Seth takes a closer look at how Republicans have opposed every attempt to hold President Trump accountable for his comments on Russian election meddling.
Did you get a blowjob from the Russian spy too?
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) July 20, 2018
shocked
I am shocked…
Rand Paul uses donor cash for European trips, while little goes to candidates https://t.co/4EUuojKl82 @lesleyclark @McClatchyDC pic.twitter.com/jmuMrctiEb
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) July 19, 2018
re: #3 Skip Intro
What does “mental health reform” mean?
Well, since “welfare reform” meant eliminating welfare, and “tax reform” means eliminating taxes, I assume “mental health reform” means eliminating mental health.
That’s just science.
I don’t know how many more weeks like this I can take.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good. Let this get out so his donations dry up.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I don’t know how many more weeks like this I can take.
Seconded. I have a lot I should be doing, and instead I hang on every lead, explore every article, try to educate myself on all of it. And then try to sleep. Isch.
sometimes. i will yawn really big. and soon after. the human will also yawn. i have yet to decide. what to do with my powers
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) July 19, 2018
“The startling reality for all of us is that we are faced with a situation where our president, the person whom we have entrusted to lead this country, isn’t all in for our nation. - Sally Yates, former acting attorney general pic.twitter.com/yUf8xQTKlE
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 20, 2018
Clearly Sally Yates knows things she can’t share. And those things are probably why she is alarmed by Trump’s behavior.
Yates is also clear that nothing is more important to the future of this nation, than protecting the Mueller investigation. #Maddow#TrumpKnew pic.twitter.com/O7KsRZuPNS— PassMeAPickle (@CeeLeeMusic) July 20, 2018
The horribly disheartening thing about what’s happening is that absolutely NO ONE who has the power to do anything about it is willing to do anything about it.
And then I read that young people don’t give a shit about voting. I guess they want to live under a fascist dictator.
The National Prayer Breakfast invited Torshin *again* a few months ago, even after all of the accusations of money laundering and his mob ties had come forth: https://t.co/0izNbWVbgl pic.twitter.com/n2OnFH0OZl
— Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) July 19, 2018
This is another instance of a despite that might actually be a because. https://t.co/P5aU7j3knF
— Fred Clark (@SlacktivistFred) July 20, 2018
I can’t tell if we are the kid or the dad.
re: #11 plansbandc
They better vote like their future depends on it, because it literally fucking does. #GOTVhttps://t.co/KDSC51G41R
— Uncivil K Cares, Do U? (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 20, 2018
Texas digging up some of its past.
New on @HoustonChron: Details revelaed about remains found at Fort Bend ISD construction site
“It was overwhelming to me to actually see the people who had been victimized inhumanely,” said Reginald Moore when he saw the remains.
https://t.co/jtuF1nnCCV via— Brooke Lewis (@brookelewisa) July 16, 2018
NYT: Russia and China step in to block U.S. complaint about N. Korea petroleum import violation at the U.N. Sanctions panel, delaying action for six months.https://t.co/lhX73OXyAg
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) July 20, 2018
Trump doesn’t seem to grasp that by going to Singapore and shaking Kim’s hand, he undercut all this. That’s what you get when you don’t prepare.
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) July 20, 2018
re: #11 plansbandc
The horribly disheartening thing about what’s happening is that absolutely NO ONE who has the power to do anything about it is willing to do anything about it.
And then I read that young people don’t give a shit about voting. I guess they want to live under a fascist dictator.
They’re too busy keeping up with the Kardashians.
If the FBI raided Miller’s house you just know they’d find a collection of super creepy dolls in his basement. pic.twitter.com/3gs3H1GJC5
— Ida Skibenes ❄️ (@ida_skibenes) July 19, 2018
Somebody had mentioned this morning that Carole Cadwalladr was going to be on Terry Gross today. Here’s a link to the story. Worth the time.
Carole Cadwalladr’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica’s role in Brexit led her to Russian connections and the Trump campaign. She says British investigators are working “closely with the FBI.”
It’s frustrating because goddamnit I care. And I honestly think many young people do but there’s this unrealistic expectation from young voters of public servants. It’s not this generation. It’s plain immaturity.
How to Honeypot a GOP Rep:
Spy: You look very handsome today, like big, strong macho man.
Rep: *blushes* Golly, thanks. Nice accent, btw. Where are you from?
Spy: Russia, my love.
Rep: So, what do you do?
Spy: I play with big guns and eat red meat.
Rep: Wanna make out?— Fucking Look At How Fucking Civil I Fucking Am (@BravenakBlog) July 20, 2018
re: #20 stpaulbear
Somebody had mentioned this morning that Carole Cadwalladr was going to be on Terry Gross today. Here’s a link to the story. Worth the time.
Somebody needs to explain to me why the Brits are going through with Brexit. Especially after what she’s found.
I. Do. Not. Get. It.
COATS HAS GONE ROGUE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 20, 2018
re: #25 HappyWarrior
Don’t forget, she talked about how much she loves Jesus too.
Hence the invites to the National Prayer Breakfast.
re: #25 HappyWarrior
Don’t forget, she talked about how much she loves Jesus too.
Yes, the icing on the cake cross.
re: #25 HappyWarrior
She’s a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She’s a good girl, who’s crazy ‘bout gunplay
Loves Russia and the NRA too
re: #27 MsJ
Hence the invites to the National Prayer Breakfast.
She played those idiots so easily. No wonder why it was so easy for Trump to endear himself to them.
lol…
Bristol Palin joining MTV reality series ‘Teen Mom OG’: report https://t.co/HAUYkAJbhU
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 20, 2018
Relevant to the Jeanine Pirro appearance on The View:
Page Six: After their interview on The View today, Whoopi Goldberg got into a fight backstage with Jeanine Pirro and said “Fuck you, get the fuck out of this building.”https://t.co/hmjIudxHIY
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) July 19, 2018
A shouting match started with Pirro declaring, “You know what’s horrible? When people who shouldn’t be here end up murdering the children of American citizens!” and Goldberg shot back, “What is horrible is when the president of the United States whips up people to beat the hell out of people … Say goodbye. I’m done!”
Goldberg left the stage, but the fireworks went off again with the cameras off: Backstage when the two crossed paths, a source told us, “Jeanine tried telling her she’s fought for victims her whole life.” That’s when “Whoopi got in her face and said that they’ve known each other a long time, but still, ‘F-k you, get the f-k out of this building.’ Jeanine looked stunned.”
Another source told us, “Jeanine could have walked by her. There was one more segment to do. She could have walked by her easily, she put her finger in her face and said, ‘I’ve done more for abused women than you will ever do’ and that’s when Whoopi said, ‘You and I have never had a problem,’ before everything else was said.”
Pirro was also reportedly pissed that Ana Navarro would appear on the panel, and tried to get the producers to pull Navarro from the interview segment.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol…
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re: #34 HappyWarrior
Yeah that’s not glamorizing your pregnancy, Ms Abstinence, what a trashy family. At least the Pence kids seem fairly normal and not obsessed with fame.
Pence has kids? I thought he was completely anti-sex.
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#OverheardAtThePharmacy “I can’t give you birth control, because I’m “pro-life,” but I can kill your *born* child by charging $1,200 for this cancer prescription, which I know you can’t afford. Have a #blessed day.”
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 20, 2018
re: #35 SteelPH
Pence has kids? I thought he was completely anti-sex.
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They wore blindfolds. In a very dark bedroom.
re: #35 SteelPH
Pence has kids? I thought he was completely anti-sex.
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It was Immaculate conception his wife (AKA Mommy) tells him.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Creepy dolls or skeletons? Either way, he’s one creepy looking dude. Ugly on the outside and inside.
From the ACLU’s Class Action lawsuit as of tonight:
The government says it has taken 2551 kids ages 5-17 away from their parents…
364 have been returned so far.
Deadline to give them all back is a week from today…
1/2— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 20, 2018
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
Creepy dolls or skeletons? Either way, he’s one creepy looking dude. Ugly on the outside and inside.
Speaking of which, how many unsolved homicides are there in the greater D.C. area?
Just asking questions…
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol…
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re: #43 BeachDem
Bristol went on a diet and got some cosmetic surgery done.
re: #21 HappyWarrior
It’s frustrating because goddamnit I care. And I honestly think many young people do but there’s this unrealistic expectation from young voters of public servants. It’s not this generation. It’s plain immaturity.
There is a big catch 22 here. They lack faith in their own ability to make change actually happen. But that kind of faith is the heart of the win.
re: #44 wheat-dogg
Bristol went on a diet and got some cosmetic surgery done.
Yeah, but Fox needs to display her as if she were just preg’rs with her first child. What was she then 15 or something.
re: #42 Teukka
Lol! Good question. How many since November 2016 to be specific?
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I guess you don’t have to be a teen to be on “Teen Mom” because Bristol is 27. **shrugs**
re: #35 SteelPH
Pence has kids? I thought he was completely anti-sex.
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He closes his eyes and thinks of England mother Russia. But he doesn’t enjoy it.
re: #49 Patricia Kayden
So I guess you don’t have to be a teen to be on “Teen Mom” because Bristol is 27. **shrugs**
Teen Mom OG is a spinoff from the original where they come back on years later as adults.
bari weiss is like if accidentally tucking your skirt into your underwear and then getting angry at anyone who pointed it out were a person
— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 19, 2018
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I don’t know how many more weeks like this I can take.
Well, frankly, strap in, boyo, this is what’s it’s going to be from here on out. This is the new normal. Everyone is laying their cards down and calling in their chits.
The Heads said it best:
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around.”
This is Life During Wartime.
re: #52 Single-handed sailor
Hey @reason, as a libertarian publication, I was wondering what your thoughts were on @bariweiss stated desire to repeal the second amendment? pic.twitter.com/6FsDm9OKdp
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 20, 2018
Honestly, if I can get Bari Weiss to have to give back a $10,000 prize, it would make my week.
The second a hacker leaks some Senate Republican’s freaky-a** clown-porn texts to his mistress, Congress will approve a $5 trillion cyber-security budget.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 20, 2018
Registering voters at @packers’ @Showtyme_33’s @NFLPA youth camp today with @BGTX and @SanVicenteOrg! #VotePlayWin pic.twitter.com/oyWYYojuJg
— Spread The Vote (@SpreadTheVoteUS) July 19, 2018
So proud of our team. This is the last of 16 @NFLPA camps in 13 states in ONE MONTH. Our team has traveled from Theodore, AL to Philadelphia, PA to El Paso, TX doing voter reg and ID work. We go where the voters are. #voteplaywin https://t.co/cLwmIDrlil
— kat calvin (@KatCalvinLA) July 20, 2018
re: #57 JordanRules
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re: #51 JordanRules
Teen Mom OG is a spinoff from the original where they come back on years later as adults.
Wait, someone is paying that poor, ill-bred woman money? Again?
Wasilla hillbillies. Grifters gotta grift.
re: #18 MsJ
They’re too busy keeping up with the Kardashians.
Most of them aren’t being given a clue. Around here, the families they are in don’t pay attention to politics, so they don’t.
re: #24 MsJ
Somebody needs to explain to me why the Brits are going through with Brexit. Especially after what she’s found.
I. Do. Not. Get. It.
Substitute Trump for Brexit.
re: #60 Belafon
Most of them aren’t being given a clue. Around here, the families they are in don’t pay attention to politics, so they don’t.
Yup. Hella adults don’t vote too. And voter apathy among the youth is not novel at all.
The looks you get when one person just said to another:
“I could just admit we helped elect you, you know.” pic.twitter.com/M6eicddLGu— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 20, 2018
Good for RAICES for not accepting this donation. Their stance is correct.
After @salesforce workers asked their CEO @Benioff to commit to canceling the Salesforce contract with CBP, the company responded by offering us a $250k donation.
We responded on Monday by telling them we won’t accept the donation until they #CancelTheContract
They refused. pic.twitter.com/Hx0e6l8LEy— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) July 19, 2018
re: #61 Belafon
Substitute Trump for Brexit.
For a certain class of people in England, Brexit will be advantageous. It will enable them to dismantle the NHS and other social programs that have kept inequality down to a relatively low boil in the UK. Brexit is their break-out moment, their ability to let their 1% freak flag fly high.
To save the economy, dontcha know.
Frankly, I’m more assured now that this is the beginning of a zombie/plaque/end of humanity story.
#Egyptian archaeologists have dashed hopes that a newly-discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead a mummified family swimming in red liquid https://t.co/FWfQoXuAkh pic.twitter.com/jcGe1QzhpJ
— ABC News (@abcnews) July 20, 2018
calm down everyone, it’s just a mummified family swimming in red liquid https://t.co/VUAmcR2mhS
— Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) July 20, 2018
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
re: #67 Scout
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
I dunno. Putin’s got an ego like Trump. Is he going to like Trump scold him on camera even if for play?
re: #67 Scout
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
It’s a two for one deal. Vote GOP and you get BOTH Trump and Putin.
Why did the head of an Italian pro-Kremlin cultural organization sit in on official meetings between senior Italian and Russian government ministers in Moscow this week? https://t.co/YfhUTYw8Hy
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) July 18, 2018
It’s global. https://t.co/AEIbh7r7Uo
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) July 20, 2018
re: #70 jaunte
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Have you all seen this:
Damage from the #tornado in Marshalltown, Iowa.
📷: @DenicePelster pic.twitter.com/A6aBGxZvC3— WeatherOptics (@weatheroptics) July 19, 2018
re: #67 Scout
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
In September, then we start talking about an October Surprise.
re: #67 Scout
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
Nope. Trump voters LOVE that they are tight.
re: #54 austin_blue
Well, frankly, strap in, boyo, this is what’s it’s going to be from here on out. This is the new normal. Everyone is laying their cards down and calling in their chits.
The Heads said it best:
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around.”
This is Life During Wartime.
The one thing these fascists are counting on is that people will give up.
re: #74 Belafon
In September, then we start talking about an October Surprise.
I keep hoping Muller will drop a bomb or two around say…October 26th.
re: #76 Belafon
The one thing these fascists are counting on is that people will give up.
Yes, they do. But we’ll never give in, never give up. Get out the vote and we can kick them in the balls.
Oh, and when is that Guess Coups Coming To Dinner? movie going to start? Maybe coming to the Tin Foil Hat Cinema near you, opening tomorrow?
Nope, sorry Alex, it’s just too fucking hot right now. No one wants to launch a revolution when it’s 103º outside. We’re busy buying food in the morning, hunkering down, and hydrating.
trump is now walking down a line of executives telling him how great he is as his adult daughter walks behind him, clapping for each statement. this isn’t how things are usually done in america and we should keep saying so. pic.twitter.com/cYrmzTYVlk
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 19, 2018
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
Трамп и Буш поспорили из-за России: https://t.co/nsEu1ZkyCr
— Лента.ру (@lentaruofficial) February 14, 2016
Мария Бутина сейчас в США. Пишет мне, что Д.Трамп (член NRA) реально за сотрудничество с Россией. https://t.co/enLxGEeCaX
— А.П. Торшин (@torshin_ru) February 14, 2016
Scary as hell pic.twitter.com/SYdlk4JlfT
— Ollie #PostcardsToVoters #PaperBallots #GOPCorrupt (@marciebp) March 10, 2018
re: #79 Ace-o-aces
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She’s what, 38 years old? I’m sorry, but that’s just pitiful. Why not have rodeo clowns following him and clapping? Why not have Tyrion Lannister doing it, sneering, doing a slow clap?
Oh, optics.
Use his adult child as a prop. So reality TV. Pitiful.
re: #80 Ace-o-aces
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
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It puzzles me that they spell it “Трамп” and not “Трумп”.
re: #82 HappyWarrior
This is something you see in banana republics.
If and when the sane adults get back in control, these “execs” must be called out and shamed for this shit over and over until they retire, and whatever their companies are selling, we shouldn’t be buying.
“The president’s not afraid of anything.” @seanspicer in response to why Trump didn’t confront Putin about US election meddling at summit pic.twitter.com/V0cOVUfLJD
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 19, 2018
Stairs. The president’s afraid of stairs https://t.co/jYkXKOZy83
— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) July 19, 2018
re: #79 Ace-o-aces
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Whisky
Tango
Foxtrot!
