Seth takes a closer look at one of Donald Trump’s weirdest rallies yet and his efforts to strip away the constitutional rights of immigrants.
You know what civil looks like? Democrats helping other Democrats after losing to them in the primaries. And even better, not waiting until right before the election.
Where are the demands that Trump supporters be civil to the proprietors of the Red Hen?
re: #2 Joe Bacon 🌹
That needs to be a tweet.
Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
Donnie from Queens, you’re on the air …
— Jeff Fijol (@jfeej) June 27, 2018
re: #1 Belafon
You know what civil looks like? Democrats helping other Democrats after losing to them in the primaries. And even better, not waiting until right before the election.
Crowley is a class act. We’ve had this here in VA-10 too. I met Jennifer Wexton yesterday and she praised each of her five former opponents by name and cited how they’ll be able to help out. I voted for one of them but Jennifer has my full support for November.
Army Ranger who served 4 tours in Afghanistan, went to grad school on the GI Bill, brand new father to a 2-month-old, now taking the fight to a Tea Party incumbent who’s tried to repeal the ACA about 80 times. Flip that seat in November, @Colvin4Congress! pic.twitter.com/UhH7oXOcwb
— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) June 27, 2018
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I vacation there. I’d love to see it flip. It’s by far MD’s most conservative district but I’ll be pulling for Colvin.
Ocasio-Cortez just knocked out House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, who theoretically could have been the next Democratic leader.
This powerful ad, which had 550,000 views, didn’t hurt: pic.twitter.com/qbBcnJIa5M— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 27, 2018
Mr. Crowley, what went wrong in your head?
Oh, Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan’s call
Mr. Charming, did you think you were purehttps://t.co/jtcRJJdftg— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) June 27, 2018
And, by the way, isn’t this how primaries are supposed to work: The people pick the candidate they like the best? And then afterwards, we all come together and defeat the fascist on the other side,
re: #4 Patricia Kayden
Your wish is my command!
RepubliKKKlan Squares! pic.twitter.com/giCeHP5iCz
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) June 27, 2018
!!!!
U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday night requiring that nearly all children younger than 5 be returned to their parents w/in 14 days and that older children be returned within 30 days. https://t.co/ESFOzjrHcO— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 27, 2018
re: #11 Belafon
And, by the way, isn’t this how primaries are supposed to work: The people pick the candidate they like the best? And then afterwards, we all come together and defeat the fascist on the other side,
Yep. I’ve backed three primary losers the last year. Each and every one rallied their troops. And honestly doing so is how we nearly won the Va House of Delegates last fall.
“…under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as #Property. Certainly, that cannot satisfy the requirements of due process”
re: #15 jaunte
“…under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as #Property. Certainly, that cannot satisfy the requirements of due process”
“The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as *property.*” pic.twitter.com/Pv9O8rZ7Rt
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) June 27, 2018
key passage. I have to say the reliance on Rochin does not fill me with optimism as to how this will fare on appeal pic.twitter.com/KsWzRgY8e2
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) June 27, 2018
SCOOP: How toxic was Trump’s family separation policy? 2 Texas companies balked at a billion-dollar, no-bid contract for a massive detention camp for separated children near El Paso. The policy was shut down the next day. My latest for @TexasMonthly. https://t.co/KF69sJHswn
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) June 27, 2018
Reading towards the end of last thread re: turnout in midterms.
Yes. There’s definite apathy. And that’s how we got fucking Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. Somehow we have to reach people and get them to understand that our democracy isn’t to be taken lightly and that midterms fucking matter as much as Presidential-year elections. The Constitution and institutions will only protect us when BOTH parties are bound to it.
How do we do that? I have no damn clue.
Seems to be a new wave of Dems winning. Adios, fossils, hello Newbies.
Good thing that Faux and Drumpf are predicting a Red Wave.
Rude surprise this fall.
re: #13 jaunte
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Ok. And when he doesn’t bother with this? Then what. He will ignore this just like he has everything else, and Republicans will not hold him accountable.
From downstairs.
Gary Player is a cheating piece of shit.
No wonder trump likes him.
Google it.
A Player who needs no introduction. #tastetturnberry #discoverayrshire @garyplayer pic.twitter.com/0Ds7FkLcm6
— Trump Turnberry (@TrumpTurnberry) June 25, 2018
The legendary Gary Player at Turnberry in Scotland! https://t.co/3oGoqWhhtA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
re: #22 VegasGolfer
VIDEO: Donald Trump drives golf cart on the green, like a true shithead https://t.co/V19wDz2NcS pic.twitter.com/tvnJcCEsZR
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) June 22, 2017
re: #22 VegasGolfer
From downstairs.
Gary Player is a cheating piece of shit.
No wonder trump likes him.
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Was it a tournament, or a fun round? Everybody takes mulligans when it’s not a competition. He’s also, like, 100 years old.
What a non-story.
Also, I need to refill my wine glass. But I seem to have a Feline Overlord sitting on my legs.
Dog help me, I’m incatlapitated.
Should I call 911?
re: #24 austin_blue
Was it a tournament, or a fun round? Everybody takes mulligans when it’s not a competition. He’s also, like, 100 years old.
What a non-story.
Also, I need to refill my wine glass. But I seem to have a Feline Overlord sitting on my legs.
Dog help me, I’m incatlapitated.
Should I call 911?
Just say “TUNA”
re: #23 teleskiguy
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The only thing missing from that Today Show clip is the Benny Hill music!
re: #25 Unshaken Defiance
Just say “TUNA”
That doesn’t work. Hates wet food. The rabbit and pheasant kibble, however, is just Killer Bee.
re: #24 austin_blue
Golf is supposed to be a game of integrity (Trump notwithstanding). You’re supposed to call rules infractions on yourself.
I would never ever try to cheat in tournaments (which is what player is accused of).
Now, what kind of wine put you into a stupor?
re: #28 VegasGolfer
Golf is supposed to be a game of integrity (Trump notwithstanding). You’re supposed to call rules infractions on yourself.
I would never ever try to cheat in tournaments (which is what player is accused of).Now, what kind of wine put you into a stupor?
Boxed. Malbec. But what makes you think I’m in a xfreortbemxz?
Gary Player (who is South African) once came out in support of Apartheid, though he walked the comments back several years later.
Just FYI, satellite imagery suggests N. Korea is continuing to upgrade its nuclear enrichment facility.@38NorthNKhttps://t.co/UlGBaZmcit
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 27, 2018
re: #28 VegasGolfer
In skiing there’s two ways of judging greatness. A clock. Or five judges. I dabbled in racing and freestyle when I was a teenager, I did way more racing in those formidable years. It’s a pure athleticism, you against the clock.
One thing I learned from my days ski racing; you have to imagine yourself as a beach ball rolling down the hill, finding the path of least resistance. Your job is to find that path while you are sliding downhill, in the moment.
It wasn’t an AH-HA moment, it came to me over a period of a few winters when I was young. But the moment I learned that… well, I’ve done this since then.
re: #33 teleskiguy
This post was for me, mostly. Reminiscing on the good times. Have to, after all this bullshit that happened today.
re: #27 austin_blue
That doesn’t work. Hates wet food. The rabbit and pheasant kibble, however, is just Killer Bee.
Do you have catnip available?
re: #34 teleskiguy
BTW, that’s me riding shotgun. This was five years ago. I haven’t heli-skied since. But I did ski some gnarly shit at Jackson Hole last March!
re: #31 jaunte
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I’m especially scared of the “large truck”. Who knows what could be on the Large Truck?
Maybe a 10 Megaton Nuclear cracker that the Norks can’t produce right now!
Maybe they stole one of ours by hacking one of our entertainment websites! Hollywood Studios released Dr. Strangelove and FailSafe! It’s all in there!
(Sorry, Alex Jones lives and broadcasts one zip code south of me, and occasionally his crazy radio shows penetrate my tin foil hat. I’m upgrading to titanium, but it’s really a problem. I need to get fucker out of my head, but no matter how I tune my FM radio, he’s right there in my brain.)
Well that was a really lame attempt at humor.
Pulls forelock.
Looking at my emails, all I have to say to the PCCC and related groups is this: You’re 1 for 20. Good for you. Don’t get cocky. Now you have to help govern.
re: #35 Feline Fearless Leader
Do you have catnip available?
Two minutes of interest, then complete Meh.
A completely odd cat. Loves belly rubs.
I loved watching the downhill in the old days. Like the Franz Klammmer Innsbruck olympic run in ‘76. I like Lindsay Vonn, shes pretty badass always coming back from injury and kicking ass.
re: #39 austin_blue
Two minutes of interest, then complete Meh.
A completely odd cat. Loves belly rubs.
That actually is how catnip works. The receptors in their feline brains have to be given time to reset before the stuff has any effect again.
The tabby (now grown more than in the picture) has very floofy belly fur, but attempting to rub it is a trap - the claws immediately come out.
re: #40 VegasGolfer
I loved watching the downhill in the old days. Like the Franz Klammmer Innsbruck olympic run in ‘76. I like Lindsay Vonn, shes pretty badass always coming back from injury and kicking ass.
If she stays healthy Mikaela Shiffrin will be the greatest ski racer of all time, male or female. That’s my prediction.
An incumbent Dem lost his primary? What happened to the infamous “DNC Machine” that locked liberals out from running?!
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Night all, working on the kitchen upgrade tomorrow. Damn this heat. It’s just a sweat fest.
Jack Daniel’s forced to raise price of whiskey by double digits in response to tariffs https://t.co/FE0Nb0Q177 pic.twitter.com/uTdENaqVNF
— The Hill (@thehill) June 27, 2018
re: #48 Varek Raith
Good….er…something.
/(What day is it? Time?)
I think the word your looking for is “grief.”
As in “good grief, what now?”
re: #49 KGxvi
I think the word your looking for is “grief.”
As in “good grief, what now?”
Ha! So true…
Jaw-dropping start to @UCLA @nytimes event as the Dean calls out the Times for: normalizing Trump in 2016 election, wildly imbalanced coverage between emails & Trump’s history of criminal behavior, and the civility debate. [Awkwaaard!!]
You’re Welcome 😏https://t.co/fKnHFT6NaP— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) June 27, 2018
^^^^ The good stuff starts at the 3:40 mark on the video 🤓
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) June 27, 2018
re: #48 Varek Raith
Good….er…something.
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“For a guy who hates weed smokers, you have a horrible memory. The north won!”
-Michelle Wolf, talking about Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.
I just watched the Ocasio ad — very powerful. MSNBC made the point that Crowley didn’t take the race seriously; his position was handed to him in the 1990’s and he never faced any real opposition. The composition of the district has changed dramatically over the years and she represents the newer residents. In any case low turnout can lead to unexpected results, but she looks like a very promising candidate. When she takes office, my guess is that many of her staff may be those currently be working for Crowley. The Democrats in Washington need more new blood and she certainly provides it.
-minor correction
We already live in a technocratic dystopia akin to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.
I’ve criticized risk assessments before, but I’ve never seen a risk assessment hacked to give a bad score in every case:https://t.co/Wt4jvchori
Would love to know more, send me info, contact in bio, and my dudes pls RT pic.twitter.com/LXd4RfWJxT— Jeff Larson (@thejefflarson) June 26, 2018
This is wild. All of us tech researchers are sitting here warning about the small, subtle ways algorithmic bias can support fascism — and meanwhile ICE has essentially created a button that prints “detain immigrant” when pressed https://t.co/kfbXJrOq6L
— 🏳️🌈 Janus Cassandra 🏴 (@zenalbatross) June 26, 2018
JUST IN: Judge says prosecutors will get access to Cohen raid materials this week https://t.co/qUum5cugqq pic.twitter.com/0coWrLTJcN
— The Hill (@thehill) June 26, 2018
Walmart customers. Is there any depth to which they will not plunge?
Warning! May cause permanent psychic damage:
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
I’m positive some Russian troll knows everything about me, and at the right opportunity will use their kompromat on Twitter and Facebook.
Boy, I’m so glad I’m a human of large unimportance.
re: #60 teleskiguy
Blackmail only works if you care more about what they uncover than what they want you to compromise.
REMINDER: This video isn’t from Nazi Germany, it was taken last month in America (Georgia in fact).
Sherman’s March would be easier this time: After an additional 10 generations of inbreeding (15.5 years avg.) they would probably be too stupid to run from him.
How often does England have forest fires?
Homes evacuated as huge fire on Saddleworth Moor continues to spread in Greater Manchesterhttps://t.co/eUROMm7A7v pic.twitter.com/Krlr6oL9qo
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 27, 2018
re: #11 Belafon
And, by the way, isn’t this how primaries are supposed to work: The people pick the candidate they like the best? And then afterwards, we all come together and defeat the fascist on the other side,
What is all the whinging going on here about “oh noez!” the Democratic Socialist knocked off the incumbent Democrat so she’s argle bargle woomanz [wait, someone called her a girl because that bar has been elevated above 28] no policy she’ll scare off the Dems blah blah?
Geez I ran openly as a member of the DSA and got elected in an overwhelmingly Republican town (twice), in 2014 winning over the town gun shop owner in an open carry state. It’s not like we’re marching with Castro and Guevara to overthrow the government.
Presuming she wins her district in the General Election (and I imagine she will), she will be taking her foreign policy degree into the House (and after the Dumpster fire we have in the White House, we’re going to need people who understand foreign policy).
Moreover, when bills come up for votes, they are either “aye” or “nay” or “abstain” or “absent.” Assuming she is not going to abstain or be absent, I presume she will cast “nay” on any GOP rodent copulation that comes her way.
re: #12 Joe Bacon 🌹
Your wish is my command!
Twitter marks it as “sensitive material” I have to affirm to open.
Western Nebraska news:
California pot shops slash prices ahead of new testing rules (goes to the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, more at the link):
Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed.
Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict quality standards, so retailers unloading untested inventory are offering blowout prices.
Deep discounts on everything from edibles to joints reflect the last days of the heady first phase of legal recreational pot. They could be followed by empty shelves as many stores scramble to restock with properly tested and packaged products.
“You can smell it. There’s a certain desperation from stores that bought too much and they have to dump it,” said John Atari, CEO of Source Cannabis Farms, a licensed cultivator in Los Angeles. “There’s going to be a big shortage of clean product come July 1.”
Want a real Mitt Romney story? In 2008 I came out in support of Sen McCain in the (R) primary. This clown CALLED ME at home, and said “why don’t you f’ing wait until we get a candidate before you support someone” to which I said, go fuck yourself and hung up.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) June 26, 2018
Curt’s lying. There is no way Mitt ever said “fucking”. https://t.co/IBt5ZIZ0pj
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 27, 2018
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹
I’m still buying it old school. I have yet to visit a California weed store.
This months strain is Blue Cheese.
re: #69 Single-handed sailor
I’m still buying it old school. I have yet to visit a California weed store.
This months strain is Blue Cheese.
Well, I stay away from it, primarily because of my position in my town (I imagine a lot of people don’t admit what they do here though, and Colorado is just down the road a bit), secondarily because I am wary of VA testing (they’re not supposed to pass along records to the local police here or to the DEA but one big happy government), plus not sure how it might or might not interfere with my epilepsy meds.
Our hearts are broken by today’s ruling on the Muslim Ban.
As Jews, we’ve seen this before. Scapegoating based on religion, restricting travel, families separated by borders—NO. We MUST speak up now.
History will judge this ruling harshly. #StandWithMuslims #NoMuslimBanEver— JewishAction (@jewishaction) June 26, 2018
Oh yeah, we should support discriminating against religious minorities. Because THAT always ends well for the Jews,
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 27, 2018
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
It seems to be a good anti-seizure medication. I’ve seen it used effectively by a couple of my friends. It won’t be long until it’s medically legal in the whole US. I’ve used it for pain distraction before. I’m not convinced it can actually reduce pain but you can forget for a few minutes at a time.
Jesus Christ, Neville Chamberlain negotiated a better deal.
Just FYI, satellite imagery suggests N. Korea is continuing to upgrade its nuclear enrichment facility.@38NorthNKhttps://t.co/UlGBaZmcit
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 27, 2018
This is why most diplomatic experts insist you should negotiate an agreement BEFORE you have the big, fancy signing ceremony. https://t.co/bBHOucoxC0
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 27, 2018
gonna get this framed pic.twitter.com/wa7tubL4S8
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 27, 2018
At Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California, SpaceX recently completed its 16th test of Crew Dragon’s parachute system—verifying the system’s ability to slow Crew Dragon and ensure a safe landing in the unlikely event of a low altitude abort. https://t.co/OOQnAtNXJ3 pic.twitter.com/kFX7Qth3AK
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 26, 2018
Another view of SpaceX’s 16th Crew Dragon parachute test recently completed at Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California. https://t.co/M6yppkxXgY pic.twitter.com/zecux3EUEH
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 26, 2018
re: #71 Ace-o-aces
Tons of derp in that thread “what about North Korea and Venezuela?”
Those were added on the third attempt to make it not look like a Muslim ban. Funny how the banned countries are those without Trump properties, and the nations which actually had citizens carry out attacks against our country are still allowed to travel here.
Is it really a “summit?” Isn’t it more like an “agent debriefing?”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 27, 2018
re: #72 Single-handed sailor
It seems to be a good anti-seizure medication. I’ve seen it used effectively by a couple of my friends. It won’t be long until it’s medically legal in the whole US. I’ve used it for pain distraction before. I’m not convinced it can actually reduce pain but you can forget for a few minutes at a time.
Well, “medical” is not equivalent to “recreational.” In theory medical cannabis is legal in Nebraska (but there is no mechanism to get approval for it).
As for epilepsy, certain components of CBD have been shown to have positive effect on pediatric epilepsy, but I don’t think I can convince anyone I am a five-year-old. /s (The FDA just approved a new CBD drug the other day, which is legal throughout the country, regardless of state laws.)
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
Tons of derp in that thread “what about North Korea and Venezuela?”
Those were added on the third attempt to make it not look like a Muslim ban. Funny how the banned countries are those without Trump properties, and the nations which actually had citizens carry out attacks against our country are still allowed to travel here.
I was mostly amused by the attempts by wingnuts on that thread to explaining the dangers of anti-semitism (goy-splaining?).
It’s like, “Hey dude, you know who chased my ancestors out of Europe? Hint, they weren’t Muslims.”
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
Grand mal guy here, haven’t had a seizure in over 35 years though. The last one was in my mid-20’s. I still get some of the aura stuff but nothing ever happens. I attribute my lack of seizures (and no need for medication) to weed as that was all I changed. The more I smoked weed, the fewer seizures I had so I kept it up and they eventually stopped. I won’t say how much I smoke but a truckload daily would be a good starting point. ;) I quit torching a bong or pipe full of weed a few years ago and switched to vaping (dabs via bong & pen).
CBDs are what do the job but I’ve never been one to pass on the THC too. :)
Regarding the testing for sales, we went through that here in Oregon when we made the transition to required testing. It was dry for a bit but it picked up after about two months. Now we’re buried in choices here and that’s just fine with me. As we’re just across the border from them, I expect to see more than a few Californians hitting up our shops once the drought hits there.
Time to stock up!
Female DJ on the radio talking about the song “Babe” by Styx that is just starting to play:
“Babe, by Styx, which makes me think of that story about that pig. I guess you can insert any Trump joke here.” /fade to music
lol!
re: #81 Odie Hugh Manatee
A truckload a day. LOL
For now, until the dust settles on maryjane in my state (and the VA - I’m not entirely sure they won’t turn over test records if asked), I’ll stay (sadly) away from it.
I haven’t had any seizures in a long time. (Last in 2006.) Using the old terms, mine are grand and petit mal.
I’m off to bed. I have to be up early in the morning for more water stuff.
InBev is a Belgian Co. that owns AB.
I always knew it would be the Belgians!!— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2018
I predict Peach Parfiet will legalize weed 6 mos before the 2020 election.
This is my prediction……
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹
Yeah, mine started out as petit mal in my childhood and graduated to full blown grand mal in my teen years. Stopping the medication was a bit scary but I am glad that I was able to as that shit flat out sucked. It took me some time to adjust to (essentially) living stoned but I learned that you can literally smoke yourself straight if you keep at it long enough.
:)
“I hope ya don’t mind but I took the liberty to order you the Frog Legs 🐸. Ya gotta try ‘em, they’re the best”……… Frog Legs? Really?
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2018
Good Fucking Morning America!!!
Harley Davidson CEO Matthew S Levatich says:
“Our decision to move some of our operations is 100% based on President Trumps tariffs. Mr. Trump knows nothing about economics and even less about trade. The man is a moron.”#MAGA @DailyCaller @realDonaldTrump @CNN @GOP pic.twitter.com/Q1wpjUaSx4— Judy Tinsleman (@tinsleman) June 26, 2018
#BurnYourHarley #MAGA morons. https://t.co/NRXDYZy8pF
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2018
re: #89 Dave In Austin
Good Fucking Morning America!!!
