The president, his lawyer, and his press secretary completed the hat trick of lying to the American people.
Does anyone have a clip of any of them telling the truth? Just once?
re: #1 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Does anyone have a clip of any of them telling the truth? Just once?
That would be this administration’s version of the Whitey Tape.
Danny Rose has spoken out on the racism black players are set to face in Russia, after FIFA only recently fined the Russian FA £22,000 for racist chants.
Well said, Danny. 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/dP7Bg92YYb— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) June 6, 2018
The full article by @Dan_KP can be found here: https://t.co/K4jUx9Cg18
An absolute farce that Russia got the World Cup & it could overshadow what is known as the most popular sporting event on the planet.— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) June 6, 2018
The Republican Party’s ignorance and antipathy toward science is a slow-motion disaster. It’s destroying so much potential American progress, in the service of religious fanaticism. It’s a new Dark Ages.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
Just curious why if there was a FEMA annual briefing today attended by Trump and his cabinet, why Puerto Rico isn’t all over my newsfeed? I’m so thoroughly less interested in Trump’s childish behavior, and so much more interested in action and accountability!
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 7, 2018
Seriously media, how did you let Trump get away with being at FEMA one week after the death toll in PR was revealed to be a modern day record of close to 5k, and not lead your coverage every hour/front page with Trump not mentioning it? https://t.co/W2Blmo1eKr
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 7, 2018
On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.
Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.https://t.co/1hSyqfbARP— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2018
re: #6 JordanRules
Totally the actions of an innocent man.
//
Hmmm.
The Senate quietly approved a resolution tonight allowing Senate Intel to assist DOJ on a “pending investigation. The Committee is cooperating with the Department on this matter,” per Burr and Warner, referring questions to DOJ
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 6, 2018
David Koch was 1980 Libertarian candidate for VP. But Charles (the older brother) has long been the public face of Koch political ventures, especially with David in declining health.
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) June 5, 2018
Man convicted of killing an imam and his assistant in Queens has been sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors say his motive was unclear. https://t.co/IcuyHPCVZs
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2018
re: #3 JordanRules
Sigh. So now we have to look forward to racist incidents at a World Cup. Oh joy.
#BREAKING: McConnell won’t back GOP bill fighting Trump’s tariffs https://t.co/Jrwh5hycbz pic.twitter.com/GPJAzQD3AZ
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2018
So let’s be clear, @SenateMajLdr is BACKING Trump’s trade war against our own allies. https://t.co/umxVzvwkt7
— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) June 7, 2018
— Paul French (@Smartyphonent) June 7, 2018
re: #7 SteelPH
Totally the actions of an innocent man.
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Yeah, sounds like something someone would do if they are getting ready to move.
To Russia.
Thread…
Sam Nunberg tells me he’s handed over his old Blackberry phones to Robert Mueller, who became aware of his use of the device when his Blackberry email signature was disclosed in his leaked correspondence with Roger Stone: “Sent from my BlackBerry - the most secure mobile device.”
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) June 6, 2018
Just got back, the weather here is about to go down the tubes.
Watches and warnings all over the area. The main storm line is centered east and west along I-80. Sidney is getting pounded, and a very severe thunderstorm is moving SW across the Nebr.-Colo. line into Colorado.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
The GOP proceeds with its anti-science and anti-reality agenda, while the both-siderists in the media do endless analyses of Trump voters.
Actually, I don’t need to see what passes for ‘thought’ in the minds of the residents of SisterDaughterfuck, Nowhere, whose family trees loop more than they branch. Once really is much more than enough for this kind of thing.
Trump is a lying corrupt racist sexist pig whose campaign was essentially “Trump that bitch”, and his supporters were fine with that.
re: #3 JordanRules
Danny Rose has spoken out on the racism black players are set to face in Russia, after FIFA only recently fined the Russian FA £22,000 for racist chants.
Well said, Danny. 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com
This surprises someone? Isn’t FIFA universally acknowledged to be the most corrupt sports related agency on the planet, other than anything associated with Russia of course.
When you scroll too far on an article and end up in the comments section. pic.twitter.com/RiaFVWitnw
— Myke (@MikeWehner) June 6, 2018
This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom. pic.twitter.com/mWiJVdddpH
— Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy) June 6, 2018
Picked up some craft beer in town today, from the world-famous craft brewing area of Broken Bow, Nebr.
(Jalapeño porter)
Reviews after I’ve had some.
TOTALLY A MAN OF GOD IF YOU WORSHIP KHORNE (NOT HOLY ENOUGH FOR CTHULHU THO’)
“The Trump Prophecy” is based on the story of a man who believes God told him in 2011 that Trump would be president. https://t.co/tLtIMB0w18 via @HuffPostRelig #theresistance #resist pic.twitter.com/HqawRyjjd2
— The Feckless Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 7, 2018
“THERE IS A NEW COMMANDER IN TOWN” pic.twitter.com/8OZBeoBLYe
— darth™ (@darth) June 6, 2018
MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit https://t.co/ZJ83rfW82H pic.twitter.com/Lx6nBxmwq7
— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) June 7, 2018
oh so this is how we die. neat. https://t.co/eDJvgrRs8m
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) June 7, 2018
whippoorwill just calling and calling and calling on the front porch.
it’s driving the kittehs crazier than usual.
re: #25 goddamnedfrank
r/incel before it was banned, or r/The_Donald
re: #25 goddamnedfrank
They’re going to put the psycho AI in those mechanical dogs next, aren’t they.
BREAKING: Former Cardinals player, manager Red Schoendienst dies at 95, was oldest living member of Baseball Hall of Fame.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2018
Our article about Chuck C. Johnson’s massive fail is taking off. The ruling sets an important precedent for social media: the right to ban hate-trolls like the Rage Furby. It’s not a 1st Amendment issue despite their attempts to twist the law. https://t.co/ys239nE0by
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
oh dear
Hey remember when Assange DM’d Hannity asking him to reach out on an encrypted app?
Tonight Hannity is freaking out about Mueller searching encrypted apps and “advised” all Mueller witnesses to “bash” their phones “into itsy bitsy pieces” pic.twitter.com/cZhaUqVNQk— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 7, 2018
So Trump, via Hannity, is signaling to all Trump-Russia witnesses to obstruct justice by destroying evidence? This should end well….
— OK_Dumbass (@OK_Dumbass) June 7, 2018
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“Man gets pulled into dough machine”
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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Hannity is finally getting the face he deserves.
Obama commuted the sentences of 1700 non-violent drug offenders after the cases had been reviewed and vetted by the DOJ. Trump pardoned just one because some celebrity told him to.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 7, 2018
Our president needs a brain.
“Sixteen thousand people, many of them in Texas, for whatever reason that is, people went out in their boats to watch the hurricane,” Trump said. “That didn’t work out too well.”
THOSE PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO SAVE THEIR NEIGHBORS.https://t.co/OGlwA4BrL5— Alyson Ward (@alysonward) June 6, 2018
At least two major publishers have rejected Donald Trump Jr.’s proposed book defending his dad https://t.co/V92ZNbAYd3
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) June 6, 2018
— Jeegaza (@MattEtcetera) June 3, 2018
Saddest, gayest thing I’ve seen online today
— Ken Ellwood (@KenEllwood) June 7, 2018
re: #40 MsJ
“Trump Jr.’s habit of lying and the possible legal jeopardy that comes it appears to be weighing heavily on the minds of book publishers.”
LOL
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Heh. Reminds me of the one time in a deep snow, I high-centered the front end of my VW GTi in snow packed up by a plow in a shopping center drive. Front wheel drive…no go anywhere. Lucky the plow guys were still there. They hooked a tow rope to the tie down rings at the back of my car and got me on my way.
Poor doggo.
re: #42 jaunte
“Trump Jr.’s habit of lying and the possible legal jeopardy that comes it appears to be weighing heavily on the minds of book publishers.”
LOL
I was thinking a work of fiction, but, nah. Not worth the hassle.
Let’s get real: Walker Bragman is not for a universal basic income. He is categorically opposed to anything that would lead to it.
What he is for is *being for* it. He’s all in favor of fighting for it and other progressive/socialist reforms. He loves that. Winning them? No.— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) June 3, 2018
Centrist Dems have been winning elections against Republicans? News to me. https://t.co/Lwdh4M1mqd
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) June 6, 2018
So does Dianne Feinstein…
…and Jeff van Drew…
(Should I go on? I don’t think Walker is going to like I can go on.)— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) June 7, 2018
re: #43 ObserverArt
Heh. Reminds me of the one time in a deep snow, I high-centered the front end of my VW GTi in snow packed up by a plow in a shopping center drive. Front wheel drive…no go anywhere. Lucky the plow guys were still there. They hooked a tow rope to the tie down rings at the back of my car and got me on my way.
Poor doggo.
I did the same in Cheyenne a couple years ago. It snowed overnight while we were in a motel. The next day I tried to drive the car out and high-centered it on the berm created by the city snowplow.
The manager came out and pushed our car off.
Step 1: Catch foul ball in beer.
Step 2: Chug beer. 🍻
Legend. pic.twitter.com/jmAUZU1i9r— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) June 6, 2018
MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit https://t.co/ZJ83rfW82H pic.twitter.com/Lx6nBxmwq7
— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) June 7, 2018
Stop doing this, M.I.T. https://t.co/eh7cxdmPhy
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #42 jaunte
“Trump Jr.’s habit of lying and the possible legal jeopardy that comes it appears to be weighing heavily on the minds of book publishers.”
LOL
Could be a new classification of book.
Autobiographical fiction.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
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Scientists create Skynet just to see if a psycho AI hooked up to nuclear missiles would lead to a negative outcome.
Right after I tweet about how important science is to our future, I learn that MIT is making robots modeled on Reddit posters.
NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND, MIT.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #48 Charles Johnson
Tech folks are trying to kill us.
Amazon and eBay pull CloudPets smart toys from sale (Goes to the BBC, more at the link)
I’m tellin’ y’all, a rotary dial telephone is the way to go.
Amazon and eBay are among retailers pulling a brand of cuddly smart toys from sale after warnings they pose a cyber-security threat.
Concerns were raised about CloudPets products in February 2017 after it was discovered that millions of owners’ voice recordings were being stored online unprotected.
Manufacturer Spiral Toys claimed to have taken “swift action”.
But subsequent research commissioned by Mozilla found other vulnerabilities.
The devices’ California-based maker has not responded to requests for comment.
One independent expert told the BBC it was “great to see retailers acting responsibly”, but added she wished they had done so sooner.
“It seems that refusing to sell products that threaten customers’ security and privacy is the only way to make designers and manufacturers of these products care about these risks,” said Angela Sasse, professor of human-centred technology at University College London.
“The fact that Mozilla had to shame the retailers into this action, more than a year after vulnerabilities were first discovered, is not great.
Crooked Hillary Clinton has not held a news conference in more than 7 months. Her record is so bad she is unable to answer tough questions!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2016
Happy 2nd anniversary to this tweet.
President Trump hasn’t held a full solo news conference in 16 months — since February 2017. https://t.co/4pB8zlbn92— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 6, 2018
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why - for any reason - would someone who lost a presidential election 18 months ago - hold a news conference.
His supporters are bigger morons than the man himself.
Edit: woops - I didn’t see the date on the tweet - I need a trump break
Ex-Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters unloads on former network:
“I suspect @seanhannity really believes it, the others are smarter. They know what they’re doing” pic.twitter.com/KqqEmobdMt— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 7, 2018
re: #55 fern01
Why - for any reason - would someone who lost a presidential election 18 months ago - hold a news conference.
His supporters are bigger morons than the man himself.
the yam’s tweet was in 2016, Obama was still President.
(I had a heavy sigh while writing that sentence…)
NBA commissioner Adam Silver responds to Steph Curry and LeBron James announcing they won’t go to the White House:
They are “speaking out on issues that are important to them…I encourage them to continue to do that.”https://t.co/IIHA0kdGYH— Axios (@axios) June 7, 2018
re: #56 gocart mozart
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Here is my response to reports of the Obama Administration secretly authorizing Iranian access to the U.S. financial system —> https://t.co/uTI2pISl5Z pic.twitter.com/BVHoyXUSnI
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 6, 2018
You’re a lying jackass and nobody likes you. Even your supporters. https://t.co/yNqIAOklWg
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 6, 2018
Tomorrow would be a great time for @realDonaldTrump to hold a real press conference. With him taking questions from the press. You know, how it’s supposed to work?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #56 gocart mozart
It’s misleading to claim that Fox recently went bad with Trump in office. The propagandists at Fox radicalized Conservatives, grooming them to be used by the first madman to come along.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
the OC registrar just did today’s update and has Keirstead in second again in CA-48 pic.twitter.com/OV4p9s1aoG
— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) June 7, 2018
Is that official or when is it official?
Do you have a link to what, the Secretary of State or Board of Electors?— Duganja (@duganjames) June 7, 2018
The links is here. https://t.co/3cj1sZ3wCG
Definitely not offficial for a couple days. So Keirstead/Rouda could bounce back and forth till the weekend. Though the OC site is more up to date (8pm updates) than the state site (morning updates, I guess). https://t.co/4YBmf9Muen— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) June 7, 2018
re: #56 gocart mozart
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In regards to this, please enjoy this art I recently made: pic.twitter.com/L0Tn8FUZwE
— rabbit (@ra6bit) June 7, 2018
Shout out to all the quidditch players taking a knee and whatnot.
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) June 7, 2018
Am I the only one who remembers a distant past when US presidents actually answered real questions from the free press, at regular intervals? Was this all a crazy dream?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
Hail up to the size of a grapefruit fell in northeastern Colorado today! Check out this photo from one of our weather watchers, there were reports of damage to vehicles in Logan County from today’s storms #cowx pic.twitter.com/tbT007EdNO
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) June 7, 2018
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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Just want to come back around to this and mention that it’s insane.
Insane!
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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The thing is, smashing the phone won’t necessarily destroy the evidence in the chips. Not to mention the legal implications of them feds lifting incriminating information off of devices someone has attempted to destroy…
*slow clap*
The WNBA champions @minnesotalynx may not have been invited to the White House but they showed what true champions are by serving DC kids today. Good to be with them there & on the team bus! pic.twitter.com/FJrZHUpATR
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 6, 2018
Not even debatable, an outright lie. They all know they’re not being held accountable. For now. @RVAwonk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
Off topic.
Not sure how many of our hard core tech / coder people are in tonight, anyway today I got to have a conversation with a guy that studied and lectures on internet and computer security. I got him to talk to me about individual security rather than his usual corporate or agency perspective. Coolest thing was ridding myself of a myth or two about who the likely bad guys are and getting some ideas of how to lock down at home on a budget. For one thing watch the brands, avoid Chinese / cheapo. Get the better hub/switch/modem. Use features like closing unused ports and access routes. If we all did that the whole net would be more secure. It sounds quaint to frame this on a common persons civil defense level. But that was my takeaway.
There was an un nerving side, we are terribly vulnerable to nation state level attacks on a surprising variety of things. Obviously we have good people on it and massive budgets involved. The internet of things and all these Alexa type features are opening holes faster than the best good guys can catch up. It’s too much like the perception of autonomous cars being so far ahead of reality. It’s not safe yet.
Fun topic-Why edge is both a very secure quality browser and a crappy way to view a lot of sites like LGF. So many things inside it are tightened down that it interferes with nice features. Like uploading images.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
Just got back, the weather here is about to go down the tubes.
Watches and warnings all over the area. The main storm line is centered east and west along I-80. Sidney is getting pounded, and a very severe thunderstorm is moving SW across the Nebr.-Colo. line into Colorado.
See ya and raise. About half an hour ago emergency vehicles are pulling up at houses all along my road. They get here. I go out and it’s a fire department guy. Just a little gas leak in the neighborhood, he says. I ask, you mean at that natural gas wellhead and compressing facility around the curve about five hundred yards from here? Yeah, he says, but we don’t think it’s very serious. Just shelter in place. For now.
There’s a very creepy End Times feel about the Trump gang right now. Like they’re all scrambling and lying, and trying to grab and hide as much as they can before the gravy train goes off the cliff.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #78 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, not only trying to make away with as much loot as possible, but also trying to create a conflagration they hope will conceal the evidence…
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 7, 2018
heh
After Trump’s War if 1812 comment, Trudeau should have said “Ya, remember during the Vietnam war when all the draft dodgers came to Canada? I’m surprised we didn’t see you!”
— Steve Redmond (@sjredmond) June 6, 2018
but Justin is the adult, so he wouldn’t say that…
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yikes. That storm in NE Colorado is seventy-odd miles south of me. That would probably be the storms around Sterling, now moving into Kimball, Nebr.