This is right out of Mussolini’s playbook!
re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It puzzles me that they spell it “Трамп” and not “Трумп”.
Uhhhh, yeah….me too…because I’m totally able to understand Russian with out the computer translation…..yeah…….
re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It puzzles me that they spell it “Трамп” and not “Трумп”.
Even they know hes garbage.
Look, some people feel their mental “gender” does not match with their biological “sex”. Why? To be honest, nobody understands how “cis” gender identities develop, how much is biological vs societal influence. But for some reason, in some people, it goes the other way.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 20, 2018
It’s the opposite of “trans”.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 20, 2018
Yeah, that’s fascinating and I’m sure the kids in Latin club love your analysis, but I’m talking about how the terms are used and understood by current English speakers.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 20, 2018
Fucking Latin language nerds are the worst nerds.
re: #84 Jack Burton
If and when the sane adults get back in control, these “execs” must be called out and shamed for this shit over and over until they retire, and whatever their companies are selling, we shouldn’t be buying.
The guy who owns Home Depot is a RWNJ extraordinare and a giant asshole. He hates workers and would pay them a buck a day if he could. I won’t shop there because he is such a dick.
Currently live here: https://t.co/weIEwlTk5h
— Marc Hertz (@mhertz) July 19, 2018
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 20, 2018
re: #90 Ace-o-aces
I’m waiting for his strongly worded letter to NASA about the terms cislunar and translunar then.
— 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
Shapiro’s whole thing is provocation: In his entire career, he hasn’t tried to convince anyone of anything. He’s trying to trigger libs. It’s comical to suggest you have an obligation to listen to somebody whose entire political project is trying to spit in your face https://t.co/AK1crFHykA
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 19, 2018
re: #84 Jack Burton
If and when the sane adults get back in control, these “execs” must be called out and shamed for this shit over and over until they retire, and whatever their companies are selling, we shouldn’t be buying.
Unfortunately—somebody posted the list in the last thread—it’s just about everybody. Including General Motors, which is rich after President Obama saved their asses when the GOP would have told them to go to hell, and the RWNJs who would become Trumporrhoids were boycotting them as “Government Motors”.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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JUST IN: NFL freezes policy barring players from protesting during anthem https://t.co/YHZt5CZj28 pic.twitter.com/hNnjbcr0a7
— The Hill (@thehill) July 20, 2018
re: #94 Jack Burton
I’m waiting for his strongly worded letter to NASA about the terms cislunar and translunar then.
Cheeky monkey.
re: #96 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Unfortunately—somebody posted the list in the last thread—it’s just about everybody. Including General Motors, which is rich after President Obama saved their asses when the GOP would have told them to go to hell, and the RWNJs who would become Trumporrhoids were boycotting them as “Government Motors”.
We can still make things embarrassing for them as individuals.
re: #94 Jack Burton
I’m waiting for his strongly worded letter to NASA about the terms cislunar and translunar then.
He has to talk to South Africa about the Ciskei and Transkei first. Calling the Romans about Cisalpine Gaul is probably a fool’s errand as they don’t answer their phone any more.
re: #90 Ace-o-aces
In the same way there is no such thing as a fish.
— Spam Bait (@SpamBaiter) July 20, 2018
re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another reason to say goodbye to football.
I said good bye to American Football several years ago between the spouse abuse, child abuse and concussion scandals. This just ensures I’ll never watch even the Packers again.
Thank goodness for the Beautiful Game.
At least eight killed as ‘duck boat’ capsizes in Missouri: police https://t.co/eofVSfRL8v
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 20, 2018
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I don’t know how many more weeks like this I can take.
Fucking brutal. My days off from work are spent taking a lot of naps. The barrage of bullshit is unrelenting.
re: #105 JordanRules
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JFC! It’s time to retire those relics to museums! Wasn’t the Aurora Bridge incident enough to do that?
re: #105 JordanRules
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In 1999, a DUKW sank in Hot Springs, AR drowning 13 of 20 on board.
Who are these sycoph… Whoops Business Leaders? #RepairAmerica. #NotWalking
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 20, 2018
re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It puzzles me that they spell it “Трамп” and not “Трумп”.
The Chinese go for a phonetic rendering: 川普chuan pu. The first character means river, plain, or flatland, while the second means general (not the military kind)or popular. Not sure if there is a hidden meaning.
re: #4 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Well, since “welfare reform” meant eliminating welfare, and “tax reform” means eliminating taxes, I assume “mental health reform” means eliminating mental health.
That’s just science.
“Pro and con are opposites
that fact is clearly seen.
If progress means to move forward
then what does congress mean?”
― Nipsey Russell
re: #104 William Lewis
I said good bye to American Football several years ago between the spouse abuse, child abuse and concussion scandals. This just ensures I’ll never watch even the Packers again.
Thank goodness for the Beautiful Game.
I was at Pitt the same time as Tony Dorsett. Breaks my heart to see him struggle just to talk thanks to the brain damage…
re: #110 Dave In Austin
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re: #113 sagehen
“Pro and con are opposites
that fact is clearly seen.
If progress means to move forward
then what does congress mean?”
― Nipsey Russell
I remember first hearing that joke (or a version of it) on a Carlin stand up special
You know, a a foreigner, I am starting to think you should give total control to A.M. from “I have no mouth and I must scream”.
Well, I’m off for the rack and Dog knows what fresh hells await us tomorrow.
Our personal fresh hell is 104-105º tomorrow, so food and entertainment will be acquired before noon and then we will hunker down and trust that the 20-year old AC unit survives.
First world paranoia.
So this is being repoerted in South Korean media.
All our allies have hard decisions to make with regards to dealing with us.
“Trump Plans Military Parade on Nov. 10 that is likely to cost US$12 million, roughly the amount saved by canceling joint drills with South Korea, ” https://t.co/hlwlVTFcjx #news #feedly
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) July 20, 2018
re: #54 austin_blue
This is Life During Wartime.
The wartime where we smash on comedians for making fun of foreign spies who successfully subverted our democracy?
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re: #118 Aussie Apocalypse
You know, a a foreigner, I am starting to think you should give total control to A.M. from “I have no mouth and I must scream”.
Geez, that’s apocalypse in a little tiny horrible world. No one deserves that Ellison hell.
re: #122 austin_blue
At the very least AM doesn’t discriminate, also only 5 people out of 7+ billion have to suffer ( or Spoiler alert: one).
re: #119 austin_blue
Me as well… My fishing excursions on Lake Travis and Lake Austin start about 3am. And it’s still hot
re: #119 austin_blue
There’s an active fire 20 miles distant. I’ll start to panic when the glow of the flames are visible at night, of which tonight they are not, thank Ullr.
re: #123 Aussie Apocalypse
At the very least AM doesn’t discriminate, also only 5 people out of 7+ billion have to suffer ( or Spoiler alert: one).
Edit: I did play the PC game where there is a happy ending available, so I’m a bit biased on hope.
re: #107 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
JFC! It’s time to retire those relics to museums! Wasn’t the Aurora Bridge incident enough to do that?
These aren’t World War II DUKWs. Ride the Ducks, the company involved in the Branson incident, builds its own amphibians. These are based on the DUKW, a truck with a boat hull built around it, but allegedly “incorporate advances in marine design and safety.”
re: #127 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
These aren’t World War II DUKWs. Ride the Ducks, the company involved in the Branson incident, builds its own amphibians. These are based on the DUKW, a truck with a boat hull built around it, but allegedly “incorporate advances in marine design and safety.”
Ah. I assumed it was another one of these—still in my Image Library from the Seattle incident:
re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹
I think you might have misunderstoood; from the article:
The National Football League announced Thursday that it will freeze its new policy requiring players to remain standing during the national anthem.
The NFL said in a statement that it has been “working on a resolution to the anthem issue” with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), one week after the association filed a grievance against the league over its controversial anthem policy.
“In order to allow this constructive dialogue to continue, we have come to a standstill agreement on the NFLPA’s grievance and on the NFL’s anthem policy,” the NFL’s statement reads. “No new rules relating to the anthem will be issued or enforced for the next several weeks while these confidential discussions are ongoing.”
“The NFL and NFLPA reflect the great values of America, which are repeatedly demonstrated by the many players doing extraordinary work in communities across our country to promote equality, fairness and justice,” the statement continued. “Our shared focus will remain on finding a solution to the anthem issue through mutual, good faith commitments, outside of litigation.”
If I’m reading that correctly, the policy requiring players to stand during the National Anthem has been temporarily suspended while negotiations regarding that policy are ongoing.
re: #56 Single-handed sailor
Which won’t do any god because the GOP won’t listen to the experts who tell them what to do.
“We’re too smart for science!” is the war cry of the modern barbarian.
re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Ah. I assumed it was another one of these—still in my Image Library from the Seattle incident:
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They look almost the same as the DUKW but they appear to be higher, and even less seaworthy.
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
I think you might have misunderstoood; from the article:
If I’m reading that correctly, the policy requiring players to stand during the National Anthem has been temporarily suspended while negotiations regarding that policy are ongoing.
Joe was reacting to the story from earlier today about the Miami Dolphins instituting a team policy for protest punishment.
That new article is late breaking news and I don’t think we know yet how the teams are going to handle it.
re: #90 Ace-o-aces
What will really blow this person’s mind is that there’s no complete connection between biological sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
re: #133 JordanRules
Joe was reacting to the story from earlier today about the Miami Dolphins instituting a team policy for protest punishment.
That new article is late breaking news and I don’t think we know yet how the teams are going to handle it.
Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification.
Off to work; back later. :)
re: #134 Belafon
What will really blow this person’s mind is that there’s no complete connection between biological sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
This! I learned so much watching, of all things, a Katie Couric hosted documentary called “Gender Revolution”. I knew I needed to educate myself more and it was a great initial resource.
The players on a team should announce before a game that they are kneeling to protest how our troops are being mistreated and then afterwards ask people why they accepted that display?
Thread…
Трамп и Буш поспорили из-за России: https://t.co/nsEu1ZkyCr
— Лента.ру (@lentaruofficial) February 14, 2016
Мария Бутина сейчас в США. Пишет мне, что Д.Трамп (член NRA) реально за сотрудничество с Россией. https://t.co/enLxGEeCaX
— А.П. Торшин (@torshin_ru) February 14, 2016
I can’t believe this tweet is just hanging out there, it’s utterly fucking amazing https://t.co/up483Zp0Xe
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 20, 2018
Republicans were willing to add $1.5 trillion to the deficit in order to pass a giant tax cut for rich people and big corporations. But now, they’re saying we can’t afford health care for veterans. https://t.co/9qvzefstTz
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 19, 2018
re: #138 JordanRules
I saved a screenshot in case.
I’m here for the Memories. pic.twitter.com/x6pjqSOiNm
— Spam Bait (@SpamBaiter) July 20, 2018
re: #139 Single-handed sailor
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“Thanks for your service, now go die quietly somewhere else, I’ve got a gold-plated yacht to buy.”
From Newsweek: NRA admits accepting money from 23 Russia-Linked donors https://t.co/VWdB1Ko9oX
— Jeff Klinkenberg (@JeffKlinkenberg) July 19, 2018
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 20, 2018
re: #142 Single-handed sailor
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One might almost say they shot themselves in the foot.
More obstruction from Congress.
“I think it’s extraordinarily unlikely they’re going to learn anything we don’t already know. But knock yourself out,” said Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican, also a committee member. “And if you do, I’ll recognize that and I’ll thank them for it.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 19, 2018
re: #67 Scout
Forgive me if I’m just stating the painfully obvious, but doesn’t it seem like trump is inviting Putin in THE FALL so he can act tough just before the midterm elections?
Putin will be in on it. He will play the penitent scamp and let trump act like a big man in “the highly anticipated press conference.”
No, Putin never acts like anything other than the alpha male in public.
re: #104 William Lewis
I said good bye to American Football several years ago between the spouse abuse, child abuse and concussion scandals. This just ensures I’ll never watch even the Packers again.
Thank goodness for the Beautiful Game.
That only has racism, sexism and fascism to deal with.
re: #145 Big Beautiful Door
No, Putin never acts like anything other than the alpha male in public.
Even if that makes him look look like he has a Cocktail sausage in his briefs.
Trying Way TOO hard.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification.
Off to work; back later. :)
I’m still knocked off kilter folks. After work I worked out at the YMCA. In the locker room is yet another MAGAT who came over and said, “Don’t you wish those patriots would shoot that “N-WORD B-WORD” Maxine Waters in her office?
I looked at the cracker and said, “I’m Jewish. Take your goddamned pointy hood and stick it up your @$$.”
I’m at the point that I’m not going to take any more of this ignorant KKKraKKKer shit.
Rep Jim Jordan on why House R’s shot down Dem push for more election security $$: “I know what we need for safe and secure elections, and that’s voter ID.”
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 19, 2018
Very on-brand for Jim Jordan to know something bad is happening and look the other way. https://t.co/FNwQ0tGuQ3
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 20, 2018
re: #150 JordanRules
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I got a feeling that there’s a lot of kinky stuff that hasn’t come out about “Gym Neighbors”!
re: #150 JordanRules
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Dems: “We need to combat efforts to hack our election rolls and machines.”
Reps: “Yes, we need voter ID.”
Dems: “How does that help prevent a future attack on our elections?”
Reps: “YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT SECURING OUR ELECTIONS!!!!”
re: #152 Targetpractice
Dems: “We need to combat efforts to hack our election rolls and machines.”
Reps: “Yes, we need voter ID.”
Dems: “How does that help prevent a future attack on our elections?”
Reps: “YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT SECURING OUR ELECTIONS!!!!”
What RepubliKKKlans are really saying is that they don’t want colored people to vote.
re: #152 Targetpractice
Dems: “We need to combat efforts to hack our election rolls and machines.”
Reps: “Yes, we need voter ID.”
Dems: “How does that help prevent a future attack on our elections?”
Reps: “YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT SECURING OUR ELECTIONS!!!!”
They only care about securing elections from Those People. Russians are white, so they’re allowed to vote as many times as they want.
Wow… John McLaughlin- former CIA Director on @11thHour “We were attacked & @realDonaldTrump has sided with the enemy”
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 20, 2018
When you sell out and rob blind the future generation, the future generation starts drinking…
Alcohol-related liver disease deaths among millennials increased 10% each year since recession https://t.co/rn3XyXdLF7
— The Independent (@Independent) July 19, 2018
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
When you sell out and rob blind the future generation, the future generation starts drinking…
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A sacrifice the GOP was willing to make in order to obstruct President Obama, then blame him for nothing getting done.
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
When you sell out and rob blind the future generation, the future generation starts drinking…
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Sell out the next gen, then bitch aloud that they’re a bunch of lazy drunks who don’t deserve a say in the running of the country.
re: #159 Targetpractice
Sell out the next gen, then bitch aloud that they’re a bunch of lazy drunks who don’t deserve a say in the running of the country.
What’s the term for that kind of fuckery? Self-fulfilling prophecy?
re: #121 Bass Reeves
The wartime where we smash on comedians for making fun of foreign spies who successfully subverted our democracy?
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re: #160 SteelPH
What’s the term for that kind of fuckery? Self-fulfilling prophecy?
It’s a 21st Century version of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
I feel like it starting to be the time for IC to put some traceable info into PDBs to see if it’s leaked and has consequences in Russia. Not jeopardizing lives, just in chatter, etc.
Lou Stopped the clock
#LDTPoll: Do you believe President Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to talks in dc just to drive the Dimms, RINO’s and National Left-Wing media to an even greater state of hysteria and derangement?
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) July 19, 2018
re: #163 Barefoot Grin
I feel like it starting to be the time for IC to put some traceable info into PDBs to see if it’s leaked and has consequences in Russia. Not jeopardizing lives, just in chatter, etc.
I honestly hoped and assumed that was happening since he starting getting PDBs after the election. But I don’t know. Everything is chaotic for this reason. We can’t get a good read on shit.
re: #165 JordanRules
I honestly hoped and assumed that was happening since he starting getting PDBs after the election. But I don’t know. Everything is chaotic for this reason. We can’t get a good read on shit.
