Presented without comment, because what can you even say at this point?
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was a stable genius and that he eats good quality food.
All Signs Point
to Big Democratic
Wins in 2018 https://t.co/16W5YYSZm6— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 29, 2018
Please let it be so.
Torgo Lamprey?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 29, 2018
That’s my favorite thread right now. Someone called her Topanga Lorazepam and I cannot
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 29, 2018
We need a bot that just takes random T words and pairs them with random L words and never stops. https://t.co/pTp2Fsaj39
— That’s not even a picture of me ♿️🌕♿️ (@DoctorApatite) January 29, 2018
Owner Story: “At the shelter vs. 30 minutes after being adopted” pic.twitter.com/5745W78E30
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) January 29, 2018
I’ve been watching the Ethan Van Sciver harassment of @darrylayo over the weekend, and hearing stuff about him for a lot longer. I’d like to write about it for The Atlantic, so I’m putting out a call: if you’ve been harassed by him or his trolls, DMs and email are open.
— Asher Elbein (@asher_elbein) January 28, 2018
Background for you poor souls who aren’t into comic books: Ethan Van Sciver is an DC Comics artist with a Nazi-friendly attitude, a few comics portfolios decorated with artistic swastikas, and a tendency to sic his horde of fanatical GamerGaters on people who displease him, usually by not being Van Sciver fanatics.
It’s been a huge embarrassment that DC is willing to have this asshole working for them, and a prominent article in the Atlantic about his misbehavior would probably get him the heave-ho for good.
EDIT: And Van Sciver is already in replies making (mostly empty) lawsuit threats.
re: #1 MsJ
Democrats hold all seats, win Nevada and Arizona, only to have Manchin switch to Republican in February 2019.
re: #1 MsJ
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Please let it be so.
There was a study a year or two back that showed that it’s when Republicans control the House that things really go to shit. That has to be our minimal goal.
re: #6 dirkdigglerjr
Democrats hold all seats, win Nevada and Arizona, only to have Manchin switch to Republican in February 2019.
Not sure if I see Manchin doing that.
re: #6 dirkdigglerjr
Democrats hold all seats, win Nevada and Arizona, only to have Manchin switch to Republican in February 2019.
Manchin’s had plenty of chances to flip. He’s not going to. He’s just got a tough crowd to represent. And they won’t take “helping minorities will also help you” for an answer.
To follow-up from the previous thread about the Incredible Dog Challenge. I don’t think they have video online yet of the finals. However, they do have this thing the hosts did in between segments which included my dog Luna that they put on Facebook. It was the weave pole challenge.
She came out of that tunnel looking for me and thankfully I was able to send her back to the weaves to finish and “win”. She doesn’t like to work for people that aren’t me or my wife.
He’s a stable genius in the sense that a stable is full of horse manure and he’s a genius at shoveling it.
If Manchin were the 51st vote, I’m be willing to let “this money particularly applies to all states that start with ‘West V’” in funding bills.
Edited: I can’t even get the state right.
re: #12 Belafon
If Manchin were the 51st vote, I’m be willing to let “this money particularly applies to all states that start with ‘South C’” in funding bills.
“West V.”
re: #10 rhuarc
To follow-up from the previous thread about the Incredible Dog Challenge. I don’t think they have video online yet of the finals. However, they do have this thing the hosts did in between segments which included my dog Luna that they put on Facebook. It was the weave pole challenge.
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She came out of that tunnel looking for me and thankfully I was able to send her back to the weaves to finish and “win”. She doesn’t like to work for people that aren’t me or my wife.
That’s awesome! My pup is a Boston terrier and she’s whip smart. I’m giving serious consideration to do agility or freestyle. I used to do both.
re: #6 dirkdigglerjr
Democrats hold all seats, win Nevada and Arizona, only to have Manchin switch to Republican in February 2019.
I think the Dems will manage to keep Manchin by granting him a powerful chairmanship. Given the way the Constitution has gerrymandered the Senate, we have to fight to keep those who may not share many of our views on our side.
re: #5 scottslemmons
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Background for you poor souls who aren’t into comic books: Ethan Van Sciver is an DC Comics artist with a Nazi-friendly attitude, a few comics portfolios decorated with artistic swastikas, and a tendency to sic his horde of fanatical GamerGaters on people who displease him, usually by not being Van Sciver fanatics.
It’s been a huge embarrassment that DC is willing to have this asshole working for them, and a prominent article in the Atlantic about his misbehavior would probably get him the heave-ho for good.
EDIT: And Van Sciver is already in replies making (mostly empty) lawsuit threats.
Gamergaters: Yet another group who should be encouraged to eschew vaccination and other forms of scientific medicine in favor of crocodile dung and beetle broth.
I have always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the Fire and Fury book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it.
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) January 29, 2018
Some of us liked politics without your terrible boss thrown into it, but here we are. https://t.co/1NqW980bod
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) January 29, 2018
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Gamergaters: Yet another group who should be encouraged to eschew vaccination and other forms of scientific medicine in favor of crocodile dung and beetle broth.
Tide pods. They’re gluten free. 😂😂😂
re: #9 Belafon
Just covering some of the possible 2018/early 2019 scenarios. Such as:
1. Gill v. Whitford decision goes bad
2. Terrorist attack (Reichstag fire?)
3. War and rally around the flag
4. Notorious RBG passes away and/or Kennedy retires
5. Yankees win 120 games and cruise to World Series title
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Gamergaters: Yet another group who should be encouraged to eschew vaccination and other forms of scientific medicine in favor of crocodile dung and beetle broth.
For all of the American Gods fans, I wouldn’t be opposed to Bilquis taking care of them in her own way - probably the only action they’d get - but it would probably make her sick.
re: #7 Belafon
There was a study a year or two back that showed that it’s when Republicans control the House that things really go to shit. That has to be our minimal goal.
But it’s the Senate that approves judges; we cannot afford to have another Supreme Court appointment, especially if it replaces one of “our” judges. We also need to stop more of the terrible judges that Trump is spreading throughout the system. These will outlive any Republican administration.
I agree with the goal of regaining the House, but the Senate is critical in blocking unacceptable appointments to administrative positions.
re: #10 rhuarc
To follow-up from the previous thread about the Incredible Dog Challenge. I don’t think they have video online yet of the finals. However, they do have this thing the hosts did in between segments which included my dog Luna that they put on Facebook. It was the weave pole challenge.
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She came out of that tunnel looking for me and thankfully I was able to send her back to the weaves to finish and “win”. She doesn’t like to work for people that aren’t me or my wife.
Luna is that gorgeous Border Collie? Good dog!
re: #20 dirkdigglerjr
Hey! Aren’t we stressed enough already?
re: #6 dirkdigglerjr
Democrats hold all seats, win Nevada and Arizona, only to have Manchin switch to Republican in February 2019.
Not gonna happen. Manchin is still pissed at GOP for denying the last surviving WW1 veteran a funeral in the Capitol Rotunda.
Don’t really like this guy, but…
The Fmr Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party was just found guilty & sentenced for voter fraud. They used a DNA test & handwriting analysis to prove he had stolen his ex-wife’s vote via her absentee ballot. He blamed it on a “diabetic episode.” #AMJoyhttps://t.co/BMXgihnayd
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 28, 2018
re: #24 retired cynic
Yep, it’s so much fun pondering the things that will keep you up at night.
re: #23 allegro
Luna is that gorgeous Border Collie? Good dog!
Nope. The Belgian Malinois.
The 2nd from the right in this picture.
re: #27 MsJ
Don’t really like this guy, but…
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Sure is amazing how every caught case of voter fraud involved a Republican. And look at those who were let off the hook—including Ann KKKolter and James O’Queef!
re: #27 MsJ
Don’t really like this guy, but…
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But it’s the Democrats who are rigging elections.
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re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
But it’s the Democrats who are rigging elections.
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And RepubliKKKlans will continue to repeat that lie as they push for more Voter ID laws, purges of voter rolls and reducing the number of polling stations.
They will use every dirty trick in the book and the idiots at the New York Times will continue snorting that Magic Balance Fairy Dust…
We at least had some good news over how election boards are determined, after the GOP legislature tried to take that power away from the governor.
re: #31 rhuarc
Nope. The Belgian Malinois.
The 2nd from the right in this picture.
Your dog has amazing camo abilities or that picture is just a solid tan block.
re: #36 allegro
Your dog has amazing camo abilities or that picture is just a solid tan block.
I took it as a blur….
re: #36 allegro
Your dog has amazing camo abilities or that picture is just a solid tan block.
Wait… opened it in a new window and got it. Wow! She is a beauty!
Just got off the telephone with my sister.
The Bank of Evil froze her joint account on the death of her wife. She only finally got that straightened out today.
She has now set the memorial service for her wife on February 24; my mother and eldest first-cousin will go by train to California; my wife and me will go by car.
re: #25 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not gonna happen. Manchin is still pissed at GOP for denying the last surviving WW1 veteran a funeral in the Capitol Rotunda.
I read that it was Harry Reid and John Boehner together who denied the request. So wouldn’t he be equally angry with both parties?
You won’t always be in the right mood for this comic, but when you are pic.twitter.com/lue8bguacB
— Ruthanne Reid (@RuthanneReid) January 28, 2018
re: #42 Hecuba’s daughter
I read that it was Harry Reid and John Boehner together who denied the request. So wouldn’t he be equally angry with both parties?
