Colbert: Trump Scolds Sarah Huckabee Sanders For… Being Honest
Trump was angry with his Press Secretary for breaking her oath to tell the untruth, the whole untruth, and everything but the truth.
Trump was angry with his Press Secretary for breaking her oath to tell the untruth, the whole untruth, and everything but the truth.
“A Sanders-Warren ticket could win big in 2020.” pic.twitter.com/QYon1uabP0
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 9, 2018
Congressional candidate destroys AR-15 rifle in wake of Florida high school shooting massacre.
“We realized we didn’t want this gun in anybody else’s house either. So today, we’re going to destroy it.” https://t.co/ekXzexLaAw pic.twitter.com/XEY0NNM8OJ— ABC News (@ABC) March 9, 2018
re: #4 dangerman
Too few people, so far:
en.wikipedia.org
Well, this is crap:
Police officer’s suit against woman whose son was killed in collision ‘offensive’: Lawyer (ABC)
A police officer with a history of car crashes is suing a woman who’s car he crashed into, killing her child.
A New Mexico police officer with a history of being reprimanded for on-duty crashes filed a lawsuit against a woman whose 6-year-old son was killed when the officer slammed into their vehicle while speeding to a crime in progress.
Jonathan McDonnell of the Albuquerque Police Department filed the civil suit against Antoinette Suina, charging she “failed to yield to an emergency vehicle” when she turned in front of his speeding patrol car in 2017.
McDonnell’s suit counters one Suina filed in January against him and the city of Albuquerque, charging the officer’s “deliberate, intentional, and/or reckless” conduct led to the crash that killed her boy and left her and her 9-year-old daughter, Adriana, severely injured.
“Having killed Ms. Suina’s son, it’s somewhat offensive that he would turn around and sue her and heap more tragedy on this family,” the mother’s lawyer, Geoffrey Romero, told ABC News Thursday. “In effect, it’s blaming her for the death of her son.”
(more)
He was involved in five crashes and one unauthorised pursuit. He has been suspended three times.
(with pictures of the crash and a link to surveillance video showing it)
The officer is on disability leave for his injuries.
re: #6 CongoJack
The comments on that tweet are… *sigh* … mostly frustrating.
I’m not surprised. Ammosexuals get more mad st the destruction of guns than life.
“Tower Girl” is live on the UT Falcon Cam:
biodiversity.utexas.edu
MORE: Active shooter reported at Yountville veterans home https://t.co/6PT5YAPNhE Residents at the home are sheltering in place while the California Highway Patrol is responding with assisting agencies…. It is not immediately known if there are any injuries.
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 9, 2018
re: #6 CongoJack
The comments on that tweet are… *sigh* … mostly frustrating.
Plenty of them are saying she broke the law by not destroying the upper and lower receivers and making a sawed-off gun (or that she’s a woman and a man could have done it faster and this is why equal pay is BS)
a) The upper receiver is not required to be destroyed. (These would be the “magazine not clip” pedants.)
b) They don’t know what she did with the rest of the gun after the video.
c) There is 27% of any population which cannot be reached.
d) Unfortunately, gun stunts by Democrats don’t work out well in adverts. Jason Kander in Missouri against Roy Blunt comes to mind, where he assembled an AR-15 blindfolded in his advert.
re: #13 JordanRules
Is it too soon to talk about guns yet, or is shooting veterans not enough (party of life, dead children; party of military support, dead vets; I’m sensing a theme here).
429.
An immigrant advocacy group has identified 429 cases of children being separated from their parents at the border without cause.
Now the ACLU has filed a class-action suit against the Trump administration. My column on this sizable development:https://t.co/MS7oT1OrlV— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) March 9, 2018
“The president is getting promises out of North Korea that haven’t been made in many recent years.”
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 9, 2018
Same promises were made for years, were even part of Clinton’s agreement from 1994. Six party talks stretched across most of Bush’s presidency, where North Korea kept promising to discuss denuclearization but always walked away. https://t.co/wp8vtD2ddL
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 9, 2018
What do y’all think?
Bets on whether Trump talks to Mueller or KJU first?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 9, 2018
shkreli is crying at his sentencing right now
— allie conti (@allie_conti) March 9, 2018
Bottle those tears and sell them for 5000% the price of generic tears.https://t.co/gDpderV462
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) March 9, 2018
“I’m not too worried about the cops as long as we act like whites.” Leaked message board shows what white supremacists think of the police: https://t.co/NsRjYL68Qd by @JacksonJLanders
— Rewire.News (@Rewire_News) March 9, 2018
.@PressSec says “We’re not going to have this meeting take place”
between Trump and Kim Jong-Un without seeing “concrete actions” from North Korea— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 9, 2018
There it is. The announcement lasted less than 24 hours. See a pattern? Trump has also walked back pronouncements on DACA, ACA stabilization, guns, tariffs. Total chaos. https://t.co/io1wUVEzF5
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) March 9, 2018
re: #17 Kragar
“”The president is getting promises out of North Korea that haven’t been made in many recent years.”“
The President doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Jong Un knows exactly what he’s getting and it’s the fact that he’s gotten Trump to treat him as an equal and opened the door to face to face talks despite fact that US policy has been no direct talks unless North Korea dismantles their nuclear program first.
That’s what Trump just flat-out ripped up and totally ignored. Jong Un hasn’t made any promises and has only gotten a win because he played Trump.
Everyone is playing Trump.
North Korea is playing him. South Korea is playing Trump too. On top of handling the go-between duties between Trump and Jong Un (in part because the US diplomatic corps has been gutted), the South indicated that they’ll use this as an opportunity to make the case they shouldn’t have tariffs applied to the steel and aluminum exported to the US.
A fire captain says a gunman has taken hostages at a large veterans home in California. Police closed access to the home after a man with a gun was reported on the grounds. https://t.co/qkw9BNeujQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2018
re: #16 jaunte
New conservative cruelty, same as the old conservative cruelty.
re: #20 Kragar
That article notes the fellow who founded the racist group Vanguard America was a former Marine recruiter.
As a former Navy recruiter, I am very sorry to hear that. (As much as the Marines hate to admit it, they are part of the Navy.)
Between the Christian theocrats in Colorado Springs and the freakin’ Nazis trying to take over the military, if they do, that’s really game over.
Forget Trump’s alleged corruption or even stacking courts with nutbars. That can be overcome. If the military and police are taken over by such people that’s the end of the road.
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹
New conservative cruelty, same as the old conservative cruelty.
Only with new and improved cruelty added!
Has anyone else read David Brooks nonsense for the day? nytimes.com
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Has anyone else read David Brooks nonsense for the day? nytimes.com
Hey David Brooks: Counter-protest is not “shutting down” speech.
It is speech.
And Jordon Peterson is a theocrat, and a fool. We have enough wingnuts, we don’t need Canada’s. We took in Ted Cruz, isn’t that enough persecution?
On that Brooks article, what a pretentious pile of crap.
I would begin my stab at understanding by acknowledging that I grew up in one era and they grew up in another. I came of age in the 1980s. In that time, there was an assumption that though the roots of human society were deep in tribalism, over the past 3,000 years we have developed a system of liberal democracy that gloriously transcended it, that put reason, compassion and compromise atop violence and brute force.
Mr. Brooks, you do realise there were real nations three thousand years ago. (Sidebar, is Mr. Brooks a creationist?)
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹
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I know this will sound pedantic but cutting through the barrel, gas tube and shroud is not destroying the gun. The “gun” is the lower receiver, the part with the serial number. That rifle can just be re-barreled and made good as new with three cheap mail order parts. Also, the gun will still shoot as is, it’ll just have a hell of a lot of muzzle blast and the charging handle will need to be cycled between shots.
Technically what she did there was film herself committing a felony violation of the NFA by making an illegal short barreled rifle.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
On that Brooks article, what a pretentious pile of crap.
Mr. Brooks, you do realise there were real nations three thousand years ago. (Sidebar, is Mr. Brooks a creationist?)
Imagine my surprise to find out Brooks is a yuppie spawn who takes the work of his parents for granted.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
On that Brooks article, what a pretentious pile of crap.
Mr. Brooks, you do realise there were real nations three thousand years ago. (Sidebar, is Mr. Brooks a creationist?)
“Sadly” I’ve reached my limit on free NYT articles on this computer so Brooks is back behind the paywall.
I really don’t understand how people don’t understand that meeting speech with more speech is somehow bad. That’s really the entire point of civil society within a pluralistic liberal democracy. These protesters aren’t marching with pitchforks and torches… that was, um, those other guys.