There’s also the problem, I hear, that he dismisses the briefings most days. But maybe Jared?
Remember how I said that the right’s next move would be to end birthright citizenship? https://t.co/rtLrZmVY28
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) July 18, 2018
Now The Right wants to deport AMERICANS from latino heritage, by stripping them of their birthright citizenship.
The best by-product of Putin attacking me in Helsinki is that it showed how rattled he is by the Magnitsky Act. His public outburst will significantly increase the chances of getting 8 other countries to pass Magnitsky Acts https://t.co/UHGF1H2Mjz
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) July 20, 2018
re: #167 DodgerFan1988
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Now The Right wants to deport AMERICANS from latino heritage, by stripping them of their birthright citizenship.
Full ethnic cleansing is their goal.
#GrabThemByTheWallet pic.twitter.com/x3Fl2NqAUc
— LadyJMitongu #FlintWaterCrisis 🚰🚨 (@MMitongu) July 20, 2018
re: #166 Barefoot Grin
There’s also the problem, I hear, that he dismisses the briefings most days. But maybe Jared?
Right. There is that, but I’d think we have enough human intel on him that we should know how to place it. Couch it in a compliment or target his vulnerabilities. Add a damn picture with some symbols that will grab him.
Shit……
The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors was fatally shot at his own North Lauderdale convenience store during an armed robbery on Tuesday. #flapol https://t.co/MiJGvIQz58
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 20, 2018
These “walkaway” shits/bots are pathetic.
How about you walk away from your Keyboard?
— Spam Bait (@SpamBaiter) July 20, 2018
This is just nuts!https://t.co/v8ZJK44yJo
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) July 19, 2018
Why doesn’t Trump mention anything about this EVER?!
This is no different than ISIS killing people!
Putin is our enemy! No one ever said we should “get along with” ISIS!https://t.co/qNPzwBlOlc— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) July 19, 2018
I do NOT want Vladimir Putin, a man who has killed innocent children, a man who kills journalists and poisons innocent women, a man who attacked our democracy, to step foot in my country!
Do you?— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) July 20, 2018
re: #173 Aussie Apocalypse
These “walkaway” shits/bots are pathetic.
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That reply is perfection.
re: #177 Dave In Austin
Thanks, followed you in return.
Click on the tweet and hit translate.
Трамп и Буш поспорили из-за России: https://t.co/nsEu1ZkyCr
— Лента.ру (@lentaruofficial) February 14, 2016
Мария Бутина сейчас в США. Пишет мне, что Д.Трамп (член NRA) реально за сотрудничество с Россией. https://t.co/enLxGEeCaX
— А.П. Торшин (@torshin_ru) February 14, 2016
I can’t believe this tweet is just hanging out there, it’s utterly fucking amazing https://t.co/up483Zp0Xe
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 20, 2018
I don’t know if my little French village is characteristic of anything or merely anecdotal (think of it as rural Kentucky, if you will), but we have a bimonthly café meeting here where a dozen to 20 (varying) folks gather to talk about the state of the world, as it were, and this week, “what the f*** is wrong with Americans?” was on everyone’s lips.
Being “the american” in the group, I am de facto the spokesman who has to explain all things US, starting with the fact that there is no such thing as “Americans” as a cohesive unit right now; there are, for argument’s sake, nazis and non-nazis. (We also have people referring to “The Germans” or “The British” on divisive issues so this is hardly unique.)
So keep up the very public anti-Trump, anti-Putin demonstrations: the images are broadcast on TV, even here, and it helps me make the case America is far from being solidly behind Trump, and not just the ‘usual suspects’ from the left. Seriously, keep them coming.
The other thing people here don’t know/grasp is that Hillary got 3 million votes more, etc, etc. If I had a euro for every instance I have had to explain about the electoral college, I could buy several rounds of drinks. OK, that, you can’t fix. (Which is too bad.) But here, Presidential elections average 80% voters’ participation, so the other issue that comes up, right after it, is indignation when they find out that only about 60% of Americans voted in 2016, and that’s harder to explain.
(This issue often dovetails with Brexit where that referendum got 72% participation and that was/is condemned as too low. But I digress.)
So whatever efforts you can make to motivate, especially young people, to show up to the polls and vote, win or lose, will have an impact. Right now, having to shrug when conceding that 40% of voters simply didn’t care enough is hard. It helps foster the ill-conceived, simplistic notion “Americans = Nazis” (Like the “Nixon = Swastika” placards of my youth during the Vietnam era).
My purpose is not to irritate all the good folks here who are indeed “trying to fix it”, as someone aptly put it yesterday, but to share this bit of local views from abroad and convey the notion that the eyes if the world are on you.
re: #179 goddamnedfrank
Click on Torshin’s tweet and hit translate.
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re: #180 Lupin
We’re a bunch of fuckin’ yokel gun totin’ rednecks to most of the first world. And they’re partly right.
re: #182 teleskiguy
We’re a bunch of fuckin’ yokel gun totin’ rednecks to most of the first world. And they’re partly right.
Actually, I can honestly tell you that this is emphatically NOT the case here. (I don’t think they even know what the NRA is.) The oversimplistic cartoon image of the US is two-fold: one has to do with money & power (respect mixed with a tinge of ear), the other with science, super-science even (also respect/fear).
One of the interesting thing after Katrina was that most folks here expected the US Gov to send, I don’t know, super-robots-drones or something, massive air power, I don’t know, the stuff of big Hollywood films, to take care of NOLA. When nothing of the sort materialized, the folks here were stunned. Katrina did more to lower the US’s image in the eyes of the folks here than Bush, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, combined.
re: #183 Lupin
Actually, I can honestly tell you that this is emphatically NOT the case here. (I don’t think they even know what the NRA is.) The oversimplistic cartoon image of the US is two-fold: one has to do with money & power (respect mixed with a tinge of ear), the other with science, super-science even (also respect/fear).
One of the interesting thing after Katrina was that most folks here expected the US Gov to send, I don’t know, super-robots-drones or something, massive air power, I don’t know, the stuff of big Hollywood films, to take care of NOLA. When nothing of the sort materialized, the folks here were stunned. Katrina did more to lower the US’s image in the eyes of the folks here than Bush, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, combined.
Katrina broke me like nothing else, for so many reasons.
re: #183 Lupin
Actually, I can honestly tell you that this is emphatically NOT the case here. (I don’t think they even know what the NRA is.) The oversimplistic cartoon image of the US is two-fold: one has to do with money & power (respect mixed with a tinge of ear), the other with science, super-science even (also respect/fear).
One of the interesting thing after Katrina was that most folks here expected the US Gov to send, I don’t know, super-robots-drones or something, massive air power, I don’t know, the stuff of big Hollywood films, to take care of NOLA. When nothing of the sort materialized, the folks here were stunned. Katrina did more to lower the US’s image in the eyes of the folks here than Bush, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, combined.
The Katrina response and the much worse Maria “response” showed the world that, in some ways, the USA is still a developing country. It’s not because we don’t have the money (we do). We don’t have the political will to devote our vast resources toward helping poor people, and people of color. Most politicians chase votes from groups that will donate to their elections. All others are non-persons.
re: #185 wheat-dogg
The Katrina response and the much worse Maria “response” showed the world that, in some ways, the USA is still a developing country. It’s not because we don’t have the money (we do). We don’t have the political will to devote our vast resources toward helping poor people, and people of color. Most politicians chase votes from groups that will donate to their elections. All others are non-persons.
I entirely agree with you, but people here saw it more as “they can’t do it” because the notion of “they could but won’t do it” was beyond their ability to conceive (just as much as, say, the French Government abandoning, say, Bordeaux after a hurricane; literally inconceivable).
So they saw it as a sign of weakness, as in “America isn’t so powerful after all.” Not endorsing, just explaining.
Sadly for the most part the plight of Puerto Rico hasn’t made much of an impact on French media. I don’t think it’s deliberate; it’s the “drop the dead donkey” effect.
re: #187 Lupin
Sadly for the most part the plight of Puerto Rico hasn’t made much of an impact on French media. I don’t think it’s deliberate; it’s the “drop the dead donkey” effect.
Half of Americans don’t realize Puerto Rico is American territory full of American citizens; it wouldn’t surprise me at all if French people were even less aware. (plus, of course, you people have a longstanding cultural/linguistic connection to New Orleans that probably makes it more worth your notice than Portland would be.)
re: #188 sagehen
Half of Americans don’t realize Puerto Rico is American territory full of American citizens; it wouldn’t surprise me at all if French people were even less aware. (plus, of course, you people have a longstanding cultural/linguistic connection to New Orleans that probably makes it more worth your notice than Portland would be.)
You’re totally right, I think.
The great Britcom DROP THE DEAD DONKEY (which I loved) was reportedly supposed to be entitled DEAD BELGIANS DON’T COUNT which is funnier but darker — yet correct.
re: #186 Lupin
I entirely agree with you, but people here saw it more as “they can’t do it” because the notion of “they could but won’t do it” was beyond their ability to conceive (just as much as, say, the French Government abandoning, say, Bordeaux after a hurricane; literally inconceivable).
So they saw it as a sign of weakness, as in “America isn’t so powerful after all.” Not endorsing, just explaining.
They are not alone in being bewildered. The federal response to both disasters was appalling, as if neither NOLA nor PR were US territories. But you can bet if similar disasters happened to the ritzy parts of Florida or of the northeastern states, the feds would be tripping over their own feet they’d be in such a hurry to help.
re: #183 Lupin
Something like Katrina has already happened in Puerto Rico under Fuckface Von Clownstick’s “leadership.” If an earthquake devastates any of the communities along the San Andreas Fault while he’s in office, he’d probably tweet out that he was glad that California got hit with an earthquake. He is an evil leader.
re: #190 wheat-dogg
They are not alone in being bewildered. The federal response to both disasters was appalling, as if neither NOLA nor PR were US territories. But you can bet if similar disasters happened to the ritzy parts of Florida or of the northeastern states, the feds would be tripping over their own feet they’d be in such a hurry to help.
Hurricane Sandy was a pretty damn big NY/NJ disaster; the Republican-controlled Congress didn’t want to do shit for us. Because they’re Republicans and we’re not.
re: #192 sagehen
Hurricane Sandy was a pretty damn big NY/NJ disaster; the Republican-controlled Congress didn’t want to do shit for us. Because they’re Republicans and we’re not.
They barely wanted to help out Texas. They just don’t care about people, period.
re: #191 teleskiguy
Something like Katrina has already happened in Puerto Rico under Fuckface Von Clownstick’s “leadership.” If an earthquake devastates any of the communities along the San Andreas Fault while he’s in office, he’d probably tweet out that he was glad that California got hit with an earthquake. He is an evil leader.
It’s interesting you bring this up. My wife and I lived in LA (last in Encino) from 1978 to 2004. The city went through the Northridge quake of 94 with flying colors. Reconstruction was swift, FEMA’s assistance was superb.
But in 2004 when we decided to leave, right after GWB’s election, one of the factors we considered was the ability if not the will of the US government to help us in case of a massive terrorist attack (say, on the port of LA) or the “big one”. We no longer felt confident than we could count on such government help, and that played a part in our decision to leave.
Then less than a year later, Katrina happened…
(I posted diaries on DKos at the time under the title of “Lupin Exodus”; I bet search engines might still turn it up.)
Interestingly, Montenegro had incurred Putin’s wrath before, which I didn’t know, and was/is on the Russians’ sh*t list.
By saying what he said, Trump effected another (albeit small) piece of Putin’s agenda.
Миссия выполнена [Mission accomplished]!
re: #192 sagehen
Hurricane Sandy was a pretty damn big NY/NJ disaster; the Republican-controlled Congress didn’t want to do shit for us. Because they’re Republicans and we’re not.
Yeah, I forgot all about Sandy. More evidence of Republican malfeasance.
Wesley Clark, a retired US army general and former NATO supreme allied commander, went further, voicing concerns that Trump’s remarks could destabilize the traditionally volatile Balkan region. “Worrying to hear Trump use Russian talking points with Tucker Carlson, about Montenegro,” he said in a tweet referring to Trump’s Fox News interviewer. “Montenegro has been under continuous pressure by Russia for more than a decade. Trump’s comments weaken NATO, give Russia a license to cause trouble and thereby actually increase the risks of renewed conflict in the Balkans.”
re: #197 Lupin
Yeah. They didn’t just randomly invoke Montenegro on Fox News. That was by design and dangerous.
re: #198 JordanRules
Yeah. They didn’t just randomly invoke Montenegro on Fox News. That was by design and dangerous.
There is nothing they wont f*ck up!
It’s like a malignant tumor.
Nothing to see here: Just a little Russian prostitution ring being run out of Trump Tower in Miami. https://t.co/il606cmyQC
— Karoli (@Karoli) July 20, 2018
Ppl wanna find anyone and everyone to blame for the choices they make. Eve blamed the serpent and Adam blamed Eve. Apparently no one takes responsibility.
— Brandi (@sinsemillasai) July 20, 2018
Serpent took responsibility. Well, at first. Then he said maybe it was some fat guy going online from his basement. Then it was the Chinese. Then okay maybe me but it didn’t change the election results so LOOK A PONY! https://t.co/pH1N5B2rNb
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) July 20, 2018
Putin’s gonna host SNL isn’t he
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) July 20, 2018
UPDATED: NFL suspends new anthem rules, working with players to find ‘solution to the anthem issue’ https://t.co/XkdwMfLBVU pic.twitter.com/5y33v48ddO
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 20, 2018
NEW VIDEO! This one’s for Putin (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.) #VeryStableGenius 🎶🇷🇺🤯🌈 pic.twitter.com/GC1JQ9tcpu
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) July 16, 2018
I don’t want to live in a world where a man rhymes “genius” with “pe-ni-us” & still doesn’t have his own TV show.#RandysPutinOnTheRitz https://t.co/JW73d9LTab
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) July 17, 2018
re: #204 Dave In Austin
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“I believe in Nelson Mandela’s vision. I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in a vision of equality, justice, freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal.” —@BarackObama at #MandelaLecture pic.twitter.com/pdXn6kTht6
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) July 17, 2018
Sweden forest fire status Friday morning local:
o 52 active fires.
o 13 VMA’s (Important Public Announcements) active.
o Worst hit are forest areas in Gävleborg, Dalarna and Jämtland counties.
o In many places, people have been forced to evacuate from their homes.
o Two Italian firebombers have been on scene in Härjedalen and Ljusdal Wednesday and Thursday.
o Two French firebombers arrived in Sweden Thursday. The plan is that they should be begin work Friday AM.
o Norwegian and Danish firefighters are involved, and can also get support from helicopters from Lithuania and Germany.
o In many places the situation is dire with rescue services and other volunteers who during several days have tried to fight the fires. 500 volunteers from the defence forces have returned from vacation to participate in fighting the fire.
o SMHI (Swedish NOAA) warns that the risk of forest- and wildfires is very high or extremely high in almost the entire country.
o Prohibition of open fire in almost the entire country.
I see Trump is worried that his son might have to go and fight in Montenegro
But surely he would have inherited bone spurs, wouldn’t he ?— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) July 19, 2018
re: #209 Single-handed sailor
I see Trump is worried that his son might have to go and fight in Montenegro
Trump is counting on his supporters and Fox viewers not having a clue about Montenegro and ohmigod, the thought of a mutual defense pact with other countries is so not-America-First…
re: #163 Barefoot Grin
I feel like it starting to be the time for IC to put some traceable info into PDBs to see if it’s leaked and has consequences in Russia. Not jeopardizing lives, just in chatter, etc.
Yeah, put some bogus info into one of the PDBs and see what the Russians do. If they act on the bogus intel, then obviously, POTUS is the source.
We fried the Rosenbergs for less.
Just sayin’…….
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, put some bogus info into one of the PDBs and see what the Russians do. If they act on the bogus intel, then obviously, POTUS is the source.
We fried the Rosenbergs for less.
Just sayin’…….
