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I am taking just a smidge of comfort inn the fact that we’re pushing within a few minutes of midnight and there is still *something* keeping the Shit Sandwich Act of 2017 from getting a final vote rammed through.
Every minute it stays exposed to scrutiny makes this thing look worse to the voters of 2018 and 2020, and the GOP knows it.
And they STILL have to make anything that survives tonight pass through conference committee.
I’m getting juiced up to go stand outside in DC and make noise. Who’s coming?
re: #1 ipsos
I’ll be out at McCain and Flakes AZ offices!
Again.
Republicans are now in the process of voting NO on a motion to give us a couple of days to READ THE BILL. This is appalling.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 2, 2017
This will be covered like a partisan battle. But don’t forget that we, the public, will pay the price.
We will pay it into the pockets of the most wealthy. We will pay it in preventable deaths. We will pay it with our children’s negated futures.
Stop #GOPTaxScam. https://t.co/aaFR3njJbO— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) December 2, 2017
I think many of th know they’re on the way out. May as well gift themselves and their donors with a tax cut before they go.
re: #4 HappyWarrior
I think many of th know they’re on the way out. May as well gift themselves and their donors with a tax cut before they go.
The ultimate golden parachute.
During our Obama White House days we proposed #FreeCommunityCollege & #PreKforAll which would have cost $130 billion over 10 years & been a gamechanger for education in the US.
GOP said it was too expensive.
They are about to give $1.4 trillion to rich people without blinking.— Kyle Lierman (@Kyle_Lierman) December 1, 2017
Well played:
Dear @SenatorDurbin: Yes, I can read the handwritten changes on the GOP #TaxScamBill. It says:
2+2=7
Raise taxes on middle class families
Give break for 1 Devos linked college
Explode the federal deficit
And
Destroy what was once the greatest deliberative body in the world. https://t.co/sspRnn7k7F— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 2, 2017
Sort of an inverted crank magnetism, instead of espousing many different kook theories at once they go whole hog on one ideology at a time
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
Last year, McConnell said tax reform shouldn’t add to debt and attacked Dems’ stimulus — during Great Recession — as $1 trillion of waste. https://t.co/UjeYMeGCQz pic.twitter.com/u5xH2H8Jz7
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) December 2, 2017
The Pre-K was such a great idea. My niece has benefited so much from preschool.
Lindsey Vonn has won the Lake Louise Wolrd Cup Downhill 18 times.
She didn’t win today.
Vonn appeared ok after nasty crash. #fisalpine pic.twitter.com/xLQEOc8mI9
— max_ski (@max_ski) December 1, 2017
She’s okay, she skied down to the finish line on her own power, says she’s racing in the Super G tomorrow.
.@lindseyvonn skied across the finish line under her own power following a crash at the Lake Louise World Cup downhill. pic.twitter.com/ISiQGZ6kyY
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) December 1, 2017
re: #328 Hecuba’s daughter
When I compared what was happening to 1930’s Germany, my RW brother mocked me and declaimed that anyone who resorts to Nazi comparisons has lost the argument. Looks like the Republicans are infested with actual real life Nazis. So we are transitioning from Ayn Rand sociopaths like McConnell and Ryan who worship the power of wealth to hate-infused racist sociopaths like Congressman Steven King with Trump as the intermediary who has a foot in both camps.
Mike Godwin revoked that rule, considering we’re dealing with actual Nazis.
A guinea pig for Curious Lurker, since I left a lonely last post on the previous thread (you folk move too fast for me):
Pig asleep at the helm while I finished some files for publishing. #guineapig pic.twitter.com/pcZtquRpqm
— Lil’ Holly Ham✨🐹🎄 (@HammyTeaTime) December 2, 2017
Tonight’s serious dinnertime talk with the kids: “If you ever find yourself in a conversation with a federal law enforcement officer, tell the truth.”
— Will Saletan (@saletan) December 2, 2017
This is the wrong advice. The right advice is NEVER talk to the FBI without a lawyer EVEN If you’re telling the truth and have nothing to hide. https://t.co/YOqpEBI4N4
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) December 2, 2017
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
re: #13 teleskiguy
And that’s why skiing can be so weird. After horrific-looking crashes (I’ve been in my fair share) most of the time you ski away uninjured. It’s a trip.
This thread describes such a raging, nightmarish dumpster-fire microcosm of GOP/rightwing fuckery that even these excerpted tweets can’t convey the sheer bottomless pit of soulless depravity:
1. So. Hillsdale College. It prides itself as a bastion of conservative values in academia. There was an incestuous love triangle there that ended in suicide.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 2, 2017
6. Aside from sleeping with his daughter-in-law & driving her to suicide, Hillsdale president George Roche III also divorced his wife when she got cancer.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 2, 2017
9. So GOP tax bill will a) raise taxes on higher ed & grad students in general but b) carve out exemption for one college Hillsdale.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 2, 2017
11. A more recent Hillsdale president complained in 2013 they got a letter from Michigan Dept. of Ed. saying college “didn’t have enough dark ones.”
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 2, 2017
re: #16 teleskiguy
On the flip side sometimes a harmless looking fall can result in a sprained knee, broken ankle, etc, etc.
re: #17 Interesting Times
This thread describes such a raging, nightmarish dumpster-fire microcosm of GOP/rightwing fuckery that even these excerpted tweets can’t convey the sheer bottomless pit of soulless depravity:
Family values!
re: #20 MsJ
Pence is on the hill. It’s happening.
Not necessarily. He was there for at least one of the Obamacare votes too.
Now that I think about it, I met some Hilldale grads once
re: #16 teleskiguy
Like this, Hermann Maier in the Nagano Olympics in 1998.
I watched that live on TV, I thought I had just witnessed death. He got up, grabbed his skis, and skied down. He went on to win Gold in the Super G and Giant Slalom races.
conservatives are lying, theyre always lying, and you should approach everything they say and propose with that in mind at all times at all levels.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 2, 2017
Yeah, and that’s not a bug, it’s a feature. In a neofeudalist world, you don’t want the nobles to have intellectual equals among the commoners (and—eventually—serfs). You want them able to read just enough to do their job without getting a noble killed and nothing more.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
re: #24 jaunte
Speaking of which, here’s a great response to that Avik guy’s disingenous dumbfuckery:
The tax bill and the Constitution both used hand-lettering at some point, ergo comparable.Limp Bizkit and Mozart both used musical notation at some point, so they’re also comparable. https://t.co/SWGFUt7ZjE
— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) December 2, 2017
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Not necessarily. He was there for at least one of the Obamacare votes too.
That can give one or two so-called moderate Republicans cover to vote against the bill or an amendment, and then go home to their constituents and say “I stood up for you, but we were outnumbered.”
That is exactly why they have brought Pence to the Hill every time. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, none of them are moderates. It’s just the GOP trying to help them appear to be moderates.
re: #26 Interesting Times
The Declaration of Independence was handwritten. Somehow we managed ok.
Some of us were enslaved, but sure, parallels to today.
Patriots are willing to pay their fair share of taxes. GOP evade taxes and collude with Russia. GOP has lost moral standing on every single issue of governance.
— Tee Resists Here (@TeeTweetsHere) December 2, 2017
coo coo coo coooo coo
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) December 2, 2017
How is it remotely legal to vote on something you haven’t read? Even I at least pretend to read the terms and conditions before I click agree. I have to scroll. I’m doing more than the Senate.
— Snarfmantha Millner (@remainsthesam) December 2, 2017
We politely asked to adjourn till Monday morning. So we could read and study the bill we were just given. Answer was no. So we are here blindly re-arranging the American economy in the middle of the night.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) December 2, 2017
There’s a World Cup Men’s Downhill Race at Beaver Creek tomorrow. I might spectate. It would be from the finish line instead of how I’ve always spectated these races, next to the course on my own skis. I don’t have a pass to Beaver Creek this winter and they can take a hike if they think I’m paying $140 for a lift ticket.
Dotard might actually read it, then…
Sources inside the Senate are telling me that if they can’t pass this scribbled on version of the “tax bill” tonight, they vill vote on a coloring book version on Monday🖍️🖍️#TaxScamBill
— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) December 2, 2017
America is a teenage girl hanging out at the mall. The GOP tax bill is Roy Moore.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 2, 2017
re: #31 VegasGolfer
But it’s not just RWNJs who say he isn’t good enough at football to get the type of contract he wants.
Elway was trying to trade for him before last season; I would have wanted the GM tarred and feathered had he succeeded because Kaep produces maybe a little more than Nick Foles, but was earning 4 times as much that year (and has shown signs he was not inclined to sign a near-vet-minimum contract this year either).
Though I will grant that after the BAL incident this season, he may now actually be being colluded against to lock him out of the league (though speaking of ‘lockout’, that’s exactly what will happen if he forces the CBA to be reopened now).
It has often been said that FDR saved capitalism. The people currently running the country are doing their best to actively destroy it. Instead of being a force to improve lives and provide income to all Americans, it has been converted to a destructive force that concentrates an increasingly larger portion of wealth on those already wealthy and stripping resources from the poorest. Maybe it’s time to develop an alternative economic model that provides for a broader distribution of wealth. But that isn’t possible as long as Republicans remain in control. Too bad Johnson was entangled in the Vietnam war; without it, he may have permanently succeeded in transforming our society.
They’re about to find out. And I have no sympathy for them.
— Amy (@PhillyGrlInNYC) December 2, 2017
All families should get to save for school - not just those sending kids to college. The @tedcruz 529 amdt is a great addition to the #taxbill.
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 2, 2017
While having the added benefit of being available to everyone to use for education that isn’t a pricey four-year degree.
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 2, 2017
Correct! If you’re making 25,000 a year YOU TOO can use a tax loophole to shelter income to send your kid to a private school that costs 25k a year! Congrats! https://t.co/8WJ6dCKQB9
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 2, 2017
Typical. “The rich” use savings vehicles so why let anyone else have access to them, amiright https://t.co/FGJll5P7xz
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 2, 2017
ALMOST HALF OF ALL AMERICANS DON’T HAVE $400 EXTRA DOLLARS IN THE BANK https://t.co/TkNfTjRn9e https://t.co/jnxOtiUcEY
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 2, 2017
re: #38 Chrysicat
I dont even think kaep even did a tryout, (I think whatever team did that would get a lot of flack from those people), let alone discuss a contract with any teams. I do have to admit I don’t follow football much anymore, its boring to me, and all the controversy surrounding the NFL lately doesn’t help. But I’m pretty sure kaep should be playing somewhere.
re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter
The CRA and VRA ended Democrats chances of making further changes to the economic structure of the country.
re: #44 Belafon
And the worst part of all is that we’re going to even lose those as unconstitutional after only half a century and it’ll take constitutional amendments to resurrect them.
Constitutional amendments we probably could never have passed, even when all the racial strife was being buried below the surface, like when Bill Cosby was America’s Model Father.
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
Narcissism in the less-than-clinical sense.
You try and merge your ego with a concept because you can imagine how it will grant you social currency, and when you fail to get that, you desecrate that concept for failing you. All people think this way to some degree…shitty fashion choices, “strategies” to attract friends or mates, any vague notion that fails and becomes something that’s repellent…but there’s a point where it becomes pathological and creepy.
“Belief” is held to the extent that belief is gratifying. When it isn’t gratifying, either the belief is discarded and then replaced, or the premises that compose those beliefs are carved out like the skin suit in Silence of the Lambs. If you’ve ever read “On Bullshit,” this phenomenon is sort of the same, but with ideas rather than veracity. A bullshitter isn’t a liar because they simply don’t care about veracity beyond its immediate use-value. Cranks believe, but don’t care about the internal coherence of belief beyond the needs of the moment.
And mostly that use-value is calculated by how a concept provides license, prestige, or a sense of personal power. It’s not some kind of coincidence that charismatic leader types get close to God (in their own understanding) and suddenly God gives them a bunch of footnotes to what are supposed to be hard limits. Usually about fucking and hurting people.
Personally, I think this explains the “horseshoe effect.” It’s not really that the ideas converge, but that extreme positions are attractive to people who want to emphasize their distinctiveness and to feel powerful and important compared to others. Nuance, skepticism, and complexity kill the buzz. And if we’re going into extra innings, this also explains the pattern of licking-the-ear-of-guignol performative “I was an X, but they fucked up and now I’m the inverse because X was totally wrong” you see over and over and over.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹
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Agreed. It’s vital for Democrats, if and when they get the chance, to eliminate funding for white rural areas and the bigots who live there. Take away their military bases, their highway funds, their airport funding. Blow up the TVA dams now that we don’t need the power for the Manhattan Project. Force them to live they way they continually vote to live, as the cattle of feudal lords.
I don’t mind paying taxes to pay for the niceties of a civilized society, but when it’s to pay for someone’s private jet, I get salty.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 2, 2017
Trying to review the #GOPTaxScam but they are making hand-written changes to brand new text as we speak – can anyone else read this? pic.twitter.com/JX8v1v4gyi
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) December 1, 2017
Dear @SenatorDurbin: Yes, I can read the handwritten changes on the GOP #TaxScamBill. It says:
2+2=7
Raise taxes on middle class families
Give break for 1 Devos linked college
Explode the federal deficit
And
Destroy what was once the greatest deliberative body in the world. https://t.co/sspRnn7k7F— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 2, 2017
Right now the @GOP is trading TREASON FOR TAX CUTS
F the tax cuts #ImpeachTrump@SenateGOP @HouseGOP @SenJohnMcCain @RepGoodlatte @SenBobCorker @JeffFlake @ChuckGrassley @SenatorBurr @RepAdamSchiff @SenBlumenthal @tedlieu @SenateMajLdr @SpeakerRyan @MarkWarner @TheDemocrats https://t.co/09crq9qgnL— VetsVote Ret CPO USN (@gregoryjdykes) December 2, 2017
re: #42 FormerDirtDart
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“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
re: #47 Brian J.
Agreed. It’s vital for Democrats, if and when they get the chance, to eliminate funding for white rural areas and the bigots who live there. Take away their military bases, their highway funds, their airport funding. Blow up the TVA dams now that we don’t need the power for the Manhattan Project. Force them to live they way they continually vote to live, as the cattle of feudal lords.
I’m not sure if I am to take this post seriously, or not. If it is serious, you need to reread the preamble to the Constitution which stresses the basis of this nation’s founding on the “Common Good”. If it is snark, I agree. Totally stupid policy position. Tags would be nice, in any case.
re: #47 Brian J.
Agreed. It’s vital for Democrats, if and when they get the chance, to eliminate funding for white rural areas and the bigots who live there. Take away their military bases, their highway funds, their airport funding. Blow up the TVA dams now that we don’t need the power for the Manhattan Project. Force them to live they way they continually vote to live, as the cattle of feudal lords.
I am not a bigot.
I think you’re a little over the top here. The converse of that is conservatives doing the same to Mass., Calif., and NY.
Since the Republicans are already removing funding from conservative voters, it is vital for Democrats to make sure they don’t shift the blame (and run candidates in every election, dammit).
And if you are going to advocate for driving my state into penury (despite the fact this red state pays in more than it takes out from the Feds), are you going to provide an airlift and refugee programme for liberals first, or are we just “collateral damage?”
re: #17 Interesting Times
This thread describes such a raging, nightmarish dumpster-fire microcosm of GOP/rightwing fuckery that even these excerpted tweets can’t convey the sheer bottomless pit of soulless depravity:
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When I get direct mail from Hillsdale (don’t ask me why—I still haven’t figured out how I got on their list) I take it immediately to the dumpster because I can’t sleep with that odious crap in my house.
re: #53 BeachDem
When I get direct mail from Hillsdale (don’t ask me why—I still haven’t figured out how I got on their list) I take it immediately to the dumpster because I can’t sleep with that odious crap in my house.
Good kindling, though.
re: #47 Brian J.
Maybe you missed the fairly obvious fact that rural areas aren’t exclusively white, or Republican.
Meanwhile in the Kremlin, Putin meeting Oliver Stone https://t.co/0Lp09BnkUl pic.twitter.com/uNZEkJF88H
— Scott Rose (@rprose) December 1, 2017
While having the added benefit of being available to everyone to use for education that isn’t a pricey four-year degree.