Nope. Only John Boehner blocked it.
blog.seattlepi.com
House Speaker John Boehner has blocked a request by West Virginia senators to allow the remains of the last American veteran of World War I to lie in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Buckles died Sunday in Charles Town West Virginia at the age of 110. He lied about his age to enlist at 16 to fight in the Great War. He was an ambulance driver in France, and later an escort for returning German war prisoners.
The denial was “a big disappointment and a surprising decision by the Speaker,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.
Newly elected Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., added: “I urge Speaker Boehner to reconsider this ill-advised decision. After all, there won’t be another request like this.”
Thirty times, starting with Henry Clay in 1852, the body of a distinguished American has been displayed in the Rotunda. Unknown soldiers from wars have been accorded the honor, along with such luminaries as civil rights hero Rosa Parks and Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
A Boehner spokesman, Michael Steel, told the National Journal: “The Speaker intends to ask Secretary (Robert) Gates to allow Mr. Buckles’ family to use the amphitheater at Arlington cemetery for his memorial service.
“That way, it will be near the tomb of the unknown soldier, who also fell in World War I.”
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I didn’t know that Paul Manafort was a woman.
— Curtis Pullin (@CurtisPullin) January 29, 2018
LOL. Conway reported to Steve Bannon who was installed as Campaign CEO. An unprecedented position that Trump invented just so his female campaign manager would be supervised by a man.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 29, 2018
Heard who “Who Let the Dogs Out” by Baha Men on the way to Chester County! Forgot how fun that song was!
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) February 27, 2013
re: #27 MsJ
“Don’t really like this guy, but…”
I’ve been a diabetic now for over 20 years, and nothing about my disease has ever caused me to do something immoral, make a bad judgment call, or break any law, even when my blood sugar level drops. This guy is a liar who blamed his diabetes for his act of voter fraud, and sadly and unfortunately, there are many in the GOP who will believe him. Something else in the article doesn’t make sense to me, either How can something he described as being “customary” [filling out his ex-wife’s ballots during their marriage] suddenly morph into something one easily “forgets” at the exact time he gets caught doing it? I don’t like persons who don’t own up to their wrongdoing when they’re caught red-handed doing something wrong. With people like these, their trouble is always caused by someone else or something else. Just last week, Meehan [R-Pennsylvania] blamed working to repeal Obamacare for harassing his former staffer after it became widely known that he called her his “soulmate.” Yuck. Their lies disgust me, and especially if they’re the type who claim to love the Lawd. I don’t know their god and I don’t know their Jesus.
re: #46 jaunte
Do the RWNJs have horrible taste in music or what?
re: #1 MsJ
Heartening, but it’s time for me to repeat my mantra: don’t get complacent, don’t get complacent, don’t get complacent….
re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg
Do the RWNJs have horrible taste in music or what?
It could have been The Macarena.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹
Nope. Only John Boehner blocked it.
blog.seattlepi.com(more)
The Washington Times —- not a reliable resource — held both responsible: washingtontimes.com
Hmm — it appears that Republic sources attribute the denial to both Boehner and Reid; so far other more neutral sources I checked mention only Boehner
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
The Washington Times —- not a reliable resource — held both responsible: washingtontimes.com
Hmm — it appears that Republic sources attribute the denial to both Boehner and Reid; so far other more neutral sources I checked mention only Boehner
John Boehner and Harry Reid jointly sought use of the Arlington National Cemetery amphitheatre, but only John Boehner blocked Cpl. Buckles’s lying in state in the Capitol.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹
John Boehner and Harry Reid jointly sought use of the Arlington National Cemetery amphitheatre, but only John Boehner blocked Cpl. Buckles’s lying in state in the Capitol.
Yup.
Republicans supporting our veterans and heroes.
I have always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the Fire and Fury book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it.
— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) January 29, 2018
Sarah Palin brought Ted Nugent and Kid Rock to the Trump White House to mock Hillary’s official portrait. https://t.co/g39MIct4Sg https://t.co/0a8JaqjFND
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) January 29, 2018
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May (Conservative) offers to open up the National Health Service to US corporations in exchange for a trade deal with the United States.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹
Nikki Haley
@nikkihaley
I have always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the Fire and Fury book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it.
10:12 PM - Jan 28, 2018
And more on point to this particular administration,
Piers Morgan interview w/ Trump:
“I’m very popular in England. I get a lot of fan mail.”
Piers fail:
Not asking “How about Scotland?”
JFC:
On Emmanuel Macron
“He’s a great guy. His wife is fantastic. I like them a lot. You know, we had dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and everything was closed.”
re: #59 austin_blue
JFC:
On Emmanuel Macron
“He’s a great guy. His wife is fantastic. I like them a lot. You know, we had dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and everything was closed.”
TFW when the leader of your country is an actual incompetent fucking moron.
The city’s government estimates that “Day Zero”—when Cape Town becomes the first major city in the world to run out of water—will come on April 12. https://t.co/S03192ZcvI
— Scientific American (@sciam) January 28, 2018
re: #61 JordanRules
Good thing Trump directed the Department of Defense to quit wasting money on contingency planning for climate change because he thinks it’s a Chinese hoax or something.
That poor, hurtful look in your eyes. It’s like you lost everything in a hurricane and are on your last meal.
— Kristinn Taylor (@KristinnFR) January 28, 2018
Really Kristinn? You know how many Americans lost everything on a hurricane the last 4 months and how many were on their last meal?….hungry and wet? With no roof? Really Taylor? https://t.co/9JTCx9cpdN
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) January 28, 2018
Thank you @IvankaTrump for reaching out. I believe now that you personally had nothing to do.
Let’s now work on what’s important: Immigration reform, where #DACADreamers and Undocumented citizens will become part of a strong USA. With secure borders. With economic growth.👍🏼— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) January 28, 2018
re: #61 JordanRules
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Lubbockites need to look long and hard at this. It will not happen there for many years yet, but it will happen. Climate change, in which most of the city’s residents do not believe, could accelerate the time dramatically.
re: #65 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Happens more and more often in California. It’s almost February and we have only had 7.86” of rain since July 1st. I was hoping to take a train to Reno through the snow but it’s still meh.
And @YouTube drops the ball again, as it allows Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis to suspend a video exposing Holocaust denial by simply falsely reporting it.
Right on the Holocaust Remembrance Day: https://t.co/h8HOXVGKGZ
What do you say, @TeamYouTube?— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) January 29, 2018
re: #27 MsJ
Don’t really like this guy, but…
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Republicans keep proving that voter fraud exists by committing it.
So Republicans are saying the FBI is corrupt and out of control and not to be trusted and Democrats are saying we have to avoid weakening our institutions and stop cozying up to Russia and 1980s-Sean’s head just exploded.
— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) January 29, 2018
Why, it’s almost as if describing current events simplistically leaves out important details in pursuit of comic effect!
Not to mention that saying that Dems said we should trust Russia in the 1980s is bullshit.
re: #65 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Lubbockites need to look long and hard at this. It will not happen there for many years yet, but it will happen. Climate change, in which most of the city’s residents do not believe, could accelerate the time dramatically.
As I understand it, north Texas has already pretty much used up its portion of the Ogallala Aquifer (along with Oklahoma and Kansas). Changes in rain would be an utter disaster there. On the north end of the Aquifer (Nebraska and South Dakota), strict regulation of water usage (through metering, including irrigation) means our end of the Aquifer is at or above normal levels.
My understanding is the Texas end of the Aquifer will take about three hundred years to recharge.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
Speaking of aquifers. How were the water classes?
With the GOP unable to repeal the ACA despite numerous attempts, Idaho now plans to ignore the law entirely.
wsj.com (paywalled)
Idaho officials said they will begin allowing insurers to sell new plans that don’t meet requirements set by the Affordable Care Act, a move that will test the limits of states’ ability to carve out their own health-insurance rules under the Trump administration.
In a bulletin issued Wednesday, the Idaho Department of Insurance said that it would allow insurers in the state to begin offering “state-based plans” to consumers. These products could leave out some of the benefits mandated by the ACA for individual coverage.
Posing as American activists, Russian government-linked trolls created 129 Facebook events between 2015 and 2017. Events created by one troll group were seen by more than 300,000 Facebook users. https://t.co/kw9yOVa3ML pic.twitter.com/DxZF2jZuw9
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2018
:) for the Bethesda fans
If you ever feel like shitting on Bethesda for Fallout 4 this is how my roommate reacts whenever Dogmeat is on screen.
He’s a poli-sci grad.
That’s *his* Chomsky on the shelf behind him.
He has… issues with his linguistic philosophy… pic.twitter.com/aMUpi4nIqK— Alyosha (@mediocremensch) January 29, 2018
re: #65 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
re: #66 Single-handed sailor
Happens more and more often in California. It’s almost February and we have only had 7.86” of rain since July 1st. I was hoping to take a train to Reno through the snow but it’s still meh.
Down here we’ve had less than 2”.
Dry, dry, and the loquats are not going to make it without some heavy rains.
re: #77 freetoken
Down here we’ve had less than 2”.
Dry, dry, and the loquats are not going to make it without some heavy rains.
