Video: Seth Meyers Tries to Make Sense of Trump’s Gun Ideas
Seth takes a closer look at the high-level Trump White House officials who have come under scrutiny and the president’s meeting with lawmakers to address gun violence.
Seth takes a closer look at the high-level Trump White House officials who have come under scrutiny and the president’s meeting with lawmakers to address gun violence.
Y’all can take your suckass boycott and shove it up your rears #NoDicks #thanksdicks pic.twitter.com/gLRFAoG2VJ
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) March 1, 2018
The stock market should be in for an exciting ride tomorrow
Policymaking 2018: Trump plans to announce a major tariff tomorrow and his administration isn’t sure what countries it’ll be on. https://t.co/BeX7jhdtuh pic.twitter.com/jdpS943rHF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 1, 2018
CL’d from downstairs:
Was today better than yesterday in the Drumpf collapse?
Yes! Hope Hicks, true believer, got jettisoned after she admitted that she told little white lies. Which meant she lied like a Persian rug in a public forum. Adios, third daughter!
Oh, and she is also the best piece of ass you will ever have, per El Presidente.
I’m off to bed knowing that this Administration is just fucking evil. No other way to put it. And that the real power in this Republic, the Judiciary, through Mueller, is going to soon hammer him like a nail in a board,
Night all.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Fucking moron.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Got CL’d on the last thread.
Moar stupid gun memes part eleventy:
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Historically inaccurate, too. From Snopes:
The claim that China “established gun control in 1935” appears to have been plucked from mid-air. According to Lethal Laws, a 1912 law made it illegal to possess or import rifles, cannons, or explosives without a permit. The Security Administration Punishment Act of 1957 took the additional step of making it illegal to make, purchase, or possess firearms or ammunition without the government’s permission — though by that time at least a million “class enemies” had already died in the name of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
Snopes has that last part wrong, as the Cultural Revolution did not begin until 1966.
The Japanese occupied China from 1937 to 1945. Many Chinese had weapons of their own at that time, as well as guns provided from outside suppliers, like the USA.
As for the political dissidents being rounded up between 1948 and ‘52, China was in the middle of a civil war until 1949, when the PRC was founded. The new government then went after the landlords and killed or imprisoned many of them. A landlord with a musket or a single-action rifle or a handgun would not be able to fight off a group of soldiers tasked with arresting him.
Not sure about the origins of the photo, though.
Trump doesn’t appear to know anything about economics — or anything else either. However, it’s not unusual for Presidents to have limited knowledge in many areas that require strong response. They compensate by having advisers who can lead them in the right direction — or perhaps a reasonable direction. The question is: who is recommending these tariffs. Certainly Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, and Gary Cohn would not share these views. So it’s Peter Navarro? Who is he?
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
Certainly Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, and Gary Cohn would not share these views. So it’s Peter Navarro? Who is he?
Navarro, from Wikipedia:
Navarro is known as a staunch critic of China and strong proponent of reducing U.S. trade deficits. He has accused Germany and China of currency manipulation. He has called for increasing the size of the American manufacturing sector, setting high tariffs, and repatriating global supply chains. He is also a strong opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His views on trade are widely considered fringe and misguided by other economists.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, the photo looked a bit older than the 1940s, and I was right. It was taken during the Revolution of 1911-12, according to this site.
But it is a Getty Image, and Getty says it was the execution of a prisoner in 1925.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Hmmmm, wonder if any of Trump’s Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe or Curly Joe tried to talk to President B-Hole about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and how it’s affect only made the 1929 stock crash even worse?
re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmmm, wonder if any of Trump’s Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe or Curly Joe tried to talk to President B-Hole about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and how it’s affect only made the 1929 stock crash even worse?
naw
Tomorrow, I reach another milestone—received my reduced fare Senior Transit pass on the Los Angeles Metro system.
Card goes right next to my AARP one in my wallet…
re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmmm, wonder if any of Trump’s Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe or Curly Joe tried to talk to President B-Hole about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and how it’s affect only made the 1929 stock crash even worse?
They’re still working on the pop-up story book explanation.
One important thing to remember about Dick’s Sporting Goods:
From The New York Times —
This is not the first time that Dick’s has made changes in response to a school massacre. In 2012, after a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dick’s removed assault-style rifles from its main stores. But a few months later, the company began carrying the firearms at its outdoor and hunting retail chain, Field & Stream.
re: #9 MsJ
Fringe and misguided? That’s the epitome of a Trump hire.
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
Tomorrow, I reach another milestone—received my reduced fare Senior Transit pass on the Los Angeles Metro system.
Card goes right next to my AARP one in my wallet…
Now that ya mention it, I hit one as well - as of tomorrow I’m covered by Medicare and my new medigap policy. Turning 65 (on the 13th) feels kinda like reaching 21, coming of age. Old age this time but still.
re: #9 MsJ
Navarro, from Wikipedia:
…..He has called for increasing the size of the American manufacturing sector, setting high tariffs, and repatriating global supply chains. He is also a strong opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His views on trade are widely considered fringe and misguided by other economists.
According to Thornton McEnery, a reporter for Crains who also writes for some site called Dealbreaker..
So it feels like we’re about to get a lot more Peter Navarro in our lives. Which is great if you like to be entertained by economists who appear mentally unstable, but bad news if you’re a fan of cogent trade policy.
re: #15 Scout
One important thing to remember about Dick’s Sporting Goods:
From The New York Times —
Something feels different this time… with the 21 and older thing.
re: #20 GlutenFreeJesus
Something feels different this time… with the 21 and older thing.
I truly hope so. But I’m also saying these corporate cats are wily.
I love @aparnapkin and I think this possum is cute so I hope this photo comparison of their expressions is not upsetting pic.twitter.com/b9HPvclZ28
— Michael R (@mister42) March 1, 2018
This is art https://t.co/cklHsBlbyw
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) March 1, 2018
Part of the problem is the Gish Gallop of utterly insane bullshit behavior that allows no time for perspective. The other part is the constant drive by the media to legitimize Trump and praise him for normal things like sometimes being able to read a speech off a teleprompter and not literally biting people’s faces.
Imagine if Obama had:Said he was for taking guns without due processSaid not standing and applauding him was treasonousGave compartmentalized Israeli intelligence to a Syrian allyTouched THE ORBLied about his phones being tappedFired ComeyAttacked a Gold Star family
— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 1, 2018
re: #23 goddamnedfrank
Part of the problem is the Gish Gallop of utterly insane bullshit behavior that allows no time for perspective. The other part is the constant drive by the media to normalize Trump and praise him for normal things like sometimes being able to read a speech off a teleprompter and not literally biting people’s faces.
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You should know by now that “IOKIYAR” is the media’s mantra. It’s like how the nation was at risk of crumbling into bankruptcy when the ACA was passed, but Trump gives $1.5 trillion away to his buddies on Wall St. and the media talks up stories about “bonuses” and “raises” for a small fraction of workers.
I’m really curious to see where Hope ends up after this. Considering this report, I’m not sure anybody is going to want to touch her:
Trump berated Hope Hicks for telling Congress she sometimes lie for him — and that was her ‘final straw’: report https://t.co/QcjWfuiKGC
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 1, 2018
Hope admits under oath that she lies for her boss and he responds by berating her for being “stupid,” causing her to quit the job she only got a few months ago and can show no real hand in actually doing. And that’s just assuming she doesn’t end up facing federal charges for perjury.
Looks like ARs only. AK-47s would obviously be excluded for their heathen communist origins, but what about Mini-14s, FALs, G-93s etc. ?
Someone forged a nomination of President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Twice. https://t.co/6zgeKhCEqY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 1, 2018
John Miller could not be reached for comment https://t.co/oeaWABCobo
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
re: #27 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma pic.twitter.com/GXzrZeK41z
— AP Images (@AP_Images) February 28, 2018
This is some sick Apocalypse End Times Cult shit right here https://t.co/b6QyEuVm9W
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
I look at these nutters worshiping at the altar of blood and carnage and all I see is the cult from Beneath the Planet of the Apes worshiping an unexploded nuclear bomb.
Happy Nebraska Admission Day!
(Today is the 151st anniversary of Nebraska’s accession to the Union.
re: #30 Targetpractice
I look at these nutters worshiping at the altar of blood and carnage and all I see is the cult from Beneath the Planet of the Apes worshiping an unexploded nuclear bomb.
re: #28 Kragar
Completely at home in Fallout.
re: #30 Targetpractice
I look at these nutters worshiping at the altar of blood and carnage and all I see is the cult from Beneath the Planet of the Apes worshiping an unexploded nuclear bomb.
I see the prequel to Zardoz.
I subscribe to an expat Thailand blog and this popped up in my email notifications today.
Belarusian escort detained in Pattaya claims dirt in Trump-Russia case
Link is to a Thai English language newspaper, but it attributes the story to the Washington Post.
More details from the Thai press.
Briefly, a woman being held in a Thai prison and her associates claim they have information relating to Russian meddling with the US election and to Trump’s Russian connections.
Hard to say if they’re on the level, or merely trying to find a “Get out of jail free” card, but the woman claims to be a former mistress of Oleg Deripaska, the oligarch who hired Manafort.
re: #35 wheat-dogg
I subscribe to an expat Thailand blog and this popped up in my email notifications today.
Belarusian escort detained in Pattaya claims dirt in Trump-Russia case
Link is to a Thai English language newspaper, but it attributes the story to the Washington Post.
Seems a bit dubious to me after reading it.
She claims to have “dirt” on Donald Trump, then takes to Instagram from jail (?) to plead for US Intelligence services to get her out of a Thai jail so she can give them information?
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
Seems a bit dubious to me after reading it.
She claims to have “dirt” on Donald Trump, then takes to Instagram from jail (?) to plead for US Intelligence services to get her out of a Thai jail so she can give them information?
Yeah, using Instagram while in the slammer sounds fishy. But everything around Trump sounds fishy, so I’m reserving judgment until more details surface.
Reload my #35, BTW. I added another link.
The Chi Tribune has also run a story on it.
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
re: #38 Scout
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
So what you’re saying is they’re not humanitarians?
//
re: #38 Scout
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
A similar rumor surfaced in China, as well.
Trump Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Probed amidst Fakery Concerns (goes to the BBC)
A nomination made for US President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize was potentially fraudulent, according to the awarding committee.
The Norwegian committee has filed a report with police over its concerns.
Mr Trump was reportedly nominated for his “ideology of peace by force” by an anonymous American.
The director of the Nobel Institute said there were concerns that Mr Trump’s nomination may have been falsified.
“I can say that we have good reason to believe that [the nomination of Mr Trump] is a fake,” Nobel Institute Director Olav Njølstad told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.
“The same ‘fake’ nomination probably took place last year too,” Mr Njølstad said.
(more)
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Trump Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Probed amidst Fakery Concerns (goes to the BBC)
(more)
“Peace by force”? Wingnuts used to call that “tyranny,” you know, back when a Democrat was in the White House.
re: #37 wheat-dogg
Yeah, using Instagram while in the slammer sounds fishy. But everything around Trump sounds fishy, so I’m reserving judgment until more details surface.
Reload my #35, BTW. I added another link.
The Chi Tribune has also run a story on it.
Took some searching but I found the article:
Jailed Instagram model wants to trade Trump secrets for freedom (goes to the Chicago Tribune), more at the link:
A Belarusian woman jailed in Thailand for offering sex lessons without a work permit says she has a story to tell involving the Kremlin, Russian billionaires and even the president of the United States.
Anastasia Vashukevich, whose extraordinary claims and racy selfies have propelled her to internet fame in recent weeks, told The Associated Press from a police van Wednesday that she fears for her life, and wants to exchange information on alleged Russian ties to Donald Trump’s campaign for her own personal safety. But she refused for now to offer any such evidence, and it’s not clear if she has any.
Vashukevich’s story offers a glimpse into the shady world of Russian oligarchs. Trump’s onetime campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, also had ties to that world through his consulting work for one of those oligarchs. Manafort has been indicted on money-laundering charges related to his overseas consulting work by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Mueller has offered no evidence that Manafort linked his Russian contacts to Trump’s campaign or helped Russia meddle in the 2016 U.S. election.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Someone forged a nomination of President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Twice. https://t.co/6zgeKhCEqY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 1, 2018
John Miller could not be reached for comment https://t.co/oeaWABCobo
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
re: #38 Scout
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
Yet another sad story of innovative entrepreneurs victimized by government interference in business. Why can’t they just let the market decide?//
re: #45 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Yet another sad story of innovative entrepreneurs victimized by government interference in business. Why can’t they just let the market decide?//
“Hey, I haven’t seen that new waiter lately. Anybody know where he went? Also, when did we add this new menu item in the entree section?”
re: #45 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
KFC faces gravy shortage in United Kingdom after rebounding from chicken panicT
his is finger-licking bad.
KFC faces a gravy shortage in the United Kingdom, just a week after the fast food chain temporarily closed its doors there.
Parent company Yum! Brands said the dwindling flow of gravy was part of ongoing issues with new supplier DHL, which last week led to the chicken catastrophe.
“Due to the ongoing distribution challenges DHL is experiencing, some restaurants are continuing to serve a reduced menu,” a Yum! spokesman told Reuters. “We’re working as hard as we can to get this sorted out. We know that our gravy is a big favorite!”
re: #48 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
KFC faces gravy shortage in United Kingdom after rebounding from chicken panicT
Chicken shortage at KFC? Could this be the real reason Donald Trump doesn’t want to travel to the United Kingdom? Inquiring minds want to know!
Donnie has some more problems to deal with. His Russian boss.
Putin claims Russia has nuclear arsenal capable of avoiding missile defenses
MOSCOW — Russia has developed nuclear weapons that can avoid any missile defense systems, President Vladimir Putin claimed in his annual address to lawmakers on Thursday.
He also warned that Moscow would consider any nuclear attack, of any size, on it or its allies an attack on Russia that would lead to an immediate response — adopting Cold War-style overtones that appeared to ramp up Russia’s posturing against the West and its allies.
Putin did not specify any of Moscow’s allies or cite any immediate threats. But his remarks could be seen as a message to Washington over deepening tensions with Moscow.
The nearly two-hour speech to top Russian officials and members of parliament began with a series of promises to improve domestic living standards and ended with stark warnings to the United States.
Russia, Putin asserted, had responded to U.S. development of missile defense shields by developing weapons impervious to them.
a couple of days ago i said it seemed ben carson hadnt done anything egregious and was mostly staying out of the limelight - relatively speaking
almost the next day Today in Draining the Swamp: Ben Carson
i can’t explain it
on a totally unrelated matter, i think jeff sessions is doing a great job
and sonny perdue is a saint
re: #44 Kragar
Someone forged a nomination of President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Twice.
Littlest of white lies.
re: #51 dangerman
a couple of days ago i said it seemed ben carson hadnt done anything egregious and was mostly staying out of the limelight - relatively speaking
almost the next day Today in Draining the Swamp: Ben Carson
i can’t explain it
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on a totally unrelated matter, i think jeff sessions is doing a great job
and sonny perdue is a saint
Check your link.
re: #37 wheat-dogg
Yeah, using Instagram while in the slammer sounds fishy. But everything around Trump sounds fishy, so I’m reserving judgment until more details surface.
Reload my #35, BTW. I added another link.
The Chi Tribune has also run a story on it.
I don’t know what to think. Seems dodgy at best. Just as likely to be a trick to embarrass US media and allow Trump and Russians to claim “fake news” again.
re: #38 Scout
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
But there are spider eggs in Bubble Yum (you have to be of a certain age to get that, I think).
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It’s awake.
Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2018
re: #38 Scout
Well, this is a huge relief.
No Tokyo eateries serve up human meat: Japanese Embassy in U.S.
Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi demurred, saying: “Well, technically…”
re: #54 Barefoot Grin
I don’t know what to think. Seems dodgy at best. Just as likely to be a trick to embarrass US media and allow Trump and Russians to claim “fake news” again.
See also the link to my #37, which links directly to the article at the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune cites the Associated Press for their report on this.
It seems kind of flaky that a woman could be interviewed while in a police paddy wagon, or stream on Instagram from jail.
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re: #61 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Stolen for my classes, which begin Monday.
re: #57 wheat-dogg
It’s awake.
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Yes, let him slap that 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum.
Watch the ensuing trade war.
Oh, and to all those Western PA Trumpettes who think the steel mills will reopen(including my brainwashed family)…too bad, they won’t…
re: #27 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
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Looks like ARs only. AK-47s would obviously be excluded for their heathen communist origins, but what about Mini-14s, FALs, G-93s etc. ?
Hey, did anyone see Katrina Pierson and her bullet necklace at the Moonie clambake?
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes, let him slap that 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum.
Watch the ensuing trade war.
Oh, and to all those Western PA Trumpettes who think the steel mills will reopen(including my brainwashed family)…too bad, they won’t…
sure they will
the same week as the announcement
no ramp up needed
Tony Blair (yeah, I know):
Theresa May’s Brexit plan is ‘literally not going to happen’ says former prime minister Tony Blair
Furthermore:
Blow for Theresa May as EU parliament rejects climbdown offer on post-Brexit migrants
The Brexiteers are very much like Trumpers (which is why some Brexit champions also were Trump champions) - they want a pretend world where there is no cost for things like xenophobia.
The weapons in the Unification Church ceremony are not all AR’s, but will favor a family-run knockoff marque. Moon Kook-jin, fourth son of Rev Moon, is a “firearms designer”/CEO. He owns Kahr Arms in the US (mostly handguns). The family owns or owned production facilities in S. Korea.
If you look into the Unification Church deeply enough you will start to doubt your own resistance to conspiracy theories.
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re: #69 freetoken
Tony Blair (yeah, I know):
Theresa May’s Brexit plan is ‘literally not going to happen’ says former prime minister Tony Blair
Furthermore:
Blow for Theresa May as EU parliament rejects climbdown offer on post-Brexit migrants
The Brexiteers are very much like Trumpers (which is why some Brexit champions also were Trump champions) - they want a pretend world where there is no cost for things like xenophobia.
Tony Blair is the only person in England who’s making sense. No one in the UK government is saying how bad this is going to be for them. There’s not a single person screaming that they are going to kill themselves economically for a generation. This is economic suicide.
May was a moron for triggering Article 20. Cameron will go down in history as the man who ended England as we know it.
re: #71 MsJ
Tony Blair is the only person in England who’s making sense.
Former minister John Major came out saying there should be another vote, and Brexiteers are labeling him a traitor.
And you thought you were having a bad day. Poor Proxima b.
ICYMI: Superflare Blasts Proxima b, the Nearest Exoplanet, Dimming Hopes of Life https://t.co/aRqVz2FYmu pic.twitter.com/9up9s0MO8T
Fire and now ice.
🔊🔊Sound ON🔊🔊
When #science is done, it’s fun to drop ice down a 90 m deep borehole in an #Antarctic 🇦🇶 #glacier ❄️. So satisfying when it hits the bottom.
Happy hump day. pic.twitter.com/dQtLPWQi7T— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018
re: #73 freetoken
Former minister John Major came out saying there should be another vote, and Brexiteers are labeling him a traitor.
Well, there is a case to be made (and the UK Parliament made it when they were petitioned for a re-vote) that a democracy doesn’t work by continuing to hold election after election until you get the result you like.
My understanding of the Brexit vote was that it was more of an opinion poll. The Conservative Party, after getting the results, could have ignored the results or explained “We can’t leave the EU for reasons a, b, and c.”
That however would have taken the courage to face their constituents to explain why it’s a bad idea. As we’ve seen in the USA with conservatives, when faced with admitting a bad idea was a poor position to take, they avoid their constituents instead.
So rather than admit holding the referendum was wrong, or admitting the results would be bad, they’d rather destroy their economy to maintain their grip on power.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹
Well, there is a case to be made (and the UK Parliament made it when they were petitioned for a re-vote) that a democracy doesn’t work by continuing to hold election after election until you get the result you like.
Well, we hold elections every two years. That’s pretty often.
The time between Brexit option-election would be longer than the time between our elections.
The kids ARE alright.
He calls his rivals and other leaders names like:
Crooked Hillary
Little Marco
Lyin’ Ted
Pocahontas
Mr. Magoo
Low energy Jeb
But sure…we teenagers are the ones who are too “immature” to be involved in politics.— Emilia (@PoliticalEmilia) March 1, 2018
re: #78 Bubblehead II
You got rid of the smoke stack I see.
He’s just being realistic. True fact: The stove and stack used in papal election are installed and removed as needed for every consistory.
re: #74 wheat-dogg
And you thought you were having a bad day. Poor Proxima b.
As someone commented there: I hope they were wearing 1Million SPF sunscreen.
re: #77 freetoken
Well, we hold elections every two years. That’s pretty often.
Won’t Brexit be completed by the time of the next election? My understanding is to re-enter the EU, the UK would not likely get the same favourable terms it had the last time.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹
The original referendum was done in June 2016.
If the UK decided to do what Major recommends, unlikely but not impossible, by the time they do such a thing it will probably be after June 2018, thus more than 2 years between referenda.
re: #25 Targetpractice
I’m really curious to see where Hope ends up after this. Considering this report, I’m not sure anybody is going to want to touch her:
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Hope admits under oath that she lies for her boss and he responds by berating her for being “stupid,” causing her to quit the job she only got a few months ago and can show no real hand in actually doing. And that’s just assuming she doesn’t end up facing federal charges for perjury.
Morning!
Reading through the thread and saw this.
I think it is an admittance that Trump would expect his Trumpers to lie. It also say’s Trump would lie himself.
I hope Mueller gets to interview The Big Orange Don because it is a pretty sure bet Trump would lie, lie and lie some more. Hopefully enough to be his undoing.
Also…what’s up with Putin rattling the cage with his new military toys? Is this some kind of a setup so he can save Donny maybe by them coming to some kind of an agreement to eliminate these weapons.
Or, just another Putin for President campaign ploy?
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹
Well, there is a case to be made (and the UK Parliament made it when they were petitioned for a re-vote) that a democracy doesn’t work by continuing to hold election after election until you get the result you like.
My understanding of the Brexit vote was that it was more of an opinion poll. The Conservative Party, after getting the results, could have ignored the results or explained “We can’t leave the EU for reasons a, b, and c.”
That however would have taken the courage to face their constituents to explain why it’s a bad idea. As we’ve seen in the USA with conservatives, when faced with admitting a bad idea was a poor position to take, they avoid their constituents instead.
So rather than admit holding the referendum was wrong, or admitting the results would be bad, they’d rather destroy their economy to maintain their grip on power.
The referendum was non-binding, and the government could have chosen to ignore it, or kick the ball down the street until most everyone forgot about it. Instead, Cameron took it as a mandate, then conveniently resigned once he got the process rolling.
PM May has not done much better. She also could have delayed the process, or reversed it before it was too late, but the Tories decided, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
As someone commented there: I hope they were wearing 1Million SPF sunscreen.
Does sunscreen work better before or after applying moisturizer?
Discuss
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹
Well, there is a case to be made (and the UK Parliament made it when they were petitioned for a re-vote) that a democracy doesn’t work by continuing to hold election after election until you get the result you like.
My understanding of the Brexit vote was that it was more of an opinion poll. The Conservative Party, after getting the results, could have ignored the results or explained “We can’t leave the EU for reasons a, b, and c.”
That however would have taken the courage to face their constituents to explain why it’s a bad idea. As we’ve seen in the USA with conservatives, when faced with admitting a bad idea was a poor position to take, they avoid their constituents instead.
So rather than admit holding the referendum was wrong, or admitting the results would be bad, they’d rather destroy their economy to maintain their grip on power.
To quote Peter Cook:
“I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don’t come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too.”
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Got CL’d on the last thread.
Moar stupid gun memes part eleventy:
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If those morons truly believe that they need guns to fight off an evil government, why don’t they work to make sure that we don’t lose our democracy? If for some reason, the American government turned on its citizens, a few armed citizens wouldn’t be able to fight back. They would be slaughtered with their guns.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
As someone commented there: I hope they were wearing 1Million SFP sunscreen.
Won’t do much good if your entire atmosphere has been ionized to hell and back.
We fortunately have a strong enough magnetic field to ward off most solar flares, but the really strong ones still wreak havoc with our comms systems.
Fallout continues over wars fought centuries ago:
WATCH: Theresa May said leaving the European Union WOULD mean a hard border for Northern Ireland
Theresa May still hasn’t finished her big Brexit speech after crunch two-hour Cabinet meeting
Theresa May told her Cabinet she’ll reveal an “ambitious economic partnership with the EU” - but faces mounting pressure to resolve a deadlock over the Irish border
Just another example why secessionist fever is the path to chaos.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Morning!
Reading through the thread and saw this.
I think it is an admittance that Trump would expect hit Trumpers to lie. It also say’s Trump would lie himself.
I hope Mueller gets to interview The Big Orange Don because it is a pretty sure bet Trump would lie, lie and lie some more. Hopefully enough to be his undoing.
Also…what’s up with Putin rattling the cage with his new military toys? Is this some kind of a setup so he can save Donny maybe by them coming to some kind of an agreement to eliminate these weapons.
Or, just another Putin for President campaign ploy?
As Stephen Colbert said, Trump would have to eat through the hands of his lawyers in order to talk to Mueller. No responsible attorney working for Trump could possibly allow him to be questioned by law enforcement.
The nuclear trolling at the end of Putin’s address seems to be entirely aimed at gathering as many alarmist and jingoistic headlines and comments in the West as possible and then contrasting them on Kremlin TV against the overall progressive nature of the speech.
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) March 1, 2018
re: #78 Bubblehead II
You got rid of the smoke stack I see.
Alas, I forgot to bring the feeder in one night and the raccoons pillaged for the remaining seed. In the process they knocked it to the ground, the chimney did not survive. It’s just luck that they didn’t burn it, too.
re: #91 freetoken
The UK already had an “ambitious economic partnership” with the EU. It was called being part of the EU.
Bollocks.
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes, let him slap that 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum.
Watch the ensuing trade war.
Oh, and to all those Western PA Trumpettes who think the steel mills will reopen(including my brainwashed family)…too bad, they won’t…
Reopen? Hell half the mills that were here when I was a kid in the 70’s in NW PA aren’t even there anymore. They are empty lots or something different. 2 years ago they finally tore down the Damascus Tube plant that was a huge rust bucket of un-use for 10 years. HUGE open area that used to be Steel Car that was tore down years ago and just sitting there, because of the toxic soil from rail car painting (yes, I drink that stuff as it makes it into the water table).
