Seth takes a closer look at the Trump administration getting ready to ram through another massive tax cut for the wealthy while Republicans ignore the president’s calls to shut down the Russia investigation.
why is there a cow at the beach😩 pic.twitter.com/Mx96ZBxj9q
— moon (@MOONEMOTlCON) July 27, 2018
re: #1 meteor
Has anyone ‘shopped a white woman calling the cops on the cow just for hanging out yet?
Obama ordered Dijon on his hamburger. Bush fumbled in the grocery isle. And Trump says you need an ID to buy groceries. https://t.co/trxYj52a8M
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 2, 2018
I found it: the worst-ever false equivalency about politics and the grocery store https://t.co/ml2go95k9y
— G. Elliott Morris📈🤷♂️ (@gelliottmorris) August 2, 2018
When Trump says you need an ID to buy groceries, his cult interprets it as a dog whistle that poor people have to provide ID in order to qualify for food stamps.
I spent all day staring hard at Paul Manafort. It was mesmerizing. https://t.co/6PihA06tKf
— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) August 1, 2018
I’ve spent years reporting on Manafort’s past, and have consistently found a man who has prioritized influence peddling over integrity again and again. Manafort’s early clients were senators—and that seems to be the ostentatiously dignified style he has adopted for the trial. He has the senatorial habit of excessively tactile behavior. When he entered the court, he put his arm on the back of his attorneys; he shook hands with Biden-like gusto. At one moment, he clasped his own hands and moved a raised forefinger to his lip as if in deep thought. When he rises from his chair, he tends to stand with hands tucked into his pants pockets, cutting a perfectly Kennedyesque silhouette. When lawyers refer to documents, he studiously picks up his reading glasses, showing how seriously he takes it all.
There’s nothing passive about Manafort’s presence in court. He is constantly turning to his lawyers, whispering them his thoughts, just as he might turn to an aide perched over his shoulder. He consults with lawyers on strategy, passing them notes scribbled on a yellow pad. After a lawyer returned a note, he carefully tore it up and submerged it in a coffee cup.
The Senate on Wednesday approved the release of internal Intelligence Committee documents regarding alleged Russian agent Mariia Butina https://t.co/iAeuCdct8U
— POLITICO (@politico) August 2, 2018
re: #5 JordanRules
There’s a freaking spelling error in the NYT tweet.
Trump’s whole trip is just DO THE CRIMES REALLY LOUD. It’s like a hack to block detection of guilt, because the human brain can barely imagine such a monster with zero conscience. It’s a Roy Cohn strategy.
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 2, 2018
There is an assumption that refugees don’t come from “first world countries”. The changing climate knows no boundaries. Those who close their doors to others now, may find doors closed to them in the future.
— IM🍑HIM (@ziyatong) August 2, 2018
re: #7 JordanRules
Judges don’t necessarily like it when you stuff your hands in your pockets when presenting yourself in court.
Don’t ask how I know that.
re: #9 Belafon
There’s a freaking spelling error in the NYT tweet.
On purpose to appeal to Trump’s base. ///
re: #15 The Vicious Babushka
Welcome to The Illiterocracy
Yarrr. Tharrr be Grocery Isle. pic.twitter.com/gyJaH56QGC
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 2, 2018
re: #5 JordanRules
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And whoever’s in charge of NYT twitter can’t tell the difference between isle and aisle. Jeez.
Wow. Had a whole day off, a nice meal and a bottle of cheap red. Not a bad day, in the least.
Thanks all, have a great night.
hello we are robots beedoo boop smiling is opening your lips and exposing your teeth until you feel a light tension on the outer corners of your mouth beep blurp we are smiling boop beep pic.twitter.com/2EXyyHXyZk
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 1, 2018
I just used FaceApp to give them tight lipped smiles and then again to give them back open mouth smiles and somehow both fake pictures look more human. pic.twitter.com/J87yUKvvys
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 1, 2018
re: #13 JordanRules
On purpose to appeal to Trump’s base. ///
It is of a piece with his “smocking gun.”
re: #18 BeachDem
And whoever’s in charge of NYT twitter can’t tell the difference between isle and aisle. Jeez.
They’ll probably write “free reign” and “tow the line”, too….
re: #21 BeachDem
It is of a piece with his “smocking gun.”
The “smocking gun” conjures up quite a picture doesn’t it? No more using those pleating machines or even just doing a bunch of running stitches and then doing all the embroidery-just aim the smocking gun and you’re done!
My friend in America has been arrested. He got caught buying groceries without a photo ID. We send him thoughts and prayers.
— Chris (@goingglocal) August 1, 2018
re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
They’ll probably write “free reign” and “tow the line”, too….
Only if someone has “lead” them to do it. (NYT and others use that a lot as the past tense of lead/rhymes with need)
re: #26 GlutenFreeJesus
Just like their guy Trump.
re: #25 BeachDem
Only if someone has “lead” them to do it. (NYT and others use that a lot as the past tense of lead/rhymes with need)
Maybe they figure if the past tense of “to read” is spelled “read”, but pronounced “redd”, the past tense of “to lead” is done the same?
re: #28 Jay C
Maybe they figure if the past tense of “to read” is spelled “read”, but pronounced “redd”, the past tense of “to lead” is done the same?
Spelling is so last century.
/
New (to me) Twitter account. I like this guy.
It’s nice that we’ve all realized Rudy Giuliani is a huge dumbass, but remember when everyone called him “America’s Mayor” for 15 years because he spent 9/11 pretending he was King of the Firefighters.
— SovCit, Esq. (@CORPORATE_NAME) July 30, 2018
I picked up a copy of the Icewind Dale Trilogy, books based on a D&D world, to read. The beginning of the second book has an intro written by Drizzt Do’Urden, the Drow elf in the series. It’s a really good description of the positives and negatives of tradition, even if it’s in the context of the book. The end of it goes like this:
Tradition.
What gravity indeed does that word impart! What power it wields! As it roots us and grounds us and gives us hope for who we are because of who w were, it also wreaks destruction and denies change.
I would never pretend to understand another people will enough to demand that they change their traditions, yet how foolish it seems to me to hold fast and unyielding to those mores and ways without regard for any changes that have taken place in the world about us.
For that world is a changing place, moved by advancements in technology and magic, by the rise and fall of populations, even by blending of races, as in the half-elf communities. The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma.
Then we fall upon the darker blade of that double-edged sword.
And by the time he bought that $15,000 ostrich jacket, Manafort already owned a $9,500 ostrich vest, which he’d bought in December 2011. pic.twitter.com/X8gNLZKs4r
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) August 2, 2018
How could they not give him free shipping?
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) August 2, 2018
BREAKING: Trump rolls out junk insurance that requires individual underwriting and no protections.
“Short term plans” intended for 3 months to be able to renewed for 3 years.#Trumpcare— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) August 1, 2018
BREAKING: If you missed it, Trumpcare plans were announced today.👇 They are a flashback set to bring us back to pre-ACA days and damage the ACA in the process.
Been collecting inout all day so now will cover this. Follow if interested. 1/https://t.co/7si5g4CvtS— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) August 1, 2018
re: #32 gocart mozart
I can’t imagine wanting an ostrich leather jacket. The texture is interesting in a small piece like a wallet or clutch purse, but there’s a reason you don’t often see it in clothing items. Who wants large “goose bumps” all over their jacket?
Oh. Entitled jerks, apparently.
re: #33 Ace-o-aces
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If the Trumpcare plans are short term, but renewable up to 3 years, can we assume they can drop you if you get sick during one of your short periods of coverage?
re: #5 JordanRules
[Obama ordered Dijon on his hamburger. Bush fumbled in the grocery isle. And Trump says you need an ID to buy groceries.]
they deleted the tweet.
Last year I was involved in a hit and run, and I’m going to be starting a GoFundMe to help with my legal fees. Also for transparency I should note that by “involved in” I mean I represent the guy who did the hit and run, and he’s been really stingy about paying his legal fees.
— SovCit, Esq. (@CORPORATE_NAME) July 31, 2018
head.fucking.desk!
Just curious but have you considered not being trash?
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 2, 2018
They corrected the isle to aisle
could you correct the stupid premise now please
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) August 2, 2018
re: #35 calochortus
If the Trumpcare plans are short term, but renewable up to 3 years, can we assume they can drop you if you get sick during one of your short periods of coverage?
That’s a bingo!
re: #20 JordanRules
Honestly, both Junior and his new mistress look like they wear dentures. Both of them.
Weird, isn’t it?
If young adults are America’s future, then they better get their act together - https://t.co/lSRF0ZCNX2
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 1, 2018
Alex isn’t a boomer. He’s only 44.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 1, 2018
Yeah, a diet of red meat and lead tainted vitamins will age you about 20 years.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 2, 2018
re: #41 MsJ
Honestly, both Junior and his new mistress look like they wear dentures. Both of them.
Weird, isn’t it?
She looks like she’s about 70% silicon.
re: #28 Jay C
Maybe they figure if the past tense of “to read” is spelled “read”, but pronounced “redd”, the past tense of “to lead” is done the same?
Then I suggest they invest in a dictionary. Drives me crazy.
re: #44 BeachDem
Then I suggest they invest in a dictionary. Drives me crazy.
It’s cutesy little in-words like “lede” and “graf” that make me feel all stabby….
re: #30 makeitstop
New (to me) Twitter account. I like this guy.
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That guys entire timeline is hysterical. I Followed him.
Tweets by CORPORATE_NAMEHi I’m a Trump voter and what I hate about the left is that they’re a bunch of PC snowflakes ruining America who won’t fuck me.
— SovCit, Esq. (@CORPORATE_NAME) July 22, 2018
Your moment of Dreher. pic.twitter.com/1lAuWX1KKx
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 2, 2018
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
head.fucking.desk!
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In a tweet comparing Obama’s choice of mustard with an incidental aspect of the current President’s desire to disenfranchise millions of voters, the word “aisle” was misspelled.
The Times regrets the error.— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) August 2, 2018
re: #46 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It’s cutesy little in-words like “lede” and “graf” that make me feel all stabby….
Hey, now. You’re dissing my former occupation.
re: #46 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It’s cutesy little in-words like “lede” and “graf” that make me feel all stabby….
When did a PowerPoint presentation become a “deck?” A client was talking about a deck the other day and I had no idea what she was going on about. Advertising/marketing folks are famous for inventing buzzwords—in fact, I believe they probably invented the word buzzword.
I’m a teacher, and I approve of this message.
Helping adults learn to not call the police with an image commonly used for kindergartners is incredibly my brand pic.twitter.com/9mAXWT4Sce
— Socialist Sailor Moon (@sailorsocialist) July 31, 2018
re: #52 BeachDem
When did a PowerPoint presentation become a “deck?” A client was talking about a deck the other day and I had no idea what she was going on about. Advertising/marketing folks are famous for inventing buzzwords—in fact, I believe they probably invented the word buzzword.
A deck of cards. I’ve heard “stack” used, too.
Business people are even more notorious for inventing/corrupting language for extra wordiness.
theofficelife.com
Creedal nationalism vs. racial nationalism. pic.twitter.com/ioLwDFPwQ6
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) August 2, 2018
There used to be a site called buzzwhack.com. I fear it is no more, although when you click that it says something good is coming soon. This was an old description of it:
buzzwhack.com
Too many Scooby Snacks raising your data cholesterol?
9/24/2001
Tired of hearing what your company plans to do “going forward?” What did that IT guy mean when he called you a “1K buffer?” Should you be practicing “percussive maintenance?” Buzzwhack is a dictionary of buzzwords, written in a breezy style that makes entertaining reading even when you don’t need to look up “sheeple.” Featured here are excerpts from marketing-speak PR releases, and a list of new buzzwords submitted by fellow annoyed readers. Whether you need a definition to decipher the latest company memo, or are looking for some inspiration to write it, Buzzwhack serves as a great turnkey solution in the marketing space.
re: #57 BeachDem
Some of my clients have passed through the “curated” and “narratives” phase and are all the way out into “sensorials.”
Confederate Park in downtown #Memphis is officially no more. All things Civil War related were removed today, including the 4 cannons. A look at the plans for what is now Fourth Bluff Park NEXT on @WMCActionNews5 at 10. #wmc5. pic.twitter.com/1iI2Aj0ceQ
— Joyce Peterson (@MemphoNewsLady) August 2, 2018
re: #57 BeachDem
There used to be a site called buzzwhack.com. I fear it is no more, although when you click that it says something good is coming soon. This was an old description of it:
buzzwhack.com
Too many Scooby Snacks raising your data cholesterol?
9/24/2001
Tired of hearing what your company plans to do “going forward?” What did that IT guy mean when he called you a “1K buffer?” Should you be practicing “percussive maintenance?” Buzzwhack is a dictionary of buzzwords, written in a breezy style that makes entertaining reading even when you don’t need to look up “sheeple.” Featured here are excerpts from marketing-speak PR releases, and a list of new buzzwords submitted by fellow annoyed readers. Whether you need a definition to decipher the latest company memo, or are looking for some inspiration to write it, Buzzwhack serves as a great turnkey solution in the marketing space.
From theofficelife.com:
Going forward [exp.] Two words of unnecessary filler that are often used to shift focus from negative past results to bright future possibilities. “Market headwinds dipped our bottomline, but we’re expecting higher earnings on a go-forward basis.”
Suggested by Tom N.
41 years ago they predicted the Trump presidencyhttps://t.co/6rrk5mNumi
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) August 2, 2018
re: #54 wheat-dogg
A deck of cards. I’ve heard “stack” used, too.
Business people are even more notorious for inventing/corrupting language for extra wordiness.
theofficelife.com
Randomly looking through, this is my favorite so far:
Disambiguate [v.] An ironic 5-syllable word used in place of ‘clarify.’
Great article. Really good.
In Britain and America, the new right is cultivating a dangerous sense of victimhood and shifting blame for its failures elsewhere https://t.co/c7fmAGCQcJ
— NetNewsBuzz (@NetNewsBuzz) August 2, 2018
re: #58 jaunte
Some of my clients have passed through the “curated” and “narratives” phase and are all the way out into “sensorials.”
But are they optimizing their ideas across all platforms or segueing to alternative modes?
re: #62 BeachDem
Randomly looking through, this is my favorite so far:
Disambiguate [v.] An ironic 5-syllable word used in place of ‘clarify.’
The overused, business-y word I hate with a passion?
Dynamic.
That shit needs to die.