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re: #80 Ace-o-aces
I was mostly amused by the attempts by wingnuts on that thread to explaining the dangers of anti-semitism (goy-splaining?).
It’s like, “Hey dude, you know who chased my ancestors out of Europe? Hint, they weren’t Muslims.”
I’m not Jewish but man these people have this delusion that anti Semitic beliefs has never been a part of Christianity. In the former Yugoslavia, where I have some family, the Croatians Utasse that included clergy were some of the worst.
re: #46 Single-handed sailor
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But Governor Matt Bevin says Bourbon sales won’t be hurt. He also says that cell phones are the cause of school shootings.
Weak tweet of the day.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 27, 2018
re: #89 Dave In Austin
Good Fucking Morning America!!!
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Downstairs there was an assertion that this was a fake quote; that the verified Levatich statement was completely different.
re: #89 Dave In Austin
Good Fucking Morning America!!!
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There seems to be some dispute as to the accuracy of that quote. Harley’s CEO did make a statement about Trump, but the word ‘moron’ was not in it.
The statement was made in a telephone interview with Bloomberg that published Tuesday. Levatich said the decision to build in Thailand was “Plan B” after the U.S. abandoned TPP.
“We would rather not make the investment in (the Thailand plant), but that’s what’s necessary to access a very important market,” Levatich told Bloomberg. “It is a direct example of how trade policies could help this company, but we have to get on with our work to grow the business by any means possible, and that’s what we’re doing.”
My theory (which is mine, and which belongs to me) is that Daily Caller is trying to stir up the MAGAts to hate on H-D.
Three years ago, I was installing light switches for a living. Two years ago, @pwcdanica was writing news articles for low pay and no benefits. Last year, @Ocasio2018 worked as a bartender.
The future of politics isn’t just FOR the working class, it IS the working class.— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) June 27, 2018
re: #97 JordanRules
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Carter btw is the self described socialist that got elected in the VA legislature. Danica being Danica Roem. I’m fine with this. I’m sure Crowley was a good representative but Ocasio earned that nomination. I don’t like the Bros attacking anyone who supported HRC and as much as I dislike Sanders, I don’t think anyone who supported him is a bad candidate or person. In fact, one of my best friends I’ve made from campaign work is someone who was inspired to get into liberal politics because of him. And he’s a pragmatist.
re: #96 makeitstop
There seems to be some dispute as to the accuracy of that quote. Harley’s CEO did make a statement about Trump, but the word ‘moron’ was not in it.
My theory (which is mine, and which belongs to me) is that Daily Caller is trying to stir up the MAGAts to hate on H-D.
+10
re: #97 JordanRules
Three years ago, I was installing light switches for a living. Two years ago, @pwcdanica was writing news articles for low pay and no benefits. Last year, @Ocasio2018 worked as a bartender.
The future of politics isn’t just FOR the working class, it IS the working class.
when “politics” becomes an economic career path it compromises your ethics and motivations
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
Tons of derp in that thread “what about North Korea and Venezuela?”
Those were added on the third attempt to make it not look like a Muslim ban. Funny how the banned countries are those without Trump properties, and the nations which actually had citizens carry out attacks against our country are still allowed to travel here.
NK and VZ are really odd examples, too. Both countries are basket-cases, and denying admittance to anyone from those countries is cruel, and honestly, more than a little baffling.
Iran is not exactly a basket-case but the U.S. has effectively been in engaged in a cold war with that country since 1980 and has been overtly and covertly seeking its leaders overthrow, so why we would not admit people from there is again kind of stupid.
re: #68 Ace-o-aces
Want a real Mitt Romney story? In 2008 I came out in support of Sen McCain in the (R) primary. This clown CALLED ME at home, and said “why don’t you f’ing wait until we get a candidate before you support someone” to which I said, go fuck yourself and hung up.
— Curt Schilling
Almost forgot about this guy. And, Curt, nobody cares. Really.
re: #5 BeachDem
Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!
— Donald J. Trump
The bolded portion of this tweet is the only thing of interest to DJT.
re: #103 Sir John Barron
Almost forgot about this guy. And, Curt, nobody cares. Really.
He thinks being the James Woods of baseball players is a winning look. It’s a shame. I’m a baseball fan and Curt has a decent argument for a Hall of Fame ballot but the more he reminds people that he’s a right wing asshole, the more he shoots himself in the foot. I don’t feel bad just so it’s clear but I do hate seeing an all time great become known as that angry douche on Twitter. As for Romney, fuck him too. and I hope he actually gets a race.
You know what I’m really sick of? I’m really sick of all the articles and TV bits by lamestream media personality elites demanding that popular vote loser DJT reach out to liberal Democrats and try to reach consensus on the many troubling issues affecting our country. Just sick of it! “Why doesn’t the President reach out to his opponents and seek common ground?” Phewy!
Oh, wait, you know what, I’m actually not sick of it because none of those articles or TV bits have appeared in the last 18 months. Amazing isn’t it?
I could swear there were articles like that about Obama and Republicans nonstop for eight years.
Every Republicans since 1982:
DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!, MARXISTS!
—> Warning from @Time: “The Ds may have found a new rising star on Tuesday night, but adding a socialist to the Dem caucus is unlikely to help the Midwestern Ds’ efforts to pick off the 23 seats the party needs to capture the majority this fall.” https://t.co/dmOHpQ6Pho #NY14 pic.twitter.com/oJCGrXA2Sp
— Azi (@Azi) June 27, 2018
So by having a “real” socialist is going to be a bridge too far? Will the wingnuts now say that she is the same as the rest of the Dems or that they were full of crap about Dems being Socialists all along?
re: #106 Sir John Barron
You know what I’m really sick of? I’m really sick of all the articles and TV bits by lamestream media personality elites demanding that popular vote loser DJT reach out to liberal Democrats and try to reach consensus on the many troubling issues affecting our country. Just sick of it! “Why doesn’t the President reach out to his opponents and seek common ground?” Phewy!
Oh, wait, you know what, I’m actually not sick of it because none of those articles or TV bits have appeared in the last 18 months. Amazing isn’t it?
I could swear there were articles like that about Obama and Republicans nonstop for eight years.
He loses by over 2 million popular votes and the media just shrugs and goes “Well it was California and New York” yeah because the people who live there matter less than the working class saints in the Rust Belt that gave Trump the edge in the end.
re: #106 Sir John Barron
Instead we get endless bits about how DJT’s people in the heartland still support him.
And I don’t mind some of that, really I don’t. It’s helpful to know what his supporters and people in the middle of the country think about things.
But it’s striking how the burden of responsibility always seems to lie with the Dem president or Congress for most our media.
re: #107 b.d.
Every Republicans since 1982:
DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!, MARXISTS!
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So by having a “real” socialist is going to be a bridge too far? Will the wingnuts now say that she is the same as the rest of the Dems or that they were full of crap about Dems being Socialists all along?
Funny how having a Calvinist Objectivist- Dave Brat wasn’t going to sink the GOP.. As for her being a socialist. There are far worse things to be that politicians get away with including Trump himself but not just Trump but Steve King who will probably win re-election easily despite being the most vile racist in Congress.
re: #107 b.d.
Every Republicans since 1982:
DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!, MARXISTS!
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So by having a “real” socialist is going to be a bridge too far? Will the wingnuts now say that she is the same as the rest of the Dems or that they were full of crap about Dems being Socialists all along?
The real socialists are all the benefactors of the RWNJ welfare state, where all you need to make money and get airtime is to talk shit about Democrats and librulz. Otherwise, people like Tammy Looneygun, Jacob Wohl and Ann Coulter would have to find real jobs.
re: #108 HappyWarrior
And I’m trying to imagine the media and Republicans if Obama spent eight years holding insulting cult rallies and railing against opponents on Twitter.
re: #109 Sir John Barron
Instead we get endless bits about how DJT’s people in the heartland still support him.
And I don’t mind some of that, really I don’t. It’s helpful to know what his supporters and people in the middle of the country think about things.
But it’s striking how the burden of responsibility always seems to lie with the Dem president or Congress for most our media.
I don’t mind some of it either but for once, I’d like the media to try to reach out to those of us who were critical of a Trump presidency from the start. Instead, we’re treated constantly to this idea that only white Americans in the heartland matter.
have you seen this?
churches et al will be taxed on fringe benefits
When Congress passes a 500-page bill with a 600-page explanation that no member read before the vote, which took place 4 days after they were released, well, strange stuff can happen. It is only now becoming clear that one consequence of the tax-cut bill will be to tax nonprofits, such as churches, hospitals, orchestras, and other historically exempt organizations at a rate of 21% on fringe benefits they pay their employees.
forget the outrage of the italics, note the bold
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Funny how having a Calvinist Objectivist- Dave Brat wasn’t going to sink the GOP.. As for her being a socialist. There are far worse things to be that politicians get away with including Trump himself but not just Trump but Steve King who will probably win re-election easily despite being the most vile racist in Congress.
Also 8 years of the Republicans screaming how Obama was a socialist was the best branding effort that any socialist could ever hope for.
re: #107 b.d.
Every Republicans since 1982:
DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!, MARXISTS!
So by having a “real” socialist is going to be a bridge too far? Will the wingnuts now say that she is the same as the rest of the Dems or that they were full of crap about Dems being Socialists all along?
It sounds like she’s a good representative of her new constituents, better than Crowley. And Manchin is as close a representative of his state that you can get and call the person a Democrat. That’s our party. We represent the country.
USA! USA! USA!
The U.S. is now ranked among the 10 nations considered to be the most dangerous for women, experts say: https://t.co/IpDEtPHFjo pic.twitter.com/bUNUiEiY9L
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 26, 2018
MAGA!
re: #112 Sir John Barron
And I’m trying to imagine the media and Republicans if Obama spent eight years holding insulting cult rallies and railing against opponents on Twitter.
Shit you saw how the late Krauthammer reacted when Obama would use the word “I.” Trump is the most narcissistic person ever to be President and the Trumpers love him for it. I highly doubt most of that audience let alone him himself knew who David Lynch was before Lynch offered some praise of Trump. Honestly what I want to know from the Trumpers is what is your limit with the guy. But the thing is they hate us more than they actually like him so as long as we hate him, they’ll continue to embrace him.
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
USA! USA! USA!
MAGA!
Well, yeah. I think that was part of the goal. And the woman with the “He can grab my” shirt was OK with it.
Note to media folks:
Stop asking prominent white men how they feel about civility.
White men aren’t the ones being locked up in cages, abused by bigots, or shot by police.
Stop climbing to the very top of the privilege totem to ask the unaffected how the affected should behave— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 26, 2018
re: #107 b.d.
Every Republicans since 1982:
DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!, MARXISTS!
Warning from @Time: “The Ds may have found a new rising star on Tuesday night, but adding a socialist to the Dem caucus is unlikely to help the Midwestern Ds’ efforts to pick off the 23 seats the party needs to capture the majority this fall.”
this is idiocy
a dem wins a primary in NY and somehow that translates into won’t help midwestern D’s efforts to take R seats?
of course it wont
it’s a NY primary ya numbskulls
President Trump’s “administration is a form of extremism. We shouldn’t be afraid to be very bold and very strong in our values,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says https://t.co/UeisDdlJAF pic.twitter.com/tpELxDy2Li
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 27, 2018
re: #116 Belafon
It sounds like she’s a good representative of her new constituents, better than Crowley. And Manchin is as close a representative of his state that you can get and call the person a Democrat. That’s our party. We represent the country.
That’s what Brian didn’t get last night. I actually really like what she brings to the table. I’m not going to hold her support of Bernie against her.
re: #112 Sir John Barron
And I’m trying to imagine the media and Republicans if Obama spent eight years holding insulting cult rallies and railing against opponents on Twitter.
eight years?
he wouldnt have lasted 2 days
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
1. India
2. Afghanistan
3. Syria
4. Somalia
5. Saudi Arabia
6. Pakistan
7. Democratic Republic of Congo
8. Yemen
9. Nigeria
10. United States
re: #113 HappyWarrior
I don’t mind some of it either but for once, I’d like the media to try to reach out to those of us who were critical of a Trump presidency from the start. Instead, we’re treated constantly to this idea that only white Americans in the heartland matter.
i think its worse than that
by promoting only this point of view theyre impling that its representative of everyone
#WhereCanWeEat
Get it trending! @PressSec @RepMaxineWaters https://t.co/zrApunb5ki— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 26, 2018
Chik-Fil-A. I think they serve your kind. If not, you can probably order Papa John’s. https://t.co/nAnsMji7JL
— 😺Steph🐱 🦏🦏🍕🌭 (@Graypets) June 27, 2018
re: #127 dangerman
i think its worse than that
by promoting only this point of view theyre impling that its representative of everyone
Yes indeed. For once, I’d like to see the NYT, WaPo, or whoever go into places where there’s tons of immigrants or working people of color and get their perspective. That’s something I think Sanders has continued to misrepresent. We haven’t lost the Working Class. We lost the WWC but what Bernie hasn’t told people is we lost them a long time ago.
This is what ‘civility’ amounts to in the current political atmosphere:
decorum https://t.co/Klwjsq8j2N pic.twitter.com/VP63Te7kmN
— chainsawsuit (@chainsawsuit) June 26, 2018
re: #130 HappyWarrior
Yes indeed. For once, I’d like to see the NYT, WaPo, or whoever go into places where there’s tons of immigrants or working people of color and get their perspective. That’s something I think Sanders has continued to misrepresent. We haven’t lost the Working Class. We lost the WWC but what Bernie hasn’t told people is we lost them a long time ago.
for once or actually more than once, i’d like to seem them get and print any other perspective
by so narrowly focusing, they are defacto supporters and cheerleaders
re: #132 Citizen K
This is what ‘civility’ amounts to in the current political atmosphere:
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Indeed. As I’ve said. The media seems to get more upset about talking about white nationalism i.e. calling Stephen Miller one than actual white nationalism- the things Miller believes. I’m sorry but Miller’s entire life in politics from the time he was in high school to the present has been one giant dump on anyone who isn’t a white heterosexual male.
The media has often drawn attention to DJT’s outrageous and insulting behavior, to his crazy tweets and policy pronouncements, but it hasn’t gotten around to asking, challenging, an administration that lost the popular vote to reach out to its partisan opponents in Congress, especially the Senate, where the administration’s margin of control is slim. It just seems to be accepted that he has no obligation to do this or that the country would be better off if he did.
re: #136 Sir John Barron
The media has often drawn attention to DJT’s outrageous and insulting behavior, to his crazy tweets and policy pronouncements, but it hasn’t gotten around to asking, challenging, an administration that lost the popular vote to reach out to its partisan opponents in Congress, especially the Senate, where the administration’s margin of control is slim. It just seems to be accepted that he has no obligation to do this or that the country would be better off if he did.
Exactly. And let me point out another thing, I’m tired of his opponents either painted as either violent radicals of color or out of touch elites. I’m not wealthy and I presume most of you aren’t either. But instead we’ve gotten this narrative that Trump represents the average American and his opponents don’t.
uh oh…it’s capslock time…
HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
Local Council-woman tries her hand at online shaming, gets shamed for trying:
When Albany Common Councilwoman Judy Doesschate saw a Mohawk Ambulance double-parked outside a Stewart’s Shops on New Scotland Avenue, she took a picture. She also took a picture of the crew inside the store.
She then posted the pictures Monday evening on her Common Councilmember Facebook page, and asked what others thought about the ambulance being double-parked. “People in my neighborhood are very concerned about traffic and pedestrian safety, and I was hoping this post would make people think twice about double-parking, or illegally parking, in this neighborhood,” Doesschate, who represents the 9th Ward in Albany, said in an interview Tuesday. That wasn’t the direction the conversation took online.
Commenters quickly jumped on Doesschate, expressing outrage that she would target emergency workers and calling for her to lose her job. It was shared nearly 900 times as of 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and had over 2,000 comments. Albany City Hall had received many calls expressing outrage over the post as well, city officials said.
Doesschate pulled it down around noon.
re: #126 Shropshire Slasher
Interesting, India. I’ve heard about the cases of public assault but hadn’t realized how widespread it was, or why.
Also, none of those countries are from Latin America or South America, the places, “shtholes”, that are sending us all their murderers and rapists and such. ////
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
uh oh…it’s capslock time…
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You have a majority in both Houses, Dumbo. If Goodlatte’s bill is as great as you claim it is, it should pass both Houses. But I get it you blame the Democrats because you don’t know how to actually get shit done and you don’t know immigration policy from a horse’s dupa.
also from electoral-vote.com this AM
The conclusion is that the members of Congress are rich far beyond that of the people they represent. This makes many of them completely unaware of what life is like for millions of Americans, so it is no wonder that their decisions often reflect the wishes of rich people rather than poor people (and then there is the matter of what their donors want, but that is another story).
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
uh oh…it’s capslock time…
Ah, another example of the president reaching out to his opponents and seeking common ground.
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re: #136 Sir John Barron
The media has often drawn attention to DJT’s outrageous and insulting behavior, to his crazy tweets and policy pronouncements, but it hasn’t gotten around to asking, challenging, an administration that lost the popular vote to reach out to its partisan opponents in Congress, especially the Senate, where the administration’s margin of control is slim. It just seems to be accepted that he has no obligation to do this or that the country would be better off if he did.
there’s no money in it for the media to do this
and it could hinder their access
so all in all, not newsworthy
re: #142 dangerman
also from electoral-vote.com this AM
A lot of them then make matters worse by not attending Town Halls. Just saw some good news here. Wexton, our nominee here in VA-10 is up 10 points over the GOP incumbent, Comstock. Comstock has refused to hold Town Halls and plays the tiptoe game on Trump. This is a district Clinton won and I’m going to do my part to finally make it Democratic.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
uh oh…it’s capslock time…
The ALL CAPS at this hour of the morning should be embarrassing, even to him.
Justice Sotomayor does not “lash out” at the President. She set forth the evidence presented by Plaintiffs showing the President’s motive for the ban. She is strongly critical of her colleagues on the Court, but the President? Where does she lash out against him in this dissent? https://t.co/xuvLiCfPYe
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 26, 2018
In the @nytimes, only a Latina justice can “lash out.” Trump, who incites his followers to violence at his rallies, by contrast, is “addressing economic anxieties.” The difference in language is racist.
— David Suchoff (@Frohbaer) June 27, 2018
re: #140 Sir John Barron
If you put America on the top 10 list, it will get you free media coverage!!
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re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She ratehr pointed out his anti-Muslim sentiment as both a candidate and now President that Roberts ignores.
re: #145 HappyWarrior
A lot of them then make matters worse by not attending Town Halls. Just saw some good news here. Wexton, our nominee here in VA-10 is up 10 points over the GOP incumbent, Comstock. Comstock has refused to hold Town Halls and plays the tiptoe game on Trump. This is a district Clinton won and I’m going to do my part to finally make it Democratic.
“Well, congressional town halls were great and necessary when Dems were in charge and trying to pass the tyrannical ACA but since the GOP is in charge constituents should just stay home and listen and not bother their betters.”
NEW: The East Pittsburgh Police officer who fatally shot 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. on June 19 has been charged, according to court records https://t.co/7quof6gagb pic.twitter.com/tiBhN21w5D
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 27, 2018
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, objecting to a presidential policy or EO is “lashing out at” the president.
Good to know.
/
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m glad no GOP SCOTUS members or members of Congress ever “lashed out at” President Obama in his eight years.
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If you think that Mexico is only sending drug dealers and rapists,
but also worry that Mexicans are going to take your job…
What the fuck do you do for a living?— (((edelweisspirat)))🌊 #GeneralStrike (@crandallgold) June 25, 2018
I’m looking that this year’s releases for Record Store Day, and there’s some pretty cool stuff coming this year! Three Bowie records! A re-release of the Stooges debut and an Iggy live album! Rage Against The Machine’s performance at the 2000 Democratic convention! Whole buncha stuff, I’m excited.
We’re announcing that Twisted will re-issue their 1983 ‘Live at the Marquee’ album on colored vinyl for RSD at 10:00. There, y’all got an exclusive, but don’t tell anybody until 10:01. :)
— forest fr1ends (@forest_fr1ends) June 27, 2018
re: #12 Joe Bacon 🌹
Your wish is my command!
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Perfect!!! Just saw a GOP ad featuring Samantha Bee, Maxine Waters, etc. Democrats need to respond with an ad of Trump being his normal, bullying self. He was uncivil when he announced his run for President and attacked Mexicans and he hasn’t turned back. That’s what the media should focus on.
