Seth takes a closer look at Republicans applauding the president’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and Trump’s mountain of new legal problems.
She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center @CNN https://t.co/QLcMv2tLuY
— Maria Hinojosa (@Maria_Hinojosa) June 13, 2018
This not normal. It’s not strong law enforcement. The only accurate description is that it’s inhumane. https://t.co/bcn6yMU5a1
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) June 14, 2018
Child abuse on the taxpayers’ dollar.
This is bad folk………..
This is not good and needs to be fought tooth and nail. Water quality and Tail pipe emissions standards to be cut way back.
Scott Pruitt, Under Fire, Plans to Initiate a Big Environmental Rollback https://t.co/W7S9PkIEeq— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 15, 2018
I guess if you put a small assault rifle on your keychain that will be fine tho
— what in the sam hell (@olejoshieb) June 14, 2018
I have always tried to buy Canadian products first & foremost, but given the current trade enviro, I will ensure I do from now on! No disrespect to my US friends, but I must stand behind & defend Canadian goods. #cdnpoli #BuyCanadian #NAFTA #TradeWar #trade #Canada #Ontario pic.twitter.com/wfaXwD5Rlm
— Quarkybirdy 🇨🇦 (@Quarkybirdy) June 13, 2018
Here’s how you can hit back at the U.S. and @realDonaldTrump with your wallet. https://t.co/DIJrhgEuph #BoycottUSProducts #BuyCanadian #TeamTrudeau
— Jessica Cardill (@JessCardill) June 13, 2018
Stuck at the end of the last thread …
re: #188 freetoken
Butthurt over an academic conflict:
The Public Pulse: Possible UNL censure
The whataboutism is clear; Ms. Bartek has been trained by right-wing media (radio? Hannity?) to hate academia.
I looked for a story that described what exactly went on, but the Lincoln newspaper is behind a paywall. I did find this from the Omaha paper:
National group may censure UNL over handling of conflict involving conservative student
The AAUP takes a pretty strong stand on how faculty ought to be treated, and thus not giving the TA a hearing is what the fuss apparently is about.
About Ms. Bartek’s assertion about censure records: The censures by the AAUP are not many but are public: aaup.org
UNL may be added to that list on the 16th.
The whine from Ms. Bartek misses the point censure - the censure is just about how disputes ought to be treated, not the ideological basis for why the student went off crying, or why the TA believes what they do.
Censuring conservative speakers in Nebraska? She’s gotta be kidding.
The Public Pulse is the Omaha World-Herald’s public comment line, normally limited to one hundred words. I have had a few letters appear there, though not recently.
As for the Journal-Star, it isn’t paywalled per se, but it does have a very aggressive ad block detector. They won’t let you past if you’re running anything like NoScript.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Stuck at the end of the last thread …
Censuring conservative speakers in Nebraska? She’s gotta be kidding.
The Public Pulse is the Omaha World-Herald’s public comment line, normally limited to one hundred words. I have had a few letters appear there, though not recently.
As for the Journal-Star, it isn’t paywalled per se, but it does have a very aggressive ad block detector. They won’t let you past if you’re running anything like NoScript.
They call us snowflakes. They’re the real ones. They’re white and melt under any sort of heat.
I haven’t tweeted for shit today. Mostly because I look at my feed and it’s just… it’s just… my country is imprisoning migrant *children* at our border with Mexico. Children are being hauled into concentration camps *in my name as an American.* And that shit makes me mad.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 15, 2018
re: #10 teleskiguy
The National Hurricane Center is reporting that Pacific Tropical Storm Bud will come ashore in the northern part of the Gulf of California and move into the desert southwest and then the Rocky Mountains.
I don’t know if the remnants of the storm will make it far enough to give you some rain relief, but we can hope so.
It’s a new low until the next one. I have no problem saying as nasty shit as possible about Trump, his family, the administration, & the voters that made this a reality.
This is all going on and the NYT has the fucking nerve to publish a whining screed about DeNiro saying fuck Trump and how that makes Dems look bad. It’d look worse if we showed Trump and his supporters any respect at all. They don’t respect the humanity of these kids and their families. We WERE warned but oh you didn’t like Hillary’s cackle, thought she was a liar, & believed Trump despite the endless lies or were butt hurt over the fact that Bernie didn’t get nominated.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
If someone serves you something you don’t exactly like, be polite. If someone is struggling with a door & you have a free hand, be polite. If someone is a fascist & everyone who works for him is fascist & they are bringing fascism to your country, FUCK POLITENESS!
— Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) June 14, 2018
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve seen a couple of models of best case scenario, and it’s not looking good for that. Though the worst case scenario models I’ve seen still point to some rain in western Colorado, they’ve already issued flash flood watches near Durango, which is where the largest of our wildfires is currently burning.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Wingnut grievance theatre, when complaining about major coastal universities.
Again, the issue was that UNL did not give the lecturer a hearing before they banned him from further instruction.
re: #10 teleskiguy
Your tweet shows on Twitter as “Sorry that tweet doesn’t exist.”
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
Your tweet shows on Twitter as “Sorry that tweet doesn’t exist.”
I had to edit the fucking thing because I really hate typos I commit on the internet and if possible rectify immediately. Some have slipped through the craks, sure, but dammit Twitter, where’s our edit button!??
Refresh my comment, and all will be good.
re: #19 teleskiguy
The Twitter edit button is a potential fuckery that MUST NOT be permitted to exist.
re: #20 I cannot.
The Twitter edit button is a potential fuckery that MUST NOT be permitted to exist.
I don’t know how Twitter works, but I do know how commenting sections work in general.
Yahoo is a Dumpster fire of people writing a comment, getting a whole bunch of responses, then changing the wording of their comment in the edit function.
Mr. Johnson’s Home for Wayward Political Junkies seems to have it down well: A strictly limited time you can edit a comment, after which it’s frozen.
as if you think there’ll be time after 11/6.
— Jim Sylvester (@JVSylvester) June 15, 2018
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t know how Twitter works, but I do know how commenting sections work in general.
Yahoo is a Dumpster fire of people writing a comment, getting a whole bunch of responses, then changing the wording of their comment in the edit function.
Yep, that’s it. Another fun trick is to get retweeted by someone, then change your display name.
It can be good, like to say something nice about Roseanne to get retweeted by her, then change the display name to “Roseanne is a racist bitch”…but the same trick can be used by them as well.
Minneapolis Police Requested EMS to Use Ketamine as a Sedative https://t.co/fGYJHHNDWY #SmartNews
— 🇺🇸Janice Jhana Elks🌊 (@OMAHAGEMGIRL) June 15, 2018
This story is unbelievable, police ordered EMS workers to repeatedly administer Ketamine to unruly, annoying suspects, multiple people overdoses and had to be resuscitated. https://t.co/QiHjC64Yua
— 🇺🇸Janice Jhana Elks🌊 (@OMAHAGEMGIRL) June 15, 2018
Great American Artist Jon McNaughton Being Accidental Nazi, Again (Wonkette, with a copy of the propaganda art painting, more at the link):
Just in time to celebrate the latest fuckery by ICE, Utah arteest Jon McNaughton has released yet another hagiographic painting of the Great and Powerful Trumpsie to help Americans better understand the times they live in. With his typical blend of the visual style of Thomas Kinkade and the subtle political insights of Ben Garrison, McNaughton once again helps us understand we live in a time of folksy fascism.
This one is titled “Make America Safe,” and like every McNaughton masterpiece, it deploys a metaphor that is quite simply micron-thick. A besuited Donald Trump stands in front of a picket fence with a padlock on the gate, holding in his perfectly normal-sized hand a good old-fashioned skeleton key of the sort that wouldn’t open any padlock manufactured since around the time of, let’s say, the Immigration Act of 1924.
Frankly, we doubt McNaugton is bright enough to have planned any reminder of that antiquated law, with its old racist national quotas aimed at Keeping America White. But the 1924 law is definitely what Team Trump has in mind when they talk about wanting more “skilled” immigrants like, say, people from Norway instead of the dusky hordes from shithole countries. The skill of being white and Christian was just as important to the bigots of the ’20s as to the bigots of today, and the 1924 law was so good at shutting the gate on “inferior races” that it helpfully prevented Jews from escaping to the USA prior to and even during the Holocaust.
The reason they keep repeating the lie is to convince their followers it’s true. Propaganda 101.
Sarah Sanders is repeating over and over again that it’s the law to separate immigrant children and from their parents.
Fact check: It’s not the law. The Trump administration is making the decision to do this and does not have to do it.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 14, 2018
I documented in this column how family separation is a policy choice that the Trump administration has been discussing since right after it came into office. It’s not an obligation. https://t.co/iSmgA0fCds https://t.co/qhXPhrvYbk
— Tim Steller (@senyorreporter) June 14, 2018
Canada is going to win the trade war. Trudeau and his crew know what they are doing and they are well aware that they are answerable to parliament and to Canadian workers and consumers.
The Trumpsters could not find their asses with both hands and have no concept of accountability, since our feckless media, corrupt congress, and brainwashed voters will not use the power they have to remove him.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
The reason they keep repeating the lie is to convince their followers it’s true. Propaganda 101.
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And the White House Press Corpse STILL gives Fuckabee pass after pass.
I’m really dreading tomorrow’s Friday Toilet Flush. Feel like some real bad things are going to go down. Trump may go right ahead and pardon Manafort before he is sent to jail. I got a feeling Rosenstein and Mueller will be fired…
re: #20 I cannot.
The best gal on Twitter on the case with white supremacists and government extremism wants one.
I really really want an Edit button, Twitter.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) June 8, 2018
re: #30 Joe Bacon 🌹
A pardon only covers a federal crime, though.
If Manafort is found by a judge to be in contempt of a court order, for example, cannot the judge still punish him for such?
re: #30 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m really dreading tomorrow’s Friday Toilet Flush. Feel like some real bad things are going to go down. Trump may go right ahead and pardon Manafort before he is sent to jail. I got a feeling Rosenstein and Mueller will be fired…
A pardon means he gives up his V Amendment rights in regard to the crime pardoned.
Firing Rosenstein or Mueller will have millions spilling into the streets.
And pardoning Manafort won’t get the Trump family out of state charges.
I’m still waiting for one of these weasels to pull the Third World solution when the law comes crashing in: Flee the country. The second any of them does that, the whole GOP will be dragged along with it.
“State AG sues meathead Trump clan for sham charity” pic.twitter.com/ryneOME42J
— Conway Titty (@jerweber) June 15, 2018
“All in the (Crime) Family” https://t.co/w2cmQapth8
— Woody Tobias Jr (@woody_tobias) June 15, 2018
We are pleased to report that Battle of Britain veteran Archie McInnes is in good health and high spirits! Archie, who turns 99 next month and is one of only 10 veterans remaining, flew Hurricanes with 601 and 238 Squadrons during the Battle. @jonnycrackers82 @RAFBBMF pic.twitter.com/shioU2pnbp
— Battle of Britain (@MuseumKent) June 13, 2018
Senate GOP leaders have no objections to President Trump’s defense of Kim Jong Un https://t.co/6XDq2z2amV pic.twitter.com/qqsz1FpS0r
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 15, 2018
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
last I remembered, police do not have licenses to practice medicine and the EMS guys who doped up patients/suspects on their say so should have their certs pulled and the police charged with practicing medicine w/o a license… that there is SHIT YOU ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO DO.
You are never allowed to administer drugs without a physicians order, period, end of story. All of those guys in the field only administer drugs on the docs say so and they have every right and an obligation to refuse.
re: #35 Single-handed sailor
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re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Johnson’s Home for Wayward Political Junkies seems to have it down well: A strictly limited time you can edit a comment, after which it’s frozen.
Something conservatives (and some liberals) don’t seem to get, the relationship of the military vis a vis the elected civilian government.
Jim Wright responded in a fourteen tweet thread to someone noting that the President is also the Commander-in-Chief (which the commentator identified as a “rank”) and thus the “tradition” of Presidents saluting (which was only started by Ronald Reagan but this guy doesn’t seem to know that) is important.
The presidency confers the rank of commander in chief. I think I agree with your sentiment, that we should be a nation of civil law rather than a military state, but the tradition of presidents saluting didn’t start with his Orangeness, so it’s not worth nitpicking.
— Greg Brown (@PaddlerPoet) June 14, 2018
It does matter.
It matters a lot.
The president of the United States is a CIVILIAN. By design. The Founders of this country made the military SUBORDINATE TO THE ELECTED CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP on purpose and for very, very good reasons.
1/ https://t.co/qR0CboyRmn— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 14, 2018
re: #1 freetoken
CLINTON FOUNDATION!!!
Jack Pobosiec indulged in a similar WHAT ABOUT???????????
