with Trump until Trump wanted Mitt’s party.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Here’s the poster for Lucian Wintrich’s little racist lecture tour.
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re: #26 HappyWarrior
What pisses me off about Benghazi to this day Joe is how the Congressional GOP in fact voted to weaken embassy/consulate security funding. And Romney, I’ll never forgive for this saying Obama sympathized with the attackers and that arrogant smirk he had thinking he’d use those four dead men to punch his ticket to the WH. Romney too bears responsibility for Trump. Mitt had no problem with Trump until Trump wanted Mitt’s party.
Yes, the RepubliKKKlans deliberately cut embassy security because they wanted a Benghazi attack to pin on Obama. And as for Fucking Romney he’s just another asshole RepubliKKKlan who craves power and will lie, cheat and steal his way to getting it. Romney will never forgive Trump for out lying, cheating and stealing him.
And what really pissed me off about Romney is how evangelicals embraced his candidacy. Fundamentalists embraced putting a Mormon in the White House—a religion that fundamentalists despise as heresy. But they held their nose to get that black guy out of the Oval Office.
re: #28 retired cynic
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ha gasp
They gave him a chin!
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Here’s the poster for Lucian Wintrich’s little racist lecture tour.
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Are those thigh high stockings?
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes, the RepubliKKKlans deliberately cut embassy security because they wanted a Benghazi attack to pin on Obama. And as for Fucking Romney he’s just another asshole RepubliKKKlan who craves power and will lie, cheat and steal his way to getting it. Romney will never forgive Trump for out lying, cheating and stealing him.
And what really pissed me off about Romney is how evangelicals embraced his candidacy. Fundamentalists embraced putting a Mormon in the White House—a religion that fundamentalists despise as heresy. But they held their nose to get that black guy out of the Oval Office.
And with Trump, they embraced a man whose life is a living mockery of what they claim is moral. The RR are frauds.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Was he auditioning to be a member of the Village People during their renaissance phase?
re: #33 Joe Bacon 🌹
Was he auditioning to be a member of the Village People during their renaissance phase?
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This is the kid without irony founded Twinks for Trump.
re: #34 HappyWarrior
This is the kid without irony founded Twinks for Trump.
Now I just wonder what the Radical Xtians would do to L’il Lucien and his pals Jim and Milo when they institute their Jay-Zuss Police State?
Despite what wingnuts say. I ain’t ashamed to be white. I’m ashamed when people try to say being white makes me superior to people with different skin colors because that’s bull. My burning in the August sun disproves that immediately. Joking aside, I’m proud to be American but I’m also proud of the groups that have literally made me, well me but I also respect other cultures I may not have lineage in but whose food, music, culture, etc I enjoy. I love being part Irish but I’d muxh rather eat Latin or Middle Eastern or Indian food.
re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹
Now I just wonder what the Radical Xtians would do to L’il Lucien and his pals Jim and Milo when they institute their Jay-Zuss Police State?
That’s a good question. Probably jail em. Their use would be done.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
What pisses me off about Benghazi to this day Joe is how the Congressional GOP in fact voted to weaken embassy/consulate security funding. And Romney, I’ll never forgive for this saying Obama sympathized with the attackers and that arrogant smirk he had thinking he’d use those four dead men to punch his ticket to the WH. Romney too bears responsibility for Trump. Mitt had no problem with Trump until Trump wanted Mitt’s party.
I don’t know they actually wanted an attack in Libya, but they sure were happy to take advantage of that (and ignore the one in Cairo the same time).
And they tend to forget a couple things:
a) Embassy duty is frickin’ dangerous.
b) No hearings during the Bush Administration about far more embassy attacks during his administration, almost as if it’s Okay if You’re a Rebublican.
January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.
June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.
October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of “Bali Bombings.” No fatalities.
February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.
May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.
July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.
December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.
March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name “David Foy.” This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what’s considered American soil.)
September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting “Allahu akbar” storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.
January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.
March 18, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.
July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.
September 17, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.
I know I’m late to the party and probably not the first to think of this but …
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) November 29, 2017
re: #22 The Major
When anyone of these brainwashed folks start screaming BENGAZI!!!!, I ask them if they were just as outraged at St. Ronnie when The Lebanese Embassy was attacked by terrorists, killing over 300….
Well, it was a hotel converted to use as an embassy.
I had the unpleasant duty of going from Navy work-ups in the Caribbean Sea to immediately go to Lebanon to help with the evacuations and to cover the duties of carrier stationed there. A five-day tour turned into three months.
I have no words. I mean, we are fucked.
Saw this Trumpy Bear commercial during a Hitler documentary. Still processing. pic.twitter.com/WnXbCZFNqI
— Michael Urie (@michaelurie) November 29, 2017
ICYMI
Trump appointee rubber stamps Trump’s illegal replacement for head of CFPB
https://t.co/KlKxpChOVC— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 29, 2017
Well, I’m fucking worried for the future of civilization, again. Nuclear brinkmanship is once again happening between two sociopathic leaders with comical hairdos. pic.twitter.com/93uBpU9JvC
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 29, 2017
re: #41 Stanley Sea
I have no words. I mean, we are fucked.
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That can’t be for real. Can it?
Obvious Russian bot is obvious.
She stole his stuff like little sneaky rat passive aggressive Radical Liberal and he went to get it back, grabs backpack to reach around and grab his stuff. She flops around, screams and acts like a #DramaQueen and Crazed #HiveMind insect like crazies attack him. #ItsOkToBeWhite pic.twitter.com/l3g87LOP3u
— Trumplicans2018 (@aTrumplican) November 29, 2017
re: #41 Stanley Sea
They’re literally wrapping themselves in the American flag…
Fuck it, New California Republic, here I come.
re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter
Seriously. Take your teddy bear for a ride on the Harley? Take it golfing?
re: #51 Kragar
They’re literally wrapping themselves in the American flag…
Fuck it, New California Republic, here I come.
This is apparently a hot topic on certain sites, including pro-Trump sites. They speculate that the person marketing the product decided it can be sold to everyone: the pro Trumpers will buy it because it supports their God Emperor; and the anti Trump majority will consider the product a spoof mocking the President and buy it for that reason. The objective is to earn money.
re: #53 Hecuba’s daughter
Did they remember to factor in the bit where they are fucking idiots?
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
Obama hasn’t been President for almost a year now and the RWNJs still can’t let him go.
Donald Trump is not a President. He’s just a loud, vile, walking collection of GOP talking points.
Time we were honest with ourselves….trump is nothing more than a fake president.
If you got a Twitter, lots of block-able accounts in Charles’ mentions right now. They’re all bent out of shape about Lucian Wintrich.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
Obama hasn’t been President for almost a year now and the RWNJs still can’t let him go.
Donald Trump is not a President. He’s just a loud, vile, walking collection of GOP talking points.
They can’t let Hillary go either — and she wasn’t even elected President, thanks to the toxic Electoral College.
— edited to correct typo
re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter
That so looks like a SNL fake commercial. It’s difficult to believe that the people who made the ad are actually serious.
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing fish? Nobody ever went broke underestimating the personal tastes of modern Americans.
Modern libertarianism is a good example of what happens when you take a generally good idea (capitalism), and then just push it way too far.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 29, 2017
Also, JESUS H. FUCKING CHRIST, THE ANSWER IS NO!
re: #59 goddamnedfrank
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing fish? Nobody ever went broke underestimating the personal tastes of modern Americans.
Pet Rocks?
re: #59 goddamnedfrank
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing fish? Nobody ever went broke underestimating the personal tastes of modern Americans.
Trumpy Bear — the perfect Gag gift!!
re: #63 Hecuba’s daughter
Trumpy Bear — the perfect Gag gift!!
I won’t spend $40 on a gag gift. Instead, send a link to the commercial — like, Stanley Sea, I have no words. That’s because I was laughing too hard to talk.
re: #55 Cheechako
Time we were honest with ourselves….trump is nothing more than a fake president.
Well, not fake per se, as the process of the election as set forth by law and the Constitution regurgitated him.
Unfortunately, the USA has the oldest constitution in the world currently active, and fifty states’ laws all differing in procedures plus a largely-unregulated social media system made it possible to corrupt the election by other actors (both in and outside the country).
The solution would seem to be to run our elections as other nations do (by the national government) and reign in the power of independent corporations to influence elections by taking freakin’ rubles for advertising whilst keeping their data bases secret on everyone’s information.
Since I’m not on social media, I expect eventually to be rounded up by the corporate state as a subversive.
re: #59 goddamnedfrank
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing fish? Nobody ever went broke underestimating the personal tastes of modern Americans.
See also Pet Rocks and Beanie Babies.
The uncut audio of the WaPo reporter ensnaring James O’Queef’s employee is so damning. I’d call it amateur hour but that would be an insult to real amateurs.
I also finally watched the videos posted downstairs of another WaPo reporter talking to James O’Queef juxtaposed with his edited video. That guy is a lying scumbag.
re: #67 teleskiguy
WaPo journalists are awesome these days.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹
Well, not fake per se, as the process of the election as set forth by law and the Constitution regurgitated him.
Unfortunately, the USA has the oldest constitution in the world currently active, and fifty states’ laws all differing in procedures plus a largely-unregulated social media system made it possible to corrupt the election by other actors (both in and outside the country).
The solution would seem to be to run our elections as other nations do (by the national government) and reign in the power of independent corporations to influence elections by taking freakin’ rubles for advertising whilst keeping their data bases secret on everyone’s information.
Since I’m not on social media, I expect eventually to be rounded up by the corporate state as a subversive.
Yes, I understand trump is a lawfully elected real President, but the way he’s acted is not like any of the previous “real” Presidents. Therefore, if he’s not “real” then he must be “fake”.
And that’s my twisted logic for the day.
Well… maybe this made it all worth it… here is my actual mug shot from tonight: pic.twitter.com/SzSrw4GsgJ
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) November 29, 2017
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
“Still Life with Douchebag”.
Lucian Wintrich pic.twitter.com/EbQv43skvg
— Gus Antidisestablishmentarianism™ (@Gus_802) November 29, 2017
What a stiff joyless looking young man. His parents must’ve been real pieces of work, after all they named him Lucian.
re: #73 teleskiguy
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What a stiff joyless looking young man. His parents must’ve been real pieces of work, after all they named him Lucian.
Actually, sort of.
Wintrich was born Lucian Einhorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t know why he goes by the last name he does, maybe he disowned his parents?
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
Uh, I think you’re reading a little too deeply in a poorly sourced Wikipedia article about a con artist.
re: #76 teleskiguy
Uh, I think you’re reading a little too deeply in a poorly sourced Wikipedia article about a con artist.
That could be. I could also be some of his fans wrote it (Wikipedia does have trouble with that on some of their articles).
re: #78 teleskiguy
Red Bull bankrolls some of the most gonzo shit.
Shane McConkey was wearing clothing and protective gear that had Red Bull’s logo emblazoned on it when he died.
re: #80 teleskiguy
When I was a young man - aged 13ish to mid 20s - I thought Shane McConkey was the coolest dude who ever lived. I still miss him, a man I never met.
I didn’t start listening to Frank Zappa’s music until after he was dead. And I miss that dude, a man I never met.
re: #82 teleskiguy
I didn’t start listening to Frank Zappa’s music until after he was dead. And I miss that dude, a man I never met.
Never got to see him live, which I regret.
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Never got to see him live, which I regret.
Dweezil does an excellent job playing his pops’ music, seen him a half dozen times. Last time I saw Dweezil with his band was at Red Rocks two summers ago. They took a break from FZ songs and played a very impressive 80s music medley.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Self-parody. You could not make a funnier poster if you tried.
KRFE owner Wade Wilkes certainly knows which side the radio bread is buttered on. (Link goes to Facebook page. I did not use the image directly because it includes phone numbers.)
Wade has appeared on these pages before:
Lubbock Radio Host: Orlando Victims Were ‘Getting Lit, Using Illegal Drugs and Spreading STDs’
You all know what to do.
Out of the last four Presidents who has done the best job as @POTUS. Vote and Retweet for largest sample size.
— Robby Ball (@perfectsliders) November 24, 2017
PS. Trump is leading
Welcome our new overlords.
Bacteria found on International Space Station may be alien in origin, says cosmonaut
re: #88 Amory Blaine
Apparently, it is not alien in origin, per another news story.
Okay, this has me laughing really hard.
my mate has been running a parody Instagram for Forest Coaches for nearly 5 years pic.twitter.com/lyYgtVQzYu
— j.r. hennessy (@jrhennessy) November 29, 2017
re: #91 Amory Blaine
Aww.
