Got stealthed by the new topic, so might as well place it here too:
No matter the poutys that Trump has over Sessions, you know he’s never actually going to shitcan him. You know why?
Because Sessions does the racism, and does it very well.
What is he doing?He will overrule a 2005 case that gives bind hearings to asylum seekers who pass a credible fear interview.That means the majority of asylum seekers will have to fight their cases from inside a jail cell.
— Hassan Ahmad (@HMAesq) September 19, 2018
It is infinitely harder to fight an asylum case from inside jail.it breaks the spirit. Especially if your kids are ripped from you. Then, even when you PASS the initial hurdle, you’d stay in jail.How to talk to your lawyer without getting recorded and paying massive fees?
— Hassan Ahmad (@HMAesq) September 19, 2018
Keep in mind, asylum seekers (mostly Latino) will have to be incarcerated for lengthy periods of time. In private prison complexes, mostly. Companies like CoreCivic and Geo Group.Beginning to get the picture? But wait, there’s more.
— Hassan Ahmad (@HMAesq) September 19, 2018
Read on the rest of the thread.
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Got stealthed by the new topic, so might as well place it here too:
No matter the poutys that Trump has over Sessions, you know he’s never actually going to shitcan him. You know why?Because Sessions does the racism, and does it very well.
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He just wants more inmates. Do we know if he’s taken or has money invested into private prisons? Or is he merely an authoritarian douche?
re: #2 HappyWarrior
He just wants more inmates. Do we know if he’s taken or has money invested into private prisons? Or is he merely an authoritarian douche?
You mean ‘both’ isn’t an option?
Colorado voter reg stats for Jan-Aug 2018:
•Up 333% from this time in 2014
•Voters 18-40 up 50,246 (fell 4,932 in 2014)
•GOP women 18-40 dropped 2,008
•More women than men 18-40 registered. +16,768 to +10,422 respectively
•15.5% of men 18-40 who registered, did so as GOP pic.twitter.com/Tq3eWT7YMS— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) September 19, 2018
I still think the stunningly corrupt Republican Party is going to ram through Kavanaugh’s confirmation. This is their big chance to skew the Supreme Court to the far right for a generation or longer, and they’ll go ahead even with the risk of a massive backlash.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
Speaking of Colorado, seems someone literally took a shot at a dem candidate there.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I mean…why shouldn’t they? It’ll essentially inoculate them from the consequences of electoral defeat in most ways.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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One of the best things I’ve seen in awhile. They use the same pink dye that is attached to stolen bank notes. This makes the ivory unsellable, and it cannot be consumed. The animals are not harmed and it is saving their lives. Please share, thanks. pic.twitter.com/6SFJXTjMCH
— Welcome To Nature (@welcomet0nature) September 17, 2018
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Nice idea. I wonder what effect it may have with mating practices of the mammals etc.
re: #14 Teukka
Nice idea. I wonder what effect it may have with mating practices of the mammals etc.
Probably none at all. Odds are that the color of a tusk is irrelevant to mating. They just need to be strong for combat.
re: #15 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Probably none at all. Odds are that the color of a tusk is irrelevant to mating. They just need to be strong for combat.
Unfortunately also, I doubt if Traditional Chinese Medicine cares about the color, either, and that’s the major market for rhino horn.
re: #16 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Unfortunately also, I doubt if Traditional Chinese Medicine cares about the color, either, and that’s the major market for rhino horn.
The people doing this seem to believe that it does. Who’s going to snort something that’s the wrong color to try to get their dick hard? It’s going to look like some kind of substitution for the expected product. Sure the expected product doesn’t actually work, but looking different will put at least some of the suckers off of this fake medicine.
ALERT: Spam, in the dungeon! (though if you look at the dead thread title, the comment comes close to being on topic 😂)
re: #17 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
so is Trump Penis News a thing now?
It was yesterday, but everyone has moved on now.
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Schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident
i dont like how they keep using “accuser” instead of ‘Ms Ford’, so i took it out of the title
in any event, i’d like to think its going to get harder and harder to not call anyone else to testify
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 19, 2018
re: #23 MsJ
From the article:
Only 31 percent of U.S. adults polled said they were in favor of Kavanaugh’s appointment.
re: #18 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The people doing this seem to believe that it does. Who’s going to snort something that’s the wrong color to try to get their dick hard? It’s going to look like some kind of substitution for the expected product. Sure the expected product doesn’t actually work, but looking different will put at least some of the suckers off of this fake medicine.
I hope you’re right, but they could always add lampblack or something. In the 18th Century, Chinese tea merchants would add verdigris to their tea intended for Western markets to make it extra green.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) September 19, 2018
It’s important to note here: The schoolmate deleted her original post and said she has no first hand knowledge of the incident. She also said she’s refusing to do interview requests from the media.https://t.co/JO9P78SFxM
— andrew kaczynski🧐 (@KFILE) September 19, 2018
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Whoever wins in 2020 may have a chance to appoint as many as 4 justices, especially if they win reelection in 2024. Breyer is 80, Ginsberg is 85, Thomas is 70, and Alito is 68. (And that doesn’t even factor in Roberts’ possible health issues.) The balance of the court can swing pretty quickly.
re: #21 dangerman
Schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident
i dont like how they keep using “accuser” instead of ‘Ms Ford’, so i took it out of the title
in any event, i’d like to think its going to get harder and harder to not call anyone else to testify
I really hope she’s for real.
Dear Kavanaugh apologists, this isn’t a court proceeding it’s a fucking job interview for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. So not only should the burden of proof should be lower than beyond a reasonable doubt but the conduct in question bears directly on his fitness.
— Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (@goddamnedfrank) September 19, 2018
So let’s not pretend that this incident from when he was 17 doesn’t necessarily inform us about the man he is today, because Kavanaugh shows absolutely zero indication of having grown into a adult who in any way respects the rights and bodily autonomy of women. Quite the opposite
— Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (@goddamnedfrank) September 19, 2018
re: #27 MsJ
She had no first hand knowledge, meaning she wasn’t in the room. That seems pretty obvious. But hearing about it at the time does kind of matter, especially if she heard it from someone who was in the room.
re: #28 KGxvi
Whoever wins in 2020 may have a chance to appoint as many as 4 justices, especially if they win reelection in 2024. Breyer is 80, Ginsberg is 85, Thomas is 70, and Alito is 68. (And that doesn’t even factor in Roberts’ possible health issues.) The balance of the court can swing pretty quickly.
Things can change so quickly. Crazy to think that the last four CJs have been Republican appointees.
Those who have flown Business Class, how likely that you were able to access the Airport Lounge upon arrival?
Say you have an early morning arrival and want to refresh yourself in the Airport Lounge first and foremost, is that possible?
re: #28 KGxvi
Whoever wins in 2020 may have a chance to appoint as many as 4 justices, especially if they win reelection in 2024. Breyer is 80, Ginsberg is 85, Thomas is 70, and Alito is 68. (And that doesn’t even factor in Roberts’ possible health issues.) The balance of the court can swing pretty quickly.
5. Impeaching Kavanaugh for perjury.
I can dream dammit.
re: #34 Kragar
5. Impeaching Kavanaugh for perjury.
I can dream dammit.
Good luck getting 67 votes in the Senate for that.
re: #31 KGxvi
She had no first hand knowledge, meaning she wasn’t in the room. That seems pretty obvious. But hearing about it at the time does kind of matter, especially if she heard it from someone who was in the room.
and if she’s not the only one who heard about it
re: #27 MsJ
It’s important to note here: The schoolmate deleted her original post and said she has no first hand knowledge of the incident.
First-hand knowledge is unnecessary. The story was out there at the time. Unless you assume that Dr. Ford, at 15, knew Kavanaugh would be appointed to the SC and decided to spike that by spreading a false rumor—hell, the GOP base probably does believe that—then he should be removed from consideration. As many have said, this is not a trial, it’s a job interview. Can you imagine what the Republicans would say if an employer had to prove a negative story about an applicant “beyond a reasonable doubt” before turning them down?
re: #34 Kragar
5. Impeaching Kavanaugh for perjury.
I can dream dammit.
I think they must go after him. Otherwise, the next Republican candidate will lie his ass off. My dream is that they threaten to impeach him and he resigns.
Man on the run…
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://t.co/5qJzKxBOZe pic.twitter.com/xdgnkfT9Gd
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) September 19, 2018
re: #35 KGxvi
Good luck getting 67 votes in the Senate for that.
It’s not about the 67 votes. Never know what’s going to happen. It’s bringing someone up on charges and letting the world know the facts. If this is done a few times, perhaps the next guy with skeletons will not want to go through the process.
re: #37 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
First-hand knowledge is unnecessary. The story was out there at the time. Unless you assume that Dr. Ford, at 15, knew Kavanaugh would be appointed to the SC and decided to spike that by spreading a false rumor—hell, the GOP base probably does believe that—then he should be removed from consideration. As many have said, this is not a trial, it’s a job interview. Can you imagine what the Republicans would say if an employer had to prove a negative story about an applicant “beyond a reasonable doubt” before turning them down?
Republicans say a lot of things that hint that they do not understand the concept of time. Thinking Democrats are still racist Conservatives, or that Obama’s birth notice was published so he could run for President for example.
re: #28 KGxvi
Whoever wins in 2020 may have a chance to appoint as many as 4 justices, especially if they win reelection in 2024. Breyer is 80, Ginsberg is 85, Thomas is 70, and Alito is 68. (And that doesn’t even factor in Roberts’ possible health issues.) The balance of the court can swing pretty quickly.
all it will take is for no other democratic appointed justice to retire before the next democratic president, and then for a gop appointed justice to go, and then, bingo, a liberal majority on the court
Even with the ultimatum the Rs gave, and even with no investigation, I hope Dr. Blasey testifies publicly on Monday. Her decision either way is hers and to be respected. But I hope she does.
— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) September 19, 2018
I’m not taking a public position on whether Dr Blasey-Ford should testify on Monday because a dude’s got to know his limitations. She’s the only one with a right to answer that question and outside expectations aren’t helping.
— Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (@goddamnedfrank) September 19, 2018
re: #34 Kragar
5. Impeaching Kavanaugh for perjury.
I can dream dammit.
I’m hanging on to my dream that he resigns from his nomination and never gets another hearing. For the Supreme Court position, at least.
re: #31 KGxvi
She had no first hand knowledge, meaning she wasn’t in the room. That seems pretty obvious. But hearing about it at the time does kind of matter, especially if she heard it from someone who was in the room.
After Ford had to go into hiding, it’s unlikely anyone is going to want to join her.
This is what Republicanism gives us.
re: #14 Teukka
Nice idea. I wonder what effect it may have with mating practices of the mammals etc.
They’re turning the rhinos GAYYY!!!11
/alexjones
ah. my goodness. pic.twitter.com/s0Ipmp7HKG
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 19, 2018
re: #33 electrotek
Those who have flown Business Class, how likely that you were able to access the Airport Lounge upon arrival?
Say you have an early morning arrival and want to refresh yourself in the Airport Lounge first and foremost, is that possible?
They’re there but sometimes not close by.
If you have a lot of time between flights out want to go early, they’re fabulous, especially those overseas. I was in one, I don’t recall which European country I was in, and it was fabulous. Truly so. Great food, liquor, free internet (which was rare then).
Definitely take advantage of you can.
We’re going to Europe next year in business class and are looking forward to taking advantage of those facilities at Heathrow (assuming British Air exists then).
Orrin Hatch needs a punch in the fucking throat.
.@OrrinHatch just told 3 different women reporters that rape isn’t cause for keeping a man off the #SCOTUS for life and I am stunned.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) September 17, 2018
I wish I was stunned.
I wish I could disbelieve.
I wish I still had enough faith in the common decency of my fellow citizens to be even the least bit surprised by a statement like this.
But I am not.
Not even the littlest bit.#WednesdayMotivation#StopKavanaugh #TakeItBack https://t.co/qsgOS1vAYq— Six 🌊 Crewman Extraordinaire™ (@SnowBiAuthor) September 19, 2018
re: #49 MsJ
They’re there but sometimes not close by.
If you have a lot of time between flights out want to go early, they’re fabulous, especially those overseas. I was in one, I don’t recall which European country I was in, and it was fabulous. Truly so. Great food, liquor, free internet (which was rare then).
Definitely take advantage of you can.
We’re going to Europe next year in business class and are looking forward to taking advantage of those facilities at Heathrow (assuming British Air exists then).
I found a great price for Business Class on Malaysia Airlines from Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur for the week of Thanksgiving for $943 one way. Since it’s an overnight flight, I figured I may as well spend a few hundred more for a quality flight with some decent sleep. The only problem is that it arrives in KL a little after 5am. And I don’t want my friend in KL/Penang to get up too early to pick me up when I could take advantage of the Airport Lounge at KL upon arrival and freshen up with a shower and breakfast at least. Since I am an AAdvantage credit card user, I would certainly hope that I would be able to take advantage of the generous benefits on top of the additional mileage from booking Business Class.
That’s my dilemma. I haven’t flown Business Class since I was 15 with family on AA from DFW to Frankfurt, and that was way back in 2000. And that was a lucky upgrade for us too!
re: #51 makeitstop
Orrin Hatch needs a punch in the fucking throat.
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Clearly he’s comparing #HurricaneFlorerence to the rarer but more dangerous vinegar-based hurricanes.
— Steve Arrowood (@ArrowoodStephen) September 19, 2018
re: #51 makeitstop
Orrin Hatch needs a punch in the fucking throat.
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re: #48 gocart mozart
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Needs NRO warning. I don’t go there if I can avoid it. (The warning could have come from Sopan.)
re: #54 gocart mozart
This is unusually wet water that wants to cause trouble for Donald Trump.
GOP Officials: Kavanaugh Shouldn’t Be Held Accountable For Something He Did As White Teenager https://t.co/dMcUusRxNA pic.twitter.com/7XbBIt44wS
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 19, 2018
Well it’s becoming quite obvious as to what Republicans do in their free time.
Hatch likely had a lot of this in his history.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 19, 2018
What are the odds that Trump accidentally declassifies something which totally exposes him as a traitor and a fraud?
I mean, it would be in line with everything else he has done to date— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 19, 2018
re: #52 electrotek
I found a great price for Business Class on Malaysia Airlines from Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur for the week of Thanksgiving for $943 one way. Since it’s an overnight flight, I figured I may as well spend a few hundred more for a quality flight with some decent sleep. The only problem is that it arrives in KL a little after 5am. And I don’t want my friend in KL/Penang to get up too early to pick me up when I could take advantage of the Airport Lounge at KL upon arrival and freshen up with a shower and breakfast at least. Since I am an AAdvantage credit card user, I would certainly hope that I would be able to take advantage of the generous benefits on top of the additional mileage from booking Business Class.
That’s my dilemma. I haven’t flown Business Class since I was 15 with family on AA from DFW to Frankfurt, and that was way back in 2000. And that was a lucky upgrade for us too!
I’m AAdvantage, too. It was an American (or partner) lounge I was in.
Do it. Enjoy yourself.
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!.
People just will not listen. This is a fucking hoax.
EXCLUSIVE, DEFINITELY 100 PERCENT REAL: We’ve seen tests of Trump using the emergency alert system https://t.co/IYd0eeY8wp pic.twitter.com/NdqKKYCOVs
— Splinter (@splinter_news) September 19, 2018
it begins. https://t.co/D0WRPamUmQ
— deray (@deray) September 19, 2018
re: #38 I Would Prefer Not To
I think they must go after him. Otherwise, the next Republican candidate will lie his ass off. My dream is that they threaten to impeach him and he resigns.
the ‘investigation’ will not stop even if they ‘ram’ him through to confirmation
not the legal one, i mean the reporters and journalists…
they will not stop digging
if the case continues to grow and it gets uglier and proof of his lying becomes clearer, there is a good chance they could likely force him out…
why is hillary Clinton on tv again what is the point of this
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) September 19, 2018
It’s almost like the media was full of Bernie Bros who had an issue with HRC.
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) September 19, 2018
Unlikeable and shady are adjectives born from grotesquely irresponsible and incessantly negative media coverage that ended up proving nothing while depriving you of any real info about the Trump campaign’s criminal conspiracy, yet left you feeling utterly justified in hating her.
— Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (@goddamnedfrank) September 19, 2018
re: #66 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!.
People just will not listen. This is a fucking hoax.
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re: #42 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
all it will take is for no other democratic appointed justice to retire before the next democratic president, and then for a gop appointed justice to go, and then, bingo, a liberal majority on the court
this has been written about a lot in the last six months or so
the court has not and will not have really ‘swung’ that far to the right
re: #70 goddamnedfrank
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As we reported here, at the last big Southern Baptist confab in Dallas, the SBers had Pence come and when he mentioned that we (meaning the religious right) were going to get their seat on the Court, that got the biggest response from the crowd (of a few thousand SB leaders), far bigger response than any of the overtly churchy stuff that is normally on the schedule for denomination meetings.
In other words, Kavanaugh was seen as the hill on which the religious right and their friends in the Senate chose as their big accomplishment.
So no wonder the GOP Senators don’t want to give up on Kavanaugh.
As I enter my golden years I can only hope that the generations after me will be smart enough to finally rid this country of the religious millstone.
30 years of Republicans handing in her about everything.
All her adult life in the public eye.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 19, 2018
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
written by Dennis Prager
*SPIT*
I get ads for his stupid “university “ since I have a few friends that like it & him. Le sigh.
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
written by Dennis Prager
*SPIT*
Would you expect anything else from Prager?
re: #71 HappyWarrior
So if he got the power, it’d be just like when your uncle or brother in law emails you repeatedly easily debunked RW outrages except this would be POTUS doing to anyone with a cell phone.
Thread.
The career employees af @fema will prevent such an abuse. This I believe. They, unlike @realDonaldTrump and his cronies will respect and follow the Law. Besides, if he really wanted to do something like this, he could have already done so using the Emergency Broadcast System.
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) September 19, 2018
Would Prager be okay with people bringing up someone’s support for Republican candidates to discredit a conservative sexual assault victim? I doubt It. In fact I know it.
Also as an aside. Remember how FEMA was also vilified under the Obama Administration by the right. This is nothing more than the same. Only this time it’s coming from the left. SMDH.
“Action News Team 45 here. This just in….Car that hit and run a pedestrian was located 15 minutes after witnesses say it ran a red light and never even attempted to stop. Hit in the mishap was 26 year old Imma Fucked, who was luckily not suffering from life threatening injuries from the incident. EMR was quickly on the scene. The car was shortly thereafter found run into a guardrail at the entrance to the interstate a short distance away. The alleged driver was found trapped behind the wheel, unable to escape. Witnesses say there was one person in that vehicle at the time of the impact.”
Susan?
“Well we can certainly look forward to the investigation. But being trapped behind the wheel of a vehicle who had no other passengers in it as it ran a red light and luckily did not kill a pedestrian, does not necessarily mean that the trapped driver was the driver.”
Thanks Susan. We look forward to the investigation….
“In other news…..”
