The Trump administration forbids lawmakers from making unscheduled visits to child detention centers, nor are they allowed to take photos and speak to the kids https://t.co/t8vFjjN6V1 pic.twitter.com/XrpfSaN7Xv
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 21, 2018
Funny, but only because he is so, so tone deaf.
He really is a Sociopath isn’t he? He hasn’t a clue about how and why what he says and does affects the lives of real people.
Dog help us all. We have to get rid of this menace.
LOL
End ode to Minnesotan settlers with how they had grit, and each other and… “They. Loved. Their. God.” Sustained, shrill, deafening yelling. #trumpduluth
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) June 21, 2018
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
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From the responses:
Makes one think that there’s one or two things happening inside, Physical or Sexual Abuser of those children.
— Ronnie Price (@redwardprice719) June 21, 2018
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I wonder what took the UN rights chief so long…
We’re all having to adjust to the idea that the President of the United States is a sociopath.
I guess Trump really didn’t want that Nobel Peace Prize.
I never believed that people come to my shows, or rock shows, to be told anything. But I do believe that they come to be reminded of things. To be reminded of who they are, at their most joyous, at their deepest, when life feels full. It’s a good place to get in touch with your heart and your spirit. To be amongst the crowd. And to be reminded of who we are and who we can be collectively. Music does those things pretty well sometimes, particularly these days, when some reminding of who we are and who we can be isn’t such a bad thing.That weekend of the March for Our Lives, we saw those young people in Washington, and citizens all around the world, remind us of what faith in America and real faith in American democracy looks and feels like. It was just encouraging to see all those people out on the street and all that righteous passion in the service of something good. And to see that passion was alive and well and still there at the center of the beating heart of our country.
It was a good day, and a necessary day, because we are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging. And we have heard people in high position in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls.
There’s the beautiful quote by Dr. King that says the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Now, there have been many, many days of recent when you could certainly have an argument over that. But I’ve lived long enough to see that in action and to put some faith in it. But I’ve also lived long enough to know, that arc doesn’t bend on its own. It needs all of us leaning on it, nudging it in the right direction, day after day. You’ve gotta keep, keep leaning. I think it’s important to believe in those words, and to carry yourself, and to act accordingly.
And, with that, Springsteen sang “The Ghost of Tom Joad.” Here he is performing it at home:
re: #7 wheat-dogg
I guess Trump really didn’t want that Nobel Peace Prize.
He turned it down because they weren’t going to give it to him.
re: #7 wheat-dogg
I guess Trump really didn’t want that Nobel Peace Prize.
Maybe he’ll get a No-Bail Prize…
evergreen tweet:
Liberty, you in danger girl. pic.twitter.com/CRGpRz96iU
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) December 11, 2016
U.S. Marine who marched with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville rally found guilty in court-martial after he reportedly bragged online about participating in the violence that day. https://t.co/aCQcEtP3ar
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 20, 2018
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Don’t fuck with the USMC code of conduct.
God, I can’t even listen to Sassy Trump now without getting pissed off.
Americans want strong borders. @realDonaldTrump has got to stay tough on this and ignore the screams coming from the liberal media. pic.twitter.com/Q7hOZjMCb9
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 20, 2018
The screams reverberating around the world are coming from terrified children in cages. What you’re saying here is that you believe child abuse should be a legitimate tool of the state. https://t.co/MsQBImFc5n
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 20, 2018
Trump: I’m more elite than “the elite” https://t.co/n50nVIsQxq pic.twitter.com/KxFqh7tmle
— The Hill (@thehill) June 21, 2018
Trump supporters hate the elites, but not the eliter elites. https://t.co/0MYqe0nwXd
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 21, 2018
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Trump administration forbids lawmakers from making unscheduled visits to child detention centers, nor are they allowed to take photos and speak to the kids https://t.co/t8vFjjN6V1 pic.twitter.com/XrpfSaN7Xv
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 21, 2018
Da fuq? Lawmakers are the check on Presidential power. He does not have this authority. https://t.co/ygJEsmd5US