I don’t think you can reopen a steel mill, can you? Once it goes cold, it’s over, no?
I’ve always said that the only way the US will pull out of its delusional state is if enough people die or at least suffer greatly so that enough ignorant/apathetic folks are moved to vote. Like what happened with the Florida shooting but on a larger scale.
Same with the UK too; they need to go back to the 1880s to shake off their imperial delusion.
re: #95 wheat-dogg
The UK already had an “ambitious economic partnership” with the EU. It was called being part of the EU.
Seems so obvious.
But the xenophobes behind Brexit are still at it, foaming at the mouth today over ideas that there is still some hope of a commercial union of sorts with the EU.
I still think the Irish issue, if we may label an entire island as an “issue”, is so awkward politically that Theresa May’s predecessor may go down in history as being one giant blundering fool.
Pleasant surprise in the Kentucky House as Republicans have figured out that you can’t have public education without money, and have proposed tax increases on cigarettes and opioids, Grover Norquist be damned.
Will you please keep your homegrown nazis at home?
re: #99 Big Beautiful Door
Pleasant surprise in the Kentucky House as Republicans have figured out that you can’t have public education without money, and have proposed tax increases on cigarettes and opioids, Grover Norquist be damned.
Cigarettes and opioids which are consumed by poorer folk. How nice.
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹
Chicken shortage at KFC? Could this be the real reason Donald Trump doesn’t want to travel to the United Kingdom? Inquiring minds want to know!
No, you are not going Alex Jones enough: this is part of a UK deep-state plot to keep Trump from wanting to visit.
re: #101 Patricia Kayden
Cigarettes and opioids which are consumed by poorer folk. How nice.
Well making it harder for them to kill themselves isn’t a bad idea. Even better is to adopt progressive measures so their lives are worth living.
re: #98 freetoken
Seems so obvious.
But the xenophobes behind Brexit are still at it, foaming at the mouth today over ideas that there is still some hope of a commercial union of sorts with the EU.
I still think the Irish issue, if we may label an entire island as an “issue”, is so awkward politically that Theresa May’s predecessor may go down in history as being one giant blundering fool.
Not to mention the Scots issue and the Welsh issue. We’ll look back at this clusterfuck years from now, wondering how anyone could have so stupid as to piss away what was left of the British Empire.
re: #87 dangerman
Does sunscreen work better before or after applying moisturizer?
Discuss
Or applying pineapples.
re: #104 wheat-dogg
Not to mention the Scots issue and the Welsh issue. We’ll look back at this clusterfuck years from now, wondering how anyone could have so stupid as to piss away what was left of the British Empire.
The Tories seem to have gone down a path similar to the Republicans here.
Instead of falling on their swords (losing the majority) for the betterment of the whole, they decided to roll the dice on the extreme right wing in an attempt to remain in power.
re: #100 Lupin
Will you please keep your homegrown nazis at home?
Rome is sacred to fascists. Think of it as a religious pilgrimage.
re: #106 freetoken
The Tories seem to have gone down a path similar to the Republicans here.
Instead of falling on their swords (losing the majority) for the betterment of the whole, they decided to roll the dice on the extreme right wing in an attempt to remain in power.
I suggest it won’t work past the next election, once the general population realizes how fucked they are.
re: #104 wheat-dogg
Not to mention the Scots issue and the Welsh issue. We’ll look back at this clusterfuck years from now, wondering how anyone could have so stupid as to piss away what was left of the British Empire.
+1 for “Scots”
re: #107 Decatur Deb
Rome is sacred to fascists. Think of it as a religious pilgrimage.
Not Republican Rome, but Imperial Rome, naturally.
re: #101 Patricia Kayden
Cigarettes and opioids which are consumed by poorer folk. How nice.
Taxing medications (opioids)? Hey, you’re in chronic pain from severe arthritis or cancer or something, and we’ll tax you for relief.
Nice going, compassionate conservatives.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, you are not going Alex Jones enough: this is part of a UK deep-state plot to keep Trump from wanting to visit.
Bernie, Sarah, The Colonel. There is at least one too many Sanders in our body politic.
re: #112 Decatur Deb
Bernie, Sarah, The Colonel. There is at least one too many Sanders in our body politic.
Not to mention Belt and Rotary.
re: #97 Lupin
I don’t think you can reopen a steel mill, can you? Once it goes cold, it’s over, no?
I’ve always said that the only way the US will pull out of its delusional state is if enough people die or at least suffer greatly so that enough ignorant/apathetic folks are moved to vote. Like what happened with the Florida shooting but on a larger scale.
Same with the UK too; they need to go back to the 1880s to shake off their imperial delusion.
Steel is a completely different and smaller process than it used to be. They no longer need those huge plants as they did back in the early 1900s. It is much cleaner and uses less energy because of the newer furnaces, etc.
And that is what people always forget. Processes become more efficient and there is less need for huge plants and the huge amounts of workers. It is like that in all industries. The past is just that…past.
There is a company out of Columbus that has smaller plants all over the US and elsewhere making products needed for industries in the areas they serve. They have been a booming company in this area for years and they have grown all over the country.
Check it out: Worthington Industries
re: #113 wheat-dogg
I’ve been corrected several times by indignant Scots people.
I’m just a word and grammar pedant sometimes
re: #110 wheat-dogg
Not Republican Rome, but Imperial Rome, naturally.
From the First Triumvirate to Berlusconi they’ve been pretty consistent.
re: #113 wheat-dogg
I’ve been corrected several times by indignant Scots people.
Scots who drink liquor aren’t the same as liquor itself (Scotch).
This is an interesting analysis (h/t Balloon Juice):
… The main reason that companies have been increasingly willing to take one side of hot-button social issues (the left-leaning side) is that’s increasingly a good strategy to please customers and employees.
Partly, this is because certain policy issues have disproportionately left-leaning polling. Gay rights are popular. Most of the gun regulations on offer in the current debate poll well, too.
But it’s also because socially liberal segments of the public punch above their weight as potential customers (and, in some cases, as potential employees) for these companies…
Meanwhile, in recent decades, American politics has become much more polarized by age than it used to be, and much less polarized by income than it used to be. Affluent people are not (yet) a Democratic-leaning demographic, but they’re not the strongly Republican-leaning demographic they were 30 years ago. And young people report strongly liberal attitudes on social issues and strong opposition to President Donald Trump.
All of which means, when a company like Delta Air Lines imagines its average target customer — on the early side of middle age with plenty of disposable income — that customer is probably a lot farther to the left politically, especially on social issues, than would have been true in the past…
re: #99 Big Beautiful Door
Pleasant surprise in the Kentucky House as Republicans have figured out that you can’t have public education without money, and have proposed tax increases on cigarettes and opioids, Grover Norquist be damned.
Nice. I walked or road my bike past the U of K hospital in Lexington every weekday for a couple of years and was astounded by the number of patients and nurses outside smoking all the time. One Saturday my family and I volunteered for roadside cleaning for a local food coop we belonged to. Thousands and thousands of cigarette butts—and I had the distinct pleasure of more than one passing car actually flick a butt at me as I worked. Tax the hell out of them.
re: #113 wheat-dogg
I’ve been corrected several times by indignant Scots people.
I am a Scotch person myself, prefer Oban. That is, when I am not one of the Bourbons of France.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹
Scots who drink liquor aren’t the same as liquor itself (Scotch).
I learned it this way:
Scots are the people and the language
Scotch is the drink
Scottish is anything relating to Scotland, Scots people, etc. (an adjective)
laddie
re: #119 Belafon
This is an interesting analysis (h/t Balloon Juice):
A good analysis but of course its true
A for profit is not altruistic
A decision has to be good for business
Infrastructure weeks are coming to Dallas:
Atmos Energy to stop gas service for three weeks; 2,800 homes affected in ‘extraordinary event’
Atmos Energy will be conducting a planned outage of its natural gas service starting at noon on Thursday affecting 2,800 homes in the northwest Dallas area.
In what the company is calling a “truly extraordinary event” the affected neighborhoods will be out of service for 3-4 weeks.
The company says weather conditions over the past several weeks was the cause of the sudden and extreme leaks in several gas lines.
We’ve had so much rain that it exasperated already weakening gas lines. They’re bringing in 120 crews to work as quickly as possible.
I expect this type of thing, repairing old infrastructure, to be repeated all over the country.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
Trump’s already walked back gun control comments made just yesterday - sabotaging efforts to deal with gun violence, because yeah, he’s totally dancing to the NRA tune.
His idiocy about grabbing guns first and due process later totally fits with his persona.
After all, he called for locking up Hillary with no evidence there was even a crime. He’s got the DOJ looking at investigating Clinton and Obama for something all while everyone around him is looking ever more guilty or under suspicion of criminal wrongdoing is so many ways that a scorecard isn’t sufficient. Too many players and too many potential high crimes and misdemeanors.
Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He imported a fresh steaming pile of swamp, flooding the swamp with sewage runoff, and then gold plated it so his idiot supporters think that he’s doing a great job.
He’s managed to hoodwink his supporters.
re: #121 BlueSpotinAL
I am a Scotch person myself, prefer Oban. That is, when I am not one of the Bourbons of France.
I really like single-malts, but they are oppressively expensive in China. I am grateful to whomever recommended The Famous Grouse here. It’s affordable even in China, so I can get my occasional fix of a blended Scotch.
Stacy’s got muffins…..
@MJayapura Stacy, I don’t care about your enhanced titties and shaved pussy. I can watch all the porn I want for free if I so choose. Go away little girl. And have some decency and put some clothes on. I’m going to block you now. Bub Bye!
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 1, 2018
re: #121 BlueSpotinAL
I am a Scotch person myself, prefer Oban. That is, when I am not one of the Bourbons of France.
Guess that makes us Gallons.
re: #125 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
Trump’s already walked back gun control comments made just yesterday - sabotaging efforts to deal with gun violence, because yeah, he’s totally dancing to the NRA tune.
His idiocy about grabbing guns first and due process later totally fits with his persona.
After all, he called for locking up Hillary with no evidence there was even a crime. He’s got the DOJ looking at investigating Clinton and Obama for something all while everyone around him is looking ever more guilty or under suspicion of criminal wrongdoing is so many ways that a scorecard isn’t sufficient. Too many players and too many potential high crimes and misdemeanors.
Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He imported a fresh steaming pile of swamp, flooding the swamp with sewage runoff, and then gold plated it so his idiot supporters think that he’s doing a great job.
He’s managed to hoodwink his supporters.
every time he does one of these televised meetings its obvious he’s reading an old playbook
get a bunch of people in a room, he’s the meeting chairman
toss around ideas (no idea is too stupid)
until, gosh darn it, we have the bestest solution possible!
then just go out and implement it.
see? i bring the best people together and we make the best decisions.
i am the dealmaker
Shared on one of my Facebook groups. The high school in question is on Long Island.
This week, Westport’s high school (the town I live in) had a gun scare. A hormonal teen threatened to shoot up the school, and an alert fellow teen told the school administration, who contacted the police. The police found a cache of guns at his home, including an AR15. His parents’ defense was that the guns were locked in a safe.
I will never forget, as a teen, babysitting for a family friend’s kids in Lloyd Harbor. The dad had a gun, locked in a gun cabinet and had thought he unloaded all the bullets. Another babysitter was there that night. The 12(?)-yr old son, removed the gun from the cabinet, and fired a couple of rounds, and saw the first chambers were empty. Then he pointed it, joking, at the babysitter and fired. There was one bullet left in the last chamber that he did not know about and he killed his 16-yr old babysitter-something that he -and his parents -have had to live with for the rest of their lives.
A lot of lives were destroyed that night by a hidden, locked, “unloaded” gun.
re: #129 dangerman
Trump is just playing out The Apprentice shtick, pretending it’s governance.
And that means what? If last person whispering in Trump’s ear says tariffs, it’s going to happen whether Mattis or Cohn say otherwise.
All Trump has done is screw up our relations with allies and given Russia and China space to exploit by our vacuum of leadership.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 1, 2018
SunPower says it will lay off hundreds after Trump administration slaps 30 percent tariffs on solar panels https://t.co/OACHBdsZqJ
— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 1, 2018
Trump killing jobs with idiotic economic policy.
Coal isn’t coming back and he squeezes solar power that was growing by leaps and bounds and counts far more people in that industry than remain in coal. https://t.co/QpPZc2gRT3— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 1, 2018
re: #130 wheat-dogg
Shared on one of my Facebook groups. The high school in question is on Long Island.
Gun possessors don’t take gun potential seriously
re: #131 wheat-dogg
Trump is just playing out The Apprentice shtick, pretending it’s governance.
No doubt
I’ve never seen it so…
re: #132 lawhawk
I’m kind of surprised there hasn’t been a lawsuit over the tariff.
re: #89 Patricia Kayden
If those morons truly believe that they need guns to fight off an evil government, why don’t they work to make sure that we don’t lose our democracy? If for some reason, the American government turned on its citizens, a few armed citizens wouldn’t be able to fight back. They would be slaughtered with their guns.
They think the cops and military would be on their side. Seriously.
And “A bunch of guys with AKs are kicking our ass in Afghanistan.” - someone actually posted that on a friend’s FB.
re: #103 Big Beautiful Door
Well making it harder for them to kill themselves isn’t a bad idea. Even better is to adopt progressive measures so their lives are worth living.
This measure will increase the prices and make it that much more likely that they will go to black market cigarettes and heroin. This means that some of the illicit buyers will face increased law enforcement actions due to the surge in illegality.
here’s an amazing contortion
Behind Cruz’s Rampage: Obama’s School-Leniency Policy
Despite committing a string of arrestable offenses on campus before the Florida school shooting, Nikolas Cruz was able to escape the attention of law enforcement, pass a background check and purchase the weapon he used to slaughter 14 fellow students and three adults because of Obama administration efforts to make school discipline more lenient.
“He had a clean record, so alarm bells didn’t go off when they looked him up in the system,” veteran FBI agent Michael Biasello told RCI. “He probably wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had referred him to law enforcement.”
so he was able to
“escape the attention of law enforcement”
“pass a background check”
“purchase the weapon”
etc
because he hadnt committed a crime or had a criminal record
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— Parents Promise To Kids (@ParentsPromise) February 28, 2018
re: #138 dangerman
here’s an amazing contortion
Behind Cruz’s Rampage: Obama’s School-Leniency Policy
Despite committing a string of arrestable offenses on campus before the Florida school shooting, Nikolas Cruz was able to escape the attention of law enforcement, pass a background check and purchase the weapon he used to slaughter 14 fellow students and three adults because of Obama administration efforts to make school discipline more lenient.
“He had a clean record, so alarm bells didn’t go off when they looked him up in the system,” veteran FBI agent Michael Biasello told RCI. “He probably wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had referred him to law enforcement.”
so he was able to
“escape the attention of law enforcement”
“pass a background check”
“purchase the weapon”
etcbecause he hadnt committed a crime or had a criminal record
Yeah it’s Obama’s fault. That’s the ticket.
Absolutely! Please visit https://t.co/4W8CqVPAdm for more info! All of the instructions are included in document. :)
— Parents Promise To Kids (@ParentsPromise) February 28, 2018
Don’t blame the NRA but blame Obama. Oh conservative pretzel logic you never cease to amaze.
re: #113 wheat-dogg
I’ve been corrected several times by indignant Scots people.
Awfully pict-y about it , aren’t they?
re: #122 wheat-dogg
I learned it this way:
Scots are the people and the language
Scotch is the drink
Scottish is anything relating to Scotland, Scots people, etc. (an adjective)laddie
Don’t forget the Scotch Game in Chess! 1e4 e5 2Nf3 Nc6 3 d4!
re: #137 jeffreyw
This measure will increase the prices and make it that much more likely that they will go to black market cigarettes and heroin. This means that some of the illicit buyers will face increased law enforcement actions due to the surge in illegality.
Kentucky has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation, and research shows that higher prices for cigarettes help prevent teens from starting. When you consider that the money raised is also going to go to education, I think its a slam dunk policy. There has already been a crackdown on pill mills, so I think the shift of people hooked on prescription opioids to heroin already occurred.
re: #141 GlutenFreeJesus
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Literally every Trumper.
Tried to blame mental illness while supporting politicians that cut mental health services.
re: #144 William Lewis
Awfully pict-y about it , aren’t they?
They get their kilts all in a knot about it.
re: #144 William Lewis
Awfully pict-y about it , aren’t they?
Ha, they are. Well played. I’ve gotten to know some Scots since I had a second great grandmother born there but her folks were Irish.
re: #143 HappyWarrior
Don’t blame the NRA but blame Obama. Oh conservative pretzel logic you never cease to amaze.
they never give up
last night’s hannity
The March for Life on the 24th in DC has hit a bit of a snag. According to the Park Service, an educational group is supposed to film on that day:
A planned rally against mass shootings can’t be held on the Mall later this month because it conflicts with what’s described in a National Park Service permit application as a “talent show.”
A permit application filed last week by survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school massacre indicated the “March For Our Lives” rally will be on March 24, with up to 500,000 attendees expected. Mike Litterst, a spokesman for the Park Service, said organizers proposed holding the event on the Mall but were looking to move the rally to another location after the request conflicted with a film crew’s permit.
Litterst said the film permit was “from a student group at a local educational institution,” but he wouldn’t name the institution because “applications from educational institutions are withheld from release for privacy reasons,” he wrote in an email.
re: #152 dangerman
they never give up
last night’s hannity
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Yep on the day Hicks resigns, Trump talks about taking away guns before due process, Hannity finds the real culprit, Hillary. Sad!
“I’m not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.”
re: #153 Belafon
The March for Life on the 24th in DC has hit a bit of a snag. According to the Park Service, an educational group is supposed to film on that day:
Maybe I’m missing something but the Mall is quite big. Can’t they share it?
re: #94 jeffreyw
Alas, I forgot to bring the feeder in one night and the raccoons pillaged for the remaining seed. In the process they knocked it to the ground, the chimney did not survive. It’s just luck that they didn’t burn it, too.
They probably had just won the Raccoon Super Bowl and were celebrating. If asked, they will blame it on the Blackbirds.
Countdown to NOAA’s #GOESS satellite launch: Watch the lift-off Thurs. March 1! Live coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. ET on @NASA TV: Visit https://t.co/KagAMwES9Y for viewing details. @NOAASatellites pic.twitter.com/ZfeWcCjSjF
— NOAA (@NOAA) February 28, 2018
Happening TODAY, 3/1! https://t.co/Pyhjz30bxm
— NOAA (@NOAA) March 1, 2018
“March For Our Lives” , “March For Life”. Not good PR awareness by the good-guy organizers.
Initial unemployment claims dropped to only 210k; job losses are now at their lowest levels since the 1960s, when the labor force was only half the size it is now. Americans haven’t had this much job security since WWII; thanks Obama!
re: #159 Decatur Deb
“March For Our Lives” , “March For Life”. Not good PR awareness by the good-guy organizers.
“We care about you after you’ve been born, too.”
re: #160 Big Beautiful Door
Initial unemployment claims dropped to only 210k; job losses are now at their lowest levels since the 1960s, when the labor force was only half the size it is now. Americans haven’t had this much job security since WWII; thanks Obama!
But Obama was the food stamp President, just ask Newt!
re: #139 Dave In Austin
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#MAGA pic.twitter.com/Fm0ysS4LbS
— MiamiBlunts (@MiamiBlunts) March 1, 2018
re: #154 HappyWarrior
Yep on the day Hicks resigns, Trump talks about taking away guns before due process, Hannity finds the real culprit, Hillary. Sad!
President Hillary Clinton is doing a terrible job.
re: #164 Sir John Barron
President Hillary Clinton is doing a terrible job.
Didn’t he slip up and say she needs to be impeached.
re: #153 Belafon
The March for Life on the 24th in DC has hit a bit of a snag. According to the Park Service, an educational group is supposed to film on that day:
Filming for a talent show for an educational institution?
While arranging a permit for such an activity is probably time-consuming, it would seem they’d be interested in backing out … especially if brought to public attention on the Internet … or change the focus of their filming to the march.
Or, perhaps (conspiratorial hat on) the government is trying to shut down the march with this educational talent show filming group whose name is redacted because it doesn’t really exist.
In which a teenager might accomplish everything the overpriced Democratic consultants could not:
Friday March 2nd, at Weston City Park Pavilion, there will be a Rally and a Voter Registration Drive at Weston City Park Pavillion #1. Mayor Gillium will be attending and showing his support 💜♥️💜 Get out there you guys !! The Best way to Make a Difference is to Vote
— Emma González (@Emma4Change) March 1, 2018
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Trump Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Probed amidst Fakery Concerns (goes to the BBC)
Mr Trump was reportedly nominated for his “ideology of peace by force” by an anonymous American.
This is straight-up 1984 territory.
Oh to be an Air Force pilot these days…
Watch this F-22 Raptor Execute A Mind-Blowing Inverted Somersault At Altitude
re: #124 Belafon
Infrastructure weeks are coming to Dallas:
Atmos Energy to stop gas service for three weeks; 2,800 homes affected in ‘extraordinary event’
We’ve had so much rain that it exasperated already weakening gas lines. They’re bringing in 120 crews to work as quickly as possible.
I expect this type of thing, repairing old infrastructure, to be repeated all over the country.
Columbus has been rebuilding just about everything over the last 20 years. Currently in the downtown area there is a hardly a street that isn’t torn up.
Good thing though is when they are digging they seem to repair everything that is exposed. Also, they are putting in Wifi and other communications equipment as they go.
Biggest changes have been to sewer systems which is a good thing.
And there is building of more housing, mostly apartments and condos all over the city.
We are getting ready for the new Amazon eastern HQ. Heh. Actually Amazon is already building three different complexes around here now.
Boomtown.
re: #168 Interesting Times
In which a teenager might accomplish everything the overpriced Democratic consultants could not:
Which kid listens to adults anyway?
The overpriced consultants serve a purpose, but nothing gets peoples attention like the deaths of a few friends.
re: #129 dangerman
every time he does one of these televised meetings its obvious he’s reading an old playbook
get a bunch of people in a room, he’s the meeting chairman
toss around ideas (no idea is too stupid)
until, gosh darn it, we have the bestest solution possible!then just go out and implement it.
see? i bring the best people together and we make the best decisions.
i am the dealmaker
All as fake as his hair. The Comb-over meeting so you don’t see the obvious bald spots in the thinking.
re: #168 Interesting Times
In which a teenager might accomplish everything the overpriced Democratic consultants could not:
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pulled from the replys:
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a vote!
re: #152 dangerman
they never give up
last night’s hannity
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Heh. Seeing your post gave me the idea for a new word.
inhannity
A new kind of mental illness created by watching too much Fox news and other types of conservative confirmation bias media.
Use: Stop listening to Trump, it is complete inhannity.
If I could slap around some of my co-whites:
According to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 57 percent of Americans think Trump’s policies have been bad for Muslims, and 56 percent think they’ve been bad for Hispanics. Forty-seven percent, including three-quarters of blacks, think they’ve been bad for African Americans.
Fifty-seven percent of all adults, including more than 8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites, said they think Trump is racist. Eighty-five percent of Democrats consider Trump racist, but just 21 percent of Republicans agree.
re: #153 Belafon
The March for Life on the 24th in DC has hit a bit of a snag. According to the Park Service, an educational group is supposed to film on that day:
Why do I feel like this may be some kind of a way to stop the march?
Could it be because you can no longer trust anything in DC in The Time of Trump?
re: #179 ObserverArt
Why do I feel like this may be some kind of a way to stop the march?
Could it be because you can no longer trust anything in DC in The Time of Trump?
Because the march was a reaction to the shooting, I could see there being an issue with not getting all the details right before the announcement, but there’s enough suspicion about this administration that I’m the same way. I want them to prove the group they mentioned filed first.
re: #172 Belafon
Which kid listens to adults anyway?
The overpriced consultants serve a purpose, but nothing gets peoples attention like the deaths of a few friends.
how sad this is
re: #176 ObserverArt
Heh. Seeing your post gave me the idea for a new word.
inhannity
A new kind of mental illness created by watching too much Fox news and other types of conservative confirmation bias media.
Use: Stop listening to Trump, it is complete inhannity.
i am definitely using that!
re: #122 wheat-dogg
I learned it this way:
Scots are the people and the language
Scotch is the drink
Scottish is anything relating to Scotland, Scots people, etc. (an adjective)laddie
Scotch tape.
pwned
re: #181 dangerman
how sad this is
Yep. No one should ever have to learn to get into politics because friends were killed. No parent should have to learn that lesson. No community should.
I’ll say it again: We failed them. We have to help them make it better.
Good morning!
Remember DT’s shithole countries, and his wish for more immigrants from places like Norway? A Kindle Prime offering this month is “Hell’s Princess” the biography of one of the nastiest of US serial killers (and the rare woman) — a Norwegian immigrant.
re: #169 Dr. Matt
This is straight-up 1984 territory.
The beatings will continue until moral improves!
I smell a rat. How convenient that there is a “talent show” already scheduled to be held on the National Mall the same day that the March For Our Lives wants to use it.
re: #192 dangerman
OT:
mrs dm uses a prop for this yoga pose - has for years
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I had to pay a lot to get my hair that color; was she lucky enough to be born with it?
re: #192 dangerman
OT:
mrs dm uses a prop for this yoga pose - has for years
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Is that pose named Crouching Tiger? Because that would be so meta.
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹
I called it first:
What did you win?!
Actually, I bet there is much suspicion. I’d be interested to know how much there is in South Florida.
And I wonder if the NRA has anything to do with the “other” permit.
Not too trustful of GOP, Trump and NRA these days.
Looking like you Lizards in the North East are going to get hammered (weather wise) tomorrow.
Here is a timeline of what to expect with the coastal storm this afternoon into Saturday. pic.twitter.com/vokKZrgMHE
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) March 1, 2018
re: #195 plansbandc
And in other news, what a dick!
Methodist Episcopal Church college.