From Slate, the microorganisms probably came from Earth on one of the supply ships or even from a visiting astronaut.
What is clear, though, is that nobody should really take Shkaplerov seriously. From the outset, Russian state media is far from trustworthy, usually acting as a propagandist arm of the government. And Russian scientists have previously made similarly strange and unsubstantiated claims of life clinging to the ISS hull before, like that there’s sea plankton hanging on the station, which there is not.
A 64-year-old inmate of a private prison in Colorado got beat to death. He sustained his injuries on the 20th, and died on Sunday. It’s being reported now, Wednesday morning the 29th.
Colorado authorities say inmate’s private prison death was homicide
https://t.co/yOE90X7TQx— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) November 29, 2017
re: #94 teleskiguy
A 64-year-old inmate of a private prison in Colorado got beat to death. He sustained his injuries on the 20th, and died on Sunday. It’s being reported now, Wednesday morning the 29th.
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and I am certain that there is no way the prison company can be called to account for this in any meaningful way…because they were thugs who deserved what they got, right?
re: #93 wheat-dogg
From Slate, the microorganisms probably came from Earth on one of the supply ships or even from a visiting astronaut.
I think the Russians are getting tuned up to officially deny the reality of the Apollo Moon landings. Their conspiracy media are trending that way and their American collaborators are already there. If so, they will join the Taliban as the second national government to dispute the landings’ authenticity. This will happen once the Trump gambit has run its course, particularly if it fails spectacularly.
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and I am certain that there is no way the prison company can be called to account for this in any meaningful way…because they were thugs who deserved what they got, right?
With numbers like this …
… private prisons will have the run of the mill, as it were. With the current leadership in the United States, I see nothing but more violence by “authority.”
As soon as a new Democratic President takes office with a Democratic Congress, he or she should immediately institute a massive legislative and judicial program, similar to FDR’s 100 days, to bring Republican criminals to account and undo as much of their damage as possible. Private prison executives and lobbyists should be at the top of the target list, followed closely by politicized churches, health care quacks and unregistered foreign agents.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
As soon as a new Democratic President takes office with a Democratic Congress, he or she should immediately institute a massive legislative and judicial program, similar to FDR’s 100 days, to bring Republican criminals to account and undo as much of their damage as possible. Private prison executives and lobbyists should be at the top of the target list, followed closely by politicized churches, health care quacks and unregistered foreign agents.
I still agree with Keith Olbermann that it could take decades to recover from Trump - I would generally say at least one year for every month of his administration…
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still agree with Keith Olbermann that it could take decades to recover from Trump - I would generally say at least one year for every month of his administration…
I beg to differ. I see this sort if like what happened to France, Britain, etc., after world war I. You will never recover or become again what you used to be. I don’t mean the future will necessary be grim, I just mean, say good-bye forever to the US of A as you knew it.
Whoa!
I watch The Today Show many mornings.
Today they started the show out with an announcement that Matt Lauer has been fired for some kind of sexual infraction with a staffer.
I guess the rest of them just found out right before the shows start.
I kind of wondered if Lauer would have problems. There have been some rumors he had affairs with coworkers in the past.
Trump is retweeting anti-Muslim accounts purportedly showing Muslims beating up kids.
re: #102 Lupin
I beg to differ. I see this sort if like what happened to France, Britain, etc., after world war I. You will never recover or become again what you used to be. I don’t mean the future will necessary be grim, I just mean, say good-bye forever to the US of A as you knew it.
I do also fear that we might no longer have the wherewithal to fully recover.
re: #103 ObserverArt
Whoa!
I watch The Today Show many mornings.
Today they started the show out with an announcement that Matt Lauer has been fired for some kind of sexual infraction with a staffer.
I guess the rest of them just found out right before the shows start.
I kind of wondered if Lauer would have problems. There have been some rumors he had affairs with coworkers in the past.
Trump predictably is crowing about it on Twitter.
Another one bites the dust. And yet the serial woman abuser Dotard still sits in the White House. #mattlauer pic.twitter.com/nJvNNrxEWS
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) November 29, 2017
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Well, arguably, England as a much better place without its empire and delusions of (tho I think it’s still suffering from some of that), and the US in, say, 2050 might be as different as the England of 1950 (compared to 2010 and 1910) but still be a better place.
Y’all thought you had ‘economic anxiety’ before, pour some milk on that racism and eat up.
I am dying at Trump supporters jumping to back this…— 🔸🧡🍁🍂Nola Fall-ana 🍂🍁🧡🔸 (@ginandtectonica) November 29, 2017
re: #107 Dr. Matt
I wonder if at some point we could go from gawking at the perpetrators of this shit and start asking how we could raise boys and create places that teach how wrong this shit is and why. I know I’m impatient, and I see the conversation in some places now, but not nearly enough. Lots of salacious details and hand wringing over how shocking it all is won’t fix a thing.
re: #110 A Mom Anon
Sadly I think it’s only going to get worse before gets better. We first have to weed out the old guard, i.e. the men have been in power for decades who thought they were invincible. Second, Dotard is emboldening a new generation of racist misogynists.
re: #109 Dr. Matt
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It’ll grow the economy…
Most every reputable economists have said the opposite, that this tax bill will lead to another recession.
It’ll result in higher wages…
Businesses across the spectrum have admitted they’re not going to raise wages, but instead buy back stock and increase automation.
Families will see tax savings…
That will be eaten up by everything from higher insurance costs to higher fees for services that will need funding as a result of tax revenues dropping.
WELL TRUMP SUPPORTS IT!
Thanks for your honesty.
Moore will get elected, tax bill will pass and the USA will take that much longer to recover
re: #110 A Mom Anon
I wonder if at some point we could go from gawking at the perpetrators of this shit and start asking how we could raise boys and create places that teach how wrong this shit is and why. I know I’m impatient, and I see the conversation in some places now, but not nearly enough. Lots of salacious details and hand wringing over how shocking it all is won’t fix a thing.
Many boys are/were taught what is right and wrong. The problem is many chose to ignore those teachings and do what they do anyway.
I think some of it comes from men getting together and learning how to ignore all that teaching and doing what they want anyway. That is a powerful thing. Men can be tough on each other and many weaker men follow along and then it becomes a thing they do.
Apparently learning the hard way is going to be what is needed.
Trump has now lost Prison Planet dude
Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump’s Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics. 🤔
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 29, 2017
One of the NBC reports is saying Lauer’s issue was from 2014.
It would not surprise me if one of his co-stars is behind the allegations. I remember seeing stuff on the ‘net alleging his messing around with one years ago. I am not going to mention the name as it is ‘net speculation. I figure all of this will be revealed in the next few days or so.
Three big “stars” from three big networks all are gone now. That has got to send reverberations all through TV news and other programming. We already have Hollywood on edge. Next up the Big Business world and sports.
This is a huge boulder rolling downhill.
Wow, just think of all the extra time ol Matt now has to go golfing with his Republican pals…
For climate change censorship, and an endless amount of other reasons, we have to make this toxic mess a one-and-done administration.
— Paul Witham (@pwitham11) November 29, 2017
Has anyone here read Luke Harding’s book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win? Does he make an effective and realistic case against the traitor in the White House?
—edited to correct title
re: #103 ObserverArt
Whoa!
I watch The Today Show many mornings.
Today they started the show out with an announcement that Matt Lauer has been fired for some kind of sexual infraction with a staffer.
I guess the rest of them just found out right before the shows start.
I kind of wondered if Lauer would have problems. There have been some rumors he had affairs with coworkers in the past.
It has to be more than affairs, doesn’t it? Certainly, consensual relationships wouldn’t be a problem; if they were, Mika and Joe would have to go — or at least Joe.
Good thing that NBC hired Megan Kelly for backup.
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re: #114 ObserverArt
Many boys are/were taught what is right and wrong. The problem is many chose to ignore those teachings and do what they do anyway.
I think some of it comes from men getting together and learning how to ignore all that teaching and doing what they want anyway. That is a powerful thing. Men can be tough on each other and many weaker men follow along and then it becomes a thing they do.
Apparently learning the hard way is going to be what is needed.
In terms of sheer contact-hours, men do not teach boys much of anything. Sister Mary Claver knew how to raise boys. You wouldn’t like it.
re: #117 ObserverArt
One of the NBC reports is saying Lauer’s issue was from 2014.
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Three big “stars” from three big networks all are gone now. That has got to send reverberations all through TV news and other programming. We already have Hollywood on edge. Next up the Big Business world and sports.
We also have politicians on edge. I would hope the next up would be the other man on the Access Hollywood tape - Billy Bush has already been fired.
re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter
It has to be more than affairs, doesn’t it? Certainly, consensual relationships wouldn’t be a problem; if they were, Mika and Joe would have to go — or at least Joe.
Whatever it is, they have the definite goods on him. The announcement said the complaint was only made Monday night, and he is already gone. Good riddance.
I have no sympathy whatever for someone who gets fired from a multi-million dollar job for acting like a pig. He has reported on these issues for years, but he was arrogant enough to think the rules did not apply to him. Looks like they do after all.
Was wondering what the Prison Planet guy was referring to above.
‘Donald Trump retweeted a video posted by a far-right street activist that ‘says Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!’
look what I found on Hammity’s timeline.
— kev (@redhotjuice) November 29, 2017
re: #117 ObserverArt
One of the NBC reports is saying Lauer’s issue was from 2014.
It would not surprise me if one of his co-stars is behind the allegations. I remember seeing stuff on the ‘net alleging his messing around with one years ago. I am not going to mention the name as it is ‘net speculation. I figure all of this will be revealed in the next few days or so.
Three big “stars” from three big networks all are gone now. That has got to send reverberations all through TV news and other programming. We already have Hollywood on edge. Next up the Big Business world and sports.
This is a huge boulder rolling downhill.
Yep. What we’ve seen so far is only the beginning.
re: #124 Decatur Deb
While women do raise and formally educate young people more than males, there is still a big drive to fit in and be as manly as the self proclaimed alphas. I agree that women need to look at what we do to enable this, but we can only do so much alone. The most powerful messages have to come from men. Because men who do this shit don’t care what women think and they minimize us as lying, hysterical or overly emotional and weak. They’re only going to listen to men in positions of power and men close to them who call them on their shit.
re: #109 Dr. Matt
Deficits only matter when a democrat is in the WH.
re: #130 A Mom Anon
While women do raise and formally educate young people more than males, there is still a big drive to fit in and be as manly as the self proclaimed alphas. I agree that women need to look at what we do to enable this, but we can only do so much alone. The most powerful messages have to come from men. Because men who do this shit don’t care what women think and they minimize us as lying, hysterical or overly emotional and weak. They’re only going to listen to men in positions of power and men close to them who call them on their shit.
Now contemplate the powerful male role models available to boys from the media: gunners, fuckers, and fast with the fists. How many punches and killings per week on the ‘tube? Mr Rogers is dead.
CBS fires Charlie, NBC fires Matt.
Oh please let Fox fire Doocy and Kilmeade next!
re: #131 fern01
Deficits only matter when a democrat is in the WH.
Only because the GOP uses deficits as a cudgel to destroy programs that help the poor, the working class, and the middle class; i.e. the non-rich.
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Only because the GOP uses deficits as a cudgel to destroy programs that help the poor, the working class, and the middle class; i.e. the non-rich.
Hmmmm, wonder if foreigners stop buying Treasury notes to finance the RepubliKKKlan Red Ink Orgy. Next step—the world dumps the dollar as the reserve currency…
re: #134 Joe Bacon
CBS fires Charlie, NBC fires Matt.
Oh please let Fox fire Doocy and Kilmeade next!
re: #133 Decatur Deb
Yep. So the culture has to shift and change. It has to start with all of us rejecting this whole alpha vs cuck nonsense. I personally think guys like Cernovich should be ridiculed publicly on video as much as possible. They hate it, and since shame isn’t something they care about, embarrassment is about the best weapon. They may make a show about it not hurting but it does.
Paul Ryan was so upset after today’s photo op at the White House he slipped up and said “Democratic” three times.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) November 29, 2017
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
If there’s another recession, my family won’t survive it. We haven’t recovered from the last one. Our 401k died in 07/08. We had to start over. That 1200 dollars we’re supposed to gain won’t fix a fucking thing. Fuck these rich fucks.
