New Seth Meyers: Pee Tape Allegations; Ryan Retires; Trump Attacks Mueller
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Seth takes a closer look at Trump’s allies ramping up their attacks on Robert Mueller and Paul Ryan’s decision to get out of Washington.
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Exposing their identities may lead you into a road you don’t want to take…but given what has happened to you already, I expect you to throw caution to the wind anyway…. pic.twitter.com/6zIeBm4B1h
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 13, 2018
re: #3 The Major
Jacob really wants to go to prison, I guess.
Wonkette hired a new writer (Wonderbitch).
She writes today on the referendum in Anchorage that conservatives pushed to ban trans persons from bathrooms other than their sex on their birth certificates, which went down in a crushing defeat.
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re: #4 wheat-dogg
Jacob really wants to go to prison, I guess.
Jacob is a special kind of stupid.
Jacob needs to hook up with Tomi Lahren to breed the ultimate braindead wingnut, make sure we give him a manual.
I’ll take “OH G-D NO” for $200 Alec
At a Rose Garden event, Trump just asked a Congressman to change “the law” so that he can be president for 16 years. https://t.co/3A2IVgJwDV #Trump pic.twitter.com/s48x4YjXJS
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 12, 2018
re: #7 bill d. (b.d.)
Jacob is a special kind of stupid.
Jacob needs to hook up with Tomi Lahren to breed the ultimate braindead wingnut, make sure we give him a manual.
Step one would be to remove Toama’s sidearm from her waistband.
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹
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Left behind (not to be confused with the religious novel series) on the previous thread, because I’m slow:
re: #225 The Vicious Babushka
By “Anti-Vax” I wasn’t referring to vaccines, but a DEC engineer would get it.
She said “oh, I finally got it.”
She mostly worked with an offshoot of RT-11, though she did work with VAX VMS, so she’s not an anti VAXxer.
re: #9 wheat-dogg
Step one would be to remove Toama’s sidearm from her waistband.
Hey, where’s your sense of adventure?
re: #13 Blind Frog Belly White
Hey, where’s your sense of adventure?
I draw the line at sex with sidearms present. Call me old-fashioned.
re: #10 teleskiguy
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Hm. So that’s what the eye with the slash through it is for. I thought it was the version of the Website that would make you go blind. /s
re: #14 wheat-dogg
I draw the line at sex with sidearms present. Call me old-fashioned.
You’re not into threesomes? /s
re: #15 Anymouse 🌹
Hm. So that’s what the eye with the slash through it is for. I thought it was the version of the Website that would make you go blind. /s
You’ve been around long enough. Anything hiding behind a spoiler or private tag can make you go blind. And some stuff that isn’t.
re: #16 Skip Intro
Some people are just born assholes.
Jacob just wants to flaunt it. He’s like the Mirror Universe version of David Hogg.
re: #14 wheat-dogg
I draw the line at sex with sidearms present. Call me old-fashioned.
It could bring new meaning to ‘going off half cocked’.
New York Post gets a copy of Comey’s book. In it, Comey writes Trump asked him to investigate pee tape just in case Melania Trump thought it was true. https://t.co/s9viS1NH1a
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 12, 2018
“No matter how many women I fuck behind your back, you’re the only one who gets to pee on me Mel.”
“Prove it.” https://t.co/z9vYHpHtla— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 13, 2018
re: #21 Kragar
Hmm. I have that book on order from amazon. It sounds as though it is going to be more interesting reading than I thought.
Dear @FBI - you may want to check out Mr. Wohl’s claim….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 13, 2018
Thread.
Here’s a fun story…
In New York City back in the 1980’s there were two sleazeballs who used to make the cover of the local papers a whole lot.
John Gotti and Donald Trump.
1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 13, 2018
This is a stalking horse action, to test the waters for more pardons for obstruction of justice.
JUST IN: Pres. Trump poised to pardon Scooter J. Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, sources tell @ABC. https://t.co/orZpqBnjJP pic.twitter.com/WYOdfe4GsP
— ABC News (@ABC) April 13, 2018
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
re: #24 makeitstop
All holy heck is going to break loose.
SCOOP: Sources tell me @realDonaldTrump is poised to pardon Scooter Libby. https://t.co/zhtUpIAGrK
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) April 13, 2018
Love to hear what @ValeriePlame has to say about this. https://t.co/xyRvCWE551
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 13, 2018
re: #25 goddamnedfrank
JUST IN: Pres. Trump poised to pardon Scooter J. Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, sources tell @ABC. https://t.co/orZpqBnjJP pic.twitter.com/WYOdfe4GsP
— ABC News (@ABC) April 13, 2018
Meet Kelly’s replacement, everybody! https://t.co/kZe0kGCk3P
— Craig Hooper (@NextNavy) April 13, 2018
Who has Trump’s ear that brings up Scooter Libby?
$5 Trump didn’t know who the hell he was yesterday.
And if things aren’t creepy enough, sounds like Pence might be prepping his VP—Nikki Fucking Haley. Ewwww—now I really will have to up my nightmares to night terrors.
Scoop: Vice President Pence will name Jon Lerner as his new National Security Adviser. Lerner will also remain deputy to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. https://t.co/SJ6HBG3EIJ @washingtonpost
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 13, 2018
re: #31 bill d. (b.d.)
Who has Trump’s ear that brings up Scooter Libby?
$5 Trump didn’t know who the hell he was yesterday.
D’uh……Bolton.
re: #10 teleskiguy
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So that’s what that icon is for?
And it even says so when you scroll over it!
Man, do I feel like a fucking idiot!
re: #32 BeachDem
And if things aren’t creepy enough, sounds like Pence might be prepping his VP—Nikki Fucking Haley. Ewwww—now I really will have to up my nightmares to night terrors.
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re: #26 retired cynic
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
That first one and the last are near where I used to live, about 90 minutes by train and another 45 by bus or car. I never did the glass-bottomed walkway, though. Number 25 is in the same province as I live now, but I have not yet visited it.
re: #35 bill d. (b.d.)
Nothing like having a VP you can’t be alone in the same room with.
I wouldn’t want to be in a room with Icky Nikki either, but that’s a whole ‘nother story…
re: #31 bill d. (b.d.)
Who has Trump’s ear that brings up Scooter Libby?
$5 Trump didn’t know who the hell he was yesterday.
re: #34 Jay C
Man, do I feel like a fucking idiot!
Call[no phone numbers allowed], they’ll put you right through.
Darn it, that was the White House switchboard, Oh well.
re: #39 TedStriker
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Or as Mae West once said, “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”
Avalanche ahead 1-0 against the Predators. I am excite.
re: #4 wheat-dogg
Jacob really wants to go to prison, I guess.
Gosh, running into trouble with the Arizona Corporation Commission wasn’t enough for him, was it?
(order to cease and desist)
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a task force to study the United States Postal Service.
Trump says in the order that the USPS is on “an unsustainable financial path” and “must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout.”
The task force will be assigned to study such factors as pricing in the package delivery market. It will have 120 days to submit a report with its recommendations.
re: #44 BeachDem
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
Wasting taxpayer money on a scheme to punish Amazon for reasons that are totally fabricated from thin air.
re: #42 teleskiguy
Avalanche ahead 1-0 against the Predators. I am excite.
As a Nashvillian, I respectfully request that you and other Avalanche fans zip it.
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Oh well, I guess I should get ready for class now. Be back in a while.
re: #44 BeachDem
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
And he’ll be shocked, SHOCKED when he finds out the reason the USPS has money troubles is his buddies in the legislature willfully hobbled it by ordering it to “prefund” retiree benefits decades in advance.
re: #44 BeachDem
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
Stop making the Post Office prefund their benefits out decades. 90% of problem solved.
re: #44 BeachDem
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
re: #45 wheat-dogg
Wasting taxpayer money on a scheme to punish Amazon for reasons that are totally fabricated from thin air.
Of course, Trump and his GOP enablers will completely ignore any legitimate financial issues caused by Congress mandating that the USPS fully fund 75 years of retirement costs over a decade not awfully long ago (and keep it funded for a rolling 75 years out, taking money away from their operating budget) in a quite-obvious ploy to weaken it, to the benefit of private-sector shippers like UPS and FedEx.
re: #48 Targetpractice
And he’ll be shocked, SHOCKED when he finds out the reason the USPS has money troubles is his buddies in the legislature willfully hobbled it by ordering it to “prefund” retiree benefits decades in advance.
Assumes facts not in evidence—like he’d ever be able to understand that concept. (He’ll probably only read a summary of the report if his lackeys include a prototype of a TRUMP stamp.)
Also—with all the stories that have broken in the past few days, notice we haven’t heard another word about the fire at the glitter palace that killed the “crazy Jew.”
re: #44 BeachDem
JFC—it just never fucking ends:
Bring it……there are few things in the world as closely looked at as the USPS.
Jeff Bezos could pay every cable company in the country to take Fox News off their listings. He could maybe buy Fox with his pocket change.
It’s popular in society, long has, to complain about the Post Office.
This is exactly why Trump is picking on them.
He’s exploiting built-in mythologies to carry on his intimidation tactics.
FWIW, I went to the local post office the other day to mail my taxes. No line, no wait, just pay the postage and go. Now I have tracking numbers, should I want to follow the envelopes.
It’s easy, not really that expensive, and convenient.
But that’s not the story Trump is using. He’s railing about the USPS because people have complained about it for a century.
And he does this to justify two things: 1) his targeting of Amazon, owners of WaPo, and 2) so his know-nothing base believe that Trump is actually doing something.
re: #53 scottslemmons
Jeff Bezos could pay every cable company in the country to take Fox News off their listings. He could maybe buy Fox with his pocket change.
Bezos should buy twitter, ban Trump…….and Greenwald.
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re: #55 freetoken
Exactly. It is a case of keep moving there is nothing here to look at and here (pointing in another direction) is something to look at.
Kevin Smith has invited Stan Lee to live with him after reports of elder abuse https://t.co/sEwHRV17j9 pic.twitter.com/Si4sT1RsNR
— New York Post (@nypost) April 13, 2018
re: #26 retired cynic
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
A maz ing
re: #56 bill d. (b.d.)
Bezos should buy twitter, ban Trump…….and Greenwald.
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Honestly, Bezos probably expects he can outlast Trump easily. Any action taken to harm him, Amazon, or the Post is going to sit in the courts either ‘til Trump is out of office or ‘til a sensible court rules in Bezos’ favor.
After Trump is out of office, on the other hand, the richest man on the planet is free to fuck with the low-level millionaire as much as he wants.
re: #61 scottslemmons
What if Trump dismisses all the courts he doesn’t like?
Sure, that sounds far fetched to some people, but the Trumpers are now all-in for dumping the rule of law.
re: #61 scottslemmons
Honestly, Bezos probably expects he can outlast Trump easily. Any action taken to harm him, Amazon, or the Post is going to sit in the courts either ‘til Trump is out of office or ‘til a sensible court rules in Bezos’ favor.
After Trump is out of office, on the other hand, the richest man on the planet is free to fuck with the low-level millionaire as much as he wants.
Yep, before Bezos was the richest man on the planet he was probably the poorest guy on the planet (debt wise). He knows how to wait.
The little weather tile in Windows 10 is telling me right now it’s partly sunny and 53F.
It’s dark outside. Perhaps Microsoft needs to work on that?
The National Weather Service at least gets the position of the sun correct (it’s dark).
I’m guessing the temperatures are about to drop:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Cheyenne WY
1222 PM MDT Thu Apr 12 2018
…Strong winds and snow returning to parts of southeastern
Wyoming and the western Nebraska Panhandle Thursday night through
Friday night…
NEZ01[no phone numbers allowed]00-
/o.upg.kcys.ws.A.0008.180413T1200Z-180414T0600Z/
/o.new.kcys.ws.W.0013.180413T1200Z-180414T0600Z/
Scotts Bluff-Morrill-Cheyenne-
Including the cities of Scottsbluff, Gering, Angora, Bridgeport,
Bayard, Redington, Brownson, and Sidney
1222 PM MDT Thu Apr 12 2018
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM FRIDAY TO MIDNIGHT
MDT FRIDAY NIGHT…
* WHAT…Heavy snow and blowing snow expected. Total snow
accumulations of 4 to 6 inches, with localized amounts up to 8
inches, are expected.
* WHERE…Scotts Bluff, Morrill and Cheyenne counties.
* WHEN…From 6 AM Friday to midnight MDT Friday night.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Plan on difficult travel conditions,
including during the evening commute on Friday. Damage to
trees and power lines is likely. Winds gusting as high as 60
mph will cause widespread blowing and drifting snow.
That MyPillow dude better pony up for a bigass ad buy if he wants her to stay on the air.
Beautiful.
And the @Avalanche have opened the scoring against the Presidents’ Trophy winners.
Do with that what you will. #StanleyCup pic.twitter.com/2LcKqfqYvG— NHL (@NHL) April 13, 2018
re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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On the other hand, Stan released a video threatening to sue anyone reporting on elder-abuse claims.
Personally, I suspect it’s coerced by his guardians/daughter. Stan’s business sense has not been good for a long time, and I wish to hell he could get free of their influence…
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹
Why do they include the “city of Angora” in the weather notice (population 1) but not us (we’re a real incorporated city with 128 maybe more now)?
Wikipedia, picture of downtown Angora:
re: #4 wheat-dogg
Jacob really wants to go to prison, I guess.
I’m guessing the gay pickup bar route didn’t work for him.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹
They included the “city of Redington” as well, population about three (plus a Christian summer camp a hell of a long way from people so children can’t get horrible secular ideas from people like me):
en.wikipedia.org
(Wikipedia, downtown Redington)
They managed to pick our county seat, and two near ghost towns for the weather report.
re: #26 retired cynic
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
the rather posh suburban neighborhood totally blows away my stereotyped preconceptions about how people live in the prc
the pee tape is gonna be really good too because he’ll keep saying “terrific” and “you’re doing a really great job”
— lvl45 CHAOS POTUS who thinks ‘the pee won’t leak’ (@thetomzone) April 12, 2018
re: #72 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
the rather posh suburban neighborhood totally blows away my stereotyped preconceptions about how people live in the prc
My exact thoughts on that picture too.
I’m mistaken. They did get a ghost town (Brownson). Famous for having a post office until 1895.
bing.com (map)
en.wikipedia.org
(Brownson, Nebr.)
re: #62 freetoken
What if Trump dismisses all the courts he doesn’t like?
Sure, that sounds far fetched to some people, but the Trumpers are now all-in for dumping the rule of law.
I don’t think anything is far fetched with regards to Trump.
Classic, springtime apocalyptic #dust event is brewing here in SW Colorado. Look for reddish-brown snow in San Juans, melting the scant snow that’s left even faster.
— Jonathan P. Thompson (@jonnypeace) April 12, 2018
All those rivers in those mountains feed Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
Worst. Case. Scenario. The water situation in the American southwest is dire. Shit’s already catching fire at my twenty.
That is just unrealistic
— U.S.A. (@jvrt1995) April 13, 2018
If it’s not realistic for Middle Eastern countries to be tolerant to Jews, then how is it realistic for the US to be tolerant to Muslims?
Should we not hold the Midde East to the same standards that we hold ourselves to? https://t.co/qPoECr0ox5— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) April 13, 2018
So much for American Exceptionalism and being the Shining City on the hill… https://t.co/iHeKASqK3S
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 13, 2018
re: #76 Interesting Times
Uploading this list of Twitter trends for posterity so future historians (if there are future historians) can spend countless hours interpreting WTF it signifies:
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Should I be gladdened that others are coming around to my dim view of the future??
re: #78 teleskiguy
All those rivers in those mountains feed Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
Worst. Case. Scenario. The water situation in the American southwest is dire. Shit’s already catching fire at my twenty.