Jesus, not this again!https://t.co/aChP5uV6KZ
The thing is, you KNOW this is BS, just as you KNOW “pizzagate” was BS.
Which makes you a liar and a con artist. A BAD conartist.
Go away Jack. Get a real job! You are making people dangerously stupid.— Hal Perry (@halperry) June 15, 2018
I’m off to bed. G’night y’all … there’s a soft bed of tumbleweeds calling me… .
re: #41 thecommodore
How much money did the Trump Foundation receive in exchange for selling 20% of US uranium to Russia? Oh wait…
— Jack Posobiec🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 14, 2018
How many times did you sneak a taste when you were supervising piss tests? https://t.co/DzsMOw3lYz
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 15, 2018
The IG: Comey conducted unclassified business on his personal email pic.twitter.com/iB1I8MgqcZ
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) June 14, 2018
So James Comey, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have all used private email to conduct government business, and Trump himself uses an unsecured phone. The fake outrage about Hillary Clinton has been exposed. Democrats cannot allow Republican narratives to define our candidates. https://t.co/P2XxQvvfxs
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 14, 2018
What this Arizona state legislator said about immigrants being an existential threat because they are not white is exactly what Dr. John Tanton of Michigan - the intellectual father of the modern anti-immigrant movment - has been saying for years: https://t.co/gqu1OZwIdP
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) June 15, 2018
Dr. John Tanton of Michigan founded or co-founded the leading anti-immigrant groups such as FAIR. He had racist views of non-white immigrants, especially Mexicans.
Many of his papers are sealed at the University of Michigan: https://t.co/4D4bge3mfw— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) June 15, 2018
The Univ. of Michigan won’t release many of its papers from Dr. John Tanton, seen as the architect of modern anti-immigrant movement. An immigration attorney filed lawsuit last year against university, saying they should be released in the public interest: https://t.co/4D4bge3mfw
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) June 15, 2018
Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism https://t.co/fGP7anLqWZ
— Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) June 15, 2018
Neat!
The Roman Empire’s 250,000 miles of road re-imagined as a subway transit map. Source: https://t.co/3o0Vmy4e24 pic.twitter.com/BfRPEtzKzT
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) June 14, 2018
re: #47 wheat-dogg
The Roman Empire’s 250,000 miles of road re-imagined as a subway transit map.
really needs to include the ferry routes
EU backs tariffs against US as trade war escalates
EU member states have approved a raft of tariffs targeting US goods including whiskey and motorcycles in retaliation against duties imposed by President Donald Trump on European metals.
The move fuels a growing transatlantic trade war just days after a disastrous G7 summit in Canada at which Mr Trump lambasted his allies on the issue and refused to adopt a joint statement.
The European countermeasures aimed at €2.8bn ($3.3bn) of American imports come after Mr Trump followed through on his threat to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminium exports at the start of June.
“Member states have unanimously supported the commission’s plan for the adoption of rebalancing measures on the US tariffs on steel and aluminium,” a European Commission source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The source added that the EU tariffs would take effect “in coming days”, with other officials saying they would be implemented by the beginning of July
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The USA is running out of trade partners.
re: #51 Single-handed sailor
The USA is running out of trade partners.
We do not need partners, we need vassal states!
re: #53 Lupin
Japan will stand alongside EU against Trump as WTO battle loom
Norway is also filing a separate complaint against the US with the WTO.
We just lost Norway…the price of dead blue parrots is going to skyrocket.
China-US trade standoff heats up again
The seemingly endless trade standoff between the US and China looks set to continue as US President Donald Trump has given approval on tariffs on Chinese goods amounting to over $50 billion.
The newest tariffs will come despite grumblings in the US market that Trump’s brinkmanship on trade has negatively impacted US industries
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EU countries endorse plan to impose import duties on $3.3bn worth of US products in tariffs war https://t.co/f2bQr2t08B pic.twitter.com/xbeC39eNqy
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 15, 2018
California is on course to reach it’s 2030 goal of 50% renewable energy 10 years early.
CAISO: Renewables served 42% of California demand on May 16, setting record
I think the most important tool to achieve this goal will be vastly increasing our lithium battery storage system. We are working on completing 2 TW and planning another 2 TW of storage. 20 TW would be a good goal.
Some experts here are saying this is Trump’s (or his lunatic nazi coterie’s) way of creating a crisis in order to pull out of the WTO and the GATT.
I didn’t quite follow the reasoning but they speculated that if the US pulls out of the WTO, it may then be forced to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank as well.
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Making Russian Fascism Great Again
As he sabotages America’s strategic alliances in favor of pro-Kremlin autocrats, the president is acting out the geopolitical fantasies of Alexander Dugin, rising Russian fascist ideologue and guru to Trump’s alt-right base
re: #59 Lupin
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Making Russian Fascism Great Again
I do not even give it that much credit, it is just short-sightedness, small-mindedness and total contrarian cussedness.
re: #58 Lupin
Some experts here are saying this is Trump’s (or his lunatic nazi coterie’s) way of creating a crisis in order to pull out of the WTO and the GATT.
I didn’t quite follow the reasoning but they speculated that if the US pulls out of the WTO, it may then be forced to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank as well.
Then the USA will finally be free from Illuminati influences! MAGA!!
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re: #58 Lupin
Some experts here are saying this is Trump’s (or his lunatic nazi coterie’s) way of creating a crisis in order to pull out of the WTO and the GATT.
I didn’t quite follow the reasoning but they speculated that if the US pulls out of the WTO, it may then be forced to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank as well.
I do not see this as part of any contrived plan, just a natural consequence of electing an unqualified candidate as president.
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The old saying, Never see malice where there’s only incompetence.
In honor of Asshole’s birthday today, I’m posting A REAL INVITATION from one of his birthday parties in the 90’s… 😐 pic.twitter.com/LcB0phtozp
— UnsilentMajority 🌹 (@The_UnSilent_) June 14, 2018
re: #63 Lupin
The old saying, Never see malice where there’s only incompetence.
incompetence is often more destructive than malice
Ha ha ha, those poor bastards.
Of all the American chains to make it to Spain … Tony Roma’s? pic.twitter.com/HDmAiK876R
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 15, 2018
re: #66 Single-handed sailor
Of all the American chains to make it to Spain … Tony Roma’s?
The trend a few years back in Germany was for “New York Italian” or “Greek-American” restaurants, which, as far as I can tell, totally flopped.
re: #63 Lupin
The old saying, Never see malice where there’s only incompetence.
In this case there is both
America 2018:
‘We’re teaching children lies’: Hollywood actress takes on public education, evolution, and marriage
[…] she believes schools are teaching kids that “life doesn’t matter,” that it is “just a series of accidents” and that evolution is true.
“We’re teaching children lies and then we wonder [why] they act out,” she said.
[…]
Before reading, any guesses on the actress?
Actress Sam Sorbo is on a mission to help improve education, telling pureflix.com’s “Pure Talk” that she is deeply concerned about the state of schooling in America.
Sorbo, who is a passionate homeschool mom and the wife of “Hercules” actor Kevin Sorbo, made it clear that she believes education is one of the most essential issues of the day.
[…]
re: #69 freetoken
America 2018:
‘We’re teaching children lies’: Hollywood actress takes on public education, evolution, and marriage
Before reading, any guesses on the actress?
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The depressing part is that, especially considering the variety of Christianist she is only marries the “equally yoked”, her husband has to be as much of a dummeff as she is. Time to try to get “Hercules: the Legendary Journeys” and “Andromeda” off whatever streaming services hold them, so that Kevin Bozo doesn’t get any more residuals?
re: #69 freetoken
Wow, now I have TWO Sorbos to not care about.
Michael Cohen has just filed an application for a restraining order against Michael Avenatti. His lawyers are asking a California court to bar Avenatti from talking to the press and or public about Stormy Daniels case. Filing cites Avenatti’s “unquenchable thirst for publicity.”
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) June 15, 2018
‘Mom! Make him stop talking to me!’
I’m just gonna leave this right here, without comment.
O.O
Iron Sky future predictions hitting awfully close to home… And Kim Jong-Un may have noticed it, too
This is great. His family must be so proud of this kid.
Sef Scott has autism and is usually nonverbal. But he stood before his high school classmates to deliver a powerful graduation speech in Plano, Texas. His message: Do the unexpected. pic.twitter.com/eThBaSBr9u
— CNN (@CNN) June 15, 2018
re: #70 Chrysicat
I am on episode 5, season 1 of Andromeda, and I am still wondering how the hell this ever got on TV. Apparently won a few awards too. When I revisit Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Angel I also wonder why I ever liked them in the first place, campy.
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
Andromeda gets better AND worse.
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
It was a time when SciFi series were being pushed hard, post Star Trek, to try anything.
And before all fantasy/magic/vampire stuff took over.
And Lisa Ryder, Lexa Doig, and Laura Bertram were all fantasy girlfriends for pubescent boys watching television.
For complete disclosure, I also absolutely loved Tales of the Gold Monkey, and would cry when it was pre-empted with a live speech from President Ronald Reagan.
re: #77 freetoken
I’m in my 40s…they still are. Although I must confess that my big nerd-crush is the original Pink Ranger.
re: #77 freetoken
It was a time when SciFi series were being pushed hard, post Star Trek, to try anything.
And before all fantasy/magic/vampire stuff took over.
And Lisa Ryder, Lexa Doig, and Laura Bertram were all fantasy girlfriends for pubescent boys watching television.
All that, plus “Gene Roddenberry’s profile went up after his death, to the point where first-run syndies started looking at the treatments his network connections had spiked in the 70s. Besides Rommie and Earth: Final Conflict we came this close to getting the resurrection of failed pilot The Questor Tapes”.
re: #78 Shropshire Slasher
For complete disclosure, I also absolutely loved Tales of the Gold Monkey, and would cry when it was pre-empted with a live speech from President Ronald Reagan.
I would’ve cried if a 10 hr marathon of Weebl’s “Amazing Horse” would be pre-empted by Reagan *ducks*
re: #74 makeitstop
This is great. His family must be so proud of this kid.
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From one Autistic to another, I am. I never could have spoken to my fellow grads then or now.
re: #82 HappyWarrior
From one Autistic to another, I am. I never could have spoken to my fellow grads then or now.
I thought you’d enjoy that. I hope Mom Anon gets to see it.
There is a spotted towhee foraging 10 feet from my front door, along the side of the house, though I highly doubt it would let me photograph it.
I think that’s the first time I’ve seen one live, and it’s definitely not as secretive as its Wiki article makes it out to be.
re: #77 freetoken
It was a time when SciFi series were being pushed hard, post Star Trek, to try anything.
And before all fantasy/magic/vampire stuff took over.
And Lisa Ryder, Lexa Doig, and Laura Bertram were all fantasy girlfriends for pubescent boys watching television.
Whadaya talkin’ about? Lexa Doig is *still* my fantasy girlfriend.
(After Scarlett Johansson. Sorry, Lexa.)
re: #85 wheat-dogg
Although I have to say Cara Gee is moving up the ladder of fantasy GFs.
It’s just 8 am and I’m already screaming at my computer. A relatively petty outrage, but…it’s going to be a long day.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
It’s a new low until the next one. I have no problem saying as nasty shit as possible about Trump, his family, the administration, & the voters that made this a reality.
Every time you think “OMG! That’s the worst!” they do something worse… And worse. And worse.
And all the media is like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It’s mind-boggling.
re: #87 I cannot.
It’s just 8 am and I’m already screaming at my computer. A relatively petty outrage, but…it’s going to be a long day.
Oh, you have got to be kidding me! You just know that, because he’s Milken, he’d immediately sue if he wasn’t given back his trading license, and there will be suckers saying that this time his investment opportunities are legit! Who’s next, Madoof [tpyo intended]?!?
re: #89 Chrysicat
Oh, you have got to be kidding me! You just know that, because he’s Milken, he’d immediately sue if he wasn’t given back his trading license, and there will be suckers saying that this time his investment opportunities are legit! Who’s next, Madoof [tpyo intended]?!?
At this rate, Trump will grant a posthumous pardon to Carlo Ponzi.
re: #89 Chrysicat
Oh, you have got to be kidding me! You just know that, because he’s Milken, he’d immediately sue if he wasn’t given back his trading license, and there will be suckers saying that this time his investment opportunities are legit! Who’s next, Madoof [tpyo intended]?!?
Wait…those are two different guys?
Who’s Next? John Wilkes Booth?
(Yes, I know he was never tried or convicted….)
re: #91 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Wait…those are two different guys?
Who’s Next? John Wilkes Booth?
(Yes, I know he was never tried or convicted….)