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
If you really want to render one inoperable, drop $30 on some binary quick set epoxy and inject it into the bolt and upper receiver
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
On that Brooks article, what a pretentious pile of crap.
Mr. Brooks, you do realise there were real nations three thousand years ago. (Sidebar, is Mr. Brooks a creationist?)
Not only that, but only an idiot like Brooks could look at the current administration, current Congress, and current state of the entire right wing of our politics and talk with a straight face about how all this “gloriously transcended” tribalism and replaced it with “reason, compassion and compromise.”
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
David Brooks is dedicated to the idea that David Brooks wasn’t part of the collapse of liberal democracy—starting in the 80s—when he and the other Reaganauts decided on the tribalist position that everyone to the left of them was fundamentally unserious and child-like, and could be a priori dismissed.
A castle he defends by continuing to insist that everyone to the left of him is fundamentally unserious and child-like, and can be a priori dismissed. And if reality—like, say, how the 2003 Iraq War played out, and David Brooks steaming hot takes on that war, and the way the hysterical hippies turned out to be correct—does not support that position, then by God David Brooks will re-write reality.
re: #33 KGxvi
“Sadly” I’ve reached my limit on free NYT articles on this computer so Brooks is back behind the paywall.
You can delete your NYT website information to reset the counter. On Safari it’s Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Click on “Manage Website Data” -> Type “NYT” into the search field -> Highlight both items that appear and click “Remove”
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹
Plenty of them are saying she broke the law by not destroying the upper and lower receivers and making a sawed-off gun (or that she’s a woman and a man could have done it faster and this is why equal pay is BS)
a) The upper receiver is not required to be destroyed. (These would be the “magazine not clip” pedants.)
b) They don’t know what she did with the rest of the gun after the video.
c) There is 27% of any population which cannot be reached.
d) Unfortunately, gun stunts by Democrats don’t work out well in adverts. Jason Kander in Missouri against Roy Blunt comes to mind, where he assembled an AR-15 blindfolded in his advert.
b)
Troll fail against Stormy Daniels (behind the hide bar, a tweet from her with a screen capture for posterity of the troll’s tweet)
I actually took a screenshot of my favorite troll a couple days ago. I laughed so hard I couldn’t even respond. When someone can’t even insult you correctly ( you’re all welcome. Enjoy) pic.twitter.com/KcTGns82xw
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 9, 2018
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
You can delete your NYT website information to reset the counter. On Safari it’s Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Click on “Manage Website Data” -> Type “NYT” into the search field -> Highlight both items that appear and click “Remove”
I could do that… but then I might be exposed to David Brooks. It’s a catch-22.
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
I know this will sound pedantic but cutting through the barrel, gas tube and shroud is not destroying the gun. The “gun” is the lower receiver, the part with the serial number. That rifle can just be re-barreled and made good as new with three cheap mail order parts. Also, the gun will still shoot as is, it’ll just have a hell of a lot of muzzle blast and the charging handle will need to be cycled between shots.
Technically what she did there was film herself committing a felony violation of the NFA by making an illegal short barreled rifle.
Only if that’s where she stopped. (If you really want to be a pedant about it, it was an illegal weapon between cutting through the barrel and destroying the other parts of the gun.)
That’s why I called it out as a pedant fail. They don’t know what she did with it. Heck, there might have been a cop off camera to take the remains of the weapon.
FYI: I am not the former Obama official now in Brussels
The worst case is that Trump ends up looking foolish and then to redeem himself, starts bombing and a million people die
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
For those who like diplomacy but have a sinking feeling about an unplanned, ad hoc Trump/Kim summit, here’s why: the worst case outcome for U.S. is also the most likely - a great, legitimizing photo op for Kim, and no material commitment on disarmament.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 9, 2018
A former Obama official here in Brussels reminds me the actual worst case is a poorly planned/executed summit that goes so badly that Trump gives up on diplomacy and orders a catastrophic military strike. https://t.co/d04VJZAIH6
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 9, 2018
re: #21 Kragar
There it is. The announcement lasted less than 24 hours. See a pattern? Trump has also walked back pronouncements on DACA, ACA stabilization, guns, tariffs. Total chaos.
different opinion - this in and of itself is not chaos
if they have any MO, any plan, if they are after anything it’s initial headlines from the announcements.
they count on most people forgetting, losing interest, not paying attention etc
re: #42 gocart mozart
Jesus fucking Christ on a flaming unicycle… ARE ALL POLITICIANS THIS FUCKING STUPID?
re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
A fire captain says a gunman has taken hostages at a large veterans home in California. Police closed access to the home after a man with a gun was reported on the grounds.
arm the doctors
arm the nurses
the aids
arm the other residents, heck they are trained veterans!!!
too soon?
this is madness
does every fucking thing have to be settled with a gun?
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
Curious… why’d you hide that?
I posted it last night and didn’t. Am I using bad NSFW form?
I haven’t looked downstairs, and probably somebody has already made the point, but does anyone remember how the chicken wings howled when Obama suggested that he would be willing to at least talk with the prime minister of Iran? What a horror, right, what a surrender monkey? And then when he made an actual agreement with them and the world’s major nations that has stopped Iran’s nuke program to this day, it was TREASON!!!
Truly different strokes for different folks, I guess.
To me, the chaos in this whole situation is that it’s Seoul that’s effectively orchestrating these talks, if only to try to walk both sides back from armed confrontation. Because we have no ambassador to South Korea, and apparently because Tillerson’s balls reside in a jar in the White House walk-in fridge, Seoul feels it must actively take a part in finding a diplomatic solution to the matter rather than watching the back-and-forth dick-wagging turn into a shooting war.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Only if that’s where she stopped. (If you really want to be a pedant about it, it was an illegal weapon between cutting through the barrel and destroying the other parts of the gun.)
That’s how the ATF views it. She created an illegal weapon, it doesn’t matter how long it existed in that form. The ATF is very pedantic about this kind of thing.
That’s why I called it out as a pedant fail. They don’t know what she did with it. Heck, there might have been a cop off camera to take the remains of the weapon.
It doesn’t matter what she did with it afterwards. She filmed herself committing a felony and posted it on Facebook for the entire world to see. Not smart. That she wants people to send her to Congress and write legislation just adds a layer of poetic irony to the situation.
I mean, I sympathize with where she’s coming from, but that was extremely not smart. It’s a textbook example of why it would serve liberals well not to be ignorant about guns. This isn’t merely mixing up a clip with a magazine, it’s flirting with a ten year prison sentence.
re: #33 KGxvi
“Sadly” I’ve reached my limit on free NYT articles on this computer so Brooks is back behind the paywall.
I really don’t understand how people don’t understand that meeting speech with more speech is somehow bad. That’s really the entire point of civil society within a pluralistic liberal democracy. These protesters aren’t marching with pitchforks and torches… that was, um, those other guys.
its not fair if there’s more of you and you shout them down
its like a rich guy whose can spend more free speech dollars than you
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re: #44 KGxvi
Jesus fucking Christ on a flaming unicycle… ARE ALL POLITICIANS THIS FUCKING STUPID?
Only conservative ones.
Mississippi’s last abortion clinic owner Diane Derzis said if the bill is signed — and “(Gov.) Phil Bryant has never seen an abortion bill he didn’t like” — her clinic will be forced to turn away women who seek abortions after 15 weeks. https://t.co/gl3EyrCPJo
— Anna Wolfe (@ayewolfe) March 6, 2018
As I have repeatedly said, I want Mississippi to be the safest place in America for an unborn child. House Bill 1510 will help us achieve that goal. https://t.co/ffqRfhwx51
— Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) March 6, 2018
In Mississippi 39.7 pregnant women died for every 100,000 births. The national average, which is abysmal globally, is 26.4. The rate for Black women in Mississippi is 54.7.
When are you going to focus on making pregnancy safe in Mississippi @PhilBryantMS?https://t.co/uD5kia1yGY— Dr. Daniel Grossman (@DrDGrossman) March 9, 2018
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
You can delete your NYT website information to reset the counter. On Safari it’s Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Click on “Manage Website Data” -> Type “NYT” into the search field -> Highlight both items that appear and click “Remove”
chrome incognito mode works too
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
On that Brooks article, what a pretentious pile of crap.
Mr. Brooks, you do realise there were real nations three thousand years ago. (Sidebar, is Mr. Brooks a creationist?)
Sidebar answer: Mr. Brooks is an idiot.
Major newspaper editorial staff are consistently a window into how there’s no meritocracy.
