We tried discussing migrant children last week and were derailed. Here is an update on that story with help from our new censors.
Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS!
Worth pulling over to the new post.
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
Mad libs.
This week on the EPA beat:
Monday: Used mattress
Tuesday: Chick-fil-A
Wednesday: 2 aides quitting
Thursday: Lotionhttps://t.co/CXxxsoixbL— Timothy Cama (@Timothy_Cama) June 7, 2018
Head of Yellowstone National Park says he’s being forced out for disagreeing with Trump administration https://t.co/coTgLf9M8q pic.twitter.com/Qk8YYgRBXH
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2018
“Coolered” again! From last thread:
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.
Dumbass
The worst presidential negotiator in history just tipped his hand to North Korea. pic.twitter.com/3HKdiPGfrg
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) June 7, 2018
re: #3 JordanRules
By this coming Monday, we’ll be asked to rub the lotion on our skin or else we gets the hose again.
re: #7 JordanRules
What qualifies as going well?
Going well?
Trump will go ahead and get a photo op and think it’s great for another summit meeting.
North Korea keeps their nukes, their concentration camps, repressive policies, and dictatorial control over every aspect of North Korean life, but yeah, Trump will let a McDonald’s franchise open up.
Just in: InfoWars writer @KitDaniels1776, who incorrectly misidentified the Parkland, FL shooter and is now being sued, has filed a declaration claiming he is not at fault because he got the images from 4Chan and a Twitter account called “Laguna Beach Antifa.” pic.twitter.com/M1aXYJArVR
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) June 7, 2018
JFC!
President Trump says he may invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the US if their meeting in Singapore next week goes well https://t.co/egWaDUrL3Y pic.twitter.com/27Qg8oUV9c
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 7, 2018
re: #11 Charles Johnson
JFC!
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He’s going to give NK California as a gesture of good will
re: #11 Charles Johnson
I see and raise:
He’s absolutely died in vain because Trump is giving North Korea all that North Korea could have asked for without having to give up a single thing.
North Korea hasn’t been held accountable. They still have their nukes and are still as repressive as ever.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
re: #12 Kragar
He’s going to give NK California as a gesture of good will
Hawaii.
That way they can retcon that Obama wasn’t an American citizen (sneaky bastard method).
re: #14 lawhawk
Hawaii.
That way they can retcon that Obama wasn’t an American citizen (sneaky bastard method).
Hey, no fair stealing my joke!! //////
Actually, steal away.
re: #13 lawhawk
And before you get to raise, I’ll double down:
POTUS: “Iran is not the same country that it was a few months ago. They are a much much different group of leaders.”
— David Chalian (@DavidChalian) June 7, 2018
Trump is a know nothing surrounded by toadies.
Iran is the same as it’s been. Trump has no clue what he’s talking about. https://t.co/sUG3qrCfII— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 7, 2018
I’m really dreading Friday afternoon’s Toilet Flush…
re: #10 Kragar
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That was the shot, here is the chaser. pic.twitter.com/srlXWp9TYs
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) June 7, 2018
OK yes Your Honor I knew and celebrated the fact that 4Chan was a bullshit factory but you should also believe that I was totally duped this one time and it’s not my fault. The Court is going to come back and tell dude that being a credulous dumbfuck is not a defense in a defamation per se action.
These are very well done. And an impressive attention to detail especially in the lower right corner. pic.twitter.com/b0TdwcR7x3
— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) June 7, 2018
We have a president who lives entirely in a fantasy-world. Thanks a lot, idiot, anti-American, Trump supporters.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
re: #10 Kragar
Just in: InfoWars writer @KitDaniels1776, who incorrectly misidentified the Parkland, FL shooter and is now being sued, has filed a declaration claiming he is not at fault because he got the images from 4Chan and a Twitter account called “Laguna Beach Antifa.” pic.twitter.com
— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) June 7, 2018
Taxes have been cut. The economy is growing. Unemployment is down to 3.8%. Gorsuch is on #SCOTUS. ISIS is retreating. The Iran deal is dead. North and South Korea have met. The hostages have come home. The embassy was put in Jerusalem.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 6, 2018
1) The Tax cut is a scam which will screw us for years.
2) Rich people getting richer is not “the economy”
3) Regional unemployment is spiking due to Trump
4) GOP stole Garland’s seat
5) Using the plan set in motion by Obama
6) Destroyed US Credibility
and I’m out of space https://t.co/9CK6Op1HXU— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 7, 2018
A federal judge will hear initial arguments today in a lawsuit alleging that President Trump has repeatedly violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution. https://t.co/G8FzPwOASg
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) June 7, 2018
President Trump has violated the emoluments clause with impunity. That stops today.
I’m suing Donald Trump in Blumenthal et al v. Trump - because I won’t stand by while this president makes a mockery of our Constitution. #NoOneAboveTheLaw https://t.co/8oOPhI6MKC— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) June 7, 2018
61 percent of Republicans think the FBI is framing Trump, and only 13 percent believe the special counsel’s investigation is legitimate. There is a reason the president lies so frequently and outrageously: It works! Me in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/NeyJaUC4QO
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) June 7, 2018
Is this why the greedy Republicans are doing nothing to check a shameful, senile, president who represents the worst of us?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 7, 2018
Dans les prochains jours, la France sera là pour que le G7 défende ses valeurs dans le contexte de défis majeurs que nous connaissons. #G7Charlevoix
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 7, 2018
Over the next few days, France will be here so that the G7 can uphold its values while facing the major challenges of which we are all aware. #G7Charlevoix https://t.co/cPCQj46Red
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 7, 2018
‼️Attention Orange County‼️
We need volunteers at the OC Registrar’s office Now — Saturday to observe ballot counting.
Where👇
1300 S Grand Ave, Santa Ana
If you can spare a few hours each day, or even the whole day, this would be much appreciated 🙏#RideWithHarley— Sandy (@scorpio292u) June 7, 2018
A Thursday headline: “Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible. Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos.” https://t.co/Yek0rtMPiN
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) June 7, 2018
And THAT is how you catch a foul ball ⚾️🍺 pic.twitter.com/Gx8EXHaFxN
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 7, 2018
Used mattresses, particular lotion… where did Trump find this guy? /4chan?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 7, 2018
“He’s got some pretty significant wounds on his hand”.
The wife of a Texan man who was bitten by a severed rattlesnake head says it turned around to look at him before striking.https://t.co/B72UGjVyZU pic.twitter.com/TrkylAM0DR— BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) June 7, 2018
#Texas man decapitated a Western diamondback #rattlesnake after hearing his wife scream while gardening. Ten minutes later - when he picked up the snake’s head - it bit him. The 40 year old man had to be given 26 doses of #antivenom after slipping into coma. pic.twitter.com/t4yznzuLbh
— Richard Dagenais (@Dagenator) June 7, 2018
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 7, 2018
Amyx Hardware, who reposted their “No Gays Allowed” sign after the SCOTUS ruling, is now categorized as a “gay bar” on Google and the reviews are epic.