Hmmm, so the Loving Couple given the soft gloves treatment by the Screw York Times both got fired. And Wingnut Welfare is coming to their aid…
The couple in the NYT Nazi article apparently have gotten fired and their supporters are crowdfunding for them on “Goyfundme.” https://t.co/zvdQnQhED5
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 28, 2017
re: #138 A Mom Anon
Yep. So the culture has to shift and change. It has to start with all of us rejecting this whole alpha vs cuck nonsense. I personally think guys like Cernovich should be ridiculed publicly on video as much as possible. They hate it, and since shame isn’t something they care about, embarrassment is about the best weapon. They may make a show about it not hurting but it does.
First we would have to reach a consensus on what we want the culture to change to. Want to go Amish? Like the Mormon model? Directed culture change has its downside—ask the Apache.
NY Post:
Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted staffer during Olympics
Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted a female NBC staffer during the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, sources told Page Six.
An NBC insider said Lauer’s alleged victim complained to HR on Monday, “This happened so quickly. She didn’t go to the media, she made a complaint to NBC’s human resources, and her evidence was so compelling that Matt was fired on Tuesday night. The victim says she has evidence that this has also happened to other women, but so far we don’t have evidence of that.”
As suspected, there were some warnings:
Lauer’s firing comes amid rumors that several news outlets were working on stories about his alleged sexual misconduct.
Reporters for The New York Times had been investigating Lauer for several weeks, according to sources who had been contacted by the paper, CNN reported.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
Matt Lauer got shitcanned for being a sex harasser with a history of harassment.
Just a week ago there were rumors of other men who were being investigated for harassment or abuse.
I stand by what I wrote then and now. We’re all better off with these men gone. How much has been lost due to misogynistic acts? Far more than losing these predators.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 29, 2017
Took way too long for that to happen.
So of course Trump had to weigh in on that too.
Trump’s accused of being a serial sex predator who has admitted to sex assaults. The GOP elected him to the WH. He has no standing to talk about anything relating to sex harassment or sex abuse, unless it’s to admit he was criminally liable and will resign on those grounds.
But we all know he’d never do that. He’s a sex predator whose entire history is littered with criminal and suspect actions.
Everyone will wonder now what NBC will do at the Today show. I have an idea - put the woman who Lauer helped run off back in charge: Ann Curry.
Who should replace Matt Lauer on Today show? @AnnCurry. She was run off despite insiders knowing Lauer was the one who was adversely affecting ratings. Turns out he was harasser too.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 29, 2017
Let’s not forget… at a crucial moment in the 2016 election, Matt Lauer basically became Donald Trump’s hype man and publicist. https://t.co/lsNWjlwjy8
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 29, 2017
All of this does link back to how the media treated Hillary - and it does show how misogyny, harassment, and sex predators helped shape the narrative against Hillary (and those folks are starting to be outed as sex predators and held accountable for longstanding harassment and abuse).
I’m not the first or the tenth person to say this, but I can’t help wonder how different and how much better the last year would have been if Hillary Clinton hadn’t been covered by men who share Donald Trump’s view of women.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 29, 2017
Meanwhile, Trump’s also tweeted actual goddamned Nazi accounts to push his Muslim ban yet again, including linking to videos that are suspect.
The consequences of his tweets are long lasting and damaging. We’ve already seen his attacks on free press and journalism get cheered by autocrats and repressive regimes. Gives them excuse to suppress reporting too.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 29, 2017
This is the Twitter account that Trump is RT’ing:
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re: #143 Decatur Deb
How about women being human beings in charge of their own bodies and sexuality. Nothing extreme about that.
The first trailer for @Avengers: #InfinityWar pic.twitter.com/nC0LffUC0d
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 29, 2017
Oh, I needed this today. https://t.co/YN7iH9Tt0j
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 29, 2017
re: #147 A Mom Anon
How about women being human beings in charge of their own bodies and sexuality. Nothing extreme about that.
That’s a given. It doesn’t reduce what is being called toxic masculinity in the next generation.
“The dose makes the poison.”
re: #114 ObserverArt
Many boys are/were taught what is right and wrong. The problem is many chose to ignore those teachings and do what they do anyway.
I think some of it comes from men getting together and learning how to ignore all that teaching and doing what they want anyway. That is a powerful thing. Men can be tough on each other and many weaker men follow along and then it becomes a thing they do.
Apparently learning the hard way is going to be what is needed.
I don’t think you’re quite remembering history correctly. How long has it actually been wrong for men to make sexual passes at women? How long has it actually been the man’s responsibility to check himself? And how long have we actually been properly teaching men to do the right thing, and by properly I mean not just saying the words but condemning it in the things we see around us?
And I know, someone’s going to say we shouldn’t have to teach men that. But shouldn’t and don’t have to are two different things. I personally wonder why so many people have trouble with simple tasks on their computers but I still help them figure it out.
re: #146 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #142 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmm, so the Loving Couple given the soft gloves treatment by the Screw York Times both got fired. And Wingnut Welfare is coming to their aid…
I hope GoyFundMe is a misspelling.
Read an important article on vox.com this morning. A graduate student from Sweden infiltrated an alt-right group called the London Forum. While undercover he traveled to the US and participated in the Charlottesville march. These people are literal Nazis; racism and anti-Semitism are at the core of their beliefs, and they want to use violence to overthrow liberal democracy and replace it with a Nazi dictatorship. They have been emboldened by their electoral success in the US and Europe and are growing.
Speaking as a man: it’s rather obvious when one is being too aggressive to another person (female or male.)
Those who can’t tell this have something wrong with them. Whether they’re sociopaths, psychopaths, or just lacking in intelligence.
Trying to flirt with someone is not harassing them.
Trying to flirt with someone over whom you have some authority/power adds the element of the possibility of harassing them, which is why responsible men avoid this type of situation.
re: #148 lawhawk
who the hell are you guys? Heh. It’ll be interesting to see how they do in straight drama.
re: #154 freetoken
Speaking as a man: it’s rather obvious when one is being too aggressive to another person (female or male.)
Those who can’t tell this have something wrong with them. Whether they’re sociopaths, psychopaths, or just lacking in intelligence.
Trying to flirt with someone is not harassing them.
Trying to flirt with someone over whom you have some authority/power adds the element of the possibility of harassing them, which is why responsible men avoid this type of situation.
Bingo; this is not difficult to understand, if you want to understand. These people aren’t getting fired for flirting with peers; they are predators abusing their power.
re: #157 Big Beautiful Door
Predator is the right word and an important distinction that’s not being made enough.
Trump’s new source Britain First.
Support by Donald Trump
In November 2017, Britain First attracted headlines after the US President Donald Trump re-broadcasted several of the group’s tweets. Fransen responded enthusiastically, saying “God Bless you Trump! God Bless America!” Unite Against Fascism condemned the retweeting, saying it “beggars belief that the most powerful person in the world is re-tweeting Ms Fransen’s vile views”.
re: #158 A Mom Anon
Predator is the right word and an important distinction that’s not being made enough.
Men are taught a more-or-less mild inhibition against being predators and a very strong inhibition against being prey. Look to our Forever War as one of the big drivers of misplaced power, sex, and violence.
re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter
That so looks like a SNL fake commercial. It’s difficult to believe that the people who made the ad are actually serious.
This is Hilarious! It almost makes me want to buy it.
Don’t know why #160 caught up the italicization from the leading comment. Trying to get away from a similar glitch is how I “broke” an LGF thread a few nights ago.
Addendum: The comment that picked up italicization also shows as a blank text field in “Spy” mode.
I don’t understand why the media is playing dumb as to the timing of the North Korea missile launch yesterday. They’re all so mystified that ‘they launched in the middle of the night.’
Come on. They know why they launched when they did - to dominate the US news cycle.
This is their goddamn business, they understand it. I don’t get why they’re acting like they don’t.
re: #152 Belafon
I hope GoyFundMe is a misspelling.
My Gawd, it actually is goyfundme.com. That was not a misspelling.
re: #164 Belafon
My Gawd, it actually is goyfundme.com. That was not a misspelling.
Soul of wit, these nazis.
The perceptive, though fake, comrades at DPRK News weigh in:
Termination of US news reporter Matt Lauer is devastating blow to enthusiasts of vapid morning banter with mindless celebrities. pic.twitter.com/Ppdc0Y70sw
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 29, 2017
re: #94 teleskiguy
A 64-year-old inmate of a private prison in Colorado got beat to death. He sustained his injuries on the 20th, and died on Sunday. It’s being reported now, Wednesday morning the 29th.
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I heard Trump plans to detain lots of undocumented immigrants in new private prisons. American concentration camps for “undesirables.”
re: #156 William Lewis
I must be depressed by the daily news. My first thought was they can’t save us from ourselves, just near omnipotent aliens. //
How else are they going to get Megyn Kelly on the Today Show? //
Not an excuse for Matt, just maybe an opening.
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do also fear that we might no longer have the wherewithal to fully recover.
We recovered from the Civil War. Of course we still haven’t reached the point where African-Americans are accorded the full rights of citizenship, and the GOP is working to pull us backward. Things are always changing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t eventually make things better.
Get on the phone. Now.
BREAKING: Tax bill clears Senate Budget Committee in 12-11 vote along party lines.
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) November 28, 2017
I voted NO on the tax bill but it still cleared committee. It’s up to all of us to stop the disastrous GOP tax bill when it comes to the floor. Call your Senators now and say we can’t pass a plan that would hurt working families to give a tax break to the top 1%:[no phone numbers allowed]. https://t.co/9oOJa613nf
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 28, 2017
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Only because the GOP uses deficits as a cudgel to destroy programs that help the poor, the working class, and the middle class; i.e. the non-rich.
Yep, on January 20, 2021 when a Democrat is sworn in as President, the GOP will in unison start demanding deep budget cuts due to the irresponsible deficit spending the President is engaging in.
re: #170 Big Beautiful Door
We recovered from the Civil War. Of course we still haven’t reached the point where African-Americans are accorded the full rights of citizenship, and the GOP is working to pull us backward. Things are always changing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t eventually make things better.
There are plenty of people in this country accepting of the changes that are happening. I think the problem is that we forgot to take into account those that don’t like the changes. And I don’t mean accepting their point of view. We just thought we could just change the laws and everything would be fine. We let our guard down and have allowed them to get into a position where they can fuck things up. We have to get back into control, fix the things they’ll break, and strengthen it so that they can’t undo progress.
re: #172 Big Beautiful Door
Yep, on January 20, 2021 when a Democrat is sworn in as President, the GOP will in unison start demanding deep budget cuts due to the irresponsible deficit spending the President is engaging in.
quicker than that
Literally the second the ink is dry on the tax cut, deficit hawks will emerge from their hibernation, where they have had nary a word of criticism about increasing the deficit by $1.5 trillion, to demand that SS & Medicare be slashed b/c the deficit has mysteriously increased.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) November 27, 2017
I’ve never watched Stephanie Ruhle before. She is amazing - very sharp, clearly enthused by her work, asks all the right questions.
And she just announced the death of a former colleague in tears. She is anything but your average newsbot.
re: #171 GlutenFreeJesus
Get on the phone. Now.
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Unfortunately here in VA, both my Senators are Democrats who are opposed to the bill. And with such a furor being kicked up by this bill, a lot of Republican senators are likely to restrict calls/messages to their constituents instead of out-of-towners.
re: #174 sagehen
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Nah, they won’t outright demand slashing. They’ll instead talk about “entitlement reform,” about the need to bump up retirement ages, higher co-pays, reduced benefits, “block grants,” etc, etc.
re: #173 Belafon
There are plenty of people in this country accepting of the changes that are happening. I think the problem is that we forgot to take into account those that don’t like the changes. And I don’t mean accepting their point of view. We just thought we could just change the laws and everything would be fine. We let our guard down and have allowed them to get into a position where they can fuck things up. We have to get back into control, fix the things they’ll break, and strengthen it so that they can’t undo progress.
The problem seems to be that it’s easier to destroy rather than create. Much like pointed out regarding the Project Veritas scams: we have to be lucky every time, they only have to be lucky once. IOW, scaling the mountain toward progress can be swiftly undone every time the GOP gains power, and we’ve seen that with the precipitous backslide in just 10 months. Undoing it will take generations, and that’s generations that they can still return to power and tear down everything at rapid pace once more.
re: #177 Targetpractice
Nah, they won’t outright demand slashing. They’ll instead talk about “entitlement reform,” about the need to bump up retirement ages, higher co-pays, reduced benefits, “block grants,” etc, etc.
The deficits created by the bill will force an automatic cut of $25 bn in Medicare, without Congress even having to take a vote.
re: #170 Big Beautiful Door
We recovered from the Civil War. Of course we still haven’t reached the point where African-Americans are accorded the full rights of citizenship, and the GOP is working to pull us backward. Things are always changing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t eventually make things better.