Not just the counter-intuitive shitwits themselves, but the sheer mass of “intelligent” people who get caught up in pseudo-intellectual feints and bottom-barrel cleverness, overlooking the shitty base assumptions, shallowness of analysis and reference, and the frequency with which these folks backwards revise their own thinking while denying inconsistency or hypocrisy.
College-freshman rhetoric is marketable and consumable, and the buyers are people who should fucking know better because they have the money and position such that they could afford to learn how to think rigorously.
(A phenomenon of which David Brooks is the chatelaine.)
re: #32 Targetpractice
Imagine my surprise to find out Brooks is a yuppie spawn who takes the work of his parents for granted.
Brooks is always the reasonable centrist fighting the ravening leftist strawmen in his imagination.
re: #47 dangerman
see: answer b)
It’s not a good answer. The ATF has gotten incredibly hard nosed and unforgiving over the years because they’ve had to deal with so many people who claimed things like “that flagrantly illegal weapon doesn’t exist anymore.” They don’t care.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
“Accidental discharge of a saw.”
Intent is required to complete a crime, even with ATF. If the intent was to create an illegal weapon, that would be one thing. If the intent is to destroy a weapon, tougher case for the ATF to make (plus they are understaffed thanks to GOP intransigence so I doubt they have time to deal with political stunts).
But yeah, as I noted above it is not good for Democrats to involve themselves in gun adverts (such as Jason Kander). Just focus on the issue of killing machines and being the real “pro-life” party.
re: #50 goddamnedfrank
How much do I need to learn about guns? Mind you, I really don’t want to.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
I’m not surprised. Ammosexuals get more mad st the destruction of guns than life.
“We don’t want any babies to die but don’t you dare take our fucking assault weapons away you commie bastards!”
re: #55 The Ghost of a Flea
(A phenomenon of which David Brooks is the chatelaine.)
i learned a word. my day is complete
though im not sure i’ll ever get to use it in context
The Virginia capitol — which didn’t have a women’s restroom until 2007!! — now has two lactation rooms set up in a nearby building because so many of the legislators are working moms. https://t.co/IYGr7K2TKh
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) March 9, 2018
Let’s all give a warm welcome to the @FDRLST’s new family film critic. pic.twitter.com/pyfdMhddnd
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) March 8, 2018
Oh my….
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
Only conservative ones.
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There’s a lot of stupidity to go around, apparently.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
Mississippi’s last abortion clinic owner Diane Derzis said if the bill is signed — and “(Gov.) Phil Bryant has never seen an abortion bill he didn’t like” — her clinic will be forced to turn away women who seek abortions after 15 weeks. https://t.co/gl3EyrCPJo
— Anna Wolfe (@ayewolfe) March 6, 2018
As I have repeatedly said, I want Mississippi to be the safest place in America for an unborn child. House Bill 1510 will help us achieve that goal. https://t.co/ffqRfhwx51
— Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) March 6, 2018
“Look, if someone really wants one, they’re going to go out and get one.”
Or does that rhetoric only apply to gun control laws? https://t.co/oyN2sT7YRh— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 9, 2018
Shooter at the Yountville Veterans Home has now taken hostages.
re: #61 dangerman
i learned a word. my day is complete
though im not sure i’ll ever get to use it in context
It’s easy: “I exited the information superhighway and turned into a pleasant little chatelaine.”
re: #63 Ace-o-aces
Ok, I’ll bite. How does making the cast more diverse hurt the story? It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book (and might need to dig up a copy because I loved it as a kid), but I don’t remember the race of the characters being central to the plot…
re: #59 JordanRules
How much do I need to learn about guns? Mind you, I really don’t want to.
If you’re going to own or use one, just the basics of safety and operation. If you’re going to modify them, quite a bit. If you want people to send you to Congress to legislate them, quite a bit.
If you’re not going to do those things then you’re good.
re: #57 goddamnedfrank
It’s not a good answer. The ATF has gotten incredibly hard nosed and unforgiving over the years because they’ve had to deal with so many people who claimed things like “that flagrantly illegal weapon doesn’t exist anymore.” They don’t care.
look, im just standing here waiting for a bus…
i dont know the woman or her instincts or whether she wants to be a martyr
she might be willing to say “you want to go after me for this - which it was clear what i was trying to do, while we all know stoneman, birmingham, and today’s napa county veterans home are going on out there - well have at it.
BREAKING: @FLGovScott just signed sign a bill into law that allocates $400 Million for more police in schools and allows teachers to carry guns. Make no mistake, this will make schools unsafe for Black and Brown students.
— Advancement Project (@adv_project) March 9, 2018
re: #53 dangerman
chrome incognito mode works too
Not all the time. I try to do that, but it will keep count too. I found out with the Times.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹
Shooter at the Yountville Veterans Home has now taken hostages.
So, arm the veterans?
I know it’s nothing to joke about, but is the shooter really angry and taking vets hostage or did they mistake the place for French Laundry and are pissed they couldn’t get a reservation?
re: #74 lawhawk
Already got a moron on FB saying the shooter must be a Liberal because he is going after Vets.
Someone stop me. I can’t help myself from eating and eating and eating and eating the apple strudel.
All I wanted to do was use up the flaky pastry dough in the freezer.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Already got a moron on FB saying the shooter must be a Liberal because he is going after Vets.
re: #69 KGxvi
Ok, I’ll bite. How does making the cast more diverse hurt the story? It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book (and might need to dig up a copy because I loved it as a kid), but I don’t remember the race of the characters being central to the plot…
Look, we gave black people the right to sit in the front of the bus. Sometimes they can even vote. We even let them get on TV as long as it’s playing some gladiatorial sport and they shut up and don’t talk a lot and stand for the national anthem. It’s a bit much to expect us to have movies about them. Black people with interesting stories and aspirations? Who’s going to believe that?
re: #76 The Vicious Babushka
Someone stop me. I can’t help myself from eating and eating and eating and eating the apple strudel.
All I wanted to do was use up the flaky pastry dough in the freezer.
You’re good.
Everyone surrounding Trump is as fact challenged and adverse to telling Trump no that Trumpworld is careening from one crisis to the next entirely of its own doing.
Trump spews forth without actually understanding issues or consequences of his actions.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 9, 2018
Instead of taking time to consider a decision, Trump just issues his diktat and everyone around him jumps, because none of them can foresee any consequences because they’re just as incompetent as Trump is.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 9, 2018
re: #72 JordanRules
BREAKING: @FLGovScott just signed sign a bill into law that allocates $400 Million for more police in schools and allows teachers to carry guns. Make no mistake, this will make schools unsafe for Black and Brown students.
YOU make no mistake - they “found” that money in mere weeks. it wasnt that hard. What would $400M have done for actual education?
The single best tell of the stupid that infects Brooks and his team of David Brooks impersonators is the way that aestheticism is substituted for morality, because moral reflections required self-inquiry, while politeness and good conduct are superficial externalities.
Hence the recurring theme of “the liberals were rude, therefore they have no point, therefore they are wrong and immoral,” but also the “Donald Trump is crass, and therefore bad, but we will not reflect on the homologous ideological features between Trump and less gauche conservatives” so common among the never-Trumpers.
re: #61 dangerman
i learned a word. my day is complete
though im not sure i’ll ever get to use it in context
KD Laing did a song with it in the title!
re: #73 ObserverArt
Not all the time. I try to do that, but it will keep count too. I found out with the Times.
i havent had that problem
(not arguing, maybe im just lucky somehow)
some setting?
Remember “no drama Obama?”
Shulkin cancels meetings with Trump appointees amid VA strife: report (The Hill)
I’m sure this will make my care easier:
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has reportedly cut off contact with top agency officials and now operates out of an office with an armed guard at the door amid ongoing tensions with top staff.
Shulkin, a VA holdover from the Obama administration promoted to the head job by President Trump, has canceled morning meetings with top Trump appointees in the department and hasn’t spoken to his public affairs chief in weeks. He fears that his aides in the nation’s second-largest bureaucracy, behind only the Pentagon, are actively lobbying the White House for his ouster, The Washington Post reports.
(more)
Shulkin was elevated from the VA’s bureaucracy by Trump to lead the VA.
You can practically smell the desperation:
Trump’s lawyers desperately trying to convince Mueller to wrap up his investigation https://t.co/rvchtMrZW6
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 9, 2018
Mueller’s response should be “I’ll decide when this matter is closed. And if your client doesn’t want to do this voluntarily, we can do it in front of a grand jury under subpoena. Or in the docket at his trial. Either way works for me.”
re: #81 dangerman
So fast! They found it so damn fast.
