Watch live coverage as President Trump holds a press conference at the conclusion of the United Nations General Assembly. Trump is also expected to comment on the impending Senate Judiciary Committee hearings with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, set for Thursday.
Please don’t make me watch this moron. I’ll upding every single person who gives updates.
I cannot force myself to watch him.
“They would like to see me lose an election.”
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU COLOSSAL NARCISSIST
Please share it all, I am not where I can watch.
A live recap…
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You’re welcome.
re: #5 jaunte
“They would like to see me lose an election.”
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU COLOSSAL NARCISSIST
By “they” does he mean 65% of the American public and 90% of the world?
Because, yes, yes “they” do.
re: #5 jaunte
“They would like to see me lose an election.”
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU COLOSSAL NARCISSIST
I’d prefer to see your pathetic ass in prison.
re: #5 jaunte
“They would like to see me lose an election.”
yes, you already lost the popular vote, we want to see you lose the EC vote as well
and we would like your party to lose its congressional majority
it’s not about you, it’s about America
re: #8 makeitstop
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You’re welcome.
I’m watching, but that’s all I can think of what he’s saying. Just repeated the proven “steel plant opening up” lie.
re: #8 makeitstop
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You’re welcome.
Your Honor, there’s a lie in my soup.
“I’d rather pay down debt”???!!!
You’ve never paid off a debt in your life, you fat orange bastard.
new Quinnipiac FLA gov poll of likely voters:
Gillum (D) 54%
DeSantis (R) 45%— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 26, 2018
Democrats have destroyed Kavanaugh and his wife and his two beautiful children and are con artists.
Master of projection! Trump says the Democrats are “con artists,” and they’re laughing about the sexual abuse allegations. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
He still thinks Red State Democrats are scared of him.
“Are you saying that all three of these women are liars?”
“I won’t get into that game” “High quality” “All false to me”
re: #26 calochortus
He wasn’t big on having his nominations obstructed.
“Why did they wait? Why did Feinstein wait until after the hearings were over?”
This may be even more disgusting than I thought it would be. “Schumer and his buddies are all laughing at how they fooled you all.” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Trump talking about looking at the facts, LOL.
Telling victims that they can’t wait 36 years - in a completely sneering way.
Just dissed Avenatti’s client.
He seems to think repeating himself 20 or 30 times is going to sway public opinion…
re: #38 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Telling victims that they can’t wait 36 years - in a completely sneering way.
That will get him in tight with women voters.
re: #41 calochortus
That will get him in tight with women voters.
Worked for Roy Moore vis-a-vis white women.
Hey Trump, if you end socialism, you’ll end the US military.
re: #31 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
“Why did they wait? Why did Feinstein wait until after the hearings were over?”
Honest question, how long has the Kavanaugh confirmation process been compared to prior nominees? I feel like every current member of the Court had a much longer confirmation process.
Uh oh…why do you always side with the accused?
Reporter just asked him to call on female reporters. LOL.
He’s really testy. Avenatti drew blood for sure.
He’s starting to drop random syllables again. He just said “As you know, President Bama…” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/CkQoGQDlXs
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #47 makeitstop
He’s really testy. Avenatti drew blood for sure.
He’s got his lips pursed, lots of sniffing, and bobbing his head back and forth like a pigeon.
re: #49 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
He’s not as orange today.
Only one woman is being allowed to speak, asshole.
re: #52 Ace Rothstein
He’s not as orange today.
He looks like he’s had a hell of a day and he’s pale. No pity for him.
“Are these women all liars?”
Look at how he speaks to the female reporter, my God
There is no “they”. Only one woman is speaking and dems are allowed only 5 (five) minutes per to question her.
OK, I’ve raised my blood pressure just about enough.
BBL
Believe it or not he’s going to be watching cable news? Whoa, if true.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 26, 2018
Press demanded she get her follow up. They are not having this shit today.
Oh, he’s a dick to the woman reporter.
re: #67 MsJ
He keeps saying that he wants to wait until the hearing before he decides to pull the nomination.
re: #62 Scottish Dragon
There is no “they”. Only one woman is speaking and dems are allowed only 5 (five) minutes per to question her.
I wonder if the Dems on the committee can all yield their time to one member to tackle all the questions… like, maybe Harris?
The worst President in the history of the country.
“If we brought George Washington here, the Democrats would vote against him.” Wut? Now he’s lashing out at Hallie Jackson. He’s repeating himself over and over. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/zdvfggiTpX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #44 KGxvi
Honest question, how long has the Kavanaugh confirmation process been compared to prior nominees? I feel like every current member of the Court had a much longer confirmation process.
Eh seems about average:
re: #74 KGxvi
I wonder if the Dems on the committee can all yield their time to one member to tackle all the questions… like, maybe Harris?
Yes they can.
re: #31 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
“Why did they wait? Why did Feinstein wait until after the hearings were over?”
Why didn’t DJT fire Comey after he won the nomination?
/
re: #73 Ace Rothstein
He keeps saying that he wants to wait until the hearing before he decides to pull the nomination.
But then he said he’s going to rely on Senior Republicans to fill him in.
Trump: “I don’t know what happened [with the accusations] today, I’ve been very busy.”
Also Trump: It’s all a Democratic con job and they’re out to ruin Kavanaugh’s life.— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) September 26, 2018
re: #5 jaunte
“They would like to see me lose an election.”
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU COLOSSAL NARCISSIST
YES IT IS!!!!!!
re: #81 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Correct. My point was that he left the option out there. He hasn’t done that before.
He is interrupting another female reporter so she can’t finish her question.
I cannot bear to look at him nor listen to him, so am relying on the reporting of others.
re: #68 jaunte
He doesn’t have time for TV, he’s too busy being potus.
“I was accused, they were paid to say bad things about me, just ask Sean Hannity.” jfc https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/hnPq9TJ4Q6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Trump wasn’t merely ACCUSED by multiple women of sexual assault. He BOASTED to Billy Bush of committing criminal sexual assault.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 26, 2018
“Talented and fair Republican senators”
Unicorns and mermaids up next.
re: #88 Ace Rothstein
16 women.
16 angry women, 17 angry Democrats, corruption, hoax investigation.
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Holy Shit!
Is the press actually doing its job?????
re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter
I cannot bear to look at him nor listen to him, so am relying on the reporting of others.
Excellent choice.
Did he just admit that a woman wouldn’t take hush money, but talked instead?
I like how Trump treats the reporter like she’s interrupting him by trying to ask more than six words of her question.
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) September 26, 2018
JFC, Trump can’t let women finish their questions. When they try to finish their question he treats them like they are interrupting him.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Oh yes Sean Hillary killed Seth Rich Hannity is a trustworthy source.
He’s getting very rattled now. Repeating sentences five, six times, sniffing loudly, lashing out at reporters. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/z7Jv9oXDpt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #99 jaunte
WILL YOU STOP INTERUPPTING ME WHILE I AM INTERRUPTING YOU!
(actually funny line in The Darkest Hour)
Wow, he’s really being a dick.
Kavanaugh should withdraw. The polling is gonna get a lot worse.
“People know the news is fake and a lot of the people sitting here are fake. But 20 percent of them are wonderful.”
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 26, 2018
re: #103 Scottish Dragon
He is drunk Gish Galloping.
He’s famously a teetotaler, so he can’t even blame any of this on being drunk.
re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m with you on that. He’s awful to look at, but his voice is a nightmare.
What an amazing shitshow.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
He’s now not letting any reporter finish a question…question on China.
re: #110 plansbandc
I’m with you on that. He’s awful to look at, but his voice is a nightmare.
It’s like having two piece of sandpaper rubbing together for an hour.
re: #109 KGxvi
He’s famously a teetotaler, so he can’t even blame any of this on being drunk.
The best pharmaceuticals…
Oh God I busted out laughing so hard in the office now…
The woman who asked him questions after Hallie Jackson had him close to blowing up.
If anyone in this administration has any self-respect left, they would all hand in their resignations by the time this circus of a press conference is over.
China respects his “very large brain”?????? JFC
re: #118 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Can’t. The jobs at Fox when this shit is over with are worth too much.
“Enough questions, woman! Now go home and get a home-cooked meal ready for your boyfriend!”
LOL! “China has great respect for Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s very, very large… brain.” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/ri105P0plf
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Meanwhile at the Kremlin…Vlad is popping up his 10th Jiffy Pop of the night laughing his ass off!
Oh shit, a BLACK female reporter, let’s see how he handles this
re: #126 electrotek
Oh shit, a BLACK female reporter, let’s see how he handles this
She got her question out in less than 10 words.
re: #107 makeitstop
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re: #124 Charles Johnson
Always so bizarre when he refers to himself in the third person.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
He’s going to fire Rosenstein.
Rosenstein should require that he fire him in person or it’s not official.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
He’s going to fire Rosenstein.
Isn’t that one of the triggers for large scale protests?
Trump on Rosenstein: “My preference would be to keep him and let him finish up.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) September 26, 2018
Then do it. Why the meeting? https://t.co/HlLbErEQCl
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 26, 2018
re: #129 Charles Johnson
Maybe right after the press conference. He’s gotta do something to take down the rage pressure and I don’t think tweeting is going to be enough.
re: #23 makeitstop
He still thinks Red State Democrats are scared of him.
I don’t blame him for that given how Heitkamp and Manchin vote.
“Gaslighting” is, I concede, overdeployed but it’s hard to come up with a better word for this: the weaving back and worth between petulance and fake magniminity, the exhausting self-contradictions, the totally fabricated alternate reality presented with violent certainty.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 26, 2018
You know, I’d have preferred democracy ending in thundering applause rather than this shit show.
I’ve been out for a bit what’s going on with Judge Rapey McCockslapper?
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 26, 2018
re: #130 SteelPH
My ex-mother in law used to refer to herself in the third person all the time. One time she had surgery and my BIL, Keith, sent flowers to her in the hospital with a card that read, “Keith hopes you feel better soon!”
Mitch McConnell, boasting in August 2016 about his greatest act of obstruction: “One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.’” pic.twitter.com/tKEq62iZnf #Kavanaugh #MerrickGarland
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) September 26, 2018
Here’s one of those things people should bring up on camera to his face every day. https://t.co/lOx6YxZGR7
— Some More News w/Cody Johnston (@SomeMoreNews) September 26, 2018
OK, somebody bring out the hook. I don’t think I can take this any more. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/28o9szhfJJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #135 Patricia Kayden
I don’t blame him for that given how Heitkamp and Manchin vote.
Heitkamp and Manchin are still responsible to their constituents, who are, overwhelmingly conservative, if not Republican. I don’t expect them to vote like Harris and Gillibrand
Yeah right. Obama was going to start WW 3.
Trump says his letter from Kim Jong Un is “a beautiful piece of art.” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/ND34YWDXE6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Actually, Republicans act as if they believe women when they accuse Democrats of sexual assault.
The Republican Party doesn’t believe sexual assault accusers, casts them all as liars. They deny sexual assault and if you get pregnant from that assault, you should also be denied a choice to decide what to do with your body, for the second time. Goodfuckingluckinnovemeber
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) September 26, 2018
re: #142 Patricia Kayden
Like he’d care. He also famously said in 2010 that his top priority was making Obama a one term president. Again, 2010, height of the recession - didn’t care about stabilizing banks, getting people back to work, stopping foreclosures, nope, all he wanted to do was beat Obama in 2012.
In other words, fuck McConnell.
“What did Trump give the North Koreans?” Trump asks. “I gave them nothing.”
You cancelled our joint military training sessions (war games) with South Korea you fool!
Trump lies again that Obama said he was “ready to go to war” with North Korea, this time adding for the first time, “You know how close he was to pressing the trigger for war?” There is no indication anything like this has happened.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 26, 2018
Major lie. DRINK! DRINK! https://t.co/WvxcQnBOpb
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 26, 2018
re: #144 KGxvi
Heitkamp and Manchin are still responsible to their constituents, who are, overwhelmingly conservative, if not Republican. I don’t expect them to vote like Harris and Gillibrand
And that’s why Trump feels that they’re easy targets for him. I’m not making any judgments on them — just stating that I understand his comment.
