Vice President Mike Pence successfully gave a serious speech about Space Force while keeping a straight face.
Oh wow, a Hillary shout out!! So happy for Amanda Litman and the RfS team!
Here’s what matters: you. Your issues, your opinions, your beliefs. Our 500+ candidates have shown us that they’re ready to make their voices heard and be the changemakers in their local communities. Thank you for standing with them and us. pic.twitter.com/0NK03Jjgr3
— Run for Something (@runforsomething) August 9, 2018
So proud of the @runforsomething team on hitting this milestone! It takes a lot of courage to put your name on a ballot, and I’m glad these 500+ candidates have Run for Something in their corner. https://t.co/0Yt7SpRvhw
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 10, 2018
re: #659 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Lesser MEN? What happened to all those crazed lesbian Islamo-Zionist cannibal feminists he claimed were plotting against him?
The gay frogs got them.
I’ll repeat this I just posted below:
Research indicates about 24 million Americans fully share the views of the alt-right (Identify strongly as white, believe in white solidarity and believe whites are being victimized). Obviously millions more share at least two of those beliefs. There are your deplorables, the Trump Base.
— darth™ (@darth) August 10, 2018
The So Cal Holy Fire is burning out of control in Orange County. 10,000+ acres have burned, and it’s only 5% contained. The sheriff has arrested Forrest Clark, 51, on suspicion of arson. He threatened to burn everything down in a message to the sheriff a week earlier. pic.twitter.com/dWP4k1cIhe
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) August 10, 2018
Wow, thread 👇
Police have arrested an arson suspect in California’s raging wildfire, and he’s a very active member of anti-government conspiracy groups (QAnon, Pizzagate, Jade Helm, 9/11 truther, etc…).
These aren’t just wacky stories online, but have real life consequences. https://t.co/D4HdtKB8z3— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) August 10, 2018
2 things, here:
1. remember all that shit that went down with her a nabj…
am i meant to understand she made a SPECTACLE of herself on behalf of this white house and this president…..while secretly looking for a tape of 45 droppin’ n-bombs?
oh.
okay.https://t.co/6B6UGmdO8M— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) August 10, 2018
2. if this fully grown, septuagenarian, commander in chief MF went through the trouble of CHEWING UP AND SWALLOWING a FILTHY PIECE OF PAPER in the interests of discretion-
while secretly being taped by the conniving, bodycon-dress clad she-judas he *hand-picked* to advise him—-— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) August 10, 2018
i will die.
i will beat a drum, holler out into the night sky, and then just fucking die.— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) August 10, 2018
LOL she-judas!!
I don’t know if we when have a path to become America again.
The ACLU believes that ICE deliberately withheld deported parents’ phone numbers for more than a month, despite the fact that this contact information could have helped reunite many families. https://t.co/yNe9WGrQyV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2018
re: #7 MsJ
I don’t know if we when have a path to become America again.
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That’s why the Abolish ICE people aren’t wrong. This is infuriating.
re: #5 lawhawk
I thought the fires were caused by liberals dumping all the rivers in the Pacific Ocean?
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re: #7 MsJ
I don’t know if we when have a path to become America again.
Meaning the phone numbers where the parents were being held in the U.S.?
re: #5 lawhawk
Not to be an asshole, but there world be a bit of poetic justice if the houses of the tech giants CEOs, who are so blah about curbing bullshit and conspiracy theories that this guy believed, were some of the structures that burned down.
They need to start billing these people for wasting the cops time.
Angry Trump supporter calls the cops on black lawmaker for talking to voters https://t.co/JBiijyloaL
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 10, 2018
re: #10 Sir John Barron
I thought the fires were caused by liberals dumping all the rivers in the Pacific Ocean?
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We diverted them from their natural course into the Central and San Joaquin Valleys. I mean if God had intended the water to flow into the Pacific, he wouldn’t have built the canal system!
This space force thing sounds to me like they are out to do things like protect important satellites from other countries that might try to destroy them in some manner. There are assets up there.. Must protect.
You know, if we have that big laser that can zap people off earth…someone will want to stop it. Must protect.
Not that I support this insane idea. Just trying to find the perspective here and some “real world” excuses that will come to justify this. It’s tough.
Man, is this guy ever lost up his own asshole.
lots of sharp observations/reporting in this @karaswisher piece, but i have a few quick reactions —> Rules Won’t Save Twitter. Values Will. https://t.co/g7qL6CfVum
— David Kaye (@davidakaye) August 9, 2018
Agree w all of this. Our early values informed our rules. We likely over-rotated on one value, & then let the rules react to rapidly changing circumstances (some we helped create). We need to root these values in human rights law. A starting consideration: https://t.co/FwJ1J7SSu1 https://t.co/4prS3ePSFB
— jack (@jack) August 10, 2018
re: #16 Charles Johnson
Man, is this guy ever lost up his own asshole.
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re: #11 Sir John Barron
Meaning the phone numbers where the parents were being held in the U.S.?
Gelernt said that, despite knowing the ACLU needed contact information to track deported parents, the government didn’t cough up the numbers until Aug. 7, almost a week after they were asked to do so by the organization and the judge. He said it should not have taken so much pressure for the administration to provide organizations and advocates with such basic information about deported parents.
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Cathleen Caron, the founder and executive director of the migrant rights group Justice in Motion, said that before the government provided phone numbers for deported parents, advocates only had a list of addresses that were oftentimes vague or incomplete. “Maybe the list says Miguel in Guatemala City, and that’s not [helpful],” she said. “Guatemala City has more than 2.5 million people.” According to the ACLU, more than 100 of the government-provided addresses were completely useless, while others simply listed cities or descriptions such as “street without a name.”
Remember, kids: never over-rotate on one value. This never ends well.
Coming from a punk who tortured parents of slain Sandy Hook children. I hope that the parents nail you in court and take you for every last cent you have you evil sick freak!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) August 10, 2018
re: #13 Kragar
They need to start billing these people for wasting the cops time.
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She should have been arrested for filing a false report.
Talking while black isn’t a crime.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Remember, kids: never over-rotate on one valve. This never ends well.
Same difference. The result is the same - bad jobu.
Ted Cruz thinking calling Beto a “Triple-meat Whataburger liberal” is going to hurt Beto is hysterical. For you non-Texans, Whataburger is as part of our culture as football.
Here’s an important update on the high-profile U.S. Senate race that you might have missed: @tedcruz called @betoorourke a “Triple Meat Whataburger liberal.” https://t.co/p9qJ4lXwss
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) August 9, 2018
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
This is the same guy who shirks his responsibility to care for his kids?
re: #23 Ace Rothstein
Ted Cruz thinking calling Beto a “Triple-meat Whataburger liberal” is going to hurt Beto is hysterical. For you non-Texans, Whataburger is as part of our culture as football.