This along with the money Chicago has for their new police academy while closing schools left and right. It’s disgusting!
re: #68 whitebeach
It’s easy: “I exited the information superhighway and turned into a pleasant little chatelaine.”
Easier:
Similarly pleasant.
re: #82 The Ghost of a Flea
The single best tell of the stupid that infects Brooks and his team of David Brooks impersonators is the way that aestheticism is substituted for morality, because moral reflections required self-inquiry, while politeness and good conduct are superficial externalities.
Hence the recurring theme of “the liberals were rude, therefore they have no point, therefore they are wrong and immoral,” but also the “Donald Trump is crass, and therefore bad, but we will not reflect on the homologous ideological features between Trump and less gauche conservatives” so common among the never-Trumpers.
The magic balance fairy is holding a horcrux of Mr. Brooks.
re: #70 goddamnedfrank
If you’re going to own or use one, just the basics of safety and operation. If you’re going to modify them, quite a bit. If you want people to send you to Congress to legislate them, quite a bit.
If you’re not going to do those things then you’re good.
Nope. Don’t buy that. That gun pedantry canard is part of the problem, and an unbelievable crock of shit.
In an ideal world, we ask our political representatives to be open to good ideas, represent the wishes of their district, and listen to multiple points of view before making a decision in the public interest. We don’t ask that they be experts in every field they make decisions on. We don’t ask that they be doctors to make health care decisions, just that they listen to doctors. We don’t ask that they be economists, just that they understand the basics and that they listen to smart people. Only with sacred, precious guns do we insist on exacting terminology and complete precision of language, thought and deed from everyone.
Fuck that. They’re just guns. They’re not special, or more important than people. Americans have worshipped them long enough.
re: #63 Ace-o-aces
Dear National Review Forum,
I am a college student in a small mid-western town and must admit I thought the wild stories in your publication were nothing more than make-believe.
Until one day, when I was reading my well-worn copy of Atlas Shrugged, when there was a knock on my door…
I have now had the interesting experience of a YouTube ad by a Polish nationalist group, denying that Poles facilitated Nazi war crimes.
The Daily Caller Has A New Mommyblogger, It Is Just OLEG DERIPASKA, No Big! https://t.co/a5BrFEuTMU via @EvanHurst
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) March 9, 2018
re: #78 Renaissance_Man
Look, we gave black people the right to sit in the front of the bus. Sometimes they can even vote. We even let them get on TV as long as it’s playing some gladiatorial sport and they shut up and don’t talk a lot and stand for the national anthem. It’s a bit much to expect us to have movies about them. Black people with interesting stories and aspirations? Who’s going to believe that?
It’s not even that. It’s the idea that changing something about a character that doesn’t really alter the character is somehow disastrous. We saw this with the most recent Spiderman movie when people freaked out that Mary Jane is going to end up not being white.
re: #90 Renaissance_Man
Nope. Don’t buy that. That gun pedantry canard is part of the problem, and an unbelievable crock of shit.
In an ideal world, we ask our political representatives to be open to good ideas, represent the wishes of their district, and listen to multiple points of view before making a decision in the public interest. We don’t ask that they be experts in every field they make decisions on. We don’t ask that they be doctors to make health care decisions, just that they listen to doctors. We don’t ask that they be economists, just that they understand the basics and that they listen to smart people. Only with sacred, precious guns do we insist on exacting terminology and complete precision of language, thought and deed from everyone.
Fuck that. They’re just guns. They’re not special, or more important than people. Americans have worshipped them long enough.
Quoted because my only regret is that I have but one upding to give this post.
re: #93 The Ghost of a Flea
I have now had the interesting experience of a YouTube ad by a Polish nationalist group, denying that Poles facilitated Nazi war crimes.
Some did, the overwhelming majority did not.
You could make the same argument about the USA. Americans facilitated Nazi war crimes. Some did, the overwhelming majority did not.
re: #91 wrenchwench
Beat me by a mile, or a kilometer. (She’s Canadian.)
Since everyone is on about pedantry…that would be 1.609+ kilometers to the mile.
But I bet you already know that.
(Oops…typed to fast. Clarified.)
re: #78 Renaissance_Man
Look, we gave black people the right to sit in the front of the bus. Sometimes they can even vote. We even let them get on TV as long as it’s playing some gladiatorial sport and they shut up and don’t talk a lot and stand for the national anthem. It’s a bit much to expect us to have movies about them. Black people with interesting stories and aspirations? Who’s going to believe that?
Lots of people, apparently. :p
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
Some did, the overwhelming majority did not.
You could make the same argument about the USA. Americans facilitated Nazi war crimes. Some did, the overwhelming majority did not.
Yeah, but the ad isn’t happening in a vacuum of equal moral judgement. Right now, there’s an actual law that punishes Poles for talking about those events in WW2, and the reactionary government is getting awful dogwhistle-y about globalism and foreigner infiltrators.
re: #95 KGxvi
It’s not even that. It’s the idea that changing something about a character that doesn’t really alter the character is somehow disastrous. We saw this with the most recent Spiderman movie when people freaked out that Mary Jane is going to end up not being white.
Don’t you ever tell me that Santa is not white…an’ Jesus too. Don’t do it!
re: #98 ObserverArt
Since everyone is on about pedantry…that would be 1.609+ miles.
But I bet you already know that.
You got something backwards. I only know because I did [‘ran’] a 5K a few weeks ago.
re: #98 ObserverArt
Since everyone is on about pedantry…that would be 1.609+ miles.
But I bet you already know that.
re: #91 wrenchwench
Beat me by a mile, or a kilometer. (She’s Canadian.)
Your live version is great.
I went for the original because she’s just so glammed out in it.
KD is one of my fave singers ever. She could, as they say, sing the phone book and I’d buy it. Best pipes in the business.
The memes write themselves.
‘We’re Going to Burn Down Your Book Store’: Trump Supporter Threatens Left-Wing Book Store (WATCH) https://t.co/QttlLsSg6X pic.twitter.com/HX05M7BcfQ
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) March 8, 2018
re: #103 wrenchwench
You got something backwards. I only know because I did [‘ran’] a 5K a few weeks ago.
I fixered it up…typed that too fast.
I’m so tired of gunhumping morons. TIRED. I think that Congress should be forced to see autopsy photos and results from every goddamed school shooting.ALL of them. Blown up to life size. God knows there’s no shortage of victims. If their side can show their infamous aborted fetuses in their idiotic protests, then maybe it’s fucking time to get right back in their faces. I’m sick of nice. Sick.of. it.
I hope that ER doctors and nurses, first responders, and health care professionals of all kinds will join the young people trying to wake people up. Veterans groups might be of help too.
re: #106 Scottish Dragon
He has summer teeth! Summer yellow. Summer missing.
— Bart Fargo (@AgentBartFargo) March 8, 2018
re: #109 A dark and stormy covfefe
Aye, that he do, laddy!
re: #108 A Mom Anon
I’m so tired of gunhumping morons. TIRED. I think that Congress should be forced to see autopsy photos and results from every goddamed school shooting.ALL of them. Blown up to life size. God knows there’s no shortage of victims. If their side can show their infamous aborted fetuses in their idiotic protests, then maybe it’s fucking time to get right back in their faces. I’m sick of nice. Sick.of. it.
I hope that ER doctors and nurses, first responders, and health care professionals of all kinds will join the young people trying to wake people up. Veterans groups might be of help too.
I made a similar comment a week or so ago. If abortion protesters can get away with scaring people with images, why not gun protesters.
re: #98 ObserverArt
Since everyone is on about pedantry…that would be 1.609+ miles.
But I bet you already know that.
um, erm
???
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Yeah, but the ad isn’t happening in a vacuum of equal moral judgement. Right now, there’s an actual law that punishes Poles for talking about those events in WW2, and the reactionary government is getting awful dogwhistle-y about globalism and foreigner infiltrators.
The “law” to which you refer notes that Poland reserves the right to sue people for the term “Polish Death Camps” when they were “German Death Camps” on Polish-occupied territory.
They view that as slander. No Polish law prohibits Poles from talking about those events. Amazingly, no one called the cops on me to have me deported from Poland when I asked about that in a museum in Gdansk. They freely admitted some people volunteered to work at Stutthof Concentration Camp in Gdansk, but most were slave labour.
In the meantime, the Sejm passed a bill:
thenews.pl (Radio Poland)
Poland’s lawmakers have voted to establish March 24 as a new national memorial day to honour Poles who saved Jews during World War II.
