President Trump’s recent temper tantrums may have been triggered by the an upcoming book full of unflattering information and Trump’s real motives behind his presidential bid.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 5, 2018
Repeating myself from that last thread:
I’ve seen some bits and pieces here and there suggesting that this Michael Wolff fellow isn’t necessarily known for dotting every i and crossing every t, journalism-wise.
So don’t be surprised if some details of this book are found to be wrong.
I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
Translating from Trump to English: “Its all true. I’m going to spend my last days in a cell.’ https://t.co/WEBqYijTV3
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 5, 2018
re: #2 Scout
Repeating myself from that last thread:
I’ve seen some bits and pieces here and there suggesting that this Michael Wolff fellow isn’t necessarily known for dotting every i and crossing every t, journalism-wise.
So don’t be surprised if some details of this book are found to be wrong.
Wolff says he has dozens of hours of recordings to back up every quote in his book.
.@Medium It’s difficult to find words to express how disappointing and disgusting it was to open my email this morning and find far right Pizzagate-promoting rape apologist Mike Cernovich as your top featured writer. What a disgrace.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2017
As disappointing as it was to see @medium promoting far right rape apologist Mike Cernovich 5 days ago, it’s even more disappointing that they didn’t even bother to respond to this tweet. Speaks volumes. https://t.co/DnHYc6n9ot
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2018
So I was one of the 6 guests at the Bannon-Ailes dinner party in January 2017 and every word I’ve seen from the book about it is absolutely accurate. It was an astonishing night… pic.twitter.com/I4vgOrHOYb
— Janice Min (@janicemin) January 4, 2018
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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These guys need to stop being normalized. Cernovich is a sick bastard.
FBI says armed white supremacist tried to attack Amtrak train, was interested in “killing black people” https://t.co/ckJ9lmh13P
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 5, 2018
“This was a real life version of Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers.’ Now in some ways it still is, I mean just look at all the happy nazis.”
I cracked up.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
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Jim Hoft has evidence that he was a liberal Democrat who supported HRC and Occupy. //
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Wolff says he has dozens of hours of recordings to back up every quote in his book.
Yep. I’m just saying every word is going to be attacked for its accuracy in hopes of discrediting the overall work. And this guy may not have double-checked every single fact.
I’m just saying, expect the RWNJs to use any discrepancy like a cudgel.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
FBI affidavit on alleged Amtrak attacker reads like classic online radicalization: pics of white supremacist banner drops on highways, found a neo-Nazi group online, then a trip to Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/qsk2bTbcSh
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 5, 2018
re: #14 FormerDirtDart
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And this administration has shown it doesn’t think Leo should focus on this.
In the chaos, this story received almost no attention. Ryan sided w/Nunes, so he will have access to the FBI investigation documents related to the dossier. I’ll bet he calls the Trump team w/in an hour w/his findings! https://t.co/29K5rM0kxw
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) January 5, 2018
This is really bad, and tells you everything you need to know about whether Paul Ryan will protect Mueller. https://t.co/cn0X8LApZI
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 5, 2018
You know, banishing Steve Bannon from the Kingdom for things he said in the book seems like a bad way to discredit the book.
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) January 5, 2018
3D Chessmaster In Charge.
re: #14 FormerDirtDart
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And another.
Read this
We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double Homicide
Extremely chilling. This is the teenager who killed his gf’s parents in VA. They reported him for being a nazi.
Source close to the White House: “I wonder if POTUS has considered the fact that Steve Bannon hasn’t yet testified before congressional committees and/or met with Mueller.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 5, 2018
Oh the tangled, stupid, incompetent criminal scenario they weave.
re: #22 Stanley Sea
And another.
Read this
Extremely chilling. This is the teenager who killed his gf’s parents in VA. They reported him for being a nazi.
I grew up in the next town over from where the murders happened and our firm’s office is in Reston. Just shocking that it happened here, a very diverse place. We talk about radicalization and Islam but the white supremacist radicalism is something I really worry about considering the administration is indifferent and even has people sympathetic to it.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
But, you know, ‘lone wolfs’. Who knows how those folks get their crazy beliefs, it’s a mystery, right? Just singular actors acting crazy.
Not like those (insert minority here) who are all guilty when one person does something, right?
re: #28 Citizen K
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen somebody erudite and clever straight up say that white privilege is the entitlement to be wholly an individual.
re: #22 Stanley Sea
And another.
Read this
Extremely chilling. This is the teenager who killed his gf’s parents in VA. They reported him for being a nazi.
Yeah, heard about that.
Think about it. The train incident occurred in October. I can’t find a bit of reporting on it from that time period.
I guess…
re: #27 Stanley Sea
read the huff po article.
It is amazing. So detailed & chilling.
Very much so. Him and his GF aren’t much older than my brother and his GF. I really do worry about today’s young people being suspectable to Nazi propaganda perhaps in way smy generation wasn’t. We had grandfathers or great uncles in my case who fought the Nazis. I never knew most of my grand uncles but I knew growing up that my grandmother’s older brother when he was by the way older than I am now served as a chaplain in the Battle of the Bulge. That made an impression on me even though I wasn’t and am not religious that this man left his parish to volunteer for war.
re: #30 FormerDirtDart
Yeah, heard about that.
Think about it. The train incident occurred in October. I can’t find a bit of reporting on it from that time period.
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I still remember FNC wondering why they couldn’t find a reason to hate Paddock and I jus felt like screaming “Was committing one of the most massacres in American history bad enough for you?”
re: #27 Stanley Sea
re: #26 HappyWarrior
read the huff po article.
It is amazing. So detailed & chilling.
I’m finding it hard to understand how the kid was able to “sneak” into the Fricker home. Things like that didn’t happen in my parents’ home and don’t happen at my home. Since I now live alone, I don’t permit some of the persons I know to enter my home, and I didn’t do it when my daughter lived with me.
re: #33 majii
Wonder what part the daughter played in this? Probably nothing at all, and she will never ever trust herself again.
re: #33 majii
re: #26 HappyWarrior
read the huff po article.
It is amazing. So detailed & chilling.
I’m finding it hard to understand how the kid was able to “sneak” into the Fricker home. Things like that didn’t happen in my parents’ home and don’t happen at my home. Since I now live alone, I don’t permit some of the persons I know to enter my home, and I didn’t do it when my daughter lived with me.
It really was. As I was telling SS, I know that town very well having literally grown up the next town over. It’s a diverse place full of people of backgrounds from all over the world. Our education was helpful too as we read works by diverse writers. I remember reading Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s We Wear the Mask when I was a Junior in high school and it was powerful and I had read Richard Wright’s Black Boy the year before. We also read works by other authors like Amy Tan and some Hispanic writers too. I know Lorton where this kid was from too since it’s near where my grandparents lived. It’s also diverse. Just disturbs me how this happens.
I’ve found myself reading the SPLC’s Facebook page. Story there a couple days ago about a young African-American vet who was denied the right to use a bathroom. Called the cops on the owner and the owner shot him dead. He was acquitted of all charges by an all white jury and I guess that’s why I just have to laugh when white conservatives claim they’re persecuted in this society. Bastards have no idea. And meanwhile I think about what PoC especially PoC veterans have gone through. Risking their lives only to be treated like second class citizens when they get home. But somehow kneeling for the national anthem is the worst thing you can do? It took seeing returning black WWII vets lynched for President Truman, a grandson of Confederates to see teh horrors of that. Everyday, while I remain proud to be American, I continue to see myself more and more as a human being above all else.
re: #33 majii
re: #26 HappyWarrior
read the huff po article.
It is amazing. So detailed & chilling.
I’m finding it hard to understand how the kid was able to “sneak” into the Fricker home. Things like that didn’t happen in my parents’ home and don’t happen at my home. Since I now live alone, I don’t permit some of the persons I know to enter my home, and I didn’t do it when my daughter lived with me.
He snuck in with the help of the daughter. They were caught in her bedroom in the morning.
re: #34 retired cynic
re: #33 majii
Wonder what part the daughter played in this? Probably nothing at all, and she will never ever trust herself again.
I think she’ll be haunted by this for as long as she lives and will wonder what she could have done to prevent it. His mom’s Facebook page shows she was into “preserving” Confederate statues and has a photo of her son at a gun range shooting a Thompson sub-machine gun. All adults should be ever mindful of the things they say and do when kids are in their presence.
re: #38 majii
Thanks. I couldn’t bear to read it in detail, and was afraid of maligning the daughter when I said I wondered about her role in it.
re: #37 Stanley Sea
He snuck in with the help of the daughter. They were caught in her bedroom in the morning.
I didn’t play that with my daughter, and I still don’t. You couldn’t pay her enough money to sneak anyone into my home. My parents didn’t permit that to happen, and neither do I.
re: #38 majii
re: #33 majii
Wonder what part the daughter played in this? Probably nothing at all, and she will never ever trust herself again.
I think she’ll be haunted by this for as long as she lives and will wonder what she could have done to prevent it. His mom’s Facebook page shows she was into “preserving” Confederate statues and has a photo of her son at a gun range shooting a Thompson sub-machine gun. All adults should be ever mindful of the things they say and do when kids are in their presence.
The parent’s poison passes onto the kids. But with the internet, the kids can go way further.
I think I just found the best original video of you’ve got to be taught.
Guys though, there definitely this backlash against the left among young white men. People like Spencer are masters at playing into that. They play into the silly things about the left that annoy people and convince these guys to go all out hateful little shits. As I said, I really think it was different when I was a teen not even fifteen years ago because I really could point to respected older men who I knew fought the Axis. History becomes more distant and it’s easier to tell an impressionable mind “Ya know the Nazis were just misunderstood.”
Trump’s tweet on Wolff is just a flat out lie and can be validated by numerous sources. On tape.
This is desperate shit by a panicked White House.
He’s a dead man walking as a President. Here’s the question:
What happens next? What can Republicans, who are looking down the barrel of a howitzer for the next election cycle, do?
Do they take the football away from him? They could say that Trump is temporarily incapacitated and give it to Pence. He is, at least, sane. A complete shit stain of a human being, but sane enough not to trigger a global nuclear war.
Do they try to remove him from office without impeaching him? This would actually be much easier than impeaching him, and might make the base the base feel better than having to watch him stand trial in the Senate.
I don’t know. At this point they are pretty much fucked.
I’m off to sleep. Sweet dreams. all.
This year, oddly, is getting scarier and, also oddly, a little more hopeful due to the absolute incompetence in the White House. But if this fucking Insane Mango Clown Posse Jizztrumpet twists off, we are all going to pay a hefty butcher’s bill.
re: #41 Stanley Sea
The parent’s poison passes onto the kids. But with the internet, the kids can go way further.
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I think I just found the best original video of you’ve got to be taught.
The internet is a wonderful resource but it also could be our undoing too.
re: #40 majii
He snuck in with the help of the daughter. They were caught in her bedroom in the morning.
I didn’t play that with my daughter, and I still don’t. You couldn’t pay her enough money to sneak anyone into my home. My parents didn’t permit that to happen, and neither do I.
I did. My parents were obliv. My boyfriend was a surfer, not a nazi.
But bottom line, there were no guns in our whole existence.
re: #45 Stanley Sea
I did. My parents were obliv. My boyfriend was a surfer, not a nazi.
But bottom line, there were no guns in our whole existence.
Yeah my parents never owned guns either. In fact, I think my Dad may dislike guns more than I do. Both my brothers have SOs. The one is married and the other has been dating the same girl for two years. Both have very different relationships with their SO’s family. My one brother is close with his wife’s family. His MiL even calls him mijo, I think she sees him as a sort of surrogate son- they’re all daughters just like my brothers and I are all brothers. My other brother is also involved in a family with all daughters but the relationship with the SO’s parents is more cool. The father is a bit of a bully and my brother to his credit called him out when he was saying bigoted crap about LDS of all people. Funny that an atheist would be defending Mormons against a Christian but that’s what happened.
re: #45 Stanley Sea
I did. My parents were obliv. My boyfriend was a surfer, not a nazi.
But bottom line, there were no guns in our whole existence.
All I can think of is
Damn—I was hoping the new book would hit my kindle at 12:01, but nothing so far.
re: #43 austin_blue
This year, oddly, is getting scarier and, also oddly, a little more hopeful due to the absolute incompetence in the White House. But if this fucking Insane Mango Clown Posse Jizztrumpet twists off, we are all going to pay a hefty butcher’s bill.
It’s only the 4th. We’ve been through 6 meltdowns.
It is not going to go well. The GOP is still not at the bail off period.
Fight fight fight fight.
re: #47 BeachDem
All I can think of is
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Damn—I was hoping the new book would hit my kindle at 12:01, but nothing so far.
Surf Nazis must hang out with the same KKK members that Sessions got smoking pot.
re: #47 BeachDem
All I can think of is
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Damn—I was hoping the new book would hit my kindle at 12:01, but nothing so far.
Killing me
On a completely non-politics related note…I am glad I never heard of this Logan Paul shit before, because christ. If this guy is one of the “biggest’ Youtube stars, then I’m glad I haven’t quite jumped on the wagon of idolizing purely online celebrities.
Japan Isn’t Happy With Logan Paul’s Tokyo Video, Either
On January 1, the most important day on the Japanese calendar, when families gather and think about the new year, YouTuber Logan Paul posted an apparent suicide on YouTube. That wasn’t the only time he insulted the country’s cultural norms. He started doing that days earlier.