“I’m usually a fan of cornfed midwestern boys, but…” pic.twitter.com/wXMxSymrIh— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) June 7, 2018
re: #33 JordanRules
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F that. Snakes… why did it have to be snakes.
My snake story:
Last summer my wife was in the front yard planting flowers (while pregnant) and heard our new puppy yip in pain. She goes the back yard (where the dog was) and the dog was going nuts. My wife casually looked down and saw a 10-12 foot snake (keep in mind in Colorado that is a huge snake) and then the snake started to rattle. She called me frantically and I ran home while she ran the dog to the vet. Before she left she saw one of our neighbors was outside and asked for him to look at the snake. The guy (who is an oil field worker) said he has seen a lot of snakes but this was by far the biggest - his conclusion was that it was the largest female bull snake he’d ever seen and we let it slink away (knowing it would kill other snakes and hopefully the damn rabbits).
In short the dog was fine - but is now afraid of water hoses as she thinks they are snakes. The snake has not been seen since. The bunnies are gone for now.
I live in a residential area. Never thought I’d have that size of a critter in my yard.
re: #33 JordanRules
#Texas man decapitated a Western diamondback #rattlesnake after hearing his wife scream while gardening. Ten minutes later - when he picked up the snake’s head - it bit him. The 40 year old man had to be given 26 doses of #antivenom after slipping into coma. pic.twitter.com
— Richard Dagenais (@Dagenator) June 7, 2018
After that course of treatment, if they don’t have insurance or have a shitty plan, he’s going to wish he had died, because, here in the Good Ol’ USA, that antivenom will bankrupt him and his wife.
From the Wiki on CroFab:
Leslie Boyer, Director of the VIPER Institute, who was on the team that developed CroFab, said they were “crestfallen” to discover that the wholesale price of Anascorp, their latest antivenom, was too high to be cost effective, even in the treatment of critically ill children. The industry website Fierce Pharma called the product a “drug launch disaster” and “one of the most bizarre marketing tales in the industry.” Boyer said that CroFab, a US drug whose sister product retailed in Mexico at $100, was resulting in bills to Arizona patients of between $7,900 and $39,652 per vial. One person rejected treatment and died because he couldn’t afford to pay for it. Boyer collected data on the cost of production and marketing, and found that the largest true cost to payers, $4100/vial, was that of the legal, regulatory and hospital activities involved in selling the drug. Clinical trials contributed $300/vial, and 25% of that had been paid for by government grants. Other costs were the same as in Mexico.[2][3]
No one should fucking have to choose to die instead of getting lifesaving treatment that would put them in the poor house for the rest of their lives, but it happens all the fucking time in our goddamn Shining City on the Hill.
NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: Some women “wouldn’t know what masculinity was if it hit them in the face” https://t.co/Q0zlXFh74n pic.twitter.com/MiLHpRT17n
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 7, 2018
Actually, @DLoesch, thousands of women get hit in the face by masculinity everyday, you ignoramus. https://t.co/YNLzOB2C6V
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) June 7, 2018
An Arizona appellate court, using a very narrow discrimination ruling from the GW Bush era, declares a pair of calligraphers who run a wedding service in Phoenix are in violation of anti-discrimination law (because Teh Geyh).
With the usual Wonkette snark and NSFW comments.
re: #37 TedStriker
After that course of treatment, he’s going to wish he had died, because, here in the Good Ol’ USA, that antivenom will bankrupt him and his wife.
From the Wiki on CroFab:
No one should fucking have to choose to die instead of getting lifesaving treatment that would put them in the poor house for the rest of their lives, but it happens all the fucking time in our goddamn Shining City on the Hill.
In America, we don’t. That person had some kind of mental disorder that made them think debt is the end of your life, when really bankruptcy is an option, and it cost them their life.
re: #24 Kragar
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Trump supporters in general aren’t decieved. They are just evil. They choose their ignorance out of vindictiveness and fear.
They will be, in hindsight, regarded as evil in the same way various authoritarians and their enablers have been defined by history books. Future history books will record that Trump supporters were part of a cult. This cult is defined by their rejection of facts, science, history and general evidence not aligned with their pre-determined ideology along with the worship of a deeply-flawed cultural tribalism known as “whiteness.”
White dominionist Christianity has evolved over the last 50 years or so into a full blown self-apartheid cult that has effectively cut off around 2% of the world’s population apart from the other 98%. And the gap is only widening.
Blabbermouth Don has not unblocked me. Yet somehow I soldier on, though my film of tears occasionally causes me to stagger.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 7, 2018
Saying “yeah well you married your cousin” to any ridiculous thing Rudy Guiliani says is always the best thing to say. It wins every time. You can’t come back from that.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 7, 2018
So Rudy just got slapped down by Pompeo and by FLOTUS in a matter of minutes
— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 7, 2018
For absolutely no reason, I put the Unsolved Mysteries theme over a 1985 Carvel commercial and I creeped myself out. pic.twitter.com/4p1BW7bmy6
— Joe™ (@TanookiKuribo) June 7, 2018
re: #33 JordanRules
It was more than the head if it could turn to bite someone. Snakes don’t bleed out like we do. They can survive some terrible injuries, so I’m not surprised that the front of a snake could live for a while after it’s cut in half.
Trump claims Texans were on boats watching Harvey https://t.co/2LfejBdKC3
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) June 6, 2018
Greg Abbott stays silent as Trump trashes brave Texans who risked their safety to help neighbors and strangers during #Harvey. This was a testament to the strength of Texans. Neighbor helping neighbor.
We deserve of a Governor who sticks up for Texans. #txlege https://t.co/tyvkd3YJsE— Lupe Valdez (@LupeValdez) June 7, 2018
Yikes. I asked @FLOTUS spokeswoman @StephGrisham45 about Giuliani saying that she believes her husband re Stormy Daniels. Response: “I don’t believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018
re: #45 Big Beautiful Door
Wasn’t expecting the zombie apocalypse to start with snakes.
Snakes caught it from the possums.
…what?
You thought they were playing dead all those times?
POTUS: “Iran is not the same country that it was a few months ago. They are a much much different group of leaders.”
— David Chalian (@DavidChalian) June 7, 2018
— spring (@summer7570) June 7, 2018
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signs a bill to expand Medicaid to cover up to 400,000 more low-income people in the state https://t.co/mo6rDvJQQd pic.twitter.com/ALAyM3kylg
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 7, 2018
So many Virginians will now get access to health care. This is what happens when Democrats win, and when people committed to doing the right thing come together to help their constituents. We need more of that these days! https://t.co/IWL3esCzLb
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) June 7, 2018
re: #50 Sea Mexican!
