Sassy Trump Boasts: I’d Run in There Even if I Didn’t Have a Weapon
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Senate committee approves proposal to arm teachers, rejects assault gun ban https://t.co/KbCUs2OOHB
— Tallahassee Democrat (@TDOnline) February 27, 2018
The FL GOP are a menace to society - just like the GOP at large.
They’re intent on selling guns at the behest of the NRA. They’re on a short leash.
Time to show the GOP that the NRA doesn’t speak for all Americans. It doesn’t speak for a majority of Americans. It speaks for a fringe group that doesn’t care how many die from gunfire so long as more guns get sold.
Time for this to end.
The GOP are a clear and present danger to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
We now have a president of the US who boasts about his imaginary heroic response to a grievous and terribly real mass murder. https://t.co/i3kezN4fPq pic.twitter.com/ymLLBjDYpu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 27, 2018
Florida GOP: “Don’t worry Rick, we got your back.”
And the NRA is happy.
The White House has asked Rick Perry to cancel his trip to India and instead go to London to work out a deal with Saudi Arabia to build nuclear reactors in the kingdom, sources tell @AriNatter and me.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 26, 2018
The administration reportedly so desperate to sell nuclear reactors to Saudis they are willing to waive non-proliferation requirements banning enrichment that could produce weapons….raises big policy questions https://t.co/O3GctMCkFe
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 26, 2018
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Now is not the time to talk about gun control. Now is the time to talk about ……..MOAR GUNZ!!! GUNZ EVERYWHERE!!! YOU GET A GUN! AND YOU GET A GUN! AND YOU GET A GUN! EVERYBODY GETS A GUN!!!!”
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
The administration reportedly so desperate to sell nuclear reactors to Saudis they are willing to waive non-proliferation requirements banning enrichment that could produce weapons….raises big policy questions https://
And one of those policy questions had to be “HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS?!?!?”
Anyone remember how a member of the Saudi Royal Family used to be Enemy Number One and killed 3000 people in one day while changing the face of America for the forseeable future?
The NRA lobbying efforts are not to be underestimated, but neither should a motivated society intent to finally shove the NRA into the dustbin of history for their craven agenda that puts gunmaker profits ahead of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The NRA sole motivator is making sure more guns get sold. They will block all efforts to limit gun sales - and watch for this with the so called Congressional GOP plan. They’ll put in poison pill provisions to make sure that the bill doesn’t pass (and the GOP will blame Democrats for it as they inevitably do, instead of voting clean bills that would show just how evil the GOP/NRA truly are).
re: #7 Blind Frog Belly White
And one of those policy questions had to be “HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS?!?!?”
Anyone remember how a member of the Saudi Royal Family used to be Enemy Number One and killed 3000 people in one day while changing the face of America for the forseeable future?
Trump remembers. He benefited didn’t he?
Artist’s impression of Trump charging unarmed into the situation. (with Donny Jr as back-up) pic.twitter.com/MgQfNU1SMM
— Bart Fargo (@AgentBartFargo) February 27, 2018
NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s company says it has donated foreign profits to U.S. Treasury. But it won’t say how much $ was donated.
Or how the $ figure was calculated.
Or which Trump properties were covered.
Or which foreign govts were its customers.https://t.co/m56wQVHQqf— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 26, 2018
It’s all BS. https://t.co/Rj6qq8gRuw
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 26, 2018
lawhawk, you are so wise. I’m glad I know you and always make sure to read in full what you post here when I’m scrolling through.
re: #8 lawhawk
The NRA lobbying efforts are not to be underestimated, but neither should a motivated society intent to finally shove the NRA into the dustbin of history for their craven agenda that puts gunmaker profits ahead of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The NRA sole motivator is making sure more guns get sold. They will block all efforts to limit gun sales - and watch for this with the so called Congressional GOP plan. They’ll put in poison pill provisions to make sure that the bill doesn’t pass (and the GOP will blame Democrats for it as they inevitably do, instead of voting clean bills that would show just how evil the GOP/NRA truly are).
And do you know who is watching political malarky like you describe right now, better than some politicians?
The Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
And they seem to be intent to remind everyone through November at the very least.
They really do have a better grip on the politics than your average unaware American citizen. This is unique to politics. The students do not want to tear government down like maybe some thought they wanted in the 60s. No, they are fully prepared to do this through independent political message at the voting booth.
All the power to them.
— R.K. Hayes (@RK_Hayes) February 27, 2018
re: #16 ObserverArt
I hope folks down there know that they’ve got to do more than get change in DC.
They’ve got to do it at the state level too.
Heck, we’ve got some Ohio school district looking to ban bookbags as a “safety measure”, even though it does nothing to actually enhance security. It harms the education of the students.
Instead of dealing with easy availability of guns, they’re making it harder for kids to get educated.
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Yeah, they know - and they were in Talahassee when the Senate voted against the assault weapons ban (to chants of SHAME).
Rachel announcing Melania Trump parting ways with her pal who got $26 million from the Trump Inauguration Committee.
WORTH WATCHING
Archie Bunker says that the way to stop terrorists from hijacking planes is to arm all the passengers.
Give them all pistols as they board.
Sound familiar? pic.twitter.com/WwVoWOiBf3— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) February 26, 2018
re: #13 makeitstop
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The “Pigeon Drop” scam, one of the oldest tricks in the book:
“Let’s put all our money together”
re: #16 ObserverArt
I can’t help but hope that the Students are more successful this time in getting their Democratic Society…
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I can’t decide if Dana would rather hold the whip or have a leash attached.
Some TMI ‘cause I’m weird. Checked Twitter droppin’ a deuce at work today and tweeted thus…
Trump rips Fla. Deputies for not going into school. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) February 26, 2018
In which Fuckface Von Clownstick thinks he’s John fucking Rambo. https://t.co/PCDuGm2Z8u
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 26, 2018
re: #2 lawhawk
Florida is the Gunshine state, and no I didn’t come up with that.
re: #18 lawhawk
I hope folks down there know that they’ve got to do more than get change in DC.
They’ve got to do it at the state level too.
Heck, we’ve got some Ohio school district looking to ban bookbags as a “safety measure”, even though it does nothing to actually enhance security. It harms the education of the students.
Instead of dealing with easy availability of guns, they’re making it harder for kids to get educated.
Niles Ohio. In the Youngstown Warren area. I’ve mentioned before that is a tough area of Ohio and was Trump country in ‘16. Almost in Western PA.
No surprise they would try something. That kind of stuff will be going on all over this country.
This is Joaquin Oliver. He was one of the 17 young lives that were lost tragically at Douglas HighSchool in Parkland. Joaquin was one of many that i heard was excited about my return to Miami and yesterday was buried in my jersey. This is why we will not just SHUT up and dribble! pic.twitter.com/X0tfTTao33
— DWade (@DwyaneWade) February 26, 2018
Shade Level: Expert
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING LYING LIAR, LYING OUT OF HIS LIE HOLE.
.@DevinNunes: “I just think the America public reject the idea that you can use a secret court, take political dirt from one party and use it against another. I think all Americans can agree with that.” #Hannity pic.twitter.com/4C57evQVwr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 27, 2018
Easy availability of guns makes for a higher gun death rate. States with lax gun laws are more likely to have higher gun death rates.
We’d have even more statistics and data, but the Dickey amendment prevents the CDC from doing critical research on firearms deaths. That’s one more piece that needs to end.
The NRA is scared of facts - same as GOP.
Loved me some #BlackPanther. Sure, raccoons and trees got superheroes first, but I’ll take it!
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) February 25, 2018
Lockton Affinity has notified the NRA that it will discontinue providing brokerage services for NRA-endorsed insurance programs under the terms of its contract.
— Lockton (@Lockton) February 27, 2018
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re: #21 The Vicious Babushka
The “Pigeon Drop” scam, one of the oldest tricks in the book:
“Let’s put all our money together”
Speaking of scams, hustles and all that, has anyone seen that $1 million of his personal dough that Trump promised to donate to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston? (I won’t even ask about Puerto Rico, since as far as I know he never promised a single cent to help out that lovely ruined island.)
re: #29 The Vicious Babushka
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING LYING LIAR, LYING OUT OF HIS LIE HOLE.
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“Lock her up!”
“I didn’t think I’d say this and I’m going to say it and I hate to say it. … If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception,”
Yeah…people hate political dirt Devin.
They hate Trump. They hate you.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lockton Affinity has notified the NRA that it will discontinue providing brokerage services for NRA-endorsed insurance programs under the terms of its contract.
— Lockton (@Lockton) February 27, 2018
Oh, my God. This is so, so huge. Lockton provides nearly ALL of the NRA’s insurance brokerage services! 👏👏 https://t.co/lfmekL5Bb3
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) February 27, 2018
I am certain @thedavidcrosby hates everything you stand for.
— patty stewart (@pattystewartcan) February 26, 2018
Yes I do https://t.co/Klx267qnxx
— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) February 26, 2018
#BREAKING: Trump EPA to shut down office handling research on chemicals’ effects on children’s health https://t.co/H7gHwSJqws pic.twitter.com/5R63mQxLbS
— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2018
Emma Gonzalez already has her own Wikipedia article…and it’s longer and more detailed than Dana Loeschs.
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC. They really do want us all to die so they can make more money.
I think that people who fantasize about murdering a child who survived a mass-shooting should not have guns. pic.twitter.com/fM1BIrG8JL
— The Warax (@iAmTheWarax) February 27, 2018
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
JFC. They really do want us all to die so they can make more money.
Don’t worry. The churches and independent organizations will take up the slack.
Thoughts and prayers!
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
JFC. They really do want us all to die so they can make more money.
From what I remember, this sounds exactly like what happened in the previous Canadian administration.
re: #38 gocart mozart
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OMG, does it get better than this? It’s like that scene in Manhattan where some asshole on a movie line is lecturing Woody about Marshall McLuhan, and McLuhan himself steps up and tells the asshole how clueless he is.
Next @seanhannity will get an exclusive jailhouse reaction from the Parkland shooter about the great work the NRA is doing and the importance of keeping weapons like the AR-15 legal. #Hannity
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
And here are 2 lying liars lying out of their lie holes!
.@seanhannity: “Is anything in the Steele dossier written about you true?”
Carter Page: “Absolutely not a word.” #Hannity pic.twitter.com/vmLNMXjpR9— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 27, 2018
re: #34 makeitstop
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re: #48 The Vicious Babushka
And here are 2 lying liars lying out of their lie holes!
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So, it’s true, Page really is a bug in a skin-suit.
re: #50 Belafon
So, it’s true, Page really is a bug in a skin-suit.
Hannity is a bunch of spiders in a skin suit.
re: #20 gocart mozart
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Sadly, I don’t need to watch this because I remember it from when it was originally broadcast.
On the other hand, maybe it’s not sad because I do actually remember it. ;)
Codrea advises listeners to break the law if gun control legislation passes but “just be smart about it.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
JJ is live-tweeting the Oath Keepers webinar.#resist #enough #gunreform https://t.co/ts7VZZOTis
— HGTomato 🍅 (@HGTomato) February 27, 2018
re: #49 teleskiguy
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Trump called the Florida school shooting a “setback” while “the country is doing so well” https://t.co/2zqflDnUsU pic.twitter.com/HYVCK7ji5B
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 26, 2018
17 dead = a setback https://t.co/eX4b34jLzD
— Elayne (laynie) (@LaynieR) February 27, 2018
Donald Trump does not run into buildings.
Donald Trump runs buildings into the ground. #TajMahal— Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) February 27, 2018
Jeezuz fuckin’ crow, this thread (which is ongoing).
The Oath Keepers’ webinar has just begun. There are two speakers, David Codrea and Matt Bracken, plus OK founder Stewart Rhodes. pic.twitter.com/mFJAB7YRXz
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
**GULP**
US State Department’s top North Korea diplomat tells @cnn he’s retiring this week @CNN https://t.co/AyP7PP1H3G @cnni #NorthKorea
— Jamie Tarabay (@jamietarabay) February 27, 2018
re: #25 teleskiguy
Some TMI ‘cause I’m weird. Checked Twitter droppin’ a deuce at work today and tweeted thus…
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Even if Captain Bonespurs didn’t have a Secret Service detachment to stop him, we all know he’d be running away from the sound of gunfire at top speed.
Beto O’Rourke
Last NRA rating: F
Total NRA contributions: $0https://t.co/PGtWuzzZ2t— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) February 25, 2018
Elections are about choices. Today’s liberal Democrats are proud to support gun confiscation. Instead, I choose to defend Texans’ right to keep and bear arms. #NRA #2ndAmendment #BillOfRights https://t.co/2uwU4LRdep
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 26, 2018
Elections are about choices, and Ted Cruz chooses assault rifles over children. https://t.co/fLDuGqq5eV
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) February 27, 2018
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content]#BREAKING: Trump EPA to shut down office handling research on chemicals’ effects on children’s health hill.cm
In other news:
Dept. of Education approves clean coal as school lunch supplement.
Trump CDC director ends mosquito-control programs, states that yellow fever is actually caused my “miasmas.”
HUD secretary Carson declares cardboard boxes suitable public housing.
Etc. etc. etc.
Christ it gets fucking old.
Florida school shooting survivors are receiving death threats from NRA supporters https://t.co/eKg0oKM1y4 pic.twitter.com/YVbKQyNx48
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 27, 2018
Trump: really great people, real patriots. https://t.co/H23yy4OLiZ
— meta (@metaquest) February 27, 2018
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE for any school to help secure the children. I am a 29 year retired veteran, Infantry Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Ranger with combat experience. I have a conceal carry, Primary and Alternate side arms, an AR-15, and all necessary tactical gear. pic.twitter.com/7x6Wnuxjvm
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 27, 2018
re: #58 teleskiguy
Dude, seriously, this shit is bugfuck batshit ballbrained full-blown crazypants to the maximum.
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The right wing has been fighting a war against this country for years. With the election of Trump, it finally came to the attention a plurality of people. With events like the Stoneman Douglas shooting, we’re seeing the lines between the sides being much more clearly drawn.
Lawrence now tearing President Shithead to pieces and playing clips from the Stern show where Shithead wouldn’t lift a finger to help an 80 year old man…
re: #69 teleskiguy
Refers to Emma and David as “the enemy.” Says that Emma’s father is a “refugee from Castro’s Cuba.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
America is a constitutional republic.
— jason nurmi (@nurmijas) February 26, 2018
His point is that we little people don’t and shouldn’t run the country—our R betters do, and should until D’s can come up with enough votes to pass a Constitutional amendment to make the country less-R at its heart.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2018
Trump and the GOP had been reducing their margin of disapproval, but the last few days its been widening again, and I’ve got to think its because of their tepid response to Parkland. Unfortunately, the current level of outrage probably won’t be sustained until November.
re: #72 Belafon
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In other words they’re whipping up their folks to go after the kids.
I’m sending JJ’s Twitter links to the FBI.
re: #72 Belafon
He brags that he’s been banned from Facebook three times so far using “anti-freedomista algorithms.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
Calls the Parkland survivors the “rock stars of the gun grab world.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
Says liberals want children to be murdered so that they can further their gun control agenda.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE for any school to help secure the children. I am a 29 year retired veteran, Infantry Sergeant Major, Vortex Army Ranger with combat experience. I have a conceal carry, Primary and Alternate side arms, an AR-15, and all necessary tactical gear. pic.twitter.com/2FDDY0Dlg4
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
re: #76 teleskiguy
Which side says the tree of liberty needs to be occasionally watered with blood?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 27, 2018
re: #58 teleskiguy
These guys are really fixated that they don’t dominate social media by sheer numbers. They have no idea that they are a fringe movement.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
re: #74 Big Beautiful Door
Trump and the GOP had been reducing their margin of disapproval, but the last few days its been widening again, and I’ve got to think its because of their tepid response to Parkland. Unfortunately, the current level of outrage probably won’t be sustained until November.
But if the last year is an example, there will be plenty more outrages to come.
re: #58 teleskiguy
It’s weird to hear a middle aged man use terms like “social justice warriors”, “triggered,” “virtue signaling.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
re: #74 Big Beautiful Door
“Trump and the GOP had been reducing their margin of disapproval, but the last few days its been widening again, and I’ve got to think its because of their tepid response to Parkland. Unfortunately, the current level of outrage probably won’t be sustained until November.”
Trump hasn’t only given a “tepid response to Parkland,” he’s been all over the place. At the present time, he’s saying he’s for enhanced background checks and banning bump stocks. Before that, he was for raising the age needed to purchase guns. I don’t expect him to do anything until after he’s spoken to Hannity, Pirro, LaPierre, and the others he calls for advice. I’m glad his damn approval rating is trending downward. Maybe it means that more Americans are noticing that he’s an empty-headed, arrogant, narcissistic, blowhard who doesn’t know shit about shit. My four-legged baby Penelope is smarter than the Yam.
In Stephen Miller’s defense, I read somewhere that being a weasel-faced Nazi sack of flaming man trash is apparently quite exhausting.
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) February 26, 2018
re: #74 Big Beautiful Door
Trump and the GOP had been reducing their margin of disapproval, but the last few days its been widening again, and I’ve got to think its because of their tepid response to Parkland. Unfortunately, the current level of outrage probably won’t be sustained until November.
It’s been sustained pretty well for over a year, and now we’ve got the kids/young adults doing their thing.
Posted for “weasel-faced Nazi sack of flaming man trash”
Heh. Sports Political Humor.
I am reading a bit of the HFboards hockey forums for the Columbus Blue Jackets game tonight.
The Washington Caps Russian player Alexander Ovechkin caught a stick in the mouth and was bleeding a little and as he was heading to the bench the Columbus coach and he got into a yelling match.
A guy on the forum posted: Ovechkin was so angry blood was coming out of his mouth.
Only to get the response next post: Or wherever……
Lawsuit alleges a 7-year-old girl was taken from her mother “screaming and crying” just days after the pair came to the U.S. seeking asylum. Mother and daughter are now at detention facilities 2,000 miles apart. https://t.co/QRrgs61YMr
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) February 26, 2018
I absolutely abhor these people. They are inhuman. https://t.co/1f9w57GT9S
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) February 27, 2018
An interesting TV clip, young Neil does Mr Soul
I’ve known that Trump was a crook, a racist, and a con man since he and I were in our mid-twenties. What I really don’t know at the end of this long string is why he wears that weird lilac-colored shit around his eyes. I guess it’s supposed to disguise the bags and shit, but what it really does is make him look like a corpse a buzzard would bypass. Any lizard makeup artists who can help me out on this score?
re: #90 whitebeach
I’ve known that Trump was a crook, a racist, and a con man since he and I were in our mid-twenties. What I really don’t know at the end of this long string is why he wears that weird lilac-colored shit around his eyes. I guess it’s supposed to disguise the bags and shit, but what it really does is make him look like a corpse a buzzard would bypass. Any lizard makeup artists who can help me out on this score?
I think that is his real skin color you are seeing.
Everything else is the orange spray tan coloring. The bit around his eyes is not covered by the spray because he wears little protectors that make that round shape.
At least that is how it appears. Many cartoonists really play that up.
Here is a feel-good, happy, nice-time story for all of you to enjoy:
Omar, who has Down syndrome, just opened up his very own comic book store. He wants to hire other people with disabilities to show them that they’re part of the community. “I’m the businessman. I’m the president.” https://t.co/iI4wkVLXLP pic.twitter.com/zL1d9eaeSs
— ABC News (@ABC) February 27, 2018
re: #91 ObserverArt
I think that is his real skin color you are seeing.
If that is his real skin color, somebody needs to check the birth certificates around Roswell.
re: #95 jaunte
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It’s too bad Ivan Albright isn’t around to paint Trump’s presidential portrait.
Twilight Zone twist: Trump is the portrait of Dorian Gray.
This little kid in Pyeongchang screams bloody murder and runs away from Ivanka like she’s trying to make him work in one of her sweatshops. 🤣pic.twitter.com/yj2MieBea9
— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) February 27, 2018
Mean Trump lady frightens Korean child. https://t.co/SmGjEDZZfF
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
re: #95 jaunte
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It’s too bad Ivan Albright isn’t around to paint Trump’s presidential portrait.