On December 30, he uploaded a clip titled “We Fought In The Middle Of Tokyo!” In it, Paul goes around city as if its his personal playground. He does that in his other videos in the US, but this isn’t the US. It’s a city that he’s visiting in a country that has allowed him to enter.
“I swear, Tokyo is just a giant playground,” Paul says at one point during the clip. “Maybe it’s not. Maybe I should stop. Probably not.”
He probably should have stopped.
And from the comments:
On top of horribly disrespecting the mentally ill, Logan Paul’s ENTIRE Japan trip was a mess. He ran around in a conical straw hat, parading an Asian stereotype. He disrupted landmarks and koi ponds and the general public. He’s a horrific example of American tourism. pic.twitter.com/EI3fCL7kHH
— nerdy (@nerdyasians) January 4, 2018
re: #51 Citizen K
On a completely non-politics related note…I am glad I never heard of this Logan Paul shit before, because christ. If this guy is one of the “biggest’ Youtube stars, then I’m glad I haven’t quite jumped on the wagon of idolizing purely online celebrities.
Japan Isn’t Happy With Logan Paul’s Tokyo Video, Either
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These people become famous and they make good money. Pewdiepie is another. If I can die without hearing that dickehad’s voice again, I’d be happy. Some of these YouTube celebs are all right, they actually try to educate people but most of these guys are just obnoxious fucks.
re: #52 HappyWarrior
These people become famous and they make good money. Pewdiepie is another. If I can die without hearing that dickehad’s voice again, I’d be happy. Some of these YouTube celebs are all right, they actually try to educate people but most of these guys are just obnoxious fucks.
I know that well enough, I just never got Pewdiepie’s schtick before became another one of the new faces of Youtube, and the shit he pulled since then made me glad I didn’t. I’m not even against Lets Play folks (I haven’t heard or seen anything similarly bad about Markiplier, for one).
It just feels like the infamous Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory seems to work even after anonymity is removed, long as you get an audience big enough.
Few better examples of the Streisand Effect than the WH trying to kill the Wolff book (which isn’t to say the book itself is entirely credible) and creating massive publicity for it in the process.
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) January 5, 2018
L to the OL
Clerk at KramerBooks says they have sold out of the Fire and Fury copies as of 12:15. They had 75 copies and started selling at midnight.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 5, 2018
re: #53 Citizen K
I know that well enough, I just never got Pewdiepie’s schtick before became another one of the new faces of Youtube, and the shit he pulled since then made me glad I didn’t. I’m not even against Lets Play folks (I haven’t heard or seen anything similarly bad about Markiplier, for one).
It just feels like the infamous Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory seems to work even after anonymity is removed, long as you get an audience big enough.
In a lot of ways, the new brand of instant Internet celebrity feeds on the same kind of shallow provocation and prurience that governed pulp presses and sideshows: the cheapest way to get a big draw is to go for the lowest common denominator in shocks and thrills.
The other thing that’s happening is that people become big because of hype and the incredible speed at which memes and clips create saturation and awareness, but don’t have an actual talent to sustain themselves over a career arc. After a few years, they’ve no fresh ideas, no material that innovates, etc. This is another reason that you see a lurch towards extreme positions or just meaningless “edginess”: loud and extreme fills the hole where being a well-honed performer is missing.
If only you kept White House visitor logs…
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) January 5, 2018
I’m listening to Norman Ohler’s Blitzed, again, because for some reason a bunch of nationalist dicks on crank guided by an idiot propped up with a Keith-Richards-esque cocktail seems relevant. For some reason.
These Niggas on Judge Judy suing each other over Yugi Cards. I’m trying to figure out why Amy schumer & Angelina Jolie are in the audience/ jury.. or am I High af. 😂😩 pic.twitter.com/oidxpdPD5p
— Vince (@Vince_Volta) January 3, 2018
1996 Retro Ad:
— For the first time, @CNN news is being broadcast to pagers pic.twitter.com/RAKEaIGf6R— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) January 5, 2018
re: #47 BeachDem
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Damn—I was hoping the new book would hit my kindle at 12:01, but nothing so far.
Due at 9:00 am EST.
Fight me.
sorry if you find this kind of question patronising but who are your 5 favourite female led bands/solo artists — lucinda williams, kate bush, missy elliott, stevie nicks, patti smith https://t.co/BdcqwEM2VY
— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) January 5, 2018
Cibo Matto, Bjork, Lauryn Hill, Sleater-Kinney & Suzanne Vega https://t.co/N8HRtDLYzl
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 5, 2018
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
Fight me.
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Stevie Nicks.
If she wasn’t included? Fight back
have fun with your other choices.
So I got stuck at work for what looks like the weekend, but in return I got to watch Trump collapse into a puddle of his own piss over a damned book.
Damnit, now I want to trudge through the damned snow just to seek out popcorn.
Marilyn McCoo, Dionne Warwick, Carole King, Tina Turner (with and without Ike, though I lean towards her “with Ike” songs) and Maria Muldaur; honorable mentions to Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart, Stevie Nicks & Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, Aretha, Carly Simon, and Helen Reddy.
— Ted Striker (@talon_262) January 5, 2018
Only one?
Passage in new book includes an alleged incident where Trump’s interaction with a female staff member appears to violate sexual harassment law https://t.co/i1IO1IRlkj pic.twitter.com/wdUBkQIM5D
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 5, 2018
Shout out to everyone pretending to work on a Friday while reading Fire and Fury
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 5, 2018
re: #67 JordanRules
This thread has some good stuff from the book.
Wolff: Sean Hannity fumes about Trump not calling Roger Ailes’s widow, while vaping on an e-cigarette.
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 5, 2018
Had to recycle one of my old shops from the 2016 GOP debates.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 5, 2018
sorry if you find this kind of question patronising but who are your 5 favourite female led bands/solo artists — lucinda williams, kate bush, missy elliott, stevie nicks, patti smith https://t.co/BdcqwEM2VY
— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) January 5, 2018
Fiona Apple
Joan Jett
Florence and the Machine
Caro Emerald
Ariana Savalas https://t.co/5ypJmi99Fd— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 5, 2018
re: #69 goddamnedfrank
Thanks for pointing me there! I knew there had to be some more good bits coming out in the wee hours from the advanced copy folks reading their asses off right now.
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
re: #71 Kragar
Apparently, Barbadoro is a clueless moron when it comes to the Twitters; she’s getting roasted:
Then you shouldn’t have tweeted it to begin with if you didn’t want ppl to reply, Little Miss Sunshine; if it autotweeted when you posted it on curiouscat, maybe you should’ve disabled that. Still, not a nice look for someone in the entertainment industry looking for exposure…
— Ted Striker (@talon_262) January 5, 2018
Sade
Lauryn Hill
Shirley Manson
Stevie Nicks
Annie Lennox
Jill Scott
re: #68 TedStriker
+1 for Maria. She’s amazing.
re: #76 Single-handed sailor
+1 for Maria. She’s amazing.
Her self-titled album (which “Mad Mad Me” and “Midnight at the Oasis” is on) is one of the few I have that I like/love every track on it. Art Bell, of all people, is who turned me on to Muldaur, back in the caveman days when he helmed Coast to Coast AM at its zenith and I worked as a guard on overnights, because he used “Midnight at the Oasis” as one of his main bump tracks coming in and out of breaks.
re: #75 JordanRules
Sade
Lauryn Hill
Shirley Manson
Stevie Nicks
Annie Lennox
Jill Scott
Heart
Stevie Nicks
Emmylou Harris
Linda Ronstadt
Crystal Gayle
re: #77 TedStriker
She plays small clubs in Northern California a lot. I like almost every song she sings. She has a wide variety, blues, bluegrass, gospel… Midnight at the Oasis is unlike everything else she sings, and it’s what people know her for.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹
Almost put Ronstadt in my list. Love her and she’s a fellow Arizonian!
FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation https://t.co/KqdW0EcrlN pic.twitter.com/ZWvCL6Stxi
— The Hill (@thehill) January 5, 2018
Hmmm, trying to distract from something?
Just so you all know the USA is not the only ones with snow problems …
We got about 3” here in Zhengzhou, but more is expected tonight and tomorrow.
re: #80 Single-handed sailor
She plays small clubs in Northern California a lot. I like almost every song she sings. She has a wide variety, blues, bluegrass, gospel… Midnight at the Oasis is unlike everything else she sings, and it’s what people know her for.
“Midnight at the Oasis” had to have been the designated “top-40 radio” track for the album, since it is so much more pop than the rest of the album, which, as you said, is quite varied in styles covered; that said, I think it’s still a damn good track with her vocals and that guitar playin’ on it.
re: #81 JordanRules
Almost put Ronstadt in my list. Love her and she’s a fellow Arizonian!
Tough call to narrow it down to just five. I could also include:
Juice Newton
Helen Reddy
Olivia Newton-John
Carpenters
Abba
Donna Summer
Evanescence
re: #82 Ace-o-aces
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Hmmm, trying to distract from something?
Meanwhile on Earth 2, Republicans are still absolutely livid over Attorney General Perez announcing a DOJ investigation into the Trump Foundation.
The whole Trump empire screams RICO.
The Fake News Media barely mentions the fact that the Stock Market just hit another New Record and that business in the U.S. is booming…but the people know! Can you imagine if “O” was president and had these numbers - would be biggest story on earth! Dow now over 25,000.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
When Obama took office, the Dow was around 6.4k. When he left office it was around 20k. You’re still coasting by on the Obama boom, you pathetic moron. https://t.co/ZyVAA7hFZj
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 5, 2018
re: #90 Kragar
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Corollary to “History began on Jan 20th, 2009” is “The only history that matters began after Jan 21st, 2017.” Much like how our “win” against ISIS is credited to Trump for…failing to fuck up the strategy started under Obama.
re: #69 goddamnedfrank
Hell, I didn’t know Hannity was a vaper.
Was he a former smoker who switched to vaping to quit?
re: #89 Single-handed sailor
The whole Trump empire screams RICO.
IIRC, there’s a couple of RICO guys on Mueller’s team.
I just watched the “random” drawing for the Virginia House race that was tied -
I put this in quotes because it was anything but a random draw. James Alcorn, the Republican State Board of Elections Chairman literally was sitting right in front of the open vessel when the two names were added and had a clear view of both the entire time.
Rindy Ross
Debora Iyall
Belinda Carlisle
Exene Cervenka
Dale Bozzio
re: #2 Scout
Repeating myself from that last thread:
I’ve seen some bits and pieces here and there suggesting that this Michael Wolff fellow isn’t necessarily known for dotting every i and crossing every t, journalism-wise.
So don’t be surprised if some details of this book are found to be wrong.
and as soon as one minor or irrelevant detail is proven wrong or not fully documented, they can then throw out the whole thing.
Up waaaaay too early. Dropped number one son off at airport for his return to Shanghai.
re: #101 BlueSpotinAL
Up waaaaay too early. Dropped number one son off at airport for his return to Shanghai.
You’re not the only one up early
Dow goes from 18,589 on November 9, 2016, to 25,075 today, for a new all-time Record. Jumped 1000 points in last 5 weeks, Record fastest 1000 point move in history. This is all about the Make America Great Again agenda! Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Six trillion dollars in value created!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
re: #102 FormerDirtDart
You’re not the only one up early
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So while I was dropping off number one son, Trump was dropping number two while tweeting. Trump is a real twooper.
Mark Hamill is trying to out-nice Tom Hanks. He may be winning.
@HamillHimself hey you’ve been my hero since I was like nine and kinda inspired me to be proud of myself and come out as trans cos a Jedi wouldn’t be scared of the truth. If you could reply me I’d honestly cry. Thanks..
— Klay Sundquist (@officer_klay) January 5, 2018
Of course I’m proud that you’re proud of yourself, Klay. 1st words of my bio are: “Believe in yourself” & you’re doing that. Well done! Be happy, ♥️- mh https://t.co/WFhv1WdYC7
North Korea apparently hit one of its own cities with a missile.
“The location of the crash was previously unknown, but a U.S. government source told The Diplomat that the missile came down in the city of Tokchon, located approximately 40 miles northeast of the airfield.” https://t.co/XMzkUB9O6R
— Patrick (@TrickFreee) January 5, 2018
re: #102 FormerDirtDart
Trump likes the DJIA because its acronym starts with his initials.
And what the Dow is indicating, besides a tulip-blowup that is going to crash, is inflation. Not something that will be a friend of all those jobless coal-mining marks of Trump’s.
Ashcombe Rd, Dawlish will remain closed over the weekend as demolition works continue following a major building fire. HG
— Devon Alert (@DevonAlert) January 5, 2018
WA! whoo whoo squeek-ooo squeek-a squeek-ooo pbbbbbb
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) December 27, 2017
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and as soon as one minor or irrelevant detail is proven wrong or not fully documented, they can then throw out the whole thing.
Just like they did with Clinton Cash—-oh wait…
Are we listing all our favorite female performers this morning?
Lorena McKennit
Joan Baez
Odetta
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
Fight me.
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Gillian Welch, The Cranberries, Mamas and Papas, Emmylou Harris, & Lucinda Williams.
re: #104 wheat-dogg
Mark Hamill is trying to out-nice Tom Hanks. He may be winning.