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 2, 2017
Correct! If you’re making 25,000 a year YOU TOO can use a tax loophole to shelter income to send your kid to a private school that costs 25k a year! Congrats! https://t.co/8WJ6dCKQB9
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 2, 2017
Typical. “The rich” use savings vehicles so why let anyone else have access to them, amiright https://t.co/FGJll5P7xz
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 2, 2017
Typical. “The rich” use private jets so why let anyone else have access to them, amiright https://t.co/N2TeugvRQr
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
We are a tinderbox. pic.twitter.com/JyRyGpgel7
— Dave Anthony (@daveanthony) December 2, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is increasingly alarmed by what he sees as secret talks between Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — fearful that the discussions could backfire and tip the region into chaos, according to three people familiar with Tillerson’s concerns
The central goal of the Kushner-Prince Mohammed negotiations, as described by two people with knowledge of the talks, is for an historic agreement featuring the creation of a Palestinian state or territory backed financially by a number of countries including Saudi Arabia, which could put tens of billions of dollars toward the effort.
In their zeal to increase taxes on Democrats living in blue states, Republicans are raising taxes on their wealthy donors in these states, too. They aren’t happy https://t.co/2kZcDvx3nc
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) December 1, 2017
re: #61 teleskiguy
Are you a eugenicist?
Golly, I wish you wouldn’t go there. It’s nothing but hell in a bucket of blood when you use that word.
WE SHOULD TAKE ALL THE WHITE FARMERS’ LAND WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP AND SALT IT OVER. THAT’LL TEACH ‘EM!!!
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
They should. The whole thing is idiotic.
re: #54 austin_blue
Good kindling, though.
I would fear noxious fumes (have you ever seen the crap they send out?) Plus, I don’t have a fireplace.
It’s elitist to deny poor people access to a tax write off for monkey butlers.
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
re: #67 BeachDem
I would fear noxious fumes (have you ever seen the crap they send out?) Plus, I don’t have a fireplace.
Fire pit!
re: #63 austin_blue
Golly, I wish you wouldn’t go there. It’s nothing but hell in a bucket of blood when you use that word.
Our pal Brian J. has openly wished for collapse and elimination of certain populations in the United States numerous times. I want to know how he feels about eugenics.
Stairs vs corgi butt pic.twitter.com/exptOkGPnt
— A happier day (@AHappierDay) December 2, 2017
But Chris, Joni Ernst always says that when people are in financial need they can go to a church and get help. Now I wonder how many bake sales will have to be done to cover 1 chemo session…
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 2, 2017
re: #70 teleskiguy
Our pal Brian J. has openly wished for collapse and elimination of certain populations in the United States numerous times. I want to know how he feels about eugenics.
Then don’t feed the troll. It’s a pointless exercise, wasting time and brain cells. We have a republic to save, man!
re: #47 Brian J.
Agreed. It’s vital for Democrats, if and when they get the chance, to eliminate funding for white rural areas and the bigots who live there. Take away their military bases, their highway funds, their airport funding. Blow up the TVA dams now that we don’t need the power for the Manhattan Project. Force them to live they way they continually vote to live, as the cattle of feudal lords.
Forgot the sarc tags.
Even with ‘em, if you were trying for ‘A Modest Proposal’ you missed the Swiftian mark.
I’m just waiting for the rest of the world to pull the plug on the dollar and then dump Treasury notes.
Trump and the RepubliKKKlans are doing everything they can to bankrupt us.
re: #76 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m just waiting for the rest of the world to pull the plug on the dollar and then dump Treasury notes.
Trump and the RepubliKKKlans are doing everything they can to bankrupt us.
If you’re not stoopid wealthy it might be a good idea to learn how to speak Mandarin.
Folks, I think we need to start coming to terms with the idea that the rapture happened and only David Bowie and Prince made the cut.
— Andrew Thaler (@DrAndrewThaler) December 2, 2017
Dang, you may be right… https://t.co/sPyPfjepRV
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 2, 2017
Pat Toomey’s Senate floor defense of Hillsdale’s endowment tax exemption was just a hair’s width away from selling Springfield a monorail
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) December 2, 2017
ACA had:
8 day markup period
Bills posted online 6 days before markups
CBO scores before any markups
More than100 Senate hearings in 2 different committees
Dems accepted 160 GOP Amendments— Cling 2 Reality (@Cling2Reality) December 2, 2017
The smell of desperation gently wafts through the air…
CONFIRMED: Trump to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel on Wednesday via @axios https://t.co/mYvgvknE8i
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) December 1, 2017
re: #70 teleskiguy
Our pal Brian J. has openly wished for collapse and elimination of certain populations in the United States numerous times. I want to know how he feels about eugenics.
I think it’s a fair question, since I would be a target (just as those like me were in the past). I haven’t heard an answer yet on how many liberals or minorities he’d be willing to sacrifice yet, either.
A beautiful shot of the Castle, thanks @photojohnphoto. Hopefully we’ll be skiing it soon!
Alta Ski Area is currently closed to uphill traffic. Thanks ASP. .
.
#ski #skialta #altaskiarea
Weather forecast still leaves a lot of the southern Rocky Mountains high and dry. We need snow, damn it!
re: #75 CleverToad
Forgot the sarc tags.
Even with ‘em, if you were trying for ‘A Modest Proposal’ you missed the Swiftian mark.
Indeed! Swift was suggesting a viable alternative for the English people to increase their available sources for the consumption of animal protein. BJ seems to suggest that it simply rot in the fields of rural America. How wasteful.
re: #83 teleskiguy
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Weather forecast still leaves a lot of the southern Rocky Mountains high and dry. We need snow, damn it!
How’s CB?
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
I think it’s a fair question, since I would be a target (just as those like me were in the past). I haven’t heard an answer yet on how many liberals or minorities he’d be willing to sacrifice yet, either.
Brian has departed the field of discussion.
re: #62 jaunte
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goopers may be digging their legislative graves with this
i have a little business on the side which is a pass thru LLC. the personal rate i pay on it has been an advantage. under this bill it becomes a liability
re: #77 teleskiguy
If you’re not stoopid wealthy it might be a good idea to learn how to speak Mandarin.
I’ll work on my Polish since they seem to be doing better than us now in economic growth, and Steve King wants to deport “my kind” anyway.
Ever since Trump was elected, we’ve been carrying our passports in our car glovebox. Might need ‘em.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
I think it’s a fair question, since I would be a target (just as those like me were in the past). I haven’t heard an answer yet on how many liberals or minorities he’d be willing to sacrifice yet, either.
Elvis has just left the building…
re: #85 austin_blue
How’s CB?
14” base (all man made), 25” total snow this winter. There’s two runs open. So, not good.
The Democrats need to adopt the Gingrich approach, nationalize all future elections, and demonize the Republicans. There have to be good ads, even if based on quotes out of context, from the spectacle in the Senate. There isn’t a single Republican legislator in Washington who has stood up for the American people and for what’s right. You don’t win by playing nice.
re: #86 jaunte
Brian has departed the field of discussion.
You all have posted a bad post.
I know Brian J as a provider of up to the date voting returns in races we don’t pay attention to. I really appreciate his contribution.
Ya’ll remember his election night posts??
I hate how one bad post gets the pile on. Fuck, I’ve had many. You all have had at least one.
RE-LAX & get over your pile on
re: #89 Joe Bacon 🌹
Elvis has just left the building…
When challenged on a position to support it, he neither conceded nor supported it?
Religious apologists do that.
re: #92 Stanley Sea
You all have posted a bad post.
I know Brian J as a provider of up to the date voting returns in races we don’t pay attention to. I really appreciate his contribution.
Ya’ll remember his election night posts??
I hate how one bad post gets the pile on. Fuck, I’ve had many. You all have had at least one.
RE-LAX & get over your pile on
Nope. Someone calls for genocide just because I live in a red state, I will pile on.
If he can’t defend his position, that’s his problem, not mine.
That’s sort of like the arguments you occasionally hear about Hitler: Well, there was that genocide thing, but he completed the Autobahns and built up the economy.
re: #90 teleskiguy
14” base (all man made), 25” total snow this winter. There’s two runs open. So, not good.
Well, fuck. I assume A-basin and the runs around it are pretty much dead?
re: #92 Stanley Sea
It is true that he is no longer in the thread.
re: #92 Stanley Sea
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Religious Right Pulpit Pimps will have a big orgasm about this thinking that the rapture is at hand.
They’re going to get the shock of their lives when JC and his Sonshine Band pull a no-show at Armageddon…— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 2, 2017
Yay! My sweetie just brought me homemade pizza… . time to chow down.
re: #97 austin_blue
Well, fuck. I assume A-basin and the runs around it are pretty much dead?
A-Basin and Loveland are the best places to ski in Colorado right now. The runs are all man-made, but they have more of them. Both those mountains are higher than almost all the ski areas in Colorado - you’re above timberline a third of the way up those ski areas - so they’ve had prime snowmaking weather every night for weeks.
re: #95 Belafon
What’s happening with the bill right now?
Senate just PASSED an amendment from @SenJeffMerkley to strike the Hillsdale College carve-out, 52-48. pic.twitter.com/lX0rTbcYeW
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 2, 2017
Can someone tell me why - in the name of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - a provision for drilling for oil in the Arctic is in the GOP tax bill? #TaxScamBill
— Tom Myers (@Tom_Myers) December 2, 2017
Russia. https://t.co/9S79oE2ZrF
— Puppymnkey (@RobinBrenizer) December 2, 2017
Cue “we count people as poor even if they have refrigerators; most of those nations don’t! Come back when the poor really *are* poor and ready to revolt!”–
–while not even realising that’s EXACTLY where their neofeudalist #taxscambill goes, without decreasing % in poverty,— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
I do get Brian J’s frustration. As the resident of a major city in a blue state, I highly resent the fact that a sizable chunk of rural red state residents believe me and my fellow city dwellers are lazy moochers siphoning off their tax dollars when the reality is that in general tax dollars flow from urban to rural areas and from states like mine to red states.
re: #106 Weaselone
Doesn’t make it okay to call for their economic collapse and elimination.
re: #92 Stanley Sea
I figured it was an attempt at satire, but it didn’t come off well, in my humble.
Common difficulty of written posts, when you don’t have verbal or facial cues to convey the sarcastic drips.
re: #106 Weaselone
I do get Brian J’s frustration. As the resident of a major city in a blue state, I highly resent the fact that a sizable chunk of rural red state residents believe me and my fellow city dwellers are lazy moochers siphoning off their tax dollars when the reality is that in general tax dollars flow from urban to rural areas and from states like mine to red states.
And yet that’s exactly what he did: Rural residents are lazy moochers siphoning liberal areas’ tax dollars, so screw ‘em.
I wonder how much food you can grow in cities.
BREAKING: The amendment 2 stop the Betsy Devos giveaway to her university passed. Too embarrassing 4 even for 4 Rs tonight.
Final vote now.— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) December 2, 2017
re: #107 teleskiguy
Doesn’t make it okay to call for their economic collapse and elimination.
words on a blog words on a blog words on a blog
you are overreacting
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
And yet that’s exactly what he did: Rural residents are lazy moochers siphoning liberal areas’ tax dollars, so screw ‘em.
I wonder how much food you can grow in cities.
Are you under the impression that city dwellers don’t pay for the food we get?
re: #92 Stanley Sea
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re: #106 Weaselone
I do get Brian J’s frustration. As the resident of a major city in a blue state, I highly resent the fact that a sizable chunk of rural red state residents believe me and my fellow city dwellers are lazy moochers siphoning off their tax dollars when the reality is that in general tax dollars flow from urban to rural areas and from states like mine to red states.
I live in Los Angeles. I know that millions of brainwashed Christians pray for Sodom San Francisco and Gomorrah Hollywood to sink into the sea—or get nuked by North Korea…
The NRO’s Andrew McCarthy is one clueless fuck…..
This what we call the “carrot and stick” approach -nail them first with something that will be dealt with in exchange with turning State’s Evidence. Odds are Mueller has Flynn on other charges as well that he is keeping in his back pocket should Flynn not deliver the goods.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 2, 2017
Yes—that’s what Murkowski got for her Yes vote!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) December 2, 2017
51-49 for passage.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) December 2, 2017
re: #47 Brian J.
re: #111 Stanley Sea
words on a blog words on a blog words on a blog
you are overreacting
Well, let’s recap what he wrote:
Agreed. It’s vital for Democrats, if and when they get the chance, to eliminate funding for white rural areas and the bigots who live there. Take away their military bases, their highway funds, their airport funding. Blow up the TVA dams now that we don’t need the power for the Manhattan Project. Force them to live they way they continually vote to live, as the cattle of feudal lords.
Nope, I don’t think it’s an overreaction.
Not everyone is a bigot in red states. Not everyone is a conservative in red states.
When called out on blowing up TVA dams and force people to live like cattle, he left rather than say it was over-the-top hyperbole or some sort of joke gone horribly wrong.
He would not admit that; he left.
Calling for genocide is not a joke, and I will call it out every time I see it.
re: #102 teleskiguy
A-Basin and Loveland are the best places to ski in Colorado right now. The runs are all man-made, but they have more of them. Both those mountains are higher than almost all the ski areas in Colorado - you’re above timberline a third of the way up those ski areas - so they’ve had prime snowmaking weather every night for weeks.
Well at least someone will be making money. I loved A-basin when I was a kid. Granted, I busted a fibula and nearly twisted an ankle off (Hello, Rotomats!) when I was transitioning from the upper bowl to the forested trails in heavy powder, but my Da grew up in Denver and it was our powder place.
(Semi-pro tip: If you are skiing in heavy powder after a wind storm/blizzard the night before, and one ski tip disappears, throw yourself sideways immediately or the guys in yellow day-glo are going to help you down the mountain and into the ambulance. You just tucked under a fallen branch, covered by fresh snow. It hurts a lot and your season is done.)
re: #114 JordanRules
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breaking photo of gop celebrating passage of tax bill pic.twitter.com/3R0NWQuhK0
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 2, 2017
re: #121 austin_blue
The best powder is when *both* ski tips disappear. Best days of my life were days when the powder was up to my eyeballs.
The List of Shame
51 Senate Republicans just voted for the #GOPTaxScam, a massive tax giveaway to the super wealthy paid for in part by cutting $400 billion from Medicare.
RT to spread their shame! pic.twitter.com/hryfvo4XdJ— SocialSecurityWorks (@SSWorks) December 2, 2017
It won’t work, because they, like Trump, have no sense of shame.
— Ted Striker (@talon_262) December 2, 2017
re: #113 Weaselone
Are you under the impression that city dwellers don’t pay for the food we get?
No, but the call was to let rural areas collapse. That’s where the food is grown. Hence my question wondering if cities can grow food if folk in rural areas are left to fend for themselves.
I would never suggest not supporting liberal areas struck by natural disaster (such as hurricanes that will never hit where I live). Why would someone suggest such things for where I live?
On the pittance I get for VA disability, I could never afford to live in a place like New York or Los Angeles. I’d be homeless again.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #126 Stanley Sea
It passed
We knew it would, ever since it became clear that Flake, Collins, and Murkowski were sufficiently bought off; Pence wouldn’t have to tie-break and Corker’s lone no vote meant absolutely bupkis.
Now it goes to the House for reconciliation, where, barring a fucking Christmas miracle, it’ll likely pass, then to Trump’s desk for passage.
Fuck our lives…
Republicans have settled the debate on whether they give a damn about debt and deficits. They don’t. https://t.co/eDyilJOvFx
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 2, 2017
There is a long-running, almost metaphysical, argument about the GOP’s deficit hawkery. One school of thought holds that it has always been pure cynicism. Republicans passed the Bush tax cuts without offsets and paid for neither Medicare Part D nor the Iraq War. When they began decrying the deficit and debt during President Obama’s administration, under this theory, it was nothing but opportunistic political attacks, and it was obvious they would be abandoned as soon as Republicans regained power.
The response many Republicans gave was that the party had lost its way under George W. Bush, but it had recognized its mistakes and rediscovered its fiscally conservative soul. The Tea Party and its relentless campaign of primary challenges was proof the Republican Party had changed, and would stay changed.
The House and Senate passage of the GOP tax bills shows the cynics had it right.
re: #129 The Major
Well, that wasn’t private … your brackets appear to be fouled up.
I have to stay and fight: I can’t afford to move, and no nation would take me anyway as a disabled baby boomer with a high school education.
re: #122 Stanley Sea
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re: #131 teleskiguy
William Jennings Bryan, calling GOP “fiscal conservatives” liars since 1896.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
No, but the call was to let rural areas collapse. That’s where the food is grown. Hence my question wondering if cities can grow food if folk in rural areas are left to fend for themselves.
I would never suggest not supporting liberal areas struck by natural disaster (such as hurricanes that will never hit where I live). Why would someone suggest such things for where I live?
On the pittance I get for VA disability, I could never afford to live in a place like New York or Los Angeles. I’d be homeless again.
The food is grown on large factory farms that most rural people have no more to do with than most urban people.