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I’ve never seen someone so utterly useless and desperate to foist the consequences of their own greed and myopic irresponsibility off as the unforeseen result of deeply held principled values. Seriously what even is the point of you?
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 10, 2018
One year ago, a car rammed into counter-protesters during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Activist Heather Heyer was killed.
Now, her mother is trying to fulfill a promise made at her funeral. https://t.co/NQvX9FEXz3— NPR (@NPR) August 10, 2018
I wonder how or why a car did that. Makes you think https://t.co/f0IVPHNn3J
— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) August 10, 2018
Damn Kitt.
JJ we used to have places where kooks like Clark could play tiddly winks in a padded cell all the time.
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) August 10, 2018
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Remember, kids: never over-rotate on one value. This never ends well.
Might make a basket* though. Careful with that rebound, too.
*of deplorables
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 10, 2018
— darth™ (@darth) August 10, 2018
Seeing how he want to blow off the Endangered Species Act, you might want to start working baby seals and chipmunks into your act as you do so well. https://t.co/GdZJRv5qNS
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) August 10, 2018
I’ve just made a Holocaust denier admit that he is willing to outright lie about the Holocaust to reach his political aims. pic.twitter.com/owcbRNOwaW
— Confronting Deniers (@AgainstDenial) August 10, 2018
re: #26 goddamnedfrank
“Forgive me, world. I “over-rotated” on one value.” pic.twitter.com/XH7zIgWt9y
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) August 10, 2018
re: #23 Ace Rothstein
Ted Cruz thinking calling Beto a “Triple-meat Whataburger liberal” is going to hurt Beto is hysterical. For you non-Texans, Whataburger is as part of our culture as football.
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I know! When that quote came out, I think most of Texas went, “Huh? Triple meat Whataburgers are the SHIT, man! You gonna compare Beto to Texan manna from heaven?”
I swear, Ted Cruz is an epic moron.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was offered $10,000 by Ben Shapiro, a conservative blogger and speaker, to debate him. She likened the offer to catcalling. https://t.co/73baQZA79w
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2018
re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Quit trying to make me like her, NYT.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Remember, kids: never over-rotate on one value. This never ends well.
I think it can lead to a stall, and then you fall out of the sky and go boom.
Wrote this to the Jackass and got automatically suspended for a few seconds.
Dude, it takes your team eternity to ban Nazis, so you ban anti-Nazis for calling Nazis nutjobs instead.
— Confronting Deniers (@AgainstDenial) August 10, 2018
NEWS — Grassley will soon announce confirmation hearing dates for Brett Kavanaugh. Will be held Sept. 4, 5, 6 and 7 per notice obtained by Post
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) August 10, 2018
re: #38 Nyet
Wrote this to the Jackass and got automatically suspended for a few seconds.
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Will it happen again if we retweet it?
re: #40 wrenchwench
I suppose it could happen to “new” accounts tweeting at the likes of jack and musk.
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 10, 2018
re: #41 Nyet
I suppose it could happen to “new” accounts tweeting at the likes of jack and musk.
testing….
Alex Jones confirmed that he himself deleted the 20 tweets listed in @oliverdarcy’s CNN article, a chickenshit move to keep his account from being suspended. What about the other 50,000 tweets? But it’s already been made clear that Twitter won’t do anything to stop Jones.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 10, 2018
re: #43 wrenchwench
I wanted to add “an” to “eternity” but decided not to risk.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
I watch lesser-men like you turn the poorly-educated into paranoid pudding-heads. You’ve made the poorly-educated insane with absurd disinformation. I hope the good people you and the dummies who take you seriously have attacked take everything your lies have built.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 10, 2018
Thread…
I have made some very powerful, rich enemies because I have been highly instrumental in passing Dodd-Frank, a big energy bill, and the Affordable Care Act which has extended health care to over 20 million people and protected over 130 million with pre-existing conditions.
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) August 10, 2018
Talk that shit Nancy!
re: #38 Nyet
Wrote this to the Jackass and got automatically suspended for a few seconds.
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Are teenage Libertarianism, or arrested-development, really values, or is it more a case of dudebros not thinking things through from a socially responsible perspective?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 10, 2018
re: #48 dangerman
Yeah, maybe they should run this story about how Trump’s bigot brigade base is actually white supremacists and goddamned Nazis.
That actually deserves front page status (but is more likely consigned to be buried).
WE LIKELY OVER-ROTATED ON ONE VALUE pic.twitter.com/9oKMn3nGCB
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 10, 2018
@wikileaks By Court order, you are being served with the following legal documents: https://t.co/ICg8qWnsUy, https://t.co/ZP2tTPJ4pb, https://t.co/RKue30s4hM, https://t.co/q5g0G1rQpQ.
All of these documents may be found here: https://t.co/NOCgvQhh2j.— Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Process Server (@ProcessServiceC) August 10, 2018
Here’s Wikileaks getting served via a tweet by the DNC’s lawyers, who just set up this twitter account today https://t.co/tAfyStbKMe
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 10, 2018
And yes, it’s real https://t.co/hUyuqV6iuX
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 10, 2018
re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
She’s right. Shapiro is some yeller on the street, trying to bait her into an argument. She doesn’t have to give him the time of day, & YOU, the NYTimes, you need to stop trying to push her into doing so. At bottom, it really does force women into doing things we don’t want to.
— (((Deana “No Family Internment Camps” Holmes))) (@mmmirele) August 10, 2018
re: #59 Nyet
@jack over rotated by a value.
Yeah, that’s another way of saying that you allowed goddamned Nazis and conspiracy nuts to run roughshod over your platform despite violating your TOS all along. pic.twitter.com/zxf9LOPp0e— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 10, 2018
re: #57 JordanRules
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How can it be real? You can’t serve a person via Tweet any more than a President could Tweet out policy. WTF is going on?
The only values you have relate to money, as in making more of it.
You have no values concerning honesty or integrity or truth.
Worse, you actively support bigotry & lies.
Stop making excuses & own up to it already. You already come off as disgusting & hypocritical.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 10, 2018
Shapiro got what he wanted anyway. He was just using Ocasio Cortez to draw attention to himself.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Shapiro got what he wanted anyway. He was just using Ocasio Cortez to draw attention to himself.
Therefore Shapiro is undoubtedly the attention whore here.
Listening to Robert Caro’s Path to Power again, which I find endlessly fascinating, I realize when I’ve heard a candidate like Trump before—W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel, Texas governor who defeated LBJ in his first race for the U.S. Senate in 1941. Among other things, O’Daniel was a wealthy businessman running as man-of-the-people evangelical simpleton, who got famous through radio and knew nothing about government but did have an appeal to enough voters to get elected. After he became governor he continued broadcasting from the governor’s mansion on weekends—sound familiar (Twitter).
