Seth takes a closer look at the scandals piling up around Trump, from his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt.
Sweat and stew in their own soup. They reap what they sow. Schadenfreude I embrace you.
Our destiny is to join this war. No mercy, no compassion. pic.twitter.com/s9VSrhsqo6
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) April 24, 2018
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They will not apologize for creating Western Civilization or for ruining all of mom’s hand towels pic.twitter.com/h78jtxmCWu
— IPleadTheFifthHat (@Popehat) April 24, 2018
The League Of Extraordinary Choads https://t.co/l9zB7iHdYd
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 24, 2018
JFC
Holy fuck. Don Blankenship is calling for Clinton to be locked up in his ads. Fascism is real. #inners
— Karoli (@Karoli) April 24, 2018
Finished watching the interview with Toronto’s police chief. He notes the investigation is being led by the police (and not the RCMP or CSIS). At the present time they are treating it as simply a criminal act, though if the evidence leads them elsewhere they will update people.
He was in New York for a conference, and when the news broke hopped a plane back to Toronto immediately.
Bill’s fashion = Steven Seagal in the 80s. Hilary’s fashion = Steven Seagal now. pic.twitter.com/NhmBK2i3bl
— Daniel (@DannyDutch) April 21, 2018
re: #3 bratwurst
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“Nazi scum get out! Nazi scum get out!” pic.twitter.com/N4ZPTNrJy6
— Brendan O’Connor (@_grendan) April 22, 2018
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Joe Torre managed the Yankees to four World Series crowns. His greatest victory, however, was pulling off this denim leisure suit/turtleneck combo. pic.twitter.com/dmceKV48he
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) April 23, 2018
Today I sent off the last check to pay off the mortgage for Casa BlueSpot.
re: #14 BlueSpotinAL
Today I sent off the last check to pay off the mortgage for Casa BlueSpot.
Congradumalashuns!
Kim Jong Un is 6 foot 3 and 239 lbs of solid muscle, same as Trump.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 22, 2018
Ask me if I’m surprised that yet another Trump nomination was made without proper vetting and now the poor bastard’s skeletons are preparing to dance out of the closet in a conga line before the American people.
re: #11 gocart mozart
Tons of conservaderp saying “socialists are the real Nazis” and memes with a photo and a made up quote (the Ronald Reagan one particularly sticks out).
re: #3 bratwurst
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re: #17 Targetpractice
Ask me if I’m surprised that yet another Trump nomination was made without proper vetting and now the poor bastard’s skeletons are preparing to dance out of the closet in a conga line before the American people.
Ask me if I’m surprised when Republicans vote for him unanimously.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Finished watching the interview with Toronto’s police chief. He notes the investigation is being led by the police (and not the RCMP or CSIS). At the present time they are treating it as simply a criminal act, though if the evidence leads them elsewhere they will update people.
He was in New York for a conference, and when the news broke hopped a plane back to Toronto immediately.
What happened in Toronto???
re: #20 Kragar
Ask me if I’m surprised when Republicans vote for him unanimously.
No kidding. They’ll talk as if they’re “troubled” and then go for it.
re: #21 electrotek
What happened in Toronto???
There was a driver of a van who drove down 3km of Younge Street sidewalks and wrong-way travel on the street.
There are ten dead and fifteen injured. According to the Toronto police, most of the victims have not yet been identified.
ctvnews.ca (CTV, live coverage)
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹
Wrong CTV link. Correct one:
ctvnews.ca
re: #20 Kragar
Ask me if I’m surprised when Republicans vote for him unanimously.
We’ll hear that they’re “concerned” and “troubled” by the new allegations, possibly even considering voting against his nomination. But they will all magically find their way around to supporting his nomination, even if it’s for airy “promises” that mean nothing.
The Toronto Maple Leafs won Game Six against the Boston Bruins tonight at home.
CTV is reporting the alleged murderer in Toronto is a student at Seneca College, New York, according to his LinkedIn profile.
What is being said.
#RonnyJackson is Trump’s pick to head VA. New allegations include mismanagement in prior job: drinking on the job, inappropriate dispensing of meds and abusive work environment.
REMINDER: this is he doctor that gave Trump a physical and said he was he fittest president ever.— ZiggyDaddy™ (@Ziggy_Daddy) April 24, 2018
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
CTV is reporting the alleged murderer in Toronto is a student at Seneca College, New York, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Is he American or Canadian?
In the saga of Les Hughey, Lecher Molester Lead Pastor of Highland Church Scottsdale, three more women have come forward and the Modesto Bee has their stories. The difference? These women say they were fondled by Hughey when he was the youth pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church, another very conservative megachurch. Hughey was at Scottsdale Bible from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, when he left to found Highland.
A couple other things. Apparently a number of bigwigs at the so-called “Alliance Defending Freedom” (aka, the guys who want to make it legal for “Christians” to discriminate against LGBT persons) are either on the board at Highlands, or go to Highlands. Also, the COO of PureFlix (yeah, makes films sanitized for your protection) also goes to Highlands and is on a board, I guess?
It’s hard to say where Les Hughey is right now. Buried deep on the church’s website is this tiny item, which indicates he may be out of the country from April 23 (today) to May 6. One would think that “leave of absence” means “not leading church tours of Israel” but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
Join Les and Chris Hughey and Mark and Mary Beth Yule for a faith-deepening “bucket list” trip to Israel and an optional Greek Cruise extension.
As of right now, I’m still planning to protest at Highlands next Sunday. I’m hoping the heat is such that Hughey is forced to resign or his board fires him outright. This is a guy who should never ever have pastored anything.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
CTV is reporting the alleged murderer in Toronto is a student at Seneca College, New York, according to his LinkedIn profile.
That’s North York. It’s part of Toronto.
re: #34 mmmirele
Didn’t you mention yesterday that some women in the church were Christ-like in their hurling of epithets at you?
Perhaps next time you can take doughnuts.
re: #36 Single-handed sailor
And the actual part of Toronto where this took place.
re: #36 Single-handed sailor
That’s North York. It’s part of Toronto.
I misheard. The college would be fairly close to his home then. (New York is a considerable distance from the Toronto suburbs.)
I read up on Richmond Hill. That is a very wealthy city.
I’m surprised a pathetic loser like CCJ will actually agree to a divorce. She must have something good on him for him to give up “control”.
Also, it looks like the rightwing hit piece on Joy by Mediaite has vaporized. I can not see it on their website.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
I misheard. The college would be fairly close to his home then. (New York is a considerable distance from the Toronto suburbs.)
I read up on Richmond Hill. That is a very wealthy city.
Depends. TO to the NY border is maybe 3 hours.
re: #40 Amory Blaine
I’m surprised a pathetic loser like CCJ will actually agree to a divorce. She must have something good on him for him to give up “control”.
Also, it looks like the rightwing hit piece on Joy by Mediaite has vaporized. I can not see it on their website.
I wouldn’t be surprised if CCJ’s an abusive asshole towards her.
re: #40 Amory Blaine
I’m surprised a pathetic loser like CCJ will actually agree to a divorce. She must have something good on him for him to give up “control”.
Also, it looks like the rightwing hit piece on Joy by Mediaite has vaporized. I can not see it on their website.
It’s on page two:
EXCLUSIVE: Joy Reid Claims Newly Discovered Homophobic Posts From Her Blog Were ‘Fabricated’
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹
From the article:
These anti-gay articles from The Reid Report, a site that pre-dated Reid’s former MSNBC show of the same name, were originally shared on Twitter by user Jamie_Maz who found them using the Wayback Machine — an Internet archiving service that takes periodic screenshots of popular web pages to preserve them.
While the amateur sleuth provided Mediaite with legitimate links to all of the posts they tweeted screenshots of, neither the actual defunct site nor its archived pages are currently accessible, as their Wayback Machine links mysteriously disappeared in December after Mediaite’s initial story on Reid’s homophobic comments about Florida Congressman Charlie Crist was published. The Wayback Machine did not respond to an inquiry regarding the removal of Reid’s blog.
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re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
CTV is reporting the alleged murderer in Toronto is a student at Seneca College, New York, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The NY Daily News headlines their piece as:
although the only mass killer they specify is Elliot Rodger:
Before the horrific Monday afternoon crash, Minassian had researched and engaged in online discussions about Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old California man who stabbed and shot six people dead near the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2014 before taking his own life, sources told NBC News. Minassian had apparently expressed admiration for Rodger, who claimed rejection by women drove him to his monstrous rampage, according to the sources.
Great role model, there, Alek…..
So when do we think the online wingnuts who were screaming “Muslim terrorism!!!1!11!” all afternoon are going to correct their wrong reports?
(Hint: don’t hold your breath)
The Colorado Supreme Court kicked Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn off the primary ballot, throwing the six-term lawmaker’s political future into doubt https://t.co/lCYXehFBP7 pic.twitter.com/0Yyq8Y4nmQ
— CNN (@CNN) April 24, 2018
Here’s Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State saying “It is a never ending battle until…the Rapture.” pic.twitter.com/KdESOqnoJu
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 23, 2018
A guy who thinks the end of the world is imminent may not be th best choice for Secretary of State. https://t.co/LDrCuHSikY
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 24, 2018
re: #45 Jay C
The NY Daily News headlines their piece as:
although the only mass killer they specify is Elliot Rodger:
Great role model, there, Alek…..
So when do we think the online wingnuts who were screaming “Muslim terrorism!!!1!11!” all afternoon are going to correct their wrong reports?
(Hint: don’t hold your breath)
They won’t. It becomes part of conservative canon as soon as someone makes such a remark. (Look for Trump to tweet it by morning.)
Tarek fatah seems really disappointed that the Toronto attacker is not a Muslim pic.twitter.com/JTvIqOePRf
— maXes (@maXes_MB) April 23, 2018
re: #46 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Whoops. Aren’t these the guys who want voter ID for everything election related? Maybe next time check to see if your petition-takers are actually Colorado residents.
Andy Borowitz
2 hours ago
Bezos Says That When Pee Tape is Released it Will Be Free for All Amazon Prime Members
re: #49 electrotek
I don’t know what the CBC said, but CTV gave out the guy’s name as soon as they had it. The Toronto police chief also gave it out in his press conference.
re: #46 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That guy is a wingnut’s wingnut. Glad he fucked up so bad he’s out of the election.
Wholly crap, there is a bunch of conservaderp in the comments still going on about that dubious Joy Ann Reid article … comments flooding in.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹
From the article:
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The links didn’t work, so obviously they were deleted. //
Normally, he would be required to find alternate legitimate source.
Here’s Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State saying “It is a never ending battle until…the Rapture.” pic.twitter.com/KdESOqnoJu
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 23, 2018
re: #59 HappyWarrior
It doesn’t feel like anyone left.
re: #58 jaunte
I blasphemed all fucking day to make sure I could stay down on Earth, y’know, just in case…
re: #60 jaunte
It doesn’t feel like anyone left.
U just wish people like Pompeo would get raptured away. It’s what they want anyhow.
I waded into the Mediaite article to try to counter some of the right wing derp. I’m drowning over there. Help.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹
Whoops. Aren’t these the guys who want voter ID for everything election related? Maybe next time check to see if your petition-takers are actually Colorado residents.
It’s hilarious that he screwed up a simple 1,000 signature requirement
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
I waded into the Mediaite article to try to counter some of the right wing derp. I’m drowning over there. Help.
I would suggest only debating the rational people.
re: #58 jaunte
Wasn’t today supposed to be the Rapture?
It’s still today for about another quarter of a day somewhere on this rock
re: #67 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
It’s really bad watching the bigot propaganda machine spread lies and misinformation about something in your own city. pic.twitter.com/ZuzhrlIPfd
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
This dumb Nazi barbie doll is still at it:
TERROR IN TORONTO (on the scene) https://t.co/YZkDCPrus8
— ☩ Faith J Goldy ☩ 🇨🇦 (@FaithGoldy) April 23, 2018
Why haven’t you been banned from Twitter after #Charlottesville you Nazi Barbie doll?
— دانیال (@danja84) April 24, 2018
re: #69 electrotek
This article opines based on posts by someone using the same name and same photo that the motive is…wait for it…misogyny and entitlement to women. https://t.co/hZpOMy4mSx
— Nonsense (@ihave42ofthem) April 24, 2018
All these armchair pundits who have never been to Toronto need to shut the fuck up.
Terror attack or not, it’s an amazing city that will never be ashamed of it’s multicultural makeup and one nutjob killing 10 of our own will bring us that much closer together. Toronto is strong. Canada is strong.
Yes, my heart breaks tonight for T.O. but my home and native land is still strong and free and I will be damned if I let it become anything else but.
Red and white for life.
re: #73 Eclectic Cyborg
All these armchair pundits who have never been to Toronto need to shut the fuck up.
Terror attack or not, it’s an amazing city that will never be ashamed of it’s multicultural makeup and one nutjob killing 10 of our own will bring us that much closer together. Toronto is strong. Canada is strong.
Yes, my heart breaks tonight for T.O. but my home and native land is still strong and free and I will be damned if I let it become anything else but.
Red and white for life.
Indeed. Exponential upding.
Per @mattbraga, the post is stamped 1:27 EDT. According to Chief Saunders, the first 911 call came in at “approximately” 1:26. pic.twitter.com/dHaoJDvCJP
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) April 24, 2018
Coming up on #hannity the liberal media just can’t stop talking about me. We’ll play you the tape after the break. Stay with us.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 24, 2018
We know you’re not a journalist Sean, but when people make the news for being a corrupt slum lord who hides his conflicts of interest and ties to government agencies, people talk about it. https://t.co/8wv43hWPxf
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
My sisters guide dog always sneakily walks her into this store without her knowing 😂😍 I love dogs, man pic.twitter.com/UuE9wDN4md
— Michele Sykora (@michelesykora) April 20, 2018
He is mad loyal to her otherwise pic.twitter.com/NCjQb0vmiH
— Michele Sykora (@michelesykora) April 21, 2018
Is Sean Hannity a man you can bait with a Tweet?