Man, I haven’t even got my roof fixed from the last tornado. I don’t need grapefruit-sized hail on top of that.
He has a pretty well-tested set of grifting design patterns that he uses over and over, like an architect or a coder. Con man design patterns.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
OUT COLD: Shocking video shows an alligator knocking out a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officer after being captured. The gator also hit a female officer with its tail. https://t.co/BmBgoMkZvL pic.twitter.com/mprpWw2LXQ
— ABC News (@ABC) June 7, 2018
The Trumps are very interested in adoption, so they should be able to relate to this.
/infinity/
Upset because line is too long at Starbucks or you’re stuck in traffic? Here’s your reality check: A foster child was asked what he wanted in a family. (h/t Foster Care & Adoption) #fostercare pic.twitter.com/54Okc8r6lm
— jamesmiller (@JimMiller) June 5, 2018
Priest: “They are gods. They are not interested in us. Do you interest yourself in the affairs of ants?”
Me: “Hell yeah! Like how are they laying down those scent trails??”
“No I mea-“
“And like the tool use stuff is super interesti-“
“No that’s n-“
“IMMA SHOW YOU MY ANT BOOK”— Jacob Garbe 💀 (@logodaedalus) June 5, 2018
I have a teeny question….how do we get all the shit back they’ve stolen from us? Either we have an effective justice system or not. I’m so broken hearted and discouraged, sad and scared.
The Dairy Queens here in Texas now give you a straw with 1/2” wide with their milkshakes.
I’m here to say that once that thing goes in your mouth, it doesn’t come out until it’s gone. Good Lord, the scary thing about that is someone thought that up….
Trump at Iftar dinner, via pool: “Tremendous economy— best we’ve ever had.”
Wished crowd a “very blessed Ramadan”
(looked bit awkward) pic.twitter.com/VrWt99Ka3W— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 7, 2018
I see ambassadors of Saudi, Egypt, Kuwait, Wilbur Ross and Jared, possibly Mattis. who else?
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) June 7, 2018
Giuliani: Melania believes Trump that he didn’t have an affair with Stormy Daniels https://t.co/5c8auH41iJ pic.twitter.com/xQiBO5WvGI
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
She knows. pic.twitter.com/PNVZhQ8RU6
— Grey_Obelisk (@Grey_Obelisk) June 7, 2018
Why would OJ lie about the “real killers”? What could be his motive. It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 7, 2018
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
Texas needs a Senator who won’t be Trump’s Jockstrap.
VOTE FOR BETO!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) June 7, 2018
re: #86 A Mom Anon
I have a teeny question….how do we get all the shit back they’ve stolen from us? Either we have an effective justice system or not. I’m so broken hearted and discouraged, sad and scared.
An effective justice system takes time to work. The maladministration is running a smash-and-grab operation, which works much faster.
Robert Mueller, the New York AG, other AGs who may also be investigating but are not getting attention, are gathering their evidence.
When those investigations conclude, they will either have enough to go to trial (where the government can try to claw back at least part of what’s grifted), or their isn’t enough evidence.
And that last part is the part that too many people are ignoring: Just because there is an investigation, and just because a lot of people seem to be going to jail, doesn’t mean there is proof the guy on top is connected.
Republicans have been at this all my life. Nixon’s folk went to jail, but Nixon did not. GW had people carted off to prison, but GW didn’t go. Reagan set the record for people going to jail, but Reagan didn’t go.
Busting a president is hard, and they work to maintain Reagan’s “plausible deniability.”
Pretty disappointed that I was too young to see this, even knowing it probably wasn’t good.
📺ABC Primetime, June 6, 1979:
— ‘Tenspeed & Brown Shoe’ pic.twitter.com/rDG50i2cQ4— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) June 7, 2018
The name alone is just delicious!
re: #93 calochortus
This is life at our house. We have an ant book. Actually we probably have more than one. And Mr. C. does ant surveys* at a local preserve.
*I always hope it will involve getting ant opinions, but so far it has just been more of a census or count.
I’m always fascinated watching the ants going out stopping and touching base with the ants coming back.
Every single ant. Every single time.
Just amazing.
White Family Beats Down 2 Police Officers, Miraculously No One Gets Shot https://t.co/ZpUP2uvq5U pic.twitter.com/7qrqkmRpNB
— The Root (@TheRoot) June 7, 2018
What about non compliance is a death sentence? https://t.co/MkQ7KNtXK4
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) June 7, 2018
re: #94 JordanRules
Pretty disappointed that I was too young to see this, even knowing it probably wasn’t good.
The name alone is just delicious!
Hint: It stunk. It lasted half a year.
Dozens of immigrants seeking asylum at legal entry points have been denied access to the US and forced to camp outside on bridges until it’s their turn. Some have been waiting here for 2 weeks. I met one woman here w/ a 3 month old. Story on its way— in the meantime, some photos: pic.twitter.com/2NXM3ihicS
— Silvia Foster-Frau (@SilviaElenaFF) June 7, 2018
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m always fascinated watching the ants going out stopping and touching base with the ants coming back.
Every single ant. Every single time.Just amazing.
They are aren’t they. We have some native ants (as opposed to the evil Argentine ants) that are active during the cooler, damper weather and then go several feet underground to sit out the hot dry summer. This spring these ants (not surprisingly known as “winter ants”) were busy harvesting bits of rose petals from the buds on one of my roses. Apparently they will be bedding down on rose petals this summer. How could I try to stop them from that?
Here’s a transcript of Trump’s respectful remarks at his iftar tonight: pic.twitter.com/pTReVG2yNE
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2018
BREAKING: 5.6 earthquake was just recorded 23 miles SW of Hilo, Hawaii; Volcano National Park, where the Kilauea Volcano has been erupting, is 33 miles southwest of Hilo.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) June 7, 2018
Hmmm On the Last Word, there was speculation that the only reason Donald granted Kim Kardashian’s request to commute the life sentence of the grandmother is that the grandmother was convicted of money laundering, one of Manafort’s crimes. I’m skeptical of this — it was just granting another celebrity a favor, but maybe it was another signal to Paul that Trump has his back.
re: #79 Teukka
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*slow clap*— Teo (@Teukka72) June 7, 2018
re: #21 JordanRules
Isn’t that just fucking pathetic? What have we become?
Unless Ontario’s youth go out and vote tomorrow; their future will include austerity, housing they can’t afford, education they can’t afford, poverty and a plague of racism, sexism and homophobia. You have to step up to the plate and send #DougFord ‘s politics of hate packing pic.twitter.com/0VHWIzyJuj
— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) June 6, 2018
re: #78 Charles Johnson
Scott Pruitt was taking so many friends and business partners to discount lunches at the White House that the chief of staff had to tell him to stop https://t.co/uPp4VX1Abs
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 7, 2018
Grifter gonna grift and grift and grift and grift and grift. https://t.co/IMXnb7gVpj
— Ed Bott (@edbott) June 7, 2018
re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter
Hmmm On the Last Word, there was speculation that the only reason Donald granted Kim Kardashian’s request to commute the life sentence of the grandmother is that the grandmother was convicted of money laundering, one of Manafort’s crimes. I’m skeptical of this — it was just granting another celebrity a favor, but maybe it was another signal to Paul that Trump has his back.
I feel like they’ve already given P-Man enough hints.
Seems like a reach to me too.
He’s rewarding Kim & Kanye for helping his popularity with ‘the blacks’ which he apparently told her in their meeting.
Hey remember when Assange DM’d Hannity asking him to reach out on an encrypted app?
Tonight Hannity is freaking out about Mueller searching encrypted apps and “advised” all Mueller witnesses to “bash” their phones “into itsy bitsy pieces” pic.twitter.com/cZhaUqVNQk— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 7, 2018
Fun-fact: When Chris Christie want to avoid producing his phone during the Bridgegate investigation, he gave it to his attorney to store.
That attorney was FBI Director Chris Wray.
Hannity just advised the Trump Admin to destroy evidence to keep it away from Wray/Mueller. https://t.co/01NptUiEYn— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 7, 2018
re: #94 JordanRules
Pretty disappointed that I was too young to see this, even knowing it probably wasn’t good.
The name alone is just delicious!
Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen.
Wow…
Food for thought.
Take a tour of the female pelvis, and you’ll encounter a few incongruous people along the way. How did James Douglas end up tucked behind the uterus? What is Gabriel Fallopian doing hanging around the ovaries? Why is Caspar Bartholin the Younger attached to the labia? And can we trust Ernst Grafenberg’s claim that he actually found the G-spot? Whether you know it or not, each of these dudes have ended up immortalised in the female pelvis - as the Pouch of Douglas, Bartholin’s glands, fallopian tubes, and that elusive Grafenberg spot.
The truth is, men are all over women’s bodies - dead, white male anatomists, that is. Their names live on eponymously, immortalised like audacious explorers for conquering the geography of the female pelvis as if it were terra nullius.
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bbc.com
“How Women’s Body Parts Have Been Named after Men”
re: #110 TedStriker
Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen.
Wow…
Right!?!?! I want them to do a dective show/movie now! LOL
Please notice in the clip she does NOT say
the following people don’t deserve an apology.. 1. Ted Cruz and All Men
Yashir Ali apparently likes to make up stuff.
. @iamsambee starts her show with an apology…but it was narrow….she said the following people don’t deserve an apology..1. Ted Cruz and All Men She concluded with: “Civility is just nice words. Maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions” pic.twitter.com/SR8DuKxNJB
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 7, 2018
#Hawaii #Kilauea #KilaueaEruption #Vactionland
#Kapoho 해변은 거의 용암으로 덮였음
the new coastline in Kapoho, where lava covered whole neighborhoods before filling Kapoho Bay. https://t.co/BnhGtK6yrf pic.twitter.com/WdDtFKLGyv :@HawaiiNewsNow— qlstnfp (@qlstnfp) June 7, 2018
re: #94 JordanRules
Pretty disappointed that I was too young to see this, even knowing it probably wasn’t good.
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The name alone is just delicious!
Remember watching the pilot and it was the usual Steve Cannell show.
This is amusing: Jeff Sessions on Obama abusing the pardon power:
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) called the Obama administration’s decision to allow nonviolent drug convicts to apply for presidential clemency “an alarming abuse of the pardon power.”
Anyone ask him how he feels about Trump pardoning a drug offender that Obama’s Justice Department rejected?
Trump-Backed Republican Candidate for Governor of Calif. Just WON. Let That Sink In For A Minute https://t.co/29jEJDHEqh
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 7, 2018
He came in second. Like you in 2008. https://t.co/wCTJgkNqGn
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) June 7, 2018
Just got back from seeing Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at the Mann Music Center in Philly. If you ever get the chance, go see them. Excellent show.
re: #116 garzooma
This is amusing: Jeff Sessions on Obama abusing the pardon power:
Anyone ask him how he feels about Trump pardoning a drug offender that Obama’s Justice Department rejected?
Trump has the power so it’s just de facto good.
Plus, Kim K!!!! Yay!!! ////
*wretch*
MormonLeaks (which documents shady things going on in the LDS church) drops documents showing that the Mormon Church owns thirteen investment companies which reported an aggregate of $13 Billion in the stock market last year.
The companies were required to fill in special paperwork for companies that have $100 million or more in assets.
While the LDS Church is probably the most capitalistic church in the USA (for example, it owns the land under Utah’s largest mall, meaning they don’t pay taxes on the land because they are a church), almost all churches are the same: They are not required to report their assets or profits.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹
MormonLeaks (which documents shady things going on in the LDS church) drops documents showing that the Mormon Church owns thirteen investment companies which reported an aggregate of $13 Billion in the stock market last year.
The companies were required to fill in special paperwork for companies that have $100 million or more in assets.
While the LDS Church is probably the most capitalistic church in the USA (for example, it owns the land under Utah’s largest mall, meaning they don’t pay taxes on the land because they are a church), almost all churches are the same: They are not required to report their assets or profits.
Another reason why it’s time to tax the churches!
Betsy DeVos didn’t show up to the School Safety Commission’s first public forum, because she’s in Switzerland.
They cannot, any of them, even pretend to care. I hope they all rot, first in prison, then in hell.— Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) June 7, 2018
In a bit of local election news, the Persky recall passed. Persky was the judge in the Brock Turner case (very light sentence for a Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault).
The recall campaigns pro and con were the main circus acts in the local news for months beforehand, and both side were disappointing. The pro-recall side argued that Persky had a pattern of bias in favor of white wealthy defendants, but the evidence for this pattern was somewhere between nil and minimal. The anti-recall side couldn’t content themselves with just poking holes in that nonsense. They accused a pro-recall leader of pulling some kind of media stunt involving suspicious received mail (powder of some kind, IIRC), but later news of police reports on this subject undercut this claim severely. And who in their right mind in the state of CA would hire a political consulting outfit that had worked for the Trump campaign in AZ, as the anti-recall effort did?
The circus didn’t affect my thinking very much. IMO the Turner case was a travesty, and I’m perfectly comfortable with ‘one strike and you’re out’ for a real travesty.
I’m surprised by the margin (about 60/40 in early reports), especially since this was a primary election with (presumably) reduced turnout in the demographics most likely to favor recall.
re: #115 Joe Bacon 🌹
Remember watching the pilot and it was the usual Steve Cannell show.
I remember the Steve Cannell typewriter so well.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹
Correction. Those thirteen companies have $32 Billion in assets.
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sarah Palin
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@SarahPalinUSA
Trump-Backed Republican Candidate for Governor of Calif. Just WON. Let That Sink In For A Minute conservativecash.us …
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Actually, it is disappointing that the Dems didn’t get the top 2 positions and shut out the Republicans entirely. I heard that Gavin was targeting the Democratic opponent who could challenge him; if true, that is very unfortunate because having a Republican in the race will help the GOP turnout. OTOH, I’m not a fan at all of the California jungle primary system. So I guess I’m being inconsistent.
re: #102 JordanRules
There was also a 5.5 yesterday in the same area.
All the movement of lava is causing the larger volcano go move bits and pieces around.
re: #126 Hecuba’s daughter
Note that the GOP was shut out of the US Senate race, and the Lt. Gov. position.
re: #121 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another reason why it’s time to tax the churches!
Former Nebraska governor Dave Heineman (R) floated a proposal to assess property taxes on religious property. (I almost fainted that came from a Republican.)
The howl went up across the state from Wyoming to Iowa. He kept at his tax plan for about a week, but every religious person in the state, regardless of faith, was prepared to hang him from a lamppost in Lincoln.
He not only backed down, he apologised to the churches.
(The Lutheran Church in my town owns about one-eighth of the land, taking one-eighth of the town off the tax rolls.)
re: #128 freetoken
Note that the GOP was shut out of the US Senate race, and the Lt. Gov. position.
What was pleasing was seeing the Berniebot/Jillshill candidate for Lt. Gov only get 3% of the vote.
re: #128 freetoken
Note that the GOP was shut out of the US Senate race, and the Lt. Gov. position.
Same thing happened in 2016 when Kamala Harris won — both Senatorial candidates were Democratic.
I couldn’t stop chuckling when I saw “Danny Thomas” in the #2 position on my ballot for Lt. Governor…
re: #126 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually, it is disappointing that the Dems didn’t get the top 2 positions and shut out the Republicans entirely. I heard that Gavin was targeting the Democratic opponent who could challenge him; if true, that is very unfortunate because having a Republican in the race will help the GOP turnout. OTOH, I’m not a fan at all of the California jungle primary system. So I guess I’m being inconsistent.
Yet, OTOH, wouldn’t having a Dem and a GOPer in the race prod turnout from both sides? Especially if the CA Party has their act together and backs (and finances) Dem candidates all across the slate (and the state). Yeah, shutting Republicans out entirely is seldom bad thing, but it still doesn’t look like California’s “blue” status is going to be in jeopardy any time soon. “Jungle primary” (of which I’m not too impressed with, either) notwithstanding.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹
It’s the single biggest method of the subsidizing of magical thinking - by excluding assets from taxation merely on the basis of magical thinking.
re: #130 Joe Bacon 🌹
What was pleasing was seeing the Berniebot/Jillshill candidate for Lt. Gov only get 3% of the vote.
As much as 3%?
In California, no less?
I guess in the context of “Bernie or Bust”, it’s looking like “Bust” is the clear winner…..
re: #135 Jay C
As much as 3%?
I guess in the context of “Bernie or Bust”, it’s looking like “Bust” is the clear winner…..
yeah, Gayle McLaughlin only got 3.6% of the vote…
Man the weather is getting really crappy. Thunder is shaking the house.
wunderground.com
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹
Flash flood watch south of you: radar.weather.gov
Update on the SBC scandal: Patterson still looks like he wants to preach the big sermon. His adulators are pumping out excuses left and right for him.
