Jason Isbell, along with Amanda Shires and Sadler Vaden of the 400 Unit, stopped at The Current for a session performed before a live audience in the Forum at MPR.
Songs Performed:
“White Man’s World”
“24 Frames”
“If We Were Vampires”
“Last of My Kind”
AR. OH. TEE. EFF. ELL. EMM. AY. OH.
His toughness with Vladimir Putin in question, President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday he had told the Russian leader face to face to stay out of America’s elections “and that’s the way it’s going to be.” https://t.co/bcec0Xwn1u
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) July 19, 2018
OH YEAH?
YEAH!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
ME AN ALL MY HOMIES!!
I GOT MORE HOMIES THAN YOU!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
(this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends)
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
Really? And yet in front of the world while standing beside Putin, he repeatedly denied Russian interference in our elections. He must believe that we are all dumb like the stupid racists who still support him.
We’re not. And we vote.
What’s the real threat of having somebody in power in our government who is subordinate to a hostile foreign government?
It could mean that Americans you know are handed over to foreign dictators when those dictators ask. pic.twitter.com/iLiYrdhyPK— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 19, 2018
Members of Congress #OccupyLafayettePark pic.twitter.com/wykR1honDC
— Julia 💕🤯🤬🤦🏼♀️💕 (@JuliaHart923) July 19, 2018
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
AR. OH. TEE. EFF. ELL. EMM. AY. OH.
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OH YEAH?
YEAH!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
ME AN ALL MY HOMIES!!
I GOT MORE HOMIES THAN YOU!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
(this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends)
He’s always way tougher in his memory of events, isn’t he?
To the long-term freedom and security of Montenegro!
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) July 19, 2018
And if Putin invades, we all better get behind our president in that time of struggle. https://t.co/qSaBKqAfH7
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 19, 2018
In January 2017, Donald Trump was shown evidence that Vladimir Putin personally ordered pre-election hacking. He has since publicly questioned it. https://t.co/bJeAGsQCG3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2018
The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation. https://t.co/mRLwDluWfi
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) July 19, 2018
2 weeks before inauguration, Trump was shown highly classified intelligence gleaned from a top-secret source close to Putin indicating Putin personally ordered complex cyberattacks. The President-elect was “grudgingly convinced,” sources tell @NYTimes. https://t.co/S3OaaZGRBO
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) July 19, 2018
The president ACTED grudgingly convinced, please. If the NYT can’t say whether the president is lying because they don’t know his mind, the same standard should apply to other invisible mental states. https://t.co/akBEkaFxJg
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@Beyerstein) July 19, 2018
TFW you desperately need an authoritarian to publicly criticize. pic.twitter.com/xwrzv5RJv8
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) July 19, 2018
moron makes it sound like there’s an actual $5 billion “secured” when, in fact, it’s just something included in a House spending bill that hasn’t even had a vote yet.
Thank you to Congressman Kevin Yoder! He secured $5 BILLION for Border Security. Now we need Congress to support. Kevin has been strong on Crime, the Border, the 2nd Amendment, and he loves our Military and Vets. @RepKevinYoder has my full and total endorsement!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
Every day, in every way, the WH has to explain what the president* said wasn’t what he said and wasn’t what he meant.
He said it, he meant it. NO other US leader ever got this “benefit of the doubt” - quite the reverse. The US media is owned by this white house (Rachel excluded)
Thanks—going to see Jason and Brandi Carlile outdoor this Sunday (of course, that’s the one day storms are predicted). But that was great!
re: #7 JordanRules
Day 3 of protests outside of the White House complete with a mariachi band.#OccupyLafayettePark pic.twitter.com/G1Jn81B39n
— Simar (@sahluwal) July 19, 2018
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
NYT just love those “sources” They will cover trump’s a… till forever because those sources.
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron makes it sound like there’s an actual $5 billion “secured” when, in fact, it’s just something included in a House spending bill that hasn’t even had a vote yet.
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You would talk shit about vets if Putin told you to.
In January 2017, Donald Trump was shown evidence that Vladimir Putin personally ordered pre-election hacking. He has since publicly questioned it. https://t.co/bJeAGsQCG3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2018
It clearly didn’t meet the rigorous evidentiary standards of a guy who believes Obama is the Kenyan founder of ISIS who personally wiretapped Trump Tower. https://t.co/Q0KJjOzrz7
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 19, 2018
re: #17 JordanRules
If you go to his timeline, his banner is a Hey, Arnold pic. My middle son just discovered the show.
re: #15 fern01
Every day, in every way, the WH has to explain what the president* said wasn’t what he said and wasn’t what he meant.
He said it, he meant it. NO other US leader ever got this “benefit of the doubt” - quite the reverse. The US media is owned by this white house (Rachel excluded)
This portion of his CBS interview is mind-boggling. He contradicts himself within a sentence.
“But he denies it, so if you believe U.S. intelligence agencies, is Putin lying to you?” Jeff Glor asked.
Trump said that he doesn’t want to get into “whether or not he’s lying,” only repeating his hostage statement line that he has confidence in his intelligence agencies.
Glor noted that Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has already said that the Russian threat is ongoing.
Trump said that he would accept that since Coats “is an expert.” However, he then negated it in less than 60 seconds.
“I will tell you, though, it better not be. It better not be,” Trump said, appearing to not believe the definitive truth outlined by Coats and others.
re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Reminder: Michael Flynn was going to send Gulen to Turkey because Erdogan wanted to scapegoat him for the almost-coup.
Yeah, we need to hear from the translator. https://t.co/xc4DGiL7P9 pic.twitter.com/69gaf5rgEG
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 19, 2018
re: #17 JordanRules
I’m here now with #American #patriots protesting #Trump #PutinsPoodle #PutinsPuppet! #OccupyLafayettePark #OccupyLafayetteSquare pic.twitter.com/0KmaALT4DW
— Dog Pundit (@DogPundit) July 19, 2018
#ConfrontCorruption Times Square continued… pic.twitter.com/gH08c6imFg
— Jeff Mayers (@TimeLordJeff) July 19, 2018
re: #22 BeachDem
This portion of his CBS interview is mind-boggling. He contradicts himself within a sentence.
“I will tell you, though, it better not be. It better not be,” Trump said, appearing to not believe the definitive truth outlined by Coats and others.
I don’t know if everyone remembers when they found out their parents weren’t perfect, but the one thing Trump doesn’t want to find out is that strong men would lie to him. How would he trust his father’s teachings if this were true?
re: #21 Belafon
If you go to his timeline, his banner is a Hey, Arnold pic. My middle son just discovered the show.
Some of the kids at my sisters daycare watch it obsessively but I haven’t absorbed any of it yet like I have some of the other shows.
this is a ridiculous and counterfactual take that rejects 120 years of judicial precedent in support of a radical position favored by white nationalists pic.twitter.com/mNyiFyVXQS
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) July 19, 2018
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Birthright citizenship fosters patriotism. My grandaunts and uncles were mostly birthright citizens. All but two of the men served in WWII.
re: #23 sagehen
Reminder: Michael Flynn was going to send Gulen to Turkey because Erdogan wanted to scapegoat him for the almost-coup.
And some of Erdogen’s bodyguards assaulted Americans on American soil. Our ALLY Germany said those bodyguards aren’t even allowed in their country any longer.
New York governor opens door to criminal case against Trump Foundation https://t.co/7S8F8wdagf pic.twitter.com/4xP3MZWXha
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, but the state attorney general’s office said it had not determined that a criminal referral was warranted.
“At Governor Cuomo’s direction, the state stands ready to provide the (New York) Attorney General with the appropriate criminal referral on this matter if and when she asks for it,” Alphonso David, the governor’s counsel, said in a statement.
The state’s attorney general, Barbara Underwood, filed a civil lawsuit against President Donald Trump, three of his children and his foundation in June, saying Trump had illegally used the nonprofit as a personal “checkbook” for his own benefit, including his 2016 presidential campaign.
Underwood would need a criminal referral to file a criminal suit.
“We continue to evaluate the evidence to determine what additional actions may be warranted, and will seek a criminal referral from the appropriate state agency as necessary,” Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for Underwood, said in a statement.
House of Representatives has passed two bills in recent weeks that seek to stop the IRS from simplifying the tax-filing process https://t.co/5Q3vVJ0kE9
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 19, 2018
Every now and then I reflect on something Obama said: “we will respond in a time and place of our choosing.” I wonder if Russia seriously disrupted air traffic control or energy grids would we be able to quickly create chaos in Russia? Sounds like it.
Reminder:
Now H-47 on the Rachel coup. Somebody bring some good bbq sandwiches, please.
re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What the… What the FUCK?!?
NYT got dragged for publishing a soft-touch profile of an outgoing white-nationalist Trump adviser and WaPo hold-my-beer’d the Times by handing over its platform to him to write specious, Steve King-like garbage. pic.twitter.com/BxvZxCPb0B
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 19, 2018
re: #23 sagehen
Reminder: Michael Flynn was going to
send Gulen to[correction:] make black ops arrangements to kidnap and covertly send Gulen to Turkey because Erdogan wanted to scapegoat him for the almost-coup.
My take on it.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh, so it’s THAT guy. Also, counter-proposition: Citizenship shouldn’t be a birthright? Fine. Let’s round up all the Nazis and kick their asses back to Germany or wherever the fuck they claim to be from. Have a taste of your own medicine for once, fuckfaces.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
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All I had to see was Hillsdale College and my eyes crossed. But I’m going to slog through it. Back when I’ve read it/set my hair on fire.
re: #41 BeachDem
All I had to see was Hillsdale College and my eyes crossed. But I’m going to slog through it. Back when I’ve read it/set my hair on fire.
Everybody duck, a flaming desk will be flipping through here in 3…2…1…
The last 48 hrs in a nutshell: “Trump’s performances in Europe, and now in Washington, clarified nothing. They only raised dark suspicions and aroused the sickening feeling that we are living in the pages of the most lurid espionage novel ever written.” Remnick, New Yorker 7/18
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) July 19, 2018
re: #37 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Reminder:
Now H-47 on the Rachel coup. Somebody bring some good bbq sandwiches, please.
Our units in IMW I (inner mountain west I sector) have been busy putting out real fires. I keep trying to boost morale with the troops but they laugh at me as none of them watch Rachel Maddow, they’re too busy trying to save their houses from forest fires I guess. Bunch of cowards!
re: #41 BeachDem
All I had to see was Hillsdale College and my eyes crossed. But I’m going to slog through it. Back when I’ve read it/set my hair on fire.
Mr. C. somehow got on Hillsdale College’s mailing list years ago and they are still wasting trees and their money sending him a newsletter. Mercifully it is less frequent than it was several years ago.
The wiretaps feature conversations between Alexander Torshin and Alexander Romanov, a convicted Russian money launderer. https://t.co/VIxjy9gIx0 via @HuffPostPol
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
Also this article from Facebook
dakotafreepress.com
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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And we now live in a world where there’s a chance Trump may have revealed these intel sources to Putin, personally, behind closed doors https://t.co/l1SWH012Hu pic.twitter.com/BmP321kDhm
— Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) July 19, 2018
Shit’s all the way crazy now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2018
re: #49 Charles Johnson
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The fan is somewhere in the rear-view mirror and yet the shit is still finding its way there.
umm, what’s this phone call which absolutely never happened? https://t.co/JK591ybVln pic.twitter.com/Hn5jpmojRm
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 19, 2018
I’m to the north of this.
The #lakechristinefire is still burning above #Basalt Colorado. This #pyrocumulous cloud 5 min ago. @9news @TheAspenTimes @ColoradoSun pic.twitter.com/wh6U9amZ72
— chris davenport (@SteepSkiing) July 19, 2018
Just heard about the NY Times report.
Is this as big as I think it is? Or is it going to boil down to “Yeah, Trump is just lying but no biggie MAGA!!!”?
Text to me from former FBI Counterintelligence Special Agent (who voted for Trump and retired a million years ago): “When are you going to say it on air: ‘He’s a controlled asset of the Russian government.’”
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 19, 2018
Widely reported to be Paul Erickson https://t.co/Gy34YW6yRh
— Dr. Melissa Nelson (@mgnelsonwrites) July 19, 2018
We are not not living in a simulation pic.twitter.com/CV5aDNSWyJ
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
re: #36 Barefoot Grin
Every now and then I reflect on something Obama said: “we will respond in a time and place of our choosing.” I wonder if Russia seriously disrupted air traffic control or energy grids would we be able to quickly create chaos in Russia? Sounds like it.
In the time of trump - no - he would have removed any safeguards President Obama put in place.
re: #36 Barefoot Grin
Every now and then I reflect on something Obama said: “we will respond in a time and place of our choosing.” I wonder if Russia seriously disrupted air traffic control or energy grids would we be able to quickly create chaos in Russia? Sounds like it.
Nope. You can count on Trump having dismantled it.
re: #25 JordanRules
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#OccupyLafayettePark #ConfrontCorruption pic.twitter.com/83QUFCFK5T
— Andie Wyatt 🦉 (@WyattAndie) July 19, 2018
A MAGAt dudebro came up to the crowd at #OccupyLafayettePark and shouted “I luv yooo Donald Trump,” and some lovely genius in the crowd started a chant of “BLESS YOUR HEART! BLESS YOUR HEART!” 💖
— Andie Wyatt 🦉 (@WyattAndie) July 19, 2018
re: #42 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Everybody duck, a flaming desk will be flipping through here in 3…2…1…
It was almost too idiotic to cause a desk flip. Basically, his argument is the 14th amendment means what he says it means because reasons and therefore:
Why shouldn’t the president act to defend the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment? Judges faithful to their oaths will have no choice but to agree with him. Birthright citizenship was a mistake whose time has gone.
Talk about believing your own press.
re: #46 calochortus
Mr. C. somehow got on Hillsdale College’s mailing list years ago and they are still wasting trees and their money sending him a newsletter. Mercifully it is less frequent than it was several years ago.
I got their crap for awhile—good eye-rolling exercise. Haven’t received any lately. Maybe (please dog) they’re running low on money.
re: #59 BeachDem
It was almost too idiotic to cause a desk flip. Basically, his argument is the 14th amendment means what he says it means because reasons and therefore:
Why shouldn’t the president act to defend the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment? Judges faithful to their oaths will have no choice but to agree with him. Birthright citizenship was a mistake whose time has gone.
Talk about believing your own press.
Except the 14th explicitly calls out citizenship as a birthright, so… Um?
Also, I found it amusing on re-reading the amendment that it is very explicit that people within US jurisdiction, regardless of citizenship status, have equal protection under the law.
A woman in a craft group I’m in made a living room for her lizard and it’s legit the best thing pic.twitter.com/nJBgCqWavK
— edgar allen hoe🖤✨ (@its_britney) July 17, 2018
re: #59 BeachDem
It was almost too idiotic to cause a desk flip. Basically, his argument is the 14th amendment means what he says it means because reasons and therefore:
Why shouldn’t the president act to defend the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment? Judges faithful to their oaths will have no choice but to agree with him. Birthright citizenship was a mistake whose time has gone.
Talk about believing your own press.
If it was a “mistake whose time has gone” then it seems to me that is an admission that it is part of the Constitution and will take another amendment, not a judge, to get rid of it.
These Are Not Very Bright Guys, And Things Got Out Of Hand https://t.co/0zWTcdGJgO
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
Michael Anton argues against Birthright Citizenship, I wonder what his position is on Birthwhite Citizenship is.
re: #64 sauceruney
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is that the lady whose husband mysteriously turned into a lizard?
littlegreenfootballs.com
re: #55 gocart mozart
Mistress Honeypot. Dominatrix to the NRA.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
re: #52 teleskiguy
Here’s a pic taken on my iPhone 4S from my deck.
I can see that in Gypsum. pic.twitter.com/WgKqHrNVKo
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 19, 2018
Whew. Laurence and panel on this breaking NYT story… it’s a lot.
re: #51 gocart mozart
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Fascinating from @SangerNYT on the intelligence Trump was shown about Putin’s reported role in the election operation: https://t.co/LbMn2orjSk pic.twitter.com/0F9p7Q9JSb
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2018
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
is that the lady whose husband mysteriously turned into a lizard?
littlegreenfootballs.com
That thread just illustrates how shallow right-wingers are. Love is more than being physically compatible with your partner. It’s about caring for another person even above yourself.
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
she’s wearing pistol stilettos, isn’t she?
Dana, move over—there’s a meaner pistol-packin’ mama in town.
Next-level Google bomb: Search Idiot, Get Trump
When you type the word “idiot” into Google’s image search, Trump is the first returned result. This is partly because the Green Day song American Idiot was used by protesters to soundtrack his trip to London. But since then there’s also been a concerted campaign to capitalize on that association, and manipulate Google’s algorithm, by linking the word to the picture. Mostly this involved people upvoting a post containing a photo of him and the word “idiot” on Reddit.
As someone who was part of the original Google Bomb - the ‘miserable failure’ during the W administration - I approve this message.
Oh, and this happened.
Ted Nugent bars guns from his concert in last-minute switch https://t.co/idsT0zzPmc pic.twitter.com/4wN9pYfRrD
— The Hill (@thehill) July 18, 2018
Cuck. https://t.co/NKhcVUtFey
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 18, 2018
re: #78 teleskiguy
Oh, and this happened.
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Aww, what’s the matter, Nuge? You can dish it out, but you can’t take it? Hypocrite.
Fear, Uncertainty Persist In Del Valle Immigrant Community After Deportations
Residents of the Stony Point neighborhood are still reeling after the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Department turned roughly a dozen members of the community over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) late last month.
Worth noting: Bastrop was ground zero for the Jade Helm insanity, including these loathesome tools:
It takes a special kind of asshole to lie about the Queen of England. https://t.co/raaALvmtm8
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) July 19, 2018
re: #78 teleskiguy
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But I thought gun free zones were for pussy libtards, Ted? What’s the matter? Scared? Oh and Ted, no one would want to kill you. You’re not worth the shit that you shat yourself to get out of Nam.
OH LOOK FAKE NEWS ON CNN
“This idea that Donald Trump is somehow a Russian agent — this is the birtherism of the left,” says Steve Cortes, former president of the Trump Hispanic Advisory Council pic.twitter.com/9j515AOH9u
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) July 19, 2018
A fence can’t stop my two-year-old from playing with his new best friend. pic.twitter.com/9QBuaq4Ee2
— Chad Nelson (@CMNelsonPhoto) July 18, 2018
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
I think the distinction is whether he’s an active Russian agent or just a complete fucking idiot who is useful to the Motherland for a season. But comparing it to Birtherism? It’s incontrovertible fact that Trump has disclosed privileged information to Russia. There are no facts in Birtherism at all.
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
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Pretty rich Steve considering your pal Trump engaged in Birtherism for years. Oh and unlike the birtherism, there’s actually evidence of Trump acting like an agent. So why don’t you go fuck yourself, you pathetic Trump fellating hack who contributes nothing to any conversation except Donald Trump can do no wrong and he is my lord and savior and I will excuse anything he does because I’m a pathetic bigot man baby like him.
re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I think the distinction is whether he’s an active Russian agent or just a complete fucking idiot who is useful to the Motherland for a season. But comparing it to Birtherism? It’s incontrovertible fact that Trump has disclosed privileged information to Russia. There are no facts in Birtherism at all.
It’s also pretty damn funny since Trump was King Birther. This is kind of like when they complain about McCarthyism after having loved the original version.
Powerful resignation letter of Elizabeth Holtzman from Homeland Security Committee. Drafter of Refugee Act of 1980. #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/1K8XWu5npF
— Ian Wagreich (@IanDWagreich) July 18, 2018
If there is an expert on whether the Administration us breaking the law, it would be Congresswoman Holtzman (that’s a hint, reporters). https://t.co/HZGOWdNttd
— (((Greg Siskind))) (@gsiskind) July 19, 2018
re: #79 Skip Intro
And the GOP does nothing.
They haven’t had the chance to truly fuck up America enough yet.
They’re Russian paymasters are not yet satisfied.
And never will be.
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
Has Steve Cortes ever been anything but a hack? I don’t know why they bring him on.
re: #91 MsJ
They haven’t had the chance to truly fuck up America enough yet.
They’re Russian paymasters are not yet satisfied.
And never will be.
Somewhere in the back of my head, I still think of the GOP as just being desperate to maintain their own power just for their own sake. It is slowly coming into focus that the GOP is desperate to maintain their power in order to save their skins from getting separated from the rest of their bodies when their treasonous actions are adjudicated.
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
OH LOOK FAKE NEWS ON CNN
Found this:
Pro-Trump pundit Steve Cortes says he went “to CNN partly at the suggestion of the White House itself and the president himself”
May 24, 2018 1:50 PM EDT ERIC HANANOKI
(Hoping I won’t regret the tracking# or whatever it is at the end of the URL)
Please read my statement on the Oath Keepers’ planned protest at my district office tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/1ZALWLaZJS
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) July 19, 2018
.@MalcolmNance is calling for everyone to vote early so we can have a massive mobilization - a #MarchToSaveDemocracy - November 3, 2018, right now on @StephMillerShow. Steph suggested @MarchForTruth17, @womensmarch & #MarchForOurLives all join forces for.
This needs to happen.— 🇺🇸 Jack Snow❄️ #FightForDemocracy (@jacksnowknows) July 18, 2018
America You need to vote like your life depends on it … it likely will. #SaveDemocracy https://t.co/EQnKYMEfqi
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 18, 2018
re: #92 jaunte
Has Steve Cortes ever been anything but a hack? I don’t know why they bring him on.
Seriously. He’s like that one guy whose name escapes me at the moment that they used to have who did nothing but suck Trump off.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
That makes me nervous in the current environment.
Superhero at #ConfrontCorruption #ConfrontCorruptionNYC: I got to tell Patricia Okoumou,who climbed Statue of Liberty to protest Trump’s Nazi-like immigration cruelty, my mother’s first sight of US was the Statue of Liberty when she came here as a little girl #WhereAreTheChildren pic.twitter.com/FlD3zIqVPx
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) July 19, 2018
#ConfrontCorruption crowd so far at #TimesSquare 🙌🏽 pic.twitter.com/P41z3QLaNF
— Anu (@jobuna) July 19, 2018
Woodstock VA turns out 65 people and scores of neighbors honking in support. #ConfrontCorruption pic.twitter.com/zZsw1KFdvb
— LA (@TBNorthFork) July 19, 2018
Gathering for #ConfrontCorruption vigil in Syracuse pic.twitter.com/4oL7GfatWR
— Indivisible NY 24th (@IndivisibleNY24) July 19, 2018
Proud to join the crowd tonight as we demand accountability of the Trump Administration. #ConfrontCorruption #DemandDemocracy pic.twitter.com/blhQZYwap5
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) July 19, 2018
re: #96 Joe Bacon 🌹
America You need to vote like your everyone’s life depends on it
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Except the 14th explicitly calls out citizenship as a birthright, so… Um?
Also, I found it amusing on re-reading the amendment that it is very explicit that people within US jurisdiction, regardless of citizenship status, have equal protection under the law.
Oh, he has some plump circular logic for that—(let me Anton-splain it). He says that it means “not owing allegiance to anybody else” — that is, to no other country or tribe. Then goes on to DECLARE that:
for decades, U.S. officials — led by immigration enthusiasts in and out of government — have acted as though “subject to the jurisdiction” simply means “subject to American law.” That is true of any tourist who comes here.
But he KNOWS better, don’t ya know and states declaratively:
The framers of the 14th Amendment added the jurisdiction clause precisely to distinguish between people to whom the United States owes citizenship and those to whom it does not. Freed slaves definitely qualified. The children of immigrants who came here illegally clearly don’t.
Well, he’s a little loose with his “framers” as he’s citing Jacob Howard and claims that Trumbull agreed (that’s who he attributes the “subject to the jurisdiction” as “not owing allegiance to anybody else” explanation.)
However, in the real world—concerning the children born in the United States to parents who are not U.S. citizens (and not foreign diplomats), three senators, including Trumbull, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no senator offered a contrary opinion.
Edited so that last block doesn’t look like it was part of his ridiculous article.
re: #65 calochortus
If it was a “mistake whose time has gone” then it seems to me that is an admission that it is part of the Constitution and will take another amendment, not a judge, to get rid of it.
Ah, but in his warped little mind, if those hippies in Congress don’t want to deal with it:
An executive order could specify to federal agencies that the children of noncitizens are not citizens.
Easy peasy.
re: #101 BeachDem
Wow. For a strict Constitutional originalist, that is some USDA Grade A Top Choice bullshit logic. Can’t they ever just read the plain language, like they do with the Second Amendment?
re: #102 BeachDem
Ah, but in his warped little mind, if those hippies in Congress don’t want to deal with it:
An executive order could specify to federal agencies that the children of noncitizens are not citizens.
Easy peasy.
So he’s a strict constructionist? Except when it comes to “those people?”
re: #67 BlueSpotinAL
Michael Anton argues against Birthright Citizenship, I wonder what his position is on Birthwhite Citizenship is.