Not looking forward to a dust storm here combined with our incoming blizzard blizzard. Yay. More topsoil for us.
re: #26 retired cynic
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
re: #80 Kragar
Conservatives in this country have always been against immigration. They got their guy in office who lets them really fly their freak flag of hatred now.
re: #26 retired cynic
What beautiful photography: China Viewed From Above, 37 photos in the Atlantic. The first one almost killed me straight away.
That first pic is the epitome of ‘NOPE’.
More American exceptionalism:
A 3-year-old girl from Las Vegas who traveled to Utah for kidney cancer treatment was shot at a grocery store yesterday. A grocery store. Because America.
Ready to join @MomsDemand and help us end gun violence? Text JOIN to 644-33. #utleg https://t.co/R62xm1WBrv— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 13, 2018
re: #80 Kragar
This guy is either a Poe or batshit insane.
In my day, the word “Awesome” was reserved for things like curing Polio and walking on the Moon, not for food or TV shows.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 13, 2018
Lighten up, nerd. https://t.co/SZxWbB2iTm
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) April 13, 2018
Holy shit this is SPOT ON pic.twitter.com/ew9wONHRVV
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 13, 2018
re: #95 jeffreyw
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Don’t let your meatloaf😊
If I had some of Grandma Bacon’s Chili Sauce to dab on that meatloaf!
re: #96 freetoken
I wish my computer could play Twitter videos, but it can’t.
Can you summarize?
Paraphrasing: A B List Reality Star is the face of a nation in decline.
re: #97 Joe Bacon 🌹
If I had some of Grandma Bacon’s Chili Sauce to dab on that meatloaf!
Mmm… bacon chili sauce!
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹
“That first pic is the epitome of ‘NOPE’.”
Every time you post that pic it reminds me of the anti-chew spray I bought when I first adopted Penelope. Thank goodness I no longer need it. She hated it and I hated using it.
re: #98 Kragar
Paraphrasing: A B List Reality Star is the face of a nation in decline.
We are, thus, in the Idiocracy.
Holy crap, the winds are whipping here in Koreatown! The leaves are being sheared off of the palm trees here on Normandie!
re: #94 Kragar
That man, by his words and demeanor, summed up where I’m at right now quite eloquently.
LOL! So I have a 2nd Twitter account that I just use to respond to conservatives. Mostly just the elected politicians and other high profile people. Tonight I was responding to Jacob Wohl when I noticed a Tweet by someone supporting what he said about doxing the FBI agents. I made a funny reply to this person and didn’t think anything of it. Come back 45 minutes later and notice I have 50+ notifications on my Twitter account. Well apparently a lot of people took my 1 off attempt to be funny really well. 388 likes later (and counting) and I’m still giggling. The guy I burned has blocked me, but I can kind of see why Twitter can be a bit seductive to use. :)
re: #104 rhuarc
Well, post the damned tweet here! I’ll retweet it!
I am in SFO waiting for my 17-hour flight to Singapore. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.
My wife says she needs a break from the Internet.
She got entangled in an argument in the comments section of a Garfunkel and Oates video.
Some gun nut came in claiming he was part of a well-ordered militia (a group of twenty-two tacticool guys).
She called that a gang, and the derp was on.
re: #106 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I am in SFO waiting for my 17-hour flight to Singapore. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.
My thoughts go out that you have the most experienced and trained cabin crew to ever fly the Pacific.
re: #105 teleskiguy
Well, post the damned tweet here! I’ll retweet it!
Heh. I don’t say nice stuff to the people I’m replying to. A lot of you Tweet nicely thought out replies and most of the time I just like being vulgar in some way or calling them traitors. :)
re: #98 Kragar
Paraphrasing: A B List Reality Star is the face of a nation in decline.
Nothing - not Russia and not Comey’s letter - forced Americans to wake up in the morning and knowingly and willfully vote for a racist, sexual predator, illiterate, ignorant, lying baboon.
— BWD 🤢 You People Replaced Obama With This (@IrisRimon) April 12, 2018
End of the 2nd, Avalanche and Predators tied 2-2. Good hockey.
re: #111 teleskiguy
End of the 2nd, Avalanche and Predators tied 2-2. Good hockey.
I bet you had a good time when they won it all in 2001.
re: #102 Joe Bacon 🌹
“Holy crap, the winds are whipping here in Koreatown! The leaves are being sheared off of the palm trees here on Normandie!”
I had to have a hole repaired in my roof last week. For the last couple of weeks here in Middle GA, we’ve had some high winds. I wasn’t really worried about it——until it rained last week, I stepped out of my bedroom into the hallway and saw water on the tiles. I had been mopping earlier that evening, but I know I didn’t leave that much water on the floor. I mopped the water up, thinking that maybe Penelope had spilled some water from pushing her bowl from one room to another. Nope. That wasn’t it. A few days later, it rained again and I see more water in the same spot. I knew then there was something wrong with my roof, and I couldn’t believe it because it’s a new roof! Guy came out and discovered that a part of a pine tree had broken off and knocked a pizza pan size hole in the roof. I’ve had about seven trees removed from the property so far, and now I’m thinking I need to remove a few more.
re: #109 rhuarc
Heh. I don’t say nice stuff to the people I’m replying to. A lot of you Tweet nicely thought out replies and most of the time I just like being vulgar in some way or calling them traitors. :)
We here at LGF rise below vulgarity.
re: #98 Kragar
Paraphrasing: A B List Reality Star is the face of a nation in decline.
While people are scrounging to pay their electric bills. Put food on the table. Pay the rent.
re: #80 Kragar
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I like the idea, given that he’d have a life expectancy about even with the half-life of Beryllium-8.
re: #114 teleskiguy
We here at LGF rise below vulgarity.
I’d like to know how many different lines there are in your family tree. I’m guessing not many.
— hfghgj (@Reps_r_Traitors) April 13, 2018
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet you had a good time when they won it all in 2001.
It was even weirder in 1996. First professional sports franchise to win a championship in Colorado history.
Drought-pocalypse in west Texas. A dust storm rolls over Odessa, Texas last week.
It’s worse in Lubbock, which has had just 1.2 inch of precipitation since last November.
TIME’s new cover: Donald Trump relied on Michael Cohen to weather the storm. Now the President is on his own https://t.co/Z8L5fYLuCO pic.twitter.com/UfTcklwg41
— TIME (@TIME) April 12, 2018
re: #114 teleskiguy
We here at LGF rise below vulgarity.
The really vulgar stuff is over at Wonkette, where they talk about canned clams or vegan baby buttholes.
Here the worst vulgarity seems to be those who get their hate on about pineapple on pizza (ducks).
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
The really vulgar stuff is over at Wonkette, where they talk about canned clams or vegan baby buttholes.
Here the worst vulgarity seems to be those who get their hate on about pineapple on pizza (ducks).
Pineapple on pizza is delicious!
re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That region is getting boned in the ear when it comes to moisture.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
The really vulgar stuff is over at Wonkette, where they talk about canned clams or vegan baby buttholes.
Here the worst vulgarity seems to be those who get their hate on about pineapple on pizza (ducks).
I knew that Witchcraft/Satanism warning was a fake when they didn’t mention pineapple pizza.
re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Drought-pocalypse in west Texas. A dust storm rolls over Odessa, Texas last week.
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It’s worse in Lubbock, which has had just 1.2 inch of precipitation since last November.
Old days.
The Dust Bowl was one of Ken Burns’ I loved. Sad, real.
re: #118 teleskiguy
That was glorious. So was 2001.
Dude and I have a picture with the Stanley Cup. It’s really cool to see the cup up close and personal.
re: #123 teleskiguy
The current national map:
Image: usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc—web—2018-04-03.png
Down here in the corner of the country, we’ll move from “moderate” to “severe” if we don’t get some rain soon.
But the rainy season is almost over for us.
re: #115 Stanley Sea
While people are scrounging to pay their electric bills. Put food on the table. Pay the rent.
…but they still got Jay-Zuss…and the Rapture® is coming on the 24th…
re: #128 Joe Bacon 🌹
Speaking of…
The funniest thing about the Rapture will be watching all the assholes who were sure they were going wondering why they’re still down here.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 13, 2018
re: #106 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I am in SFO waiting for my 17-hour flight to Singapore. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.
My personal record is 15 1/2 hours from New York to Tokyo, but that was back when
A) I smoked like a chimney
B) Smoking was permitted in airplanes (international flights).
My 6 year old watching @Morning_Joe with me just said @morningmika looks worried - I said “she is” he said “it’s @realDonaldTrump ‘s fault right?” Kids know Trump is trouble . Why don’t republicans in Congress?
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) April 12, 2018
Has your 6 year old asked you about why you promoted a Constitutional Amendment to ban marriage equality, civil unions and domestic partnerships under George W Bush? Or is she not that woke yet? https://t.co/LCx59EqjYk
— Chris Barron (@ChrisRBarron) April 12, 2018
Save the lies for your appearances on @foxandfriends sweetie pie. I signed the Supreme Court brief for marriage equality alongside many of my 43 colleagues. You trumpets are more mad than anyone else. Pray more rage less. https://t.co/Wyb8XNpGH0
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) April 12, 2018
re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Drought-pocalypse in west Texas. A dust storm rolls over Odessa, Texas last week.”
Don’t dare call it a haboob. I remember some Arizona citizens freaking out when a weather guy used that term to refer to a dust storm there a few years ago. “We don’t want nothing to do with them Mooslims, call it by it’s American name——dust storm” seemed to be the preferred response at the time.
re: #31 bill d. (b.d.)
Who has Trump’s ear that brings up Scooter Libby?
Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing are Libby’s lawyers. They’re the two who were named to Trump’s private legal defense team three weeks ago but then had to decline to join because of conflicts with existing clients.
re: #130 Scout
My personal record is 15 1/2 hours from New York to Tokyo, but that was back when
A) I smoked like a chimney
B) Smoking was permitted in airplanes (international flights).
I had a Dallas - Seoul flight last year before ultimately landing in China. Just a little over 14 hours. However, since it was paid for by my company I used my miles to upgrade to business class. Best upgrade ever!
re: #85 Joe Bacon 🌹
Folks, I’m coming to the rescue with Chicken Diane from Palermo’s in Los Angeles.
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A little ditty, about Chicken Diane…
[ /mellencamp ]
re: #123 teleskiguy
“That region is getting boned in the ear when it comes to moisture.”
Has Abbott issued a “Day to Pray For Rain” proclamation yet?
Laura Ingraham is exposing (((who’s))) attacking conservative speech pic.twitter.com/9vqFMMyNGr
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 13, 2018
re: #129 Kragar
Speaking of…
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I keep kicking around the idea of writing some sort of novel set in the post-Rapture, where all the evangelicals got Left Behind and have mostly signed on with homebrew Churches of Satan to get revenge on God for betraying them…
re: #135 makeitstop
A little ditty, about Chicken Diane…
[ /mellencamp ]
(with all of the punning as of late, Grant’s getting a workout)
re: #129 Kragar
“The funniest thing about the Rapture will be watching all the assholes who were sure they were going wondering why they’re still down here.”
Squidbillies had an episode about the Rapture. The preacher got the shock of his life when he wasn’t Raptured. I LMBO. My parents used to say about some Christians, “They’re going to bust hell wide open.”
re: #123 teleskiguy
That region is getting boned in the ear when it comes to moisture.
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I went to look at the national map … SW Kansas is suffering the same fate. Nearly all of Kansas is in at least “severe drought” or worse. It seems to cut off right at the state line with Nebraska.
Here, we’re at normal for moisture.
re: #125 Stanley Sea
Old days.
The Dust Bowl was one of Ken Burns’ I loved. Sad, real.
My grandpa worked with farmers and others in Kansas to teach crop rotation and develop Co-ops to Fight the bad left over effects.
re: #129 Kragar
Speaking of…
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I’m thinking of making a t-shirt that says “I survived the rapture and I’m stuck here with you.”
re: #138 scottslemmons
“I keep kicking around the idea of writing some sort of novel set in the post-Rapture, where all the evangelicals got Left Behind and have mostly signed on with homebrew Churches of Satan to get revenge on God for betraying them…”
If you write it and publish it, I’ll buy it. Although I’m a Christian, I get a real kick out of seeing the holier than thous being disappointed, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. I’m simply delighted at the number of “pastors” being exposed recently as sex abusers, adulterers, liars, schemers, child molesters, etc. My delight of the day was reading that Steve Stockman was convicted on 23 of 24 corruption/fraud charges. He used to get on my last nerve when he was in the House wasting our air with his posing, lying, scolding others, and pretending to be the #1 Christian in the entire joint. I knew he wasn’t what he was pretending to be, and his conviction proves it.
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re: #128 Joe Bacon 🌹
…but they still got Jay-Zuss…and the Rapture® is coming on the 24th…
What I find amusing about this latest astro-hooey end-of-the-world crap, is that (if I read it correctly) it’s just another iteration of the supposed Nibiru Cataclysm
(Nibiru is supposed to be some sort of rogue planet that whips through the Solar System every so often and messes things up for Earth. It must be a bad-ass “rogue”, though, as its existence and supposed effects violate virtually every law of astrophysics. It’s just more “apocalyptic” shuck-and-jive with a tacky veneer of pseudoscience. Its one main feature-of-interest is that the tale isn’t a rehash of ancient or pseudoancient “revelations” but was revealed via an alien brain-implant made up by a woman from Wisconsin in 1995. Probably from Paul Ryan’s district…)
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
The aquifer is drying up.
re: #147 majii
“I keep kicking around the idea of writing some sort of novel set in the post-Rapture, where all the evangelicals got Left Behind and have mostly signed on with homebrew Churches of Satan to get revenge on God for betraying them…”
If you write it and publish it, I’ll buy it. Although I’m a Christian, I get a real kick out of seeing the holier than thous being disappointed, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. I’m simply delighted at the number of “pastors” being exposed recently as sex abusers, adulterers, liars, schemers, child molesters, etc. My delight of the day was reading that Steve Stockman was convicted on 23 of 24 corruption/fraud charges. He used to get on my last nerve when he was in the House wasting our air with his posing, lying, scolding others, and pretending to be the #1 Christian in the entire joint. I knew he wasn’t what he was pretending to be, and his conviction proves it.
My wife’s ex-hub once answered a Saturday door knocker with:
(looks at door knocker strangely) “Well, the Rapture was last week at [some time]. It was quite a sight to behold. I know why I’m here, but why are you?”
re: #150 prairiefire
The aquifer is drying up.
You understand that if things continue like this, Keith Richards is going to say “the hell with it” and turn up his toes, and then where will we all be? Nothing but cockroaches.
re: #147 majii
“I keep kicking around the idea of writing some sort of novel set in the post-Rapture, where all the evangelicals got Left Behind and have mostly signed on with homebrew Churches of Satan to get revenge on God for betraying them…”
If you write it and publish it, I’ll buy it. Although I’m a Christian, I get a real kick out of seeing the holier than thous being disappointed, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction.
I doubt I’ll be getting around to it anytime soon. I’d write more, but I’d have to give up constant net-surfing… :/
re: #96 freetoken
I wish my computer could play Twitter videos, but it can’t.
Can you summarize?