I think the intentional infliction of emotional distress claim would have some merit if he actually was accepted and passed the bar. By denying his application, they have spared him an awfull lot of emotional distress.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 19, 2018
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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Today on Twitter:
Democrats never resign when THEY’RE accused of sexual misconduct!!
Al Franken would like a word.
But what about BILL CLINTON?!?
Hasn’t been President for 17 years. Not running for any office. But Eric Schneiderman resigned as NY AG.
BILL CLINTON!!!
Again, not in office for most of two decades. But, Anthony Weiner ring a bell?
WHATABOUT BILL CLINTON!!!
Not running for anything, not nominated for Supreme Court. Meanwhile, ever heard of Elliot Spitzer?
BILL CLINTON!!!
The Yam: Well, the water is starting to go down now… (and then continues with his “Mr. Congeniality” speech—laughing, clapping. Ugh. He makes me sick to my stomach.
The facts
Wednesday 2pm - Latest forecast for the Lumber River, Great Pee Dee River, Lynches River and Black River. #scwx pic.twitter.com/aQpaG2rEkJ
— Ed Piotrowski (@EdPiotrowski) September 19, 2018
re: #80 HappyWarrior
Would Prager be okay with people bringing up someone’s support for Republican candidates to discredit a conservative sexual assault victim? I doubt It. In fact I know it.
There are no conservative sexual assault victims. Once they are attacked, they’re immediately and forever known as Democrats. Always.
re: #84 Patricia Kayden
If Dems take back Congress and the White House, they should enact term limits for SCOTUS and pack it with more Justices. Fight fire with fire.
I’m afraid that would backfire in a terrible way like it did for FDR.
re: #81 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Also as an aside. Remember how FEMA was also vilified under the Obama Administration by the right. This is nothing more than the same. Only this time it’s coming from the left. SMDH.
Not sure why you’re S’ingYDH. You have far more faith in any agency than i do. Right now at least.
Here in San Diego county, the number of registered voters declared as Democrat is slowing going up.
Republicans slowly going down.
However, the number of non-declared is rising sharply.
The shocker to me, having just looked at the latest report, is that the number registered as American Independent has climbed considerably.
For those who don’t know, the AI is California’s version of George Wallace’s party. Pat Buchanan supporters, etc.
Indeed, the AI is growing faster than “Libertarian”.
What this tells me is that the racists are coming more out of the closet, not willing to hide in the Republican party as much.
re: #88 HappyWarrior
I’m afraid that would backfire in a terrible way like it did for FDR.
I have to agree.
1/2 If the GOP succeeds in confirming Kavanaugh it’s going to be a major disaster for the country, a slow-motion disaster unfolding for months and years, as one important legal decision after another gets reversed, and new religious right-driven decisions take their place. …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
2/2 Civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, immigration, the environment, it’s all on the chopping block. We’re at a turning point in the history of the US.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
re: #90 freetoken
Here in San Diego county, the number of registered voters declared as Democrat is slowing going up.
Republicans slowly going down.
However, the number of non-declared is rising sharply.
The shocker to me, having just looked at the latest report, is that the number registered as American Independent has climbed considerably.
For those who don’t know, the AI is California’s version of George Wallace’s party. Pat Buchanan supporters, etc.
Indeed, the AI is growing faster than “Libertarian”.
What this tells me is that the racists are coming more out of the closet, not willing to hide in the Republican party as much.
Do you think there’s a possibility that many don’t know AIP is Wallace/Buchanansque. Not defending but I thought I did read someone prominent who signed up not knowing that.
re: #87 MsJ
There are no conservative sexual assault victims. Once they are attacked, they’re immediately and forever known as Democrats. Always.
Unless the perp is a Messican….
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Do you think there’s a possibility that many don’t know AIP is Wallace/Buchanansque. Not defending but I thought I did read someone prominent who signed up not knowing that.
I used to not know. Took me some time to figure it out, but that was before the internet became universal.
re: #90 freetoken
Here in San Diego county, the number of registered voters declared as Democrat is slowing going up.
Republicans slowly going down.
However, the number of non-declared is rising sharply.
The shocker to me, having just looked at the latest report, is that the number registered as American Independent has climbed considerably.
For those who don’t know, the AI is California’s version of George Wallace’s party. Pat Buchanan supporters, etc.
Indeed, the AI is growing faster than “Libertarian”.
What this tells me is that the racists are coming more out of the closet, not willing to hide in the Republican party as much.
Is is possible that a number of voters don’t know what the American Independent Party actually is?
re: #91 MsJ
I have to agree.
It would be disastrous and aid Republican attacks on liberal leaning judges. I understand the desire but it’d be the wrong move and incentivize Republicans too.
re: #90 freetoken
Here in San Diego county, the number of registered voters declared as Democrat is slowing going up.
Republicans slowly going down.
However, the number of non-declared is rising sharply.
The shocker to me, having just looked at the latest report, is that the number registered as American Independent has climbed considerably.
For those who don’t know, the AI is California’s version of George Wallace’s party. Pat Buchanan supporters, etc.
Indeed, the AI is growing faster than “Libertarian”.
What this tells me is that the racists are coming more out of the closet, not willing to hide in the Republican party as much.
What it means to me is that people see “Independent” in the name and check that box, having no idea what it means.
re: #98 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
What it means to me is that people see “Independent” in the name and check that box, having no idea what it means.
That was my thought too.
Hello BOT and @deray . You do know that this is a NATIONWIDE system. If one person gets it, EVERYONE gets it. Seems you are the only one claiming this shit. How about we ask @fema about this this.
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) September 19, 2018
re: #96 Blind Frog Belly White
Is is possible that a number of voters don’t know what the American Independent Party actually is?
It was an actress, I think. I want to say Amanda Peet, but I don’t remember.
Here’s the total of the right wing parties in San Diego, two years apart. The AIP is growing by the amount almost exactly what the GOP is losing.
GOP + AIP, Aug 2016 = 544,608
GOP + AIP, Aug 2018 = 543,294
re: #101 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It was an actress, I think. I want to say Amanda Peet, but I don’t remember.
Quick google search shows many celebs did this including Sugar Ray Leonard.
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Do you think there’s a possibility that many don’t know AIP is Wallace/Buchanansque. Not defending but I thought I did read someone prominent who signed up not knowing that.
Sorry Happy—my last post was meant to reply to this.
re: #101 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It was an actress, I think. I want to say Amanda Peet, but I don’t remember.
I did not know that she’s American.
re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Sorry Happy—my last post was meant to reply to this.
All good.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
Quick google search shows many celebs did this including Sugar Ray Leonard.
I almost deleted that, thinking: “No, she’s Canadian!” But that’s the string theorist—no relation.
re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Sorry Happy—my last post was meant to reply to this.
Wondered about that.
re: #109 Blind Frog Belly White
Wondered about that.
I was going uphill and stopped too soon. Not the first time….
re: #92 Charles Johnson
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re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White
Today is Rango’s 9th Birthday!!
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Happy Birthday, to your leggy friend!
re: #105 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I did not know that she’s American.
Former Quaker, if I remember hearing right.
re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White
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Happy Birthday, Rango!
The most important local change has been in the 49th Congressional District.
That is the one that Car Thief has owned for several elections now.
In the past few months, the number of Dems in that district has surpassed Republicans.
Just two years ago, in that district, Republican registration led Democrats by a bit over 8k.
This is why Car Thief figured it would be a good time to get out.
Some gun-toting Texans embrace Democrat’s call for tougher firearm laws
He is now considering the once-unthinkable: voting for a Democratic Senate candidate who wants tougher gun laws.
Martin, 72, has a simple explanation for his change of heart: He is sick of the gun violence plaguing America and his gun-loving state, where 26 worshippers died in a church massacre last year.
“Even as conservative as I am, there has to be a middle ground on guns,” said Martin during an interview on his ranch near the city of Carrizo Springs.
Martin’s nuanced view on firearms - he loves them but wants to see tougher restrictions - is one U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke hopes is gaining traction in Texas.
re: #108 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I almost deleted that, thinking: “No, she’s Canadian!” But that’s the string theorist—no relation.
Two Amanda Peet’s? Well why not I’m reading a book the other Rudolf Hess I got at Auschwitz.
re: #118 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s what the article I read says.
Which made The Whole Nine Yards all the more interesting to watch.
re: #117 electrotek
Some gun-toting Texans embrace Democrat’s call for tougher firearm laws
Ted Cruz is petrified of people like this. Props to this man seriously.
And all of that water is coming your way. A lot of people don’t know that.
Trust me, fuckface yam—every fucking body knows that—except maybe you.
Gah—I hate that asshole so much.
Trump in South Carolina: “We just left North Carolina. They got hit really, really hard, and they are working. And all of that water is coming your way. A lot of people don’t know that.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 19, 2018
re: #122 BeachDem
And all of that water is coming your way. A lot of people don’t know that.
Trust me, fuckface yam—every fucking body knows that—except maybe you.
Gah—I hate that asshole so much.
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why is hillary Clinton on tv again what is the point of this
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) September 19, 2018
Chris Cillizza wishes he could be this vacuous
— Mr Toad’s Wild Ride (@goddamnedfrank) September 19, 2018
re: #122 BeachDem
And all of that water is coming your way. A lot of people don’t know that.
Trust me, fuckface yam—every fucking body knows that—except maybe you.
Gah—I hate that asshole so much.
South Carolina is downhill of North Carolina. Didn’t you know that?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
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re: #125 Belafon
South Carolina is downhill of North Carolina. Didn’t you know that?
When the water gets to the south pole, it just runs out. A lot of people don’t know that.
Why am I in such perfect shape even though I eat like Augustus Gloop?//
re: #98 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I made that mistake when I first registered to vote here in California before changing over to a Democrat.