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That’s really cool because you know Hamill probably has a crowded Twitter feed. I’m not a fan of the Star Wars series but I like him.
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
Someone started it last night (leaders, soloists). Our lists would overlap at lot.
Some people believe this obvious spoof is from Wolff’s book:
Wow, this extract from Wolff’s book is a shocking insight into Trump’s mind: pic.twitter.com/1ZecclggSa
— the gorilla channel thing is a joke (@pixelatedboat) January 5, 2018
Cyndi Lauper vs Madonna was the great struggle of our times. We lost.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
That’s really cool because you know Hamill probably has a crowded Twitter feed. I’m not a fan of the Star Wars series but I like him.
He came to the bedside of some very sick child to cheer him up. Hamill’s good people.
Justice Department investigating Clinton Foundation over ‘pay to play’ allegations https://t.co/vvHKKMBqpr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 5, 2018
re: #123 The Vicious Babushka
Here we go again. Investigate again. This is such a broken record.
I just checked my Kindle, “Fire & Fury” has not appeared in my book list.
re: #117 The Vicious Babushka
Some people believe this obvious spoof is from Wolff’s book:
Not me
littlegreenfootballs.com
re: #124 PhillyPretzel
Here we go again. Investigate again. This is such a broken record.
Dear FoxNews & Trump supporters:
Please apply the same stringent fact-checking to “Fire & Fury” that you applied to “Clinton Cash”
Kthxbai— Di Umgebroyzelte Bubbie (@viciousbabushka) January 5, 2018
re: #125 The Vicious Babushka
There is a note that it will be available at 9:00 am EST. That is probably when you will see it.
I just looked at the order “window” and that said Jan 9th. Geez. I would love it if folks would get their stories straight.
דברים שרואים רק בגוש עציון, בזמן שיש פקק ברסלבר ופלסטיני רוקדים יחד.
(התקבל מחברים שצילמו) pic.twitter.com/77bB303fF3— דורון ביינהורן (@bainhorn) January 4, 2018
Weird stuff happens. A Breslover Chassidic Jew and Palestinian dancing during a traffic jam in the West Bank. I guess just a spontaneous eruption of brotherhood. https://t.co/vQiDiLUo81
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) January 5, 2018
re: #123 The Vicious Babushka
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When in doubt, investigate the Clintons as your kingdom is crashing.
re: #121 wheat-dogg
He came to the bedside of some very sick child to cheer him up. Hamill’s good people.
I believe it. He just seems like a very kind guy.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
When in doubt, investigate the Clintons as your kingdom is crashing.
Let’s hope it comes crashing down but give the total Republican support for Trump and the corruption spreading through the DOJ, it’s just as possible that they will create charges to persecute Hillary. This is third world dictator behavior and that’s his goal.
I’m not sure I believe the Wolff anecdote that all the Trump people were all expecting to lose the election. There was that very odd rally a week before the election where Trump talked to himself: “We’ve gotta be nice and cool,” Trump said at his last rally of the day. “Nice and cool. All right? Stay on point, Donald. Stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald.” This is not advice that someone would speak if he were sure that loss was inevitable. It seems more that his team finally realized that he could win and were advising him what to do to maximize that opportunity.
While you all are reading fire and fury today I’ll be busy listening to every music video posted on this thread
The empire strikes back.
Jeff Sessions is obsessed with cannabis, and with locking up people of color. He may perceive California as the tipping point in legalization. This very well could be his last chance to preserve mass incarceration as he knows it. https://t.co/QfzdOMyopO— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 4, 2018
I think this one is a better way of saying what I say about Republicans and states’ rights:
WASHINGTON (AP) - AP sources: AG Sessions will rescind policy that allowed legal marijuana to flourish without federal intervention.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 4, 2018
GOP states rights:
You can’t force us to recognize & protect people’s rights & freedoms.
We can force you to restrict & deny people’s rights & freedoms. https://t.co/S1d0HIPwwg— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 4, 2018
re: #65 TedStriker
Good Morning, Can’t resist…
Lizzy Hale/Halestorm
Patti Smith
Exene Cervenka/X
Patty Smyth
Pink
re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s hope it comes crashing down but give the total Republican support for Trump and the corruption spreading through the DOJ, it’s just as possible that they will create charges to persecute Hillary. This is third world dictator behavior and that’s his goal.
I’m not sure I believe the Wolff anecdote that all the Trump people were all expecting to lose the election. There was that very odd rally a week before the election where Trump talked to himself: “We’ve gotta be nice and cool,” Trump said at his last rally of the day. “Nice and cool. All right? Stay on point, Donald. Stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald.” This is not advice that someone would speak if he were sure that loss was inevitable. It seems more that his team finally realized that he could win and were advising him what to do to maximize that opportunity.
Trump’s inner circle is different from Trump himself. They may have thought a loss was coming. Who knows though. Anyhow it’s pathetic they need to use the Clinton boogeyman.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
The fact that people were happy about it is too much for him. That is why he must roll back all of the laws that make cannabis legal.
Joan Armatrading
Patti Smith
Lucinda Williams
Kathleen Edwards
Indigo Girls
re: #135 Belafon
Zeke Miller
✔
@ZekeJMiller
WASHINGTON (AP) - AP sources: AG Sessions will rescind policy that allowed legal marijuana to flourish without federal intervention.
7:41 AM - Jan 4, 2018
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My suspicion is that this is all Jeff Sessions and that Trump doesn’t care. OTOH Trump is certainly on board with anything that will lead to more minorities in prison.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
Sessions is truly a terrible guy.
I’m thinking/hoping he goes down hard for lying to Congress and investigators. But who knows.
re: #142 Unshaken Defiance
I’m thinking/hoping he goes down hard for lying to Congress and investigators. But who knows.
If Democrats take back both houses, they should charge that fucker first.
re: #142 Unshaken Defiance
I’m thinking/hoping he goes down hard for lying to Congress and investigators. But who knows.
The Republicans don’t care if a Republican colludes with the Russians or commits perjury. They will never prosecute for this. They are eager to restore white male dominance in this country, with Republicans in charge and the Trump victory has given them that opportunity.
Sean Hannity, Trump’s staunchest ally on television, is audibly disturbed by Trump’s failure to offer condolences to the widow of Roger Ailes, Hannity’s former boss at Fox News. Hannity is caught saying: “What the fuck is wrong with him?”
— Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) January 5, 2018
re: #142 Unshaken Defiance
I’m thinking/hoping he goes down hard for lying to Congress and investigators. But who knows.
Let’s hope.
re: #145 darthstar
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We warned ya Lumpy. But it really says a lot that this was your breaking point.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
You see that around here, it’s usually fire ants.
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
The Republicans don’t care if a Republican colludes with the Russians or commits perjury. They will never prosecute for this. They are eager to restore white male dominance in this country, with Republicans in charge and the Trump victory has given them that opportunity.
I remember when we all thought that “the adults won’t let this get out of hand”. The belief that the old money like Bush and Rockefeller would step in and prevent things from going off the rails if it came to that. Guess that was wrong. It appears that the money is on the other side, to paraphrase Billie Joe.
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t expect the GOP to step up and do the right thing. I expect it to go extinct. With a push from me and all my friends.
Remember “Anyone but Bush or Clinton? Welp that idea sure backfired big time. Tens of millions of voters that were blinded by Hilary hate. They worried about the 2nd A. Now the First A is kinda screwed. The America brand is as dirtied and bankrupt as a Trump brand broke casino.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 5, 2018
re: #149 Old Liberal
The money is on the side of Wall street. We shoulda remembered this from 2008.
re: #150 Unshaken Defiance
I don’t expect the GOP to step up and do the right thing. I expect it to go extinct.With a push from me and all my friends.
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Yep as much as I would have preferred it not be Jeb, I think Jeb would not be an embarrassment and would govern like an adult.
Because they know Democrats will include Pence and Pelosi will be the first woman President.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 5, 2018
re: #150 Unshaken Defiance
I don’t expect the GOP to step up and do the right thing. I expect it to go extinct. With a push from me and all my friends.
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That would be great — but they are funded by big money and supported by racist and Ayn Rand acolytes nationwide. Let’s see if truth can emerge triumphant in this darkness.
Oh First Aud Kit, pair of talented Swedish folk singing sisters.
@realDonaldTrump - have some more meat on your first week of 2018 shit sandwich. https://t.co/rMUmtz5IG9
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 5, 2018
re: #85 piratedan
k.d. lang
Linda Ronstadt
Chrissie Hynde
Bonnie Raitt
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Many updings for being the first to mention Chrissie Hynde.
The question was female led band…The Pretenders is Chrissie’s band and she is the main songwriter too.
re: #152 HappyWarrior
Primaries matter. Trump was arguably the worst of the short list field. With hindsight, incontrovertibly so. Looking forward, watch the California governors races. The ostensible leader may not be the best guy. The California GOP has no solid challenger. the Democratic party primary is the Governors race. And this is a place where gerrymandering has cemented already strong democratic legislative power in place.
The two Republicans are businessman John Cox and Assemblyman Travis Allen. Cox is formerly from Illinois, where he ran in two unsuccessful bids for Congress in the early 2000s. Allen represents California’s 72nd State Assembly District, which includes portions of Huntington Beach and Santa Ana.
OTOH
The four Democrats are Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, former mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa, State Treasurer John Chiang and former California Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin.
re: #158 darthstar
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But the trump spawn were saying that there were going to be 250,000 new jrbs!
A good time to repost the Best Cartoon Ever. pic.twitter.com/XMblbsMfw8
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 4, 2018
re: #147 HappyWarrior
We warned ya Lumpy. But it really says a lot that this was your breaking point.
He got over it, obviously.
VB I just was able to purchase and download Fire and Fury from amazon. You should be able to do the same.
Ah, well. Got the truck warming up. Then off to the Child Support Agency to find out how to get what I pay adjusted down to what I make, Salvation Army to get (I pray) rent money , pawn shop to get phone & interest money & lastly work for all of 4 hours which is why I run around doing all that other robbing of Peter to pay Paul. Whee!
Have a good day folks.
William
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
Are we listing all our favorite female performers this morning?
Lorena McKennit
Joan Baez
Odetta
The original question is: “who are your 5 favourite female led bands/solo artists?”
I take “led” to mean main part of the act and the band is either formed and controlled by the female artists, or because she is such a strong solo artist, the backers are there to support her.
I would add extra points if the female also is the main lyricist and music composer.
That is why I gave the extra updings for Chrissie Hynde.
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
The Republicans don’t care if a Republican colludes with the Russians or commits perjury. They will never prosecute for this. They are eager to restore white male dominance in this country, with Republicans in charge and the Trump victory has given them that opportunity.
Which is why I refer to them as the RepubliKKKlan Party!
re: #139 PhillyPretzel
The fact that people were happy about it is too much for him. That is why he must roll back all of the laws that make cannabis legal.
He has a base to appease. They tend to prefer alcohol.
re: #168 ObserverArt
The original question is: “who are your 5 favourite female led bands/solo artists?”
I take “led” to mean main part of the act and the band is either formed and controlled by the female artists, or because she is such a strong solo artist, the backers are there to support her.
I would add extra points if the female also is the main lyricist and music composer.
That is why I gave the extra updings for Chrissie Hynde.
See my Jenny Lewis video above. Her songs, her band.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He has a base to appease. They tend to prefer alcohol.
Meth.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He has a base to appease. They tend to prefer
alcoholmoonshine.
FIFY
re: #172 ObserverArt
And one of my favorites of Chrissie and her ability to be more than just a rocker.
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That’s a Ray Davies song, BTW. She recorded that while she was still married to him.
Up til Dec. 31, 2017, oil companies were taxed 9 cents per barrel to fund spill cleanups.
On Jan. 1, 2018, GOP let the tax drop to 0.
Story w/ @eilperin: https://t.co/BokWLV878y— Dino Grandoni (@dino_grandoni) January 5, 2018
re: #136 William Lewis
Good Morning, Can’t resist…
Lizzy Hale/Halestorm
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Had to upding you for X.
Just because.
re: #171 makeitstop
See my Jenny Lewis video above. Her songs, her band.
No disagreement from me. She’s a good songwriter and band leader. I like the makeup of her band too with both male and female members.
re: #175 makeitstop
That’s a Ray Davies song, BTW. She recorded that while she was still married to him.
I know. There was no mention all the songs had to be the female leaders! : )
I put that one up because of her voice. I just love that song….gives me some chills when she hits the middle change.
Edit: Hey! Where did everyone go???
Are you all downloading and reading the new book?
Advertisers see “aligning their brand with Hannity as actually the functional equivalent of giving a political donation to Trump” https://t.co/UBfJi6I3mw
— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 5, 2018
Fuck it…someone else can respond to him.
Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
re: #182 darthstar
You can just smell the desperation on that tweet. It is news drop Friday… I am curious what new information we will find out today!
re: #40 majii
He snuck in with the help of the daughter. They were caught in her bedroom in the morning.
I didn’t play that with my daughter, and I still don’t. You couldn’t pay her enough money to sneak anyone into my home. My parents didn’t permit that to happen, and neither do I.
I wonder if this is a generational thing.