Those briefings have to consist of no more than ten bullet points on one page…hard to hide things in there…
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those briefings have to consist of no more than ten bullet points on one page…hard to hide things in there…
“Hey, you know what, Mr. President? You were right about Montenegro; we have some SIGINT, confirmed by HUMINT, that Montenegro’s secret service agency is planning some kind of covert op against the Russian Ambassador there. We don’t know what it is, though, but it seems pretty damn serious.”
As if trade wars weren’t enough, Trump is now planning a currency war:
re: #215 Lupin
As if trade wars weren’t enough, Trump is now planning a currency war:
Trump’s going for the Bane strategy, I see.
“Crashing this economy……with no survivors!”
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
Trump’s going for the Bane strategy, I see.
“Crashing this economy……with no survivors!”
The only Trump supporters whom I could at least understand (even if I did not agree with) were the ones who insisted that since the World Economy was going to crash and burn some day soon anyways, then just elect Trump to speed up the process and get it over with so we can start recovering.
re: #215 Lupin
As if trade wars weren’t enough, Trump is now planning a currency war:
Bitcoin looking better every day
China has been adjusting the exchange rate to keep the yuan “cheap” against the dollar, so if Trump really wants a weak dollar, China may play cat-and-mouse with him until one or the other cries uncle.
Trump shoots from the hip on the dollar and Fed, territory most presidents in the modern era usually avoided.
Nice graphic from @SaqibReports on Trump’s often contradictory dollar comments. https://t.co/vME5vJbt2N pic.twitter.com/DgGJV6vVmk— Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) July 20, 2018
A passing of note; Shinobu Hashimoto, the screenplay writer of The Seven Samurai and Rashomon, has died at the age of 100.
Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, who wrote for some of the most iconic films in Japanese history, including The Seven Samurai and Rashomon from director Akira Kurosawa, has died. He was 100.
Hashimoto died Thursday at his home in Tokyo from pneumonia, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.
Hashimoto wrote or co-wrote more than 70 screenplays, including many of Kurosawa’s classics, also including The Hidden Fortress (1958). He directed three films as well, including I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959), and carried on as a screenwriter until suffering a stroke in his 90s.
Absolute legend. RIP.
Putin’s Poodle……
I didn’t fight for my country so that we could have a clown elected President & commit treason against us. What an embarrassingly sad day in US history. The UK is calling him Putin’s Poodle. Even Republicans are finally done #TrumpTreason. #PutinsPoodle #gethimout #notmypresident pic.twitter.com/xbEJ49kXZw
— Renee Coutlee (@CoutleeRenee) July 20, 2018
re: #222 Dave In Austin
I didn’t fight for my country so that we could have a clown elected President & commit treason against us. What an embarrassingly sad day in US history. The UK is calling him Putin’s Poodle. Even Republicans are finally done
Trump is still polling well with Republicans, but I am going to go out on a limb and venture that a good share of those questioned are starting to lose their enthusiasm for Trump, they are just not the sort of people who would admit such a thing even to an anonymous pollster.
re: #222 Dave In Austin
I object to that description of Tump. Poodles are quite bright…
Captain she is breaking up! Elon Musk’s bizarre tweets are raising red flags on Wall Street
The Munster letter on July 17 wasn’t the only red flag raised about Musk. That, we look back in time, goes to:
Musk’s calling in a request to Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune to make public the $6 million-plus in previously anonymous donations that Musk made to the environmental group. His purpose, as reported by Bloomberg, was to deflect flak for donating $38,900 to a pro-Republican PAC last quarter.
Musk got around to apologizing to the “pedo guy” on Wednesday, acknowledging the rescuer’s criticism of the mini-submarine Musk sent to assist in the soccer team’s rescue does “not justify my actions against him.” Musk’s sincerity was suspect, however, as the “pedo guy” had already threatened to sue.
Musk’s 22.2 million Twitter followers give the entrepreneur a bully pulpit that he ill-advisedly used this month to dress down a blog writer Linette Lopez. On July 5, he tweeted, “@lopezlinette has published several false articles about Tesla, including a doozy where she claimed Tesla scrapped more batteries than our total S,X &3 production number, which is physically impossible.”
He also accused the Business Insider writer of being motivated by short-seller Jim Chanos, whom Musk called “Tesla’s most prominent short-seller.” “Her articles print Chanos’ view verbatim,” he added. “This is not journalism.”
Musk doesn’t limit his wrath to individual journalists, which is why on May 23 he said he’d take on the entire industry by developing a fake news/honest journalism scorecard. “Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication,” he tweeted. “Thinking of calling it Pravda…”
“The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them,” he continued.Many believe the cloud over Musk’s head took shape during a May 2 analyst earnings call. “Boring, bonehead questions are not cool,” he said in response to a question about Tesla’s projected capital expenditures. “These questions are so dry. They’re killing me.”
Meth is a heluva drug.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump is still polling well with Republicans, but I am going to go out on a limb and venture that a good share of those questioned are starting to lose their enthusiasm for Trump, they are just not the sort of people who would admit such a thing even to an anonymous pollster.
For some of them, at least, it’s dawning on them that they’ve bought a pig in a poke.
It’s analogous to cult members who’ve managed to break free of the spell - the hardest thing they’ll ever have to do is admit to themselves how badly misled they were. And such an admission won’t come easy.
re: #226 Dr Lizardo
For some of them, at least, it’s dawning on them that they’ve bought a pig in a poke.
It’s analogous to cult members who’ve managed to break free of the spell - the hardest thing they’ll ever have to do is admit to themselves how badly misled they were. And such an admission won’t come easy.
And they do finally, their regret will turn into anger.
re: #227 wheat-dogg
And anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering, to paraphrase Yoda.
re: #226 Dr Lizardo
For some of them, at least, it’s dawning on them that they’ve bought a pig in a poke.
It’s analogous to cult members who’ve managed to break free of the spell - the hardest thing they’ll ever have to do is admit to themselves how badly misled they were. And such an admission won’t come easy.
I think that the best thing we can hope for is that his former supporters will not turn out to the polls in such strong numbers, and that DT will have had the counter-effect of motivating others to get out and vote against him.
Good morning
And, well doesn’t this just fuck all?
Father of Parkland survivors shot to death in robbery https://t.co/NNQw6orSkz pic.twitter.com/VLYx3OXSWA
— The Hill (@thehill) July 20, 2018
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Father of Parkland survivors shot to death in robbery
How many seconds until the first “Had he been properly armed…” comments?
re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How many seconds until the first “Had he been properly armed…” comments?
Oh, it’s in the article’s comments. I can’t bear to look at the twitter replies
“Let’s not forget that [Russian’s meddling] didn’t happen under President Trump’s watch [but] under the Obama administration,” Sanders said pic.twitter.com/66KjZcjjdU
— POLITICO (@politico) July 18, 2018
Actually, it happened under Mitch McConnell’s watch. https://t.co/OnWoJob8AR
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) July 18, 2018
re: #234 Belafon
“Let’s not forget that [Russian’s meddling] didn’t happen under President Trump’s watch [but] under the Obama administration,” Sanders said pic.twitter.com/66KjZcjjdU
— POLITICO (@politico) July 18, 2018
In other news, the new LAPD chief of police has announced LAPD will not be investigating crimes that occurred before he took office because they happened before he was chief. Yes, that’s sarcasm. https://t.co/BBu3AC0EhG
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 20, 2018
re: #234 Belafon
“Let’s not forget that [Russian’s meddling] didn’t happen under President Trump’s watch [but] under the Obama administration,” Sanders said
And they did their best to counter it, despite GOP objections.
re: #234 Belafon
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That’s really weak Sarah but you know that because your boss is guilty as shit and so are you and your dad for continuing to spread lies to cover it up. Obama tried to announce it to the public and McConnell scumbag like you and Don threatened to call it a voting suppression effort. But hey cry some more about why even in downstate Virginia no one wants to serve you.
re: #233 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh, it’s in the article’s comments. I can’t bear to look at the twitter replies
People suck sometimes don’t they? Difficulty is finding which ones don’t.
The president has managed to deflect unfavorable press coverage of migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and take the spotlight off of his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, @varvel says, https://t.co/2luzqMigQt pic.twitter.com/2vMTcfDzeQ
— Linda Dono (@LindaDono) July 20, 2018
re: #15 jaunte
Texas digging up some of its past.
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Very late to the party…this is pretty close to where I live. Prison farm, used slave labor first, then “convicts.”
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
Trump’s up to his eyeballs in Russian complicity. I’ve shorthanded this as CCCP (yeah, I know the Soviets are gone, but Putin remains - ergo Compromised and Complicit Cronies for or with Putin).
I know that’ll take some time to catch on, but it’s no longer shocking to find that Putin’s efforts were so elegant in their simplicity and cost-effective by targeting GOPers whose intentions were always about party over nation.
They didn’t care where the money came from - doubly true for Trump.
They didn’t care where the support came from - doubly for Trump.
They wanted power. Absolute power.
Trump’s an authoritarian and he got his wish. McConnell and Ryan got theirs - and the one thing stopping all of them is that their incompetence is total, and that they couldn’t get out of their own way. That’s stopped some of the damage (like to Obamacare) from being absolute.
At the same time, McConnell’s used all this to pack the courts with extremists, Trump’s used this to gut EPA and Interior Departments, and his policy statements are destroying American national security and foreign policy in one fell swoop.
Trump loves to talk about a witch hunt, and that’s a great soundbite for his know nothing GOP base, but the reality is that he and the rest of the GOP knows Mueller and the FBI and other intel agencies of the US are very good at what they do, and they all know that Trump and the GOP are CCCP. That’s why they want the investigations to end.
Not because of a witch hunt.
But because Mueller is so very good at his job. Because Strzok was good at his. Because the FBI is generally good at theirs as is the intel agencies.
That the GOP and Trump refuse to treat Russia as a mortal threat and ongoing threat due to their cyberwarfare/psyops against the US that started before the 2016 election and continues to this day shows how CCCP they are and are blind to the threat - knowing that they are continuing beneficiaries of that interference.
Exposing the interference would also mean exposing all too many GOPers to criminal prosecution for being CCCP.
re: #237 HappyWarrior
That’s really weak Sarah but you know that because your boss is guilty as shit and so are you and your dad for continuing to spread lies to cover it up. Obama tried to announce it to the public and McConnell scumbag like you and Don threatened to call it a voting suppression effort. But hey cry some more about why even in downstate Virginia no one wants to serve you.
The Russian really had us snookered; had Obama pressed the point, it would have been shouted down as partisan politicking…so they let it slide and, well…this is what we got…
That’s the problem…if they see this as an “anthem issue” there is no resolution because this is about black people being killed by police.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 20, 2018
re: #243 MsJ
UPDATED: NFL suspends new anthem rules, working with players to find ‘solution to the anthem issue’
anthem never used to be an issue because player did not come out until after the anthem
then US Military wanted more patriotic spectacle and we got a special form of patriotism in the form of Free Expression and Civil Disobedience…
Fuck the NFL and owners who treat their players like chattel.
Idiotic NFL policies get review after Trump forced their hand previously in demand players be fined for protesting police brutality and discrimination against minorities.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 20, 2018
Miami decided to treat taking a knee more seriously than domestic violence and criminal misconduct.
Think about that.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 20, 2018
I stopped watching them after learning about how the league buried details of how CTE was killing players and refused to warn them about it.
But the idiocy around the taking the knee protests is a whole different level of crazy.
Miami decided that they’d fine/suspend players who took a knee for four games?!
That’s more than the league punishes players who engage in criminal assaults. It’s similar to when players engage in PED violations. It’s asinine.
And it’s another reason never to watch another game.
You’re a liar, con artist, and started trade wars that have only led to higher costs to American consumers, and even American businesses are now warning you to cut it out because it’s costing them.
You’re an agent of Russia. Your actions don’t benefit the US. Just Putin.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 20, 2018
moron’s morning tv briefing:
My deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those involved in the terrible boat accident which just took place in Missouri. Such a tragedy, such a great loss. May God be with you all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2018
China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day - taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2018
….The United States should not be penalized because we are doing so well. Tightening now hurts all that we have done. The U.S. should be allowed to recapture what was lost due to illegal currency manipulation and BAD Trade Deals. Debt coming due & we are raising rates - Really?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2018
Farmers have been on a downward trend for 15 years. The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the Election. A big reason is bad (terrible) Trade Deals with other countries. They put on massive Tariffs and Barriers. Canada charges 275% on Dairy. Farmers will WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2018
he is so full of shit
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron’s morning tv briefing:
he is so full of shit
Farmers, Inc (tm), the company that will buy up all the failing family farms, will win.
jeebus
Trump: “I’m doing very well getting along with countries.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2018
Asked if it’s in his “mind” that he can sort of use a Russia relationship to help against China, Trump says, “Maybe. In the computer. I mean, maybe.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2018
Trump: “Obama was a patsy for Russia. A total patsy.” He says he, conversely, is tougher than any president has been “maybe ever.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2018
Trump complained about the Fed raising interest rates when the economy improves: “Every time you go up, they want to raise rates again.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2018
he really hasn’t got the first clue about anything
And now going after the Fed even more explicitly. Great.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Asked if it’s in his “mind” that he can sort of use a Russia relationship to help against China, Trump says, “Maybe. In the computer. I mean, maybe.”
What the hell does that even mean?
re: #251 makeitstop
What the hell does that even mean?
It means Sauran is talking to him through his computer.
When you try and justify your support for our traitor POTUS that’s called Manchuriansplaining.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 19, 2018
re: #254 Belafon
When you try and justify your support for our traitor POTUS that’s called Manchuriansplaining.
Wins today’s Internet
not enough updings available
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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he really hasn’t got the first clue about anything
Quite true: and bad enough. What’s worse, though, is that there is a fairly large bloc of voters out there for whom this nonsensical ranting sounds like cogent economic policy.
Mainly because:
1. They don’t know any more about global trade than Trump does
2. It sounds “tough”, and plays to the sense of resentment at “unfair deals”
3. Reassures the moron base that “only Trump can fix stuff”
4. “Owns” the critics.
re: #256 Jay C
Quite true: and bad enough. What’s worse, though, is that there is a fairly large bloc of voters out there for whom this nonsensical ranting sounds like cogent economic policy.
Mainly because:
1. They don’t know any more about global trade than Trump does
2. It sounds “tough”, and plays to the sense of resentment at “unfair deals”
3. Reassures the moron base that “only Trump can fix stuff”
4. “Owns” the critics.
there are other who want to see the world economy collapse and are just cheering trump on as he runs us into the ground
NEW: @USATODAY has dropped columnist Cheri Jacobus over this tweet she sent to @MichaelRCaputo https://t.co/2vlvt35aqa pic.twitter.com/BTCksNcwRU
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) July 20, 2018
Statement from USA Today:
“Our editors let Jacobus know that she would no longer be writing for USA TODAY. We have asked her to remove the USA TODAY affiliation from her bio.” pic.twitter.com/PkKi8I2HeE— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) July 20, 2018
.@slpng_giants has led an incredibly effective campaign against online hate and bigotry
Its previously anonymous founders speak publicly for the first time in an interview with the NYThttps://t.co/sr2iVx0k9v— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 20, 2018
.@slpng_giants went public after being doxxed by Daily Caller. I’m hoping they continue their work because it’s so important
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 20, 2018
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
Please read our @washingtonpost Op Ed (by Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt & David Friedman): Help is at hand for Palestinians. It’s all up to Hamas. https://t.co/EZgzaQPi7p
— Jason D. Greenblatt (@jdgreenblatt45) July 19, 2018
The Spokesmen for the Israeli Occupation
Kushner, Greenblatt & Friedman tell the Palestinian people to capitulate so they can get food.
After Israel passed the nation-state bill
that declares that only the Jewish people “have an exclusive right to national self-determination.” https://t.co/aJpdwxqYqn— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) July 20, 2018
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump complained about the Fed raising interest rates when the economy improves: “Every time you go up, they want to raise rates again.”
— Daniel Dale
Hi, you must be new here.
re: #260 ObserverArt
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
I went to their website the other day to get a link to an op-ed written “written” by my brownnosing Trump congresscritter. But otherwise, no.
re: #260 ObserverArt
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
My girlfriend’s dad used to buy copies of it when he was visiting her here in Germany, only time I have ever seen anyone read it.