This news conference is horrifying. What a disgrace
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) September 26, 2018
I cannot tell if he is trying to run out the clock on this thing or just rambling. Probably just rambling, I am sure he thinks he is nailing this.
Trump on Fed action today: “i’m worried about the fact that they raised interest rates. i don’t like it. there are other things i’d like to do with the money. pay down debt”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 26, 2018
Wait - what?
re: #149 Patricia Kayden
Actually, Republicans act as if they believe women when they accuse Democrats of sexual assault.
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It’s sort of a “no true Scotsman” situation. Conservatives “respect” women, therefore any allegations against a conservative not respecting a woman is not true.
re: #158 KGxvi
It’s sort of a “no true Scotsman” situation. Conservatives “respect” women, therefore any allegations against a conservative not respecting a woman is not true.
They only “respect” women when they can use it as a cudgel against those they don’t like, i.e. Muslims, Mexicans.
Did he just say Obama was going to bomb North Korea??!!
re: #156 Blind Frog Belly White
Yes. Says the man who has never paid off a debt in his life.
Jesus fucking Christ on a crazy cracker.
— Aღanda (@GrnEyedMandy) September 26, 2018
re: #154 Scottish Dragon
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Is that the same Ron Fournier for whom President Obama could do nothing right? LOL.
Deflect, deflect, deflect
re: #154 Scottish Dragon
Reap what you sowed, Ron. You sowed and sowed for years.
Fuck you, while I’m at it.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
— Endless Screaming ⚧ ☭ (@infinite_scream) September 26, 2018
Reporter: Are you at all concerned with the message it sends to women when you call these accusations a “con job?”
Trump: Oh, I’ve said much worse things than “con job!” https://t.co/7fyXq5FNWA pic.twitter.com/HfBL2DcyMo— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Lol. Now he is ranting that Elizabeth Warren got a call from a Russian comedian offering information, she wanted it, and if he had done it that would be “a big deal.” Did he just forget about the Trump Tower meeting which was literally EXACTLY like that situation except worse in every way based on the timing and the people involved….
re: #120 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
China respects his “very large brain”?????? JFC
I know he didn’t say that. Y’all taking this way too far.
Jeez, here he goes interrupting the woman reporter before she even finishes her question.
He interrupted her like four times and won’t let her get a word in edgewise.
Makes me want to slap him with an old dead fish.
re: #172 Charles Johnson
And he still hasn’t let her ask her question.
New drinking game. Rules are simple. Drink. Drink as much as you want.
re: #175 KerFuFFler
Jeez, here he goes interrupting the women reporter before she even finishes her question.
He interrupted her like four times and won’t let her get a word in edgewise.
Makes me want to slap him with an old dead fish.
Didn’t help that she was affiliated with a Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet in her favor.
re: #166 Patricia Kayden
Is that the same Ron Fournier for whom President Obama could do nothing right? LOL.
Yes. The same Presstitute!
“Women are so… angry.” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/IF1GbGZjGo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
He never let her asks her question. What an ass.
re: #174 Patricia Kayden
I know he didn’t say that. Y’all taking this way too far.
Alas, he did. Acosta tweeted it.
re: #178 Danack
New drinking game. Rules are simple. Drink. Drink as much as you want.
You’ll be less drunk than you would be if you did it once per every time he lies.
In a normal world, this would be the end of his presidency.
The Kurds are also fucked.
Current mood pic.twitter.com/pgmuoCH2Cy
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 26, 2018
re: #117 thecommodore
The woman who asked him questions after Hallie Jackson had him close to blowing up.
Her name is Weijia Jiang of CBS News. Trump told her to “Sit Down” at one point.
The only friends he has in Canada are those like Faith Goldy and Doug Ford.
Thank goodness my kid texted me so I can meet her at the bus stop. I’m out! Yes!!!
STUTTERING JOHN GOT THROUGH TO YOU ON AIR FORCE ONE.
re: #186 Ace Rothstein
In a normal world, this would be the end of his presidency.
In a normal world, Trump would be serving time, rather than lording above better people.
Trump is managing to insult about 500 people in one press conference and now admits he showed Abe a confidential letter from KJU that he won’t disclose to the Public.
— WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PrincessBravato) September 26, 2018
So we are gonna make billions taxing China??
Whaaaaa…?
Trump: “I don’t like Nafta, it’s been very bad for the United States.”
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) September 26, 2018
cc: Texas https://t.co/hq15my4TWY
— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) September 26, 2018
re: #130 SteelPH
Always so bizarre when he refers to himself in the third person.
Someone has got to talk him up.
He really stepped all over the British Sky reporter. He interrupted her almost after each word she would try to get out.
There sure are gonna be a lot of people he has mentioned in this rambling pile of dung that will be calling the media to refute the crap he said about them.
At the top of that list might be Barack Obama.
Shout ‘em down Trump…don’t back off or give them any room. Typical Trump tactics.
I am so not listening to this. But I am watching with the sound off and Trump is making faces like that GIF of him side by side with Charles Manson, both of them making the same faces.
re: #183 MsJ
Alas, he did. Acosta tweeted it.
Oh dear. And that’s probably not the worst thing he said during his diatribe. Sigh.
re: #186 Ace Rothstein
That’s what I said the one time I watched one of his campaign rallies (the real ones, before he became the alt president). The man is absolutely batshit insane.
“They died for themselves. And they’re great people!”
My normal sized brain keeps screaming at me, “How can this halfwit jackass possibly be president?!” and I keep screaming back, “Stop asking that, I already told you I don’t fucking know!”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
what.exactly.is.happening?
If I am not mistaken, our president just called someone “Mr. Kurd.”
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) September 26, 2018
Correct. https://t.co/8oJ5Grr2AQ
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) September 26, 2018
re: #194 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
In a normal world, Trump would be serving time, rather than lording above better people.
Mueller is working on that.
We shouldn’t have a senile narcissist making decisions that impact decent people. Thanks a lot, easily manipulated, right-wing, alt-Christians.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 26, 2018
re: #204 goddamnedfrank
If we keep him up there long enough, a gasket will blow.
BREAKING: GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski now wants the Senate panel to hear from Kavanaugh’s second accuser, Debbie Ramirez.
In other words, this is going to drag on long enough for probably several more women to come forward.— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 25, 2018
Most people are stupid. A smaller number are evil, and easily use the stupid people against the rest of us.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 26, 2018
He is giving fucking Assad a green light to attack civilian targets.
re: #196 Scottish Dragon
So we are gonna make billions taxing China??
Whaaaaa…?
I guess you can tell him the same thing over and over - like tariffs are ultimately paid by the consumer - but he still thinks ‘Tariff on China - China pays’.
No, seriously, what the fuck is happening?
Trump: “If we brought George Washington here, the Democrats might have voted against him.”
Adds: “Didn’t he have some stuff in his past?”— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 26, 2018
Yes. If you nominated a slaveholder in 2018, the Democrats would vote against him. I’d hope that at least a few Republicans would too. https://t.co/fz7bFl072s
— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) September 26, 2018
Fun fact: George Washington inadvertently started the first world war (the 7 Years War) because in 1754 he surrendered to a French force & signed a document admitting that the British colonies started the conflict. GW couldn’t read French, so he had no idea what he was signing.
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) September 26, 2018
re: #208 MsJ
Good to hear but can the other Republican Senators ignore Murkowski? Trump just insinuated that the vote on Kavanaugh could happen this weekend.
re: #155 Schweppes7
I cannot tell if he is trying to run out the clock on this thing or just rambling. Probably just rambling, I am sure he thinks he is nailing this.
We’ve heard how many times” “he thinks he can talk his way out of everything.”
This is what he has done all his life. Bully and Posture.
Sadly in so many ways it has worked because of people allowing it or believing him.
It is another display of why he was voted in. It all sounds so good. Especially if you don’t check the damn facts.
re: #208 MsJ
And now we know what the conversation with DiFi was about.
OMFG. I didn’t get the significance.
He just called a Kurdish reporter “Mr Kurd.”
— iResist (@ThomboyD) September 26, 2018
Does anyone here think this idiot knows that the USA turned Iran upside down in 1953 and it’s been fucked up ever since?
re: #208 MsJ
Where’s that total disgrace Collins on this?
re: #209 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Don’t forget that there is some overlap in the stupid and evil camps… that’s where the Trumps fall.
Trump keeps claiming he got 52% of the female vote. He got 41%. He got 52% with WHITE women. https://t.co/9ijRIvRkhb
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) September 26, 2018
The white ones are the only ones he cares about, the only ones who count.
re: #219 Skip Intro
Where’s that total disgrace Collins on this?
Sitting in the corner being a total disgrace.
re: #219 Skip Intro
Collins is “concerned.”
NEWS: At private meeting today, Susan Collins raised serious concerns about latest allegations against Kavanaugh, citing the sworn statement. She also questioned why no subpoena for Mark Judge. GOP leaders sought to reassure her. w/@Phil_Mattingly https://t.co/UZSFJVvvI5
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 26, 2018
re: #166 Patricia Kayden
Is that the same Ron Fournier for whom President Obama could do nothing right? LOL.
You don’t see Ron around much anymore. I guess his act wore thin.
What in the pluperfect fuck is happening? pic.twitter.com/1eA531srDA
— Legs Benedict (@goddamnedfrank) September 26, 2018
Trump on getting laughed at by entire @UN, on camera: “That’s fake news.”
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) September 26, 2018
I have to say - I think the president has handled this press conference pretty well. He’s in control, not jumpy. Clear in his messages on a range of topics. Made a couple of measured and careful statements on sensitive topics. @realDonaldTrump
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 26, 2018
!!!!!!!!!!!!
“They respect what I’ve done. The United States is respected again.”
re: #225 ObserverArt
You don’t see Ron around much anymore. I guess his act wore thin.
That’s what happens when you know you helped build this shit and want to keep going but trump is just too fucking crazy and you can’t lie to yourself enough to do so.
We had a good time together. They weren’t laughing at me.
He just called on “the failing New York Times,” and pointed at a reporter. Then he went on a long rant about “fake news.” When he finally let her speak she pointed out that she works for PBS. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
Now he is doing the protection racket bit. Pay us or else.
re: #213 goddamnedfrank
Reminds me of Jeb Bartlett asking Charlie if he thought he could take George Washington.
Like in a war?
Yeah.
Well, sir, you’d have the Air Force, and he’d have the minutemen?
“A tremendous genius”
Is that better than a stable genius?
How many LSD tabs did you do before tweeting this?
— Ayn Rand Sucks! (@josephebacon) September 26, 2018
Trump just called @Yamiche fake news and then told her she does a very good job.
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 26, 2018
Women were paid to say bad things about me.
He is gonna get sued for that.
I never thought we’d have such a combative President in office. He’s bullying around these reporters.
re: #173 Schweppes7
Lol. Now he is ranting that Elizabeth Warren got a call from a Russian comedian offering information, she wanted it, and if he had done it that would be “a big deal.” Did he just forget about the Trump Tower meeting which was literally EXACTLY like that situation except worse in every way based on the timing and the people involved….
It is the snake story again.
It is always an admittance story with him..the ultimate projection.
I really think he feels by doing it this way he is telling the truth. It is his confessional.
Also why he uses “Trump” when talking about himself. It is always about him no matter the tall tale. Always flip it around and there lie the facts.
re: #229 plansbandc
Scott Jennings
✔
@ScottJenningsKY
I have to say - I think the president has handled this press conference pretty well. He’s in control, not jumpy. Clear in his messages on a range of topics. Made a couple of measured and careful statements on sensitive topics. @realDonaldTrump4:49 PM - Sep 26, 2018
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463 people are talking about this!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this the take of sane Republicans?
re: #241 Joe Bacon 🌹
Everyone! There is acid in the BROWN CUPS!