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 21, 2018
1 Befriend Trump supporter. Get invited to their house.
2 Take a shit on their kitchen floor.
3 Deny you took a shit on their floor.
4 Suddenly clean it up after arguing for 30 min.
5. Now demand they praise you for cleaning up your own shit.— Ковпакистан 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🏴🏴☠️ (@RussiawithoutBS) June 20, 2018
Here is a pic I just took at the McAllen airport of seven young boys of detained parents being transported out of the area by handlers via AA flt 5772 to DFW. Who knows where they are going from there. Sending children 1000 miles away from their parents is a disgrace. #Outraged pic.twitter.com/zrqdIFnsWY
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 20, 2018
“Everything they’ve told us about this has been a staged series of lies. I think we’re rightfully entitled now to question whether they can be trusted to end this process & reunify these children with their families” - @JoyceWhiteVance w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/r6dGP5GTVq
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 20, 2018
BREAKING: DOJ sending active duty military lawyers, or “JAGs,” to at least 6 cities along the Texas-Mexico border to prosecute migrants, @maddow reports on @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/u8Cb07NsV9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 21, 2018
So horrible even Sassy Trump makes me enraged.
re: #18 Unshaken Defiance
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SRSLY?: An Executive order directed specifically at barring members of the Legislative Branch from investigating government-run (or run at the behest of the government: paid with our tax dollars) facilities? And with restrictions on the contacts they can have?
These sort of restrictions might (just might) be conceivable if there were serious national-security issues, but then again, this is the Trump Regime: embarrassing the “President” or his Admin probably IS considered a threat to the country. Or lese-majeste, or something equally heinous.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
If I were a judge, I would deny them authority.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
What are they hiding? What is going on with these children? If things were good, Trump would be eager to show off what his administration was doing.
re: #27 Belafon
If I were a judge, I would deny them authority.
really.
Militarizing civilian courts? WTF.
President Trump’s “action” today did not end this administration’s heartlessness when it comes to families at the border.
If they’re not going to lift a finger to reunite these kids with their parents, then we — all of us — will stay outraged until they do. pic.twitter.com/rVdHKazeH0— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) June 21, 2018
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank you, Ms. Rowling for being a decent human being. Our government has a severe shortage of such beings.
President Donald Trump, questioning why some people are considered “the elite,” bragged Wednesday in Duluth that he is “richer than they are” and “smarter than they are.”
“The elite, the elite. Why are they elite,” he asked. “I have a much better apartment than they do.”— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) June 21, 2018
Trump lives in an apartment that looks like Liberace and Saddam Hussein had a baby who then vomited, a lot. It is not a “much better apartment” than anything, anywhere. It’s a psychological cry for help. It’s unfathomable that any American male would want to live like that. https://t.co/XZW7SLm5a3
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) June 21, 2018
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
But he gets to stay in the Marines.
re: #15 wheat-dogg
God, I can’t even listen to Sassy Trump now without getting pissed off.
We’ll listen to them and laugh uproariously after he has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Some of that is Trump trying to get back at the New York elite that looks down on him.
re: #36 Belafon
Some of that is Trump trying to get back at the New York elite that looks down on him.
they still do and they always will.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is this even legal? JAGs can only prosecute service members, not civilians. The DOJ can’t “deputize” them.
Holy shit
Rep. Tim Ryan isn’t even trying to hide his outrage at the Trump administration’s policy of stripping ‘kids, babies, toddlers, infants from their parents.’ pic.twitter.com/VehO6JOBeR
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 21, 2018
re: #34 Patricia Kayden
But he gets to stay in the Marines.
Hopefully, they’ll keep him in a small box after. They may do something else after his 28 days confinement.
re: #36 Belafon
Some of that is Trump trying to get back at the New York elite that looks down on him.
They are still richer than he is, too. Just ask a Rockefeller.
re: #41 wheat-dogg
They are still richer than he is, too. Just ask a Rockefeller.
One of them should come out and say “We didn’t need the presidency to get rich.”
re: #42 Belafon
One of them should come out and say “We didn’t need the presidency to get rich.”
Trump needs the presidency just to stay afloat financially.
Sometimes a Trumporrhoid just sets itself up.
I’m not the one ranting like a lunatic on twitter
— rebel millennial (@patriotic_giant) June 21, 2018
That would be the creature you call President of the United States. https://t.co/AGXZKfIH1g
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 21, 2018
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder if some day a legislator is going to lose it and try to punch Trump? He deserves so much worse (and you know it’s really OK to punch a nazi).
