Seth takes a closer look at how despite controlling all three branches of government, Republicans are still facing a possible shutdown over an immigration impasse created entirely by President Trump.
Joe Walsh is such an easy mark….
Oh, boy do you need this…. pic.twitter.com/0F6Zm6cG3K
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 18, 2018
#BREAKING: Trump Homeland Security Dept bans Haitians from applying for low-skill work visas https://t.co/g3NhuF4nD4 pic.twitter.com/6RTM6jENmt
— The Hill (@thehill) January 18, 2018
I’m sure this has nothing to do with Haiti releasing info about Humpy Trumpy money laundering for Baby Doc https://t.co/eRqks8jM5J
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #1 The Major
Joe Walsh is such an easy mark….
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Lol okay Joe. You seem awfully concerned about Obama’s choice of jeans. At least Obama’s not a dick to his kids, Mom jeans or not. and tbh his jeans always looked fine to me.
Uh, nope. Gab is a right wing social media site that openly caters to Nazis and white supremacists. If they were banned from Twitter, it’s because they were Nazis.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2018
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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Trump admin. moves to bar Haitians from agricultural, seasonal worker visas https://t.co/sU6wYvrekA via @nbcnews
— Suzanne Gamboa (@SuzGamboa) January 18, 2018
Paving the path for hard working Norwegians to come and work on our farms for minimum wage. https://t.co/xsCvsZOpnA
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #1 The Major
Let’s see, “Mom jeans” vs. “giving Russians intelligence secrets and paying off porn stars.”
What a choice.
Martin Longman is speculating that the special reason Mueller really is after Bannon is because of Cambridge Analytica. Seems sound to me.
There’s an obvious nexus here. Cambridge Analytica was founded by Robert Mercer. Robert Mercer became the most important funder of Breitbart News which was run by Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon became a vice-president of Cambridge Analytica. Bannon introduced Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Alexander Nix to the Trump campaign in May 2016. Jared Kushner hired Cambridge Analytica in June 2016. Mercer convinced Trump to hire Steve Bannon in August 2016.
re: #8 jaunte
Let’s see, “Mom jeans” vs. “giving Russians intelligence secrets and paying off porn stars.”
What a choice.
Sounds easy to me but I’m not a crook like Walsh.
You go, Pop.
Popovich interview on #MLKDay: “If someone says that they’re not a racist, you know that they are.”
Pop’s gonna ruffle some feathers with this one. You know the one thing racist people HATE is being called racist
pic.twitter.com/pEbFiVe1dG— Etan Thomas (@etanthomas36) January 16, 2018
re: #11 makeitstop
You go, Pop.
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Best pro coach of his generation and it’s nkt even close.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
Best pro coach of his generation and it’s nkt even close.
QFT. Spurs are my other favorite team, mostly because of Pop.
Like all those great deals he made after the TPP collapsed?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #13 makeitstop
QFT. Spurs are my other favorite team, mostly because of Pop.
I love how he coaches. He never lets egos dominate his teams. They’re all about teamwork and winning. Plus Pop is a really smart guy too.
re: #17 Pineapple Pizzagate
These are the hard-working Norwegians they want;
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re: #14 Kragar
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Congress should pass a law requiring that they have to approve pulling out of NAFTA.
I’m just here to help your dumbshit asses out with the fucking ratio.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 18, 2018
re: #2 Kragar
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Heartbreaking for all those Haitians who really needed those jobs. Mia Love met with Trump after his racist sh*thole remarks. Looks like she wasted her time.
Got a lot of news to catch up on. I should visit Stormy Daniels’ site, just for the political analysis.
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
Heartbreaking for all those Haitians who really needed those jobs. Mia Love met with Trump after his racist sh*thole remarks. Looks like she wasted her time.
Does that include the Haitians who do the heavy lifting for Trump properties?
re: #23 Decatur Deb
I hope someone asks Huckabooboo that tomorrow.
Samantha Bee just did a bit about interviewing working class Americans who aren’t white men While the mainstream press ignore them. A point that’s been made Often here.
#CAstorm- Firefighters look under a bridge at creek in Montecito that was jammed solid with debris from the deadly rains and mudflow January 9. *Photo by Blake Herman/SB County Fire* pic.twitter.com/1mzQ00iUbC
— SBCFireInfo (@EliasonMike) January 16, 2018
re: #25 Big Beautiful Door
Samantha Bee just did a bit about interviewing working class Americans who aren’t white men While the mainstream press ignore them. A point that’s been made Often here.
Not just the mainstream press but even some Dem politicians. I like Biden a lot but he’s ignored that. Sanders certainly has.
re: #28 Decatur Deb
DamnDam
Learned this ditty in the first grade: “I went to the dam to get some dam water and the dam man said ‘don’t drink that dam water.’”
re: #17 Pineapple Pizzagate
These are the hard-working Norwegians they want;
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re: #22 Decatur Deb
Got a lot of news to catch up on. I should visit Stormy Daniels’ site, just for the political analysis.
Let us know if there are a lot of articles to read.
re: #29 teleskiguy
Learned this ditty in the first grade: “I went to the dam to get some dam water and the dam man said ‘don’t drink that dam water.’”
Were you on the damn dam tour?
i’d venture to guess that the trump recession might be triggered by the collapse of the current stock market euphoria
Eric Trump’s 401(k) is up by 35 percent, but half of American families don’t even have one
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News Channel this week, Eric Trump pointed to the stellar performance of his 401(k) as evidence that his father’s economic policies were helping average Americans. “I just opened up my 401(k), I haven’t looked at it in a year. It’s up by 35 percent. I didn’t think retirement was possible, and now it is,” Trump said.
re: #34 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
I thought if you made more than a certain amount you couldn’t contribute to a 401k or IRA?
re: #31 Skip Intro
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re: #33 Jack Burton
Were you on the damn dam tour?
I did take the deluxe tour of the Hoover Dam for my birthday in 2016.
Hoover Dam power plant, Nevada side. I have to say this kind of blew my mind. Floor of the observation deck. pic.twitter.com/6zcfk5F4BL
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 10, 2016
re: #35 Jack Burton
I thought if you made more than a certain amount you couldn’t contribute to a 401k or IRA?
Contributing to SS caps you.
401k, I’d think not.
Wonder if the yam org matches?
re: #32 ObserverArt
Let us know if there are a lot of articles to read.
She seems to be too much behind.
You can’t claim everything is just class and economics while ignoring that working class PoC are still reliably Democratic as WWC are Republican in many places. That’s something I’ve never seen answered by those who bemoan the loss of those voters. I’d be happy to have them vote for Dems but I’d be even happier if they got over the prejudices that lead them to Republicans too.
re: #31 Skip Intro
It *has* to be Kilograms, not pounds.
re: #31 Skip Intro
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In the pursuit of accuracy, I have to disagree with that assessment. A much better fit would be that being his weight on Uranus (I’m going to avoid the obvious jokes here), which has only 85% of Earth gravity.
re: #35 Jack Burton
I thought if you made more than a certain amount you couldn’t contribute to a 401k or IRA?
$18,000 max tax deductible per year, so Eric is up around 5k.
Wheee!
Than.
I know…English is hard when nazi is your first language. pic.twitter.com/9aa27Z9f53— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 17, 2018
re: #34 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
He didn’t think retirement was possible? Is the Trump Org. broke?
re: #44 DodgerFan1988
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Love how a porn star says she fucked the Potus and everyone’s like “Meh, unless he wipes his cock with the flag and stabs an eagle live on TV nobody cares”
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) January 18, 2018
ICE warrants are not real warrants. They are not reviewed by a judge & you do not need to open your door if presented with one.
If you live or work w/undocumented people, or know others who do, print out “know your rights” cards & distribute them widely. https://t.co/ZnDgLx9cs4— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) January 17, 2018
whirrrr, whirrrr WEET! whiddly squeek-a pbbbbbb widdly whoodala whoo cha-chitter
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) January 18, 2018
FEC filings show Trump campaign paid Trump Tower Commercial LLC rent 7 times in last 6 months of 2016. The payment on 11/28/2016 was $283k, $124k higher than the usual rent ($169k). Another payment was also received for $130k in December. Stormy Time
— Charles Manock (@cmanock1) January 18, 2018
re: #51 jaunte
FEC filings show Trump campaign paid Trump Tower Commercial LLC rent 7 times in last 6 months of 2016. The payment on 11/28/2016 was $283k, $124k higher than the usual rent ($169k). Another payment was also received for $130k in December. Stormy Time
— Charles Manock (@cmanock1) January 18, 2018
So if #maddow was wondering who paid Stormy Daniels it seems the Trump campaign did, by laundering money through Trump’s corporation.
That’s really illegal.
Like they indicted Johns Edwards for this same thing, illegal. #StormyTime https://t.co/xyzqWarHMs— Alexander “Stable Genius” Hamilton (@AHamiltonSpirit) January 18, 2018
Tonight, https://t.co/YTZAIJpNhb saw more traffic than ever before. Even though the servers were scaled up, the interest was even greater than anticipated. Traffic is off the charts. Come back soon.
— GOP (@GOP) January 18, 2018
Narrator: Actually, the servers weren’t scaled up. https://t.co/IGWTxV1KQX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2018
re: #52 Kragar
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re: #53 Charles Johnson
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LOL they really think people cared about this? Man Trump’s little hands are all over the RNC now too lol.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Narrator: Actually, the servers weren’t scaled up.
But Ms. Daniels’ might have been.
re: #35 Jack Burton
I thought if you made more than a certain amount you couldn’t contribute to a 401k or IRA?
To have a 401(k) you have to have an employer that offers one. Then you can donate up to $18k tax deductible.
Anyone can have an IRA, but you cannot deduct contributions to a traditional IRA above a certain income. All contributions to a Roth IRA are not tax deductible, but the growth can be withdrawn in retirement tax-free so they’re a pretty sweet deal if you can manage that. However, there is an income limit on contributions to a Roth that are supposed to restrict their availability to folks in higher income brackets.
Of course, there’s the backdoor around that (post-tax contribution to a traditional that’s then rolled over to a Roth) that’s been around since about 2010.
re: #46 Ace Rothstein
He didn’t think retirement was possible? Is the Trump Org. broke?
yeah :-) i know
maybe he just gets a salary or something and ivanka inherits everything…
or he could just be lying
Krager turned me on to this Twitter account, where it takes Joel Osteen’s tweets and replaces the word “God” with “your dick.” This one is… well, it’s something else.
Your dick controls the universe. He knows how to suddenly change things. He can suddenly move people out of the way, sudd… https://t.co/KARI2YgYRi
— Joel Dongsteen (@JoelDongsteen) January 18, 2018
re: #59 teleskiguy
Krager turned me on to this Twitter account, where it takes Joel Osteen’s tweets and replaces the word “God” with “your dick.” This one is… well, it’s something else.
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re: #57 klys (maker of Silmarils)
To have a 401(k) you have to have an employer that offers one. Then you can donate up to $18k tax deductible.
Anyone can have an IRA, but you cannot deduct contributions to a traditional IRA above a certain income. All contributions to a Roth IRA are not tax deductible, but the growth can be withdrawn in retirement tax-free so they’re a pretty sweet deal if you can manage that. However, there is an income limit on contributions to a Roth that are supposed to restrict their availability to folks in higher income brackets.
Of course, there’s the backdoor around that (post-tax contribution to a traditional that’s then rolled over to a Roth) that’s been around since about 2010.
Do any of these instruments accept poultry as contributions? You know, for the doctors.
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
Heartbreaking for all those Haitians who really needed those jobs. Mia Love met with Trump after his racist sh*thole remarks. Looks like she wasted her time.
And what will she do? Still march in lockstep with all the other RepubliKKKlans behind President Shittler!
re: #64 Joe Bacon 🌹
And what will she do? Still march in lockstep with all the other RepubliKKKlans behind President Shittler!
I wonder if she’s in any danger of losing.
While I realize this will cause enormous problems for the citizens of the USA, a part of me is downright gleeful that this is going to happen. (Maybe. There’s still time to stop it.) Republicans control all 3 branches of your government. If it shuts down, it’s on them, and them alone. My hope, however faint, is that it will, once and for all, demonstrate how absolutely hopeless the GOP are at governing. They can’t even control their own president, who is a living, breathing demonstration of the cliche, The Emperor has no clothes. But of course, with the mass media being as hopeless as it is, there’s a real chance the GOP will be able to skate at least a little. I devoutly hope not. This appallingly pathetic bunch of incompetents, low life scum, and traitors has got to go!
re: #64 Joe Bacon 🌹
And what will she do? Still march in lockstep with all the other RepubliKKKlans behind President Shittler!
Mia Love represents Utahns. It’s remarkable that she hasn’t converted—to White.
re: #9 retired cynic
Nancy LeTourneau works some of the same ground: Russian “Cyber”.
Robert Mueller’s investigation seems to be pursuing three major areas related to Donald Trump and his campaign:
Obstruction of justice
Money laundering
Cyber coordination with the Russians
re: #67 Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
Stand by for another Perils of Pauline budget rescue.
re: #68 Decatur Deb
Mia Love represents Utahns. It’s remarkable that she hasn’t converted—to White.
She did the next best thing by going LDS.
And here’s the RepubliKKKlan National Committee plotting their latest strategy! pic.twitter.com/CvAwL4lxNW
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) January 18, 2018
re: #71 HappyWarrior
She did the next best thing by going LDS.
Did she really? Decent church music, but no Mississippi Mass Choir.
re: #73 Decatur Deb
Did she really? Decent church music, but no Mississippi Mass Choir.
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re: #60 HappyWarrior
That’s priceless.
I read that to my wife and she suggested I change our wireless network name to “mydick”
Then the neighbours can see if it is up or down …
re: #59 teleskiguy
Krager turned me on to this Twitter account, where it takes Joel Osteen’s tweets and replaces the word “God” with “your dick.” This one is… well, it’s something else.
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Can Joel Dongsteen tell us who stole $600,000 from J0el 0$teen’s Church Safe?
