Watch Live: Kavanaugh Confirmation Circus
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We’re in for the next fight of our lives.
I hate the GOP for putting us thru this and being so thoroughly corrupt.
Levi Strauss CEO: Why business leaders need to take a stand on gun violence https://t.co/utoTJF50Dz
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) September 4, 2018
.@LEVIS is:
1) Creating $1M fund to fuel nonprofit and activist work to end gun violence;
2) Partnering with @Everytown and other leading companies to form Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety;
3) Encouraging employees through PTO to volunteer for gun safety organizations. https://t.co/mKnE5mw5wg— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 4, 2018
Responding to newbie GOP senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, who asked for some rule clarifications, Grassley says, among other stuff, that hearings will extend into the weekend if necessary. BIG concession.
If that happens, that’s a major win for Democrats. Room for more chaos.— Cristian Farias (@cristianafarias) September 4, 2018
re: #4 HappyWarrior
At least one of them will do it while they’re wearing them.
This guy Kennedy from LA ? Other than Republican, I see him “almost” to R,R of center.
Thoughts?
Talking about the unprecedented use of videos and searchable digital databases is absurd, in 2018. Cuz one dude was complaining about something he read in a tweet.
They need to hold things up until those hidden pages are produced. I cannot see how “executive privilege” can extend to both the SCOTUS and the Senate at once
All true, which is why all this shadowre his record is even more egregious. We literally can’t stop them, so the skulduggery is trash.
And just b/c the criminal shows up at my door doesn’t mean I have to open it and offer him/her tea. I’m gonna hold the door as long as I can.— Michelle Hylton (@chelliehylton) September 4, 2018
Unpaid and abused: Moderators speak out against Reddit (Engadget)
Somewhere out there, a man wants to rape Emily. She knows this because he was painfully clear in typing out his threat. In fact, he’s just one of a group of people who wish her harm.
For the past four years, Emily has volunteered to moderate the content on several sizable subreddits — large online discussion forums — including r/news, with 16.3 million subscribers, and r/london, with 114,000 subscribers. But Reddit users don’t like to be moderated.In a joint investigation, Engadget and Point spoke to 10 Reddit moderators, and all of them complained that Reddit is systematically failing to tackle the abuse they suffer. Keeping the front page of the internet clean has become a thankless and abusive task, and yet Reddit’s administration has repeatedly neglected to respond to moderators who report offenses.
I have a bad feeling the corrupt Republican Party is going to succeed in their darkest wish - stacking the Supreme Court with right wing puppets for a generation.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #6 Dave In Austin
This guy Kennedy from LA ? Other than Republican, I see him “almost” to R,R of center.
Thoughts?
He was the one that called out the one woefully unqualified judicial pick.
This is why every election matters. If we had a majority in the Senate, a block would be possible.
Interesting point from Daily Kos: “Grassley resisting the vote because Democrats have the majority right now—Republicans Graham and Crapo aren’t there.”
Best moment so far is Thom Tillis going after the Dems for coordinating their disruption effort this morning…. Because it must have been shocking to discover that they had a pre-determined strategy.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 4, 2018
CLIP: @SenJudiciary #Kavanaugh hearing begins with protests from the public and @SenateDems.
Sen. @ChuckGrassley: “You are taking advantage of my decency and integrity.”#SCOTUS #KavanaughConfirmation pic.twitter.com/BFkyGc8B4X— CSPAN (@cspan) September 4, 2018
He had some?
re: #15 GlutenFreeJesus
Trumpers will walk around pantless to own the libtards.
And if they do, they will probably own us.
re: #17 Belafon
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He had some?
Judge Garland would like to talk to you about your alleged integrity Senator Grandstander.
“Mr. Chairman, I would like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed. The committee received just last night - less than 15 hours ago - thousands of documents that we have not had a chance to read or review or analyze. We cannot possibly move forward.” pic.twitter.com/IWSeM6AtNx
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 4, 2018
Here’s what started it all with @SenKamalaHarris ‘s bold demand. #KavanaughHearings https://t.co/T4X7M00CpK
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 4, 2018
I’ll come right out and say it. Kavanaugh will be confirmed as our next SCJOTUS. The only hope we have after this is to win significant majorities in Congress as well as the Presidency in 2020. Then we can appoint younger justices to try and balance things out. This would be the “proper” thing to do.
But I can’t help if part of me wants the 2020 Dem President to consider all Trump has done as null and void due to Russian fuckery, and the unanimous GOP approval and even participation of it.
It can’t be viewed as good news that women’s abortion rights will vanish across vast swaths of the country in a year or two, but it should energize women voters across the country when they realize the Senate just voted to take away one of their constitutional rights. The Democrats polling momentum is growing as its beginning to look 63 days out like the Democratic wave could be a Tsunami.
re: #22 JordanRules
Not even Gary Gnu could read all of those documents in time.
re: #24 Big Beautiful Door
It can’t be viewed as good news that women’s abortion rights will vanish across vast swaths of the country in a year or two, but it should energize women voters across the country when they realize the Senate just voted to take away one of their constitutional rights. The Democrats polling momentum is growing as its beginning to look 63 days out like the Democratic wave could be a Tsunami.
The important thing is maintaining that momentum into 2020. If that energy can be maintained, then it could end up with the GOP being completely blown out of the water, and with any luck, not just at the national level.
So that is what? Up to 10 people taken out by security?
re: #23 GlutenFreeJesus
I’ll come right out and say it. Kavanaugh will be confirmed as our next SCJOTUS. The only hope we have after this is to win significant majorities in Congress as well as the Presidency in 2020. Then we can appoint younger justices to try and balance things out. This would be the “proper” thing to do.
But I can’t help if part of me wants the 2020 Dem President to consider all Trump has done as null and void due to Russian fuckery, and the unanimous GOP approval and even participation of it.
The next Democratic President can’t simply declare everything the government did from 2017-2020 null and void. If the Democrats gain control of Congress and the White House, there are steps they can take to begin the recovery and to prevent white minority rule in the future, even without amending the Constitution.
re: #26 Dr Lizardo
The important thing is maintaining that momentum into 2020. If that energy can be maintained, then it could end up with the GOP being completely blown out of the water, and with any luck, not just at the national level.
There is real hope even in Kentucky, for example, that our extremely unpopular GOP Governor can be defeated next year, and I never thought I’d see another Democratic Governor of Kentucky in my lifetime.
re: #28 Big Beautiful Door
By white minority rule, you mean a period of time where the minority of white people cosign this fuckery, or when white people are the minority? We won’t be there for either version by 2020.
The fix is in.
All of this is a show. Kavanaugh’s answers are irrelevant, unless he completely flops and can’t take the life preserver thrown out by the GOP that is all too willing to enable the throwing of the court to the right wingers for a generation to come.
There isn’t anything Democrats can do. They don’t have the numbers, and the craven trio of Murkowski, Collins, and Flake all talk like they’re open to blocking him, but when push comes to shove, they’ll fall in line and rubber stamp this horrendous pick even though the GOP has moved ahead without so much as reviewing all of the documents that they’ve requested from the National Archives.
That completely blows the entire concept of Advise and Consent out the window (as if blocking Merrick Garland from ever getting a hearing didn’t already prove the craven GOP intent to destroy comity and the process of nominations to the Supreme Court).
And this is on McConnell who gamed the system to pack the courts with the right wing extremists who are intent on rolling back civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, and worker protections and environmental protections.
The GOP has been building up to this moment where they can go after the federal government’s core functionality - and for what - to gut the government’s ability to function so millionaires can get bigger tax breaks all while polluting the environment, screwing workers, and depriving minorities of their hard-won rights.
GOP delenda est.
re: #30 Bass Reeves
By white minority rule, you mean a period of time where the minority of white people cosign this fuckery, or when white people are the minority? We won’t be there for either version by 2020.
I mean what happened in 2016 when a white nationalist party took control of the federal government with less than 50% of the vote.
In the rush to show that they’re doing something against school shootings, this town ended up skipping over the bit of actually checking to make sure who these armed guards actually are.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
re: #23 GlutenFreeJesus
I’ll come right out and say it. Kavanaugh will be confirmed as our next SCJOTUS. The only hope we have after this is to win significant majorities in Congress as well as the Presidency in 2020. Then we can appoint younger justices to try and balance things out. This would be the “proper” thing to do.
Here is where I worry about our short memories and penchant for re-writing near history though.
re: #28 Big Beautiful Door
Well. Protocol has been pretty much thrown out of the window by now. I totally agree with you, and I am just wishful thinking.
Liberals: Our #BoycottInNOut campaign is the most pointless boycott ever.
Conservatives: Hold my beer while I burn my shoes….#NikeBoycott— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 4, 2018
I dare you to point out any of those places on a map.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 4, 2018
re: #32 Big Beautiful Door
I mean what happened in 2016 when a white nationalist party took control of the federal government with less than 50% of the vote.
You mean when the majority of white voters in the country voted for a white nationalist? Trump got less votes, but demographically, he still got the white vote. The never Trumpers still count as Republican voters, so while there are less of them overall *they still have the majority of white voters*.
Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2018
It is 100% outside his comprehension why this is badhttps://t.co/Bfa2yPkF2w
— LiterallySlanderHat (@Popehat) September 3, 2018
A.G. Lynch made law enforcement decisions for political purposes…gave Hillary Clinton a free pass and protection. Totally illegal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2017
He knew this was illegal last year…https://t.co/5nKyKYkvIE
— Spinoza (@azon1ps) September 3, 2018
re: #38 Bass Reeves
You mean when the majority of white voters in the country voted for a white nationalist? Trump got less votes, but demographically, he still got the white vote. The never Trumpers still count as Republican voters, so while there are less of them overall *they still have the majority of white voters*.
I know that, but they represent a minority of the total electorate. That’s what I mean by minority rule.
26 years after the “Cosby Show” is off the air, actor Geoffrey Owens responds to job shaming and backlash after a photo of him working at a grocery store was posted online: https://t.co/0wZJnpowI9 pic.twitter.com/z7Xun7CyVw
— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 4, 2018
I’m confused - does this mean EVERY accused criminal now gets to choose the judge who’ll preside over his trial?
— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) September 4, 2018
re: #43 JordanRules
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People suck. If I lived near his work I’d be visiting often and thanking him.
Honestly, even the line being about all his papers not being released is infuriating to me. We jumped over a few other really important lines.
This illegitimate President, under investigation with treasonous implications in play should not be allowed to even consider appointing a damn Supreme Court Justice. This is completely nuts.
re: #47 JordanRules
Honestly, even the line being about all his papers not being released is infuriating to me. We jumped over a few other really important lines.
This illegitimate President, under investigation with treasonous implications in play should not be allowed to even consider appointing a damn Supreme Court Justice. This is completely nuts.
Yep, the GOP in charge of the Senate should be refusing to even consider him. Right now, though, the Democrats are using whatever tools they have.
re: #45 Dave In Austin
The Hon. Sen. Senile Hatch(T)…
Has @OrrinHatch LOST ALL COGNITIVE ABILITY or just ANY REMAINING SENSE OF DECENCY?
That lying bastard POS just said this #ShamHearing where 70-90% of #Kavanaugh’s papers are being blocked from release the most EXHAUSTIVE process he’s seen for a SCOTUS confirmation!— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) September 4, 2018
Stupid fucking privileged gaslighting bastards.
re: #49 JordanRules
Stupid fucking privileged gaslighting bastards.
He meant to say “for a white male conservative SCOTUS nominee.”
re: #48 Belafon
Yep, the GOP in charge of the Senate should be refusing to even consider him. Right now, though, the Democrats are using whatever tools they have.
No doubt! My #9 comment is how I’m positioning myself today and why I’m still calling Flake.
But I am unbelievably angry and trying to kick normalizations ass too. I’ve seen way too much re-writing history over the last 2 weeks.
The latter. Republican leaders have realized that reality is irrelevant to Republican voters. They’re right-wing authoritarians who will believe whatever their lying leaders tell them to believe.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
JFC…..
NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
re: #51 JordanRules
Yep, it would be nice if Jeff ‘Look at me talk about how Trump is destroying America’ Flake or some of the others would actually do something about it.
This madman should have been removed from office long ago. Notice that he never criticizes the propaganda shows on Fox because they lie to support him. He’ll only criticize Fox if they report actual news.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
SenGrassley actually quoted favorably #AndrewJackson the President responsible for forced removal of Native people that resulted in the death of thousands. #TrailofTears #BrettKavanaugh
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) September 4, 2018
Cool, cool, cool.
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re: #53 Dave In Austin
JFC…..
Yeah, lets take away some fictional license for news orgs that don’t report all of the news, starting with Fox.
Read the Woodward book twice. Explosive reporting. Vivid scenes in every chapter. Includes documents, dates, details. Top Trump advisers took papers off of the president’s desk to stop him from making decisions. Mattis ignored his order to kill Assad.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 4, 2018
God help us. - Me, an Agnostic
re: #58 Belafon
What was the quote?
Nobody transcribed it yet and I walked away from the tele.