Putin-Bolton meeting has started in Kremlin. Bolton said he looks forward to hearing “how you handled the World Cup so successfully.” Putin flashed a big smile. pic.twitter.com/uhRhTYBhMe
— Anton Troianovski (@antontroian) June 27, 2018
Putin to Bolton at top of the meeting: “U.S.-Russian relations are not in their best shape. I have already said this publicly and would like to repeat in meeting with you that I believe this is in large part the result of an intense domestic political battle inside the U.S.”
— Anton Troianovski (@antontroian) June 27, 2018
re: #157 Patricia Kayden
Perfect!!! Just saw a GOP ad featuring Samantha Bee, Maxine Waters, etc. Democrats need to respond with an ad of Trump being his normal, bullying self. He was uncivil when he announced his run for President and attacked Mexicans and he hasn’t turned back. That’s what the media should focus on.
Media and pundits insist Dems shouldn’t just be “anti-Drump” but by making “civility” an issue they sort of force Dems to respond in kind.
Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition & criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., & emphasizing an aggressive nationalism & often racism…./1
— The Ricky Collins (@RickySpurs101) June 27, 2018
20 years in military intelligence, couple of college degrees, 10 years of writing about politics and I had no idea what fascism was. Thank you for taking the time to mansplain it to me.
Yes, lets wait until they’re shoving people into ovens before we do anything. Good idea. https://t.co/vCJvLHzn5h— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 27, 2018
re: #158 JordanRules
“Yeah, I mean I got you guys the DNC emails and DrumpF has consistently claimed I wasn’t behind it all and has helpfully continued to attack your own country’s IC, and I like that he fired that pesky Comey, but really you guys must do more to quiet down the Dems in your Congress.”
I was glad that some in the media i.e. Chris Hayes did push back and bring up the business owner that not only denied Biden service but got treated like a hero by the RNC and Romney-Ryan for it.
re: #161 Sir John Barron
“Yeah, I mean I got you guys the DNC emails and DrumpF has consistently claimed I wasn’t behind it all and has helpfully continued to attack your own country’s IC, and I like that he fired that pesky Comey, but really you guys must do more to quiet down the Dems in your Congress.”
Putin isn’t as strong as we think. Hopefully we can hit him back where it hurts and cripple the support he has.
re: #163 HappyWarrior
Putin isn’t as strong as we think. Hopefully we can hit him back where it hurts and cripple the support he has.
We just have a president who’s weaker.
re: #163 HappyWarrior
Putin isn’t as strong as we think. Hopefully we can hit him back where it hurts and cripple the support he has.
If the administration would hit him back, and they have to some extent, the “Deep State” State Department applied some sanctions. But Drump has been resistent, and if Dems don’t make an issue out of this, of DJT’s warm support of Putin and his attempt to thwart the special counsel investigation, they will have failed mightily.
re: #166 Sir John Barron
If the administration would hit him back, and they have to some extent, the “Deep State” State Department applied some sanctions. But Drump has been resistent, and if Dems don’t make an issue out of this, of DJT’s warm support of Putin and his attempt to thwart the special counsel investigation, they will have failed mightily.
I’m pretty sure most Americans rate the sanctions of Putin around the same level as pineapple on pizza.
ummm…
Prince William meets Palestinian president in Israeli-occupied West Bank https://t.co/YNRH4hiBOx pic.twitter.com/0bUBeywmbl
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 27, 2018
re: #163 HappyWarrior
Putin isn’t as strong as we think. Hopefully we can hit him back where it hurts and cripple the support he has.
I see no reason we citizens can’t strike back in a similar (short of hacking) propaganda/shit stirring fashion over there. Destabilization can happen anywhere.
re: #31 jaunte
Just FYI, satellite imagery suggests N. Korea is continuing to upgrade its nuclear enrichment facility
This strikes me as a “dog bites man” story. No duh. The N. Koreans aren’t going to stop doing what they’ve been doing for the past thirty years regardless of KJU’s ‘outreach’ to the orange shit-goblin.
re: #158 JordanRules
Putin doesn’t mention his hacking of the DNC, his harboring of Snowden, or his fake news manipulating of social media, but sure, dude, it’s all U.S. domestic politics.
As the CEO of a cannabis company, one would think she would have had more chill.
— Jeff Hendrix (@jimidragon) June 27, 2018
San Francisco has an economic experiment well underway. The results are telling. But does the attention to the SF regulations and tech money overlay obscure the bigger picture? This is what inflation does.
nytimes.com
San Francisco’s tech riches have fed demand for restaurants — and some wealthy tech workers have decided they would also like to be partners in a restaurant, opening up more investment. But as those highly paid workers have also driven demand for scarce housing, the city has struggled to keep lower-wage workers afloat.
On July 1, the minimum wage in San Francisco will hit $15 an hour, following incremental raises from $10.74 in 2014. The city also requires employers with at least 20 workers to pay health care costs beyond the mandates of the Affordable Care Act, in addition to paid sick leave and parental leave.
Despite those benefits, many workers say they can’t afford to live here, or to stay in the industry. And partly as a result of those benefits, restaurateurs say they can’t afford the workers who remain. A dishwasher can now make $18 or $19 an hour. And because of California labor laws, even tipped workers like servers earn at least the full minimum wage, unlike their peers in most other states.
re: #170 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This strikes me as a “dog bites man” story. No duh. The N. Koreans aren’t going to stop doing what they’ve been doing for the past thirty years regardless of KJU’s ‘outreach’ to the orange shit-goblin.
For us yes indeed. But it’s a weapon to hit Trump with anyway.
re: #171 Sir John Barron
Putin doesn’t mention his hacking of the DNC, his harboring of Snowden, or his fake news manipulating of social media, but sure, dude, it’s all U.S. domestic politics.
I’m sure he and Bolton had a good laugh about that when the cameras were off.
re: #53 Feline Fearless Leader
Fat Chipmunk
ZOMG. That is one seriously obese chipmunk. Kinda like the squirrels in my yard.
re: #1 Belafon
You know what civil looks like? Democrats helping other Democrats after losing to them in the primaries. And even better, not waiting until right before the election.
Back in the day, I used to interact with Crowley in the NYS legislature. He was a good guy then, and his district’s demographics have changed, and this is being remarked upon by the national media as some kind of fight for the soul of the Democratic party.
It’s all bullshit. Sometimes voters decide they want someone new (did they say the same when Rangel lost his reelection bid?) Demographic changes coupled with the fact that women and minorities are leading the charge on fighting Trump and the regressive GOP policies are coming into play.
Crowley thought he had the win wrapped up and missed the sea change that happened in his district.
It’s only a good thing for Democrats - interesting things happen when people turn out for votes. And rolling back the GOP regressive agenda starts with running candidates in every election and even giving incumbents a run for their money - keep everyone on their toes so they aren’t complacent.
re: #177 lawhawk
Back in the day, I used to interact with Crowley in the NYS legislature. He was a good guy then, and his district’s demographics have changed, and this is being remarked upon by the national media as some kind of fight for the soul of the Democratic party.
It’s all bullshit. Sometimes voters decide they want someone new (did they say the same when Rangel lost his reelection bid?) Demographic changes coupled with the fact that women and minorities are leading the charge on fighting Trump and the regressive GOP policies are coming into play.
Crowley thought he had the win wrapped up and missed the sea change that happened in his district.
It’s only a good thing for Democrats - interesting things happen when people turn out for votes. And rolling back the GOP regressive agenda starts with running candidates in every election and even giving incumbents a run for their money - keep everyone on their toes so they aren’t complacent.
Can’t cook without heat right?
I’m doing family research as I often do before I start up work for the day. And I’m just struck by the “chain migration.” I have a book that I inherited from my grandfather, the book is mainly about his first cousin’s family but he’s related to her through both parents- fifth cousins via her mother and first cousins via the father. Anyhow, I’m seeing that lots people gladly sponsored people and families lived near by each other. We haven’t documented this with my mom’s mom family but that happened too and I know with two of my Dad’s great great grandfathers, a brother followed from Ireland and Germany. And you know what, I’m sure many American families are like this and we don’t give it much thought. And I guess I understand why but since “chain migration” has become a scare word in recent years. I’d call it family migration.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York City is overcome with emotion at the entrance of the CBP facility where the #tentcity housing boys and girls is located in #Tornillo. #BorderStories #ImmigrantChildren #lafrontera #onassignment @TexasTribune pic.twitter.com/Yxqm7DY8Gd
— Ivan Pierre Aguirre (@i_p_a_1) June 24, 2018
.@TexasTribune captured @Ocasio2018 last week on the border – not campaigning for the NYC primary she just won (surprise!!), but visiting #tentcity https://t.co/Vtvui8xBs8
— Emily Ramshaw (@eramshaw) June 27, 2018
re: #178 Unshaken Defiance
Can’t cook without heat right?
Indeed and honestly after reading about Alexandria, I’m legitimately impressed by this woman. And I give Crowley full credit for not throwing a tantrum and fully rallying behind her.
“We won because I think we had a very clear winning message and we took that message to doors that had never been knocked on before,” says 28-year-old political newcomer Ocasio-Cortez on her win in NY’s 14th District Democratic primary https://t.co/QPoCbqeFNr pic.twitter.com/CiEnZD3Ry0
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) June 27, 2018
Note how she keeps rejecting the ask — to trash national Democrats — to describe what she did and how scalable it is. https://t.co/GByBjxJqTL
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 27, 2018
Anyone have stats on how many women and minorities are on Democratic races for House and Senate this fall?
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I already think she’s better than Bernie simply because of that.
re: #182 Citizen K
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I like her. And she’s very likely going to be the first person in Congress younger than me.
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Crowley has been in politics for 30+ years. He knows that supporting Democrats helps defend against the GOP regressive policies. He’s not going to throw a tantrum because he got upset in a primary.
He sees the bigger picture. He knows what’s at stake.
re: #186 lawhawk
Crowley has been in politics for 30+ years. He knows that supporting Democrats helps defend against the GOP regressive policies. He’s not going to throw a tantrum because he got upset in a primary.
He sees the bigger picture. He knows what’s at stake.
Yeah I’m not surprised by this. Glad to know there are Dems like him, Perriello here in VA, and the five that lost to Jennifer Wexton here in VA-10 who are what I call Big Picture Dems.
She is so funny. Honestly, I love this Twitter feed.
Jack Daniel’s forced to raise price of whiskey by double digits in response to tariffs https://t.co/IKizfcxxfc pic.twitter.com/2Yyu8gS2tV
— The Hill (@thehill) June 26, 2018
Somewhere in Trump country, a guy in a red hat is having a real crisis of faith. https://t.co/7krHfuYqCH
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 27, 2018
re: #182 Citizen K
I think the people who are making this into a fight “for the soul of” the Democratic party aren’t Democrats.
.@KellyannePolls just called out the Democratic Senate intern who yelled “Fuck You” at @POTUS on Capitol hill by name. Says any WH intern who did the same would be fired pic.twitter.com/J8YEzsBuA1
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) June 27, 2018
a HHS official is an unapologetic PizzaGater, a top official at HUD said John Podesta is a satanist. A top DHS official promoted birtherism. A senior HHS official said Khizr Khan was a Muslim Brotherhood secret agent.
All these people still have jobs.https://t.co/SrUpKa4i6h— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 27, 2018
Speaking of Record Store Day - a graphic artist has curated a page of old record company logos. Lots of very old-school and regional label logos included.
How many do you recognize? There were a few that I’d never seen before.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh shut up Kellyanne, no one buys that for a second especially after we saw how you tried to spin “He’s going to die anyhow” regarding McCain. Fuck you too.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you.
https://t.co/Bp9hKNKZfL pic.twitter.com/33ZIBLbnAx— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) June 27, 2018
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
But they’re not interns. //
But technically she’s right, any WH Intern that would stand up to Trump would be fired.
The Kennedy connection to the Bronx-Queens new Congresswoman … https://t.co/PPIDsTUq1f
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) June 27, 2018
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
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40 years from now, we’re going to these people doing well in Canada. Who knows, maybe one of them will become a minister in Canada’s government.- not sure if you have to be Canadian born to be PM.
McConnell to Politico re: Crowley defeat: “It was a stunning development. The energy in the Democratic Party is self-avowed socialists, open borders. We even had a credible potential candidate for president in 2020 suggest we get rid of ICE, the border enforcement agency…
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 27, 2018
3/ “… and a real drag on the party in terms of appealing to American voters who I don’t think want us to turn into a European Socialist country.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 27, 2018
the turtle never disappoints…
re: #197 HappyWarrior
40 years from now, we’re going to these people doing well in Canada. Who knows, maybe one of them will become a minister in Canada’s government.- not sure if you have to be Canadian born to be PM.
“See. Told you we shouldn’t have let them in. They’ve taken over Canada. It’s not even the same country anymore. Pretty soon, they’ll replace the Maple leave with an avocado.”
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
McConnell, who destroyed comity and packed the judiciary with right wing extremists, is concerned that Democrats want to get rid of a federal agency that has repeatedly engaged in widespread abuses and that has repeatedly failed to do its job properly and within the law.
History of ICE has been replete with scandal. Yes, they are responsible for immigration and customs enforcement, not border control, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be reformed. BCP is border control.
Reform≠open borders.
GOPers - the Trump white supremacist base sees it as reform=open borders.
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You sir have people in your caucus who retweet Neo-Nazis and don’t apologize about it, you have an IRA apologist, your number 3 in the House wanted to be David Duke without the baggage. Oh and you have Donald Trump himself in the WH. Oh and look in the mirror buddy, you’re an obstructionist asshole who blocked an excellent judge from a judgeship because of bullshit you made up about how you can’t make SCOTUS appointments in an election year. Fuck off Mitch.
I understand why normal people get this confused, but Mitch McConnell should really know that CBP, not ICE, is the border agency. https://t.co/gt2EC3nJpf
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 27, 2018
the one that has “border” in its name is kind of a clue…
re: #201 lawhawk
McConnell, who destroyed comity and packed the judiciary with right wing extremists, is concerned that Democrats want to get rid of a federal agency that has repeatedly engaged in widespread abuses and that has repeatedly failed to do its job properly and within the law.
History of ICE has been replete with scandal. Yes, they are responsible for border control and enforcement, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be reformed.
Reform≠open borders.
GOPers - the Trump white supremacist base sees it as reform=open borders.
TBH I’m not totally against open borders. I’d prefer to do it in a pragmatic and smart way but the way the right talks about “open borders” you’d think all hell breaks out in Europe.
ICE is actually pretty new too. It’s not that insane or radical to suggest getting rid of it.
re: #204 HappyWarrior
TBH I’m not totally against open borders. I’d prefer to do it in a pragmatic and smart way but the way the right talks about “open borders” you’d think all hell breaks out in Europe.
The opposite of “closed borders” is not “open borders” it’s “not closed borders.”
Seniority really doesn’t mean squat when you are eternally the minority party.
“It’s unfortunate that he had a primary,” said the Bronx Borough president, Ruben Diaz, Jr. of @JoeCrowleyNY. “We need him in Washington DC. Washington is about consistency and seniority.”
— J. David Goodman (@jdavidgoodman) June 27, 2018
re: #205 HappyWarrior
ICE is actually pretty new too. It’s not that insane or radical to suggest getting rid of it.
ICE, BCP, and DHS are all outgrowths of the reorganization after 9/11. ICE by itself is not a bad concept. Execution has been awful. So much of DHS has done amounts to security theater than actual security.
re: #206 Belafon
The opposite of “closed borders” is not “open borders” it’s “not closed borders.”
I know.
re: #207 b.d.
Seniority really doesn’t mean squat when you are eternally the minority party.
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Primaries are how Democracy works, sir. It’s how you and Crowley started in the first place. Who knows. 20 years from now, Alexandria may find herself in the same situation.
re: #208 lawhawk
ICE, BCP, and DHS are all outgrowths of the reorganization after 9/11. ICE by itself is not a bad concept. Execution has been awful. So much of DHS has done amounts to security theater than actual security.
Yeah I agree.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
ICE is actually pretty new too. It’s not that insane or radical to suggest getting rid of it.
It’s not as insane as wanting to get rid of the Department of Energy, Department of Education and the Commerce Department.
But hey, that’s conservative!!!
They’re going feral https://t.co/TRXvxfq9xv
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 27, 2018
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife harassed by violent crowed, as Maxine Waters urges more protests
pic.twitter.com/vC9SeMbjiu— Wired Sources (@WiredSources) June 26, 2018
What public servant will want to serve if this is how we behave, even if anger is legit? Do you want to see, e.g., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated like this for controversial SCOTUS votes? I don’t. Protests are patriotic; harassment isn’t. https://t.co/CobxlmxMxc
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 26, 2018
You made excuses for police brutalizing black children. Have a seat, hypocrite. https://t.co/FigQqZwOHr
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 27, 2018
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
harassed by violent crowed
What’s violent crowed?
If the crowd is violent, it wouldn’t be called harassment. It would be called assault.
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife
Are they referring to Trump cabinet member Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao?
That innocent wallflower?
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Megyn, you sat there at your desk at FNC and grinned as Democratic legislators were actually threatened with 2nd amendment solutions for health care reform. Shut the fuck up. No one’s falling for your “I’m a decent person” bullshit.
re: #215 Belafon
What’s violent crowed?
If the crowd is violent, it wouldn’t be called harassment. It would be called assault.
Well if they show up with guns to a pro-gun control rally, they’re just exercising their rights but heaven forbid that people show anger towards corrupt public officials.
re: #216 b.d.
LOL:
Are they referring to Trump cabinet member Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao?
That innocent wallflower?
and Former Secretary of Labor. Man this is some dense bs.
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
Failed chat show host says what?
And there it is. The Republican justices nuke public sector unions in a 5-4 opinion by Alito.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 27, 2018
re: #219 HappyWarrior
and Former Secretary of Labor. Man this is some dense bs.
LOL, where are the angry reports of people harassing President Bill Clinton’s wife?
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
Megyn, we’ll get back to what you’re talking about when we stop separating children from their families, losing them, and putting them up for adoption; blocking people from entering the country based on religion; and sidling up with dictators.
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife harassed by violent crowed, as Maxine Waters urges more protests
pic.twitter.com/vC9SeMbjiu— Wired Sources (@WiredSources) June 26, 2018
What public servant will want to serve if this is how we behave, even if anger is legit? Do you want to see, e.g., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated like this for controversial SCOTUS votes? I don’t. Protests are patriotic; harassment isn’t. https://t.co/CobxlmxMxc
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 26, 2018
Megyn must be missing her racist asshole friends at Fox “News”.
This is why I will never watch her shitty morning show. You can take the racist out of its roost but you never take the racist out of her soul. https://t.co/XTKH8n5g5I— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 27, 2018
re: #222 b.d.
LOL, where are the angry reports of people harassing President Bill Clinton’s wife?
The same alternate universe where Mitt Romney was told to knit and spend time with the grandkids.
re: #224 HappyWarrior
MAKE ME RELEEVANT AGAIN!
Yeah, pretty much.
Sorry, Megyn. It’s kinda hard to wash that Fox News stank off, ain’t it?
Fuck McConnell and the GOP that packed the Supreme Court with Gorsuch.
The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to labor unions, ruling 5-4 that government workers can’t be required to pay for collective bargaining https://t.co/qSanhB6zYl
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 27, 2018
Yet another decision where Gorsuch tipped the scales.
re: #206 Belafon
The opposite of “closed borders” is not “open borders” it’s “not closed borders.”
These people only think in black and white extremes. And are under the belief that everyone else does too.
Breaking: The Supreme Court holds that public sector agency fees violate the First Amendment, reversing the 7th Circuit and overruling Abood. Justice Alito writes for the 5-4 court. #SCOTUS
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 27, 2018
This is pretty much the finishing blow for unions in America.
Hope you enjoyed them. https://t.co/bamU83xwhm— Space Force Commander Zandar (@ZandarVTS) June 27, 2018
We’ll never be able to get back what’s been taken. This one single court will have killed us for at least 2 generations.
re: #227 makeitstop
Yeah, pretty much.
Sorry, Megyn. It’s kinda hard to wash that Fox News stank off, ain’t it?
You cannot wash off what is inside every square cm of her body and soul (what there is of one).
re: #228 lawhawk
Fuck McConnell and the GOP that packed the Supreme Court with Gorsuch.
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Yet another decision where Gorsuch tipped the scales.
Just what we needed, another Scalia clone for the next generation.
re: #230 Citizen K
But, oddly, travel bans don’t.
The Supreme Court is expected to end its term on Wednesday with one final major case challenging public sector union fees left to decide.
The most anticipated decision of the year came Tuesday, when the court in a 5-4 decision upheld Trump’s travel ban.