I always wonder about the twitter responses to a guy like Jack and who reads them and is there any response to them???
Or do they also go up that ol’ asshole?
Michael Avenatti: I’m exploring a run for President
Literally Everyone: pic.twitter.com/j4TYO7oSSi— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) August 10, 2018
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Shapiro got what he wanted anyway. He was just using Ocasio Cortez to draw attention to himself.
The campus-crusader schtick can only generate so much publicity.
re: #69 ObserverArt
I always wonder about the twitter responses to a guy like Jack and who reads them and is there any response to them???
Or do they also go up that ol’ asshole?
i think he thinks “as long as they’re responding on twitter”….
Folks, @Twitter has not removed posts by Alex Jones but it has found something the company feels must be removed cc: @jack pic.twitter.com/z1FcvkBAwE
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 10, 2018
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Shapiro got what he wanted anyway. He was just using Ocasio Cortez to draw attention to himself.
It was a win-win for him, now he can call her a coward for refusing to accept the challenge to debate a True Conservative.
Stunning and entirely predictable - especially when CEOs were saying they had no intention of increasing wages even if the tax scam increased profits. They were going to profit and pocket the profits w/no trickle down.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 10, 2018
re: #12 MsJ
Not to be an asshole, but there world be a bit of poetic justice if the houses of the tech giants CEOs, who are so blah about curbing bullshit and conspiracy theories that this guy believed, were some of the structures that burned down.
This fire is in south Orange County and Riverside County. No tech giant CEOs there, they’re mostly in Northern California
re: #65 MsJ
That reminds me - Hoarse Whisperer has a brilliant little thread on harming Twitter’s revenue stream while still being able to use your account:
If users don’t click on, like, RT, or comment on Twitter ads, they lose revenue.
Our actions make the cash register ring. Our inaction makes it stop ringing.
If people want to pressure Twitter into policing people like Alex Jones, there’s one easy way to do it.#disengage
4/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 10, 2018
I think @Twitter is a lost cause. It appears that @Jack is a wingnut.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) August 10, 2018
re: #73 Charles Johnson
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re: #23 Ace Rothstein
Ted Cruz thinking calling Beto a “Triple-meat Whataburger liberal” is going to hurt Beto is hysterical. For you non-Texans, Whataburger is as part of our culture as football.
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As a liberal who spent 10 years in Texas, I would consider this a huge compliment.
re: #6 JordanRules
I didn’t really understand a word of that
I’m mostly on twitter to clean up the mess that the twitter “rules” and “mods” create vis a vis Nazis.
re: #81 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
According to Omarosa, she caught Trump actually eating a piece of paper. To put it in conspiracy theory terms, he might have been actually eating evidence.
Did little Benny finish his physical therapy yet after that Transgender person put her hand on his chicken neck?
Chicago violence since last Friday. pic.twitter.com/lEAsrxjuO4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 10, 2018
In fact, the Vegas shooter injured nearly 10 times as many as those injured in a weekend in Chicago gun violence.
Yet Trump, GOP, and Fox would rather focus on Chicago (and black violence by proxy).
It’s about the easily available guns. GOP/NRA sells fear and sells guns on fear— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 10, 2018
re: #15 ObserverArt
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in case you need a break
Finally! A parking spot for fat guys that like to grill meat. pic.twitter.com/BZWMTCoomG
— Dave Singer (@TheDaveSinger) August 8, 2018
re: #87 I Would Prefer Not To
I thought it was a horror movie about Pacman,
re: #81 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I didn’t really understand a word of that
Not a word huh?
Opinion: Remember when Republicans cared about debt? https://t.co/UC4i6h3vg7
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 10, 2018
re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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— Keikaku Doori (@J_Plus) August 10, 2018
البروفيسور جوردان بيترسون أحد أشهر علماء النفس في #العالم وأثناء مقابلة معه يرى أنه لايمكن للنساء والرجال العمل في بيئة مختلطة دون وجود تحرشات جنسية . #ترجمة_نيزك pic.twitter.com/knneEAttXB
— نيزك | Naizak (@naizaktv) June 7, 2018
Large Saudi social media account cites “world famous psychologist” Jordan Peterson to justify gender segregation. Peterson is crossing the language barrier, inspiring misogynists the world over. https://t.co/I2I4StcibG
— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) June 9, 2018
When assessing Jordan Peterson’s impact, it’s worth pondering that his ideas serve the needs of gender reactionaries all over the world. https://t.co/ZSGOFFx3KO
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 10, 2018
re: #85 lawhawk
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And still Chicago is not the city with the most murders per capita.
Wow.
Man who tied up, sexually assaulted 14-year-old girl will serve no jail time https://t.co/0kLQNsGWG0 pic.twitter.com/meoVDyjZPJ
— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) August 10, 2018
Bannon is saying how 2008 laid the seeds for a Trump victory:
A decade now after the 2008 financial crisis, the cultural and psychological imprint that it left looks almost as deep as the one that followed the Great Depression. Its legacy includes a new radical politics on both the left and the right; epidemics of opioid abuse, suicides, and low birthrates; and widespread resentment, racial and gendered and otherwise, by those who felt especially left behind. This week, New York continues our retrospective on the crash and its aftermath by publishing interviews with some of those who were closest to the events. Here, Steve Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker turned face of Trump-era populism, on how the bailouts led directly to the 2016 election, why we need to break up the banks, and his goal to turn the GOP into a worker-based party.
Please shoot me now….
In the end, Mueller will probably get an interview with the president, even if it comes down to a subpoena battle.https://t.co/iHnvIW1We5
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 10, 2018
re: #39 JordanRules
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They are hoping to get a popularity bump by getting a big win just before the midterms.
Regarding the pissing match between Omarosa and the White House….
Can’t be brought down by the damning testimony of your subordinates if you only hire shady liars to work for you. pic.twitter.com/WOp3qSBmJD
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 10, 2018
Twice now i’ve asked the First Lady’s office whether she feels differently about the issue of chain migration than her husband given the story of her parents.
24 hours later. No response.— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 10, 2018
re: #102 Big Beautiful Door
They are hoping to get a popularity bump by getting a big win just before the midterms.
They need it done before the election for more nefarious reasons than that I’m afraid.
re: #96 Barefoot Grin
And still Chicago is not the city with the most murders per capita.
Louisiana, if it was a city, is far higher than Chicago.
LOL
Pelosi says some of the attacks on her leadership are sexist and, in classic dismissive Pelosi form, wonders why that guy “whatshisname” who runs the Senate doesn’t get called out similarly.
Her aide: “McConnell.” 😂 https://t.co/8fO9vEiDdT pic.twitter.com/bdLDNK62QG— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) August 10, 2018
re: #49 JordanRules
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Talk that shit Nancy!