Grassley now quoting Andrew Jackson.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) September 4, 2018
Grassley has now quoted Andrew Jackson and Antonin Scalia, so everything is still going well at the #BrettKavanaugh hearing.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) September 4, 2018
re: #60 JordanRules
Nobody transcribed it yet and I walked away from the tele.
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Wonder when he will quote the Nixon “I am not a crook” line
re: #59 JordanRules
Sweet Jesus. Today seems, even more than most days under this maladministration, like the goddamned world is on fire, and I can’t stop crying.
This weekend I’m going to a 3 day festival with my sister, laughing ‘til my face hurts, and letting music make me forget how shitty things are, for a little while.
BOB WOODWARD quotes John Kelly in his new book as saying of POTUS: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.” Via @washingtonpost
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) September 4, 2018
President Trump’s closest aides stole papers off his desk to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, Bob Woodward writes in an explosive new book obtained by CNN https://t.co/rVphQunbjz pic.twitter.com/HfYPQtUXmS
— CNN (@CNN) September 4, 2018
the fact that these mother fuckers will destroy their own shit because they want to be racist explains exactly why they voted for trump
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) September 4, 2018
It’s an absolutely amazing metaphor for Trumpism. https://t.co/q3mtTIVbOS
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 4, 2018
This is it right here.
They will burn this country down.
What’s going to happen when Trump finds out they’ve been removing papers?
re: #62 Flying Squirrel Girl
Sweet Jesus. Today seems, even more than most days under this maladministration, like the goddamned world is on fire, and I can’t stop crying.
This weekend I’m going to a 3 day festival with my sister, laughing ‘til my face hurts, and letting music make me forget how shitty things are, for a little while.
I am an inconsolable mess today FSG. I can still fight when I cry. My lady bits have prepared me for that all my life.
I’m happy you have an awesome respite planned this weekend. I am going to figure out something to do myself. I need some big joy!
Oh PSA everyone: Black Panther is on Netflix!!!!!!
Every day is a little more spirit breaking than the next. It’s depressing as hell watching the United States die.
re: #67 JordanRules
Oh PSA everyone: Black Panther is on Netflix!!!!!!
Watching the film, I kept thinking that the world really needs a Wakanda.
i’m not going to waste time following the kabuki hearings
i’d just end up throwing stuff
instead, i’m writing a rant on not legitimizing crackpots like bannon et al by engaging with them
if it’s coherent i’ll post it
meanwhile:
the republicans own:
watergate
iran-contra
russiagate et al
the dems:
pres clinton (fwiw)
re: #70 dangerman
“The Democrats are just better at investigating (oh, wait, that’s not really a good argument is it?).”
And yet he’s still there. Mattis is still there.
The tangerine toddler should be removed from office on 25A grounds, but Trump surrounded himself with loyalists and yes men all of whom put party ahead of country. That includes Mattis and Kelly.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
Shout out to the fighters, the disrupters and amateur fillibusters.
Images of protestors speaking out at the Kavanaugh hearing. Thank them for speaking out & do your part to block his nomination by texting “SCOTUS” to 644-33. pic.twitter.com/hqGlGqflZI
— Simar (@sahluwal) September 4, 2018
The activism of @Mysonne is not appreciated enough. He always shows up stands up for the people. Today, he got arrested at the Kavanaugh hearing. #BlockBrett pic.twitter.com/zD8qA9l5PR
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) September 4, 2018
“I don’t think the committee should have to put up with this insolence,” says Hatch, as protesters make noise. Then he reassures #BrettKavanaugh, “We’re going to confirm you.”
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) September 4, 2018
Protesters dress in Handmaid’s Tale outfits outside Kavanaugh hearing https://t.co/2gTWu0VXfT pic.twitter.com/UqbqgA0T9P
— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2018
Capitol cops taking Kavanaugh protesters out the side way - avoiding the network cams staking out the hearing - in plastic cuffs pic.twitter.com/K940yS09lY
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) September 4, 2018
re: #71 Belafon
“The Democrats are just better at investigating (oh, wait, that’s not really a good argument is it?).”
nope. let em try that
re: #70 dangerman
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watergate
iran-contra
russiagate et althe dems:
pres clinton (fwiw)
Nice rebuttal to fools who insist that both parties are just the same…
We have to assume there’s something in those documents that would cause him to lose votes.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 4, 2018
re: #29 Big Beautiful Door
There is real hope even in Kentucky, for example, that our extremely unpopular GOP Governor can be defeated next year, and I never thought I’d see another Democratic Governor of Kentucky in my lifetime.
There have been only three Republican governors in Kentucky during my 66 years on this third rock from the sun: Louie Nunn (1967-71), Ernie Fletcher (2003-07), and the current asshat Matt Bevin.
I see no reason to believe that Democrats will have a difficult time getting the office again.
re: #65 JordanRules
the fact that these mother fuckers will destroy their own shit because they want to be racist explains exactly why they voted for trump
And it’s up to the rest of us to tell them, “We’re not going to let you burn down the country. Now sit down and shut the fuck up and if you don’t like it, we really don’t fucking care.”
WMAQ: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unexpectedly announces that he will not be running for re-election
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) September 4, 2018
Good. I hope Chicago can do much better!
CNN has also obtained a copy of the book. In it, Woodward writes that during a conversation with Sen. Lindsey Graham, Trump called President Barack Obama a “weak dick” for not acting in Syria. https://t.co/rl7ZBVFkcH
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 4, 2018
REMINDER: @realDonaldTrump’s most consistent m.o. is PROJECTION. #TheWeakestDick https://t.co/dkkvsrcqQO
— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) September 4, 2018
Clear-eyed perspective from eastern Europe.
This pretty much distills the Trump moment: ignorance, panic, irresponsibility & zero accountability. Genuine service to your country demands openly saying this man is not fit for office. There is no working “within” this system. There is no system. https://t.co/4poDNXh9Ua pic.twitter.com/CxaCzKO2pO
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) September 4, 2018
Dowd told Trump: “Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit.”
Trump: “I’ll be a real good witness,”
Dowd: “You are not a good witness. Mr. President, I’m afraid I just can’t help you.”
The next morning, Dowd resigned.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 4, 2018
So, the first thing I did this morning was get a cup of coffee and walked into my office and sat down. And then spilled the coffee, hitting one of two laptops. Of course, half of the keyboard stopped working altogether.
I ran out to Staples and bought a new multi-device keyboard, and now it’s set up to use on my work machine, my internet machine (this one), and my phone. Pretty neat. Less clutter on the desk, for the next time I spill coffee all over everything.
Quite a journalism career this Woodward fella has put together.
It can be done at any age!
re: #83 makeitstop
So, the first thing I did this morning was get a cup of coffee and walked into my office and sat down. And then spilled the coffee, hitting one of two laptops. Of course, half of the keyboard stopped working altogether.
I ran out to Staples and bought a new multi-device keyboard, and now it’s set up to use on my work machine, my internet machine (this one), and my phone. Pretty neat. Less clutter on the desk, for the next time I spill coffee all over everything.
What brand did you get? I’ve been thinking about getting one of those.
re: #82 JordanRules
I would pay to watch Trump in front of someone who cannot be sold on his bs.
The Bob Woodward book pic.twitter.com/jDFt0QM5sl
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) September 4, 2018
re: #85 JordanRules
What brand did you get? I’ve been thinking about getting one of those.
It’s a Logitech K480. Nice and compact, and I’m not having any problems finding things like I usually do with small keyboards.
Only 25 bucks, too! Cool little gadget.
Is it worthwhile calling Senators who are not from your state to object to the Kavanaugh nomination?
re: #76 JordanRules
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Loose votes from Republicans? Is that some kind of a joke? There is nothing he could have done that would cause that. They’re about to take over the government for good, their dream for decades.
Ended up selling my ‘96 Civic hatchback over the weekend for my asking price of $3,000. The worst part was the discovery of the head gasket being blown as the car started overheating out of nowhere. As the reservoir tank was over flowing with coolant after an hour of driving, my worst suspicions emerged and were unfortunately confirmed once I used an engine block tester and the test fluid turned yellow. Instead of failing to disclose it to anyone buying it, I ended up having the head gasket replaced for a good price and made sure not only the head gasket was replaced, but also the head was machined with the intake/exhaust manifold gaskets, throttle body gaskets, thermostat, and the 10 head bolts all replaced with OEM parts to ensure it runs well for a long time. Does it suck that such a problem happens at the worst possible time? Yeah it does, but rather be ethical and honest than being discreet and hoping that the buyer doesn’t discover it until after purchase. Important for those who were inquiring about it from way out of town, as the buyer who snagged it drove it back to Odessa from DFW without any issues.
As they say, shit happens, but what goes around comes around, I say.
re: #72 lawhawk
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Honest to dog, how many fucking books do we need saying the thing in the White House is a total moron and they all hate working for him and yet they continue to do his bidding.
And there was Maggie on CNN this morning, talking about the very important issue of the fat fuck leaving the White House and then turning around and going back in.
The Ds are doing what they can to make Kavanaugh an issue in the midterms. Not a bad job of it, either.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 4, 2018
The United States of Zimbabwe is picking a judge. Rather quaint and amusing if it wasn’t so sad.
More seriously I’m reminded of Shirer’s utterly inspiring The Collapse of the Third Republic which explains in great details how 1930s France “fostered” its collapse and takeover by the Nazis. I think you’re at that point.
Trump’s lawyers went to Mueller’s office and re-enacted the mock interview. Their goal: to argue that Trump couldn’t possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth.
“He just made something up. That’s his nature,” Dowd said to Mueller.https://t.co/HYPynLXt5o— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) September 4, 2018
What?!?!?!?
re: #95 JordanRules
What?!?!?!?
I am saving that and using it for every time Trump makes a statement. It ought to be the reply of every non-Trump person in his comments.
re: #95 JordanRules
Trump’s lawyers went to Mueller’s office and re-enacted the mock interview. Their goal: to argue that Trump couldn’t possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth.
What?!?!?!?
we cant let the president testify about factual things because he is a liar and lives in a fantasy land.
we are perfectly comfortable with him sitting in the oval.
re: #79 JordanRules
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Good. I hope Chicago can do much better!
Is there a Daley who’s available? //
re: #95 JordanRules
Trump: Woodward’s lying.
Everyone: That’s exactly what the book said you’d say.
re: #98 electrotek
This is how the head looked after it was picked up from the machine shop, so I was not fucking around here lol
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You could eat dinner off that, if it didn’t have so many holes.
re: #102 wrenchwench
You could eat dinner off that, if it didn’t have so many holes.
haha true
Most Craigslist sellers would have simply replaced the head gasket and not bother to machine the head.
Or at worst case, apply that head gasket sealant into the engine and make the head and block worse off than before.
At least the block wasn’t warped so I dodged a bullet here.
The Washington Post just released the transcript and 11-minute audio recording of Trump’s conversation last month with Bob Woodward. https://t.co/Pz1wnEFwN8
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 4, 2018
Exclusive: The president called Bob Woodward in early August after the manuscript of his book had been completed.
This is the audio and transcript of that call. https://t.co/jkuxgDTn9i— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 4, 2018
One of the Kindle First Reads book for September is The Ragged Edge of Night, a historical fiction based on a real story. It’s set in WWII Germany and I’ve got lots of books of that genre, so was going to try something else until I read the lone one-star review:
Beware of the politics
By Angela on September 4, 2018
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I appreciated the story of this book, even more so because it is based on a true story. The writing did drag on in several areas, leading me to skim through paragraphs at times. I love WW2 stories, so much that it is rare that I find a book that I don’t like, regardless of the writing quality. I love the stories of how individuals kept hope I’m even the most dire situations, rising up to fight against an obvious evil.With that being said, I don’t read these to have politics thrown at me out of nowhere. Discuss the white supremacists that have shown up in the news more recently, absolutely. But the references to Trump seemed baseless and lacked credibility and any reference to the actual story. Nazis took took their guns…is Trump trying to? They killed off the disabled…had he done that? I mean, all of the things even mentioned in this book as a precursor to the nazi rise in power isn’t relevant to a particular political party. For a book based on a real story, and the author’s notes at the end based on reality, it seems out of place to then interject political opinions out of nowhere.
It would be different if I had purposely chosen a political book to read. I doubt I’ll read another book by this author. Really disappointing.
An obvious Trumpster was offended enough to trash the author, so I figger the book must be worthwhile.
re: #98 electrotek
This is how the head looked after it was picked up from the machine shop, so I was not fucking around here lol
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We’re hoping to stretch out our old Buick for as long as we’ll have any use for it. It had what we used to call a “minor rebuild” like that after a similar incident ~30,000 miles ago. It’s at 175K now, and 200 grand is pretty common these days. We put maybe 1,000 miles a year on it, and we won’t be needing it any 25 more years, so…fingers crossed.
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
When people not mentioning Trump make you think they’re talking about Trump, maybe it’s you and Trump that need to be looked at.
Others are quoting more salacious bits, but don’t miss this from Woodward’s book:
“One month into his presidency, Trump asked…for a plan for a preemptive military strike on North Korea”
One. Month.