My computer won’t play the embedded videos but Charles has kindly put the film strip - bottom right in the blue strip, which plays them beautifully. Does this work for you or does your computer simply not pay videos?
re: #149 Jay C
What I find amusing about this latest astro-hooey end-of-the-world crap, is that (if I read it correctly) it’s just another iteration of the supposed Nibiru Cataclysm
(Nibiru is supposed to be some sort of rogue planet that whips through the Solar System every so often and messes things up for Earth. It must be a bad-ass “rogue”, though, as its existence and supposed effects violate virtually every law of astrophysics. It’s just more “apocalyptic” shuck-and-jive with a tacky veneer of pseudoscience. Its one main feature-of-interest is that the tale isn’t a rehash of ancient or pseudoancient “revelations” but wasrevealed via an alien brain-implantmade up by a woman from Wisconsin in 1995. Probably from Paul Ryan’s district…)
We have this asshole to thank for this nonsense:
When he talks about how all his concerts are different is great. The reason I’ve seen Umphrey’s McGee 56 times in 10 different states.
re: #106 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I am in SFO waiting for my 17-hour flight to Singapore. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.
I’m not sure what time this was posted as I have much trouble converting LGF time to my time - but if you are still reading I send you “safe travel and enjoy”
re: #155 Jack Burton
We have this asshole to thank for this nonsense:
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This brings back memories of my 12th grade Advanced Biology class where the teacher mixed creationism with Immanuel Velikovsky. When you try to bring up a challenge to the insanity pushed in such books as Worlds In Collision he condemned you to hell…
re: #154 fern01
My computer won’t play the embedded videos but Charles has kindly put the film strip - bottom right in the blue strip, which plays them beautifully. Does this work for you or does your computer simply not pay videos?
Twitter videos just don’t play.
Not sure what you mean about “the film strip - bottom right in the blue strip”. I use Spy mode only to read LGF.
re: #128 Joe Bacon 🌹
…but they still got Jay-Zuss…and the Rapture® is coming on the 24th…
If someone actually tries to promote that in person to me, I will offer them $20,000 cash for their house right now, house only to be transferred to me if the Apocalypse (tm) fails to occur. (House would have to be worth far more than that of course.)
Sign a land contract to sell me the house on the 25th. Ask them if they have the courage of their convictions. After all, they’d get my money to blow as they like if the world is ending anyway.
Betcha I get no takers.
re: #152 petesh
You understand that if things continue like this, Keith Richards is going to say “the hell with it” and turn up his toes, and then where will we all be? Nothing but cockroaches.
Keith and Betty White will drink a toast to longevity around her 125th, I reckon.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹
Here is another way to make it rich off the rapture crowd
Who will take care of fluffy when you are gone?
re: #158 Joe Bacon 🌹
This brings back memories of my 12th grade Advanced Biology class where the teacher mixed creationism with Immanuel Velikovsky. When you try to bring up a challenge to the insanity pushed in such books as Worlds In Collision he condemned you to hell…
I feel sorry for you. Velikovsky was a real nutjob. I read Worlds in Collision in junior high school, assuming it was science fiction, and I wasn’t far off the mark.
re: #155 Jack Burton
Funny - I just saw that very picture while looking up Nibiru “facts” for my # 149: it was in the wiki for (appropriately) pseudohistory.
As promised, I have returned from teaching young minds.
re: #159 freetoken
Twitter videos just don’t play.
Not sure what you mean about “the film strip - bottom right in the blue strip”. I use Spy mode only to read LGF.
I’m sorry, I think I’m probably slightly more computer literate than Anymouse - but I have not a clue what Spy mode is.
Holy shit this is SPOT ON pic.twitter.com/ew9wONHRVV
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 13, 2018
The Blue strip at the bottom of the tweet, has the options to retweet, reply etc. If it is a video or picture there is a small film strip showing to the right - as in the original tweet I’ve reposted.
re: #157 fern01
I’m not sure what time this was posted as I have much trouble converting LGF time to my time - but if you are still reading I send you “safe travel and enjoy”
If you’re in the Sydney time zone, add seven hours and subtract one day.
re: #165 wheat-dogg
As promised, I have returned from teaching young minds.
Well, enjoy my favorite classical music piece.
#NowPlaying Igor Stravinsky > Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Boulez - 1993 > The Firebird https://t.co/6cvOYe61F5
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 24, 2017
re: #164 Jay C
Funny - I just saw that very picture while looking up Nibiru “facts” for my # 149: it was in the wiki for (appropriately) pseudohistory.
I remember there was a slew of ancient alien, strange planetary collisions, and apocalyptic doom books in the 1970s and ’80s. Now the same subjects pop on cable TV and YouTube.
There’s a market for such bullshit. I bet I could write a parody of them and it would still sell and be believed by a frightening number of people.
re: #167 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If you’re in the Sydney time zone, add seven hours and subtract one day.
And if you like in the American South, subtract 2 centuries.
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re: #169 wheat-dogg
I remember there was a slew of ancient alien, strange planetary collisions, and apocalyptic doom books in the 1970s and ’80s. Now the same subjects pop on cable TV and YouTube.
There’s a market for such bullshit. I bet I could write a parody of them and it would still sell and be believed by a frightening number of people.
“The Flat Earth, Nibiru, and the Grain Silos of the Gods: How They Point to the Coming Apocalypse,” by Wheat-Dogg
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹
“The Flat Earth, Nibiru, and the Grain Silos of the Gods: How They Point to the Coming Apocalypse,” by Wheat-Dogg
That works, but I need to work in the reptilians somehow.
re: #169 wheat-dogg
I remember there was a slew of ancient alien, strange planetary collisions, and apocalyptic doom books in the 1970s and ’80s. Now the same subjects pop on cable TV and YouTube.
There’s a market for such bullshit. I bet I could write a parody of them and it would still sell and be believed by a frightening number of people.
Dad got into the von Daniken books. Then I pointed out von Daniken’s criminal background…
Watch this Gif…..
Why do you hate America? pic.twitter.com/PcmjWDTMll
— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) April 12, 2018
re: #167 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If you’re in the Sydney time zone, add seven hours and subtract one day.
I’m in Brisbane - at the minute same time as Sydney - I seem able to convert to US Eastern but nothing else. Thanks for the reply. My current time is 2.32PM - so that would make it 9.32 PM yesterday
re: #171 Targetpractice
And if you like in the American South, subtract 2 centuries.
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Well I’m in Brisbane & most from Sydney put their time back a century when they cross the border (not always snark ;) )
re: #175 Dave In Austin
So the RNC is now officially doing the “lyin’” Comey thing?
re: #169 wheat-dogg
I remember there was a slew of ancient alien, strange planetary collisions, and apocalyptic doom books in the 1970s and ’80s. Now the same subjects pop on cable TV and YouTube.
There’s a market for such bullshit. I bet I could write a parody of them and it would still sell and be believed by a frightening number of people.
I’ve got a lot of love for old “high weirdness” conspiracy kookery. Somewhere out in storage, I’ve got Donna Kossy’s “Kooks,” “High Weirdness by Mail,” the Principia Discordia, an extra book full of historical Discordian ephemera, a giant collection of Illuminati cards and related game material, more Robert Anton Wilson books than I really need, John Keel’s “The Mothman Prophecies,” and very nice Bavarian Illuminati lapel pin.
This Q-Anon shit’s got no style.
re: #178 freetoken
So the RNC is now officially doing the “lyin’” Comey thing?
Ayep. The only thing more hilarious is when they try to hit him for how he treated Hillary, when really their entire beef with him on that remains that he didn’t recommend indictments.
re: #174 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dad got into the von Daniken books. Then I pointed out von Daniken’s criminal background…
Yeah, von Daniken was another big name in the “alternative history” genre. I read his books, too, and thought them to be absolute rubbish.
The study of ancient astronomy is now a growing scientific discipline, and it turns out our ancient ancestors were no dummies. They could do stuff like predict solar eclipses (useful to control the masses with portents of doom), line up buildings on the cardinal points, and so on. All without the help of mysterious aliens who came and then disappeared forever.
But the idea was a great concept for Stargate, the movie.
Given that Cohen is an underling for the RNC, I wonder what the FBI will find in the stuff that they took, that will be evidence that some of the RNC was in on the Trump’s dealings with eastern European gangsters?
re: #182 freetoken
Given that Cohen is an underling for the RNC, I wonder what the FBI will find in the stuff that they took, that will be evidence that some of the RNC was in on the Trump’s dealings with eastern European gangsters?
We can only hope.
re: #179 scottslemmons
I saw “Chariots Of The Gods” in a theater and was all in on that stuff in jr. High. Loved it. Subscribed to Omni magazine and I would read Psychology Today while waiting at me mom’s shrink. What those reasearchers were up to in the 70’s, oy.
re: #178 freetoken
“So the RNC is now officially doing the “lyin’” Comey thing?”
Yep. They have to do whatever they can do to keep the natives riled up while they continue to lie to them about how terrific their god-emperor is.
”___ is out to get him!!! Send money!!!” are the two goals of the RNC. It’s never The Talking Yam’s turn to take responsibility for his self-created problems. This sh*t the RNC and others are pulling in covering TTY’s makes me think an enemies list exists, and they’re going to go after everyone on the list and are not going to remove the person’s name from the list until s/he is destroyed personally and politically.
In one of the Avengers movies, Thor wasn’t far off the mark when he made the following comment while referring to humans, “You people are so petty.”
It was 70° F this afternoon. It’s snowing like hell right now, big wet heavy flakes.
I’m watching Wild Wild Country. Last ep? No idea.
re: #187 teleskiguy
It was 70° F this afternoon. It’s snowing like hell right now, big wet heavy flakes.
I think we are supposed to get that on Saturday.
re: #173 wheat-dogg
That works, but I need to work in the reptilians somehow.
“The Flat Earth, Nibiru, and the Grain Silos of the Reptilian Gods: How They Point to the Coming Apocalypse,” by Wheat-Dogg
re: #173 wheat-dogg
That works, but I need to work in the reptilians somehow.
And the Bible.
Aliens and crap will sell books, but if you want to really hit the big time (well, radio talk-show big time, anyway) make them Biblical aliens. Your book will fly off the shelves faster than a Sumerian UFO….
re: #187 teleskiguy
It was 70° F this afternoon. It’s snowing like hell right now, big wet heavy flakes.
We’re swinging from around 85F this afternoon (outside cleaning out an old shed of my father’s. Probably hadn’t been opened in 7 or 8 years. Eek.) to the 40s during the day on Monday, low in the 20s. All of the trees and shrubs around here are going to be unhappy. They are supposed to spray the field right in front of my house on Monday. I hope they get it done and don’t get a lot of wind drift. We had the field in hay, and didn’t spray. I’m going to miss the grass and the birds, dragonflies and bats. Sigh.
So, here’s how package delivery works at my university. Every single time. I teach for 2 -4 hours, go home, take off my shoes, get ready to relax, and a text comes to inform me my package has arrived at the absolute farthest pickup point on campus. It’s a good 15 minute walk.
And today it’s raining.
OTOH it’s computer stuff, so I will {grumble grumble} put my boots back on and trudge through the rain to fetch my goodies.
I can almost guarantee another text will arrive once I return home to tell me another parcel has arrived at a different pickup location. That’s happened, too.
Anyway, BBIAB.
re: #187 teleskiguy
It was 70° F this afternoon. It’s snowing like hell right now, big wet heavy flakes.
No snow here yet … it was near 70° here as well. Now it’s 52°. The low is scheduled for 37° which is also the high for tomorrow (declining temperatures all day tomorrow).
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹
“The Flat Earth, Nibiru, and the Grain Silos of the Reptilian Gods: How They Point to the Coming Apocalypse,” by Wheat-Dogg
Wheat-Dogg? I think you mean Lord Kinbote.
re: #191 Jay C
And the Bible.
Aliens and crap will sell books, but if you want to really hit the big time (well, radio talk-show big time, anyway) make them Biblical aliens. Your book will fly off the shelves faster than a Sumerian UFO….
An evolution of the Shaggy God Story
A shaggy God story is a minor science fiction genre characterized by an attempt to explain Biblical concepts with science fiction tropes. The term was coined by writer and critic Brian W. Aldiss in a pseudonymous column in the October 1965 issue of New Worlds.
“The shaggy god story is the bane of magazine editors, who get approximately one story a week set in a garden of Eden spelt Ee-Duhn.”
—Brian W. Aldiss, writing as Dr. Peristyle, New Worlds October, 1965.
re: #191 Jay C
And the Bible.
Aliens and crap will sell books, but if you want to really hit the big time (well, radio talk-show big time, anyway) make them Biblical aliens. Your book will fly off the shelves faster than a Sumerian UFO….
Biblical aliens who promote the II Amendment.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹
Biblical aliens who promote the II Amendment.
“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free”
ANOTHER fuck up.
White House must not have gotten the memo. Says VP Mike Pence will meet tomorrow with #Peru President Kuczynski, who resigned 3 weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/MhQlDgfB02
— Ben Bartenstein (@BenBartenstein) April 13, 2018
And tomorrow is…FRIDAY THE 13TH…
I fear that the #2 is gonna be spinning in the Vornado all day…
We have boarded. Only 16 hours, they tell us. Bye for a while.
re: #178 freetoken
So the RNC is now officially doing the “lyin’” Comey thing?
Of course - interestingly they didn’t think he was lying when he attacked Hillary Clinton. Either the RNC or Ccomey are intermittant liars.
Comey describes Trump as a “congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego.”Then why did he work for Trump? If that’s what Comey thought, the honorable action would be to resign. I’m on @IngrahamAngle tonight talking about it.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 13, 2018
Ari, like his GOP cohorts, is blinded by Trumpism. Comey worked for the American people, not Trump. It’s sad you can’t understand that simple fact.https://t.co/OQFg2byiEs
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 13, 2018
I don’t have the words to describe how angry this makes me:
re: #201 Stanley Sea
ANOTHER fuck up.
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There is dumb & then there is the current WH - the outcry if President Obama had done this - not to mention, Trump cancelled & sent Pence instead. So little in the media about this - was it because Cohen was arrested, was it because trump is so out of his comfort zone outside of his golf courses or was it because he can’t pronounce any names that are not anglo saxon in origin.
re: #209 Scout
I don’t have the words to describe how angry this makes me:
Buried as the last paragraphs of the article:
Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly making the deadly swatting call. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on May 22.
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has signed legislation that will increase the penalties for making hoax emergency calls when they lead to the injuries or deaths of others.
The new law takes effect July 1 and calls for a presumed sentence of more than 12 years in prisons for a first conviction when a hoax call results in someone’s death.
re: #210 fern01
There is dumb & then there is the current WH - the outcry if President Obama had done this - not to mention, Trump cancelled & sent Pence instead. So little in the media about this - was it because Cohen was arrested, was it because trump is so out of his comfort zone outside of his golf courses or was it because he can’t pronounce any names that are not anglo saxon in origin.
Yes.
re: #212 TedStriker
I did get the “Cohen was arrested” somewhat incorrect. But it will no doubt happen soon.
re: #210 fern01
There is dumb & then there is the current WH - the outcry if President Obama had done this - not to mention, Trump cancelled & sent Pence instead. So little in the media about this - was it because Cohen was arrested, was it because trump is so out of his comfort zone outside of his golf courses or was it because he can’t pronounce any names that are not anglo saxon in origin.
Not to worry, Vanky is already in Peru and instagramming her every move, and Jared will be joining her as well. And, in addition to her breathy, nauseating reports, she’s also playing dressup again (like when she was in that very serious lab shot) as she visits a quinoa factory. Barf.
re: #209 Scout
I don’t have the words to describe how angry this makes me:
This “reached for his waistband” claim has appeared in a lot of police shootings recently. It is not a reason to shoot, the killers know perfectly well that men in particular will reflexively try to pull their pants up when they are taken by surprise. I saw this many times when I was a police officer, and never shot anyone. It is an excuse, a power-tripping fad among killer cops. It is akin to the spate of shootings of harmless little dogs we saw a while back, a fad that continues in many brutality-oriented cop shops. It is an expression of brutal, un-mitigated power. I would like to see a national, indeed, global, boycott of communities that allow this barbarism. Hit these savages and their backward-ass fascist employers where it hurts, in their profits.
re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This “reached for his waistband” claim has appeared in a lot of police shootings recently. It is not a reason to shoot, the killers know perfectly well that men in particular will reflexively try to pull their pants up when they are taken by surprise. I saw this many times when I was a police officer, and never shot anyone. It is an excuse, a power-tripping fad among killer cops. It is akin to the spate of shootings of harmless little dogs we saw a while back, a fad that continues in many brutality-oriented cop shops. It is an expression of brutal, un-mitigated power. I would like to see a national, indeed, global, boycott of communities that allow this barbarism. Hit these savages and their backward-ass fascist employers where it hurts, in their profits.