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And from an old friend of ours, Sleuth—I KNEW those Xtian adoption freaks would be involved in this shit:
Bethany Children’s Services in Michigan has received dozens of these children. They facilitate foster care and adoptions. They also have religious & monetary ties to the #DeVos family. See item number 5 in this article, third paragraph from the bottom: https://t.co/FtMFEczm1e
— KatieAnnieOakley (@KatieAnnieOakly) June 20, 2018
This isnt gonna end well.
mediaite.com
The organizer behind last year’s deadly Charlottesville rally has just received approval to hold a rally across from the White House on Aug. 12.
Jason Kessler, a white supremacist and one of the primary organizers behind the Unite the Right rally, applied for a permit for a “white civil rights” rally to be held on Lafayette Square.
re: #46 BeachDem
And from an old friend of ours, Sleuth—I KNEW those Xtian adoption freaks would be involved in this shit:
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Jesus. Fuck these people.
re: #46 BeachDem
And from an old friend of ours, Sleuth—I KNEW those Xtian adoption freaks would be involved in this shit:
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Katie is one great sleuth when it comes to stuff like this.
This might well be the silliest joke I have ever heard:
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patty Whack.
“Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday.”
Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it’s okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.
The frog says, “Sure. I have this,” and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.
Very confused, Patty explains that she’ll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral.” She holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what in the world is this?”
(You’re gonna love this.)
The bank manager looks back at her and says, “It’s a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
(You sang it, didn’t you? Yeah, I know you did.)
re: #50 gocart mozart
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I posted that passage to my Facebook feed on Monday. I got no response. People are apparently uncomfortable when their evil is exposed.
re: #47 VegasGolfer
Hopefully it’ll go like Boston when just a handful of those shitheads had to hole up in a gazebo ‘cause there was like 40,000 counter protesters last August.
re: #51 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
*WHACK!*
re: #47 VegasGolfer
This isnt gonna end well.
mediaite.comThe organizer behind last year’s deadly Charlottesville rally has just received approval to hold a rally across from the White House on Aug. 12.
Jason Kessler, a white supremacist and one of the primary organizers behind the Unite the Right rally, applied for a permit for a “white civil rights” rally to be held on Lafayette Square.
They’re probably hoping Trump will put in an appearance.
“You have had a lot of problems in Minnesota with people coming in.” | https://t.co/dcmjNgnyzS pic.twitter.com/FOFoqlPH9q
— WCCO - CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) June 20, 2018
Oh yeah, Canadians won’t leave our outlet mall parking lots til they scuff up their sneakers. Also, you’re here, which needs to never happen again. https://t.co/5AH52LvMHe
— Brandi, House of Shoebill (@ItsTheBrandi) June 21, 2018
U.S. airlines ask government not to put separated migrant children on flights https://t.co/ItkwWRvGGH pic.twitter.com/NSVNChAMMZ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 21, 2018
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We haven’t had a single problem with people coming in. YOU have a problem with people coming in, but WE don’t. WE actually WELCOME them in.
Tucker Carlson Angrily Explains Difference Between Good Baby And Bad Baby https://t.co/6RHlfUrtL7 pic.twitter.com/tpRhWag6Ko
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 19, 2018
“Idiot liberals will tell you that there’s only one type of baby, but that’s a lie—the good babies we have in America are not the same as the nasty, dangerous, bad little babies trying to sneak in through our borders.” https://t.co/u7VajCJYuj
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 20, 2018
And yes, I am sure at some point that Trump will mention the Somali immigrants who were revealed a few years ago to have attended known radicalization mosques and even left to fight in the holy wars. However, you will notice that neither Minneapolis nor St. Paul has been in the news recently with a terrorist attack, and here is why: We take them in and treat them fairly. However much they may hate America after their radicalization, they don’t hate us specifically. We’re Minnesota Nice, bitches.
Trump signed “something” to “keep families together.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t resignation papers.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) June 21, 2018
re: #61 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And yes, I am sure at some point that Trump will mention the Somali immigrants who were revealed a few years ago to have attended known radicalization mosques and even left to fight in the holy wars. However, you will notice that neither Minneapolis nor St. Paul has been in the news recently with a terrorist attack, and here is why: We take them in and treat them fairly. However much they may hate America after their radicalization, they don’t hate us specifically. We’re Minnesota Nice, bitches.
Canadian cooties will do that.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
Canadian cooties will do that.