Not that I don’t admire her, and she has great accomplishments as Speaker, but I wonder if it might not be time for new blood in leadership. With Trump as President, they won’t be able to accomplish much legislatively for the next two years anyway.
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
Not that I don’t admire her, and she has great accomplishments as Speaker, but I wonder if it might not be time for new blood in leadership. With Trump as President, they won’t be able to accomplish much legislatively for the next two years anyway.
On the other hand, STOPPING things by the Yam (like, um, tariffs) would be a great accomplishment. Less chance of that with someone not as savvy.
@CleverTitleTK I got mad and looked up Laura Ingraham’s family tree. Right there in Wikipedia, it says her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Poland.
— Jen T. (@stuffjenlikes) August 9, 2018
Just read this thread on the immigrant roots of Laura Ingraham, whose love for America has been shattered by the immigration of Black & Brown ppl. Btw, she shld know that 10 million Black Americans were already living here when her Polish grandfather arrived to the U.S. in 1910. https://t.co/BIOrWkkUwi
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) August 9, 2018
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
Not that I don’t admire her, and she has great accomplishments as Speaker, but I wonder if it might not be time for new blood in leadership. With Trump as President, they won’t be able to accomplish much legislatively for the next two years anyway.
As Dangerman says, let someone go for it then. She doesn’t need to just step aside.
re: #101 Stanley Sea
Behind on thread, but ww - meet my new fren
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re: #7 MsJ
If Republicans maintain control of Congress in November, things will get much worse. Nunes has already stated that Republicans will take steps to fire Rosenstein if they win the House in November. We don’t become America again with Republicans running this country. That’s about it.
re: #115 Patricia Kayden
Nunes can’t fire Rosenstein. That’s just bluster. They don’t have the Senate votes to do it and he knows it
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
Democrats, please do not distance yourselves from Nancy Pelosi. She is a wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance. She is trying very hard & has every right to take down the Democrat Party if she has veered too far left!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹
Louisiana, if it was a city, is far higher than Chicago.
Yeah, I think the top three cities are 3. New Orleans 2. Baltimore 1. St. Louis.
re: #117 wheat-dogg
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
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He’s playing with his invisible ant farm at the moment.
That Friday feeling pic.twitter.com/U6axM46a9o
— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) August 10, 2018
re: #117 wheat-dogg
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
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It’s hard to tell. On the one hand, it uses proper English and spelling. On the other, it’s galactically fucking stupid.
re: #36 Belafon
Quit trying to make me like her, NYT.
Agreed. It is nice to know there’s one rake she’s not dumb enough to step on.
I hate being right about her.
re: #118 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, I think the top three cities are 3. New Orleans 2. Baltimore 1. St. Louis.
Which exempting Baltimore are in quite red states with lax gun laws.
re: #117 wheat-dogg
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
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Yeah that ain’t Trump. It’s stupid but not in the usual Trump way.
re: #120 Barefoot Grin
He’s playing with his invisible ant farm at the moment.
Y’know, I don’t trust Omarosa as a source, but the ant farm anecdote is too out there to have been fabricated from whole cloth. Trump has had other occasions when he has referred to people or things no one else can see, such saying Melania was outside the Oval Office window when she in fact was not. Now, the WSJ reports WH staff have to keep Sessions out of Trump’s field of view to keep Il Trumpino from losing his temper at him. Out of sight, out of mind, like an infant.
re: #123 Brian J.
Agreed. It is nice to know there’s one rake she’s not dumb enough to step on.
I hate being right about her.
She is one future congresswoman from a very liberal district. She is getting an inordinate amount of attention because of the word “socialist.”
re: #117 wheat-dogg
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
Democrats, please do not distance yourselves from Nancy Pelosi. She is a wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance. She is trying very hard & has every right to take down the Democrat Party if she has veered too far left!
sure he did
only trump would believe democrats follow him on twitter
/s
When reporters tried to ask Premier Doug Ford questions at a news conference on Thursday, they were intentionally drowned out by applause https://t.co/8DPAVujTpi pic.twitter.com/fpta3DyT0W
— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) August 10, 2018
re: #117 wheat-dogg
No way Trump wrote this. It’s too subtle.
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Republicans need to start to distance themselves from the bigot in the White House. Pelosi isn’t a racist bully and she’s done just fine as a House Leader in my books. As someone said in an earlier thread, why aren’t House Republicans asked about Jim Jordan’s plan to run for House Leadership and if they support him given the sexual harassment allegations in his background?
re: #127 Big Beautiful Door
She is one future congresswoman from a very liberal district. She is getting an inordinate amount of attention because of the word “socialist.”
Yep. TBH I wish she wouldn’t call herself one because I’m tired of the socialist vs capitalist bs. We’re all both.
re: #126 wheat-dogg
Y’know, I don’t trust Omarosa as a source, but the ant farm anecdote is too out there to have been fabricated from whole cloth. Trump has had other occasions when he has referred to people or things no one else can see, such saying Melania was outside the Oval Office window when she in fact was not. Now, the WSJ reports WH staff have to keep Sessions out of Trump’s field of view to keep Il Trumpino from losing his temper at him. Out of sight, out of mind, like an infant.
That has the ring of truth. I’m sure Trump would love to wring his neck, if only his hands were big enough.
re: #126 wheat-dogg
Then again, there’s this
Some of these excerpts from the Omarosa book are just too weird to believe. pic.twitter.com/ugxmm8XiKv
— Astro-General of the Space Force (@NonWhiteHat) August 10, 2018
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Which exempting Baltimore are in quite red states with lax gun laws.
According to USA Today, among the 50 largest cities, the 5 highest homicide rates in 2017 were in:
Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000)
New Orleans (40.4)
Detroit (39.7)
Memphis (30.6)
Chicago (24.0)
St. Louis isn’t in the top 50 anymore in population, but its homicide rate would have been first (205 homicides with a population of 308,626, or 66 per 100,000).
re: #133 wheat-dogg
Supposedly, Omarosa has tapes of some of these weird conversations. I don’t understand why she thinks she has any credibility after her “y’all gonna bow down” comments but oh well.
Died of an apparent opiod overdose.
Dennis Shields, the man to whom Michael Cohen texted “You better get out ASAP” when Trump Tower caught on fire in April, is now dead. https://t.co/LWpxtQ8bOn
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 10, 2018
re: #131 HappyWarrior
Yep. TBH I wish she wouldn’t call herself one because I’m tired of the socialist vs capitalist bs. We’re all both.
She was on Pod Save America last week, Lovett interviewed her. She had a good answer to the question of why she calls herself a “Democratic Socialist.” Her answer below:
cont.@jonlovett: “What is the value of being a Democratic Socialist vs. being a Democrat for you?”@Ocasio2018: “To be completely honest, I don’t know what it means to just be a Democrat… while I’m happy to call myself a Democrat, I also want to be more than that.” pic.twitter.com/7f5YuXfcPs
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) August 8, 2018
The whole interview is well worth a listen. She’s smart and can talk about issues in a real and personal way. Not sure how much I agree with her on stuff, but I think there’s a lot more to like than to hate, and I say that as a mostly center-left libertarian.