In this case, the officer was working on the knowledge that he had: A murder had been committed and the person swatted was holding two people in a kidnapping.
With the calls saying the guy had murdered someone (even though they were later shown false), that sort of indicates to me that such a person (a murderer) would kill again.
The article also says that both the police and the citizens’ review board will go over the incident to see if he followed police protocols and if those protocols are sufficient.
The asshole who made the hoax calls has been arrested and charged with manslaughter (essentially using the police as a murder weapon).
More arrests on such swatting incidents and perhaps that sort of thing will decline.
The city of Mesa Arizona is self insured. They are going to take a huge financial hit over the barbaric police murder of Daniel Shaver. I don’t know about Wichita’s liability arrangements but there will no doubt be a big payout over the swatting murder and they, too, should take the hit themselves.
One thing that should be on the agenda for the next Democratic Congress: A requirement that government entities self insure against misconduct by their police officers and other employees. No more splitting the cost of fascism with other, more enlightened communities. Reforms in use of force standards should be on the agenda in every state. In truth, these reforms would be a rollback of changes that were only recently adopted as part of the militarization of police and that essentially legalize murder and mayhem by police.
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹
In this case, the officer was working on the knowledge that he had: A murder had been committed and the person swatted was holding two people in a kidnapping.
With the calls saying the guy had murdered someone (even though they were later shown false), that sort of indicates to me that such a person (a murderer) would kill again.
The article also says that both the police and the citizens’ review board will go over the incident to see if he followed police protocols and if those protocols are sufficient.
The asshole who made the hoax calls has been arrested and charged with manslaughter (essentially using the police as a murder weapon).
More arrests on such swatting incidents and perhaps that sort of thing will decline.
They have already decided not to charge him. It is significant that the officers who were closer and had a better view did not shoot. My point is that reaching toward a waistband is not an adequate justification, especially when your own weapon is drawn and aimed. When I was a deputy the standard was to draw at an alarming move and shoot if, and only if, a weapon was displayed. The protocols do need some revision, or, more accurately, a reversal of recent revisions that allow this hair trigger mentality.
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The city of Mesa Arizona is self insured. They are going to take a huge financial hit over the barbaric police murder of Daniel Shaver. I don’t know about Wichita’s liability arrangements but there will no doubt be a big payout over the swatting murder and they, too, should take the hit themselves.
One thing that should be on the agenda for the next Democratic Congress: A requirement that government entities self insure against misconduct by their police officers and other employees. No more splitting the cost of fascism with other, more enlightened communities. Reforms in use of force standards should be on the agenda in every state. In truth, these reforms would be a rollback of changes that were only recently adopted as part of the militarization of police and that essentially legalize murder and mayhem by police.
That was on our village board agenda some months ago (self-insurance). We are no longer self-insured; we are now part of a pool of municipalities in the state which insures municipalities in lawsuits. (There was some complaint about premiums in town, but those were quashed with “one payout and we’re bankrupt.”)
We don’t have police here, though we are considering reviving the post of village marshal (an unarmed position).
re: #219 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
They have already decided not to charge him. It is significant that the officers who were closer and had a better view did not shoot. My point is that reaching toward a waistband is not an adequate justification, especially when your own weapon is drawn and aimed. When I was a deputy the standard was to draw at an alarming move and shoot if, and only if, a weapon was displayed. The protocols do need some revision, or, more accurately, a reversal of recent revisions that allow this hair trigger mentality.
If “already” is defined as “four months after the shooting.”
The man who made the hoax call was arrested the day after the shooting.
theguardian.com
The Guardian writes in their article from December 30 that he came to the door and was told to put his hands in the air, where he then allegedly reached for his waist and the police officer shot him.
I admit I am having difficulty with this, because police officers aren’t robots who all behave exactly the same way faced with the same situation (at least until we get RoboCop). Two officers didn’t shoot, one did. All three were facing a murder/hostage situation.
I am glad they swiftly arrested the person who used the police as a murder weapon.
re: #220 Anymouse 🌹
That was on our village board agenda some months ago (self-insurance). We are no longer self-insured; we are now part of a pool of municipalities in the state which insures municipalities in lawsuits. (There was some complaint about premiums in town, but those were quashed with “one payout and we’re bankrupt.)
We don’t have police here, though we are considering reviving the post of village marshal (an unarmed position).
This could be resolved with a population based statutory limit on payouts and, of course, by limiting the self insurance requirement to misconduct.
re: #222 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This could be resolved with a population based statutory limit on payouts and, of course, by limiting the self insurance requirement to misconduct.
I definitely oppose limits on tort cases.
Let’s say for the sake of argument you put a population-based limit on torts. I’ll just pick a figure out of the air ($10) per person in the population.
In my town, the maximum you could be paid would be $1,280. In Chicago that would be (from the last census) $26,955,980.
I would definitely want my family to be able to sue in Chicago if I was killed rather than here in that case.
re: #221 Anymouse 🌹
If “already” is defined as “four months after the shooting.”
I used “already” in response to this:
The article also says that both the police and the citizens’ review board will go over the incident to see if he followed police protocols and if those protocols are sufficient.
re: #224 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I used “already” in response to this:
The shooting was on Dec. 28. The district attorney’s decision was yesterday.
As for the review, they should do that.
The family is suing (if I read the article correctly, both the officer and the City of Wichita) for a violation of his civil rights. I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding the bar to clear in a civil suit is lower than a criminal case.
I’m not clear on the usage of “already.” Maybe I’m too tired waiting for the snowstorm.
And here I am back again. My package was a second-hand Lenovo office desktop, which I intend to use as a mining computer. I already had a graphics card from my old place (kept the card, left the computer behind) but after unpacking the tower I discovered its power supply does not have a 6-pin power connector for the graphics card. I also realized I don’t have a VGA cable to check the computer out before I swap out the P/S. The desktop does not have an HDMI port and my display did not come with a VGA cable, so now I need to order a new P/S and scrounge around the office for a VGA cable. Or — dog forbid — buy one at the campus store.
The tower powers up and gives me a single beep, so I know it’s OK. Just need the extra parts to make it functional.
Another example of penny-wise and pound-foolish. The unit only cost me $90. A new P/S will probably run about the same. {Sigh}
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹
The shooting was on Dec. 28. The district attorney’s decision was yesterday.
As for the review, they should do that.
The family is suing (if I read the article correctly, both the officer and the City of Wichita) for a violation of his civil rights. I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding the bar to clear in a civil suit is lower than a criminal case.
I’m not clear on the usage of “already.” Maybe I’m too tired waiting for the snowstorm.
“Already” relative to the police and citizen’s reviews, which therefore have no bearing on the possibility of charges.
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Already” relative to the police and citizen’s reviews, which therefore have no bearing on the possibility of charges.
Thanks. Now I understand.
I am glad the police swiftly arrested the person who called the cops in Wichita in the first place and charged him with manslaughter.
In the meantime, we’re gearing up for the blizzard … the blizzard warning’s west edge is about ten miles east of my house …
weather.gov (Cheyenne NWS regional office)
Eegad! Ran across this amazing story from 1889 while looking for info on police shootings.
David S. Terry
Terry, who was Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, was shot dead by US Marshal David Neagle after Terry assaulted US Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field in a train station. This led to a US Supreme Court case, In re Neagle.
re: #228 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks. Now I understand.
I am glad the police swiftly arrested the person who called the cops in Wichita in the first place and charged him with manslaughter.
In the meantime, we’re gearing up for the blizzard … the blizzard warning’s west edge is about ten miles east of my house …
weather.gov (Cheyenne NWS regional office)
Stay safe. It was 92 degrees here today but it will cool off (high 30s) by tomorrow night.
NEW: Michael Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, and allies of Trump are worried that the recordings were seized by the FBI when agents raided Cohen’s office and residences this weekhttps://t.co/5Zt1Cnnw2I
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 12, 2018
re: #231 Dave In Austin
NEW: Michael Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, and allies of Trump are worried that the recordings were seized by the FBI when agents raided Cohen’s office and residences this weekhttps://
They knew this job was dangerous when they took it…
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹
Wingnut Christian preacher Rick Wiles claims that Christians will be eliminated in a “leftist purge”; as Utah Outcasts notes, if you’re at home with a conservative buzz-word bingo card, you got a blackout in this video.
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They really do talk b.s. - reasons escape me - other than to put scare and hate into people
Batshit Crazy message from the fine folks of the National Rifle Association.
“We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president, and the people who voted for him…in American history. From the highest levels of government, to their #MSM…their fate will be failure and they will perish in the political flames of their own fires.” –@DLoesch pic.twitter.com/WfrKR1cFE9
— NRATV (@NRATV) April 13, 2018
re: #234 DodgerFan1988
Batshit Crazy message from the fine folks of the National Rifle Association.
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What Goebbels would have done with the NRA …
Seattle Will Defend Kshama Sawant in Defamation Suit Brought by Police Officers (Seattle Times)
Councilwoman Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative) stated she thought a particular police shooting was a murder.
She is also being sued by a landlord for calling him a slumlord.
The city will defend Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant in the defamation lawsuit brought against her by two Seattle police officers, Council President Bruce Harrell decided.
In that lawsuit, Officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding claim they were defamed when she falsely declared they had committed a “brutal murder” in last year’s fatal shooting of Che Taylor — an allegation not supported by a later inquest jury.
By city charter, Harrell had to decide if Sawant made the alleged statement “within the course and scope of employment.” He concluded it was.
The city already is representing Sawant in a second defamation lawsuit, this one brought by Carl Haglund, a landlord who took issue with Sawant referring to him “as a ‘slumlord’ and as a ‘notorious slumlord.’”
Related StorySeattle could spend a bundle defending itself and Kshama Sawant in defamation lawsuits
Joe Groshong, an assistant city attorney and the city’s torts section director, has said that “I wouldn’t be surprised if total litigation costs exceeded $300,000” in both lawsuits.
(more)
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹
Wingnut Christian preacher Rick Wiles claims that Christians will be eliminated in a “leftist purge”; as Utah Outcasts notes, if you’re at home with a conservative buzz-word bingo card, you got a blackout in this video.
(6:48, caution for coarse language)
Ah yes, and then replaced by a secularist Islamist regime that will crowd us into FEMA camps with unisex toilet facilities for LGBT reorientation…
re: #229 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Eegad! Ran across this amazing story from 1889 while looking for info on police shootings.
David S. Terry
Terry, who was Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, was shot dead by US Marshal David Neagle after Terry assaulted US Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field in a train station. This led to a US Supreme Court case, In re Neagle.
Wow. That was one fouled up situation (attacking a US Supreme Court judge by a California Supreme Court judge).
The Internet: A time suck, but a very interesting time suck.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ah yes, and then replaced by a secularist Islamist regime that will crowd us into FEMA camps with unisex toilet facilities for LGBT reorientation…
Part of Teh Leftist Atheist Geyh Agenda … .
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ah yes, and then replaced by a secularist Islamist regime that will crowd us into FEMA camps with unisex toilet facilities for LGBT reorientation…
Where they will force us to eat arugula and avocado toast.
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹
Seattle Will Defend Kshama Sawant in Defamation Suit Brought by Police Officers (Seattle Times)
Councilwoman Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative) stated she thought a particular police shooting was a murder.
She is also being sued by a landlord for calling him a slumlord.
(more)
Reminds me of the aura reader who sued me (and the local paper) for calling her a quack. The judge dismissed it on the grounds that she was a quack. It was a little more elegantly stated than that, but that was the gist.
re: #240 wheat-dogg
Where they will force us to eat arugula and avocado toast.
until we have wrecked the economy and bloated the deficit and then impose stifling progressive taxation
Malcolm Nance notes the same disinformation is being pushed against Rod Rosenstein and Robert Muller. Thread (seven tweets and a PS):
After exposing the campaign against #WhiteHelmets by #Russian propaganda accounts, one account stepped up to attack. The account was nothing but a mouthpiece for Kremlin objectives.
1. The account posts are dominated by Kremlin news sources or RU agencies. pic.twitter.com/jsRkHkhmEs— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) April 13, 2018
re: #234 DodgerFan1988
“We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president, and the people who voted for him…in American history. From the highest levels of government, to their #MSM…their fate will be failure and they will perish in the political flames of their own fires.” –@DLoesch pic.twitter.com/WfrKR1cFE9
— NRATV (@NRATV) April 13, 2018
Guys, Obama left office last year, but thanks for finally noticing. I agree, Republicans are going to go down in flames. https://t.co/tcs5LyFm6j
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 13, 2018
re: #244 Kragar
We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president…
…who does not hesitate to refer to people he dislikes using derogatory names in his morning Tweets, one who encourages his supporters to commit acts of violence at his rallies, and one who has by his own admission been predatory towards women.
It’s raining.
Weirdly, the updated Cheyenne NWS map has a small area of my county (including my town) which is not under a winter storm warning, while the whole rest of the area is.
Apparently there is some sort of force field here to repel snow.
Either that or they didn’t colour the map correctly.
weather.gov (Cheyenne NWS with odd map)
The local NWS report does have us down for a winter storm warning. We’re also about to get pounded by a severe thunderstorm:
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cheyenne WY
148 AM MDT FRI APR 13 2018
NEZ[no phone numbers allowed]30-
Box Butte NE-Morrill NE-
148 AM MDT FRI APR 13 2018
…SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BOX BUTTE AND
CENTRAL MORRILL COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM MDT…
At 146 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a thunderstorm 31 miles
north of Sidney, moving northeast at 35 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph with hail pea to small marble size will be
possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include…
Alliance, Bridgeport, Northport, The Intersection Of Highway 385 And
92, Court House And Jail Rocks, Bridgeport State Recreation Area and
Broadwater.
rainy day on the Rhine but the weekend is looking like sunny and pushing 70°F
Straight Pride Pins Draw Amusing Criticism (Goes to San Francisco Gay and Lesbian News, more at the link and boy is the pin shown eeuuugly):
Some straight people in the UK are wearing their pride in the form of a pin which partially resembles the LGBT rainbow flag.
The redundantly described “Straight Heterosexual Pride Wavy Gold Plated Flag Pin Badge” sells for £4.50 on Amazon UK, offered by a company called “1000 Pins” which also sells a variety of LGBT themed adornments.
Of course, social media is not having any of it and critics have taken to their platforms to denounce the accessory mocking its lack of color compared to its rainbow counterpart.
“Straight Satisfaction is seemingly as beige as most straight folks’s personalities,” wrote one Twitter user according to the UK LGBT publication Gay Star News.
“The irony of a straight pride flag being an eye shadow palette,” Ken, another Twitter user quipped.
“Why does the straight pride flag look like a Sephora ‘eye shadow for beginners’ sampler?”
“If I saw someone wearing that I’d assume they really like bacon or something.”
Even straight allies are taking offense to the pin.