Benedict Arnold
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
I am on episode 5, season 1 of Andromeda, and I am still wondering how the hell this ever got on TV. Apparently won a few awards too. When I revisit Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Angel I also wonder why I ever liked them in the first place, campy.
Because Keith Hamilton Cobb shirtless. That’s all the justification I needed for that show.
Excited for the World Cup opener between Russia and Saudi Arabia. It’s a crucial game; the winner gets to run U.S. foreign policy.
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 14, 2018
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
I am on episode 5, season 1 of Andromeda, and I am still wondering how the hell this ever got on TV. Apparently won a few awards too. When I revisit Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Angel I also wonder why I ever liked them in the first place, campy.
I never watched any of them in their first runs but they’re on now in reruns and I’m totally hooked. Especially Angel. It’s Urban fantasy, like Jim Butcher’s novels. Very good television.
re: #6 Single-handed sailor
I have always tried to buy Canadian products first & foremost, but given the current trade enviro, I will ensure I do from now on! No disrespect to my US friends, but I must stand behind & defend Canadian goods
and unironically some of us in the US are supporting this
happy friday one and all
re: #92 wheat-dogg
Benedict Arnold
A much-maligned man, was Arnold—but we’d be speaking English now if it wasn’t for him….
re: #90 wheat-dogg
At this rate, Trump will grant a posthumous pardon to Carlo Ponzi.
He may or may not, but if ‘not’ wins out, it’s totally conceivable that it’s only because of Italians having been turned back into brown people by the MAGAt crowd. I really wish I couldn’t imagine the latter, but these days?
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
This story is unbelievable, police ordered EMS workers to repeatedly administer Ketamine to unruly, annoying suspects, multiple people overdoses and had to be resuscitated.
medicating people against their will?
what have i woken up to this morning?
re: #20 I cannot.
The Twitter edit button is a potential fuckery that MUST NOT be permitted to exist.
Any twitter editing should allow access to the original comment for comparison.
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not see this as part of any contrived plan, just a natural consequence of electing an unqualified candidate as president.
there. aint. no. plan.
re: #92 wheat-dogg
Benedict Arnold
Now, to be fair, prior to the colonial victory, they were involved in acts just as legal as the Johnny Rebs 90 years later, and for only slightly more justifiable reasons (IOW, though Wilberforce himself wasn’t visible on the horizon yet, the Southerners knew that if they stayed Englishmen, their slaves would be free within 50 years. Though Parliament really should have at least cooked up some rotten boroughs, and then the ones who were actually only contemplating rebellion for their rights as Englishmen would have as much representation in Westminster for themselves as any Devonian cousins would). And that wasn’t even the ‘Royal’ Army facing them, though it was HM the King’s personal Navy backing it up; the ECW and especially the Glorious Revolution had already established the concept of the King lacking direct control of parts of the military, and it instead being answerable only to civilians.
Although admittedly Arnold’s still a traitor under any definition, because he played RE Lee before playing Lawrence Chamberlain. But the idea that there would be no democratic freedom in the Englsh world without the Revolution? Totally made-up stuff largely created to whitewash slaveholding and later doubled down upon to play up ‘Southern patriotism’ when Beard and Company were trying to historically justify Jim Crow.
re: #93 sagehen
Because Keith Hamilton Cobb shirtless. That’s all the justification I needed for that show.
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So did you give it up when Rhade’s however-greats grandson replaced Tyr and only come back when he was guest-villain?
re: #99 jeffreyw
Never knew sandhill cranes were at least as territorial and aggressive as geese and swans…or is that a blue heron?
re: #102 Belafon
Any twitter editing should allow access to the original comment for comparison.
as a thought experiment
what if twitter had an edit button from the start
how would we be thinking about this now?
You get tariffs, and you get tariffs - errybody gets tariffs!
JUST IN: Pres. Trump announces tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese technological goods.
“The United States will implement a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods from China that contain industrially significant technologies.” https://t.co/DsDT7Qaidq pic.twitter.com/VOgFF92k2t— ABC News (@ABC) June 15, 2018
Right about now, Xi is on the phone with Kim. https://t.co/PkVh6nW0L7
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 15, 2018
This place is gonna be such a damn wreck when all the retaliatory actions kick in…
Dammit, my computer’s already iffy and now it’ll cost 250 bucks per previous thousand of retail value to replace it. This is even more “FUDT” than I’d already been thinking :-P
re: #108 dangerman
as a thought experiment
what if twitter had an edit button from the start
how would we be thinking about this now?
If they didn’t keep the original comment, we would have a report button for people making too many changes to comments. There would probably also be a snapshot feature. Charles would probably have ten different features in LGF for recording and storing tweets.
re: #109 makeitstop
You get tariffs, and you get tariffs - errybody gets tariffs!
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This place is gonna be such a damn wreck when all the retaliatory actions kick in…
Prices are going to skyrocket. Hope the Trumpers are proud.
re: #111 Belafon
And our host would have discovered new…interesting words to use to describe the Twitter API
re: #110 Chrysicat
Dammit, my computer’s already iffy and now it’ll cost 250 bucks per previous thousand of retail value to replace it. This is even more “FUDT” than I’d already been thinking :-P
Looks like I’ll be buying my next laptop in China.
re: #114 wheat-dogg
Looks like I’ll be buying my next laptop in China.
Updinged, but wouldn’t any sold-in-China machinery probably include a rootkit to turn it into a botnet node should cyberwar be declared?
Trump on Kim Jong Un: “He speaks and his people sit up in attention. I want my people to do the same.”
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) June 15, 2018
The North Korean people are forced to do this, because it’s a dictatorship https://t.co/BLp9taWLQ9
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 15, 2018
Totally by accident I found a band called Brass Against the Machine and my stupid phone isn’t letting me link it here. OMG ya’all they are fucking cool 😎…I just followed them on Facebook.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
JFC. He really does envy Kim’s power.
Yep. He’s going to have his Putin summit, a military parade, pull us out of all international organizations and alliances, name Dotard, Jr. his dynastic heir….
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
Yep. He’s going to have his Putin summit, a military parade, pull us out of all international organizations and alliances, name Dotard, Jr. his dynastic heir….
All correct but it will be Ivanka not Don Jr that gets the designated heir. He’s slightly more progressive than the Romanovs in that field but only because he wants to do the nasty with Ivanka.
re: #118 A Mom Anon
Totally by accident I found a band called Brass Against the Machine and my stupid phone isn’t letting me link it here. OMG ya’all they are fucking cool 😎…I just followed them on Facebook.
RATM covers done mainly with trumpet and trombone rather than elec-guitar? Jazz style most likely?
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area.
Trump’s busy spewing agitprop nonstop all while watching his winning trade war cost Americans even more. He started a war in Asia and has no clue what he’s doing (and you never start a trade war in Asia).
Then he’s going on about the IG report, and lying his ass off to Fox without Fox indicating that what Trump is saying is just word salad lies.
Stop lying.
Obama met with @SpeakerRyan and @SenateMajLdr and asked they sign a joint statement. Both those feckless and craven GOPers refused to sign the statement about Russian interference in the election.
They put party over country.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
But the Fox interview actually goes downhill from there.
Trump is a dangerous egomaniac whose party continues protecting him from the consequences of his insane actions and statements and criminality.
Had anyone else said that, the GOP would have been demanding resignation.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
Trump is a clear and present danger to the Republic and the GOP continues enabling the vain egomaniac because they support his policy outcomes. They see the judiciary getting stacked with right wing extremists, the environmental protections in place are getting rolled back, white nationalist immigration policy is implemented, and civil and voting rights are likewise getting rolled back all to benefit white American men who can’t stand that minorities, women, and LGBT have the rights that those angry white guys have always had.
re: #120 HappyWarrior
All correct but it will be Ivanka not Don Jr that gets the designated heir. He’s slightly more progressive than the Romanovs in that field but only because he wants to do the nasty with Ivanka.
Well, that and Jr. is a loser.
Video of Trump wanting to be just like Jong Un - with everyone paying fealty to him.
Trump says he wants people to treat him like North Koreans treat Kim Jung Un.
Really. pic.twitter.com/C0K7awpMIV— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 15, 2018
re: #122 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area.
Trump’s busy spewing agitprop nonstop all while watching his winning trade war cost Americans even more. He started a war in Asia and has no clue what he’s doing (and you never start a trade war in Asia).
Then he’s going on about the IG report, and lying his ass off to Fox without Fox indicating that what Trump is saying is just word salad lies.
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Trump is a clear and present danger to the Republic and the GOP continues enabling the vain egomaniac because they support his policy outcomes. They see the judiciary getting stacked with right wing extremists, the environmental protections in place are getting rolled back, white nationalist immigration policy is implemented, and civil and voting rights are likewise getting rolled back all to benefit white American men who can’t stand that minorities, women, and LGBT have the rights that those angry white guys have always had.
Fox of course lets his moronic and downright unAmerican behavior go unchallenged but oh they faint their couches if someone says fuck him.
He also is totally nonchalant about the fact that Kim almost certainly had those fired generals imprisoned. Those guys aren’t nice people but if we know anything about the Juche system, it means their families were imprisoned as well.
re: #115 Chrysicat
Updinged, but wouldn’t any sold-in-China machinery probably include a rootkit to turn it into a botnet node should cyberwar be declared?
Haha. Every computer sold in China comes complete with “security software” written by Qihoo (360 antivirus, etc.) and adware from Tencent and Sohu. Not sure about the hardware/firmware side of things, though. My last laptop was a Lenovo purchased in Beijing, which I made more palatable by uninstalling all the crapware. Its replacement was a Lenovo bought at Microcenter in Denver. That was three years ago, and while Lenovo II is chugging along quite well, it may be due for a replacement in another year.
re: #122 lawhawk
You’re asking for courage and sacrifice from Republican leaders. They have none to give. Even to the extent that they disagree with Trump’s policies (see trade war), their voters support Trump. Even tweeting against Trump puts them at risk of losing their primaries. Open, concrete opposition would mean sacrificing their political careers.
I’m worried that the corollary totally applies. If he *doesn’t* also want to treat us like KJU does NK subjects I’ll be shocked. Though admittedly unlike my mom I’ll be fine with my dad getting be-camped because #NeverthelessIPersisted.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
re: #125 HappyWarrior
They’re a bunch of feckless cunts *(a legal term)*
re: #115 Chrysicat
Updinged, but wouldn’t any sold-in-China machinery probably include a rootkit to turn it into a botnet node should cyberwar be declared?
Wipe the infected Windog copy & install Linux.
re: #131 lawhawk
They’re a bunch of feckless cunts.
Ha! Well played It’d be even better if you were British..
re: #115 Chrysicat
Updinged, but wouldn’t any sold-in-China machinery probably include a rootkit to turn it into a botnet node should cyberwar be declared?
At this point, aren’t they just Decepticons just waiting for a signal to turn on their users?
re: #124 lawhawk
Video of Trump wanting to be just like Jong Un - with everyone paying fealty to him.
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Every NK household or business has to have a portrait of the leader in a special place, as a shrine. It must be kept spotlessly clean and in clear view of everyone in the room. Inspectors will appear unannounced to check the quality of the display, and punishments meted for any shortcomings.
At least, that was the SOP for the two previous godheads. I don’t know if Kim Jong-Un requires the same kind of worship.
re: #133 HappyWarrior
Well, I am good at accents.
re: #135 wheat-dogg
Every NK household or business has to have a portrait of the leader in a special place, as a shrine. It must be kept spotlessly clean and in clear view of everyone in the room. Inspectors will appear unannounced to check the quality of the display, and punishments meted for any shortcomings.
At least, that was the SOP for the two previous godheads. I don’t know if Kim Jong-Un requires the same kind of worship.
Trump would kill to have that kind of power in people’s lives.
re: #133 HappyWarrior
Ha! Well played It’d be even better if you were British..
I always read that word as ‘coonts’ - Northern accent, :)
re: #140 makeitstop
I always read that word as ‘coonts’ - Northern accent, :)
Yeah I imagine it being said by an older British guy in a flat cap. Probably enjoys his Newcastle. He hated Thatcher but the BNP and Brexit got him curious.
re: #107 Chrysicat
Never knew sandhill cranes were at least as territorial and aggressive as geese and swans…or is that a blue heron?
It’s a blue heron.
re: #135 wheat-dogg
Jong Un murdered his uncle and other relatives because they were perceived as a threat.
Trump thinks that this is shrewd move and shows he means business.
It’s what dictators do. Trump wants to emulate dictator behavior.
Anyone who was following Trump from before entering the race saw that Trump was an egomaniac who surrounded himself with sycophants who were paid to tell him what he wanted to hear. He didn’t care about competency or skill or knowledge.