I have no doubt Trump *wants* to use nuclear weapons.https://t.co/fQrwRCgviL— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) September 4, 2018
re: #95 JordanRules
Trump’s lawyers went to Mueller’s office and re-enacted the mock interview. Their goal: to argue that Trump couldn’t possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth.
he cannot open his mouth on record without either contradicting himself or other sworn testimony
re: #104 JordanRules
The Washington Post just released the transcript and 11-minute audio recording of Trump’s conversation last month with Bob Woodward
‘no one told me you called. i never got a message’
1. bob’s lying
2. your staff is incompetent
3. you’re lying
i go with 2 and 3
Life is good pic.twitter.com/swsQKCP0yK
— Dogs Vid (@dogsvid) September 4, 2018
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
he cannot open his mouth on record without either contradicting himself or other sworn testimony
yes, his lawyers argued this.
about the man who is currently The President of The United States
re: #115 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“This media may contain sensitive material” WTF?
It’s just the algorithm being goofy. Happens to me on all kinds of random tweets.
A striking detail from the last Supreme Court battle: the Judicial Crisis Network received a donation of $28.475 million from a single anonymous donor that fueled its campaign to confirm Neil Gorsuch.https://t.co/akHQkyGSy3
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 4, 2018
uh…
Big news in Arizona —> former senator Jon Kyl (who has been Kavanaugh’s sherpa) is returning to the Senate to fill McCain’s vacancy https://t.co/trQ6XdVEWN
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 4, 2018
Not sure whether to channel @JoyAnnReid - “And scene!” - or @theferocity - “stares directly at camera.” This is not good. https://t.co/8hC3ggXZol
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 4, 2018
BREAKING: Jon Kyl will replace late Senator John McCain . https://t.co/cjCyMJxEj9
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) September 4, 2018
„Yesterday #Chemitz , today #Peiting“: The protesters in the small Bavarian town chant „Nazis out“ and showcase the hashtag #wirdsindmehr („We are more“) to protest the #AfD event ahead of the state election. pic.twitter.com/vm4KaXof0B
— Maximiliane Koschyk (@MaxKoschyk) September 4, 2018
Thank dog WaPo has closed captions, so I don’t have to hear Ted Cruz actually pontificate. Even creepy Kavanaugh has that “Damn, I wish he’d shut up already” look.
Trump broke through the rails and Republican car is joy-riding w/abandon past norms, ethics or any modicum of integrity in this SCOTUS process. Now the man hired to guide Judge #Kavanaugh through his confirmation preparation will be able to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation. https://t.co/FQkeXYs5Kg
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 4, 2018
FLASHBACK: Sen. Jon Kyl to Debbie Stabenow: “I don’t need maternity benefits.”
Stabenow: “Your mom probably did.”https://t.co/CmYRwVU9z5— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 23, 2017
Key Jon Kyl moment from the Affordable Care Act debate in committee: https://t.co/0NVHyIl2mY
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 4, 2018
Did they drop that MOAB just to get him off their backs on this?
— Evan VanDyk (@EVanDyk) September 4, 2018
Cruz says that a Supreme Court vacancy was “directly on the ballot” in 2016. (He had a different ballot than I had.)
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 4, 2018
Jon Kyl has been an active lobbyist since 2015. His client roster includes the usual suspects — pharmaceutical interests, universities and higher ed, defense contractors, trade groups, etc. pic.twitter.com/QQsm08cxzo
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) September 4, 2018
Gee, Tailgunner Ted Cruz. How did it happen that a SC seat was open during the 2016 election?
Also, congrats on sucking up to the guy who attacked your wife again.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 4, 2018
As you watch Ted Cruz, remember he was the LESS INSANE alternative to Donald Trump during the primaries. Less insane. Than the current president.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 4, 2018
Busy morning, so I haven’t read any of this thread yet.
I was just driving through downtown Columbus and was surprised to see a good 50 or more protesters out on the sidewalk in front of Rob Portman’s office building. They had signs, but the traffic was moving and I couldn’t see what they said.
It was just good to see, as before Trump, it was rare to see protesters outside that particular federal office building.
Now it is common to see a few every day. Today was way more than usual. I couldn’t tell how many actually, because some of them were standing in the alley that runs between the buildings. Just a good turnout.
All ages too.
Now to the bank and the store. Got a decent payment today.
Well time to find out what other brands are owned part owned by Levi or parent company and just not bother spending any money with any of them altogether. If millions and millions stop buying the company can maybe go back to selling clothing
— That one guy (@EricFigueiras) September 4, 2018
You’re obviously already boycotting Google (they have a partnership Levi’s,) so I’ll google that for you:
Levi’s
Dockers
Levi Strauss & Co
Denizen
Signature by Levi Strauss
Levi’s also owns the naming rights for the San Francisco 49ers stadium, so you’ll get to boycott them too. pic.twitter.com/Qs3xfKjjxN— Blue is your color, vote Dem! (@rustystubbs) September 4, 2018
Pretty interesting that @tedcruz is claiming that Brett Kavanaugh is “ultra-legitimate” because “the American people want” him. Especially since only 37% of Americans—and only 28% of women—want to see him confirmed. #StopKavanaugh https://t.co/FubjBoERsi
— NARAL (@NARAL) September 4, 2018
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) September 4, 2018
I think maniacs like Cruz thinks that “The American people” means the far-right extremists who want to enslave pregnant women. They don’t understand that there are decent Americans out there, who do not support their theocratic agenda.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
Ted Cruz just dead-ass said Democrats must respect this process because “elections have consequences.”
BARACK OBAMA WAS ELECTED.
He appointed Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
Ted Cruz and other Republicans then IGNORED THE ELECTION and DENIED Obama his pick.— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) September 4, 2018
Cruz knows that the suckers who vote for Republicans won’t remember that, or won’t care because they expect Republican politicians to be lying hypocrites, and approve of it.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
Want precedent for nominating and confirming someone to the Supreme Court in an election year? Want someone who was nominated and confirmed in the lame duck session of the election year?
John Fuckin Marshall. John Marshall who became chief justice of the court and penned some of the most consequential decisions in our history.
re: #135 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
To Republican politicians, “the American people” means “my high dollar donors”.
Cruz invokes Little Sisters of the Poor and says Obama was forcing them to pay for abortion -inducing drugs for others.
Folks none of that is true.— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 4, 2018
Jon Kyl is probably the best we were going to get as a replacement for McCain. Looking over his On the Issues page - and granted, most of it is old from when he was in Congress over a decade ago - he seems to be wrong on pretty much everything but free trade, and had a mixed record on immigration. At least it wasn’t a full blown wingnut…
I LAUGHED when my Senator @JohnCornyn said “We have norms for decorum.”I am so GLAD that @AnnTelnaes is watching the hearings.
Turn around, Cornyn. Can you smell the stench of indecency, immorality, rudeness, impropriety, CRIMINALITY lurking behind you? #VoteNoOnKavanaugh pic.twitter.com/iXbWPNK9qv— Elanor Gardner (@Sams1stDaughter) September 4, 2018
Who’s dumb enough to believe Trump enabler sleazy Ted Cruz on anything? He doesn’t even respect his own wife or father enough to take a break from kissing old-man Trump’s ass.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
And to top it all off, Kavanaugh is also a sniveling, petty, cowardly piece of filth:
Just walked up to Judge Kavanaugh as morning session ended. Put out my hand to introduce myself as Jaime Guttenberg’s dad. He pulled his hand back, turned his back to me and walked away. I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 4, 2018
re: #141 sagehen
Boycotting Levi’s would be like boycotting America.
Sounds on brand.
They will wear Kremlin jeans!
Just walked up to Judge Kavanaugh as morning session ended. Put out my hand to introduce myself as Jaime Guttenberg’s dad. He pulled his hand back, turned his back to me and walked away. I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 4, 2018
Fred Gutenberg’s daughter Jamie was murdered February 14th at Parkland. Judge Kavanaugh just refused to shake his hand. https://t.co/j6bCeCuxfy
— Kat Capps (@KatCapps) September 4, 2018
At this point I don’t know why McConnell just doesn’t change the rules and declare Kavanaugh has been approved. He’s been doing that for four years now, inventing rules that say a black president can’t appoint anyone to the courts in his last two years, then saying a new Democratic president wouldn’t be allowed to appoint anyone period. Why stop there?
re: #132 JordanRules
Qanon promoter with 24 followers, 2 likes, but 3,582 Tweets. Bot suspected.
US Consumers burn own shoes to protest Political Dissident’s endorsement.
DPRK Consumers praise endorsement of “Air Juche” shoes by Noted degenerate Scott Baio, purchased for $50USD. pic.twitter.com/eTqfzW2wYg— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) September 4, 2018
re: #142 KGxvi
Jon Kyl is probably the best we were going to get as a replacement for McCain. Looking over his On the Issues page - and granted, most of it is old from when he was in Congress over a decade ago - he seems to be wrong on pretty much everything but free trade, and had a mixed record on immigration. At least it wasn’t a full blown wingnut…
Guy who is currently pushing Kavanaugh through on behalf of Trump is now getting chance to vote him for a lifetime slot on the Court.
The White House is highlighting how many times Democrats have interrupted during the Kavanaugh hearing. pic.twitter.com/obxaLfvuNZ
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 4, 2018
I’m surprised anyone in the WH can count.
— Lis Kovach (@tablegrapes) September 4, 2018
They don’t like it when anyone stands between them and destroying women’s rights.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #145 Interesting Times
What a fucking piece of garbage.
The relevant number with regard to Brett Kavanaugh’s record is NOT the number of pages. It’s the PERCENTAGE of his record that’s available for the American people to see.
Elena Kagan: 99% available to the public.
Brett Kavanaugh: 4% available to the public— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) September 4, 2018
I am so very, very sorry Fred this happened.
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) September 4, 2018
Trump said condemning white supremacists was ‘biggest f—-ing mistake I’ve made’: Woodward book
re: #151 lawhawk
Guy who is currently pushing Kavanaugh through on behalf of Trump is now getting chance to vote him for a lifetime slot on the Court.
It is a problem, and he should probably recuse himself from the vote if he takes office before it happens. Then again, any Republican appointed to fill that seat is likely going to vote for Kavanaugh.
My point was more general: Arizona seems to have a lot of wingnuttiness in the GOP. In the grand scheme of things, Kyl is better than say… Jan Brewer or Joe Arpio.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
Somebody wake up Dianne Feinstein.
We’re back, and @ChuckGrassley is out of Xanax.
He’s opened the PM by
(a) lambasting Ds for stating the conservative justices are outrageously partisan
(b) wading back into the % of record vs. total pages issue.
(c) using the term “fuzzy math” while spouting fuzzy math.— RPBP 🏳️🌈 (@rpbp) September 4, 2018
re: #157 Skip Intro
Trump said condemning white supremacists was ‘biggest f—-ing mistake I’ve made’: Woodward book
That book is going to be lit
re: #161 KGxvi
That book is going to be lit
It’s definitely going to be a book that the media will want to read.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
The White House is tallying interruptions during Kavanaugh’s hearing pic.twitter.com/ppiu0x5yyR
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 4, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland can’t be reached for comment (I should really macro this for common usage). #SCOTUS https://t.co/9dLvNQohED
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
Individual-1 is running a pretty tight ship it seems. pic.twitter.com/tyHZooXqO6
— Censorthis (@censorthis) September 4, 2018
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
They didn’t tell you because they knew if they did you’d want to talk to Woodward and that it would be very bad no good terrible for you if you did.
— Richard Casarez (@richcasa) September 4, 2018
re: #154 Amory Blaine
What a fucking piece of garbage.
It’s times like this when I wish the LGF commenting policies weren’t quite so genteel, because all the things I want to say about KKKavanaugh* right now would jeopardize my account.
*But what about uncontrollable and incurable diarrhea? Can I wish that on him, at least?
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) September 4, 2018
.@amyklobuchar : 42,000 documents were dumped on us last night. We simply can’t review that much material in 12 hours.
GRASSLEY: Well, Republicans had the same amount of time, and we’re not complaining.