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
Farmers have been on a downward trend for 15 years. The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the Election. A big reason is bad (terrible) Trade Deals with other countries. They put on massive Tariffs and Barriers. Canada charges 275% on Dairy. Farmers will WIN!
— Donald J. Trump
LOLwhut?
“Trump’s advisers were in an uproar over Coats’s interview in Aspen, Colo. They said the optics were especially damaging, noting that at moments Coats appeared to be laughing at the president, playing to his audience of the intellectual elite…” https://t.co/yFhM273jP4
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 20, 2018
re: #266 MsJ
“Trump’s advisers were in an uproar over Coats’s interview in Aspen, Colo. They said the optics were especially damaging, noting that at moments Coats appeared to be laughing at the president, playing to his audience of the intellectual elite…”
because anyone who finds Trump ludicrust must be a coastal eleite…
re: #234 Belafon
“But Russia didn’t meddle, maybe other people did, too, and it didn’t affect the vote so so what?”
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re: #260 ObserverArt
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
I haven’t been to their site in a while.
Last time I checked it, they had all their stories contained in a ‘slider,’ and if you clicked in the wrong spot you’d lose the page you were reading and couldn’t get back to it.
It’s kind of a cool idea on paper. They should have left it on paper IMO.
Also - Jacobus is crazy.
re: #266 MsJ
We’re all laughing actually, when we aren’t crying. But, sure, optics.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because anyone who finds Trump ludicrust must be a coastal eleite…
Or scared shitless. So, Coats may want to stay, but laughing at His Majesticness is forbidden. Coats is SOL.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because anyone who finds Trump ludicrust must be a coastal eleite…
Dan Coats that liberal coastal elite from **squints** Indiana.
re: #263 mmmirele
I went to their website the other day to get a link to an op-ed written “written” by my brownnosing Trump congresscritter. But otherwise, no.
I heard your employer mentioned in a news report this morning but I didn’t catch all the details. Something they did automatically as far as added on product services they now have to pay back. Is that all new or is this just a continuation of previous problems?
Is it the ol’ “free for the first three months but you have to tell us you no longer need it before we hit you up for ridiculous fees after the free period” kind of thing?
re: #266 MsJ
Coats should demand that Trump fire him in person, and that he will consider any notice short of coming from Trump as fake news.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because anyone who finds Trump ludicrust must be a coastal eleite…
We have a lot of coasts suddenly.
re: #266 MsJ
“Trump’s advisers were in an uproar over Coats’s interview in Aspen, Colo. They said the optics were especially damaging, noting that at moments Coats appeared to be laughing at the president, playing to his audience of the intellectual elite…” washingtonpost.com
— Ken Dilanian
Yes, Trump, and Mr. Sir John Barron were very uproar.
re: #265 Sir John Barron
LOLwhut?
Trump is an idiot who will try to manage the economy the same way Mao tried to manage China’s agriculture in the 1960s. It will be a disaster.
Meanwhile, the Fed raises interest rates when the economy booms to keep inflation in check. It’s nothing new, but Trumpino does not know it. Mr King of Debt does not know how lending rates work. I guess his Russian creditors have a different system.
I just wrote out some #PostcardsToVoters and it feels VERY GOOD to DO SOMETHING! Check it out at https://t.co/LLHSL64jD3
— Andy “Amazing Larry” Daly (@TVsAndyDaly) July 18, 2018
I get so many questions from introverts who want to help but freeze at the thought of making calls. This is perfect for you. https://t.co/KHLht79uCB
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 20, 2018
Russian is selling off US Treasury bills as a hedge against sanctions.
Russian officials are hoping Vladimir Putin’s rapport with Donald Trump will lead to rapprochement with the U.S. But they’re not taking any chances.
A U.S. Treasury report this week appears to show Russia liquidating dollar assets at a record pace, selling four-fifths of its cache of U.S. government debt, $81 billion worth, over a two-month period. It started in April, when the U.S. imposed the most onerous sanctions yet on allies of Putin.
The release caused a stir in the markets because neither the Treasury nor the Bank of Russia will comment on the transactions. And the data is murky, so it’s hard to know if Russia actually offloaded the bulk of its U.S. assets or simply transferred custodianship to a foreign entity to disguise ownership.
The White House has had to clean up President Trump’s comments 4 times in less than a week. https://t.co/spw0JT3GQj pic.twitter.com/eXuu7qZhNG
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 20, 2018
re: #274 Belafon
Coats should demand that Trump fire him in person, and that he will consider any notice short of coming from Trump as fake news.
Never gonna happen. Trump is a bigger pussy than Garfield.
re: #282 MsJ
Never gonna happen. Trump is a bigger pussy than Garfield.
It will either be a Pink Tweet, or something hand delivered by a minion.
New York’s tax-collecting agency opens its own investigation of @realDonaldTrump’s foundation — separate from NY AG’s probe — Gov. Cuomo says. https://t.co/AmesiXmJGB
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 20, 2018
The NY AG already filed a civil suit against @realDonaldTrump b/c of his charity. But Cuomo had faced pressure from the left to go further, and investigate possible *criminal* charges. Now, he says a state agency was already doing just that. https://t.co/Sv8fagIJRa
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 20, 2018
re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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If there’s anything that would make Trump apoplectic, it’s NY finding the Trump Foundation to be in violation of NY’s RICO laws and then prosecute them accordingly.
He’d fucking flip out. He’d probably try to declare war on New York, LOL.
re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
WHICH HUNT WHERES HER SERVER???
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
If there’s anything that would make Trump apoplectic, it’s NY finding the Trump Foundation to be in violation of NY’s RICO laws and then prosecute them accordingly.
He’d fucking flip out. He’d probably try to declare war on New York, LOL.
Coastal elites and all that.
Thw Washington Post gets well deserved condemnation for publishing a false, racist opinion in opposition to birthright citizenship. Why would they publish such a screed? For the outraged shares, of course.
re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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That is a great image of The Trump Crime Family.
There they are looking suspect standing in front of a fake display of a hundred manila envelopes filled with blank sheets of paper acting like everyone believes that The Big Don has turned all his businesses over to the Junior Crime Division.
Fake business leaders with a fake announcement that was covered by the fake news.
What a time.
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
If there’s anything that would make Trump apoplectic, it’s NY finding the Trump Foundation to be in violation of NY’s RICO laws and then prosecute them accordingly.
He’d fucking flip out. He’d probably try to declare war on New York, LOL.
He’ll go on a long twitter rant about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, I’ll bet.
re: #289 Big Beautiful Door
Thw Washington Post gets well deserved condemnation for publishing a false, racist opinion in opposition to birthright citizenship. Why would they publish such a screed? For the outraged shares, of course.
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I was so frustrated to see that. I’m sure most readers will agree. I read the letters to the editor. Only one positive one about Trump’s actions in Helsinki and it was more “he would have won anyway without Putin.” A couple did strike me though, one from a former Reagan undersecretary very critical of the fact that the administration even entertained extraditing Browder and McFaul and another by a retired AF colonel very critical of his attitude towards our allies.
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
If there’s anything that would make Trump apoplectic, it’s NY finding the Trump Foundation to be in violation of NY’s RICO laws and then prosecute them accordingly.
He’d fucking flip out. He’d probably try to declare war on New York, LOL.
“You can’t indict the president.”
“But we can indict the children. They’re the ones in charge.”
re: #204 Dave In Austin
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Wouldn’t bother me at all if they started football games with Peaches and Herb singing…
re: #292 HappyWarrior
I was so frustrated to see that. I’m sure most readers will agree. I read the letters to the editor. Only one positive one about Trump’s actions in Helsinki and it was more “he would have won anyway without Putin.” A couple did strike me though, one from a former Reagan undersecretary very critical of the fact that the administration even entertained extraditing Browder and McFaul and another by a retired AF colonel very critical of his attitude towards our allies.
And the thing is, I’m sure Stephen Miller thinks its a great idea, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he got Trump to sign such an EO stripping all children born in America to noncitizens of their citizenship.
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
And the thing is, I’m sure Stephen Miller thinks its a great idea, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he got Trump to sign such an EO stripping all children born in America to noncitizens of their citizenship.
There is a certain grain of validity to it: Germany for example has granted birthright citizenship since 2000 to all children of legal resident aliens. There are no Ankerbabys in Germany.
But to amend that law would require a full and comprehensive reform of immigration and naturalization policy, and i do not see that happening any time soon. Too many vested interests against it.
re: #260 ObserverArt
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
I sell lots of copies a day of the Useless News Today. It’s for the “crossword” don’t ya know? Actually I think that it’s something most of these people can find anywhere and it won’t threaten their privileged white bread lives with its MBF blandness.
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
And the thing is, I’m sure Stephen Miller thinks its a great idea, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he got Trump to sign such an EO stripping all children born in America to noncitizens of their citizenship.
Well I wonder what Steven will do when the Radical Xtians take complete control of the country and strip him of his citizenship?
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
And the thing is, I’m sure Stephen Miller thinks its a great idea, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he got Trump to sign such an EO stripping all children born in America to noncitizens of their citizenship.
I worry like hell about that one. My niece’s mother is still in her citizenship process. I’m sure she’d be fine but man I worry about her and other kids too. Miller is perhaps the most malicious member of Trump’s inner circle. I’d liken him to Martin Borrman. He’s not always visibly present but he’s always there. I know some have compared him to Goebells but Goebells was a loud menace while Miller much like Borrman has Trump’s complete trust just like the latter did for Hitler.
Guess which company declares bankruptcy first thing Monday morning
“At this time, we have 13 confirmed fatalities,” a dive team recovered two bodies last night and went back into the lake this morning to try to recover the four that are still missing, official says https://t.co/9hqNQS4wj4 pic.twitter.com/Sy8DhoRTXy
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 20, 2018
And, you can bet on who will be going to prison
“There was a captain and driver that was on the boat,” sheriff says. They did not own the boat. The captain survived. https://t.co/9hqNQS4wj4 pic.twitter.com/cJ93Q1UVKv
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 20, 2018
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a certain grain of validity to it: Germany for example has granted birthright citizenship since 2000 to all children of legal resident aliens. There are no Ankerbabys in Germany.
But to amend that law would require a full and comprehensive reform of immigration and naturalization policy, and i do not see that happening any time soon. Too many vested interests against it.
It would also require a constitutional amendment, or at least an activist rightwing SCOTUS majority (another reason to try to stop Kavanaugh).
re: #298 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well I wonder what Steven will do when the Radical Xtians take complete control of the country and strip him of his citizenship?
He’ll get himself an exception. Don’t kid yourself.
re: #297 William Lewis
I thought it was because USA Today was in color, but, what do I know?
re: #260 ObserverArt
Morning!
Someone turned off the lights!!! Dark blue black low storm clouds are about.
I was wondering…does anyone actually read USA today or go to their web site? I can’t remember the last time I have done either willingly?
When I was doing agency training and flying around the country most hotels would have a “complimentary copy’ delivered which I always tossed in the trash.
re: #303 Shropshire Slasher
I thought it was because USA Today was in color, but, what do I know?
That used to be the reason, but almost every major newspaper has caught up.
re: #266 MsJ
“Intellectual elite” anyone that tells the fucking truth.
re: #306 GlutenFreeJesus
“Intellectual elite” anyone that tells the fucking truth.
I’ll say it again. Better an intellectual elite than know notadamn thing Trumper who just fancies that he has common sense.
With California added to the mix, I now estimate that carriers are requesting ~8.0% average rate increases in 2019; HOWEVER, that includes an extra ~9.5 percentage points due to #ACASabotage (#MandateRepeal, #ShortAssPlans & #RiskAdjustmentFreeze in TN specifically).
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) July 19, 2018
re: #305 Belafon
I haven’t purchased the local paper in 10 years, because it went to $.50 to who knows how much. Back then everything was black and white but USA Today. The only thing I miss is doing both crosswords every day.
re: #307 HappyWarrior
I’ll say it again. Better an intellectual elite than know notadamn thing Trumper who just fancies that he has common sense.
“I’m not anti-social, I’m just alergic to stupidity” T-shirt on a MAGA-t cap wearing idiot.
re: #281 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Straight talking Trump needs an army of sycophantic pundits and agitprop experts to spin every lie and misstatement. They’re on a nonstop apology tour to spin everything Trump touches and says.
re: #311 William Lewis
“I’m not anti-social, I’m just alergic to stupidity” T-shirt on a MAGA-t cap wearing idiot.
“Are auto-immune diseases rampant in your family?”
“Huh?”
re: #311 William Lewis
“I’m not anti-social, I’m just alergic to stupidity” T-shirt on a MAGA-t cap wearing idiot.
Actually the ones that sadden me are the old guys wearing their caps with a veteran t-shirt or pin on who are spending some of their small amount of money on lottery tickets in the fantasy they’ll die rich.
Now the guy who comes in daily and drops forty/fifty dollars after driving up in his Porsche Cayenne? Then again, he’s not stupid enough to wear a MAGA hat…
When Fox says something true.
WATCH: Neil Cavuto reads hate mail he got for criticizing Trump-Putin summit https://t.co/LikLqNSW97 pic.twitter.com/UWSTgFrJk8
— The Hill (@thehill) July 20, 2018
People you’ve conditioned to hate accurate reporting, hate you when you accurately report on something. https://t.co/0Cs7oy47yJ
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 20, 2018
re: #302 HappyWarrior
He’ll get himself an exception. Don’t kid yourself.
I’m sure he thinks he will. But there will be a “Long Knives” moment sooner or later… Possibly like the backstory in “Handmaids Tale” where all the Jews were supposedly shipped to Israel but were simply taken a ways out to sea and pushed overboard…
Music break, before things spin up for the day: My wife and I were talking last night about bands we’d like to see, and talk swung round to an amazing UK band called Elbow. They’re not my usual cup of tea, which is guitar rock (y’all may have noticed, lol) - but their songs, their entire approach to their music is just so refreshing.
They’re not widely known in the US, but they are a national treasure in the UK, and for very good reason. Here’s the first single from their latest album Little Fictions. The song is lovely, and the video is absolutely beautiful. It’s called ‘Magnificent.’
When the media decided that a son of a slumlord was more a man of the people than a guy who was born to a teenage mom and Kenyan immigrant pre Loving, we showed how American populism is not about economics but race.
re: #317 William Lewis
I’m sure he thinks he will. But there will be a “Long Knives” moment sooner or later… Possibly like the backstory in “Handmaids Tale” where all the Jews were supposedly shipped to Israel but were simply taken a ways out to sea and pushed overboard…
I see him as Trump’s Borrman for the reasons I said. Miller is loyal.
Only the best people.
In a previously undisclosed action, Bill Shine was subpoenaed last year by a federal grand jury in New York as part of a criminal investigation into Fox News’s handling of sexual harassment complaints, according to a document viewed by NYT. https://t.co/e5f1gb2y8c
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 20, 2018
re: #303 Shropshire Slasher
I thought it was because USA Today was in color, but, what do I know?
USA Today was designed specifically to keep article lengths short — no more than 6 column-inches (about 6 paragraphs) — and to avoid article jumps as much as possible. Only a few “in-depth” articles jump from page 1 or 2 to an inside page. The idea was that readers seldom keep reading an article once they reach “continued on page X.” The vocabulary was also kept to a middle school or maybe high school level. Gannett was trying to compete with cable TV, its main competition back then. USA Today was not intended as a competitor to regular newspapers, but as an alternative to them for the general reader.
re: #302 HappyWarrior
He’ll get himself an exception. Don’t kid yourself.
That’s what he thinks. Once he used up his usefulness, his buddy Richard Spencer would buy him a one way ticket on the last plane to Tel Aviv.
re: #308 Belafon
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Ironically, unsubsidized enrollees, older people with above average incomes, are probably mostly Republicans. They voted for Trump to make their own insurance premiums skyrocket.
re: #163 Barefoot Grin
I feel like it starting to be the time for IC to put some traceable info into PDBs to see if it’s leaked and has consequences in Russia. Not jeopardizing lives, just in chatter, etc.