That chill … is winter coming?
Just started to read Game of Thrones.
Never seen the show so I’m a newbie to the series.
When state propaganda goes rogue……hilarity ensues.
Shepard Smith: “Fox News can confirm, we have no evidence of any spies” in the Trump campaign
Samantha Bee’s critique of the media: “I should have known that a potty-mouthed insult would be inherently more interesting to them than juvenile immigration policy. I would do anything to help those kids. I hate that this distracted from them…” https://t.co/WIOfb2zBgA
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 7, 2018
re: #56 Bubblehead II
I’m glad TBS learned they can’t complete give in.
FYI. AT&T is raising it’s rates for unlimited data plans. It has begun…..the Left warned you trumptard idiots…..
South Carolina manager pleads guilty to beating black worker, not paying him for years (KDVR television)
The NAACP in Conway raised hell after the prosecutor originally charged the manager with assault.
CONWAY, S.C. — For years, John Christopher Smith suffered in silence as his manager at a South Carolina restaurant physically abused him and forced him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay, federal officials say.
Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, used violence, threats and intimidation on the African-American employee who worked at the eatery in Conway, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
It said Edwards hurled racial epithets at him, beat him with a belt, and hit him with pots and pans.
This week, Edwards pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor in the incidents, which allegedly happened when he managed the restaurant between 2009 and 2014.
Authorities said Smith had intellectual disabilities, and was afraid of losing his job.
Peut-être que ça est égal au Président américain d’être isolé mais ça nous est aussi égal d’être à 6 si besoin était. pic.twitter.com/ppUYyXnrH8
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 7, 2018
The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be. Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force https://t.co/UA86fcjozs
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 7, 2018
Trump is really fucking this country good.
re: #58 Dr. Matt
I thought my bill looked higher. Fuckers
Yep. Calling Ivanka a Feckless c*** was uncalled for. But comparing her remarks to Rosanne’s blatantly racist (re)tweets is totally ridicules. TBS at least knows this as the video at the top shows.
Samantha Bee did nothing wrong. The shameful policies of this corrupt, racist administration are what’s truly wrong.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #61 Charles Johnson
Trump is really fucking this country good.
Yep. And when Idaho farmers/meat producers can’t sell their products over seas, well they might, just might, regret voting for this clown.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
Trump is really fucking this country good.
next we sign an nda and get a secret settlement payment
re: #65 Bubblehead II
Yep. And when Idaho farmers/meat producers can’t sell their products over seas, well they might, just might, regret voting for this clown.
No, they won’t. It’ll be Obama’s fault, or the Deep State, or some fucking lame shit like that. They will never, ever blame Trump for anything. When the history books of the next generation write that he was literally the worst President to ever be elected to the office, there will still be howler monkeys who claim that he was the bestest President and all those mean things are just a smear job by Deep State Obama-ists to make their beloved Cheetolini look bad.
I mean, hell, when gas prices spiked up at Memorial Day (as they always do), you didn’t hear anybody blame Trump for it. If that had happened under President Obama? Oh, dear God, the President is ending the world! He needs to say something and make those ebil oil companies charge less for gas!
re: #67 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
No, they won’t. It’ll be Obama’s fault, or the Deep State, or some fucking lame shit like that. They will never, ever blame Trump for anything. When the history books of the next generation write that he was literally the worst President to ever be elected to the office, there will still be howler monkeys who claim that he was the
bestestEXTRAMOSTBESTEST President and all those mean things are just a smear job by Deep State Obama-ists to make their beloved Cheetolini look bad.
re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I mean, hell, when gas prices spiked up at Memorial Day (as they always do), you didn’t hear anybody blame Trump for it. If that had happened under President Obama? Oh, dear God, the President is ending the world! He needs to say something and make those ebil oil companies charge less for gas!
I noticed the spike here. It hasn’t un-spiked.
re: #63 Bubblehead II
Yep. Calling Ivanka a Feckless c*** was uncalled for.
There was a time when I would have agreed with this, but I’m starting to think we’re going to need to get a lot less polite with this bunch of crooks — and Ivanka and her rotten husband are very much a part of the Trump crime family. I don’t think she deserves to be put on a pedestal at all.
re: #42 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Trump supporters in general aren’t decieved. They are just evil. They choose their ignorance out of vindictiveness and fear.
They will be, in hindsight, regarded as evil in the same way various authoritarians and their enablers have been defined by history books. Future history books will record that Trump supporters were part of a cult. This cult is defined by their rejection of facts, science, history and general evidence not aligned with their pre-determined ideology along with the worship of a deeply-flawed cultural tribalism known as “whiteness.”
White dominionist Christianity has evolved over the last 50 years or so into a full blown self-apartheid cult that has effectively cut off around 2% of the world’s population apart from the other 98%. And the gap is only widening.
Trumpism and the US hard right must fail, since the movement is too intrinsically pathological to survive except via political parasitism on ‘moderate’ Republicans and media both-siderists.
So the only open question is how much damage they do before they are gone.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
An Arizona appellate court, using a very narrow discrimination ruling from the GW Bush era, declares a pair of calligraphers who run a wedding service in Phoenix are in violation of anti-discrimination law (because Teh Geyh).
With the usual Wonkette snark and NSFW comments.
You do not have to believe that they are married in the eyes of the Lord, just in the eyes of the Law.
That is how a democracy works.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
There was a time when I would have agreed with this, but I’m starting to think we’re going to need to get a lot less polite with this bunch of crooks — and Ivanka and her rotten husband are very much a part of the Trump crime family. I don’t think she deserves to be put on a pedestal at all.
Ivanka is what she is, which is a lot worse that what Samantha Bee called her. So my only objection to ‘feckless c***’ is that it politically did more harm than good.
The most unsurprising news of the day so far? That in addition to all his other endearing traits, Rudy Giuliani is a fucking misogynist caveman. Who knew?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Politeness is another one of the things where we have to call out that it’s being demanded in bad faith…and that the scale of that bad faith is enormous.
Decades of ugly shit that they refuse to own. All the insults that have been repeated so much they’re folklore. The ongoing use of the conspiracy-theory format to recycle antisemitic memes and dirty people up by associating them with child trafficking.
re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Gas prices went DOWN for YEARS while Obama was president, and they blamed him for gas prices going up.
re: #77 The Ghost of a Flea
Politeness is another one of the things where we have to call out that it’s being demanded in bad faith…and that the scale of that bad faith is enormous.