(more on the bill at Radio Poland)
re: #90 Renaissance_Man
Nope. Don’t buy that. That gun pedantry canard is part of the problem, and an unbelievable crock of shit.
In an ideal world, we ask our political representatives to be open to good ideas, represent the wishes of their district, and listen to multiple points of view before making a decision in the public interest. We don’t ask that they be experts in every field they make decisions on. We don’t ask that they be doctors to make health care decisions, just that they listen to doctors. We don’t ask that they be economists, just that they understand the basics and that they listen to smart people. Only with sacred, precious guns do we insist on exacting terminology and complete precision of language, thought and deed from everyone.
Fuck that. They’re just guns. They’re not special, or more important than people. Americans have worshipped them long enough.
The death of expertise is to a large degree responsible for how we got Trump. People don’t have to be expert gunsmiths to write gun legislation but they should know enough to avoid committing felonies when trying to make their point. We do want people who understand the minutia of healthcare policy writing national healthcare laws. I do miss having an actual economic wonk like Barney Frank sit on the Banking Subcommittee. I do miss having an actual economist run the Federal Reserve Bank. I do miss having a nuclear physicist run the DOE instead of Rick Perry. I do miss having an Education Secretary with a terminal degree and a background in public school administration like Arne Duncan instead of Betsy Devos.
Martin Shkreli should be pardoned by President Trump, he’s innocent.#FreeShkreli
He turned a profit for investors, not a loss - he should be praised, not jailed.
Shkreli wrote me a letter which you can read here: https://t.co/QUVKmhHzzZ— Craig R. Brittain for US Senate (R-AZ 2018) 🆒 (@SenatorBrittain) March 9, 2018
Surely no one is going to defend someone as scummy as Martin Shkreli! Who would be depraved enough to do that?
Craig R Brittain, that’s who! https://t.co/zbXrmKP7PD— Mohammed Markstein - Antifa Media Liaison (@aceoaces) March 9, 2018
Sam Nunberg update: Still apparently testifying with the Mueller grand jury. 5.5 hours and counting (which is, for the record, longer than his cable news interview tour on Monday)
— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) March 9, 2018
Dude’s probably spilling his guts right now.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The death of expertise is to a large degree responsible for how we got Trump. People don’t have to be expert gunsmiths to write gun legislation but they should know enough to avoid committing felonies when trying to make their point. We do want people who understand the minutia of healthcare policy writing national healthcare laws. I do miss having an actual economic wonk like Barney Frank sit on the Banking Subcommittee. I do miss having an actual economist run the Federal Reserve Bank. I do miss having a nuclear physicist run the DOE instead of Rick Perry. I do miss having an Education Secretary with a terminal degree and a background in public school administration like Arne Duncan instead of Betsy Devos.
I’m not sure it’s necessarily the “death’ of expertise as it is the demonization of it. Conservatives have successfully ingrained the anti-intellectualism in the political sphere to where anyone who actually knows their shit is treated as the worst tyrant ever, and someone who has zero expertise is treated as the ‘fresh new perspective that we need’ precisely because they don’t know shit. Actual fucking knowledge is treated as a detriment at best, and a sin at worst.
re: #108 A Mom Anon
…
If their side can show their infamous aborted fetuses in their idiotic protests, then maybe it’s fucking time to get right back in their faces.
…
Politicians and NRA leaders and their talking heads should all be shown a little of that gunplay ultra violence…until they are changed.
re: #111 ObserverArt
Here’s what I know from experience:
You cannot kill bullying with kindness. It does not work because you’re not dealing with people who see kindness and Grace as assets. It’s seen as weak. What does work? The same amount of force plus a little more. That applies to physical and strategic moves. Fuck them and their feelings. With a rusty chainsaw. It requires strength, because as we see, bullies and assholes don’t like being challenged at ALL. But it works. The students in Parkland aren’t taking any shit. Maybe the rest of us can learn from that. Fuck them.
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio noted in a spirited attack on the banking bill going through the Senate that Equifax got a provision inserted into it that would prohibit anyone from suing them over their massive data breach.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts notes the bill can’t pass without the support of the Democrats that are supporting it now, and suggests folk with Democratic senators should be calling them to say “no.”
re: #115 Ace-o-aces
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Is Craig actually running for an office…because he says a lot of really stupid shit?
Oh wait…he’s a Republican. They run on stupid shit.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The death of expertise is to a large degree responsible for how we got Trump. People don’t have to be expert gunsmiths to write gun legislation but they should know enough to avoid committing felonies when trying to make their point. We do want people who understand the minutia of healthcare policy writing national healthcare laws. I do miss having an actual economic wonk like Barney Frank sit on the Banking Subcommittee. I do miss having an actual economist run the Federal Reserve Bank. I do miss having a nuclear physicist run the DOE instead of Rick Perry. I do miss having an Education Secretary with a terminal degree and a background in public school administration like Arne Duncan instead of Betsy Devos.
The denigration of expertise and the wilful glorification of ignorance is what got us where we are, this is true. And having experts in their field is crucial to good governance, also true.
But I think it is unnecessary to dismiss a fairly lame political stunt such as this on the grounds of gun pedantry. The stunt is obviously not designed to show her expertise in the field of guns, unlike, say, that guy who made an ad of him assembling one blindfolded. Whether you agree with the idea of destroying the guns or not, Advanced Gun Knowledge is not the core theme of this stunt, nor is it really central to the discussion. I don’t know, nor do I really care, if ATF is in fact so pedantic about the nature of barrels and lower receivers that you can be imprisoned for taking a gun apart in the incorrect order. Making the argument about that instead of the point the video is really about is, however, deflection by pedantry. Perhaps that’s not your intention, but it’s certainly the intention of the rest of the mooks posting on that thread.
President Trump is setting more preconditions and ground rules for meeting with Robert Mueller, a representative of his own government, than meeting with Kim Jong Un, a totalitarian dictator.
That’s where we are now.— Mike Rothschild +++ (@rothschildmd) March 9, 2018
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The death of expertise is to a large degree responsible for how we got Trump. People don’t have to be expert gunsmiths to write gun legislation but they should know enough to avoid committing felonies when trying to make their point. We do want people who understand the minutia of healthcare policy writing national healthcare laws. I do miss having an actual economic wonk like Barney Frank sit on the Banking Subcommittee. I do miss having an actual economist run the Federal Reserve Bank. I do miss having a nuclear physicist run the DOE instead of Rick Perry. I do miss having an Education Secretary with a terminal degree and a background in public school administration like Arne Duncan instead of Betsy Devos.
They only way the death of expertise lead to Trump was people forgot how to be human beings. It wasn’t the experts that lead to Trump. It was the clueless deciding a fellow idiot could be president.
re: #125 Kragar
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That’s largely because he can bomb the hell out of Pyongyang if he doesn’t like what he hears.
Anybody have video of pharma bro crying like a bitch??
The evil-but-not-an-idiot Kelly attempting to save his boss from looking like a fool for the 19,035th time:
The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate. Trump’s Chief of Staff Stopped Him.
I try to be a good person and seek justice and not be guided by anger or revenge or the desire to see someone - anyone - be hurt. But there is a dark side of me, and that side just spent ten minutes trying to find video of Martin Shkreli crying as he was being sentenced.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 9, 2018
re: #129 VegasGolfer
Anybody have video of pharma bro crying like a bitch??
shkreli is crying at his sentencing right now
— allie conti (@allie_conti) March 9, 2018
I would pay 1 million dollars for the sole DVD copy of this footage https://t.co/73mGtUngKU
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 9, 2018
On the girl who was killed by “accidental” gunfire in an Alabama school the other day, it would appear the police have a person in custody over that now.
Courtlin Arrington. This is the name of the girl who died yesterday. Shot to death in school. Barely any media coverage. She was going to be a nurse. pic.twitter.com/2AKaBLJofJ
— breakthewheel (@2breakthewheel) March 8, 2018
re: #126 Nyet
I’ve been meaning to ask - I believe you were opposed to the TPP mainly because of its onerous copyright provisions based on the US model. It seems they’ve been relaxed by the remaining countries:
The revised deal eliminates some requirements in the original TPP demanded by U.S. negotiators, including rules to ramp up intellectual property protection of pharmaceuticals.
Do you think the revised deal resolves the concerns you had with the first one?
FACT: Recent immigrants are more likely to have college degrees than native-born Americans and are more likely to have advanced degrees.
Learn more truths about #immigration: https://t.co/W6PQ8Clg1Z @lvtcollins @Econgrowth— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) March 9, 2018
not a very smart lawyer is he?