From the last thread …
re: #64 calochortus
Greetings. Why does it take as long to catch up after a trip as you spent on that trip? It’s not like I’m employed or anything…
Well, the answer to that is to take another trip. /s
I guess I’ll find out in a couple days … my wife and I are in Regina tonight at the Sandman Hotel. I recovered my computer’s power cord I left here when we started our trip to Yukon last month (they held it for me).
Tomorrow we cross the border into Montana on our way home, unless crap hits the fan tonight (then we’ll take another lap back to Yukon).
Casualties on the Alaska Highway: One Smart windshield.
Yesterday my lawyer wrote to say our electricity is back on at our house, so I don’t have that excuse anymore to avoid next week’s village board meeting by staying here.
Today we stopped at the second-largest saline lake in North America, Chaplin Lake. The lake is privately-owned by a salt mine (which my wife considered dropping me in). The mining corporation made the lake into a wildlife preserve, as over 90% of the marshes and lakes of southern Saskatchewan have been drained for farmland since 1974 … that means several migratory bird species which use the lakes are now endangered.
tourismsaskatchewan.com (Provincial Website describing Chaplin Nature Centre in the Village of Chaplin)
chaplintourism.com (Village of Chaplin, Sask., with upcoming events at the centre)
We came into Regina just in time for the Queen City Exposition. One of the big things at the expo is trying new foods, and this year’s food is crickets (the insect).
According to a local radio programme I was listening to, toasted crickets taste something like nuts, with “a little something extra” and more crunch. They claimed crickets have about three times the protein of beef.
This year’s hit at the expo are cricket grilled cheese sandwiches … one food site expects over the four days of the expo to use up all fifty million live crickets they brought.
We decided to pass on the expo’s food.
re: #32 gocart mozart
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Please don’t tell me that Manafort bought an ostrich skin jockstrap.
re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg
The overused, business-y word I hate with a passion?
Dynamic.
That shit needs to die.
Synergy.
Paradigm.
re: #67 Joe Bacon 🌹
Please don’t tell me that Manafort bought an ostrich skin jockstrap.
It cost $35,000, not including $7,500 for tailoring and $100 for shipping.
re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg
The overused, business-y word I hate with a passion?
Dynamic.
That shit needs to die.
Advice from the 1920s:
Behold. The $15,000 ostrich coat Manafort bought with an international wire transfer, according to a men’s clothier who testified today. Government exhibit pic.twitter.com/BjuQ39ZeJ0
— Kara Scannell (@KaraScannell) August 1, 2018
Wait. NO FEATHERS??? I thought there would be feathers. But of course not. Why did I think it would have feathers? Did anyone else think feathers? https://t.co/a5LwHLrWvQ
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 2, 2018
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹
Just seeing all of your links makes me want to take a ride on The Canadian!
re: #73 gocart mozart
Hey, that’s just bumpy leather.
re: #69 gocart mozart
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Just want to say that, as a lifelong Red Sox fan, I have never been able to stand Schilling.
Also recently topical:
1920s business tip #4: nobody likes a groper. pic.twitter.com/39GRPw8yj6
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) July 31, 2018
re: #76 BeachDem
Just want to say that, as a lifelong Red Sox fan, I have never been able to stand Schilling.
ditto…
CBC here has been reporting all day on an issue of naked capitalistic power being exercised against the Canadian government.
It regards Epi-Pens. Most nations with single payer or socialised medicine are outraged at the huge price hike in Epi-Pens and are demanding the prices be lowered. Pfizer is telling Canada “too bad, and by the way, there’s going to be a shortage of Epi-Pens in your country.”
Health Canada is telling people who rely on the pens that if you are stuck with expired ones and that’s all you have, use them.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹
CBC here has been reporting all day on an issue of naked capitalistic power being exercised against the Canadian government.
It regards Epi-Pens. Most nations with single payer or socialised medicine are outraged at the huge price hike in Epi-Pens and are demanding the prices be lowered. Pfizer is telling Canada “too bad, and by the way, there’s going to be a shortage of Epi-Pens in your country.”
Health Canada is telling people who rely on the pens that if you are stuck with expired ones and that’s all you have, use them.
And that’s another line my brainwashed relatives will use to support Trump destroying Obamacare!
hahahahaha
lol she did actually trigger some snowflakes. her christian followers pic.twitter.com/dLdHDv0Zw8
— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) August 1, 2018
re: #56 jaunte
Blind people:
Um, no. Trump is the very person he’s talking about, a man promising to make America great as long as you trash the freedom of the press, deny rights to others, and not take care of those seeking our help.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 2, 2018
re: #74 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just seeing all of your links makes me want to take a ride on The Canadian!
We considered booking a trip on The Canadian for this summer, but rejected the idea because you can’t stop and do things like we did today with the bird sanctuary. (Even at the Golden Spike monument we went to in British Columbia a couple days ago, the train doesn’t stop.)
In a car, you see something and woosh you zip in and take a look.
There is the advantage of letting someone else do the driving though.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹
CBC here has been reporting all day on an issue of naked capitalistic power being exercised against the Canadian government.
It regards Epi-Pens. Most nations with single payer or socialised medicine are outraged at the huge price hike in Epi-Pens and are demanding the prices be lowered. Pfizer is telling Canada “too bad, and by the way, there’s going to be a shortage of Epi-Pens in your country.”
Health Canada is telling people who rely on the pens that if you are stuck with expired ones and that’s all you have, use them.
Didn’t someone create a generic version?
re: #82 electrotek
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Double hahahaha.
John Holmes Chapter 2 Verse 69:
And those who wear thy skimpiest of bikinis to reveal their big ol Ta Ta’s shall sunbathe in heaven for eternity. pic.twitter.com/SGq7S9ir8L— 🇨🇦 Canada (@Real_Polite_) August 1, 2018
re: #82 electrotek
The replies in that thread are funny.
re: #82 electrotek
hahahahaha
Wearing a bikini to own the libs? lol
Instead gets attacked by her own conservative religious followers.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹
Wearing a bikini to own the libs? lol
Instead gets attacked by her own conservative religious followers.
Yeah, I would assume the worst thing a lib would do is state at the picture. I don’t see anyone making comments.
Whew damn, thank god for LeftWingConspirator. Just bailed me out of jail. I went grocery shopping without acceptable ID and I got caught. I’m so ashamed. Will my wife leave me? I have a record now.
What do I plead?
Can Giuliani get the charge reduce for me?
re: #86 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Didn’t someone create a generic version?
Yes. It’s still way over-priced.
re: #81 Joe Bacon 🌹
And that’s another line my brainwashed relatives will use to support Trump destroying Obamacare!
That socialistic organisation known as the US Army, with tax money, developed the auto-injector. The patent was sold to a corporation because wingnuts require that by law now.
If taxpayer developed property stayed the property of the taxpayers, Epi-Pens would still only be a tiny fraction of what Pfizer is charging (most of the price hike was due to buying the patent rights from another company, not because the company actually developed a new product).
People were talking downstairs about libraries and getting library books in rural areas. Two apps you can use to borrow ebooks (maybe not everywhere, YMMV) are Hoopla and Libby. You need to have a bricks-and-mortar library card to use them, and I see no rhyme or reason in what they do or don’t have, but it’s worth checking if you’re looking for something in particular. (Libby also transfers borrowed materials to a Kindle if you want.)
re: #93 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
People were talking downstairs about libraries and getting library books in rural areas. Two apps you can use to borrow ebooks (maybe not everywhere, YMMV) are Hoopla and Libby. You need to have a bricks-and-mortar library card to use them, and I see no rhyme or reason in what they do or don’t have, but it’s worth checking if you’re looking for something in particular. (Libby also transfers borrowed materials to a Kindle if you want.)
A brick-and-mortar library card would be very heavy and probably not fit in my wallet.
As for varying mileage, our library and village boards considered signing up for an E-book service. There were two problems:
a) They are freakin’ expensive. For the cost, the library can pay for hundreds of books every year and pay the fees for every person in town that wants to get a book from an interlibrary loan.
2) Almost no one has a computer or something like a Kindle in my town. (Our house is the most tech infused, and we don’t have a Kindle either.)
Brutal. But true.
Good Read —> Opinion | The deep cynicism of Bernie Sanders’s chief strategist https://t.co/lG332t7dX0
— LTS (@LisaToddSutton) August 2, 2018
This Day in Labor History: August 1, 1917. Frank Little, a veteran IWW organizer, was dragged out of his hotel in Butte, Montana by company thugs and lynched. Let’s talk about this dastardly incident in American history and the broader repression radicals faced. pic.twitter.com/0GO1YaVOkD
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) August 1, 2018
Thread https://t.co/K5BWG6q01g
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) August 2, 2018
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹
Wearing a bikini to own the libs? lol
Instead gets attacked by her own conservative religious followers.
Jaclyn Glenn fisks two Christian dudes debating whether Christian girls should wear bikinis.
Cringe-worthy
Bye bye @Spotify. You kept Alex Jones, you’ve lost me. pic.twitter.com/Ni5RZWGwkV
— Pam Holland (@PamH_DC) August 2, 2018
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹
Wearing a bikini to own the libs? lol
Instead gets attacked by her own conservative religious followers.
They always love to talk about how different they are from conservative Muslims when it comes to obsession with modesty, but in reality they’re not any different.
This idiot:
Do people actually think Faith Goldy is a Nazi? Then again, people also think Trump is a Nazi.
What a crazy world we live in.— Jacob Argintaru (@JacobArgintaru) August 1, 2018
Johnny was wrong
@realDonaldTrump Pretty sure you just ended any chance you ever had at being president. People who help must suffer the consequences?
— Johnny 5® (@Johnny5) August 2, 2014
re: #59 JordanRules
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About time. I wonder what they’ll do with the cannons? They look like twelve pounder Napoleons. They’d fetch a handsome price at auction and sale would ensure their survival and preservation. The bronze plaque with its Lost Cause hagiography belongs in some yet-to-be-built Jim Crow museum.
Movie premier Dinesh D’Souza’s Death of a Nation, in Washington DC. No Russians were spotted in the audience! pic.twitter.com/B8adN0oMep
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) August 2, 2018
Could be they were been hiding under the hat.🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/s3vJCrfWdC
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) August 2, 2018
re: #104 electrotek
This idiot:
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She’s a Nazi and you are defending her. You are paying a lot of money for that education. Try using some of it.
Signed: A teacher.— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) August 2, 2018
re: #104 electrotek
This idiot:
Do people actually think Faith Goldy is a Nazi? Then again, people also think Trump is a Nazi.
What a crazy world we live in.— Jacob Argintaru
Faith Goldy Caught Promoting Neo-Nazi YouTube Channel
Faith Goldy is at it again… (goes to North 99)
re: #106 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
About time. I wonder what they’ll do with the cannons? They look like twelve pounder Napoleons. They’d fetch a handsome price at auction and sale would ensure their survival and preservation. The bronze plaque with its Lost Cause hagiography belongs in some yet-to-be-built Jim Crow museum.
City will probably store them somewhere.
So the basic thrust of the #QAnon conspiracy is that there is a super-secret plan to take down the all-powerful Deep State and part of that plan is to post clues about the operation on a public forum so random assholes can follow along?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 2, 2018
Yeah, that’s totally how secret operations work in real life.
We may not be actual enemies…but we sure as hell are not friends. You enabled this. You helped make Trump happen. You assisted the GOP descent into authoritarian madness and white nationalism. You have much to answer for.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) August 2, 2018
re: #111 Ace-o-aces
I’m thinking, “who has a lot of time on their hand lately, and would enjoy yanking a bunch of idiot MAGA’s around?” pic.twitter.com/3NUV2KU4Wo
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 2, 2018
Perusing the previous thread, came across the New York Post video on children not knowing how to use “old tech” like rotary phones.
re: #281 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m glad my kids don’t know what a rotary phone is. (Though I’ll probably teach ‘em anyway.) Knowledge of old tech is only useful for two things: Learn from their mistakes, and for updating it to new tech. Just ask the COBOL and FORTRAN programmers of the world, who rake in big bucks from people who persist in keeping old tech past its prime.
Don’t come to my part of the country if you don’t know how to use a rotary phone or need to make a call and wonder why your cell phone doesn’t work (and what’s that telephone with a coin slot on it, how do I work that). /s
Now I’m caught up with the last thread.
re: #316 BeachDem
Kind of funny too that last night there was quite a discussion about how only old ladies write checks. I am an old lady who pays all bills online, uses a chip card when shopping, but still write checks for things like:
Attending a fundraiser and wanting to “prime the pump” with an in person donation.
Paying dues to local organizations that do not have credit card setups.
Paying my hairdresser, who prefers checks so she doesn’t have to pay merchant fees.I also cross the divide with a desktop, laptop, two tablets, a smartphone AND a landline (actually, now it’s a digital service through my cable company—and glory be—I still have cable!)
I’d say get off my lawn, but I live in a condo/
I noted yesterday we use cheques or cash for nearly everything at home, since almost no one takes credit cards and no local banks issue debit cards. In the rare instance I purchase something where the company doesn’t want to take a cheque or cash (like when we bought our car), I use a money order. (The Mercedes dealer was somewhat confused about taking a money order to buy a car, but they accepted it.)
My ATM card is good all over the world for getting money (and my bank doesn’t charge a fee for using a non-local bank ATM).
Today would be a good day for Alfonse Capone to release his taxes.
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) August 1, 2018
Wonkette weighs in on the Shera Bechard (former Playboy playmate) lawsuit against Eliot Broidy (former RNC deputy finance chair forced to resign over making her pregnant while married to another woman and allegedly financing an abortion for her on behalf of, well, someone).
Someone in the last thread noted that the stink of scandal keeps getting worse with Republicans and sex.
In this case, the court unsealed (but redacted much of) the case against Broidy. It would seem he put an unenforceable “penalty clause” in the non-disclosure agreement of $4,800,000.
WTF? Leaving aside the fact penalty clauses in a contract are unenforceable, why would a lawyer insist upon drafting an agreement so that it’s MORE DISADVANTAGEOUS to his own client? He literally increased the “liquidated damages” by 860%! Who the hell was he supposed to be working for here?