We don’t agree on everything but we are both street fighters @seanhannity, which means something. Let’s set a booking so I can come on the show to talk about the case and the issues in the case. No BS. Just a straight up discussion by two men. Thanks for considering it.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 24, 2018
re: #80 gocart mozart
Is Sean Hannity a man you can bait with a Tweet?
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This is a good trolling. I give it an A.
The stupid thing about the van analogy is they want guns to be obtained easier than vans.
Had he been in possession of one, he would have off’d himself just like Eliot did.
Oh and remember the Isla Vista attack happened on the same weekend as a Da’esh attack at a Jewish museum in Brussels…yet which one received FAR more coverage in the U.S. back then?
I sincerely need to start using the phrase “Not according to my I.Q.” more pic.twitter.com/VEHHaKNEp0
— Jill Twiss (@jilltwiss) April 23, 2018
re: #83 HappyWarrior
The stupid thing about the van analogy is they want guns to be obtained easier than vans.
Guns are already easier to obtain than vans.
It took hours and hours for the White House to issue a statement, and then it’s in the Press Secratary’s name
And, the tweet below likely tells us why. They were waiting to issue a “terror” statement, and finally learned they wouldn’t get their wish today
NEW: White House issues statement after deadly Toronto van attack. “The United States stands with the Canadian people in the aftermath of today’s tragic event.” https://t.co/jXNtCSaQUf pic.twitter.com/NR9EsEqm7N
— ABC News (@ABC) April 24, 2018
I’ve deleted this tweet. Upon further reflection, I should not have said this…or even said “could be”. It was a sloppy error and I apologize. pic.twitter.com/CUUK5Up9Ox
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 24, 2018
Police went to a funeral home to use a dead man’s finger to unlock his cell phone.
While dead people do not have IV Amendment protections, the phone becomes part of the dead man’s estate, and that does.
The Arizona Republic now has a story on Lecher Molester Pastor Les Hughey:
he Scottsdale pastor placed on leave after allegations that he sexually abused teenage girls while working at a California church decades ago is now being accused by two women who said they were groped while he was a pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church.
The women came forward with allegations against Les Hughey, founder of Highlands Community Church in north Scottsdale.
In interviews with The Arizona Republic, the women said he sexually assaulted them when he served as a youth pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The women said they believe more women at Scottsdale Bible Church were also abused.
This is how the story came about. My Aussie friend (former American) Benjamin posted the Modesto Bee story to his Facebook. I saw it early Sunday morning, realized it was a big church in north Scottsdale and went out to protest. In the meantime, Benjamin’s friend Jennifer who lives in Seattle, was out rounding up press to talk to me, including the Arizona Republic. This story wouldn’t have happened as quickly if it hadn’t been for that chain of events.
The next time someone tells you the Internet is bad, tell them it gets stories out that wouldn’t be heard.
It’s two minutes before a new day begins.
I thought the Rapture was supposed to be today.
Was anyone taken? All the Holier Than Thou folks should be fine, right?
Can we party now?— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) April 24, 2018
re: #91 MsJ
It’s still Monday on Midway, for another 6 and 3/4 hours.
I have been severely economically harmed. I have had to terminate contracts with and let go employees as a result of no longer having the means to pay them. This includes letting go of Stephen Chretien, the editor of gotnews.com, Shannon Knutsen, a writer for gotnews.com, and Tyler Bass.
(Not flogging a dead thread, but … )
The news about CCJ’s marital dysfunction and collapse does not deserve more than a mention. Which it has had. We do not need to wallow in the pain of others. That’s what conservative republicans and evangelicals do. We are better than them.
However. The contents of his pathetic answer to Twitter *do* bear some further attention, particularly the passage above.
Is this all hyperbole? Is he trying to wrongheadedly gin up a case for “actual damages”? Or is CCJ’s entire world imploding, as the money dries up and the “hawt Asian wife” bails on him, and he winds up alone and bitter and increasingly desperate to prove … something?
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
It’s still Monday on Midway, for another 6 and 3/4 hours.
Baker Island has another hour after that
re: #78 Kragar
Yeah we can’t wait to hear your latest lies, Slumlord Sean!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) April 24, 2018
From the previous thread:
re: #328 Barefoot Grin
This is pretty cool. Speed-corrected film of streets of NYC in 1911. Unfortunately, nothing from the tenements.
Thank you for posting this!
I just watched this video from the previous thread. I found it fascinating. A view into a different and passed world.
It is the world that my father was born into four years later. And I watched with the realization that not one person in that video is around now.
“It would be nice if the President would tweet about the four people of color who lost their lives at the Waffle House. It would be nice if he tweeted about the Black hero who saved lives. But unless it’s a Muslim, he doesn’t tweet about something like that,” @donlemon on CNN.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 24, 2018
re: #60 jaunte
It doesn’t feel like anyone left.
If you dont say “present” Im coming to your house to take all your stuff.
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Anybody else catch the tie in between Bolton and Pam Geller’s crowd? It was on All in with Chris Hayes
I’m drowning in derp on that Mediaite article. A putative libertarian is arguing with me, and apparently thinks everything “statist” is actually left-wing, including fascism.
Also, punctuation is apparently statist, since he doesn’t use it. (Which makes reading his screeds awfully hard.)
I suspect he is not really a libertarian (or even American). It took zero seconds for my former Libertarian Party wife to respond “right-wing” when I asked her where fascism fell on the political spectrum.
re: #102 ckkatz
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I’ll just say that I am happy he will lose half of all of his ill gotten gains to her. Cali is a community property state and she deserves all she can squeeze out of the little fucking racist shithead.
Oh, did I not mention that I think he is a shitstain of a human being? No?
Well, I do.
re: #105 austin_blue
I’ll just say that I am happy he will lose half of all of his ill gotten gains to her. Cali is a community property state and she deserves all she can squeeze out of the little fucking racist shithead.
Oh, did I not mention that I think he is a shitstain of a human being? No?
Well, I do.
The flip side is that he could get half of hers and if her income is greater than his then he could get alimony. After what he did to Charles he deserves every bit of karmic payback that’s coming his way. But I really do fear that he’s going to flip out and do something terrible.
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re: #107 goddamnedfrank
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re: #104 Anymouse 🌹
I’m drowning in derp on that Mediaite article. A putative libertarian is arguing with me, and apparently thinks everything “statist” is actually left-wing, including fascism.
Also, punctuation is apparently statist, since he doesn’t use it. (Which makes reading his screeds awfully hard.)
I suspect he is not really a libertarian (or even American). It took zero seconds for my former Libertarian Party wife to respond “right-wing” when I asked her where fascism fell on the political spectrum.
Italian fascism was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
Naziism was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
The Tojo Government in Japan was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
Franco’s Spain was always right wing.
Apartheid was always right wing.
The BJP in India has always been right wing.
Putin’s government in Russia has always been right wing.
Erdogan’s government in Turkey has always been right wing.
The Saud government in the KSA has been right wing since its founding.
The Chinese government has been right wing since 1948, despite what they say.
The North Korean government has been right wing since the first Kim took power.
There may be a trend, here.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹
You are a far more generous man than I.
I really do not have any interest in expending time and effort to convince idiots of the error of their ways. What’s the old saying? “They’ll drag me down to their level and beat me on experience.”
I have pretty much written off the Magat’s and other derpers off as unreachable in the current situation. And basically filter them on whether I have some other reason to interact with them
re: #110 austin_blue
Wasn’t it Glen Beck that started the “Fascism and Nazism are leftwing” nonsense?
The Leafs beat Boston to take it back to a game seven in Boston. Strong.
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re: #112 ckkatz
Wasn’t it Glen Beck that started the “Fascism and Nazism are leftwing” nonsense?
Oh, I think it’s much older than that. He just said that the sky was yellow and the sun was blue when talking about Nazi’s and such in the modern media age.
re: #111 ckkatz
You are a far more generous man than I.
I really do not have any interest in expending time and effort to convince idiots of the error of their ways. What’s the old saying? “They’ll drag me down to their level and beat me on experience.”
I have pretty much written off the Magat’s and other derpers off as unreachable in the current situation. And basically filter them on whether I have some other reason to interact with them
Considering this guy’s arguments, I suspect he is not an American at all. He claims to be a libertarian and can throw around buzz words like “statist,” but doesn’t seem to have the faintest grasp of what libertarianism is.
I’m about as far from libertarianism as I can get, and I at least have a basic grasp of the idea.
Gmail and google.com are both down, or at least they are not responding to me.
On the news that Trump is reportedly using his personal cell phone more, I can’t help but think of this quote from last year:
“If President Trump is carrying around an unsecured Android phone, that’s 1,000 times worse than using a personal email server.” https://t.co/m7T2oZf8Nl— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 24, 2018
Two years ago I worked with @60Minutes to highlight the “SS7 exploit,” which allows foreign governments & hackers to listen in on cell phone conversations & track location.
I wouldn’t be surprised if foreign governments are listening in on @realDonaldTrump cell phone calls. https://t.co/zEHmu2zaoZ— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 24, 2018
re: #112 ckkatz
Wasn’t it Glen Beck that started the “Fascism and Nazism are leftwing” nonsense?
I don’t think he originated it but he sure helped to promote it. I remember him plugging Jonah Goldbergs book multiple times on his TV show.
re: #117 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Gmail and google.com are both down, or at least they are not responding to me.
Google is working for me.
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The first thing a right wing government does, from time immemorial, is to shut down the independent media. Then they create a tame, passive media that is controlled by the State.
The second thing that a modern right wing government does is control its own social media. The third thing it does is to weaponize its own social media to infiltrate and degrade the free movement of facts in other countries. We used to call this spy craft. Now we call it Facebook and Twitter.
The Russians have been very good at this.
re: #123 Kragar
Close…
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Dangerous, but potentially very fun.
“Can I buy you a drink?”
“Are you worthy?”
“Let’s define terms.”
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t think he originated it but he sure helped to promote it. I remember him plugging Jonah Goldbergs book multiple times on his TV show.
These “The Nazis were Socialists—it’s right in the name” idiots are the stupidest of the stupid. Ask the Strasser brothers what happened to people who took the “Socialist” part of National Socialism too seriously.
re: #125 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
These “The Nazis were Socialists—it’s right in the name” idiots are the stupidest of the stupid. Ask the Strasser brothers what happened to people who took the “Socialist” part of National Socialism too seriously.
They do the same with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
You never hear that claim from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, that they’re a democracy though.
It’s almost like conservatives cherry pick.
re: #124 austin_blue
Dangerous, but potentially very fun.
“Can I buy you a drink?”
“Are you worthy?”
“Let’s define terms.”
“BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!”
“Well, he can’t have mine!” *BANG*
re: #127 austin_blue
Night all, sweet scaly dreams!
Catch ya later. I think it’s time for me to bow out as well.
Just facts.
whoever said never mix business with pleasure clearly ain’t tried a gummy vitamin
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) April 24, 2018
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Mueller’s office has confirmed in a new court filing that the FBI raid of ex-Trump aide Paul Manafort’s home sought records off the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. pic.twitter.com/xT7Uh0wxir
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 24, 2018
Inception
own the libs by implying your dad lied under oath about lying under oath pic.twitter.com/eO1gLYilyP
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) April 24, 2018
I’m going to cut out leaving you with an NSFW clip.
I sent a clip of Alex Jones to Utah Outcasts (hey they even mentioned me at the beginning of the clip).
Alex Jones claimed that when he was a freshman in high school, satanic senior girls tried to take him over to “the dark side” to prevent him from starting InfoWars.
They have a hilarious time taking apart the claims Alex Jones makes.
G’night, y’all.
(caution for coarse language and concepts from Alex Jones and Utah Outcasts. 17:02)
re: #110 austin_blue
Italian fascism was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
Naziism was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
The Tojo Government in Japan was always right wing, until we destroyed it.
Franco’s Spain was always right wing.
Apartheid was always right wing.
The BJP in India has always been right wing.
Putin’s government in Russia has always been right wing.
Erdogan’s government in Turkey has always been right wing.
The Saud government in the KSA has been right wing since its founding.
The Chinese government has been right wing since 1948, despite what they say.
The North Korean government has been right wing since the first Kim took power.
There may be a trend, here.
Please keep in mind that “right” and “left” are merely descriptive terms and not determinative. There is a lot of room for overlap. The point is that Fascism and White Supremacism are anathema to everything that America stands for and has even fought an shed blood to prevent or overthrow.
Five years later and I’m still not sorry. pic.twitter.com/5uKfqrWC4l
— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) April 23, 2018
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
I’m going to cut out leaving you with an NSFW clip.
I sent a clip of Alex Jones to Utah Outcasts (hey they even mentioned me at the beginning of the clip).
I look on Alex Jones as nothing other than performance art except that it seems that his persona has taken over.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
Alex Jones claimed that when he was a freshman in high school, satanic senior girls tried to take him over to “the dark side” to prevent him from starting InfoWars.
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You know what elevates this from the usual Alex Jones craziness to the level of utter batshit insanity? The idea that there were multiple hot 17 year-old chicks trying to seduce him. Not just one, but several.
re: #139 Ace-o-aces
You know what elevates this from the usual Alex Jones craziness to the level of utter batshit insanity? The idea that there were multiple hot 17 year-old chicks trying to seduce him. Not just one, but several.
He is simply playing to his target audience’s fantasy of being seduced by multiple hot teenage girls.
re: #139 Ace-o-aces
You know what elevates this from the usual Alex Jones craziness to the level of utter batshit insanity? The idea that there were multiple hot 17 year-old chicks trying to seduce him. Not just one, but several.
Did Taylor Swift go back in time to stalk him? Because that would be cool….
Nazis are not dirty
Nazis are not damaged
Nazis are not violent
Nazis are common
Nazis are people.