Meanwhile, one of his installed profs is pushing an anti-gay agenda at the coming conference, as this person points out:
An @SWBTS professor’s resolution for #SBC18 #SBC2018 from anti-LGBT @MassResistance denounces LGBT orientation as “heresy,” supports conversion “therapy” for LGBT or “celibate lives devoted to God.” https://t.co/jF0mlC2lE6
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) June 7, 2018
They want the Southern Baptists to explicitly endorse gay conversion therapies:
(see several points on page 2.)
Bavaria implements law to hang crosses in all government buildings.
dw.com (Deutsche Welle)
Starting on Friday, nearly all state authorities in Bavaria are required to have a cross hanging in their foyers — meaning that anyone turning in their taxes, reporting something to a police station, or entering an administrative court will be greeted by a cross in the southern German state.
“From then on, the obligation goes into effect — and we mean it absolutely seriously,” Martin Scholtysik, a spokesman for the Bavarian state interior ministry told DW.
The spokesman did not elaborate on whether or not there would be penalties for authorities that refuse to hang up the crosses, but he did note that the ministry is expecting some pushback.
A cross hangs near the entryway of Bavaria’s Ministry for Education, Science and Art in Munich, Germany (DW/R. Staudenmaier )A metal crucifix hangs in the waiting room of Bavaria’s Ministry for Education, Science and Art in Munich
Required: ‘clearly visible cross’
The newly amended requirements for state buildings now reads: “A clearly visible cross must be placed in the entrance area of every service building to serve as a reminder of the historical and cultural influence of Bavaria.”
Bavarian state premier Markus Söder unveiled the new regulation at the end of April — adding a dramatic touch to his announcement by hanging a cross in Bavaria’s state chancellery, surrounded by the photographers’ flashing lights.
The state premier says the Cross is not a religious symbol, so he doesn’t see the problem with that.
In response, the Satanic Temple UK sent a whole bunch of crosses to Bavaria’s government, with the hanging loop on the bottom (the crosses can only be hung upside down). As it happens, the new law in Bavaria doesn’t say how the cross must be hung. Unsurprisingly, none of the Satanic Temple’s crosses have been hung in any government building.
re: #139 freetoken
Flash flood watch south of you: radar.weather.gov
That mess of storms from the tri-state corner to east of Scottsbluff is moving in our direction.
The flood warning is in Cheyenne County, including Sidney, the next county south.
re: #118 Mattand
Just got back from seeing Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at the Mann Music Center in Philly. If you ever get the chance, go see them. Excellent show.
I believe there is a lizard in the area for this show:
Jul 18 Wed
Colours of Ostrava
Ostrava - Vítkovice, Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czechia
nathanielrateliff.com
re: #144 jaunte
I really want to see them some time. Excellent band.
There is no Wendy’s only Zuul pic.twitter.com/Tm1UvT9tuv
— 🏳️🌈Captn Queer Happy Pride Month!🏳️🌈 (@deadhead1991) June 7, 2018
NEW: Per @CNN, the DOJ will convene another briefing to give lawmakers from the gang of eight additional access to classified materials from the Russia investigation. This stems from requests by GOP lawmakers seeking to bolster Trump’s lie about a “spy” infiltrating his campaign.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 7, 2018
Fucking MAGAts.
Translation: Hogg is the sort of kid you would have picked on and bullied relentlessly because of your insecurities. Cool story.
— Brett McCartney (@brettmccartney) June 7, 2018
No soup for you!
If we’re going to worry about trade with Canada as a national security threat, the fact that we rely on them for electricity seems like a bigger deal than aluminum. pic.twitter.com/sYF0O4JDfr
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 7, 2018
re: #141 freetoken
Update on the SBC scandal: Patterson still looks like he wants to preach the big sermon. His adulators are pumping out excuses left and right for him.
Meanwhile, one of his installed profs is pushing an anti-gay agenda at the coming conference, as this person points out:
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What’s interesting about the Patterson supporters is there’s not a word of concern for the woman he told not to report her rape. Not a peep, not a whisper. It’s all about Paige Patterson, the little tin god of the Conservative Resurgence.
The people agitating for him have arguably made it likely that Patterson is toxic. Certainly SWBTS isn’t going to bring him back on; if they did, it would be like admitting his behavior wasn’t a problem. There’s also the issue of the documents he lifted from SEBTS and then ended up in the hands of the wife of his chief of staff, who posted them on the Internet. Finally, there’s no discussion about the impact of the documents released. While I don’t know if the woman would actually sue, the fact is she has good causes of action for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. (And that’s just off the top of my head.)
The whole thing is an SBC cluster, just in time for the SBC annual meeting starting next Tuesday. It’s going to be a dumpster fire.
I’m not going to link to her, but damn that Kent State gun grad trying to launch her shill career off the Parkland students is gross.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 7, 2018
re: #148 MsJ
Fucking MAGAts.
Leslie Basco
@LeslieBasco
5 Jun
Replying to @KaitMarieox and 2 others
Hogg is the sort of kid who in my generation would’ve gotten beat up daily until he got sense knocked into him.And, no, in my generation, the bullying wouldn’t have caused him to go into a school & shoot because we grew up with far less violent TV shows, violent games etc
Interesting —- so another key characteristic of Trump supporters is that they are bullies.
21st c America in one picture: people sleeping on the street in a tent, electric car charging station pic.twitter.com/RkPhi7aSF1
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) June 7, 2018
re: #153 jaunte
Garance has yet to internalize that the world is on a dystopian march to extinction.
re: #121 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another reason why it’s time to tax the churches!
It’s time to retroactively tax them back to 1789. With interest, fees, and penalties.
re: #155 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It’s time to retroactively tax them back to 1789. With interest, fees, and penalties.
Activities they run that are public benefits can be handled like regular 501c3 charities.
Trade is good.
Cet après-midi, à Ottawa, j’ai rencontré le président @EmmanuelMacron avant le @G7fr pour parler de la façon dont le Canada et la France peuvent collaborer plus étroitement à accroître le commerce et à créer plus d’emplois et d’opportunités des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. pic.twitter.com/AglaDO7hCy
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 6, 2018
This afternoon in Ottawa, President @EmmanuelMacron and I met ahead of the @g7 to talk about how Canada & France can work together more closely to increase trade and create more jobs & opportunities for people on both sides of the Atlantic. pic.twitter.com/vWfVMa60RA
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 6, 2018
The heavy storms are collapsing as they come over town.
Annnd, I just had to chew out a Southern Baptist pastor who is trying to position himself as “middle of the road”—in between Paige Patterson and his supporters and the “liberal feminists.” His post also had strong whiffs of anti-Semitism and replacement theology. He can’t name a church where women hold the positions the patriarchs hold in the SBC, nor does he get that women rabbis are ordained in 3 of the 4 Jewish movements in America today.
The only thing he’s good for is defending the women who have been treated like crap within the mold of the SBC. But if I were pushed, I’d say even not-conservative SBC teachings are harmful to women. However, remember I am DONE with church. Absolutely DONE, so I might be prejudiced.
re: #157 Single-handed sailor
Trade is good.
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Part of me hopes Trump kills NAFTA and the GOP gets a serious ass kicking at the polls.
Hannity to Mueller probe witnesses: Destroy your phones before you hand them over https://t.co/4hhF3mbxh2 pic.twitter.com/5CVtYdX8nY
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
Hey @FoxNews Why are you employing someone who is trying to obstruct an official investigation? @seanhannity is encouraging witnesses to commit a felony https://t.co/jMA7mZPVqM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 7, 2018
re: #159 mmmirele
Given that the Civil War has been over for a while, why is there still an “S”BC?
re: #159 mmmirele
I would not shed a tear if the entire SBC tears itself apart over this. I would love to see a pillar of righteous-wing conservatism knocked down.
A not insignificant number of people would leave the SBC for other churches, and some leave religion entirely.
re: #162 jaunte
Given that the Civil War has been over for a while, why is there still an “S”BC?
There aren’t many SBC churches in, say, Maine or North Dakota.
The SBC is the essence of southern state theocracy.
re: #162 jaunte
Given that the Civil War has been over for a while, why is there still an “S”BC?
When the Southern Baptists schismed from the Baptists… they invented a whole new way of reading/interpreting scripture to justify it. The cherry-picking verses, the insistence on face-value acceptance of literal phrases, that’s where that came from. The regular Baptist-Baptists, like Catholics and Jews and everyone else, had always read scripture as a complete cohesive work to be interpreted the way you’d analyze any other complete work.
That’s what’s made the SBC so crazy over the years; the rest of us can look at contradictory passages and think maybe one of them had an unreliable narrator, or one of them is a metaphor, or some prophet might have misunderstood the vision God sent him, or one of the characters is a cautionary tale and not a hero at all, or “things change, and what God wanted in one generation might be different than what he wanted 100 years later and 500 miles away”. The SBCs have to tell themselves that every sentence is true and eternal and if you can’t force yourself to believe multiple contradictory things at the same time you’re going to burn in hell forever.
re: #162 jaunte
Given that the Civil War has been over for a while, why is there still an “S”BC?
To separate itself from the rest of the Baptists. The SBC is the openly racist group.
re: #165 freetoken
There aren’t many SBC churches in, say, Maine or North Dakota.
The SBC is the essence of southern state theocracy.
Once the Civil War was over, the SBC was one of the centres of power to enforce Jim Crow.
In the Seventies they were still trying to enforce Jim Crow by disestablishing public schools in Virginia. In the Eighties they were behind the continued court push by Norfolk, VA to keep schools segregated (I really hated being stationed in Virginia Beach watching that crap).
Today their so-called Conservative Resurgence is putting new lipstick on a very old pig.
Don’t know which meeting will be more chaotic—the G7 or the Southern Fried Baptists!
re: #172 Joe Bacon 🌹
Don’t know which meeting will be more chaotic—the G7 or the Southern Fried Baptists!
If the Russians want to make themselves useful, they can hack into the airlines’ databases and switch their plane tickets—just for shits and giggles.
GOP candidate for So. Car. House district 27 threatens a reporter who asked him about his pending child porn charges.
A Republican candidate in South Carolina’s state House race for District 27 denied that he is facing child pornography charges even though court records show charges pending for a man with his name and address.
The Greenville News reported on Wednesday that records from the Greenville County courthouse and State Law Enforcement Division indicated that a man named Frederick Eugene Wall is facing charges stemming from a child pornography investigation.
But the Republican candidate with same name and address insisted to the paper that it was a case of mistaken identity.
“I have no criminal background,” Wall said.
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When greeted at the mobile home at the address Friday afternoon, a man declined to comment other than to refer questions to Eric Wheeler, who is the campaign manager for the candidate. The man at the mobile home appeared to be the same identified in a police mug shot from the child pornography arrest in 2017.
Warrants obtained from the courthouse show that the man named in court papers was charged with 16 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor second degree on Feb. 1, 2017.
Nazis, paedophiles, the GOP sure knows how to pick ‘em.
“You’re cruising for a bruising, son,” Wall told The Greenville News reporter by phone. “I can’t explain it, and I’m not going to. And you don’t have to ask a thing.”
“I’m about to feel obligated to file suit against your newspaper for harassment,” he added. “If I say no, that’s an answer.”
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re: #173 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If the Russians want to make themselves useful, they can hack into the airlines’ databases and switch their plane tickets—just for shits and giggles.
Oh no the real fun would be having the Russian moles infiltrating the SBC meeting and turning up the insanity to 11!
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹
Doesn’t matter because Jay-Zuss forgives the sins of every Republican but when it comes to the Clenis he’s going to the lowest level of hell for being a Gawdless Democrat!
re: #176 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m a godless Democrat. If I thought there was a paradise and perdition, I’d rather spend it in perdition rather than all the folk who ignored me when I was homeless (you know I think there’s something in the New Testament about that) but made all pious in church.
#ICEintheNews Immigration officers arrested this father of two after the people he delivered a pizza to called the feds. https://t.co/NKinmasTHL
An early look at Thursday’s front… pic.twitter.com/sa2bFxaitH— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 7, 2018
One of the “MS-13 Animals.”
re: #178 DodgerFan1988
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One of the “MS-13 Animals.”
And following the (post-Reagan) American Dream™ where everybody gets rich delivering pizzas to each other….
Why isn’t our media using this tweet to report on Jared and Ivanka’s use of personal emails while working in the White House, and once caught, moving them to a Trump Organization server? Why is there no investigation? https://t.co/zoA0TsLfyT via @politico
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 7, 2018
Not much is left of the Golden Age of Hollywood:
RIP Jerry Maren - the last surviving munchkin from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ was 98 pic.twitter.com/K3VpLoe9GA
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) June 6, 2018
Note that the AP story listed his age as 98, but others have pointed out that he was 99.
re: #126 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually, it is disappointing that the Dems didn’t get the top 2 positions and shut out the Republicans entirely. I heard that Gavin was targeting the Democratic opponent who could challenge him; if true, that is very unfortunate because having a Republican in the race will help the GOP turnout. OTOH, I’m not a fan at all of the California jungle primary system. So I guess I’m being inconsistent.
I agree, but it’s hardly surprising. There were multiple democratic candidates, and only one republican, so every republican who voted voted for him. (I had my moments of fear that he’d be number one. Which wouldn’t affect the general — all the dems would be voting for one person — but would be painful.)
Good morning ☉ pic.twitter.com/viClBt3r7M
— Coco The Parakeet (@Coco61870345) June 3, 2018
UPS human resources supervisor says black ‘thugs’ deserve police violence — and gets fired 48 hours later https://t.co/s5ETBeCy32
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 6, 2018
re: #180 Single-handed sailor
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It’s good to know that purposefully hiding emails concerning government business is not a major concern to the media. I would hate to think how they might react if Javanka were…dare I say…Democrats.
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One thing the whole Hollywood story - that is, the rise of motion pictures through the creation of television serials - tells us about America is that we’ve had a century of common culture through mass media that has been quite a change from previous eras.
This may be strange to those who haven’t dug into the past much, but before the invention of the silent movie, Americans had a very not-unified melange of entertainment and information sources.
I think we idealize too much the post WWII journalism adventure, thinking that is how people ought to be influenced about what to believe.
Before Hollywood, before the silent movies, Americans heard traveling speakers. Religious often, preachers, but also other types of speakers. And, those Americans who could read, and literacy increased greatly in the 19th century, read the local newspaper(s). And, many Americans did a weekly religious service of this or that sort, in which they heard their religious leaders speak.
Circuses and carnivals came around where there was good transportation.
Some locales even had theaters in the 19th century, but not many, for plays and music.
Anyway, when you realize that there was no way to know quickly what was happening outside your corner of the world, then one can understand why people would buy outlandish stories.
And this is partly why new religions could pop up so easily.
The idea that somehow there is a uniform “news” distribution around the country is a very recent invention. Before then, “news” was whatever your neighbors were doing.
So when silent movies were introduced and the local vaudeville theaters faded, people all around the country could share a cultural experience in a tight window of time, say within a few weeks of each other.
And of course news reels came along with the entertainment, too.
Anyway, the pre-WWII Hollywood is now almost all gone, only a few remain who were on screen or involved in production.
Librarian jokes… .
“What do you do?”
“I’m in book publishing.”
“Oh great, have you ever thought about giving people the ebook for free when they buy the physical book? You should do that. Also books are too expensive so I only shop on amazon.” https://t.co/W5p272XDNT— Emily Hughes 🦔 (@emilyhughes) June 4, 2018
“What do you do?”
“I’m a library student.”
“Oh cool are you learning to shush people?”
“Shut the fuck up.” https://t.co/ydpxSExIcP— The Hangriest Librarian (@HalpernAlex) June 5, 2018
“What do you do?”
“I’m a librarian.”
“You know libraries are going extinct, right? You can find everything on Google now.”
“Google won’t find your dead body.” https://t.co/6Wwim1HLT4— adrianne (but not rocky’s) (@adriannemkarpo) June 5, 2018
re: #187 freetoken
To Hollywood you can also add the invention of the automobile, which made traveling far from your home much easier. The telephone allowed you to get an instant message (well, almost instant until automated switching came into play) anywhere in the world where there were telephones.
Radio did the same for entertainment that movies did, with the added bonus that shortwave radio (which used to be much more popular in the USA) allowed you to get information and entertainment from around the world.
The XX Century probably did more to shrink the world then all the centuries before it.