Maybe Chris Mars is available.
re: #90 whitebeach
I’ve known that Trump was a crook, a racist, and a con man since he and I were in our mid-twenties. What I really don’t know at the end of this long string is why he wears that weird lilac-colored shit around his eyes. I guess it’s supposed to disguise the bags and shit, but what it really does is make him look like a corpse a buzzard would bypass. Any lizard makeup artists who can help me out on this score?
I think that’s his real skin color. The rest is spray tan and makeup.
re: #94 whitebeach
If that is his real skin color, somebody needs to check the birth certificates around Roswell.
Nah, the orange color he applies makes his skin appear more blue in contrast. Add a little normal pinkish coloring and you’ve got violet eye circles.
did you guys see the article about the florida detergent-head maniac?
re: #90 whitebeach
I’ve known that Trump was a crook, a racist, and a con man since he and I were in our mid-twenties. What I really don’t know at the end of this long string is why he wears that weird lilac-colored shit around his eyes. I guess it’s supposed to disguise the bags and shit, but what it really does is make him look like a corpse a buzzard would bypass. Any lizard makeup artists who can help me out on this score?
cgi is not as advanced as some people think, altho many people continue to believe that “trump” is a real person
I’m probably the wrong person to reply to this level of idiocy.
The “left” loves art, and especially taxpayer funded art that is “provocative”. Let’s get their reaction to this. pic.twitter.com/MELjsamZlX
— Charles Dingus (@xPizzaxSlutx) February 27, 2018
That’s pretty pathetic. Spongebob’s a boy, you stupid fuck. And Shrek is from Disney (GOP company now) and I don’t know where the squirrel comes from.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 27, 2018
Someone tell me that little fucker’s a squirrel and not some kind of cat.
re: #104 darthstar
The “left” loves art, and especially taxpayer funded art that is “provocative”. Let’s get their reaction to this.
My reaction to McNaughton’s fantasy is that Trump would never, ever pick up something dirty from the ground.
re: #105 darthstar
Someone tell me that little fucker’s a squirrel and not some kind of cat.
Sonic the hedgehog? Sort of.
re: #105 darthstar
Someone tell me that little fucker’s a squirrel and not some kind of cat.
Reminding me, we need update pix of your petkids.
high on tide at high tide
Cudahy man allegedly tried to rape 14-year-old daughter and force wife to drink Tide detergent
It was later discovered he also allegedly held his wife’s mouth open and forced her to drink Tide detergent that same day, and the list of unusual behavior continues from there, according to the police report.
Police found the man outside his residence, naked, covered in Tide laundry detergent, flailing his arms and throwing snow on his head, according to a police report. He resisted arrest, but was eventually taken to St. Luke’s South Shore Hospital, 5900 S. Lake Drive, where he was placed in medicated sedation.
Three firearms were collected from the residence because of the domestic violence allegations. He and his wife have four children (three in common).
He is facing three felony charges — battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/law enforcement officer, first-degree child sexual assault under 16, and second degree recklessly endangering safety (domestic abuse) — as well as a misdemeanor charge of resisting/obstructing an officer.
During his first court appearance Feb. 19, the defense advised he might not be competent to proceed, according to online court records. He was remanded into the custody of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and will be examined. The doctor’s report return is scheduled for March 12.
According to a police report, the man’s teenage son told police his father had been acting strangely lately. He said he’d been watching religious videos — which his wife confirmed in the report — and was obsessed with “claiming his nationality.” The boy said his father had asked him if he’d emailed President Donald Trump requesting he claim his nationality to “free my people.”
these gun owning trump voters have got to get a grip
re: #108 Stanley Sea
Reminding me, we need update pix of your petkids.
Haven’t seen any of Chica in ages either. ;)
breitbarts are pissed about this something fierce
Pro-mass immigration GOP megadonor billionaires, the Koch brothers, released a new ad campaign this week, calling illegal aliens “patriots” of the United States.
In their latest effort to push the Republican-controlled Congress to pass an amnesty for between nearly 800,000 and 3.5 million illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Koch-backed LIBRE Initiative organization has released two new ads, portraying DACA illegal aliens as defenders of American patriotism.
re: #104 darthstar
I’m probably the wrong person to reply to this level of idiocy.
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Not my kind of art but I have no issues with either.
What’s Sean’s problem?
/Rhetorical
re: #116 Varek Raith
Not my kind of art but I have no issues with either.
What’s Sean’s problem?
/Rhetorical
Apparently art is now a bad thing.
re: #117 calochortus
Apparently art is now a bad thing.
Ha!
Art is far too nuanced and subjective for a fool like him.
XD
re: #110 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
“these gun owning trump voters have got to get a grip”
They already have one in DJT. They believe every lie that comes out of his mouth, that he’s the best president we’ve had since 1789, and nothing and no one can convince them otherwise. They’re living high up on Trump Bullshit Mountain, and they’re not coming down for any reason.
Speaking of art, here’s some in the written-word form:
There once was a king on a throne,
Who had a big Spur of the Bone,
Said the draft-dodging coward,
“I’d be tougher in Broward”,
And run in that school all alone…— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) February 26, 2018
re: #58 teleskiguy
The phrase “cultural Marxist social justice warrior” was used so many times in this 2 hour presentation, it would have made for a deadly drinking game.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
re: #118 Varek Raith
Ha!
Art is far too nuanced and subjective for a fool like him.
XD
He’d also be surprised at how little I care about what art people choose to have in their homes (or enjoy elsewhere.) Like Velvet Elvis? Fine with me. McNaughton’s dreck? Knock yourself out. But you don’t get to tell me what I should like either.
re: #114 allegro
Haven’t seen any of Chica in ages either. ;)
Oh she’s still around. We’re so used to each other that the thrill is gone. LOL kidding.
She’s a wonderful cat. I’ve tossed my privacy & created a gap in my bedroom window (pulled the blinds & curtains back, leaving the window open for her to smell) There’s a chair stacked with pillows that she perches on & stares out at the nightlife.
I’ll wake up in the middle of the night & see the outline of her ears in the window.
I failed to consider my travels - 3-4 times a year- nothing, but geeze, finding sitters is stressful. trying a new neighbor next week. Should be fine.
re: #122 calochortus
He’d also be surprised at how little I care about what art people choose to have in their homes (or enjoy elsewhere.) Like Velvet Elvis? Fine with me. McNaughton’s dreck? Knock yourself out. But you don’t get to tell me what I should like either.
Indeed.
Remembered something today.
My thesis for my college political science class was on gun rights and gun control and lack of will to put sensible gun laws in place.
That was 25 years ago.
Some of us have been working on this issue for YEARS. The problem has always been breaking the back of the gun lobby and removing the politicians in their pockets from office. And it’s not just Republicans. Yes, it is more Republicans that Democrats but it’s still across both parties. A Democrat may take no money from the NRA but consistently vote against gun control.
We’ve been here working this a very long time. But there was simply no way to break this logjam. I hope we finally will now.
re: #58 teleskiguy
The convo has wandered off into apocalyptic survivalist fantasies. “A lot of people are just going to start shooting.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 27, 2018
Donald Trump: I would have run towards mass shooter even if I didn’t have a gun.
Also Donald Trump: pic.twitter.com/pupg1ZjIki— JRehling (@JRehling) February 27, 2018
The Republican running to fill the seat vacated when GOP Rep. Trent Franks got caught in a sex scandal… just got caught in his own sex scandal.
Now, Republicans fear they have another Roy Moore situation on their hands.
Family values, y’all…https://t.co/4tHd3TpxOw— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) February 27, 2018
re: #127 jaunte
The Eagle really tried to warn us.
Florida is a swing state. The kids that were at the playground in 2016 are going to be at the voting booths in 2020.
— Tim Hanlon (@TimfromDa70s) February 27, 2018
Former intern at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame in Milwaukee becomes a top Wisconsin agriculture official. @GovWalker administration avoiding questions about his (nonexistent) experience. https://t.co/wVdq7NFwck
— Elizabeth Williamson (@NYTLiz) February 26, 2018
This is what happens in the Trump era. First Trump appoints a 24-year old bobblehead to solve our opioid crisis, then Wisconsin says “hold my beer” and runs off to give a $14 million budget to a bobblehead INTERN. https://t.co/Wacin7L4tI
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 27, 2018
re: #123 Stanley Sea
Oh she’s still around. We’re so used to each other that the thrill is gone. LOL kidding.
She’s a wonderful cat. I’ve tossed my privacy & created a gap in my bedroom window (pulled the blinds & curtains back, leaving the window open for her to smell) There’s a chair stacked with pillows that she perches on & stares out at the nightlife.
I’ll wake up in the middle of the night & see the outline of her ears in the window.
I failed to consider my travels - 3-4 times a year- nothing, but geeze, finding sitters is stressful. trying a new neighbor next week. Should be fine.
You’re such a good mom. :)
I got a delivery today in a box that also contained big bubble/balloon filler stuff. Cat toys! Tossed it on the floor. Heard the kits having a blast in it. Got up to visit the john and see that they have also gotten into the closet and pulled out the package of toilet paper. Three rolls of slightly damaged TP with no wrapper. Put the TP back in the closet, didn’t look for the wrapper. Later came to bed and thought I should hang up the shirt a friend gave me today that was too small for her and she couldn’t send back. I’d put it on the dresser when I got home. Gone. WTF? I know I put it there. Nowhere to be found. Huh. No sign of it or the baggie thing it was in. Until I looked in the box. There was the shirt, the shirt wrapper, and the TP wrapper. I guess they thought it all belonged in there. I no longer question such things.
OMFG. I haven’t done this in a very long while, but I engaged on a Fox story about how the “House pauses for 17 seconds…” At least there are some halfway intelligent people fighting back, but geeze. I forgot how it sucks you in and spits you out. I need to go to bed.
re: #128 MsJ
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My brother says that Montenegro got the endorsement of Ted Cruz. He knows this because Montenegro has been touting the endorsement on his commercials, which run during sporting events here in the Phoenix area.
Here’s the New Times’ take on the story:
The primary is tomorrow and I believe many voters had already voted. I fully expect that, with 16 (!) R candidates, no one will pull a majority.
Politico speculates that the sexting scandal could cause problems in the replacement elections. politico.com
re: #133 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Maybe someone else will take up the good fight. LOL.
re: #135 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Maybe someone else will take up the good fight. LOL.
Hang on hard to your sanity.
EXCELLENT!
In CNN’s new poll, Trump’s approval is just 22% among all respondents under 35, and 27% among all respondents under 45, and 29% among women. https://t.co/xJiOMNMbq2
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 25, 2018
Trump’s approval is 27% among people under 45 years old. And in CA, home of Nixon and Reagan, the GOP abt to become the third party. https://t.co/i9dIBlgEOu
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) February 27, 2018
re: #136 Stanley Sea
Hang on hard to your sanity.
These people need to stop responding to me so I can go to bed! (how’s that for blaming people?) ;-)
So from what I read, the Georgia Senate effectively killed the break that Delta was going to get, on top of successfully passing a bill barring LGBT couples from adopting.
So…yeah. Hate and guns win again, forever and anon.
re: #30 lawhawk
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Easy availability of guns makes for a higher gun death rate. States with lax gun laws are more likely to have higher gun death rates.
We’d have even more statistics and data, but the Dickey amendment prevents the CDC from doing critical research on firearms deaths. That’s one more piece that needs to end.
The NRA is scared of facts - same as GOP.
And in the lovely state of South Carolina:
South Carolina has placed among the top five states in the Violence Policy Center’s study for the past six years. The state also ranked fifth in 2014, although the murder rate ticked up in 2015, from 1.73 per 100,000 women killed to 1.83.
In 2015, 46 women were killed by men in South Carolina, the study said. Of those 46 victims, 23 were white, 22 were black, and one was Asian or Pacific Islander. A handgun was the most common weapon used in the deaths.
South Carolina law does not:
Require the surrender of firearms or ammunition by domestic abusers who have become prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition under federal law; or
Explicitly authorize or require the removal of firearms or ammunition at the scene of a domestic violence incident.
lawcenter.giffords.org
Crawl back to the cesspit from where you were born, you sorry excuse of a one cell organism.
Grief wears many faces… pic.twitter.com/EIKQby8SuV
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 26, 2018
re: #132 allegro
You’re such a good mom. :)
I got a delivery today in a box that also contained big bubble/balloon filler stuff. Cat toys! Tossed it on the floor. Heard the kits having a blast in it. Got up to visit the john and see that they have also gotten into the closet and pulled out the package of toilet paper. Three rolls of slightly damaged TP with no wrapper. Put the TP back in the closet, didn’t look for the wrapper. Later came to bed and thought I should hang up the shirt a friend gave me today that was too small for her and she couldn’t send back. I’d put it on the dresser when I got home. Gone. WTF? I know I put it there. Nowhere to be found. Huh. No sign of it or the baggie thing it was in. Until I looked in the box. There was the shirt, the shirt wrapper, and the TP wrapper. I guess they thought it all belonged in there. I no longer question such things.
Our female kitten Spock has a penchant for stealing things and taking them to the basement. We’ve found bits of guitar hardware, stolen from my parts box. She grabbed a bag of dog treats, which she chewed open. And I’ve got a small cabinet on my dresser for my jewelry, and this morning my wife discovered that Spock was somehow able to get the drawer open. I can’t tell whether anything is missing, but I told my wife that it’s a pretty safe bet that somewhere in the house she’s got a pile of our stuff stashed away.
My wife now calls her the magpie.
re: #116 Varek Raith
Not my kind of art but I have no issues with either.
What’s Sean’s problem?
/Rhetorical
Grab a piece of paper and start writing…
re: #139 Citizen K
So from what I read, the Georgia Senate effectively killed the break that Delta was going to get, on top of successfully passing a bill barring LGBT couples from adopting.
So…yeah. Hate and guns win again, forever and anon.
Yes, I hate people. I just do.
FedEx floating their excuse that they are a common carrier regulated by the Transportation Department (true) means they can’t discriminate on an organisation’s political positions (true) means they can’t end their discount programme with the NRA (false).
FedEx generally won’t deliver to where I live anyway, so if I was to say “I’m boycotting FedEx” that really doesn’t mean much. The nearest place I can go to a FedEx box or office is over fifty miles away.
On the other hand, the Post Office is no more expensive (really), and is one block away.
I only do business on-line with companies that use the US Mail or offer it as an option.
Interesting side story behind the hide bar because it’s probably boring, from when we were selling our house in Oklahoma:
We’d already bought our house here in Nebraska for cash. That made moving a lot easier, since we didn’t have to move our stuff into storage first then use the money from the sale of our old home to buy our new home.
We dealt with an auction company to sell our old home; after the auction, the auctioneer hired a title company to clear the paperwork for the sale.
The title company called us up here to tell us they were going to send the paperwork by UPS overnight. We told them not to do that, because UPS doesn’t deliver here until they collect enough stuff to make the trip worthwhile; we suggested the Postal Service’s Express Mail.
The title company insisted they would use UPS. We assured them we would turn around the paperwork and send it back USPS as soon as we got it.
It took the paperwork three weeks to get to us. The title company started harassing us on the telephone every day after the first week, to which all we could respond was “we told you so.”
When we sent the paperwork back by the Post Office, noting what UPS charged to send it to us and what the Post Office charged to send it back, the Post Office was cheaper by about a dollar.
Goodnight twitter pals…having an early night, been chattering all day & I’m all tired out 😴 🐦 pic.twitter.com/DDs3TXy1on
— Dexter (@DexterTheBird) February 25, 2018
re: #144 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Yes, I hate people. I just do.
It’s just exhausting to see one half of the political conversation wholly in the NRA’s pocket and dancing to their every fucking tune, ensuring not only will nothing be done, but you will be punished, scored, and scoured, and beaten down forever if you do try and do something, and you will lose because the NRA always. fucking. wins.
God help me, please tell me the midterms will actually turn this around. Because it just seems ripe at this point to tear out everyone’s hearts and entrench the rule by sociopaths and psychopaths all the more because nothing fucking matters.
re: #139 Citizen K
So from what I read, the Georgia Senate effectively killed the break that Delta was going to get, on top of successfully passing a bill barring LGBT couples from adopting.
So…yeah. Hate and guns win again, forever and anon.
Great news for Delta…they’ll get a sweeter offer from a neighboring state to pull Georgia’s largest employer out and turn that place into a wasteland with an empty hub.
Updated now with documents rescinding Harvey Rishikof’s role as war court overseer, signed by Defense Secretary Mattis on a Saturday, Feb. 3.https://t.co/m68qPUG9m9
— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) February 27, 2018
re: #139 Citizen K
So from what I read, the Georgia Senate effectively killed the break that Delta was going to get, on top of successfully passing a bill barring LGBT couples from adopting.
So…yeah. Hate and guns win again, forever and anon.
So when is Delta going to announce it’s leaving Georgia?
re: #148 darthstar
Great news for Delta…they’ll get a sweeter offer from a neighboring state to pull Georgia’s largest employer out and turn that place into a wasteland with an empty hub.
Don’t think it’s likely on the short term.
But I’d be betting fewer Hollywood productions in Atlanta…and Amazon may cross Atlanta off its list.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
FedEx generally won’t deliver to where I live anyway, so if I was to say “I’m boycotting FedEx” that really doesn’t mean much. The nearest place I can go to a FedEx box or office is over fifty miles away.
On the other hand, the Post Office is no more expensive (really), and is one block away.
I only do business on-line with companies that use the US Mail or offer it as an option.
Interesting side story behind the hide bar because it’s probably boring, from when we were selling our house in Oklahoma:
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um… if neither of you are from there, or knew anyone there… how did you happen to pick Flyspeck to relocate to?
re: #153 sagehen
um… if neither of you are from there, or knew anyone there… how did you happen to pick Flyspeck to relocate to?
It’s a long story, very boring.
re: #153 sagehen
um… if neither of you are from there, or knew anyone there… how did you happen to pick Flyspeck to relocate to?
I note we didn’t know anyone in Oklahoma either. (My wife moved there from Colorado Springs with her now ex-husband, I came along later when she took me in off the street after we were divorced.)
The short answer is “we could afford it.” The long answer is really convoluted.
re: #151 Joe Bacon 🌹
Many states would be happy for Delta business. Delta should consider relocation to a blue state, though perhaps corporate headquarters prefer states with lower taxes and fewer employee rights.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
FedEx floating their excuse that they are a common carrier regulated by the Transportation Department (true) means they can’t discriminate on an organisation’s political positions (true) means they can’t end their discount programme with the NRA (false).
FedEx generally won’t deliver to where I live anyway, so if I were to say “I’m boycotting FedEx” that really doesn’t mean much. The nearest place I can go to a FedEx box or office is over fifty miles away.
On the other hand, the Post Office is no more expensive (really), and is one block away.
I only do business on-line with companies that use the US Mail or offer it as an option.
Interesting side story behind the hide bar because it’s probably boring, from when we were selling our house in Oklahoma:
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I never have trouble with the Post Office or UPS here in Los Angeles but I have had REPEATED problems with FedEX. Multiple times I have been home waiting for a package, checking FedEX’s webpage for the delivery status, shows “On the truck for delivery” and by 8PM I see “Delivery Attempted” even though they DON’T SHOW UP AT ALL. You call FedEx and get a bullshit answer that “You weren’t there” even though I was at my place the whole CENSORED day!
175+ College Admissions Offices Promise Not to Penalize High School Students Who Get Suspended for Protesting Peacefully Against Gun Violence
The list keeps growing: https://t.co/vJ5Fr99L2g pic.twitter.com/IQrsuJGAxP— Open Culture (@openculture) February 27, 2018
re: #158 MsJ
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Pitt Admissions will not penalize students for exhibiting leadership or activism conducted in a respectful manner as part of peaceful protests. #Pitt2022 #ParklandStudentsSpeak
— Pitt Admissions (@pittadmissions) February 23, 2018
Proud of Pitt!
New John McNaughton painting: “Bewildered Old Man Wanders On To a Football Field Carrying His Blanket” (2018) pic.twitter.com/OfYMn1FeqA
— c a i t l i n🌹 (@hello__caitlin) February 27, 2018
Look what they’ve done to my flag, ma.
Denver, Colorado - courtesy of 4 women, 3 bike boxes and the #1stAmendment. https://t.co/8avvoWJKyp#Resist #TheResistance #NRABoycott #NRABloodMoney #NeverAgain #Freewayblogger #FreeSpeech pic.twitter.com/Y3DVkuzfa2
— Patrick Randall (@PatrickRandall) February 25, 2018
re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter
Many states would be happy for Delta business. Delta should consider relocation to a blue state, though perhaps corporate headquarters prefer states with lower taxes and fewer employee rights.