Man, even when I try my hardest to get in a fight with my customers, and they come back with their spouse to get some more yelling in, they end up giving me money before they leave. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
re: #135 Patricia Kayden
Supposedly, Omarosa has tapes of some of these weird conversations. I don’t understand why she thinks she has any credibility after her “y’all gonna bow down” comments but oh well.
I’ll believe her when I hear the tapes.
re: #133 wheat-dogg
Then again, there’s this
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re: #138 wrenchwench
Man, even when I try my hardest to get in a fight with my customers, and they come back with their spouse to get some more yelling in, they end up giving me money before they leave. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
That sounds like a good problem to have.
re: #134 Brian J.
According to USA Today, among the 50 largest cities, the 5 highest homicide rates in 2017 were in:
And the lowest homicide rate is in a city and state with tight gun control and lots of Hispanics, San Diego (2.2).
re: #127 Big Beautiful Door
She is one future congresswoman from a very liberal district. She is getting an inordinate amount of attention because of the word “socialist.”
In the meantime, I’m one city councilmember in an extremely conservative town, and getting no attention because of the word “socialist.”
Media Bias!!!one!!!2!!!
re: #134 Brian J.
According to USA Today, among the 50 largest cities, the 5 highest homicide rates in 2017 were in:
Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000)
New Orleans (40.4)
Detroit (39.7)
Memphis (30.6)
Chicago (24.0)St. Louis isn’t in the top 50 anymore in population, but its homicide rate would have been first (205 homicides with a population of 308,626, or 66 per 100,000).
They just use Chicago because of HRC and Obama’s connection there. It’s pathetic.
re: #138 wrenchwench
Man, even when I try my hardest to get in a fight with my customers, and they come back with their spouse to get some more yelling in, they end up giving me money before they leave. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
You’re just too loveable, Ms. Wench.
re: #137 KGxvi
She was on Pod Save America last week, Lovett interviewed her. She had a good answer to the question of why she calls herself a “Democratic Socialist.” Her answer below:
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The whole interview is well worth a listen. She’s smart and can talk about issues in a real and personal way. Not sure how much I agree with her on stuff, but I think there’s a lot more to like than to hate, and I say that as a mostly center-left libertarian.
TBH I like her too. I just think the socialist vs capitalist stuff just distracts imo.
Created with the LGF Meme Machine. https://t.co/yGqhznAIAs via @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/yh3CGZBl1M
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 10, 2018
This is Blaze. She was just given that name after being rescued from a house fire. Has no comment at this time but would like you to notice the Mickey Mouse on her nose. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/jzuiV0WL7l
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) August 10, 2018
For you genealogy and photography fans: a 100-year-old roll of film negatives was printed.
Last year my aunt found a paper-wrapped bundle of negatives in her home in Buffalo, NY, which has been passed down since our relatives built it 100+ years ago. She sent me the package and @PhotoworksSF scanned them.
— Zach Klein (@zachklein) August 8, 2018
re: #150 wheat-dogg
For you genealogy and photography fans: a 100-year-old roll of film negatives was printed.
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That’s awesome. I’m still hoping somewhere there’s photos of my moms paternal grandparents from Slovenia.
BREAKING: California jury finds #Monsanto LIABLE in lawsuit alleging that its weedkiller product caused Dewayne “Lee” Johnson’s lymphoma, awards $250 MILLION in punitive damages on top of compensatory damages pic.twitter.com/GR8NOQ22KY
— Bloomberg Environment (@BloombergEnv) August 10, 2018
Somebody else who should shut the fuck up (and/or be taxed big time)
“Let’s pray for your governor, Gov. Brown. Wouldn’t it be something if she got saved? Amen,” Graham said, the Portland weekly reported. “We pray for Kate Brown. And Lord, I pray that she would come to know your son Jesus Christ as her lord and savior one day…”
“If the church went to the polls and voted, you could turn this state around,” Graham told the crowd at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds. “The enemy out there thinks the church is asleep.”
I missed this one. Ken Ham is planning to build a Tower of Babel on his site with his Creation Museum and Ark Encounter.
To be true to the Old Testament story, if he does this, God should strike Ken Ham and all his builders and followers involved in this by confusing their speech and language so they cannot understand each other, triggering the collapse of Ken Ham’s grift.
That would go a long way to convince me of the veracity of his religious claims… .
re: #153 BeachDem
I bet Governor Brown is a better person and more moral than Trump will ever be. And yet Graham wants us to believe otherwise.
Irony will get you EVERY EFFING TIME.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) August 10, 2018
re: #155 Patricia Kayden
I bet Governor Brown is a better person and more moral than Trump will ever be. And yet Graham wants us to believe otherwise.
I’d also wager big bucks that she’s a better person and more moral than Frankie Graham ever was or will be.
re: #157 BeachDem
I’d also wager big bucks that she’s a better person and more moral than Frankie Graham ever was or will be.
That doesn’t take much work; if the False Prophet is real, Frankie’s probably him.
I’m trying to figure out which one of him or his father is worse.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹
He’s desperate, because visitations to his Ark and Museum are declining. So, what better way to boost revenues than solicit donations for yet another attraction for his Bible Theme Park.
To be authentic, his tower must be built from stone hand-quarried and fit by hand using only ancient technologies. Its height must surpass all other towers now in existence, since the whole point of the ToB story was that humans were trying to build a ladder to heaven, and YHWH was not keen on the idea. Since he has not smote Dubai in a similar fashion, the Burj Khalifa is not tall enough to piss him off.
Then again, Ham is not going for authenticity. His Ark can’t float.
DNC serves WikiLeaks with lawsuit via Twitter https://t.co/dfFpWTJeTq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 10, 2018
re: #83 Belafon
According to Omarosa, she caught Trump actually eating a piece of paper. To put it in conspiracy theory terms, he might have been actually eating evidence.
She also made a fool of herself at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention last year.
Another one I missed:
Sandra Little Brown (D), running for reëlection as Jefferson County Commissioner in Alabama, claimed she had the endorsement of Jesus Christ in a campaign advert.
She lost the primary runoff to Sheila Tyson, 52% to 47%. No Republican is running in the race, so Ms. Tyson should be the next County Commissioner.
One commentator: Just what we need, another foreigner interfering in an American election.
On a fake ballot circulated as a campaign advert, she said she was supported by Jesus Christ and his followers. She defended the advert in a video to al (dot) com.