The Republicans want to rob California, New York and Massachusetts; then they shouldn’t be allowed to cadge funds for Alabama, Texas, or Wyoming. If they want to live without their “feral gummint,” let them experience the consequences!
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹
Well, that wasn’t private … your brackets appear to be fouled up.
I have to stay and fight: I can’t afford to move, and no nation would take me anyway as a disabled baby boomer with a high school education.
You aren’t alone. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Type 2 keep me stuck here…
well, the tariff of abominations has passed the senate
re: #135 Brian J.
The food is grown on large factory farms that most rural people have no more to do with than most urban people.
The Republicans want to rob California, New York and Massachusetts; then they shouldn’t be allowed to cadge funds for Alabama, Texas, or Wyoming. If they want to live without their “feral gummint,” let them experience the consequences!
Not everyone in a rural area works on a farm, as many of them run businesses necessary to keep agriculture going, teachers, doctors, &c., or work in local government (cough cough).
I can’t speak for rural areas I don’t live in, but I can assure you everything around here is family farms and ranches.
I think this is not a win for the GOP. Far from it.
I think it spells their desperate, gasping end. This ghastly display of greed and self-service to their own enrichment at the clear expense of the American people is such a blatant, in-your-face-fuck-you that it seems like willing suicide, as though the GOP chose drinking hemlock as superior to a firing squad.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
Not everyone in a rural area works on a farm, as many of them run businesses necessary to keep agriculture going, teachers, doctors, &c., or work in local government (cough cough).
I can’t speak for rural areas I don’t live in, but I can assure you everything around here is family farms and ranches.
According to the Census Bureau, only about 1% of Americans operate farms.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
I would never suggest that the people in red states and rural areas should be left hanging, let alone that existing infrastructure be torn down to spite their residents. It would just be nice if they reciprocated the feeling and didn’t elect the very assholes who vote against things like disaster aid or for things like taxing grad students for covered tuition.
re: #141 Weaselone
I would never suggest that the people in red states and rural areas should be left hanging, let alone that existing infrastructure be torn down to spite their residents. It would just be nice if they reciprocated the feeling and didn’t elect the very assholes who vote against things like disaster aid or for things like taxing grad students for covered tuition.
Why? They want no government interference or protection from predators, and have done everything humanly possible to communicate this desire. I merely ask that they be given what they want.
And yes, in time of natural disasters, they should be given the only two things that they claim are effective- thoughts and prayers. None of this filthy “aid” or “money” or “reconstruction funding.” That stuff’s for effete liberals.
this bill is a repeal and replace of the ongoing obama economic recovery
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 2, 2017
re: #135 Brian J.
The food is grown on large factory farms that most rural people have no more to do with than most urban people.
The Republicans want to rob California, New York and Massachusetts; then they shouldn’t be allowed to cadge funds for Alabama, Texas, or Wyoming. If they want to live without their “feral gummint,” let them experience the consequences!
At least get your facts in order. Texas pays more than it gets in federal funds.
re: #130 TedStriker
We knew it would, ever since it became clear that Flake, Collins, and Murkowski were sufficiently bought off; Pence wouldn’t have to tie-break and Corker’s lone no vote meant absolutely bupkis.
Now it goes to the House for reconciliation, where, barring a fucking Christmas miracle, it’ll likely pass, then to Trump’s desk for passage.
Fuck our lives…
It’s a reason to keep the pressure up. Keep calling.
The good news for Drumpf is that he got a legislative win. The bad news for Drumpf is that he is probably going to die in a Federal prison.
The bad news for the R’s is that this is a shit show and if we keep the pressure on them, they may roll back some of the worst portions of the bill in reconciliation. OK, probably not, but still…
Resist. Impeach.
This is a bizarre tweet in the immediate context of zero Democrats voting for this abomination of a tax bill.
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
And the intent of things is to make it less possible to climb from commoner to noble than in Regency England.
Add to this that most of this will be Constitution-locked thanks to Gorsuch, and you get a place no one sane will want to remain in. Too bad I can’t get a resident visa— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
Senate passes GOP tax bill in a much-needed legislative win https://t.co/XOZbyJpcKX pic.twitter.com/a1s9nsYPZ8
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 2, 2017
This is an odd form of editorializing https://t.co/3rQHhpb2gd
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2017
Odd? It’s that horse race both sides bullshit is what it is.
re: #144 allegro
At least get your facts in order. Texas pays more than it gets in federal funds.
Only if you count offshore oil drilling.
re: #133 JordanRules
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My statement on the passage of the #GOPTaxBill: pic.twitter.com/jMRS86ioXc
— Michael F. Bennet (@SenBennetCO) December 2, 2017
I think he was saying “they’ve said fuck bipartisanship; now we officially have to say so as well”. If so it’s not about the Dems who just did THEIR job, but the upcoming candidates who might think they can ‘save the party’ by ‘compromising’. You can’t deny the second part.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
re: #135 Brian J.
The food is grown on large factory farms that most rural people have no more to do with than most urban people.
The Republicans want to rob California, New York and Massachusetts; then they shouldn’t be allowed to cadge funds for Alabama, Texas, or Wyoming. If they want to live without their “feral gummint,” let them experience the consequences!
You still haven’t outlined your plan to airlift liberals out and provide us refugee status who didn’t vote for this crapfest (or in state government didn’t vote because there were no candidates).
This is how money distorts politics:
A couple years ago, my state legislature passed a bill to repeal the death penalty. The state governor vetoed it. Despite being majority conservatives, the legislature overrode the veto and the death penalty was repealed.
Then our new governor came in. He paid out of his own pocket to put a referendum on the ballot to reinstate the death penalty, then paid millions of dollars in advertising to support the referendum.
No Democratic Party pushback. The party let the Republicans go unchallenged. Quelle Surprise, the referendum overturned the legislature. (Pesky low voter turnout from liberals who apparently didn’t care if the death penalty was reinstated or not.)
The state couldn’t kill anyone on death row though (no drugs). The previous governor got caught out by the DEA (tipped off by UPS in India) that the drugs were being illegally imported, purchased illegally with state tax money.
Another example: The Keystone XL Pipeline. It was people in this red state that fought off the pipeline in the state supreme court. There weren’t protestors from New York or Los Angeles at the statehouse protesting, though they were making lots of noise.
Round two is being fought now, and it appears that because the route approved was not correct, that TransCanada is going to abandon the project (though we’ll breathe a sigh of relief when that happens).
If this was an issue of “we get our money and screw the rest of the planet,” all those conservative hunters, fishers, ranchers, farmers, &c wouldn’t be out there protesting this thing.
re: #149 Brian J.
Only if you count offshore oil drilling.
Nope, it’s because we didn’t expand Medicare. And mineral rights always count. It’s not a quibble, it’s a fact.
re: #140 Brian J.
According to the Census Bureau, only about 1% of Americans operate farms.
Operate farms. That doesn’t include the people who work on farms. (Not sure if “farm” includes “ranch” but we’ll assume it does.) Farmers employ a bunch of people. Those people support the local businesses, which support the farms. Doctors, dentists, and nurses treat them and their families; teachers educate their children; lawyers represent them in court; &c.
“Farmer” doesn’t exist in a vacuum in a rural area.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹
You still haven’t outlined your plan to airlift liberals out and provide us refugee status who didn’t vote for this crapfest (or in state government didn’t vote because there were no candidates).
We can do that with the money saved by not providing public services to those who don’t want them.
Another example: The Keystone XL Pipeline. It was people in this red state that fought off the pipeline in the state supreme court. There weren’t protestors from New York or Los Angeles at the statehouse protesting, though they were making lots of noise.
Round two is being fought now, and it appears that because the route approved was not correct, that TransCanada is going to abandon the project (though we’ll breathe a sigh of relief when that happens).
If this was an issue of “we get our money and screw the rest of the planet,” all those conservative hunters, fishers, ranchers, farmers, &c wouldn’t be out there protesting this thing.
They don’t care enough about Keystone to stop voting for politicians who expressly and repeatedly state that they want it built. Therefore, they should be and are ignored.
re: #142 Brian J.
Even in the reddest of states and areas there are still plenty of people who want that interference.
However well intentioned, “don’t vote for any Democrat who …” is the exact brand of absolutist purity politics that got us Trump. Hard pass
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 2, 2017
How about just don’t vote for Republicans ever?
re: #156 Brian J.
They don’t care enough about Keystone to stop voting for politicians who expressly and repeatedly state that they want it built. Therefore, they should be and are ignored.
Don’t feed the troll. It’s pointless and it only benefits the troll.
re: #140 Brian J.
From the very first line of your citation at the USDA regarding that 1% (I’m guessing less than that are software engineers, or doctors, or plumbers, or taxi drivers, it’s amazing how you can distort an issue with a statistic):
3.2 million farmers operated 2.1 million farms covering 915 million acres that generated food, fuel, and fiber for Americans and people around the world. Who are they?
Back to that question again, slightly modified: If you let rural areas go piss off, where are cities going to get 915 million acres of land for food, fuel, and fibre?
re: #159 austin_blue
Don’t feed the troll. It’s pointless and it only benefits the troll.
As a liberal living in a blue island in a blood-red state, they can go fuck themselves with a rusty chainsaw.
We have enough to deal with without supposed “allies” wanting to throw us under the fucking bus.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹
From the very first line of your citation at the USDA regarding that 1% (I’m guessing less than that are software engineers, or doctors, or plumbers, or taxi drivers, it’s amazing how you can distort an issue with a statistic):
Back to that question again, slightly modified: If you let rural areas go piss off, where are cities going to get 915 million acres of land for food, fuel, and fibre?
The land won’t disappear. We’ll bring in immigrants who don’t hate the idea of public service, or purchase the needed goods from overseas if necessary.
This page from the tax bill is chilling pic.twitter.com/tN6x9jnwVn
— Quinn Sutherland (@ReelQuinn) December 2, 2017
did the repeal of the individual mandate make it in to the final version of the senate bill?
i wonder if the house will just pass the senate version or if yet another frankenstein will be stitched together in conference
re: #161 TedStriker
As a liberal in a blood-red state, they can go fuck themselves with a rusty chainsaw.
We have enough to deal with without supposed “allies” wanting to throw us under the fucking bus.
Yup. You’ll never turn a red state purple or blue with that poisonous attitude. Tough enough as it is.
re: #164 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
did the repeal of the individual mandate make it in to the final version of the senate bill?
i wonder if the house will just pass the senate version or if yet another frankenstein will be stitched together in conference
Yup.
Now it all goes into conciliation.
re: #161 TedStriker
As a liberal living in a blue island in a blood-red state, they can go fuck themselves with a rusty chainsaw.
We have enough to deal with without supposed “allies” wanting to throw us under the fucking bus.
Thank you for saying that so nicely. I’ve deleted 3 posts filled with… great animus.
i clearly recall six months ago when it was all the rage for trump kissers to declare that obamacare was “imploding” cuz there’d be no insurance suppliers providing exchange plans
never happened
re: #156 Brian J.
We can do that with the money saved by not providing public services to those who don’t want them.
What public services? The nearest bus line is 130 miles away in Cheyenne. The nearest taxi is just as far. I can catch an east-west Amtrak train if I drive all the way to Fort Morgan (150 miles). Internet? It already costs 10% of my VA disability. If it goes up any more, I won’t be around here at LGF.
They don’t care enough about Keystone to stop voting for politicians who expressly and repeatedly state that they want it built. Therefore, they should be and are ignored.
It’s amazing what gerrymandering will do. Okay ignore us. We can save our money fighting the Keystone XL and do something else with it. You want it stopped,, you come here and stop it (that’s the logical conclusion of your argument).
Actually, we’d rather stop the project here, regardless of whether other states care about us trying or not. Thanks for your support though.
re: #163 teleskiguy
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OMG. That makes me want to call Child Services for poor Julian. Not even kidding.
re: #162 Brian J.
The land won’t disappear. We’ll bring in immigrants who don’t hate the idea of public service, or purchase the needed goods from overseas if necessary.
You are aware of how expensive importing food is?
Are you going to wipe all of out here first before you bring in immigrants (going back to my genocide and eugenics question again)?
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹
What public services? The nearest bus line is 130 miles away in Cheyenne. The nearest taxi is just as far. I can catch an east-west Amtrak train if I drive all the way to Fort Morgan (150 miles). Internet? It already costs 10% of my VA disability. If it goes up any more, I won’t be around here at LGF.
They don’t care enough about Keystone to stop voting for politicians who expressly and repeatedly state that they want it built. Therefore, they should be and are ignored. It’s amazing what gerrymandering will do. Okay ignore us. We can save our money fighting the Keystone XL and do something else with it. You want it stopped,, you come here and stop it (that’s the logical conclusion of your argument).
Actually, we’d rather stop the project here, regardless of whether other states care about us trying or not. Thanks for your support though.
Look at a county-by-county map of Nebraska election results for… virtually anything, and you find a sea of red (blue if you use US Election Atlas). Deep, angry, consistent red. Your problem isn’t “gerrymandering.” There’s no possible way to draw a blue Congressional district in Nebraska without Omaha. Face facts. Your neighbors want this. In overwhelming numbers. And democracy cannot work if universal support is required, as the US demonstrated with the Articles of Confederation.
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹
I think austin_blue is correct here, don’t feed the troll.
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹
You are aware of how expensive importing food is?
Are you going to wipe all of out here first before you bring in immigrants (going back to my genocide and eugenics question again)?
No. No need. Bring in the immigrants for the farms and provide them protection. The locals can be left to their own devices.
No genocide, not unless you provide it yourselves. We’re just cutting you off from aid that you don’t desire so that you can be all the conservatives you can be.
re: #172 Brian J.
NE-2 (Omaha) and NE-1 (Lincoln) have about half the state’s population. In 2008, NE-2 cast its electoral vote for Obama, and Lincoln came very close (which would have given Obama 4 and McCain 1).
Then along came the census, and the three districts were gerrymandered in such a way that voters from my district (NE-3) were put into the other two districts to make sure that didn’t happen again, along with gerrymandering the city districts in Omaha, Lincoln, South Sioux City, Grand Island, &c to ensure the same.
You still haven’t answered how you either propose to get us liberals out for your genocide and eugenics program. Or are we just collateral damage.
Genocide (n):
1.the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Yup, that’s what you’re calling for. And you don’t care how many liberals you take out in your desire to exact vengeance on conservatives either.
re: #167 allegro
Thank you for saying that so nicely. I’ve deleted 3 posts filled with… great animus.
I like that you find “they can go fuck themselves with a rusty chainsaw” as nicely! As another member of the board who is a Liberal, Veteran, Straight, Married, Never Divorced, White, Carnivore, Irish, (ex) Catholic, Deist living in Texas, which has not elected a Democrat to a state-wide office since 1984, I appreciate you, and all who support us for the pitiful plight we find ourselves in. The Rs in this state are just as crazy as shit house rats. Or run-over turkeys. Or loco weed eatin’ cattle.
Pick the ignorant country fuck metaphor of your choice! ;-)
re: #174 Brian J.
No. No need. Bring in the immigrants for the farms and provide them protection. The locals can be left to their own devices.
No genocide, not unless you provide it yourselves. We’re just cutting you off from aid that you don’t desire so that you can be all the conservatives you can be.
Are you suggesting taking everyone’s property, or just conservatives’ property? Is my little house on the prairie safe from your land redistribution programme?
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹
Genocide (n):
Yup, that’s what you’re calling for. And you don’t care how many liberals you take out in your desire to exact vengeance on conservatives either.
Nonsense. You’re saying that not giving you everything you want from the federal government is killing you. That’s why liberals are so scarce in your neck of the woods.
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
Are you suggesting taking everyone’s property, or just conservatives’ property? Is my little house on the prairie safe from your land redistribution programme?
No, my dear Trump supporter. Your property is safe from federal depredations. Of course, if your wealthy neighbor decides it ought to be his and passes state or local laws to make that so, then what do you want me to do about it? Support from the evil feral gummint is a fate worse than death, right?
re: #173 teleskiguy
I think austin_blue is correct here, don’t feed the troll.
And yet, for some folks, it’s just click bait. Sweet, juicy clickbait. Yum!
re: #180 Brian J.
Nonsense. You’re saying that not giving you everything you want from the federal government is killing you. That’s why liberals are so scarce in your neck of the woods.
I am openly a socialist and an atheist, and elected to my local government. You know who voted for me? Conservatives. If I choose to run for chairman of the village board next year, I already have the endorsement of the current Republican chairwoman.
I am strongly considering taking on my representative for the US House, though I’m not sure what sort of campaign I could mount against him. (There is also the possibility Jane Kleeb will run, in which case I won’t - I’ll support her.)