I had an involvement/friendship with a Millennial-aged young woman a couple of years ago (she’s about 26 now); long-distance friendship with feelings for one another; visiting her area on vacation, I rode into town from Texas on a motorcycle and overnighted at her family home, in the guest bedroom (she still lives at home) and her parents basically ignored me. I was extremely confused. Total stranger rides in from out of town, sleeps over under your roof, and you barely even say hello to the guy? What if I had been a bad person? Don’t you want to speak to someone who arrives in your home and may have an interest in your daughter? I asked my friend about this and she said “oh, they trust my decisions”.
Um, OK… I guess I’m “old school”?
Later on, this girl’s older sister got hammered and had to be peeled off a friend of mine before she did something to destroy her marriage engagement… Parents ended up dragging older sis off the front lawn of our group’s vacation rental house kicking & screaming at 4 in the morning because she was violently drunk and incapacitated, after my friends & I had tried to get her safely into a car (any car) to be driven home. I later asked my friend, “What if we had been bad people? She needs to be careful” - friend got pissed off, didn’t speak to me for three days.
A year after that, this same friend got drunk and cheated on her boyfriend with two different guys in an afternoon, and got driven home screaming and crying at 3 AM about what she had done in a weird repeat of the prior year, all the while saying “She needed to talk to her mom”… Unable to handle herself at age 25…
I don’t know what the hell was going on with her family but the whole operation seemed pretty much lawless and without any direction. And these aren’t stupid trashy people on COPS somewhere, this is a comfortably middle class family in a Savannah suburb. Very strange.
Interacts with othes. Responds when called by name. My puppy can do that. pic.twitter.com/MMZQet5pfJ
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 5, 2018
Fuckin’ typo on a tweet. I hate when that happens.
re: #184 Pawn of the Oppressor
No, it’s not generational. I’m gen-X. My friends were doing it. It’s been going on as long as there have been windows and doors.
re: #186 darthstar
We all make mistakes; we are human. :)
re: #186 darthstar
Fuckin’ typo on a tweet. I hate when that happens.
Close enough for government work. :-D
re: #179 ObserverArt
I know. There was no mention all the songs had to be the female leaders! : )
I put that one up because of her voice. I just love that song….gives me some chills when she hits the middle change.
Edit: Hey! Where did everyone go???
Are you all downloading and reading the new book?
We went outside to attempt to clear the driveway some. At least now I can get the truck out if need be.
From the look of it, we got about 14” of snow. The truck thermometer says 12 degrees, the radio man says wind chills are bouncing around -15.
How many days until Spring?
re: #186 darthstar
You can delete and repost, ya know.
re: #180 darthstar
Advertisers see “aligning their brand with Hannity as actually the functional equivalent of giving a political donation to Trump”
Gives the Emoluments clause a whole new shade of meaning.
re: #187 Belafon
No, it’s not generational. I’m gen-X. My friends were doing it. It’s been going on as long as there have been windows and doors.
I did my share of sneaking in and out too when I was 16, but I knew there were consequences. I mean there was no sense of territory, boundary, or formality at all.
re: #190 makeitstop
We went outside to attempt to clear the driveway some. At least now I can get the truck out if need be.
From the look of it, we got about 14” of snow. The truck thermometer says 12 degrees, the radio man says wind chills are bouncing around -15.
How many days until Spring?
I’m kinda hoping that after this big old cold front scoots out next week all of the hard winter states get back into the mid-30s and higher for the rest of the season.
Sometimes when we get a deep and long cold snap it seems to take it out of the rest of the winter.
Hope so anyway.
re: #197 ObserverArt
I am loving all the great female guitar players there are these days.
Back in the 60s and 70s it was fairly rare to see ladies ripping it up on guitar and getting all heavy and hard.
Guitars were more often seen as musical instruments, rather than siege engines.
re: #182 darthstar
Fuck it…someone else can respond to him.
1. He lost by 3 millions votes
2. He’s still talking about an election that happened over a year ago. What a fucking snowflake.
LOL. What a child!
The Mercer Family recently dumped the leaker known as Sloppy Steve Bannon. Smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
re: #203 wheat-dogg
LOL. What a child!
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Milo’ and the other alt-right grifters gotta decide whom they wants to live with Daddy Trump or Daddy Steve.
re: #204 Dr. Matt
“Sloppy”? FFS. How fucking embarrassing.
Yes, his primary job as President of the United States is making up cute nicknames for his enemies.
re: #204 Dr. Matt
“Sloppy”? FFS. How fucking embarrassing.
He thinks alliteration makes him sound clever.
I’m dying 😂
Sloppy Steve #TrumpRussia #FireAndFury pic.twitter.com/9BvvyPcVZk— Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ (@olgaNYC1211) January 5, 2018
re: #206 The Vicious Babushka
Yes, his primary job as President of the United States is making up cute nicknames for his enemies.
What’s his nickname for Putin going to be when he realizes that Putin isn’t his pal? Then again I don’t think there’s Twitter in federal prison.
Yet, the boy-child did confirm what Bannon said is true by calling him a “leaker”. Well played.
re: #206 The Vicious Babushka
Yes, his primary job as President of the United States is making up cute nicknames for his enemies.
Dubya was fond of nicknames, but generally reserved them for private meetings and conversations…
re: #207 HappyWarrior
Thus Spake Covfefe: A President for None.
re: #208 nines09
Hello, you have reached the Robert Mueller plea deal line. Currently all legal staff are busy assisting others seeking plea deals. You will be able to speak to an operator in the order in which your call was received. pic.twitter.com/vr55eW3esL
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 5, 2018
re: #210 Dr. Matt
Yet, the boy-child did confirm what Bannon said is true by calling him a “leaker”. Well played.
“The book is full of lies!”
“Then why did Trump call ‘Sloppy’ Steve a leaker?”
The new job numbers are out. Only 148,000 jobs were created in December. In short, 2017 was the worst year for job growth since 2010.
New Jobs Created by year
2007 - 1,063,000
2008 - 3,093,000
2009 - 5,068,000
2010 - 1,061,000
2011 - 2,091,000
2012 - 2,142,000
2013 - 2,302,000
2014 - 2,998,000
2015 - 2,713,000
2016 - 2,240,000
2017 - 2,055,000
re: #217 lawhawk
Hello, you have reached the Robert Mueller plea deal line. Currently all legal staff are busy assisting others seeking plea deals. You will be able to speak to an operator in the order in which your call was received.
Press 1 for collusion
Press 2 for sexual harrassment allegations
Press 3 for Emoluments Clause violation
Press 4 for Conflict of Interest violations
Press 5 for corroboration of pee tapes
Press 6 for Apprentice or other WWF outtakes.
re: #204 Dr. Matt
“Sloppy”? FFS. How fucking embarrassing.
He’s known as it….as of right this morning.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
Milo’ and the other alt-right grifters gotta decide whom they wants to live with Daddy Trump or Daddy Steve.
No contest. Who has the most money?
re: #218 Belafon
“The book is full of lies!”
“Then why did Trump call ‘Sloppy’ Steve a leaker?”
He really does not realize he incriminates himself when he tries to be so clever. I’m sure Mueller has someone tasked to monitor and record Trump’s Twitter accounts 24/7.
re: #222 MsJ
No contest. Who has the most money?
So you’re staying Bannon? I doubt Don the Con is that liquid.
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m adding that!
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those options are good ones.
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dubya was fond of nicknames, but generally reserved them for private meetings and conversations…
Bush’s nicknames are often neutral while Trump’s tend to be belittling. And I doubt Bush had he a Twitter account as POTUS would refer to people by nickname when expressing disagreement with them. Bush I hate to say as a longtime critic of his didn’t treat his opponents with the contempt Trumps does.
Proposed drilling areas. https://t.co/MZsLlkvMMM pic.twitter.com/bm4SY4XSXR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 5, 2018
Coming soon to a beach near you pic.twitter.com/WSYUrHZ7Mc
— Di Umgebroyzelte Bubbie (@viciousbabushka) January 5, 2018
re: #227 HappyWarrior
Bush’s nicknames are often neutral while Trump’s tend to be belittling. And I doubt Bush had he a Twitter account as POTUS would refer to people by nickname when expressing disagreement with them. Bush I hate to say as a longtime critic of his didn’t treat his opponents with the contempt Trumps does.
Dubya was known to be very easy going and very good at schmoozing with people. That his policies sucked is irrelevant to how he treated the people around him. He used nicknames as a term of endearment, not to belittle as far as I’ve heard.
Trump uses nicknames to belittle and make himself feel better. He’s a spiteful, vengeful, little toad of a toddler (which is offensive to toddlers, who actually have the capacity to learn from their environment, while Trump seems to revel in his ignorance).
I would totally do this. Call these obstructionist fuckers out, on TV, every damn time.
Schiff: Democrats have been so frustrated in their attempts to convince R’s to call key witnesses that they may soon make those requests public, “so that the public can see in very graphic terms what the majority has deemed unworthy of investigation.” https://t.co/uGaCoVXTHf
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 5, 2018
re: #219 Dr. Matt
Thanks, @DrMatthew pic.twitter.com/RjcYyIgXy8
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 5, 2018
re: #224 wheat-dogg
So you’re staying Bannon? I doubt Don the Con is that liquid.
Not trumpy, the Mercers, who are supporting trump.
re: #2 Scout
Repeating myself from that last thread:
I’ve seen some bits and pieces here and there suggesting that this Michael Wolff fellow isn’t necessarily known for dotting every i and crossing every t, journalism-wise.
So don’t be surprised if some details of this book are found to be wrong.
the more interesting thing is Trump’s response to it, the hysteria, the attempt to suppress it, etc.
re: #219 Dr. Matt
The new job numbers are out. Only 148,000 jobs were created in December. In short, 2017 was the worst year for job growth since 2010.
New Jobs Created by year
2007 - 1,063,000
2008 - 3,093,000
2009 - 5,068,000
2010 - 1,061,000
2011 - 2,091,000
2012 - 2,142,000
2013 - 2,302,000
2014 - 2,998,000
2015 - 2,713,000
2016 - 2,240,000
2017 - 2,055,000
I’m curious how help wanted signs count toward job creation. There are so many around my area.
Journalist behind new Trump book has recordings of White House officials making explosive remarks: report https://t.co/URwXTmr8Ix pic.twitter.com/bNVEelvL3C
— The Hill (@thehill) January 5, 2018
Michael Wolff just singlehandedly extended the Mueller investigation. DC and NY are one party consent jurisdictions. He has tapes of statements by Sr. WH officials that may corroborate or conflict with statements made under oath to Mueller, raising the liklihood of perjury. https://t.co/yIfuWl0ulX
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) January 5, 2018
Better yet, let Wolff talk with NYS AG Schneiderman, because there’s likely state crimes involved as well - crimes that Trump can’t possibly pardon people for.
re: #231 makeitstop
I would totally do this. Call these obstructionist fuckers out, on TV, every damn time.
Absolutely, why the hell not?
re: #236 lawhawk
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I am honest-to-god getting absolutely giggly. I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but I am.
re: #229 The Vicious Babushka
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Hey thanks conservative voters who enjoy beachfront properties who voted for us, enjoy your oily beach. //
re: #238 Sir John Barron
Happy Fire and Fury release day!
It’s already on my Kindle app.
As much as I hate gossip and giving this putz money…I just had to. I need a giggle or three.
re: #239 MsJ
I am honest-to-god getting absolutely giggly. I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but I am.
Any time someone says to you “that’s fake news” you can say “there’s a tape.” Watch them turn white.
re: #168 ObserverArt
The original question is: “who are your 5 favourite female led bands/solo artists?”
I take “led” to mean main part of the act and the band is either formed and controlled by the female artists, or because she is such a strong solo artist, the backers are there to support her.
I would add extra points if the female also is the main lyricist and music composer.
That is why I gave the extra updings for Chrissie Hynde.
i would add:
susan tedeschi
bonnie raitt
laura nyro
roxy perry
re: #240 HappyWarrior
Hey thanks conservative voters who enjoy beachfront properties who voted for us, enjoy your oily beach. //
And even more, enjoy having to pay for it when the G runs out of the cleanup money their tax-bill break freed the oil companies from having to pay (I.e. after the second major spill)…..
Enjoy the rest of your day/night, folks. I’m heading to bed.
It’s snowing again here, BTW. -8°C/18°F
Friday. pic.twitter.com/E72QVkHlWa
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 5, 2018
Rick Wilson’s new piece on Daily Beast is straight fire. He’s clearly loving the fact that he’s outlasted the man who vowed to destroy him for opposing Trump.
Steve Bannon’s spectacular fall from grace in Trump World is a big, salty, delicious bowl of schadenfreude from the political gods in celebration of the new year.
Bannon wasn’t just one of Trump’s most senior aides and an architect of the destruction of the Republican Party; he was the multi-shirted, red-eyed White House troll, leaking tales of his brilliance to a constellation of reporters in the ostensibly hated mainstream media. His house organ Breitbart and a host of Trump-right websites and news outlets sang praises to his dank genius. Bannon, they proclaimed, was Trumpism in its distilled essence: revanchist, ahistorical, racially inflected, and consumed with an imaginary war on the media and America’s broader society.
Now, like two rats in a bag, Trump and Bannon are tearing at one another in a delicious public spat that has every possible bit of drama, except Bannon drunkenly bellowing for a round of fisticuffs with all comers and Trump offering to compare the length of their relative manhoods on live television. They deserve one another in so many ways.