America dies every night, and a new one is there in the morning. What we do with it is our responsibility.
Twitter has debunked two of the anti-Muslim videos retweeted by Trump.
The “Muslim” beating up the kid on crutches was not a Muslim, and he was arrested.
Dutch girl here… The video Trump tweeted of the Dutch boy on crutches getting beaten up: the perpetrator was arrested and is NOT a muslim and NOT an immigrant. Just a Dutch guy. Your President is spreading fake news.
— myreille (@myreiIIe) November 29, 2017
The video of some people pushing a kid off a roof happened in Egypt in 2013. Arrests there, too.
Waiting on provenance of the third, showing an alleged imam stealing or breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary. But I’m sure it’s fake news, too.
re: #179 Big Beautiful Door
The deficits created by the bill will force an automatic cut of $25 bn in Medicare, without Congress even having to take a vote.
Cue Republican promises to “save” Medicare come next year.
He’s still going at it:
So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
re: #175 makeitstop
I’ve never watched Stephanie Ruhle before. She is amazing - very sharp, clearly enthused by her work, asks all the right questions.
And she just announced the death of a former colleague in tears. She is anything but your average newsbot.
I used to watch her on Bloomberg. She’s sharp, and does not take shit from anyone. We will never see Trump submit to an interview with her for those reasons.
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s still going at it:
“Hey, Donald, let’s treat all accusations of sexual harassment and assault as firing offenses, OK?”
re: #168 Unshaken Defiance
I must be depressed by the daily news. My first thought was they can’t save us from ourselves, just near omnipotent aliens. //
Oh, isn’t that the way the story always goes? Yet, it’s those stories - the complex ones that still manage to end up with a bit of hope in the end - that help us keep going.
One of the things I liked best about Rouge One was how by the end everyone was talking of hope again, leading into “A New Hope”. We have a nasty mess in this nation right now and it’s hard to to deal with. But it’s even more impossible to deal with without hope.
I found a new leader of tomorrow to follow.
the moon in my hands #TMGinspires #contest @TheMarsGen @AstronautAbby pic.twitter.com/58CKun0h8y
— Ivanna Hernández ♡ (@IvannaHernndez1) November 29, 2017
re: #186 William Lewis
Optimism is the foundation of courage. - Nicholas M. Butler
re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter
It has to be more than affairs, doesn’t it? Certainly, consensual relationships wouldn’t be a problem; if they were, Mika and Joe would have to go — or at least Joe.
What I read on the ‘net was called affairs. I am thinking it may not have been all that consensual. With the breaking of all of these allegations and revelations maybe the person involved finally found the strength to come out with the details about it all happened on the job.
re: #181 wheat-dogg
Twitter has debunked two of the anti-Muslim videos retweeted by Trump.
The “Muslim” beating up the kid on crutches was not a Muslim, and he was arrested.
The video of some people pushing a kid off a roof happened in Egypt in 2013. Arrests there, too.
Waiting on provenance of the third, showing an alleged imam stealing or breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary. But I’m sure it’s fake news, too.
Wait, you mean Trumpy retweeted a BS tweet without verifying it? I’m shocked, just shocked.
re: #191 Sir John Barron
Wait, you mean Trumpy retweeted a BS tweet without verifying it? I’m shocked, just shocked.
That’s how he rolls in the Shire. All he does is lie and his bigot base regurgitate the lies willingly.
re: #124 Decatur Deb
In terms of sheer contact-hours, men do not teach boys much of anything. Sister Mary Claver knew how to raise boys. You wouldn’t like it.
Are you forgetting my own Catholic education…all 12 years…elementary through high school.
Sister Evarista gave the boys the low-down.
And still guys I went to school with sloughed that all off and went with what the ‘guys’ on the playground and after school were already saying and doing.
re: #191 Sir John Barron
Wait, you mean Trumpy retweeted a BS tweet without verifying it? I’m shocked, just shocked.
I know. I am positively floored.
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s still going at it:
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Goddamn does he ever shut the fuck up?
באבד רשעים רנה
Update: Slobodan Praljak has died after appearing to ingest poison in court https://t.co/xbk3QNmcvc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2017
re: #197 Sir John Barron
No
It’s Trump’s daily temper tantrum. Seriously, I’m pretty sure there’s toddlers in their terrible-two’s who are less ill-mannered.
re: #114 ObserverArt
Many boys are/were taught what is right and wrong. The problem is many chose to ignore those teachings and do what they do anyway.
I think some of it comes from men getting together and learning how to ignore all that teaching and doing what they want anyway. That is a powerful thing. Men can be tough on each other and many weaker men follow along and then it becomes a thing they do.
Apparently learning the hard way is going to be what is needed.
people generally learn and/or know right from wrong
they do what they think they can get away with
speeding, cheating on taxes, lying, behavior towards women, treatment of employees, bribery, petty blackmail, payoffs with nda’s, on and on and on
I just can’t with Trump trying to call people out with the ish we know about him. And fork his voters and Roy Moore voters talking about Hollywood. Shirtballs, the lot of them.
re: #196 The Vicious Babushka
באבד רשעים רנה
Wow. Add this to “Couldn’t convince Hollywood that 2017 would be a believable script.”
re: #196 The Vicious Babushka
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Nice to know that a prisoner can get some lethal af poison while just hanging around in his cell.
re: #150 Belafon
I don’t think you’re quite remembering history correctly. How long has it actually been wrong for men to make sexual passes at women? How long has it actually been the man’s responsibility to check himself? And how long have we actually been properly teaching men to do the right thing, and by properly I mean not just saying the words but condemning it in the things we see around us?
And I know, someone’s going to say we shouldn’t have to teach men that. But shouldn’t and don’t have to are two different things. I personally wonder why so many people have trouble with simple tasks on their computers but I still help them figure it out.
Moving through the thread trying to catch up.
I was talking about my own experiences. Again, Catholic school educated by the nuns who pressed these issues a lot. I was in 7th grade in 1967, graduated 8th grade in ‘68. This was the era of hippies, free love, birth control, sexual enlightenment, etc.
The nuns rode hard on all that due to the times. Many of the guys were already ignoring it all.
Chances are others, like you, may have completely different experiences.
re: #203 bill d. (b.d.)
Nice to know that a prisoner can get some lethal af poison while just hanging around in his cell.
Happened at Nuremberg with Goring.
re: #175 makeitstop
I’ve never watched Stephanie Ruhle before. She is amazing - very sharp, clearly enthused by her work, asks all the right questions.
And she just announced the death of a former colleague in tears. She is anything but your average newsbot.
Big fan.
re: #158 A Mom Anon
Predator is the right word and an important distinction that’s not being made enough.
Well, I mentioned this a little bit yesterday. Some here have called Al Franken a predator. I was trying to find the line between predator and offender.
I thought calling Franken a predator. with what we know at this point, was going to far.
Roy Moore seems to fit predator.
Trump defined himself as a predator.
I think all of this needs to be defined like all other levels of crimes in degrees of offense.
re: #207 ObserverArt
Well, I mentioned this a little bit yesterday. Some here have called Al Franken a predator. I was trying to find the line between predator and offender.
I thought calling Franken a predator. with what we know at this point, was going to far.
Roy Moore seems to fit predator.
Trump defined himself as a predator.
I think all of this needs to be defined like all other levels of crimes in degrees of offense.
i think they are pretty well defined
i dont think that changes because people on the internet (gasp) or elsewhere choose to misuse or morph or outright twist the definitions so they can make their personal arguments stronger
I was once a bartender in a restaurant. I did not think of it as a position of power but if you are a new waitress a bartender can slow your drink order enough and hassle you while you pick it up and really make life difficult.
That is not something I knew, it is something I learned. I was very attracted to this girl Dana. She was very flirty with me and others I guess - we were all college students. I asked her out after several rounds of flirting and she turned me down. I persisted in my flirting, I was young, until I saw a look in her eye. It was dread as she approached the bar.
It was like a smack in the face. Up until that moment I did not realize the power I had over her and that she had no other place to go to get her table’s drinks and how it affected her pay.
I was aghast over the situation. I felt a sense of revulsion of what I must be putting her through. Normally I would say “Needless to say” but it is necessary to say that I stopped immediately and made it clear to her that I would not pursue her anymore and that I would be professional.
To this day I can see the look she gave me even as I type this. I do not think it was her first time encountering that sort of thing.
We remained friends, she even began flirting again when she became more comfortable with me. I was really smitten by her but I kept my distance out of sheer confusion.
Anyway, it’s long overdue for NBC, CNN, etc. to do some real in-depth reporting on the harassment and assault allegations against Trump. I’d say he’s welcoming the attention and they’d better get to it.
Trump’s lost Piers Morgan.
Donald Trump retweets far-right group’s videos (BBC)
re: #211 Barefoot Grin
Anyway, it’s long overdue for NBC, CNN, etc. to do some real in-depth reporting on the harassment and assault allegations against Trump. I’d say he’s welcoming the attention and they’d better get to it.
Weren’t they reported on extensively during the election campaign?
re: #212 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Trump’s lost Piers Morgan.
Donald Trump retweets far-right group’s videos (BBC)
Next up? Trump ragetweets, demanding that Piers be deported.
re: #175 makeitstop
I’ve never watched Stephanie Ruhle before. She is amazing - very sharp, clearly enthused by her work, asks all the right questions.
And she just announced the death of a former colleague in tears. She is anything but your average newsbot.
I like her a lot. Where did you see her, I’d like to try to find video of her comments?
re: #176 Targetpractice
Unfortunately here in VA, both my Senators are Democrats who are opposed to the bill. And with such a furor being kicked up by this bill, a lot of Republican senators are likely to restrict calls/messages to their constituents instead of out-of-towners.
I just fired off another missive to Rob Portman here in Ohio. I wonder if my comments even make it to him anymore as I’ve written him probably 20 times or more this year alone. Had to do it anyway.
re: #216 ObserverArt
I just fired off another missive to Rob Portman here in Ohio. I wonder if my comments even make it to him anymore as I’ve written him probably 20 times or more this year alone. Had to do it anyway.
I’m sure most Senators have staff to sift through them.
Ann Curry at 7:01 AM pic.twitter.com/szogrunxRt
— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) November 29, 2017
re: #203 bill d. (b.d.)
Nice to know that a prisoner can get some lethal af poison while just hanging around in his cell.
Worked for Hermann Göring
Official British Response: “Britain First seeks to divide communities in their use of hateful narratives which pedal lies and stoke tensions…antithesis of the values that this country represents; decency, tolerance and respect. It is wrong for the president to have done this.”
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 29, 2017
Waiting for Trump to tweet that May is weak, unpopular and low energy. https://t.co/ZPPm92XP47
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 29, 2017
re: #217 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sure most Senators have staff to
sift througherase or shred them
FIFY!
re: #220 FormerDirtDart
Trump is just not politically correct like all those Brit cucks. MAGA!
re: #152 Belafon
I hope GoyFundMe is a misspelling.
Nope. They are an actual thing. Lots of talk about liberty, blah, blah, blah.
re: #220 FormerDirtDart
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It literally is one thing after the other with this shitface. First the Codetalkers. Gah I wish we could get rid of him and everyone associated with him.
re: #220 FormerDirtDart
Trump on non-Fox News media:
NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN are all the Fake News! Investigate! Should be banned!
Trump on other “news” sources:
Here is this tweet I found that I’m sure is totally fact shows video of Muslim here look I retweet if you agree!
re: #225 Sir John Barron
Trump on non-Fox News media:
NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN are all the Fake News! Investigate! Should be banned!Trump on other “news” sources:
Here is this tweet I found that I’m sure is totally fact shows video of Muslim here look I retweet if you agree!
The guy calls CNN and NBC fake while he gets his news from Fox and Friends and Alex Jones.
Can Trump RTing tweets from a far-right British party please, please kill dead the “it’s a distraction” claims? The tweets & RTs are communication and the communication advances an agenda, just like the policy does.
— why this is bird site nor am I out of it (@joemacare) November 29, 2017
re: #226 HappyWarrior
The guy calls CNN and NBC fake while he gets his news from Fox and Friends and Alex Jones.
And Britain First, or whatever it is.
re: #224 HappyWarrior
It literally is one thing after the other with this shitface. First the Codetalkers. Gah I wish we could get rid of him and everyone associated with him.
And it’s only Wednesday. In Trumpy’s first year.
re: #142 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmm, so the Loving Couple given the soft gloves treatment by the Screw York Times both got fired. And Wingnut Welfare is coming to their aid…
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The Rude Pundit chimes in…
It’s alternate facts again
Question on President Trump’s retweets this morning: Does it matter if it’s a fake video?
