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Does the Constitution still have that provision where if the government shuts down and you control Congress you get automatically impeached?
There it is, the government is now shut down.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 20, 2018
O hai! A shutdown, u can has it!
MSNBC clock just zeroed out.
They’re gonna put up a “time since the shutdown” clock soon.
re: #1 SpaceJesus
Does the Constitution still have that provision where if the government shuts down and you control Congress you get automatically impeached?
Where on Earth have you been? Long time no see.
Repost from downstairs:
re: #360 wheat-dogg
You got photos of this mythical beast to share? Will Jay Leno die of envy?
It’s not a Toyota 2000GT Convertible sadly so he won’t die of envy sadly.
Here’s photos of it from the JU Nara auctionhouse. It’s a 1993 Toyota Mark 2 Tourer V:
It has 79,000 km’s and it is BONE-STOCK! And I got it for a killer price too! 388,000¥!!!! First thing I’m going to have done is a manual transmission swap since the auto’s are pieces of junk and takes the fun out of the car. The car is ready for export thanks to its January ‘93 build date so it will be federally legal!
Holy shit I’m still in shock lol
I hereby declare myself warlord of all lands west of the Pecos
Government shut down and now I have to cancel Doctor appointments for Monday and Wednesday…
TUCK YOU, FRUMP!
And Trump immediately issues a statement blaming it on Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. Had this one ready to go, obviously.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 20, 2018
re: #5 electrotek
Repost from downstairs:
It’s not a Toyota 2000GT Convertible sadly so he won’t die of envy sadly.
Here’s photos of it from the JU Nara auctionhouse. It’s a 1993 Toyota Mark 2 Tourer V:
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It has 79,000 km’s and it is BONE-STOCK! And I got it for a killer price too! 388,000¥!!!! First thing I’m going to have done is a manual transmission swap since the auto’s are pieces of junk and takes the fun out of the car. The car is ready for export thanks to its January ‘93 build date so it will be federally legal!
Holy shit I’m still in shock lol
Nice ride! Congrats.
Just shows that you can have all the cards and lose if you don’t know what you’re doing.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2013
re: #5 electrotek
Looks like a sweet ride. Hope delivery is quick and hassle free.
re: #5 electrotek
That’s under $4000 US, right? How much does it cost to get it here? And how much fun will you have with a right-hand-driver on US roads?
A Toyota Mark 2 Tourer V is basically a 4 door Supra RZ/TT, but 200 lbs lighter. It is a RWD sedan powered by a twin-turbo inline 6 engine with a potent chassis that has made the platform a highly sought-after one for motorsports, especially in the world of drifting.
Don’t let the bland late-90’s Camry looks fool you…this is a force to be reckoned with.
I got so many plans with this car. This will be the first turbocharged car for me since 2003 when I bought a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8 when it first came to American shores back then. It’s LONG-overdue for me!
First off, GOP, a bit of marketing 101: most Americans don’t know who Chuck Schumer is (with due respect to the Democratic leader.) This shutdown belongs to you and your president. #TrumpShutdown
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 20, 2018
Trump also playing 3d marketing chess.
So Flake and Graham are negotiating with Dems right now…interesting.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) January 20, 2018
Official White House statement on #SchumerShutdown pic.twitter.com/2PiPz2rJ3J
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 20, 2018
#BREAKING from the White House. Although interesting how the statement calls the shames Dems for a “political” government shutdown, and then @PressSec uses a politically-motivated hashtag to deliver the message. https://t.co/5Y6r6qvoh5
— Hillary Lake, WCPO (@hillarylake) January 20, 2018
re: #10 SpaceJesus
Just shows that you can have all the cards and lose if you don’t know what you’re doing.
That almost sounds like a flash of self-realization.
Nah.
Begun the #TrumpShutdown has. LET THE PURGE BEGIN! pic.twitter.com/tGH52uPPnr
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 20, 2018
Ooh. Really like the tune. Gonna have to throw it on one of my walking playlists. Thanks Charles.
It’s a #TrumpShutdown.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 20, 2018
re: #5 electrotek
Repost from downstairs:
It’s not a Toyota 2000GT Convertible sadly so he won’t die of envy sadly.
Here’s photos of it from the JU Nara auctionhouse. It’s a 1993 Toyota Mark 2 Tourer V:
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It has 79,000 km’s and it is BONE-STOCK! And I got it for a killer price too! 388,000¥!!!! First thing I’m going to have done is a manual transmission swap since the auto’s are pieces of junk and takes the fun out of the car. The car is ready for export thanks to its January ‘93 build date so it will be federally legal!
Holy shit I’m still in shock lol
They could’ve at least detailed the interior…it’s a bit nasty inside, but it looks good on the outside and sounds like a good deal.
Just a few examples high quality regular people pushing the Schumer tag in the face of the #TrumpShutdown.
Nothing bot-y about them at all, he said sarcastically.#GOPshutdown pic.twitter.com/IDJci6j7zb— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) January 19, 2018
Just because he told the truth doesn’t mean he wasn’t right, Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #12 ipsos
That’s under $4000 US, right? How much does it cost to get it here? And how much fun will you have with a right-hand-driver on US roads?
Yeah according to the current shitty exchange rate, yes. Luckily I wired over $7,000 USD to my guy in Chiba back in November when it was 112JPY to 1USD so they got almost 800,000 JPY in the process.
It’ll be fine. I have a few friends who drive RHD cars brought in from overseas when they turned 25 years old to be federally legal for import and they don’t mind…other than the attention it will inevitably receive.
re: #7 Joe Bacon 🌹
Government shut down and now I have to cancel Doctor appointments for Monday and Wednesday…
TUCK YOU, FRUMP!
As far as I know, my VA appointment next week is still up, but it’s in an outpatient clinic so I don’t know.
#TrumpShutdown becomes top trending hashtag worldwide https://t.co/NBYDX12fL1 pic.twitter.com/f5eGfx5TmA
— The Hill (@thehill) January 20, 2018
Shutdown o’clock. McConnell at his podium. Big crowd still around Schumer.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 20, 2018
re: #21 TedStriker
They could’ve at least detailed the interior…it’s a bit nasty inside, but it looks good on the outside and sounds like a good deal.
It’s an auction house so that isn’t their biggest priority lol
Those Japanese auction inspection reports are notoriously thorough in their assessments of every car that goes in for Auction. Let me give you an idea: USS Tokyo churns out 20,000 cars a WEEK.
You guys know how strict the shaken inspection is over there? It puts America into deep shame with the amount of hoopties that are allowed to be driven on American roads.
— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) January 20, 2018
re: #6 SpaceJesus
I hereby declare myself warlord of all lands west of the Pecos
I claim the Nebraska Sandhills and all the tumbleweeds and cattle found therein.
Trump and the Republicans control everything in Washington and they can’t even get their act together to keep the government open. Terrible. #GOPshutdown
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 20, 2018
I liked Fran Dresher before she started doing this crazed YouTube character, who yells like a braying drunk, drives 119MPH, and gets obsessed with the woman she lost a senate race to, so she stalks her in the woods by her private home. It’s so creepy. pic.twitter.com/fnpl9ZAzf1
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 20, 2018
This is some weapons-grade nightmare fuel. https://t.co/wFW4whxvti
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 20, 2018
Happy New Year!!!
Oh wait. Wrong countdown.
But it has been a long year.
Fun game to play on the anniversary of inauguration: What’s going to piss Trump off more — getting blamed for the shutdown, having to skip his party, or the massive women’s marches this weekend?
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) January 20, 2018
I bet Trump would’ve angrily denied the Stormy Daniels story if he weren’t secretly high-fiving people about it.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 20, 2018
re: #34 ObserverArt
Happy New Year!!!
Oh wait. Wrong countdown.
But it has been a long year.
20 days in and it feels like a whole year already.
Hey GOP, quit blaming us. Quoting your own guy:
Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2013
Ya got what you wanted, Joe….I hope that some of your friends are able to get government services that they need - otherwise, they could die…..are you willing to live with that ?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #37 makeitstop
20 days in and it feels like a whole year already.
Plus we are now officially in year two of Trump.
I read somewhere Luntz was airing one of his Trumptard focus groups tonight.
McConnell blaming the Democrats right now…called it a cynical ploy
McConnell is now cynically describing the Democrats as cynical, and their decision completely political.
FUCK YOU #MCTURTLE
— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) January 20, 2018
re: #43 ObserverArt
Plus we are now officially in year two of Trump.
That’s written Cuspidor Year II.
re: #47 jaunte
McConnell is now cynically describing the Democrats as cynical, and their decision completely political.
Dems should just start loudly laughing at him. The loser.
McConnell complaining about the Democratic filibuster. WTH is he talking about?
Oh…pulling out the military card now…
fucking asshole
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
McConnell blaming the Democrats right now…called it a cynical ploy
re: #47 jaunte
McConnell is now cynically describing the Democrats as cynical, and their decision completely political.
Projection is all they have.
Unfortunately, yet again, it seems like that’s all they need to get the media lapping at their feet.
So that answers that question.
The only thing Trump can keep open is his marriage.— YS (@NYinLA2121) January 20, 2018
Republicans take NO responsibility EVER. THey caused all the shutdowns during Obama time and blamed the democrats. Now when they are in control, they are blaming democrats.
They have no shame - ever. If the American people are taken in by this nonsense they deserve trump and all he represents
where did I leave my tiny violin and sad trombone?
The President said he was going to run America like his businesses. Apparently we have reached the part where he would usually just declare bankruptcy and run away. #TrumpShutdown
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) January 19, 2018
re: #56 fern01
Republicans take NO responsibility EVER. THey caused all the shutdowns during Obama time and blamed the democrats. Now when they are in control, they are blaming democrats.
They have no shame - ever. If the American people are taken in by this nonsense they deserve trump and all he represents
Yep.
Someone should throw a hard cover of Green Eggs and Ham in the Majority Leaders general direction.
Mitch McConnell speaks after #TrumpShutdown and calls it “a cynical decision by Senate Democrats.” No mention that Republicans Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, Rand Paul and Mike Lee voted against the bill. And, technically, McConnell himself voted against it (for procedural reasons).
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 20, 2018
Oh…we don’t want to touch DACA do we?
Fuck off Mitch. Like how you slid that in there right after all the moaning.
I love that @SenateMajLdr is pretending to care about CHIP kids. Dude, YOU LET CHIP EXPIRE NEARLY 120 DAYS AGO and then tried to use those kids as hostages!! #TrumpShutdown
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 20, 2018
A government shutdown would be one of the most important political events of all time since last Thursday.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 20, 2018
The GOP crocodile tears over the military piss me off especially by the rank and file who were fine with the last shutdown. This is on the GOP. McConnell doesn’t want to budge on anything.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He could not even get a Republican from his own state but yeah this is the Dems fault.
re: #56 fern01
Facts do not matter to conservatives, they only want to ram oppression and misery down our throats.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
The GOP crocodile tears over the military piss me off especially by the rank and file who were fine with the last shutdown. This is on the GOP. McConnell doesn’t want to budge on anything.
Shut down over 2 manufactured crises. DACA was not a thing, CHIP was not a thing. Trump made one into a crisis, GOP made the other. Just fund CHIP, like always, accept bipartisan agreement, like always. But no…GOP can only govern through crisis and blackmail.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 20, 2018
The vote is not officially over until the bespectacled turtle from Kentucky cries about it on the senate floor. #GOPShutdown #TrumpShutdown #Trumpdown
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 20, 2018
My senator Dick Durbin tried to save Trump from this calamity. Trump decided to listen to a racist aide who looks like Beaky Buzzard
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 20, 2018
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Meanwhile Chuck Schumer talks about bipartisan agreements that trump refuses to accept.
McConnell asks “how did we get here?” Here’s why Mitch- because you and your party don’t give a damn about DACA kids. And don’t forget your party has left CHIP kids without health coverage for months because YOU decided not to fund the program.Hypocrite.Trump shutdown is on you
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) January 20, 2018
Well, my friend who works as a weather forecaster at Offutt AFB still has to go to work sans pay.
re: #74 fern01
Meanwhile Chuck Schumer talks about bipartisan agreements that trump refuses to accept.
McConnell too.
And just for the record, FUCK THE GOP FOR FUCKING WITH THE USD AND MAKING IT WEAKER RIGHT NOW!
44 Democrats vote to shut down government in favor of illegals over American children on Chip program pic.twitter.com/SePfz9cLGU
— JGX (@jgx1313) January 20, 2018
This is how they think: it’s down to pure racism and xenophobia at this point and they’re not even hiding it. It’s the brown & black kids or “our” kids (note: they’re ALL our kids if you have an ounce of humanity). And @SenMajLdr Mitch McConnell has encouraged it. #TrumpShutdown https://t.co/xsRO64I0uO
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 20, 2018
trump doesn’t know the rudiments of governing (or words to that effect by Schumer)
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹
A government shutdown would be one of the most important political events of all time since last Thursday.
Ain’t that the truth - in the Age of Obama the shutdowns were massive political events - with trump just another stupid event.
re: #75 jaunte
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Holder hasn’t held back his punches since he left public life has he? Not complaining at all, he’s right.
For those not aware, there exists a hot exchange of mathiness around the net, for some time now, about this (increasingly infamous) video by the popular Numberphile Youtube channel:
It has caused all sorts of confusion. The argument presented is actually wrong, but it takes someone knowledgeable of mathematics to explain why.
Here is one such guy, how recently put up a clear (if lengthy) explanation:
Put simply, the original Numberphile guys broke the rules for working with infinite sums, as one of their infinite sums diverges and there is nothing that can be done about that.
Donny is not going to like Chuck anymore after this. No way he can take this kind of criticism.
about to head into an unguarded national park and make a gravity bong out of some precious artifact . This shutdown is gonna be fire emoji
— EL GLIKO (@ElGliko) January 20, 2018
re: #80 jaunte
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“Illegals” who know home but this one and if this asshole knew a damn thing about CHIP, he’d know the GOP never cared about it.
re: #83 fern01
Ain’t that the truth - in the Age of Obama the shutdowns were massive political events - with trump just another stupid event.
But for Trump, it’s Tuesday.
/
re: #78 HappyWarrior
McConnell too.
Chuck was calling out trump much more than McConnell. The latter is now back up attacking the democrats. I will never understand why they protect the imbecile.
McConnell now quoting trump - both of them deserve each other.
McConnell is just stamping his little feet and having a tantrum now
McConnell didn’t give a sh*t what Democrats thought when he was working on the GOP taxcut for the rich legislation. Hell, he didn’t even care what some GOPers thought, either. Now that he was dealing with the task of keeping the government funded and has failed, he’s concerned about Democrats helping him to do his own d*mn job? As someone here and on Twitter said, “Fruck McConnell.” At least an honest, nasty *ss, low down b*st*rd would notice his/her own hypocrisy, but not that *sshole McConnell. The Talking Yam can say whatever he wants to say about this, but it wasn’t HRC or any other Democrat who claims to be the world’s best dealmaker. If there’s two things I hope he learns from being POTUS, it’s that millions of us around the world don’t care for his lying *ss and think he’s a yuuuge failure.
re: #90 fern01
Chuck was calling out trump much more than McConnell. The latter is now back up attacking the democrats. I will never understand why they protect the imbecile.
McConnell now quoting trump - both of them deserve each other.
No, I’m saying that McConnell refuses to accept bipartisan agreements.
Whiny McConnell is even more disgusting than smug McConnell.
re: #80 jaunte
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It’s a supremely cynical ploy by the GOP: Use CHIP to entice Democrats to vote for cloture and possibly the bill, and if they refused then portray it as “voting for ‘illegals’ over American kids!”
My rather apolitical wife is yelling at her computer watching Senator McConnell now as he lies through his teeth.
That bipartisan bill from Sens. Graham and Durbin is still available to vote on.
re: #95 Targetpractice
It’s a supremely cynical ploy by the GOP: Use CHIP to entice Democrats to vote for cloture and possibly the bill, and if they refused then portray it as “voting for ‘illegals’ over American kids!”
I’m glad the Democrats didn’t take the bait.
re: #94 jaunte
Whiny McConnell is even more disgusting than smug McConnell.
I’ve only known the asshole McConnell.
Funny thing, they never actually voted on the CR.
The only vote tonight was for cloture to cut off debate on the CR
re: #93 HappyWarrior
No, I’m saying that McConnell refuses to accept bipartisan agreements.
Bipartisan agreements mean sharing some of the credit. The GOP has wanted badly to be seen as the “saviors” of the nation. Remember, that was a big part of Trump’s sales pitch: “The country is broken and only I can fix it!”
McConnell is a piece of crap. Was before Trump and will be if he outlives him politically.