Apparently God disapproves of Colorado.
re: #199 Bubblehead II
Looking like you Lizards in the North East are going to get hammered (weather wise) tomorrow.
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Just saw some coverage of that on the news. Sounds like there may be coastal flooding.
makeitstop is out there on Long Island.
I hope all the east coast Lizards in the way stay safe.
Lake Lavon, one of the many man made lakes in the area, has gained 9 feet since the rains started here in the DFW area mid February.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹
Update: God disapproves of Colorado, and presumably California, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.
Are there any areas in DC where you can march without a permit? I’d hate to see this thing shut down that easily.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹
Methodist Episcopal Church college.
Apparently God disapproves of Colorado.
I put in bold the real issue.
re: #205 CongoJack
Are they “distributors of meth”? It’s kind of their first name.
re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg
Are there any areas in DC where you can march without a permit? I’d hate to see this thing shut down that easily.
Calling the ACLU.
The Red alert for snow over in Central Scotland has passed and is now “only” Amber.
Meanwhile, Ireland is currently in total lockdown.
‘Storm Emma’: Ireland goes into lockdown as Met Éireann issues Status Red update https://t.co/BJfmiAkLBV pic.twitter.com/3h3fkdl1QY
EDIT: There’s also a Red warning currently in force in some part of Southern England and Wales.
#Redwarning now in force - If you live in #SWEngland there will be treacherous conditions over the next few days. Here is your regional detail (other regions will follow) #StormEmma pic.twitter.com/oV6sZKFzgD
— Met Office (@metoffice) March 1, 2018
— Met Office Storms (@metofficestorms) March 1, 2018
re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg
Are there any areas in DC where you can march without a permit? I’d hate to see this thing shut down that easily.
Considering how so many people have made plans to be there (hotels, &c), the next step might be civil disobedience. Two hundred fifty thousand people would be tough to arrest.
That goes into national strike territory.
re: #208 Alephnaught
The Red alert for snow over in Central Scotland has passed and is now “only” Amber.
Meanwhile, Ireland is currently in total lockdown.
Quote from UK “A country that is totally shut down by two inches of snow thinks they are good to go it alone without Europe”
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Quote from UK “A country that is totally shut down by two inches of snow thinks they are good to go it alone without Europe”
Whilst I’m not in disagreement with that statement, there has been a great deal more than 2 inches of snow falling in central Scotland over the past day- it almost been getting to 12 inches in some parts. And they’re expecting up to 15 inches in some parts of England and Wales today. And in Ireland, it’s something like that, with gale force winds added.
This one wierd trick will protect you from perjury;
Don’t lie.
…Yeah, that simple.
/Perjury ‘traps’ e_e
Fuck Walmart.
My friend works at a Neighborhkod Market and his manager is refusing to work with him to scale back his hours because because if he goes too high he loses his SS disability benefits.
The manager told him by even bringing up this discussion he’d effectively put in his two weeks (which I think is total bullshit) and be prepared to be scheduled accordingly.
After mulling it over for a day or two, my friend formally put his two weeks in. I told him he should fight them over this as I believe there could be a legal violation involved.
He says he’ll look into it once he gets another job lined up.
Trump reportedly was addicted to prescription amphetamine derivative throughout 80s.
Ah, what the hell….this is the portion on Trump’s drug use from the Newsweek story that set off a war. Matt Mcallaster, soon fired under sex discrimination cloud, said he was 2 frightened to publish despite push by every other editor. I’ve left Newsweek. https://t.co/11ODJuYQVU
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 1, 2018
re: #208 Alephnaught
The Red alert for snow over in Central Scotland has passed and is now “only” Amber.
Meanwhile, Ireland is currently in total lockdown.
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It’s so bad they’re driving on the wrong side of the road.
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re: #139 Dave In Austin
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I absolutely love those kids!! They’re so outspoken and passionate but I guess that’s what happens when you witness your friends being murdered.
re: #189 jeffreyw
I have the receipts.
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This I know…. I have to put a few of mine up as well. I have a raccoon baffle keeps them off the main feed station.
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
Fuck Walmart.
My friend works at a Neighborhkod Market and his manager is refusing to work with him to scale back his hours because because if he goes too high he loses his SS disability benefits.
The manager told him by even bringing up this discussion he’d effectively put in his two weeks (which I think is total bullshit) and be prepared to be scheduled accordingly.
After mulling it over for a day or two, my friend formally put his two weeks in. I told him he should fight them over this as I believe there could be a legal violation involved.
He says he’ll look into it once he gets another job lined up.
If your friend has a disability that might constitute a refusal to accommodate his disability in violation of the ADA. He should contact the appropriate state or local human rights commission.
re: #172 Belafon
Not to mention all the groups on the ground doing GOTV. This stuff doesn’t have to come from on high any more. We are the change we’ve been waiting for was real. It’s not really a message just for marketing a new centralized leadership push, it’s a call to action that empowers individuals and local communities and I think that makes it much stronger.
The more attention the better! The more momentum and engagement the better! And it’s amazing that the kids immediately knew to tie this to the one thing that can make change - voting.
Yara Shahidi’s group, Eighteen X, was already formed to register first time voters. Spread the Vote is an organization that has been doing the very hard work of helping folks get IDs. And we had amazing voter registration initiatives that took great advantage of the Black Panther phenomenon. That was super cool!
re: #213 Alephnaught
Whilst I’m not in disagreement with that statement, there has been a great deal more than 2 inches of snow falling in central Scotland over the past day- it almost been getting to 12 inches in some parts. And they’re expecting up to 15 inches in some parts of England and Wales today. And in Ireland, it’s something like that, with gale force winds added.
I’m a Formula One racing fan and they are preseason testing at a race track near Barcelona. Yesterday much of their testing session was halted due to snow.
Crazy weather everywhere these days.
re: #222 ObserverArt
Meanwhile, in San Antonio where I’m currently vacationing, it got up to 87 yesterday. That is too damn high for February.
re: #216 Barefoot Grin
Trump reportedly was addicted to prescription amphetamine derivative throughout 80s.
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That explains a lot.
re: #218 Patricia Kayden
I absolutely love those kids!! They’re so outspoken and passionate but I guess that’s what happens when you witness your friends being murdered.
Pass it on and vote. I told one of the Congressional here that she needed to completely forget about the men in our district (TX25). They are not worth her time or money. Rather, target their wives and daughters. It’s the only way to a win here in TX in so many ways.
If Julie is to win, she will need National exposure. I for one will be pushing for that because the DNC is only pushing 3 races here in TX
re: #225 Dave In Austin
Pass it on and vote. I told one of the Congressional here that she needed to completely forget about the men in our district (TX25). They are not worth her time or money. Rather, target their wives and daughters. It’s the only way to a win here in TX in so many ways.
If Julie is to win, she will need National exposure. I for one will be pushing for that because the DNC is only pushing 3 races here in TX
DNC or DCCC?
The reason I ask is there seems to be differences in what their goals are and how to reach them.
Being almost a hundred years old had nothing to do with it.
re: #224 HappyWarrior
That explains a lot.
Wouldn’t surprise me if Dr. “Trump’s the most healthy president evah!!” helped him get another prescription.
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Being almost a hundred years old had nothing to do with it.
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Wish these douchebags could just get raptured already.
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Being almost a hundred years old had nothing to do with it.
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It was end times in the 80’s with kids and their metal music. Be nice if the people sending this old con some money would realize that. He was 99 and sick for awhile. We’re talking about a man born while WWI was still being fought.
re: #228 Barefoot Grin
Wouldn’t surprise me if Dr. “Trump’s the most healthy president evah!!” helped him get another prescription.
Trump’s very own Theodor Morrel.
re: #226 ObserverArt
DNC or DCCC?
The reason I ask is there seems to be differences in what their goals are and how to reach them.
I don’t know. whoever fund these Congressional races. Julie is funding herself through donation. Her and Matt are by no means wealthy.
re: #226 ObserverArt
DNC or DCCC?
The reason I ask is there seems to be differences in what their goals are and how to reach them.
I checked what was going on with the DCCC after this post a few minutes ago.
AXIOS has an article up that goes to my concern of how the two groups may be at odds. Sounds messy. Sigh.
AXIOS - The DCCC’s messaging woes
Three internal strategy memos from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have now leaked in two days, the week after the organization was criticized for attacking a Democratic candidate in Texas.
Why it matters: Growing party divisions and messaging leaks that are at odds with what some progressives are pushing for could hurt Democrats’ chances at taking back the House. That division is becoming a problem in races overcrowded with Democratic candidates because the DCCC is “keeping all options on the table” to intervene in various Congressional primaries, according to Politico.
…Three memos and their problems explained at link…
re: #216 Barefoot Grin
Trump reportedly was addicted to prescription amphetamine derivative throughout 80s.
But, but, but, Alex Jones sez Obama did coke in a limo with Teh Gays?!?!
Thanks to all who shared this, about a Congolese mother & child separated for 4 months by our government. Many have asked what they can do. I’m working on it.
For now, Homeland Security has an ombudsman. Light ‘em up:
cisombudsman@dhs.gov
[no phone numbers allowed]https://t.co/2Enycf99gi— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) March 1, 2018
re: #221 JordanRules
Not to mention all the groups on the ground doing GOTV. This stuff doesn’t have to come from on high any more. We are the change we’ve been waiting for was real. It’s not really a message just for marketing a new centralized leadership push, it’s a call to action that empowers individuals and local communities and I think that makes it much stronger.
People had to learn the price of voter apathy the hard way…
re: #233 ObserverArt
Passing this on. Thx Art.
People….. If you have a race in your district, work it. I HATE the phones but strategy, research, and driving people to the polls seems to be a groove that’s taking form and the Olivers seem to trust me.
An under-reported story about police killings?
Republicans up to more dirty tricks. They are nothing but the party of dirty tricks, lies, deception and obstruction. The whole pack of rats need to go. Of course Paul Ryan refuses to do anything.
This country needs a good House cleaning, starting with Ryan and Nunes.
NYTimes - Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.
To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.
The text messages were leaked just days after the same House Republicans had taken the extraordinary step of publicly releasing, over the objections of the F.B.I., a widely disputed memorandum based on sensitive government secrets. Taken together, the actions suggested a pattern of partisanship and unilateral action by the once-bipartisan House panel.
Fox News published the text messages, which were sent via a secure messaging application, in early February. President Trump and other Republicans loyal to him quickly jumped on the report to try to discredit Mr. Warner, suggesting that the senator was acting surreptitiously to try to talk with the former British spy who assembled a dossier of salacious claims about connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia.
…more at link…
re: #233 ObserverArt
I checked what was going on with the DCCC after this post a few minutes ago.
AXIOS has an article up that goes to my concern of how the two groups may be at odds. Sounds messy. Sigh.
I personally agreed with the DCCC in this case. If we’re trying to win as many offices as possible, do we really want the GOP to have any simple attacks? She isn’t living in the district she’s running for.
Now, that doesn’t mean the DCCC is doing things very well.
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Being almost a hundred years old had nothing to do with it.
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WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL GIVING JIM BAKKER MONEY?
So I was watching the Joe Rogan podcast on Youtube. It was his episode from yesterday with Kyle Kulinski who is supposedly a progressive voice with a Youtube show of his own and is affiliated with TYT. Unfortunately I had to turn it off after around 43 minutes (a 3 hour conversation) because, as is becoming quite common with voices on the left, his Hillary hate seemed to be rooted in that she is a woman. Starting around the 41 minute mark he starts talking about how bad of a candidate she was going to be and lists things off that made him think that. One of the reasons was that she pandered all of the time. In his very next sentence he says the one good thing Trump could do was tell the crowd he was talking to what they wanted to hear. WTF does he think the definition of pandering is?! Jesus! Do these people not think before they speak? So annoyed.
re: #240 Belafon
I personally agreed with the DCCC in this case. If we’re trying to win as many offices as possible, do we really want the GOP to have any simple attacks? She isn’t living in the district she’s running for.
Now, that doesn’t mean the DCCC is doing things very well.
I brought it up because there have been concerns with the DCCC for years. I wish there would be just one national committee for all Democratic candidates for all elections. Seems a bit foolish not to have one coordinating body in my opinion.
re: #216 Barefoot Grin
Trump reportedly was addicted to prescription amphetamine derivative throughout 80s.
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Much like Elvis, he probably didn’t think of himself as an addict because he had a “script”.
re: #242 rhuarc
So I was watching the Joe Rogan podcast on Youtube. It was his episode from yesterday with Kyle Kulinski who is supposedly a progressive voice with a Youtube show of his own and is affiliated with TYT. Unfortunately I had to turn it off after around 43 minutes (a 3 hour conversation) because, as is becoming quite common with voices on the left, his Hillary hate seemed to be rooted in that she is a woman. Starting around the 41 minute mark he starts talking about how bad of a candidate she was going to be and lists things off that made him think that. One of the reasons was that she pandered all of the time. In his very next sentence he says the one good thing Trump could do was tell the crowd he was talking to what they wanted to hear. WTF does he think the definition of pandering is?! Jesus! Do these people not think before they speak? So annoyed.
There definitely is unfortunately among some progressive men an underlining of sexism. As for pandering, Trump pandered more than anyone. HRC was pretty honest not just compared to Trump but Sanders too but there’s a large amount of the left that can’t see that since they love Bernie is a self described Dem socialist and can’t see his flaws.
re: #245 Ace-o-aces
Much like Elvis, he probably didn’t think of himself as an addict because he had a “script”.
Right. It helped him “focus,” not get sloppy like brother Fred.
re: #240 Belafon
In the case of TX25 the incumbent Republican doesn’t live in the district either. Julie is 2 blocks out of district but as she sez,
1. It’s not illegal in TX
2. Her kids go to school in District
3. She works in District…
Ad Nauseum
And the DOW just dropped around 200 pts
BREAKING: Trump says U.S. will set tariffs of 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum next week; shares of AK Steel, U.S. Steel move higher pic.twitter.com/jIvK2DSmrx
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 1, 2018
re: #246 HappyWarrior
There definitely is unfortunately among some progressive men an underlining of sexism. As for pandering, Trump pandered more than anyone. HRC was pretty honest not just compared to Trump but Sanders too but there’s a large amount of the left that can’t see that since they love Bernie is a self described Dem socialist and can’t see his flaws.
One of his other reasons she was a bad candidate was because she had no message. Just another person on the left who wasn’t listening because they had their sexism ear plugs in.
I just read the entry on Wikipedia for him and he is a BernieBro and voted for Jill Stein. ‘nuff said.
re: #239 ObserverArt
Republicans up to more dirty tricks. They are nothing but the party of dirty tricks, lies, deception and obstruction. The whole pack of rats need to go. Of course Paul Ryan refuses to do anything.
This country needs a good House cleaning, starting with Ryan and Nunes.
NYTimes - Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator’s Texts
Trump’s corruption should be a campaign issue, because its something Democrats can directly act on if they gain control of the House.
re: #242 rhuarc
I wouldn’t trust the progressive part after I found out the ‘affiliated with TYT’ part.
I didn’t forget that Buddy Roemer funding Cenk.
re: #252 JordanRules
I wouldn’t trust the progressive part after I found out the ‘affiliated with TYT’ part.
I didn’t forget that Buddy Roemer funding Cenk.
I might have continued listening even after his blatant hypocrisy, but then I saw he was TYT affiliated and noped the fuck outta there. I don’t need to listen to that level of delusional bullshit.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Meanwhile, in San Antonio where I’m currently vacationing, it got up to 87 yesterday. That is too damn high for February.
Here in the Old West, it’s 39F now, with a predicted high of 55F and sunny. Tonight’s low is 25F and decreasing clouds (? sunny to decreasing clouds).
Snow predicted for the end of the week.
The average high and low for my village is 44F and 14F.
re: #194 sagehen
I had to pay a lot to get my hair that color; was she lucky enough to be born with it?
er, um, erm…
nope, not going there….
(alas, not quite born with it…)
re: #196 jeffreyw
Is that pose named Crouching Tiger? Because that would be so meta.
very good
it’s called childs pose in english
i’m not gonna try for the sanskrit
Ben Carson says he wants to cancel $31,000 dining room furniture order
“I was as surprised as anyone to find out that a $31,000 dining set had been ordered,” Carson said in the statement.
SHOCKED!!!!
re: #252 JordanRules
I wouldn’t trust the progressive part after I found out the ‘affiliated with TYT’ part.
I didn’t forget that Buddy Roemer funding Cenk.
Cenk is more a problem than a benefit for Democrats Humans.
I can’t watch anything with him…my meters for both arrogance and asshole indication spike immediately and I have to shut down and tap the gauges to get the needles to return to their starting posts.
Regarding the earlier comments about the UK falling over whenever there’s a bit of snow (Or, in this case, quite a lot), there’s an interesting Tweet thread offering a Canadian perspective of the issue:
As a Canadian, I hear a lot of complaints in the winter in the UK: ‘If you can clear snow in Canada, why can’t our government get it’s act together.’ So, children, gather round while I tell you a little story.
— Judith Flanders (@JudithFlanders) January 29, 2018
re: #237 Dave In Austin
Passing this on. Thx Art.
People….. If you have a race in your district, work it. I HATE the phones but strategy, research, and driving people to the polls seems to be a groove that’s taking form and the Olivers seem to trust me.
My strategy is to visit everyone, since I know everyone here anyway.
It seems like a losing battle considering how red this area is (gah, my whole township only cast 8 votes for Hillary Clinton), but folks do seem to be getting tired of “winning” even here. (They are really upset at trying to torpedo the NAFTA treaty, which directly affects ranch and farm income, scattering down to the businesses that supply those ranches and farms.)
Messaging is tricky though: Saying “I told you so” is not likely to win any hearts and minds here.
re: #260 Anymouse 🌹
My strategy is to visit everyone, since I know everyone here anyway.
It seems like a losing battle considering how red this area is (gah, my whole township only cast 8 votes for Hillary Clinton), but folks do seem to be getting tired of “winning” even here. (They are really upset at trying to torpedo the NAFTA treaty, which directly affects ranch and farm income, scattering down to the businesses that supply those ranches and farms.)
Messaging is tricky though: Saying “I told you so” is not likely to win any hearts and minds here.
Don’t tell them. Show them facts. It keeps the snark out of it…as hard as it is.
re: #258 ObserverArt
Same here! I go from 0 to 100 real quick when I hear him. And I know that some fuckery is afoot aimed right at Dems.
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
Fuck Walmart.
My friend works at a Neighborhkod Market and his manager is refusing to work with him to scale back his hours because because if he goes too high he loses his SS disability benefits.
The manager told him by even bringing up this discussion he’d effectively put in his two weeks (which I think is total bullshit) and be prepared to be scheduled accordingly.
After mulling it over for a day or two, my friend formally put his two weeks in. I told him he should fight them over this as I believe there could be a legal violation involved.
He says he’ll look into it once he gets another job lined up.
my experience is never say why
why you need to scale back, or take this time off, or schedule your vacation for x, or change your shift hours, or whatever you are asking for
your personal reasons are not relevant
sure sometimes it can sway a particular manager
you ask, they approve (or dont)
do not let them make staffing decisions based on their approval (or not) of your personal life/needs
Manchin says his constituents were afraid that Obama was going to take their rights away, but don’t have same worries about Trump 🤔
“Because of President Obama, people were afraid… Nobody in West Virginia believes Donald Trump is going to take their 2A rights away, nobody.” pic.twitter.com/5EcorPY5RF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2018
Gee. I wonder fucking why.
If anyone has the Alan Rickman table-flip gif at this point, it’d be much appreciated.
re: #265 Citizen K
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Gee. I wonder fucking why.
If anyone has the Alan Rickman table-flip gif at this point, it’d be much appreciated.
re: #265 Citizen K
“Because of President Obama, people were afraid… Nobody in West Virginia believes Donald Trump is going to take their 2A rights away, nobody.”
Gee. I wonder fucking why.
If anyone has the Alan Rickman table-flip gif at this point, it’d be much appreciated.
we’re not worried because no one believes anything trump says
re: #265 Citizen K
Manchin says his constituents were afraid that Obama was going to take their rights away, but don’t have same worries about Trump 🤔
“Because of President Obama, people were afraid… Nobody in West Virginia believes Donald Trump is going to take their 2A rights away, nobody.” pic.twitter.com
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2018
Hence why GOP voters are correctly labeled “low-information voters”.
re: #272 MsJ
Super. Just freaking fabulous.
It’s rebounded slightly but still fluctuating. Currently down 160.
A quick post to lighten things for a moment:
always remember batman invented the unpaid internship
— Tom Spurgeon (@comicsreporter) March 1, 2018
re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg
And now it just dropped to -189.
re: #257 bill d. (b.d.)
SHOCKED!!!!
What? Ben Carson is going with “I don’t know how that order got put in that I had to approve for my own office?”
That’s not even a bad lie. That’s disconnected from reality.
Perhaps he can channel Ellen G. White next and explain this is really a sign of the End Times. Make Jim Bakker’s survivalist buckets into a pyramid or something.
Schlapp triples down.
Shitbag Schlapp claims Steele was “subpar” after accomplishing the following during Steele’s tenure…..
The RNC broke fundraising records by raising over $198 million during the 2010 Congressional cycle; in November 2010, Republicans won 63 House seats (the biggest pickup since 1938) and retook control of the House. The 2010 midterm elections were successful for Steele and the Republicans, as they also took back six Senate seats, seven governorships, and the greatest share of state legislative seats since 1928 (over 600 seats).
en.wikipedia.org
re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s rebounded slightly but still fluctuating. Currently down 160.
It was up nearly 40 before the announcement, thus the ~200 pt drop
So after all the back and forth today about whether this announcement was coming - and after I was told it was coming and then told it was not - POTUS spontaneously decided to call in the pool and announce it anyway.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) March 1, 2018
Ahhh stability…just what the market loves! ///
OK, color me shocked
Kroger’s sells freakin’ guns?
Kroger joins Walmart, Dick’s with higher gun-buying age https://t.co/WeBzXre0NI pic.twitter.com/2P2H7W6c71
— Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) March 1, 2018
re: #279 JordanRules
Ahhh stability…just what the market loves! ///
Trump going to take credit for the fabulous response from Wall Street? /s
Still can’t get over how on-point these kids are when it comes to responding to rightwing fuckery:
Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma pic.twitter.com/GXzrZeK41z
— AP Images (@AP_Images) February 28, 2018
What episode of American Horror Story is this? https://t.co/Z6ceCt4Mdl
— Sarah Chadwick// #NEVERAGAIN (@sarahchad_) March 1, 2018
re: #265 Citizen K
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Gee. I wonder fucking why.
If anyone has the Alan Rickman table-flip gif at this point, it’d be much appreciated.
Joe, ever wonder why that is? I mean I know they’re your constituents but JFC dude.
JUST IN: U.S. ambassador to Mexico is resigning her post this spring, saying she will leave “in search of other opportunities;” move comes amid strained relations between the two countries.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 1, 2018
DC people, is it normal for a student film featuring “two tables, two bicycles, and jump ropes” to reserve 10 blocks of the Washington Mall for an entire Saturday? @altusnps https://t.co/YFlRDVTIg7
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) March 1, 2018
re: #280 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Wow. Had no idea. I’ve been to quite a few Kroger’s in my day too.
re: #288 JordanRules
Wow. Had no idea. I’ve been to quite a few Kroger’s in my day too.
How else you going to fire up the BBQ?
re: #288 JordanRules
Wow. Had no idea. I’ve been to quite a few Kroger’s in my day too.
I think I saw that they are separate stores owned by the Kroger’s corp. Otherwise, can I check out in the self-checkout lane if I have 14 items or fewer?
re: #280 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, color me shocked
Kroger’s sells freakin’ guns?
Kroger owns Meyer’s. Meyer’s sells firearms.
re: #287 Anymouse 🌹
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This stinks like a flaming dumpster in the middle of the afternoon sun. Until I see convincing and independent evidence to the contrary, I’m going to believe this is nothing but Ryan Zinke/Cheeto Benito ratfuckery. Hope the lawyers who represent March For Our Lives are on this.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
Something stinks here I agree.
My wife and I were just discussing this, with me taking the line “time for some social disobedience” because who is going to stop a quarter-million protestors.
She points out they could use the military, which I countered with there are a whole bunch of people in the military who would likely object (with friends and family in such a protest).
Moreover, you probably couldn’t get the military into Washington fast enough to do it, and it seems that would likely be an argument to make in a courts-martial for refusing a lawful order (the order was not lawful to shut down citizens’ I Amendment rights).
Moreover, I imagine that if this starts looking too bad for the GOP, conservatives will do what’s necessary to maintain or gain power: a) Ryan Zinke becomes a sacrificial lamb, b) they go full-on authoritarian.
re: #276 Anymouse 🌹
What? Ben Carson is going with “I don’t know how that order got put in that I had to approve for my own office?”
That’s not even a bad lie. That’s disconnected from reality.
Perhaps he can channel Ellen G. White next and explain this is really a sign of the End Times. Make Jim Bakker’s survivalist buckets into a pyramid or something.
These people are shameless
There are 760,000 voters in #TX25. We have to convince a huge portion of those folks to become Democratic voters. Texas has intentionally placed enormous barriers in Texans’ way. If our candidate isn’t someone they feel they can trust, they may stay home. pic.twitter.com/CYZ7MgCfUV
— Julie Oliver (@JulieForTX25) March 1, 2018
re: #265 Citizen K
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
Yesterday the temperature was 60. Today snow is coming down like an avalanche of white shit.
re: #299 ipsos
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
I would too. My exasperation is more with his constituents who were convinced Obama was out for their guns but still support Trump even though he threatened to take guns without due process. Too many gun owners have been hoodwinked by scam artists.
re: #297 dangerman
These people are shameless
I have no idea who wanted new furniture for my office!!
I just realized I’ve reached a place in my life where I care more about animals than I do about people.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 1, 2018
re: #302 bill d. (b.d.)
I have no idea who wanted new furniture for my office!!
As i understand it that staffer is suing HUD for the demotion
That’ll be interesting
Chaffetz: Florida school shooting survivors “need a belief in God and Jesus Christ” https://t.co/JcuJ6upBb7 pic.twitter.com/rN0uv5cDoS
— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018
Same God who according to people like Chaffetz granted the right to bear arms?
Worship me or be slaughtered?