By the way, Jane Kleeb is a family ranch owner.
re: #182 Brian J.
Wtf he’s not a trump supporter.
re: #183 austin_blue
And yet, for some folks, it’s just click bait. Sweet, juicy clickbait. Yum!
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re: #182 Brian J.
No, my dear Trump supporter. Your property is safe from federal depredations. Of course, if your wealthy neighbor decides it ought to be his and passes state or local laws to make that so, then what do you want me to do about it? Support from the evil feral gummint is a fate worse than death, right?
I’m such a Trump supporter I not only voted for Hillary Clinton, I talked my Libertarian Party wife into voting for Hillary Clinton.
That was our secret plan to get Trump elected.
Charles,
Just a suggestion that you consider banning Brian J.
All he ever does is show up during contentious moments and deliberately sow division through absurd extreme leftist statements that strike me as the work of a cynical, disingenuous griefer troll.
I don’t know, was I uncouth?
You’re lying! You are a lying liar! You’re shoving this giveaway to your wealthy donors down our throats. You and your Republican colleagues have disgraced the Senate, your constituents, and yourselves. If there is a hell I’ll see you there, asshole!
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 2, 2017
re: #182 Brian J.
No, my dear Trump supporter. Your property is safe from federal depredations. Of course, if your wealthy neighbor decides it ought to be his and passes state or local laws to make that so, then what do you want me to do about it? Support from the evil feral gummint is a fate worse than death, right?
What the fuck
Bye America, you had a good run. #TaxScamBill
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 2, 2017
re: #189 teleskiguy
I don’t know, was I uncouth?
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They have basically passed a tax bill that establishes this country as an Oligarchy. It will, in time, kill the middle class and reduce the youth in America today to a choice of either being a serf, indentured servant, peon, or wage slave.
Randian paradise! Pure Capitalism with no checks and balances. Welcome to The Brave New World.
re: #191 teleskiguy
It’s spelled ‘sow.’
There’s my English degree, being all pedantic.
You calling Frank a female pig?!
That’s my B.S. degree being all smart ass. ;)
re: #195 austin_blue
They have basically passed a tax bill that establishes this country as an Oligarchy. It will, in time, kill the middle class and reduce the youth in America today to a choice of either being a serf, indentured servant, peon, or wage slave.
Randian paradise! Pure Capitalism with no checks and balances. Welcome to The Brave New World.
If we let it.
re: #191 teleskiguy
It’s spelled ‘sow.’
There’s my English degree, being all pedantic.
An English major! No wonder you’re a ski bum!
(All the sarc I can possibly /////, my man.)
First, they’ll raise your taxes to unpayable levels.
Next, then use Civil Asset forfeiture to take everything you own.
Then, they’ll toss you in a private prison to kick back money to their lobbyists.
The GOP are robber barons. #TaxScamBill— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 2, 2017
Congratulations. You just voted to destroy what little future I have left. I hope you’re proud of yourself, you monster.
— SteelPH (@SteelPH) December 2, 2017
re: #200 SteelPH
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Continue please. Tell your story. Give it context. For you and everyone of us.
re: #201 allegro
Continue please. Tell your story. Give it context. For you and everyone of us.
Maybe another time. I’m far too tired and angry to bother right now.
bls.gov
(Bureau of Labor Statistics, total jobs in the USA and jobs broken down by sector)
Very rough numbers, all agricultural jobs (including workers on farms and ranches, not just the owners of farms and ranches) are (very roughly) 15% of all jobs.
Many agricultural jobs are seasonal work (for example around here as harvest comes to completion there are way more people here than usual, but they’ll move on to other areas further south).
I suppose that would be a lot of immigrants that could be imported to do all the work in an unfamiliar place, while learning how the agriculture system and markets work, but it could be done, maybe even in one growing season without massive crop losses.
A couple years ago when Alabama passed its version of Arizona’s “papers please” law, causing a mass-exodus from the state of people who didn’t want to be harassed, cash crop growers ploughed their crops under the fields two years in a row because no matter how much farmers offered (as much as $100/hour), city folk weren’t going to give up jobs for five or six weeks.
Agriculture in this nation (ever since it went beyond feeding your own family) has always depended on migrant labour. If you were to magically replace 1.5 million rural Nebraskans with immigrants and do something with us, the new farmers and ranchers would still need migrant labour to harvest their farms and tend their cattle.
Repeat that for every state. Aside from genocide, you also advocate for the nation’s economic suicide (all agriculture states, even liberal ones like California) export to the rest of the world, and starvation (like it or not, the ag states feed the cities).
No city is an island: Throughout history cities have depended on the agriculture around it to support them. I suppose you could tell farmers and ranchers to FOAD, and they’ll happily tell you “go buy your own food elsewhere.”
You could even go further (say, send in the Army). The Army can’t harvest crops and has no clue how to operate farm equipment. The best they can do is point a gun and force someone to do it. That’ll work right up until the first farmer says “no.”
re: #198 austin_blue
An English major! No wonder you’re a ski bum!
(All the sarc I can possibly /////, my man.)
Hey, when it’s fuckin’ blizzarding out, you’re inside. While I was inside in my 20s I decided to read books. It’s been a good decision, methinks.
re: #202 SteelPH
Maybe another time. I’m far too tired and angry to bother right now.
I understand. {{{SteelPH}}}
re: #197 allegro
I tend to agree, but even a good portion of Cult45 were calling their senators to try to keep this one from going off.
I think it’s illegal to mention the only thing that would for-sure overturn this, and in all likelihood that thing would get me killed too, because I live in my parents’ near-million-dollar home with no gates to either the community or the grounds and armed revolution would surely drag those houses’ current owners to the wall.
But I’m not sure that even a general strike would get the House to vote down the Feudalism Revival Act at this point, and even if it could, how do you get everyone, even the Nazis, to participate? Because if they don’t block the roads themselves, they’ll keep the country running.
As for “a new Congress”, to turn back the clock on taxes even to 1987, let alone 2015, will take a veto-proof House and Senate, and I’m honestly not sure, since Congress was willing to vote on this, that elections will even be free enough to give us a majority short of veto override in just the House.
Someone please give me some lifelines; this looks bad for the unemployable and incapable-of-emigrating.
re: #202 SteelPH
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re: #202 SteelPH
Maybe another time. I’m far too tired and angry to bother right now.
Me too. It’s late, and I’m off for the rack. What a day.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
You know what, that would be a great first line for a novel.
If you’re confused and don’t know exactly what is in the #GOPTaxPlan, don’t feel bad. None of the bastards who voted yes on it know whats in it either. #TaxScamBill
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 2, 2017
re: #208 austin_blue
Me too. It’s late, and I’m off for the rack. What a day. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
You know what, that would be a great first line for a novel.
I’ve read A Tale Of Two Cities a few times, I even wrote a 12-page paper about it.
Dickens was a trip. I’m convinced he invented the “page turner” novel. His novel “Bleak House” convinced me totally.
re: #192 goddamnedfrank
Anymouse,
You’re letting him manipulate you. You’re arguing with someone who is only interested in getting you to either react angrily or agree with his insane caricature of liberal positions so he can then go to right wing blogs and pigeonhole LGF as agreeing with his lunatic fringe framing.
Well, I’ve said my piece for now. I’m not sure how he might do that with what I wrote, but it is possible for anyone to either cherry-pick or strawman another’s positions.
Brian’s writing didn’t strike me as a conservative per se (I don’t know anything about him really) when he writes about telling red states to take a hike … I’ve heard that particular argument before.
Liberals are definitely at a disadvantage here, but haven’t always been. These things tend to go in cycles … it wasn’t long ago we had a Democratic representative (a few years ago in NE-2). We’ll keep plugging along and let y’all know how we’re doing out here from time to time. (::
re: #206 Chrysicat
What we do is we keep plugging away at getting voters and candidates out. Virginia should be a wake-up call for the GOP. If Alabama does put Roy Moore in the Senate, the GOP will forever be painted as the Grand Old Paedophile party. While that might not be enough in Alabama, there are plenty of conservatives whose stomachs would be rightly turned about that.
Driving wedges between more sane Republicans and the nihilist wing doesn’t hurt either. In close districts, Democrats don’t have to convince Republicans to vote for them (though that helps). All they have to do is show GOP voters how morally bankrupt their candidates are. That won’t convince them all of course, but if it convinces enough to stay home …
And don’t let the GOP off the hook for this crap. Politics is a nasty game even when different parties agree on the same rules. Michelle Obama was partially wrong with her “when they go low we go high” remark. We go low as well, we just don’t lie about it.
Current Mood:https://t.co/Ws2Fe05iOO#GOPTaxScam
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 2, 2017
This vote will live in infamy. It eviscerates the last vestige of Congressional integrity and does irreparable damage to our once proud Republican Party. It will not stand. #GOPTaxScam
— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) December 2, 2017
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
Charles,
Just a suggestion that you consider banning Brian J.
All he ever does is show up during contentious moments and deliberately sow division through absurd extreme leftist statements that strike me as the work of a cynical, disingenuous griefer troll.
Seconded. His blatant agitprop is very destructive and can’t be written off as just one bad post. There’s a pattern here, as GDF says, and it is very ugly.
Right now, Hollywood Liberal Elites who got a tax break are furious and someone who’s heating soup on a radiator lost their health insurance and is ecstatic about owning the liberals.#TaxScamBill
— Donald J Orwell (@DonaldJOrwell) December 2, 2017
re: #210 teleskiguy
I’ve read A Tale Of Two Cities a few times, I even wrote a 12-page paper about it.
Dickens was a trip. I’m convinced he invented the “page turner” novel. His novel “Bleak House” convinced me totally.
Dickens never published a “novel” — he wrote serialized stories that were printed one chapter per month in magazines. (also, he was paid by the word. which is why he went into such agonizingly baroque descriptive paragraphs and the plotlines move so very slowly).
All of his “novels” were compilations of serial chapters, gathered together for reprint years later.
What tax break? Only RED-STATE donors got one; the nominal rate goes down for H’wood actors/producers, but the DOUBLE TAXATION on the part paid-to-CA-directly more than makes up for it. But you’re right, Randy McMAGA gets it even worse but crows about pwning libs.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
re: #206 Chrysicat
The only thing I can offer is the experience of age and I realize that is probably not so comforting. Not all that comforting to me neither but it does temper my fears and allows me some wait-and-see ability. This country has been through a lot of crises, bending this way and that, just in my 64 years, and has survived. This is a big one, maybe even the most definitive, since in my lifetime there has never been such a clear line between good and flat out evil. This vote by the Senate tonight was so obviously the latter. No redeemable arguments. Just purely fucking evil.
I not only believe it won’t work for them but that it will backfire with a ferocity that we haven’t seen since the 60s. I sincerely believe in the good of the American people to prevail over this evil.
re: #210 teleskiguy
I’ve read A Tale Of Two Cities a few times, I even wrote a 12-page paper about it.
Dickens was a trip. I’m convinced he invented the “page turner” novel. His novel “Bleak House” convinced me totally.
Most of his novels were serialized in magazines before they were ever published as complete books. He wrote cliffhanger chapters to encourage people to read the next installment, which of course meant the magazine publisher also made money.
I’m not sure if Dickens was the first novelist to be published in this way, but he was one of the most successful at it.
[And sagehen got there before me. Dang it.]
re: #220 allegro
I’ll skip the term “evil” due to religious connotations of that word, but “craven” works for me.
The country has survived plenty of setbacks. It will survive this one. Moreover, this fight isn’t over yet anyway.
re: #220 allegro
For the serious of the crime to hurt the GOP, we and the Democratic Party will need to tell people who was at fault, clearly and objectively. The pain won’t be felt right away for most taxpayers, but once it does the voters will need to be told who screwed them over.
Now that the GOP has their magical tax cuts in place, I wonder if they will now turn their back on Trump, since he has served his purpose.
>>>is the death of state and local income taxes and the privatisation of anything they might currently buy, especially in high-tax states.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
Since some of us might want to have a pint now, in Germany, here’s what you’ll get.
Important #map when you are visiting #Germany. What type of #beer will you be given if you simply order “Ein Bier”. Source: https://t.co/DiDtGXDbO3 pic.twitter.com/gdCo4zF5Hk
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 2, 2017
re: #224 wheat-dogg
For the serious of the crime to hurt the GOP, we and the Democratic Party will need to tell people who was at fault, clearly and objectively.
Media consolidation and the end of net neutrality is going to make that difficult.
re: #226 wheat-dogg
Since some of us might want to have a pint now, in Germany, here’s what you’ll get.
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I’ll go have a Breckenridge Brewery Oatmeal Stout. Thanks for that reminder. There are certain advantages in living close to Colorado. (I’ll have to go in the next couple weeks to get my car serviced in Denver - can stock up on some more then.)
Wow, what a night, both the crapfest in the Senate and the poo-flinging here. I think I’ll let my fingers rest for now.
re: #227 sagehen
Media consolidation and the end of net neutrality is going to make that difficult.
But not impossible.
The GOP is following the Dominionist playbook, I fear: taking over each of the “Seven Mountains” one by one. It’s going to take a concerted effort to reverse or stall their regress.
re: #230 teleskiguy
Buy Ska Brewing cans. Best most potent value for your ale buck.
Never heard of it, but I’ll keep a lookout for it. My wife likes Boulder Porter as her favourite, but it is hard to get outside of Denver’s metro area she says.
My favourite is Stroh’s which is even harder to get (like impossible), followed by Pilsner from Saskatchewan (also impossible here).
#NowPlaying Ministry > Filth Pig > Lay Lady Lay https://t.co/yzC2FAZ8xC
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 26, 2017
Well, I’m out for the evening. It was quite a day: opening with Michael Flynn pleading guilty to a Federal crime which may bring down parts (or all) of the administration, and ending in a Dumpster fire of a Senate session over an unwritten tax bill that is intended to drive us all into penury.
Wow. I feel like I am in Watergate Redux: Electric Boogaloo.
re: #222 Anymouse 🌹
The country has survived plenty of setbacks. It will survive this one. Moreover, this fight isn’t over yet anyway.
If you mean in the geographical sense, yes, it will. But in effect, the post-WWII USA we’ve all known all our lives is already mostly gone. I’m reminded of the episodes of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS showing how the entire universe of the Bellamy family crumbled and collapsed after World War I. This is sort of the same thing.
In this case, the US has turned into a democrature with several features that are normally typical of third-world countries, such as the looting of the treasury, the unchecked kleptocratic nepotistic elites, pervasive superstitions, ethnic divides, the travesty of the rule of law. You have more in common with Zimbabwe or the Philippines than with Sweden or France.
To paraphrase Stephen King, your world has moved on.
re: #236 Lupin
…But in effect, the post-WWII USA we’ve all known all our lives is already mostly gone…
My dad was a steel mill worker with a high school diploma who managed to afford a house, a car, a family vacation and to put his kids through (state) college.
Those days are gone.
The wingnuts control the House, Senate, Courts and White House. Of course they are going to get some wins, I am just thankful that it almost took them an entire year to get one.
Let them be more scared after they think they won.
re: #240 Decatur Deb
It’s still reversible.
The next fight is reconciliation and the votes after that.
re: #241 Belafon
The next fight is reconciliation and the votes after that.
their only need for reconciliation will be with their big financial donors…
re: #241 Belafon
The next fight is reconciliation and the votes after that.
And Doug Jones, and 2018, and 2020. At some point, however, it will not be reversible.
Ultimately we start to reverse the decay in the souls of the electorate.
It’s 7AM, and we’re losing time.
re: #240 Decatur Deb
It’s still reversible.
I honestly don’t think so, at least if history teaches us anything.
re: #243 Decatur Deb
And Doug Jones, and 2018, and 2020. At some point, however, it will not be reversible.
Ultimately we start to reverse the decay in the souls of the electorate.It’s 7AM, and we’re losing time.
The further it goes along, the harder it gets to recover from. But, while we need to keep looking long term, we have to also prepare for the next battle.
As for the souls of the electorate, we have to remind as many of them as we can of what Republicans are doing and hope they figure it out before major damage is done.
re: #244 Lupin
I honestly don’t think so, at least if history teaches us anything.
We’re too close to see it. Trump is most likely an irritating blip on the historical scale.
Shit……
I decide to go to the coast for a few days of wade fishing and look what happens…..
Heyzues Christo!
I’m going with this guy’s attitude: m.dailykos.com
re: #245 Belafon
The further it goes along, the harder it gets to recover from. But, while we need to keep looking long term, we have to also prepare for the next battle.
basically every month of the Trump administration is going to take at least a year to recover from. Don’t forget that a lot of these judges are lifetime appointees.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
basically every month of the Trump administration is going to take at least a year to recover from. Don’t forget that a lot of these judges are lifetime appointees.