I have never eaten loquats, they sound yummy. I had to use my google-fu to learn something new!
re: #76 Alyosha
Smart dog. Can’t have a Deep State without deep structures.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹
With the GOP unable to repeal the ACA despite numerous attempts, Idaho now plans to ignore the law entirely.
wsj.com (paywalled)
We are governed by a corrupt administration that doesn’t believe in the rule of law. They will allow this and the ACA will vanish from the face of the earth in red states. I’m not sure if blue states will be able to continue to force insurers to support the ACA when the federal government continues to sabotage it. The GOP is evil to its core.
“Welcome to the throbbing heart of Anti-Trump Country, a land where — if you believe in polls — the majority of Americans reside, and yet a place that the mainstream media seem determined to ignore.” https://t.co/3kVeWGMjEH
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 27, 2018
Edit: This one’s old. We’ve seen it before. But, at least there are two anti-Trump stories.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May (Conservative) offers to open up the National Health Service to US corporations in exchange for a trade deal with the United States.
Now watch what happens when millions of Britons lose their health care access…
re: #81 Belafon
Hmmm. A macchiato costs more in Trump Country (85-15%) than in Marxist Philly.
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
re: #86 Belafon
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
How strange would it be if not? Seems to me when the economy was great and before the long war, the politics of celebrities were aspirational. “Save the Whales” and Feed The Children. Now they are what I might coin desperational. Desperate for better.
re: #87 Unshaken Defiance
What if we feed the children to the whales!?
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I will go now
So, has the trump thing woken up and rage tweeted about the Grammys or Hillary reading from The Book?
re: #86 Belafon
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
I’d further add that I think music is one of the most political of the arts and has been for a long time.
Thoughts?
re: #89 MsJ
Maybe he will rage tweet over Blue Ivy’s choice of footwear.
re: #90 MsJ
I’d further add that I think music is one of the most political of the arts and has been for a long time.
Thoughts?
I’d say it’s the easiest to be political in because of the cost of entry. But, remember Piss Christ? I have an artist friend from Costa Rica, whose art is partially about the politics of the time he lived there. But I would say it’s easiest to be political in music, especially since part of the original purpose of music was to record and transfer history.
re: #86 Belafon
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
And no one is forcing conservatives to watch awards shows. I never watch them. But you’re right. These entertainers live in this country too. I expect them to have opinions.
re: #93 HappyWarrior
And no one is forcing conservatives to watch awards shows. I never watch them. But you’re right. These entertainers live in this country too. I expect them to have opinions.
And we’re in a climate where everyone has to use what power they have to resist what white supremacists like Trump want.
re: #90 MsJ
I’d further add that I think music is one of the most political of the arts and has been for a long time.
Thoughts?
Certainly. It’s a lot more difficult to censor music than say visual arts or performance arts such as film or plays but song and music. Plus music is among the most oldest forms of self expression.
It’s worth remembering before literacy was widespread history, legends, etc were passed down in song.
re: #88 Shropshire Slasher
What if we feed the children to the whales!?
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I will go now
*Finishes cleaning coffee off desk and monitor*
re: #82 Joe Bacon 🌹
Now watch what happens when millions of Britons lose their health care access…
Here is another scary healthcare story. A woman in my town was having sharp pains, and her mother, a former nurse, thought it might be appendicitis, so she went to the ER. Turns out it wasn’t, so Anthem denied coverage for her “inappropriate” visit to the ER and she got a hospital bill for over $12,000.
re: #90 MsJ
I’d further add that I think music is one of the most political of the arts and has been for a long time.
Thoughts?
Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith, etc.
re: #88 Shropshire Slasher
What if we feed the children to the whales!?
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I will go now
I was going to post or link to the classic Doonesbury Strip where two sets of protesters (save the whales & ban the nukes) get mixed up and start chanting “Nuke the Whales!” but I can’t find it online, alas.
re: #99 Barefoot Grin
Lee Greenwood, Toby Keith, etc.
Like all tools, music can also be used by the other side.
re: #91 Shropshire Slasher
Maybe he will rage tweet over Blue Ivy’s choice of footwear.
Oh, he is going to lose his shit over Clinton. He’s likely trying to figure out how to have her arrested right now.
I know the debate over criminals and prisons is a passionate one here. I wanted to post this just because it was a good read about human beings in the prison population. There are many instances of sons following fathers into prison.
There is an article limit here, I am sorry if it can’t be read.
philly.com
re: #87 Unshaken Defiance
How strange would it be if not? Seems to me when the economy was great and before the long war, the politics of celebrities were aspirational. “Save the Whales” and Feed The Children. Now they are what I might coin desperational. Desperate for better.
Celebrity musicians and actors are most often liberal because they most often came from nothing. They’ve seen firsthand how many thousands of factors had to align for their talent/work to be turned into money… and they all have very clear memories of people they knew at the beginning of their careers who were just as talented (if not more so) and worked just as hard (if not more so) and are still eating ramen and driving a 20-year-old rust bucket.
Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Ice-T, missed a lot of meals when they were growing up.
The few stars who came from wealthy backgrounds… if they talk politics at all, it’s maybe about gay rights or environmental causes, they stay away from economic/labor issues (Carly Simon, Stockard Channing, Lady Gaga).
re: #100 William Lewis
I was going to post or link to the classic Doonesbury Strip where two sets of protesters (save the whales & ban the nukes) get mixed up and start chanting “Nuke the Whales!” but I can’t find it online, alas.
I used to have t-shirt “Nuke the Gay Unborn Baby Whales for Jesus.”
re: #106 sagehen
Celebrity musicians and actors are most often liberal because they most often came from nothing. They’ve seen firsthand how many thousands of factors had to align for their talent/work to be turned into money… and they all have very clear memories of people they knew at the beginning of their careers who were just as talented (if not more so) and worked just as hard (if not more so) and are still eating ramen and driving a 20-year-old rust bucket.
Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Ice-T, missed a lot of meals when they were growing up.
The few stars who came from wealthy backgrounds… if they talk politics at all, it’s maybe about gay rights or environmental causes, they stay away from economic/labor issues (Carly Simon, Stockard Channing, Lady Gaga).
I never thought about artists leaning left because of that.
re: #107 sagehen
I remember a t-shirt I had.
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Best ever cartoon:
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He could show up to the SOTU waving a pitchfork, long red tail twitching out of his pants, horns coming out of his awful hair, and Republicans would still worship him as the 2nd Coming of Jesus.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 29, 2018
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
It was the Grammy’s last night, and of course Fox is busy complaining about Hillary making an appearance.
These special snowflakes can’t handle it.
Clinton’s a private citizen. She can do what she damned well pleases.
Trump’s the fucking president and media fawns over him when he doesn’t soil himself in the basic functions of the job - like going overseas and not entirely embarrassing himself or the nation.
Meanwhile, Faux News continues running incessant agitprop and misinformation to help Trump and the GOP.
Oh look - Fox News doing all it can to obfuscate/obscure indisputable fact that Wynn is a GOPer. He was the ongoing RNC Finance Chair.
He’s the top money guy for the RNC. That’s the Republican National Committee.
Fox News = agitprop and misinformation.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 29, 2018
That’s not a mere slipup. It’s actively misinforming their viewers. Wynn isn’t just some Democrat fundraiser.
He’s the RNC finance chair. He’s the main money guy to keep the RNC afloat. He’s coordinating RNC finances. That’s the opposite of being a Democrat, but Faux is too busy trying to confuse and misinform.
Faux is the enemy just as much as Trump and the GOP are - they’re actively undermining the US at every turn.
👀 WSJ editor Gerry Baker spotted by @tarapalmeri at lavish Davos party thrown by Russian oligarch w/in Putin’s inner circle whose relationship with Manafort is under scrutiny… ““I was worried about being spotted here,” Baker said. “Russia is so taboo.” https://t.co/JOjhi5G1bT
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) January 29, 2018
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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I already saw the inevitable “he’s become so presidential!” story when he managed to read his entire Davos speech without saying anything completely horrifying.
re: #47 majii
“Don’t really like this guy, but…”
I’ve been a diabetic now for over 20 years, and nothing about my disease has ever caused me to do something immoral, make a bad judgment call, or break any law, even when my blood sugar level drops. This guy is a liar who blamed his diabetes for his act of voter fraud, and sadly and unfortunately, there are many in the GOP who will believe him. Something else in the article doesn’t make sense to me, either How can something he described as being “customary” [filling out his ex-wife’s ballots during their marriage] suddenly morph into something one easily “forgets” at the exact time he gets caught doing it? I don’t like persons who don’t own up to their wrongdoing when they’re caught red-handed doing something wrong. With people like these, their trouble is always caused by someone else or something else. Just last week, Meehan [R-Pennsylvania] blamed working to repeal Obamacare for harassing his former staffer after it became widely known that he called her his “soulmate.” Yuck. Their lies disgust me, and especially if they’re the type who claim to love the Lawd. I don’t know their god and I don’t know their Jesus.
did he have an “episode” each and every time?
liar
re: #115 dangerman
did he have an “episode” each and every time?
liar
The diabetic episode occurred when he tried to explain why he did it.
