Seth Meyers Analyzes Trump’s Easter Speech and Invitation to Putin
“Somebody gets you a house, you gotta have ‘em over”
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Dr. King’s still-open briefcase, photographed in his room at Lorraine Motel, Memphis, just after his assassination, 50 years ago tomorrow night: #Groskinsky pic.twitter.com/Wxo9xBc7F8
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 4, 2018
We’ve rightly been focused on Pruitt, but this shitheel:
At least 11/33 of the senior career officials pushed out of their positions by Zinke are Native American. This news comes shortly after reports that Zinke told colleagues “I don’t care about diversity.” https://t.co/8I4mhw0WSv pic.twitter.com/7EIFANXlzk
— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) April 3, 2018
re: #1 teleskiguy
Amazing. Beschloss brings the pics.
Nixon was not a “target” of the Watergate grand jury, but he became an un-indicted co-conspirator, and resigned before being impeached, tried and removed! This WaPo info is interesting but not very telling. https://t.co/7xKtoESIMk
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) April 4, 2018
Hey @Alyssa_Milano, pushing fake conspiracy theories is @JackPosoblec’s job! Don’t take work from him. He has no other talents and needs the money to pay his crack dealer!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2018
re: #4 JordanRules
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The difference is, Nixon had enough self-awareness to resign before being impeached. The Donald will not resign; he will have to be impeached and convicted, and even then, he may not leave office peaceably. I wonder what will happen to this country if it comes to this.
Add to the no shit file..
Fox’s Shep Smith fact-checks Trump’s Amazon claims: ‘None of that was true’
“The Post Office is losing billions of dollars, and the taxpayers are paying for that money because it delivers packages for Amazon at a very below cost,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
Smith responded to each of Trump’s claims on Tuesday.
“The Postal Service’s own numbers show it makes money by delivering packages for Amazon and other companies. As for taxpayers, the post office’s own website points out, and I quote, ‘the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses.’ None,” Smith said.
Don’t laugh when Trump says “fake news.”
It’s absolutely a direct threat to our democracy.— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 3, 2018
Cillizza says something insightfull. https://t.co/TeaeX8Y04o
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 4, 2018
After @YouTube said it’ll ban content related to the sale or assembly of #firearms or firearms accessories, @NRAILA’s @ChrisCoxNRA released a statement slamming the move as political posturing. @stinchfield1776 agrees and says #NRA members must rise up in the face of censorship. pic.twitter.com/Zt7ZGKYl3p
— NRATV (@NRATV) March 27, 2018
If @NRA or @NRATv were run by brown or black people, it would be labeled a terrorist organization with hate propaganda programming that incites violence. https://t.co/xnSyKXP8yk
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 3, 2018
Alyssa Milano pushes fake conspiracy theory that YouTube HQ shooter was inspiried by an NRA video https://t.co/2VZYpokFgD
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 3, 2018
And now, Jack Posobiec with “Propaganda Aimed at Total Idiots.” https://t.co/tk3VhxTHi8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2018
re: #7 Kilroy was here
Add to the no shit file..
Fox’s Shep Smith fact-checks Trump’s Amazon claims: ‘None of that was true’
“The Post Office is losing billions of dollars, and the taxpayers are paying for that money because it delivers packages for Amazon at a very below cost,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
Smith responded to each of Trump’s claims on Tuesday.
“The Postal Service’s own numbers show it makes money by delivering packages for Amazon and other companies. As for taxpayers, the post office’s own website points out, and I quote, ‘the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses.’ None,” Smith said.
Unfortunately, Shep’s show is when devoted Fox viewers go to the mall to walk, change diapers, yell at clouds, etc.
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
Unfortunately, Shep’s show is when devoted Fox viewers go to the mall to walk, change diapers, yell at clouds, etc.
If I were in any position to influence ratings, I would make it so my TV was on his program every day. Maybe all those people watching MSNBC could make a trip over there during his run. It would be pretty funny if his show started getting better ratings than Hannity.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
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That absolutely does not make sense. He should lay off the datura.
re: #8 gocart mozart
So start acting like it, instead of writing puff-pieces normalizing the madman who’s attacking America.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
Any luck on Bumble lately?
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) April 4, 2018
re: #6 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The difference is, Nixon had enough self-awareness to resign before being impeached. The Donald will not resign; he will have to be impeached and convicted, and even then, he may not leave office peaceably. I wonder what will happen to this country if it comes to this.
The Secret Service will frog-march him out and throw him on the curb.
re: #13 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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LINT (short thread). The most interesting part of this piece is the revelation that Mueller wants to write a report on this, “to answer the public’s questions.” Remember that under the Special Counsel regulations, Mueller doesn’t have the authority to produce a public report.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 4, 2018
re: #2 Barefoot Grin
We’ve rightly been focused on Pruitt, but this shitheel:
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This issue needs to get more attention. Straight up discrimination. He appears to also be going after Latino and Black senior employees.
The California City desert-town-promotion-gone-wrong is one of those stories that can be recycled and presented as new every few years on slow news days. This iteration is no different.
What is amusing is how many RWNJ commenters trash the CURRENT California administration over this plan, exactly as though the original 1950s plan were a CURRENT project and promotion. The scam’s heyday was in fact during Ronald Reagan’s governorship in the ’60s.
I commented to the Brown/Democrat bashers, “The promoters are either dead or so old and senile they get all their information from Fox News.”
EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone’s email to Sam Nunberg saying he dined with @JulianAssange pic.twitter.com/bBYY9CPcWe
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) April 4, 2018
Honestly the most shocking thing about this may be the hotmail accounts https://t.co/z26hQR6pQc
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 4, 2018
How is it the losers got to be in charge. That makes no sense.
This Pruitt flap is absurd. Obama EPA officials spent as much or more on travel. And career EPA ethics officials say he paid “reasonable market value” for the condo, and leasor had no business in front of EPA. The press might at least try to pretend it didn’t have two standards.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 3, 2018
Ms. Strassel, that tweet is totally false. No Obama EPA head had Pruitt’s travel practices—not even close. By no reasonable standard did he pay market. And if an Obama admin official had done anything like this, would have been excoriated. I know: I set up our compliance systems https://t.co/xlStKU1Rdq
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) April 3, 2018
Christing fuck, sometimes the Boing Boing website is just lots of fun, and sometimes, it’s like they’re letting morons post there.
At the end of this story about fake cell towers being used to spy on the government:
Normally, I’d be worried about a foreign or domestic agency spying on the doings of one of the most powerful governments in the world. But the feeling that comes from hearing about the Feds getting a taste of their own medicine makes it really hard to focus on that.
Why, sure, fellas, it’s a laff-a-minit that the Russians are spying on us. Tee hee!
McMaster coming out swinging against Russia at @AtlanticCouncil dinner right now. Last time he did this (Munich conference in February), Trump rebuked him on Twitter. But he only has 6 days left on the job now.
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) April 4, 2018
McMaster said he appreciated compliments on Trump’s National Security Strategy, but said all kudos should go to his deputy, Nadia Schadlow for leading the NSS effort
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) April 4, 2018
re: #20 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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The California City desert-town-promotion-gone-wrong is one of those stories that can be recycled and presented as new every few years on slow news days. This iteration is no different.
What is amusing is how many RWNJ commenters trash the CURRENT California administration over this plan, exactly as though the original 1950s plan were a CURRENT project and promotion. The scam’s heyday was in fact during Ronald Reagan’s governorship in the ’60s.
I commented to the Brown/Democrat bashers, “The promoters are either dead or so old and senile they get all their information from Fox News.”
Today, California City attracts attention mostly for the post-apocalyptic visuals associated with of its enormous grid of planned and graded, but never occupied, residential streets. These extend for miles into the desert. The Tatooine fortress architecture of the local prison probably doesn’t help.
We project Rebecca Dallet has won the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race, with over 400,000 votes counted and 33% precincts reporting her lead of 16% is not going to be reversed.
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) April 4, 2018
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I give up.
Fox’s Brit Hume: Barack Obama enjoyed protected status from the media as president because he is black https://t.co/5uZrduyVAI
— Media Matters (@mmfa) April 4, 2018
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump supporters do nothing but lie. So glad someone is calling them out.
re: #30 bratwurst
I guess it’s all racist all the time now at Fox. It works. Their ratings are through the roof.
re: #30 bratwurst
I give up.
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It’s true. They wanted to call him n****r, but as the first black President they had to settle for character assassination by innuendo.
re: #30 bratwurst
I give up.
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What else can you expect from Britt Hume & Fox ‘News’? Same as it ever was.
re: #30 bratwurst
I give up.
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Or it could be that President Obama didn’t have protected status but was heavily scrutinized and yet had no scandals, no special counsel investigations, no criminal charges or convictions, etc.
It could be that he was just a clean, upstanding, dignified President.
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
Trump supporters do nothing but lie. So glad someone is calling them out.
“Every word he says is a lie, including “and” and “the” said somebody famous about someone other than Trump.
re: #20 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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The California City desert-town-promotion-gone-wrong is one of those stories that can be recycled and presented as new every few years on slow news days. This iteration is no different.
What is amusing is how many RWNJ commenters trash the CURRENT California administration over this plan, exactly as though the original 1950s plan were a CURRENT project and promotion. The scam’s heyday was in fact during Ronald Reagan’s governorship in the ’60s.
I commented to the Brown/Democrat bashers, “The promoters are either dead or so old and senile they get all their information from Fox News.”
Ummm, also not a “suburb.” There is no “Urb” anywhere near it. There were a bunch of these desert planned communities that popped up around the 1960s. Some were misguided but real attempts at development. Some were scams from the get-go.
You’ve gotta give China credit.
They’re not only shoving Trump’s tariffs right down his throat; they’re doing it in a way directly designed to alienate him from his base.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 3, 2018
re: #4 JordanRules
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@JohnWDean
Nixon was not a “target” of the Watergate grand jury, but he became an un-indicted co-conspirator, and resigned before being impeached, tried and removed! This WaPo info is interesting but not very telling. washingtonpost.com …
I wish there could be a 2018 John Dean who could step up and testify:
2018 Howard Baker: And what did you say to the president at that point in time?
2018 John Dean: I said there is a cancer in the presidency.
Baker: Don’t you mean “on the presidency”?
Dean: Did I fucking stutter, Senator?
Edit to correct Baker’s title.
I loathe lying sack of shit racist grandpa. God I hate him.
re: #39 calochortus
Not just in California. Also Florida, where they sold swampland to unsuspecting Northerners who thought they were getting a slice of paradise and it was nothing of the sort.
re: #39 calochortus
Ummm, also not a “suburb.” There is no “Urb” anywhere near it. There were a bunch of these desert planned communities that popped up around the 1960s. Some were misguided but real attempts at development. Some were scams from the get-go.
I always thought it was a suburb of Mojave. I actually lived in North Edwards, down the road a little. Cal City was apparently legit at the start but scammers took over in the 60s and 70s when its lack of viability became obvious.
re: #44 lawhawk
Not just in California. Also Florida, where they sold swampland to unsuspecting Northerners who thought they were getting a slice of paradise and it was nothing of the sort.
True, and those go back farther than the California/Arizona/Nevada ones.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race doesn’t look all that suspenseful — another “wake-up call” for Republicans in WI, another sign of energized Dems/progressives — 81% for Dallet in Dane is remarkable
— Craig Gilbert (@WisVoter) April 4, 2018
Charles, see
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re: #45 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I always thought it was a suburb of Mojave. I actually lived in North Edwards, down the road a little. Cal City was apparently legit at the start but scammers took over in the 60s and 70s when its lack of viability became obvious.
I suppose, if you want to call Mojave an urban area…
re: #40 Interesting Times
Unfortunately China’s aim is a bit wide. The stuff they’re doing to hurt farmers is going to hurt MN too (although we’re nowhere near as into hogs as Iowa). This pissing match is going to hurt so many people.
re: #6 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The difference is, Nixon had enough self-awareness to resign before being impeached. The Donald will not resign; he will have to be impeached and convicted, and even then, he may not leave office peaceably. I wonder what will happen to this country if it comes to this.
I would assume if it even looks like Trump is about to be convicted by the Senate then Pence (or whomever, if this goes the Watergate route) would be on the Capitol grounds to be immediately sworn into Office but CJ Roberts (who would be presiding over the trial), once Pence finishes the oath the secret service could conceivably forcibly remove Trump from White House grounds
re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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We’re not at the stage where Democratic wins should be non-dramatic.
re: #45 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Hey, check out that last city on this list:
Jumping in the car tomorrow for a six day, 1,500 mile drive across Texas!
Hope to see you at town halls in:
🚙Waco
🚙Groveton
🚙Houston
🚙San Saba
🚙Brady
🚙Garden City
🚙Midland
🚙Snyder
🚙Dickens
🚙Floydada
🚙Silverton
🚙Lubbock— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) April 3, 2018
…will he be physically safe there? :O
re: #40 Interesting Times
Okay I don’t get this. Clicking on Horse Whisperer’s account to read comments (or any other Twitter post here) returns to me from Twitter:
“Sorry, you are rate limited. Try again later.”
Since I am using ADSL and not cellphone service, what does this mean? Is Twitter throttling me for not having an account, or is my telephone company taking advantage of the destruction of Net Neutrality?
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹
Here’s what twitter says:
In order to control abuse, Twitter limits how often you can search from a single network address.
If you access Twitter from a corporation, event or conference, you may be sharing the same network address with many people. In some of these cases, you may run into an issue with Twitter search rate limiting.
re: #25 JordanRules
Has McMaster just painted a target on Ms. Schadlow? If so is he doing it as a favour or a form of revenge?
re: #55 Belafon
Here’s what twitter says:
Thanks, but it still doesn’t make sense to me, as I am at my home. Maybe they just have a lot of traffic?
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks, but it still doesn’t make sense to me, as I am at my home. Maybe they just have a lot of traffic?
Here’s some more from a different site:
The rate limit is imposed by Twitter. It’s related to the rate that data is pulled into the app. All third party Twitter apps (basically any Twitter app that isn’t the native Twitter app or TweetDeck, also owned by Twitter) are limited in the amount of data calls they can make to Twitter’s API.
Third party apps are not allowed to refresh a timeline more than 15 times in 15 minutes, are not able to post more than 15 tweets in 15 minutes, etc.
Where are you doing your search through? I will say I’m not entirely sure what it all means, other than you may need to wait a little bit.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks, but it still doesn’t make sense to me, as I am at my home. Maybe they just have a lot of traffic?
Maybe restart your adsl modem and hope you get a new IP address? Problem with dynamic IPs, you never know what the previous person who had it did with it.
re: #30 bratwurst
I give up.
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Says a media figure who did nothing but bitch about Obama but yeah sure Brit. No one ever criticized Obama in the media because he was black. Who’s playing the race card now you pathetic jerk.
Conservatives back with human experimentation …
Execution Date Sought for State’s Longest Serving Death Row Inmate (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald), more at the link:
Nebraska prison officials notified Moore in January that the Corrections Department had obtained supplies of four lethal injection drugs it intends to use to execute him. The combination of drugs has not been used in an execution in any other state before.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska last week filed a lawsuit challenging the execution protocol that would be used for Moore’s execution. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha filed a similar complaint in the Legislature.
re: #58 Belafon
Here’s some more from a different site:
Where are you doing your search through? I will say I’m not entirely sure what it all means, other than you may need to wait a little bit.
I’m not doing searches. Just doing the usual thing I do here (click on the time stamp of a Twitter post here, which normally takes me to that post and all the responses to it).
re: #39 calochortus
When I saw the original post I thought of the movie Cast A Deadly Spell.
There was a scene where Harry Lovecraft investigated a suburb being built in the desert by ‘advanced thaumaturgy’. They were using zombies as the work force.
Yay, me … tomorrow I go off to state school for two days for training as a Public Information Officer. (It’s in the county seat, so I won’t be very far away.)
re: #27 JordanRules
Liberal candidate Rebecca Dallet has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, according to Decision Desk. Dallet defeated her conservative opponent for the open seat, Michael Screnock easily, and her victory will cut the conservative majority on the court from 5-2 to just 4-3.
vox.com
Read the rest. Sometimes dems don’t even run a candidate.
From Decision Desk
Wisconsin State Supreme Court General Election
Rebecca Dallet (Unaffiliated) 56.2% 340,611
Michael Screnock (Unaffiliated) 43.8% 265,133
1887 of 3880 (49%) Precincts Reporting, 605,744 Total Votes
decisiondeskhq.com
Well then, that explains the desperate attempts of Dopey-eyes McDoucheface to deny WI residents their special elections:
Winnebago Co (Oshkosh). Trump +7 pts 2016; Dallet (liberal WI Supreme Court candidate) +14 w/ 96% reporting. No wonder why the @DecisionDeskHQ guys made an early call
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) April 4, 2018
Dane County Clerk predicts turnout will hit 50 percent.
Waukesha County Clerk said she thought she would see 35 to 40 percent but is now “hoping for 25 percent.” #wipolitics #scowis— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) April 3, 2018
I think I like that second tweet best of all - wingnuts being the ones to wallow in despondency and stay home for a change can bring nothing but good things to America and the world at large :D
re: #63 Romantic Heretic
When I saw the original post I thought of the movie Cast A Deadly Spell.
There was a scene where Harry Lovecraft investigated a suburb being built in the desert by ‘advanced thaumaturgy’. They were using zombies as the work force.
But do zombies do quality work?
I love to hope this is true. Asha Rangappa is explaining that Mueller’s move might be that evidence, etc. can’t get buried. I woke up at 3AM and have had a full day, so I’d be happy for better analysis, but here is the thread before I go to bed:
LINT (short thread). The most interesting part of this piece is the revelation that Mueller wants to write a report on this, “to answer the public’s questions.” Remember that under the Special Counsel regulations, Mueller doesn’t have the authority to produce a public report.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 4, 2018
re: #63 Romantic Heretic
When I saw the original post I thought of the movie Cast A Deadly Spell.
There was a scene where Harry Lovecraft investigated a suburb being built in the desert by ‘advanced thaumaturgy’. They were using zombies as the work force.
And that reminds me of a book I read a few years ago called “Installing Linux on an Undead Badger,” which had short fiction about people installing Linux on undead badgers, as well as news-style fiction about fast food restaurants using zombies as workers (they work 20 hours a day for a bucket of calf brains!) and networking your office computers with interdimensional demons.
Well damn.
Look at Stars and Stripes stepping up with some very relevant historical knowledge…
It is illegal to release information that would identify individuals or families. But information from the 1940 Census was secretly used in one of the worst violations of constitutional rights in US history: the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII https://t.co/SW161z5q6O
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) April 4, 2018
Trey Gowdy Has a Black Friend (goes to Wonkette)
Sen. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Tim Scott (both R-SC) have a new book out about how they overcame their differences (that being Rep. Scott is black) to become friends.