I’ve already apologized to my kids for what is coming, but imagine where would be if people had given in to fear early this year.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
basically every month of the Trump administration is going to take at least a year to recover from. Don’t forget that a lot of these judges are lifetime appointees.
Cheap and easy victories are so 2016.
re: #246 Decatur Deb
We’re too close to see it. Trump is most likely an irritating blip on the historical scale.
Alternatively, he could be Julius Caesar or even Augustus. And if he is a blip, it’s increasingly likely that that’s because he forces the country to actively back Russia’s ‘re’acquisitions of “the” Ukraine and the Baltics, which is a path that would inevitably lead to a Sino-EU alliance, WWIII, and the liberation of Russia and the US.
Even if the EU gets to be the occupying power afterward, they’d likely abolish the Constitution as the original enabler of our fascist turn, which would suck (and whatever national symbols are in use are in danger of being outlawed as hate speech,).
If China gets to write the rules, then it’s likely WWIII will have been The War to Make the World Safe for Authoritarianism, in which case Trump will have been a blip in terms of ‘where on the political spectrum’, but not as in ‘type of leader we’ll continue to have for the rest of my life”.
A lot of our view of the future is determined by how we have lived our past. I was the first person in my family to go to college. I didn’t make it through my first attempt. It would have been really easy to give up. I even joined the Navy to figure things out. But I recovered,survived military service, got my bachelor’s and masters, and make enough that I won’t be affected by it for a while. I’m more worried about my son in grad school.
The point is that things aren’t always easy, and occasionally there are setbacks, but keeping the fight is what we have to do. I don’t have time for pessimism and more than sugar coated fantasies.
re: #55 jaunte
Maybe you missed the fairly obvious fact that rural areas aren’t exclusively white, or Republican.
And we’d be screwing over children too. I hate the way these folks vote as a bloc but we’re better than that.
I’ve been saying that the US died on 8 Nov 2016. Last night was simply giddily drunken GOFascists pissing on the corpse at the wake.
The only question is if it will be one, two or three generations to recover from the coming economic disaster and create the 2nd Republic…
Remember how Trump got elected because of ‘economic anxiety?’
re: #252 Chrysicat
Alternatively, he could be Julius Caesar or even Augustus. And if he is a blip, it’s increasingly likely that that’s because he forces the country to actively back Russia’s ‘re’acquisitions of “the” Ukraine and the Baltics, which is a path that would inevitably lead to a Sino-EU alliance, WWIII, and the liberation of Russia and the US.
Even if the EU gets to be the occupying power afterward, they’d likely abolish the Constitution as the original enabler of our fascist turn, which would suck (and whatever national symbols are in use are in danger of being outlawed as hate speech,).
If China gets to write the rules, then it’s likely WWIII will have been The War to Make the World Safe for Authoritarianism, in which case Trump will have been a blip in terms of ‘where on the political spectrum’, but not as in ‘type of leader we’ll continue to have for the rest of my life”.
He’s showing far more sign of being the historians’ Nero than an Augustus. If we fully expect the results of global warming, as we say we do, the whole snowglobe is about to get a really good shake that makes all of our predictions puny. And that is only one of the plausible randomizers.
re: #252 Chrysicat
I don’t think your analogy would actually come to pass, but if so it would likely follow the pattern established after WWII with China taking the Western half of the US and Europe the East (Reversed for Russia) with DC and Moscow divided between them. All to be followed by a new cold war.
re: #255 William Lewis
I’ve been saying that the US died on 8 Nov 2016. Last night was simply giddily drunken GOFascists pissing on the corpse at the wake.
The only question in one, two or three generations to recover from the coming economic disaster and create the 2nd Republic…
That’s likely if we don’t get our shit together by 2020.
re: #256 BigPapa
Remember how Trump got elected because of ‘economic anxiety?’
Don’t underestimate it. Racism feeds off “villager” economic concepts of limited good. The children of most people in this country face a much harsher economic reality than we did in the 60s. It’s easy for the Masters of the Universe to get them to turn on each other.
Some news that isn’t getting a lot of attention: The LA Weekly was recently purchased — by secret owners, no less — and most of the staff was fired. The new owners finally revealed themselves — and of course, they’re a bunch of rich right-wingers.
I expect this to start happening at a lot of newspapers and TV stations very soon. By the midterm elections, there could be hundreds of zombie newspapers across the country parroting Trump talking points and suppressing any contrary news.
TBH I think even with Gerrymandering, we can win big in 2018 & 20 because I think many people are pissed. My worry is more so about the long run about the kind of people Trump has inspired to run for Office. College Republicans have gone from country club snobs to Richard Spencer like minded. And there’s international credibility. He has alienated so many people. Secretary of State will be a key pick in 2021 or whenever we win back the WH. Then there’s policy and not letting amnesia let in that makes someone like Trump appealing. We do need to build up a Democratic Party that is competitive everywhere.
re: #255 William Lewis
I’ve been saying that the US died on 8 Nov 2016. Last night was simply giddily drunken GOFascists pissing on the corpse at the wake.
The only question is if it will be one, two or three generations to recover from the coming economic disaster and create the 2nd Republic…
With vote suppression, Russian interference, media propaganda and blackouts, no Internet to allow the spread of true information, colleges shuttered, and everyone forking all their taxes over to feed the rich, I reckon the GOP can rely on at least 50-100 years of dominance.
Translation: He rambled aimlessly and nonsensically like a senile, demented old man in his bathrobe at the park screaming at pigeons.
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) December 2, 2017
re: #255 William Lewis
I’ve been saying that the US died on 8 Nov 2016. Last night was simply giddily drunken GOFascists pissing on the corpse at the wake.
The only question in one, two or three generations to recover from the coming economic disaster and create the 2nd Republic…
The US passed the Event Horizon on 12/8/00 when the Supreme Court illegally installed Dumbya. We met Singularity on 11/8/16. Continually listening to the callers that I deal with at work daily on SSI and Social Security who worship Trump and the GOP for smacking them colored people down—I’m afraid we’re stuck…
re: #264 scottslemmons
With vote suppression, Russian interference, media propaganda and blackouts, no Internet to allow the spread of true information, colleges shuttered, and everyone forking all their taxes over to feed the rich, I reckon the GOP can rely on at least 50-100 years of dominance.
If they are as wrong as we think they are, they will not be able to hold the economy, environment, or international relations together for 50-100 years. We fix this now or we go into savagery. OTOH, Alabama teams will almost certainly win the BCS.
re: #264 scottslemmons
With vote suppression, Russian interference, media propaganda and blackouts, no Internet to allow the spread of true information, colleges shuttered, and everyone forking all their taxes over to feed the rich, I reckon the GOP can rely on at least 50-100 years of dominance.
It won’t come close to that. The rest of the world will react by isolating us, dumping the dollar as the reserve currency and they will also stop financing our debt. DC will implode as Republicans default on the debt and the country will break into pieces the same way the USSR did.
re: #268 Joe Bacon 🌹
If that happens, whither Colorado and NM? Their beliefs would normally tie them to Pacifica/new Republic of California/whatever it’ll be called, but they border only states-that-have-insane-Rebel-Flag-to-populace ratios, and Mexican states even more a basket case than those new-CSA states…and I doubt either Mexico or Arizona would be willing to give up a strip to give us a land corridor to the ‘main’ states of such a place…
re: #268 Joe Bacon 🌹
It won’t come close to that. The rest of the world will react by isolating us, dumping the dollar as the reserve currency and they will also stop financing our debt. DC will implode as Republicans default on the debt and the country will break into pieces the same way the USSR did.
That’s pretty much best case right now.
OTOH, rather than pay the rent this paycheck, I got my rifle & revolver back out of hock. Never know when these assholes will fuck with someone non-white (ie my Vietnamese son) such that they need a 158 grain reminder that they’ve not got the moral high ground.
re: #269 Chrysicat
If that happens, whither Colorado and NM? Their beliefs would normally tie them to Pacifica/new Republic of California/whatever it’ll be called, but they border only states-that-have-insane-Rebel-Flag-to-populace ratios, and Mexican states even more a basket case than those new-CSA states…and I doubt either Mexico or Arizona would be willing to give up a strip to give us a land corridor to the ‘main’ states of such a place…
Nuevo Mexico almost certainly becomes part of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Colorado either partitions between the sane parts (greater Denver and Boulder) and the ‘Merkin parts or follows its southern neighbor.
re: #266 Joe Bacon 🌹
The US passed the Event Horizon on 12/8/00 when the Supreme Court illegally installed Dumbya.
Well, not to dwell too much on the past, but I believe your statement is not true.
As we saw just recently, the President is elected by the Electoral College. The E.C. picked GWB as President, as per their own rules and the Constitution.
Over the Obama years the right wing would go on and on (idiotically at times) about how the US was a republic and not a democracy. That assertion is false because the House is a democratic institution. However, the President is not elected by simple tallying of the will of the people and that is pretty clear in the Constitution.
What we see today in the deconstruction of governance by Trump and the current GOP is just more results of the Constitution being very out of date in some regards. It does need a serious overhaul.
re: #269 Chrysicat
There is no reason for the US to disappear or be occupied. Like most nations, however, it might simply become irrelevant. Dystopian sci-fi has been warning us about the global corporative world for decades. Technology is approaching the point where that becomes realistic.
re: #269 Chrysicat
If that happens, whither Colorado and NM? Their beliefs would normally tie them to Pacifica/new Republic of California/whatever it’ll be called, but they border only states-that-have-insane-Rebel-Flag-to-populace ratios, and Mexican states even more a basket case than those new-CSA states…and I doubt either Mexico or Arizona would be willing to give up a strip to give us a land corridor to the ‘main’ states of such a place…
The US will probably break into at least a dozen pieces. Maybe Trudeau will pick up a couple (New England, New York, maybe Minnesota, Washington, and Alaska) and they will become Canadian provinces. The South will degenerate into 3rd world status. Utah will be a Mormon theocracy. California will go it’s own way along with Texas. The rest will wind up in various regionalities.
re: #272 freetoken
What you’re forgetting, Free, is that no legitimate re-count would have kept Florida in Bush’s column, but that there was no way to know that until well after Inaguration Day.
The ‘stolen’ argument definitely holds water.
re: #271 Brian J.
Nuevo Mexico almost certainly becomes part of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Colorado either partitions between the sane parts (greater Denver and Boulder) and the ‘Merkin parts or follows its southern neighbor.
Probably the southern half of Arizona as well for the simple reason that if the economy falls apart there isn’t enough water there for all the right wing nut jobs to keep living there. They’ll be forced out by thirst - either on the high road or the low road - and the Mexican army will deal with the remainder.
The dystopian fantasy you guys are wanting to live through is fascinating, but the US isn’t going break up. The Soviet Union broke up because a lot of those countries were being held together by force. Russia, on the other hand, is still together.
re: #275 Chrysicat
What you’re forgetting, Free, is that no legitimate re-count would have kept Florida in Bush’s column, but that there was no way to know that until well after Inaguration Day.
The ‘stolen’ argument definitely holds water.
Ken Blackwell did the same thing in Ohio during the 2004 election.
re: #277 Belafon
The dystopian fantasy you guys are wanting to live through is fascinating, but the US isn’t going break up. The Soviet Union broke up because a lot of those countries were being held together by force. Russia, on the other hand, is still together.
The US will continue, but it will become West Virginia.
re: #275 Chrysicat
Gore himself accepted the count as it last stood.
The Electoral College again is the last word. Electors don’t even in some states have to follow the popular vote.
I think everyone suggesting a Mexican reconquest of NM—Ari—CO is a little bit quick to jump the gun.
That’s way too many Anglophones to try to assimilate, most of whom will be well beyond the age where they can effectively learn enough Spanish to communicate with the ‘rest’ of the country.
And the federal army is too weak to even deal with the majority of their organised criminals.
But I will admit, those splinters from the larger cannabis-state log are too landlocked to make a go on their own.
Off to fire up the weed-whacker. We must tend our garden.
Well, ok, I’ll stop being down for a moment and note this little tidbit of music I just found hiding in one of my youtube subscriptions:
And since few here have even as little German as I recall, here’s the lyrics courtesy of the Google translator bot…
Please do not be ‘
So professional youth
Nena’ s not ‘
So professionally
People are not serious
about that And it’s time for you to learn
Please do not be ‘
So professionally young
Please do not be’
So professionally
People do not take
it seriously And they are on the limbs
The old woman makes on hip
It already has a few grandchildren
You may like to have
me now Do I have to wear earrings made of pearls
Do I have to go to Krückstock for you now
Can not I ever tell a joke
Can I never go to the disco again
? Am I too happy, huh? Is that a problem
Am I not getting old Did not
I stay young
No, I’m making music
That’s the difference
I think I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
Please do not be ‘
So professional youth
Nena’ s not ‘
So professionally
People are not serious
about that And it’s about time that you learn
Please do not be ‘
So professionally young
Please do not be’
So professionally
People do not take this seriously
Because it’s not sensible
Well of course you can be in a good mood
But not at 54 anymore
People do not like it ‘
It goes against the grain’
I’m too young for a job
I do not seem to fulfill my duty
I wear a smile too often
I seem to be very old
I turn on the music so that it pops
I’m just me, have you strapped this?
I’m not a professional teenager
But I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
I’m not normal
(she’s not normal)
Please do not be ‘
So professionally young
Please do not be’
So professionally, professionally
re: #280 Decatur Deb
The US will continue, but it will become West Virginia.
Not necessarily. American politics can change drastically in the course of a few years. For instance, take 2004. Things looked pretty grim for the Democratic Party. Bush beat Kerry and the “Democrats in disarray” narrative was in full force (sound familiar?). But then in 2006, a blue wave swept Congress and in 2008, a black man whose last name rhymes with Osama became president. You think anyone in 2004 saw that coming?
re: #286 No Depression
Not necessarily. American politics can change drastically in the course of a few years. For instance, take 2004. Things looked pretty grim for the Democratic Party. Bush beat Kerry and the “Democrats in disarray” narrative was in full force (sound familiar?). But then in 2006, a blue wave swept Congress and in 2008, a black man whose last name rhymes with Osama became president. You think anyone in 2004 saw that coming?
Anyone who watched his DNC speech?
The US was damaged in 2004. In 2017 it’s flat-lining. There have been 13 years of GOF gerrymandering, voter suppression & destruction of public education since 2004 to create far more serfs who’s vote is meaningless. They let a [censored] into the White House once; you can bet they’ll do everything necessary to prevent that from ever happening again. If the SCOTUS upholds the Wisconsin redistricting law, it’s game over.
I admit the worse the GOP gets and the more I confront the necessary work to try and put things right since inauguration I consider registering Democratic. I keep coming back around to it, then I regard whats going on in there and I take a pause. Got some great Governors and a yet a mess in Sacramento. Like a gerrymandered map to ensure extended power just like what the GOP does in states they control.
How many of us here this morning are decline to state like me anyway? Let’s talk about stuck in the middle.
re: #286 No Depression
Not necessarily. American politics can change drastically in the course of a few years. For instance, take 2004. Things looked pretty grim for the Democratic Party. Bush beat Kerry and the “Democrats in disarray” narrative was in full force (sound familiar?). But then in 2006, a blue wave swept Congress and in 2008, a black man whose last name rhymes with Osama became president. You think anyone in 2004 saw that coming?
As above, we have until 2020 to prevent it. It’s not going to fix itself spontaneously. Sweat now or bleed later.
We have seen The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Then we got The Revolution Will Be Televised.
Fact is the revolution is streaming live. Right Now.
Why no link? Already here.
re: #289 Unshaken Defiance
At least you have decent schools with much closer to adequate funding. You don’t have a legislature screaming that protests are “hate speech” against conservatives and that students who protest must be expelled. You don’t have ecological regs thrown out of the window so that companies can come in from across the pacific to build TV sets for the bread and circuses - built by serfs for serfs (for the real entertainment of the .1% as they laugh at our pretensions of freedom).
You can whine about California all you want but it’s still goddamn near paradise compared to the nearly third world shithole GOF gerrymandering has turned Wisconsin into since the Walker regime came to power.
re: #289 Unshaken Defiance
I admit the worse the GOP gets and the more I confront the necessary work to try and put things right since inauguration I consider registering Democratic. I keep coming back around to it, then I regard whats going on in there and I take a pause. Got some great Governors and a yet a mess in Sacramento. Like a gerrymandered map to ensure extended power just like what the GOP does in states they control.
How many of us here this morning are decline to state like me anyway? Let’s talk about stuck in the middle.