Hey, there’s Nevada. Of course, we don’t have any actual services available for people who live here because we don’t have state income tax, nor corporate tax, and we’ve been told that because of that, more companies will find this a highly compelling reason for all these massive corporations to move their headquarters here. Oh, I’ve been waiting for 52 years for that to happen.
re: #158 MsJ
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3 of the 5 Claremont undergrads are on that list (Pomona, Pitzer and Harvey Mudd). 2 are not (CMC, Scripps).
What the spousal unit is reading tonight, and snorking loudly over.
He recommends the three posts for February, especially February 8th. I snorked myself, over that one.
Oh my my! Somebody fell asleep on the job!
look’s like SOMEBODY’s got a case of the MONDAYS pic.twitter.com/NBIIn7ffDT
— c a i t l i n🌹 (@hello__caitlin) February 26, 2018
re: #164 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Hey, there’s Nevada. Of course, we don’t have any actual services available for people who live here because we don’t have state income tax, nor corporate tax, and we’ve been told that because of that, more companies will find this a highly compelling reason for all these massive corporations to move their headquarters here. Oh, I’ve been waiting for 52 years for that to happen.
Here in Illinois, our government is total dysfunctional and we definitely have financial issues. But Chicago does have access to a healthy fresh water supply and top universities. Of course, we already have a hometown airline. My guess is that Delta wants to be the top airline in town.
re: #166 CleverToad
Yup, the 1st Sgt take on the parade is a hoot. Although I would suspect a bit more editing irl.
re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter
.@Delta, as one of your most frequent flyers, know that the NY LG admires your principled stance. Let’s continue our great relationship. NY is open for business & ❤’s Delta – move HQ to where you’re appreciated? https://t.co/AZ8xeC0geo
— Kathy Hochul (@LtGovHochulNY) February 26, 2018
re: #167 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh my my! Somebody fell asleep on the job!
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My favorite is phone meetings where I am not an active participant. That way, my phone is on mute and no one knows I am dozing off!! And in large boring meetings, I have been known to pull a Stephen Miller.
re: #110 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Police found the man outside his residence, naked, covered in Tide laundry detergent, flailing his arms and throwing snow on his head, according to a police report. He resisted arrest, but was eventually taken to St. Luke’s South Shore Hospital, 5900 S. Lake Drive, where he was placed in medicated sedation.
DETECTIVE SERGEANT: You frisked him?
BEAT COP: Yeah, Sarge. He’s clean.
HOLY.
SHIT.
I am not exaggerating when I say tonight’s @colbertlateshow has — hands down — the most INCREDIBLE panel segment I’ve ever seen. And it’s not mine. I was backstage STUNNED watching it. It is…breathtaking.— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 27, 2018
Well, since none of you lizards will engage on the Fox thread, I am going to bed. I thought I fought the good fight, but alas, there are too many maroons out there.
as long as Delta doesn’t have to bake cakes for gay people, I’m good.
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) February 26, 2018
Wait. They seriously are building a tower with _that_ address? Maybe this was the way the #NumberOfTheBeast was always supposed to turn up!
Sure can’t get too many arguments that Trump isn’t anti-Christ even if he isn’t _the_ Antichrist… 😈— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2018
well, REbuilding. but still…
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2018
re: #169 ckkatz
Yup, the 1st Sgt take on the parade is a hoot. Although I would suspect a bit more editing irl.
“…Now far be it from me to suggest that our Brigade Sarn’t Major is a nitpicky ding-dong with Wheatina inside his fucking brain housing group who should really have better things to do than obsess about what y’all are wrapping around your asses when you go for a jog down Ardennes Street. That would be unprofessional and disrespectful to our chain of command…”
Loved the gentleman’s picturesque command of the language, though I did have to look up Wheatina/Wheatena after I stopped giggling.
Gosh, it’s gotten so bad, I thought for a full minute that this Washington Post item was a real news story:
Trump’s lawyer asks Mueller if Trump can answer investigation questions using teleprompter
A North Carolina Man Was Shot To Death While Broadcasting On Facebook Live
A man was shot to death Monday while broadcasting himself on Facebook Live in North Carolina just one block from a police station, authorities said.
The man, identified as Prentis Robinson, had just visited the police station in Wingate to report his cell phone as stolen when the attack occurred as he was using a selfie stick.
Mr. Robinson used to broadcast live musical performances over Facebook. Facebook removed the video, however the Charlotte Observer captured it before it was removed.
Update on the Moonies’ Blessing of the ARs:
CHURCH ASKS WORSHIPERS TO BRING AR-15 RIFLES FOR BLESSING CEREMONY NEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Tim Elder, the Unification Sanctuary’s director of world missions, said Tuesday that the church believes that the gun symbolizes the ‘rod of iron’ that is mentioned in the Bible’s apocalyptic Book of Revelation.
The church website advises parishioners: “If unable to purchase and legally transport such a ‘rod of iron’ because of laws barring the purchase of weapons, or other reasons, couple are invited to purchase a $700 gift card from a gun store, as such evidence of their intent to purchase a ‘rod of iron’ in the future.”
Several commenters have pointed out that AR-15s are not mentioned in the Bible. Could this be related to some kind of “secret history” claim? In his painting Israelites Gathering Manna in the Wilderness the Renaissance artist Tintoretto famously showed Moses’s men armed with shotguns. By Jesus’s time, 1300 years later, these could easily have evolved into AR-15s. Do the Moonies and Tintoretto know something we don’t? If so, there is undoubtedly a Zionist conspiracy behind it somewhere.
So, is random tendonitis popping up in places just something I’m going to have to deal with more and more as I get older seriously what the fuck man?
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
So, is random tendonitis popping up in places just something I’m going to have to deal with more and more as I get older seriously what the fuck man?
Welcome to the human condition.
re: #180 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Was sorting thru my files and found these side by side
The resemblance is uncanny… pic.twitter.com/dCG2hoVCZy— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 27, 2018
re: #186 Kragar
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Hey now, that’s just unfair. How dare you compare Salacious B Crumb to that sack of shit?
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The NRA’s effort to blame mass shootings on video games and other forms of popular culture has some antecdents:
Handbill from the Citizen’s Council of Greater New Orleans, Inc. (ca. 1965)
The Citizens Council had been known as the White Citizens Council until shortly before this handbill was issued.
re: #188 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
The NRA’s effort to blame mass shootings on video games and other forms of popular culture has some antecdents:
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The Citizens Council had been known as the White Citizens Council until shortly before this handbill was issued.
They are now known as the Council of Conservative Citizens.
en.wikipedia.org
The folks who inspired the Charleston AME Church mass-murderer.
There is a line from Frank Zappa’s “Dog Breath” about “going to El Monte Legion Stadium”.
Seems this is a reference to a time in the early 60’s when the City Fathers of LA had banned public rock and roll shows from the city, if you wanted to see one, you had to drive to neighboring El Monte.
The leader of the white supremacist church World Church of the Creator, who is jailed for forty years, is in a fight with the Federal Bureau of Prisons on freedom of religion grounds.
As leader of the church, he argues that his writings to lead his church, including the right to lead a racial holy war, are protected by the I Amendment. Specifically his argument is a bookseller which sent a book to him the supermax prison seized and refused to be delivered to Mr. Hale. The BofP notes the bookseller listed on the return address is not a real company.
SPLC found the address used by the alleged book seller is something else.
A search by the Southern Poverty Law Center for the return address listed by “MBookman” turned up one used by Patriotic Dissent Books, a mail-order company that deals in virulently antisemitic and racist literature, including The Turner Diaries, The Nazi-Sozi: Questions and Answers for National Socialists by Dr. Joseph Goebbels and multiple other publications questioning the Holocaust.
re: #192 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
That yokel principal in Texas has nearly every college administration in the country down on his case. Another one:
So you get suspended. After a few days, you are back in class.
So you get shot. After a few days, you are still dead or hospitalized…
Talk about a fucking no-brainer.
re: #192 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
That yokel principal in Texas has nearly every college administration in the country down on his case. Another one:
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Noticed I have lost a few “friends” on Facebook, relatives. They are Trumpers and I think they didn’t like some of my replies to their postings.
Sad, really.
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Looked at the WaPo homepage - something I very rarely have done before - and it the layout comes across like one of those early websites that was littered with misc. advertisements all in text.
‘Cept those old things had the ugly bright-color text on black background look, while WaPo currently is black-ish text on white-ish background.
Trying to look like a physical newspaper is not really becoming to a website, I think. A computer display is not a piece of paper, the looks ought not be the same.
That’s LARGE bare hands, comrades.Marshal Kim Jong-Un chances upon school being attacked by Japanese assassins; bravely charges in and disarms all attackers with his bare hands.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) February 27, 2018
Here is Kentucky Governor Bevin who is apparently getting his talking point from The Onion saying gun control is a “naive and premature solution” to gun violence, and that evil will find a way. Apparently no-one asked him exactly how many more massacres have to occur before gun control is no longer “premature.”
re: #196 freetoken
Looked at the WaPo homepage - something I very rarely have done before - and it the layout comes across like one of those early websites that was littered with misc. advertisements all in text.
‘Cept those old things had the ugly bright-color text on black background look, while WaPo currently is black-ish text on white-ish background.
Trying to look like a physical newspaper is not really becoming to a website, I think. A computer display is not a piece of paper, the looks ought not be the same.
My wife’s websites (but without adverts, she has no adverts) are done with bright blocks of colour text on black or white backgrounds, with larger than average text.
She points out this is considered by many disability groups and Web designers to be a standard for people with low-vision abilities to be able to read a computer.
The Washington Post’s black-on-white layout is no different than my own regional newspaper (also black-on-white text).
re: #195 freetoken
Noticed I have lost a few “friends” on Facebook, relatives. They are Trumpers and I think they didn’t like some of my replies to their postings.
Sad, really.
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re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’ve decided I’m not going to give the posters-of-cute-kids-pictures a pass on their bigotry.
A little bit of rain has finally arrived, but so far we’ve only received a quarter inch in this so-called storm.
Last week’s storm was a dud. We’ll get another chance of rain next weekend.
We’re still well below what we need for rain.
Extreme butthurt from Ted Weiland, the wingnut author who runs the Christian Identity church up the road from me.
He has a book out called “Bible Law v the US Constitution: A Christian Perspective.” That book was panned in a review by the Presbyterian Dominionist Chalcedon Foundation, so he put an open letter up on the church’s Website to respond to the poor review.
It is an incredible descent into wingnut pomposity that goes on for pages and pages of why he claims the review got his book wrong, citing every wingnut Dominionist from the Seventies forward.
A link to his letter is behind the privacy bar
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re: #203 freetoken
I’ve decided I’m not going to give the posters-of-cute-kids-pictures a pass on their bigotry.
I just delete the posts and if they grow too frequent I block or even unfriend them.
I recently checked out an old acquaintance from high school, but after looking at the pro-gun, pro-Trump, anti-Obama/Hillary posts on his timeline (this was in 2016) I decided not to even send a friend request.
Looks like the Brexit-chaos continues:
Boris Johnson mocked for comparing Irish border post Brexit to London Congestion Charge
Of course Johnson is an idiot.
Anyway:
The Irish border poses a bigger problem for Brexiteers than a Tory rebellion
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The bigger problem for Brexiteers isn’t even the parliamentary arithmetic as far as the customs union go, but the guarantees they made in respect to maintaining an open border on the island of the Ireland at the end of phase one of the negotiations. The only way to do that is to maintain some form of customs union with the EU and a large measure of regulatory alignment, either in Northern Ireland alone or across the entirety of the United Kingdom.
[…]
The Scots are still throwing wrenches:
Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish Parliament won’t consent to legislation in Brexit devolution row
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I just delete the posts and if they grow too frequent I block or even unfriend them.
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re: #207 freetoken
It looks like another “unexpected” consequence will be a renewed Scottish independence referendum and perhaps even Irish reunification. I can see the Ulster Protestants resolving to pursue a future in a loose confederation with the Irish Republic rather than with continued connection to England (we can no longer speak of the United kingdom) especially if it means erecting a border wall and customs barrier across their internal border.
re: #208 freetoken
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re: #207 freetoken
Looks like the Brexit-chaos continues:
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The Scots are still throwing wrenches
Wouldn’t the Scots throw spanners? /s
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It looks like another “unexpected” consequence will be a renewed Scottish independence referendum and perhaps even Irish reunification. I can see the Ulster Protestants resolving to pursue a future in a loose confederation with the Irish Republic rather than with continued connection to England (we can no longer speak of the United kingdom) especially if it means erecting a border wall and customs barrier across their internal border.
The two Irelands might adopt the Chinese model of securing the borders between the mainland and the two Special Autonomous Regions (Hong Kong and Macau), with checkpoints and customs on either side of a “neutral zone.”
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’ll just churn and churn. I doubt there will be a violent resurgence of N. Irish independence from the UK, but I can see a very drawn out malaise in the UK as different factions can’t unify on an approach, thus leaving the EU no option but to unilaterally come to certain decisions that in the end will not benefit the UK.
My guess is that it will end up with a hard brexit with a return to borders in NI. I see no will to compromise in the UK.
I wake up, get ready to head for the gym, go to Facebook and see article after article about Stacy Dash running for Congress in CA-44 as a Republican.
Just another CLUELESS Trumpette…
Meanwhile Antonio Sabato Jr’s campaign is still in full Birther mode…
re: #214 Lupin
Well, this Sinn Fein MP thinks:
Johnson’s border comments highlight need for special status - Anderson
And UK politics churns:
Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit plan is nonsense but it piles the pressure on Theresa May
The UK is fortunate, in one way, that no international crises is currently forcing their hands on this Brexit thing.
OTOH, without external pressure, the stew just sits there in the crockpot, slowly cooking.
This may be making UK leaders way too passive in what they need to be doing at this time, for the purpose of the future.
The 21st century rolls along and so far it has been mostly about ethno-nationalists trying to reassert themselves over the internationalists who are working from the post WWII situation.
Yet a few things are clearly going to be inevitable by 2050 - 1) resource challenges are going to force human societies to be more efficient or unwind into chaos (see Syria as an example of how bad “unwind” can be), and, 2) changes in demographics in the world’s democracies will mean changes in social emphases in regards to what countries are expected to do.
The woman in Denison, Tex. who broke up with her boyfriend, slashed her own jeans, then falsely accused three African-American men of rape (resulting in numerous Felony charges that could have carried thirty years imprisonment) because she didn’t want her mother (she was seventeen at the time) angry with her, will receive zero jail time.
She will either get probation or deferred adjudication. She was charged with two counts of tampering with evidence and two counts of tampering with government records (one while she was in jail).
When she first claimed she was raped, a huge outcry of local (white) citizens went up, sparking Internet sleuthing to try to find the alleged rapists, and forming white vigilante squads. Local police spent many days interviewing African-Americans in the area to see if they were associated with the alleged crime.
Harmon was reported as a missing person on March 8, after her then-fiancé returned to their shared apartment and found her vehicle abandoned in the parking lot and several of her belongings scattered on the ground. Several hours after the initial report, Harmon walked into a Denison church where she told staff she had been kidnapped and raped. Harmon told investigators three black men had approached her in a parking lot, forced her into an SUV and drove her to wooded area where two of the three men raped her.
On March 21, Harmon confessed to investigators that she lied about the kidnapping and rape. Harmon admitted that she and her fiancé had fought recently and that she knew the relationship likely would not last. Following the argument, she said she went for a walk and ended up at an abandoned house where she began to cut herself. Fearing her family would be upset with the self-inflicted injuries, she told police she nodded when church staff asked whether she had been sexually assaulted.
(more at the Herald-Democrat)
re: #215 Joe Bacon 🌹
I wake up, get ready to head for the gym, go to Facebook and see article after article about Stacy Dash running for Congress in CA-44 as a Republican.
Just another CLUELESS Trumpette…
Meanwhile Antonio Sabato Jr’s campaign is still in full Birther mode…
Wasn’t it just about 12 hours ago that Official Republican Spokestrolls told us that actors shouldn’t have political opinions?
re: #220 sagehen
Wasn’t it just about 12 hours ago that Official Republican Spokestrolls told us that actors shouldn’t have political opinions?
oh, my mistake. It’s almost 24 hours ago.
Just another example of why no one should take political advice from Hollywood celebrities. Dysfunctional screwed up people who have no insights or wisdom. https://t.co/JKh5UGU2MA
— Wayne Allyn Root (@RealWayneRoot) February 26, 2018
re: #221 sagehen
oh, my mistake. It’s almost 24 hours ago.
Only if you’re not a conservative. People like James Woods, Donald Trump, the dude from Wheel of Fortune, they’re allowed to have public political opinions.
Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC explaining the differences in handguns and an AR-15, then with an interview with Malcolm Nance about them (in the context of arming teachers in classrooms).
The video is good, but the Twitter post is chock full of pedants, wingnuts, and you name it.
Take a look at what teachers would really be up against if armed with a handgun and confronted with an AR-15.
Watch @SRuhle explain: https://t.co/EyxlMKkhAx pic.twitter.com/2DIbKrNg2f— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 26, 2018
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹
John McLane took down a whole bunch of heavily armed terrorists at Nakamoto Tower with only his service weapon. I saw in a movie!
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re: #214 Lupin
No, no, Wendell’s right. What you see is no will to compromise in England and possibly Wales. Scotland would be independent in two seconds if the EU were to promise them successor-state-to-the-UK status, but Brussels won’t do that because Spain is paranoid that it would lead to an independent Catalonia and possibly Basqueria.
re: #216 freetoken
Well, this Sinn Fein MP thinks:
Johnson’s border comments highlight need for special status - AndersonAnd UK politics churns:
Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit plan is nonsense but it piles the pressure on Theresa May
Yes, “special status” for NI, then Scotland, then Wales. Ain’t gonna happen IMHO. The ship of state will sink first.
OTOH, now I’m not sure if China will go to war to keep Russia from expanding back to the USSR’s borders, and obvs, the US *won’t* until 2019 at the earliest and that’s *if* Dems get the Senate.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2018
For the record, I say this because you already all know that I give China zero chance of losing in WWIII. They either win or they don’t play, and Xi just put down a strong sign that they would win.
More conflict between the mini-Trump Boris Johnson and the current Brexit negotiations:
Brexit latest: Brussels ‘rejects’ Theresa May’s red line on EU judges
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A draft withdrawal agreement due from the 27 other EU states tomorrow will name the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as the ultimate arbiter of treaty disputes after Britain leaves the bloc, according to reports from Brussels.
Boris Johnson, however, said it would be incompatible with the result of the 2016 referendum for the court to have any long-term sway over domestic affairs.
“That won’t happen, because that has been expressly ruled out by the British people,” the Foreign Secretary said today. “We can’t remain subject to the European Court of Justice and that is part of taking back control of our laws.”
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re: #227 Chrysicat
No, no, Wendell’s right. What you see is no will to compromise in England and possibly Wales. Scotland would be independent in two seconds if the EU were to promise them successor-state-to-the-UK status, but Brussels won’t do that because Spain is paranoid that it would lead to an independent Catalonia and possibly Basqueria.
I don’t disagree but the UK is what it is, sink or swim, etc. The only two likely alternatives I see are (a) cancellation of brexit, or (b) hard brexit (and (b) means borders).
re: #229 Chrysicat
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There’s unlikely to be a winner in WWIII.
I’ve been catching a few of the GOP ads being run for the primaries here in Texas: No to illegal immigration, no to sanctuary cities, taxes are too high.
It’s going to be an interesting fall with so many Democrats running.
re: #232 Weaselone
Deathclaws would be a winner in WWIII.
re: #232 Weaselone
There’s unlikely to be a winner in WWIII.
Mm. I’m not as confident as you are that every last major actor in it would glass the entire world to make sure their enemies don’t hold sway over it once their country has fallen.
Unfortunately, we all know Trump will do that. But that’s more an argument to have him out of power before Russia ‘reincorporates’ its breakaway oblasts than to try to pursue pacifism when we know Putin demands all of the USSR’s European territory and obeisance from its Asian successor states.
re: #229 Chrysicat
For the record, I say this because you already all know that I give China zero chance of losing in WWIII. They either win or they don’t play, and Xi just put down a strong sign that they would win.