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re: #113 JordanRules
@Hadas_Gold
👀 WSJ editor Gerry Baker spotted by @tarapalmeri at lavish Davos party thrown by Russian oligarch w/in Putin’s inner circle whose relationship with Manafort is under scrutiny… “”I was worried about being spotted here,” Baker said. “Russia is so taboo.” abcnews.go.com …
8:57 AM - Jan 29, 2018
For all its sins in the pre-Murdoch days — and they were many — the old WSJ would never fawn over Russia. How things have changed! Putin is now the new golden boy for the GOP and WSJ. What is wrong with these people?
re: #86 Belafon
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
I remember when Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to the Academy Awards to decline his Oscar for the Godfather in 1973. Man, people *forget*.
re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter
For all its sins in the pre-Murdoch days — and they were many — the old WSJ would never fawn over Russia. How things have changed! Putin is now the new golden boy for the GOP and WSJ. What is wrong with these people?
Power. That’s all that matters. In the 80s, using Commies to bash Democrats was all that really mattered. Now, using Commies to maintain power over Democrats is all that maters.
re: #100 William Lewis
I was going to post or link to the classic Doonesbury Strip where two sets of protesters (save the whales & ban the nukes) get mixed up and start chanting “Nuke the Whales!” but I can’t find it online, alas.
Nuke The Gay Baby Whales. In the 1980’s, at a tech-oriented conference I attended, one speaker wore a T-shirt with that msg.
$675K was expended in the first 3 months, when Barron was finishing out the school year in NYC
Melania cost taxpayers nearly $700,000 in three months for travel — a third of what Michelle spent in 8 years https://t.co/l5CNcoof4O
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 29, 2018
re: #86 Belafon
WFAA here in Dallas had a morning poll asking if awards shows were becoming more political. Viewers obviously said yes.
But, performers live in America as well. There’s always been a political component to all entertainment. And, in this climate, the awards shows are one of the few venues where liberals are allowed to voice their opinions.
brando
The problem is there isn’t enough politics in today’s music. Fuck your truck, and your dog(sorry country fans), and the 50 millionth song about love. The last mainstream band that was even remotely politically controversial was system of a down and that’s like over ten years out.
re: #121 FormerDirtDart
$675K was expended in the first 3 months, when Barron was finishing out the school year in NYC
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re: #110 jeffreyw
Best ever cartoon:
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you mock the half of humanity that makes your graceless existence bearable
i’d like to send that to bernie marcus
re: #100 William Lewis
I was going to post or link to the classic Doonesbury Strip where two sets of protesters (save the whales & ban the nukes) get mixed up and start chanting “Nuke the Whales!” but I can’t find it online, alas.
This one?
re: #123 Amory Blaine
The problem is there isn’t enough politics in today’s music. Fuck your truck, and your dog(sorry country fans), and the 50 millionth song about love. The last mainstream band that was even remotely politically controversial was system of a down and that’s like over ten years out.
when i was growing up it felt like half the music was protest/political
re: #123 Amory Blaine
The problem is there isn’t enough politics in today’s music. Fuck your truck, and your dog(sorry country fans), and the 50 millionth song about love. The last mainstream band that was even remotely politically controversial was system of a down and that’s like over ten years out.
well… okay. Prophets of Rage isn’t mainstream.
re: #120 unproven innocence
Nuke The Gay Baby Whales. In the 1980’s, at a tech-oriented conference I attended, one speaker wore a T-shirt with that msg.
somebody’s gotta do it:
re: #123 Amory Blaine
I am the entertainer
The idol of my age
I make all kinds of money
When I go on the stage
Ah, you’ve seen me in the papers
I’ve been in the magazines
But if I go cold I won’t get sold
I’ll get put in the back in the discount rack
Like another can of beans
re: #128 dangerman
That’s because it was. Now its mostly fluffy garbage singing about love or how much money you have or wish you had. Can’t upset the advertisers with your carefully controlled 3.5 minute anthem of empty prose.
Only in Trump’s America.
UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT: The video making headlines across the country, a 7-year-old boy arrested and led away from his Miami school in handcuffs after reports he attacked a teacher and the parents say the school went too far. @ztkiesch reports. https://t.co/WdK1GbRIKd pic.twitter.com/tLg7cQ3SUO
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) January 29, 2018
re: #132 Amory Blaine
That’s because it was. Now its mostly fluffy garbage singing about love or how much money you have or wish you had. Can’t upset the advertisers with your carefully controlled 3.5 minute anthem of empty prose.
Thankfully, we still have this:
The chorus is brilliant - I’d love to see someone do this at the Grammys, LOL
You’ll pay ten bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage
Fatass bouncers kick the shit
Out of kids who try to danceIf my friends say
I’ve lost my guts
I’ll laugh and say
That’s rock and rollBut there’s just one problem
[Chorus]
Is my cock big enough
Is my brain small enough
For you to make me a star
Give me a toot, I’ll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I’ll go farGive me a toot, I’ll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I’ll go far
re: #133 DodgerFan1988
Because of the boy’s recent behavior, school officials initiated Baker Act proceedings. The state law allows for judges, law enforcement officials, physicians, or mental health professionals to involuntary examine a person if they believe that person is likely to cause serious bodily harm in the future.
Miami-Dade school police said the boy’s father agreed that he needed mental health treatment, but his mother disagreed. She told police there was nothing wrong with him.
The kid being arrested was initiated at the school.
Scott Dworkin is trying to use #TheResistance hashtag as his own personal piggy bank. I’m seeing a whole bunch of spam with his “give me money” link. What a sleazebag.
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Scott Dworkin is trying to use #TheResistance hashtag as his own personal piggy bank. I’m seeing a whole bunch of spam with his “give me money” link. What a sleazebag.
Can’t stand that guy.
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re: #84 jeffreyw
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Nice color this morning Jeffery. The yellows in the wood pop today and work nice with the golds in the ground cover and the yellow greens in some of the trees. And then Mr. cardinal shows off his red breast against all that yellow.
Your camera seems to be sensitive to light changes to get so much coloring differences in the images you put up.
By the way, looks like a mourning dove decided to hit the Fly-In this morning to join in the eats.
re: #90 MsJ
I’d further add that I think music is one of the most political of the arts and has been for a long time.
Thoughts?
I think all the arts are pretty political. A lot has to do with what you look for too. Music probably seems the most political because it is more prevalent in our media. We don’t have a lot of media presenting and discussing graphic arts (photographs, paintings, prints, etc.) and literature. It’s too bad as maybe our society would place more value in all of it.
The music business, like the movie business is rife with nepotism. Go ahead and click on almost any star of today’s name and their parents more likely than not was a producer, or a director, or an actor, or a singer or an entertainment lawyer or investor. That is to say, most of these people never went hungry so they are projects of their own ego.
In a new low for Washington, yesterday @chefjoseandres was asked to leave the Alfalfa dinner after-party at @CafeMilanoDC by its owner, Franco Nuschesse, apparently because his presence made Ivanka Trump uncomfortable (Cafe Milano is the watering hole of the Trump Admin).
— Jorge Guajardo (@jorge_guajardo) January 28, 2018
If you want a picture of Ivanka’s future, imagine a chef pissing in a bowl of soup - forever. https://t.co/b6z0b0EndZ
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) January 28, 2018
re: #145 JordanRules
I only wish they played more guitars.
BREAKING NEWS: rare footage of the “super secret society” plotting to politically take down Trump! https://t.co/wdhIH7nCgj #AMJoy #MSNBC @amjoyshow
— RockoC (@rossssc) January 28, 2018
This shit is gonna bankrupt George Soros. https://t.co/k7AroqVRVG
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) January 29, 2018
I love Zack de la Rocha’s profile (lead singer of Rage Against the Machine):
Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha was born in Long Beach, California on January 12, 1970, to a Mexican-American father, the artist Robert “Beto” de la Rocha (born 1937),[3][4] and a mother of German and Irish origin, Olivia Lorryne Carter (born 1941).[3][5][6] His father played an integral part in his cultural upbringing. Beto was a muralist and a member of Los Four, the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a museum (LACMA, 1973). De la Rocha’s grandfather, Isaac de la Rocha Beltrán (1910-1985),[7] was a Mexican revolutionary[8] who fought in the Mexican Revolution and worked as an agricultural labourer in the U.S. De la Rocha would later see the hardships his grandfather endured reflected in the struggles of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.[9]
De la Rocha’s parents divorced when he was six years old, and he moved from East Los Angeles to Irvine with his mother, who attended the University of California at Irvine and ultimately earned a Ph.D. in anthropology.[10] De la Rocha later described Irvine as “one of the most racist cities imaginable” and said that “if you were a Mexican in Irvine, you were there because you had a broom or a hammer in your left hand”.[11] De la Rocha became a vegetarian as a teenager.[12]
re: #118 mmmirele
I remember when Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to the Academy Awards to decline his Oscar for the Godfather in 1973. Man, people *forget*.
I think that may have been the very first case of turning an awards show into a political statement. Not sure, but it sure pissed a lot of folks off when he did that.
re: #147 Amory Blaine
Lots of live shows incorporate a band with string elements to go with the DJ. And of course that is what makes The Roots special.
🚨 Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), chairman of the House Appropriatione Cmte, is retiring 🚨
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 29, 2018
Let the bodies hit the
Let the bodies hit the
Yeahhhhhhhh https://t.co/3MJxRxSZj9— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 29, 2018
re: #147 Amory Blaine
I only wish they played more guitars.