The only thing in the whole piece that I can really find to disagree with is his calling Andrew Breitbart a ‘better man’ than Bannon. They’re both scum.
And he points out what I said a while back - that Bannon is nowhere near the political genius that the media has portrayed him as. Just like Rove before him, the media shine has worn off.
re: #239 MsJ
Nothing is going to happen overnight (unless Trump decides to fire a bunch of people akin to another Saturday Night Massacre).
Things that can speed along the end of this atrocious administration and sweep the GOP from power?
GOTV in primaries and the midterms in November.
Vote as if your life depends on it - because it does.
Support candidates even in places where the GOP has had historical advantages, because we’ve seen the GOP lose (or come close to losing) in deep red states. If Jones could win AL, that signals that there’s a lot of people who could come out in the midterms to help in purple districts.
Heck, there’s a handful of states with GOP districts that need to swing to Democrats to give them control - and flipping the districts in NJ, NY, and CA could do it with no other changes.
Getting control of the House would thwart the GOP’s base agenda, but wont stop the GOP from rubber stamping Trump’s judicial picks - that takes regaining the Senate, which is a tougher proposition.
It’s also the ongoing reason impeachment isn’t on the table - without control of both, there’s nothing to it. If the House goes Democratic, investigations would be much freer to go after the criminality that the GOP has been enabling by soft pedaling and outright obstructing on investigations (or instead choosing to investigate Clinton over and over and over).
Of course, there’s also the Mueller investigation and additional indictments that could be forthcoming. You can be damned sure that there’s more coming - but Mueller’s playing it very close to the vest for very obvious reasons.
re: #239 MsJ
I have a belated Xmas present for a co-worker that I keep forgetting to bring to work (it’s liquor). I told my friend yesterday that I am keeping the liquor and had instead ordered him a copy of Fire and Fury. :)
re: #248 makeitstop
Rick Wilson’s new piece on Daily Beast is straight fire. He’s clearly loving the fact that he’s outlasted the man who vowed to destroy him for opposing Trump.
The only thing in the whole piece that I can really find to disagree with is his calling Andrew Breitbart a ‘better man’ than Bannon. They’re both scum.
And he points out what I said a while back - that Bannon is nowhere near the political genius that the media has portrayed him as. Just like Rove before him, the media shine has worn off.
I do not for the life of me get the attempts to rewrite Breitbart. With all respect ot Rick who I actually like but Breitbart still tried to get Shirley Sherrod fired over a doctored type, he still shouted shit at protesters, he still was a hateful, coked up asshole. I feel bad his kids lost their father but he’s not missed in politics by a long shot. It would have been better if Andrew Breitbart had woke up one morning and realized he had been a shitty person and created a terrible thing and used his influence to fix that but he didn’t.
re: #250 Flying Squirrel Girl
I have a belated Xmas present for a co-worker that I keep forgetting to bring to work (it’s liquor). I told my friend yesterday that I am keeping the liquor and had instead ordered him a copy of Fire and Fury. :)
Looking for the downside.
re: #252 Decatur Deb
Win-win. He promised to let me borrow the book when he finishes!
The Mercer Family recently dumped the leaker known as Sloppy Steve Bannon. Smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
It’s being written as Bannon/Trump feud but in reality Trump aides used the last few pieces quoting Bannon to force Trump to do what he always refused to, which is strongly stand up to Bannon https://t.co/6o415ZMJBp
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 5, 2018
Trump has not changed at all, despite insistence otherwise - he’s the same person now he’s been for years. But he’s in a new and stressful situation. https://t.co/1Fo6TFO7Wq
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 5, 2018
What he really needs is a hug. And a cup of hot cocoa. And for that mean Mr. Mueller to just leave him alone! Jesus…and she wants us to think she’s being objective? https://t.co/Y4eC0zqNOb
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 5, 2018
for informational purposes only:
fire and fury is up at the pirate bay
arrrgh
re: #254 darthstar
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If he needed to be prodded to stand up to Bannon, Maggie, he’s weak and a bigger baby than I thought.
re: #254 darthstar
What the hell is Maggie talking about?
re: #217 lawhawk
May they all freeze to death waiting for the bus that never comes.
re: #257 Sir John Barron
What the hell is Maggie talking about?
It’s her entry in the Maureen Dowd Essay Contest.
re: #256 HappyWarrior
If he needed to be prodded to stand up to Bannon, Maggie, he’s weak and a bigger baby than I thought.
Trump is never wrong. I bet, up until the reports of the book came out, Trump was still listening to Bannon, because he always chooses the right people. Then Bannon turned on him.
re: #251 HappyWarrior
I do not for the life of me get the attempts to rewrite Breitbart. With all respect ot Rick who I actually like but Breitbart still tried to get Shirley Sherrod fired over a doctored type, he still shouted shit at protesters, he still was a hateful, coked up asshole. I feel bad his kids lost their father but he’s not missed in politics by a long shot. It would have been better if Andrew Breitbart had woke up one morning and realized he had been a shitty person and created a terrible thing and used his influence to fix that but he didn’t.
Breitbart was scum. The fact that conservatives point to him as some kind of higher standard only shows how low they’ve let the bar slip since Breitbart kicked the bucket.
re: #260 Belafon
Trump is never wrong. I bet, up until the reports of the book came out, Trump was still listening to Bannon, because he always chooses the right people. Then Bannon turned on him.
My access meant is yours. Trump loved Bannon until he found out Bannon thought he was a moron.
re: #261 makeitstop
Breitbart was scum. The fact that conservatives point to him as some kind of higher standard only shows how low they’ve let the bar slip since Breitbart kicked the bucket.
Word.
re: #242 Belafon
Any time someone says to you “that’s fake news” you can say “there’s a tape.” Watch them turn white.
Well, whit-ER. They’re already pretty much exclusively white.
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re: #259 Decatur Deb
It’s her entry in the Maureen Dowd Essay Contest.
It’ll be featured in Chapter 10 of her upcoming book!
Or maybe Chapter 11. Heh.
I have to admit that every time I see a new Haberman tweet, I drop everything and click through to watch people line up to smack her down.
I hope Maggie is as miserable as everyone else in the Trump Cult. She deserves it.
Patriot Frederick Douglas embodied the same spirit and courage I have and we should ALL have against the suppression of speech in political discourse by the left. He died working to give all of us freedom of expression regardless of what some find uncomfortable about what is said pic.twitter.com/8hjpNTwJMn
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) January 3, 2018
Get His name out of your mouth. https://t.co/Z1QVs8zb08
— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) January 5, 2018
re: #259 Decatur Deb
It’s her entry in the Maureen Dowd Essay Contest.
It’s almost like Trump has something on her.
Did she sexually harass him at some point? /
re: #267 The Vicious Babushka
Fred Douglas is doing great things lately, everyone says so.
re: #267 The Vicious Babushka
I have this odd feeling that, at a minimum, Douglass would have beaten Clarke for letting people die under his custody.
Interesting that Clarke has decided to be black again.
Kate Bush
Cyndi Lauper
Emi-Lou Harris
Linda Thompson
Jane Siberry
Bannon knows where the bodies are buried.
Usually that’s a metaphor.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 5, 2018
re: #267 The Vicious Babushka
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Pretty rich to see the Sheriff who always whines about liberal protesters acting like he caers about free speech. FO with that shit Clarke.
Great piece on Trump from Josh Marshall. As Mrs. FBW says, Trump has a Mob Mentality. Mob as in THE Mob.
Is it just me, or did he just imply the FBI committed treason?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 5, 2018
re: #267 The Vicious Babushka
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My God: for a “Tough-Guy Sheriff” David Clarke is such a whiny snowflake! And severely irony-impaired, too, apparently: griping about “the suppression of speech by the left” on a social-media forum quite noticeably free of any particular “suppression” of his nasty gibberings….
Of course, like most RWNJs, Clarke’s notion of “suppression of free speech by the left” is most likely to mean “contradicts my rants” or “calls me out on my BS”…..
re: #277 Jay C
My God: for a “tough-guy Sheriff” David Clarke is such a whiny snowflake. And severely irony-impaired, too, apparently: griping about “the suppression of speech by the left” on a social-media forum quite noticeably free of any particular “suppression” of his nasty gibberings….
Of course, like most RWNJs, Clarke’s notion of “suppression of free speech by the left” is most likely to mean “contradicts my rants” or “calls me out on my BS”…..
You know maybe if Clarke spent more time being a sheriff rather than trying to become the new Joe Arapaio, he wouldn’t be viewed as such a shitty person. I had no idea who he was before 2016. I think most liberals didn’t either. He has an inflated view of himself.
if I had to pick five:
Aretha
Dolly Parton
k.d. lang
Grace Slick
Bonnie Riatt
re: #279 HappyWarrior
You know maybe if Clarke spent more time being a sheriff rather than trying to become the new Joe Arapaio, he wouldn’t be viewed as such a shitty person. I had no idea who he was before 2016. I think most liberals didn’t either. He has an inflated view of himself.
Is he still the sheriff there? For the sake of his county I hope not.
Comic’s Parody ‘Fire And Fury’ Excerpt On Trump Watching ‘Gorilla Channel’ Goes Viral, Libs Believe It’s Real https://t.co/1HQkBqWRAQ
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) January 5, 2018
This tweet contains some of the most concentrated deposits of irony ever uncovered. https://t.co/8rH0xZE1Bv
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 5, 2018
Uh huh Paul, tell me again how 9/11 was an inside job and Sandy Hook never happened.
re: #281 Sir John Barron
Is he still the sheriff there? For the sake of his county I hope not.
I don’t think he is. That’s why he was pushing that he was getting a job with Trump, to hopefully make it happen.
re: #279 HappyWarrior
You know maybe if Clarke spent more time being a sheriff rather than trying to become the new Joe Arapaio, he wouldn’t be viewed as such a shitty person. I had no idea who he was before 2016. I think most liberals didn’t either. He has an inflated view of himself.
He is an attention sponge. I think he gets off on both good and bad comments and characterizations.
Twitter feeds the fool.
Good chance if he was ignored he would go away.
Social media makes these people. Before that they would be nothings and no one would know about them.
I have a friend who worked with Andy Breitbart way before Breitbart. And he still misses Andy. He’s no conservative, either. His Facebook is filled with snarky, cutting anti-Trump remarks. But you have no idea how many times I’ve given him the virtual side-eye when he talks about Breitbart the guy.
re: #282 Ace-o-aces
Comic’s Parody ‘Fire And Fury’ Excerpt On Trump Watching ‘Gorilla Channel’ Goes Viral, Libs Believe It’s Real informationliberation.com
— Paul Joseph Watson
Is there an English version of this tweet?
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re: #281 Sir John Barron
Is he still the sheriff there? For the sake of his county I hope not.
Thankfully, he resigned but unfortunately for the rest of us, he has even more time on Twitter just like Trump.
re: #281 Sir John Barron
Is he still the sheriff there? For the sake of his county I hope not.
1) No he’s not. Bailed when he realized he was going to loose the next election.
2)The Milwaukee Sheriff’s department is tiny. It’s has only about 200 officers and has very little actual law enforcement responsibilities. Mostly they run the jails and do process serving.
re: #286 Sir John Barron
Is there an English version of this tweet?
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Watson’s claiming the gorilla excerpt was a joke. I don’t know. Haven’t seen the book but a guy who works for InfoWars has no room to mock people at all.
re: #288 Ace-o-aces
1) No he’s not. Bailed when he realized he was going to loose the next election.
2)The Milwaukee Sheriff’s department is tiny. It’s has only about 200 officers and has very little actual law enforcement responsibilities. Mostly they run the jails and do process serving.
Ahhh didn’t know that. So Clarke was a glorified jail administrator.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
Watson’s claiming the gorilla excerpt was a joke. I don’t know. Haven’t seen the book but a guy who works for InfoWars has no room to mock people at all.
The gorilla thing was a parody. The guy who wrote it was appalled that we’re at a point where so many people did believe it.
re: #275 Blind Frog Belly White
Great piece on Trump from Josh Marshall. As Mrs. FBW says, Trump has a Mob Mentality. Mob as in THE Mob.
And that’s why Mueller should employ RICO. Blow that wannabe mob all to hell, once and for all.
re: #291 Blind Frog Belly White
The gorilla thing was a parody. The guy who wrote it was appalled that we’re at a point where so many people did believe it.
Ahhh okay.
With the Wolff book dominating airtime (for obvious reasons), yesterday was one of the most significant policy days of Trump’s tenure:
- Allowed offshore drilling
- Opened door to going after state-legal marijuana
- Denied aid to Pakistan
- Delayed anti-segregation rule— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 5, 2018
re: #292 makeitstop
And that’s why Mueller should employ RICO. Blow that wannabe mob all to hell, once and for all.
Ivanka should start designing her own jumpsuit.
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What was the fourth one? HAdn’t heard about that. Knew about what happened with Pakistan, marijuana, and the drilling but not this.
re: #292 makeitstop
And that’s why Mueller should employ RICO. Blow that wannabe mob all to hell, once and for all.