KLOBUCHAR: …. Yeah, that’s kinda the point. pic.twitter.com/hBGLRBL5hb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2018
.@BenSasse dismisses concerns that Kavanaugh’s appointment will result in people dying because of his positions on guns, the environment, reproductive rights, and other matters as “drivel” that is “patently absurd.” pic.twitter.com/2SiSPnjDUu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2018
re: #145 Interesting Times
And to top it all off, Kavanaugh is also a sniveling, petty, cowardly piece of filth:
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re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What’s patently absurd is your attempt to sell yourself as being different from Trump, Benny. You’re a rubber stamp and your attitude on this proves it.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #156 Amory Blaine
Fred Guttenberg, left, tries to speak with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. (Photo: Saul Loeb/ AFP/Getty Images) pic.twitter.com/kfdVL2smSC
— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) September 4, 2018
That Woodward transcript is a hot mess. Trump has zero clue what’s going on in his own damn office.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ @SarahKSilverman
Can you talk to my dad? 😕 https://t.co/PDuflnhrjJ— Jennifer Z91.89 ❄️❄️ (@karaokejennjenn) September 3, 2018
Excellent article about @SarahKSilverman engaging a Trump follower and slowly changing their core principles with civil and educational conversation. I guess I’m jaded but I didn’t even know this was possible. Well done, Sarah 👏👏 https://t.co/yISCJDJCZT
— Marc Brownstein (@Marc_Brownstein) September 4, 2018
We’re hearing ‘We’ve received thousands of documents.’ Let’s look a little closer. What we got includes event invitations like this, duplicated MORE THAN 44,000 TIMES. The American people need to see #JudgeKavanaugh’s full record. #WhatAreTheyHiding? pic.twitter.com/qx0LB3MzFj
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) September 4, 2018
Conservatives refuse to tell the truth. It’s the only thing the various Conservative groups have in common, so they bond on that.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
There’s something about Kavanaugh’s smirk that really bugs me.
re: #177 Belafon
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They’re hiding that Kavanaugh’s philosophy is about protecting Republican executives and that is the sole reason why Trump picked him.
re: #176 The Vicious Babushka
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first. kudos
while it is possiblle to target and affect a person. even some people, the polemic I’m writing is about how this is horribly inefficient and in the long run not effective in shrinking the total number of crackpots out there
re: #179 HappyWarrior
There’s something about Kavanaugh’s smirk that really bugs me.
That young woman sitting behind him is pissing me off. She smirks, figets, and occasionally throws a white power sign with her right hand (but I’m sure she’d say it’s a Trump A-OK sign…)
We now see exactly what Jeff Flake’s criticism of Donald Trump is worth: nothing. He’s a phony who talks big, but then supports everything Trump does because it’s cementing the power of the GOP.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #183 Charles Johnson
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Sounds like he lives up to his family name after all.
How disappointing.
re: #183 Charles Johnson
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So many of these so called Never Trumpers are especially on the judiciary.
Ted Cruz just lied by claiming that every Democrat in the Senate voted to “repeal the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment” several years ago. He was grossly misdescribing an amendment cutting back on Citizens United by permitting Congress to regulate money in politics.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 4, 2018
re: #181 dangerman
first. kudos
while it is possiblle to target and affect a person. even some people, the polemic I’m writing is about how this is horribly inefficient and in the long run not effective in shrinking the total number of crackpots out there
We need to deprogram Trumpists faster than wingnut media can brainwash them. One on one won’t do it, but I’m impressed that Sarah of all people, managed to deprogram even one cult member. She used to just make fun of them.
re: #184 electrotek
Sounds like he lives up to his family name after all.
How disappointing.
But honestly not surprising. The differences between the GOO establishment and Trump are on trade and portraying civility.
re: #181 dangerman
first. kudos
while it is possiblle to target and affect a person. even some people, the polemic I’m writing is about how this is horribly inefficient and in the long run not effective in shrinking the total number of crackpots out there
I read that article and when I got to the bottom of it I saw this:
We Need To Start Befriending Neo-Nazis
Then when the author of the above piece started getting angry Tweets for this “brave idea” she tantrummed:
“Ted Cruz just lied” should be set up as a macro to save keystrokes in future reporting.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #186 Single-handed sailor
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Ted Cruz just lied. All you needed to say Professor Tribe. Cruz is an unscrupulous asshole who sucks up to the man who called his father a President killer.
NFL is readying statement on Colin Kaepernick
— Claire Atkinson (@claireatki) September 4, 2018
Wonder what this could be about?
I used to engage wingnuts on Twitter and have a civil conversation. That is no longer possible.
re: #186 Single-handed sailor
“Ted Cruz just lied because money isn’t speech and they were trying to overturn the SCOTUS decision saying it is.”
re: #192 JordanRules
Wonder what this could be about?
Nike spoke the one word they understand: Money.
Richard Blumenthal has way too many teeth.
re: #196 Belafon
Nike spoke the one word they understand: Money.
Nike can succeed without racist dollars. I’m not so sure that’s the case for the NFL.
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This is a much better image
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shake hands with @realDonaldTrump’s Supreme Court nom., Brett Kavanaugh, right, during a lunch break. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @ap pic.twitter.com/smcCGuLT6X
— Andrew Harnik (@andyharnik) September 4, 2018
It’s interesting to think about the juxtaposition of two things going on right now: Nike/Kaepernick and GOP/Trump/Kavanaugh.
Biggest revelation in Woodward book is that Trump balled out Sessions, telling him, “Stop indicting people we need to hold control of the House!” … oh wait, that was a tweet.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 4, 2018
heh
Who is she? What’s up with the white power sign? @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/VUU9QsFdXW
— Keith R. Dumas (@rubin_kd) September 4, 2018
re: #192 JordanRules
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Wonder what this could be about?
Maybe they’ve decided to try and settle the collusion case?
re: #201 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Pretty entertaining photoshop though.
The CIA teaching the twittercerse how to steal mail
By inserting the device into the unsealed gap at the top of an envelope flap, one could then wind the letter around the pincers & extract the letter from within.#OSS#WWII#HISTINT pic.twitter.com/4IwB3nmFbf
— CIA (@CIA) September 4, 2018
This hearing is a joke. The Dems should just walk out. #CancelKavanaugh #BrettBye #StopKavanaugh#SCOTUS
— Hal Perry (@halperry) September 4, 2018
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yes- and she worked in Immigration Policy for the Trump White House
— Jennifer (@jenniferalina3) September 4, 2018
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
Her name is Zina Bash. https://t.co/9NZEcNCgm3
— Portia McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) September 4, 2018
#MerrickGarland, Democrats. Merrick Freaking Garland.#WALKOUT #justdolt #KavanaughConfirmationHearings #CancelKavanaugh #BrettBye #StopKavanaugh #scotus
— Hal Perry (@halperry) September 4, 2018
re: #209 thecommodore
Right now, if Grassley slips up, the Democrats have a majority and could reject the nomination. If they leave, 1) we won’t be hearing the crap the GOP is trying to pull, and 2) what’s to stop Grassley and McConnell from declaring a quorum?
Making this a farce is their best weapon right now. The public doesn’t want Kavanaugh and they don’t even have all of the information.
Big stmt from @SenatorDurbin: “What’s happened in this room, just this morning—what we’ve heard is the noise of democracy. This is what happens in a free country when people can stand up & speak, and not be jailed & imprisoned, tortured or killed b/c of it. It is not mob rule.”
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) September 4, 2018
re: #206 makeitstop
Maybe they’ve decided to try and settle the collusion case?
Given that the arbitrator is letting it go to trial, that would be the smart thing to do. But NFL ownership is made up of a group of 32 old white rich men… you know, fucking cowards. So, I’m guessing it’ll be some sort of drivel about football, apple pie, and the Fourth of July.
Here’s what we’ve learned so far from the #Kavanaugh hearing:
1) There’s nothing elderly white men love more than interrupting women.
2) There’s nothing elderly white men hate more than being interrupted by women.
And we already knew all that.— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) September 4, 2018
re: #212 thecommodore
Too many hashtags is the same as too many bumper stickers.
WH press sec Raj Shah said, “As Judge Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened.”
But this video clearly shows Kavanaugh turning back, listening, then turning away https://t.co/hy46m2SKPf— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 4, 2018
re: #192 JordanRules
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Wonder what this could be about?
Hopefully they’re settling the collusion lawsuit and giving him a job.
This man pledged to hold the Scalia seat open throughout Hillary Clinton’s presidency because of….. substantive points??? https://t.co/WTJ3stCbkJ
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 4, 2018
Blumenthal explaining how those documents that have been disclosed are uploaded and says it is impossible that Grassley’s team reviewed them all.
He just called the Chairman a liar— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 4, 2018
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
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.@SenBlumenthal: You are nominated by a president who has launched an attack on the rule of law. He is an unindicted co-conspirator and has nominated a justice that could cast a deciding vote if he is indicted. #StopKavanaugh pic.twitter.com/Lluib8krld
— NARAL (@NARAL) September 4, 2018
re: #215 KGxvi
Given that the arbitrator is letting it go to trial, that would be the smart thing to do. But NFL ownership is made up of a group of 32 old white rich men… you know, fucking cowards. So, I’m guessing it’ll be some sort of drivel about football, apple pie, and the Fourth of July.
I should be slightly more fair about NFL ownership… it’s more like 26 old white rich guys, four women who are widows/heirs of prior owners, Shahid Khan, and the Packers “public” ownership. Still, mostly fucking cowards.
Blumenthal asking Kavanaugh to voluntarily suspend the hearing to give more time to review documents.
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that ain’t gonna happen.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
outside the white house as well jonathan tbh https://t.co/GB0Vh6KMxj
— darth™ (@darth) September 4, 2018
I just got an email from PayPal telling me to “prepare for disasters today”. Uh-oh….
re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth
Former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn seemed to believe Trump that actually lacks object permanence. To prevent the president from signing a letter canceling a free-trade agreement with South Korea, he stole the letter from Trump’s desk. Trump “did not notice it was missing,” the Post reports.
Jesus fucking Christ…
re: #226 Charles Johnson
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I’ll go further and say that, before this is all over, Kavanaugh joins the Senate GOP in arguing that he’s been the most open & honest candidate ever considered for the SCOTUS bench.
GOP Sen. John Kennedy now talking about how a Supreme Court justice needs to be above politics, and I think I’m gonna hurl.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #232 Charles Johnson
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re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth
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outside the white house as well jonathan tbhJonathan Chait
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Darth is wrong — those inside the WH might believe that — but the Trumpsters I know still think he’s a great President. Amazing how deluded the typical Trump supporter is. OTOH — the Koch Bros do know he’s an idiot but as long as his policies help them, they don’t care what damage he inflicts on our nation
To be clear:
1. If the Senate had not defeated Bork, Roe might be gone.
2. If Americans had not elected Clinton (RBG & Breyer) and Obama (Sotomayor & Kagan), Roe would be gone.
Roe survives not because it is inevitable, but because people have fought for it. https://t.co/9CYwQAnoqZ— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) September 4, 2018
Kneel for the fallen?
Okay, I’ll play along.
The NFL players protesting police brutality and discrimination are kneeling for the hundreds of people - mostly minorities - who were killed by law enforcement as part of institutionalized brutality and racism.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
re: #232 Charles Johnson
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This isn’t a hearing, it’s a contest to see which Republican Senator can make the most absurdly hypocritical statement after they spent 2 years arguing Merrick Garland didn’t even deserve a hearing because “elections.”
re: #213 Belafon
Right now, if Grassley slips up, the Democrats have a majority and could reject the nomination. If they leave, 1) we won’t be hearing the crap the GOP is trying to pull, and 2) what’s to stop Grassley and McConnell from declaring a quorum?
Making this a farce is their best weapon right now. The public doesn’t want Kavanaugh and they don’t even have all of the information.
The best they can do is make him lie to Congress as many times as possible. That’s the only possible leverage to remove him after 2020.
I just imagined myself participating in the hearing and having to sit there with a suit on and listen to these goddamned liars all day and my brain ran screaming from itself.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #236 lawhawk
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Michelle Malkin, whose website Twitchy decided to put up an article earlier declaring that the answer to Nike’s ad campaign is a single picture…of Pat Tillman.
re: #240 Targetpractice
I’m finally cutting out the Nike logos out of my Nike pillow case! pic.twitter.com/cP9Un6PVzH
— Rafael 🔥 (@rafaelshimunov) September 4, 2018
re: #236 lawhawk
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re: #232 Charles Johnson
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Considering that Kavanaugh issued a political holding that the government’s action in barring a teenage immigrant in their custody from having an abortion didn’t constitute an “undue burden” on her right to an abortion, that’s pretty rich. Kavanaugh wasn’t about to rule in her favor and risk losing a Supreme Court nomination.
There is no White House, really. Not in the sense that reporters came to use that term. It’s just Trump— and people who work in the building. Those words, “the White House” are still used, but they have no clear referent. The metonymy broke. https://t.co/UPQUEOnl3j
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 4, 2018
re: #243 Big Beautiful Door
Considering that Kavanaugh issued a political holding that the government’s action in barring a teenage immigrant in their custody from having an abortion didn’t constitute an “undue burden” on her right to an abortion, that’s pretty rich. Kavanaugh wasn’t about to rule in her favor and risk losing a Supreme Court nomination.
He knows he’s a political hack incapable of judicial independence from the right wing movement that birthed him. He’s not a stupid man but he is s partisan hack.
book what book? oh look over there — hurricane!
Everyone in the path of #Gordon please heed the advice of State and local officials and follow @NHC_Atlantic for updates. The Federal Government stands ready to assist. Be safe! https://t.co/sJiL4wnQID
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
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I’d have no problem wearing the suit and tie all day…..I’ve done that plenty of times before.
I’d have a problem listening to some of these assclowns spewing bullshit and having to maintain some degree of decorum and civility. I really don’t think I could pull that off, to be honest.