He should totally sit down with Mueller.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 26, 2018
Now he’s going to say how easy it will be for him to make a Middle East deal.
re: #250 MsJ
“Mr. President, you do realize that you’ve just incriminated yourself in about 15 different ways in the last 60 seconds, right?”
“FAKE NEWS!!!11ty”
re: #254 MsJ
Jerusalem stone is one of his favorite stones.
re: #174 Patricia Kayden
I know he didn’t say that. Y’all taking this way too far.
Patricia. This is Trump. Why do you doubt so?
He is in his element…and that is when the crap is flung.
He has turned this into another of his campaign rallies.
This press conference is exactly why we fought so hard to elect @realDonaldTrump
Strong, decisive, clear, confident, with an American first vision
He should do this many times a week. He is his own best advocate.— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 26, 2018
Did you see this… Uh… interpretation of the press conference? 😹 https://t.co/xIslISV9rB
— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) September 26, 2018
re: #224 Schweppes7
Collins is “concerned.”
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Never fear, Kavanaugh told Collins that it was “settled law” that he didn’t sexually assault anyone. All good now.
Written Testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
United States Senate Judiciary Committee
September 26, 2018
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Was at gym. Low down of Trump presser?
If anyone is going to change the chyrons/cable coverage ahead of tomorrow’s Kavanaugh hearing, it’s Trump, who is deeply enjoying himself and doing a version of this to switch the topic https://t.co/o1mAURVOap
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 26, 2018
re: #257 KGxvi
I’m not watching it, but I’m pretty sure the point of it was to cover up his lack of confidence with rage.
re: #263 HappyWarrior
Oh so it was a shit show since that moron loved it.
Trump thinks he’s killing it, and so do his sycophants. It’s surreal.
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Was at gym. Low down of Trump presser?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
— Endless Screaming ⚧ ☭ (@infinite_scream) September 26, 2018
re: #214 Patricia Kayden
Good to hear but can the other Republican Senators ignore Murkowski? Trump just insinuated that the vote on Kavanaugh could happen this weekend.
Bork was a no vote in committee. He raised a stink and demanded a full floor vote anyway. Which he got.
42 yes, 58 no.
Six of those “no“‘s were Republicans.
LOL.
Humor where we can find it.
Trump will take questions from Mr. Kurd, Mr. Black, and Mr. Jew.
— Michael Tannenbaum (@iamTannenbaum) September 26, 2018
Listening to Trump’s demented simplistic rambling about “Israel and the Palestinians” is robbing me of the will to live. https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/uQftUPggOq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #264 Belafon
I’m not watching it, but I’m pretty sure the point of it was to cover up his lack of confidence with rage.
I’m not watching either, but this seems like the best summary of what happened:
This is like staring into a strobe light of madness.
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) September 26, 2018
At his press conferences, I think Trump’s strategy — if you can even call it that — is to throw up a such a relentless blizzard of lies, misstatements, absurdities, idiocies that journalists are just too bewildered to single out any particular thing as worse than another.
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) September 26, 2018
Snowjob, Gish Gallop, Bullshit Torrent.
Is this the same China he’s tariffed the fuck out of and preemptively accused of election tampering?
My post-press conference plans pic.twitter.com/nMSzAMXJeR
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) September 26, 2018
they need that emmy award music to start playing to get him to fuckin stop talking
— darth™ (@darth) September 26, 2018
re: #208 MsJ
Brian Krassenstein
@krassenstein
BREAKING: GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski now wants the Senate panel to hear from Kavanaugh’s second accuser, Debbie Ramirez.In other words, this is going to drag on long enough for probably several more women to come forward.
5:29 PM - Sep 25, 2018
If Murkowski asks for that, then the third accuser will be granted a hearing too.
If others back Murkowski, say 5 or more, Kavanaugh may withdraw. He is only going to get beat more and more.
In fight parlance…throw in the towel. TKO!
To men saying that they will now be afraid of women. I get how hard that might be. Women have been dealing with that kind of widespread fear for millennia. But I have some simple tips on how to navigate the way forward. Just follow these simple instructions - dos and don’t 1/3
— Ruth Abusch-Magder (@RabbiRuth) September 26, 2018
re: #278 ObserverArt
If Murkowski asks for that, then the third accuser will be granted a hearing too.
If others back Murkowski, say 5 or more, Kavanaugh may withdraw. He is only going to get beat more and more.
In fight parlance…throw in the towel. TKO!
Let’s hope.
It’s really hard to stay focused on this press conference. My mind keeps wanting to shut down and curl up in a fetal position.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #279 jaunte
If it were true men are going to fear women—which they won’t, of course—my response is way less polite than yours. I’d say, “Good! Look over your shoulder! Question all your actions and interactions! What do you *think* we meant by ‘Check your privilege’?”
— Yitzack ben Yosef (@zack_flux) September 26, 2018
I suspect that the 25th amendment might be discussed more widely if there were daily press conferences.
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) September 26, 2018
This is one of those tweets you read a few times over and over and it’s just stunningly perfect. https://t.co/lMYtG6wIYg
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 26, 2018
She’s not wrong…
If I‘m off on a single number while on live TV, Republicans fly out screeching that I am unfit for office.
Yet when their buddy is credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault, they rush to promote him to the Supreme Court.
Just another day for women in the workplace.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) September 26, 2018
He’s back to describing the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh as “a con game” run by “evil people, some of whom are Democrats.” https://t.co/7fyXq5od52 pic.twitter.com/lrbB8RbGqC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
What are you telling the young men of this country?
Trump: (basically) —- dangerous, evil, bitches are liars.— digby (@digby56) September 26, 2018
Not stupid. Not brainwashed.
They voted for someone who demonstrates who they want to be.
Donald Trump is a confession. No matter how they gild themselves with piety and principles, not matter what authority they conjure with, this is, at the core, what they imagine to be the correct use of power, and the correct application of authority. It’s how they would act if they if they could.
They enjoy these displays of incontinence because nothing matters, nothing is true, outside their sense of gratification, and Trump is their proxy.
re: #229 plansbandc
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!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t look now…
IT’S THE PIVOT!!!
And it always comes during Infrastructure Week.
And he’s finished.
Trump has left the room. Trump has left the room.
This presser will be a perfect Rorschach test of America’s political psyche in 2018.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 26, 2018
And note - Wilson tweeted this BEFORE the likes of Charlie Kirk weighed in.
In summary, the president says Kavanaugh is a wonderful person, the female accusers are con artists, and he intends to listen to the hearing tomorrow with a totally open mind.
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) September 26, 2018
So Trump is making it seem like now women are going to make up lies about all conservative judicial nominees and that it is all just political.
No one said these kinds of things about Gorsuch or Alito or Roberts. There is no reason to assume that the women are lying about Kavanaugh.
That was a most excruciating 80 minutes. No wonder he doesn’t do press conferences.
re: #287 jaunte
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“They’re gonna say you sexually assaulted them, so you might was well just do it.”
He should totally sit down with Mueller.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 26, 2018
re: #289 ObserverArt
Don’t look now…
IT’S THE PIVOT!!!
And it always comes during Infrastructure Week.
And he’s finished.
Trump has left the room. Trump has left the room.
Today he became President?
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re: #288 The Ghost of a Flea
Not stupid. Not brainwashed.
They voted for someone who demonstrates who they want to be.
Donald Trump is a confession. No matter how they gild themselves with piety and principles, not matter what authority they conjure with, this is, at the core, what they imagine to be the correct use of power, and the correct application of authority. It’s how they would act if they if they could.
They enjoy these displays of incontinence because nothing matters, nothing is true, outside their sense of gratification, and Trump is their proxy.
“Say what you will about the tenants of national socialism, but at least it is an ethos”
It’s over. The only question in my mind is, did listening to this presser kill more brain cells than the beer I drank while listening to this presser.
re: #288 The Ghost of a Flea
Not stupid. Not brainwashed.
They voted for someone who demonstrates who they want to be.
Donald Trump is a confession. No matter how they gild themselves with piety and principles, not matter what authority they conjure with, this is, at the core, what they imagine to be the correct use of power, and the correct application of authority. It’s how they would act if they if they could.
They enjoy these displays of incontinence because nothing matters, nothing is true, outside their sense of gratification, and Trump is their proxy.
They think this show of support will make them strong. I think the exposure of exactly who they are will bring them down.
re: #292 KerFuFFler
So Trump is making it seem like now women are going to make up lies about all conservative judicial nominees and that it is all just political.
No one said these kinds of things about Gorsuch or Alito or Roberts. There is no reason to assume that the women are lying about Kavanaugh.
Exactly. But conservatives have been playing the judicial victim card like Bork & Thomas. Maybe stop nominating creepy douches.
JFC, that was almost an hour and a half of distilled 100-proof bugfuck Trump lunacy.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Was at gym. Low down of Trump presser?
Me. Me. Me. Shut up. Fake news. Me. Me. My Brain. Me. Con Job. Me. Me.
Is he subtweeting himself?
End this now, dear lord, please. I am truly sorry for my sins. #TrumpPresser
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) September 26, 2018
Summarizing today’s 80 minute #TrumpPressConference pic.twitter.com/8nCJ8R8DdZ
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) September 26, 2018
re: #300 HappyWarrior
Exactly. But conservatives have been playing the judicial victim card like Bork & Thomas. Maybe stop nominating creepy douches.
Bork at least was rejected because his jurisprudence was way too far out of the mainstream. Miers was rejectedwithdrawn because she was completely unqualified.
There’s literally been TWO Supreme Court nominees in the last 30 yearsever that have faced questions regarding potential sexual harassment/assault.
WH comms team#TrumpPressConference pic.twitter.com/BkuUjrLqD9
— 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚡𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚗 (@TheBaxterBean) September 26, 2018
The president fielded a question from this website pic.twitter.com/sfiClawCfG
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 26, 2018
End this now, dear lord, please. I am truly sorry for my sins. #TrumpPresser
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) September 26, 2018
My God I am for real ROTFMAO
re: #299 wrenchwench
They think this show of support will make them strong. I think the exposure of exactly who they are will bring them down.
I really hope you’re right, but these kinds of outbreaks of solipcistic fuckery can go on before the waveform collapses.
Sort of like the Roadrunner bit where Wile E Coyote runs off the cliff but doesn’t fall until he doesn’t look down.
re: #281 MsJ
Let’s hope.
Mitch will not want to lose. He’d rather back out and let the media blame it on Trump and Kavanaugh.
In some ways. Mitch might want this to happen. He knows the numbers.
He has to decide what poison he wants. Now or later?
*prerodactyl screech*
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) September 26, 2018
The “train” thing was referenced by Judge’s gf in the New Yorker piece, & it has been lurking around in this story all along. I think it’s very likely that it’s a real thing thing that happened in the Georgetown Prep => Yale scene. More evidence is gonna come out.
— Jon Stokes (@jonst0kes) September 26, 2018
If this part is true, it seems almost inevitable that reporters will find other witnesses in the coming days and weeks now that the seal is broken. https://t.co/vQ5u4GphUj
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 26, 2018
FWIW, my initial reaction, like a lot of people’s, was that surely it COULDN’T be true—or at least, sounded very unlikely. Groups of guys doing this repeatedly, not even hiding it from other party guests, and nobody ever reported it? Until I thought about it a bit more.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 26, 2018
So it seems, nauseatingly, not nearly as implausible as it did on first read.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 26, 2018
My considered take on Trump’s presser: Jesus fuck.
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) September 26, 2018
This was the Star Wars Holiday Specials of Press conferences..
If that guy had any friends they would be staging an intervention right about now.
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
Remember Mollie Ringwald’s reexamination of the movies she starred in back in the 80s, like “Sixteen Candles” where the totally wasted Head Cheerleader has sex with the King of the Dipshits thinking it’s her boyfriend, and it was her boyfriend’s idea, and he’s a Good Guy because he thinks she’s trash and is more interested in Mollie’s character.
re: #293 teleskiguy
That was a most excruciating 80 minutes. No wonder he doesn’t do press conferences.
