Video: Stephen Colbert Breaks Down Sam Nunberg’s Breakdown
Colbert had a monologue full of perfectly good tariff humor ready to go. Then former Trump aide Sam Nunberg got on TV.
Colbert had a monologue full of perfectly good tariff humor ready to go. Then former Trump aide Sam Nunberg got on TV.
Was it really a breakdown, or, was it performance art?
Hey #NRA - check out two of our newest @momsdemand chapters: Searcy, AR and Seguin, TX. #ExpectUs pic.twitter.com/1pnYTN1tKJ
— jane (@moderatemama) March 6, 2018
Going out on a limb, but I’m willing to bet that nothing comes of North Korea’s offer to “discuss” giving up nukes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2018
re: #1 freetoken
Was it really a breakdown, or, was it performance art?
It could be either. It could be deflection from the many scandals that broke yesterday.
This guy is a Roger Fucking Stone disciple. This could very well be a dirty trick to keep people talking about the crazy and not the incredibly shady shit that everyone in this maladministration seems to put forth every day.
Because the Bible has such a great track record of stopping murders over the last 2000 years? https://t.co/fOGCrRxEen
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
“So I have here an earthly weapon. It’s a firearm. I would never want to use that against another man,” Robertson explains as the camera focuses on the weapon.
“This is also a weapon. It’s called a sword — the sword of the spirit. You want to stop murder worldwide? You’re focusing on the wrong weapon, he continues as he picks up a Bible held together with duct tape.”
“This, this will stop human beings from murdering one another,” he adds as he ends the lesson on bringing gun violence to an end.
United Express first-class passenger declares ‘I am God,’ tries opening plane door mid-flight https://t.co/w3LfzRHezu
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 6, 2018
Yes, but isn’t this sort of unpredictable negotiating tactic exactly what we need to fix our trade deals? https://t.co/jQEStDyDlm
— Adam James Platt (@AdamPlatt1999) March 6, 2018
re: #4 MsJ
The Age of Broadcasting has led to the Age of Celebrity.
Nunberg now has his 48 hours of fame.
This will open further doors to books, TV shows, podcasts, etc.
re: #5 Kragar
That showed up on my Facebook wall when it was released.
re: #5 Kragar
“So I have here an earthly weapon. It’s a firearm. I would never want to use that against another man,” Robertson explains as the camera focuses on the weapon.
“But this weapon is a gift from God, the right to bear arms, it’s a right that God gives us, or at least me, and this earthly gun weapon will stop all murders, oh wait I meant to say the Bible will stop all murders, wait, aren’t murders sometimes OK?”
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re: #5 Kragar
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The first half of that book is mostly about war and genocide. And it’s been used countless times to justify more war and genocide. In addition to the denial of basic civil rights.
“My White House is not Chaos! Fake news! Not chaos. Chaos is OK sometimes. You’re the chaos!”
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How many goods could a Baio cott if a Baio refused to buy Dicks?
re: #5 Kragar
“This here AR-15 rifle is great, and I know it was used in a horrible crime recently that the FBI didn’t do anything to stop and which was a false flag crime anyway because of crisis actors and oh yeah what was I saying oh yeah here is this great gun and the Bible which is also great.”
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The wind knocked out my Internet service … it’s still pretty windy here now.
From the last thread, about Jeopardy!
re: #546 Swampwitch
On Jeopardy! tryouts:
They were doing a military cattle call when I was in Spain.
I signed up for it. My section leader, who despised me and learned about it, put me down for a watch right at the time of the tryouts, then wouldn’t let me out of it or exchange with someone else. I missed the tryout.
A year and a half ago, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? took out an advert in Mensa Bulletin asking people to send in short stories (under five hundred words) about themselves, of which they would notify people this year if they were selected for tryouts for the show.
Tryouts are done at their studio in Stamford, Conn. I’m not sure exactly when this year they will notify the candidates they selected through the E-mail, but I am hopeful… . I’ll pay to go to Stamford.
Making coal great again:
It’s almost as if Trump intentionally set out to make the most maliciously ignorant Administration in history.
More evidence of such:
Top EPA officials are working for private companies on the side
re: #14 Sir John Barron
“The Bible will stop murders!”
Louisiana has the highest per capita murder rate of any US state
Corrupt to the core.
Or more accurately, corrupt from the core.
re: #16 freetoken
Making coal great again:
Looks like tilting at windmills after his transparent effort to subsidize coal failed.
re: #15 Anymouse 🌹
For Millionaire the tryouts were in Des Moines, but first you had to beat a call-in test. I hope you get called and I hope you make it. I didn’t realize Millionaire was still on. I watch my shows via various websites.
re: #19 Kragar
“The Bible will stop murders!”
Louisiana has the highest per capita murder rate of any US state
It’s all them voodoo queens…
“@ChrisMurphyCT introduced a bill in the House that bans what? All semi-automatic #firearms. Now you have people like @MarkCGlaze and the @shannonrwatts and all of those vanilla wafer anti-gun advocates who all want confiscation. They want mandatory buy-backs.” —@DLoesch #NRA pic.twitter.com/NJ26PuFVRT
— NRATV (@NRATV) March 6, 2018
I’m ok being compared to a delicious buttery cookie that bakes up chewy and crispy at the same time, but I’ve never advocated for confiscation or mandatory gun buy-backs.
But you keep on spreading the @NRA’s propaganda and mistruths, @dloesch. America is on to you… https://t.co/eNcdP3CbUm— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 6, 2018
CHARLESTON, WVa. (AP) — With unanimous votes, West Virginia legislature raises teacher pay by 5 percent to end walkout.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 6, 2018
Congratulations to the teachers of West Virginia, who just carried off one of the largest and most successful wildcat strikes in memory. https://t.co/dSl5saEjAt
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 6, 2018
re: #25 JordanRules
It’s not really a win, not if you have to get your gains out of making others suffer. “The Senate only agreed to fund the raises via ‘very deep’ cuts to the budget, including a $20 million slash to general services and Medicaid.”
— Barney Shumate (@BarneyShumate) March 6, 2018
re: #17 freetoken
It’s almost as if Trump intentionally set out to make the most maliciously ignorant Administration in history.
almost, though he didnt
this is all haphazard and random
not schemed, calculated and planned
re: #25 JordanRules
That still didn’t address their bigger concern of the rising cost of healthcare. What ever happened with that?
re: #18 freetoken
More evidence of such:
Top EPA officials are working for private companies on the side
Eisen’s quote is astounding.
there’s just no standards for anything
re: #29 MsJ
Yeah. Not seeing that addressed either. It’s not all good news here.
Maybe other states, like the OK teachers, can learn from this.