Wokette shreds this tale of conservative love.
re: #67 calochortus
No. Zombies are kinda brainless and construction work isn’t for the brainless.
re: #69 scottslemmons
That reminds me of an anime I watched a couple of years ago where Dr. Frankenstein started a technological revolution based on reanimated corpses: Project Itoh: Empire of Corpses
re: #73 Romantic Heretic
That reminds me of an anime I watched a couple of years ago where Dr. Frankenstein started a technological revolution based on reanimated corpses: Project Itoh: Empire of Corpses
That actually sounds fairly brilliant. And it’s got guest-starring roles for Dr. John Watson and the Brothers Karamazov!
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹
Trey Gowdy Has a Black Friend (goes to Wonkette)
Sen. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Tim Scott (both R-SC) have a new book out about how they overcame their differences (that being Rep. Scott is black) to become friends.
Wokette shreds this tale of conservative love.
Other way round: Tim Scott is the Senator, Trey Gowdy is (was? Retiring?) in the House.
Still sounds lame.
I don’t think I’m breaking the 24-hour rule by saying that the phrase “active shooter” seems tediously stupid to me. A shooter by definition is active until he or she is stopped. Maybe I’ve just heard it way too much, as we all have, but still it’s as grating as if a sportscaster talked about an “active baserunner.”
re: #75 Jay C
Other way round: Tim Scott is the Senator, Trey Gowdy is (was? Retiring?) in the House.
Still sounds lame.
Thanks for the correction. Mr. Scott is the senator and Mr. Gowdy is the representative.
I’m not wearing my glasses so I’m getting things backward. (That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.)
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re: #76 whitebeach
I don’t think I’m breaking the 24-hour rule by saying that the phrase “active shooter” seems tediously stupid to me. A shooter by definition is active until he or she is stopped. Maybe I’ve just heard it way too much, as we all have, but still it’s as grating as if a sportscaster talked about an “active baserunner.”
Yes, it does seem odd. On the other hand, it is probably useful for first responders to distinguish between “a shooting has occurred” and “shooting is ongoing” and this is how they’re doing it.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks for the correction. Mr. Scott is the senator and Mr. Gowdy is the representative.
I’m not wearing my glasses so I’m getting things backward. (That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.)
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re: #71 Anymouse 🌹
Trey Gowdy Has a Black Friend (goes to Wonkette)
Sen. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Tim Scott (both R-SC) have a new book out about how they overcame their differences (that being Rep. Scott is black) to become friends.
Wokette shreds this tale of conservative love.
Is having a friend of a different race that much of a big deal in this day and age that they have to write a whole book about it? Seems strange to me.
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
Is having a friend of a different race that much of a big deal in this day and age that they have to write a whole book about it? Seems strange to me.
It seems strange to me as well, but I’m not a conservative from Dixie.
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
Is having a friend of a different race that much of a big deal in this day and age that they have to write a whole book about it? Seems strange to me.
I’m trying to remember the title of that big bestseller President Obama and Joe Biden coauthored about overcoming their differences and becoming great friends. Maybe it’ll come to me later.
re: #82 whitebeach
I’m trying to remember the title of that big bestseller President Obama and Joe Biden coauthored about overcoming their differences and becoming great friends. Maybe it’ll come to me later.
Well, you know, President Obama being a black thug from Chicago … /s
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
Is having a friend of a different race that much of a big deal in this day and age that they have to write a whole book about it? Seems strange to me.
Well, 80% of white Americans don’t have friends of another race. So, it’s foreign territory for over three quarters of the country.
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹
re: #82 whitebeach
I could understand an article about their friendship but a whole book seems excessive. How many chapters can be written about how Gowdy overcame he revulsion of Black people and saw Scott as a human being because they bonded over their mutual hatred of the poor (of all races)?
re: #82 whitebeach
I’m trying to remember the title of that big bestseller President Obama and Joe Biden coauthored about overcoming their differences and becoming great friends. Maybe it’ll come to me later.
I believe it was titled 2009-2017.
re: #86 Belafon
And it was great!! They always appeared to be genuinely warm with each other. I doubt Trump has a similar relationship with Pence (who he reportedly didn’t want as his VP).
David Pakman had an interview with Alex Jones’s ex-wife Kelly Jones, speaking on everything from domestic violence to exploiting their children to his ridiculous supplements he sells.
She points out his paranoia and conspiracy mongering was originally non-partisan when he first started on Austin’s cable access channel, but has shifted to partisan attacks.
She also notes she is trying to get her son off his show at InfoWars. She notes that is a violation of court orders in their divorce, and she is still unable to see her son (also in violation of court orders).
(24:55)
In case you don’t want to wait for Trump’s next tweets…
(from the archives) pic.twitter.com/c5sawXjZ4g— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) April 4, 2018
re: #86 Belafon
I believe it was titled 2009-2017.
I believe it goes back a good while before your start date and hope it will go on a good while longer than your end date.
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
And it was great!! They always appeared to be genuinely warm with each other. I doubt Trump has a similar relationship with Pence (who he reportedly didn’t want as his VP).
I doubt Trump has a similar relationship with anybody, unless it’s Ivanka. What’s between him and Pence is pretty much what was between Sauron and Gollum.
Tonight’s results show we are at risk of a #BlueWave in WI. The Far Left is driven by anger & hatred — we must counter it with optimism & organization. Let’s share our positive story with voters & win in November.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) April 4, 2018
If “anger and hatred” translate from Russian into English as “common sense and basic human decency” then you’ve nailed it, Comrade Scott! https://t.co/huNRv1nX6H
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 4, 2018
Wisconsin is working with RECORD-LOW unemployment thanks to our reforms, but the risk of a #BlueWave puts everything in jeopardy – balanced budgets, collective bargaining reforms, $8B in tax cuts, welfare reform & more.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) April 4, 2018
If you support our bold efforts to help families and reform government, I need your help right now. CHIP IN $5 and help us stand against the flood of outside money that is headed our way: https://t.co/sEXb5qCLyZ
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) April 4, 2018
The excitement of the evening isn’t over yet, as today sees three special elections to hopefully restore the Democrats’ supermajority in the California Assembly.
The bad news is that the Republicans seem likely to make runoffs in two of the three districts based on the first precincts, while the 54th District seems likely to elect Democrat Sydney Kamlager. The good news is that Ankur Patel and Steve Dunwoody will add to the tombstones in Bernie’s Our Revolution Candidate Sematary.
On the Twitter issue, it appears on my computer that they have changed the way they display on computers. Perhaps that has something to do with the “throttling” issue, which seems to be intermittent.
Their “embed tweet” selection doesn’t seem to work for me now either.
new twitter challenge: describe yourself like a male author would
— Jonathan Franzia (@whitneyarner) April 1, 2018
Her breasts clanged like a gleaming tin-backed trolley rolling down the bay. CLANG CLANG! CLANG CLANG! they seemed to say. “Oh wait, that’s the actual trolley,” I thought. The woman had been saying something. CLANG CLANG! CLANG CLANG! she said. https://t.co/jygFVs0iky
— AP Quach (@sassquachcomics) April 3, 2018
Scott Walker is such an asshole. I can’t wait until he hits his limit.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Naaah, no desperation here: obviously just a simple, well-reasoned appeal to protect the economic Utopia Walker and the GOP have made of Wisconsin from that sinister #BlueWave of “outside money”. Which of course, necessitates him (figuratively) stretching out the tin cup to the home folks. $5 at a time? Whatta populist!
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PS: Wasn’t it Walker who bribed “incentivised” the Chinese to build some chip plant in WI to the tune of several billions of dollars? With the illusory promise of tens of thousands of high-paying jobs (that Foxconn is under NO obligation to actually provide)?
This is a hilarious comment thread:
NEWS: DJ Gribbin, White House infrastructure policy advisor is leaving, WH official confirms to me
— Mallory Shelbourne (@MalShelbourne) April 3, 2018
re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Scott Walker✔
@ScottWalker
Tonight’s results show we are at risk of a #BlueWave in WI.
Just wait till you see the results of Mueller’s investigation.
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is from a Wall Street Journal reporter - fake news indeed.
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
“Seems strange to me.”
As Anymouse replied, “It is strange.” My best friend is a former co-worker. Her classroom was right beside mine on the same hall. Neither of us has ever felt the need to explain how or why we became besties even though we’re not of the same race. We have common interests, similar views on politics, and share a common interest in ensuring all kids get the best education they can receive. I had planned to retire a year before her, but she came to me and said, “Margie, Please don’t leave me up here with these people.” I understood exactly what she meant, so I stayed on the job another year, and we retired together. She couldn’t take the fake *ss conservatives on the job, and they were all suspicious of her, including the head administrator. I don’t think they understood why she was not a member of the their “herd,” simply because she’s Caucasian. They considered her an outsider because she was from Illinois and didn’t display the baked-in southern prejudices about others that they have/had.
Anyone seeing this corroborated thru other sources?
SOURCES: YouTube shooter identified as user Nasim Aghdam https://t.co/otKGHSrSRM via @ABC7NY
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 4, 2018
According to her website, a possible motivation for the shooting could have been tied to her many YouTube accounts, which she says have seen a decline in viewership over the past few months.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
In re: Walker.
Boy, it seems he’s real butthurt! Maybe his wife can run out to the nearest drug store and buy him a couple of tubes of Preparation H.
Well, this hits my state right in the pocketbook. (We’re working on that blue wave here as well.)
JUST IN: China formally notifies World Trade Organisation it is suspending trade concessions to the United States on products including ethanol in response to U.S. duties on aluminium and steel - WTO document pic.twitter.com/BCie6NKI3G
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) April 3, 2018
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re: #106 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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So can we officially say Trump has put us in a fucking Trade War now?
re: #95 Amory Blaine
Wow. Nice to finally win one in Wisconsin.
He’s probably more pissed that we denied his attempt to get rid of the Treasurer.
re: #103 Kragar
Anyone seeing this corroborated thru other sources?
(CNN)The woman who shot three people at YouTube headquarters in Northern California has been identified as Nasim Aghdam, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
The shooter is believed to have known at least one of the victims, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
The shooter’s motive was unclear, Barberini said, adding that it’s unclear whether the shooting was a domestic violence incident.
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re: #110 Anymouse 🌹
I saw that report earlier, I wondered if this superseded it or was new info
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Jack Posobiec
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@JackPosobiec
Alyssa Milano pushes fake conspiracy theory that YouTube HQ shooter was inspiried by an NRA videoAfter @YouTube said it’ll ban content related to the sale or assembly of #firearms or firearms accessories, @NRAILA’s @ChrisCoxNRA released a statement slamming the move as political posturing. @stinchfield1776 agrees and says #NRA members must rise up in the face of censorship. pic.twitter.com/Zt7ZGKYl3p
— NRATV (@NRATV) March 27, 2018
If @NRA or @NRATv were run by brown or black people, it would be labeled a terrorist organization with hate propaganda programming that incites violence. https://t.co/xnSyKXP8yk
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 3, 2018
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What a surprise!! Posobiec completely misrepresents Milano’s comment. If you are a Trump supporter, the assumption must always be that you are totally dishonest and deceptive.
California bill would force Twitter and Facebook to identify bots and deal with them within three dayshttps://t.co/pQULFbSczP via @engadget
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 4, 2018
Jason Heap, who has a degree in theology from Oxford University, has been rejected a second time applying to be an atheist chaplain for the US Navy.
newsweek.com
(Goes to Newsweek magazine, with video and text)
Forty-five Republican representatives and twenty-two Republican senators sent letters to the Chief of Naval Operations (the top military officer in the US Navy) and the Secretary of the Navy (the civilian in charge of the Department of the Navy) urging his rejection. They claimed it would “fundamentally change the mission of the Chaplaincy Corps.” (Hint: no it wouldn’t.)
Mr. Heap had applied in 2013, but was rejected only a few days after the US Army accepted humanism as a religious position. He sued for discrimination from the Department of Defense.
The Secular Coalition for America noted that it was reprehensible for members of Congress to expend so much energy to insert themselves into the decision making processes of the US Navy.
That said, discrimination against atheists by conservatives and Christians is still alive and well in this country.
It is unclear whether he will seek a legal remedy to Republicans meddling in his accession as a chaplain.
re: #106 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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FYI, today’s Google Doodle, for Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday, is excellent. :)
Scott Walker is a typical conservative in Wisconsin. No class at all. Doesn’t congratulate the winner, spreads his conservafilth about angry leftists instead and then grifts his gullible base of fucktards for more money. Human garbage.
re: #38 Skip Intro
“Every word he says is a lie, including “and” and “the” said somebody famous about someone other than Trump.
Mary McCarthy said it about Lillian Hellman.
This led to a defamation suit, but Lillian died before it ever got to court and the case was dropped.
Somebody be snooping cellular communications in DC. We better be Russian’ to find out who it is.
re: #49 calochortus
I suppose, if you want to call Mojave an urban area…
It will be, someday, when they build the spaceport.
re: #116 scottslemmons
FYI, today’s Google Doodle, for Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday, is excellent. :)
Indeed. We can only try to hold back the tide of conservatism trying to reverse the gains since Ms. Angelou’s days of Jim Crow.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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By all means, keep framing this as an impending Blue Wave.
23 Wisconsin counties voted for Obama in 2012 & Trump in 2016. Rebecca Dallet won 15 of them today (10 by double-digits, the largest by 25%).
— Taniel (@Taniel) April 4, 2018
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹
Jason Heap, who has a degree in theology from Oxford University, has been rejected a second time applying to be an atheist chaplain for the US Navy.
newsweek.com
(Goes to Newsweek magazine, with video and text)Forty-five Republican representatives and twenty-two Republican senators sent letters to the Chief of Naval Operations (the top military officer in the US Navy) and the Secretary of the Navy (the civilian in charge of the Department of the Navy) urging his rejection. They claimed it would “fundamentally change the mission of the Chaplaincy Corps.” (Hint: no it wouldn’t.)
Mr. Heap had applied in 2013, but was rejected only a few days after the US Army accepted humanism as a religious position. He sued for discrimination from the Department of Defense.
The Secular Coalition for America noted that it was reprehensible for members of Congress to expend so much energy to insert themselves into the decision making processes of the US Navy.
That said, discrimination against atheists by conservatives and Christians is still alive and well in this country.
It is unclear whether he will seek a legal remedy to Republicans meddling in his accession as a chaplain.
I don’t really care if an atheist wants to be a chaplain, but wouldn’t an atheist chaplain just be another name for a therapist?
re: #124 retired cynic
I believe that is called buyer’s remorse.
Let us hope the trend continues. It is still unfortunate that there are 8 counties that went for Obama and then Trump and continue to support the conservative. On the other hand, we don’t know how much of this reflects continuing statewide voter suppression.
Supreme Court Rules for Police Officer in Excessive Force Case https://t.co/mvZFAthIEE
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) April 3, 2018
Read Justice Sotomayor’s dissent and remember she is a former city prosecutor. She is not anti-police. She knows that qualified immunity has gone too far & and now functions at cross-purpose to the protections of the Fourth Amendment. https://t.co/TZL2GyaFG9
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) April 3, 2018
BREAKING: Just spoke to the father of Nasim Aghdam. He says his daughter had been missing for several days. When cops found her in NorCal last night, he warned them she was angry with YouTube. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/mgCw9ivqos
— Tina Patel (@tina_patel) April 4, 2018
I’ve made it through Dark Shadows episode 500. Only 745 to go.
re: #125 danarchy
I don’t really care if an atheist wants to be a chaplain, but wouldn’t an atheist chaplain just be another name for a therapist?
The purpose of the Chaplaincy Corps is to provide “spiritual guidance” for those who ask for it, and emotional support for military members and their families.
The argument from Republicans is a humanist chaplain cannot provide spiritual support, claiming it would fundamentally change the mission of the corps.
This is incorrect. For example, there are a lot of Evangelicals in the Chaplain Corps. Say there is a Catholic who wishes to have the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick administered, or partake of the Eucharist while in hospital. This would be an inappropriate function for an Evangelical to fill (unless the Archdiocese of Military Services has approved that chaplain).
In that event, the Evangelical chaplain would find another chaplain who can perform those functions. (The same would apply to the Jewish chaplains or the Muslim chaplain in the Navy.)
A chaplain also provides simple human support. For example, when I was awaiting surgery at the Cheyenne VA, the Catholic chaplain came round to my bedside. Since he had a clipboard of all the patients he was to see that day, he knew I was an atheist.
He simply asked me if there was anything I wanted to talk about before surgery, or if there was any family or friends he could contact on my behalf.
That’s what chaplains do. The religious aspect of the job is a facet, but it is not the only facet.
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹
Serious inquiry: What an exactly would an Atheist Chaplain do? Comfort and counsel sailors who do not hold a belief in God?
re: #129 Single-handed sailor
I’ve made it through Dark Shadows episode 500. Only 745 to go.
I made it into the 800’s back in the 90’s, when they were showing the series on Sci-Fi and I was in college. I would watch a pair of episodes every day between classes. They didn’t have the first 200 or so episodes then, but I’ve since watched those as well.
re: #132 KingKenrod
I caught the first 300 back in 2012 on Netflix. I found the rest on Amazon Prime 2 months ago.
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
Serious inquiry: What an exactly would an Atheist Chaplain do? Comfort and counsel sailors who do not hold a belief in God?
Didn’t realize this had already been asked. Thanks for the info, Anymouse.
It’s not getting a lot of attention tonight, but Judge Rebecca Dallet ran an aggressively anti-NRA campaign and won decisively. Here’s a tweet series she wrote near the end of February where she slammed Screnock for being endorsed by the NRA. We can beat the NRA. Count on it. pic.twitter.com/PhbHY5twsh
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) April 4, 2018
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
Serious inquiry: What an exactly would an Atheist Chaplain do? Comfort and counsel sailors who do not hold a belief in God?
Comfort and counsel everyone in the command. In addition, do the other things chaplains do, such as contact relatives, help service members with personal issues, &c. If the issue is of a religious nature that the chaplain cannot answer, that chaplain would do the same as my hypothetical Evangelical or Jew dealing with a Catholic (direct the person to someone who can help, or get that person).
As it turns out, atheists serve in the military in about the same percentage as they appear in the populace-at-large. Conservatives seem to think the military should be atheist-free (or at least atheists should be in the closet). Hence GHW Bush’s statement about atheists not being patriotic nor should they be citizens.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
Didn’t realize this had already been asked. Thanks for the info, Anymouse.
Essentially, the GOP reps and senators involved in putting political pressure on the Navy Department are trying to force the Navy to ignore I Amendment freedom of religion rights.
re: #135 JordanRules
Grr… . back to being “rate-limited” from Twitter … can’t read the tweet series.