Congratulations, your god is a Mafia Don and your religion is extortion. https://t.co/RVRiV1gYfz— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 1, 2018
re: #288 JordanRules
Wow. Had no idea. I’ve been to quite a few Kroger’s in my day too.
Not at Krogers itself, but at its “sister” stores Fred Mayer out west.
re: #298 Dave In Austin
I’ve long maintained that if the Democrats can successfully turn TX blue, the GOP is basically finished at the national level.
re: #299 ipsos
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
This is true still. I’d rather have Manchin in there than any WV Republican. That still doesn’t make it exhausting and depressive when he goes out of his way to butter Trump up like this.
re: #303 Dave In Austin
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Been there for about 13 years myself. :) There’s a reason I don’t socialize with people unless it involves one of the dog sports I participate in.
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 1, 2018
Guess we got so focused on the “AR-15 bullets ripping into kids” part that we didn’t fetishize the owner’s manual. Our bad! https://t.co/Iz8xYIPucc
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 1, 2018
re: #305 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #305 Anymouse 🌹
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Because you want to be lectured about knowing Jesus and God after your friends died by that asshole. What a fucking condescending douche.
re: #307 Dr Lizardo
I’ve long maintained that if the Democrats can successfully turn TX blue, the GOP is basically finished at the national level.
Nationally, Texas is the state with the most electoral votes in the GOP column.
Texas’s problem is not it’s a red state, it’s a non-voting state. Unlike the 80%+ turnout you get in elections here, Texas is lucky to crack 20%. There are a lot of disinterested people (or blocked from voting people) in Texas. Crack that untapped voter base by giving them a reason to vote for the Dems, it not only finishes the GOP nationally, it might flip the state blue statewide as well.
They have to be getting tired of things like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s scandals and such. Wendy Davis actually pulled close to a victory in the governor’s race, and it wasn’t too long ago there was a Democratic governor (Ann Richards).
re: #307 Dr Lizardo
I’ve long maintained that if the Democrats can successfully turn TX blue, the GOP is basically finished at the national level.
It would be a lot for them to overcome for sure.
re: #310 Ace-o-aces
But it’s fine for GOP politicians to regulate uteri without understanding how they work.
re: #311 gwangung
Somebody mentioned that Parkland was in a relatively higher Jewish population for Florida. Which makes the swastikas carved into the weaponry a bit more meaningful.
I didn’t know that but that certainly does and Cruz was known to be a bigot aside from that.
re: #314 HappyWarrior
It would be a lot for them to overcome for sure.
My line of thought on that is that the GOP would basically become a regional party, concentrated in the rest of the Deep South (minus TX and possibly FL) and the inter-mountain Western US.
They would definitely become a white ethno-nationalist party (they’re already most of the way to that point as it is).
re: #310 Ace-o-aces
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re: #315 Anymouse 🌹
But it’s fine for GOP politicians to regulate uteri without understanding how they work.
Or anything really. Gun pedantry is obnoxious crap and distracts from the conversation. The inventor of the AR intended it to be the American soldier’s counter to the Soviet AK-47.
One thing about this weather in Glasgow: I’m seeing one thing I haven’t seen for a long time- actual proper icicles!
Icicles #photo #iphoneography #beastfromtheeast https://t.co/6x4zoqe4hd pic.twitter.com/JXPXZibpzn
— Michael James (@alephnaught) March 1, 2018
Icicles 2 #photo #iphoneography #beastfromtheeast https://t.co/RStaPTgamX pic.twitter.com/Dxn1jmrIyG
— Michael James (@alephnaught) March 1, 2018
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
My line of thought on that is that the GOP would basically become a regional party, concentrated in the rest of the Deep South (minus TX and possibly FL) and the inter-mountain Western US.
They would definitely become a white ethno-nationalist party (they’re already most of the way to that point as it is).
Yep.
re: #310 Ace-o-aces
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re: #317 Dr Lizardo
In the US, parties morph to fill the roles needed.
We are by design a government built around the idea of elections on the one hand, and institutional stability on the other.
For a lot of probably intractably interwoven reasons, this has meant, for about 200 years, a two party system.
Even though our Constitution does not call for a two party system, that is how things have worked.
Trump hopefully is the last straw in the religious right takeover of one party. If there is a big backlash in this fall’s election, the GOP will need to move away from the religious-right/xenophobic direction it has been taking the past 40 years, and truly (not tokenly) reach out to brown people.
Idaho state senator Dan Foreman (R-Viola) is being looked into for ethics violations. He threatened liberal constituents who wanted to meet with him in his office with arrest and told them to never come back, and verbally assaulted a liberal constituent in public (captured on a police body cam when the police officer ran up to the senator to intervene and run off the senator, who left shouting epithets at the constituent).
Goes to Utah Outcasts, (8:16, NSFW for adult speech and for epithets from the senator)
re: #277 Dr. Matt
Schlapp triples down.
Shitbag Schlapp claims Steele was “subpar” after accomplishing the following during Steele’s tenure…..
Doncha know that Blacks are always subpar. It’s part of that whole White Supremacy schtick. To be honest, Steele shouldn’t be too shocked that his party is full of racists. It’s something we all know.
To me the GOP is growing where a lot of the country is shrinking. Not merely geographically but human demographics too. Meanwhile the Dems are gaining. The trick getting out the vote tho.
re: #307 Dr Lizardo
I’ve long maintained that if the Democrats can successfully turn TX blue, the GOP is basically finished at the national level.
True
And when it goes it won’t be only texas
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
My line of thought on that is that the GOP would basically become a regional party, concentrated in the rest of the Deep South (minus TX and possibly FL) and the inter-mountain Western US.
They would definitely become a white ethno-nationalist party (they’re already most of the way to that point as it is).
They’re already a white ethno-nationalist party.
More likely, if Texas began to reliably vote and turn blue, they would change the rules to have proportional allotment of votes by district or by county or however they can do it so that Texas still puts its votes in the R column. And if they can’t change the rules so that they get all of the votes from Texas, then change them so that they keep some of the votes through allotment of votes by district, and push for rules changes in blue states like CA to have those states apportion votes as well instead of being winner take all. And then work to suppress the votes of undesirables.
Failing that, Republicans and the US media would support becoming a sham democracy like Russia where elections are for show. It would be a stepping stone to becoming a secular empire like China is becoming.
I wonder…If you surveyed every person over 18 in this country with regards to their political leanings…what would the Republican vs Democratic breakdown look like?
The countdown has begun! ULA’s #AtlasV rocket is set to launch the #GOESS mission for @NASA and @NOAASatellites today! The 2-hour launch window opens at 5:02 p.m. EST. Live broadcast at 4:30 p.m. EST @LockheedMartin @45thSpaceWing https://t.co/5rFPW7aYFs pic.twitter.com/jJ6stG5abU
— ULA (@ulalaunch) March 1, 2018
re: #326 HappyWarrior
When Obama won the second term, we dared think demographics would spare us. They didn’t. Yes, the vote, and getting back to a relatively unmolested electoral process, without foreign influence.
re: #310 Ace-o-aces
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Tomi,
If we use your words does it kill any different?
See the problem?
re: #299 ipsos
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
I agree with you 100%. It’s the purity ponies that lead to Republican wins. We have to field and support candidates that represent their district — as long as they aren’t like the Nazi who is going to be the Republican candidate for Congress in an Illinois district this year. Or like the LaRouchies who won nominations for certain positions in Illinois back in the 1980’s. There are certain positions that should forfeit support — but being a “corporatist” who favors immigrant rights and abortion rights isn’t one of them. If Democrats were in a comfortable and guaranteed majority, you can be more picky.
re: #315 Anymouse 🌹
But it’s fine for GOP politicians to regulate uteri without understanding how they work.
And to call a blastocyst a child
re: #319 HappyWarrior
Or anything really. Gun pedantry is obnoxious crap and distracts from the conversation. The inventor of the AR intended it to be the American soldier’s counter to the Soviet AK-47.
Of course gun pedantry distracts from the conversation: that’s what it’s meant to do. Fortunately, more and more folks aren’t falling for the BS…
re: #323 freetoken
Or considering how much they are ignoring potential constitutional violations by Mr. Trump and throwing as much chaff as possible at the investigation into Russian electoral meddling, they might just go all the way and go for an authoritarian state.
Consider the continued calls to investigate or arrest the opposition leader of the last election, Hillary Clinton. Liberals have been demonised as un-American all my life.
It does instill some concern in me that they might start to “round up the opposition party” and drive them from office, which then leaves me a real problem. I’m all alone out here.
re: #333 Unshaken Defiance
There appears to be a lot of young people who have bought into hate-right ideas.
Even though “polls” might say that young people are much more open minded than their elders, the young people don’t vote in large enough numbers to offset the old folk.
But the younger folk who have bought into various atavistic ideas are very energized to vote.
This is the real problem I see for the Democratic party. No matter how many young people there are that are quite fine with what we think of as progressive ideals, if they don’t bother to vote then frankly they don’t count.
I have several young-ish folk on my Facebook wall, for example, who are full into the gun fetish.
Dow has dropped over 400 now.
re: #326 HappyWarrior
To me the GOP is growing where a lot of the country is shrinking. Not merely geographically but human demographics too. Meanwhile the Dems are gaining. The trick getting out the vote tho.
re: #333 Unshaken Defiance
When Obama won the second term, we dared think demographics would spare us. They didn’t. Yes, the vote, and getting back to a relatively unmolested electoral process, without foreign influence.
Demographics will not save us. Not when the GOP has power nationwide to ensure that those increasing demographic margins will be wholly locked out of the process, either by de jure or de facto disenfranchisement. We’re getting some victories on that end, thankfully, but it still may keep us from fixing the problem in any reasonable way without hoping to god that the court system won’t destroy us for good thanks to Gorsuch the pretender.
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 1, 2018
The problem is that you think people not knowing what AR stands for is a problem. But the real problem is that a 19 yo purchased an AR 15 legally, and then proceeded to kill my friends and classmates. Once again, please stfu tomi. https://t.co/ufD12jI4xk
— Kyra (@longlivekcx) March 1, 2018
Nail, hammer, head.
Probably been posted, but it’s the best thing.
Pilot Bae
2. For those of you who are asking, the pilot’s name is Anthony Caere and he is Belgian.
Here is the video from a wider angle! pic.twitter.com/qICV8sMalO— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 1, 2018
Jared Kushner’s Business Interests in Israel Revealed in Fullhttps://t.co/ZbE2i7Rrgq
— Patrick (@TrickFreee) March 1, 2018
Jared don’t want “Peace in the Middle East.” He wants a “Piece of the Middle East.”https://t.co/usMeMo8i8I
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 1, 2018
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
My line of thought on that is that the GOP would basically become a regional party, concentrated in the rest of the Deep South (minus TX and possibly FL) and the inter-mountain Western US.
They would definitely become a white ethno-nationalist party (they’re already most of the way to that point as it is).
They currently are a sort of loose union between the ethno-nationalists and the industrialist establishment wing: they made a pact with each other to get DT elected, and now it turns out he is screwing them both.
Because that is what he does: makes deals, screws his partners and walks away.
re: #340 freetoken
There appears to be a lot of young people who have bought into hate-right ideas.
Even though “polls” might say that young people are much more open minded than their elders, the young people don’t vote in large enough numbers to offset the old folk.
But the younger folk who have bought into various atavistic ideas are very energized to vote.
This is the real problem I see for the Democratic party. No matter how many young people there are that are quite fine with what we think of as progressive ideals, if they don’t bother to vote then frankly they don’t count.
re: #342 freetoken
I have several young-ish folk on my Facebook wall, for example, who are full into the gun fetish.
Sigh. Yes, this too. The demographics might be trending toward the good, but that’s almost exclusively due to it becoming less white, and you know the Kobaches in the country are all set to ensure that segment of the generation will never get the vote they deserve. Meanwhile, the younger white population seems just as racist as the previous and even more energized and radicalized thanks to social media. They may very well be the new owners of this fucking country at this rate, because of course they would be.
re: #288 JordanRules
Wow. Had no idea. I’ve been to quite a few Kroger’s in my day too.
Those must be the Kroger Marketplace stores. We have a few of them in the Columbus area, though I have never visited one. I use a newer Kroger in our downtown area that is a big store but not one of the ones that has everything.
They claim to be in competition with Target and WalMart. Being Kroger is from Cincinnati and has offices in Columbus too, I guess we have them for test purposes.
re: #344 Citizen K
Demographics will not save us. Not when the GOP has power nationwide to ensure that those increasing demographic margins will be wholly locked out of the process, either by de jure or de facto disenfranchisement. We’re getting some victories on that end, thankfully, but it still may keep us from fixing the problem in any reasonable way without hoping to god that the court system won’t destroy us for good thanks to Gorsuch the pretender.
Yet look at all the seats which have flipped from GOP to Dem control since Trump was elected, including an Alabama US Senate seat. Two transgender women elected (one to the Virginia House of Delegates, one to the Erie School Board).
And Democratic voters, normally not motivated by fear as conservative are, are this time: Democracy is at stake.
There will always be purity ponies that hold their nose, but the vast majority of “doesn’t affect me” voters are going to have to choose up sides. The message needs to be tailored to them.
re: #345 lawhawk
The problem is that you think people not knowing what AR stands for is a problem. But the real problem is that a 19 yo purchased an AR 15 legally, and then proceeded to kill my friends and classmates. Once again, please stfu tomi.
Nail, hammer, head.
i bow in the shadow of greatness
re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They currently are a sort of loose union between the ethno-nationalists and the industrialist establishment wing: they made a pact with each other to get DT elected, and now it turns out he is screwing them both.
Because that is what he does: makes deals, screws his partners and walks away.
You also have the theocratic wing. The industrialist wing is pro-immigration, anti-tariff, and very libertarian. Clearly the Koch brothers are not fans of certain Trump policies.
re: #353 dangerman
i bow in the shadow of greatness
She, and the others, refuse to get drawn into the semantic games that we’ve all fallen into at times. There’s almost always an option c, in this case bringing the topic back to death.
re: #295 Anymouse 🌹
My wife and I were just discussing this, with me taking the line “time for some social disobedience” because who is going to stop a quarter-million protestors.
She points out they could use the military, which I countered with there are a whole bunch of people in the military who would likely object (with friends and family in such a protest).
Moreover, you probably couldn’t get the military into Washington fast enough to do it, and it seems that would likely be an argument to make in a courts-martial for refusing a lawful order (the order was not lawful to shut down citizens’ I Amendment rights).
Moreover, I imagine that if this starts looking too bad for the GOP, conservatives will do what’s necessary to maintain or gain power: a) Ryan Zinke becomes a sacrificial lamb, b) they go full-on authoritarian.
With a majority of this country supporting gun control and these student movements coming down hard on them would be a huge mistake on the part of the Republican majority government, the Trump White House and the NRA.
But that doesn’t mean they won’t try it.
I hate to say it, but this country is heading for a big crash between the people and the politicians. It has been building and building. It is going to come to head sometime. This may be the time. I just hope we can all keep our heads, but sometimes anger and frustration gets to be too much.
We have BLM, Immigrants, Guns, Healthcare, Labor all in turmoil. It is not a good time in America socially and economically.
re: #357 MsJ
Things are going well, I see. Tariffs are popular.
Just wait until the Asian market opens tomorrow.
In Explosive Accusation, Sharyl Attkisson Says Obama DOJ Secretly Switched Her Computer Hard Drive https://t.co/fnl2y02jYD
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 1, 2018
So, this is the same loon who claimed Obama was spying on her and that claimed text disappeared as she was typing (but later identified as a stuck delete key) is now claiming that her hard drive was swapped out.
Hoft picks it up uncritically, of course.
re: #345 lawhawk
Tomi Lahren
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@TomiLahren
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
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Someone who is on twitter should inform Terrible Liar that the AR 15 was designed as a weapon of war and used in Vietnam in the early days, before it was modified into the M16.
re: #356 Belafon
She, and the others, refuse to get drawn into the semantic games that we’ve all fallen into at times. There’s almost always an option c, in this case bringing the topic back to death.
The pedantic argument is really a Gish Gallop. The trick with Gish Gallops is to sweep aside the tsunami of unsupported assertions, pedantry, lies, and bring it right back to the real issue.
re: #361 lawhawk
What story won’t tell you is that they switched it with a block of cheese and waited to see how long until she noticed.
re: #361 lawhawk
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So, this is the same loon who claimed Obama was spying on her and that claimed text disappeared as she was typing (but later identified as a stuck delete key) is now claiming that her hard drive was swapped out.
Hoft picks it up uncritically, of course.
Anyone can make an explosive accusation. I can accuse Hoft of being a honest person but I can’t because like Atkinson, it’s not credible.
re: #356 Belafon
She, and the others, refuse to get drawn into the semantic games that we’ve all fallen into at times. There’s almost always an option c, in this case bringing the topic back to death.
They’re good kids. Smart.
All Indexes down and counting. Yay Tariffs!
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY 4th)
GOP lawmaker introducing bill to let 18-year-olds buy handguns https://t.co/ruNDlzpCkF pic.twitter.com/8nNynHAzJ3
— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018
re: #363 Hecuba’s daughter
There are countless people who’ve dragged her just for that.
AR-15 was the designator for the rifle (assault rifle) requested to replace the older service model. The purpose of the gun was to kill the maximium number of people in as short a time period as possible and at a distance usually seen in combat situations. Fired rounds were meant to do significant damage to a human.
The entire exercise was meant to create a weapon to kill people. Period.
re: #366 Stanley Sea
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Particularly since this latest proposal is just another “Trump Tariff” - tough-talk about “unfair” for the rubes, but little real positive effects for the economy as a whole. Or just for that part of it which has paid off enough politicians to buy a break….
Donald Trump (right) is seen screaming at unidentified groundskeeper, for daring to use American lawnmower made from affordable imported aluminum and steel. pic.twitter.com/puKmAzeSa3
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 1, 2018
down 567 and falling.
re: #332 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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1. Welcome to the new nuclear arms race. Putin announces 4 new nuclear weapons to answer the 3 new nuclear weapons US announced last month. This will not end well.
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) March 1, 2018
Read this thread from Joe Cirincione… https://t.co/wjAXxJ7hxB
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 1, 2018
re: #299 ipsos
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
Even if he didn’t reliably vote yes on most Democratic priorities… he’s still definitely a yes vote for a D majority leader, and D committee chairs. Sometimes that the best you can get from a red state D.
Trump behaves like the only “new Coke” he cares about is that which goes up his nose.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) March 1, 2018
re: #366 Stanley Sea
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re: #299 ipsos
And even with THAT, I’d still rather have Joe Manchin in the Senate from WV than Jim Justice or whatever other Republican is going after the seat. Because as problematic as Manchin is, he is still a reliable yes vote for the vast majority of Democratic priorities, especially in the courts. And we can’t lose any yes vote in the Senate right now.
(Crap. My pragmatism is showing again, isn’t it?)
I wish more lefties were this pragmatic.
re: #342 freetoken
I have several young-ish folk on my Facebook wall, for example, who are full into the gun fetish.
Hopefully your Facebook wall is not a real reflection of what is going on.
Yesterday it was 60º pic.twitter.com/Lc7YkB2H7c
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 1, 2018
re: #346 Stanley Sea
Probably been posted, but it’s the best thing.
Pilot Bae
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Awwww. That was all kinds of cute.
“@arnold_ziffel: @AnnCoulter also can’t help but notice the stock market’s reaction as @realDonaldTrump was speaking. #UPUPUP”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2016
Gotta hit the road soon, so BBIAB
I’ll be listening to Bloomberg Radio on the way- should be interesting to hear what people who know what they’re talking about think…
re: #371 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY 4th)
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Normal People: “It’s crazy that you have to be 21 to purchase a hand gun, but can purchase an AR-15 at age 18.”
Massie: “That is crazy. Better lower that limit on handguns then…”
Obi Wan: “I sensed a disturbance in the Force. As if there were 300 million simultaneous face palms…”
re: #382 goddamnedfrank
I knew this would happen. The WTO is also going to spank us hard over it.
Great businessman isn’t he? The best. Real smart with one of the best brains he was told too.
re: #311 gwangung
Somebody mentioned that Parkland was in a relatively higher Jewish population for Florida. Which makes the swastikas carved into the weaponry a bit more meaningful.
Also makes Chaffetz’ “they need Jesus” extra offensive.
White supremacist faces up to 10 years in prison for illegally buying a gun authorities say he planned to use in an attack similar to the South Carolina church shootings. https://t.co/8yUQLBkBM1
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 1, 2018
I’m calling it now. DOW closes -500 (± 25) for the day.
Tomorrow, after Asian, European market reactions, drops another ~1K
re: #391 ObserverArt
Great businessman isn’t he? The best. Real smart with one of the best brains he was told too.
Sure, if it was 1875…
Honest question, when have tariffs not eventually lead to a war, either trade or shooting?
The theory: “Cops are just going to take guns from dangerous people.”
The practice: Racist Cops use gun raids as an excuse to target Black Lives Matter or immigration protestors, while Bundy Rancher types go around untouched.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
re: #361 lawhawk
Do you think they are dumb enough to fall for it?
The evidence for how and why they did can be found at this link https://t.co/aGFN00KOa0
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 1, 2018
re: #397 Kragar
Ever watch Live PD? A (lawyer) friend watches it all the time and has gotten me to watch it with her. It is mostly a string of pretext stops leading to vehicle searches because “I smelled weed/alcohol.” Almost every time it is a person of color that get stopped.
Can’t imagine gun raids going any different.
RWNJs: If the Jews had guns, they could have fought off the Nazis
Also RWNJs: The Cops are only going to go after “dangerous” people, and if they have to bust a few heads, even better.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
Gold has been going down for three days … strange to see gold and stocks going down at the same time.
re: #346 Stanley Sea
May collapse from the overwhelming cuteness…
I saw that statement Chaffetz made about people needing God and Jesus Christ. I’d like to inform the idiot ex-representative of Utah Valley, Utah (90 percent Mormon) that many Evangelicals think he and all Mormons are cultists who do not worship the same God and Jesus as the Evangelicals. I wish I was lying, but I’m not.
A US official told CNN that the nuclear-powered cruise missile tests Putin talked about today all ended in crashes https://t.co/swXhKNEQn3
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) March 1, 2018
See the US “Star Wars” program from the 80s. None of it worked, but the Soviet Union thought it did, and spent themselves into oblivion.
Putin is trying the same thing, and knows that Trump is stupid enough to fall for it. https://t.co/wgDJBkbZhk— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
Trump, my 401K is tired of all your bullshit winning.
re: #403 mmmirele
I saw that statement Chaffetz made about people needing God and Jesus Christ. I’d like to inform the idiot ex-representative of Utah Valley, Utah (90 percent Mormon) that many Evangelicals think he and all Mormons are cultists who do not worship the same God and Jesus as the Evangelicals. I wish I was lying, but I’m not.
Yeah, because nobody has ever killed people in the name of God and/or Jesus…
re: #385 The Vicious Babushka
We were originally projected to get snow today but instead there’s sun, 40 degrees, and no precipitation right now.
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
My line of thought on that is that the GOP would basically become a regional party, concentrated in the rest of the Deep South (minus TX and possibly FL) and the inter-mountain Western US.
They would definitely become a white ethno-nationalist party (they’re already most of the way to that point as it is).
If the GOP were to go completely Evangelical and hard core, I could see the Intermountain West Mormons learning quickly they’re not welcome. Because, seriously, Evangelicals consider Mormons unsaved cultists. I don’t understand why Mormons join up with a group that would have no respect for their religious beliefs and see Mormons as ripe for conversion.
re: #405 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump, my 401K is tired of all your bullshit winning.
Fortunately I am too poor to have things like “retirement accounts.”
My wife has an IRA, which she had to pry away from Hewlett-Packard after the company they hired to run Digital’s retirement programme it lost most of the money in it. She lost $210,000.
She managed to get away with $30,000, which we put into our local agricultural bank a couple years ago. It has grown to $33,000.
re: #409 mmmirele
If the GOP were to go completely Evangelical and hard core, I could see the Intermountain West Mormons learning quickly they’re not welcome. Because, seriously, Evangelicals consider Mormons unsaved cultists. I don’t understand why Mormons join up with a group that would have no respect for their religious beliefs and see Mormons as ripe for conversion.
See also Roman Catholics.
Rope drop at Mineral Basin in Snowbird, Utah. People getting the powder like a pack of rabid hyenas.
These are the type of avalanches we can’t mitigate.
A visa for “extraordinary abilities.” Does the AFLAC commercial count? https://t.co/7hvRZ2596H
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 1, 2018
Sooo…basically “good guys w/guns” are a myth & cowards.
“FBI analyzed 160 active shooter cases from 2000-2013—not one was stopped by a concealed carrier who was not active duty military, a security guard, or a cop. 21 were stopped by unarmed civilians.”https://t.co/jcFrb43Zk6— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) March 1, 2018
re: #392 sagehen
Also makes Chaffetz’ “they need Jesus” extra offensive.
Back when I lived in Utah in the 1990s, there were still some old folk who still referred to anyone who wasn’t Mormon (including Jews) as “Gentiles.” I’m hoping with the Internet that has faded away.
Man City at Arsenal on a cold and snowy London day. Reports are that the Arsenal fans are staying away in droves, but the visitors’ end is full. Oh boy….
re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would add “smart” that his list. Some knew that pulling their guns out would get them shot at by police. But it really points out that civilians with guns won’t stop shootings.
re: #394 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #409 mmmirele
If the GOP were to go completely Evangelical and hard core, I could see the Intermountain West Mormons learning quickly they’re not welcome. Because, seriously, Evangelicals consider Mormons unsaved cultists. I don’t understand why Mormons join up with a group that would have no respect for their religious beliefs and see Mormons as ripe for conversion.
Ana Marie Cox had a guest on her podcast last week that is a Mormon writer (forget his name) and they talked a good bit about Mormon culture and where it fits in politically. It was quite interesting, actually. I think it is mostly an alliance of convenience more than anything. Mormons are definitely less inclined to support immigration restrictions or general xenophobia (in part because many of them go abroad as missionaries). They also tend to be better (but not always great, see Prop 8) on freedom of religion issues. And most don’t really like Trump’s crassness.