On Thursday, the NYT is not running any editorials in print. The ed board is devoting the page to letters from Trump supporters. Check it out https://t.co/feU41BwXNU
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 17, 2018
Stay tuned for the NYT Sunday edition which will not run any news, but instead feature finger painting masterpieces done by chimps. https://t.co/wllOxwGf21
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) January 18, 2018
Public service announcement from Swedish wingnut now living in Norway. Lisbeth Salander is on the loose in Sweden. Stay away!!
Can someone explain to me what on earth is going on in Sweden?
A 14 year old girl armed with a knife vandalized a police car and assaulted police officers, spitting on them etc.
This is out of control.— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 16, 2018
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
I read that to my wife and she suggested I change our wireless network name to “mydick”
Then the neighbours can see if it is up or down …
Like the grand Old Duke of York?
re: #65 plansbandc
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by this measure Fucking Moron was quite a while ago, but more recently we had Stable Genius day I and II, followed by the defenestration of Sloppy Steve. of course right now we are at about Shithole IX (i’ve lost count), which might actually soon wear out its welcome
re: #79 wheat-dogg
Totally misread that as Dick of York.
re: #67 Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
One of my best friends is a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management. When the gov’t shuts down, he can’t work. Fuckin’ aye it causes enormous problems and the fact that you’re gleeful that “non-essential” federal employees will go without getting paid for an undetermined amount of time, I think, is offensive.
Candy consolidation. How will it affect Starburst colors, and America’s political future? Stay tuned for a special CNN report.
Nestle is selling nearly $3 billion worth of its US candy brands — including Butterfinger, BabyRuth and Nerds — to Nutella maker Ferrero https://t.co/OUS6aTej2c pic.twitter.com/XckQlhfhog
— CNN (@CNN) January 18, 2018
[Starbursts are made by Wrigley’s, a subsidiary of the Mars Co., which is not consolidating. But just go with the joke, OK?]
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
Totally misread that as Dick of York.
I am sure Boy Scouts have thought the same thing while singing that song.
re: #83 wheat-dogg
Candy consolidation. How will it affect Starburst colors, and America’s political future? Stay tuned for a special CNN report.
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Upding for Joke Curation.
Regarding the story about the racist University of Alabama sorority girl, the name was quite jarring. Just one letter different from a recent Miss Alabama (Hayley Barber) , an entirely different person. In high school she founded an organization that got eye exams for thousands of children. Talking with my wife one day, it turns out that we each knew her but did not know that the other spouse did.
White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
The report, “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017,” published Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said extremists killed 34 people last year. Twenty of those victims — or 59 percent — were killed by right-wing extremists, a designation that includes white supremacists, members of the so-called “alt-right” and “alt-lite,” and members of the anti-government militia movement.
Of the 34 people killed, 18 were murdered by white supremacists, marking a 157 percent increase over the 7 people killed by white supremacists in 2016.
re: #86 BlueSpotinAL
Regarding the story about the racist University of Alabama sorority girl, the name was quite jarring. Just one letter different from a recent Miss Alabama, an entirely different person. In high school she founded an organization that got eye exams for thousands of children. Talking with my wife one day, it turns out that we each knew her but did not know that the other spouse did.
In defense of the wretched Crimson, the racist in question was out-of-state from New Jersey.
re: #87 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
The report, “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017,” published Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said extremists killed 34 people last year. Twenty of those victims — or 59 percent — were killed by right-wing extremists, a designation that includes white supremacists, members of the so-called “alt-right” and “alt-lite,” and members of the anti-government militia movement.
Of the 34 people killed, 18 were murdered by white supremacists, marking a 157 percent increase over the 7 people killed by white supremacists in 2016.
Do we know anything about what motivated the Stephen Paddock massacre? Could he have been impellled by some type of extremism? Or is it closer to Adam Lanza? Just another sociopath who killed courtesy of the NRA’s promotion of lethal weaponry for all.
re: #67 Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
While I realize this will cause enormous problems for the citizens of the USA, a part of me is downright gleeful that this is going to happen. (Maybe. There’s still time to stop it.) Republicans control all 3 branches of your government. If it shuts down, it’s on them, and them alone. My hope, however faint, is that it will, once and for all, demonstrate how absolutely hopeless the GOP are at governing. They can’t even control their own president, who is a living, breathing demonstration of the cliche, The Emperor has no clothes. But of course, with the mass media being as hopeless as it is, there’s a real chance the GOP will be able to skate at least a little. I devoutly hope not. This appallingly pathetic bunch of incompetents, low life scum, and traitors has got to go!
Republicans have shut down the government twice, deliberately, causing malicious damage and disruption to countless Americans. Both times, they have paid no penalty and borne no blame, because of a complicit media. I see no reason to believe that they will be held accountable this time either.
By myself, for myself #whatmattersmost pic.twitter.com/dumcePZr6D
— Seth Morrison (@sethmorrison1) January 18, 2018
How are Sarah Huckabee Sanders eyes at once too close together and too far apart? pic.twitter.com/jOCE3kFSfS
— Alec Sulkin (@thesulk) January 18, 2018
— Bonnie Burton (@bonniegrrl) January 18, 2018
re: #94 The Ghost of a Flea
…and that’s why a 130K payment went down.
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that some of the hard-line immigration policies President Trump advocated during the campaign were “uninformed,” that the United States will never construct a wall along its entire southern border and that Mexico will never pay for it, according to people familiar with the meeting.
he must be getting tired of the gig
The way things are going I’m dreading a long long shutdown that still requires me to work and not get paid.
I’ll sit back and see what happens when people can’t get their income tax refunds because the IRS is shut down…in about 6 weeks people on Supplimental Security Income will lose the Federal portion of their checks…VA facilities will have skeleton crews, food inspectors and air traffic controllers will also be reduced…and the Corporate Media will continue to blame the Democrats…
re: #88 Decatur Deb
In defense of the wretched Crimson, the racist in question was out-of-state from New Jersey.
From a mostly white township in NJ.
re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹
The way things are going I’m dreading a long long shutdown that still requires me to work and not get paid.
I’ll sit back and see what happens when people can’t get their income tax refunds because the IRS is shut down…in about 6 weeks people on Supplimental Security Income will lose the Federal portion of their checks…VA facilities will have skeleton crews, food inspectors and air traffic controllers will also be reduced…and the Corporate Media will continue to blame the Democrats…
I’m not looking forward to what they do with my Veterans Disability Compensation. I can’t seem to find if this is exempt or not. I’m also not looking forward to future medical appointments after the GOP guts the VA’s staff.
Well, reading about the shutdown the GOP attempted to perpetrate in 2013, the answer was yes: The VA cuts off disability compensation in the event of a shutdown. In addition, other branches of the government that help veterans (such as the Small Business Administration or the Department of Labor) also shut down their veterans programs.
Yet somehow the GOP is the party that “supports the troops.”
I went through that crap when I was on active duty under Reagan, but at least at sea they still fed us. As a disabled vet now, it does look like if this goes through I’m truly screwed. I have some savings, and as my custom my electric, gas, and water are paid a couple months ahead, but the savings I have wouldn’t last very long.
Air quality today is the shitz, but I have to go out anyway to fetch a package from the campus post office. If I’m not back by tomorrow, tell my family I loved them.
Srsly, AQI today is around 400. I really miss my old location where the AQIs were rarely above 100.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study team’s latest report confirms that the $15 minimum wage has been an incredible success for our local economy. Workers have more money in their pockets and business is booming. Let’s continue to #FightFor15 nationwide. https://t.co/u7aOCkynhq
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 17, 2018
What program are you using to translate from Russian? Because it’s not doing a good job.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 18, 2018
Flashback:
#FakeNewsAwardshttps://t.co/aRoeYGh8co
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 18, 2018
re: #102 wheat-dogg
This came across my Twitter. You history buffs will enjoy it. The music though I found a little annoying, like watching Pirates of the Caribbean but without any dramatic context.
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oh i love these moving picture historical maps so much!
yes i am definitely a history nerd!
re: #106 Ace-o-aces
OOO he burned you …
I’m Australian dick jockey
— jamie forbes🇦🇺 (@jforbes2410) January 18, 2018
And I’m the Queen of England.
Wow there is some crazy on that guy’s semi-intelligible feed, everything from Katy Perry being part of the “deep state” to being a giant fan of Alex Jones.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹
Wow there is some crazy on that guy’s semi-intelligible feed, everything from Katy Perry being part of the “deep state” to being a giant fan of Alex Jones.
He is a wellspring of unintentional comedy.
re: #111 Ace-o-aces
He is a wellspring of unintentional comedy.
Or insanity, take your pick.
I’m going to head off to bed. I know calling my senators is useless since they have me on call block or something, and my representative says he only represents Republicans.
The best I could do is send out a local E-mail blast to folks around pointing out if a shutdown does occur it’s all on the GOP (they don’t need Democratic votes to pass bills) and disabled vets will be cut off. We’ll have to see where that goes.
*Trump murders 310 million people, approval drops to 0.001%*
NYT: We’re turning the whole A section over to 6 Trump supporters for a week.— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) January 17, 2018
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
OOO he burned you …
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And I’m the Queen of England.
Perhaps this guy
linkedin.com
Utah GOP official says giving women the right to vote was a ‘grave mistake’ https://t.co/QBDDrFcr0B pic.twitter.com/Aq3hMxGpFY
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) January 18, 2018
“Both parties are the same!” https://t.co/m9MCY8kPCC
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #115 Kragar
The GOP: ruling from the 19th century.
re: #115 Kragar
Ann Coulter says the same thing. I think it’s a plank in their platform.
Have we got a show for you. It is Ty Cobb’s belief the special counsel will interview Mr. Trump. The parameters of that interview are still being discussed. All this and more on @TakeoutPodcast with @MajorCBS - full episode drops Friday pic.twitter.com/NulswiMNMP
— Katiana Krawchenko (@kkrawchenko) January 18, 2018
We DO have a show for you. WH lawyer Ty Cobb for 45 minutes. No holes barred. Everything I could think of asked and answered. Subscribe @ApplePodcasts @Spotify @GooglePlay @Stitcher https://t.co/JgxVo19CEi
— Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) January 18, 2018
“Holds” https://t.co/wLGiRdekhq
— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) January 18, 2018
throwback to the past pic.twitter.com/mFva4l5O3g
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) January 18, 2018
re: #14 Kragar
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Looks like Austalia, Japan, Canada, and others are working to keep TPP alive—just without us/US.
re: #119 Single-handed sailor
That drummer looks like Sheila E.
re: #46 Ace Rothstein
He didn’t think retirement was possible? Is the Trump Org. broke?
The entire quote read like an Onion article.
Ah, another day. Hopefully I won’t feel muddy and overwhelmed like I did yesterday. Ever get that overwhelmed feeling, even though there isn’t anything all that important or pressing going on?
re: #26 teleskiguy
That is when you lose roads, the water has to go somewhere, and it is the path of least resistance.
Oh, wait for Trump to go apeshit during every episode.
Fire and Fury: Trump exposé to become television series https://t.co/zVtMV0mqA7
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 18, 2018
So the GOP are supposed to vote on their bill today. My prediction: The “Freedom” Caucus will raise a stink and break ranks, but enough vulnerable Dems will likewise break from the DNC ranks to pass the bill on a hair thin margin. GOP leadership will take credit for have averting a shutdown despite the efforts of the DNC, the Dems who broke ranks will get chewed out for bailing out the GOP, and the media will treat the “crisis” as resolved and move on to the latest fluff piece about Trump voters.
re: #86 BlueSpotinAL
Regarding the story about the racist University of Alabama sorority girl, the name was quite jarring. Just one letter different from a recent Miss Alabama (Hayley Barber) , an entirely different person. In high school she founded an organization that got eye exams for thousands of children. Talking with my wife one day, it turns out that we each knew her but did not know that the other spouse did.
Not to be confused with that sack o’crap Haley Barbour, who has me fighting waves of nausea as I envision the swimsuit competition.
Morning all! Threadlishous!
Magnificent. Absolutely delighted that the Bayeux Tapestry is on it’s way to be displayed in the U.K. We’ve already received it in freight and taken some pictures of the remarkable workmanship. Beautiful craftsmanship. #BayeuxTapestry pic.twitter.com/Fu0yxIydVR
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) January 17, 2018
re: #128 wheat-dogg
Oh, wait for Trump to go apeshit during every episode.
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Nothing more tasty than dicing up some cold fried chicken and adding some mayo, mash with a fork, and serve on a bun. I can’t wait for lunch.
re: #119 Single-handed sailor
Don’t fall asleep!
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I saw Edgar and his band two years ago, opening for Eric Burdon. It’s great to see him moving around the stage - I opened shows for him in the early 80s, and at that time he used a mixer and headphones on stage as his monitor so he was kind of nailed down in one spot. (I know that his albinoism renders him nearly blind, but it’s cool that wireless technology allows him to move around.)
And Sheila E is, I gotta say, still drop-dead gorgeous. And she can rock the hell out of a groove.
Fuck the NRA.
The FBI is investigating whether Alexander Torshin, a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin, illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Trump win the presidency. https://t.co/yI9mkjC6dS
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 18, 2018
re: #137 makeitstop
There are so many strings in the various Russia investigations. Dying for Mueller to tie a big bow on all of them and bring them together. This can’t end well for Republicans.
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
What is seen can never be unseen….
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
Gosh, I wonder what Hucky Boo Boo will do today when the GOP CR fails?
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re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
Gosh, I wonder what Hucky Boo Boo will do today when the GOP CR fails?
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Dude. Hide that.
Why do you support predatory Payday Lenders Roger? Smart people know that anything @MickMulvaneyOMB is for will hurt consumers. This is strictly partisan and is another form of #Payback for your #donors. These Regs protect the common man Roger. #TX25 #Anyonebutroger
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 18, 2018
Sadly, things like this convince me that folks like Bundy will never get their comeuppance, because the “people” are intent on making him a goddamn folk hero. Jury nullification will be the norm with these assholes for all time it seems:
Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon
A reminder that “real America” will remain forever alien to me. And that may be exactly the point.
re: #135 makeitstop
I saw Edgar and his band two years ago, opening for Eric Burdon. It’s great to see him moving around the stage - I opened shows for him in the early 80s, and at that time he used a mixer and headphones on stage as his monitor so he was kind of nailed down in one spot. (I know that his albinoism renders him nearly blind, but it’s cool that wireless technology allows him to move around.)