How about collusion and obstruction for The Big Don and RICO indictments for the family and some of the staff that really got into it and helped?
re: #289 HappyWarrior
Watson’s claiming the gorilla excerpt was a joke. I don’t know. Haven’t seen the book but a guy who works for InfoWars has no room to mock people at all.
He made it up. He did a pretty good job of capturing what lots of people think of Trump, and so it did get passed around. It’s in the previous thread here.
I think it is a pretty good test. Trump’s pretty awful, and so people need to watch that they don’t accept everything put out. It will come back to bite you.
re: #290 HappyWarrior
Ahhh didn’t know that. So Clarke was a glorified jail administrator.
And not a very good one.
re: #291 Blind Frog Belly White
The gorilla thing was a parody. The guy who wrote it was appalled that we’re at a point where so many people did believe it.
I don’t even know what this is.
re: #298 Belafon
He made it up. He did a pretty good job of capturing what lots of people think of Trump, and so it did get passed around. It’s in the previous thread here.
I think it is a pretty good test. Trump’s pretty awful, and so people need to watch that they don’t accept everything put out. It will come back to bite you.
I admit it, I did fall for it. But Watson who works for an organization that pushes that Sandy Hook was a hoax and Pizza Gate should shut his smug face.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
Watson’s claiming the gorilla excerpt was a joke. I don’t know. Haven’t seen the book but a guy who works for InfoWars has no room to mock people at all.
I posted it here last night because I thought it was hilarious.
It was put together by a guy who calls himself ‘Pixelated Boat,’ who teleskiguy says is a notorious troll.
Even PB himself pointed out that it was fake.
So Watson was trolled into thinking that we think it’s real.
re: #296 HappyWarrior
What was the fourth one? HAdn’t heard about that. Knew about what happened with Pakistan, marijuana, and the drilling but not this.
Trump administration delays enforcement of Obama rule requiring communities to address segregation as a condition of getting federal grants: https://t.co/Q6tQe3JtF2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 5, 2018
re: #300 Sir John Barron
I don’t even know what this is.
Basically, there was a joke that Trump wanted to watch nothing but Gorillas and thought there was a whole channel devoted to gorillas fighting and became enraged when he found out there was no such channel.
The Mercer Family recently dumped the leaker known as Sloppy Steve Bannon. Smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
You wanted to put him on the National Security Council tho…. https://t.co/g0sRqmaD5q
— Rylo Ken (@Kennymack1971) January 5, 2018
re: #295 HappyWarrior
Ivanka should start designing her own jumpsuit.
She’d prolly just steal the existing design and put her label on it.
re: #302 makeitstop
I posted it here last night because I thought it was hilarious.
It was put together by a guy who calls himself ‘Pixelated Boat,’ who teleskiguy says is a notorious troll.
Even PB himself pointed out that it was fake.
So Watson was trolled into thinking that we think it’s real.
Which I honestly did but I didn’t really read the link. I probably would have realized it was meant ot be a joke immediately.
re: #305 Ace-o-aces
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re: #306 makeitstop
She’d prolly just steal the existing design and put her label on it.
She probably would!
FCC releases final text of order killing net neutrality https://t.co/7KnilwPOFB pic.twitter.com/knmFHxETuc
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) January 5, 2018
Let me repeat: I will lead a multistate lawsuit to protect the free and open internet.
We can’t stand by and watch one of the greatest tools for democracy ever created be turned into a private playground for the rich. https://t.co/VhSHihLxNC— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) January 5, 2018
The world’s top banana, the Cavendish, is under threat from a seemingly unstoppable fungus that is wiping out crops in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East: https://t.co/fYUJcMuQhj
— Kew Gardens (@kewgardens) January 5, 2018
thanks, trump!
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re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
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New York, can you give our whole country Schneidermann when you’re done with him? He’s awesome. And I say this having a pretty damn good AG in Mark Herring here in Va but Eric is awesome.
DOW ABOVE 25,000 POINTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
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250,000 NEW JOBS ADDED IN DECEMBER, BEATING ESTIMATES
.
LAYOFFS LOWEST SINCE 1990!— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) January 4, 2018
• December job growth was expected to be 190,000
• Ivanka screams that job growth is 250,000
• Hannity reports Ivanka’s fantasy as a fact
• Actual job growth: 148,000
• Steve Bannon: “Ivanka is dumb as a brick.”
• Brick sues Bannon for slander. https://t.co/5XDkBvoC1v— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 5, 2018
re: #282 Ace-o-aces
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Uh huh Paul, tell me again how 9/11 was an inside job and Sandy Hook never happened.
Screw you Infowars, I’m going to go full wingnut on this.
Prove to me that the Gorilla Channel thing is not real, I’ll be waiting in the pedophile pizza place for your answer.
re: #315 bill d. (b.d.)
Screw you Infowars, I’m going to go full wingnut on this.
Prove to me that the Gorilla Channel thing is not real, I’ll be waiting in the pedophile pizza place for your answer.
The basement of the pedo pizza place you mean and with Seth Rich’s body.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And she blabbed the (wrong) job numbers a day before they were announced.
‘…and your wise men don’t know how it feels
the be thick…as a brick’
Had to ask @realDonaldTrump about #marijuana in light of his alliance with @GovChristie:#9NEWS #COpolitics pic.twitter.com/lK4btIQWuK
— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) July 29, 2016
Video from Colorado in 2016👇
I asked @realDonaldTrump about the possibility that his AG pick might try to shut down #marijuana legalization.
“I wouldn’t do that, no,” Trump said. “I think it should be up to the states, absolutely.” https://t.co/PnTo7OtM23— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) January 4, 2018
re: #316 HappyWarrior
The basement of the pedo pizza place you mean and with Seth Rich’s body.
That’s it, Ill be having a FEMA Camp pizza with a Chemtrail chaser.
re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is the same disease that wiped out its predecessor. At least they are working to find a disease resistant variation.
More information on bananas in general:
en.wikipedia.org
re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth
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a fascinating book I read last year:
(goes to amazon)
This weekend, Spielberg’s #ThePost expands into additional theaters — including the White House https://t.co/8I4b8ED0Ry
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 5, 2018
If Trump watches #ThePost this weekend he’ll learn more about the presidency & the press than he’s learned in a year on the job. https://t.co/rIpKeEcZ8R
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) January 5, 2018
Fake news! POTUS can’t learn goodly. https://t.co/w4ZL15leDn
— Molly Jong-Fast🌨 (@MollyJongFast) January 5, 2018
re: #317 makeitstop
And she blabbed the (wrong) job numbers a day before they were announced.
‘…and your wise men don’t know how it feels
the be thick…as a brick’
I’m not an Ivanka fan but someone else here pointed out yesterday that Ivanka was quoting a widely published number developed from a different source.
lawfareblog.com suggests, to me, that the notion they are investigating Trump for obstruction may be a smokescreen for the real investigation.
re: #261 makeitstop
Breitbart was scum. The fact that conservatives point to him as some kind of higher standard only shows how low they’ve let the bar slip since Breitbart kicked the bucket.
I’ve heard he had a heart attack, but that presupposes a heart. He really choked on bile.
re: #325 Barefoot Grin
I’ve heard he had a heart attack, but that presupposes a heart. He really choked on bile.
My guess was always many, many drugs.
Stress doesn’t cause you to talk like a fucking child.
He very clearly has changed, his vocabulary has massively eroded from what it used to be two decades ago. I get that you’re desperately trying to maintain your lucrative access here but come on.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 5, 2018
re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am prepared to take all steps necessary, including holding DOJ nominees, until the Attorney General lives up to the commitment he made to me prior to his confirmation.
— Cory Gardner (@SenCoryGardner) January 4, 2018
And this idiot Cory Gardner was assured that Jeffery would not do what Jeffery is doing. His first clue should have been, “Obama era ruling” and his second should have been he was told by a Republican. But Cory stood and voted for Trump every inch of the way. “I’m different”
Deputy Director McCabe Ethical Guidance and Recusal: https://t.co/7YqSIimOBi
— FBI Records Vault (@FBIRecordsVault) January 5, 2018
The FBI just released the ethics form and recusal that FBI Dep Director Andrew McCabe, a favorite target of Trump conspiracies, signed when his wife ran for office 3 years ago. https://t.co/3YJbwFihyf
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) January 5, 2018
re: #327 goddamnedfrank
Stress doesn’t cause you to talk like a fucking child.
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He has changed. He’s always been a pompous douche but he was a coherent pompous douche and I’m sorry but stress is no excuse to his behavior as potus.
re: #328 nines09
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And this idiot Cory Gardner was assured that Jeffery would not do what Jeffery is doing. His first clue should have been, “Obama era ruling” and his second should have been he was told by a Republican. But Cory stood and voted for Trump every inch of the way. “I’m different”
You’re a moron Cory.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yet another “if this had been the Obama or Clinton administrations using the FBI this way, there would be pitchforks and torches from the right” moment that instead becomes yet another shrug on the sad, sorry road downhill to authoritarianism.
re: #331 HappyWarrior
Cory is like a lot of Republican voters. It will never affect them. It’s the other guy. They voted to hurt you. Not them. They’re…special. I see them every fucking day.
re: #333 nines09
Cory is like a lot of Republican voters. It will never affect them. It’s the other guy. They voted to hurt you. Not them. They’re…special. I see them every fucking day.
Yep.
Everybody, say it with me now….
HMMMMMMMMMM…..
Source close to White House tells me that Bannon was “aware of the fact that WH counsel misled POTUS about his authority to fire Comey” — which was in NYT story last night — and notes that the NYT story appeared after POTUS began attacking Bannon publicly. 🤔
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 5, 2018
re: #326 makeitstop
My guess was always many, many drugs.
The cocaine powder is notorious for being hard on the heart. And it can make some extremely irritable, paranoid and reckless.
re: #272 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Kate Bush
Cyndi Lauper
Emi-Lou Harris
Linda Thompson
Jane Siberry
Annie Lennox is a name I haven’t seen go by yet. Always loved her. Natalie Merchant is another name that would be on my list.
re: #288 Ace-o-aces
1) No he’s not. Bailed when he realized he was going to loose the next election.
2)The Milwaukee Sheriff’s department is tiny. It’s has only about 200 officers and has very little actual law enforcement responsibilities. Mostly they run the jails and do process serving.
I believe David Clarke’s father was career military and a hyper disciplinarian. Some kids emulate that, some rebel. Clarke thinks that because he turned out so fine (in his opinion), that anyone can do it. Conservatives love minorities who tell minorities it is minorities own fault. I always laughed at how, when 1 out of 100 can achieve something, that instead of thinking “wow, what are the odds”, these libertarian dicks conclude “see, anyone can do it”. I don’t see how 1 in 100 proves anyone can do something. Indicates the opposite to me.
re: #336 ObserverArt
The cocoa powder is notorious for being hard on the heart. And it can make some extremely irritable, paranoid and reckless.
…and do things like yelling ‘Stop raping people’ at a peaceful demonstration.
re: #337 Eventual Carrion
Annie Lennox is a name I haven’t seen go by yet. Always loved her. Natalie Merchant is another name that would be on my list.
I think Annie was mentioned by one lizard above.
re: #337 Eventual Carrion
Annie Lennox is a name I haven’t seen go by yet. Always loved her. Natalie Merchant is another name that would be on my list.
Fully agree on Annie.
Disagree on Natalie Merchant, though. Way too sleepy for my tastes.
Has anyone mentioned Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde yet?
On the subject of women vocalists. I have only two Marianne Faithful songs- her cover as Tears Go By and of Angel and while I know 50 years is a long time, the difference in her voice is just so striking. Throwing another name out there but the Secret Sisters. I really enjoy their harmony. June Carter Cash too.
Oh LOL
Oh how could be so silly, The Ronettes and Crystals have to be on there for me. I love the early 60’s girl groups that Spector produced.
re: #344 Unshaken Defiance
Broken? OMG That is a good camera. I guess some folks do not understand how to work a 35 mm camera.
re: #347 PhillyPretzel
Broken? OMG That is a good camera. I guess some folks do not understand how to work a 35 mm camera.
I can believe that. Folks are used to pointing and shooting nowadays.
On a related note - I got some reel-to-reel tapes from a friend, live recordings from a band I was in back in ‘73.
I actually had to re-learn how to thread the reels on to the machine yesterday. It came back to me, eventually. :)
re: #343 HappyWarrior
On the subject of women vocalists. I have only two Marianne Faithful songs- her cover as Tears Go By and of Angel and while I know 50 years is a long time, the difference in her voice is just so striking. Throwing another name out there but the Secret Sisters. I really enjoy their harmony. June Carter Cash too.
This was Marianne’s comeback album from 1979. She nearly didn’t live long enough to make it. She had a hard life after the Sixties wore off.
re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is what happens with monoculture. It’s not 5he first time a commercial banana has been wiped out.
re: #349 makeitstop
This was Marianne’s comeback album from 1979. She nearly didn’t live long enough to make it. She had a hard life after the Sixties wore off.
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I didn’t know that. Damn. I loved her cover of As Tears Go By. In fact, I may like even more than Mick’s original.
re: #350 Colère Tueur de Lapin
You are correct and this is what I posted upthread:
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re: #351 HappyWarrior
I didn’t know that. Damn. I loved her cover of As Tears Go By. In fact, I may like even more than Mick’s original.
She’s a survivor. She was strung out on heroin, lost her kid, was even homeless for a couple of years.