#TrumpShutdown
Obvious GOP just don’t do their jobs
Bitched about healthcare for 8 years but had no alternative ready
Had no detailed plans for taxes, rammed thru ridiculous untested changes
Had since September to work on CHIP & DACA, but have no consensus in their own party— Gamora🔥💖 (@exoticgamora) January 20, 2018
re: #100 Targetpractice
Bipartisan agreements mean sharing some of the credit. The GOP has wanted badly to be seen as the “saviors” of the nation. Remember, that was a big part of Trump’s sales pitch: “The country is broken and only I can fix it!”
Exactly. McConnell can go fuck himself. He’s been a bullying prick for too long.
Seriously, the Great Dealmaker is likely upstairs in his jammies eating hot apple pies by the fistful and wondering out loud to nobody whether he snorted too many Adderall. #TrumpShutdown
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 20, 2018
re: #102 jaunte
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re: #93 HappyWarrior
No, I’m saying that McConnell refuses to accept bipartisan agreements.
Ah - sorry - I misunderstood.
Turtle now demanding democrat assistance - funny about that.
Can he remove the filibuster to get the funding passed? I really don’t understand how this works. In my world we had a shutdown once (1975). It was sorted via a new election and a law was past (I think, or an agreement reached) where our senate could not refuse supply (basic government spending) - so we’ve never had a shutdown since.
What is it they are voting on now? Keeping the government open to Feb 8?
Trump and Republicans refused to negotiate w Democrats, wrote a terrible bill, and now own this shutdown. Trump rooted for a shutdown, and now he got what he wanted. Bad night.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 20, 2018
Trump is only upset because his party tomorrow is ruined.
Sen. Schumer: “Every American knows the Republican Party controls the White House, the Senate, the House. It’s their job to keep the government open. It’s their job to work with us on a way to move things forward.” https://t.co/eK4NmkzQpF pic.twitter.com/7U9RaoDpvX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 20, 2018
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Murphy gets it. They refused to negotiate at all. But then again this is a party who doesn’t care about bipartisanship and hasn’t in a long time.
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹
What is it they are voting on now? Keeping the government open to Feb 8?
tabling a motion to defer or something like that.
re: #107 fern01
Ah - sorry - I misunderstood.
Turtle now demanding democrat assistance - funny about that.Can he remove the filibuster to get the funding passed? I really don’t understand how this works. In my world we had a shutdown once (1975). It was sorted via a new election and a law was past (I think, or an agreement reached) where our senate could not refuse supply (basic government spending) - so we’ve never had a shutdown since.
No, he can’t. That’s set at the beginning of the legislative term (every two years). All he really has to do is allow bipartisan bills created to fund CHIP and legalize DACA.
re: #6 SpaceJesus
I hereby declare myself warlord of all lands west of the Pecos
Any man west of the Rio Grande is the king of the world as far as I know.
re: #107 fern01
Ah - sorry - I misunderstood.
Turtle now demanding democrat assistance - funny about that.Can he remove the filibuster to get the funding passed? I really don’t understand how this works. In my world we had a shutdown once (1975). It was sorted via a new election and a law was past (I think, or an agreement reached) where our senate could not refuse supply (basic government spending) - so we’ve never had a shutdown since.
No, you’re good. I see why I confused. Shutdowns as I recall were fairly rare here until Gingrich took control of the House GOP in the early 90’s.
The term “illegals” really just tap dances all over my last nerve.
re: #114 Belafon
No, he can’t. That’s set at the beginning of the legislative term (every two years). All he really has to do is allow bipartisan bills created to fund CHIP and legalize DACA.
Thanks - he really doesn’t want to do the latter, I gather they could have been sorted months ago - what a mean horrible man - not to mention Paul Ryan.
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
Turtles are cold-blooded creatures, y’know….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #117 plansbandc
The term “illegals” really just tap dances all over my last nerve.
My peeve is when they act like it’s a crime in the sense robbing a bank is. Oh and don’t get me started on the smug assholes who insist their family emigrated legally without knowing one way or the other or how complicated immigration is.
re: #81 De Kolta Chair
Remember: The best tunes are played on old instruments….
Gold and silver are both up. The coins in my safe deposit box are getting paid at least.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
Gold and silver are both up. The coins in my safe deposit box are getting paid at least.
But Bitcoin brooo
re: #115 austin_blue
Any man west of the Rio Grande is the king of the world as far as I know.
I am King.
Arkansas hot take coming in:
If there IS a shutdown, how long before the Dems blame it on Russia?
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 20, 2018
Shit I remember Malkin harassing a kid for advocating for CHIP. They don’t care about those kids. They tried to cynically bait the Democratic Senators into screwing the DREAMers.
Oh by the way, would it be a bad idea if I had a “This machine kills fascists” decal on my new RHD turbo saloon?
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹
Arkansas hot take coming in:
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Maybe Huckabee should move to Russia. His values fit in better there.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
And the Dems, to their credit wouldn’t give in. Good. Republicans own this.
re: #127 electrotek
Oh by the way, would it be a bad idea if I had a “This machine kills fascists” decal on my new RHD turbo saloon?
I wouldn’t risk it. You never know who’s going to trash your vehicle over that.
re: #127 electrotek
Yes. That sticker only works on things that actually can’t kill human beings (unless you really put the effort into it) like guitars…
Yet you conveniently ignore many @GOP members who did not sign on to fund the budget….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #130 plansbandc
And the Dems, to their credit wouldn’t give in. Good. Republicans own this.
If we had, there are already sick children who would have lost their parents.
re: #132 teleskiguy
Yes. That sticker only works on things that actually can’t kill human beings (unless you really put the effort into it) like guitars…
Good point. Guess I’ll place a sticker on a musical instrument when I get my hands on a Roland TB-303 or a TR-909 one of these days…which will be never given how much they go for still :(
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Trump is only upset because his party tomorrow is ruined.
At least something good came out of this.
re: #132 teleskiguy
Yes. That sticker only works on things that actually can’t kill human beings (unless you really put the effort into it) like guitars…
The guitar is awesome. If I had one, that’s be the first thing I’d get on it as a homage to Woody but good point.
re: #133 The Major
Cornyn lying about the troops as well.
I really despise the faux-patriotism of conservative politicians. My entire life it has been thus. Gaaa.
In college I had a couple of private notebooks (that I still have somewhere) that had stickers on them that read “This Machine Kills Fascists.” True story.
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹
Cornyn lying about the troops as well.
I really despise the faux-patriotism of conservative politicians. My entire life it has been thus. Gaaa.
They’ve gotten away with it for too long. I wish more vets like yourself would call it out and I’m glad you do.
Who ended DACA? Republicans.
Who put off funding CHIP for 4 months? Republicans.
Who rejected a deal to restore DACA? Republicans.
Who put CHIP in the CR to try to force it to pass without DACA? Republicans?
Who caused the shutdown? Republicans
It’s that simple. #GOPShutdown— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 19, 2018
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Trump is only upset because his party tomorrow is ruined.
I’d take a small wager that he flies down to the party - may not stay long - but he’ll be there.
re: #144 fern01
I’d take a small wager that he flies down to the party - may not stay long - but he’ll be there.
I’m sure he will. I hope he’s miserable.
I’m guessing the IRS doesn’t count as “essential service” either. If that is so, the libertarian nihilists in the GOP get that wish as well.
One key point here: the GOP as a party wants to see the Dreamers deported but weirdly won’t just say that’s their position.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 20, 2018
re: #148 jaunte
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re: #142 HappyWarrior
They’ve gotten away with it for too long. I wish more vets like yourself would call it out and I’m glad you do.
Sometimes I feel like a lonely voice in the Sandhills.
Everyone in my village knows exactly where I stand on this issue though.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹
Sometimes I feel like a lonely voice in the Sandhills.
Everyone in my village knows exactly where I stand on this issue though.
That’s all you can do. Be true to yourself.
I’d rather be surrounded by the #Dreamers than people who think that the luck of their birth is the only qualification they need to be American.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 20, 2018
Per a source familiar: it was Kelly who called Schumer to say that the outline of the deal that Schumer and Trump had discussed was too liberal
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 20, 2018
In ways we are only beginning to grasp, Trump isn’t really the president. https://t.co/3iuR9ixTSe
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 20, 2018
re: #152 Belafon
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Same. I know that my American birth is not divine. It’s happenstance and a few other bumps in the road, I’m not here.
Dollar down versus a large basket of currencies tracked by Kitco, except for the Hong Kong dollar (up a few tenths of a cent).
This isn’t about any of the things that are relevant- the Dreamers, CHIP, funding the Government. It’s about a completely dysfunctional Republican Party which, despite having control of the Senate, the House, and the Presidency, cannot govern.
This is chaos. This is disastrous. This is the new normal.
Job Alert: The UK Needs a Chicken Nugget Taste-Tester — https://t.co/7KRPQa20IT pic.twitter.com/sKut9REAxQ
— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) January 20, 2018
Trump? https://t.co/vGWytyfGQo
— Kelly Marie Carlin (@kelly_carlin) January 20, 2018
re: #153 JordanRules
Time should run covers showing Trump standing behind each of them titled “The Real President.” It would seriously piss Trump off.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 20, 2018
Trump has managed to shut down the government faster than one of his casinos. #TrumpShutdown
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 20, 2018
Man, when even Comrade Glenn isn’t ready to stand behind a Russian talking point, you know it’s some weak shit
The democrats are lucky Republicans are honorable people. If we played the game like they do the memo would be all over CNN and everywhere else by now. Maybe it’s time we stoop to their level? #releasethememo
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 19, 2018
This makes no sense for multiple reasons: 1) your dad could declassify the docs, which he should do if they really show pervasive criminality & spying abuses; 2) it’s not “stooping” to reveal high-level crimes; it’s a duty; 3) refusal to release this suggests it’s all bullshit. https://t.co/c1mhXVHPwu
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 19, 2018
I still don’t understand the purpose of this vote.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
I still don’t understand the purpose of this vote.
Blame the Dems. Pure and simple. It’s bullshit, but it’ll play to the base.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
I still don’t understand the purpose of this vote.
It’s for tabling the tabling of the continuing resolution which may or may not go on for another vote for continuing the resolution for cloture.
re: #162 FormerDirtDart
Man, when even Comrade Glenn isn’t ready to stand behind a Russian talking point, you know it’s some weak shit
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Fredo let the cat out of the bag earlier anyhow. He’s an idiot. Eric probably is tired of people assuming he’s the dumb one. Eric at least can keep his yap shut more then big brother who can’t shut up.
re: #162 FormerDirtDart
When you have lost Glenn Green Grenwlad @DonaldJTrumpJr, you are in deep shit….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #163 electrotek
I’ve seen those, they are great machines.
I just have a very emotional attachment to the TB-303, TR-808, and the TR-909’s :(
I hear ya. I had a 909 for a few years. Then I got a Korg DDD-1 that actually used samples and sold the Roland for peanuts.
I still have the Korg, but I wish like hell I still had the 909.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
I still don’t understand the purpose of this vote.
It’s the annual political football used for political gains by one side of the aisle ever since it went full-on “balanced budget.”
re: #116 HappyWarrior
No, you’re good. I see why I confused. Shutdowns as I recall were fairly rare here until Gingrich took control of the House GOP in the early 90’s.
Happy I just started working for Social Security in 1978 when Rep. Chalmers Wylie of Ohio triggered the first shutdown in 1978 with his demand that Medicaid stop paying for abortions. At that time Ed Brooke was in the Senate and he refused to go along. For 3 weeks we were not paid but we had to go to work in the Chicago Payment Center. That’s when this madness started…
re: #165 austin_blue
Blame the Dems. Pure and simple. It’s bullshit, but it’ll play to the base.
They always do that.
re: #166 teleskiguy
It’s for tabling the tabling of the continuing resolution which may or may not go on for another vote for continuing the resolution for cloture.
Okay that makes sense. Kabuki theatre.
re: #170 wheat-dogg
It’s the annual political football used for political gains by one side of the aisle ever since it went full-on “balanced budget.”
The last surplus the government ran was under Bill Clinton. GWB made short work of it.
One key takeaway from Mitch McConnell’s whiny speeches on the Sen floor tonight:
He has absolutely no idea what to do in circumstances when Republican votes alone aren’t enough.
He’s a one-trick pony… and he’s out of tricks.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 20, 2018
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹
I still don’t understand the purpose of this vote.
I think they are voting on whether or not to have a vote later (not tonight) on a CR that funds the govt thru Feb 9.
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
Happy I just started working for Social Security in 1978 when Rep. Chalmers Wylie of Ohio triggered the first shutdown in 1978 with his demand that Medicaid stop paying for abortions. At that time Ed Brooke was in the Senate and he refused to go along. For 3 weeks we were not paid but we had to go to work in the Chicago Payment Center. That’s when this madness started…
Ah. Didn’t know about the 78 one. Before my Moms time and after Dad’s Dad retirement from the NLRB.
So after this vote, what happens then, regardless of an aye or nay vote?
My wife reading the Vice live chat says the conservatives there are just as confused as the liberals on what the heck is going on.
It’s 9 am in Moscow right now. Putin is likely receiving a briefing on our government shutdown. I would suspect he is awake, smiling, and energized.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) January 20, 2018
re: #169 makeitstop
I hear ya. I had a 909 for a few years. Then I got a Korg DDD-1 that actually used samples and sold the Roland for peanuts.
I still have the Korg, but I wish like hell I still had the 909.
YOU HAD A 909?!?!?!?!
Those kicks in the 909’s man, they’re so distinct and recognizable. Hard to replicate elsewhere with ‘em.
You have any idea what the 909’s go for these days? It’s insane!
#TrumpShutdown THANK ALL YOU #REPUBLICANS #MAGA FOR PROVING MY POINT TO #AMERICA EVERY DAY,JUST WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE pic.twitter.com/bwxTtO3NAK #RACIST #BIGOT #LYING #MAGA #TRUMPTRASH #AMERICAFIRST #FOXNEWS LYING SCUM HIDING BEHIND #GOD #HYPOCRITES,WHAT PIECE SOF LYING S*** YOU ARE
— Larry (@crazylary51) January 20, 2018
There’s also a @FoxNews for everything too. https://t.co/iXs4eS3ysF
— Kelly Marie Carlin (@kelly_carlin) January 20, 2018
re: #174 makeitstop
Ah-Yep…. and he made that crystal clear when he proclaimed that the the Senate’s priorities was to make @POTUS44 a one term President….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #179 electrotek
YOU HAD A 909?!?!?!?!
Those kicks in the 909’s man, they’re so distinct and recognizable. Hard to replicate elsewhere with ‘em.
You have any idea what the 909’s go for these days? It’s insane!
I bought it new with an MSQ-700 sequencer, which I also still have. I dove head-first into MIDI for a while and did programming for a few studios out here on LI.
Which was why I bought the DDD-1. Everybody wanted more ‘real’ drum sounds and the Korg was the best my budget could do at the time.
So does Mr. Marmalade actually want to fly Air Force One down to Mar-A-Lardo with a pilot on furlough?????
re: #184 Joe Bacon 🌹
So does Mr. Marmalade actually want to fly Air Force One down to Mar-A-Lardo with a pilot on furlough?????
Trump’s awesome. He can fly it himself.
GOP delenda est needs to be a trending hashtag on Twitter.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
trump doesn’t know the rudiments of governing (or words to that effect by Schumer)
Look at HuffPo’s Main—kinda says it all:
re: #184 Joe Bacon 🌹
So does Mr. Marmalade actually want to fly Air Force One down to Mar-A-Lardo with a pilot on furlough?????
service members aren’t being furloughed
Hmmm, does this mean Trump has to do his own laundry and cleaning work there at the White House?
My sense is that people are far angrier at the President than they are at Congress re the shutdown—an interesting turn!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2013
re: #188 BeachDem
Look at HuffPo’s Main—kinda says it all:
From your link Democrats who voted for cloture -
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana.
Why did the dems fight so hard for Doug Jones? Do these people think it will make any difference to their re-election doing this - what they need to be re-elected is a GOP disaster in their state, a child abuser running against them or an R next to their name.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹
There is always a tweet - always.
Well, they did what Drumpf wanted. They proved they cannot govern, even when they have all of the reins.
At this point, a functioning government is in free fall.
I’m sure that over the weekend, very serious talks will occur among the parties involved, but the D’s are just not going to move on the basic issues and the R’s are either going to have to crawfish (i.e. compromise), or entrench.
If they entrench, we could see this extend into February, by which time CHIP will be defunded in most of the States and kids will start to die, especially during this serious flu season.
I’m off to bed. This just sucks on numerous levels. These programs that are being defunded or eradicated are crucial to the common good. This contravenes the preamble to the Constitution and is just un-American and downright evil.
Fuck these Wingnuts right up their shitholes.
Senator Nelson asked for unanimous consent to prevent a shutdown by buying us another 24 hours. It was objected to by Leader Mconnell.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 20, 2018
On the Senate floor, @SenateMajLdr just blocked a bill to ensure that military personnel are regularly paid during the #TrumpShutdown
— Matt House (@mattwhouse) January 20, 2018
re: #135 HappyWarrior
Nice try Cornyn but that’s bs.
