Mike Pence is much more unlikable than his pet rabbit who stars in a new children’s book created by the Pence family and in a better children’s book created by us. To purchase our book, visit: www.betterbundobook.com
BREAKING: Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon says on Twitter that she is running for governor in New York. pic.twitter.com/qoRsLxqN2p
— AP Eastern US (@APEastRegion) March 19, 2018
Andrew Cuomo gets his Miranda warning. https://t.co/SM5GDFyks2
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) March 19, 2018
Here’s a Monday mixtape on @AppleMusic https://t.co/cW8y2Dw0lo
— courtney barnett (@courtneymelba) March 19, 2018
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Meh. I’m sure she’s good on most issues but she’s not qualified.
Conservative Fundies have been insinuating their people into positions of power and influence ever since Reagan abandoned them after using them to get elected. They now have a man one heartbeat (or one indictment) away from the Presidency.
re: #3 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)
Meh. I’m sure she’s good on most issues but she’s not qualified.
I posted that mostly because of the Miranda play on words
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
I posted that mostly because of the Miranda play on words
I know. It’s clever :)
Officials in Austin, Texas are holding a briefing after 4 bombings in less than 3 weeks: https://t.co/UYpqI3w42L
Follow live updates: https://t.co/cCAhHjRSqP pic.twitter.com/1SFZu7Hrj7— CNN (@CNN) March 19, 2018
If Trump thinks he can blame people of color, he’ll tweet five minutes after an attack in London.
If people of color are the target, 4 bombings in 3 weeks get the silent treatment. https://t.co/mcdceNJSC0— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 19, 2018
— Mac McKinsey (@psgent92264) March 19, 2018
The pivot is right around the corner. Believe me!
A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2018
re: #10 Dr. Matt
The pivot is right around the corner. Believe me!
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I’ve got to assume he’s talking about his staffers wondering who is going to sell the rest of them out and cut a deal with Mueller
Speaking in New Hampshire, Trump says confronting opioid epidemic means confronting drug dealers, “which means the death penalty.”
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 19, 2018
Those CEOs better watch their asses…
Oh wait, he means killing minorities who get busted with a pocket full of weed, doesn’t he? https://t.co/9cwQqIL4Iy— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 19, 2018
“You may think Pence is like this because he’s of a different generation… but no. He’s actually 3 months younger than Flavor Flav.”
thread about joy thieves:
Sometimes you gotta brain dump so you can let things go. https://t.co/njVhwU0d9A
— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) March 19, 2018
I’ve read @AnneWheaton’s post a couple of times this morning. I keep coming back to it.
What happened to her bugs me.
See, writing is WORK. Every piece takes sweat, soul, commitment. Some days you don’t know if it matters, if you’re just shouting into the dark.
1/ https://t.co/BH4u01WD8m— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 19, 2018
Confronting the opioid epidemic not by mental health treatment.
Confronting opioid epidemic not by expanding addiction treatment.
No - he wants to execute drug dealers. Except that there’s no actual definition of drug dealer. Under the laws across states and federal law, it’s got two separate drug laws: possession or distribution, and both are addressed in terms of quantity.
Quantity is what defines someone as with intent to distribute. And prosecutors and cops can play games with both of that.
Trump wants to be Duterte.
He actually said people will stop doing drugs if they see the ads. https://t.co/B3wb2zeObF
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 19, 2018
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Just say no. 🌈
— Molly Jong✈️Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 19, 2018
JFC
Shoot the pharmacists where Grandma gets her arthritis meds.
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time … And that toughness includes the death penalty.” https://t.co/0CmlpuS0JK pic.twitter.com/ahNu7e0gSy
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 19, 2018
Is Adobe Flash real or is it some kind of net-wide hoax? I could never, ever get Flash video to play even though it is supposedly installed on Chrome. I finally found the permission box. It is on left side of the address bar, but nobody tells you this. I guess it is one of the many things you are supposed to know automatically. It still cannot play without downloading an update. It ALWAYS requires an update. Not worth the trouble. Piss on them.
“A lot of voters in this room, I see that,” Trump says at opioid event in New Hampshire that was billed as purely non-political.
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 19, 2018
White House subject fail. pic.twitter.com/7f8vHb2kp7
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 19, 2018
President Trump is now tying building the wall and abolishing sanctuary cities to the opioid epidemic.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 19, 2018
Well, Trump has gone off the rails again. He said his “wall” thing and now he’s off on a riff about DACA (which he ended)… Now he’s on to sanctuary cities and more #brownscare stuff. I think this started out being about Trump’s war on opioid drugs though who can be sure?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 19, 2018
Trump: “Eventually the Democrats will agree with us” to build the wall “to keep the damn drugs out.”
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 19, 2018
No we won’t.
No it won’t. https://t.co/96dwSNoL1t— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 19, 2018
bringing this up from downstairs because i think it’s important:
Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Guns level the playing-field, so that physically weaker people can get what they want.
When “what they want” is to defend themselves, that can be good. When “what they want” is to take something, that’s a problem.
when they want to take something and in almost all circumstances of ‘mass’ killings, - in addition to all the other things a gun does and a gun gets you, more than almost any other it is a cowards way to get what he wants / to win / to be in control
it creates distance/space - makes it a bit less personal
makes it much easier to wreak havoc/death, terror, whatever
no hand to hand
no eye to eye
since they almost always have the surprise advantage, no fighting back
it’s asymmetrical, advantageous, unfair
it’s for cheaters
the coward’s way
re: #18 The Vicious Babushka
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time … And that toughness includes the death penalty.”
it is the thing that his supporters want to hear, his party and RW pundits will be lining up to support and defend his rhetoric. In the meantime, I doubt that he has looked seriously into the actual issues or policies he wishes to address
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I suspect that she was trying to make herself feel better because no-one was buying her crappy book. Which makes her a crappy person.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s election consultants secretly filmed offering to use Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians. https://t.co/Swdr4jL0NA #CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 19, 2018
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
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lady didnt read the book so had no way to judge whether ms wheatons popularity at the event was warranted or not
pulled a conclusion out of her ass because how dare anybody (female or male) be more successful than her
all that was left was to confirm her predetermined bias
twit
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
He actually said people will stop doing drugs if they see the ads.
yesterday cambridge analyitca said people are too smart to respond to ads
Russian bot or overweight guy living in parents basement? Crazy nuts either way.
— Rose Nolin (@gmaro8) March 19, 2018
Your absolutely right. It makes total sense that the worldwide conspiracy to control humanity would leave random clues to their intentions, because reality works exactly like the 1960’s “Batman” TV show.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 19, 2018
I was reading one of those “dos and don’ts” for tourists in the UK. Seems that khaki pants (invented in Britain) will mark you as an American rube, while blue jeans (invented in the United States) are still cool.
re: #26 Big Beautiful Door
I suspect that she was trying to make herself feel better because no-one was buying her crappy book. Which makes her a crappy person.
you said it better in one line
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Is Adobe Flash real or is it some kind of net-wide hoax? I could never, ever get Flash video to play even though it is supposedly installed on Chrome. I finally found the permission box. It is on left side of the address bar, but nobody tells you this. I guess it is one of the many things you are supposed to know automatically. It still cannot play without downloading an update. It ALWAYS requires an update. Not worth the trouble. Piss on them.