Pepe the Frog artist suing InfoWars for copyright infringement https://t.co/G2vizyVhpL pic.twitter.com/MoCpRmxMjO
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 6, 2018
re: #30 dangerman
Eisen’s quote is astounding.
there’s just no standards for anything
It’s rotten from the core outwards.
re: #26 JordanRules
It’s not really a win, not if you have to get your gains out of making others suffer.
the teachers did not demand “give us raises and make others suffer in the process”
that’s on the senate, not the teachers
the senate could have done lots of things. they chose to “take the money” from where they did
“There is no Chaos, only great Energy!” - Ahriman of the Thousand Sons pic.twitter.com/jO4NFWmhGJ
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
re: #34 dangerman
I feel you. I’m certainly not disparaging the teachers but there are a few lessons here.
Trump just took credit for South Korea’s Olympics
anything in the world that happens he has to be in the center of it
it’s envy
re: #36 JordanRules
I feel you. I’m certainly not disparaging the teachers but there are a few lessons here.
of course
and it may not be a great deal
it seems to be way better than where they started
i dont know what happened with the health insurance
that phone app thing was creepy
Ethno-religious nationalism rears its head anywhere, and has long done so in India, and now the Indian gov’t is going one step farther:
By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India
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Minutes of the meeting, reviewed by Reuters, and interviews with committee members set out its aims: to use evidence such as archaeological finds and DNA to prove that today’s Hindus are directly descended from the land’s first inhabitants many thousands of years ago, and make the case that ancient Hindu scriptures are fact not myth.
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Heh, Crazy Roger Stone is going to be on MTP Daily with Chuck Todd at 5:00.
I don’t know if I can actually watch that…but thought some may be brave and want to see it.
So, poking around YouTube and saw the teaser trailer for the upcoming Disney flick Christopher Robin, which is here:
then saw this headline from AVClub, which made me burst into laughter -
The teaser for Disney’s Christopher Robin is full of Pooh
LOLOL
Incidentally, Jim Cummings is returning to do the voice acting for Winnie the Pooh. I had to do a double-take because Cummings sounds virtually identical to Sterling Holloway, who did the voice for Pooh originally in the 1960’s.
re: #39 BeachDem
And keep misspelling its.
Alternatively they may be reporting on a monster clown’s five penises…
re: #41 ObserverArt
Heh,
CrazyCriminal Roger Stone is going to be on MTP Daily with Chuck Todd at 5:00.I don’t know if I can actually watch that…but thought some may be brave and want to see it.
FTFY
re: #41 ObserverArt
I remember when NBC banned him for being a racist POS. Guess Chuckles got that lifted.
re: #41 ObserverArt
Heh, Crazy Roger Stone is going to be on MTP Daily with Chuck Todd at 5:00.
This is just more in a pile of evidence that large media corporations like Comcast/NBCU really only want to generate more confusion and conflict.
Instead of Stone, Chuck Todd ought to have on some scholars who dismantle the idiocies of Stone and his cohorts.
But that would not generate as much attention, hence viewers, hence advertising rates.
re: #45 JordanRules
I remember when NBC banned him for being a racist POS. Guess Chuckles got that lifted.
He’s good for ratings…all else in the past is forgiven if Chuck can get some ratings.
Stone will eat him alive and turn the whole “interview” into a Stoner joke.
re: #47 ObserverArt
No doubt! It will be a hot mess indeed.
Continuing from that Reuters story:
In much the same way that some Christians point to evidence of an ancient flood substantiating the Biblical tale of Noah and his ark, if the settings and features of the ancient scriptures in India can be verified, the thinking goes, then the stories are true. “If the Koran and Bible are considered as part of history, then what is the problem in accepting our Hindu religious texts as the history of India?” said Sharma.
From fake history to real history:
Nineteenth-Century Message in a Bottle Recovered in Australia
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The family handed the bottle over to researchers at the Western Australian Museum, who worked with German and Dutch officials to analyze the message. They determined that it had been tossed from the bark ship Paula on June 12, 1886, and was one of thousands of messages that had been thrown overboard as part of a 69-year study of global ocean currents.
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re: #49 freetoken
Continuing from that Reuters story:
My son’s classmates tend to be less than thrilled when he makes that kind of argument about religion at school.
re: #46 freetoken
This is just more in a pile of evidence that large media corporations like Comcast/NBCU really only want to generate more confusion and conflict.
Instead of Stone, Chuck Todd ought to have on some scholars who dismantle the idiocies of Stone and his cohorts.
But that would not generate as much attention, hence viewers, hence advertising rates.
It would be worthwhile if Chuck did the kind of research that Rachel and JoyAnn do, to be able to ask meaningful questions and push back on bullshit answers.
But it’s Chuck, so I wouldn’t expect that.
re: #52 sagehen
It would be worthwhile if Chuck did the kind of research that Rachel and JoyAnn do, to be able to ask meaningful questions and push back on bullshit answers.
But it’s Chuck, so I wouldn’t expect that.
Chuck doesn’t seem to be curious, which is a bad trait for someone in news.
How to know someone is in fantasy land:
Panel on Indian culture not an attempt to rewrite history, says government
“We are not making history textbooks or rewriting history. We are looking at resources, verifying facts which establish the millions-of-years-old rich history of India and its culture. Many of these have been presented as distortions or completely ignored,” said a member.
How many grams in a Nunberg?
— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) March 6, 2018
In other news, I just posted this littlegreenfootballs.com - about how the Texas GOP in general, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Slime Mold) in particularly, are starting to see the kind of numbers in the election that generally lead to bummer election-night “victory” parties.
Sam Nunberg just fucked Donald Trump so badly, that Michael Cohen just wrote him a check for $130,000.
— YS (@NYinLA2121) March 5, 2018
The death of the center? The politically centrist neoliberal order may well be doomed, says @DamonLinker: https://t.co/aBkqT7rOkB pic.twitter.com/o77AnY3uCT
— The Week (@TheWeek) March 6, 2018
No. Don’t mistake “in between” for “center”.
What we’re seeing is the effect of the GOP becoming fully radicalized over the last 45 years.
The Democratic Party occupies the left, center, and center-right of the political spectrum. The GOP is still a canyon away from them. https://t.co/EwfP8Qi3HP— Vijay (@vijtable) March 6, 2018
Claiming that the middle of Democrats and Republicans is the “center” is like claiming that the middle ground between eating no live gerbils and eating two live gerbils is the “center”.
I’m not gonna eat a live gerbil, no matter what David Brooks says.— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 6, 2018
re: #53 Belafon
Chuck doesn’t seem to be curious, which is a bad trait for someone in news.