They need to stop trying to make #SchumerShutdown happen.
#TrumpShutdown is trending No. 1 with 799k tweets.
(When it hits a million, the yam turns into a pumpkin)
re: #198 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Yeah fuck McConnell and Trump trying to make the Dems out to be anti military.
re: #198 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I well recall the minor shitstorm that arose when the Dems demanded that Ronald Raygun and his GOP cohorts give the military a basic pay raise. The press spent at most a day covering that story.
Flake says expects agreement tomorrow (Saturday) on CR to Feb 8 - and vote on the bipartisan DACA bill. Says has that commitment from McConnell.
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) January 20, 2018
And we all know how ironclad McConnell’s commitments are… just ask Susan Collins. https://t.co/l7hxBDr7mX
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) January 20, 2018
shit show
From the end of that Huffington Post article, the summation of cynical conservative disregard for the lives of people.
“This is what makes Congress work,” Hatch said. “Sooner or later they can get tired of it, then they’ll say let’s quit playing around and get something done.”
He added, somewhat facetiously: “Isn’t this fun?”
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
Happy I just started working for Social Security in 1978 when Rep. Chalmers Wylie of Ohio triggered the first shutdown in 1978 with his demand that Medicaid stop paying for abortions. At that time Ed Brooke was in the Senate and he refused to go along. For 3 weeks we were not paid but we had to go to work in the Chicago Payment Center. That’s when this madness started…
OMG—Chalmers Wylie—there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time (and had hoped to never hear again!)
re: #200 HappyWarrior
Yeah fuck McConnell and Trump trying to make the Dems out to be anti military.
And we know if they won’t fund active duty they sure aren’t going to fund VA retirement or disability.
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You know, I got through this whole night of a Mar-a-Lago bribe-athon as the government shuts down and didn’t make a single crack about lettuce wedge salads.
I am the soul of restraint.
re: #207 The Ghost of a Flea
You know, I got through this whole night of a Mar-a-Lago bribe-athon as the government shuts down and didn’t make a single crack about lettuce wedge salads.
I am the soul of restraint.
Hey don’t forget that it’s being served with Kraft Mac N’Cheese, Cocktail Weeneys and lots and lots and lots and lots of Diet Coke!
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹
And we know if they won’t fund active duty they sure aren’t going to fund VA retirement or disability.
I’m 4 years away from maxing out on the old Civil Service Retirement System and I know they are going to fuck me out of as much of it as they can get away with…
re: #208 Joe Bacon 🌹
Mar-a-Lago’s menu doesn’t even have the homey charm of the kids’ menu.
It’s like a fucking barrow wight from the 80s is running the kitchen.
Battle erupts over potential release of memo Republicans claim will prove bias of Mueller investigation https://t.co/e8kqFIEMP8 pic.twitter.com/9TQtI2hPsI
— The Hill (@thehill) January 20, 2018
Party with complete control of WH, House, and Senate, who could declassify report just by Trump choosing to sign off on it, can’t figure out how to release report. https://t.co/P1GfjIhuWh
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 20, 2018
Narrator: “It was, in fact, a shithole.”https://t.co/3FXCdmXmki
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 20, 2018
I Love Yew Texas 17 (goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Hair Salon), more at the link:
New Braunfels is a small town stuck between Austin and San Antonio. It is famous for the rivers running through it, providing great fun for tubers in the hot Texas sun.
And a butt crazy judicial system.
Judge interrupts jury deliberations, says God told him defendant not guilty
State District Judge Jack Robison interrupted jury deliberation to “sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.”
He said he was powerful sorry to interrupt them but, “when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,” according to the Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.
The defendant faced two charges: sex trafficking, and buying or selling a person for sex. She was acquitted on the second charge and convicted on the first.
Wight Chef: I SENSE A NEW FLAVOR IN MY DOMAIN
Waiter: It’s mango salsa. A guest requested it.
Wight Chef: IT BURNS ME WITH ITS BRIGHTNESS. THIS IS THE HOUSE OF BLUE CHEESING DRESSING AND THE ASHES OF THE DAMNED
Waiter: Look, I’ve already got it in a saucier, and it’s no big deal. This kind of the kind personal service that increases my tips.
Wight Chef: THESE GREEN PEPPERCORNS WERE SET IN BRINE IN THE MOMENT DISCO DIED. MY STEAK AU POIVRE IS SEASONED WITH THE TEARS OF MICHAEL MILKEN. I DO NOT KNOW “MANGOES.” THE SOUS-CHEFS BOUND IN CHAINS OF COLD IRON AND THE BONES OF ORPHANS KNOW ONLY WAILING, THE GNASHING OF TEETH, AND BEEF WELLINGTON. THERE WAS NO MENTION OF “CHUTNEY” IN THE PACT WE STRUCK WITH THE WIG.
Waiter: All that shit is beyond my pay grade. And there’s two orders for iceburg lettuce wedges up.
Wight Chef: I SHALL CONSULT WITH THE DEMON THAT EXCRETES THEM. IT MAY REQUIRE FURTHER INDUCEMENT, SUCH AS THE SOULS OF FLOCK OF SEAGULLS.
Waiter: Fuck it, I’m going back to Haiti.
Wight Chef: YES, YES. MORE DELICIOUS SHOULDER PADS FOR THE REST OF US.
So, #TrumpShutdown is trending number 1 still… so I streamed 5 minutes of tweets.
While there were nearly 10k tweets, very few of them were geo-coded. But I plotted the ones which were, to see if they were all piled up in us urban elite areas, but at least the geocoded ones were spread out:
re: #211 Kragar
It’s just the Nunes memo. Nunes, one of the most egregious of partisan hacks, is pimping his secret memo of allegations against the FBI.
As it it irresponsible not to speculate:
At this point it’s mere speculation, but Michael Wolff has said that a paragraph toward the back of FIRE AND FURY reveals who Trump’s current mistress is (an affair that opens the president up to blackmail) and many online are insisting that THIS is the paragraph Wolff refers to: pic.twitter.com/qVRiPjZ5yX
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 20, 2018
Along with Orrin Hatch saying “isn’t this fun,” we get this:
Mick Mulvaney giddily boasts to Hannity: “The person who technically shuts down the government is me, which is kind of cool”https://t.co/VLbDkIbcAN
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) January 20, 2018
re: #215 freetoken
That one in the middle of MOIsin Columbia on a college campus
Look. Sasquatch is real!
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) January 20, 2018
dog knows where our politics will stagger on to from here
Stormy Daniels appearing at Greenville, SC strip club tomorrow as part of her “Making America Horny Again Tour.” Tour poster features photo of Trump & says “HE SAW HER LIVE - YOU CAN TOO!” https://t.co/qmDzYa5fYu pic.twitter.com/R2uD7CrqZM
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 19, 2018
MAGA! https://t.co/8pC0wyulSS
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 20, 2018
Score, just won another car through the Japanese auctions too!
A 1993 Toyota Crown Majesta, this is the creme of the crop of Japanese luxobarges in Japan:
And I bought this for ~$1360 USD for a pristine condition Crown Majesta with 9,000 km’s! So that’s 5,000 ACTUAL verified miles! For less than a 200k Lexus LS400 in the states.
To show how pristine it is, check the TradeCarView link for more photos and you won’t believe your eyes.
This thing also even has a rear fridge haha
re: #221 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
dog knows where our politics will stagger on to from here
We are pilgrims in an unholy land. Few Americans seem to realize that Obama was pretty much center-right by global standards. Trump and his bat guano base are off the scale, somewhere over in the weeds with no real counterpart anywhere else in the world.
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Trump’s base are atavists, throwbacks who desperately don’t want to live in the 21st century.
That explains the likes of James Dobson and Graham Jr. and their other-wise illogical devotion to Trump. Both know their marks, if they wise up to Trump, will also wise up to their own gimmicks.
re: #224 prairiefire
Whaaa! Looks great.
It’s a freakin’ time capsule! I can’t wait til it is legal come November to bring it stateside.
For decades now the American body politic, the clutch of power-mongers in the inner circle of DC and the money-men of America, have intentionally avoided facing down just how delusional the religious right is in America.
And now we see the consequence: Idiocracy.
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t know if we can trust Abramson - he is a BernieBros after all…
For the last time, the Dyson Airblades in the toilets are NOT urinals.
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) January 20, 2018
For the gun-humping father who is concerned how the guys might view him if he’s carrying a pink diaper bag with critters or flowers on it, comes the tactical diaper bag, complete with a gun pocket.
tacticalbabygear.com (more)
While most guys will silently suffer the frills, ruffles, and embroidered duckies of the typical diaper bag, Bluffton, SC entrepreneur Bev Brodie saw a chance to do something much cooler. A father to two girls with his partner in business and life, Brandy Bartlett, Brodie is a life-long second amendment devotee and proud gun owner. Obviously, a frilly pink diaper bag poses a pretty serious compromise to a reputation like that.
“When you have two girls, and you’re the ‘tactical guy’ and the ‘gun guy’ and you walk into the gun store with your pink diaper bag, you kind of feel like less of a man,” he says with a laugh. “Right?”
When Brodie combined his drive to be a good dad with his deep interest in gun culture, he wound up creating something completely new to a market full of guys sick of diaper bag emasculation. He created Tactical Baby GearTM, a line of diaper bags and accessories that look like they were ripped right out of a SWAT team van.
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
We are pilgrims in an unholy land. Few Americans seem to realize that Obama was pretty much center-right by global standards. Trump and his bat guano base are off the scale, somewhere over in the weeds with no real counterpart anywhere else in the world.
for decades we prepared for the time when we might have to face down a fascist dictator
we weren’t prepared for a stumbling, malicious shitshow of a clown
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
For the gun-humping father who is concerned how the guys might view him if he’s carrying a pink diaper bag with critters or flowers on it, comes the tactical diaper bag, complete with a gun pocket.
tacticalbabygear.com (more)
might heart goes out to this obviously deeply insecure little sumbitch
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
For the gun-humping father who is concerned how the guys might view him if he’s carrying a pink diaper bag with critters or flowers on it, comes the tactical diaper bag, complete with a gun pocket.
Mind blown - core dumped
Cleaning out my locker looking for lunch. Kimchi flavored ramen and cranberry raisin cookie it is!
re: #232 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
for decades we prepared for the time when we might have to face down a fascist dictator
we weren’t prepared for a stumbling, malicious shitshow of a clown
You go to war with the clowns you have, not the clowns you wish you had.
That awkward moment when Trump can’t make a deal to avoid a government shutdown and then his family has to stop looting the country. Oops!
#TrumpShutdown— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 20, 2018
Somebody has blackmail issues and somebody has daddy issues: pic.twitter.com/6MZaxZUXb3
— Tio Santiago Air Force/Army (@TioSantiagog) January 20, 2018
Blech. This bourbon of my wife’s is absolutely awful! (I think the giveaway should have been the plain black-and-white label emblazoned “bourbon.”) It’s like solvent mixed with turpentine, and then 10W30 added to it for extra body. I believe that’s what they call “blended.”
Reminder to self: Put rum on shopping list, and remember to plan shopping so you don’t run out.
Strange but true: the Arson Party couldn’t reach a compromise within its ranks between the “burn it all now” faction and the “burn it all eventually” faction, and is casting blame on the “maybe we could have fewer fires” party.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) January 20, 2018
It’s up and rage tweeting…
Vote for me #RandyMarsh2020 pic.twitter.com/UeUavWtuM6
— Randy Marsh (@Stans_Dad) January 20, 2018
re: #242 Dave In Austin
Who the heck is Randy Marsh?
re: #242 Dave In Austin
It’s up and rage tweeting…
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They claim to be upset about the military and CHIP kids but he seems more concerned about having “won.” Combine that with Hatch and Mulvaney appearing giddy. They’re really shooting them selves in the balls. Not that I feel bad.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
They’re really shooting them selves in the balls.
Objection! Assumes ‘nards not in evidence!
re: #242 Dave In Austin
I’m beginning to wonder Hair Furor and/or Bannon isn’t Bipolar….
(Definitely Bannon: his drinking and emailing at zero-dark-30 is a hallmark sign….)
re: #245 HappyWarrior
They claim to be upset about the military and CHIP kids but he seems more concerned about having “won.” Combine that with Hatch and Mulvaney appearing giddy. They’re really shooting them selves in the balls. Not that I feel bad.
Nah, they’d be arrested by the Secret Service, since their balls are in a jar on Trump’s desk.
Dear @GOP - These are YOUR members who did not tow the line. So what are you going to do about them?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
Dear @POTUS @realDonaldTrump: These are your traitors - dispatch them.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 20, 2018
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
We are pilgrims in an unholy land. Few Americans seem to realize that Obama was pretty much center-right by global standards. Trump and his bat guano base are off the scale, somewhere over in the weeds with no real counterpart anywhere else in the world.
These are people who insist that Nazis and White Supremacists simply occupy a spot on the political spectrum (“alt-right”) instead of people whose views are anathema to American values and incompatible with our political system.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹
Strange but true: the Arson Party couldn’t reach a compromise within its ranks between the “burn it all now” faction and the “burn it all eventually” faction, and is casting blame on the “maybe we could have fewer fires” party.
the only way for them to successfully spin this is to sell it as “Washington Establishment vs the Forgotten People” rather than Dems vs GOP.
And when DT “brokers” a fix, he will be hailed as the consummate deal-maker and praised for his bipartisan presidentiality.
And it will still be the Democrats’ fault: that is their very reason for being. THEY are the reason Hillary lost, THEY are the reason that the Middle East Wars are dragging on, THEY are the reason the economy collapsed in 2008 and THEY are the reason for the sluggish recovery of real wages and jobs despite a booming stock market.
Damn, I slept through the government closure.
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I haven’t got my t-shirt yet!
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹
Nimrata Randhawa has a well-known history of fooling around, going back to her days as a member of South Carolina House of Representatives.
moron…
For those asking, the Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and they need 60. That is why we need to win more Republicans in 2018 Election! We can then be even tougher on Crime (and Border), and even better to our Military & Veterans!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
#AMERICA FIRST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
Let’s not forget, post-#shutdown, that the Trump White House still has to figure out how to handle the debt ceiling negotiations. Mnuchin will be handling those talks. pic.twitter.com/cCYDfbnmPs
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) January 20, 2018
oh god pic.twitter.com/fj1d8Ylu96
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) January 20, 2018
Incredible: The House GOP DACA bill would criminalize legalized Dreamers if they failed to maintain an income insufficiently above the poverty line https://t.co/8CzAT7Ej0e pic.twitter.com/EuJccvq2AX
— David Bier (@David_J_Bier) January 19, 2018
this makes no sense. https://t.co/23w6w0Fdau
— deray (@deray) January 20, 2018
Left, Fox & Friends Saturday, 6:06 am
Hegseth: “What Democrats care most about is making illegal immigrants legal. That’s what it’s all about.”
Campos-Duffy: “And if you wanted a deal for DACA, the deal is there! The deal has been spelled out by the pres.”
Right, Trump, 6:17 am pic.twitter.com/wQuhbnvQxt— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 20, 2018
The government is shut down and the president is starting his day by live-tweeting Fox & Friends. https://t.co/Sq9lwMFuOo
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 20, 2018
My second attempt at potato pancakes. This time I squeezed out the excess water and I used my hamburger press to make cute little patties. I didn’t add the onion, the last time my eyes were burning the next day. Yes, you can add too many onions.
I just finished chapter 16 of Fire and Fury, which was the Comey chapter. If you want a clear view of how petty and vindictive Trump (and Jarvanka) can be, read that chapter. According to Wolff, everyone but Jared and Ivanka, who feared exposure of the family finances, were telling Trump, “Don’t fire Comey.” But Trump was out for revenge, and surprised everyone in the West Wing by taking it upon himself to send the dismissal letter to Comey. Wolff says Trump could not (and probably still cannot) understand that a president meddling with FBI business can only doom himself.
And gods, what a child Trump is! I have yet to find anyone in the Wolff book who considers Trump as anything but a force to be managed, like a disobedient, spoiled toddler.
So, Trump and Nikki Haley are reputed to be carrying on an affair. Nothing surprises me about this administration anymore, though I would have expected Trump bedding someone younger and blonder than Haley.
re: #265 wheat-dogg
When you look and act like Trump, the only appeal you have is power. I’m not entirely sure it’s Haley, but it’s definitely someone who craves power.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Criminalizing poverty. They’re not serious on this issue at all.
re: #264 Shropshire Slasher
My second attempt at potato pancakes. This time I squeezed out the excess water and I used my hamburger press to make cute little patties. I didn’t add the onion, the last time my eyes were burning the next day. Yes, you can add too many onions.
Tried making them in a waffle iron, turned out quite well. Did versions with added cheese & ham, even.
