Stephen Colbert Weighs in on the Important Debate of the Week: Did Trump Say “Shithole” or “Shithouse?”
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You say tomat-ah, I say tomat-oh.
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Test if you belong in an old folks home or not maybe…
cnn.com
Read the thread. Lmao
Because he was listed as an inch shorter earlier. Please. BTW, I’m the same height and am a bit overweight at 190. He looks to me about 50 pounds heavier than I am.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 17, 2018
oh man we are closer than ever to Fox News personalities fulfilling my fantasy of aggressively defending the size of Trump’s penis, please don’t stop https://t.co/Xw1AvOW58q
— 175 days ago Trump promised 24-hr Hezbollah answer (@MattNegrin) January 17, 2018
You may be having fantasies about Trump’s penis, but I can assure you I am not. You’ll need to look elsewhere. https://t.co/x0wJ83zuKD
— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 17, 2018
Move over DHS Secy Kirstjen Nielsen…
Yours was now the second least convincing denial today. https://t.co/PGv9zVffjo— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 17, 2018
re: #2 meteor
Ol’ Brit deleted his penis tweet. Whatever, dude. The internet is forever.
.@FoxNews sage @brithume thinks about Fuckface Von Clownstick’s penis and how it might be bigger than his. pic.twitter.com/ZsOarZbf3M
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 17, 2018
It’s absolutely true, people who claim to be conservative in the United States are - by and large - fucking hypocrites. They constantly say something then do another. CONSTANTLY. It’s a given that when Fuckface Von Clownstick confirms or denies anything (“No Collusion!”) he’s lying. He’s just affirming conservative thought writ large in the United States. Fucking hypocrites. Say one thing, do another.
Flying.
Adventure, do this you normally won’t! pic.twitter.com/jZZUg849Nr
— Seth Morrison (@sethmorrison1) January 17, 2018
re: #1 Unshaken Defiance
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Test if you belong in an old folks home or not maybe…
cnn.com
Like I said, it’s to test acute delirium or confusion, as in ‘safe to discharge from the ICU’ or ‘safe enough to be left unsupervised in a room’ level of confusion. It does not assess dementia.
Which Trump clearly has.
Left over on the end of the last thread …
I’m back after a few days of mourning. Village board meeting tonight, contentious discussions about voting for pay for board members (we currently don’t get paid).
The county attorney was in an accident in the county seat in his Smart car at one of the unsigned intersections of their dirt streets - his Smart car was t-boned and totalled. I now have the only Smart car in the Panhandle.
As far as guessing weight, I have no clue. I’m 5’10” and 115# so much more than that I just say “heavier than me.”
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹
As far as guessing weight, I have no clue. I’m 5’10” and 115# so much more than that I just say “heavier than me.”
Lanky motherfucker.
I say this with utmost love.
With that said, there are a lot of tall male Lizards out there.
re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m going to speculate he got distracted by the word “Executive” on the first question and had to get help understanding the sequence.
re: #10 teleskiguy
Lanky motherfucker.
I say this with utmost love.
With that said, there are a lot of tall male Lizards out there.
Well, other than the particular differences between women and men, many people say I am a carbon-copy of my mother (she is the same height and weight, and we look remarkably similar in appearance).
Perhaps I was cloned or something.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹
Well, other than the particular differences between women and men, many people say I am a carbon-copy of my mother (she is the same height and weight, and we look remarkably similar in appearance).
Perhaps I was cloned or something.
I am definitely an amalgamation of my mom and dad. I look like my dad, have the personality of my mom, and I also look like my mom and have the personality of my dad. You dig?
My point here is that if your life is full of assholes and you’re miserable, that’s on you.
You get what you tolerate.
If you tolerate assholes on your timeline, you’re going to be dealing with assholes all the time. That’s your fault.
Me? Life is too goddamned short.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 17, 2018
A local CBS station in California is reporting on this “New California” nonsense as well.
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
To be clear, they don’t want to leave the United States, just California.
“Well, it’s been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we’re rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California,” said founder Robert Paul Preston.
(more, with video report)
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
A toddler declaring which half of the backseat is theirs has more authority than the morons declaring independence for “New California”
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 17, 2018
As a San Diegan, I’d like to inform the “New California” morons that their request for San Diego to join their movement is rejected. pic.twitter.com/h9ZaoPnFAN
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 17, 2018
For your information, one of the top sources pushing this ‘New California’ narrative on Twitter is RT.
This is exactly what Russia wants. Split the United States up and cause chaos.
It’s also an attempt to gerrymander an entire state.— Brian Krassenstein🐬 (@krassenstein) January 17, 2018
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
A local CBS station in California is reporting on this “New California” nonsense as well.
(more, with video report)
Anymouse, this is going to wind up in the trash heap the same way Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six states.
Now Draper is back with another plan to split California into 3 states. But that will fail.
And the secession movement collapsed when it split into two factions with one clearly under the control of Putin…
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anymouse, this is going to wind up in the trash heap the same way Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six states.
Now Draper is back with another plan to split California into 3 states. But that will fail.
And the secession movement collapsed when it split into two factions with one clearly under the control of Putin…
And the huge crowd in the video at that “independence declaration” looked like no more than a dozen people.
They were complaining about the state being “ungovernable” and having high taxes. Sounds a lot like SovCit nonsense to me.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
And the huge crowd in the video at that “independence declaration” looked like no more than a dozen people.
They were complaining about the state being “ungovernable” and having high taxes. Sounds a lot like SovCit nonsense to me.
We have high taxes so we don’t become a shithole like red states.
The “New California” nimrods are on the same level as the “Republic of Texas” ones: ”We want to get rid of all the taxes, the high government spending, and the government regulations…but please don’t take away our subsidies and entitlements!”
re: #23 Targetpractice
Or those RWNJ idiots who wanted to build “The Citadel” a few years back.
re: #10 teleskiguy
Lanky motherfucker.
I say this with utmost love.
With that said, there are a lot of tall male Lizards out there.
I believe the technical term is “scrawny”.
(ObDisclaimer: 6’0” 210lbs and feeling it.)
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Or those RWNJ idiots who wanted to build “The Citadel” a few years back.
Oh, you mean the wannabe Rapture that was gonna be a Libertarian utopia, but dropped off the radar in less than 2 months?
A female Canada lynx in the Canadian Rockies. Lynx are characterized by their short, black-tipped tail, long back legs (which are longer than their front) and long ear tufts. Love these beautiful #wildcats! #BigCats @BBCEarth pic.twitter.com/G8SGeoWYon
— Colleen Gara (@ColleenGara) January 14, 2018
I’m going to retire for the night.
Keep a light on for the Republic for me… .
Actually, the new state would be majority Democrat, giving them 2 new Senate seats.
Republicans can’t even produce a competent evil plan these days!— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 17, 2018
Petition to make Trump release the long-form girth certificate. #girther
— Eric D. Snider (@EricDSnider) January 16, 2018
Senate District 10 special election win by a Democrat is a wake up call for Republicans in Wisconsin.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) January 17, 2018
re: #18 Kragar
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It’s such a stupid idea that it’s not surprising at all that Russia is behind it.
re: #33 Dave In Austin
Democrats grab key Wisconsin Senate seat in Tuesday’s special elections
[…]
Schachtner said once she joins the Senate she hopes to focus on improving access to health care and helping drug addicts get treatment.
She sidestepped a question about whether she thought opposition to President Donald Trump helped her win.
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Today is Betty White’s 96th birthday.
Started celebrating my birthday a little early with @ParadeMagazine. That’s a LOT of candles!!! pic.twitter.com/uCIgVfYRkr
— Betty White (@BettyMWhite) January 5, 2018
Meteorologist Jordan Dale says that bright light in the sky in the Detroit area “was not thunder or lightning or weather-related.” https://t.co/HzsM5LcYlt
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) January 17, 2018
Navy filing homicide charges against ship commanders after collisions last year https://t.co/ql4c3p8c89 pic.twitter.com/JuUF7Ld3d9
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 17, 2018
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We’ve got every angle of the Michigan #meteor here: https://t.co/bppt38TlQe
📹: Kevin McCombs pic.twitter.com/CrpLsY8vn0— UPROXX (@UPROXX) January 17, 2018
Meteor flashes across Michigan sky, causes 2.0 magnitude earthquake https://t.co/hFpYdJL4s5 pic.twitter.com/NYD1CMbrf0
Stunned to hear the White House doctor confirm the presence of both a heart and spine.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) January 16, 2018
9’ outside Austin TX this morning. The wood stove is working for everything it’s got.
re: #46 Dave In Austin
9’ outside Austin TX this morning. The wood stove is working for everything it’s got.
nine feet of snow?
Yes Sir. It’s colder than I’ve ever seen it here.
9 degrees outside Austin TX. pic.twitter.com/oXMHbnaYdj
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 17, 2018
re: #50 Dave In Austin
Yes Sir. It’s colder than I’ve ever seen it here.
A few degrees colder than us, 30 miles or so east of Dallas.
Yow. Have not seen cold like that since I left Moscow, here on the Rhine it rarely gets down into single digits. Snowing today, though, but just a light dusting.
re: #51 Dave In Austin
He asking about the possibility of a bed pan?
re: #50 Dave In Austin
Yes Sir. It’s colder than I’ve ever seen it here.
But global warming is just a figment of our collective imagination and a Chinese hoax to boot.
re: #54 lizardofid
You really don’t understand. Poor Tucker has always had problems adjusting to life. He’s 9 now and we continue to work with him and love him despite his foibles..
Who’s going to cause the shutdown:
WASHINGTON (AP) - House conservatives say there are enough Republican opponents to reject GOP leaders’ plan to prevent government shutdown.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 17, 2018
re: #52 lizardofid
A few degrees colder than us, 30 miles or so east of Dallas.
Where are you? I’m in Rockwall.
re: #33 Dave In Austin
Too fuckin’ late, Scott. We’re coming.
re: #57 Belafon
Who’s going to cause the shutdown:
the Democrats, of course; by opposing it, they are compelling the GOP to support it
re: #58 Belafon
We’re in the very south east corner of Dallas County.
re: #56 Dave In Austin
That’s what my indoor cats do when they get out for a while. Time to go in, need to use the litter box.
Flipping through the old news sources while waiting for a client to get ready for school and CNN continues to dissect the democratic party and examine what THEY would like to do.
Maybe just maybe…some new articles besides praising republican legislation while being critical of them, besides trump voters and why they voted for trump, and besides the democratic party and what every tom dick and harry thinks the party should and what Bernie Sanders opinion on it is.
re: #35 freetoken
Democrats grab key Wisconsin Senate seat in Tuesday’s special elections
It’s been 17 years held by a republican and I understand a 10 point win and 27 point swing compared to Trump over clinton results
re: #65 Dave In Austin
Bannon to cooperate with Mueller?
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yow. Have not seen cold like that since I left Moscow, here on the Rhine it rarely gets down into single digits. Snowing today, though, but just a light dusting.
I take it you benefit from the north atlantic thermohaline circulation ?
re: #67 Ace Rothstein
Would you argue with the man holding the hammer?
re: #68 lizardofid
I take it you benefit from the north atlantic thermohaline circulation ?
yes, farther East and south of here the climate tends a bit more continental, but the Rhineland is quite temperate.
They did a bit from a Female HLN host on some case of false representation of Sexual assault or harassment. It was stunning. I think this is was regarding Aziz Ansari.
huffingtonpost.com
re: #71 Dave In Austin
“Get blue balls, not blackballed.”
This is it.
.@TVAshleigh blasts @MasterofNone star @azizansari’s anonymous sexual assault accuser in an open letter: “You have chiseled away at a movement” pic.twitter.com/dbSdy2L1kh
— HLN (@HLNTV) January 16, 2018
to be honest, it’s fine with me if the physical reports are what they are… to me it just doesn’t matter. For the sake of argument, say he is 239 and is in perfect cognitive health. What does that say even if he is operating at his peak.