I told Mrs. Fish that if this shit keeps getting worse, we’re moving to Canada. Her response: “Well, we’re half-Canadian anyway, so we might as well.”
re: #63 Winston_Smith
How did you do that?
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
Defensive sitting at a rally.
Guard at Trump’s child detention facility just got exposed for collection of child pornography https://t.co/lf6EwevoJz #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/NiD8LkCK24
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊 (@Politics_PR) June 21, 2018
Texas Monthly just published an alarming account of a man hired as a case manager in Brownsville, Texas at the Southwest Key Casa Padre shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children.
The caseworker, Ernesto Padron, who worked in a facility that currently houses nearly 1,500 boys, ages ten through seventeen, was a former Border Patrol agent who was forced to resign in 2010 from that agency after he was arrested on child pornography charges. As part of his job at the shelter, he had direct, and often unsupervised, access to unaccompanied immigrant minors.
His arrest on charges of possession of illicit porn featuring under-aged children became moot after a years-long court backlog led to the case being dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.
A spokesperson for Southwest Key, a rare nonprofit organization operating this type of facility, told Texas Monthly that Padron was suspended immediately after the organization discovered the expired charges against him.
His suspension became permanent when Southwest Key laid him off, along with nearly a thousand other people, after the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border dropped significantly last year, a trend that reduced the number of staff needed in the nonprofit’s shelters.
re: #66 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Used an animated gif and uploaded it as an image.
Twice
with a rusty chainsaw
sideways— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 20, 2018
It hasn’t even been a year since Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville.
re: #71 gocart mozart
He’s woodchipper material.
❄️🇺🇸America🇺🇸❄️#ThisIsNotWhoWeAre 😡#WakeUp 👁️#tRumprussia
Proud to be a #Liberal
Proud to be a #Snowflake#WeStandTogether ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏳️🌈
We Are #TheResistance #Ω pic.twitter.com/tvYaSoIJJU— ❄ReasonableAwareness👁 (@ReasonAwareness) June 21, 2018
re: #51 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This might well be the silliest joke I have ever heard:
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patty Whack.
“Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday.”
Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it’s okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.
The frog says, “Sure. I have this,” and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.
Very confused, Patty explains that she’ll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral.” She holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what in the world is this?”
(You’re gonna love this.)
The bank manager looks back at her and says, “It’s a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
(You sang it, didn’t you? Yeah, I know you did.)
This is stenography not journalism. Stop repeating his lies.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) June 21, 2018
Trump on the protester: “Was that a man or a woman, because he needs a haircut more than I do. Couldn’t tell. Couldn’t tell. I couldn’t tell. Needs a haircut.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 21, 2018
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 21, 2018
re: #76 TedStriker
This is almost exactly what Mrs. Fish said when I told her this joke.
I see “Peter Fonda” is trending… so I had to look.
Appears that the usual suspects are trying to conflate the words of actor with the actions of a wanna-be-tyrant.
re: #57 The Vicious Babushka
If Trump has directed the DoD to send JAGs to prosecute these people in civilian courts (and I don’t see HITF that’s legal), I wouldn’t put it past him to direct ConAir to start transporting them across the country, since the airlines have started telling him to fuck off.
re: #80 freetoken
Peter Fonda tweets he wants to ‘rip Barron Trump from his mother’ and put him in a ‘cage with pedophiles.’@FLOTUS’ spokesperson said the United States Secret Service has been notified of Fonda’s threats. https://t.co/FoOijnqmzR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 20, 2018
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAH AHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHA
I’m sorry, this isn’t funny.
AHAHAHAH AHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAH https://t.co/pKM6cl6Rd5— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2018
Yes, I agree, It’s not funny.
HOWEVER, what is funny this idea that a 78 year old stoner is going to what? Scale the walls of Fortress Trump, breech the defenses of the Inter sanctum, fight off dozens of Secret Service agents to spirit away little Barron to a cage in Texas. https://t.co/QrbclOy0Qp— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2018
What Peter Fonda said was sick and nasty. No, he doesn’t get a pass because he’s an aging stoner. None of what he said furthers any real dialog and it was just sheer vile bilge for the sake of getting his name in the press. I’m noping right out of seeing his movie now.
Oh boy pic.twitter.com/4Lz2hKTXa0
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 21, 2018
The NYT is irredeemable at this point. There’s nothing more that can be said about them.