“As a straight person I would like to apologize for this abomination,” one said.
re: #248 Anymouse 🌹
Straight Pride Pins Draw Amusing Criticism (Goes to San Francisco Gay and Lesbian News, more at the link and boy is the pin shown eeuuugly):
I see this as having less to do with gay/straight issues as with some people being obnoxious, querulous assholes. Just like the “When is White History Month?” dipshits we hear from every February.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see this as having less to do with gay/straight issues as with some people being obnoxious, querulous assholes. Just like the “When is White History Month?” dipshits we hear from every February.
Maybe this guy could run that:
Holy Crap, Bye Bye (goes to Juanita Jean’s):
Well, my goodness.
The Rev. Bill Hybels is resigning as chief pastor of the 25,000 member megachurch, Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago.
Happily no sex with animals (see below) was involved but sex with congregants and employees was.
Amusingly, Hybels started off saying that all the claims were lies.
Hybels had previously called the allegations against him “flat-out lies.” He also had said that the multiyear effort by former senior leaders of the church to push for an independent investigation was nothing but “collusion.”
Yeah, that collusion stuff is a nifty new word.
And then there’s the other men in the church.
Jim Tofilon said he believes Hybels was a victim of the #MeToo bandwagon.
“It’s very destructive,” said Tofilon, who has attended the church since 1991. “It worked. It destroyed an old man’s life. Nothing good came out of it. I hope people making the accusations feel satisfied.”
Yeah, damned ole Eve - she made this mess.
Wife: “I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.”
Me: “Do you need a good insult?”
re: #251 Anymouse 🌹
Wife: “I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.”
Me: “Do you need a good insult?”
Every good Terry Pratchett novel contains a well hidden lead-you-down-the-garden-path sort of pun that makes you want to chuck it at the wall and break its spine for not seeing it coming.
The only person who outdoes that is Jasper Fforde, who sets things up so that you want to rip the wall out and throw it at the book…
So, I wake up, go to work, check out what’s happening now that I’m home (short day) and behold! what do I see?
Heh.
- Comey saying that Trump basically begged him to discredit the pee tape story.
- The possibility of recordings made by Cohen between him and Trump.
- The story that the National Enquirer spiked about Trump’s love child coming out…..and paid $30K to do so.
- Cohen possibly taking the Fifth.
- Story that Mueller has proof that Trump tried to influence grand jury witnesses.
Lord almighty, Trump’s gotta be foaming at the mouth and chewing his mattress.
Oh, and here’s a link to the last point, that Trump may have tried to influence GJ witnesses.
“Three sources familiar with the investigation said the findings Mueller has collected on Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice include: His intent to fire former FBI Director James Comey; his role in the crafting of a misleading public statement on the nature of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son and Russians; Trump’s dangling of pardons before grand jury witnesses who might testify against him.”
It’s gonna be looooong summer.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Every good Terry Pratchett novel contains a well hidden lead-you-down-the-garden-path sort of pun that makes you want to chuck it at the wall and break its spine for not seeing it coming.
The only person who outdoes that is Jasper Fforde, who sets things up so that you want to rip the wall out and throw it at the book…
I never heard of Mr. Fforde. After reading Wikipedia’s entry about him, I might have to check into some of his writing.
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹
I never heard of Mr. Fforde. After reading Wikipedia’s entry about him, I might have to check into some of his writing.
Start with The Eyre Affair, and I am sure you will be hooked.
The man is amazing.
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Start with The Eyre Affair, and I am sure you will be hooked.
The man is amazing.
Thanks. Took that as a note to self.
I’m off for now. There is rum, and I hear it calling to me. /s
Hmm. So Bill Kristol is a bit of an idiot, but he apparently thinks shit is about to go down:
He posted this:
Prediction: By this time tomorrow evening, the Comey book won’t be the top story. It may not even be in the top three stories.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 13, 2018
Then retweeted this:
Republican Rep. Charlie Dent says “it’s a terrible mistake to try to discredit” Rod Rosenstein. “Any attempt to fire him or the special counsel … would be the equivalent of a Archibald Cox moment, it would be a Saturday night massacre” https://t.co/qsV4c5zeQ6
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) April 13, 2018
re: #257 Danack
Republican Rep. Charlie Dent says “it’s a terrible mistake to try to discredit” Rod Rosenstein. “Any attempt to fire him or the special counsel … would be the equivalent of a Archibald Cox moment, it would be a Saturday night massacre”
I still remember laughing out loud when the National Lampoon referred to Nixon as a “Coxsacker”.
re: #257 Danack
Does he mean Friday evening or Saturday evening? The time stamps on tweets confuse me, living in China as I do.
re: #257 Danack
This stuff always blows up big on Friday, late Friday.
re: #260 Dave In Austin
This stuff always blows up big on Friday, late Friday.
I worked with some Polish colleagues in the export department of a company that was doing a lot of business with Russia.
It was almost always a Friday afternoon that we could get a call involving a hang-up with Russian customs. I could always tell because my colleague would utter
Kur-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-va! over the phone.
And I knew that the more r-r-r-rs he r-r-r-rolled out, the longer it would take to sort out the problem…
re: #158 Joe Bacon 🌹
This brings back memories of my 12th grade Advanced Biology class where the teacher mixed creationism with Immanuel Velikovsky. When you try to bring up a challenge to the insanity pushed in such books as Worlds In Collision he condemned you to hell…
I got this in World History in 1976! (not the creationism part but the Velikovsky, oh yeah)
re: #167 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
If you’re in the Sydney time zone, add seven hours and subtract one day.
That’s the kind of convoluted nonsense the round-earthers use to make you think it exists!///
re: #262 mmmirele
I got this in World History in 1976! (not the creationism part but the Velikovsky, oh yeah)
I was just thinking about the Phantom Time Hypothesis that the years 614-911AD never happened and were just added artificially to the record…
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was just thinking about the Phantom Time Hypothesis that the years 614-911AD never happened and were just added artificially to the record…
Tracks pretty closely with the Tang Dynasty (not the orange powder drink)…..
re: #265 Barefoot Grin
Tracks pretty closely with the Tang Dynasty (not the orange powder drink)…..
see? both artificial!
So, I just watched the first episode of the new Lost in Space. I was hoping for better writing than the original. I did not get it. I think they’re aiming for the same age demographic as the original.
Spoilers contained within. Click at your risk.
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I am not impressed.
Found this article interesting:
The only place in America where women earn more than men? Puerto Rico
Women make less than men in every US state — and almost every part of the world. In the US, this has been attributed to factors like career choices and the demands of motherhood.
However, in Puerto Rico, the wage gap is every so slightly flipped.
According to the US Census Bureau, the median salary for women in Puerto Rico was $24,486 in 2016, the most recent year for which such data is available. The median salary for men was $23,711. This amounts to about a 3% difference in pay.
There are some other factors that the raw data doesn’t show. At the end of the article:
However, the same study also points to situations that reflect the same career inequities faced by other American women. For instance, they found the wage gap in Puerto Rico sometimes favored men when factors like education and number of children were matched up between men and women.
Link: edition.cnn.com
What are odds Kelly is out by the end of the day?
The phone call was first reported by CNN last year. But Comey’s book provides both on the record confirmation and additional details of the conversation https://t.co/PS1zJn0FSD
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 12, 2018
It’s up and tweeting. I expect many more to follow.
Tremendous pressure is building, like never before, for the Border Wall and an end to crime cradling Sanctuary Cities. Started the Wall in San Diego, where the people were pushing really hard to get it. They will soon be protected!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
re: #269 Barefoot Grin
What are odds Kelly is out by the end of the day?
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Kelly sure has turned out to be a whiny bastard. Go away already.
re: #270 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Funny, I have friends in San Diego and they’ve never indicated an urgent need for a border wall, aside from the one that’s already there.
lol. slime ball is two words?
….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
So presidential
re: #270 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
…and here’s the next one.
….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
re: #275 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
They’re dining al fresco this morning? Cardinals are so pretty.
Do we have any other record of a President referring to anyone in a public statement as a “slime ball”?
Of course, this is why they voted for him, he speaks their language.
I think eventually he’s going to slip up and reveal some important stuff. He’s full of rage. Anyhow every fucking day with this lunatic.
re: #278 HappyWarrior
I think eventually he’s going to slip up and reveal some important stuff. He’s full of rage. Anyhow every fucking day with this lunatic.
This is why they want him to give written statements, so that his staff can then tear them out of his hands and edit them to remove all incriminating, conflicting or contradictory statements.
re: #270 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
The more DT tweets against Comey the more Comey will sell his book and the more doo-doo DT will be in.
“I will be so presidential, you will be so bored. You’ll say, ‘Can’t he have a little more energy?’”
My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017
re: #272 wheat-dogg
Funny, I have friends in San Diego and they’ve never indicated an urgent need for a border wall, aside from the one that’s already there.
My experience at a 3-day conference there a couple of years ago (walking around quite a bit) was that homelessness is the real problem. If you’re going to be homeless, do it where it’s warm.
There’s your number for the America First types: 80% of the benefits of the tax cuts will go to foreign entities.
re: #284 Unshaken Defiance
It’s a Cardinal sin to take away the feeder. :-)
There really was a Cardinal Sin.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #283 Belafon
There’s your number for the America First types: 80% of the benefits of the tax cuts will go to foreign entities.
so not just trump but the entire GOP does not understand how foreign trade works?
re: #276 bill d. (b.d.)
They’re dining al fresco this morning? Cardinals are so pretty.
That’s a late afternoon shot, the feeder having been removed to the garage lest the raccoons damage it during their nightly forays.
re: #285 wheat-dogg
Dang you beat me to it again.
re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so not just trump but the entire GOP does not understand how foreign trade works?
They operate under the assumption that all businesses in the USA are domestic corporations.
re: #289 wheat-dogg
The party knows this. The GOP voters don’t know that (nor does President Racist Senile Grandpa).
re: #290 I cannot.
The party knows this. The GOP voters don’t know that (nor does President Racist Senile Grandpa).
I don’t know why you would assume that the party knows this. There’s not much of an indication that any of the people involved have any understanding of economics, law, history, medicine, governance, etc. even if they have degrees/careers in the field. They regurgitate the talking points they’re fed and fall back on their shitty truisms when those don’t fit the situation and then pass the legislation demanded by their monetary backers.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Do we have any other record of a President referring to anyone in a public statement as a “slime ball”?
Of course, this is why they voted for him, he speaks their language.
When I think he can’t go lower - he comes up with “slime ball”.
I miss Obama.
re: #287 jeffreyw
Our hummer feeder ran out overnight, and I went out this morning with the sugar water rather than bringing the feeder in. Boss bird was very curious, no zipping by to run me off. just darted about making little noises as I refilled and hung the thing.
re: #271 bill d. (b.d.)
Kelly sure has turned out to be a whiny bastard. Go away already.
He’s got “nowhere else to go”
re: #291 Weaselone
You are correct about that. One of my co-workers told me she did not want to hear any criticism about DT. She went as far as to tell me, “Let Trump be Trump.” I have not mentioned politics in front of her since.
Trump’s staff/lawyers every day. pic.twitter.com/du1niUl3rW
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 13, 2018
re: #294 dangerman
He’s got “nowhere else to go”
Well, there might still be an opening at the State Department.
/
re: #292 fern01
When I think he can’t go lower - he comes up with “slime ball”.
I miss Obama.
we are far from hitting bottom, wait until the noose really tightens around him
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
You admitted on national television you fired him because of the “Russiar” thing. You’re guilty, you’re not legitimate and not very bright. And you probably won’t even see this because you can’t read. https://t.co/C0IlKJD0De
— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) April 13, 2018
A new ‘fact-checking’ website in #WestVirginia is funded by a candidate in the state’s Senate race, ex-coal baron Don Blankenship. Experts say it might fool readers into thinking it’s a neutral operation. https://t.co/Tx82YIbRZM
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) April 13, 2018
re: #295 PhillyPretzel
You are correct about that. One of my c-workers told me she did not want to hear any criticism about DT. She went as far as to tell me, “Let Trump be Trump.” I have not mentioned politics in front of her since.
They don’t seem to understand that’s not how that quote was used and that’s not what it means/meant
Any truth to the rumor Putin gave his Syria anti air missileeers the weekend off ‘cause obvious bluff is obvious?
IMAGES: Thousands of teachers arrive in Frankfort for protest https://t.co/jTQLTkPxfs pic.twitter.com/pcw1eDRCpp
— WLKY (@WLKY) April 13, 2018
Teachers are here ….listen to @840WHAS for updates pic.twitter.com/b4vBfZ5GJj
— Tony Vanetti (@tonyvanetti) April 13, 2018
.@KySecofState speaking now “are you ready to turn this moment into a movement?” pic.twitter.com/37LgbkD3QU
— NewsRadio 840 WHAS (@840WHAS) April 13, 2018
re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth
A new ‘fact-checking’ website in #WestVirginia is funded by a candidate in the state’s Senate race, ex-coal baron Don Blankenship. Experts say it might fool readers into thinking it’s a neutral operation.
so now we need a snopse for snopses?
re: #293 Unshaken Defiance
Our hummer feeder ran out overnight, and I went out with this morning the sugar water rather than bringing the feeder in. Boss bird was very curious, no zipping by to run me off. just darted about making little noises as I refilled and hung the thing.
Too early yet for hummers here but I expect that we’ll be spotting one ere long.
Here’s the first one from 2017.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
Comey’s book is making the rounds, which of course means that Trumpworld deflectors are set on overkill (because Trump doesn’t do any half measures when it comes to lying, bullying, bloviating, or projecting).
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
But before that, he was railing on about the border wall and San Diego.
The wall isn’t in San Diego. It’s miles to the South and it’s been there for years. Stop lying. The bulk of the wall built is in CA and Tx near urban areas.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 13, 2018
Trump’s bitching about border crossings and safety, except that crossings are at multiyear lows; note too where the fence already exists. Trump’s trying to take credit for a wall that’s already built. pic.twitter.com/xqN2RKkZaE
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 13, 2018
The San Diego district has about 60 miles of wall already built. About 4 miles does not have a wall. Crossings are at or near lows over the past two decades. He’s doing anything and everything to deflect from the oncoming storm.
Oh, and he’s apparently going to pardon Scooter Libby, which is a leading indicator of how he’s going to go out of his way to try and pardon everything else in Trumpworld despite the sheer volume of criminality he surrounds himself with on a daily basis.
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Here is another fact checking website.
factcheck.org
re: #301 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, it put a smile on my face…. considering that my mood up to that point was more this:
re: #310 lawhawk
I guess the only thing that will ever be built during infrastructure week is an existing wall.
re: #313 fern01
But every week is infrastructure week!
re: #309 jeffreyw
Too early yet for hummers here but I expect that we’ll be spotting one ere long.
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Here’s the first one from 2017.
I’m on Black-Chin overload here in CenTex. 3 feeders haggled over all day.
Morning.
So, I see our Chief Slimeball had the nerve to call Comey a slimeball. And then to go right to his stupid border wall BS.
A play to his base right off.
He’s pissed and scrambling. The only thing he knows is to play to his base when he is in a mood. A base full of slimeballs.
I so hope today is a day when he completely explodes. He just needs that one extra little thing to push his fat ass over the edge.
Please someone give him a wafer thin mint.
I will, however, take a nice leak about someone in the gang turning witness and blabing to Mueller. That might just be all he needs to rage out and melt down.
An update
Republicans have had full control for about 1 year and some months,
neither Obama nor Hillary are in any legal jeopardy..no one’s even looking at em
while the right is pissing themselves over their corrupt leader and everyone remotely tied to him being nailed
re: #317 dangerman
An update
Republicans have had full control for about 1 year and some months,
neither Obama nor Hillary are in any legal jeopardy..no one’s even looking at em
while the right is pissing themselves over their corrupt leader and everyone remotely tied to him being nailed
I thought a House committee just launched another Clinton investigation.