And I’m sure my fellow Senators wouldn’t really appreciate me yelling at them on live TV that they’re “full of shit” and they should take their BS and “shove it up their ass sideways”.
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
book what book? oh look over there — hurricane!
[Be safe!]
That’s quite a comedown from Be best.
re: #248 Dr Lizardo
I’d have no problem wearing the suit and tie all day…..I’ve done that plenty of times before.
I’d have a problem listening to some of these assclowns spewing bullshit and having to maintain some degree of decorum and civility. I really don’t think I could pull that off, to be honest.
And I’m sure my fellow Senators wouldn’t really appreciate me yelling at them on live TV that they’re “full of shit” and they should take their BS and “shove it up their ass sideways”.
I always hated wearing a suit and tie. As for being a Senator, I feel like I’d just end up giving a lot of side eye, eye rolls, or Office-style wtf glances to cameras.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m predicting that within 5 years of Kavanaugh taking the bench (and quite possibly sooner), there won’t be a legal abortion clinic left from the Carolina coast to the border of New Mexico south of the Ohio River.
re: #247 Teukka
I have a bunch of wax seals. My favorite one is a pawprint.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, attempts to speak to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a hearing break. (REUTERS) pic.twitter.com/qNOHHyLK6Y
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) September 4, 2018
Jeff Flake praised Kavanaugh and said running marathons showed something about his character.
This photo also shows something about Kavanaugh’s character. https://t.co/2QUI84mkvh— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
Just walked up to Judge Kavanaugh as morning session ended. Put out my hand to introduce myself as Jaime Guttenberg’s dad. He pulled his hand back, turned his back to me and walked away. I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 4, 2018
If Kavanaugh won’t even give him a handshake, how can we believe he would give gun violence victims a fair shake in court? https://t.co/OiDP6lB1Ez
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 4, 2018
re: #247 Teukka
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I’d be eating the wax. Looks delicious!
re: #251 Big Beautiful Door
I’m predicting that within 5 years of Kavanaugh taking the bench (and quite possibly sooner), there won’t be a legal abortion clinic left from the Carolina coast to the border of New Mexico south of the Ohio River.
Maternal death rates for those places will soar. Complications and health care costs will soar.
And women will be screwed nationwide as women’s health services are undermined all over, leaving women far worse off in the US than in any other OECD nation.
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shake hands with @realDonaldTrump’s Supreme Court nom., Brett Kavanaugh, right, during a lunch break. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @ap pic.twitter.com/smcCGuLT6X
— Andrew Harnik (@andyharnik) September 4, 2018
thread starts with this:
It began in the first SCOTUS confirmation after Brown in 1955 (John Marshall Harlan II). Please do not conveniently suggest that this SCOTUS history starts with Bork.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 4, 2018
re: #257 lawhawk
Maternal death rates for those places will soar. Complications and health care costs will soar.
And women will be screwed nationwide as women’s health services are undermined all over, leaving women far worse off in the US than in any other OECD nation.
Don’t need no Kavanaugh. don’t need no five years. That’s right where we are.
Mazie Hirono is flat-out trashing Kavanaugh to his face as hyper-partisan, ideological, dangerous, and a Trump patsy who’ll lie at confirmation about what he’ll do after being confirmed. No niceties and pretenses.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 4, 2018
re: #247 Teukka
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The giftshop at Guilford Courthouse NMP has sealing wax that is safe to use on letters and two lovely wood handle wax stamps.
Still gotta vote. Turnouts gotta be huge.
Ignore if you prefer.
I like to flex good polling results every now and again tho.
Florida governor poll: Quinnipiac
Gillum (D) 50%
DeSantis (R) 47%https://t.co/8FbSN5Z7Af— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 4, 2018
We should hang this about his neck like a fucking albatross until the day he dies.
Many of you have asked about the smug woman sitting behind #Kavanaugh who nods at everything the GOP says. Her name is Zina Bash- she’s worked for John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and Trump…
…and she appears to be throwing up White Power signs. (via @rubin_kd) https://t.co/mHCurML0KT pic.twitter.com/DV2olFzp9P— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 4, 2018
Trump to host UN Security Council meeting https://t.co/R5YtsBvl8V pic.twitter.com/HxuKvEOCnq
— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2018
re: #263 JordanRules
According to the wikipedia page on the race, three polls just dropped. All three show Gillum leading 50-47, 47-45, and 48-43. So it’s likely going to be close, like the last two elections there.
Kavanaugh sure has a puffy face for a marathon runner. In fact, puffy face seems to be a trademark for Republican fatcats. A lot of them; conspira-liar Jerome Corsi and Congress-shill Joe “Shorthorn” Barton, for example; look like Mussolini after he’d been hanging in the gas station for a couple of days. Maybe it is their inner rottenness trying to burst through.
Reince Priebus’ pitch for a new children’s book is a bit dark pic.twitter.com/RkOq3tioPd
— Patrick Dillon (@mpdillon) September 4, 2018
Hard to explain what’s happening here pic.twitter.com/w0rJhA0PCg
— Alan Johnstone (@AlanJohnstone2) September 4, 2018
It is, yes
— Alan Johnstone (@AlanJohnstone2) September 4, 2018
re: #266 JordanRules
Can’t imagine that going badly…
If you’re looking for some good news (albeit a bit distant on the horizon, and we all hope to Dog that it’s not a mirage) - a GOP pollster has looked at the numbers for November and predicted “instant death” for Republicans in formerly safe GOP seats:
“What I’m seeing, with the exception of a handful of states, in state after state are huge increases in Democratic turnout relative to the increase in Republican turnout, when you look at 2014 versus 2018 turnout,” said Republican pollster John Couvillon. “From looking at primary turnout as evidence of partisan enthusiasm, I’m seeing it on the Democratic side.”
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“If you’re running behind 2016 levels, that’s instant death if you’re a Pete Sessions or Erik Paulsen,” Couvillon said, citing endangered GOP incumbents in Texas and Minnesota, who represent two of the 25 districts currently held by Republicans that Democrat Hillary Clinton carried in 2016.
re: #267 KGxvi
According to the wikipedia page on the race, three polls just dropped. All three show Gillum leading 50-47, 47-45, and 48-43. So it’s likely going to be close, like the last two elections there.
I wonder what polls looked like at this point in the previous election.
re: #68 plansbandc
Every day is a little more spirit breaking than the next. It’s depressing as hell watching the United States die.
I look back on Corregidor. Bastogne. Dunkirk. Alamo (not sure I identify with the cause, but we remember it). Fighting futile battles is not futile. It seems that things have to be really bleak before some assholes wake up and smell the coffee. Civil rights. Vietnam. Stonewall. Still fighting police corruption and brutality. This stuff sucks but it isn’t the end in my calculation.
No comment. pic.twitter.com/Xb15f1UUj4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
Dear @TomiLahren,
You and your network told me my career was over and that I was irrelevant. Now you want to interview me. Not only do I not want to waste my time with you, I’m too busy selling out shows on my US tour.
Go Fuck Yourself,
Kathy Griffin pic.twitter.com/hAj5sjaTdd— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) September 4, 2018
re: #264 Scottish Dragon
We should hang this about his neck like a fucking albatross until the day he dies.
There needs to be lots of albatrosses hanging on a lot of necks for the Trump Era.
re: #265 Kragar
I’m skeptical about the “white power sign” claim here. A still photo is a tiny slice of time, and that may have been just a random arrangement of her fingers for a split second. Unless there’s more evidence she was deliberately doing that, I’d rather not jump to that conclusion. While also saying I wouldn’t be surprised with this gang.
re: #257 lawhawk
Maternal death rates for those places will soar. Complications and health care costs will soar.
And women will be screwed nationwide as women’s health services are undermined all over, leaving women far worse off in the US than in any other OECD nation.
The only thing that can stop it is if the people, especially women, get registered and vote. If the people will hurdle every barrier the GOP puts between them and the polling place, we could see a political revolution unlike anything since 1932.
re: #274 Belafon
I wonder what polls looked like at this point in the previous election.
In 2014, end of August/beginning of September, Scott was leading.
In 2010, a better example because it was an open race, Scott was trailing around this time.
For what it’s worth…
re: #279 Charles Johnson
I’m skeptical about the “white power sign” claim here. A still photo is a tiny slice of time, and that may have been just a random arrangement of her fingers for a split second. Unless there’s more evidence she was deliberately doing that, I’d rather not jump to that conclusion. While also saying I wouldn’t be surprised with this gang.
there is video and she did it more than one time
That distant sound you hear is me cheering for Kathy Griffin.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
Meanwhile, my county is trying to take away my God-given right to own a flamethrower. Where is the outrage? (And why do I need to own a flamethrower?)
re: #279 Charles Johnson
She was watching for a while and caught it multiple times. I’m sure it will be expanded upon.
I find it weird the things these folks choose to step up and lie about.
Incorrect. I was here all day and introduced by Senator Feinstein. No security involved. He turned and walked away.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 4, 2018
Y’all have all the power today, you could have just sat their and ate your food Raj. Instead, you jump into this to get your gaslight on.
re: #279 Charles Johnson
I watched 41 seconds of video and she did it the whole time.
re: #236 lawhawk
Fox exists to mislead Conservatives so they make bad choices.
The protesters that the racist Fox crowd hates so much are kneeling to protest for the fallen.— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #279 Charles Johnson
I’m skeptical about the “white power sign” claim here. A still photo is a tiny slice of time, and that may have been just a random arrangement of her fingers for a split second. Unless there’s more evidence she was deliberately doing that, I’d rather not jump to that conclusion. While also saying I wouldn’t be surprised with this gang.
One of the videos posted earlier showed her holding the WP sign for a long time. I don’t think it’s an accident.
The video in Backwoods_Sleuth’s #205.
re: #263 JordanRules
Still gotta vote. Turnouts gotta be huge.
Ignore if you prefer.
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The GOP is going to flog the FBI investigation of Tallahassee city government for all its worth, even though Gillum isn’t a target of the investigation.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
There’s something about Kavanaugh’s smirk that really bugs me.
He knows he has this made in the shade, so he is being a smug arrogant asshole.
re: #283 Charles Johnson
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TBH, I would cheer for Kathy Griffin as well: although I think she might have been better off toning down her GFY sign-off.
Not that I disagree with the sentiments: it’s just that it will probably give Tomi Lahren and whatever FOX creatures that run her show an excuse to rag on KG and mump away about how “rude” left-wingers are….
We can’t. If Americans didn’t want all this gun violence, they would not have put any Republicans in power, much less hand them the whole government.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #290 makeitstop
One of the videos posted earlier showed her holding the WP sign for a long time. I don’t think it’s an accident.
The video in Backwoods_Sleuth’s #205.
It’s a very awkward pose. Hard to accidentally do.
I hate political books almost universally, but I may have to make an exception for Woodward’s.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
Burning your feet off to own the libs. pic.twitter.com/a60bOIs4FO
— Jen 💬 (@ellewoodsruns) September 4, 2018
re: #293 Jay C
TBH, I would cheer for Kathy Griffin as well: although I think she might have been better off toning down her GFY sign-off.
Not that I disagree with the sentiments: it’s just that it will probably give Tomi Lahren and whatever FOX creatures that run her show an excuse to rag on KG and mump away about how “rude” left-wingers are….
They do that anyway. It’s her brand.
re: #295 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s a very awkward pose. Hard to accidentally do.
People on Twitter were cracking me up talking about how they were trying to mimic the pose at home for periods of time and how awkward it was.
re: #279 Charles Johnson
I’m skeptical about the “white power sign” claim here. A still photo is a tiny slice of time, and that may have been just a random arrangement of her fingers for a split second. Unless there’s more evidence she was deliberately doing that, I’d rather not jump to that conclusion. While also saying I wouldn’t be surprised with this gang.
She kept her fingers there for some time on video…and I have never once seen anybody arrange their hand in such an awkward fashion that I can recall. It isn’t a natural repose position for a hand. I don’t know if it is actually intended as a KKK sign…but it is damned peculiar.
re: #301 JordanRules
People on Twitter were cracking me up talking about how they were trying to mimic the pose at home for periods of time and how awkward it was.
It gives me wrist pain, but may be easier for the young-fascist movement.
re: #302 Scottish Dragon
She kept her fingers there for some time on video…and I have never once seen anybody arrange their hand in such an awkward fashion that I can recall. It isn’t a natural repose position for a hand. I don’t know if it is actually intended as a KKK sign…but it is damned peculiar.
I don’t know if the KKK uses it, but the alt-right white supremacists do.
re: #297 Scottish Dragon
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In an official adminstration statement, the White House chief of staff states “The idea I ever called the President an idiot is not true.”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) September 4, 2018
And as we all know, John Kelly only lies about black congresswomen. https://t.co/sjk5xY2es9
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) September 4, 2018
None of them are good people so they stay and are right where they belong.