She said “she’s not afraid to own Jesus anywhere.”
ballotpedia.org
re: #153 BeachDem
Somebody else who should shut the fuck up (and/or be taxed big time)
“Let’s pray for your governor, Gov. Brown. Wouldn’t it be something if she got saved? Amen,” Graham said, the Portland weekly reported. “We pray for Kate Brown. And Lord, I pray that she would come to know your son Jesus Christ as her lord and savior one day…”
“If the church went to the polls and voted, you could turn this state around,” Graham told the crowd at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds. “The enemy out there thinks the church is asleep.”
Someone who has deep skeletons in his Putin loving closet.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹
I missed this one. Ken Ham is planning to build a Tower of Babel on his site with his Creation Museum and Ark Encounter.
Bold move on his part: he is losing money on his ark so now he is doubling down on the grift.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹
I was just listening to the Audible recording of Snow Crash today, the Babel story was among the topics explored in the book.
re: #167 jeffreyw
I was just listening to the Audible recording of Snow Crash today, the Babel story was among the topics explored in the book.
My favorite Stephenson book.
This (thisiscolossal.com) is about a couple who built their own floating island with a hammer and a handsaw, and I want to live there!
If having a hard time keeping track: a Press Secretary, who lies from the podium daily in order to defend a President who lies and makes all sorts of things up, says that an opportunistic former White House staffer who will say anything to get attention & make a dime, is lying.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) August 10, 2018
Ana, always succinct.
It took the @NRA 147 years to amass 5 million members. It took @MomsDemand only 6.
If you think this is anything less than a movement that will span generations, you’re sorely mistaken. #GSU18 pic.twitter.com/8zTanBKVK8— Sgt Snowflake (@OIFvetUSMC02) August 10, 2018
re: #169 Belafon
My favorite Stephenson book.
I read it when it came out, then put it on the shelf. Recently Audible offered the audio book at a big discount so I grabbed it. I forgot how much I enjoyed it, the audio version is fantastic. Very well done.
Democrats, please do not distance yourselves from Nancy Pelosi. She is a wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance. She is trying very hard & has every right to take down the Democrat Party if she has veered too far left!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
President Trump and Republicans in Washington are guilty of moral, political and idea bankruptcy. My purpose is to elect a Democratic Majority with candidates who promote their ideas and their values for the American people while ignoring his trash talk. -NP https://t.co/1LbFhkYPBU
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) August 10, 2018
Hiring: Reporter On TPM’s Investigations Desk https://t.co/ZbL94mnHw8 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 10, 2018
The official Proud Boys Twitter account, the one with the blue checkmark, has been suspended #POYB pic.twitter.com/tQE0hIJg48
— PDX Mike Bivins (@itsmikebivins) August 10, 2018
Josh Dawsey (WaPo) was just on CNN - he heard the Omarosa tapes. He said a lot of the book is backed up.
wow
re: #176 A dark and stormy covfefe
The official Proud Boys Twitter account, the one with the blue checkmark, has been suspended]
Makes one wonder about the system for approving blue checks.
re: #177 Stanley Sea
Josh Dawsey (WaPo) was just on CNN - he heard the Omarosa tapes. He said a lot of the book is backed up.
wow
Whoa.
re: #177 Stanley Sea
Josh Dawsey (WaPo) was just on CNN - he heard the Omarosa tapes. He said a lot of the book is backed up.
wow
I fully believe it. What she said was just too weird to be made up from nothing.
This is the hill Republicans are happy to die on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
re: #178 wrenchwench
Makes one wonder about the system for approving blue checks.
I thought Twitter did some kind of change to their program where “send us an ID” for verification was all that was needed.
re: #181 MsJ
I thought Twitter did some kind of change to their program where “send us an ID” for verification was all that was needed.
I thought Chuck Johnson was going to sue Twitter and fix all of this stuff!
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re: #181 MsJ
I thought Twitter did some kind of change to their program where “send us an ID” for verification was all that was needed.
Any one with an ID gets a check? I thought there was more to it than that.
Looks like they fell like dominoes.
Here is a running list of all Proud Boys-related accounts that have been suspended: @ProudBoysOhio, @Proud_Boys_IL, @ProudBoysVT, @ProudBoysNH @ProudBoysOR, @ProudBoysNeb, @ProudBoys1776, @proudboysgirls @proudboysunite, @ProudboysCanada, @proudboysFOAK and @FOAKUSA.
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) August 10, 2018
re: #180 MsJ
Did I miss something? What did she say?
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹
Very encouraging. Hope they make a difference at the ballot box because we all know that Republicans won’t lift a finger against the NRA.
re: #183 wrenchwench
Any one with an ID gets a check? I thought there was more to it than that.
There was originally some kind of status to having a checkmark which is why everyone was upset in seeing raging assholes get the checkmark after they changed the rules for getting one. Then they got so much shit, they suspended the whole checkmark process. What they are doing now is anyone guess.
re: #184 A dark and stormy covfefe
Looks like they fell like dominoes.
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Finally Twitter is doing some good, especially this weekend.
They will all be back on Monday though. Count on it.
me: i am a human being, earth’s dominant species, and i will not be-
wasp: fuck off
me: ok— Shen the Bird (@Shen_the_Bird) August 9, 2018
re: #185 Skip Intro
Did I miss something? What did she say?
That trump sees an invisible ant farm on his desk. He talks to the ants and once went ballistic when someone touched the corner of his desk where the imaginary ants reside saying they knocked his ants off the desk; went over and picked up an imaginary tank and started talking to his imaginary ants… While yelling at people to not step on the escaping ants on the floor.
Thread:
Nazis: There was no Holocaust
Historians: actually there was
Jack: is this a great website or what?
New Nazis: I heard on twitter there’s no Holocaust— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) August 9, 2018
re: #190 MsJ
That trump sees an invisible ant farm on his desk. He talks to the ants and once went ballistic when someone touched the corner of his desk where the imaginary ants reside saying they knocked his ants off the desk; went over and picked up an imaginary tank and started talking to his imaginary ants… While yelling at people to not step on the escaping ants in the floor.
No, really. What did she say?
A year ago, a swarm of tiki torch-toting racists went to #Charlottesville shouting “Jews will not replace us.”
Heather Heyer was killed by the same people trump described as “very fine people.”
I do NOT accept this version of America, and will NEVER stop fighting to change it. pic.twitter.com/m5neAThNmI— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 10, 2018
re: #192 Skip Intro
No, really. What did she say?
Hand to god. That’s what she said… Unless someone made it up.
this early excerpt from the omarosa book is a lot to take in pic.twitter.com/Yxqj7lvnPG
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2018
Trump doesn’t want you to read this passage from Resistance hero Omarosa. RT TO HELP IMPEACH THE ANT FARMER! https://t.co/X67oVXBiyA
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 10, 2018
re: #194 MsJ
I don’t care if that’s true or not. It’s hilarious.
re: #190 MsJ
That trump sees an invisible ant farm on his desk. He talks to the ants and once went ballistic when someone touched the corner of his desk where the imaginary ants reside saying they knocked his ants off the desk; went over and picked up an imaginary tank and started talking to his imaginary ants… While yelling at people to not step on the escaping ants on the floor.