Well, when he talks about birth tourism, interestingly he mentions the Chinese but not a word about the Russians, so…
re: #99 JordanRules
#ConfrontCorruption West Palm Beach pic.twitter.com/Sq7GHGVbvK
— Patricia Moore (@czarina57) July 19, 2018
#ConfrontCorruption #ConfrontCorruptionNYC
“The people are sick! The people are tired! We the people say you are fired!” pic.twitter.com/jwxKkekgV5— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) July 19, 2018
Really large crowd here in Doylestown as we #confrontcorruption and #DemandDemocracy pic.twitter.com/CKSLErB00Z
— 🌊🌊Karen Breeding (@karen_breeding) July 19, 2018
Strong turnout at the Dallas #ConfrontCorruption #DemandDemocracy protest this evening. pic.twitter.com/tCGxLwFkwZ
— Greg Andrews 🇺🇸 (@gregandrews06) July 19, 2018
re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wow. For a strict Constitutional originalist, that is some USDA Grade A Top Choice bullshit logic. Can’t they ever just read the plain language, like they do with the Second Amendment?
Apparently not, for they always seem to miss that bit about the well regulated Militia.
re: #101 BeachDem
Anton-splain just sent me over. So good.
ROFL!
— Effin’ Birds (@EffinBirds) July 19, 2018
re: #12 teleskiguy
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I heard about this on the BBC yesterday. I cannot claim to be anything of an expert on Turkey, but the prosecutor is accusing Brunson of colluding with both the Kurds and Fethullah Gulen. I know enough to know that’s just completely daft.
My description of @realDonaldTrump as a Kremlin asset & traitor vindicated by @NYTimes report DT was shown emails, other proof on 6Jan17 that Putin personally led elections interference. Trump’s every “witch hunt” remark was a criminal lie; accessory after the fact.
— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) July 19, 2018
re: #107 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently not, for they always seem to miss that bit about the well regulated Militia.
They read all sorts of phantom shit that no one else can see in there: like “self-protection” or individual gun ownership. Absolutely all the real sentence says is that “the People” (collectively—not “every man”) need to “keep and bear arms” for the Security of the State.
I have just been reassured unequivocally by the White House legislative team that the President’s ‘no’ response today to shouted questions was not intended to suggest that President Trump doubts the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia is continuing to attack….
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 18, 2018
Haha! Poker night at Lindsey’s place! https://t.co/G4ufPQTmA8
— David Waldman, LLC (@KagroX) July 18, 2018
re: #113 jaunte
Republicans: unfortunately there’s nothing we can do, he’s the president and there’s just absolutely nothing we can do about any of this
re: #115 Single-handed sailor
Aw, poor Lindsay.
He goes on Pogo to play bridge and he’s too scared to bid No Trump!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) July 19, 2018
There should be an investigation to see if anyone in the Trump administration has any ties to America.
— Matthew Modine (@MatthewModine) July 18, 2018
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
Lindsey Graham is such a fucking hack.
One of Sullivan’s better observations was that Graham is basically Butters from South Park as a US Senator. Trump is now his Cartman
My brother will be dropping by shortly. With wine. I wonder what we’ll find to talk about…
re: #110 mmmirele
I heard about this on the BBC yesterday. I cannot claim to be anything of an expert on Turkey, but the prosecutor is accusing Brunson of colluding with both the Kurds and Fethullah Gulen. I know enough to know that’s just completely daft.
Ah, here you are. In case you didn’t see this—Rebecca at Wonkette, has had a bit of a kerfuffle with the Scientologists. Thought you’d appreciate it:
Please Don’t Kidnap, Beat, Harass Or Stalk Us, Church Of Scientology!
re: #115 Single-handed sailor
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Wow, Lindsey’s outrage/concern didn’t last long now that he’s been reassured unequivocally. He must have a golf date upcoming. My senator—I’m just so fucking proud.
I’d speculate the intel sources here reasonably concluded that Trump has already burned their sources and methods to Putin.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 19, 2018
No one in a position to be the source for the NYT’s reporting tonight would have burned a sourced close to Putin. The only reason that detail would be included is because Trump, who was briefed in Jan 2017, burned the source to Russia just like he burned Israeli intelligence. https://t.co/93jKCXqjGn
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 19, 2018
Doofus is getting people killed.
re: #122 KGxvi
One of Sullivan’s better observations was that Graham is basically Butters from South Park as a US Senator. Trump is now his Cartman
Trump as Cartman. Yeah, that seems about right.
Russian Spy Suspect Was Infiltrating Christian Right As Well As Gun Groups https://t.co/RJkXbhHhFI via @intelligencer
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
If Russia assists MAGA Candidates on the internet in this year’s midterms, that’s not the end of the world
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) July 18, 2018
Mark my words. When all this is over, @JacobAWohl will claim he was running a parody account the whole time. https://t.co/AhPPG2mbMS
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 19, 2018
WE GOT A NEW SIGN TONIGHT #OccupyLafayettePark @AdamParkhomenko pic.twitter.com/KrUJB1oKxS
— Ian Mellul (@IanMellul) July 19, 2018
The wheels are coming off the Trump Train.
After fucking over G7 and NATO, giving Putin a public knob-polishing on international TV, and trying to buy it back with a half-assed ‘clarification,’ people are starting to pay attention.
And that NYT story, along with the Mueller indictments and the arrest of the gunnypot, suggest that the intelligence community has finally had enough and have taken off the gloves.
This presidency is about to burn down to the water line. I’ll be happy to watch.
You’re fucked, Trump. Enjoy what’s left of your presidency.
The day Trump was briefed on Russia. pic.twitter.com/I6uUP3DtzH
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 19, 2018
1/4. Tonight, we’ll honor the survivors of Larry Nassar’s horrors with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the ESPYs. We have many of them here with us and I want to share two things (amongst many) we’ve done to take a trauma-informed approach to their care…
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) July 18, 2018
2/4 First, we have the wonderful, dedicated crisis counselors from @PeaceOvrViolnce with us for the duration. They provide comprehensive services in LA for victims of sexual andninterpersonal violence. We are grateful to them for helping us. pic.twitter.com/ECqGSkrvzo
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) July 18, 2018
3/4 Second, we have the most adorable and snuggly therapy dogs from @BARKreadingdogs to provide comfort and support. Meet Charlie and Teddy Bear. pic.twitter.com/lRNHv96Rss
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) July 18, 2018
Also, these fluff muffins 😍 pic.twitter.com/EnCTfrYBqz
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) July 18, 2018
Tonight’s Ashe Award will be powerful, moving and difficult for many people on stage, in the audience and at home. I want you to know I am thinking of you, we are thinking of you and the 24/7 confidential National Sexual Assault hotline is available to you anytime: 800-656-HOPE
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ATL) July 18, 2018
These women. Sister survivors. Arthur Ashe Courage Award. #ESPYS2018 pic.twitter.com/ISRUwbzRZG
— Amy Phillips (@Amy_ESPNPR) July 19, 2018
The past 20 minutes of the ESPYs has been incredibly powerful, riveting. https://t.co/az5ZDdieDt
— John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) July 19, 2018
I like making shitty puns that reference the internet. It’s my one wikiness.
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) July 18, 2018
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 19, 2018
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
“Russian collusion is as stupid as birtherism”, says man who voted for a birther to be president.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 19, 2018
re: #129 Ace-o-aces
Well this seems like something the @FBI would be interested in, given Jacob’s associations. Maybe they’ll consider dropping by for a little chat.
— Grail Elf (@GrailElf) July 18, 2018
Jacob Wohl is trying to get hauled in by the FBI out of sheer loneliness https://t.co/F2AfJ86gju
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 19, 2018
Key to a conspiracy to obstruct justice is the date by which the gov’t can prove defs *knew* an official proceeding was pending/foreseeable. In #TrumpRussia, the date is no later, but cd be earlier, than 1/13/17, when Senate Intel announced its investigation into RU interference.
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) June 5, 2018
Based on the NYT piece about Trump’s briefing, we can say, without doubt, that Trump knew an official proceeding was pending/foreseeable w/regard to TrumpRussia, as of 1/6/17. This would be the latest start date for a conspiracy to obstruct justice. (Maybe earlier, @jedshug) https://t.co/bLHUL4xniO
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) July 19, 2018
Criming while POTUS
8/ Nixon’s articles of impeachment approved by House committee: Lying to public as part of cover-up is a high crime and misdemeanor.
High crimes are not limited to crimes in the statutes. They include abuses of the office and the public trust.
But of course, obstruction, too.— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) July 19, 2018
I met a 16 year old today that is pregnant in the same prison where her mom was pregnant with her.
The system is failing millions of young people across this great nation.
We need to promote women’s education, stop building more prisons and start funding new schools.— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 19, 2018
re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg
How about this?
J. Strauss - The Blue Danube Waltz (Chicken Version) pic.twitter.com/6TwPGO81R9
— TwoSet Violin (@TwoSetViolin) April 19, 2018
Fancy a chicken-violin duet? https://t.co/wa9SYZ1Ww4
— TwoSet Violin (@TwoSetViolin) July 17, 2018
re: #138 jaunte
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Hercules Mulligan!
A tailor spyin’ on the British government!
I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it
To my brother’s revolutionary covenant
I’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin’ it!
See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians
We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it!
Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction
When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!
This all just feels so surreal. We all saw what Trump said. He clearly took Putin’s side. You’d have to be a fool or compromised as hell not to see that.
re: #128 gocart mozart
That article is fucking whacked.
I was thinking how proud I was to serve in the Air Force and as a cop. Today, I feel like I am in a different country. We have a traitor as our president. We have military leaders who are silent in the face of that treason, we have a corrupt complicit Congress. WTF
— American Veteran (@amvetsupport) July 19, 2018
re: #144 jaunte
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We have people who love that Putin interfered because they hate liberals more than they love our country.
Mark my words, eventually the right will admit that Trump and co conspired with Putin but it didn’t matter because HRC needed to be stopped.
Jamison Foser:
“Nobody chooses extinction, and Republicans didn’t.
They chose another path: to destroy democracy and to seek minority rule.”
“as a matter of philosophy if you can’t say something you can’t think it and the fact a lot of what [Trump] says comes out in confused language indicates there is confusion straight through.” - @GeorgeWillhttps://t.co/zIwjPgY1K0
— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) July 19, 2018
The idea behind “integrity” is that you are “integrated” (whole), i.e., your thoughts, words, and actions are aligned.
The President does not have integrity. https://t.co/XeJJzxfPUj— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 19, 2018
One of the other Americans Putin asked for in his quid pro quo with Trump in Helsinki in connection to the 12 GRU agents was Kyle Parker. @kyleparkernet is the congressional staffer who single handedly drafted the Magnitsky Act that Putin hates so much pic.twitter.com/ao4QSDSHHX
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) July 18, 2018
US congressional aides being put on a Kremlin legal hit list … and the White House seemingly willing to play along. Sickening. https://t.co/YQKkoYhvsF
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 19, 2018
Trump is a piece of shit.
re: #147 jaunte
Jamison Foser:
“Nobody chooses extinction, and Republicans didn’t.
They chose another path: to destroy democracy and to seek minority rule.”
Yep. And it honestly goes back if you ask me to that shify little meeting that Ryan, McCarthy, and Cantor had the day Obama became President along with McConnell’s promise to make Obama a one termer. McConnell will be remembered as he wishes but not for the reasons he hopes. He’ll be remembered as an unethical scumbag who subverted democracy to protect his pathetic party from dying out. The GOP needs to die a painful death. Every last Republican needs to be tarnished with this just as Democrats from the Civil War era were.
re: #149 jaunte
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When do we find out about people like this being poisoned? It’s already happened in the UK.
Huh. Ted Nugent, @NRA Board member and gun extremist, doesn’t actually believe armed civilians make him safer: “Given the things that have happened in nightclubs like Pulse, his security people are taking extra precautions.” https://t.co/KBFyNnQaL9
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 18, 2018
You know, I haven’t seen any pictures of Ted with Maria Butina. Guess there are some things even Putin couldn’t make her do.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 19, 2018
While Paul was on 2007 campaign trail, Klaus was awarded Medal of Pushkin, one of Russia’s highest cultural honors. Daniel McAdams, executive director of Ron Paul Institute and RT columnist, has also appeared on RT to deny 2016 Russian election meddling. https://t.co/XmR0zlKTek
— Smith (@WriteSmitty) July 15, 2018
Let’s not forget when RT was fundraising for Congressman Ron Paul on the air in 2011: https://t.co/N4A1Zd3zeE
— Wouter van der Horst (@DerWouter) July 15, 2018
re: #152 Ace-o-aces
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She’d do anything for Mother Russia but she wouldn’t do that. // Sorry I know that’s Meat Loaf.
re: #153 JordanRules
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Ron Paul has always had stinky friends so why not. And I’m expecting it to come out that the Kremlin helped Kucinich too and that one will hurt a little since in 2004 I was a supporter of his but Putin has always been masterful at playing all sides of the divide. It’s something I’m grateful that the Soviets didn’t do in the Cold War successfully.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
Mark my words, eventually the right will admit that Trump and co conspired with Putin but it didn’t matter because HRC needed to be stopped.
They were saying that 2 days ago on Hot Air and Free Republic.
re: #156 Single-handed sailor
They were saying that 2 days ago on Hot Air and Free Republic.
Not surprised but I should have clarified. I meant pundits like Hannity. These sons of bitches hate us that much that they’d do that.
re: #142 HappyWarrior
This all just feels so surreal. We all saw what Trump said. He clearly took Putin’s side. You’d have to be a fool or compromised as hell not to see that.
Trump supporters (not those in Congress) are brainwashed fanatics, blind to the truth. It doesn’t matter what evidence you may present, they will reject it. They only see what they are trained to see.
OTOH those in Congress are all traitors, either cowards or compromised.
I think the GOP was devastated at losing the 2008 election to Obama. They knew that Obama’s election was going to bring about a new era for this country so they did everything possible to sabotage him including take him from Putin to attack him. It’s not a coincidence at all to me that Bulina was deeply connected with the parts of the right that have spoken the most glowingly about Putin the past decade. And I’m sure there are other men and women like her in right wing circles.
re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump supporters (not those in Congress) are brainwashed fanatics, blind to the truth. It doesn’t matter what evidence you may present, they will reject it. They only see what they are trained to see.
OTOH those in Congress are all traitors, either cowards or compromised.
Graham isn’t a fanatic. He’s complicit in this mess.
Thread.
I’ve always had faith that our democracy would apply something like Newton’s Third Law to Trump.
An equal but opposite reaction.
Trump committed treason in Helsinki.
Now the machinery of patriotism is biting back.
Things are accelerating. https://t.co/7UN4nyMQSY— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 19, 2018
re: #160 HappyWarrior
Graham isn’t a fanatic. He’s complicit in this mess.
Oh, I’m sure Putin has some very naughty Kompromat on Miss Lindsay!
re: #162 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh, I’m sure Putin has some very naughty Kompromat on Miss Lindsay!
It must be new imo.
I am the Keymaster … Are you the Gatekeeper? pic.twitter.com/JCFsfXmBKM
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) July 19, 2018
re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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This is why you don’t have off the record meetings with adversaries.
Later they can make up anything they want and say it happened in that room
Sens. Coons and Flake have introduced a resolution that would:
1. Commend Mueller probe
2. Agree with I.C. assessment on Russian interference
3. Reaffirm that Russia should be held accountable
4. Call for hearings on Helsinki summit
5. Call for implementation of Russia sanctions pic.twitter.com/JT8z1CsZrl— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
Cheating husband Donald Trump found disloyal to entire nation.
re: #149 jaunte
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Trump is a piece of shit.
So is pence who wants his theocracy NOW.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
Graham isn’t a fanatic. He’s complicit in this mess.
Yes — he’s in Congress (broadly defined) — so my second category.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
Yes — he’s in Congress (broadly defined) — so my second category.
True. Man people like him honestly piss me off most.
This thread is insane. Terrifyingly so.
We have to get rid of these machines. Read the whole thread and the supporting articles.
In April, voting machine vendor ES&S (44% US election equipment) admitted in a letter to Sen. Wyden that it “installed REMOTE-ACCESS SOFTWARE on election-management systems it sold over a period of 6 years”! ES&S previously lied about this to the NYT! https://t.co/640pHcY4Pz 1/
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 17, 2018
re: #173 MsJ
“Sen. Ron Johnson (WI), who went to Russia this past July 4 & says we should overlook Russia’s election meddling, had one of the most surprising election wins of 2016 after Russia compromised his state’s election system.” By @jennycohn1 & @patrickLSimpson https://t.co/lkOiL7XSLw
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 13, 2018
“…According to a recent study by Penn Wharton (University of Pennsylvania, just two vendors — Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Dominion Voting — account for about 80% of U.S. election equipment.
re: #176 jaunte
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Feingold was beating him. I know polling isn’t perfect but Johnson is suspicious as hell.
re: #178 jaunte
“…According to a recent study by Penn Wharton (University of Pennsylvania, just two vendors — Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Dominion Voting — account for about 80% of U.S. election equipment. [Embedded content]
What makes me sick is that a) these things were know A DECADE AGO and b) things haven’t changed since then.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
Feingold was beating him. I know polling isn’t perfect but Johnson is suspicious as hell.
Very much so.
re: #181 MsJ
Very much so.
TBH after a lot of the stuff has come out on these guys like Jordan. I think a lot of them are compromised.
Drumpf isn’t syntactically challenged, Mr. Will, he is synaptically challenged. He’s an idiot on numerous levels. He doesn’t understand international trade. He doesn’t understand the basics of economics or commerce.
He certainly doesn’t understand the concept of diplomacy.
He doesn’t understand that, in the most charitable view, he is a Useful Idiot to Putin. Or just a traitor of the US to the Russian Federation. The latter appears more likely, whether he groks it or not.
I’m off to bed. More work in the kitchen upgrade tomorrow, Dog help me. Who knew how many hours it would take to strip, stain, and/or paint 50-year old cabinets and doors?
Fuck me, but it’s one bitch kitty.
Night all. If I’m not involved in a nuclear strike, talk atcha tomorrow.
re: #182 HappyWarrior
TBH after a lot of the stuff has come out on these guys like Jordan. I think a lot of them are compromised.
I’ve said all along that Putin has the Kompromat on Republicans. He never released it because he’s blackmailing them.
We now know what Kompromat Putin has on Jim Jordan. He has sleazier stuff on lots of Republicans.
re: #180 gwangung
What makes me sick is that a) these things were know A DECADE AGO and b) things haven’t changed since then.
In 2014 2015, the governor of Virginia made public a report/study on the (lack of) security of voting machines used in the state, and pushed hard for their replacement. Several other states took similar actions in that timeframe.
Another noteworthy tidbit on @SenMajLdr McConnell & Donald’s 💰 link - in 2013 - 6 months after Donald service-marked MAGA (the week after Mitt lost to Obama). 👇🏼
Whose 💰was it?
Donald was in Moscow 6 months later for Miss Universe.
The fix has been in for a very long time. pic.twitter.com/EOYl5tRg2R— Facts & Truth please (@factbait) July 17, 2018
re: #185 unproven innocence
In 2014, the governor of Virginia made public a report/study on the (lack of) security of voting machines used in the state, and pushed hard for their replacement. Several other states took similar actions in that timeframe.
Yeah we’ve been handprinting our ballots. TBH didn’t know that was a Terry Mac project.
Remember, Jared the Boy Wonder & Flynn wanted to create a backchannel at the Russia embassy so Trump, his team could speak to Kremlin without American IC listening in. Everything is right in front of us.
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) July 18, 2018
re: #176 jaunte
I just sent out another batch of postcards this evening. One to every senator (and the one rep) who went to Russia, and another batch to some of the house oversight committee members.
I’m hoping that the traitors that went to Russia on the Fourth of Fucking July are starting to realize that it may have been a really stupid move. There’s no separation for them now from Trump’s Helsinki shitshow.
I know that the republican legislators are never going to see my postcards. At best, my opinion gets logged in. At worst, I get to rub some staffer the wrong way. I really want to make them feel like a piece of crap.
(edit: My dream response would be a note of thanks from Elijah Cummings. I’m not holding my breath.)
re: #187 HappyWarrior
Year correction and a link added in my #185.
They still can’t say it, even with this story!
From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered - me & @SangerNYT via @NYTimes https://t.co/JvvJyCBeW2
— Matthew Rosenberg (@AllMattNYT) July 19, 2018
This story is about Trump lying blatantly and endlessly.
The New York Times can’t bring themselves to say it. https://t.co/LStQXFePvB— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 19, 2018
re: #193 Single-handed sailor
They still can’t say it, even with this story!
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There’s a distinction between “can’t” and “won’t.” And in this case, it is not that the Gray Lady can’t say it, it’s that she won’t say it because she’s got too much wrapped up in this “palace intrigue” BS. So long as the WH inner court will still return Maggie’s calls, the NYT editorial staff will still insist on treating Donny as “business as usual.”
— Dirty Computer (@Johngcole) July 19, 2018
Breaking: Deal Finalized to Revive Notorious 1,000-Bed Immigrant Detention Facility https://t.co/2bokYbDrf4 by @bova_gus
— The Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) July 18, 2018
Willacy County officials have yet to release the details of the deal, which comes less than two years after the county sued the same company over mismanagement of the facility. https://t.co/FJcC7MQ9pA https://t.co/6RqCHcW6P4
— Kolten Parker (@KoltenParker) July 19, 2018
At this point I am convinced Putin has pictures and/or videos of multiple GOP congressmen having liasons with dudes.
re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg
At this point I am convinced Putin has pictures and/or videos of multiple GOP congressmen having liasons with dudes.
But that presupposes Republicans don’t want to do Putin’s bidding just on general principles.
re: #196 Single-handed sailor
This was posted on a closed anti-Trump page I’m in on Facebook. The creator of the page commented for the first time in many months saying that that was her Facebook timeline.
I told her to disavow all her Fuckface Von Clownstick supporting friends. Haven’t heard back yet.
transfer of power with an open supreme court seat
republicans change rules to fill seat
shady dealings and another supreme court seat opens
im so glad the constitution is a living document that gets to be interpreted by *checks notes* justices appointed by a russian asset.— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) July 19, 2018
re: #176 jaunte
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And here it is:
In the Wisconsin presidential race, Hillary:
won counties with all-paper ballots
Lost by 1-2% counties with a mix of paper-based systems and paperless machines
Lost by10-15% counties with just paperless voting machines
And Johnson? “He had a 36% approval rating in the leadup to the election.”
I think Wisconsin was at the heart of the shenanigans.
re: #203 BeachDem
And here it is:
In the Wisconsin presidential race, Hillary:
won counties with all-paper ballots
Lost by 1-2% counties with a mix of paper-based systems and paperless machines
Lost by10-15% counties with just paperless voting machinesAnd Johnson? “He had a 36% approval rating in the leadup to the election.”
I think Wisconsin was at the heart of the shenanigans.
Yup. I think WI is super important in this.
One more tidbit about Dana Rohrabacher (R-Moscow)
A 2016 documentary by Andrei Nekrasov, The Magnitsky Act—Behind the Scenes, “absolves the Russian government of any responsibility for Magnitsky’s death”…Over Browder’s objections, the Newseum in Washington, D.C. held a screening in June 2016 that was hosted by Seymour Hersh. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)’s office actively promoted the screening, sending out invitations from the office of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, which Rohrabacher chairs.
So maybe China will get a working Hyperloop first.
Hyperloop TT will build a commercial track in China https://t.co/2bspUOxMsa via @engadget
— Bibop G. Gresta (@BibopGGresta) July 19, 2018
Turns out, the test track will not be very far from where I used to live. About 2 hours by (slow) train.
The route itself will be located somewhere in Tongren, a prefecture in eastern Guizhou, and will cover an initial distance of 10 km (6.2 miles). There’s no indication of if the line will connect two significant landmarks or areas, at least not at this early stage. At that short distance, it’s not likely that the tube will be able to reach the speeds that Hyperloop promises, at least on paper.
Foreign companies are obliged to create a Chinese branch and partner with Chinese companies to do business in China. Thereupon China will copy the technology and build Hyperloops all over the damn place, while claiming it was their tech all along.
Ben getting no love
Maybe you disagree with Mark Duplass, which is completely fair (personally I think even Ben Shapiro’s mother should unfollow him). But that doesn’t make Duplass’ point-of-view evil. There are a lot of traitors & racists in the country today. Perhaps save the outrage for them. 1
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 18, 2018
I appreciate the sentiment @jamesgunn, even if you’re as wrong about following me as you were in your directorial decisions in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” ;) https://t.co/eTK1QeI6nr
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 18, 2018
I’ve made many mistakes both on film & off, @benshapiro. As for the asshole thing, I really don’t know who you are other than the guy who once made fun of a high-schooler for using incorrect grammar in a tweet where you yourself used incorrect grammar. So, you know, asshole. https://t.co/vlxDawhwh8
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 18, 2018
Pictures from the rally/vigil tonight in San Francisco.
The crowd looks small (you can’t see most of it and it was early), but they were expecting about 20 people. Funny how treason can build crowds.
I am almost too tired to move, so laters, all.
(Image Compression is the best app for shrinking iPhone photos that is or could ever be. Even people working in their sleep can use it.)
In court today, federal prosecutors submitted a document suggesting Maria Butina was funded by an oligarch close to Putin. So her operation might go all the way to the top of the Kremlin. Big deal.https://t.co/qEgIakvAUS
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 19, 2018
re: #32 HappyWarrior
Birthright citizenship fosters patriotism. My grandaunts and uncles were mostly birthright citizens. All but two of the men served in WWII.
There is one tiny grain of validity in there. Germany grants birthright citizenship (as of 2000) to children born to legal resident parents. There are no Ankerbabys in Deutschland.