Nazis are no different from you or me, so end the stigma, shaming, and intolerance— Caesar Segundus (@Caesar_Segundus) April 23, 2018
Nazis are scum and have no place in society. They should be humiliated and scorned at every turn because of their beliefs and opposed at every turn. https://t.co/5PSocByCvl
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
When I saw that the hosts’ brains in Westworld looked like lightbulbs. pic.twitter.com/TQSFFWJKzN
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 24, 2018
re: #142 Kragar
Nazis are scum and have no place in society. They should be humiliated and scorned at every turn because of their beliefs and opposed at every turn
Nazism is a disease that should be rooted out.
We tend to forget how many Americans died fighting against it.
Your mom.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
There is literally no argument you can make to defend Nazis, so I’ll be skipping straight to the humiliation and scorn. pic.twitter.com/jFjLjvl1as
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is simply playing to his target audience’s fantasy of being seduced by multiple hot teenage girls.
Nothing all that simple about it, at least not anymore. Jones might have started out playing to his audience but years of method acting as a crazy person have literally driven him crazy.
re: #142 Kragar
People with STDs are not dirty
People with STDS are not damaged
People with STDs are not whores
People with STDs are common
People with STDs are people
Now it can be the case that there are dirty, damaged whores with STDs, but yes, a lot of them are just folks who made a bad decision about their choice of sexual partner.
Nazis did not get that way over a bad decision, they have embraced an inhuman and sadistic ideology in full knowledge of what it is and what it means.
re: #147 goddamnedfrank
Nothing all that simple about it, at least not anymore. Jones might have started out playing to his audience but years of method acting crazy has literally driven him crazy.
that is what I mentioned earlier; it is a case of performance art in which the persona has overwhelmed the performer.
re: #146 Kragar
There is literally no argument you can make to defend Nazis, so I’ll be skipping straight to the humiliation and scorn. pic.twitter.com/jFjLjvl1as
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 24, 2018
And that’s spelled “Secundus, ya dipshit!
re: #121 goddamnedfrank
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— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) April 7, 2018
I am late coming to this discussion, but as someone who followed and tried to parody Chuck C Johnson’s lame website for a time, here’s my thoughts on the separation news.
Leave it alone. We have mentioned it here, and unless there is some compelling, newsworthy reason for blogging about it, it’s a personal matter and should be avoided.
OTOH, it seems that Rage Furby’s “media empire” is now only a pile of rubble. WeSearchr seems moribund. His partnership/friendship with Pac Dickinson seems to be history. His lawsuits against Twitter and Gawker have all failed. He may still have communications with people in the White House, but even there he seems marginalized AFAICT. Gus also has dug up some other businesses under Chuck’s name that might be worth checking into. So, writing something about all that stuff would be newsworthy, and a “by the way” mention of his marital difficulties could be legitimately slipped in as pertinent to his downfall. YMMV.
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I agree, we hear all too much about him, and inasmuch as this has no relevance to anything else in the world, it is best to leave it be and just smirk and gloat quietly about justice finally being served (something I enjoy greatly)
re: #153 wheat-dogg
The fall in Chuck’s business empire and public presence has been echoed by the rest of the fringe alt right players like Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Richard Spencer, Milo Y, etc. Even Steve Bannon managed to self immolate. But what’s alarming is that even as their personal fortunes and visibility have waned the hate filled ideology that these assholes championed has only become more mainstream and entrenched in our government institutions and policy. It feels to me like they’ve served out the purpose intended by their more powerful billionaire backers like the Mercers in getting white nationalism to a threshold infection level and that the spectacle these clowns represent, and their inherent psychological instability, is now being viewed as more liability than asset.
re: #157 goddamnedfrank
The fall in Chuck’s business empire and public presence has been echoed by the rest of the fringe alt right players like Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Richard Spencer, Milo Y, etc…. It feels to me like they’ve served out the purpose intended by their more powerful billionaire backers like the Mercers in getting white nationalism to a threshold infection level and that the spectacle these clowns represent, and their inherent psychological instability, is now being viewed as more liability than asset.
They were being played as they were rejoicing in being manipulative.
And yes, outright Fascism and White Supremacism have become almost entirely mainstreamed nowadays, while people out peaceably protesting for equality or sensible gun control are branded as extremists.
re: #157 goddamnedfrank
The fall in Chuck’s business empire and public presence has been echoed by the rest of the fringe alt right players like Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Richard Spencer, Milo Y, etc. Even Steve Bannon managed to self immolate. But what’s alarming is that even as their personal fortunes and visibility have waned the hate filled ideology that these assholes championed has only become more mainstream and entrenched in our government institutions and policy. It feels to me like they’ve served out the purpose intended by their more powerful billionaire backers like the Mercers in getting white nationalism to a threshold infection level and that the spectacle these clowns represent, and their inherent psychological instability, is now being viewed as more liability than asset.
They were in effect the fall guys/front men for the people bank rolling them. Their purpose served, now they’re being thrown under the bus by the bosses, to be mere footnotes in history books, if even they’re that lucky.
re: #45 Jay C
Hate to say this but am relieved that he’s not a person of color or Muslim. Rightwingers have no groups to demonize now.
re: #143 goddamnedfrank
I’m tempted to pay for HBO just to watch “Westworld”. Very cool show.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
Hate to say this but am relieved that he’s not a person of color or Muslim. Rightwingers have no groups to demonize now.
They’ll find one.
Or simply lie about it. It’s what they do.
re: #157 goddamnedfrank
The fall in Chuck’s business empire and public presence has been echoed by the rest of the fringe alt right players like Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Richard Spencer, Milo Y, etc. Even Steve Bannon managed to self immolate. But what’s alarming is that even as their personal fortunes and visibility have waned the hate filled ideology that these assholes championed has only become more mainstream and entrenched in our government institutions and policy. It feels to me like they’ve served out the purpose intended by their more powerful billionaire backers like the Mercers in getting white nationalism to a threshold infection level and that the spectacle these clowns represent, and their inherent psychological instability, is now being viewed as more liability than asset.
They did what the Mercers, Kochs and their ilk wanted by mainstreaming racism. Now they have served their purpose they are bing flushed down the john.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They were being played as they were rejoicing in being manipulative.
And yes, outright Fascism and White Supremacism have become almost entirely mainstreamed nowadays, while people out peaceably protesting for equality or sensible gun control are branded as extremists.
The second part of your quote undermines the first. They’ve been mainstreamed and they have allies/members highly placed politically even if some of their old high profile members aren’t pulling in high six figure amounts from rich sugar daddies.
I would add that this follows a familiar pattern with Rich conservatives. Trash the commons for your own profit, depend on liberals to clean up the mess.
re: #164 Weaselone
The second part of your quote undermines the first. They’ve been mainstreamed and they have allies/members highly placed politically even if some of their old high profile members aren’t pulling in high six figure amounts from rich sugar daddies.
nobody is going to give Milo any more book deals and I cannot imagine Chuck is going to get one either.
re: #166 jeffreyw
So, you have them trained to wait for the feeder?
re: #94 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
(Not flogging a dead thread, but … )
The news about CCJ’s marital dysfunction and collapse does not deserve more than a mention. Which it has had. We do not need to wallow in the pain of others. That’s what conservative republicans and evangelicals do. We are better than them.
However. The contents of his pathetic answer to Twitter *do* bear some further attention, particularly the passage above.
Is this all hyperbole? Is he trying to wrongheadedly gin up a case for “actual damages”? Or is CCJ’s entire world imploding, as the money dries up and the “hawt Asian wife” bails on him, and he winds up alone and bitter and increasingly desperate to prove … something?
Was Chuck paying Twitter? Was there a contract in place? I am curious as to how responsible Twitter is for someone using their free service when they (in this case Chuck) behave badly and do not follow the only contract that I am aware of, and that’s the Terms of Service.
re: #168 MsJ
Was Chuck paying Twitter? Was there a contract in place? I am curious as to how responsible Twitter is for someone using their free service when they (in this case Chuck) behave badly and do not follow the only contract that I am aware of, and that’s the Terms of Service.
Twitter is a private company, but it is seen by many as a public forum, especially those who blatantly and repeatedly violate its Terms of Service and get sent to Twitter Gulag.
The flip side of that was net Neutrality, which ensured that everyone was guaranteed equal opportunity of access to the Internet. But that is dead now. We are going to see the very nature of how we are informed changed to reflect the interests of the service providers
re: #166 jeffreyw
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Did the Red-bellied Woodpecker get really upset and steal the feeder?
re: #170 Feline Fearless Leader
Either that, or really, REALLY hungry.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Twitter is a private company, but it is seen by many as a public forum, especially those who blatantly and repeatedly violate its Terms of Service and get sent to Twitter Gulag.
The flip side of that was net Neutrality, which ensured that everyone was guaranteed equal opportunity of access to the Internet. But that is dead now. We are going to see the very nature of how we are informed changed to reflect the interests of the service providers
The downfall of Net Neutrality would be a good opportunity for someone entering the market—I’m thinking of Elon Musk’s Starlink but that’s just one possibility—to announce that they will abide by it anyway. I think it could generate a lot of business. Of course the RWNJs who’ve been told that Net Neutrality is the opposite of what it is will froth, but screw ‘em.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Twitter is a private company, but it is seen by many as a public forum, especially those who blatantly and repeatedly violate its Terms of Service and get sent to Twitter Gulag.
The flip side of that was net Neutrality, which ensured that everyone was guaranteed equal opportunity of access to the Internet. But that is dead now. We are going to see the very nature of how we are informed changed to reflect the interests of the service providers
Now watch what happens when internet providers block Alex Jones.
A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For All!
Don’t block; throttle the hell out of his feed so all his deranged rant are pixelated even at 240p
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
nobody is going to give Milo any more book deals and I cannot imagine Chuck is going to get one either.
So your definition of being played is “get paid more money in a few years than most people see in a lifetime to mainstream their poisonous ideology.”
Is there a place I can sign up to get played by the Mercers, Koch Brothers, Adelson, Thiel and other rich Republican sugar daddies? Because I would really like to pay off my family’s student loans, get rid of my mortgage, and sock away a few hundred thousand dollars for retirement while traveling around the country advocating for a transition to a green economy and guaranteed income. I’ll even throw in a section on the dangers of AI if it will bring Thiel on board.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Twitter is a private company, but it is seen by many as a public forum, especially those who blatantly and repeatedly violate its Terms of Service and get sent to Twitter Gulag.
The flip side of that was net Neutrality, which ensured that everyone was guaranteed equal opportunity of access to the Internet. But that is dead now. We are going to see the very nature of how we are informed changed to reflect the interests of the service providers
NN would not apply here. NN was access to the internet without throttling, not guaranteed access to a private company’s service. NN is going to hit things like Netflix, YouTube and other video companies who do not have a relationship with the major ISPs.
re: #176 Weaselone
So your definition of being played is “get paid more money in a few years than most people see in a lifetime to mainstream their poisonous ideology.”
Is there a place I can sign up to get played by the Mercers, Koch Brothers, Adelson, Thiel and other rich Republican sugar daddies? Because I would really like to pay off my family’s student loans, get rid of my mortgage, and sock away a few hundred thousand dollars for retirement while traveling around the country advocating for a transition to a green economy and guaranteed income. I’ll even throw in a section on the dangers of AI if it will bring Thiel on board.
The difference is you would know you were playing the players. They likely expected their sweet income to be forever which probably put all of them in a precarious financial position.
To which I can only say HAHAHAHAHA.
re: #45 Jay C
Minassian had apparently expressed admiration for Rodger, who claimed rejection by women drove him to his monstrous rampage, according to the sources.
Almost forgot about that guy. There have been so many.
re: #176 Weaselone
So your definition of being played is “get paid more money in a few years than most people see in a lifetime to mainstream their poisonous ideology.”
They were being used. They might also have benefited from it over the short term, but they are now irrelevant where they once dreamed of being kingmakers or kings themselves.
re: #177 MsJ
NN would not apply here. NN was access to the internet without throttling, not guaranteed access to a private company’s service. NN is going to hit things like Netflix, YouTube and other video companies who do not have a relationship with the major ISPs.
It also allows providers to influence content and basically establish monopolies of information on a scale that even the Chinese government would envy.
re: #179 Sir John Barron
Almost forgot about that guy. There have been so many.
Hubby said the latest on him is that he was a functioning guy who was still pretty severely on the spectrum. He asked the cops to kill him. I don’t know if that whole thing about INCELs is accurate.
Here is a link to the latest updates:
Friends and classmates described Mr. Minassian as a technical wizard who barely spoke and may have had a social disability. Acquaintances who knew him in high school and at Seneca College, where he recently graduated from a computer studies program, said he had no known religious or political affiliations, and they did not believe he was inclined to violence.
A government source suggested to The Globe and Mail that the suspect is not likely linked to terrorism since the RCMP integrated national security enforcement team has not been called in to investigate.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. We’re finally feeling like spring around here, which means everyone will be bitching about allergies and the heat within 48-72 hours.
I get seasonal allergies, and they’re at their worst when the trees are busy doing their tree sex stuff. Then it picks up with the ragweed getting all busy at the end of the summer.
Plant sex sucks (or is it blows in the wind) … just putting it out there.
But I digress.
There are special elections in a couple of states, including NY, where the outcome could end up shifting the State Senate out of GOP hands. That it’s in GOP hands is a lesson in how a splinter group of Demcrats decided that it was better to cast their lot with the minority party so they could circumvent party leaders and gain more power for themselves.
Today, we could see the Democrats gain full control of the State Senate, which is likely to mean that more of Cuomo’s agenda could get adopted sooner.
Meanwhile, the reports about how Pruitt’s lifeline from the WH is dwindling seem to be coming more regularly now.
The end is near. https://t.co/9HFMouVVNQ
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 24, 2018
Trump still backs him, which means that he’s safe for now. The moment that changes, Pruitt is gone - but not before he’s done tremendous damage to the EPA.
It’s also not like Pruitt was alone in destroying functioning government, undermining functioning government programs, and giving companies a green light to rip off consumers/pollute for corporate gain. Zinke and Mnuchin and Mulvaney also are busy doing the same at their respective positions.
re: #182 MsJ
Hubby said the latest on him is that he was a functioning guy who was still pretty severely on the spectrum. He asked the cops to kill him. I don’t know if that whole thing about INCELs is accurate.