He talked to a mosquito at one of his rallies.
Alt-right group “The Proud Boys” have been suspended from Twitter along with the account of its founder and former Fox News personality Gavin McInnes https://t.co/AhGj2er4Av
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 10, 2018
Celebrity snowflakes continue to freak out over President-Elect Trump. Next find out what @OMAROSA has to say about it all #Hannity
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 19, 2017
Ethel Pat????
Wow ,, can you believe this Michael Aveneti think’s he can become President ,, he is known to associate with a pornographic actress ,,, Christian patriot’s would never vote for a person like that !!!
— Walter(Owen’s Grandp (@walterowensgrpa) August 10, 2018
Many who complained Alex Jones had been “silenced” a few days ago now trumpet his unverifiable claims of millions of new subscribers…much like when they cry “the media is out to get us!” out of one side of their mouths and brag about Fox News domination of cable out the other.
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) August 10, 2018
That’s our Omarosa. Love her!
(Thank you Kurt Bruce for sending the clip!) - SP https://t.co/cczrGcYWgr— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) January 29, 2017
i so love the wayback machine
.@cnn @donlemon why don’t you let @OMAROSA speak! Why are you stopping her for speaking the truth?
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) March 26, 2016
re: #203 Stanley Sea
Yeah, Dawsey is not a schlupp.
Dog I hope she has ivanka being redic.
I’d there are tapes, that’s a given.
The question is…creepy incestuous redic or dumb as a stump redic?
re: #195 wrenchwench
That’s what I was assuming this morning.
It seems too crazy to be true, BUT… This is Donald J. Trump we’re talking about here.
re: #198 Charles Johnson
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re: #208 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It seems too crazy to be true, BUT… This is Donald J. Trump we’re talking about here.
I only want him found competent enough to spend some time in jail.
re: #208 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It seems too crazy to be true, BUT… This is Donald J. Trump we’re talking about here.
The fact that we are even discussing that it could be true screams volumes.
re: #211 MsJ
If it is true we may not need Mueller. I still want Mueller to present all of his findings. It may back up how bad DT and the GOP are.
re: #213 PhillyPretzel
If it is true we may not need Mueller. I still want Mueller to present all of his findings. It may back up how bad DT and the GOP are.
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. Congress would have to act. Thus far, they’re not and appear to have no desire to.
re: #214 MsJ
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. Congress would have to act. Thus far, they’re not and appear to have no desire to.
It will take more than Congress acting anyway. It will take the voters acting as well.
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹
It will take more than Congress acting anyway. It will take the voters acting as well.
The GOP led congress could get him up out of here before the midterms if they wanted to tho.
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹
It will take more than Congress acting anyway. It will take the voters acting as well.
Not true. Who would start the 25th action? Not voters.
This is a good thread. But I also bring it up because the comments are 90% negative. Why? Because it mentions Jim Acosta by name. Jay Rosen’s other threads with similar content without Acosta’s name do not get this reaction. Clearly the bots are set to “CNN” and “Acosta.”
1/ Here I share some thoughts about what has become a famous phrase. It originates with Marty Baron, editor of the Washington Post, whom I regard as the unofficial leader of the American press, the tribal chieftain. His famous phrase is this: “We’re not at war; we’re at work.”
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 9, 2018
My thread from earlier today about the genius — and limits — of the newsroom mantra, “We’re not at war, we’re at work.” https://t.co/VpRvgZr3CK
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 10, 2018
Smith met Charles Johnson (ex-Breitbart writer) in 2013 and Pax Dickinson - co-founders of alt-right fundraising platform WeSearchr pic.twitter.com/tlNNheJLZt
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) July 11, 2017
Reminder - in his search for Clinton’s emails, Peter Smith was helped by alt-right troll Chuck Johnson - who set up an April 2017 meeting between Dana Rohrabacher and Julian Assange https://t.co/lkpW6U2oA3
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) August 10, 2018
Chuck Johnson also:
- worked 4 @AlanDersh
- worked w/ Peter Thiel (Gawker case)
- worked on Trump transition
- claims he set up Weiner 2 re-ignite FBI invest
- worked 4 Brietbart & is close 2 Bannon
- involved in Macronleaks
- paid Bill Clinton’s abusers to show up at debate https://t.co/MXgKCGkYfF— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) August 11, 2018
can you believe someone just threw this away? on the street!! pic.twitter.com/o4O8mReDhq
— Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) August 10, 2018
re: #220 gocart mozart
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
re: #217 MsJ
Not true. Who would start the 25th action? Not voters.
I was referring to November’s General Election (remove as many of those who won’t act as possible).
re: #97 JordanRules
Wow.
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Repeat after me: there is no such thing as White Entitlement.
gag.
Judge holds Roger Stone associate in contempt for refusing to testify in Russia investigation (Washington Post, more at the link):
A federal judge has found a witness in contempt for refusing to testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell made the ruling Friday after a sealed hearing to discuss Andrew Miller’s refusal to appear before the grand jury. Miller is a former aide to longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone.
Miller’s lawyer Paul Kamenar said after the hearing that Miller was “held in contempt, which we asked him to be in order for us to appeal the judge’s decision to the court of appeals.”
Howell stayed her order while Miller’s legal team appeals her decision.
Miller lost a court battle this month to quash a subpoena after Howell issued a 93-page opinion saying he must testify before the grand jury.
Kamenar said he believes that Miller’s challenge could ultimately rise to the Supreme Court.
re: #223 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Repeat after me: there is no such thing as White Entitlement.
gag.
Jim Wright’s latest, on that topic.
he. is. nutz.
Had a very good phone call with @EmmanuelMacron, President of France. Discussed various subjects, in particular Security and Trade. Many other calls and conversations today. Looking forward to dinner tonight with Tim Cook of Apple. He is investing big dollars in U.S.A.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH. One new and great FACT - African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our Country. So honored by this. Thank you Kanye for your support. It is making a big difference!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
Deal with Mexico is coming along nicely. Autoworkers and farmers must be taken care of or there will be no deal. New President of Mexico has been an absolute gentleman. Canada must wait. Their Tariffs and Trade Barriers are far too high. Will tax cars if we can’t make a deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2018
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹
Judge holds Roger Stone associate in contempt for refusing to testify in Russia investigation (Washington Post, more at the link):
And that’s why the big push to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. They’re angling to use this to get Mueller fired.
re: #205 MsJ
I’d there are tapes, that’s a given.
The question is…creepy incestuous redic or dumb as a stump redic?