That’s led to some speculation that a retirement announcement could happen on Wednesday, though there is no hard evidence one is coming.
The speculation for the last year has centered on the court’s swing voter Justice Anthony Kennedy, but some have pondered if Justice Clarence Thomas is actually going to be the one to call it quits.
Well if it’s Thomas, I guess at least it would be a wash. I mean Kennedy can be maddening but he gets some things right. It’s hard for me to remember a Thomas opinion I’ve ever truly liked.
re: #225 MsJ
Does Megyn remember the townhall meetings in 2010 or the Tea Bag rallies outside congress when the ACA was being debated?
Of course, now we’re oging to hear Republican candidates say we need judges like Gorsuch the same way we used for Scalia. I say we need more like Sotomayor.
re: #225 MsJ
Thankfully the president will be sure to wade in with some consensus-building words and non-self-interested messaging to calm things.
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re: #236 Sir John Barron
Does Megyn remember the townhall meetings in 2010 or the Tea Bag rallies outside congress when the ACA was being debated?
Sure he does. She and FNC were covering them as if they were the second coming of the American Revolution which btw was hardly a nice, civil affair where the colonists just asked King George to leave and he said “I don’t know guys, I’d rather you not.”
Geez, these guys…
I mean… folks, these were primaries. PRIMARIES. The most exciting win of the night (Ocasio-Cortez) is the safest of safe blue seats.
If you think you just staged a palace coup by winning your own party’s primaries, I just… pic.twitter.com/PcwkXkOOFv— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 27, 2018
re: #225 MsJ
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife harassed by violent crowed, as Maxine Waters urges more protests
pic.twitter.com— Wired Sources
Also not sure about this source…
re: #240 makeitstop
Geez, these guys…
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re: #230 Citizen K
So when do you suggest we begin the en masse suicides?
//if we’re going to be in full-on defeatist mode here.
Public sector unions were always compromised a bit. By their very nature, being an employee of a government means a sort of tradeoff, compared to working for a private company.
Federal employee unions are not that influential. However, I can see that at the state and local level that unions play a more important role.
re: #243 HappyWarrior
If I can die without hearing the word “Cuck” again, I’ll die happy. It’s so stupidly used by people who don’t know what the fuck it means.
And appropriating a term from the real enemy is pretty telling.
re: #246 makeitstop
And appropriating a term from the real enemy is pretty telling.
Yeah and pretty pathetic since Crowley conceded graciously and offered his full support to her. I don’t begrudge her but the far left’s got a lot of douchebags especially of the white male variety unfortunately. I have a feeling those will turn on her the second she doesn’t act like a socialist first.
re: #246 makeitstop
And appropriating a term from the real enemy is pretty telling.
It smells of rodent copulation.
re: #247 HappyWarrior
Yeah and pretty pathetic since Crowley conceded graciously and offered his full support to her. I don’t begrudge her but the far left’s got a lot of douchebags especially of the white male variety unfortunately. I have a feeling those will turn on her the second she doesn’t act like a socialist first.
I get this odd feeling a lot of these people aren’t going to like her in a year. She may have run on Medicare for all, but she also went down to see one of the camps. She already knows what we’ve got to deal with is much larger than a few pet issues.
re: #249 Belafon
I get this odd feeling a lot of these people aren’t going to like her in a year. She may have run on Medicare for all, but she also went down to see one of the camps. She already knows what we’ve got to deal with is much larger than a few pet issues.
Right. And you know what, even though, I’ve been sharply critical of him, it does seem that Sanders is starting to slowly get that not everything revolves around class inequality.
re: #244 SteelPH
I mean…fuck. I know I’m being a depressive pessimist here. But I’m just struggling to see how we can make any headway when the courts seem so perfectly stacked to ensure the GOP’s eternal fucking conservatopia remains intact. We’ve seen how much slack the electorate is willing to give us to try and clean shit up, when they think that highly of us to begin with. And with all this shit rained down, it feels like the best we will be able to do is clean up maybe even half of the mess that this disaster has managed to lay on our plate in less than 18 months.
I’m seriously looking for reasons to back off of the edge here at this point.
re: #251 Citizen K
I mean…fuck. I know I’m being a depressive pessimist here. But I’m just struggling to see how we can make any headway when the courts seem so perfectly stacked to ensure the GOP’s eternal fucking conservatopia remains intact. We’ve seen how much slack the electorate is willing to give us to try and clean shit up, when they think that highly of us to begin with. And with all this shit rained down, it feels like the best we will be able to do is clean up maybe even half of the mess that this disaster has managed to lay on our plate in less than 18 months.
I’m seriously looking for reasons to back off of the edge here at this point.
I think the midterms will be very favorable to us. Control of the House will mean that we can fully investigate these bastards and the R’s can’t shut it down.
Donald Trump congratulates “one of the “dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics” on his GOP Senate primary victory in Utah last night. Says he looks forward to “working together” with the “dope.” pic.twitter.com/djjfq4wX3B
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) June 27, 2018
what a moron
Supreme Court rules in favor of non-union workers who are now, as an example, able to support a candidate of his or her choice without having those who control the Union deciding for them. Big loss for the coffers of the Democrats!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
re: #252 HappyWarrior
I think the midterms will be very favorable to us. Control of the House will mean that we can fully investigate these bastards and the R’s can’t shut it down.
**IF** there isn’t continued Russian interference, which I expect there will be.
Many, many people are going to have to cast provisional ballots. Gerrymandering in TX and NC continue.
The cards are stacked against America continuing to be America.
I cannot believe that Republicans decided to go All In on Trump. It’s honestly mind-boggling.
A Crowley insider told Politico that the campaign of the 10-term incumbent — and would-be future speaker of the House — underestimated the electorate’s volatility.
“About two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we had our last poll which had Joe up by about 35 points. So the electorate’s really volatile,” the insider said.
“(The) Crowley campaign had a huge field program, but it’s still a district where Bernie [Sanders] got almost 45 percent of the vote. We took it seriously, I mean we spent $1.5 million on it. … It was a bloodletting of Washington Democrats.”Some analysts said the furor over President Trump’s immigration policy energized voters in the heavily Hispanic 14th Congressional District to go with the newcomer, who won easily with 57 percent of the vote to Crowley’s 42 percent.
Last weekend, just days before the primary, Ocasio-Cortez left New York to join protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas.
Ocasio-Cortez, a former organizer for Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, ran on a sharply liberal agenda, including abolishing ICE and making Medicare a universal program.
Crowley became just the third sitting member of Congress, and the first Democratic incumbent, to lose a primary this year — less than five months before the midterm elections.
McConnell: GOP doesn’t have the votes to kill filibuster despite Trump’s demand https://t.co/dUQF3CFLid pic.twitter.com/JTYSOSnPAU
— The Hill (@thehill) June 27, 2018
Sad Turtle Man is sad. https://t.co/tssA7WRH0Q
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 27, 2018
re: #255 MsJ
**IF** there isn’t continued Russian interference, which I expect there will be.
Many, many people are going to have to cast provisional ballots. Gerrymandering in TX and NC continue.
The cards are stacked against America continuing to be America.
I cannot believe that Republicans decided to go All In on Trump. It’s honestly mind-boggling.
Not to mention the continued intent to ratfuck from the lefter-than-thou crowd, which may or may not be related to your point.
re: #255 MsJ
**IF** there isn’t continued Russian interference, which I expect there will be.
Many, many people are going to have to cast provisional ballots. Gerrymandering in TX and NC continue.
The cards are stacked against America continuing to be America.
I cannot believe that Republicans decided to go All In on Trump. It’s honestly mind-boggling.
True, true. I’m just trying not to fall into despair. Yesterday was tough with the SCOTUS decision.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Pretty sure that’s not what the ruling said, dumbass. But then again, you have a child’s understanding of Civics.
re: #251 Citizen K
This is why you take mental health breaks. Continually dwelling on all the horrible things happening isn’t exactly healthy, especially at the rapid fire rate they keep coming(speaking from experience here). You need to make some time for yourself and indulge in things you love and enjoy, unconcerned with the world of politics for a period of time.
Then when you come back, you’ll be prepared to rejoin the fight.
Snark of my first response notwithstanding(whether or not it was warrented may vary), I say this because I care. I am concerned for your well being. You’re valuable here, and outside as well.
re: #249 Belafon
I get this odd feeling a lot of these people aren’t going to like her in a year. She may have run on Medicare for all, but she also went down to see one of the camps. She already knows what we’ve got to deal with is much larger than a few pet issues.
Medicare for all will be a key issue for her constituents because of the irreparable damage the GOP is doing to the ACA. It’s the only alternative if your goal is to provide coverage for all Americans, regardless of health.
Thanks for the heads up! You have the wrong restaurant. The one your looking for is in VA. We’ll go ahead and cancel this one for your convenience. https://t.co/qoyyqxYo9i
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 27, 2018
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 27, 2018
Just making sure it’s safe before we go back to regularly scheduled programming… pic.twitter.com/zCrQAtVM0x
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 27, 2018
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”
Or something like that.
CNN hosts Corey Lewandowski to talk civility, and he immediately accuses the mother of the ten-year-old with Down syndrome of being a “potential member” of a child smuggling ring https://t.co/YyXvXulUN2 pic.twitter.com/bvUIXibCrk
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 27, 2018
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They’re good sports there. I just may consider trying them out if I can make it this weekend during the rally. Lexington is too far to give the other Red Hen my support but this one is close enough.
More baby spitting cobras on the way! 😱🐍👍 pic.twitter.com/cUKQkcx211
— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) June 26, 2018
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
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See, this is why I can’t take talk from the networks about civility seriously. Not only did he say that about the girl with Downs, he also roughed up a reporter. If you want to be serious about civility, start calling it out with the Trump team and that incldues both Corey and Sanders.
With all the incidents involving any restaurant with Red Hen in the name except the correct one in Virginia, one kind of expects someone, somewhere to come up with the idea to extinct hens with read feathers.
The truth is, they aren’t very bright guys, and things get out of hand.— Teo (@Teukka72) June 27, 2018
This is 51-year-old Reginald Scott See, from Martinsburg, West Virginia, who is charged with littering and disorderly conduct after police said he threw feces at the #RedHen pic.twitter.com/9sg44geQlg
— ABC 13 News - WSET (@ABC13News) June 27, 2018
he looks nice…
re: #268 HappyWarrior
They’re good sports there. I just may consider trying them out if I can make it this weekend during the rally. Lexington is too far to give the other Red Hen my support but this one is close enough.
I’m leaving for vacation end of the week and will drive through Lexington VA. Might not be able to stop at the Red Hen on the front side, but am making plans to stop there on the way back home.
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Was he at least civil as he threw the poop?
re: #273 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I’m leaving for vacation end of the week and will drive through Lexington VA. Might not be able to stop at the Red Hen on the front side, but am making plans to stop there on the way back home.
From what I read, there’s a waiting list weeks long.
re: #273 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I’m leaving for vacation end of the week and will drive through Lexington VA. Might not be able to stop at the Red Hen on the front side, but am making plans to stop there on the way back home.
Good deal.
Yet Ryan continues to abide by King and continues to support King and King’s positions.
Why do I say that? Because King’s positions are indistinguishable from Trump’s or the GOP base.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 27, 2018
re: #256 Shropshire Slasher
Crowley may indeed be up by 35% among his constituents but that doesn’t matter if they don’t get out and vote. Primaries in off year elections usually have very low turnout and the unexpected can happen. It is fortunate that Ocasio is a poised woman with a message that resonates with her community. This is a warning that every vote counts and we must get out our base in order to win.
I guess what pisses me off is the naked hypocrisy of the whole thing. I wouldn’t have denied her but oyu know what, she was on her father’s staff when he tried to make Kim Davis a free speech hero when she as a public official no less tried to deny people marriage licenses. Her party made the man who denied Biden into a folk hero. Personally, in hindsight, I wish they hadn’t denied her and her group service but then again, they’re always looking for a martyr complex anyhow.
This would be untrue, @ABC https://t.co/BRorhtme2m
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 27, 2018
re: #278 Hecuba’s daughter
Primaries are notorious to poll and forecast because they’re low turnout generally. Even the slightest change in turnout can have a significant change in results.
She tapped into the changed demographics of his district and he failed to do so.
re: #277 lawhawk
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That’s a much lighter statement than his pissy statement at Maxine Waters. Fact is King just says what a lot of the members of the GOP caucus are too timid to actually say.
re: #268 HappyWarrior
They’re good sports there. I just may consider trying them out if I can make it this weekend during the rally. Lexington is too far to give the other Red Hen my support but this one is close enough.
Aren’t they closed down, though, with all the “very civil” protests going on there by Drumpbots?
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #283 Sir John Barron
Aren’t they closed down, though, with all the “very civil” protests going on there by Drumpbots?
I’m not sure. The D.C. one though I dunno. I may look for something unique on Saturday but I have no idea who’s going with me.
re: #274 HappyWarrior
Was he at least civil as he threw the poop?
Libtards are so sensitive, what’s wrong with throwing poop?
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re: #287 Sir John Barron
Libtards are so sensitive, what’s wrong with throwing poop?
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A comprehensive list would take too long.
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Morning!
I feel like a groundhog popping out of my burrow to see what’s up. Not liking the lay of the land this morning. Ugh.
I think it has something to do with reading some of the late/overnight comments and the media so far today.
November is going to be nuclear. I don’t remember primaries ever being this contentious.
Just pulled @Ocasio2018 aside. She told me she is ready to introduce legislation to abolish ICE and set up a congressional investigation to investigate ICE abuses day 1.
— overton window mover (@SeanMcElwee) June 27, 2018
re: #289 ObserverArt
Morning!
I feel like a groundhog popping out of my burrow to see what’s up. Not liking the lay of the land this morning. Ugh.
I think it has something to do with reading some of the late/overnight comments and the media so far today.
November is going to be nuclear. I don’t remember primaries ever being this contentious.
I think what you saw in NY-14 was a young woman who ran a very savvy campaign and a Congressman who may have had his eyes too far in the future. I’m excited to see what she offers. She offers a perspective that isn’t heard in Congress.
re: #290 MsJ
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I like her. We need people like this. I don’t doubt for a second that Crowley was a good Congressman or concerned about these issues but someone tenacious like this will be a welcome addition to the caucus.
re: #287 Sir John Barron
Libtards are so sensitive, what’s wrong with throwing poop?
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Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill both drank poop together! // Matthews.
re: #256 Shropshire Slasher
I get the sense these smaller, district polls are much less reliable than the larger, state or nationwide ones.
Some interesting races here in Maryland, I think the Baltimore Sun’s endorsements might have had an impact. The Baltimore County Executive candidate they endorsed in the Dem primary was quite a ways behind according to polls a few weeks ago but rallied to take a small lead; I’m not sure that race is decided yet.
The Sun also endorsed the candidate I voted for in my county council race and she won quite handily against several quality opponents. Of course it helps that she worked super hard making contacts, going door to door, getting her name out through signs and so on.
re: #294 Sir John Barron
I get the sense these smaller, district polls are much less reliable than the larger, state or nationwide ones.
Some interesting races here in Maryland, I think the Baltimore Sun’s endorsements might have had an impact. The Baltimore County Executive candidate they endorsed in the Dem primary was quite a ways behind according to polls a few weeks ago but rallied to take a small lead; I’m not sure that race is decided yet.
The Sun also endorsed the candidate I voted for in my county council race and she won quite handily against several quality opponents. Of course it helps that she worked super hard making contacts, going door to door, getting her name out through signs and so on.
I left before but did Jealous win the Dem primary for governor?
re: #292 HappyWarrior
I like her. We need people like this. I don’t doubt for a second that Crowley was a good Congressman or concerned about these issues but someone tenacious like this will be a welcome addition to the caucus.
Yeah my sense of Crowley was pretty positive, a little sorry to see him go down, but this person deserves a chance to have an impact. Or rather her constituents have a right for a different voice and approach to government.
LOL, Laura…take a seat
BREAKING: Today I filed a police report w/ @CapitolPolice against @RepMaxineWaters.
Yesterday when I confronted her on Capitol Hill, she ASSAULTED me. She hit my hand, then she swatted me in the face twice w/ her papers. I’m pressing charges against her. https://t.co/t6GiTwI97x— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 27, 2018
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
Such a delicate flower these wingnuts, very against frivolous lawsuits I hear.
Primaries are tough to forecast. Much smaller populations so turnout matters. The candidate I worked for lost the primary but we did well in the parts of the district I helped out in. That’s not to dismiss Jennifer Wexton’s win. Just a statement of facts and knowing that, when I talked to her campaign manager on Monday, I offered to help in my part of the district which unfortunately is more conservative.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
“Hi, I have no life, aside from the one I lead on this Twitter thing, which totally hates conservatives like me, but anyway I went to assault, I mean, confront this terrible congresswoman and she didn’t tried to walk away from me! I won’t be ignored!”
re: #296 Sir John Barron
Yeah my sense of Crowley was pretty positive, a little sorry to see him go down, but this person deserves a chance to have an impact. Or rather her constituents have a right for a different voice and approach to government.
Exactly. Didn’t get what BrianJ’s deal was last night. She shouldn’t be tarnished simply because she was a supporter of Sanders and is an unabashed Dem socialist. She has a chance to do a lot of good and I for one am rooting for her.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
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re: #300 ObserverArt
He did win.
Alright, thanks. That’s not a bad thing. I think Hogan will be favored since he’s not wacko but Jealous may do better than anticipated due to Anti-Republican attitudes in a very Democratic state.
re: #295 HappyWarrior
Already answered, but yes.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
“swatted me in the face twice w/ her papers”
What was that about? Did it actually occur, and what was the context?
re: #301 Sir John Barron
“Hi, I have no life, aside from the one I lead on this Twitter thing, which totally hates conservatives like me, but anyway I went to assault, I mean, confront this terrible congresswoman and she didn’t tried to walk away from me! I won’t be ignored!”
Or her sister in stupidity- Tomi Lahren
“Hi, I’m Tomi. I spend all day bashing immigrants and looking down on liberals while I live at my parents house.”
re: #304 HappyWarrior
Alright, thanks. That’s not a bad thing. I think Hogan will be favored since he’s not wacko but Jealous may do better than anticipated due to Anti-Republican attitudes in a very Democratic state.
I’m a little surprised he did so well, but one of his potentially toughest competitors died suddenly last month, and the one remaining competitor was a county executive with some baggage, at least some friends of mine from his county didn’t like his control or lack thereof of the schools. Jealous benefited in a sense from a lack of record to criticize.
You find out who the decent people in your life are after these decisions. My oldest second cousin- her grandmother and my grandfather were siblings and we’re quite far apart in age are on the same exact page about what’s going on. One of the cousins on my mom’s side that I’m traveling with has pretty much said but more elegantly how I feel about SHS and the right’s hypocrisy on civility.
re: #309 Sir John Barron
I’m a little surprised he did so well, but one of his potentially toughest competitors died suddenly last month, and the one remaining competitor was a county executive with some baggage, at least some friends of mine from his county didn’t like his control or lack thereof of the schools. Jealous benefited in a sense from a lack of record to criticize.
Yeah I heard about the guy who died. Forgetting his name. That was really sad. I hope Jealous does well. It’s his nomination. Hopefully he wins.
All’s good here though. Our Republican incumbent is behind 10 points in a new poll. Her opponent nearly made 50%. But it’s of course still early and one should never underestiamte Comstock here in VA-10. Kaine is killing Stewart in the Battle for 1865 errr 2018 Virginia. I don’t have that much worries about that one. It’s a different situation and candidate from when Warner nearly lost to Gillespie. And I think Warner’s near defeat in 2014 will make Kaine smart and not ignore Stewart.
What the hell is “Big League Politics?”
Many of those Loomer links go there.
Is this part of Chucky Johnson’s ‘net crap? Maybe a team up of several wingnuts like O’Keefe and Cernovich?
I can guess where the name came from.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
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BREAKING: Today I filed a police report w/ @CapitolPolice against @RepMaxineWaters.
Yesterday when I confronted her on Capitol Hill, she ASSAULTED me. She hit my hand, then she swatted me in the face twice w/ her papers. I’m pressing charges against her. https://t.co/t6GiTwI97x— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 27, 2018
Isn’t Laura the one with the blown tire that wasn’t a blown tire?
If so, an exceptional(ly stupid) liar. But hey, Project Veritas…lying goes without saying. https://t.co/WYlyQob43l— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 27, 2018
re: #290 MsJ
But but, that’s just a distraction from Medicare-for-all and the economy!
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Kremlin: Russia says Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be holding a summit, and that the time and place have been agreed upon. WH not commenting.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 27, 2018
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
Once again, a foreign nation announces what Trump will be doing before Trumpworld comments.