I still listen to AM radio wingnuts just to keep tabs on talking points and narratives. Probably average 90 minutes a week and get Prager, Medved, Elder, Gallagher, and some of Jay Sekulow’s freakshow, occasionally Levin if I’m driving late.
6AM has always been the local ha’ole guy out of Honolulu on ‘The Mike Buck Show.’ Hawaii is heavily Democratic so there’s not a lot of full nuttery here, most conservatives would be considered RINO’s everywhere else. The show has been more local oriented and somewhat light on the conservative narratives, though Mike would sometimes let a little wingnut out local kine style.
Things have changed. The coordination and messaging you usually hear on the syndicates are now infused in the local guy’s show. Yesterday he had on the local GOP party rep talking up an upcoming Turning Point USA event with Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. They both discussed how brilliant Kirk was because he could communicate to the younger generation and get through to them despite the onslaught of liberal bias in all the schools and local institutions. A total puke fest.
It seems like desperation to me. The GOP talker on the phone spoke about the brilliant Steven Moore from the Heritage Institute (LOL, Foundation you hack). They don’t have their best people out here. A follow on event is a cocktail hour with Candace Owens: tickets are $150 for a two hour event. Oh boy.
What is striking is that the AM Radioplex is essentially and practically speaking a campaign arm of the GOP. You don’t need dark money to drive narratives or attack Dem opponents: the AM Radioplex is doing it for you non-stop. Citizens United is bad, but we are ignoring the massive propaganda campaign running daily for decades on the radio. Of course as soon as this comes up the right wing will go full bonkers pulling every rhetorical ploy possible including the original narrative: the Liberal Media.
re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
When the water gets to the south pole, it just runs out. A lot of people don’t know that.
I thought it all drained into the big hole that leads to the core of the Hollow Earth - you know, the one we don’t notice because of all the ice on top of it in Antarctica….
re: #131 BigPapa
I still listen to AM radio wingnuts just to keep tabs on talking points and narratives. Probably average 90 minutes a week and get Prager, Medved, Elder, Gallagher, and some of Jay Sekulow’s freakshow, occasionally Levin if I’m driving late.
6AM has always been the local ha’ole guy out of Honolulu on ‘The Mike Buck Show.’ Hawaii is heavily Democratic so there’s not a lot of full nuttery here, most conservatives would be considered RINO’s everywhere else. The show has been more local oriented and somewhat light on the conservative narratives, though Mike would sometimes let a little wingnut out local kine style.
Things have changed. The coordination and messaging you usually hear on the syndicates are now infused in the local guy’s show. Yesterday he had on the local GOP party rep talking up an upcoming Turning Point USA event with Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. They both discussed how brilliant Kirk was because he could communicate to the younger generation and get through to them despite the onslaught of liberal bias in all the schools and local institutions. A total puke fest.
It seems like desperation to me. The GOP talker on the phone spoke about the brilliant Steven Moore from the Heritage Institute (LOL, Foundation you hack). They don’t have their best people out here. A follow on event is a cocktail hour with Candace Owens: tickets are $150 for a two hour event. Oh boy.
What is striking is that the AM Radioplex is essentially and practically speaking a campaign arm of the GOP. You don’t need dark money to drive narratives or attack Dem opponents: the AM Radioplex is doing it for you non-stop. Citizens United is bad, but we are ignoring the massive propaganda campaign running daily for decades on the radio. Of course as soon as this comes up the right wing will go full bonkers pulling every rhetorical ploy possible including the original narrative: the Liberal Media.
Kirk is so good with the younger generation that more young people are libertarians than MAGA idiots like Charlie. I have a couple friends who like him but they’re fringe.
What’s amusing is that a lot of people who try to convince me to go for the bullshit herbalistic approach and “load of vitamins” to prevent these illnesses from occurring are the usual burner/hippie jackasses that spend more money on Burning Man and its corresponding airfare than they do on regular doctor visits.
re: #131 BigPapa
I haven’t ignored it. I’ve been screaming about it for a decade now. Same with Fox.
re: #122 BeachDem
And all of that water is coming your way. A lot of people don’t know that.
Trust me, fuckface yam—every fucking body knows that—except maybe you.
Gah—I hate that asshole so much.
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re: #87 MsJ
There are no conservative sexual assault victims. Once they are attacked, they’re immediately and forever known as Democrats. Always.
Or the treatment they got from the cops/hospital/employer/etc turns them into Democrats.
65% of Republicans support allowing more methane emissions
[insert joke here] https://t.co/B3hLKwUMWd pic.twitter.com/zq9fiS3tiY— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 19, 2018
Methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, capable of trapping vastly more heat in the atmosphere.
So of course the anti-science party thinks it’s fine to emit a lot more. https://t.co/CwvShzBhy2— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
re: #138 Charles Johnson
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re: #136 MsJ
I could curl up into a ball and die of humiliation every time this moron opens his dumbass pie hole.
Yeah—it is really getting to me today, even more than usual.
Trump’s storm “briefing” in N.C. was surreal. First, nobody briefed him; politicians mostly just thanked him. Second, he praised local officials for their “talent.” Third, he said we have the strongest economy ever. Fourth, he asked about Lake Norman, where his golf course is.
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) September 19, 2018
re: #87 MsJ
There are no conservative sexual assault victims. Once they are attacked, they’re immediately and forever known as Democrats. Always.
It wouldn’t surprise me if that wasn’t true in a way you may have not intended.
If a sexual assault victim is treated the way they usually are by conservatives they probably learn that conservatives are not for them and then become more liberal.
Image I’ve seen around FB of Zimmerman signing skittles wrappers. Fucker knows what he got away with and flaunts it.
re: #138 Charles Johnson
Methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, capable of trapping vastly more heat in the atmosphere.
And the BFR (and Blue Origin’s New Glenn) are going to be burning it—about 20% rich.
re: #139 HappyWarrior
Maybe we should just forget to flush when visiting Republican friends and family.
re: #141 ObserverArt
It wouldn’t surprise me if that wasn’t true in a way you may have not intended.
If a sexual assault victim is treated the way they usually are by conservatives they probably learn that conservatives are not for them and then become more liberal.
Irving Kristol called a neoconservative a liberal mugged by reality. I call a liberal someone who doesn’t live in a fantasy world.
re: #98 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
What it means to me is that people see “Independent” in the name and check that box, having no idea what it means.
Isn’t that how a lot of Americans do politics; no idea what any of it means but vote based on the thinnest of reasons?
re: #146 ObserverArt
Isn’t that how a lot of Americans do politics; no idea what any of it means but vote based on the thinnest of reasons?
Yes.
re: #81 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Also as an aside. Remember how FEMA was also vilified under the Obama Administration by the right. This is nothing more than the same. Only this time it’s coming from the left. SMDH.
The value and trustworthiness of FEMA is entirely dependent on who’s been put in charge of the agency.
James Lee Witt (Clinton admin; Northridge earthquake, Red River Flood) was really good at the job.
Joe Allbaugh and Michael Brown (GWB admin; Katrina) were not.
Craig Fugate (Obama; Sandy, midwest floods) was really good at the job.
Brock Long (Trump; Maria, Florence) is not.
re: #148 sagehen
The value and trustworthiness of FEMA is entirely dependent on whose been put in charge of the agency.
James Lee Witt (Clinton admin; Northridge earthquake, Red River Flood) was really good at the job.
Joe Allbaugh and Michael Brown (GWB admin; Katrina) were not.
Craig Fugate (Obama; Sandy, midwest floods) was really good at the job.
Brock Long (Trump; Maria, Florence) is not.
Allbaugh and Brown were both Bush loyalists. Fugate iirc was Florida’s emergency services head so he had experience with these sort of things.
re: #144 Blind Frog Belly White
Why did that make me laugh? That definitely made me laugh.
re: #51 makeitstop
Orrin Hatch needs a punch in the fucking throat.
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re: #93 HappyWarrior
Do you think there’s a possibility that many don’t know AIP is Wallace/Buchanansque. Not defending but I thought I did read someone prominent who signed up not knowing that.
In Alaska, AIP is the secession party. I can sorta see how Californians might feel some sympathy for that.
re: #152 austin_blue
And that line forms right here ——> X.
And then you have to get in line to punch Grassley.
re: #153 sagehen
In Alaska, AIP is the secession party. I can sorta see how Californians might feel some sympathy for that.
I know but I think people have seriously just saw independent and signed up.
Since we have a Schwab account, we get the Schwab email newsletter, which I generally ignore. Yesterday’s edition, however, came with this headline:
Wages Are Growing: Should Investors Worry?
This is the kind of thing that makes me think of tumbrils and Mme DeFarge….
re: #156 Blind Frog Belly White
Since we have a Schwab account, we get the Schwab email newsletter, which I generally ignore. Yesterday’s edition, however, came with this headline:
This is the kind of thing that makes me think of tumbrils and Mme DeFarge….
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They didn’t like it when Obama told them he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks, but….
re: #117 electrotek
Some gun-toting Texans embrace Democrat’s call for tougher firearm laws
People are capable of having minds changed when someone is patient enough to talk to them in real terms and show it is not all a big gun take-away when politicians talk about sensible gun control.
The NRA is all about fear.
Beto has been all about sense.
Said it before. I hope a lot of Democratic candidates are watching Beto. There is a lot to learn from his campaign. He is making inroads in Texas and win or lose he is a great example.
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
Two female mental health patients in South Carolina were chained in a back of a van that was overcome by flood waters. The women drowned. The deputies in the van were rescued. https://t.co/DrvYloKggC
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) September 19, 2018
Their bodies are still chained in the back of the van underwater. They have not been recovered yet.