And I understand that’s on me. A lot of hip hop will use guitars as a hook or whatever I guess I want a more musical focus that I’m used to. Before you get off my lawn, let me tell you about the onion on my belt.
re: #142 ObserverArt
Your camera seems to be sensitive to light changes to get so much coloring differences in the images you put up.
The pictures I have been putting up were taken by two different cameras, an older model sold by Spypoint, and the new one a Browning product.
I think the Browning branded cameras are made by another outfit, they are nearly identical to some sold by Moultrie. Metadata indicate the camera maker to be Prometheus. A brief Google search yielded little pertinent info on them
There are no manual setting for the camera, everything is automatic, including the switchover from day to night mode. I haven’t tried the video mode, photo mode tends to yield better resolution per frame.
It’s snowing outside, and yesterday the temperature was almost 50.
Fuck this shit, I’m making cinnamon bread.
Dumb trend - outraged partisans pointing to newspaper op-eds with the belief that said op-ed represents the unified editorial position of the newspaper.
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) January 29, 2018
Dumber trend - papers ceding the valuable real estate of their op-ed pages to the inchoate and destructive rantings of racists, misogynists and climate deniers. https://t.co/ZQjIHoTvJF
— VeryStableGenius (@OuterBoroRoyal) January 29, 2018
re: #156 JordanRules
Dumber trend - papers ceding the valuable real estate of their op-ed pages to the inchoate and destructive rantings of racists, misogynists and climate deniers
!
papers have no obligation to give these people a platform
re: #113 JordanRules
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Probably getting his yam defense story straight—Baker is a big yam toadie:
The editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal reportedly berated reporters at the newspaper in a late-night email Wednesday over their coverage of President Donald Trump…
This isn’t the first time Baker has appeared to ask staffers at the paper to hedge their language when reporting on Trump, who has close ties to the Journal’s owner Rupert Murdoch…
Instead of publishing Baker’s full interview with Trump, the Journal published excerpts. Then Politico obtained a leaked transcript of Baker’s full interview with the president, which the Columbia Journalism Review called “embarrassing” for the paper.
The transcript revealed Baker’s inability to press Trump if he got the facts wrong or to keep him on-topic, and it included a short and friendly visit from Ivanka Trump. Baker and the first daughter chatted about seeing each other at an elite media party in Southampton earlier that summer.
I’ve donated 3x to the ironstache. I gotta say though, if it comes down to him and that Nazi Nehlan I think Nehlen could actually win. Ryan’s district includes the reddest area of Waukesha county(southern). I don’t think they will ever vote for a democrat. Its not going to stop my donations but uh, yeah.
Steve Wynn contributions to Democrats. pic.twitter.com/orPkLt0uyI
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 28, 2018
When @realDonaldTrump is impeached, @FoxNews will refer to him as “Clinton Foundation contributor Donald Trump”. https://t.co/8UDuUhyw1g
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 29, 2018
re: #155 The Vicious Babushka
It’s snowing outside, and yesterday the temperature was almost 50.
Fuck this shit, I’m making cinnamon bread.
Normal Chicago winter!!
re: #144 Amory Blaine
The music business, like the movie business is rife with nepotism. Go ahead and click on almost any star of today’s name and their parents more likely than not was a producer, or a director, or an actor, or a singer or an entertainment lawyer or investor. That is to say, most of these people never went hungry so they are projects of their own ego.
Just keep in mind a lot of what you are talking about is mainstream music which is nothing more than product to hit the dictates and fashion of the current market.
The good art is still underground and in the arts community. Sadly.
Speaking of that…LGF turned me on to James McMurtry. The other night after some jamming, my guitar playing buddy and I watched this from James. I don’t know if this concert has been linked already here, but it can’t hurt to put it up again.
It is an amazing show by a true wordsmith that is also a hell of a guitar picker. He and his band can really rock out, do some blues, maybe some traditional Americana…but all good.
I’m just trying to figure how he remembers all the words as the songs seem stream of conscience. I looked to see if he had notes or a computer screen…but I don’t think I saw them
Save this link when you have some time to watch it. Hour and forty minutes of greatness. And the smallish crowd that got to see him had to be pleased. He knocked it out of the park.
re: #160 Ace-o-aces
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By Wynn owned businesses? He’s a Casino owner. FNC is pathetic.
Trump tells press State of the Union speech will “cover a lot of territory” — “a big speech, an important speech.” Will stress immigration reform, which has to be bipartisan because “the Republicans really don’t have the votes.” pic.twitter.com/UwAY80kffe
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 29, 2018
The only speech Trump could make that would be “a big speech, an important speech” is the one where he RESIGNS.#BoycottSOTU https://t.co/WeZFU4Ofth
— Manophobic Feminist She-Devil (@Karoli) January 29, 2018
my mom (89 y/o) got baited into switching to directv (dont ask)
3 weeks ago
hasnt worked right since the first day
i’ve pulled plugs, reset, done incantations, dances, no soap.
she’s made probably 10 calls
rarely gets a human - they want her to surf the website to find “solutions”
she got fed up today and spent 30 minutes on hold - no human
called me
i’ve been ‘chatting’ for probably 30-45 minutes (reading lgf between messages)
finally got someone to understand and they’re sending a tech tomorrow
dont send me a survey. you wont like it
re: #162 ObserverArt
Yeah, I’m ranting about mainstream music. Of course even just outside of that are a lot of talented people that are doing the heavy lifting.
re: #151 JordanRules
Lots of live shows incorporate a band with string elements to go with the DJ. And of course that is what makes The Roots special.
I think HipHop is transitioning to more musicians involved as compared to DJs and sampling. I for one love that as I think it is getting some of the soulfulness and feel into the music. I think R&B and Soul is getting back into modern music…and I think that is a good thing.
re: #159 Amory Blaine
I’ve donated 3x to the ironstache. I gotta say though, if it comes down to him and that Nazi Nehlan I think Nehlen could actually win. Ryan’s district includes the reddest area of Waukesha county(southern). I don’t think they will ever vote for a democrat. Its not going to stop my donations but uh, yeah.
What about Cathy Myers? There are 2 Democratic hopefuls in that district. Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? I don’t live there but would like to contribute to the better candidate.
Ya know, I never have liked FNC but they’ve grown worse in the past year.
re: #141 makeitstop
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Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
Man, 51, dies THREE WEEKS after winning $1 MILLION lottery prize from undiagnosed stage-four cancer
It’s like rain on your wedding day…
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re: #169 HappyWarrior
Ya know, I never have liked FNC but they’ve grown worse in the past year.
Becoming Trumpified. Their already low standards have to plumb new depths.
re: #167 ObserverArt
Agreed! Even when it comes to sampling, I’ve always leaned towards when they flip great old soul music.
re: #156 JordanRules
VeryStableGenius
@OuterBoroRoyal
Dumber trend - papers ceding the valuable real estate of their op-ed pages to the inchoate and destructive rantings of racists, misogynists and climate deniers.Dumb trend - outraged partisans pointing to newspaper op-eds with the belief that said op-ed represents the unified editorial position of the newspaper.
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) January 29, 2018
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And don’t forget the economic nonsense from Stephen Moore, offered today through the NY Times who seems to want to offer every Republican ignoramus a platform in their paper.
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re: #174 Big Beautiful Door
Becoming Trumpified. Their already low standards have to plumb new depths.
For sure.
re: #165 dangerman
Direct TV is owned by AT&T. Now you know what you’re up against. If you have Twitter, you can go to @ATTCares and DM them. I have the two bundled. I have my own horror story with these idiots.
DM them and say you know AT&T owns Directv and you can get no satisfaction with DTV. They helped me. Maybe you. We burned about an hour and a half every month for 5 months arguing until I went to their Twitter site. It got cleared up in 45 minutes.
Good luck.
Here’s an example from today.
Hello Gianni . Thank you for choosing DIRECTV NOW . We would like to help you with this issue. Please feel free to DM us :) ^cocoT
— ATTCares (@ATTCares) January 29, 2018
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Sure, I would love to see WiDems throw some support to her. They haven’t as of yet and it’s kind of throw all your eggs in one basket at this point for dems in Wisconsin. I would love a dem primary and then an actual debate for Ryan. Instead of Ryan just walking into the job again virtually unopposed. Unless Ryan drops out, he’ll use Nehlen to show how opposed he is to Nehlens white nationalist ideology. All the while doing the exact same thing Nehlen would do. Gahhhh!!!!
re: #143 ObserverArt
I think all the arts are pretty political. A lot has to do with what you look for too. Music probably seems the most political because it is more prevalent in our media. We don’t have a lot of media presenting and discussing graphic arts (photographs, paintings, prints, etc.) and literature. It’s too bad as maybe our society would place more value in all of it.
Here’s a super-famous bit of political art
re: #165 dangerman
I know from experience how our Moms in their 80’s need their tv. What a nightmare.
My mom is more the fuck up the laptop person lately. My poor brother!
re: #143 ObserverArt
I think all the arts are pretty political. A lot has to do with what you look for too. Music probably seems the most political because it is more prevalent in our media. We don’t have a lot of media presenting and discussing graphic arts (photographs, paintings, prints, etc.) and literature. It’s too bad as maybe our society would place more value in all of it.