And Sheila E is, I gotta say, still drop-dead gorgeous. And she can rock the hell out of a groove.
Decent version of Frankenstein…but I miss the slick lead as done back in the day when I first saw Edgar’s White Trash. One time it was Ronnie Montrose, another time Rick Derringer.
re: #128 wheat-dogg
Oh, wait for Trump to go apeshit during every episode.
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I hope they cast Alec Baldwin.
The shutdown is now on since His Ass-Holeyness now opposes the part of the CR that extends CHIP…throwing another monkey wrench in the works…
On Thursday morning, President Trump torched that strategy with a single tweet, indicating that CHIP should not be attached to the short-term spending bill at all.
The declaration upends 11th-hour negotiations on Capitol Hill that were already teetering on the edge of collapse due both to Democratic opposition and internal Republican divisions.
re: #133 jeffreyw
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Looks like a fuzzy little interloper coming to clean up some of that bird seed. Gonna need more!
re: #155 Joe Bacon 🌹
The shutdown is now on since His Ass-Holeyness now opposes the part of the CR that extends CHIP…throwing another monkey wrench in the works…
GOP: “We’re gonna be so clever by folding CHIP money into this bill, thus putting the DNC in a bind by forcing them to vote against it to spite us!”
Trump: “Yeah, I don’t feel that that money should be in the bill, but part of a long-term solution.”
GOP: “FFFFFFFFFF…..”
re: #156 ObserverArt
We have plenty. I have a pic somewhere with 11 squirrels capering around a broadcast feeder.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
So Trump shot them in the foot again. Heh.
It’s obvious Trump has wanted the shutdown all along. Knowing him he’s going to keep the government shut down until he forces as many Federal employees to quit as he can. Which was Newt Gingrich’s wet dream during the 1995-96 shutdown.
re: #153 ObserverArt
Decent version of Frankenstein…but I miss the slick lead as done back in the day when I first saw Edgar’s White Trash. One time it was Ronnie Montrose, another time Rick Derringer.
I never saw Derringer with Edgar, but did see him with Johnny. Then when Rick left I saw Neil Geraldo (Benatar’s husband and another monster player) in Johnny’s band.
I saw Edgar with this band - Doug Rappaport is a shit-hot player. He hits just enough of Derringer’s solo in this one to make it identifiable, but then goes off. I really enjoyed watching Doug, he loves his work
re: #161 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s obvious Trump has wanted the shutdown all along. Knowing him he’s going to keep the government shut down until he forces as many Federal employees to quit as he can. Which was Newt Gingrich’s wet dream during the 1995-96 shutdown.
Seems that way.
re: #161 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s obvious Trump has wanted the shutdown all along. Knowing him he’s going to keep the government shut down until he forces as many Federal employees to quit as he can. Which was Newt Gingrich’s wet dream during the 1995-96 shutdown.
Arguably a short-term pain for a long-term gain. IMHO it’ll take real suffering to compel your apathetic masses to rise up against the pluto-christo-trumpocrats.
I think 2018 is going to be a good year for Dems. I don’t know if we retake both Houses but we’ll lay the foundation for a 2020 return.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I think 2018 is going to be a good year for Dems. I don’t know if we retake both Houses but we’ll lay the foundation for a 2020 return.
I think we’ll retake the House. If we retake the Senate, Republicans will be shitting bricks and throwing them at Democrats for the next two years, because otherwise they’ll get crushed in the Senate in 2020.
re: #168 Belafon
I think we’ll retake the House. If we retake the Senate, Republicans will be shitting bricks and throwing them at Democrats for the next two years, because otherwise they’ll get crushed in the Senate in 2020.
If they aren’t running for the (Moscow) hills.
It would be a really sweet side effect to the investigation of Trump if Mueller could take down the NRA. It looks like they’ve got some explaining to do.
Mueller is now investigating whether Russia funneled money to the Trump campaign through the NRA, according to a new report https://t.co/2pJDSLBVOx
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 18, 2018
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I think 2018 is going to be a good year for Dems. I don’t know if we retake both Houses but we’ll lay the foundation for a 2020 return.
I’m hoping but I expect Republicans to pull every dirty trick to keep the vote down—more voter ID, eliminating early voting, cutting the number of machines in Democratic wards, KKKobach’s KKKrosscheck, restricting voter registration and removing the voter trails from hacked machines…
Trump on Twitter so far today:
— Contradicted his Chief of Staff on immigration
— Contradicted White House staff on whether Pennsylvania trip is a campaign visit
— Contradicted Congressional Republicans on spending plan
It’s 9am Eastern Time.— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) January 18, 2018
re: #91 Renaissance_Man
Republicans have shut down the government twice, deliberately, causing malicious damage and disruption to countless Americans. Both times, they have paid no penalty and borne no blame, because of a complicit media. I see no reason to believe that they will be held accountable this time either.
The Boston Globe has an article up that it is the Dems fault if there is a Gov shutdown. I read it and did not get - at all - what they were talking about. It was really weird.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
Head. It’s head, not jockey. @aceoaces
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 18, 2018
re: #174 MsJ
The Boston Globe has an article up that it is the Dems fault if there is a Gov shutdown. I read it and did not get - at all - what they were talking about. It was really weird.
No.
It’s par for the course.
The Globe is just another cog in the Republican Disinformation Machine.
Conservatives still don’t get it. George Will has an oped today about liberals and nostalgia. And you know, may well be but this is a man whose ideology does nothing but romanticize the 50’s and the Reagan years and we got bigger fish to fry than that.
So good of you to KKKonfess that you’re a Putinbot. Blocked!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) January 18, 2018
re: #177 HappyWarrior
Conservatives still don’t get it. George Will has an oped today about liberals and nostalgia. And you know, may well be but this is a man whose ideology does nothing but romanticize the 50’s and the Reagan years and we got bigger fish to fry than that.
I’ll NEVER forget how George Will got a hold of Carter’s debate briefing book and gave it to the Reagan campaign. And did he suffer any consequences in doing that?
Nope. Our Corporate Disinformation Machine let him continue to spread the Gospel of Ayn Rand unchecked!
re: #180 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’ll NEVER forget how George Will got a hold of Carter’s debate briefing book and gave it to the Reagan campaign. And did he suffer any consequences in doing that?
Nope. Our Corporate Disinformation Machine let him continue to spread the Gospel of Ayn Rand unchecked!
Yeah Will may hate Trump but he’s still a dick.
re: #176 Joe Bacon 🌹
No.
It’s par for the course.
The Globe is just another cog in the Republican Disinformation Machine.
Now that’s just silly.
I’m sitting here looking at a recent Sunday front page in my recycling bin, which is dominated by a long (and good) article about how good Obama is looking in retrospect.
Even their token conservative columnist, Jeff Jacoby, is pretty solidly anti-Trump, roughly along Jennifer Rubin lines.
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m hoping but I expect Republicans to pull every dirty trick to keep the vote down—more voter ID, eliminating early voting, cutting the number of machines in Democratic wards, KKKobach’s KKKrosscheck, restricting voter registration and removing the voter trails from hacked machines…
Probably: but i’m wondering if that’s going to be enough to help much in (what one fervently hopes is) a “blue wave” election year. For one thing, Democratic (anti-Republican, anti-Trump) voters - who are the majority, after all - are, and have been, quite motivated to get off their asses and actually vote. For another, GOP vote-suppression efforts have been exposed and challenged in several states: their ID/registrations/polling-place shenanigans have come under judicial scrutiny in many locations: and the courts have (AFAICT) generally come down on the voters’ side. So far, anyway. If I were in charge of election strategy for the DNC, I’d make sure that GOTV efforts have a pretty high priority: and challenging voting-rights restrictions (preferably tagged with a “Why don’t Republicans want you to vote?” line) a major part of it.
Of course, the “motivation factor” works both ways: Republicans are going to be desperate to hang on to power (especially in statehouses) the 2018 midterms (IMO) are going to be an especially nasty affair.
re: #163 makeitstop
I never saw Derringer with Edgar, but did see him with Johnny. Then when Rick left I saw Neil Geraldo (Benatar’s husband and another monster player) in Johnny’s band.
I saw Edgar with this band - Doug Rappaport is a shit-hot player. He hits just enough of Derringer’s solo in this one to make it identifiable, but then goes off. I really enjoyed watching Doug, he loves his work
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He’s pretty good.
Say, that looks like the Cheap Tricksters equipment set up behind them. If so that would be a good show…kinda like a stab from the past.
What would be considered a “win” in 2018?
Taking a few random seats?
Taking the House?
Taking the House and Senate?
Asking for a friend.
re: #168 Belafon
I think we’ll retake the House. If we retake the Senate, Republicans will be shitting bricks and throwing them at Democrats for the next two years, because otherwise they’ll get crushed in the Senate in 2020.
Heard some speculation that Trump thinks if the Dems take the house, he will be a shoe-in for President in 2020.
Gotta stop that kind of thinking.
Also, I understand the New York Times is gonna do similar comment page tomorrow as they did today. Difference is it will be Trump supporters disappointed they voted for him.
I guess Clinton voters just plain do not count.
Gotta change that too.
re: #186 ObserverArt
If the Democrats take the house, they will impeach Trump.
re: #186 ObserverArt
Heard some speculation that Trump thinks if the Dems take the house, he will be a shoe-in for President in 2020.
Gotta stop that kind of thinking.
Also, I understand the New York Times is gonna do similar comment page tomorrow as they did today. Difference is it will be Trump supporters disappointed they voted for him.
I guess Clinton voters just plain do not count.
Gotta change that too.
The problem is how to change that. Especially with the last one, because we’ve seen how they, and other media outlets, tend to react to left-wing critique, compared to right-wing outrage. They kowtow to the latter and promise more ‘balanced’ reportage, and the turn around and act offended and persecuted at the former. No matter the volume of either.
Fixing the entire thing is an institutional undertaking.
re: #175 MsJ
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Imma thinking this is a slur on a group, if you get my drift. Key word is riding. As in, well riding. If you get my drift.
I worked around a ton of Aussies and New Zealanders in racing. They don’t have a lot of filters.
re: #186 ObserverArt
Heard some speculation that Trump thinks if the Dems take the house, he will be a shoe-in for President in 2020.
Gotta stop that kind of thinking.
Also, I understand the New York Times is gonna do similar comment page tomorrow as they did today. Difference is it will be Trump supporters disappointed they voted for him.
I guess Clinton voters just plain do not count.
Gotta change that too.
BBD brought up that Full Frontal talked with some blur collar voters who aren’t just white guys. I haven’t seen the clip yet but I appreciate it given that I think those voters are even ignored by many Democrats and left leaning politicians like Sanders and Biden. There’s a reason why PoC working class voters embrace the Democratic Party as much as white working class especially men disdain it. And I’ve never gotten a concrete answer from those like Sanders or Biden as to why. I like Biden a lot but he seems naive about prejudice in the WWC community. Sanders is hopeless on that.
re: #82 teleskiguy
One of my best friends is a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management. When the gov’t shuts down, he can’t work. Fuckin’ aye it causes enormous problems and the fact that you’re gleeful that “non-essential” federal employees will go without getting paid for an undetermined amount of time, I think, is offensive.
Not only will we not get paid for an unknown period of time, we may not get paid at all. If congress doesn’t authorize a bill for back-payment, we are screwed.
re: #186 ObserverArt
Also, I understand the New York Times is gonna do similar comment page tomorrow as they did today. Difference is it will be Trump supporters disappointed they voted for him.
I guess Clinton voters just plain do not count.
Gotta change that too.
Maybe Clinton supporters should all pretend to be disaffected Trump voters. Then the media would cover us.
#TravisCountyTX Carolina Wren on the bark butter. pic.twitter.com/iFAZ2KK6nQ
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 18, 2018
re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Not only will we not get paid for an unknown period of time, we may not get paid at all. If congress doesn’t authorize a bill for back-payment, we are screwed.
And from what I’m hearing according to NARFE that is what the FreeDUMB KKKauKKKus wants to do whenever a CR is passed…
re: #186 ObserverArt
Heard some speculation that Trump thinks if the Dems take the house, he will be a shoe-in for President in 2020.
Gotta stop that kind of thinking.
Also, I understand the New York Times is gonna do similar comment page tomorrow as they did today. Difference is it will be Trump supporters disappointed they voted for him.
I guess Clinton voters just plain do not count.
Gotta change that too.
That only works if the president is popular.
re: #187 Shropshire Slasher
If the Democrats take the house, they will impeach Trump.
1. They already have been trying to file impeachment.
2. If the don’t control both houses, not much is going to happen on that front.
3. They will be able to launch real investigations.
4. Democrats filed impeachment articles on Nixon for a couple of years before the actual proceedings got under way.
re: #190 HappyWarrior
BBD brought up that Full Frontal talked with some blur collar voters who aren’t just white guys. I haven’t seen the clip yet but I appreciate it given that I think those voters are even ignored by many Democrats and left leaning politicians like Sanders and Biden. There’s a reason why PoC working class voters embrace the Democratic Party as much as white working class especially men disdain it. And I’ve never gotten a concrete answer from those like Sanders or Biden as to why. I like Biden a lot but he seems naive about prejudice in the WWC community. Sanders is hopeless on that.
I like Joe too, but he is past time.
As a 63 year old, I think I have the right to say this.
Old White Dudes. Old Thinking.
Time for Younger People…color, orientation, gender not important. Spirit. Heart. Brains. Those are more important than ever.
re: #194 Joe Bacon 🌹
And from what I’m hearing according to NARFE that is what the FreeDUMB KKKauKKKus wants to do whenever a CR is passed…
Of course. We’re just free-loaders and leeches on the backs of hard working red-staters.
re: #82 teleskiguy
One of my best friends is a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management. When the gov’t shuts down, he can’t work. Fuckin’ aye it causes enormous problems and the fact that you’re gleeful that “non-essential” federal employees will go without getting paid for an undetermined amount of time, I think, is offensive.