Hillary Clinton would have gone to war with Russia? Where the heck does that come from?
re: #233 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
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re: #238 Chrysicat
Would it be wrong of me to suggest that even in his dream, Lady Lib and Uncle Sam are probably cheering mainly because they expect him to be shot, not to end the shooter?
But why is he running perpendicular to the pathway?
re: #239 wheat-dogg
But why is he running perpendicular to the pathway?
Bone spur threw out his steering alignment.
re: #237 Anymouse 🌹
Hillary Clinton would have gone to war with Russia? Where the heck does that come from?
Maybe from the various acts of war Russia’s been involved in perpetrating since 2014?
The invasion of ‘the’ Ukraine might be enough by itself (we gave that country a Poland-style territorial guarantee and I’m still annoyed that Obama just sat by and let it become worthless ink on paper—IIRC, she agreed with me); the hijacking of our entire democratic process was an act of war, and honestly I don’t know that with Hil in power, and confrontation at some point inevitable, that Putin hasn’t made his move for a land connection to East Prussia already, instead of holding off until who-knows-when.
That’s not a metaphor, either, ‘the Kaliningrad’ is literally the heart of East Prussia, and at least that name doesn’t keep glorifying the Communist International.
re: #236 Chrysicat
It doesn’t take every last country glassing the entire world to make everyone a loser.
A handful of high altitude detonations designed to efficiently subject vast swaths of infrastructure to EMP from the detonations would have a major impact on communications and electric infrastructure globally.
A few hundred ground detonations seeking to wipe out nuclear silos and other hardened targets would probably be sufficient to kick up enough radioactive dust to trigger a nasty nuclear winter.
re: #237 Anymouse 🌹
Hillary Clinton would have gone to war with Russia? Where the heck does that come from?
Berniebots and Jill Shills!
re: #236 Chrysicat
Mm. I’m not as confident as you are that every last major actor in it would glass the entire world to make sure their enemies don’t hold sway over it once their country has fallen.
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Russia’s and the USA’s ICBMs and submarine-launched missiles are largely configured for automatic retaliation (either by their respective governments, or by computer).
Someone launches a nuke (or more than one), pretty much everyone who is threatened will retaliate. As for the majority of the non-nuclear armed world, well, they go down with the rest of us.
Say for the sake of example, North Korea was to actually launch a nuclear missile at the United States (the current conservative fear mongering). The US retaliates, probably with more than one, enough to destroy the majority of North Korea’s military and industrial infrastructure.
South Korea, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Russian Federation all get at least part of the fallout. China and Russia would likely not look kindly on the USA salting their countries with nuclear fallout.
Remember we were talking about Ben Carson at HUD yesterday?
A HUD employee says she was replaced for rejecting Ben Carson’s office redecoration and was told that, “$5,000 won’t even buy a decent chair.”
Wait, what happened to ‘These aren’t crumbs’? https://t.co/5Cq2E8z9kg— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) February 27, 2018
re: #244 Anymouse 🌹
Prevailing winds would likely bring fallout back over the USA and Canada. That’s what happened with the Fukushima plume and water contamination.
But your point remains.
re: #243 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m neither, thank you.
I voted for Hilary knowing that Putin would probably do anything to force war with the US were she elected, and happy to commit to that, because the only thing that will remove him from power without the entirety of Soviet territory being under his thumb first, is war. And that he may not stop there but demand the entire Iron Curtain or even all of Europe.
That, and the fact that he plans to reenact the Holocaust with GLBT as his primary targets wherever his political followers are based, are enough to get this transgirl enthusiastic about ending him before he ends my peers.
re: #241 Chrysicat
Maybe from the various acts of war Russia’s been involved in perpetrating since 2014?
The invasion of ‘the’ Ukraine might be enough by itself (we gave that country a Poland-style territorial guarantee and I’m still annoyed that Obama just sat by and let it become worthless ink on paper—IIRC, she agreed with me); the hijacking of our entire democratic process was an act of war, and honestly I don’t know that with Hil in power, and confrontation at some point inevitable, that Putin hasn’t made his move for a land connection to East Prussia already, instead of holding off until who-knows-when.
That’s not a metaphor, either, ‘the Kaliningrad’ is literally the heart of East Prussia, and at least that name doesn’t keep glorifying the Communist International.
That agreement was not a treaty. Moreover, Republicans blocked any meaningful response over Crimea, not Obama.
As for Kaliningrad, I had the opportunity to observe that up close and personal when Russia was pouring jet fighters and artillery into Kaliningrad for a military exercise, while my wife and I were thirty miles away in Gdansk, Poland, watching discussions about it on Polish television. Russia did their exercise, then pulled out all that equipment and personnel again.
As for connecting the Kaliningrad exclave to the Russian Federation proper, that would involve invading the Baltic states, which are part of NATO (along with Poland). At least in theory, any US President and Congress would uphold our obligations to NATO in the event of the invasion of a NATO state.
It is damn curious that Donald Trump keeps attacking NATO, and suggesting we should pull out of the Atlantic Alliance. It’s almost like he’s working for Russia.
My money is on The Most Serene Republic of San Marino. They held off Diocletian, the Malatesti, several popes, the Borgias, Napoleon, Garibaldi, Mussolini, and the Allies.
re: #245 wheat-dogg
The most corrupt US Administration ever.
Someone doesn’t want to take questions about Russia…
Bernie Sanders and an aide brush back questions about Mueller indictments of the Russians - and how they allegedly helped his campaign. One of his aides stepped in front of me to shield the senator and prevent me from asking questions. Aide bumped into me, saying “Not right now.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 26, 2018
re: #251 freetoken
The most corrupt US Administration ever.
It’s amazing how blatant they all are. Not even trying to conceal the cronyism, graft and under-the-table shit. Boss Tweed would be envious.
re: #252 makeitstop
Someone doesn’t want to take questions about Russia…
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A lot of that going around — some kind of Russian flu. It seems everyone but Democrats are susceptible.
re: #252 makeitstop
Someone doesn’t want to take questions about Russia…
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Well, yes, that would be because either Bernie is as bought-and-paid-for by Putin as any R officeholder, or he honestly still believes that the Russian way is superior to the American one (which makes me begin to wonder if he would have acted just as much a authoritarian in office as the Orange One) and feels that Putinism is just Communism without the state atheism.
re: #253 wheat-dogg
It’s amazing how blatant they all are. Not even trying to conceal the cronyism, graft and under-the-table shit. Boss Tweed would be envious.
They know they are facing a people whose myths have died.
re: #251 freetoken
The most corrupt US Administration ever.
Corrupt crass craven low class two bit gaudy
The 2020 election is on track to be decided by 10 states: AZ, FL, ME, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, PA, WI. In 2024, that list will again look a bit different.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) February 27, 2018
The following article in Nature Communications received a little attention, but not much:
Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action
Sea-level rise is a major consequence of climate change that will continue long after emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped. The 2015 Paris Agreement aims at reducing climate-related risks by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero and limiting global-mean temperature increase. Here we quantify the effect of these constraints on global sea-level rise until 2300, including Antarctic ice-sheet instabilities. We estimate median sea-level rise between 0.7 and 1.2 m, if net-zero greenhouse gas emissions are sustained until 2300, varying with the pathway of emissions during this century. Temperature stabilization below 2 °C is insufficient to hold median sea-level rise until 2300 below 1.5 m. We find that each 5-year delay in near-term peaking of CO2 emissions increases median year 2300 sea-level rise estimates by ca. 0.2 m, and extreme sea-level rise estimates at the 95th percentile by up to 1 m. Our results underline the importance of near-term mitigation action for limiting long-term sea-level rise risks.
It’s actually bad news.
First, in reality the limits proposed in the Paris Agreement are not going to be reached.
But even if the most aggressive limits are met, as noted with keeping net GHG emissions at zero for a full two and a half centuries, the warming we have already bought will cause sea level to rise about 1.3 meters over a couple of centuries.
Sadly, even the tame attempts at limits laid out in the Paris Agreement are not being taken seriously by the US, or Russia, or really OPEC. If the owners of the major carbon deposits don’t want to stop fossil fuel production, then the resultant sea level rises will be much higher than if we had made an earnest attempt at mitigation.
re: #259 freetoken
The following article in Nature Communications received a little attention, but not much:
Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action
It’s actually bad news.
First, in reality the limits proposed in the Paris Agreement are not going to be reached.
But even if the most aggressive limits are met, as noted with keeping net GHG emissions at zero for a full two and a half centuries, the warming we have already bought will cause sea level to rise about 1.3 meters over a couple of centuries.
Sadly, even the the tame attempts at limits laid out in the Paris Agreement are not being taken seriously by the US, or Russia, or really OPEC. If the owners of the major carbon deposits don’t want to stop fossil fuel production, then the resultant sea level rises will be much higher than if we had made an earnest attempt at mitigation.
We’re going to melt Greenland and Antarctica right down to bedrock in my lifetime, aren’t we? And probably fire the clathrate gun that ensures Venus is our future too.
re: #259 freetoken
Your link goes to Nature’s front page, not the article.
Being right on the beach, I sorta get Malibu doing this. But the optics will be pretty negative. Commence the point and laugh at Cali. :-)
Malibu bans restaurants from giving out plastic straws, stirrers and utensils
Businesses have until June 1, when the ban takes effect, to make the change, swapping out the plastic items for ones made of paper, wood or bamboo. Diners are also encouraged to use reusable straws and cutlery made of metal or glass.
Bring Your Own Spoon?
re: #262 Unshaken Defiance
Being right on the beach, I sorta get Malibu doing this. But the optics will be pretty negative. Commence the point and laugh at Cali. :-)
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Japan (or maybe it’s S Korea) has also banned plastic straws.
Now if someone could convince Asian food producers that there is no need to individually wrap each cookie or pair of cookies in its own plastic pouch. …
@JoeNBC OK, My Spidey Senses are tingling here. It sez Joes is going to push for a resurgence of #BuckleyConservatism. Could ‘24 be right around the corner? @TheRickWilson
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 27, 2018
re: #262 Unshaken Defiance
Being right on the beach, I sorta get Malibu doing this. But the optics will be pretty negative. Commence the point and laugh at Cali. :-)
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Not quite sure where you’re getting bring your own spoon.
re: #262 Unshaken Defiance
Being right on the beach, I sorta get Malibu doing this. But the optics will be pretty negative. Commence the point and laugh at Cali. :-)
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Bring your own delicately-carved chopsticks in a lacquered case.
re: #265 Belafon
Not quite sure where you’re getting bring your own spoon.
Note the part about ‘banning plastic straws, stirrers and utensils’.
And then that diners will be encouraged to bring their own in glass or metal.
re: #265 Belafon
Just a solution with a dash of humor.
re: #264 Dave In Austin
What we’re seeing right now is the logical consequence of Buckley conservatism.
re: #264 Dave In Austin
Buckley Conservatism? So he wants to bring back Jim Crow?
re: #261 Anymouse 🌹
Your link goes to Nature’s front page, not the article.
sigh… Nature is using dashes in its URLs, and the hamsters here think they are telephone numbers…
re: #262 Unshaken Defiance
Being right on the beach, I sorta get Malibu doing this. But the optics will be pretty negative. Commence the point and laugh at Cali. :-)
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There is a restaurant here..sofla 15 miles from the beach
For a year theyve been promoting “ask for a straw”
they still put a straw in every water glass and every other drink so I’m not quite getting it
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹
Buckley Conservatism? So he wants to bring back Jim Crow?
If he doesn’t, he’s probably among a minority of registered Rs who don’t.
That might even include their Black people, who are delusional enough to think that a Black business owner could survive without white or Hispanic patronage, and that Black-person-only businesses could now make a go because ‘we’ve had economic equality for long enough’.
re: #260 Chrysicat
We’re going to melt Greenland and Antarctica right down to bedrock in my lifetime, aren’t we? And probably fire the clathrate gun that ensures Venus is our future too.
No, it will take several centuries. Currently on a decadal basis, sea level is rising about 5mm/yr. This is 5x what sea level rose for a few millennia before the 20th century.
But 5mm/yr is only half a meter per century.
Various analyses expect that to increase as Antarctica warms up.
But even then the yearly amount will only about double again, in pessimistic scenarios.
Assuming we continue a net positive GHG for the rest of this century, sea level will continue to rise for many, many centuries to come.
Very intermittently, one might expect an acute rise, due to a major glacier collapse in Antarctica.
re: #261 Anymouse 🌹
Your link goes to Nature’s front page, not the article.
Changed the link to a bitly link.
re: #275 freetoken
Changed the link to a bitly link.
Thanks. I’ll go read it. The link you provided works.
Here’s the thing (y’all already know) - for all the claims that they care about America, the wingnuts most definitely do not.
What they care about is their own riches. Or at least the assuaging of their personal existential crisis.
If you really believed that the US will be around for centuries to come, and you really believed you cared about the US, then you’d care about providing for the future people of the US.
re: #274 freetoken
Long before sea level rise sinks coastal cities like fabled Atlantis and Lyonesse, those cities will become unlivable due to encroachment of the sea.
Already Miami has sea water regularly entering the city due to storms and such, and sometimes overwhelming its storm drain and sewer systems.
Add to that tropical storms (whether or not they increase in intensity) and cities get damaged so badly that the economy can’t keep up with rebuilding them. Increasing population in those areas will only make that problem worse; for the USA there is plenty of interior areas to retreat to but for other nations not so much (like Bangladesh or Pacific Island nations).
re: #218 Dave In Austin
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— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) February 27, 2018
re: #258 Dave In Austin
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Sounds about right. Virginia is becoming solid blue electorally. So we have some southern states, some rust belt, & some southwest. I say we try to maximize minority vote turnout.
re: #277 freetoken
Here’s the thing (y’all already know) - for all the claims that they care about America, the wingnuts most definitely do not.
What they care about is their own riches. Or at least the assuaging of their personal existential crisis.
If you really believed that the US will be around for centuries to come, and you really believed you cared about the US, then you’d care about providing for the future people of the US.
as you say, in truth they do not care about the future US. they care about their personal current US
the bolded part would involve planning, forward thinking, discipline, common sacrifice across generations, so who we kidding?
re: #280 HappyWarrior
Sounds about right. Virginia is becoming solid blue electorally. So we have some southern states, some rust belt, & some southwest. I say we try to maximize minority vote turnout.
Which means we need to give minority groups a reason to vote for us rather than against conservatives. “We’re not Trump’s party” might swing some people, but “what’s in it for me” is usually what drives people to vote for a candidate.
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They believe in a US for them and people like them. The more honest ones are open about it I.e Steve King.
re: #282 Anymouse 🌹
Which means we need to give minority groups a reason to vote for us rather than against conservatives. “We’re not Trump’s party” might swing some people, but “what’s in it for me” is usually what drives people to vote for a candidate.
Correct which is why I think criminal justice reform is a winning issue.
Morning.
What’s up with the nuclear war comments in this thread?
Isn’t the crap going on in DC and elsewhere enough?
I just knew it was going to be a dark day when I saw JeffreyW’s #222.
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
Since I can’t watch the liveblog, or twitter, someone please keep this place up to date with the latest.
re: #284 HappyWarrior
They believe in a US for them and people like them. The more honest ones are open about it I.e Steve King.
The billionaires and millionaires driving these policies are citizens of The Republic of Wealth. A lot of them are Russians, Chinese, and old-line Europeans. None of them have much truck with the locomotive drivers in their reputed ‘countries’.
CJ reform, support for immigrants, etc. and we can get potential swing voters by articulating on why Net Neutrality benefits them as consumers and or entrepreneurs.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
CJ reform, support for immigrants, etc. and we can get potential swing voters by articulating on why Net Neutrality benefits them as consumers and or entrepreneurs.
All of which, coincidentally, are anti-Trump positions.
re: #288 Decatur Deb
The billionaires and millionaires driving these policies are citizens of The Republic of Wealth. A lot of them are Russians, Chinese, and old-line Europeans. None of them have much truck with the locomotive drivers in their reputed ‘countries’.
Right but right wing populism is about us versus them and them always looks different.
re: #262 Unshaken Defiance
Weren’t straws made of waxed paper a long time ago? I could swear my dad telling me that when I was a kid.
re: #290 Belafon
All of which, coincidentally, are anti-Trump positions.
Yep. I think AM means we can’t just run against those policies but rather affirmatively for our own. That said, I do think HRC did that but it got ignored.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
CJ reform, support for immigrants, etc. and we can get potential swing voters by articulating on why Net Neutrality benefits them as consumers and or entrepreneurs.
Net neutrality would be a tough sell here (but we have few minority voters where I live aside from Native Americans who don’t seem to be interested at all in politics). No Net to speak of, so selling the idea of Net Neutrality doesn’t mean much.
In vast rural areas of the country, selling the idea of building out Internet access might be a goal … different areas of the nation need different things.
One useful platform for the Democrats might be flexibility depending on the particular area of the country.
The storm of tweets this am from the President. It’s like getting text messages from your cranky grandpa while he watches Fox News in his arm chair. pic.twitter.com/dmkVnWFJPW
— Nada Bakos (@nadabakos) February 27, 2018
Don’t go too far on the “must be something other than not Trump” route. Right now, he stands for everything we don’t want. It’s a simple message.
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
Weren’t straws made of waxed paper a long time ago? I could swear my dad telling me that when I was a kid.
yes. I remember pulling them apart because they were spirals of paper.
re: #296 Belafon
Don’t go too far on the “must be something other than not Trump” route. Right now, he stands for everything we don’t want. It’s a simple message.
The Libertarian Party is mostly “not Trump” either, but they definitely don’t stand for the same things as the Democratic Party.
re: #294 Anymouse 🌹
Net neutrality would be a tough sell here (but we have few minority voters where I live aside from Native Americans who don’t seem to be interested at all in politics). No Net to speak of, so selling the idea of Net Neutrality doesn’t mean much.
In vast rural areas of the country, selling the idea of building out Internet access might be a goal … different areas of the nation need different things.
One useful platform for the Democrats might be flexibility depending on the particular area of the country.
Oh yeah expanding broadband for sure.
hi @nra you whiny fucking babies https://t.co/3FXsmoVDcI
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) February 27, 2018
re: #291 HappyWarrior
Right but right wing populism is about us versus them and them always looks different.
RW populists are at the sad end of the leash, they just don’t know it.
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹
The Libertarian Party is mostly “not Trump” either, but they definitely don’t stand for the same things as the Democratic Party.
Maybe your wife’s libertarian party, but not the “libertarians” I see.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes. I remember pulling them apart because they were spirals of paper.
Yeah; by the time I was a kid (mid-1970’s) straws were all made from plastic, at least as I recall. My dad said he hadn’t seen any paper straws for quite some time at that point, so paper straws must’ve been phased out about a decade or so earlier.
My new post: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out. https://t.co/U4NTY9sgwL
— David Roberts (@drvox) February 27, 2018
This is why KY’s utilities are running away from energy efficiency and trying to crush rooftop solar. We can’t let them succeed. https://t.co/J4IvlMxAmm
— Lisa Abbott (@lisagabbott) February 27, 2018
Our solar panels have definitely made a positive impact on our commercial electric use.
It’s a tough scale to balance. Can’t be too wonky but can’t be too simple in your message.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
My new post: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out.
Our solar panels have definitely made a positive impact on our commercial electric use.
A few million electric cars and trucks could fix that.
JUST IN: Trump aide Hope Hicks arrives on Capitol Hill for questions in the House Intel Committee’s Russia investigation pic.twitter.com/gfdE80W1FD
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 27, 2018
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh joy…
It’s just another reality star-like distraction
DRUDGE: **WORLD EXCLUSIVE** TUE FEB 27 2018 10:05 AM ET** Just one year into his presidency, Trump will stun the political world by announcing he is running for re-election in 2020. Digital guru Brad Parscale will be named campaign manager, DRUDGE REPORT has learned…
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) February 27, 2018
He’s losing his shit on an extraordinary level this morning. More indictments are likely about to drop. His tweets and little announcement are distractions.
re: #310 Dr. Matt
It’s just another reality star-like distraction
He’s losing his shit on an extraordinary level this morning. More indictments are likely about to drop. His tweets and little announcement are distractions.
Why is President Obama always campaigning?
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re: #307 HappyWarrior
It’s a tough scale to balance. Can’t be too wonky but can’t be too simple in your message.