All of that has been amplified since entering the WH. The GOP own this shit show.
re: #143 lawhawk
Jong Un murdered his uncle and other relatives because they were perceived as a threat.
Trump thinks that this is shrewd move and shows he means business.
It’s what dictators do. Trump wants to emulate dictator behavior.
Anyone who was following Trump from before entering the race saw that Trump was an egomaniac who surrounded himself with sycophants who were paid to tell him what he wanted to hear. He didn’t care about competency or skill or knowledge.
All of that has been amplified since entering the WH. The GOP own this shit show.
Correct.
re: #99 jeffreyw
Good morning!
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Get offa my lawn!
Jeff, I don’t know what part of the country you in but I subscribe to the Birds of Texas FB page. I’m sure there is one in everyones state. That and the Reptile pages are prolly the only reason I don’t get leave FB. You can get lost in both professional and amateur photos. That and the comments are all wonderful and positive.
Man, the New York AG included in their petition an actual picture of a note that is clearly in Trump’s handwriting directing his charitable foundation to use funds to settle a legal issue involving Mar-a-lago. Trump can deflect all he wants; that’s clearly illegal.
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) June 14, 2018
“But we got rid of Schneiderman. What the hell? Do we have anything on her?” screamed Trump.
re: #146 Belafon
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“But we got rid of Schneiderman. What the hell? Do we have anything on her?” screamed Trump.
I’m really glad but not surprised to see the NY AG’s office hasn’t skipped a beat since Schneidermann resigned.
re: #145 Dave In Austin
Jeff, I don’t know what part of the country you in but I subscribe to the Birds of Texas FB page. I’m sure there is one in everyones state. That and the Reptile pages are prolly the only reason I don’t get leave FB. You can get lost in both professional and amateur photos. That and the comments are all wonderful and positive.
I just can’t bring myself to join Facebook.
re: #147 HappyWarrior
I’m really glad but not surprised to see the NY AG’s office hasn’t skipped a beat since Schneidermann resigned.
Yeah, imagine a government competently run by people who know what they’re doing! What a concept!
re: #137 HappyWarrior
Trump would kill to have that kind of power in people’s lives.
He’s already killed thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico. By eliminating the ACA handling of pre-existing conditions, he’s attempting to kill millions more. So he’s working on it.
re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter
He’s already killed thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico. By eliminating the ACA handling of pre-existing conditions, he’s attempting to kill millions more. So he’s working on it.
But those aren’t the kinds of things that make people scared of you.
Trump ignores that North Korea has been doing this for a VERY LONG TIME.https://t.co/sBsxNPekZD
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
North Korea and China have periodically sent back remains of soldiers they have found in North Korea.
I’m happy for the families that they will get some closure for their fallen relatives, but Trump is touting this like some massive victory.
It isn’t. North Korea didn’t make any concessions here, and it’s just what they’ve been doing in fits and spurts since the end of the war in 1953.
The media, however treats it like a big win.
Fuck these feckless fucks.
re: #133 HappyWarrior
Ha! Well played It’d be even better if you were British..
I def heard the accent
re: #74 makeitstop
This is great. His family must be so proud of this kid.
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My one best friend and my friend now living in Puerto Rico have an autistic son. He is very much like the young man in the video.
When Tommy was 16 he got up in front of a big conference held in Columbus on what direction the healthcare and mental health agencies need to do to help the growing Autism community and gave a speech that had everyone’s attention and caused several people to tear up. He got a standing ovation.
This was funded by Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital and many of the big wigs from those entities and some Ohio politicians were in attendance. It did not phase him at all. They were just people.
My buddy, rest in peace, and his wife were both stunned yet beaming with pride how well he did with his speech.
That’s been almost 9 years ago now. Damn…time.
Tommy, last I heard, is doing well and out on his own now.
re: #106 Chrysicat
So did you give it up when Rhade’s however-greats grandson replaced Tyr and only come back when he was guest-villain?
Of course. I would bear Tyr’s children, but not any of the rest of them.
re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter
He’s already killed thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico. By eliminating the ACA handling of pre-existing conditions, he’s attempting to kill millions more. So he’s working on it.
He certainly is. Groans.
re: #121 Chrysicat
Female lead singer, some guitar and a brass section. I didn’t expect to like it but I did. It’s definitely rock, it’s RATM that I could get my Mom to listen to, lol.
re: #146 Belafon
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That’s the whole case in one tweet:
Man, the New York AG included in their petition an actual picture of a note that is clearly in Trump’s handwriting directing his charitable foundation to use funds to settle a legal issue involving Mar-a-lago. Trump can deflect all he wants; that’s clearly illegal
Multiply by however many examples they are sure to have
re: #154 ObserverArt
My one best friend and my friend now living in Puerto Rico have an autistic son. He is very much like the young man in the video.
When Tommy was 16 he got up in front of a big conference held in Columbus on what direction the healthcare and mental health agencies need to do to help the growing Autism community and gave a speech that had everyone’s attention and caused several people to tear up. He got a standing ovation.
This was funded by Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital and many of the big wigs from those entities and some Ohio politicians were in attendance. It did not phase him at all. They were just people.
My buddy, rest in peace, and his wife were both stunned yet beaming with pride how well he did with his speech.
That’s been almost 9 years ago now. Damn…time.
Tommy, last I heard, is doing well and out on his own now.
Good for Tommy. Your friends raised him well. I have to say. I would be petrified I tell you to do that. I’ve spoken at two funerals and those were tough for me. My cousins always to tell me that they still remember the one at our Nana’s service. Touches me because I thought I did awful as I stammer when I get nervous.
I mean I knew Republicans were asslickers. The Putin stuff astounded me but okay Putin is a fellow Christian and nationalist who has a lot of their same economic beliefs. Kim Jong Un? An actual self described Communist though NK really isn’t Communist at all and the head of a nation and family many of our fathers and grandfather went to war with.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
Did you hear Cockney because I definitely heard Cockney.
I was thinking Christopher Eccleston.
re: #154 ObserverArt
My kid is in a hotel room with two friends right now in Charlotte, he’s waiting on them to wake up after seeing Slayer, Behemoth, Anthrax and I forget who else. If you had told me 15 yrs ago The Kid would be doing this, I would not have believed you. I’m so happy for him and that I never let up finding out what he needed to succeed.
The amazing young man giving the grad speech has a bright future ahead. Never underestimate anyone on the spectrum. Ever.
re: #152 lawhawk
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North Korea and China have periodically sent back remains of soldiers they have found in North Korea.
I’m happy for the families that they will get some closure for their fallen relatives, but Trump is touting this like some massive victory.
It isn’t. North Korea didn’t make any concessions here, and it’s just what they’ve been doing in fits and spurts since the end of the war in 1953.
The media, however treats it like a big win.
Fuck these feckless fucks.
I’m happy they’re getting closure but you are absolutely right. And I think it’s disgusting that Trump is hiding behind those dead servicemen to disguise the fact that he’s cool with Kim’s dictatorship.
re: #148 jeffreyw
I just can’t bring myself to join Facebook.
Don’t go there…. Just don’t. we prolly all agree on this.
Anyway, here’s a Southwestern “Good Morning!”
Drain Holes? I think you mean Rattlesnake Doors. pic.twitter.com/vFL25QOBE0
— Bryan D. Hughes (@rattlesnakeguy) June 15, 2018
How long until Trump says he wishes Americans respected their flag like North Koreans do? And he may have already said that..
re: #99 jeffreyw
Good morning!
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Get offa my lawn!
It is now Jeffry’s Bird Eats Fly-In and Nature Preserve Center.
But Big Bird isn’t being very preserving of others.
re: #166 HappyWarrior
How long until Trump says he wishes Americans respected their flag like North Koreans do? And he may have already said that..
Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Pals will be doing that for him.
re: #168 Joe Bacon 🌹
Trump’s Pulpit Pimp Pals will be doing that for him.
I dunno Joe. He may utter it himself.
re: #166 HappyWarrior
How long until Trump says he wishes Americans respected their flag like North Koreans do? And he may have already said that..
North Koreans don’t rub their faces on their flag, nor do they wear it as a garment. Americans would require some serious b-mods to adopt NK flag etiquette.
Trump would probably like that, though.
re: #169 wheat-dogg
Eccleston has a Northumbrian accent, IIRC. They make a reference to it in the series.
Yep. Hence, ‘coonts.’ :)
re: #169 wheat-dogg
Not necessarily Northumbria, I mean, lots of planets have a north…
re: #171 wheat-dogg
North Koreans don’t rub their faces on their flag, nor do they wear it as a garment. Americans would require some serious b-mods to adopt NK flag etiquette.
Trump would probably like that, though.
He’d like it because it’s a means of control. That’s why he rallied behind shaming the players who knelt.
Trumpers are quiet this morning on my FB feed as nearly everyone has correctly pounced on Trump’s latest Kim Jong Un kiss.
Moreover, he SEES EVERY PERSON IN THE COUNTRY AS PART OF THE MILITARY CHAIN OF COMMAND—“HIS PEOPLE”.
I eagerly await the day when you are given an order by a bootcamp private and expected to follow it, “because civilians are subordinate to all active duty military personnel’.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
BREAKING: President Trump on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un: “He speaks and his people sit up in attention. I want my people to do the same.” pic.twitter.com/K2MiGmPcKL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 15, 2018
Asked about this comment on Kim Jong Un and his people standing for him, President Trump says he “was kidding and you don’t understand sarcasm,” before directing an ad hominem insult at the CNN reporter who asked the question: “You’re the worst!” https://t.co/cH3mBldRJq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 15, 2018
re: #177 HappyWarrior
Trumpers are quiet this morning on my FB feed as nearly everyone has correctly pounced on Trump’s latest Kim Jong Un kiss.
I think the salute may have finally put a ding in his armor.
re: #165 Dave In Austin
Don’t go there…. Just don’t. we prolly all agree on this.
Anyway, here’s a Southwestern “Good Morning!”
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re: #177 HappyWarrior
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REPORTER: Why did Sessions announce the family-separation policy?
TRUMP: He’s following the law.
REPORTER: It’s not a law!
TRUMP: The Democrats gave us the laws. I want the laws to be beautiful. pic.twitter.com/uJnMQ1IqAL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 15, 2018
Here’s a rare case of Trump being directly confronted by reporters about one of his lies. His response: repeating the lie more slowly. https://t.co/sbAdcIhcEu
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 15, 2018
Trump has been calling lawmakers to express enthusiasm for the agreement — but also complaining that he has not had more robust support from GOP lawmakers, said a person with knowledge of the calls, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal conversations. While the president calls the summit a “first step,” with more meetings sure to come, he also has been arguing that he has already done more than his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
In the news just now here in France.
Putin refuses to set foot on US soil; he would rather meet in neutral country; Austria is being considered. Pundits say Trump wants to blow up NATO with Putin meeting.
Cohen signals openness to cooperating with federal investigators
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the President, who has minimized his relationship with Cohen, and comments from the President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani
If Cohen is the fixer then Rudy must be the anti-fixer.
Hasn’t been a good week for Saluting Donnie.
re: #186 JordanRules
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The laws to be beautiful? What the fuck does that even mean? Oh and Donald, you’re fine with getting rid of other laws and regulations, you don’t like. If it truly is the Democrats’ fault, repeal them, you have a majority in Congress but wait it actually isn’t their fault and the fact is you are detaining people who are applying for asylum, You’re a sick of a son bitch.
Hey, all:
Just scanning the news. Anyone else getting the feeling that Trump, after being in contact with North Korea, is ready to get his dictator on? Like, this is the moment where he goes “Fuck the Constitution, this is my country”?
In other news, I learned most of the chords to the Lovin’ Spoonful’s’ “Summer in the City”. Just need to get that little riff down between chorus and verse, where you hear the traffic noise in the background.
Oy.
re: #148 jeffreyw
I just can’t bring myself to join Facebook.
Don’t. I joined early on but rarely use it. Facebook is evil.
The only personal info I have there is that I’m on a low carb diet. I get and give recipes. And I haven’t done that in months. I, in good conscience, can’t support them in any way.
And if Facebook shuttered operations, the world would be a better place.
re: #192 Mattand
Hey, all:
Just scanning the news. Anyone else getting the feeling that Trump, after being in contact with North Korea, is ready to get his dictator on? Like, this is the moment where he goes “Fuck the Constitution, this is my country”?
In other news, I learned most of the chords to the Lovin’ Spoonful’s’ “Summer in the City”. Just need to get that little riff down between chorus and verse, where you hear the traffic noise in the background.
Oy.
He can’t “get his dictator on” until the majority of us give in.