Here is a link to the latest updates:
But somebody blurted out that he was ISIS, so that’s now an Internet Fact™.
re: #178 MsJ
The difference is you would know you were playing the players. They likely expected their sweet income to be forever which probably put all of them in a precarious financial position.
To which I can only say HAHAHAHAHA.
This is probably true as they’re self important morons.
re: #184 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
But somebody blurted out that he was ISIS, so that’s now an Internet Fact™.
He has a foreign-sounding name. So change the focus to the dangers of Immigration.
re: #183 lawhawk
It’s also not like Pruitt was alone in destroying functioning government, undermining functioning government programs, and giving companies a green light to rip off consumers/pollute for corporate gain. Zinke and Mnuchin and Mulvaney also are busy doing the same at their respective positions.
We can add DeVos, Perry and Carson as well…
My first CNN story with @PamelaBrownCNN: Trump has been using his personal cell phone more and more over the past few weeks as John Kelly loses his grip on access to Trump https://t.co/euoDOAb72h
— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) April 23, 2018
A periodic reminder that using this phone may constitute a major breach of national security because the phone isn’t properly secured and communications could be intercepted by foreign governments. https://t.co/qbqVWAxzi7
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 24, 2018
re: #167 freetoken
So, you have them trained to wait for the feeder?
Heck, they come to the door and knock if we’re late.
re: #188 lawhawk
Surely they are, just recalling the story where our gov admitted the presence of cell phone spoofing devices in DC. We are quietly quickly being taken advantage of in powerful arenas of state business.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) April 24, 2018
Anyone surprised by this?
Sean Hannity’s real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer https://t.co/J13eEDWAzt
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 24, 2018
Shell company tied to the Fox News host bought homes through Jeff Brock, who was charged in 2016 with fraud and conspiracy for his role in a scheme to rig auctions on foreclosed properties
Brock pleaded guilty in 2016 to federal charges of bank fraud and conspiracy for his role in an operation to rig foreclosure auctions between 2007 and 2012. He was sentenced to six months in prison and had to pay more than $166,000 in fines and restitution.
Some of the houses sold on to the Hannity-linked firm in 2012 had been acquired by Brock from banks later named by prosecutors among his victims. But the justice department declined to identify specific properties sold in the rigged auctions. Hannity has not been accused of any wrongdoing and there is no evidence he was aware that Brock was involved in fraud.
US prosecutors said that, during the period in which he was buying the properties, Brock and two co-defendants were running a scheme to rig foreclosure auctions, where people bid to buy homes that have been repossessed by mortgage lenders.
The men agreed not to compete on property sales so one could win the auctions with “artificially low bids”, according to charging documents. The winning bidder would then give payoffs to the others to reward them for not having competed.
Why does this matter in terms of the fraud? Because the homeowners were on the hook for the difference. Had this been a real auction a house they got for $14k could have sold at auction for $40k so the difference would have been the homeowners (the people on the note) responsibility (they have to pay the difference between the sale amount and the mortgage amount). And if it is written off, it is considered income that they have to pay taxes on.
re: #188 lawhawk
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Not to mention the blatant appearance that Trump is trying to hide communications for being archived or otherwise recorded* for historical reasons. It’s almost like he has something(s) he is trying to hide.
* - Who he is communicating with, not necessarily the full contents of said communication.
re: #170 Feline Fearless Leader
Did the Red-bellied Woodpecker get really upset and steal the feeder?
He does seem angry all the time but the feeder has to be put away come night lest the ‘coons destroy it.
Democrats need to make a big deal about the GOP ending Net Neutrality and how they will fix it. There are plenty of otherwise not very politically active young people I know who will vote on this issue.
re: #193 jeffreyw
He does seem angry all the time but the feeder has to be put away come night lest the ‘coons destroy it.
Mine was metal - and the raccoons would empty it overnight. That stopped once I put a baffle on the pole they were climbing to get to it.
re: #195 Feline Fearless Leader
Mine was metal - and the raccoons would empty it overnight. That stopped once I put a baffle on the pole they were climbing to get to it.
So they were baffled, right?
re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They were being used. They might also have benefited from it over the short term, but they are now irrelevant where they once dreamed of being kingmakers or kings themselves.
Again, please tell me where I might be signed up to be used in this way. As far as I can see, the only downside for Chuck, Milo, and Spencer came from their own inherent narcissism and inability to manage money. They were incapable of realizing that his was actually a temp job at the convenience of their employers and failed to bank part of their windfall, so they were left broke and surprised when the Thiel and the Mercer’s decided to downsize their KKK and Nazi divisions.
re: #188 lawhawk
A periodic reminder that using this phone may constitute a major breach of national security because the phone isn’t properly secured and communications could be intercepted by foreign governments.
unless he is already providing them himself as part of the terms of one of his loan agreements…
re: #196 wheat-dogg
So they were baffled, right?
Pretty much. They would just root around the base of the feeder for seeds knocked down there by the jays and woodpeckers. Along with the mourning doves, juncos, and turkeys.
The new place I am moving to next month has some yard. So I might put a feeder up. Or at least consult with the neighbor who already has one up to help with seed supply or set something up that is complementary. I’m sure the felines will enjoy the birdwatching potential as well.
(Though I expect they will miss some of the sunning. New place has southern exposure, but much smaller windows and sills.)
re: #191 MsJ
Anyone surprised by this?
Sean Hannity’s real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer
Hiding one’s real estate dealings is not uncommon practice for celebrities, but this is wandering into other territory entirely.
Remember how he mentioned that he and Michael Cohen “talked about real-estate” making it sound like he was just someone perhaps looking into buying a condo for his mother-in-law or something?
re: #197 Weaselone
Again, please tell me where I might be signed up to be used in this way. As far as I can see, the only downside for Chuck, Milo, and Spencer came from their own inherent narcissism and inability to manage money. They were incapable of realizing that his was actually a temp job at the convenience of their employers and failed to bank part of their windfall, so they were left broke and surprised when the Thiel and the Mercer’s decided to downsize their KKK and Nazi divisions.
Chuck kept talking about his burgeoning media empire when all he had was GotNews and his “oppo research” side jobs. I suppose WeSearchr was supposed to bankroll the expansion. As a business model, it sucked big time.
re: #197 Weaselone
Again, please tell me where I might be signed up to be used in this way. As far as I can see, the only downside for Chuck, Milo, and Spencer came from their own inherent narcissism and inability to manage money. They were incapable of realizing that his was actually a temp job at the convenience of their employers and failed to bank part of their windfall, so they were left broke and surprised when the Thiel and the Mercer’s decided to downsize their KKK and Nazi divisions.
You summed it up, you would have the sense to know that you were being played, these guys really saw themselves as making a career and advancing to positions of great power and influence.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hiding one’s real estate dealings is not uncommon practice for celebrities, but this is wandering into other territory entirely.
Remember how he mentioned that he and Michael Cohen “talked about real-estate” making it sound like he was just someone perhaps looking into buying a condo for his mother-in-law or something?
More likely was that Hannity was working with Cohen as a go-between to coordinate talking points or policy and had fuck all to do with real estate. The discussion surrounding real estate was more like “you cannot say that I am a client as people will look into my real estate holdings” since his last discussion with Cohen was just before the hearing to state Cohen’s clients on the record happened and Hannity specifically stated he did not want his name entered into the record (or made public in any way).
I think CCJ, Milo, & others are done but there will be another generation of these pricks in the wings. I think they’re seeing that their existence in a Trump presidency is more useless than an Obama or Clinton one.
re: #201 wheat-dogg
Chuck kept talking about his burgeoning media empire when all he had was GotNews and his “oppo research” side jobs. I suppose WeSearchr was supposed to bankroll the expansion. As a business model, it sucked big time.
I saw Weearcher as a money laundering operation, myself…a way to get money from the top without it being shown as money from the top.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I believe the issue is where you come up with any explanation that makes them seem in any way slightly powerless in their situation. I can feel bad for people not properly riding their wave to sustainable fortune….except when the wave is promulgating hate. I hope his wife is leaving him, I hope she gets a good lawyer, I hope he gets no spousal support, I hope he trips and falls and skins his knees and the palms of his hand, and I hope he wakes up with a hangover every day for the rest of his life.
re: #206 Bass Reeves
I believe the issue is where you come up with any explanation that makes them seem in any way slightly powerless in their situation. I can feel bad for people not properly riding their wave to sustainable fortune….except when the wave is promulgating hate. I hope his wife is leaving him, I hope she gets a good lawyer, I hope he gets no spousal support, I hope he trips and falls and skins his knees and the palms of his hand, and I hope he wakes up with a hangover every day for the rest of his life.
What I wish for CCJ involves an out-of-control cement truck, so I’ll refrain from talking about it here.
re: #206 Bass Reeves
I believe the issue is where you come up with any explanation that makes them seem in any way slightly powerless in their situation. I can feel bad for people not properly riding their wave to sustainable fortune….except when the wave is promulgating hate. I hope his wife is leaving him, I hope she gets a good lawyer, I hope he gets no spousal support, I hope he trips and falls and skins his knees and the palms of his hand, and I hope he wakes up with a hangover every day for the rest of his life.
As I recall, they bought a house last year or the year before. I wonder who’s going to get it if there is a divorce.
I’m resigned there’s always going to be people like that but that just means ya gotta push back.
re: #207 makeitstop
My wish for him involves a septic pumping truck…no physical injuries involved. But such glorious wreckage to the ego…
re: #204 HappyWarrior
I think CCJ, Milo, & others are done but there will be another generation of these pricks in the wings. I think they’re seeing that their existence in a Trump presidency is more useless than an Obama or Clinton one.
Din Jim is still accredited to report from the WH is he not?
re: #208 wheat-dogg
As I recall, they bought a house last year or the year before. I wonder who’s going to get it if there is a divorce.
Chances are, whoever’s been making the payments. I doubt if that was CCJ.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Din Jim is still accredited to report from the WH is he not?
Well some do last longer than others unfortunately. Limbaugh and Alex Jones are examples of that.
re: #206 Bass Reeves
I believe the issue is where you come up with any explanation that makes them seem in any way slightly powerless in their situation. I can feel bad for people not properly riding their wave to sustainable fortune….except when the wave is promulgating hate. I hope his wife is leaving him, I hope she gets a good lawyer, I hope he gets no spousal support, I hope he trips and falls and skins his knees and the palms of his hand, and I hope he wakes up with a hangover every day for the rest of his life.
Remember Peter Lorey and Bogart in Casablanca?
Ugarte: You despise me, don’t you?
Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Well some do last longer than others unfortunately. Limbaugh and Alex Jones are examples of that.
Rush owns his network and has been more of an influencer than a tool. AJ is a performance artist who just got eaten alive by his on-air persona.
re: #212 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Chances are, whoever’s been making the payments. I doubt if that was CCJ.
Another possibility is that he’s stuck her with the payments while hiding his true net worth from her. He was living pretty high on the hog for a while, jetting from one place to another. I bet those separation papers have some juicy bits of info.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rush owns his network and has been more of an influencer than a tool. AJ is a performance artist who just got eaten alive by his on-air persona.
Right.
re: #216 wheat-dogg
Another possibility is that he’s stuck her with the payments while hiding his true net worth from her. He was living pretty high on the hog for a while, jetting from one place to another. I bet those separation papers have some juicy bits of info.
Yeah. There are some financial forms where lying when filling them out is somewhat frowned upon….
Gotta go work. BBIAB
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— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 24, 2018
Morning!
So, are we reaching the time on the internet where one Chuck C. Johnson has been cut down to size and is being seen as the nothing he really is?
That would be a good thing.
An even better thing would be all the alt-right, men’s rights, white nationalists, Pepe the Frog types running out of gas as America slowly realizes how screwed up it all is. Chucky, Cernovich, Spencer, and others hopefully have met the wall.
Popular takes (fashion) take time to run its course. Let’s hope we are beginning to see the end of it.
Maybe Trump and many of his close associates going down will help it all be seen as the dangerous thinking it was. I hope 2020 puts paid to the whole thing.
re: #220 ObserverArt
An even better thing would be all the alt-right, men’s rights, white nationalists, Pepe the Frog types running out of gas as America slowly realizes how screwed up it all is. Chucky, Cernovich, Spencer, and others hopefully have met the wall.
Popular takes (fashion) take time to run its course. Let’s hope we are beginning to see the end of it.
The thing we need to learn is that we should not feel compelled to tolerate these “alternative points of view” out of any sense of “inclusion”.
These views are anathema to American values and to humanity in general. People all over have suffered and died from them and others have fought, and bled and sacrificed to combat them.
I finally figured out what professional wrestling is: It’s a TV show starring stunt people.
When I tried to tell my wife this, the conversation went thus:
Me: I figured out what wrestling is.
Her: It’s fake.
Me: So are Soap Operas.
Her: They’re scripted.
Me: So is wrestling.
Most stunt people aren’t very good actors - they tend to be wooden, and don’t deliver lines very well - but they’re good at taking a fall, rolling with a punch, or delivering a blow in such a way that it looks good but does minimal damage (but, like all people, they sometimes fail). If that doesn’t describe all the wrestling I’ve seen over the years, nothing does.
re: #223 Belafon
I think, like Kragar in #142, we’re realizing the appropriate response is to not tolerate them, to not treat them as equals to be acknowledged, but as someone with a view that has to be shunned.
Ideally, our Cultural Revolution is winding down, and the era of letting 1000 flowers bloom is nearing an end.
re: #222 Belafon
I finally figured out what professional wrestling is: It’s a TV show starring stunt people.
I remember my dad explaining that to me when I was six and that is something that really helped shape my view of the world: that there is very little out there that is not scripted to some extent.
re: #224 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Ideally, our Cultural Revolution is winding down, and the era of letting 1000 flowers bloom is nearing an end.
especially when so many of them are turd blossoms
re: #222 Belafon
Really, it’s more of an ongoing good vs. evil allegory.