Fucker probably thinks he should do more.
He’s back in his office watching himself right now and asking his cabinet members what they thought were his best statements.
re: #315 Kilroy was here
This was the Star Wars Holiday Specials of Press conferences..
Given by the Jar Jar Binks of presidents.
Goat break:
Leeanne hates rain, but only drinks the freshest water. It’s a production. pic.twitter.com/pXe7zM7oD1
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) September 26, 2018
If the MSM and the liberals hated it (as if those are two different groups of people), then Trump NAILED it!!
re: #303 Interesting Times
Is he subtweeting himself?
Michael Steele ✔
@MichaelSteele
End this now, dear lord, please. I am truly sorry for my sins. #TrumpPresser6:18 PM - Sep 26, 2018 * Maryland, USA
Say five Our Father’s, ten Hail Mary’s and then swear you will quit the party, become a Democrat and spill the info that can help end the party.
Nothing short of that will save you Michael.
I’m The Slime (with lyrics) - Frank Zappa https://t.co/ss94QQzjx1 via @YouTube
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 26, 2018
re: #309 The Ghost of a Flea
I really hope you’re right, but these kinds of outbreaks of solipcistic fuckery can go on before the waveform collapses.
Sort of like the Roadrunner bit where Wile E Coyote runs off the cliff but doesn’t fall until he doesn’t look down.
cartoon physics
He looks like a weak old man who’s been caught while up to no good.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 26, 2018
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
I heard rumors in high school in the mid-90s of things like that happening at parties. I wasn’t the sort to go to parties in high school, let alone drink, so I don’t know how true it was, but for some of the douchebag meatheads I knew back then it wouldn’t be out of character.
re: #327 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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“And it would have worked, too, if it weren’t for you meddlesome kids women and your stupid dog journalists and lawyers!”
Only a matter of a time before the White House issues a detailed explanation of the hidden messages in the Beatles’ White Album.
Heh. Watching Ari and they just flashed Avenatti up next. And here he is. Phone interview.
re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White
Remember Mollie Ringwald’s reexamination of the movies she starred in back in the 80s, like “Sixteen Candles” where the totally wasted Head Cheerleader has sex with the King of the Dipshits thinking it’s her boyfriend, and it was her boyfriend’s idea, and he’s a Good Guy because he thinks she’s trash and is more interested in Mollie’s character.
There’s also the rape scene in Revenge of the Nerds where Robert Carradine’s character rapes via deception the cheerleader, who thought he was Ted McGinley, but it was all rendered “ok” because she ended up thinking the sex was better. The ’80s were trash.
re: #330 The Ghost of a Flea
Only a matter of a time before the White House issues a detailed explanation of the hidden messages in the Beatles’ White Album.
Light a candle and listen to the press conference backwards…
re: #330 The Ghost of a Flea
Only a matter of a time before the White House issues a detailed explanation of the hidden messages in the Beatles’ White Album.
If you play the press conference backwards, he’s speaking in a normal tone of voice, answering questions coherently and truthfully.
Its been a wild day, but is this woman #4 who has come forward?
BREAKING: Senate probing another new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh. Latest from @kasie @HeidiPrzybyla @LACaldwellDC https://t.co/BBJaionwcZ
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) September 26, 2018
re: #336 Cheechako
Did Happy Hour start early at the White House?
They don’t have happy hours anymore at the White House, now it’s just always last call.
re: #334 Blind Frog Belly White
If you play the press conference backwards, he’s speaking in a normal tone of voice, answering questions coherently and truthfully.
“I did it”
“I did it”
“I did it”
“I did it”
At the end of it, stuck in the last track.
Watching this presser on a live stream means friends who are watching on TV are texting me things that were said about 30 seconds before I hear them. I keep thinking they are spoofing me. “Mr. Kurd” was actually said.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 26, 2018
We’ll now see a host of articles telling us what is already obvious - that Trump completely invented his accusation that China is trying to interfere in the midterm election. This kind of perverse inversion/projection is one of his malignant narcissistic techniques.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
GOP doesn’t investigate Russian attack on our democracy. They don’t want to investigate accusations against Kavanaugh. But when it comes to the myth of widespread “voter fraud” or conspiracy theories on Benghazi, they’re all in. It’s about political power, not power of the truth.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) September 26, 2018
Truth! https://t.co/Tq4qt21cQO
— ✡️🌎MG (@knitvspurl) September 26, 2018
re: #332 goddamnedfrank
There’s also the rape scene in Revenge of the Nerds where Robert Carradine’s character rapes via deception the cheerleader, who thought he was Ted McGinley, but it was all rendered “ok” because she ended up thinking the sex was better. The ’80s were trash.
Right, and they sell pies, with topless pictures of her glued to the bottom of the pieplate. And this was considered good fun.
It’s hard to look back on a lot of the movies that we watched and loved in those days without getting more than a little creeped out.
A drunk, degenerate gambler and sexual deviant has been nominated to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
re: #314 jaunte
Whoa. That guy is the US national editor for the Financial Times, so not just any old guy with a blue checkmark.
re: #342 Charles Johnson
Weird because our intelligence agencies have clearly stated that it is Russia which has engaged in interference in our 2016 election and poses a threat to our future elections.
“When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually.” “There were at least four witnesses including my daughter.”
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) September 26, 2018
“@backupwraith: i firmly believe that @realDonaldTrump is the most superior troll on the whole of twitter. that is all.”A great compliment!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2013
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
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Not just preps and Ivies in the 1980s. Remember the shit young men on camera said to each other in the wake of the rape of a young high school girl in Steubenville, OH a few years ago.
Republicans wouldn’t know any truth - or the meaning of the word - even if it slapped their faces with a dead fish.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 26, 2018
Holy fuck. That’s just all I can say. Holy fuck.
re: #314 jaunte
Morons of the new-right like Charlie Kirk thought that shit-show was impressive. The right has dumbed-down too much to be allowed power until they purge the idiots from the movement.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 26, 2018
Never happen.
re: #348 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That’s 4, and 16 years after graduating from High School.
re: #225 ObserverArt
You don’t see Ron around much anymore. I guess his act wore thin.
The Black man is not in the White House anymore so …
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
Right, and they sell pies, with topless pictures of her glued to the bottom of the pieplate. And this was considered good fun.
It’s hard to look back on a lot of the movies that we watched and loved in those days without getting more than a little creeped out.
I was more than a little creeped out back then. I don’t watch very many movies now, or over the last 40 years.
re: #345 Ace Rothstein
A drunk, degenerate gambler and sexual deviant has been nominated to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Who’s indebted to God only knows who.
New charge from 1998 of Kavanaugh shoving a woman against a wall drunkenly (Kasie Hunt reporting).
NBC is reporting that a fourth accusation of misconduct was called into a Republican Senator. The shoes are dropping.
Kasie Hunt is saying this new drunken Kavanaugh story is from 1998.
No longer a “kid.”
The accuser is remaining anonymous. But, the letter she wrote was seen by Senators that turned it over to the Judiciary committee.
It happened outside a DC bar.
re: #345 Ace Rothstein
A drunk, degenerate gambler and sexual deviant has been nominated to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
IOW, the perfect Republican for 2018….
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
Right, and they sell pies, with topless pictures of her glued to the bottom of the pieplate. And this was considered good fun.
It’s hard to look back on a lot of the movies that we watched and loved in those days without getting more than a little creeped out.
And that was better than we were before that. Other than the Conservatives, we’re improving over time. There will be things we’re looked down on for accepting.
re: #356 wrenchwench
I was more than a little creeped out back then. I don’t watch very many movies now, or over the last 40 years.
I’d imagine a lot of young women were at the time. I also suspect a lot of them didn’t say anything because they didn’t want to seem ‘uncool’.
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
Right, and they sell pies, with topless pictures of her glued to the bottom of the pieplate. And this was considered good fun.
It’s hard to look back on a lot of the movies that we watched and loved in those days without getting more than a little creeped out.
The thing about those movies that you have to remember, is how they are written, who is the protagonist? Who are we, as the audience, supposed to want to see succeed? It’s sort of like the anti-hero stories of the last decade or two. Walter White was, by all reasonable analysis, a terrible person - but he was a great character, and the story was written in a way to make us sympathetic to him. It is often hard to take that step back and view a show outside the lens that the storyteller wants us to view it through.
I’m going to yoga in a few minutes, where I will spend an hour stretching out my body, getting into poses and not thinking about any of this. It’s my hope that when I walk out at 17:30 PT, the Kavanaugh nomination will have turned into smoking ash.
re: #367 KGxvi
The thing about those movies that you have to remember, is how they are written, who is the protagonist? Who are we, as the audience, supposed to want to see succeed? It’s sort of like the anti-hero stories of the last decade or two. Walter White was, by all reasonable analysis, a terrible person - but he was a great character, and the story was written in a way to make us sympathetic to him. It is often hard to take that step back and view a show outside the lens that the storyteller wants us to view it through.
What do I know? I’m happy the lamp got a new home.
re: #345 Ace Rothstein
A drunk, degenerate gambler and sexual deviant has been nominated to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
In fairness, I’d be fine with a drunk, degenerate gambler on the Court… they’d be more likely to protect the right to privacy.
re: #361 ObserverArt
Kasie Hunt is saying this new drunken Kavanaugh story is from 1998.
No longer a “kid.”
The accuser is remaining anonymous. But, the letter she wrote was seen by Senators that turned it over to the Judiciary committee.
It happened outside a DC bar.
Right around when he was part of Starr’s team. Hell in 1998, he was older than I am and I haven’t been a “kid” in years.
One thing that went by pretty quickly right at the beginning: Trump made it very clear (by waffling and lying and incoherently blathering) that he’s planning to fire Rod Rosenstein.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2018
re: #367 KGxvi
The thing about those movies that you have to remember, is how they are written, who is the protagonist? Who are we, as the audience, supposed to want to see succeed? It’s sort of like the anti-hero stories of the last decade or two. Walter White was, by all reasonable analysis, a terrible person - but he was a great character, and the story was written in a way to make us sympathetic to him. It is often hard to take that step back and view a show outside the lens that the storyteller wants us to view it through.
That’s one reason I refused to watch certain otherwise lauded series: I was not a fan of rooting for drug dealers (Breaking Bad) or serial killers (Dexter) or mobsters (The Sopranos). I don’t want to feel sympathy for people who are truly objectively evil.
re: #371 HappyWarrior
Right around when he was part of Starr’s team. Hell in 1998, he was older than I am and I haven’t been a “kid” in years.
It sounded like the new revelation came from the mother of the woman that was groped by Kavanaugh.
And Jennifer Rubin is talking about the FBI looking into Kav’s alcohol issues.
Wow. This is getting bad. Kavanaugh is getting hammered.
re: #374 ObserverArt
It sounded like the new revelation came from the mother of the woman that was groped by Kavanaugh.
And Jennifer Rubin is talking about the FBI looking into Kav’s alcohol issues.
Wow. This is getting bad. Kavanaugh is getting hammered.
He’s going to want get hammered in another way when this is done.
re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s one reason I refused to watch certain otherwise lauded series: I was not a fan of rooting for drug dealers (Breaking Bad) or serial killers (Dexter) or mobsters (The Sopranos). I don’t want to feel sympathy for people who are truly objectively evil.
It’s not just those anti-hero shows though. This happens in a lot of stories. One of my recent realizations on this is Rounders. Mike McDermitt (played by Matt Damon) is, in my view, an addict and not really a good person. Yet he’s very easy to root for in the movie. But I’ve been watching that movie regularly for 20 years, and it didn’t really occur to me until the last couple of years - even though all the signs are there.