And what’s the point of interviewing a guy who’s own “rules” are admit nothing, deny everything, counterattack?
re: #58 JordanRules
That’s pretty profound when I think about it. The right has been moving right for so long now that even a “moderate” Republican is miles away from the political center, speaking in classic conservative/liberal terms.
“There’s a theory if a country doesn’t have steel it doesn’t have a country,” Trump says
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 6, 2018
There is also a theory that the earth is flat and another that it was created 5000 years ago.
None of these theories is actually valid. https://t.co/6neM5DPFmZ— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
re: #59 Barefoot Grin
Yeah. I think the odds for spectacle are a lot greater than the odds for anything valuable.
But anything is possible I guess.
“Who’d have thought one decade ago that the most prestigious award in the film industry would go to a film about bestiality, and casting it in a positive light?” pic.twitter.com/Su5FrFmIxw
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 6, 2018
re: #34 dangerman
the teachers did not demand “give us raises and make others suffer in the process”
that’s on the senate, not the teachers
the senate could have done lots of things. they chose to “take the money” from where they did
Isn’t the real problem that red state legislatures (in general) refuse to raise taxes on the wealthiest? The GOP has lost all semblance of community and belief that we are all in this together. Libertarians of course never had that belief. I don’t know what it will take to get us together again and for the wealthy to believe their fair share means more money as percentage of income than paid by those of fewer assets.
re: #65 gocart mozart
The rules are different if he’s a god.
re: #47 ObserverArt
He’s good for ratings…all else in the past is forgiven if Chuck can get some ratings.
Stone will eat him alive and turn the whole “interview” into a Stoner joke.
Which kinda goes to my re: #4 MsJ
It could be either. It could be deflection from the many scandals that broke yesterday.
This guy is a Roger Fucking Stone disciple. This could very well be a dirty trick to keep people talking about the crazy and not the incredibly shady shit that everyone in this maladministration seems to put forth every day.
Because if this really goes into crazy land, this kinda proves that it is meant to be a distraction to all the criminality that is spewing from this maladministration.
The death of the center? The politically centrist neoliberal order may well be doomed, says @DamonLinker: https://t.co/aBkqT7rOkB pic.twitter.com/o77AnY3uCT
— The Week (@TheWeek) March 6, 2018
No. Don’t mistake “in between” for “center”.
What we’re seeing is the effect of the GOP becoming fully radicalized over the last 45 years.
The Democratic Party occupies the left, center, and center-right of the political spectrum. The GOP is still a canyon away from them. https://t.co/EwfP8Qi3HP— Vijay (@vijtable) March 6, 2018
“Today, the New York Times will turn it’s entire editorial section over to letters from people who eat live gerbils”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 6, 2018
re: #70 Ace-o-aces
I’m not gonna eat a live gerbil, no matter what David Brooks says.
too many other interesting uses for them…
re: #70 Ace-o-aces
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Honest question, what or who is a centrist Dem or GOPer these days?
re: #54 freetoken
Maybe they’re talking about the appearance of Denisovans?
re: #73 KGxvi
Maybe they’re talking about the appearance of Denisovans?
They are claiming that Hindus are the original inhabitants of the Indian sub-continent.
Has nothing to do with the Denisovans, whose only physical evidence is from Siberia, and whose inheritance (DNA) is more found among the Papuans in far SE Asia.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Honest question, what or who is a centrist Dem or GOPer these days?
How about George Pataki? And remember, Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York as a Republican.
Gonna call it a day here in Europe. Have a good one, Lizards.
re: #75 Hecuba’s daughter
How about George Pataki? And remember, Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York as a Republican.
Well I meant sitting office holders.
BREAK: Trump lawyer Michael Cohen received inside information from the House’s Russia probe. https://t.co/Wbu2xpyccw
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) March 6, 2018
re: #5 Kragar
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Wanna see Phil’s tiny mind explode? Ask him what’s he gonna do with that gun if the gov’t comes and tries to confiscate it. Is he gonna murder another human, in defiance of God’s law, in order to retain it?
re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t the real problem that red state legislatures (in general) refuse to raise taxes on the wealthiest? The GOP has lost all semblance of community and belief that we are all in this together. Libertarians of course never had that belief. I don’t know what it will take to get us together again and for the wealthy to believe their fair share means more money as percentage of income than paid by those of fewer assets.
bingo
that’s why this is on the senate and not the teachers
they didnt have to take it from general services, medicaid or any other budget line
The Swedish PM is trying SO hard not to laugh at Trump right now. 😂😂😂
Trump on the Swedes: “They like me very much.”#TuesdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/3m0QtXj7s1— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) March 6, 2018
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Honest question, what or who is a centrist Dem or GOPer these days?
Feinstien probably counts as a centrist, depending on the definition. Maybe Bill Nelson? Susan Collins on the GOP, maybe Murkowski? McCaskill and Tester perhaps, along with Heitkamp? Kaine strikes me as fairly centrist as well. But again, it depends on how you define centrist.
re: #83 lawhawk
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He likes Sweden so much he pretended to be Swedish but note that didn’t get the publicity Warren did for believing a family legend even though Trump’s father would have known that his father (DJTs grandfather) was German.
still a moron
BREAKING: Trump says he’s not worried about Russia meddling in 2018 midterms, says, ‘We’ll counteract whatever they do’
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 6, 2018
re: #84 KGxvi
Feinstien probably counts as a centrist, depending on the definition. Maybe Bill Nelson? Susan Collins on the GOP, maybe Murkowski? McCaskill and Tester perhaps, along with Heitkamp? Kaine strikes me as fairly centrist as well. But again, it depends on how you define centrist.
I think that sounds right. I’d say of our two Warner is more moderate than Kaine though Warner has always been pro choice.
re: #85 HappyWarrior
He likes Sweden so much he pretended to be Swedish but note that didn’t get the publicity Warren did for believing a family legend even though Trump’s father would have known that his father (DJTs grandfather) was German.
Just because he talks like this guy, doesn’t mean he’s pretending to be Swedish:
#BREAKING: We just secured a $500 million settlement with the Royal Bank of Scotland for its misconduct leading up to the financial crisis. https://t.co/CvyhaI1gFI pic.twitter.com/p4tAWy7DBl
— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) March 6, 2018
re: #89 KGxvi
Just because he talks like this guy, doesn’t mean he’s pretending to be Swedish:
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Nah that guy is elequent by comparison.
re: #70 Ace-o-aces
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re: “the center”
i’ve said it over and over - and i will again
Moderate does not mean fence sitting or wishy washy. It means not being pigeonholed into polarizing left/right, conservative/liberal paradigms. It means not holding extreme positions, generally black and white ones.
It does not mean that I can’t hold strong or convicted opinions.