Surprise, Surprise. Tomorrow’s @WhiteHouse schedule is out and there’s no “daily” press briefing.
We’ve had FOUR briefings this month.
The arrogance of this cowardly administration, which does not feel it should be accountable to anyone (except maybe Putin) is staggering.— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 19, 2018
re: #203 BeachDem
And here it is:
In the Wisconsin presidential race, Hillary:
won counties with all-paper ballots
Lost by 1-2% counties with a mix of paper-based systems and paperless machines
Lost by10-15% counties with just paperless voting machinesAnd Johnson? “He had a 36% approval rating in the leadup to the election.”
I think Wisconsin was at the heart of the shenanigans.
This is what I have been expecting and looking for. It explains a lot of very strange 2016 election things. I suspect that there will be more leaking out on this as time goes on.
My biggest concern is how much of this is going to happen in the midterms. I note that this would explain why the Republicans are doing everything that they can to ensure it will not be fixed by November.
The window of the Albany County Democratic Committee’s headquarters was riddled by a half-dozen bullets this week. The Committee Chairman said the bullets shattered the window of his office — where he sometimes works late. https://t.co/cjXiY79C3i
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 19, 2018
NRA board member literally said Democrats and libs should be shot like dogs in the street. #NRAgate https://t.co/e4VE3Exwdb
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 19, 2018
The moment @Lawrence reads the breaking news from the NYT to @maddow who immediately understands that if #TrumpKnew about the extent of Putin’s role in #RussianHacking on 1/6/17, he’s been actively engaged in a coverup ever since. pic.twitter.com/YmlVHflzZZ
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) July 19, 2018
Addendum… I know nothing about how elections are conducted in Britain. But since the same underlying actors were there during the Brexit vote, I do wonder.
I’ve been reading Redstate from 2004 because it’s been the place to get a fair sample of what’s the latest in conservative crazy. While it was pretty bad way back when, it’s morphed in to total shithole now. One of their leading dimbulbs, Streiff, uttered this total bullshit (regarding McFaul and diplomatic immunity):
This is the kind of smug elitism that drives me crazy. Just because he was a political appointee in a previous administration and not a terribly competent one, he is no more deserving of protection that that guy standing in line at WalMart in a MAGA hat. Perhaps less so. McFaul is the guy who was the architect of the policy that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. For my money, if the Russians ask to question John Brennan and James Clapper along with him, I’d duct tape all three to seats on the next flight to Moscow…but it isn’t going to happen.
So the short of it is that Streiff is blaming America for Russia invading the Ukraine and annexing the Crimea. Never mind his claim that he’s blaming one of Obama’s ambassadors because what he’s really saying is that it’s Americas fault for the Russians acting like they are. Then he tosses in the grenade that if he had it his way he would be sending Americans citizens to Russia, wrapped in duct tape. The comments are as bad as you expect, pretty much all in agreement that the Russians are better people than the fellow citizens that they refuse to try and get along with. What is mind-blowing is that we’ve reached the point where American citizens are cheering for a foreign power to tip power into their hands so they can have absolute control of our government.
He then goes on to say that McFaul won’t be handed over because he has diplomatic immunity and a variety of other reasons. Based on his statement above, it’s clear that Strieff doesn’t think diplomatic immunity or the variety of other reasons are a good thing. It also shows that he’s as stupid as a rotted stump because he clearly hasn’t thought about the idea that nobody sane would serve as an ambassador if things were his way. Next, Strieff shovels another load of bullshit:
Unfortunately, the exact same facts actually applies to the Russians Mueller has indicted. If McFaul is guilty of a “political crime” or has done something that is not “illegal” in the US, the same applies to the Russian GRU agents. The indictment of the 12 Russian intelligence officers for carrying out their national strategy while staying in their home country is actually more grotesque than the Russians accusing McFaul of being involved in criminal activities while US Ambassador and it exposes members of our own CIA/NSA/DIA cyber-operators to the same lawfare that Mueller has declared on the GRU.
He ends his steaming heap by saying that in the future when our agents are taken captive by Russia, it will be because of Muller’s actions. IOW, once again Strieff blames America. I’m not even going to bother to deconstruct or waste the time to refute the rest of this load of shit, all I can say is that it’s clear that this fuckchop is a full-on Russian sympathizer.
re: #110 mmmirele
I heard about this on the BBC yesterday. I cannot claim to be anything of an expert on Turkey, but the prosecutor is accusing Brunson of colluding with both the Kurds and Fethullah Gulen. I know enough to know that’s just completely daft.
Straight out of the playbook of Andrey Vyshinsky.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just read the Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship of Wong Kim Ark. The decision was 6 to 2 in his favor.
I had read it before but had never read the dissenting Justices opinion. According to these 2 Justices Canadian Cruz would not have been eligible to become President.
In their dissent they said ………………………….
Pointing to the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, an act of Congress which declared to be citizens “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed”, and which was enacted into law only two months before the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress, the dissenters argued that “it is not open to reasonable doubt that the words ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ in the amendment, were used as synonymous with the words ‘and not subject to any foreign power’”.[135][136] In the dissenters’ view, excessive reliance on jus soli (birthplace) as the principal determiner of citizenship would lead to an untenable state of affairs in which “the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay or other race, were eligible to the presidency, while children of our citizens, born abroad, were not.
In 1898 you can bet that these weren’t the only 2 Justices that believed that Natural Born citizen meant persons that were born in the United States.
re: #217 Dr Lizardo
Straight out of the playbook of Andrey Vyshinsky.
Others would say “indict-and-shame” Robert Mueller
Michael McKean retweeted this. Michael McKean is very good at Twitter. Follow if you tweet.
Bluebottle Fly Larva pic.twitter.com/4p1YFuA6iN
— Microscopic Images (@MicroscopePics_) July 18, 2018
re: #207 wheat-dogg
We all make mistakes Ben. Just ask “Friends of Hamas”……
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 19, 2018
To the framers of the Constitution, the notice of passports, immigration authorities and naturalization were not yet any sort of concepts. If you lived here or especially if you were born here, you were a citizen.
Is it really possible Trump could hand over a U.S. Citizen to the Russian government for prosecution and get away with it?
Is this how fucked up we’ve become as a country in 2018?
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it really possible Trump could hand over a U.S. Citizen to the Russian government for prosecution and get away with it?
Is this how fucked up we’ve become as a country in 2018?
AFAIK, there is no extradition treaty between US and Russia, so it would take a very special and malicious act to do so.
2011: Bolton appointed to @NRA international affairs subcommittee; Butina forms Right to Bear Arms in Russia
2013: Bolton works with Butina on gun rights video
2015: NRA delegation travels to meet Butina in Moscow
2016: Butina arrives in US on student visahttps://t.co/4SfJbq0FoX— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 18, 2018
re: #167 MsJ
How about they introduce a resolution to impeach the president for working for a foreign power
re: #225 JordanRules
2011: Bolton appointed to @NRA international affairs subcommittee; Butina forms Right to Bear Arms in Russia
2013: Bolton works with Butina on gun rights video
2015: NRA delegation travels to meet Butina in Moscow
2016: Butina arrives in US on student visahttps://
Gettin’ some Bolt-action?
re: #180 gwangung
What makes me sick is that a) these things were know A DECADE AGO and b) things haven’t changed since then.
Is there another country in the world that uses other than paper ballots?
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
SPOILER THAT WON”T YOU!!!
I’ll never get that image out of my head now.
CBS News is captained by idiots.
If I were in charge, I would have instructed the interviewer to say something like, “yesterday, you said other states might be involved in the hack. Please tell us more.”
With someone like Trump, you can’t rub their noses in their poop. On the contrary you have to draw all their insane ideas out of them. (e.g. Captain Queeg in THE CAINE MUTINY.)
re: #215 ckkatz
Addendum… I know nothing about how elections are conducted in Britain. But since the same underlying actors were there during the Brexit vote, I do wonder.
The only real difference is that in Britain they actually got a majority to go along with the stupid shit and didn’t need an electoral college to override the popular vote. Looking for some scenario where votes were changed isn’t going to help primarily because it never should’ve even been close. The ugly fact is that we are just surrounded by monsters.
re: #188 jaunte
I am reminded of Pruitt’s sound proof phone booth - wonder if his resignation had anything to do with the russian spy lady?
Just mentioning it in passing - one never knows.
I walked to the big supermarket and back just now, a two-block walk each way. It is 38°/100°F outside. It was like walking through an oven. Oofda!
re: #228 fern01
Is there another country in the world that uses other than paper ballots?
Estonia. Essentially all Most voting is on-line, secured by personal IDs along with Public Key Crypto. Electronic voting in Estonia
re: #228 fern01
Is there another country in the world that uses other than paper ballots?
Not Australia.
Realising everyday how lucky it is that we have compulsory voting, preferential voting and a fully independent electoral system that ensures safe and above reproach voting uniformity across the country.
Hopefully enough to keep the lunacy somewhat at bay…although we are currently being subjected to a speaking tour of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, being normalised and touted across Murdochs news networks…
re: #232 fern01
I am reminded of Pruitt’s sound proof phone booth - wonder if his resignation had anything to do with the russian spy lady?
Just mentioning it in passing - one never knows.
She could have been offering overnight companionship to a host of right-wingers. Reminds me of Red Sparrow, a somewhat mediocre movie but it has Jennifer Lawrence in it, so I don’t care.
re: #235 unproven innocence
Estonia. Essentially all voting is on-line, secured by personal IDs along with Public Key Crypto. Electronic voting in Estonia
Estonia is Europe’s e-country. They’ve gone into electronic everything, it seems. With public key cryptography — the same thing that makes SSL and Bitcoin security possible — no one can cheat and cast fraudulent votes.
re: #235 unproven innocence
Mea Culpa. “Most voting” (in Estonia) may be inaccurate, too. I’m aware that their National ID cards were fairly recently found to have been compromised, security-wise, and had to be re-issued.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #239 unproven innocence
Mea Culpa. “Most voting” (in Estonia) may be inaccuate, too. I’m aware that their National ID cards were fairly recently found to have been compromised, security-wise, and had to be re-issued.
There is no reason we cannot have both: electronic voting along with a paper ballot in place in case of any contested results.
These two very intelligent white ladies appear to have forgotten that Obama is black.
I feel like the only person in the know who was proper freaked out about this at the time, demonstrably and publicly, was Harry Reid.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 19, 2018
Obama peacefully and knowingly transferred power to Vladimir Putin.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 19, 2018
Secondly, would that possible violence have been worse than the American Democracy being certainly handed wholesale to Putin? Not in my estimation.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 19, 2018
Yup. If Obama’s choice was between turn over the keys and it will be a slow burn or keep the keys and your people get a big bang, then he chose the better option. And that New Yorker article on our ancient, hackable nuke systems is never far from the front of my mind.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 19, 2018
That thread is deep in the weeds. In what world do people think Obama could have swayed public opinion to go along with him voiding the election on the raw assertions of his own intelligence community?There would have been a coup & Trump would have no checks on his power at all
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
re: #237 wheat-dogg
She could have been offering overnight companionship to a host of right-wingers. Reminds me of Red Sparrow, a somewhat mediocre movie but it has Jennifer Lawrence in it, so I don’t care.
And I’d be willing to wager there’s either photographic or video evidence of such liaisons.
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
These two very intelligent white ladies appear to have forgotten that Obama was black.
Russia had us snookered: it was a lose-lose situation for the Democrats.
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
These two very intelligent white ladies appear to have forgotten that Obama was black.
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You had the majority leader of one half of Congress telling the POTUS that if he went public about the danger Russian hacking presented, his party would immediately accuse that POTUS of a partisan attempt to sway the election results.
Whatever those two are on, I wish they’d share with the rest of the class because those have got to be some awesome drugs.
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia had us snookered: it was a lose-lose situation for the Democrats.
Yes, but what kills me is the idea that there might not have been massive violence bordering on civil war if he’d tried to void the election results. There would have been swift, certain and massive civil unrest and Obama would have been directly viewed as responsible for it all. He would have quickly lost, been deposed by his own military and probably tried and killed as a would by tyrant. The entire narrative would have changed, there would be nothing equivalent to the Mueller investigation and everything Obama said about Russian involvement would have been dismissed as the self serving confabulation of a would be dictator who had desired to be President for Life.
It’s just naive as fuck to think Obama had any choice at all. What these two are suggesting would have turned Trump into our Erdogan, every paranoid impulse and evil policy enacted with no checks or balances at all because he’d have the justification needed to enact a total purge of all his perceived enemies from the government.
Proof-of-life post. Tonight and tomorrow night we will be staying in Haines Junction, Yukon.
Cheechako: We catch the ferry from Skagaway to Juneau on July 20. We will check into the Alaska Hotel after we disembark from the ferry and drive to town.
My wife and I spent the day touring Whitehorse. We ran into the same couple from Germany who took our picture together at the second “Welcome to Yukon” sign on BC-97/YK-1.
We also toured the SS Klondike, now a National Historic Monument. The ship plied the river between Whitehorse and Dawson City for decades.
Tomorrow (well, later today since it’s after midnight and the sun just went down) we will go to Kluane National Park outside of Haines Junction.
I think I will write a photo article when I am done with this trip (if I come back to the USA at all - asylum is looking better, and Canada’s Prime Minister yesterday appointed a cabinet minister to deal with USA refugees according to CBC).
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia had us snookered: it was a lose-lose situation for the Democrats.
And the idea of “voiding the election” up there? There is no constitutional mechanism for voiding an election.
A person shown to be illegitimately elected can only be removed by impeachment, die in office, or be voted out in the next election.
The first isn’t happening while conservatives maintain their grip on power for its own sake, the second is unlikely, and the third … we’ll have to see.
re: #211 Single-handed sailor
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The press that obsessed over Hillary’s refusal to give a press conference suddenly doesn’t care that the White House is doing everything to avoid it.
re: #213 JordanRules
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Obviously a disgruntled liberal, because we all know that no conservative would engage in violence against the political opposition.
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re: #249 Targetpractice
Obviously a disgruntled liberal, because we all know that no conservative would engage in violence against the political opposition.
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And in the same breath, conservatives will claim they have all the guns. It really takes quite an ability to hold two contradictory positions on so many issues to be a conservative or libertarian. It seems to hard for me, and you know how liberals like all the free or easy stuff. /s
They thought their skills were so good.
In July ‘17, just after meeting Putin for the first time, Trump told a NYT reporter that Putin had made a persuasive case that Moscow’s cyberskills were so good Russia’s hackers wouldn’t have been caught. Therefore, Russia must not have been responsible. https://t.co/oAaJGCoX7a
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
House GOP refuses to renew election security funding as Democrats fume over Russian interference https://t.co/YYwwmmXP07
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 19, 2018
After White House inexplicably expresses willingness to consider Russia’s demand to hand over former US Ambassador Michael @McFaul “for questioning,” Amb. @McFaul joins us tonight to respond.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 18, 2018
Dear @SecPompeo: THIS IS BATSHIT CRAZY. You need to put a stop to this notion immediately regarding giving @McFaul over to Russian operatives.
American diplomats should never fear the US will hand them over to a foreign power. https://t.co/lTWKyK9hHA— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 18, 2018
I touched the live wire y’all pray for me.
There is NO version of reality where Obama could have gotten the public to go along with voiding the election result on his raw assertion. The evidence available to him wasn’t nearly enough to sell that shit. He would have died in a coup, remembered as a would be tyrant.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
re: #251 Single-handed sailor
That Trump fell for such an obvious misdirection is pretty astounding.
Cop: “You robbed the bank.”
Bank robber: “It couldn’t have been me. I’m a pro, and would have left no evidence.”
Cop: “Oh, OK, then. You’re free to go.”
And the reason I’m irritated right now is because you’re both SO much smarter than this. It’s simply revisionist insanity to believe that Obama had any choice at all or that the worst consequences of trying to undo the election results wouldn’t have fallen on minority communities
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
re: #246 Anymouse 🌹
Sounds good. I was thinking of meeting for breakfast on the 21st. Since the Alaskan Hotel does not serve food, I was thinking of going to the Westmark Baronof Hotel. They have a decent cafe. The Baronof is about 2 blocks from the Alaska Hotel. Just turn right after going out the Alaska front door and head up N. Franklin St and the hotel is on the right. Just pick a time and I’ll be there.
re: #256 goddamnedfrank
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The thread really says one thing is beginning to set in big time after this past Monday: buyer’s remorse. You can see it in the argument being made, they’re trying to shift the blame from themselves for voting for a Manchurian Candidate to Obama for not saving the country from the consequences of their votes.
re: #258 Targetpractice
The thread really says one thing is beginning to set in big time after this past Monday: buyer’s remorse. You can see it in the argument being made, they’re trying to shift the blame from themselves for voting for a Manchurian Candidate to Obama for not saving the country from the consequences of their votes.
No, I’m 100% certain that Sarah and Melissa voted for Clinton. They’re just frustrated in the extreme and seem to have decided that nothing could be worse than where we’re at, but don’t see the privilege inherent in their assumptions or how their alternative solutions would have just empowered Trump more.
re: #259 goddamnedfrank
No, I’m 100% certain that Sarah and Melissa voted for Clinton. They’re just frustrated in the extreme and seem to have decided that nothing could be worse than where we’re at, but don’t see the privilege inherent in their assumptions or how their alternative solutions would have just empowered Trump more.
The only realistic solution is to vote Trump out in 2020, barring either his impeachment/removal from office or resignation prior to that.
re: #254 goddamnedfrank
I touched the live wire y’all pray for me.
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Jesus Tapdancing Christ, what color is the sky on the world they seem to think they are on?
Chicago teacher flying to Florida talks with her seatmate about how her low-income students need school supplies, and ends up with more than $500 in donations from him and other passengers.
Both heartwarming and sad at the same time.
re: #254 goddamnedfrank
I touched the live wire y’all pray for me.
And the reason I’m irritated right now is because you’re both SO much smarter than this. It’s simply revisionist insanity to believe that Obama had any choice at all or that the worst consequences of trying to undo the election results wouldn’t have fallen on minority communities
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
Well, it’s the land of midnight twilight at 1:36am. The sun will be up shortly, so I need to get to bed. Off to the national park tomorrow.
On July 20, we attempt to take the Alaska Panhandle using the Skagaway Ferry as a landing craft for our Smart car. We’ll take Juneau by surprise, as no one expects the Nebraska Navy.
British inventor Richard Browning flies in an ‘#IronMan’ style jet suit that has gone on sale at Selfridges for £340k
More stories like this here: https://t.co/iOm40vn1kt pic.twitter.com/7iMaEsF1FU— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 19, 2018
Skripal novichok suspects ‘identified’ according to reports #SalisburyAttack https://t.co/9s2Co89Ee1
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 19, 2018
re: #257 Cheechako
Sounds good. I was thinking of meeting for breakfast on the 21st. Since the Alaskan Hotel does not serve food, I was thinking of going to the Westmark Baronof Hotel. They have a decent cafe. The Baronof is about 2 blocks from the Alaska Hotel. Just turn right after going out the Alaska front door and head up N. Franklin St and the hotel is on the right. Just pick a time and I’ll be there.
Is 9am too late (or early)? If so, that sounds good to me. I’ll let my wife know in the morning.
LOL
Me: Hey it’s me everything’s ok but I went roller skating with Sarah and I broke my wrist.
Mom: You went roller skating?Me: Yes.Mom: What happened last time you roller skated.me: Well I didn’t think it would happen twice. — Amanda Smith (@AmandaRTubbs) July 19, 2018
re: #257 Cheechako
Just look in the hotel for the guy in the pictures up there, wearing the white paper trilby hat with stickers and pins all over it.
Reuters story about the “Cave Boys”, who made their first public appearance Wednesday.
Scroll down and there are others.
Re Lindsey Graham.
A year or so ago, he changed his tune & became to Trump what Trump is to Putin. I think they found something bad on him, really bad, like dead choir boy or something like that. Otherwise it makes no sense.
I’m not 100% convinced that you can convincingly argue either of the two WHAT IF OBAMA HAD INTERVENED… scenarios.
Proponents of both totally hypothetical scenarios (bloody riots on the one hand, new elections on the other) make convincing points.
We’ll never know.
One thing is certain: the very fact we can entertain two credible scenarios so much beyond the rule of law as credible is one mire indication that your country is really f*cked up.
re: #272 Lupin
I’m not 100% convinced that you can convincingly argue either of the two WHAT IF OBAMA HAD INTERVENED… scenarios.
Proponents of both totally hypothetical scenarios (bloody riots on the one hand, new elections on the other) make convincing points.
We’ll never know.
One thing is certain: the very fact we can entertain two credible scenarios so much beyond the rule of law as credible is one mire indication that your country is really f*cked up.
There is no mechanism or procedure in the Constitution to nullify the results of an election.
Meanwhile in the UK, the new Brexit minister, Chris Heaton-Harris, has told just MPs that he does not accept the claim from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services that leaving the EU next year could lead to a rise in hate crime.
It already has, and just look at the Trump effect in the US. How they can defend the indefensible with a straight fave makes me so angry…
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
There is no mechanism or procedure in the Constitution to nullify the results of an election.
Hey one more piece of evidence that your Constitution is a dimwit document, hopelessly outdated. Thank you!
re: #272 Lupin
I’m not 100% convinced that you can convincingly argue either of the two WHAT IF OBAMA HAD INTERVENED… scenarios.
Proponents of both totally hypothetical scenarios (bloody riots on the one hand, new elections on the other) make convincing points.
We’ll never know.
One thing is certain: the very fact we can entertain two credible scenarios so much beyond the rule of law as credible is one mire indication that your country is really f*cked up.
Agreed. What really pisses me off about otherwise smart people even entertaining the idea that we should lay some level of blame for Trump on Obama is that it’s goddamned useless, lazy, and whether intentional or subconscious it ultimately seeks to absolve the majority of white Americans of being so fucking racist, sexist, ignorant and utterly mendacious that collectively we voted for an abject and overt monster. It shouldn’t have even been close, and yet it was, entirely because of us.
re: #276 goddamnedfrank
Agreed. What really pisses me off about otherwise smart people even entertaining the idea that we should lay some level of blame for Trump on Obama is that it’s goddamned useless, lazy, and whether intentional or not ultimately seeks to absolve the majority of white Americans of being so fucking racist, sexist, ignorant and utterly mendacious that collectively we voted for an abject and overt monster. It shouldn’t have even been close, and yet it was, entirely because of us.
I couldn’t agree more! As i wrote the other day, Trump is the symptom, not the cause. There is a cancer growing (again) in many western democracies, but it metastasized in 2016 in the US.
From aljazeera - Israel passes controversial ‘Jewish nation-state’ law
Law defines the country as Jewish homeland, further marginalising 1.8 million Palestinian citizens of Israel. 19 Jul 2018 07:14 GMT
Excerpt:
Israel’s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it will lead to blatant discrimination against its Palestinian citizens.
The legislation, adopted by 62 votes to 55, makes Hebrew the country’s national language and defines the establishment of Jewish communities as being in the national interest.
The bill also strips Arabic of its designation as an official language, downgrading it to a “special status” that enables its continued use within Israeli institutions.
re: #278 unproven innocence
From aljazeera - Israel passes controversial ‘Jewish nation-state’ law
Law defines the country as Jewish homeland, further marginalising 1.8 million Palestinian citizens of Israel. 19 Jul 2018 07:14 GMT
Excerpt:
I’ve read elsewhere that this will almost certainly be challenged in Israel’s Constitutional Court.
Any Lizards with knowledge of the Israeli legal system here?
re: #271 Lupin
Re Lindsey Graham.
A year or so ago, he changed his tune & became to Trump what Trump is to Putin. I think they found something bad on him, really bad, like dead choir boy or something like that. Otherwise it makes no sense.
Y’know, for a seriously conservative South Carolinian of his age… I’m thinking even an age-appropriate live man would freak him out this much. Maybe his boyfriend is married?
re: #252 Single-handed sailor
House GOP refuses to renew election security funding
Well of course they do - breaking into election data benefits the GOP - win at any cost
It awakes, to continue the story of itself
The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
“Trump recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES.” Thank you to @foxandfriends and @FoxNews for actually showing the clips. The Fake News wants no part of that narrative! Too bad they don’t want to focus on all of the ECONOMIC and JOBS records being set.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is one tiny grain of validity in there. Germany grants birthright citizenship (as of 2000) to children born to legal resident parents. There are no Ankerbabys in Deutschland.
TBH what we’ve been doing for years works. Why change it because some Trump adviser doesn’t like it. I think we do a better job than most integrating immigrants into society.
I’ve recently joined a Facebook group called, simply, Liberal Gun Owners. This is a seriously woke group, vastly knowledgeable about both firearms and politics. I would guess they have 25-30 IQ points on the average mob of NRA goobers, if not more. It would scare the shit out of ammosexual Trumpsters if they had the brains to be paying attention. You do not have all the guns, Putin dupes.
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Just signed in
re: #282 wheat-dogg
It awakes, to continue the story of itself
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Donny adopting the arguments of Faux, which is that it’s an either/or situation: Either we give Vlad a pass on violating our sovereignty by meddling in our election or we have war. The guy who boasts about how “tough” he is on Russia is arguing that that’s a bad thing because it might lead to war.