Combined with some really brave/insane stunts, and doing those stunts night after night for usually relatively low pay along with some usually bad acting, but they at least try.
In other words, its a lot of fun, especially watching Shinsuke Nakamura’s intro…
CMS seeks to allow doctors to bill patients directly (balance billing) https://t.co/IiZh07j4vx
— Austin Frakt (@afrakt) April 24, 2018
BREAKING: Trump aims to allow doctors to “balance bill” Medicare patients. Would upend the 50 year old protection for people on fixed incomes. Radical.
More as I learn more. Follow if interested. https://t.co/hKxGO2kabn— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) April 24, 2018
re: #222 Belafon
Professional Wrestling = Soap Opera
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The thing we need to learn is that we should not feel compelled to tolerate these “alternative points of view” out of any sense of “inclusion”.
These views are anathema to American values and to humanity in general. People all over have suffered and died from them and others have fought, and bled and sacrificed to combat them.
No doubt. But it sort of seems many of these idiots were playing with it all. It is a bit like youngsters experimenting with dark and dangerous things for the rush it causes being bad. It gets them attention they would otherwise not get.
Once it gets to the point of costing them relationships, money, maybe even their freedom reality hits and they jump off.
But you are right, even if this is just a passing fashion it needs to be stepped on hard so that it takes years for it to crop up again.
It never actually leaves. This time it got to ride the internet so everyone got to see it.
Uhm…wow!
This story starts so badly when PA Rep. calls fellow lawmaker ‘lying homosexual’. Ends so well when ‘lying homosexual’ calls PA Rep ‘Rep. Snowflake McRacist’ https://t.co/kTYOo83KV6 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 24, 2018
(sitting on mute on a conference call…bored already. :-( )
re: #227 I cannot.
Really, it’s more of an ongoing good vs. evil allegory.
That’s the plot, for sure. I’m imagining, say, Rampage with no stunt doubles. Dwayne Johnson could pull it off, but I suspect the stunts would get pretty weak beyond him.
re: #230 ObserverArt
No doubt. But it sort of seems many of these idiots were playing with it all. It is a bit like youngsters experimenting with dark and dangerous things for the rush it causes being bad. It gets them attention they would otherwise not get.
Once it gets to the point of costing them relationships, money, maybe even their freedom reality hits and they jump off.
But you are right, even if this is just a passing fashion it needs to be stepped on hard so that it takes years for it to crop up again.
It never actually leaves. This time it got to ride the internet so everyone got to see it.
And it learned to use a lot of rhetorical language to make it fashionable and enjoyed a great deal of tolerance and even acceptance from local and state authorities and even a few nods from the President himself.
And when people pushed back, they screamed like stuck pigs.
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And it learned to use a lot of rhetorical language to make it fashionable and enjoyed a great deal of tolerance and even acceptance from local and state authorities and even a few nods from the President himself.
And when people pushed back, they screamed like stuck pigs.
I think, like the president and the Right’s responses to protests, they we’re prepared for people to figure out “that’s messed up” so quickly. I mean, think of how quickly us liberals stopped being tolerant just because some white guy decides to declare that being white and being a guy should make him the most important person around. We’re just mean.
re: #227 I cannot.
Really, it’s more of an ongoing good vs. evil allegory.
Combined with some really brave/insane stunts, and doing those stunts night after night for usually relatively low pay along with some usually bad acting, but they at least try.
In other words, its a lot of fun, especially watching Shinsuke Nakamura’s intro…
With all of the bouncing off mats, tables, chairs, other 300lb men, i am willing to bet the WWE has a higher rate of CTE than the NFL does.
re: #177 MsJ
NN is going to hit things like Netflix, YouTube and other video companies who do not have a relationship with the major ISPs.
Netflix is in or working on partnership with Verizon. Or, at least so cozy it makes no difference. Netflix will work so their streams are not throttled, the big question is whether we, the consumer, will be forking over more cash to Netflix now?
re: #236 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Netflix is in or working on partnership with Verizon. Or, at least so cozy it makes no difference. Netflix will work so their streams are not throttled, the big question is whether we, the consumer, will be forking over more cash to Netflix now?
Which makes it not much different than paying Verizon directly.
re: #237 Belafon
Which makes it not much different than paying Verizon directly.
This is true. But, because there are so many deals between Verizon and Netflix, it may be moot at this point, anyway.
Where was he radicalized?!?
Facebook says the post from Alek Minassian referencing the “Incel Rebellion” and Elliot Rodger is real, and was posted publicly on his profile before Facebook shut it down.
— matthew braga (@mattbraga) April 24, 2018
re: #239 A dark and stormy covfefe
These “incels” need to buy fleshlights and calm the hell down.
He can keep saying it, but it doesn’t make it true or accurate.
If there was no deal, Iran could resume nuclear weapons production effort tomorrow. With the deal, they’re delayed while the deal is in effect.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 24, 2018
More than that, Trump hasn’t indicated what a “better” deal would look like that the Iranians would accept.
It also ignores that the US isn’t the only party to the Iran deal. He keeps ignoring that there are other nations involved in the negotiations and oversight of Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Oh, and everyone still admits that Iran’s living up to the agreement, and there are those in Iran who think the deal is far too harsh (which signals that the deal is doing precisely what it set out to do).
re: #241 lawhawk
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More than that, Trump hasn’t indicated what a “better” deal would look like that the Iranians would accept.
It also ignores that the US isn’t the only party to the Iran deal. He keeps ignoring that there are other nations involved in the negotiations and oversight of Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Oh, and everyone still admits that Iran’s living up to the agreement, and there are those in Iran who think the deal is far too harsh (which signals that the deal is doing precisely what it set out to do).
It’s easy to call something bad when you have no solutions which really is the story of Trumps career.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to call something bad when you have no solutions which really is the story of Trumps career.
It is also easy to be a politician when you have no record of public service to refer to…
re: #242 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to call something bad when you have no solutions which really is the story of Trumps career.
Which defines everything republican’s touch.
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also easy to be a politician when you have no record of public service to refer to…
And no desire to be an actual person who serves the American people.
Just In: 2 sources confirm to @nancycordes and @edokeefe Sen Vet Affairs Comm is reviewing allegations against Ronny Jackson which include a hostile work environment, excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing meds.
— Steve Dorsey (@steve_dorsey) April 24, 2018
THIS explains why he believes Dotard could live to 200 years of age….he was stoned to the bejeezus.
She REALLY didn’t want to hold his hand… pic.twitter.com/CWUeDlN6RE
— UnsilentMajority 🌹 (@The_UnSilent_) April 24, 2018
re: #246 Dr. Matt
THIS explains why he believes Dotard could live to 200 years of age….he was stoned to the bejeezus.
From what Trump’s other doctor looks like, the only proper way to deal with Trump is heavy medication.
re: #229 Weaselone
Professional Wrestling = Soap Opera
That’s always been Linda McMahon’s statement, whenever she is queried about her company (WWE).
She’s a worker too, though, and not just an executive.
Yesterday on the right-wing “news” service of USA Radio Network, the news stream was playing outtakes of Linda McMahon where she was talking about how great the Trump tax break was and how companies are using the money to hire people and buy equipment, etc.
Total worker.
re: #249 freetoken
Yesterday on the right-wing “news” service of USA Radio Network, the news stream was playing outtakes of Linda McMahon where she was talking about how great the Trump tax break was and how companies are using the money to hire people and buy equipment, etc.
Can we get some stats on how much of that tax break was invested and how much was used to buy up stock and give bonuses?
re: #246 Dr. Matt
“excessive drinking on the job”? He’s the personal doctor to the most powerful person on the planet.
ANY drinking on the job is excessive.
somebody just needs to throw a bucket of water on Katie.
The Rebel’s Katie Hopkins came to Toronto and said she had a hard time finding “someone that looks like they actually come from Canada” because “everybody here looks like they come from Africa.” pic.twitter.com/SUIAAIQwY2
— ishmael n. daro (@iD4RO) April 23, 2018
re: #248 Belafon
From what Trump’s other doctor looks like, the only proper way to deal with Trump is heavy medication.
As a former Navy man, I initially felt a bit sorry for Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson. Now it appears that he’s nothing but a typical Trump MAGA cultist. Fuck ‘em.
re: #183 lawhawk
…..
Meanwhile, the reports about how Pruitt’s lifeline from the WH is dwindling seem to be coming more regularly now.
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Trump still backs him, which means that he’s safe for now. The moment that changes, Pruitt is gone - but not before he’s done tremendous damage to the EPA.
It’s also not like Pruitt was alone in destroying functioning government, undermining functioning government programs, and giving companies a green light to rip off consumers/pollute for corporate gain. Zinke and Mnuchin and Mulvaney also are busy doing the same at their respective positions.
Other than SoS and Defense, is there anyone in Trump’s Cabinet who would not be appointed to the Cabinet of any modern Republican? Is there any domestic policy that is not a standard Republican policy? The evil being done is not in the name of Trump but in the name of the GOP.
re: #234 Belafon
I think, like the president and the Right’s responses to protests, they
we’reweren’t prepared…
I just noticed, but I waited too long to change it.
re: #251 I cannot.
ANY drinking on the job is excessive.
Unless you are a brewmaster, master distiller, etc.
:)
re: #240 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
These “incels” need to buy fleshlights and calm the hell down.
They need to visit a red-light district. Well, odds are they don’t have one anywhere near them, at least not a legal one.
re: #246 Dr. Matt
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THIS explains why he believes Dotard could live to 200 years of age….he was stoned to the bejeezus.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…as long as you’re not in a position of responsibility.
I’m cool with a burger-flipper being high at work. It’s not OK with the head of the VA doing the same.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to call something bad when you have no solutions which really is the
story of Trumps careerway Republicans have worked for 20 years.
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Rebel’s Katie Hopkins
Who is this troubled heart snowflake? The white nationalist from Britain?
re: #246 Dr. Matt
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THIS explains why he believes Dotard could live to 200 years of age….he was stoned to the bejeezus.
Maybe working for dotard can drive a sane person to drink or drugs. It must be a nightmare functioning under those conditions, where your employer is essentially a third-rate mob boss who has no loyalty to his staff and who is beholden to an enemy.
re: #257 Dr Lizardo
No, they don’t. There’s no amount of boning that will fix what’s wrong with those people. And sex workers already have more than enough fuckery to deal with without these yahoos.
Although, it wouldn’t hurt if they had fleshlights.
re: #260 Sir John Barron
Who is this troubled heart snowflake? The white nationalist from Britain?
Descendant of colonial imperialists complains about people from other countries moving in and taking over.
Flat out lies from that lost colony of Imperial Germany, Lubbock:
Updated, sticking with his story.
uh…
BREAKING: Trump says North Korea wants meeting `as soon as possible,’ praises Kim Jong Un as `very open’ and `very honorable’
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 24, 2018
Enjoy This Excruciating Clip of Trump Brushing Off “Dandruff” From Macron’s Suit https://t.co/mbNgmcuNRc pic.twitter.com/XgVUYY9zn2
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊 (@Politics_PR) April 24, 2018
David Futrelle has been following and discussing incels over at wehuntedthemammoth.com. He has two articles on this latest attack by a purported incel. He has pointedly noted that incels are hateful misogynists and are a danger.
As I write this, it’s still not completely clear if Alek Minassian, the alleged driver of the van that killed ten pedestrians in Toronto yesterday in what appeared to be a very deliberate attack, is in fact a self-identified “involuntary celibate” trying to take revenge against the “Chads” and “Stacies” and other “normies” he blames for ruining his life — or if these reports are simply some sort of 4chan-style hoax.
But on the incels.me forum, one of the more egregious hangouts for incels online, many are already hailing the alleged mass murderer as one of their own.
Trump basically has 3 modes of dealing with people: Flattering, bullying, and ignoring.
re: #269 Colère Tueur de Lapin
David Futrelle has been following and discussing incels over at wehuntedthemammoth.com. He has two articles on this latest attack by a purported incel. He has pointedly noted that incels are hateful misogynists and are a danger.
Could the Fort Hood massacre and the Virginia tech massacre also be attributed to “incels”?
Women aren’t putting enough away for retirement, but here’s how to fix it. https://t.co/JouO0MwROf pic.twitter.com/N3ILwQvC6z
— CNBC (@CNBC) April 24, 2018
Stop paying them less than men https://t.co/XfnrAF7Kq9
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) April 24, 2018
re: #269 Colère Tueur de Lapin
David Futrelle has been following and discussing incels over at wehuntedthemammoth.com. He has two articles on this latest attack by a purported incel. He has pointedly noted that incels are hateful misogynists and are a danger.
so there seems to be an approach here: taking one aspect of a person’s life (religion, sexual orientation, etc.) and blowing it up to present it as the the sole motivating cause of said person’s crime(s) and then dragging down everyone else who remotely shares or suuports those views
unless that person is a white nationalist gun nut, in which case such person is merely “disturbed”
wtf……
Somewhere Mike Pence’s head is exploding.pic.twitter.com/rxTIM7Q6mC
— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) April 24, 2018
re: #269 Colère Tueur de Lapin
David Futrelle has been following and discussing incels over at wehuntedthemammoth.com. He has two articles on this latest attack by a purported incel. He has pointedly noted that incels are hateful misogynists and are a danger.
Talk about losers. It’s the 21st century. Not only can jocks and businessmen ‘get a girl’, but even us geeks and nerds are no longer immediately shunned by society as not able to contribute. You pretty much have to try to be an asshole.
(And ‘get a girl’ is in quotes because you don’t get a girl, you do all the right things, be the right person, and hopefully you find the right person who likes you.)
Guess who I saw today?
Leaving DC via Reagan Nat. Airport.
He pulled out two phones and proceeded to loudly talk about how they all needed to be on the same page,Jay and he and Rudy.