I do wonder if Utah might have actually been in play in 2016 if the Democratic nominee hadn’t been Clinton.
re: #408 Unshaken Defiance
The dollar is up.
Probably not for long with the threat of punitive tariffs.
Actually, it is mostly down over the last twenty-four hours against most currencies.
FOREX:
re: #418 Belafon
I would add “smart” that his list. Some knew that pulling their guns out would get them shot at by police. But it really points out that civilians with guns won’t stop shootings.
Like the civilian at the Giffords shooting who decided it was too dangerous to pull out his legal CCW.
I needed to hear this #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/mgObBvN4LB
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
Do 19yos kill deer with assault rifles? News to me.
— Scott Fearheiley (@ScottFearheiley) March 1, 2018
More and more I feel like we are living through the late decadent stage of a collapsing civilization.
I guess I should have a donut.— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) March 1, 2018
With bourbon. https://t.co/jmieTXuSzO
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 1, 2018
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
And the pedants are all over that.
The fellow who says he hunts with an RPG is funny though.
re: #70 Decatur Deb
The weapons in the Unification Church ceremony are not all AR’s, but will favor a family-run knockoff marque. Moon Kook-jin, fourth son of Rev Moon, is a “firearms designer”/CEO. He owns Kahr Arms in the US (mostly handguns). The family owns or owned production facilities in S. Korea.
Say what you will about the Nation of Islam, at least they make tasty baked goods.
re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth
We could be. At the same time, we could just be reliving the late 1960s struggles, which never really got resolved because everyone was just happy to be done with Vietnam, and/or the unresolved issues of the Civil War.
re: #430 Eclectic Cyborg
This was the only kind of hunting I did as a kid:
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That damn laughing dog
re: #420 KGxvi
Ana Marie Cox had a guest on her podcast last week that is a Mormon writer (forget his name) and they talked a good bit about Mormon culture and where it fits in politically. It was quite interesting, actually. I think it is mostly an alliance of convenience more than anything. Mormons are definitely less inclined to support immigration restrictions or general xenophobia (in part because many of them go abroad as missionaries). They also tend to be better (but not always great, see Prop 8) on freedom of religion issues. And most don’t really like Trump’s crassness.
I do wonder if Utah might have actually been in play in 2016 if the Democratic nominee hadn’t been Clinton.
She’s on the latest Pod Save America talking about CPAC.
The market is down 372 now with a few minutes before it closes in New York.
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do 19yos kill deer with assault rifles? News to me.
— Scott Fearheiley (@ScottFearheiley) March 1, 2018
Most of my family/extended family and friends hunt in Michigan. I don’t know a single person that uses an AR-15. The 5.56 is not a preferred round to hunt game.
re: #432 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
She’s on the latest Pod Save America talking about CPAC.
Yeah, she does her podcast through Crooked Media, so she’s on PSA fairly regularly.
re: #433 Anymouse 🌹
The market is down 372 now with a few minutes before it closes in New York.
45 minutes.
re: #434 Dr. Matt
Most of my family/extended family and friends hunt in Michigan. I don’t know a single person that uses an AR-15. The 5.56 is not a preferred round to hunt game.
No one here hunts with an AR-15. It’s mostly shotguns or bolt-action rifles.
The pedantry is BS. It’s FUD designed to distract from the real issue. Fortunately, it can be swept aside as the BS it is this time. Folk aren’t falling for it now.
re: #430 Eclectic Cyborg
This was the only kind of hunting I did as a kid:
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There’s a Duck Hunt VR game now (Duck Season) where you start in a 70s living-room with a light gun.
everything eminem has done for white rap my be undone by this video https://t.co/T89vRVpwPl
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 1, 2018
re: #434 Dr. Matt
If you’re using a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high capacity magazine to “hunt”, you are one of the shittiest hunters on the planet.
Or is that just the excuse you give people?— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
“We have to do something so we don’t have to come back and fight this thing every two years,” Burch says, advocating for comprehensive tax reform.
— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) March 1, 2018
James Kay calls for a complete ban on opiates because “tough times call for tough measures.”
Says he supports tax on prescription opioids.— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) March 1, 2018
The tax on opiates is one of the stupidest ideas yet coming out of our General Assembly.
It won’t stop opiate or any other sort of drug abuse (sure thing…drug dealers collect taxes on their sales…bwahahahaaa).
What it WILL do is penalize people who legitimately need opiate prescription medication, but fuck those people…
re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth
The tax on opiates is one of the stupidest ideas yet coming out of our General Assembly.
It won’t stop opiate or any other sort of drug abuse (sure thing…drug dealers collect taxes on their sales…bwahahahaaa).
What it WILL do is penalize people who legitimately need opiate prescription medication, but fuck those people…
Compassionate conservatism.
He calls his rivals and other leaders names like:
Crooked Hillary
Little Marco
Lyin’ Ted
Pocahontas
Mr. Magoo
Low energy Jeb
But sure…we teenagers are the ones who are too “immature” to be involved in politics.— Emilia (@PoliticalEmilia) March 1, 2018
re: #446 Belafon
What is in the video?
White Utah legislators trying to do Schoolhouse Rocks to the tune of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air intro.
LOL…
HB571 by Reps. Marzian & Wayne: Constit amndmnt to abolish state House & Senate, replace them with ALEC, Koch Bros & US & KY Chambers. ^JB
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 1, 2018
Two years ago Rep Marzian introduced a bill that would have required Kentucky men to visit a doctor twice and have signed permission from their wives before obtaining a prescription for Viagra or other such drugs for erectile dysfunction. :D
re: #445 Dr. Matt
Game.Set.Match to Emilia
Numerous commentators are noting that he has no such puerile nickname for Vladimir Putin.
what could go wrong?
NEW: President Trump to meet with video game industry executives next week as part of ongoing debate over school safety.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) March 1, 2018
re: #446 Belafon
What is in the video?
Utah conservative politicians rapping to the beat of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song about how a bill becomes a law.
when Manchin decides to be a jerk, he goes all in with the stupidity:
Democrat Joe Manchin refuses to support AR-15 ban: “I don’t know anyone who’s committed a crime with it” https://t.co/vHg2sHYnZZ
— jamie (@gnuman1979) March 1, 2018
No Country For Orange Man
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 1, 2018
re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth
what could go wrong?
More deflection. Just like the gun terminology pedantry.
Conservatism has no ideas that can stand on their own merits. That’s why they’ve been going on like this since long before I was born.
re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth
when Manchin decides to be a jerk, he goes all in with the stupidity:
Someone ought to send a tweet at him if he’s ever heard of Sandy Hook.
At 11:25 a.m. will be on the Senate floor to outline my plan to prevent what happened in #Parkland from happening anywhere else, ever again.This could have & should have been prevented.I am focused on changes that fix those shortcomings in our current law $ policies.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 1, 2018
Thank you for speaking on this topic it’s just too bad that you’re continuing to take money from you buddies at the NRA https://t.co/EwzArIfBLi
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 1, 2018
re: #434 Dr. Matt
Most of my family/extended family and friends hunt in Michigan. I don’t know a single person that uses an AR-15. The 5.56 is not a preferred round to hunt game.
Popular for varmint shooting, however.
speaking of pedantic gunsplaining:
Seriously, @thinkprogress this article is fucking absurd and you should be embarrassed for publishing it. https://t.co/4cY8ULlmc7
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 1, 2018
re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth
when Manchin decides to be a jerk, he goes all in with the stupidity:
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It’s nice to know that Manchin does’t pal around with mass shooters, but I’m not sure what that has to do with this debate. I don’t know anybody who has committed a crime with a suitcase nuclear device, but I still don’t think they should be sold to civilians.
re: #450 Anymouse 🌹
Numerous commentators are noting that he has no such puerile nickname for Vladimir Putin.
He does, it’s “Boss.”
heh
Can all the TV news presenters & reporters who’ve spent the past two days standing in the freezing snow be allowed to come back inside now? They’ve said sorry & they’ve all been punished enough by now, surely? pic.twitter.com/cGmhAVfmp4
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) March 1, 2018
re: #460 Backwoods_Sleuth
speaking of pedantic gunsplaining:
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“What you’re talking about are PILES, not STILTS, so why should I pay any attention to your ideas if you don’t know the most basic terminology?”
re: #460 Backwoods_Sleuth
speaking of pedantic gunsplaining:
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Pedantic gunsplaining just drives me nuts.
re: #450 Anymouse 🌹
Numerous commentators are noting that he has no such puerile nickname for Vladimir Putin.
Putin appears to target Tampa during speech touting advancements in Russia’s nukes
And Dotard still wants to be friends with Daddy Putin and Mother Russia.
Trump, at opioid meeting, gives his most explicit endorsement of putting drug dealers to death: “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty - the ultimate penalty. And by the way they have much less of a problem.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 1, 2018
So he’s gonna have Pharma execs executed?
He doesn’t get it. At all. https://t.co/mjo5iniNXy— JustJanis (@jsavite) March 1, 2018
I am not going to be lectured about gun verbage from anyone who calls it the Democrat Party.
sigh
“I voted for this measure despite the fact that I’m opposed to it,” Scott Wells says, maintaining his reputation as most eccentric house member.
— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) March 1, 2018
Revenue bill passes 68-25.
— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) March 1, 2018
idiots…all of them.
Wonkette notes all the bombshell news stories that dropped yesterday.
They also note FOX did their level best not to cover any of them and spent the day in DARVO mode. At least there were no car chases.
With screen shots of all their day’s lead stories at FOX.
For those who watch FOX, this is why it is so hard to break through to conservative voters with what’s actually happening. When you have propaganda and deflection fed at you for year after year, it makes it difficult to discern reality.
However, FOX is just a television version of the same conservative religion going on for a very long time. (William Jennings Bryan noted in 1896 that trickle-down economics didn’t work, though it was called “horse and sparrow” economics then, referring to the idea if the rich - horses - were fed a bigger helping of oats, the poor and middle-class - sparrows - would have more oats to pick out of the manure. A very apt description.)
re: #467 Backwoods_Sleuth
I bet the Philippines’ drug problem isn’t under any more control than when this policy started.
re: #450 Anymouse 🌹
Numerous commentators are noting that he has no such puerile nickname for Vladimir Putin.
I’d like to know the nickname that Putin gives to him.
re: #471 Belafon
I bet the Philippines’ drug problem isn’t under any more control than when this policy started.
It’s all about keeping the corruption in the “right” (i.e. Duerte-friendly) hands.
Trump White House is now blaming video games, not guns, for mass shootings. https://t.co/TUMxa4438h pic.twitter.com/lhqDFRXDtG
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 1, 2018
re: #469 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where’s that at? He obviously wasn’t actually opposed to it. He’s not eccentric.
re: #475 Belafon
Where’s that at? He obviously wasn’t actually opposed to it. He’s not eccentric.
Kentucky
video:
Trump alludes to Duterte-like punishments he’d like for drug dealers.
“The drug dealers are really doing damage. Some countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty. They have much less of a problem than we do. So we’re going to have to be very strong.” pic.twitter.com/Da0Gv6Nxua— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2018
Trump sounds out of breath as he looks around the room for Melania. #WheresMelania pic.twitter.com/zdnQO3bFhP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2018
re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, after all, only America has violent video games.
/
Sean Hannity: Hope Hicks Should Come Work for FOX News Channel
YouTube just deleted InfoWars conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi’s channel pic.twitter.com/VJkKlD0tN0
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 1, 2018
re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump White House is now blaming video games, not guns, for mass shootings.
They’re so blind. Obviously, rock music is the real problem.
/
re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m curious how man video games the Las Vegas shooter played.
re: #454 gocart mozart
White Men Chant Trump.
.@PressSec on backlash over HUD Secretary Carson’s $31,000 dining set:
“They’re looking for another option that’s much more responsible with taxpayer dollars.” pic.twitter.com/7E8eUyBjp8— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 1, 2018
only because they were caught.
— Colleen S Harris (@warmaiden) March 1, 2018
re: #481 The Vicious Babushka
“You have the right to free speech. We don’t have to give you a platform for it. Free market, how does it work?”
I’m beginning to think that SHS’s pearl necklace is actually some sort of shock collar.
re: #483 Belafon
I’m curious how man video games the Las Vegas shooter played.
It’s all an issue of ethics in video game journalism
“Video games are responsible for violence!”
That train is never late.
re: #482 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
They’re so blind. Obviously, rock music is the real problem.
/
And before that, that ni*CLANG jazz and ragtime.
re: #456 Anymouse 🌹
Someone ought to send a tweet at him if he’s ever heard of Sandy Hook.
Nuance. He personally KNOWS NO ONE who used a AR-15 to commit a crime. Doesn’t mean he knows no one has used one to commit a crime. It’s how they dissemble to cover for their atrocious votes.
re: #491 Bubblehead II
Nuance. He personally KNOWS NO ONE who used a AR-15 to commit a crime. Doesn’t mean he knows no one has used one to commit a crime. It’s how they dissemble to cover for their atrocious votes.
Then, “so this is how you dissemble for your atrocious vote, Senator? Too lazy to speak to Sandy Hook victims and parents?”
re: #208 Alephnaught
The Red alert for snow over in Central Scotland has passed and is now “only” Amber.
Meanwhile, Ireland is currently in total lockdown.
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Poor wretches so desperate to escape certain death from a two-inch blizzard that they’re fleeing by way of the wrong side of the road.
re: #490 Anymouse 🌹
And before that, that ni*CLANG jazz and ragtime.
And Mary-jew-wanna, don’t forget that.
Before the trial date, there is another important date:
June 15, 2018 – only 3.5 months away
This is when Mueller must file NOTICE OF INTENT TO INTRODUCE EVIDENCE.
Evidence descriptions will point to additional crimes, charges, subjects, etc. – essentially the big reveal.— Leah McElrath 🗽 (@leahmcelrath) March 1, 2018
clearing my schedule and stocking up on popcorn and adult beverages.
BREAKING: Georgia lawmakers pass bill that effectively punishes Delta Air Lines for cutting ties with the NRA.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 1, 2018
Who has more to lose? Delta for moving its headquarters out of Georgia, or the state defending its right wing extremists right to a voluntary discount?
The GOP/NRA has chosen.
Delta should move HQ out of Georgia. It needs Georgia less than Georgia needs the jobs. https://t.co/pYdS7uX9Hd— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 1, 2018
Having not had enough bad press coverage for his “town halls,” Trump now to meet with game developers.
I’m sure that’s going to go over well, as game developers are known for their diplomatic nature and adherence to authority.////
re: #392 sagehen
Also makes Chaffetz’ “they need Jesus” extra offensive.
thats where i was going above
re: #494 Blind Frog Belly White
And Mary-jew-wanna, don’t forget that.
It’s all connected. I’ve slaughtered thousands of video game characters while hopped up on the Mary Jane.
re: #499 Eclectic Cyborg
Down finishes down 400 for the day.
Wall Street says ixnay on the arifffstay.
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) March 1, 2018
Inside of 24 hours, Trump has suggested that cops should just grab guns from anyone they think is dangerous and that killing people suspected of committing crimes is something to be encouraged.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
don’t know whether to cry or point and laugh…
John Kelly: “The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/ZGNGVXh1MM
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2018
re: #502 Kragar
I wonder how many video games he plays.
re: #496 lawhawk
Georgia GOP is helping speed up the timeline to turn their state Blue. Well played.
First Listen: Jimi Hendrix, ‘Both Sides Of The Sky’
From the Electric Ladyland vault.
re: #409 mmmirele
If the GOP were to go completely Evangelical and hard core, I could see the Intermountain West Mormons learning quickly they’re not welcome. Because, seriously, Evangelicals consider Mormons unsaved cultists. I don’t understand why Mormons join up with a group that would have no respect for their religious beliefs and see Mormons as ripe for conversion.
I feel the same way about the Roman Catholics I know that are strict Repubs (I’m looking at you dad). I tried to explain to him that they consider his religion “the whore of Babylon”. I talked to many Evangelicals in the south in my 14 years living there that held that belief. But what are ya gonna do.
Mountain Equipment Co-op to drop brands tied to a US assault weapon maker. Includes Bollé sunglasses, Bushnell binoculars & rifle scopes, CamelBak water storage systems, Camp Chef outdoor grills & stoves, Jimmy Styks paddleboards. MEC making the move after ‘listening to members.’
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) March 1, 2018
As it turns out, gun makers don’t just make guns.
Well done, @mec! https://t.co/zjf4yrtRjj— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 1, 2018
1/ So, we discovered PowerPoint presentations delivered by top execs at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) that described @realDonaldTrump as an “autocratic leader” who runs his administration “like a bad family owned small business.” https://t.co/FV8nczHfKv
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) March 1, 2018
This thread is insane. A major lobby group calls out Trumpworld for the dumpster fire it is (and it is one that actually supports some of the Trump positions). https://t.co/cR1NeafwGC
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 1, 2018
ProPublica got their hands on a powerpoint issued by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to its members, and they call out Trumpworld for the dumpster fire it is.
Sure, they may like some of the economic policies (though I doubt they’ll like the steel/aluminium tariffs Trump’s pushing today), but ultimately they find the entire administration to be dysfunctional and incompetent. Loyalty and family ties trump competence.
It’s everything anyone but the GOP/NRA cultists have been saying since the moment Trump ran for office.
Dow drops 420 points, but…..
….Dick’s Sporting Goods ticks up slightly.
re: #502 Kragar
Someone needs to check whether he took a call from Duterte in the past 24 hours.
re: #503 Backwoods_Sleuth
God punished him by forcing him to support a racist President?
By forcing him to lie about a Black Congresswoman?
By forcing him to make stupid comments about the Civil War?
By forcing him to make bigoted comments about “lazy” immigrants?
Nope. He’s exactly where he’s supposed to be. He’s just as horrible as his President.
re: #505 Dr. Matt
Georgia GOP is helping speed up the timeline to turn their state Blue. Well played.
NICE TIME! Georgia Civil Rights Worker Not Guilty Of Blackness, We Mean Voter Fraud! (Wonkette):
Last April, we brought you the insane story of Olivia Pearson, a civil rights worker and member of the city commission in Douglas, Georgia, who had been accused of voter fraud after showing a first-time voter how to use the voting machine at a polling place. The local Republican prosecutor decided to charge her with illegally assisting the voter and of falsely swearing on a form that a poll worker had asked her to sign. The jury in her trial deadlocked, so she was retried — and granted a change of venue to another county, 60 miles away. Yesterday, the second jury found Pearson not guilty.
As we pointed out last year, Pearson is a dangerous troublemaker in Douglas. She was elected as the town’s first African-American commissioner in 1999, and has constantly worked to get black voters registered and to the polls in Douglas. Pearson also headed a successful drive to elect the county’s first black sheriff, Democrat Doyle Wooten, and she’d been very vocal in standing up for black citizens who had felt singled out by police. As we say, a troublemaker.
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re: #513 dangerman
i think you mean “crazy”
(ducks)
My mother the O’Hare musician/clinical psychologist notes “crazy is a technical term for use by professionals only.” /pedant
re: #468 bill d. (b.d.)
I am not going to be lectured about gun verbage from anyone who calls it the Democrat Party.
if changing the words changed their destructive power i’d be first in line
re: #516 dangerman
if changing the words changed their destructive power i’d be first in line
The funny thing is, hollow point bullets are far more destructive than hollow, pointless arguments.
//
re: #507 Eventual Carrion
I feel the same way about the Roman Catholics I know that are strict Repubs (I’m looking at you dad). I tried to explain to him that they consider his religion “the whore of Babylon”. I talked to many Evangelicals in the south in my 14 years living there that held that belief. But what are ya gonna do.
Other than abortion, I really don’t understand why so many Catholics are Republican. I grew up as both (added benefit of being half-Cuban), and it rarely made sense. The Cuban part, I at least understand on anti-communist grounds, but that stopped mattering in a real way when I was in junior high school and the USSR dissolved.
BREAKING: Georgia lawmakers pass bill that effectively punishes Delta Air Lines for cutting ties with the NRA.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 1, 2018
Republicans are now pushing laws which attack companies for NOT offering deals to members of a special interest group.
Let that sink in for a moment. https://t.co/BMqy5WeFrj— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 1, 2018
re: #502 Kragar
Inside of 24 hours, Trump has suggested that cops should just grab guns from anyone they think is dangerous and that killing people suspected of committing crimes is something to be encouraged.
AND THE RESPONSE TO THIS INSANITY IS CRICKETS
Equifax says an additional 2.4M people were affected by last year’s massive data breach that already impacted 145.5M customers.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 1, 2018
Oath Cancels Show Starring Muslim-Hater Pamela Geller’s Instagram-Star Daughters (The Daily Beast)
It sounds like it was a shitty show, and they’re shitty people, but no one should be fired just become their mom is infamous.
re: #521 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy shit, they’re dripping like flies.
Like someone said yesterday, “The last two hours have been one hell of a week.”
BREAKING: White House preparing for exit of national security adviser HR McMaster -
NBC News https://t.co/rxPXMvVskU— CNBC (@CNBC) March 1, 2018
They’re dropping like flies…
Or escaping while they still can.
They’re leaving so that they can spend more time… .with a grand jury. https://t.co/rqkusDdGAk— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 1, 2018
re: #521 Eclectic Cyborg
The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico quit too.
It seems like a lifetime ago that Trump was proposing an unConstitutional gun grab.
re: #515 Anymouse 🌹
My mother the O’Hare musician/clinical psychologist notes “crazy is a technical term for use by professionals only.” /pedant
you’re pedanting on top of my pedant?
Trump has been closely watching special election in Pennsylvania and has told advisers that his supporters want him to do more on trade. He kept his top economic adviser, chief of staff & others in the dark to orchestrate an announcement that rattled many. https://t.co/KeHkuG8Kae
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 1, 2018
Trump is making this move on tariffs (in part) because of a congressional district that won’t exist in its current form in November? https://t.co/DkGgazNl6B
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) March 1, 2018
In other words, Trump’s a fucking moron.
(yeah, I repeat myself).
re: #519 Kragar
Okay. So Delta is packing up and moving its HQ, right? By the way, I thought Republicans were the party of businesses and respected business decisions. Guess not.
re: #529 Blind Frog Belly White
Last one out has to lock up.
I believe someone else will take care of the locking up.
WINTER STORM WARNINGS have been issued for the Northeast. We’ll have the breakdown on WeatherNation this evening. pic.twitter.com/bLkJc1k6hw
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) March 1, 2018
re: #472 The Vicious Babushka
I’d like to know the nickname that Putin gives to him.
His Pal (personal ass licker)
re: #532 lawhawk
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In other words, Trump’s a fucking moron.
(yeah, I repeat myself).
Only way it makes any sense is the assumption that he’s doing this in order to protect his “brand,” i.e. losing a high profile race like this would further diminish his appeal to the GOP.
re: #482 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
They’re so blind. Obviously, rock music is the real problem.
/
I thought it was pool halls.
re: #529 Blind Frog Belly White
Last one out has to be locked up.
re: #539 Targetpractice
Only way it makes any sense is the assumption that he’s doing this in order to protect his “brand,” i.e. losing a high profile race like this would further diminish his appeal to the GOP.
how many high profile races has he actually won so far? His track record on this has been nothing to brag about.
re: #543 Belafon
First one to flip gets the top bunk.
Trump at today’s White House Opioid Summit: “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty. And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do.” https://t.co/4H6HXVQbCq
— Julia Lurie (@julia_lurie) March 1, 2018
He’s just channeling his inner Duterte. https://t.co/1umNvT5KYG
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 1, 2018
The crazy we are living in this thread
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Herewith I offer a short and incomplete history of February 2018 in Trumpworld … pic.twitter.com/M9bu1kzOR5— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) March 1, 2018
“Under current law, the wives of #Army Special Forces veterans are specifically protected from deportation orders.”
SO… TRUMP IS BREAKING THE LAW TO DEPORT #VETERANS’ WIVES.
BUT HE EXPECTS THE MILITARY TO GIVE HIM A BIG PARADE… ON #VETERANSDAY?
https://t.co/SEvNmICYCz— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 1, 2018
re: #518 KGxvi
Other than abortion, I really don’t understand why so many Catholics are Republican. I grew up as both (added benefit of being half-Cuban), and it rarely made sense. The Cuban part, I at least understand on anti-communist grounds, but that stopped mattering in a real way when I was in junior high school and the USSR dissolved.
Back in the 60s many Catholics were Democrats. I think that held through the 70s too. But when Reagan came things changed. I think he managed to sell his steaming pile of old time religion, anti-porn, anti-abortion and America the great white nation to many and they bought into Republican thinking. IMO.
11:25AM - “President Trump has decided against announcing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on Thursday after 18 hours of frenetic pushback from inside the White House and on Capitol Hill,” the Washington Post reports.
1:29PM - President Trump said “that he will impose stiff and sweeping tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum as he moved to fulfill a key campaign promise to get tough on foreign competitors,” the New York Times reports.
Fuck Infrastructure Week…we’re living in Infrastructure Year.
re: #520 Dr. Matt
BREAKING: HR McMaster is leaving the WH
It’s going to be nothing but Trump family before too long. What a freaking mess this White House is.
re: #554 ObserverArt
It’s going to be nothing but Trump family before too long. What a freaking mess this White House is.
Can Ivanka get a security clearance, given that her husband is so vulnerable to financial manipulation?
Interesting trendlines:
Millennials were trending Republican but that has sharply reversed.
Gen X used to be Republican but has flipped.
Boomers are still slightly Democrat.
Only the Silents - the oldest cohort - have become more Republican. pic.twitter.com/E9WP9xVZuU— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 1, 2018
IMO this is “thermostatic” politics in action. Gen X was scarred by Bush. Millennials and Gen Z will be scarred by Trump.
Narrow victories for incompetent, unpopular leaders are probably a pyrrhic victory in the long run.— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 1, 2018
re: #520 Dr. Matt
BREAKING: HR McMaster is leaving the WH
Explains that he wants to spend more time with Melania.