As for “recognizing” that meddling? Yeah, every time he’s done so publicly, he’s been sure to quickly throw in the same “but it could be other countries/people” bit that he did Tuesday. He has been hedging that “recognition” for over a year now, even after being briefed that Vlad personally ordered the hit…er, hacking.
re: #289 Targetpractice
Donny adopting the arguments of Faux, which is that it’s an either/or situation: Either we give Vlad a pass on violating our sovereignty by meddling in our election or we have war. The guy who boasts about how “tough” he is on Russia is arguing that that’s a bad thing because it might lead to war.
As for “recognizing” that meddling? Yeah, every time he’s done so publicly, he’s been sure to quickly throw in the same “but it could be other countries/people” bit that he did Tuesday. He has been hedging that “recognition” for over a year now, even after being briefed that Vlad personally ordered the hit…er, hacking.
It’s a pathetic game he plays.
re: #290 HappyWarrior
It’s a pathetic game he plays.
In keeping with his established character, he wants credit for shit he didn’t do while attacking his enemies for pointing out that he had nothing to do with his “accomplishments.”
re: #271 Lupin
Re Lindsey Graham.
A year or so ago, he changed his tune & became to Trump what Trump is to Putin. I think they found something bad on him, really bad, like dead choir boy or something like that. Otherwise it makes no sense.
I have to agree. Something is up. Graham went from probably being one of Trump’s biggest internal party critics to someone who now constantly gives him a bod. I think there’s serious dirt on a lot of the people who have sharply shifted tone.
re: #291 Targetpractice
In keeping with his established character, he wants credit for shit he didn’t do while attacking his enemies for pointing out that he had nothing to do with his “accomplishments.”
Precisely.
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
AR. OH. TEE. EFF. ELL. EMM. AY. OH.
OH YEAH?
YEAH!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
ME AN ALL MY HOMIES!!
I GOT MORE HOMIES THAN YOU!
SEZ WHO?
SEZ ME!
YOU AN WHO ELSE?
(this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends)
So very tough, the toughest, much a lot toughness.
re: #282 wheat-dogg
“Trump recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES.” Thank you to @foxandfriends and @FoxNews for actually showing the clips. The Fake News wants no part of that narrative! Too bad they don’t want to focus on all of the ECONOMIC and JOBS records being set.
— Donald J. Trump
and thanks F&F for not showing the many thousands of clips and tweets including the press conference Monday that have me waffling and blaming other people and blaming the Dems for being hacked.
re: #276 goddamnedfrank
Agreed. What really pisses me off about otherwise smart people even entertaining the idea that we should lay some level of blame for Trump on Obama is that it’s goddamned useless, lazy, and whether intentional or subconscious it ultimately seeks to absolve the majority of white Americans of being so fucking racist, sexist, ignorant and utterly mendacious that collectively we voted for an abject and overt monster. It shouldn’t have even been close, and yet it was, entirely because of us.
Yes this is ultimately the underlying problem; half the country, maybe more, is just batshit insane. DJT makes this worse, encourages it, but the Faux news, talk radio crowd of gubers would have been in the streets for the past two years if HRC had been elected. So we seem destined for one type of crazy or another.
I need to vent about a new colleague. You can safely skip reading this venting within the private tags.
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I love this twitter account just a little more right now.
Sea floof shows off his waterobics skills. pic.twitter.com/2liQOtTzQR
— In Otter News (@Otter_News) July 19, 2018
You support Trump!? Apologies, but your opinions mean nothing to me.
— In Otter News (@Otter_News) July 19, 2018
re: #12 teleskiguy
That’s rich coming from a U.S. President who won’t rule out turning over an American diplomat (McFaul) to the Russians.
Not the Daily News
The new cover of @TIME. pic.twitter.com/wtaZwCRKCr
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
re: #300 wheat-dogg
Not the Daily News
That’s one that won’t be mounted on all his golf course clubhouse walls.
re: #4 Thanos
If We Were Vampires wrecks me every time.
Me too - just kills me.
At this point I don’t even have to listen to it to get choked up.
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
These two very intelligent white ladies appear to have forgotten that Obama is black.
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Those tweets cause me to seriously doubt their intelligence. There is no way Obama or even Biden would have been able to hold onto the presidency.
There’s not really any reason to even extrapolate coups and bloody conflict. You would probably end up with massive protests and sporadic violence leading up to inauguration day, followed by power being transferred to Trump anyway.
Even with their wishful thinking, you just get a benign autocrat stopping a billigerent autocrat by drowning the country in a sea of blood.
re: #303 Weaselone
Those tweets cause me to seriously doubt their intelligence. There is no way Obama or even Biden would have been able to hold onto the presidency.
There’s not really any reason to even extrapolate coups and bloody conflict. You would probably end up with massive protests and sporadic violence leading up to inauguration day, followed by power being transferred to Trump anyway.
Even with their wishful thinking, you just get a benign autocrat stopping a billigerent autocrat by drowning the country in a sea of blood.
Yeah a lot of hindsight bias. Obama already gets crazy accusations thrown his way and we know what McConnell was gonna to do.
Facebook will continue to offer a platform to Holocaust deniers, Infowars, and other publishers of hoaxes on the assumption that they are sincere in their beliefs, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
It is time for new entries in my hosts file(s):
127.0.0.1 facebook[dot]com
“Baffled by his solicitous tone toward Mr. Putin, some people close to Mr. Trump have concluded that he feels vulnerable to Mr. Putin, even if it is in his own mind, rather than because of any damaging information possessed by the Russians.” https://t.co/V97PGQlL5y
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2018
re: #206 wheat-dogg
So maybe China will get a working Hyperloop first.
Turns out, the test track will not be very far from where I used to live. About 2 hours by (slow) train.
Foreign companies are obliged to create a Chinese branch and partner with Chinese companies to do business in China. Thereupon China will copy the technology and build Hyperloops all over the damn place, while claiming it was their tech all along.
You either get to do it in China, or get it blocked in the US. It used to be that you came here to do innovation, but these days, it might save the environment and change people’s driving habits.
re: #306 Belafon
Just stop. Make it stop.
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
Obama peacefully and knowingly transferred power to Vladimir Putin.
— Sarah Kendzior
This seems….just a slight tad not right.
So, my question this morning, after the NYT report, is does the administration try to ride this out, or do they escalate in some manner?
They’re losing control of the narrative at this point. Spontaneous protests are popping up all over the country, the media has begun to push back, and the intelligence community has clearly had enough of Trump’s bullshit.
They can either go into bunker mode and try to ignore the increasingly obvious, or Trump can pull some kind of idiotic power play to prove he’s the boss. I have zero idea of which way they’ll lurch at this point.
But if another shoe drops by tomorrow, it’s almost a guarantee that they’ll do something really stupid.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
I lead this this, because it caught my funny bone, and also because of all the music sharing above.
My 13 yro daughter just asked
What if “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” & “It’s Raining Men” are about the same event, but from different perspectives?— Wanda Maximoff (@scarletwitchwc1) July 17, 2018
re: #277 Lupin
I couldn’t agree more! As i wrote the other day, Trump is the symptom, not the cause. There is a cancer growing (again) in many western democracies, but it metastasized in 2016 in the US.
You also were also laying some blame on Obama for not coming out and leading the opposition which you might see as different from what you’re agreeing with Frank on, but I don’t. It carries all the same implications and prompted a few of us to wonder why you weren’t asking the same of the other ex POTUS or focusing on the GOP congress who can start to stop this at any moment.
More venting
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FBI Chief Dismisses Putin Offer for Investigation Cooperation https://t.co/EofAbkeOQv
— gary walton sr. (@grwaltonsr) July 19, 2018
re: #310 makeitstop
So, my question this morning, after the NYT report, is does the administration try to ride this out, or do they escalate in some manner?
They’re losing control of the narrative at this point. Spontaneous protests are popping up all over the country, the media has begun to push back, and the intelligence community has clearly had enough of Trump’s bullshit.
They can either go into bunker mode and try to ignore the increasingly obvious, or Trump can pull some kind of idiotic power play to prove he’s the boss. I have zero idea of which way they’ll lurch at this point.
But if another shoe drops by tomorrow, it’s almost a guarantee that they’ll do something really stupid.
Perfect time for Mueller to drop another indictment or two.
re: #310 makeitstop
Cover of next week’s @NewYorker. ‘Thumbs-Up,’ by Barry Blitt. pic.twitter.com/x6GkIin0ap
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
And the faithful fuckers applaud him
Watch @realScottWagner tell a young woman that she is “young and naive” when she asked a question on climate change.#pagov pic.twitter.com/ZDG4vnqgud
— Sean Kitchen 🌹 (@RCPress_Sean) July 19, 2018
Young woman at town hall to GOP candidate: Does the $200k you’ve taken from fossil fuel interests explain why you claim climate change is caused by “body heat”?
Politician: “You’re young and naive.” https://t.co/8DuYPlPFaL— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) July 19, 2018
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
These two very intelligent white ladies appear to have forgotten that Obama is black.
Option 1. Obama turns the presidency over, and people find out that Republicans will do anything to hold onto power. People are protesting, organizing, and running for office.
Option 2. Obama refuses to turn over to Trump. Every Democrat is forced to vote to remove him, Trump takes over, and everyone sees how Democrats will do anything to hold onto power. Democrats get crushed in the midterms.
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia had us snookered: it was a lose-lose situation for the Democrats.
Until we, the people, learned where we were heading, there was nothing our elected officials could do to change course.
I love me some David Niewert. This is some article. He’s been doing the hard work on these types of people for years.
re: #323 MsJ
I love me some David Niewert. This is some article. He’s been doing the hard work on these types of people for years.
Yeah that is some down and dirty reporting.
re: #311 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
I lead this this, because it caught my funny bone, and also because of all the music sharing above.
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MIND. BLOWN. O.O
Rand Fucking Paul. Tucker Fucking Carlson.
These fuckers think Trump should realign our alliances and allies - from NATO and EU to Russia.
Why the fuck should we do that? Objectively, why should we do this? Russia’s economy isn’t even the size of New York’s. They have nukes and that’s the only reason that they aren’t a developing world country in most every other respect. They are an empty shell - lots of military hardware, but little else to show for it.
And there’s the not insignificant fact that Russia attacked the US in 2016 and continues attacking the US to this day in cyberwarfare to destabilize and affect the outcome of elections.
That’s who Paul, Carson, and Trump sycophants want us to ally with?
I agree with @TuckerCarlson on this: On the big questions, Trump is indisputably right: The Cold War is over. The world has changed. It is time to rethink America’s alliances, and act in our own interests for once. https://t.co/RX2gSo0i0b
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 19, 2018
More than that, Russia has attacked the US in it’s cyberwarfare efforts that continue to this day.
We don’t ally ourselves with those that seek to do us harm.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 19, 2018
End 70+ years of strategic partnership with NATO countries who have stood by us and fought and died by our side after 9/11 when the US called on Article 5 to assist in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the GWOT generally. They sacrificed blood and treasure to help us protect ourselves against a terror threat, but Trump thinks we need to change sides to the regime that attacks the US and EU countries to affect outcomes of elections to benefit Putin’s Russia?
DEVELOPING: An explosion at an Army depot in Pennsylvania has left some workers injured. Officials say there is no suspicion of terrorist activity. https://t.co/EVdwuSbAy4
— AP Eastern US (@APEastRegion) July 19, 2018
Whale Of A Plane: Airbus BelugaXL Makes Maiden Flight https://t.co/WQ2qaAepg4
— NPR (@NPR) July 19, 2018
The Beluga is more or less an Airbus with a hugely over-size upper fuselage for very large but relatively lightweight loads. It was designed mainly to transport complete fuselage sections from one Airbus plant to another. It is basically a modern successor to the Boeing-based Guppy series produced in the 60s. The latter were intended to transport rocket stages for the US space program but found many other kinds of employment, including with Airbus until the Belugas were developed. This led to the quip that “every Airbus is born in a Boeing.”
re: #275 Lupin
Hey one more piece of evidence that your Constitution is a dimwit document, hopelessly outdated. Thank you!
Who would have had the authority to nullify it? Congress. Which, in 2016, was run by Republicans.
What news coverage has missed on Putin’s request to question @Billbrowder + @McFaul — there are congressional staff on the list. So, Russia wants to interrogate the people who have written our legislation about Russia — not the bosses, not the lawmakers. That’s totally f***ed
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 19, 2018
I am expecting some tortured walk-backs that aren’t really walk-backs around this.
re: #330 JordanRules
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I am expecting some tortured walk-backs that aren’t really walk-backs around this.
Non-walkback walkbacks IOW.
Arabic was an official language of the State of Israel for 70 years, 2 months, and five days.
No more.— Mike S. Omer-Man (@MikeOmerMan) July 19, 2018
Israel’s new nation-state law “downgrades the status of Arabic, until now an official language of the State of Israel, along with Hebrew. The law sets Arabic as a language with “special status.”“(CNN) https://t.co/FQZz4S4MHn
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) July 19, 2018
The Israeli government has pressed forward with a controversial “nation-state” law that many in the Arab minority say makes them “second-class citizens.” https://t.co/J730ayM4sq pic.twitter.com/heKVxlSW4o
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 19, 2018
re: #328 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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The Beluga is more or less an Airbus with a hugely over-size upper fuselage for very large but relatively lightweight loads. It was designed mainly to transport complete fuselage sections from one Airbus plant to another. It is basically a modern successor to the Boeing-based Guppy series produced in the 60s. The latter were intended to transport rocket stages for the US space program but found many other kinds of employment, including with Airbus until the Belugas were developed. This led to the quip that “every Airbus is born in a Boeing.”
Rare view of Beluga giving birth to a litter of A-320 fuselage sections:
Beluga head-on:
re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Looks like an ET head-on.
re: #323 MsJ
I love me some David Niewert. This is some article. He’s been doing the hard work on these types of people for years.
He’s great!
A very important resource who fully understands the dangerous ideological connection to Putin’s Russia.
There are how many of these dormant accounts being activated?
The Russian workforce is being activated. pic.twitter.com/Qc1m8kXGnN
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
NEW: Government of Montenegro responds to Pres. Trump’s comments: “In today’s world, it does not matter how big or small you are, but to what extent you cherish the values of freedom, solidarity and democracy.” https://t.co/ZkrxPXD0ME pic.twitter.com/R9jz3bmaU7
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 19, 2018
Just incase you were wondering. Here is the ‘agressive’ country of Montenegro. It has a population of around 650K. Is closer to France than it is Russia. And has ~2500 active personnel in its military. pic.twitter.com/2VpS4kTC4D
— Mikey Kay (@MikeyKayNYC) July 18, 2018
2. Montenegro Press Release on Trump comments on Fox->
‘today as a new NATO member and candidate for EU it [Montenegro] contributes to peace and stability not only on the European continent but worldwide, along w/ US soldiers in Afghanistan.’https://t.co/qR1pR7qypM— Mikey Kay (@MikeyKayNYC) July 19, 2018
JFC, he’s really upset
I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear……..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
“Trump recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES.” pic.twitter.com/Da8T8SUsCE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Takes me back.
tested.com
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
he interrupted himself to tweet that video clip. Here’s the rest of his “thought”:
….proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems…but they can ALL be solved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
re: #338 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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They are absolutely correct. With the exception of Germany, I’m descended from people who came from small nations. In fact, Germany has 8 times as much people as Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ireland do combined. I dunno. I always fancied myself a supporter of the little guy and were I in the Armed Forces and Montenegro invaded, I’d help her out gladly. That nation has had our back. One of my prized graduation presents was a little note by my cousin’s then 5 year old daughter regretting they couldn’t make my graduation party. I’ll always remember that kindness. It’s the same thing with the smaller countries in NATO. Trump has never actually paid attention to policy let alone foreign affairs and he doesn’t know a thing about the Balkans history.Trump and Tucker can both go fuck themselves for shitting on Montenegro the way they did. Montenegro is actually a friend unlike Trump’s stupid pal Vlad.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
he interrupted himself to tweet that video clip. Here’s the rest of his “thought”:
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Yet you undercut cybersecurity. You’re a disgrace. I’m not only ashamed to call you my fellow American, I’m ashamed to call you my fellow man.
re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Megamind’s plane.
These last few days has crystallized something for me. I’ve been following Scientology for about 2 decades (since the first ex-Scientology boards came up). What we are dealing with is this on steroids, and I’ve come up with a term: L Ron Trump. You will find that it encapsulates the whole enchilada..
re: #338 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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You could hardly blame Montenegro if they withdrew their contingent of troops in Afghanistan after they just increased it at the request of the US. Trump just invited Putin to make another attempt to take over their country.
Whoa: @AdamSchiffCA says that Dems on the House Intel Committee wanted to bring Maria Butina and Paul Erickson in for questioning — but were told not to by House Republicans, who were worried about “tarnishing” the NRA and President Trump.
— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) July 19, 2018
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s a narcissistic ass, who imagines everything he does is worthy of praise from everyone. That never happens in politics, especially when you constantly fuck up everything. Rather than examine his own behavior and actions, he attacks the messengers — the media.
I fucking hate this guy.
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cool, now the entire GOP is tarnished.
Congressman Devin Nunes used political dollars for $15K in Celtics tickets, winery tours, Vegas trips, $5,000 to Gold Coast Limousine. https://t.co/THBEPii2JD h/t @kateirby
— Dan Morain (@DanielMorain) July 19, 2018
Those who obstruct justice tend to be against justice in general. https://t.co/LxYfRnlCUM
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 19, 2018
re: #300 wheat-dogg
Not the Daily News
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it morphs:
TIME’s new cover: Trump wanted a summit with Putin. He got way more than he bargained for https://t.co/sUu9gGKmmP pic.twitter.com/qq6iOjlis1
— TIME (@TIME) July 19, 2018
The moment @Lawrence reads the breaking news from the NYT to @maddow who immediately understands that if #TrumpKnew about the extent of Putin’s role in #RussianHacking on 1/6/17, he’s been actively engaged in a coverup ever since. pic.twitter.com/YmlVHflzZZ
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) July 19, 2018
In light of the recent disturbing actions by @realDonaldTrump and new information we have learned, the GOP @HouseJudiciary Committee this morning is going to hold a classified briefing on the investigation into ….
Wait for it ….
Coming now ….
Hillary Clinton’s emails. https://t.co/XrDIudzt40— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 19, 2018
BREAKING: @RepSwalwell and I just made a motion in House Intel Committee to subpoena the American interpreter during the summit — the only witness to Trump’s meeting with Putin. This is an extraordinary remedy, but Trump’s actions necessitate it.
Republicans voted it down.— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 19, 2018
“Trump recognized Russian Meddling MANY TIMES” pic.twitter.com/T8MERS93wI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
every one of these examples has trump saying it was russia and other countries https://t.co/iZ6BTQMwTw
— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 19, 2018
re: #355 JordanRules
Remember this when people cry that Democrats aren’t doing anything.
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hopefully the Democrats will have the power to do that in January without the GOP’s permission.
re: #355 JordanRules
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Someone else the Democrats will hopefully have the power to subpoena in January.
re: #358 Belafon
Remember this when people cry that Democrats aren’t doing anything.
The people ie far left who accuse Dems of not doing anything have their own agendas.
jeebus
Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA official and NYT bestselling author of Imperial Hubris, is calling for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents https://t.co/lH81xBoKqX pic.twitter.com/Hh0IM2HHtN
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) July 16, 2018
This isn’t hyperbole. Scheuer literally fantasizes here about “well-armed citizens who voted for Trump” murdering his critics, including the Obamas and “all of the mainstream media.” https://t.co/X1FzHi27zO
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 19, 2018
In another post, Scheuer speculates that “wealthy Jewish-Americans” and “the foreign-born Obama” are trying to undermine democracy. https://t.co/4cND8j9s1x
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 19, 2018
re: #354 MsJ
It’s obvious now that Trump’s been engaged in obstruction of justice since before he was sworn in.
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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Ex CIA. This douchebag is ex CIA.
Let that sink in.
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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Seems like Scheuer is due for a little visit from the FBI and the Secret Service.
re: #367 Dr Lizardo
Seems like Scheuer is due for a little visit from the FBI and the Secret Service.
Why? This guy supports trump, which is ok by all apparently.
LOL, the moron deleted the video clip tweet and then tweeted it again so his unthreaded tweet “thoughts” wouldn’t be separated.
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, the moron deleted the video clip tweet and then tweeted it again so his unthreaded tweet “thoughts” wouldn’t be separated.
Or there are multiple people using that account.
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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He’s not the only one pointing to this weekend: https://t.co/LKogThsrYi
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 19, 2018
It sounds like anti-semitic paranoid delusions to me.
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 19, 2018
Holy. Crap.
Trump can only pardon people convicted of federal crimes.
So, if, say, Don Jr was convicted, he’d rot.🤣
New York launches investigation of Trump Foundation over state tax law violations#ThursdayThoughts#ThursdayMotivation#TrumpKnewhttps://t.co/XwVckr1IQc pic.twitter.com/4pwi5mQHpE— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly 🌊 BWCS (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 19, 2018
Rightwingers excited by a couple of stories out of California. First that ZOMG! Automatic voter registration of driver’s license applicants will register illegals to vote! (It won’t). and ZOMG! SF is letting illegals vote in school board elections!
“Cyber attacks”
Trump’s kind of guy who would hire OJ to investigate who REALLY murdered his wife. https://t.co/HvCZTInhsJ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 19, 2018
re: #319 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
And the faithful fuckers applaud him
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Another reason why I left Pennsylvania for good in 1982 and I will never go back.
re: #372 Teukka
This weekend, huh? I’m gonna go take a look at the crazy places in the Wingnutosphere.
re: #354 MsJ
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Coming up==House RepubliKKKlans reopen the Whitewater investigation…
re: #378 Dr Lizardo
This weekend, huh? I’m gonna go take a look at the crazy places in the Wingnutosphere.
[tinfoil]What if this is a pretext for a rightie coup, preventing that “coup” from happening?[/tinfoil]
re: #373 MsJ
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I’ll be wearing my Che shirt to the beheading coup.//
In first part of speech broadcast live on state TV, Putin doesn’t go into any detail about agreements reached. The second part is closed to press.
— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) July 19, 2018
The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear……..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
Putin said this morning there were ‘agreements’ made in private Trump session. Is this Trump’s confirmation? Why is Russia more forthcoming about summit results than the US? https://t.co/anlVW3JJYV
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) July 19, 2018
Just to be clear: the president of Russia has claimed some sort of security agreement was made with the president of the US, whose own security and defense doctrines identify Russia as a competitor, and we know nothing about it, https://t.co/u9ME583M4F
— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) July 19, 2018
re: #380 Teukka
[tinfoil]What if this is a pretext for a rightie coup, preventing that “coup” from happening?[/tinfoil]
As near as I can gather without giving myself brain cancer from teh stoopid -
It seems to be related to this QAnon bullshit. Apparently, the Qultists think that this is the month (July) when “all will be revealed”, so in order to forestall that, the Leftists, Masons, Pedos, Satanists, cannibals, Jews., etc., etc., are going to try to stage some kind of putsch to prevent everything from “being revealed”.
IOW - some crazy ol’ bullshit these morons are circlejerking about.
#Russia’s state TV:
Discussing Maria Butina’s arrest, one by one, pro-Kremlin panelists reveal they “just happen to know her”: MP Alexei Zhuravlev, Political scientist Boris Mezhuev and Director General of the Centre for Political Information, Alexey Mukhin. How coincidental. ©️ pic.twitter.com/qTDvVFwGzy— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 19, 2018
re: #384 Dr Lizardo
As near as I can gather without giving myself brain cancer from teh stoopid -
It seems to be related to this QAnon bullshit. Apparently, the Qultists think that this is the month (July) when “all will be revealed”, so in order to forestall that, the Leftists, Masons, Pedos, Satanists, cannibals, Jews., etc., etc., are going to try to stage some kind of putsch to prevent everything from “being revealed”.
IOW - some crazy ol’ bullshit these morons are circlejerking about.
[tinfoil]Is Qnon’s alternate name Guccifer 3.0?[/tinfoil]
Meanwhile a bunch of guys with real tiny pee pees are going to stage a demonstration outside of Maxine Waters’ office.
I don’t think that they’re going to get a cheery welcome…
Armed Coup!! Beware of the chickens among us?
Rick Wiles says that @maddow used her show to signal that a violent coup will take place within 72 hours during which a leftist mob will decapitate Trump and his family on the White House lawn. https://t.co/4V4ptlsFbe
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 18, 2018
re: #384 Dr Lizardo
As near as I can gather without giving myself brain cancer from teh stoopid -
It seems to be related to this QAnon bullshit. Apparently, the Qultists think that this is the month (July) when “all will be revealed”, so in order to forestall that, the Leftists, Masons, Pedos, Satanists, cannibals, Jews., etc., etc., are going to try to stage some kind of putsch to prevent everything from “being revealed”.
IOW - some crazy ol’ bullshit these morons are circlejerking about.
Wait a second! You mean the Rosicrucians aren’t in this group?
How about The Illuminati?
re: #388 Dave In Austin
Armed Coup!! Beware of the chickens among us?
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72 hours from now, Trump will be in Mar a Lago.
re: #388 Dave In Austin
Armed Coup!! Beware of the chickens among us?
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He OD’d on too much communion grape juice!