Cardinal of the Kremlin - it’s the canary trap. Give people different sets of data, and know who’s leaking based on the information provided.
You can bet, it’s Trump and his cabal of cronies.They’re all leaking to Russia.
Know what’s worth the read?
Presidential Daily Briefings.
The same PDBs that indicate that Russia is continuing to attack the US cyber infrastructure, and you do nothing except suck up to Putin all while attacking our allies and trading partners.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 20, 2018
I hope he ends up in poverty.
in a private Facebook group for his “fans,” Roger Stone is begging for money to help with his legal troubles amid the Mueller investigation (his fan club is primarily made up of TPUSA activists, College Republican members and other young conservatives) pic.twitter.com/c5nfkNB550
— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) July 20, 2018
If it gets clicks, it sticks
“Facebook does not just tolerate Infowars. It seeks to profit from Infowars and its audience. Facebook’s advertising tools, at time of writing, allow advertisers to pay Facebook to target the 743,220 users who ‘like’ the InfoWars page.” https://t.co/zKnfjVOmJH
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 20, 2018
re: #276 Sir John Barron
Yes, Trump, and Mr. Sir John Barron were very uproar.
If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane
(If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane)
A winning message for the Democrats this Fall: Voters in 48 GOP Districts think the GOP is corrupt.
re: #328 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
If it gets clicks, it sticks
“Facebook does not just tolerate Infowars. It seeks to profit from Infowars and its audience. Facebook’s advertising tools, at time of writing, allow advertisers to pay Facebook to target the 743,220 users who ‘like’ the InfoWars page.”
People who use social media as a source of news deserve to be deceived.
sorry, that is my opinion on the uses of social media
re: #332 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People who use social media as a source of news deserve to be deceived.
sorry, that is my opinion on the uses of social media
Yeah, if it doesn’t link to a credible source I figure its fake.
Republicans blocking the Dems’ motion to hear Trump’s translator is as venal an act I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Don’t THEY want to know? I thought i was jaded but honestly I’m stunned.
re: #280 wheat-dogg
Russian is selling off US Treasury bills as a hedge against sanctions.
It’s starting.
Russia dumping Treasury securities and soon more and more of the rest of the world will follow.
re: #335 Lupin
Republicans blocking the Dems’ motion to hear Trump’s translator is as venal an act I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Don’t THEY want to know? I thought i was jaded but honestly I’m stunned.
No, they literally don’t want to know. The deal is, they get tax cuts for the rich, the judges they want and a war on the environment and the poor, and in return they turn a blind eye to Trump’s corruption and treason.
re: #336 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s starting.
Russia dumping Treasury securities and soon more and more of the rest of the world will follow.
Well no, especially as rising interest rates keep making US treasuries an attractive investment.
re: #336 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s starting.
Russia dumping Treasury securities and soon more and more of the rest of the world will follow.
There is the mother of all sh*tstorm coming, for sure. In the UK, too. And the b*st*rds at Morgan-Stanley haven’t gotten my money out of the US yet..
re: #338 Big Beautiful Door
Well no, especially as rising interest rates keep making US treasuries an attractive investment.
Yes and normally that would help make the US$ stronger, but Trump wants to lower it, sp who knows; wherever it goes it’s the likely volatility I can’t stand.
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Not going to read the comments, no, no, no.
re: #334 makeitstop
Love both songs. Will be listening to Elbow on my walk tomorrow!
Trump to CNBC: “I think it was a very good press conference. Except for the fake news. I really think I did very well at the press conference.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2018
So the walk back of the walk back of the walk back…
This man is a clown. https://t.co/UA15ZMLb2d— Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) July 20, 2018
re: #336 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s starting.
Russia dumping Treasury securities and soon more and more of the rest of the world will follow.
Most likely they are just parking them safely, they would not be divesting an asset that is appreciating.
Here’s the longer cut of Rachel explaining why K.T. McFarland relevance to the Trump Russia investigation has new significance: https://t.co/xBb8y2JT9U pic.twitter.com/nNw6OocF4C
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 20, 2018
re: #340 Lupin
Yes and normally that would help make the US$ stronger, but Trump wants to lower it, sp who knows; wherever it goes it’s the likely volatility I can’t stand.
Trump may want to lower it, but if he keeps pursuing his trade war, as he has indicated, that is just going to keep pushing the dollar higher against other currencies, especially China’s.
re: #305 Belafon
That used to be the reason, but almost every major newspaper has caught up.
I read the Washington Post, UK Guardian and The Economist online.
I stopped buying the New York Times when they fabricated the Whitewater BS.
I gave up on the Lies Angeles Times when Otis Chandler was forced out.
Please continue to smoke.
Ladies and gentlemen, Trump friend Roseanne. Talking once again about Valerie Jarrett: “I thought the bitch was white!” pic.twitter.com/0KVFii0CDP
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 20, 2018
She exemplifies everything that is fucked up about Trump cultists.
re: #317 William Lewis
I’m sure he thinks he will. But there will be a “Long Knives” moment sooner or later… Possibly like the backstory in “Handmaids Tale” where all the Jews were supposedly shipped to Israel but were simply taken a ways out to sea and pushed overboard…
No doubt in my mind that the Radical Xtians won’t stop with stripping Jews and Muslims of citizenship. They will also go after the Mormons, Catholics and “liberal” Protestants as well.
re: #352 Dr. Matt
Please continue to smoke.
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She exemplifies everything that is fucked up about Trump cultists.
Every time Roseanne opens her mouth she proves that in her head is an…
re: #352 Dr. Matt
Ladies and gentlemen, Trump friend Roseanne. Talking once again about Valerie Jarrett: “I thought the bitch was white!” pic.twitter.com/0KVFii0CDP
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 20, 2018
First of all, no she didn’t think Jarrett was white. Second of all, Valerie Jarrett did not write the Iran deal. https://t.co/SApbdN8BlV
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) July 20, 2018
re: #320 HappyWarrior
I see him as Trump’s Borrman for the reasons I said. Miller is loyal.
Loyal to Trump. But to the Fundies Trump needs to maintain power? Miller will be expendable in the end.
re: #344 plansbandc
Love both songs. Will be listening to Elbow on my walk tomorrow!
I have to post one more, then. This video tells a story about a NYC couple who came together through the downtown music scene, set to yet another great song.
Lyrics behind the button.
The first to pour a simple truth in words
Binds the world in a feeling all familiar
‘Cause everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there’s a big one round the corner
A tenner, up and out into New York
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
And oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk
It’s the modern road where folk are nice to Yoko
Every bone of rivet steel, each corner stone an anchor
Jenga jutts and rusty water tower, pillar-posted sign
Every painted lining battered, like a building in this town
Sings a life of proud endeavor and the best that man can be
Me, I see a city and I hear a million voices
Planning, drilling, welding, carrying their fingers to the nub
Reaching down into the ground, stretching up into the sky
Why? Because they can, they did and do so you and I could live together
Oh my God, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there’s a big one round the corner
The desire to part sure symphony
The desire like a distant storm
For love, be good for me
And it feels like there’s a big one round the corner
Oh my God, New York, you talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the greats ideas
And it feels like there’s a big one round the corner
The way the day begins
Decides the shade of everything
But the way it ends depends on if you’re home
For every soul, a pillow at a window, please
In a modern room, where folk are nice to Yoko
re: #352 Dr. Matt
That video is stunning. I knew she was kinda whacked but that video is one that SHE put on her own YouTube channel?? WHAT?
Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model via @NYTimes https://t.co/48sPEgTiwQ
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) July 20, 2018
Hey guys,
I’m getting really annoyed at this point. Background info here.
She hasn’t responded to me at all since Monday even though she has obviously been active sharing and liking shit like crazy on social media. She obviously saw my message yet she hasn’t bothered to respond to me. If she’s pissed off at me, at least tell me like any real friend would do.
I’m just not sure what the fuck happened here as we’ve been chatting every day until out of nowhere Monday afternoon when she stopped responding to me. I’m really confused and I keep asking myself what I did wrong here so I can at least know what I did wrong to justify such a silent treatment from my friend.
Fuck, it’s nerve-wracking.
re: #354 Joe Bacon 🌹
Every time Roseanne opens her mouth she proves that in her head is an…
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“Abbie Normal” *runs for cover*
re: #352 Dr. Matt
Please continue to smoke.
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She exemplifies everything that is fucked up about Trump cultists.
More ambien Rosie?
Hey, mmmirele, we chatted a while ago about Prairie Fires, and you were quoting a hate-blogger about the book. Which I have now read and recommend highly. In short, the blogger is accusing Rose, and particularly Laura of masterminding lies she and her family were themselves taken in by. Also, the portrait even of Rose is much more nuanced than you’d think from that blog (yes, her politics — and ethics — were pretty appalling).
The biographer does a splendid job of putting Laura’s story into the context of US history, and greatly added to my appreciation of the Little House series. And I’ve read a lot about LIW before.
(Must run away now.)
re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It puzzles me that they spell it “Трамп” and not “Трумп”.
i don’t speak russian, but it may be as simple as the obvious version being some really indecent word in Russian. Of course, “Trump” is a really indecent word in English, so I guess it goes both ways.
re: #365 steve_davis
i don’t speak russian, but it may be as simple as the obvious version being some really indecent word in Russian. Of course, “Trump” is a really indecent word in English, so I guess it goes both ways.
Could be that they want to make it sound phonetically correct, in the same way Cyrillic->Latin transformations differ depending on which country you’re in.
re: #280 wheat-dogg
Russian is selling off US Treasury bills as a hedge against sanctions.
We are so fucked.
re: #365 steve_davis
i don’t speak russian, but it may be as simple as the obvious version being some really indecent word in Russian. Of course, “Trump” is a really indecent word in English, so I guess it goes both ways.
Except when playing Bridge when one can bid in NO-TRUMP!
Your ‘liberal’ media at work…
Wow. https://t.co/pModdTI6QR pic.twitter.com/HIImCh3zS5
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 20, 2018
re: #365 steve_davis
i don’t speak russian, but it may be as simple as the obvious version being some really indecent word in Russian. Of course, “Trump” is a really indecent word in English, so I guess it goes both ways.
It’s phonetic. “Трумп” would be pronounced “troomp,” the other is much like our pronunciation.
Really must run. Bye!
re: #353 Joe Bacon 🌹
No doubt in my mind that the Radical Xtians won’t stop with stripping Jews and Muslims of citizenship. They will also go after the Mormons, Catholics and “liberal” Protestants as well.
They might be shocked when they learn that some of us liberal Christians are really bad at the pacifism thing by waking up in Gehenna…
re: #371 Stanley Sea
I’ll bet that’s not the only time doofus has been taped doing something embarrassing or criminal.
Breaking News: President Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded Trump before the 2016 election discussing payments to a former Playboy model https://t.co/m9SrsHwO61
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 20, 2018
Lordy, there are tapes! https://t.co/1c8YVgd0Pd
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) July 20, 2018
Well that’s poetic.
A Russian firm indicted in the Mueller probe is citing a decision by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to argue that the charge against it should be dismissed. https://t.co/k4YgTfaaG8
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 20, 2018
Why do people believe the moon landing hoax or other conspiracy theories? https://t.co/IdEcl5jLlE
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 20, 2018
re: #377 MsJ
Is “hard” the new synonym for “impossible”, because as they say on VEEP, you’d have better luck explaining gravity to a duck.
re: #375 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Here to discuss the existence of a possible tape, legal expert Stringer Bell pic.twitter.com/NRdn0yDNwC
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 20, 2018
Yeah. I know some of the canards are at least 700 (sic(!)) years old.
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 20, 2018
re: #378 Skip Intro
Is “hard” the new synonym for “impossible”, because as they say on VEEP, you’d have better luck explaining gravity to a duck.
I get that these people are trying to make sense of shit they cannot make sense of, but honestly:
Conspiracy theorists often have a high degree of tolerance for contradiction that allows them to ignore evidence against their theories. In one study at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, people who said Osama bin Laden had died before the U.S. raid on his compound were also more inclined to say he was still alive. The stories might have clashed, but both versions denied the Obama administration’s report that bin Laden had been killed during the raid.
All this said, this is just a way to support their world view. Nothing more.
And this? Ugh.
In 2016, Kreko and his colleague, social psychologist Gabor Orosz of Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University, tested the usefulness of various ways to counter conspiracy theories. … Then the researchers tried three debunking strategies: rationally arguing against the conspiracy theory; ridiculing those who believed in the theory; and empathizing with the people the theory targeted.
It turned out that both rationality and ridicule were somewhat effective in reducing participants’ belief in the theory, while empathy was largely ineffective. Showing concern for a conspiracy theory’s victims, the study suggests, isn’t a good debunking strategy — especially when the theory is racist, discriminatory or otherwise harmful.
What’s the best way to put effective pushback tactics into practice? … If someone in your family or social circle is an ongoing fount of conspiracy theories, it’s worthwhile to counter their stories with the truth — which will often be at your fingertips. “Just check on our cellphone the story the other guy just told us,” Orosz said. “We can use these rational strategies in everyday situations, say, ‘These are the facts, my friend.’ ” The theorist may or may not prove willing to accept reality, but either way, others who are listening will be able to hear evidence against a conspiracy.
Yay. Nothing, then.
re: #322 wheat-dogg
USA Today was designed specifically to keep article lengths short — no more than 6 column-inches (about 6 paragraphs) — and to avoid article jumps as much as possible. Only a few “in-depth” articles jump from page 1 or 2 to an inside page. The idea was that readers seldom keep reading an article once they reach “continued on page X.” The vocabulary was also kept to a middle school or maybe high school level. Gannett was trying to compete with cable TV, its main competition back then. USA Today was not intended as a competitor to regular newspapers, but as an alternative to them for the general reader.
And they also had a lot of colorful pictures and info graphics all for that quick headline-only reader that wants their news in three words and a graph.
re: #382 MsJ
“Fake News” counters all arguments.
re: #384 Skip Intro
“Fake News” counters all arguments.
It really is. Read any tweet right now about the Cohen tapes and at least 5% of the responses are “fake news”.
re: #357 makeitstop
Awesome. They’ve lived their lives doing just what they wanted. Role models.
re: #377 MsJ
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Why are they susceptible to conspiracy theories?
Answer—because the Republicans have endlessly attacked public education.
re: #369 makeitstop
Your ‘liberal’ media at work…
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Speaking of which, this piece from the New York Times which I read today succinctly - if probably inadvertently - captures the whole LMMA* thing in a nutshell.
Synopsis: Progressive-politics-sympathetic working-class white in Kansas - ticked off at “liberal” media for painting all “Heartlanders” as Trump-worshiping, redneck yahoos. IMO, Sarah Smarsh misses more points than a blind basketballer, but it fits the Times’ pattern to a T: a better-crafted version of “I hate Trump and GOP policies, but I’ll keep voting for them ‘cuz librul elites are big meanies”
RTWT.
* Liberal Media, My Ass!
re: #389 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why are they susceptible to conspiracy theories?
Answer—because the Republicans have endlessly attacked public education.
So years ago (during the Bush era), I saw a few posts on Prison Planet and I thought to myself…is this possible? It was almost compelling about FEMA camps or some such.
Then, I engaged my brain and went Nah.
That said, had I seen those same posts NOW, I might fully believe them because there is evidence of the government locking people in cages.
re: #328 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
If it gets clicks, it sticks
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I’m to the point now where any image of Mark Zuckerberg makes me want to throw up.
I so want to see him fail.
But he won’t because he has people locked in to using Facebook. That is why he can do what he wants. There is no repercussion.
re: #391 Teukka
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Copypasted from a FB group feed, which was what I was trying to share here.
An analysis from a veteran friend:
What is the Putin agenda and if he marshaled all of his resources to manifest that without military confrontation, how might that happen?