Flash was the first consistent solution to the problem of video on the web. But, like leeches solving medical problems, we should be beyond it now.
The full #CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered documentary - secret filming by @Channel4News reveals election tricks https://t.co/EW3uLuhzON
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 19, 2018
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
The opioids are calling…from inside the country.
re: #10 Dr. Matt
The pivot is right around the corner. Believe me!
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New audit study in @asr_journal by Natasha Quadlin showing that college graduate women w/ high GPAs are penalized on the job market relative to women w/ moderate GPAs or men (whose GPA doesn’t matter) because high-achieving women are seen as less likable. https://t.co/4BtKBrL1Ag
— Lauren Valentino (@sociologylauren) March 16, 2018
This is one way institutional sexism reinforces itself. Study shows the job market values & rewards women more for their perceived gregariousness than actual measured competence & achievement.
Then women as a group are judged by the lower skill level of those the system promoted https://t.co/FnklnYMI3C— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 19, 2018
A couple of tweeps asking if Trump is addressing the drug companies in his “opioids” speech. Yes. He just introduced his new HHS secretary who’ll be in charge of this new war on drugs, Alex Azar, who comes from Eli Lilly. You’re welcome. https://t.co/ULkGPf6vke
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 19, 2018
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.” https://t.co/DsVpOJy2xW #OpioidCrisis pic.twitter.com/8C3wKuVIUv
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 19, 2018
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
I have three boys. I know a number of conservatives that do believe that their daughters have the ability to determine their own future. I wonder what they will think about studies like this, because I’m going to ask.
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
New audit study in @asr_journal by Natasha Quadlin showing that college graduate women w/ high GPAs are penalized on the job market relative to women w/ moderate GPAs or men (whose GPA doesn’t matter) because high-achieving women are seen as less likable.
they are smart so they are a threat to the reins of power
they don’t hold the reins of power so they can be held back by those who do
sometimes. when i’m outside. performing my obligatory yard shenanigans. the human will call me. but i pretend not to hear them. so the shenanigans. may continue
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) March 19, 2018
re: #34 JordanRules
This…sounds familiar https://t.co/ktEduj61hp pic.twitter.com/S61al853UK
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 19, 2018
This monstrous, alt-President really likes the idea of killing people. He should never be allowed any power over anyone, but the bigoted far-right really wanted to screw America.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 19, 2018
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
sometimes. when i’m outside. performing my obligatory yard shenanigans. the human will call me. but i pretend not to hear them. so the shenanigans. may continue
dennis the menace:
“sorry mom. i didnt hear you call the first three times”
re: #40 Charles Johnson
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”
“the drug dealers”
please define more closely
Trump closes by talking about addiction like it’s a football game: “Together we will end scourge of drug addiction once & for all. We will win, we will beat it, we’ll be tough, we’ll be smart, we’ll be kind, we’ll be loving. We’ll do whatever we have to do. We’re going to win.” pic.twitter.com/Hk8qzFZs13
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2018
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“the drug dealers”
please define more closely
Brown people. Minorities.
/you’re welcome.
Trump: “We’re pouring a lot of money and a lot of talent into this horrible problem.” He has announced no new funding since declaring a public health emergency.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 19, 2018
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
Also goes a long way towards explaining Carly Fiorina.
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
sometimes. when i’m outside. performing my obligatory yard shenanigans. the human will call me. but i pretend not to hear them. so the shenanigans. may continue
I used to enjoy hiding under the porch, letting my mom call me for several minutes before then sneaking around the other side of the house
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.” https://t.co/DsVpOJy2xW #OpioidCrisis pic.twitter.com/8C3wKuVIUv
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 19, 2018
The audience breaks out in cheers and applause when he says the words “death penalty.” https://t.co/XFKSGT7qEq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 19, 2018
re: #53 Charles Johnson
The audience breaks out in cheers and applause when he says the words “death penalty.”
because they (probably rightly) expect the executions to be televised…
Is it still infrastructure week?
— cathy regish (@bonoforpres) March 19, 2018
It is always infrastructure week. It has always been infrastructure week. https://t.co/1D6Kvgs1R1
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 19, 2018
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because they (probably rightly) expect the executions to be televised…
And those who will be executed will have a darker skin color.
Trump wants to execute drug dealers, which then becomes cops taking more extreme measure against suspected drug dealers, which means increased targeting of “gangs”, which means harassing brown people.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 19, 2018
I bet Trump thinks this will scare weed shop owners in CA and CO.
Trump promises to help ex-inmates get drug treatment, eliminate the restriction on Medicaid funding for residential treatment at facilities with more than 16 beds.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 19, 2018
Can anyone name a single time in the history of the US when “getting tougher” has been an effective way to stop people from using drugs?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 19, 2018
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey, Donald: SHOW YOUR WORK
re: #49 lawhawk
Brown people. Minorities.
/you’re welcome.
Yep. The same hackneyed stereotype of the “drug dealer” unchanged since the ‘50s: sinister dark-skinned lowlifes lurking in alleyways or driving around in gaudy low-riders, corrupting “ordinary” (i.e. white) innocents with the promise of a cheap high…..
That is is 2018, and this model in no way addresses the actual problem of our contemporary “opioid epidemic” seems to be totally overlooked: typical Trumpism: when in doubt, fall back on ginning up prejudices: seems to work every time.
WATCH: Trump supporters wildly cheer death penalty with standing ovation
I’m willing to venture a guess/bet that by 5 pm it will be revealed that the Trump regime planted those death cheering sycophants in the crowd.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Conclusion: Trump is on drugs.
Should he be given the death penalty?
This made me bust out laughing:
We are rational and don’t subscribe to hyperbole. We research, gather FACTS and reach logical conclusions.
— Rob Clark (@MAGATrumpster) March 19, 2018
re: #63 Jay C
That is is 2018, and this model in no way addresses the actual problem of our contemporary “opioid epidemic” seems to be totally overlooked: typical Trumpism: when in doubt, fall back on ginning up prejudices: seems to work every time.
It’s all they’ve got really. I guess in that sense it’s not much of a fallback or secondary position. It is the meat and potatoes.
re: #60 Charles Johnson
President Trump: “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.” https://t.co/DsVpOJy2xW #OpioidCrisis pic.twitter.com/8C3wKuVIUv
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 19, 2018
The audience breaks out in cheers and applause when he says the words “death penalty.” https://t.co/XFKSGT7qEq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 19, 2018
I’ll bet you $5 that they call themselves “Pro-lifers” https://t.co/hxFrtrlzAk
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 19, 2018
re: #66 electrotek
No, they just haven’t been told by Fox News or the president (who was told by Fox News) that it was an evil liberal atheist Muslim terrorist determined to take all your freedomsguns in order to let the Jews impose sharia law, or something.
re: #64 Dr. Matt
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I’m willing to venture a guess/bet that by 5 pm it will be revealed that the Trump regime planted those death cheering sycophants in the crowd.
im willing to bet that if they do anything concrete at all, “death penalty” will become something metaphorical such as “life in jail” is kinda like a death
because they’ll never be able to define “dealer”, “kingpin” etc, accurately enough to get anything passed
Yawn
Maybe because there arent a lot of Trump supporters in Austin? If youd use that thing between your ears you could have avoided the moronic irrelevant comment.