When there is 1, there is 2. When there is 2, there is 4. There will be more…..
re: #367 KGxvi
The thing about those movies that you have to remember, is how they are written, who is the protagonist? Who are we, as the audience, supposed to want to see succeed? It’s sort of like the anti-hero stories of the last decade or two. Walter White was, by all reasonable analysis, a terrible person - but he was a great character, and the story was written in a way to make us sympathetic to him. It is often hard to take that step back and view a show outside the lens that the storyteller wants us to view it through.
Yeah, but….
Nerds can be sympathetic heroes without being rapey. It wasn’t portrayed as “These poor guys were pushed to this!”, but rather “Snotty bitch deserved it!”
The more I think about it, the more parallels I see with the Incels of today - these women were nasty and hurtful to the protagonists, and end up being tricked into sex with them one way or another. That’s nonconsensual sex, no matter how you slice it. And then they always try to make it okay by having the woman say how good it was, or that she now likes the guy more.
re: #375 HappyWarrior
He’s going to want get hammered in another way when this is done.
Heh. I used that word for a reason.
I have to admit. I do feel bad for his wife and daughters. They may be learning more about him then they ever thought possible. And all the attention. Damn.
re: #369 MsJ
What do I know? I’m happy the lamp got a new home.
I just realized this is a Canadian ad. And yes. I was happy for the lamp.
Trump confirms that he rejected a meeting with Canada’s Justin Trudeau because of trade dispute. “We don’t like their representative very much.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 26, 2018
I wonder what his problem with Chrystia Freeland could be..
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister and lead NAFTA negotiator is banned from Russia as an enemy of Putin.
— Jeff Goldenthal (@Jego_47) September 26, 2018
re: #380 ObserverArt
Heh. I used that word for a reason.
I have to admit. I do feel bad for his wife and daughters. They may be learning more about him then they ever thought possible. And all the attention. Damn.
I definitely do too especially their daughters. That’s why he should withdraw. He needs to take a hard look at himself and his life.
re: #377 KGxvi
It’s not just those anti-hero shows though. This happens in a lot of stories. One of my recent realizations on this is Rounders. Mike McDermitt (played by Matt Damon) is, in my view, an addict and not really a good person. Yet he’s very easy to root for in the movie. But I’ve been watching that movie regularly for 20 years, and it didn’t really occur to me until the last couple of years - even though all the signs are there.
Anti heroes have always made more compelling protagonists than traditional heroes.
re: #381 MsJ
I just realized this is a Canadian ad. And yes. I was happy for the lamp.
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Oh, my. I needed that.
re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but….
Nerds can be sympathetic heroes without being rapey. It wasn’t portrayed as “These poor guys were pushed to this!”, but rather “Snotty bitch deserved it!”
The more I think about it, the more parallels I see with the Incels of today - these women were nasty and hurtful to the protagonists, and end up being tricked into sex with them one way or another. That’s nonconsensual sex, no matter how you slice it. And then they always try to make it okay by having the woman say how good it was, or that she now likes the guy more.
I don’t disagree about how it was portrayed. But from the protagonist point of view it can also be seen as comeuppance for the villains. And I don’t disagree that it was rape. I’m just looking at it from a storyteller’s perspective, and can understand how it can be justified within the context of a story. But by no means am I condoning it.
Did the $200K in credit card debt that just suddenly got paid off raise any eyebrows?
re: #288 The Ghost of a Flea
Not stupid. Not brainwashed.
They voted for someone who demonstrates who they want to be.
Donald Trump is a confession. No matter how they gild themselves with piety and principles, not matter what authority they conjure with, this is, at the core, what they imagine to be the correct use of power, and the correct application of authority. It’s how they would act if they if they could.
They enjoy these displays of incontinence because nothing matters, nothing is true, outside their sense of gratification, and Trump is their proxy.
I’ve said this before, but Trump is wingnut God.
re: #385 HappyWarrior
Anti heroes have always made more compelling protagonists than traditional heroes.
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Hulk Hogan.
The best characters are complex.
re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s one reason I refused to watch certain otherwise lauded series: I was not a fan of rooting for drug dealers (Breaking Bad) or serial killers (Dexter) or mobsters (The Sopranos). I don’t want to feel sympathy for people who are truly objectively evil.
I respect the choice, I see where you’re coming from.
For me, though, there was a lot more to Breaking Bad than just making us root for drug dealers. It was a character study in ego and hubris, and Walter White watching everything he’d built crumble, leaving him broke, isolated, on the run, and dying alone, having to face the fact that he hadn’t done it for his family, he hadn’t been forced into it by circumstance - he did it because he enjoyed it and it made him feel powerful, and paid no attention to who it hurt.
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
Right, and they sell pies, with topless pictures of her glued to the bottom of the pieplate. And this was considered good fun.
It’s hard to look back on a lot of the movies that we watched and loved in those days without getting more than a little creeped out.
Animal House…Do it! Fuck her brains out!
re: #384 HappyWarrior
I definitely do too especially their daughters. That’s why he should withdraw. He needs to take a hard look at himself and his life.
He won’t. Don Jaun being dragged to hell is more likely to engage in that kind of introspection.
re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but….
Nerds can be sympathetic heroes without being rapey. It wasn’t portrayed as “These poor guys were pushed to this!”, but rather “Snotty bitch deserved it!”
The more I think about it, the more parallels I see with the Incels of today - these women were nasty and hurtful to the protagonists, and end up being tricked into sex with them one way or another. That’s nonconsensual sex, no matter how you slice it. And then they always try to make it okay by having the woman say how good it was, or that she now likes the guy more.
Real Genius is a far, far better movie about nerds in college and that is probably because it had a woman directing it.
One of the few college age 80s comedies that still stands up.
re: #392 Scottish Dragon
Animal House…Do it! Fuck her brains out!
Yabbut he doesn’t. The angel in his shoulder wins over the devil in the other.
Kavadouche and his wife make a combined $240K. They live in a $1.5 million dollar crib, which translates to about a $9500 a month mortgage including taxes, etc. After income taxes, they probably bring home, maybe, $14,000. They also put both of their girls in private school. They, other than the equity in their home, are broke, or close to it.
re: #398 Ace Rothstein
Kavadouche and his wife make a combined $240K. They live in a $1.5 million dollar crib, which translates to about a $9500 a month mortgage including taxes, etc. After income taxes, they probably bring home, maybe, $14,000. They also put both of their girls in private school. They, other than the equity in their home, are broke, or close to it.
Don’t forget the $92,000 to join The Club.
re: #397 MsJ
Yabbut he doesn’t. The angel in his shoulder wins over the devil in the other.
The joke is that he could have.
re: #361 ObserverArt
Kasie Hunt is saying this new drunken Kavanaugh story is from 1998.
No longer a “kid.”
The accuser is remaining anonymous. But, the letter she wrote was seen by Senators that turned it over to the Judiciary committee.
It happened outside a DC bar.
The letter was written by the mother of a friend of the girl who was allegedly assaulted.
First Republican calls for FBI to investigate Kavanaugh
“What in the world difference would 10 days make? Why not wait 10 days, why not wait two weeks to find out the truth?”
re: #396 Scottish Dragon
Real Genius is a far, far better movie about nerds in college and that is probably because it had a women directing it.
One of the few college age 80s comedies that still stands up.
Fitting quote for Kavanaugh right now from that film:
“Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said ‘…I drank what?’”
re: #404 Kilroy was here
First Republican calls for FBI to investigate Kavanaugh
Welp, someone is about to incur Trump’s wrath.
re: #384 HappyWarrior
I definitely do too especially their daughters. That’s why he should withdraw. He needs to take a hard look at himself and his life.
Quite right in principle, but what’s the actual likelihood of that happening?
Brett Kavanaugh is just another right-wing Republican operative, and has been for his whole adult career. Not only, it seems, is any sort of objective introspection about one’s life or ideology discouraged (in favor of self-righteous certainty) in that milieu, but any sort of questioning of the “givens” of the political stances required is usually a one-way ticket to obscurity.
If he doesn’t get onto the SC, it’s more likely Kavanaugh will end up with a sinecure at some Wingnut Welfare foundation, and spend the rest of his life penning whiny articles for RW rags griping about the raw deal he got…….
re: #350 Barefoot Grin
Not just preps and Ivies in the 1980s. Remember the shit young men on camera said to each other in the wake of the rape of a young high school girl in Steubenville, OH a few years ago.
IMO multiple accusations of this kind, almost certainly all credible except perhaps for a late-coming crank drawn to scandal (and/or a planted GOP ratfucking to discredit other accusers), are inevitable give that Kavanaugh was a privileged party animal in high school and college.
This is basically what privileged party animals do. It’s damn near the definition. It’s sobering to ask the question of what fraction of the truly powerful men in US society were exactly this kind of party animal.
re: #367 KGxvi
The thing about those movies that you have to remember, is how they are written, who is the protagonist? Who are we, as the audience, supposed to want to see succeed? It’s sort of like the anti-hero stories of the last decade or two. Walter White was, by all reasonable analysis, a terrible person - but he was a great character, and the story was written in a way to make us sympathetic to him. It is often hard to take that step back and view a show outside the lens that the storyteller wants us to view it through.
It’s pretty easy for me because I never actually care much about authorial intent unless I am the author. I can’t authentically put myself inside their point of view and I find it inherently pretentious, like method acting, to really try. Which really isn’t the same thing as saying I can’t empathize with morally terrible characters as long as they’re presented in a realistically complex and compelling way, with depth. That’s the real problem with a lot of the ’80s examples, the characters were more like two dimensional caricatures, and within that simplistic framework the rape in RotN was being presented as both funny and as a legitimate romantic strategy. So I don’t have to give a shit about the author’s point of view there to know that it’s bad art.
Well, when the going gets tough, Repuglicans go full on xenophobe
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter has really outdone himself this time https://t.co/OFa1jW0xg7
— Nina Liss-Schultz (@NinaLisss) September 26, 2018
re: #391 Blind Frog Belly White
I respect the choice, I see where you’re coming from.
For me, though, there was a lot more to Breaking Bad than just making us root for drug dealers. It was a character study in ego and hubris, and Walter White watching everything he’d built crumble, leaving him broke, isolated, on the run, and dying alone, having to face the fact that he hadn’t done it for his family, he hadn’t been forced into it by circumstance - he did it because he enjoyed it and it made him feel powerful, and paid no attention to who it hurt.
The reading Bryan Cranston did of “Ozymandias” for the BB episode of the same name toward the end of the final season sums the series up perfectly; you may start out feeling bad for Walter in the first season, but by the final episode, he’s gotten everything bad he’s earned throughout the series.
Frankly, I felt worse for Jessie by the end of the final episode, even though he was just as complicit as Walter.
re: #409 goddamnedfrank
It’s pretty easy for me because I never actually care much about authorial intent unless I am the author. I can’t authentically put myself inside their point of view and I find it inherently pretentious, like method acting, to really try. Which really isn’t the same thing as saying I can’t empathize with morally terrible characters as long as they’re presented in a realistically complex and compelling way, with depth. That’s the real problem with a lot of the ’80s examples, the characters were more like two dimensional caricatures, and within that simplistic framework the rape in RotN was being presented as both funny and as a legitimate romantic strategy. So I don’t have to give a shit about the author’s point of view there to know that it’s bad art.
Yeah, there was, in retrospect, some terrible storytelling back then.
re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White
Remember Tom and Jerry? I watched it as a kid, but the first time I watched it with my kids, I quickly decided that the violence in there was pointless and they didn’t need to see it.
re: #413 Belafon
Remember Tom and Jerry? I watched it as a kid, but the first time I watched it with my kids, I quickly decided that the violence in there was pointless and they didn’t need to see it.
Pepe Le Pew was cute and funny, and I didn’t even like watching that. Forcing himself on a cat.
re: #388 Ace Rothstein
Did the $200K in credit card debt that just suddenly got paid off raise any eyebrows?