There’s not a one of them who didn’t retire, who’s unwilling to instead lose their country for their job. #ALLenemiesForeignAndDOMESTIC. Don’t they have to take that oath just like the military and the police?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
re: #186 JordanRules
TRUMP: The Democrats gave us the laws. I want the laws to be beautiful
this is nonsense
non-sense
the president* of the united states
Today’s POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered. Clearly someone feels emboldened. Will GOP leaders continue to shrug this off? Bury their head in the sand?
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) June 15, 2018
The main message of the IG report is that President Trump is lying about the Justice Department and FBI. https://t.co/FQpc6QGzDe
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) June 15, 2018
“Trump is lying” is trending on twitter this morning. Finally.
It felt kinda lonely 7 years ago when I said “Trump is lying” about the president’s birth certificate. Because no one else in media called it a lie, the lying got worse.
And here we are. https://t.co/F3nK5pr5bM— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) June 15, 2018
BREAKING: Trump says officials at FBI ‘were plotting against my election’.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 15, 2018
Live tweeting lies from the President is not journalism. https://t.co/NjLUCUO8fS
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) June 15, 2018
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 15, 2018
“I think that the report yesterday … totally exonerates me. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction,” President Trump says of the Justice Department IG report https://t.co/PwsMccqlXf
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 15, 2018
This is a bizarre, pathological, obscene, enormous, mind-numbing, frightening lie. The IG report had absolutely nothing to do with the investigation into Russian collusion or Trump’s alleged obstruction of justice. https://t.co/LTq8mEzHLw
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 15, 2018
Mixed bag I suppose.
REPORTER: Why did Sessions announce the family-separation policy?TRUMP: He’s following the law.
REPORTER: It’s not a law!
TRUMP: The Democrats gave us the laws. I want the laws to be beautiful
and again - don’t argue with him
focus the question for a simple and unequivocal answer:
REPORTER: What specific law are you talking about?
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
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I will NEVER stand for or bow down to that SOB.
NEVER!
re: #191 HappyWarrior
The laws to be beautiful? What the fuck does that even mean? Oh and Donald, you’re fine with getting rid of other laws and regulations, you don’t like. If it truly is the Democrats’ fault, repeal them, you have a majority in Congress but wait it actually isn’t their fault and the fact is you are detaining people who are applying for asylum, You’re a sick of a son bitch.
+1
Chow wagon scheduled to be here in parking lot for lunch. A true western PA franchise named “Wicked Ribs ‘n At”. For those not familiar with Pittsburghese lingo, “‘n At” means “and other things also”.
re: #204 Eventual Carrion
Chow wagon scheduled to be here in parking lot for lunch. A true western PA franchise named “Wicked Ribs ‘n At”. For those not familiar with Pittsburghese lingo, “‘n At” means “and other things also”.
I hear “Wicked” in Bostonese, though.
Then there’s this SOB…
NEW: Pence has turned his office into the gateway for lobbyists in the Trump administration, with registrations double any year under Biden or Cheney. Many of his political associates are reaping quite a windfall - as some raise money for him. https://t.co/slCxDZlPWe
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 15, 2018
re: #199 JordanRules
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Mixed bag I suppose.
Chuck Todd is willing to even imply that tRump might have been even just 99% truthful, ever? Has his account been hacked?
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
You say ‘campy’ like that’s a bad thing
re: #199 JordanRules
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Mixed bag I suppose.
mixed bag yes
maybe also a small directional change
re: #179 The Vicious Babushka
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We ARE NOT your people you fucking arrogant asshole.
Unfortunately you are OUR president.
Hopefully not for much longer.
I’m hoping for a negligent discharge
BREAKING: an adult male was transported from home of @USMC Commandant home on Capitol Hill to a local hospital priority 1 gun shot wound. Critical condition.
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) June 15, 2018
Spokesperson @USMC confirms a marine inside a guard post in front of Commandants home was transported. “There was no assailant”
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) June 15, 2018
Marine in guard post outside @USMC Commandants home is in stable condition after suffering a self inflicted gun shot wound. No word if intentional or accidental. pic.twitter.com/0H8czeEaj3
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) June 15, 2018
re: #207 JordanRules
Then there’s this SOB…
NEW: Pence has turned his office into the gateway for lobbyists in the Trump administration, with registrations double any year under Biden or Cheney. Many of his political associates are reaping quite a windfall - as some raise money for him.
they dont even try to hide it
re: #213 electrotek
Eid Mubarak to everyone here!
Eid Mubarak to all. May it bring times of joy and peace ahead. Photo of Eid Swings in Tripoli Lebanon 1976.#عيدكم_مبارك pic.twitter.com/988T7lWPRJ
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) June 15, 2018
re: #57 Single-handed sailor
California is on course to reach it’s 2030 goal of 50% renewable energy 10 years early.
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CAISO: Renewables served 42% of California demand on May 16, setting record
I think the most important tool to achieve this goal will be vastly increasing our lithium battery storage system. We are working on completing 2 TW and planning another 2 TW of storage. 20 TW would be a good goal.
But I thought California was a crime ridden cesspool?
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re: #191 HappyWarrior
The laws to be beautiful? What the fuck does that even mean? Oh and Donald, you’re fine with getting rid of other laws and regulations, you don’t like. If it truly is the Democrats’ fault, repeal them, you have a majority in Congress but wait it actually isn’t their fault and the fact is you are detaining people who are applying for asylum, You’re a sick of a son bitch.
He doesn’t care about being right or understanding laws.
He cares about bashing Democrats/Obama/Clinton and feeding the flotsam he calls his base.
Unfortunately,, that’s 100% of who can get elected. All the ones who even just-support-him-somewhat-lukewarmly get primaried, and all the ones who got primaried this spring lost. So they’ll be even more in lockstep in January. We just have to hope they’re the opposition then.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
Because if they aren’t, the term ‘opposition’ will more accurately be ‘dissident’, with EVERY BIT of baggage it normally carries including mysterious deaths.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
two notes on the NY AG suing the trump foundation et al
The New York Times notes the Trump Foundation statement pushing back on the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit alleging that the Trump Organization improperly controlled the Trump Foundation came from a Trump Organization email address.
remember that photo of the evidence yesterday with djt’s signature telling ‘allan’ to pay the personal debt out of foundation funds? this bonehead play is the same thing all over again - it confirms it
second - the AG notified the IRS
DJT and whoever signed all those returns under penalty of perjury (just like you do on your individual tax return)
never a big deal
until you get caught
yup - people go to jail for that
further the irs could retroactively revoke the 501c3 status.
that resulting multi year unpaid tax bill with interest and penalties would be, well big(ly)
re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹
I will NEVER stand for or bow down to that SOB.
NEVER!
My religious belief* is that Jesus is Lord, not Donald Trump. Which is why American Evangelicalism is such a cluster. They’re willing to bow down to today’s version of Caesar in exchange for power. Blergh.
*Which I want to make clear, I don’t want to impose on anyone, it’s just my thing.
re: #199 JordanRules
LOL, I am still blocked from following Chuck Todd…
re: #218 ObserverArt
He doesn’t care about being right or understanding laws.
He cares about bashing Democrats/Obama/Clinton and feeding the flotsam he calls his base.
every time i try to make sense of something, i need people like you to remind me what’s really going on
my brain keeps trying to make all of this logical and sane
can’t be done
i need constant reminders lest i become full on don quixote
re: #222 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
LOL, I am still blocked from following Chuck Todd…
Wow. What’d you say to him to get that to happen?
re: #222 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
LOL, I am still blocked from following Chuck Todd…
Being blocked by Tuck Choad: Achievement Unlocked
re: #226 Teukka
Breaking news for the Stockholm County lizardim:
There is a wildfire in Ryssviken in Värmdö, visible from much of S. downtown and near suburbs. Fire dept en route.[Embedded content]
Are they as common there as in the Sierras, Cascades, Santa Anas and Rockies?
And here we go…
JUST IN: China vows to impose tariffs on US in response to Trump, calls on all countries to take action against US https://t.co/ZxkMY5R4G5 pic.twitter.com/vDb4VK6Vrk
— The Hill (@thehill) June 15, 2018
Trump: Nobody is better at slapping on tariffs than me.
China: Hold my Tsingtao. https://t.co/VnRZNI7uKF— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 15, 2018
So Trump says he wants Americans to treat him like North Koreans treat a dictator like Kim and we STILL get crickets from the congressional GOP.
re: #228 Chrysicat
Are they as common there as in the Sierras, Cascades, Santa Anas and Rockies?
Very rare, Like 1x every 5 years or so. This is the 3rd in this county within the last 2 weeks.
re: #231 Teukka
Very rare, Like 1x every 5 years or so. This is the 3rd in this county within the last 2 weeks.
Ick. Guessing that’s a permanent climate-change effect, too. Nothing like every forest in the world becoming places you shouldn’t settle in permanently because the ecosystem needs fire.
re: #229 makeitstop
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Gah…well I guess we all better get used to paying through the nose for cell phones, tablets, video game consoles, TVs, PCs, Bluetooth speakers, etc, etc.
I stand by my earlier prediction that Trump will drive us into a recession (GOP presidents seem to be pretty good at that).
re: #220 dangerman
two notes on the NY AG suing the trump foundation et al
remember that photo of the evidence yesterday with djt’s signature telling ‘allan’ to pay the personal debt out of foundation funds? this bonehead play is the same thing all over again - it confirms it
second - the AG notified the IRS
DJT and whoever signed all those returns under penalty of perjury (just like you do on your individual tax return)
never a big deal
until you get caught
yup - people go to jail for thatfurther the irs could retroactively revoke the 501c3 status.
that resulting multi year unpaid tax bill with interest and penalties would be, well big(ly)
Early on some people figured his taxes would bring him down just like Al Capone.
All along people thought he would be run out of office for being unfit.
A few months ago Stormy and The Bunny was considered to be what takes him out.
I want the Trifecta!
All of them. IRS. Women. Impeachment/resignation.
Stomp that fat orange pig into the slime pit he crawled out of.
re: #222 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
LOL, I am still blocked from following Chuck Todd…
That’s a badge of honor I’m proud of because Chuck U blocked me too!
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
So Trump says he wants Americans to treat him like North Koreans treat a dictator like Kim and we STILL get crickets from the congressional GOP.
Maybe we’ll get someone who is “concerned” and just call that a win.
re: #199 JordanRules
Chuck Todd has finally seen the light??? Hopefully this was a permanent change and not just a temporary reflex at which he will revert to his usual style.
re: #224 Chrysicat
I always trolled him and called him out for being a shallow, feckless idiot.
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
Doesn’t Trump now claim he was joking or using sarcasm? My guess is he will continue to make these statements until he no longer receives push back, at which time he will in fact demand that he be treated like an emperor.
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
So Trump says he wants Americans to treat him like North Koreans treat a dictator like Kim and we STILL get crickets from the congressional GOP.
They have already taken Trump up on that deal.
They all bow down.
Maybe they are concerned Trump will order the GOP majority congresscritters onto the Capitol steps and mow them all down with an anti-aircraft gun.
Come to think of it, that might not be a bad thing.
///sorry not sorry. Not having it today. Fuck ‘em all.
re: #239 Hecuba’s daughter
Doesn’t Trump now claim he was joking or using sarcasm? My guess is he will continue to make these statements until he no longer receives push back, at which time he will in fact demand that he be treated like an emperor.
Yup. Just like an abuser.
re: #233 Eclectic Cyborg
Gah…well I guess we all better get used to paying through the nose for cell phones, tablets, video game consoles, TVs, PCs, Bluetooth speakers, etc, etc.
I stand by my earlier prediction that Trump will drive us into a recession (GOP presidents seem to be pretty good at that).
Tweety Amin is stupid enough to believe he’s put a tariff on cans of Chun King and La Choy Chow Mein.
re: #239 Hecuba’s daughter
Doesn’t Trump now claim he was joking or using sarcasm? My guess is he will continue to make these statements until he no longer receives push back, at which time he will in fact demand that he be treated like an emperor.
I fully expect that Trump will attempt to have a major news organization shut down and its reporters arrested before the end of the year.
re: #243 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I fully expect that Trump will attempt to have a major news organization shut down and its reporters arrested before the end of the year.
That news organization just got new ownership. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Worst case scenario: AT&T makes CNN more conservative.
Sadly, Trump Cultists are still not embarrassed by their Dear Leader.
“….Every single day has been worse than the day before it….”
re: #226 Teukka
Breaking news for the Stockholm County lizardim:
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Update, this is a 4 alarm fire.
re: #237 Hecuba’s daughter
Chuck Todd has finally seen the light??? Hopefully this was a permanent change and not just a temporary reflex at which he will revert to his usual style.