Another fascinating detail: Reince Priebus dubbed the presidential bedroom, where Trump obsessively watched cable news and tweeted, “the devil’s workshop,” and said early mornings and Sunday evenings, when the president often set off tweetstorms, were “the witching hour.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 4, 2018
If my bedroom were called “the devil’s workshop”, it sure as hell wouldn’t be because of solo tweeting and TV watching going on inside.🙄 #Sad! https://t.co/bpAdm3debY
— Michelle Hylton (@chelliehylton) September 4, 2018
At the urging of advisers, Trump condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given.” https://t.co/iKXwWBbYxC
— ryan teague beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) September 4, 2018
Don’t just take my word for it, hear it straight from the horse’s ass: https://t.co/clgUMvovVU
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) September 4, 2018
re: #306 JordanRules
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None of them are good people so they stay and are right where they belong.
All of them are awful in their own way.
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
Many of you have asked about the smug woman sitting behind #Kavanaugh who nods at everything the GOP says. Her name is Zina Bash- she’s worked for John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and Trump…
…and she appears to be throwing up White Power signs. (via @rubin_kd) https://t.co/mHCurML0KT pic.twitter.com/DV2olFzp9P— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 4, 2018
re: #275 Old Liberal
I look back on Corregidor. Bastogne. Dunkirk. Alamo (not sure I identify with the cause, but we remember it). Fighting futile battles is not futile. It seems that things have to be really bleak before some assholes wake up and smell the coffee. Civil rights. Vietnam. Stonewall. Still fighting police corruption and brutality. This stuff sucks but it isn’t the end in my calculation.
Thank you!
It’s nice to have some historical perspective about other troubling times in America…and we came out the other side.
Now we all need to vote every Republican out of office we can for the next 8 years. That party needs to either be dustbinned to history or so cut down it is ineffective for 20 years or more.
re: #284 calochortus
Meanwhile, my county is trying to take away my God-given right to own a flamethrower. Where is the outrage? (And why do I need to own a flamethrower?)
They’ve already taken away our nukes! What’s next! The march of tyranny!
As I’ve probably mentioned before, Mrs. FBW usually gets up an hour or more before I do, so most mornings when I stumble out to the living room, she’s already fully caffeinated and been watching MSNBC for at least an hour.
Since we go Dory, the first thing she says to me is usually, “She was fast asleep till she heard your footsteps coming down the hall. She loves her Daddy!”
This morning, it was, “Holy Shit! You gotta see this Senate hearing for Kavanaugh! It’s been crazy!”
Oh, yeah, and Dory still leaped off the couch and scampered over to me wagging her tail so hard her entire body wiggled like a ferret on meth!
It did look like a hostage video, and made clear that Trump relates to complete scumbags, and can’t identify with decent people. He knows that he was never a candidate for the decent-person vote, and wants to rule us as a deplorable, rather than leading as a President.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
Zina Bash Is the Woman Sitting Behind Brett Kavanaugh https://t.co/SMnr4GCOQX via @heavysan
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 4, 2018
lol at all these Republicans complaining that Dems already “made up their mind” to oppose Kavanaugh concluding their opening statements with some version of “You will be confirmed” #KavanaughConfirmation
— Julie Millican (@JMillzDC) September 4, 2018
Ummm….
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum just followed me on twitter. He is the crown prince of the UAE…
re: #284 calochortus
Meanwhile, my county is trying to take away my God-given right to own a flamethrower. Where is the outrage? (And why do I need to own a flamethrower?)
Elon Musk is going to be upset.
Told y’all from Day One this has always been about the money. All of it. Revolutionaries aren’t sponsored by major corporations. It’s been a hustle from the giddy-up.
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) September 3, 2018
Dr. King’s Nobel Prize celebration happened b/c @CocaCola made it so. From @NPR: “Back in 1964, social conservatives in Atlanta refused to support an integrated dinner honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. But then Coca-Cola put its giant corporate foot down” https://t.co/525TAn247N
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) September 4, 2018
re: #284 calochortus
Meanwhile, my county is trying to take away my God-given right to own a flamethrower. Where is the outrage? (And why do I need to own a flamethrower?)
The smaller varieties with a limited range are used for brush clearing and some other purposes (clearing debris off power lines and even the odd wasp nest here and there)
re: #321 danarchy
Elon Musk is going to be upset.
Actually, he may be the reason the whole issue came up.
re: #323 Scottish Dragon
The smaller varieties with a limited range are used for brush clearing and some other purposes (clearing debris off power lines and even the odd wasp nest here and there)
Yes, and professionals will still be able to use them. However, here in the S.F. Bay Area you are more likely to burn down your neighborhood than deal effectively with pesky weeds.
re: #319 JordanRules
Kamala is bringing it.
I’m on delay as I keep pausing for work. Booker is a level above the entire GOP.
re: #325 calochortus
Yes, and professionals will still be able to use them. However, here in the S.F. Bay Area you are more likely to burn down your neighborhood than deal effectively with pesky weeds.
Boy, ain’t that the fucking truth! It’s like walking through a bowl of cornflakes, walking under the oaks out here.
I love trash.
— Oscar the Grouch (@OscarTheGrouch) September 4, 2018
re: #328 Blind Frog Belly White
Boy, ain’t that the fucking truth! It’s like walking through a bowl of cornflakes, walking under the oaks out here.
Ahhhhh, September.
re: #324 calochortus
Actually, he may be the reason the whole issue came up.
BAH! I will continue to argue that Musk’s toy is not a flame thrower. Its an oversized blowtorch.
re: #325 calochortus
Yes, and professionals will still be able to use them. However, here in the S.F. Bay Area you are more likely to burn down your neighborhood than deal effectively with pesky weeds.
Anything like that in California is going to be really dangerous of course.
re: #331 Kragar
BAH! I will continue to argue that Musk’s toy is not a flame thrower. Its an oversized blowtorch.
True. it isn’t really much of a flame thrower.
re: #297 Scottish Dragon
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re: #331 Kragar
BAH! I will continue to argue that Musk’s toy is not a flame thrower. Its an oversized blowtorch.
Only because that’s true. Where’s your hysteria?
re: #327 Scottish Dragon
And now drones with flame throwers. Because.
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Why couldn’t Musk sell that? We could burn down the world!
re: #334 Scottish Dragon
True. it isn’t really much of a flame thrower.
If its a flamethrower then a BBQ lighter is flamethrower.
Everyone in Trumpworld is compromised and complicit.
Woodward’s book only confirms this.
What still has yet to be determined are the criminal charges every last mofo in Trumpworld should be facing for this disastrous admin and their corruption that began well before entering the WH, but was vastly expanded thanks to GOP malfeasance and eanbling.
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
re: #335 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Check the comments. Just a YouTuber trying to grab traffic crumbs. Hoax.
I already noted that. The burned feet pic is from Australia.
re: #332 Scottish Dragon
Anything like that in California is going to be really dangerous of course.
I married someone from upstate NY. When we visited his parents for the first time, Mr. C. took me out in the back yard and proceeded to light matches and drop them on the ground. I was horrified, but of course, they all went out.
It was a spectacle matched only by the first time I walked on a frozen lake. (Me: “Is it safe to walk on?” Mr. C.: “You’ll notice people have parked their cars out on it.” Me: “Oh.”)
re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
Burning down your house to own the libs.
FULL INTERVIEW: @GMA EXCLUSIVE — “There’s no job better than another…every job is worthwhile…” Actor Geoffrey Owens speaks out, responding to job shaming and backlash after a photo of him working at a grocery store was posted online: https://t.co/0wZJnpowI9 pic.twitter.com/aNiG5fV2yf
— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 4, 2018
OMG I didnt notice #GeoffreyOwens was wearing his Trader Joe’s nametag!!!! 😍😍😍
HT @iSmashFizzle for the GOOD EYE 😄😄😄 https://t.co/rwYAFtZmTC— Jenny Yang 👲🏼👲🏼👲🏼 (@jennyyangtv) September 4, 2018
And his Yale hat!!
re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
A home invader can’t steal things that are on fire.
re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
The Elon Musk one is a man toy. Kind of like those ridiculously over powered hand held lasers you could get a couple years ago that would pop balloons (and blind airplane pilots coming in to land)
Ranting about Hillary Clinton, Lindsay Graham inadvertently revealed that the GOP does indeed expect Kavanaugh to be the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
one word: SPIDERS!
re: #340 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t see these private flamethrowers having much of a home defense application anyway.
In all the movies, they generally work out badly for the person carrying them.
re: #342 calochortus
I married someone from upstate NY. When we visited his parents for the first time, Mr. C. took me out in the back yard and proceeded to light matches and drop them on the ground. I was horrified, but of course, they all went out.
It was a spectacle matched only by the first time I walked on a frozen lake. (Me: “Is it safe to walk on?” Mr. C.: “You’ll notice people have parked their cars out on it.” Me: “Oh.”)
It took me years to get used to regular rainfall and green meadows here in the east. I was born in San Bernardino.
re: #322 Patricia Kayden
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Wait…is Whitlock seriously arguing that Kaepernick was trying to monetize this from the get go? Is he fucking serious? Does he really think that whatever he might be getting from Nike matches what he’d make as an NFL QB? What in the actual fuck?
Graham: “If you want to pick judges from your way of thinking, you’d better win an election.” https://t.co/ek7QosIJo8 pic.twitter.com/m8SyinGCk9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
re: #346 Scottish Dragon
The Elon Musk one is a man toy. Kind of like those ridiculously over powered hand held lasers you could get a couple years ago that would pop balloons (and blind airplane pilots coming in to land)
Even if they banned the green lasers that could do that, which I hadn’t heard of, cutting and burning lasers are easily available. I have one that can burn wood in my 3D printer/laser engraver. My 3D printer case was cut with a laser.
Editor in Chief of @TheEconomist: “Why our invitation to Steve Bannon will stand” https://t.co/6FKUyE0RWU
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 4, 2018
“This will expose bigotry and prejudice….”
I’m sorry, have they been hiding?!? As a 42 year old Black woman, I’ve seen as much as I care to see, and I’ll see yet more, guaranteed. I don’t need to see it with its legs crossed, mic’ed up on a stage. https://t.co/nFSKSDJrh9— Michelle Hylton (@chelliehylton) September 4, 2018
Amazing. Graham explicitly boasted about picking judges based on politics, then said he didn’t want a judge based on politics. That was some light-speed self-contradiction.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 4, 2018
The Economist can choose to enable bigotry, but we can deprive them of our dollars and clicks.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #355 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Now THIS is a flamethrower:
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Note that the device doesn’t really shoot a blast of fire like a blowtorch, but a stream of burning liquid, most of which is still liquid when it arrives at the target.
And it is the fuel which sticks to the target an burns, as opposed to just hitting the target with a flame, which makes it harder to put out.
re: #351 Mike Lamb
Wait…is Whitlock seriously arguing that Kaepernick was trying to monetize this from the get go? Is he fucking serious? Does he really think that whatever he might be getting from Nike matches what he’d make as an NFL QB? What in the actual fuck?
It’s classic dumbass Whitlock.
re: #358 Kragar
And it is the fuel which sticks to the target an burns, as opposed to just hitting the target with a flame, which makes it harder to put out.
But we still call them “Flamethrowers”, because it sounds cool and it’s more concise than “Flamingstickyliquidthower.”
re: #358 Kragar
And it is the fuel which sticks to the target an burns, as opposed to just hitting the target with a flame, which makes it harder to put out.
With an alcohol flame thrower, the victim can’t even see the flames as they burn. I’ve had a kitchen and arm on fire once. I put them out.
Here are the facts:
→The Chairman requested 10% of Kavanaugh’s documents. That’s 10% out of 100% of his full record.
→ Kavanaugh’s lawyer gave us 7% out of 100% of his full record.
→ Republicans have made only 4% of 100% of these records public.
96% of his record is MISSING— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 4, 2018
re: #351 Mike Lamb
Wait…is Whitlock seriously arguing that Kaepernick was trying to monetize this from the get go? Is he fucking serious? Does he really think that whatever he might be getting from Nike matches what he’d make as an NFL QB? What in the actual fuck?
Maybe he’s seeking the approval of white people. That used to be a big thing, and still is in some circles.
re: #356 Charles Johnson
Being a Kremlin asset looks exhausting.
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) September 4, 2018
re: #364 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Maybe he’s seeking the approval of white people. That used to be a big thing, and still is in some circles.
That’s his whole thing. He’s been like that for decades.
He’s the Larry Elder of sports media.
re: #360 JordanRules
It’s classic dumbass Whitlock.
Yep. And, it might or might not be relevant, Kap signed with Nike in 2011, and the relationship has probably simply continued.
Hi everybody!
re: #364 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Maybe he’s seeking the approval of white people. That used to be a big thing, and still is in some circles.
Jason want’s clicks.
re: #361 Blind Frog Belly White
But we still call them “Flamethrowers”, because it sounds cool and it’s more concise than “Flamingstickyliquidthower.”
I prefer FLAMENWERFER!
re: #352 Charles Johnson
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re: #362 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
With an alcohol flame thrower, the victim can’t even see the flames as they burn. I’ve had a kitchen and arm on fire once. I put them out.