Still, she persisted. Gotta love her for that.
Hell, I’ll even forgive her for that…thing she did with Metallica. :)
re: #353 makeitstop
She’s a survivor. She was strung out on heroin, lost her kid, was even homeless for a couple of years.
Still, she persisted. Gotta love her for that.
Hell, I’ll even forgive her for that…thing she did with Metallica. :)
Damn I didn’t know that. For sure though. Anyhow, I know oyu know it but I’ll link it anyhow. Both are great and at totally different points of her life. Props to her for continuing to sing.
This is pretty rare: nearly every major Jewish organization, from Orthodox to Reform, signs letter to Senate Foreign Relations committee urging Burma sanctions to protect the Rohingya Muslims from ethnic cleansing https://t.co/E5ljdEJl8P pic.twitter.com/x17CFiL0eS
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 5, 2018
im prankin this guy as if im sending nudes but in reality…im literally typing “Attachment: 1 Image” pic.twitter.com/QrwS8SrEad
— pobre diabla (@saucynatt) January 3, 2018
re: #345 makeitstop
And while I’m thinking of female-led bands from LA - Susanna Hoffs is in there, too.
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re: #357 ObserverArt
Be still my heart!
I love those early videos of them. They glammed up pretty good by the time they did ‘Walk Like and Egyptian’ and the Prince tune, but before the image, they could play.
Trump: may not be super reliable
Trump is sloppy
Trump is a total sleaze bag of unprincipled writer of fiction.
Trump is too stupid and malicious for words.
Oh wait, they’re claiming that of the writer who chronicled all of this - and claims to have the tapes to back it up.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 5, 2018
re: #360 lawhawk
[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]
Inconsistency is their most cherished principle.
There’s cheering in certain sectors that the economy created 2.055 million jobs in 2017. Those people lamented the slow pace of an economy that created 2.24 million jobs in 2016.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 5, 2018
Try that again.
re: #361 HappyWarrior
The RNC needs to burn.
I wish someone else (like, some Anonymous splinter group) could get a hold of all their hacked emails and release them into the wild. The Russia-has-blackmail-material theory is the only one that explains why ALL of them have fallen into line protecting and enabling Cheeto Benito.
LOL shit just went plaid.
Breaking News: The first known criminal referral has emerged from Congress’s Russia inquiries. The target is the author of the Trump-Russia dossier. https://t.co/Sh96f3V298
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 5, 2018
re: #153 darthstar
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How could Republicans impeach Trump if they get wiped out in 2018? That doesn’t even make any sense. They wouldn’t be in control of Congress if they’re wiped out in November so they won’t be in a position to impeach anyone.
re: #323 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m not an Ivanka fan but someone else here pointed out yesterday that Ivanka was quoting a widely published number developed from a different source.
See later post - the first part of the speculation below is not necessarily right. The second part about literacy - I bet it is still true.
I suspect Ivanka and Donald are using the number reported in December for jobs gained in November, because the Trumps are just that economically illiterate.
re: #363 jaunte
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It’s almost like the President’s skin color and party matters more.
Just in: Sens. Grassley and Graham are referring Christopher Steele to DOJ “for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, for statements the Committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier.” pic.twitter.com/VltWm70pVr
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) January 5, 2018
The entire GOP is corrupt. This is complete B.S. https://t.co/QoPGmIHdkO
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 5, 2018
re: #367 BlueSpotinAL
I suspect Ivanka and Donald are using the number reported in December for jobs gained in November, because the Trumps are just that economically illiterate.
It really does astound me how stupid they are. I mean I thought Bush was dumb but Trump and his cronies are DUMB.
re: #364 Interesting Times
He is a bully and they are afraid of him and his temper. They are also afraid of what he will tweet about them.
re: #364 Interesting Times
I wish someone else (like, some Anonymous splinter group) could get a hold of all their hacked emails and release them into the wild. The Russia-has-blackmail-material theory is the only one that explains why ALL of them have fallen into line protecting and enabling Cheeto Benito.
What I’d love to see is emails released of them talking crap about Trump.
re: #371 PhillyPretzel
He is a bully and they are afraid of him and his temper. They are also afraid of what he will tweet about them.
They’re also afraid of that base of racist assholes they’ve created turning on them.
re: #365 goddamnedfrank
LOL shit just went plaid.
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This reminds me a few years ago during the rash of police shooting of unarmed black people caught on video, the Republicans wanted a law that would make it illegal to film the police.
re: #369 jaunte
Think of the dirt they have on Lindsey.
Breaking News: The first known criminal referral has emerged from Congress’s Russia inquiries. The target is the author of the Trump-Russia dossier. https://t.co/Sh96f3V298
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 5, 2018
Unbelievable… https://t.co/UmDGU05cdv
— Milenaac (@milenaac) January 5, 2018
#unhackthevote
There aren’t enough four letter words to convey my feelings for this. So I will use a bigger word. FuckDonuts. All of them. https://t.co/mycULQE0rB— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) January 5, 2018
re: #376 jaunte
Exposing conspiracy against the US is itself a conspiracy?
That’s the position Grassley and Graham are taking.
They are violating their oaths of office to enable a complicit Trump admin that has repeatedly lied about their connections to Russia @ZoeTillman— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 5, 2018
re: #376 jaunte
The “moderate” Republicans in Congress aren’t going to save us.
They will have to be defeated at the ballot box.
I hope Steele exposes the GOP establishment that hired him originally.
re: #377 lawhawk
I hope they’re getting well paid for prostituting themselves like this.
re: #378 Sir John Barron
The “moderate” Republicans in Congress aren’t going to save us.
They will have to be defeated at the ballot box.
Every last one of them.
re: #366 Patricia Kayden
How could Republicans impeach Trump if they get wiped out in 2018? That doesn’t even make any sense. They wouldn’t be in control of Congress if they’re wiped out in November so they won’t be in a position to impeach anyone.
No matter how bad November is for the GOP, it won’t be bad enough for the Democrats to get 67 Senate seats, so some Republican Senators would have to vote for conviction to remove Trump from office.
re: #367 BlueSpotinAL
I suspect Ivanka and Donald are using the number reported in December for jobs gained in November, because the Trumps are just that economically illiterate.
ADP numbers,
or initial jobless claims (same number, no link, sorry)
Whereas the one most closely followed is
USD Change in Non-farm Payrolls (DEC), at a measly 148k.
the high pressure region created by the distinct possibility that the gop will lose the house in the midterms forecasts increasingly vile vile i mean violent shitstorms for the next ten months to a year, with persistent benghazis and lewinskis in spots
re: #367 BlueSpotinAL
I suspect Ivanka and Donald are using the number reported in December for jobs gained in November, because the Trumps are just that economically illiterate.
No, Ivanka was repeating the jobs number reported by ADP, which releases a monthly report on private sector job creation every month before the Bureau’s report.
Off topic not really off topic, watching the 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate, and it’s actually alarmingly prescient.
re: #382 Big Beautiful Door
No matter how bad November is for the GOP, it won’t be bad enough for the Democrats to get 67 Senate seats, so some Republican Senators would have to vote for conviction to remove Trump from office.
Yep, there are only 9 Republicans up for reelection.
re: #386 Sir John Barron
Off topic not really off topic, watching the 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate, and it’s actually alarmingly prescient.
Such a great movie.
re: #59 Dave In Austin
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Having finally caught up with the thread I am astonished, even shocked! that not one person noted one of the greatest female rock vocalists of all time: Janis Joplin.
re: #375 nines09
Think of the dirt they have on Lindsey.
Just think: it has to be much worse than what we already imagine about him.
re: #367 BlueSpotinAL
I suspect Ivanka and Donald are using the number reported in December for jobs gained in November, because the Trumps are just that economically illiterate.
They were using a December number developed from another source: reuters.com
re: #389 nines09
And that would be a bad thing. I guess Jeff Sessions has never heard of Amsterdam and their “coffee shops.”
re: #396 PhillyPretzel
Nobody goes there any more, its too crowded.
re: #382 Big Beautiful Door
No matter how bad November is for the GOP, it won’t be bad enough for the Democrats to get 67 Senate seats, so some Republican Senators would have to vote for conviction to remove Trump from office.
And that will never happen. Sigh.
re: #396 PhillyPretzel
And that would be a bad thing. I guess Jeff Sessions has never heard of Amsterdam and their “coffee shops.”
Sessions remember is the guy who had a problem with the KKK because he heard some of them smoked pot not the whole racist asshole thing.
re: #388 HappyWarrior
Such a great movie.
More interesting plot than the 2004 remake (although I liked that one, too, and the great cast, Denzel, etc).
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just think: it has to be much worse than what we already imagine about him.
Not necessarily worse —- Lindsey’s voters may be totally unaware of the widespread speculation about him and he knows that it will be the kiss of death to his career, given the state he represents.
It might just be a PR stunt according to Natasha.
Just in: Grassley and Graham have made a criminal referral to DOJ about Chris Steele. Legal experts tell me this looks like a PR stunt, mostly because it’s not clear that the senators have info that the FBI does not already have (and DOJ hasn’t independently pursued charges) pic.twitter.com/J5RTkzI2Y2
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 5, 2018
re: #401 Sir John Barron
More interesting plot than the 2004 remake (although I liked that one, too, and the great cast, Denzel, etc).
Haven’t seen the remake yet. It was funny. Mom was talking how much she loves the movie but she forgot the title so she was instead talking about how much she loved Clockwork Orange. I enjoyed the movie. IT erally holds up well.
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just think: it has to be much worse than what we already imagine about him.
I personally don’t give a rats ass if he rolls in dog shit and bays at the moon. But when he attacks people who roll in..
re: #405 makeitstop
It might just be a PR stunt according to Natasha.
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All the mor epathetic then and just a movie to get on Douche Orange’s good side.
It’s quite amazing that Grassley and Graham are willing to become complicit in Trump’s Russia collusion after the fact. That’s loyalty.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2018
Just out of curiosity, could Democrats return the favor on this little PR stunt? Could 2 Democrats for example send a criminal referral to the FBI to investigate Sessions for lying under oath?
re: #412 nines09
and fresh pita…
Yes! I went to Cava for lunch the other day. If oyu guys don’t know it’s Chipolte style but with Mediterranean food. Took my Dad whom to his credit is open minded about trying new food and he enjoyed it.
Will be on @TheStoryFNC at 7pmET to read excerpts from “My Little Pony” because it’s more accurate and thoughtful than the drivel hurried to market by the big bad Wolff.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 4, 2018
This is not even close to how jokes work. For starters, the children’s book should have been “The Three Little Pigs” to support the pun. But even then it would suck. https://t.co/xnRNMm0Bbx
— Bill Prady (@billprady) January 5, 2018
Donald Trump’s ability to get otherwise respectable people to destroy their reputations on his behalf continues to astound me.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 5, 2018
re: #404 Hecuba’s daughter
Not necessarily worse —- Lindsey’s voters may be totally unaware of the widespread speculation about him and he knows that it will be the kiss of death to his career, given the state he represents.
As a resident of Lindsey’s state, I can say, in my experience, voters are totally aware of the speculation about him, and he still defeated all of his loony way-right challengers in his last primary—didn’t even have to face a runoff. And that was in 2014, so he’s not up again till 2020.
Shocker! Liberal Hollywood bimbo doesn’t like conservative president! Stop the presses!
Simon, when America needs an expert on how to snort cocaine off an intern’s naked @ss, we’ll consult Hollywood. Nobody in Hollywood ever has the right to label anyone else self-absorbed. @TMZ— eric golub (@TYGRRRREXPRESS) January 5, 2018
You dumb motherfucker, I live in Baltimore. And though it’s been a while, the last naked ass that steadied a line of coke for me belonged to your mother. My regards to the indefatigable Mrs. Golub when next you see her. https://t.co/VfOOY48pgq
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 5, 2018
I held back.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 5, 2018
Sure. I like tea. Thanks.
Have my balls in your mouth, okay? Blocked.— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 5, 2018
Trump: “We’re changing your name, Bannon.”
Barron: “It’s Barron.”
Trump: “Wait. You talk?”
Barron: “Yeah, I—”
Trump: “Whatever, I don’t need to hear your life story. What do you think of ‘Don Jr: The Reboot’? I’m having the other one killed. Just think about it”
Barron: [sigh]— TBogg (@tbogg) January 5, 2018
re: #409 jaunte
Sounds to me like the GOP leadership has decided to go down with the ship.
Party loyalty means more than anything else.
Drew Magary:
“…Wolff has spent this week thoroughly exploiting Trump and his minions the same way they’ve exploited the cluelessness of others. And he pulled it off because, at long last, there was a reporter out there willing to toss decorum aside and burn bridges the same way Trump does.
Everyone around Donald Trump is too polite to Donald Trump. Democrats, foreign dignitaries, underlings… all of them. And the White House press is perhaps the worst offender. From the media pool playing along with Sarah Sanders during press conferences—conferences where Sanders openly lies and pisses on democracy—to access merchants like Maggie Haberman doling out Trump gossip like so many bread crumbs, too many reporters have been far too deferential to an administration that is brazenly racist, dysfunctional, and corrupt. And for what purpose? It’s clear to me that Haberman and the like aren’t saving up their chits for just the EXACT right time to bring this Administration down. No, the only end goal of their access is continued access, to preserve it indefinitely so that the copy spigot never gets shut off. They are abiding by traditional wink-wink understandings that have long existed between the government and the press covering it.