Why can’t you be too simple? Simple is best, especially for reaching low-info voters (I mean seriously…how complex was Obama’s 2008 “Hope and Change” slogan?)
As far as I’m concerned, the only successful GOPer tactics we shouldn’t be using are:
a) lies
b) appeals to bigotry
Everything else (e.g. appeals to emotion, “clickbait”) are absolutely fair game.
The fact that the witnesses and victims of this have been called actors is a perfect example of the lack of maturity and basic human empathy in this country and in many adults like @DonaldJTrumpJr
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 27, 2018
re: #310 Dr. Matt
It’s just another reality star-like distraction
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He’s losing his shit on an extraordinary level this morning. More indictments are likely about to drop. His tweets and little announcement are distractions.
Trump has long since announced his 2020 run. It’s how he funds his bullshit regional rallies.
re: #296 Belafon
Don’t go too far on the “must be something other than not Trump” route. Right now, he stands for everything we don’t want. It’s a simple message.
And enough people are pissed - really pissed - at him that being ‘not Trump’ will be a valid talking point. The list of things to be pissed about is very long, and every reason is valid.
Coupled with what we would do as an alternative, there will be power there.
re: #312 Interesting Times
Why can’t you be too simple? Simple is best, especially for reaching low-info voters (I mean seriously…how complex was Obama’s 2008 “Hope and Change” slogan?)
As far as I’m concerned, the only successful GOPer tactics we shouldn’t be using are:
a) lies
b) appeals to bigotryEverything else (e.g. appeals to emotion, “clickbait”) are absolutely fair game.
Simple I mean as in simply anti Trump. Kinda how we were perceived wrongly or rightly as just being anti Bush in 2004. I don’t disagree at all btw.
re: #285 HappyWarrior
Correct which is why I think criminal justice reform is a winning issue.
you know my message by now:
“liberty and justice for all”
No new Supreme Court Justices while Trump is running for re-election.
That’s the new rule, right?
re: #310 Dr. Matt
It’s just another reality star-like distraction
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And having his campaign manager indicted as an accessory to Russian meddling is gonna be a bad look.
Delta’s economic impact in metro Atlanta, Georgia
Two Pussy Riot members are missing. Olya Borisova & Sasha Sofeev disappeared in Crimea yesterday.
FSB detained them several times. Yesterday cops broke their phones and computers. We can not reach out to them.
We don’t know what has happened to them. pic.twitter.com/6pRtgCIbi3— Pussy Riot (@pussyrrriot) February 27, 2018
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
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we found Sasha and Olya. they were detained several times but safe now.
thank you for your help!!— Pussy Riot (@pussyrrriot) February 27, 2018
*thud*
.@NRA Board member Charles Cotton posts that he’s concerned gun safety will happen in America because: “It’s very well funded and they are playing on the sympathy factor of kids getting killed.” pic.twitter.com/vmxQoZtnp4
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 27, 2018
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
We should be hearing from Sergei.
re: #310 Dr. Matt
It’s just another reality star-like distraction
He’s losing his shit on an extraordinary level this morning. More indictments are likely about to drop. His tweets and little announcement are distractions.
People should yawn and say that it would only be news if he wasn’t going to run, and then ask him about the investigation.
re: #330 dangerman
(you know i didnt coin it, right?) ;-)
Yeah I know but it’s better than MAGA or America First.
LOL a non-commentator on the Delta article at Wonkette, in Wingnutese:
THEReS NO CONSTITITUTUTIONALAALL riGHT TO JET fuEL LIBtardS!!11`1 IT’s CALLED an INflight MAGAXINE not a CLIP!!!
re: #332 Dr Lizardo
So, I won an auction on eBay over the weekend. Here is what I won:
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I’m going to change the leather band for a stainless-steel mesh band though. Nonetheless, it’s on its way; I should have it in about a week or so.
I didn’t know they still sold vortex manipulators.
re: #331 HappyWarrior
Yeah I know but it’s better than MAGA or America First.
yeah and how does anyone argue with it?
you’re not against the pledge are you?????
re: #335 dangerman
yeah and how does anyone argue with it?
you’re not against the pledge are you?????
Ha. Yes!
BREAKING:@RepCummings Seeks Subpoena for Documents onTrump Administration’s Secret Collaboration with Anti-Choice Group to Target Planned Parenthood. https://t.co/G2lSzxsTk9
— House OversightDems (@OversightDems) February 27, 2018
re: #265 Belafon
Not quite sure where you’re getting bring your own spoon.
There are spoons made of pressed wood or other biodegradable materials
Conservative writer labels Florida shooting survivor a “bully” for pushing gun reform https://t.co/DsUQrF0Q3G pic.twitter.com/LyuJsARlWz
— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2018
Tens of thousands of heavily armed NRA militiamen abused by teen. All our military tactical gear, surplus body armor, semi-automatic high-capacity bump-stock assault weaponry, and special forces beards couldn’t stop him! The horror! The horror! https://t.co/lBW5ZwT1wJ
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 27, 2018
re: #334 Belafon
I didn’t know they still sold vortex manipulators.
Yes…..they’re still quite popular here. :D
re: #336 HappyWarrior
Ha. Yes!
it’s simple and clear, and it parses well
you can explain it later - like any catch phrase - even maga - what is “great”?
liberty means freedom to mostly do what you want and be left alone
justice means fairness and proportional equity in all things
for all means everyone’s included - we all put in and we all get out
any spin or twisted interpretation to exclude or gain unfair advantage is downright unamerican - it’s the pledge of allegiance fer cryin out loud
then you build your policies on and around that
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹
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Erickson and his ilk are admitting they’re outclassed by him.
re: #342 gwangung
Heh. Mr. Hogg is a young man armed only with his wits.
Erickson and his ilk are admitting they’re outclassed by him.
He is bludgeoning them with his unassailable moral superiority
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #342 gwangung
Heh. Mr. Hogg is a young man armed only with his wits.
Doing battle with thousands of unarmed men.
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) February 27, 2018
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹
If they can’t stop an unarmed kid with their guns, what makes them think they can stop a determined shooter?
re: #346 Dave In Austin
The campaign rallies start this weekend. It’s where his joy is found.
re: #346 Dave In Austin
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re: #346 Dave In Austin
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Ummmm, Matt? Didn’t Trump form his 2020 Reelection Committee about a week (if that long) after his Inauguration in 2017? THIS is “siren”-worthy “news”??
re: #349 dangerman
this gets a strobe light because it’s a surprise to…no one?
Maybe he’s hoping the light will hypnotize you and you’ll forget about the last year.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. The GOP/NRA are deeply disappointed that so many are focused on guns and gun control that they want to take digs at law enforcement. Yeah, so much for the blue lives matter when it gets in the way of all their fantasies about good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns.
.@SteveScalise: “I wouldn’t be here right now, if it wasn’t for law enforcement confronting the shooter in my case and it’s really disappointing that ultimately somebody didn’t go into that school, that was there and armed to protect those kids.” pic.twitter.com/3zgNM1ZlaS
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 27, 2018
It’s deeply disappointing that the GOP/NRA refuse to ban bump stocks - the sole purpose of which is to mimic full automatic fire.
It’s deeply disappointing that the GOP/NRA refuses to limit magazine/clip sizes (which serve no purpose for hunting, but can slow a mass shooter).— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 27, 2018
Scalise nearly died because of a “good guy” with a gun who decided to go on a shooting spree at a Congressional baseball practice.
The GOP/NRA refuses to act, and even Trump has 180’d on his position about raising the age because the NRA told him to oppose it (previously undisclosed meeting at the WH no less over the weekend).
But the GOP/NRA will try and make Delta out to be the bad guy for ending a discount program for NRA members? Yeah, that’s where we’re at.
FedEx is still trying to cut it both ways.
The NRA is on the defensive and their advantage in lobbying is still apparent given how they’ve managed to convinced the GOP there to block action in the Florida legislature.
re: #350 Jay C
Ummmm, Matt? Didn’t Trump form his 2020 Reelection Committee about a week (if that long) after his Inauguration in 2017? THIS is “siren”-worthy “news”??
They think everybody forgot.
Special counsel’s office has moved to dismiss charges against Rick Gates in Virginia, per terms of plea agreement in DC: https://t.co/HMNSZMbDfw Previously: https://t.co/Avh4WpyWw5 pic.twitter.com/MCGpZhQ6rn
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 27, 2018
Alliance man seeks to challenge Adrian Smith (R-NE3) in the Republican Primary in Nebraska. (Good, make them spend money fighting amongst themselves.)
Holy crap, this guy is trying to primary Rep. Smith on (some) left-leaning issues.
Alliance man runs for Congress, challenging Adrian Smith (Goes to the Scottsbluff, NE Star-Herald, more at the link):
“We need to have someone in office that will hold our different government entities accountable for their actions and inactions,” Bolinger said. “There’s a big mismanagement in how government is being run, especially when it comes to funding. The money could be put back into education, housing, Medicare and Medicaid.”
He said the fiscal mismanagement is mainly caused by the several layers of government that oversee a single agency, when one would be sufficient.
Bolinger first became interested in politics in 2003 when he was a member of the Alliance Planning Commission, in what he called an “odd situation.” He said he saw some of the grey ethical areas as the city used substandard and blighted rulings to clear property for development, although existing businesses were opposed.
re: #341 dangerman
it’s simple and clear, and it parses well
you can explain it later - like any catch phrase - even maga - what is “great”?liberty means freedom to mostly do what you want and be left alone
justice means fairness and proportional equity in all things
for all means everyone’s included - we all put in and we all get outany spin or twisted interpretation to exclude or gain unfair advantage is downright unamerican - it’s the pledge of allegiance fer cryin out loud
then you build your policies on and around that
I always use the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution for its clear simplicity. In a way that is what you are doing. Just break it down and explain in your campaign all the things you will do to make the Preamble true for everyone.
Here it is for those that need a refresher…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I use it all the time for Healthcare by citing general welfare and common defence. What is better for welfare and defence than a healthy strong citizenry.
You could use domestic tranquility for keeping peace at home which could go to gun laws.
More perfect union and secure liberty for immigration law and fighting race issues.
Etc.
re: #355 Anymouse 🌹
Alliance man seeks to challenge Adrian Smith (R-NE3) in the Republican Primary in Nebraska. (Good, make them spend money fighting amongst themselves.)
Holy crap, this guy is trying to primary Rep. Smith on (some) left-leaning issues.
Alliance man runs for Congress, challenging Adrian Smith (Goes to the Scottsbluff, NE Star-Herald, more at the link):
More power to him, but he wants to squeeze blood from stone to pay for things.
re: #357 Belafon
More power to him, but he wants to squeeze blood from stone to pay for things.
We’re still talking Republicans here.
That said, the idea he wants to strengthen Medicaid, Medicare, education, and housing is pretty refreshing to hear from a Republican. (Still not my problem for them to save their own party though.)
Though I have met several local politicians due to my own position, I have not met this fellow. (The Alliance City Planning Commission, his current position, is not really on the radar for my own city council.) I suspect if he does mount a serious campaign, he’ll probably come here. I might go to hear him speak if that’s the case. (Campaigning in this district requires going to a lot of small villages.)
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹
That’s just embarrassing. Christ I hate Republicans.
The Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylees, do not have the right to bond hearings — effectively meaning they can be held indefinitely.
— NPR (@NPR) February 27, 2018
In case involving prolonged detention of immigrants, #SCOTUS holds immigration-law provisions do not give detained aliens right to periodic bond hearings
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) February 27, 2018
Supreme Court remands for Ninth Circuit to consider detainees’ constitutional claims. https://t.co/kXCLOgWlqI
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) February 27, 2018
The opinion in Jennings v. Rodriguez is available on the Supreme Court’s website at this link: https://t.co/lxrPxo4nc9
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) February 27, 2018
The fellow from Alliance is still pushing the idea of “clean coal” and claiming President Obama’s regulations are hurting Wyoming, along with Nebraska’s railroads (coal from Wyoming is transported by rail through Nebraska, right through my town as it happens).
If he does become a serious candidate, and I have the opportunity to question him, I’ll go after him on his fantasy position on “clean coal.” Nebraska is just about the wind capital of North America; wind power is rapidly running up on other forms of energy here.
re: #356 ObserverArt
I always use the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution for its clear simplicity. In a way that is what you are doing. Just break it down and explain in your campaign all the things you will do to make the Preamble true for everyone.
Here it is for those that need a refresher…
I use it all the time for Healthcare by citing general welfare and common defence. What is better for welfare and defence than a healthy strong citizenry.
You could use domestic tranquility for keeping peace at home which could go to gun laws.
More perfect union and secure liberty for immigration law and fighting race issues.
Etc.
excellent idea, yes
i was going for the bumper sticker slogan / branding angle
it all fits together well when you use the actual words of what we are supposed to stand for
NSA Director Mike Rogers tells Congress that he would need to be granted the authority by Trump or secdef to stop Russian meddling at its source, but he hasn’t yet been given that day-to-day authority
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 27, 2018
Michael Moore can be a real jerk, but he can throw a zinger occasionally:
Is anyone really surprised that the same group that has to arm themselves to go to Walmart is being slapped around by a bunch of kids?
— Michael Moore (@mmoore9585) February 27, 2018
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Psst. Paged SCOTUS
My take is Judicial wants Legislative to do it’s freaking job even in the face of a rampant bigot Executive. This hot potato belongs in the legislature, given the 80% of us who support DACA continuing. But troublesome given who runs it now.
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re: #364 Anymouse 🌹
No blue checkmark… and it’s a pretty common name.
re: #368 dangerman
Yeah I just saw it. My bad lol.
The sun is up high enough here that the light is bouncing off the snow just right, making me sneeze endlessly now. (Photic Sneeze Reflex, also known as ACHOO Syndrome, goes to Wikipedia).
NOW I know why the caged bird sings…
Mueller’s team has officially proposed dismissing charges against RICK GATES, following last week’s guilty plea. pic.twitter.com/AM69yxGtsm
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 27, 2018
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jesus Fucking Christ. So if I get arrested for anything I could be fucked indefinitely because I am not a citizen and only here on a Green Card?
Man, these douchebags must really want me to go back to Canada.
Sgt Bonespur earned three purple hearts and a bronze star fighting on the Studio 54 front during the Great VD War. Show the man some respect!
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
Weren’t straws made of waxed paper a long time ago? I could swear my dad telling me that when I was a kid.
They still make paper straws. One of our party activists brings them to every event to offer to people who won’t drink straight from a glass (what a concept) to offer an alternative to plastic straws.
re: #373 Eclectic Cyborg
Jesus Fucking Christ. So if I get arrested for anything I could be fucked indefinitely because I am not a citizen and only here on a Green Card?
Man, these douchebags must really want me to go back to Canada.
From encouraging good people to discouraging good people under the guise of MS13 and other false pretenses. Gah. It’s a betrayal, and betrayal is most often followed by disaster. The question is the scope.
re: #375 BeachDem
Ted’s Montana Grill restaurants use paper straws. I hadn’t seen any since I was a kid til we had dinner there for our last anniversary
re: #376 Unshaken Defiance
Oh you better believe if something happens I’m going to lawyer up and fight the hell out of this.
re: #375 BeachDem
They still make paper straws. One of our party activists brings them to every event to offer to people who won’t drink straight from a glass (what a concept) to offer an alternative to plastic straws.
I just took a look on the Czech intertubes and they carry them here as well. I didn’t know that.
re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh you better believe if something happens I’m going to lawyer up and fight the hell out of this.
I think I’d take the deportation and happily go to a better place.
I’m thinking Trump wants to butter Parscale up so he clams up when the indictment is handed down.
Official announcement from the Trump campaign on Brad Parscale as 2020 campaign manager pic.twitter.com/UYnGPO54s3
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) February 27, 2018
re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh you better believe if something happens I’m going to lawyer up and fight the hell out of this.
Can I go to Canada in your place? /s
re: #381 makeitstop
Or maybe Trump is thinking along the lines of “executive privilege” or something.
re: #375 BeachDem
They still make paper straws. One of our party activists brings them to every event to offer to people who won’t drink straight from a glass (what a concept) to offer an alternative to plastic straws.
germs only congregate on the rim of a glass
never down the inside of the glass, in the contents, or on the outside, you know where you might hold it
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, wingnut claims of Obama setting up permanent detention camps was also projection by conservatives.
Is there anything that is not projection by Compassionate Conservatism (other than the desire for money)?
re: #377 A Mom Anon
Ted’s Montana Grill restaurants use paper straws. I hadn’t seen any since I was a kid til we had dinner there for our last anniversary
I’m pretty sure the person who brings them to our events said she finds them at the dollar store.
re: #380 Renaissance_Man
re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve not ever been as ashamed of the President as I am these days. He claims he would take a bullet for the kids. Among many other impossible things.
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Brad Parscale is either stupidest man or bravest man in the US. How long before we find out that he’s a regular commenter on Storm Front?
“It’s fucked. It’s all fucked. I can fix it but you gonna’ be lookin at a thousand treats.” pic.twitter.com/aKCKwV204P
— Jennifer 🌙👻 (@DulceTerrorTV) February 25, 2018
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t get this. Indefinite detention should be illegal on its face so how did the Court manage to get around that given this essentially sets up indefinite detention?
re: #390 Weaselone
I don’t get this. Indefinite detention should be illegal on its face so how did the Court manage to get around that given this essentially sets up indefinite detention?
Conservative originalism (tm). They got that from the same place that they got the right for people to have weapons of war under the II Amendment.
re: #380 Renaissance_Man
I think I’d take the deportation and happily go to a better place.
I have family, friends and children here that need me. I’d rather fight alongside them than turn tail and run. I chose this journey. I’ll see it through to the end.
re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth
You see a cat smoking a cigarette and you think, that’s interesting…then someone photoshops a wrench into its paw.
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE for any school to help secure the children. I am a 29 year old douchebag, Infantile Sergeant Major, Junior Army Ranger with combat experience. I have a conceal carry, Primary and Alternate Huggies, an AR-15, and all necessary tactical gear. pic.twitter.com/vo80BHKIxX
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
So on a more science/space kinda topic you won’t believe the aircraft in the linked article. I’m sure I’m not the only person who gets those sponsored content ads with ridiculous photoshop fantasy aircraft. This thing looks like one of those but it’s real. And, if all goes well it’s really a gateway to orbit for small satellites on short notice.
Baby update - thanks for all the well wishes yesterday
Pediatrician looked at the kid and said, “that rash is completely different than the one I saw a few days ago.” I said, “well according to the Internet - which is making us new parents paranoid - it looks like scarlet fever rash or strep rash.” The scary part was the Doc agreed.
The good news: no strep - they tested the boy. They sent it out to get cultured tho. Even better news, after a good nights sleep the horrible rash all over his body just disappeared. His appetite is back and he seems to be his happy normal self. So YAY - but still no idea what the hell that was.
Parenting:
When they said you wouldn’t sleep - I said no problem I function well on little sleep.
When they said you will worry everyday - I said no problem I’m already a worrier
When they said you need to be cautious about illnesses - I said shit, I’m a hypochondriac
re: #397 CongoJack
Sounds like an allergic reaction to something. Was he on any meds?
re: #398 Belafon
No meds. No change in lotion, no change in soap, no change in shampoo, no change in food, no change in clothing/diapers. Literally nothing changed. The issue is if he is allergic to something we don’t know yet. My wife’s mom is allergic to strawberries and bees (deadly if she encounters either). My wife is allergic to nickel (rash). I just sneeze when there is too much pollen in the air.
*shrug* still at a loss for what it was.
re: #399 CongoJack
No meds. No change in lotion, no change in soap, no change in shampoo, no change in food, no change in clothing/diapers. Literally nothing changed. The issue is if he is allergic to something we don’t know yet. My wife’s mom is allergic to strawberries and bees (deadly if she encounters either). My wife is allergic to nickel (rash). I just sneeze when there is too much pollen in the air.
*shrug* still at a loss for what it was.
You’re supposed to change the diapers now and then.
/sorry, I can joke because I have no kids. Thank you for your service.
Death threats force Parkland shooting survivor to leave Facebook (goes to Think Progress)
But while the crowd at the [CNN] town hall may have forcefully backed [Cameron] Kasky, the 17-year-old has been subject to a different reception online, where he says he’s encountered vicious smears and death threats.