Not to Republicans. He’s a drunk and a gambler and they don’t care about that either.
re: #409 goddamnedfrank
I think part of our moral development as a culture and as individuals within that culture is looking back on the things we thought were funny, or justified, or just ‘how things are’ when we were growing up, or even as young adults, and realizing that was NOT GOOD.
The discomfort I now feel around having enjoyed John Hughes films, or RotN, or Animal House back in the day, like the discomfort I feel about just how fall-on-the-floor-laughing funny Bill Cosby was in the early to mid-60s comedy routines, at least tells me I’ve grown.
It’s when you refuse to feel bad about it, because “that was then, it was okay back then” is refusal to acknowledge the need to grow..
re: #413 Belafon
Remember Tom and Jerry? I watched it as a kid, but the first time I watched it with my kids, I quickly decided that the violence in there was pointless and they didn’t need to see it.
Hell the old Looney Tunes cartoons are pretty violent by todays standards. Plenty of guns around.
re: #414 wrenchwench
Pepe Le Pew was cute and funny, and I didn’t even like watching that. Forcing himself on a cat.
I thought PLP was creepy af. Even as a kid.
re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg
Hell the old Looney Tunes cartoons are pretty violent by todays standards. Plenty of guns around.
And more than a few of them are racist as fuck…those don’t get shown anymore, for good reason.
It’s hardly an original thought, and I have said it here before, but I still cannot fucking believe that this buffoon is President of the United States.
Watching this presser on a live stream means friends who are watching on TV are texting me things that were said about 30 seconds before I hear them. I keep thinking they are spoofing me. “Mr. Kurd” was actually said.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 26, 2018
re: #420 TedStriker
And a lot of them are racist as fuck…those don’t get shown anymore, for good reason.
Several of the old WW2 ones are absolutely verboten now.
Another accusation against Kavanaugh that he was asked about by Senate staffers this week: an alleged rape on a boat in Rhode Island in 1985. Kavanaugh denies. pic.twitter.com/MrA5Ff50RI
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) September 26, 2018
re: #413 Belafon
re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg
Weren’t a lot of the “classic” cartoons like that written more for adults than children? Like it wasn’t until the 50’s or 60’s that they were written more with children in mind? Basically when they were likely to be shown in movie theaters they were adult oriented, and once TV came about they were for kids?
So much focus on “blue wave” & impact of women voters, but anecdotally hearing rumblings that white men feeling too beat up on, if true in that context Trump remarks at presser today seemed aimed at undermining women and creating a backlash of white men in 2018
— Karen Finney (@finneyk) September 26, 2018
re: #396 Scottish Dragon
Real Genius is a far, far better movie about nerds in college and that is probably because it had a woman directing it.
One of the few college age 80s comedies that still stands up.
Required viewing periodically in my house.
re: #416 Skip Intro
Not to Republicans. He’s a drunk and a gambler and they don’t care about that either.
I had a righteous Republican elsewhere tell me that paying off that debt and getting such an expensive home on a salary that wouldn’t justify it was completely plausible.
re: #388 Ace Rothstein
Did the $200K in credit card debt that just suddenly got paid off raise any eyebrows?
Two threads ago it appears it may have been paid off by an organization that was fronted by Yanukovich, who hired Manafort, which got him in prison. It may have been Russian money that payed off ‘Naugh’s gambling debts.
re: #426 MsJ
White men made up about 34% of voters in 2016, and only 2/3 of them voted for Trump. That’s literally playing to less than 25% of the electorate. Which seems like a… poor strategy.
re: #429 Barefoot Grin
I had a righteous Republican elsewhere tell me that paying off that debt and getting such an expensive home on a salary that wouldn’t justify it was completely plausible.
Did this Republican explain how he could afford it?
re: #197 jaunte
Trump doesn’t like NAFTA.
That’s why his trade representatives are working to update NAFTA and are not doing new deal with Mexico or Canada. They’re working towards updating NAFTA for 21st Century and changes since it was implemented.
Everyone involved says as much. Trump’s trade rep has gotten Mexico on board, and they’re looking to get Canada involved next, but it’s all on NAFTA - not some entirely new deal.
Trump’s lying to everyone about everything. He can’t stop lying.
If he did, he’d probably cease to exist. It’s as natural to him as breathing (probably moreso).
The thing is our standards change as they should. I as a young teenager was juvenile about things like rape jokes and gay jokes. I wasn’t ever going to rape someone obviously or attack someone for being gay.
re: #432 Hecuba’s daughter
Did this Republican explain how he could afford it?
The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they had an inheritance. But Kavanaugh’s mom is still alive, and it sounds like his wife did not come from a family likely to leave a very large inheritance (assuming her parents have shuffled off this mortal coil).
By tomorrow morning, re: Kavanaugh, @realDonaldTrump be like…https://t.co/rG3iCHtxq6
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) September 26, 2018
re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s one reason I refused to watch certain otherwise lauded series: I was not a fan of rooting for drug dealers (Breaking Bad) or serial killers (Dexter) or mobsters (The Sopranos). I don’t want to feel sympathy for people who are truly objectively evil.
I’m the same way. And I take a lot of derisive guff from a few of my co-workers as a result.
re: #425 KGxvi
Weren’t a lot of the “classic” cartoons like that written more for adults than children? Like it wasn’t until the 50’s or 60’s that they were written more with children in mind? Basically when they were likely to be shown in movie theaters they were adult oriented, and once TV came about they were for kids?
Even many early cartoons were geared towards adults. Then, with enough to make kids and adults happy. Then cartoons became cheap, poorly drawn, kiddie only things of Saturday morning fame.
re: #185 Belafon
You’ll be less drunk than you would be if you did it once per every time he lies.
I’ve only been drunk once after Trump was elected. I don’t know how long the binge will last, still going.
re: #431 KGxvi
White men made up about 34% of voters in 2016, and only 2/3 of them voted for Trump. That’s literally playing to less than 25% of the electorate. Which seems like a… poor strategy.
Yes, and she forgot to add it’s older white men. I’ve seen no feeling of oppression or backlash from men my husband’s age or younger. More like, “If he did it, castrate the fucker.”
She forgets how many of those men:
1. Have daughters
2. Know a woman who has been sexually assaulted.
I refuse to watch Matt Schlapp on Harball
re: #431 KGxvi
White men made up about 34% of voters in 2016, and only 2/3 of them voted for Trump. That’s literally playing to less than 25% of the electorate. Which seems like a… poor strategy.
Edit posting of white women who did support them.
re: #433 lawhawk
Trump doesn’t like NAFTA.
That’s why his trade representatives are working to update NAFTA and are not doing new deal with Mexico or Canada. They’re working towards updating NAFTA for 21st Century and changes since it was implemented.
Everyone involved says as much. Trump’s trade rep has gotten Mexico on board, and they’re looking to get Canada involved next, but it’s all on NAFTA - not some entirely new deal.
Trump’s lying to everyone about everything. He can’t stop lying.
If he did, he’d probably cease to exist. It’s as natural to him as breathing (probably moreso).
I suspect on NAFTA negotiations, it’s more a matter of him not understanding details. He just thinks it’s a new deal and that’s all that matters for his tiny little brain. Everything else is the government running on autopilot.
Of course, it could be both… that he’s stupid and a liar.
re: #425 KGxvi
Weren’t a lot of the “classic” cartoons like that written more for adults than children? Like it wasn’t until the 50’s or 60’s that they were written more with children in mind? Basically when they were likely to be shown in movie theaters they were adult oriented, and once TV came about they were for kids?
Yeah. The Bugs Bunny one that features Lauren Bacall from when she starred with Bogart in To Have and Have Not is NOT for kids….
Jesus, they draw her walking across a floor and the floor bursting into a flame as she goes by…and they even work in the “Put your lips together and blow” bit, OMG
Great cartoon and funny as hell, but not aimed at kids.
re: #432 Hecuba’s daughter
Did this Republican explain how he could afford it?
You buy $200,000 in baseball tickets. They are a fungible asset. You offer to sell them to Sergei for $350,000 dollars. Sergei gives you $275,000, and gets the tickets (fungible) and $75,000 of clean cash.
This is Money Laundering 101. Sergei, who is on a US sanctions list paid $75,000 to get $275,000 in clean American Bongo Buckaroos. Sergei is happy. Brett is happy and has an additional 75 large for a payment on his house.
re: #442 MsJ
Edit posting of white women who did support them.
White women were 37% of the electorate and 52% voted for him. So, you’re looking at 19-20% of the electorate.
re: #432 Hecuba’s daughter
Did this Republican explain how he could afford it?
No. This is a sports-related site but he’s been around for ever as the “businessman who knows the real stuff the libs don’t” kind of guy. So it was in the tone of “you wouldn’t understand” when I asked.
re: #443 KGxvi
I suspect on NAFTA negotiations, it’s more a matter of him not understanding details. He just thinks it’s a new deal and that’s all that matters for his tiny little brain. Everything else is the government running on autopilot.
Of course, it could be both… that he’s stupid and a liar.
Trump wants a NAFTA with a new name, and no Canada or Mexico.
stupid and a liar
yep.
re: #429 Barefoot Grin
I had a righteous Republican elsewhere tell me that paying off that debt and getting such an expensive home on a salary that wouldn’t justify it was completely plausible.
I’d really like to know how he qualified for the loan on his house with that income. Unless it was before the Crash of 2008 there’s no way.
re: #420 TedStriker
I can’t find a full episode of the Barber of Seville online for the kids to watch. I’ve wanted them to see that one and the Rabbit Season ones.
NBC News is pushing unsubstantiated allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and blocked stories about Harvey Weinstein while covering for Matt Lauer.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 26, 2018
Who remembers when Harvey Weinstein was nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court? Me neither. https://t.co/4PxHPkGEKw
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 26, 2018
This fucking guy…
So many media comments here about how that presser by @realDonaldTrump was batshit crazy. What a mistake to think that is how the whole country saw it. Im a butter knife away from many Americans who are instead saying hell yeah. Tomorrow might not resolve anything.
— Michael Smerconish (@smerconish) September 26, 2018
re: #437 Scout
I’m the same way. And I take a lot of derisive guff from a few of my co-workers as a result.
I see things on FB where, on the one side, people proudly state that they’ve never seen even one episode of “Game of Thrones”, and on the other, people insisting that EVERYONE needs to see GoT.
I don’t see a lot of point to either. I watch it, and I enjoy it. Mrs. FBW doesn’t watch it, and probably wouldn’t enjoy it if she did. Neither of us insists the other like all the same stuff.
“The world is so full of a number of things that I think we should all be as happy as kings.”
re: #426 MsJ
Well, more of us white men who find this behavior appalling are going to have to rise up as well.
re: #441 Scottish Dragon
I refuse to watch Matt Schlapp on Harball
He just said this a unifying issue (supporting Judge Rapey) for the GOP.
re: #454 Barefoot Grin
He’s not wrong, unfortunately.
The question is what percentage was saying “fuck yeah” and what percentage was saying “fuck no”?
I’d actually love a poll that asked that question:
Did you watch the president’s press conference? If “yes”, which is closer to your opinion of the president’s statements: fuck yeah or fuck no?
re: #442 MsJ
Edit posting of white women who did support them.
Fucking swiping while watching Jeopardy. Let’s try again.
While alienating white women who supported them. It’s a really bad Strategy.
Aren’t there laws saying you can’t masturbate in public?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2018
re: #454 Barefoot Grin
He’s not wrong, unfortunately.
Bullshit. It was batshit crazy. Just because 40% of the population are fucking idiots, that doesn’t change reality,
Another accusation against Kavanaugh that he was asked about by Senate staffers this week: an alleged rape on a boat in Rhode Island in 1985. Kavanaugh denies. pic.twitter.com/MrA5Ff50RI
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) September 26, 2018
Senior Senate Dem aide tells me there’s a concern the GOP is “now releasing anonymous allegations in an effort to make all allegations look frivolous. We’re focusing on the ones that have names attached.” https://t.co/gdzmYJLdMM
— Elana Schor (@eschor) September 26, 2018
I think people should be very cautious about the anonymous allegations that Senate is investigating out of due diligence. There’s more than enough to investigate in the non-anonymous cases. https://t.co/r2mNx2i5x7
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 26, 2018
re: #458 MsJ
Fucking swiping while watching Jeopardy. Let’s try again.