But Wolff didn’t do that. He did not engage in some endless bullshit access tango. No, Wolff actually USED his access, and extended zero courtesy to Trump on the process, and it’s going to pay off for him not just from a book sales standpoint, but from a real journalistic impact.”
gq.com
Sure, Jan.
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) January 5, 2018
re: #420 Dr Lizardo
Sounds to me like the GOP leadership has decided to go down with the ship.
Party loyalty means more than anything else.
They have gotten away with murder. They’re going for genocide now.
@jack Forget our request for verification. we don’t need a bunch of nazi enabling silicon valley dwelling children telling the world we mean something - The Pogues
— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) January 4, 2018
Let this be a movement https://t.co/Q49e9bwGwv
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) January 5, 2018
The Pogues just liked this Tweet. This makes me happy. https://t.co/O1LF3oit0Q
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) January 5, 2018
re: #396 PhillyPretzel
And that would be a bad thing. I guess Jeff Sessions has never heard of Amsterdam and their “coffee shops.”
We all know what a socialist Islamicist hellhole that country is…
re: #366 Patricia Kayden
How could Republicans impeach Trump if they get wiped out in 2018? That doesn’t even make any sense. They wouldn’t be in control of Congress if they’re wiped out in November so they won’t be in a position to impeach anyone.
I think the inference here is that if the Republicans suffer bad-enough losses in this year’s midterms (and sorry, that “wiped out” notion is - to be polite - wishful thinking: however bad the potential GOP losses might be, the Democrats will likely have nowhere near a supermajority),
they will turn on The Donald as the source of their electoral woes, and be more amenable to going along with a Dem-sponsored impeachment move.
Of course, one can imagine how the Moron-in-Chief would react to having an Opposition Congress: even assuming he’s still in the WH, I’m guessing that the final two years of Dolt 45’s Administration would be little than a constant stream of fulminating blame-shifting,
angry vetoes, incoherent tweeting, and more Fascist-style “rallies” to keep his redneck “base” in a constant froth. Yeah, fun times ahead…
(but we have to get through the midterms first)
Urban Dictionary: “Sloppy Steve”
NSFW. You are warned.
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re: #425 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We all know what a socialist Islamicist hellhole that country is…
Full of no-go zones per our Ambassador Fake News Hookstra
re: #428 HappyWarrior
Please stop trying to be funny, Mike. You’re about as funny as FNC’s attempt at the Daily Show.
I’d call him a sellout, but I’m sure Mike’s prostituting himself for free.
re: #430 Sir John Barron
I’d call him a sellout, but I’m sure Mike’s prostituting himself for free.
Trump got a two for one with the Huckabees. Seriously his attempts at humor are worse than Dad humor. They’re Evangelical Dad humor.
Little Green Footballs
— DeltaBravoNews 🇺🇸 (@DeltaBravoNews) January 5, 2018
re: #432 Charles Johnson
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Interesting discussion in this thread.
dilemma of the Wolff book for journalism commentators : those who said press should break the rules, not normalize Trump, call it what it is etc., did not anticipate the most effective route to that would be by pulling off the most audacious act of access journalism of all time
— emily bell (@emilybell) January 4, 2018
Natasha is on this. She’s such a good reporter, we need more like her.
DOJ vet on Steele referral: “The bottom line is that the referral only matters to the extent it gives the FBI relevant evidence or otherwise unknown and credible allegations. Otherwise, it should be viewed as a political act.” https://t.co/6Bl8xyhaER
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 5, 2018
re: #365 goddamnedfrank
LOL shit just went plaid.
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Why those low-down, dirty, sleazy Republican assholes.
Fuck Grassley and Graham.
Gonna have to drop a contact form email on Robby Portman and McConnell and let both those asses how dirty this all is.
We have to make Republicans pay. They are all colluding and obstructing now.
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The stories about how his aides have to constantly praise him and only tell him positive stories are something out of a tinpot dictatorship.
re: #435 goddamnedfrank
The most “interesting” thing I’ve observed is that at least some of what’s in Wolff’s book appears to have been known by sundry journalists. They just never bothered to tell the rest of us for some reason.
The book is absolutely brutal. Here is an excerpt about Paul Ryan and Tom Price trying to discuss healthcare reform with Trump:
The two men summed up for Trump — who kept wandering off topic and trying to turn the conversation to golf — seven years of Republican legislative thinking about Obamacare and the Republican alternatives. Here was a perfect example of an essential Trump paradigm: he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about, or simply one whose details he couldn’t bring himself to focus on closely. Great! he would say, punctuating every statement with a similar exclamation and regularly making an effort to jump from his chair.
re: #441 Weaselone
The most “interesting” thing I’ve observed is that at least some of what’s in Wolff’s book appears to have been known by sundry journalists. They just never bothered to tell the rest of us for some reason.
This is again, the journalistic version of Jerry Hall finding out about Mick Jagger’s dalliances after he knocks up a Brazilian fashion model…at that point, she can no longer ignore the obvious.
Have we reached the point that the media will have the balls to do their job and start reporting on Trump and not accommodating him?
I guess that depends on their business model.
re: #435 goddamnedfrank
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My takeaway from this is that Wolff was able to distinguish himself from the likes of Haberman and Thrush by virtue of holding back and publishing everything he got at once, in book form. That’s what allowed him to avoid necessitating his access to continued, grotesque acts of public cheerleading and gutless equivocation.
re: #442 Big Beautiful Door
The book is absolutely brutal. Here is an excerpt about Paul Ryan and Tom Price trying to discuss healthcare reform with Trump:
We’ve known since forever now that Trumpy doesn’t know anything about legislation or policy but the NYT scribes and the like have failed to press him on details.
re: #437 ObserverArt
Why those low-down, dirty, sleazy Republican assholes.
Fuck Grassley and Graham.
Gonna have to drop a contact form email on Robby Portman and McConnell and let both those asses how dirty this all is.
We have to make Republicans pay. They are all colluding and obstructing now.
Just saw that Mandel has dropped out of the Senate race, citing wife’s health. Of course, one of the right-wing nuts said he was a “lock” to replace Sherrod Brown and that they now have to find a suitable replacement—oh, it was a tweeter called @jewishright, and he has a Pepe in his tweet, so there’s that…
re: #447 BeachDem
Just saw that Mandel has dropped out of the Senate race, citing wife’s health. Of course, one of the right-wing nuts said he was a “lock” to replace Sherrod Brown and that they now have to find a suitable replacement—oh, it was a tweeter called @jewishright, and he has a Pepe in his tweet, so there’s that…
Didn’t Brown already beat Mandel pretty easily? And this would be a very favorable Democratic year.
re: #445 goddamnedfrank
My takeaway from this is that Wolff was able to distinguish himself from the likes of Haberman and Thrush by virtue of holding back and publishing everything he got at once, in book form. That’s what allowed him to avoid necessitating his access to continued, grotesque acts of public cheerleading and gutless equivocation.
And Maggie and Glenn are probably doubly pissed because it’s going to take all the shine off their upcoming “palace intrigue/romance/thriller.”
re: #449 BeachDem
And Maggie and Glenn are probably doubly pissed because it’s going to take all the shine off their upcoming “palace intrigue/romance/thriller.”
Or as I’ve taken to calling it, their ‘kiss-ass-and-tell.’
So update on Twitter Drama, the user 50CalVal was reported…and has been SUSPENDED
re: #450 makeitstop
Or as I’ve taken to calling it, their ‘kiss-ass-and-tell.’
They seem to kiss plenty of ass, but based on past performance, it’s unlikely they’ll tell the reader much of anything useful.
re: #448 HappyWarrior
Didn’t Brown already beat Mandel pretty easily? And this would be a very favorable Democratic year.
Well, he beat him by 6 points, but he should have won by about 20 points if the people of Ohio hadn’t lost their frigging minds. (I say that as a 30-year Ohio resident who then moved to always insane SC)
re: #453 BeachDem
Well, he beat him by 6 points, but he should have won by about 20 points if the people of Ohio hadn’t lost their frigging minds. (I say that as a 30-year Ohio resident who then moved to always insane SC)
Oh ok.
Forgive my ignorance but who are the Pogues?
Jared Kushner, come on down! You too, Beavis.
In other news … Trump campaign digital director: “Not one person made a decision” without Kushner and Eric Trump’s “approval” https://t.co/0PGPVbZ2gP
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 5, 2018
re: #457 Eclectic Cyborg
I would like to know too.
re: #457 Eclectic Cyborg
Forgive my ignorance but who are the Pogues?
Only the band responsible for the one true modern Christmas classic.
re: #462 makeitstop
THAT is the Pogues. They just liked a reply from me on twitter. Me an mine and yers too.
LOL
Very FALSE TOME writed up! “Fishes & Fury” is book for stupid losers! DON’T LET THEM READS IT!!! Then why does we tweets a page precious? #FireAndFury #FishesAndFury pic.twitter.com/LemPqQwZDm
— Gollum J. Trump (@realGollumTrump) January 5, 2018
re: #463 nines09
THAT is the Pogues. They just liked a reply from me on twitter. Me an mine and yers too.
I’m totally jealous. I love the Pogues.
re: #466 Joe Bacon 🌹
Should be a mangy hyena pissing on the plant.
re: #464 makeitstop
LOL
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I rewatched Serkis on Colbert. Doesn’t get old. It has to kill Trump that he’s not respected at all and seen as a joke.
re: #465 HappyWarrior
I’m totally jealous. I love the Pogues.
I was lucky enough to have been at this show on 3/14/09. Caught Shane in a good mood.
They were rolling the drunks out on hand trucks that night. One for the books, it was.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
With faces only mothers could love.
So, this guy running against some congressman/Russian spy just followed me for some reason.
This is AMAZING. pic.twitter.com/DpZriG1eSn
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 5, 2018
Rep. Rohrabacher is consistent with his bully tactics.
He doesn’t respect the American people, an independent Russian investigation, or our constitution.
That’s why I’m running against him. #CA48. #BlueWave2018 #Demswork4usa https://t.co/ZeHlJrhByS— Harley Rouda (@HarleyRouda) January 5, 2018
I didn’t watch The Today Show today, so I did not see this interview with Michael Wolff. So maybe we can all watch it together.
Also, I see the interview is already leading to complaints that Wolff wasn’t straight up with The White House. See link to a WaPo story and a couple paragraphs that begin the story.
What a mess this all is.
And the link to the WaPo story…
WaPo - Trump book author Michael Wolff made a damaging admission on the ‘Today’ show
Author Michael Wolff bolstered President Trump’s effort to discredit the new book “Fire and Fury” on Friday when he acknowledged in a “Today” show interview that he had been willing to say whatever was “necessary” to gain access at the White House.
Wolff’s admission does not directly undermine the veracity of his reporting, but it creates the appearance that he might have approached some members of the president’s team under false pretenses, leading sources to believe that when they opened up they were speaking to a sympathetic ear. That’s a bad look — one which the White House can use to impugn Wolff’s integrity and, perhaps unfairly, cast doubt on whichever elements of his work the president doesn’t like.
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re: #472 nines09
With faces only mothers could love.
Heh that’s part of the appeal. That’s why I love Shane’s voice. He’s not trained at all. I do like how they combine Irish folk and punk, two of my favorite genres.
re: #474 ObserverArt
“I thought he would be a sympathetic ear, so I accidentally told him the truth.”
Shrug not really bothered by Wolff not showing writer’s ethics when this WH has been criminal.
Pope tells Italian Catholic teachers to combat bullying by dispelling the “widespread belief that in order to be worth something you must be competitive, aggressive and hard toward others, especially those who are foreign or different.”
— Francis X. Rocca (@FrancisXRocca) January 5, 2018
Be like the Pope. Beat this stupid death cult back wherever you find it. https://t.co/G1cK45beww
— kia (@pocojump) January 5, 2018
re: #480 gocart mozart
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I love love this message by his holiness. I’m not sure if I’d still be a Catholic if he were Pope when I was growing up but I’d gone to a lot more masses. This is a good message.
re: #474 ObserverArt
I didn’t watch The Today Show today, so I did not see this interview with Michael Wolff. So maybe we can all watch it together.
Also, I see the interview is already leading to complaints that Wolff wasn’t straight up with The White House. See link to a WaPo story and a couple paragraphs that begin the story.
What a mess this all is.
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And the link to the WaPo story…
WaPo - Trump book author Michael Wolff made a damaging admission on the ‘Today’ show
Of course O’Keefe is a right wing hero for being much more duplicitous.
re: #474 ObserverArt
So this is like Manafort’s lawsuit against Mueller - rather than try to defend by asserting the accusations are false, they defend by asserting that Wolff or Mueller shouldn’t have been able to find out.
re: #457 Eclectic Cyborg
Forgive my ignorance but who are the Pogues?
We performed their Fairytale of New York for our Christmas concert for the homeless in Frankfurt this year
re: #459 nines09
you beat me
they were the hottest thing on market at the turn of the 90’s: Irish folk punk
re: #469 gocart mozart
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these guys were all the rage at the turn of the 90’s: Irish folk punk. Played in a band that emulated their style, but not quite as drunken
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