Cohen Used Trump Organization Email Account to Wire the Money
dont use your business email accounts, bank accounts, phone, computer, etc, for personal use
especially don’t use your business accounts, phone, computer, etc, to commit crimes
Joe Biden talking to a person pic.twitter.com/BqfaiYaIZP
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
re: #135 Interesting Times
Another change to the TPP is it left out the worker protections the Obama administration had included.
re: #126 Nyet
OK, there is some justice in this world. #PharmaBro
Shkreli said prosecutors floated him a deal, but he turned it down because he wanted his time in court.
Oops.
re: #136 JordanRules
Upding for where it game from.
re: #141 goddamnedfrank
Oops.
He really should have paid more attention to how many people wanted to punch him.
re: #141 goddamnedfrank
Oops.
Like most rich assholes, he expected his lawyer to get him off without so much as a mark on his record.
Now he’s gonna spend the next 7 years processing laundry for pocket change.
re: #135 Interesting Times
Yes, I’m only bothered by the copyright BS. If it’s gone, “whatever” to the rest :)
re: #140 Belafon
Another change to the TPP is it left out the worker protections the Obama administration had included.
The original TPP, which is currently under renegotiation after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled America out of the deal, included strong provisions that demanded all member countries eliminate child and forced labour, adopt and maintain laws and practices governing “acceptable conditions of work,” and uphold the right to collective bargaining.
But some countries, including Malaysia and Vietnam, sought to opt out of such provisions during the talks, something Canada felt was untenable.
Those countries have now come back onside, International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne said, and have agreed to the terms of the original TPP.
“We got a better deal for Canada, we were also able to enhance the progressive elements — as the prime minister says you don’t do trade in the 21st century like you did before,” he said.
All countries have agreed now to implement regulations around minimum wages, hours of work and occupational safety and health, for example, something the original TPP called for.
re: #137 ObserverArt
Been listening to this album a lot…a good representative song:
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you gotta wait 13 minutes
re: #144 Targetpractice
Like most rich assholes, he expected his lawyer to get him off without so much as a mark on his record.
Now he’s gonna spend the next 7 years processing laundry for pocket change.
and he lost the record too
re: #139 gocart mozart
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Ol’ Joe B is one million times the man Trump wished he was.
That means Trump is not even a man. As everyone says…he’s a man baby, but even newborn babies have more heart and feeling for others than Trump.
The Sacramento Bee is now reporting “at least three” hostages are being held at the Yountville Veterans Home in California (the largest in the USA).
By the way, why do news outlets go with “active shooter.” Are there inactive shooters?
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Martin Shkreli, King of Trolls.
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
Senri Kawaguchi is the drummer, btw.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
On the girl who was killed by “accidental” gunfire in an Alabama school the other day, it would appear the police have a person in custody over that now.
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There was a small town (NM) school with a social media threat that brought out law enforcement from all over, and for some reason that they did not see fit to disclose, and maybe it’s not related, the principal is now on leave.
re: #142 Belafon
Upding for where it game from.
I wish George W would come out and unload on Trump instead of dancing around it. He always seems reluctant. I wonder if a bit of his own messy past prevents him.
re: #144 Targetpractice
Is that code for prison rape?
Fuck…another active shooter. This one at the Veterans’ Home in Yountville.
CHP spokesman: “We have an #activeshooter on the grounds, with at least three hostages,” in #Yountville, Napa County veterans home https://t.co/X3qDgN7ZEX
— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) March 9, 2018
re: #158 Targetpractice
Yep. Prison is no fun.
re: #161 dangerman
i love when live musicians smile like they are just having a ball
Yes, indeed; she’s clearly doing what she loves. Like that saying goes, “Find a job doing something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
Finished Altered Carbon today. Still can recommend. More for the cinematic stuff than the story itself, but still.
No more indo, gin and juice
I’m on my way to Chino
rolling on the grey goose
Shackled from head to toe
Twenty-five with an izz-el
with nowhere to gizzo…” pic.twitter.com/PFgiwqtOQZ— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
re: #158 Targetpractice
“There’s a spider on your head.”
“What?”
“There’s a spider on yo head.”
“Look, I’m sorry, I’m not up on all this jive talkin’, home boy lingo, what’s that supposed to mean? “There’s a spider on your head”?”
“It means there’s a spider on your motherfuckin’ head, man!”
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
Only conservative ones.
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— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 9, 2018
re: #156 ObserverArt
I wish George W would come out and unload on Trump instead of dancing around it. He always seems reluctant. I wonder if a bit of his own messy past prevents him.
He is still under the Ronald Reagan rule that it is unseemly to speak ill of another Republican. He won’t do it.
Moreover, it is somewhat of a tradition in the country for former Presidents not to criticise sitting presidents.
re: #167 MsJ
I have no updings to give you on Twitter, though I can here.
re: #164 Nyet
Finished Altered Carbon today. Still can recommend. More for the cinematic stuff than the story itself, but still.
I’m reading the book. I haven’t read any hard boiled detective books before, so I’m not entirely sure how to compare them, but the author is doing a decent job of making the tech seem both a normal part of society, and at the same time showing how the dark side of its use would have evolved as well.
re: #166 Kragar
“There’s a spider on your head.”
“What?”
“There’s a spider on yo head.”
“Look, I’m sorry, I’m not up on all this jive talkin’, home boy lingo, what’s that supposed to mean? “There’s a spider on your head”?”
“It means there’s a spider on your motherfuckin’ head, man!”
i remember back in the 70’s(?) explaining to adults that “bad” was actually good
I’ve been very critical of Donald Trump but if he can work something out with North Korea I think Mueller should take off at least five years from his prison sentence.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) March 9, 2018
My regional paper still likes pushing “feel good” Donald Trump stories.
The year of feel good stories about Donald Trump:
bhmgnews.com
Today for example:
Trump Organization Says It Donated $151,470 in profits to US Treasury (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
The Trump Organization has donated $151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday.
George Sorial, the executive vice president and chief compliance counsel, said the Feb. 22 voluntary donation fulfills the company’s pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage while Donald Trump is president.
(more)
Dear Dana Loesch: How Do You Sleep at Night? (The daily beast)
An open letter to the NRA’s top apologist: You are contemptible. You don’t scare me, and neither do your sick fans.
re: #170 Belafon
The hotel AI aka Poe is so great in the series.
re: #176 Nyet
The hotel AI aka Poe is so great in the series.
I’ve only gotten through to of the scenes involved the hotel, and I kind of hope intelligent hotels become a thing.
WTF?!
Man arrested for chopping off his son’s hand over porn habit: report https://t.co/cWBK3pnKuk
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 9, 2018
A butcher surrendered to police and is being held on attempted murder charges after admitting to police he chopped the right hand of his 18-year-old son for watching pornography on his smartphone, the Hindustan Times in India reports.
Mohammad Qayyum Qureshi, 45, caught his son “red-handed” watching a porn film. The father tried to take the phone, but the son resisted and bit the hand of his father.
The son fled their home, but returned home late in the night.
Police said that the next morning, “both father and son quarreled on the same issue again.”
“In a fit of anger, Qayuum picked up the butcher’s knife and chopped off Khalid’s right hand,” police continued. “Hearing the son’s screams, the other family members came and immediately took him to a nearby hospital, where the doctors said the hand was 90% severed and the chances of restoring it are bleak.”
Who’s next? pic.twitter.com/EOTf73JKw6
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹
He is still under the Ronald Reagan rule that it is unseemly to speak ill of another Republican. He won’t do it.
Moreover, it is somewhat of a tradition in the country for former Presidents not to criticise sitting presidents.
That would be fine if we had a traditional president instead of the unseemly one stinkin’ up the office.
These times call for extraordinary measures. We have a country to save. Break with tradition before we don’t have any.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹
My regional paper still likes pushing “feel good” Donald Trump stories.
The year of feel good stories about Donald Trump:
bhmgnews.comToday for example:
Trump Organization Says It Donated $151,470 in profits to US Treasury (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
(more)
if 157k is the profits at “its hotels and similar businesses last year”, then he’s a miserable businessman
re: #181 dangerman
if 157k is the profits at “its hotels and similar businesses last year”, then he’s a miserable businessman
Lot of asterisks in the small print—number was derived from profits in some way “foreign”.
re: #175 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Dear Dana Loesch: How Do You Sleep at Night? (The daily beast)
Mean journalists picking on Dana Loesch.
Dana Loesch has certainly shown she’s a coward when she doens’t have the control of her studio and her platform to spew her vile.