His peak still sucks..
he still is lazy…. physically and intellectually…
he still has an infantile grasp of the world, politics, people.. the reported “decline” of his physical and mental condition did nothing but give shade for the bad behavior and the heinous GOP agenda
he’s still Donald Motherfucking Trump, the same lying, racist duplicitous bastard he always was surrounded by people that are just as deplorable as he is..
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the Democrats, of course; by opposing it, they are compelling the GOP to support it
Actually, it’s worse: It would be the Democrats fault because, since they support keeping the government open, the super-conservatives are forced to openly oppose whatever is being proposed.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, farther East and south of here the climate tends a bit more continental, but the Rhineland is quite temperate.
On behalf of the rest of the planet, let me say, we hope it holds.
; )
re: #76 lizardofid
On behalf of the rest of the planet, let me say, we hope it holds.
; )
It would wreak havoc with the wine, yes…
as it is, they are now able to grow a lot more varieties of wine here, used to be mainly riesling that thrived here, but now pinots and sauvignons are doing well
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget those delicious up and coming Chinese wines. Hardly makes you go blind!
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re: #73 Dave In Austin
Did you see the nyt op ed piece about this and Aziz? Basically stated that aziz is guilty of not being able to read minds.
My hand hit my forehead so hard
re: #57 Belafon
WASHINGTON (AP) - House conservatives say there are enough Republican opponents to reject GOP leaders’ plan to prevent government shutdown.
— Zeke Miller
Another reading of this would be something like:
House conservatives say there are enough conservative opponents to reject conservative leaders plan to prevent government shutdown.
re: #78 Shropshire Slasher
Don’t forget those delicious up and coming Chinese wines. Hardly makes you go blind!
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Monty Python on Australian table wines.
Actually, they are turning out good stuff and one of my absolute favorites is Cloudy Bay from New Zealand.
re: #57 Belafon
Who’s going to cause the shutdown:
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That’s some seriously crappy phrasing.
re: #33 Dave In Austin
Surprised Scott isn’t downplaying this.
Until something changes, the #Winning will continue! We also need to find out “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??”. pic.twitter.com/fgdjrZImR1
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 17, 2018
re: #85 I Would Prefer Not To
If it came down to a choice between the DT and Oprah, then I would definitely support Oprah, but I would prefer to see neither on the ballot.
re: #85 I Would Prefer Not To
The Murdochs are wealthier than ever.
Selling the movie/TV portions of Fox to Disney is being done via stock transfer. The Murdochs will be the largest Disney shareholders, even more so than the Jobs estate.
Oprah giving the Murdochs billions of dollars will not help anything.
Murdoch did not invent the bigotry and atavism which he exploits for money. He figured out how to maximize its money-making potential, more so than his predecessors.
re: #74 piratedan
to be honest, it’s fine with me if the physical reports are what they are… to me it just doesn’t matter. For the sake of argument, say he is 239 and is in perfect cognitive health. What does that say even if he is operating at his peak.
His peak still sucks..
he still is lazy…. physically and intellectually…
he still has an infantile grasp of the world, politics, people.. the reported “decline” of his physical and mental condition did nothing but give shade for the bad behavior and the heinous GOP agenda
he’s still Donald Motherfucking Trump, the same lying, racist duplicitous bastard he always was surrounded by people that are just as deplorable as he is..
I have a real conflict. It’s important to me to not wish anyone ill. That’s just unhealthy for the mind. I’ve been breaking that rule a lot lately. Maybe it’s time to step back a tiny bit.
re: #83 Sir John Barron
Surprised Scott isn’t downplaying this.
He’s freaking out. Or at least he was when the final results came in.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is in panic after WI-10 had a massive 20+ point swing for Dems in the special election today, stealing yet another deep-red seat from Republicans. Walker won his election as governor by just 4 points. pic.twitter.com/e3kyATpqmA
— William “#ShadowGate” LeGate 🌊 (@williamlegate) January 17, 2018
Epic jerkoff and current Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, is tweeting like he saw a ghost in tonight’s WI special elections.
You did, Scott… the ghost of Republicans Past. https://t.co/gp6FgMYtAF— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 17, 2018
re: #74 piratedan
to be honest, it’s fine with me if the physical reports are what they are… to me it just doesn’t matter. For the sake of argument, say he is 239 and is in perfect cognitive health. What does that say even if he is operating at his peak.
His peak still sucks..
he still is lazy…. physically and intellectually…
he still has an infantile grasp of the world, politics, people.. the reported “decline” of his physical and mental condition did nothing but give shade for the bad behavior and the heinous GOP agenda
he’s still Donald Motherfucking Trump, the same lying, racist duplicitous bastard he always was surrounded by people that are just as deplorable as he is..
Unless I’m mistaken, there was no MRI; he could still have a brain tumor like the President in MADAME SECRETARY, that would affect his cognitive abilities.
Just watching him talk now, vs videos taken 10 years ago or less; it’s obvious there’s something wrong with him.
Also his weight seems to be underestimated, judging by what we see.
look at the degree of bickering over the President’s physical health, which is a lot easier to objectively quantify than mental health and you will see why a discussion of DT’s mental health is fairly pointless
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
look at the degree of bickering over the President’s physical health, which is a lot easier to objectively quantify than mental health and you will see why a discussion of DT’s mental health is fairly pointless
I told my family the other day, we will never remove a president from office for senility.
re: #89 makeitstop
He’s freaking out. Or at least he was when the final results came in.
I think a few percentage points are due to Republicans voting for the Democrat. A majority, I believe, is more than just the Democratic base finally getting out to vote.
re: #89 makeitstop
He’s freaking out. Or at least he was when the final results came in.
Cue the “Welfare recipients/college students/renters shouldn’t vote”
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re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
A local CBS station in California is reporting on this “New California” nonsense as well.
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Sacramento is the heart of this. I have a friend who lives there and is full throatedly on board. I was kinda shocked when we had a discussion once and discovered how, uhm, odd his thinking is. (And this was a couple of years ago.) And this is a guy who loves to travel overseas, is pretty smart…it totally boggled my mind.
re: #95 Sir John Barron
Cue the “Welfare recipients/college students/renters shouldn’t vote”
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Which, Scott might realize, didn’t keep Alabama from electing a Democrat.
re: #95 Sir John Barron
Cue the “Welfare recipients/college students/renters shouldn’t vote”
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if that is the case, then please be consistent: anybody who receives a direct or indirect government benefit without performing a specific service in exchange should be excluded from the voting rolls…
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We don’t, as a society, discuss issues of mental health effectively at ALL. Which is making this particular situation even worse. We don’t have enough hospital beds, facilities or even practitioners to handle the need. If you’re rich, you can get access to better help, but the rest of us, not so much. Even if you’re rich and too proud or ashamed to get help, the help is still there.
All of us age, some better than others. And honestly, if he wasn’t a fucking selfish asshole with seriously shitty health habits, Trump wouldn’t be any different than any other person in their 70s, with memory loss, slowing down physically, etc. Why the wingnuts have trouble with this concept I have no idea, I guess it’s more of a reality problem than anything else.
re: #33 Dave In Austin
What was better than Scott Walker’s original tweet (that you posted) was the follow up’s every two minutes that started with “WAKE UP CALL:” and there were several. That’s some serious fear there. I don’t think Scotty is going to skate into a third term. And he knows it. Losing a solidly GOP stronghold (won by trump in double digits and romney before him). The GOP is in trouble. And if Dems take over the legislature, they can fix the awful gerrymandering.
Wisconsin is such a disappointment to me. After 9/11, WI was the number 1 state in donations and outreach and caring. Then the GOP took over and turned them into I don’t know what.
This woman won the district by being true to who she was…a hunter who wasn’t a “raging liberal” (according to the Milwaukee paper I read this morning) whose message was kindness, caring and positive. Even the last minute attack ads didn’t help the GOP (likely turned off more people than anything). She said nothing against (or for) trump. She didn’t attack. She reached out to the underlying goodness of people in her district. Good on her.
American’s are getting sick of assholes. They see more and more of trumpism and go FUCK NO! THIS IS NOT US!
CNN dutifully relays Trump hogwash on Executive Time to push back on his indolence. Who doesn’t think that Executive Time is as much about running his companies as communicating with congress people and foreign leaders?
Another thought: David Cay Johnston last night on MSNBC in touting his new book called the administration the ‘termite administration.’ While we quibble about Trump’s diet the legion of ‘termites’ sent out across the bureaucracy from the beginning of the term is slowly eating away at the foundations of our federal government and there’s fuck-all we can do to stop the damage.
Happy Wednesday!
re: #90 Lupin
Trump Fans Threaten Psychologist Who Warned Trump Was Inciting Violence
Disgusting.
So if threats of violence are going to cause Trump’s critics to step down, where does that leave this country? Are those on our side going to withdraw from resisting because some yahoos threaten them or are we going to fight back and keep up the pressure on this dangerous regime? This is very frustrating to hear.
Shocked, shocked I say…
You know what might help, health care
Army Recruits from Southern States Most Unfit , Prone to Injury: Study https://t.co/agOPchxKCl
“… The study finds that recruits from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas “are significantly less fit, and consequently are more likely to encounter training-related injuries [TRI] than recruits from other U.S. states.”
Although the South is the top recruiting region, the study, based on U.S. Army data, shows that “male and female soldiers coming from these states are 22 to 28 percent more likely to be injured” in training. (FDD: that’s an awful lot)
The study was released by the Citadel, the military school in Charleston, South Carolina, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Public Health Center and the American Heart Association.“Our results suggest that the [Southern] states identified here pose a greater threat to military readiness than do other states,” the study says. …”
Eric Trump on @foxandfriends now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2018
Is this “executive time”? https://t.co/oLcw9poHhR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 17, 2018
re: #102 Patricia Kayden
So if threats of violence are going to cause Trump’s critics to step down, where does that leave this country? Are those on our side going to withdraw from resisting because some yahoos threaten them or are we going to fight back and keep up the pressure on this dangerous regime? This is very frustrating to hear.
Couldn’t agree more. We should confront those nazis head on.
re: #89 makeitstop
So sad when your voter suppression tactics don’t work for you.
re: #99 A Mom Anon
All of us age, some better than others. And honestly, if he wasn’t a fucking selfish asshole with seriously shitty health habits, Trump wouldn’t be any different than any other person in their 70s, with memory loss, slowing down physically, etc. Why the wingnuts have trouble with this concept I have no idea, I guess it’s more of a reality problem than anything else.
He cannot be anything but superlative: The best, the healthiest, the least racist, the most, the baddest, with the biggest button…
re: #105 Lupin
Couldn’t agree more. We should confront those nazis head on.
It could have started with Janet Napolitano, but she and the Obama administration backed down.
re: #108 Barefoot Grin
Well, that may be true but it must start now. We have a literal White Supremacist in the White House making policies which impact millions of people here and abroad. No backing down.
I think someone else posted it, but it’s worth drawing people’s attention to this bit of new about Bannon again: thedailybeast.com
But executive privilege—the president’s right to keep certain information from the public so he can have frank conversations with aides—will not keep Steve Bannon from sharing information with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, according to a person familiar with the situation.
“Mueller will hear everything Bannon has to say,” said the source, who is familiar with Bannon’s thinking.
So some speculation….
* Bannon knows at least some of the illegal activity during the campaign, and has some awareness of the illegal financial activities of Trump and Jared Kushner
* Bannon was probably smart enough to stay clear of anything that is obviously illegal, or at least keep his distance for plausible deniability.
* Bannon has never really like Jared Kushner all that much, due mostly to Bannon’s racism. Although Bannon would likely lie to feds investigating the case, if he though it would cover up anything illegal Banon had done, he’s not going to lie to cover up Jareds and Trumps crimes.