He didn’t even try to talk quietly. pic.twitter.com/ubAVFhsMAK— MIKE (@trumpanhator) April 23, 2018
When he first sat down I immediately noticed his boots.
They were made of animal skin which made me look up.
I immediately recognized him.
Googled him on my phone to prove to my wife that I wasn’t crazy.
You can’t mistake that mustache.
My son laughed so loud Cobb looked at us😂 pic.twitter.com/7ZcwHPW7YG— MIKE (@trumpanhator) April 24, 2018
You can see the second phone on his lap.
He switched back and forth during the 20-30 minutes we were there.
The larger phone with the red cover
had an American flag inside a heart on the back cover. When I pointed this out to my son he said “Oh that should be a Russian flag”😁👍 pic.twitter.com/pVgwXPBlpV— MIKE (@trumpanhator) April 24, 2018
re: #241 lawhawk
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More than that, Trump hasn’t indicated what a “better” deal would look like that the Iranians would accept.
It also ignores that the US isn’t the only party to the Iran deal. He keeps ignoring that there are other nations involved in the negotiations and oversight of Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Oh, and everyone still admits that Iran’s living up to the agreement, and there are those in Iran who think the deal is far too harsh (which signals that the deal is doing precisely what it set out to do).
Maybe it’s because Trump (and/or his malAdministration) isn;t really looking for a “better deal” vis-a-vis Iran, but rather for any sort of passable excuse to marginalize that country as a regional player. Preferably by bombing the shit out of them, but by (loosely defined) “diplomatic” means if military destruction is deemed bad PR.
The Trump Admin has bought in (whole-hog) to the Saudi/Israeli strategy of regarding Iran as the irredeemable Evil Empire: the Designated Villain who can do no right, and cannot be trusted in any way for the least thing without said trust being enforced at gunpoint:
and even then not believed.
That few other nations in the world actually buy into this routine is irrelevant to the Administration: Iran has no well-financed and well-organized lobby in this country: and no friends in the media.
re: #257 Dr Lizardo
They need to visit a red-light district. Well, odds are they don’t have one anywhere near them, at least not a legal one.
You assume the workers would want them there…
*whistles innocently*
re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so there seems to be an approach here: taking one aspect of a person’s life (religion, sexual orientation, etc.) and blowing it up to present it as the the sole motivating cause of said person’s crime(s) and then dragging down everyone else who remotely shares or suuports those views
unless that person is a white nationalist gun nut, in which case such person is merely “disturbed”
I may be misreading you here, but Futrelle isn’t simply taking “one aspecte of a person’s life” and blowing it up. He follow MRAs, incels, the gamergate afficicandos, etc., and is making a observation based on research. Incels are misogynists, it’s patently obvious. Additionally, the constantly are threatening those they feel are keeping them from meeting “complaint” women.
So, no, you’re interpretation is incorrect. Unless, as I noted above, I am misreading your comment.
re: #276 Belafon
Talk about losers. It’s the 21st century. Not only can jocks and businessmen ‘get a girl’, but even us geeks and nerds are no longer immediately shunned by society as not able to contribute. You pretty much have to try to be an asshole.
Some of us geeks also really prefer the nerd girls.
Police seized more than 38 pounds of marijuana and two guns from a Milford business Wednesday https://t.co/o5MTPRlarl pic.twitter.com/umzoHBtCV5
— Hartford Courant (@hartfordcourant) March 14, 2018
World’s coolest dog arrested https://t.co/RGImh7pcGB
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) April 24, 2018
re: #281 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I may be misreading you here, but Futrelle isn’t simply taking “one aspecte of a person’s life” and blowing it up. He follow MRAs, incels, the gamergate afficicandos, etc., and is making a observation based on research. Incels are misogynists, it’s patently obvious. Additionally, the constantly are threatening those they feel are keeping them from meeting “complaint” women.
So, no, you’re interpretation is incorrect. Unless, as I noted above, I am misreading your comment.
I am assuming this is just a typo/spellcheck error for “compliant” - but it does work either way….
re: #284 Jay C
I am assuming this is just a typo/spellcheck error for “compliant” - but it does work either way….
Ummmm, yup. Gonna leave it. :o
re: #247 MsJ
I bet she would hold Obama’s hand!
Possible predator intervention:
Former Christian school teacher pleads guilty to child grooming charge
A former teacher at Trinity Christian School in Shorewood pleaded guilty on Friday to sending inappropriate text messages to a 13-year-old girl last year.
Lemuel V. Elechicon, 51, of Crest Hill, was sentenced to 180 days in jail.
[…]
Well, glad at least this didn’t turn out bad for the girl.
And that it was a Christian school I don’t think is anything peculiar, as inappropriate behavior can creep in anywhere.
But, in an earlier report on this same story, something caught my eye:
Shorewood teacher facing child grooming charge released on bond
[…]
Barten said investigators interviewed Elechicon on Friday morning. According to the school’s website, Elechicon was a sixth-grade sponsor and middle school teacher who has taught fourth- through eighth-grades. He specialized in teaching “science and biblical creationism,” according to the website.
[…]
And then we wonder why Evangelicals in this country are so diehard Trump supporters.
jeebus
Trump says US trade with France is complicated because of the European Union: “I’d rather deal just with France. The Union is very tough for us. They have trade barriers that are unacceptable” https://t.co/CPhUy2XoZR
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 24, 2018
re: #269 Colère Tueur de Lapin
David Futrelle has been following and discussing incels over at wehuntedthemammoth.com. He has two articles on this latest attack by a purported incel. He has pointedly noted that incels are hateful misogynists and are a danger.
“incels” = “involuntary celibate”?
The world moves so fast I miss the latest.
CHEEBUS.
President Trump: “Kim Jong Un… he really has been very open, and, I think, very honorable from everything we’re seeing.” https://t.co/AMlFBfOQMT pic.twitter.com/llpw4IN9Ro
— CNN (@CNN) April 24, 2018
re: #289 Sir John Barron
“incels” = “involuntary celibate”?
The world moves so fast I miss the latest.
Yes — today was the first time for me too.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
He still thinks bilateral agreements are the way to do things. He’s also helping Putin.
re: #281 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I may be misreading you here, but Futrelle isn’t simply taking “one aspecte of a person’s life” and blowing it up. He follow MRAs, incels, the gamergate afficicandos, etc., and is making a observation based on research. Incels are misogynists, it’s patently obvious. Additionally, the constantly are threatening those they feel are keeping them from meeting “complaint” women.
So, no, you’re interpretation is incorrect. Unless, as I noted above, I am misreading your comment.
I guess I did not look closely enough into what Futrelle was writing about.
Misogyny takes a lot of forms, and I suspect you will find also a fair share of it among men who are not celibate.
I was “incel” several times for rather extended stretches, even years. It was not for lack of “compliant” women, it was for lack of women with whom I felt compatible and comfortable enough to be intimate with and vice-versa. I tend to be monogamous and rather selective about the company I keep.
Not that I think I have unrealistic standards or perverted tastes, but I have to find someone with some art or music or poetry in her soul that resonates with me before I can really find her attractive enough to want to pursue a relationship.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 24, 2018
re: #289 Sir John Barron
“incels” = “involuntary celibate”?
The world moves so fast I miss the latest.
Yeah, because the women of the world owe them a sex life, without them having to do things like shave or wash or not be an asshole.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump says US trade with France is complicated because of the European Union: “I’d rather deal just with France. The Union is very tough for us. They have trade barriers that are unacceptable”
is anybody going to call him out on that to his face?
re: #279 Belafon
What is it?
I think Dotard is so desperate to be like by someone…anyone…that he’s willing to hold hands with and groom another man….even a French one.
A James Wood is when you try to piss with a hard on and the urine sprays you in the face.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 24, 2018
re: #291 Hecuba’s daughter
Yes — today was the first time for me too.
The incels used to have a subreddit, but IIRC, it got the banhammer a couple weeks back along with a few others…..there was a big stink about it on Reddit.
“Robert, you have to make it quick. Donald is waiting for me downstairs. If I don’t have his hand wipes his little fingers get moist and it spirals out of control.”
Robert Mueller grimaced, then handed Melania a white hat.
“This is too big.”
“We need it to pick up all sound.” pic.twitter.com/LlzaG01rN5— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2018
Macron leaned over to his wife, Brigitte.
“He keeps going on and on about french fries. Reciting facts about french fries, praising the taste. Does he not understand that we didn’t—”
Brigitte shook her head.
“No,” she whispered, “he does not understand.”— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2018
At least Trump found someone with whom to hold hands.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 24, 2018
re: #242 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to call something bad when you have no solutions which really is the story of Trumps career.
Over promise.
Fail to deliver.
Trump business philosophy.
Trump learned all the old school thinking like “sell the sizzle, not the steak.” Except his steaks are always bad. He always failed to deliver on the promise, but it sure sounded good.
This is exactly why he hasn’t been effective as president. A hot mess of emotional policy positions and no actual means of implementation.
He fashions himself as a big idea man, but he can’t work with people that actually bring ideas to reality because he sees them as showing him up. He has to think and do it all himself and that is a great way to make everyone around you useless and they know it.
He is exactly what you don’t want in a leader.
moron is still talking
.@RandPaul: “I disagree with those people who say… ‘we’ve got to give a blank check to the military.’ I think it’s actually making us weaker as we go further and further into debt.” pic.twitter.com/S1j7uMRRwS
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 24, 2018
re: #300 I cannot.
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I’m old enough to remember when, if you wanted to wear something like that, you either wore it on Halloween, or you changed into it at your destination. Pre-Bill Gates, Pre-Revenge of the Nerds, before D&D was known well enough to become evil. And yes, I know how much was going on (One time, at band camp…).
re: #292 Belafon
He still thinks bilateral agreements are the way to do things. He’s also helping Putin.
One way in which the ignorant Palin was better than the arrogant, ignorant Trump: There was the amazing scene in the HBO film “Game Change” in which experts were brought in to teach Palin about foreign policy; they had to focus on rudimentary history, but she was there diligently taking notes and paying attention to the lessons. That doesn’t work for Trump — he has no interest in learning about the way the world actually operates or how it got there; he expects everything to conform to his imaginary uneducated views of policy and to change the world to fit his viewpoint.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is still talking
You should vote that way all the time, Rand, rather than just when Democrats are in charge.
This photo looks like a promotional still for a movie called ‘mon frère adoptif est un idiot’ where two brothers who have never met go to their mother’s funeral and everything goes horribly wrong. pic.twitter.com/GIdb2JA2xr
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) April 24, 2018
— __josh (@__josh) April 24, 2018
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
somebody just needs to throw a bucket of water on Katie.
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So? She can take her racist behind and leave Toronto then. Who cares?
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They always look so awkward, and anyone who takes a picture with them suddenly looks awkward, too.
oh, ok…
To persuade Rand Paul to flip on Pompeo nomination, the White House was prepared to tell Kentucky that its senator had voted for Democrat John Kerry for Sec of State in 2013, but not for a Republican nominee. https://t.co/wbeWCngsFq via @byrontau, @PeterWSJ
— Janet Hook (@hookjan) April 24, 2018
re: #306 Belafon
I’m old enough to remember when, if you wanted to wear something like that, you either wore it on Halloween, or you changed into it at your destination. Pre-Bill Gates, Pre-Revenge of the Nerds, before D&D was known well enough to become evil. And yes, I know how much was going on (One time, at band camp…).
Cat girls.
Yes, we have them here now too.
We’ve just obtained this Facebook post from the accused Alek Minassian, suspected in the #yongeandfinch mass casualty. Posted early this afternoon. FYI Incel=involuntarily celibate. Elliot Rodger killed 6 ppl at UCSB in 2014 before killing himself @globalnewsto pic.twitter.com/W84xt3D85I
— Catherine McDonald (@cmcdonaldglobal) April 23, 2018
re: #316 ObserverArt
He’s gonna get taken. He may even lose his wallet and watch to Kim.
Yep. Trump’s going to get fleeced down to the leaving-wearing-a-barrel level, and then have the WH PR machine spin it as him being magnanimously generous. And then go have Sarah Sanders stand up at the podium and bitch at reporters for their petty harping about the barrel.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Rand is so tiresome. He is a coward who truly believes in nothing except keeping power.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
RandPaul: “I disagree with those people who say… ‘we’ve got to give a blank check to the military.’ I think it’s actually making us weaker as we go further and further into debt.”
Remember Reagan’s “You can’t solve social problems by throwing money at them” quote?
That has, however always been the GOP approach to solving any military hardware problem, but not necessarily to care and benefits for vets and active military and their dependents.
re: #319 Hecuba’s daughter
Rand is so tiresome. He is a coward who truly believes in nothing except keeping power.
Now I know why Greenwald adores him so.
Conflicts of Interest: A Hannity Speciality https://t.co/NahloBL941 pic.twitter.com/GKy2xDIfxQ
— Tengrain, No Client Of Cohen (@Tengrain) April 24, 2018
I’m old enough to remember when the right lost their collective minds because President Obama bowed to a world leader. Today, Dotard is literally acting like a butler for the president of France. Good times.
Antifa activists attacking the Alt-right, France, 1944. pic.twitter.com/UCdtq41GsJ
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) April 24, 2018
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was “incel” several times for rather extended stretches, even years. It was not for lack of “compliant” women, it was for lack of women with whom I felt compatible and comfortable enough to be intimate with and vice-versa.
“Incel” doesn’t mean someone who isn’t having sex and wishes they were. It is a group of men who feel that they are owed sex and are furious they aren’t getting their due. Their enemies are guys who are having sex and pretty girls who won’t sleep with them. They are owed “pretty” girls, whatever they themselves might look like.
re: #289 Sir John Barron
“incels” = “involuntary celibate”?
The world moves so fast I miss the latest.
I had to look it up too. Did make me laugh.
“When the aging gorilla is confronted with the much more virile, new alpha-male, he shows submissiveness by grooming the alpha-male, but the gesture is actually a vain attempt by the old gorilla to humiliate his much younger rival.”