Thanks for posting that! Appreciated!
re: #188 Citizen K
The problem is how to change that. Especially with the last one, because we’ve seen how they, and other media outlets, tend to react to left-wing critique, compared to right-wing outrage. They kowtow to the latter and promise more ‘balanced’ reportage, and the turn around and act offended and persecuted at the former. No matter the volume of either.
Fixing the entire thing is an institutional undertaking.
We need to move from critiques to Corey Booker-style outrage. Moron-Americans mistake the Conservative’s propaganda-based, misplaced-outrage for strength, and think intelligent responses are weakness.
re: #195 Belafon
That only works if the president is popular.
This is Trump we are talking about. He thinks he is wildly popular. Any other thinking is from fake news.
re: #197 ObserverArt
I like Joe too, but he is past time.
As a 63 year old, I think I have the right to say this.
Old White Dudes. Old Thinking.
Time for Younger People…color, orientation, gender not important. Spirit. Heart. Brains. Those are more important than ever.
Yep. We’ve got a lot of fresh voices. I’m really liking Kamala. I like Booker too.
re: #200 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
We need to move from critiques to Corey Booker-style outrage. Moron-Americans mistake the Conservative’s propaganda-based, misplaced-outrage for strength, and think intelligent responses are weakness.
Wasn’t a coincidence that I saw far left bs pushed on Booker. Thankfully someone corrected the record and most calmed down. Cory has my ear since he’s a great voice on CJ reform.
re: #200 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
We need to move from critiques to Corey Booker-style outrage. Moron-Americans mistake the Conservative’s propaganda-based, misplaced-outrage for strength, and think intelligent responses are weakness.
I mean, it’s not even just that the Moron-Americans (as you put it) mistake outrage for strength. The so-called ‘liberal media’ outlets do too, combined with the slavish devotion to ‘both sides same thing’ and ‘IOKIYAR’ platitudes. If it’s mildly critical, they respond with outrage at being challenged. If it’s pointed outrage, they dismiss you outright as being too ‘emotional’ and clearly not worth listening to, unlike those fine folks in the rural areas who they keep courting to and asking their damnable opinions on ad nauseam.
It’s a symptom of an entire huge crisis, where news continues to treat the GOP as default for governance, and treat them as the only legitimate game in town, and Dems have to prove themselves in triplicate to ever even get a mic.
re: #184 ObserverArt
He’s pretty good.
Say, that looks like the Cheap Tricksters equipment set up behind them. If so that would be a good show…kinda like a stab from the past.
Yep, can’t miss Neilsen’s rig. Still probably my favorite band ever, outside of those guys from England.
re: #147 Unshaken Defiance
I recognize Spice!
re: #205 makeitstop
Yep, can’t miss Neilsen’s rig. Still probably my favorite band ever, outside of those guys from England.
My 13 yo has Cheap Trick greatest hits on constantly in our car these days (my CD).
re: #208 Barefoot Grin
My 13 yo has Cheap Trick greatest hits on constantly in our car these days (my CD).
My boy might recognize Cheap Trick (especially Surrender or Dream Police) but he’s more inclined to putting in my Replacements mix or My Chemical Romance’s last album.
re: #203 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t a coincidence that I saw far left bs pushed on Booker. Thankfully someone corrected the record and most calmed down. Cory has my ear since he’s a great voice on CJ reform.
Did Booker say something about Russian election meddling? That usually gets the far left fired up because America is bad, too, etc.
re: #82 teleskiguy
One of my best friends is a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management. When the gov’t shuts down, he can’t work. Fuckin’ aye it causes enormous problems and the fact that you’re gleeful that “non-essential” federal employees will go without getting paid for an undetermined amount of time, I think, is offensive.
Yeah, me, too. I work for the feds in DC and a shutdown means I don’t get paid (on schedule anyway).
re: #211 Sir John Barron
Did Booker say something about Russian election meddling? That usually gets the far left fired up because America is bad, too, etc.
No it was Booker’s Nielsen shutdown which raised the myth again that he’s a tool of Big Pharma.
Trump’s hair loss drug was recently linked to irreversible erectile dysfunction and depression https://t.co/yp7GHOMrX6 pic.twitter.com/zNgM4BWS0m
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 18, 2018
re: #216 Ace Rothstein
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re: #155 Joe Bacon 🌹
You and I are fucked.
re: #215 HappyWarrior
My youngest brother has gone Deadhead.
Other jam bands too or just Deadhead, the poor thing? Er, I mean, well, you know… < whistles innocently >
re: #208 Barefoot Grin
My 13 yo has Cheap Trick greatest hits on constantly in our car these days (my CD).
Raisin’ ‘em right, you are. :)
re: #220 William Lewis
Other jam bands too or just Deadhead, the poor thing? Er, I mean, well, you know… < whistles innocently >
Ha not sure.
re: #193 Dave In Austin
Do you have a recipe for bark butter, or is it something you can purchase down there?
re: #216 Ace Rothstein
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re: #213 Sir John Barron
Yeah, me, too. I work for the feds in DC and a shutdown means I don’t get paid (on schedule anyway).
The thing that was annoying during the 2013 shutdown was how wingnuts willingly butchered the definition of “non essential.”
re: #216 Ace Rothstein
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re: #214 HappyWarrior
No it was Booker’s Nielsen shutdown which raised the myth again that he’s a tool of Big Pharma.
Yeah and Hillary made a speech to Goldman Sachs so both sides, etc.
/
re: #228 Sir John Barron
Yeah and Hillary made a speech to Goldman Sachs so both sides, etc.
/
Yeah. Sigh. Booker has rubbed me the wrong way before fwiw but he’d be a good president.
re: #220 William Lewis
Other jam bands too or just Deadhead, the poor thing? Er, I mean, well, you know… < whistles innocently >
As someone who grew up in that era, I have to admit that I just never got it. I have friends who saw them literally hundreds of times. Just way too laid-back for my tastes.
re: #230 makeitstop
As someone who grew up in that era, I have to admit that I just never got it. I have friends who saw them literally hundreds of times. Just way too laid-back for my tastes.
You need to be on LSD to really appreciate their music.
re: #226 HappyWarrior
The thing that was annoying during the 2013 shutdown was how wingnuts willingly butchered the definition of “non essential.”
Well, I’ll admit I’m not exactly an essential employee, I don’t work on the frontline or service external customers (I do analysis stuff for higher ups). And I could probably go a month without a paycheck, but it wouldn’t be fun. So yeah a shutdown puts a burden on people.
re: #230 makeitstop
As someone who grew up in that era, I have to admit that I just never got it. I have friends who saw them literally hundreds of times. Just way too laid-back for my tastes.
I’ve liked what I have heard but I’m more into fast paced stuff too.
re: #210 William Lewis
My boy might recognize Cheap Trick (especially Surrender or Dream Police) but he’s more inclined to putting in my Replacements mix or My Chemical Romance’s last album.
Ha! I don’t have any My Chemical Romance, but the 13 has figured out the melody line to “I Will Dare” on guitar (he’s just starting out these last couple of months).
re: #231 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You need to be on LSD to really appreciate their music.
I even tried that! Folkies with amps. That’s all I ever got out of it. :)
re: #232 Sir John Barron
Well, I’ll admit I’m not exactly an essential employee, I don’t work on the frontline or service external customers (I do analysis stuff for higher ups). And I could probably go a month without a paycheck, but it wouldn’t be fun. So yeah a shutdown puts a burden on people.
Right, that’s my point. They don’t care about the burdens shutdowns cause.
re: #235 makeitstop
I even tried that! Folkies with amps. That’s all I ever got out of it. :)
It was the Mickey Hart drum solos that brought me to the shows. Well, that and the inexpensive acid. That drum solo and light-show during a thunderstorm at Soldier Field was amazing.
re: #237 HappyWarrior
Okay so what is this tidepod thing?
I do my laundry with them, other people put them in their mouths.
re: #210 William Lewis
My boy might recognize Cheap Trick (especially Surrender or Dream Police) but he’s more inclined to putting in my Replacements mix or My Chemical Romance’s last album.
If you don’t have it, get the very first album. A dark American masterpiece.
That and the first Ramones were in heavy rotation for about a year in my bedroom.
re: #236 HappyWarrior
Right, that’s my point. They don’t care about the burdens shutdowns cause.
People in my office worry that they won’t pay us for the time lost in the next shutdown (they did end up paying us later for the time lost in the 2013 shutdown). I’m still optimistic they would ultimately reimburse us but you never know. And of course a shutdown is just a waste all the way around whether they pay us eventually or not.
CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
House Rules Committee has already barred amendments to the GOP CR, which includes a 6-year CHIP reauthorization.
Trump now wants CHIP - health insurance for 9 million children - to wait.#Leverage https://t.co/MjPHhJx2iS— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 18, 2018
It would be so great if Trump could have these brain farts in private and then get corrected before it goes public. Shit’s embarrassing and dangerous.
re: #240 makeitstop
If you don’t have it, get the very first album. A dark American masterpiece.
That and the first Ramones were in heavy rotation for about a year in my bedroom.
The first album is all I really need, though I like their other stuff. But, my god. “Ballad of TV Violence,” etc.
re: #238 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It was the Mickey Hart drum solos that brought me to the shows. Well, that and the inexpensive acid. That drum solo and light-show during a thunderstorm at Soldier Field was amazing.
I’ll cop to liking Mickey. He always seemed interested in pushing the envelope.
re: #242 Barefoot Grin
CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!
— Donald J. Trump
Budgets, too, but you do you.
re: #244 makeitstop
I’ll cop to liking Mickey. He always seemed interested in pushing the envelope.
He’s written several books, and recorded tribal drums from around the world too. Impressive guy.
re: #239 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I do my laundry with them, other people put them in their mouths.
Kids these days.
re: #231 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You need to be on LSD to really appreciate their music.
Honestly, that never even helped as far as I was concerned. I liked the well structured songs they would do like Casey Jones, Uncle John’s Band, Friend of the Devil, Sugar Magnolia, Truckin’, Touch of Grey, etc. but out of the studio & in concert? I found myself bored. Not as bad as the Phish concert my ex took us to at Alpine Valley but still…
re: #209 The Vicious Babushka
I understand what he is try to say and do. It does not work.
He’s trying to outrage with the headline and then work his way through the historical past when some wanted Jews banned and how those reasons are very much the same crap Trump and Company spew today.
Then he waits until the end to say, hey, the Jewish Americans worked out very well, why would not others from other countries.
This is what happens when you elect someone whose only idea of the job comes from TV and his ego.
re: #247 HappyWarrior
More adults have died from eating laundry pods than kids https://t.co/eyhz0u0JNc
— NBC News Health (@NBCNewsHealth) June 16, 2017
re: #249 ObserverArt
I understand what he is try to say and do. It does not work.
He’s trying to outrage with the headline and then work his way through the historical past when some wanted Jews banned and how those reasons are very much the same crap Trump and Company spew today.
Then he waits until the end to say, hey, the Jewish Americans worked out very well, why would not others from other countries.
It would have worked better without the Red great uncle stuff.
re: #251 CongoJack
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re: #234 Barefoot Grin
Ha! I don’t have any My Chemical Romance, but the 13 has figured out the melody line to “I Will Dare” on guitar (he’s just starting out these last couple of months).
Heh. That’s a good one. “Unsatisfied” might be one he’d like to try too.
re: #255 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Those look tastier than the Tide pods.
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Nah that looks like toothpaste.
re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter
As Happy Warrior pointed out, Stephens was being totally supportive of immigration from Haiti and Africa and actually attacking the Trump attitude.
Yeah it’s actually not that bad a piece though I think Stephens loses his effectiveness ranting about his communist great uncle. The guy is a dingus aside from this but this was satirical.
re: #256 William Lewis
Heh. That’s a good one. “Unsatisfied” might be one he’d like to try too.
Love that one. Whenever I think he might be going too dark because he’s listening to my old CDs I remember that he also spends a fair amount of time listening to “Hamilton.”
re: #259 Colère Tueur de Lapin
He’s laying out an argument why banning Jew would have been bad.
Yep. And how the same attacks on Jews are used on Hispanics, Africans, & those from the Carribean.
Well, here’s a surprise. Someone must have pulled Nunes aside and threatened to kick his treasonous ass.
The House Intelligence Committee will release the transcript of its interview with Glenn Simpson, the head of Fusion GPS, The Daily Beast has learned.
The transcript could be released as soon as today. https://t.co/YVZ8wtgfdo— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2018
I am both happy about and dreading another 300-page reading assignment…
This read should be interesting though… https://t.co/Eu1MO2KVKZ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 18, 2018
re: #240 makeitstop
If you don’t have it, get the very first album. A dark American masterpiece.
That and the first Ramones were in heavy rotation for about a year in my bedroom.
Oh, I get Cheap Trick but being up in Northern WI I was more influenced by Minneapolis than Rockford so it wasn’t till Budokan that I heard of them & then fell for Heaven Tonight. But growing up it was The Clash, The Who & Husker Du that kept me something close to sane with huge helpings of The Ramones, Patti Smith Group & the A side of “Boston”.
re: #263 makeitstop
I’ll believe it when they release every page, and I mean EVERY SINGLE PAGE of it.
re: #261 Barefoot Grin
Love that one. Whenever I think he might be going too dark because he’s listening to my old CDs I remember that he also spends a fair amount of time listening to “Hamilton.”
Dark music lets it out into the light of day and makes it easier, in the end, to deal with.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
He is doing well! 2 months 25 days old, over 13 lbs, loudest poops I’ve ever heard and he actually sleeping 5 hours straight a night. He is giggling and smiling constantly (only ever fussy if he is waiting for a bottle or boob). I’ll have to get a more recent picture show him off.