— VICA♔POTA (@LadyInfidels) March 19, 2018
re: #66 electrotek
This made me bust out laughing:
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That is not how you wind up a Trump supporter. People interested in facts don’t back irrational, lying, demagogues.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 19, 2018
But but All Lives Matter!
White privilege is when a single dog dying on a plane gets 10x the media coverage of 5 targetted *bombings* of minorities in America via domestic terrorist(s).
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 19, 2018
I mean, I guess that’s one way to go cold turkey.
Seems like bad news for Don Jr tho’— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 19, 2018
Students swarming the doors of the Florida House chamber - chanting “vote them out” and “serve your public, not your pockets.” These kids are incredible! #NeverAgainpic.twitter.com/457eIp9PoP
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) March 19, 2018
re: #70 dangerman
im willing to bet that if they do anything concrete at all, “death penalty” will become something metaphorical such as “life in jail” is kinda like a death
because they’ll never be able to define “dealer”, “kingpin” etc, accurately enough to get anything passed
Also some OG capitalist vultures or new tech dude bros will decide that actually makes more sense ‘cause: Prison Labor Yay!
re: #73 DodgerFan1988
As Ricky Gervais says in his new comedy special: dogs are better people than people.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Wait…didn’t he, in that posted tweet video, “act like a President” that he mocked a week ago this past Saturday in his PA rally?
So now he is mocking himself. So hard for Trump to follow up on Trump.
The administration projects drug prices to go up this year.
If these new efforts are like everything else Trumpworld does, the drug prices will spike for most people, and a select few will see major declines in drug costs.
For one thing, they need to act on insulin costs.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 19, 2018
There are several drugs that are commonly used, but drug prices are out of control.
These include generics like insulin, that somehow keep getting reformulated and repackaged to the point where there’s no generic alternatives and the costs soar for people who rely on these drugs.
Epipens are another one of those drugs that saw costs soar because the companies decided to hike the costs even though the drug offered is a generic, so the cost hikes are pure profit/greed.
Cancer drugs are another area where the costs are prohibitive or will saddle people with medically induced bankruptcies if they manage to survive into remission.
re: #66 electrotek
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“We are rational and don’t subscribe to hyperbole. We research, gather FACTS and reach logical conclusions.”
Translation: Meh (over minorities deaths)
i didnt watch him (never do)
i guess he didnt address:
- that the death penalty has never been any kind of deterrent for anything
- a lot of opiods come from foreign mail order - or by gaming the prescription system
- and that makes the drugs themselves legal if maybe how some people get them isnt
- what ‘kingpins’ hang out in the united states? i mean he fingered ms-13 pretty clearly, so who are we talking about here?
This isn’t some low-level putz who got O’Keefe’d at a bar. Channel 4 got Cambridge Analytica’s CEO talking about bribery and entrapment. https://t.co/JYj4XKJgNY
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) March 19, 2018
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/h6xG5dAacJ
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 19, 2018
re: #72 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
#SaturdayThoughts#SaturdayMorning #SaturdayMotivation #RedWave2018 #VoteThemOut #VoteRepublican2018
If you vote for even one Democrat, you are part of the problem in this country.
Dems showed us their true colors = illegals over citizens defying their oath of office— Rob Clark (@MAGATrumpster) January 20, 2018
You literally have this as your pinned tweet.https://t.co/SVfljMMkAp
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 19, 2018
re: #58 Belafon
I bet Trump thinks this will scare weed shop owners in CA and CO.
Before we get too far along…can we at least clear up whether Trump is capable of thinking?
I have concerns all he does is react, like a rabid animal. Hardly thinking!
re: #83 goddamnedfrank
Full doc posted at #34. Gonna get some popcorn and settle into it this evening.
re: #85 ObserverArt
Before we get too far along…can we at least clear up whether Trump is capable of thinking?
I have concerns all he does is react, like a rabid animal. Hardly thinking!
I am using think in the loosest terms WRT Trump. But, when he talked to Sessions, I bet he heared about the hellhole that states that legalize marijuana are becoming.
I’m not against everything in his #OpiodCrisis plan, but want to point out Trump’s calling for a national database monitoring opioid prescriptions to flag people requesting prescriptions. 🧐 So people will have to register for pain meds, but not for guns?🤔#GunCrazy
— William French 🗽 (@FrenchieButts) March 19, 2018
Guardian writer here..
Wow. Britain’s Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize servers
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 19, 2018
Facebook has been “co-operative” with ICO says Elizabeth Denham. Cambridge Analytica on the other hand has required them to seek to use their statutory powers to compel evidence….
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 19, 2018
Channel 4’s Cambridge Analytica Uncovered was posted to YouTube:
re: #88 Belafon
I am using think in the loosest terms WRT Trump. But, when he talked to Sessions, I bet he heared about the hellhole that states that legalize marijuana are becoming.
the “executing drug dealers” thing appears to be shocking people so badly they now think the rest of the opioids plan is useful
— de bleck penta (@fivefifths) March 19, 2018
*blink*
Loyal To The Soil! #BlackRifleCoffee #ForeverFree pic.twitter.com/FYOAhqgf3Q
— Black Rifle Coffee (@blckriflecoffee) March 19, 2018
Taken in conjunction with their SS-brand coffee this in no way echos Nazi ideology of Blood and Soil and don’t you dare make that connection #BlutUndBoden https://t.co/wfo5SG0T8N
— The Woke Berserkir 🐻 (@barefootboomer) March 19, 2018
Trump suggests America has never had a drug addiction crisis before. pic.twitter.com/hgWU0kfYNI
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 19, 2018
The sniffs for emphasis are really selling the content here. https://t.co/62E84d4PRH
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 19, 2018
re: #64 Dr. Matt
WATCH: Trump supporters wildly cheer death penalty with standing ovation
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I’m willing to venture a guess/bet that by 5 pm it will be revealed that the Trump regime planted those death cheering sycophants in the crowd.
No, they’re not plants. Lots of Americans are really excited by the idea of the government killing people they hate. If Trump announced today that anyone who looked Hispanic or black needed to be rounded up and placed in a camp ‘until we figure this drugs/crime/whatever thing out’, millions of Americans would cheer. If the US government then proceeded to implement a final solution, millions of Americans would cheer and insist on Trump being re-elected for life. Republicans have publicly cheered for the death of innocents before. This is what cult media has turned Americans into.
re: #78 KGxvi
As Ricky Gervais says in his new comedy special: dogs are better people than people.