Years ago, we used to use glass spreaders to spread suspensions of bacteria onto antibiotic-laced agar plates*. The plate was on a little turntable thing that you’d spin while pressing the spreader on the plate to distribute the bacteria. You dip the spreader into alcohol to sterilize, then pass it through a Bunsen burner flame to burn off the alcohol (and also sterilize)
When I set up my workspace to do this, I put the turntable centered in front of me, the alcohol to the right of that, and the burner to the extreme right. I’d hold the flaming spreader out there till the alcohol burned off. Sometimes burning alcohol dripped on the bench. No problem. Simple.
One guy I worked with, also right handed, insisted on putting his alcohol to the LEFT of the turntable, and then the Bunsen to the left of that. And he dripped flaming alcohol into his beaker of alcohol, lighting IT on fire, requiring he stop and snuff that out with the foil lid of the beaker.
You’d think after doing that ONCE, he’d rethink his arrangement.
You’d be wrong.
*antibiotic laced, because we put DNA into bacteria with antibiotic resistance genes, so only the bacteria that get the DNA grow.
I haven’t watched any of the hearing so the Democrats may be doing this, but I’ll say this. Every single one of them should mention Merrick Garland at EVERY opportunity. Interrupt Republicans when they say stupid pretending shit like Garland never happened. At this point, Kavanaugh will be confirmed. There is nothing Democrats can do, so every question and statement should be about Merrick Garland. Just drive the point home how corrupt, unethical, and craven the Republicans in the Senate are.
re: #363 JordanRules
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Then every single Democrat votes down this confirmation. It’s the least you must do.
re: #354 JordanRules
And being normalized. Why not interview Richard Spencer or David Duke? Bannon is no different from any other White Supremacist. Are they interviewing left wing radicals?
re: #374 Patricia Kayden
And being normalized. Why not interview Richard Spencer or David Duke? Bannon is no different from any other White Supremacist. Are they interviewing left wing radicals?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
:)
Handy dandy flow charts showing all the criminality around Trump and the key cronies so far:
Fun with flow charts: From Criminal Convictions to Ethical Lapses: The Range of Misconduct in Trump’s Orbit (indictments, plea deals, convictions, etc.) - The New York Times https://t.co/ALAeXFgQxk
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
re: #80 JordanRules
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oh my god. oh…my…god. Trump called Obama a “weak dick”? Please let us have a contest where both men lay it out on the counter so we can measure.
The attempt to prep Trump for a sit-down with the Special Counsel went so badly that Dowd and Sekulow re-enacted the mock interview with Trump for Mueller. pic.twitter.com/DjCYTkWeqL
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 4, 2018
re: #374 Patricia Kayden
And being normalized. Why not interview Richard Spencer or David Duke? Bannon is no different from any other White Supremacist. Are they interviewing left wing radicals?
Oh I don’t think they’d have a problem interviewing any of them.
Folks, if you want to conclude that the Trump-era Republican Party is mixed-up with racism you don’t need to resort to imagining hand signs.
They’re actually not very subtle about it.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 4, 2018
Another Trump lawyer, Jay Sekulow, tried to argue to Robert Mueller that Trump could not be asked to give an interview because he is a compulsive liar. They literally explained to Mueller how they conducted a mock interview with Trump, and he was so unable to tell the truth that they considered him mentally disqualified from testifying:Jay Sekulow went to Mueller’s office and re-enacted the mock interview. Their goal: to argue that Trump couldn’t possibly testify because he was incapable of telling the truth.
“He just made something up. That’s his nature,” Dowd said to Mueller.
My God.
nymag.com
re: #381 Scottish Dragon
Another Trump lawyer, Jay Sekulow, tried to argue to Robert Mueller that Trump could not be asked to give an interview because he is a compulsive liar. They literally explained to Mueller how they conducted a mock interview with Trump, and he was so unable to tell the truth that they considered him mentally disqualified from testifying
Holy shit.
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Holy shit.
That was my reaction. That is 25th amendment stuff right there. He is mentally unable to do the job.
The hand signs are not imaginary. Try holding your hand in the white power gesture on your arm like the racist lady behind Kavanaugh. It does not come naturally.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
ALL GONE: Kate McClure and Mark D’Amico, the people who tried to help John Bobbitt get back on his feet, were ordered to give him any remaining money. But John’s attorney found out that all the $400,000 raised for him is gone. https://t.co/W2eEcBLZoX
— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) September 4, 2018
re: #383 Scottish Dragon
That was my reaction. That is 25th amendment stuff right there. He is mentally unable to do the job.
Yep; he’s straight-up unfit for the rigors of the office he holds.
re: #376 lawhawk
Handy dandy flow charts showing all the criminality around Trump and the key cronies so far:
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Not all. Doesn’t include DJT’s obstruction.
re: #387 garzooma
Good point. It’s not inclusive of Kushner or Junior. Or Ivanka for that matter.
re: #293 Jay C
TBH, I would cheer for Kathy Griffin as well: although I think she might have been better off toning down her GFY sign-off.
Not that I disagree with the sentiments: it’s just that it will probably give Tomi Lahren and whatever FOX creatures that run her show an excuse to rag on KG and mump away about how “rude” left-wingers are….
Is it time that liberals stop worrying about appearances?
Look at what the conservatives are doing…there is nothing toned down about their actions. They are hurting this whole country and many people in it with their actions.
They may even be selling us all out to have a relationship with Russia to help turn this country into some kind of White Nationalist Wonderland.
We stay nice, they still screw us over. We get tough they will still try to screw us over.
Screw that.
Sure, we don’t need the fuck you, but we sure need to be extremely tough and take a stance we will not back down from.
And Tomi and Fox are gonna do what they do anyway so let them cry. They need to be stopped no matter what.
re: #297 Scottish Dragon
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Tweet gone.
Dang I wanted to see the idiot that burnt their feet burning their shoes…while on.
That is special!
re: #300 JordanRules
This is a parody.
Still the tweet was removed…hell, I woulda like to see the parody. I wonder why it was removed?
Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2013
The “tweet for everything” thing has reached truly absurd levels. https://t.co/PFDfCahcZO
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) September 4, 2018
JUST IN: NFL says social justice issues raised by Kaepernick “deserve our attention and action” https://t.co/0tJHJrb9l0 pic.twitter.com/m43cgvNmD1
— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2018
moron found his phone:
Jon Kyl will be an extraordinary Senator representing an extraordinary state, Arizona. I look forward to working with him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the Supreme Court are truly a display of how mean, angry, and despicable the other side is. They will say anything, and are only….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
….looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress. So sad to see!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
“Pledge to America’s Workers” https://t.co/wbGZU6oi9G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good thread—I’d also note that in 1956, when William Brennan’s confirmation hearing was held, there was an incredible number of “are you going to take marching orders from the Pope?” questions asked. How do I know this? Because one night when I was working in the law school library (I was the one student in my class who had a work study job), I came across the William Brennan hearing transcripts and leafed through them. That was an eye-opener, just over three decades later.
re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Didn’t they say that, or something similar, last year?
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nah. These tweets are relatively sane, correct spelling and grammar, and use threading feature correctly. No way Trump himself wrote them.
heh
Sarah Sanders says the Woodward book is “nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees.” I spoke to several people who work in the White House right now that told me they spoke w Woodward. pic.twitter.com/Nf7Z7p8w33
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 4, 2018
Spent all morning preparing for a client meeting. Got direction from the CEO and the account manager for what the hell I’m supposed to tell the guy when I haven’t even been in this new agency for three weeks.
Sat in the meeting and found myself derailed by the client almost instantly because he was expecting a detailed report from the Digital Marketing VP that I didn’t have and didn’t know about because the VP is in Boston on business, so my portion ended up being a more general discussion on future Facebook strategies for them to consider.
*headdesk*
re: #396 Belafon
Didn’t they say that, or something similar, last year?
Yeah, they really can’t say much else in reality. Not with Kaepernick taking them to court for blackballing him. And, that massive contract they have with Nike.
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nobody needs to fabricate stories about Trump to make him look bad. He does that on his own every time he opens his pie hole or sends a tweet.
re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The NFL has released a statement on social justice, saying the issues that Colin Kaepernick and others have raised deserve attention and action. pic.twitter.com/QfmEUkXdjT
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 4, 2018
Too little. Too late.
The NFL screwed up, and they deserve to pay the price for screwing Kaepernick and other players who protested police brutality and racial discrimination across the nation. https://t.co/3ipAHaoO6Y— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
The crackpot found his phone and is embarrassing America again.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #400 Lidane
Spent all morning preparing for a client meeting. Got direction from the CEO and the account manager for what the hell I’m supposed to tell the guy when I haven’t even been in this new agency for three weeks.
Sat in the meeting and found myself derailed by the client almost instantly because he was expecting a detailed report from the Digital Marketing VP that I didn’t have and didn’t know about because the VP is in Boston on business, so my portion ended up being a more general discussion on future Facebook strategies for them to consider.
*headdesk*
New job, new coping strategies.
Who is she? What’s up with the white power sign? @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/VUU9QsFdXW
— Keith R. Dumas (@rubin_kd) September 4, 2018
Just heads up a lot of people have tried to say this sign is a way to trick libs into thinking it’s a WP sign, but…a bunch of actual racists have used it—repeatedly. So it IS 100% a legit WP sign. https://t.co/8DfykxAbQU
— SuperKarateHonkey (@DeathCar72) September 4, 2018
Of course it is. When a bunch of white supremacists get together and decide to make a WP sign, while saying it’s just backwards OK for random non-racist reasons that can not be explained, that makes it a white supremacist symbol.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
another fill-in-the-name endorsement.
I bet the moron has no idea who this person actually is.
Paul Cook is a decorated Marine Corps Veteran who loves and supports our Military and Vets. He is Strong on Crime, the Border, and supported Tax Cuts for the people of California. Paul has my total and complete Endorsement!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
re: #405 wrenchwench
New job, new coping strategies.
Pretty much, yeah. Thankfully it wasn’t too horrifying. I just hate being caught flat-footed.
Which one? He’s had so many.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
Considering that you crippled our country with irresponsible tax cuts, that’s not a great sell, except to the people who want to harm us.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A friend of mind replied to my email earlier (when I sent him a story about the book) that all the dirt dealers are “anonymous”. I sent a reply right back that said, yeah…yeah…, so was Deep Throat.
re: #408 Backwoods_Sleuth
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SRSLY. And no one ever remarks on how formulaic, unspecific and depersonalized these trite “endorsements” are?
I’ve gotten more personal attention in letters addressed to “Occupant”…
re: #401 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yeah, they really can’t say much else in reality. Not with Kaepernick taking them to court for blackballing him. And, that massive contract they have with Nike.
I heard a great point earlier. What if Nike gives Kap a cleat, and they be all over the field on Sundays!
woot!
Are you familiar with Stephen Miller? Your defense of her isn’t very compelling
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2018
Merrick Garland is a reminder that the only POTUS ever denied an up/down vote on a SCOTUS nom was also the only black POTUS.
Not saying the GOP Senators who blocked it are racist.
But they should have to explain why they’re not racist, every day, for the rest of their lives.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 4, 2018
re: #406 gocart mozart
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She might be doing it to “trigger the libs”, although using white supremacist imagery to do it is a pretty fucking dumb thing to do. Or she’s a white supremacist—wouldn’t be at all shocking. But you’ll have a tough time convincing me that, whatever her reasoning, it’s not 100% intentional. That is not a natural way someone holds their hand.
Oh snap, now Eddie Murphy’s doing it, too! pic.twitter.com/7jGyBt2DXf
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 4, 2018
People are not feeling Chris’s tweet.
Some of us are hyper sensitive to racism. It’s a fuckin survival strategy. So sue me and kiss my ass.
Zina can address it and Chris has a platform for it.
re: #417 Mike Lamb
She might be doing it to “trigger the libs”, although using white supremacist imagery to do it is a pretty fucking dumb thing to do. Or she’s a white supremacist—wouldn’t be at all shocking. But you’ll have a tough time convincing me that, whatever her reasoning, it’s not 100% intentional. That is not a natural way someone holds their hand.
Stupidity is pretty much a requirement for being a racist. And never in short supply.
That’s the opposite of what the white supremacists you’re running interference for do.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
moron
“Judge Brett Kavanaugh is an Exceptionally Qualified and Deserving Nominee for the Supreme Court” https://t.co/nD5XZo9yIm
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
re: #418 JordanRules
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People are not feeling Chris’s tweet.
Some of us are hyper sensitive to racism. It’s a fuckin survival strategy. So sue me and kiss my ass.Zina can address it and Chris has a platform for it.
Chris is often times dense as hell. He’s probably trying to make a joke and missing in a big way. I hope he gets burned for this. I used to watch him. Lately I seemed to have found reasons not too.
re: #421 Backwoods_Sleuth
“You know, a white man just can’t get an even break!”
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He’s not, but then you’re not fit for office either.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 4, 2018
teehee
Where is Max? 🤔 #Torpoint #LostCat #Cornwall pic.twitter.com/xmeJNT2c4J
— Nigel Ⓥ official (@nigel4036) September 4, 2018
re: #421 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fuckface: I agree with Donald. His SCOTUS nominee is awesome!