* After being fired and publically criticised by Trump, any desire to help them cover up their crimes has probably faded, and probably turned into wanting to get revenge at least on Jared.
* Bannon is probably aware of what Nunnes is guilty of….and aware that anything that he said to the intelligence committee would be passed onto Trump before Bannon had left the building.
If he does testify to Mueller that’s pretty much the start of the end. Mueller can then interview any of Jared, Trump, Nunes, or Trump’s children, and have someone who is willing to testify that they’re lying, if they tell a lie.
re: #87 freetoken
Ugh, a Murdoch run Disney…
The Next Avengers movie features our heroes fighting a demented Villain and his army of illegal Mexican immigrants.
On this weeks episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey and Donald join the Tea Party and don’t miss the new trailer for Star Wars Episode X: Make the Empire Great Again!
PROGRAMMING NOTE: All showings of Pocahontas, Aladdin and Moana are cancelled until further notice.
re: #110 Danack
I think someone else posted it, but it’s worth drawing people’s attention to this bit of new about Bannon again: thedailybeast.com
I think Müller wants to get people testifying under oath to things that are so inconsistent and mutually exclusive that he is setting someone up for perjury.
re: #97 Belafon
Which, Scott might realize, didn’t keep Alabama from electing a Democrat.
Yeah but that was because Soros bussing in millions of illegals and Muslims.
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re: #108 Barefoot Grin
It could have started with Janet Napolitano, but she and the Obama administration backed down.
Yep it sucked because DHS correctly identified that veterans would be targeted by these groups for recruitment and the GOP turned it into Obama hates vets.
So do you pronounce the Special Counsels name Mull-err or Mew-lur? I’ve heard both.
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
So do you pronounce the Special Counsels name Mull-err or Mew-lur? I’ve heard both.
latter is closer to the original German
Coming soon to a city near you (well, not really).
It is pretty neat how concrete pipes are made, and a really pain in the ass to set without getting a belly in them on large back-fills under road ways:
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
So do you pronounce the Special Counsels name Mull-err or Mew-lur? I’ve heard both.
Mull-err is how he says his name. I’ve seen people with the surname say Mew-lur though. I’m not sure how it is in German.
Ah….so sweet.
How Bad is this? Trump won this district with 59% of the vote. Previous Republican incumbent won with 63%. https://t.co/rlqMhHVWBj via @journalsentinel
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 17, 2018
Stunning Wisconsin Senate flip is further evidence the blue wave from last November is getting stronger. The shrinking base for @realDonaldTrump will not save the #GOP this fall. #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/lGZh3GtABc
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 17, 2018
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
So do you pronounce the Special Counsels name Mull-err or Mew-lur? I’ve heard both.
The former. I haven’t ever heard the latter.
re: #100 MsJ
This woman won the district by being true to who she was…a hunter who wasn’t a “raging liberal” (according to the Milwaukee paper I read this morning) whose message was kindness, caring and positive. Even the last minute attack ads didn’t help the GOP (likely turned off more people than anything). She said nothing against (or for) trump. She didn’t attack. She reached out to the underlying goodness of people in her district. Good on her.
Yeah, there are more subtle ways of messaging that can be effective.
re: #73 Dave In Austin
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re: #119 HappyWarrior
Mull-err is how he says his name. I’ve seen people with the surname say Mew-lur though. I’m not sure how it is in German.
Mew-lur would be the most probable in German.
re: #119 HappyWarrior
Mull-err is how he says his name. I’ve seen people with the surname say Mew-lur though. I’m not sure how it is in German.
Müller, a common surname: Miller.
Common because millers always had enough food in the house and more of their children survived than in other families…
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anymouse, this is going to wind up in the trash heap the same way Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six states.
Now Draper is back with another plan to split California into 3 states. But that will fail.
And the secession movement collapsed when it split into two factions with one clearly under the control of Putin…
Seems Cali has more of a Russian problem than an illegal Mexican problem.
re: #110 Danack
* Bannon is probably aware of what Nunnes is guilty of….and aware that anything that he said to the intelligence committee would be passed onto Trump before Bannon had left the building.
If he does testify to Mueller that’s pretty much the start of the end. Mueller can then interview any of Jared, Trump, Nunes, or Trump’s children, and have someone who is willing to testify that they’re lying, if they tell a lie.
That was my first thought, too - whatever Bannon said in that hearing would get to Trump post-haste.
Nunes is up to his ass in the conspiracy. It’s fucking obvious. That’s why when the FBI went to the Hill last week, Nunes was not invited to the meeting.
Every fucking day.
The Trump admin is planning new protections for health workers who don’t want to perform abortions, refuse to treat transgender patients based on their gender identity or provide other services for which they have moral objections, Politico reports. https://t.co/02c7sjZuP3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 17, 2018
re: #118 Shropshire Slasher
Can I get 2? One to live in & one next door for storage?
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Müller, a common surname: Miller.
Common because millers always had enough food in the house and more of their children survived than in other families…
Yep it’s very common. I have a very common German name in my family line- Schwarz- Black. It’s amazing how Muller sounds close to Miller but Schwarz sounds nothing like Black.
re: #122 Sir John Barron
Yeah, there are more subtle ways of messaging that can be effective.
sometimes you only have to be an example and let the contrast speak for itself
re: #131 HappyWarrior
Yep it’s very common. I have a very common German name in my family line- Schwarz- Black. It’s amazing how Muller sounds close to Miller but Schwarz sounds nothing like Black.
but we do have the word “swarthy”
re: #129 MsJ
Every fucking day.
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You know what, don’t get involved in medicine if you have moral objections to certain procedures.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but we do have the word “swarthy”
Yeah we do. Never thought about that.
US Reportedly Weighing Using Nukes In Response To ‘Large Cyberattacks.’
You guys are now scaring us all more than the USSR ever did.
re: #109 Patricia Kayden
Well, that may be true but it must start now. We have a literal White Supremacist in the White House making policies which impact millions of people here and abroad. No backing down.
This is very true. Thanks.
I hate the new reality of agreeing with the people that brought us these new republicans.
One can be so ignorant as to be completely manipulated by the last person one speaks to and still be able to draw a cube.
https://t.co/094M07cQJ4— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 16, 2018
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
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People here in Ohio apparently saw that meteor too. There was cell phone video from someone on NBC 4 this morning. That sucker was bright.
By the way, I haven’t gone down through the thread. Dan Patrick read a news report on his show that South Korea and North Korea have reached an agreement for their two women’s hockey teams to march under a unified flag in the Olympics opening ceremony. Didn’t catch all the details.
This is a good thing. Any thawing is good. Maybe they can work something further out of this.
re: #121 MsJ
The former. I haven’t ever heard the latter.
Preet Bharara on his podcast always stops people who call in and pronounce it “Mew-ler” to correct them, noting “I’m one who has dealt with a fair amount of mispronunciation, so maybe I’m extra sensitive.”
re: #138 MsJ
I hate the new reality of agreeing with the people that brought us these new republicans.
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That may be one of the worst things he’s done. I really wanted to think Mitt Romney was the worst person the GOP base would nominate for President. Now? I don’t even know anymore. That party is lost to me. Its supporters? No different from BNP, UKIO, FN, Golden Dawn, Jobbnik, etc.
re: #129 MsJ
Every fucking day.
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Protections for bigots. This is what the wicked Conservatives have done to America.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
re: #45 jeffreyw
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Jeffrey’s Fly-in Diner.
It’s a popular spot in the winter.
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
look at the degree of bickering over the President’s physical health, which is a lot easier to objectively quantify than mental health and you will see why a discussion of DT’s mental health is fairly pointless
Some want him to be healthy so badly, desperate to spite the critics. Others want him out so badly they are inclined to grasp at almost anything that points to getting Trump out. I’m in the latter category. But gotta try to keep a level head among all the noise.
re: #138 MsJ
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I’m just happy they’re not on the Trump-trainwreck. The populist wave Bannon hoped would put us on the wrong track for decades has already broken and is receding.
That’s not ignorance, it’s stupidity or a severe personality-disorder. Ignorance is easily cured.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
When do attorneys get protections from having moral objections to defending criminals because that’s where this is going. Have your beliefs, but if they get away if your job, either swallow your pride or find a new line of work.
Rick Wiles tells Christians that “God did not inspire the formation of Judaism” and that they should get the Star of David out of their houses because it is “Babylonian occult Kabbala imagery.” https://t.co/wQ4XuRq8DQ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 17, 2018
re: #147 HappyWarrior
When do attorneys get protections from having moral objections to defending criminals because that’s where this is going. Have your beliefs, but if they get away if your job, either swallow your pride or find a new line of work.
Don’t they, though? The leeway in refusing a client is pretty damn broad, certainly for criminal defence attorneys.
edit and last I heard, “I don’t feel I can properly, wholeheartedly represent this client” still stood a good chance at getting permission to fire a client you’d already accepted (which is a damn sight harder than just refusing a client, as it should be).
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it came down to a choice between the DT and Oprah, then I would definitely support Oprah, but I would prefer to see neither on the ballot.
But you’d support Oprah buying Fox News though, right?
Let’s stick to the positive thinking of that tweet Wendell. Plenty of time for worrying about the elections later. : )
re: #151 ThomasLite
Don’t they, though? The leeway in refusing a client is pretty damn broad, certainly for criminal defence attorneys.
Yeah but it’s not a government protection. It’s not the pick and choose morality we’re seeing here.
re: #139 HappyWarrior
Yeah, saw that last night. Sigh. So short sighted.
“short-sighted” isn’t quite the word I’d use. “Insane” and “criminal” are closer to my thoughts.
re: #155 Lupin
“short-sighted” isn’t quite the word I’d use. “Insane” and “criminal” are closer to my thoughts.
Yeah that too. I wish I knew wtf is going on in my country. It sucks.
re: #102 Patricia Kayden
So if threats of violence are going to cause Trump’s critics to step down, where does that leave this country? Are those on our side going to withdraw from resisting because some yahoos threaten them or are we going to fight back and keep up the pressure on this dangerous regime? This is very frustrating to hear.
Just catching up on the thread…..the article says the meeting was put off because they didn’t have an adequate security plan in place in view of the threats of violence. Put together a security plan, go after those who made threats since that is criminal, have the meeting. Keep on.
re: #154 HappyWarrior
Yeah but it’s not a government protection. It’s not the pick and choose morality we’re seeing here.
Those goalposts, they’re moving. Anyway, you’re way off there. The legal profession is remarkably strictly regulated (something about a government-mandated monopolized organisation) and it’s profoundly disingenuous to argue that the bounds on acceptable professional behaviour as an attorney are not government mandated, when those parts that are not mandated by aforementioned government-granted monopoly are mandated directly by the courts.
Really, you need another parallel here. This one isn’t going to fly.
re: #159 ThomasLite
Those goalposts, they’re moving. Anyway, you’re way off there. The legal profession is remarkably strictly regulated (something about a government-mandated monopolized organisation) and it’s profoundly disingenuous to argue that the bounds on acceptable professional behaviour as an attorney are not government mandated, when those parts that are not mandated by aforementioned government-granted monopoly are mandated directly by the courts.
Really, you need another parallel here. This one isn’t going to fly.
Okay fair enough. I retract.
re: #157 HappyWarrior
Yeah that too. I wish I knew wtf is going on in my country. It sucks.
At the risk of comparing apples and oranges, I was in Moscow the first year of Gorbachev & perestroika and many Russians felt the country was crumbling while they watched. A drastic transition from one system to another (for better and worse) will do that.
Your system, call it pre-WWII-USA, has failed. You’re now transitioning towards something else. Hence the chaos and sense of loss.