Which is why W.C. Fields hated kids and dogs: they can always smell the bum on you.
re: #63 Jay C
If you want to get a glimpse of what the opioid and ensuing heroin epidemic is like, check out Heroin(e) on Netflix. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Guess Trump would just want to execute everyone involved.
Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica – the data company that credits itself with Trump’s presidential victory – have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers. pic.twitter.com/tkXLPZmm2f
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) March 19, 2018
On-camera bribery/conspiracy.
This just put me off carrots forever. pic.twitter.com/8fCxqm026l
— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 19, 2018
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
*blink*
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I hadn’t really heard of this brand of coffee - and I do love me some good coffee - so I went to check their website. The photo of their team on their “about us” page is… what’s the word… homogeneous.
I also love that their beans are imported from Columbia and Brazil - can’t wait until Trump’s trade policies result in tariffs on their raw goods.
re: #97 Renaissance_Man
file under “there’s definitely nothing rotten in the culture of american policing” https://t.co/YctkuHXazA
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 18, 2018
“We won’t need to create a fire department until after a fire happens.”
— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 19, 2018
re: #104 goddamnedfrank
There’s no need to close the barn door, the horse is inside…
NEW: Democrats on House Intelligence Committee invite former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie to testify for their continuing Russia investigation on allegation the data analytics firm misused millions of Facebook users’ personal information. https://t.co/fvFVINGqgW pic.twitter.com/qbW8WUiQbn
— ABC News (@ABC) March 19, 2018
NBC News confirms the WH reached out to Dems ystdy offering immigration deal to fund the border wall w/ $25b over three years with a 2.5 year DACA patch. Ds pushes backed asking for pathway to citizenship for all 1.8 million Dreamers who are eligible under DACA
— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) March 19, 2018
re: #104 goddamnedfrank
All that empty tough talk yesterday. They aren’t going to do anything. And if Mueller released his findings with the makeup of this GOP controlled Congress in power, they still might not do anything.
re: #108 Belafon
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indeed. The yam blew off Schumer’s offer, so there’s no reason for the Dems to not demand the entire deal now.
What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/YZxr2n2ZrV
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 19, 2018
#Russia’s state TV seems pleased with Andrew McCabe’s firing, describing it as “the organizers of a witch-hunt” ending up on the receiving end. They show clips of Trump saying “You’re fired,” followed by the clip from Fox News claiming that “Trump is draining the swamp.” pic.twitter.com/9qPdKstrgn
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 19, 2018
Ask yourself: Why on earth would Russia care about a personnel decision at the FBI…unless it stood to gain from it? 🤔 https://t.co/CyNOisyb42
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 19, 2018
OK, I give up
Kelly to name Kushner ally as deputy chief of staff https://t.co/QB2MJwTSxP pic.twitter.com/gZBaaizJVZ
— The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2018
re: #109 JordanRules
All that empty tough talk yesterday. They aren’t going to do anything. And if Mueller released his findings with the makeup of this GOP controlled Congress in power, they still might not do anything.
I keep trying to figure out how this plays out.
Best case for Trump/GOP: Republicans hold off the blue wave in November and keep control of the House; Trump then fires Mueller and Ryan says something along the lines of “the people have spoken, it’s time to move forward with our agenda to eliminate taxes on corporations and the wealthy.” Trump and the GOP then gets wiped out n 2020 but by then the damage is done.
Best case for Everyone Else: Democrats end up winning nearly 300 seats in the House and getting a majority in the Senate. They do a shit tonne of hearings, Mueller issues his findings to the DOJ who then releases them to the public. Trump is impeached, Republicans in the Senate are scared shitless by the fact that they lost Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and Tennessee; or some of them see a way to run for president in 2020 and Trump is removed from office by this time next year.
Worst possible case for everyone: Trump fires Mueller before the election, Democrats win a majority in the House but not necessarily the Senate, Republicans remained kowed and refuse to do the right thing. Trump stays in office and 2020 becomes the most bitter, crazy, and all around nasty election in our history that either sees 20% turnout or 90% turnout with no in between. And nobody knows the results for a month.
My takeaway from Trump’s “opioids plan” announcement so far…
Brown people!!
Build a wall!!!
Democrats won’t trade DACA for 1927 immigration policy!
Sanctuary cities!!!
Brown people!!!!
Death penalty for drug dealers like Duterte who kills drug dealers!!
I think that’s about it.— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 19, 2018
re: #117 KGxvi
3 scenarios that make sense. If we throw in a war, do you think that changes things substantially?
do. not. like.
It may be sunny and 60°F right now, but winter will be making a comeback Tuesday night into Wednesday. Accumulating snow is expected area-wide, with 2-4” possible. As of right now, it appears Wednesday AM commute will be impacted — so keep checking back for further updates! pic.twitter.com/SHLJuTGNX2
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) March 19, 2018
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re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I had just put up my window screens last week because I saw mosquitoes outside, then we got 1” of snow here on the Rhine yesterday.
Republicans are psychopaths, motivated entirely by sadism and the desire to hurt others. If they thought they could get away with it, they’d fire up the chainsaws and start butchering their way through their neighborhoods.
re: #120 JordanRules
3 scenarios that make sense. If we throw in a war, do you think that changes things substantially?
Depends on where the war is, how it starts, and who the parties are.
Let’s say Putin decides to Make Russia Great Again and tries to invade the old Eastern Bloc, and Trump refuses to come to the aid of NATO allies? That’s probably an even worse case scenario, and I have no idea what happens.
Ditto if Trump unilaterally launches a war with North Korea, with or without ICBMs.
Or maybe he decides to declare Iran in violation of the nuclear deal and tries to launch a war there.
Things get incredibly complicated when there’s no telling how our allies would react. This wouldn’t be like the two wars in Iraq or in Afghanistan where we went about building coalitions. Trump would probably just go off half coked and there’s no telling how our allies would react.
re: #117 KGxvi
The Capitol mysteriously burns. A Hispanic/African-American Muslim is charged. GOP sweeps to victories. Trump is given unlimited emergency powers. Ivanka is appointed VP after Pence is eaten by his bunny.
re: #124 KGxvi
Depends on where the war is, how it starts, and who the parties are.
Let’s say Putin decides to Make Russia Great Again and tries to invade the old Eastern Bloc, and Trump refuses to come to the aid of NATO allies? That’s probably an even worse case scenario, and I have no idea what happens.
This is where I have to chime in and remind people to stop talking about Putin in terms of a New Cold War and compare Russia with the old USSR: they have a different set of priorities, namely consolidating power within the borders of the old Russian Empire.
They are much less concerned with the rest of Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Bloc.
I find it a terrible error to try to describe or interpret his actions in terms that have not applied since the 1990’s.
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh hells no!
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
indeed. The yam blew off Schumer’s offer, so there’s no reason for the Dems to not demand the entire deal now.