I’ll believe it when he has someone who isn’t a Trump apologist Republican on “Meet the Press”.
re: #241 JordanRules
Yup. Just like an abuser.
yup
if no one reacts, i meant it
if not, …just kidding
Part of me wants to be pleased that ABC used “negligent discharge” instead of “accidental”
But, I’m guessing they just parroted the some PAO’s comment
NEW: U.S. Marine on guard outside Marine Corps Commandant’s house in Washington, D.C. in stable condition after suffering self-inflicted gunshot wound; U.S. official confirms to @ABC incident was likely a negligent discharge. https://t.co/k3IxTehUsY pic.twitter.com/lZdbRCTbkY
— ABC News (@ABC) June 15, 2018
re: #249 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This Marine was a trained armed guard. And just a reminder, Dotard and the GOP believe all military personnel should be armed 24/7 while on base.
CNN banner says Manafort is going to jail…
re: #250 Dr. Matt
This Marine was a trained armed guard. And just a reminder, Dotard and the GOP believe all military personnel should be armed 24/7 while on base.
Right there with ya
A Marine suffered a gunshot wound at or or near the Home of the Commandants this morning in what is believed to be a negligent discharge, a Marine official says, speaking on background due to sensitivity of situation. Likely someone on guard duty, official says. Gathering info.
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) June 15, 2018
Phew. https://t.co/XHlBs9GTRB
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) June 15, 2018
Again, this is why the US military is not a big fan of authorizing service members to carry personally owned weapons around bases. Especially concealed ones.
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 15, 2018
BREAKING: Federal judge jails ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort ahead of trial, citing recently filed obstruction charges.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2018
Sen Graham to @CNN on his support of Trump admin: “I know how the game is played … and I don’t give a shit”
— Carlo Muñoz (@NatSecCarlo) June 15, 2018
Schrodinger’s Trump.
He’s both a boon to Republican governance, and a menace to the long standing principles & policies of the nation— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 15, 2018
re: #251 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
CNN banner says Manafort is going to jail…
What a disgusting, embarrassing mess.
Shame on the two bit mobster in the White House, all of his lieutenants, asskissing lackeys and every American dumb enough to vote for him.
re: #253 Dr. Matt
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I’m getting a margarita tonight and toasting to this asshat being in jail.
Breaking: Judge sends Manafort to jail, pending trial. https://t.co/4eVJJk006X
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) June 15, 2018
re: #199 JordanRules
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Mixed bag I suppose.
Habersham Halberstam on Joe McCarthy’s relationship to the press—eerily reminiscent:
Here is David Halberstam on how Joe McCarthy played the journalists assigned to cover him pic.twitter.com/bZMaUwrDC0
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) June 13, 2018
Every reporter needs to read this page https://t.co/yTI1DvaZZT
— Brian Bennett (@ByBrianBennett) June 15, 2018
re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Right there with ya
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Hell, I was active duty for 4 years and I would not have wanted every member armed 24/7. Let Shore Patrol and MPs carry.
I WANT TO SEE IMAGES OF THE PERP WALK!!!
re: #256 CongoJack
I’m getting a margarita tonight and toasting to this asshat being in jail.
I’m low carb, but you convinced me to indulge as well.
re: #250 Dr. Matt
This Marine was a trained armed guard. And just a reminder, Dotard and the GOP believe all military personnel should be armed 24/7 while on base.
Phffft!! What does the military know about handling guns? Cletus and Bubba gots it under control, y’all!
re: #251 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
BREAKING NEWS: Paul Manafort’s bail revoked. pic.twitter.com/2ocfW6qJ80
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 15, 2018
Trump’s going to pitch a fit over the fact that his buddy Manafort’s going to jail after having bail revoked.
Manafort engaged in witness tampering while out on bail. He was working with a Russian operative to get them to change testimony in Mueller investigation. https://t.co/tN9YA4l5m9— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
re: #255 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
What a disgusting, embarrassing mess.
Shame on the two bit mobster in the White House, all of his lutenists, asskissing lackeys and every American dumb enough to vote for him.
and let us remember that all the charges linking manafort to russia etc
this is trumps campaign manager
do not believe trump had no idea before hiring him
do not for a second let them try to spin it was all manafort personally / there was some “wall” between manafort and the campaign
he was campaign manager because of his ties
re: #256 CongoJack
I’m getting a margarita tonight and toasting to this asshat being in jail.
it’s 5 o’clock somewhere
Manafort was more of a Coffee Boy Campaign Manager, nobody really ever heard of him….
re: #264 Dr. Matt
Nah, that’s going to court.
I want to see him escorted to inprocessing
re: #261 Dr. Matt
I’m low carb, but you convinced me to indulge as well.
margaritas are so chilled that the amount of energy expended to bring the liquid to body temp is way higher than the calories in the drink // 1/2
Or he’ll possibly have his pardon ready for Hannity to gloat over tonight.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
re: #270 dangerman
margaritas are so chilled that the amount of energy expended to bring the liquid to body temp is way higher than the calories in the drink // 1/2
Better get a frozen margarita then!
Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up!
Breaking: #MichaelCohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family - source familiar tells CNN.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 15, 2018
re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Nah, that’s going to court.
I want to see him escorted to inprocessing
cuffed (procedure and all, no exceptions, right?)
re: #276 dangerman
cuffed (procedure and all, no exceptions, right?)
I’m going to be realistic, and expect him to be ordered to surrender.
FUN FACT: This morning, Trump said that his own campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had “nothing to do with our campaign.” 90 minutes later, Paul Manafort is going to jail.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) June 15, 2018
Happy as I am to see that, that…may…be less of a good reason to flip than he thinks. His family live around a lot of Russians and Putin’s gonna feel murderous, most likely.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
So if tRump sends the Secret Service to prevent the U.S. Marshals from taking Manafort into custody, you think they’ll do it?
Or Cohen, if it’s too late for Manafort?
Wow. Manafort going to jail, Says Who about to flip.
And that’s just before noon! A couple more indictments before 5:00 would make this the greatest day of the Trump presidency.
C’mon, Mueller…help an old man out here.
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump lies of Manafort: “Paul Manafort worked for me for a very short period of time…He worked for me, what, for 49 days or something?”
He worked for Trump for 144 days, from March 29, 2016 to August 19, 2016.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 15, 2018
How long before Trump calls on his followers to take up arms?
Then finds out the majority are bots…..
“Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this [Trump] campaign to where it is” pic.twitter.com/n7QoAh3T6Z
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) June 15, 2018
Judge to Paul Manafort: “You have abused the trust placed in you six months ago.” On rejected Manafort’s lawyer’s request for a clearer “no contact” order in lieu of going to jail: “This is not middle school. I can’t take his cell phone.” https://t.co/UcO5XTnhlM
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 15, 2018
re: #284 Barefoot Grin
How long before Trump calls on his followers to take up arms?
They already have…
Do you think either Trump or Rudy is smart enough to realise that? Clinton’s old liar-for-hire might, but he lacks Rudy’s personal relationship with the usurper.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
Source: https://t.co/aLAiKa2LTghttps://t.co/6C3PVJl3Qqhttps://t.co/0KyECZ5xzD
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 15, 2018
re: #278 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m going to be realistic, and expect him to be ordered to surrender.
i thought we were playing fantasy perp-walk
i dont care how it happens as long as they slam the bars shut behind him
re: #281 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So if tRump sends the Secret Service to prevent the U.S. Marshals from taking Manafort into custody, you think they’ll do it?
Or Cohen, if it’s too late for Manafort?
oh so we are playing fantasy perp-walk
re: #278 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m going to be realistic, and expect him to be ordered to surrender.
He was in court. Judge sent him straight to jail from there.
Cohen’s fucked (legal term). He can’t afford legal counsel along the lines of the now departed McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. They were probably billing him six figures a month. But he needs that level of counsel because of the array of crimes and criminal acts he’s involved in.
It comes down to money, and Cohen doesn’t have deep pockets. He also may be realizing that cutting a deal will salvage something for his family.
While Cohen might think a pardon could help, it will end up hitting Trump even harder, because Cohen will be compelled to testify against those he worked for: Trump, and potentially Sean Hannity.
WHAT????
QUESTION: “Did you dictate the statement about Donald Trump Jr.?”
TRUMP: “Let’s not talk about it. You know what that is? It’s irrelevant. It’s a statement to the phony, failing, New York Times… That’s not a statement to a high tribunal of judges.”— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 15, 2018
re: #265 dangerman
and let us remember that all the charges linking manafort to russia etc
this is trumps campaign managerdo not believe trump had no idea before hiring him
do not for a second let them try to spin it was all manafort personally / there was some “wall” between manafort and the campaignhe was campaign manager because of his ties
Fake news!
“He was only with the campaign a few months and he was the campaign manager coffee boy. I never knew him…no one did, does. Paul who???”
re: #268 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
Manafort was more of a Coffee Boy Campaign Manager, nobody really ever heard of him….
Damnit…I shoulda read on.
re: #293 lawhawk
Cohen’s fucked (legal term). He can’t afford legal counsel along the lines of the now departed McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. They were probably billing him six figures a month. But he needs that level of counsel because of the array of crimes and criminal acts he’s involved in.
It comes down to money, and Cohen doesn’t have deep pockets..
justice for the rich
different justice for the not rich
re: #287 b.d. (Witch Hunt!!)
They already have…
Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick —if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.
re: #282 makeitstop
Wow. Manafort going to jail, Says Who about to flip.
And that’s just before noon! A couple more indictments before 5:00 would make this the greatest day of the Trump presidency.
C’mon, Mueller…help an old man out here.
It’s Friday…Friday!
Today Paul Manafort was greeted with the chant of “lock him up” pic.twitter.com/gwKqRmb5AA
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) June 15, 2018
re: #297 dangerman
justice for the rich
different justice for the not rich
Yeah, but did you ever think it would work in the non-oligarchs’ favour?
Cohen’s gonna roll because he’s not rich enough to buy injustice, and that will doom the guys up the ladder who are rich enough to get off under normal circumstances.
Of course, the end result is as likely to be civil war as it is successfully arresting Trump, but he’ll seal Manafort’s case, which should Agnew Mother’s husband…
re: #258 Barefoot Grin
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Once more for emphasis:
Why untrue tweets from Trump shouldn’t be unchallenged in headlines
…96 percent of the American public has chosen not to follow Trump’s Twitter feed and voraciously consume his thoughts unfiltered, according to that Gallup poll. Reiterating his arguments without additional context in a headline risks doing little more than assuring that many of that 96 percent end up with the same inaccurate information in their media diet.
Manafort, Trump’s longtime friend, campaign manager, and guy who helped pick Pence as VP, thought it wise to conspire with foreign national to intimidate witnesses and obstruct justice while on bail - violating the terms of said bail.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
It’s clear he didn’t read the report.
Some sycophantic simpering adviser told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. He tuned out Rosenstein yesterday and heard only Clinton, Comey, and wrongdoing. He ignored context or facts.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
re: #139 Shropshire Slasher
I don’t remember this, but, damn, pollution anyone? Ah, the days before plastic bags.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
re: #304 lawhawk
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He thinks he’s been exonerated because his yes men told him he was. Shielding him from reality is killing us.
re: #306 HappyWarrior
He thinks he’s been exonerated because his yes men told him he was. Shielding him from reality is killing us.
If we hold steady, this will bury him soon.
re: #304 lawhawk
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It could be as simple as Trump not knowing the definition of “exonerates”.
re: #307 Belafon
If we hold steady, this will bury him soon.
Load those ol’ scales of justice up. We’ll get them to tip against him yet.
re: #307 Belafon
If we hold steady, this will bury him soon.
I’d love to see him face a judge in a criminal court telling him he’s been charged for criminal conspiracy against the United States.
re: #308 Dr. Matt
It could be as simple as Trump not knowing the definition of “exonerates”.
Could be.
re: #301 Chrysicat
Yeah, but did you ever think it would work in the non-oligarchs’ favour?
Cohen’s gonna roll because he’s not rich enough to buy injustice, and that will doom the guys up the ladder who are rich enough to get off under normal circumstances.
Of course, the end result is as likely to be civil war as it is successfully arresting Trump, but he’ll seal Manafort’s case, which should Agnew Mother’s husband…
yes, that’s exactly why i called him “not rich” (anymore)
as opposed to “poor” like the rest of us who never even get the chance
whatever defence money he had he burned through in what 3-4 months or so?
so now his remaining chances at the justice system are like so many other people - he’ll make decisions dictated because he’s got no money to throw at it
re: #307 Belafon
If we hold steady, this will bury him soon.
Indeed. The anger over his un-American behavior (and the wllingness of the media to actually start calling them out for their lies) has really ratcheted up since G7.