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Thinking a bit more, I think we need to take these rapture people up on their word. It’s time to say “So, the rapture is happening on the 23rd. If you’re still here after that, then you weren’t chosen.”
re: #318 Belafon
I thought a House committee just launched another Clinton investigation.
Hey if it ain’t on fox, didn’t happen
Actually I have no idea but if it’s of the Calibre and quality of the zuck thing, then yawn
re: #320 Belafon
Thinking a bit more, I think we need to take these rapture people up on their word. It’s time to say “So, the rapture is happening on the 23rd. If you’re still here after that, then you weren’t chosen.”
That’s actually a nightmare scenario, you convince a significant portion of rapturinos that there’s going to be a rapture and they are convinced other got raptured but they didn’t… Think “The Purge”, only not government sanctioned…
*sits down, whistling innocently*
It turns out @AceHardware is the place for bigotry after all! 😡
Ace has REVERSED its decision to stop advertising on Laura Ingraham’s show, exactly one week after it announced it would part ways w/ the Fox News host.#BoycottAceHardware #BoycottIngraham https://t.co/6Xu8IHA55Z— Jon Cooper 🌊 (@joncoopertweets) April 13, 2018
re: #322 Teukka
That’s actually a nightmare scenario, you convince a significant portion of rapturinos that there’s going to be a rapture and they are convinced other got raptured but they didn’t… Think “The Purge”, only not government sanctioned…
*sits down, whistling innocently*
“Yeah, I had a friend that got raptured. Watched her go up into the sky. ‘Guess it’s real,’ I said. Now I’m stocking up on Twinkies.”
Michael Cohen is trying to prevent the government from using materials it found in the raid of his office and residence, AP reports. A hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. https://t.co/Od02XMhxMA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 13, 2018
UPDATE: Michael Cohen is seeking a temporary injunction against Feds for materials seized during Monday’s raid. @MSNBC https://t.co/E3XVm8N5DO
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) April 13, 2018
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
One hilarious outcome of this will be that when the judge rules against him, it will prove that the evidence was legally obtained.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think Says Who Cohen is saying a whole lot in trying to prevent what the Feds found in their searches.
Not a lawyer, but doesn’t Cohen trying to prevent them using the evidence sort of say to the Feds and maybe even to the judges that what they asked for in the searches and were granted is probably what they got and Cohen knows it?
I hope the judges rule the search was legit and for the Feds to proceed.
Maybe that is the little thin mint I just mentioned that pushes Trumpy over the edge.
We might be getting to the real tipping point here. Just days away. Last night on MSNBC several people seemed to be saying Mueller is close to buttoning up his case and ready to report. He doesn’t even seem to need Trump to testify.
Maybe Trump not testifying is the cherry on top of obstruction. Trump and his lawyers were all brave about “bring it on…there was no collusion.” Now, they are running from all that. The bravado is gone. The reality is now here.
re: #324 Belafon
“Yeah, I had a friend that got raptured. Watched her go up into the sky. ‘Guess it’s real,’ I said. Now I’m stocking up on Twinkies.”
(Further adventures)
“Really?” The older man said, sounding doubtful. “What was her name?”
“Camila,” I replied. “She had been up here for a couple of years earning money for her kids back home in Mexico. I hope they’re OK.”
White House reporter tells CNN that Trump is going to go ‘crazy’ watching TV coverage of Comey’s book https://t.co/awlxCFYGsG
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 13, 2018
“going crazy”?
already been there.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maggie with the scoop of the century!
re: #273 bill d. (b.d.)
Is this the pivot? ///
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is not how that headline happened, per the reporter who actually wrote the story … https://t.co/sljt8KNejA
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 13, 2018
And the GOP is perfectly fine with the infidelity.
And they’re fine with the sex predatory behavior too.
And they’re enabling Trump on the criminal violations around campaign finance laws.
That makes them complicit with Trump crimes.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 13, 2018
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood will be hearing the case. She, of course, was the second of Bill Clinton’s Attorney General nominees. Withdrew due to the hiring of an illegal immigrant nanny (which was legal at that time). Upon her withdrawal, Clinton nominated Janet Reno.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s not just going to turn it up to 11, he’s going to turn the number of dials up to 11.
re: #327 ObserverArt
Just days away. Last night on MSNBC several people seemed to be saying Mueller is close to buttoning up his case and ready to report. He doesn’t even seem to need Trump to testify.
I trust that Mueller has been anticipating and preparing for any counter-move by Team Trump and has made sure that everything is airtight, with all the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed.
re: #330 wheat-dogg
Maggie with the scoop of the century!
She is so lame.
Her coverage should be contained to reporting when the White House moves the furniture around. Or when a new delivery of carrots are place in the kitchen coolers.
re: #332 lawhawk
And the GOP is perfectly fine with the infidelity.
And they’re fine with the sex predatory behavior too.
And they’re enabling Trump on the criminal violations around campaign finance laws.
That makes them complicit with Trump crimes.
That is what Mueller has to present: a case that will force the GOP to act. They could certainly bring charges against Trump right now for conflicts of interest and gross violations of the Emoluments Clause, but that is not at all in their interest.
re: #334 I cannot.
He’s not just going to turn it up to 11, he’s going to turn the number of dials up to 11.
Which results in pure distortion and feedback. Exactly where Trump is along with his lawyers. All noise, no definition.
re: #318 Belafon
I thought a House committee just launched another Clinton investigation.
I thought trump demanded the justice department start another inquiry into those emails & Sessions is doing the president’s bidding. trump taking over the justice dept one step at a time.
re: #336 ObserverArt
She is so lame.
Her coverage should be contained to reporting when the White House moves the furniture around. Or when a new delivery of carrots are place in the kitchen coolers.
She’s not suited for the job she’s been given, as I’ve said before. It’s a puzzle, because she cut her teeth on New York City Hall politics, which should have taught her something. Maybe she’s more worried about losing her ‘access’ than reporting something that isn’t trite, unimportant or glaringly obvious.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“going crazy”?
already been there.
Maggie will hold his hand & help him get through this.
re: #333 dirkdigglerjr
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood will be hearing the case. She, of course, was the second of Bill Clinton’s Attorney General nominees. Withdrew due to the hiring of an illegal immigrant nanny (which was legal at that time). Upon her withdrawal, Clinton nominated Janet Reno.
She is, no doubt, soon to be mentioned in twitter dispatches from the WH
Honestly, after all the attacks conservatives do on liberals for “immorality”, I have no problem going after Trump for adultery. Maybe just maybe if conservatives weren’t such holier than thou assholes when it came to sex and morality. Roslyn Carter and Jimmy Carter have been together over seventy years now. Meanwhile Trump’s children found about his adultery through a tabloid. I damn well am going to use that to prove that the religious right are a bunch of grandstanding moral hypocrites.
re: #342 fern01
She is, no doubt, soon to be mentioned in twitter dispatches from the WH
My bet is he’ll mention the illegal immigrant nanny or soething like that.
re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what Meller has to present: a case that will force the GOP to act. They could certainly bring charges against Trump right now for conflicts of interest and gross violations of the Emoluments Clause, but that is not at all in their interest.
It’s truly unfortunate, but I would opine that expecting the GOP in this Congress to do diddly-squat about Donald Trump - no matter HOW airtight Counsel Mueller’s case(s) are or might be - is a fool’s errand. It will never be “in their interest” to do more about even the most egregious corruption from this Administration - even outright criminality - other than occasional bland boilerplate disapproval: the political equivalent of “thoughts and prayers”. While updating their resumés for the inevitable spike in Wingnut Welfare applications starting in November…..
re: #343 HappyWarrior
I do not care what consenting adults do for fun in their spare time, but if there are irregularities concerning the nature of the hush money payments, then I am for airing it all.
The reaction of Trump wanting back in the TPP:
Officials in Japan, Australia and New Zealand reacted coolly on Friday to Mr. Trump’s remarks that he would be interested in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership after rejecting it so publicly just a year ago. While the United States would significantly bolster the pact if it signed up, its entry would require intense negotiations — and current members will expect significant concessions from the American side. […]
“We’ve got a deal” already, said Steven Ciobo, Australia’s trade minister, who added, “I can’t see that all being thrown open to appease the United States.”
re: #345 Jay C
It’s truly unfortunate, but I would opine that expecting the GOP in this Congress to do diddly-squat about Donald Trump - no matter HOW airtight Counsel Mueller’s case(s) are or might be - is a fool’s errand.
He has to make Trump into a serious political burden to the GOP, right now he is just an embarrassment but the case has to get the GOP to act or be seen as fully complicit in all his illegal acts.
I especially want to see what happens when it comes out how far he is up all those oligarchs’ asses in business loans.
re: #345 Jay C
It’s truly unfortunate, but I would opine that expecting the GOP in this Congress to do diddly-squat about Donald Trump - no matter HOW airtight Counsel Mueller’s case(s) are or might be - is a fool’s errand. It will never be “in their interest” to do more about even the most egregious corruption from this Administration - even outright criminality - other than occasional bland boilerplate disapproval: the political equivalent of “thoughts and prayers”. While updating their resumés for the inevitable spike in Wingnut Welfare applications starting in November…..
It’s worth remembering that GOP politicians, at this point, are Trumpers - they watch FOX just like everyone else, they consume the same media, and thus they belong to the same cult. They think exactly the same as the people the NYT interviews on their Cletus safaris, and have been elected to office in the FOX era. They believe in the deep state conspiracies. The only difference between them and David Jungerman (a case I have been following closely for personal reasons) is that Jungerman was willing to murder personally, rather than through policy.
re: #346 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not care what consenting adults do for fun in their spare time, but if there are irregularities concerning the nature of the hush money payments, then I am for airing it all.
I don’t care either tbh but if they’re going to be trying to limit the rights of my LGBT friends and family while doing it, I have no problem pointing that out and Trump and his administration are doing just that.
re: #347 Belafon
The reaction of Trump wanting back in the TPP:
The Great Deal Maker.
“Uh, guys, um, could you see your way into letting us back in on the deal, maybe???”
He may have been able to bully NYC contractors and city code inspectors, but heads of state of countries like S. Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia?
Get out of here.
re: #315 Dave In Austin
I’m on Black-Chin overload here in CenTex. 3 feeders haggled over all day.
We only get ruby-throats, I’ve never seen anything else. 🤢
It appears that Trump has deleted this tweet—the one where, in the last image, you can see John Kelly with his head buried in his palm. pic.twitter.com/ExHgFzGYHH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 13, 2018
re: #351 ObserverArt
The Great Deal Maker.
“Uh, guys, um, could you see your way into letting us back in on the deal, maybe???”
He may have been able to bully NYC contractors and city code inspectors, but heads of state of countries like N. Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia?
Get out of here.
He’s only likes to deal with people who have more to lose than him. There used to be a lot of countries that needed the US more than the other way around, but, after a year of him being in office, that’s no longer true.
re: #350 HappyWarrior
I don’t care either tbh but if they’re going to be trying to limit the rights of my LGBT friends and family while doing it, I have no problem pointing that out and Trump and his administration are doing just that.
the sad point is that one has little bearing on the other. we just have to vote their asses out of office, and no amount of scandal press seems to have any effect on Trump or the GOP in that respect.
Genealogy stuff.
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re: #347 Belafon
The reaction of Trump wanting back in the TPP:
im happy about this
should i be happy about this?
I don’t take normal graduation photos pic.twitter.com/AFqe7kGKed
— Lindsay (@plantbboi) April 12, 2018
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #346 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not care what consenting adults do for fun in their spare time, but if there are irregularities concerning the nature of the hush money payments, then I am for airing it all.
…as long as all consenting adults have that same freedom/right/privacy/etc
re: #208 prairiefire
Ah, you gotta, huh?
Yeah. Had to sell the farm in order to have something to live on in my declining years. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
re: #210 fern01
There is dumb & then there is the current WH - the outcry if President Obama had done this - not to mention, Trump cancelled & sent Pence instead. So little in the media about this - was it because Cohen was arrested, was it because trump is so out of his comfort zone outside of his golf courses or was it because he can’t pronounce any names that are not anglo saxon in origin.
I wonder if DT is also a flat earther? Maybe he doesn’t believe in the southern hemisphere. ///
re: #355 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the sad point is that one has little bearing on the other. we just have to vote their asses out of office, and no amount of scandal press seems to have any effect on Trump or the GOP in that respect.
I know.
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
Genealogy stuff.
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re: #359 lawhawk
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re: #347 Belafon
The reaction of Trump wanting back in the TPP:
It was thanks to Bernie that Hillary had to express objections to TPP, If she had been elected, she would have figured out some minor tweak that everyone would have approved and we wouldn’t be facing these problems. But then again, the only problems we would be facing would be the endless House investigations into everything Clinton. And possibly only 8 justices on the Supreme Court.
Apparently Trump has conveniently forgotten Comey did him a huge favor late in the game by going public with all that Hillary shit in October 2016.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
DT also wanted Comey to be completely loyal to him and not the rule of law. That is the only thing DT is interested in complete loyalty to DT and only DT.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently Trump has conveniently forgotten Comey did him a huge favor late in the game by going public with all that Hillary shit in October 2016.
yes, loyalty has to be unconditional and absolute or it is worthless
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
Genealogy stuff.
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re: #359 lawhawk
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re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently Trump has conveniently forgotten Comey did him a huge favor late in the game by going public with all that Hillary shit in October 2016.
Of course he has.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently Trump has conveniently forgotten Comey did him a huge favor late in the game by going public with all that Hillary shit in October 2016.
Of course. Trump is a what-have-you-done-lately-save-my-ass kind of guy.
Make him millions over the years and hear nothing, but short him a hundred today and tomorrow he takes to Twitter to slime you.
Trump has no redeeming values as a human. It is just too bad so many people were not aware of this prior to him winning even the GOP nomination.
And speaking of that…how bad does your party have to be to have 16 potential candidates stomped by Trump?
The whole damn party should resign…in embarrassment.
Scott Pruitt Defends Use Of 1st Armored Division For Trip To Dry-Cleaner https://t.co/gP6NsMO688 pic.twitter.com/pCMvmIY13Q
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 13, 2018
re: #372 ObserverArt
Trump has no redeeming values as a human. It is just too bad so many people were not aware of this prior to him winning even the GOP nomination.
People voted for him for that very reason, because they were convinced that Hilary was somehow even worse.
re: #358 jeffreyw
I don’t take normal graduation photos pic.twitter.com/AFqe7kGKed
— Lindsay (@plantbboi) April 12, 2018
Does anyone know if Lindsay has any interest in mildly dirty old men?
Asking for a friend…
re: #368 PhillyPretzel
DT also wanted Comey to be completely loyal to him and not the rule of law. That is the only thing DT is interested in complete loyalty to DT and only DT.
He demands it because loyalty does not come to him naturally through him being supportive and helpful to others.
re: #374 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People voted for him for that very reason, because they were convinced that Hilary was somehow even worse.
Which is complete unawareness.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey: “I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current President of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know” https://t.co/x2m2Uar0yR pic.twitter.com/RzbnP17dSG
— CNN (@CNN) April 13, 2018
It’s real. https://t.co/2mfwSgufpD
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 13, 2018
re: #375 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Does anyone know if Lindsay has any interest in mildly dirty old men?
Asking for a friend…
If your friend is a lizard, I think I already know! This bodes well for all of the dirty old men at LGF.
re: #380 jeffreyw
If your friend is a lizard, I think I already know! This bodes well for all of the dirty old men at LGF.
Mildly dirty old men.
Dirty old men ride around in vans lined with shag carpet, a box of puppies, and their pockets full of candy.
re: #381 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Mildly dirty old men.