I’m not and I’m proud to be a Democrat in a state where the GOP completely ran off the rails!
re: #274 Joe Bacon 🌹
Possibly California, Oregon and Washington form some sort of alliance - California Republic and Republic of Cascadia.
re: #293 Joe Bacon 🌹
Damn right. Say it loud!
As your red state neighbor, I had hoped more of you rubbed off on us. But we’re probably going to keep passing insane gun laws here and demonizing our border neighbor.
re: #216 EPR-radar
Seconded. His blatant agitprop is very destructive and can’t be written off as just one bad post. There’s a pattern here, as GDF says, and it is very ugly.
I’ll reluctantly give that a thumbs up, and I’m pretty sanguine about these things. I asked him point blank if his first post needed sarcasm tags. No response. And then he started to double down. I asked people not to feed the troll, but the blood was up last night and The Mouse engaged.
It’s pointless having a member who is only here to piss people off. Sigh.
re: #292 William Lewis
What California is, is wealthy and very lucky by comparison. William I’m truly aghast at what I see from an admittedly comfortable distance. Wisconsin and elsewhere. Gerrymandering is gerrymandering. Not good policy. Our urban growth is beset with Hep A ill homeless. Official neglect in paradise. Parents move heaven and earth, break the law, lie about residence addresses to avoid LAUSD or somehow do better for the kids. Generations are under-educated despite big budget spending at the top.
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Any way, yes stuck in the middle with a fight in common along with the Democratic party membership. Against this wild swing to the far right and Trump.
re: #297 Unshaken Defiance
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Hooray! just reached 90K updings, only another 10,000 to go! How I live for these little random milestones.
Good morning! Sorry I’m late, had a epic sneezing fit.
re: #298 William Lewis
re: #293 Joe Bacon
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re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hooray! just reached 90K updings, only another 10,000 to go! How I live for these little random milestones.
:)
And yet we not only allowed every last Southern white not killed directly in the war to live, we eventually gave them back their provinces and they near-on reinvented slavery. We should have hanged even the damned draftee privates and given the South to the Black people alone.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
Because they honestly believe that the 1% need to pay only 1% of the taxes, and the 99%, 99% of them. Because they believe that poverty is divine punishment and if you start living right, their god will give you the money you then earned. And “it won’t and that’s not a bug”.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 2, 2017
I appreciate the sentiment, but not hopeful that this shit show dies:
Breaking: CONGRESS HAS NOT PASSED A TAX BILL YET. House & Senate passed 2 different bills. Nothing to send to president yet. This is half time. Plenty of bills have gotten this far and never become law.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) December 2, 2017
re: #304 Chrysicat
And yet, because they can not do math, they forget that 1 percent hold a majority of the percentage of wealth. That percentage is the percentage the top percent should be taxed at. No loopholes for the foreseeable future either.
re: #305 Dr. Matt
I appreciate the sentiment, but not hopeful that this shit show dies:
reconciliation will be a breeze here, after all, the only people they need to reconcile with are their donor base
re: #286 No Depression
Not necessarily. American politics can change drastically in the course of a few years. For instance, take 2004. Things looked pretty grim for the Democratic Party. Bush beat Kerry and the “Democrats in disarray” narrative was in full force (sound familiar?). But then in 2006, a blue wave swept Congress and in 2008, a black man whose last name rhymes with Osama became president. You think anyone in 2004 saw that coming?
This is where I’m at. I understand the pull towards doom, gloom, despair, and defeatism. I mean, hell, the GOP just rammed through a bill that NOBODY HAD READ AND WAS BEING WRITTEN ON THE FLY. That’s partisan politics at its logical extreme - “you will vote for this because I, the party leader, say so, and without any hesitation whatsoever.” That fucking sucks, and it is extremely depressing, but you know what? WE CAN’T GIVE UP OR GIVE IN. It’s not over yet. The damage might be terrible - who knows? But there is nothing, literally nothing, short of a nuclear apocalypse, that we can’t undo in time. And who knows? Maybe the complete disaster that is the state of our country right now might spur another Renaissance in our culture. Maybe, just maybe, we will emerge on the other side of the Second Dark Ages as a more enlightened country. I might not live to see it… but I fight and I endure in the hope that my kids will.
re: #307 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
reconciliation will be a breeze here, after all, the only people they need to reconcile with are their donor base
And the lobbyists
re: #306 A Mom Anon
And yet, because they can not do math, they forget that 1 percent hold a majority of the percentage of wealth. That percentage is the percentage the top percent should be taxed at. No loopholes for the foreseeable future either.
That’s not because they can’t do math. They can do the math just fine. Because they are all either part of the 1% or are beholden to them, they know full well what taxing the 1% at the appropriate level would do, and they want no part of that whatsoever. They aren’t ignorant, they are evil.
re: #308 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
This is where I’m at. I understand the pull towards doom, gloom, despair, and defeatism. I mean, hell, the GOP just rammed through a bill that NOBODY HAD READ AND WAS BEING WRITTEN ON THE FLY. That’s partisan politics at its logical extreme - “you will vote for this because I, the party leader, say so, and without any hesitation whatsoever.” That fucking sucks, and it is extremely depressing, but you know what? WE CAN’T GIVE UP OR GIVE IN. It’s not over yet. The damage might be terrible - who knows? But there is nothing, literally nothing, short of a nuclear apocalypse, that we can’t undo in time. And who knows? Maybe the complete disaster that is the state of our country right now might spur another Renaissance in our culture. Maybe, just maybe, we will emerge on the other side of the Second Dark Ages as a more enlightened country. I might not live to see it… but I fight and I endure in the hope that my kids will.
‘Zat you, Brother Leibowitz?
One last comment until this evening: I remember how this site was all “Democrats are going to lose Virginia.”
re: #311 Decatur Deb
‘Zat you, Brother Leibowitz?
I have to get ready for work at the gas station, but that reminds me of this before I go…
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent
enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of
saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an
opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master
builder and the worker.We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw
*This prayer was composed by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, drafted for a homily by Card. John Dearden in Nov. 1979 for a celebration of departed priests. As a reflection on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Bishop Romero, Bishop Untener included in a reflection book a passage titled “The mystery of the Romero Prayer.” The mystery is that the words of the prayer are attributed to Oscar Romero, but they were never spoken by him.
Phoenix weather: Why is it so hazy right now?
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Still not getting a lot of sun and still no rain. Feeling a little hazy crazy.
re: #312 Belafon
One last comment until this evening: I remember how this site was all “Democrats are going to lose Virginia.”
My adage is always, fear the worst, hope for the ebst. For what it’s worth, I was telling y’all we had Virginia but we surprised even me. And i na good way.
re: #313 William Lewis
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So, a Berner acquaintance of mine just posted this:
Sad day. This tax bill passed and the Rich get richer. It won’t trickle down. It won’t help other business because 10% of people having more money to by shit doesn’t equate to more jobs. There is nothing in this bill that is forcing companies to put the money back into their company. And now it begins the end of the ACA. Something that while flawed was still good for this country. My premiums had just begun to level off and now pretty much every economist has said we should expect our premiums to go up. Add to it that the ACA makes sure my son can’t be denied coverage for pre existing or capped. I’m numb. 2018 we can change the seats but it will be years before we can undo the damage. Sad day.
And he voted for Johnson. SMFH
re: #316 Decatur Deb
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re: #317 GlutenFreeJesus
Tell him to look at himself and say “thank you”. Because that’s what caused this bill to pass the senate today.
re: #317 GlutenFreeJesus
So, a Berner acquaintance of mine just posted this:
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And he voted for Johnson. SMFH
He voted for Johnson and he posts that?!?!?
Edit- not crap because in context, it’s right but Gary Johnson wasn’t exactly someone who wanted to keep the ACA’s friend.
re: #320 HappyWarrior
Exactly my thoughts.
Deficit Hawks my ass. Blow it up and blame Democrats and the poors for it while buying more expensive invisible plans.
re: #321 GlutenFreeJesus
Exactly my thoughts.
It amazes me how far lefties actually thought Gary Johnson ahd their interests economically speaking. I don’t like Bernie as you know but going from Bernie to Johnson shows a misunderstanding of what both men stand for on economics.
I mean I get why the Libertarians I know wanted Johnson but if you consider yourself concerned about economic inequality, Johnson definitely isn’t your guy at all. He’s never given any indication he sees that as a serious problem.
re: #312 Belafon
One last comment until this evening: I remember how this site was all “Democrats are going to lose Virginia.”
If I may quote Elrond: “There is naught for you to do other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone.”
On that note, I’ll be phone banking for Doug Jones this afternoon. Wish us all luck.
Trump claims GOP plan is largest tax cut in history. Fact Check please pic.twitter.com/4Gc6mRbyqs
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) December 2, 2017
I got a call from some non-profit for the FOP. I have no idea how they got my number but I feel reluctant to make donation. Not just because I only have so much money but because I feel the money I have would be better directed at otehr causes.
re: #327 Unshaken Defiance
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I think it doesn’t matter what the tax rate is, the very wealthy are always going to claim they’re taxed too much. Honestly, I think tax cuts should always be tailored to the majority of the population and thus the part of the population that would actually use money on a tax cut back in the economy. Supply Side Economics is a simple myth. It’s frustrating how we still don’t get this after all these years.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
I think it doesn’t matter what the tax rate is, the very wealthy are always going to claim they’re taxed too much. Honestly, I think tax cuts should always be tailored to the majority of the population and thus the part of the population that would actually use money on a tax cut back in the economy. Supply Side Economics is a simple myth. It’s frustrating how we still don’t get this after all these years.
Tax cuts need to be motivated by positive economic action. Capitol investment like equipment, expansion, foreign trade efforts, payroll at the middle and lower levels. She had a proposal a lot like that.
re: #331 Unshaken Defiance
Tax cuts need to be motivated by positive economic action. Capitol investment like equipment, expansion, foreign trade efforts, payroll at the middle and lower levels. She had a proposal a lot like that.
Exactly. Anyhow, I’m drafting up a newsletter about how Pai’s NN repeal would really hurt small business owners both current and prospective.
re: #279 Unshaken Defiance
Yikes I see what you mean.
I was reading through the thread at about 4AM, due to a disruptive cat and the onset of what appears to be a pretty nasty head cold.
I wanted to get up and toss my Kindle out the window.
re: #284 Unshaken Defiance
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Maybe this this a bad day for me to be posting. I don’t want to anger of offend. But all this give it up , defeatism and predictions of the break up of the USA are symptoms of the surrender mindset not prognostication skills.
Pick yourselves up. We have work to do. Win or effing lose.
Goddamn right, you are.
Fuck this ‘woe is me’ shit. Fuck that.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
I think it doesn’t matter what the tax rate is, the very wealthy are always going to claim they’re taxed too much. Honestly, I think tax cuts should always be tailored to the majority of the population and thus the part of the population that would actually use money on a tax cut back in the economy. Supply Side Economics is a simple myth. It’s frustrating how we still don’t get this after all these years.
Here’s an idea: 100% top marginal rate.
re: #334 makeitstop
Goddamn right, you are.
Fuck this ‘woe is me’ shit. Fuck that.
Fuckin’ right, eh!
I guess the livestreams are not allowed to be started a certain points in the buffer.
I’m puzzled by how slow and late the Dems’ mobilization against this tax bill has been. Messaging all over the map, too.
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) December 2, 2017
Looks like we’re gonna see a lot of this hot take. Media not looking in the mirror about how this debate was covered. https://t.co/ZwrKvkQIRX
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) December 2, 2017
Half the time Democrats went on TV to discuss the bill — one metric of messaging — they got poleaxed on sexual harassment. See the “Meet the Press” Pelosi interview, where she brought up taxes at the end bc it was never asked about. https://t.co/8QBxTIcz5l
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 2, 2017
There is a reason I was *very suspicious* about how only Dem congresscritters have been accused.
Republicans can’t govern but they can play the media like a fiddle. https://t.co/kA7x29mtSP— Elizabeth Rogers (@ahumorlessfem) December 2, 2017
This shit is why I find myself not grokking the ‘Dems don’t fight hard enough’ bullshit sometimes. If a tree falls in the forest, and the media refuses to cover it, did it really happen?…yes, of course it did, not that you’d fucking know about it.
There’s something to be said about how viciously they fight, maybe, but holy shit.
re: #335 No Depression
Here’s an idea: 100% top marginal rate.
we once had a 90% rate and it was during an era of great economic prosperity
re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow no insane Trump tweets this morning?
He’s shook, period.
We’re speculating about who did what and who knows what, but that fatass motherfucker is sitting in some room in the White House right now, and he knows how deep the shit he’s in is while we’re still guessing.
In 2001, only 31 out of 50 Democrats opposed the Bush tax cuts.
Last night, every single Democrat, even those up in 2018 in very red states, voted against Trump’s tax scam.— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) December 2, 2017
there is a rather left-leaning international website, moonofalabama, that insists that is totally anti-Hillary and anti-Obama and insists that Flynn was only promoting policy matters and there was nothing at all improper about the Trump campaign contacting the Russian government
but that argument totally ignores the business contacts between the Trump empire and oligarchs close to the russian government
re: #342 JordanRules
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I was happy to see Joe Manchin among them. I don’t like the guy but that was a nice relief because I know he knows that the Republicans are going to attack him for his opposition to said tax cuts even though the tax cut would really hurt his state.
The fact that people persist in trying to make it a ‘both sides same thing’ deal, as if both sides have equally gone off the rails, has helped immensely in normalizing the extremes the GOP has reached toward. Golden Mean Fallacy can kiss my ass.
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) December 2, 2017
So speaking of tax policy, how about resurrecting the economic plan worked up by the pros in HRCs’ campaign proposals?
Business Tax Changes
taxfoundation.org
Establishes a “financial risk” fee on large banks.
Cuts taxes for small businesses by expanding expensing (Section 179), increasing the number of businesses that are eligible for cash accounting, quadrupling the size of the startup deduction from $5,000 to $20,000, creating a small business “standard deduction,” and expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) credit for small businesses.
Reforms the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) and self-employment taxes (SECA) taxes, by broadening the NIIT tax base to include more business income.
Eliminates fossil fuel tax expenditures.
Establishes business tax credits for profit-sharing and apprenticeships.*
Enacts business tax reform in order to fund new infrastructure spending, although details have not been specified.*
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why lie if it’s all good?
TAXATION WITH ONLY-BILLIONAIRE REPRESENTATION
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) December 2, 2017
re: #345 Citizen K
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I can remember when there were GOPers who actually were pro-choice, pro LGBT rights, not advarse to environmental protection, etc. The party grows more extreme but the media creates a both sides narrative that fools less informed independents.
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there is a rather left-leaning international website, moonofalabama, that insists that is totally anti-Hillary and anti-Obama and insists that Flynn was only promoting policy matters and there was nothing at all improper about the Trump campaign contacting the Russian government
but that argument totally ignores the business contacts between the Trump empire and oligarchs close to the russian government
There is an element of the left very naive about Putin and Russia.
re: #350 HappyWarrior
There is an element of the left very naive about Putin and Russia.
the people who insist that Hillary and Obama were warmongers out to rekindle the Cold War
On the bright side, at least we’re getting the dankest of protest signs…
re: #349 HappyWarrior
I can remember when there were GOPers who actually were pro-choice, pro LGBT rights, not advarse to environmental protection, etc. The party grows more extreme but the media creates a both sides narrative that fools less informed independents.
Hell, look at the bullshit coming from the lefter-than-thous since during the campaign. It’s fooling them beyond measure too. That’s where that absurd ‘Fish Hook Theory’ bullshit is coming from.
Just a drive-by, and I may have missed someone posting this earlier, but many Freepers are not happy with this tax bill. It’s a fairly contentious issue over there and they have even been calling each other names over it here and there. The comments seem to have started more negative, and are trending a bit more positive now, but a lot of people have noticed that they won’t be the ones saving money. They still love Trump, of course, but those evil establishment GOP folks are selling us out.
re: #354 calochortus
Just a drive-by, and I may have missed someone posting this earlier, but many Freepers are not happy with this tax bill. It’s a fairly contentious issue over there and they have even been calling each other names over it here and there. The comments seem to have started more negative, and are trending a bit more positive now, but a lot of people have noticed that they won’t be the ones saving money. They still love Trump, of course, but those evil establishment GOP folks are selling us out.
That tends to tell me that soon as Trump signs it, they’ll be all for it. Because contrarianism, God-King, ‘take that libs’, etc.
re: #353 Citizen K
Hell, look at the bullshit coming from the lefter-than-thous since during the campaign. It’s fooling them beyond measure too. That’s where that absurd ‘Fish Hook Theory’ bullshit is coming from.