Probably the most famous American political painting:
Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”, 1964
re: #181 sagehen
Here’s a super-famous bit of political art
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One of my political favorites. Goya.
re: #179 nines09
Direct TV is owned by AT&T. Now you know what you’re up against. If you have Twitter, you can go to @ATTCares and DM them. I have the two bundled. I have my own horror story with these idiots.
DM them and say you know AT&T owns Directv and you can get no satisfaction with DTV. They helped me. Maybe you. We burned about an hour and a half every month for 5 months arguing until I went to their Twitter site. It got cleared up in 45 minutes.
Good luck.
thats the thing - she had uverse for years. very happy and (around here) quite reliable - which is all i care about for her
at&t got her to switch. the guy on the phone told some blatant lies. granted mom’s 89, i dont think she got the pitch wrong
unfortunately (or not) i dont tweet
it’s only been a couple of weeks. service call tomorrow then i give it another 2 weeks. if its still no good i’ll make them switch it back
re: #179 nines09
Direct TV is owned by AT&T. Now you know what you’re up against. If you have Twitter, you can go to @ATTCares and DM them. I have the two bundled. I have my own horror story with these idiots.
DM them and say you know AT&T owns Directv and you can get no satisfaction with DTV. They helped me. Maybe you. We burned about an hour and a half every month for 5 months arguing until I went to their Twitter site. It got cleared up in 45 minutes.
Good luck.
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A pox on both cable and satellite. I use an antenna and streaming services.
inbox - NRCC says Rep. Frelinghuysen is retiring. That’s the chairman of House Appropriations, from a political dynasty that goes back to the Revolutionary War
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 29, 2018
The most interesting part of the Frelinghuysen story is how few people know about this political dynasty compared to those like the Kennedy family. His ancestor was a delegate in the Continental Congress! https://t.co/FSlwhAkR4l https://t.co/XgLavtFC6f
— Amelia Frappolli (@AmeliaFrappolli) January 29, 2018
Another GOP retirement. This one is significant in a couple of ways. It’s a NJ GOPer.
That’s significant.
That Frelinghuysen is also a direct descendant of a political family which predates the US Constitution is worth noting. One of his ancestors, Frederick Frelinghuysen, was a US General and was at the Constitutional Convention. His family has been in NJ politics as long as the country has been around.
He’s retiring because the tide has turned against him and the GOP.
This is another potential Dem pickup.
re: #183 Stanley Sea
I know from experience how our Moms in their 80’s need their tv. What a nightmare.
My mom is more the fuck up the laptop person lately. My poor brother!
you know, they want what they want and deserve it. mine listens to sirius all day, plays cds, etc. at night she wants news, pbs, and tcm. that’s about it. not asking a lot. if you’re buying tv service it ought to work…
as for computers, she’s been using one since the early 1980’s. by now she must have asked me 10,000 times “do i press enter now”… i use teamviewer so i dont have to run over there every time something happens (which isnt a lot really)
re: #186 dangerman
You can create a throwaway Twitter account. Create it to contact these people and say that’s why you did it. Trust me. If not for the Twitter team I think I’d still be screwed.
Then just do a direct message to them and explain.
The people from the stores are worthless. Direct TV phone numbers go to Mumbai. The only people you will get any satisfaction from is the Twitter crew.
We were run in circles for months. Billing and a credit we were supposed to get. Hundreds of dollars. Twitter crew got it for me.
Oh, and if you go in thinking you’ll just give them some time…..YOU LOSE.
re: #184 sagehen
Probably the most famous American political painting:
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Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”, 1964
Rockwell is actually considered more of an illustrator and called many of his own works “pictures” instead of paintings. I’m not sure, but I am guessing many of his works were not even on stretched canvas but on illustration board.
That is not to take anything away from his works much of them done for books and magazines under contract with the publications.
Due to the nature of his work, much of his stuff could be considered political as well as story telling about America.
re: #187 Big Beautiful Door
A pox on both cable and satellite. I use an antenna and streaming services.
us too. cut the cord 2 years ago and very happy. no landline, no tv service. just an internet modem and hd antenna for the locals, which we almost never watch.
i did get mom netflix via roku and she’s liking that
re: #184 sagehen
Probably the most famous American political painting:
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Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”, 1964
Remember early last year cartoonist Glenn McCoy thought it was a good idea to draw a cartoon that replaced the 6 year old Ruby Bridges with Betsy DeVos, because nothing is more similar to an African American child being threatened by thugs than a billionaire woman who is herself an ignorant racist, being challenged by those who do not share her views
re: #191 ObserverArt
Rockwell is actually considered more of an illustrator and called many of his own works “pictures” instead of paintings. I’m not sure, but I am guessing many of his works were not even on stretched canvas but on illustration board.
That is not to take anything away from his works much of them done for books and magazines under contract with the publications.
Due to the nature of his work, much of his stuff could be considered political as well as story telling about America.
re: #133 DodgerFan1988
Only in Trump’s America.
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No, Schools have been handing kids over to the police for many years now.
re: #190 nines09
You can create a throwaway Twitter account. Create it to contact these people and say that’s why you did it. Trust me. If not for the Twitter team I think I’d still be screwed.
Then just do a direct message to them and explain.
The people from the stores are worthless. Direct TV phone numbers go to Mumbai. The only people you will get any satisfaction from is the Twitter crew.
We were run in circles for months. Billing and a credit we were supposed to get. Hundreds of dollars. Twitter crew got it for me.
Oh, and if you go in thinking you’ll just give them some time…..YOU LOSE.
i hear and obey and will do it - what’s one more thing to learn?… ;-)
re: #186 dangerman
If she stays with it, realize that it’s a satellite. I would get a digital antenna set up in case of bad weather. I had it for a while until the price became something I couldn’t bear, but the navigation is great (it’s even got a subset of IMDB built into the guide: You can check out whose in a movie or show and then select a person to see what other things they’ve been in).
The biggest beef I’ve had with Spectrum is that their navigation system is almost exactly the same as it was the last time I had it, about 12 years ago.
re: #190 nines09
You can create a throwaway Twitter account. Create it to contact these people and say that’s why you did it. Trust me. If not for the Twitter team I think I’d still be screwed.
Then just do a direct message to them and explain.
The people from the stores are worthless. Direct TV phone numbers go to Mumbai. The only people you will get any satisfaction from is the Twitter crew.
We were run in circles for months. Billing and a credit we were supposed to get. Hundreds of dollars. Twitter crew got it for me.
Oh, and if you go in thinking you’ll just give them some time…..YOU LOSE.
ATT will require you to give them the account info (phone, minimally) I have used them. Their twitter presence is very good and helpful.
The House casualty list is, shall we say, unbalanced… pic.twitter.com/FwVJ7Vh6mJ
— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) January 29, 2018
re: #199 MsJ
Yes. They have to know who you are. You’re only giving them what they already have.
BREAKING: Andrew McCabe has stepped down effective today as FBI deputy director, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell @ NBC News pic.twitter.com/kLrhDjzq7B
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 29, 2018
Stable Genius would be a cool band name or a moniker for a Pitbullish DJ.
re: #205 dangerman
Right. How can she type on a blackberry with those little paws!
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
Finally, some good news today.
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re: #165 dangerman
I haven’t had cable for 3 years, and here in my part of NW Iowa you can’t pick up jack shit on an aerial. I watch everything via various websites on the net…I haven’t done the torrent thing in years, though. Too chickenshit.
In the last seven years I’ve had Frontier, then Mediacom, then Rise broadband for internet, and all have sucked here. There was an 8 month period where I couldn’t afford internet of any kind. Straight Talk recently changed their $55 monthly tier to true unlimited, so I found an 8 dollar thingy that I plug into my tower and now I have unlimited wifi from my $30 phone, and I am happy. It’s not lightning speeds, but it’s also not dial up slow.
BREAKING: Under pressure from M.L.B. commissioner, Indians will stop using Chief Wahoo insignia in 2019. By @DavidWaldstein: https://t.co/Wc2y7WnXZ9
— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) January 29, 2018
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
Not good. Sigh.
re: #209 Stanley Sea
If only the Washington Redskins would do the same.
So where does the McCabe resignation put the balance of power in the FBI at this point?
re: #209 Stanley Sea
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As a long time Indians fan I understand the desire to stop using the image.
But as a kid I loved that icon and as a kid I did not see it as something negative. I saw him as The Cleveland Indian. I guess I didn’t know about the negatives of the image back then as I didn’t see and hear all the negative stuff people said about Native Americans.
Call it childhood naivety.
So long Chief Wahoo.
Question now will be, will they need to change the team name from “The Cleveland Indians?”
re: #216 ObserverArt
As a long time Indians fan I understand the desire to stop using the image.
But as a kid I loved that icon and as a kid I did not see it as something negative. I saw him as The Cleveland Indian. I guess I didn’t know about the negatives of the image back then as I didn’t see and hear all the negative stuff people said about Native Americans.
Call it childhood naivety.
So long Chief Wahoo.
Question now will be, will they need to change the team name from “The Cleveland Indians?”
I don’t think the name has been an issue but rather the logo. I hope they keep the name knowing its history.
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
That mystical memo must be getting closer to coming out.
re: #216 ObserverArt
As a long time Indians fan I understand the desire to stop using the image.
But as a kid I loved that icon and as a kid I did not see it as something negative. I saw him as The Cleveland Indian. I guess I didn’t know about the negatives of the image back then as I didn’t see and hear all the negative stuff people said about Native Americans.