If the Dems stick to their guns on the DACA citizenship, it’s a lose-lose situation for Dotard. First, giving “amnesty” to the DACA folks will outrage his base. Second, he campaigned on the wall being paid for by Mexico AND the wall will not be built by the time he’s up for re-election. Plus countless lawsuits from landowner and border cities and counties will likely come down the moment a dollar is allocated for the wall. He cried wolf too many times if the deal is made.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from Republican legislative leaders in Pennsylvania to block the implementation of a redrawn congressional map that creates more parity between the political parties in the state.
The practical impact is the 2018 elections are likely to be held under a map much more favorable to Democrats, who scored an apparent victory last week in a special election in a strongly Republican state district. The 2011 map that has been used this decade has resulted in Republicans consistently winning 13 of the state’s 18 congressional seats.
Well this is really foul. Really Toys R Us?
Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company — and it could be because of a looming ‘demographic time bomb’ https://t.co/nh8a0dEpr5 pic.twitter.com/blnII7yZji
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 19, 2018
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is where I have to chime in and remind people to stop talking about Putin in terms of a New Cold War and compare Russia with the old USSR: they have a different set of priorities, namely consolidating power within the borders of the old Russian Empire.
They are much less concerned with the rest of Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Bloc.I find it a terrible error to try to describe or interpret his actions in terms that have not applied since the 1990’s.
I don’t really know what Putin’s motivations are. It’s entirely plausible that you are right. It’s also within the realm of possibility that he sees the rightful expanse of the Russian Empire to be the furthest reaches of the old Soviet Bloc (he was, after all, a KGB man in his younger days). I still do not trust him, nor do I trust Trump to do the right thing.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Also, Russia is literally a dying country, with its population projected to markedly decline over the next 30-40 years.
re: #117 KGxvi
I keep trying to figure out how this plays out.
Best case for Trump/GOP: Republicans hold off the blue wave in November and keep control of the House; Trump then fires Mueller and Ryan says something along the lines of “the people have spoken, it’s time to move forward with our agenda to eliminate taxes on corporations and the wealthy.” Trump and the GOP then gets wiped out n 2020 but by then the damage is done.
Best case for Everyone Else: Democrats end up winning nearly 300 seats in the House and getting a majority in the Senate. They do a shit tonne of hearings, Mueller issues his findings to the DOJ who then releases them to the public. Trump is impeached, Republicans in the Senate are scared shitless by the fact that they lost Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and Tennessee; or some of them see a way to run for president in 2020 and Trump is removed from office by this time next year.
Worst possible case for everyone: Trump fires Mueller before the election, Democrats win a majority in the House but not necessarily the Senate, Republicans remained kowed and refuse to do the right thing. Trump stays in office and 2020 becomes the most bitter, crazy, and all around nasty election in our history that either sees 20% turnout or 90% turnout with no in between. And nobody knows the results for a month.
Speculation should be taken for what it’s worth, and it’s hard to do with the right balance of realism, optimism, and negativity. But I think the most likely outcome is that Democrats retake the House. I don’t think it’s mathematically possible to retake the Senate unfortunately.
Once they have control of the House, Democrats have actual governmental power again, and there will probably be at least a couple of major investigations into the crimes of this administration. However, the US media hasn’t really been able to attack Democrats as much as they would like, since Democrats have no real power at all. Once Democrats have the House, the American media can really go to town on them and run cover for Republicans. Expect lots of articles about how the American people are tired of Democrat obstruction and vindictiveness, how Americans wish Democrats would stop their witch hunts and govern like they said they would once they got elected, how Democrats are acting exactly like Republicans did with endless Benghazi investigations, and so on. Expect lots and lots of articles painting Trump sympathetically, as the victim of all of this. Expect lots of hostility to Democrats on talk shows, ferociously pushing back on everything Democrats say in the name of ‘fairness’, since asking a gentle question of Trump with no followup is exactly the same as denouncing a Democrat as a liar.
Will Democrats waver in the face of endless media criticism and meekly go along with the Trump administration? I don’t know. If they get cowed enough, they might even shut down Mueller’s investigation for Trump; I could see that happening. But once Democrats have the House and the US media can really attack them, Republicans won’t feel afraid of the 2018 election result. They will feel more empowered, since the media will now be firmly on their side. Charges from the Mueller investigation won’t motivate them to act in the face of electoral losses - if anything, they’ll be even stauncher in defence of Trump, because there will be Democrats with actual power making demands, and sticking it to Nancy Pelosi will be met with huge approval by Trumpers and the US media.
Democrats will win in the 2018 elections. But after that, their opponents aren’t Republicans. Their opponents are the NYT, CNN, and the US media as a whole, who will be working overtime to ensure Trump wins again in 2020.
re: #130 JordanRules
Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company — and it could be because of a looming ‘demographic time bomb’ businessinsider.com pic.twitter.com
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 19, 2018
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Long drive to somewhere.
re: #131 KGxvi
I don’t really know what Putin’s motivations are. It’s entirely plausible that you are right. It’s also within the realm of possibility that he sees the rightful expanse of the Russian Empire to be the furthest reaches of the old Soviet Bloc (he was, after all, a KGB man in his younger days). I still do not trust him, nor do I trust Trump to do the right thing.
Really. The Russian Empire includes the old Soviet Republics, the Baltic States, Ukraine, White Russia, the Caucasus and all the various ‘Stans of Central Asia. That is enough to keep them occupied for the time being.
They want to bring them back into Russia’s political and economic sphere. I want to stress that it is a mistaken approach to think or respond in Cold War terms: Russia is no longer pushing an internationalist communist ideology, but rather a nationalist, Russian-Orthodox one.
re: #130 JordanRules
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I know plenty of people my age with kids.
re: #137 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)
I know plenty of people my age with kids.
Of course. It’s a stupid justification not based in facts.
re: #130 JordanRules
Well this is really foul. Really Toys R Us?
Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company — and it could be because of a looming ‘demographic time bomb’
they are going bankrupt because they were bought out by a vulture capital firm and saddled with debt.
but blaming infertile millenials is always a good excuse
re: #130 JordanRules
Their financial woes can be traced back not to millenials, but to the leverage buyout they did a few years back that saddled the company with lots of debt, and the need to constantly try to repackage/refinance that debt.
The debt just became too big, and their latest turnaround plan was botched because they went and declared bankruptcy before December, instead of waiting until now. That signaled to their creditors and distributors that they were fucked, and those companies moved to protect themselves, with added to the layers of fuckage.
In other words, much of the problem is self inflicted, but a portion could be due to demographics.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Really. The Russian Empire includes the old Soviet Republics, the Baltic States, Ukraine, White Russia, the Caucasus and all the various ‘Stans of Central Asia. That is enough to keep them occupied for the time being.
They want to bring them back into Russia’s political and economic sphere. I want to stress that it is a mistaken approach to think or respond in Cold War terms: Russia is no longer pushing an internationalist communist ideology, but rather a nationalist, Russian-Orthodox one.