— Jane Goodall
pic.twitter.com/fx85I1KwVy— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 24, 2018
re: #328 Charmingly Persistent
“Incel” doesn’t mean someone who isn’t having sex and wishes they were. It is a group of men who feel that they are owed sex and are furious they aren’t getting their due. Their enemies are guys who are having sex and pretty girls who won’t sleep with them. They are owed “pretty” girls, whatever they themselves might look like.
I recall a joke about the definition of a “slut”: a woman who sleeps with everyone but you.
Convicted Tennessee bus driver sentenced Tuesday to 4 years in prison
Johnthony Walker will spend four years in prison for causing a crash that killed six children and injured dozens of others. Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole announced the sentence in court Tuesday, after an emotional morning of testimony from parents of the victims and Walker himself.
The hearing began with mother Diamond Brown taking the stand. Her son 6-year-old D’Myunn was killed.
Brown’s testimony had several leaving the courtroom in tears. She said that on the Friday before the crash, her son asked her not to accompany him to the bus stop anymore, saying it was “embarrassing.” She chose not to walk him to the bus stop the next Monday, the day he died.
Brown said she spent a lot of her son’s formative years serving time in federal prison, and regrets that she couldn’t spend more time with him. She also talked about how she wore an ankle monitor as part of her probation, and that when the crash happened, she tearfully called her probation officer to get permission to check on the status of D’Myunn.
She said she was among the first parents on the scene of the crash, and could see children still getting out of the bus.
“Time just kept ticking and I didn’t see him. I gave a description of him and nobody could find him.”
Brown said she never saw her son’s body after the crash, saying she was told his injuries rendered him “unrecognizable.”
An investigation determined that Walker was speeding and talking on his phone at the time of the crash.
Here we see Trump firing off a gigantic shart. pic.twitter.com/M7zURxE1pw
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 24, 2018
re: #333 gocart mozart
Ok, so what the hell is that tent Melon is wearing? Is she expecting triplets? Is Barron hiding under there?
re: #276 Belafon
Talk about losers. It’s the 21st century. Not only can jocks and businessmen ‘get a girl’, but even us geeks and nerds are no longer immediately shunned by society as not able to contribute. You pretty much have to try to be an asshole.
(And ‘get a girl’ is in quotes because you don’t get a girl, you do all the right things, be the right person, and hopefully you find the right person who likes you.)
Or you don’t, but normal people don’t make not being able to find a mate the central theme of their lives, and hang out on forums dedicated to it. I haven’t dated in a long time, but that doesn’t define who I am, or impact my other interests.
re: #334 Skip Intro
Ok, so what the hell is that tent Melon is wearing? Is she expecting triplets? Is Barron hiding under there?
It’s a replica of the Liberty Bell, she’s being patriotic.
Hillary Clinton unleashed foul-mouthed tirade in Trump debate prep session https://t.co/ayPfulLR9y
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) April 24, 2018
What year is it https://t.co/lGRSJNU4Dw
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) April 24, 2018
really
re: #330 The Vicious Babushka
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He always has to get in little put downs like the dandruff bit to seemingly get position on whoever he is dealing with.
He is too dense to realize how bad it makes him look and all he gets out of it is he looks like a massive dick and sympathy for the other person for having to be around such a dick.
I just hope a lot of people hold the entire Republican party responsible for this moron since they let him do as he pleases.
Trump popped a tic tac and is getting ready to move on him like a bitch pic.twitter.com/dTVcSVJ3MR
— Red (@Redpainter1) April 24, 2018
— John Deau (@jdeau9) April 24, 2018
re: #335 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Or you don’t, but normal people don’t make not being able to find a mate the central theme of their lives, and hang out on forums dedicated to it. I haven’t dated in a long time, but that doesn’t define who I am, or impact my other interests.
I get it now, I was never actively “incel”.
For that, I have never been one to hang out at meat markets to get laid for the sake of getting laid.
And I have never paid a prostitute.
Three reasons for that:
1) I am too tight-fisted
2) I know that the girl herself probably isn’t going to keep most of the money I give her and I not want to be supporting a pimp and
3) I am not interested in having sex with someone who has no interest in me beyond my money.
It does not have to be love & romance, but there has to be some degree of personal affinity between my partner and me.
And I cannot for the life of me imagine forcing myself on a woman who is not actively interested in me.
The wife and I went to see the new Broadway musical ‘Rocktopia’ last night. Interesting show, melding classical music with rock. Full orchestra, full choir, full rock band, plus a Celtic violinist, an operatic tenor and soprano. And Robin Zander from Cheap Trick is their guest vocalist this week (they also had Dee Snider from Twisted Sister and Pat Monahan from Train in for a week each).
This clip (not from last night) is what I think is a pretty brilliant mashup of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ Brought the house down.
Full disclosure - the guitarist/musical director is an old bud from back in the club days. And if you look at the choir on the left, the first woman on the right (next to the soloist) is my grand-niece - her first real Broadway gig! So proud of her today, she’s living her dream.
re: #292 Belafon
He still thinks bilateral agreements are the way to do things. He’s also helping Putin.
May does as well. Both Trump and May are morons.
re: #40 Amory Blaine
I’m surprised a pathetic loser like CCJ will actually agree to a divorce. She must have something good on him for him to give up “control”.
Also, it looks like the rightwing hit piece on Joy by Mediaite has vaporized. I can not see it on their website.
You only have to agree to a divorce if it’s amicable. But at the end of the day, the judge isn’t really going to care if one side doesn’t agree to the divorce, as long as there’s one side that does. Especially in California.
White supremacists have no idea if they should praise or condemn the Toronto attack—because they can’t decide if folks of Caucasian heritage are “white” or not. https://t.co/8GYU73L2vS pic.twitter.com/1rtKlVbjry
— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) April 24, 2018
re: #328 Charmingly Persistent
“Incel” doesn’t mean someone who isn’t having sex and wishes they were. It is a group of men who feel that they are owed sex and are furious they aren’t getting their due. Their enemies are guys who are having sex and pretty girls who won’t sleep with them. They are owed “pretty” girls, whatever they themselves might look like.
Not just what they might look like but whatever level of asshole they are. (Hint, YOUGE assholes more than likely.)
re: #342 MsJ
May does as well. Both Trump and May are morons.
They can think that all they want…but it’s in the interest of the smaller nations to band together as economic unions. They have no interest in making it easy for other countries.
Not that this will sink into the peabrains of the right wing in either the US or Britain.
re: #292 Belafon
He still thinks bilateral agreements are the way to do things. He’s also helping Putin.
Was listening to Hardball a bit while driving yesterday, someone on the panel mentioned that Trump’s brand of negotiation is to give concessions without getting much of anything in return. Which sort of makes sense when you consider the fact that his most successful negotiations happen in bankruptcy court.
How long until @FoxNews starts referring to Ronny Jackson as “Obama’s Doctor”?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 24, 2018
Trump fundraising email on why he’s skipping the WHCA dinner pic.twitter.com/CaSGVvaENF
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 24, 2018
re: #348 KGxvi
Trump consistently thinks that the North Korea and Iran deals are bilateral, and that he can force the member countries to accept changes on TPP because he’s demanding it be done.
He doesn’t have a clue how multilateral deals work, and that extends to NATO as well.
He wont bother to learn either.
And the GOP keeps backing Trump even as his idiocy is revealed by every new news report because Fox keeps covering for him and his base is woefully ignorant and fact-free thanks to nonstop Fox agitprop.
re: #348 KGxvi
Was listening to Hardball a bit while driving yesterday, someone on the panel mentioned that Trump’s brand of negotiation is to give concessions without getting much of anything in return. Which sort of makes sense when you consider the fact that his most successful negotiations happen in bankruptcy court.
Macron is playing Dotard like a cheap fiddle today. Macron is going to get everything he wants and the North Koreans are watching this closely.
re: #335 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Or you don’t, but normal people don’t make not being able to find a mate the central theme of their lives, and hang out on forums dedicated to it. I haven’t dated in a long time, but that doesn’t define who I am, or impact my other interests.
Yeah. Lots of people in the world who aren’t in a relationship, and they could fairly say they have “big jagged holes in their souls” because of their loneliness. But they aren’t consumed by it. They have friends they rely on—-even those of the appropriate sex. And they get on with their lives.
The opinion in Jesner v. Arab Bank is available on the #SCOTUS website at this link: https://t.co/XN2blcwAMJ
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 24, 2018
Justice Sotomayor calls out SCOTUS’ conservative bloc for giving corporations rights to free speech and religious liberty while shielding them from liability when they violate human rights in her (excellent) Jesner dissent https://t.co/7xnlkJOnKg pic.twitter.com/Ol5MygEgr5
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 24, 2018
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
White supremacists have no idea if they should praise or condemn the Toronto attack—because they can’t decide if folks of Caucasian heritage are “white” or not.
I recall a similar bit of disagreement on whether George Zimmerman was “Hispanic” or “Caucasian”.
re: #352 Dr. Matt
Macron is playing Dotard like a cheap fiddle today. Macron is going to get everything he wants and the North Koreans are watching this closely.
I doubt it. Trump will agree and then change his mind the next day. Macron wants the US to stay in the Iran deal; do you really think that Trump would agree to that? Or if he does, that the agreement would last more than 24 hours?
re: #349 Ace-o-aces
How long until @FoxNews starts referring to Ronny Jackson as “Obama’s Doctor”?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 24, 2018
About 10 minutes ago: foxnews.com
Scroll about 1/2 way down.
This land anemone comes equipped with a prehensile tentacle. pic.twitter.com/VXwIMvAljS
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) April 24, 2018
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not being in a relationship in not what the “incels” are speaking of. It’s a toxic grouping of people who believe that the “normies” “get all the women” and that they will never find a partner. And, then they group on some site on the ‘tubes and fester and hate.
re: #356 Hecuba’s daughter
I doubt it. Trump will agree and then change his mind the next day. Macron wants the US to stay in the Iran deal; do you really think that Trump would agree to that? Or if he does, that the agreement would last more than 24 hours?
Bolton will get the last word in, which means Trump will be back to wanting to pull out, unless Macron offers a prime spot next to the Eiffel Tower for a new Trump Hotel.
re: #299 Dr Lizardo
The incels used to have a subreddit, but IIRC, it got the banhammer a couple weeks back along with a few others…..there was a big stink about it on Reddit.
But, the group has moved elsewhere to fester and hate on a different URL.
.@POTUS & I are closely monitoring the attack on innocent people in Toronto this afternoon. We are with the Canadian people tonight as they grieve the loss of life & injured. The American people stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our neighbors in Canada.
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) April 24, 2018
The silence from this administration over yet another right wing domestic terrorist carrying out mass murder is deafening.
Four Americans murdered by a white guy in Tennessee gets zero interest from Trump admin. But they’re concerned about incident in Toronto. https://t.co/DN33Ah66Nm— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 24, 2018
That’s exactly how the GOP/NRA wants it. They consider this acceptable losses while gun manufacturers rack up profits from more gun sales by claiming Democrats are coming to take your guns away. The GOP/NRA sells gun on fear.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 24, 2018
re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I get it now, I was never actively “incel”.
For that, I have never been one to hang out at meat markets to get laid for the sake of getting laid.
And I have never paid a prostitute.
Three reasons for that:
1) I am too tight-fisted
2) I know that the girl herself probably isn’t going to keep most of the money I give her and I not want to be supporting a pimp and
3) I am not interested in having sex with someone who has no interest in me beyond my money.It does not have to be love & romance, but there has to be some degree of personal affinity between my partner and me.
And I cannot for the life of me imagine forcing myself on a woman who is not actively interested in me.
2 doesn’t have to be an issue. There are independent sex-workers.
3 is the reason for me. I don’t even like paying strippers to be nice to me, so even that makes me depressed, and I haven’t been for decades. Sex with a working-girl is not an option.
stand by for even more embarrassment:
Having great meetings and discussions with my friend, President @EmmanuelMacron of France. We are in the midst of meetings on Iran, Syria and Trade. We will be holding a joint press conference shortly, here at the @WhiteHouse. 🇺🇸🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/ju1FXhgjaD
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2018
3) I am not interested in having sex with someone who has no interest in me beyond my money.
Look what it did for Melania. She’s miserable. Except for Donny’s sweet cash. Then she’s all smiles.
when the waiter try to take your plate away but u are not finished eating yet pic.twitter.com/CQw6g5ZBHu
— darth™ (@darth) April 24, 2018
re: #356 Hecuba’s daughter
I doubt it. Trump will agree and then change his mind the next day. Macron wants the US to stay in the Iran deal; do you really think that Trump would agree to that? Or if he does, that the agreement would last more than 24 hours?
This. Also, does Trump seriously think he’s going to able to convince the French to chuck the whole “European Union” thing in favor of “bilateral” trade agreements?
One really has to wonder what the Macrons and their people are going to be talking about on the flight back to France….
re: #365 MsJ
Look what it did for Melania. She’s miserable. Except for Donny’s sweet cash. Then she’s all smiles.
She got to meet Obama. That seemed to make up for some of what she has to put up with for being a gold-digger.
Trump says Steve Mnuchin is going to China to negotiate trade deal in a matter of days https://t.co/mJnxjOOrKl pic.twitter.com/pKN3APesPu
— Bloomberg (@business) April 24, 2018
re: #334 Skip Intro
Ok, so what the hell is that tent Melon is wearing? Is she expecting triplets? Is Barron hiding under there?
She wanted to look appropriate next to the yam in his clown pants and overcoat?
re: #341 makeitstop
The wife and I went to see the new Broadway musical ‘Rocktopia’ last night. Interesting show, melding classical music with rock. Full orchestra, full choir, full rock band, plus a Celtic violinist, an operatic tenor and soprano. And Robin Zander from Cheap Trick is their guest vocalist this week (they also had Dee Snider from Twisted Sister and Pat Monahan from Train in for a week each).
This clip (not from last night) is what I think is a pretty brilliant mashup of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ Brought the house down.