I never would have thought Haley. My guess would have been someone who was more an operative I.e Hicks. Haley though. I did find how she went from blasting Trump to serving him so quickly.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is the shit to bring up when wingnuts insist that the GOP has a DACA bill ready and the Dems won’t vote for it. Graham-Durbin is not perfect, but it doesn’t criminalize poverty.
re: #216 freetoken
It’s just the Nunes memo. Nunes, one of the most egregious of partisan hacks, is pimping his secret memo of allegations against the FBI.
if it hasn’t been posted here yet, Nunes didnt write it
(goes to huffpo. politicalwire also has it)
The document, which alleges abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the FBI’s quiet counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in the final months of the 2016 election, was actually compiled by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee.
(my bold)
re: #272 dangerman
if it hasn’t been posted here yet, Nunes didnt write it
(goes to huffpo. politicalwire also has it)(my bold)
The FBI abused FISA. Let’s give them back FISA.
re: #264 Shropshire Slasher
My second attempt at potato pancakes. This time I squeezed out the excess water and I used my hamburger press to make cute little patties. I didn’t add the onion, the last time my eyes were burning the next day. Yes, you can add too many onions.
Are you grating the onions along with the potatoes? That’s what’s needed (along with adding an egg, S&P, and a couple of tablespoons of flour).
re: #272 dangerman
if it hasn’t been posted here yet, Nunes didnt write it
(goes to huffpo. politicalwire also has it)(my bold)
But Deep State is keeping it from us!
re: #267 HappyWarrior
Criminalizing poverty. They’re not serious on this issue at all.
They want to expand that beyond immigrants to include anyone who does not “work hard enough”. And if your full-time minimum-wage job does not make the cut, then go get a couple more. Your kids will just have to raise themselves.
Scott Walker is also a moron:
SIGN HERE: The #SchumerShutdown is wrong. Taxpayers everywhere deserve bold leadership like we have here in Wisconsin, not the petty politics that Democrats keep playing. Send a message now. -> https://t.co/e14yyXnnOU pic.twitter.com/4LFZVjSQ3y
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) January 20, 2018
re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They want to expand that beyond immigrants to include anyone who does not “work hard enough”. And if your full-time minimum-wage job does not make the cut, then go get a couple more. Your kids will just have to raise themselves.
It’s crap.
yep…he’s mad
Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration. Can’t let that happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s because of the shutdown.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 20, 2018
A valuable lesson for the 9 millions kids whose health insurance the Republicans took hostage on the true meaning of sacrifice. https://t.co/ADqThjl1lJ
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 20, 2018
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
yep…he’s mad
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Many of those immigrants you talk about are in our military. Secondly, you claim to be a great deal maker but you gave the Senate Dems nothing. As a better President then you said, the buck stops here.
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh? The horror. No towels for the sweaty GOP but who cares about people worrying about loved ones being deported.
re: #282 HappyWarrior
Many of those immigrants you talk about are in our military. Secondly, you claim to be a great deal maker but you gave the Senate Dems nothing. As a better President then you said, the buck stops here.
unchecked?
Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s because of the shutdown.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 20, 2018
Thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. https://t.co/PlcJtZVkWJ
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) January 20, 2018
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
I bet Trump would’ve angrily denied the Stormy Daniels story if he weren’t secretly high-fiving people about it.
a couple of boring thoughts on hookergate
A tabloid magazine held back from publishing an adult film star’s 2011 account of an alleged affair with Donald Trump after the future president’s personal lawyer threatened to sue, four former employees of the tabloid’s publisher told The Associated Press.
then i started to muse a bit
I wonder if she reported the income? not really a big deal, just curious.
more i wonder about the LLC
on what basis did it pay out the money?
was she a partner / did she get a k-1? because we dont know the llc players - how did they set it up?
some sort of vendor - did she get a 1099?
there are some swift and accruing penalties to the payer for not filing k-1’s or 1099’s
did the llc file a federal tax return?
how did the llc receive the $130k+ and report the payment to her?
because somehow the llc made a bank deposit. was it income of some kind? a capital contribution?
did it deduct the payment to her? that could create a pass through loss back to the llc ‘owners’
i wouldnt doubt any of these possibilities
if you dont get all the nuance, it’s sticky, shady, bogus, creepy, and, for such a rich guy penny ante cheap.
$130k - “i tipped my doorman more than that this morning” (oscar madison)
And two, the lengthy Senate Floor conversations were productive and bipartisan. No guarantees, but there is a strong chance for a resolution over the weekend with good faith on both sides. It would be good to get this done before folks head in to work Monday.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 20, 2018
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scott Walker is also a moron:
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Trump’s leadership was on display yesterday: He called Schumer to his office and worked out the broad outline of a deal, then kicked him out with an order to go back to negotiating with Ryan and McConnell. And instead of calling Schumer himself to say the deal was “too liberal,” he either left that task up to Kelly or (worse) let Kelly make the decision for him.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
Problem phrase: “good faith on both sides”. The Republicans never negotiate in good faith.
Morning Lizardim.
Members were asking Speaker Ryan this morning at the gym if they should go home. Ryan told them “no,” and said they’d talk it all through at 10am mtg, per GOP members familiar with those exchanges
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 20, 2018
We have a government shutdown and the first meeting about it is at 10AM? 👀 https://t.co/Jt6vAN5tRo
— Kevin (@TheKevinDent) January 20, 2018
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron…
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pretty sure this is a rehash of the one he sent five years ago
re: #289 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Problem phrase: “good faith on both sides”. The Republicans never negotiate in good faith.
Morning Lizardim.
Given the events of the past week, it’s clear that some can when its their political asses on the line. Apparently the very real danger of being voted out of office has a way of focusing Republican minds on the need to get shit done.
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
Fans are quenching their thirst for “raw water” - water with no chemicals or other treatment that passes federal regulations because it’s clean at the source.
“It’s a no-brainer,” said Lee Sayer, a musician in San Francisco and anti-fluoride activist who has been drinking raw water for months. “You have water that’s processed through the earth through natural processes - it’s cleaned. And being that water has memory, it has a memory of tumbling through the rocks. It has micronutrients and I believe it’s alive.”
I grow rocks in the winter (the frost pushes them up in my lawn) I should restart the pet rock craze.
re: #4 makeitstop
Where on Earth have you been? Long time no see.
Just sitting back and watching as Americans poison themselves with laundry detergent
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
I grow rocks in the winter (the frost pushes them up in my lawn) I should restart the pet rock craze.
Oh Jesus. So the raw water craze is based on the whole water-memory homeopathic bullshit. I should’ve known.
re: #295 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I swear, if I had no conscience I could be SO rich right now. I’m in deep red wingnut country and it’s amazing how many of them are into shit like drinking colloidal silver, homeopathic crap, and dumb diets.
The pattern that led to the shutdown is clear—right to the last minute. Dems come up with compromises that #Trump could buy. He says yes. Then hardline aides tell him no. So #Trump flip-flops & says no.
Then he retreats to nativism and partisanship.https://t.co/HwgNQ00Wun— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) January 20, 2018
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
I grow rocks in the winter (the frost pushes them up in my lawn) I should restart the pet rock craze.
Anti-vaccination, colloidal silver, raw milk, and now raw water…apparently playing Russian Roulette with your health is now “hip.”
JD Vance’s hometown:
Massive fire reported at AK Steel in Middletown: https://t.co/kcBoLIfDtJ via @journalnews pic.twitter.com/Oey6EZASVB
— WCPO (@WCPO) January 20, 2018
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Those aides of course include Kelly himself and of course Miller.
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
Fans are quenching their thirst for “raw water” - water with no chemicals or other treatment that passes federal regulations because it’s clean at the source.
We had that in our village. Although it was officially labeled as not drinking water, that was only because it was not tested regularly by the authorities. A neighbor had a sample analyzed and found it to be completely safe and clean.
re: #299 Targetpractice
Beaver, meet fever.
It would be fittingly amusing if these “natural remedies” morons get carted to an ER in massive pain and the attending physician met their cries for pain meds with “Don’t you want some raw herbs washed down with raw water? I mean, I’d hate for you to ‘pollute’ your body with my manufactured medicines…”
re: #299 Targetpractice
Anti-vaccination, colloidal silver, raw milk, and now raw water…apparently playing Russian Roulette with your health is now “hip.”
It gets dangerous when the anti-big pharma, anti-western medicine crowd starts making common cause with the anti-big government, anti-science crowd. In fact that critical mass of stupid is enough to get people killed.
re: #304 Targetpractice
It would be fittingly amusing if these “natural remedies” morons get carted to an ER in massive pain and the attending physician met their cries for pain meds with “Don’t you want some raw herbs washed down with raw water? I mean, I’d hate for you to ‘pollute’ your body with my manufactured medicines…”
That has happened before. Now granted, they got their meds in the end because Hippocratic Oath and all that jazz, but nevertheless, professionals do sometimes indulge in their moments of schadenfreude when the opportunity arises.
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
I grow rocks in the winter (the frost pushes them up in my lawn) I should restart the pet rock craze.
The idea that water has “memory” is a New Age-y idea I came across when my ex was into that sort of thing. And the micronutrients shit comes from homeopathy. So, the target audience includes New Age woo-woo believers, alt-medicine believers, and the anti-fluoride conspiracy theorists — nearly the same overlap as anti-vaxxers.
Raw water I gather would be indistinguishable from the well water I grew up on (unfluoridated, which gave me all sorts of teeth problems as a child), or the water from a mountain spring or river, except there’s no testing to make sure it’s not got microorganisms that can make you very sick or kill you.
Sounds great! I should bottle some China tapwater and sell it in the USA. I could make a fortune!
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It gets dangerous when the anti-big pharma, anti-western medicine crowd starts making common cause with the anti-big government, anti-science crowd. In fact that critical mass of stupid is enough to get people killed.
“The government can’t force me to vaccinate my kids!”
“Yeah! I should have the freedom to choose whether or not I want my kids vaccinated!”
re: #308 Targetpractice
“The government can’t force me to vaccinate my kids!”
“Yeah! I should have the freedom to choose whether or not I want my kids vaccinated!”
Where the left is fortunate is that line of thinking hasn’t entered our politicians.
Raw water follows the raw milk and raw cheese fads, each of which has its own risks, since the products are not pasteurized before sale.
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t realize I was sitting on, and flushing down, a gold mine in raw water.
I grow rocks in the winter (the frost pushes them up in my lawn) I should restart the pet rock craze.
i knew these people were loons. i didnt know this much:
And being that water has memory, it has a memory of tumbling through the rocks.
memory? homeopathic nonsense
or this:
It has micronutrients and I believe it’s alive.
gah
Just shows that you can have all the cards and lose if you don’t know what you’re doing.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2013
There is always… a Tweet. https://t.co/KBuYcamhkd
— Bryan William Jones (@BWJones) January 20, 2018
re: #310 wheat-dogg
Raw water follows the raw milk and raw cheese fads, each of which has its own risks, since the products are not pasteurized before sale.
And they are illegal to sell. People have gotten busted by the authorities for buying raw milk from homeopathic dairy farmers.
re: #311 dangerman
i knew these people were loons. i didnt know this much:
memory? homeopathic nonsense
or this:
gah
Oh yeah. From my days hanging out on the International Skeptics Forum, this was one of the more entertaining debates to watch. So much concentrated stupid. And they talked about what amazing health they were in all the time… until they got sick.
re: #311 dangerman
i knew these people were loons. i didnt know this much:
memory? homeopathic nonsense
or this:
gah
There’s a New Age trope that water and food have some kind of psychic “energy” inherent in them, which can be enhanced or destroyed depending on how they are prepared. For example, electric heat is bad, while gas heat is good, and microwaves are evil.
Learning this from my ex made my head hurt.
Oh yeah we’re gonna shut this whole thing down #WomenMarch2018 #trumpshutdown pic.twitter.com/KxAeQKAaEN
— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) January 20, 2018
re: #313 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And they are illegal to sell. People have gotten busted by the authorities for buying raw milk from homeopathic dairy farmers.
With good reason. There are very good reasons why the government regulates dairy products, aside from the bacterial issues. Before regulation, some milk producers would doctor the milk with non-milk additives — water that looked like milk but had the added property of making your kid sick to death.
re: #316 wheat-dogg
There’s a New Age trope that water and food have some kind of psychic “energy” inherent in them, which can be enhanced or destroyed depending on how they are prepared. For example, electric heat is bad, while gas heat is good, and microwaves are evil.
Learning this from my ex made my head hurt.
I remember having that sort of discussion with some serious wholesale crystal vendors in Santa Fe, NM in the 80’s.
I explained that I had studied crystallography and crystal chemistry and was familiar with the basic principles of how they work, and asked it they could please describe these various forms of crystal “energy” in terms of what goes in, what comes out and what happens to it in between those points?
That was just too prosaic and limited for them…
re: #319 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember having that sort of discussion with some serious wholesale crystal vendors in Santa Fe, NM in the 80’s.
I explained that I had studied crystallography and crystal chemistry and was familiar with the basic principles of how they work, and asked it they could please describe these various forms of crystal “energy” in terms of what goes in, what comes out and what happens to it in between those points?
That was just too prosaic and limited for them…
Oh, the ex was into crystal energy, too. And those shops mark up their wares astronomically high for the yuppie New Age types with more money than sense.
Women in NY are getting ready to roar #WomensMarchNYC #WomensMarch2018 pic.twitter.com/nPbcotEelf
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 20, 2018
re: #320 SteelPH
Oh. It’s my birthday. Woo and stuff.
Wow. You’re (mumble mumble) years old, and you don’t look a day over (ten less than mumble mumble)…
Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration. Can’t let that happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
There are at least 4 lies in this tweet.
1. Republicans won’t bring the bipartisan bill up for a vote
2. The military is harmed more by the CRs that the GOP keeps passing
3. DACA does not equal “unchecked illegal immigration”
4. He did let the shutdown happen https://t.co/FiNNv80BRi— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) January 20, 2018
re: #323 sagehen
Wow. You’re (mumble mumble) years old, and you don’t look a day over (ten less than mumble mumble)…
31. But thanks. Hah
re: #315 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh yeah. From my days hanging out on the International Skeptics Forum, this was one of the more entertaining debates to watch. So much concentrated stupid. And they talked about what amazing health they were in all the time… until they got sick.
been a member of csicop (now csi) and reader of the skeptical inquirer for 38 years
re: #293 Shropshire Slasher
re: #295 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh Jesus. So the raw water craze is based on the whole water-memory homeopathic bullshit. I should’ve known.
It’s been mentioned here in the Czech Republic - unfortunately, a whole lotta Czechs are really into homeopathy woowoo.
I think this won’t end well, to be honest. And worse yet, there’s several regions here in the country where the water has been contaminated by heavy metals and other nasty things.
re: #321 wheat-dogg
Oh, the ex was into crystal energy, too. And those shops mark up their wares astronomically high for the yuppie New Age types with more money than sense.
these guys were into vending crystals wholesale, because as they told me, everyone in Santa Fe already had their crystals. They were also very knowledgeable of the local real estate market and seemed to know the asking price of every available property.
JUST IN: McCain: “All of us share responsibility” for government shutdown https://t.co/Vc6UdAfcEM pic.twitter.com/FK8Eh25iOR
— The Hill (@thehill) January 20, 2018
No, Mr. McCain. The responsibility lies entirely on the party who obstructed everything for the past 8 years, refusing to fill the vacant SC seat, and YOU went so far as to say you’d keep it vacant for 4 more years if Hillary wins. You and your shithole party own this. https://t.co/ulTGQSRxPh
— Wiley Miller (@TheWileyMiller) January 20, 2018
sure thing, Lindsey…go with that explanation.
Leader McConnell mentioned last night he was willing to make a proposal for a CR through February 8 and seek resolution on immigration, disaster relief, military and government funding, CHIP, and other health care related issues. I would support such a proposal.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 20, 2018
After extensive discussions with senators, I believe such a proposal would pass if there was a commitment that after February 8th the Senate would move to an immigration debate with an open amendment process if no alternative agreement was reached with the White House and House.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 20, 2018
re: #326 dangerman
been a member of csicop (now csi) and reader of the skeptical inquirer for 38 years
Is that anything like PsiCorps?
NO.
No CR.
No bandaids.
No temp fixes.
No more sequestration.
Give us DACA. Fully fund CHIP. No taxpayer funds for Trump’s wall. No compromise. Give us a goddamned budget. This is Democrats’ ONE CHANCE to take down this horrible shitty administration. So do it.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 20, 2018
re: #331 sagehen
Is that anything like PsiCorps?
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er… not so much
in 2006 when they changed their name so the initials spelled “csi” it got even worse
Multiple crews battling massive fire at AK Steel in Middletown: https://t.co/8T4XBCn7e2 pic.twitter.com/SDnqxaVk9E
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 20, 2018
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WKRC) - Multiple crews are battling a massive fire at AK Steel in Middletown Saturday morning.
Crews were called to the fire at the facility on Crawford Road around 8 a.m.