Ok, I don’t think we are as far apart as the original posts suggested. I agree that their approach is based on nationalism (and likely an ethno-nationalism) rather than a communist ideology. I was thinking more in terms of what the map would look like in Putin’s wildest dreams, and how we and our allies would respond to that.
re: #124 KGxvi
Depends on where the war is, how it starts, and who the parties are.
Let’s say Putin decides to Make Russia Great Again and tries to invade the old Eastern Bloc, and Trump refuses to come to the aid of NATO allies? That’s probably an even worse case scenario, and I have no idea what happens.
Ditto if Trump unilaterally launches a war with North Korea, with or without ICBMs.
Or maybe he decides to declare Iran in violation of the nuclear deal and tries to launch a war there.
Things get incredibly complicated when there’s no telling how our allies would react. This wouldn’t be like the two wars in Iraq or in Afghanistan where we went about building coalitions. Trump would probably just go off half coked and there’s no telling how our allies would react.
Trump’s desperation to get a deal with Un is based mostly in the reality that America is a prison guard with two prisoners and one bullet. We can probably go to war with one and not permanently destroy the world economy, but if we do that the other country effectively gets a green light to do whatever the fuck they want. We can’t just abandon South Korea without getting some kind of nominal concession or Trump would be publicly discredited as a weakling who betrayed a key ally for nothing. Also North Korea already has nukes and even without them Seoul would be doomed so going to war with them is by far the worse option.
Whereas going to war with Iran is at least hypothetically winnable in non-Pyrrhic terms and allows Trump to give Putin the greatest possible reward, a long term sharp spike in oil prices caused by disruption to the Persian Gulf shipping lanes. In fact without the appointment of Mueller and the investigation of Russian election interference becoming a real scandal we might likely be at war with Iran already. One other thing holding Trump back is the economy that he desperately wants to take credit for, because any war would cause market instability, necessitate massive borrowing against weakened income from the tax cuts and would almost certainly drop the US credit rating a few notches. His advisors also probably told him that the country would not rally behind him in a such a purely optional boondoggle.
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
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re: #134 Dr. Matt
Great movie featuring the incredible Clive Warren, as Karl Pilkington would say
re: #108 Belafon
NBC News confirms the WH reached out to Dems ystdy offering immigration deal to fund the border wall w/ $25b over three years with a 2.5 year DACA patch. Ds pushes backed asking for pathway to citizenship for all 1.8 million Dreamers who are eligible under DACA
why ask the dems to pay for the wall?
didnt you promise a bunch of times and already get mexico to pay?
re: #142 KGxvi
Ok, I don’t think we are as far apart as the original posts suggested. I agree that their approach is based on nationalism (and likely an ethno-nationalism) rather than a communist ideology. I was thinking more in terms of what the map would look like in Putin’s wildest dreams, and how we and our allies would respond to that.
Russian Imperialsm vs Soviet Imperialism…
Russia still has to regain all the influence it lost with the decline of the USSR before it can get look outside the borders of the old Russian Empire
re: #130 JordanRules
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On a side note, I still don’t understand how Sears wasn’t on the forefront of online shopping, that’s basically what the Sears Catalog was for about 100 years before the internet.
re: #130 JordanRules
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Of course the Toys R Us executives are saying this, they’re the ones who voted to take the company private in a leveraged and poorly thought out buyout that saddled the company with massive unsustainable debt.
So, Congress is calling for Mark Zuckerberg to testify about Facebook
Vox - Lawmakers want Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the Facebook data breach
Lawmakers and regulators across the US and Europe are calling for investigations into Facebook amid revelations that personal data from 50 million of the social media giant’s users was secretly harvested by a data analytics firm that worked on the Trump campaign.
The public outcry over the data breach, which includes demands that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress, could spark new calls for the government to monitor privacy rules and political advertising on the social media network. The company’s stock price, meanwhile, is in free fall, plunging by as much as 8 percent Monday afternoon and wiping away billions of dollars of Zuckerberg’s personal fortune.
US lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations, and Democrats appear to be homing in aggressively on Zuckerberg in their criticism.
“They say ‘trust us,’ but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Zuckerberg on Monday demanding that Facebook list every instance in the past 10 years in which a third-party company violated Facebook’s privacy rules while collecting data on users.
…more at link
Kill the drug dealers, and all will be solved.
Define drug dealer: ummmm… Pharma bros? The street dealer selling dime bags?
We know which one Trump wants to execute. We also know which one was at forefront of the epidemic - claiming new opioids weren’t addictive. They were.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 19, 2018
re: #130 JordanRules
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re: #148 KGxvi
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On a side note, I still don’t understand how Sears wasn’t on the forefront of online shopping, that’s basically what the Sears Catalog was for about 100 years before the internet.
They tried stuffing those pages through the tubes, but even one at a time, they wouldn’t go.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Don’t they know that all the coffee is grown by Messicans*, blah people, and A-rabs?
*Every country south of the Rio Grande is Mexico. Look it up.
re: #148 KGxvi
Toys R Us is going under because vulture capitalists, including Bain Capital, bought the company using debt financing, overcharged for “management services” and left the company highly leveraged making it impossible for the company to adapt to changing consumer habits, including online shopping.
On a side note, I still don’t understand how Sears wasn’t on the forefront of online shopping, that’s basically what the Sears Catalog was for about 100 years before the internet.
Same with JC Penney. Both had catalog sales and could have destroyed Amazon in the cradle, but both ignored online and distribution chain to their detriment.
Macy’s is trying to do the turn, and they might succeed. A lot of other companies aren’t going to hold up.
re: #117 KGxvi
I keep trying to figure out how this plays out.
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Worst possible case for everyone: Trump fires Mueller before the election, Democrats win a majority in the House but not necessarily the Senate, Republicans remained kowed and refuse to do the right thing. Trump stays in office and 2020 becomes the most bitter, crazy, and all around nasty election in our history that either sees 20% turnout or 90% turnout with no in between. And nobody knows the results for a month.
in your worst case, a dem controlled house could rehire mueller. and by then there’d likely be even more evidence of obstruction.
re: #156 lawhawk
Same with JC Penney. Both had catalog sales and could have destroyed Amazon in the cradle, but both ignored online and distribution chain to their detriment.
Macy’s is trying to do the turn, and they might succeed. A lot of other companies aren’t going to hold up.
one of Germany’s largest printing companies went under because their old-school management did not understand that customers no longer just wanted catalogs and flyers, they wanted a combined print/Internet/media offering.
And Leica, one of the leading brands of cameras, totally snoozed on digital photography. All that is left of them is their optical measuring devices division.
I still can’t believe that the people who voted for THIS guy are upset over a Jim Carrey painting. pic.twitter.com/hw5fQXwid7
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) March 19, 2018
So Snoop has a Gospel album
its just love from beginning to end 💖 #BibleofLove available 2day ! listen on @AppleMusic https://t.co/ZfGvzS8hvO pic.twitter.com/Um1JsPTMSU
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) March 16, 2018
re: #156 lawhawk
Same with JC Penney. Both had catalog sales and could have destroyed Amazon in the cradle, but both ignored online and distribution chain to their detriment.