President Brainworms is at it again, calling the free press the enemy of the people and engaging in stochastic terrorism.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
New CBS News poll shows 68 percent of Republican approve of Trump’s handling of the Putin summit. Lower than his overall approval among GOPers, but still a large majority https://t.co/qvOgQxWUqD
— Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) July 19, 2018
46 percent of Republicans agreed with family separation and 72 percent questioned Obama’s citizenship. So revealing you’re under Putin’s sway falls somewhere between baby jails and deporting Obama. https://t.co/LxApRh8bHv
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 19, 2018
re: #389 Joe Bacon 🌹
Wait a second! You mean the Rosicrucians aren’t in this group?
How about The Illuminati?
Of course, the Illuminati. But it seems like these days, those poor old Rosicrucians just can’t get no love.
tiny violins…
#Russia’s state TV:
The hosts worry about poor Rand Paul being unfairly pegged as a pro-Kremlin politician. Anatoly Antonov (Ambassador of Russia to the U.S.), casually mentions that Rand Paul came over to his residence and the two had lunch together. More coincidences. ©️ pic.twitter.com/uw84sUt1VX— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 19, 2018
The Obama recovery continues! Initial unemployment claims last week fell to 207k, the lowest level since 1969, when the labor force was half its current size. Employed Americans are enjoying unprecendented job security, and more than in a long time are quitting their jobs because they are confident they can get something better.
Might this woman be Honeypot #2?
Another Woman operative in Plain sight and likey Mueller Knows.
Doctor former BeautyQueen
She’s was the Perfect Weapon to Cultivate Trump. pic.twitter.com/5aqP3mJWhN— Rick Derek (@RickDerek1) July 19, 2018
Happy one year anniversary to this moment in twitter history pic.twitter.com/Sip1uwZdQK
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) July 19, 2018
re: #393 JordanRules
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Republican voters simply put are fucking morons. I see it with my own eyes in my FB TL constantly. Where Obama shaking Putin’s hand is the same thing as Trump taking Putin’s version of events at face value or not immediately telling Putin to fuck himself when he asked for Browder and McFaul.
So 68% of 27% of voters = far too many but still a vast minority.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
Rep. @SteveKingIA wouldn’t respond to my emails asking whether he considers himself a white supremacist, so @ArthurDelaneyHP asked him yesterday on Capitol Hill.
The congressman… didn’t deny it https://t.co/GxneVbtERx pic.twitter.com/P427syG9g4— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) July 19, 2018
re: #401 MsJ
I suspect you might fix it by the time I write this, but I think you’re missing a “not”. Unless…you’re…Trump.
re: #399 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What’s in it (can’t see pic)?
Michelle Obama wades into the midterms with a nonpartisan voter registration campaign featuring a slew of big names. https://t.co/fopwWsw45S
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) July 19, 2018
re: #402 JordanRules
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Would it be wrong for me to hope that he’s reborn as a black woman in 1830’s Mississippi? In fact, this has the makings of a great Twilight Zone episode. Jordan Peele, if you’re reading, let me try this!
re: #402 JordanRules
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I have to wonder, if he admitted it, would it even hurt him in his District?
re: #384 Dr Lizardo
As near as I can gather without giving myself brain cancer from teh stoopid -
It seems to be related to this QAnon bullshit. Apparently, the Qultists think that this is the month (July) when “all will be revealed”, so in order to forestall that, the Leftists, Masons, Pedos, Satanists, cannibals, Jews., etc., etc., are going to try to stage some kind of putsch to prevent everything from “being revealed”.
IOW - some crazy ol’ bullshit these morons are circlejerking about.
This all sounds very exciting.
re: #408 HappyWarrior
Would it be wrong for me to hope that he’s reborn as a black woman in 1830’s Mississippi? In fact, this has the makings of a great Twilight Zone episode. Jordan Peele, if you’re reading, let me try this!
His 23andme should return that he’s got 10% African ancestry.
re: #405 Belafon
What’s in it (can’t see pic)?
Louise Mensch tweeting that sources tell her Steven Bannon is facing a death penalty for espionage
re: #404 Belafon
I suspect you might fix it by the time I write this, but I think you’re missing a “not”. Unless…you’re…Trump.
Sorry? I don’t understand.
re: #409 Big Beautiful Door
I have to wonder, if he admitted it, would it even hurt him in his District?
I honestly doubt it. Look at Scalise. He basically admitted to wanting to be a Diet David Duke and now he’s the number 3 Republican in the House. King’s colleagues and constituents may not want him to be in leadership but they’re perfectly fine with him.
re: #382 HappyWarrior
I’ll be wearing my Che shirt to the beheading coup.//
I’ve been holding mine in reserve, very anxious to finally break it out for all to see.
The next phase of the conservative campaign against unions is a series
of class action lawsuits that would bankrupt them. And they’re
being masterminded by a man trump has nominated to run a federal
agency. https://t.co/gpNN5tJMW8 pic.twitter.com/9aXcp2VmLF— Noam Scheiber (@noamscheiber) July 19, 2018
This is really frightening. Now that Republicans have captured the Supreme Court, they are going to use it to seize the assets of their political enemies. https://t.co/Neuis1yqUr
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 19, 2018
re: #379 Joe Bacon 🌹
Coming up==House RepubliKKKlans reopen the Whitewater investigation…
HRC’s private server in at the bottom of the Whitewater River.
re: #411 Belafon
His 23andme should return that he’s got 10% African ancestry.
“Hey bro” fistbump
Truth be told, I was disappointed I didn’t have anything like that come up in my results. Did have some trace amounts of Western/Central Asian though.
re: #413 MsJ
Sorry? I don’t understand.
68% of 27% doesn’t seem like a vast majority to me, especially when you include “= far too many voters but”. Maybe I am reading it wrong.
re: #309 Sir John Barron
goddamnedfrank
Obama peacefully and knowingly transferred power to Vladimir Putin.
— Sarah Kendzior
This seems….just a slight tad not right.
Is Wendell putting out the cigarette, rolling back over and considering his political chat bed partner no longer worthy?
I can’t believe she said this either.
Points off!
must be so exciting living in infowars fantasyland, where every day you must fight the most epic battle of your life for freedom pic.twitter.com/2EfPkKipMt
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) July 18, 2018
For Belafon:
Alex Jones tweeting : EMERGENCY: Trump Must Take Control Of The Internet Kill Switch To Stop Coup
(capitalization his)
The Republican base doesn’t know what the fuck they believe anymore. I see memes blaming Obama and his people for the interference and then I see a stupid meme of Trump on a bear and Trump on a lion and that photo of Obama on a bike. They’re a cult. And not a particularly smart one at that. At least the Branch Davidians and Heavens Gate knew what they beleived in.
re: #347 CarolJ
These last few days has crystallized something for me. I’ve been following Scientology for about 2 decades (since the first ex-Scientology boards came up). What we are dealing with is this on steroids, and I’ve come up with a term: L Ron Trump. You will find that it encapsulates the whole enchilada..
This is also very, very good.
re: #422 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Alex Jones tweeting : EMERGENCY: Trump Must Take Control Of The Internet Kill Switch To Stop Coup
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The role of Julius Streicher in this production will be played by Alex Jones. That’s who Jones reminds me of. Unstable and probably disliked by most of Trump’s inner circle just like Streicher was in Hitler’s but Jones remains since the big guy likes him.
re: #419 Belafon
68% of 27% doesn’t seem like a vast majority to me, especially when you include “= far too many voters but”. Maybe I am reading it wrong.
I think (hope) you’re reading it wrong. I think it says Minority not Majority.
re: #422 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
For Belafon:
Alex Jones tweeting : EMERGENCY: Trump Must Take Control Of The Internet Kill Switch To Stop Coup
(capitalization his)
There’s an Internet Kill Switch?
Why does no one not tell me these things?
re: #426 MsJ
I think (hope) you’re reading it wrong. I think it says Minority not Majority.
I think he means of the GOP base.
re: #354 MsJ
Within the Hillary emails lie the secret plans and signals for the Great Coup of 2018.
re: #422 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Alex Jones tweeting : EMERGENCY: Trump Must Take Control Of The Internet Kill Switch To Stop Coup
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Please turn off the internets Trump, I double dog dare ya.
BREAKING:
Robert Mueller has just released a list of 500 pieces of evidence!https://t.co/MIfMxDJC9S— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) July 19, 2018
re: #426 MsJ
I think (hope) you’re reading it wrong. I think it says Minority not Majority.
Yep. I read it wrong. I read it four times and read majority for the last word.
re: #428 HappyWarrior
I think he means of the GOP base.
That’s what I thought it said. The poll says 68% approve…that is 68% of the voting population of republicans which is currently at 27% (per a recent gallop poll) of the entire voting population.
re: #430 b.d.
Please turn off the internets Trump, I double dog dare ya.
I can think of quite a few people that would show up on election day to vote against the GOP if that happened. It would also cripple a certain countries ability to interfere.
Dangerman, if you’re here. Tim Kaine was speaking your language the other night I saw him. He said he was touched by the phrase “liberty and justice for all.” I really like Kaine. Maybe not presidential material- I honestly think he’s too damn nice for the job in some respects but he is a good rallier of the troops and great one on one with voters. Unfortunately when we took a selfie, the photo was blurry.I’ll probably meet him again though.
re: #310 makeitstop
So, my question this morning, after the NYT report, is does the administration try to ride this out, or do they escalate in some manner?
They’re losing control of the narrative at this point. Spontaneous protests are popping up all over the country, the media has begun to push back, and the intelligence community has clearly had enough of Trump’s bullshit.
They can either go into bunker mode and try to ignore the increasingly obvious, or Trump can pull some kind of idiotic power play to prove he’s the boss. I have zero idea of which way they’ll lurch at this point.
But if another shoe drops by tomorrow, it’s almost a guarantee that they’ll do something really stupid.
I think the Trump admin is going to just muddle along until something big happens. I doubt his own cabinet and staff are all that interested in backing Trump to any extreme. I think many are probably studying their way out before they even reach the two years in point when many staff members bug out.
It all comes down to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. That is where the pressure needs to be applied. Especially McConnell. If he decides to jettison Trump Ryan will tag along, he’s looking to get out of Washington in one piece at the end of the year. Mitch needs to be scared that he is going to pay a big price for his own cover-up.
re: #433 MsJ
That’s what I thought it said. The poll says 68% approve…that is 68% of the voting population of republicans which is currently at 27% (per a recent gallop poll) of the entire voting population.
Right. Man that’s scary. Good news though is my right wing friend has been berry berry quiet lately on social media. Maybe he’s realizing he doesn’t know politics from Ben Shapiro’s smug face.
re: #431 MsJ
Robert Mueller has just released a list of 500 pieces of evidence!
I get the feeling that Trump will enjoy precious few peaceful days from here on out.
Like that protest sign at the White House said - Tick Tock, Motherfucker.
re: #433 MsJ
That’s what I thought it said. The poll says 68% approve…that is 68% of the voting population of republicans which is currently at 27% (per a recent gallop poll) of the entire voting population.
This is what I thought you were implying. I just never see “vast minority.” I always see “vast majority” so I thought there was a missing “not”.
The TARDIS is smaller on the outside.
Poll: Majority of voters in GOP-held districts say Republicans “more corrupt” than Dems https://t.co/iFAYiMNf8j pic.twitter.com/IWdcbrqxlW
— The Hill (@thehill) July 18, 2018
The sound of millions of chickens simultaneously coming home to roost https://t.co/JeJY6JlvtQ
re: #441 MsJ
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Okay, turn that belief into votes. I don’t give a shit if you think he or she “shares your values.” Vote the corrupt bastards out.
re: #431 MsJ
It’ll take Trump 20 tweets repeating “Fake News!” to refute them all.
#BREAKING: DC Police confirm they are responding to an active shooter situation at Medstar Washington Hospital Center
— WUSA9 (@wusa9) July 19, 2018
re: #442 HappyWarrior
Okay, turn that belief into votes. I don’t give a shit if you think he or she “shares your values.” Vote the corrupt bastards out.
I does mean that Democrats can run against Republicans, and not just for something.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
“Hey bro” fistbump
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Truth be told, I was disappointed I didn’t have anything like that come up in my results. Did have some trace amounts of Western/Central Asian though.
My brother got his done, and we are entirely Western European, apparently disproving a family story that we had some Native American ancestry.
re: #312 JordanRules
You also were also laying some blame on Obama for not coming out and leading the opposition which you might see as different from what you’re agreeing with Frank on, but I don’t. It carries all the same implications and prompted a few of us to wonder why you weren’t asking the same of the other ex POTUS or focusing on the GOP congress who can start to stop this at any moment.
I still think Obama could have gone on tv at 9 pm on all three networks with someone from the NSA and make public what they knew before the vote.
But I’ve mollified mu views re any later actions actions because his “tool kit” was empty, for which I blame your political system and outdated Constitution, not Obama.
I have to say reading this Nixon biography. I actually have a lot of respect for Pre-Southern Strategy Nixon in some ways even if a lot of stuff he did I think he was shady as hell like implying the incumbent Congressman he beat to win Congress was a Communist sympathizer but other stuff like accepting a NAACP honorary membership in SoCal while the KKK was still big in Southern California was pretty honorable and he seemed genuinely appalled by Jim Crow that he witnessed as a law student at Duke in Durham, NC. Nixon was an asshole for sure but I easily have more respect for him than Trump already upon reading this.
HA! The Wohls bring the ‘coffee shop’ hot takes!
2. This is incredible. The Wohl family keeps finding these subversive coffee shops! pic.twitter.com/TpTdsuTiZx
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 18, 2018
re: #446 Big Beautiful Door
My brother got his done, and we are entirely Western European, apparently disproving a family story that we had some Native American ancestry.
I’m honestly not surprised. I don’t come from “Colonial” American stock. My mother’s four grandparents were all immigrants and Dad’s parents ancestry is pretty well documented and they were urban so not likely to have mingled with Native Americans.
re: #449 makeitstop
HA! The Wohls bring the ‘coffee shop’ hot takes!
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Even if it is true, I’ll point out that the Proud Boys congregate in a very progressive part of Brooklyn. I guess Gavin’s virgins like the free stuff because they’re too stubborn and sexist to pay for sex.
re: #401 MsJ
New CBS News poll shows 68 percent of Republican approve of Trump’s handling of the Putin summit. Lower than his overall approval among GOPers, but still a large majority cbsnews.com …
Just as long as a Black man isn’t in the White House, the trump cult will support everything he does.
Text to me from former FBI Counterintelligence Special Agent (who voted for Trump and retired a million years ago): “When are you going to say it on air: ‘He’s a controlled asset of the Russian government.’”
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 19, 2018
Driveby! Carole Cadwalladr is going to be on Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss DT and Brexit. Can’t miss this!
It was above 90°F north of the Arctic Circle yesterday in northern Finland — more than 30F warmer than a normal mid-July day.
We are rapidly changing the Earth’s climate, and the Arctic is the most rapidly changing place on the planet. https://t.co/5OcORdGuLB— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 19, 2018
re: #454 retired cynic
Driveby! Carole Cadwalladr is going to be on Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss DT and Brexit. Can’t miss this!
Thanks for the heads up!
re: #454 retired cynic
Driveby! Carole Cadwalladr is going to be on Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss DT and Brexit. Can’t miss this!
Oh good stuff, thanks!
Exclusive
US Conservatives Played Secret Role In Macedonian Fake News Boom Ahead of 2016
Investigation: fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just teens — security agencies are probing poss connex to Ru
https://t.co/9uAE1XuNBW https://t.co/9uAE1XuNBW— ℓʋℓʋ ℓɛ Trump Abuses Children (@LuluLemew) July 18, 2018
re: #448 HappyWarrior
I have to say reading this Nixon biography. I actually have a lot of respect for Pre-Southern Strategy Nixon in some ways even if a lot of stuff he did I think he was shady as hell like implying the incumbent Congressman he beat to win Congress was a Communist sympathizer but other stuff like accepting a NAACP honorary membership in SoCal while the KKK was still big in Southern California was pretty honorable and he seemed genuinely appalled by Jim Crow that he witnessed as a law student at Duke in Durham, NC. Nixon was an asshole for sure but I easily have more respect for him than Trump already upon reading this.
I’ve kind of hit a wall in my reading, particularly of American History, which I normally love so much.
I’ve turned to reading some British history, reread a biography of Elizabeth I who I find really fascinating. Also read about the British counter intelligence official who turned out to have been a Soviet spy for decades—Kim Philby. That was a really good book.
But it might take some time, some recovery from the loon in WH for my love of American history to return. I hope it comes back.
re: #431 MsJ
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9. FIVE YEARS of books, all reviewed and certified by FinCEN.
Dear G*d, they’re f*cked. pic.twitter.com/PgaHsNwvyc— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) July 19, 2018
My GOP DC Friends:
If you (and it’s plural, quite plural) stuck your d*ck in Comrade Butina call your lawyer now, this morning, to set up a chat with the FBI. You are in deep trouble. This will not look good when it comes out.
And it will.
You know who you are….— John Schindler (@20committee) July 19, 2018
As we reported two days ago, Pentagon still has no guidance/unaware #Russia’s declared defense agreement with Trump on Syria… https://t.co/4tfT5RNso8
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) July 19, 2018
This is all crazy, crazy, crazy.
re: #459 Sir John Barron
I’ve kind of hit a wall in my reading, particularly of American History, which I normally love so much.
I’ve turned to reading some British history, reread a biography of Elizabeth I who I find really fascinating. Also read about the British counter intelligence official who turned out to have been a Soviet spy for decades—Kim Philby. That was a really good book.
But it might take some time, some recovery from the loon in WH for my love of American history to return. I hope it comes back.
Previously, I had read the Count of Monte Cristo and a book about pitching in baseball. That Kim Philby book sounds great. I’m not sure what I’m going to tackle next. Probably something fairly light. I’m thinking Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk might be good. I usually do one print book and one audible. I’ve got Nixon on Audible and The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe in print. Agre about Elizabeth I, one of her Irish rivals Grace O’Malley is someone I claim as a distant kinswoman.
It’s interesting how Trump refuses sit down with investigators from his own government but seems to think handing Ambassador @McFaul over to Putin’s goons is somehow a reasonable thing to consider.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
re: #453 makeitstop
Hmmm, the text she received could be read in two ways: that the texter now believes DJT is in cahoots with Putin or that he’s being sarcastic.
I suspect it’s the former, but I’d be interested in more of the context.
Also want to point out that along with being really brilliant and articulate, Asha Rangappa is ridiculously and absurdly absolutely gorgeous.
re: #458 MsJ
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— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) July 18, 2018
re: #459 Sir John Barron
I’ve kind of hit a wall in my reading, particularly of American History, which I normally love so much.
I’ve turned to reading some British history, reread a biography of Elizabeth I who I find really fascinating. Also read about the British counter intelligence official who turned out to have been a Soviet spy for decades—Kim Philby. That was a really good book.
But it might take some time, some recovery from the loon in WH for my love of American history to return. I hope it comes back.
I’m reading a book about another of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean.
re: #464 goddamnedfrank
Yeah, it’s pretty interesting, isn’t it?
re: #466 JordanRules
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re: #467 Big Beautiful Door
I’m reading a book about another of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean.
I think the wohle Cambridge Five story would make for an excellent TV drama. I’m watching Deutschland 83. I had started it last summer when I flew to Germany but I never finished.
re: #459 Sir John Barron
I’ve kind of hit a wall in my reading, particularly of American History, which I normally love so much.
I’ve turned to reading some British history, reread a biography of Elizabeth I who I find really fascinating. Also read about the British counter intelligence official who turned out to have been a Soviet spy for decades—Kim Philby. That was a really good book.
But it might take some time, some recovery from the loon in WH for my love of American history to return. I hope it comes back.
Let me suggest William Shirer’s COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC if you haven’t read it.
I’m two episodes into The Night Manager and really enjoying it.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
I think the wohle Cambridge Five story would make for an excellent TV drama. I’m watching Deutschland 83. I had started it last summer when I flew to Germany but I never finished.
Hmmm, what’s that?
re: #471 Lupin
Let me suggest William Shirer’s COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC if you haven’t read it.
I’ll definitely look at that one. I finally did read his Rise and Fall this winter. For more lengthy works, I get them on audible. I’m probably going to go with a novel next though. I want something fairly light when I travel.
Conservatives are fucking dopes.
In June 2017, Maria Butina reached out to a progressive civil rights group in DC, asking to interview them about their cyber vulnerabilities for an AU school project. Alarmed, their security consultant contacted the FBI. https://t.co/cun2YUkJ26
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) July 18, 2018
re: #472 wheat-dogg
I’m two episodes into The Night Manager and really enjoying it.
Great, isn’t it?
IMHO Trump is Roper, less smart, less handsome. And Putin knows all.
re: #470 HappyWarrior
I think the wohle Cambridge Five story would make for an excellent TV drama. I’m watching Deutschland 83. I had started it last summer when I flew to Germany but I never finished.
re: #477 MsJ
Conservatives are fucking dopes.
I’m sure there’s nothing to see here, let’s just move along.
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re: #476 HappyWarrior
I’ll definitely look at that one. I finally did read his Rise and Fall this winter. For more lengthy works, I get them on audible. I’m probably going to go with a novel next though. I want something fairly light when I travel.
There re frightening parallels with today’s US of A.
Me, I skipped the battle maps, blow by blow details of WWI. But the rest of the book is terrific.
re: #477 MsJ
Conservatives are fucking dopes.
As I recall, no one was really fooled by the James O’Keefe cosplay stings, but apparently every mark Sacha Baron Cohen has met believed who he was pretending to be.
So, yeah.
re: #476 HappyWarrior
I’ll definitely look at that one. I finally did read his Rise and Fall this winter. For more lengthy works, I get them on audible. I’m probably going to go with a novel next though. I want something fairly light when I travel.
Try Larteguy’s THE CENTURIONS, about the French Vietnam war. It’s a novel tho I wouldn’t call it light.
re: #478 Lupin
Great, isn’t it?
IMHO Trump is Roper, less smart, less handsome. And Putin knows all.
Much less smart, much less handsome. Roper at least cared about his son being kidnapped. Trump would probably complain that his kid was being stupid.
re: #473 Sir John Barron
Hmmm, what’s that?
Basically the premise is this East Germany border guard is sent deep undercover in the West as an aide de camp to a prominent Western German general. They give him a cover for someone they’ve previously killed and it’s complicated by the fact that he has a girlfriend back home and his mother needs a transplant and will be moved to the top of the list if he does this job but since he’s not trained as an agent, he does make some mistakes. I think it’s very good because the three sides shown so far: Americans, West Germans, and East Germans are all shown as real people. The East Germans genuinely fear Reagan’s rhetoric and starting WWIII. The West Germans worry about Reagan putting missiles in their soil. The general has one scene where he tells his American counterpart that it’s easy for Reagan to talk about the “Evil Empire” when he’s 3500 miles away. The American general is sympathetic to the West German concerns but also toes the national line about not wanting to display weakness to the East. Have you got Hulu? It’s on there. It’s one of the more brilliant shows I’ve seen.
re: #477 MsJ
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re: #483 Lupin
Try Larteguy’s THE CENTURIONS, about the French Vietnam war. It’s a novel tho I wouldn’t call it light.
Thanks. That’s definitely something I wanted to learn more about after watching the Burns’ documentary. A lot of us forget that your nation was in Vietnam long before ours was so hearing the French perspective which unfortunately wasn’t much ehard in the Burns documentary would be fascinating to me.
re: #484 wheat-dogg
Much less smart, much less handsome. Roper at least cared about his son being kidnapped. Trump would probably complain that his kid was being stupid.
Yes real life is never as pretty as fiction, is it?
re: #486 HappyWarrior
It’s easy to be duped when you want ot be duped.
I wonder Maria Butina kept a list of who she shagged. I bet some very big names are on it.
re: #485 HappyWarrior
Also, and most importantly, it takes place against the backdrop of the Able Archer ‘83 NATO exercise, which apparently freaked the Kremlin right the hell out.
Quite a few of the USSR’s leadership were of the opinion that Able Archer ‘83 was a ruse of war and a cover for a pre-emptive NATO attack on the Warsaw Pact, or so the story goes.
re: #488 Lupin
Yes real life is never as pretty as fiction, is it?
Truth is stranger than fiction. We see it in the American news daily.
re: #489 wheat-dogg
I wonder Maria Butina kept a list of who she shagged. I bet some very big names are on it.
I’ve been thinking that from the minute I heard about this. And I think Devin Nunes’ might have his name on it. She definitely cultivated relationships with conservative groups here. I’ve seen how easily conservatives fall for attractive woman who spout their talking points. Look at Gun Girl.
re: #427 Sir John Barron
There’s an Internet Kill Switch?
Why does no one not tell me these things?
I think it must be working. Suddenly today my newer Windows 10 system is deciding to freeze in Chrome. Happened twice already.
It appears there are issues from an update in April/May.
Grrrrr.
Anyone else experiencing the problem?
re: #480 Sir John Barron
I’m sure there’s nothing to see here, let’s just move along.
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That article was something. While that girl might have been getting fucked by a lot of republicans, NRA and godly types from the Prayer Breakfast, I think she’s going to get the fucking of her life by Mueller.
Buh bye, honeypot.
re: #485 HappyWarrior
ah yeah that does sound familiar now
re: #489 wheat-dogg
I wonder Maria Butina kept a list of who she shagged. I bet some very big names are on it.
Doesn’t matter if she did. Mueller’s team probably kept it for her.