Local 12 was told the fire is in the middle of the plant. There were also reports of molten steel flowing throughout the facility.
So far, no one has been injured.
YOWSER!
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
NO.
No CR.
No bandaids.
No temp fixes.
No more sequestration.Give us DACA. Fully fund CHIP. No taxpayer funds for Trump’s wall. No compromise. Give us a goddamned budget. This is Democrats’ ONE CHANCE to take down this horrible shitty administration. So do it.
THIS
because none of this is new
none of this is a surprise
ALL of this was seen coming down the pike months if not years ago
do your fucking jobs: govern by negotiation and compromise. that’s our system
I have a hard time believing Trump is carrying on with Nikki Haley when his Type is blondes who look like his daughter.
Franklin Graham says that the difference between evangelicals’ statements about Bill Clinton’s behavior and Donald Trump’s is Trump has denied the behavior, and so Graham says he doesn’t know whether to believe it because “it’s just a news story.” He says Trump is a truthful man.
— John Kelly (@jkelly3rd) January 20, 2018
Hahahahahahaahaahaaaha https://t.co/ND4tWauYJj
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) January 20, 2018
re: #337 scottslemmons
I have a hard time believing Trump is carrying on with Nikki Haley when his Type is blondes who look like his daughter.
he does demand a lot of “executive time”
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
Franklin Graham says that the difference between evangelicals’ statements about Bill Clinton’s behavior and Donald Trump’s is Trump has denied the behavior, and so Graham says he doesn’t know whether to believe it because “it’s just a news story.” He says Trump is a truthful man.
“i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky”
resign!!! impeach!! lock him up!!!!!!!!
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
Franklin Graham says that the difference between evangelicals’ statements about Bill Clinton’s behavior and Donald Trump’s is Trump has denied the behavior, and so Graham says he doesn’t know whether to believe it because “it’s just a news story.” He says Trump is a truthful man.
Clinton is a serial sinner who has never repented. Evangelicals can repent after every sin and be sent off to go and sin some more, er I meant no more.
And there is no forgiving those baby killers until they recognize that a womb does not belong to the woman, it belongs to the embryo/fetus inhabiting it.
the new york times is broken. just please unsubscribe.
— Atrios (@Atrios) January 20, 2018
re: #345 Dr Lizardo
So these fellas are coming to town on January 30th to play at a our local (and only) jazz club here in Ostrava.
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Tickets are only about $8.50; I might have to check it out.
Nice
re: #346 HappyWarrior
Nice
The concerts are underwritten and subsidized by the city’s culture department, so it keeps the price nice and affordable. The city actually owns that particular jazz club. The story I heard was that a former mayor was a jazz fan, and when the club was faced with bankruptcy about 20-odd years ago, he persuaded the city council to buy it. They also bought a cinema and a couple of cafes; all of them have been refurbished.
I’ll post a photo of one of the cafes (interior shot) in a minute.
re: #348 Unshaken Defiance
Seize the day, have a ball.
have a cat birthday
do whatever the hell you want
re: #320 SteelPH
Happy Birthday. Enjoy the day. :)
re: #349 Dr Lizardo
The concerts are underwritten and subsidized by the city’s culture department, so it keeps the price nice and affordable. The city actually owns that particular jazz club. The story I heard was that a former mayor was a jazz fan, and when the club was faced with bankruptcy about 20-odd years ago, he persuaded the city council to buy it. They also bought a cinema and a couple of cafes; all of them have been refurbished.
I’ll post a photo of one of the cafes (interior shot) in a minute.
Very cool.
re: #349 Dr Lizardo
So I have been told for the sake of peace in the house to not reveal my registration as a Democrat to MIL, BIL’s etc. Talk about an internal conflict of interest…
Edit-That’s work and in laws now.
re: #354 Unshaken Defiance
So I have been told for the sake of peace in the house to not reveal my registration as a Democrat to MIL, BIL’s etc. Talk about an internal conflict of interest…
And now you know how I feel. Welcome to the misery club.
re: #354 Unshaken Defiance
Sometimes silence is golden.
If, well when I get busted I’m looking them square in the eye and telling them it’s because Donald Trumps election. And that I value a list of amendments as much as they do the 2nd. Oh, and CALIFORNIA. The primary is the election for Gov. Why be disenfranchised?
re: #265 wheat-dogg
And gods, what a child Trump is! I have yet to find anyone in the Wolff book who considers Trump as anything but a force to be managed, like a disobedient, spoiled toddler.
I’m pretty sure he has been compared to the boy in that TZ? episode, his aides fear that he will tweet them into the cornfield if they cross him.
re: #223 electrotek
Score, just won another car through the Japanese auctions too!
A 1993 Toyota Crown Majesta, this is the creme of the crop of Japanese luxobarges in Japan:
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And I bought this for ~$1360 USD for a pristine condition Crown Majesta with 9,000 km’s! So that’s 5,000 ACTUAL verified miles! For less than a 200k Lexus LS400 in the states.
To show how pristine it is, check the TradeCarView link for more photos and you won’t believe your eyes.
This thing also even has a rear fridge haha
Looks nice, they seem to have put the steering wheel on the wrong side though.
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re: #359 jeffreyw
I’m pretty sure he has been compared to the boy in that TZ? episode, his aides fear that he will tweet them into the cornfield if they cross him.
He’s petty and vindictive, and demands loyalty like a mafia don would. Wolff also captures the Trump trait of agreeing with whomever last talked to him. We saw that live when he did that parlay with the congressmen about immigration.
re: #206 HappyWarrior
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Members also complaining to me that the House gym lacks enough towels this morning and they wonder if it’s because of the shutdown.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 20, 2018
Sending my hopes and prayers.
While we dither and shut down the world moves on.
Turkey Launched An Offensive Against Kurds in Northwestern Syria, Here’s Why It Matters
Turkey says it has effectively kicked off an offensive to destroy Kurdish forces in and around the far northwestern Syrian city of Afrin with an artillery bombardment, after deciding against air strikes in the face of Syrian threats. It is the latest indication that the conflict in the country is evolving rapidly as the threat of ISIS terrorists has steadily dissipated. There is now the potential for a dangerous three-way standoff between the Turks, the United States, and Syria’s dictator Bashar Al Assad and his Russian and Iranian benefactors.
Live video. “Women’s March 2018: Power to the Polls” #WomensMarch2018 twitter.com
Hmm I thought the video would show right in the comment.
After declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency, Trump plans to slash funding for drug control office by 95% https://t.co/gm6I4jx6fI
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) January 20, 2018
re: #369 Skip Intro
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I see Disney made their animatronic look more lifelike…oh wait, that’s actually Trump. Hard to tell with the dead, soul-less eyes.
I seriously believe anyone running for office for any fucking thing should have to pass a civics exam and relate to us what they think their job actually is. Those two things might spare us some stupid, damaging consequences. Maybe.
So the Republicans hold the Presidency, the Senate and Congress. And still can’t pass a budget. Sheer legislative incompetence underpinning lunacy in the executive. I remember when the GOP could get it done with the Presidency but an opposition run house. Trump is toxic.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 20, 2018
re: #372 Unshaken Defiance
So the Republicans hold the Presidency, the Senate and Congress. And
still can’twill not even attempt to pass a budget. Sheer legislative incompetence underpinning lunacy in the executive. I remember when the GOP could get it done with the Presidency but an opposition run house. Trump is toxic.
tiny correction
because addressing the budget will highlight the deficit they just created
re: #320 SteelPH
Happy Burfday and many many more.
re: #373 dangerman
Well that and they can’t govern. I could seriously get a bunch of kids together and come up with better legislation.
re: #373 dangerman
tiny correction
because addressing the budget will highlight the deficit they just created
Prexactly, McConnell’s already said the Senate GOP won’t be voting on a budget resolution this year. Why? He cited that a 51-49 majority means its unlikely he could get one passed, let alone one the House GOP would approve of, but the reality is that it would project a $1 trillion budget deficit for this year and every year of Trump’s presidency. This after 8 years of screaming about how any sort of budget deficit was a national tragedy.
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It really is hard to take them seriously on this issue when they propose stuff like this. This is an issue that theoretically should get bipartisan cooperation on but proposing cuts by 95%? if you think something is a national emergency, you don’t do cuts like this. You certainly don’t put a 24 year old staffer who frankly is about as qualified as I am to figure it out in charge. Delegation is part of what defines leadership and delegation is one of Trump’s worst aspects. Granted, he has a ton of terrible aspects.
re: #362 danarchy
Looks nice, they seem to have put the steering wheel on the wrong side though.
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You mean the right side! haha
re: #378 HappyWarrior
It really is hard to take them seriously on this issue when they propose stuff like this. This is an issue that theoretically should get bipartisan cooperation on but proposing cuts by 95%? if you think something is a national emergency, you don’t do cuts like this. You certainly don’t put a 24 year old staffer who frankly is about as qualified as I am to figure it out in charge. Delegation is part of what defines leadership and delegation is one of Trump’s worst aspects. Granted, he has a ton of terrible aspects.
Makes ya wonder if Trump’s an opioid addict.
//It would be irresponsible not to speculate
re: #379 electrotek
That is a really good looking car. That name Crown Majesta reminds me of the Crown Victoria.
re: #376 A Mom Anon
Well that and they can’t govern. I could seriously get a bunch of kids together and come up with better legislation.
i believe i nominated you for president a few weeks ago
you are still required to bring enough cookie stuffed brownies for everybody
re: #376 A Mom Anon
Well that and they can’t govern. I could seriously get a bunch of kids together and come up with better legislation.
They don’t want to govern. They want to rule.
re: #377 Targetpractice
Prexactly, McConnell’s already said the Senate GOP won’t be voting on a budget resolution this year. Why? He cited that a 51-49 majority means its unlikely he could get one passed, let alone one the House GOP would approve of, but the reality is that it would project a $1 trillion budget deficit for this year and every year of Trump’s presidency. This after 8 years of screaming about how any sort of budget deficit was a national tragedy.
and when you say “Get one passed” that means, without democrats.
because if we let them participate we have to give them something
re: #378 HappyWarrior
It really is hard to take them seriously on this issue when they propose stuff like this. This is an issue that theoretically should get bipartisan cooperation on but proposing cuts by 95%? if you think something is a national emergency, you don’t do cuts like this. You certainly don’t put a 24 year old staffer who frankly is about as qualified as I am to figure it out in charge. Delegation is part of what defines leadership and delegation is one of Trump’s worst aspects. Granted, he has a ton of terrible aspects.
but but but he only hires the best people!
(he said so himself)
The budget fail-Incompetence or selfish malevolence?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 20, 2018
re: #383 dangerman
Can I get the White House kitchen staff to help? I’m gonna have a big mess to clean up when I’m all moved in, my baking time might be limited for awhile…
People are still gathering at Denver’s Civic Center Park for the #WomensMarch2018 #resist pic.twitter.com/ghYDmojrRu
— SeriouslyUS? (@USseriously) January 20, 2018
re: #380 SteelPH
Makes ya wonder if Trump’s an opioid addict.
//It would be irresponsible not to speculate
He’s a weird cat for sure.
re: #381 PhillyPretzel
That is a really good looking car. That name Crown Majesta reminds me of the Crown Victoria.
Oh yes, for sure. But more reliable and classy than a Crown Vic haha
I was this close to bidding on this car, a 1991 Toyota Century Limousine, which is the Japanese Rolls-Royce and has A LOT of cachet given its history:
It was a 4 grade car from USS Tokyo, but I ultimately decided against bidding it. Why? Because unlike other Toyotas, this one is exclusive and does not share a SINGLE part with any other Toyota…therefore if anything goes wrong, I’m basically screwed since I would have to seek out parts from Japan to replace anything.
It sucks because otherwise it would garner so much attention as this is the epitome of Japanese luxury and excellence that only the Emperor and senior government officials would be seen in.
Early this morning, @clairecmc tried to pass a bill to guarantee military pay and death benefits in the #TrumpShutdown.
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell: I object. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/n3a7RBaxzi— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) January 20, 2018
THEN @SenBillNelson tried to extend government funding for just ONE DAY to give bipartisan discussions a chance to bear fruit and avoid a #TrumpShutdown.
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell: I object. pic.twitter.com/RSnvUibiU2— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) January 20, 2018
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
Go fuck yourself, Beaky. You don’t get to claim the moral high ground. Especially not after objecting to these.
re: #393 electrotek
That would be a Jay Leno car. He’s got the resources to maintain a beast like that.
Amazing. People are still gathering in New York… #WomensMarch2018 #BlueWave2018 pic.twitter.com/291f4YtBwh
— SeriouslyUS? (@USseriously) January 20, 2018
Shutdown update: Paul Ryan saying Democrats are employing a “shakedown strategy,” calling this “utter madness,” and reading 2013 Chuck Schumer quotes about government shutdowns.
This is going great should have a deal any minute now!— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 20, 2018
Paul Ryan should ask Supreme Court justice Merrick Garland if Democrats are employing a shakedown strategy https://t.co/0GNSS7pWoh
— Political Capital (@PolitcalCapital) January 20, 2018
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
JD Vance’s hometown:
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Saw that bit posted by BeachDem about JD’s run for Ohio Senate coming to an end.
It should have never had a beginning.
What a putz. From “hillbilly” background to author of sketchy book to being pushed to run for a high office.
I guess it one of those only-in-America things.
Breathtaking, cynical dishonesty from congressional R leadership this morning.
Day ending in -day.
It’s a split screen day. CNN banner says “GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN; ANTI-TRUMP RALLIES NATIONWIDE” pic.twitter.com/SpehN0uLCr
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 20, 2018
re: #389 A Mom Anon
Can I get the White House kitchen staff to help? I’m gonna have a big mess to clean up when I’m all moved in, my baking time might be limited for awhile…
sure if you keep the government funded and open
just rewatched the west wing “shutdown” episode
if only….
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
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they essentially take the dems hostage and then complain that they wont pay the ransom
we dont negotiate with terrorists
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
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My county’s Indivisible group is contributing at least two full bus-loads to the Denver march. One of my nieces is planning to march with her husband and two sons. I’ll have to check the local news.
(With slightly guilty apologies to Charles — I’ve been seeing planning and rally notes about this march for at least two months on our county Indivisible Facebook page. I was going on the assumption that he’s got way better & more numerous info sources than I do.)
Trump Pens Op-Ed Bragging About Accomplishments Hours After He Shuts Down Government https://t.co/8DjTGrfmeY pic.twitter.com/bC6mM2yOCw
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 20, 2018
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
I guess you could technically call bringing about a shutdown in record time an accomplishment…
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And there goes the “They’re holding our armed forces hostage!” talking point.
re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth
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After a week of single-digit temps, it’s 50 degrees now.
God wants to make it easy for as many New Yorkers as possible to attend this march.
Now you see why Trump’s Inauguration Committee disbursed $1,000,000 to Franky the Pulpit Pimp!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) January 20, 2018
Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Gaudy:
…life-size cutouts of Trump himself, placed to accommodate the demand for selfies. But the night was windy and unkind to the Trumps: They kept blowing over. “Man down!” one guest shouted when a cardboard president fell over. A passer-by took the cutout’s baseball hat. Another guest propped him up again, and two posing women pretended to grope the president…
There were Palm Beach women in furs, and men in Palm Beach’s distinctive party footwear: hyper-expensive man-slippers. But others dressed in American flag suits and Uncle Sam hats, and still others dressed for a Trump rally, including one woman in an “I love English” button.
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Classy bunch.
You mean they aren’t using Amazon Prime Now to get towels within an hour?
I’m shocked!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) January 20, 2018
This is the first entry tagged: Fluffy Dogs
Thank dog that oversight has been rectified.
re: #408 SteelPH
“It’s a beautiful shutdown. I’ve been told it’s been the best shutdown in history. I’ve been getting letters from reporters telling me they’ve never seen a shutdown so massive and so impressive.”
Inside the room: House GOP read out headlines of NYT and AP, among others, and talked up idea this is a Dem-causes shutdown, per person there. Person adds that GOP holding to position and believe Senate Dems have to move toward them…
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 20, 2018
NYT gave us the Iraq War, greased the wheels for electing Donald a Trump, now they’re encouraging GOP to keep government shut down. Why liberals would subscribe to it is beyond me. https://t.co/JDWQEbDAc5
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) January 20, 2018
re: #412 Joe Bacon 🌹
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At one point, Bill Clinton’s adultery allegations were just a story too. Can’t stand Graham and I’m not fond of his father either whose own past is way overlooked in the attempts to make him into a living saint.
re: #412 Joe Bacon 🌹
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From the Bible:
From the book of Matthew:
So Franklin wandered in the desert for 40 days without water or food. Then Trump took him to a very high mountain, and said “Behind, the kingdom, Merry Christmas, endorsing candidates, outlawing abortion, prayer in schools- all this I will give to you if you bow down and worship me”. Franklin took a knee.
re: #406 CleverToad
Mine is sending a contingent to the Oakland march, although I’m going to the one in San Francisco because it’s easier to get to — I’m recovering from a cold (or flu?) and have no stamina at all. At least I’ll show up for the rally, though I don’t know whether I’ll make it through the march.
re: #400 ObserverArt
Saw that bit posted by BeachDem about JD’s run for Ohio Senate coming to an end.