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I saw Cheap Trick years ago in concert. Zander’s voice was great. Strong and clear. Granted this was 35 years or so ago, but still.
hahahahaa
Kris Kobach’s team forgets to delete note in trial papers: “Not worth arguing” https://t.co/lFJD4m3V7W pic.twitter.com/zB6CgG4Zqz
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 24, 2018
re: #367 Jay C
One really has to wonder what the Macrons and their people are going to be talking about on the flight back to France….
Thank Cthulhu that is over. We did get everything we wanted though and gave up nothing.
lolwut???
THREAD:
.@elianayjohnson reports that a #darkmoney group, the previously unknown American Exceptionalism Institute, is spending $100k on ads that accuse Sen. Rand Paul of representing al Qaeda’s interest with his opposition to Gina Haspel’s CIA director nomination https://t.co/79EBYOAYa3 pic.twitter.com/LSj6TtUAN0
— Matt Corley (@mcorley) April 24, 2018
Trump and Macron share a wild handshake pic.twitter.com/LbNylGG2bq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2018
Their handshakes continue to be so damn weird. https://t.co/dud7Gi8aSk
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) April 24, 2018
re: #369 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
She got to meet Obama. That seemed to make up for some of what she has to put up with for being a gold-digger.
And the Obama’s show her kindness and respect even after she was a **** to them.
I hope she’s miserable for life. Because she is as miserable a person as her money belt is.
Asked to explain why he called Kim Jong-un “honorable,” Trump rewrites history about what he said, claims, “I hope we will be able to deal in a very open and honorable fashion with North Korea.” pic.twitter.com/DoGHBjn1O2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2018
Trump is having some trouble speaking pic.twitter.com/wNZjbEElX1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2018
Trump blames previous administration for not solving all of the problems in the Middle East pic.twitter.com/G1DCzxvfke
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2018
— Robert (@BobHarleyultra) April 23, 2018
all those guys except the one in the suit are working guys …just fine with me
the guy in the suit is an imposter …and a child …a spoiled child https://t.co/Ld1q4aJtAm— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) April 24, 2018
re: #372 Eventual Carrion
I saw Cheap Trick years ago in concert. Zander’s voice was great. Strong and clear. Granted this was 35 years or so ago, but still.
He still sounds pretty great. I was told that he got there yesterday afternoon and did sound check, then did the show with no rehearsal. And the ‘guest’ tunes are ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (which I could have lived without), a beautifully atmospheric ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Dream On’ by Aerosmith.
The encore was a mashup of ‘William Tell Overture’ and ‘Surrender,’ with a couple of choruses of ‘Dream Police’ thrown in.
My grand-niece was enthralled, and my friend the guitar player was thrilled to be playing with one of his idols.
re: #359 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Not being in a relationship in not what the “incels” are speaking of. It’s a toxic grouping of people who believe that the “normies” “get all the women” and that they will never find a partner. And, then they group on some site on the ‘tubes and fester and hate.
Jesus, these people. You know how many homeless people I have treated for STDs over the years? The bar for getting laid is not very high. If you’re having a dry spell, stop bitching about it on Reddit and go socialize.
Jim Bakker says that God has given humanity two scientists who would have found the cure for cancer, but they were both aborted before that could happen. https://t.co/iPcCQUl4bj
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 24, 2018
Oh? Well, there were probably a few other scientists who could’ve done it too, but they were neglected as children, got poor educations in underfunded schools, and got pipelined into prison for life. Maybe care about the children who are *here,* sometime? https://t.co/2UepamGQ8t
— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) April 24, 2018
sigh
Trump says some countries in the Middle East wouldn’t exist without the United States - “wouldn’t last a week.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
I’m sure if Obama said this, the folks on Fox would be screaming about it for the next 3 years.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 24, 2018
re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually, the number 2 scenario would be far more likely given my reading of the bible.
re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually, there were THREE scientists with the cure to cancer. The third was a Syrian refugee who died after Trump refused to let him come to the US.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 24, 2018
“When the aging gorilla is confronted with the much more virile, new alpha-male, he shows submissiveness by grooming the alpha-male, but the gesture is actually a vain attempt by the old gorilla to humiliate his much younger rival.”
— Jane Goodall
pic.twitter.com/fx85I1KwVy— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 24, 2018
Trump on his nominee for veterans affairs secretary: “I know there’s an experience problem.” He then says he told Jackson, “What do you need this for?”
This is…unusual…— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
Trump: “As far as experience is concerned,” the VA is so big that “nobody has the experience.” ???
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
Trump is now sounding like he doesn’t want Jackson’s nomination to proceed: “I don’t want to put a man through who’s not a political person. I don’t want to put a man through a process like this. It’s too ugly and too disgusting…The fact is, I wouldn’t do it…to be abused…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
Can’t wait for the spin from Trumpworld claiming the opposite, but it does seem that Trump’s basically killing the Jackson nomination:
Big — Trump says if he were Dr. Ronny Jackson he would probably withdraw as VA nominee: “I wouldn’t do it. What does he need it for? To be abused by a bunch of politicians?”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 24, 2018
So, Trump, instead of withdrawing the nomination of a guy who he no longer seems to have confidence in, is letting Jackson hang out to dry on its own.
Trumpworld mindset in a nutshell. https://t.co/Yrfz5FcBXB— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 24, 2018
To me, this is Trump signaling to Jackson to withdraw his name from consideration. Maybe Trump realizes that Jackson would be questioned under oath about specifics that aren’t covered under doctor-patient privilege/HIPAA and therefore might be very problematic for Trump and Jackson.
Or, Trump just is going to let this die on the vine without acting, hoping it goes away without anyone noticing (we’re noticing).
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) April 24, 2018
re: #392 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
BREAKING: President Trump says US troops will be coming home, but wants to leave `strong and lasting footprint’ in Syria.
His Excellency, Viceroy of Afghanistan Erik Prince
The Jackson nomination is one of the most predictable disasters of all the Trump disasters, and one of the most Trumpian: a selection based on ego and personal familiarity, an impulse call made over aides’ advice and without consultation, extreme disregard for basic preparation.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2018
Woman who looks like Trump goes viral in Spain https://t.co/6o76G53nyy pic.twitter.com/bpA1OYXldm
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 24, 2018
Come on, this lady looks like she actually works.
— Tammi Laster🌊 (@TammiLaster) April 24, 2018
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Jackson nomination is one of the most predictable disasters of all the Trump disasters, and one of the most Trumpian: a selection based on ego and personal familiarity, an impulse call made over aides’ advice and without consultation, extreme disregard for basic preparation.
and is now about to collapse in the most Keystone-cops-falling-off-a-ladder manner possible.
re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t Tammi Laster the blond woman who lies to Conservatives for a living? Or was that Tori Lemon?
This thread is also the first time I had heard the term “incel”. I read the piece on We Hunted the Mammoth and Salon. That is some fucked up repugnant shit.
re: #399 Mike Lamb
This thread is also the first time I had heard the term “incel”. I read the piece on We Hunted the Mammoth and Salon. That is some fucked up repugnant shit.
I remember the crazy blue-balled bastard from San Ysidro and his deadly sexual frustration but never encountered “incel” until this thread as well.
AGAIN! Melania again tries to avoid letting Trump hold her hand during photocall with Macron. She hates him so much..pic.twitter.com/aXN6QskCuA
— Together we rise 🌊 (@Matsamon) April 24, 2018
re: #398 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I think it was Torchy Lantern. Or Tumor Larynx maybe….
re: #391 lawhawk
Can’t wait for the spin from Trumpworld claiming the opposite, but it does seem that Trump’s basically killing the Jackson nomination:
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To me, this is Trump signaling to Jackson to withdraw his name from consideration. Maybe Trump realizes that Jackson would be questioned under oath about specifics that aren’t covered under doctor-patient privilege/HIPAA and therefore might be very problematic for Trump and Jackson.
Or, Trump just is going to let this die on the vine without acting, hoping it goes away without anyone noticing (we’re noticing).
I don’t remember who said it when Jackson was originally nominated, but it still holds true “Two words: Harriet Miers.” Donny made the nomination purely out of personal loyalty and pure ignorance, Jackson is woefully under-qualified for the job, and the revelations about his past job performance would otherwise sink his nomination outright if not for GOP party loyalty. BUT Donny’s ego won’t allow him to admit a mistake, so he’s now pressuring Jackson to fall on his sword so he can seem “magnanimous” when he withdraws the nomination.
re: #399 Mike Lamb
This thread is also the first time I had heard the term “incel”. I read the piece on We Hunted the Mammoth and Salon. That is some fucked up repugnant shit.
I had to look it up some time ago. Maybe due to Eliot Rodger.
Dow down around 500 points. What happened now?
re: #401 gocart mozart
@Matsamon
AGAIN! Melania again tries to avoid letting Trump hold her hand during photocall with Macron. She hates him so much..
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) April 24, 2018
re: #396 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and is now about to collapse in the most Keystone-cops-falling-off-a-ladder manner possible.
And his supporters and the GOP don’t care. He can be involved in one disaster after another with no repercussions. He can pledge allegiance to Putin and no one seems to care.
Last night, I went to Barnes and Noble and bought Graham Allison’s Destined for War based on the recommendation of a conservative “friend”. When seeing the book, the check-out clerk immediately started praising Dilbert blog. I mentioned that I was not a fan of Scott Adams but he continued, talking about how only Scott Adams predicted that Trump would win in 2016 and that Trump has shown his brilliance in what he was accomplishing with Kim. It was pretty amazing listening to a Trump fanatic in the wild.
—edited to correct minor errors
Why do I spend hundreds - of not thousands - of dollars on dog toys when she’s perfectly content playing fetch with a stick? pic.twitter.com/IW9dHYXrX4
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) April 24, 2018
re: #411 MsJ
Why do I spend hundreds - of not thousands - of dollars on dog toys when she’s perfectly content playing fetch with a stick?
those dog toy manufacturers have your psychology sussed…they do not worry about the dogs, they aren’t the ones with the money
although I once said much the same about our kids and Christmas. we could’ve gone to the McDonald’s for a happy meal, stopped on the way home and fetched some cardboard boxes from the furniture store for them to play in and they still would have been the happiest kids in the world.
re: #409 Hecuba’s daughter
Back in the day, I took a bunch of foreign policy/international relations courses, and Graham Allison’s books were among the reading list items (bureaucratic analysis of decision making). I found his arguments unpersuasive and wanting, especially as compared to Ken Waltz. I don’t think Allison has gotten any better over time.
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn Trump is really struggling with everything today.
He is trying so hard to look good in comparison with Macron he ends up looking and sounding a fool.
I don’t know how Macron gets through all this without breaking out in fits of laughter and just calling Trump out.
re: #391 lawhawk
Is there a term for “Government by passive aggression”?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 24, 2018
re: #407 Skip Intro
Dow down around 500 points. What happened now?
Macron is being contrasted with Trump.
It really shows how inept Trump is. Down goes the market.
re: #414 ObserverArt
I don’t know how Macron gets through all this without breaking out in fits of laughter and just calling Trump out.
Copious quantities of cognac?
re: #414 ObserverArt
Damn Trump is really struggling with everything today.
He is trying so hard to look good in comparison with Macron he ends up looking and sounding a fool.
I don’t know how Macron gets through all this without breaking out in fits of laughter and just calling Trump out.
How can Trump compare to a young sophisticated intellectual who understands policy? Someone articulate in both French and English?
re: #411 MsJ
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He’s perfect. He kind of looks like a small version of my Boxer. Too cute.
re: #416 Ace-o-aces
Government by depraved indifference is already taken: Trumpworld.
re: #359 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Not being in a relationship in not what the “incels” are speaking of. It’s a toxic grouping of people who believe that the “normies” “get all the women” and that they will never find a partner. And, then they group on some site on the ‘tubes and fester and hate.
I’m not surprised they believe that “normies” “get all the women”. After all, if you’re outside the norm, that can be quite intimidating to a potential partner. Especially if “outside the norm” means “creepy entitled asshole” like the people in that Salon article mentioned above.
Of course, they go about it the wrong way. As a gay man who came of age In Glasgow Scotland in the late 80s/early 90s, I was definitely outside the norm, but I didn’t let that stop me trying my damnedest. So, at this point in my life, I have a minimum level of sympathy for these “incel” folks. I mean, come on, like nobody else has ever felt lonely or undersexed at some point in their lives? Also, “involuntary celibacy”? Surely the whole point of celibacy is that it’s a conscious choice and therefore voluntary.
(Also, I’m also aware that “normies” is a favoured term of the “alt-right”, so the prospect of getting into bed with an actual flipping Nazi might also be considered a turn-off for a potential partner. In addition to that, i suspect a great deal of these “incels” are less interested in a relationship and more interested in getting their rocks off. Relationships are hard work.)
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought the meaning of Caucasian was white as in White people. **shrugs**
re: #423 Patricia Kayden
I thought the meaning of Caucasian was white as in White people. **shrugs**
The other meaning can be “people from the Caucasus region,” who are not necessarily “white” in the way it is frequently used. (Read: they’re a little too brown for the neoNazis.)
re: #420 Patricia Kayden
He’s perfect. He kind of looks like a small version of my Boxer. Too cute.
She’s a 7 month old Boston Terrier. Or as we lovingly call her, our Boston Terror.
re: #412 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
those dog toy manufacturers have your psychology sussed…they do not worry about the dogs, they aren’t the ones with the money
although I once said much the same about our kids and Christmas. we could’ve gone to the McDonald’s for a happy meal, stopped on the way home and fetched some cardboard boxes from the furniture store for them to play in and they still would have been the happiest kids in the world.
Cardboard boxes from the furniture store are exceeded only by cardboard boxes from the appliance store. Refrigerator boxes and stove boxes are the coolest toys in the world.
* lived across the alley from an appliance store as a kid in the 60’s. We built playhouses out of the boxes whenever we could score them. Play for a week or so, then when the box breaks down, use the cardboard to slide down the hill. Priceless.
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