In other news…Trump’s ‘friends’ really enjoy rubbing our noses in his treason.
#Russia’s state TV host: “It is very bizarre, you can’t bash your own country like that - especially when you’re the President.”Female host: “When Trump says our relations are bad because of American foolishness and stupidity, he really smells like an agent of the Kremlin.” ©️ pic.twitter.com/8fRLrZbUul
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 18, 2018
🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/O6IeqwYHur
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 19, 2018
(edited out fat-finger code-mangling)
re: #489 wheat-dogg
I wonder Maria Butina kept a list of who she shagged. I bet some very big names are on it.
I would bet a bunch that there is video.
re: #494 MsJ
That article was something. While that girl might have been getting fucked by a lot of republicans, NRA and godly types from the Prayer Breakfast, I think she’s going to get the fucking of her life by Mueller.
Buh bye, honeypot.
Read an article about her and the National Prayer Breakfast and how the NPB has become a place to get connected to those in power, which seemed particularly ironic for a humble, prayer based enterprise to turn into.
re: #490 Dr Lizardo
Also, and most importantly, it takes place against the backdrop of the Able Archer ‘83 NATO exercise, which apparently freaked the Kremlin right the hell out.
Quite a few of the USSR’s leadership were of the opinion that Able Archer ‘83 was a ruse of war and a cover for a pre-emptive NATO attack on the Warsaw Pact, or so the story goes.
I actually didn’t realize that. But yeah the East Germans seem genuinely worried about a pre-emptive strike. I’m glad this is German. If it were American made, I’d worry that it would make them too unsympathetic and distant, ironic since they’d be speaking English and I’d be able to understand them more word for word but since it’s in German, which I do not speak, I get to hear them express their concerns as a German actually would. I mean they’re still ruthless.
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I’m two episodes in. Hope to finish by the weekend or next week.
re: #495 Sir John Barron
ah yeah that does sound familiar now
Yeah I think it was recommended to some of us here and I caught some of it on my flight last summer. It’s very good.
re: #471 Lupin
Let me suggest William Shirer’s COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC if you haven’t read it.
I’ll second that. Shirer’s tome on Nazi Germany was an insightful memoir by someone who was there: his book about the Fall of France is something else, though: a thorough and comprehensive history.
And, while it doesn’t excuse French mistakes - military OR political - in the lead up to, and the early battles of WWII ( and they were beaucoup) - it puts a serious dent in the “cheese-eating surrender-monkeys” myth. Definitely a worthwhile read.
re: #497 MsJ
I would bet a bunch that there is video.
If she’s any kind of decent spy, yes. She may have also planted bugs on her marks, cloned their cellphones, etc.
If she cooperates with Mueller, a whole lotta shit will go down fast.
Michael Tracey hasn’t been the same since Maxine Waters made a bong out of his skull.
Difference is: those right-wing theories generally percolated on the margins, and were tolerated by GOP central command. (Trump himself exploited this dynamic.) Whereas Trump/Russia originates in the most mainstream precincts of elite society: media, think tanks, top politicians
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 19, 2018
“Probably?”
You’re comparing an investigation which has, so far, indicted 32 people as part of a global conspiracy against American democracy to some racist bullshit some morons made up once. Do better.— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) July 19, 2018
Difference is: those right-wing theories generally percolated on the margins, and were tolerated by GOP central command. (Trump himself exploited this dynamic.) Whereas Trump/Russia originates in the most mainstream precincts of elite society: media, think tanks, top politicians
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 19, 2018
Michael Tracey just hasn’t been the same ever since Maxine Waters punched his head off and made a bong out of his skull. https://t.co/C4uQ8gdfVj
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 19, 2018
re: #447 Lupin
I still think Obama could have gone on tv at 9 pm on all three networks with someone from the NSA and make public what they knew before the vote.
But I’ve mollified mu views re any later actions actions because his “tool kit” was empty, for which I blame your political system and outdated Constitution, not Obama.
Did Obama’s comments the other day while at the Mandela ceremony in South Africa meet with your approval?
You seemed to be wanting him to say something. He did. So?
Alex Jones is too dumb to figure out if Trump pulls the Internet Kill Switch it cuts him off too!
re: #502 Jay C
I’ll second that. Shirer’s tome on Nazi Germany was an insightful memoir by someone who was there: his book about the Fall of France is something else, though: a thorough and comprehensive history.
And, while it doesn’t excuse French mistakes - military OR political - in the lead up to, and the early battles of WWII ( and they were beaucoup) - it puts a serious dent in the “cheese-eating surrender-monkeys” myth. Definitely a worthwhile read.
The people who call the French that shit are the same people in mindset anyhow who felt we didn’t need to get involved with “another European war” in 1938. I don’t blame the isolationist sentiment at that time nor do I do those who wanted us to stop Hitler but I certainly do blame those who throw that crap at the French and crap on Chamberlain with hindsight bias and Churchilliean propaganda.
re: #471 Lupin
Let me suggest William Shirer’s COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC if you haven’t read it.
Thanks, just ordered.
re: #446 Big Beautiful Door
My brother got his done, and we are entirely Western European, apparently disproving a family story that we had some Native American ancestry.
Remember that you only got half their DNA from your parents (and they from theirs and so on). So the presence of particular “ethnic” DNA is evidence, its absence really proves nothing, particularly if you’re looking for something several generations back.
re: #504 goddamnedfrank
Michael Tracey hasn’t been the same since Maxine Waters made a bong out of his skull.
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re: #487 HappyWarrior
Thanks. That’s definitely something I wanted to learn more about after watching the Burns’ documentary. A lot of us forget that your nation was in Vietnam long before ours was so hearing the French perspective which unfortunately wasn’t much ehard in the Burns documentary would be fascinating to me.
wiki page on THE CENTURIONS. (no spoilers)
It was made into a film starring Anthony Quinn. I never saw it.
We made a pig’s breakfast of Vietnam siding with the wrong people, when the whole thing could have been solved better. (Unlike Algeria’ which was a rat’s nest.) Ho saw communism as the path to freedom but it didn’t have to be. WWII had provided a break in French political control, which could have been continued as long as economic relations were preserved, as it happened in Africa. We owe you apologies for our weak Government dragging you in there,
re: #507 HappyWarrior
The people who call the French that shit are the same people in mindset anyhow who felt we didn’t need to get involved with “another European war” in 1938. I don’t blame the isolationist sentiment at that time nor do I do those who wanted us to stop Hitler but I certainly do blame those who throw that crap at the French and crap on Chamberlain with hindsight bias and Churchilliean propaganda.
Yeah, WWI left Britain and France (and Russia) exhausted and Germany angry.
It was a bad combination.
re: #509 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Remember that you only got half their DNA from your parents (and they from theirs and so on). So the presence of particular “ethnic” DNA is evidence, its absence really proves nothing, particularly if you’re looking for something several generations back.
Absolutely. I’m considerably less Irish than my Dad was in our results. They even guesstimated correctly where in Ireland that Dad’s family was from but for me, I was only 11%.
re: #447 Lupin
I still think Obama could have gone on tv at 9 pm on all three networks with someone from the NSA and make public what they knew before the vote.
But I’ve mollified mu views re any later actions actions because his “tool kit” was empty, for which I blame your political system and outdated Constitution, not Obama.
What provisions do other countries have to nullify disputed elections?
re: #511 Lupin
wiki page on THE CENTURIONS. (no spoilers)
It was made into a film starring Anthony Quinn. I never saw it.
We made a pig’s breakfast of Vietnam siding with the wrong people, when the whole thing could have been solved better. (Unlike Algeria’ which was a rat’s nest.) Ho saw communism as the path to freedom but it didn’t have to be. WWII had provided a break in French political control, which could have been continued as long as economic relations were preserved, as it happened in Africa. We owe you apologies for our weak Government dragging you in there,
Thanks. I’ll put it on my wishlist.
re: #499 Sir John Barron
Read an article about her and the National Prayer Breakfast and how the NPB has become a place to get connected to those in power, which seemed particularly ironic for a humble, prayer based enterprise to turn into.
The NPB is apparently a thing with the Fellowship, AKA the Family. Sessions and Pence are supposedly members. These folks think that the whole bible is being read wrong and Jesus didn’t give a shit about the poor, Jesus was actually a strong mane and Putin and Trump are the new Jesus. They want to inflict their theocracy on the US where their brand of Jesus is the only brand.
I read an interview with Jeff Shallot (sic?? whose father was one of them) last night.
re: #512 Sir John Barron
Yeah, WWI left Britain and France (and Russia) exhausted and Germany angry.
It was a bad combination.
Exactly. We have so much benefits of hindsight now. TBH, as much as I like JFK, I am a little bothered that he wrote his thesis called “Why England Slept” while his own father was a staunch isolationist and pushed isolationism as ambassador.
re: #502 Jay C
I’ll second that. Shirer’s tome on Nazi Germany was an insightful memoir by someone who was there: his book about the Fall of France is something else, though: a thorough and comprehensive history.
And, while it doesn’t excuse French mistakes - military OR political - in the lead up to, and the early battles of WWII ( and they were beaucoup) - it puts a serious dent in the “cheese-eating surrender-monkeys” myth. Definitely a worthwhile read.
Note that it is our alt.right of the day that hated the Popular Front (elected in 36) so much that they virtually delivered France to Herr Hitler. Sounds familiar?
re: #503 wheat-dogg
If she’s any kind of decent spy, yes. She may have also planted bugs on her marks, cloned their cellphones, etc.
If she cooperates with Mueller, a whole lotta shit will go down fast.
That is a given. Without a doubt.
re: #505 ObserverArt
Did Obama’s comments the other day while at the Mandela ceremony in South Africa meet with your approval?
Better late than never?
re: #503 wheat-dogg
If she’s any kind of decent spy, yes. She may have also planted bugs on her marks, cloned their cellphones, etc.
If she cooperates with Mueller, a whole lotta shit will go down fast.
If she was willing to go so far as to do that guy (I forget his name), she was dedicated.
re: #514 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
What provisions do other countries have to nullify disputed elections?
A coup?
re: #521 Belafon
If she was willing to go so far as to do that guy (I forget his name), she was dedicated.
God I forget his name too but yeah, that’s dedication.
re: #455 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Heard a report about some of the Sweden wildfires being above the arctic circle line which is unprecedented and a real sign of global warming.
I hope people that are planning families understand what some of their offspring may be facing in the future if the political leaders of this world don’t move to do something about climate change.
Add in the politics of the world, and I know some grandparents that are very concerned about their grandkids futures. My one brother is one of them
Two patriots. pic.twitter.com/XCPpaRZjN4
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) July 19, 2018
re: #514 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
What provisions do other countries have to nullify disputed elections?
We do.
But of course if Obama couldn’t get Merrick Garland in, he wouldn’t have been able to use the same mechanism even if they existed. As I said, no tool kit.
re: #503 wheat-dogg
If she’s any kind of decent spy, yes. She may have also planted bugs on her marks, cloned their cellphones, etc.
If she cooperates with Mueller, a whole lotta shit will go down fast.
I would be worried about Putin grabbing some people he can hold for trade to get her out. Whether she wants to go or not. People in high places here might encourage that. The sooner her information is public, the better.
boo-fucking-hoo
It’s not easy being a Republican woman in the age of Trump — despite the women’s movement pulsing through the nation. I interviewed a bunch of them, here is what they said -> https://t.co/zSZ5C8sK62 pic.twitter.com/dkqSXwIYNz
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) July 19, 2018
As I’m prone to point out, our current Constitution, promulgated in 1958, has been amended 24 times since. And it requires a popular referendum or 3/5th majority of both Chambers (so, not easy).
re: #520 Lupin
Better late than never?
I have to say that you’re really pissing me off lately. Yes, the US is fucked. Yes, we voted for this moron president. And yes, we are trying to fix it.
If you think Obama could have done anything post election, you are absolutely fucking stoned. We couldn’t even get the republicans to do a joint statement and threatened to say it was nothing more than a political stunt and you think the republicans would have rolled over had Obama done something?
Go the fuck away with that fantastical thinking.
Hindsight might be 20/20 for you but you’re absolutely nuts if you think there is any kind of reality in that thinking.
re: #503 wheat-dogg
If she’s gonna cooperate with Mueller, she might wish to inquire about the US Marshals Witness Protection Program.
‘Cause I’m thinking she’s gonna need it.
re: #524 ObserverArt
Heard a report about some of the Sweden wildfires being above the arctic circle line which is unprecedented and a real sign of global warming.
I hope people that are planning families understand what some of their offspring may be facing in the future if the political leaders of this world don’t move to do something about climate change.
Add in the politics of the world, and I know some grandparents that are very concerned about their grandkids futures. My one brother is one of them
Well, once the US is marginalized, something might give.
re: #527 retired cynic
I would be worried about Putin grabbing some people he can hold for trade to get her out. Whether she wants to go or not. People in high places here might encourage that. The sooner her information is public, the better.
I think going down fast was her problem, no? :-)
re: #528 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah? Well maybe you shouldn’t be a Republican. Maybe you shouldn’t stay in the party of a presidential nominee and now president who once said “Women, you’ve got to treat them like shit.” Good god, these women are as stupid as the women in the alt-right who are shocked to find sexism in that movement. I don’t expect these women to become liberals but oyu know, have some fucking decency and leave the GOP in the trash where it belongs.
re: #528 Backwoods_Sleuth
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There’s an easy cure if being a republican woman is too much for ya.
James Clapper on CNN: “If President Trump doesn’t have a lot of confidence in me, well I think the feeling is mutual, and I also consider myself in very good company when he criticizes me along with the likes of John Brennan, Mike McCabe and Jim Comey. That’s a badge of honor.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
re: #536 MsJ
There’s an easy cure if being a republican woman is too much for ya.
Most US women have figured it out. There’s just something about white women.
re: #537 Backwoods_Sleuth
DJT is pretty impressed with Putin, though. Has a lot of confidence in Putin.
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re: #526 Lupin
We do.
But of course if Obama couldn’t get Merrick Garland in, he wouldn’t have been able to use the same mechanism even if they existed. As I said, no tool kit.
And we have the Electoral College and the Congress. How would your “mechanisms” work if it turned out that the people who controlled them were traitors?
re: #538 Belafon
Most US women have figured it out. There’s just something about white women.
It’s close to being like that with men too. I don’t mind people thinking I’m a little quirky and eccentric but don’t ever mistake me for a Republican.
#BREAKING On the @HouseFloor, @housegop voted to ZERO out our election security funding. @RepMikeQuigley & @WhipHoyer passionately spoke to defend the USA. @HouseDemocrats broke into chant of “USA! USA!”
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 19, 2018
re: #530 MsJ
I have to say that you’re really pissing me off lately. Yes, the US is fucked. Yes, we voted for this moron president. And yes, we are trying to fix it.
If you think Obama could have done anything post election, you are absolutely fucking stoned. We couldn’t even get the republicans to do a joint statement and threatened to say it was nothing more than a political stunt and you think the republicans would have rolled over had Obama done something?
Go the fuck away with that fantastical thinking.
Hindsight might be 20/20 for you but you’re absolutely nuts if you think there is any kind of reality in that thinking.
I didn’t say post-election, I specifically outline a pre-election scenario.
I also said both scenarios.cases were equally convincing (to me). So that means I totally respect your position. I;m just not certain it’s the only one.
So start reading what I write correctly.
re: #540 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
And we have the Electoral College and the Congress. How would your “mechanisms” work if it turned out that the people who controlled them were traitors?
As I said, no tool kit.
re: #543 Lupin
I didn’t say post-election, I specifically outline a pre-election scenario.
I also said both scenarios.cases were equally convincing (to me). So that means I totally respect your position. I;m just not certain it’s the only one.
So start reading what I write correctly.
What I said stands pre and post election.
Kirstjen Nielsen says at #AspenSecurity that she does not think there is evidence that Russia targeted US election infrastructure in 2016 with the specific intent of helping Trump win.
(Putin said the other day that he wanted Trump to win.)— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 19, 2018
Resign.
How can she possibly protect the homeland as is her duty?
re: #542 JordanRules
If there’s a procedural reason for this @SpeakerRyan needs to explain, otherwise we have no choice but to assume they’re leaving the front door unlocked for a reason (cough) GRU (cough). https://t.co/Q6iInrGWYX
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 19, 2018
ATTENTION: “Trolling Level: Galactic Grand Master” has now been replaced by “Trolling Level: @MollyJongFast” pic.twitter.com/rGCmjBM4zV
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 19, 2018
re: #520 Lupin
Better late than never?
I don’t think you really understand the situation Obama was in and the dynamics of him being our first Black president…the amount of hate and suspicion.
The bigotry in this country kept him bottled up in many ways. It allowed Mitch McConnell to use it to stop him at many a turn. It figured into his decisions about the election.
And just think of the dynamics of the guy seeing the end of his term coming…he was actually getting out alive (not to be dismissed easily) and the relief to come with the end and then wham…Russia.
You could say that Obama being president brought about Trump as much, maybe even more than your other reasons.
House Dems chanting “USA! USA!” on House floor as they push for vote on additional election security spending
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 19, 2018
“Today’s result is a body blow to extreme rightwing organisations […]. […] counter-terrorism officers […] will rigorously identify and investigate any violently extreme individual or group who seek to bring a reign of terror to our shores.”’ https://t.co/khY1IYNv0I
— Onnik J. Krikorian (@onewmphoto) July 19, 2018
UK: extreme right wing orgs are a vital threat to national security.
US: eh we don’t need to watch these groups even tho they are responsible for most of the domestic terrorism. https://t.co/xsZ7E5QMLI— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 19, 2018
One of the greatest things about used books are the weird, funny, sad, or just plain unforgettable notes you can often find left behind. Here we compile the most remarkable examples of writing in the margins that our Atlas Obscura community has ever found. https://t.co/Jouka2tHoU
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) July 19, 2018
oh bernie!
Umm, guys…
Robert Mueller just submitted his list of evidence for the Paul Manafort trial and look whose name is all over the first 30 items.
Tad Devine.
Bernie Sanders’ Chief Strategist. pic.twitter.com/EmFMp7dTVB— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 19, 2018
re: #547 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
WTF?
Meaning, unfortunately nothing he could use, call on or rely upon reliably, to effect a change.
Let’s use a real-life scenario, that of the last French Presidential election.
In addition to Russian phishing, there were three purely French factors that might have affected our election: (a) the so-called “PenelopeGate” affair that impacted the major right-wing party leader, (b) a foiled terrorist attack in Marseille,and finally (c) the terrorist attack perpetrated on the Champs-Elysees the week before the voting.
Prior to the election, a postponement of the voting was discussed publicly by the outgoing Government.
Post-election, a possible annulment of the ballots was also discussed, but that is possible only in case of manifest, proven fraud. What prompted the discussion was that it was learned that more than 500,000 voters had received duplicate electoral cards, raising fears of fraud. But in the end there was no evidence to that effect.
In cases of proven fraud (eg: ballot stuffing, defamatory propaganda or dissemination of material after the official closure of the campaign), the case law requires that an election be canceled, or the results modified, if the fraud found had the effect of moving a sufficient number of votes to distort the results, but only in the voting bureau(s) impacted, not nationally.
re: #554 JordanRules
I went to a Christian college (very Christian) and in one of my used psych books, there was a page of pictures and every one of them had pubic hair drawn on the women (in pen).
I laughed my ass off.
Cheebus
.@Jim_Jordan: “I knew of no abuse. Never heard of it. Never had any reported to me. If I had I’d have dealt w/ it. Every single coach has said the same thing I have. All kinds of wrestlers have said the same thing I have & the reason they have all said that is bc it’s the truth.” pic.twitter.com/DA6pHookYu
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 19, 2018
Oklahoma City sovereign citizen arrested; he had put bogus ‘CHURCH NOT FOR HIRE” tags on his vehicle. He was also planning on running for president; I’d say the arrest would throw a wrench in that but I notice standards are lower these days.https://t.co/13wZ5sGGdP
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) July 19, 2018
re: #549 JordanRules
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Oy. Fucking. Vey.
To my shame, this happened two towns over from where I’m sitting right now.
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ALL HANDS ON DECK.
What’s this man’s name?
This is Long Island, New York.
The street sign appears to say “Deer Park.”
Be a bigot and we will make you famous for it. My blood is boiling watching this.
What’s his name? Tell me everything you know about him. pic.twitter.com/xeTJMqRheX— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) July 19, 2018
I hope they out that racist sack of shit.
We finally learned what great deal making advice Trump gave to Theresa May - and why she laughed at him.
I’ll just leave this here…link for sightlesshttps://t.co/8t7u50ULMc pic.twitter.com/nFcjs4fejh
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 19, 2018
re: #555 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh bernie!
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Big surprise…said no one that actually follows what kind of things the Russians were doing to help him…whether he knew it or not. ( I think he did)
And now that more and more comes out…I may have just been a little too early and off in my thinking when I did this Photoshop.
I was originally joking about how Bernie was being portrayed by the wingnuts.
I consider it a Freudian Photoshop slip.
re: #556 Lupin
…and they work only if the people in power have the will to use them.
I am now done with this conversation.
re: #477 MsJ
Conservatives are fucking dopes.
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Let us not forget that her boyfriend and target, Republican political operative Paul Erickson was helping with her actual AU homework while she was apparently doing recon on our infrastructure too.
now, THIS part…
this is my favorite. i had to cover my mouth to stifle the scream.
remember how butina got that advanced degree in international relations from American? remember how she graduated with a 4.0?
SHE WASN’T EVEN DOING HER OWN WORK! pic.twitter.com/T5msTwgUaQ— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) July 18, 2018
And some reporter needs to dig the fuck in on GA. Lot’s of bad looks that should at least be thoroughly investigated.
Asked how he landed Trump’s support, Kemp said: “Who knows? We’ve just been down here working hard.” The Perdues - David & Sonny - are both neutral in the race, and several Perdue allies said they had no part in it … #gapol https://t.co/MRDDpdES3I
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) July 18, 2018
No idea huh? Surrrre.
Thread! Russian hackers “targeted state & county offices responsible for administering the U.S. 2016 elections. For example, on or about 10/18/16, [they] visited the websites of certain counties in GEORGIA, IOWA, & FLORIDA to identify vulnerabilities! https://t.co/uRuv6Ytq5a 1/ pic.twitter.com/UrwZkDDZu2
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 13, 2018
Given the information from the indictment about Russia specifically poking around in Georgia’s election system, u really should read this thread about Kislyak’s visit to Kennesaw University (which housed Ga’s Election Center). Seriously. Read it. cc: @michellany #ProtectOurVotes https://t.co/InP0h3pchN
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 13, 2018
re: #562 darthstar
We finally learned what great deal making advice Trump gave to Theresa May - and why she laughed at him.
That’s what his tariffs are, the closest he can get to suing other countries.
re: #561 makeitstop
Oy. Fucking. Vey.
To my shame, this happened two towns over from where I’m sitting right now.
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I hope they out that racist sack of shit.
I wonder how he votes?
re: #561 makeitstop
Oy. Fucking. Vey.
To my shame, this happened two towns over from where I’m sitting right now.
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I hope they out that racist sack of shit.
Already outted.
Just spoke with a lovely gentleman from Paramount Chimney. The Racist in question…real name Brett Caiet. He was fired from Paramount Chimney approx. one year ago. I was assured they would never hire someone of that caliber. Remember: real name BRETT CAIET
— IndivisibleJohnstown (@IndivisiblJtown) July 19, 2018
re: #561 makeitstop
Oy. Fucking. Vey.
To my shame, this happened two towns over from where I’m sitting right now.
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I hope they out that racist sack of shit.
Update: The guy’s been ID’d. He used to work at a local chimney company in my town.
The company had to put up a disclaimer that they fired him over a year ago.
Now, to find his current employer and make them a former employer.
re: #441 MsJ
They report that like Republicans think that’s a bad thing.
So what am I missing?
I was scanning TPM and Politico this morning, and they’re treating the “Trump has been lying about Putin ordering the election attacks all along” issue like a fucking a side bar. TPM at least acknowledged it, but from what I saw, Politico is straight up ignoring it.
Fuck, even the NYT won’t come out and say Trump lied in their headline; it’s some bullshit about “muddying the waters”.
So, are we going down this road of “Yeah, Trump lied, but watchyoogonnado/shruggie emoticon” with the national press, again? I’m trying to wrap my head around an American president lying about something like this not being an impeachable offense, and coming up empty.
Pokud vám ještě připadá ruský🇷🇺motorkářský gang jako neškodná banda ruských nacionalistů, podívejte se co se děje na jejich slovenské základně v obci Dolná Krupá u Trnavy. Mají tam i tanky. Cvičí se tam Slovenští branci. Toto už není ani zdaleka sranda. pic.twitter.com/rA8poK1cWc
— Roman M (@Fbeyeee) July 19, 2018
Kremlin-friendly biker gang Night Wolves set up European base near a small village in #Slovakia (on estate owned by friend of long-time interior minister Kalinak). Drone photos show armored vehicles and tanks inside. Also alleged training camp for Slovak far-right paramilitaries. https://t.co/FiXPT44lOb
— Daniel Kral (@DanielKral1) July 19, 2018
Fact they chose Slovakia not surprising:
- geographical location ideal
- in EU, €zone, NATO, Schengen (!)