Dolores O’Riordan: Cranberries Singer Died Of Fentanyl Poisoning In Apparent Suicide, Police Say Otherwise (Inquisitr - Not a reliable source)
Citing an anonymous source within the London Police Department, the Southern California newspaper claims that counterfeit Fentanyl was found near the singer’s bed. Further, the source claims that O’Riordan deliberately overdosed in an attempt to commit suicide.
O’Riordan had been known to battle mental health issues and addiction for decades. According to People, she had been sexually abused over a period of several years as a child and often suffered “flashbacks” to her abuse.
This is why hanging is too good for child-molesters. They should be set on fire.
re: #149 The Vicious Babushka
I would love to see his version of the Bible.
I guess a better analogy would be an anti gay teacher refusing to teach lgbt students. T, though, would a PD be able to object to defending an accused murderer? I know that was sorta the case with HRC and that rapist that Trump used to attack her as “not caring about women.”
re: #149 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #149 The Vicious Babushka
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Imma thinking Rick Wiles is pure evil.
He certainly is not a Christian.
Bibo is working on lowering expectations for buyers of their printers
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I expect it to need some tweaking.
re: #161 Lupin
At the risk of comparing apples and oranges, I was in Moscow the first year of Gorbachev & perestroika and many Russians felt the country was crumbling while they watched. A drastic transition from one system to another (for better and worse) will do that.
Your system, call it pre-WWII-USA, has failed. You’re now transitioning towards something else. Hence the chaos and sense of loss.
There’s a demographic change. You’ve got those who embrace it and those scared of its implications.
re: #161 Lupin
At the risk of comparing apples and oranges, I was in Moscow the first year of Gorbachev & perestroika and many Russians felt the country was crumbling while they watched. A drastic transition from one system to another (for better and worse) will do that.
Your system, call it pre-WWII-USA, has failed. You’re now transitioning towards something else. Hence the chaos and sense of loss.
Exactly what we are transitioning to is beyond my comprehension.
re: #147 HappyWarrior
When do attorneys get protections from having moral objections to defending criminals because that’s where this is going. Have your beliefs, but if they get away if your job, either swallow your pride or find a new line of work.
“I won’t do this mans kidney transplant surgery. He’s gay.”
re: #169 MsJ
Exactly what we are transitioning to is beyond my comprehension.
It depends on who we let control it. And yes, the GOP is getting the first stage, but we can fix that. It’s a bit like any transition, especially because so many are invested in not changing it, and I mean those that will lose some of their authority under any new system (the wealthy in our case).
Here is a bit from ESPN on the North and South Korean “joint” team to march together in the Olympics.
Koreas to form their first joint Olympic team, will march together during opening ceremonies
SEOUL, South Korea — The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremonies of next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said.
The agreements still require approval from the International Olympic Committee. But they are the most prominent steps toward rapprochement achieved by the Koreas since they recently began exploring cooperation during the Olympics following a year of heightened tension over the North’s nuclear weapons program.
During their third day of talks at the border in about a week, senior officials reached a package of agreements including fielding a joint women’s ice hockey team and marching together under a “unification flag” depicting their peninsula during the opening ceremonies, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said.
…more at link
Nervous Republicans fear they’ll pay if government shuts down.
President Donald Trump is confident that Democrats will take the blame if the government shuts down this weekend or Congress fails to find a fix to prevent DACA recipients from being deported. But Republicans on Capitol Hill aren’t so sure.
Many of them fear that voters would fault the GOP after looking at Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, his past flirtation with letting federal funding expire and the fact that Republicans are in control of the White House, the Senate and the House.
“When there are shutdowns, our side usually takes the hit,” said Republican Rep. Charlie Dent, who is retiring from the competitive Allentown, Penn.,-based district he’s represented for nearly a dozen years.
“It will be difficult for us to deflect the blame — whether we deserve it or not,” he added.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
There’s a demographic change. You’ve got those who embrace it and those scared of its implications.
Very true. If USA 2.0 started after the Civil War, and 3.0 after FDR and WWII, one might argue we’re transitioning into 4.0.
re: #171 Belafon
It depends on who we let control it. And yes, the GOP is getting the first stage, but we can fix that. It’s a bit like any transition, especially because so many are invested in not changing it, and I mean those that will lose some of their authority under any new system (the wealthy in our case).
they have an ideology behind their inconsistent and even contradictory talking points: dismantle government, sell off its resources and infrastructure to the highest bidder and allow corporate donations to have an undue share of influence on politics.
We cannot allow that to happen. It has already cost us a big point off our international credit rating.
It’s exhausting that Trump does so much shit that would have sunk previous politicians and presidents, and he gets to skate by on nearly fucking all of it. Perhaps precisely because he’s doing so much and none of it is allowed to sink in to the media cycle.
It exhausts me since it feels like trying to fight him ends up like spitting in the wind, and the only victories against him seem to be dumb own goals of his own accord…that immediately get swept under the rug because the media has the attention span of a larva.
re: #164 HappyWarrior
I guess a better analogy would be an anti gay teacher refusing to teach lgbt students. T, though, would a PD be able to object to defending an accused murderer? I know that was sorta the case with HRC and that rapist that Trump used to attack her as “not caring about women.”
Interesting question. Not really my expertise but generally speaking, I suspect a PD would have more leeway than that teacher you mention. There’s basically (and generally, please check with your specific bar association ;) ) an ethical requirement to not take a case you can’t vigorously pursue. How that jives with the obligations under your employment agreement would be more of a real world / interpersonal and intra-office dynamic thing than a question of law, I suspect, but I’d be surprised if a PD’s office did not provide some way to hand off a case you’re too morally (or viscerally, as would sometimes be the problem, I suppose) opposed to to another attorney.
In short, I think generally that would be an option and in some cases even ethically required of such a PD. Also keep in mind there’s generally plenty of other cases for such an office to handle so the staffing inconvenience would pale compared to the ethical problems. Yes, I imagine generally a PD could get away with such things.
If he were opposed to defending criminals at all he’s not long for that job, but that’s comparable to such a nurse being opposed to nursing at all, not just opposed to nursing a certain, narrow class of patients. If anything, again, that attorney has more legal wiggle-room (and imagine that, who could imagine how that came about?) than most other professionals would have.
Obit.: IIRC there’s actually quite some precedent for medical staff refusing certain classes of patients which could be viewed as discriminatory: refusing to work with certain high-risk groups can be a thing, depending on union contracts etc. and will (or certainly would, in the past) have the not-so-unforeseen side-effect of not having to serve large portions of the gay community. Because of certain higher risks that was deemed an acceptable refusal in the past. Not sure if that’s still the case anywhere any more.
re: #173 Shropshire Slasher
The fuckers have the House, the Senate and the Presidency. They can keep government funded without ANY help. Who the fuck do they think we’ll blame if it gets shut down?
re: #169 MsJ
Exactly what we are transitioning to is beyond my comprehension.
It always is. If we knew ahead of time, we wouldn’t be so scared, would we?
This reminds me of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS. Could the Bellamys in, say, 1905, truly guess what their lives would be in 1935? 1965? These worlds were so completely different. And things move faster nowadays.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
The fuckers have the House, the Senate and the Presidency. They can keep government funded without ANY help. Who the fuck do they think we’ll blame?
Democrats, obviously, because ‘both sides same thing’ is law.
Per @jeremyherb, House Intel will vote on Thursday about whether to release the Fusion GPS interview transcript from November. I reported earlier this week that the majority was under pressure from Dems and Fusion to make it public: https://t.co/xi5LnJQr7j
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 17, 2018
Also, a government shutdown at tax time would be a huge “winner” for the economy now wouldn’t it?
re: #168 HappyWarrior
There’s a demographic change. You’ve got those who embrace it and those scared of its implications.
Thank you Happy.
The people that you speak of might actually drag this country’s thinking back to what the great American Experiment was in the early days. A free world for all. They actually believe in that dream more than the idiots that are scared.
I haven’t forgotten what the Statue of Liberty stands for. I don’t think the new demographic has either. They embrace it.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they have an ideology behind their inconsistent and even contradictory talking points: dismantle government, sell off its resources and infrastructure to the highest bidder and allow corporate donations to have an undue share of influence on politics.
We cannot allow that to happen. It has already cost us a big point off our international credit rating.
At the extreme, a GOP-controlled Earth would look like FM Busby’s Earth in RISSA KERGUELEN.
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
“I won’t do this mans kidney transplant surgery. He’s gay.”
“i wont allocate this man a kidney. he’s gay”
Drudge is having an anniversary today, don’t bother to click on it.
re: #173 Shropshire Slasher
Nervous Republicans fear they’ll pay if government shuts down.
“It will be difficult for us to deflect the blame — whether we deserve it or not,” he added.
You deserve it. Trust me.
re: #186 dangerman
“i wont allocate this man a kidney. he’s gay”
or
“Can I catch the gayness from his kidney?”
re: #176 Citizen K
It’s exhausting that Trump does so much shit that would have sunk previous politicians and presidents, and he gets to skate by on nearly fucking all of it. Perhaps precisely because he’s doing so much and none of it is allowed to sink in to the media cycle.
It exhausts me since it feels like trying to fight him ends up like spitting in the wind, and the only victories against him seem to be dumb own goals of his own accord…that immediately get swept under the rug because the media has the attention span of a larva.
It’s because prior presidents had parties that challenged them, even sometimes by their own party. The GOP, right now, is invested in maintaining power over running the country properly. And I think, especially based on recent elections, that some people are seeing this.
re: #173 Shropshire Slasher
Nervous Republicans fear they’ll pay if government shuts down.
“It will be difficult for us to deflect the blame — whether we deserve it or not,” he added.
There in a simple statement is the entire admitted political philosophy of the Republican party. Their goal is to deflect the blame for what they do.
It cannot be any clearer. Someone in the party in a moment of lucidity let the truth out.
re: #187 Shropshire Slasher
Drudge is having an anniversary today, don’t bother to click on it.
But you did. You devil.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn offers $100,000 if Trump will step on a scale https://t.co/EOBmgRTwem via @HuffPostComedy
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 17, 2018
re: #194 Dave In Austin
I was thinking that someone should invite him to speak, and build a scale into the platform.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
Yep it’s very common. I have a very common German name in my family line- Schwarz- Black. It’s amazing how Muller sounds close to Miller but Schwarz sounds nothing like Black.
I poked around the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. Both black and swart (later swarthy) come to English from Old High German. I reckon the original words had different uses and diverged when English and German went their separate ways.
re: #195 Belafon
I was thinking that someone should invite him to speak, and build a scale into the platform.
Secret contraption under the president’s lectern. Yup, sure the secret service has a sense of humour about those things nowadays…
All I’m saying is maybe that’s one of those things you’d want to get some of your in-laws to try rather than going for it yourself ;)
re: #195 Belafon
I was thinking that someone should invite him to speak, and build a scale into the platform.
He loves trucks. We could have him drive one into a weigh station.
re: #194 Dave In Austin
Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘
@DaveoutofAustin
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn offers $100,000 if Trump will step on a scale huffingtonpost.com … via @HuffPostComedy11:22 AM - Jan 17, 2018
Girtherism is growing!
I like it. I hope people like this director take it to its most ridiculous and absurd end.
Is it dumb? It’s a joke. Laugh and poke Trump, Sheriff Joe and all the other idiots that got into birtherism.
re: #195 Belafon
I was thinking that someone should invite him to speak, and build a scale into the platform.
A couple Toledo Scale load sensors and they’d never know it.
re: #183 ObserverArt
Thank you Happy.
The people that you speak of might actually drag this country’s thinking back to what the great American Experiment was in the early days. A free world for all. They actually believe in that dream more than the idiots that are scared.
I haven’t forgotten what the Statue of Liberty stands for. I don’t think the new demographic has either. They embrace it.