Wonkette has screenshots of Ms. Bechard’s suit paperwork, including the huge sections of blacked out pages.
apparently Amazon is just fine for some things:
Congratulations to @GreggJarrett on The TREMENDOUS success of his just out book, “The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme To Clear Hillary Clinton & Frame Donald Trump.” Already number one on Amazon. Hard work from a brilliant guy. It’s the Real Story of the Rigged Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2018
it’s a fake Obama tweet, but it’s still pretty good pic.twitter.com/1CRQ114yI1
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 2, 2018
I’ve been hearing @realDonaldTrump and @RudyGiuliani claiming that ‘collusion is not a crime.’ Well, I took the liberty of reading the U.S. code myself. Here’s what the law actually says: pic.twitter.com/qW2GPxuDdC
— Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) August 1, 2018
And by the time he bought that $15,000 ostrich jacket, Manafort already owned a $9,500 ostrich vest, which he’d bought in December 2011. pic.twitter.com/X8gNLZKs4r
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) August 2, 2018
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re: #73 gocart mozart
That $15,000 jacket just looks cheap
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
apparently Amazon is just fine for some things:
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Not that I’d read that garbage anyway, but $15 for the Kindle version? Nah (and it’s an in-depth, whopping 286 pages. And the reviews—Fox must have bought a bunch to give to these people:
Five stars not enough. Half way into this book, I had tears in my eyes.
Brilliant book on a shocking subject. Makes Watergate look like a jaywalking ticket.
I am disgusted with this entire “hoax”
America thanks you, Gregg Jarrett. This is the definitive book on the Russia Hoax.
You need to to understand the hysterical vendetta against President Trump, and the book will have you pulling your hair and screaming ‘lock her up’ (Her being, of course, Hillary)
re: #124 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
That $15,000 jacket just looks cheap
Check the collar, probably has a “Members Only” tag.
At this point, it really does look like white folks are calling police simply to harass black folks.
Safeway Employees Called Police on a Black Woman Donating to a Homeless Man (Buzzfeed)
The crux of the story is the woman is a regular customer in the store (as the store noted to the police). Employees called the police about a woman shoplifting (giving her description).
She wasn’t even in the store that day; she’d come to the parking lot to give a homeless man she knew who was there pet food for his pet.
The police rolled in a bunch of cars and cops on her.
Safeway says it is conducting an internal investigation, and apologised to the woman.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
At this point, it really does look like white folks are calling police simply to harass black folks.
Safeway Employees Called Police on a Black Woman Donating to a Homeless Man (Buzzfeed)
The crux of the story is the woman is a regular customer in the store (as the store noted to the police). Employees called the police about a woman shoplifting (giving her description).
She wasn’t even in the store that day; she’d come to the parking lot to give a homeless man she knew who was there pet food for his pet.
The police rolled in a bunch of cars and cops on her.
Safeway says it is conducting an internal investigation, and apologised to the woman.
It seems to be a Reich Wing fad these days:
o Making nuisance calls to police about non-whites or immigrants is one trick.
o Another is to pick on a non-white or immigrant employee in an establishment and accuse him or her of wrongdoing.
o A third is to walk into an non-white- or immigrant-heavy establishment and create a scene intentionally.
Missed any? Comment!
The last happened a couple of weeks back when a couple of rightards tried to exit through an alarmed door cleary marked as such at a local supermarket. Their tune changed immediately when I showed up (as a Finn, I pass easily for a Swede)… The staff later thanked me.
re: #129 Teukka
Addendum, I’ve read about this pattern of behavior before, it has happened when fascists have come to power, such as Germany, Italy and Spain (and many others). People dropping dimes on their outgroup individuals randomly or for minor slights.
re: #130 Teukka
Addendum, I’ve read about this pattern of behavior before, it has happened when fascists have come to power, such as Germany, Italy and Spain (and many others). People dropping dimes on their outgroup individuals randomly or for minor slights.
It would seem even if there was a crime of shoplifting, a whole regiment of police is not required to respond to it.
i’m starting to see these posted around the station . guys. guys ?? pic.twitter.com/uh1BpMT2y4
— Notation (@AnneNotation) July 31, 2018
Humans are the worst. https://t.co/xgQpPmdm55
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 2, 2018
re: #124 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
That $15,000 jacket just looks cheap
I’ve seen better-looking ones at Zara for less than the equivalent of $200. And they’re actual cowhide.
A fool and his money are soon parted, as they say.
A couple hundred protesters have lined the hallway outside @SenJohnThune’s office where Judge Kavanaugh is expected to arrive for a meeting with the Senator. They’re being silent and many are holding up a fist—> pic.twitter.com/ev1GqxttGh
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) August 1, 2018
A thread of people power. https://t.co/7f5k18NvgE
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) August 2, 2018
Paul Krugman tearing apart the whole concept of crypto-currency. (Amongst other things, he notes the idea goes exactly in the opposite direction of what currency has done through history, which is become easier to use and guard.)
It is a short read, and pretty much falls in line with what I’ve thought (I’m glad to see Krugman has come on board with me /s).
Democrats propose funding teacher pay raises by canceling tax cuts for the wealthy https://t.co/GNBnepDKlJ
— Shawn in Az 🖖🏽🌵 (@CaptainsLog2O18) August 2, 2018
re: #138 JordanRules
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Samantha Bee on male prison rape jokes. Not funny. Never funny.
A statistic she cites is 1 in 23 men have been raped in the USA. (This does not include children.)
I am definitely not a fan of such jokes and call them out when I hear them.
Even male children get the “he was asking for it” when raped or abused over long periods of time.
Snow joke: Sweden has a new highest peak after the heatwave melts its famous glacier https://t.co/pQNXSZwJSr pic.twitter.com/1yx8SPb299
— Bloomberg (@business) August 2, 2018
I’m off to bed. I have a tough decision to sleep on tonight (whether to return to the USA in the morning).
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
I noted yesterday we use cheques or cash for nearly everything at home, since almost no one takes credit cards and no local banks issue debit cards. In the rare instance I purchase something where the company doesn’t want to take a cheque or cash (like when we bought our car), I use a money order. (The Mercedes dealer was somewhat confused about taking a money order to buy a car, but they accepted it.)
or rather is your town?
re: #4 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Has anyone ‘shopped a white woman calling the cops on the cow just for hanging out yet?
only if it is a brown cow…
re: #33 Ace-o-aces
BREAKING: Trump rolls out junk insurance that requires individual underwriting and no protections.
“Short term plans” intended for 3 months to be able to renewed for 3 years.
A long time ago, back in the 1980’s when i was young and strapping and had no need to see a doctor’s office or clinic for years, I bought a health insurance plan for $50 per month with a $5,000 deductible.
But that was not really health insurance, it was bankruptcy insurance in case I got hit by a truck or something…
I think this is the perfect time to say Jesus dick-slapping Christ!
President Trump thanks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for returning Korean War remains: “I am not at all surprised that you took this kind action. Also, thank you for your nice letter.” pic.twitter.com/XI0BtSo9ew
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 2, 2018
re: #105 gocart mozart
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
* Aug 2, 2014
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!Johnny 5(r)
@Johnny5
@realDonaldTrump Pretty sure you just ended any chance you ever had at being president. People who help must suffer the consequences?
Lots of us were terribly wrong, he was able to get away with things that no career politician would even dare and came out all the stronger for it between his base cheering and the media relativizing him.
re: #106 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
About time. I wonder what they’ll do with the cannons? They look like twelve pounder Napoleons. They’d fetch a handsome price at auction and sale would ensure their survival and preservation. The bronze plaque with its Lost Cause hagiography belongs in some yet-to-be-built Jim Crow museum.
They could have kept the cannons and changed the plaque simply to note that they were used by Americans to kill other Americans during the Civil War…and how that is never a good thing, even if it is sometimes unavoidable.
We have a prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who’s trying to get at the truth of what Russia did and if any American helped Russia. And we have a President who has repeatedly tried to prevent that prosecutor from getting at the truth.
If that’s not obstruction of justice, what is it?— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 2, 2018
Even with all the weird and unbelievable stuff that has happened in the past two years, I still can’t get used to “woke” Joe Walsh. https://t.co/LEpZzYoOfN
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 2, 2018
I can’t wait for all this to be over so he can go back to being a right-wing hack.
Dream on Dr. Frankenstein.
YOU and your fellow Neocons built this monster and it’s turned on you. It’s loose, taking orders from Putin and destroying everything in it’s path!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) August 2, 2018
This civility debate is silly.
One side is angry because the President broke the law, assaulted women, made a bunch of racist statements and put children in cages.
The other side is angry because a black man tried to give them health care.— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) August 1, 2018
re: #149 Ace-o-aces
A stopped watch is right twice per day.
Thank you to Chairman Kim Jong Un for keeping your word & starting the process of sending home the remains of our great and beloved missing fallen! I am not at all surprised that you took this kind action. Also, thank you for your nice letter - l look forward to seeing you soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2018
The latest production of Love Letters really captures the tenderness of the play. https://t.co/4wfEELeUj8
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) August 2, 2018
re: #123 Teukka
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So, nothing to with politics, but being as I have little to do today, I was watching the 1995 film Tank Girl and it got me thinking -
I understand the director of the 1995 film, Rachel Talalay, has been trying to buy back the film rights from Sony Entertainment, but this is a difficult process due to legacy issues from mergers, etc.
If I were going to remake Tank Girl, I’d do it thusly; have Andy Martin and Jamie Hewlett write a screenplay treatment based on one of the Tank Girl story arcs and then polish it for dialogue, etc. I’d use the comics as the storyboard for the film.
Then, I’d make it as a full-length animated feature film. And it’d be just as balls-to-the-wall gonzo as the source material; it would most certainly be Rated R. For voice actors, if she’d be willing to do it, Lori Petty returning as Tank Girl and if she’d be willing to, Naomi Watts as Jet Girl.
Long story short, the whole film would more or less look like this:
I’d watch the hell out of that.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹
Upfist for Jaclyn Glenn.
She seems to have developed a case of white privilege per one of her more recent videos.
How did Rudy Giuliani get leaked information that James Comey was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails? An unauthorized disclosure is illegal. We’ve requested documents.https://t.co/k5nQ0kfJq4
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 1, 2018
re: #158 jeffreyw
Did you see my bird/cat in the wild photo yesterday?
Is that a promise, Rush:
Trump called Rush Limbaugh’s radio show this afternoon to congratulate him on 30th anniversary.
Trump: “So I just want to congratulate you — 30 years. And just do it for another 30 years, after that you can take it easy, ok?”
Rush: “I will stay around just as long as you do.”— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 1, 2018
Go read the Tom The Dancing Bug comic: dailykos.com.
There’s going to be a Supreme Court case about the legal status of a presidential tweet, isn’t there?
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 1, 2018
re: #127 Targetpractice
Check the collar, probably has a “Members Only” tag.
All the cool oligarchs are wearing them, tho
I cannot get over that people take this Q shit seriously.
If you haven’t read this article on Q, please do. It’s crazy interesting.
re: #157 Weaselone
She seems to have developed a case of white privilege per one of her more recent videos.
Yeah, I only occasionally watch her vlogs, but I heard she stepped on some toes recently.
re: #165 MsJ
I read it, it’s crazy interesting. Also it’s just plain crazy.
These people are all around us. And they are able to buy anything normal people can buy.
It’s like they have a single shirt they pass around when they want to communicate with The Poors. pic.twitter.com/6NAnSWPHBZ
— shauna (@goldengateblond) August 1, 2018
Morning!
Just a quick comment.
I hope teleskiguy is okay. I notice he hasn’t been around the last two evenings. He seemed to be having a bad time with depression when last on LGF. I wish the best for him.
Retired Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson reached out to 2 former team members and asked them to support their ex-assistant coach, Rep. Jim Jordan, a day after they accused Jordan of turning a blind eye to alleged sexual abuse by the team doctor. https://t.co/IeCpiBp969
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 1, 2018
re: #168 Stanley Sea
The entire family seems android-like, as if they never learned how to be normal human beings, but were programmed to simulate human behavior. The Obamas, and even the Bushes, etc., seemed comfortable in their own skin. They were willing to show their personalities to the public. The Trumps, OTOH, either have no personalities or are mortally afraid everyone will catch on that they are complete phonies. They go through the motions of public appearances and photo ops, but only because it is expected of them. It’s not that they really want to.
re: #150 Joe Bacon 🌹
The Monster: *Kill*
Frankenstein: He’s going to kill again.
Village: Look at what you created. It’s your fault.
The Monster: *Kill’s again*
Frankenstein: He’s going to keep killing.
Village: We’re going to keep telling you it’s your fault until the killings cease.
re: #171 wheat-dogg
The entire family seems android-like, as if they never learned how to be normal human beings, but were programmed to simulate human behavior. The Obamas, and even the Bushes, etc., seemed comfortable in their own skin. They were willing to show their personalities to the public. The Trumps, OTOH, either have no personalities or are mortally afraid everyone will catch on that they are complete phonies. They go through the motions of public appearances and photo ops, but only because it is expected of them. It’s not that they really want to.
To me they’re like a combo of the Romneys and Palins.
re: #173 HappyWarrior
To me they’re like a combo of the Romneys and Palins.
Without the intelligence of the Palins or the charisma of the Romneys.
re: #174 Sufficient unto the day…
Without the intelligence of the Palins or the charisma of the Romneys.
Jim Jordan and Ohio State sports doctor issue not going away…may be getting hotter for Jordan.
NBC - Former Ohio State wrestling coach urged Rep. Jim Jordan’s accusers to recant, texts show
Retired Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson reached out to two ex-team members and asked them to support their former assistant coach, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a day after they accused the powerful congressman of turning a blind eye to alleged sexual abuse by the team doctor, according to the wrestlers and text messages they shared with NBC News.
The former wrestlers said their ex-coach made it clear to them he was under pressure from Jordan to get statements of support from members of the team.
Hellickson’s appeal to help Jordan came after the congressman repeatedly said that he had no idea that team doctor Richard Strauss was allegedly molesting the athletes — contradicting three wrestlers who told NBC News that Jordan must have known since the abuse was frequently discussed in the locker room.
“I’m sorry you got caught up in the media train,” Hellickson wrote in a July 4 text to Dunyasha Yetts that the former wrestler shared with NBC News. “If you think the story got told wrong about Jim, you could probably write a statement for release that tells your story and corrects what you feel bad about. I can put you in contact with someone who would release it.”
In an NBC article published a day earlier, Yetts recounted how Strauss had tried to pull his shorts down when he went to see him for a thumb injury. Yetts said he told Jordan and Hellickson about what happened and insisted they intervene — an account that was later corroborated by another former Ohio State wrestler who said he had witnessed the conversation.
Yetts said Hellickson also called him later on July 4 and said he was under pressure from Jordan, who was an assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994, and from Jordan’s supporters to make “a bold statement to defend Jimmy.”
“He said, ‘I will defend Jimmy until I have to put my hand on a Bible and be asked to tell the truth, then Jimmy will be on his own,’” Yetts said in an interview this week, recalling his conversation with Hellickson. “I told him, ‘I’m going to contradict you, coach, because I’m telling the truth.’”