While alienating white women who supported them. It’s a really bad Strategy.
Yeah, it’s an incredibly stupid strategy, so expect them to double down despite the pre-existing 10 point gender gap among white voters.
If indeed the women are falsely accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault, & @MichaelAvenatti-a fierce opponent of Trump-is a party to their lies, why in the world wouldn’t the GOP use the FBI to prove it, exonerate their altar boy, & destroy Avenatti’s career?
Believe the women.— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) September 26, 2018
re: #460 Dr. Matt
Bullshit. It was batshit crazy. Just because 40% of the population are fucking idiots, that doesn’t change reality,
But they ALL vote.
re: #460 Dr. Matt
Bullshit. It was batshit crazy. Just because 40% of the population are fucking idiots, that doesn’t change reality,
I agree entirely. But I don’t think that’s what he means. I think he means that 40% love it because it’s batshit crazy.
re: #461 Blind Frog Belly White
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Yeah, I have to admit hat I’m inclined to view any anonymous allegations at this stage with suspicion. Not because I’m dismissing the victims, but because the GOP have made rodent copulation into an art form and when you’re facing multiple credible accusers, throwing chaff out there makes total sense.
Hello fellow lgf’ers and fellow intellectuals. I stepped out of my usual routine and I checked out cnn about the trump press conference.
1. Cnn has an op-ed by Scott Jennings saying the kavanaugh thing is the Democrats keeping control and that it is all politics and that the Democrats don’t care about sexual abuse allegations.
2. The comment Mr. Kurd by orange mcdouschebag, president, was mad win response to the reporter asking about Trump’s thoughts on the Kurds and Iraq.
3. Normalized everything trump did as not really a reason to be concerned.
My brain exploded writing those words. I am going back to my cave.
Carry on.
re: #467 Targetpractice
Yeah, I have to admit hat I’m inclined to view any anonymous allegations at this stage with suspicion. Not because I’m dismissing the victims, but because the GOP have made rodent copulation into an art form and when you’re facing multiple credible accusers, throwing chaff out there makes total sense.
Hell’s bells, didn’t we just see them fake a news story about Rod Rosenstein in an attempt to throw the media off the Kavanaugh case?
When I saw her speak before a small group here, a guy in the audience asked her if she had experienced a # Me Too moment. I stayed seated, but in my mind, I jumped in his face and said
1) You don’t get to ask that.
2) You can see she’s female.
3) You have heard that she went to law school.
4) Given the info you already had, you are too stupid rude to be here, asking any questions.
I had a good conversation with my closest brother in age today since we went to the gym together after our shifts ended. About how media especially right wing media uses an isolated image to paint an entire group as extreme to rage fuel viewers. He had read the same article about how FNC really warped that one guy’s father. It’s easy for me to see how RW propaganda works because I really saw it with my friend.
Just go and be an advocate for Bill Cosby, Erick. pic.twitter.com/xBsHRVd0y0
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) September 27, 2018
re: #472 Scottish Dragon
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You dont’ get it do you Erick. Lauer, Weinstein, and Kavanaugh are all fucking creeps. And as bad and deplorable as their behavior was, they weren’t going to be ruling on law for the next 25 years. Sorry if it chaps your ass that your ideology championed a man like Kavanaugh for years who is a sexual predator but it’s true.
The best part of today’s shitshow. pic.twitter.com/fywZKNeM2N
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
WE REPEAT: all of this is happening while…
-Thousands of helpless children are being caged;
-Republicans are trying to steal $2 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security;
-The already-rich are further rigging the system in their favor.
Register to vote. #KavaNO— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) September 26, 2018
HURR HURR MOAR JERBS THEN YEW EVER SAW BEFORE IN UR LIFE TIME!!!1!!!
Pay for salaried workers could decrease next year — despite a strong job market https://t.co/zWhX18MX4i
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 27, 2018
re: #476 The Vicious Babushka
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We continue to see on paper growth but little wage growth. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a “Marxist” or not, worker wage growth should always be positively correlated with management wage growth. I don’t mind the bastards growing wealthy. I mind them growing more so while other people get left behind.
re: #417 Blind Frog Belly White
I think part of our moral development as a culture and as individuals within that culture is looking back on the things we thought were funny, or justified, or just ‘how things are’ when we were growing up, or even as young adults, and realizing that was NOT GOOD.
The discomfort I now feel around having enjoyed John Hughes films, or RotN, or Animal House back in the day, like the discomfort I feel about just how fall-on-the-floor-laughing funny Bill Cosby was in the early to mid-60s comedy routines, at least tells me I’ve grown.
It’s when you refuse to feel bad about it, because “that was then, it was okay back then” is refusal to acknowledge the need to grow..
There’s lots of movies and TV shows that have what we now consider to be gross depictions of racial and/or gender relations (among other things) and that are, at the very least, really cringey to watch today; however, I think it is possible to find and enjoy stuff that’s still good in some of those movies and TV shows and still be critical of the parts that aren’t good/that are cringey.
re: #470 wrenchwench
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When I saw her speak before a small group here, a guy in the audience asked her if she had experienced a # Me Too moment. I stayed seated, but in my mind, I jumped in his face and said
1) You don’t get to ask that.
2) You can see she’s female.
3) You have heard that she went to law school.
4) Given the info you already had, you are too
stupidrude to be here, asking any questions.
The worst thing is, I bet he thinks he was being a good ally.
re: #479 Blind Frog Belly White
The worst thing is, I bet he thinks he was being a good ally.
Yep. Helping her establish her credentials as a good candidate.
Woman? Check.
Victim? Check.
re: #477 HappyWarrior
We continue to see on paper growth but little wage growth. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a “Marxist” or not, worker wage growth should always be positively correlated with management wage growth. I don’t mind the bastards growing wealthy. I mind them growing more so while other people get left behind.
That’s the thing that kills me most. I get that managing a massive company is a tough job - hell yes, they should get paid more than I do. But not ten times more, no way.
re: #478 TedStriker
There’s lots of movies and TV shows that have what we now consider to be gross depictions of racial and/or gender relations (among other things), but are now, at the very least, really cringey to watch today; however, I think it is possible to find and enjoy stuff that’s still good in some of those movies and TV shows and still be critical of the parts that aren’t good/that are cringey.
It is amazing to think things that were once pretty ground taking in their presentation are now kind of border on racially insensitive or even outright racist. I think of someone like Al Jolson who to his credit did condemn Jim Crow, lynching, and supported African-American entertainers downing black face. I guess that’s why I get upset when CSA fans try to act like the CSA wasn’t “racist.” I’ve told you all. I have no allusions about my grandfather’s grandfather who fought for the Union. I appreciate what he did but I doubt he was an abolitionist or especially a champion of equality between the races. BE great if he was but the odds are against it.
re: #481 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s the thing that kills me most. I get that managing a massive company is a tough job - hell yes, they should get paid more than I do. But not ten times more, no way.
In the 50’s, the times they romanticize, the Boss was a neighbor. At least in White America.
re: #480 wrenchwench
Yep. Helping her establish her credentials as a good candidate.
Woman? Check.
Victim? Check.
I read an essay on how to be a good ally, and one of the things that struck me is “I don’t owe you my story.”
re: #481 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s the thing that kills me most. I get that managing a massive company is a tough job - hell yes, they should get paid more than I do. But not ten times more, no way.
CEOs get paid 100 or 1000 times more than you, if you are just a regular employee.
This is how you know you’re in the presence of a true dimwitted jackass — when they brag about the size of their uh-brain.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 27, 2018
The last thirty or so years of US foreign policy in one The Good Place gif. pic.twitter.com/IkgOVVxGNY
— B. A. Friedman (@BA_Friedman) September 26, 2018
re: #485 The Vicious Babushka
CEOs get paid 100 or 1000 times more than you, if you are just a regular employee.
Yeah. For me, 10 times is not a problem. 400 times (current average, I believe) - THAT’S a problem.
The thing that gets me though is the constant shitting on people who want better wages and working conditions. We celebrate the CEO who gives himself a raise but we look down on the man beneath him trying to get better wages to help make ends meat so his kids can attend college, get the health care they need, or find a better place to live. I don’t mind and accept that automation has changed economies but we never see the human cost of that. Now I’m glad to see mines closing but I still want to as did HRC to retrain the miners.
re: #485 The Vicious Babushka
CEOs get paid 100 or 1000 times more than you, if you are just a regular employee.
And I don’t care what wingnut propaganda says, they do NOT work that much harder than you.
re: #484 Blind Frog Belly White
I read an essay on how to be a good ally, and one of the things that struck me is “I don’t owe you my story.”
Many people completely miss the aspect of # Me Too that’s all about women being uncomfortable talking about these things.
In public.
With strangers.
re: #488 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah. For me, 10 times is not a problem. 400 times (current average, I believe) - THAT’S a problem.
Same brother I mentioned above was talking about how we’re 4% of the population taking up 25% of the resources. Money is much the same with a select few controllling much of the wealth.
Hah.
You haven’t been paying attention. Your dad is the man who had unprotected sex with my “porn star” client when your brother was 4 mos. old and your step mom was at home. How many other “porn stars” has he slept with? You should leave this to the adults and go back to playing.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 27, 2018
re: #486 Charles Johnson
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Again, I really don’t want to see Michael Avenatti run for president or anything like that. But I really do like the way he comes back at people like Junior and I wish more Democrats had some of the same fire.
re: #493 Charles Johnson
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Only in Wingnut world is it more an indictment on your character to represent a porn star than to be the man who slept with said porn star while a new husband. Don Jr really should shut the fuck up on this one but then again he learned everything about how to treat women from his father.
re: #496 Charles Johnson
Again, I really don’t want to see Michael Avenatti run for president or anything like that. But I really do like the way he comes back at people like Junior and I wish more Democrats had some of the same fire.
I really wish they would too. Junior more than any Trump kind loves sticking his ugly face into the political discussion. Hit back at the little shit head.
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
re: #461 Blind Frog Belly White
Republicans are so dirty. They’re the purveyors of fake news.
re: #496 Charles Johnson
Again, I really don’t want to see Michael Avenatti run for president or anything like that. But I really do like the way he comes back at people like Junior and I wish more Democrats had some of the same fire.
Sadly, “When they go low, we go high” didn’t work out so well.
What I like about Avenatti is that he’s smart, articulate, and makes a decent point. By contrast, Trump is stupid, incoherent, and blathering, and Don Jr. is worse in every particular.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
People who work minimum wage jobs do the most back-breaking labor.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
The answer would be “Because The Market says so”.
re: #503 The Vicious Babushka
People who work minimum wage jobs do the most back-breaking labor.
Exactly. I’m tired of burger flippers and people like that being looked down on. Mother fucker, they’re why you’re able to get the food you like stuffing your fat face with. Again gets back to what my brother and I were talking about how the so called shit hole countries Trump spoke of are why we have the life we do.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
I have heard people speak in terms of a person’s ‘worth as a human being’. Some were joking around, believing in equal worth across the board. Some were serious.
re: #504 Blind Frog Belly White
The answer would be “Because The Market says so”.
Yeah and that’s crap.
re: #506 wrenchwench
I have heard people speak in terms of a person’s ‘worth as a human being’. Some were joking around, believing in equal worth across the board. Some were serious.
I believe in the radical notion that someone’s worth as a human being isn’t in their annual paycheck. :) Just joshing, I knwo you do and it’s not really that absurd.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
It’s the negotiation by and among a lot of other people with a vested interest in keeping the compensation system working that way.
re: #503 The Vicious Babushka
People who work minimum wage jobs do the most back-breaking labor.