What a wild story: a prisoner serving 39 years to life started making drawings of golf courses. The drawings made their way to Golf Digest, which wrote about him, then realized his conviction was sketchy, then investigated, and now he’s free https://t.co/mXKZ8kRZgT
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 19, 2018
How fucking broken is our justice system when a golf magazine(!) has to do real investigative journalism to expose a 27 year old wrongful conviction?
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) September 19, 2018
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
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Their bodies are still chained in the back of the van underwater. They have not been recovered yet.
Both were mental health patients with no criminal history. I read that earlier and just about cried. It’s horrific. Tragic and horrific.
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
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Since hearing about this story yesterday, the driving question in my mind is “Why was this transport so urgent that it could not wait until the flooding had stopped?”
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
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Their bodies are still chained in the back of the van underwater. They have not been recovered yet.
Not all lives matter I guess.
re: #9 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Speaking of Colorado, seems someone literally took a shot at a dem candidate there.
She did add, however, that she does not believe her Republican opponent, Rob Woodward, had anything to do with the shooting that took place at her house.
May not be the opponent but could well be one of his supporters. Dems are too nice - she had no need to say this.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
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I saw an ThinkProgress piece the other day that touched on stories like this, ones where we’re supposed to feel good that things have worked out without questioning why they were like this in the first place. It should not take a golf magazine looking into your wrongful conviction for justice to be done.
re: #165 Targetpractice
I saw an ThinkProgress piece the other day that touched on stories like this, ones where we’re supposed to feel good that things have worked out without questioning why they were like this in the first place. It should not take a golf magazine looking into your wrongful conviction for justice to be done.
Kind of like the crowdfunding for people with cancer. Kudos to who help but this should not be happening in the US.
re: #21 dangerman
Schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident
i dont like how they keep using “accuser” instead of ‘Ms Ford’, so i took it out of the title
in any event, i’d like to think its going to get harder and harder to not call anyone else to testify
You don’t think the same way as the GOP committee members
re: #165 Targetpractice
I saw an ThinkProgress piece the other day that touched on stories like this, ones where we’re supposed to feel good that things have worked out without questioning why they were like this in the first place. It should not take a golf magazine looking into your wrongful conviction for justice to be done.
When Golf Digest and Teen Vogue become the guardians of democracy….
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
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Did I read the two that were saved climbed out onto the roof and were then saved. And they did that while two handicapped people were chained inside the back of the van.
Chilling. And very troubling.
re: #154 HappyWarrior
And then you have to get in line to punch Grassley.
I’m good with that, too! And Mitch, Cornyn, and Cruz.
re: #170 austin_blue
I’m good with that, too! And Mitch, Cornyn, and Cruz.
Ditto and Trump and Kavanaugh
re: #169 ObserverArt
Did I read the two that were saved climbed out onto the roof and were then saved. And they did that while two handicapped people were chained inside the back of the van.
Chilling. And very troubling.
Driver and passenger.
re: #161 MsJ
Both were mental health patients with no criminal history. I read that earlier and just about cried. It’s horrific. Tragic and horrific.
There are stringent federal regulations for the transport of prisoners, mainly aimed at getting them out in an emergency. Maybe they don’t apply to mental patients.
re: #51 makeitstop
@OrrinHatch just told 3 different women reporters that rape isn’t cause for keeping a man off the #SCOTUS for life and I am stunned.
That’s a step up from saying “Brett Kavanaugh did not do this”
1. He did not do this
2. It was a long time ago
3. Even if he did it - it was still a long time ago
4. This is no reason to stop the nomination
Actually, it’s 3 steps up from he did not do this
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
These deputies should face manslaughter charges at least and definitely should get hit with wrongful death lawsuits. They were responsible for the well-being of those patients.
re: #169 ObserverArt
Did I read the two that were saved climbed out onto the roof and were then saved. And they did that while two handicapped people were chained inside the back of the van.
Chilling. And very troubling.
They tried to get the women out of the back but could not open the doors because the water was already high enough that the water pressure prevented the doors from opening. At that point you are not going to get the doors open until the van floods and the pressure equalizes. I don’t blame the drivers, shit happens in natural disasters, if there is any blame to assign it is to whoever ordered them transported in the middle of that shit, or if they were being transferred because of imminent flooding where they were, whoever failed to see the problem coming in time.
re: #42 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
all it will take is for no other democratic appointed justice to retire before the next democratic president, and then for a gop appointed justice to go, and then, bingo, a liberal majority on the court
Yeah, that’s pretty much how the appointment game has worked with the Supreme Court since… well, forever. It’s entirely plausible that had Clinton won, Kennedy wouldn’t have retired; but perhaps Ginsberg or Breyer would have. It’s become somewhat rare for a justice to retire when a member of the other party has the White House.
For the record, I’m not going to get in line to punch Hatch, Grassley, or McConnell. They’re probably too old to take a solid punch from me. Cruz and Rubio? They’re probably young enough, though.
re: #178 KGxvi
Yeah, that’s pretty much how the appointment game has worked with the Supreme Court since… well, forever. It’s entirely plausible that had Clinton won, Kennedy wouldn’t have retired; but perhaps Ginsberg or Breyer would have. It’s become somewhat rare for a justice to retire when a member of the other party has the White House.
Technically Stevens and Souter for Obama but they stopped being seen as Republican judicial picks years ago. Always have Ford credit for defending Stevens as a judge when wingnuts would attack him.
re: #179 KGxvi
For the record, I’m not going to get in line to punch Hatch, Grassley, or McConnell. They’re probably too old to take a solid punch from me. Cruz and Rubio? They’re probably young enough, though.
Sasse could use one too imo.
re: #175 fern01
That’s a step up from saying “Brett Kavanaugh did not do this”
1. He did not do this
2. It was a long time ago
3. Even if he did it - it was still a long time ago
4. This is no reason to stop the nominationActually, it’s 3 steps up from he did not do this
I’m pretty sure attempted rape is a felony, and since there’s no statute of limitions for attempted rape in Maryland, Judge Kavanaugh has been credibly accused of a felony for which he could face charges TODAY.
Hatch should have hung up his spurs a while back, but then he was always shitty.
re: #182 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m pretty sure attempted rape is a felony, and since there’s no statute of limitions for attempted rape in Maryland, Judge Kavanaugh has been credibly accused of a felony for which he could face charges TODAY.
Hatch should have hung up his spurs a while back, but then he was always shitty.
And now you have Mitt replacing him.
re: #180 HappyWarrior
Technically Stevens and Souter for Obama but they stopped being seen as Republican judicial picks years ago. Always have Ford credit for defending Stevens as a judge when wingnuts would attack him.
Ford and HW Bush were probably the last of the old time Republicans. Ford from the small town main street types and HW Bush from the old school blue bloods. They’d be more inclined to nominate “liberal” judges and justices than the conservative movement types.
Shutting down GotNews seems like a pretty major step, even though it hasn’t been very active lately. At one point he was getting plugs from Rush Limbaugh and Drudge and his garbage was even showing up in the White House. Seems very weird to just bail suddenly.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 19, 2018
re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White
Today is Rango’s 9th Birthday!!
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Happy Birthday to my Big Booga, my trail walkin’ buddy, my Puppy Boy, my Big Galoot!!!!!
Happy Birthday Sweeto Rango.
More DoRango photos please.
I’ll never give you a break. Even on the Galoot’s B-day. (sorry, not sorry)
re: #184 KGxvi
Ford and HW Bush were probably the last of the old time Republicans. Ford from the small town main street types and HW Bush from the old school blue bloods. They’d be more inclined to nominate “liberal” judges and justices than the conservative movement types.
Yep.
re: #185 Charles Johnson
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re: #175 fern01
That’s a step up from saying “Brett Kavanaugh did not do this”
1. He did not do this
2. It was a long time ago
3. Even if he did it - it was still a long time ago
4. This is no reason to stop the nominationActually, it’s 3 steps up from he did not do this
5. We honestly don’t give a shit about this woman, let’s vote!
re: #84 Patricia Kayden
If Dems take back Congress and the White House, they should enact term limits for SCOTUS and pack it with more Justices. Fight fire with fire.
NO on Term Limits.
What would stop Pence from kicking out every moderate judge when their terms are up and replacing them with Jesusbots?
I think the only way to fix the court is to expand the size from 9 to 15 and put every young liberal woman in a new slot to offset the five Radical RepubliKKKlans.
re: #183 HappyWarrior
And now you have Mitt replacing him.
When was the last time someone held statewide office in two different states?
re: #185 Charles Johnson
[but most people probably don’t know Chuck like you do.]
Thanks for covering that nasty job. Sorry about the name similarity bad luck that may have made you encouraged you to do it.
re: #191 KGxvi
When was the last time someone held statewide office in two different states?
Good question.
It seems the only thing that caused the GOP to stumble for a short time was Prof. Ford putting her name to the allegation. Now they’re pretty much back to where they were Monday morning: “Even if this did happen, we don’t care, LET’S VOTE!”
re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
When the water gets to the south pole, it just runs out. A lot of people don’t know that.
It runs over the edge - all the good flat earth people know that
This is of course by design. Too many good people stayed home, and the monsters among us, with the help of the terminally stupid, took control of the country.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 19, 2018
re: #196 fern01
It runs over the edge - all the good flat earth people know that
That’s crazy-talk. The ice-wall holds it in.
re: #186 Stanley Sea
Happy Birthday Sweeto Rango.
More DoRango photos please.
I’ll never give you a break. Even on the Galoot’s B-day. (sorry, not sorry)
Geez.
Okay - Dory using the ottoman to level the playing field….
re: #149 HappyWarrior
Allbaugh and Brown were both Bush loyalists. Fugate iirc was Florida’s emergency services head so he had experience with these sort of things.