Mike DiSabato, the former Ohio State wrestler whose whistleblowing spurred the university’s investigation into the alleged abuse by Strauss, also shared a text message defending Jordan that he got from Hellickson. Out of loyalty to his old coach, he asked that NBC News not quote directly from it.
“He called me after the story broke, too,” DiSabato said of Hellickson. “He said Jimmy was telling him he had to make a statement supporting him and he called to tell me why he was going to make it. “
Yetts, DiSabato and three other former Ohio State wrestlers interviewed recently by NBC News all expressed deep respect for Hellickson but said they believe he has been boxed in by Jordan’s denials and is now caught between wanting to support his former protégé and the wrestlers who have called the congressman a liar.
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More at link…but I think this first part of the story captures the fact Jordan is pressing people to protect him.
Gymmy knows he knew what was going on…he tried to BS his way out but now finds himself in deeper.
Mr. Investigator is under the hot lights now.
re: #170 MsJ
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re: #176 ObserverArt
Jim Jordan and Ohio State sports doctor issue not going away…may be getting hotter for Jordan.
NBC - Former Ohio State wrestling coach urged Rep. Jim Jordan’s accusers to recant, texts show
More at link…but I think this first part of the story captures the fact Jordan is pressing people to protect him.
Gymmy knows he knew what was going on…he tried to BS his way out but now finds himself in deeper.
Mr. Investigator is under the hot lights now.
Jordan’s in deep shit.
re: #174 Sufficient unto the day…
Without the intelligence of the Palins or the charisma of the Romneys.
Haha. Exactly.
re: #177 ObserverArt
Heh, I was working up my comment with the story when you posted that!
You done good.
Finally caught that weird DeSantis ad. Holy shit.
🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑
Calling all Activist!!!
I reach out to you today, on behalf of an extraordinary young lady. Her name is Francesca.
Francesca is in need of our assistance.
She is a recent victim of sexual abuse by an unfamiliar fellow student… pic.twitter.com/Rx1YShm40j— 💦💙💦💋•ℓαυrα•💋💦💙💦 (@GabsNGripes) August 2, 2018
3/
Federal law! Francesca’s family, filed a formal Title IX complaint. The school, conducted a biased #VictimShaming investigation. They found in favor of THEMSELVES!
The school has the ability to change their decision, and acknowledge the seriousness of #MeTooK12 with our push— 💦💙💦💋•ℓαυrα•💋💦💙💦 (@GabsNGripes) August 2, 2018
re: #158 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
That particular shot makes me wonder what’s going on, out of view, under the table.
Oh, and good morning!
re: #178 HappyWarrior
Jordan’s in deep shit.
Columbus is really a hot spot right now.
We have this Gymmy Jordan story going on at Ohio State.
Then the head football coach Urban Meyer assistant coach domestic violence he may have known more about causing him to be put on paid leave.
And the Ohio District 12 House Rep race which has really started to get nasty as Republican candidate Troy Balderson is putting up tons of really negative ads.
And that has Big Donny Trump coming to the Delaware County Fair Coliseum this Saturday.
Funny thing about that Trump visit, it is being billed as another Trump rally (ugh!) when what it really is Trump trying to bring some backing to a candidate that is struggling to hold onto a Republican house seat that has been Republican since the early 80s.
Poll yesterday had the OH D12 race 44% Balberson (R) and 43% O’Connor (D) with the 13% undecideds being the determining group.
I need to run out and get some more popcorn. Shit’s getting real…real.
Three articles to read. I didn’t post the actual tweet with the 2nd story but man, read these.
1/ There’s a lot of fantastic @MotherJones reads worth your time today. I’ll only highlight a couple: first up, @karavoght shines a spotlight on EMILY’s List and why they’ve gotten under the skin of so many male Democratic candidates https://t.co/7gDadKmGvi
— Dan Spinelli (@dspin3) August 2, 2018
3/ Finally, @AJVicens and @pemalevy go deep on the risks of a hack affecting the midterm election and what we aren’t doing to prevent it https://t.co/ac05abDXNm
— Dan Spinelli (@dspin3) August 2, 2018
re: #160 Stanley Sea
Did you see my bird/cat in the wild photo yesterday?
I searched you comments and found it. Looks like an ibis? Kitteh must be really jaded to ignore that thing. Maybe a back story involving that long, curved bill.
What Does It Mean to Hack an Electrical Grid?
“Anonymous security officials told reporters that Russian intelligence breached computer systems for the electricity grid and conducted “network reconnaissance.”https://t.co/MbXGeMfs9z— KassandraSeven (@KassandraSeven) August 2, 2018
Picture your life without heat or air conditioning.
No internet, no devices, no computer.
No microwave, no refrigerator, no freezer.
No electronic voting machines.
Are you getting the picture yet? It’s on display in 4K. https://t.co/lPf5vCUR06— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 2, 2018
re: #188 MsJ
November 6th, power outage.
November 7th, Trump: “We have always been at war with Russia.”
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
FROM a source close to WH orbit: a thing that is happening now is he’s having full-on red-faced, sputtering, spittle & foamy mouthed tantrums. Out of control, scaring people.
Not in a position to confirm this myself, but, source is solid. Similar talk exist elsewhere?— Xeni Jardin 👩🏼💻 (@xeni) August 2, 2018
Oh yeah…forgot to mention, word is Balderson really doesn’t want Trump backing him…too toxic.
And if you watch his ads he uses words like “independent” and “not politics as usual” and “bipartisan in Ohio Senate” to try to get away from the words “Trump Republican.”
I hope Trump is the kiss of death for Balderson.
Even deeply Republican newspaper The Columbus Dispatch is calling out Balderson’s ads for being full of shit and they endorsed Democrat O’Connor.
But hey…Ohio Johnny Kasich just put out a commercial backing Balderson and we know he hates Trump.
This is all causing quite the time in Ohio Republican politics. I hope it hurts them this fall.
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
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There have been numerous reports of just how unhappy trump is.
It makes me very, very happy.
In case anyone needs a dose of emergency cuteness.
back dat up 🍑
📹: lacorgi pic.twitter.com/w7gQCAZSh4— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) August 2, 2018
re: #192 MsJ
There have been numerous reports of just how unhappy trump is.
It makes me very, very happy.
He really thought this job was going to be “fun.” I hope he’s eating himself to an early grave.
re: #188 MsJ
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The Russians gave this tactic a test drive in Ukraine last year.
If Americans were deprived of their mobile devices for a few days there would be blood in the streets. We’ve become scarily dependent on them.
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
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We’ve heard all along about how he grumbles around the White House. And, that was only after a few months in.
With all the stuff that has hit him the last couple of weeks his behavior has to be getting worse.
My hope is he explodes in a complete rage and spills out info that really brings him down.
He’s worse than Nixon. it’s disturbing me that this Nixon biography is actually make me pine for Nixon but here we are in the age of Trump.
re: #196 ObserverArt
We’ve heard all along about how he grumbles around the White House. And, that was only after a few months in.
With all the stuff that has hit him the last couple of weeks his behavior has to be getting worse.
My hope is he explodes in a complete rage and spills out info that really brings him down.
I’m hoping he has a full-blown meltdown during one of his rallies, so his fans can see how really unhinged he is.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
He really thought this job was going to be “fun.” I hope he’s eating himself to an early grave.
He used to complain about Obama not doing anything, traveling, all the BS that Fox spews and thought “if that n****r can do it, I certainly can”. And he still thinks everything on Fox is true and Q is a real thing.
Trump is certifiably insane and has no business being anywhere near any government position.
re: #198 wheat-dogg
I’m hoping he has a full-blown meltdown during one of his rallies, so his fans can see how really unhinged he is.
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
re: #199 MsJ
He used to complain about Obama not doing anything, traveling, all the BS that Fox spews and thought “if that n****r can do it, I certainly can”. And he still thinks everything on Fox is true and Q is a real thing.
Trump is certifiably insane and has no business being anywhere near any government position.
I wouldn’t want him on my town council. That millions of our fellow Americans thought he was fit to be President? Man that just depresses me.
re: #198 wheat-dogg
I’m hoping he has a full-blown meltdown during one of his rallies, so his fans can see how really unhinged he is.
I can’t shake the feeling that they’d love him more for that.
re: #198 wheat-dogg
I’m hoping he has a full-blown meltdown during one of his rallies, so his fans can see how really unhinged he is.
He does at every one.
And they love him for it.
There is nothing he could do that would turn his supporters.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
A Face in the Crowd ending
More on not having power.
While emailing peeps at all hours is part of the job (at least at chez Joanne) you also lose news, twitter, television, reading a kindle, watching movies, getting gasoline, going anywhere, buying anything (once you ran out of cash coz no more thru ATM or comp banking systems).
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 2, 2018
re: #198 wheat-dogg
I’m hoping he has a full-blown meltdown during one of his rallies, so his fans can see how really unhinged he is.
Maybe this Saturday when he hits Delaware county Ohio for his rally.
Ohio is many times a deciding factor in politics state.
re: #5 JordanRules
And we remember the significant policy implications of Dijon mustard and Bush in the grocery aisle which were significant because…..
Oh yeah they weren’t.
Meanwhile the Dotard is trying to inflame his mob to suppress the vote.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
He just says what he means and he’s so clear and not PC that’s what we love about him and everything he says is true!
Power is a really BFD people don’t think of.
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re: #182 HappyWarrior
Finally caught that weird DeSantis ad. Holy shit.
I half expect GOP candidates to start literally eating the bowel movements of Dear Leader in their ads to prove their bonifides.
re: #196 ObserverArt
We’ve heard all along about how he grumbles around the White House. And, that was only after a few months in.
With all the stuff that has hit him the last couple of weeks his behavior has to be getting worse.
My hope is he explodes in a complete rage and spills out info that really brings him down.
re: #195 makeitstop
The Russians gave this tactic a test drive in Ukraine last year.
If Americans were deprived of their mobile devices for a few days there would be blood in the streets. We’ve become scarily dependent on them.
I’m also fairly dependent on trucks delivering food to the grocery store.
re: #212 Sir John Barron
Is there an English language version of this tweet?
/
Q is like magnetic poetry. Randomly pick a few words and vomit them into a conspiracy theory.
Someone is having a grand old time with morons.
re: #214 Belafon
I’m also fairly dependent on trucks delivering food to the grocery store.
What grocery store? No refrigeration, no lights, no cash registers.
re: #206 MsJ
More on not having power.
I would expect a mad scramble to decouple the electrical system from any remote control. At that point, we be back to a manual connection system. That would just mean it would take longer to reset if a circuit trips.
re: #216 MsJ
What grocery store? No refrigeration, no lights, no cash registers.
Sorry. I was commenting on how “scary” it is that we’re dependent on our cell phones. I’m dependent on a lot of things outside my control to go throughout my day.
re: #169 ObserverArt
Morning!
Just a quick comment.
I hope teleskiguy is okay. I notice he hasn’t been around the last two evenings. He seemed to be having a bad time with depression when last on LGF. I wish the best for him.
Me, too. Someone who is on Twitter should check him there?
re: #217 Belafon
I would expect a mad scramble to decouple the electrical system from any remote control. At that point, we be back to a manual connection system. That would just mean it would take longer to reset if a circuit trips.
There are standards in place to ensure Critical Infrastructure.
How this happened I don’t know. Electric companies get huge fines over this stuff.
re: #167 Sufficient unto the day…
I read it, it’s crazy interesting. Also it’s just plain crazy.
These people are all around us. And they are able to buy anything normal people can buy.
You work with them
You work under them
they’re driving the cars around you!
You let them run your local state and natl govts
They operate on you
They prepare and serve your food
They prescribe drugs
Fly planes…
re: #218 Belafon
Sorry. I was commenting on how “scary” it is that we’re dependent on our cell phones. I’m dependent on a lot of things outside my control to go throughout my day.
I get that.
I was just following through logically how dependent we are on electricity on almost every single aspect of life.
Who’s looking forward to being a cave dweller cooking over an open fire?
We’d become Afghanistan without the 1000s of years of experience.
And if things were not crazy enough around central Ohio…Chipotle is having some rather big issues up in Powell, the community just north of Columbus I keep mentioning.
I rarely eat at Chipotle, after what is going on locally and knowing all the problems they’ve had the last few years, I will be in no hurry to go there again.
The Columbus Dispatch - Hundreds sickened at Chipotle in Powell
Around 3 p.m. Saturday, Clayton Jones felt a nasty twinge in his midsection, but he had no idea it might have been the chicken bowl he ate for lunch Friday at a local Chipotle that doubled him over.
“It was extreme stomach cramps like I have never had in my life,” said Jones, 34, of Powell.
Jones was sick for three days, but he wasn’t sure what had caused his illness until he read Monday that some recent customers of the Chipotle store at 9733 Sawmill Parkway in Powell had gotten sick.
By early Tuesday, the number of complaints of possible food-borne illness originating at the Powell store had climbed to about 170, according to Patrick Quade, founder of iwaspoisoned.com, a website that collects and publishes food-poisoning complaints.
The Delaware General Health District said that by 4 p.m., 368 people had called to report gastrointestinal distress after eating at the store, with some complaints dating to Thursday.
There are links at the story about “Suspected Chipotle illness complaints top 500; first lawsuit filed.”
They have big problems.
re: #220 MsJ
There are standards in place to ensure Critical Infrastructure.
How this happened I don’t know. Electric companies get huge fines over this stuff.
From what I understand, any ability the Russians have to control our systems was done indirectly. The electric company may not have installed a remote switch to control breakers, but the company that makes a component may have installed a remote sensor on that equipment, and that remote sensor allowed access. The failure seems to be in imagination.
re: #224 ObserverArt
And if things were not crazy enough around central Ohio…Chipotle is having some rather big issues up in Powell, the community just north of Columbus I keep mentioning.
I rarely eat at Chipotle, after what is going on locally and knowing all the problems they’ve had the last few years, I will be in no hurry to go there again.
The Columbus Dispatch - Hundreds sickened at Chipotle in Powell
There are links at the story about “Suspected Chipotle illness complaints top 500; first lawsuit filed.”
They have big problems.
Every company serving lettuce (and other raw veg) have problems. This, alas, will likely put them out off business.
McDonalds pulled all their salads. All of them.
re: #225 Belafon
From what I understand, any ability the Russians have to control our systems was done indirectly. The electric company may not have installed a remote switch to control breakers, but the company that makes a component may have installed a remote sensor on that equipment, and that remote sensor allowed access. The failure seems to be in imagination.
Think Stuxnet.
re: #223 MsJ
I get that.