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“I’m more elite than the elite” is basically, “I won the lottery and you will, too, so don’t give up hope.”
re: #87 Citizen K
Getting to the point where I want the Old Grey Lady to burn along with the White House. If you are incapable of calling a spade a spade because “waaaaaaaahhhhhh journalistic integrity both sides are bad”, then fuck you.
re: #87 Citizen K
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The NYT is irredeemable at this point. There’s nothing more that can be said about them.
Speaking of incivility, the NYT can go fuck itself with a flaming gnarly pine branch.
re: #87 Citizen K
What other emotion is correct?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 21, 2018
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Speaking of incivility, the NYT can go fuck itself with a flaming gnarly pine branch.
Careful there. A bit more of that and we just might have a political crisis on our hands. /////////
Logging in from Cheyenne, Wyo. tonight. We get to watch MSNBC … Lawrence O’Donnell is on now with a person who was part of the Flores case who has the authority to investigate any Federal facility being used for housing children.
He’s speaking about the part of Trump’s order that would lock up people on military installations (which presumably he would not have access to).
re: #83 teleskiguy
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Well, if I were on twitter, I would be sure to tell Jim that this shit is definitely no way of funny whatsoever, since it a dead certainty that RW media will be picking this up and running desperately with it the same way they did with Samantha Bee (Peter Fonda’s miles-lower profile and relevance notwithstanding).
It’s all bullshit of course, but drearily predictable: when faced with furious public criticism of their Dear Leader, or any of his policies, the RWNM will instantly jump on the first “objectionable” statement they can from virtually any recognizable “name” they can tar as “The Left”, and immediately crank up the Outrage Horn to max to “whattabout” and pearl-clutch to try to deflect attention from the very real abuses of those in power.
I mean, you me, and Lizards can appreciate the difference between the official policies of the POTUS and his Administration, and the Twitter rantings of some has-been old actor….
WATCH: Police officers halt traffic to help a snake cross a busy intersection unharmed https://t.co/MLM4mki94M pic.twitter.com/1hGt3tCtNQ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 20, 2018
Presidential motorcade? https://t.co/8kvwC8w337
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 20, 2018
Has the RNC returned Wynn’s money?
Since the start of 2018, three Republicans have resigned from the RNC finance committee:
• Steve Wynn
• Elliott Broidy
• Michael Cohen— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 20, 2018
When you finally have had enough …
I ignored their libtard, n**gers, spicks, & kill Hillary remarks
I let it slide & told them to leave the politics at home
But today, when I overheard you two call children in cages “animals who should be fed dog food & kept on a leash.”
I fired you two
And it felt fucking great— Bjorn Again Borg 🌊 (@mrFawkes51) June 20, 2018
re: #86 LadyBehir
What Peter Fonda said was sick and nasty. No, he doesn’t get a pass because he’s an aging stoner. None of what he said furthers any real dialog and it was just sheer vile bilge for the sake of getting his name in the press. I’m noping right out of seeing his movie now.
Agreed. He seems like a very erratic guy. I recall him attacking President Obama about a nonexistent gun grab. He really needs to shut down his twitter account because his comments about Barron are indefensible.
One side is separating children from their parents and putting them in cages but on the other hand some celebrities are using swear words. Both sides!
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 21, 2018
Oops. Reminds me of when the Soviets boycotted the UN Security Council meetings in 1950 over the US blocking their proposal to replace Taiwan with the mainland Chinese delegation. The US and its allies used their absence to greenlight the UN intervention in Korea.
Israeli foreign ministry officials tell @BarakRavid they are concerned that U.S. withdrawal from the UN human rights council will make it harder to block anti-Israeli initiatives on the council. https://t.co/nZ7pSr8WHF
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) June 20, 2018
No sh*t, guys https://t.co/Zf20cNmcc3
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) June 21, 2018
re: #102 goddamnedfrank
Oops. Reminds me of when the Soviets boycotted the UN Security Council meetings in 1950 over the US blocking their proposal to replace Taiwan with the mainland Chinese delegation. The US and its allies used their absence to greenlight the UN intervention in Korea.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again…
re: #103 TedStriker
Trump only likes Jews who count his money.
re: #87 Citizen K
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The NYT is irredeemable at this point. There’s nothing more that can be said about them.
But, but, Maggie and the gang have described Peter Baker as “peerless, great and incomparable.”
re: #104 Winston_Smith
Trump only likes Jews who count his money.