Who is she? What’s up with the white power sign? @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/VUU9QsFdXW
— Keith R. Dumas (@rubin_kd) September 4, 2018
This is Zina Gelman Bash, a White House lawyer and the granddaughter of Polish Jews who just barely escaped the death camps. Take a bow. https://t.co/MpN6TT3f2Z
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 4, 2018
She works with Stephen Miller creating immigration policy targeting Mexicans and Muslims and stripping children away from parents to put them in cages.
You can be a white supremacist and be of Jewish/Mexican descent, @lachlan.
Just like you can be a misogynist and be a woman. https://t.co/pCC6Onoygd— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) September 4, 2018
I turned away. Did this really happen?
Lets not ignore that the admin felt it necessary to quickly remove her and replace her with
A black Republican pic.twitter.com/MtaAhcr02T— Democracy (@resistfascism1) September 4, 2018
Yes, this could also be innocent. I hope one day to have more faith in the basic decency of our ruling party again.
re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth
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What fresh hell is this!!!???
Kavanaugh’s assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!! pic.twitter.com/ZzXVqgTXhC— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) September 4, 2018
Zina is a friend of mine, and I’ve never heard her utter a racist remark. She was born in Mexico and is raising a beautiful family in her adopted home. Try not to let your lunacy shade into slander of good people. https://t.co/JaUErd8gGh
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) September 4, 2018
re: #417 Mike Lamb
She might be doing it to “trigger the libs”, although using white supremacist imagery to do it is a pretty fucking dumb thing to do. Or she’s a white supremacist—wouldn’t be at all shocking. But you’ll have a tough time convincing me that, whatever her reasoning, it’s not 100% intentional. That is not a natural way someone holds their hand.
on national television
while sitting behind a guy being considered for the supreme court
re: #428 JordanRules
I’ll put it this way - this ain’t the hill I plan to die on. As Yglesias says, you don’t need to look for possibly imaginary hand signals to see the GOP alignment with white supremacists.
Part of the problem is that if, hypothetically, someone flashed white supremacist symbols at the camera, the point of the stunt would be to get liberals wound up, so they can then claim that liberals are just imagining things.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) September 4, 2018
Plausible deniability is literally part of the Alt-Right playbook that was leaked not long ago.
It’s effective because people more concerned with not looking foolish than with exposing what is happening in plain sight turn on those who call things out.https://t.co/6x0bCHLxSF— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) September 4, 2018
Some good stuff in these threads.
Expect more people to be throwing up the “okkkay” now regardless of what today was supposed to mean.
these people…
NEW VIDEO of hearing room clearly shows security intervened when Judge #Kavanaugh was approached. pic.twitter.com/ZGRRCcWroW
— Raj Shah (@RajShah45) September 4, 2018
re: #428 JordanRules
J.D. Vance.
A white venture capitalist who worked for Peter Thiel is always my go-to on who might be racist.
Asked about the Nike-Kaepernick controversy, on which he has been conspicuously quiet, Trump says plainly: “Nike is a tenant of mine. They pay a lot of rent.”
Just FYI, in case you have a brand in need of POTUS tweet insurance https://t.co/JONvyP6m87— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 4, 2018
re: #432 Blind Frog Belly White
I’ll put it this way - this ain’t the hill I plan to die on. As Yglesias says, you don’t need to look for possibly imaginary hand signals to see the GOP alignment with white supremacists.
I’m pretty good at traversing these landmines. Some are live, some are not. I know the road. Could still get blown up.
The premise that it’s important to confront racists on their views has to contend with the fact that racists—up to and including Hitler—habitually lie about what their views are.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 4, 2018
re: #436 goddamnedfrank
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Wowwwww!!!!
Won’t somebody think of the red hat rubes?!?!
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re: #427 gocart mozart
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Miller is the great grandson of people who fled pogroms and still a racist dipshit. I don’t know a thing about her but her grandparents being Holocaust survivors doesn’t mean anything about her.
re: #439 JordanRules
Wowwwww!!!!
Won’t somebody think of the red hat rubes?!?!
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His supporters are burning their shoes while he continues to make money off Nike.
Love. It.— tuna (@2naOnWhite) September 4, 2018
re: #440 HappyWarrior
Jared’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors; he lost family in the Holocaust.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest because they all work for a goddamned white nationalist who equated goddamned Nazis with the people protesting them.
re: #442 lawhawk
Jared’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors; he lost family in the Holocaust.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest because they all work for a goddamned white nationalist who equated goddamned Nazis with the people protesting them.
Exactly.
re: #444 JordanRules
Oddly poetic innit?
It’s of a piece with the contempt in which he’s always held Jeff Sessions for being from the South, talking like he’s from the South, and not going to an Ivy League school.
Trump has all the respect for his followers that every con man has for his marks - “Like a glutton loves his lunch.”
re: #107 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We’re hoping to stretch out our old Buick for as long as we’ll have any use for it. It had what we used to call a “minor rebuild” like that after a similar incident ~30,000 miles ago. It’s at 175K now, and 200 grand is pretty common these days. We put maybe 1,000 miles a year on it, and we won’t be needing it any 25 more years, so…fingers crossed.
What year and model is the Buick?
re: #441 Blind Frog Belly White
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His supporters are burning their shoes while he continues to make money off Nike.
Then there’s this:
NikeTown has closed but Nike still has Manhattan covered.
Come see us at Nike Soho, one of our other NYC locations, or on https://t.co/Y9Bu80ZtjO pic.twitter.com/OmBQy1dgBI— Nike NYC (@NikeNYC) March 10, 2018
Nike says the NYC location it long leased from Trump has closed, so I don’t know if Nike is actually still a tenant of his. https://t.co/MnID3E6c3S
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2018
re: #446 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s of a piece with the contempt in which he’s always held Jeff Sessions for being from the South, talking like he’s from the South, and not going to an Ivy League school.
Trump has all the respect for his followers that every con man has for his marks - “Like a glutton loves his lunch.”
But member Trump is the champion of forgotten Merika.// He’s such a snobbish dickbag. Sessions is awful but it’s not because he’s from Alabama and got his JD there. He’s awful because he’s a racist asshole just like Ivy League WF Buckley was.
re: #445 JordanRules
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Nike’s move is likely predominately motivated by a change in its strategy, which is now focused on more experimental and modern conveniences that the aging store could provide. While there are a lot of floors and square footage, the floors are set up in such a way that it would be difficult to reconfigure.
The space in the new Nike store “gives us more opportunities to play with new concepts than we have now,” Nike spokesperson Ilana Finley told Forbes.
Think of it more along the lines of the new Nike Soho store, which has places to run, play soccer, and even a near-half basketball court to shoot hoops.
Two anonymous Nike employees told Forbes that these space issues at Niketown were the biggest reason for the move, while the association with Trump’s brand was only “a factor, to some degree.”
re: #429 BeachDem
I thought it was a gang sign.
re: #448 BeachDem
His supporters are burning their shoes while he continues to make money off Nike.
Then there’s this:
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Oh man it’s going to be precious when Eric explains this to him and then Trump starts attacking them for not paying protection money.
re: #448 BeachDem
His supporters are burning their shoes while he continues to make money off Nike.
Then there’s this:
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must be one of those papers they moved from his desk so he couldn’t see it…
re: #452 goddamnedfrank
Oh man it’s going to be precious when Eric explains this to him and then Trump starts attacking them for not paying protection money.
That’s totally what I expect to happen!
This explains Bernie Bros / Rose twitter.
Potentially the most important finding: 2) higher values on hostile sexism scale significantly predicted propensity to identify as “progressive.” Racial resentment attitudes did not distinguish between probs and libs. pic.twitter.com/TDetCmQpcb
— Jason McDaniel (@ValisJason) September 4, 2018
Trump: Nike is a tenant of mine.
Me: Why does the president of the United States have a fucking tenant?
re: #458 Teddy’s Person
Trump: Nike is a tenant of mine.
Me: Why the president of the United States have a fucking tenant?
Seriously it’s not fucking normal.
re: #354 JordanRules
Editor in Chief of @TheEconomist: “Why our invitation to Steve Bannon will stand” economist.com
— Jake Tapper
I just called and cancelled my print subscription to The Economist. When asked why, I noted that I did not wish to support an organisation that supports fascism, racism, and Holocaust denial by giving a platform to Steve Bannon.
They will refund me $86. Perhaps I can use that to support Little Green Footballs and Wonkette.
When I was done on the phone (with a person who seemed to have an accent in English) I noted that working for a fascist-promoting corporation told me more about her than she would know about me.
My wife said “good for you.”
re: #448 BeachDem
Nike says the NYC location it long leased from Trump has closed, so I don’t know if Nike is actually still a tenant of his.
Trump doesn’t know either. He just says stuff.
re: #461 Anymouse 🌹
I echo your wife and add in some clapping.
re: #457 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
3.8 Liter V-6 is one of the finest engines GM ever built, silky smooth and good gas mileage (If that is the one you have in it). I had a 1989 Delta 88, loved that car.
re: #460 HappyWarrior
Seriously it’s not fucking normal.
As we always say: “Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.”
re: #357 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The Economist can choose to enable bigotry, but we can deprive them of our dollars and clicks.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington
I just did.
House GOP campaign arm will continue to support lawmaker indicted for misusing campaign funds https://t.co/wQv2y8Aa9i pic.twitter.com/nlHAK8DiSU
— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2018
Apparently there were no pedophiles available. https://t.co/GV5mw1NTmN
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 4, 2018
re: #464 Shropshire Slasher
3.8 Liter V-6 is one of the finest engines GM ever built, silky smooth and good gas mileage (If that is the one you have in it). I had a 1989 Delta 88, loved that car.
Yeah, it’s the 3.8. It really seems like a solid unit.
re: #436 goddamnedfrank
“Nike is a tenant of mine. They pay a lot of rent.”
That quote should be in the article of impeachment for violating the emoluments clause.
“Hello, USA? Yes please hold for Disgruntled Dictator with NFL Hot-Take on line two.” https://t.co/QNMdMkJLqX
— Crazytown (@ScottLinnen) September 4, 2018
re: #471 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah, that’s the kind of support Colin needs for sure….
re: #465 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
As we always say: “Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.”
He didn’t actually have to sell his peanut farm, it was placed in a blind trust. As a result of trustee mismanagement, when his presidency was over, it was a million dollars in debt (which, adjusted for inflation is just shy of three million dollars today).
What’s really funny is that a year ago Trumpers were boycotting Underarmour. Now they’re all touting UA because they’re angry at Nike. These people are ridiculous fucking irrelevant toothless clowns and that why their stupid little #boycottnike will fail.https://t.co/soAYAgvxk7
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 4, 2018
7 dead, 200 injured after typhoon batters western Japan; 3,000 stranded at Kansai airport
The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years tore across the west of the country Tuesday, killing seven people and injuring at least 200 with violent winds and heavy rainfall.
The strong gusts ripped sheeting from rooftops, overturned trucks on bridges and swept a tanker anchored in Osaka Bay into a bridge to Kansai International Airport.
The damage to the bridge left the airport cut off from the mainland, with around 3,000 people stranded inside the facility, public broadcaster NHK reported.
[…]
Been on that bridge a few times myself. It’s quite an impressive thing, but scary to think that a tanker could just cut loose and hit it.
First time I was in Osaka a typhoon came over head, but it was a weak one. First (and only) hurricane I’ve been in.
US and Turkey cooperation intensified in last 48 hours, as confrontational language was upped vs Russia.
Unclear what US/TK will do, but we are seeing two camps with Assad-Russia-Iran in one, and US-Turkey across.— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) September 4, 2018
re: #470 KGxvi
That quote should be in the article of impeachment for violating the emoluments clause.
Nike isn’t a foreign entity but it definitely goes to motive.
re: #477 goddamnedfrank
Nike isn’t a foreign entity but it definitely goes to motive.
Fair. Though I suspect if we were writing a new constitution today, the emoluments clause would include publicly traded companies.
To be truly effective at #boycottnike make sure you cut your feet off.
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 4, 2018
re: #463 JordanRules
I echo your wife and add in some clapping.
I wonder how many subscribers The Economist is going to lose today in the United States?
re: #475 freetoken
Holy shitsnacks!
Typhoon Jebi pushes ship into Kansai airport bridge, leaving 5,000 people stranded at Japan’s third-busiest gateway | The Japan Times https://t.co/RAEtgXoX72
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 4, 2018
re: #406 gocart mozart
Just heads up a lot of people have tried to say this sign is a way to trick libs into thinking it’s a WP sign, but…a bunch of actual racists have used it—repeatedly. So it IS 100% a legit WP sign.
Who is she? What’s up with the white power sign? @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/VUU9QsFdXW
— Keith R. Dumas (@rubin_kd) September 4, 2018
— SuperKarateHonkey
This whole thing is a brain-dead argument.
The swastika was used by Native Americans and Hindus for centuries before Hitler co-opted that symbol. It is now universally associated with Nazism.
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