Macy’s is trying to do the turn, and they might succeed. A lot of other companies aren’t going to hold up.
I just checked wikipedia to see when Sears did away with their catalog and apparently it was in 1993, so just before the internet age, which seems ironic. You’re right though, things could have been so very different.
re: #130 JordanRules
Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company — and it could be because of a looming ‘demographic time bomb’ https://t.co/nh8a0dEpr5 pic.twitter.com/blnII7yZji
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 19, 2018
“Millennials don’t fuck enough” is my new favorite moral panic. https://t.co/O377kyvEuo
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 19, 2018
re: #157 dangerman
in your worst case, a dem controlled house could rehire mueller. and by then there’d likely be even more evidence of obstruction.
Yes, but in that scenario, the Senate Republicans choose party over country, so it doesn’t really matter.
re: #145 dirkdigglerjr
Great movie featuring the incredible Clive Warren, as Karl Pilkington would say
Yeah, one of the better dystopian films out there. Very original story line and outstanding cast. Michael Caine was amazing.
State Attorneys General lead the charge against Donald Trump. Tomorrow vote for @renato_mariotti to add some weight.
There is a reason I am pushing for AG’s. It’s a powerful office.https://t.co/uqnaSgw8ty— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) March 19, 2018
Trump is trying to stop Mueller — but he can’t stop State Attorneys General. NY’s Schneiderman & CA’s Becerra have broad authority to fight & investigate Trump. Tomorrow, #Illinois can give them a powerful ally. VOTE @renato_mariotti for AG! https://t.co/xB0JLXF15u
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) March 19, 2018
re: #130 JordanRules
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re: #163 Ace-o-aces
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re: #163 Ace-o-aces
damn young people using birth control and not having children because they randomly got drunk and frisky on a Tuesday…
re: #166 JordanRules
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re: #163 Ace-o-aces
aceoaces
@aceoaces
“Millennials don’t fuck enough” is my new favorite moral panic.Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company — and it could be because of a looming ‘demographic time bomb’ https://t.co/nh8a0dEpr5 pic.twitter.com/blnII7yZji
— Business Insider (@businessinsider)
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In other words, there will be even less Republican voters.
So, the future is forced birth…not just anti-abortion. It will be the new way to “improving” voting.
For a Stronger America!!!
(Everyone stand and salute the flag)
re: #168 Blind Frog Belly White
I suspect a lot of Millennials probably agree that they don’t fuck enough.
Also, a lot of Gen X men are reaching the age where they have a mid-life crisis and marry a Millennial…so not sure how that throws off the stats.
Gets tiring seeing my generation blamed for everything. I know it’s not just us.
re: #148 KGxvi
On a side note, I still don’t understand how Sears wasn’t on the forefront of online shopping, that’s basically what the Sears Catalog was for about 100 years before the internet.
I’m less surprised by the brick and mortar guys missing the importance of the internet than I am about how long Microsoft failed to see the potential. I grew up in Redmond and it was clear when I graduated high school in ‘91 that the internet was going to take off, but Bill Gates and the Microsoft board didn’t see the potential for browsers, search engines and online shopping until others proved it. It’s crazy how much opportunity they pissed away.
re: #172 ObserverArt
In other words, there will be even less Republican voters.
So, the future is forced birth…not just anti-abortion. It will be the new way to “improving” voting.
For a Stronger America!!!
(Everyone stand and salute the flag)
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Does that make me a bad person?
re: #117 KGxvi
re: #133 Renaissance_Man
Well, since we’re doing scenarios here, I’d offer the following as a more-likely outcome:
The “blue wave” hits the House hard, the Democrats take control under Speaker Pelosi (again); the Senate possibly flips, but only by a few seats (sorry, “blue tsunami” fans, the math is against us this time round) - say 51-49, or 52-48: just enough to give the Dems - under Majority Leader Schumer - nominal control, but not enough to able to push anything through without at least SOME Republican cooperation. Which will probably be lacking, as now-Minority Leader McConnell (assuming he keeps that position) can simply revert to his standard Obama-era tactics of maximalist obstructionism. But the Senate, at least, seems to - as an institution - have a slightly better record at trying to actually govern, and keep the excesses of the Lower Chamber in check.
And to move a little further afield: if [/when] Robert Mueller’s investigation turns up solid (i.e. indictment-level) evidence of criminality on the part of too many Administration insiders (if not Trump himself) - yeah, I can easily see an impeachment resolution being an easy pass: the big problem is what the Senate might do in the “trial”: unfortunately, getting 67 of them to vote “Aye” to toss The Donald out would seem to be an impossible task. And unlike Bill Clinton, I can’t see Trump serving out the last two years of his term (and pace GOP/wingnut fantasists, I don’t see him winning reelection easily, if at all) without lashing out in even more unhinged ranting and raving over the failed impeachment. And basing whatever pathetic excuse for “policy” he tries to implement mainly on that lashing-out.
re: #174 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)
Gets tiring seeing my generation blamed for everything. I know it’s not just us.
Wait - you’re saying other generations aren’t fucking Millennials enough?
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Dotard will never have that “come to Jesus” moment about not f**king with the Intelligence Community/Law Enforcement Professionals. The people who are trained and dedicated to protecting Americans, are also trained and dedicated to sniffing out any criminalities. What he is doing is equivalent to sitting down at a table at a restaurant and start insulting the staff before you order your meal.
re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - you’re saying other generations aren’t fucking Millennials enough?
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re: #164 KGxvi
Yes, but in that scenario, the Senate Republicans choose party over country, so it doesn’t really matter.
i think it might if the house gets the ball rolling again it gets it back into the news again
though that is certainly likely for the senate no doubt.
re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - you’re saying other generations aren’t fucking Millennials enough?
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re: #175 goddamnedfrank
I’m less surprised by the brick and mortar guys missing the importance of the internet than I am about how long Microsoft failed to see the potential. I grew up in Redmond and it was clear when I graduated high school in ‘91 that the internet was going to take off, but Bill Gates and the Microsoft board didn’t the potential for browsers, search engines and online shopping until others proved it. It’s crazy how much opportunity they pissed away.
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is that companies, especially big ones, are more likely to believe they can just keep doing what they’ve been doing and will remain successful. Large businesses are rarely disruptors - it’s the start ups that always end up changing the game. Microsoft was in that position when it negotiated with IBM and convinced IBM to let Microsoft keep the rights to the operating system - IBM thought the money was always going to be in the hardware, not the software.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s all Planned Parenthood’s fault.
It’s certainly PP’s fault that the Not-Yet-Mrs. FBW didn’t end up with a bun in the oven when we were in college.
re: #180 Dr. Matt
Dotard will never have that “come to Jesus” moment about not f**king with the Intelligence Community/Law Enforcement Professionals. The people who are trained and dedicated to protecting Americans, are also trained and dedicated to sniffing out any criminalities. What he is doing is equivalent to sitting down at a table at a restaurant and start insulting the staff before you order your meal.