It also generally means to face each issue on its own merits. I don’t have to have the same position on the spectrum for issue B as issue A.
Moderate mostly means non-ideologue
we are not lost or missing. and we’ll be damned to let you presume we are dead
At first glance, 5 murders in 3 states since last May seemed like unrelated, isolated cases.
But 3 young men have been charged, and all appear to have links to the same white supremacist group. https://t.co/RiYfqcXKy0— NPR (@NPR) March 6, 2018
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
still a moron
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I’d pay good money to hear a reporter ask him aloud what’s he going to do that Obama didn’t and be specific. You know he’d just pout and ignore the question.
re: #87 HappyWarrior
I think that sounds right. I’d say of our two Warner is more moderate than Kaine though Warner has always been pro choice.
I mean it really does depend on how you define centrist. If you’re talking about adhering to a ideology, there’s probably more than a few in both Houses of Congress that haven’t thought too deeply about their ideology. If you’re talking policy, that could be a different discussion. And if you’re talking about a willingness to compromise and engage in horse trading to get things done, that’s a third conversation.
White House responds to a federal watchdog’s ruling that Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act by weighing in on the Alabama Senate race.
“She simply expressed the President’s obvious position that he have people in the House and Senate who support his agenda.” pic.twitter.com/mN02blgUMP— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 6, 2018
It is not acceptable for Kellyanne Conway to repeatedly violate federal law. It is even more unacceptable for the White House to defend her right to violate federal law.
Does this make you angry? Help us take back the House. We need a real check and balance, not GOP enablers. https://t.co/mGlvelR72B— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 6, 2018
Trump says tariffs will be applied ‘in a loving way’ https://t.co/Q2A7LcjJv9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 6, 2018
Grab ‘em by the alloy. https://t.co/n0gtlmrqKG
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) March 6, 2018
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
Right wing domestic terrorists.
re: #95 KGxvi
I mean it really does depend on how you define centrist. If you’re talking about adhering to a ideology, there’s probably more than a few in both Houses of Congress that haven’t thought too deeply about their ideology. If you’re talking policy, that could be a different discussion. And if you’re talking about a willingness to compromise and engage in horse trading to get things done, that’s a third conversation.
Good points.
“It’s being reported as these [West Virginia] teachers asking for a raise. That’s not really true. They’re trying to keep up with the cost of living.” https://t.co/uMyPkbDM5d pic.twitter.com/f6gqmGpcnf
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) March 6, 2018
Trump just said Russia had “absolutely no impact on our votes” in 2016 … said “certainly there was meddling” but said it was not just by Russia, and claimed “we are doing a really deep study” on it. So … yeah…
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 6, 2018
And he said “Were working on it a lot”. Uhh, right - w/o spending a penny of the allocated $120 million to the State Dept for that. Sure you are…Swedish PM https://t.co/sdtkfugYwM
— Jim Ferguson (@DaddioJKF) March 6, 2018
I hope America does what it takes to stop Russia and old-man Trump, but the corrupt geezer won’t be part of cleaning up his own corruption.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 6, 2018
Trump said that when you have a trade deficit, “The trade war hurts them, it doesn’t hurt us.” He does not acknowledge even the possibility of mutual harm - he speaks of trade as if it’s a battle to be the one winning champion.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 6, 2018
Anytime some mental lightweight like Brooks talks about “the center,” what I hear is “the center is wherever I am.” And that’s really the problem in our current political climate, the Overton Window has moved to the left and yet too many “serious” folks want to believe it’s stayed static to where it was when they themselves entered politics. It’s why they can’t comprehend why things like “identity politics” is a major motivator of votes or why politicians who used to have electoral success giving lip service to liberal beliefs why having mixed to conservative voting records are finding themselves on the outs.
I really can not imagine WHY the Swedish guy is laughing…
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re: #97 JordanRules
Here’s what I’m trying to figure out about these tariffs and the supposed point that they’ll protect/create American jobs… Unemployment is under 5%, that’s effectively full employment. If they create new jobs (they won’t), who is going to work those jobs? Especially if it’s manufacturing? Younger workers aren’t necessarily interested in manufacturing jobs because they’ve grown up in a service economy. Beyond that, we are importing steel and aluminum because our demand for those materials is outpacing our supply. In what world does it make sense to institute tariffs?
re: #105 Targetpractice
Anytime some mental lightweight like Brooks talks about “the center,” what I hear is “the center is wherever I am.” And that’s really the problem in our current political climate, the Overton Window has moved to the left and yet too many “serious” folks want to believe it’s stayed static to where it was when they themselves entered politics. It’s why they can’t comprehend why things like “identity politics” is a major motivator of votes or why politicians who used to have electoral success giving lip service to liberal beliefs why having mixed to conservative voting records are finding themselves on the outs.
Brooks is a hack. He rails against supposed liberal elites while being an elitist ass.
President Trump on working for the Trump admin.: “Believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House.” pic.twitter.com/8JzQbylZpq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 6, 2018
“Believe me.”
And yet for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on, I don’t believe him. https://t.co/GIvjajjqiz— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
This historic photo of two world leaders discussing their ideas is really inspiring pic.twitter.com/yU6MIhYWGB
— agerenesh ashagre (@agerenesh) March 6, 2018
Yes, green chile corn lemon cookies that are a month old still taste good. They’re just kinda crunchy.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He speaks like a man who has not been in charge of a damn thing in years, but instead has had an army of lawyers and middle-management guys blowing smoke up his ass while they ran things.
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is absolutely clueless about trade imbalances, and its effect on jobs.
It mirrors the ignorance of the GOP base.
This line of thinking is that if we have a positive balance it means more jobs.
How do we know that this is bullshit?
We’re already at or near full employment. Starting a trade war doesn’t increase jobs. It puts them at risk. Higher tariffs means higher costs borne by consumers.
re: #109 Kragar
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Everyone wants to work for this White House…which is why we’re hearing story after story about White House staff saying they’ve committed career suicide by being associated with this plague ship of an administration and won’t be able to find employment once they’ve left.
re: #26 JordanRules
It is still a win. A huge win. Now for the people getting cut and those who care about them, get out there and raise hell for yourselves.
Trump says tariffs will be applied ‘in a loving way’ https://t.co/Q2A7LcjJv9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 6, 2018
Like when he said ICE would only go after “bad hombres” when went after parents, grandparents, shop owners and school teachers instead? https://t.co/BpohmmHTJq
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 6, 2018
I think the sentiment I saw the other day is right, this talk about tariffs is meant to help defeat Conor Lamb next week.
President Trump today acknowledged there was Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but he says it “had no impact on our votes whatsoever.” He said the U.S. will counteract any meddling in the upcoming elections.