Decades of ugly shit that they refuse to own. All the insults that have been repeated so much they’re folklore. The ongoing use of the conspiracy-theory format to recycle antisemitic memes and dirty people up by associating them with child trafficking.
Precisely.
re: #65 Bubblehead II
Yep. And when Idaho farmers/meat producers can’t sell their products over seas, well they might, just might, regret voting for this clown.
This will never happen. They’ll watch FOX and be told who to be angry at.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
There was a time when I would have agreed with this, but I’m starting to think we’re going to need to get a lot less polite with this bunch of crooks — and Ivanka and her rotten husband are very much a part of the Trump crime family. I don’t think she deserves to be put on a pedestal at all.
Fuck their feelings
The hapless fundamentalism of America…
You do realize that “biblical guidelines” is just a made-up thing, don’t you?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 7, 2018
re: #82 freetoken
You do realize that “biblical guidelines” is just a made-up thing, don’t you?
“Biblical guidelines” as in Christian Sharia?
re: #67 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
No, they won’t. It’ll be Obama’s fault, or the Deep State, or some fucking lame shit like that. They will never, ever blame Trump for anything. When the history books of the next generation write that he was literally the worst President to ever be elected to the office, there will still be howler monkeys who claim that he was the bestest President and all those mean things are just a smear job by Deep State Obama-ists to make their beloved Cheetolini look bad.
Actually, I think not. I am already seeing here at the local level some concern about tRumps tariffs and potential reprisals.
Idaho’s Governor, “Butch” Otter has worked hard to build strong trade relations with China for Idaho produce/meats. tRump is putting those agreements in jeopardy.
The European Union’s plan to impose tariffs on roughly $3.3 billion worth of American goods will go into effect in early July, the European Commission said https://t.co/8wiIELNgfY pic.twitter.com/A2s5slNa5M
— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2018
Here we go, with a reckless, ignorant manbaby in charge of the US economy. https://t.co/vEpzLmvrGS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
Is this even legal? I mean at some point you’re spending money for something it wasn’t appropriated for by Congress https://t.co/hYbHXioPsl
— Jordan Ashby (@JM_Ashby) June 7, 2018
re: #85 Charles Johnson
Here we go, with a reckless, ignorant manbaby in charge of the US economy.
every time you say this remember there is a complicit congress that is letting him get away with everything. including things that are explicity their job (ie regulating commerce with foreign nations/tariffs)
re: #87 dangerman
every time you say this remember there is a complicit congress that is letting him get away with everything. including things that are explicity their job (ie regulating commerce with foreign nations/tariffs)
they handed that over to him so they could concentrate on their core task of raiding the US economy and handing it over to robber barons
re: #84 Bubblehead II
Actually, I think not. I am already seeing here at the local level some concern about tRumps tariffs and potential reprisals.
Idaho’s Governor, “Butch” Otter has worked hard to build strong trade relations with China for Idaho produce/meats. tRump is putting those agreements in jeopardy.
I’m seeing the same concern from local farmers and ranchers here in Nebraska, and Gov. Ricketts recently hosted a trade delegation.
re: #86 jaunte
It is very sad, and makes me angry.
Whenever we get through all of this, I would not oppose putting the whole Trump gang up for a trial in regards to violating basic human rights and gross negligence wrt American law.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
There was a time when I would have agreed with this, but I’m starting to think we’re going to need to get a lot less polite with this bunch of crooks — and Ivanka and her rotten husband are very much a part of the Trump crime family. I don’t think she deserves to be put on a pedestal at all.
Um, what? Never called for her to be put on a pedestal. Called out, yes. Calling her a C***, no. I will go as far as calling her a fucking bitch though.
Father Of Ted Cruz: SCOTUS Destroyed The Family When They Legalized Marriage Between Men And Horses - https://t.co/JKXl2qXVmV pic.twitter.com/CE3FlP0cWt
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 7, 2018
re: #91 Bubblehead II
Um, what? Never called for her to be put on a pedestal. Called out, yes. Calling her a C***, no. I will go as far as calling her a fucking bitch though.
That’s just another gendered insult.
re: #86 jaunte
It’s probably illegal as fuck, but these people don’t care and there is absolutely no one to stop them.
JBS comes to the aid of Patterson et. al.:
Birch Society always finds ways to pour out bigotry.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 7, 2018
From a comment at that New American article:
patrriot Linda JJ • a day ago
We joined a Methodist Church in Las Vegas Near Palo Verde High School and quit going because the Preacher specifically promoted the gay, lesbian, transgender agenda and celebrated Black History Month the entire month of February with speakers that blasted the White audience for their treatment of blacks before and after the Civil War. Knew we were in the wrong place with the WRONG AGENDA. Haven’t found a new church. It’s been four years. We listen to Dr. Stanley out of Atlanta! Much Better!
Imagine that, celebrating the Black History Month for the entire month.
Oh, the torture that “patrriot” endured.
What Macron said: “Maybe it’s equal to the US President to be isolated but we are also equal to being 6 if needed.”
OH SNAP!
re: #85 Charles Johnson
A war, eve a Trade War, is still a war. The only purpose in a war is to bring peace-and right now, the US is acting like Nazi Germany - and we saw what happened to them in the end…
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
“…The Joe Corley Detention Facility is a sprawling complex surrounded by shiny concertina wire located in Conroe, Texas — about an hour north of Houston.
ICE spends more than $2 billion a year on immigrant detention through private jails like this one.
The Corley facility is owned by GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company.
ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service pay GEO $32 million a year to house, feed and provide medical care for a thousand detainees. “
npr.org
re: #63 Bubblehead II
Yep. Calling Ivanka a Feckless c*** was uncalled for. But comparing her remarks to Rosanne’s blatantly racist (re)tweets is totally ridicules. TBS at least knows this as the video at the top shows.
Also, she wasn’t calling out Ivanka as “first daughter,” (the way the CNN blurb describes it) but as a White House official. Even the Huckabee noisemaker acknowledged that—“…executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network.”
I think that makes a difference.
re: #97 The Major
A war, eve a Trade War, is still a war. The only purpose in a war is to bring peace-and right now, the US is acting like Nazi Germany - and we saw what happened to them in the end…
In a saner time the following would have found more mind-space in American news-desks:
Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars
It’s not proof that there was life on Mars, but that there were complex organic compounds, which may have been made by life.
AP couldn’t find the characters to include “racial slurs” in their tweet
A mother says her 14-year-old son had just gotten off the bus when two masked men in a passing vehicle yelled and threw the hatchet at his head. https://t.co/lTeixkb6vY
— AP Eastern US (@APEastRegion) June 7, 2018
Unusual statement from DOJ spokesman Devin O’Malley, going after Philly Mayor @JimFKenney pic.twitter.com/yT5Y0eyrLM
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 7, 2018
This is a ridiculous way for a DOJ spokesman to talk and it makes the department look terrible. These people have no appreciation for the institutions they have the temporary good fortune to lead. https://t.co/M2QagcE3BX
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 7, 2018
Fascist conflation of all immigrants with violent criminals.
re: #102 freetoken
Or: there was once life on Mars, but everybody died.