Another sexual and physical abuser is ousted from a powerful position, this time a nephew of George W. Bush. He stands accused of physically assaulting his wife, and sexually inappropriate commentary and behaviour around female employees.
(Reuters) - Athenahealth Inc’s (ATHN.O) Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bush stepped down on Wednesday and the healthcare software maker said it was exploring options, including selling itself, following pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.
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Last week, Bush issued an apology after a report in U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper said that he had assaulted his former wife 14 years ago.
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New allegations of questionable behavior by Athenahealth Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bush are emerging as the health technology executive attempts to fend off a takeover proposal from an activist investor.
In the past week, Bush has apologized for assaulting his ex-wife, and public records have surfaced alleging that he subjected a female employee to what she described as a “sexually hostile environment.”
Now more examples of potentially inappropriate behavior by Bush have emerged.
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Do they train conservatives for this, or does it come naturally?
Please stop man.
Ironically, when I hear Robert DeNiro talking about politics my first instinct is to look over my shoulder and say “You talkin’ to me?” #DennisMillerOption
— Dennis Miller (@DennisDMZ) June 7, 2018
re: #191 Cheechako
This tornado was about 9 miles north of Laramie, WY this afternoon:
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Wow. That was part of the storm complex that hit us tonight. Laramie is a considerable distance from us, though.
By the way, my sweetie is planning our Yukon trip to take us through the Alaska Panhandle. Should I wave at you?
re: #192 JordanRules
He’s really bad without SNL writers.
Catch me on @NRATV this morning talking about my challenge to @davidhogg111 to arm wrestle over the fate of the 2nd amendment. Think twig arms will tune in? pic.twitter.com/yo7Y1qBED1
— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) June 5, 2018
In that case, I hereby challenge @realdonaldtrump to a spelling contest over the presidency. https://t.co/MXfcAxLN8D
— Sam Bova (@sam_bova) June 7, 2018
re: #193 Anymouse 🌹
Wow. That was part of the storm complex that hit us tonight. Laramie is a considerable distance from us, though.
By the way, my sweetie is planning our Yukon trip to take us through the Alaska Panhandle. Should I wave at you?
Hell yes. Are you planning to use the Alaska Ferry for part of your trip?
re: #196 Cheechako
Hell yes. Are you planning to use the Alaska Ferry for part of your trip?
Yes. The plan is to drive south from Yukon and take the ferry across and go to Juneau, then to Prince Rupert.
re: #197 Anymouse 🌹
Yes. The plan is to drive south from Yukon and take the ferry across and go to Juneau, then to Prince Rupert.
Great. Keep me up to date on your plans and maybe we can have a meet-up. I’m in Juneau. I can also give you tips on what to see and do.
re: #198 Cheechako
Great. Keep me up to date on your plans and maybe we can have a meet-up. I’m in Juneau. I can also give you tips on what to see and do.
Kewl. My wife is doing the trip-planning, so when she’s nailed down everything I’ll let you know.
The plan is likely to go to a convention in Denver at the end of July (already scheduled), then leave from there straight for Saskatchewan and the start of that trip.
Perhaps some tips where to stay in the area as well. Definitely need to do the meetup. I’ve never met a denizen of LGF before (probably to the benefit of LGF denizens).
Look for a black Smart car with Nebraska plates. That will be us. /s
I’m headed off to bed.
statistically at least one of the 12 disciples should have been queer but none of them were. it was jesus
— jaboukie young-white (@jaboukie) June 7, 2018
D-Day is not really the thing you want to cite when you’re talking about the strength of the relationship between the U.S. and Germany. pic.twitter.com/UOCoGY5bSH
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) June 7, 2018
There are no words. Watch Maddow at her best patiently explaining to the State Dept spokesperson that it was the Germans we were fighting on DDay https://t.co/sYz531e5e6
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 7, 2018
Dersh: “The President wasn’t wrong when he said he wants his Attorney General to be loyal. It’s the constitution that’s wrong for allowing that kind of division to occur.” pic.twitter.com/p4VhIhVA88
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 5, 2018
Progression:
1. Nothing happened.
2. Nothing bad happened.
3. Nothing illegal happened.
4. The Constitution protects the President even if something illegal happened.
5. The Constitution is wrong.
What’s next? https://t.co/RDUCU9GFO1— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 6, 2018
It’s time for our late night missive…
A few years back, American evangelicals got all hot about a supposedly newly discovered manuscript of Mark. I think I may have even put in a few comments here on LGF about it.
There were a flurry of blogposts around Christendom, and then apologists started to run with it.
Well, the whole thing collapsed when the weight of the truth came out recently.
Youtuber PineCreek yesterday put a video with the saga, in two parts:
(note: I watch these at 1.25x playback speed, it helps.)
PineCreek does a good job showing how the apologists deceive their audiences, and how the backstory about the manuscript kept changing.
Anyway, just last month the actual manuscript, which is a tiny fragment of what today is labeled as 6 verses, was published (available at Amazon.)
The dating of the fragment is from the late 2nd to the early 3rd century. Much later than the claims of the apologists. The fragment is part of the famed Oxyrhynchus collection found over a century ago in a garbage dump in Egypt.
So much of the Christian apologetics hot air over this thing was just that - fabricated hot air.
PineCreek suspects that HobbyLobby and the Greens may have fueled part of the fire.
The really absurd thing is that fundamentalists believe an old manuscript somehow shows their beliefs to be true.
But we know that the earliest discussions about canon were well before the Council of Nicaea, and the latter just sealed the fate for official Christian dogma. So there had to be plenty of manuscripts between the first mention of Christian writings and Nicaea. And the fragment of Mark recently published sits in that window.
As PineCreek points out in the beginning of his video, no one doubts that the fledgling religion grew in popularity in the 2nd century, and thus one would expect there to have been copies of Christian writings at that time. Thus finding a fragment from that era is not revelatory or proof of anything in regards to the historicity problems of the religion’s core beliefs.
At least Dan Wallace, who first publicized the claim of a first century manuscript, has apologized (in part anyway.)
The others in the mess? Nope.
For a long discussion of this story: evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com
The Egypt Exploration Society, who are the owners of the text and who support the work of the scholars, have a statement: ees.ac.uk
Oxford is the keeper of the collection and where the papyrologist who dated the fragment works : classics.ox.ac.uk
The DailyBeast threw some shade/light on this issue: thedailybeast.com
Bottom Line: As usual, the Christian apologists are not to be trusted.
And, there are other fragments in the collection older than this fragment of Mark. For example, bits of the Gospel of Thomas. If age implies truthfulness, why don’t the fundamentalists accept the Gospel of Thomas?
re: #204 JordanRules
Thankfully, the cartoonist did not put Trump in Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” (non)costume.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs https://t.co/UqxymTm12D
— Investigate Russia (@InvestigateRU) June 6, 2018
Mueller had the goods on Manafort since February but waited till Monday to pop him on witness tamperin’. This is why.
Think how many witnesses just pooped their pampers knowin’ Mueller can read encrypted devices!https://t.co/OtXaccg85V— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) June 6, 2018
re: #205 wheat-dogg
Thankfully, the cartoonist did not put Trump in Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” (non)costume.
Oh, you’re so right! Small blessings.
…This is a level of criminality beyond the pale. This is such a grave abuse of power and authority, it’s like nothing else we’ve seen in our history. This makes the Nixon Watergate burglary look like keystone cop stuff
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
There was evidence a foreign government was infiltrating a presidential campaign. The FBI was trying to protect you. They didn’t know you were part of it. We do now. https://t.co/wa3LKrSxBe
— Christopher Titus (@TitusNation) June 6, 2018
You know all those heart-warming images of baby animals all getting along with each other, that fill endless streams of posts on Facebook?
Well, this isn’t one of those things:
GRAPHIC: Crocodile eats dog that tormented it for years
Some may find the video disturbing.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
Just got back, the weather here is about to go down the tubes.
Watches and warnings all over the area. The main storm line is centered east and west along I-80. Sidney is getting pounded, and a very severe thunderstorm is moving SW across the Nebr.-Colo. line into Colorado.
Severe weather warning across most of Germany for today…almost welcome after a long weekend and week of hot and muggy.
re: #21 JordanRules
This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom.]
…now it’s time to have some fun?!?
WTFing Fitty F is that about???
Second Amendment is unassailable
Reasonable solutions are unavailable
Gun rights are what matter moast
And you school kids, I fear, are toast
re: #25 goddamnedfrank
MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit
Imagine what happens when they start feeding it Trump tweets…
re: #38 jaunte
Hurricane watching in our boats, like you do.
like watching the solar eclipse without glasses
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t give them ideas.
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
She concluded with: “Civility is just nice words. Maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions”
To me the worst is when people observe all the forms of civility while being totally rude and condescending, like when a Brit starts out a sentence saying “With all due respect….”
This reboot of Monty Python’s Flying Circus* really is quite amusing.
*by that, I am of course referring to Brexit
What a shitshow.
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
To me the worst is when people observe all the forms of civility while being totally rude and condescending, like when a Brit starts out a sentence saying “With all due respect….”
That’s what I always hated about the praise for Southern hospitality. The South tolerated racism and Jim Crow for the century after the war ended slavery, but they were very “hospitable”. And official Jim Crow ended only when through federal legislation and Supreme Court decisions and not because Southern states of their own accord decided these behaviors were wrong.
re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s what I always hated about the praise for Southern hospitality. The South tolerated racism and Jim Crow for the century after the war ended slavery, but they were very “hospitable”. And official Jim Crow ended only when through federal legislation and Supreme Court decisions and not because Southern states of their own accord decided these behaviors were wrong.
I would rather know exactly how I stand with someone than be showered with florid speech and then treated like shit…
re: #218 Dr Lizardo
This reboot of Monty Python’s Flying Circus* really is quite amusing.
*by that, I am of course referring to Brexit
What a shitshow.
Brexit shares a lot of parallels with Trump’s election: nobody really expected it and hence were unprepared for the consequences.
They are making things up as they go along while ignoring their previous promises.
And generations to come will be paying the price for what they did.
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Brexit shares a lot of parallels with Trump’s election: .
Probably because there were many shared instigators between the two.
re: #222 freetoken
Probably because there were many shared instigators between the two.
you mean people with an interest in destabilizing the US and UK?
on the other hand, we left ourselves wide open to it, and there is no law against influencing a foreign election, only against colluding with a foreign government to do so in your own country…
Mrs. FBW and I have arrived in Pennsyltucky for Dad’s 100th birthday celebration. The vibrant green of all the vegetation is seductive, as California dries outfor summer.
We’re thinking about retiring here, since it’s so much cheaper. Question is, are we too Californicated?
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Mrs. FBW and I have arrived in Pennsyltucky for Dad’s 100th birthday celebration. The vibrant green of all the vegetation is seductive, as California dries outfor summer.
We’re thinking about retiring here, since it’s so much cheaper. Question is, are we too Californicated?
I ask a similar question myself, I been living in Europe for the past 30 years.
re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I ask a similar question myself, I been living in Europe for the past 30 years.
Yeah, I’ve been living in Czech Republic (and here and there in Europe) since 2001. I think I’d probably have some culture shock if I went back to live in the US.
If I had my druthers and about $5 million, I ‘d never think of leaving California. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? I can only afford to live there when I’m working.
re: #226 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I’ve been living in Czech Republic (and here and there in Europe) since 2001. I think I’d probably have some culture shock if I went back to live in the US.
It also depends on where: I would probably be okay in the Southwest, where I lived before I left for Europe, but probably not in the Midwest, where I grew up.
re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It also depends on where: I would probably be okay in the Southwest, where I lived before I left for Europe, but probably not in the Midwest, where I grew up.
I’d probably be cool in either Los Angeles, my hometown, or the Portland, OR area, where I lived for about 20 years.
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
I’d probably be cool in either Los Angeles, my hometown, or the Portland, OR area, where I lived for about 20 years.
those are far removed from the rest of America…especially Indiana or Pennsylvania
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
those are far removed from the rest of America…especially Indiana or Pennsylvania
I’m sure that a whole lot of folks in place like Indiana or Pennsylvania (not to mention the Deep South) probably think the Pacific Northwest is filled with heathens and godless Bolsheviks, LOL.
re: #232 Dr Lizardo
I’m sure that a whole lot of folks in place like Indiana or Pennsylvania (not to mention the Deep South) probably think the Pacific Northwest is filled with heathens and godless Bolsheviks, LOL.
or just intolerable hipsters…
re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter
re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter
I’ve lived in the south for 30 years. That southern hospitality thing is bullshit. Especially after 9/11. I know this is anecdotal, but the rudeness and bullying here went off the charts less than a couple months after that day and it’s only got worse. I could go on a tirade for hours, I’ll spare you.
Flipping through channels I see that the Dersh is on FnF this morning providing guidance to Trump (“I wish he would issue more pardons!”). But I couldn’t stay for long—started to feel queasy.
re: #234 A Mom Anon
I’ve lived in the south for 30 years. That southern hospitality thing is bullshit. Especially after 9/11. I know this is anecdotal, but the rudeness and bullying here went off the charts less than a couple months after that day and it’s only got worse. I could go on a tirade for hours, I’ll spare you.
I transplanted from PA to the south for about 14 years, graduated high school in MS even. Dads side of family had always been there. The southern hospitality myth is because when people from the north come to visit we are just considered yankee’s and they are tolerant and nice since you will be leaving soon and they are making money off you. I, on the other hand, stayed and worked/lived there. So I was a “damn” yankee. I was looked on as coming down and taking their jobs and such. We were treated a bit differently, as in “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?”.
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or just intolerable hipsters…
I’ve certainly noticed this; Ostrava is on the cusp of becoming a hipster mecca.
It’s inexpensive to live here (especially when compared to Prague) and over the last three years, I’ve seen a veritable explosion of cafes, vegetarian/vegan restaurants, hookah bars and tattoo parlors.
DM Drogerie is selling beard oil and beard balm - they weren’t doing that two years ago because there was simply no demand for it here.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹
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Amazing to see all of these racist whites getting their star time on Facebook…
re: #237 Dr Lizardo
I’ve certainly noticed this; Ostrava is on the cusp of becoming a hipster mecca.
It’s inexpensive to live here (especially when compared to Prague) and over the last three years, I’ve seen a veritable explosion of cafes, vegetarian/vegan restaurants, hookah bars and tattoo parlors.
DM Drogerie is selling beard oil and beard balm - they weren’t doing that two years ago because there was simply no demand for it here.
I started raising a beard again but will not do the man-bun…
And another one….
This is sickening.
10-yo black boy playing outside grandmother’s home was wrongfully detained and placed in handcuffs! Chicago police say it was a case of mistaken identity.
Poor kid was so scared that he wet his pants.
These cops need to be held responsible for this.
Spread. pic.twitter.com/wZaGuY1ICb— Together we rise 🙌🏾 (@Matsamon) June 7, 2018
And it’s starting to look like British PM May has caved a bit to the Brexiteers.
BREAKING: DD stays. Source close to DD :”Obviously there’s been a back and forth on this paper… The backstop paper has been amended and now expresses, in much more detail, the time limited nature of our proposal - something the PM and DD have always been committed to.’
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) June 7, 2018
So if Davis managed to firm up the requirement that the backstop has to be time limited, he’s also increased the chances of the EU declaring the proposal unacceptable.
And then it’s back to square one.
Yep……….what a shitshow.
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I started raising a beard again but will not do the man-bun…
Gaaah - the man-bun is ubiquitous here with the younger guys.
re: #241 Dr Lizardo
And it’s starting to look like British PM May has caved a bit to the Brexiteers.
If the UK wants to continue to enjoy the benefits of trade with the EU, then it has to accept EU regulations.
But it will not have a voice in shaping those regulations.
Like splitting up with your girlfriend but still getting yelled at for leaving the toilet seat up…
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the UK wants to continue to enjoy the benefits of trade with the EU, then it has to accept EU regulations.
But it will not have a voice in shaping those regulations.
Like splitting up with your girlfriend but still getting yelled at for leaving the toilet seat up…
This is all so fucking stupid. May can kick the can down the road another 48 hours or so and that’s probably about it (or until the EU says “ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!”). She might as well get it over with now as a leadership challenge from the Brexiteer nutjobs is pretty much unavoidable at this point.
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine what happens when they start feeding it Trump tweets…
It’ll act just like Robot B9 sabotaged by Dr. Smith…
Fucking Politico…
There’s an article titled “Obama’s Retirement Fail”. These fucking people; I’m trying to resist reading the article because I’m guessing the abstract is “Obama has not single handedly removed Trump from office with his retired POTUS superpowers, therefore FAIL.”