One final piece of election news, and it too is good: Anchorage, Alaska has rejected a proposition to allow “any employer, public accommodation, or other person to establish and enforce sex-specific standards or policies concerning access to intimate facilities such as locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, and restrooms” by a 54-46 margin. In addition, Democratic Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has been handily reelected.
My wife and I will be in Denver for an international conference from August 30 to September 3. The conference is in the Brown Palace Hotel. (The last time we went, in 2013, we stayed at a different, much cheaper hotel, though used the Brown Palace’s valet parking service. The valets all fought over the right to park our Smart car.)
This time we’ll be staying at the Brown Palace, as I spent all our money and hocked our house to get a room there. My wife, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Chez Tumbleweed, is scheduling my execution. /s
(She is trying to work the conference in with our planned road trip to Yukon. That’s pretty close to Denver.)
re: #129 Single-handed sailor
I’ve made it through Dark Shadows episode 500. Only 745 to go.
If you make it through the last hundred or so, it’ll be a miracle. The show ran out of gas around there.
re: #140 Brian J.
The interesting part of the Anchorage election is that they are the first Alaska community to use mail-in ballots along with regular poling places. With a 23% turnout it seems like the effort was not very successful.
re: #143 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If you make it through the last hundred or so, it’ll be a miracle. The show ran out of gas around there.
My sister was a big fanatic of Dark Shadows when it first aired - she’d head straight for the television to catch it.
My grandmother eventually banned her from watching it because it caused her nightmares.
re: #138 Ferdinand
From waaay downstairs: we have a new, very thick-shelled hatchling.
*waves hello *
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
My sister was a big fanatic of Dark Shadows when it first aired - she’d head straight for the television to catch it.
My grandmother eventually banned her from watching it because it caused her nightmares.
I was in a similar situation — minus the nightmares. It was too campy to be nightmare-inducing.
re: #144 Cheechako
The interesting part of the Anchorage election is that they are the first Alaska community to use mail-in ballots along with regular poling places. With a 23% turnout it seems like the effort was not very successful.
Hmmm.
Considering my state has routine 80%+ turnouts with the same system, that might reflect a couple things.
a) It might take some time to improve voter participation.
b) Conservative voter turnout was depressed (as it was in Wisconsin tonight).
re: #146 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
From waaay downstairs: we have a new, very thick-shelled hatchling.
Hi!
Question: Why is it called “downstairs” when such comments are always up my page? Does my computer display upside-down?
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹
I’ll keep an eye out for any local analysis of the mail-in ballot situation and will report if I find anything. Mail-in ballots seem like a good system for Alaska with all our remote communities.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹
Charles layers posts one on top of the other, hence “downstairs”’refers to comments and discussions from a lower level.
This is how you deal with enemies… pic.twitter.com/IHMswMkUB3
— Mickey Bitsko (@BitskoMickey) April 4, 2018
Just checked the Anchorage Daily News. Looks like there are many more ballots yet to be counted so the participation may increase.
High turnout in Anchorage’s first vote-by-mail election, with many ballots still to count
re: #6 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The difference is, Nixon had enough self-awareness to resign before being impeached. The Donald will not resign; he will have to be impeached and convicted, and even then, he may not leave office peaceably. I wonder what will happen to this country if it comes to this.
30% will still believe that he was unjustly hounded out of office.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹
That was what was used to indicate previous threads when I got here. Who am I to question tradition?
re: #125 danarchy
I don’t really care if an atheist wants to be a chaplain, but wouldn’t an atheist chaplain just be another name for a therapist?
one can be an atheist and still have questions relating to morality and faith, just from a non-believing perspective
re: #129 Single-handed sailor
I’ve made it through Dark Shadows episode 500. Only 745 to go.
I musta watched around 100-odd episodes back when I was a kid and it aired on ABC(?)
re: #146 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Heh. Thanks! I’ve been a hard core lurker so long I remember well the great Kerning episode of the aughts.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹
My sister was a big fanatic of Dark Shadows when it first aired - she’d head straight for the television to catch it.
My grandmother eventually banned her from watching it because it caused her nightmares.
yes, I also had nightmares over it
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I musta watched around 100-odd episodes back when I was a kid and it aired on ABC(?)
Me too, and I hated it then but there was literally nothing else on TV at that time.
re: #163 Single-handed sailor
Me too, and I hated it then but there was literally nothing else on TV at that time.
certainly on daytime TV, cannot say that I ever watched any other soap opera
re: #127 JordanRules
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Disturbing in light of what happened to Stephon Clarke. It gives police officers carte blanche to shoot first and ask questions much later.
re: #165 Patricia Kayden
Disturbing in light of what happened to Stephon Clarke. It gives police officers carte blanche to shoot first and ask questions much later.
This is another consequence of sending our police out to deal with a heavily armed populace in which they just about have to assume that any confrontation is potentially life-threatening.
Current RWNJ talking point:
The shooter wasn’t a member of the NRA, rendering them perfectly innocent in every way, shape, and form.
re: #167 Kragar
Current RWNJ talking point:
The shooter wasn’t a member of the NRA, rendering them perfectly innocent in every way, shape, and form.
If the shooter had been Wayne LaPierre himself, they would have found a way to distance themselves…
So, just watched s2e1 of Legion, WTF? I have to rewatch it cause wtf.
re: #170 wheat-dogg
Why?
I look back at it as an amazing work of art. A story that took 435 hours to tell. They did this in 21 minute-a-day pieces, almost every weekday, for 6 years. There was little time for retakes, and bloopers abound. It is the Dr Who of daytime soaps.
LIVE NOW: @SpaceX’s #Dragon cargo vehicle is approaching @Space_Station to deliver a ~5,800 pounds of cargo and scientific experiments. Watch: https://t.co/ZuxLDtRxxM pic.twitter.com/kkI0apchrT
— NASA (@NASA) April 4, 2018
re: #171 Single-handed sailor
I look back at it as an amazing work of art. A story that took 435 hours to tell. They did this in 21 minute-a-day pieces, almost every weekday, for 6 years. There was little time for retakes, and bloopers abound. It is the Dr Who of daytime soaps.
I ask because I remember it was on TV in the afternoons about the time I came home from school, but it never caught my attention. Maybe I watched one episode because kids at school were talking about Barnabas and how cool he was, but my reaction was: meh. Judging from the Wikipedia article, I would have been about 10 or 11 at the time.
re: #173 wheat-dogg
I ask because I remember it was on TV in the afternoons about the time I came home from school, but it never caught my attention. Maybe I watched one episode because kids at school were talking about Barnabas and how cool he was, but my reaction was: meh. Judging from the Wikipedia article, I would have been about 10 or 11 at the time.
Then we are about the same age, I recall watching it with the neighborhood kids, we had a color set which made our place a big attraction.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is another consequence of sending our police out to deal with a heavily armed populace in which they just about have to assume that any confrontation is potentially life-threatening.
1. Victim had a kitchen knife held to her side
2. Victim was not gesturing or making threatening movements
3. Victim was not near or approaching the officers
4. The person ostensibly protected by the shooting, testified that she did not feel threatened
5. The other officers did not open fire
This ruling pretty much confirms that an officer could shoot you through your window while you prepped dinner and get away with it. At the discretion of the officer, BBQing is now apparently a capital offense punishable by summary execution.
re: #176 Single-handed sailor
Bloomberg had live coverage of a press conference with the Chinese trade minister. China be pissed.
Recapping what we know so far about China’s plan for tariffs on $50 billion of U.S. products https://t.co/rUWIp7cW2r pic.twitter.com/yAiiwHLa5j
— Bloomberg (@business) April 4, 2018
Briefing feed: bloomberg.com
re: #176 Single-handed sailor
I’m glad I pulled all my money out of investments a while ago…
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minus 600 as I type this.
Yet 40%+ of Americans support the sh*tgibbon.
re: #177 Weaselone
1. Victim had a kitchen knife held to her side
2. Victim was not gesturing or making threatening movements
3. Victim was not near or approaching the officers
4. The person ostensibly protected by the shooting, testified that she did not feel threatened
5. The other officers did not open fireThis ruling pretty much confirms that an officer could shoot you through your window while you prepped dinner and get away with it. At the discretion of the officer, BBQing is now apparently a capital offense punishable by summary execution.
Granted, this particular case is an extreme one. I was referring to an overall climate that makes routine police work dangerous and leads to a mentality that sees threats where they do not exist.
The other issue is in the system of how police officers are investigated in such cases. A district attorney is accustomed to working regularly with police officers to obtain indictments and convictions; asking them to work against police is tantamount to a conflict of interest…
re: #179 Lupin
minus 600 as I type this.
Yet 40%+ of Americans support the sh*tgibbon.
they think that trade wars are winnable
they think that electing someone with no background in government or public service is a good thing
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they think that trade wars are winnable
they think that electing someone with no background in government or public service is a good thing
re: #179 Lupin
minus 600 as I type this.
Yet 40%+ of Americans support the sh*tgibbon.
A global trade war could very well bring on another global recession, because of the snowballing effects. Bloomberg’s reporting emerging markets are especially hard hit.
re: #182 wheat-dogg
Though I would add that the scaling of this graph shows roughly a 20 point decline, or 1.7%. So, maybe not especially scary — yet.
re: #178 wheat-dogg
Bloomberg had live coverage of a press conference with the Chinese trade minister. China be pissed.
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Donald Trump is the Michael Jordan of political nicknameshttps://t.co/z5HD9HE8qj
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 3, 2018
Chris Cillizza is the Nickelback of political analysis. https://t.co/XAfahb4eKd
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) April 3, 2018
re: #182 wheat-dogg
A global trade war could very well bring on another global recession, because of the snowballing effects. Bloomberg’s reporting emerging markets are especially hard hit.
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I have about 50% of my assets invested in the US, but I would gladly lose half of it if it is what it takes to shake the dimwit electorate back to its senses, GRAPES OF WRATH redux.
re: #184 Targetpractice
Begun, the Trade War has.
Analysts in Hong Kong say this is just China firing a warning shot over Trump’s bow. If he knuckles under, a trade war may be averted. If he continues his bluster, the game is on.
re: #186 Lupin
I have about 50% of my assets invested in the US, but I would gladly lose half of it if it is what it takes to shake the dimwit electorate back to its senses, GRAPES OF WRATH redux.
The Republicans will find a way to blame it on Obama, or Hillary, or that surprised Easter Bunny standing next to the Sim-in-Chief and First Lady Sim.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
Analysts in Hong Kong say this is just China firing a warning shot over Trump’s bow. If he knuckles under, a trade war may be averted. If he continues his bluster, the game is on.
He won’t knuckle under, his ego won’t allow that to happen. He’ll take this announcement as the go signal to ratchet up the rhetoric and hit China with further tariffs. Perhaps even banning certain Chinese products altogether, with some bullshit argument about “safety concerns.”
I don’t know if China or Trump will win that bout, but there’s a surefire winner in all this: Putin.
I can’t quite believe Caligula takes his orders direct from Putin, but honestly, if he was, how could he be more effective?
So much winning
Fears of full trade war return to batter stocks, sending U.S. stock futures tumbling and sinking European and Asian equities https://t.co/cLjUXN1Vts pic.twitter.com/MHUy8Wj89U
— Bloomberg (@business) April 4, 2018
re: #191 wheat-dogg
So much winning
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re: #189 Targetpractice
He won’t knuckle under, his ego won’t allow that to happen. He’ll take this announcement as the go signal to ratchet up the rhetoric and hit China with further tariffs. Perhaps even banning certain Chinese products altogether, with some bullshit argument about “safety concerns.”
I agree, and there is no one left in the White House to dissuade him from such a response.
re: #193 wheat-dogg
I agree, and there is no one left in the White House to dissuade him from such a response.
Trade wars have in the past often been the herald of real wars. Before 1914 the Germans became convinced that Britain and France would turn their Empires into protected areas restricting German exports. The decision by the US government to ban scrap metal being exported to Japan led to Pearl Harbour. A trade war is just like any war once the first shot is fired the law of unforseen consequences takes over.
Seems like just what Bannon wanted: burn the whole thing down, creative destruction.
re: #187 wheat-dogg
Analysts in Hong Kong say this is just China firing a warning shot over Trump’s bow. If he knuckles under, a trade war may be averted. If he continues his bluster, the game is on.
whatever happens, he will insist that he was the winner and his supporters will hit us with tons of bluster about how and why we won the war
re: #194 Lupin
Trade wars have in the past often been the herald of real wars. Before 1914 the Germans became convinced that Britain and France would turn their Empires into protected areas restricting German exports. The decision by the US government to ban scrap metal being exported to Japan led to Pearl Harbour. A trade war is just like any war once the first shot is fired the law of unforseen consequences takes over.
I’m just getting into The Wages of Destruction, but wasn’t a trade war also a cause of WWII as well?
re: #195 Barefoot Grin
Seems like just what Bannon wanted: burn the whole thing down, creative destruction.
The only Trump supporters I could begin to understand (although not at all agree with) were the ones who simply said that since the world economy was bound to collapse anyways, it was best to just elect Trump and get it over with so we can start rebuilding.
Though this was funny:
re: #194 Lupin
Trade wars have in the past often been the herald of real wars. Before 1914 the Germans became convinced that Britain and France would turn their Empires into protected areas restricting German exports. The decision by the US government to ban scrap metal being exported to Japan led to Pearl Harbour. A trade war is just like any war once the first shot is fired the law of unforseen consequences takes over.
It wasn’t the scrap metal so much as the blockade that kept fuel oil from getting to Japan; they have little or no fossil fuels of their own.
Scott Walker is nervous
Wow Scott, looks like your clarion call for WI GOP volunteers is working…
“Reporting for duty,
Mr. Walker sir!” pic.twitter.com/FmeFUe9Ve5— Pete LOL (@That_LOL_Pete) April 4, 2018
re: #200 sagehen
It wasn’t the scrap metal so much as the blockade that kept fuel oil from getting to Japan; they have little or no fossil fuels of their own.
That too; true.
re: #200 sagehen
It wasn’t the scrap metal so much as the blockade that kept fuel oil from getting to Japan; they have little or no fossil fuels of their own.
And they didn’t desire direct war with America, they just wanted to secure sufficient resources for their war in China. They knew that any war with the US was an economic one, that for every ship they sunk America would build 5 more. The attack on Pearl was about tipping the balance in favor of a negotiated peace. Adm. Yamamoto’s plan was to cripple the US Navy long enough for the Japanese Army to seize and dig in to most of the Pacific isles, making a negotiated peace preferable to a very long and bloody campaign to eject them.
re: #200 sagehen
It wasn’t the scrap metal so much as the blockade that kept fuel oil from getting to Japan; they have little or no fossil fuels of their own.
I thought they were just after our White Women…
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China hints at reducing purchases of US treasuries.
The U.S. can’t afford to see weaker demand for its debt. With budget deficits rising in coming years because of the tax cuts, the Treasury will have to sell more securities.
re: #201 Dave In Austin
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Christopher Balding, associate professor of business and economics at the HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, reckons China has a clear warning to America — back down over trade, or else…
Quick hot take on the the US and Chinese lists of tariffs today. 1. US list appears to be chosen to diffuse the tariffs across a wide variety of products. I saw one number that the largest individual import on the list was a little over a billion USD. Conversely Chinese list 1/n
— Eternal Emperor Balding (@BaldingsWorld) April 4, 2018
The moron in chief speaks:
Quick hot take on the the US and Chinese lists of tariffs today. 1. US list appears to be chosen to diffuse the tariffs across a wide variety of products. I saw one number that the largest individual import on the list was a little over a billion USD. Conversely Chinese list 1/n
— Eternal Emperor Balding (@BaldingsWorld) April 4, 2018
We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
The latest Bible study guide for Trump administration officials, including EPA’s Scott Pruitt, declares that it’s unbiblical to think mankind’s actions could destroy the earth, rails against the “religion of Radical Environmentalism” https://t.co/WDiMpWm5vS
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 3, 2018
re: #207 Lupin
Christopher Balding, associate professor of business and economics at the HSBC Business School in Shenzhen, reckons China has a clear warning to America — back down over trade, or else…
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It’s a fair assessment, particularly if one believes Trump’s motivation behind the steel and aluminum tariffs is primarily to force China to the bargaining table. Beijing is making it clear that if there will be negotiations, it will be on their terms and not his. So he can either back down now or be forced into submission.
re: #210 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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I’ll agree to a point, humans can’t destroy the Earth. On a cosmic scale, even a full nuclear exchange would only render the planet uninhabitable for a short period. To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, life will find a way. Even if that means that all that remains are bacteria in thermal vents, life will continue and eventually the Earth will heal itself.
Humans? We’re not special, we could totally wipe ourselves out tomorrow and the planet will keep turning.
re: #213 Targetpractice
I’ll agree to a point, humans can’t destroy the Earth. On a cosmic scale, even a full nuclear exchange would only render the planet uninhabitable for a short period. To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, life will find a way. Even if that means that all that remains are bacteria in thermal vents, life will continue and eventually the Earth will heal itself.
Humans? We’re not special, we could totally wipe ourselves out tomorrow and the planet will keep turning.
The extremes of both sides of the issue are given to hyperbole: We’re not destroying the planet because humanity doesn’t possess control of that level of power, but we’re also not safe because some unknowable deity has some grand plan that we cannot hope to alter.
Our ability to alter our environment to ensure habitability for our species is dependent on science and engineering, the very realms that also give us the ability to understand that our actions are having a net negative effect on the long-term habitability of the planet. Enforcing ignorance in favor of religious dogma is not going to make the problem go away, it’s just going to shorten the period of time we have before we alter our habitat so severely that we cannot sustain it.
Because with a little digging you’ll find out that Trumpians in Congress have been trying for years to starve the Post Office out of existence. I think @DarrellIssa has been on this vanguard for awhile.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) April 4, 2018
re: #217 Dave In Austin
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I’m still getting a laugh out of wingnuts celebrating about Mueller’s filing saying Trump isn’t a “target” but a “subject.” Particularly considering they spent the better part of two years arguing if you were in any way associated with a criminal investigation, you were under investigation for criminal acts.
Day before Easter, management scheduled 2 people. On almost any Saturday, and almost any day before a holiday, we have three. Day before Easter was both, and it almost caused me to have a seizure.
I left a somewhat…annoyed note with management, nothing harsher than “The scheduling almost caused me to have a seizure”.
Management pulled me aside to yell at me, telling me I need to learn to handle my stress better if it causes me to have seizures, among other bullshit.
Isn’t mass market retail awesome?
re: #220 Targetpractice
I’m still getting a laugh out of wingnuts celebrating about Mueller’s filing saying Trump isn’t a “target” but a “subject.” Particularly considering they spent the better part of two years arguing if you were in any way associated with a criminal investigation, you were under investigation for criminal acts.
No target not a target you’re the target
re: #178 wheat-dogg
Bloomberg had live coverage of a press conference with the Chinese trade minister. China be pissed.