Can’t believe we got to the place I would like and laugh at that joke.
re: #102 goddamnedfrank
She used a naughty word. //
re: #106 Unshaken Defiance
Can’t believe we got to the place I would like and laugh at that joke.
He said as much himself. Remember back when he said he was upset to find blacks counting his money?
Or, worse, that people won’t ask that question at all. The United States of Amnesia, as Gore Vidal liked to say. 2/2
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) June 20, 2018
Imagine how much fun Putin will have siding with Muslim countries for the chaos.
re: #108 Winston_Smith
Here’s the quote from Fortune magazine: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. “
Competence. Brian Williams notes that the title of the executive order was misspelled.
#NowPlaying Dr. Dog > Critical Equation > Go Out Fighting https://t.co/WUHl4CTCXf
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 10, 2018
re: #111 Winston_Smith
Here’s the quote from Fortune magazine: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. “
First of all…
You don’t have real money you simple bigoted orange bitch.
I’m so old I remember the Dixie Chicks and the shit they took, and being right in the end. Now I’m shown that Kathy Griffin was right too. Bloody mannequin head and withdrawn apology.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) June 21, 2018
re: #115 JordanRules
That quote is from the book “Trumped” by John R. O’Connell.
I’ve written about it on here before.
It tells you all you need to know about what a pos trump is.
Im sure nobody in the media bothered to read it
We still have no answers on why Scott Pruitt’s EPA awarded a no-bid contract to a Republican opposition research firm. The group submitted FOIA requests for emails of EPA employees who were critical of the Trump administration.https://t.co/OIBrEsyDr6
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 21, 2018
re: #117 VegasGolfer
Well, Fortune Magazine is part of the media, but they don’t have the stature of the fascist-curious New York Times.
Only 60% of unauthorized border crossers are being prosecuted
The reason for the discrepancy, according to a former DHS official and one current one, is that detention centers at the border don’t have enough space, some families are released into the US https://t.co/De3lUINiWE— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 21, 2018
re: #118 Single-handed sailor
Gee, we’ve forgotten all about this thieving asshole with all the shit Trump has been throwing around lately.
Off-topic embarrassment.
At our dine-out tonight, both my wife and I ordered steak, while most people had various sandwiches, and the woman next to us had just a glass of wine and salad.
When the waitress came round to collect for everyone’s checks, she collected everyone’s credit cards. (We’ve eaten there before and she knows we always pay cash.)
As soon as the woman with the wine and salad had her card back she said good-night to everyone. When it became apparent the waitress had not brought a check to my wife and me, I asked about it so we could pay. “Oh, the lady paid for you.”
She apparently just snuck it in on her credit card and we didn’t know she did it.
We will have to do something for her next month.
re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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EMERGENCY!! EMERGENCY!! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
That’s right around the corner.
re: #117 VegasGolfer
That quote is from the book “Trumped” by John R. O’Connell.
I’ve written about it on here before.
It tells you all you need to know about what a pos trump is.
Im sure nobody in the media bothered to read it
Oh yeah. I’m familiar with that quote. Totally aligns with what I’ve known about the POS for decades.
And you’re right, the media did not shine enough lights on the tons information that was readily available about him.
re: #88 Barefoot Grin
“I’m more elite than the elite” is basically, “I won the lottery and you will, too, so don’t give up hope.”
Yep, go give your money to a government agency for the infinitely small chance that you can have a good life and not have to worry about health care costs wiping you out and taking your house away.
There’s already too many people who’s only retirement plan is to win the lottery.
re: #91 Unshaken Defiance
Thanks. I do a lot of silly chicken themed stuff. Taking one in tartan to highland games this weekend.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
Don’t be embarrassed. You were given a random act of kindness. You’re appreciated and loved, even by strangers in Cheyenne, WY, it seems.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
they still do and they always will.
I’m a New York regular Joe and I look down on him. I’m just a whole lot more broke than the elites when I do it.
Brian Williams on the fellow who originally broke the story of child separations, interviewing two journalists:
Thank you, I think it’s important that we get these stories out, considering we’re fake news… .
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
Gotta be good to the good around us right?