Terrified of teenagers with social media accounts. That’s the NRA. If they only had a “good” person with a social media account, maybe all these social media takedowns wouldn’t be happening.
re: #175 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Dear Dana Loesch: How Do You Sleep at Night? (The daily beast)
I didn’t know about Loesch’s tattoo, this is the passage it references:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Then there’s a bunch more about what the armor of God is, but it’s less interesting because it talks about peace and whatnot…
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
All quotes from the NIV bible.
re: #181 dangerman
if 157k is the profits at “its hotels and similar businesses last year”, then he’s a miserable businessman
Allegedly, that refers to the profits gained from foreign government officials using his properties.
Of course, since the Trump Org. nor the Treasury will release the info on that, we’ll just have to take their word for it. Somehow that part didn’t really make it into my newspaper.
Tom Waits in case you were wondering
Peoria Johnson told Dirty Ol’ Joe
I can break out of any old jail, you know
The bars are iron, the walls are stone
All I need me is an old fishbone
Fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy
They’re serving fish in the jailhouse tonight, all right, oh boy pic.twitter.com/WmtiU8xTzR— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
re: #184 KGxvi
I didn’t know about Loesch’s tattoo, this is the passage it references:
Then there’s a bunch more about what the armor of God is, but it’s less interesting because it talks about peace and whatnot…
All quotes from the NIV bible.
No cite of the Old Testament verse that says: “Don’t get a tattoo”?
What up, kid? I know shit is rough doin’ your bid
When the cops came you shoulda slid to my crib
Fuck it, black, no time for lookin’ back, it’s done
Plus, congratulations, you know you got a son
I heard he looks like ya, why don’t your lady write ya? pic.twitter.com/UchoeWDYLV— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) March 9, 2018
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹
Allegedly, that refers to the profits gained from foreign government officials using his properties.
Of course, since the Trump Org. nor the Treasury will release the info on that, we’ll just have to take their word for it. Somehow that part didn’t really make it into my newspaper.
There are already FOIA requests for the documents. I’m guessing the number is going to be much closer to zero than it is to $157k… or maybe it’s more like $157k in billing to the State Department and Secret Service for additional security.
Trump’s lawyers may tell Mueller that Trump will agree to an interview if Mueller sets a date for wrapping up the investigation and limits the scope of his questioning, WSJ reports https://t.co/wpAJpr9FuR
— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 9, 2018
Mueller: “I accept all your terms except the time-limit and limiting the scope of the questions.”https://t.co/rVBZeEnu2n
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 9, 2018
re: #187 Decatur Deb
No cite of the Old Testament verse that says: “Don’t get a tattoo”?
Nah, she’s probably one of those “Jesus fulfilled the covenant of the Old Testament so those rules don’t apply (except for the part about gay sex because, ew, gross)” types.
What could possibly go wrong?
“Stable genius” will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend. McMaster is likely next to go. Then Jivanka. https://t.co/4bCYGelN8p— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) March 9, 2018
re: #180 ObserverArt
That would be fine if we had a traditional president instead of the unseemly one stinkin’ up the office.
These times call for extraordinary measures. We have a country to save. Break with tradition before we don’t have any.
trump broke the presidency and he’s working on breaking the country
bush could break an unwritten “rule”
re: #193 MsJ
Eventually, it’s going to be just Trump and Baldrick.
re: #175 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Dear Dana Loesch: How Do You Sleep at Night? (The daily beast)
That was just righteous.
4 days to go. We win this by working harder than everybody else.
Help #GOTV in #PA18: https://t.co/5d3HpkQzZF pic.twitter.com/IwJE8hUI4T— Conor Lamb (@ConorLambPA) March 9, 2018
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹
Allegedly, that refers to the profits gained from foreign government officials using his properties.
Of course, since the Trump Org. nor the Treasury will release the info on that, we’ll just have to take their word for it. Somehow that part didn’t really make it into my newspaper.
its still a pittance and i dont believe it
Charles is not the only one with “Same Name As An Asshole” problem.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer Michael Cohn used Trump Org. email address while arranging deal with adult film star Stormy Daniels pic.twitter.com/0ksd4ph7BA
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 9, 2018
No matter what happens I will never be the dumbest Michael Cohen … so I got that going for me https://t.co/Tynfqv6trK
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) March 9, 2018
re: #194 dangerman
trump broke the presidency and he’s working on breaking the country
bush could break an unwritten “rule”
I’m not sure Bush’s stature is such that it makes sense for him being the guy. I don’t think many consider him any sort of Statesman, and I’m to be honest, I’m not sure there are any of those left on the GOP side. We’d be a billion times better off if it was someone in the GOP Congressional leadership, preferably someone who wasn’t about to retire. But I’m just not sure anyone has that profile in courage left in them.
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹
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mueller will very politely say “the investigation will be over when we’ve finished investigating”
re: #193 MsJ
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The White House is an awful big house for one man to reside and work.
Because no one else is going to have him…
re: #193 MsJ
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i dont see mcmaster being booted while they’re planning this NoKo thing.
there is no one in the white house with any experience in this
re: #204 ObserverArt
The White House is an awful big house for one man to reside and work.
Because no one else is going to have him…
Sing Sing would be much better suited.l, don’t you think? 🙂
re: #205 dangerman
i dont see mcmaster being booted while they’re planning this NoKo thing.
there is no one in the white house with any experience in this
You give these idiots far too much credit. For thinking. At all. They can’t, won’t and don’t.
The standoff continues at the Yountville Veterans Home.
The press is starting to report he entered with an automatic weapon and body armour.
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KGO) —
A man wearing body armor and armed with an automatic weapon stormed into a Napa County veterans home Friday morning and has taken at least three people hostage, according to reports.
Law enforcement from the Napa County, Marin and the California Highway Patrol have surrounded the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, which is the largest veterans’ residence community in the United States.
(Live video from helicopter or a drone)
re: #201 The Vicious Babushka
Charles is not the only one with “Same Name As An Asshole” problem.
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from the last thread:
New York Magazine Approval Matrix
the rage furby has been ignominiously condemned to the lowbrow, despicable quadrant
re: #203 dangerman
mueller will very politely say “the investigation will be over when we’ve finished investigating”
“…and not one second sooner Mr. Trump. Now please, sit down and answer the questions. I have all the time in the world. Your’s is getting shorter.”
re: #202 KGxvi
I’m not sure Bush’s stature is such that it makes sense for him being the guy. I don’t think many consider him any sort of Statesman, and I’m to be honest, I’m not sure there are any of those left on the GOP side. We’d be a billion times better off if it was someone in the GOP Congressional leadership, preferably someone who wasn’t about to retire. But I’m just not sure anyone has that profile in courage left in them.
I think it’s clear that the Mueller investigation will need to extend to complicit GOP members of Congress. Whether it was GOP natural instinct or an actual planned conspiracy, we have GOP members of Congress aiding and abetting numerous criminal acts of the Trump administration.
re: #210 dangerman
from the last thread:
New York Magazine Approval Matrix
the rage furby has been ignominiously condemned to the lowbrow, despicable quadrant
But it’s attention, so he’ll be out celebrating.
re: #208 MsJ
You give these idiots far too much credit. For thinking. At all. They can’t, won’t and don’t.
i keep forgetting.
still, theyre gonna boot out the only guy who can find the korean peninsula on a map?
yeah i guess maybe
re: #205 dangerman
i dont see mcmaster being booted while they’re planning this NoKo thing.
there is no one in the white house with any experience in this
Given McMaster’s book, Dereliction of Duty, that was actually fairly critical (based on the summaries I’ve seen) of the military’s failure to pushback on the poor planning of the Vietnam War, they may just want him out. Can’t imagine he’d be particularly on board with another land war in Asia (nuclear edition).
re: #211 ObserverArt
“…and not one second sooner Mr. Trump. Now please, sit down and answer the questions. I have all the time in the world. Your’s is getting shorter.”
i think so yes.
these things dont run on a schedule
they run till theyre done
re: #210 dangerman
from the last thread:
New York Magazine Approval Matrix
the rage furby has been ignominiously condemned to the lowbrow, despicable quadrant
From that:
Cases of art censorship on Facebook continue to surface. The latest work deemed “pornographic” is the 30,000 year-old nude statue famously known as the Venus of Willendorf, part of the Naturhistorisches Museum (NHM) collection in Vienna. An image of the work posted on Facebook by Laura Ghianda, a self-described “artivist”, was removed as inappropriate content despite four attempts to appeal the decision.