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Waiting for China to play their “Trump” Card—refusing to buy any more US Treasury securities to finance the Republican red ink.
re: #122 Mike Lamb
By all means, keep framing this as an impending Blue Wave.
This is a tactic that I don’t understand. Why do people who are against something; like Walker is against a Blue Wave, link in a twitter thread for something that is Pro Blue Wave? Is it something that I am missing in the social media thing, or is it just dumbassery?
argle bargle
Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong. Congress must change these Obama era, and other, laws NOW! The Democrats stand in our way - they want people to pour into our country unchecked….CRIME! We will be taking strong action today.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
re: #223 Joe Bacon 🌹
Waiting for China to play their “Trump” Card—refusing to buy any more US Treasury securities to finance the Republican red ink.
If that happens, then the stock market will resemble the death plunge of the Titanic.
Burn baby burn. pic.twitter.com/nRfEeLNBPS
— jamie (@gnuman1979) April 4, 2018
re: #205 Lupin
China hints at reducing purchases of US treasuries.
The U.S. can’t afford to see weaker demand for its debt. With budget deficits rising in coming years because of the tax cuts, the Treasury will have to sell more securities.
This is what I’ve been predicting. The next step—China dumps their Treasury notes.
Trade War Status, 5:43am PDT update. pic.twitter.com/5ftkgZO5fw
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) April 4, 2018
re: #210 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Oh, them Pulpit Pimps in for a nasty awakening when their dreams of an Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland go up in smoke…
re: #231 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh, them Pulpit Pimps in for a nasty awakening when their dreams of an Ayn Randian Laissez Fairyland go up in smoke…
They’ll just move on to the next step: Raiding SS and Medicare for funds, labeling such “reform.”
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
argle bargle
Thought it had been at least a day since the yam fear mongered about immigration and the border.
re: #232 Targetpractice
They’ll just move on to the next step: Raiding SS and Medicare for funds, labeling such “reform.”
And the brainwashed marks will continue to vote Republican because their Pulpit Pimps will tell them to blame Obama.
Finally did that Facebook political thing. Liberal. Yep that describes me pretty well as I identify as a moderate liberal.
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
argle bargle
So, “Congress” must change these laws NOW, but “he” will be taking action today.
These tweets from Fox and Friends don’t make any sense.
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re: #221 I cannot.
Day before Easter, management scheduled 2 people. On almost any Saturday, and almost any day before a holiday, we have three. Day before Easter was both, and it almost caused me to have a seizure.
I left a somewhat…annoyed note with management, nothing harsher than “The scheduling almost caused me to have a seizure”.
Management pulled me aside to yell at me, telling me I need to learn to handle my stress better if it causes me to have seizures, among other bullshit.
Isn’t mass market retail awesome?
The only management practice at my last two jobs more frustrating has been blatant favoritism in scheduling. Namely the one employee who is constantly taking time off, not for family or medical reasons, but because management never denies their requests. The result so often was everybody else getting worked to death to fill in the gaps in the schedule, stoking resentment towards that employee in particular and management in general. Particularly when the holidays come around and that employee suddenly disappears to attend family functions, while the rest of us consider ourselves lucky if we draw a schedule that allows us a few hours with family between shifts.
I watched Dr. Shrinker and Scooby Doo after school.
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong
Can you be more specific? Which laws?
Caught red-handed. @guardian @carolecadwalla pic.twitter.com/68awiYZYOj
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 4, 2018
Thanks Nige. I’ve never written a word about you supposedly passing a thumb drive to @JulianAssange, but whatevs. Always interesting when the rebuttal precedes the story… https://t.co/GBBgbehUOX
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 4, 2018
re: #128 JordanRules
The replies to that Tweet are batshit insane.
Daft mole creature pulled out from his lair Wilbur Ross squawks on CNBC:
China’s tariffs “amount to about three-tenths of a percent of our GDP. So, it’s hardly a life-threatening activity. It’s relatively proportionate to the tariffs we put on based on the intellectual property.
It’s like that scene from BLAZING SADDLES where the Sheriff holds himself hostage by threatening to shoot that n***.
re: #243 Lupin
Daft mole creature pulled out from his lair Wilbur Ross squawks on CNBC:
It’s like that scene from BLAZING SADDLES where the Sheriff holds himself hostage by threatening to shoot that n***.
It’s the part in the movie where the overconfident villain convinces himself that he’s in the clear because there’s no possible way that things can get any worse for him.
Wilbur Ross responds to Chinese retaliatory tariffs: “I’m a little surprised that Wall Street is surprised” https://t.co/ZazHAI5rmu
— Axios (@axios) April 4, 2018
March 7: ‘We’re not looking for a trade war’ Wilbur Ross
April 4: “ I’m a little surprised that Wall Street is surprised about the trade war” https://t.co/7hM7qzeJTr— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) April 4, 2018
re: #242 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The replies to that Tweet are batshit insane.
From people telling us not to politicize all the school shootings, no doubt.
re: #244 Targetpractice
It’s the part in the movie where the overconfident villain convinces himself that he’s in the clear because there’s no possible way that things can get any worse for him.
Trump is good simile of Governor Le Petomane. And Jared is Hedley Lamarr?
Fox & Friends just now on Trump’s trade war:
1) “I love that he’s doing this”
2) “I support President Trump’s hard stand”
3) “He is good at this. He is great at this.”
4) “The president is on your side” pic.twitter.com/uo9YUM9Kw6— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 4, 2018
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Because higher priced consumer goods don’t impact those out of touch assholes. Fox and Friends is basically a jack off Trump show and tell him he’s great.
re: #125 danarchy
I don’t really care if an atheist wants to be a chaplain, but wouldn’t an atheist chaplain just be another name for a therapist?
They were essentially counselors. When I talked to them, religion wasn’t brought up. It was more of a therapy type thing.
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If I though for a moment that Trump’s “base” had two brain cells between them, I’d hope that this would wake them up to the fact that they’d been duped and these jackasses are celebrating their impending economic doom.
But I don’t, so I’m convinced that that “base” will instead nod along and assure themselves that this trade war is actually “good” for them as it wipes out their Wealthcare “raises” and potentially their jobs in the coming months.
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tomorrow on immigration:
1) “I love that he’s doing this”
2) “I support President Trump’s hard stand”
3) “He is good at this. He is great at this.”
4) “The president is on your side”
Friday on transgender military ban:
1) “I love that he’s doing this”
2) “I support President Trump’s hard stand”
3) “He is good at this. He is great at this.”
4) “The president is on your side”
Firing Scott Pruitt Will Only Embolden the Left https://t.co/G8Qa6eqDeJ pic.twitter.com/tuwIBmxl4l
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 4, 2018
Keep the corrupt guy on the payroll to own the libs https://t.co/ObP88WUQFn
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 4, 2018
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Erick, Son of Erick makes (effectively) same argument that was made for every guy that Trump shitcanned via Twitter on a Friday afternoon. It didn’t save a single on of their asses.
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
“If Trump fires Pruitt the terrorists win.”
re: #252 Sir John Barron
Tomorrow on immigration:
1) “I love that he’s doing this”
2) “I support President Trump’s hard stand”
3) “He is good at this. He is great at this.”
4) “The president is on your side”Friday on transgender military ban:
1) “I love that he’s doing this”
2) “I support President Trump’s hard stand”
3) “He is good at this. He is great at this.”
4) “The president is on your side”
“But enough from us. Let’s get an alternative view. Newt?”
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Remember when Erick acted like he was anti Trump and putting country above ideology. That was a hoot. Pruitt is corrupt. He should go. And Erick you asshole, “the left” is part of this country too. We breathe the same air that Pruitt is trying to make more acceptable for big corps to pollute.
“I am nervous about what appears to be a growing trend in the administration to levy tariffs,” McConnell said. “This is a slippery slope, so my hope is that this will stop before it gets into a broader tit-for-tat that can’t be good for our country.” https://t.co/lTeXrqsb0Q
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) April 4, 2018
Doesn’t watch Fox & Friends—> https://t.co/wzu0Y5lya1
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 4, 2018
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s trade war is going over like a lead balloon as people are just beginning to realize what a cockup this whole thing is for flyover country.
$50 billion in tariffs are being waved off by none other than Commerce Secretary and wannabe Dr. Evil henchman Wilbur Ross, who thinks people wont notice that their products are suddenly a lot more expensive and that they wont be able to sell their goods overseas because they’re now a lot more expensive compared to goods from other countries.
This hits products like farm goods particularly hard, and that’s on top of the tariffs Trump imposed on imported steel and aluminum. Ross said at that time that people wouldn’t notice a few hundred bucks more in the cost of a car (which would wipe out whatever tax scam gain you were being misled to believe you got).
Here’s a simpler, better-labeled chart making the same point. pic.twitter.com/4GtmSc3w1O
— Ernie Tedeschi (@ernietedeschi) April 3, 2018
The majority of Americans are seeing little gain from the tax scam, and that’s even if you set up your withholding perfectly. Throw in higher health care costs, and the odds are you’d never notice the change.
Also, Trump continues attacking Amazon. It’s everything Trump isn’t. Bezos is successful without having inherited his real estate fortune. He’s far richer than Trump ever inflated his worth to be, and now owns the WaPo, which is doing serious investigative journalism into Trumpworld criminality.
That’s why Trump is lying nonstop about what Amazon is doing and why he is claiming that the company is fleecing the government (it isn’t).
Trump is attacking Amazon because Bezos owns the Washington Post. That’s why he’s going after Amazon.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2018
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Gee Mitch, maybe if you actually listened to the candidate you supported.
re: #260 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s trade war is going over like a lead balloon as people are just beginning to realize what a cockup this whole thing is for flyover country.
$50 billion in tariffs are being waved off by none other than Commerce Secretary and wannabe Dr. Evil henchman Wilbur Ross, who thinks people wont notice that their products are suddenly a lot more expensive and that they wont be able to sell their goods overseas because they’re now a lot more expensive compared to goods from other countries.
This hits products like farm goods particularly hard, and that’s on top of the tariffs Trump imposed on imported steel and aluminum. Ross said at that time that people wouldn’t notice a few hundred bucks more in the cost of a car (which would wipe out whatever tax scam gain you were being misled to believe you got).
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Bezos also provides a product everyone uses from my niece to my grandmother. Trump and Ross are out of touch. That should be part of the ads this November and beyond.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
Gee Mitch, maybe if you actually listened to the candidate you supported.
Still supports.
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey Mitch, if you’re so worried about the negative effects of tariffs, then how’s about you and Zombie-eyed Granny Starver call a pow-wow in Congress and…I don’t know…pass legislation to limit or bar the White House from levying tariffs? Just a thought, but that piece of parchment you lot wipe your asses with regularly does say the power to levy taxes is in your ball court, not Trump’s.
re: #265 Targetpractice
Hey Mitch, if you’re so worried about the negative effects of tariffs, then how’s about you and Zombie-eyed Granny Starver call a pow-wow in Congress and…I don’t know…pass legislation to limit or bar the White House from levying tariffs? Just a thought, but that piece of parchment you lot wipe your asses with regularly does say the power to levy taxes is in your ball court, not Trump’s.
Yep.
An objective observer might suppose Trump is actually trying to undermine the American economy given all the counter productive decisions and being beholden to an enemy on the world stage.
But is there are any of those they are likely orbiting the planet in a starship spending their days ROFL.
California and Amazon are two bright spots on the economy, coal is literally a drag on the economy.
Yet Trump picks fights mainly with the best of us, and allies with the worst.
re: #267 Unshaken Defiance
An objective observer might suppose Trump is actually trying to undermine the American economy given all the counter productive decisions and being beholden to an enemy on the world stage.
But is there are any of those they are likely orbiting the planet in a starship spending their days ROFL.
It does make you wonder. Eventually his mismanagement is going to fuck us. And tbh I don’t ever want to be lectured by conservatives again about their “superior knowledge” of economics or why we should just run the country like a business and how we need more businessmen.
*THUD*
When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
re: #268 Unshaken Defiance
California and Amazon are two bright spots on the economy, coal is literally a drag on the economy.
Yet Trump picks fights mainly with the best of us, and allies with the worst.
The bottom describes him perfectly man.
Trump’s ignorance knows no bounds (nor does his lies). These are two tweets from today - separated by nearly two hours:
We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
That’s not how any of this works. Trade war will cost consumers more and it wont show up in the trade balance. We buy more stuff from China than we sell to them because it’s cheaper to buy crap from them. Trump knows this. Why? Because he has his own clothing line made in China and imported to the US instead of having it made in the US. He wanted to pocket the profits.
Ivanka does the same thing. Her crap is made overseas, and she’s been slapped with infringement suits over designs that she took from other manufacturers to boot (literally - the claims are on shoes she’s branded).
re: #267 Unshaken Defiance
An objective observer might suppose Trump is actually trying to undermine the American economy given all the counter productive decisions and being beholden to an enemy on the world stage.
But is there are any of those they are likely orbiting the planet in a starship spending their days ROFL.
Hanlon’s razor applies here: This elderly “businessman” has risen way above his level of competency and responded by elevating others like him to a level of power they are in no way prepared to wield with any level of expertise. And as this “businessman” has spent much of his recent professional life being walled off from the actual running of his business, he thinks that his “experience” in business translates 1:1 to diplomacy. Mix in a liberal helping of a man believing his own bullshit and getting no negative feedback and you adequately explain why he thinks he can “win” a trade war with one of our largest trading partners.
#winning #tiredofwinning #MAGA pic.twitter.com/gciM8usZnW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 4, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will appear before a Congressional panel regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on April 11 https://t.co/rGSe1ziMA7
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 4, 2018
re: #273 Belafon
Just borrow from Russia, right, Trump?!
I said earlier (#190) Putin is the big winner here.
When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018
Betcha $5 you’re wrong. https://t.co/C2pVNTiQ8m
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 4, 2018
By the time enough voters realize this, FNC and thus Trump will just blame Obama.
re: #193 wheat-dogg
I agree, and there is no one left in the White House to dissuade him from such a response.
Morning!
There may not be anyone in the White House, but there is a Republican dominated Congress.
Where are they?
Remember when Republicans were all about let business be business: laissez faire?
Remember when Republicans were tough on Russia?
Remember when we had actual Republicans?
They (the ones that call themselves Republicans)are all sitting on their thumbs and not saying anything. They are not representing their business interests, they are not protecting this country from Russian influence.
And there is more, but business and foreign affairs are the biggest issues right now and the entire membership of Republicans in Congress are silent.
They aren’t reigning in Trump. They aren’t trying to sell this crap to their constituents. They aren’t doing anything.
And as we all have discussed, there has got to be a reason for that.
Note: I have always been moderate. I am in no way a Republican…just an interested observer that has no clue what the hell is going on. I am like a lot of us here at LGF. Us elder members have never seen politics like this. WTF???
The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen by 480 points at the start of trading, as 2% was swiftly wiped off the benchmark index.
The S&P 500 index (which includes more companies than the Dow) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq index are also sliding
To shorten my previous post, Trump is applying his “business experience” here, namely thinking if he bargains from a position of “strength,” then the other side will either meet him halfway or even concede ground to him. He doesn’t quite get that China’s the one with our balls in a vice and they can turn the handle as hard and often as they like.
re: #195 Barefoot Grin
Seems like just what Bannon wanted: burn the whole thing down, creative destruction.
No one can live in a smoking ruin. Even a disheveled pig like Bannon.
re: #282 Targetpractice
To shorten my previous post, Trump is applying his “business experience” here, namely thinking if he bargains from a position of “strength,” then the other side will either meet him halfway or even concede ground to him. He doesn’t quite get that China’s the one with our balls in a vice and they can turn the handle as hard and often as they like.
To him, “strength” is force and manipulation and cajoling people into doing what he wants. He doesn’t negotiate, he threatens and bullies. There’s a big difference and one he does not get.
re: #239 Amory Blaine
I watched Dr. Shrinker and Scooby Doo after school.
If you wanna see Jay Robinson (Dr. Shrinker) in his greatest villainous role, check out Three The Hard Way. He’s great.
The other thing to bear in mind is, in this battle between two political cultures, the Chinese are better suited to weather a trade war. Xi can clamp down on dissent and demand way more of the people than Trump could ever hope to achieve. Plus he’s not sweating midterm elections that could further weaken his power base.
re: #280 ObserverArt
I remember when we thought our own “oligarchs” would take Trump down when/if he threatened business interests. Now I worry they just diversify globally and configure insider traded investments make their gains on the damages done to this economy. Rich get richer.
re: #286 Targetpractice
The other thing to bear in mind is, in this battle between two political cultures, the Chinese are better suited to weather a trade war. Xi can clamp down on dissent and demand way more of the people than Trump could ever hope to achieve. Plus he’s not sweating midterm elections that could further weaken his power base.
Additionally, Xi doesn’t have a Wilbur Ross.
The more Wilbur Ross speaks, the more US market tanks.
re: #280 ObserverArt
The Trumpite base has the rest of the GOP scared to death. If they act to rein him in - or even hold him accountable - the base will turn on them in a heartbeat and they’ll be voted out in an electoral rout.
re: #287 Unshaken Defiance
I remember when we thought our own “oligarchs” would take Trump down when/if he threatened business interests. Now I worry they just diversify globally and configure insider traded investments make their gains on the damages done to this economy. Rich get richer.
How naive. They’re probably shorting the US right now.
re: #286 Targetpractice
The other thing to bear in mind is, in this battle between two political cultures, the Chinese are better suited to weather a trade war. Xi can clamp down on dissent and demand way more of the people than Trump could ever hope to achieve. Plus he’s not sweating midterm elections that could further weaken his power base.
I think that is old school thinking. Allowing people to have more freedom tends to make them want to have more of it. See the Berlin wall.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
The Trumpite base has the rest of the GOP scared to death. If they act to rein him in - or even hold him accountable - the base will turn on them in a heartbeat and they’ll be voted out in an electoral rout.
They’re in a political Catch-22 due to their own gerrymandering: The political atmosphere has made it impossible to win in November by staying tied to Trump, but to win they need their base who demand absolute loyalty to Trump.
Every Republican who campaigns this spring on how good their relationship with Trump is will see those statements used against them this fall.
Re: Amazon
It’s quite amusing to hear self-professed free-market capitalist Conservatives attacking Amazon with socialistic ideas.
BREAKING: US stocks open sharply lower on escalating US-China trade dispute; Dow falls 500 points.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 4, 2018
Remember this when Trump says that you can’t lose on a trade war with your largest trading partner.
You can. https://t.co/G5yGBskCUT— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2018
That’s still over his head.
Wharton should be asking for their degree back. It’s clear Trump doesn’t know the first thing about basic economics or economic policy.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2018
re: #282 Targetpractice
To shorten my previous post, Trump is applying his “business experience” here, namely thinking if he bargains from a position of “strength,” then the other side will either meet him halfway or even concede ground to him. He doesn’t quite get that China’s the one with our balls in a vice and they can turn the handle as hard and often as they like.