Imagine - President Obama picked someone with experience and knowledge suited to the job. Same way he picked someone for the SCOTUS.
re: #199 Blind Frog Belly White
Note that perspective is making Dory look a lot bigger than she actually is!
re: #195 Targetpractice
It seems the only thing that caused the GOP to stumble for a short time was Prof. Ford putting her name to the allegation. Now they’re pretty much back to where they were Monday morning: “Even if this did happen, we don’t care, LET’S VOTE!”
True.
But there has and continues to be a political price to what they are doing.
I’m hoping it becomes a battle won but a war lost kind of thing when viewed in the long run.
re: #200 fern01
Imagine - President Obama picked someone with experience and knowledge suited to the job. Same way he picked someone for the SCOTUS.
He did the same thing with his VP too.
re: #190 Joe Bacon 🌹
NO on Term Limits.
What would stop Pence from kicking out every moderate judge when their terms are up and replacing them with Jesusbots?I think the only way to fix the court is to expand the size from 9 to 15 and put every young liberal woman in a new slot to offset the five Radical RepubliKKKlans.
The SC has been stuck at 9 Justices since 1869. It should be tied to population….
re: #190 Joe Bacon 🌹
NO on Term Limits.
What would stop Pence from kicking out every moderate judge when their terms are up and replacing them with Jesusbots?I think the only way to fix the court is to expand the size from 9 to 15 and put every young liberal woman in a new slot to offset the five Radical RepubliKKKlans.
Judicial term limits are dangerous because you could see arbitrary and wild swings in decisions. Lifetime appointments give us some stability, and also prevents states from passing laws they know would otherwise get struck down - with term limits they could time passing otherwise unconstitutional laws in the hopes that the “right” majority would uphold them.
I’m generally agreeable to expanding the size of the Court, I think 13 makes sense - that gives you one justice for each federal circuit. To get any sort of bipartisan consensus you’d probably have to do it where two justices get appointed the year before a presidential election and two the year after.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I think we should propose that all felony convictions should be investigated by a third party regularly.
re: #206 KGxvi
As long as a Democrat isn’t elected president.
re: #196 fern01
It runs over the edge - all the good flat earth people know that
Nah, the Wall of Ice™ holds it in.
GOP: “Kavanaugh deserves the presumption of innocence and an opportunity to plead his case, just as our justice system intends!”
Also GOP: “This is not a criminal matter, so the FBI cannot look into it! This is between two people and we see no need to call other witnesses or gather evidence!”
re: #198 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s crazy-talk. The ice-wall holds it in.
Teach me to read before I post….
re: #211 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Teach me to read before I post….
That’s the problem with unthreaded conversations.
Neanderthal Bone Flute Music https://t.co/qLw1vEGfgO via @YouTube
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 19, 2018
re: #212 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That’s the problem with unthreaded conversations.
There’s a couple of sites I used to follow that changed to threaded comments. I immediately stopped commenting. I won’t even try to follow a threaded comment page—it’s intolerable.
re: #204 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
The SC has been stuck at 9 Justices since 1869. It should be tied to population….
The House of Representatives used to be tied to population like you’re suggesting. It hasn’t been more than 435 since 1913 (with a few exceptions for when new states were added). If we’re going to add seats anywhere, I think it should be to the House.
re: #189 Targetpractice
5. We honestly don’t give a shit about this woman, let’s vote!
That is polite compared to what they are saying behind closed doors - but it highlights the attitude. I do wonder how they sleep at night & how any of them have wives and daughters who still support them.
re: #214 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
There’s a couple of sites I used to follow that changed to threaded comments. I immediately stopped commenting. I won’t even try to follow a threaded comment page—it’s intolerable.
How would it be intolerable? It keeps conversations together, and allows easy collapse of dumb conversations.
re: #215 KGxvi
The House of Representatives used to be tied to population like you’re suggesting. It hasn’t been more than 435 since 1913 (with a few exceptions for when new states were added). If we’re going to add seats anywhere, I think it should be to the House.
At least there should be 870 votes in the Senate. Each Senator from Wyoming should get one vote and each Senator from California 54, in the extreme cases.
Edit: Or is it 52?
re: #219 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
At least there should be 870 votes in the Senate. Each Senator from Wyoming should get one vote and each Senator from California 54, in the extreme cases.
I was stunned to see how many states have fewer people than PR and many of them are bright red states.
re: #218 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
How would it be intolerable? It keeps conversations together, and allows easy collapse of dumb conversations.
Because to see what’s new in each conversation, you have to keep going up and down the page and refreshing constantly.
re: #219 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
At least there should be 870 votes in the Senate. Each Senator from Wyoming should get one vote and each Senator from California 54, in the extreme cases.
Eh, I get why we have the Senate the way that we do. Even if we had a constitutional convention today, there’s no way that we wouldn’t end up with something substantially similar to what we have now, a bicameral legislature with one house determined by population and one house determined by statehood.
Interestingly, I just went looking on the House of Representatives issue and found this about the so called Wyoming Rule. Seems very reasonable, which of course means it’d never pass Congress.
The Wyoming Rule is a proposal to increase the size of the United States House of Representatives so that the standard representative-to-population ratio would be that of the smallest entitled unit, which is currently Wyoming.
re: #221 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Because to see what’s new in each conversation, you have to keep going up and down the page and refreshing constantly.
Excellent point. I’m in and out on the sites I use that have threaded comments, so that’s not an issue, but it would suck here.
re: #220 HappyWarrior
I was stunned to see how many states have fewer people than PR and many of them are bright red states.
I wonder what long term effect Irma and Maria had on Puerto Rico’s population.
re: #224 KGxvi
I wonder what long term effect Irma and Maria had on Puerto Rico’s population.
I’m hoping not a Potato Famine thing where it takes decades to regain loss population.
re: #193 wrenchwench
Thanks for covering that nasty job. Sorry about the name similarity bad luck that may have
made youencouraged you to do it.
It wasn’t the name so much — it was Chuck actually trying to hunt down my address and show up outside where I lived. Luckily he found a very old address, but when he posted those photos of himself standing outside what used to be my apartment building with a big shit-eating grin, he got on my list for all time. And there aren’t many people on that list. Actually, just the one.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
I’m hoping not a Potato Famine thing where it takes decades to regain loss population.
Didn’t Louisiana, or at least New Orleans, see a significant population decrease after Katrina? Mostly in the form of people moving to other states?
I think that might be what happens with Puerto Rico, where a lot of people seem to have relocated to Florida.
re: #224 KGxvi
I wonder what long term effect Irma and Maria had on Puerto Rico’s population.
It’d be funny—well, not funny Ha-Ha—after the GOP’s resistance to PR’s statehood because they’d vote Democratic, if they drove so many Puerto Ricans to move to Florida for it to become a solid blue state.
re: #226 Charles Johnson
It wasn’t the name so much — it was Chuck actually trying to hunt down my address and show up outside where I lived. Luckily he found a very old address, but when he posted those photos of himself standing outside what used to be my apartment building with a big shit-eating grin, he got on my list for all time. And there aren’t many people on that list. Actually, just the one.
Maybe he came after you because of the name. Good job dealing with your list.
re: #224 KGxvi
I wonder what long term effect Irma and Maria had on Puerto Rico’s population.
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are now Floridians and Texans… and they HATE!! the R’s. And because they’re new registrations, they won’t be part of anybody’s likely voter database. (the ones who’ve become New Yorkers… won’t alter the blueness at all. But maybe some of them were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ district? It’s that kind of district.
re: #229 wrenchwench
Maybe he came after you because of the name. Good job dealing with your list.
Didn’t mean to make light of your actual threat to his twisted agenda.
re: #227 KGxvi
Didn’t Louisiana, or at least New Orleans, see a significant population decrease after Katrina? Mostly in the form of people moving to other states?
I think that might be what happens with Puerto Rico, where a lot of people seem to have relocated to Florida.
I think so yeah.
Mueller playing 12 dimensional chess.
Manafort’s plea deal says that if his convictions are wiped out for any reason, (for example, a pardon from Trump) prosecutors can charge him with any other crimes he committed or confessed to during his plea negotiations https://t.co/n9ejnJF5Rj
— POLITICO (@politico) September 18, 2018
re: #233 MsJ
Mueller playing 12 dimensional chess.
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Mueller’s a seasoned vet. Trump meanwhile doesn’t knwo the difference between a baseball and a beach ball.
re: #231 wrenchwench
Didn’t mean to make light of your actual threat to his twisted agenda.
No worries, I didn’t think you were.
re: #233 MsJ
Mueller playing 12 dimensional chess.
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I’ve been wondering about that. What’s to stop Trump from getting a hold of the records from the plea negotiations and including those admitted crimes in a pardon?
Despite the rules we have in place, ultimately, the Justice Department answers to the president, and if he demands to see them, they’d probably have to turn them over.
re: #199 Blind Frog Belly White
Geez.
Okay - Dory using the ottoman to level the playing field….
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Thank you.
I know you have a zillion photos I want to see.
Hmmm. A blog about the escapades of DoRango….
re: #236 KGxvi
I’ve been wondering about that. What’s to stop Trump from getting a hold of the records from the plea negotiations and including those admitted crimes in a pardon?
Despite the rules we have in place, ultimately, the Justice Department answers to the president, and if he demands to see them, they’d probably have to turn them over.
My understanding is that he could then be charged with some of the state-law crimes that he admitted to, which would be outside the scope of Trump’s pardon power.
re: #234 HappyWarrior
Mueller’s a seasoned vet. Trump meanwhile doesn’t knwo the difference between a baseball and a beach ball.