Tonight the wife mixed up appointments and took our long triple coat of fur Maine Coon cat in for a grooming to far less fur for the summer. A very kind lady who cuts Pepper every year stayed late and took care of it on the wrong night. She (Mrs Unshaken) paid cash, nice tip and brought her a bottle of chilled white wine. Oh and the result is as nice as ever.
re: #127 teleskiguy
Don’t be embarrassed. You were given a random act of kindness. You’re appreciated and loved, even by strangers in Cheyenne, WY, it seems.
Well, she’s not a stranger, she is an acquaintance. That said, yes, it was a random act of kindness, entirely hidden until after she’d left. That was very kind of her.
A group of American senators will travel to #Russia at the end of the month and celebrate Independence Day in Moscow.
⚠️ American. Senators. Will. Celebrate. Independence. Day. In. Russia. ⚠️https://t.co/2oL7ISbK0D— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 20, 2018
Suspect nicknamed “Popeye” wanted for Southern Ohio break-inshttps://t.co/c9YYAuXBam pic.twitter.com/zHHFcYlOMq
— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) June 21, 2018
Kinda feel like his name won’t be necessary for identification. https://t.co/EHi4xnn01J
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 21, 2018
re: #133 William Lewis
I thought she was making a clever joke with the arm casts. Shame on me.
With the Wyoming Republican Primary two months away, the six candidates for governor were at a forum laying out their positions in Torrington.
Wyoming Republican candidates for governor out positions at Torrington forum (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, more at the link):
TORRINGTON — With the primary election two months away, the Goshen County Republicans hosted a gubernatorial forum at the Eastern Wyoming College Fine Arts Auditorium June 19.
All six Republican candidates attended: former independent nominee and surgeon Dr. Taylor Haynes, Wyoming state treasurer Mark Gordon, Goshen County native and attorney Harriet Hageman, and businessmen Foster Friess, Bill Dahlin and Sam Galeotos.
Herb Doby, the vice-chairman of the Goshen County Republicans, said the group likes to hold forums for competitive elections. Each time the group holds a forum, someone on the committee — Doby this time — contacts all the candidates and invites them to the forum.
“It’s not required, it’s purely voluntary,” he said. “Most of them want to come, because Wyoming is a big state and they do a lot of traveling and this is an opportunity to come and speak their peace [sic].”
Competitive state as in the competition is between Republicans. The Democratic Party here is practically non-existent, and not covered by this state’s media.
This little tidbit at Snopes is interesting though.
Is Stephen Miller a Descendant of Asylum Seekers Who Fled Anti-Semitic Violence?
re: #133 William Lewis
But it was funny!!!
re: #137 Winston_Smith
Whoever Photoshopped it was very clever and it WAS funny!
re: #141 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Whoever Photoshopped it was very clever and it WAS funny!
That I’ll agree with. I actually was curious about the story and didn’t realize it was a ‘shop till I pulled up snopes myself expecting a “true” statement.
re: #134 JordanRules
I would hope the constituents of these officials would blister their ears over taking a junket on Independence Day to Russia of all places. On the other hand, the officials might just be going to Russia to thank them for their help in getting conservatives elected.
re: #142 William Lewis
That I’ll agree with. I actually was curious about the story and didn’t realize it was a ‘shop till I pulled up snopes myself expecting a “true” statement.
Usually, there is nothing funny about smacking a Snopes in the middle of something, but this one I did find funny. I need to find something funny right now because I feel like flipping desks and setting things on fire.
This guy is a monster.
Last year, Vasillios Pistolis, a US Marine Corps lance corporal, bragged online that he “cracked 3 skulls open with virtually no damage to myself.”
Now, he’ll likely be forced out of the Marine Corps. https://t.co/HRjBlebhg9— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 20, 2018
Too many of them in our midst.
I’m USEPA Administrator Scott Pants and I have to buy $1500 tactical pants so my pockets full of Marriott hand lotion don’t leak when I walk around DC trying to catch and eat pigeons
— USEPA Administrator Scott Pants (@ColinJCarlson) June 21, 2018
Projection on the U.S. House of Representatives on family separation. Tomorrow the House votes to create family internment camps & doesn’t end family separation. Call your Rep. at[no phone numbers allowed] and say vote no on HR 6136. pic.twitter.com/Jbfc7hVyg1
— robin bell (@bellvisuals) June 21, 2018
Portland is not fucking around!