There is a limit to how far they will go, but they are not operating from a position of weakness, not where Trump thinks they are. We will be hurt at least as much as they are.
Trade deficits are too complicated for most people, and Trump’s far dumber than most people. I mean, most people don’t understand that part of our trade deficit is due to the fact that our currency is the world currency. That alone makes the dollar more expensive than it would otherwise be. Imagine trying to get Trump to understand that.
re: #292 Shropshire Slasher
I think that is old school thinking. Allowing people to have more freedom tends to make them want to have more of it. See the Berlin wall.
Well, if we’re to use Cold War analogies, then this is a race to see who hits bottom first. Based upon the present political climates in both nations, Trump’s going to crash and burn long before Xi.
re: #297 Targetpractice
Who needs who more?
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
The Trumpite base has the rest of the GOP scared to death. If they act to rein him in - or even hold him accountable - the base will turn on them in a heartbeat and they’ll be voted out in an electoral rout.
They are going to be anyway. Republicans will not fare well in 2018 and if trump is still around in 2020, they will lose then, too.
re: #298 Shropshire Slasher
Who needs who more?
It’s not generally a good idea to go to war with the guy who’s financing your debt.
re: #294 GlutenFreeJesus
Re: Amazon
It’s quite amusing to hear self-professed free-market capitalist Conservatives attacking Amazon with socialistic ideas.
“Taxes are theft except when applied to companies who own newspapers that print critical things of Dear Leader”.
re: #292 Shropshire Slasher
I think that is old school thinking. Allowing people to have more freedom tends to make them want to have more of it. See the Berlin wall.
I think you’re missing some of the more recent clampdowns China has done. Consider they just made Xi the president for life. They want the money of capitalism without the hassle of Democracy.
A factor of the 2018 midterms that gets very little attention: resentment among Democrats for years and years of having their patriotism questioned by the very party looking the other way while a Republican president invites Putin to tea.
— Subscribe to my free newsletter (@johnastoehr) April 3, 2018
He’s really not very good at this.
BREAKING: China announces tariff hike on $50 billion of U.S. goods including soybeans, aircraft, autos.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 4, 2018
Of the top 10 soybean producing states, Trump carried 8: Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Arkansas. And Minnesota, a key swing state for House control, is ranked 3rd. Trump took aim at China and hit his own base. https://t.co/7u6xoglpRa
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 4, 2018
Chimpotus really stepped in it this time.
China is beating him like a rented mule. https://t.co/9Xvm9K9l6A— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 4, 2018
re: #300 Targetpractice
US debt is pretty safe, if there is a sell off, what would they invest in?
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
Translation of Senator Yertle’s statement: I know I should oppose Trump’s actions because they are bad for the country but the people who support him would throw me out of office in the next election.
So I’ll speak hypothetically so I can disavow it later.
re: #307 Shropshire Slasher
US debt is pretty safe, if there is a sell off, what would they invest in?
Why does there have to be a sell-off? Simply slowing down the purchasing of treasuries would hurt us when we’re spending like drunken sailors. They don’t have to call in our debt, they can just stop lending us money or cut back on how much they lend.
re: #298 Shropshire Slasher
Who needs who more?
One of the reasons we were able to outlast the Soviets was we were in a much stronger financial position than they were. The policies of Republicans over the last 40 years have eroded that foundation. Notice that our recessions are getting deeper and lasting longer. A trade war with them will hurt us a lot.
re: #311 Belafon
Might be cheaper then to make the stuff here.
re: #312 Shropshire Slasher
Might be cheaper then to make the stuff here.
Cheaper for whom? Manufacturing moved to foreign locales because, after the costs of importing were figured in, the on-shelf cost was lower than domestic sources. Thus consumers bought more, which fed the demand for foreign made goods over domestic ones.
You’re not going to magically make domestic goods competitive by raising the cost of foreign ones.
A giant crack in the Earth opened up almost overnight, 50 feet deep and at its widest 65 feet across, slicing through a highway and terrifying many who live in an area just west of Nairobi, Kenya. https://t.co/2utWc967E3 pic.twitter.com/vFryfgewOM
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) April 4, 2018
right now there’s a nebbish scientist trying to convince his suit-wearing boss, who looks like billy zane in titanic, that “these readings are off the charts” and the boss keeps dismissing him. somewhere his gorgeous female lead is beginning to believe him https://t.co/EdfcuiCcCQ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 4, 2018
re: #313 Targetpractice
You’re not going to magically make domestic goods competitive by raising the cost of foreign ones.
I didn’t know that.
Spotify’s IPO occurs at the worst possible time in a decade.
re: #299 MsJ
They are going to be anyway. Republicans will not fare well in 2018 and if trump is still around in 2020, they will lose then, too.
always the optimist…
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re: #313 Targetpractice
Cheaper for whom? Manufacturing moved to foreign locales because, after the costs of importing were figured in, the on-shelf cost was lower than domestic sources. Thus consumers bought more, which fed the demand for foreign made goods over domestic ones.
You’re not going to magically make domestic goods competitive by raising the cost of foreign ones.
Nor do these countries have to bother with costly and invasive government health, safety and environmental regulations, helps keep prices down…
re: #316 Dr. Matt
Spotify is IPO occurs at the worst possible time in a decade.
At least it has little to do with Chinese imports/exports
re: #303 Belafon
They’ll probably get it.
Capitalism, as we understand it, doesn’t care for democracy at all. Democracy give power to those the business community don’t believe should have power.
As John Ralston Saul notes, “Capitalism was content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.” China, despite its Marxist trappings, is now simply an old fashioned dictatorship, and so it is ‘great for business’.
That’s what Trump and the GOP want the US to be like. Great for business even if a lot of people have to die.
re: #236 HappyWarrior
Finally did that Facebook political thing. Liberal. Yep that describes me pretty well as I identify as a moderate liberal.
I did the Facebook ads thing - conservative. My family and friends were amused.
I think Facebook is sending me conservative ads to “own the libs”.
Also note that Beijing is targeting things that they want more than they need, while the very first tariff Trump levied was upon something that we need. Beijing slapped tariffs on items like soy beans, ethanol, pork, and wines. To US consumers that might seem like a “good” thing because it will mean greater supplies and thus lower prices here at home. But the reality is that driving down prices is going to hurt the people who relied upon those exports to China to keep prices steady in the US.
re: #321 BlueSpotinAL
I did the Facebook ads thing - conservative. My family and friends were amused.
I think Facebook is sending me conservative ads to “own the libs”.
Mine was “very liberal.” I wonder if my posting the story about midwifes and home abortions pushed it over the top.
re: #322 Targetpractice
Also note that Beijing is targeting things that they want more than they need, while the very first tariff Trump levied was upon something that we need. Beijing slapped tariffs on items like soy beans, ethanol, pork, and wines. To US consumers that might seem like a “good” thing because it will mean greater supplies and thus lower prices here at home. But the reality is that driving down prices is going to hurt the people who relied upon those exports to China to keep prices steady in the US.
people who relied on those exports for jobs…
re: #246 Sir John Barron
From people telling us not to politicize all the school shootings, no doubt.
Yes, they do mock David Hogg, but there’s talk of MK-Ultra, and the conspiracy nuts mistake the incorrect early reporting for a narrative that’s falling apart, and think that the police are in on it.
People want to feel smart and important, and being a conspiracy nut is easier than college and grad school.
If China decided to dump its T-bills or bonds on the open market, even $1.1 Trillion in T-bills isn’t too bad compared to the average daily volume of T-bill trading which is I think around $500 Billion. (Forex volumes are I think on the order of $200+ Billion per hour, the majority (85%+) of that being in US$.) Dumping those T-bills on the market would lose China lots of money, because it would force down the price of T-bills. The US would love that, as it would reduces the interest it has to pay. However the other owners of T-bills wouldn’t like that .
And now there’s this…
BREAKING: Trump instructs military to begin planning for withdrawal from Syria https://t.co/B4ntV1xOGQ
— Julie Vitkovskaya (@Julie_Vit) April 4, 2018
A big win for Russia. https://t.co/gZHWtivoN1
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 4, 2018
Handing the fucking store over to Putin. Stupid son of a bitch.
Each of the 30 blue-chip companies which makes up the Dow has fallen into the red, -2% etc. Every sector of the S&P 500 has also fallen.
The Republican Playbook:
-Destroy the U.S. economy
-Blame it on illegals
-Get elected/reelected
-rinse, repeat
LIVE: Dow continues to fall and opens down 500+ points Wednesday, as US and China trade dispute escalates. https://t.co/xmBtFJc5YU https://t.co/EJ5Vo7Ndih
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 4, 2018
wow @realDonaldTrump … winning this trade war is so easy isn’t it? well done sir! https://t.co/CZctXHw37y
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) April 4, 2018
The Dow Jones is set for another EPIC fall today thanks to the Trade War that Trump started but denies is actually taking place.
— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) April 4, 2018
It’s time to remove Putin’s puppet from office. How much harm will we let this compromised alt-President do before Congress stops him? If the Republicans continue to fail the country. vote them all out.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
re: #307 Shropshire Slasher
US debt is pretty safe, if there is a sell off, what would they invest in?
Soybeans? :-)
Who knew trade was so complicated?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
re: #327 makeitstop
And now there’s this…
Handing the fucking store over to Putin. Stupid son of a bitch.
Bet ya $5 that he thinks he can put those troops on the Mexico border.
re: #329 DodgerFan1988
The Republican Playbook:
-Destroy the U.S. economy
-Blame it on illegals
-Get elected/reelected
-rinse, repeat[Embedded content]
So, I guess the United States of America will be Trump’s seventh bankruptcy then?
Dick’s sporting goods and healthcare are trading in the green right now.
re: #307 Shropshire Slasher
US debt is pretty safe, if there is a sell off, what would they invest in?
You know there are other countries, right? I’m sure Africa would love that money.
re: #329 DodgerFan1988
The Republican Playbook:
-Destroy the U.S. economy
-Blame it on illegals
-Get elected/reelected
-rinse, repeat[Embedded content]
Happy people are much less vulnerable to destructive religion than people who are frightened and hungry. Is anyone surprised that the radicalized-right is OK with trashing the economy?
We can “win” a trade war in the same manner we could “win” a nuclear war with them: By taking less damage than them. But either way, you’re still standing atop an ash heap amidst burning wreckage.
re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth
*THUD*
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Hey Sleuth…did you get through the storms last evening?
This morning I found out Grove City, a Columbus southern suburb, is looking for the NWS to determine if they did have a tornado. Lots of damage, power poles down, etc. It was a mild one if they find one did touch down.
This morning there are flooded streets all over the area. People on the southern edge of the county have many electric outages. And the wind is still nuts. It’s got to be a constant 25 MPH out there with 40 MPH gusts and the temps are going down.
What a start to spring! Ugh.
Today Putin has succeeded in detaching Turkey from the US orbit & dragging it into its own sphere.
A major geopolitical win for Russia, all facilitated by the orange caligula. Yoiu just took another hit in the cojones.
re: #327 makeitstop
And now there’s this…
Handing the fucking store over to Putin. Stupid son of a bitch.
What’s that about ceding power to Russia?
There are about 2,000 U.S. troops there, advising and assisting local proxy forces and directing U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State forces. Trump described that mission as “close to 100 percent” accomplished, while Votel said that “well over 90 percent” of Syria had been “liberated” from the militants, even as “the situation continues to become more and more complex” and “other underlying challenges” become more apparent.
Among those challenges are the need to stabilize areas cleared of militants to prevent their reappearance, to forge a political solution that will end Syria’s civil war without ceding power to Russia and Iran, and resolving U.S. difficulties with neighboring Turkey.
Have Trump supporters started calling for war against Iran now in response to the YouTube shooting?
re: #272 lawhawk
Trump’s ignorance knows no bounds (nor does his lies). These are two tweets from today - separated by nearly two hours:
…
I think it is now beyond ignorance.
We have an angry old man that is losing his facilities and he is lashing out at everything he has hated in his miserable life. And he has no idea what he said or did ten minutes ago. He’s sick. No one seems to want to admit it.
CNN 1, @realDonaldTrump 0. pic.twitter.com/XDKzSmlkXd
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) April 4, 2018
Officer, I’d like to report a murder. https://t.co/9oSduopp0V
— TheCoffeeCast (@TheCoffeeCast) April 4, 2018
re: #343 ObserverArt
I think it is now beyond ignorance.
We have an angry old man that is losing his facilities and he is lashing out at everything he has hated in his miserable life. And he has no idea what he said or did ten minutes ago. He’s sick. No one seems to want to admit it.
We needed to look into US trade policy as it was not benefiting American workers.
We needed to reform immigration policy as it was leading to abuses and excesses and not benefiting Americans in the long run as it was being conducted.
So we let a fellow come in and totally screw things up for us in the name of Doing Something Decisive that Shows Short-Term Changes.
re: #339 ObserverArt
Hey Sleuth…did you get through the storms last evening?
This morning I found out Grove City, a Columbus southern suburb, is looking for the NWS to determine if they did have a tornado. Lots of damage, power poles down, etc. It was a mild one if they find one did touch down.
This morning there are flooded streets all over the area. People on the southern edge of the county have many electric outages. And the wind is still nuts. It’s got to be a constant 25 MPH out there with 40 MPH gusts and the temps are going down.
What a start to spring! Ugh.
Spring? It’s freezing cold here, which really sucks because I’ve been sick since Sunday, and am cold most of the time this week even in warm places. I’ve been coughing up lung, and crawling into bed right when I get home from work. Sucks with Skyrim VR waiting to be played.
re: #327 makeitstop
And now there’s this…
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Handing the fucking store over to Putin. Stupid son of a bitch.
Iraq was in a far better place than Syria is today when Dubya negotiated the removal of US combat troops. Yet if you ask any wingnut today, the decision was totally Obama’s and thus he “abandoned” Iraq to ISIS.
Something tells me when ISIS experiences a resurgence, those same wingnuts are not gonna blame Donny for “abandoning” Syria.
re: #344 makeitstop
In with the obligatory “What’s in the picture?”
re: #345 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We needed to look into US trade policy as it was not benefiting American workers.
We needed to reform immigration policy as it was leading to abuses and excesses and not benefiting Americans in the long run as it was being conducted.
So we let a fellow come in and totally screw things up for us in the name of Doing Something Decisive that Shows Short-Term Changes.
That’s what CEOs are for.
re: #347 Targetpractice
This also has a lot to do with Turkey, as pointed out above. What’s going to happen when Turkey pulls out of NATO?
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
The Trumpite base has the rest of the GOP scared to death. If they act to rein him in - or even hold him accountable - the base will turn on them in a heartbeat and they’ll be voted out in an electoral rout.
That may be. But they way it looks, they may well be voted out by their inaction. Some of those voting them out will be their own combined with the “Blue Wave” of the angry left.
Maybe the Trumpite base is too stupid to realize they are going to lose in all this too.
It is political suicide.
re: #351 Belafon
This also has a lot to do with Turkey, as pointed out above. What’s going to happen when Turkey pulls out of NATO?
An Oompa-Loompa fucktard declaring that it’s “good” for the US that it’s losing its allies because it means we have to spend less on “protecting them.”
re: #343 ObserverArt
I think it is now beyond ignorance.
We have an angry old man that is losing his facilities and he is lashing out at everything he has hated in his miserable life. And he has no idea what he said or did ten minutes ago. He’s sick. No one seems to want to admit it.
It’s likely he’s so sick that he doesn’t even know there’s a problem, and thinks replacing thought with Fox & Friends is a reasonable thing to do. Everyone around him knows it, but the Republicans put the short-term goals of their party over America.
re: #353 ObserverArt
That may be. But they way it looks, they may well be voted out by their inaction. Some of those voting them out will be their own combined with the “Blue Wave” of the angry left.
Maybe the Trumpite base is too stupid to realize they are going to lose in all this too.
It is political suicide.
I’ve been maintaining that they’d paint themselves into that corner since pretty much Day 1.
They’ve been racing the clock this whole time, grabbing with both hands and trying to sell a bullshit narrative before reality caught up with them.
And now they’re losing, and the rest of us will suffer the consequences.
I did not know this.
It’s rather remarkable that news networks keep giving Hugh Hewitt national airtime to defend Scott Pruitt given the fact that his son is a spokesman for Scott Pruitt. https://t.co/gHQqMGwtp9
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 4, 2018
Iowa’s getting doubly fucked:
Iowa farm country — Trump Country — bracing for China’s counterstrike on soybeans. Their markets were already slumping, w/ a 7% loss projected for 2018. https://t.co/e9cSMHLNIW
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 4, 2018
If you lightly sauté them in soybean oil, you can get one good meal out of a MAGA hat.
Bon apetit, Iowa Trump voters! https://t.co/0HO6ir0qbz— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 4, 2018
re: #336 Belafon
You know there are other countries, right? I’m sure Africa would love that money.
China is investing heavily in Africa - see the Belt and Road Initiative. A twist on old style colonialism that many have accused the US of - economic colonialism.
Toronto’s bid to be Amazon’s new home is the X factor in Trump’s war with the company https://t.co/CeLbCbnSMn pic.twitter.com/E5PZ1jEQ31
— CBC Business (@CBCBusiness) April 4, 2018
re: #309 Romantic Heretic
Translation of Senator Yertle’s statement: I know I should oppose Trump’s actions because they are bad for the country but the people who support him would throw me out of office in the next election.
So I’ll speak hypothetically so I can disavow it later.
Mitch McConnell: Kentucky’s crumbling pillar of senatorial strength.
re: #351 Belafon
This also has a lot to do with Turkey, as pointed out above. What’s going to happen when Turkey pulls out of NATO?
Arguably, thanks to Trump, you’ve already lost NATO’s confidence. Turkey was the low fruit Putin could pick up easily. Geo-politically you’re in a real mess — that it would have happened under a right-wing regime beggars the mind.
re: #358 Targetpractice
Iowa’s getting doubly fucked:
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Iowans are idiots if they believe that. Australia now stands to grab the Chinese soybean market.
re: #360 MsJ
And with society. Too many lurches to the right would will make Toronto look better.
Avenatti is playing junga with Trump, requesting ‘suspicious’ bank information related to hush payment.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
The Trumpite base has the rest of the GOP scared to death. If they act to rein him in - or even hold him accountable - the base will turn on them in a heartbeat and they’ll be voted out in an electoral rout.
The GOP establishment made a deal with the Devil to get elected, and now the Devil is calling in his due
re: #315 Shropshire Slasher
I didn’t know that.
Shrop…I think you are just a little bit stuck in 1970s American thinking.
The world has changed a whole hell of a lot since then. In some ways we as a country have played ourselves out of many of our strengths going for the short term riches.
Other countries like China have slowly built up some of what we used to do. Add in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada…and they have taken up a lot of what we let go.