Call it childhood naivety.
So long Chief Wahoo.
Question now will be, will they need to change the team name from “The Cleveland Indians?”
I can never understand the Conservatives argument of how the name Washington Redskins honors native people.
re: #221 Shropshire Slasher
That mystical memo must be getting closer to coming out.
From what I can tell the Memo is more to get rid of Rod Rosenstein. So, that will probably happen later this week. Sounds like the entire GOP House wants it to come out.
The Republicans seem ready to tear down all our institutions so they can allow Trump to tear down this country.
re: #223 ObserverArt
Trey Gowdy said what was in the memo Sunday, in a round about way.
BREAKING: Andy McCabe just quit as deputy FBI director, per @petewilliamsnbc he will remain on “leave” till Spring when he can officially retire from the bureau.
— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) January 29, 2018
This may very well be McCabe’s own decision, but given Trump’s demands for his ouster and his ongoing pressure on DOJ/FBI, Wray ought to explain to Congress what has happened as soon as possible. https://t.co/LlrOkklCzi
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 29, 2018
re: #222 DodgerFan1988
I can never understand the Conservatives argument of how the name Washington Redskins honors native people.
Because they’re jackasses. The founder of the team was a huge bigot.
re: #226 Stanley Sea
I always go to this image - Chief Wahoo is extremely offensive.
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Yeah it needed to go years ago.
Pwning Mike Peinovich turned out to be very easy. He folded like Hitler kicked into the ball with a chainsaw. The best part is that he can’t go cry on anyone’s shoulder about it because his whole family disowned him, lol.
You have amply demonstrated that you’re unable to construct any argument. Which is why you have been unable to rationally respond to the Nazi documents proving the murder of 100000 Jews in the gas vans of Chelmno.
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) January 29, 2018
re: #225 JordanRules
Don’t know if this is true but here is a very benign reason someone put forth.
So McCabe is using accumulated annual leave to essentially “retire” about 6 week early? No big deal. A lot of agents do exactly the same thing, especially if they have a retirement job offer.
— Deep State Dave (@AllThingsNatSec) January 29, 2018
re: #225 JordanRules
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From a fuzzy part of my brain I believe McCabe was getting to the point of being able to retire from the FBI with benefits in a few months. Trump I believe (heard it bantered around somewhere) was going to attempt to screw McCabe over (because it is who Trump is) and fire him with a few days left before McCabe had access to this. Thus this may be a way for McCabe to keep his retirement benefits which he rightly deserves because he saw no other way to keep them if Trump was planning on being a dick.
re: #211 Patricia Kayden
If only the Washington Redskins would do the same.
Dan Snyder is a complete asshole and will never concede the issue. He will only change it if forced by someone or something.
re: #226 Stanley Sea
I always go to this image - Chief Wahoo is extremely offensive.
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Remember Dad telling me about the Philadelphia Sphas
re: #231 CongoJack
Dotard is a really petty SOB. He is just such a shitty human in every way.
Being a DC area local but not a Redskins fsn, it amazes me how mad the fans get if you suggest that the name needs changed.
re: #204 Amory Blaine
Stable Genius would be a cool band name or a moniker for a Pitbullish DJ.
metntylly balynced stallyns
re: #235 HappyWarrior
Being a DC area local but not a Redskins fsn, it amazes me how mad the fans get if you suggest that the name needs changed.
My wife’s alma mater, Arkansas State University, changed from the Indians to the Red Wolves. They’ve been to a bowl game every year since then.
re: #208 Swampwitch
I haven’t had cable for 3 years, and here in my part of NW Iowa you can’t pick up jack shit on an aerial. I watch everything via various websites on the net…I haven’t done the torrent thing in years, though. Too chickenshit.
In the last seven years I’ve had Frontier, then Mediacom, then Rise broadband for internet, and all have sucked here. There was an 8 month period where I couldn’t afford internet of any kind. Straight Talk recently changed their $55 monthly tier to true unlimited, so I found an 8 dollar thingy that I plug into my tower and now I have unlimited wifi from my $30 phone, and I am happy. It’s not lightning speeds, but it’s also not dial up slow.
everyone’s got a good story
south florida’s got coverage. i had rabbit ears till the hd switch. before that i rarely watched tv at all. got married in 2009, brought mrs dm down from NJ. I promised her cable and we would use her TV. otherwise i might not even have a tv any more
we dont do sports or any premiums. we started with comcast and then moved to att. mostly satisfied. when i moved my mom to att, at least i knew how everything would work for her
then we ported the landline (cause everyone’s got that number) to google voice which rings to our cells, and we dumped the uverse and went to roku. i think we pay around $50 for internet. we get like 20mb down and 5 up.
re: #230 JordanRules
But WHY is he retiring? Many high ranking officials stay way beyond when they are “eligible “.
— Tom Ehlers (@ehlers5150_tom) January 29, 2018
re: #222 DodgerFan1988
I can never understand the Conservatives argument of how the name Washington Redskins honors native people.
The only time I ever agreed with PETA is when they said the Washington Redskins mascot should be a potato.
MASH ‘EM, SPUDS!
re: #237 Belafon
My wife’s alma mater, Arkansas State University, changed from the Indians to the Red Wolves. They’ve been to a bowl game every year since then.
Better name anyhow.
re: #213 makeitstop
So where does the McCabe resignation put the balance of power in the FBI at this point?
In Trump’s lap.
Lord Patten calls on Theresa May to challenge China over Hong Kong https://t.co/86pX53lrwe
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 29, 2018
OH SHIT. WHITE SHIT FALLING FROM THE SKY.
Hundreds of flights delayed as region awaits 6-10 inches of snow https://t.co/5DrI6vnQlH #detroit pic.twitter.com/4zk4pbYLaz
— Detroit News Now (@detroitnewsnow) January 29, 2018
re: #235 HappyWarrior
Being a DC area local but not a Redskins fsn, it amazes me how mad the fans get if you suggest that the name needs changed.
I like the idea of just changing the mascot to a potato. Oh, and the fight song, and….
Ok, VB got there first.
re: #226 Stanley Sea
I always go to this image - Chief Wahoo is extremely offensive.
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I go to the story arc on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, where Jane Krakowski’s character plots/plans to get the Redskins to change their name:
At first she tries blackmailing a team owner’s son, but when that doesn’t work out, she concocts an even wilier plan — thanks to some inspiration from protesters…
She finagles her way into the board meeting and convinces the team owners that they’d make even more money if they came up with an even more controversial team name. How about the Jacksonville Hillarys, one owner exclaims, or the Kansas City Islams, another opines.
They settle on the Washington Gun-Takers.
“When a fan buys a jersey they keep it for life, but when a protester buys a jersey they burn it and buy another one next week,” Jacqueline says.
I stayed up till 130 watching the first season of Broadchurch.
The coffee is kicking in, work load is light, I’m going to start on S2!!!
[woman tweets “haven’t men said enough”]
Men: *in the distance it starts as a murmur, growing louder and closer until the roar of stomping feet and shouts of “WELL, ACTUALLY” build to a deafening crescendo as men from all over the internet gather to @ reply*— Sweatpants Cher (@House_Feminist) January 29, 2018
Andrew McCabe is forced to step down as FBI deputy director after intense political pressure from Trump camp https://t.co/ZpooEpRzfq
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 29, 2018
Trump on Afghanistan: “There’s no talking to the Taliban. We don’t want to talk to the Taliban.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 29, 2018
WTF? We just spent two nights in Afghanistan w @CENTCOM’s Gen Votel this weekend where US commander after commander said they were GLAD they had a new S. Asia strategy SPECIFICALLY w the mission goal to pressure the Taliban to reconciliation talks. https://t.co/ukaiJutFxL
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) January 29, 2018
This is the perfect summation of the first year of the Trump-Tillerson foreign policy relationship. pic.twitter.com/nCIcyptLaJ
— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) January 29, 2018
Nixon on Watergate in State of the Union, 44 years ago tomorrow night: “I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough!” pic.twitter.com/F6ndl2kA3n
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 29, 2018
re: #235 HappyWarrior
Being a DC area local but not a Redskins fsn, it amazes me how mad the fans get if you suggest that the name needs changed.
It’s odd when you know the Houston Oilers can transform themselves into the Tennessee Titans at the wave of a quarterly earnings statement.
re: #235 HappyWarrior
It’s how people react when you question their religion.
re: #253 FormerDirtDart
This is going to be a spectacular SOTU address. The best. It’s going to set records.
Trump can’t be bothered to be on the same page as his Secretary of State and they’re busy with the mixed messages and completely different responses.
Trump, the great negotiator, is an abject failure, and when he doesn’t get his way automatically defaults to it’s the other guy’s fault. That’s not how any good negotiator works. It’s not even how a bad negotiator works. It’s how a toddler functions.
Meanwhile, McCabe is retiring, and Fox is treating this as though he was ousted as a sign of house cleaning - and not the obstruction of justice that it is actually indicative of.
Hannity’s busy spewing his agitprop for his viewers to remain misinformed. They are all of a single hive mind that Clinton and Obama will be led away in handcuffs when all this is said and done (and they might get their way if we completely abandon the rule of law).