Steam is at it again, this time with an “AIDS Simulator” which is a first-person shooter game.
Let the flagging of hate speech commence… .
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹
I’m seeing the same concern from local farmers and ranchers here in Nebraska, and Gov. Ricketts recently hosted a trade delegation.
Yep. He’s ripping apart deals made at the State level and China and other Countries are going to respond accordingly. Red State farmers are going to be sad when that 550 tons of wheat, soy beans, etc (just a number I pulled out of my ass) sits in a silo and is then sold as animal feed for pennies on the dollar,
re: #93 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s just another gendered insult.
Yes. But I have a feeling women don’t treat it to the same degree as the “C” word.
Maybe the LGF women could give their opinion on it.
I seem to remember hearing that flung around a lot.
But it is best in my opinion for anyone in the media to stay away from the known problem words and go after someone with normal words that are arranged to really sting. You have to be creative and it takes some thought.
moron has no freaking clue about any of this
Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers. The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
June 7, 2018, JUST IN:
Federal judge appears to sympathize with Dem Congresspeople suing Trump for abusing Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.https://t.co/dectInmf7X— Puesto Loco™ (@PuestoLoco) June 7, 2018
re: #63 Bubblehead II
Yep. Calling Ivanka a Feckless c*** was uncalled for. But comparing her remarks to Rosanne’s blatantly racist (re)tweets is totally ridicules. TBS at least knows this as the video at the top shows.
Given that Ivanka posted her loving mother picture while her father was intent on separating children from their mothers - calling her names was the polite option.
But Samantha had it 100% correct, the media was more concerned with Ivanka’s feelings and a woman swearing than with the children who are being held in US concentration camps
re: #111 fern01
That’s the main reason I disagree with the crudest language. It just distracts from the message
re: #111 fern01
Given that Ivanka posted her loving mother picture while her father was intent on separating children from their mothers - calling her names was the polite option.
But Samantha had it 100% correct, the media was more concerned with Ivanka’s feelings and a woman swearing than with the children who are being held in US concentration camps
And we’re back to Samantha Bee is not a politician, she’s a comedienne. Her speech is being policed because she’s a woman by outraged conservatives who claim they love free speech.
re: #91 Bubblehead II
Um, what? Never called for her to be put on a pedestal. Called out, yes. Calling her a C***, no. I will go as far as calling her a fucking bitch though.
No, I didn’t mean you said that - I’m just making the point that she doesn’t deserve any special treatment.
I don’t use that word myself, but I have no problem with Samantha Bee using it.
When a Trump person comes into this conversation saying it is part of his grand plan pic.twitter.com/ACtSIgVggJ
— Oregon I.T. not IT ⚾ (@OregonJOBS2) June 7, 2018
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Fuck their feelings
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told NPR that she wants federal judges who are fair, qualified, and “care about individual and civil rights.”
And then, without missing a beat, she added: “If that’s considered liberal, as opposed to what I call justice and fairness, as I am wont to say, fuck them
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
Guess what, Hair Furor - they may freeze you out. Can’t blame them if they do - you’re turning the USA into a modem-day Nazi Germany - and we saw how well that ended for Hitler and Germany. You can thank your partner in crime @PutinRF_Eng…..
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) June 7, 2018
re: #116 wrenchwench
Rip Dennis Miller a new one.
George already cursed him.
That’s why Doofus can’t even get a gig in Branson.
Trump is reportedly venting about having to spend 2 days in Canada with Trudeau and wants to find new ways to punish the country (Business Insider)
Amid Trudeau’s vocal opposition, Trump is said to have weighed further options designed to crack down on the US’s northern neighbor.
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I hope Canada will let us in on our summer trip.
re: #119 dangerman
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told NPR that she wants federal judges who are fair, qualified, and “care about individual and civil rights.”
And then, without missing a beat, she added: “If that’s considered liberal, as opposed to what I call justice and fairness, as I am wont to say, fuck them
I thought that’s what she said. The version I heard contained the bleep of mystery.
And in case you think this is only “porn stars:” I was harassed by boys in high school. It escalated to the point they were knocking on my bedroom window at night. My mom called the cops. Their response? “What does she wear to school?” I was 14. And looked 12.
— Kimber Lofgren (@KimberLofgren) June 7, 2018
All part of the toxic authoritarian tradition being propped up mostly by the right.
Questo57447127 on Twitter needs to be reported into oblivion.
re: #108 ObserverArt
Yes. But I have a feeling women don’t treat it to the same degree as the “C” word.
Maybe the LGF women could give their opinion on it.
I seem to remember hearing that flung around a lot.
But it is best in my opinion for anyone in the media to stay away from the known problem words and go after someone with normal words that are arranged to really sting. You have to be creative and it takes some thought.
I’ll repeat my comment from last week:
littlegreenfootballs.com
I know women who are offended at the word bitch (I, personally, wear it as a badge of honor). Although I’m not overly fond of the word cunt, it’s just a fucking word, and if (when) somebody called me that, after I registered mild shock, I would try to unravel what action I had taken to incite the invective. YMMV
NOTE:
(Weird—last week c u n t showed up just fine, but in preview today, it’s ****.
“They wouldn’t know what masculinity was if it hit them in the face.” - NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch
Soon the White House communications office will be a couple of parrots that recite Trump tweets
JUST IN: The White House is poised to purge several lower-level staffers from its communications office, multiple sources say, following weeks of uncertainty about the future of the embattled team. https://t.co/t0z80vko8e pic.twitter.com/FRmdyNYadJ
— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2018
re: #117 Charles Johnson
I don’t use that word myself, but I have no problem with Samantha Bee using it.
Me Too. And the context in which she used it, as a professional, apro.
The rules of civil discourse have been warped for some time. You can hold a moral high ground while down in the gutter.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Trump is reportedly venting about having to spend 2 days in Canada with Trudeau and wants to find new ways to punish the country (Business Insider)
(more)
I hope Canada will let us in on our summer trip.
You may want to avoid Ontario if Doug Ford and the Tories win.
re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹
You may want to avoid Ontario if Doug Ford and the Torres win.
The election is today, isn’t it? I wouldn’t want the Tories to win there either, not just the Torres. /s
Ontario surrounds Michigan; will the province mount a siege? /s
I do hope that voters send Doug Ford packing.