It should have never had a beginning.
What a putz. From “hillbilly” background to author of sketchy book to being pushed to run for a high office.
I guess it one of those only-in-America things.
I liked the first part of Hillbilly Elegy. I grew up in a very mixed neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, and the Appalachians on our block were always seen members of a separate ethic group, even among the other white people. And their sheer cussedness was a mater of pride and group identity.
re: #413 BeachDem
Earlier in the night, Lara Trump had told this crowd that the president had sacrificed his life at this place in Florida for the good of the country.
“He would much rather be down here every weekend, golfing, enjoying himself,” she said.
Uhh, umm, yeah but that’s what he does dear.
re: #416 dirkdigglerjr
“It’s a beautiful shutdown. I’ve been told it’s been the best shutdown in history. I’ve been getting letters from reporters telling me they’ve never seen a shutdown so massive and so impressive.”
And fast! No president in history has shut down the government earlier in his term than Trump. No one.
re: #419 HappyWarrior
At one point, Bill Clinton’s adultery allegations were just a story too. Can’t stand Graham and I’m not fond of his father either whose own past is way overlooked in the attempts to make him into a living saint.
Harry Truman on Billy Graham, “He claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a goddamn friend of mine!”
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
sure thing, Lindsey…go with that explanation.
Lindsey Graham
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@LindseyGrahamSC
After extensive discussions with senators, I believe such a proposal would pass if there was a commitment that after February 8th the Senate would move to an immigration debate with an open amendment process if no alternative agreement was reached with the White House and House.10:22 AM - Jan 20, 2018
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Anyone that believes they can count on McConnell holding to any kind of deal promise to be done later is a gawd damned fool.
But we already knew that about Lindsey. Maybe he can ask Susan Collins.
Hmmm. She’s been rather quiet lately. I wonder why.
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Earlier in the night, Lara Trump had told this crowd that the president had sacrificed his life at this place in Florida for the good of the country.
“He would much rather be down here every weekend, golfing, enjoying himself,” she said.
Uhh, umm, yeah but that’s what he does dear.
Who held a gun to his head to make him run for president? Did I miss something?
re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹
Harry Truman on Billy Graham, “He claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a goddamn friend of mine!”
HST had a way with words didn’t he? Grandpa (Mom’s Dad) loved him. The narrative we always got was that the military hated when he fired Douglas MacArthur but Grandpa loved Truman for that. Truman was also gracious to Grandma’s cousins the Stranks, an immigrant family no less he visited Johnstown in 1948. I’m on record as liking Truman more than FDR.
The majority promised at various times the CR would protect dreamers, stabilize the ACA, protect Medicare and there was no way the government would be shut down.
The House bill has none of those things. They passed a bill that wasn’t designed to keep the government open.— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) January 20, 2018
Such an important point: Democrats are not asking Trump or Republican leaders to do anything they haven’t already *promised* they’d do.
No other shutdown in history has had that dynamic. https://t.co/8dyh8adD6w— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 20, 2018
re: #422 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I liked the first part of Hillbilly Elegy I grew up in a very mixed neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, and the hillbillies on our block were always seen members of a separate ethic group, even among the other white people. And their sheer cussedness was a mater of pride and group identity.
My mean gramma used to refer to the people in the next neighborhood over as ‘hillbillies’. She didn’t mean it in a nice way, if there is one. That was in Joliet. I’m starting to think of it as Gary West.
re: #421 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Mine is sending a contingent to the Oakland march, although I’m going to the one in San Francisco because it’s easier to get to — I’m recovering from a cold (or flu?) and have no stamina at all. At least I’ll show up for the rally, though I don’t know whether I’ll make it through the march.
Good on you for swelling the numbers for the camera! But please don’t overstrain yourself — this is a looooong epic, Frodo, and you don’t need a secondary infection knocking you back down again. Nasty viruses out there this year.
re: #337 scottslemmons
I have a hard time believing Trump is carrying on with Nikki Haley when his Type is blondes who look like his daughter.
I’m sure he has a type. He’s also a hound dog. The itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny brain in the wee little head does his thinking. When its working.
“Like the president, the House, the bipartisan majority of senators, the American people cannot begin to understand why the Senate Democratic leader thinks the entire government should be shut down until he gets his way,” Sen. McConnell says https://t.co/oNqS9I1c00 pic.twitter.com/u4vukcmufT
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 20, 2018
I got nothing…
re: #408 SteelPH
I guess you could technically call bringing about a shutdown in record time an accomplishment…
Hey, birthday lizard. Have an upding.
re: #432 ObserverArt
I’m sure he has a type. He’s also a hound dog. The itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny brain in the wee little head does his thinking. When its working.
Daddy always told me, “Son, when the little head gets hard the big head tends to get real soft…”
re: #433 Backwoods_Sleuth
“you made me cheat on you/beat you/go off on a bender and drink away our grocery money!”
Standard sociopath/abuser language.
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So, the oh-so-most honorable Frany Graham is basically calling all the women who make claims against Trump liars. They have not denied anything either. They stood up.
How very Christian of him.
re: #428 HappyWarrior
I hope that’s true. I was struck by the Billy Graham scene in season 2 of The Crown. I’m still trying to find out if what was portrayed actually happened.
Republican incompetence led to the #TrumpShutdown. Democrats are committed to putting things right. pic.twitter.com/d4Y5DHlWAq
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) January 20, 2018
re: #320 SteelPH
Oh. It’s my birthday. Woo and stuff.
Hey! Me, too! 7-0 here. Are you my older or younger?
re: #442 retired cynic
Hey! Me, too! 7-0 here. Are you my older or younger?
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re: #438 ObserverArt
So, the oh-so-most honorable Frany Graham is basically calling all the women who make claims against Trump liars. They have not denied anything either. They stood up.
How very Christian of him.
he knows the difference between a lying harlot and a man of honor
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Come on Facebook. I haev three friends who like Prager University. I post liberal stuff all the time. You know I don’t want to “like” this.
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I hope that’s true. I was struck by the Billy Graham scene in season 2 of The Crown. I’m still trying to find out if what was portrayed actually happened.
Just listen to the clip from the Nixon tapes that have Billy Graham reveal what an anti-Semite he is.
Graham begins by advising Nixon on campaign strategy. The evangelist has been invited to lunch at Time magazine. “You better take your Jewish beanie” (yarmulke), Haldeman jokes. Nixon is in darker mood. He broaches something that “we can’t talk about publicly” - Jewish influence in the media. All the big news organs are “totally dominated by the Jews”. Graham agrees, adding, piously, that it is the Jews “who are putting out the pornographic stuff”.
The three men concur that “the best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews”. The American Jews are traitors (the Vietnam war was still raging). Nixon contends that “every Democratic candidate will owe his election to Jewish people”.
“This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain,” Graham solemnly declares. “You believe that?” Nixon asks. “Yes, sir,” Graham replies. “Oh, boy,” replies Nixon. “So do I. I can’t ever say that but I believe it.” Graham agrees. It can never be said publicly: “But if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.” Nixon did, of course, get his second term.
Fuck Billy Graham and that goes double for his gay and lesbian hating daughter and triple for his bigoted and racist son!
re: #442 retired cynic
Hey! Me, too! 7-0 here. Are you my older or younger?
Congratulations and many happy returns! I’m still making the adjustment from ‘gonna turn 60’ to ‘did turn 60’. It happened last Sunday.
re: #445 HappyWarrior
Prager is flooding Youtube and Facebook right now.
Any time I go to either without the shields all the way up, that’s the ads I get.
I suspect it’s region-targeted, because I’m also getting wingnut ads for KY politics, including several ugly digs at McConnell.
re: #344 Joe Bacon 🌹
Unsubscribe NYT. I did.
squeek-a pbbbbbb whirrrr, whirrrr whoo cha-chitter WEET! whiddly widdly whoodala
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) January 20, 2018
re: #446 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just listen to the clip from the Nixon tapes that have Billy Graham reveal what an anti-Semite he is.
Graham begins by advising Nixon on campaign strategy. The evangelist has been invited to lunch at Time magazine. “You better take your Jewish beanie” (yarmulke), Haldeman jokes. Nixon is in darker mood. He broaches something that “we can’t talk about publicly” - Jewish influence in the media. All the big news organs are “totally dominated by the Jews”. Graham agrees, adding, piously, that it is the Jews “who are putting out the pornographic stuff”.
The three men concur that “the best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews”. The American Jews are traitors (the Vietnam war was still raging). Nixon contends that “every Democratic candidate will owe his election to Jewish people”.
“This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain,” Graham solemnly declares. “You believe that?” Nixon asks. “Yes, sir,” Graham replies. “Oh, boy,” replies Nixon. “So do I. I can’t ever say that but I believe it.” Graham agrees. It can never be said publicly: “But if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.” Nixon did, of course, get his second term.
Fuck Billy Graham and that goes double for his gay and lesbian hating daughter and triple for his bigoted and racist son!
That’s exactly why I’m not a fan of Billy Graham. I’m sure if you go back to Billy’s past, I’m sure you’ll find some Anti-Catholicism too.
re: #428 HappyWarrior
HST had a way with words didn’t he? Grandpa (Mom’s Dad) loved him. The narrative we always got was that the military hated when he fired Douglas MacArthur but Grandpa loved Truman for that. Truman was also gracious to Grandma’s cousins the Stranks, an immigrant family no less he visited Johnstown in 1948. I’m on record as liking Truman more than FDR.
My dad (WW2 vet) despised MacArthur. Called him a “….goddamn prima donna”.
re: #448 The Ghost of a Flea
Prager is flooding Youtube and Facebook right now.
Any time I go to either without the shields all the way up, that’s the ads I get.
I suspect it’s region-targeted, because I’m also getting wingnut ads for KY politics, including several ugly digs at McConnell.
Yeah I’m seeing the video from the former Young Turks guy. All I need to know about Dennis Prager is that he inspired Officer Barbrady on South Park.
re: #449 retired cynic
Unsubscribe NYT. I did.
I gave up on the Screw York Times when they joined forces with the Washington Post and Lies Angeles Times to destroy Gary Webb for exposing Contra Cocaine in South Central Los Angeles. They destroyed his career and drove him to suicide.
re: #452 Dr Lizardo
My dad (WW2 vet) despised MacArthur. Called him a “….goddamn prima donna”.
Your Dad would be right. Grandpa wasn’t a big Patton fan either. He liked Monty and Omar Bradley. Make no mistake, Mac and Patton were great generals but Bradley is the most underrated American WWII general IMO. A soldier’s soldier which I think is the best compliment you can give to an officer.
re: #448 The Ghost of a Flea
Prager U, put succinctly in potholer’s videos calling them out, “The Blog That Thinks It’s A University”
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I like that video. Someone knew a good way to start it and tell a story with a little jab tossed in.
With all the talk about Trump crowd size at his inauguration, and crowd size comparison in general, this video starts with a few people in the street then travels around and pulls back to show the mass.
Nice.
I can imagine some seeing that initial image and first few seconds are thinking “pfft…not that many showing up…big resist there liberals.”
re: #451 HappyWarrior
That’s exactly why I’m not a fan of Billy Graham. I’m sure if you go back to Billy’s past, I’m sure you’ll find some Anti-Catholicism too.
Go all the way back to when William Randloph Hearst “puffed Graham” in his papers and ignored that Billy’s initial gigs were racially segregated.
re: #452 Dr Lizardo
Read Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter.”
Prima donna is freaking kind. The man was a narcissist loon who couldn’t admit when he fucked up, ever.
re: #454 Joe Bacon 🌹
I gave up on the Screw York Times when they joined forces with the Washington Post and Lies Angeles Times to destroy Gary Webb for exposing Contra Cocaine in South Central Los Angeles. They destroyed his career and drove him to suicide.
Did you see the Jeremy Renner movie about Webb? I forget the name off the top of my head but it was wow. And the Contra cocaine stuff makes me sick thinking about how Reagan was pushing the Drug War shit while doing that.
re: #452 Dr Lizardo
My dad (WW2 vet) despised MacArthur. Called him a “….goddamn prima donna”.
To his face?
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re: #442 retired cynic
Happy Birthday to you!
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Did you see the Jeremy Renner movie about Webb? I forget the name off the top of my head but it was wow. And the Contra cocaine stuff makes me sick thinking about how Reagan was pushing the Drug War shit while doing that.
Friends living in South Central KNEW what Blandon and Oliver North were doing. And North got away with it!
re: #432 ObserverArt
I’m sure he has a type. He’s also a hound dog. The itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny brain in the wee little head does his thinking. When its working.
From The Book.
Over the course of next seventy-two hours or so, the senior staff found itself wholly separate from—and, once again, looking on in astonishment at—the actions of the president’s innermost circle of aides. In this, the relationship of the president and Hope Hicks, long tolerated as a quaint bond between the older man and a trustworthy young woman, began to be seen as anomalous and alarming. Completely devoted to accommodating him, she, his media facilitator, was the ultimate facilitator of unmediated behavior. His impulses and thoughts—unedited, unreviewed, unchallenged—not only passed through him, but, via Hicks, traveled out into the world without any other White House arbitration. “The problem isn’t Twitter, it’s Hope,” observed one communication staffer.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Did you see the Jeremy Renner movie about Webb? I forget the name off the top of my head but it was wow. And the Contra cocaine stuff makes me sick thinking about how Reagan was pushing the Drug War shit while doing that.
Yes.
re: #456 Citizen K
It represents how the people running “Prager U” think about knowledge. If you just recite something confidently and dismiss disagreement as unserious, something’s true. Thus formal education can be substituted by a feeding tube of talking points, and skepticism and formal evaluation of veracity are hostile agents.
re: #464 Joe Bacon 🌹
Friends living in South Central KNEW what Blandon and Oliver North were doing. And North got away with it!
Ollie lives nearby here. His grandson used to be in my kid brother’s cub scout troop before my brother quit. You’ll love this Joe but when North ran against Robb here in Va in 1994, North was at the annual Slavic festival my grandparents went to and now I go to, North attempted to shake my grandpa’s hand, Grandpa only responded “Robb’s got ya.” Ended up being right heh. Robb wasn’t a perfect Senator by any means but he was better than North would have been and I’ll always appreciate he had the wisdom to oppose DOMA as early s as 1996 as a Southern elected official back when this state was a lot redder than it is now.
re: #467 The Ghost of a Flea
It represents how the people running “Prager U” think about knowledge. If you just recite something confidently and dismiss disagreement as unserious, something’s true. Thus formal education can be substituted by a feeding tube of talking points, and skepticism and formal evaluation of veracity are hostile agents.
The one thing I will give Prager grudging credit for is they did post that West Point instructor saying the Civil War was unequivocally about slavery and the professor used the CSA’s own founding documents to make that point. Other than that? They’re crap. The people I know who like them on FB post wingnut shit.
re: #460 The Ghost of a Flea
Read Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter.”
Prima donna is freaking kind. The man was a narcissist loon who couldn’t admit when he fucked up, ever.
My dad told me the story (apocryphal, I assume) that Mac left a couple of US Army nurses behind when he evacuated the Philippines. Apparently, there was no room for them.
See, he’d evacuated his office furniture and sadly, those poor nurses just had to suck it up and stay behind.
Another story he told me was about MacArthur’s “I have returned” newsreel footage - it was filmed more than once. In one instance, he got knocked over by a wave. Heh.
re: #433 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I got nothing…
“They can’t understand why the DNC want us to keep our word when really they should just knuckle under to us and let us get our way!”
re: #469 HappyWarrior
The one thing I will give Prager grudging credit for is they did post that West Point instructor saying the Civil War was unequivocally about slavery and the professor used the CSA’s own founding documents to make that point. Other than that? They’re crap. The people I know who like them on FB post wingnut shit.
Prager got his start at KABC here in Los Angeles as a hate radio talker. He always ranted about Maxine Waters. Still remember the time he got her on the phone and she just punked his sorry ass!
re: #472 Joe Bacon 🌹
Prager got his start at KABC here in Los Angeles as a hate radio talker. He always ranted about Maxine Waters. Still remember the time he got her on the phone and she just punked his sorry ass!
Yeah he’s a LA based guy, that’s probably how Stone and Parker heard about him.
re: #470 Dr Lizardo
As a kid I always got the film-friendly version of MacArthur, and had no idea that his withdrawal from the Philippines wasn’t a brilliant tactical move, but a giant mess that left many people in the lurch. And that all that “I shall return” crap was in the context of him acting like a fucking colonial raja with the natives.
re: #474 SteelPH
I’m 31 now.