I think that’s the second “THANKS, Obama” bullshite they’ve featured in the last two months or so. That site just can’t resist the Magic Balance Fairy heroin.
This is what kills me about orgs like them, The Hill, CNN, etc. It’s like they get nervous publishing so much negative stuff about the GOP. Well, you know what, kids? IT’S BECAUSE THE GOP IS TRYING TO TEAR DOWN THE COUNTRY PIECE BY PIECE SO THEY CAN RULE FOREVER.
When the Dems get to sowing the ISIS level chaos the GOP has, go for it. Until then, stow the false balance shit. As long as conservatives have Fox News, they will never consider anything else a legitimate news source.
re: #247 Mattand
When the Dems get to sowing the ISIS level chaos the GOP has, go for it. Until then, stow the false balance shit. As long as conservatives have Fox News, they will never consider anything else a legitimate news source.
And if Fox ever turns on Trump, they will not consider it a legitimate source either
re: #209 Single-handed sailor
I thought presidents could order any investigation or halt any investigation they wanted to, Donny.
re: #234 A Mom Anon
I’ve lived in the south for 30 years. That southern hospitality thing is bullshit. Especially after 9/11. I know this is anecdotal, but the rudeness and bullying here went off the charts less than a couple months after that day and it’s only got worse. I could go on a tirade for hours, I’ll spare you.
My brother moved to the south in the late 1990’s. His politics went off the rails after 9/11 and never recovered.
🙄 this is garbage pic.twitter.com/qh09MWLyFS
— Oregon I.T. not IT ⚾ (@OregonJOBS2) June 6, 2018
re: #247 Mattand
Fucking Politico…
There’s an article titled “Obama’s Retirement Fail”. These fucking people; I’m trying to resist reading the article because I’m guessing the abstract is “Obama has not single handedly removed Trump from office with his retired POTUS superpowers, therefore FAIL.”
I think that’s the second “THANKS, Obama” bullshite they’ve featured in the last two months or so. That site just can’t resist the Magic Balance Fairy heroin.
This is what kills me about orgs like them, The Hill, CNN, etc. It’s like they get nervous publishing so much negative stuff about the GOP. Well, you know what, kids? IT’S BECAUSE THE GOP IS TRYING TO TEAR DOWN THE COUNTRY PIECE BY PIECE SO THEY CAN RULE FOREVER.
When the Dems get to sowing the ISIS level chaos the GOP has, go for it. Until then, stow the false balance shit. As long as conservatives have Fox News, they will never consider anything else a legitimate news source.
“Obama is doing too much/too little in retirement, how come he won’t do this and that or stop doing this or that.”
I saw another headline from the AP about Obama supposedly letting Iran cheat on the nuke deal. Didn’t read it, assumed it’s BS.
re: #252 Sir John Barron
“Obama is doing too much/too little in retirement, how come he won’t do this and that or stop doing this or that.”
I saw another headline from the AP about Obama supposedly letting Iran cheat on the nuke deal. Didn’t read it, assumed it’s BS.
There is language that allows such an interpretation and that is what they are running with.
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is language that allows such an interpretation and that is what they are running with.
the headline seemed to assume guilt.
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And if Fox ever turns on Trump, they will not consider it a legitimate source either
Yeah, they’ll move on to OANN or Newsmax TV or something.
re: #255 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, they’ll move on to OANN or Newsmax TV or something.
I sometimes follow newsmax and they are starting to turn on Trump. There was a very damning op-ed from Pat Buchannan on how Trump has abandoned everything the Bush-era GOP stood for.
re: #252 Sir John Barron
“Obama is doing too much/too little in retirement, how come he won’t do this and that or stop doing this or that.”
I saw another headline from the AP about Obama supposedly letting Iran cheat on the nuke deal. Didn’t read it, assumed it’s BS.
And no matter what happens—even if he is impeached—there will be Politico articles about how Trump “changed the game” and “broke things wide open.”
So, this is the UK Government’s backstop plan:
- The government’s backstop plan would effectively keep the UK in the customs union after the transition ends in December 2020. While the backstop was operating the government would be able to sign and implement free trade deals with other countries, but it would not be able to implement those aspects of the trade deals relating to tariffs - which would largely render them pointless. (The UK would not be free to offer non-EU countries lower tariffs.) This is hard to square with Theresa May’s insistence that the UK must operate an independent trade policy from 2021.
- The government plan says the backstop should only last for 12 months at most. The transition is due to end in December 2021, and the government document says the UK “expects the future arrangement to be in place by the end of December 2021 at the latest.” But “expects” is not a firm guarantee, and this statement does not say what would happen if the final customs plan (which the government claims will settle the Irish border problem for good) is not in place by then.
- The government document does not say how the time limit would operate - which really means who gets to decide when it ends. There are “a range of options”, it says, and this is a matter the government says it wants to discuss with the EU. But this issue is crucial. Brexiters want to have the UK to have the power to bring the backstop to an end unilaterally, so the government can then enjoy the full benefits of future trade deals.But the EU does not want to agree a backstop that could end without a solution to the Irish border issue. On this issue, the document does not so much fudge the problem as ignore it altogether.
Off the top of my head, I’d say the EU is probably gonna shoot this down and say, “LOLwut? Try harder.”
re: #257 Barefoot Grin
And no matter what happens—even if he is impeached—there will be Politico articles about how Trump “changed the game” and “broke things wide open.”
He showed what abandoning the Fairness Doctrine, FCC ownership regulations can do especially after Citizens’ United…
On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.
Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.https://t.co/1hSyqfbARP— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2018
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I sometimes follow newsmax and they are starting to turn on Trump. There was a very damning op-ed from Pat Buchannan on how Trump has abandoned everything the Bush-era GOP stood for.
I guess OANN will be the only cult-friendly media outlet they’ve got left if FNC ends up turning on Trump.
re: #258 Dr Lizardo
The government’s backstop plan would effectively keep the UK in the customs union after the transition ends in December 2020. While the backstop was operating the government would be able to sign and implement free trade deals with other countries, but it would not be able to implement those aspects of the trade deals relating to tariffs - which would largely render them pointless.
again, they have to abide by EU rules but have relinquished any voice in shaping them
re: #251 Dave In Austin
So they want Trump chained to one of the outer columns of the Lincoln Memorial?
re: #263 Weaselone
So they want Trump chained to one of the outer columns of the Lincoln Memorial?
Is that serious or just a meta-ironic piss-take?
“Nothing to see here. Move along now.
TransCanada pipeline explodes in West Virginia https://t.co/oWJEOTBglH— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 7, 2018
re: #263 Weaselone
So they want Trump chained to one of the outer columns of the Lincoln Memorial?
That’s $5 bucks worth of stupid Trump supporter.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 7, 2018
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Mrs. FBW and I have arrived in Pennsyltucky for Dad’s 100th birthday celebration. The vibrant green of all the vegetation is seductive, as California dries outfor summer.
We’re thinking about retiring here, since it’s so much cheaper. Question is, are we too Californicated?
If I move anywhere for “retirement”, it will be to Bisbee, Arizona. Fell in love with it while stationed at Ft. Huachuca.
re: #267 William Lewis
If I move anywhere for “retirement”, it will be to Bisbee, Arizona. Fell in love with it while stationed at Ft. Huachuca.
One of my favorite spots, that and the nearby Chiracauha Mountains.
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of my favorite spots, that and the nearby Chiracauha Mountains.
Beautiful hiking up in those hills. My photographer side would be ecstatic too - might even make me break out film again if I can find some good 4x5 ISO25 B&W sheets.
re: #267 William Lewis
If I move anywhere for “retirement”, it will be to Bisbee, Arizona. Fell in love with it while stationed at Ft. Huachuca.
Yes….. Just Yes!!
re: #269 William Lewis
Beautiful hiking up in those hills. My photographer side would be ecstatic too - might even make me break out film again if I can find some good 4x5 ISO25 B&W sheets.
Some of the best times I have ever had hiking and camping.
The Women of MSNBC are not happy with Rudy……
re: #272 Dave In Austin
The Women of MSNBC are not happy with Rudy……
Maggie Maggie
“If you’re a (feminist) and you support the porn industry, you should turn in your credentials,” Giuliani told @DanaBashCNN Thursday. https://t.co/UXvKg9Rknh
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 7, 2018
This isn’t just Giuliani trashing Daniels for Trump. He spent early mayoralty closing down sex shops in NYC. https://t.co/T4ptkX69fD
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018
re: #247 Mattand
Fucking Politico…
There’s an article titled “Obama’s Retirement Fail”. These fucking people; I’m trying to resist reading the article because I’m guessing the abstract is “Obama has not single handedly removed Trump from office with his retired POTUS superpowers, therefore FAIL.”
I think that’s the second “THANKS, Obama” bullshite they’ve featured in the last two months or so. That site just can’t resist the Magic Balance Fairy heroin.
This is what kills me about orgs like them, The Hill, CNN, etc. It’s like they get nervous publishing so much negative stuff about the GOP. Well, you know what, kids? IT’S BECAUSE THE GOP IS TRYING TO TEAR DOWN THE COUNTRY PIECE BY PIECE SO THEY CAN RULE FOREVER.
When the Dems get to sowing the ISIS level chaos the GOP has, go for it. Until then, stow the false balance shit. As long as conservatives have Fox News, they will never consider anything else a legitimate news source.
Charlie Pierce correctly tagged Politico as “Tiger Beat On The Potomac”. It’s just another cog in the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine.
re: #273 Dave In Austin
“If you’re a (feminist) and you support the porn industry, you should turn in your credentials,” Giuliani told Dana Bash on CNN Thursday.
there is also feminist porn made by women for women
this is just Stormy bashing
re: #273 Dave In Austin
“If you’re a (feminist) and you support the porn industry, you should turn in your credentials,” Giuliani told @DanaBashCNN Thursday. cnn.com
— Manu Raju
And if you use, participate in, the porn industry as a “john” like your client….
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹
(more)
Do they train conservatives for this, or does it come naturally?
They are raised to believe that women belong to men - so it’s not quite natural - but related to nurture.
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Mrs. FBW and I have arrived in Pennsyltucky for Dad’s 100th birthday celebration. The vibrant green of all the vegetation is seductive, as California dries outfor summer.
We’re thinking about retiring here, since it’s so much cheaper. Question is, are we too Californicated?
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. The corners (Erie/Allentown-Wilkes-Barre-Bethlehem/Philly/Pittsburgh/Centre Conty) are blue but the rest are redder than Mississippi.
The last time I went back to Ambridge was in 2002 and the whole area is economically dead and it’s now hard core Jay-Zuss Crack House Republican. There’s no way I could live there. I could see about going back to Pittsburgh but my RA can’t handle the cold winters or humid summers anymore.
re: #278 Joe Bacon 🌹
Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. The corners (Erie/Allentown-Wilkes-Barre-Bethlehem/Philly/Pittsburgh/Centre Conty) are blue but the rest are redder than Mississippi.
The last time I went back to Ambridge was in 2002 and the whole area is economically dead and it’s now hard core Jay-Zuss Crack House Republican. There’s no way I could live there. I could see about going back to Pittsburgh but my RA can’t handle the cold winters or humid summers anymore.
What’s the middle blue—Harrisburg/State College?
re: #279 Sir John Barron
Centre County is State College Paternoland but it’s blue.
re: #235 Barefoot Grin
Flipping through channels I see that the Dersh is on FnF this morning providing guidance to Trump (“I wish he would issue more pardons!”). But I couldn’t stay for long—started to feel queasy.
FnF, does that stand for Fox and Fluffers?
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that serious or just a meta-ironic piss-take?
The 2nd.
So Presidential! If you’re a 14 yr old
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 7, 2018
re: #283 Dave In Austin
Cillizza must be so impressed by Trump’s expertise in name calling.
re: #284 Patricia Kayden
Cillizza must be impressed by Trump’s expertise in name calling.
Chrissy worships the ground Trump walks on.
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I sometimes follow newsmax and they are starting to turn on Trump. There was a very damning op-ed from Pat Buchannan on how Trump has abandoned everything the Bush-era GOP stood for.
I don’t think you read that article closely. Buchanan was damning the Bushites who he has been fighting for decades. Trump represents the triumph of Buchanan’s own racist nationalism.
I asked Scott Pruitt a quick question about the reports he tried to help his wife become a Chick-fil-A franchisee.
“With great change comes, I think, opposition…I love, she loves [Chick-fil-A]” pic.twitter.com/gND2tdMq1e— Jessica Smith (@JessicaASmith8) June 6, 2018
True story: When I was US Attonrey, I refused to help my parents negotiate a land man contract for their mineral rights cuz I did not want to create any perception of using my public office for private gain by a family member.
Scott Pruitt, it appears, is less concerned…. https://t.co/rYkCYCGOyM— Tim Purdon (@TQPurdon) June 6, 2018
When I was a US Attorney I stopped selling hand-dyed yarn (my hobby) on Etsy to avoid the risk of a perception people could buy something from me to curry favor. Obama Administration ethics seem so quaint today. https://t.co/xfCPZwQz9X
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 7, 2018
re: #287 JordanRules
“With great change comes, I think, opposition
“We’re just being picked on because we’re true patriot conservatives.”
re: #287 JordanRules
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Nothing wrong with enjoying a chicken sandwich, something very wrong when the head of the EPA uses an assistant to get his wife her own franchise but okay Scott. This guy is one of the most corrupt pieces of shit out there. And yet because of other things in the administration, it gets ignored which is really unfortunate because the environment is something that the administration is doing a lot of damage on.
re: #286 Big Beautiful Door
I don’t think you read that article closely. Buchanan was damning the Bushites who he has been fighting for decades. Trump represents the triumph of Buchanan’s own racist nationalism.
Knowing Buchanan, that’s definitely the case. Buchanan hates the Bushes.
Sources: Colin Kaepernick’s (@Kaepernick7) legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL https://t.co/wbqBJ8cFM4
— deray (@deray) June 7, 2018
re: #291 JordanRules
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This should be interesting. Trump’s definitely involved himself in this by calling the kneelers SOBs, etc.
I just did my bit to keep Doug Ford out of the Premier’s office in Ontario.
re: #290 HappyWarrior
Knowing Buchanan, that’s definitely the case. Buchanan hates the Bushes.
Buchanan was the proto-Trump; they basically ran on the same issues opposing the Bush GOP’s policies of free trade, immigration and neo-conservative foreign policy.
So he’s probably going to love this.
Trump wears crown on latest Time magazine cover: “King Me” https://t.co/UUYtYoN6TZ pic.twitter.com/eCPwdPUGLF
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
re: #293 A dark and stormy covfefe
I just did my bit to keep Doug Ford out of the Premier’s office in Ontario.
Hopefully, your efforts are successful.
#OnThisDay in Science, Virginia Apgar, American physician, anesthesiologist and medical researcher who developed the Apgar Score System, is born. Today’s #GoogleDoodle honors her. https://t.co/sukwa6Q9nw
— March for Science (@ScienceMarchDC) June 7, 2018
re: #294 Big Beautiful Door
Buchanan was the proto-Trump; they basically ran on the same issues opposing the Bush GOP’s policies of free trade, immigration and neo-conservative foreign policy.
Agreed. Great observation.
re: #286 Big Beautiful Door
I don’t think you read that article closely. Buchanan was damning the Bushites who he has been fighting for decades. Trump represents the triumph of Buchanan’s own racist nationalism.
So he is proud that the GOP we once know is dead. I get it…
He couldn’t warn us tho?? He had to warn us about Hillary’s damn emails. Uggh.
James Comey told Canadians in Ottawa to expect Russian interference in their elections: “they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in the U.S. They will do it again. Countries with liberal and democratic values in the West should be very concerned.”https://t.co/hxr2Lqw9Si
— Scully ☠️ ⚖️🇺🇸 (@DanaScottLO) June 7, 2018
re: #295 JordanRules
So he’s probably going to love this.
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We have our own mini-Trump in Kentucky, Governor Matt Bevin. He has been railing against Frankfort Circuit Court Judge Philip Shepherd as a “hack” and asked the Chief Justice to remove Judge Shepherd because he keeps ruling against Bevin’s authoritarian style of governing, such as sacking entire government boards to substitute a hand-picked slate of lackeys. Justice Minton denied Bevin’s recusal request; he doesn’t yet have the power to pick his own judges.
The favorite to the win the GOP nomination here in VA for the Senate is Corey Stewart who loves to brag that he was Trump before Trump. See, this is what Trump’s legacy is aside from the judges, it’s what he’s done to the GOP. This is Trump’s party and it will be for a very long time.
Wow, what a thread!!