They’re leading Trump around by the nose, and Trump thinks this is all good.
At same time, the GOP completely ignores that Russia is not only using Trump to further Russia’s foreign policy, but they’re completely ignoring that Trump wont stop Russia’s efforts to manipulate outcome of elections in the US or our allies.
re: #319 lawhawk
Once again, a foreign nation announces what Trump will be doing before Trumpworld comments.
They’re leading Trump around by the nose, and Trump thinks this is all good.
At same time, the GOP completely ignores that Russia is not only using Trump to further Russia’s foreign policy, but they’re completely ignoring that Trump wont stop Russia’s efforts to manipulate outcome of elections in the US or our allies.
They appear to be completely fine with it.
re: #315 MsJ
BREAKING: Today I filed a police report w/ @CapitolPolice against @RepMaxineWaters.
Yesterday when I confronted her on Capitol Hill, she ASSAULTED me. She hit my hand, then she swatted me in the face twice w/ her papers. I’m pressing charges against her. bigleaguepolitics.com
— Laura Loomer
that’s precious — BREAKING —
SHE SWATTED ME IN THE FACE!!! TWICE!!! WITH HER PAPERS!!!!
re: #319 lawhawk
Once again, a foreign nation announces what Trump will be doing before Trumpworld comments.
They’re leading Trump around by the nose, and Trump thinks this is all good.
At same time, the GOP completely ignores that Russia is not only using Trump to further Russia’s foreign policy, but they’re completely ignoring that Trump wont stop Russia’s efforts to manipulate outcome of elections in the US or our allies.
I don’t think they’re ignoring it. They’re embracing it because it benefits them. In a sane world, the American right would realize that Merkel rather than the EUrofascists who oppose her is their counterpart but the elected American right has gone full fascist.
re: #315 MsJ
Probably just told Loomer to buzz off. Which counts as violent assault, right?
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re: #319 lawhawk
Once again, a foreign nation announces what Trump will be doing before Trumpworld comments.
They’re leading Trump around by the nose, and Trump thinks this is all good.
At same time, the GOP completely ignores that Russia is not only using Trump to further Russia’s foreign policy, but they’re completely ignoring that Trump wont stop Russia’s efforts to manipulate outcome of elections in the US or our allies.
The GOP is totally on board with Putin’s interference in our elections, as long as it helps them retain power. And they also aren’t troubled by Russia’s foreign policy.
re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter
The GOP is totally on board with Putin’s interference in our elections, as long as it helps them retain power. And they also aren’t troubled by Russia’s foreign policy.
or his domestic policy. They love his his theocratic nationalism.
re: #325 HappyWarrior
or his domestic policy. They love his his theocratic nationalism.
No doubt brainstorming ways in order to bring it here.
re: #315 MsJ
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re: #321 Sir John Barron
that’s precious — BREAKING —
SHE SWATTED ME IN THE FACE!!! TWICE!!! WITH HER PAPERS!!!!
Is there actual video of this?
re: #326 SteelPH
No doubt brainstorming ways in order to bring it here.
Oh yes, they dream of that. As Wendell has said, it’s just Russian Orthodox flavored rather than Evangelical.
re: #330 SteelPH
If I had to guess, probably not.
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re: #328 The Vicious Babushka
Is there actual video of this?
video is at the link in her tweet.
I didn’t bother clicking on it, though
Were there any lectures when Laura’s pal O’Keefe tried to wiretap a Senator’s office?
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s a bad idea to get on the internet’s bad side. There’s no where to run to, no where to hide.
Is there any awareness in the US that Trump sold out your country to North Korea, in effect giving them the green light to pursue their nuclear ambitions as long as they don’t make too many waves & give good PR to Trump?
He is not as much an idiot as he is a traitor.
Anyway, this is certainly the take here.
re: #328 The Vicious Babushka
Is there actual video of this?
I am sure Project Veritas is working on that right now.
I suspect Laura Loomer’s accusation of assault will go the way Michael Tracey’s accusation against Rep. Waters went…
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
video is at the link in her tweet.
I didn’t bother clicking on it, though
The video is of her yapping. I don’t know what she said because I muted it, but there is no video of Waters at all…she is not in the video, not even in a photo.
re: #338 MsJ
The video is of her yapping. I don’t know what she said because I muted it, but there is no video of Waters at all…she is not in the video, not even in a photo.
I can’t believe Maxine Waters dropped an anvil on Laura Loomer’s head.
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“I am absolutely … proud to be a Democrat,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, “but it also means that the Democratic Party is a big tent and there are so many ways to be a Democrat” https://t.co/C8OKlphjYU https://t.co/lTauTKaIW3
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 27, 2018
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
video is at the link in her tweet.
I didn’t bother clicking on it, though
I’m not clicking on that shit.
re: #338 MsJ
The video is of her yapping. I don’t know what she said because I muted it, but there is no video of Waters at all…she is not in the video, not even in a photo.
The video of the actual confrontation with Waters is at a different link and is as you might suspect a big old load of nothing.
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She gets it. She’s more lefty than I am but that’s okay. What makes the party great is there’s room for a lot of people in it.
Just another day on planet earth. Keep walking and working towards the light and good. It never ends. Never. Nothing new but the names, nothing changes but the dates.
Leonard Cohen wrote this, but Concrete Blonde singer Johnette Napolitano had the voice to kick it up. Underrated band IMHO. Vastly underrated.
Steve Schmidt attacks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for ‘dishonest progressivism’ — and says it’s bad as ‘Trumpism’ https://t.co/FC8bXlobsb #p2 #ctl pic.twitter.com/6wCbBCyDXu
Steve can also take a seat.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
I forget where I saw it, but the other day I saw the coolest play on words for these drama queens…
JimCrowflakes!
re: #342 danarchy
The video of the actual confrontation with Waters is at a different link and is as you might suspect a big old load of nothing.
Can’t a person be charged for wasting the cops time?
so full of shit…
Harley-Davidson should stay 100% in America, with the people that got you your success. I’ve done so much for you, and then this. Other companies are coming back where they belong! We won’t forget, and neither will your customers or your now very HAPPY competitors!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
re: #345 nines09
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re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Steve can also take a seat.
Steve quit the GOP so now he’s ready for the Dems to adopt all of his beliefs.
Did I understand Jake Tapper well, that Americans would rather live like Russians than Europeans?
re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Steve can also take a seat.
Why I cannot and will not “forgive and forget” because they are the same inside. If it wasn’t for trump (which, granted, is republicanism in the extreme), he - and they - would be all rah rah team gop.
re: #315 MsJ
Interesting that Loomer hasn’t found time to confront Rep Steven King for his Neo Nazi comments and tweets. Sure, just attack the Black Roman though.
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit…
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Wait…is he implying H-Ds competitors DON’T have to pay the tariffs?
re: #328 The Vicious Babushka
Is there actual video of this?
Of course…there has to be video to get the proper rage on.
re: #356 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait…is he implying H-Ds competitors DON’T have to pay the tariffs?
He has no clue how any of this works
re: #315 MsJ
Isn’t Laura the one with the blown tire that wasn’t a blown tire?
And wasn’t she a blonde a minute ago?
Is she looking to snag that crucial Conservative Goth demo?
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re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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the turtle never disappoints…
Hey, let’s ask the guy who stole the Supreme Court seat on to trash the Democrats. Then let’s get Bernie Sanders on to trash the Democrats because they’re totally out of touch. Then let’s get a bunch of Trump surrogates on for balance. That takes care of today’s programming.
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit…
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Like how to says that He, himself, has “done so much” for them. Would this not constitute the government picking favorites. I thought that was a bad thing in the Obama era.
re: #357 ObserverArt
Of course…there has to be video to get the proper rage on.
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And of course the thumbnail puts the red devil eyes on Waters.
re: #351 MsJ
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We should never forget the true, monstrous brutality that Maxine Waters is capable of.
re: #366 scottslemmons
It’ll take ages for Loomer to recover from having her beak blown backwards by Waters.
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re: #351 MsJ
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Just a reminder, the left should be more civil….
Then prepare for the pushback Joy. You seem to forget we have all the guns. Keep playing with dynamite and it will blow up in your face. You want a war? Bring it. We can google where people live as well.
— markalanlewis (@markalanlewis) June 27, 2018
re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Steve can also take a seat.
Steve Schmidt is troubled these days.
In some ways I understand what he is saying.
He was on the Today Show this morning too. What he said that does need some consideration.
He is saying that America is being torn up by the radicals on both ends and the people in the middle, the majority of America, are growing frustrated by all of the fringe and some are just giving up in all the noise.
For a demonstration of what he is saying all one needs do is read the late night and overnight comments here.
re: #367 makeitstop
Such poise. I like her.
she absolutely refused to trash the Democratic party, no matter how hard the reporter tried.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
I find it remarkable that they really believe they have all the guns.
re: #373 plansbandc
I find it remarkable that they really believe they have all the guns.
They live in a bubble that includes 24/7 fox “news”, limbaugh, and Breitbart.
re: #229 SteelPH
These people only think in black and white extremes. And are under the belief that everyone else does too.
imma disagree and say no they arent under that belief
they are just painting the other side (ie us) with whatever extreme words they think will get them what they want
and that’s why they change their rhetoric - reverse course or whatever - as often as they like. they found “hypocrite” doesnt stick to them
it doesnt matter
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit…
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So what is it he did for H-D? I forget.
re: #365 plansbandc
The champs are going out! Germany is bye bye.
Nice. I like Germany as both a team and country but underdogs are gerat.
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re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re about to find out how zero-sum some people’s politics are. I’m already liking her. Is someone going to like her less?
re: #371 ObserverArt
Steve Schmidt is troubled these days.
In some ways I understand what he is saying.
He was on the Today Show this morning too. What he said that does need some consideration.
He is saying that America is being torn up by the radicals on both ends and the people in the middle, the majority of America, are growing frustrated by all of the fringe and some are just giving up in all the noise.
For a demonstration of what he is saying all one needs do is read the late night and overnight comments here.
ONE person here last night was being a jackass. Just one (and it was totally not a surprise).
Not much of a demonstration of Steve’s argument.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
Just a reminder, the left should be more civil….
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Because Google is never wrong. Jesus.
re: #176 Colère Tueur de Lapin
ZOMG. That is one seriously obese chipmunk. Kinda like the squirrels in my yard.
Living at 5000’. So it doesn’t have a lot of time to put on weight for the winter.
re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg
Can’t a person be charged for wasting the cops time?
Filing a false police report is a crime.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
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You actually don’t have all the guns but keep on telling yourselves that if it makes you feel safe.
re: #379 Winston_Smith
So what is it he did for H-D? I forget.
let them park their motorcycles in front of the WH for a photo op
re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth
she absolutely refused to trash the Democratic party, no matter how hard the reporter tried.
I really like what I know about her. Let the GOP try to make shit out of the fact she calls herself a socialist. They’ve got much more fucked up problems than that.
Here are Schmidt’s Today Show comments.
I know they are going to get ripped apart, but listen to him, he does have a point. Unpopular and from his Republican position but there is a kernel there that needs to be heard.
Siding with facts is now biased. https://t.co/2MvNfau58z
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 27, 2018
re: #370 Dr. Matt
Just a reminder, the left should be more civil….
The whole point of the right hoarding guns is to make sure those they oppose, especially blacks, would fear them enough to maintain the proper social structure. They’re still counting on our side being civil.
Mild, but it helps
The only very mild saving grace in the Janus decision is that labor saw it coming a mile away and has had time to prepare as much as possible. It is the purest form of right wing judicial activism and illegitimate because it relies on the corrupt appt of Justice Gorsuch.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 27, 2018
re: #373 plansbandc
I find it remarkable that they really believe they have all the guns.
The secret is when they talk about being ready for war they’re really talking about being ready for terrorism against unarmed individuals with a different ideology.
Look at the narratives and fantasies, and what stands out is that they view everyone that isn’t like them as combatants. When they say “fight the government” they don’t mean the actual government, they mean anybody that fits into their framework of unworthiness (which is mostly about their aesthetics…what they find gratifying and what they find distasteful, complete with conditionals that would be hypocrisy if applied to morality, because the context that justifies action is affiliation, not extenuating circumstance).
It works exactly like the concept of “elite.” The word doesn’t mean anything, on purpose.
eta: I’m headachy and forgot to circle back ‘round to the point:
Basically, their fantasy involves soft targets because it’s all about total power. “We have all the guns” isn’t about describing reality any more than any other part.
But it’s also a representation of how they view threat and use of force…basically, they’re telling a story in which any violence they do is self-defense. It’s a cover story.
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re: #369 nines09
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re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #391 ObserverArt
My parents are Democratic voters who just don’t like the protests because they just make people too uncomfortable. I think Trevor Noah’s piece about civility covers it.
re: #294 Sir John Barron
She showed how Democrats did it in 2006.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
Just a reminder, the left should be more civil….
We have all the gunz and we know the Google!!!
People outside the #RedHen are holding signs now that say ‘Trump=Love’, ‘Trump is Love’, and ‘Red Hen needs to learn love and tolerance’ pic.twitter.com/cs7KJSUtT7
— ABC 13 News - WSET (@ABC13News) June 26, 2018
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
ONE person here last night was being a jackass. Just one (and it was totally not a surprise).
Not much of a demonstration of Steve’s argument.
I’m taking in consideration the comments that came from Brian J’s over-the-top usual take. The kickback to his comment is as important as to what he was trying to get out.
I just posted the Schmidt video from Today. What he is saying is in some ways what Brian J was saying.
That is the point I am trying to make.
And what is Schmidt saying: we are going to get another Trump election.
Is that not what Brian J was trying say in his usual crazy way?
re: #403 The Vicious Babushka
I will not tolerate kids being separated from their parents.
re: #291 HappyWarrior
I think what you saw in NY-14 was a young woman who ran a very savvy campaign and a Congressman who may have had his eyes too far in the future. I’m excited to see what she offers. She offers a perspective that isn’t heard in Congress.
when are these people going to get it?
no one has a right to anything in politics
you dont have a right to keep your seat because of longevity or experience or any other reason
and sure, every one else can ask or suggest that a person step aside for…the good of the party, young blood, too old or whatever. that’s they lazy way - the i want something for nothing way. i want it (wah wah) my way and dont wanna work for it
if you want to oust the out of touch oldsters, run against them and win
at least join your local party, get on the local boards, be a precinct captain, - become the power
if you dont run or participate, i dont want to hear from you
if you run and lose, more people wanted the other person
this is democracy in action
support it, get in it, or shut the hell up
re: #403 The Vicious Babushka
Now apologize to DJT and SHS and all of us or we’ll burn this crappy place to the ground!
NEW: Inside Facebook and Twitter’s secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met with WH, others and pledged changes to come. Tip @Techmeme https://t.co/wdexbCSip8
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) June 27, 2018
Notable conservative blogger PepeCuck69 hasn’t been getting traction with his tweets about the FBI conspiracy to imprison Trump in a desert labor camp. We demand Twitter’s CEO explain to us why. https://t.co/s5pmXHXeAh
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) June 27, 2018
re: #399 Belafon
My parents are Democratic voters who just don’t like the protests because they just make people too uncomfortable. I think Trevor Noah’s piece about civility covers it.
I understand what you are saying. I think it is a point that is getting lost in some of the ways people are saying it. I don’t think I am being very successful with my attempts.
HA!
Waiting for videos of #MAGA folks smashing their Harley Davidsons with their Keurigs.
— andy lassner (@andylassner) June 27, 2018
re: #404 ObserverArt
I’m taking in consideration the comments that came from Brian J’s over-the-top usual take. The kickback to his comment is as important as to what he was trying to get out.
I just posted the Schmidt video from Today. What he is saying is in some ways what Brian J was saying.
That is the point I am trying to make.
And what is Schmidt saying: we are going to get another Trump election.
Is that not what Brian J was trying say in his usual crazy way?
Brian made a kneejerk assumption and completely dismissed her (and insulted every woman and millennial here at LGF in the process) solely based on the fact that she is a Bernie supporter. He made no recognition of her candidacy beyond that, and it really sounded like he had no idea who she was…being a Bernie supporter was enough for him to unload on her.
Far as I’m concerned, Brian can take a seat right next to Steve.
re: #323 SteelPH
Probably just told Loomer to buzz off. Which counts as violent assault, right?
/
while i dont believe this story for a second,
people get aggravated when they are dismissed (or worse lied to) - especially to their face
hence, some of the incivility
SCOOP: Former @FoxNews co-president Bill Shine is in final talks with @realDonaldTrump about becoming @WhiteHouse Communications Director. Announcement could be soon.
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) June 27, 2018
😹shocker 😹 https://t.co/qj7zNzW2Jd
— darth™ (@darth) June 27, 2018
re: #408 MsJ
NEW: Inside Facebook and Twitter’s secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met with WH, others and pledged changes to come. Tip @Techmeme washingtonpost.com
— Tony Romm
This is like when top radio company executives and broadcasters met with Clinton aides and other liberals in the 90’s and promised to be more balanced and to offer more liberal broadcasters an opportunity.
Oh wait that didn’t happen.
re: #413 MsJ
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Funny how the people who hate the media love the merging of state power with the media.
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brian made a kneejerk assumption and completely dismissed her (and insulted every woman and millennial here at LGF in the process) solely based on the fact that she is a Bernie supporter. He made no recognition of her candidacy beyond that, and it really sounded like he had no idea who she was…being a Bernie supporter was enough for him to unload on her.
Far as I’m concerned, Brian can take a seat right next to Steve.
In an incredibly condescending, sexist way, no less.
I understand what he was saying, but he couldn’t have said it worse if he tried…short of saying this stupid bitch should never have run and women do not have a place anywhere except a beauty pageant because women cannot think above platitudes when asked anything ever.
Clinton actually lost Ohio’s union households to Trump by 9 points. Now Trump is crushing their unions. They deserve it. #SCOTUS
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) June 27, 2018
re: #408 MsJ
Well the government does own the Internet which hosts Twitter and Twitter is a non-profit entity receiving government aid.
Oh no wait it’s not.
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brian made a kneejerk assumption and completely dismissed her (and insulted every woman and millennial here at LGF in the process) solely based on the fact that she is a Bernie supporter. He made no recognition of her candidacy beyond that, and it really sounded like he had no idea who she was…being a Bernie supporter was enough for him to unload on her.
Far as I’m concerned, Brian can take a seat right next to Steve.
That’s how I saw it too. I’ve made no secret about my dislike of Bernie but I refuse to discount someone simply because they supported Bernie. Alexandria is much more than that and Brian insulted her in an uninformed way that insulted many here as well as her future constituents.
We are living under an avalanche of bad takes on the Crowley defeat. Last night, the better candidate, who ran the better race and was a better fit for the district won. Everything else is wish-casting and guesswork
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 27, 2018
re: #379 Winston_Smith
So what is it he did for H-D? I forget.
let em line up the bikes for a photo op with him at the WH
i wonder if he signed it?
re: #416 MsJ
In an incredibly condescending, sexist way, no less.
I understand what he was saying, but he couldn’t have said it worse if he tried…short of saying this stupid bitch should never have run and women do not have a place anywhere except a beauty pageant because women cannot think above platitudes when asked anything ever.
Brian’s problem is he’s the opposite side of the coin from the Bernie Busters. He wants to see everyone who supported Bernie as an enemy.
re: #385 Dr. Matt
I wished the Nazis would get ball cancer, and my account if banned. This asshole is making flatout terrorist threats.
but gunz are first and 2nd amendemnt issues
while wishing cancer is so…uncivil
re: #413 MsJ
SCOOP: Another one of our flackies is going to the WH!
re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth
let them park their motorcycles in front of the WH for a photo op
beat me by that much
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Satellite images show North Korea upgrading nuclear research facility: report https://t.co/zV1N2m2gpF pic.twitter.com/Blc2a4JMit
— The Hill (@thehill) June 27, 2018
But, LMAO.
“how can i make this about me me me”https://t.co/rvklzSFRrq
— darth™ (@darth) June 27, 2018
re: #423 HappyWarrior
Brian’s problem is he’s the opposite side of the coin from the Bernie Busters. He wants to see everyone who supported Bernie as an enemy.
Brian feels vengeful towards the Berniebros and Trumpers that have put the world in this situation with their hypocrisy and outright evil. It’s an understandable sentiment, though he takes it too far. I feel it too sometimes.
And lemme add it’s a shame too because I do like what he brings to primary night but I refuse to use ome’s stance in 2016 for vendettas. I probably would have voted Crowley had I lived in NY-14 but I think Alexandria has a lot going for her and I love how stupid Trump thinks Crowley lost because he wasn’t nice to him.
re: #413 MsJ
I wonder if Bill Shine is at all connected to Shine TV (which has gone under various names), a company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch.