And it’s not a generational thing. I know boomers like yourself, many Lizards, & my folks who embrace it and many my age who fear it.
re: #167 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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The kid of NJ’s new gov did the wp sign at the swearing in.
re: #129 MsJ
Every fucking day.
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Fuck these snowflakes. Seriously, Jesus said nothing about not providing services-any services-to those who aren’t like us.
More “breaking wind” from CNN! WH Press Corps to submit to voluntary brain scans to prove THEY aren’t demented. To insure accuracy of brain scan, tests will be administered by rectal probe.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 17, 2018
rectal probe? https://t.co/xrU0koc3dk
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 17, 2018
re: #207 Dave In Austin
Maybe you should have your brain checked out.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
re: #201 ObserverArt
A couple Toledo Scale load sensors and they’d never know it.
A scale beneath the podium at the SOTU speech, with a digital read-out on the wall behind him would work a treat.
re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #207 Dave In Austin
Oh he’s so witty. These are the kids in middle school who wouldn’t let anyone sit at their table at lunch, tripped kids carrying trays and shoved the smaller kids into lockers. This is what happens when you never say no or have consequences for doing shit you have no business doing. The whole fucking country is being run by early teen mean girls.
Rude Pundit: A Shit Fight in a Monkey House
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Absolutely! He’s the worst piece of shit to ever become “President”.
@realDonaldTrump #239pounds pic.twitter.com/qleAY7u2Rs
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 17, 2018
re: #209 retired cynic
A scale beneath the podium at the SOTU speech, with a digital read-out on the wall behind him would work a treat.
Haha.
I was thinking more like as soon as he steps on the podium the curtains behind Ryan and Pence fly open to reveal one of those fair/carnival type games where you have to swing the mallet and see if the dinger goes up and hits the bell. In this case the curtain opens the dinger flies up and hits the bell and an old fashioned dial scale at the top by the bell displays 300 LBS!!!
re: #196 wheat-dogg
I poked around the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. Both black and swart (later swarthy) come to English from Old High German. I reckon the original words had different uses and diverged when English and German went their separate ways.
lots of examples of that. I recall the nativity scene from Luke: “And they were sore afraid!”.
sore? as in hurt? turns out not
In German, the word sehr means “very”
Dim Kim is tweeting that (Democratic) Pakistani techs infiltrated the House of Representatives computer systems by pretending to be members of Congress.
Trying to imagine how this would even be possible makes me dizzy. I’m going to bed.
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
lots of examples of that. I recall the nativity scene from Luke: “And they were sore afraid!”.
sore? as in hurt? turns out not
In German, the word sehr means “very”
Danke sehr!
This administration has been the worst ever for women.
Just ask any woman, any woman at all.
Look around, if you see any women… ask them#Gaslighting— Letters from a Farmer (@Guitarisdead) January 17, 2018
re: #211 wheat-dogg
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So my company car is a 2016 Ford Focus shod with Continental ContiProcantact tires that have got to be the worse tires in the snow I have ever had the displeasure of driving. My driveway is a 1/4 mile long, and I have to back up half way up hill just to get enough potential energy to get up to my garage.
re: #222 Shropshire Slasher
So my company car is a 2016 Ford Focus shod with Continental ContiProcantact tires that have got to be the worse tires in the snow I have ever had the displeasure of driving. My driveway is a 1/4 mile long, and I have to back up half way up hill just to get enough potential energy to get up to my garage.
As long as the company pays for repairs when you put it through the back of the garage, you’ll be fine.
re: #205 mmmirele
Fuck these snowflakes. Seriously, Jesus said nothing about not providing services-any services-to those who
aren’t like us.we don’t like
either way works
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
donkey’s ear!
In Afrikaans, buy a donkey! (Forgotten how it’s spelled, though.)
Anymouse (or someone?) posted Celtic Woman’s version of The Parting Glass, and oddly enough, NPR just played Roseann Cash’s version on a program about the interface between the old world and the new in ballad singing.
re: #227 wheat-dogg
In Afrikaans, buy a donkey! (Forgotten how it’s spelled, though.)
another odd word in Dutch: “nauw”. Pronounce that with a guttural voice and it sounds like “narrow”, which is exactly what the word means.
California is “communist”? pic.twitter.com/KsVj0bVnTo
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 17, 2018
Apparently being a center for high-tech, bio-tech, finance, agriculture and media is “communism”. Who knew?
re: #230 Ace-o-aces
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Apparently being a center for high-tech, bio-tech, finance, agriculture and media is “communism”. Who knew?
apparently not running your economy into the ground by killing the tax base is also communism
WTAF
BREAKING: AP Sources: Steve Bannon attorney relayed questions to White House during House interview, was told when not to respond.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2018
re: #232 makeitstop
WTAF
Now you know why Mueller doesn’t want the attorney around.
Edit: I hope this pisses off a few more Republicans.
New California declares ‘independence’ from California in a bid to become the 51st state. https://t.co/m2y1mwWwit pic.twitter.com/hR52v78Kah
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 17, 2018
Did the clowns behind “New California” do the math before drawing the lines? “New California” would’ve still gone for Clinton 54/39 in ‘16. (“Old California” would be bluest state in US: 70/23).
(Also, they seem to think Los Angeles is in Ventura County.) https://t.co/HamSmml0xn— David Jarman (@DavidLJarman) January 17, 2018
re: #223 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
As long as the company pays for repairs when you put it through the back of the garage, you’ll be fine.
If I did that, after the supervisors picked themselves up off the floor after passing out laughing, they would ask me if I backed in or I drove in. If I backed in I am fired, if I drove in they would give me another car. Backing accidents are 100% preventable!!!!
re: #234 FormerDirtDart
Someone should explain to USA Today they’re reporting Russian propaganda.
Via @ThinkProgress: Democrats win big in Wisconsin special election, make big gains against GOP across the country https://t.co/MLk8JH3W0P #p2 #tcot #politics pic.twitter.com/HnJ6xZTrIK
— joshua epstein🏳️🌈 (@thejoshuablog) January 17, 2018
From the story I read earlier today, women and independents are leaving republicans behind.
It made my day.
Did you miss the special elections results yesterday?
Democrats over performed the 2016 election results by an average of 20%.
SC HD-99: D+13.08%
IA HD-06: D+20.44%
WI AD-58: D+24.90%
WI SD-10: D+27.52%
Keep working hard & we’re going to flip a lot of seats in November. 🌊— Millennial Politics (@MillenPolitics) January 17, 2018
re: #222 Shropshire Slasher
So my company car is a 2016 Ford Focus shod with Continental ContiProcantact tires that have got to be the worse tires in the snow I have ever had the displeasure of driving. My driveway is a 1/4 mile long, and I have to back up half way up hill just to get enough potential energy to get up to my garage.
Those look to be very wide and low profile. Not good for snow, even if they are called all season. The “grand touring” also makes me uncomfortable as that usually means a sport handling tire…more for very mild winters.
I am a believer in all season is good for no season. Some are better than others, but that aspect ratio and tread pattern look bad for upper midwest and northeastern type weather. I note even at Tire Rack they only get a fair rating for winter. Not good.
I have had Continental tires before and loved them, but they were hi-performance rain and dry summer tires. I use narrower dedicated winter tires from November until April.
Kinda surprised Ford put those on a car. Where are you located and was the car bought at a deater in your area?
However, if you could move the Dodgers into another division….
*does math*
Nope, Padres would still suck.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 17, 2018
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
So do you pronounce the Special Counsels name Mull-err or Mew-lur? I’ve heard both.
My landlord has the same last name and he pronounces it Mew-lur.
re: #239 ObserverArt
I am in upstate NY and I have driven it since brand spanky new. To be fair, that wasn’t the exact size for it, I just threw it up there for a photo reference. I like to pick my tires by how they are reviewed in Consumer reports for my personal vehicles.
re: #240 MsJ
Did Dems win all of them?
No, they won WI alone.
Dems picked-up one of the 4 (WI’s #SD10), so GOP kept 3 of these 4 districts. But that speaks to just how Republican they were; obviously GOP can’t afford anything close to this magnitude of change in Nov.
— Taniel (@Taniel) January 17, 2018
re: #240 MsJ
Did Dems win all of them?
I don’t know. No one is reporting any information on those other races other than how much better they did over 2016.
Or how gerrymandered they are (or both).
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 17, 2018
re: #245 MsJ
No, they won WI alone.
Yep. If Democrats increase each district by +13 (the minimum on that list), Republicans will be decimated.
I can’t wait to hear the evangelical right come up with a way to defend Trump.
The photos — of @EnergySecretary Rick Perry hugging a coal exec and the exec’s plan to stifle regulation — that cost a government photographer his job https://t.co/zgcP6BsGMy @benprotess pic.twitter.com/TM9527iUwI
— David Beard (@dabeard) January 17, 2018
re: #230 Ace-o-aces
You believe a lot of things that are not true. Hate-radio, Fox News, and wingnut blogs are not reliable sources of information. Try to get out of your bubble and grow into a rational person.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
NYC immigrant rights leader Jean Montrevil was deported to Haiti earlier today. He had lived in NYC for 31 years and has four U.S.-born children. @thenyic pic.twitter.com/VYw24JSvZY
— The Indypendent (@TheIndypendent) January 16, 2018
re: #244 Shropshire Slasher
I am in upstate NY and I have driven it since brand spanky new. To be fair, that wasn’t the exact size for it, I just threw it up there for a photo reference. I like to pick my tires by how they are reviewed in Consumer reports for my personal vehicles.
If I lived in upstate New York I’d for sure be using dedicated winter tires. Especially if you are in that area from Buffalo to Syracuse or in the Adirondack area.
I do it and I am in central Ohio, but travel to northern Ohio to see relatives, etc. I use Dunlop Winter Sport 3s, now they are called SP Winter Sport 3Ds.
Even if that isn’t your size, the tread pattern would be the same and it just does not look aggressive and deep and knobby enough to cut through snow.
So, I am a customer at the same place I work at…and I end up being massively inconvenienced by a company that we contracted with to plow the snow…
…for one thing they showed up SEVEN HOURS after management called for them…and then they plowed just the aisles of the parking lot with the blade facing outwards…directing the ice and snow directly in front of our cars and the cart corrals.
Oh, and I had to push carts through that, to top it all off, we are under contract with them for this year. We actually PAID them for that “work”.
This isn’t something patriots want. Russia and the American far-right like the plan. Californians are not communists or satanists. Get a grip, and stop listening to whatever liar is feeding you this nonsense.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
The right is driven by mental-illness.
re: #251 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Always with the “hard-working” code, as if that’s the distinguishing factor.
re: #37 freetoken
Thanks for posting this! Sent me on an interesting journey.
As far as I can tell (from Google translate as I do not speak Japanese):
The group is called Dark Ducks and the song Tomoshibi. The song is Russian from World War 2 and is called Огонёк. It speaks of the sadness of separation during war. According to the wiki page :It is widely popular in Japan as a song that represents so-called Russian folk songs”
Hope link works:
Russian original:
Back to listening to more of the Dark Ducks.
Also still working through the Parting Glass song versions from an earlier thread. I want to thank whom ever posted that!
How sad is it that we are reliant on something like 7 states out of 50 to keep the country from being completely overrun by Republicans?
re: #245 MsJ
No, they won WI alone.
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Well, you just know that the GOP/WH are going to be harping on the flipside of these results: and they won’t be entirely wrong. Boosting D/R voting percentages is all well and good, but it’s the actual results - i.e. more Democrats in legislative seats - that is the important thing. And, unfortunately, despite the many positive signs, except for Virginia, the Dems haven’t (yet) made a serious dent in the GOP’s legislative majorities, either in Congress or (probably as importantly) in statehouses.
That said, though: even despite the poor rate of actual turnover, the electoral signs aren’t looking positive for the Republicans in November. We can only hope.
re: #174 Lupin
Very true. If USA 2.0 started after the Civil War, and 3.0 after FDR and WWII, one might argue we’re transitioning into 4.0.