Sarah Sanders: “I’m not talking about the nature of the video. I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. The threat is real, and that’s what the President is talking about.” pic.twitter.com/Nh2YyuLD01— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 29, 2017
Amid questions about inaccurate details provided with the anti-Muslim videos that Pres. Trump retweeted, the White House says focus of the president’s retweets should be that the “threat is real,” not “whether it’s a real video.” https://t.co/2rHeqZgHQt
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 29, 2017
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
It’s alternate facts again
Fuck these people. They’ll push anything to justify their hate of Muslims.
re: #230 retired cynic
The Rude Pundit chimes in…
The issue here is not the quotidian banality of Hovater’s evil…. It’s that Hovater is evil, as in legitimately, objectively evil in a way that is almost universally defined as “evil,” and Fausset and the Times let him off the hook for his evil.
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
Sarah Sanders: “I’m not talking about the nature of the video. I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. The threat is real, and that’s what the President is talking about.” pic.twitter.com
— NBC News
I’m still trying to process this..
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
It’s alternate facts again
Sarah Sanders: “I’m not talking about the nature of the video. I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. The threat is real, and that’s what the President is talking about.”
this one time i’m changing my view that a simply and direct follow up easily could be asked.
this one time the response should have been “are you high?”
re: #235 Sir John Barron
I’m still trying to process this..
Anything that can be used to say the same racist tropes they keep coming back to.
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
It’s alternate facts again
Huck Sanders (probably): Sure, James Okeefe’s bullshit scam job about accusers of Roy Moore was a big fat lie but you’re focusing on the wrong thing, the issue is that some of these women might be making things up and the Wash Post might print false stories.
//
re: #231 FormerDirtDart
Amid questions about inaccurate details provided with the anti-Muslim videos that Pres. Trump retweeted, the White House says focus of the president’s retweets should be that the “threat is real,” not “whether it’s a real video.”
There are Higher Truths and the video, though fake, is valid because it supports the narrative.
Until our press starts to do its job and starts to totally call out and shut down bullshit like this, our democracy is fucked.
“ZOMG! These videos show we need a ban!”
“These videos are fabrications or half-truths.”
“You’re focused on the wrong thing, what matters is that we need the ban!”
What is it about Britain First that even wingnuts find messed up by the way?
Twitter seriously needs to ban Dotard. If anyone else behaved like he has, they would have been booted long ago.
Every day now feels like this country is going to hell faster and faster.
re: #244 Dr. Matt
Twitter seriously needs to ban Dotard. If anyone else behaved like he has, they would have been booted long ago.
They won’t. He’s good for business.
re: #210 Barefoot Grin
Ok, who didn’t close the italics button?
Think I caught the problem in the wild this time. (See #162). My cursor has opened inside the italicized quoted text, and everything gets italicized though no hyper command is given. I installed Firefox v.57 about the time the first instance happened.
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Every day now feels like this country is going to hell faster and faster.
I know what you mean. It’s going to take a truly great leader to fix this damage he’s created.
re: #243 HappyWarrior
What is it about Britain First that even wingnuts find messed up by the way?
they are starting to catch on that this looks bad on the Presidential Twitter feed
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are starting to catch on that this looks bad on the Presidential Twitter feed
Yeah but why this and why now? He’s RTed Neo-Nazis too.
Every day the GOP lets that asshole stay in office is another black mark against them.
Target audience reached
SO MUCH WINNING
Trump retweets video of crippled white kid in Europe being beaten by migrants, and white people being thrown off a roof and then beaten to death, He’s condemned for showing us what the fake news media WON’T. Thank God for Trump! That’s why we love him!
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) November 29, 2017
Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump’s Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics. 🤔
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 29, 2017
We’ve reached the point where InfoWars is worried about Trump losing credibility https://t.co/FA9fLzjSbF
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 29, 2017
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
They won’t. He’s good for business.
Also…..well, he’s the President of the United States. Sad but true, no one is going to ban him, no matter how outrageous the bullshit he tweets or posts.
I’m starting to feel sick. Need to focus on other, better things. Time to put Tommy Keene back on through my earbuds and check out. RIP, Tommy. You left us some of the good stuff.
re: #253 Ace-o-aces
Even Watson (who’s a Brit himself, IIRC) knows that Britain First is toxic.
re: #254 Dr Lizardo
Also…..well, he’s the President of the United States. Sad but true, no one is going to ban him, no matter how outrageous the bullshit he tweets or posts.
President or not, Twitter has no obligation to give him a platform.
re: #253 Ace-o-aces
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This is the world we’re in. Where the people who peddled conspiracy theories think Trump may have gone too far in pushing something.
Here’s some food for thought: If the Internet didn’t exist Trump would probably had never become President.
re: #256 Dr Lizardo
Even Watson (who’s a Brit himself, IIRC) knows that Britain First is toxic.
I didn’t know Watson was a Brit. It’s interesting that some of the biggest “America first” wingnuts are Brits. Milo and to throw an old name, Derbyshire.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s some food for thought: If the Internet didn’t exist Trump would probably had never become President.
Easily. I’d amend that to say Twitter though.
re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg
President or not, Twitter has no obligation to give him a platform.
That’s true, but from their corporate POV, they won’t do it. There’s a lot of libertarian dudebro types in tech.
They probably figure having POTUS on Twitter = $$$ for Twitter.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
I didn’t know Watson was a Brit. It’s interesting that some of the biggest “America first” wingnuts are Brits. Milo and to throw an old name, Derbyshire.
Hell, Nigel Farage.
re: #263 Dr Lizardo
That’s true, but from their corporate POV, they won’t do it. There’s a lot of libertarian dudebro types in tech.
They probably figure having POTUS on Twitter = $$$ for Twitter.
There really is too many libertarian dudebros out there in general. I feel like my youngest brother has become one in some ways. My other brother though, we see eye to eye on a lot of things though I think he’s more radical left than me but the good thing about him is I know he has his heart in the right place. I think our youngest brother is more intelligent than both of us but doesn’t have as much empathy. Go figure.
re: #263 Dr Lizardo
That’s true, but from their corporate POV, they won’t do it. There’s a lot of libertarian dudebro types in tech.
They probably figure having POTUS on Twitter = $$$ for Twitter.
Exactly. Trump is the best marketing guy Twitter has ever had.
Has anyone asked why the Hell is the racist, fascist “Britain First” even showing up in Dotard’s Twitter feed in the first place?
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) November 29, 2017
re: #267 Eclectic Cyborg
Exactly. Trump is the best marketing guy Twitter has ever had.
I’m pretty sure the guys at Twitter’s HQ probably all look at the wall clock, or their wristwatches, or whatever and say, “Here we go folks! Get ready - Trump’s about to start tweeting!” every morning
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s some food for thought: If the Internet didn’t exist Trump would probably had never become President.
Might cost us the country, but we got some great cat memes.
I do think in a sense that though the label was off, Sullivan may have been to something about so called South Park Republicans.
Point of Order raised in British House of Commons regarding President Trump’s tweets. pic.twitter.com/w4ZIDMMZGo
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 29, 2017
White House press secretary says it doesn’t matter if the racist videos Trump tweeted are real or fake
“Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real.”https://t.co/rD2xMMp4eS pic.twitter.com/hoNsbVHATX— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 29, 2017
Orwell warned about this. Trump’s attack on the truth is straight out of the despot’s playbook—creating the notion that what is true is…what the leader says. https://t.co/EXxLmGwTWg
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 29, 2017
Twitter dumping, because today has been kind of a mess, and it’s barely noon.
WV’s slavish devotion to an industry which kills its people quite literally is galling, especially considering its own folk heroism of miners that stood up to greedy, uncaring, tyrannical and, yes, murderous mine owners
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 29, 2017
The bleak miracle of our politics is that it rewards belligerence and bad faith, while punishing those that act with good faith and conciliation, b/c our system takes it solely as admission of guilt
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 29, 2017
This is what much of our country wants, whether they admit it publicly or not: they WANT an overtly racist nation, an overtly racist leadership. They want a purge of the “other” so badly they’re willing to debase themselves and eat shit just to spite their foes
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 29, 2017
Prince Harry says Donald Trump is not welcome at his wedding: ‘Trump is a serious threat to human rights’ https://t.co/6daKheaiAy
— Charles Goyette (@charlesgoyette) November 28, 2017
Fuck making Meghan Markle a princess, can we steal them and make them our co-presidents instead? Please? https://t.co/lBwWvwjodQ
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 29, 2017
re: #268 Dr. Matt
Has anyone asked why the Hell is the racist, fascist “Britain First” even showing up in Dotard’s Twitter feed in the first place?
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) November 29, 2017
Professional courtesy
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Okay Sarah, then I’m free to post a video of you fucking a goat because there’s always the threat of you screwing a goat. See, how that works.
Trump retweeted three videos by Jayda Fransen, a far-right figure in the U.K. who was found guilty last year of religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman https://t.co/WDlirO5k1E pic.twitter.com/jbPzOJklWU
— POLITICO (@politico) November 29, 2017
You caught a Washington Post reporter being objective and saying what national politics reporters say daily: it’s not clear where the Russia story is going.
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) November 29, 2017
The most serious beat reporters at the newspaper are saying the Russia story hasn’t proven anything - and the editorial page says its a Home run. If they don’t base editorials in fact and reason, it’s a sensibility based on fake news. https://t.co/Nr6yUkjcAB
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 29, 2017
Perhaps we should all start at the difference between the opinion page and the news section. https://t.co/xxr3TBxoyF
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) November 29, 2017
How about I start an opinion page and say global warming is a hoax and smoking is good for you. I’ll have a 100 billion dollar man help me peddle these opinionson my oped pages. Is that not irresponsible? Given FACTS of my reporters show otherwise? https://t.co/CT9bEX6koA
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 29, 2017
Congrats, you just started the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page. https://t.co/i2GrSPYcSz
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) November 29, 2017
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lets not forget that this has been apparent from the beginning of his administration. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) outright said that the only ‘unvarnished truth’ was what Trump said. He did so on the floor of the House.
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 29, 2017
I think they meant “deranged.”
— Zev Karlin-Neumann (@zkarlinn) November 29, 2017
Trump has crossed a line with his Britain First retweets. He cannot now be welcomed on an official visit to the UK. No ifs and no buts.
— JOHN NICOLSON (@MrJohnNicolson) November 29, 2017
Will soon be easier to name prominent men in media NOT guilty of sexual impropriety.
BREAKING: Garrison Keillor says he’s been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of inappropriate behavior.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2017
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
Nope.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
Of course he won’t learn that. We have a system that precisely inoculates GOP politicians from consequences, and blameshifts them toward Dems, on a constant basis.
“I pleaded guilty to 7 crimes. Defrauding the United States. IEEPA violations. Money laundering. Bank fraud. Conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Paying bribe to a federal prison guard.” -Zarrab
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 29, 2017
Holy Moly! Follow this thread if you’re interested in Reza Zarrab’s testimony happening in fed court in NY right now! Zarrab has pleaded guilty to 7 crimes! Actual sentences are based on sentencing guidelines, but his statutory penalty exposure is well over 50 yrs! Huge hammer!!! https://t.co/SeUkEfRJy8
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) November 29, 2017
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
the first statement makes the second irrelevant
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
Consequences? I don’t see any consequences that affect trump or the GOP, do you?
As long as the GOP base continues to support Trump, the GOP elected officials will coddle him. Some of them and I think most of them may not even like Trump but they know the game. They know that Trump is much more popular with their base than they are so it’s either abandon Trump, face being primaried. Don’t make it seem like I have sympathy for htem. I have none but that’s their end game.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
Maybe when we get some actual hard consequences. Until then, he is going on like the Fake President he is.
re: #290 Skip Intro
Consequences? I don’t see any consequences that affect trump or the GOP, do you?
No and that makes me sick, because it’s sending a terrible message to our kids.
Another govt source on Trump visit: “We won’t pull it. The status of the office of president overrides the bad behaviour on his part.” But not going to happen in near term and is being downgraded from full blown state visit
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) November 29, 2017
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN’S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS @JaydaBF @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/BiQfQkTra9
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
Americans: A leader of a far-right, anti-Muslim UK group, recently arrested & long accused of inciting hatred & violence, has now tweeted her thanks to the POTUS — in all caps, a la Trump — for Trump’s retweets this a.m. of her videos showing acts of purported Muslim violence. https://t.co/6CrLnE6VBM
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) November 29, 2017
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump has crossed a line with his Britain First retweets. He cannot now be welcomed on an official visit to the UK. No ifs and no buts.