None of the Wikipedia entries are enlightening about this.
Bill Shine is of course associated with Fox News, but it strikes me as uncanny that Elisabeth Murdoch’s company used the same name.
The Radical wing of the Democratic Party is defeating the ‘progressive’ wing! Open borders, abolish border and custom protection, abolish private healthcare and replace it with a government burreaucracy, the list goes on and on. We now have a “Democratic-Socialist Party”.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) June 27, 2018
Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
re: #411 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brian made a kneejerk assumption and completely dismissed her (and insulted every woman and millennial here at LGF in the process) solely based on the fact that she is a Bernie supporter. He made no recognition of her candidacy beyond that, and it really sounded like he had no idea who she was…being a Bernie supporter was enough for him to unload on her.
Far as I’m concerned, Brian can take a seat right next to Steve.
I don’t agree with Brian J. I do think he was on to one little thing that is important. Everything else was BS.
One last attempt to explain. If there is a war between centrist Democrats and Berners again it may well cost us another election and give us Trump one more time.
What do you think is going through the mind of Tom Perez this morning when he looks at the New York results? Do you think he is concerned about Bernie in any way?
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
Unlike the moderate GOP which never primaries its incumbents.
re: #429 Renaissance_Man
Brian feels vengeful towards the Berniebros and Trumpers that have put the world in this situation with their hypocrisy and outright evil. It’s an understandable sentiment, though he takes it too far. I feel it too sometimes.
But he mistakes Sanders support for being a Sanders bro. Not all are the same. I understand the frustration too but when he’s attacking people who are now our nominees, he’s acting the same way the Bros do.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
You share a party with Steve King, Newt.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
I don’t remember Newt being this panicked when his party promised to deprive 20 million people of newly gained healthcare protections.
re: #429 Renaissance_Man
Brian feels vengeful towards the Berniebros and Trumpers that have put the world in this situation with their hypocrisy and outright evil. It’s an understandable sentiment, though he takes it too far. I feel it too sometimes.
Except that I seem to remember Brian’s previous posts in which he ranted against Hillary and the DNC for being unkind to Berners (based on the bullshit Wikileaks DNC hack). I think he is just a troll who likes to stir shit up.
I’m glad a 29 year old Hispanic woman has the GOP and concern trolls scared. And besides Newt, I thought we were already Marxists anyhow. Alexandria unlike your party actually understands people.
Milo Yiannopoulos wants people to shoot journalists. Since conservatives seem confused, this is what dangerous rhetoric ACTUALLY looks like. https://t.co/qG3esoAb32
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) June 26, 2018
Oh look, Yolo Minneapolis is advancing (or is it receding) from troll-with-delusions-of-adequacy to outright terrorist… What’s next, calls for beheading those he considers infidels & hiding in a cave? Oh wait, my bad, that last part’s already true since his “career” imploded… https://t.co/6VmQTMBv5t
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) June 27, 2018
re: #439 The Vicious Babushka
Except that I seem to remember Brian’s previous posts in which he ranted against Hillary and the DNC for being unkind to Berners (based on the bullshit Wikileaks DNC hack). I think he is just a troll who likes to stir shit up.
He went after Obama too.
re: #359 makeitstop
And wasn’t she a blonde a minute ago?
Is she looking to snag that crucial Conservative Goth demo?
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I think that’s Lisa Looper, the one who likes to show off her tits.
Having been subjected to hundreds of death threats from Republicans (as have many reporters) without Republican leaders condemning it….
…and having been assaulted by a Republican without Republican leaders condemning it…
…I laugh in disbelief at their call for civility.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 27, 2018
About time….
BREAKING: Motorist accused of driving into protesters at Charlottesville rally charged with federal hate crimes.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 27, 2018
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
Newt, there’s only one wing of the Democratic party according to you. Don’t be trying to split it now.
re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth
she absolutely refused to trash the Democratic party, no matter how hard the reporter tried.
That’s exactly what Brian J. was predicting last night that the media would use her for.
One of the things about Scott Walker’s attack on Wisconsin’s public unions was that he exempted the police. I assume that the SCOTUS ruling does not?
re: #449 Winston_Smith
That’s exactly what Brian J. was predicting last night that the media would use her for.
But he was also predicting she would play along.
re: #444 Winston_Smith
I think that’s Lisa Looper, the one who likes to show of her tits.
Not, of course, to be confused with Lisa Loopner.
I miss Gilda.
re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg
Can’t a person be charged for wasting the cops time?
For filling false police reports, yes.
re: #446 Dr. Matt
About time….
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“Motorist” - might we just call him what he is…. a Nazi fuck-trumpet.
re: #416 MsJ
In an incredibly condescending, sexist way, no less.
I understand what he was saying, but he couldn’t have said it worse if he tried…short of saying this stupid bitch should never have run and women do not have a place anywhere except a beauty pageant because women cannot think above platitudes when asked anything ever.
i wasnt around last night and dont knwo the context of this other than what i just read
should never have run
women dont have a place
go back to my re: #406 dangerman
what you think should happen - what other people should and shouldnt do - is not how democracy works
- if you have better ideas, sell them. yes, you have to sell “i think other people should….”
- participate - join and vote at the local organization level - this is where policy and electors are made
- run - and beat everyone else
democracy runs on votes, not “shoulds”
re: #423 HappyWarrior
Brian’s problem is he’s the opposite side of the coin from the Bernie Busters. He wants to see everyone who supported Bernie as an enemy.
Take Brian J. out of it…personality and all.
There are others here at Little Green Footballs that see Bernie as an enemy…surely not a help.
re: #459 CongoJack
“Motorist” - might we just call him what he is…. a Nazi fuck-trumpet.
I wonder what Trump’s pardon of him will call him?
re: #433 ObserverArt
I don’t agree with Brian J. I do think he was on to one little thing that is important. Everything else was BS.
One last attempt to explain. If there is a war between centrist Democrats and Berners again it may well cost us another election and give us Trump one more time.
What do you think is going through the mind of Tom Perez this morning when he looks at the New York results? Do you think he is concerned about Bernie in any way?
I get what you are saying but this woman was doing things Bernie ever did. She went to the border, she actually believes in the things she is saying (one assumes, we shall see once she wins and arrives). Bernie was always all talk. Believing the same things and taking action are different things. At this point, I do not even know what Bernie believes. I know what he says.
I say give her a chance.
re: #449 Winston_Smith
That’s exactly what Brian J. was predicting last night that the media would use her for.
and just goes to show that Brian didn’t have the first clue about who she is
re: #461 ObserverArt
Take Brian J. out of it…personality and all.
There are other here at Little Green Footballs that see Bernie as an enemy…surely not a help.
I see Bernie the same way but I’m also not going to discount someone simply because they preferred Bernie. That’s my point and I afraid we risk falling into the same black and white view of politics that the Bros do if we base our perception of candidates based on him.
re: #465 Backwoods_Sleuth
He knew what the media would do, and will continue to do. I’m glad she stayed above it, but it shows what we’re up against.
Another thing about Newt’s and McConnell’s statements: According to Republicans, every Democrat that runs is the most liberal, far left candidate that ever was.
re: #459 CongoJack
“Motorist” - might we just call him what he is…. a Nazi fuck-trumpet.
can you do that in a police report?
re: #456 makeitstop
Not, of course, to be confused with Lisa Loopner.
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I miss Gilda.
She was soooo good. So proficient at her chosen art.
Reminder: Probable new WH coms director Bill Shine was fired from Fox News over allegations that he enabled the sexual predators there, including using his position to to “intimidate, terrorize and crush” their victims. In other words, he’ll fit right in. https://t.co/AIKzMltprC
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) June 27, 2018
re: #464 MsJ
I get what you are saying but this woman was doing things Bernie ever did. She went to the border, she actually believes in the things she is saying (one assumes, we shall see once she wins and arrives). Bernie was always all talk. Believing the same things and taking action are different things. At this point, I do not even know what Bernie believes. I know what he says.
I say give her a chance.
Anyone know who the republican challenger is? I think I remember something about it being an economics professor. What is the district make up like, I assume it is a pretty safe democratic seat, but with only 12% turnout, the folks who voted in the primary probably aren’t totally representative. Just wondering if the Rs have any shot at a pickup now.
re: #460 dangerman
i wasnt around last night and dont knwo the context of this other than what i just read
should never have run
women dont have a placego back to my
what you think should happen - what other people should and shouldnt do - is not how democracy works
- if you have better ideas, sell them. yes, you have to sell “i think other people should….”
- participate - join and vote at the local organization level - this is where policy and electors are made
- run - and beat everyone elsedemocracy runs on votes, not “shoulds”
Which is pretty much what HappyWarrior and others were saying in response. But he kept doubling and tripling down.
I just scanned past his bullshit. I wasn’t doing much commenting last night, just reading, but I was in complete “fuck that guy” mode.
re: #461 ObserverArt
Take Brian J. out of it…personality and all.
There are other here at Little Green Footballs that see Bernie as an enemy…surely not a help.
Of which I am one.
re: #473 danarchy
Anyone know who the republican challenger is? I think I remember something about it being an economics professor. What is the district make up like, I assume it is a pretty safe democratic seat, but with only 12% turnout, the folks who voted in the primary probably aren’t totally representative. Just wondering if the Rs have any shot at a pickup now.
D+29. Very unlikely imo.
re: #476 MsJ
Of which I am one.
And me too but I’m also aware that he has admirers. You want to prove Bernie wrong, you don’t act like he does. Bernie’s problem isn’t his ideology necessarily but more so his approach.
re: #473 danarchy
Anyone know who the republican challenger is? I think I remember something about it being an economics professor. What is the district make up like, I assume it is a pretty safe democratic seat, but with only 12% turnout, the folks who voted in the primary probably aren’t totally representative. Just wondering if the Rs have any shot at a pickup now.
70% minorities, heavy Latino constituency. She’ll mop the floor with whichever R tomato can they put up against her.
Crowley won his last race by 29 points, IIRC. She’ll be fine.
New York’s Republican primary isn’t until sometime in September, so we don’t know who she’s facing yet.
re: #474 MsJ
Which is pretty much what HappyWarrior and others were saying in response. But he kept doubling and tripling down.
I just scanned past his bullshit. I wasn’t doing much commenting last night, just reading, but I was in complete “fuck that guy” mode.
you can keep wishing the system were different
short of blowing the whole thing up (which is a viable alternative to some people), you have to be inside to effect change.
otherwise you’re just yelling at the clouds
re: #461 ObserverArt
Take Brian J. out of it…personality and all.
There are other here at Little Green Footballs that see Bernie as an enemy…surely not a help.
Bernie’s going to actually, you know, help first. All I’ve seen is he’s all about helping himself.
re: #446 Dr. Matt
About time….
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— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2018
She also worked for Teddy Kennedy which is pretty impressive since she was only 20 when he died. She’s a doer. I already like that about her more than Bernie.
re: #476 MsJ
Of which I am one.
Seconded. I liked Bernie before he ran for President. Its not what he supports, its not really what he condemns, it was how he decided to attack (Clinton) and run his campaign that left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Also after the fact that I have not seen him acknowledge that the Russians were helping his campaign in order to make HRC the “evil” he was supposedly against.
re: #479 makeitstop
70% minorities, heavy Latino constituentship. She’ll mop the floor with whichever R tomato can they put up against her.
Crowley won his last race by 29 points, IIRC. She’ll be fine.
New York’s Republican primary isn’t until sometime in September, so we don’t know who she’s facing yet.
Just looked it up on ballotpedia. Apparently we do know, he ran unopposed.
Not surprisingly, it is an old white guy.
I listened to Ocasio-Cortez being interviewed on NPR this morning. Not really seeing what the problem is. Her views are pretty mainstream. The “abolish ICE” angle is thoroughly overblown. She basically wants to go back to pre-PATRIOT Act days when INS ran the show, immigration wasn’t criminalized, the border patrol wasn’t militarized, and immigration officials couldn’t arbitrarily detain kids/families in what are tantamount to domestic black sites. Not really seeing the issue.
But above all, she’s going to be a first year congresswoman with limited influence. If the GOP successfully frames this as a far left takeover, while the GOP is held hostage by the gerrymandered nut balls of the Freedom Caucus, well, fuck it all.
re: #481 makeitstop
Bernie’s going to actually, you know, help first. All I’ve seen is he’s all about helping himself.
Yep. And I hope she learns that as she gets to see him in action.
#Russia’s state TV:
Panelist argues that Trump is an extremely vain person and as long as he can make some kind of a deal with Russia - while his predecessors couldn’t - his ego will be satisfied. pic.twitter.com/ACHt4ich3q— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 27, 2018
re: #485 danarchy
Just looked it up on ballotpedia. Apparently we do know, he ran unopposed.
Not surprisingly, it is an old white guy.
Ah, thanks. Corrected, I stand.
re: #486 Mike Lamb
I listened to Ocasio-Cortez being interviewed on NPR this morning. Not really seeing what the problem is. Her views are pretty mainstream. The “abolish ICE” angle is thoroughly overblown. She basically wants to go back to pre-PATRIOT Act days when INS ran the show, immigration wasn’t criminalized, the border patrol wasn’t militarized, and immigration officials couldn’t arbitrarily detain kids/families in what are tantamount to domestic black sites. Not really seeing the issue.
But above all, she’s going to be a first year congresswoman with limited influence. If the GOP successfully frames this as a far left takeover, while the GOP is held hostage by the gerrymandered nut balls of the Freedom Caucus, well, fuc k it all.
Agreed
OOPS! Wrong tweet. Here’s the correct one.
@Stonekettle When do you think Americans will start seeking political asylum in Canada and Mexico?
— EMAZ (@em_az) June 27, 2018
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 27, 2018
Let’s be honest if she hadn’t supported Bernie, it wouldn’t even been an issue.
re: #479 makeitstop
70% minorities, heavy Latino constituentship. She’ll mop the floor with whichever R tomato can they put up against her.
Crowley won his last race by 29 points, IIRC. She’ll be fine.
New York’s Republican primary isn’t until sometime in September, so we don’t know who she’s facing yet.
BX and QB twitter were fired up last night. Once she’s facing the opposition I think she’ll get even more first time voters engaged and get the district excited again.
re: #449 Winston_Smith
That’s exactly what Brian J. was predicting last night that the media would use her for.
I am more concerned about what Bernie and Nina will use her for…in the media.
One thing Alexandria Ocasio-Corte has going for her, she seems to be in a district that she can win. So that is good.
So maybe she realizes she doesn’t need Bernie and Nina and ignores them.
re: #479 makeitstop
70% minorities, heavy Latino constituency. She’ll mop the floor with whichever R tomato can they put up against her.
Crowley won his last race by 29 points, IIRC. She’ll be fine.
New York’s Republican primary isn’t until sometime in September, so we don’t know who she’s facing yet.
Want to know why Cortez won? That’s why. The immigration debate moved this race more than any other factor. She was perceived as being better on it even though Crowley was good and has been good for his district.
The GOP isn’t likely to win this seat, not when GOPers nationwide are watching seats where they have 20 point advantages take heat or lose outright to challengers in special elections.
GOTV is everything. Vote like your life depends on it - because it absolutely does.
re: #486 Mike Lamb
I listened to Ocasio-Cortez being interviewed on NPR this morning. Not really seeing what the problem is. Her views are pretty mainstream. The “abolish ICE” angle is thoroughly overblown. She basically wants to go back to pre-PATRIOT Act days when INS ran the show, immigration wasn’t criminalized, the border patrol wasn’t militarized, and immigration officials couldn’t arbitrarily detain kids/families in what are tantamount to domestic black sites. Not really seeing the issue.
But above all, she’s going to be a first year congresswoman with limited influence. If the GOP successfully frames this as a far left takeover, while the GOP is held hostage by the gerrymandered nut balls of the Freedom Caucus, well, fuck it all.
Turtle thinks ICE is the Border Patrol and the US Military.
re: #464 MsJ
I get what you are saying but this woman was doing things Bernie ever did. She went to the border, she actually believes in the things she is saying (one assumes, we shall see once she wins and arrives). Bernie was always all talk. Believing the same things and taking action are different things. At this point, I do not even know what Bernie believes. I know what he says.
I say give her a chance.
I have no issues with her at all. That has never been the point with me.
I think what she did is great. If I was her I’d be breathing into a paper bag this morning with a full-on head-spinning panic attack going on.
She seemed pretty surprised she won. I can certainly understand.
Nope my point is Bernie and Nina fucking things up as they are wont to do.
re: #496 lawhawk
Want to know why Cortez won? That’s why. The immigration debate moved this race more than any other factor. She was perceived as being better on it even though Crowley was good and has been good for his district.
The GOP isn’t likely to win this seat, not when GOPers nationwide are watching seats where they have 20 point advantages take heat or lose outright to challengers in special elections.
GOTV is everything. Vote like your life depends on it - because it absolutely does.
Which is something I must stress is very unlike Bernie. Bernie has ignored the immigration issue mostly until he was forced to move to the left on it.
Civility.
Bill Shine was ousted last year amid the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News. He now is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director @maggieNYT + @shearm https://t.co/vqkhmKvbt6
— Emily Steel (@emilysteel) June 27, 2018
Trump’s going to pick up a guy ousted from Fox for sex harassment.
Yeah, he’s really going to be good for women and minorities.
re: #483 HappyWarrior
She also worked for Teddy Kennedy which is pretty impressive since she was only 20 when he died. She’s a doer. I already like that about her more than Bernie.
Bernie was not the first bull she rode in a rodeo. That makes a difference.
re: #481 makeitstop
Bernie’s going to actually, you know, help first. All I’ve seen is he’s all about helping himself.
You understand.
re: #501 wrenchwench
Bernie was not the first bull she rode in a rodeo. That makes a difference.
Makes a big difference to me. But you know even if he was, I’d still be willing to give her a chance. One of my good friends I made canvassing, a young man a lot younger than me- yeah I know you guys think I’m a kid but anyhow, this guy grew up in a Republican household and had an epiphany a few years back and works his ass off for Dems. He also supported Bernie. You can have supported Sanders without being a Bro. That’s what Brian hasn’t gotten.
re: #486 Mike Lamb
I listened to Ocasio-Cortez being interviewed on NPR this morning. Not really seeing what the problem is. Her views are pretty mainstream.
I don’t know much about her but what I saw in her one viral Ad, but she seemed pretty far left. Basically a Bernie wishlist of issues. Medicare-for-all, free public universities, a federally guaranteed jobs program, abolish ICE and CBP. While those may be laudable goals, I don’t think they could be considered mainstream…or particularly realistic. But as has been said, she is basically going to be a back bencher, so there is only so much she could get done anyhow. If she can provide good constituent services and move the needle on some conversations, then it is all good.
re: #502 ObserverArt
You understand.
I think I do too OA but I just hated seeing Brian throw her in the bathwater because of htat association. I can’t stand Bernie and honestly I wish more lefties saw the Bernie that you, I, and most of LGF have but they don’t for whatever reason.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), who’s in line to chair Budget if Dems win House, is unabashed about where the party needs to go. “If I’m chairman of the Budget Committee next year, we’ll have hearings on Medicare for All.”
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 27, 2018
Louisville is a beachhead of the decadent, fake America
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 27, 2018
just don’t call it Obamacare and Kentuckians will be fine with it
re: #500 lawhawk
Civility.
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Trump’s going to pick up a guy ousted from Fox for sex harassment.
Yeah, he’s really going to be good for women and minorities.
It’ll make for much better message coordination! I’m sure Shine’s still got moles in the hallowed halls of State Media.
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re: #504 danarchy
I don’t know much about her but what I saw in her one viral Ad, but she seemed pretty far left. Basically a Bernie wishlist of issues. Medicare-for-all, free public universities, a federally guaranteed jobs program, abolish ICE and CBP. While those may be laudable goals, I don’t think they could be considered mainstream…or particularly realistic. But as has been said, she is basically going to be a back bencher, so there is only so much she could get done anyhow. If she can provide good constituent services and move the needle on some conversations, then it is all good.
Her perspective as a Latina woman under 30 alone will be worth it IMO.
re: #503 HappyWarrior
Makes a big difference to me. But you know even if he was, I’d still be willing to give her a chance. One of my good friends I made canvassing, a young man a lot younger than me- yeah I know you guys think I’m a kid but anyhow, this guy grew up in a Republican household and had an epiphany a few years back and works his ass off for Dems. He also supported Bernie. You can have supported Sanders without being a Bro. That’s what Brian hasn’t gotten.
And you understand the door-to-door dynamic. She can’t be used, unless she wants to be. She beat an incumbent.