If we maintain the rule of law, we get a completely different outcome - where Trump and his cronies are held accountable, and we may come to learn Hannity is eyeballs deep on the obstruction of justice because he continually provides guidance to Trump in private conversations that coordinate the Trump message.
A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that DAG Rod Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of Carter Page shortly after taking office last spring, according to 3 people familiar
w/@adamgoldmanNYT@SharonLNYThttps://t.co/x0Eegpdano— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) January 29, 2018
Visual depiction of Nunes memo release. pic.twitter.com/0UvinxSLXC
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 29, 2018
Don’t make me choose sides https://t.co/dozhT6T5Pd
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) January 29, 2018
re: #257 jaunte
It’s odd when you know the Houston Oilers can transform themselves into the Tennessee Titans at the wave of a quarterly earnings statement.
Yeah I try telling them that but it’s always crap like “This is the only name we’ve known.” FFS they’re not trying to contract the team.
I guess Nikki’s Grammy tweets from last night will be getting some commentary from the Dotard shortly
Grammy ratings drop 21 percent since last year https://t.co/FGbE2s6tOX pic.twitter.com/ppeLzGYTk9
— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2018
re: #261 Ace-o-aces
Trump is doing a Saturday Night Massacre in slow motion — Comey, McCabe, working up to Rosenstein and maybe Sessions or Mueller or both. All in the pursuit of obstructing justice
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) January 29, 2018
Skywatchers are in for a rare treat: a Blue Moon, a total lunar eclipse and a supermoon — all happening this week https://t.co/HjUUgtIdKl pic.twitter.com/LOejYJh8il
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 29, 2018
Doctor forcing me to come in or they won’t refill my maintenance prescription of antidepressants. Got to go spend hundreds of dollars to see some dude that dgaf about my health but he needs my cash. If I could get my drugs on the street I would. They blast fox news all day in the clinic lobby!
re: #267 Amory Blaine
Maybe you can take one of these along:
amazon.com
re: #268 jaunte
Heh. I’ll just ask at the desk why a paying customer has to listen to right wing drivel while I see a doctor. Then make allusions that I doubt the staff can give fair treatment because they’re biased. And if they make me wait I will demand to lodge a formal complaint.
Now in the case of an attack by Triffids, it would be perfect, as long as one takes proper precautions to ignore their stingers.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 29, 2018
Five GOP secretaries of state (from AL, AZ, AR, KS, MO, SC) ask U.S. Supreme Court to grant stay in PA partisan gerrymandering case, saying it would cause election chaos. “Put simply, there is no need to hurry.” https://t.co/Ur9rXgZcUn
— Sam Levine (@srl) January 29, 2018
GOP, “the party of small government,” suing to stop PA from enforcing its own laws. https://t.co/uSUO4SunWW
— Five Dollar Feminist (@5DollarFeminist) January 29, 2018
The GOP has gone to war on your right to vote.
re: #271 Kragar
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Hell, you just need a mechanic’s coverall, a beekeeper’s mask and goggles and you’re good to go on triffids.
re: #272 jaunte
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The GOP has gone to war over your right to vote.
Wait, what? How do AGs in states that aren’t Pennsylvania have any standing?
re: #275 Blind Frog Belly White
Amicus brief. They claim it would cause “chaos” in their states.
re: #273 Blind Frog Belly White
Hell, you just need a mechanic’s coverall, a beekeeper’s mask and goggles and you’re good to go on triffids.
Depends on the particular species. You probably want to go with a more robust head/neck protection for the larger varieties.
“I don’t want my music to be political.”
*turns up Christian rock song about dry humping the American flag for Jesus as you mourn the death of your loved ones in a war*— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 29, 2018
Cryptocurrency Scam Site Disappears, Leaving Only the Word ‘Penis’ Behind
A short-lived and relatively unknown cryptocurrency project built on Ethereum called Prodeum disappeared this weekend—along with the money a small number of hapless investors sunk into it. All that remained of its website was a white page with the word “penis” written on it.
“Letting non-landowners vote would cause chaos in our states.”
“Ending slavery would cause chaos in our states.”
“Giving women the vote would cause chaos in our states.”
“Giving black people full civil rights would cause chaos in our states.”
re: #277 Kragar
Depends on the particular species. You probably want to go with a more robust head/neck protection for the larger varieties.
Padded, perhaps. Absent the venom, it just raises welts.
re: #280 jaunte
American History in a nutshell:
“We can’t let the Catholics live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Irish live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Orientals live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Jews live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Hispanics/Africans live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
re: #282 Kragar
American History in a nutshell:
“We can’t let the Catholics live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Irish live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Orientals live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Jews live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Hispanics/Africans live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
Yep.
Just talked to a source in Moscow who is close to the Foreign Ministry. “The whole world is laughing at America,” he said. “America has never been as ridiculous as it is now.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 29, 2018
re: #276 jaunte
Amicus brief. They claim it would cause “chaos” in their states.
only if their states did the same thing ;-)
re: #282 Kragar
American History in a nutshell:
“We can’t let the Catholics live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Irish live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Orientals live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Jews live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
“We can’t let the Hispanics/Africans live here! They’ll never assimilate!”
Goes back further. In 1750 Ben Franklin was saying the same about the Germans in Pennsylvania.
Oddly enough, at least with respect to the Amish and Old Order Mennonites, he was actually correct.
re: #284 Dave In Austin
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But that’s impossible, Trump told us that the world laughed at Obama!
re: #285 dangerman
only if their states did the same thing ;-)
‘We could lose our phoney-baloney jobs!!!”
“We must be able to revoke citizenship of antiamerican filth for it is a privilege given to us by rightwing Jesus. “
re: #272 jaunte
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The GOP has gone to war on your right to vote.
I assume they filed an amicus brief, because otherwise what kind of standing would they have? I’m not even sure why they’d be all that persuasive as an amicus brief…
I like when they try to revoke birthright citizenship as if that hasn’t positively impacted assimilation.
re: #290 Mike Lamb
It seems to boil down to “wow, this could cause a lot of work for us.”
re: #290 Mike Lamb
I assume they filed an amicus brief, because otherwise what kind of standing would they have? I’m not even sure why they’d be all that persuasive as an amicus brief…
My guess? They’re hoping one of the wingers on the court will sympathize with them.
My former Congresswoman
BREAKING VIDEO | Corrine Brown was seen walking into federal prison today, leaving behind her family and hugging spiritual adviser Kelvin Cobaris. Cobaris told News4JAX he gave her words of wisdom and support. https://t.co/cmSKbSvj8c pic.twitter.com/4y2MUBN4wj
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) January 29, 2018
re: #291 HappyWarrior
I like when they try to revoke birthright citizenship as if that hasn’t positively impacted assimilation.
Blood ‘n’ Soil, baby. Blood ‘n’ Soil.
Crazy times. The media office of the Taliban asking President Trump on Twitter to reach the Taliban through their office in Doha “once you’re ready to discuss your exit” from Afghanistan. @akhbar pic.twitter.com/hsKg8iD5uI
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 29, 2018
Girl with green hair. #Tehran, #Iran. Defying forced hijab campaign. #زنان_خیابان_انقلاب pic.twitter.com/5aISeX0AuO
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 29, 2018
re: #286 Blind Frog Belly White
Goes back further. In 1750 Ben Franklin was saying the same about the Germans in Pennsylvania.
Oddly enough, at least with respect to the Amish and Old Order Mennonites, he was actually correct.
Floyd Landis assimilated just fine.
Just in: Andrew McCabe stepping down as Deputy FBI Director now, Pete Williams reporting, earlier than his planned departure later this year.
This is the same official that new FBI Director reportedly threatened to resign over when Trump asked for his firing, per @jonathanvswan— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) January 29, 2018
Time was, you’d devote a 25-year career to public service, you’d get a commendation or a framed letter from your boss. Now, your integrity is maligned by the President, your motivations questioned, and your name dragged through the mud. A true disgrace. https://t.co/TZmTDbwdf4
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) January 29, 2018
congratulations #GOP once again you have put protecting @realDonaldTrump ahead of protecting the interests of the United States, the intelligence community, the justice department and democracy. November 2018 can’t get here soon enough!
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 29, 2018
Folks, remember that Deep Throat, the man who exposed Nixon’s coverup in Watergate, was the retired #2 person at the FBI.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 29, 2018
re: #278 Kragar
Most tone deaf response to music and politics….
And the winner goes to Nikki Haley, who seems to think that politics and music are completely separate (they aren’t and never have been).
re: #266 FormerDirtDart
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This is how The Big G announces to the world that I’m turning 62…
re: #300 jaunte
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The hot take from the wingnuts is that Wray saw the memo and McCabe scurried out because he knows he’s just about to get swept up in indictments against Hillary and Obama.
What a circle jerk
This is the second year in a row that @SenSanders is doing his own #SOTU response. Here’s his response from last year (which has this incredibly Bernie-esque screengrab): https://t.co/A9hH0M26pf pic.twitter.com/1DOocZR2qr
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) January 29, 2018
A lot of Democrats will be responding to Trump’s #SOTU including…
- Rep. Joe Kennedy (official)
- VA Del. Elizabeth Guzman (Spanish language; shout out —
she’s Peruvian)
- Rep. Maxine Waters on BET
- And now, Sen. Bernie Sanders: https://t.co/rAteKSrRwe— Marianna Sotomayor (@MariannaNBCNews) January 29, 2018
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