But the threat is real!!!
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The video Trump RTed. That wasn’t even Muslims attacking the boy was it?
I swear Trump had he been around in the 19th and early 20th century would probably push the Protocols of Elders of Zion.
re: #284 bratwurst
Will soon be easier to name prominent men in media NOT guilty of sexual impropriety.
Yunno, I pretty much stopped watching TV in the 70’s and other than the occasional blockbuster, hardly follow Hollywood cinema. I am glad that has allowed most of this to wash over me, although I was always a big fan of Prairie Home Companion.
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
No and that makes me sick, because it’s sending a terrible message to our kids.
Considering how we currently have a new generation of Neo-Nazi and white supremacy surging, I think that message has already been well and sent.
re: #297 HappyWarrior
The video Trump RTed. That wasn’t even Muslims attacking the boy was it?
VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017
Below is the tweet president Trump retweeted.
But according to Dutch media, culprit wasn’t a Muslim. Also not a migrant. But a 16-year old Dutch boy from town of Edam-Volendam.
He was arrested on May 13th 2017, one day after the incident happened. https://t.co/A8Mpjg2TSA https://t.co/DNDIZ7NSBn— Harald Doornbos (@HaraldDoornbos) November 29, 2017
re: #300 Citizen K
Considering how we currently have a new generation of Neo-Nazi and white supremacy surging, I think that message has already been well and sent.
That’s what’s been killing me the most inside. We also I hate to say have a lot of unpractical young lefties who I think have had the well poisoned in a different way by Sanders. There ain’t much room for a center left liberal like me.
re: #284 bratwurst
Will soon be easier to name prominent men in media NOT guilty of sexual impropriety.
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Matt Lauer, now Garrison Keillor…that’s just who I’m aware of who’s gotten canned for behaving very badly so far today.
Damn, 2017 has certainly become a watershed year and for all the wrong reasons, ain’t it?
re: #268 Dr. Matt
It’s being reported that Ann Coulter Tweeted it, and this President is so deranged that he follows Coulter.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
re: #305 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
OFFS.
It’s just a continous circle jerk of hate with these people isn’t it?
Stuart Kyle Duncan aggressively defended North Carolina’s massive voter suppression law passed in 2013 and defended Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law.
We don’t need Duncan on the 5th Circuit. We need Congress to #RestoreTheVRA. pic.twitter.com/hcUnhwD4mh— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) November 29, 2017
This judicial nominee defended voter suppression laws that courts found to be intentionally discriminatory against minority voters & now Trump wants to give him lifetime appointment https://t.co/nhtdrOIwr8
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 29, 2017
Trump has legitimised the far right in his own country, now he’s trying to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences & the President should be ashamed of himself.
— Brendan Cox (@MrBrendanCox) November 29, 2017
This man’s wife - Jo Cox - is the British MP who was murdered last year by a man who reportedly shouted “Britain First” as he attacked her. Trump just retweeted the deputy leader of Britain First. https://t.co/ZNNnQmPBRF
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) November 29, 2017
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
Huck Sanders: Yeah, but, the bad person in the video could have been Muslim, so…
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re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #312 Sir John Barron
Huck Sanders: Yeah, but, the bad person in the video could have been Muslim, so…
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Everyone has the potential to be Muslim so it’s real! //
re: #284 bratwurst
Will soon be easier to name prominent men in media NOT guilty of sexual impropriety.
Ugh
re: #313 Citizen K
Mr. Cox has only one thing wrong: Trump isn’t trying to legitimize the far-right in the UK. He’s using the far-right in the UK to legitimize it back home, all for his own sake.
You’re 100% correct.
BREAKING: CBO: Alexander-Murray would do nothing to mitigate repeal of the individual mandate.
cc: @SenatorCollins #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/3yjMV0spYe— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 29, 2017
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
White House press secretary says it doesn’t matter if the racist videos Trump tweeted are real or fake
“Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real.”
Isn’t this like when you get these idiots on social media giving you a quote from a famous person in an attempt to do an Argument From Authority manouvre on you, but thanks to your Google-fu, you can determine that it’s a fake quote. You respond to them to this effect, with links as evidence, and they respond along the lines of: “It’s doesn’t matter if the quote is fake!!! THE POINT IT MAKES IS REAL!!!!!!!!1!!ELEVENTY!!!”
Oh do you bloody think so? a) If it’s real, why use a fake quote? b) The only thing that’s clear from this exchange is that it’s a fake quote. So there’s no guarantee that the issue you are talking about is real. It’s not like you’re actually checking if the “evidence” you’re using bears any resemblance to the real world.
(Usually they block me after this point.)
Jennifer Rubin’s newest column tells the Democrats to stand strong:
All of this takes place in the shadow of the tax-bill negotiations (more about that later today), but it’s indicative of Republicans’ desire to have their candy first (tax cuts) before figuring out how to pay for it and addressing competing interests on taxes. It would be a shame if, as in the 2013 shutdown, Republicans demonstrated their own ineptitude and caused widespread hardship for Americans. On the other hand, emergency spending (including national security) would continue and the debt ceiling is not an issue at this time. If shutting down the government for a few days is the price to pay for forcing Trump to retreat and to give way on DACA and CHIP, Democrats may figure it’s worth it.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
Deafening silence from the GOP on the Trump tweets.
Will Trump EVER learn that actions of consequences?
but tax reform and MAGA
re: #319 retired cynic
Jennifer Rubin’s newest column tells the Democrats to stand strong:
2017: JRube is a voice of reason and support.
Looking at the AP timeline (I think that’s what twitter calls it) of the Keillor firing, I find it very interesting this happen the same day his op-ed saying Franken should not resign came out. I’m very curious about the details of this.
re: #318 Alephnaught
Isn’t this like when you get these idiots on social media giving you a quote from a famous person in an attempt to do an Argument From Authority manouvre on you, but thanks to your Google-fu, you can determine that it’s a fake quote. You respond to them to this effect, with links as evidence, and they respond along the lines of: “It’s doesn’t matter if the quote is fake!!! THE POINT IT MAKES IS REAL!!!!!!!!1!!ELEVENTY!!!”
Oh do you bloody think so? a) If it’s real, why use a fake quote? b) The only thing that’s clear from this exchange is that it’s a fake quote. So there’s no guarantee that the issue you are talking about is real. It’s not like you’re actually checking if the “evidence” you’re using bears any resemblance to the real world.
(Usually they block me after this point.)
I have a wingnut friend whose timeline could be debunked by Snopes. I choose not to deal with him since he’s stuck in his ways that unregulated capitalism is wonderful and that transgender people are awful freaks who should be treated like they’re disturbed. If he wasn’t my friend for over 25 years, I’d honestly would have removed him a long time ago.
re: #316 HappyWarrior
I mean, that’s one of the scariest things about Trump since he took office. The rhetorical collateral has just been immense. Just this week you had Libya pouncing on Trump’s casual ‘fake news’ labels to deny the existence of slave trafficking just because CNN Int’l was the one reporting it.
re: #319 retired cynic
Jennifer Rubin’s newest column tells the Democrats to stand strong:
A strange new world where Rubin is a voice of reason.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real.”
The threat that some 16-year old Dutch boys from town of Edam-Volendam are fucking assholes?
NBC News poll of millennials should terrify Republicans. Only 19% identify as GOP and 71% say the Republican Party doesn’t care about people like them. Demographic crisis only getting worse https://t.co/GqfHXL03y9 pic.twitter.com/esnLuGTMCg
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) November 29, 2017
re: #324 Citizen K
I mean, that’s one of the scariest things about Trump since he took office. The rhetorical collateral has just been immense. Just this week you had Libya pouncing on Trump’s casual ‘fake news’ labels to deny the existence of slave trafficking just because CNN Int’l was the one reporting it.
Yep, I saw that. That’s the thing. His rhetoric and actions as you get have goddamn consequences beyond our borders.
Trump retweets fake videos by foreign white nationalists because:
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 29, 2017
re: #327 FormerDirtDart
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Only matters [if|if they can] vote. All the billionaires need can be done with the ones who will do what they are told to do.
I’m sorry if the cursing seems like it’s over the top but man this guy just frustrates me not only because what he’s doing with our nation but what he’s doing to our world.
re: #327 FormerDirtDart
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@MrBrendanCox Trump can’t and won’t be ashamed of this or anything else, because he is completely incapable of feeling shame or remorse. As an American who opposes Trump and everything he stands for, it’s a damn travesty, one that’s going to haunt all of us for a very long time.
— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 29, 2017
Lawyer Behind Trump’s Anti-Trans Polices Confirmed to Federal Appeals Court https://t.co/nni0xedDMZ
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) November 29, 2017
I have Sir Patrick Stewart.
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) November 29, 2017
I agree, but also wonder how the election would have turned out if @HillaryClinton had not made that deplorables’ comment.
— Doug Aus (@dougaus) November 29, 2017
right. one misstep/comment that we’re still talking about, against the backdrop of DJT’s barrage of vicious stupidity. kinda illuminates the point.
— Mephistina (@Mefistina) November 29, 2017
The self-demonstrative nature of CDS, and suspicion of women in general, in full.
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
That Lucian Wintrich thing…not excusing what he did at ALL but I am somewhat confused as to why the girl randomly grabbed his notes.
Probably just to fuck with a racist. She did good.
re: #323 HappyWarrior
I have a wingnut friend whose timeline could be debunked by Snopes. I choose not to deal with him since he’s stuck in his ways that unregulated capitalism is wonderful and that transgender people are awful freaks who should be treated like they’re disturbed. If he wasn’t my friend for over 25 years, I’d honestly would have removed him a long time ago.
I went to look up an old High School acquaintance on FB. had one look at his pro-gun, anti-Hillary timeline posts and decided not to contact him
re: #336 Citizen K
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The self-demonstrative nature of CDS, and suspicion of women in general, in full.
She wasn’t wrong about the deplorable comment. I do wish in a sense she hadn’t made it but I’m realistic, people especially white men wanted every excuse to hate her guts. She was 100% right about Trump.
Gorka working for Heritage Foundation https://t.co/EyAJYqtHNZ pic.twitter.com/ndtH3QKffT
— The Hill (@thehill) November 28, 2017
In fairness, heritage is very important to Sebastian https://t.co/FckvGMZWHX
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) November 29, 2017
re: #339 HappyWarrior
She wasn’t wrong about the deplorable comment. I do wish in a sense she hadn’t made it but I’m realistic, people especially white men wanted every excuse to hate her guts. She was 100% right about Trump.
If it wasn’t the deplorable comment, it would have been something else. And as pointed out, there’s no reason that faux pas should have ever been anything close to a nail in the coffin compared to all of Trump’s sins. The only reason it was magnified was because everyone has already been conditioned to treat Hillary as the Great Satan Beyond All Satans.
Funny thing happened to a friend over the weekend.
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re: #336 Citizen K
The self-demonstrative nature of CDS, and suspicion of women in general, in full.
If everything else had stayed the same, she would have lost.
re: #334 FormerDirtDart
Notice that all these right wing trump assholes are young and are going to be with us a very long time.
Hey @jack, @twitter:
It is TIME for you to enforce your own policy. pic.twitter.com/54rK4FZ0FR— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) November 29, 2017
re: #275 Citizen K
Twitter dumping, because today has been kind of a mess, and it’s barely noon.
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Dump Trump and petition the Queen to take us back.
re: #341 Citizen K
If it wasn’t the deplorable comment, it would have been something else. And as pointed out, there’s no reason that faux pas should have ever been anything close to a nail in the coffin compared to all of Trump’s sins. The only reason it was magnified was because everyone has already been conditioned to treat Hillary as the Great Satan Beyond All Satans.
Yeah, I should have clarified that. If it wasn’t that, it would have been something else. People left and right have been conditioned to treat her as if she’s awful. I was listening to a lecture about Stalin last night as I slept and the academic talking about Stalin couldn’t resist a Hillary dig when talking about how Bill had the innate political touch that HRC lacked in his eyes. And you’re right. Trump goddamned questioned a judge’s ability to be fair to him because of his ethnicity. That’s far worse than anything HRC said and she was right about the deplorables.
Just suspend the racist for a few days…though he’ll probably bomb South Korea just to show KJU he’s serious. Or just golf.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 29, 2017
re: #348 Big Beautiful Door
Dump Trump and petition the Queen to take us back.
I’m a good small letter r- republican in politics and even I wouldn’t mind that right now.
re: #348 Big Beautiful Door
Dump Trump and petition the Queen to take us back.