[1] Erode the key pillars of democracy: free and respected press: [President declare them to be despicable purveyors of fake news and hire a press secretary that blatantly lies to the press with no consequence — check]
[2] Weaken the American economy [Double the deficit in guise of a tax cut, gut health care, raise tariffs — check]
[3] Remove American influence in pacific rim commerce to give China and Korea more economic power [Get America to pull out of the Trans Pacific Partnership so China can become major economic power in the region — check],
[4] Enable the primary power currently stealing US technology and fueling it’s nuclear weapons program to accelerate [Summit to publicly suck up to Korea who is robbing us over the internet — check],
[5] Erode America’s economic leadership in the world [levying tariffs so the Pacific Rim and many other countries will supply more products than the US and retaliate to send us into a depression like the last time we went crazy with tariffs just before the great depression — check and check],
[6] Erode and de-stabilize NATO and EU: [Trip to insult the head of England, Germany and completely alienate Nato to weaken the boundary of Soviet expansion — check],
[7] Demoralize all democracies world wide who are inspired by the traditional American values of strength from the people, freedom, compassion, democracy, [Press conference with Putin clearly demonstrating that these values create subservience and weakness — double check with bonus]
[8] Drag America into the dark side where government by Mafia, or Oligarchs is all about money, which dis-empowers people and makes everyone a monetary manipulation pawn [Gut health care, remove family benefits, alienate foreigners, de-fund public parks and anything that is solely for public benefit - check]
[9] Discredit and disable the one agency that would hinder this plan, the CIA [Publicly discredit some of the best CIA heads in history, fire them, fire their replacements, fire their replacements, tell Putin in public that you believe what he says instead of what your own CIA organization says. — check -triple bonus, Putin… you win!!]The best solution would be if you could get a Soviet agent or pawn in the White House. If you could get some egotistical narcissistic blowhard who lives in and out of bankruptcy a supermodel trophy wife and enough money so he could prove to the world he is really successful, then use America’s trust in the internet left over from when they had integrity in journalism, you could confuse the American people to electing him and own the United States of America and dismantle it’s government and world influence… for really cheap… cost of a handful of golf courses and hotels! The only president to not show tax returns… rife with soviet money? Married to lovely eastern block soviet KGB agent Knavs? Then if you could get him elected and avoid anyone checking his taxes to find the dirty money you would be home free.
re: #386 plansbandc
Awesome. They’ve lived their lives doing just what they wanted. Role models.
I love that the band was nowhere near that video, and that they used their own song as a soundtrack to someone else’s story.
Elbow seems to look at their creative output as something bigger than just the songs. I really enjoy that approach.
re: #398 ObserverArt
I like this one much better…it’s got guitars!!!
Yeah, pretty cool song all around. They cover a lot of ground, and they’re constantly changing things up.
re: #327 Dr. Matt
his fan club is primarily made up of TPUSA activists, College Republican members and other young conservatives
lol
GA waitress Emelia Holden is seen on camera being sexually violated by 31 yr old Ryan Cherwinksi. Holden slammed him into a chair She told said “I just did what I felt was best, I took the guy down and had my co-workers call the police.”
Cherwinksi was charged w/ sexual battery. pic.twitter.com/szGx25zgXr— Atlanta Black Star (@ATLBlackStar) July 19, 2018
re: #345 jaunte
Trump to CNBC: “I think it was a very good press conference. Except for the fake news. I really think I did very well at the press conference.”
— Daniel Dale
“Lots of Intelligence people thought I did well, too. John Miller, John Barron, of Intelligence, they thought I did great.”
re: #335 Lupin
Republicans blocking the Dems’ motion to hear Trump’s translator is as venal an act I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Don’t THEY want to know? I thought i was jaded but honestly I’m stunned.
No offense, but your comment indicates what I said yesterday. You don’t know how much the Republicans did nothing but block and stop Obama. Now they are doing everything they can to protect Trump. 10 years of Republican heavy hands now.
Short answer: They already know. They just don’t care.
And I can understand how all that may not come across in reporting in Europe.
There is a huge divide in this country and the conservative side of things are being played thinking Trump and the Republicans care about them. They do not. They care for their votes and then they dump on them too. But the hate for “others” keeps them warm at night even if they are getting screwed.
File this one under jobs I do not want:
Searchable transcript of Paul Manafort texts! Woot!
(Links to many formats at the bottom of the page)
The real meat of the Michael Cohen-Trump tape story in the NYT is buried at the bottom.
Trump was ready to payoff the playmate… but then the National Enquirer bought her story in a catch-and-kill deal.
1/ pic.twitter.com/LLFrEFKPVR— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 20, 2018
Lordy, there’s a tape. Appears to be the only one. @nytmike @mattapuzzo and me https://t.co/rUi0eh6wem
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 20, 2018
As former prosecutors, @RepKathleenRice & I called on the @FBI earlier this year to investigate the payment to silence Karen McDougal as a felony violation of campaign finance laws. Now there’s evidence it wasn’t just Michael Cohen. @realDonaldTrump was directly involved. https://t.co/4h2LOaZgPk
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 20, 2018
re: #349 MsJ
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Getting closer and closer to a firm link between the Russians and Trump’s Admin.
Go ahead Donny, claim you did nothing and knew nothing. We can buy that because that is you daily…doing nothing and knowing nothing.
But you are the man in charge so whatever happens under you is still your doing. Hiding behind others is not going to work. In fact it shows how you set things up so you can deny.
You are operating a crime syndicate. And, as the man at the top you too go down.
re: #407 makeitstop
Searchable transcript of Paul Manafort texts! Woot!
(Links to many formats at the bottom of the page)
See if Trumpers weren’t a stupid cult, they’d realize that Trump and Manafort are both why they proclaim to hate Washington and the swamp
So the Russian spy/oligarch/mobster gets a blue check mark now?
Google Translate
Today is Thomas and Avdotya. “While the ear in the field-work Podol. If the grain in the ear-hurry to squeeze the strip! ” (In a word: “Kui iron-not yet taken away! “))) Galileo one of my acquaintances).
Good morning!… It fills the ears in Rostov and Volgograd…. ((((
Сегодня - Фома и Авдотья. “Пока колос в поле - трудись подоле. Коли зерно в колосу - торопись жать полосу!” (Одним словом: “Куй железо - пока не отняли!”))) говаривал один мой знакомый).
— А.П. Торшин (@torshin_ru) July 20, 2018
Сегодня - Фома и Авдотья. “Пока колос в поле - трудись подоле. Коли зерно в колосу - торопись жать полосу!” (Одним словом: “Куй железо - пока не отняли!”))) говаривал один мой знакомый).
Доброе утро!…заливает колосья и в Ростове и в Волгограде….((((
— Александр В. (@pechNnik) July 20, 2018
This will be interesting. Sadly. I think a lot of businesses might be closed for renovations during this period. And I doubt there are enough police in the entire state to deal with this.
Las Vegas was the other possible contender - even after officials in Las Vegas told the GOP to GTFO. They expected Sheldon Adleson to get it OK’d along with republicans in the service union (???) Nobody wants the GOP or the liability they will bring.
Republicans’ struggle to find a 2020 convention site offers a window into Trump-era polarization https://t.co/VxNfd79ijm
— L.A. Times Politics (@latimespolitics) July 20, 2018
re: #413 MsJ
This will be interesting. Sadly. I think a lot of businesses might be closed for renovations during this period. And I doubt there are enough police in the entire state to deal with this.
Las Vegas was the other possible contender - even after officials in Las Vegas told the GOP to GTFO. They expected Sheldon Adleson to get it OK’d along with republicans in the service union (???) Nobody wants the GOP or the liability they will bring.
Maybe they can find a nice rural, small town.
re: #409 jaunte
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Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump…
This is what it looks like when the spackle falls out of your fixer.
re: #409 jaunte
“Campaign finance laws are the swamp we want to get rid of but Rule of Law and where are Clinton Foundation pay for play records?”
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re: #360 electrotek
Hey guys,
I’m getting really annoyed at this point. Background info here.
She hasn’t responded to me at all since Monday even though she has obviously been active sharing and liking shit like crazy on social media. She obviously saw my message yet she hasn’t bothered to respond to me. If she’s pissed off at me, at least tell me like any real friend would do.
I’m just not sure what the fuck happened here as we’ve been chatting every day until out of nowhere Monday afternoon when she stopped responding to me. I’m really confused and I keep asking myself what I did wrong here so I can at least know what I did wrong to justify such a silent treatment from my friend.
Fuck, it’s nerve-wracking.
You may have done nothing wrong. It sounds to me like you are just flat being ignored. It may just be a power move to put you in place and/or to widen the distance.
People can be weird just for the sake of being weird. It could be about anything or nothing. The power comes in knowing you care and keep trying and she has the control.
That’ll be 5 cents.
AND, if there’s one tape, there will be many, many, MANY more. Yuuuuuge
re: #412 gocart mozart
Today is Thomas and Avdotya. “While the ear in the field-work Podol. If the grain in the ear-hurry to squeeze the strip! ” (In a word: “Kui iron-not yet taken away! “))) Galileo one of my acquaintances).
Huh?
This sounds like one of those clandestine messages they used to broadcast into Occupied Europe in WWII. Though to me, it sounds more like the parody version from “‘Allo, ‘Allo?”
Cyberattacks originating in China targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices in Finland in the days leading up to the Trump-Putin summit https://t.co/flDsmAwis6
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 20, 2018
I’m all ears! pic.twitter.com/hc3umCz0c2
— VET Irwin (@irwin_vet) July 20, 2018
No problem! Country big, grain “wedge” wide! Altai, Orenburg, North Caucasus, etc. Regions-“stretches”! Grains less than last year will be, but quite enough! Quite (on relics storage and processing)!
Доброе утро!…заливает колосья и в Ростове и в Волгограде….((((
— Александр В. (@pechNnik) July 20, 2018
Ничего! Страна большая, зерновой “клин” широкий! Алтай, Оренбург, Северный Кавказ и др. регионы - “вытянут”! Зерна меньше прошлого года будет, но вполне достаточно! Вполне (по мощам хранения и переработки)! https://t.co/Xsd2p5Pjxn
— А.П. Торшин (@torshin_ru) July 20, 2018
Either he is a farmer or “grain” is code for something.
.@RepAdamSchiff: If we can’t rely on the president to speak candidly about what the Russians have done, how can we expect him to speak candidly to his own intelligence agency about any commitment he made in that private meeting? This is why we need to bring the interpreter in.
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 20, 2018
re: #423 gocart mozart
Either he is a farmer or “grain” is code for something.
Are these the signals for our coup? How many hours away are we now?
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re: #418 ObserverArt
You may have done nothing wrong. It sounds to me like you are just flat being ignored. It may just be a power move to put you in place and/or to widen the distance.
People can be weird just for the sake of being weird. It could be about anything or nothing. The power comes in knowing you care and keep trying and she has the control.
That’ll be 5 cents.
I just can’t grasp why she would do that out of nowhere. It seriously came out of the blue. I mean, I’m not the type of guy who would get upset if someone doesn’t respond to me right away or within hours. It just irks me because she’s clearly conversing with others and commenting like there’s no tomorrow, yet she can’t respond back with my empathy.
I can’t help but to feel disrespected and that my empathy is unwanted and lacking appreciation from her.
THREAD
2/ Even if Trump didn’t think Cohen was would use Essential Consultants, LLC, if Cohen confirms his practice was not to say “payoff for sex” when he wrote checks from his own accounts to help Trump kill embarrassing stories, there’s nothing exculpatory about Trump’s check remark.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 20, 2018
re: #364 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
TY for your review, I appreciate it. Still don’t know if I can read it, because I simply *cannot* stand libertarians.
And it’s bothering me so much that I have had trouble sleeping because I keep wondering what the fuck I did wrong for her to do that to me out of the blue like that.
re: #389 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why are they susceptible to conspiracy theories?
Answer—because the Republicans have endlessly attacked public education.
They had a chance to call out outrageous Birther or Fake Muslim conspiracy theories but did not, and in doing so only encouraged more outrageous contrivances. They are now hoist by their own petard: to get elected, GOP candidates cannot jut tolerate these theories, they have to actively embrace them
re: #420 Jay C
Huh?
This sounds like one of those clandestine messages they used to broadcast into Occupied Europe in WWII. Though to me, it sounds more like the parody version from “‘Allo, ‘Allo?”
Oh that’s an interesting impression! I didn’t know what to make of it at all.
re: #402 MsJ
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Good for her.
I kind of wish she would have kneed him in the ‘nads as she spun him down. He deserved it.
re: #429 electrotek
Can you call or go see her? I do this to myself too, it’s my anxiety disorder that fuels it though.
re: #426 electrotek
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re: #402 MsJ
Cherwinski is just one of the many Access Hollywood Bus stochastic terrorists that Trump has encouraged.
re: #426 electrotek
I just can’t grasp why she would do that out of nowhere. It seriously came out of the blue. I mean, I’m not the type of guy who would get upset if someone doesn’t respond to me right away or within hours. It just irks me because she’s clearly conversing with others and commenting like there’s no tomorrow, yet she can’t respond back with my empathy.
I can’t help but to feel disrespected and that my empathy is unwanted and lacking appreciation from her.
That’s the thing about empathy… don’t express it with any expectations attached. Feel it, share it and be better for it. Let the rest go.
re: #415 Sir John Barron
Maybe they can find a nice rural, small town.
Go to the corn country in the Midwest somewhere and set up a big tent in a field somewhere.
Hell they already have a circus going what with all the clowns and animals in their party.
The RNC National Convention…hurry, hurry…step right up and watch the big show.
re: #373 jaunte
I’ll bet that’s not the only time doofus has been taped doing something embarrassing or criminal.
For example, the Access Hollywood tape, and who knows what’s on The Apprentice tapes they keep locked up.
re: #436 JordanRules
That’s the thing about empathy… don’t express it with any expectations attached. Feel it, share it and be better for it. Let the rest go.
And not doing so could push someone away for good.
When I get into those LEAVE ME ALONE TO DEAL WITH whatever moments, I don’t want to feel like anyone is “hounding” me (even if that is not the case at all) because I have to deal with whatever I am dealing with. Someone pursuing me during that time only leads to my feeling pressured and cornered and I walk away. Often permanently.
re: #437 ObserverArt
Go to the corn country in the Midwest somewhere and set up a big tent in a field somewhere.
Hell they already have a circus going what with all the clowns and animals in their party.
The RNC National Convention…hurry, hurry…step right up and watch the big show.
Good idea, but I thought circuses had done away with featuring freak shows…..
re: #426 electrotek
I just can’t grasp why she would do that out of nowhere. It seriously came out of the blue. I mean, I’m not the type of guy who would get upset if someone doesn’t respond to me right away or within hours. It just irks me because she’s clearly conversing with others and commenting like there’s no tomorrow, yet she can’t respond back with my empathy.
I can’t help but to feel disrespected and that my empathy is unwanted and lacking appreciation from her.
She said she was in a bad place so send a short note saying you know she is hurting and she can contact you any time she wants. Then back off. DO NOT say “But I know you’re on social media talking to other people!” because that will seem stalkerish.
She will get back to you in her own good time.
re: #440 Jay C
Good idea, but I thought circuses had done away with featuring freak shows…..
And elephants! We should take a cue from that…
President Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, secretly made a recording of his conversation between himself and the future President discussing payments to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, who has alleged an affair with Trump, NYT reports https://t.co/p6xQRvA9Ua pic.twitter.com/3xvb7GETHr
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2018
How long before Michael Cohen is poisoned with thallium by the Russian FSB?
I’ll never understand how reporters who covered the Trump campaign thought as President there was some line of idiocy he wouldn’t cross.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 20, 2018
re: #440 Jay C
Good idea, but I thought circuses had done away with featuring freak shows…..
Trump’s Making America Great Again!
re: #443 DodgerFan1988
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How long before Michael Cohen is poisoned with thallium by the Russian FSB?
Too obvious, even for a (tiny) ham-fisted klutz like Trump.
re: #441 The Vicious Babushka
She said she was in a bad place so send a short note saying you know she is hurting and she can contact you any time she wants. Then back off. DO NOT say “But I know you’re on social media talking to other people!” because that will seem stalkerish.
She will get back to you in her own good time.
Excellent advice.
Bombshell BBC report: Witnesses say Trump would ‘pursue models in their teens’
BBC’s “Panorama” program this weekend will release a bombshell report alleging that President Donald Trump used to regularly pursue teenage models who were as young as 17.