Absolutely.
re: #355 Citizen K
That tends to tell me that soon as Trump signs it, they’ll be all for it. Because contrarianism, God-King, ‘take that libs’, etc.
They won’t be happy when it’s time to pay more in taxes, though. They might not support their GOP congressman’s reelection, for example. This is not a popular bill.
Amazing crowd here in Dayton, fired up and ready to rally!#ProtectWorkingFamilies #NotOnePenny pic.twitter.com/DXOyoaFifg
— Tax March (@taxmarch) December 2, 2017
Big protest against #TaxScamBill in Dayton, Ohio on a Saturday morning. The public gets it: this bill is legislative looting. https://t.co/VITHcM1yxT
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) December 2, 2017
@taxmarch also Philly pic.twitter.com/03jI6UgFYr
— Scbeltz (@scbeltz26) December 2, 2017
re: #357 calochortus
They won’t be happy when it’s time to pay more in taxes, though. They might not support their GOP congressman’s reelection, for example. This is not a popular bill.
They’ll pay lip service to it, they’ll say how enthusiastic they are about the bill now that it’s signed into law, they’ll rub it in our faces… then they’ll bitch and moan come April and primary their congresscritters in the fall.
re: #359 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They’ll pay lip service to it, they’ll say how enthusiastic they are about the bill now that it’s signed into law, they’ll rub it in our faces… then they’ll bitch and moan come April and primary their congresscritters in the fall.
I’m inclined to think so.
Anyway, I’ve got to get moving on a few things this morning.
Catch you all later.
re: #357 calochortus
They won’t be happy when it’s time to pay more in taxes, though.
And as much as the applied spin will attempt to blame it on ‘obstructionist Democrats,’ the record is clear. Not a single Dem voted for any of this.
Republicans own this shitpile. It’s all theirs. They wrote it, they pushed it, they voted for it. It may take a while for that simple fact to sink in, but it’s going to.
If this piece of crap becomes law, the Great Awakening should start happening just as the midterms start heating up. Sure, a lot of the RWNJ cementheads will never realize how badly they’ve been conned, but quite a few will.
Toss in further indictments and guilty pleas in and around the White House (and maybe even Congress), and there will be some storm cooking up by next Summer…
Hundreds of protesters take to the streets of Hanover to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party pic.twitter.com/kylZLULizp
— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 2, 2017
re: #361 makeitstop
And as much as the applied spin will attempt to blame it on ‘obstructionist Democrats,’ the record is clear. Not a single Dem voted for any of this.
Republicans own this shitpile. It’s all theirs. They wrote it, they pushed it, they voted for it. It may take a while for that simple fact to sink in, but it’s going to.
If this piece of crap becomes law, the Great Awakening should start happening just as the midterms start heating up. Sure, a lot of the RWNJ cementheads will never realize how badly they’ve been conned, but quite a few will.
Toss in further indictments and guilty pleas in and around the White House (and maybe even Congress), and there will be some storm cooking up by next Summer…
I want to be clear on one thing: Even if this doesn’t happen… even if everything is smooth sailing for the crooks and liars on the Right and they get everything they want without serious consequences… we still need to keep fighting. Eventually, we will prevail. It may not be soon enough to prevent damage, but together, we can undo it in the end.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel— Bill Morris (@LCARS_24) December 2, 2017
I gotta admit, I’m stunned by the extent to which the GOP has truly embraced the idea that Facts Don’t Matter.
I mean, sure, they always had a problem with the truth, because the truth was so seldom on their side. But in the past they at least tried to make it seem as if they cared, by doing things like putting out poorly researched handwaving bullshit think tank reports that used cherrypicking and bad analysis to support their arguments.
Now? Every analysis, including the one they insisted was THE one that mattered (dynamic scoring) came out against them - BIGLY - but they blithely insist that it will lower the deficit.
And everyone watched as they steamrolled this through, even releasing the bill in its final form with handwritten marginal notes as the text of the bill! but they blithely insist this wasn’t a rushed process.
re: #362 JordanRules
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Had an unplanned stopover there this summer on my way to Amsterdam via Berlin.
I just found out there’s pumpkin spice hummus. Which makes me wonder:
If we were cannibals, would healthy vegans or fat meat eaters taste better? Take catfish, crabs, lobsters: they eat all the crap at the bottom, all the junk, but are the candy of the sea.
re: #368 dangerman
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It was pointed out last night that the GOP rejected universal Pre-K and community college because of the “cost.” Fucking frauds.
re: #364 JordanRules
Sarah Kendzior’s view makes the most sense to me - she’s one of those people who seem to strike just the right balance between seeing the threat for what it is but refusing to give in:
Why is the GOP so comfortable pushing massively unpopular policies like TrumpCare, the tax bill, and the end of net neutrality?
Because they’re also working to eliminate free and fair elections. https://t.co/nIrPN5F92l pic.twitter.com/tFstakQqnm— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 29, 2017
People ask if I have hope. Hope’s not a feeling I relate to. But I value pragmatism and compassion and it’s overflowing in the US right now.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) February 24, 2017
So…that’s where to start - don’t fall for false, misleading hope, but harness pragmatism and compassion to overcome voter suppression as much as possible.
Twitler is tweeting and incriminating himself:
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017
re: #367 BigPapa
I just found out there’s pumpkin spice hummus. Which makes me wonder:
If we were cannibals, would healthy vegans or fat meat eaters taste better? Take catfish, crabs, lobsters: they eat all the crap at the bottom, all the junk, but are the candy of the sea.
Hard to beat a well-marbled evangelist.
‘I Don’t Think He Did Anything Wrong.’ 5 Times President Trump Defended Michael Flynn
Live by Twitter, die by Twitter.
Trump just admitted he fired Mike Flynn knowing he’d lied to the FBI as he was pressuring Comey to end the FBI’s investigation of Flynn. Obstruction of justice doesn’t get more cut and dry.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) December 2, 2017
re: #370 Interesting Times
Yup. Agreed! She strikes the balance exceedingly well for me too.
I do hold hope in a different place though. It’s strategic for me at this point and there is a great tradition of hope in many movements that I admire.
re: #363 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I want to be clear on one thing: Even if this doesn’t happen… even if everything is smooth sailing for the crooks and liars on the Right and they get everything they want without serious consequences… we still need to keep fighting. Eventually, we will prevail. It may not be soon enough to prevent damage, but together, we can undo it in the end.
Absolutely.
Even if the worst is inevitable, there’s zero reason for us to show our bellies and make it easy, and every reason to make their progress as utterly unpleasant and difficult as we can..
re: #372 Decatur Deb
I can’t imagine tasting anything less than fabulous after eating paella all day, sucking down some good pinot and finishing with a nitecap of fine single malt.
Or would you rather eat a spindly yoga freak that eats lettuce?
re: #366 HappyWarrior
Went for an IT conference in the early 00’s. I really enjoyed the city!
Stupid son of a bitch.
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017
Oh my god, he just admitted to obstruction of justice. If Trump knew Flynn lied to the FBI when he asked Comey to let it go, then there is your case. https://t.co/c6Wtd0TfzW
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) December 2, 2017
Why is Wikipedia ad-free? Because ads have no place on an educational resource that strives for balance and neutrality. #ILoveWikipedia pic.twitter.com/p7KIy6Hxle
— Wikipedia (@Wikipedia) December 2, 2017
Wikipedia is right about this. Advertising is the original sin that builds into any media venture, no matter how idealistic it begins, a constant, permanent weight that drags down truthful journalism at every turn. https://t.co/c2pijumplm
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) December 2, 2017
Trump just saved us a couple of 10’s of millions in Special Counsel budget with that tweet. Most very fiscal!
I keep thinking of the economy and the tax bills in terms of stoichiometry. You have an equation, right? And on one side you have all the starting materials. On the other side you have the products. Like this:
2(H2) + 02 = 2(H2O)
That’s it. You need two Hydrogen molecules for every Oxygen molecule to get Water. If you have 5 times as many Hydrogen molecules as Oxygens, you’ll only get as many Water molecules as you had Oxygen molecules. No matter how much Hydrogen you add, you won’t get more Water without more Oxygen.
Right now, corporations and the wealthy have more money than they’ve ever had. Working and middle class families, however, haven’t had a real raise in decades. All the while growth has been slowing. Clearly, corporate wealth and wealthy person wealth have not been limiting. Adding more to those piles won’t increase growth much.
The GOP is throwing more money onto those piles. The stoichiometry is wrong.
No shit.
GOP eyes post-tax-cut changes to welfare, Medicare and Social Security
re: #382 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m pretty sure that contemporary economic theory doesn’t work like chemistry.
Yet I think the biggest problem in all this is, frankly, most voters pretty much don’t care about facts.
That’s why negative adverts work, why slicksters like your local creepy evangelist stays in business, etc.
Impulse on the one hand, habit on the other. That explains our elections.
re: #379 JordanRules
Wikipedia is right about this. Advertising is the original sin that builds into any media venture, no matter how idealistic it begins, a constant, permanent weight that drags down truthful journalism at every turn.
Even as a kid, I admired Mad Magazine for of its no-advertising policy, which would have impeded its ability to parodize whatever it saw fit to poke fun at
re: #375 makeitstop
Absolutely.
Even if the worst is inevitable, there’s zero reason for us to show our bellies and make it easy, and every reason to make their progress as utterly unpleasant and difficult as we can..
Stiff upper lip, chaps. Show some of that old British wartime spirit. That’s basically what we need right now: A good old dose of Winston Churchill. “Never give up, never surrender.”
/Oh, wait, that’s Galaxy Quest
re: #383 Decatur Deb
No shit.
GOP eyes post-tax-cut changes to welfare, Medicare and Social Security
But… but Mitch PROMISED Susan Collins that Medicare would be safe!
(gaaaah)
re: #383 Decatur Deb
No shit.
GOP eyes post-tax-cut changes to welfare, Medicare and Social Security
Enough people are going to see enough short-term tax relief from this bill that they will continue to vote GOP.
re: #388 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Enough people are going to see enough short-term tax relief from this bill that they will continue to vote GOP.
Until after 2018, at which point they don’t really give a fuck because they got what they wanted.
re: #386 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Drat, I was saving the Galaxy Quest quote for after Elrond.
All spending is jobs spending.
All taxation is redistribution of money from one pile to another.
Money is not what people think it is. Money, especially since the advent of reserve banking, is about controlling spigots in the total economic activity of the society.
By putting more money into fewer hands, the activity of most people will decrease.
This is why for most of the 20th century the idea was to move money from the few to the many, through taxation: it enabled the totality of the society economic activity, otherwise labeled as “growth” but I think that latter is a bit of a misnomer. We’re really talking about activity. If the population grows then of course the total number of interactions grows also so there is your “growth”.
But in those few nations with shrinking population the need is for a sustainable society, not one which worships “growth”.
re: #390 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Drat, I was saving the Galaxy Quest quote for after Elrond.
Mrs. Fish and I are watching a new show called Future Man. It’s seriously cheesy, starring Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games fame, and it’s basically a TV series adaptation of the story line of Galaxy Quest, only using a video game instead of “the historical documents”. It’s crude and a bit graphic at times, but it does have its moments of sheer hilarity.
re: #383 Decatur Deb
No shit.
GOP eyes post-tax-cut changes to welfare, Medicare and Social Security
Well somebody has to sacrifice to pay for the huge budget deficit that the Republicans just passed but say doesn’t exist.
The GOP today is not only dishonest but it is also intellectually bankrupt.
This, I propose, stems from the hyper-religiosity that has spread throughout the GOP structure.
NIXON: I had to order the break-in! Those bastards had valuable information. There was nothing to hide!
17.7K Retweets 40.3K Favs— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) December 2, 2017
re: #384 freetoken
I’m pretty sure that contemporary economic theory doesn’t work like chemistry.
Yet I think the biggest problem in all this is, frankly, most voters pretty much don’t care about facts.
That’s why negative adverts work, why slicksters like your local creepy evangelist stays in business, etc.
Impulse on the one hand, habit on the other. That explains our elections.
I’d say that depends on whether you’re talking about Austrian bullshit handwaving economic theory, or reality-based, data-driven Keynesian economic theory.
And in any case, it’s really just a way of looking at the problem. You can just look at it logically - if corporations and the wealthiest already have more money than they’ve ever had, there’s no logical reason to conclude that the reason the economy isn’t growing faster is because they don’t have enough.
That was a pretty epic self own by Trump. Hopefully, Mueller is watching…
re: #398 Eclectic Cyborg
That was a pretty epic self own by Trump. Hopefully, Mueller is watching…
He sees you when you’re sleeping. He sees you when awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good.
re: #391 Decatur Deb
“Lie to me, I promise I’ll believe it.”
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Was she with Lance Armstrong when she did that song?
re: #398 Eclectic Cyborg
That was a pretty epic self own by Trump. Hopefully, Mueller is watching…
Apparently he’s been getting coached by James O’Keefe.
re: #398 Eclectic Cyborg
That was a pretty epic self own by Trump. Hopefully, Mueller is watching…
[trump] MY TWITTER WAS HACKED! AN INTERN! F*CKING AUTOCORRECT!!!! ANYTHING!! HILLARY CLINTON!!! [/trump]
re: #398 Eclectic Cyborg
That was a pretty epic self own by Trump. Hopefully, Mueller is watching…
That tweet gets added to what is undoubtedly a long list by now.
Once the report is issued, we’ll be able to compare it to Trump’s Twitter TL and we’ll find out that the one thing Trump is really good at is self-incrimination.
re: #393 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Mrs. Fish and I are watching a new show called Future Man. It’s seriously cheesy, starring Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games fame, and it’s basically a TV series adaptation of the story line of Galaxy Quest, only using a video game instead of “the historical documents”. It’s crude and a bit graphic at times, but it does have its moments of sheer hilarity.
Sounds like fun. The movie Zathura does something like that.
(My most recent discovery is The Good Place. Comedy about the afterlife.)
re: #400 wrenchwench
Was she with Lance Armstrong when she did that song?
No one could keep up with Lance.
re: #404 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Sounds like fun. The movie Zathura does something like that.
(My most recent discovery is The Good Place. Comedy about the afterlife.)
Eh, I’m not a big fan of awkward humor, and there is a lot of it in this show. But when it isn’t doing that, it is funny, and Hutcherson shows off his acting chops pretty well.
re: #395 freetoken
The GOP today is not only dishonest but it is also intellectually bankrupt.
This, I propose, stems from the hyper-religiosity that has spread throughout the GOP structure.
I’d say it stems from the inability to deal with the racist founding of this nation and the way they still profit from it. The religiosity is a tool in the arsenal they do battle with. Oh, wait. That makes it a weapon. Weapons are tools, right? But not all tools are weapons. Unless you throw them hard enough, or define your terms weirdly enough.
re: #407 wrenchwench
If you shoot a ping-pong ball fast enough, it can kill somebody rip a seriously impressive hole into a pig.
re: #408 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If you shoot a ping-pong ball fast enough, it can
kill somebodyrip a seriously impressive hole into a pig.
Not sure I want to ask how you know this.
re: #408 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If you shoot a ping-pong ball fast enough, it can
kill somebodyrip a seriously impressive hole into a pig.
There was a case that I may have heard of because my mom went to a cheap law school where a guy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for throwing a pumpkin at a cop. And they give those to kids with knives! (Only once a year, thank goodness).
re: #409 Eclectic Cyborg
The same theory can be used for a ball bearing. If shoot it out of a device fast enough you can break a window or something bigger.
re: #409 Eclectic Cyborg
Not sure I want to ask how you know this.
MythBusters (the original, not that new shit Discovery is trying to push).
See if I were to believe in the kind of things Trump supporters do, I’d be greatly annoyed by Trump because he’s such a stupid moron with no self control. That may be why some of the somewhat more intelligent racists like Coulter have turned on Trump in some ways.
re: #416 makeitstop
But she deleted 33,000 emails.
Word of the day: ‘cete’ (n.) - a group of badgers. pic.twitter.com/YqcKaG940M
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) December 2, 2017
re: #423 sagehen
And that is why Cook’s Illustrated has no ads too.
cooksillustrated.com
re: #26 Interesting Times
The Declaration of Independence was handwritten. Somehow we managed ok.
Yeah, because handwriting at the time was the major method of communication at distance, so an effort was made to use handwriting that others could actually read. Even more importantly, time was allowed for other people to read it.
Caveat: it’s possible I’ve just been too ruthlessly efficient at muting or unfriending RWNJs on my social media feeds.
But there’s been almost nothing in the last few days that I’ve seen from anyone - even the “usual suspects” - showing any enthusiasm for the Shit Sandwich Act of 2017.