I’d rather just steal Harry and Meghan for ourselves. After all, he’s likely not going to be King within his lifetime due to succession.
re: #352 Citizen K
I’d rather just steal Harry and Meghan for ourselves. After all, he’s likely not going to be King within his lifetime due to succession.
I wonder how a Prince could apply for US citizenship?
Trump is demanding a probe of alleged sexual harrassment at NBC.
Mark Burnett has been protecting from release tapes of on-set sexual harrassment by a big NBC personality: Trump.
So yes, let’s see what NBC personalities have been doing in the workplace.
RETWEET if you agree. pic.twitter.com/3sI9QoWNnL— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 29, 2017
re: #341 Citizen K
If it wasn’t the deplorable comment, it would have been something else. And as pointed out, there’s no reason that faux pas should have ever been anything close to a nail in the coffin compared to all of Trump’s sins. The only reason it was magnified was because everyone has already been conditioned to treat Hillary as the Great Satan Beyond All Satans.
With the razor-thin deficit in a few critical states, it would be true, but useless, to say that any glitch tipped the balance. My personal favorite is that Dems should STFU about guns in rural states until we create a political environment in which sensible control is possible. (That, and quit stiffing their Labor support.)
Kansas began their downhill slide under Reagan. First with Evangelical school boards gutting curriculum. Now they have a generation of people raised in an anti intellectual bubble.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 29, 2017
Is it sad I can totally see Trump saying he’ll nuke NK if Twitter doesn’t reinstate him.
re: #353 Belafon
I wonder how a Prince could apply for US citizenship?
Well he’d have to live here for some time and renounce his titles in the UK.
So of the three anti-Muslim videos Trump retweeted, one was of a white guy beating up a white guy, one was of a guy beating up a statue of the Virgin Mary…yes, a fucking yard ornament, and the third was a gruesome killing.
I didn’t watch any of them. I don’t do murder porn, and my guess is Trump got off on seeing a virgin violated…even if it was plaster.
Greg Sargent on the absolute surrealism of DT threatening NBC over sexual harassment:
This call for a look into vague allegations against NBC News’ chairman prompted some to marvel at how “brazen” Trump is being, given the sexual charges leveled at him, too. Similar surprise greeted Trump’s willingness to endorse Roy Moore while shrugging that Moore “totally denies” the believable charges against him, as that reminded everyone just how lacking in credibility were his own dismissals of so many equally believable accounts about himself.
But such incredulity misses the deeper significance of this stuff. The brazenness of it is the whole point — his utter shamelessness itself is meant to achieve his goal. In any given case, Trump is not trying to persuade anyone of anything as much as he is trying to render reality irrelevant, and reduce the pursuit of agreement on it to just another part of the circus. He’s asserting a species of power — the power to evade constraints normally imposed by empirically verifiable facts, by expectations of consistency, and even by what reasoned inquiry deems merely credible. The more brazen or shameless, the more potent is the assertion of power.
FACT: Under the Republican plan, a single mother making minimum wage with two kids would get only a $75 tax credit. Meanwhile, a family making $500k with two kids would get a $4,000 tax credit. #TaxDebate
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 29, 2017
She would pay zero income tax, receive a doubling of standard deduction and a $2000 child tax credit under Senate bill https://t.co/ct00waS9pW
— Senator JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) November 29, 2017
This is false. The fact that it’s gone uncorrected for hours suggests it’s an intentional lie. https://t.co/2ZJYsHkbXW
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 29, 2017
re: #360 retired cynic
Greg Sargent on the absolute surrealism of DT threatening NBC over sexual harassment:
Exactly. I don’t remember now who said it, but it was one of the best descriptions of Cheeto Benito I’ve ever seen:
“He acts like he can get away with anything, and so far, it’s worked.”
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
No and that makes me sick, because it’s sending a terrible message to our kids.
I think the GOP is going to face some consequences next November.
April Ryan says she was not invited to the W.H. Christmas party for the first time in 20 years covering the White House. “I don’t think I was overlooked,” she said. “I think they don’t like me. For whatever reason, they have disdain for me.” https://t.co/Hz000DXXBb
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 29, 2017
April calls out SHS often.
SHS doesn’t like April.
At all.
re: #298 HappyWarrior
I swear Trump had he been around in the 19th and early 20th century would probably push the Protocols of Elders of Zion.
Without a doubt. He would now, if Ivanka wasn’t married to Jared.
.@MPR will change the name of Keillor’s 40-plus year old radio variety show, “A Prairie Home Companion.” And no more rebroadcasts of Keillor’s shows.
— Kyle Potter (@kpottermn) November 29, 2017
re: #360 retired cynic
In any given case, Trump is not trying to persuade anyone of anything as much as he is trying to render reality irrelevant, and reduce the pursuit of agreement on it to just another part of the circus. He’s asserting a species of power — the power to evade constraints normally imposed by empirically verifiable facts
Well, I would argue he is trying to persuade someone of something, the “someone” of course being his deluded MAGAbot base, and the “something” being that everyone else who isn’t a worshipful MAGAbot is a liar, that only He and his fanatical band of followers are virtuous and truthful. Although “persuade” isn’t the right word exactly; he’s striving to affirm his supporters own sense of belonging.
And these attacks and twitter deluges are an attempt to distract by muddying the waters and overwhelm the public with too much information and stimulation.
re: #367 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, he can always run for office in Alabama.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 29, 2017
re: #366 Big Beautiful Door
Without a doubt. He would now, if Ivanka wasn’t married to Jared.
That’s the only thing that keeps him from going full on Antisemite.
re: #368 Sir John Barron
Perhaps he is trying to convince himself.
re: #350 darthstar
Twitter has said that although Trump acts just like users that are rightfully banned, his mad Tweets are newsworthy, so allowed. I think they’re afraid of Orange Julius.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
re: #368 Sir John Barron
And these attacks and twitter deluges are an attempt to distract by muddying the waters and overwhelm the public with too much information and stimulation.
and very successfully distract us from all the damage that trump’s policies and appointees are doing to the nation’s public institutions
re: #327 FormerDirtDart
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the insane road show continues:
Departing @JBA_NAFW for St. Charles, Missouri to help push our plan for HISTORIC TAX CUTS across the finish line.
A successful vote in the Senate this week will bring us one giant step closer to delivering an incredible victory for the American people!https://t.co/jR1DEUnm2h pic.twitter.com/XF9sRwdV8u— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Matt Lauer https://t.co/RIYqkFcgRF
— David Fitzsimmons (@DWFitzsimmons) November 29, 2017
re: #375 Big Beautiful Door
Brutal. GOP identification is way behind Democrats and Independents and barely beats “something else.” With millenials, the GOP barely rises above third party status.
And meaningless as I point out above. Between gerrymandering, voter suppression and the purity ponies on the left, the GOFascists can say “What millennials?”
Pres. Trump’s latest tweets aren’t his first dance with the British far-right group Britain First and its deputy minister Jayda Fransen. He’s retweeted inflammatory anti-Muslim and anti-immigration posts from her and the group at least 10x. https://t.co/N184yeGUB4
— Hatewatch (@Hatewatch) November 29, 2017
The Minnesota woman who live-streamed the aftermath of her boyfriend Philando Castile’s fatal shooting by police has settled with two cities for $800,000 https://t.co/DWdmjNcLzr pic.twitter.com/VdCBX9KVxV
— CNN (@CNN) November 29, 2017
re: #353 Belafon
I wonder how a Prince could apply for US citizenship?
If we make him King it will just kind of be automatic.
Jewish groups demand Poland explain naked game of tag in Nazi gas chamber https://t.co/1YKlOEarAO pic.twitter.com/4yDHBglYgd
— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) November 29, 2017
Stop the planet. I want to get off https://t.co/SeQlXhyl5x
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) November 29, 2017
I thought this made a pretty good read, and I hope it gets shared widely.
Also worth considering how (and if) we’re going to get out of this. I don’t think merely electing a Democrat to the White House is going to get things back to the way they were. But I have no idea how to fix America in its current state.
I’m laughing, I’m crying.
Someone is seriously getting fired
BREAKING: American Airlines says computer glitch allowed all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week. Now union says thousands of flights are in jeopardy of cancellation. Americans says they’re offering 1.5x pay for pilots to fill in and expect to resolve the issue.
— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) November 29, 2017
re: #383 scottslemmons
I thought this made a pretty good read, and I hope it gets shared widely.
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Also worth considering how (and if) we’re going to get out of this. I don’t think merely electing a Democrat to the White House is going to get things back to the way they were. But I have no idea how to fix America in its current state.
I’d read it, but it put a giant swastika on my screen next to a tiny bar of text.
re: #383 scottslemmons
I thought this made a pretty good read, and I hope it gets shared widely.
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Also worth considering how (and if) we’re going to get out of this. I don’t think merely electing a Democrat to the White House is going to get things back to the way they were. But I have no idea how to fix America in its current state.
It’s going to take a lot to fix the mess that electing Trump caused. My worry is when the Democrats inevitably won’t be able to fix it all in one or even two presidential terms, we’ll be suspectable to another Republican con man.
But we knew this. This is what Tony Schwartz, the real author of The Art of the Deal told us last year in his long apology. The only truth is what happens to be in Trump’s head at any particular moment.
New reports suggest Trump might not be a liar, is actually truly delusional https://t.co/UJXpaSaVHc pic.twitter.com/cgZPTp0Zfy
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 29, 2017
re: #389 HappyWarrior
Been meaning to ask you since it’s long since dropped out of the news - what happened to the VA state house? Still in GOPer control…?
re: #384 FormerDirtDart
I’m laughing, I’m crying.
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I suspect some mad genius hacker did this. Merry Christmas!
re: #390 Barefoot Grin
But we knew this. This is what Tony Schwartz, the real author of The Art of the Deal told us last year in his long apology. The only truth is what happens to be in Trump’s head at any particular moment.
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re: #387 HappyWarrior
It’s going to take a lot to fix the mess that electing Trump caused. My worry is when the Democrats inevitably won’t be able to fix it all in one or even two presidential terms, we’ll be suspectable to another Republican con man.
As he said, we will be fighting rightwing authoritarianism for the rest of our lives.
re: #391 Interesting Times
Been meaning to ask you since it’s long since dropped out of the news - what happened to the VA state house? Still in GOPer control…?
Yeah it looks like it’s going to stay in GOP hands unfortunately. However, this is the closest the Dems have been to controlling the HoD in years.
washingtonpost.com
re: #394 Big Beautiful Door
As he said, we will be fighting rightwing authoritarianism for the rest of our lives.
Yep, it’s not going away. People like Lucas will be the mainstream right of tomorrow.
re: #383 scottslemmons
He’s right……if indeed Trump loses re-election in 2020, the neo-authoritarian right will indeed ‘lose their goddamned minds’ (or whatever’s left of it).
That could very well be the tipping point into outright political violence.
Muslim Migrant Beats Up a Dutch Boy on Crutches? #Snopes https://t.co/YXbZmDoGm3 pic.twitter.com/CiUlw6AZQ7
— ✨NicoleBonnet✨ (@NicoleBonnet1) November 29, 2017
Take a wild guess on what Snopes says about the video.
re: #400 meteor
Somebody please stop the Italics thing?
I don’t think it can be fixed in-thread anymore. Same sort of bug happened a week or so back.
re: #389 HappyWarrior
Nationalism is a plague.
this sort of mindless, reactionary nationalism most certainly is
re: #400 meteor
Somebody please stop the Italics thing?
I only see them through 365. I guess the new comments since Ioaded the page don’t have the issue.
Trump has legitimised the far right in his own country, now he’s trying to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences & the President should be ashamed of himself.
— Brendan Cox (@MrBrendanCox) November 29, 2017
This man’s wife, a young British MP, was murdered at the hands of Britain First, a fascist, racist hate group Trump promoted this morning. https://t.co/zVgR2WfdCO
— Mindy Finn (@mindyfinn) November 29, 2017
Should be, but he’s psychological incapable of sensing shame. Dogs have a better grasp of right and wrong.
re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
this sort of mindless, reactionary nationalism most certainly is
Nationalism in general is. It’s one thing to love your country, it’s another to think other peoples and countries are inferior.
re: #400 meteor
Somebody please stop the Italics thing?
I have an italics issue, does anyone else have it? it is minor, but sometimes when I mark several paragraphs as italic, only the first one appears so, even though the tags are present in the preview. I have to go back in and mark each paragraph individually.
re: #404 Barefoot Grin
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Should be, but he’s psychological incapable of sensing shame. Dogs have a better grasp of right and wrong.