For me, the problem was never really Sanders ideas. I honestly would have probably preferred a lefty alternative to HRC that had some of the lefty focus but more pragmatism and I know this won’t come off well but less baggage. Though I completely agree that a lot of the stuff about HRC is just crap.
re: #484 CongoJack
Seconded. I liked Bernie before he ran for President. Its not what he supports, its not really what he condemns, it was how he decided to attack (Clinton) and run his campaign that left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Also after the fact that I have not seen him acknowledge that the Russians were helping his campaign in order to make HRC the “evil” he was supposedly against.
Precisely. His campaign was what turned me. His supporters are also a little hard to deal with sometimes, but I think it came from him. His “show me how much you love me by being the biggest dick possible” attitude spread like a mutated virus. It was him running for POTUS that made me absolutely hate him. Before that I thought he was righteous in his indignation…unknowing how much he was all talk and nothing else.
re: #509 wrenchwench
And you understand the door-to-door dynamic. She can’t be used, unless she wants to be. She beat an incumbent.
Indeed. You can’t discount how she made her presence felt in the district. I don’t know the details but she did something right here.
re: #511 MsJ
Precisely. His campaign was what turned me. His supporters are also a little hard to deal with sometimes, but I think it came from him. His “show me how much you love me by being the biggest dick possible” attitude spread like a mutated virus. It was him running for POTUS that made me absolutely hate him. Before that I thought he was righteous in his indignation…unknowing how much he was all talk and nothing else.
Same. In fact, I was willing to support him in the VA Primaries until popularity got the best of his ego.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, Laura…take a seat
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Or change a tire. (The night of the tragic tire incident and the ensuing twitter threads lives forever in my memory.)
re: #512 HappyWarrior
Indeed. You can’t discount how she made her presence felt in the district. I don’t know the details but she did something right here.
That’s what Beto is trying to do in the whole damn state of Texas. Go everywhere. Talk to anyone who will pause.
It’s whiskey o’clock in Europe.
And trust me — it should be in America too. pic.twitter.com/NlBUCVA8jH— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) June 27, 2018
These are my people. https://t.co/ORit0hgaZI
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 27, 2018
re: #516 wrenchwench
That’s what Beto is trying to do in the whole damn state of Texas. Go everywhere. Talk to anyone who will pause.
I love Beto. In fact, he’s the exact kind of person I hope we nominate against Trump or Pence.
It was a good night for progressive women in New York. Liuba Shirley won my district.
How she’ll fare against Peter King remains to be seen. But I’d really love to see her send him home.
Don’t you have something else to do? And how’s your progress reuniting those kids with their parents? https://t.co/TSb4z1n3I6
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) June 27, 2018
House now beginning final 10 minutes of debate related to a second GOP immigration reform bill
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 27, 2018
.@LouBarAssoc & @LouisvilleUL hosting immigration law boot camp tomorrow for attys, paralegals & law students in order to train them to help asylum-seeking families recently detained at the border and separated: https://t.co/clYJqhfzld
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 27, 2018
What was surprising about the Crowley loss last night is that he’d been running unopposed all these years:
Here’s a great piece from Vogue on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Bronx-born woman who just beat Rep. Joe Crowley (and the first person to face off against Crowley in a primary election in 14 years). https://t.co/y5HMHljqxj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 27, 2018
Yeah, this is what can happen if you run credible candidates in all elections.
re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), who’s in line to chair Budget if Dems win House, is unabashed about where the party needs to go. “If I’m chairman of the Budget Committee next year, we’ll have hearings on Medicare for All.”
just don’t call it Obamacare and Kentuckians will be fine with it
KEEP TEH GUMMINTS HANDS OFF MA MEDICARE!!!!!
Never good when a federal judge says this about you:
“The Court is aware that Mr. Kobach’s reputation for candor to the tribunal and compliance with its orders is less than sterling.”
[from an opinion that just came out in @weareoversight FACA case about the voter commission]— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) June 27, 2018
Here is a picture that my 6 yr old client Samir drew for his mother during my most recent visit with him. He said it shows his mami Levis with muscles bc she is strong. And with a sword to make sure he is never taken again from her if he is brought back to her (as he hopes). pic.twitter.com/aDciVp4Cvn
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 27, 2018
re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“We’re bringing back the old Kynect.”
Democrats regret not fighting harder for Obama’s Supreme Court pick. “We should have shut down the Senate.” https://t.co/twF1Fh783v w/@igorbobic @aterkel
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 27, 2018
But muh civility! https://t.co/qjD6h0sMVP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2018
gaaaaaaahhhhhh
Pruitt eyes yielding some EPA power over mining, development (from @AP) https://t.co/QbcVizRwGJ
— Becky Bohrer (@beckybohrerap) June 27, 2018
Haven’t a lot of us complained about establishment Dems not paying enough attention to downballot elections and failing to stress their importance? Well…
If there’s one takeaway for America from last night: VOTE IN YOUR PRIMARY ELECTIONS! 🗳
There are more candidates like me, fighting for an ambitious + accountable agenda for working class people, that can be elected THIS YEAR.
Find them + mobilize now: https://t.co/2LHBkYpoiX— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018
Democrats regret not fighting harder for Obama’s Supreme Court pick. “We should have shut down the Senate.” https://t.co/twF1Fh783v w/@igorbobic @aterkel
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 27, 2018
But seriously - how utterly maddening. This is what the Democratic base was screaming, yelling and begging for them to do. NOW they regret it? Argh. https://t.co/qjD6h0sMVP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2018
re: #528 Charles Johnson
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They should have fought harder for Garland? Thanks, Captain Obvious.
re: #531 Charles Johnson
Trump and McConnell have taught a lot of people valuable lessons. Some of us didn’t need to fail the test to see it, but that’s where we are.
re: #531 Charles Johnson
This is what they have to say now? After we are fucked in half? Sweet.
re: #533 Belafon
Trump and McConnell have taught a lot of people valuable lessons. Some of us didn’t need to fail the test to see it, but that’s where we are.
Hell, I was commenting here two years ago wondering why the hell Obama and others were saying *nice* things about Paul Ryan and McConnell at the Dem convention e_e No mention whatsoever of the grotesque obstruction and SCOTUS theft.
Their biggest mistake, obviously, was refusing to adhere to the wisest of sayings that no one went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime.
Thought this passage was interesting. Rather reminds me of fundy-ruled Texas, except that the ignorance here is continuous and self reinforcing. In actual practice, the “family values” grift leaves one generation after another completely unprepared for the temptations and pressures of the modern world.
Forty years of authoritarian rule under the regime established by António Salazar in 1933 had suppressed education, weakened institutions and lowered the school-leaving age, in a strategy intended to keep the population docile. The country was closed to the outside world; people missed out on the experimentation and mind-expanding culture of the 1960s. When the regime ended abruptly in a military coup in 1974, Portugal was suddenly opened to new markets and influences. Under the old regime, Coca-Cola was banned and owning a cigarette lighter required a licence. When marijuana and then heroin began flooding in, the country was utterly unprepared.
“Conservatives, especially Christians, don’t have any option but to “go high.” Because when civility dies, so does conservatism.”
My latest @FDRLST https://t.co/HwzxhIjXjd— Georgi Boorman (@georgi_boorman) June 27, 2018
Wow. Once again the Federalist proves utterly, completely lacking in self-awareness. The site that published torture porn fantasizing about a civil war preaches about “going high.” Unbelievable. https://t.co/w6ZxASNoDk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2018
re: #538 Charles Johnson
I want to see Evangelicals “go high.” They can’t clear the first step on a two step porch right now, but have at it.
re: #538 Charles Johnson
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Do they have no self awareness at all? I’ll admit it. I’m not always a civilized person and I’ll even admit we on the left are far from it but unlike conservatives, we don’t lie about what we actually are. We don’t make heroes out of people like Trump, Limbaugh, and others like that.
re: #530 Interesting Times
Haven’t a lot of us complained about establishment Dems not paying enough attention to downballot elections and failing to stress their importance? Well…
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The ironic part is if more people had actually voted in the primary I bet the establishment guy would have had a better chance to win. Just my opinion, we’ll never really know.
re: #538 Charles Johnson
Wow. Once again the Federalist proves utterly, completely lacking in self-awareness. The site that published torture porn fantasizing about a civil war preaches about “going high.” Unbelievable.
i’da gone with “Federalist supports and recommends Michelle Obama’s plan”
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Newt is only finding out just now that there’s a Democratic-Socialist party?
smh
Talk about a tsunami! One person gets 16,000 votes to win a primary and suddenly the world will never be the same.
One NYT writer credits the win to Ryan Grim and The Intercept. Uh huh.
But, vying for most ridiculous primary take, trust The Intercept to be vying for top position with this headline from a few days ago:
SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSIONAL RUNOFF SIGNALS
A PRO-PALESTINE SHIFT AMONG DEMOCRATS (not posting link because it’s all too idiotic)
They’re talking about Mal Hyman, who, by the way, lost the runoff (although he’s contesting the results and his campaign is whining to the state party that they should disqualify the winner—somebody who has been a Dem state legislator for 10 years—because reasons.)
I had to suffer through MANY Mal speeches during the past few months, and never once heard him mention a single world about Palestine. Mal also lost in 2016 by 22 points.
But hey, it’s a SIGNAL!!
Le sigh.
re: #461 ObserverArt
Well…but…Bernie basically has cast himself as the villain in this. I didn’t just wake up and go ‘That Bernie guy is no good I tell you what!’. He campaigned on helping white people. Period. He’s trashed the party, caused a shitton of division, ran an actually corrupt campaign, and continues to denigrate the Dem party while leeching off of it, and expects to get nominated for President.
He’s…not an ally. Just a less important enemy whose rhetoric and actions are usually unhelpful.
re: #434 Sir John Barron
Unlike the moderate GOP which never primaries its incumbents.
Hell, Elijah Cummings (one of my very favorite reps) had four primary challengers. Shit happens.
re: #538 Charles Johnson
Sweet fancy Moses.
Yeah, The Federalist is some piece of work. Slavish defenders of that orange guy in the WH, no matter his behavior.
My observation: there’s nothing wrong with progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Corte, even if they’re criticizing Democrats to their right, so long as that criticism is substantive and avoids the potholes of populism and shallow rhetoric.
What bugs me right now…about politics, about the underpinning culture that informs politics, and about internet culture…is the ascendancy of shallowness and performative “takes” for an audience. People tell themselves stories about how the world works, and when those stories become all about self-gratification, there’s no incentive to doubt or even explore a prevailing narrative that’s enjoyable.
Shallowness is fucking us up. Internet hot takery and memes are Roman Republic bread and circuses but faster. We’ve got a dozen versions of the Futurist Manifesto: artists talking about technology and society in artistic, symbolic terms while not engaging with (1) the actuality of technology, because they don’t understand how shit works on a scientific, engineering, or logistical level, (2) inserting meaning into neutral objects and failing to understand that their impressions are impressions, while denying the assessments of others who might fucking know better (see: the Futurist celebration of violence and war as aesthetic, transformative, which does not engage at all with the lived experience of conflict, and specifically has no place for the idea of being the victim rather than the perpetrator)
Shallowness informs every variety of antiskepticism and denialism.
It informs the anti-intellectual instinct such that they attempt to apply rigor or consider context is itself is “elitist.”
It informs the use of symbols and titles while eroded the ideals the symbols are supposed to symbolize.
It informs the press’s continuing push to create click-worthy material and thinkpiece that the maintenance of a performative status quo—everybody’s equally bad, “civility,” et cetera—and the idea that external detail override deeper structural issues.
It informs populism and people who merge their identity with a singular figure
…and thus also informs the horseshoe theory, because a total ideological transformation isn’t that shocking if you’re not engaging on a level deeper than surface impressions and self-gratification
It informs the conspiracist mindset in which complexity of the claim is seen as a proof, while a basic standard of empirical proof…the receipts, if you will…are rejected.
It informs the all-siderism that blocks the structural arguments behind social justice and discussion of prejudice, such that any individual instance of bad behavior nullifies all context of oppression…much like the notion of “assimilation” was a baited trap and a no-win scenario.
We’re in a scary moment where aestheticism has become veracity…again. It’s not a new thing, history is full of powerful people more or less skilled at wielding culture—symbols identifiers, rituals—to create a power block built on seeming. It’s generally a bubble…much like scams are a bubble…but the question becomes how big it can inflate before the facade collapses.
You want a basic standard to assess what to push back against? Consider the depth of an individual. How often do they apply nuance or accept complexity? Do they have blind spots where they fail to do this, and places where they succeed? Do they seem to deliberately use shallowness to their advantage? Do they double down on shallowness?
This is the standard I apply, and it’s not a black-and-white one, either.
I’ve said before (drink!) that we’re not in a political fight, we’re in an epistemological one. This is an offshoot of that issue. There is no ideology or concept that cannot be emptied out or bullshitted into meaninglessness.
re: #545 BeachDem
Hell, Elijah Cummings (one of my very favorite reps) had four primary challengers. Shit happens.
We had six people in ours. The winner was a State Senator who’s very well liked but primaries are necessary. Everyone starts out somewhere. Who knows where her career will go from here but from what I’ve read on Alexandria, I like her and her voice, I think she’s got the potential to make a positive difference.
From Ocasio-Cortez’s Wikipedia page:
Ocasio-Cortez was born in The Bronx, New York City and moved to Yorktown, New York, at a young age. As a high school student, she won second prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, with a microbiology research project. As a result, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory named a large asteroid after her, 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[5]
re: #542 dangerman
i’da gone with “Federalist supports and recommends Michelle Obama’s plan”
Federalist Pitchbot: We’re So Reasonable, How Come People Persecute Us?
What I hate is this narrative is it’s HRC people versus Bernie people. It’s not that goddamn simple.
re: #550 Belafon
From Ocasio-Cortez’s Wikipedia page:
I’m sure Trump’s got one of his brilliant nicknames waiting for her. //
re: #523 lawhawk
What was surprising about the Crowley loss last night is that he’d been running unopposed all these years:
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some very good commenting about her at politicalwire.com
Rhysem • 3 hours ago
Well, I’m glad somebody learned a few lessons from Bernie’s disastrous, “I am, but I’m not really” shtick.
Taegan himself:
It seems she’s wiser than her years may suggest and that she understands how power works. That will serve her well.
re: #538 Charles Johnson
I wonder how Georgi felt about the LOCK HER UP chants during the campaign? Oh hell the chants are still going on.
re: #552 HappyWarrior
What I hate is this narrative is it’s HRC people versus Bernie people. It’s not that goddamn simple.
You might be surprised at who seems to concur:
I completely agree with @SenSanders. Interpretations of “us vs them” are unproductive in our discourse and, in my opinion, misguided.
This is about fierce advocacy for working class Americans. https://t.co/ej23YUZF0r— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018
I’m attempting to observe immigration court at Port Isabel detention center courtroom - which is public - but have been turned away twice by guards because reporters must have ICE approval
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) June 27, 2018
re: #553 HappyWarrior
I’m sure Trump’s got one of his brilliant nicknames waiting for her. //
He’s so happy that a congresscritter who dared criticize him lost he hasn’t thought up any nicknames yet.
re: #557 jaunte
This is really fucking scary.
re: #557 jaunte
Somehow, I doubt it, Molly. That’s about as enforceable as their “warrants.”
She needs to gather a few more reporters, a lawyer, and talk to the judge.
I’m told that’s because it’s an ICE facility. But immigration court is not run by ICE, and is public.
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) June 27, 2018
re: #521 lawhawk
House now taking a procedural vote (motion to recommit) - vote on the GOP immigration bill would be next
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 27, 2018
Already more Republicans have voted against this second immigration bill than the first one pic.twitter.com/Puq8H2A4NE
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 27, 2018
re: #556 Interesting Times
You might be surprised at who seems to concur:
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I really wish Bernie would stop acting as if he speaks for the working class, he doesn’t.
re: #563 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Even with Trump support, House overwhelmingly defeats second GOP immigration reform bill https://t.co/FMPhZDe51k pic.twitter.com/4i7UWIy5lm
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) June 27, 2018
re: #565 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
On top of all this, bill barely clears majority of majority threshold.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 27, 2018
re: #558 jaunte
reporters must have ICE approval
What’s wrong with making sure the reporters have Gestapo approval?
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re: #564 HappyWarrior
I really wish Bernie would stop acting as if he speaks for the working class, he doesn’t.
I think the difference between her and Sanders is Sanders has been about Sanders winning. I think she’s actually running because people have been screwed and there needs to be more fighters.
re: #565 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
CHANGE THE LAW! BORDERS! WIN!!!
re: #567 Sir John Barron
“Thank you for calling the ICE reporter access line. Please hold.”
I get the impression that Sanders is actually trying to fight for some people, but HE keeps getting in the way.
Edit: Oh, and misogyny. I will always believe that was a huge chunk of 2016.
re: #568 Belafon
I think the difference between her and Sanders is Sanders has been about Sanders winning. I think she’s actually running because people have been screwed and there needs to be more fighters.
I do too.
re: #572 Belafon
I get the impression that Sanders is actually trying to fight for some people, but HE keeps getting in the way.
My problem with him is he refuses to admit that we can have a place in our party for tolerant minded people who work on WS and the WWC. I’m not against the working class. I’m against Sanders wanting us to accept their anxieties and dismiss other people’s and I hope that Alexandria as she sees more of Bernie that she gets that about him and his agenda.
I’m being told ICE contacted the officer in charge of the facility and I need his permission to enter, otherwise I’m trespassing.
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) June 27, 2018
re: #548 The Ghost of a Flea
This is also what has landed me on the putative “left” of the US political spectrum. The “right” is not conservative, it has more and more become a coalition of individuals who despise the notion of truth and evalutation of truth, because their standard of “what is right” and what is Right” hinges upon affiliation and externalities (rituals and signs that one is of the in-group) to establish Truth…in ways that makes their subjective take objective, complete with changes made on the fly to suit their instant needs.
This is a problem on the left…the “civility” fetish of the individuals who’ve gotten too comfortable in their personal interactions with reactionaries, but also in the kiddie-pool application of Marxist notions to explain a much more complicated systemic issue…but it is not the informing axiom of the left as it is to the Religious Right (for whom Truth is God, but God as filtered through charismatic individuals that are the Elect), the Objectivists (for whom Truth is handed down by the monied), the conmen (for whom Truth doesn’t matter beyond its utility), the nationalists….
re: #569 Sir John Barron
BUILD THE WALL! CHANGE THE LAW! BUILD THE WALL! BORDERS! BUILD THE WALL! WIN!!!
FTFY
re: #370 Dr. Matt
Just a reminder, the left should be more civil….
“You seem to forget we have all the guns”. If it comes to that boy will they be surprised.
re: #578 Eventual Carrion
“You seem to forget we have all the guns”. If it comes to that boy will they be surprised.
Tehy really do think we’re what their stupid memes think we are.
This morning
HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2018
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
re: #566 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
TRUMP-BACKED BILL DEFEATED … House overwhelmingly voted down immigration bill backed by POTUS, 121-301. Yikes
Goodness, this is as low a majority vote total as you’ll see
Paul Ryan casts a rare vote, supporting the bill. McCarthy and scalise, yes. Meadows and Jordan vote no.
SEEE TEH DEMOCRAT PARTY IZ OBSTRUKTONSTS!!!!
re: #536 Interesting Times
Hell, I was commenting here two years ago wondering why the hell Obama and others were saying *nice* things about Paul Ryan and McConnell at the Dem convention e_e No mention whatsoever of the grotesque obstruction and SCOTUS theft.
Their biggest mistake, obviously, was refusing to adhere to the wisest of sayings that no one went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
At one time there was a bit of common civility in our government. Some of the older Democrats remember that and mistakenly thought they would see that.
Obama himself knew he couldn’t push too hard because…well…pushy Black guy.
They all missed by a whole bunch the reactions of Mitch and Gang. They forgot to figure in Mitch would get cover from the media too.
Yeah, tough lessons were learned. And here we are. Nice guys get rolled. No more nice guy.
Fuck
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring, a move that will give Trump a chance to shift the institution to the right https://t.co/Oc0Tiq9PGl
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 27, 2018
WE ARE FUCCCCKEEED
BREAKING: Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court https://t.co/3n9cNBvL0X pic.twitter.com/zmLC5KphfL
— CNN (@CNN) June 27, 2018
re: #577 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
FTFY
Remove judges! Replace with law say you can’t come in here! Change the law! Secure the border! Go home Mexicans! No rapists and murderers wanted here! No court or lawyer for you!
The good news is, since Mitch McConnell is a man of principle, the Senate won’t consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the election
Lol— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 27, 2018
Kennedy could have waited until after the midterms. Fucking asshole.