If Mueller brings down tRump, I think his picture should go on the $1 bill—what has George Washington done for us lately?
re: #238 Schweppes7
My understanding is that he could then be charged with some of the state-law crimes that he admitted to, which would be outside the scope of Trump’s pardon power.
Right but that’s pretty much standard fare. But state prosecutions wouldn’t normally be covered in a federal plea deal. So I’m just wondering what teeth those provisions have. More likely, it’s a trap for Trump, as it’d likely be seen as an abuse of the pardon power.
re: #236 KGxvi
I’ve been wondering about that. What’s to stop Trump from getting a hold of the records from the plea negotiations and including those admitted crimes in a pardon?
Despite the rules we have in place, ultimately, the Justice Department answers to the president, and if he demands to see them, they’d probably have to turn them over.
I can only assume it would be really, really bad (treasonous even) for trump and the Republicans. It would not go over well with anyone but the veey small percent of Americans who are trump sycophants.
I am experiencing severe JordanRules withdrawal. Come back!
(I miss you, too, Bass.)
re: #242 wrenchwench
I am experiencing severe JordanRules withdrawal. Come back!
(I miss you, too, Bass.)
This!!! This, this and this!!!
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re: #243 PhillyPretzel
And I miss Gus.
Me too, but at least I ‘see’ him on Twitter. Once in a while, I even ‘talk’ to him.
This bit of weirdness is also also Mark Judge
https://t.co/CrbSQMH8BB— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 19, 2018
re: #245 wrenchwench
Me too, but at least I ‘see’ him on Twitter. Once in a while, I even ‘talk’ to him.
Any time he spent here would be time not tweaking wingnuts on Twitter. He does good work out there.
re: #237 Stanley Sea
Thank you.
I know you have a zillion photos I want to see.
Hmmm. A blog about the escapades of DoRango….
You mean like this one from a couple seconds later? Shows how Dory attacks with both paws and teeth, versus Rango’s alligator mouth…
Because, of course he would
Spain reveals Trump proposed a wall in the Sahara Desert to deal with Europe’s ‘migrant problem’ https://t.co/xPXIPHQ5DV
— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) September 19, 2018
re: #250 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Because, of course he would
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re: #251 Blind Frog Belly White
“Trump suggests Legions in Brittania use “pulcherrimum murum magnum” to keep out Celts”
He’s going to propose Prima Nocta isn’t he?
re: #159 Scottish Dragon
This is the worst thing I have read in months.
Their bodies are still chained in the back of the van underwater. They have not been recovered yet.
A horror scriptwriter could use this as a good starting point for a story.
‘How can we continue to lose the lives of unarmed Black men in the United State of America at the hands of white police officers?’ — @BetoORourke speaking out on Botham Jean pic.twitter.com/hte5idsTrM
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 17, 2018
re: #254 Belafon
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At this rate, Ted’s gonna be forced to show up in his full white sheets before Election Day.
re: #254 Belafon
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Ted Cruz’s response will be that Beto wants to ban the police. I love O’Rourke man. He’s so genuine and he truly believes and the “justice for all” part of the pledge.
re: #253 wheat-dogg
A horror scriptwriter could use this as a good starting point for a story.
Sounds like the script of a 70’s B-movie.
Fascinating article about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
apple.news
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross leaves CNBC hosts dumbfounded after he tells them that American families won’t be bothered by tariffs on $200b of Chinese goods because “it’s spread over thousands and thousands of products” so “nobody will actually notice” that prices went up. pic.twitter.com/VXgCZ9EQFr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2018
Right. People will just find their dollars don’t go as far as they used to, but they won’t be able to point to any one item as the cause.
Looked at another way, paying these new taxes will be inescapable.
re: #262 Blind Frog Belly White
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Right. People will just find their dollars don’t go as far as they used to, but they won’t be able to point to any one item as the cause.
Looked at another way, paying these new taxes will be inescapable.
Shit adds up dumbass. I mean yeah it won’t hurt fat cat assholes like you which is why protectionalism works fine for you but the rest of us. And your tax cut just turns to be a fraud.
The @NASA_TESS team is excited to announce the mission’s first candidate planet — a super-Earth around the bright star Pi Mensae, nearly 60 light-years away. The planet orbits every 6.3 days. The discovery is now being reviewed by other scientists to validate it. Stay tuned!
— NASA_TESS (@NASA_TESS) September 19, 2018
re: #249 Blind Frog Belly White
You mean like this one from a couple seconds later? Shows how Dory attacks with both paws and teeth, versus Rango’s alligator mouth…
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Two decidingly different creatures forced to live together. One old, one young. The story we love. Odd couple-ish.
Bottom line, I bet you and Mrs BFBW laugh your asses off.
re: #262 Blind Frog Belly White
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Right. People will just find their dollars don’t go as far as they used to, but they won’t be able to point to any one item as the cause.
Looked at another way, paying these new taxes will be inescapable.
“You’re gonna see a huge increase in your take-home pay due to the tax cuts…which you’ll need when the price of everything goes up due to our trade war.”
About the two patients who drowned in the back of the sheriff’s van. Horrifying.
The Horry County Sheriff just said it appears the deputies did drive around road barriers before the van went under water killing two patients inside. He says they are trying to figure out why. https://t.co/bIrimBzDb6
— Summer Dashe (@SummerDashe) September 19, 2018
re: #267 Stanley Sea
Two decidingly different creatures forced to live together. One old, one young. The story we love. Odd couple-ish.
Bottom line, I bet you and Mrs BFBW laugh your asses off.
The way Dory dances on her hind legs to buffet his face with her tiny paws is hilarious! And they steal toys from each other - Dory takes them and scampers through gaps between the couch and sofa, and Rango just takes them and lies down on the floor, letting his big bony legs hold them down.
re: #268 Targetpractice
“You’re gonna see a huge increase in your take-home pay due to the tax cuts…which you’ll need when the price of everything goes up due to our trade war.”
And that’s not even including health insurance that you won’t be able to afford and won’t cover anything.
re: #269 BeachDem
About the two patients who drowned in the back of the sheriff’s van. Horrifying.
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“Get Home”-itis.
re: #269 BeachDem
About the two patients who drowned in the back of the sheriff’s van. Horrifying.
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In other words, even cops ignore that advice.
His publicist claims it’s due to his work schedule.
He was re-elected to a 3-year year term last year.
TV actor Tom Selleck quits NRA board of directors https://t.co/gGKcjMnZba pic.twitter.com/n0r6NCQHZS
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 20, 2018
In 1991, Senate Republicans said an FBI investigation was the “the very right thing to do” – but now, those same Republicans insist the FBI cannot investigate whether Judge Kavanaugh committed sexual assault. Why? pic.twitter.com/75dk6GCZMH
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) September 19, 2018
A prediction that may or may not seem nuts: Trump’s economic policies are going to end up causing massive problems for the US. He’s riding a wave from the Obama administration, but this insane America First lame-ass incompetent protectionism will end up really hurting us.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
re: #275 gocart mozart
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Because they had plenty of time with Thomas’ nomination to ditch him and find someone new. Here? They’re trying to beat the clock.
re: #276 Charles Johnson
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It will. And TBH the protectionism failing is a huge strike against making Sanders the standard bearer. Not like we needed another but it’s worth noting.
re: #264 HappyWarrior
Shit adds up dumbass. I mean yeah it won’t hurt fat cat assholes like you which is why protectionalism works fine for you but the rest of us. And your tax cut just turns to be a fraud.
This guy is Secretary of Commerce? “Spread out over thousands and thousands of products?” If I go to the store and every item has gone up $1, I think I’ll notice the difference between $100 and $200 at checkout time. What are the qualifications for this office again? Like being a horse breeder to run FEMA?
re: #278 Targetpractice
Because they had plenty of time with Thomas’ nomination to ditch him and find someone new. Here? They’re trying to beat the clock.
Despite all their prior wailing and gnashing of teeth about naming a SCOTUS justice in an election year.
re: #270 Blind Frog Belly White
The way Dory dances on her hind legs to buffet his face with her tiny paws is hilarious! And they steal toys from each other - Dory takes them and scampers through gaps between the couch and sofa, and Rango just takes them and lies down on the floor, letting his big bony legs hold them down.
The other thing is, Rango has wanted someone to play with since we got him. Kyoko was too old and crotchety, and Zeena ACTED too old and crotchety, like “This isn’t something a lady would do!”
I worried that he was actually angry with Dory, because he vocalizes almost constantly while playing, but then when he wants to stop, he just ignores her.
re: #276 Charles Johnson
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I look at the current economic news and remember all too well the euphoria that gripped the nation in ‘05-‘06. That was the time when the GOP were boasting about all the “good” things that the Bush Tax Cuts and deregulation were doing for the economy.
re: #271 MsJ
And that’s not even including health insurance that you won’t be able to afford and won’t cover anything.
Terrible food—and such small portions!
re: #274 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Selleck is a lifelong Republican and I believe a patriotic American. The Russian funding and constant rah rah after people die had to be weighing in him.
It’s a pussy step to resign and not give a reason though.
re: #283 Targetpractice
I look at the current economic news and remember all too well the euphoria that gripped the nation in ‘05-‘06. That was the time when the GOP were boasting about all the “good” things that the Bush Tax Cuts and deregulation were doing for the economy.
I remember being told that the Bush ‘boom’, for all that it was smaller than Clinton’s, with lower growth and higher unemployment, was a REAL solid expansion, unlike the sugar-high of Clinton’s. “These gains will be PERMANENT, whereas Clinton’s disappeared with the internet stock boom.”