— NPR (@NPR) March 6, 2018
Director of National Intelligence Coats: “From U.S. businesses to the federal government, to state and local governments, we are under cyber attack.” pic.twitter.com/gRYtM7wQvN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2018
Is anyone still pretending that Trump isn’t in favor of Putin’s cyberattacks on America?
That’s cute.https://t.co/UY5q1yNHh1— JRehling (@JRehling) March 6, 2018
re: #34 dangerman
the teachers did not demand “give us raises and make others suffer in the process”
that’s on the senate, not the teachers
the senate could have done lots of things. they chose to “take the money” from where they did
Now we need the teachers to take advantage of their solidarity and raise holy hell to throw out these Republican assholes and show they are on the side of the people getting cuts. There’s a reason they call it Solidarity.
re: #107 KGxvi
Here’s what I’m trying to figure out about these tariffs and the supposed point that they’ll protect/create American jobs… Unemployment is under 5%, that’s effectively full employment. If they create new jobs (they won’t), who is going to work those jobs? Especially if it’s manufacturing? Younger workers aren’t necessarily interested in manufacturing jobs because they’ve grown up in a service economy. Beyond that, we are importing steel and aluminum because our demand for those materials is outpacing our supply. In what world does it make sense to institute tariffs?
Another point is that production of steel in the US has not actually declined in the last 30 years. But as productivity has increased, fewer workers are needed. So, it’s not that China stole our steel jobs. It was the robots.
But overall, you have a guy whose worldview is no deeper than image. Coal mining, steel making, autobuilding, shipbuilding - these are all manly, broad-shoulder things he associates with America’s heyday. Largely white man jobs. REAL jobs that a guy like him - a doughy blob with soft baby hands who grew up rich - sees as ‘what real men do’. I think he really believes that if only we get rid of foreign competition and environmental regulations, the same industry we had in the 1950s will come back, employing the same numbers, doing the same jobs.
He thinks he can take America back 70 years, and we’ll thrive. After all, we thrived then, didn’t we?
re: #114 Targetpractice
Everyone wants to work for this White House…which is why we’re hearing story after story about White House staff saying they’ve committed career suicide by being associated with this plague ship of an administration and won’t be able to find employment once they’ve left.
I mean, the poor little dears can’t even get laid! Oh, the inhumanity!
re: #83 lawhawk
The Swedish PM is trying SO hard not to laugh at Trump right now.
World leaders should just stay at home - trump parades them as his prize - lies and refuses to stand by anything he has said.
Listening to his b.s. about who “loves” him makes me aghast - yet again - that anyone thought this moron could would or should be POTUS.
re: #108 HappyWarrior
Brooks is a hack. He rails against supposed liberal elites while being an elitist ass.
Hey, he’s in touch with the Average Joe at the salad bar at Applebee’s.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
still a moron
BREAKING: Trump says he’s not worried about Russia meddling in 2018 midterms, says, ‘We’ll counteract whatever they do’
sure we will
Is anyone surprised?
EPA’s Scott Pruitt Doesn’t Buy Evolution
The administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, said that evolution, at least as it concerns the origins of humans, is a philosophical and not scientific matter, according to audio from a 2005 radio show unearthed by Politico. “There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution,” Pruitt said.
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re: #127 Ace Rothstein
One vote for Beto, done.
I’m rooting for him. He’s got a bright future no matter what.
re: #127 Ace Rothstein
One vote for Beto, done.
I did that this morning. There were so many choices in that race and the one for governor on the Democratic side.
re: #105 Targetpractice
Anytime some mental lightweight like Brooks talks about “the center,” what I hear is “the center is wherever I am.” And that’s really the problem in our current political climate, the Overton Window has moved to the left and yet too many “serious” folks want to believe it’s stayed static to where it was when they themselves entered politics. It’s why they can’t comprehend why things like “identity politics” is a major motivator of votes or why politicians who used to have electoral success giving lip service to liberal beliefs why having mixed to conservative voting records are finding themselves on the outs.
and that’s why my definition of center as i noted above is not based on the left/right spectrum. if you think that way and put someone along that line, you assume they will vote any issue based on where you stuck them on line
its important to decouple every issue from every other -
i dont have to think about or vote on guns the same way i do on abortion, or cake bakers, or unions, or tariffs, or any other issue.
im still mostly a dem, mostly a lib. because that’s my nature. i hold some right-end positions too. i dont fit in two or even three dimensions
re: #97 JordanRules
Trump says tariffs will be applied ‘in a loving way’ https://t.co/Q2A7LcjJv9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 6, 2018
Trump will face reporters and they will smile and accept his b.s. talk that answers no questions.
From the article his main aim seems to be to bring down the EU - for which Mr Putin will say “thank you so much Mr President - great job”
re: #107 KGxvi
Here’s what I’m trying to figure out about these tariffs and the supposed point that they’ll protect/create American jobs… Unemployment is under 5%, that’s effectively full employment. If they create new jobs (they won’t), who is going to work those jobs? Especially if it’s manufacturing? Younger workers aren’t necessarily interested in manufacturing jobs because they’ve grown up in a service economy. Beyond that, we are importing steel and aluminum because our demand for those materials is outpacing our supply. In what world does it make sense to institute tariffs?
it would take years to build a steel mill if the demand is ever felt
and it wont be your granddaddy’s steel mill employing hundreds of workers
re: #109 Kragar
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Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, in joint press conference with Pres. Trump: “Increased tariffs will hurt us all in the long run…I of course support the efforts of the European Union to achieve trade with fewer obstacles.” pic.twitter.com/noAeosCaFN
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
Sounds familiar.
Tories want to make it harder for people to vote.
At the local elections in May voters in five areas will be turned away if they don’t have official identification and the Tories want to roll this out at the next General Election.
Sign here to stop them:https://t.co/IFwhQ32evc— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 6, 2018
Oliver Stone is also a moron
Putin’s words have been distorted in our #MSM as an aggression towards US. But #Putin outlines how the West has pushed #Russia to invent these systems b/c US has provoked nuclear tension with 2002 pull out from ABM treaty.
— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) March 6, 2018
re: #138 JordanRules
Sounds familiar.
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Taking lessons from their GOP counterparts.
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oliver Stone is also a moron
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Yawn doesn’t explain his lack of respect for their neighbirs’ Sovereignty. Ollie is part of the bizarre political circular spectrum.
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oliver Stone is also a moron
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A wet dream cartoon of the MIRVing of Tampa might be misinterpreted as “aggressive”.
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’ve literally negotiated two more treaties with Russia since then SORT and START II.
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Yawn doesn’t explain his lack of respect for their neighbirs’ Sovereignty. Ollie is part of the bizarre political circular spectrum.