We rely on them for a lot more than you are giving them credit.
And should they get real pissed off at us and band together, they could kick our asses.
We still have intellectual power. But in many ways we have become a consumer service nation with a military. IMO. In other words, not as strong as many would think.
We have to get over ourselves. Then maybe we can join in the new world.
re: #367 ObserverArt
Sadly, superpowers tend to only learn that lesson after their Navy lies at the bottom of the ocean.
re: #322 Targetpractice
Also note that Beijing is targeting things that they want more than they need, while the very first tariff Trump levied was upon something that we need. Beijing slapped tariffs on items like soy beans, ethanol, pork, and wines. To US consumers that might seem like a “good” thing because it will mean greater supplies and thus lower prices here at home. But the reality is that driving down prices is going to hurt the people who relied upon those exports to China to keep prices steady in the US.
And after the overstocks are sold off at lower prices, there will be less new grown and made. Then prices will go up and everyone loses.
re: #369 ObserverArt
And after the overstocks are sold off at lower prices, there will be less new grown and made. Then prices will go up and everyone loses.
the pork cycle strikes again!
we are going to hear a lot of contrived and spurious arguments about why this is all beneficial for America because there are a lot of people whose job is to clean up the mess that leaks from DT’s pie hole
re: #327 makeitstop
And now there’s this…
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Handing the fucking store over to Putin. Stupid son of a bitch.
Trump: You never tell your enemy what you are going to do like Obama did. Then they wait, and as soon as you are gone, they come in kill people, take over the land and take all the oil!!!
re: #368 Belafon
Sadly, superpowers tend to only learn that lesson after their Navy lies at the bottom of the ocean.
We will probably not survive the next Task Force Smith…
Ross: “There, I think I’ve set the market up for a decent fall…”
Kudlow: “Hold my beer.”
Adviser Larry Kudlow says president won’t take credit for ‘trade war’ market selloff: ‘Blame China, not Trump’ https://t.co/K9ueHn9Xhy
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 4, 2018
These maniacs just can’t take responsibility for their own actions. Too many Conservatives think “personal responsibility” is for other people.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
re: #374 Targetpractice
Adviser Larry Kudlow says president won’t take credit for ‘trade war’ market selloff: ‘Blame China, not Trump’
“I was just standing there, copying pages from my sister’s diary, and she just freaked out FOR NO REASON!”
re: #372 ObserverArt
Trump: You never tell your enemy what you are going to do like Obama did. Then they wait, and as soon as you are gone, they come in kill people, take over the land and take all the oil!!!
Yeah, President Unpredictable has just telegraphed his punch.
I get the feeling I’m going to be typing the phrase ‘stupid son of a bitch’ a whole lot this year.
re: #357 MsJ
I did not know this.
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Hewitt admitted that the other day in the video I put up when he had the screaming match with Richard Painter on MTP Daily with Stephanie Ruehl in for Chuck. He also admitted he is a lifelong buddy with Pruitt.
re: #374 Targetpractice
Ross: “There, I think I’ve set the market up for a decent fall…”
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And you know many wingnuts gladly will. I’m not a fan of the PRC but Trump struck first.
The NRA made its own terrifying graphic novel where gun owners fight off ‘enemies of freedom’ pic.twitter.com/onKwvpAbKR
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 4, 2018
re: #352 makeitstop
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I am a little surprised Trump didn’t call him Little Jeff Sucker. it is such low hanging fruit and the sort of thing that I would imagine Trump would find clever.
re: #374 Targetpractice
Ross: “There, I think I’ve set the market up for a decent fall…”
Kudlow: “Hold my beer.”
no trade war not trade war you’re the trade war
Question for anyone in Wisconsin: Are the Democrats there going to be able to rally around a single candidate to run against Walker?
re: #378 makeitstop
Yeah, President Unpredictable has just telegraphed his punch.
I get the feeling I’m going to be typing the phrase ‘stupid son of a bitch’ a whole lot this year.
I sometimes think a computer’s “paste board” should have the ability to hold certain texts that are used over and over. Then you could keep a “Chinese Menu” and when you need to enter “stupid son of a bitch” into a comment, all you do is look at your menu and type in #34.
I do sometimes keep Word files of things I need to use over and over.
We have a stupid President who was elected to hurt the people that the right-wingers have been brainwashed to hate, but is attacking farmers and American businesses. He’s become not just the enemy of progress, but the enemy of us all.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
re: #383 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah but they’re not racists, the Parkland kids are.//
re: #385 danarchy
I am a little surprised Trump didn’t call him Little Jeff Sucker. it is such low hanging fruit and the sort of thing that I would imagine Trump would find clever.
He’s slipping.
re: #387 Belafon
Question for anyone in Wisconsin: Are the Democrats there going to be able to rally around a single candidate to run against Walker?
Walker gets to run again? They allow third terms in Wisconsin?
re: #388 ObserverArt
I sometimes think a computer’s “paste board” should have the ability to hold certain texts that are used over and over. Then you could keep a “Chinese Menu” and when you need to enter “stupid son of a bitch” into a comment, all you do is look at your menu and type in #34.
I do sometimes keep Word files of things I need to use over and over.
re: #374 Targetpractice
Ross: “There, I think I’ve set the market up for a decent fall…”
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Criswell Bacon predicts that Larry goes back on the nose candy and winds up at the Betty Ford Clinic in a month…
re: #393 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Well there you go!
I have always thought that if you have an idea, 6 million have the same and someone has already designed and implemented it.
Damn humans. We are too alike.
re: #387 Belafon
Question for anyone in Wisconsin: Are the Democrats there going to be able to rally around a single candidate to run against Walker?
Only if there is a good candidate that is white, male and not from Milwaukee or Madison. Because we have to get the farmers and the rest who used to vote Dem away from the Republicans.
re: #392 Sir John Barron
Walker gets to run again? They allow third terms in Wisconsin?
No term limits.
re: #395 ObserverArt
Well there you go!
I have always thought that if you have an idea, 6 million have the same and someone has already designed and implemented it.
Damn humans. We are too alike.
Yep, and there are a lot of other options too. Hundreds of people implemented this idea. I just gave you the first Google hit.
re: #312 Shropshire Slasher
Might be cheaper then to make the stuff here.
Cheaper than what?
The now new foreign tariffed prices
Or What prices used to be
It’s gonna be the first one not the second
hence a net increase in prices to consumers
Hence less sales
And you won’t make it up in volume
re: #399 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Rules vary a lot from state to state.
en.wikipedia.org
I’m surprised Wisconsin doesn’t since IIRC I think it was one of the first states to do direct elections of Senators. We’re really weird here in Va. We have single term limits for our governors.
re: #185 wheat-dogg
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Wow. Cilizza is so dang annoying. That is what he chooses to write about? A grown man calling people derisive nicknames isn’t something to celebrate. It’s embarrassing.
re: #404 Patricia Kayden
Wow. Cilizza is so dang annoying. That is what he chooses to write about? A grown man calling people derisive nicknames isn’t something to celebrate. It’s embarrassing.
Especially if that man is the President.
re: #375 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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Or just blame Obama. So much for taking responsibility for your actions.
I’m just trying to see how the media would respond if Obama had Trump’s habit of giving his critics childish nicknames.
re: #407 HappyWarrior
I’m just trying to see how the media would respond if Obama had Trump’s habit of giving his critics childish nicknames.
They’d say that Obama’s mind is failing, because a failing mind causes this kind of behavior in a President.
re: #407 HappyWarrior
I’m just trying to see how the media would respond if Obama had Trump’s habit of giving his critics childish nicknames.
Easy enough: Consider their freak-out when he stated that the police acted “stupidly” during the arrest of Henry Louis Gates.
I just threw up in my mouth.
In a presidential proclamation, President @realDonaldTrump called for “all Americans to do their part to make Dr. King’s dreams of peace, unity, and justice a reality.” #MartinLutherKingJr https://t.co/0hOpwyjYPL pic.twitter.com/UspdXoQZxS
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 4, 2018
re: #410 The Vicious Babushka
I just threw up in my mouth.
He’ll be walking back those statements by 5 pm to placate his base.
re: #409 Targetpractice
Easy enough: Consider their freak-out when he stated that the police acted “stupidly” during the arrest of Henry Louis Gates.
Oh for sure.
re: #410 The Vicious Babushka
I just threw up in my mouth.
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No way he fucking wrote that. Hell, he probably didn’t even read it either.
re: #411 Dr. Matt
He’ll be walking back those statements by 5 pm to placate his base.
Oh, no. Remember, in the white world, it’s all those subversives that are causing problems. If they’d just be good little worker bees, everything would be OK.
re: #410 The Vicious Babushka
I just threw up in my mouth.
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When he talked about judging people on the basis of their character, Donnie, he didn’t mean bring Stephen Miller into the WH or to call racist assholes “very fine people.”
re: #388 ObserverArt
I sometimes think a computer’s “paste board” should have the ability to hold certain texts that are used over and over. Then you could keep a “Chinese Menu” and when you need to enter “stupid son of a bitch” into a comment, all you do is look at your menu and type in #34.
I do sometimes keep Word files of things I need to use over and over.
There are any number of clipboard managers out there that let you do this sort of thing.
re: #413 Eclectic Cyborg
No way he fucking wrote that. Hell, he probably didn’t even read it either.
If it sounds like an adult wrote it, he didn’t.
Bath salts?
Police are investigating reports of “zombie-like” raccoons in Ohio. One animal followed a man to his door, where it proceeded to stand up on its hind legs, show its teeth, then fall over backward into an almost comatose condition. https://t.co/7FZg5De0q5 pic.twitter.com/R8kbcEIvcK
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 4, 2018
re: #380 Belafon
Now the Dow is only down 248.
Just my own theory (subject to respectful correction by someone who knows better) but it looks like the 23,000 level on the Dow seems to be a trading “ floor” - I’m guessing it’s because that’s the level at which the upward trend shifted its growth curve upward (about last November) from the slower rise it had been exhibiting earlier in 2017.
So I’m thinking these price levels(23,000 or so) are about the lowest that buyers can sell though and not actually lose (much) from the run up.
Though in light of fears for international trade, who knows?
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
Such a weak statement of tepid disapproval. He has done nothing but empower Trump.
re: #410 The Vicious Babushka
WTH? Just shut the hell up, Donny.
New White House economic advisor Kudlow already seems confused. Asked about Trump’s “$500 billion down” tweet, he said “I’m not sure what exactly he’s referring to.” Things are off to a good start
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) April 4, 2018
re: #410 The Vicious Babushka
I just threw up in my mouth.
up next: the yam tweets about ‘Cheatin Obama’ and ‘Crooked Hillary’.
re: #421 Patricia Kayden
WTH? Just shut the hell up, Donny.
Just for one stinking day would be a relief. But he can’t because the spotlight always has to be on him.
Conservatives on MLK: He was an adulterer…
Conservatives on spanky’s adultery: it’s none of our business and besides, god’s forgiven him.— Frank Benson (@fabenson62) April 4, 2018
re: #339 ObserverArt
Hey Sleuth…did you get through the storms last evening?
This morning I found out Grove City, a Columbus southern suburb, is looking for the NWS to determine if they did have a tornado. Lots of damage, power poles down, etc. It was a mild one if they find one did touch down.
This morning there are flooded streets all over the area. People on the southern edge of the county have many electric outages. And the wind is still nuts. It’s got to be a constant 25 MPH out there with 40 MPH gusts and the temps are going down.
What a start to spring! Ugh.
We didn’t get hit too hard here at all. Just under one inch of rain and some moderate wind.
MrBWS is on his way to Cincinnati to check on his apartment and then attend the monthly union meeting this evening. Grove City is where IBEW Local 71 has its headquarters. I’m sure I’ll hear details later tonight.
re: #339 ObserverArt
Two tornadoes:
[10:53 AM] Our survey team has preliminarily determined that an EF1 tornado with estimated wind speeds between 100-110 MPH was responsible for damage in the Grove City, Ohio area. More detailed info to follow later today: https://t.co/uDssG5T5DK.
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) April 4, 2018
[10:10 AM] Our survey team has concluded that a tornado was responsible for damage along Ludlow Road in eastern Beavercreek Township and western Xenia Township. More info to follow: https://t.co/uDssG5T5DK.
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) April 4, 2018
re: #418 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That’s fucking terrifying.
re: #426 Bubblehead II
The state’s Department of Natural Resources said the animals were likely suffering from distemper, not rabies. The viral disease causes coughing, tremors and seizures and leads raccoons to lose their fear of humans.
That sucks. They’d probably ask for help if they could formulate the words.
re: #413 Eclectic Cyborg
No way he fucking wrote that. Hell, he probably didn’t even read it either.
We know Stephen Miller didn’t write it. Must be Ivanka. She can fake it pretty well.
re: #430 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I reject such common sense probabilities, and insist it must be due to illicit use of highly dangerous, mostly unregulated, designer drugs by mid-western trash pandas
Raccoons are nuts. A friend of mine had one that was getting into his garbage and he decided he’d catch it in the act and swat it with a baseball bat. He waited until the raccoon was attacking the garbage and walked out, bat in hand, and made a big scary noise.
The raccoon got out of the can and charged him. He dropped the bat and ran back into the house.
…does not include the Fake Washington Post, which is used as a “lobbyist” and should so REGISTER. If the P.O. “increased its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.” This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2018
The U.S. Post Office pays rent to President Trump, which appears to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution. More here: https://t.co/06nIvwqxen https://t.co/XjoSHLaH9W
— Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) March 31, 2018
Oh, another one? What does that make so far, an even 1000?
Back when I had a house, one night two huge raccoons came in via my cat door. I was woken by the noise of them making a mess of my kitchen. One ran out, and the other ran into my storage room, clinging to a shelf in the corner. It took me a while to find him. I went to bed and let the raccoon relax and let it self out.
I got to pet a semi-domesticated raccoon at the local All Animal Expo a couple of years ago. It was amazingly calm and held onto its owner.
re: #351 Belafon
This also has a lot to do with Turkey, as pointed out above. What’s going to happen when Turkey pulls out of NATO?
I seriously doubt Turkey is going to pull out of NATO, since if it does then it is out of NATO and Greece is still in it. The Greece/Turkey eternal grudge match hasn’t been in the news in a while, but that doesn’t mean it ceased to exist.
re: #426 Bubblehead II
The state’s Department of Natural Resources said the animals were likely suffering from distemper, not rabies. The viral disease causes coughing, tremors and seizures and leads raccoons to lose their fear of humans.
Let’s hope that is the case. Because the little furry buggers are everywhere. I was chatting with a buddy about 10 PM a few weeks ago and a family of them came from behind a neighbor’s house and crossed the street to go into some trees in a piece of property that has no home on it.
re: #430 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I reject such common sense probabilities, and insist it must be due to illicit use of highly dangerous, mostly unregulated, designer drugs by mid-western trash pandas
It’s the o’possums. They carry street drugs in their pouches and sell that stuff to racoons, rats and squirrels.
People think they hear a hiss from under the porch, it’s a “pssst…hey buddy, need anything?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Favorable rating (via @Gallup)
AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍, 63% 👎
AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍, 4% 👎— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 4, 2018
re: #444 ObserverArt
Let’s hope that is the case. Because the little furry buggers are everywhere. I was chatting with a buddy about 10 PM a few weeks ago and a family of them came from behind a neighbor’s house and crossed the street to go into some trees in a piece of property that has no home on it.
We had a family of 6 raccoons climb the oak in our front yard in the middle of the night a few weeks ago. Scout woke up the entire house barking at them, since our bedroom window put him right about at eye level with the raccoons.
I’ve been walking him out to do his business and sweeping the yard with a flashlight before letting him run. Scout has caught a possum and a squirrel back there since we got him, but I don’t want him mixing it up with a damn raccoon. He’d get banged up in no time flat.
re: #443 ericblair
I seriously doubt Turkey is going to pull out of NATO, since if it does then it is out of NATO and Greece is still in it. The Greece/Turkey eternal grudge match hasn’t been in the news in a while, but that doesn’t mean it ceased to exist.
When I was in Istanbul, a guy at a bar told us that Turkey likes to play the US against the Russians and vice versa. He also told us not to go to the Grand Bazaar, it’s an overpriced tourist trap. But we went anyway, and saw him trying to hide at the place he was working.
re: #448 wrenchwench
When I was in Istanbul, a guy at a bar told us that Turkey likes to play the US against the Russians and vice versa. He also told us not to go to the Grand Bazaar, it’s an overpriced tourist trap. But we went anyway, and saw him trying to hide at the place he was working.
He was being nice to you, but that wouldn’t stop him from scamming the other suckers.
When were you there, though? Because that attitude may not be the one of the current Turkish administration.
re: #445 ObserverArt
When I lived in Boulder, I had an early morning encounter with a hissing army of raccoons. They were climbing out of a sewer. Way too many of them, and they were aggressive. Brrr.
Really not a fan.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two tornadoes:
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I figured they would make that their findings. I saw some images people sent in to NBC 4 and they looked pretty much like a nasty system that spawns tornadoes.
I think there was a record set at Columbus’ John Glenn International Airport for rain for the date. I have heard tons of reports of cars hitting potholes and being disabled. A lot of the roads got washed pretty good and it has been a tough winter with the freeze and thaws.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/lK1TXlvhbt
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 4, 2018
re: #449 Belafon
He was being nice to you, but that wouldn’t stop him from scamming the other suckers.
When were you there, though? Because that attitude may not be the one of the current Turkish administration.
re: #450 makeitstop
Not Constantinople?
Not quite that long ago. They weren’t in NATO yet, and it was the USSR that they liked to play against us. I got there in 1979, and left in 1980 (three days later).
re: #445 ObserverArt
It’s the o’possums. They carry street drugs in their pouches and sell that stuff to racoons, rats and squirrels.
People think they hear a hiss from under the porch, it’s a “pssst…hey buddy, need anything?”
“First one’s free.”
Sinclair Making Employees Sign ‘Highly Problematic’ Contracts, Legal Experts Say (The Daily Beast)
Sinclair Broadcasting Group requires employees to sign contracts forcing them to pay large penalties for quitting. Legal experts say those contracts may not be enforceable.
re: #452 ObserverArt
I figured they would make that their findings. I saw some images people sent in to NBC 4 and they looked pretty much like a nasty system that spawns tornadoes.