All in all parenting isn’t too hard when the little bugger is cute and happy the whole time. Teething starts soon so I am sure I am in for a rude awakening when that starts.
re: #235 makeitstop
I even tried that! Folkies with amps. That’s all I ever got out of it. :)
Folkies with amps on LSD that get three minutes into a song and get lost as to where they are but still remember the basic chords and arrangement then spend the next twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get everyone back onto the main progression so they can end the damn song.
: )
re: #240 makeitstop
If you don’t have it, get the very first album. A dark American masterpiece.
That and the first Ramones were in heavy rotation for about a year in my bedroom.
The first Cheap Trick is still in my rotation. It’s in my car right now. I love that album for the pure raw rocking it is.
re: #260 HappyWarrior
Yeah it’s actually not that bad a piece though I think Stephens loses his effectiveness ranting about his communist great uncle. The guy is a dingus aside from this but this was satirical.
I agree: not very well written, IMO: but the basic thesis is sound - xenophobic (sorry, “nationalistic”!) arguments from a hundred ago about how “all Jews” are ghetto-minded criminal misfits who shouldn’t be allowed into the US are the same ones Trump and his creatures spout off nowadays about “immigrants” in general. And have about the same basis in reality.
Though yeah, tossing in the stuff about his old Commie uncle didn’t add much: I noticed some of the NYT commenters (who were generally sympathetic) bringing it up as a negative….
re: #266 William Lewis
Dark music lets it out into the light of day and makes it easier, in the end, to deal with.
Well said. Your list dovetails well with mine—started the “normal” way, though from Beatles and Stones to Who and on back home to explore my brother’s record collection (he is eight years older than I am). Friends introduced me to Minneapolis (one went to St. Johns up there). I took a detour through Athens, but to be honest, I never really made it to Seattle in a big way.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
It would have worked better without the Red great uncle stuff.
Or the headline. He could have done something like “America wanted to ban the Jews too” or “Look where banning the Jews got us”
re: #271 Jay C
I agree: not very well written, IMO: but the basic thesis is sound -
xenophobic(sorry, “nationalistic”!) arguments from a hundred ago about how “all Jews” are ghetto-minded criminal misfits who shouldn’t be allowed into the US are the same ones Trump and his creatures spout off nowadays about “immigrants” in general. And have about the same basis in reality.
Though yeah, tossing in the stuff about his old Commie uncle didn’t add much: I noticed some of the NYT commenters (who were generally sympathetic) bringing it up as a negative….
Yeah it just didn’t belong. Sound basic premise as you said but he nearly lost me on the Uncle. I think that was his way of letting his conservative readers know he’s one of them. I dunno tho. But yes even though I’m not Jewish myself, I understood completely since a lot of the same crap was said about the Irish and Slavs.
re: #268 ObserverArt
Folkies with amps on LSD that get three minutes into a song and get lost as to where they are but still remember the basic chords and arrangement then spend the next twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get everyone back onto the main progression so they can end the damn song.
: )
Okay, that made me LOL.
re: #273 ObserverArt
Or the headline. He could have done something like “America wanted to ban the Jews too” or “Look where banning the Jews got us”
Nah. The headline grabs your attention. It’s Swiftian in spirit. That said, if he’s going to use that as a headline, the whole piece should remain satirical.
Moms grandmother just missed being excluded in the 1924 Act. Mom having all four immigrant grandparents is a lot more sympathetic than Dad who had only one and that one came as a child. Dad’s not a “nationalist” or xenophobic but I think could be more sympathetic or understanding what’s going on.
re: #267 CongoJack
He is doing well! 2 months 25 days old, over 13 lbs, loudest poops I’ve ever heard and he actually sleeping 5 hours straight a night. He is giggling and smiling constantly (only ever fussy if he is waiting for a bottle or boob). I’ll have to get a more recent picture show him off.
All in all parenting isn’t too hard when the little bugger is cute and happy the whole time. Teething starts soon so I am sure I am in for a rude awakening when that starts.
Good to know. My niece is four in March. She’s developing so much personality.
re: #270 ObserverArt
The first Cheap Trick is still in my rotation. It’s in my car right now. I love that album for the pure raw rocking it is.
The album that nearly never saw the light of day and that rocks like a bastard is the re-recording of ‘In Color’ produced by Steve Albini.
That’s what that album should have sounded like in the first place.
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re: #279 makeitstop
The album that nearly never saw the light of day and that rocks like a bastard is the re-recording of ‘In Color’ produced by Steve Albini.
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That’s what that album should have sounded like in the first place.
Whoa, I have to have that. Thank you!
re: #275 makeitstop
Okay, that made me LOL.
Many years ago a good friend and his wife went to a show at an outdoor party venue called Legend Valley (eastern Ohio hills) to see Lenny Kravitz. The headliner was The Dead. My buddy asked me what I thought of The Dead and what to expect.
I told him basically that same bit about starting, getting lost and then coming back around to finish. I think I said they could walk away and get a hot dog mid-song and not miss anything too.
A few days later I asked him what he thought of The Dead. He said about midway through the first jam he and his wife looked at each other and burst out laughing saying to each other how right I was.
I shoulda been a rock critic.
re: #276 HappyWarrior
Nah. The headline grabs your attention. It’s Swiftian in spirit. That said, if he’s going to use that as a headline, the whole piece should remain satirical.
Ask VB what she thinks of the headline.
re: #283 ObserverArt
Ask VB what she thinks of the headline.
I know and I understand her problem but it’s meant to be that way. We mock wingnuts for not understanding satire. This headline poor as it may be was intended that way given the content.
All that build-up & no climax?!!!
😩
I feel like Stormy Daniels…#FailedFakeNewsAwards pic.twitter.com/qBhMCPwyGg
Not trying to say VB didn’t have a legit gripe but the headline vs what’s actually in the piece are different. TBH if I were writing such a piece, I may well use something like No Irish Need Apply or something like that. Stephens is a RW dingus but he’s correct that the antisemitism of the early 20th century directed at Jewish immigrants is no different than the groups Trump goes after today.
re: #281 Barefoot Grin
Whoa, I have to have that. Thank you!
It was never ‘officially’ released - they did it at Albini’s studio when they had a couple of days off and never finished it. There used to be MP3s of it out in the wild, and you might still be able to find them. If you can’t, I’ve got them on one drive or another here - message me and I’ll toss them up on my server and send you a link.
re: #286 HappyWarrior
Not trying to say VB didn’t have a legit gripe but the headline vs what’s actually in the piece are different. TBH if I were writing such a piece, I may well use something like No Irish Need Apply or something like that. Stephens is a RW dingus but he’s correct that the antisemitism of the early 20th century directed at Jewish immigrants is no different than the groups Trump goes after today.
If you drive away a good portion of readers with the headline your actual point is never taken.
We can disagree Happy. : )
Here’s and idea. Why not figure out how you’re paying for it BEFORE you build it!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 18, 2018
re: #289 ObserverArt
If you drive away a good portion of readers with the headline your actual point is never taken.
We can disagree Happy. : )
Agree to disagree then. The headline made me want to read more. TBH more European Americans should be aware of what our families went through. Maybe then people like Trump would be fringe.
re: #288 makeitstop
It was never ‘officially’ released - they did it at Albini’s studio when they had a couple of days off and never finished it. There used to be MP3s of it out in the wild, and you might still be able to find them. If you can’t, I’ve got them on one drive or another here - message me and I’ll toss them up on my server and send you a link.
I’m listening to it now. If this mix had come out instead of the Jack Douglas mix, peoples’ heads would have exploded. It’s almost overwhelming how awesome it is.
re: #290 Ace-o-aces
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Here’s a deal Donnie. You leave. We build a wall around Trump Tower and you get no visitors.
So suppose the government gets shut down. Who gets the blame? The GOP? no, the WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT as a whole. And then Trump, still selling himself successfully as the outsider and anti-establishment President, attends a few high-profile meetings and brokers a deal to re-open government.
Then he is praised as the consummate deal maker and the one who saved us from Washington elitist insiders.
re: #281 Barefoot Grin
Whoa, I have to have that. Thank you!
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re: #289 ObserverArt
If you drive away a good portion of readers with the headline your actual point is never taken.
We can disagree Happy. : )
What was the title of Swift’s writing about eating children?
re: #292 makeitstop
I’m listening to it now. If this mix had come out instead of the Jack Douglas mix, peoples’ heads would have exploded. It’s almost overwhelming how awesome it is.
Correction: Tom Werman was responsible for the wimpy mix.
Jack Douglas, on the other hand, produced the ridiculously rocking first album.
We now return you to your regular programming.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So suppose the government gets shut down. Who gets the blame? The GOP? no, the WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT as a whole. And then Trump, still selling himself successfully as the outsider and anti-establishment President, attends a few high-profile meetings and brokers a deal to re-open government.
Then he is praised as the consummate deal maker and the one who saved us from Washington elitist insiders.
Republicans were blamed for the shutdown during Clinton’s term. The reason the Republicans didn’t receive much blame for the shutdowns during Obama is Obama did as much as they could to prevent the closing from affecting most people. I don’t see Trump doing that.
re: #296 Belafon
What was the title of Swift’s writing about eating children?
Was that a newspaper opinion piece?
I understand what he was doing with the article. I read it all the way through. All I am doing is debating if the headline works or is too shocking. I base it on VBs reaction and I bet there were others that had similar reactions.
I’d be interested to see if VB read it or not and her opinion.
re: #286 HappyWarrior
The headline is repulsive and bigoted regardless of the content of the article. The NYT should not be playing with this type of hyperbole.
My family has history regarding this. In short, the reason why my family ended up in Canada was because of the quota system in US universities in the 1920’s.
To see this in print, especially in the NYT, sends a chill down my spine.
re: #299 Dr Lizardo
Reminds me of “to Serve Man”
re: #298 Belafon
Republicans were blamed for the shutdown during Clinton’s term. The reason the Republicans didn’t receive much blame for the shutdowns during Obama is Obama did as much as they could to prevent the closing from affecting most people. I don’t see Trump doing that.
We cannot expect that the press or the public will be able to come to rational conclusions about this, it is all about selling a view of events that fits the GOP narrative.
re: #301 Dizzy
The headline is repulsive and bigoted regardless of the content of the article. The NYT should not be playing with this type of hyperbole.
My family has history regarding this. In short, the reason why my family ended up in Canada was because of the quota system in US universities in the 1920’s.
To see this in print, especially in the NYT, sends a chill down my spine.
Thank you for your opinion.
I was feeling like I was swimming upstream in very little water.
One thing I learned a long time ago was to leave my own opinion and mind and try to see things as others do. That is what I am trying to do here. Your comment tells me it is valuable to keep doing that.
re: #302 Shropshire Slasher
Reminds me of “to Serve Man”
Easily, one of my all-time favorite TZ episodes.
The full title was A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
Approval of U.S. leadership under Trump tumbles globally in poll https://t.co/TOJbsJP8lA pic.twitter.com/dmmhOGwYG4
— Bloomberg (@business) January 18, 2018
re: #307 Belafon
The full title was A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor Immigrant People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
Seb Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in his native Hungary, according to the Hungarian police’s website, BuzzFeed reports. https://t.co/vLeW0cf5HX
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2018
The best people. The very best.
Hungarian Police Have A Warrant Out For Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka
Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police’s website.
Gorka, whose exact role in the White House while serving as a deputy assistant to the president was never entirely clear, apparently is in trouble with the law over a charge of “firearm or ammunition abuse.” The warrant, first reported in Hungarian online outlet 444, was issued on Sept. 17, 2016, prior to Trump’s election.
That means that during the entire seven months Gorka spent in the White House, including when meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Washington last March, an arrest warrant was pending overseas.
re: #308 FormerDirtDart
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re: #308 FormerDirtDart
Just think how great we’ll be when no one can depend on us.
re: #299 Dr Lizardo
Then there is Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson in an “Indecent Proposal”
re: #308 FormerDirtDart
Russia and Israel love him.
re: #314 Shropshire Slasher
Then there is Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson in an “Indecent Proposal”
AKA ‘When Donny Met Stormy’
re: #308 FormerDirtDart
His ass alone weighs 239 pounds.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So suppose the government gets shut down. Who gets the blame? The GOP? no, the WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT as a whole. And then Trump, still selling himself successfully as the outsider and anti-establishment President, attends a few high-profile meetings and brokers a deal to re-open government.
Then he is praised as the consummate deal maker and the one who saved us from Washington elitist insiders.
Didn’t work that way the last two times — both times the Repugs got the blame, and took a big hit. Problem was, it was short-term. We need to concentrate on keeping their bad actions before the public all the time.
Infrastructure problems aren’t just an issue for the USA; a major bridge in Prague, Libenský Most (Libensky Bridge) will be closing for several weeks - at minimum - for repairs.
The Klokner Institute of ČVUT in the first half of last year completed the examination of the samples from the bridge. The survey lasted several months and the results were not good.
He showed that the damage to concrete foundations of the bridge, which is on slate floor and hidden on the bottom of the Vltava, is worse than expected.
Experts have found that in concrete there is so-called sulphate corrosion, which disturbs the structure of the concrete. “It is an irreversible and, in principle, permanent process,” Klokner Institute Director Jiří Kolísko commented on the bridge status.
Deputy Mayor Petr Dolinek (ČSSD) has again stated that by mere repair the bridge’s capacity will never be able to return to the original condition under the existing technological possibilities.
That’s gonna be a mess.
re: #318 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Didn’t work that way the last two times — both times the Repugs got the blame, and took a big hit. Problem was, it was short-term. We need to concentrate on keeping their bad actions before the public all the time.
That was in the days before Trump: we now live in a totally different media reality.
Among my favorites:
The letters from people who plead a case which actually calls into serious question the wisdom of the one man/one vote thing.
If the only two candidates who pulled you to the polls are yourself and Trump, you should be forcibly removed from the country.
4/ pic.twitter.com/4YiGIh4FdQ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 18, 2018
re: #224 retired cynic
Do you have a recipe for bark butter, or is it something you can purchase down there?
Look it up online. Wild Birds Unlimited carries their commercial brand.