About all I’ve seen was one provocateur saying “yeah it’s a crap bill and it won’t help anyone but I love watching libs freak out.”
If that’s the best their side can muster for enthusiasm, I’m cautiously optimistic about our electoral prospects in 2018.
re: #429 ipsos
Caveat: it’s possible I’ve just been too ruthlessly efficient at muting or unfriending RWNJs on my social media feeds.
But there’s been almost nothing in the last few days that I’ve seen from anyone - even the “usual suspects” - showing any enthusiasm for the Shit Sandwich Act of 2017.
About all I’ve seen was one provocateur saying “yeah it’s a crap bill and it won’t help anyone but I love watching libs freak out.”
If that’s the best their side can muster for enthusiasm, I’m cautiously optimistic about our electoral prospects in 2018.
I haven’t seen any thing from my wingnut friends about it. But they don’t focus on actual policy, just whining.
That sweet smell of new threadage wafting in from the kitchen…
re: #421 Teukka
My wife had never seen that meme I discovered recently.
re: #374 JordanRules
Yup. Agreed! She strikes the balance exceedingly well for me too.
I do hold hope in a different place though. It’s strategic for me at this point and there is a great tradition of hope in many movements that I admire.
I like Barbara Kingsolver’s view of hope and optimism:
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between being optimistic and being hopeful. I would say that I’m a hopeful person, although not necessarily optimistic. Here’s how I would describe it. The pessimist would say, “It’s going to be a terrible winter; we’re all going to die.” The optimist would say, “Oh, it’ll be all right; I don’t think it’ll be that bad.” The hopeful person would say, “Maybe someone will still be alive in February, so I’m going to put some potatoes in the root cellar just in case.” And that’s where I lodge myself on this spectrum.
Hope is a mode of survival. I think hope is a mode of resistance. Hope is how parents get through the most difficult parts of their kids’ teenaged years. Hope is how a cancer patient endures painful treatments. Hope is how people on a picket line keep showing up. If you look at hope that way, it’s not a state of mind but something we actually do with our hearts and our hands, to navigate ourselves through the difficult passages. I think that as a fiction writer—or any kind of writer—hope is a gift I can try to cultivate.
re: #420 wrenchwench
I love the white cat just sitting there observing.
re: #435 retired cynic
I love the white cat just sitting there observing.
I thought it was a cat statue.
two well thought out comments from political-wire, paraphrased:
adding 5 bucks to the deficit to feed a hungry American is a mortal sin.
adding a trillion to give tax cuts to people who don’t need it is a moral imperative.
and
some Americans even if they think the 1% don’t pay enough are willing to let them rip us off because they don’t want that money shared with non-whites through social programs
re: #434 BeachDem
That’s very, very good! Love how she ties it into her work.
Saved! Thanks for sharing.
I had a freaky incident happen while I was walking to work today. I took an unusual route because it’s the last First Saturday Garage sale of the year at one of the churches just out of my way to work. I went one more block out of my way because there was a kitty on the sidewalk in the middle of the next block coming towards me. As I got nearer, I noticed it looked EXACTLY like my Manx, but with a full tail. I mean EXACTLY, down to the placement of each tabby stripe, and the face markings.
When I got my Manx, and one of his brothers, there were three others in the litter that I couldn’t take. Two were orange tabbies, and one was the biggest of the five, and a match for the Manx, which I had grabbed first (pardon the expression) because I had been wanting and wishing for a Manx, having had a wonderful childhood experience of a Manx in the home. My Manx was the runt of the litter.
I met his big brother today. They are now the same size, except for the tail. They are 10 years old.
re: #435 retired cynic
I love the white cat just sitting there observing.
Some cats have a weird combo of extreme bravery and moderate stupidity…
re: #441 scottslemmons
Some cats have a weird combo of extreme bravery and moderate stupidity…
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Little Napoleon Kitty Syndrome. They all have that.
re: #441 scottslemmons
Some cats have a weird combo of extreme bravery and moderate stupidity…
So we went to visit the wild animal park in Dundee, Scotland. My wife had a cairn terrier that was always close at her feet. We saw no signs at the gate reading no dogs allowed and the ticket seller did not notice the dog, so we went in with the dog.
Coming to the wolf enclosure, I was surprised to see a wolf spot our dog and then run off…until I saw that he had simply gone off to alert the rest of the pack and bring them back!
We were later advised that dogs were not in fact allowed, we asked why there was no sign and the caretaker said that they were having such trouble formulating the text of a sign that indicated that seeing-eye or aid dogs were allowed that they elected not to put up a sign at all.
I found that rather odd.
But then again, it was Dundee.
Credible poll shows Jones slightly ahead in AL. (If anything, GMU has a conservative bent.)
re: #444 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So we went to visit the wild animal park in Dundee, Scotland. My wife had a cairn terrier that was always close at her feet. We saw no signs at the gate reading no dogs allowed and the ticket seller did not notice the dog, so we went in with the dog.
Coming to the wolf enclosure, I was surprised to see a wolf spot our dog and then run off…until I saw that he had simply gone off to alert the rest of the pack and bring them back!
We were later advised that dogs were not in fact allowed, we asked why there was no sign and the caretaker said that they were having such trouble formulating the text of a sign that indicated that seeing-eye or aid dogs were allowed that they elected not to put up a sign at all.
I found that rather odd.
But then again, it was Dundee.
This is one of those cases where I really wish I knew what animals were thinking. Were the wolves thinking “Oh boy, here comes lunch!” or “HOLY FUCK, YOU GUYS, IT’S A HOBBIT!”
Interesting thought - the ‘second obstruction’ question.
.@AndyMcCanse argues Flynn’s guilty plea raises “a second obstruction question” related to Trump’s tweet: Did Trump direct Flynn to lie to the FBI? https://t.co/hDcwke2e5m
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 2, 2017
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017
It appears the president just confessed to a crime on twitter. He asked Comey to back off Flynn knowing Flynn had lied to the FBI. #ObstructionOfJustice https://t.co/O6x4FVYOET
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 2, 2017
re: #449 Teukka
You’re toast! pic.twitter.com/3liM6KQj79
— Kristian Uldall (@KrisUldall) December 2, 2017
People have learned to spot Russians. Check the replies to this one.
Neither is the President Trump! 😂😂😂
— EnchantedApril (@EnchantdApril) December 2, 2017
Republicans live in a fantasy world.
Fortunately that didn’t happen. That’s just propaganda being circulated by the corrupt far-right as the law catches up with the madman they made President.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 2, 2017
Best meme I’ve seen in a while.
#AMJoy @MSNBC @MalcolmNance explaining why this is true! pic.twitter.com/kJGgIWXB7G
— transplant girl (@karenannmilo) December 2, 2017
re: #452 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You hit the nail on the head.
re: #453 makeitstop
Best meme I’ve seen in a while.
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The worst day of his life will be his first day behind bars. And may it be soon.
re: #456 Teukka
I will take your word for it. Each time I click on the link I get those dang (I am being very polite) pop-ups.
The stupidity of Trump is only eclipsed by Trump’s unwavering belief in his intelligence. It is going to be his undoing.
— John Norton (@DCJohnNorton) December 2, 2017
re: #457 PhillyPretzel
I will take your word for it. Each time I click on the link I get those dang (I am being very polite) pop-ups.
Adblock Plus. Just sayin’…
Bad etiquette to cut fine steak with scissors? Asking for a friend…
re: #459 Teukka
Thank you. I will keep that in mind.
re: #457 PhillyPretzel
(I am being very polite)
I confess to wondering sometimes what it would take to make you fly off the handle.
re: #456 Teukka
Former ethics director: Trump’s tweet on Flynn could end presidency
I got a feeling Shittler knows that the moment he signs the tax bill Republicans have no more use for him!
re: #460 BigPapa
Bad etiquette to cut fine steak with scissors? Asking for a friend…
Just lubricate the blades with liberal amounts of ketchup.
re: #460 BigPapa
Bad etiquette to cut fine steak with scissors? Asking for a friend…
Just make sure the scissors are equally fine.
Does anyone here have any clue about this tax proposal and how it affects sole proprietors? I’m trying to figure out if I would still be able to deduct my business expenses from my gross income to get a net income. I’m also wondering if I’m going to be able to deduct my health insurance premiums which are outrageously high and that I simply cannot afford, but have to have anyway.
re: #463 Joe Bacon 🌹
I got a feeling Shittler knows that the moment he signs the tax bill Republicans have no more use for him!
Someone should drop a tweet on Trump’s account saying that ‘sources say’ Congress is going to dump him once the Tax bill is signed. He’d probably back right off and refuse to sign it.
re: #456 Teukka
Former ethics director: Trump’s tweet on Flynn could end presidency
Never fear, the librul NYT is here to play concern troll:
re: #469 Dr. Matt
Never fear, the librul NYT is here to play concern troll:
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Don’t tell me, lemme guess - Haberman, yeah?
re: #470 makeitstop
Don’t tell me, lemme guess - Haberman, yeah?
Huh, bad guess. A Haberman-in-training.
re: #462 wrenchwench
You do not want to know. Several times I have almost resorted to foul language in this forum but since I wanted to stay here I have deleted what I have typed and just walked away. I rather do that.
re: #472 Dr. Matt
Christina Caron
Coming up next—the Screw York Times reverts to their usual Kill Hillary mode!
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
Monkey Butlers is my new band name. Thank you!
re: #473 PhillyPretzel
You do not want to know. Several times I have almost resorted to foul language in this forum but since I wanted to stay here I have deleted what I have typed and just walked away. I rather do that.
Resorting to bad language is half the fun if you ask me.
But I’m just a hopeless potty-mouth in real life, too. :)
re: #339 Citizen K
This shit is why I find myself not grokking the ‘Dems don’t fight hard enough’ bullshit sometimes. If a tree falls in the forest, and the media refuses to cover it, did it really happen?…yes, of course it did, not that you’d fucking know about it.
I’m fully aware the MSM has a terminal case of both-sideris, just as I’m fully aware GOPers are fascist, vote-suppressing sickopaths. I’m also fully aware of how utterly unjust this is.
That being said - it still behooves the Dems to come up with a way to fight both these things to the best of their ability, and I’m still not convinced that ALL of them are doing that. Take the MSM bullshit, for example - why do the Dems have to go along with their disingenuous questions and framing? Have you noticed how GOPer spinmasters are excerpts at *pretending* to give an answer to a question, only to - within miliseconds - pivot around to their own framing and even a completely different subject?
GOPers talk about what THEY want to talk about, interview question be damned. Dems play nice and go on the defensive instead -_-
Enough of that weak tea rubbish. Analyze this video of Kellyanne Conway’s techniques, and figure out how you can use some of them as a force for good instead of evil (especially the one where she pivots from an unfavorable question to a filibuster of the points she wants to make):
As I predicted some time ago, and because I demanded like a petulant man child, there is a new thread ->
re: #478 Interesting Times
Hypothetical scenario as example:
MSM Both-siderist dipshit: “The Democrats have a major sexual harassment problem so does that mean you have no standing to criticize Roy Moore?”
Dem politician who knows what’s what: “We take all allegations seriously and have implemented proper due process to investigate. Contrast this to GOPers who only engage in denial, completely dismissing the victims of trump, moore, [go on to list all other GOPers accused of sexual harassment] and even going so far as to hire a woman to lie about being raped in an effort to discredit actual victims. It should be clear to any voter that Democrats take these allegations seriously and handle them appropriately while the GOP does nothing but protect and enable predators.”
That may not be perfect, but it gives you an idea - unless they either refuse to *ever* invite Dems on their shows (in which case, an ad/social media campaign calling it out would be appropriate, as well as going directly to voters) or do the fox mic-cutting trick, there’s always a way to get your message out even when faced with a hostile and willfully stupid both-siderist media.
re: #478 Interesting Times
I’ve seen plenty of Dems do this because they are politicians so lots of them know the game. Then plenty of folks start in with the “all of them are just alike”, “why can’t they just answer the question”, “why can’t they just talk regular” type of feedback. Plus, they have to get invited more in order to test new press comms strategies.
There is a representation problem at every level of media, from ownership to who works there to what talent is used to what resources are exploited or ignored.
re: #483 Interesting Times
And here is the message I can easily see them pushing after an interview with that perfectly good and smart quote…
Dems pointing to GOP as unanswered harassment issues continue to plague them.
re: #466 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Does anyone here have any clue about this tax proposal and how it affects sole proprietors? I’m trying to figure out if I would still be able to deduct my business expenses from my gross income to get a net income. I’m also wondering if I’m going to be able to deduct my health insurance premiums which are outrageously high and that I simply cannot afford, but have to have anyway.
PRE-COMMENT NOTE—I MIGHT BE 100% WRONG
I’ve been trying to find the same thing. All I have seen (that I even understand) is that if you change the structure of your business to an S (?) or C (?) you get a pass-through option but otherwise, you’re fucked and can’t deduct home office expenses, supplies, insurance etc. (I am in the you’re fucked category.) Somewhere I read that the repeal of the Johnson amendment has something to do with all of this (in addition to allowing pulpit pimps to “all skate.”)
I am not sure if that is all correct—if you find a clear explanation, please share.
re: #448 makeitstop
“Just unreal”: Trump’s latest tweet about Flynn indicates he’s either “utterly clueless about his own jeopardy” or “truly believes he is beyond accountability,” experts say
a bit of both.
look, there are enough charges out there to impeach DT: conflict of interests, obstruction of justice, emoluments clause, but the political will is lacking
what makes you think that a mueller indictment is suddenly going to be enough to get them to change their minds?
re: #121 austin_blue
A-Basin was a favorite of mine growing up. Went there quite a bit because my dad really liked it too. When my parents were living in Eagle, Beaver Creek became the favorite.
re: #485 JordanRules
And here is the message I can easily see them pushing after an interview with that perfectly good and smart quote…
Dems pointing to GOP as unanswered harassment issues continue to plague them.
Are you reading Maggie Haberman’s mind? :/
I figured something like that would happen, but again, all the more reason to call them out and push the original point over and over again - for example, the NY Times is still a festering pile of nazi-normalizing false equivalence, but they *did* have to do a defensive dance of their own in response to pushback over their “meet the nice midwestern nazi next door” piece.
re: #158 goddamnedfrank
That’s my policy. If an R is running unopposed, I do not vote.
re: #487 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a bit of both.
look, there are enough charges out there to impeach DT: conflict of interests, obstruction of justice, emoluments clause, but the political will is lacking
what makes you think that a mueller indictment is suddenly going to be enough to get them to change their minds?
I believe in the Rule of Law, as I’ve been saying for over a year now.
Mueller is smarter than the entire Trump ‘brain trust’ combined, and his staff of specialists is busy locking this down from every conceivable angle. They know their case law. They’re building a case that will be pardon-proof. They are proceeding in a deliberate manner, sealing each and every potential loophole as they go. Their case against Trump, by the time they serve it, will be bulletproof.
And the Mueller indictment of Trump will be by no means ‘sudden.’ By the time they get to that slug, he’ll have a full compliment of aides, advisors, spokespeople, cabnet members, appointees, maybe a few members of Congress, family members.
He’s got four scalps already. As he gets closer to Trump himself, members of Congress are complicit will have gotten the message and will be ore interested in saving their own asses than covering up for some mob-boss wannabe.
Once self-preservation becomes a priority, the political will will be there.
re: #328 HappyWarrior
I got a call from some non-profit for the FOP. I have no idea how they got my number but I feel reluctant to make donation. Not just because I only have so much money but because I feel the money I have would be better directed at otehr causes.
Watch those FOP donations. Always ask the percentage of the donated money going to the target (your local FOP). A lot of times it is ridiculously low like 5-10%. That is a scam.
re: #333 makeitstop
I was reading through the thread at about 4AM, due to a disruptive cat and the onset of what appears to be a pretty nasty head cold.
I wanted to get up and toss my Kindle out the window.
The Brian J. Show.
Very low rated.
re: #444 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So we went to visit the wild animal park in Dundee, Scotland. My wife had a cairn terrier that was always close at her feet. We saw no signs at the gate reading no dogs allowed and the ticket seller did not notice the dog, so we went in with the dog.
Coming to the wolf enclosure, I was surprised to see a wolf spot our dog and then run off…until I saw that he had simply gone off to alert the rest of the pack and bring them back!
We were later advised that dogs were not in fact allowed, we asked why there was no sign and the caretaker said that they were having such trouble formulating the text of a sign that indicated that seeing-eye or aid dogs were allowed that they elected not to put up a sign at all.
I found that rather odd.
But then again, it was Dundee.
Service dogs only? Works most places.
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