.@JoeManchinWV can backpedal all he wants, but West Virginians know he’s a @HillaryClinton super-supporter who won’t stand with @POTUS. #WVSen pic.twitter.com/U0oWe47Rrr
— The Senate Majority (@NRSC) June 6, 2018
He voted with Obama 83% of the time, sponsored gun control legislation and voted for excessive regulation. He’s about as far from #maga as it gets. Lying about it now won’t help. Vote @MorriseyWV for someone who will support @realDonaldTrump #WV #wvpol https://t.co/4f58XlA12p
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 7, 2018
See this, Dems? Even if you position yourself as a moderate/conservative Democrat, the Red Hats will characterize you as a far-left liberal. So why not own your liberalism? Don’t run away from it. Be strong and unapologetic. https://t.co/vPAccGF7Ua
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 7, 2018
I think right wing attacks on sex workers are at least in part a projection of the RWNJs’ own guilt. This includes not just the guilt they feel for their hypocrisy in using such services (as they are widely attested to do) but the inward degradation they feel for selling out all their ethical principles for the sake of sucking up to the wealthy.
“How much to suck Koch?”
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹
And we’re back to Samantha Bee is not a politician, she’s a comedienne. Her speech is being policed because she’s a woman by outraged conservatives who claim they love free speech.
Is Nebraska in the real world? /s
I bet there are some liberal/progressive women that had issues with that word too.
Or, can a white comedian get a lot of laughs throwing around the “N” word?
re: #112 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
That’s the main reason I disagree with the crudest language. It just distracts from the message
Sometimes we use the language that comes to mind - and it described the situation. Not something I would have said, but I am not a political comedian. Don’t blame the messenger - blame the US political media who do not do the job they are paid to do - they do the job trump and their bosses wants them to do.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹
The election is today, isn’t it? I wouldn’t want the Tories to win there either, not just the Torres. /s
Ontario surrounds Michigan; will the province mount a siege? /s
I do hope that voters send Doug Ford packing.
Ooooooooooo I hate autocorrect!!! !!!
re: #135 ObserverArt
Is Nebraska in the real world? /s
I bet there are some liberal/progressive women that had issues with that word too.
Or, can a white comedian get a lot of laughs throwing around the “N” word?
One of these things is not like the other.
Woman v woman
White v Black
Black comedians use the word. So do black musicians.
Moving along, it turns out in all the brohaha over Rage Furby losing his lawsuit, it was missed that Cassandra Fairbanks also lost hers for allegedly being defamed the same day.
re: #95 freetoken
JBS comes to the aid of Patterson et. al.:
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From a comment at that New American article:
patrriot Linda JJ • a day ago
We joined a Methodist Church in Las Vegas Near Palo Verde High School and quit going because the Preacher specifically promoted the gay, lesbian, transgender agenda and celebrated Black History Month the entire month of February with speakers that blasted the White audience for their treatment of blacks before and after the Civil War. Knew we were in the wrong place with the WRONG AGENDA. Haven’t found a new church. It’s been four years. We listen to Dr. Stanley out of Atlanta! Much Better!Imagine that, celebrating the Black History Month for the entire month.
Oh, the torture that “patrriot” endured.
The Bircherati have continued the Minute of Hate for decades on end.
re: #117 Charles Johnson
I don’t use that word myself, but I have no problem with Samantha Bee using it.
Like another word related to race rather than sex, when a member of the same set uses it, it is OK. A man using this term against a woman is different. Sane people can see that - which leads me back to the insanity of the US media.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bob Cesca ✔
@bobcesca_go
See this, Dems? Even if you position yourself as a moderate/conservative Democrat, the Red Hats will characterize you as a far-left liberal. So why not own your liberalism? Don’t run away from it. Be strong and unapologetic.6:03 PM - Jun 7, 2018
Asking for opinions on this tweet.
Would Joe Manchin still be in office if he did tell West Virginia he is an unapologetic Obama-loving Kennedy liberal?
I think it would cost him. He knows his state, he has to deal with the actual politics that keep him in office. It is easy to tweet.
re: #127 BeachDem
NOTE:
(Weird—last week c u n t showed up just fine, but in preview today, it’s ****.
Ah, I forgot to remove that filter from the comment preview. Done.
re: #141 ObserverArt
Would Joe Manchin still be in office if he did tell West Virginia he is an unapologetic Obama-loving Kennedy liberal?
No
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
One of these things is not like the other.
Woman v woman
White v Black
Black comedians use the word. So do black musicians.
Moving along, it turns out in all the brohaha over Rage Furby losing his lawsuit, it was missed that Cassandra Fairbanks also lost hers for allegedly being defamed the same day.
re: #104 jaunte
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Fascist conflation of all immigrants with violent criminals.
I’m (as usual in the Trump Era) shocked and appalled at the nasty cheapjackery of this - presumably official (or by AN official) - statement being released by anybody associated with the Department of Justice.
Does this assclown not know/realize/believe that the reason the “violent criminal who forced his girlfriend into a hot oven” wasn’t “turned over to immigration authorities” is most likely that he was arrested and tossed in jail? Where he is likely to remain: immigration status notwithstanding?
This crap would sound bad coming from some RW blog-commenter, but a DoJ official? Unprofessional and disgraceful. And probably something Trump will re-tweet…
Oh look, we have another chickenhawk keyboard warrior. Here, have an Antifa meme. Go find a safe space. pic.twitter.com/fgqsS0eREW
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) June 7, 2018
re: #134 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Consider Door #3:
Stigmatizing sex work makes sex workers more desperate and more vulnerable.
It’s a win/win/win scenario for reactionaries because they enjoy having power over people. They don’t just want to buy sex…that would make they equal, or even down power, with the sex worker. What they want is a system where they can demand sex (exactly like how they view marital sex), deny it to types of people they don’t like.
This is continuous with what they want from every other social sphere…total license, to both judge others and not be judged, and acting…including fucking…with no limiters.
re: #142 Charles Johnson
Ah, I forgot to remove that filter from the comment preview. Done.
Heh—I got around it—you will NEVER prevent me from using the word cunt, NEVER!
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re: #138 Anymouse 🌹
One of these things is not like the other.
Woman v woman
White v Black
Black comedians use the word. So do black musicians.
Moving along, it turns out in all the brohaha over Rage Furby losing his lawsuit, it was missed that Cassandra Fairbanks also lost hers for allegedly being defamed the same day.
Things taken as not like the other in our heated political atmosphere.
One is a liberal
One is seen as a beloved conservative
And that is black and white too. I think we are forgetting some elements of why this blew up on Sam Bee.
Obviously we haven’t moved on because here we are again…and you commented.