BREAKING NOW: An estimated 600 Union steelworkers laid-off & locked-out from their jobs at Special Metals in Huntington, WV. We stand w/ our brothers & sisters from @steelworkers Local 40. #UnionStrong https://t.co/S4JRVCKAB0
— WV Democratic Party (@wvdemocrats) August 10, 2018
Today, Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks the 25th anniversary of her judicial oath on the US Supreme Court https://t.co/KuSulTTxBW pic.twitter.com/59eJMNgTU8
— CNN International (@cnni) August 10, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2018
re: #232 Charles Johnson
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Plot summary: “Higgins goes on vacation with the ‘lads’ to a Greek Isle that is vexed by a cat burglar; he reluctantly calls in Magnum, who is busy convincing elders to sell their equity through ‘reverse mortgages’. Hilarity ensues when the cat ends up as the owner of ‘Robins Nest’ in Hawaii.”
‘Twitter asked that members of its safety team not be identified, for fear of them becoming targeted by internet trolls.’ https://t.co/rHSUDh0gOH
— erin mccann | subscribe to The Times (@mccanner) August 11, 2018
re: #235 Charles Johnson
Who did Nazi that coming?
re: #234 Barefoot Grin
Plot summary: “Higgins goes on vacation with the ‘lads’ to a Greek Isle that is vexed by a cat burglar; he reluctantly calls in Magnum, who is busy convincing elders to sell their equity through ‘reverse mortgages’. Hilarity ensues when the cat ends up as the owner of ‘Robins Nest’ in Hawaii.”
LOL!!! Perfection!
“Dehumanizing speech” is not Twitter’s problem. It’s a symptom of the problem, and focusing on it will not solve anything. The real problem: the bad actors, the con men, the racists, the Nazis. The people.
You can’t fix a problem by cracking down on its symptoms.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2018
re: #237 lawhawk
Who did Nazi that coming?
Who would those “internet trolls” be? Folks on Twitter protesting the continued support of racists, Nazis, people who issue death and rape threats?
Blackkklansman was amazing…but that epilogue broke me I think…#Blackkklansman
— Michael Zapatosczny🌹 (@puckishrogue7) August 11, 2018
Yeah the ending will leave you speechless. RIP Heather Hyer. https://t.co/vZnEIlym7I
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) August 11, 2018
what a stunning tribute to Heather Heyer releasing blackkklansman on this Anniversary weekend
— Delta In Stilettos (@deltalady) August 11, 2018
And by “the people” I mean the people who are the real problem. The Nazis. The racists. The trolls and stalkers.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2018
re: #242 Charles Johnson
For about an hour, the group tried to get a handle on what constituted dehumanizing speech. At one point, Mr. Dorsey wondered if there was a technology solution.
“What’s dehumanizing?”
“Let’s ask a robot.”
re: #245 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Bitch… please….
re: #244 jaunte
“What’s dehumanizing?”
“Let’s ask a robot.”
This sounds like the ultimate meeting from hell.
Arkansas cop fired after video appeared to show him telling group of black men ‘you don’t belong in my city’ https://t.co/WAFB6q0twb
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 11, 2018
And this is why NFL players kneel to protest discrimination and police brutality.
Trump knows and doesn’t care. He’d rather berate black players because he wants them in their right subservient place. He’s a white nationalist. https://t.co/zqz1bMc18B— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 11, 2018
Dolphins WR @KSTiLLS after the game: “If you continue to misinterpret what we’re doing, reach out to me. Look at my website. Look at my twitter. Look at all my social media platforms. And I think you’ll get a better idea of why we are doing what we are doing.”
— NBC 6 Sports (@NBC6Sports) August 10, 2018
*whispers* they don’t wanna get it right. they’re not missing the point by accident. https://t.co/ZHybNoOddZ
— El Flaco (@bomani_jones) August 10, 2018
Lezley McSpadden (mother of Michael Brown) announced she’s running for city council in Ferguson, Missouri.
Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, officially announced her campaign for Ferguson City Council just a day after the four-year anniversary of her son’s death.
Amid chants of “Run, Lezley, run,” McSpadden revealed she’d be running in 2019.
“Three of my major things that I will focus on when I’m elected, because I’m speaking it into existence, is community policing, economic equality and access to health care for all of Ferguson’s young children and everyday people,” McSpadden said.
More at Huffington Post
Trump is using the US government as his piggy bank, to enrich himself and to settle old scores. pic.twitter.com/IrDjDNdeSs
— Smith (@WriteSmitty) August 11, 2018
re: #245 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Only a tiny fraction of the nearly four million files federal agents seized when they raided Mr. Cohen’s office, apartment and hotel room were protected by attorney-client privilege.”https://t.co/tgbrHTU2Cl
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) August 11, 2018
Damn, from a distance this did NOT look like a broom pic.twitter.com/P5KdflnpZp
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) August 11, 2018
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Anything in an attorney’s office is covered by attorney-client privilege! This is no different than the Gestapo!!!”
Would you have included the judges who rejected the text allowing slavery? I’ll take a non-response as yes. https://t.co/cOjcmbbZs8
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 11, 2018
And Robyn Pennacchia has the definitive post about Bennie and the Debate.
The other day, noted creepy dude Ben Shapiro offered a woman who is 1000% out of his league a whole lot of money to spend the night with him. To spend the night “debating” him, that is…he offered a $10,000 donation to her campaign to debate him. Which, aside from not being nearly enough money to have to listen to Ben Shapiro’s voice for an hour, would actually be very illegal…
Ben Shapiro is an awful human being that no woman in her right mind would want to stand in line next to at the DMV, never mind “debate.” Also debating stupid ideas puts those ideas on par with not-stupid ideas…
If you are a man who is sitting around, feeling frustrated, wondering why women won’t take time out of their lives to “debate” you, you should perhaps consider that you are an unpleasant person with stupid ideas that no one wants to talk to or be around.
DEBATE OVER.
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
Not that I don’t admire her, and she has great accomplishments as Speaker, but I wonder if it might not be time for new blood in leadership. With Trump as President, they won’t be able to accomplish much legislatively for the next two years anyway.
Don’t listen to media/trump/republican/russian persuasion. This is EXACTLY what they want you to think and say.
People said the same about Hillary Clinton. Went from 100% sure thing to losing the election to a moron.
Woot!
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re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
he. is. nutz.
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I still cannot believe my eyes - this president* run the USA via twitter. No wonder the latter won’t ban him and his abusive supporters
re: #257 BeachDem
And regarding the insult that a “bartender from Queens” doesn’t want to debate a Harvard Law grad:
Maybe the Harvard Law grad should roll up his sleeves and engage in public service instead of strictly using his amazing educational background to snipe from the sideline.
re: #257 BeachDem
In the end he thought himself the master debater.
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