The trolling has gotten so bad that, earlier in the day, Kasky said he was taking some time off Facebook because “the death threats from the NRA cultists are a bit more graphic than those on Twitter.”
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re: #399 CongoJack
No meds. No change in lotion, no change in soap, no change in shampoo, no change in food, no change in clothing/diapers. Literally nothing changed. The issue is if he is allergic to something we don’t know yet. My wife’s mom is allergic to strawberries and bees (deadly if she encounters either). My wife is allergic to nickel (rash). I just sneeze when there is too much pollen in the air.
*shrug* still at a loss for what it was.
sometimes we catch a thing
then it resolves itself
give the kid a break. he’s still getting used to the place.
childless (ie troublemaking) uncle so what do i know
re: #400 wrenchwench
You’re supposed to change the diapers now and then.
/sorry, I can joke because I have no kids. Thank you for your service.
Ha - yeah lol. I should have said no new brand of diapers. Trust me - he will let you know when he pees (wimpers) and poos (you can hear the wettest farts on earth from across the house).
re: #404 CongoJack
Ha - yeah lol. I should have said no new brand of diapers. Trust me - he will let you know when he pees (wimpers) and poos (you can hear the wettest farts on earth from across the house).
Daddy’s ears doin’ their work.
I almost forgot about this guy.
The Mysterious Professor At The Center Of The Russia-Trump Probe Has Disappeared. Even His Girlfriend Can’t Find Him. https://t.co/j9cbpu0lYh
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 27, 2018
re: #394 makeitstop
If that’s not a real thing, it needs to be because I want one.
Lre: #401 Anymouse 🌹
Death threats force Parkland shooting survivor to leave Facebook (goes to Think Progress)
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Goddamn that sucks.
.@MSNBC reporting House Intel member Rep. Stewart (R-UT) says Hope Hicks is not answering questions about her time in the White House
— Investigate Russia (@InvestigateRU) February 27, 2018
The Trump administration has “nothing to hide” with the small exception of everything.https://t.co/UzuXlRKbAa
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) February 27, 2018
re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth
ONe step closer to the total criminalization of immigrants. Fan-fucking-tastic….
We won’t survive to ‘18, will we? The country will be unrecognizable even at that point.
re: #407 makeitstop
So many moving parts.
As I mentioned the other day, we need a giant wall chart to keep track of all the actors.
re: #412 Citizen K
ONe step closer to the total criminalization of immigrants. Fan-fucking-tastic….
We won’t survive to ‘18, will we? The country will be unrecognizable even at that point.
Umm…it is 2018.
re: #412 Citizen K
ONe step closer to the total criminalization of immigrants. Fan-fucking-tastic….
We won’t survive to ‘18, will we? The country will be unrecognizable even at that point.
Breathe. We’ve had to deal with this as a country before.
re: #414 makeitstop
Umm…it is 2018.
You know what I meant. The midterms which are increasingly turning into our only chance to start stemming the tide before it truly becomes irreversible.
re: #412 Citizen K
ONe step closer to the total criminalization of immigrants. Fan-fucking-tastic….
We won’t survive to ‘18, will we? The country will be unrecognizable even at that point.
They’re also working on reversing court rulings regarding birthright citizenship in regard to the XIV Amendment. That’s Steve King’s (R-IA4) hobby horse.
I don’t think I was over-the-top with my concern about this when King was arguing to kick out “anchor grandbabies” in regard to me being stripped of citizenship and deported to Poland.
A member of a far-right vigilante group has camped out by an Indiana school with his AR-15. Administrators don’t want him there & they already have armed guards. https://t.co/d3qOpOdfDI
— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) February 27, 2018
GOP candidates in Georgia are all-in on the Parkland backlash. Brian Kemp calls for a sales tax holiday for guns and ammo over Fourth of July, per AJC pic.twitter.com/AzgOOPN0Yi
— Pema Levy (@pemalevy) February 27, 2018
Right wing extremists are going all in with their GOP/NRA ties. They’re playing it to the hilt.
re: #413 freetoken
So many moving parts.
As I mentioned the other day, we need a giant wall chart to keep track of all the actors.
Well, since Parscale is the name of the day, here’s one of his many intertwinings
re: #418 Anymouse 🌹
They’re also working on reversing court rulings regarding birthright citizenship in regard to the XIV Amendment. That’s Steve King’s (R-IA4) hobby horse.
I don’t think I was over-the-top with my concern about this when King was arguing to kick out “anchor grandbabies” in regard to me being stripped of citizenship and deported to Poland.
I think the courts would stop that but that’s why Trump needs to be stopped. More Sotomayors and less Gorsuches.
re: #419 lawhawk
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Right wing extremists are going all in with their GOP/NRA ties. They’re playing it to the hilt.
JFC. Do you represent the people of Georgia or the NRA?
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Bernie’s son Levi is running for office in NH, and his tweets are… exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s out for themselves, and has no intention of helping Democrats.
Self-awareness, you had one job. #nh01 #nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/pqttMrQvqx
— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) February 25, 2018
Damn this thread on Levi Sanders is…damning. https://t.co/QxOJ6R19ra
— Alby *brushes shoulder* Zeeluminati (@albyselkie) February 27, 2018
re: #421 BeachDem
It’s a start, but there are many more part than what are on that chart.
That’s a rhetorical question btw. I know they care more about the NRA.
re: #243 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hillary Clinton would have gone to war with Russia? Where the heck does that come from?
Vladimir Putin
re: #423 HappyWarrior
JFC. Do you represent the people of Georgia or the NRA?
GOP/NRA represents the NRA of course. They think that making gun and ammo sales tax free and easily available is critical, but protecting the public health is outside their mandate.
It’s all guns all the time.
re: #419 lawhawk
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Right wing extremists are going all in with their GOP/NRA ties. They’re playing it to the hilt.
this whole business about arming teachers is not serious
it’s a temporary distraction until things can cool off, everyone forgets and it goes back to the way it was.
cause it has always worked that way for them before
the kids young adults are unmasking them. there is no going back
WATCH: NSA Director Rogers on Russian cyberattacks: “I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion there’s little price to pay here, and that therefore I can continue this activity.” pic.twitter.com/3c5gGLvrAS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 27, 2018
The reason Putin believes this is true:
Trump refuses to impose sanctions as mandated by Congress in overwhelming fashion. In Senate, only Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders opposed. 98-2. https://t.co/XARlJyuwNM— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 27, 2018
re: #424 lawhawk
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Bernie’s son Levi is running for office in NH, and his tweets are… exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s out for themselves, and has no intention of helping Democrats.
It seems the Sanders family is the [Ron/Rand] Paul family of the left.
re: #418 Anymouse 🌹
They’re also working on reversing court rulings regarding birthright citizenship in regard to the XIV Amendment. That’s Steve King’s (R-IA4) hobby horse.
I don’t think I was over-the-top with my concern about this when King was arguing to kick out “anchor grandbabies” in regard to me being stripped of citizenship and deported to Poland.
I’m a first-generation. My parents were naturalized only after I was born. With the precedents of trying to actually fucking denaturalize citizens, I’m half expecting them to go for the home run there and go right for King’s unicorn there. And with this court, they may very well fucking get it.
re: #416 Citizen K
You know what I meant. The midterms which are increasingly turning into our only chance to start stemming the tide before it truly becomes irreversible.
I think that’s similar to the way the rwnjs felt about 2016. And some still feel that way. They see the browning of America as an irresistible force turning the USA to the left. And as America goes, so goes the world, to some extent. The oligarchs colluded out of attempted self-preservation. So they still fight, and still support Trump. The midterms won’t be easy, and it won’t be the last battle. But we will win.
re: #410 Anymouse 🌹
Not answering questions or actually invoking the 5th?
That’s a significant and tremendous distinction.
If she’s prevaricating then she’s acting evasive and trying to weasel out of her appearance without giving up dirt. I can totally believe she’d try that approach. It’s what everyone associated with Trumpworld is trying to do with mixed success.
If she’s gone a step further and isn’t answering questions because she’ll be implicating herself in criminal acts, then we have a totally different ballgame.
Anyone ever notice Josh Berenstein sounds just like Ben Shapiro? Is there a cloning factory for conservaliars?
re: #424 lawhawk
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Bernie’s son Levi is running for office in NH, and his tweets are… exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s out for themselves, and has no intention of helping Democrats.
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Or as Colbert put it, ‘The douche doesn’t fall far from the bag.’
re: #422 HappyWarrior
I think the courts would stop that but that’s why Trump needs to be stopped. More Sotomayors and less Gorsuches.
Those courts will rapidly be filled up by all the seats Republicans held up during the Obama Administration. I am not quite as hopeful.
re: #424 lawhawk
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Bernie’s son Levi is running for office in NH, and his tweets are… exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s out for themselves, and has no intention of helping Democrats.
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WTF is his problem? I wasn’t even bothered by Jenna Bush doing her thing in her own name. That’s a shame. Sanders whole family seems to be like Dad.
I’m glad those young adults still think things can be changed.
re: #425 freetoken
It’s a start, but there are many more part than what are on that chart.
We’re gonna need a bigger wall…
re: #437 Anymouse 🌹
Those courts will rapidly be filled up by all the seats Republicans held up during the Obama Administration. I am not quite as hopeful.
I know. I’m not 100% optimistic either but I will remind you that it hasn’t just been Obama or Clinton appointees stopping this. That said I don’t trust any Trump judicial appointee.
re: #395 gocart mozart
Where did this start and who was the original asshole who is getting so widely mocked?
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
we found Sasha and Olya. they were detained several times but safe now.
thank you for your help!!— Pussy Riot (@pussyrrriot) February 27, 2018
re: #433 wrenchwench
I think that’s similar to the way the rwnjs felt about 2016. And some still feel that way. They see the browning of America as an irresistible force turning the USA to the left. And as America goes, so goes the world, to some extent. The oligarchs colluded out of attempted self-preservation. So they still fight, and still support Trump. The midterms won’t be easy, and it won’t be the last battle. But we will win.
But now they essentially own the Supreme for yet another 20 years, maybe even more depending on if we lose any more Justices in the next couple of years. That alone essentially codifies US conservatism for good at this point it seems and we’re seeing it in our faces today.
re: #438 HappyWarrior
WTF is his problem? I wasn’t even bothered by Jenna Bush doing her thing in her own name. That’s a shame. Sanders whole family seems to be like Dad.
I think the ‘left’ now knows how it felt on the ‘right’ for so many years with their Ron/Rand Paul problem.
re: #438 HappyWarrior
WTF is his problem? I wasn’t even bothered by Jenna Bush doing her thing in her own name. That’s a shame. Sanders whole family seems to be like Dad.
The best part: Levi Sanders doesn’t live in #NH01. He lives in the adjacent congressional district and is running in #NH01. NH law allows this, but few candidates could get away with this. #nhpolitics
— Tom Herron (@gifuoh) February 27, 2018
re: #445 CongoJack
I think the ‘left’ now knows how it felt on the ‘right’ for so many years with their Ron/Rand Paul problem.
That’s a great analogy.
re: #446 Anymouse 🌹
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Yeah I see that a bit. Not impressed with him thus far. Seems petty like his father.
re: #442 darthstar
Where did this start and who was the original asshole who is getting so widely mocked?
Okay, I think this is the original guy (in the photo)…I like the caption because keytar…
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE for any Pet Shop Boys tribute band. I am a 49 year retired veteran of 80s new wave synth-pop, with podium experience. I have my own stealth partyboy outfit, a Yamaha MOXF6 Synthesizer, RK-100S Keytar, and know all necessary chords by heart. pic.twitter.com/J2mAdngET3
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) February 26, 2018
re: #424 lawhawk
And yet how many will fall over themselves to support him almost precisely because he hates Clinton? Because apparently to a growing number of lefties, that’s precisely the only thing you need to do to be a ‘real progressive’. Doesn’t matter that everything about him screams right wing pandering, the real mission is destroy the Dem party and only then can they truly fight the right and bring about the utopia.
re: #442 darthstar
Where did this start and who was the original asshole who is getting so widely mocked?
The original tweet was by a person who goes by ProudAmericanSoldier on Twitter:
hey check out this totally normal person u would definitely want hanging out with ur children pic.twitter.com/con8LzOcRn
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) February 26, 2018
Heh, indeedy.
Trump made Brad Parscale his campaign manager.
And that’s a good thing for Brad because it means he definitely won’t be getting indicted for anything because no one that has been Trump’s campaign manager has ever gotten indicted for anything.— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) February 27, 2018
re: #444 Citizen K
But now they essentially own the Supreme for yet another 20 years, maybe even more depending on if we lose any more Justices in the next couple of years. That alone essentially codifies US conservatism for good at this point it seems and we’re seeing it in our faces today.
The things they are pushing go beyond codification. And it’s all of the ‘beyond’ that brings them to where they will lose.
It’s tough to wordify optimism. And tough to justify it. But it’s there.
re: #452 Anymouse 🌹
The original tweet was by a person who goes by ProudAmericanSoldier on Twitter:
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Oh…he’s a piece of work.
TO:
Alamo Rent a Car
Avis
Allied Van Lines
Bestwestern
Budget
Chubb Insurance
Delta Air Lines
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
First National Bank of Omaha
Hertz
MetLife
North American Van Lines
Paramount R
SimpliSafe
Symantec
Thank you for unjustly vilifying me. It was an easy decision.— ProudAmericanSoldier (@CarlosCruz2016) February 25, 2018
re: #455 darthstar
Oh…he’s a piece of work.
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Yeah they’re vilifying you by charging you the same as most people. But liberals are snowflakes.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
The potential for nuclear weapons in the hands of a theocratic absolute monarchy? What could possibly go wrong?
re: #455 darthstar
Oh…he’s a piece of work.
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The replies in that string make me want to end my social media boycott and join the Twitters (I still am not joining Facebook even if they offered me money).
re: #454 wrenchwench
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It’s tough to wordify optimism. And tough to justify it. But it’s there.
It can be put to music:
re: #455 darthstar
Oh…he’s a piece of work.
Wow, looking at that guy’s Twitter account, he seems to be 190 proof distilled wingnut.
re: #364 Anymouse 🌹
That’s not the REAL Michael Moore, he only has a couple dozen followers.
re: #461 gocart mozart
That’s not the REAL Michael Moore, he only has a couple dozen followers.
I was corrected on that above. I failed to note the lack of a confirmed account, or the number of followers.
So conservative logic is this from what I can gather, a store owner can discriminate against someone for being gay but a company can’t rescind special benefits to NRA members. Yeah? Well fuck your feelings.
Reading through that Tweet thread exposing one Levi Sanders is very enlightening.
In one he using a Rolling Stone article about the American press having to cosign Obama’s dubious intelligence report about Russian hacking. It was dated December 16, 2016.
If sonny boy thinks the Russian hacking “story” was similar to the bad intelligence run-up to invading Iraq I think it is a pretty good guess daddy Sanders believed it too.
Levi has Bernie’s back just the same as Donny Jr. has The Big Don’s.
Damn 2016 had a lot of bad crap going on. I want to move on from 2016. One good way would be for the Democratic party to separate itself from the Sanders.
re: #463 HappyWarrior
So conservative logic is this from what I can gather, a store owner can discriminate against someone for being gay but a company can’t rescind special benefits to NRA members. Yeah? Well fuck your feelings.
Yup. We can’t let geyh cooties get on our AR-15’s.
re: #463 HappyWarrior
So conservative logic is this from what I can gather, a store owner can discriminate against someone for being gay but a company can’t rescind special benefits to NRA members. Yeah? Well fuck your feelings.
Gun ownership is a constitutional right, therefore gun owners are a special caste which therefore requires special treatment, and denying that special treatment is the worst hate crime possible, apparently.
re: #464 ObserverArt
Reading through that Tweet thread exposing one Levi Sanders is very enlightening.
In one he using a Rolling Stone article about the American press having to cosign Obama’s dubious intelligence report about Russian hacking. It was dated December 16, 2016.
If sonny boy thinks the Russian hacking “story” was similar to the bad intelligence run-up to invading Iraq I think it is a pretty good guess daddy Sanders believed it too.
Levi has Bernie’s back just the same as Donny Jr. has The Big Don’s.
Damn 2016 had a lot of bad crap going on. I want to move on from 2016. One good way would be for the Democratic party to separate itself from the Sanders.
Best thing that could happen is for Bernie to be a non factor in 2020 and to have his less than perfect record on some issues exposed.
re: #457 KGxvi
The potential for nuclear weapons in the hands of a theocratic absolute monarchy? What could possibly go wrong?
Are you talking about the Saudis or the Pence administration?
re: #464 ObserverArt
Reading through that Tweet thread exposing one Levi Sanders is very enlightening.
In one he using a Rolling Stone article about the American press having to cosign Obama’s dubious intelligence report about Russian hacking. It was dated December 16, 2016.
If sonny boy thinks the Russian hacking “story” was similar to the bad intelligence run-up to invading Iraq I think it is a pretty good guess daddy Sanders believed it too.
Levi has Bernie’s back just the same as Donny Jr. has The Big Don’s.
Damn 2016 had a lot of bad crap going on. I want to move on from 2016. One good way would be for the Democratic party to separate itself from the Sanders.
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
re: #468 Decatur Deb
Are you talking about the Saudis or the Pence administration?
Nah Pence would have Iran as his role model.
re: #468 Decatur Deb
Are you talking about the Saudis or the Pence administration?
Our friends, the Saudis… for now
One advantage to living in a small town: It is easy to reject most robocalls that spoof local numbers.
Since we only have one central office, in the last four digits all government and business numbers start with “zero” and all private numbers start with a “nine.” That makes it trivially easy to reject the rest.
Fortunately, robocallers haven’t figured that out. My phone rings once, then the call blocker rejects the calls with numbers 1-8 (xxx) in the last four digits.
re: #469 lawhawk
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
Agreed.
re: #473 Anymouse 🌹
One advantage to living in a small town: It is easy to reject most robocalls that spoof local numbers.
Since we only have one central office, in the last four digits all government and business numbers start with “zero” and all private numbers start with a “nine.” That makes it trivially easy to reject the rest.
Fortunately, robocallers haven’t figured that out. My phone rings once, then the call blocker rejects the calls with numbers 1-8 (xxx) in the last four digits.
I’ve been getting spam calls on my cell that have the same prefix as mine, so I’ve been blocking them like crazy.
re: #399 CongoJack
No meds. No change in lotion, no change in soap, no change in shampoo, no change in food, no change in clothing/diapers. Literally nothing changed. The issue is if he is allergic to something we don’t know yet. My wife’s mom is allergic to strawberries and bees (deadly if she encounters either). My wife is allergic to nickel (rash). I just sneeze when there is too much pollen in the air.
*shrug* still at a loss for what it was.
Happy to hear its not thought to be dangerous at this point. Baby obviously has a, please keep that (item) away from me, that is currently unknown. We know about strawberries, bees and nickel exposure in the family…makes me wonder what this is. All we know is that baby recently had contact with it. I hope you soon learn what the offending item is. I think you will…you’re gonna be terrific dad.
re: #469 lawhawk
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
He can run independent (3rd party) with his fellow comrade Jill Stein. They can attempt to rat fuck together in harmony.
re: #259 freetoken
The following article in Nature Communications received a little attention, but not much:
Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action
It’s actually bad news. …
The Arctic is above freezing. No sun, and still winter. washingtonpost.com
re: #475 KGxvi
I’ve been getting spam calls on my cell that have the same prefix as mine, so I’ve been blocking them like crazy.
Well, spam on a cell phone is supposed to be illegal, but I imagine this administration will do exactly bupkis about it.
re: #469 lawhawk
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
Bernie Sanders is 76, he will be 79 by election day 2020. It is highly unlikely that he would have anything that resembles a viable presidential campaign. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sees a real challenge this year for his Senate seat.
10cc: How we made I’m Not in Love.
‘The drummer said it was crap and we were just about to scrap the whole thing. Then I heard the studio’s secretary singing it – and the window-cleaner whistling it.’ https://t.co/BEGBHgEldS— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) February 27, 2018
re: #469 lawhawk
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
+100000000000——>0
re: #477 CongoJack
He can run independent (3rd party) with his fellow comrade Jill Stein. They can attempt to rat fuck together in harmony.
I’d actually like to see more push back against them. I don’t like Sanders claiming he only speaks for the working class and I don’t like him undermining candidates that don’t fit his standards like Ossoff.