Dirty old men ride around in vans lined with shag carpet, a box of puppies, and their pockets full of candy.
I’d enjoy a box of puppies and a pocket full of candy. Not sharing, though.
The van, maybe not so much.
NEW: Remember @realdonaldtrump shirts? They’re kaput. So is Trump coffee, Trump shoes, and Trump urine tests (a real thing). We found just 2 of Trump’s 19 old licensing partners are still making Trump goods. https://t.co/5w2slnqfs7
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 13, 2018
At the height of his merchandising empire, @realdonaldtrump sold Trump-branded urine tests, which send back to the Trump laboratory, so you could get custom-made Trump vitamins. If you’re interested…too late. https://t.co/pYNoVlRIXG https://t.co/xLI6o7LB3p
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 13, 2018
re: #379 HappyWarrior
I think it is too and I think there’s more.
Well apparently the yam said he didn’t spend the night, just had a room to change clothes.
His body guard Shiller testified differently.
1. Trump ‘pee tape’ alibi contradicted by testimony of his personal bodyguard https://t.co/MIlldvsV1S
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 13, 2018
I’m wrapping up my trip to Louisville and I think I accomplished a number of things. Hidden is a recap on how we got to this place.
C.J. Mahaney and the Sovereign Grace Ministries (now Churches) stands accused of covering up child sexual abuse from the 1980s to relatively recently. The organization had an investigation, but it was essentially conducted by friends of SGM/SGC and was a whitewash. There had also been a lawsuit, but it had been dismissed in 2016 due to statute of limitations issues. (Maryland only allows for suits of this type within 3 years of when the victims turn 18.) Very recently, Rachael Denhollander (the face of the hundreds of victims of Olympics gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar) took on C.J. Mahaney and published her assessment on the situation. It was very embarrassing for Mahaney and forced him to have to pull out of “Together For The Gospel 2018.” I had already made reservations and bought tickets to come here to Louisville to picket T4G18, and decided still to come even though Mahaney had dropped out, because his good buddy (and fellow pastor) Bob Kauflin was leading the music, and there were going to be other SGC pastors there.
The picketing went well, I only had to face a tiny bit of overt hostility from attendees. I captured some of it on my GoPro and will likely post it once I get home. More important to me is that I got some answers out of the bigwigs in Sovereign Grace and I was told they were not going to have another investigation. I think this is going to be a HUGE problem for them, based on a number of conversations I’ve had with attendees who stopped to talk to me.
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As for me, I’ll be back in front of Sovereign Grace Gilbert Sunday morning…after I take my friend who had gender reassignment surgery last week to the airport.
re: #316 ObserverArt
… I so hope today is a day when he completely explodes. He just needs that one extra little thing to push his fat ass over the edge.
Please someone give him a wafer thin mint.
I will, however, take a nice leak about someone in the gang turning witness and blabing to Mueller. That might just be all he needs to rage out and melt down.
Of course, 18 months ago, we would have considered what he is doing now is a melt down and rage out. We have become de-sensitized. Sad!
Oh and here is Faux Snooze take on the Comey book:
Comey hints at damaging material involving ex-AG Lynch ‘still unknown to the American public’ https://t.co/520XP0cfPU
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 13, 2018
re: #375 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Does anyone know if Lindsay has any interest in mildly dirty old men?
Asking for a friend…
I will admit, and not even for a friend, that photos like that arouse me more than any sort of graphic porn ever does.
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
Oh and here is Faux Snooze take on the Comey book:
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re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
Oh and here is Faux Snooze take on the Comey book:
“We didn’t actually read the book. We just did a search in the PDF for Lynch. Since her only mention was about recipes, we know he’s keeping something hidden.”
re: #381 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Mildly dirty old men.
Dirty old men ride around in vans lined with shag carpet, a box of puppies, and their pockets full of candy.
Dammit! I’ve been doin’ it wrong.
re: #387 The Vicious Babushka
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I am really interested, in a perverse sort of way, how they will respond if/when Trump follows their lead and goes ahead with The Saturday Night Massacre II: The Stupidening.
They have to know that it would be the end for Trump just as it was for Nixon. There’s no more an obvious sign of obstruction of justice and abuse of power than shutting down an investigation into your own alleged misdeeds.
If/when Trump gets impeached and the upcoming reports and evidence get released, I suspect a whole lot of “wow, I didn’t think it was this bad, we had no idea, who could have known?” spin.
Trump: Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?
Comey: pic.twitter.com/KwNZBxGUvU
JFC
I remember the story about their arrest at the beginning of the year.
A man charged with impregnating his biological daughter is suspected of killing her and their son before fatally shooting himself https://t.co/WLhsbsUG9w pic.twitter.com/930WCQWZDO
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 13, 2018
“His face appeared slightly orange with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coifed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his…..As he extended his hand, I made a mental note to check its size. It was smaller than mine, but did not seem unusually so.”
James Comey.
I want to read that whole book.
re: #393 Ace-o-aces
Sometimes it’s not a matter of “need” and more a matter of “want.”
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
Scooter Libby - who the president is preparing to pardon - leaked the name of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame and was later convicted on four federal counts including perjury and obstruction of justice. https://t.co/YO0z9FeBzJ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
re: #393 Ace-o-aces
Damn you, now I have to look around and see if any Buffy episodes are playing this weekend.
lol
NEW: Michael Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, and allies of Trump are worried that the recordings were seized by the FBI when agents raided Cohen’s office and residences this weekhttps://t.co/5Zt1Cnnw2I
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 12, 2018
It bears reiteration: Michael Cohen is a bad lawyer. https://t.co/MrO1JhNk33
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 13, 2018
re: #399 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Damn you, now I have to look around and see if any Buffy episodes are playing this weekend.
lol
Pretty sure it’s on Netflix and/or Hulu.
re: #402 KGxvi
Pretty sure it’s on Netflix and/or Hulu.
No, Netflix has it on DVD only, not streaming.
Hulu could be possible. Unfortunately they usually don’t have the whole series available at once..
Was binging The Shield last year, on and off, and missed a season streaming window.
re: #351 ObserverArt
The Great Deal Maker.
“Uh, guys, um, could you see your way into letting us back in on the deal, maybe???”
He may have been able to bully NYC contractors and city code inspectors, but heads of state of countries like S. Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia?
Get out of here.
The Constanza Theorem of Negotiation: Let me see if I understand this…you held out for less money…
Ex-FBI Director James Comey: “I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current President of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It’s possible, but I don’t know” https://t.co/x2m2Uar0yR pic.twitter.com/RzbnP17dSG
— CNN (@CNN) April 13, 2018
The video is really something, this quote doesn’t do it justice https://t.co/hhCkshqdwt
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 13, 2018
“I’m a flawed human being, but there’s just literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true. So what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does your wife think… there’s only a 99% chance you didn’t do that?”
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 13, 2018
re: #403 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No, Netflix has it on DVD only, not streaming.
Hulu could be possible. Unfortunately they usually don’t have the whole series available at once..
Was binging The Shield last year, on and off, and missed a season streaming window.
Just checked, Hulu has seasons 1-7, 144 episodes. At 45 minutes per episode, that’s 108 hours, so more than enough to get you through the weekend.
re: #403 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No, Netflix has it on DVD only, not streaming.
Hulu could be possible. Unfortunately they usually don’t have the whole series available at once..
Was binging The Shield last year, on and off, and missed a season streaming window.
Damn, now that I think about it, I’m thinking Crackle, not Hulu
re: #407 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Damn, now that I think about it, I’m thinking Crackle, not Hulu
Is Crackle any good? I had it briefly on AppleTV but never really used it.
Was ready to watch the 1998 film Armageddon (in which the laws of physics are optional) but it’s nowhere on Netflix or iTunes
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 17, 2013
well its on there now if u wanna ruin it for everyone, neil https://t.co/Q99TMgmfzZ
— Netflix US (@netflix) April 13, 2018
just heard from a brit reporter on npr
Congress is utterly supine in all this
re: #408 KGxvi
Is Crackle any good? I had it briefly on AppleTV but never really used it.
The commercial breaks will drive you mad. Same ad over and over again.
lol
re: #409 Ace-o-aces
The movie The Core is even worse.
Gonna be watching the new season of Bosch this weekend. Want to savor the episodes, but expect I will binge the whole thing…
re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The commercial breaks will drive you mad. Same ad over and over again.
lol
I get that a bit with Hulu. Despite having the commercial free set up, some shows still have commercials and it’s almost always the same three commercials.
But any of their originals worth checking out?
re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The commercial breaks will drive you mad. Same ad over and over again.
lol
I won’t watch a service with ads. I have Hulu ad-free.
re: #412 Scottish Dragon
The movie The Core is even worse.
Check out the trailer for The Meg that I posted the other day. That one looks like a real doozy.
James Comey Is No Hero
The ex-FBI director is a self-reverential careerist who should be marked lousy by history.
Charlie Pierce speaks.
re: #416 Dr Lizardo
Check out the trailer for The Meg that I posted the other day. That one looks like a real doozy.
I saw A Quiet Place last weekend and it was utterly outstanding.
re: #417 retired cynic
That sounds like sour grapes.
Cracked me up
No puedo reírme más 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/tOa1oKsPyJ
— Leto (@jokermac_) April 13, 2018
Watch the whole clip…this is so wrong 😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/CiKR0OlCkz
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 13, 2018
re: #418 Scottish Dragon
I saw A Quiet Place last weekend and it was utterly outstanding.
I’m looking forward to that one; it opens at the beginning of next month here.
re: #419 PhillyPretzel
That sounds like sour grapes.
That’s not the way I read it. The whole tracks with my feelings, pretty well.
re: #422 retired cynic
I did not read it. That was an off the cuff remark. I am sorry if it offended you.
Deer gets lost, wanders into Italian bakery https://t.co/lpOQCqHCjc via @TheLocalItaly
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 13, 2018
re: #415 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I won’t watch a service with ads. I have Hulu ad-free.
Crackle is free. So, the ads are the price of FREE-dom I guess
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re: #414 KGxvi
I get that a bit with Hulu. Despite having the commercial free set up, some shows still have commercials and it’s almost always the same three commercials.
But any of their originals worth checking out?
I’m not sure Crackle has original content.
re: #423 PhillyPretzel
I did not read it. That was an off the cuff remark. I am sorry if it offended you.
Not at all! I just thought it sounded like you were responding to the headline.
re: #421 Dr Lizardo
I’m looking forward to that one; it opens at the beginning of next month here.
Annihilation was very, very good also. It is also extremely horrific. Nightmarish…like bolt under the theater seat and scream for an hour. Not really kidding about that. It was one of the most genuinely disturbing sci fi/horror movies I have ever seen.
re: #422 retired cynic
That’s not the way I read it. The whole tracks with my feelings, pretty well.
Mine too.
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still remember laughing out loud when the National Lampoon referred to Nixon as a “Coxsacker”.
They had a great parody song called “The Night They Drove Old Dicky Down”.
re: #426 retired cynic
Yes. That is exactly what I was doing. Besides I am going to be getting this book from amazon on the day it is officially released. I will read it for myself and try to form some sort of opinion.
re: #267 wheat-dogg
So, I just watched the first episode of the new Lost in Space. I was hoping for better writing than the original. I did not get it. I think they’re aiming for the same age demographic as the original.
Spoilers contained within. Click at your risk.
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I am not impressed.
So when do the remakes of “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” begin production?
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
According to their website they’ve got original content. Hard to imagine a streaming service without original content anymore.
re: #420 Stanley Sea
Cracked me up
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There is spit on my keyboard.
At least I know I’m well-hydrated.
re: #436 wrenchwench
There is spit on my keyboard.
At least I know I’m well-hydrated.
In some of the circles I frequent, there is a custom of exclaiming “Drinks Down!” so people don’t spraypaint their computing hardware when stuff like that is posted…
re: #429 Skip Intro
They had a great parody song called “The Night They Drove Old Dicky Down”.
yes, that was another one of my faves
Richard Nixon’s my name and I won every damn campaign
Stonewalled Congress’ game and I tore up the tapes again…
Alex Jones: Beautiful Satanists Dated Me In High School In Plot To Prevent Future-Me From Creating InfoWars - https://t.co/WZ31qxgFhE pic.twitter.com/y7rhE548Fn
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 13, 2018
This man’s organization was given White House Press credentials.
re: #437 Teukka
In some of the circles I frequent, there is a custom of exclaiming “Drinks Down!” so people don’t spraypaint their computing hardware when stuff like that is posted…
Yall are very thoughtful!
re: #417 retired cynic
James Comey Is No Hero
The ex-FBI director is a self-reverential careerist who should be marked lousy by history.Charlie Pierce speaks.
That’s a strange piece from Pierce. Comparing Comey telling Trump about the pee tape to Hoover blackmailing JFK over an affair with a woman associated with crime bosses is… strange.
Can’t say I disagree with the careerist bit, but that’s still a hell of a jump.
WSJ SCOOP: Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser close to the president. https://t.co/MewFyocvRV @joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 13, 2018
Why do people defend three am fbi raid on non-violent couple in their pajamas? How would YOU feel if you woke up to armed men in bedroom?
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) April 12, 2018
Only a white guy would think, “I will shoot at the Swat Team raiding my house. That will end well for me.”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 13, 2018
re: #439 Ace-o-aces
Alex Jones: Beautiful Satanists Dated Me In High School In Plot To Prevent Future-Me From Creating InfoWars -
This man’s organization was given White House Press credentials.
Just look on Alex Jones as performance art and recall that our President was a WWF heel, it all makes perfect sense when seen from that perspective
Mid day sanity break
the water is admitting we live in a racist oligarchy pic.twitter.com/JHCDIiimGJ
— The Warax (@iAmTheWarax) April 13, 2018
re: #439 Ace-o-aces
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This man’s organization was given White House Press credentials.
He’s not fake news but CNN is. Tells you all you need to know about Trump and Jones.
re: #442 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Our first abortion.
“I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate,” Mr. Broidy said in a statement provided by a spokesman. “At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”
re: #443 Ace-o-aces
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Even with a Tac team, and it will end in the police officers firing for effect. And even here in Sweden.
— Teo (@Teukka72) April 13, 2018
re: #445 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just look on Alex Jones as performance art and recall that our President was a WWF heel, it all makes perfect sense when seen from that perspective
WWF heels are more believable.
re: #442 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
WSJ SCOOP: Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser close to the president. https://t.co/MewFyocvRV @joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 13, 2018
Elliott Broidy and Michael Cohen are both currently serving as deputy national finance chairmen at the Republican National Committee. https://t.co/rm2kan5Fig
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 13, 2018
Trump has new reason to worry: His lawyer taped conversations https://t.co/UGWNezRCSw by @AnnTelnaes pic.twitter.com/N8dLYy5wz3
— Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 13, 2018
re: #443 Ace-o-aces
It’s almost like the conservative movement (or what’s left of it) is learning what their tough on crime policies have enabled the government to do to everyone else…
Welcome to how the other half lives, Newt.
re: #454 KGxvi
It’s almost like the conservative movement (or what’s left of it) is learning what their tough on crime policies have enabled the government to do to everyone else…
Welcome to how the other half lives, Newt.
Yep. I wish Newt would just slither away. His act is pathetic.
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that sanctuary cities are NOT required to help ICE agents in order for them to receive federal funds. Another loss for Trump!!
— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) April 13, 2018
re: #448 Stanley Sea
Our first abortion.
“I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate,” Mr. Broidy said in a statement provided by a spokesman. “At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult lack of period.”
FTFHim.
$1.6 million. Didn’t want to cover expenses, wanted to cover everything.