Choose your photo-effect pic.twitter.com/NMcR498mQx
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) June 7, 2018
For Putin’s annual call-in show, he has scores of officials waiting on Skype to be excoriated as needed.
This is going to give … other people … ideas https://t.co/lK4MV07wS2— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 7, 2018
Putin’s annual call-in show is the worst version of Hollywood Squares ever.
Aaaaaanyway, some highlights! /1 https://t.co/DSn0sEBWjD— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 7, 2018
re: #292 HappyWarrior
This should be interesting. Trump’s definitely involved himself in this by calling the kneelers SOBs, etc.
Looks like they want to subpeona Pence too. Good!
re: #304 JordanRules
Looks like they want to subpeona Pence too. Good!
Yeah Pence has been pretty involved in this too.
re: #294 Big Beautiful Door
Buchanan was the proto-Trump; they basically ran on the same issues opposing the Bush GOP’s policies of free trade, immigration and neo-conservative foreign policy.
I mainly supported Buchanan during the Bush years because of his steadfast opposition to Bush’s foreign policy and the Iraq war. I’ve mentioned this before, but back then I was yearning for conservative voices that were adamantly anti-war and back then I felt he was a breath of fresh air.
Of course, it was all a smokescreen to cover up his real worldview and after his disgusting Op-Ed he published stating “Breivik may be right”, I immediately turned against him right away and have hated his guts ever since.
re: #306 electrotek
I mainly supported Buchanan during the Bush years because of his steadfast opposition to Bush’s foreign policy and the Iraq war. I’ve mentioned this before, but back then I was yearning for conservative voices that were adamantly anti-war and back then I felt he was a breath of fresh air.
Of course, it was all a smokescreen to cover up his real worldview and after his disgusting Op-Ed he published stating “Breivik may be right”, I immediately turned against him right away and have hated his guts ever since.
A lot of people were drawn to Ron Paul for the same reasons. Truth is as much as I hate the neo-con world view, I hate the paleo-con one even more.
And after all that drama earlier today in the UK, this happens:
Difficult to see how UK proposal on customs aspects of IE/NI backstop will deliver a workable solution to avoid a hard border & respect integrity of the SM/CU. A backstop that is temporary is not a backstop, unless the definitive arrangement is the same as the backstop. #Brexit
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) June 7, 2018
Basically, “LOL no. Try again.”
re: #246 Bubblehead II
Morning. Look a Squirrel!
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Morning.
So, I’d be interested how that little bugger got out of hanging there after it was finished eating bird seed? Did it just drop to the ground, or was it able to somehow get back up on the roof?
By the way…my first comment today is about a squirrel, and that comes after catching up to the thread a bit.
Everything else is just too gloomy as far as politics. And sports. R.I.P. Cleveland Cavs. Been nice knowing you LeBron.
Sigh.
re: #307 HappyWarrior
A lot of people were drawn to Ron Paul for the same reasons. Truth is as much as I hate the neo-con world view, I hate the paleo-con one even more.
Paleocons are bigger Islamophobes than neocons IMO.
re: #306 electrotek
I mainly supported Buchanan during the Bush years because of his steadfast opposition to Bush’s foreign policy and the Iraq war. I’ve mentioned this before, but back then I was yearning for conservative voices that were adamantly anti-war and back then I felt he was a breath of fresh air.
Of course, it was all a smokescreen to cover up his real worldview and after his disgusting Op-Ed he published stating “Breivik may be right”, I immediately turned against him right away and have hated his guts ever since.
Buchanan was right about the Iraq War, but he’s a fascist. Glad you saw the light; I knew Buchanan was toxic, but I didn’t know he had gone so far as to support a mass killer. Here it is.
re: #310 electrotek
Paleocons are bigger Islamophobes than neocons IMO.
They are, I agree. And Paul’s silence on the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants is reflecting of his lack of character.
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is language that allows such an interpretation and that is what they are running with.
re: #306 electrotek
I mainly supported Buchanan during the Bush years because of his steadfast opposition to Bush’s foreign policy and the Iraq war. I’ve mentioned this before, but back then I was yearning for conservative voices that were adamantly anti-war and back then I felt he was a breath of fresh air.
Of course, it was all a smokescreen to cover up his real worldview and after his disgusting Op-Ed he published stating “Breivik may be right”, I immediately turned against him right away and have hated his guts ever since.
Not a criticism of you, you were probably pretty young then, but had you learned a bit more about Buchanan, even his opposition to Bush foreign policy would not have been enough to ever support him.
His whole career is odious at best.
re: #314 ObserverArt
Not a criticism of you, you were probably pretty young then, but had you learned a bit more about Buchanan, even his opposition to Bush foreign policy would not have been enough to ever support him.
His whole career is odious at best.
Buchanan’s speech at the ‘92 convention was what convinced me that Conservatives aren’t just lagging behind normal people, they’re intentionally malicious.
re: #314 ObserverArt
Not a criticism of you, you were probably pretty young then, but had you learned a bit more about Buchanan, even his opposition to Bush foreign policy would not have been enough to ever support him.
His whole career is odious at best.
Yeah it was in my late teens and early to mid 20’s.
Hell, he even criticized the Danish cartoons of the Prophet in 2006.
re: #317 electrotek
Yeah it was in my late teens and early to mid 20’s.
Hell, he even criticized the Danish cartoons of the Prophet in 2006.
Pat Buchanan has been consistent. He hates everyone that isn’t a White Christian ultra-conservative.
Before “No Gays Allowed” Christians are allowed to pretend to follow Jesus by obsessing over 2 things Jesus never mentioned (abortion & homosexuality), they should have to actually follow a few things Jesus DID say. If only for the novelty. Or stop calling themselves Christians. pic.twitter.com/bDvYbjl6yZ
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 7, 2018
re: #309 ObserverArt
Morning.
So, I’d be interested how that little bugger got out of hanging there after it was finished eating bird seed? Did it just drop to the ground, or was it able to somehow get back up on the roof?
By the way…my first comment today is about a squirrel, and that comes after catching up to the thread a bit.
Everything else is just too gloomy as far as politics. And sports. R.I.P. Cleveland Cavs. Been nice knowing you LeBron.
Sigh.
It dropped down onto the privacy lattice and then climbed down the fence pole. Same way it gets up on the roof to hunt for pine cones. It was drinking nectar from the Humming bird feeder
re: #267 William Lewis
If I move anywhere for “retirement”, it will be to Bisbee, Arizona. Fell in love with it while stationed at Ft. Huachuca.
Just watched a documentary on the Africanized Honey Bee - seems Bisbee is ground zero for them. And full of wackadoodles. And Republicans.
re: #316 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Buchanan’s speech at the ‘92 convention was what convinced me that Conservatives aren’t just lagging behind normal people, they’re intentionally malicious.
Was it Ann Richards or Molly Evans whose comment on that speech was “it sounded better in the original German”?
re: #316 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Buchanan’s speech at the ‘92 convention was what convinced me that Conservatives aren’t just lagging behind normal people, they’re intentionally malicious.
Yeah. I hear a lot of people remark as such about that speech (a hate speech). It was a couple years before I could vote; I knew he was a POS bigot. And it was really messed up that MSNBC gave him a job.
re: #322 sagehen
Was it Ann Richards or Molly Evans whose comment on that speech was “it sounded better in the original German”?
Molly Ivins.
re: #293 A dark and stormy covfefe
I just did my bit to keep Doug Ford out of the Premier’s office in Ontario.
We seem to have a few Canadians on LGF. Sweet!! Talked to my Sister last night. She lives in Mississauga but didn’t mention the election at all. Hope she’s planning to vote.
Morrissey really needs to shut the fuck up before he does long-lasting damage to The Smiths legacy.
Morrissey elaborates on support of For Britain party, says treatment of EDL founder Tommy Robinson is ‘shocking’ https://t.co/CPTMA7LhnR pic.twitter.com/n1bpnjh8sC
— NME (@NME) June 6, 2018
re: #294 Big Beautiful Door
Buchanan was the proto-Trump; they basically ran on the same issues opposing the Bush GOP’s policies of free trade, immigration and neo-conservative foreign policy.
Don’t forget that Buchanan basically supported the Nazis during WWII. amazon.com
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The only point on which he was correct was the corrosive effects of the Treaty of Versailles. Other than that, Buchanan is racist and anti-Semitic to his core.
re: #320 Bubblehead II
It dropped down onto the privacy lattice and then climbed down the fence pole. Same way it gets up on the roof to hunt for pine cones. It was drinking nectar from the Humming bird feeder
Thanks for the clarity on the nectar. I wasn’t being as Observant as I should have been. Too busy looking at how the squirrel was hanging there like it was. They amaze me sometimes.
Yes. Thanks.
That action spurred the need for a special counsel to look into your criminal acts, and the result is we’ve got multiple indictments, plea deals, and @seanhannity telling witnesses to tamper with evidence, obstruct justice, and violate multiple federal laws. Huge!— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
re: #319 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
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Tennessee hardware store owner puts up ‘No Gays Allowed’ sign and claims, “I’m going to take more persecution than them because I’m standing for what I believe in.” https://t.co/RUtLXuwfUE
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) June 7, 2018
such a moron
Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a “plea deal” to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal. Perhaps we could get the 13 Angry Democrats to divert some of their energy to this “matter” (as Comey would call it). Investigate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
re: #330 JordanRules
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That’s rich buddy, declaring you’re going to persecute people and then claim you’re going to be the one persecuted. Stop being such a fucking whiny tool and sell to anyone regardless of their orientation. I hope your store goes bankrupt.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
such a moron
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God just shut the fuck up Donnie. You don’t know a thing about cybersecurity.
re: #334 HappyWarrior
God just shut the fuck up Donnie. You don’t know a thing
about cybersecurity.
re: #191 Cheechako
This tornado was about 9 miles north of Laramie, WY this afternoon:
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Laramie, WY pic.twitter.com/ttFxn4YkUk
— Dev (@pondhockey93) June 7, 2018
this looks like something out of the Wizard of Oz https://t.co/ue1tstkm4u
— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) June 7, 2018
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
god punishing the hinterlands for voting for the tangerine toddler. ////////////////// <-sarcasm for the sarcastically challenged.
re: #337 Barefoot Grin
He believes that he shouldn’t profit from gays doing home improvement.
That’s a solid business strategy.
re: #337 Barefoot Grin
He believes “gays” shouldn’t do home improvement projects?
Probably. Dude’s got issues.
re: #203 freetoken
Can you page this? It’s better research than I was going to do for a page.
- Almost 20% of Americans would deny Muslims who are American citizens the right to vote
- Americans believe that only 56% of Muslim Americans want to fit in and be part of the U.S. and that only 51% of Muslim Americans respect American ideals and laws. https://t.co/o560F8JQN0— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) June 7, 2018
There is significant support, especially among Republicans, for policies that would temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country and, for Muslims within this country, subject them to additional surveillance. pic.twitter.com/7e6cxA27Ys
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) June 7, 2018
This stood out for me:
On three dimensions, however, perceptions of Muslims cross partisan and ideological lines #USA pic.twitter.com/uyJ0QIld7b
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) June 7, 2018
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
such a moron
He seems really anxious to change the subject, suppress any investigations into himself.
re: #342 electrotek
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People just don’t see that Muslims like Christians can have diversity of views. I mean you have a religion that has over 1 billion believers in it worldwide, there’s inevitably going to be some diversity of thought.
re: #343 Sir John Barron
He seems really anxious to change the subject, suppress any investigations into himself.
Because he knows how guilty he really is.
These stress-Tweets reveal that Trump knows that the law is closing in on him, and he will be brought to justice.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
It’s just another day on @charliekirk11’s twitter feed. pic.twitter.com/tMfaZ8hled
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) June 6, 2018
re: #339 lawhawk
He believes that he shouldn’t profit from gays doing home improvement.
That’s a solid business strategy.
First, he probably (well, duuh! obviously!) doesn’t care about gays’ business.
Second: he probably figures that he’ll make up for any lost trade by bringing in flocks of “Christian” wingers impressed by his “courageous” “godly” stand against the evil homos.
Third: (assuming he’s even thinking that far ahead): he probably also figures he’ll be able to leverage his “persecution” into profits on the wingnut-welfare circuit even if it harms his business.
Strike a pose pic.twitter.com/fFLltIuYVG
— Gaml .y (@m_yosry2012) June 7, 2018
re: #344 HappyWarrior
People just don’t see that Muslims like Christians can have diversity of views. I mean you have a religion that has over 1 billion believers in it worldwide, there’s inevitably going to be some diversity of thought.
And not to mention that gay Muslims DO exist, who proudly identify as Muslim.
re: #347 lawhawk
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re: #328 ObserverArt
Thanks for the clarity on the nectar. I wasn’t being as Observant as I should have been. Too busy looking at how the squirrel was hanging there like it was. They amaze me sometimes.
They are quite the ingenious little critters. Have been tempted to put up a clear piece of plexiglass were it was hanging from to see how long it would take it to find a way around it.
I am laughing so goddamn hard at this video of Trump inexplicably putting his water bottle on the floor, and Pence immediately doing the same for no reason whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/qEFPzKClYj
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) June 6, 2018
This gif pretty much defines Pence’s role in this administration https://t.co/AsP7tqWiOU
— Tom Wright (@thomaswright08) June 6, 2018
Pence’s water bottle move brings to mind an old story: NY gov Dewey is in an elevator with his devoted aide Burwell Bixby.
“Bix,” says the gov, “did you just fart?”
“No, governor,” says Bix. “do you want me to?” https://t.co/TBt5uqOi7T— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) June 7, 2018
re: #344 HappyWarrior
People just don’t see that Muslims like Christians can have diversity of views. I mean you have a religion that has over 1 billion believers in it worldwide, there’s inevitably going to be some diversity of thought.
True, but also: Mona Eltahawy’s comments don’t seem to relate to Muslim beliefs, practices or attitudes per se, but rather on Americans’ opinions OF Muslims (especially those in the US)
Though Ms. E’s first tweet seems rather badly-composed: shouldn’t the figure she cites be related to the percentages of Americans, not “Muslim-Americans” who hold beliefs about “fitting in”, etc.?
Trump is such a little bitch:
Trump isn’t happy about flying to Canada for the G7, WaPo reports.
He “does not want to be lectured by” the leaders and has “griped periodically” about Angela Merkel and Theresa May. Of note: Trump has reportedly griped about the 2 female heads of state.https://t.co/LyztdsZOb0— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2018
GOP politicians across the country are standing up for a racist remnant of Jim Crow: GOP state attorneys general in AL, KS, LA, MI, SC, TX, & UT have filed a court brief to support GOP Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to keep 10% of Florida voters disenfranchised https://t.co/WLJSEQefsC
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) June 7, 2018
re: #354 Jay C
True, but also: Mona Eltahawy’s comments don’t seem to relate to Muslim beliefs, practices or attitudes per se, but rather on Americans’ opinions OF Muslims (especially those in the US)
Though Ms. E’s first tweet seems rather badly-composed: shouldn’t the figure she cites be related to the percentages of Americans, not “Muslim-Americans” who hold beliefs about “fitting in”, etc.?
Oh yes, I do see that, I was talking about non-Muslim Americans perceptions though of what American Muslims believe.
re: #355 Barefoot Grin
Trump is such a little bitch:
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re: #171 De Kolta Chair
‘Night kids, and here’s your moment of Jack Kirby…
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Why don’t they put the year in the date at the top?
re: #355 Barefoot Grin
America First has turned into America Alone.
The G-7 is going to be G-6 plus Trump.
That doesn’t help America. It undermines America’s leadership and ability to shape economic and security policy.
Trump fucks over our allies and trading partners at every turn while Russia and China fill the vacuum.
Everyone sees what Trump’s doing. Only Trumpworld thinks that this helps.
NKY leader of white supremacist group killed in crash; Newport woman charged with murder https://t.co/42dQUzizlF pic.twitter.com/r9iHRGWdsl
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) June 6, 2018
A Newport woman remains jailed and charged with murder in an alcohol-related crash that killed a former leader of a white supremacist organization in Northern Kentucky.
Emily Sherry, 23, will appear in a Newport courtroom on Thursday for a preliminary hearing. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.422, more than five times the legal limit to drive, when her car struck another vehicle driven by Robert Ransdell, according to the citation written by Wilder Police.
The April 21 crash happened eastbound on Interstate 275 in Wilder. Police officers spotted Sherry’s car off the highway into a woods. Ransdell, 37, of Florence, was found dead underneath the vehicle. The Campbell County coroner ruled he died of blunt force trauma.