See en.wikipedia.org
re: #143 KGxvi
We’ve literally negotiated two more treaties with Russia since then SORT and START II.
Can’t expect Stone to know that.
re: #135 dangerman
it would take years to build a steel mill if the demand is ever felt
and it wont be your granddaddy’s steel mill employing hundreds of workers
It would also require MASSIVE investment to build that steel mill - blast furnaces, coke ovens etc etc - don’t come cheap.
re: #148 fern01
It would also require MASSIVE investment to build that steel mill - blast furnaces, coke ovens etc etc - don’t come cheap.
this isnt even a pipe dream
it’s idiocy bordering on non-sequiterism
steel tariffs will not create steel industry jobs
and ANOTHER moron pipes up
Hearing Hillary took money from the Russian oligarchs and promised to end Magnitsky, then reneged on their deal
They wanted payback on her, tried to involve Trump but he didn’t bite. End of story. Mueller knows all this
It’s all going to come out— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 6, 2018
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oliver Stone is also a moron
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Broken clock moment. Bush pulling out of the ABM treaty to build an interceptor system that absolutely will not work under any realistic attack scenario was incredibly short-sighted and stupid.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
and ANOTHER moron pipes up
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At what part of that story do the moose and squirrel appear?
re: #149 HappyWarrior
Mahler’s story is esp. interesting.
At the time, Mahler was active as a lawyer who defended students facing criminal prosecution. By 1970, he had defended Rudi Dutschke, Beate Klarsfeld…
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In 1980, Mahler was freed from prison after serving ten years of his fourteen-year sentence. This was largely due to the efforts of his lawyer, Gerhard Schröder, who would later become Chancellor of the reunited Germany.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
and ANOTHER moron pipes up
I’m hearing Jack has to have help tying his shoes.
re: #150 dangerman
this isnt even a pipe dream
it’s idiocy bordering on non-sequiterism
steel tariffs will not create steel industry jobs
I read a couple days ago that Bush and Obama both briefly instituted steel tariffs (I think on both occasions they were ruled illegal by the WTO), and in both cases they actually cost more jobs than they saved. I think in one case it “saved” 1500 steel worker jobs while costing almost 4000 retail/wholesale jobs downstream. So, yeah, going to just fuck up the economy.
So, I get an email from American Express asking me to revalidate my credit card. The return email address is indeed an AMEX email address, as are all the links in the email.
But obviously any such emails are suspicious. Well, to me it is, but I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who would be fooled by it.
It is not obvious from the email. However, it includes an HTML attachment that one is supposed to open to fill out information.
Open the HTML (in incognito window and using VPN) and it takes me to a web page that looks just like it would be from AMEX.
However, I look at the source code… and there is a script being loaded from: quantum-sails.ru
Now, why would an American credit and banking company be using source code from a Russian address, of a company that looks, from its webpage, to be indeed about sailing?
re: #156 KGxvi
I read a couple days ago that Bush and Obama both briefly instituted steel tariffs (I think on both occasions they were ruled illegal by the WTO), and in both cases they actually cost more jobs than they saved. I think in one case it “saved” 1500 steel worker jobs while costing almost 4000 retail/wholesale jobs downstream. So, yeah, going to just fuck up the economy.
The Bush tariffs were trying to stave off the closing of the great Burns Harbor steel mills in the wake of 9/11. All of us who lived in the area know exactly how that turned out. (Spoiler alert: Those mills have been closed for over a decade.)
so many snowflakes…
So basically the NAACP wants to ban/confiscate all guns to include shotguns… got it. 🙄 https://t.co/ODQ7XfMN3N
— NRA (@NRA) March 6, 2018
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he got it backwards, Trump took the money and reneged on the deal (see: HIS ENTIRE FUCKING BUSINESS CAREER) and Hillary wouldn’t bite.
re: #65 gocart mozart
Let’s not talk about Fritz the Cat. It would freak them out.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 6, 2018
re: #122 Blind Frog Belly White
He thinks he can take America back 70 years, and we’ll thrive. After all, we thrived then, didn’t we?
Ironically, he’s not entirely wrong. 70 years ago: A highly progressive income tax. Strong unions. Much lower income inequality…
This is Alex and Yuna. They’re in that early relationship stage where nobody knows what the h*ck is going on. Both 13/10 pic.twitter.com/grl9tgnGxz
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 6, 2018
re: #164 Sinistershade
Ironically, he’s not entirely wrong. 70 years ago: A highly progressive income tax. Strong unions. Much lower income inequality…
And most the rest of the world in rubble and population depleted following WWII.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
so many snowflakes…
NRA referring to Daily Caller. Gotta like echo chambers.
re: #84 KGxvi
Feinstien probably counts as a centrist, depending on the definition. Maybe Bill Nelson? Susan Collins on the GOP, maybe Murkowski? McCaskill and Tester perhaps, along with Heitkamp? Kaine strikes me as fairly centrist as well. But again, it depends on how you define centrist.
These days we have crazy people and everybody else. Everybody else is centrist from left to right.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
literally nothing in the piece says anything about confiscating all guns. It does mention Australia’s experience with a buy back program for semi-automatic weapons, which has been, you know: successful.
sigh
News: President Trump met with John Bolton in the Oval Office today.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 6, 2018
Sounds like the Chuck Todd/Roger Stone Interview is going pretty much as expected—Roger spouts bullshit and Chuck “moves on.”
@chucktodd just let Roger Stone spout a stream of totally uncorroborated accusations that DNC hack was an inside job, involving a thumb drive, and that Guccifer 2.0 is NOT a Russian actor. Despite IC concluding otherwise. Zero push back from Chuck. WTF?!?!
— Mitchy McConell (@MitchMcConell) March 6, 2018
Roger Stone is lying through his teeth. This farce of an interview will be enough for Trump to claim innocence and no collusion within 24 hrs. Bob Mueller will give this guy fits. Lock him up. #mtpdaily
— Steve Thomas (@steve_zimbo) March 6, 2018
“I reject the idea that Assange is a Russian asset…he’s a courageous journalist” - Roger Stone #mtpd
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 6, 2018
Today’s laugh brought to you by Roger Stone. https://t.co/oyV6KyKrJH
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 6, 2018
re: #150 dangerman
this isnt even a pipe dream
it’s idiocy bordering on non-sequiterism
steel tariffs will not create steel industry jobs
They will probably reduce employment in industries that use imported steel - higher cost, less demand. Most RW administrations end in recession - trump achieving that in faster time than most presidents - not to mention reducing world wide trust in the US to a negative value.