Recipe from A FB “Birds of Texas” site:
“I have had hundreds of birds at my feeders today because of the icy weather. Along with the seed and suet I put out, they love my bark butter I make to plug into holes drilled into a piece of hanging bark. Here is the recipe I use. Measurements don’t have to be exact. I microwave 1 C peanut butter and 1 C lard for about 20 seconds to soften. Mix in 2 C cornmeal, 1 C rolled oats, 1 C birdseed, and 1 C flour. I flour up my hands for mixing as it is really sticky. I like to pinch off pieces and roll into golfball sized balls to make it easier to grab what I need when heading out to the feeders. The birds LOVE it!”
Anyone feeling sorry for Doctor Larry Nassar these days? The judge doesn’t. I don’t. Nobody should.
ESPN - Michigan judge dismisses complaints made by Larry Nassar about his sentencing hearing
The first four paragraphs in the article.
LANSING, Mich. — Larry Nassar told a circuit court judge in a letter this week that he wasn’t sure if he was mentally able to handle facing a week of comments from the women he has admitted to abusing for decades.
Nassar, 54, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in November. Part of the plea deal allowed all of the 135 women who have accused Nassar of abusing them — many when they sought him out for medical treatment — to confront him and share their stories with the court. He wrote a six-page letter to Judge Rosemarie Aquilina this week detailing his concerns about the sentencing hearing for his mental health.
Nassar’s letter accused the judge of grandstanding and conducting a “media circus” during the hearing that started Tuesday. Nassar said the judge placed him in the witness box to face the women speaking out against him so that cameras would also be pointed in her direction. Aquilina told him he was in the witness box so that the women didn’t have to turn to address him while facing the court.
“I have to say, this isn’t worth the paper it’s written on,” Aquilina said about Nassar’s letter. “There’s no truth in here. It’s delusional.”
…more at link
re: #298 Belafon
Republicans were blamed for the shutdown during Clinton’s term. The reason the Republicans didn’t receive much blame for the shutdowns during Obama is Obama did as much as they could to prevent the closing from affecting most people. I don’t see Trump doing that.
The reason why the shutdown didn’t hurt the Republicans in 2013 was overshadowed by the Health Insurance Marketplace webpage problems. The Media gave constant coverage to the shortcomings of the insurance exchange website and they blamed that on Obama.
The NYT and Trump have some kind of weird, dysfunctional love/hate relationship. Each keeps looking to the other for validation they will not get.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 18, 2018
re: #322 Dave In Austin
I meant to put the pic in.
Look it up online. Wild Birds Unlimited carries their commercial brand.
Recipe from A FB “Birds of Texas” site:
“I have had hundreds of birds at my feeders today because of the icy weather. Along with the seed and suet I put out, they love my bark butter I make to plug into holes drilled into a piece of hanging bark. Here is the recipe I use. Measurements don’t have to be exact. I microwave 1 C peanut butter and 1 C lard for about 20 seconds to soften. Mix in 2 C cornmeal, 1 C rolled oats, 1 C birdseed, and 1 C flour. I flour up my hands for mixing as it is really sticky. I like to pinch off pieces and roll into golfball sized balls to make it easier to grab what I need when heading out to the feeders. The birds LOVE it!”
re: #317 Ace Rothstein
His ass alone weighs 239 pounds.
Casey, I want to do a long distance dedication to Tweetler’s Butt!
re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was in the days before Trump: we now live in a totally different media reality.
Polls have voters blaming the Rs for the impending shutdown now — I don’t expect that to change (and is your past prediction record all that good)?
re: #323 ObserverArt
Nassar’s letter accused the judge of grandstanding and conducting a “media circus” during the hearing that started Tuesday.
Probably not a good move there, buddy. Criticizing the judge.
re: #322 Dave In Austin
I would totally eat that!
re: #328 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Polls have voters blaming the Rs for the impending shutdown now — I don’t expect that to change (and is your past prediction record all that good)?
I don’t expect it to change, but I do expect the blow to be lessened if A) the shutdown is short, B) the damage is reduced (i.e. back-pay), or C) the GOP leadership can shift the anger from them to “the establishment.”
re: #328 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Polls have voters blaming the Rs for the impending shutdown now — I don’t expect that to change (and is your past prediction record all that good)?
DT has demonstrated the ability to consistently get away with things that would wreck the career of any professional politician. The GOP might get the blame, but DT will somehow escape unscathed.
re: #332 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Peanut butter and lard? Gaaah.
Rendered Beef fat is better if you can get it.
Lindsey Graham can’t confirm that Trump said “shithole countries.” @DanaBashCNN: “Why can’t you?” Graham: “Because I want to make sure that I can keep talking to the president.” https://t.co/9Tugkz2beg
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 18, 2018
re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was in the days before Trump: we now live in a totally different media reality.
So, the media, who we all know favored Republicans during Obama’s term, will somehow cause opinion to shift now when they didn’t back then?
re: #321 FormerDirtDart
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he sounds like one of those concern trolls who starts out “i have always voted for the democrat party, but….”
re: #335 FormerDirtDart
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re: #332 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
As a kid my parents had to hide the dog food because I would eat it.
re: #331 Targetpractice
I don’t expect it to change, but I do expect the blow to be lessened if A) the shutdown is short, B) the damage is reduced (i.e. back-pay), or C) the GOP leadership can shift the anger from them to “the establishment.”
I haven’t heard much about the “establishment” lately. I’m inclined to doubt that will sway many, but we may find out. (I’m hoping we don’t have to.) The other two would lessen the damage.
Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence https://t.co/7fH8dnVS0m pic.twitter.com/F3Wqea3bYC
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 18, 2018
What’s left of Newsweek is actively making people dumber and less informed and honestly should be unfollowed and shunned for this kind of behavior. https://t.co/mrOgI4UE4w
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) January 18, 2018
re: #335 FormerDirtDart
Lindsey Graham can’t confirm that Trump said “shithole countries.” @DanaBashCNN: “Why can’t you?” Graham: “Because I want to make sure that I can keep talking to the president.”
here’s the simple followup:
“if you can’t confirm, then are you denying he said it?”
see?
simple.
re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DT has demonstrated the ability to consistently get away with things that would wreck the career of any professional politician. The GOP might get the blame, but DT will somehow escape unscathed.
Wasn’t talking about him…. (his numbers keep dropping).
re: #342 FormerDirtDart
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Heh…creative chart headings for the win:
Trump rejected a bipartisan proposal to keep the government open. Now Republicans are scrambling for Democrats to bail them out. Call your Senators and tell them to stand strong: no Dream, no CHIP, no vote. Let us know what they say! We’re keeping track: https://t.co/svx0wyjMmY pic.twitter.com/gsJGWmnv1g
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) January 18, 2018
re: #344 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Wasn’t talking about him…. (his numbers keep dropping).
The only polls that count are the ones held every two years in voting booths
re: #341 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard much about the “establishment” lately. I’m inclined to doubt that will sway many, but we may find out. (I’m hoping we don’t have to.) The other two would lessen the damage.
One of the ways the GOP have often avoided damage for their major screw-ups is to convince voters that it was the fault of “Washington” or “Congress,” i.e. convincing folks that both sides were in agreement or (conversely) caused the crisis due to pointless fighting rather than because one side was standing up for a genuine principle.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
OFFS.
What a pussy.
Agreed. But it’s also a confirmation that DT did say that (not that rational people ever doubted it).
re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DT has demonstrated the ability to consistently get away with things that would wreck the career of any professional politician. The GOP might get the blame, but DT will somehow escape unscathed.
Donald Trump has exactly one election under his belt.
re: #188 Citizen K
re: #204 Citizen K
OW points out exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about here:
for all intents and purposes i have given up on the mainstream media changing in this regard. ill always point out how dumb it is. but after iraq, covering obama, covering trump, they show they won’t change.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 18, 2018
re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The only polls that count are the ones held every two years in voting booths
Have you observed who’s been doing unexpectedly well in elections recently?
re: #350 Belafon
Donald Trump has exactly one election under his belt.
In fairness, that’s three more elections than he has any right winning
re: #322 Dave In Austin
Look it up online. Wild Birds Unlimited carries their commercial brand.
Ordered!
re: #352 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Have you observed who’s been doing unexpectedly well in elections recently?
I am glad to see that, but I still have too strong a sense of the Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
One of my co-workers lost his mind again today. He’s an older guy who doesn’t adapt well, so when I told him that our process uses temporary IDs which are changed to real IDs over time, (which he should already know), and told him to use the source data with the payer’s ID instead, he started shouting about how I don’t want to do my job, and called me an asshole. He should not be unsupervised, but both of our managers are out, and the highest ranking person here refused to send him to HR. Sometimes I hate this place.
Lots of exciting activity and engagement hitting the timeline lately.
I like waves.
We’ve now endorsed 89 millennials on the ballot for local office in 2018 — and most states haven’t had their filing deadlines yet. Help us recruit 50,000 & support 1,000 this year — it’s never been more important: https://t.co/Wwnck6vwXj
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) January 18, 2018
Our newest endorsees hail from 26 states, have campaign budgets ranging from $3k to $300k and need to turnout anywhere from 645 to 30,000 votes to win. @runforsomething is going to help them do that. 💪 pic.twitter.com/o1Vc73LFPJ
— Run for Something (@runforsomething) January 18, 2018
TIME’s new cover: First they marched. Now a record number of women are running for office https://t.co/7Gh9sb1zbu pic.twitter.com/xeu0c5SPL6
— TIME (@TIME) January 18, 2018
Words cannot express how thrilled I am to be featured on the cover of TIME Magazine. Very proud to share I am the youngest candidate, only woman wearing the hijab, and only County Commissioner candidate featured, alongside many powerful women. #YesWeCan #Amiwala2018 https://t.co/vCmY3QgNmN
— Bushra Amiwala (@Amiwala2018) January 18, 2018
@MichaelDTubbs the 26-year-old mayor of Stockton, California received a $20 MILLION donation to launch an initiative to help give every graduating senior in his city a college scholarship! https://t.co/hbuXUtEoPU https://t.co/bg7KVkCvSs
— Blavity (@Blavity) January 17, 2018
Pay attention to millennial leaders emerging on the local level. Stockton mayor @MichaelDTubbs just got $20m in funding to help every eligible student in Stockton pay for college https://t.co/fbjX1Dmodf
— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) January 17, 2018
.@desmondmeade’s Florida Rights Restoration Coalition tells me they expect their ballot initiative to be certified by the state today. In November, Florida voters will be able to restore the right to vote to more than a million people.
— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) January 18, 2018
National Commission For Voter Justice (@NationalCVJ) Unveils Plan To Investigate And End Voter Suppression https://t.co/N1k7f2Rp7R via @blavity #VotingRights
— Spread The Vote (@SpreadTheVoteUS) January 18, 2018
re: #355 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am glad to see that, but I still have too strong a sense of the Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Speaking of winning in place we used to didn’t, there’s a special election March 13th in PA, that Republicans used to didn’t have to worry about:
There’s another special election for the House coming up fast on March 13, but even though it’s once again taking place in a dark red district, Republicans are freaking out—so much so that they’re sending Donald Trump out there today to prop up their utterly sad-sack candidate, state Rep. Rick Saccone, to whom Trump has pledged his “total support.”
Democrats, by contrast, couldn’t be more pleased with their nominee, former federal prosecutor and Marine veteran Conor Lamb, whose family is well-known for its longtime involvement in local politics. In the Marines, Lamb successfully prosecuted a fellow officer for trying to cover up a high-profile rape, and in the U.S. attorney’s office, he’s taken on the opioid epidemic. At 33, he’s also a fresh face, a tireless campaigner, and an ideal fit for his district, which is why Daily Kos is proud to endorse him.
Republicans shouldn’t be sweating at all, though. Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District is a heavily gerrymandered seat on the outskirts of Pittsburgh that voted for Trump by a wide 58-39 margin, and the special election here is one they should win without a second thought. (This is the seat, by the way, that became vacant when Republican Rep. Tim Murphy resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he had pressured his mistress to have an abortion.) But thanks to the GOP’s lousy candidate, intense Democratic enthusiasm for Lamb, and widespread disgust with Trump, what should have been a snoozer has turned into a hotly competitive contest.
re: #340 Shropshire Slasher
As a kid my parents had to hide the dog food because I would eat it.
Now we know what happened.
80% of the country supports DACA, including 64% of Republicans. So, the New York Time has declared that the country supports a hard turn left. It’s probably obvious, but I don’t think people are stating it: The New York Times isn’t speaking for Trump, they are speaking for Wall Street. It all falls into perspective for me if you think of them as the real Wall Street Press.
re: #360 Belafon
80% of the country supports DACA, including 64% of Republicans. So, the New York Time has declared that the country supports a hard turn left. It’s probably obvious, but I don’t think people are stating it: The New York Times isn’t speaking for Trump, they are speaking for Wall Street. It all falls into perspective for me if you think of them as the real Wall Street Press.
“Hard turn left” seems overstated, but a lot more people are no longer believing any of the promises the GOP and Trump have been making to them
Here’s a dandy as a Reminder: @SenTomCotton
Activists say Tom Cotton has issued do-not-call-or-write notice to some constituents https://t.co/YiJlSSYX2m
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 18, 2018
re: #361 GlutenFreeJesus
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What a snowflake.
Did you get that? If so, I’d send it to a newspaper.
re: #361 GlutenFreeJesus
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Not an official cease and desist. Its just Cotton trying to bully constituents into keeping quiet.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 18, 2018
re: #290 Ace-o-aces
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…The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S. The $20 billion dollar Wall is “peanuts” compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!
OMFG - this is moronic even by Trumpian “standards” - does our Idiot-in-Chief really have NO understanding of how international trade/finance actually works?* Does he really think (or, more likely, is trying to delude his xenophobic, mouth-breather base into “thinking”) that “trade deficit with Mexico” (even assuming his figures are correct, which is highly doubtful) is some sort of simple one-size-fits-all accounting category that can be easily qualified and quantified - and (somehow) tapped to pay for whatever insane folly the President wants to promote (and just BTW, so the estimate for “The Wall” is now $20B?? JFC!)?