Ransdell made headlines and provoked anger with his involvement in Northern Kentucky with the National Alliance. He ran an anti-Semitic write-in campaign for U.S. Senate in Kentucky in 2014 against U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Ransdell’s campaign slogan was “With Jews, we lose.”
Ransdell was the Cincinnati coordinator of the National Alliance.
re: #360 lawhawk
America First has turned into America Alone.
The G-7 is going to be G-6 plus Trump.
That doesn’t help America. It undermines America’s leadership and ability to shape economic and security policy.
Trump is our walking, talking Brexit.
re: #360 lawhawk
America First has turned into America Alone.
The G-7 is going to be G-6 plus Trump.
That doesn’t help America. It undermines America’s leadership and ability to shape economic and security policy.
Trump fucks over our allies and trading partners at every turn while Russia and China fill the vacuum.
Everyone sees what Trump’s doing. Only Trumpworld thinks that this helps.
This is after years of claiming Obama and Clinton have stabbed allies in the back and lowered our standing in the world. They’re showing us how to REALLY betray allies and lower our image.
This shit is even more frustrating than how the Bush administration treated allies.
re: #355 Barefoot Grin
Trump is such a little bitch:
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Nobody there is going to talk to him anyway.
He’ll just sit all alone, being ignored.
re: #364 HappyWarrior
This shit is even more frustrating than how the Bush administration treated allies.
like our “allies” the Saudis, who gave us Bin Laden and 15 of the 19 9/11 assailants?
Sources tell Yahoo Sports that Colin Kaepernick’s legal team is expected to pursue federal subpoenas to force the depositions of President Donald Trump and others in the quarterback’s collusion case against the #NFL. https://t.co/v9OXpS10kV
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) June 7, 2018
re: #366 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
like our “allies” the Saudis, who gave us Bin Laden and 15 of the 19 9/11 assailants?
I was actually referring to how they treated France and Germany for opposing Iraq.
Well…@seanhannity appears in a lawsuit, implicated in potentially coordinating with Michael Cohen to help cover up Trump affair. Case already uncovered Russia-Trump links. Hours later, he is on air telling witnesses in Mueller probe to destroy evidence. Coincidence? I doubt it.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 7, 2018
re: #240 Dave In Austin
And another one….
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I’m going to keep saying this from now on: The only good way to change this is for better people to join the police force.
I’d still like to know who paid for an Israeli firm to spy on American citizens because they opposed the president’s Iran policy. Anyone else?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 7, 2018
Store Owner who is Biblicaly mis-informed and afraid of his shadow Posts ‘No Gays Allowed’ Sign to Celebrate SCOTUS’ Colorado Bakery Decision https://t.co/HCimGps1h2
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 7, 2018
re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I smell Adelson here honestly. FP really isn’t the Koch’s thing.
Hannity is the dumbest man on television.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump requested Saudi oil support before Iran nuclear decision - sources https://t.co/gu9jMYgbVo @Rania_ElGamal @yarabayoumy @AlexLawler100 pic.twitter.com/CGJOWpPCMz
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 7, 2018
re: #295 JordanRules
So he’s probably going to love this.
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re: #378 Belafon
Except he should have had no clothes on in the mirror.
Yes!!!! And he would undoubtedly hate that!
this is just pathetic
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/KppRUU5OZ3
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
“Total jobless claims running at lowest level in 44 years” https://t.co/La9irHMTXM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
“$3 billion payoff: 101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts” https://t.co/x1a1OJuRgd
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
re: #376 HappyWarrior
I think it would be too funny if Lumpy spent some time behind bars or at a court room because he got too involved with this.
Even if Lumpy got no time at all, the spectacle of him being frog-marched before the cameras would be entirely worth it.
LOL
Brzezinski: Trump’s “biggest complaint” about the White House is he can’t watch porn https://t.co/q6HJJZv0C8 pic.twitter.com/CBI5XlHEF6
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski accused President Trump on Thursday of complaining that he can’t watch porn in the White House.
Brzezinski, who has been in a vicious feud with Trump for most of his presidency, made the extraordinary charge while appearing on “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle,” citing “someone who spoke” to Trump about his life in the White House.
The comments came up after Ruhle interviewed Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, over remarks by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani about his client. Giuliani attacked the credibility of Daniels, saying that “if you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation.”
“The hypocrisy is astounding,” Brzezinski said of Giuliani’s remarks about Daniels, who says that she slept with Trump and was paid to keep quiet.
“Because I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently about life in the White House,” Brzezinski continued, “and Donald Trump’s biggest complaint was that he’s not allowed to watch porn in the White House.”
Something must be getting ready to go down. This is REALLY REALLY not normal.
And here’s another outrage. I think my outrage counter is somewhere in the mid 30’s right now.
A pizza guy made a delivery to a military base in Brooklyn. A military police officer at the base asked him for his immigration documents, then called ICE, which detained him. He has two kids. https://t.co/hUf2y3XcAE
— Josh Nathan-Kazis (@joshnathankazis) June 6, 2018
The day is young!
When will people start saying, “thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey?”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
When will a whiny dipshit president stop begging people to thank him? https://t.co/C2eeHMrO7a
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) June 7, 2018
When will people start saying, “thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey?”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
DO NOT CONGRATULATE https://t.co/Lg0eUAoYb6
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) June 7, 2018
re: #369 HappyWarrior
I was actually referring to how they treated France and Germany for opposing Iraq.
that, too.
re: #379 JordanRules
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on a daily basis
😹 pic.twitter.com/evgG7NjbHB— darth™ (@darth) June 7, 2018
re: #374 HappyWarrior
I smell Adelson here honestly. FP really isn’t the Koch’s thing.
Do the Koch Bros care about anything other than destroying the planet to enrich themselves and reducing taxes on the wealthy? I don’t believe they support the rest of the right wing agenda.
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz suggests there is talk of removing Paul Ryan as speaker after he broke with President Trump’s allegation that the FBI was spying on his 2016 campaign https://t.co/BRqEFH1q92 pic.twitter.com/PGkp6gGwZp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 7, 2018
NEW: The United States will send emergency aid to Guatemala amid ongoing Fuego Volcano eruption, “including financial resources to help meet food, water, and sanitation needs for the affected population.” https://t.co/cAGcg39WNN pic.twitter.com/jRMYAchIPL
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 7, 2018
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
Imagine telling Eisenhower that the party that would go full Soviet would be the Republican Party.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 7, 2018
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
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(Note: this IS sarc……)
Republicans always attack the person who tells them their hero is lying.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
NBC/WSJ poll: in swing House districts, knowing that a candidate supports Trump tax-cut bill makes voters LESS likely to back the candidate by a margin of 12 percentage points https://t.co/493qx2CnZl
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 7, 2018
Imagine! A tax bill designed to enable enormous stock buybacks and written by lobbyists for hedge funds, investment banks, wealthy real estate trusts, and elite-tier investors isn’t driving votes!
Surprise!
I love low taxes. Cool if we passed them for real people. https://t.co/i6dI7URHgL— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 7, 2018
re: #355 Barefoot Grin
Trump is such a little bitch:
Probable Trump: “Women are not leader’s and I will never listen to a woman criticize Trump.”
Women of America…please help us save our country!
Kick this fat ass misogynist to the curb.
Help by voting for Democrats everywhere you can to take away his political protection in the Republican majority in congress. Then be sure to eliminate him in 2020…if he is not gone by then.
Many men will thank you.
JUST IN: The Trump administration has cut a “definitive” deal with ZTE — a move that could set a dangerous precedent for trade negotiations with China. https://t.co/E1VZ8tubPn
— Axios (@axios) June 7, 2018
The President just caved on a deal with ZTE, a Chinese company that our intelligence professionals say poses a national security threat. Is the President so desperate for a deal — any deal — that he is willing to put Chinese jobs ahead of our national security? https://t.co/0AtvxUVNHc
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 7, 2018
More Macron: “The 6 other countries of the G7 is a market which is bigger than the American market.. I believe in cooperation and multilateralism because with all my strength I will resist hegemony. Hegemony is might makes right. Hegemony is the end of the rule of law.”
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) June 7, 2018
Macron is playing to the crowd but these are still remarkable comments. It’s him leaning on the Germans, in particular, to push ahead w greater EU integration, especially on the security front, in face of a belligerent and illiberal WH. The genesis of genuinely post-American EU. https://t.co/LjXddRddQU
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) June 7, 2018
Thus US analysts who keep scoffing at EU efforts to deepen and strengthen their security cooperation beware: Macron has a decades-long vision to fundamentally restructure the union. It’s a far more deliberate & long-term game than any US policymaker has laid out in recent yrs.
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) June 7, 2018
SPEAKER RYAN…. “There’s no evidence of collusion”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 7, 2018
No evidence… other than the stack of evidence we’ve already seen including Junior’s emails and Cambridge Analytica’s, y’know, confessions. @SpeakerRyan https://t.co/Cj0OOMXN2r
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 7, 2018
re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth
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.422 blood alcohol reading!
How was she even able to get in her car? That is high enough to stop her heart isn’t it?
re: #375 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Jeff “We call BS” Furlington
@FurlingtonJeff
Hannity is the dumbest man on television.11:51 AM - Jun 7, 2018
Dumb, yet dangerous. If he was gone from Fox, that would help the political atmosphere so much.
re: #401 ObserverArt
.422 blood alcohol reading!
How was she even able to get in her car? That is high enough to stop her heart isn’t it?
and she got that drunk WHILE BABYSITTING!
re: #401 ObserverArt
I knew a guy who was a major drinker. He had his own breathalyzer.
He blew so high that it gave an error message. He called his girlfriend.
She couldn’t tell he was even drunk.
re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth
Really worth reading: WaPo got audio of Trump’s closed-door FEMA “hurricane briefing,” in which Trump just rambled about midterm polls, the economy, Foxconn, coal, the popularity of his cabinet, Air Force One, and aircraft technology, among other things. https://t.co/8tsaYtRULJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2018
Trump rambled on about everything but hurricane preparedness.
Trump rambled on about everything but his disastrous response to hurricane Maria and the 5000 killed due to his depraved indifference to plight of millions of Americans living in Puerto Rico. https://t.co/6NXG7ZEl8p— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) June 7, 2018
Looks like Lauren Southern and “leading authority on Pizzagate” Brittany Pettibone went to Russia recently to meet with Dugin: pic.twitter.com/81ihQh6fVD
— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) June 7, 2018
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 7, 2018
Thread from yesterday…
It’s not every day you see a packed press event on Cap Hill organized around trying to stop a district court nominee. In this case, black senators, reps and NAACP are here urging rejection of Thomas Farr. pic.twitter.com/uQVRuWV8cO
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 6, 2018
I want to live in a world where a woman choosing to be a porn star is seen as her choice, but a woman who chooses to repeat her husband’s misogyny and racism is shamed by society
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 7, 2018
“I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman.”
Rudy Giuliani respects career women so much he’s divorced 3 of them.
While married to the 2nd career woman, he had a public affair with another respectable career woman who he was paying on City Hall payroll.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) June 7, 2018
Amen! https://t.co/L7zF7mRL1C
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) June 7, 2018
re: #407 JordanRules
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re: #316 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Buchanan’s speech at the ‘92 convention was what convinced me that Conservatives aren’t just lagging behind normal people, they’re intentionally malicious.
I’ve mentioned this before, but my grandfather (normally a staunch Republican) viewed Buchanan as engaging in Nazi talk after the ‘92 speech.
Since grandpa had the political acumen to flee Germany before the Nazis seized power, he knew what he was talking about with respect to Nazi talk.
Dafuq is this? pic.twitter.com/YJSP4n3Fg3
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2018
You broke twitter?
— Steve Buchheit (@steve_buchheit) June 7, 2018
It was like that when I got here. I swear. https://t.co/z0a6WZ09Gj
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2018
re: #409 Belafon
When will someone remind Rudy that Melanie Trump did a lesbian porn photoshoot?
Federal judge in Arizona tells federal prosecutor to find out where border-crossers’ children have been sent and tell the parents. Prosecutor says it’s hard to figure that out. Judge says to do it anyway. https://t.co/Y5JRfSaJJG
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2018
re: #413 Dr. Matt
Right around the same time that someone will remind the Christian right that Trump lusted after his then teen daughter and they were perfectly fine with it (along with the admitted sex predator behaviors, sex assaults, harassment, and multiple divorces, extramarital affairs, etc.)
re: #414 JordanRules
When you cover the U.S.-Mexico border, you sometimes witness things that you can’t ever shake. This week, I cannot shake the image of a mother signing a receipt so the federal government would return her son.
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) June 7, 2018
Spoken like the guy who preps for his finals exam by drinking the night before and goes into the 3 hour exam in a drunken stupor.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
There are half-eaten cereal bars capable of more rigorous political commentary than Chris Cillizza pic.twitter.com/YXSYubOzz1
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) June 7, 2018
He should resign so he can spend more time golfing and watching porn.
A majority of Americans would go along with that.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
The Limbourg Brothers; Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
f. 193r: Exaltation of the Cross
France (c. 1412)
Illuminated Manuscript.https://t.co/20D0vVF9u3 pic.twitter.com/FHKXk7kfQ6— medievalpoc (@medievalpoc) June 7, 2018
re: #392 Belafon
Imagine telling Eisenhower that the party that would go full Soviet would be the Republican Party.
It is a big mistake to even compare modern Russia with the Soviet Union, a country that has not existed now for 26 years. And talk of a “New Cold War” is also misleading: Putin is not pushing an international ideology, he is pursuing Russia’s national interests.
Those correspond more to the interests of the old Russian Empire and the millions of ethnic Russians who were stranded outside Russia with the breakup of the USSR.
Great night for Republicans! Congratulations to John Cox on a really big number in California. He can win. Even Fake News CNN said the Trump impact was really big, much bigger than they ever thought possible. So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave. Working hard!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
Please come campaign for him as much as possible. https://t.co/82iQN3shg6
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 6, 2018
Poll! Is this dunking on Chris Cillizza in the most vicious way possible?
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) June 7, 2018
WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA
WAKKA WAKKA WAKKAhttps://t.co/DoUiERETOA pic.twitter.com/QpsNcsMI9x — Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) June 7, 2018
That’s not a shadow.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) June 7, 2018
:D
Donald Trump’s “unofficial chief of staff” Sean Hannity will be in Singapore for Kim Jong Un meeting https://t.co/tlmKSCNnlI pic.twitter.com/GZcGZTM5rt
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 7, 2018
Just In: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with ZTE, the Chinese telecom.
Trump team will remove the crippling sanctions. Instead ZTE will pay $1 billion fine and have a US-chosen compliance teamhttps://t.co/J37ZqwZlNh— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) June 7, 2018
This idea of “embedding a compliance team” at ZTE is a nice talking point, but unless the Trump Administration plans to open an FBI counter-intel field office inside the company, Beijing is about to get one heck of a deal on a backdoor into US telecom networks. https://t.co/nlsTnnDci1
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) June 7, 2018
re: #358 HappyWarrior
You know, Donald, you didn’t have to run for President. No one forced you to but I get it, you don’t like being told when you’re wrong
everby a woman because you never learned how to take criticism like a grown man.
Fixed that.
I always like to remind myself that in addition to having to talk about the issues and represent us vocally, elected officials have to do the actual work and be regular people with families etc.
Yes, they have staffers and such, but Democrats by nature have to do more of the work. There is no big lobby in service to profits to carry the load on a lot the issues we champion. And there is a lot of work to be done.
If you’re in a campaign for federal office and a foreign agent offers you dirt on your opponent, you should tell the @FBI. After hearing from so many witnesses in #TrumpRussia investigation who didn’t, I wrote a bill that’d require it. @TheAtlantic op-ed: https://t.co/AFhng0k9TL
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) June 7, 2018
re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a big mistake to even compare modern Russia with the Soviet Union, a country that has not existed now for 26 years. And talk of a “New Cold War” is also misleading: Putin is not pushing an international ideology, he is pursuing Russia’s national interests.
Those correspond more to the interests of the old Russian Empire and the millions of ethnic Russians who were stranded outside Russia with the breakup of the USSR.
I’m only talking about the party punishing members for not being sufficiently loyal to dear leader.
If you could use a renewal of your faith in America’s promise…
This year, Boston Public Schools’ 36 valedictorians were born in 10 different countries. 42% were born outside the U.S. 69% are female. 47% will be the first in their families to go to college.