3. Wow. So Cohen used the same pseudonyms in the Broidy agreement as he did in the Trump/Daniels agreement. https://t.co/jzyklHvqRg pic.twitter.com/fzYDpGGKNL
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 13, 2018
#BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has reportedly told confidantes that he’s prepared to be fired soonhttps://t.co/xS3AdKeiNI
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 13, 2018
JUST IN: Pres. Trump grants full pardon to Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
“For years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly,” the president said. “Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.” pic.twitter.com/be68Pvs1pn— ABC News (@ABC) April 13, 2018
re: #459 JordanRules
And lots of people are prepared in case Trump fires Mueller.
Rosenstein might be, but it’s not the same thing as is.
Bill Clinton approval rating was 73% on the day he was impeached.
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) April 13, 2018
but you tried real hard, matt. you didn’t win, but you tried. https://t.co/eg1u8nAmr3
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 13, 2018
re: #459 JordanRules
Is this the first inkling of something much bigger? Or the first sign of all heck breaking loose? I know it is the start of something but I cannot put my finger on it.
re: #460 The Vicious Babushka
Now we can open up investigations into Bush’s lying about WMD.
re: #463 PhillyPretzel
Is this the first inkling of something much bigger? Or the first sign of all heck breaking loose? I know it is the start of something but I cannot put my finger on it.
I would suggest wearing gloves when you try.
re: #392 KGxvi
I am really interested, in a perverse sort of way, how they will respond if/when Trump follows their lead and goes ahead with The Saturday Night Massacre II: The Stupidening.
They have to know that it would be the end for Trump just as it was for Nixon. There’s no more an obvious sign of obstruction of justice and abuse of power than shutting down an investigation into your own alleged misdeeds.
If/when Trump gets impeached and the upcoming reports and evidence get released, I suspect a whole lot of “wow, I didn’t think it was this bad, we had no idea, who could have known?” spin.
re: #463 PhillyPretzel
Is this the first inkling of something much bigger? Or the first sign of all heck breaking loose? I know it is the start of something but I cannot put my finger on it.
It’s so hard to tell honestly. I think he’s just going on the record because of all the talk about the official GOP and team Trump strategy to discredit him and the investigation. I’m prepared for all hell to break loose this weekend though. It is Friday the 13th afterall!
re: #466 wrenchwench
Since I am in King of Prussia I will head to Williams-Sonoma and get those Blues Gloves. They are supposed to be the best.
re: #461 Belafon
And lots of people are prepared in case Trump fires Mueller.
Rosenstein might be, but it’s not the same thing as is.
Isn’t Rosenstein the prerequisite to Mueller? Like you cant take Obstruction 102 without taking 101 first.
Yes, that Joe diGenova
It’s official: statement from @PressSec, “Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) to I. “Scooter” Lewis Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, for convictions stemming from a 2007 trial.”
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) April 13, 2018
Scooter’s pardon lawyer Victoria Toensing — wife of Joe DiGenova —played a crucial role behind the scenes. https://t.co/ckmuM88Ith
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) April 13, 2018
re: #470 JordanRules
Isn’t Rosenstein the prerequisite to Mueller? Like you cant take Obstruction 102 without taking 101 first.
That’s my understanding yes.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Do we have any other record of a President referring to anyone in a public statement as a “slime ball”?
Of course, this is why they voted for him, he speaks their language.
Yep, he speaks dipshit.
Has anyone asked Trump or SHS about the fact that Libby was convicted of the very things he accuses Comey of? Asking for a friend.
re: #473 wrenchwench
Amazon has them. True Blues.
amazon.com
It’s a official…that mother fucking, pee-loving, Russian whore in the White House pardoned Scooter.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 13, 2018
re: #417 retired cynic
James Comey Is No Hero
The ex-FBI director is a self-reverential careerist who should be marked lousy by history.Charlie Pierce speaks.
This is largely not about him
It’s what he knows
re: #477 PhillyPretzel
Amazon has them. True Blues.
amazon.com
They can do the math, but some have trouble with colors.
True Blues Ultimate Household Gloves, 2 Pairs, You get 4 Gloves (LARGE, GREEN)
Just throwing this down…
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump aides managed to talk him out of firing Rosenstein today by instead planning a press conference specifically to publicly bash him.
We’ll see.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 13, 2018
re: #483 wrenchwench
I think they were originally all blue when they were introduced. After a while they added colors. I saw a listing for small hands in red.
re: #484 jaunte
Or schedule a campaign rally with his people….in Podunk, Mississippi.
Trump pardons Scooter Libby for revealing that @ValeriePlame as a covert agent, which Bush would not do.https://t.co/GJNyxX27IW
But the bigger message is that Trump will pardon people who would protect the President at the cost of our national security.— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) April 13, 2018
Ivanka Trump doesn’t speak Spanish, doesn’t have foreign policy experience, and doesn’t have a full security clearance. Why is she representing the United States at an international summit in Peru?https://t.co/Jh7DRX4j9U
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 13, 2018
International crime family still criming.
re: #488 jaunte
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International crime family still criming.
Agh my deepest sympathies to my brother’s extended family on this one. And as my Spanish professor would say, dios mio.
re: #487 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Yep, that’s the story here. IIRC Bush refusing to outright pardon Libby caused friction between him and Cheney.
re: #476 HappyWarrior
JUST IN: Trump pardons Scooter Libby, Bush administration aide who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity https://t.co/Jqo1ZhJ37n
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 13, 2018
let’s not omit key point…..he was also convicted of **perjury** https://t.co/9UKZX2J1Yb
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 13, 2018
Trump says in the statement that he does not know Libby, but “for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly. Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.”https://t.co/fLYHMjQxD5
— Kathleen Hennessey (@khennessey) April 13, 2018
Worth remembering that Jim Comey is the guy who appointed Patrick Fitzgerald as special counsel in this investigation https://t.co/dXtkNW7uqe
— Eric Tucker (@etuckerAP) April 13, 2018
Trump’s pardoned Arpaio despite not having gone through the requisite time period to review and now Libby.
Presidential pardons are absolute, so no one can do anything about it.
Thing is, Trump’s signaling to his cronies that he will pardon his loyalists and people who conspire against the nation and undermine national security if they are doing it for the right people.
This is the signaling that the rest of Trumpworld is looking for - that Trump will pardon those who are up to their eyeballs in criminality around Trump because they’re Trump toadys.
With today’s paradon, this better be a wake up call to every relevant state AG to start preparing investigations/charges.
re: #494 JordanRules
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Treated unfairly. Yeah poor guy got convicted of perjury, the very same thing he accused Comey of commiting. Trump’s a piece of shit.
“I’m straight up gangsta, and I always keep one in the chamber, in case you pondering,” - Thomas Jefferson 1808
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 13, 2018
The Boston killer will soon be asking for a Presidential pardon—don’t give it to him, Mr. President—hang tough!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2013
re: #496 Dr. Matt
With today’s paradon, this better be a wake up call to every relevant state AG to start preparing investigations/charges.
That’d be NY, NJ, and CA. Throw in IL for good measure.
re: #500 lawhawk
That’d be NY, NJ, and CA. Throw in IL for good measure.
I wish we could add Florida.
re: #445 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just look on Alex Jones as performance art and recall that our President was a WWF heel, it all makes perfect sense when seen from that perspective
Looks to me like Jones’ regular audience has become desensitized to his usual false flag stuff and has to ramp up the craziness to keep ‘em hooked.
It could get really strange and ugly, who knows how far he is willing to go to keep InfoWars going.
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re: #470 JordanRules
Isn’t Rosenstein the prerequisite to Mueller? Like you cant take Obstruction 102 without taking 101 first.
Rosenstein has the sole discretion to fire Mueller, as I understand the regulations, but only for good cause. There’s an argument to be made that that regulation violates the constitution and the notion that political appointees serve at the pleasure of the president (assuming the special counsel is a political appointee). This takes us to Andrew Johnson impeachment territory.
The problem is, if Trump fires Rosenstein, he can’t name an acting deputy attorney general - he can only do that if there’s a resignation (same reason he can’t really fire Sessions). Instead, oversight of the Mueller investigation would fall to the Solicitor General as next in line within the DOJ hierarchy. That was the endpoint of the Nixon Saturday Night Massacre. The other way it could go, is rather than firing Mueller the replacement could simply restrain the investigation.
That last part gets complicated because according to Maddow last night, there’s reporting that Mueller’s team is just about ready to issue a report on the obstruction of justice part of the investigation. That report goes to Rosenstein and then he has to determine what happens with it - he could send it to Congress for potential impeachment proceedings, he could release it to the public, he could direct Mueller to issue indictments (including against the president), or he could put it in a drawer.
Trump, as he has been from day one, is trapped on this investigation.
re: #490 HappyWarrior
Yep, that’s the story here. IIRC Bush refusing to outright pardon Libby caused friction between him and Cheney.
Nicole Wallace was on Maddow last night as this story broke and she said as much.
Can you do a LexisNexis search for these names?
3. Wow. So Cohen used the same pseudonyms in the Broidy agreement as he did in the Trump/Daniels agreement. https://t.co/jzyklHvqRg pic.twitter.com/fzYDpGGKNL
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 13, 2018
re: #507 KGxvi
Nicole Wallace was on Maddow last night as this story broke and she said as much.
That bit made me have some respect for W.
re: #399 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Damn you, now I have to look around and see if any Buffy episodes are playing this weekend.
lol
The whole series is available on Hulu.
hulu.com
If you only have time for one or two eps, I suggest Graduation Day parts 1 and 2 — (3.21, 3.22)
Super-inspiring.
Although my personal favorites for a mini-binge is Pangs/Something Blue/Hush (4.8-4.10)
Texas Dept AG dropped the state’s investigation into Trump University just got nominated to a federal judgeship - https://t.co/9wP7wXiuvB
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) April 13, 2018
If you need a tough prosecutor Philly has one.
en.wikipedia.org
Three quarters of the RNC financial leadership team has been implicated in sexual misconduct, adultery, or paying people off to cover up such activity. Solid job, guys. pic.twitter.com/qiilRUV1R1
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 13, 2018
Even the enablers are shocked. https://t.co/CkP1UM1r4y
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) April 13, 2018
re: #505 Dr. Matt
VA? MD?
VA is a possibility, given Trump has done business and has a resort there.
Don’t think MD is where he does business.
Uh…pee for the pee god, droplets for the porcelain throne?😳😳😳😳😳😳
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) April 13, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump is confusing justice coming for a #Criminal with a real attack on our country#MuellerIsComingForYou #TrumpCrimeFamily #trumpmeme pic.twitter.com/RhlB0Pfp7I
— Stop Trump 🍷 (@StopTrump2020) April 12, 2018
Everyone in Trumpworld is corrupt, compromised, and has no morals or ethics.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 13, 2018
Every last top guy in the RNC/GOP financing has sex scandals just waiting to break it seems.
And Cohen’s right in the thick of that too.
Trump = GOP. L’état, c’est moi.
Trump really thinks he’s the state. And his ignorant base is playing along while the craven and cowardly GOP nod their approval.
re: #510 sagehen
The whole series is available on Hulu.
hulu.comIf you only have time for one or two eps, I suggest Graduation Day parts 1 and 2 — (3.21, 3.22)
Super-inspiring.
Although my personal favorites for a mini-binge is Pangs/Something Blue/Hush (4.8-4.10)
Just start at episode 1, and turn off the TV when you run out of episodes.
re: #513 jaunte
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Yep, Ben, maybe next time you won’t lecture us on the left on morality but nah you’re a hack so you’ll keep on being a douche.
re: #520 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Just start at episode 1, and turn off the TV when you run out of episodes.
If only some channel would do to Buffy what Pop has done for ER.
The FBI obtained warrants to seize material from Michael Cohen’s cellphones, tablet, laptop and a safe deposit box, according to people briefed on the warrants, NYT reports. https://t.co/pgtZBqO4qI
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 13, 2018
Safe deposit box! As Michael Avenatti said last night the pucker factor today must be incredible.
re: #506 KGxvi
Great review of parts of the process. My search just failed me and my memory may be also. But a couple weeks ago I thought I read that there was a provision about majority AND minority congressional intelligence leaders getting to see the report if the special counsel has recommended charges so the AG could only put it in a drawer if there is no there, there.
I don’t think I will ever understand this country.
Overall, the polls found voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia to be optimistic about the economy, amenable to immigration, approving of same-sex marriage and open to paying higher taxes to fund education and infrastructure.
At the same time, the polls found Southerners to be deeply distrustful of the federal government (only 2 percent said they “just about always” believe Washington will do what’s right), opposed to the removal of Confederate monuments from public areas, and committed to the GOP.
re: #526 KGxvi
I don’t think I will ever understand this country.
Yeah I’ll never get the electorate.
re: #523 Belafon
If only some channel would do to Buffy what Pop has done for ER.
Didn’t Buffy used to run fairly regularly on some channel? I want to say SciFi or maybe FX? There’s a lot of cable channels that run syndicated shows in blocks because they don’t have much else to run (BBC America runs Star Trek TNG all the time, I believe).
re: #443 Ace-o-aces
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Cory Maye did that; he spent 10 years on death row before Radley Balko made it a big public kerfuffle and got a bunch of new hearings; eventually, the 1st degree murder conviction turned into manslaughter, sentenced to time served.
OMG check this insanity out from someone posting at Baby Snidley’s twitter feed:
#QAnon #Q #GreatAwakening #InternetBillOfRights #Pedogate #PizzaGate #MAGA pic.twitter.com/ZuheMGtDOd
— OtakuBubba #MAGA #RollTide (@OtakuBubba) April 13, 2018
I hadn’t heard of “Q” except for the obvious Star Trek character. Well…it’s a real thing on the right…
As Paris Martineau explained in New York Magazine, QAnon was born last October, when someone claiming to have “Q” level security clearance started a cryptic thread on 4chan, the online message board and troll playground. It was titled, “The Calm Before the Storm,” a phrase Trump had recently used. Q posted hints, some in the form of questions, ostensibly meant to help clued-in Trump supporters understand what was really going on in Washington beneath the facade of chaos and incompetence. (“What is military intelligence? Why go around the 3 letter agencies?”)
From these clues, a sprawling community on message boards, YouTube videos and Twitter accounts has elaborated an enormous, ever-mutating fantasy narrative about the Trump presidency. In the QAnon reality, Trump only pretended to collude with Russia in order to create a pretext for the hiring of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who is actually working with Trump to take down an inconceivably evil and powerful network of coup-plotters and child sex traffickers that includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros.
re: #525 JordanRules
Great review of parts of the process. My search just failed me and my memory may be also. But a couple weeks ago I thought I read that there was a provision about majority AND minority congressional intelligence leaders getting to see the report if the special counsel has recommended charges so the AG could only put it in a drawer if there is no there, there.
That’s possible, I honestly don’t remember one way or the other and was working mostly off the top of my head based on what I’ve read/heard.
re: #526 KGxvi
They’re watching Fox News, but just taking in the most frequent 5% of the message.
Cool illustration of the time cover.
The new cover of TIME made my day.🔥 pic.twitter.com/FDE56RNtxQ
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) April 12, 2018
re: #530 Scottish Dragon
OMG check this insanity out from someone posting at Baby Snidley’s twitter feed:
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I hadn’t heard of “Q” except for the obvious Star Trek character. Well…it’s a real thing on the right…
They want their country back? I didn’t realize it was gone.
re: #523 Belafon
If only some channel would do to Buffy what Pop has done for ER.
Just learned Pop binge plays Buffy episodes every Friday 9 AM - 3 PM
re: #534 HappyWarrior
They want their country back? I didn’t realize it was gone.
It’s full of people who don’t look like them but who, for some reason, think they deserve to be treated equally. They have a problem with that.
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