*rhetorical question
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was stopped at TSA for evading security checkpoint https://t.co/naC9mmsXFC pic.twitter.com/zdzdMqWaqt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 18, 2018
Our men and women in uniform are not a bargaining chip. Democrats should stop treating them that way. pic.twitter.com/9GBpwXgG0s
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) January 18, 2018
GOP shuts down daycare options for active duty troops
GOP guts assistance programs that helped their families afford food and healthcare
GOP attacks and deports immigrant veterans who served honorably
Now they lie and say the Dems are using them as a bargaining chip https://t.co/9JIm36vtVy— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #355 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am glad to see that, but I still have too strong a sense of the Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
You know, maybe all of the Democrats shooting themselves in the foot will die away with the boomers.
Maybe us older generation people grew soft because back years ago the Republicans were not as wicked and nutty as they are now, so we didn’t see politics and the GOP as the same threats as we and the younger folk see now.
Maybe we didn’t really care if a Republican would win because they still were able to govern.
Totally different political world now. I say let youth take the flag and make a stand. I’ll stand behind them and help as much as I can.
Here’s hoping the younger generations are seeing the need to be strong and are willing to rebuild a stronger tougher inclusive Democratic party.
re: #357 JordanRules
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And time for me to tout Emerge again (as is my wont).
In 2017, 152 out of 208 Emerge alumnae on general election ballots won their races—a 73% win rate.
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“Up yours” — Tucker Carlson loses his cool after a guest calls out his racism: https://t.co/skDvRQFRto pic.twitter.com/eaRnDDtIxI
— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 18, 2018
re: #268 ObserverArt
Folkies with amps on LSD that get three minutes into a song and get lost as to where they are but still remember the basic chords and arrangement then spend the next twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get everyone back onto the main progression so they can end the damn song.
: )
Hmm, so you’ve been listening to the Incredible String Band recently, then?
re: #361 GlutenFreeJesus
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What a snowflake.
I thought Cotton was the big strong soldier type.
I hope his state constituents see this for what it is and boot his butt next election.
Mulvaney requests no funding for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau https://t.co/guPUJK0Lsc via @MikeGrunwald pic.twitter.com/g6dd8GCnoY
— POLITICO (@politico) January 18, 2018
re: #374 Alephnaught
Hmm, so you’ve been listening to the Incredible String Band recently, then?
Or Tyrannosaurus Rex, for that matter.
(They cleaned a lot of it up by the T. Rex days.)
re: #371 ObserverArt
You know, maybe all of the Democrats shooting themselves in the foot will die away with the boomers.
…
Here’s hoping the younger generations are seeing the need to be strong and are willing to rebuild a stronger tougher inclusive Democratic party.
and one that gets out to vote
re: #301 Dizzy
The headline is repulsive and bigoted regardless of the content of the article. The NYT should not be playing with this type of hyperbole.
My family has history regarding this. In short, the reason why my family ended up in Canada was because of the quota system in US universities in the 1920’s.
To see this in print, especially in the NYT, sends a chill down my spine.
Fair enough. I see what you mean and it’s awful your family was treated that way.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $12 billion to nearly 30 million victims of predatory lenders, illegal debt collection, and other financial crimes.
But apparently that’s not even worth a dollar to the @realDonaldTrump administration.https://t.co/qcHIowpDY9— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) January 18, 2018
CFPB signals shift by dropping payday lender lawsuit https://t.co/fWn9eNybAu pic.twitter.com/iJuUoQAet6
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) January 18, 2018
NEW REPORT: Payday lenders funneled huge cash to Trump & top GOP leaders just before Trump admin moved to gut the CFPB’s payday lending rules https://t.co/CQUcpSZST6
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 17, 2018
re: #372 BeachDem
Excellent update!! Please keep sharing.
I’m really proud of all the work these groups are doing. It feels like more people are so much more willing to get involved even beyond the candidates.
We are poised for great momentum heading towards the midterms!
#BREAKING: Trump personally ordered that Bannon limit testimony in House Intel hearing: report https://t.co/tgm5TSXdq8 pic.twitter.com/ZfZVOUAObi
— The Hill (@thehill) January 18, 2018
Seems like this could almost be a crime, but maybe that is just me
re: #383 Kragar
And not a damn thing will happen to him.
BREAKING: New Mexico State Police says key Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett dies in helicopter crash.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2018
re: #371 ObserverArt
…I say let youth take the flag and make a stand. I’ll stand behind them and help as much as I can.
Here’s hoping the younger generations are seeing the need to be strong and are willing to rebuild a stronger tougher inclusive Democratic party.
That would be nice. But right now, shit like this is happening. Our Dem Women’s group has been reaching out to get more young women to join. We invite them to be speakers, we support their events—hell, our main project is a scholarship contest.
So what did they do? They put together a “Young Progressives” group (with St. Bernie of Assisi and his damn bird as their logo) and scheduled their meetings at the same time as our group meets.
re: #369 Ace Rothstein
Holy shit. It’s been 50 kilos of horse taped under his shirt this whole time.
The @tide social media team is now spending its time responding to people who say they ate Tide Pods pic.twitter.com/uHhALzYJ89
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 18, 2018
Really, using Jr. as a draw? Will he be wearing prison orange?
Trump Towers buyers in India offered chance to meet Donald Trump Jr., raising ethics concerns https://t.co/k3EqWOcgaz
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 18, 2018
re: #300 ObserverArt
Was that a newspaper opinion piece?
I understand what he was doing with the article. I read it all the way through. All I am doing is debating if the headline works or is too shocking. I base it on VBs reaction and I bet there were others that had similar reactions.
I’d be interested to see if VB read it or not and her opinion.
I did read the whole thing and I get his point but the headline was fucked up clickbait.
re: #381 FormerDirtDart
The whole Republican party has become irredeemably corrupt, but people who substituted Republican propaganda for news insist it’s the Democrats who are corrupt.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
re: #386 BeachDem
Unfortunately, ressentiment and the others drivers of the wingnuts are not pinned to conservatism.
The big risk for the future is people who don’t want to think structurally—-how do you get from point A to point F, recognizing that B through E will be difficult and require re-calculations—and American culture in general doesn’t encourage slow thinking.
“The 17-year-old victim that escaped had been working on a plan with her siblings to escape this abuse for more than two years,” Riverside County DA says https://t.co/uIuXMbpPjN pic.twitter.com/JVwlorQaDm
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 18, 2018
when my grandbaby wants a cupcake party, we’re gonna have us a CUPCAKE PARTY! pic.twitter.com/C2L2Q5gXYk
— Di Umgebroyzelte Bubbie (@viciousbabushka) January 18, 2018
re: #364 Belafon
Did you get that? If so, I’d send it to a newspaper.
Nah. Shoulda posted the arktimes article but it was easier to post the pic being mobile.
And yeah. Apparently October. And it’s being made public now?!
Julie is running against Hardened, long term, gerrymandered Texas Crud for my district. #TX25.
.@RepRWilliams: “We do need to secure the border first and then move on to see who’s here and how we’re going to take care of those folks.” pic.twitter.com/SG6Krc6OXL
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 18, 2018
There are 800,000 Dreamers who are in imminent danger *right now.*
The border is already heavily militarized. Texans do not need, and we do not want, a $20-billion poured concrete monument to Donald Trump’s stupidity.
We need a clean #DreamActNow.
And we need a new Congress. https://t.co/YzsKZHddTn— Julie Oliver (@JulieForTX25) January 18, 2018
re: #380 HappyWarrior
Fair enough. I see what you mean and it’s awful your family was treated that way.
Indeed. All things considered, Canada is a great place to be, especially now. I certainly am not complaining about my current situation.
Cheers.
beware - somebody has given the word to the wingnut trumpykins trollerati to find ways to run down the krugzilla, passing around this quote of his:
“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
re: #373 Ace Rothstein
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re: #393 FormerDirtDart
TWO YEARS? Wow o wow, those poor children and young adults.
re: #399 Barefoot Grin
Tucker has been getting really bloated these last couple of years.
Natural consequence of being full of shit.
re: #332 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Peanut butter and lard? Gaaah.
it looks like raw cookie dough, without any sugar
Every Republican on Judiciary just voted for Thomas Farr, a court nominee who helped draft NC’s voter suppression law, defended racist gerrymandering and may have lied to the Senate about his role in Jesse Helms’ voter intimidation effort. https://t.co/8PELTNM69m
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 18, 2018
Republicans who just voted for this guy: Grassley, Hatch, Graham, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Flake, Crapo, Tillis and Kennedy.
Every Democrat took a turn speaking against him. https://t.co/elNhvSb4M0— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 18, 2018
Nice speech tho I guess Flake.
**rolls eyes**
re: #399 Barefoot Grin
Tucker has been getting really bloated these last couple of years.
Following his (Dear) Leader???
re: #399 Barefoot Grin
Tucker has been getting really bloated these last couple of years.
“Up yours” — Tucker Carlson loses his cool after a guest calls out his racism: https://t.co/skDvRQFRto pic.twitter.com/eaRnDDtIxI
— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 18, 2018
Once again, Tucker gives us his patented “Do farts have lumps?” expression.
Classic Tucker. https://t.co/eIugKcMpGO— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
“Is your site a streaming video site?”
“No.”
“Did the link you provide state that this is a audio or video clip?”
“No.”
“Did the page have autoplay audio or video clips that were hidden and I had to search for to shut off?”
“Yes.” pic.twitter.com/IJS5VSr3un— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
About two dozen NYPD offficers and investigators from the Manhattan district attorney’s office raided the offices of Newsweek and its parent company, IBT Media, on Thursday.IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac. The IRS placed a $1.2 million federal tax lien against Uzac in December 2017.
This is genius rudepundit.blogspot.ca
Dear Editor,
Every morning, I awake from my oxy coma and thank Jesus for Donald Trump. I get up from the back of the 1987 Cutlass Supreme where I slept. It’s broken down in a ditch just a mile or two from my mobile home that got repossessed. I stretch as best I can, what with this back problem from working in the coal mines across the state line in Kentucky, and I am glad that America is great again. Or it’s on its way because Mr. Donald Trump is our president. I pop one of the two last oxy I’ve got, take a leak in the ditch, and grab my jacket before walking into town.
Because it’s already noon by the time I get to Rogersville, and I know I’m gonna need to score soon, I go over to the post office to see if they’ve got my Social Security disability check. While I’m there, I salute a man with a MAGA hat and tell him, “God bless my president!” I’m not sure he can understand me because I lost most of my teeth, and I don’t think I say the words so good anymore. But he smiles, and that’s enough for me. I could sure use a dentist, but I’ll just have to wait until the mobile dental clinic shows up in these parts. They come around about once a year, and the line is usually a couple of days long, but I know that it’s worth it because I don’t want no free doctors from the government. I’m fine with free doctors from a Christian charity, though.
I head over to the meat and three place where I can get a square meal and plenty to take home for just six bucks, and it’s where Chet likes to meet because he’s paid off the owner. Chet is always happy to see me on Social Security day. If he’s in a good mood, he’ll even buy my lunch. I walk in to Shelby’s restaurant, and Fox News is on the TV. They’re talking about how the liberals want more immigrants to come to America. Fuck that shit. Tell them Mexicans to just go on back and take their little brown children with ‘em. I don’t want no rapists and drug dealers here. If I could afford a gun, I’d go down to the border and shoot a couple of ‘em to keep ‘em out of here.
Chet comes in and sits opposite me. I’ve got a plate of fried chicken, corn, potatoes, and french fries. Chet tells me he’s got some He-Man if I want to kick it up from the oxy. It costs more than the oxy, so I tell him that I’ll just stick to what I know. I sign the back of my Social Security check and hand it over to him. He gives me back two full prescription bottles and a few hundred dollars. “Bank of Chet,” I always tell him. “Better than a toaster.” I ask him what he’s gonna do with his Trump tax cut. Chet stares at me for a minute and starts laughing. He tells me he’ll see me next week.
I pop a couple of the oxy because my back is just killing me. I turn to the TV and see them talking about coal mining jobs and how President Trump is bringing them back. I’d go back to the Perry #1 mine if they reopened it. I’m just waiting for the call. I’d take the regular income, back or no back. Maybe I’d get to see my kids again then. Maybe even get Willow to talk to me, if she doesn’t try to steal my oxy like before.
As I walk back to the Cutlass to lay down for a while before I head out to the bar, I think about how much Donald Trump has done for me. How he has given me my country back. How he is bringing jobs back. How he cares about my problems as a working class man. How I can say, “Merry Christmas” again. How he talks tough to all those Muslims and Jews and fags. How he showed that bitch Hillary what for. And, mostly, how he ain’t a goddamn n*****.
God bless him and his family. And God bless America.
Sincerely,
Maddox J. Maddox
re: #397 Dizzy
Indeed. All things considered, Canada is a great place to be, especially now. I certainly am not complaining about my current situation.
Cheers.
True. Glad things worked out in the end. I actually have cousins in Canada whom I’ve never met.
re: #409 HappyWarrior
True. Glad things worked out in the end. I actually have cousins in Canada whom I’ve never met.
You should visit before Canada builds a wall to keep violent, rapey, drug dealing Americans out.
re: #396 Dave In Austin
Julie is running against Hardened, long term, gerrymandered Texas Crud for my district. #TX25.
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Not just Trump’s stupidity. Trumps stupid pandering to stupid xenophobic Republican voters. He won the election by capturing the imaginations of stupid racists who don’t understand border-security.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
re: #410 Big Beautiful Door
You should visit before Canada builds a wall to keep violent, rapey, drug dealing Americans out.
But some of us, surely, are “fine people”…….????
re: #409 HappyWarrior
You should come for a visit, it’s easy :-)
Will Democrats shut down the government? https://t.co/CGUuk7ppWc
— Leader McConnell (@SenateMajLdr) January 18, 2018
If only the Republicans had a majority in the House and the Senate… https://t.co/EYWfLr8A5y
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #412 Jay C
But some of us, surely, are “fine people”…….????