Congrats to all. pic.twitter.com/rSixxmEp01— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) June 7, 2018
Welp…
From “Lost Tycoon” by Harry Hurt III, published in 1993. Author claims Trump is confused about how to have sex with women. pic.twitter.com/JCOcxkijax
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 3, 2018
re: #405 lawhawk
Really worth reading: WaPo got audio of Trump’s closed-door FEMA “hurricane briefing,” in which Trump just rambled about midterm polls, the economy, Foxconn, coal, the popularity of his cabinet, Air Force One, and aircraft technology, among other things. washingtonpost.com
— Daniel Dale
Fox News probably: these media leaks are terrible.
re: #422 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good on Newsom. The only “Democrats in disarray” is the guy in Vermont who refuses to be one.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
f you could use a renewal of your faith in America’s promise…
This year, Boston Public Schools’ 36 valedictorians were born in 10 different countries. 42% were born outside the U.S. 69% are female. 47% will be the first in their families to go to college.
Congrats to all.
If that ain’t the American Dream personified, then I don’t know what is.
My parents were children of immigrants, finished high school but managed to send all of their children to college.
re: #433 Interesting Times
From “Lost Tycoon” by Harry Hurt III, published in 1993. Author claims Trump is confused about how to have sex with women.
whereas according to accounts, Bill Clinton “ate pussy like a champ”
“I’m humbly asking him to correct this” -Previously jailed CIA officer @JohnKiriakou seeks a presidential pardon after he was re-charged by Obama-era CIA Dir. John Brennan pic.twitter.com/0DWtMVDVpz
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) June 7, 2018
@Rschooley I guess asking Trump for a pardon is now a weekly segment on FOX News. https://t.co/jUEtQfCBwZ
— Richard W. (@IceManNYR) June 7, 2018
If Trump thought he’d get away with it he’d do a weekly show like Shark Tank, but for begging for pardons. https://t.co/opnueOh90P
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 7, 2018
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
The only GOP value is supporting druMpf.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
How are white American males supposed to have a chance against kids who work hard?
Congrats to all of them.
TRUMP on the upcoming summit with North Korea: “I think I’m very well prepared. I don’t think I have to prepare very much. It’s about attitude.” pic.twitter.com/Jd7w9XBcUx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2018
North Korea is gonna own Hawaii when this is done. https://t.co/NtgeaoYhhO
— Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) June 7, 2018
re: #438 Backwoods_Sleuth
Drain The Swamp Week is going great.
REPORTER: Any chance you’ll play golf at the summit?
TRUMP: No. I’d love to, but no. pic.twitter.com/FzbJ4kmbyc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2018
re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I gave them this little island with all the volcanoes, total Win Win.”
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
So he’ll definitely be playing golf during the summit then.
re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I told you Obama wasn’t born in America.”
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 7, 2018
Just returned from the opening of Splendours of the Subcontinent @RCT amazed by this spectacular pangolin suit of armour with jewelled scales! pic.twitter.com/VFQM79UtAw
— Malini (@BL_VisualArts) June 6, 2018
I bought a Google Home thinking that Google would do stuff with it, but Amazon and Alexa are kicking it’s butt. They now have a box so you can voice control the TV. The ad had me hooked at “Alexa, switch to cable.”
jeebus
Pirro interviewed to be the DAG. Sessions resisted. When he resisted, Trump advisors told him if he didn’t give her a hearing, Trump might end up giving her SCOTUS https://t.co/wI8My3hMiY
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018
re: #450 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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November please.
re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump, Sean Hannity, Dennis Rodman.
What could possibly go wrong?
The first reality TV star international negotiation ever.
Oh, what a mess we are in.
“In December, Robert Mueller hinted, in passing, that [Kilimnik] had relocated to Russia… Fleeing the accusation of spying for Vladimir Putin, he has apparently taken refuge with him.” https://t.co/NAeRHRJppK
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 7, 2018
“I think I’m very well prepared,” President Trump says of the upcoming North Korea summit. “I don’t think I have to prepare very much. It’s about attitude. It’s about willingness to get things done” https://t.co/LUWVKoyfzG
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 7, 2018
guy who thinks Canadians burned down WH doesn’t need to prepare….. https://t.co/RbHLKUYlSw
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 7, 2018
Lazy buffoon Trump has no clear goals in North Korea summit, and one clear problem—he’s a miserable negotiator https://t.co/zW70MpSrXl
— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) June 7, 2018
I mentioned yesterday that we were going to see the great Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls in NYC last night. The show, as expected, was by turns hilarious and poignant (Frank was appearing despite a death in his close family), and the band rocked hard. I urge Lizards everywhere to go and see this band if given the chance. You’ll love him as much as my wife and I do.
He introduced a new song last night called - wait for it - ‘Make America Great Again,’ and it was fantastic. Here are the lyrics:
Well I know I’m just an ignorant Englishman
But I’d like to make America great again
So if you’ll forgive my accent and the cheek of it
Here’s some suggestions from the special relationshipLet’s make America great again
By making racists ashamed again
Let’s make compassion in fashion again
Let’s make America great againWell I’ve been fortunate to go ‘round the continent
From California through the midwest and Providence
And I’ve mostly only encountered common sense
Hospitality and warmth from AmericansBut I wish it was a bit less significant
The program and the name of the President
Because it seems to me the truth is self-evident
You fought our king to be independentMake America great again
By making racists ashamed again
Let’s make compassion in fashion again
Let’s make America great againEllis Island take me in
Everyone can start again
In the shining city on the hill
Where nobody can be illegalLet’s make America great again
By making racists ashamed again
Let’s make compassion in fashion again
Let’s make America great againLet’s be a friend to our oldest friends
And call them out when they’re faltering
Remind them of their best selves and then
We’ll make America great again
Here’s the video, shot in Austin during SXSW. Fuckin’ love this guy.
Another source for one strand of their projection strategy/sociopathy.
The report is also expected to assess how information regarding the Clinton investigation was routinely leaked, including to then-Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, leading one agent to call the bureau “Trumpland.” (5/13) https://t.co/E9FbK5hFcO
— The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) June 7, 2018
re: #436 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If that ain’t the American Dream personified, then I don’t know what is.
My parents were children of immigrants, finished high school but managed to send all of their children to college.
Similar here except my father dropped out of high school. But all three of us graduated college.
Among the complex details of Trumpish corruption and denial, David Corn urges us to keep the simple truth in mind:
“…the accurate perspective…isn’t that complicated. In 2016, Vladimir Putin’s regime mounted information warfare against the United States, in part to help Trump become president. While this attack was underway, the Trump crew tried to collude covertly with Moscow, sought to set up a secret communications channel with Putin’s office, and repeatedly denied in public that this assault was happening, providing cover to the Russian operation. Trump and his lieutenants aligned themselves with and assisted a foreign adversary, as it was attacking the United States. The evidence is rock-solid: They committed a profound act of betrayal. That is the scandal.<
motherjones.com;
re: #461 jaunte
Among the complex details of Trumpish corruption and denial, David Corn urges us to keep the simple truth in mind:
Why do they not call it what it is, suspected aggravated treason?
Latest Nazi Talking Point: Melanie Trump’s lesbian porn star photoshoot is irrelevant because she didn’t have sex.
re: #397 ObserverArt
Probable Trump: “Women are not leader’s and I will never listen to a woman criticize Trump.”
Women of America…please help us save our country!
Kick this fat ass misogynist to the curb.
Help by voting for Democrats everywhere you can to take away his political protection in the Republican majority in congress. Then be sure to eliminate him in 2020…if he is not gone by then.
Many men will thank you.
Unfortunately, still a minority — a substantial majority of white men remain fanatic Trump supporters.
My editor UNWISELY nixed this lede from my writeup of Sam Bee’s apology: “Apologies are like orgasms. They make everyone feel momentarily better and Donald Trump has never given one to a woman.”
— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz) June 7, 2018
re: #465 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, still a minority — a substantial majority of white men remain fanatic Trump supporters.
There’s not much this white man can do about the rest of them except not act like them, and make sure they’re not the majority of Americans.
In 1984, Trump proclaimed he wanted to dictate nuclear weapons policy with the Soviets and that he’d learn everything he needed to know about them in an hour and a half.
And that’s not even the worst thing he said on the subject. From my Dec 2016 article: https://t.co/omNhTLB49E pic.twitter.com/NlTJlY3Ugk— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 7, 2018
Recording shows at closed door hurricane preparedness meeting, Trump had everything else on his mind. By @jdawsey1 https://t.co/s5IjMLbe3G
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) June 7, 2018
How are we supposed to know who the guy on the left is if he doesn’t have a name tag?
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 7, 2018
Shameless promotion: I paged the Frank Turner song.
re: #468 JordanRules
In 1984, Trump proclaimed he wanted to dictate nuclear weapons policy with the Soviets and that he’d learn everything he needed to know about them in an hour and a half.
He obviously did not take that hour and a half because when asked about it, he was unaware of the term “nuclear triad”.
Those with the loudest voices #qanon pic.twitter.com/FuWYboLbEJ
— bobby Liberꜩ (@b_bbyLiberty) June 7, 2018
Block & report this psycho. https://t.co/ScSi1eMJkq
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 7, 2018
re: #468 JordanRules
“he’d learn everything he needed to know about them in an hour and a half”
…of Trump talking for an hour and twenty seven minutes, with three minutes for briefers to attempt a facts injection.
re: #462 JordanRules
What a wonderful song!
He’s just great. I tell everyone that he’ll be compared to Elvis Costello, possibly Dylan, before he’s done.
He wrote this one right after the election.
Lord I really triggered these people pic.twitter.com/lxySsl1VyO
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 7, 2018
lore: #378 Belafon
Except he should have had no clothes on in the mirror.
no please, no!!!!!!!
thank god for make trump kittens again
Must see: Hennessey shows off $1.6M Venom F5 https://t.co/47byu10uKx
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) June 7, 2018
Top track speed of 301 mph.
Base price $1.6 million.
24 will be made. According to Hennessey reps half of those are already spoken for.
The 1% say thanks for the tax break, MAGA suckers.
This is Poppy. She’s doing her best.13/10 hopes you’re proud of her pic.twitter.com/4noYX2D6y1
— WeRateDogs™🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 7, 2018
Looking at this tweet:
Stunning aerial images show the new coastline in Kapoho, where lava covered whole neighborhoods before filling Kapoho Bay.
LATEST: https://t.co/QPISC8aIFM#HINews #HNN pic.twitter.com/jc8EfM4QFL— Hawaii News Now (@HawaiiNewsNow) June 6, 2018
That whole section of the Island will be uninhabitable unless some major undertaking is completed after the lava stops flowing.
The young people will win https://t.co/t0b7oH3bSq
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) June 7, 2018
re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: The United States will send emergency aid to Guatemala amid ongoing Fuego Volcano eruption, “including financial resources to help meet food, water, and sanitation needs for the affected population
“oh, and puerto rico can just eff itself”
re: #476 dangerman
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no please, no!!!!!!!
thank god for make trump kittens again
In the pictures with the stories I read as a kid, the king wasn’t actually nude. Instead, he was wearing long johns.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nobody there is going to talk to him anyway.
He’ll just sit all alone, being ignored.
Kinda a rerun of the G20
The alpha males are back, baby, and they have VERY specific moisturizer requests
— Pruitt’s lotion guy Dennis (@patdennis) June 7, 2018
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Mrs. FBW and I have arrived in Pennsyltucky for Dad’s 100th birthday celebration. The vibrant green of all the vegetation is seductive, as California dries outfor summer.
We’re thinking about retiring here, since it’s so much cheaper. Question is, are we too Californicated?
Not sure where in Pa you are looking. But, you may wish to spend a few months in the area where you are thinking of retiring. Including over the winter. For example, the quality of light in the Appalachians, may not match California’s.
And the support infrastructure, such as medical, or even store locations, may be less capable.
By the way, I grew up in Pittsburgh.
Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion#DemForce How does this man still have a job? https://t.co/56EUGI43LY
— Pat Fuller Ω #Unite4Victory (@bannerite) June 7, 2018
Where do we draw the line?
Jeanine Pirro tells Trump aides she’s interested in Sessions’s job: report https://t.co/iWffTbVLDI pic.twitter.com/iWmCYSgNS7
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 7, 2018
I can think of nobody — and I mean absolutely *nobody* — less well suited to a lifetime judicial post than this blowhard. She would be a disgrace to the federal bench. https://t.co/tiquvR6JCt via @politico
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 7, 2018
re: #486 jaunte
How does this man still have a job?
Let’s go to the acronym bank for an answer:
IOKIYAR
SATSQ.
And in that job, she’d be the most corrupt officeholder ever, shielding a criminal president from law enforcement. I remember when Republicans used to pretend they were against corruption.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
what’s amazing about this is that Pruitt didn’t send his taxpayer-funded staff out to find the lotion — he made them *take him* to find the lotion
the man takes moisturizing so seriously that he was unable to delegate pic.twitter.com/wrk6zq5v7S— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) June 7, 2018
Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” according to a statement from the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming company posted today.The announcement comes a week after Valve removed a controversial game that simulated school shootings, following a nationwide outcry to ban the title. Last month it also issued warnings to developers about adult content in games.
In its blog post, Valve executive Erik Johnson writes that “Valve shouldn’t be the ones deciding this.”
“If you’re a player, we shouldn’t be choosing for you what content you can or can’t buy,” it reads. “If you’re a developer, we shouldn’t be choosing what content you’re allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable.”
Valve said it will create tools to let users “override our recommendation algorithms and hide games containing the topics you’re not interested in.”
“And it’s not just players that need better tools either - developers who build controversial content shouldn’t have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we’ll be building tools and options to support them too,” Johnson wrote.
re: #493 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
So are they unbanning the school shooting “game”?
re: #494 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Maybe he just has dry skin.
Or his fantasy is to get oiled up in a posing suit and pretend that he’s in the Mr. Olympia contest…
re: #495 JordanRules
So are they unbanning the school shooting “game”?
No, they consider that one to be trolling.
re: #496 Joe Bacon 🌹
Or his fantasy is to get oiled up in a posing suit and pretend that he’s in the Mr. Olympia contest…
Could be. He could also need the lubrication to get into the gimp suit.
re: #497 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
No, they consider that one to be trolling.
Interesting! I read some of the story on how it came to be and there seems to be some trolling dynamics in play.
Should you pay off your debt or save for emergencies first? https://t.co/ieSs7VhcDB pic.twitter.com/Mvz2nLnpww
— CNNMoney (@CNNMoney) June 7, 2018
with wat https://t.co/nvergrH5rw
— darth™ (@darth) June 7, 2018
“Give us your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…and we will lock their children in cages with tin-foil blankets. And scar them for life! You know: The American Dream!” pic.twitter.com/32624NB7VO
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 7, 2018
Only 27% of American voters say President Trump is a good role model for children. 69% say he is not, via new Quinnipiac poll.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 6, 2018
27% of American voters should have all children removed from their homes. https://t.co/xZXh2dRqE7
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) June 7, 2018
re: #465 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, still a minority — a substantial majority of white men remain fanatic Trump supporters.
You often add a different take to my comments.
I wasn’t even talking about that majority of white men directly in my post. In a way, I wasn’t really talking about men. Too many men are the problem.
What I was saying is I hope women help get Trump out in the next election. I am hoping women, even those that may be conservative, grow sick of the pig called Donald Trump.
Add them to the people of color and the men that will vote against Trump and maybe the Democrats get a big majority that kill any reelection of said pig.
Then, the men that hate Trump will be saved by more women ganging up on Trump and the country gets past the Trump years so we can get back to rebuilding what we all have lost.
As far as that majority of white men that support Trump - Fuck ‘em. And I say that as a white man.
It’s no coincidence that 27% is the crazification factor.https://t.co/y69swDWMj7
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
The 2 U.S. news outlets who got questions for Trump at joint press conference with Japan’s PM Abe: Fox News and Daily Caller.
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) June 7, 2018
Melania Trump’s first public appearance in 27 days pic.twitter.com/jdxgmdxEW0
— Oregon I.T. not IT ⚾ (@OregonJOBS2) June 7, 2018
News team, assemble! Tune in now to hear from @NASAGoddard and @NASAJPL about my recent findings on Mars. Tag questions #askNASA. https://t.co/7CUnStsQjY
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) June 7, 2018
We found organic molecules on Mars! #NASA
That’s so cool! https://t.co/PaaNbrn86S— Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) June 7, 2018
Very cool!
re: #488 jaunte
Much as I’d love to see The Littlest Rebel get the boot from Justice (I picture Sessions glooming on the curb outside DoJ with the Stars and Bars drooping forlornly from a cardboard box of his office junk), Trump would have be to even more nuts than his worst caricature to think that he could get Jeanine Pirro nominated in his stead. Not that he wouldn’t try, of course (especially if strongly advised against it) - but (just IMO), it would probably end up like most things in Pirro’s career: Epic Fail.
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