- most Russophile population in V4 (poll below)
- political leaders’ soft spot for Kremlin
- extreme right party in parl. with strong grassrootshttps://t.co/LseqkmoNdp— Daniel Kral (@DanielKral1) July 19, 2018
This is a good thread. Possibly a refresher for some but good nonetheless.
Some interesting stuff here in Mueller’s evidence list for the Paul Manafort trial, including emails between Manafort, Rick Gates, Viktor Yanukovych, & Tad Devine (Bernie Sanders’ 2016 chief strategist):https://t.co/TPXeClKzXE pic.twitter.com/tDgaoKE9vy
— Avi (@AviAhvee) July 19, 2018
re: #573 JordanRules
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Night Wolves are the same thugs that showed up in Ukraine/Maidan?
Republicans block effort to subpoena only U.S. witness of secret Trump-Putin meeting https://t.co/yhy3XhxT6y pic.twitter.com/7WhuNDk6RL
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 19, 2018
Co-conspirators https://t.co/EFkFmER4Ub
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 19, 2018
BREAKING: Belgium’s air traffic control center says no airplanes can land or depart across the country because of a technical glitch in its data system. https://t.co/EdpFHfj8dC
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 19, 2018
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) July 19, 2018
re: #490 Dr Lizardo
Also, and most importantly, it takes place against the backdrop of the Able Archer ‘83 NATO exercise, which apparently freaked the Kremlin right the hell out.
Quite a few of the USSR’s leadership were of the opinion that Able Archer ‘83 was a ruse of war and a cover for a pre-emptive NATO attack on the Warsaw Pact, or so the story goes.
In season 1 of The Americans is the episode when Hinkley shoots Reagan. The Soviets at the embassy, and the spies’ bosses at The Centre, are convinced they’re going to be framed for it, that it’s the opening move in Alexander Haig’s military coup. One of the back-home spy bosses thinks it really was the Soviets, that somebody from another department ordered it and why wasn’t he informed.
Philip and Elizabeth are ordered to kill Schultz and a couple of other people to take advantage of the distraction and start WWIII; Philip puts his marriage/job/partnership in jeopardy by insisting it isn’t them and they shouldn’t do it. (it turns out to be a very good and useful thing they’re friends with the FBI counter-intel guy next door, they find out and report back 12 hours before it was in the news that it was some wacky crazy kid and nothing to do with the Russians.)
Also Nina, a secretary at the Ambassador’s office, goes to a bar where congressional aides and low-level staffers from cabinet departments hang out, is able to report back to the Rezident that it’s unconnected and they should take no action. Nina gets a few good storylines of her own in later seasons.
. @JonahNRO in an AEI conversation with Speaker Ryan: “Donald Trump is not Hitler. Hitler could have repealed Obamacare.”
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) July 19, 2018
The author of “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change” is concerned that Trump’s opponents are flinging around irresponsible rhetoric. https://t.co/vdiXLbNTSK
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 19, 2018
So, Tad Devine is going to be taking a starring role in the Manafort trial as his name comes up repeatedly in communications with Manafort.
Yeah, that’s Bernie’s strategery guy. I’m sure there will be some interesting conversations that came up there. This also increases the chances that it implicates Bernie as well.
And that my friends is how the GOP/Fox crowd makes this about something other than the Trump-Russia. They point to Bernie and the fringe left. It wasn’t us - it was them.
Never let them get away with that since we’re talking about Manafort’s trial and that Manafort was working for Trump when he engaged in criminal misconduct that if found guilty by a jury would mean 100s of years in prison.
Manafort was working by and for Trump. He was furthering Trump’s interests.
Legal groups say the Trump admin is still separating families, holding children in unsafe/unsanitary detention conditions, and keeping advocates in the dark on the reunifications — in violation of federal court orders https://t.co/SMAJMSFjib pic.twitter.com/vbKkidoXUi
— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) July 19, 2018
Disgusting and dangerous.
When asked about Trump’s comment that there were “fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville, Sec. Nielsen seemingly doubled down. “it’s not that one side was right and one side was wrong” #AspenSecurity
— Tess Owen (@misstessowen) July 19, 2018
Our first big review is in, and I couldn’t be more honored.
EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES by Rick Wilson | @KirkusReviews
https://t.co/DUh14gznLl #kirkus— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 19, 2018
Kirkus, no less. I might have to buy this. I love Kirkus.
re: #584 JordanRules
Disgusting and dangerous.
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re: #584 JordanRules
Disgusting and dangerous.
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unless… you are one. is what im saying. https://t.co/4QxxqmpSvD
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 19, 2018
Soup ‘n Sammy pic.twitter.com/ykowpzV3Cw
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) July 19, 2018
Citizens United placed American democracy on sale.
Putin thought, hey, I’ve got some cash.— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) July 19, 2018
Long form https://t.co/3fSAUlVvUr
— ProTip (@alt_localgov) July 19, 2018
“There aren’t a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way.” https://t.co/hl7MQdoljU
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) July 19, 2018
Worth noting: Although we have never seen the president’s tax returns, we have seen filings for both the Donald J. Trump Foundation and the Eric Trump Foundation. Examinations of both led to state investigations.
— Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) July 19, 2018
If Biden is the candidate, I’ll vote for him. Even if I have to push his wheelchair myself. Hell, I don’t care if he’s embalmed at that point. https://t.co/44OrdZMrIk
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 19, 2018
Well, this sucks.
Why, @amazon, are you charging more for this book once I log in? pic.twitter.com/leb8jVdeV4
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
Is this how @Amazon @amazonsmile is supposed to work? You just charge more?@AmazonHelp me out here. https://t.co/qdJf1p13He
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
re: #595 Sir John Barron
Are you getting charged more through AmazonSmile?
Yes I am. And I doubt the entire difference is going to my recipient.
I am fucking pissed.
Quote from Trumpocracy, newly relevant in wake of Trumpist tacit acquiescence to Russian aid in US elections pic.twitter.com/pjBqxpBZHi
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 19, 2018
re: #584 JordanRules
Video: DHS Secretary Nielsen on Trump blaming Charlottesville on “both sides”: “It’s not that one side was right and one side was wrong” pic.twitter.com/yLEcyhUQRO
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) July 19, 2018
this is what fdr said before sending off the troops to fight nazis in ww2 too. https://t.co/bBJPVULNYK
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 19, 2018
re: #593 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you want somebody who’s a little too old, let’s get somebody incredibly competent, why not Warren?
— Jae Gregory (@Aspengardener) July 19, 2018
If Warren is the candidate, I’ll vote for her.
If it’s Harris, or Duckworth, or Biden, or a ham sandwich with hot garlic mayo, I’ll be there. https://t.co/b8z54BDZHM— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 19, 2018
re: #597 MsJ
Yes I am. And I doubt the entire difference is going to my recipient.
I am fucking pissed.
I’m seeing the $12.99 price (not Smile)
re: #597 MsJ
Yes I am. And I doubt the entire difference is going to my recipient.
I am fucking pissed.
I wonder if a price differential is applied to all products? Can you tell if it is doing it for more than one product?
re: #602 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m seeing the $12.99 price (not Smile)
Go to the Kirkus page and then click on Amazon.
Tom Burt, VP of security at Microsoft, says the company detected Russian phishing attacks on three candidates in the 2018 midterms “who would be interesting from an espionage perspective.” Wouldn’t reveal who they are. #AspenSecurity
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 19, 2018
re: #603 Sir John Barron
I wonder if a price differential is applied to all products? Can you tell if it is doing it for more than one product?
I would have to do a broader analysis.
Breaking News: Alexandria sarcophagus opened https://t.co/0ghXBdQMHS #Egypt #Alexandria #Egyptology #Archaeology #AlexanderTheGreat pic.twitter.com/DY8gCBCGPl
— Luxor Times (@luxortimes) July 19, 2018
Hi, we’re a kitchenware company. I am asking for permission to use these pictures, and, furthermore, that The Sun not be allowed to use them.
Thanks in advance.— Vremi (@vremiofficial) July 19, 2018
MOMENTS AGO: GOP leader blocks resolution backing intel community on Russia. pic.twitter.com/gIS0JnT5Z2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 19, 2018
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe I saw this in a Bones episode. :-)
That they are doing this in the open air is a little scary. I think a few new thrillers are about to be written.
p.s. Laughing at the 2nd tweet re the Sun.
Bernie Sanders Knew & did nothing, worked with them
Donald Trump Knew & did nothing, worked with them
17 Intelligent Agencies Knew, warned America, GOP silenced them
President Obama Knew but republicans stopped him
Hillary Clinton Knew and was the only on sounding the alarm— Mr. Weeks ✊🏽 (@MrDane1982) July 19, 2018
periodic reminder: Trump walking back statements, then flip-flopping the walk back, then WH contradicting that…..it’s from the Kremlin’s ‘Fog of Unknowability’ handbook.
it’s what Putin has been doing w/ Russian press for a decade.— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 19, 2018
When asked about Trump’s comment that there were “fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville, Sec. Nielsen seemingly doubled down. “it’s not that one side was right and one side was wrong” #AspenSecurity
— Tess Owen (@misstessowen) July 19, 2018
I know we don’t have a lot of un-rung alarm bells left, but maybe let’s save one for the US head of Homeland Security who defends a defense of neo-Nazis who literally killed a counter-demonstrator with a car in a US street in clear daylight in a crowd https://t.co/8an9aJuiSe
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) July 19, 2018
re: #609 lawhawk
What does this Mean? I can’t keep up. Seriously. Please help.
re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth
I did. Not Smile, just regular Amazon.
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I still have the page up. I copied the URL into a new page and the price changed to what you see.
Maybe they had a misprice listed.
re: #612 lawhawk
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Yep. Found Bernie’s DeVine ties very interesting as well his vote on the sanctions and accepting Trump’s “explanation.” It’s going to disappoint a lot of people but we’re going to discover Bernie had a lot of help from not so innocent forces.
re: #616 Dave In Austin
What does this Mean? I can’t keep up. Seriously. Please help.
It means Fox is lying. Republicans voted down bringing in the interpreter who was in the meeting with Putin.
When one side of an equation includes neo- and crypto-Nazis, white supremacists, the KKK, Citronella ISIS, alt-right incels, and a sewage barge of human filth… they’re always wrong, @SecNielsen.
This is Civilization 101 stuff.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 19, 2018
re: #620 MsJ
It means Fox is lying. Republicans voted down bringing in the interpreter who was in the meeting with Putin.
Thx, and Fuck!!!!
re: #616 Dave In Austin
What does this Mean? I can’t keep up. Seriously. Please help.
Never mind. I misread.
I have liberal friends that are currently gunning up……
I smashed my AK a few years ago and posted pics with no regret to weapon or cost.
Now I regret it and am seriously reconsidering.
re: #485 HappyWarrior
Basically the premise is this East Germany border guard is sent deep undercover in the West as an aide de camp to a prominent Western German general. They give him a cover for someone they’ve previously killed and it’s complicated by the fact that he has a girlfriend back home and his mother needs a transplant and will be moved to the top of the list if he does this job but since he’s not trained as an agent, he does make some mistakes. I think it’s very good because the three sides shown so far: Americans, West Germans, and East Germans are all shown as real people. The East Germans genuinely fear Reagan’s rhetoric and starting WWIII. The West Germans worry about Reagan putting missiles in their soil. The general has one scene where he tells his American counterpart that it’s easy for Reagan to talk about the “Evil Empire” when he’s 3500 miles away. The American general is sympathetic to the West German concerns but also toes the national line about not wanting to display weakness to the East. Have you got Hulu? It’s on there. It’s one of the more brilliant shows I’ve seen.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Fox “News” lying again. Headline should read:
Moments Ago Republicans Blocked Bringing in Putin Meeting Interpreter so America (And the Pentagon) Would Know What Was Promised
You are nothing more than a Republican propaganda outlet.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
re: #625 Dave In Austin
I have liberal friends that are currently gunning up……
I smashed my AK a few years ago and posted pics with no regret to weapon or cost.
Now I regret it and am seriously reconsidering.
At this point I am thinking it’s not the government we need to fear (well, them too) but the fight appears it is going to be between us and them with them being lunatic conservatives.
Sessions said Congress has fully funded election assistance grants that were created under the Help America Vote Act passed in the wake of the contested 2000 election. He said states still have money left from this year’s $380 million appropriation—and that lawmakers have not been made aware of any outstanding needs as the November midterm elections approach.
Holy shit.
Rep Jim Jordan on why House R’s shot down Dem push for more election security $$: “I know what we need for safe and secure elections, and that’s voter ID.”
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 19, 2018
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 19, 2018
re: #627 MsJ
Thanks. I couldn’t see the picture, and it turns out the text is wrong. Fun.
re: #631 makeitstop
Holy shit.
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I have to show my Id already Touchie Jordan. What more do you want, you pig faced dog fucker.
As a result of unprecedented new developments, the Democrats put forth a number of concrete measures today to protect us and our elections. They even started chanting USA!USA! to remind their colleagues what this is about. The Republicans blocked it all. They went with Trump, the Russian asset.
re: #631 makeitstop
Holy shit.
Well the Freedumb Foundation for Liberty Freedom knows better than us I guess.
//
re: #632 HappyWarrior
Is FNC Russia Today for Trump or is Russia Today FNC for Putin?
At this point they are completely interchangeable.
RFE/RL has released its investigation into the individuals and Russian intelligence units that have been charged with hacking the 2016 presidential election. https://t.co/os4f7VUv2v pic.twitter.com/fmmHY3qIad
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) July 19, 2018
“…One of the accused participated in a 2014 conference of hackers on the topic of “infiltration, hacking, and the national peculiarities of cyberwarfare.” The building in the Moscow suburb of Khimki that is referred to in the indictment as “the Tower” can be connected to the founder of the pro-Kremlin Antimaidan propaganda organization.
And the military unit that allegedly carried out the distribution of the stolen information through WikiLeaks and anonymous social-media accounts is based at the same address as GRU officer Oleg Ivannikov (known as Orion), who has been named by the independent Bellingcat research organization as a participant in the events that led to the July 2014 downing of the MH-17 passenger jet over eastern Ukraine.
“Hi, my name’s Jim Jordan. I know Louie Gohmert and Steve King get all the press around here for being batshit insane congresscritters and DJT shills, but I want everyone to know that I can compete in that class, too.”
re: #634 HappyWarrior
Rep Jim Jordan on why House R’s shot down Dem push for more election security $$: “I know what we need for safe and secure elections, and that’s voter ID.”
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 19, 2018
Yes, because an ID (which I already have to show) will stop electronic hacking.
Moron.
Treasonous, sexual predator approved moron. https://t.co/7jIhPtckld— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
re: #631 makeitstop
Holy shit.
“I know what we need for food safety in restaurants, and it’s napkins.”
re: #642 MsJ
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I have to recite my name and address. Jordan is a dangerous douchebag.
re: #506 Joe Bacon 🌹
Alex Jones is too dumb to figure out if Trump pulls the Internet Kill Switch it cuts him off too!
He’s smart enough to know trump won’t. Jones is just ranting incoherently for his fanbase.
re: #642 MsJ
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How does voter ID protect from hackers? Jim Jordan knows as much protecting our elections as he does about protecting athletes he coaches.
— WhiteHouseWacko (@WhiteHouseWacko) July 19, 2018
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
Interesting. Looks like they’ve got a complete skeleton there.
I read that it’s believed the sarcophagus dates from the Ptolemaic Dynasty - and I’ve certainly seen the speculation that it’s the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great (that speculation is rampant in the Middle East apparently).
Fascinating as hell.
The State Duma Deputy also sent a letter to Ambassador Huntsman asking for a speedy release of Butina which according to them is a “witch hunt” pic.twitter.com/C7yddZYO7E
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) July 19, 2018
I could have been wrong.
Actually the vote was to back the assessment that Russia attacked our election. Why do republicans support you Russians more then the USA? That’s the real question
— maxi0055 (@Jajixete) July 19, 2018
I stand corrected.
Has the vote for the Interpreter happened? I thought I read it had and the GOP rejected it.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 19, 2018
re: #644 HappyWarrior
I have to recite my name and address. Jordan is a dangerous douchebag.
That is how we used to do it. Now I have to present an ID.
And now I vote expat, so I don’t go anywhere.
Addendum… I know nothing about how elections are conducted in Britain. But since the same underlying actors were there during the Brexit vote, I do wonder.re: #275 Lupin
Hey one more piece of evidence that your Constitution is a dimwit document, hopelessly outdated. Thank you!
A bit of history and context on throwing out the Constitution…
There is a recurring thread in right wing and libertarian circles that the Constitution is outdated and needs to be replaced. The mechanism proposed for this is called a Constitutional Convention.
I believe that the last time this actually was attempted was in 1861 by Southern slavers who invoked such a Constitutional Convention to give cover for their secession.
Beyond the fact that this attempt did not go well for the perpetrators, there is a historical context that such calls often come from the far right for far right goals and agenda.
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time….’
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
re: #648 Backwoods_Sleuth
The State Duma Deputy also sent a letter to Ambassador Huntsman asking for a speedy release of Butina which according to them is a “witch hunt”
And oddly, they seem to have caught a witch.
re: #647 Dr Lizardo
Interesting. Looks like they’ve got a complete skeleton there.
I read that it’s believed the sarcophagus dates from the Ptolemaic Dynasty - and I’ve certainly seen the speculation that it’s the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great (that speculation is rampant in the Middle East apparently).
Fascinating as hell.
From the MoA press release: “Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities…announced that the sarcophagus is filled with sewage
water that leaked from a sewage trench, and three skeletons
probably of warriors.”— Jen Thum (@EgyptoloJen) July 19, 2018
@JohnCornyn @tedcruz So this confirms it. You 2 are colluded Russian assets. You vote regarding the traitor’s interpreter proves it.#ShameOnYou
You need explain yourselves. @RepRWilliams, is this you as well? Voting for the Russians? @JulieForTX25 @BetoORourke— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 19, 2018
re: #648 Backwoods_Sleuth
Send a picture of Erickson (I think that was his name) and tell them that there’s no way she was screwing this guy because she liked him.
re: #653 Backwoods_Sleuth
From the MoA press release: “Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities…announced that the sarcophagus is filled with sewage
water that leaked from a sewage trench, and three skeletons
probably of warriors.”
That’s damned interesting - and somewhat unusual. Three skeletons entombed in a single sarcophagus? That’s quite a mystery.
re: #648 Backwoods_Sleuth
A letter? To Huntsmann?
These requests demands are supposed to go right to the WH.
re: #656 Dr Lizardo
That’s damned interesting - and somewhat unusual. Three skeletons entombed in a single sarcophagus? That’s quite a mystery.
Wow! A three way going on for 3,000+ years! 😈
re: #659 Joe Bacon 🌹
Wow! A three way going on for 3,000+ years! 😈
Heh.
In all seriousness, I’ve never heard of three bodies being placed and buried in a single sarcophagus before. That’s damned peculiar, but if it’s actually from the Ptolemaic Dynasty, I admit I’m not familiar with their funerary practices.
Most thinking people already understand that Trump is lying when he said that he had misspoken in Helsinki. But from the context of Trump’s speech it is clear that when he said “would”, he meant it, not the “wouldn’t” he claimed the following day. Here’s the logic:
In that same speech Trump declared that Putin had made “an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer.” So, if Trump believed American intelligence sources that Putin had meddled in the election, why would he think American law enforcement would want the criminal (Putin) to help conduct the investigation? The only thing incredible about that offer is that anyone would be dumb enough to think that would be helpful rather than harmful to the investigation.
oh…
Russia tests new nuclear weapons after summit with Trump. https://t.co/mOQcKImLuk pic.twitter.com/UoDXudKVPe
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 19, 2018
re: #660 Dr Lizardo
Heh.
In all seriousness, I’ve never heard of three bodies being placed and buried in a single sarcophagus before. That’s damned peculiar, but if it’s actually from the Ptolemaic Dynasty, I admit I’m not familiar with their funerary practices.
I have some vague memory of hearing about multiple-occupant sarcophagi, but I can’t track down a reference.
re: #663 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I have some vague memory of hearing about multiple-occupant sarcophagi, but I can’t track down a reference.
The poor man’s Terra Cotta Army.
Sorry…couldn’t resist.
The Trump Organization missed property-tax deadlines in five states: report https://t.co/ICHlmNc9gu pic.twitter.com/gcrWN81ibG
— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2018
re: #649 MsJ
I could have been wrong.
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They’ve also refused to subpoena the interpreter, but that was part of the HPSCI.
In a sane world, this display from the GOP today would be a major, major scandal. Here, unfortunately, it’s just a day that ends in “Y”.
Do you have any ideas as to how we can get Putin, Trump and the GOP to work towards implementing these noble goals? I look forward to your proposal.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
re: #665 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
SEE HOW BROKE HES GOING BY BEING PRESIDENT
Mitch McConnell just set up a vote today on this @SenSchumer resolution calling for refusing to hand over U.S. diplomats or officers to Vladimir Putin.
(The White House wouldn’t rule out doing so yesterday.) pic.twitter.com/Rho9WloA4U— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 19, 2018
re: #645 Big Beautiful Door
He’s smart enough to know trump won’t. Jones is just ranting incoherently for his fanbase.
Yes. Now playing at The Tin-Foil Cinema near you;
“Guess Coup’s Coming To Dinner!”
I’m getting a little steamed today and I had to take it out on Paul Ryan. It felt good.
Sorry….not sorry.
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Trump Administration Weakens Political Nonprofit Disclosures https://t.co/0JQWzHJboh
— Philip Hackney (@EOTaxProf) July 19, 2018
Here is the @peteroverby piece on Morning Edition regarding the bad IRS move to give up a more than 80 year policy of collecting information on substantial donors to tax exempt organizations. Glad they grabbed up this particular point I made. Let me know what you think. https://t.co/QD6Qm9OLco
— Philip Hackney (@EOTaxProf) July 19, 2018
re: #669 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does this mean that the republicans understand the disaster it would be for them if they were to do this; turn over an American ambassador to a hostile foreign country?
Or will they just vote it down, too?
The Senate will vote at 1:45 on a measure expressing opposition to providing any current or former USG officials for questioning by the government of Vladimir Putin. This will be a roll call vote, not unanimous consent, so it has a better shot of passing than the UC requests.
— Ali Rogin (@AliABCNews) July 19, 2018
This resolution will definitely pass the Senate, putting the chamber on record for the third time in the last week raising objections symbolically about something the president is doing or considering. The question on this resolution: Will any Republican vote against it? https://t.co/nQafoth6qT
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 19, 2018
re: #673 MsJ
Does this mean that the republicans understand the disaster it would be for them if they were to do this; turn over an American ambassador to a hostile foreign country?
Or will they just vote it down, too?
And will it need a veto-proof vote?
re: #673 MsJ
Does this mean that the republicans understand the disaster it would be for them if they were to do this; turn over an American ambassador to a hostile foreign country?
Or will they just vote it down, too?
Vote against and claim “It violates Prez authority, blah blah”.
Alternative Plot: Russia inserted themselves as deeply as possible into the GOP with the end goal of destroying the party which results in decades of Democratic Party control of US politics.
….hey, a boy can dream…..
Thanks, bud.
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 18, 2018
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 19, 2018
When you equate goddamned Nazis with the people protesting them, you know what that makes you @SecNielsen? A collaborating Nazi.
Yeah, you’re enabling goddamned Nazis to conduct further attacks like the one in Charlottesville because they know Trump has their back.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 19, 2018
re: #673 MsJ
Does this mean that the republicans understand the disaster it would be for them if they were to do this; turn over an American ambassador to a hostile foreign country?
Or will they just vote it down, too?
no idea.
I’m just amazed that McConnell is letting it come up for a vote.
omfg @colbertlateshow did a Schoolhouse Rock! song called “Double Negative Junction” and you need to watch this… pic.twitter.com/Vw1ke30C5W
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 19, 2018
Trump administration wants immigrants to pass a test before being admitted into the country https://t.co/egy3wmsiIF pic.twitter.com/sZfyB12YVG
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 19, 2018
It involves a paper bag. https://t.co/2u2h3RmxaB
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 19, 2018
That moment when @SenRandPauI stands tall for murderers and totalitarians, bravely blocking resolution to protect McFaul and Browder. #YourTotalitarianMoment
— Karoli (@Karoli) July 19, 2018
re: #680 Backwoods_Sleuth
no idea.
I’m just amazed that McConnell is letting it come up for a vote.
Appearances.
He more or less has to, but he is probably hoping his boys shoot it down…even if they have to actually put their names to the vote.
The Republican congress is running out of tricks that do not prove they are obstructing and colluding with Trump and the Russians.
But they will continue to be the un-American asses they are because they really have no choice now. All in and with no where to go.
They have their base and that is it. They are getting hated by everyone else.
re: #682 gocart mozart
Every American has to pass that test in order to vote.
So there is something distinctly curious about this. Did Twitter start adding random numbers when someone creates an account?
Supposed lefties. Both have good language skills, one swears he is a Dem from OH (highly doubtful) and the other is all lefty tweets. Both use the word Humpers in their tweets.
I am…curious. I think these are long con accounts.
re: #680 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #673 MsJ
Does this mean that the republicans understand the disaster it would be for them if they were to do this; turn over an American ambassador to a hostile foreign country?
Or will they just vote it down, too?
no idea.
I’m just amazed that McConnell is letting it come up for a vote.