Trump is the Windows ME of administrations.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
A local CBS station in California is reporting on this “New California” nonsense as well.
(more, with video report)
This is the continuation of the “State of Jefferson” thing that has been swirling around the toilet bowl in northern cal and southern oregon for decades. You drive up I-5 through Weed and Shasta, you’ll see creaky, old, barns with faded State of Jefferson painted on their roofs and sides. Considering that population of that area is less than half a million compared to the overall state total of almost 40, there isn’t a chance of this going anywhere. Even if it did, the resulting “state” would end up being poorer than any of the southern shitholes. About the only thing exported from that region is some pretty rightous herb.
re: #254 I cannot.
So, I am a customer at the same place I work at…and I end up being massively inconvenienced by a company that we contracted with to plow the snow…
…for one thing they showed up SEVEN HOURS after management called for them…and then they plowed just the aisles of the parking lot with the blade facing outwards…directing the ice and snow directly in front of our cars and the cart corrals.
Oh, and I had to push carts through that, to top it all off, we are under contract with them for this year. We actually PAID them for that “work”.
I got plowed in over the weekend, and missed work Tuesday because of it. I also got reminded that I’m getting old as I dug it out.
re: #249 Dr. Matt
I can’t wait to hear the evangelical right come up with a way to defend Trump.
“as long as she didnt have an abortion…”
re: #255 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Btw Paul Preston, one of the founders of New California, believes the murder of 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. pic.twitter.com/BKPlrnuuhp
— Erin Brrr, sir (@erinscafe) January 17, 2018
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
How sad is it that we are reliant on something like 7 states out of 50 to keep the country from being completely overrun by Republicans?
Our education system has failed too many people. We should have taught critical thinking skills rather than rote memorization of what authorities tell the kids.
re: #259 Jay C
These are special elections:
1. There are significantly fewer than a normal election.
2. Most of them have been created by Republicans picking someone from a “safe” area for an executive position.
Virginia is the best indicator of what November might be like, and Democrats kicked butt against some serious gerrymandering. The special elections indicate what the trend looks like. Republicans will need to be in some massively safe districts (like Ratcliffe here in Rockwall) to keep their seats.
Trump’s Gestapo strikes again.
SCOOP: ICE is planning a massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws https://t.co/sKbpnG8dQr
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 17, 2018
5. Finally, it suggests that the POTUS is subject to blackmail and extortion. Trump reportedly was willing to pay 6 figures to keep Daniels quiet. Who else has information Trump doesn’t want out and what is Trump willing to do? https://t.co/8AEQUipgdL
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 17, 2018
re: #234 FormerDirtDart
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These separatist morons almost always fall into the same rut/trap/cesspool: whatever their original “grievances” - and those almost invariable shake out into just two prejudice-reeking tracks: “We don’t want to pay taxes” or “We don’t want to live with Those People”; or usually both - they quickly veer off into “COMMUNIST SATANIST” gibberings and the like: which rarely does much positive for their image…..
One has to wonder, though, just how many (real) people there are behind this “New California” crapola: I’m guessing maybe a few hundred wingnuts max: but with an artificial online presence botted-up to make them look like a mass movement.
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
“I won’t do this mans kidney transplant surgery. He’s gay.”
I doubt this is in the pipeline. The bigots that want to limit service tend to be in a different sect of health care. Sturgeons are mechanics who do a procedure that seldom gets in the way of their bigotry. A pharmacist is seeing their “rights” directly impinged upon by having to sell birth control to a woman. Which is worse for them, woman or BC, I can’t answer.
YMMV.
re: #262 sizzzzlerz
Interesting point! Quite an intersection of malcontents from between are the Bundy’s and the Sagebrush crazies, the Sovereign Citizens, various Republicans trying to seize control of California from the Democrats and the Russians trying to split western countries.
Curious if they did this in WI; tried to tie the demo to Pelosi and Schumer. StPaulBear…thoughts?
Republicans dust off Georgia special election playbook for midterms https://t.co/I2mcWc7W28 via @Politico pic.twitter.com/sC1QeoZKHd
— The_News_DIVA🎀 (@The_News_DIVA) January 17, 2018
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I wonder if Russia will have the cojones to interfere in the midterms?
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if Russia will have the cojones to interfere in the midterms?
I am assuming yes. I understand that at the national policy level, absolutely nothing has been done to stop it.
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if Russia will have the cojones to interfere in the midterms?
They haven’t stopped even now, and haven’t paid a price, and they are aware that as a nation we haven’t done much if anything to prevent it.
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if Russia will have the cojones to interfere in the midterms?
I don’t wonder at all. They will. And both putin and trump will deny it.
re: #186 dangerman
“i wont allocate this man a kidney. he’s gay”
Well, if personal issues come up in the recipient list, that might. The scoring to receive a transplant doesn’t take into account sexual identity. The entire methodology would need to be rewritren. And, the medical community isn’t going to do that. Some individuals may want to, but your posited scenario isn’t got to happen.
re: #189 Shropshire Slasher
or
“Can I catch the gayness from his kidney?”
That’s on the recipient. Not the medical team/community.
re: #277 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t wonder at all. They will. And both putin and trump will deny it.
Ugh. Here’s hoping Mueller drops a few bombs well below November.
re: #273 MsJ
Curious if they did this in WI; tried to tie the demo to Pelosi and Schumer. StPaulBear…thoughts?
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There’s something else I think the GOP is missing: Momentum. It seems to me that Democrats are doing better now than they were even in special elections early last year.
kelly doing president-work trump is incapable of performing by going down to congress and trying negotiate a way out of the shutdown
Actually, Satanists support free market policy.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 17, 2018
I am tired of people misrepresenting the Prince of Darkness’s economic policies!
Interesting:
GOP activist from Virginia quits Republican Party over Trump’s remarks
“A young Republican activist from Northern Virginia who was seen as a potential rising star quit the party Tuesday, citing President Trump’s “appalling comments” about Haitian immigrants and what he called a nativist streak in his home state.”
re: #279 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That’s on the recipient. Not the medical team/community.
Somehow I suspect most putative recipients will suddenly, temporarily, be quite susceptible to reason on the matter. Not going to be an issue; if nothing else hypocrisy will trump all.
…But yeah, not the doc’s problem if you’re that boneheaded.
Hmmm
Sen. Dan Seum introducing bill to legalize adult use of cannabis. pic.twitter.com/PIOfCPCYFs
— Lawrence Smith (@LASmithReports) January 17, 2018
Kentucky’s GOP Senate Caucus Chair is introducing a marijuana legalization bill right now. https://t.co/uYabuwcIGg
— Tom Angell 🌳📰 (@tomangell) January 17, 2018
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
Ugh. Here’s hoping Mueller drops a few bombs well below November.
The “New California” things is Russia. I’m sure they were helping in Alabama, and Virginia. They will continue.
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if Russia will have the cojones to interfere in the midterms?
Absolutely. They are interfering daily now.
re: #196 wheat-dogg
I poked around the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. Both black and swart (later swarthy) come to English from Old High German. I reckon the original words had different uses and diverged when English and German went their separate ways.
English and German were never together to go their separate ways. On the British Isles, the peasants spoke German, the nobles French. Englisg wa$ 5he intermingling o& the two. German remained in Germany and just kept going.
JFC.
Donald Trump’s terrifying plan to win the 2018 midterms https://t.co/GatApjPqXJ
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 17, 2018
re: #283 Ace-o-aces
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I am tired of people misrepresenting the Prince of Darkness’s economic policies!
Too many Trump-supporters are literally insane from absurd Republican propaganda.
re: #281 Belafon
There’s something else I think the GOP is missing: Momentum. It seems to me that Democrats are doing better now than they were even in special elections early last year.
Thankfully, people are paying attention. The olds, their base, is waking up - again - to the fact the the GOP wants to kill them. Slow and steady but they are seeing it. To what extent remains to be seen.
Women, OTOH, seem to be pretty fed up.
And trump does no one favors. Thank goodness.
Remains to be seen but we are seeing positive trends.
re: #283 Ace-o-aces
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I am tired of people misrepresenting the Prince of Darkness’s economic policies!
SRSLY: Everybody know that Old Scratch is a dedicated capitalist…..
re: #286 blueraven
Hmmm
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Was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, figured he might just be one of the more libertarian types and saw an opening, but no. This is from his own site:
Ended Vehicle Emission Testing (VET)
Solidly Pro-Life
Tough On Government Waste
Fights Job Killing Taxes
Stood Up Against Unsustainable Debt
Believes and Supports Traditional Marriage
Somebody’s seeing the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of it. Oh well. Still a good thing I suppose.
re: #278 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Well, if personal issues come up in the recipient list, that might. The scoring to receive a transplant doesn’t take into account sexual identity. The entire methodology would need to be rewritren. And, the medical community isn’t going to do that. Some individuals may want to, but your posited scenario isn’t got to happen.
i wasnt being serious
the whole concept of “moral objection” is absurd
It’s unconstitutional to arrest state and local officials for carrying out their duties in accordance with state law. Find out more about our campaign for Illinois Attorney General, including how we’ll fight Trump’s failed immigration policy, at https://t.co/C5IvNPAddh
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 16, 2018
re: #290 Ace Rothstein
JFC.
I don’t think an attack would help him the way he thinks: it hadn’t happened before Bush, and people already think Trump’s hoping it. This is, though, why I think Trump was willing to go golfing during the scare in Hawaii.
re: #256 jaunte
Always with the “hard-working” code, as if that’s the distinguishing factor.
Which makes them sound like Russian bots.
re: #294 ThomasLite
I’m sure he’s also hoping the income to the state will offset the gutting of the budget.
re: #294 ThomasLite
Was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, figured he might just be one of the more libertarian types and saw an opening, but no. This is from his own site:
Somebody’s seeing the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of it. Oh well. Still a good thing I suppose.
Yeah, hardly a progressive. But, he admits to smoking pot after surgery in lieu of oxy-contin. He also realizes the potential for jobs and economic development. I mean really, it is just common sense.
If a state as red as Kentucky can even consider this, it gives me hope for the future of legalization in others.
re: #281 Belafon
There’s something else I think the GOP is missing: Momentum. It seems to me that Democrats are doing better now than they were even in special elections early last year.
I live in the WI Senate district next door, my district has Janet Bewley, D. Looking at the county results, I see a common theme- the Republican won his “home counties” they just happen to be the lowest population and poorest counties. Schactner won her “home counties” by a wide amount and some that have universities in them (UW River Falls and UW-Stout). These counties are more wealthy and the cities are liberal. I think Schactner was a well known, well liked candidate from the right area of the district. The hardcore Trump areas were won by the R. I haven’t seen turnout data, and given that this was a single-seat special election, I don’t think there is much to compare it to. A known candidate and turnout matter.
re: #296 MsJ
Reminder that there is never a ‘good enough’ with the folks pushing this ICE hardline. They don’t care about actual merit or criminality: to them, immigrants’ existence is criminal enough: The Case of the ‘Perfect’ Undocumented Immigrant
re: #300 blueraven
Yeah, hardly a progressive. But, he admits to smoking pot after surgery in lieu of oxy-contin. He also realizes the potential for jobs and economic development. I mean really, it is just common sense.
If a state as red as Kentucky can even consider this, it gives me hope for the future of legalization in others.
Fair enough. It’s funny to me how apparently soft drugs are apparently much easier to flip on than gay marriage, I’d have expected it to be the other way around.
Around here (the Netherlands) gay marriage was a bit of a fuss for a few years after which it was basically over. Marihuana is still contentious (even around here) after decades of relatively progressive policy on the subject. I’m just surprised how much more progress seems to be made on that matter in the US than around here (and make no mistake, quite a few US states seem to be ahead of us on sensible drug policy by now).
re: #300 blueraven
Yeah, hardly a progressive. But, he admits to smoking pot after surgery in lieu of oxy-contin. He also realizes the potential for jobs and economic development. I mean really, it is just common sense.