On loans given to Kushner companies by entities Kushner has met with in WH: “There is little precedent for a top White House official meeting with executives of companies as they contemplate sizable loans to his business, say government ethics experts.”https://t.co/1bcJqAVddF
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 1, 2018
Yet the WH refused to comment on this today, referring questions to his attorney — even thought he’s a senior WH adviser and these meetings occcured at the WH. https://t.co/AheBnBYXvA
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 1, 2018
and
Things are still pretty bleak inside the White House,” the source said. “I’ve talked to several people in the last week trying to find a way out, but they can’t get out because no one is really hiring people with Trump White House experience.
what a surprise
1. no one wants to hire any of them
2. now they have some meager idea what it’s like for most americans who cant just quit and find another job (or move) when they are faced with discrimination , sexual harassment, limits on their health insurance (hobby lobby), etc.
there arent always opportunities, or means to “just move if youre not happy”
Let’s have a live look inside the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/T1F44AzLpR
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 1, 2018
re: #534 Patricia Kayden
Okay. So Delta is packing up and moving its HQ, right? By the way, I thought Republicans were the party of businesses and respected business decisions. Guess not.
Hint. They are not really the Republican party, they just assumed the name. All the real Republicans left back in the Bush times. What we have now is the residue of all the bad that was left behind, otherwise known as scum.
From a statement by the American International Auto Dealers Association:@CNBC #tariffs pic.twitter.com/YtMsCfLiQ0
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 1, 2018
re: #496 lawhawk
I hear Ohio is doing a lot of infrastructure work and would love to be @Delta’s new HQ. NY and Chicago, too. And don’t forget VA.
Delta has options. GA…not so much.
And they did this after a school lock down. Republicans are unstable.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 1, 2018
re: #559 dangerman
and
what a surprise
1. no one wants to hire any of them2. now they have some meager idea what it’s like for most americans who cant just quit and find another job (or move) when they are faced with discrimination , sexual harassment, limits on their health insurance (hobby lobby), etc.
there arent always opportunities, or means to “just move if youre not happy”
And why hire somebody who’s likely to be indicted soon, anyway?
re: #557 whitebeach
Explains that he wants to spend more time with Melania.
Melania couldn’t be found for comment.
re: #558 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s little precedent for ANYTHING this White House does.
re: #555 Blind Frog Belly White
Can Ivanka get a security clearance, given that her husband is so vulnerable to financial manipulation?
The answer should be no. She’s susceptible to the same exact pressure/financial chicanery that would compromise US national security.
There’s no way she should have clearance either, but we know Trump doesn’t give a shit about national security.
We also know the GOP doesn’t give a shit about national security or handling of classified information unless they can make it all about Hillary (who actually did better in handling classified info than Trump ever has).
Trump’s repeatedly allowed his family access to classified info when they never should have gotten their hands on this info.
On the plus side, they probably don’t have a clue what they’re looking at.
The negative side is they don’t know what they’re looking at and don’t care to find out, but will be more than happy to pass it on to the Russians anyway.
re: #566 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s little precedent for ANYTHING this White House does.
There is if you broaden the frame of reference to third-world tinpot dictatorships…
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh? This probably won’t sit well with Fuckface Von Clownstick’s puppetmaster Putin.
NEW: U.S. officially announces sale to Ukraine of 210 javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers, worth $47 million.
— ABC News (@ABC) March 1, 2018
Abigail Tracy at Vanity Fair deserves some kudos.
This is from more than a week ago:
One way to help decimate a city’s economy is to lose a major airline hub. Look at Memphis after Northwestern was absorbed into Delta and then left the city altogether. Their airport could be used for a Walking Dead set now.
Like most brewers, we are selling an increasing amount of our beers in aluminum cans, and this action will cause aluminum prices to rise. It is likely to lead to job losses across the beer industry. (2/3)
— MillerCoors (@MillerCoors) March 1, 2018
re: #566 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s little precedent for ANYTHING this White House does.
Well, they used to run these things called demolition derbies when I was I kid. Do they still do those?
re: #492 Anymouse 🌹
Then, “so this is how you dissemble for your atrocious vote, Senator? Too lazy to speak to Sandy Hook victims and parents?”
Sorry for the delay. Beer run. But short answer is, yep.
re: #559 dangerman
and
what a surprise
1. no one wants to hire any of them2. now they have some meager idea what it’s like for most americans who cant just quit and find another job (or move) when they are faced with discrimination , sexual harassment, limits on their health insurance (hobby lobby), etc.
there arent always opportunities, or means to “just move if youre not happy”
The sympathy I feel for these folks who only wanted a shot at TrumpTV but decided to fuck up the entire country.
such a moron
Together, we will face this challenge as a national family with conviction, with unity, and with a commitment to love and support our neighbors in times of dire need. Working together, we will defeat this #OpioidEpidemic.
Full Opioid Summit: https://t.co/qqfeVr4BBf pic.twitter.com/oFvr0DJMEf— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2018
re: #555 Blind Frog Belly White
Can Ivanka get a security clearance, given that her husband is so vulnerable to financial manipulation?
Does it matter to Trump is the bigger question? He’s already trashed anything that could be considered normal procedures of how the U.S. Government is operated.
The Utah House of Representatives made a rap video about how a bill becomes law, and somehow it’s worse than you would expect pic.twitter.com/Dq3U7RwGBu
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 1, 2018
Oh. My. Fucking. God. All that work @Eminem did to legitimize white rappers is flushed down the toilet in one fell swoop by dorko legislators in Utah. This is among the worst rap of all time. Must be heard to be believed. https://t.co/2QR8ifaAe7
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 1, 2018
re: #579 teleskiguy
I’m going to stick with being an atheist. I refuse to believe it.
re: #573 Stanley Sea
I mean, on the one hand, it’s better out of glass bottles, but it’s fucking amazing that Trump is just going to try and piss everyone off.
re: #496 lawhawk
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I’m waiting for the announcement that Delta will be relocating their national hub out of Hartsfield-Jackson (Atlanta International) Airport to another facility. That move alone will cost the state BILLIONS of dollars as it will definitely remove their designation as the world’s busiest passenger airport.
re: #575 Bubblehead II
Sorry for the delay. Beer run. But short answer is, yep.
Get it before the cost of the cans goes up! Damn tariffs!
I have a bunch of treat packages to deliver (Purim is like a Jewish Halloween but with a reverse “Trick or Treat” in which costumed revelers bring treats to their friends and neighbors). Fuck it if I am going out in this mess.
We only had one candy delivery from a neighbor, who came before the snow got really hard.
All snow is now falling across the region, with rates up to 1”/hr possible from now until 8-10pm. Roads slick w/ reduced visibilities. #miwx pic.twitter.com/kTPh4ERMIh
— NWS Detroit (@NWSDetroit) March 1, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, in a move orchestrated by CoS John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five sources. pic.twitter.com/QsonsfU5EI
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 1, 2018
If Bolton replaces McMaster (and I’ve heard Kelly likes Bolton), we are all going to die. https://t.co/ZZbQyVuATU
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) March 1, 2018
If Kelly likes Bolton, he TRULY is “General Jackass”. https://t.co/x5Vd8o09kR
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) March 1, 2018
re: #558 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“All questions regarding a major member of the White House selling access through his office should go to his lawyer. Now let’s go back to discussing the Clinton Foundation selling access to Hillary Clinton…”
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Watch American car prices go up and imports down thus hurting the economy even more.
Next up tariffs on import cars.
Meanwhile it’s 51° F at my twenty in the middle of the still snow starved Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Water managers are kind of freaking out.
re: #582 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I’m waiting for the announcement that Delta will be relocating their national hub out of Hartsfield-Jackson (Atlanta International) Airport to another facility. That move alone will cost the state BILLIONS of dollars as it will definitely remove their designation as the world’s busiest passenger airport.
I would think it would take months to logistically determine how to make a move that big. I don’t think there are a lot of airports in the country that could handle the traffic that isn’t a hub for a carrier now. Denver could, I suppose, but their weather is not great. I would almost expect them to go to Minneapolis where NW used to be but left when they merged with Delta. Again, weather. Does corporate need to be where the airport is? Maybe, maybe not.
It is beyond troubling that Republicans are willing to kill commerce for this.
I don’t get shocked by them much any longer but this completely shocks me.
re: #559 dangerman
If it was easy I wouldn’t still be living in GA. It’s not for a lack of trying either. I’d be in Colorado or N. CA if it was that fucking simple. The idea it’s easy is from idiots who have no clue what it is to relocate or from rich assholes who never have to give it a second thought.
Like most brewers, we are selling an increasing amount of our beers in aluminum cans, and this action will cause aluminum prices to rise. It is likely to lead to job losses across the beer industry. (2/3)
— MillerCoors (@MillerCoors) March 1, 2018
This is going to leave a mark on trump voters. Most of the ones I know drink cheap beer from cans. https://t.co/eRaDm921jg
— Josh M. (@dreggas) March 1, 2018
re: #551 ObserverArt
Back in the 60s many Catholics were Democrats. I think that held through the 70s too. But when Reagan came things changed. I think he managed to sell his steaming pile of old time religion, anti-porn, anti-abortion and America the great white nation to many and they bought into Republican thinking. IMO.
Evangelical wingnut advisor to Ronald Reagan, Paul Weyrich, actually came up with the idea of selling abortion scares to Catholics.
Weyrich was after political power in the Republican party for Evangelicals, and Catholics were useful idiots for the GOP goal due to their long-standing anti-abortion and anti-contraception opposition.
Evangelicals themselves originally viewed those issues as “a Catholic problem,” and the Southern Baptist Convention was originally pro-Roe v Wade. Weyrich welded the two groups together to gain and maintain power for conservatives. The SBC and other Christian sects that were (and are) racist were also rolled up into the Christian voting bloc for Reagan.
Weyrich played on each Christian sect’s particular hobby horse against secular laws to roll them all up into the Christian Coalition which support Reagan (and the GOP ever since).
They are all still useful idiots, since conservatives don’t care about them, they care about gaining and maintaining power.
re: #591 A Mom Anon
If it was easy I wouldn’t still be living in GA. It’s not for a lack of trying either. I’d be in Colorado or N. CA if it was that fucking simple. The idea it’s easy is from idiots who have no clue what it is to relocate or from rich assholes who never have to give it a second thought.
exactly so
I can’t realistically imagine Delta removing its hub from Atlanta. If I’m going south from western New York, I’m not going to be doing it through MSP or Denver and adding multiple hours and potential bad-weather delays to my trip.
But its corporate headquarters? Those don’t have to be in the same city as the hub, and that is a lever Delta could use against the morons running Georgia right now.
re: #588 teleskiguy
Meanwhile it’s 51° F at my twenty in the middle of the still snow starved Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Water managers are kind of freaking out.
It snowed here off and on all day yesterday, but the sidewalk stayed dry. The snow would land, melt, and evaporate before the next flake hit.
re: #595 ipsos
I can’t realistically imagine Delta removing its hub from Atlanta. If I’m going south from western New York, I’m not going to be doing it through MSP or Denver and adding multiple hours and potential bad-weather delays to my trip.
But its corporate headquarters? Those don’t have to be in the same city as the hub, and that is a lever Delta could use against the morons running Georgia right now.
If fuel costs increase to the point of unsustainability, they will be gone in a heartbeat.
re: #595 ipsos
I can’t realistically imagine Delta removing its hub from Atlanta. If I’m going south from western New York, I’m not going to be doing it through MSP or Denver and adding multiple hours and potential bad-weather delays to my trip.
But its corporate headquarters? Those don’t have to be in the same city as the hub, and that is a lever Delta could use against the morons running Georgia right now.
Nashville, Charlotte, Louisville, and Jacksonville are all locations in the region that would accomplish the same goal as Atlanta. Not sure how the airports there are, and whether they’d be able to support a hub, but I’m guessing the state and local governments there would be all about the infrastructure investment, development, and jobs that would come with a Delta hub move.
er this guy
auto industry executive Stephen Biegun
Gun maker American Outdoor plunges more than 20% after-hours following earnings release that showed sales drop. https://t.co/bUOnqbokv7 pic.twitter.com/GWb1VcQaZp
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 1, 2018
I’m off for a nap, catch y’all later. Like Teleskiguy, I’m railing against the temps here (57F now). Snow is our rainy season in what is a very arid part of the country. Little to no snow in the winter means drought the rest of the year, harming farming and ranching.
re: #595 ipsos
I can’t realistically imagine Delta removing its hub from Atlanta. If I’m going south from western New York, I’m not going to be doing it through MSP or Denver and adding multiple hours and potential bad-weather delays to my trip.
But its corporate headquarters? Those don’t have to be in the same city as the hub, and that is a lever Delta could use against the morons running Georgia right now.
Yeah, they are not leaving Hartsfield. No way.
Meanwhile darthstar is going to get some all time skiing this weekend. You skiing this weekend? I think you should go skiing this weekend. Can’t go wrong with eyeball deep snow.
re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth
when Manchin decides to be a jerk, he goes all in with the stupidity:
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Only think Manchin cares about is Manchin - He thinks guns! will help him get re-elected.
Someone here called it earlier — dickhead baseball coach fired:
Reminder NASA launch is in 6.5 minutes! Looks to be good to go.
re: #599 KGxvi
Nashville, Charlotte, Louisville, and Jacksonville are all locations in the region that would accomplish the same goal as Atlanta. Not sure how the airports there are, and whether they’d be able to support a hub, but I’m guessing the state and local governments there would be all about the infrastructure investment, development, and jobs that would come with a Delta hub move.
Charlotte is already a hub for…someone. Nice airport.
Atlanta is an international airport with final destinations in Europe and South America. I am sure Nashville or Memphis would love the traffic…and the jobs.
re: #547 darthstar
some countries have similar penalties for treason…. just sayin’
re: #608 MsJ
Charlotte is already a hub for…someone. Nice airport.
Atlanta is an international airport with final destinations in Europe and South America. I am sure Nashville or Memphis would love the traffic…and the jobs.
I was just looking at a map, trying to figure out what made sense geographically.
re: #599 KGxvi
Nashville, Charlotte, Louisville, and Jacksonville are all locations in the region that would accomplish the same goal as Atlanta. Not sure how the airports there are, and whether they’d be able to support a hub, but I’m guessing the state and local governments there would be all about the infrastructure investment, development, and jobs that would come with a Delta hub move.
I’ve flown through all of those airports (except Louisville) in the last few years. Charlotte is already a hub for American (ex-USAir). None of those airports has anywhere near the capacity a Delta hub would require. It could be built, but it would take years to accomplish.
And frankly, it’s not as though the state governments in KY, TN, NC or FL are much more enlightened than Georgia right now. (Give or take the governorship of NC.)
re: #590 MsJ
I would think it would take months to logistically determine how to make a move that big. I don’t think there are a lot of airports in the country that could handle the traffic that isn’t a hub for a carrier now. Denver could, I suppose, but their weather is not great. I would almost expect them to go to Minneapolis where NW used to be but left when they merged with Delta. Again, weather. Does corporate need to be where the airport is? Maybe, maybe not.
It is beyond troubling that Republicans are willing to kill commerce for this.
I don’t get shocked by them much any longer but this completely shocks me.
The start would be to announce that they are looking and entertaining bids with the statement that GA is no longer a hospitable and welcoming state for business. It will take months to do that. Then watch the votes come November.
re: #599 KGxvi
Nashville, Charlotte, Louisville, and Jacksonville are all locations in the region that would accomplish the same goal as Atlanta. Not sure how the airports there are, and whether they’d be able to support a hub, but I’m guessing the state and local governments there would be all about the infrastructure investment, development, and jobs that would come with a Delta hub move.
Jacksonville, Florida. I don’t think they are a hub for anyone.
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) is already a Delta Hub.
Would be no big deal moving corporate offices here.
re: #606 Flying Squirrel Girl
Someone here called it earlier — dickhead baseball coach fired:
*raises hand*
re: #614 Dr. Matt
Jacksonville, Florida. I don’t think they are a hub for anyone.
JAX might be too close to MIA in terms of air traffic.
re: #618 MsJ
JAX might be too close to MIA in terms of air traffic.
Orlando is closer to Miami. Orlando is a hub for Southwest.
Better hurry before all the tickets are gone:
Squishing science: Flat Earth International Conference coming to Edmonton
[…]
Davidson, who is also a creationist, launched the world’s first flat-earth conference in Raleigh, North Carolina last year and it sold out months in advance. He expects similar interest in Edmonton.
He believes there is no hard scientific proof that the earth is a sphere circling around the sun, saying, “Why don’t we have a 24/7 live stream of the spinning earth from space? [ed. we do.] Surely they could put it on the moon, they could put all these advertisers, they could market it.”
[…]
Davidson said there are “no atheists” in the flat earth community.
“Once you make earth just another planet like everything else, it loses its significance. It also loses its value based on the fact that we’re just a random accident exploded through the universe,” he said.
[…]
Relevant. https://t.co/9viJHAkSoE pic.twitter.com/RWZIR38MQ7
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) March 1, 2018
McMaster’s possible replacement has “Russia” in his bio 7x. https://t.co/3u9wrN0epO
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 1, 2018
re: #620 freetoken
It’s people like Davidson that pretty much prove we’re an accident.
That is one very bright launch…powerful. Looks good so far.
re: #613 allegro
Yeah. I think they’ve still got tons of leverage. I don’t think a move will happen and I think things will end up in their favor. I hope so too. I love Atlanta and know how important Delta is to the city. Know lots of folks who work there as well.
Obviously if the state is intent on screwing them, a move may have to happen which would likely take a while.
Americans: “Everything in Australia can kill you!”
Australians: “Probably not an AR-15.” pic.twitter.com/tSgbQnKIMJ— Variable (@variableaus) February 28, 2018
re: #605 fern01
Only think Manchin cares about is Manchin - He thinks guns! will help him get re-elected.
Manchin has remained a Democrat even though his state is deep red. He’s no different from any other politician in terms of deciding which battles to fight. He’s better than any replacement — because they would all be GOP.
EXCLUSIVE: White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, in a move orchestrated by CoS John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five sources. pic.twitter.com/QsonsfU5EI
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 1, 2018
I stepped out of the office to get a Coke and came back to this. Jesus Christ, when can we go back to a normally paced news cycle? https://t.co/AJnBBu0JNg
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 1, 2018
“Gun worship” overtakes alcoholic-fueled shamanistic rituals as most prevalent form of religion in U,S. Pennsylvania province.
Third most popular religion is christianity. pic.twitter.com/gvZNurG4K2— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 1, 2018
The statistics are absolutely shocking & the evidence is clear. The gun lobby can’t keep pretending we don’t know why we’re the only industrialized nation plagued by mass shootings. Republicans need to back commonsense gun laws to protect our communities! pic.twitter.com/CQRjujpokr
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) March 1, 2018
re: #614 Dr. Matt
Jacksonville, Florida. I don’t think they are a hub for anyone.
Florida is currently little better than Georgia where guns are concerned.
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 1, 2018
I understand guns. I learned about them in the Marines and in war. Who cares what you call the weapon? In the wrong hands, it ends a child’s life just the same. https://t.co/9GLfUholkP
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) March 1, 2018
re: #620 freetoken
Better hurry before all the tickets are gone:
Squishing science: Flat Earth International Conference coming to Edmonton
But are the attendees coming from all around the globe?
re: #631 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What I am honestly curious is what Tomi really knows about guns that isn’t right wing propaganda.
re: #613 allegro
The start would be to announce that they are looking and entertaining bids with the statement that GA is no longer a hospitable and welcoming state for business. It will take months to do that. Then watch the votes come November.
I commented much the same yesterday. Delta could change the state government in Georgia this year.
Sen. Dan Seum in floor speech: “We don’t have to pass any taxes,” points to casino gambling, cannabis and sports betting. ^JB
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 1, 2018
Sen Seum is a Republican and Majority Caucus Chair in the Kentucky General Assembly.
I am almost speechless about this…can’t stop blinking.
Gallego, a Congressman btw is right. I don’t care about the name. I care about an instrument of warfare being in the wrong hands.
re: #631 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tomi Lahren
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@TomiLahren
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
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Yes, I see the problem TerribleLiar — it’s psychopaths like you who care nothing about the slaughter of your fellow citizens.
re: #627 Ace-o-aces
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
One reason I highlighted the bit from that creationists, about his allegation of us not having video of the globe earth from space, is that indeed GOES-S is a geostationary satellite, and like its predecessors, every day sends plenty of images of the globe earth.
re: #639 allegro
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
IIRC, it was something he said that directly contradicted the yam…pretty much said the yam was an idiot.
A judge has permanently barred Indiana from trying to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees there, ruling on a 2015 order by then-Governor Mike Pence. https://t.co/tyo5BgkNp3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2018
Hey, @VP - Suck on this. Mike Pence is a fucking racist. So glad he got his bigoted order slapped down. https://t.co/Dvtwk5Rqj9
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 1, 2018
re: #639 allegro
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
I’m wondering the same. Every day with this bunch.
re: #643 HappyWarrior
I’m wondering the same. Every day with this bunch.
Three times a day with this bunch. I just ran a couple of scripts and came back to find McMaster’s leaving.
re: #639 allegro
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
Coincidence that McMaster recently acknowledged Russian meddling and now Trump wants him out..
Trump is refusing to protect the American people from ongoing attacks by Russia and the @GOP need to get him out before it’s too late!
We know Trump represents the Kremlin pic.twitter.com/7USjroTndB— Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ (@olgaNYC1211) March 1, 2018
*snort*
Trump could personally, literally, violently sodomize each and every member of his base and lose maybe 2%. For a week. These people are stoooopid.
— Ronald Reagan’s Spinning Corpse (@SpinningRonnie) February 28, 2018
re: #639 allegro
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
It was this.
General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems. Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018
re: #641 Backwoods_Sleuth
IIRC, it was something he said that directly contradicted the yam…pretty much said the yam was an idiot.
Didn’t Kelly call yammish a fucking idiot?
re: #502 Kragar
Inside of 24 hours, Trump has suggested that cops should just grab guns from anyone they think is dangerous and that killing people suspected of committing crimes is something to be encouraged.
He is not responsible for anything he says. Nor will he be taken seriously to task by the media for his utterances.
re: #645 Backwoods_Sleuth
Apparently, so does GENERAL Kelly. Whose military he supports at this point is uncertain. I doubt it is America’s though.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 1, 2018
re: #645 Backwoods_Sleuth
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All this from the Chief Bozo who said he won bigly and he has nothing to hide and the Russian didn’t collude because he never talked to them and, and and…
GOES-S will eventually become GOES-west when operational.
GOES-16 recently became GOES-east.
While neat things, one item I don’t like is how the images are distributed. Because more of this stuff is now contracted out, you have to go to dedicated satellite image websites because established websites are not re-done to work with the new data managers.
For example, the NHC website used to be a nice site to get satellite data, but now doesn’t have much from GOES-east:
nhc.noaa.gov
… but they say the “transition” is still in progress.
I wonder, given the current Administration, how much work is going to be scuttled that was planned.
re: #458 Anymouse 🌹
Dow now down 417.74
There is no business safe from a Donald Trump bankruptcy.
The economics of tariffs went downhill sometime in the 1960s. Trump and whoever told him a steel tariff was a MAKA option have no idea what it would cost to rebuild the US steel industry to replace imports.
So we get a few options - rising cost of cars - rising inflation - rising interest rates - collapse of housing market - collapse of car industry - another recession & as no-one in this administration has any idea as to how to proceed - election of a democrat to get the USA out of the GOP created mess. Two years later, after GOPers tantrums - re-elect GOP congress to do it all again.
Please don’t spread this video of a student being dragged away by cops as she accuses Steven Mnuchin of engaging in “the politics of fascism.” Mnuchin asked UCLA not to post it. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/AynOpaoyKm
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 1, 2018
re: #654 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Silence from those who cry about people boycotting Milo.
Also notice how the NASA video announcers on the video webpage kept calling it a “weather” satellite.
Yes, the GOES satellites are used as such, but the “E” stands for “Environmental”, and the GOES satellites are also used for climate research. But “climate” is a word not in favor with the current regime.
re: #480 Anymouse 🌹
Sean Hannity: Hope Hicks Should Come Work for FOX News Channel
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Probably the reason her hair color is getting lighter as she spends longer in a RW cocoon.
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?”
Brian Tracy— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 1, 2018
re: #649 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is not responsible for anything he says. Nor will he be taken seriously to task by the media for his utterances.
Ca we stop this please? Yes there’s rightwing media and a few MS media individuals *cough* Haberman*cough* carrying Trump’s water but when I turn on CNN and PBS Trump is trounced seriously and all of this shit is discussed. It’s certainly the case at MSNBC, Washington Post, even the Houston freaking Chronicle, and other major media outlets. This debilitating woe-is-us-we’re-DOOMED negativity isn’t doing anyone any good.
/end rant
re: #653 fern01
The economics of tariffs went downhill sometime in the 1960s. Trump and whoever told him a steel tariff was a MAKA option have no idea what it would cost to rebuild the US steel industry to replace imports.
People voted for a man who offered simple (i.e. simplistic) solutions that the “common people” could relate to. This all sounds good and he will be able to point to a few local successes to defend his position and his supporters will go along because they believe it and his party will begrudgingly support their President and the press will not challenge him seriously because they no longer believe it is their job to do anything other than report public opinion as it is expressed on Twitter and social media..
re: #639 allegro
What did McMaster do to piss off Kelly and Mattis? I can’t even keep up.
Here comes Nat Sec Adviser Stephen Miller (my prediction).
A lot of people talk about taking on Trump, but I have a plan to do it. I just released my “Blueprint for Resistance,” which explains how I would use the legal system to stop Trump. Check it out: https://t.co/KhTxAe7JBC
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 1, 2018
(for those who are not familiar, Mr Mariotti is running for Illinois Attorney General)
If there were any real justice in this world this is how the saga of Fuckface Von Clownstick would end.
— The Simpsons (@simpsons_vids) November 19, 2017
re: #661 Big Beautiful Door
Here comes Nat Sec Adviser Stephen Miller (my prediction).
What would THAT confirmation hearing look like, I wonder?
re: #659 allegro
Ca we stop this please? Yes there’s rightwing media and a few MS media individuals *cough* Haberman*cough* carrying Trump’s water but when I turn on CNN and PBS Trump is trounced seriously and all of this shit is discussed. It’s certainly the case at MSNBC, Washington Post, even the Houston freaking Chronicle, and other major media outlets. This debilitating woe-is-us-we’re-DOOMED negativity isn’t doing anyone any good.