According to a press release issued Friday by the BBC, the investigation found that while “there’s no evidence that Donald Trump had sex with underage girls… the program has been told he did pursue models in their teens.”
This will only make him more popular with the “Christian” crowd.
re: #433 A Mom Anon
Can you call or go see her? I do this to myself too, it’s my anxiety disorder that fuels it though.
Can’t go see her, she lives out of state.
I’ll try calling her, I guess.
re: #421 MsJ
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And old tech likely did the trick. While they were going big on hacking, providing a cyber show that everyone in the world is extra alerted to, some waitress onsite probably dropped the bug.
re: #413 MsJ
This will be interesting. Sadly. I think a lot of businesses might be closed for renovations during this period. And I doubt there are enough police in the entire state to deal with this.
Las Vegas was the other possible contender - even after officials in Las Vegas told the GOP to GTFO. They expected Sheldon Adleson to get it OK’d along with republicans in the service union (???) Nobody wants the GOP or the liability they will bring.
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“After Newton’s Democratic colleague Egleston cast what many perceived as the deciding vote to accept the convention, he faced an onslaught of angry emails and social media posts, along with threats of party primary challengers.”
re: #439 MsJ
And not doing so could push someone away for good.
When I get into those LEAVE ME ALONE TO DEAL WITH whatever moments, I don’t want to feel like anyone is “hounding” me (even if that is not the case at all) because I have to deal with whatever I am dealing with. Someone pursuing me during that time only leads to my feeling pressured and cornered and I walk away. Often permanently.
Here’s the thing: I feel that she’s only doing this to me because she has no problem talking to others (given her social media activity that pops up in my feed, kind of hard to avoid).
With the obvious incrimination, I can’t help but to think I’m at fault for something that I have no idea on. If she can clearly share and comment like crazy on social media, then she ‘s not trying to leave to her own self while dealing with her issues.
If she wanted everyone to leave her alone, I wouldn’t be feeling like shit and unwanted. But when I feel like I’m being singled out for reasons unknown, it starts to bother me a lot.
Via @DanaBashCNN @GloriaBorger: When informed about the tape, the president said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this with me,” according to a source familiar with the tapes.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 20, 2018
re: #441 The Vicious Babushka
She said she was in a bad place so send a short note saying you know she is hurting and she can contact you any time she wants. Then back off. DO NOT say “But I know you’re on social media talking to other people!” because that will seem stalkerish.
She will get back to you in her own good time.
Oh shit, good point. I mean it pops up on my Facebook feed so it’s IMPOSSIBLE to avoid. It’s not like I’m on her Facebook page and searching on her recent social media activity.
re: #448 Dr. Matt
I linked the promo video last week when the BBC aired their show.
But no one on this side of the Atlantic seemed to be interested.
re: #453 JordanRules
When informed about the tape, the president said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this with me,” according to a source familiar with the tapes.
Of course, he turns it right into an adversarial thing. Gotta have someone to blame.
He is pathetic.
re: #453 JordanRules
“I can’t believe Michael would do this with me”
Wait until he finds out about Vlad.
re: #453 JordanRules
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JUST IN: Giuliani: Cohen tape is “powerful exculpatory evidence” https://t.co/wa74bMBTD2 pic.twitter.com/feGKSdz7no
— The Hill (@thehill) July 20, 2018
A poem for @RepMaxineWaters, by Terrance Hayes, from his brilliant new book of the same name. pic.twitter.com/CN5w7ZY5ov
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) July 20, 2018
re: #448 Dr. Matt
Bombshell BBC report: Witnesses say Trump would ‘pursue models in their teens’
This will only make him more popular with the “Christian” crowed.
And once again our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press quashes another story that hurts Republicans
Sometimes humans can be awesome.
Beachgoer spots shark washed up against rocks off Block Island and fishes it out of shallow waters to set it free. https://t.co/5AtTL0Yd5J pic.twitter.com/co8vwSprkl
— ABC News (@ABC) July 20, 2018
re: #444 jaunte
I actually did think that the campaign was at least something of an act and that a more serious person would emerge as president.
I was young and foolish then, naïve as the kids say today.
re: #456 freetoken
I linked the promo video last week when the BBC aired their show.
But no one on this side of the Atlantic seemed to be interested.
Sad and true. They weren’t interested during the campaign and they still aren’t interested even as he tries taking us all down with him.
re: #366 Teukka
Could be that they want to make it sound phonetically correct, in the same way Cyrillic->Latin transformations differ depending on which country you’re in.
They chose “Trahmp” with the “a” in “father” vs. “Troomp” with the “oo” in “book”. With Russian phonology those are the only two choices (in a stressed syllable). I just find it odd they wouldn’t stay in the English “u” category.
re: #429 electrotek
My opinion, you need to drop it. You are obsessing & are going to do something that will not work out for you. Give her the space she is requesting.
And that’s going to be my only comment.
Kinda sorta sounds like Zardoz “The Gun is Good.” “The Penis is bad.” pic.twitter.com/rHg73fsIjf
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 20, 2018
I was in a hip coffee shop this morning sipping iced coffee through an organic straw and all the liberals were whispering about how paying hush money to playmates and porn stars, crapping on NATO, and capitulating to a murderous thug were bringing them closer to Trump.
re: #468 Stanley Sea
My opinion, you need to drop it. You are obsessing & are going to do something that will not work out for you. Give her the space she is requesting.
And that’s going to be my only comment.
Appreciate your blunt honesty. That seems to be the best bet at this point.
It’s a horrible habit and trait of mine, I wish I wasn’t this way at times.
re: #448 Dr. Matt
Bombshell BBC report: Witnesses say Trump would ‘pursue models in their teens’
This will only make him more popular with the “Christian” crowd.
they will point out that biblical patriarchs had young teen wives…
I just don’t want to get fucked over again like I have many times in the past.
re: #459 jaunte
Wait until he finds out about Vlad.
Oh he will lose it when he finds out that Vlad saw and sees him as nothing more than a dope.
re: #472 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they will point out that biblical patriarchs had young teen wives…
He was just trying to get them to find Christ.//
It’s tragically poetic that Russia achieved what it had tried to do for long using not missels or bombs, but through a targeted exploitation of America’s fear of women, minorities, and immigrants. Prejudice as a weapon of mass destruction. Genius.
— Bunmi Laditan (@HonestToddler) July 20, 2018
It’s true.
re: #437 ObserverArt
Go to the corn country in the Midwest somewhere and set up a big tent in a field somewhere.
Hell they already have a circus going what with all the clowns and animals in their party.
The RNC National Convention…hurry, hurry…step right up and watch the big show.
They can call it a Revival.
Is anyone going to talk about how HRC committed a severe “norm violation” by explicitly labeling her opponent “a puppet” of the Kremlin?
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 20, 2016
Aged to perfection… https://t.co/ZPAgwk2QRJ
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 20, 2018
re: #479 Kragar
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He was right, the proper term she should have used was Asspuppet. Way to go Mike and TYT. Oh and btw she’s still doing more against Trump than Bernie.
re: #473 electrotek
I just don’t want to get fucked over again like I have many times in the past.
Do not make this about you.
BREAKING: Ohio State says over 100 ex-students shared accounts of sexual misconduct by now-dead team doctor under investigation.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 20, 2018
There is no way that @Jim_Jordan didn’t know about this. None.
He needs to resign for lying to the American people and slandering the victims. And he needs to do it yesterday. https://t.co/cHdyTcMVVS— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) July 20, 2018
re: #481 The Vicious Babushka
Do not make this about you.
You’re right. Damn having such an anxiety disorder of this nature really sucks.
re: #479 Kragar
Is anyone going to talk about how HRC committed a severe “norm violation” by explicitly labeling her opponent “a puppet” of the Kremlin?
— Michael Tracey
Agreed. She should have more correctly stated that Drump was a full on collaborator and colluder with the Kremlin.
There are MORE recordings Michael Cohen had of the president in his records that were seized by the FBI, according to Rudy Giuliani and a source with knowledge of Cohen’s tapes. @DanaBashCNN @cnnbrk
— AnneClaire Stapleton (@AnneClaireCNN) July 20, 2018
A source also tells our @DanaBashCNN & @GloriaBorger that upon learning of the tapes, Trump remarked, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me.” https://t.co/ocJFGYqo7d
— Allie Malloy (@AlliemalCNN) July 20, 2018
re: #473 electrotek
I just don’t want to get fucked over again like I have many times in the past.
Relationships are about BOTH of you. If there’s not two, then it’s just time to move on. It can hurt, but you get through it and move on.
And that’s for any type of relationship.
re: #483 jaunte
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Jordan damage control:
GOP Rep @Jim_Jordan says 150 sexual assault victims “choreographed” their abuse decades ago, all to hurt him today. Uh, yeah sure. https://t.co/7JIcGNFCAN
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) July 20, 2018
re: #489 Teukka
Jordan damage control:
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I’m the real victim here!// Good grief just resign you enabling son of a bitch. Al Franken left for much more benign behavior.
re: #484 electrotek
You’re right. Damn having such an anxiety disorder of this nature really sucks.
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“I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!” https://t.co/W4BaSQIoUp
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) July 20, 2018
re: #351 Joe Bacon 🌹
I read the Washington Post, UK Guardian and The Economist online.
I stopped buying the New York Times when they fabricated the Whitewater BS.
I gave up on the Lies Angeles Times when Otis Chandler was forced out.
Los Angeles Times has a new owner; seems to be a BIG improvement. Give them another chance.
re: #479 Kragar
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Who is Michael Tracey and should I care what he has to say about anything?
Day 4 of protests.
Tonight at the White House there will be a hip-hop & brass band and two dancers joining protestors. 7 PM.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 20, 2018
Ah, see, now we were expecting *bagpipers*. Serves me to make assumptions! https://t.co/m2q2fJSUZd
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 20, 2018
Surging Democrat could flip another Trump seat blue in deep red Ohio https://t.co/CGtPqZgWOe
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 20, 2018
I dunno, maybe we shouldn’t confirm a Supreme Court nominee appointed by a guy who is in the clutches of a foreign dictator.
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) July 20, 2018
re: #460 Dr. Matt
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Republicans consistently return to the “just say it’s the opposite of what it really means” spin…
re: #489 Teukka
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Uh oh, he is in trouble now. He just called the dogs out on himself. They were only sniffing around. Now they will be on full hunt down.
Funny how big tough Jimmy the Investigation Man is turning into a little crybaby when he is the one being investigated.
This is going to take some of the starch out of his tight ass.
Keep on him dogs! You will be doing Ohio and America a big service if you can take this fool down.
re: #497 ObserverArt
Who is Michael Tracey and should I care what he has to say about anything?
He was the blogger and member of the Young Turks which Maxine Waters murdered in public.
re: #497 ObserverArt
Who is Michael Tracey and should I care what he has to say about anything?
The man baby at the Young Tools who is convinced Rep Waters assaulted him.
When is it finally serious to the GOP in general ?
But it’s Lefty CNN!!!
Not really it’s Rep Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd
1 House Republican’s chilling warning on Trump and Russia
CNN
“The president’s failure to defend the United States intelligence community’s unanimous conclusions of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and condemn Russian covert counterinfluence campaigns and his standing idle on the world stage while a Russian dictator spouted lies confused many but should concern all Americans. By playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands, the leader of the free world actively participated in a Russian disinformation campaign that legitimized Russian denial and weakened the credibility of the United States to both our friends and foes abroad.”
re: #505 HappyWarrior
The man baby at the Young Tools who is convinced Rep Waters assaulted him.
Don’t downplay his assault Happy. She almost killed that man!!!
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re: #501 jaunte
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And whose appeal to Trump is his position that you can’t indict a sitting President.
re: #503 ObserverArt
Uh oh, he is in trouble now. He just called the dogs out on himself. They were only sniffing around. Now they will be on full hunt down.
Funny how big tough Jimmy the Investigation man is turning into a little crybaby when he is the one being investigated.
This is going to take some of the starch out of his tight ass.
Keep on him dogs! You will be doing Ohio and America a big service if you can take this fool down.
Portions of his story keep slowly changing…
re: #489 Teukka
Hey Casey! It’s time for a Long Distance Dedication to…”Gym Neighbors”!https://t.co/3fogyaHqZd
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) July 20, 2018
re: #510 Mike Lamb
Portions of his story keep slowly changing…
Wrestling goggles fogged in shower, could not see a thing.
re: #500 JordanRules
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We are now in the “dirty” commercials stage of this special election. It got to that point this week.
I don’t have a vote in this election, not my district. But since a large part of Columbus and all the smaller communities north and east is in Ohio District 12, Columbus media is a big part of the race.
Republicans losing that seat would be huge. It was John Kasich’s old seat since the mid-80s and has been a Republican seat since with do-nothing-say-nothing Pat Tiberi holding it until he decided to retire.
I am not sure, but I suspect Tiberi was being hurt by Trump and was hearing about it. Instead of standing up, he stepped down.
I’m very glad and grateful for the advice given to me here today.
re: #504 Kragar
He was the blogger and member of the Young Turks which Maxine Waters murdered in public.
Oh God…him?!
Geez, I don’t know if I would ever admit I was the one that did that video.
Thanks. Ignore list he goes.
re: #513 ObserverArt
From what I read, Flake decided that given a choice between standing with Trump or standing up to Trump, he chose to bail as well.
re: #489 Teukka
@Jim_Jordan should not only be forced to resign by his colleagues, but a criminal investigation opened into Jordan’s failure to report when he was a responsible person for the safety and welfare of students.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 20, 2018
re: #500 JordanRules
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Damn, I guess I moved 15 years too soon. (That was my district when I lived in Ohio—had to put up with John Kasich and then Pat Tiberi)
Trump dumbassery meets its match.
NEW: The FBI reportedly has a recording of Michael Cohen and President Trump discussing a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, according to a @nytimes report https://t.co/Wcr7bo6rxB pic.twitter.com/3pOP9XwKzS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 20, 2018
Yeah, we knew there had to be tapes out there.
Not that it matters to the GOP or Trump’s sycophantic and cult/bigot brigade base.
They’ll believe anything he says even when he’s lying about the color of the sky.
For the rest of us, it’s just more proof of how utterly corrupt and unworthy of the WH he was all along.
But let’s also keep some perspective. Trump was elected despite being a white nationalist on the campaign trail. He was elected despite being a misogynist on the campaign trail. He was elected despite the Access Hollywood tape. His supporters ignored, or worse, backed him, because of those very things.
Isn’t it a funny coincidence how stories have come out (or continued) about the questionable conduct of Trump’s staunchest supporters this week?
It’s almost as if someone is, I dunno, removing the underpinnings of support from under Trump’s (tiny) feet. A little bit at a time.
re: #512 jaunte
Wrestling goggles fogged in shower, could not see a thing.
And he kept those big ear protectors on so he couldn’t hear anything either.
It is understandable…///
Re: Playboy tape.
ALERT READERS: I’m told that @realdonaldtrump and Michael Cohen are on this secret tape recording talking about paying AMI/ National Enquirer publisher —
not Playboy model Karen McDougal. https://t.co/mtabtTsh2z— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 20, 2018
And that’s even with Trump being friends with the National Enquirer publisher. That he was thinking of paying them off shows just how damaging he thought this whole thing was.
re: #521 ObserverArt
And he kept those big ear protectors on so he couldn’t hear anything either.
It is understandable…///
And now I understand the shirtsleeve shtick. He didn’t want to risk ruining a suit jacket when he jumped in the shower to stand between his lying eyes and the things he didn’t see.
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Y’know, I completely forgot that Haberman announced she was quitting Twitter the other day.
Funny she should come back to minimize potential damage to Trump, ain’t it?
Lordy, there’s a tape. Appears to be the only one. @nytmike @mattapuzzo and me https://t.co/rUi0eh6wem
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 20, 2018
There is one little teensy teensy tape says Trump’s spin doctor
This is what quitting twitter looks like…. 🙄
👇 https://t.co/XqtNYraeel— nadinevanderVelde (@nadinevdVelde) July 20, 2018
re: #452 electrotek
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