If a state as red as Kentucky can even consider this, it gives me hope for the future of legalization in others.
Me too. The tax revenue alone would fill so many gaps and the you have the medical benefits…
re: #300 blueraven
The sticking point for legalization is the private prison industry. If they can figure out another easy way to fill their prisons, and can get in on the massive pot industry $$$$ it will happen nationally.
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
Me too. The tax revenue alone would fill so many gaps and the you have the medical benefits…
Huge health benefits for anyone who switches from alcohol to herb as well. It’s criminal that we ban a much less harmful alternative to alcohol.
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
Me too. The tax revenue alone would fill so many gaps and the you have the medical benefits…
let’s not get ahead of ourselves on those alleged medical benefits.
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Recreationally it’s way less harmful than alcohol (let alone tobacco) but most of the medical benefits (and yes, in pain relief as well, that field is notoriously susceptible to placebo effects) are vastly overstated.
It’s no good replacing one fairytale with another here…
re: #302 Citizen K
Reminder that there is never a ‘good enough’ with the folks pushing this ICE hardline. They don’t care about actual merit or criminality: to them, immigrants’ existence is criminal enough: The Case of the ‘Perfect’ Undocumented Immigrant
if you’re “illegal” you are by definition a rapist, murderer, and/or terrorist
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re: #300 blueraven
re: #305 plansbandc
The sticking point for legalization is the private prison industry. If they can figure out another easy way to fill their prisons, and can get in on the massive pot industry $$$$ it will happen nationally.
There’s also one more sticking point, long as we have this current iteration of the DoJ, and it’s related to the private prison industry: long as folks like Jeff Sessions, who see marijuana as a primarily ‘black’ drug by comparison, remain in control of what should and shouldn’t be criminalized, weed will stay criminalized, because it’s not just about economics, but ideology. Sessions wants to help his Private Prison buddies, but he also wants to make sure that all those shameful non-white folks ‘know their place’.
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
Me too. The tax revenue alone would fill so many gaps and the you have the medical benefits…
I don’t know. My guess is that this is a Trojan Horse designed to further hemp farming in Kentucky. I can see the “ok, not pot but hemp then” going through to benefit Kentucky farmers who have a HUGE clout in this state. There was a “what about hemp” presentation in northwestern WI a few weeks ago and hundreds of farmers showed up. Smokin’ weed? Too many Baptists here. By the way, the state of KY JUST STARTED anti tobacco campaign- almost 20 years after the big tobacco settlement. Journalists on a public affairs programs “were shocked” to see the state do this. KY farmers are powerful lobby.
re: #289 Colère Tueur de Lapin
English and German were never together to go their separate ways. On the British Isles, the peasants spoke German, the nobles French. Englisg wa$ 5he intermingling o& the two. German remained in Germany and just kept going.
I find the history of the English language fascinating.
My understanding is that this resulted from the Norman conquest. And that word choice between the French originated word and the German originated word still exists today. Supposedly the French based words “beef”, pork and mutton are “classier” than the Germanic cow, pig and sheep. All because of some historical events almost 1000 years ago.
re: #292 MsJ
Thankfully, people are paying attention. The olds, their base, is waking up - again - to the fact the the GOP wants to kill them. Slow and steady but they are seeing it. To what extent remains to be seen.
Women, OTOH, seem to be pretty fed up.
And trump does no one favors. Thank goodness.
Remains to be seen but we are seeing positive trends.
I’m interested to see what happens if Paul Ryan goes after Social Security as many are saying. Even if it is aimed at younger generations I think it will blow up in his and the Republican’s faces.
If he even utters that he is looking to change Social Security prior to next summer it will really hurt them.
If they and Trump do something on their own in a ramrod it through way it will hurt them for a generation.
Our state may actually legalize pot once Susana Martinez is out of office. Her husband has a huge stake in the medical marijuana business in New Mexico, so naturally she’s dead set against recreational.
re: #308 dangerman
if you’re “illegal” you are by definition a rapist, murderer, and/or terrorist
Alas, this is actually what so many people think earnestly. The very concept that an undocumented citizen might work harder than a ‘real American’ and be much more law abiding, if only out of fear, simply never enters the conversation. They’re treated like an infestation, and that treatment bleeds over into almost anyone non-white, because obviously all those nasty, criminal invaders look exactly alike and have one ethnic archetype….
re: #293 Jay C
SRSLY: Everybody know that Old Scratch is a dedicated capitalist…..
I understand he makes people sign some pretty tough contracts. Way tougher than Trump’s NDAs.
re: #286 blueraven
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Our Secretary of State Alison Grimes has been pushing very hard for at least legalizing medical marijuana.
Also, since marijuana has consistently been our Commonwealth’s #1 cash crop (exceeding even tobacco during its heyday), it make a lot of sense to legalize all marijuana and tax it.
re: #300 blueraven
Yeah, hardly a progressive. But, he admits to smoking pot after surgery in lieu of oxy-contin. He also realizes the potential for jobs and economic development. I mean really, it is just common sense.
If a state as red as Kentucky can even consider this, it gives me hope for the future of legalization in others.
I think there is already a healthy in-state Marijuana production business in Kentucky.
It’s just not legal. Many times it is ignored.
re: #305 plansbandc
The sticking point for legalization is the private prison industry. If they can figure out another easy way to fill their prisons, and can get in on the massive pot industry $$$$ it will happen nationally.
We still have moonshiners in Kentucky. They can always bring back the revenuers…
re: #255 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The declared independence of about twelve wingnuts.
SovCit libertarian cosplay.
Reminder that Trump is basically stealing benefits from the elderly immigrants he’s expelling from the United States https://t.co/Q8D7SIyC4X #TPS
— Rewire (@Rewire_News) January 17, 2018
re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m not sure of the numbers on this, but it would seem that farmers growing pot would actually make more money than those growing hemp. If Colorado is any indication, it looks like it’s been a boost for everyone from growers to dispensary owners. The husband and I are planning another trip there this spring. It would be great to be able to go to a state closer for “pot tourism”.
re: #312 ObserverArt
I’m interested to see what happens if Paul Ryan goes after Social Security as many are saying. Even if it is aimed at younger generations I think it will blow up in his and the Republican’s faces.
If he even utters that he is looking to change Social Security prior to next summer it will really hurt them.
If they and Trump do something on their own in a ramrod it through way it will hurt them for a generation.
Republicans don’t think that average American’s actually care about their mothers and fathers and sons and daughters. Because they are sociopaths, they think everyone else is. Perhaps that magic 27% of Americans are, but most are not. Messing with SocSec and Medicare will kill them. Kill them dead. For a long time…generations.
re: #321 A Mom Anon
I’m not sure of the numbers on this, but it would seem that farmers growing pot would actually make more money than those growing hemp. If Colorado is any indication, it looks like it’s been a boost for everyone from growers to dispensary owners. The husband and I are planning another trip there this spring. It would be great to be able to go to a state closer for “pot tourism”.
One almost immediate impact I can see for legalizing marijuana in Kentucky is that even with a hefty tax added, the price will drop like a rock. Last time I checked, a grower here was bringing in more than $1,000 a plant.
And then there were three (at least), and the resemblance is interesting…
“Come hang out with us. Come have fun. Let’s party”- Alana Evans, friend of former adult-film star Stormy Daniels, says Stormy confided in her about a sexual encounter she had with President Trump in 2006. #MegynTODAY pic.twitter.com/KKERSDoy4f
— Megyn Kelly TODAY (@MegynTODAY) January 16, 2018
re: #321 A Mom Anon
I’m not sure of the numbers on this, but it would seem that farmers growing pot would actually make more money than those growing hemp. If Colorado is any indication, it looks like it’s been a boost for everyone from growers to dispensary owners. The husband and I are planning another trip there this spring. It would be great to be able to go to a state closer for “pot tourism”.
Growing hemp is a completely different process and much more mechanized.
re: #324 retired cynic
And then there were three (at least), and the resemblance is interesting…
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Republican Lady Explains Good Fathers Stop Gun Crime, RFK’s Son Chris Kennedy Says (redacted) (Goes to Wonkette)
At a candidate debate where a wingnut woman is trying to primary the Illinois Governor from the right (because conservatives never primary from the left), said woman opined that crime would be reduced if more fathers were in the home in places like Chicago (pulling out the old dogwhistles).
Chris Kennedy verbally flayed her alive on the stage and walked out.
As he left the forum, Kennedy said,
You know, some stuff hits a raw nerve and, um, I think that should be a debate about great ideas, a clash, and not one of emotions […]
But when I hear such ignorance and stupidity aired out by someone who knows so little about so much, I don’t think there’s an appropriate place for them to be on a podium on a dais with other people who have given these issues thought and have the emotional capacity to be empathetic at the same time.
Kennedy later told the Chicago NBC affiliate,
I lost my father to someone with a gun. For someone to say simply the solution is to have a father-in-law - I don’t know. How shall I react? What should my family have done?
(more at Wonkette)
Porn star Stormy Daniels to ‘In Touch’: Trump said I was “just like his daughter” https://t.co/hk64QhwTMd pic.twitter.com/CAz9ZxiTBp
— SPIN (@SPIN) January 17, 2018
You know he asked her to call him Daddy. https://t.co/6Ks8Xxoh34
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 17, 2018
WOW. White House press conf:
Reporter, asking about gvt funding: “Does the buck stop with President Trump?”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “I’m not sure how it would.”— Eric Schmeltzer (@JustSchmeltzer) January 17, 2018
re: #314 Citizen K
Alas, this is actually what so many people think earnestly. The very concept that an undocumented citizen might work harder than a ‘real American’ and be much more law abiding, if only out of fear, simply never enters the conversation. They’re treated like an infestation, and that treatment bleeds over into almost anyone non-white, because obviously all those nasty, criminal invaders look exactly alike and have one ethnic archetype….
you’re right
i have to remember to use the /// tags
re: #329 Citizen K
MAGA: Not sure how it would
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re: #329 Citizen K
MAGA: The Buck Stops With Someone Else
Is anyone surprised Trump has a thing for his daughter?
No surprise to me. All those images of her on his lap, his uncomfortable hug and squeeze at the Republican National Convention, his statements that have been caught about how he would have dated her.
If he was Joe Average American father he would have been investigated by local Child Protective Services.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
Exactly. Hemp is in the cannabis family but contains little if any THC. It’s bred specifically for fiber purposes (and seeds for bird food and oil). If I remember right, there are only one or two strains of hemp allowed to be grown for this purpose and it’s more like a giant farm growing corn or soybeans than a growhouse or outdoor operation for growing cannabis for human consumption. I doubt the price for an acre of industrial hemp is anywhere close to what an acre of,say Willie Nelson’s Sour Diesel or whatever. This could be a huge win for farmers.
re: #328 Kragar
a) EWWWWW.
and
b) I think Stormy looks more like Tiffany than Ivanka, but YMMV.
c) vomit.
re: #336 A Mom Anon
Exactly. Hemp is in the cannabis family but contains little if any THC. It’s bred specifically for fiber purposes (and seeds for bird food and oil). If I remember right, there are only one or two strains of hemp allowed to be grown for this purpose and it’s more like a giant farm growing corn or soybeans than a growhouse or outdoor operation for growing cannabis for human consumption. I doubt the price for an acre of industrial hemp is anywhere close to what an acre of,say Willie Nelson’s Sour Diesel or whatever. This could be a huge win for farmers.
As I recall, Lexington’s first millionaire was in hemp farming and manufacturing (among other things).
re: #328 Kragar
Why should American social conservatives care about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes?
— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) January 17, 2018
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— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 17, 2018
re: #336 A Mom Anon
Exactly. Hemp is in the cannabis family but contains little if any THC. It’s bred specifically for fiber purposes (and seeds for bird food and oil). If I remember right, there are only one or two strains of hemp allowed to be grown for this purpose and it’s more like a giant farm growing corn or soybeans than a growhouse or outdoor operation for growing cannabis for human consumption. I doubt the price for an acre of industrial hemp is anywhere close to what an acre of,say Willie Nelson’s Sour Diesel or whatever. This could be a huge win for farmers.
Just a note. Most medical and legal consumable marijuana is grown indoor. Better controls over production, quantity and quality and less chance for bugs and other stuff that makes it less profitable outdoors.
— Shitty Future (@Shitty_Future) January 17, 2018
This is why they hate us. https://t.co/Hz0AmOqChd
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 17, 2018
Wisconsin Foxconn plant touted by Trump could cost taxpayers $4.5 billion https://t.co/zmurvanrbF pic.twitter.com/ElP1rdAYBY
— The Hill (@thehill) January 17, 2018
re: #338 Barefoot Grin
Oh there’s money in hemp, I just would think on per plant and per acre basis, consumable cannabis would be more lucrative at the farmer/grower level.
Hahaha, I love this:
An evangelical commenter on my website noted that Jesus also associated with sex workers.
— Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) January 17, 2018
re: #329 Citizen K
Reporter, asking about gvt funding: “Does the buck stop with President Trump?”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “I’m not sure how it would
Likely has no idea who originally said it, what it means, or why the question is significant
re: #79 nowherenorth2
Did you see the nyt op ed piece about this and Aziz? Basically stated that aziz is guilty of not being able to read minds.
My hand hit my forehead so hard
It really shouldn’t be hard to figure out if a woman really wants to touch your penis or not.
re: #345 Barefoot Grin
Hahaha, I love this:
An evangelical commenter on my website noted that Jesus also associated with sex workers.
heckuva thing to say about his wife
The “New California” movement is literally a single angry white guy who rented a podium. Why are people covering this like it’s a thing? This is not a thing!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 17, 2018
If a male Republican senator spent his 10 minutes “mansplaining” at the female DHS Secretary about immigration policy & yelled at her the only time she tried to speak, Democrats would be triggered. https://t.co/wVDc6G5L8d
— GOP (@GOP) January 17, 2018
sorry, I think you meant to post this on the chan https://t.co/4OTkFUf0ED
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) January 17, 2018
re: #340 ObserverArt
These problems still exist in greenhouses though, but admittedly would be easier to control inside (my grandparents had a huge green house when I was a kid, their specialty was hybrid tomatoes, but we still had to watch for stuff like powdery mildew and aphids). But, large amounts of what is sold illegally is grown outside, the NPS has been having problems for years with large grows on NPS land and the mess left behind by the growers. Given enough time and investment, I would bet that some of the outdoor growing challenges could be improved upon, especially if strains could be developed that were disease and pest resistant, we do it with food, why not weed?
re: #340 ObserverArt
Just a note. Most medical and legal consumable marijuana is grown indoor. Better controls over production, quantity and quality and less chance for bugs and other stuff that makes it less profitable outdoors.
And it only becomes less profitable outdoors once it is legalized.
Considerably less profitable.
re: #343 FormerDirtDart
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re: #354 FormerDirtDart
Would love to see some analysis on which bot hordes are pushing this story on social media
RT is all in.
re: #350 Ace-o-aces
“Maybe he voted for Trump? We would like his perspective to see if he still supports Trump, etc.”
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re: #351 jaunte
Are Republicans crying “Victim” again?
re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth
Those are some seriously disturbing shoulder pads on that suit.
Maybe he’s going for that David Byrne “big suit” look? I dunno.
Anyhoo, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards.
re: #152 ObserverArt
But you’d support Oprah buying Fox News though, right?
Let’s stick to the positive thinking of that tweet Wendell. Plenty of time for worrying about the elections later. : )
It would be better for Fox to promote woo instead of racism, but still not good. I’d like Neil deGrasse Tyson to buy Fox, but he can’t afford it.
re: #164 HappyWarrior
I guess a better analogy would be an anti gay teacher refusing to teach lgbt students. T, though, would a PD be able to object to defending an accused murderer? I know that was sorta the case with HRC and that rapist that Trump used to attack her as “not caring about women.”
I would think that before a PD got to be lead counsel on a murder case they would be second to an experienced attorney on several first. So if they refused it wouldn’t be a big deal. OTOH, maybe PD offices are so underfunded now that inexperienced attorneys are being thrown right into capital cases.
Trump claims his support among African Americans “has doubled.” Turns out he counted Ben Carson twice.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 17, 2018
re: #347 Big Beautiful Door
It really shouldn’t be hard to figure out if a woman really wants to touch your penis or not.
It really shouldn’t have been that difficult to get the fuck out of his apartment if she felt the evening was going downhill. Women portrayed as victims for having a bad date is not helpful.
re: #339 jaunte
Ask them. That’s been their thing forever. They want government out of the boardroom and into the bedroom.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
re: #362 Anymouse 🌹
All polls are fake except the ones that are favorable to Trump.
re: #328 Kragar
There is no bottom to Trump’s depravity. What’s next, necrophilia?
re: #364 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
American social conservatives: busybodies with zero self-awareness.
re: #363 blueraven
It really shouldn’t have been that difficult to get the fuck out of his apartment if she felt the evening was going downhill. Women portrayed as victims for having a bad date is not helpful.
A lot of women are extremely passive in that kind of situation. They freeze rather than acting.
I passed along some of the comments from here last Saturday on the death of my sister-in-law to my sister. She was unaware there is a whole group of people she doesn’t know who genuinely care about her.
re: #360 Big Beautiful Door
He has some interesting blind spots too.
Studying those who succeed in spite of broken childhoods might be more illuminating than studying those who don’t succeed because of them.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 8, 2018
there are people who study both, and have actually managed to create lots of illuminating results for people who care to read them! https://t.co/a3PK5HNEjz
— bringing my baby to a theater near you (@fivefifths) January 8, 2018
Studying those who succeed in spite of broken childhoods might be more illuminating than studying those who don’t succeed because of them.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 8, 2018
This an entire field of study. It’s called risk and resilience. This would be like if I said “studying matter that doesn’t interact with the observable electromagnetic spectrum… now THAT would tell us about the universe” lmao https://t.co/wF4Uk5bgKM
— wikipedia “you can go read a book” brown (@eveewing) January 9, 2018
re: #370 JordanRules
He has some interesting blind spots too.
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re: #369 Anymouse 🌹
I passed along some of the comments from here last Saturday on the death of my sister-in-law to my sister. She was unaware there is a whole group of people she doesn’t know who genuinely care about her.
She should join us, when she feels up to it.
re: #351 jaunte
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Pathetic. It’s always funny when the party that gave us Feminazi complains when its women members get criticized. Booker would have done the same thing to Kelly if he were still Sec of DHS and playing the Dumb game Nielsen played.
re: #368 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A lot of women are extremely passive in that kind of situation. They freeze rather than acting.
Then they need to learn how to speak up for themselves.
Sorry, I am from the old school of feminist thinking where we were proud to voice our sexual desires and lay down boundaries.
This, treating women like they are helpless children with no voice or choice, is backward.
There was no threat, coercion or abuse in this case. The woman was free to leave.
re: #371 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Everyone does, and it seems that the smarter someone is in a particular field, the less aware of their lack of expertise in other fields they are.
We all try to generalize what we know into other areas. People like Neil just get more attention.
re: #371 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
True indeed.
re: #373 HappyWarrior
You’re as clueless as any wingnut blogger. The GOP has fallen so far since Lincoln.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 17, 2018
Conservatives are always eager to claim that Liberals are the real [Insert cherished Conservative dysfunction].
re: #264 dangerman
“as long as she didnt have an abortion…”
I’d say that its highly likely that Trump has paid for one or more abortions over the decades.
re: #374 blueraven
Then they need to learn how to speak up for themselves.
Sorry, I am from the old school of feminist thinking where we were proud to voice our sexual desires and lay down boundaries.
This, treating women like they are helpless children with no voice or choice, is backward.
There was no threat, coercion or abuse in this case. The woman was free to leave.
That’s victim-blaming. You can’t expect every woman to be an empowered feminist.
If someone wants to move to my part of the county and has the requisite credentials, the City of Scottsbluff is doing a national search for a new fire chief.
re: #377 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #379 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s victim-blaming. You can’t expect every woman to be an empowered feminist.
Bullshit. I do expect women to have the power to walk away.
And that woman was not a victim. She had a bad experience with a boorish man. Give me a break.
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re: #379 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
She wrote her story to a shit website & just emailed Ashley Banfield writing about her looks and age.
the fact that the author of the aziz expose would send this to a fellow journalist further demonstrates what a bad job babe dot net did of telling grace’s story pic.twitter.com/R0pAmqxtx9
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) January 17, 2018
And remember babe.net has a story up about period trapping your dude.
Critical eye.
re: #286 blueraven
Hmmm
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It could raise a lot of money to help with Kentucky’s budget crisis.
re: #383 blueraven
Bullshit. I do expect women to have the power to walk away.
And that woman was not a victim. She had a bad experience with a boorish man. Give me a break.
Guess that means we shouldn’t bother to discuss the man’s boorish behavior as if that isn’t part of the same damn culture that has men thinking they can just take what they want or put women in uncomfortable situations all over the place.
Sigh.
re: #387 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Guess that means we shouldn’t bother to discuss the man’s boorish behavior as if that isn’t part of the same damn culture that has men thinking they can just take what they want or put women in uncomfortable situations all over the place.
Sigh.
That is a different conversation. It is certainly one that is important. But let us not embrace victimhood as a badge of honor.
I want women to have a voice in the moment, not shrink away.
re: #388 blueraven
That is a different conversation. It is certainly one that is important. But let us not embrace victimhood as a badge of honor.
I want women to have a voice in the moment, not shrink away.
I want women to not be judged for not reacting in the “perfect” way when faced with an uncomfortable situation.
re: #389 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I want women to not be judged for not reacting in the “perfect” way when faced with an uncomfortable situation.
Can we extend that to men as well?
Yes he behaved badly, at least in her telling of it and I don’t doubt that. But should he have his career threatened over it? He was no Harvey Weinstein or even a Franken.
We need to teach our sons and our daughters to respect each other and to speak out when they are uncomfortable.
re: #363 blueraven
It really shouldn’t have been that difficult to get the fuck out of his apartment if she felt the evening was going downhill. Women portrayed as victims for having a bad date is not helpful.
On the Bitches for Hillary FB feed, when someone said that, the screams of victim blaming arose very loudly.
re: #389 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I want women to not be judged for not reacting in the “perfect” way when faced with an uncomfortable situation.
It is also extremely unhelpful to make this woman’s response a template for shaming/blaming EVERY woman who does not have the old school feminist fortitude to “just leave”.
Because this is exactly a blanket shaming.
sigh.
re: #390 blueraven
Can we extend that to men as well?
Yes he behaved badly, at least in her telling of it and I don’t doubt that. But should he have his career threatened over it? He was no Harvey Weinstein or even a Franken.
We need to teach our sons and our daughters to respect each other and to speak out when they are uncomfortable.
I don’t think I’ve argued his career should be threatened over it.
I do think he needs to be doing some serious introspection of his own behavior as someone who says he supports the TimesUp movement. I hope he is.
But the biggest thing I’d like to see right now is fewer women standing up and doing the work of defending him by criticizing her and how she should have just moved on from this bad date, because what that’s doing is avoiding the discussion of how unacceptable his behavior was. The fact that a lot of women have been in similar situations does not make this behavior acceptable. It simply means this fucking discussion is long overdue.
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