/end rant
no. because the press has abdicated any responsibility for doing anything but reporting public opinion as it appears in Twitter and social media. The fact that Trump got into office and has remained there this long shows us the degree of decline we are in.
We are beyond fucked.
re: #599 KGxvi
Nashville, Charlotte, Louisville, and Jacksonville are all locations in the region that would accomplish the same goal as Atlanta. Not sure how the airports there are, and whether they’d be able to support a hub, but I’m guessing the state and local governments there would be all about the infrastructure investment, development, and jobs that would come with a Delta hub move.
re: #614 Dr. Matt
Jacksonville, Florida. I don’t think they are a hub for anyone.
re: #630 Hecuba’s daughter
Florida is currently little better than Georgia where guns are concerned.
Atlanta operates 5 runways, simultaneously, Jacksonville has two, operates one at a time depending on the prevailing wind.
Jacksonville has 20 gates, Atlanta has something like 200.
I’ll stop there.
re: #665 ipsos
What would THAT confirmation hearing look like, I wonder?
That’s the beauty of it; the Nat Sec Advisor doesn’t have to be confirmed.
re: #666 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
no. because the press has abdicated any responsibility for doing anything but reporting public opinion as it appears in Twitter and social media. The fact that Trump got into office and has remained there this long shows us the degree of decline we are in.
We are beyond fucked.
the fact that he was not laughed and derided out of office after his “I would have gone in there unarmed” comment sealed that for me.
re: #663 HappyWarrior
The latter sounds like someone we know in the WH.
sounds like EVERYONE in and associated with the WH.
re: #668 Big Beautiful Door
That’s the beauty of it; the Nat Sec Advisor doesn’t have to be confirmed.
Oh fuckity fuck.
Trump wants to cut NOAA’s budget by 20%:
FY19 Budget Request: 20% NOAA Cut Targets Research, Forecasters
re: #669 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the fact that he was not laughed and derided out of office after his “I would have gone in there unarmed” speech sealed that for me.
Well, leaving office after derisive laughters requires shame and embarassment from the subject. That’s not Trump.
It’s the other Republicans assholes we have to worry about…
I’m so close to a BINGO… please help me out, @PressSec pic.twitter.com/vk9SMwr5xU
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 1, 2018
re: #666 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
no. because the press has abdicated any responsibility for doing anything but reporting public opinion as it appears in Twitter and social media. The fact that Trump got into office and has remained there this long shows us the degree of decline we are in.
We are beyond fucked.
Perhaps you are unaware that it is Congress and not the media that has the power to remove him from office.
re: #649 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is not responsible for anything
he says. Nor will he be taken seriouslyto task by the media for his utterances.
re: #669 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the fact that he was not laughed and derided out of office after his “I would have gone in there unarmed” comment sealed that for me.
Then you are unaware of the laughter and derision that has been pervasive since he made that comment. Once again, you appear to be unaware of how the US government works.
re: #667 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Atlanta operates 5 runways, simultaneously, Jacksonville has two, operates one at a time depending on the prevailing wind.
Jacksonville has 20 gates, Atlanta has something like 200.
I’ll stop there.
It’s called infrastructure week years.
I’ll stop there.
re: #667 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Atlanta operates 5 runways, simultaneously, Jacksonville has two, operates one at a time depending on the prevailing wind.
Jacksonville has 20 gates, Atlanta has something like 200.
I’ll stop there.
All true. But Atlanta also has every airline operating out of it which makes a difference. Granted, not enough to ramp up straight away but that is not saying it couldn’t.
Nutty no fall zone.
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re: #679 MsJ
All true. But Atlanta also has every airline operating out of it which makes a difference. Granted, not enough to ramp up straight away but that is not saying it couldn’t.
If I never had to change flights at the Atlanta airport again I would take that as a big positive.
Police say a seventh-grader emerged from the bathroom of an Ohio school, ready to shoot students with a semi-automatic rifle. He then changed his mind, went back inside and killed himself. https://t.co/MXJmP6BXBL
— AP Eastern US (@APEastRegion) March 1, 2018
See ya creep
Eric Greitens used his charity’s email to help launch a campaign for Missouri governor. Federal law prohibits nonprofits from wading into politics. https://t.co/vr1ZXmD18X
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) March 1, 2018
re: #672 freetoken
Trump wants to cut NOAA’s budget by 20%:
FY19 Budget Request: 20% NOAA Cut Targets Research, Forecasters
There are a bunch of pay-for-play specialized privateer weather services that have long wanted the field to themselves.
GOP Sen Orrin Hatch: Obamacare supporters are ‘the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met’
The party of family values.
re: #682 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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i am sad
AND I AM MAD
this was a seventh grade 13 year old kid
WHOSE FUCKING GUN WAS IT?
re: #667 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I would encourage anyone who thinks Delta can find a new hub outside Atlanta to just look at a recent satellite photo of how freaking huge it is. It would take a huge investment of time and money to replicate that in another location.
If the state level idiots here do go through with this asinine plan, Delta would most likely do layoffs, freeze wages and find other ways to cut expenses to make up for the loss.
Also, it might be time to apply pressure to Cabela’s. They just built one of their largest stores here north of Atlanta a year or so ago and it’s where a LOT of wingnuts buy their war toys.
re: #532 lawhawk
From the Link
For months, there had been weekly trade meetings on Tuesdays with Navarro, Ross, Cohn, U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer and national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
Wonder if this was the last straw for McMaster?
re: #674 Skip Intro
Dude. You are one Sessions away from getting the best BINGO ever.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 1, 2018
re: #688 dangerman
i am sad
AND I AM MADthis was a seventh grade 13 year old kid
WHOSE FUCKING GUN WAS IT?
Law-abiding responsible good guy’s.
re: #687 Dr. Matt
GOP Sen Orrin Hatch: Obamacare supporters are ‘the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met’
The party of family values.
“You know those words he just used. he didnt mean those words, he meant these words….”
re: #675 allegro
Perhaps you are unaware that it is Congress and not the media that has the power to remove him from office.
A congress which has completely abdicated its responsibility and one in which several members are way too sympathetic to a hostile foreign nation.
re: #679 MsJ
All true. But Atlanta also has every airline operating out of it which makes a difference. Granted, not enough to ramp up straight away but that is not saying it couldn’t.
That’s another piece of the puzzle. ATL has international flight capacity (customs, runways and gates for A380s and 787s) that would be hard to scale up at JAX or SDF or wherever.
re: #681 allegro
If I never had to change flights at the Atlanta airport again I would take that as a big positive.
No kidding. Hartsfield and DFW are the worst. I was on the train for so long at DFW I thought I was training it all the way to Atlanta.
re: #673 gwangung
Well, leaving office after derisive laughters requires shame and embarassment from the subject. That’s not Trump.
It’s the other Republicans assholes we have to worry about…
Yes, there are enough blatant and egregious violations of the Emoluments Clause, conflicts of interests or cases of obstruction of justice they could bring him up on but they are not prepared to act at all.
The Mueller investigation is supposed to force them to act or appear complicit, but they are doing everything they can to position themselves to ignore its findings.
re: #687 Dr. Matt
GOP Sen Orrin Hatch: Obamacare supporters are ‘the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met’
The party of family values.
Well at least a whole bunch of us stupid, dumbass Obamacare people are still alive because of it. Guess if we were as smart as him we’d be sicker and dead.
Congrats to me - today I’m officially on Medicare!
re: #675 allegro
Perhaps you are unaware that it is Congress and not the media that has the power to remove him from office.
and Congress is not about to act on that unless the media turns on him and the voters turn on the GOP
re: #689 A Mom Anon
I would encourage anyone who thinks Delta can find a new hub outside Atlanta to just look at a recent satellite photo of how freaking huge it is. It would take a huge investment of time and money to replicate that in another location.
If the state level idiots here do go through with this asinine plan, Delta would most likely do layoffs, freeze wages and find other ways to cut expenses to make up for the loss.
Also, it might be time to apply pressure to Cabela’s. They just built one of their largest stores here north of Atlanta a year or so ago and it’s where a LOT of wingnuts buy their war toys.
They can redeploy a good bit of their HQ staff, maintenance, and even refueling without giving up the gate space. Our Fair Town, 40 minutes away, has a great deal of underutilized maintenance, and a strong aviation school spun off from the Army Aviation Center—Ft Rucker. Our airfield is max length, a legacy from when we had 5 fields training WWII crews.
Donald Trump (right) is seen screaming at unidentified groundskeeper, for daring to use American lawnmower made from affordable imported aluminum and steel. pic.twitter.com/puKmAzeSa3
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 1, 2018
When I worked in the obama administration I never flew first class, bought furniture, got a loan from a company I met with, was accused of Spousal abuse or told white lies. All we did was work. pic.twitter.com/4kvphyBeqp
— Judith Enck (@enckj) March 1, 2018
re: #677 allegro
Then you are unaware of the laughter and derision that has been pervasive since he made that comment. Once again, you appear to be unaware of how the US government works.
I am aware of the climate of political discourse, and the fact that Trump got into office and has remained there for as long as he has speaks volumes about how far we have declined as a democracy.
I am a complete pessimist in this respect.
Ever since “trending on Twitter” became a viable news item in itself, I have despaired for the future of democracy in the USA
re: #659 allegro
Ca we stop this please? Yes there’s rightwing media and a few MS media individuals *cough* Haberman*cough* carrying Trump’s water but when I turn on CNN and PBS Trump is trounced seriously and all of this shit is discussed. It’s certainly the case at MSNBC, Washington Post, even the Houston freaking Chronicle, and other major media outlets. This debilitating woe-is-us-we’re-DOOMED negativity isn’t doing anyone any good.
/end rant
Thank You!
I was going to post something similar, but decided not to because it wouldn’t change anything.
re: #696 Skip Intro
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In other news, all media reports on Uranium One just spontaneously combusted.
re: #692 Decatur Deb
Law-abiding responsible good guy.
if they were and a parent, friend, some one sold it to him - whatever
the second they lost control of that weapon to him, - jail, confiscation, loss of 2a rights, civil fines, the works
that entire school was at risk - i dont care how it turned out. the potential was there.
they should all be able to sue the gun owner.
let them all keep their guns - buy and own whatever they want
when are we going to stop screwing around and slap on some serious goddamn consequences after theyve PROVED they are reckless and dangerous??
Move over Conservapedia:
Without Women or Evolution: ‘Ultra-Orthodox Wikipedia’ Is Literally Rewriting History
To get started, the project’s leaders imported tens thousands of Wikipedia articles from the Hebrew-language Wikipedia and began rewriting their content according to what the editors term the ultra-Orthodox aspeklaria - from the Latin for “mirror.” Since Wikipedia is “open source”, there are no copyright issues involved.
The latter claim is not quite correct, though.
See: Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
re: #695 ipsos
That’s another piece of the puzzle. ATL has international flight capacity (customs, runways and gates for A380s and 787s) that would be hard to scale up at JAX or SDF or wherever.
Delta has neither.
Presidential historians all agree McGovern simply couldn’t handle this much Dick in 1972. pic.twitter.com/AbknJvBRj5
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 1, 2018
re: #699 allegro
Well at least a whole bunch of us stupid, dumbass Obamacare people are still alive because of it. Guess if we were as smart as him we’d be sicker and dead.
Congrats to me - today I’m officially on Medicare!
Congratulations, my old friend!
Wait, that came out wrong. :-D
re: #700 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and Congress is not about to act on that unless the media turns on him and the voters turn on the GOP
If then! They can see the shellacing they are going to take. They don’t care which makes me think they have done all they can do to rig the election. There is literally no other way I see them caring so little when the proof is in front of their faces - and they are admitting it to each other.
my sources are telling me McMaster is leaving the White House for a job at Fox News so he can have a more meaningful impact on informing the President on national security matters
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) March 1, 2018
re: #666 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
no. because the press has abdicated any responsibility for doing anything but reporting public opinion as it appears in Twitter and social media. The fact that Trump got into office and has remained there this long shows us the degree of decline we are in.
We are beyond fucked.
You are out of the country, right? Do you still vote in any American elections?
re: #689 A Mom Anon
I would encourage anyone who thinks Delta can find a new hub outside Atlanta to just look at a recent satellite photo of how freaking huge it is. It would take a huge investment of time and money to replicate that in another location.
If the state level idiots here do go through with this asinine plan, Delta would most likely do layoffs, freeze wages and find other ways to cut expenses to make up for the loss.
Also, it might be time to apply pressure to Cabela’s. They just built one of their largest stores here north of Atlanta a year or so ago and it’s where a LOT of wingnuts buy their war toys.
Yeah, there is efficiencies in hub-spoke operations. But, once established they’re pretty much set for life. The system is bound by it’s established infrastructure. For Delta to move, someone would need to give them their flight slots. It’s like Packers season tickets.
Charlotte is American’s hub, Ain’t moving in there. Nashville is one of Southwest’s, same deal.
There’s really no major airport sitting around with excess capacity
re: #704 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am aware of the climate of political discourse, and the fact that Trump got into office and has remained there for as long as he has speaks volumes about how far we have declined as a democracy.
I am a complete pessimist in this respect.
Ever since “trending on Twitter” became a viable news item in itself, I have despaired for the future of democracy in the USA
Twitter is the donut hole to Facebook’s giant birthday cake.
re: #687 Dr. Matt
GOP Sen Orrin Hatch: Obamacare supporters are ‘the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met’
The party of family values.
From the guy who told Trump he could be the greatest president ever. I happen to like not getting denied coverage due to my heart condition, you pompous gas bag.
re: #714 ObserverArt
You are out of the country, right? Do you still vote in any American elections?
yes, I vote absentee in Arizona. Only for symbolic purposes for the time being, AZ will not turn blue for some time.
I would like to be optimistic about long-term developments but the current state of things really disgusts me. Trump makes unfounded utterances that are not taken to task.
re: #716 MsJ
Twitter is the donut hole to Facebook’s giant birthday cake.
I delete political posts on FB regardless of their nature, and block or unfriend people who get too carried away. For me, FB is about friends and family, social and cultural events. If I want to discuss politics, I come to sites like this one.
re: #711 MsJ
Congratulations, my old friend!
Wait, that came out wrong. :-D
Heh, totally cool with it. In fact I revel in it. Surviving has been one of my funnest life accomplishments. I’m having a wonderful time. :D
Scaramucci says White House morale is “terrible,” blames John Kelly: https://t.co/fnM5HnKklQ pic.twitter.com/3ho1e8TGOT
— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018
Listen, and understand. That Scaramucci is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. https://t.co/8yjNjM6mAE
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 1, 2018
In case you needed another reason to dislike “Country” music:
CMA Foundation Elects Mike Huckabee to Its Board, Huckabee Swiftly Resigns [Updated]
[…] “Governor Huckabee led an impressive administration while serving the state of Arkansas and his policy experience with education reform is something we are fortunate to be able to learn from,” says Galante in the release that accompanies the announcement of Huckabee’s election.
[…]
Also see the RollingStone story:
UPDATE 2: Following a backlash from some members of the country music industry, conservative pundit and former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee has resigned from the CMA Foundation’s board of directors. “The CMA Foundation has accepted former Governor Mike Huckabee’s resignation from its Board of Directors, effective immediately,” the CMA told Rolling Stone Country in a statement. Huckabee was announced as a new member of the board of the CMA’s philanthropic organization on Wednesday night.
So Huckabee was on that board for what, a whole 1.01 Mooch?
re: #719 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I delete political posts on FB regardless of their nature, and block or unfriend people who get too carried away. For me, FB is about friends and family, social and cultural events. If I want to discuss politics, I come to sites like this one.
For you, sure. But what I was referring to was the impact they had on the last election. They charged Clinton 10x more for ads than Trump and they allowed all kinds of fake news to be on their platform. That is what I was referring to.
In the Drumpf-epoch, these headlines come at you fast.
re: #689 A Mom Anon
I would encourage anyone who thinks Delta can find a new hub outside Atlanta to just look at a recent satellite photo of how freaking huge it is. It would take a huge investment of time and money to replicate that in another location.
ATL has 4700 acres.
CVG has 7000.
And, as I said earlier, CVG is also a Delta hub. It’s also a huge cargo hub, especially with DHL and Amazon.
re: #626 Hecuba’s daughter
Manchin has remained a Democrat even though his state is deep red. He’s no different from any other politician in terms of deciding which battles to fight. He’s better than any replacement — because they would all be GOP.
I agree - but I think holding his seat at the moment is near impossible - staying out of the argument altogether will help him more than what he is currently doing.
re: #416 mmmirele
“Back when I lived in Utah in the 1990s, there were still some old folk who still referred to anyone who wasn’t Mormon (including Jews) as “Gentiles.” I’m hoping with the Internet that has faded away.”
There are still some persons here in GA that refer to Black Americans as “colored[s”] in the 21st Century.
A car blew up in Woodlawn after the driver spritzed an aerosol body spray in the vehicle and then lit a cigarette, police said. https://t.co/tMtbe0bHzn pic.twitter.com/Kta04FVtK5
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) March 1, 2018
re: #724 MsJ
Taking ads in rubles. Embedding consultants with the 45 campaign. Lying repeatedly about their role in the Russian subversion of their platform. Etc, etc, etc…
re: #724 MsJ
For you, sure. But what I was referring to was the impact they had on the last election. They charged Clinton 10x more for ads than Trump and they allowed all kinds of fake news to be on their platform. That is what I was referring to.
The fact that FB became a source for news stories and a place for political ads was another development that caused me to despair for the future of our republic.
re: #731 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The fact that FB became a source for news stories and a place for political ads was another development that caused me to despair for the future of our republic.
The only positive thing I think came from that is we can kiss a Mark Zuckerberg run for POTUS goodbye.
re: #689 A Mom Anon
I would encourage anyone who thinks Delta can find a new hub outside Atlanta to just look at a recent satellite photo of how freaking huge it is. It would take a huge investment of time and money to replicate that in another location.
If the state level idiots here do go through with this asinine plan, Delta would most likely do layoffs, freeze wages and find other ways to cut expenses to make up for the loss.
Also, it might be time to apply pressure to Cabela’s. They just built one of their largest stores here north of Atlanta a year or so ago and it’s where a LOT of wingnuts buy their war toys.
Chicago has an 8.5 billion dollar expansion planned for O’Hare. I bet we could handle this!
I would love for Delta and/or Amazon to come out and say that they can’t go to or stay in Republican held states because they are too unstable and provide too much uncertainty. The (free) market hates uncertainty.
re: #726 Backwoods_Sleuth
ATL has 4700 acres.
CVG has 7000.And, as I said earlier, CVG is also a Delta hub. It’s also a huge cargo hub, especially with DHL and Amazon.
O’Hare is 7200 acres. I know that Delta won’t relocate here — but one can dream!
re: #733 Hecuba’s daughter
Chicago has an 8.5 billion dollar expansion planned for O’Hare. I bet we could handle this!
Chicago is a hub for both American and United, it’s expansion is to meet it’s current & future forecasted needs. Which didn’t include a hub for Delta
I wonder if my cable provider will let me watch Jeopardy tonight. Cable went out the last two nights right when Jeopardy was on or coming on.
I stand with @Delta
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) March 1, 2018
Her voice is fake. Here’s what she really sounds like:https://t.co/6ZiGIt4dO6
— Mel Ankoly 🦈 (@Mel_Ankoly) March 1, 2018
re: #729 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Spritzed??? He must have sprayed the whole damn can/bottle to get that kind of explosion.
re: #741 ObserverArt
Spritzed??? He must have sprayed the whole damn can/bottle to get that kind of explosion.
My thoughts exactly
Spritz? Someone was damn near taking a deodorant shower for that amount of damage, with the driver’s window rolled down
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) March 1, 2018
re: #740 gocart mozart
Michael Jackson has a real voice too. That soft, effeminate voice one usually associates with him was not the real deal.
In new USA Today/Suffolk poll, one white Republican woman from the Midwest says she’s never heard of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/H3V2NeaOAC
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 1, 2018
Probably signed an NDA. https://t.co/W9GeShTDRj
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) March 1, 2018
re: #723 freetoken
In case you didn’t need another reason to dislike “Country” music:
CMA Foundation Elects Mike Huckabee to Its Board, Huckabee Swiftly Resigns [Updated]
Also see the RollingStone story:
So Huckabee was on that board for what, a whole 1.01 Mooch?
Calling all patriots! The CMA’s are taking a liberal stance against Governor Huckabee of all people!! I’m so sick of the crap!! Shut them down!! https://t.co/w17qL0B2Xp
— GRITS60 (@Mbrown0620) March 1, 2018
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha https://t.co/7an0lf2jZP
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) March 1, 2018
re: #744 JordanRules
I think by the end of Trump’s reign, a whole bunch of Republicans will say they never heard of trump, they didn’t vote for him but are sure he isn’t a republican.
OK, reality is that Delta doesn’t have any real options to move their hub operations out of Atlanta. Nor can they up and move their primary maintenance facility from there. Now, I bet Detroit, Minneapolis-Saint Paul and Salt Lake City would love to welcome their headquarters. I don’t see NY, LA, or Sea-Tac as options due to high property costs.
re: #745 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh yeah, those idiots are gonna shut down the CMA. I bet that association is made up of pure leftists and progressives.
Jeebus…how far can wacky go?
Wait, don’t answer that.
re: #747 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The loss of the tax credits just means that the Delta execs, who I bet most would woo Republicans as their stooges, will have less money to throw around.
Am I nightmaring, ministroking, or both? Just heard on NPR that Kellyanne Conway is going to be in charge of the opioid war. Can this be real?
Also that approx. half of U.S. aluminum is imported from Canada, whose trade minister today called Trump’s tariff madness “unacceptable.”
re: #747 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, reality is that Delta doesn’t have any real options to move their hub operations out of Atlanta. Nor can they up and move their primary maintenance facility from there. Now, I bet Detroit, Minneapolis-Saint Paul and Salt Lake City would love to welcome their headquarters. I don’t see NY, LA, or Sea-Tac as options due to high property costs.
Bet they bias their refueling strategy to stops with the cheapest go-juice.
re: #751 whitebeach
Perhaps Conway is going to supervise the executioners?
re: #751 whitebeach
Am I nightmaring, ministroking, or both? Just heard on NPR that Kellyanne Conway is going to be in charge of the opioid war. Can this be real?
Also that approx. half of U.S. aluminum is imported from Canada, whose trade minister today called Trump’s tariff madness “unacceptable.”
That was announced weeks ago.
John Kelly: “The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/ZGNGVXh1MM
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2018
This is a narrative Kelly cultivates well for media consumption. The miserable martyr/hostage who suffers to save us all. Please. Later in speech he said what Trump WH is doing is God’s work. https://t.co/Qz0jGRFhrz
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) March 1, 2018
William Kristol is on Ari Melber and he just said he thinks Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel left the White House due to the pressure Mueller put on them with his interviews. He is thinking Mueller told them if they stay in the White House they will continue to be swept up in the mess. It would be better for them to leave and work with the investigation.
re: #756 ObserverArt
William Kristol is on Ari Melber and he just said he thinks Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel left the White House due to the pressure Mueller put on them with his interviews. He is thinking Mueller told them if they stay in the White House they will continue to be swept up in the mess. It would be better for them to leave and work with the investigation.
I hope whatever Mueller is doing he does it before trump collapses our economy and nukes the shit out of our (once) allies.
re: #756 ObserverArt
William Kristol is on Ari Melber and he just said he thinks Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel left the White House due to the pressure Mueller put on them with his interviews. He is thinking Mueller told them if they stay in the White House they will continue to be swept up in the mess. It would be better for them to leave and work with the investigation.
Maybe her mother told her she should be ashamed of herself. And she should call more often.
re: #558 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Justice Department ‘reviewing’ Oakland mayor’s tipoff of immigration raids, White House says
The White House on Thursday said the Department of Justice was reviewing the actions of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last weekend alerted residents in advance of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Northern California.
“I think it’s outrageous that a mayor would circumvent federal authorities and certainly put them in danger by making a move such as that,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.
She said Schaaf’s actions were under “review” but would not be more specific.
Schaaf has defended her statement, saying she felt it was her duty to warn residents of the ICE action.
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“The Oakland mayor’s decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased that risk for my officers and alerted criminal aliens — making clear that this reckless decision was based on her political agenda with the very federal laws that ICE is sworn to uphold,” ICE’s acting director, Thomas D. Homan, said in a statement Tuesday.
Speaking on “Fox and Friends,” Homan added that the mayor’s warning helped an estimated 800 “criminal aliens” avoid capture. He also said federal authorities were examining her actions.
“What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘police’ when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood, except she did it to a whole community. This is beyond the pale,” he said.
terrible, awful people in the WH
Because Puerto Rico hasn’t been fucked enough:
Puerto Rico says Treasury abruptly cutting $4.7 billion relief loan to $2 billion
cbsnews.com
Battle royal ahead as foreign interests (particularly China) loot the world’s oceans beyond capacity to recover. https://t.co/Eaw5iJlQmc
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) March 1, 2018
re: #752 Decatur Deb
Bet they bias their refueling strategy to stops with the cheapest go-juice.
Oh yeah, they’ll look at the fuel costs at the other end of the spoke, but they’ll have to way that against inflight weight penalties of carrying max fuel at times rather than minimum margins plus. Ant, they’ll be stuck full tanking their west coast non-stops and internationals.
re: #763 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh yeah, they’ll look at the fuel costs at the other end of the spoke, but they’ll have to way that against inflight weight penalties of carrying max fuel at times rather than minimum margins plus. Ant, they’ll be stuck full tanking their west coast non-stops and internationals.
“Is this a non-stop flight?”
“Oh, I hope so.”
.@NOAASatellites’ #GOESS next-generation weather satellite is now cruising its way through space. Join us again at 8:15pm ET as we provide live coverage of spacecraft separation and solar array deployment: https://t.co/ZuxLDtRxxM pic.twitter.com/RHKkr4ActQ
— NASA (@NASA) March 1, 2018
Now this is something that might move the yam.
FBI counterintel investigating Ivanka Trump business deal https://t.co/070SIwj7Fr
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 1, 2018
At this point my money is on Tillerson being the next to go.