How’d THAT work out for us?
re: #276 Charles Johnson
A prediction that may or may not seem nuts: Trump’s economic policies are going to end up causing massive problems for the US. He’s riding a wave from the Obama administration, but this insane America First lame-ass incompetent protectionism will end up really hurting us.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
Just in time for the next President—hopefully a Democrat—to take the blame.
re: #265 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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I wasn’t around much yesterday, not sure if this was posted.
re: #286 Blind Frog Belly White
I remember being told that the Bush ‘boom’, for all that it was smaller than Clinton’s, with lower growth and higher unemployment, was a REAL solid expansion, unlike the sugar-high of Clinton’s. “These gains will be PERMANENT, whereas Clinton’s disappeared with the internet stock boom.”
How’d THAT work out for us?
I remember the tax cut and the extra 150 or so bucks being such a big deal and then they ballooned DoD.
And it won’t be the first time a Republican president has irresponsibly taken the economic benefits from a Democratic administration, handed them out to their super-rich owners, and caused a catastrophe that never seems to touch those super-rich owners.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
re: #287 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Just in time for the next President—hopefully a Democrat—to
take the blamefix and receive none of the credit.
FTFY
Maybe the responses are algorithmed out but not a single Yes in the entire lot.
Here’s a question..
After the age of Trump.. Can you see yourself dating someone who voted for or supports trump?
Share so i can get a large sample— BigDaddy, Mayor Of DaddyLand (@DaddyDaddymac) September 19, 2018
I’ll predict now that, before the book is closed on this story about the mental patients left to die, we’re gonna find out those deputies were close to the end of their shifts and just wanted to “get it done” so they could clock out and go home. That there was a safer route, but they chose to take the quicker route despite it going through areas either known to be flooded or suspected of being so. And when they came upon the barriers, they decided that they’d risk it if it meant shaving even 5 minutes off their drive. Worst-case scenario in their minds is they’d get stuck in the middle of a pond, waiting for a tow truck to come bail their dumb asses out.
re: #288 danarchy
I wasn’t around much yesterday, not sure if this was posted.
Somebody linked to Phil Plait’s column—how cool is that?
re: #292 MsJ
Well, I’m married, so…no. Mrs. FBW would not take kindly to it.
re: #292 MsJ
Maybe the responses are algorithmed out but not a single Yes in the entire lot.
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I couldn’t but fortunately for me the circles I run in don’t have a lot of room for Trump supporters.
re: #286 Blind Frog Belly White
I remember being told that the Bush ‘boom’, for all that it was smaller than Clinton’s, with lower growth and higher unemployment, was a REAL solid expansion, unlike the sugar-high of Clinton’s. “These gains will be PERMANENT, whereas Clinton’s disappeared with the internet stock boom.”
How’d THAT work out for us?
All Bush did was give people their own money early… Thy pre-return tax refunded some money to spend that was then subtracted from they’re actual refund.
re: #289 HappyWarrior
I remember the tax cut and the extra 150 or so bucks being such a big deal and then they ballooned DoD.
Oregon originally making their mail-in ballot envelopes prepaid was “buying votes”, but just giving everybody $150—that was OK.
The burst is already anticipated late 2019 or early 2020. Unemployment rate can’t go lower. Flattening yield curve, inflation is rising, home sales are in decline, credit card debt on rise, late payment as well and the economy cycle suggests contradiction.
— 🇺🇸🏳️🌈Radical Yogi🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@KrajicekTravis) September 20, 2018
Yep. That train is coming at us. https://t.co/CNZ754mOY6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
re: #299 Charles Johnson
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re: #292 MsJ
A whole lot of people whose wealth, health, and lives aren’t under threat by Trump are very surprised to find that people who aren’t so lucky, or who care about people who aren’t so lucky, see their vote for Trump as indicating something very unattractive about them.
re: #269 BeachDem
One of my lifeguard neighbors got his car stuck in a flood in Marion on Monday. Returning home. Trying to get a trailer to tow it back here.
WE WERE LUCKY AS FUCK.
The burst is already anticipated late 2019 or early 2020. Unemployment rate can’t go lower. Flattening yield curve, inflation is rising, home sales are in decline, credit card debt on rise, late payment as well and the economy cycle suggests contradiction.
— 🇺🇸🏳️🌈Radical Yogi🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@KrajicekTravis) September 20, 2018
Yep. That train is coming at us. https://t.co/CNZ754mOY6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 20, 2018
Shit! Must be time to cut taxes on rich people some more!
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re: #303 Blind Frog Belly White
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If you cut back on people’s medicare and social security, they’re going to something, something.
It’s pretty much an economic inevitability that there will be a contraction in the next 1-2 years. And when it happens, wingnuts will be quick to blame it on Obama. After years of insisting that he had nothing to do with the “Trump Boom,” they’ll insist that he or his underlings are actually engineering a recession to deny Donny a second term. It won’t be that his economic policies are utter shit, it will be yet another “conspiracy” against his “greatness.”
re: #304 Belafon
If you cut back on people’s medicare and social security, they’re going to something, something.
I can’t remember where I read it, but even before Trump someone said that the GOP base would be okay with living under a bridge in a cardboard box, cooking sparrows on a curtain rod, as long as the nonwhite folks in that box over there didn’t have a curtain rod.
Trump’s base will blame somebody else if their benefits fall, and Trump will sell them on the idea that he’s hurting nonwhites more.
re: #304 Belafon
If you cut back on people’s medicare and social security, they’re going to something, something.
The Olds are turning on Trump and Republicans. They like status quo and stability and are getting none. They didn’t like what the GOP did with the Obamacare vote, even while they might not have liked Obamacare itself, they disliked the process more. Then tax cuts. Then every single day trump speaks.
I read an article today in Bloomberg (or somewhere) on how bad all this is for Republicans. We’ll see how it plays out but if they lose the Olds, the GOP is dead and gone.
re: #306 Blind Frog Belly White
I can’t remember where I read it, but even before Trump someone said that the GOP base would be okay with living under a bridge in a cardboard box, cooking sparrows on a curtain rod, as long as the nonwhite folks in that box over there didn’t have a curtain rod.
Trump’s base will blame somebody else if their benefits fall, and Trump will sell them on the idea that he’s hurting nonwhites more.
The base: 27% of REPUBLICANS which are only 30% of overall voters.
That’s like 17% of American voters.
re: #306 Blind Frog Belly White
I can’t remember where I read it, but even before Trump someone said that the GOP base would be okay with living under a bridge in a cardboard box, cooking sparrows on a curtain rod, as long as the nonwhite folks in that box over there didn’t have a curtain rod.
Trump’s base will blame somebody else if their benefits fall, and Trump will sell them on the idea that he’s hurting nonwhites more.
It’s the old LBJ adage about giving someone another group to look down on. That’s the GOP base. You can cut education, infrastructure, health care benefits, etc but as long as you tell them that the gays are ruining this or blah people are that, they’ll be fine.
re: #292 MsJ
Maybe the responses are algorithmed out but not a single Yes in the entire lot.
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Hell no! If dating a trumpie or being alone were my only choices, I would buy stock in Duracell and call it a day.
— Lisa Flanery-Clark (@LFlaneryClark) September 19, 2018
Same
As far as I’m concerned, our two best Presidential “psychologists”, that is people who understood voters and what made them tick were Nixon and LBJ.
They’re rubbing it in our faces.
Federal agency says it lost track of 1,488 migrant children (from @AP) https://t.co/EVZGcMdsIB
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 20, 2018
1488, huh? 1488 lost children, from the camps? 1488 of ‘em, you say. 1488. I see. https://t.co/rHdPlUzoCd
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) September 20, 2018
In a new Reuters poll, Beto O’Rourke is now tied with Ted Cruz. Please donate to Beto’s campaign, and retweet, so that on November 6 — only six weeks from now — we start to take our country back.https://t.co/D0mf3MGjXi
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) September 19, 2018
re: #312 teleskiguy
They’re rubbing it in our faces.
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I interviewed for a job with Amnesty International today trying to reunite those families and to help settle refugees. Basically, I’d be a canvasser. Trying to get people to join AI and donate 20 bucks a month.
re: #313 MsJ
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More we get closer to the finish line the more desperate and sleazy Cruz will be.
re: #280 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
This guy is Secretary of Commerce? “Spread out over thousands and thousands of products?” If I go to the store and every item has gone up $1, I think I’ll notice the difference between $100 and $200 at checkout time. What are the qualifications for this office again? Like being a horse breeder to run FEMA?
Wilbur Ross’ qualifications are that he laundered a lot of money for Russian oligarchs through the Bank of Cyprus.
re: #316 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Wilbur Ross’ qualifications are that he laundered a lot of money for Russian oligarchs through the Bank of Cyprus.
No, he was an elite NYCer. Member of the club trump wasn’t allowed to join.
The other stuff trump had no idea about.
re: #317 Stanley Sea
No, he was an elite NYCer. Member of the club trump wasn’t allowed to join.
The other stuff trump had no idea about.
Also a coal kingpin that wasn’t as notorious as Don Blankenship.
re: #313 MsJ
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I thought that 9-point down poll was a little fishy—and so did Charlie Pierce.
re: #319 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I thought that 9-point down poll was a little fishy—and so did Charlie Pierce.
The polls have been consistently showing a tight race as do Cruz’s actions.
re: #302 Stanley Sea
One of my lifeguard neighbors got his car stuck in a flood in Marion on Monday. Returning home. Trying to get a trailer to tow it back here.
WE WERE LUCKY AS FUCK.
Yep—I know peeps stuck in Maryland (whose places here are flooded), some in Atlanta, one in Georgia, who took an elderly neighbor with her and the neighbor had to go to the hospital there, one with pneumonia who couldn’t get to the hospital. It’s a total shit show. (But the yam is telling people to have a good time—gahhhh)