Trump is going to hit his breaking point way before the American people reach theirs.
We’re stronger than that disgusting legacy rich boy. And I think he’s starting to realize it.
re: #301 Chrysicat
…..he’ll seal Manafort’s case, which should Agnew Mother’s husband…
didnt see that the first time
that is a clever turn of a phrase
re: #313 makeitstop
Indeed. The anger over his un-American behavior (and the wllingness of the media to actually start calling them out for their lies) has really ratcheted up since G7.
Trump is going to hit his breaking point way before the American people reach theirs.
We’re stronger than that disgusting legacy rich boy. And I think he’s starting to realize it.
And I don’t think any of us are saying it will be pretty when it happens, but we - in this case meaning the majority of Americans - can get through this.
I see over at DK, btw, that people are marching in protest of his separation policy. This is needed and good.
re: #306 HappyWarrior
He thinks he’s been exonerated because his yes men told him he was. Shielding him from reality is killing us.
no one necessarily had to read it and tell him anything
he’d react the same no matter what
re: #301 Chrysicat
Agnew Mother’s husband…
I’m drawing a blank on that reference, I know Spiro. I’m just not getting the full phrase.
re: #317 I cannot.
I’m drawing a blank on that reference, I know Spiro. I’m just not getting the full phrase.
‘Mother’s husband’ = Pence.
re: #317 I cannot.
I’m drawing a blank on that reference, I know Spiro. I’m just not getting the full phrase.
Mike Pence exclusively refers to Karen as ‘Mother’. And Pence is tied directly to Manafort, so he’s way too dirty to remain in the line of succession.
re: #308 Dr. Matt
It could be as simple as Trump not knowing the definition of “exonerates”.
I know he knows what ex means, maybe he is having trouble with the onerates part?
re: #313 makeitstop
Indeed. The anger over his un-American behavior (and the wllingness of the media to actually start calling them out for their lies) has really ratcheted up since G7.
Trump is going to hit his breaking point way before the American people reach theirs.
We’re stronger than that disgusting legacy rich boy. And I think he’s starting to realize it.
Yep.
And he is not going to go down easy. This may be one of the craziest whacked out displays of completely losing it in public ever.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes off being asked a pointed question and he attacks a reporter. Yeah, that nuts.
I wonder if the US secret service has a plan in place to deal with him should he lose it publicly. I can see a point where he may have to be restrained and led away.
The AP has learned that Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign is secretly working with former employees of disgraced political consultancy company Cambridge Analytica. https://t.co/0Y81p4hg4D
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2018
OK, I’m ready for the Friday news dump. Trump on the lawn is a distraction. Manafort going to jail is an appetizer. Let’s have it.
Oh, yeah. And herons are my favorite birds. I have a story, and it’s beautiful, but sad. Maybe later.
re: #320 b.d. (Lock Him Up!)
I know he knows what ex means, maybe he is having trouble with the onerates part?
as we were saying the other day w/r/t disgruntled etc, no one ever gets “onerated”
re: #322 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The AP has learned that Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign is secretly working with former employees of disgraced political consultancy company Cambridge Analytica.
There’s a warrant somewhere with Brad Parscale’s name on it.
You’re next, Web Boy.
re: #317 I cannot.
I’m drawing a blank on that reference, I know Spiro. I’m just not getting the full phrase.
Mother’s husband - that’d be Mike Pence.
re: #325 makeitstop
There’s a warrant somewhere with Brad Parscale’s name on it.
You’re next, Web Boy.
God, I hope so. He’s been unduly provocative lately. And I hope there’s a major puddle under Roger Stone’s chair right now.
re: #326 lawhawk
Mother’s husband - that’d be Mike Pence.
And ‘Agnew’ has become a verb. Thanks, Chrysicat!
re: #324 dangerman
as we were saying the other day w/r/t disgruntled etc, no one ever gets “onerated”
One gets “the onus put upon” one. Getting “exonerated” is having it taken off.
#Russia’s state TV:
Participants discuss @BuzzFeed report that Trump told G7 leaders “Crimea is Russian, because everyone who lives there speaks Russian.” They interpret it as Trump’s recognition of Crimea’s status.
The hosts triumphantly declare: “Crimea is ours, Trump is ours!” pic.twitter.com/kOhrIodHU7— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 15, 2018
#Russia’s state TV:
Russian parliamentarian Vyacheslav Nikonov (Molotov’s grandson) says:
“Since Trump says Crimea is Russian because everyone there speaks Russian, what’s the problem with Donbas?”https://t.co/obb0Goh7a6— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 15, 2018
You knew this was coming… and from there on will continue, linguistic irridentism overturning international law… But beware the precedent. https://t.co/DTvtqGQ6L6
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) June 15, 2018
How Trump is screwing the world…. https://t.co/4CA6GbDr8l
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 15, 2018
re: #326 lawhawk
Mother’s husband - that’d be Mike Pence.
All I was able to think of was Proto-Trump Reagan calling Nancy “Mother”.
The lack of affordable, accessible #Childcare is still the biggest obstacle that stops women from fully participating in the workforce. We fought hard for (and won!) the largest EVER expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grants in the omnibus.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 15, 2018
I believe Ivanka keeps tweeting about children because she’s trolling about how her father is abusing immigrant children. She’s enjoying this. It’s sadistic. https://t.co/I5q8yMwq2g
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 15, 2018
.@NancyPelosi: “This is the first time in this era that we had a president that has rejected newcomers to our country.” pic.twitter.com/4jLtfk3Xmj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 15, 2018
Not the first time.
But certainly the first time that someone has been an overtly white supremacist in indicating that he wants only white Christians from Europe coming and is looking to roll back immigration status for legal immigrants who have already obtained asylum here.
He doesn’t want dark skinned folks coming. He doesn’t want Muslims. He’s taking a page out of the white supremacists and goddamned Nazis, and the GOP continues supporting his racist positions - mostly because they’re also white supremacists. Enabling a white supremacist and the bigotry/hate that Trump engages in daily makes them complicit and racists themselves.
They own the output.
literally all paul manafort had to do to enjoy a quiet life of egregious crime was not win a presidential election
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 15, 2018
re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
You knew this was coming… and from there on will continue, linguistic irridentism overturning international law… But beware the precedent.
Then Brighton Beach is also Russia…
re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #331 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
All I was able to think of was
Proto-TrumpReagan calling Nancy “Mother”.
Oh, man. Reagan was a reality TV guy, too! Death Valley Days.
We made a much better Trump-Kim film than the White House did. Father’s Day fishing special, in which Trump catches The Big One. pic.twitter.com/TD2HdTabhb
— Alex Kliment (@SaoSasha) June 15, 2018
imagine you and your father and grandfather spent their lives living in fear of the united states, always questioning what was truth and what was spun by the seemingly-omnipotent empire, and then you finally get to the table and the whole thing is run by an actual dipshit
— Frank Furtschool ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ (@kulturalmarx) June 15, 2018
re: #338 GlutenFreeJesus
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The Graybar Hotel. When Trump is in there, we’ll let him put his name on it. On one of the stainless steel toilets. Do they have stainless steel urinals?
Parking lot ‘kitten’ actually baby bobcat https://t.co/zbDHe6Jpxa pic.twitter.com/vpVBZUtx46
— KARE 11 (@kare11) June 15, 2018
re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Participants discuss @BuzzFeed report that Trump told G7 leaders “Crimea is Russian, because everyone who lives there speaks Russian.” They interpret it as Trump’s recognition of Crimea’s status.
The hosts triumphantly declare: “Crimea is ours, Trump is ours!”
wait… that doesn’t work
trump doesn’t speak russian
or does he?
or
oh
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
Talk about warming the cockles of my half-hardened heart!
re: #333 lawhawk
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Not the first time.
But certainly the first time that someone has been an overtly white supremacist in indicating that he wants only white Christians from Europe coming and is looking to roll back immigration status for legal immigrants who have already obtained asylum here.
He doesn’t want dark skinned folks coming. He doesn’t want Muslims. He’s taking a page out of the white supremacists and goddamned Nazis, and the GOP continues supporting his racist positions - mostly because they’re also white supremacists. Enabling a white supremacist and the bigotry/hate that Trump engages in daily makes them complicit and racists themselves.
They own the output.
it was easier to do it to the hatians. they were on boats
re: #340 lawhawk
imagine you and your father and grandfather spent their lives living in fear of the united states, always questioning what was truth and what was spun by the seemingly-omnipotent empire, and then you finally get to the table and the whole thing is run by an actual dipshit
while this is sort of true
they had to wait three generations for us to elect a dipshit
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That looks a lot like a house cat, but the ears and the part of the face where the whiskers are show that it’s not one.
re: #348 dangerman
while this is sort of true
they had to wait three generations for us to elect a dipshit
We elected a dipshit in 1980.
re: #350 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We elected a dipshit in 1980.
at least a dipshit who had a record of public service
exonerated
no collusion
cleared
on and on and on
“your campaign manager is in jail”
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
at least a dipshit who had a record of public service
And a conscience, sorta.
re: #350 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We elected a dipshit in 1980.
The dipshit in 80 at least had the tendency to listen to the people around him, and wasn’t enamored with too many foreign leaders.
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
at least a dipshit who had a record of public service
And surrpounded nby people who would have never let anyhing near like this happen
re: #355 Belafon
The dipshit in 80 at least had the tendency to listen to the people around him, and wasn’t enamored with too many foreign leaders.
unless they were fascist enough
A message from President Trump: “If there’s a chance at peace, if there’s a chance to end the horrible threat of nuclear conflict, then we must pursue it at all costs. The people of America, the people of Korea, the people of the world deserve a future of security and of peace.” pic.twitter.com/8WxAKA7SGe
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 15, 2018
Trump’s memo with North Korea was written in crayon and doesn’t require North Korea to concede anything. Trump made multiple concessions and got nothing in return.
Obama got Iran to stop weapons development for 10 years and submit to rigorous oversight/limitations— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans release committee budget to defund ACA’s exchanges.
The more surprising part— they would also prohibit insurers from paying user fees to support the exchanges.
They are determined to take the ACA down, including pre-ex protections. pic.twitter.com/VDAyjrlBjb— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 15, 2018
re: #358 lawhawk
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re: #359 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Congressional Republicans release committee budget to defund ACA’s exchanges.
The more surprising part— they would also prohibit insurers from paying user fees to support the exchanges.
They are determined to take the ACA down, including pre-ex protections.
they will kill it and then declare it a failure
re: #362 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they will kill it and then declare it a failure
Been the plan all along.
re: #330 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
You knew this was coming… and from there on will continue, linguistic irridentism overturning international law… But beware the precedent.
1. There is no such language as Swiss. The people of Switzerland speak German, French, Italian and Romansch.
2. There is no such language as Lichtensteinish. They speak German and French.
3. The people of Barcelona and its environs… don’t speak Spanish. They speak Catalan.
4. The people of Southern California, and the people of Queens NY, speak more than 80 languages.
re: #362 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they will kill it and then declare it a failure
And their stenographers in the press will go right along with that saying that single payer would be a failure.
re: #350 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We elected a dipshit in 1980.
That particular dipshit had a VP who was one of the all-time great foreign policy guys. Ambassador to China, CIA director, etc.
Has anyone else pushed the idea that Kim had the general salute Trump just to see what would happen?
re: #367 Belafon
Has anyone else pushed the idea that Kim had the general salute Trump just to see what would happen?
No but that’s a good point.
I love the make trump kittens again app. My list is growinb
And redstate.com is full of loons
That is all
Some cuteness from The Columbus Zoo. They have a new addition to the family. Video has no sound, but plenty activity from the bouncing baby.
The Columbus zoo has one of the best programs for gorillas. The zoo was home of the first gorilla born in captivity. The new orphan is in good hands.
NBC4i - Keepers hope orphan gorilla Zahra warms quickly to new family in Columbus
POWELL (WCMH) - A nine-month-old orphaned gorilla will join her surrogate mother and the primate family at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Zahra was born in September at the Milwaukee County Zoo and arrived in Columbus Wednesday.
Those big brown eyes are sure to melt hearts this summer.
“She wakes up, she eats, she plays, she sleeps. She wakes up, she eats, she plays, and she sleeps,” said Audra Meinelt, Curator of Congo Expedition at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Just like a typical human 9-month-old, Zahra is not shy and is loving all the new attention.
“She’s very active,” said Meinelt.
Her activity is a nice change to what zookeepers say was once a tough couple of months for the tiny primate.
Her parents died in April. Their deaths in Milwaukee were linked to gastrointestinal infections caused by E.Coli in their water supply.
Zahra has been in the care of humans ever since, but soon she’ll get a new mother and three siblings.