Another big camp in the back forming a blockade. There’s a bed here and people are making signs. #OccupyICEPDX pic.twitter.com/usUCadd4fp
— Kelly Kenoyer 💙💜💖 (@Kelly_Kenoyer) June 21, 2018
The ICE building in Portland is owned by Lindquist holdings. Stuart Lindquist, the owner, lives in a mansion at 10940 SW Riverwood Rd. Portland OR 97219. Maybe he needs some convincing to cancel the lease. Send letters, protest peacefully, put pressure on. #OccupyICEPDX
— PDX Resistance ✊ (@Pdx_resistance) June 20, 2018
An Occupy encampment grows at #OccupyICEPDX. The ICE prison is closed and all the personnel inside appear to have left other than a security guard. Protesters have peacefully shut down one piece of the deportation machine. pic.twitter.com/CXja9nSBeI
— Arun Gupta (@arunindy) June 20, 2018
1,224 complaints reveal a staggering pattern of sexual abuse in immigration detention. Half of those accused worked for ICE. https://t.co/BXr9oWxDG0 by @alicesperi
— twistercat (@twistercat) June 21, 2018
#WhereAreTheGirls https://t.co/4VjWYjAXS8
— David Waldman, LLC (@KagroX) June 21, 2018
re: #146 teleskiguy
And here I thought Pruitt needed that hand lotion because his position gives him unfettered access to the FBI’s porn collection.
ALL-TIME RECORD OPTIMISM! pic.twitter.com/ZTrfJY2afh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2018
What hallucinogen drugs are you taking? I want some! https://t.co/uPDnBqEKqT
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 21, 2018
ALL-TIME RECORD OPTIMISM!
This is a sick cosmic joke, all of this.
re: #148 JordanRules
Portland is not fucking around!
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Doesn’t cancelling a lease generally require the tenant to have violated said lease? Doxing some dude because he leased property to the wrong government agency seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
re: #148 JordanRules
Portland is not fucking around!
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I looked at the map of ICE facilities that was posted this week and there is one in St. Paul literally across the street from the building where I work. It’s a county jail. I looked out the window a couple times today to see if anyone was out protesting. Nope.
…Oh great. It’s 11:00pm on a weekday so someone decided that now’s the time to go shoot off a bunch of fireworks. I wish they were still illegal in MN.
Rachel Maddow: Trump wants to merge the Education and Labor Departments, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Her take: They actually want to abolish both.
Well, this crapfest is just wonderful. I need to hit the rack as my trip to Denver comes early in the morning. Night, y’all.
re: #153 danarchy
Doesn’t cancelling a lease generally require the tenant to have violated said lease? Doxing some dude because he leased property to the wrong government agency seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
Not as crappy as offering any support to such a heinous agency and its policies. The landlord sees this going on and doesn’t speak out or terminate the lease. That makes him an enabler.
The only thing for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Moreover, I imagine since this is a government lease, it is a public record, therefore not doxxing.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹
Not as crappy as offering any support to such a heinous agency and its policies. The landlord sees this going on and doesn’t speak out or terminate the lease. That makes him an enabler.
The only thing for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Moreover, I imagine since this is a government lease, it is a public record, therefore not doxxing.
You can’t just terminate a lease, that’s the whole reason for signing a lease to begin with. And somehow, I am willing to bet there is only a business address on any public records not his damn home address.
re: #153 danarchy
Kind of leaning toward separating families and arresting people without a warrant is far worse.
re: #153 danarchy
Doesn’t cancelling a lease generally require the tenant to have violated said lease? Doxing some dude because he leased property to the wrong government agency seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
He rented to ICE, in 2018, he doesn’t get to plead ignorant.
re: #159 goddamnedfrank
He rented to ICE, in 2018, he doesn’t get to plead ignorant.
Or, you know, maybe it is a 15 year lease signed in 2010.
re: #153 danarchy
Doesn’t cancelling a lease generally require the tenant to have violated said lease? Doxing some dude because he leased property to the wrong government agency seems like a pretty shitty thing to do.
That argument can be made for every type of resistance. That’s not cool to you. I’m fine with it, within reason (no violence etc).
re: #160 danarchy
Or, you know, maybe it is a 15 year lease signed in 2010.
And it’s fine to point that out and still hope they get the boot. YMMV.
NEW: The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged with fraud and breach of trust. Prosecutors say Sara Netanyahu used state money to pay for hundreds of meals at the PMs Residence from 2010 to 2013. Netanyahu also illegally paid for a private chef.
— David P Gelles (@gelles) June 21, 2018