I was just following through logically how dependent we are on electricity on almost every single aspect of life.
Who’s looking forward to being a cave dweller cooking over an open fire?
We’d become Afghanistan without the 1000s of years of experience.
As depressing as that all sounds, the North East did have that multi-day power outage, when was that? I hate to do the “pain is good for people” thing, but there are a lot of people might need to be shocked on how unnecessarily vulnerable we are.
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
FROM a source close to WH orbit: a thing that is happening now is he’s having full-on red-faced, sputtering, spittle & foamy mouthed tantrums. Out of control, scaring people.
Not in a position to confirm this myself, but, source is solid. Similar talk exist elsewhere?— Xeni Jardin 👩🏼💻 (@xeni) August 2, 2018
I personally wouldn’t be at all surprised if that were true. Remember those stories about Nixon wandering about the White House, totally drunk?
Well, Trump doesn’t drink (that’s understandable - his brother was an alcoholic) so he’s gotta do something. And red-faced, spittle-flecked, foaming at the mouth tantrums sounds like the Trumpiest thing ever.
re: #222 Lupin
trickle, trickle… Russian mob money…
That link didn’t work for me. This one does.
The Russian mob first ‘made its move’ on Trump when he was hemorrhaging money in 2002: Documentary filmmaker #MorningJoe https://t.co/WvODoCswwv
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 2, 2018
Know what the one thing on my house is that will never become electronic? My door locks.
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
I’m imagining the scene from the Force Awakens when Kylo finds out Rey has escaped.
re: #231 Belafon
Know what the one thing on my house is that will never become electronic: My door locks.
Be sure to board up the windows because when the zombie hoard decides that you might have food (or water) or maybe something to barter for food and water, door locks will be only somewhat effective.
Just sayin’.
re: #171 wheat-dogg
The entire family seems android-like, as if they never learned how to be normal human beings, but were programmed to simulate human behavior. The Obamas, and even the Bushes, etc., seemed comfortable in their own skin. They were willing to show their personalities to the public. The Trumps, OTOH, either have no personalities or are mortally afraid everyone will catch on that they are complete phonies. They go through the motions of public appearances and photo ops, but only because it is expected of them. It’s not that they really want to.
The Trumps make me think of royal families in other countries: They’ve been raised in a rarefied atmosphere, open to the public and yet walled off from it at the same time by the expectations of their station, and weighed down by the worry of how their own actions would reflect upon their parents. Remember the story about Don Jr getting slapped so hard he feel to the ground because Daddy didn’t approve of him wearing anything but a suit to a baseball game? Whenever they’ve tried to loosen up, to act like normal human beings, he’s stamped out their individuality and made clear they will conform to his demands. The only “normal” one of the family seems to be Tiffany, and that’s only because Marla seemed to have no interest in letting him run her life.
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
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I personally wouldn’t be at all surprised if that were true. Remember those stories about Nixon wandering about the White House, totally drunk?
Well, Trump doesn’t drink (that’s understandable - his brother was an alcoholic) so he’s gotta do something. And red-faced, spittle-flecked, foaming at the mouth tantrums sounds like the Trumpiest thing ever.
he’s not being president or even much “presidential”
he got the gig
He’s ignoring the rules and protocol and simply doing what he wants / feels like.
He’s detached, purposly in a bubble and does not care.
He’s “made it” - he’ll have a portrait.
Even at 39% approval. He’s in the club.
Thats what he wanted
Ivanka speaking at an Axios event calls Trump’s family separation policy “a low point for me.” “I felt very strongly about that and I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children…” via @betsy_klein
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) August 2, 2018
Alfonse Capone’s daughter was very strongly against Valentine’s Day Massacres. https://t.co/t4EYukiwVZ
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 2, 2018
re: #231 Belafon
Know what the one thing on my house is that will never become electronic? My door locks.
Cats
re: #234 MsJ
Be sure to board up the windows because when the zombie hoard decides that you might have food (or water) or maybe something to barter for food and water, door locks will be only somewhat effective.
Just sayin’.
I’ve already come up with a plan for what to do in my house if we have to deal with zombies, as long as they’re not WWZ (the movie) zombies.
re: #238 dangerman
Cats
I love cats, but I’m allergic to them. So the only way I could have one is if it were electronic.
re: #237 JordanRules
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How cute, she’s still trying to maintain the fiction that she is serving a role as Daddy’s conscience. I guess she just saw the sales figures for the remaining product lines.
Daddy Donnie is going to be madz
#BREAKING: Ivanka breaks with her father: “I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people” https://t.co/aXZv53ae4G pic.twitter.com/1tWIL53VkP
— The Hill (@thehill) August 2, 2018
re: #239 Belafon
I’ve already come up with a plan for what to do in my house if we have to deal with zombies, as long as they’re not WWZ (the movie) zombies.
*muttermuttergrumblemutter*
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
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Womp womp.
re: #240 Belafon
I love cats, but I’m allergic to them. So the only way I could have one is if it were electronic.
I thought like that before I was married…;-)
re: #243 MsJ
Who will have no compunction to eat you once their food runs out. ;-)
They can have my dead body. A robot cat might not have the courtesy to wait
re: #190 makeitstop
I hope this is true. Grandpa Racist deserves to be the unhappiest person on earth.
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I’m sure the staff have a good idea of what it was like in the Berlin bunkers during those last days of the Reich…
U.S. senator Paul to meet Russian lawmakers in Moscow on Aug. 6: agencies https://t.co/L216Z4DM0U pic.twitter.com/YJSg0hiZV8
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 2, 2018
THREAD🚀: We asked leading designers to create a logo for Trump’s Space Force. Here’s what they said about their designs https://t.co/YiFuv19zb5 #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/WzkSS3wvN8
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) August 2, 2018
re: #242 Dr. Matt
Daddy Donnie is going to be madz
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I don’t think so. As noted above, Ivana’s brood rarely do anything that does not have Daddy’s approval beforehand. Hence why I doubt this is anything more than the usual “conscience of the king” BS, the supposed “softening” of his character by making it appear as though she’s distraught by the effects of his more inhumane policies.
It should really be viewed more a trial balloon of sorts, his trying to see if he’ll earn some brownie points if he changes his policies to address her “distress.”
re: #225 Belafon
From what I understand, any ability the Russians have to control our systems was done indirectly. The electric company may not have installed a remote switch to control breakers, but the company that makes a component may have installed a remote sensor on that equipment, and that remote sensor allowed access. The failure seems to be in imagination.
Go and read that Wired story on the Ukraine power grid hacks.
They gained access the same way they got into the DNC - spear-phishing passwords.
But what they did once they were in is frankly terrifying. And between the first and second power grid hacks they improved their methods. The second hack was way more precise and total than the first.
I shudder to think what the US populace, used to having their noses buried in their smart phones, would do if those little screens went blank for any amount of time.
re: #252 makeitstop
Go and read that Wired story on the Ukraine power grid hacks.
They gained access the same way they got into the DNC - spear-phishing passwords.
But what they did once they were in is frankly terrifying. And between the first and second power grid hacks they improved their methods. The second hack was way more precise and total than the first.
I shudder to think what the US populace, used to having their noses buried in their smart phones, would do if those little screens went blank for any amount of time.
Or access their money from their bank accounts.
Foxtards and friends just smacked around Dana on live TV.
Haha, watch @kilmeade accidentally destroy Dana Loesch in just two seconds pic.twitter.com/EP3RjUAlmZ
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) August 2, 2018
re: #252 makeitstop
Go and read that Wired story on the Ukraine power grid hacks.
They gained access the same way they got into the DNC - spear-phishing passwords.
But what they did once they were in is frankly terrifying. And between the first and second power grid hacks they improved their methods. The second hack was way more precise and total than the first.
I shudder to think what the US populace, used to having their noses buried in their smart phones, would do if those little screens went blank for any amount of time.
Most people will adjustl; it’s what they do. I see it when the power goes out in my neighborhood. People eventually wonder outside and talk to their neighbors.
I do worry about those of us who are news junkies.
re: #253 Dr Lizardo
Or access their money from their bank accounts.
Exactly why stories like this make me nervous as hell: No Shirt, No Swipe, No Service
For years, small businesses have asked customers to pay cash, set credit card minimums, or added a surcharge onto card transactions, in an effort to defray the premiums imposed by companies like Mastercard and Visa. Now, an increasing number of businesses are doing the opposite. Head out of Slate’s offices for lunch and you might wind up at Dos Toros, a local burrito minichain; for coffee you might pick Devoción, a Colombian-born coffeehouse with an airy storefront. In either case, you’d be confronted with the same demand: Pay with plastic.
re: #255 Dr. Matt
Foxtards and friends just smacked around Dana on live TV.
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No terrorist planning to hijack a plane would want to break the law against popping the metal piece out of their plastic gun!/
Sens McCain, Graham, Menendez, Gardner, Cardin and Shaheen intro a new Russia sanctions bill which would also require 2/3rds of the Senate to approve any attempt to pull out of NATO —> pic.twitter.com/9sVtyI69Jw
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) August 2, 2018
re: #256 Belafon
I have thought of all that hacked personal data as easily weaponised in cyber warfare. Flood the credit system with bogus data and fake accounts. poison the well so bad you have to go to a physical bank to do anything with your money, circa 1970.
The elephant in the room is military retaliation for a cyber attack. Who is gonna kick that door open?
re: #258 Interesting Times
Exactly why stories like this make me nervous as hell: No Shirt, No Swipe, No Service
That’s when I place a big order and let them trash it when I refuse to use plastic.
re: #257 Belafon
What’s in the picture?
A video clip. Dana was claiming by law that every firearm needs a certain mass of metal so it can be detected by a metal detector. Kilmeade replied, “yeah, but you can remove the metal”.
Only 181 of the roughly 450 sets of remains returned by North Korea in past years have ever been identified, and many of them were not Americans. The rest sit in storage. https://t.co/BAfrWtjKVy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 2, 2018
Wow.
10:26 a.m.: A ‘top-five’ client: Manafort spent more than $2 million in five years on home TV and internet set-up, witness says
Joel Maxwell, the chief operating officer of Florida-based home automation and technology company Big Picture Solutions, said he helped set up television and Internet access at homes Manafort owned up and down the East Coast.
re: #257 Belafon
What’s in the picture?
Some bozo who doesn’t think anyone would print a 3d gun in violation of the metal content federal law
re: #259 Big Beautiful Door
No terrorist planning to hijack a plane would want to break the law against popping the metal piece out of their plastic gun!/
Just wait until these firearms are used for mass shootings, hijackings, terrorism, etc. The Nazis/GOP/NRA will then tell us there is nothing we can do to regulate them because…..
re: #263 Dr. Matt
A video clip. Dana was claiming by law that every firearm needs a certain mass of metal so it can be detected by a metal detector. Kilmeade replied, “yeah, but you can remove the metal”.
Then she said that’s against the law! Well duh Dana, its against the law to take a gun on a plane as well!
re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Would be nice if they had that Voting act do something before an election and not after incursions happen. But, hey, republicans.
re: #268 Big Beautiful Door
Then she said that’s against the law! Well duh Dana, its against the law to take a gun on a plane as well!
Wasn’t there this argument by gun people (I think Dana, but I’m not sure) that laws wouldn’t prevent people from doing some things, and that’s why we didn’t need the laws?
re: #263 Dr. Matt
A video clip. Dana was claiming by law that every firearm needs a certain mass of metal so it can be detected by a metal detector. Kilmeade replied, “yeah, but you can remove the metal”.
Serious question I don’t want to Google
What ammo is used in these platic guns? What’s it made of?
re: #270 Belafon
Wasn’t there this argument by gun people (I think Dana, but I’m not sure) that laws wouldn’t prevent people from doing some things, and that’s why we didn’t need the laws?
It’s their go to argument
re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Unless there’s something really weird about the bill, it should get all of the Democrats on board. Will enough Republicans join to override a veto?
re: #270 Belafon
Wasn’t there this argument by gun people (I think Dana, but I’m not sure) that laws wouldn’t prevent people from doing some things, and that’s why we didn’t need the laws?
Except abortion; women totally won’t buy abortion drugs over the internet and do at home abortions if its illegal (except they already are in states where the GOP has made legal abortions difficult to impossible for poor women to get).
re: #271 dangerman
Serious question I don’t want to Google
What ammo is used in these platic guns? What’s it made of?
Conventional ammo. The firearm can be manufactured for any caliber.
re: #271 dangerman
Serious question I don’t want to Google
What ammo is used in these platic guns? What’s it made of?
I wouldn’t be surprised if you can make 3D plastic bullets as well.
I hope lawhawk shows up as I have a question. What is a False Invoice in relation to the Manafort trial?
It’s “kind of” an invoice from Big Picture Solutions, Maxwell said. But it wrongly described the business as an LLC, the address was wrong, and there was none of the detail that their invoices typically include on what services were provided. Global Endeavour Inc., Maxwell said, was not a client of his.
Prosecutors have yet to explain the meaning of these false invoices to jurors.
In the race for Speaker, there’s one obvious choice.
Jim Jordan: Not as Bad as a Pedophile pic.twitter.com/GgV852jqcP— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 2, 2018
re: #279 Sir John Barron
I haz confuse
It sounds like her statement was so idiotic they couldn’t even let it stand.
re: #279 Sir John Barron
I haz confuse
It was unintentional. Remember F&F aren’t exactly the brain trust that some people think they are.
Наш теперешний круг общения pic.twitter.com/fU3z0tMYzL
— Masha (@arctic_lane) August 1, 2018
Head of RT, Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, saying that people in the Central African Republic are cannibals, they ‘eat each other for pleasure’. That’s what she tweeted. She sounds like an 1980s UK tabloid. https://t.co/pdmAYSoYnu
— Paul Canning (@pauloCanning) August 2, 2018
Simonyan’s deleted her vituperative thread about the killing of the Russian journalists in the Central African Republic pic.twitter.com/KQS3VPshjY
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) August 1, 2018
Apparently she deleted it. https://t.co/F7EX5xwWJe ht @solohubenko @XSovietNews
— Paul Canning (@pauloCanning) August 2, 2018
re: #281 MsJ
It was unintentional. Remember F&F aren’t exactly the brain trust that some people think they are.
He just accidentally blurted out the truth.
I can’t see the picture, but Gabe Ortiz went and dug up Ivanka’s previous reaction to children being locked up:
My ♥️! #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/CN5iXutE5Q
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) May 27, 2018
Busy 3-D printing some civil rights.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) August 1, 2018
re: #276 Big Beautiful Door
I wouldn’t be surprised if you can make 3D plastic bullets as well.