Well, even though I’ve been thinking that the whole McFaul flap is fundamentally Theater For The Absurd; it’s unlikely that Congressional Republicans would even see blocking the Con. Res as a “disaster” - they probably don’t think Trump would do it anyway, and, as we’ve repeatedly seen - for years - fundamentally don’t give a flying f*ck what anything looks like: as long as they depend on their Toady Media to deflect, obfuscate or lie. And they usually do.
And as for McConnell: it’s a cheap piece of good PR: taking a legislative stand against a hugely unpopular *suggestion* by the “President”? Real Profile in Courage, there….
PS: I’m just guessing that the notion of handing over US officials to Russia is in fact, “hugely unpopular” - not that Congressional GOP would care, anyway. Any polling out on this idea?
re: #687 MsJ
So there is something distinctly curious about this. Did Twitter start adding random numbers when someone creates an account?
Supposed lefties. Both have good language skills, one swears he is a Dem from OH (highly doubtful) and the other is all lefty tweets. Both use the word Humpers in their tweets.
I am…curious. I think these are long con accounts.
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The accounts with an 8-digit string of numbers after the name are Russian bots.
I thought of this line a year ago under my old account but that account + tweets were all deleted in December. At least they corrected the meme. lol
#PutinsPuppet #TreasonousTrump #TreasonousGOP pic.twitter.com/l1COBDbBrF
— Roberta ❄️🐾❄️ 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 (@RobertaD7777) February 10, 2018
Not to nit pick but that should be “First black male president, first blackmailed president”
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) February 15, 2018
Of course they did. #TrumpKnew pic.twitter.com/vq1zr7Rzt5
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@TrumpsareNazis) July 19, 2018
re: #691 Sir John Barron
I think she’s predicting.
re: #690 sagehen
The accounts with an 8-digit string of numbers after the name are Russian bots.
That’s what I thought, too. But look at the entire timeline of the 2nd one. It is all lefty tweets. That’s why I am saying long con.
Tweets by donaldt16012877re: #687 MsJ
So there is something distinctly curious about this. Did Twitter start adding random numbers when someone creates an account?
Supposed lefties. Both have good language skills, one swears he is a Dem from OH (highly doubtful) and the other is all lefty tweets. Both use the word Humpers in their tweets.
I am…curious. I think these are long con accounts.
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If someone tries to hack your account, twitter sends you a notification
But if the account is dormant/abandoned, the original owner won’t see the notifications
The troll farm has been hacking those accounts, you’ll notice huge time gaps between older posts & current ones pic.twitter.com/p1jyeBnNzL— Shawn in Az 🖖🏽🌵 (@CaptainsLog2O18) July 14, 2018
Twitter has always added numbers to the end of your account name as a suggestion, if your name is already taken.
Both Paul and his stupid father have been beneficiaries of the Russian misinformation campaign so I’m not surprised Rand is okay with this.
re: #695 JordanRules
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Twitter has always added numbers to the end of your account name as a suggestion, if your name is already taken.
Ok, but who wouldn’t add their own numbers like a birthdate or something…who adds EIGHT random (possibly not random, of course) numbers?
re: #694 MsJ
That’s what I thought, too. But look at the entire timeline of the 2nd one. It is all lefty tweets. That’s why I am saying long con.
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re: #690 sagehen
The accounts with an 8-digit string of numbers after the name are Russian bots.
I created an account a while back not because I really wanted to, but there was an account I needed to follow for certain updates. After attempting a half dozen different handles that were all already in use I gave up and just let twitter suggest one, and it my name with a long string of random numbers like that. so I am pretty sure they aren’t all russian bots. At least i think I am not a bot.
re: #697 MsJ
Ok, but who wouldn’t add their own numbers like a birthdate or something…who adds EIGHT random (possibly not random, of course) numbers?
There really are lots of real folks out there that just used the suggestion and don’t alter it. It happens on other platforms too.
re: #698 Backwoods_Sleuth
the Russian troll farm plays both sides.
Yes, I think that is what these are. Creating lefty “cred”.
re: #694 MsJ
That’s what I thought, too. But look at the entire timeline of the 2nd one. It is all lefty tweets. That’s why I am saying long con.
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Oh yeah, I’ve definitely seen bot accounts switch from sending an inhuman number of suspect lefty tweets and rts to doing the same thing from the right.
Creator of Macedonian fake news site linked to American conservatives is under investigation https://t.co/qhWGhnF0XT pic.twitter.com/YfnYgOSfCR
— Media Matters (@mmfa) July 19, 2018
Fucker’s just lashing out blindly now: Trump Attacks Federal Reserve Over Interest Rate Hikes
In an extraordinarily rare move by a sitting president, Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve Thursday for raising interest rates and expressed his fear that it would jeopardize economic growth, according to CNBC.
In response to a growing economy and substantive stock market gains under Trump, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice in the last year, and had indicated that they will do so twice more. “I’m not thrilled,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen during a taped interview. “Because we go up and every time you go up they want to raise rates again. I don’t really—I am not happy about it. But at the same time I’m letting them do what they feel is best.”
As CNBC notes, it is “historically rare” for a sitting president to criticize the Federal Reserve, which is intentionally independent from the president’s jurisdiction. Trump appeared unperturbed by this break from tradition, noting that “I’m just saying the same thing that I would have said as a private citizen. So somebody would say, ‘Oh, maybe you shouldn’t say that as president.’ I couldn’t care less what they say, because my views haven’t changed.”
Others disagree, however. The former president of the Dallas fed told CNBC that “One of the hallmarks of our great American economy is preserving the independence of the Federal Reserve. No president should interfere…Were I Chairman Powell, I would ignore the President and do my job and I am confident he will do just that.”
re: #697 MsJ
Ok, but who wouldn’t add their own numbers like a birthdate or something…who adds EIGHT random (possibly not random, of course) numbers?
It’s an identifier, so that trolls don’t inadvertently target other trolls. That would be a waste of good money.
re: #699 danarchy
so I am pretty sure they aren’t all russian bots. At least i think I am not a bot.
Go rewatch Bladerunner
re: #704 makeitstop
Fucker’s just lashing out blindly now: Trump Attacks Federal Reserve Over Interest Rate Hikes
There’s a long wingnut tradition of hating the Federal Reserve.
re: #706 gocart mozart
Go rewatch Bladerunner
I watched bladerunner 2049 last night…does that count?
“Don’t believe what you see…..”
This is how Kellyanne Conway answered when she was asked if John Kelly accidentally turned off the lights when Trump was speaking yesterday. pic.twitter.com/tTUcAf1V7P
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 18, 2018
re: #690 sagehen
The accounts with an 8-digit string of numbers after the name are Russian bots.
The 8 digits is the number the auto-generator is at. There are plenty of troll and bot accounts with less than 8 random digits in their names. And there are also real users with every number of random digits at the end of their name because they just used the auto-suggested name option that Twitter provided.
It should be noted that not only did Trump fail to recognize the request to interrogate Browder & Amb. McFaul as outrageous, it seems not to have occurred to him that a president *has no power* to order a private citizen to submit to interrogation by foreign agents.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 19, 2018
Note this is a direct result of Trump’s bizarre insistence on meeting with Putin alone. Any minimally competent diplomat would have recognized the “offer” as bogus and prevented Trump from embarrassing himself. Or tried to, anyway.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 19, 2018
I’m pretty sure Putin is the one who came up with the private 1:1 idea, and I’m equally sure he convinced Trump that it was his own idea.
I am so overwhelmed with this week’s political drama that I am avoiding social media yet again for the time being. It’s too much to take in, Goddamn.
re: #703 Dr. Matt
That’s the one tied to SMOTI and Gateway Pundit.
This whole campaign was anything but America first.
From Delmonico’s to Howard Johnson’s: Ten restaurants that changed America
Definitely want to read the book.
Why am I expecting to see the words ‘found dead in her cell’ in the near future?
The Russian Embassy has been granted permission to visit Russian spy Butina today.
They have been demanding access to Butina the whole week pic.twitter.com/H9kIFawOoB— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) July 19, 2018
re: #707 wrenchwench
Yeah, that had negative impact here on South Hill Street. See stable is good for business. This ain’t it. Look right when he opens his mouth.
Thursday, in an interview with CNBC, Trump expressed his frustration with the U.S. Central bank saying that he is “not thrilled” with rising interest rates. He added that higher interest rates could disrupt the nation’s economic recovery.
“I don’t like all of this work that we’re putting into the economy and then I see rates going up,” he said in the interview.
“Because we go up and every time you go up they want to raise rates again. I don’t really — I am not happy about it. However, at the same time, I’m letting them do what they feel is best.”
re: #715 JordanRules
From Delmonico’s to Howard Johnson’s: Ten restaurants that changed America
Definitely want to read the book.
HoJo’s - the promise of equally shitty food, every 30 miles, from New Jersey to Ohio on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
re: #716 makeitstop
Why am I expecting to see the words ‘found dead in her cell’ in the near future?
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re: #717 Unshaken Defiance
“letting”
re: #719 JordanRules
Yesterday I was wondering if they had her on suicide watch.
Like the joke about Manafort - he keeps getting care packages sent to him, full of belts, shoelaces, and neckties.
re: #711 Blind Frog Belly White
Note this is a direct result of Trump’s bizarre insistence on meeting with Putin alone. Any minimally competent diplomat would have recognized the “offer” as bogus and prevented Trump from embarrassing himself. Or tried to, anyway.
— Julian Sanchez
Presidential “embarrassment” seems to be something of the past, or something that will only be applied to a Dem president.
re: #718 Blind Frog Belly White
HoJo’s - the promise of equally shitty food, every 30 miles, from New Jersey to Ohio on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Can’t beat that. Only thing they needed was Trumpy Steaks.
re: #709 Barefoot Grin
It’s tempting to dismiss Kellyanne Conway as a blithering idiot if we didn’t know that overloading the listener with gibberish was a technique for lying.
re: #722 Sir John Barron
Presidential “embarrassment” seems to be something of the past, or something that will only be applied to a Dem president.
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit?
That was embarrassing.
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re: #716 makeitstop
Why am I expecting to see the words ‘found dead in her cell’ in the near future?
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They can talk to her on the other side of the glass using the direct phone like all visitors to anyone being held.
No way they allow them to even get a chance to actually touch her or give her anything.
If we are thinking of it, the Feds are too.
re: #719 JordanRules
Yesterday I was wondering if they had her on suicide watch.
Let’s hope for Gunnypot’s sake that the guards do a very thorough search of embassy staff.
Local Racist In A Car makes the local news.
And the comments confirm that Long Island is lousy with racists. Avoid.
So weird how they ALWAYS DO THIS! https://t.co/hxZD8sZgl1
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 19, 2018
Three or maybe more versions of the transcript…
re: #724 Sir John Barron
Can’t beat that. Only thing they needed was Trumpy Steaks.
Well, they WERE famous for their Orange Sherbet….
Benny got served….
— Mark Duplass (@MarkDuplass) July 19, 2018
So in 24 hours I apparently went from being a person with good intentions to a racist sexist bigot. Twitter toxifies any attempt to cross the aisle. There’s no conservative Mark could have recommended who wouldn’t receive the same blowback. https://t.co/JEizw69eFH
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2018
Twitter doesn’t toxify any attempt to cross the aisle. Rick Wilson, Ana Navarro, Richard Painter, David Frum, Steve Schmidt, Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, Joe Scarborough, etc. are all popular with liberals. The left is extremely willing to listen to conservatives who aren’t bigoted. https://t.co/uWS88ebUwX
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 19, 2018
I’d amused as hell if just before the midterms, emails of elected Republicans who now wuv Trumo fretting about him last summer and fall were released.
re: #729 makeitstop
Let’s hope for Gunnypot’s sake that the guards do a very thorough search of embassy staff.
No umbrellas, for example.
re: #718 Blind Frog Belly White
HoJo’s - the promise of equally shitty food, every 30 miles, from New Jersey to Ohio on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
But those Tendersweet Fried Clams!!!!!!
re: #727 ObserverArt
They can talk to her on the other side of the glass using the direct phone like all visitors to anyone being held.
No way they allow them to even get a chance to actually touch her or give her anything.
If we are thinking of it, the Feds are too.
She is entitled to a lawyer and Attorney/Client privilege. As we saw with Manafort that privilege can be easily abused.
SCOOP: Putin tells his diplomats he made ANOTHER offer to Trump — hold a referendum in Crimea on its future. Trump asked Putin NOT to disclose it so that he could consider it.https://t.co/Vi5ZDJTf8T
— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) July 19, 2018
Bari doing the bullshit Bari does. She sucks!
— Mark Duplass (@MarkDuplass) July 19, 2018
Another successful struggle session. The sin: humbly suggesting people read those they disagree with. https://t.co/iR44lGj520
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) July 19, 2018
Sincerely want to know which of Shapiro’s takes are worth wide engagement. Is it “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage” or “The next race war will come not from racist whites, but from racist blacks.” https://t.co/uAjdMOtRNd
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 19, 2018
re: #733 Dr. Matt
Benny got served….
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Your problem Ben is you’re a transphobic dick who walks around with a giant stick up his ass. It’s not that you’re conservative, it’s that you’re a douchebag who has no sense of humor who goes around picking fights with college kids. Rick, Ana, Max, those guys actually stand up to people. Your idea of standing up is belittling a 19 year old with tbh naive views about economics while not realizing you too are equally if not more so.
re: #738 lawhawk
It’s hard to believe that agreeing to a private one on one with Putin could lead to problems.
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Here’s the NYT story exposing Trump as someone who tried, from 2 weeks before taking the oath of office, to deceive the entire country about how Putin personally helped him win by criminal hacking into our election infrastructure. This is huge.https://t.co/l844uns5la
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 19, 2018
Note that Pence would have received many of the same intel briefs as Trump. Pence is complicit, has been consistently lying, and should also be removed from power. https://t.co/Plj8mtT7Hl
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 19, 2018
re: #727 ObserverArt
They can talk to her on the other side of the glass using the direct phone like all visitors to anyone being held.
No way they allow them to even get a chance to actually touch her or give her anything.
If we are thinking of it, the Feds are too.
So the gift bottle of Old Novichokski Vodka is probably out, then….?
re: #737 Bubblehead II
She is entitled to a lawyer and Attorney/Client privilege. As we saw with Manafort that privilege can be easily abused.
Would that apply to Embassy staff?
re: #744 jaunte
[Note that Pence would have received many of the same intel briefs as Trump. Pence is complicit, has been consistently lying, and should also be removed from power.]
And the agnewing continues. Spellcheck needs to catch up.
Racist New York man spews horrific racial insults at black man dropping off his young son https://t.co/x0h0P017A6
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 19, 2018
Trump Cult Followers are such wonderful people.
re: #749 DodgerFan1988
Trump Cult Followers are such wonderful people.
But don’t call them deplorable.
re: #747 HappyWarrior
Pence is no Jerry Ford or even Agnew.
Now is the time to prepare for the AfterTrump. We need to keep whoever is today’s Ford from even thinking about a pardon, should that person achieve office,
But no Blah people better kneel during the Anthem!!!!
Tennessee hits record-breaking number of Confederate flag license plates https://t.co/aM6xAa4IuX pic.twitter.com/AzQ1em2H4U
— The Hill (@thehill) July 19, 2018
re: #732 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, they WERE famous for their Orange Sherbet….
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And their Clam Strips! I loved those.
re: #746 Belafon
Would that apply to Embassy staff?
If the Russians/Putin are picking up the tab for her Lawyer nothing would surprise me at this point. Manafort got around the E-Mail ban by resorting to a thumb drive and his lawyer shoes to get his messages in/out of jail.
re: #752 Dr. Matt
But no Blah people better kneel during the Anthem!!!!
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That was my exact thought when I saw that. RESPECT THE TROOPS. Say people who buy the flag of the “country” that killed more Americans than Al Queda, the VC, Nazis, and Soviets combined. Realize my numbers may be a little off there.
Will the Dems and Fake News ever learn? This is classic! pic.twitter.com/kSX3ROI4QG
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018
Here we see the president of the United States, still pathetically obsessing over Hillary Clinton, taking a quote totally out of context to try to excuse his treasonous behavior. https://t.co/ZjwP7t5UU9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 19, 2018
James Clapper tells CNN the U.S. had evidence that it laid out to Trump on Jan. 6, 2017 that Putin was “directly involved and directly ordered” Russian election hacking. “In addition we left very highly classified written documents that laid out in more detail the evidence.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 19, 2018
Left them? In trump tower?
Well. That would explain the well-organized disinfo campaign since before inauguration. https://t.co/D7IWrkF4eW— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 19, 2018
Twitter seems down in the DC-Md-Va area right now.
re: #759 HappyWarrior
He’s the king of actual Fake News. Fuck off Donnie.
I hate to ask, but what’s in the picture It is flapping about?
Pokud vám ještě připadá ruský🇷🇺motorkářský gang jako neškodná banda ruských nacionalistů, podívejte se co se děje na jejich slovenské základně v obci Dolná Krupá u Trnavy. Mají tam i tanky. Cvičí se tam Slovenští branci. Toto už není ani zdaleka sranda. pic.twitter.com/rA8poK1cWc
— Roman M (@Fbeyeee) July 19, 2018
Kremlin-friendly biker gang Night Wolves set up European base near a small village in #Slovakia (on estate owned by friend of long-time interior minister Kalinak). Drone photos show armored vehicles and tanks inside. Also alleged training camp for Slovak far-right paramilitaries. https://t.co/FiXPT44lOb
— Daniel Kral (@DanielKral1) July 19, 2018
BBC News - Russia’s border doesn’t end anywhere, Vladimir Putin says bbc.com
LIVE: Senators vote on Russia resolution
SCOOP: Putin tells his diplomats he made ANOTHER offer to Trump — hold a referendum in Crimea on its future. Trump asked Putin NOT to disclose it so that he could consider it.https://t.co/Vi5ZDJTf8T
— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) July 19, 2018
The Russians are going to keep trickling this stuff out for weeks, and there is probably no one in the US government who has any idea what actually happened. https://t.co/DWZfzlGj16
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 19, 2018
re: #761 Sir John Barron
I hate to ask, but what’s in the picture It is flapping about?
Sure, it’s HRC saying “We believe a strong Russia is in the best interests of the world.”It’s so pathetic. It’s like the stupid memes I’m seeng equating Obama and her meeting Putin to the wet kiss Trump gave Vlad on Monday.
re: #763 Dr Lizardo
“Shut the fuck up, Donny.”
Yep, there were a few comments on downdetector about Trump clogging it up again.
re: #699 danarchy
I created an account a while back not because I really wanted to, but there was an account I needed to follow for certain updates. After attempting a half dozen different handles that were all already in use I gave up and just let twitter suggest one, and it my name with a long string of random numbers like that. so I am pretty sure they aren’t all russian bots. At least i think I am not a bot.
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?
re: #761 Sir John Barron
I hate to ask, but what’s in the picture It is flapping about?
Video of Sec. Clinton saying that the United States wanted to see a strong prosperous Russia. The Yam of course intentionally took it out of context.
re: #762 jaunte
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I wonder how far this is from where I’m going to be. I have no idea how my Slovak Rusyn cousins feel about Vlad and I have no desire to bring up politics.
re: #771 Bubblehead II
Video of Sec. Clinton saying that the United States wanted to see a strong prosperous Russia. The Yam of course intentionally took it out of context.
What interview is that? Anyone know? I would like to read the entire transcript. dotard was likely sent that tiny clip from one of his Nazi base.
re: #771 Bubblehead II
Video of Sec. Clinton saying that the United States wanted to see a strong prosperous Russia. The Yam of course intentionally took it out of context.
He left out the part where she said “free of Putin.” //
re: #767 jaunte
The Russians are going to keep trickling this stuff out for weeks, and there is probably no one in the US government who has any idea what actually happened.
And that includes Trump, most likely, who only hears what he wants to hear, and of what he hears, only remembers what he wants to remember.
Plus, he’s not really very bright in the first place, get easily bored and distracted, can’t remember details generally. Putin knows all that, and he had him to himself to 2 hours.
re: #719 JordanRules
Yesterday I was wondering if they had her on suicide watch.
I would be shocked if she isn’t under 24 hour surveillance.
re: #732 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, they WERE famous for their Orange Sherbet….
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No where near as good as Isaly’s.
Senate NOW voting on @SenSchumer resolution against making US Amb to Russia @McFaul & other former/current diplomats available to questioning by Russian gov’t under Putin. Simple majority needed for passage. @cspan 2
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) July 19, 2018
re: #773 Dr. Matt
What interview is that? Anyone know. I would like to read the entire transcript. dotard was likely sent that tiny clip from one of his Nazi base.
I don’t know.
re: #749 DodgerFan1988
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Trump Cult Followers are such wonderful people.
Are you just assuming he is a Trump follower? Racism may be more prevalent in the GOP, but the democratic party certainly isn’t immune. The most racist assholes I ever met were when I was working construction. Those guys were racist AF and all good union Dem voters.
I didn’t see any mention of Trump, or party in the video.
This resolution has passed via majority. I’ll be damned.
So we see that HRC still lives in the White House after all, right in Donald trumps obsessed head.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 19, 2018
re: #783 Unshaken Defiance
President Hillary Clinton has been a disaster.
re: #782 makeitstop
This resolution has passed via majority. I’ll be damned.
Huh? So CNN’s live scene is the after (non-) party?
So much for trust in the “MSM”…. ////
re: #784 Sir John Barron
anybody vote against?
Haven’t heard one yet. I stopped counting at 65 ‘ayes.’
re: #786 Jay C
Huh? So CNN’s live scene is the after (non-) party?
I just counted as they read the roll.
re: #785 Sir John Barron
President Hillary Clinton has been a disaster.
Ah, I see you watch Fox, the Alternative Reality News Network.
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re: #789 Blind Frog Belly White
Ah, I see you watch Fox, the Alternative Reality News Network.
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I really think there are those at FNC that wanted her to be President so they could complain rather than have to defend Trump’s policies. Frankly, probably not that different from that part of the left that did little to help her win because they’d rather bitch.
re: #790 HappyWarrior
I really think there are those at FNC that wanted her to be President so they could complain rather than have to defend Trump’s policies. Frankly, probably not that different from that part of the left that did little to help her win because they’d rather bitch.
Their ratings would be better if she’d been elected. And MSNBCs would be worse.
Still tallying. I haven’t heard a single no vote yet.
Word must have come down from the top to let Rs look good on this one.
No doubt, Trump will tweet that he was against the idea all along.
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re: #792 makeitstop
Still tallying. I haven’t heard a single no vote yet.
Word must have come down from the top to let Rs look good on this one.
No doubt, Trump will tweet that he was against the idea all along.
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He’s already sort-of done that: a recent blurb (within the hour) said Trump’s *now* against the idea of sending US officials to Russia.
Bold stance, there, Donald…..
re: #767 jaunte
Matthew Miller ✔
@matthewamiller
The Russians are going to keep trickling this stuff out for weeks, and there is probably no one in the US government who has any idea what actually happened.
Including Trump.
But we can be sure Vlad will tell him.
re: #773 Dr. Matt
What interview is that? Anyone know? I would like to read the entire transcript. dotard was likely sent that tiny clip from one of his
Nazi baseRussian collaborators.
This may be closer to the truth since they have gotten so good at social media.
re: #757 Charles Johnson
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Check out the logo on the vid, top right…
*headdesk*— Teo (@Teukka72) July 19, 2018
re: #796 Teukka
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Russian State TV Channel 1 (Domestic) bug.
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 19, 2018
re: #474 Dr. Matt
Sanity break:
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Wife showed me a posting on her Facebook of a corgi named Boba Fetch.
re: #757 Charles Johnson
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That clip of HRC is so weird, the words don’t sync with her lip movements.
re: #129 Ace-o-aces
The usual dipshits that we mock and pity here are totally cool with Russian meddling because they think it’ll help make American white and bigoted again.
On Wednesday morning, in the midst of yet another contentious news cycle dominated by coverage of Russian election meddling, I tweeted a kind of thought experiment: “If Trump & co. just pivoted to ‘Aren’t you glad Russia helped us defeat Hillary Clinton?’ would there be any serious blowback from his base?”
The question was rhetorical. The answers that began trickling in were not.
“No,” said Cassandra Fairbanks, a writer at the right-wing news and conspiracy website Gateway Pundit (and a former Sputnik employee). “I mean, I would be cool with it. I’m already there. If Russia was involved we should thank them.”
“No,” responded another self-identified Trump voter. “Hillary is a greater threat to our Republic.”
Several people pointed me to Jacob Wohl, a Trump booster with a large Twitter following, who had mused just hours earlier, “If Russia assists MAGA Candidates on the internet in this year’s midterms, that’s not the end of the world.” And others re-upped a C-SPAN clip from the day before in which a caller identified as Mary Lou from Connecticut said, “I’ll try not to sound too awful, but I want to thank the Russians for interfering with our election to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president. That woman has got illusions of grandeur.”
re: #780 danarchy
Are you just assuming he is a Trump follower? Racism may be more prevalent in the GOP, but the democratic party certainly isn’t immune. The most racist assholes I ever met were when I was working construction. Those guys were racist AF and all good union Dem voters.
I didn’t see any mention of Trump, or party in the video.
People who aren’t racist may not be a big enough group to effect change, so it’s good that we promote workers rights and women’s rights, and will draw support from people who will overlook our non-racism because we help them too.
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