Of course. As the President noted, the folks who marched in Charlottesville shouting Nazi slogans.
re: #414 Kragar
Nope. The Republicans control the whole federal government. Maybe think about no longer lying to rubes to try to deflect blame from your noxious actions. The party has done a lot of damage to Conservative’s minds by feeding them a steady diet of bullshit.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
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“Thanks for draining my accounts!” Some Wells Fargo customers across the country woke up to $0 in their bank accounts due to a “glitch” that paid their bills twice. https://t.co/Xy8AC57Z4R pic.twitter.com/n8JSFq1NAf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 18, 2018
re: #419 Big Beautiful Door
Why does anyone still bank at Wells-Fargo?
They’re so efficient that they pre-pay your bills!
re: #419 Big Beautiful Door
Why does anyone still bank at Wells-Fargo?
Because, like the airlines, there’s no real difference between the big players in the industry?
And with automatic bill pay, it’s got to be a pain in the ass to change things over from one bank to another.
re: #417 Stanley Sea
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“…why would we give you a refund when you just paid your bill? Shouldn’t you just be happy to not have to worry about your bill next month because it’s already paid?”
re: #332 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Peanut butter and lard? Gaaah
Which reminds me, I have been meaning to order a pudding mold so I could make some Spotted Dick.
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 18, 2018
re: #318 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Didn’t work that way the last two times — both times the Repugs got the blame, and took a big hit. Problem was, it was short-term. We need to concentrate on keeping their bad actions before the public all the time.
Did they? I’m not sure that’s true.
After both previous shutdowns, Republican control of all branches of government increased, to the point that now, only a few years later, they have control of all three branches. I don’t see that Republicans have ever paid any sort of meaningful penalty for their malfeasance.
Nor do they, since they believe they have free license to keep doing it.
re: #425 Dave In Austin
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re: #421 KGxvi
Because, like the airlines, there’s no real difference between the big players in the industry?
And with automatic bill pay, it’s got to be a pain in the ass to change things over from one bank to another.
I would think its a bigger pain in the ass to be signed up for a bunch of accounts you didn’t want, and to have your account drained by a glitch.
re: #417 Stanley Sea
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Children’s lives are at stake. It’s time for our friends across the aisle to stop playing games with CHIP funding. https://t.co/JYPWaMQnNb
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 17, 2018
Don’t pretend that you suddenly give a fuck about kids, you lying bastards. https://t.co/0d6jGropDf
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 18, 2018
re: #430 Kragar
You’re all frauds who work to hurt people, then try to deflect the blame onto the people who oppose your extremism. Show some patriotism and resign today for the sake of America.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
re: #426 Renaissance_Man
Did they? I’m not sure that’s true.
After both previous shutdowns, Republican control of all branches of government increased, to the point that now, only a few years later, they have control of all three branches. I don’t see that Republicans have ever paid any sort of meaningful penalty for their malfeasance.
Nor do they, since they believe they have free license to keep doing it.
As I said, the problem was that it didn’t last. Mainly, I think, because there were no long-term consequences — everyone got their back pay and people forgot about it. We need to keep reminding them.
re: #431 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I don’t think there is one positive response to that thread. Tone deafness is amazing.
The tone of these tweets makes it pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have the votes. If they had them, they wouldn’t be trying to shame Dems into supporting this bill. They’d have already voted on the bill and sent it to Trump’s desk.
re: #434 Targetpractice
The tone of these tweets makes it pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have the votes. If they had them, they wouldn’t be trying to shame Dems into supporting this bill. They’d have already voted on the bill and sent it to Trump’s desk.
Yep.
re: #434 Targetpractice
The tone of these tweets makes it pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have the votes. If they had them, they wouldn’t be trying to shame Dems into supporting this bill. They’d have already voted on the bill and sent it to Trump’s desk.
Apparently the old line about not belonging to an organized political party now applies to Republicans
It feels like it’s 1918 not 2018.
https://t.co/gZemzJ6qWd It’s really alarming how many young white men have embraced racism and especially misogyny as a central part of their identity. pic.twitter.com/Bxzm1yGp8c
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) January 18, 2018
re: #437 Big Beautiful Door
Sebastian Gorka is reportedly wanted in Hungary for a firearms charge. Deport him!
Citizen arrest time, right?
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
It feels like it’s 1918 not 2018.
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— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
re: #419 Big Beautiful Door
Why does anyone still bank at Wells-Fargo?
this hit me last night
and it was obvious it was a duplication and i didnt do it - the 2nd payment wasnt in the payment history and the descriptions were different. in my case it was a large amount and i had printed a confirmation so i had a conf number
i was on the phone for more than an hour
never got a human so i gave up
i figured if they really ended up paying the bill 2x, well, i dont have overdraft protection, not my decision, not my problem. and if they started in with fees, well i’m pretty good at letter writing to the ftc, state banking etc.
why wells fargo?
partially inertia - yes. moving a lot of accounts, with history, payee lists, scheduled transactions is a lot of work. and in my particular case, trust or estate accounts require lots of paperwork and coordinating signatures with folks in other states.
i have a good relationship with Chase and did once talk to them about moving. with 2 of 5 family signatories in states that have no Chase branch, we couldnt make it work.
wells mostly usually works good enough, so we’re stuck.
re: #438 DodgerFan1988
It feels like it’s 1918 not 2018.
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It’s depressing and I say that as a 30 year old white guy.
re: #441 dangerman
Glad I’m in a Credit Union and that I was able to get my kids accounts there
re: #419 Big Beautiful Door
Why does anyone still bank at Wells-Fargo?
I can’t answer that since we closed all of our Wells accounts.
I still owe Wells Fuckers about $3,000 on a line of credit. If I didn’t, I’d be out of there tomorrow.
re: #440 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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Yep. I still like playing video games but fuck the gamer Bros.
Son of Jorge Garcia, Detroit resident who was deported this week, breaks down. “Sad,” he says when asked how he is feeling. “Angry.” https://t.co/miVWAT6wKF pic.twitter.com/XEFO2oD2BH
— ABC News (@ABC) January 18, 2018
These are US citizen children, separated from their father.
Republicans, this is not “family values”.
America, this is not who we are.
💔 https://t.co/AMIa39dEWy— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) January 18, 2018
Yes Ana, this is exactly what the modern Republican party has become. RWRs Southern strategy has finally born its fruit of ugly bigotry/racism and xenophobia. And we now get to watch while our modern day Nero golfs as our Nation burns. https://t.co/OcqzFBwyB9
— Bubblehead II Wants Twiter to ban Nazis now! (@BubbleheadII) January 18, 2018
re: #419 Big Beautiful Door
Why does anyone still bank at Wells-Fargo?
My branch is two blocks away and I can walk there if I have to. I know that they’re blood-sucking varmints not to mention straight-up criminals for their role in the mortgage meltdown and fake accounts.
re: #446 HappyWarrior
Yep. I still like playing video games but fuck the gamer Bros.
I play with friends only, not the general gamer public.
re: #443 Kragar
Glad I’m in a Credit Union and that I was able to get my kids accounts there
i would if i could
after i wrote the first comment i realized there are way more tentacles than just billpay and auto repeat payments
there’s all the direct deposits, monthly automatic transfers between banks, clients that pay by wire and echeck….
it would take me a year to migrate to another bank
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re: #447 Bubblehead II
To Republicans “Family Values” means not allowing gay people to form families. That’s all. We have an entire political party made up of bigoted assholes.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 18, 2018
re: #453 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Not letting gay people get married or adopt kids, also not letting married women (the only ones who should be having sex, and definitely not enjoying it) have access to contraception or abortions.
It is who her party is. I like her but she’s in denial.
re: #451 Ace Rothstein
“it would take me a year to migrate to another bank”
And they know it.
oh no doubt
given the varied and sometimes complicate nature of what we have to do, id say that overall they probably rate a B or B-. the website got way better the last 2 years especially the bill pay, the phone app for deposits works 95% of the time, and the local bankers bend over backwards when we need some tlc.
except for stuff like last night, they do what i want and i have them pretty well under control, so on to other stuff:
catfish for dinner!
re: #455 KGxvi
Not letting gay people get married or adopt kids, also not letting married women (the only ones who should be having sex, and definitely not enjoying it) have access to contraception or abortions.
Which was a GOP thing when Ana advised Jeb. She’s not a bad person imo but she’s blind about the pre Trump GOP.
re: #456 HappyWarrior
It is who her party is. I like her but she’s in denial.
I dream of the day when the GOP is no longer the party of Fascism and Plutocracy and goes back to simply being the party of Plutocracy.
re: #452 Barefoot Grin
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re: #459 Blind Frog Belly White
I dream of the day when the GOP is no longer the party of Fascism and Plutocracy and goes back to simply being the party of Plutocracy.
Yep.
re: #454 HappyWarrior
Ana is saying this isn’t who Americans are but I don’t disagree with you about her party.
Concur about this is not being what Americans are (Well most of us). Was hammering her about her party.
“From my cold dead hands!”
BREAKING: MORE COLLUSION! The FBI is now investigating Alexander Torshin, a man very close to Putin. It is alleged that Torshin gave millions of dollars to the NRA as a means of illegally getting the money into Trump’s hands. So the NRA is now involved in Russian collusion too!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 18, 2018
re: #462 Bubblehead II
Concur about this is not being what Americans are (Well most of us). Was hammering her about her party.
Yeah I misread her. She was saying this isn’t who her party is. I like Ana but she’s wrong.
re: #363 Dave In Austin
Here’s a dandy as a Reminder: @SenTomCotton
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So Tom Cotton is acting like my representative.
re: #417 Stanley Sea
I’ve never used auto-bill pay and never will as long as I can still write cheques or money orders, for precisely this reason.
As for Wells-Fargo, it is the faked up account scandal that caused my village government to move our accounts to our local agricultural bank (which also pays better interest on CDs the village owns).
When my wife and I first moved here we got a ton of advert fliers from Wells, Bank of the West, &c to open accounts with them. Nope, we stuck with the locally-owned banks whose owners we know personally.
re: #459 Blind Frog Belly White
I dream of the day when the GOP is no longer the party of Fascism and Plutocracy and goes back to simply being the party of Plutocracy.
The problem with that is that the Fascism is more popular than the Plutocracy, so the GOP isn’t likely to give up on it.
re: #446 HappyWarrior
I’m having some issues right now with my son, he’s really not getting what he has to do to actually “get” dating and reciprocal relationships. I worry that he will end up vulnerable to this shit because he’s not getting that the problem is his, not the young women he can’t seem to connect with. He’s a good person, but he’s also really self focused and cheap as hell (to the point of not buying new shoes or underwear when they’re falling apart), which isn’t helpful either. I do not know if this is Aspergers related, just being a 23 yr old dude or a combo platter.
Here’s something else I see happening: A lot of young men seem to have a very specific type of woman they want. She has to be a certain height, weight, etc. Of course we all do this, have a physical “type” we’re attracted to, but in the case of these young men, that creates all kinds of barriers to what could be good relationships. Because the standards are so rigid. That leggy supermodel type or whatever she “should” be is the only women they pursue and so the rejection is almost guaranteed. They won’t consider any woman outside of their super narrow definition of what they think is perfect. So if she has the wrong hair color, or isn’t a size 3, or doesn’t like the same music then that’s it, she’s not worth another look , EVEN IF SHE ACTUALLY WAS INTERESTED at first. So, I think a lot of this “gamergate” and MRA type anger is based on this crap, in part at least. I have a hard time getting this, and I’ve had my share of shitty treatment from men in my past.
My personal taste, the ideal guy for me looks like Chris Cornell or Eddie Vedder. Did I fall in love and marry a guy who looks like either? Nope, lol. I married an overweight, tattooed up biker looking dude who is a skilled tradesperson. Because I didn’t shut out possibilities , even after a messy divorce and abusive relationships in my past. So what are we doing to young men and boys to make them so unrealistic. Not that young women are not frought with their own cultural challenges, but I don’t see the level of hate and huge numbers of groups online hating on men like we are seeing with men.
YMMV of course, but I really wonder how some of this can be countered. It’s not healthy for us as a culture or community to have so many disconnected young (and older) men out there being so pissed at women in general.
re: #448 Ace Rothstein
My branch is two blocks away and I can walk there if I have to. I know that they’re blood-sucking varmints not to mention straight-up criminals for their role in the mortgage meltdown and fake accounts.
I’d just like to note that not all of us who work for the stagecoach and horsies are blood-sucking varmints or straight up criminals. There are thousands of us on the tech side, and while I can only speak for my experience, I can tell you people were staggering around in a daze after the fake account scandal broke. We didn’t have a clue, and worse yet, there were no technological signs anything was wrong. I’ve thought about it a lot. How could we have detected the problems? In so many of the accounts, they were for legit customers and the accounts looked legit! It wasn’t like counterfeit money was being deposited.
People are still unhappy and angry about what happened, but don’t blame all of us-we didnot know.
re: #464 DodgerFan1988
“From my cold dead hands!”
BREAKING: MORE COLLUSION! The FBI is now investigating Alexander Torshin, a man very close to Putin. It is alleged that Torshin gave millions of dollars to the NRA as a means of illegally getting the money into Trump’s hands. So the NRA is now involved in Russian collusion too!
Didn’t that Sheriff Clarke character go to Moscow with a NRA delegation to meet with Torshin at the same time as Michael Flynn and Jill Stein were dining with Putin? Why, yes, he did!
re: #470 A Mom Anon
My personal taste, the ideal guy for me looks like Chris Cornell or Eddie Vedder. Did I fall in love and marry a guy who looks like either? Nope, lol. I married an overweight, tattooed up biker looking dude who is a skilled tradesperson.
LOL, me too!
(And he knows that my target of perfection is Sean Connery…and he’s OK with that, which makes it even better!)
When shit hits the fan, mom, think about heading to TheBackwoods. We can always use trade skills here.
re: #235 makeitstop
I even tried that! Folkies with amps. That’s all I ever got out of it. :)
The first time I saw them playing live (on the TV) I couldn’t understand why they were all playing nine different songs at the same time (but not in the same time.)
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