My dad once had the wildest idea - a bullet made of ice, and kept frozen in a liquid oxygen environment. The bullet does its job, and simply melts away. He postulated it’d be the perfect lethal projectile for a hitman in one of those old pulp novels.
Heh.
Trump’s EPA formally launches attack on California’s fuel-economy rules https://t.co/W6hjskh4Lu pic.twitter.com/QdWVNW0YGy
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 2, 2018
California will fight this stupidity in every conceivable way possible: https://t.co/OWqbFIUmUl https://t.co/qrH7gSaWDn
— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) August 2, 2018
re: #287 JordanRules
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States rights except for when we want to tell the states what to do.
So, we’re having quite the heatwave here in Europe and it’s getting problematic.
The Czech Republic has just seen its hottest day so far this year, with temperatures reaching highs of 37 degrees Celsius in places on Tuesday, and the current heatwave shows no signs of abating. As temperatures soar to mid-30s around the country, the scorching heat continues to affect the lives of individuals as well as business operations.
Long running summer heatwaves have become rather common in the Czech Republic in recent years but the country still needs to readjust itself to the changing weather conditions. For instance the Prague transport authority is gradually increasing the number of air-conditioned trams and buses in its fleet. By the end of the year, up to one third of Prague trams should be equipped with air-conditioning, a spokeswoman said.
Above average temperatures in the Czech Republic are expected to continue throughout August and only slightly cool off towards the end of the month.
Man, I hope this isn’t gonna be a repeat of the 2003 heatwave; that killed over 70,000 people in Europe.
Yeah………air conditioning is not common here. It’s usually just the shopping centers and new(ish) office buildings that have it. Some older buildings have been retrofitted with A/C units, but it’s really expensive to do that and with some buildings, like the concrete panel apartment blocks, it’s often quite difficult to do the retrofitting owing to the nature of their construction.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
So, we’re having quite the heatwave here in Europe and it’s getting problematic.
Man, I hope this isn’t gonna be a repeat of the 2003 heatwave; that killed over 70,000 people in Europe.
Yeah………air conditioning is not common here. It’s usually just the shopping centers and new(ish) office buildings that have it. Some older buildings have been retrofitted with A/C units, but it’s really expensive to do that and with some buildings, like the concrete panel apartment blocks, it’s often quite difficult to do the retrofitting owing to the nature of their construction.
So this is what I’m flying into next week. Have a cousin now in Prague btw celebrating his 20th anniversary. Looks like he’s having a great time. I gave him some tips.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
So, we’re having quite the heatwave here in Europe and it’s getting problematic.
Man, I hope this isn’t gonna be a repeat of the 2003 heatwave; that killed over 70,000 people in Europe.
Yeah………air conditioning is not common here. It’s usually just the shopping centers and new(ish) office buildings that have it. Some older buildings have been retrofitted with A/C units, but it’s really expensive to do that and with some buildings, like the concrete panel apartment blocks, it’s often quite difficult to do the retrofitting owing to the nature of their construction.
I am lucky to live in an old farmhouse with thick walls that is easy to keep cool, but even the masonry is starting to warm up.
#BREAKING: Cities sue Trump for “sabotaging” ObamaCare https://t.co/6eansKATpR pic.twitter.com/wnXpQ4hE8b
— The Hill (@thehill) August 2, 2018
The cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus and Cincinnati filed the lawsuit in federal court in Maryland, arguing that Trump’s actions against the Affordable Care Act violate the Constitution’s provision that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
My dad once had the wildest idea - a bullet made of ice, and kept frozen in a liquid oxygen environment. The bullet does its job, and simply melts away. He postulated it’d be the perfect lethal projectile for a hitman in one of those old pulp novels.
Heh.
I think that was a plot in some old TV cop drama - except instead of an ice bullet, the murder weapon was an icicle.
re: #288 HappyWarrior
States rights except for when we want to tell the states what to do.
No State’s Rights when the Civil Rights of humans businesses are concerned.
/
re: #176 ObserverArt
Jim Jordan and Ohio State sports doctor issue not going away…may be getting hotter for Jordan.
NBC - Former Ohio State wrestling coach urged Rep. Jim Jordan’s accusers to recant, texts show
More at link…but I think this first part of the story captures the fact Jordan is pressing people to protect him.
Gymmy knows he knew what was going on…he tried to BS his way out but now finds himself in deeper.
Mr. Investigator is under the hot lights now.
So Hellickson is basically saying—I’ll lie for Gym and try to make others lie for Gym right up until my own ass is on the line—then Gym is on his own. What a guy.
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Please let this happen. Please.
Trump Pushes for Interview With Mueller Against Lawyers’ Advice
President Trump pushed his lawyers in recent days to try once again to reach an agreement with the special counsel’s office about his sitting for an interview, flouting their advice that he should not answer investigators’ questions, three people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump has told advisers he is eager to meet with investigators to clear himself of wrongdoing, the people said. In effect, he believes he can convince the investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, of his belief that their own inquiry is a “witch hunt.”
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Twenty minutes with Mueller’s team and Trump will confess to everything from kidnapping the Lindbergh Baby to trading Patrick Ewing to the Seattle Supersonics.
re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am lucky to live in an old farmhouse with thick walls that is easy to keep cool, but even the masonry is starting to warm up.
Yep, you are lucky. I live in one of those concrete panel apartment towers (panelák).
On the top floor.
With a West-facing window.
Gaaah.
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
My dad once had the wildest idea - a bullet made of ice, and kept frozen in a liquid oxygen environment. The bullet does its job, and simply melts away. He postulated it’d be the perfect lethal projectile for a hitman in one of those old pulp novels.
Heh.
IIRC this was a plot point in at least one murder mystery.
re: #296 makeitstop
Please let this happen. Please.
Trump Pushes for Interview With Mueller Against Lawyers’ Advice
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Twenty minutes with Mueller’s team and Trump will confess to everything from kidnapping the Lindbergh Baby to trading Patrick Ewing to the Seattle Supersonics.
LOLOL
re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My office is in a 100 year old steel and marble building. It’s amazing how long the structure radiates warmth after a heat wave breaks. The south side face a street level parking lot. So long hours of sun without shadow. But we have window ac units.
If all these places get a/c, can the grid take it?
re: #298 wheat-dogg
IIRC this was a plot point in at least one murder mystery.
It probably was - he was a fan of Ellery Queen and Perry Mason and some of those old pulp detective novels.
I read one of the original Perry Mason books, many years ago. As I recall, he was kind of a prick.
re: #296 makeitstop
Please let this happen. Please.
Trump Pushes for Interview With Mueller Against Lawyers’ Advice
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Twenty minutes with Mueller’s team and Trump will confess to everything from kidnapping the Lindbergh Baby to trading Patrick Ewing to the Seattle Supersonics.
He’s so used to being around people that want to be conned that he thinks everyone wants to be.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
So, we’re having quite the heatwave here in Europe and it’s getting problematic.
Man, I hope this isn’t gonna be a repeat of the 2003 heatwave; that killed over 70,000 people in Europe.
Yeah………air conditioning is not common here. It’s usually just the shopping centers and new(ish) office buildings that have it. Some older buildings have been retrofitted with A/C units, but it’s really expensive to do that and with some buildings, like the concrete panel apartment blocks, it’s often quite difficult to do the retrofitting owing to the nature of their construction.
China has managed to retrofit older buildings with AC units, one per office or flat. But the lack of insulation makes the operation thereof quite expensive.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
So, a Lonesome Rhodes/A Face in the Crowd ending? I can live with that.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
So, we’re having quite the heatwave here in Europe and it’s getting problematic.
Man, I hope this isn’t gonna be a repeat of the 2003 heatwave; that killed over 70,000 people in Europe.
Yeah………air conditioning is not common here. It’s usually just the shopping centers and new(ish) office buildings that have it. Some older buildings have been retrofitted with A/C units, but it’s really expensive to do that and with some buildings, like the concrete panel apartment blocks, it’s often quite difficult to do the retrofitting owing to the nature of their construction.
News said the Iberian peninsula may have 50°C / 122°F this week… And we have had 30-35°C / 86-95°F for weeks here in Stockholm. It’s really beginning to get to me… :(
re: #304 BeachDem
So, a Lonesome Rhodes/A Face in the Crowd ending? I can live with that.
Don’t know. Never saw/read either of those. I just want that orange bastard humiliated and knowing he’s despised.
When throwback Thursday goes a little *too* far back? #tbt pic.twitter.com/KUy0Xt3ZQW
— Claudia Christian (@ClaudiaLives) August 2, 2018
re: #305 Teukka
News said the Iberian peninsula may have 50°C / 122°F this week… And we have had 30-35°C / 86-95°F for weeks here in Stockholm. It’s really beginning to get to me… :(
I was born - and grew up - in Los Angeles. That sort of heat during the summer months is something I’m used to from my childhood. But then again, virtually everywhere has air conditioning in Southern California…..homes, cars, apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, supermarkets, you name it. So it makes things more tolerable. Here in the more northern parts of Europe, A/C is still not all that common.
If I had the money to invest, I’d put some into a publicly-traded company that installs or retrofits A/C units in residential and commercial buildings. I have a feeling they’re gonna be doing quite well in the not-too-distant future.
re: #242 Dr. Matt
Daddy Donnie is going to be madz
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Yeah—that’s certainly BREAKING news. Ugh.
Giuliani in 1998: “If perjury was committed, if there was a statement that turns out to be provably untrue later, then I think the president has to be treated like everyone else.” pic.twitter.com/nhfpvBqBvb
— Rogue Melania🍸🍸🍸 (@RogueFirstLady) August 2, 2018
re: #200 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
Lonesome Rhodes’ downfall in A Face in the Crowd; that’s what we want from Trump:
re: #312 Dr Lizardo
I could see Trump unwittingly doing that on a hot mic. Thing is, his cult followers probably wouldn’t give two shits about it.
GEORGE SOROS MADE HIM SAY IT. // But I just want them to hear from his own fat mouth how much he has contempt for them.
re: #52 BeachDem
When did a PowerPoint presentation become a “deck?”
A deck is pokemon, or MtG, or any of other myriad games, it does not refer to a powerpoint anything. PP should also be banned from existence, too, as well/
re: #315 Colère Tueur de Lapin
A deck is pokemon, or MtG, or any of other myriad games, it does not refer to a powerpoint anything. PP should also be banned from existence, too, as well/
What? You’ve never played PowerPoint before? There are many different ways to construct your deck: Confusion, Intimidation, Demoralization, and rarely, Clarity.
re: #296 makeitstop
Please let this happen. Please.
Trump Pushes for Interview With Mueller Against Lawyers’ Advice
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Twenty minutes with Mueller’s team and Trump will confess to everything from kidnapping the Lindbergh Baby to trading Patrick Ewing to the Seattle Supersonics.
What could go wrong?
/
I don’t really believe Trump wants an interview. I think he’s just blowing smoke
re: #52 BeachDem
When did a PowerPoint presentation become a “deck?” A client was talking about a deck the other day and I had no idea what she was going on about. Advertising/marketing folks are famous for inventing buzzwords—in fact, I believe they probably invented the word buzzword.
I’m guessing it was someone in their late 40s or older? It’s not terribly uncommon use of the term in science and medicine even today. Some colleagues still use it because back in the day we use to use actual “slide decks” from a set of slides in a projector tray.
re: #256 Belafon
Most people will adjustl; it’s what they do. I see it when the power goes out in my neighborhood. People eventually wonder outside and talk to their neighbors.
I do worry about those of us who are news junkies.
Transistor radios.
re: #306 HappyWarrior
Don’t know. Never saw/read either of those. I just want that orange bastard humiliated and knowing he’s despised.
Great movie (Lonesome Rhodes is the Trump-like character). The ending lines, after he’s “caught on tape” telling what he really thinks of his fans.
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re: #200 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping he goes off and reveals his true feelings about them being a bunch of easily conned morons. I want them to turn on him. I want him to be destroyed by what he created. I want him to feel despised by everyone.
re: #277 MsJ
I hope lawhawk shows up as I have a question. What is a False Invoice in relation to the Manafort trial?
If they invoice you $200k for items/services that are really only 40k…. then the other 160k they take their 20% vig and give you the rest in cash.
Military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico.
Awful, just awful. You’re ruled by cylons.
re: #293 makeitstop
I think that was a plot in some old TV cop drama - except instead of an ice bullet, the murder weapon was an icicle.
There was also an Agatha Christie story where the “blunt object” murder weapon was a frozen leg of lamb; by the time the detectives were at the kitchen table interviewing the widow, she was carving the roast and fed them slices.
re: #319 Dr. Matt
I’m guessing it was someone in their late 40s or older? It’s not terribly uncommon use of the term in science and medicine even today. Some colleagues still use it because back in the day we use to use actual “slide decks” from a set of slides in a projector tray.
That’s my impression of what happened with pitch/marketing/sales decks too. Presentations switched from actual slide decks and PowerPoint ruled as the new format for so long (but others are used). And of course the application already used the the term slide to slide folks into the new technology in ways that would make sense to them.
I’ve heard the term since I can remember.
re: #318 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I don’t really believe Trump wants an interview. I think he’s just blowing smoke
He doesn’t want to be interviewed but he can’t make it appear that he’s afraid of one. Of course, this is another instance in which the dotard overestimates his cult followers, who don’t care, whatever he does, they’ll continue to defend him whatever.
“Journalism is an industry rife with nepotism, where career trajectories are determined more often by the people that you know rather than the quality of your work.” https://t.co/DQiG7dC761
— Abbie Bennett (@AbbieRBennett) August 1, 2018
re: #324 Lupin
Military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico.
Awful, just awful. You’re ruled by cylons.
I’m hoping some people learn that words should matter:
She also wonders if her marriage, which remained strong through the stresses of her husband’s various deployments, can survive this separation, especially because Temo voted for Trump in 2016.
“I said Trump was insulting Mexicans in general but he said he just talks a lot. Then when Trump released his executive orders I was mad at him. He just said he never thought it would come to this,” she said.
Well, we’re leaving Regina in a few minutes. We’re coming back to the USA (remind me again why we’re doing this). Severe thunderstorm warnings for our trip south to the border (yay). I’m told the electricity is back on at my home… . catch y’all later.
JUST IN: Apple hits $1,000,000,000,000 in market value; becomes first US public company to reach the record valuation - @CNBC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 2, 2018
Weather weirding going on: a tornado warning in Peace River, Alberta, just south of the border with the Northwest Territories.
re: #331 JordanRules
A single company with a one TRILLION dollar cap.