West Virginia Teachers Seem Not to Understand Somebody Has to Be 48th in Teacher Pay (goes to Wonkette)
West Virginia teachers have been on strike for four days, shutting down every single public school in the state. It’s the state’s first teacher strike since 1990, and involves around 20,000 teachers and another 13,000 school service employees; they walked after Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill last week giving teachers a two percent raise starting this July, but only a 1 percent raise for the following two years — which teachers and staff say isn’t enough to keep up with the cost of living. The other big issue in the strike is the cost of healthcare through the state’s public employee insurance plan, which covers all state employees.
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re: #464 ObserverArt
Reading through that Tweet thread exposing one Levi Sanders is very enlightening.
In one he using a Rolling Stone article about the American press having to cosign Obama’s dubious intelligence report about Russian hacking. It was dated December 16, 2016.
If sonny boy thinks the Russian hacking “story” was similar to the bad intelligence run-up to invading Iraq I think it is a pretty good guess daddy Sanders believed it too.
Levi has Bernie’s back just the same as Donny Jr. has The Big Don’s.
Damn 2016 had a lot of bad crap going on. I want to move on from 2016. One good way would be for the Democratic party to separate itself from the Sanders.
Found the original Rolling Stone article. Of course it was written by Matt Taibbi. I wonder what Matt thinks now, more than a year later and with the findings of Mueller.
Why do I get the feeling Taibbi probably still thinks it is all BS???
Here is a link to the story. It is always interesting to read a story like this after some time. If anyone is a regular Rolling Stone reader can you remember if Matt ever did another piece or review that updated his concerns?
re: #469 lawhawk
We need that LGF +10 upding button. /half
re: #475 KGxvi
I’ve been getting spam calls on my cell that have the same prefix as mine, so I’ve been blocking them like crazy.
since many of them switch around the numbers and the spoofs, i’ve started waiting till i get two calls from the same number.
re: #479 Anymouse 🌹
Well, spam on a cell phone is supposed to be illegal, but I imagine this administration will do exactly bupkis about it.
I’ve been getting them for a while. It’s been more active in the last 8 months or so. I had assumed they lifted the robocall/spam prohibition on cell phones.
Aren’t you always bitching about Twitter “censoring” conservatives?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 27, 2018
re: #487 dangerman
since many of them switch around the numbers and the spoofs, i’ve started waiting till i get two calls from the same number.
I give them a couple minutes to leave a voice mail, if they don’t I block the number.
re: #491 KGxvi
I give them a couple minutes to leave a voice mail, if they don’t I block the number.
Sometimes I’ll do a reverse phone look up online, but usually, I just block it.
re: #489 Ace-o-aces
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We’ll see how you feel when an ISP denies you fast service because of your views Craig.
re: #485 ObserverArt
Found the original Rolling Stone article. Of course it was written by Matt Taibbi. I wonder what Matt thinks now, more than a year later and with the findings of Mueller.
Why do I get the feeling Taibbi probably still thinks it is all BS???
Here is a link to the story. It is always interesting to read a story like this after some time. If anyone is a regular Rolling Stone reader can you remember if Matt ever did another piece or review that updated his concerns?
Oh Taibbi? Of course.
re: #480 KGxvi
He’s older than Clinton and while she was being told to go knit and get off the national stage, his supporters are pushing for his ascendancy to be the party standard bearer in 2020 despite still not being a registered Democrat.
Moreover, he still is obfuscating about what he knew and did re: Russian interference.
re: #481 plansbandc
They’re certainly using a lot of classic tunes these days - like the use of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song” in Thor Ragnarok (starts around 1:53):
Great use of music, btw.
Honorable runner up: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (the rest of the film was crap, unfortunately):
After such an incredible opening sequence, man, the rest of the film was a let-down.
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE (lol kidding) for any school to help secure the children. I am a 29 year old veteran, Infantile Major Asshole, U.S. Waffen-SS with combat experience. I have a conceal carry, Primary and Alternate side arms, an AR-15, and all necessary tactical gear. pic.twitter.com/5RMJBBxznV
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
re: #495 lawhawk
He’s older than Clinton and while she was being told to go knit and get off the national stage, his supporters are pushing for his ascendancy to be the party standard bearer in 2020 despite still not being a registered Democrat.
Moreover, he still is obfuscating about what he knew and did re: Russian interference.
I am really suspicious of him.
re: #495 lawhawk
He’s older than Clinton and while she was being told to go knit and get off the national stage, his supporters are pushing for his ascendancy to be the party standard bearer in 2020 despite still not being a registered Democrat.
Moreover, he still is obfuscating about what he knew and did re: Russian interference.
Assuming Trump is still around for 2020 (I don’t them Democrats and what passes for reasonable Republicans will hold 67 Senate seats if impeachment happens), running someone else in their late 70s seems like a terrible idea.
Quite frankly, both parties need to get younger in elected office. Part of that seems to be the internal opposition to Feinstien in the California Democratic Party (she failed to secure the party’s endorsement at the party convention last weekend).
Let’s never forget this Profile In Courage pic.twitter.com/6Sqqy92WID
— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) February 27, 2018
Back off, Bourdain. You can’t dodge microbes the way any virile, athletic senior can maneuver around a full, spraying clip of rounds from an automatic weapon. They’re tiny, sneaky fuckers. It’s way, way different. https://t.co/pVc2mURTKo
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 27, 2018
Let’s never forget this Profile In Courage pic.twitter.com/6Sqqy92WID
— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) February 27, 2018
Back off, Bourdain. You can’t dodge microbes the way any virile, athletic senior can maneuver around a full, spraying clip of rounds from an automatic weapon. They’re tiny, sneaky fuckers. It’s way, way different. https://t.co/pVc2mURTKo
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 27, 2018
If only I had the superpowers of Jean-Claude Van Spam, I’d totally be right in there https://t.co/4oNej4Ujfb
— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) February 27, 2018
There has been some kitchen talk about your knife skills. I’ll say no more. https://t.co/3Vgz81bTum
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 27, 2018
re: #489 Ace-o-aces
Convicted revenge porn felon says what?
re: #415 Belafon
Did we do it right the last time?
LOLOL
“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump said, according to The Associated Press. I believe you, Captain Bone Spurs & I really believe that due to an unexpected write-in vote, I’ll win an Oscar this Sunday. #ItsFunToPretend
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 26, 2018
cat scan pic.twitter.com/6RKYg9PThi
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) February 27, 2018
Just saw stats…..Black Panther has grossed $708,951,444 worldwide in two weeks.
Damn.
Parents in West Virginia planning a class-action suit against the state legislature.
CHARLESTON, W Va. — Some West Virginia parents plan to file a class action lawsuit against the state Legislature for not upholding their constitutional duty to provide a “thorough and efficient” education to students, according to state Senator John Unger (D-Berkeley, 16).
The potential suit during a statewide teacher strike. Thousands of school employees began picketing Thursday to demand better pay and benefits.
“Parents are just getting very frustrated that the West Virginia Legislature seems to not want do anything anymore,” Unger said on Monday’s MetroNews “Talkline.”
(more at the link)
re: #502 Bass Reeves
Did we do it right the last time?
We made it through the Ike administration, which was the issue I was commenting on.
re: #506 Anymouse 🌹
Parents in West Virginia planning a class-action suit against the state legislature.
(more at the link)
At least the parents aren’t blaming the teachers.
re: #418 Anymouse 🌹
If it helps, I’m not sure how black people would fare in America with birthright citizenship revoked.
re: #469 lawhawk
Sanders isn’t a Democrat. We need to start there. He refuses to join the party. If he doesn’t want to join, Democrats should not put the welcome mat out for him to run using their infrastructure. Let him run as an independent nationally.
I know that lawhawk. What I mean is the Democratic party helps him out. Time to make it clear that will not happen again so that his son Levi gets the message and we don’t repeat it all over again.
I just reread that Rolling Stone article and now I have a headache. Taibbi seems to be crying about the Bush gang manipulating intelligence reports ruining the relationship with the media citing Judith Miller. So back in December of 20167 we couldn’t trust anything about the original Russian hacking at all until the government puts out a report that has all the Ts crossed and the Is dotted with pictures and recording of the evil doers. Or, it didn’t happen.
That does no one any good. Suspicion is good, sure. But denial on a new story based on previous acts by a completely different White House/Government is dangerous.
I wonder if Taibbi is just fine with Trump ignoring intelligence and just using his ‘good brain and being like real smart.’
So, if we are told by U.S. intelligence that an invasion is imminent…don’t fall for it because we can’t trust our government. Just wait for the bombs and then you will know.
re: #505 Dr Lizardo
Just saw stats…..Black Panther has grossed $708,951,444 worldwide in two weeks.
Damn.
I was up skiing over the weekend and my wife and her mother went to see that movie. I asked her how it was and she started singing, “Black Panther! Black Panther!” to the tune of the Black Adder theme and pretending to hold horse reins.
I married a funny woman.
re: #505 Dr Lizardo
Just saw stats…..Black Panther has grossed $708,951,444 worldwide in two weeks.
Damn.
Take that whiny wingnuts.
re: #511 darthstar
I was up skiing over the weekend and my wife and her mother went to see that movie. I asked her how it was and she started singing, “Black Panther! Black Panther!” to the tune of the Black Adder theme and pretending to hold horse reins.
I married a funny woman.
Besides Wonder Woman, which we saw together, I don’t know that she’s ever been to a super hero movie.
I’m off to bed … it’s way past my bedtime when I can see the sun streaming through my windows and it’s too bright in my living room.
Catch y’all later, you poor devils.
Holy crap, it seems when I go to sleep the whole country is rocked by a half-dozen new news stories about conservative hanky-panky in Washington and more conservative sellouts to their Russian/NRA masters.
That blue tidal wave projected for November needs to be about two hundred meters high.
Here is diaper boy posing with some other assholes
Breakfast with champions #MAGA pic.twitter.com/5xL84nJQFg
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 27, 2018
I PLEDGE TO WORK FOR FREE for any school to help secure the children. I am a 29 year old douchebag, Infantile Sergeant Major Junior Army Ranger with combat experience. I have a conceal carry, Primary and Alternate Huggies, an AR-15, and all necessary tactical gear @charliekirk11 pic.twitter.com/aOvGY9WmfB
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
Completely off topic, but I saw this on instagram the other day (can’t find the link), but it went like this:
If one year for us is seven years for a dog, that explains why they are so happy to see you when you get home from work, from their perspective you’ve been gone a week.
re: #505 Dr Lizardo
Just saw stats…..Black Panther has grossed $708,951,444 worldwide in two weeks.
Damn.
Us nerds of color were OPTIMISTIC it’d get that…TOTAL.
Wow. Just wow.
re: #513 darthstar
Besides Wonder Woman, which we saw together, I don’t know that she’s ever been to a super hero movie.
I talked a friend into seeing Thor Ragnarok when that came out; she typically isn’t a big fan of superhero flicks, but she liked that one. And she really enjoyed Black Panther. Now she’s going back and checking out the rest of the MCU.
LOLOLOL
alex jones weepily begging a child to be nicer to him is suddenly the only kind of content I care about pic.twitter.com/omsFsmWSZZ
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) February 27, 2018
re: #421 BeachDem
Well, since Parscale is the name of the day, here’s one of his many intertwinings
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He announced Parscale now so that he can claim Exec Privilege.
re: #475 KGxvi
I’ve been getting spam calls on my cell that have the same prefix as mine, so I’ve been blocking them like crazy.
I get those with the 614 Columbus area code. Most the time it is the Credit Card reviewers that want to help me with a better rate. Seems like one a day anymore.
I use the 3 second response after I say hello. No voice end call. If I hear a taped message, end call. If I get an actual person I give ‘em hell for calling. It all sucks.
re: #517 gwangung
Us nerds of color were OPTIMISTIC it’d get that…TOTAL.
Wow. Just wow.
If Black Panther can keep that strong showing up, it’ll likely cross into billion-dollar territory in another week or two.
Lre: #515 gocart mozart
Here is diaper boy posing with some other assholes
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Same idiot who my wingnut friend used to claim Trump had the most women in high ranking cabinet posts. Not surprised he hangs out with dos Fredo.
re: #480 KGxvi
Bernie Sanders is 76, he will be 79 by election day 2020. It is highly unlikely that he would have anything that resembles a viable presidential campaign. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sees a real challenge this year for his Senate seat.
I’m not that familiar with Vermont election laws, but since Bernie Sanders is technically an “Independent”, might he not simply prevail (due to name-recognition, etc.) with a plurality against a registered “Democrat” or “Republican”?
I agree that the seemingly endless promotion of Sanders really does little to help Democrats - for all the problems with a two-party system, it is what we have to deal with (leftwing fantasies aside), and would provide a lot more leverage for the portside if they got on the Dem bandwagon: even if reluctantly.
Just IMO, “purity” tests are (as they usually are for the extremes of a political spectrum) pretty much a recipe for irrelevance. Right-wing purity-ponies tend to reflexively vote for Republicans, even where the candidates may or may not be (ideologically) in their pockets: they know they can at least exert some influence on them. Lefties, OTOH, seem to prefer to whinge away about “corporate Democrats” or whatever and threaten to take their toys and go home if the Party doesn’t put up precisely the candidate they prefer, and to hell with the damage.
Case in point: the 2016 election. QED.
re: #519 The Vicious Babushka
Didn’t Jones call Hogg a crisis actor or some other bullshit? Or was that the other students (as if it makes a difference).
Also, fuck Alex Jones with a rusted flaming chainsaw.
re: #519 The Vicious Babushka
LOLOLOL
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No, you just call them crisis actors and suggest their experience was staged. Piss off.
re: #511 darthstar
I was up skiing over the weekend and my wife and her mother went to see that movie. I asked her how it was and she started singing, “Black Panther! Black Panther!” to the tune of the Black Adder theme and pretending to hold horse reins.
I married a funny woman.
But uh…did she like the movie?
Personally, I found myself inexplicably crying in delight several times. I might have let out 3 or 4 squees.
re: #505 Dr Lizardo
Just saw stats…..Black Panther has grossed $708,951,444 worldwide in two weeks.
Damn.
Time to start working on Black Panther II through XXXV!
re: #525 KGxvi
Didn’t Jones call Hogg a crisis actor or some other bullshit? Or was that the other students (as if it makes a difference).
Also, fuck Alex Jones with a rusted flaming chainsaw.
Not sure but he’s got some nerve to whine about being called out. I would use even more harsh terms for him. A fucking monster who exploits tragedy and makes shit up. He still hasn’t apologized to the Sandy Hook families.
re: #496 Dr Lizardo
They’re certainly using a lot of classic tunes these days - like the use of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song” in Thor Ragnarok (starts around 1:53):
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After such an incredible opening sequence, man, the rest of the film was a let-down.
I dunno. It was such a visual treat and the setting was amazing. I would love to see other stories in that universe.
re: #496 Dr Lizardo
They’re certainly using a lot of classic tunes these days - like the use of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song” in Thor Ragnarok (starts around 1:53):
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After such an incredible opening sequence, man, the rest of the film was a let-down.
One of my favorite montage sequences ever…and I admit a cry sometimes…
re: #522 Dr Lizardo
If Black Panther can keep that strong showing up, it’ll likely cross into billion-dollar territory in another week or two.
I get to help it out a bit tonight. I’m FINALLY getting to go see it after a week of being thwarted. I am excite.
re: #519 The Vicious Babushka
LOLOLOL
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Alex Jones needs to go back to ranting about them there gay frogs!
re: #381 makeitstop
I’m thinking Trump wants to butter Parscale up so he clams up when the indictment is handed down.
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Guess he doesn’t think Manafort will be available.
re: #424 lawhawk
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Bernie’s son Levi is running for office in NH, and his tweets are… exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s out for themselves, and has no intention of helping Democrats.
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Fuck that guy. Carol Shea-Porter is doing just great.
Ha!
#BrowardSheriff continues attacking me, NRA in this radio interview. Says all criticism of him is “smack talk.”
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 26, 2018
How dare YOU use the word “attack.”
I understand that all the Dalmatians escaped your clutches, but you really need to get over that. #neveragain #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/DE5peNV5eY— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) February 27, 2018
re: #522 Dr Lizardo
If Black Panther can keep that strong showing up, it’ll likely cross into billion-dollar territory in another week or two.
It seemed to be fading last weekend. The 7:30pm IMAX show last Saturday was maybe 1/3 full.
Two black guys told me and my friend that he thought we were in his seats. We did not get murdered, as these things usually go in Conservative media. They were really in the seats next to us.
Awwwww! Cruella de Dana can dish it out but she can’t take it!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) February 27, 2018
re: #536 Interesting Times
Ha!
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Poor Dana, she’s not used to actually being criticized. Maybe you should have found a more productive career then being a gun shill.
Excluding Guam, what’s the first the you notice about our top 15 most obese States? pic.twitter.com/6nbHS5pvXR
— Shoqqed That You’re Not (@Shoq) February 27, 2018
re: #537 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It seemed to be fading last weekend. The 7:30pm IMAX show last Saturday was maybe 1/3 full.
Two black guys told me and my friend that he thought we were in his seats. We did not get murdered, as these things usually go in Conservative media. They were really in the seats next to us.
It made about half it’s second weekend what it made its first, which is normal.
re: #538 Joe Bacon 🌹
messaged threats
If she’s encouraging fuller investigation/prosecution of those, it’s her buddies that will be answering questions.
re: #537 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It seemed to be fading last weekend. The 7:30pm IMAX show last Saturday was maybe 1/3 full.
Two black guys told me and my friend that he thought we were in his seats. We did not get murdered, as these things usually go in Conservative media. They were really in the seats next to us.
I was reading comments on other boards regarding Black Panther and many of the comments noted that theaters in their locales were still full. Also…..it has yet to open in Japan and China - it opens on 1 March in Japan and 9 March in China.
re: #519 The Vicious Babushka
LOLOLOL
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That fat douche canoe lives one zip code south of me. He can rot in hell.
IMPORTANT THREAD
Over the last two years, the GOP has slowly been taken over by the idealology and terminology of Alt-right Nazis. No, really.
There is no better example of this than the term “Virtue Signaling” which has slowly filtered up and is now a mainstream GOP term.— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) February 27, 2018
This is evolution important to note because the Alt right has gotten Consevatives and the GOP to accept more than just their terminology, they have used the same filtering process to gain general acceptance of their ideals.
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) February 27, 2018
Barnburner in Florida: New Q poll shows B Nelson with 46-42% lead over Rick Scott. https://t.co/4Ub3CTKT0h
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
Interesting note: Scott’s job approval in new Q poll is at an all-time HIGH, post-Parkland. (49-40% net fav) https://t.co/naDkO7VbyF
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
Rubio’s job approval rating near an all-time LOW in Florida, down to 38/53. https://t.co/4Ub3CTKT0h
Scott’s decision to skip the CNN town hall probably the right one. https://t.co/kiPFvOhZHG— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
He likely (a) angered his conservative base, and (b) didn’t win over any of his liberal enemies. The sad thing is that he did the courageous thing by showing up—& the audience beat him up for it. https://t.co/muqDMetKGg
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) February 27, 2018
|@MarcoRubio getting pummeled in the polls for having the guts to show up at a town hall meeting sends all the wrong messages to other politicians. I didn’t agree with every answer but the man deserves credit for showing up and listening to a community in mourning. https://t.co/jE6Rfadv01
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 27, 2018
i don’t think Rubio’s getting pummeled for showing up. i think he’s getting pummeled for having awful answers for 60 mins. https://t.co/11aYt5zuJc
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 27, 2018
re: #548 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Rubio is getting pummeled since his constituents see what an empty suit he is.
It’s nice Rubio showed up but he’s still an awful Senator.
Alex Jones Challenges @DavidHogg111 to a Debate pic.twitter.com/8Rob0dOmmt
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 27, 2018
JFC. Alex Jones is now trying to use Parkland shooting survivor @davidhogg111 to boost his ratings — after spending 10 days accusing David & his friends of being crisis actors/deep state pawns/George Soros puppets/part of the socialist-antifa-insert-buzzword-here agenda. https://t.co/JMMzebNG2c
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) February 27, 2018
re: #548 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Someone in Florida should give Rubio a participation trophy.
re: #547 jaunte
What exactly is “virtue signaling” supposed to mean?
There’s “shade” and then there’s this … deep umbra.