Of course Scott Pruitt will only use moisturizing lotion from the Ritz Carlton, at $32.00 a bottle, and will make staffers drive around to Ritz Carlton hotels to find it. When you’re overseeing the destruction of a federal agency, it’s important to have exquisitely moist skin.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
re: #149 ObserverArt
Things taken as not like the other in our heated political atmosphere.
One is a liberal
One is seen as a beloved conservative
And that is black and white too. I think we are forgetting some elements of why this blew up on Sam Bee.
Obviously we haven’t moved on because here we are again…and you commented.
I responded to a comment. Then I wrote “moving along” to bring up another topic.
Moving along, my wife just made pizza for lunch. I will ask her to put pineapple on it.
I am absolutely floored by these images. An intimate and profound view of American mourning—from the vantage point of Bobby Kennedy’s funeral train 50 years ago. https://t.co/Syd21FhNm9
(Credit: Paul Fusco / Library of Congress, LOOK Magazine. Curated by the great @kokogiak) pic.twitter.com/K3IFCayEbv— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) June 7, 2018
re: #5 Jay C
“Coolered” again! From last thread:
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.
I’ve a book on my shelf that I never got around to reading. It’s called Supreme Courtship, by Christopher Buckley. Basic premise is that a somewhat unpopular president, trying to win back the public, nominates an afternoon TV judge for the Supreme Court.
Loved the idea as a story, so I picked it up but never got around to reading it. Now it’s bordering on the line between fiction and non-fiction.
re: #150 Charles Johnson
[ When you’re overseeing the destruction of a federal agency, it’s important to have exquisitely ***** skin.]
I know I’m not the only lizard who would prefer this way…
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
An Arizona appellate court, using a very narrow discrimination ruling from the GW Bush era, declares a pair of calligraphers who run a wedding service in Phoenix are in violation of anti-discrimination law (because Teh Geyh).
With the usual Wonkette snark and NSFW comments.
Here’s a link to the case, which I’ve read.
It’s a pretty major smackdown. Basically, the court ruled that Brush and Nib Studio can’t post a sign saying it won’t serve same-sex couples because it would be in violation of Phoenix’s anti-discrimination ordinance, which makes LGBT persons into a protected class in the city of Phoenix. Part of the ordinance was struck down (four descriptive words) but the judges found that didn’t eviscerate the plain intent of the ordinance.
What’s interesting about this case, as opposed to Masterpiece Cake Shop is that there wasn’t a customer in sight—just the notion that Brush and Nib were going to post a sign. I have to wonder if this situation won’t return again after a vendor in Phoenix actually refuses to serve a same-sex couple, whether it be for a cake or for wedding invitations.
re: #54 CongoJack
Just started to read Game of Thrones.
Never seen the show so I’m a newbie to the series.
I read the first book. It’s a roller coaster.
re: #54 CongoJack
Just started to read Game of Thrones.
Never seen the show so I’m a newbie to the series.
Ugh. I got halfway through that modernist take on fantasy and threw it across the room. Really poorly written (the man makes Victorian descriptive prose seem as spare as Hemingway. ) version of the War of The Roses but with no one worth cheering for. IMO and all that.
I do hope you find it more enjoyable than I did.
In another “genius” moment, Trump points out that the United States is very far away from North Korea. This from a man who thinks that he doesn’t need to prepare for the summit. pic.twitter.com/h5YFPWW95G
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) June 7, 2018
“This is reprehensible conduct” - @JoyceWhiteVance on Sean Hannity “advocating for people to destroy evidence in a serious federal investigation” pic.twitter.com/VbVbwQqf0p
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) June 7, 2018
Tonight on Hannity: I’m not reprehensible! YOU’RE reprehensible! And I could prove it too, if I hadn’t eaten my phone. https://t.co/Orh7DI1p4Y
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 7, 2018
re: #158 William Lewis
Ugh. I got halfway through that modernist take on fantasy and threw it across the room. Really poorly written (the man makes Victorian descriptive prose seem as spare as Hemingway. ) version of the War of The Roses but with no one worth cheering for. IMO and all that.
I do hope you find it more enjoyable than I did.
Last and possibly only book I’ve thrown across the room was Small is Beautiful when the author said, ‘Women in the workforce is a sign of a bad economy’. Back in the 70s.
re: #82 freetoken
The hapless fundamentalism of America…
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These people are idiots. What they don’t realize is there is enough out there to make Paige Patterson toxic as hell, and by continuing with their full-throated defense of his actions, they make themselves and the SBC look worse.
At this point, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is staring down a very real possibility of having violated the federal statute protecting student files (FERPA). On top of that, there’s likely civil actions which could be filed against Patterson, his chief of staff, the chief of staff’s wife and the people who published those documents on the Internet (I’m including Norman Geisler in that group as well). Those actions would include invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
But please, please, PLEASE—keep it up. Continue to be asshats only caring about your little tin god Paige Patterson. Not a one of Patterson’s supporters has said anything about the woman (Megan Lively) who came forward. As far as these dingbats are concerned, the only person hurt in this is Patterson, not Lively (whose rape was not reported in 2003), or the unnamed woman from 2015 who he wanted to “break down.”
The SBC annual meeting is going to be a first-class Dumpster fire starting on Tuesday. It’s going to be livestreamed too.
ETA: I forgot to mention that the seminaries (SEBTS, SWBTS) are the deep pockets and could probably be brought in for not properly controlling Patterson.
Hannity seems to have stopped being a mere Trump lackey and full out co-conspirator.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Trump is reportedly venting about having to spend 2 days in Canada with Trudeau and wants to find new ways to punish the country (Business Insider)
(more)
I hope Canada will let us in on our summer trip.
I hope they give us asylum.
re: #158 William Lewis
Ugh. I got halfway through that modernist take on fantasy and threw it across the room. Really poorly written (the man makes Victorian descriptive prose seem as spare as Hemingway. ) version of the War of The Roses but with no one worth cheering for. IMO and all that.
I do hope you find it more enjoyable than I did.
I’m back. The pizza was very good. My wife makes pizza from scratch.
re: #155 Joe Bacon 🌹
Does he also pour Calgon Beauty Beads into his bath?
What a total Alpha Male, amirite?
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re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
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Uhm, I would like to take Cruz the Elder aside and explain about consent. You can’t marry a horse because a horse cannot consent. Same with dogs, cats, sheep, goats, giraffes, lions, amoebas, etc. No consent = no marriage.
But these guys are the same ones who tell wives in their churches they have to give it up for their husbands whenever hubby wants sex, even if she doesn’t feel like it. So they don’t have a really strong grasp on consent to start out with.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹
Steam is at it again, this time with an “AIDS Simulator” which is a first-person shooter game.
Let the flagging of hate speech commence… .