Isn’t that why he doesn’t trust going out to eat and has people make runs for him? It’s his experience.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
fucking is useless unless it produces babies
/
The hell you say!
re: #174 HappyWarrior(Not Larry Kudlow)
Gets tiring seeing my generation blamed for everything. I know it’s not just us.
get off my lawn!
re: #188 dangerman
get off my lawn!
And it would have worked, too, if it weren’t for you meddlesome Millennials and your stupid avocado toast!
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s all Planned Parenthood’s fault.
we are dealing with people who are not only against Planned Parenthood as an institution, they are against the very concept of planning parenthood except by the rhythm method
re: #178 Jay C
With respect to a potential impeachment trial, if Trump continues being unhinged, I could see a few more Republicans realizing that they don’t owe Trump a damn thing and voting to convict/remove. I also strongly believe that there are more than a few Republicans in the Senate that would like to run for president again and can use a vote to convict and remove Trump as a Profile in Courage (tm) argument come 2020, especially if Trump’s approval ratings drop below the crazification factor. And throw in a few Republican who just don’t like Trump (Romney, Rubio (try not to laugh so loud, please), and Graham, McCain if he’s still with us), and we might be able to get to 67 in ideal circumstances.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we are dealing with people who are not only against Planned Parenthood as an institution, they are against the very concept of planning parenthood except by the rhythm method
And yet they were always against that Rock and Roll music and the jungle beat of its rhythm.
re: #184 KGxvi
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is that companies, especially big ones, are more likely to believe they can just keep doing what they’ve been doing and will remain successful. Large businesses are rarely disruptors - it’s the start ups that always end up changing the game. Microsoft was in that position when it negotiated with IBM and convinced IBM to let Microsoft keep the rights to the operating system - IBM thought the money was always going to be in the hardware, not the software.
a combination of groupthink plus “we got this big so we obviously know what we’re doing”
This blaming people for not having enough children is not new or uncommon.
But this latest episode, and I’ll point out that it is the media site BusinessInsider that goes on about millennials not having children, so this is not so much about ToysRUs, illustrates how corporate America sees people: as things.
re: #192 KGxvi
With respect to a potential impeachment trial, if Trump continues being unhinged, I could see a few more Republicans realizing that they don’t owe Trump a damn thing and voting to convict/remove. I also strongly believe that there are more than a few Republicans in the Senate that would like to run for president again and can use a vote to convict and remove Trump as a Profile in Courage (tm) argument come 2020, especially if Trump’s approval ratings drop below the crazification factor. And throw in a few Republican who just don’t like Trump (Romney, Rubio (try not to laugh so loud, please), and Graham, McCain if he’s still with us), and we might be able to get to 67 in ideal circumstances.
Man, I hope you’re right.
I think you’re wrong (overall), but REALLY hope you’re right….
BusinessInsider is notorious for its use of clickbait headlines, and they’re bitching about millenials not having kids???
re: #195 freetoken
This blaming people for not having enough children is not new or uncommon.
But this latest episode, and I’ll point out that it is the media site BusinessInsider that goes on about millennials not having children, so this is not so much about ToysRUs, illustrates how corporate America sees people: as things.
You’re no good to us if you’re not buying our things.
re: #194 dangerman
a combination of groupthink plus “we got this big so we obviously know what we’re doing”
Also…”that innovation would be expensive and our CEO compensation is quite good, so why risk anything?”
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
fucking is useless unless it produces babies
/
babies are great
as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the evening
Tomorrow we get the story of CA and the Trump campaign. In today’s segment, you can watch the CA CEO talk about getting their targets caught on tape, confessing to illegal acts, WHILE BEING CAUGHT ON TAPE CONFESSING TO ILLEGAL ACTS. This is truly a thing of beauty.
Also, British Information Officer applying for a warrant to seize CA servers.
re: #196 Jay C
Man, I hope you’re right.
I think you’re wrong (overall), but REALLY hope you’re right….
Like I said at the end, “might” in “ideal” circumstances. But unless there is a smoking gun, I don’t think we get there. Which is unfortunate.
A little speculation on the Cambridge Analytica video…
Given as how Bannon was pretty closely tied with the Mercers, who’s to say that CA didn’t turn that bribery - sex workers thing on their own party?
You know Bannon would be down with it. And it would go a long way in explaining why no one on the R side has made a peep in opposition to Trump.
(I’m convinced that Republicans have been forced into acquiescence due to blackmail. I’ve always thought the raw materials for blackmail came from the Russian hack of the RNC, but this CA story seems like it could have been used against ‘friend’ and ‘foe alike, given Trump’s paranoia and Bannon’s worst impulses.)
re: #193 Blind Frog Belly White
And yet they were always against that Rock and Roll music and the jungle beat of its rhythm.
that led to illegitimate babies, and that is a bit of a gray area for Christians.
they want so see them born in Holy Wedlock
re: #202 KGxvi
Like I said at the end, “might” in “ideal” circumstances. But unless there is a smoking gun, I don’t think we get there. Which is unfortunate.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that led to illegitimate babies, and that is a bit of a gray area for Christians.
they want so see them born in Holy Wedlock
BORN IN being the key. Conceived in? Much less so.
What they DON’T want is people other than them having sex for fun in ways, or with people, they don’t approve of and suffering no adverse consequences.
re: #192 KGxvi
With respect to a potential impeachment trial, if Trump continues being unhinged, I could see a few more Republicans realizing that they don’t owe Trump a damn thing and voting to convict/remove. I also strongly believe that there are more than a few Republicans in the Senate that would like to run for president again and can use a vote to convict and remove Trump as a Profile in Courage (tm) argument come 2020, especially if Trump’s approval ratings drop below the crazification factor. And throw in a few Republican who just don’t like Trump (Romney, Rubio (try not to laugh so loud, please), and Graham, McCain if he’s still with us), and we might be able to get to 67 in ideal circumstances.
another possibility if the dems turn the senate with the house
if they rehire mueller and the investigation results are patently obvious
and they know they cant get to 67
they could still grind the entire operation to a halt
no budgets. no judges, no nothing
its a dire scenario
and they probably dont have the balls for it
we’re just speculating here
I may have picked the wrong month to re-visit Richard Evans’ Third Reich Trilogy.
Just hit the end of The Coming of the Third Reich and now I’m shook and eating all the carbs. Because, it’s not that everything is the same, but the similars suck.
Because we really should take advice from Jonah “Liberal Fascism” Goldberg.
Pelosi should go. https://t.co/T74r76MjAV
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) March 19, 2018
re: #130 JordanRules
Well this is really foul. Really Toys R Us?
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It couldn’t be that Amazon and the like have been eating your lunch, in addition to your ownership saddling the company with massive debt and moving cash out to themselves, right, Toys-R-Us?
re: #208 Blind Frog Belly White
Because we really should take advice from Jonah “Liberal Fascism” Goldberg.
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