Ivanka Trump will join Sec of State Mike Pompeo tomorrow to release the annual U.S. report on human trafficking in other countries. It could get awkward given that the U.S. is separating children from their parents and locking them up in cages right now.
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) June 27, 2018
Kennedy handing his seat over to Trump is the most perfect example *ever* about how it is all the party of Trump. All of it. Kennedy looks down from SCOTUS and sees the man in the White House and says “Yes. Him. I want him to be the one to choose my replacement.”
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 27, 2018
re: #552 HappyWarrior
What I hate is this narrative is it’s HRC people versus Bernie people. It’s not that goddamn simple.
And where did that come from?
And how did the media help it?
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring, a move that will give Trump a chance to shift the institution to the right https://t.co/Oc0Tiq9PGl
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 27, 2018
Disaster. https://t.co/3JllBiS03O
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 27, 2018
re: #594 ObserverArt
And where did that come from?
And how did the media help it?
That’s what I’m talking about. The media pushes that crap.
Even if turns out that Trump himself was texting w Putin during the campaign to coordinate, and the pee tape is real, and POTUS and everyone in his family and campaign ends up behind bars, it will still all have been worth it for McConnell, the Mercers, Adelson and the GOP.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 27, 2018
Like I said before the Kennedy news. https://t.co/mX4WZs3sWS
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 27, 2018
You can kiss Roe goodbye.
Thank you Susan Sarandon and Jill Stein!
re: #592 Interesting Times
Supreme Court Judge Jeannine Ducklips 🤢
SCOTUS Justice Jefferson Davis Bureaugard Sessions.
re: #597 HappyWarrior
Get ready for the most right wing court in years.
The eternal conservatopia just became reality. There’s no way to spin this at this point.
Barring a blow out in November and an epic homestand by the Democrats, we’ve just locked in the country to arch-conservatism for at least a lifetime.
re: #583 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #571 jaunte
“Thank you for calling the ICE reporter access line. Please hold.”
“The current waiting time is go fuck yourself.”
re: #601 HappyWarrior
Marriage equality too.
Presidential term limits are dead too. Welcome to the Trump dictatorship.
Democrats have to find a way to put off any vote on a SC nominee until after midterms…pray for senate to flip, then delay till start of new congress.
re: #609 Winston_Smith
Presidential term limits are dead too. Welcome to the Trump dictatorship.
Presidential term limits are in the constitution.
It’s when people make these statements that I’m like, WTF?
re: #609 Winston_Smith
Presidential term limits are dead too. Welcome to the Trump dictatorship.
Too many things to count.
re: #565 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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— Robert Mueller’s Diary (@GhostfaceKHZ) June 27, 2018
And they need to stop calling it a “compromise” bill.
Kennedy has been totally useless in recent decisions. He could have made an effort to support what was moral and true, instead he voted to make a majority that is destroying our country.
A reminder: if the Dems had tried to shut the Senate down over Garland, our worthless MSM would have criticized them in editorial after editorial.
re: #611 Belafon
Presidential term limits are in the constitution.
It’s when people make these statements that I’m like, WTF?
Yeah you have to repeal an amendment through the state legislatures. SCOTUS didn’t repeal Prohibition. The states did. That said, I understand why people arw worried.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring.
This means that Trump gets to continue corrupting the courts with his biased picks.
Democrats in Congress must not allow a hearing, just like Mitch McConnell did to Obama!— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) June 27, 2018
re: #611 Belafon
Presidential term limits are in the constitution.
It’s when people make these statements that I’m like, WTF?
Right. The Constitution. Of course that can be changed, or in Trump’s case, just ignored.
re: #611 Belafon
Presidential term limits are in the constitution.
It’s when people make these statements that I’m like, WTF?
We’ve already just seen how malleable the constitution is with a perfect bulwark in the SCOTUS. With Kennedy gone, that bulwark may be permanent.
re: #614 Hecuba’s daughter
Kennedy has been totally useless in recent decisions. He could have made an effort to support what was moral and true, instead he voted to make a majority that is destroying our country.
A reminder: if the Dems had tried to shut the Senate down over Garland, our worthless MSM would have criticized them in editorial after editorial.
Totally useless? I wouldn’t go that far since he had the opinion that sealed it on SSM. He’s far from my favorite SCOTUS member but he’s not Roberts let alone the other three.
re: #615 HappyWarrior
How many State legislatures are now Republican?
re: #610 blueraven
Democrats have to find a way to put off any vote on a SC nominee until after midterms…pray for senate to flip, then delay till start of new congress.
Exactly.
Payback’s a bitch, McConnell.
Kennedy gievs Trump his gift and then retires. What a fucking nightmare.
re: #615 HappyWarrior
Yeah you have to repeal an amendment through the state legislatures. SCOTUS didn’t repeal Prohibition. The states did. That said, I understand why people arw worried.
And the GOP owns how many states at this point? They’re already teetering on the edge of enough for a full constitutional convention.
re: #616 Archangelus
McConnell ran the Senate. That’s why he was able to do what he did.
This is really, really bad. We’re looking at 30 years of a right wing demamogogues in the majority.
re: #623 Citizen K
And the GOP owns how many states at this point? They’re already teetering on the edge of enough for a full constitutional convention.
I think they’re one or two states short.
re: #619 HappyWarrior
Totally useless? I wouldn’t go that far since he had the opinion that sealed it on SSM. He’s far from my favorite SCOTUS member but he’s not Roberts let alone the other three.
His wedding cake vote wasn’t exactly helpful.
Let’s hope the Democrats use every means to not allow a pick to come up for a vote. Delay, delay, delay as much as possible. If that means McConnell and the Republicans have to kill the filibuster, do it. What goes around comes around.
re: #617 Winston_Smith
Right. The Constitution. Of course that can be changed, or in Trump’s case, just ignored.
It won’t be ignored: Ivanka will run to be the first woman president. So the form of the Constitution is preserved while the substance is demolished.
re: #626 Dr Lizardo
I think they’re one or two states short.
And states like KY aren’t looking too hot for the GOP right now.
re: #625 Mike Lamb
This is really, really bad. We’re looking at 30 years of a right wing demamogogues in the majority.
30 years is looking like the minimum at this rate.
re: #623 Citizen K
And the GOP owns how many states at this point? They’re already teetering on the edge of enough for a full constitutional convention.
I know, I know.
re: #627 Belafon
His wedding cake vote wasn’t exactly helpful.
I agree but she said totally useless.
re: #628 rhuarc
Let’s hope the Democrats use every means to not allow a pick to come up for a vote. Delay, delay, delay as much as possible. If that means McConnell and the Republicans have to kill the filibuster, do it. What goes around comes around.
Bork the son of a bitch. I don’t care who it is.
re: #623 Citizen K
And the GOP owns how many states at this point? They’re already teetering on the edge of enough for a full constitutional convention.
I think that is a stretch. I don’t think even republicans want to do away with Presidential term limits.
re: #621 Dr Lizardo
Exactly.
Payback’s a bitch, McConnell.
the senate is still a republican majority and confirmations have been reduced to a straight majority. Unless a republican or 2 jump ship(yeah right), there is literally nothing they can do. Maybe they could use a few procedural delaying tactics, but they can’t stop it if the republicans are united.
Wow, Maggie, quite the scoop—as if anyone with two functioning brain cells couldn’t have figured that out. Your WH access is really paying off!
Sources say Trump will move quickly on Kennedy replacement, in hopes of confirmation being done before Election Day this year
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2018
re: #633 HappyWarrior
I agree but she said totally useless.
I did say recent votes — not votes while Obama was President.
Guess I’m going to have to get back into Great Great Grandpas Underground Railroad business…
re: #631 Citizen K
30 years is looking like the minimum at this rate.
One thing’s for sure. This really going to get out the GOP vote in November.
Long term political reform is possible but it will take quite the effort on the part of millions.
re: #634 HappyWarrior
Bork the son of a bitch. I don’t care who it is.
Bork gots his up or down votes, both in committee and on the Senate floor. RWNJs just whine endlessly about how those votes turned out.
What happened to Garland was no mere ‘Borking’.
re: #635 blueraven
I think that is a stretch. I don’t think even republicans want to do away with Presidential term limits.
We also thought once upon a time that they wouldn’t go for Trump. And yet here we are.
re: #638 Hecuba’s daughter
I did say recent votes — not votes while Obama was President.
Oh my apologies.
re: #636 danarchy
the senate is still a republican majority and confirmations have been reduced to a straight majority. Unless a republican or 2 jump ship(yeah right), there is literally nothing they can do. Maybe they could use a few procedural delaying tactics, but they can’t stop it if the republicans are united.
Flake might, and McCain probably wont be around, but if he is, he might as well.
Just this morning Stephanie Miller reacted to the recent SCOTUS rulings by saying, “it’s only going to get worse”.
Fucking prophetic.
re: #642 EPR-radar
Bork gots his up or down votes, both in committee and on the Senate floor. RWNJs just whine endlessly about how those votes turned out.
What happened to Garland was no mere ‘Borking’.
Yep and Bork had Republican opposition too. I was always proud my Republican SEnator opposed that bigoted kook.
re: #610 blueraven
Democrats have to find a way to put off any vote on a SC nominee until after midterms…pray for senate to flip, then delay till start of new congress.
Democrats do not have the votes to block any nomination.
We can only hope for Trump incompetence in nominating someone for the bench, and picking someone so incompetent that even the GOP will force them to decline the nomination or withdraw.
McConnell has completely fucked the nation for decades to come with his complete mockery of the advise and consent clause. He’s destroyed comity, but yeah, we’re supposed to be civil.
McConnell has done more to destroy the judiciary than any other person in government, including Trump. Trump’s the beneficiary of McConnell’s actions.
But how did we get here? Dems not voting in midterms, or getting on the purity pony ride and self-immolation over Obamacare instead of defending it at every turn. We are going to see a further erosion of civil and voting rights and all rights that people take for granted thanks to the feckless cunts in the GOP.
re: #637 BeachDem
Wow, Maggie, quite the scoop—as if anyone with two functioning brain cells couldn’t have figured that out. Your WH access is really paying off!
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be nice if Mueller could gum up the works a bit. But I’m not holding my breath.
Here’s the 25 people on Trump’s list of potential SCOTUS picks, which Trump just said he’ll pull from to replace Kennedy (per @HallieJackson) pic.twitter.com/90GcJeBOSY
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 27, 2018
re: #640 Winston_Smith
One thing’s for sure. This really going to get out the GOP vote in November.
And I think it’s going to strongly energize Democratic voters as well. Kennedy retired this term…..what if RBG goes next term?
That should energize Dems enough to do their damndest to take the Senate.
re: #586 Citizen K
Same sex marriage is over within the next 2 years. Abortion rights are over too.
re: #648 lawhawk
You know that’s not going to happen. The GOP would seat Melon if he nominated her.
re: #650 lawhawk
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re: #651 Dr Lizardo
And I think it’s going to strongly energize Democratic voters as well. Kennedy retired this term…..what if RBG goes next term?
That should energize Dems enough to do their damndest to take the Senate.
True, likewise it’s going to energize the Republicans though. Get ready for a fight.
re: #649 Barefoot Grin
be nice if Mueller could gum up the works a bit. But I’m not holding my breath.
OTOH, Trump’s probably expendable to McConnell and other Repubs after they get their Supreme Court pick.
re: #652 plansbandc
Same sex marriage is over within the next 2 years. Abortion rights are over too.
Abortion rights are all but over now. Still not seeing the huge Dem turnout.
re: #656 HappyWarrior
All Heritage Foundation approved I’m sure. Hardiman was the co-finalist for the stolen suit that Gorsuch now sits in.
Lee. It has to be Lee.
re: #607 Winston_Smith
Absolutely, unless you are one percenters like my nieces.
re: #652 plansbandc
Same sex marriage is over within the next 2 years. Abortion rights are over too.
Don’t know if that will happen, as even conservative justices don’t like to flop a previous decision so quickly.
To me, the issues coming up in the near future have to do with representation, gerrymandering, and voting rights.
re: #660 Winston_Smith
Lee. It has to be Lee.
Agh. You may be right. Probably a thank you to Cruz for sticking by him even after he called his dad a murderer.
re: #611 Belafon
Presidential term limits are in the constitution.
It’s when people make these statements that I’m like, WTF?
So is the emoluments clause. It isn’t being enforced.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. #Kennedy pic.twitter.com/TAgp0yzPeX
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) June 27, 2018
re: #628 rhuarc
Let’s hope the Democrats use every means to not allow a pick to come up for a vote. Delay, delay, delay as much as possible. If that means McConnell and the Republicans have to kill the filibuster, do it. What goes around comes around.
They already did.
Our only hopes now are Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake.
In other words… very little hope.
re: #657 HappyWarrior
True, likewise it’s going to energize the Republicans though. Get ready for a fight.
This is what can flip a state like California’s governor’s election. Gavin Newsome’s sinking his Dem opponent’s campaign so he could face a Republican doesn’t look so smart now. Of course it didn’t look so smart back when he did it either.
re: #666 sagehen
Didn’t Flake claim he wasn’t going to vote for any more Trump judicial nominees?
re: #666 sagehen
They already did.
Our only hopes now are Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake.
In other words… very little hope.
Flake, IIRC, hates Trump. So there’s some sliver of hope there. The others, I really can’t say.
re: #663 HappyWarrior
Agh. You may be right. Probably a thank you to Cruz for sticking by him even after he called his dad a murderer.
The only reason it wouldn’t be Lee is that he wouldn’t be allowed to vote for his own nomination. Or would he?
re: #664 Scottish Dragon
So is the emoluments clause. It isn’t being enforced.
The one thing about the emoluments clause is it’s wishy-washy “by consent of the legislature” wording. It just doesn’t show up on people’s radar because. Him running for a third term definitely would.
re: #668 freetoken
Didn’t Flake claim he wasn’t going to vote for any more Trump judicial nominees?
Flake’s said a lot of things only to tumble back into the fold when it was time for the votes.
Take none of the assholes at their word: they really do act as a monolith.
re: #668 freetoken
Didn’t Flake claim he wasn’t going to vote for any more Trump judicial nominees?
Flake has never followed though on anything he’s said yet.
re: #670 Winston_Smith
The only reason it wouldn’t be Lee is that he wouldn’t be allowed to vote for his own nomination. Or would he?
Honestly, I don’t eevn know anymore man. These guys are so unethical that I wouldn’t put it past Trump to nominate Ivanka.
re: #650 lawhawk
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Of course, lists, processes, preparation and such don’t really mean much to this regime.
re: #669 Dr Lizardo
Flake, IIRC, hates Trump. So there’s some sliver of hope there. The others, I really can’t say.
Flake talks a good game. But notice my choice of verb.
re: #648 lawhawk
But how did we get here? Dems not voting in midterms, or getting on the purity pony ride and self-immolation over Obamacare instead of defending it at every turn. We are going to see a further erosion of civil and voting rights and all rights that people take for granted thanks to the feckless cunts in the GOP.
Sadly, the GOP in this case aren’t “feckless” at all. They’re getting exactly what they always wanted, and were never shy about saying they wanted it.
re: #606 Citizen K
The eternal conservatopia just became reality. There’s no way to spin this at this point.
Barring a blow out in November and an epic homestand by the Democrats, we’ve just locked in the country to arch-conservatism for at least a lifetime.
They can do 40 years of damage right now and they know it.
re: #664 Scottish Dragon
So is the emoluments clause. It isn’t being enforced.
Just last night Trump tweeted out an advertisement for his Turdberry golf course. It didn’t even make the papers.
re: #669 Dr Lizardo
Flake, IIRC, hates Trump. So there’s some sliver of hope there. The others, I really can’t say.
If he wants a career after politics in the rightwingosphere my guess is he overcomes that hate.
re: #679 Winston_Smith
Just last night Trump tweeted out an advertisement for his Turdberry golf course. It didn’t even make the papers.
If it makes the papers, that’s just another ad. It’ll take lawsuits to stop Trump.
re: #635 blueraven
We thought Trump winning was a stretch. Did we think we would have internment camps??
Things are going to be wrecked beyond measure. And very quickly indeed.
If I were young, I would fully expect to be put into an internment camp within the next four years for being LGBTQ and very open in my disdain for the piece of shit pretending to be President. But I am old and not useful. So I don’t think they will waste money and time with me. I’ll just be disappeared.
I’m trying not despair but these are dark times.
I’m assuming he said this in a sarcastic tone
McConnell on Kennedy retiring: “It’s imperative that the president’s nominee be treated fairly.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 27, 2018
re: #671 Belafon
The one thing about the emoluments clause is it’s wishy-washy “by consent of the legislature” wording. It just doesn’t show up on people’s radar because. Him running for a third term definitely would.
We already know over half of republicans support the idea of canceling elections.
What exactly stops him from simply declaring an election invalid and ordering an investigation into “illegal voting” and just ignoring court orders?
re: #683 HappyWarrior
I’m trying not despair but these are dark times.
I knew in spring of 2017 that things would have to get worse before they could get better, but I hope they don’t have to get too much worse.
Seems like it takes school kids getting shot in droves and refugee kids made into orphans of the state to start to get people to finally galvanize into action
re: #684 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m assuming he said this in a sarcastic tone
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re: #684 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m assuming he said this in a sarcastic tone
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re: #686 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I knew in spring of 2017 that things would have to get worse before they could get better, but I hope they don’t have to get too much worse.
Seems like it takes school kids getting shot in droves and refugee kids made into orphans of the state to start to get people to finally galvanize into action
That may not eevn be enough.
re: #685 Scottish Dragon
We already know over half of republicans support the idea of canceling elections.
What exactly stops him from simply declaring an election invalid and ordering an investigation into “illegal voting” and just ignoring court orders?
Not the GOP Supreme Court as it’s currently constituted. The new GOP Supreme Court will agree with Trump that’s he’s completely above the reach of the law. You’re living in fantasy land if you can’t see that coming.
re: #684 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m assuming he said this in a sarcastic tone
We should wait, fairly, until after the midterms.
re: #684 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
McConnell on Kennedy retiring: “It’s imperative that the president’s nominee be treated fairly.”
— Natasha Bertrand
Why is it imperative, Mitch?
re: #686 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I knew in spring of 2017 that things would have to get worse before they could get better, but I hope they don’t have to get too much worse.
Seems like it takes school kids getting shot in droves and refugee kids made into orphans of the state to start to get people to finally galvanize into action
The problem with getting worse to get better is that the ‘things get better’ thing isn’t guaranteed. Sometimes, things just get worse. And worse. And worse, with no chance of getting better.
This is what I’m seeing so far. We’re not even close to the bottom yet. And that leaves me hopeless.
re: #692 Sir John Barron
Why is it imperative, Mitch?
Why because the President has an R next to his name and I have to make the Heritage Foundation assholes that rub my balls happy. //
“I’m fairly certain _________ will be a disaster.”
re: #684 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m assuming he said this in a sarcastic tone
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At some point, we realize the constitution works because we all agree that it has to work.
So what happens when the POTUS and a significant part of his constituency simply decide to stop paying attention to the constitution and engage in Machiavelli power politics instead?
Saying something is unconstitutional is meaningless if there is no longer any means by which enforcement is possible.
He’s openly mocking the entire country. He knows that he stole a Supreme Court seat and has no respect for our system of government.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 27, 2018
re: #693 Citizen K
The problem with getting worse to get better is that the ‘things get better’ thing isn’t guaranteed. Sometimes, things just get worse. And worse. And worse, with no chance of getting better.
This is what I’m seeing so far. We’re not even close to the bottom yet. And that leaves me hopeless.
I also have to agree with the people who say that it will take decades to clean up the mess being made right now.
re: #650 lawhawk
DJT must have thought he died and went to heaven this week.
re: #682 plansbandc
We thought Trump winning was a stretch. Did we think we would have internment camps??
Things are going to be wrecked beyond measure. And very quickly indeed.
If I were young, I would fully expect to be put into an internment camp within the next four years for being LGBTQ and very open in my disdain for the piece of shit pretending to be President. But I am old and not useful. So I don’t think they will waste money and time with me. I’ll just be disappeared.
Sorry, just not going to buy in to the the doom and gloom, give up…you can never win, go home, sit down and shut the fuck up, crap.
re: #700 Sir John Barron
DJT must have thought he died and went to heaven this week.
The rest of us are in hell.
re: #697 Scottish Dragon
At some point, we realize the constitution works because we all agree that it has to work.
So what happens when the POTUS and ** congress** and a significant part of his constituency simply decide to stop paying attention to the constitution and engage in Machiavelli power politics instead?
Saying something is unconstitutional is meaningless if there is no longer any means by which enforcement is possible.
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