I think there was a record set at Columbus’ John Glenn International Airport for rain for the date. I have heard tons of reports of cars hitting potholes and being disabled. A lot of the roads got washed pretty good and it has been a tough winter with the freeze and thaws.
potholes on I-75
Several cars have been forced to pull over on I-75 northbound in Grant County due to potholes. Crews say they’ll fix the potholes today. pic.twitter.com/gP5DAvrNZM
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 4, 2018
More on those potholes on I-75 in Grant County and the plans to fix them. https://t.co/qnRcXZcY7f pic.twitter.com/CYzbGPSKdE
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 4, 2018
Planned Parenthood president says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump offered a “bribe” of increased funding if they’d stop performing abortions https://t.co/PwNDo5J3EG pic.twitter.com/HwcUmfuGtS
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 4, 2018
Unlike the White House — a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions — is not for sale. #StandWithPP https://t.co/Ziiywt1q2k
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 4, 2018
re: #456 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Sinclair Making Employees Sign ‘Highly Problematic’ Contracts, Legal Experts Say (The Daily Beast)
Sinclair station in Cincinnati:
Please let Sinclair know how you feel by commenting on the content concerns section of our website. Here is the link: https://t.co/k6fb2k0AAG
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 4, 2018
Don’t tell Nick Clooney to read your editorial on air.
If he still worked for Channel 12, Clooney would not have joined the anchors across the country in reading an identical script attacking other outlets for producing “biased and false news.”
The Enquirer asked the former anchor about the controversy over Channel 12 WKRC’s parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, scripting an editorial that lamented “one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”
“I have no idea what these folks are doing for a living, but it isn’t news,” Clooney told The Enquirer.
Nick is George’s father and also my former congresscritter before the tea party and libertarians took over the seat.
Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed one week after MLK’s assassination as tribute to his life. Trump was sued by Nixon DOJ for violating the law & his admin has stopped enforcing it https://t.co/zOoQFQ5AeQ
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 4, 2018
re: #445 ObserverArt
It’s the o’possums. They carry street drugs in their pouches and sell that stuff to racoons, rats and squirrels.
People think they hear a hiss from under the porch, it’s a “pssst…hey buddy, need anything?”
That’s not possumble
re: #460 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sinclair station in Cincinnati:
Please let Sinclair know how you feel by commenting on the content concerns section of our website. Here is the link:
So we can “moderate” any comments we don’t like, so no one has to trouble their little minds over reading them.
Why would you buy nitrogen from an oxygen company? Seems like a blunder. pic.twitter.com/6OEKln5lgq
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 4, 2018
Cillizza-esque levels of observation going on here. https://t.co/ZmRXwqkrbn
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2018
re: #466 goddamnedfrank
Why would you buy nitrogen from an oxygen company? Seems like a blunder.
yes, a bit Oxymoronic
Our neighbor who is raising five tiny Siamese kittens (The Eclairs) needs a little help. The buddies went through three weeks of hospitalization due to a bad batch of kitten food. Though they’re all fine now, the vet bill is staggering.
Help if you can? https://t.co/RiFcjE5OSB pic.twitter.com/GRLRYc3GSR— Thomas L. Strickland ☕️ (@ThomasLS) April 4, 2018
re: #466 goddamnedfrank
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Cause when you separate oxygen out of the air the byproduct with a market value is….???
Alternatively, a company can only sell what’s in it’s name?
re: #469 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Shouldn’t the problem kitten food manufacturer be responsible for that, rather than the general public?
fixed it for ya’ pic.twitter.com/SsqeviTNnv
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) April 4, 2018
Well obviously this was a #FalseFlag done by the @NRA to stop efforts at gun control. This woman is obviously a crisis actor. I know for a FACT she has appeared in community theater in Wyoming. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2018
re: #473 Ace-o-aces
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Because there is no deviation no normalization
every story just has to be exactly the same
One exception and the entire narrative is proven false?
Idiots
In a county shaken by Scott Walker’s fiscally-, environmentally- and developmentally-dysfunctional Foxconn deal (Racine), the historic township of Yorkville votes (very) overwhelmingly to become a village so that it can prevent encroachments on its territory. pic.twitter.com/oeD5HYvGjy
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) April 4, 2018
This is what I figured was going on in the yam’s pea-brain when he first started ranting about Amazon and USPS.
Oh my god.
Does Trump think…Amazon Prime’s Two Day Free Shipping…is free for *Amazon*?
Does he think free shipping means the USPS isn’t charging anyone?
It’s too stupid so that must be it. That’s what 2016-18 has taught me.— Catherynne Valente (@catvalente) April 3, 2018
Trump agrees to keep U.S. troops in Syria for undetermined period of time to defeat ISIS
Guess we’re not leaving so quick(ly)
re: #474 dangerman
The only motive thus far discernible for Ms. Aghdam’s act was that she was apparently pissed off at YouTube for filtering her videos and demonetizing them.
Her family warned the police that they thought she was going to do something, so they must’ve had some very real concerns that she’d gone off the rails.
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is what I figured was going on in the yam’s pea-brain when he first started ranting about Amazon and USPS.
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Of course he thinks that. He’s stupid af.
Trump quietly met with a major tech CEO who is locked in competition with Amazon for a Pentagon contract worth billions https://t.co/9LM1ZHne8B
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 4, 2018
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does Trump think…Amazon Prime’s Two Day Free Shipping…is free for *Amazon*?
It is free to them, OK? Believe me. Believe me.
re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is what I figured was going on in the yam’s pea-brain when he first started ranting about Amazon and USPS.
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He probably does not even understand that with Amazon Prime subscriptions, customers are just paying the shipping cost up front.
re: #481 Dr Lizardo
The only motive thus far discernible for Ms. Aghdam’s act was that she was apparently pissed off at YouTube for filtering her videos and demonetizing them.
Her family warned the police that they thought she was going to do something, so they must’ve had some very real concerns that she’d gone off the rails.
Oh I’m agreeing
No one s gonna “bury” the story cause it doesn’t fit some narrative
re: #487 The Vicious Babushka
He probably does not even understand that with Amazon Prime subscriptions, customers are just paying the shipping cost up front.
Almost nothing “free” is free
re: #487 The Vicious Babushka
He probably does not even understand that with Amazon Prime subscriptions, customers are just paying the shipping cost up front.
I’m paying a fraction of the shipping up front. I save a lot in shipping with Prime.
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Great Negotiators of Fail.Ivanka was born to be the overseer of foreign sweatshops making shoes from stolen designs.
The Princeling was born to follow his father’s footsteps to jail.
re: #488 dangerman
Oh I’m agreeing
No one s gonna “bury” the story cause it doesn’t fit some narrative
Exactly.
I’m looking at her homepage - it’s still up - and she certainly had some highly conspiratorial views (to say the least).
Maybe not Alex Jones levels of batshittery, but still, sorta “out there”, at least in my personal opinion.
If Bezos owned FNC and kissed his ass, he’s do nothing but praise Bezos.
re: #487 The Vicious Babushka
He probably does not even understand that with Amazon Prime subscriptions, customers are just paying the shipping cost up front.
And Amazon Cheatin Jeff Bezos doesn’t pay taxes on that Prime, OK? And not paying taxes is usually smart, or at least it’s smart when I do it, but now it’s not OK, Believe me.
Pinhead’s problems continue to mount.
NEW: On the same day the Stone wrote the email saying that he dined with Assange, he also said he spoke that day to Trump and that “devastating” Wikileaks were coming on Clinton.https://t.co/dKmB50gEwA
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 4, 2018
re: #450 makeitstop
Not Constantinople?
lol that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
On a serious note, Islamophobes can’t simply shut the fuck up about the loss of Constantinople in 1452.
re: #497 electrotek
lol that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
On a serious note, Islamophobes can’t simply shut the fuck up about the loss of Constantinople in 1452.
Same people who can’t accept 1865.
re: #496 makeitstop
Pinhead’s problems continue to mount.
Not a target! Where’s the proof? Shut it down! RELEASETHEMEMO!
What if Jeff Bezos bought Twitter with the change in his pocket and shut Trump’s account?
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) April 3, 2018
Bezos doing so would be great for @realDonaldTrump, he would post his messages on another platform and his point about Bezos/Amazon/monopoly will have been further proven. It’s not the medium, it’s the message. Also - why are you still so bitter about being fired @PreetBharara? https://t.co/UvASNVfdEc
— Boris Epshteyn (@BorisEP) April 4, 2018
Sinclair Broadcasting forces its stations to run commentary from this person, who doesn’t hide the fact that he remains a Trump apparatchik, 9 times a week; passing him off as the company’s “chief political analyst.” https://t.co/LytevhzR2Y
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 4, 2018
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) April 4, 2018
re: #454 wrenchwench
Not quite that long ago. They weren’t in NATO yet, and it was the USSR that they liked to play against us. I got there in 1979, and left in 1980 (three days later).
Ooops, I was wrong. Greece and Turkey joined in 1952. Greece went out (and later, back in) over Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus.
re: #501 Dave In Austin
Texas GOP has money to send troops to the border but not enough money to properly fund education across the state, or enforce environmental regs and occupational health/safety regs.
Priorities.
Your Mother failed you
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) April 4, 2018
re: #503 lawhawk
Texas GOP has money to send troops to the border but not enough money to properly fund education across the state, or enforce environmental regs and occupational health/safety regs.
Priorities.
Governor TCOT don’t care.
re: #497 electrotek
lol that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
On a serious note, Islamophobes can’t simply shut the fuck up about the loss of Constantinople in 1452.
Or the siege of Vienna in 1683
Gun control isn’t going to prevent all shootings. I’ve never seen an activist say it would but reduce? Yep. We can and should but yeah a shooting happening in a state with strict gun laws totally “destroys@ gun control. Just like being captured totally “destroys” the military’s purpose.
re: #506 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or the siege of Vienna in 1683
Serb nationalists aren’t over Kosovo.
re: #504 Dave In Austin
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I expect Mindy is popular with the RWNJs. Tits on display in front of a flag, and she’s just as delusional as any Republican.
re: #508 HappyWarrior
Serb nationalists aren’t over Kosovo.
They aren’t over what happened in the 15th century when the Ottoman Empire took over Serbia. Years ago we had a friend of Serbian descent, who still railed over that invasion.
re: #510 Hecuba’s daughter
They aren’t over what happened in the 15th century when the Ottoman Empire took over Serbia. Years ago we had a friend of Serbian descent, who still railed over that invasion.
That’s what I’m talking about. I had a Serbian American friend who was the same way and thought Milosevic was scapegoated.
So we have a President who is trying to destroy a large US Corporation because it doesn’t praise him. This is the behavior of a dictator.
re: #377 makeitstop
Because I am always so far behind, this reply is several days late, but I had to say: You’re a good guy. Did you sell it back with the new pickups/harness?
It is a pretty guitar…
re: #514 Jebediah, RBG
Because I am always so far behind, this reply is several days late, but I had to say: You’re a good guy. Did you sell it back with the new pickups/harness?
It is a pretty guitar…
Thank you! It’s in the works, she’ll be picking it up this weekend.
Pickups and harness are going in the deal. It didn’t seem right to give him back a gutted guitar.
re: #512 Hecuba’s daughter
So we have a President who is trying to destroy a large US Corporation because it doesn’t praise him. This is the behavior of a dictator.
and he is using lies and half-truths to do so.
and people are not calling him out on it
re: #501 Dave In Austin
Hmmm, I seem to recall his attitude towards troop deployments used to be different….https://t.co/AjRfE73VIm
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2018
Will you be deporting Melania then?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2018
Says who? I DEMAND to see the original copies of her immigration papers. LONG FORM! Why doesn’t she just show us her immigration papers? WHAT IS SHE HIDING!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2018
re: #496 makeitstop
Pinhead’s problems continue to mount.
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Is Stone a big enough friend of The Don so as to prevent him from throwing The Don under the bus if too much Mueller heat is turned up under his crazy ass?
Or, would the Stoner protect Trump and take any hits coming his way?
I wouldn’t trust anyone in that group. And I bet they all know they really can’t trust each other.
Trump orders Pershing’s corpse to conduct another punitive invasion of Mexico https://t.co/l1oYBjsWFY pic.twitter.com/BsRxdcoOhd
— Duffel Blog (@DuffelBlog) April 4, 2018
re: #483 makeitstop
Wanna bet some kickbacks were discussed?
re: #512 Hecuba’s daughter
So we have a President who is trying to destroy a large US Corporation because it doesn’t praise him. This is the behavior of a dictator.
Nah. More along the line of Amazon having cost him around $400 million in lost property revenues. Oh! And Jeff also owns the WaPo that’s been hammering his crooked ass.
Amazon Caused Donald Trump to Lose $400 Million in Net Worth, Says Forbes
President Donald Trump’s net worth declined by more than $600 million in the past year, according to the Forbes 400 List of the richest people in America. However surprising Trump’s loss may be, the reason for it is even more unexpected. Trump’s real estate holdings, specifically those in New York City, have taken a big hit in the past year, as retail values are struggling in response to Amazon’s e-commerce gains.
re: #523 Bubblehead II
I think that analysis is far fetched. There’s a far more reasonable and direct reason for Trump’s net worth to decline. It’s depreciating along with the value of his real estate.
The bulk of Trump’s real estate is in NYC and the bulk was built in the 1980s and 1990s. His buildings are dated and there’s an entirely new class of superluxury buildings that have been built across NYC since then.
Trump can’t keep up because he’s leveraged to his eyeballs and slapping his name on others’ construction projects isn’t getting it done either.
Therefore, he’s falling further behind because he can’t modernize and he’s got an aging portfolio of buildings (which has always been anchored to middle class building projects where his dad got his start - and which he inherited).
amazon.com employs over 500,000 people in the US while there are ~87,000 employed in coal mining and ~83,000 in the iron and steel industry. The Orange Fucktard is an utter fool.
re: #523 Bubblehead II
Nah. More along the line of Amazon having cost him around $400 million in lost property revenues. Oh! And Jeff also owns the WaPo that’s been hammering his crooked ass.
Amazon Caused Donald Trump to Lose $400 Million in Net Worth, Says Forbes
President Donald Trump’s net worth declined by more than $600 million in the past year, according to the Forbes 400 List of the richest people in America. However surprising Trump’s loss may be, the reason for it is even more unexpected. Trump’s real estate holdings, specifically those in New York City, have taken a big hit in the past year, as retail values are struggling in response to Amazon’s e-commerce gains.
Makes his attacks on Amazon even more pitiful.
Shocked, shocked I say…
Trump pick to oversee wildlife policy has long opposed protections for endangered species https://t.co/Errf5alQUt pic.twitter.com/xZP4u2hCDJ
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2018
re: #525 lawhawk
Take this example.
432 Park Avenue - tallest residential skyscraper in the US:
Sales Listings 19 active sales ($7,851 per ft² avg, $31,276,263 avg price)
2 in contract sales ($7,760 per ft² avg, $27,975,000 avg price)
56 previous sales ($7,613 per ft² avg, $31,838,285 avg price)
23 previous rentals ($183 per ft² avg, $48,586 avg price)
Trump Tower (where the cabal of cronies resides):
Sales Listings 21 active sales ($3,233 per ft² avg, $4,995,833 avg price)
177 previous sales ($3,090 per ft² avg, $5,378,946 avg price)
Rentals Listings 6 active rentals ($109 per ft² avg, $13,282 avg price)
235 previous rentals ($89 per ft² avg, $10,952 avg price)
GOP: “We’re the party of family values.”
GOP refuses to support:
Healthcare
Education
A Living Wage
Affordable Housing
Food Stamps
Apparently “Family Values” just means attacking birth control and LGBT rights— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 4, 2018
re: #525 lawhawk
I think that analysis is far fetched. There’s a far more reasonable and direct reason for Trump’s net worth to decline. It’s depreciating along with the value of his real estate.
The bulk of Trump’s real estate is in NYC and the bulk was built in the 1980s and 1990s. His buildings are dated and there’s an entirely new class of superluxury buildings that have been built across NYC since then.
Trump can’t keep up because he’s leveraged to his eyeballs and slapping his name on others’ construction projects isn’t getting it done either.
Therefore, he’s falling further behind because he can’t modernize and he’s got an aging portfolio of buildings (which has always been anchored to middle class building projects where his dad got his start - and which he inherited).
Maybe, Maybe not. Since I don’t live there, I really don’t have a clue about his properties. But we are talking about tRump here. If he’s been told that his losses were a result of Amazon’s undermining his profits, it only makes sense he would go after them using any means possible. And again, Jeff also owns the WaPo that has been hammering his crooked ass. That as well as the fact he is a vindictive bastard too boot.
re: #528 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Shocked, shocked I say…
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If you get rid of them, then they’re no longer endangered. Problem solved.
re: #483 makeitstop
Ah, Oracle…the company that completely botched the ACA marketplace rollout. And they fully support trump.
re: #521 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
[Trump orders Pershing’s corpse to conduct another punitive invasion of Mexico]
Fruitless then, gotta be even more fruitless with a corpse. Whereas, Pancho Villa is revered on both sides of the border. The only one who has invaded the US who has his own state park.
re: #533 MsJ
Ah, Oracle…the company that completely botched the ACA marketplace rollout. And they fully support trump.
A company that has a legendary dickhead like Larry Ellison at the top and as a founder (he’s still exec chairman and CTO) can’t help but be rotten from the head down…just ask Sun and their customers (which Oracle bought years ago and proceed to kill or neuter just about everything Sun had, including Solaris and their workstation line [killed], Java [left to languish with the bare minimum of updates and support], and OpenOffice [killed as a Sun product, but has been forked into the gratis LibreOffice]).
re: #530 Kragar
GOP: “We’re the party of family values.”
GOP refuses to support:
Healthcare
Education
A Living Wage
Affordable Housing
Food StampsApparently “Family Values” just means attacking birth control and LGBT rights
That has been the case ever since the Religious Right took over the party.
And it will cost them support in key demographics: Latinos are big on families. But to them, that also means good schools and strong local and civic institutions, all of which cost tax money, which cuts into profits.
Grassley calls for a bailout of farmers who will be hurt by Chinese tariffs…
“The Administration knew that if it imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, China would retaliate against U.S. agriculture. I warned President Trump as much in a White House meeting in February,” Grassley said in the statement. “Today shows that’s exactly what happened. If the federal government takes action on trade that directly results in economic hardship for certain Americans, it has a responsibility to help those Americans and mitigate the damage it caused.”
So…depressed ag markets, plus a taxpayer bailout. Trade wars are easy to win.
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re: #525 lawhawk
I think that analysis is far fetched. There’s a far more reasonable and direct reason for Trump’s net worth to decline. It’s depreciating along with the value of his real estate.
The bulk of Trump’s real estate is in NYC and the bulk was built in the 1980s and 1990s. His buildings are dated and there’s an entirely new class of superluxury buildings that have been built across NYC since then.
Trump can’t keep up because he’s leveraged to his eyeballs and slapping his name on others’ construction projects isn’t getting it done either.
Therefore, he’s falling further behind because he can’t modernize and he’s got an aging portfolio of buildings (which has always been anchored to middle class building projects where his dad got his start - and which he inherited).
Trump’s business model is that of a slumlord. Use the cheapest possible materials and the cheapest class of worker, gouge as much as you can out of the workers and fuck over the tenants. His buildings are actually slums for the wealthy.