JFC.
You know those dystopian movies with the mega corporation that controls everyones lives?
I think this is how it starts.
re: #324 Lupin
Military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico.
Awful, just awful. You’re ruled by cylons.
That’s absurd; cylons had a plan.
re: #334 sagehen
OBJECTION! ASSUMES PLAN NOT IN EVIDENCE, YOUR HONOR!
re: #325 sagehen
There was also an Agatha Christie story where the “blunt object” murder weapon was a frozen leg of lamb; by the time the detectives were at the kitchen table interviewing the widow, she was carving the roast and fed them slices.
That was a Ronald Dahl teleplay “Lamb To The Slaughter” that became a classic Alfred Hitchcock episode
I think it would be nice if all the news media got together and refused to report or discuss Blabbermouth Don’s tweets for just one week. Take away the publicity hound’s oxygen. Think of the relief. Think of the QUIET.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 2, 2018
Employee at Phoenix migrant children’s shelter charged with sexual abuse of 14-year-old girl https://t.co/bcIgBBlUyI
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 2, 2018
stop pretending like the people who went after sarah are acting in good faith. they’re not. this is manufactured. they’re pretending to be offended. they couldn’t for a second understand what it’s like to be subjected to the venom POC/women/minorities put up with online. https://t.co/ERyuE2f0gw
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 2, 2018
re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg
A single company with a one TRILLION dollar cap.
JFC.
You know those dystopian movies with the mega corporation that controls everyones lives?
I think this is how it starts.
It’s pretty nuts.
Sounds like some folks need another tax cut! //
re: #332 Anymouse 🌹
Weather weirding going on: a tornado warning in Peace River, Alberta, just south of the border with the Northwest Territories.
You may need some ballast for that smart car
re: #336 Joe Bacon 🌹
That was a Ronald Dahl teleplay “Lamb To The Slaughter” that became a classic Alfred Hitchcock episode
Roald Dahl - who I believe was married to Patricia Neal, who was the woman freaking out in the control room in that Lonesome Rhodes clip.
Just sittin’ here, connecting the dots between seemingly unconnected comments…
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
this would have been a great opportunity to tell disingenuous right-wing outrage campaigns to go fuck themselves but uhh baby steps i guess?
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 2, 2018
god the more i read this the madder i get—“this approach only served to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media”
you know what feeds vitriol? constantly getting played by racist mau-mau campaigns because your posture of objectivity is really just moral illiteracy— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 2, 2018
conservative outrage is all fake, designed to fool the referees while they punch brass knuckles into america’s genitals.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 2, 2018
re: #343 makeitstop
Roald Dahl - who I believe was married to Patricia Neal, who was the woman freaking out in the control room in that Lonesome Rhodes clip.
Just sittin’ here, connecting the dots between seemingly unconnected comments…
Roald Dahl, he of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame.
re: #345 JordanRules
conservative outrage is all fake, designed to fool the referees while they punch brass knuckles into america’s genitals.
I was thinking the exact same thing this morning during my commute to work. Just look at all their seething outrage in Tampa this week. Why the fuck are they angry? What the fuck are they exactly complaining about? They got their Nazi-loving president. They got their Nazi-loving senators and congress critics. The economy has been booming for nearly 8 years. The markets are up. Gas prices aren’t terrible (yet). Food prices and consumer goods prices aren’t terrible (yet). Either these people are perpetually miserable or it’s complete fake outrage.
re: #346 Belafon
Roald Dahl, he of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame.
And fighter ace and spy! All around interesting dude.
re: #330 Anymouse 🌹
Well, we’re leaving Regina in a few minutes. We’re coming back to the USA (remind me again why we’re doing this). Severe thunderstorm warnings for our trip south to the border (yay). I’m told the electricity is back on at my home… . catch y’all later.
Because you took an oath to defend this country as a member of the military. And by still being a citizen here you will try to help do that any little or big way you can.
All hands on deck!
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
I had no clue this was going on. I had to go look her up. I can’t twitter directly, but I ran across this that includes some of her stuff: heavy.com. What I see there makes this white man laugh:
In the tweets that Navabi exposed, Jeong says a series of defamatory comments about white people. “I just realized why I can’t stand watching Breaking Bad or Battlestar Galactica,” Jeong tweeted. “The premise of both is just ‘white people being miserable.’”
In another tweet, Jeong allegedly wrote, “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins”
In still another tweet, Jeong referenced the extinction of white people, writing, “White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along.”
I agree, this is conservatives faking outrage.
re: #350 Belafon
I had no clue this was going on. I had to go look her up. I can’t twitter directly, but I ran across this that includes some of her stuff: heavy.com. What I see there makes this white man laugh:
I agree, this is conservatives faking outrage.
Wow, those tweets are some weak sauce.
Makes the NYT look pretty damn stupid for falling for it.
re: #333 Eclectic Cyborg
A single company with a one TRILLION dollar cap.
JFC.
You know those dystopian movies with the mega corporation that controls everyones lives?
I think this is how it starts.
Remember Apple’s P/E ratio is ridiculously low. It would be worth many, many trillions if investors were as credulous about it as Amazon or Google, for example. Amazon was worth many hundreds of billions while losing money every year, but the most profitable company in history? Apple is DOOOOMED!!! It’ll always be doomed.
There’ll be resistance and its market cap will be well below a trillion by tonight.
re: #353 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Remember Apple’s P/E ratio is ridiculously low. It would be worth many, many trillions if investors were as credulous about it as Amazon or Google, for example. Amazon was worth many hundreds of billions while losing money every year, but the most profitable company in history? Apple is DOOOOMED!!! It’ll always be doomed.
There’ll be resistance and its market cap will be well below a trillion by tonight.
Just two days ago I got a notification that Apple fell short by only selling 41 million iPhones and there was no way they’d hit a cool trill.
A comment on WaPo to an editorial by Max Boot, starting with a quote by Boot:
“There are so many smoking guns in the Russiagate scandal that it can be hard to clearly discern what’s going on amid all the haze.”
As the top Brexit funder and Russian agent (now under investigation) Aaron Banks once drunkenly told a British journalist about the Brexit vote:
“You’re looking for a smoking gun but there’s a smoking gun on every table! And no-one cares. No-one cares!”
re: #347 Dr. Matt
I was thinking the exact same thing this morning during my commute to work. Just look at all their seething outrage in Tampa this week. Why the fuck are they angry? What the fuck are they exactly complaining about? They got their Nazi-loving president. They got their Nazi-loving senators and congress critics. The economy has been booming for nearly 8 years. The markets are up. Gas prices aren’t terrible (yet). Food prices and consumer goods prices aren’t terrible (yet). Either these people are perpetually miserable or it’s complete fake outrage.
Its both I think.
Even though I knew the real answer, during Obama’s terms, I always wanted to ask white folks what they were so damn mad about and how exactly their life was worse. This one lady I used to work with was always complaining about Obama and at one point she tried to say something about taxes and our checks. We already knew we made the same amount and I knew exactly the small amount our check went up under Obama. She didn’t have a rebuttal when the receipts came out. Didn’t stop her from hating him though, as we all expected.
re: #343 makeitstop
Roald Dahl - who I believe was married to Patricia Neal, who was the woman freaking out in the control room in that Lonesome Rhodes clip.
Just sittin’ here, connecting the dots between seemingly unconnected comments…
I thought he was married to Kim Stanley.
Alex Jones’ reckoning is upon us https://t.co/9Aui8KsHS7
— TNW (@TheNextWeb) August 2, 2018
Alex Jones’ attorney today argued that “no reasonable reader or listener” would expect that Jones spoke factually on his show, Infowars.
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While Infowars has billed itself as the “lone crusader of truth,” as Texas Monthly put it, Jones’ attorneys are attempting to build a defense around the idea that their client doesn’t really means the words he says — a similar defense to the ones used in his custody case, where his legal team called Jones a “performance artist,” claiming he was playing a character on Infowars.It’s a fine line. Jones’ legal team now finds itself in the precarious position of attempting to convince both the courts and his audience. To his audience, he must maintain that he’s the lone source of truth in a world overrun with dishonest media. Simultaneously, he must convince the courts that his truly odd brand of entertainment is fictional, and that no “reasonable” person would mistake it as factual.
One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor.
In the first of these suits, Jones will try to convince the courts that he’s playing a character, and one that only a fool would take seriously — although one viewer, Lucky Richards, clearly didn’t get the message.
re: #357 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I thought he was married to Kim Stanley.
According to the internet, he was married to Neal at one time.
“One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor.”
I see no downside to this.
re: #331 JordanRules
See how Great I make America! But I bet nobody will give me credit. Media won’t report! Economy doing so great end Hoax Witch-Hunt, get 28 Angry Democrats instead who are so compromised.
re: #359 Belafon
According to the internet, he was married to Neal at one time.
For 30 years! They had five kids together, and he took charge of her recovery from multiple aneurysms.
re: #360 Eclectic Cyborg
“One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor.”
I see no downside to this.
Downside? I feel like a cheerleader shaking pom-poms on the sideline.
re: #360 Eclectic Cyborg
“One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor.”
I see no downside to this.
The prosecution needs to reiterated “You’re only an entertainer, then, right?” in the courtroom and then hold a press conference every day stating “Alex Jones states that he’s only an entertainer. For all of you who literally bought into his acting, and purchased items he’s pushed, you might want to consider legal action.”
re: #359 Belafon
According to the internet, he was married to Neal at one time.
I meant Kim Hunter, of course—I always make that mistake—but I was wrong anyway….
re: #360 Eclectic Cyborg
“One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor.”
I see no downside to this.
Sounds like a win win situation. He’s a modern day Streicher.
Hey, GOVERNMENT, you can’t take my AR-15, so what makes you think you can take my plastic straw? I don’t need your permission, you are subordinate to me, and that’s the world you’re stuck living in. pic.twitter.com/no2f5iXmHe
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) July 28, 2018
historians are gonna be baffled that a country this stupid landed on the moon https://t.co/p0DUoQHs1m
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) August 2, 2018
Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
I see ads similar to the mesothelioma ones: “Were you or a loved one defrauded by Alex Jones? Call this number now, you may be entitled to compensation.”
Ah, Twitter. You do amuse sometimes.
We’ve gotten to the Al Capone portion of Trump’s meltdown.
Fun fact, Capone had the mentality of a 12-year-old and had syphilitic dementia but yet still ran a criminal empire better than Trump. pic.twitter.com/GieaxjZSFm— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) August 1, 2018
re: #367 JordanRules
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Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
And python vests. Don’t forget the $18,000 python vest.
re: #367 JordanRules
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Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
Yet you probably support bathroom laws and Trump’s immigration policy. You’re a stupid phony.
re: #367 JordanRules
Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
Back then, we kept all these people hiding under their desks with periodic duck and cover drills.
BREAKING from @NBCNews: Mueller wants to interview Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, lawyer says https://t.co/Uunf1bstlR
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) August 2, 2018
Look at meeer I claim to be anti government but I loves Trump.//
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like the document review for Kavanaugh will take longer - pushing the hearings into October. That’s because the amount of records will take time to compile.
That is being equated with obstructionism.
Sorry. That’s just bulkshit.
Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland can’t be reached for comment.
Stop your lying @OrrinHatch
We have the receipts.
Demanding documents isn’t obstruction. Preventing a hearing, let alone a vote is.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 2, 2018
The GOP engaged in obstructionism. This is due diligence. This extremist is getting his hearing, and he’ll get his vote because the GOP will see to both.
The GOP refused to engage in advise and consent by blocking even a hearing on Garland.
BREAKING from @NBCNews: Mueller wants to interview Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, lawyer says https://t.co/Uunf1bstlR
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) August 2, 2018
re: #375 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like the document review for Kavanaugh will take longer - pushing the hearings into October. That’s because the amount of records will take time to compile.
That is being equated with obstructionism.
Sorry. That’s just bulkshit.
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The GOP engaged in obstructionism. This is due diligence. This extremist is getting his hearing, and he’ll get his vote because the GOP will see to both.
The GOP refused to engage in advise and consent by blocking even a hearing on Garland.
GFY Orrin like now. Your party pulled worse shit in Garland and was going to do the same to anyone HRC picked. Fuck Kavanagh and you.
re: #367 JordanRules
Wanted to tell her what a fucking moron she is, but alas. I already have her blocked.
re: #367 JordanRules
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Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
Jesus, another one? We’re gonna be up to our asses with conserva-chicks with assault rifles before long.
Re moon landing: that catch-all ‘fake news’ oughta cover it.
Supervising pic.twitter.com/4duDMMgmuy
— Mango The Doxie (@mangothedoxie) August 2, 2018
Excellent points. It’s just too easy to amplify our stupidity. The Russians must laugh. Gun ownership is illegal in Russia but nobody in the NRA crowd seemed to question where a gun toting Russian woman came from. https://t.co/2PakOso4Zy
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) August 2, 2018
re: #367 JordanRules
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Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
The internet has an unfortunate side effect of making stupid people feel really smart.
re: #367 JordanRules
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Please find the good fake moon landing joke in here because my mind has been occupied by ostrich jackets and it’s all too much.
plastic straws are not constitutionally protected
re: #323 sagehen
If they invoice you $200k for items/services that are really only 40k…. then the other 160k they take their 20% vig and give you the rest in cash.
For fraud, yes. But this isn’t the companies doing the fraud, it’s Manafort.
Lawhawk, please see this comment. What say you? littlegreenfootballs.com
re: #385 MsJ
The false invoices - shielding from prying eyes at the IRS - the amount of income that was being reported.
It could be a combination of inflating the costs and hiding the profit there, or some other combination of acts the purpose of which is to try and illegally minimize the reporting of income to the IRS.
That’s the general gist.
re: #380 makeitstop
Jesus, another one? We’re gonna be up to our asses with conserva-chicks with assault rifles before long.
Re moon landing: that catch-all ‘fake news’ oughta cover it.
Everyone is in search of the big payoff.
re: #358 MsJ
… One false step and Jones stands to lose millions, either in his viewers who abandon the show after finding out he’s misleading them for profit, or to the families of the victims he’s defamed if courts rule in their favor. …
Why can’t it be both?
re: #376 lawhawk
BREAKING: Special counsel Mueller has requested to interview Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who helped set up the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Agalarov’s lawyer tells @NBCNews. It sounds like he’s being cooperative, which could be a really big development.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 2, 2018
re: #370 MsJ
And python vests. Don’t forget the $18,000 python vest.
I used to breed Ball Pythons. Making a vest, or really any kind of skin-suit, did not occur to me.