Watch Trump’s lackeys attack him as a “cuck” and not knowing or caring what tragedy has befallen him.
re: #390 Barefoot Grin
But we knew this. This is what Tony Schwartz, the real author of The Art of the Deal told us last year in his long apology. The only truth is what happens to be in Trump’s head at any particular moment.
New reports suggest Trump might not be a liar, is actually truly delusional …
ok good. that’s comforting
dodged a real bullet there.
Alabama law allows these convicted felons to have their voting rights restored.
This is again showing all Americans you don’t care about the rule of law. You are a craven, corrupt, sex predator who ignores the law. You lack character and judgment to hold any office.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 29, 2017
re: #405 HappyWarrior
Nationalism in general is. It’s one thing to love your country, it’s another to think other peoples and countries are inferior.
that is only one definition of nationalism, but it is the one that is most prevalent in most Right-Wing movements
re: #410 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is only one definition of nationalism, but it is the one that is most prevalent in most Right-Wing movements
That is what nationalism pretty much is. There’s patriotism, I love my country and then there’s nationalism, I love my country, fuck your nation.
re: #409 lawhawk
They wouldn’t want the shame of their state electing a child-molesting, completely lawless, disgraced judge.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are inappropriate, and all the news cycles make you want to die
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) November 29, 2017
re: #412 HappyWarrior
That is what nationalism pretty much is. There’s patriotism, I love my country and then there’s nationalism, I love my country, fuck your nation.
Miriam-Webster sez:
Definition of nationalism
1 : loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness (see consciousness 1c) exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups
BREAKING: Democrat operatives in Alabama are REGISTERING THOUSANDS OF FELONS all across the state in an effort to swing the US Senate election to Doug Jones! #ALSen https://t.co/tIaKPMJDPd
— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 29, 2017
So you’re saying that the Democrats are adhering to Alabama State Law and registering people who are legally allowed to vote in this election?
And you were supposed to be a Judge? No wonder you got fired twice. https://t.co/rCg4bMsqzS— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 29, 2017
re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Miriam-Webster sez:
Definition of nationalism
1 : loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness (see consciousness 1c) exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups
Right, my nation is great so fuck your nation. M-W wasn’t going to be as blunt as I am heh. A lot of my undergrad history work was involved in studying nationalism. That combined with genealogical work has made me very anti-nationalism and racism.
Q: Does Trump’s think Muslims are a threat to the US?
“The president has addressed these issues with the travel order,” deputy press sec Raj Shah tells press on AF1.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 29, 2017
In prison, they call people like you “short-eyes”, and you’re considered the lowest of the low.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
re: #412 HappyWarrior
That is what nationalism pretty much is. There’s patriotism, I love my country and then there’s nationalism, I love my country, fuck your nation.
We need another classification for people who think they’re nationalist patriots but support policies that make us all dumber, weaker, and poorer.
re: #421 jaunte
We need another classification for people who think they’re nationalist patriots but support policies that make us all dumber, weaker, and poorer.
The GOP base.
re: #421 jaunte
We need another classification for people who think they’re nationalist patriots but support policies that make us all dumber, weaker, and poorer.
Yahoos?
As an American Muslim I especially needed to hear & see this today. Thank God for our Native American sisters & brothers. ❤️✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/RCEO87JVkx
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) November 29, 2017
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #423 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Sam Brownback is here in the Senate (outside GOP lunch) saying the Kansas tax plan worked, created jobs.
“What we did actually worked.”— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) November 29, 2017
Delusionals?
re: #416 Kragar
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Clear dog whistle. They are registering ni-CLANGS! to vote. That should scare the good, God-Fearing white people of Alabama to the polls for Moore!
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump threatens to deport Native Americans in 3…2…1
re: #426 jaunte
If Republicans can’t see their mistakes, they’ll never learn from them. Most of the party is delusional, and in no condition to govern.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
Supporters & protesters facing off outside of Saint Charles Convention Center ahead of President Trump arrival @KMOV pic.twitter.com/n66bbibicP
— Emily Pritchard (@emilyjpritch) November 29, 2017
re: #421 jaunte
We need another classification for people who think they’re nationalist patriots but support policies that make us all dumber, weaker, and poorer.
How about Fascists?
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Amazing man. Glad he’s still with us to share his wisdom.
St Louis activists have gathered to protest Trump’s visit to St Charles MO. Pro-Trump and pro-police counter-protesters have already assaulted multiple people. (No serious injuries yet.) pic.twitter.com/hIuEtu31os
— Keith Rose (@KWRose) November 29, 2017
re: #427 Big Beautiful Door
Clear dog whistle. They are registering ni-CLANGS! to vote. That should scare the good, God-Fearing white people of Alabama to the polls for Moore!
Yep.
So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
Outrageous reference re @JoeNBC where @potus @realDonaldTrump just crossed the line with me. I need to see a public apology to my brother Joe or else he has lost my support for good … which is saying a ton given all the support I’ve shown him in past 2 years. https://t.co/3lXfBPnaTV
— George Scarborough (@GeoScarborough) November 29, 2017
That was the line for you?
Welcome to the fight. We women, Muslims, African Americans, Hispanics, Puerto Rican’s, and a whole host of others have been under siege from this crime cabal for some time….
Did the racism, misogyny, bigotry, treason not quite do it for you? https://t.co/awNnD97MKC— (((DuneMyThang™))) (@Kris_Sacrebleu) November 29, 2017
re: #417 HappyWarrior
Right, my nation is great so fuck your nation. M-W wasn’t going to be as blunt as I am heh. A lot of my undergrad history work was involved in studying nationalism. That combined with genealogical work has made me very anti-nationalism and racism.
There is also nationalism in the sense of forming an independent state, as in Scottish or Catalan nationalism, or the original form of German nationalism, namely of the desire to form a single German state out of the patchwork of smaller nations and principalities.
But for the alt-right it is all America, Fuck Yeah!!!
re: #429 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Sam Brownback is here in the Senate (outside GOP lunch) saying the Kansas tax plan worked, created jobs.
“What we did actually worked.”— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) November 29, 2017
There is literally a mountain of evidence that it did not, including a revolt by Kansas GOP trying to roll back Brownback’s disastrous polices which he vetoed. https://t.co/2gchknrtmp
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 29, 2017
Still a looong line to get in to see #trump here in St Charles. pic.twitter.com/jynZglQJ7K
— Kevin Dern (@kdern) November 29, 2017
WELL THATS STRANGE Channel 5 4 & 2 all said it’s a closed event in ST CHARLES by invitation only https://t.co/FmJmG8oODh
— slackadjuster (@slackadjuster) November 29, 2017
re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth
You must be Conservative if the assault on the nation, and the for-profit presidency didn’t end your support, and it took an attack on a family member to wake you up. Conservatives need to develop empathy that extends beyond their family.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It took accusing his brother of murder for George to lose support for him. Again, that’s the thing with conservatives. There ain’t no empathy. Scarborough (the brother) wasn’t as this gets at the racism Trump espoused nor the sexism but when he went after Joe, that was it. And George, you’re not going to see a public apology because Trump doesn’t do apologies. But hey glad you finally found out what kind of man he really is.
re: #428 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump threatens to deport Native Americans in 3…2…1
By all means, send them back to their native lands.
meanwhile in Kentucky:
U.S. Atty Russell Coleman: Victory Park Crips are an extremely dangerous and violent gang in Louisville.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 29, 2017
Amy Hess, local agent in charge of FBI: Today’s announcement is not the conclusion of task force action, it’s just beginning. pic.twitter.com/lhpOp4aoEa
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 29, 2017
BREAKING: Democrat operatives in Alabama are REGISTERING THOUSANDS OF FELONS all across the state in an effort to swing the US Senate election to Doug Jones! #ALSen https://t.co/tIaKPMJDPd
— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 29, 2017
A man accused of felony sex crimes thinks he should be allowed to be US SENATOR while people convicted of lesser crimes shouldn’t even be allowed to vote. https://t.co/J50T6qfAKO
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 29, 2017
Sounds about white… https://t.co/cGQPkNaX9S
— Lincoln Anthony Blades (@lincolnablades) November 29, 2017
re: #443 jaunte
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Lincoln is a Teen Vogue columnist. When did Teen Vogue become one of the best political publications?
re: #445 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Lincoln is a Teen Vogue columnist. When did Teen Vogue become one of the best political publications?
2017
re: #426 jaunte
depends on what your goals were… if you wanted to eviscerate the middle class, services for the poor and run the state government into a ditch, then yes… mission accomplished.
re: #446 Sir John Barron
2016. They were on the case in 2016.
this don jr story from 2006 is so fucking good https://t.co/evt44CbAxQ pic.twitter.com/WF8y2V9p1I
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 29, 2017
re: #445 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Lincoln is a Teen Vogue columnist. When did Teen Vogue become one of the best political publications?
because they do not give a shit about maintaining access to DT and not alienating their aging, white readership base
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
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April calls out SHS often.
SHS doesn’t like April.
At all.
The media should all refuse to attend the stupid Christmas party.
Should.
What a bunch of petty assholes the whole White House is.
re: #443 jaunte
A man accused of felony sex crimes thinks he should be allowed to be US SENATOR while some people he doesn’t like
convicted of lesser crimesshouldn’t even be allowed to vote against him.
re: #454 dangerman
Roy knows that there is nothing illegal going on but hopes it will help galvanize and motivate his base.
and it will probably fucking work because it’s Alabama
re: #455 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Roy knows that there is nothing illegal going on but hopes it will help galvanize and motivate his base.
and it will probably fucking work because it’s Alabama
yup
how dare citizens who have the right to vote actually register and vote against me
Moody’s warns coastal cities from Maine to California to confront climate risks or face downgrades. https://t.co/l01BmIwCi0
— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) November 29, 2017
This is important. Cities may not listen to scientists, but they’ll listen to the banks. Bond markets are quite possibly the most important climate change adaptation tool. https://t.co/Ts7nzd7WzO
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 29, 2017
Amazing: WH counselor Kellyanne Conway’s next door neighbor in DC is none other than Putin ally and longtime Manafort client Oleg Deripaska https://t.co/jTXyFod2Lj
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 29, 2017
re: #454 dangerman
I’ve seen nothing that suggests Moore actually believes in democracy. He’s a theocrat.
Kellyanne Conway, noted drug policy expert (HAHAHAHA JUST KIDDING!) to lead Trump administration’s fight against opioid addiction (not kidding). https://t.co/lpUjP44Oy6 pic.twitter.com/7fArPS6x3X
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 29, 2017
re: #400 meteor
Somebody please stop the Italics thing?
Is that only being seen by certain systems? I don’t see all the italics everyone is talking about.
re: #461 Backwoods_Sleuth
She seems more like a Meth person.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) November 29, 2017
NEW: White House Press Sec. response to Trump’s anti-Muslim tweets: “Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real. His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security.”
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 29, 2017
Whether that video I distributed claiming Sarah Sanders runs a murderous cannibal sex cult is real isn’t the point. The threat is real. Our goal is to promote healthy eating and consensual relationships. https://t.co/zF3VWfEscp
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) November 29, 2017
re: #461 Backwoods_Sleuth
#BREAKING: Murkowski to vote “yes” on GOP’s tax bill https://t.co/D5XAYySAT3 pic.twitter.com/1VlxpQNS7z
— The Hill (@thehill) November 29, 2017
re: #384 FormerDirtDart
BREAKING: American Airlines says computer glitch allowed all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week. Now union says thousands of flights are in jeopardy of cancellation. Americans says they’re offering 1.5x pay for pilots to fill in and expect to resolve the issue.
— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) November 29, 2017
I have 6 hours flight simulator time on a C-130 and 4 hours on a P-3. I can offer my services to AA for 1.45x pay.
re: #467 FormerDirtDart
Murkowski to vote “yes” on GOP’s tax bill
it’s gonna pass, fer chrissakes…ACA repeal failure was a real moral fillip, but I have given up hope on this one
yeah, when they started talking about adding in “triggers” if cuts failed to see growth in revenue I never expected it to lead to tax increases.
Several GOP senators coming out of today’s lunch talking about the idea of an auto spending cut trigger instead of a tax increase trigger if growth doesn’t hit target
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) November 29, 2017
Massachusetts police remind drivers to transport #Christmas trees ‘responsibly’ this year https://t.co/KUsu7EYEnC pic.twitter.com/OomXYRPgZX
— WCPO (@WCPO) November 29, 2017
re: #409 lawhawk
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