This may be my favorite opening line to an article that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. pic.twitter.com/HOWqFymYNk
— Matthew D’Ambrosio™ (@drmattdambrosio) February 26, 2018
re: #554 Belafon
What exactly is “virtue signaling” supposed to mean?
Showing signs that you’re a decent person. Telling bigots to fuck off, and such.
re: #554 Belafon
I think the people that use it mean “by showing your concern with ________, you’re bragging about being virtuous, but you really aren’t.”
re: #556 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Showing signs that you’re a decent person. Telling bigots to fuck off, and such.
I.e it’s so called v signaling for me as a white Us born citizen to show empathy with immigrants.
Oh noes please don’t give up
Trump just named Brad Parscale — the guy who was essentially a conduit between the Trump campaign and Russia’s online disinformation campaign — as his campaign manager for his 2020 re-election bid https://t.co/OvLZfMPPEv
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) February 27, 2018
I don’t want to give anyone a stroke or a heart attack, but we need to face the gruesome possibility that @realDonaldTrump will be POTUS until noon on Jan 20, 2025. Only WE can avert that nightmarish outcome. REGISTER and VOTE in 2018 and 2020! https://t.co/pVeAYBmGcA
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 27, 2018
re: #555 goddamnedfrank
It’s probably because “William Patrick Corgan” revealed himself to be a raging lunatic when it comes to politics and rubbing shoulders with alex jones. (Not to mention he screwed over D’arcy Wretzky)
If Trump had treated that injured 80 year old man as an injured 80 year old man instead of a disgusting untouchable stain on his marble floor, Nazis would have called it “virtue signaling.”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 27, 2018
re: #557 jaunte
I think the people that use it mean “by showing your concern with ________, you’re bragging about being virtuous, but you really aren’t.”
Kinda how sjw has become a blanket insult for any liberal who wants to call attention to societal problems. Russell Brand of all people articulated it best for me. When we’re poor, we’re told to shut up and stop griping but if we make it, we’re not allowed to because we’re elites. Paraphrasing.
Fahrenheit 451 movie with Michael B. Jordan as Montag and Michael Shannon as his captain, yes.
re: #551 jaunte
Alex Jones Challenges @DavidHogg111 to a Debate pic.twitter.com
— Alex Jones
RWNJ conspiracy theorist and hate-monger tries to dunk on teen who survived school shooting.
Your conservative movement, folks.
re: #560 VegasGolfer
It’s probably because “William Patrick Corigan” revealed himself to be a raging lunatic when it comes to politics and rubbing shoulders with alex jones.
Yes, he is very crazy.
This is quite, quite bizarre. pic.twitter.com/Dr2o2alKNZ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 27, 2018
Sabotaging national cyber-defense in plain sight. These people need to go to jail.
re: #551 jaunte
Alex Jones Challenges @DavidHogg111 to a Debate pic.twitter.com
— Alex Jones
No, conservatives are not behaving like they’re scared out of their wits by a child. No, not at all.
re: #560 VegasGolfer
It’s probably because “William Patrick Corigan” revealed himself to be a raging lunatic when it comes to politics and rubbing shoulders with alex jones.
It’s honestly sad since I enjoyed their music back in the day.
re: #559 The Vicious Babushka
Oh noes please don’t give up
Not sure why he’s thinking that. Trump’s so unpopular a war wouldn’t save him (a war didn’t save Bush 41).
re: #515 gocart mozart
Here is diaper boy posing with some other assholes
Wearing diapers to own the libs.
re: #554 Belafon
What exactly is “virtue signaling” supposed to mean?
Any advocacy for whatever social cause wingnuts hate is called “virtue signaling” IE changing your face book avatar to a picture of a woman with a pussy hat.
White House Press Secretary Sanders, in the aftermath of a series of big issues with security clearances, says she’s not going to talk about the status of security clearances.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 27, 2018
Sanders is committed to not talking about anything relevant to anything ever. https://t.co/uT80VB69qR
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 27, 2018
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards.
Popping in on a long thread from the ICU.
They found more infected tissue this morning that has to be removed. So no skin grafts today. No going home in 10 days. We’re waiting for the surgeon to come and for an operating room. He’s in a burn unit ICU right now, it’s the only place near us that can do this kind of surgery. The current estimate is at least two to three weeks in the hospital.
I feel sick and sad and scared. I’m alone with no help, the only friends who have really tried to help live too far away to be here. I know this isn’t about me and I’m trying to be brave. It’s so hard.
re: #574 jaunte
White House Press Secretary Sanders, in the aftermath of a series of big issues with security clearances, says she’s not going to talk about the status of security clearances.
— Chris Geidner
So there, Libtards! So transparency, very leadership.
Jumping in and back out again … I had to go out on a water system problem. Life in a small town:
a) There is a livestock truck full of cattle parked directly in front of my house.
b) Next block over, a house is surrounded by crime scene tape. The house has been empty for months, so I have no idea what that’s about.
Just learned that Sassy Trump is voiced by the same actor who plays the new Tick.
The newest Hollywood Fashion Faux Pas: When you show up at a party with the same cloned dog as Streisand
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 27, 2018
Explain: @NSA chief Mike Rogers told lawmakers he would need to be granted authority to “disrupt Russian cyber threats where they originate” by President or SecDef. Asked if he has been directed by President to do so, Rogers said “No, I have not.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 27, 2018
This should be the biggest story in the land. A foreign adversary launches a cyber attack on America and the President refuses to protect the country because he is likely to benefit from another such attack https://t.co/8RQ5lIv5aC
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) February 27, 2018
re: #577 A Mom Anon
Thinking of you! You just have to be strong because there are no other options. I am so, so sorry!
re: #548 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
LEAVE RUBIO ALONE! HE DESERVES A PARTICIPATION AWARD!
*Holy Joe deserves his own color since he’s not a dudebro or a wingnut.*
Barnburner in Florida: New Q poll shows B Nelson with 46-42% lead over Rick Scott. https://t.co/4Ub3CTKT0h
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
Interesting note: Scott’s job approval in new Q poll is at an all-time HIGH, post-Parkland. (49-40% net fav) https://t.co/naDkO7VbyF
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
Rubio’s job approval rating near an all-time LOW in Florida, down to 38/53. https://t.co/4Ub3CTKT0h
Scott’s decision to skip the CNN town hall probably the right one. https://t.co/kiPFvOhZHG— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 27, 2018
He likely (a) angered his conservative base, and (b) didn’t win over any of his liberal enemies. The sad thing is that he did the courageous thing by showing up—& the audience beat him up for it. https://t.co/muqDMetKGg
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) February 27, 2018
|@MarcoRubio getting pummeled in the polls for having the guts to show up at a town hall meeting sends all the wrong messages to other politicians. I didn’t agree with every answer but the man deserves credit for showing up and listening to a community in mourning. https://t.co/jE6Rfadv01
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 27, 2018
You want Marco to get a participation trophy for doing the bare minimum that his job entails? https://t.co/00CKg6fq4U
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 27, 2018
re: #581 Kragar
Meth lab
Maybe. I understand some folks looking to set up meth labs (or other illicit drug operations) are targeting tiny towns or rural areas for such operations.
My village is good for that, since we have not had a marshal in a few years and the sheriff’s office is sixteen miles away with only one deputy.
re: #586 Kragar
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re: #577 A Mom Anon
[…]
I know this isn’t about me and I’m trying to be brave. It’s so hard.
It is about you. My much-smarter-than-me sister-in-law explained it this way; you are part of each other, having been together so long and through so much. What happens to him happens to you.
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I hope all goes well for you both.
Something very beautiful: China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.
re: #543 Dr Lizardo
I was reading comments on other boards regarding Black Panther and many of the comments noted that theaters in their locales were still full. Also…..it has yet to open in Japan and China - it opens on 1 March in Japan and 9 March in China.
We saw it on Saturday, because all the good seats were sold out on Friday, and we could only get mediocre seats when booking more than a day in advance. I’m sure the box office take has gone down, but most movie producers would be happy with a weekend gross of over $111m, not to mention that it’s up to $720m worldwide. (boxofficemojo.com)
When the Cato Institute releases a report that is counter to its own tendencies, you sit up and listen. This, from today’s American Statesman:
IMMIGRATION
Immigrant Crime Study Rebuts Claims
Criminal conviction rate far lower than for native-born people, data show.
By Dianne Solis, The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — An analysis released Monday by the libertarian Cato Institute shows that unauthorized immigrants and legal immigrants in Texas commit proportionally fewer crimes than the native-born population.
The study found that unauthorized immigrants had a criminal conviction rate 56 percent below that of the native-born people, said Alex Nowrasteh, a Cato immigration analyst and the study’s author.
“And that tells us this is not a population that commits a lot of crime,” Nowrasteh said. “If it is true of Texas, it has got to be true in much of the United States.”
Legal immigrants — a category that includes immigrants who became U.S. citizens — have even lower rates of criminal convictions, at 85 percent below the native-born, the study found. “Legal immigrants are much more law-abiding than virtually any other group in our society,” Nowrasteh said.
At the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank that advocates for more immigration restrictions, executive director Mark Krikorian said, “A lot of data does suggest immigrants are less likely to be involved in crime.”
But the quality of the data hasn’t been good in past studies, said Krikorian, who hadn’t seen Nowrasteh’s report yet. Regardless, Krikorian said, “Even a single crime by one immigrant is bad because they are not supposed to be here.”
The study uses data from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Unlike other states such as California and Illinois, Texas law enforcement cooperates closely with federal immigration agencies, bolstering the accuracy of the data because of the sharing of details such as fingerprints, Nowrasteh said.
The report’s release comes as an immigration crackdown has become a signature issue for the administration of President Donald Trump. Trump and his allies frequently use crimes committed by immigrants in the U.S. without legal status to broadly position immigrants as dangerous.
It would be, but most of us know that Trump is corrupt, and was elected to strike at America. His cult just doesn’t care.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 27, 2018
re: #594 austin_blue
When the Cato Institute releases a report that is counter to its own tendencies, you sit up and listen. This, from today’s American Statesman:
IMMIGRATION
Immigrant Crime Study Rebuts Claims
Criminal conviction rate far lower than for native-born people, data show.
By Dianne Solis, The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — An analysis released Monday by the libertarian Cato Institute shows that unauthorized immigrants and legal immigrants in Texas commit proportionally fewer crimes than the native-born population.
The study found that unauthorized immigrants had a criminal conviction rate 56 percent below that of the native-born people, said Alex Nowrasteh, a Cato immigration analyst and the study’s author.
“And that tells us this is not a population that commits a lot of crime,” Nowrasteh said. “If it is true of Texas, it has got to be true in much of the United States.”
Legal immigrants — a category that includes immigrants who became U.S. citizens — have even lower rates of criminal convictions, at 85 percent below the native-born, the study found. “Legal immigrants are much more law-abiding than virtually any other group in our society,” Nowrasteh said.
At the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank that advocates for more immigration restrictions, executive director Mark Krikorian said, “A lot of data does suggest immigrants are less likely to be involved in crime.”
But the quality of the data hasn’t been good in past studies, said Krikorian, who hadn’t seen Nowrasteh’s report yet. Regardless, Krikorian said, “Even a single crime by one immigrant is bad because they are not supposed to be here.”
The study uses data from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Unlike other states such as California and Illinois, Texas law enforcement cooperates closely with federal immigration agencies, bolstering the accuracy of the data because of the sharing of details such as fingerprints, Nowrasteh said.
The report’s release comes as an immigration crackdown has become a signature issue for the administration of President Donald Trump. Trump and his allies frequently use crimes committed by immigrants in the U.S. without legal status to broadly position immigrants as dangerous.
To be fair to Cato, they’ve never really been anti immigrant. I’m glad they did this report though that said.
re: #594 austin_blue
Clearly, we need to deport citizens.
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re: #579 Anymouse 🌹
b) Next block over, a house is surrounded by crime scene tape. The house has been empty for months, so I have no idea what that’s about.
Perhaps they were expecting to find someone alive in there and did not.
re: #597 Blind Frog Belly White
Clearly, we need to deport citizens.
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We need more Norwegians but not the kind that shoot at dogs in the Antarctic snow.
Why any woman would vote republican is beyond me pic.twitter.com/wYM82Kq7Gw
— Stone Cold (@stonecold2050) February 27, 2018
re: #598 jeffreyw
Perhaps they were expecting to find someone alive in there and did not.
I suspect the village rumour mill will fill me in on what’s going on over there.
My town is so small folk will sometimes just walk into my house when we’re here without ringing the doorbell first. They also know what we’re having for dinner before we do.
re: #600 jaunte
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I’m sure Mrs. Corbin and any female relatives he has lives hearing them described that way.
A lot of women are in cults similar to the one that shaped Corbin, and actually believe their role is to serve men.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 27, 2018
re: #601 Anymouse 🌹
I suspect the village rumour mill will fill me in on what’s going on over there.
My town is so small folk will sometimes just walk into my house when we’re here without ringing the doorbell first. They also know what we’re having for dinner before we do.
Our extra-powerful kitchen hood sometimes has that effect.
re: #597 Blind Frog Belly White
Clearly, we need to deport citizens.
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I am quite sure they could revoke my citizenship any time they wanted to, even though I’ve had it nearly 20 years, I am a native English-speaking white guy who has paid his taxes (most of them anyway) for the forty years since I got my green card.
Seriously, I do feel part of the “first they came for undocumented …” category, even though it’s very, very unlikely to happen. Unless I get too vocal AND effective, and I should be so lucky.
This little kid in Pyeongchang screams bloody murder and runs away from Ivanka like she’s trying to make him work in one of her sweatshops. 🤣pic.twitter.com/yj2MieBea9
— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) February 27, 2018
Mean Trump lady frightens Korean child. https://t.co/SmGjEDZZfF
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 27, 2018
re: #577 A Mom Anon
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Rick gates the past few days: pic.twitter.com/9RUa6zEqTw
— ALT- Immigration 🛂 (@ALT_uscis) February 27, 2018
re: #577 A Mom Anon
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“I’ve been skeptical about the collusion and obstruction claims for the last year. I just don’t see the evidence….in terms of the collusion, it’s all a bit implausible based on the evidence we have.” Jonathan Turley on @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2018
Has access to 17 intelligence agencies, a staff of experts, Justice and State departments, and has to rely on Fox News for his talking points.
SAD! https://t.co/UujpDcmCcS— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 27, 2018
re: #554 Belafon
What exactly is “virtue signaling” supposed to mean?
I was wondering that myself. So…Wiki is your friend.
Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values done primarily with the intent of enhancing standing within a social group.[1] The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue—especially piety among the religious.[2] In recent years, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as empty, or superficial support of certain political views, and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action.[3][4]
This is why the Dems are losing.
News: DCCC advised candidates not to discuss gun control policy immediately after Las Vegas shooting https://t.co/I9ZPiMPZeJ
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) February 27, 2018
re: #611 Kragar
“I’ve been skeptical about the collusion and obstruction claims for the last year. I just don’t see the evidence….in terms of the collusion, it’s all a bit implausible based on the evidence we have.” Jonathan Turley on @FoxNews
6:28 AM - Feb 27, 2018
11,972 11,972 Replies 10,775 10,775 Retweets 44,879 44,879 likes
Whatever happened to Jonathan Turley? At one time he seemed thoughtful and moderate.
re: #613 DodgerFan1988
What the fucking fuck?
re: #613 DodgerFan1988
This is why the Dems are losing.
I just responded to that over at Daily Kos and read some of the other responses there.
1. A lot of Democrats responded with “We need to do something.”
2. Remember how quickly we moved on after the shooting, because so many of us had other things/projects.
Why didn’t any other group think to organize marches against gun violence?
What makes these kids special is they don’t have other things they’d like to get done. They are good at what they are doing and are doing what they are good at. They don’t have keeping abortion legal. They don’t have ending gerrymandering. They don’t have raising minimum wage or getting housing. Why it’s sticking is they aren’t moving on.
Edit: They also don’t think the NRA has won.
re: #601 Anymouse 🌹
I suspect the village rumour mill will fill me in on what’s going on over there.
My town is so small folk will sometimes just walk into my house when we’re here without ringing the doorbell first. They also know what we’re having for dinner before we do.
Admittedly, If I lived there, I’d have a hard time with that one and the door would be locked. Neighbors would come over, turn the knob and say, “He’s not very friendly is he?” Lol
Infowars one strike away from YouTube ban
The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting and will temporarily be unable to upload new content.
“This is the second strike applied to your account within three months. As a result, you’re unable to post new content to YouTube for two weeks,” the alert said. “If there are no further issues, the ability to upload will be automatically restored after this two week period.”
Infowars’s second strike comes as social media giants like YouTube and Twitter grapple with how to handle extremist or conspiracy theory content.
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2018
The WITCH HUNT! tweet by @realDonaldTrump makes me think more indictments are coming.
Keep in mind that guilty pleas & agreements to cooperate of Papadopoulos & Flynn were not done to prosecute Gates & Manafort. Mueller is using Papadopoulos & Flynn to go after other people. https://t.co/nZ2SUfhke1— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 27, 2018
re: #577 A Mom Anon
Popping in on a long thread from the ICU.
They found more infected tissue this morning that has to be removed. So no skin grafts today. No going home in 10 days. We’re waiting for the surgeon to come and for an operating room. He’s in a burn unit ICU right now, it’s the only place near us that can do this kind of surgery. The current estimate is at least two to three weeks in the hospital.
I feel sick and sad and scared. I’m alone with no help, the only friends who have really tried to help live too far away to be here. I know this isn’t about me and I’m trying to be brave. It’s so hard.
Mom Anon, I don’t know what to say other than I hope you get through this. You always seem so strong and in-charge and your post sounds like this time you are the one that needs the help. Please see if there is someone at the hospital that can give you some solace. And please keep commenting, use us to vent. You know we all support you.
Trump hotel’s majority owner playing Fur Elise in the lobby while police break up standoff between Trump org and owners. Another surreal day in Panama. pic.twitter.com/oXw6JwHbFz
— Joshua Partlow (@partlowj) February 27, 2018
re: #594 austin_blue
When the Cato Institute releases a report that is counter to its own tendencies, you sit up and listen. This, from today’s American Statesman:
…
There was a comment or tweet earlier that said some wingnuts were upset with the Koch brothers because they want the immigration policy issues fixed and the Dreamers to be taken care of.
CATO is Koch Brothers. They are pushing hard. I would expect some of their other organizations to be heard from in the same manner.
I-Team: Wisconsin babies licensed to hunt
Fifty-two kids ages five and under including 10 babies were registered to hunt in Wisconsin in Fall of 2017.
The I-Team went to find out who these children are, and if they’re really firing guns.
There’s really no way even for the Department of Natural Resources to know if those children participated in a hunt unless they register a kill. The youngest person to do so was a four-year-old.
With the new law eliminating an age limit to get a license, it’s up to parents. Some think those parents are taking home extra game. But, for Morgan Jones, it’s a bonding moment between father and son.
👉Retweet after me — let’s make this hashtag trend. Show @realDonaldTrump that we all know he’s a gutless, yellow-bellied, chicken-hearted coward!!#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump#TremblingTrump
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 #BoycottNRA 🚫 (@joncoopertweets) February 27, 2018
Former Breitbart Employee Says What We All Already Knew: ‘Dana Loesch Has No Soul’ https://t.co/CRsAqhdEC1
— Republican Swine (@RepublicanSwine) February 27, 2018
re: #229 Chrysicat
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For the record, I say this because you already all know that I give China zero chance of losing in WWIII. They either win or they don’t play, and Xi just put down a strong sign that they would win.
Fwiw, I think that we are already in a war, a cyberwar with Russia. And due to the abysmal leadership we currently have, we are losing.
I do not see any signs that this will drift into a deliberate ‘kinetic’ war (bombs, bullets, missiles, etc.) though. And as China’s power is still growing, I would hazard to guess that they will be generally content to be patient.
re: #603 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A lot of women are in cults similar to the one that shaped Corbin, and actually believe their role is to serve men.
we still talking ribs here?
re: #613 DodgerFan1988
This is why the Dems are losing.
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I hope Tom Perez of the DNC can somehow align the DCCC with his thinking as coordination of message is going to be very important.
Maybe the Lizards need to contact the DCCC and let them know what we think. Most of the time we seem to concern ourselves with the DNC.
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