So ask yourself, what kind of rich people would want to live in a slum (even if it is gold-plated) when they can live in actual luxury and you realize, it’s criminal gangsters who want to launder their ill-gotten gains by investing in real estate properties.
re: #537 makeitstop
Let the market decide winners and losers, except when Trump fucks up and screws the very people who voted for him because they’re all … what’s the word I’m looking for..
oh yeah, that’s it:
dumbasses.
They’re all dumbasses who don’t know the first thing about economics, trade policy, or that Trump is a reactionary know nothing whose dumbassery is lauded by his supporters because he mirrors their own incomprehension of how the world operates.
re: #537 makeitstop
Grassley calls for a bailout of farmers who will be hurt by Chinese tariffs…
So…depressed ag markets, plus a taxpayer bailout. Trade wars are easy to win.
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How about, instead, a bill limiting the presidents ability to set tariffs, like, they can only be set in response to another country’s tariffs unless approved by Congress?
What a headline.
For the second time, a resolution to denounce neo-Nazis has failed in the Tennessee legislature https://t.co/biLyexx7ff— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) April 4, 2018
re: #506 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or the siege of Vienna in 1683
Aptly titled in Breivik’s own manifesto for living proof.
Quite amusing of them to tell black people to get over slavery, but won’t STFU about European battles.
re: #541 jaunte
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Are the Tiki Torch guys wearing of khaki pants catching on as a symbol? I don’t remember many southern blockheads like those in the image and the linked article image wearing khakis before. Jeans and bibs were the usual.
A better dressed bigot?
Please ma’am, can I have another squeaky lizard to disembowel? pic.twitter.com/J7LYOBuEwU
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) April 4, 2018
re: #544 ObserverArt
Are the Tiki Torch guys wearing of khaki pants catching on as a symbol? I don’t remember many southern blockheads like those in the image and the linked article image wearing khakis before. Jeans and bibs were the usual.
A better dressed bigot?
I think they wanted to look more mainstream.
JUST IN: Federal judge denies Bill O’Reilly’s request to keep past sexual harassment settlements sealed https://t.co/Bun1o5pfhH pic.twitter.com/DKDDQ7hBW6
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2018
re: #547 MsJ
I look forward to his helpful hints on how to deal with people discussing one’s horrible life choices.
re: #529 lawhawk
Take this example.
432 Park Avenue - tallest residential skyscraper in the US:
Trump Tower (where the cabal of cronies resides):
Yeah, 432 Park is the quintessential new “prestige building” in Manhattan: it’s 96 goddam stories tall, has just 125 units (whole floors or half-floor units only): nothing sells for less than eight-figures: and most of its sales are expected to be to foreign buyers, basically as a “safe” place to invest/park/launder/hide funds (and not live there full-time. So, as Wikipedia says:
By the end of 2015 close to 90% of the apartments had been sold with almost every other owner being a foreign citizen,”part of a global elite that collects residences like art.” It has been estimated that the majority of the units will remain unoccupied for more than ten months a year.
Makes Trump Tower look like a sleazy tenement - even without the bad rep of its most-famous resident.
re: #537 makeitstop
Grassley calls for a bailout of farmers who will be hurt by Chinese tariffs…
So…depressed ag markets, plus a taxpayer bailout. Trade wars are easy to win.
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So when do I get my bailout on all the money I’ve lost since Trump started attacking Amazon? Or don’t I count?
re: #549 Jay C
Yeah, 432 Park is the quintessential new “prestige building” in Manhattan: it’s 96 goddam stories tall, has just 125 units (whole floors or half-floor units only): nothing sells for less than eight-figures: and most of its sales are expected to be to foreign buyers, basically as a “safe” place to invest/park/launder/hide funds (and not live there full-time. So, as Wikipedia says:
Makes Trump Tower look like a sleazy tenement - even without the bad rep of its most-famous resident.
So Trump Tower now acts a a bribe machine for Trump. Quite the surprise.
re: #551 Skip Intro
So when do I get my bailout on all the money I’ve lost since Trump started attacking Amazon? Or don’t I count?
If it makes you feel any better, I doubt the farmers will be getting much of anything, either.
re: #547 MsJ
JUST IN: Federal judge denies Bill O’Reilly’s request to keep past sexual harassment settlements sealed https://t.co/Bun1o5pfhH pic.twitter.com/DKDDQ7hBW6
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2018
How many more millions in settlements will we find out that @BillOReilly was involved with? Guess we’ll be finding out. https://t.co/tvPXRKIjNw
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2018
Alveda, shut the fuck up. Your cousins hate you.
On @foxandfriends, Dr. @AlvedaCKing reflected on the legacy of her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. https://t.co/K6OVCNwXQE pic.twitter.com/TvnZF6HdXy
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 4, 2018
re: #554 makeitstop
If it makes you feel any better, I doubt the farmers will be getting much of anything, either.
Actually they shouldn’t be getting anything. Free market and all ya know.
re: #556 The Vicious Babushka
Alveda, shut the fuck up. Your cousins hate you.
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They love bringing her out to attack current civil rights activists even though MLK’s widow, kids, & grandkids are and were in the case of Corretta against what Alveda believes. All Alveda is doing is using her name to speak for MLK on a network that daily goes against everything he believed in:
hey Art! There was another one last night:
[2:04 PM] A third (separate) tornado has been confirmed southwest of South Charleston, Ohio in Clark County, Ohio. This is separate from the tornado confirmed in Greene County, Ohio. More info to follow: https://t.co/6kE8k18Wa6.
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) April 4, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Fired White House aide Rob Porter was hired by Trump’s 2020 campaign manager just days after his ouster as a hush-hush favor to the president who felt ‘bad’ in spite of allegations that he beat his two ex-wiveshttps://t.co/6bk25sQtrN
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 4, 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson tore into the legal arguments Paul Manafort’s lawyer made to convince her that Mueller’s investigation should be reined in: “I don’t really understand what is left of your case.” https://t.co/eFuY1FfDok
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 4, 2018
re: #561 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Don’t you understand we must protect the president?!”
re: #558 HappyWarrior
They love bringing her out to attack current civil rights activists even though MLK’s widow, kids, & grandkids are and were in the case of Corretta against what Alveda believes. All Alveda is doing is using her name to speak for MLK on a network that daily goes against everything he believed in:
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/lK1TXlvhbt
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 4, 2018
Boris Johnson’s Foreign Office now deleting tweets from their official account that stated the nerve agent was produced in Russia. What on earth is going on? This tweet below is now deleted. pic.twitter.com/DEHkMTDimI
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) April 4, 2018
Four days after his assassination, Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, and his four young children go to Memphis where they march alongside the still-striking sanitation workers. 4 days! pic.twitter.com/MQwqV530Or
— Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) April 4, 2018
I’m shocked, I tell you.
“Trump phones Maggie Haberman of the New York Times directly, as well as Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, and Jonathan Swan of Axios…”https://t.co/zhFaBSpOR8— Karoli (@Karoli) April 4, 2018
re: #564 The Vicious Babushka
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The #Kremlin’s war minister complains, @NATO has a group of 10.000 “offensive” troops stationed in the Baltics and Poland.#Russia has 400.000 soldiers stationed in its Western military sector and all of its exercises simulate to overrun its western neighbours …#PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/7XOQHQioiv
— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) April 4, 2018
“How dare you defend yourselves!” has been Putin’s line for years. As if Ukraine and Georgia don’t answer the question. https://t.co/HmfB6BXGov
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) April 4, 2018
The tweets may be Trump’s midterm election strategy:
Privately, sources close to the President and the White House say Trump is also increasingly turning to the 2018 midterm elections and has focused on how he can help deliver high turnout numbers among his supporters. Motivation his base is something the President and some of his allies believe will be key to keeping Congress in Republican hands and thus help avoid potential impeachment proceedings from a Democratic House.
Five sources close to the White House offered varying interpretations of whether there is a strategy behind the uptick in Trump’s tweets. But all agreed the activity has served to energize — or reassure — his political base and provides a preview of how Trump plans to approach the upcoming elections.
“He’s only going to rev this up. He’s looking at targets that the base hates,” one source close to the White House said. “The enthusiasm gap between ‘the resistance’ and ‘the base’ is now palpable.”
daily mail, which broke news of porter’s spousal abuse allegations, now reporting that the president’s re-election campaign manager hired the former staff secretary after his white house exit https://t.co/MUDgU21vtQ
— Justin Sink (@justinsink) April 4, 2018
Rob Porter hasn’t been hired by Trump’s campaign. Wasn’t even discussed, I’m told. https://t.co/DilEubeXYS
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 4, 2018
Rob Porter isn’t being paid by campaign, the PAC or Parscale’s company, I’m told.
But will be watching for Daily Mail’s future reporting! https://t.co/NKDLaVHKNt— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 4, 2018
JUST IN: Facebook: “We believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people—mostly in the US—may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.” https://t.co/rzEohH1FEb pic.twitter.com/TmlOuQOenM
— ABC News (@ABC) April 4, 2018
re: #570 Belafon
The tweets may be Trump’s midterm election strategy:
If he really thinks that’s going to help, he’s delusional.
re: #572 JordanRules
That’s around 1/4 of the entire population of this country.
re: #573 HappyWarrior
If he really thinks that’s going to help, he’s delusional.
Yep, his base is going to drown in a blue wave methinks.
re: #572 JordanRules
But man they did try to bury the lead — see second to last paragraph https://t.co/REtum5IUSV
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) April 4, 2018
Breitbart’s headline writer seems to think Bangladesh is in the Middle East pic.twitter.com/WNZn0P1YRM
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) April 4, 2018
When your scare propaganda flunks Geography 101… https://t.co/2cPn9XiP3o
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) April 4, 2018
re: #574 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s around 1/4 of the entire population of this country.
Kids reject Facebook, and many old people are not on it, so it sounds like a significant proportion of Facebook users. Or should I say people who are used by Facebook?
re: #541 jaunte
What a headline.
For the second time, a resolution to denounce neo-Nazis has failed in the Tennessee legislature tennessean.com …
12:37 PM - Apr 4, 2018
What is wrong with the “good” people of Tennessee? If Hitler ran for President, he probably would get their votes.
re: #559 Backwoods_Sleuth
hey Art! There was another one last night:
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Interesting. It was a mini-outbreak to mark the 44th anniversary of Xenia and the April 3rd Super Cell outbreaks that hit Ohio (and many other area states).
It never got as warm as they had predicted and that may have been a good thing.
The White House is saying BOTH that illegal immigration is down because the administration has been effective in deterring it, AND that it’s a massive threat which requires a wall and the National Guard. Like magic, there’s a storyline for both ends of the ideological spectrum.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 4, 2018
zuckerberg is making 1990s era supervillain bill gates look like a cuddly teddy bear
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 4, 2018
re: #577 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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and who knew that 12 was a flood? Sounds more like a possible vernal pool to me.
.@larry_kudlow on market reaction to China’s tariff announcement: “Don’t overreact, we’ll see how this works out… At the end of this whole process, the end of the rainbow, there’s a pot of gold.” pic.twitter.com/ZPeYpYq2Kw
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 4, 2018
Wow. So that’s his economic theory? Give me the Laffer Curve on a napkin instead! https://t.co/lOvrx2ZoAr
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 4, 2018
Fucking markets, how do they work?And I don’t wanna talk to no economistY’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 4, 2018
re: #584 JordanRules
Bill Gates has never been a supervillain.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
Maybe he’s a Linux guy.
DISLIKE!!!111!!!
With low temperatures dipping into the upper 20s overnight, this is a reminder that unprotected outdoor plants will likely be damaged or killed. Protect sensitive plants by bringing them indoors or covering them with layers of newspapers or blankets. pic.twitter.com/ESaTrGxg3I
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) April 4, 2018
also, we’ve got 1-3 inches of snow forecast for Friday night/Saturday morning.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Trump’s homeland security secretary, announcing National Guard troops to US-Mexico border: “let me be clear, we are a welcoming nation”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 4, 2018
re: #576 JordanRules
Read that article. Holy shit. Fuck Facebook. Like hard. This is just one paragraph.
Search and Account Recovery: Until today, people could enter another person’s phone number or email address into Facebook search to help find them. This has been especially useful for finding your friends in languages which take more effort to type out a full name, or where many people have the same name. In Bangladesh, for example, this feature makes up 7% of all searches. However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery. Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way. So we have now disabled this feature. We’re also making changes to account recovery to reduce the risk of scraping as well.
re: #588 Backwoods_Sleuth
DISLIKE!!!111!!!
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also, we’ve got 1-3 inches of snow forecast for Friday night/Saturday morning.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Let’s see… 6 inches of snow on the ground… 3-5 more expected next weekend… and last night’s low was 7 degrees. I told one of my friends earlier, apparently April is trying very hard to be a winter month this year.
LIVE: Trump directed Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to work together to deploy National Guard at border with Mexico - Secretary Nielsen https://t.co/2oSYLZHaYS pic.twitter.com/4BkW6Ilgnl
— Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) April 4, 2018
Illegal border crossings from Mexico are at all-time lows, so in order to deal with this “emergency,” we are going to spend billions of dollars on a wall and to deploy National Guard troops to the border. https://t.co/2lVBIZUtxZ
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) April 4, 2018
re: #579 Hecuba’s daughter
What is wrong with the “good” people of Tennessee? If Hitler ran for President, he probably would get their votes.
This is what happens when the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 11.
re: #564 The Vicious Babushka
View image on Twitter
The Vicious Babushka
@viciousbabushka
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #TheResistance
11:22 AM - Apr 4, 2018
5 days before his assassination the Republican Chicago Tribune had this to say about MLK: “We think the time has arrived when the country must ask itself how much more is it going to put up with from this incendiarist”.
Sort of reminiscent of the Henry II “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest” comment.
Pet peeve: OS updates that leave a message on screen saying there’s about a minute left in the process… for 40 minutes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2018
Thread:
It finally happened. I finally got a call from a scammer claiming to be the IRS and I could finally pull all of the tax law and privacy law I know out of my brain. This is a good day. This is MY day, people.
— Let’s Make a Ha-Deel (@twittysuch) April 3, 2018
re: #590 MsJ
Read that article. Holy shit. Fuck Facebook. Like hard. This is just one paragraph.
Yeah, it’s taken me a while to realize this, but it’s now incredibly obvious that Facebook did absolutely nothing in regards to information security. They literally tried their hardest to be insecure, in fact.
re: #582 jaunte
Yeah, but these are just the first eight: there are 165,000,000+ probably just waiting to see if they can get away with it…..
re: #547 MsJ
JUST IN: Federal judge denies Bill O’Reilly’s request to keep past sexual harassment settlements sealed thehill.com pic.twitter.com
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2018
Dinner time, Bill…and you’re on the menu!
re: #560 makeitstop
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What a pack of scum Trump picks to work for him. And the Evangelicals ignore this.
We know who the fakes are and the real fake news that supports it all.
Info DHS Sec Nielsen does not have:
- How many National Guard troops will be deployed to border
- How long their deployment will last
- How much it will cost— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) April 4, 2018
LOL. Trump ordered them to get out there and say this right now, never mind the little details. Who needs studies, budgets, or schedules when you’re a very stable genius like Trump? https://t.co/O7SHo29kad
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2018
Trump thinks he can run the US government like his own personal fiefdom.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2018
I’d describe Nielsen’s conversation style as “casual, detached racism”.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 4, 2018
re: #597 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, it’s taken me a while to realize this, but it’s now incredibly obvious that Facebook did absolutely nothing in regards to information security. They literally tried their hardest to be insecure, in fact.
Facebook exists to get people to give up data they can sell. If there was a HIPAA-style law regarding releasing non-medical data, Facebook could not exist.
Exclusive: Embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fires back at critics, tells Fox News he just found out about controversial pay raise https://t.co/pxCFXjbY9K
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 4, 2018
Fires back? The interview was an unmitigated disaster for Pruitt. Watch for yourself. Good interview, but this is laughable spin by Fox on behalf of Pruitt. https://t.co/H6HxyQEpHv
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 4, 2018
re: #541 jaunte
What a headline.
For the second time, a resolution to denounce neo-Nazis has failed in the Tennessee legislature tennessean.com
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) April 4, 2018
re: #579 Hecuba’s daughter
What is wrong with the “good” people of Tennessee? If Hitler ran for President, he probably would get their votes.
I’ll mind you to keep in mind that a great big chunk of us here in TN that are as “WTF?!?” about this seemingly common-sense matter as y’all are.
If Fox told the truth, Conservatives would find someone new, like OAN, to lie to them. Lying to Conservatives is their mission.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 4, 2018
On using military appropriations to fund construction of proposed border wall, DHS Sec. Nielsen tells @jonkarl: “We’re looking into options for the military to build wall on military installations on the border.” https://t.co/VFkTztU5Xx pic.twitter.com/4ww3Neys7j
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re: #607 TedStriker
Oh, I’m in Texas. I know exactly what you mean.
re: #586 gocart mozart
Larry Kudlow on market reaction to China’s tariff announcement: “Don’t overreact, we’ll see how this works out… At the end of this whole process, the end of the rainbow, there’s a pot of gold.”
But will there be unicorns?
re: #590 MsJ
Read that article. Holy shit. Fuck Facebook. Like hard. This is just one paragraph.
re: #605 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Facebook exists to get people to give up data they can sell. If there was a HIPAA-style law regarding releasing non-medical data, Facebook could not exist.
It’s the libertarian ideal: No one will do any harm. Never been true in the real world.
re: #607 TedStriker
I’ll mind you to keep in mind that a great big chunk of us here in TN are as “WTF?!?” about this seemingly common-sense matter are y’all are.
But unfortunately (as in many another place) not a big-enough chunk to keep the Lege out of wingnut hands.
re: #612 Belafon
It’s the libertarian ideal: No one will do any harm. Never been true in the real world.
If Facebook were to shutter tomorrow, I’d not shed a tear, but the damage is already done and will not be mitigated easily. They still have terabytes (maybe even exobytes) of data they’ve collected on hundreds of millions of people (members or not) here and worldwide to this point and that’s their most valuable (and, frankly, their only solid) asset, one that will be up for sale to the highest bidder.
re: #597 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, it’s taken me a while to realize this, but it’s now incredibly obvious that Facebook did absolutely nothing in regards to information security. They literally tried their hardest to be insecure, in fact.
You can’t sell all that data if you protect it.
I think this was all baked in to their platform. People were played. Who else has a database as large and as thorough as Facebook. Sure some governments have raw data of their citizens, but they don’t get to watch the conversations, trends, likes and dislikes and put that all into a huge source for judging those people and then allow outside sources to manipulate them.
If anyone thinks CA and the Trump campaign was the only ones doing this wait until we find out Mark Zuckerberg sold it to many companies for advertising, studies, etc.
Sign up for Facebook. Thanks for being our social studies lab rats. And it is Free!
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