So I am the Baby heh. You’re nearly six months older than me exactly. Happy B-Day dude.
re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹
Harry Truman on Billy Graham, “He claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a goddamn friend of mine!”
I do think there is a difference between father and son in the Grahams and that the son is by far the worse example. And that’s knowing damn well about the White House tapes of Nixon and Graham and their antisemitism among other issues with ol’ Billy. But the son did not fall far from the Grifter tree.
re: #442 retired cynic
Hey! Me, too! 7-0 here. Are you my older or younger?
Oh and happy birthday to you too!
re: #428 HappyWarrior
HST had a way with words didn’t he? Grandpa (Mom’s Dad) loved him. The narrative we always got was that the military hated when he fired Douglas MacArthur but Grandpa loved Truman for that. Truman was also gracious to Grandma’s cousins the Stranks, an immigrant family no less he visited Johnstown in 1948. I’m on record as liking Truman more than FDR.
Give ‘em hell Harry was the first actual simple speaking common man President. It’s one reason he wasn’t all that well liked.
re: #467 The Ghost of a Flea
It represents how the people running “Prager U” think about knowledge. If you just recite something confidently and dismiss disagreement as unserious, something’s true. Thus formal education can be substituted by a feeding tube of talking points, and skepticism and formal evaluation of veracity are hostile agents.
It’s the Newt Gingrich school of ‘Intellectualism’: if you feel it hard enough and convince yourself hard enough, it’s just as valid or even moreso than actual verifiable fact.
Who is ready to fight?
Who is ready to fight for economic justice?
Who is ready to fight for healthcare for all?
Who is ready to fight white supremacy?
Who is ready to fight male supremacy?
We’re here and we’re not going anywhere. #WomensMarchNYC #WomensMarch2018 pic.twitter.com/JFpbWVxMxB— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) January 20, 2018
re: #475 The Ghost of a Flea
As a kid I always got the film-friendly version of MacArthur, and had no idea that his withdrawal from the Philippines wasn’t a brilliant tactical move, but a giant mess that left many people in the lurch. And that all that “I shall return” crap was in the context of him acting like a fucking colonial raja with the natives.
That’s the version of MacArthur and Patton that Trump seems to have gotten too. Everyone of his supporters complains about how we’re too sensitive now but the famous slapping incident caused an outrage then as it should have. I don’t doubt that Patton was one of our best generals but he was a pretty shitty person and I’m glad we got Ike as the general we elected after WWII and not him or Douggie Mac. Another WWII general I admire is Marshall. It was the trashing of Marshall by McCarthy and his allies and Eisenhower’s TBH cowardice on that issue that really disgusted Truman. I still like Ike but Ike’s silence on that along with a certain Tricky Dick running mate he had would have made me vote for Adlai.
re: #477 William Lewis
I do think there is a difference between father and son in the Grahams and that the son is by far the worse example. And that’s knowing damn well about the White House tapes of Nixon and Graham and their antisemitism among other issues with ol’ Billy. But the son did not fall far from the Grifter tree.
I do think so too.
re: #475 The Ghost of a Flea
As a kid I always got the film-friendly version of MacArthur, and had no idea that his withdrawal from the Philippines wasn’t a brilliant tactical move, but a giant mess that left many people in the lurch. And that all that “I shall return” crap was in the context of him acting like a fucking colonial raja with the natives.
He let the US air forces get destroyed on the ground despite a day’s advance warning.
re: #430 wrenchwench
My mean gramma used to refer to the people in the next neighborhood over as ‘hillbillies’. She didn’t mean it in a nice way, if there is one. That was in Joliet. I’m starting to think of it as Gary West.
Pecking Order
peck*ing or*der
ˈpekiNG ˌôrdər/
noun
a hierarchy of status seen among members of a group of people or animals, originally as observed among hens.
“the luxurious office accentuated the manager’s position in the pecking order”
re: #479 ObserverArt
Give ‘em hell Harry was the first actual simple speaking common man President. It’s one reason he wasn’t all that well liked.
He actually did tell things as they were unlike Trump. For some reason according to my Dad’s cousin, Dad’s grandfather didn’t like HST. Surprises me since both he and HST were of fairly modest backgrounds but HST is someone who has become much more appreciated after he left too. I was watching David McCullough interviewed, McCullough said he got to thinking about Truman based on a memory he had talking with his father during Watergate or something like that, and the older McCullough apparently hated Truman during his presidency but Watergate made him pine for HST. I love Truman. He did a lot of bold things that FDR never would have because FDR feared alienating the Southern bloc.
re: #481 Backwoods_Sleuth
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New York, can we (the entire US) borrow him when we need a new AG to replace Snapcrackledpop? Seriously, this guy is the best. A fine public servant.
re: #485 ObserverArt
Pecking Order
peck*ing or*der
ˈpekiNG ˌôrdər/
noun
a hierarchy of status seen among members of a group of people or animals, originally as observed among hens.
“the luxurious office accentuated the manager’s position in the pecking order”
It wasn’t enough to go to a Catholic Church. She had to know, ‘which Catholic church?’
re: #479 ObserverArt
Give ‘em hell Harry was the first actual simple speaking common man President. It’s one reason he wasn’t all that well liked.
Before Stalin met Truman, he’d derided him as “the haberdasher from Missouri”. He came to develop a grudging respect for Truman.
re: #442 retired cynic
Hey! Me, too! 7-0 here. Are you my older or younger?
We’re having a big ol’ Birthday Party here today.
Happy Birthday cynic!
re: #490 Dr Lizardo
Before Stalin met Truman, he’d derided him as “the haberdasher from Missouri”. He came to develop a grudging respect for Truman.
Pretty interesting considering Stalin was the cobber’s kid from Gori. A lot of people underestimated Truman left and right. He was by far FDR’s best VP. I’ve seen a lot of far lefties bellyache that it would have been better had he kept Henry Wallace but Henry Wallace was very naive about the USSR. He did grow wiser with age apparently.
re: #492 HappyWarrior
Pretty interesting considering Stalin was the cobber’s kid from Gori. A lot of people underestimated Truman left and right. He was by far FDR’s best VP. I’ve seen a lot of far lefties bellyache that it would have been better had he kept Henry Wallace but Henry Wallace was very naive about the USSR. He did grow wiser with age apparently.
amongst the family’s coin and memento box, I found an old Dewey/Warren pin.
I’m of the belief that there was a part of the left I think perhaps understandably naive about the USSR given the spirit of cooperation that we experienced during the war. On the other hand, the post WWII right’s attacks on anyone who remotely sympathized with Communism/Socialism in the dark days of the Depression was disgusting.
re: #493 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
amongst the family’s coin and memento box, I found an old Dewey/Warren pin.
Not a bad ticket really. But Truman-Barkley was the right choice.
re: #480 Citizen K
It’s the Newt Gingrich school of ‘Intellectualism’: if you feel it hard enough and convince yourself hard enough, it’s just as valid or even moreso than actual verifiable fact.
Accurate.
I’ve severed at least one relationship in the last year because that person insisted that he was “smart” but refused to do any reading or research. I’d give them specific things to look at, cite sources, make diagrams, but he could simply dismiss anything…even me knowing more about the specifics of the anecdotes and factoids he referenced than he did. That he felt things made them valid; that I felt things didn’t make them valid.
And this wasn’t even in a political context.
re: #459 Joe Bacon 🌹
Go all the way back to when William Randloph Hearst “puffed Graham” in his papers and ignored that Billy’s initial gigs were racially segregated.
I don’t know if I would have used the word ignored when talking about Hearst in this example. If you know what I mean.
re: #496 The Ghost of a Flea
Accurate.
I’ve severed at least one relationship in the last year because that person insisted that he was “smart” but refused to do any reading or research. I’d give them specific things to look at, cite sources, make diagrams, but he could simply dismiss anything…even me knowing more about the specifics of the anecdotes and factoids he referenced than he did. That he felt things made them valid; that I felt things didn’t make them valid.
And this wasn’t even in a political context.
I got real annoyed when my friend completely dismissed Snopes as liberal propaganda when I told him he was wrong about Elizabeth Warren when I called out Trump for hte Pocahontas stupidity he pulled during the Windtalkers ceremony. He posted a stupid meme and I pointed out to him very sharply that he was wrong about Warren and I got some crap about how Snopes was lefty propaganda because there was a story he felt they had gotten wrong. Thought that was pretty rich since he posts stuff that can easily be debunked all the time like the whole Obama voter fraud bs. But I didn’t want a fight. I know that the few in comparison conservatives I know are outnumbered by my liberal friends so they’re going to get ganged up in numbers if they post stupid shit on my TL so I try to give them a way out without looking like total fools.
re: #461 HappyWarrior
Did you see the Jeremy Renner movie about Webb? I forget the name off the top of my head but it was wow. And the Contra cocaine stuff makes me sick thinking about how Reagan was pushing the Drug War shit while doing that.
Just Say No!
America should have said no to Reagan. Especially the second time.
— Mark W. Wilson, MD (@markwwilsonmd) January 20, 2018
re: #470 Dr Lizardo
My dad told me the story (apocryphal, I assume) that Mac left a couple of US Army nurses behind when he evacuated the Philippines. Apparently, there was no room for them.
See, he’d evacuated his office furniture and sadly, those poor nurses just had to suck it up and stay behind.
Another story he told me was about MacArthur’s “I have returned” newsreel footage - it was filmed more than once. In one instance, he got knocked over by a wave. Heh.
My husband told me that story about the household goods and the nurses. He was Korean War Navy, and went to college with a guy attending on the GI bill. That guy told him that story.
re: #470 Dr Lizardo
My dad told me the story (apocryphal, I assume) that Mac left a couple of US Army nurses behind when he evacuated the Philippines. Apparently, there was no room for them.
See, he’d evacuated his office furniture and sadly, those poor nurses just had to suck it up and stay behind.
Another story he told me was about MacArthur’s “I have returned” newsreel footage - it was filmed more than once. In one instance, he got knocked over by a wave. Heh.
I had heard about the filming though not about the nurses. He should have been shot for how criminally unprepared the PI was for the war. Still I will grant the one thing he did well was managing the Japanese transition to democracy after the war.
I have little regard for most of our generals in WWII. The best two were not on the field of battle - Ike & Marshall. Patton or Bradley? Who cares! At least they weren’t quite as bad as Monty but that’s not saying much.
No, we won the war despite our generals because we had such excellent officers at the company to brigade level able to deal with situations as they happened. See Ltc (later 4 star & tank namesake) Creighton Abrams or Capt Charles B. MacDonald (author of several volumes about the battle of the Bulge as well as the exquisite memoir “Company Commander”)
re: #499 ObserverArt
Just Say No!
America should have said no to Reagan. Especially the second time.
I despise Reagan because Reagan dismantled the Middle Class that people like my Dad’s Dad tried to build through agencies like the NLRB. He pretty much fired his protege too.
en.wikipedia.org
Mr. Truesdale was a gentleman. He was nice enough to come to the ceremony my dad and his siblings had for my Nana when she passed away and was a frequent guest when my Dad was growing up before he settled down and had a family of his own.
re: #502 William Lewis
I had heard about the filming though not about the nurses. He should have been shot for how criminally unprepared the PI was for the war. Still I will grant the one thing he did well was managing the Japanese transition to democracy after the war.
I have little regard for most of our generals in WWII. The best two were not on the field of battle - Ike & Marshall. Patton or Bradley? Who cares! At least they weren’t quite as bad as Monty but that’s not saying much.
No, we won the war despite our generals because we had such excellent officers at the company to brigade level able to deal with situations as they happened. See Ltc (later 4 star & tank namesake) Creighton Abrams or Capt Charles B. MacDonald (author of several volumes about the battle of the Bulge as well as the exquisite memoir “Company Commander”)
Dick Winters. Fine man. We also had great NCOs like my cousin, Mike Strank too.
re: #482 HappyWarrior
That’s the version of MacArthur and Patton that Trump seems to have gotten too. Everyone of his supporters complains about how we’re too sensitive now but the famous slapping incident caused an outrage then as it should have. I don’t doubt that Patton was one of our best generals but he was a pretty shitty person and I’m glad we got Ike as the general we elected after WWII and not him or Douggie Mac. Another WWII general I admire is Marshall. It was the trashing of Marshall by McCarthy and his allies and Eisenhower’s TBH cowardice on that issue that really disgusted Truman. I still like Ike but Ike’s silence on that along with a certain Tricky Dick running mate he had would have made me vote for Adlai.
General Marshall was The Man.
DNC Chair @TomPerez calls African-American women “the backbone of the Democratic Party”: “Thanks to African-American women…Doug Jones is now Senator Doug Jones.” pic.twitter.com/v0O4vhugtW
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 20, 2018
re: #505 retired cynic
General Marshall was The Man.
The high school named after him here in NOVA and my father’s alma mater no less is aptly named the Statesmen and General Marshall was just that.
re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m really glad that under Perez we are showing how much we appreciate PoC and women voters. People like me aren’t our party’s base.
Looks like a disaster just happened in Prague (well, what would be considered a disaster by Czech standards): a hotel fire has left two dead and dozens injured. It’s a three-alarm blaze.
The hotel is burning in the center of Prague. Third-degree fire engages volunteer and professional firefighters from a wide range. The rescuers activated the trauma.
Prague - Prague Firefighters intervene at the fire of a hotel in Náplavní Street near Masarykovo nábřeží in New Town. There are about 40 people in the building who have been evacuated by firefighters. Information on the number or condition of the wounded is not yet, but the rescue service has already activated the trauma plan, sending a number of vehicles to the site of the fire, including the Atego, which is used to carry a larger number of injured in emergencies. The third level of fire alarm was announced by Martin Kavka, spokesman for Prague firefighters, on Twitter.
“There are firefighters in the vicinity of almost all professional stations. There are more people in the building who need to evacuate,” added Kavka. In the place of fires, the rescue service cars - two with doctors, four rescue workers, inspector and Atego - were launched by fire, said spokeswoman Jan Poštová. The wounded would still be forty people.
The director of Prague firefighters, Roman Hlinovský, is heading for the fire. Due to the fire the operation of tram number 5 was interrupted between Jirásek Square and Myslíkova stop.
Firefighters recognize a total of four alarm levels, the most serious being the fourth, which is only announced in emergencies.
The headline has the updated info on casualties.
zpravy.aktualne.cz (in Czech)
Looks like a good crowd on a cold LA day downtown.
re: #508 HappyWarrior
I’m really glad that under Perez we are showing how much we appreciate PoC and women voters. People like me aren’t our party’s base.
That’s good, but state and local party organizations need to follow up and live up to those words. There’s still a lot of lip service by white managers and political figures.
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.@CustomsBorder got on a Greyhound bus yesterday at 4:30pm in Fort Lauderdale and asked every passenger for their papers and to prove citizenship. Proof of citizenship is NOT required to ride a bus! For more information about your rights, call our hotline👉 [no phone numbers allowed] pic.twitter.com/rWJn61o8VP
— FLImmigrantCoalition (@FLImmigrant) January 20, 2018
Contact your legislators today and express your deep concern about the potential government shutdown! Urge your legislators to act now to keep the government open.
Dial [no phone numbers allowed] and press 5! This will connect you with your legislators. pic.twitter.com/FnXoTA1Abl— NARFE Headquarters (@narfehq) January 19, 2018
re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like I’ve said before, the next Democratic POTUS is gonna have to dissolve ICE and replace it with another agency.
ICE is becoming an American Gestapo.
re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This was a bus from ORLANDO TO FORT LAUDERDALE. Sit down.
— FLImmigrantCoalition (@FLImmigrant) January 20, 2018
re: #504 HappyWarrior
Dick Winters. Fine man. We also had great NCOs like my cousin, Mike Strank too.
Exactly. Those men won the war. Not the egos near the top. The two at the very top put the “stuff” in the right places and let the troops do what they had to do.
re: #514 Dr Lizardo
Like I’ve said before, the next Democratic POTUS is gonna have to dissolve ICE and replace it with another agency.
ICE is becoming an American Gestapo.
Deportation force, as was projected.
Amazing turnout of thousands at the @womensmarch Orange County — Chrissy and I were so grateful to join our friends from the Democratic Women of South Orange County! Onward to North County San Diego! pic.twitter.com/Yhj4PqZ8UR
— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) January 20, 2018
Mike Cernovich’s big party tonight in NYC looking more dire. Now the back-up venue has cancelled! pic.twitter.com/s2yiUA7W56
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 20, 2018
re: #454 Joe Bacon 🌹
I gave up on the Screw York Times when they joined forces with the Washington Post and Lies Angeles Times to destroy Gary Webb for exposing Contra Cocaine in South Central Los Angeles. They destroyed his career and drove him to suicide.
They say it was suicide, but… how many suicides shoot themselves in the head twice?!?