“She is ready to be back with gorillas so we are hoping this is going to be a very quick process of reintegrating here with a family group,” said Meinelt.
One and a half-year-old JJ, 3-year-old Kamina and 5-year old-Kamoli will be her new big brothers and sister - along with five other western lowland gorillas.
Fans of the Congo Expedition are thrilled.
The Columbus Zoo has been a pioneer of gorilla surrogacy for more than 30 years, having raised 16 baby gorillas through its program.
Zahra’s caregivers say they are not sure when she will make her debut to the public, but when she does, it will be a grand one.
A bit about Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity anywhere in the world in 1956. Sadly she passed away last year. But she lived a nice long life and was loved as the focal point of the zoo for many years.
re: #369 dangerman
And redstate.com is full of loons
That’s a bigger truth of the universe than the speed of light.
Manafort hasn’t been sentenced. He’s had his bail revoked in advance of his trial. (Also, the “mob” part might be inadvertently self-critical.) pic.twitter.com/QaIgnXtT9w
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 15, 2018
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump does not understand the difference between prison and jail.
Is he really that clueless and oblivious?
(rhetorical question)
US to withdraw from UN human rights council: report https://t.co/gBTxoiSDOF pic.twitter.com/qSkGqdHqxJ
— The Hill (@thehill) June 15, 2018
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 15, 2018
re: #375 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Disgusting.
Trump has got to go.
And once again…fuck the entire Republican party. Every last one of them.
re: #376 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What’s in the picture? No can see at work.
re: #378 ObserverArt
Disgusting.
Trump has got to go.
And once again…fuck the entire Republican party. Every last one of them.
None of them want to wind up in front of a court at The Hague.
Cohen loses bid for immediate restraining order against Avenatti
Reuters
U.S. District Judge James Otero said Cohen had not shown he would suffer “immediate, irreparable injury” absent emergency relief against Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
quick, concise, done
Our swivel-eyed ranting president is really on a Twitter roll today. He feels the walls closing in, with the news that Cohen is about to flip on him.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 15, 2018
re: #380 MsJ
None of them want to wind up in front of a court at The Hague.
I’d love to see that happen. Let’s end the freedom of the Freedom Caucus, McConnell, Ryan, McCarthy, Scalise and others.
At least end their careers in congress.
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹
A pardon means he gives up his V Amendment rights in regard to the crime pardoned.
Firing Rosenstein or Mueller will have millions spilling into the streets.
And pardoning Manafort won’t get the Trump family out of state charges.
I’m still waiting for one of these weasels to pull the Third World solution when the law comes crashing in: Flee the country. The second any of them does that, the whole GOP will be dragged along with it.
I posted it a while ago, but I still think the way all of this ends is with Trump’s private plane taking off, chased by a phalanx of black FBI SUVs, blue-and-reds flashing, a cloud of money scattering as Trump kicks crates of cash off the plane to lessen weight, as Ivanka and Don Jr. run sobbing down the runway screaming “Daddy! Daddy, don’t leave us!”
re: #382 Charles Johnson
Who? Cohen? He just took coffee orders and then sent them along to Papadopoulous to runn off and get the coffee. Trump barely knew him. FakeNooze!
(insert eyeroll here)— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 15, 2018
re: #382 Charles Johnson
Our swivel-eyed ranting president is really on a Twitter roll today. He feels the walls closing in, with the news that Cohen is about to flip on him.
must have a light schedule today
Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
“Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob.” LOL! Keep talking, gramps. https://t.co/TKAbq5v8wk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 15, 2018
re: #382 Charles Johnson
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We’re running headlong into purges and mass arrests, aren’t we?
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) June 15, 2018
Whose purges, and whose mass arrests?
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 15, 2018
moron is recycling old bullshit
I’ve had to beat 17 very talented people including the Bush Dynasty, then I had to beat the Clinton Dynasty, and now I have to beat a phony Witch Hunt and all of the dishonest people covered in the IG Report…and never forget the Fake News Media. It never ends!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
re: #375 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Hang on, isn’t the UN Declaration of Human Rights based on the US one? Is that next for the chop?
Even if it isn’t, I can’t think of a more concrete symbolic example of those in nominal charge of the USA relinquishing it’s traditional role in the world system. And the rest of the world will notice. They probably already have, maybe even before this story.
re: #379 Belafon
What’s in the picture? No can see at work.
Wheel of Fortune puzzle
P_RDONING
M_N_FORT
TO OWN
T_E LIBS
re: #393 Alephnaught
Hang on, isn’t the UN Declaration of Human Rights based on the US one? Is that next for the chop?
Even if it isn’t, I can’t think of a more concrete symbolic example of those in nominal charge of the USA relinquishing it’s traditional role in the world system. And the rest of the world will notice. They probably already have, maybe even before this story.
his supporters will eat it up…we are america, bitch! we do not listen to organizations that include lesser nations!
Trump will withdraw from the UN. Then he will foreclose on the UN building and all its associated buildings.
That’s been on his bucket list all along.
I always loved Chris Hardwick. Fuck. This is monstrous.
Shocking domestic abuse allegations regarding geek media mogul Chris Hardwick: https://t.co/FWkTyVs7Zj
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) June 15, 2018
re: #364 sagehen
1. There is no such language as Swiss. The people of Switzerland speak German, French, Italian and Romansch.
2. There is no such language as Lichtensteinish. They speak German and French.
3. The people of Barcelona and its environs… don’t speak Spanish. They speak Catalan.
4. The people of Southern California, and the people of Queens NY, speak more than 80 languages.
And we are still an English colony then.
re: #398 Eventual Carrion
“A language is a dialect with a standing army”
re: #396 The Vicious Babushka
Trump will withdraw from the UN. Then he will foreclose on the UN building and all its associated buildings.
That’s been on his bucket list all along.
I still remember the John Birch Society billboards that used to be in Wilkinsburg PA proclaiming “Get US OUT of The UN”.
That’s been a Bircher wet dream since the 50s.
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
1) bail revoked isn’t sentenced
2) bail revoked because he violated terms of bail by engaging in criminal conduct including witness tampering and obstruction of justice
3) It has nothing to do with Clinton, Comey or anyone else. He was caught breaking law.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 15, 2018
re: #402 lawhawk
bail revoked isn’t sentenced
Trump does not seem to grasp difference between jail term and prison sentence
but then again, he has always had trouble with sentences
Republicanism needs to fucking die.
Sen. Graham just admitted on CNN to Kate Bolduan that the goal of ripping terrified children from their desperate parents is deterrence. I’ve been saying all along that the plan is to commit sufficiently horrific atrocities to scare people away. This is state sponsored terrorism. pic.twitter.com/DACwdJDGEw
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 15, 2018
Trump epitomizes white-male white-collar-crime entitlement. “That’s too harsh!” “He was only reaching out to some friends!” “This is stuff he did 12 years ago!”
re: #395 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
his supporters will eat it up…we are america, bitch! we do not listen to organizations that include lesser nations!
Aye, and this line of argument from such people is so “pro-American” that it would argue against something derived from the US Bill of Rights, which is a fundamental part of the United States as it matters in the modern geopolitical sense.
Yes, his supporters might eat it up, but they’d follow it up with shitting on their own country, with the eyes of the world watching.
re: #401 Joe Bacon 🌹
I still remember the John Birch Society billboards that used to be in Wilkinsburg PA proclaiming “Get US OUT of The UN”.
That’s been a Bircher wet dream since the 50s.
When I was growing up in Orange County, CA (now known as ‘The OC’), I was trick-or-treating for UNICEF, not knowing the relationship between that and the UN, and a guy had “Get US OUT of The UN” on a lawn sign, and when I said, ‘Trick-or-treat for UNICEF!’, he basically did a ‘get off my lawn’ dance like the blue heron way up above.
I was 8. I should have known better.
re: #402 lawhawk
@realDonaldTrump
Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!
The utter dichotomy of this rant is unreal. He begins by defending Manafort who is charged with a shitload of crimes then attempts to indict Comey and Hillary who are not charged with a single crime. Un-fucking-believable.
re: #389 Skip Intro
“Well golly gee wiz, Melanie, look who’s just showed up completely unannounced on the White House lawn. I guess I’ll be all neighborly and go out to say howdy”.
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Rename the goldamn show Trump’s Friends and be done with it.
Maybe your “reforms” are the wrong direction. From what I’ve seen, and what my heat tells me. You and your conference are wrong @LindseyGrahamSC just said on TV that separation is being used as a deterrence. That’s not The America of my 64yrs. And you supprort it. @JulieForTX25
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 15, 2018
The best option would have been to hang every last man who wore braid over butternut or grey, seize their properties and distribute all of them to freedmen; the less-good-but-better-than-what-happened option would have been to just LET THE FUCKERS GO.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 15, 2018
re: #406 Alephnaught
Aye, and this line of argument from such people is so “pro-American” that it would argue against something derived from the US Bill of Rights, which is a fundamental part of the United States as it matters in the modern geopolitical sense.
Yes, his supporters might eat it up, but they’d follow it up with shitting on their own country, with the eyes of the world watching.
I’ve said before, IMO the United States is the most successful scam of the “Do as I say, not as I do” type in history. I feel our (partly imaginary) example has contributed to liberalizing much of the world. Now our own government is pissing all over that.
re: #410 Dr. Matt
The utter dichotomy of this rant is unreal. He begins by defending Manafort who is charged with a shitload of crimes then attempts to indict Comey and Hillary who are not charged with a single crime. Un-fucking-believable.
Oh it’s very believable, believe me.
re: #413 Dave In Austin
Hold the phone.
The GOP controls the House. 241 to 194. They don’t need the House Democrats to pass whatever they want, unless they’ve got enough GOPers who don’t approve of this plan either.
Oh wait, the fractured GOP caucus can’t agree on what they want to do either.
The Senate is also in GOP hands, so yeah, they control the process.
That’s why we’re in this mess.
GOP controlled Congress can’t do anything. And when they can’t do anything, they blame the party in the minority.
re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is recycling old bullshit
Moran is feeling sorry for himself and triggered. Sad.
re: #388 Charles Johnson
Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump
LOL
the human is working from the household today. so my mission so far. has been to allow as little work. as possible
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) June 14, 2018
re: #388 Charles Johnson
“What a tough sentence for this Paul guy, who I don’t even know. Still, very unfair, what about Crooked Dems and Hillary?”
re: #406 Alephnaught
Aye, and this line of argument from such people is so “pro-American” that it would argue against something derived from the US Bill of Rights, which is a fundamental part of the United States as it matters in the modern geopolitical sense.
Yes, his supporters might eat it up, but they’d follow it up with shitting on their own country, with the eyes of the world watching.
to them, the fundamental part of america is flipping a big bird at everyone else in the world and telling them how tough we are
re: #405 Barefoot Grin
Trump epitomizes white-male white-collar-crime entitlement. “That’s too harsh!” “He was only reaching out to some friends!” “This is stuff he did 12 years ago!”
Too bad he campaigned on “LOCK HER UP!”
re: #398 Eventual Carrion
And we are still an English colony then.
some of the ‘settlements’ werent english
re: #407 I cannot.
Welp, the last adult in the room has just lit the fuse on his firing…
And…jesus, we can’t even save a week’s pay, much less this…
Save money on food, eat the rich.
orman has always assumed you have ‘extra’ money you dont need to spend right now to survive
pay down high interest credit cards
prepay your mortgage
put 6mos to a year into an emergency savings account
on and on
anyone can make a workable budget if you earn more than your current needs
re: #413 Dave In Austin
I don’t like children being separated from their parents anymore than you do, Mayor. @HouseGOP has tried to pass immigration reforms that @HouseDemocrats keep voting against. We can’t change how the border is run without new legislation.
that’s called a lie
re: #419 lawhawk
Hold the phone.
The GOP controls the House. 241 to 194. They don’t need the House Democrats to pass whatever they want, unless they’ve got enough GOPers who don’t approve of this plan either.
Oh wait, the fractured GOP caucus can’t agree on what they want to do either.
The Senate is also in GOP hands, so yeah, they control the process.
That’s why we’re in this mess.
GOP controlled Congress can’t do anything. And when they can’t do anything, they blame the party in the minority.
“its the dems fault because they wont do what we want”
re: #370 ObserverArt
Brought a smile to my face. Thanks.
Although I think Jack Hanna is an asshole on a personal basis (oh, the stories I could tell) he always gave good zoo!
Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Yes, witness tampering by Paul Manafort carries with it a tough sentence. That’s why you should avoid doing so. For example, dangling pardons would be considered witness tampering, and pardoning witnesses against you would constitute obstruction of justice. https://t.co/gNoLaBXS9A
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 15, 2018
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