The early Stone Age statue, which depicts a voluptuous woman with prominent labia, was discovered in Austria in 1908 and is famed for its detailed carving and realism. Ghianda’s post denouncing Facebook’s censorship in December last year was shared over 7,000 times.
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re: #215 Decatur Deb
But it’s attention, so he’ll be out celebrating.
“dude, lemmee explain ‘lowbrow’ and ‘despicable’”
“ah, never mind”
LMAO
Damn, the Keystone Kryminals strike again… pic.twitter.com/r2oyIyQn5O
— Kyle (@IAMNOTABRAND) March 9, 2018
re: #217 KGxvi
Given McMaster’s book, Dereliction of Duty, that was actually fairly critical (based on the summaries I’ve seen) of the military’s failure to pushback on the poor planning of the Vietnam War, they may just want him out. Can’t imagine he’d be particularly on board with another land war in Asia (nuclear edition).
yeah, i just meant the talks.
i wasnt even considering the day after they fall apart
i think my bus is here
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹
Reminds me of the Simpsons where Rev Lovejoy’s wife and Flanders wanted to protest Michelangelo’s David as indecent.
re: #224 dangerman
yeah, i just meant the talks.
i wasnt even considering the day after they fall aparti think my bus is here
I’m trying to think what everyone’s line of thinking is in these talks:
Trump - I’m so fucking great, this is the best, so presidential, Obama could never due this
Tillerson - wait, is there oil in North Korea?
McMaster - hey, Mattis, want to get a drink?
Mattis - way ahead of you HR, way ahead…
Fox & Friends has effectively replaced DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.https://t.co/R1q8oNp4EF
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 9, 2018
re: #153 Nyet
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Martin Shkreli, King of Trolls.
Look upon my works, O meatspace, and despair!
And round that decay, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch, littered with paper
Up to the prison walls far away.
re: #225 KGxvi
Reminds me of the Simpsons where Rev Lovejoy’s wife and Flanders wanted to protest Michelangelo’s David as indecent.
According to a Sistine Chapel tour guide, there was a cardinal who raised a lot of crap about improper nudity in the chapel artwork, so Michaelangelo painted him among the damned in The Last Judgement fresco. (Nude, IIRC.)
Damn. All kinds of stuff happening.
Wow, this is really embarrassing for Hans von Spakovsky…Audio in which he falsely denied having written a controversial email is entered into evidence to impeach his credibility as witness in the Kobach proof-of-citizenship law trial. Via @Tierney_Megan https://t.co/dyVlCgvxgD
— Zachary Roth (@zackroth) March 9, 2018
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Elizabeth Warren Prepares to Make Kushner’s Life Hell https://t.co/QFYR4tTAR6
— Jim Witkins (@jimwitkins) March 9, 2018
re: #231 Decatur Deb
According to a Sistine Chapel tour guide, there was a cardinal who raised a lot of crap about improper nudity in the chapel artwork, so Michaelangelo painted him among the damned in The Last Judgement fresco. (Nude, IIRC.)
Also reminds me of Ashcroft’s curtains in front of the Lady Justice statues at DOJ.
re: #164 Nyet
Finished Altered Carbon today. Still can recommend. More for the cinematic stuff than the story itself, but still.
Agree, it didn’t really live up to the noir detective potential I saw in the beginning but all things considered it was decent as far as modern sci fi goes. I like the melding of concepts from Ghost in the Shell and Bladerunner into something that still managed to stand on its own, even if it wobbled quite a bit.
Stormy Daniels to appear on ‘60 Minutes.’https://t.co/UuK99XsMcg pic.twitter.com/j8gWf4qePz
— Axios (@axios) March 9, 2018
there are three places you don’t ever want to see your mistress:
1. at your marital home.
2. at your job.
3. on 60 damn Minutes. https://t.co/uIGtKePjQ7— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) March 9, 2018
re: #232 MsJ
Damn. All kinds of stuff happening.
Wow, this is really embarrassing for Hans von Spakovsky…Audio in which he falsely denied having written a controversial email is entered into evidence to impeach his credibility as witness in the Kobach proof-of-citizenship law trial
“lordy, there are tapes”
re: #231 Decatur Deb
According to a Sistine Chapel tour guide, there was a cardinal who raised a lot of crap about improper nudity in the chapel artwork, so Michaelangelo painted him among the damned in The Last Judgement fresco. (Nude, IIRC.)
Biagio Martinelli da Cesena: his mug is still on the Sistine Wall: donkey ears, snake and all. He must have been a real asshole: when he complained to the Pope about what Michelangelo had done, the Pontiff asked him where Biagio was painted, and when he said “in Hell”, Leo X Paul III replied sorry, that was out of his jurisdiction, so he couldn’t help…..
Though eventually, they did hire another painter to add some strategic drapery to the “Last Judgement”: IIRC, the overpainting wasn’t removed until restorations in the 20th Century
re: #237 Nyet
Now onto the Punisher…
I’m quite excited for Season 2 of Jessica Jones, going to binge it this weekend.
re: #207 MsJ
Sing Sing would be much better suited.l, don’t you think? 🙂
Sing Sing is a state correctional institution. Dotard will likely do federal time.
Now, Eric may have an opportunity to visit Sing Sing. Though, if it were my choice, Eric would visit Auburn. There is no view other than the wall at Auburn.
re: #238 Jay C
Biagio Martinelli da Cesena: his mug is still on the Sistine Wall: donkey ears, snake and all. He must have been a real asshole: when he complained to the Pope about what Michelangelo had done, the Pontiff asked him where Biagio was painted, and when her said “in Hell”, Leo X replied that that was out his jurisdiction, so he couldn’t help…..
Though eventually, they did hire another painter to add some strategic drapery to the “Last Judgement”: IIRC, the overpainting wasn’t removed until restorations in the 20th Century
Yep. Per Wiki, there were a number of coverups, as prudery waxed and waned.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #170 Belafon
I’m reading the book. I haven’t read any hard boiled detective books before, so I’m not entirely sure how to compare them, but the author is doing a decent job of making the tech seem both a normal part of society, and at the same time showing how the dark side of its use would have evolved as well.
If it makes you want to read more hard boiled detective books, I highly recommend Raymond Chandler (1940’s) and Michael Connelly (1990’s to present). Both are set in SoCal. Walter Mosely’s main character (Easy Rawlins) isn’t quite as hard-boiled, but the settings and plot are still pretty noir (post-WWII, mostly black characters — about evenly split between native Angelenos and transplants from Louisiana.)
Still in the race
Now that I’ve had a little time to catch my breath, I wanted to thank all who have gotten us this far - Run Off Election May 22! - and to talk about the plan going forward. 1/
— Julie Oliver (@JulieForTX25) March 9, 2018
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
I am also a fan of Senri-chan. Saw her perform live at Blues Alley in Tokyo last year - her 20th birthday gig.
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Sing Sing is a state correctional institution. Dotard will likely do federal time.
Now, Eric may have an opportunity to visit Sing Sing. Though, if it were my choice, Eric would visit Auburn. There is no view other than the wall at Auburn.
That would be apropos.
re: #242 sagehen
If it makes you want to read more hard boiled detective books, I highly recommend Raymond Chandler (1940’s) and Michael Connelly (1990’s to present). Both are set in SoCal. Walter Mosely’s main character (Easy Rawlins) isn’t quite as hard-boiled, but the settings and plot are still pretty noir (post-WWII, mostly black characters — about evenly split between native Angelenos and transplants from Louisiana.)
I also recommend:
Loren Estleman (Amos Walker series, set in Detroit)
Jonathan Kellerman (Alex Delaware series, set in LA but more upscale than “hard boiled”)
re: #246 The Vicious Babushka
I also recommend:
Loren Estleman (Amos Walker series, set in Detroit)
Jonathan Kellerman (Alex Delaware series, set in LA but more upscale than “hard boiled”)
Let’s not forget Robert Crais (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike). Lots of humor, as well. Great writer.
re: #135 Interesting Times
I’ve been meaning to ask - I believe you were opposed to the TPP mainly because of its onerous copyright provisions based on the US model. It seems they’ve been relaxed by the remaining countries:
Do you think the revised deal resolves the concerns you had with the first one?
ahhhh…explains this:
The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft. We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2018
re: #69 KGxvi
Ok, I’ll bite. How does making the cast more diverse hurt the story? It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book (and might need to dig up a copy because I loved it as a kid), but I don’t remember the race of the characters being central to the plot…
It hurts the story because bigots are seething about the distracting miscegenation on screen.//