#JamesBaldwin’s response to a Yale professor asking “So why must we always concentrate on color?” is still the most fire answer in answer history. Happy Birthday! pic.twitter.com/u8xYRqwLJM
— nadirah (@hinadirah) August 2, 2018
On what would have been his 94th birthday, we honor James Baldwin whose work was a constant reminder that #DissentIsPatriotic. pic.twitter.com/cHMALSVSUK
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 2, 2018
I spent three months digging into a deeply polluted neighborhood in Orlando, Florida. Parramore is historically black and its boundaries are defined by major highways. But Griffin Park, a housing proj., is completely surrounded by them https://t.co/lJ1IznKSgw
— juju. (@juliacraven) January 23, 2018
Air pollution causes at least 200k deaths annually. As the Trump Admin moves to weaken regulations on vehicle pollution think about the communities — often black, always poor — that are positioned near major roadways. I wrote about one such community earlier this year. https://t.co/NP7MOfE1SK
— juju. (@juliacraven) August 2, 2018
re: #386 lawhawk
The false invoices - shielding from prying eyes at the IRS - the amount of income that was being reported.
It could be a combination of inflating the costs and hiding the profit there, or some other combination of acts the purpose of which is to try and illegally minimize the reporting of income to the IRS.
That’s the general gist.
Ah, so lowering prices shown on the invoices so he could claim them as tax deductions that would have come from legitimate sources but that his regular reported income would support.
Got it! Thanks!
re: #370 MsJ
And python vests. Don’t forget the $18,000 python vest.
It’s not a vest, it’s a jacket with 3/4 length sleeves. Unless there is a matching vest in which case ewwww
re: #391 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I used to breed Ball Pythons. Making a vest, or really any kind of skin-suit, did not occur to me.
I don’t like snakes and it would never occur to me, either.
“The crash of 2008 crashed a lot of things. I don’t think I’ll ever make $19 an hour again.” https://t.co/gYgBz3sSj7
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) August 2, 2018
re: #369 MsJ
Ah, Twitter. You do amuse sometimes.
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Intellect of a 12 year old, syphilitic dementia…. hmmmmm. And?
re: #383 Eclectic Cyborg
The internet has an unfortunate side effect of making stupid people feel really smart.
Conservative media does that without needing the Internet. It wasn’t the Internet that first tried to tell me that uneducated yahoos are the “real smart people”.
WATCH: Sarah Sanders demands no one ask about 2016 meddling — and Fox News’ John Roberts immediately defies her https://t.co/hTOzObzSlr
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 2, 2018
re: #400 retired cynic
Intellect of a 12 year old, syphilitic dementia…. hmmmmm. And?
And Trump is actually dumber than that.
re: #397 The Vicious Babushka
It’s not a vest, it’s a jacket with 3/4 length sleeves. Unless there is a matching vest in which case ewwww
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The jacket was bought to complete the outfit started with the vest.
Brookings estimates that without GOP sabotage, premiums should be *falling* by 4%. https://t.co/eZU696DJV4
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) August 2, 2018
re: #397 The Vicious Babushka
It’s not a vest, it’s a jacket with 3/4 length sleeves. Unless there is a matching vest in which case ewwww
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3/4 sleeves on a dude? Uhm…no.
And that jacket/vest/veskett? Definite no.
re: #404 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The jacket was bought to complete the outfit started with the vest.
That was the ostrich skin jacket which has a matching vest.
re: #382 Single-handed sailor
Excellent points. It’s just too easy to amplify our stupidity. The Russians must laugh. Gun ownership is illegal in Russia but nobody in the NRA crowd seemed to question where a gun toting Russian woman came from. politico.com
— John Sipher
Wow, is that true?
re: #312 Dr Lizardo
I could see Trump unwittingly doing that on a hot mic. Thing is, his cult followers probably wouldn’t give two shits about it.
They’d cheer him.
I think Conservatives think that Liberals are over-reacting to the new fascism, because Liberals don’t know that there’s actually a line that many Conservatives will not cross as the subculture becomes more toxic. Unfortunately many other Conservatives will cross that line.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 2, 2018
re: #397 The Vicious Babushka
It’s not a vest, it’s a jacket with 3/4 length sleeves. Unless there is a matching vest in which case ewwww
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Ugh, that is gaudy as hell.
Of Walmart’s 2.3 million workers, half made less than $19,177 last year. https://t.co/Xqe0cXhOUo
— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) August 1, 2018
re: #369 MsJ
Ah, Twitter. You do amuse sometimes.
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I don’t believe that’s Capone
It doesn’t look anything like deniro
re: #410 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Most of those conservatives don’t think anything the rest of their party does will affect them.
re: #343 makeitstop
Just sittin’ here, connecting the dots between seemingly unconnected comments…
Where are the goats?
“I’m not in a position to understand fully” what occurred in Trump-Putin summit, said the nation’s senior-most intelligence official DNI Coats
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 2, 2018
This should be front page news for a month: https://t.co/JIc60XbIPb
— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) August 2, 2018
re: #358 MsJ
Alex Jones’ attorney today argued that “no reasonable reader or listener” would expect that Jones spoke factually on his show, Infowars.
I don’t go to InfoWars or any of his other crappy sites, I only watch the videos posted here and elsewhere where he is being mocked.
If his lawyer is going to make this claim wouldn’t Jones need to have some kind of noticeable warning posted on his site or on his videos announcing what you are reading and watching is satire/lampooning and should never be taken as fact?
Of course he does no such thing as fare as I can tell so that argument falls flat.
Jones knows his crap is intended to be taken seriously as that is the only way people would stick with him as followers.
I too hope this cooks his fat ass good and he has to take his sites off the web.
This world will be better off without him messing about. Go get a real job Alex. That is if you can actually do anything.
re: #375 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like the document review for Kavanaugh will take longer - pushing the hearings into October. That’s because the amount of records will take time to compile.
That is being equated with obstructionism.
Sorry. That’s just bulkshit.
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The GOP engaged in obstructionism. This is due diligence. This extremist is getting his hearing, and he’ll get his vote because the GOP will see to both.
The GOP refused to engage in advise and consent by blocking even a hearing on Garland.
And there’s this:
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“We want the same standard that we afforded the Republicans when they asked for a large amounts of paper trail from Elena Kagan,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Tuesday. “There were 170,000 pages that were turned over by the archives.
U.S. archivists called the production of the Kagan documents a “herculean task,” saying that it required more than 6,000 hours of work put in by nearly two-dozen staffers. Kagan’s confirmation on Aug. 5 occurred nearly three months after her nomination on May 10.
re: #358 MsJ
Alex Jones’ attorney today argued that “no reasonable reader or listener” would expect that Jones spoke factually on his show, Infowars.
Such a very serious person.
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HAHAHAHA SANDERS IS COMPLAINING THAT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT EVENT DIDN’T GET ENOUGH COVERAGE
She’s now reading a hectoring monologue off a sheet of paper.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 2, 2018
Director of National Intelligence on what happened in Helsinki: “I’m not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in Helsinki.” pic.twitter.com/NVsMfEvKPZ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 2, 2018
That alone should be enough to remove this incompetent, likely-compromised, administration. We have a mad president who sucks up to dictators, and rejects Western values.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 2, 2018
re: #418 ObserverArt
This world will be better off without him messing about. Go get a real job Alex. That is if you can actually do anything.
“Drunk, fat and unemployed by your own stupidity is no way to go through life, son.”
re: #358 MsJ
This is really the genius, if you will of wingnut world, as the gibberish they spout can be recognized at once for the absurdity it all is while also being irrefutable truth and evidence of their own superiority and complete otherness of those they hate.
Damnet.
HAHAHAHA SANDERS IS COMPLAINING THAT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT EVENT DIDN’T GET ENOUGH COVERAGE
She’s now reading a hectoring monologue off a sheet of paper.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 2, 2018
re: #418 ObserverArt
I don’t go to InfoWars or any of his other crappy sites, I only watch the videos posted here and elsewhere where he is being mocked.
If his lawyer is going to make this claim wouldn’t Jones need to have some kind of noticeable warning posted on his site or on his videos announcing what you are reading and watching is satire/lampooning and should never be taken as fact?
Of course he does no such thing as fare as I can tell so that argument falls flat.
Jones knows his crap is intended to be taken seriously as that is the only way people would stick with him as followers.
I too hope this cooks his fat ass good and he has to take his sites off the web.
This world will be better off without him messing about. Go get a real job Alex. That is if you can actually do anything.
Jones’ crap will be taken seriously by his audience, even if someone makes him put up a disclaimer saying it’s not factual. They’ll rationalize that the deep-state made him do it.
They want to believe, because it makes them feel like they have superior knowledge, without having to learn anything. Watching Infowars is much easier than getting a poli-sci degree and life-experience in politics.
On topic of nationwide voter ID (which Trump has spoken in support of this week), Sanders compares voting to returning an item to a department store pic.twitter.com/yuxsmZnqCY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 2, 2018
It’s weird how Sanders regularly has no answer to predictable questions about the administration’s practices and policies but has pre-scripted rants against the media ready to go. It’s a trap, people.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 2, 2018
re: #417 jaunte
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Where are the goddamn flashing lights and sirens and defcon 1 after that stunning admission of the state of things
re: #397 The Vicious Babushka
It’s not a vest, it’s a jacket with 3/4 length sleeves. Unless there is a matching vest in which case ewwww
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I can honestly say, I’m not sure which one is uglier
Though, as it appears the darker one is a hoodie, it may be pulling ahead.
If Trump were remotely honest, or even competent, he wouldn’t have had to resort to hiring a lying Huckabee hack to feed bullshit to the media. The pool of competent people who will work for Trump is non-existent.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 2, 2018
re: #432 dangerman
Where are the goddamn flashing lights and sirens and defcon 1 after that stunning admission of the state of things
Ssssh, Sarah Huck Sanders says let’s talk about *squints* the administration’s workplace development something or other.
Whoopsy.
We mentioned earlier that a federal judge had confirmed the legal legitimacy of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s appointment, and ordered a witness who had been challenging it to appear before the grand jury. The Post’s Ann Marimow and Manuel Roig-Franzia now have a more complete account of what happened:
A former aide to longtime President Trump confidant Roger Stone must testify before the special counsel’s grand jury, a federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday.
The judge rejected a challenge from Andrew Miller, a former assistant to Stone, who tried to block subpoenas from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in his ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The redacted opinion from Chief Judge Beryl Howell does not identify Miller by name, but his attorney confirmed that the ruling is in response to Miller’s request.
Howell’s ruling orders Miller to “appear before the grand jury to provide testimony at the earliest date available” and to provide the subpoenaed records.
“We’re disappointed with the court’s ruling,” Miller’s attorney Paul Kamenar said in an interview. “But the judge obviously took our challenge to Mueller’s constitutionality seriously as evidenced by the 93-page opinion.”
You can read their full report here.
re: #431 jaunte
“So, you’re saying that if I don’t have my receipt, I can get store credit?”
At approximately 12:40 p.m., base emergency responders (security forces, fire department) responded to a reported Active Shooter incident at the base hospital.
Base personnel have been directed to shelter in place until the incident is investigated— Wright-Patterson AFB (@WrightPattAFB) August 2, 2018
re: #430 The Vicious Babushka
You know, when I think of democracy, I always compare it to returning junk to a department store.
Ok, I never do, but….
Apparently, they think of democracy as shopping (for and to the highest bidder?)— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 2, 2018
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
That was the ostrich skin jacket which has a matching vest.
So, we have forced to debate which particular ‘exotic’ dead animal’s skin has been turned into which specific piece of clothing that it should never have been turned into?
Sad.
re: #380 makeitstop
Jesus, another one? We’re gonna be up to our asses with conserva-chicks with assault rifles before long.
Re moon landing: that catch-all ‘fake news’ oughta cover it.
I was wondering if there is already a Conservative Hot Gals with Guns soft porn site on the ‘net.
I bet there is….but I don’t want to do a Google search for fear of what might turn up. It is the ‘net after all…
An extraordinarily disappointing moment by @PressSec just now… Her inability to acknowledge the role POTUS has played in all of this media bashing only hurts her own credibility…She had a chance to defend the institution and take the high ground and show leadership, instead..
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) August 2, 2018
“Hurts her own credibility?”
What credibility? https://t.co/yIYNCMpqZ4— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 2, 2018
Seriously? Chuck Todd is disappointed that Sarah Sanders didn’t “take the high ground?” What planet has he been living on?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 2, 2018
re: #442 Colère Tueur de Lapin
So, we have forced to debate which particular ‘exotic’ dead animal’s skin has been turned into which specific piece of clothing that it should never have been turned into?
Sad.
Remember just the other day we had pictures of/from Jupiter?
Effing Jupiter
The planet.
Not the city in Florida
re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I can honestly say, I’m not sure which one is uglier
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For the life of me I can not understand why someone would pay that amount of money for these fugly shmattas that would be leftovers at Goodwill. Are there blood diamonds sewn into the lining?
re: #443 ObserverArt
I was wondering if there is already a Conservative Hot Gals with Guns soft porn site on the ‘net.
I bet there is….but I don’t want to do a Google search for fear of what might turn up. It is the ‘net after all…
Rule 34, bro.
re: #446 The Vicious Babushka
For the life of me I can not understand why someone would pay that amount of money for these fugly shmattas that would be leftovers at Goodwill. Are there blood diamonds sewn into the lining?
Money laundering
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
That was the ostrich skin jacket which has a matching vest.
I literally can’t keep track of this shit anymore.
re: #439 dangerman
Alex Jones’ attorney today argued that “no reasonable reader or listener” would expect that Jones spoke factually on his show, Infowars
Reasonable listeners are not his audience
If he is admitting that his audience is not reasonable (since they demonstrably believe him and took action in this case) isn’t he somehow MORE responsible for the behavior he invokes?
re: #429 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Jones’ crap will be taken seriously by his audience, even if someone makes him put up a disclaimer saying it’s not factual. They’ll rationalize that the deep-state made him do it.
They want to believe, because it makes them feel like they have superior knowledge, without having to learn anything. Watching Infowars is much easier than getting a poli-sci degree and life-experience in politics.
True.
But his lawyers are making claims in a courtroom. I’m talking about the legal aspects which Jones has not covered what he is now claiming.
You can’t make ignorant people smart but you can give them a notice. What they do after that is up to them. The notice would be there to protect Jones and back up his lawye’rs claims.
re: #447 makeitstop
Rule 34, bro.
Heh. I was unfamiliar with Rule 34. I could guess though.
So I did a search which took me to the Urban Dictionary and my guess was correct.
Thanks for the “rule” though.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