Uh yeah…Valve is turning their store into a free-for-all:
Gaming service Steam to allow ‘everything’ on its store after banning controversial school shooting game
Valve, Steam’s parent, said it would “allow everything” apart from games that it described as “illegal, or straight up trolling.”
More at the link, but I wonder if it’s going to take “Concentration Camp Simulator” or something equally vile (“Immigration Exporter”) to get Valve to stop being idiots.
Yesterday I mentioned the fundamentalist takeover of the ABS, and sure enough, look who’s part of the party:
In which @albertmohler continues to pretend his ideological warfare is the only truth.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 7, 2018
re: #158 William Lewis
Ugh. I got halfway through that modernist take on fantasy and threw it across the room. Really poorly written (the man makes Victorian descriptive prose seem as spare as Hemingway. ) version of the War of The Roses but with no one worth cheering for. IMO and all that.
I do hope you find it more enjoyable than I did.
I too ended up not liking the series. I have nothing against grim fantasy and I liked many scenes. Spoilers:
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I also think that he is just a little bit too gleeful about describing the most inhumane things done by several characters. Way too excited about it.
I can remember some of these signs. Since we lived mostly in Colorado and California when I was a child, things like this really jumped out when we went to visit my grandparents in Texas. The “North Carolina State Law” sign is typical language used by businesses that did not particularly support segregation but who were legally obligated to abide by it. Supporters of segregation left off the legal requirement. In Texas, segregation was not legally required in most cases and there were both segregated and non-segregated businesses. In Lubbock, one of the latter (the Leftwich Department Store) had a sign that read “All of God’s children are welcome here.”
re: #156 mmmirele
Here’s the link to Brush & Nib Studio LC v. City of Phoenix.
Because I only downloaded a copy and didn’t post the link.
Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things…but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
If you have children, this is why you should vet your friends before you let your child play at their house.
A 6-year-old in Pennsylvania fatally shot himself while playing with a gun in his room. He found the gun, which belonged to his mother’s friend, unattended on a table.
Do you know if there are unsecured guns where your child plays? https://t.co/O16uqtemrU https://t.co/dashp0b8H9— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 7, 2018
Samantha Bee rocks. All Trumps are cunts.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Trump is reportedly venting about having to spend 2 days in Canada with Trudeau and wants to find new ways to punish the country (Business Insider)
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I hope Canada will let us in on our summer trip.
I’m going to Toronto next week, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things…but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
Nominal fatalism in a nutshell:
First Kellyanne Conway called Trump “the Commander of Cheese” and now he’s madonline about the Canadian dairy situation. https://t.co/iEOpoEYbeO— Commodore of Cheese (@goddamnedfrank) June 7, 2018
Probably the best chapter opening line in the history of American literature.
“Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.”
-Joseph Heller, Catch 22— Commodore of Cheese (@goddamnedfrank) June 7, 2018
Ms. Bankston is really upset at Rudy Giuliani.
I found myself strongly inclined to grab my megaphone, go stand in my front yard and holler as loud as I can, “F*** Giuliani! Just F*** that rotten sumbitch!” at all my Republican neighbors until they called the damn police and had me arrested so I could go to jail and get local newspaper headlines so the whole town would know that we should F*** Giuliani. It was a plan. I had a plan.
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re: #180 goddamnedfrank
Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant …
How many hours has it been since Resident Putin Handupme tried to blame Canada for that White House thing from the War of 1812?
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God just shut the fuck up Donnie. While you were fucking strippers, the US and Canada were working together on national security issues but you wouldn’t know that because you don’t think you need to educate yourself about a godamned thing.
MACRON SAYS G-7 DOESN’T NEED U.S., ‘WE DON’T MIND BEING 6’
“The whole world’s at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn’t fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.”—Thornton Wilder/The Skin of Our Teeth
re: #184 unproven innocence
How many hours has it been since Resident Putin Handupme tried to blame Canada for that White House thing from the War of 1812?
Justin should have asked him what year that was…
Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things…but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
Oh, for… Here we go again with this damned fool, feuding on Twitter with one of our best allies by blathering outright lies. https://t.co/JFhGiNfV8d
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 8, 2018
White House upset. Must be a minute ending in a number.
The White House on Thursday denounced a campaign ad produced by a Democrat seeking the nomination to challenge Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) that compared President Trump to Osama bin Laden.
The ad flashes an image of bin Laden followed by one of the White House as the candidate, Army veteran Dan Helmer, says, “After 9/11, the greatest threat to our democracy lived in a cave; today he lives in the White House.”
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Great, the weather radio just popped with a thunderstorm warning … here we go.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Go ahead and try it you stupid Orange fuck. Canadians aren’t going to put up with your shit.
re: #188 Charles Johnson
Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things…but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!7:44 PM - Jun 7, 2018
I wonder who Donny Fat Ass asked to give him a new word for Trudeau’s behavior?
Indignant doesn’t seem to come from his limited brain.
re: #188 Charles Johnson
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Plus, I don’t think he knows what “indignant” means. (Perhaps he meant to say disingenuous—although I doubt he knows what that means either.) But hey, he capitalized Farmers and Agriculture, so we know he means business!
Wonder whose staffer it is…
A veteran Senate staffer is under investigation as part of a probe related to unauthorized disclosure of classified information, per people familiar.
Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal charges against the staffer in the coming days.
w/@ByronTauhttps://t.co/vsorul5Pry— erica orden (@eorden) June 7, 2018
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹
White House upset. Must be a minute ending in a number.
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I recall a Republican candidate recently using a similar ad against her female Democratic opponent.
Feeling froggy huh. You’ll be a church mouse in person you inadequate asshole!
Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers. The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
They are going to be talking shit about you in French btw.
Someone asked (sorry, have been scrolling) if female-focused insults like cunt or bitch bother us more that other insults.
The fact is, there are very few insults for men that are gender-driven and the ones that are do not have the same power. Calling someone a dick is not the same as son of a bitch or a cunt. Cocksucker can hit both female and gay connotations. But a powerful insult for just being a heterosexual white man that is equivalent? Not really out there.
For me personally, don’t care what people call me, says more about them than me. Don’t care if it’s a female-centered insult, most are. Most of those insults are only insults in context….I happen to like female dogs a lot and many people think cunts are fabulous.
So, the fact is most insults are deviations from white heterosexual manhood anyway.
re: #150 Charles Johnson
Of course Scott Pruitt will only use moisturizing lotion from the Ritz Carlton, at $32.00 a bottle, and will make staffers drive around to Ritz Carlton hotels to find it. When you’re overseeing the destruction of a federal agency, it’s important to have exquisitely moist skin.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 7, 2018
Or the lotion could be for something like this:
Hey felons, destroy your phones! Shred your documents! Tamper with your witnesses!
Yours truly,@seanhannity
P.S. just kidding jeez— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 8, 2018
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