“The President’s most authentic moments are when he’s lying. He just misled the American people on Russia, North Korea, and White House personnel.” - @DavidJollyFL on #DeadlineWH w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/658jCW93gN
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 6, 2018
re: #159 BlueGrl21
Me too. Texas Lizards doing their part.
Beto updings on offer for all. I first ‘Paged’ him in 2011. Glad to see he’s come so far. May he reach the US Senate this year.
That’s the kind of thing you hear if you hang around with the propagandized far-right. Reality will never go as you expect when you’re delusional.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 6, 2018
If it’s true, as Roger Stone says, that he hasn’t been contacted at all by Mueller, that is probably not a good fact for him this late in the game.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 6, 2018
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 6, 2018
“One coherent strategy … has not been put in place yet,” DNI Dan Coats tells Senate Armed Services about dealing with Russian cyberattcks in the 2018 midterms. GOP Sen. Mike Rounds tells @wolfblitzer that it’s “troubling”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 6, 2018
Russia is not waiting for the Trump Administration to come up with a “coherent strategy” before attacking our democracy again. As Americans vote TODAY in Texas, why is @POTUS leaving our ballot boxes vulnerable? https://t.co/oSU0FOTbzy
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) March 6, 2018
Hmmm, looks like the Weinstein Company was mostly a means of paying off women that Harvey harassed:
“We have received disappointing information about the viability of completing this transaction,” Contreras-Sweet said in a statement Tuesday. “As a result, we have decided to terminate this transaction.”
Looks like it’s heading for bankruptcy and liquidation.
Non-game programmer: Track down everything that changed, do an analysis of all the jumping/sprite allocation code, look through the docs to see if there’s a bug in your UI libraries…
Game programmer: Switch the forward and backward inputs while jumping, and ship it— Shotgun Ninja, agile gaming enthusiast 🌹 (@shotgunninja) March 6, 2018
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because, Joe, he sees Russian interference as helping him.
Yet you have Jared doing 90% of them. Go figure.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2018
re: #181 BeachDem
Chuck Todd complicit
nowALWAYS.
fify
I was about to post exactly that - scrolled downwards and saw you had done it - so just copied your post. Tod’s been giving RWNJs space to b.s. since Nov 4, 2008
The Senate just voted 67-32 to proceed to a bill that would roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law.
17 Democrats joined unanimous Republicans in voting YES. pic.twitter.com/JdXPS5ybBf— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2018
These Democrats are betting their careers on Donald Trump not leading us into another financial crisis. https://t.co/s15iRseicY
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 6, 2018
re: #190 JordanRules
Delaware is a haven for American corporations, which is why the Delaware Dems went with this no doubt.
re: #36 JordanRules
I feel you. I’m certainly not disparaging the teachers but there are a few lessons here.
If the voters of WV want investment in public goods and services, they will quit voting for Republicans. Otherwise, they can expect to sink to Third World status.
it’s a banner day for morons:
On Election Day ponder this. California has worst ‘quality of life’ in US. On the flip side, this week Texas was recognized as #1 in the U.S. for economic development. Do we really want Democrats in Texas to take us down the path of liberalism? Vote GOP. https://t.co/MxSZguF36n
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 6, 2018
who needs to know proper English and how to spell? Not this gal!
I voted for you and ted Cruz and all republicans. I pray to god Texas does not fall to our knees in the hands of democrats. I have called people like crazy to get them out to the poles. Keep Texas red. We must pray hard and act also. God bless you and Texas
— carrie walker (@carriewalker77) March 6, 2018
re: #166 KGxvi
And most the rest of the world in rubble and population depleted following WWII.
No question. I’m just always amused by the nostalgic conservatives who are unable to discern what was actually good and successful in the past.
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
Texas came in 46th on Quality of Life in that same study. Quality of Life apparently measures “air quality, pollution, voter participation, social support and more”. I need to dig into the methodology to see how those are actually measured.
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s a banner day for morons:
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The case of the Martian boulder piles 🕵: What organized these boulders into neatly-spaced lumps? A similar process back in the Arctic on Earth could help solve this mystery on Mars. Investigate 🔎 the details: https://t.co/mJ9juHpu1P pic.twitter.com/XybapwRLil
— NASA (@NASA) March 6, 2018
re: #200 makeitstop
On what? The tariffs? Dad’s gon’ be mad.
Trade and tariffs. I just have a phone alert.
re: #148 fern01
It would also require MASSIVE investment to build that steel mill - blast furnaces, coke ovens etc etc - don’t come cheap.
I keep posting info on Worthington Industries from here in Columbus. They have grown to be a pretty big steel producer all over the world now. They have many locations all over America.
The reason I keep mentioning them is because they are the new steel industry. It has completely changed from the era of early car manufacturing and steel frame buildings, etc. They have new ways to make steel as the furnaces are way more efficient and smaller. Everything is smaller and cleaner.
Here is the link to their site. Look at all they produce and how they do it. It’s not the steel manufacturing like the huge over 1/2 mile long Empire Reeves plant that was just blocks from my childhood home. Thank God.
https://worthingtonindustries.com/Home
And here is one of their main production facilities here in Columbus (Worthington -
a Suburb). This is not the steel plants of the old days. Trump may not even know they make rolled sheet steel here.
Also, I used to do brochures and other advertising materials at an agency that had a client Allied Mineral Products. They made “refractory” materials, specialized sand and ceramic mixes, that are sprayed into the modern furnaces that make them concentrate more heat on the melting of the ore. I learned a lot about all the changes from them, as they sell and help install these liners in many modern furnaces all over America. They have grown along with Worthington.
re: #186 goddamnedfrank
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To be fair, the video game industry has long been lamented as being the single most miserable job in programming. Long hours, vague requirements, and the crunch-time insanity is second to none. You also have literally no idea if you will even have a job the next day - the politics of video game development are such that cancellations can occur with no notice whatsoever. I try not to bag on the terribleness of video games, understanding that they are developed in the software equivalent of sweatshops.
re: #195 Decatur Deb
Per NYT, Cohn is pulling the plug.
re: #200 makeitstop
On what? The tariffs? Dad’s gon’ be mad.
JUST IN: Chief economic adviser Gary Cohn resigns from the White House amid a battle over Pres. Trump’s proposed tariffs.
“I am grateful to the President for giving me this opportunity and wish him and the Administration great success in the future,” he says. pic.twitter.com/Dhf9bHcUyH— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
re: #195 Decatur Deb
Per NYT, Cohn is pulling the plug.