Officials say President Trump is over-exaggerating the threat MS-13 poses. The @nytimes reports FBI agents are arresting members of Dominican gang Trinitario (and calling them Salvadoran) to inflate numbers.
Is he using the gang to scapegoat immigrants? pic.twitter.com/UlubRwUwNR— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 1, 2018
Per @Rene_MarshCNN Carson has ordered that the $31,000 dinning set is cancelled. Full statement: pic.twitter.com/891ugkGfzr
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 1, 2018
Why is Ben Carson’s wife involved in federal government acquisitions decisions? https://t.co/7HScW9M1gz
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 1, 2018
“The FBI analyzed 160 cases of active shooters over the period from 2000-2013, and not one was stopped by a concealed carry permit holder who was not active duty military, a security guard, or a police officer. 21 were stopped by unarmed civilians.” https://t.co/JQCqTj3jV8
— C. Damien Arthur (@damien_arthur) March 1, 2018
re: #768 Eclectic Cyborg
At this point my money is on Tillerson being the next to go.
Seems Gary Cohn is in the running too. Several reports I’ve heard that he is far from happy with Donny Tariff. There is already speculation he will resign.
re: #762 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sheldon Whitehouse
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@SenWhitehouse
Battle royal ahead as foreign interests (particularly China) loot the world’s oceans beyond capacity to recover. washingtonpost.com …
5:43 PM - Mar 1, 2018New maps show the utterly massive imprint of fishing on the world’s oceans
There are so many ships fishing the ocean that they’re now “traveling to the Moon and back 600 times.”
washingtonpost.com
This is what gives me nightmares— the destruction of our oceans. Like climate change, unless we stop this soon, we may not be able to recover from the damage.
re: #774 Belafon
Are you awake, Charles?
One of my fears (no, really!) is that something will happen to Charles, no new thread will be posted, and we’ll all keep slogging along 12,000 comments deep in the last thread that ever existed here.
Is it possible to create an automatic new-thread poster that will kick in every 24 hours if there’s no new content?
(And no, I’m not wishing any harm to come to our beloved host!)
My iPad is not happy with this thread….
It’s Politico, so takes that for what it is worth…but here is current thinking on Trump’s Economic Advisor Gary Cohn.
Politico - Trump’s tariff war nudges Cohn toward White House exit
The president’s top economic adviser lost a battle to prevent the imposition of steep tariffs pushed by protectionist advisers.
Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, has been rumored to be on the brink of leaving the White House for months but stayed for one main reason: to stop the president from imposing steep tariffs.
By Thursday afternoon, Cohn had lost the fight.
In a meeting with steel industry executives, Trump announced plans for a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports.
The decision came after a frantic 24 hours in which Cohn and others tried to walk Trump off the ledge. At one point, aides were sure Trump would make the announcement. Then they said he wouldn’t. Finally, sitting alongside steel executives, he did.
The Dow promptly tanked over 500 points, and Cohn’s allies began wondering if this would be the final insult sending the director of the National Economic Council to the exit.
One person close to Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive, said he wouldn’t be surprised if he eventually left the chaotic and deeply exhausting administration as a result of the decision. A second person close to Cohn described it as a brutal blow that violated one of the NEC director’s core beliefs—that protectionism is economically backward and won’t lead to increased prosperity.
“It’s just something he feels very passionate about and he is incredibly good at making the case,” this person said, adding that it still isn’t clear if Trump’s decision would be enough to drive out Cohn.
…more at link…
re: #744 JordanRules
It took me a full minute to get that joke, but when I did I laughed like a crazy person.
re: #777 Interesting Times
I see him in the “Show Users” box.
Doesn’t prove he’s around. I might look in Friday night and then not check back all weekend, without leaving the site.
Isn’t it inappropriate to investigate Ivanka’s criminal behavior? She’s just a little girl, after all…when she’s not representing the US to other world leaders that is.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 2, 2018
re: #781 Hecuba’s daughter
Doesn’t prove he’s around. I might look in Friday night and then not check back all weekend, without leaving the site.
If I recall correctly, the “Show Users” box is supposed to automatically time people out after 30 minutes of inactivity in a thread.
Edited to add: Yes, click “Show Users” and you’ll see this message at the top: Viewing this thread: 92 registered users (within the last 30 minutes)
re: #783 Interesting Times
If I recall correctly, the “Show Users” box is supposed to automatically time people out after 30 minutes of inactivity in a thread.
Don’t think so. There are users who never ding or comment.
Ps, always glad they are here.
Now it’s time for me to fret on the missing. Timothy.
re: #785 Stanley Sea
Don’t think so. There are users who never ding or comment.
Ps, always glad they are here.
Maybe they are named lurkers. I do it on occasion.
If you’re having trouble in the thread, go to Spy mode, if you aren’t already. Then designate how many comments to load.
I live in Spy view. Love it!
re: #788 JordanRules
If you’re having trouble in the thread, go to Spy mode, if you aren’t already. Then designate how many comments to load.
I live in Spy view. Love it!
THREAD TOO BIG
Come to think of it I would have expected a new thread up on the Mcmaster thing. I want to say last time this happened Charles was having some technical issues.
re: #745 Backwoods_Sleuth
“In case you didn’t need another reason to dislike “Country” music:
CMA Foundation Elects Mike Huckabee to Its Board, Huckabee Swiftly Resigns [Updated”]
I’m not gay, and I don’t think Huckabuck has any business being on the CMA Foundation’s board. Why? Because the guy is a racist, bigoted, Islamophobic, homophobic asshole, and having been raised black under Jim Crow, I hate everything Huckabuck represents. I don’t give a damn who doesn’t like the idea that Huckabuck resigned, he should have never been appointed in the first place due to the fact that he is not a representative of the type of Christianity I practice. No way will I support a divisive POS like him.
re: #785 Stanley Sea
Don’t think so. There are users who never ding or comment.
Refresh my comment - the 30-minute timeout is indeed real. When I first clicked “Show Users”, the count was 101, then when I posted my comment, it had dropped to 92. Now it’s up to 95.
re: #798 Varek Raith
Charles was obviously abducted by aliens.
Nah, the Illuminati finally found his location.
re: #797 Interesting Times
Refresh my comment - the 30-minute timeout is indeed real. When I first clicked “Show Users”, the count was 101, then when I posted my comment, it had dropped to 92. Now it’s up to 95.
pretty sure the 30 minute thing indicates registered users in the thread within the past 30 minutes. If you leave the thread, you’ll still be listed for 30 minutes.
re: #758 Decatur Deb
“Maybe her mother told her she should be ashamed of herself. And she should call more often.”
I had read a few weeks ago, that her family was very concerned about her, and that they thought she’d need some kind of mental health counseling after leaving the WH. Maybe what they’d been trying to tell her finally got through to her after the Yam went off on her for saying she tells “white lies” on his behalf in her House intelligence cmte testimony.
re: #800 Backwoods_Sleuth
pretty sure the 30 minute thing indicates registered users in the thread within the past 30 minutes. If you leave the thread, you’ll still be listed for 30 minutes.
Damn you!
re: #749 teleskiguy
brb, computer needs to restart
That took an hour! Oh well, Windows 10 is up to date now, I think, I hope.
BREAKING: Devin Nunes has been accused of leaking confidential text messages by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner demanded a meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan on the matter.
— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) March 1, 2018
We all like to use the car analogy when talking about gun legislation, but a better one is actually alcohol. It’s very useful when someone brings up “Well, it’s not in the constitution.” Because, by the 9th amendment, we have the right to alcohol. It even took an amendment to remove that right. Now, even though we have the right back, we have numerous restrictions.
re: #808 MsJ
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I had a link to a New York Times article earlier about that bullshit.
Way…way…way ^ up there somewhere.
re: #810 Targetpractice
Ryan was heard to respond “Do I look like I give a fuck?”
His actual response was along the lines of “I’m not in charge of that committee.” “But your the fuckin’ Speaker.”
re: #810 Targetpractice
Ryan was heard to respond “Do I look like I give a fuck?”
Yep. “Nunes stays til I slash the fuck out of ‘entitlements’.”
re: #779 ObserverArt
It’s Politico, so takes that for what it is worth…but here is current thinking on Trump’s Economic Advisor Gary Cohn.
Politico - Trump’s tariff war nudges Cohn toward White House exit
So I did listen to Bloomberg on the road today - and in between heavy-duty math gab about interest rates, and a lengthy piece from Singapore about women entrepreneurs in Asia, I got the impression that the negatives about Trump’s tariff plan (and there were damn few positives noted) were the first (and main) thing the markets were reacting to. What a surprise! Not that anyone on BBR would say anything bad about President Yam, of course - but one thing I did notice: they were blatantly skipping around was The Orange One’s nominal “reasons” for imposing the metal-import tariffs: that they were somehow going to “boost manufacturing” and “create jobs” : I guess there’s some bullshit even “pro-business” media folks aren’t willing to shovel…
re: #811 ObserverArt
I had a link to a New York Times article earlier about that bullshit.
Way…way…way ^ up there somewhere.
I’m in spy, so it’s way way down there. But my phone would croak if I tried to find it. This thread is way too big.
“Witch Hunt” pic.twitter.com/5gv0ERRZjO
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) March 1, 2018
Yep, she’s still crazy.
Re: My govt. computer intrusions…What would you think if I told you the hard drive of one of my personal computers was secretly switched out w/another while in custody of the Justice Dept. Inspector General— before they gave it back to me? (Tick-tock.) #GettingCloserToAnswers
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) March 1, 2018
Why doesn’t CNN or New York Times, Fox News report the fact that ALL THESE MASS MURDERERS WERE ON ANTI-DEPRESSANT DRUGS?#BigPharmaOwnsMedia
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) March 1, 2018
DonaldJTrumpJr liked this tweet: https://t.co/uGyKpR16ka
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) March 1, 2018
.@RobSchneider @donaldjtrumpjr pic.twitter.com/GeUFYLL5OM
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) March 2, 2018
re: #800 Backwoods_Sleuth
pretty sure the 30 minute thing indicates registered users in the thread within the past 30 minutes. If you leave the thread, you’ll still be listed for 30 minutes.
Yes, that’s what I meant - if you see someone’s name in that list, it means they were on the same thread you’re viewing no earlier than 29 minutes ago and 59 seconds ago :)
re: #802 majii
“Maybe her mother told her she should be ashamed of herself. And she should call more often.”
I had read a few weeks ago, that her family was very concerned about her, and that they thought she’d need some kind of mental health counseling after leaving the WH. Maybe what they’d been trying to tell her finally got through to her after the Yam went off on her for saying she tells “white lies” on his behalf in her House intelligence cmte testimony.
I think she’s trying to keep her ass out of prison. She saw the threat right in her face when she testified and then Trump went off on her and she was all fuck this shit I’m outa here.
PARKLAND (CBSMiami) - CBS4 News has obtained new information in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre which left 17 people dead. An official briefed on the shooting investigation tells CBS4 News that the carnage could have been far worse.
Investigators believe self-confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz had planned on using a vantage point on the third-floor stairwell on the west side of the building to shoot at students as they fled the building.
Cruz attempted to create this sniper’s nest by shooting out the glass window in the stairwell, firing 16 rounds into the impact glass. Luckily, the hurricane proof window did not shatter.
Cruz then attempted to reload, and after changing magazine clips, the weapon is believed to have jammed, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.
Frustrated, and with police now responding, Cruz dropped the gun in the stairwell, ran down to the ground floor and fled the building with the students. Sources say he still had more than 150 rounds of ammunition left when he fled.
re: #820 Interesting Times
Yes, that’s what I meant - if you see someone’s name in that list, it means they were on the same thread you’re viewing 29 minutes ago and 59 seconds ago at the latest :)
You were on the thread but if you left that browser session open, you would remain on that thread even when you were out shopping at Chico’s and didn’t return to your computer till midnight.
re: #818 goddamnedfrank
Yep, she’s still crazy.
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Did you get your Delete key issue fixed yet? That was a government secret thing against your too. Until it wasn’t. 🙄🙄
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 2, 2018
Are you guys ready for the best cat picture of all time?
You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/gSDtvjeSwF— Fred Quimby (@TheFunnycator) February 27, 2018
“Meet ‘The Storm,’ the conspiracy theory taking over the pro-Trump internet” by @willsommer https://t.co/K9IhtPILfQ
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 1, 2018
re: #816 MsJ
I’m in spy, so it’s way way down there. But my phone would croak if I tried to find it. This thread is way too big.
Link to earlier comment with Times article..
Direct link to Times Article: nytimes.com
re: #825 Belafon
So the only thing that probably saved his life was his gun jamming. If not, he likely would have stayed until the cops responded, then either blown his brains out or been shot dead on the scene.
re: #831 Targetpractice
So the only thing that probably saved his life was his gun jamming. If not, he likely would have stayed until the cops responded, then either blown his brains out or been shot dead on the scene.
After possibly killing more students and teachers.
re: #830 ObserverArt
Link to earlier comment with Times article..
Direct link to Times Article: nytimes.com
Fucking Ryan.
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Mr. Ryan, released a statement after this article was published, saying, “The speaker heard the senators on their concerns and encouraged them to take them up directly with their counterparts.”
In his meeting with the senators, Mr. Ryan told them that he did not run the committee himself, the officials briefed on the encounter said.
In the bad old days before I lurked here, didn’t Charles have threads with thousands of comments? I think the problem with sane discussions is that they don’t prompt the same amount of discussion or commentary.
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re: #831 Targetpractice
So the only thing that probably saved his life was his gun jamming. If not, he likely would have stayed until the cops responded, then either blown his brains out or been shot dead on the scene.
And killed dozens of more kids!
re: #834 Hecuba’s daughter
There were some threads that became very long.
re: #834 Hecuba’s daughter
In the bad old days before I lurked here, didn’t Charles have threads with thousands of comments? I think the problem with same discussions is that they don’t prompt the same amount of discussion or commentary.
But now there’s embedded tweets and pictures and stuff that takes up resources.
Wonderful. Video just in of little Nigel, a young flyer from Houston. Learning valuable lessons about aeronautics. And life. Super. pic.twitter.com/V6RytKk4y8
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) March 1, 2018
re: #826 Hecuba’s daughter
You were on the thread but if you left that browser session open, you would remain on that thread even when you were out shopping at Chico’s and didn’t return to your computer till midnight.
I always thought the script would look for some sort of thread activity (e.g. commenting, dinging, or clicking some other button), and if that didn’t happen after 30 minutes, your username would drop off the list. But only Charles (if he really *is* here) can confirm that (and I don’t think it’s something I could test for myself, because even if I left this tab open and came back 2 hrs later, clicking the “Show Users” button to see if my name is still on the list…would show my name because I engaged in the activity of clicking the button)
re: #836 freetoken
There were some threads that became very long.
During the Great LGF Creationist Purge some thousand comment threads became spectacular flounce fests.
— Some News (@SomeNewsMedia) March 2, 2018
re: #840 teleskiguy
During the Great LGF Creationist Purge some thousand comment threads became spectacular flounce fests.
Oh, yeah! No Creationists! That’s why this place isn’t full of fucking morons!
EXCLUSIVE: Mueller eyes charges against Russians who stole, spread Democrats’ emails w/ @KenDilanianNBC &Bill Arkin https://t.co/dYiJ3twb6l
— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) March 1, 2018
Unlike previous indictments, you can see how this one would leak - it would rely heavily on intelligence info, and Mueller will have to go through the interagency process to get it declassified. https://t.co/gkLWTmOZIT
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 1, 2018
Things no one named Trump knows:
1. Tariffs are taxes.
2. USA tariffs are not really paid by China. They are paid by USA consumers of Chinese goods.
3. Tariffs raise prices of foreign goods & also raise prices of goods made in USA.
4. Wall St knows all of this.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 1, 2018
re: #843 MsJ
It would also be the predicate for subsequent indictments on conspiring with these people, aiding and abetting; the June 9 participants should be VERY nervous
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 1, 2018
Trump May Be Out of Town for His Big Military Parade https://t.co/fmgxBUOTR1
re: #844 Blind Frog Belly White
I think when the Trump presidential library is built it will be filled with all of the things he doesn’t know. Trump Tower wouldn’t be big enough to hold it all.
I’ve mentioned this before — but the previous blogs I followed, the hosts lost interest and discontinued the blogs. I am hoping that doesn’t happen here. It’s the only place I visit with thoughtful discussions of issues.
re: #847 Skip Intro
I think when the Trump presidential library is built it will be filled with all of the things he
doesn’tknows. Trump Tower wouldn’t be big enough to hold it all.
That should make it about what, 1 page?
re: #828 gocart mozart
“Are you guys ready for the best cat picture of all time?”
The first thing I thought of when I saw the pic was:”Is the cat on the left Puss in Boots” out of uniform?
re: #846 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I am seriously - SERIOUSLY - looking at airfares to England or France for those dates if the parade really happens Nov. 11. I’d much rather spend the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (plus 100 years) “over there.”
H.R. McMaster was the senior White House official most interested in gaming out a preemptive war with North Korea. His hawkishness on the issue (reportedly) freaked out Mattis and Tillerson. Depending on his replacement, this could be good news. https://t.co/HR5AzSpu5h
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) March 1, 2018
If the reports on H.R. McMaster leaving are true, it shows more chaos in the @realDonaldTrump Administration. On the other hand, McMaster was overly hawkish on North Korea. https://t.co/VVLLKOpi0T
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 1, 2018
re: #847 Skip Intro
I think when the Trump presidential library is built it will be filled with all of the things he doesn’t know. Trump Tower wouldn’t be big enough to hold it all.
Can we try to shoehorn it into Siberia? Please?
re: #849 The Vicious Babushka
That should make it about what, 1 page?
How long would a book on grifting be?
re: #850 majii
“Are you guys ready for the best cat picture of all time?”
The first thing I thought of when I saw the pic was:”Is the cat on the left Puss in Boots” out of uniform?
The first thing I thought is that someone snuck in here about 6 months ago and snatched my two kits to take that pic. Looks exactly like both of them at about 2 months old. Even the markings on the tabby’s cheeks.
re: #854 Skip Intro
How long would a book on grifting be?
As long as as old-fashioned tweet: 140 pages. A letter a page. Wouldn’t matter. If it went through Regnery or other conservative publishers it would make NYT Bestseller list right away.
HOLY CRAP! Right after private equity firm Apollo gives Jared Kushner a much-needed $184 million loan, Trump rescinds his earlier promise to close a huge tax loophole that benefits private equity managers. That loophole stayed in the final tax bill.https://t.co/7qCRLv0SPc
— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) March 1, 2018
Please, explain to us how this is not a massive con job orchestrated by Republicans in Washington who are only looking out for the interests of wealthy people and big corporations. We’ll wait. https://t.co/iwcPOI3s86
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) March 1, 2018
Probably 10 inches of snow in our garden. Making it a little bit tricky for Otto - our sausage dog - to get around! pic.twitter.com/aF1BDAW3Ox
— Gordon Maw (@GordonMaw) February 28, 2018
re: #855 allegro
The first thing I thought is that someone snuck in here about 6 months ago and snatched my two kits to take that pic. Looks exactly like both of them at about 2 months old. Even the markings on the tabby’s cheeks.
See?
re: #857 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This used to be known to the press as “influence-peddling” when it involved the Clinton Foundation.
Meet Cooper. He doesn’t know how to growl yet, so this is the face he makes to be tough. 12/10 very fierce much intimidate pic.twitter.com/day43QUEvf
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 1, 2018
re: #839 Interesting Times
I always thought the script would look for some sort of thread activity (e.g. commenting, dinging, or clicking some other button), and if that didn’t happen after 30 minutes, your username would drop off the list. But only Charles (if he really *is* here) can confirm that (and I don’t think it’s something I could test for myself, because even if I left this tab open and came back 2 hrs later, clicking the “Show Users” button to see if my name is still on the list…would show my name because I engaged in the activity of clicking the button)
You could test with me. I’ll be driving soon, so I won’t be able to read LGF …
Texas teen arrested with rifle, ammo near high school https://t.co/ciWq2FVPw8 #NeverAgain #BanAssaultWeapons
— (((Anna))) (@TallyAnnaE) March 2, 2018
re: #863 MsJ
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That’s at least two such cases reported today, the other having blown his brains out.
This is just absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Why doesn’t CNN or New York Times, Fox News report the fact that ALL THESE MASS MURDERERS WERE ON ANTI-DEPRESSANT DRUGS?#BigPharmaOwnsMedia
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) March 1, 2018
No, no, it makes too much sense to keep weapons away. Let’s just villianize anyone who is depressed and trying to seek a better life instead and pretend that depression leads to fatal aggression.
Because what mental illness needs is MORE misunderstanding and stigma.— DiscoSpider (@turgidchub) March 2, 2018
have just discovered Russian federation senator Valentina Petrenko’s hair and need to share this news pic.twitter.com/vPXaolG0lV
— Alex Bruce-Smith (@alexbrucesmith) March 1, 2018
re: #865 Ace-o-aces
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Anti-depressants…video games…lack of “God”…political correctness…
Wingnuts can’t seem to agree on what to tackle, but liberals can all agree on the same thing: Easy access to firearms needs to be addressed.
And just to take this off my chest:
The statehood ideal is a good one, whether I agree with it or not. The current PNP leadership is making the ideal more idiotic. For example, the current administration, which is dominated by the PNP blue, decided to make March 2 a day to be thankful for the American citizenship. The US has barely remembers the flag day, and the buffoons here think that would make Puerto Rico a darling to the US? Just … how?
If nothing else, I’ll have the day off.
oh…
Canada vows retaliation if Trump imposes massive new tariffs https://t.co/jYYl9biKls pic.twitter.com/hjYyujV5az
— The Hill (@thehill) March 2, 2018
He puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. Then The Kushner thought of something he hadn’t before! Maybe Foreign Affairs Experience, he thought…can’t be bought at a store. Maybe Foreign Affairs Experience, perhaps… means a little bit more! pic.twitter.com/2egKI0MTlW
— A Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) February 28, 2018
Sheryl not happy with me. 😂😂😂
There there honey. It’s OK. Everyone has their issues. I hope you get the help you need.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 2, 2018
Orrin Hatch: ObamaCare supporters are “the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met” https://t.co/9sswHTDQvW pic.twitter.com/p7LJVYTQiy
— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018
White Republican guy calls a majority of Americans “the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met”: will barely make news.
Hillary Clinton calls the white supremacists among Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables”: is still getting attacked for it 18 months later. https://t.co/SX4zGMfTkS— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) March 2, 2018
re: #864 Targetpractice
That’s at least two such cases reported today, the other having blown his brains out.
This is just absolutely fucking ridiculous.
And they will turn both of these into young people with emotional problems and access to guns that should have been locked up.
In other words, good guys with guns would never do this so why should everyone be punished?
I haven’t seen any tweets from the lizard king today, either.
re: #873 Backwoods_Sleuth
*cough* *cough*Romneycare and Heritagecare
re: #876 Ace Rothstein
I haven’t seen any tweets from the lizard king today, either.
Me neither. Does anyone have Charles’ number?
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 2, 2018
Yes that was some of the bad reporting and false (libelous) information and talking points circulated at the time. https://t.co/hykrplaXkP
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) March 2, 2018
re: #872 MsJ
Oh yeah, she’s trying to spin her way out of this…
You lied about the articles losing content when it was delete button being stuck. You’re lying now.
How do we know?
Because you’re so insistent you aren’t.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2018
Catching up? You’re spinning so fast and furiously that it’s impossible to keep up. pic.twitter.com/xbXaJcpQB0
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2018
re: #881 lawhawk
She’s still unhappy with me.
Points for the Buffy and Veronica Mars refs. I remember them well. Looking, long ago.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 2, 2018
re: #881 lawhawk
And Sinclair, which gives her a weekly nationwide platform, is about to get a big wet kiss from Trump’s FCC, which is letting it buy Tribune’s stations in big markets like LA.
SCOOP: NSA McMaster has spoken to senior leadership at Stanford’s Hoover Institution about a possible position there after departing WH, source with knowledge of discussions tells me.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 2, 2018
re: #866 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She could almost fit in with the Japanese bōsōzoku guys and the “chinpira” with their “loaf of bread” hair styles.
Justice Dept. Report Is Expected to Criticize Andrew McCabe Over Media Disclosures - The New York Times https://t.co/8eseKZdxzo
— BialyAndBloom (@lisarpepper) March 2, 2018
#GOESS is flying on its own with solar arrays powered. It is ready to be checked out before starting to gather faster, more accurate data that will track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, dense fog and other hazards for @NOAA’s @NWS & more. Learn more: https://t.co/7AEUfwdefx pic.twitter.com/uo8ZF2Wwvf
— NASA (@NASA) March 2, 2018
oh dear
“This summer…McMaster entered the Oval Office only to have Trump complain that he had already seen him that day.”
Perhaps unsurprising that McMaster “has threatened to quit in fits of frustration and anger.”https://t.co/7ICvAnzhj0— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) March 2, 2018
re: #885 Barefoot Grin
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Future First Lady Melania Knauss got into the U.S. on an “Einstein visa” and eventually brought over her parents through the “theory of relativity”.
— Rick Aaron (@RickAaron) March 1, 2018
No matter what anyone tells you, this is post 900 in this thread.
re: #892 Barefoot Grin
No matter what anyone tells you, this is post 900 in this thread.
I see you count like trump!
Roland Scahill just followed me, he has a blue check mark but I never heard of him so I Googled. Hmmm lmgtfy.com
A former theater agent has been sentenced to six months in jail after admitting that he bilked investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars to back a nonexistent Broadway play.
Roland Scahill, 42, confessed to a scheme that took place between October 2014 and August 2015, in which Mr. Scahill told associates that he had secured the rights to the life story of Kathleen Battle, the opera singer, and was going to produce a one-woman play called “The Kathleen Battle Project” with Lupita Nyong’o as its star.
nytimes.com
I followed back
re: #896 gocart mozart
Roland Scahill just followed me, he has a blue check mark but I never heard of him so I Googled. Hmmm lmgtfy.com
nytimes.com
I followed back
Well. That’s…A little weird.
re: #898 MsJ
Alas.
The good news is that most historians have drawn back from the excesses of the Derrida death spiral into “alternative facts.”