Children are our future AND our present #DallasWomensMarch pic.twitter.com/a2zqpqlBqv
— Judge Clay Jenkins (@JudgeClayJ) January 20, 2018
It’s 23 degrees and snowing in Park City, Utah, but that hasn’t stopped the Women’s March anniversary rally https://t.co/hXvYsgXdRh pic.twitter.com/bcwZM8vG7S
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 20, 2018
Chicago Women’s March has already EXCEEDED last year’s crowd:
“Organizers about 11:30 a.m. said the city informed them they’ve exceeded last year’s crowd of 250,000.” #WomensMarch2018 https://t.co/47XsyWWXUs— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) January 20, 2018
Anyone else loving the political optics today? You have McConnell standing at his podium crying about Democrat’s tactics and being forced to say no to everything and thousands of people out on the streets demonstrating.
I bet Trump is seething. He loves optics. He won’t like these. But he will Tweet angrily about them.
The people in the mountains and hollows of Buchanan County, VA stick with Donald Trump despite the administration’s misadventures. A deep look into the region helps explain Trump’s core supporters. https://t.co/MyzaHHSrl2 via @WSJ
— bob davis (@bobdavis187) January 20, 2018
did you actually write an article claiming coal mining jobs are booming under Trump? realize you work for Murdoch, but wow….. https://t.co/wbqAsscaVl
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 20, 2018
re: #524 ObserverArt
Anyone else loving the political optics today? You have McConnell standing at his podium crying about Democrat’s tactics and being forced to say no toeverything and thousands of people out on the streets demonstrating.
I bet Trump is seething. He loves optics. He won’t like these. But he will Tweet angrily about them.
hey Art! Thought you’d enjoy this tweet from last night:
Delta Announcer at Cincinnati Gate: “FINAL CALL FOR ROBERT PORTMAN. PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR GATE, @senrobportman.”
Man yelling: “HE’S NOT HERE! HE’S BUSY SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!”— Cody Pomeranz (@CodyPom13) January 20, 2018
re: #496 The Ghost of a Flea
There’s a deep crossover there with Dunning-Kruger, where not only does someone ignorant not realize their ignorance, but the further down the line they are, the more they mistake their own ignorance for expertise.
re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth
To be fair, there’s a lot of brown people in them there parts of Florida, and we all know you can’t be American AND Brown at the same time… ////////
re: #526 Backwoods_Sleuth
hey Art! Thought you’d enjoy this tweet from last night:
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Love it.
I’ve been bombing Robby daily. Got on him for ICE activities and immigration on Wednesday, and dumped on him for no budget deal and having to shut down the government yet blaming Democrats yesterday.
I hope he hates me. It would be mutual.
re: #459 Joe Bacon 🌹
Go all the way back to when William Randloph Hearst “puffed Graham” in his papers and ignored that Billy’s initial gigs were racially segregated.
William Randolph Hearst is the reason marijuana is illegal.
He yellow-newspapered a panic about it mostly because he worried that large-scale hemp farming for the manufacture of paper would be detrimental to his timber interests.
re: #529 sagehen
William Randolph Hearst is the reason marijuana is illegal.
He yellow-newspapered a panic about it mostly because he worried that large-scale hemp farming for the manufacture of paper would be detrimental to his timber interests.
That and white kids in colleges were starting to smoke it too. As long as it was just black & brown folks, it didn’t matter…
Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
Instead of working with us to reopen the government and finalize a long-term bipartisan budget deal, President Trump is spending his day crassly heckling women on Twitter. https://t.co/GXkwPj4WAR
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) January 20, 2018
re: #527 Citizen K
There’s a deep crossover there with Dunning-Kruger, where not only does someone ignorant not realize their ignorance, but the further down the line they are, the more they mistake their own ignorance for expertise.
To be fair, there’s a lot of brown people in them there parts of Florida, and we all know you can’t be American AND Brown at the same time… ////////
I was explaining Dunning-Kruger to one of my students last week; she simply couldn’t believe what I was telling her, so I referred her to the Czech-language Wikipedia. She perused it and to say she was flabbergasted is an understatement.
It’s the same here - the second round of presidential elections is coming up in one week. The incumbent, Miloš Zeman, is a populist demagogue who’s broadly supported by those with only a high-school education or less. His opponent, Jiři Drahoš, is supported by the educated segment of society. There’s similar divisions….urban vs. rural, highly educated vs. less educated, “elites” vs. “the common man”.
Right now - it’s too close to call. It’s pretty much 50/50, even though bookmakers are giving a slight advantage to Professor Drahoš.
re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump Pens Op-Ed Bragging About Accomplishments Hours After He Shuts Down Government
I call bullshit
re: #532 Dr Lizardo
Considering what’s happening in countries not too far from there, I don’t have terribly high hopes.
And yes, Dunning-Kruger is a fantastically un-intuitive piece of self-mindfuckery the human brain does, but it’s hard to deny it. It’s the same thing with the backfire effect, where the mind entrenches itself so much in its way of thinking that, like the good ol’ conspiracist’s way, proof against something becomes twisted as proof for something, and already held beliefs simply further solidify.
Oh Trumpy is going to love this..
Schumer: Negotiating with Trump ‘like negotiating with Jell-O’
thehill.com
View of the #WomensMarchNYC in front of the Natural History Museum.
For context on the incredible size of this march, the start of it is nearly 50-blocks (4 miles!) away. pic.twitter.com/iBEUYsCuoH— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) January 20, 2018
After eating, LWC and I are going downtown.
re: #438 ObserverArt
So, the oh-so-most honorable Frany Graham is basically calling all the women who make claims against Trump liars. They have not denied anything either. They stood up.
How very Christian of him.
Trump is a man. Qed
If you’re ever doubting your ability to serve as an elected official, rest assured: You are inevitably more competent than any Republican in Congress.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) January 20, 2018
The hotel fire in Prague I posted about earlier was at the Eurostars David Hotel, a four-star rated hotel. I know where this place is - it was really close to a now-defunct school I taught at for a couple of years.
Hey Oliver. I actually read it in the NYT, AP, Bloomberg, etc. They’re all wrong?
— AshLee Strong (@AshLeeStrong) January 20, 2018
Exhibit A in how the NYT’s shtick does nothing for the truth and simply gives cover for the mendacious and the cruel.
The Women’s March is going on now in Nebraska, in Lincoln (the capital), Omaha (the largest city), and Loup City (population 1,000).
Last year in Loup City they turned out about 400 people.
There’s a march now going on in Houston as well. I was planning to go but hard-freeze issues (my rig did not go unscathed) have demanded priority. Like running water importance. I had none since Monday and only just a few minutes ago got it temporarily resolved. Keeping in touch with a few friends who are there via texts.
re: #546 Anymouse 🌹
The Women’s March is going on now in Nebraska, in Lincoln (the capital), Omaha (the largest city), and Loup City (population 1,000).
Last year in Loup City they turned out about 400 people.
Is that within commutable range for you?
re: #550 sagehen
Is that within commutable range for you?
No, all three places are on the other side of the state.
In first interview since news of his 2015 extramarital affair broke, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens tells @AP there was “no blackmail.” @DavidALieb @esballentine https://t.co/oR330R9d3J pic.twitter.com/eReeLUi3iv
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) January 20, 2018
re: #548 Unshaken Defiance
I’m thinkin a little live video. FB?
I have no FB. Or I can pretend I have none until I log in again, which is always available whether I want it or not. I’m waiting for Zuckerberg to apologize for taking rubles in 2016. Is that the ‘FB’ you were referring to?
Spellcheck wants to make him Rubbernecker.
re: #554 Stanley Sea
He’s making her have to come forward.
Typical cretin.
Grietens did not directly say “yes” or “no” when asked Saturday if he had bound and blindfolded and taken a photo of the woman. https://t.co/690DEsGhyq
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) January 20, 2018
Counter post
“I talked to dozens and dozens of first-time female candidates for this story, and most of them said that essentially they marched because of Trump, but they’re running because of Hillary” —@CharlotteAlter on the “Reliable” pod https://t.co/V3uEzCbNor
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 20, 2018
So much for “Hillary doesn’t inspire people.”
re: #264 Shropshire Slasher
My second attempt at potato pancakes. This time I squeezed out the excess water and I used my hamburger press to make cute little patties. I didn’t add the onion, the last time my eyes were burning the next day. Yes, you can add too many onions.
Yes, squeeze out the excess water. My father, gone 35 yrs, always made the best potato pancakes. The batter always included a finely chopped onion and 1 egg as a binder (careful not to get the batter runny) If he thought the batter too runny he would dust then mix in a bit of flour. He fried them on a very hot iron skillet in a generous amount of pure bacon grease.
The end result was a pancake crispy along the edges and slightly so on top. Outrageously good.
In those days we had bacon almost daily and placed the excess in a Crisco can which was kept on the stove top and used as needed for frying eggs, etc. My present health problems are reminders of those wonderful days.
I’m at the Civic Center. Not jammed yet, but people are still arriving. I found a rail to lean against, and I’m hanging in there. Definitely not marching (curse all viruses and nasty AC units that enable them).
The nearest Women’s march to me would be Cheyenne, Wyo. (130 miles), going on now.
Hundreds Join Wyoming Women’s March in Cheyenne (goes to KGAB, with video)
re: #524 ObserverArt
Anyone else loving the political optics today? You have McConnell standing at his podium crying about Democrat’s tactics and being forced to say no to everything and thousands of people out on the streets demonstrating.
I bet Trump is seething. He loves optics. He won’t like these. But he will Tweet angrily about them.
My wife and I woke up early this morning and drove out to Captree Park to take photos of the sunrise, and CBS Radio News had me yelling at my radio.
The both-sided the shutdown to death, running McConnell quotes from last night with zero context regarding his inability to get 50 votes from his own goddamn side and tacitly blaming Democrats for ‘blocking’ R legislation.
That concerns me because people who aren’t paying attention like us will hear those reports and conclude ‘both sides bad.’ I thought ‘the media’ was sympathetic to our side?
This is exceptional
When your Altima driving Auntie and your Camry driving Aunt show up at the function and everything is a competition: pic.twitter.com/ofrbuRvtrR
— JDB, Sr. (@JoeBriggsEsq) January 19, 2018
re: #563 makeitstop
My wife and I woke up early this morning and drove out to Captree Park to take photos of the sunrise, and CBS Radio News had me yelling at my radio.
The both-sided the shutdown to death, running McConnell quotes from last night with zero context regarding his inability to get 50 votes from his own goddamn side and tacitly blaming Democrats for ‘blocking’ R legislation.
That concerns me because people who aren’t paying attention like us will hear those reports and conclude ‘both sides bad.’ I thought ‘the media’ was sympathetic to our side?
Used to catch dive boats out of there
Radio was different back then too
re: #553 wrenchwench
I will try this. Some of you guys are kind enough to follow my twitter. if I get a live feed up, perhaps someone would be kind enough to post it so I can easily share here live.
re: #563 makeitstop
That concerns me because people who aren’t paying attention like us will hear those reports and conclude ‘both sides bad.’ I thought ‘the media’ was sympathetic to our side?
We have been repeating this discussion ever since the Trump insider book came out. The media is not going to change its tack regardless of what there is to report.
re: #568 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have been repeating this discussion ever since the Trump insider book came out. The media is not going to change its tack regardless of what there is to report.
We’ve been repeating that ever since Trump came down his escalator to make his announcement.
re: #567 allegro
Those women got some moves! Love it!
I have Salt n Pepa on my old ipod. It is the best workout song. Just dance!
re: #570 Anymouse 🌹
We’ve been repeating that ever since Trump came down his escalator to make his announcement.
I still recall the summer of 2015…Trump announces on CNN that his rallies are exciting but people are falling asleep at Jeb Bush rallies.
20 minutes later, CNN airs an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a JB rally. That’s when i knew how well he had the press in his pocket. Whatever else you can say about him, he played those folks like a fiddle.
re: #571 Stanley Sea
I have Salt n Pepa on my old ipod. It is the best workout song. Just dance!
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I need to find those women (looks like a Rockets game here in Houston) and get some lessons. Man, they move it good!
It would appear estimates are ranging once again around 400 for Loup City.
About 500 turned out in Cheyenne (population 50000).
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Prominent Russian business leaders and activists attended Trump’s inaugural festivities last year, mingling at times in proximity to key American officials.
Their presence caught the attention of FBI counterintel officials, ex-U.S. officials tell WaPo. https://t.co/BzYtRWDLD8— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2018
WaPo identified at least half a dozen politically connected Russians in D.C. on Inauguration Day.
One was Natalia Veselnitskaya (from the Trump Tower meeting). She attended a black-tie inaugural party hosted by the campaign committee of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. https://t.co/h79NyvxQsu— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2018
re: #563 makeitstop
My wife and I woke up early this morning and drove out to Captree Park to take photos of the sunrise, and CBS Radio News had me yelling at my radio.
The both-sided the shutdown to death, running McConnell quotes from last night with zero context regarding his inability to get 50 votes from his own goddamn side and tacitly blaming Democrats for ‘blocking’ R legislation.
That concerns me because people who aren’t paying attention like us will hear those reports and conclude ‘both sides bad.’ I thought ‘the media’ was sympathetic to our side?
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. KYW Newsradio in Philly is pulling this shit as well. Americans are too fucking scared of a picking a side, even when that side is clearly actively trying to fuck them over.
Part of the reason… aw, fuck it; most of the reason we’re in this mess is because of the fucking idiot “independent” voters who stayed home, or in a moment of mental illness, voted for Trump to “send a message”. That message being “I’m incapable of critical thought or being an adult” when electing a president.
We are unfortunately depending on a section of the American electorate to do the right thing and vote for the party that is not openly racist; hostile to the poor; and unapologetic about appealing the worst instincts of the American people.
They couldn’t fucking do it in November 2016; I’m not hopeful they’ll do it this November. And even if they do they right thing, it will have taken them helping elect a president who has taken us as a country as close to a dictatorship as we’ve ever seen. Despite all the evidence prior to the election that this is what Trump would do.
Are other countries afflicted with this “Both sides are equally bad” idiocy, or is it just worse with us because we have the capability of slaughtering billions of people with the press of a few buttons?
I’m not sure if the LA Women’s March will draw upwards of 750,000 like last year (which was ten times the turnout anticipated by organizers), but it looks like there’s a lot of people in downtown LA right now. I wish I could be there.
re: #578 Mattand
Our radio here is “All FOX, all the time,” so we don’t get “both-siderism” we get “one side is bad” (guess which one). The newspaper is the same. The nearest NPR station is out-of-range.
This wapo story…shitshow
As the White House raced to avert a shutdown, Trump’s DHS chief passed out a memo outlining the White House position. The only problem: Trump had never seen it — and disagreed with its contents. https://t.co/OyBhjYHgy9 pic.twitter.com/zrKGoB69OW
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) January 20, 2018
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 20, 2018
Headed over to the Woman’s March like pic.twitter.com/Kd7za1zM3m
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) January 20, 2018
Franklin Graham just said on MSNBC that we need The Wall to keep out “dangerous people with dangerous guns.” After 26 children and teachers were shot to death in Newtown, Graham said we don’t need background checks on every gun sale because God does them: https://t.co/cCXE4c0dHP
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 20, 2018
Franklin Graham and his anti-Semitic, money-grubbing father are great reasons to be an atheist. https://t.co/d55RbiO8VX
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) January 20, 2018
re: #580 Anymouse 🌹
Our radio here is “All FOX, all the time,” so we don’t get “both-siderism” we get “one side is bad” (guess which one). The newspaper is the same. The nearest NPR station is out-of-range.
I don’t know how you do it. If I lived in an area like that, I’d probably have people shooting my windows, dog, eye socket, etc., because I can’t keep my mouth shut anymore.
re: #575 ObserverArt
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re: #584 Mattand
I don’t know how you do it. If I lived in an area like that, I’d probably have people shooting my windows, dog, eye socket, etc., because I can’t keep my mouth shut anymore.
I have to live somewhere I can afford.
People here in town don’t talk about politics much. Around the area though, they did get my @#!% E-mail blast on the government shutdown.
.@realDonaldTrump wow! It’s been a year since you took over, and to celebrate: you have the lowest approval rating of all time, under constant investigation and a partial shutdown. That can’t be faked, can’t be crooked. Keep up the tweeting, because I’ll be there to make a stand!
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) January 20, 2018
re: #579 thecommodore
I’m not sure if the LA Women’s March will draw upwards of 750,000 like last year (which was ten times the turnout anticipated by organizers), but it looks like there’s a lot of people in downtown LA right now. I wish I could be there.
Mayor said 500,000 in LA. pic.twitter.com/kKYFG2ddJW
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 20, 2018
I get the impression former President Fox enjoys trolling Donald Trump.
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re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
For the gun-humping father who is concerned how the guys might view him if he’s carrying a pink diaper bag with critters or flowers on it, comes the tactical diaper bag, complete with a gun pocket.
tacticalbabygear.com (more)
A guy who can be “emasculated” by a diaper bag wasn’t too masculated to begin with.
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