Given he has advised trump repeatedly against the steel tariffs that was most likely. Anyone and everyone who works for trump is humiliated by the experience - one way or another. Fools to think they could make a difference.
re: #180 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Doesn’t he have a pregnant wife to keep apologizing to for publicly humiliating her by cheating online and being just overall a fucking asshole? Clean up your own house first, you fucking douche hammer.
re: #198 KGxvi
So the quality of life thing seems to be weighted toward more rural states:
Among the measures used to evaluate states’ natural environments are drinking water quality, air quality and total toxic chemical pollution per square. The ranking also considers how much each state puts its citizens at risk for long-term, chronic health effects from pollution.
North Dakota is number one on that list, California has 14 counties and four cities with populations larger than North Dakota.
re: #202 Decatur Deb
Trade and tariffs. I just have a phone alert.
Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, plans to resign, becoming the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the Trump administration, White House officials said on Tuesday.
The officials insisted there was no single factor behind the departure of Mr. Cohn, who heads the National Economic Council. But his decision to leave came after he seemed poised to lose an internal struggle amid a Wild West-style process over Mr. Trump’s plan to impose large tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
#BREAKING: Top Trump economic adviser resigns from White House https://t.co/9eoLmRPbrM pic.twitter.com/CnYw2f2QtK
— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2018
“We barely knew Gary Cohn. He was a volunteer. A coffee boy.”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 6, 2018
Gary Cohn: “It has been an honor to serve my country and enact pro-growth economic policies to benefit the American people, in particular the passage of historic tax reform. I am grateful to the President for giving me this opportunity…”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2018
MORE: “Gary has been my chief economic advisor and did a superb job in driving our agenda,” Pres. Trump says. “He is a rare talent, and I thank him for his dedicated service to the American people.” pic.twitter.com/fCkxg32vat
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2018
re: #203 ObserverArt
I keep posting info on Worthington Industries from here in Columbus. They have grown to be a pretty big steel producer all over the world now. They have many locations all over America.
The reason I keep mentioning them is because they are the new steel industry. It has completely changed from the era of early car manufacturing and steel frame buildings, etc. They have new ways to make steel as the furnaces are way more efficient and smaller. Everything is smaller and cleaner.
Thanks for the info - my knowledge is dated - I worked at a steelworks 1970s - which closed in the 1990s - had 15000 employees when I was there.
Remember when Gary Cohn was going to be chief of staff like a week ago?
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 6, 2018
Spare a few moments thought for the poor GS-07 who has to run the laminator at the WH credentials office.
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
Feels like a good time to re-up this. https://t.co/nFL3BZLgbW
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 6, 2018
re: #208 KGxvi
It’s just another constructed story full of artificial weighting of metrics.
The reason there are a lot more homeless people here in alleged number 50 California than in alleged number 1 Iowa is because a homeless person in Iowa would die outside in the winter, while here someone can live (miserably) outdoors in the winter.
And so on.
heh
President Trump’s net worth fell by $400 million last year, causing him to plummet 222 places on Forbes annual list of the world’s billionaires. https://t.co/tf91TkwFXi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2018
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well shit. Someone should check the Doomsday clock.
re: #174 BeachDem
Sounds like the Chuck Todd/Roger Stone Interview is going pretty much as expected—Roger spouts bullshit and Chuck “moves on.”
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Stone is slick as hell. Way too much for Chuck.
I watched, sadly, but I just had to see it and it went about as expected.
You can’t nail down Roger Stone. He’s way too slick.
Tom Brokaw (not a fan of him either) basically said what is up. Stone is practiced and knows what he wants to say and knows your questions and then he sets the tone and the narrative. And it all sounds so damn good because he is polished.
The only way to handle Stone is to do what Mueller is doing. Dig for the facts. They will not lie. Stone will and he’s a champion at it.
Orange is the new orange. pic.twitter.com/h0YQThMeX2
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) March 6, 2018
re: #220 ObserverArt
He picked Chuck for a reason too. I don’t think he’d fair well against Rachel, Joy or Ali.
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hopefully all the people she called to get to the poles will be headed there, north and south, they have options.
re: #203 ObserverArt
I keep posting info on Worthington Industries from here in Columbus. They have grown to be a pretty big steel producer all over the world now. They have many locations all over America.
The reason I keep mentioning them is because they are the new steel industry. It has completely changed from the era of early car manufacturing and steel frame buildings, etc. They have new ways to make steel as the furnaces are way more efficient and smaller. Everything is smaller and cleaner.
Here is the link to their site. Look at all they produce and how they do it. It’s not the steel manufacturing like the huge over 1/2 mile long Empire Reeves plant that was just blocks from my childhood home. Thank God.
https://worthingtonindustries.com/Home
And here is one of their main production facilities here in Columbus (Worthington -
a Suburb). This is not the steel plants of the old days. Trump mayu not even know they make rolled sheet steel here.[Embedded content]
Also, I used to do brochures and other advertising materials at an agency that had a client Allied Mineral Products. They made “refractory” materials, specialized sand and ceramic mixes, that are sprayed into the modern furnaces that make them concentrate more heat on the melting of the ore. I learned a lot about all the changes from them, as they sell and help install these liners in many modern furnaces all over America. They have grown along with Worthington.
Yep—I know all of the Worthington Industries history—wrote the script for their 50th anniversary event in 2005 (damn, I’m old) and it is a pretty amazing story.
re: #127 Ace Rothstein
One vote for Beto, done.
Me too! There are some good choices this year in lots of races!
Check out this guy, Joseph Kopser, who’s running to replace Lamar Smith (R-Mars)
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s a banner day for morons:
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“Liberalism” in Texas is a relative term. We’re not confiscating guns and socializing medicine up in here.
This state is never going to be bright blue. We’re scrambling for purple.
re: #213 fern01
Thanks for the info - my knowledge is dated - I worked at a steelworks 1970s - which closed in the 1990s - had 15000 employees when I was there.
The big steel mill in my hometown hit the skids in the late 70s. By the late 80s it was reduced down to about 1/8 the size it was originally and it was bought out by AK Steel.
They kept the stainless process going, and that was reduced because of new tech. The rest of all that property is now just empty lots.
Empty lots reflecting the same empty lots of old manufacturing plants that were there at one time too.
re: #224 BeachDem
Yep—I know all of the Worthington Industries history—wrote the script for their 50th anniversary event in 2005 (damn, I’m old) and it is a pretty amazing story.
In many ways they changed the industry. I had a hunch you may have worked with them sometime or another.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Does anyone else think that he looks like Trey Gowdy’s daddy?
re: #229 ObserverArt
In many ways they changed the industry. I had a hunch you may have worked with them sometime or another.
My favorite tidbit from the script.
1955. That was the year that John H. McConnell used his 1952 Oldsmobile as collateral on a $600 loan that would allow him to buy his first load of steel and launch Worthington Industries.
re: #230 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Does anyone else think that he looks like Trey Gowdy’s daddy?
Mike Pence with a different nose.