There was a time when we as a society celebrated the worker and viewed the businessman skeptically at best. Look at the popular films of the 30s and 40s - the rich were either idle nincompoops, or scheming protofascists. Occasionally the rich fatcat is a good guy (think Claudette Colbert’s father in “It Happened One Night”), but a lot of them were much more sinister (think the rich guy who backs Gary Cooper in “Meet John Doe”)
re: #495 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #510 Blind Frog Belly White
There was a time when we as a society celebrated the worker and viewed the businessman skeptically at best. Look at the popular films of the 30s and 40s - the rich were either idle nincompoops, or scheming protofascists. Occasionally the rich fatcat is a good guy (think Claudette Colbert’s father in “It Happened One Night”), but a lot of them were much more sinister (think the rich guy who backs Gary Cooper in “Meet John Doe”)
Hell Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart were about as far as liberal as you could get and they made It’s a Wonderful Life. I don’t mind respecting the businessman. I do mind treating him like he’s a superman and the workers who actually help him generate his wealth are morons and “losers” especially if they demand something a bit better. I’m proud of my family’s history in the labor movement.
re: #510 Blind Frog Belly White
There was a time when we as a society celebrated the worker and viewed the businessman skeptically at best. Look at the popular films of the 30s and 40s - the rich were either idle nincompoops, or scheming protofascists. Occasionally the rich fatcat is a good guy (think Claudette Colbert’s father in “It Happened One Night”), but a lot of them were much more sinister (think the rich guy who backs Gary Cooper in “Meet John Doe”)
Can anyone say “Labor Day”? There’s a whole damn federal holiday dedicated to the everyday workingman.
Trump Brags That He Got Much Bigger Laughs at U.N. Than Obama https://t.co/JWruGTYP1p
— Muckmaker™ (@RealMuckmaker) September 25, 2018
All these memes I see saying “Thank you capitalism for the life I have.” And it’s okay, two things. The life you have is brought to you on the backs of people who make but a fraction of what you do. And yes I own an iPhone and a lot of other goods that are luxury so maybe I am a ltitle hypocritical but to be in total denial about ti. To be in total denial that the standard of living you enjoy now didn’t come in good part from people you’d call “commies” or “socialists” and to just blindly worship Capitalism is absurd. I don’t necessarily always believe “Behind every great fortune is a great crime” but I do believe that if you’re living well, there’s about 1000 people who aren’t that allows you do so.
Night Lizards. Time to cook dinner and detox with a nice bath bomb.
Thread. Not suggested for everyone. Some will enjoy it, some won’t.
Hi. So women, let me be blunt : that feeling? Is FUCKING RAGE. It is incandescent fantastical earth shaking rage
— Sydette (@Blackamazon) September 26, 2018
re: #507 HappyWarrior
Yeah and that’s crap.
Well, yeah. CEOs serve on Boards of Directors. BoDs set executive salary. That means the people who decide what the CEO makes are the people most inclined to believe the CEO is extra-super valuable.
It doesn’t even require self-dealing or corruption. They’re just naturally biased.
re: #513 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Can anyone say “Labor Day”? There’s a whole damn federal holiday dedicated to the everyday workingman.
And Trump’s Secretary of the Army decided to make it about the military which i found really disrespectful. No direspect to the people who serve our military but they do have their days that we celebrate them. Labor day is where I celebrate my Grandpa as a brickmason who worked his ass off to lay a foundation where my mom and her brother became the first two in the family to attend college and Vets day is where I remember his service in Korea.
re: #499 HappyWarrior
I really wish they would too. Junior more than any Trump kind loves sticking his ugly face into the political discussion. Hit back at the little shit head.
Junior’s stuff is all “me too”
Has he really ever had any kind of own thought?
Dear POTUS, pic.twitter.com/mtcKHCRaGN
— Bernard DeKoninck 🇨🇦🇧🇪🇳🇱 (@bbertaud) September 26, 2018
re: #518 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, yeah. CEOs serve on Boards of Directors. BoDs set executive salary. That means the people who decide what the CEO makes are the people most inclined to believe the CEO is extra-super valuable.
It doesn’t even require self-dealing or corruption. They’re just naturally biased.
Yep, and god do not get me started on people oho think charities should just be trusted with everything. Government is imperfect I concede but you have to be blind not to see the corruption that goes on within charities.
When it comes to Trump, there are two types of people in America these days:
1) People who think the man is a dangerous, narcissitic, blithering orange shit weasel.
And
2) Those who are wrong.
re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but….
Nerds can be sympathetic heroes without being rapey. It wasn’t portrayed as “These poor guys were pushed to this!”, but rather “Snotty bitch deserved it!”
The more I think about it, the more parallels I see with the Incels of today - these women were nasty and hurtful to the protagonists, and end up being tricked into sex with them one way or another. That’s nonconsensual sex, no matter how you slice it. And then they always try to make it okay by having the woman say how good it was, or that she now likes the guy more.
re: #396 Scottish Dragon
Real Genius is a far, far better movie about nerds in college and that is probably because it had a women directing it.
One of the few college age 80s comedies that still stands up.
re: #405 Targetpractice
Fitting quote for Kavanaugh right now from that film:
“Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said ‘…I drank what?’”
re: #428 Belafon
Required viewing periodically in my house.
While I have somewhat of a (more critical and jaundiced these days) sweet spot for RotN, Real Genius is, far and away, my more favored movie of the two because it’s just so 80s cheese, it’s good. Kilmer’s Knight vs. Atherton’s Hathaway…yes, please!
Little bit of trivia: actress Michelle Meyrink was in lead roles in both movies (as Jordan in RG and as Judy in RotN).
re: #520 ObserverArt
Junior’s stuff is all “me too”
Has he really ever had any kind of own thought?
Well he did go with an older woman. His Dad would never have done that. :)
re: #519 HappyWarrior
Right?! Both my grandfathers were handymen, jacks-of-all-trades; they supported an entire rural Indiana town on their backs. I have some of their tools in my toolbox out in the garage. Well-worn and greasy, but they never fail. Labor Day is the day to celebrate what they did at home; Veteran’s Day is the day to celebrate what they did (well, at least one of them) when they were abroad.
re: #520 ObserverArt
Junior’s stuff is all “me too”
Has he really ever had any kind of own thought?
He had his soul sucked out of him a long time ago.
re: #522 HappyWarrior
Yep, and god do not get me started on people oho think charities should just be trusted with everything. Government is imperfect I concede but you have to be blind not to see the corruption that goes on within charities.
But even leaving corruption to the side, the problem with charities is that they’re unreliable. Their donations dry up when they’re needed most, during economic downturns.
re: #526 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Right?! Both my grandparents were handymen, jacks-of-all-trades; they supported an entire rural Indiana town on their backs. I have some of their tools in my toolbox out in the garage. Well-worn and greasy, but they never fail. Labor Day is the day to celebrate what they did at home; Veteran’s Day is the day to celebrate what they did (well, at least one of them) when they were abroad.
Exactly. I just found it really disrespectful. But yeah my forefathers were miners, tenant farmers, steel workers, iron pudlers, drivers(of horses), blacksmiths, etc. Some of them in their youth responded to their country’s call. We don’t need to make everything into a worship the military moment.
re: #528 Blind Frog Belly White
But even leaving corruption to the side, the problem with charities is that they’re unreliable. Their donations dry up when they’re needed most, during economic downturns.
A damn good point that I never erally thought about.
re: #527 jaunte
He had his soul sucked out of him a long time ago.
Objection, assumes he had a soul.
re: #530 HappyWarrior
A damn good point that I never erally thought about.
I’d also add that the folks who say that having government do the work of providing benefits takes away the opportunity for Christians to do good works are seeing the poor not as people, but rather like NPCs in a game - they get points for interacting with them properly.
re: #531 HappyWarrior
Hah! I mean, growing up within the gravitational pull of Trump would have eliminated any incentive/opportunity to develop an independent spirit.
re: #535 jaunte
Hah! I mean, growing up within the gravitational pull of Trump would have eliminated any incentive/opportunity to develop an independent spirit.
Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole!
I feel sorry for the infant Don Jr., but not for the current husk.
re: #534 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d also add that the folks who say that having government do the work of providing benefits takes away the opportunity for Christians to do good works are seeing the poor not as people, but rather like NPCs in a game - they get points for interacting with them properly.
Yes.
re: #535 jaunte
Hah! I mean, growing up within the gravitational pull of Trump would have eliminated any incentive/opportunity to develop an independent spirit.
Withdrawn. Yeah I almost feel bad for him knowing that asshole is his father but he had free will and plenty of time to become a good person.
re: #537 jaunte
I feel sorry for the infant Don Jr., but not for the current husk.
I do too. I’m just using law lingo since I had a very busy day at the firm today.
re: #536 Blind Frog Belly White
Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole!
Shouldn’t that be: Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole Junior!?
Where’s that Texas graphic.
Another Republican scumbag….
Texas GOP Senator Charles Schwertner “I just really want to f–k you” & sent an image of his genitals apparently taken in a shower, according to a university official who had seen the graphic exchange. https://t.co/k4qHaTjKKP— Stone Cold (@stonecold2050) September 26, 2018
re: #542 ObserverArt
Shouldn’t that be: Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole Junior!?
His Assholeness the Turd is honored to grace you with his presence. //
re: #543 MsJ
Where’s that Texas graphic.
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re: #543 MsJ
Where’s that Texas graphic.
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Why, oh why, do these idiots think women want to see dick pics?
re: #542 ObserverArt
Shouldn’t that be: Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole, son of Rich Asshole Junior!?
I know Fred was a Rich Asshole, but I don’t know if he was born to richness and assholery, or acquired it.
re: #546 calochortus
Why, oh why, do these idiots think women want to see dick pics?
Your guess is as good as mine. I’d feel wrong sending a woman a topless photo of me posing. A dick pic? Never.
re: #546 calochortus
Why, oh why, do these idiots think women want to see dick pics?
Because if a woman sent a man a picture of her genitalia, that’s hawt. Obviously women have to function the same way. Seriously, some men are completely unable to comprehend the idea that men and women are physically, mentally, and sexually different.
re: #548 HappyWarrior
Your guess is as good as mine. I’d feel wrong sending a woman a topless photo of me posing. A dick pic? Never.
There’s your problem-you’re a nice guy.
For what it’s worth, every time I ask a guy in my family why guys do some stupid thing, the answer I get is “I dunno.”
Twenty years ago this month the Starr Report came out. Let’s review what happened to some of Bill Clinton’s antagonists. (1/7)
— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018
re: #546 calochortus
Why, oh why, do these idiots think women want to see dick pics?
In the forlorn hope that somewhere out there is a woman who doesn’t find the male member as funny-looking as we all realize they are?
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re: #550 calochortus
There’s your problem-you’re a nice guy.
For what it’s worth, every time I ask a guy in my family why guys do some stupid thing, the answer I get is “I dunno.”
Ha, thanks. Not really about being nice. It’s just a matter of “Who the fuck wants to see that?”. I mean I can get sleazy sounding flirting almost but dick pics to me are a really fucked way of trying to get someone to like you.
Twenty years ago this month the Starr Report came out. Let’s review what happened to some of Bill Clinton’s antagonists. (1/7)
— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018
This is brutal. I forgot all of the R’s involved either had affairs, or molested children. https://t.co/rrXtYQzjPk
— paul mcleary (@paulmcleary) September 27, 2018
Remainder of thread enclosed
House Speaker Newt Gingrich all the while was having an affair with a staffer. (She is now ambassador to the Vatican.) He stepped down as speaker. (3/7)
— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018
Fortunately for the GOP, they settled on another replacement, who served for eight years. That man, Dennis Hastert, later served time in a federal prison for molesting young boys when he was a wrestling coach. (5/7)
— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018
But at least one of Starr’s young staff attorneys made good. Brett Kavanaugh is likely to become the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court—unless, that is, someone discovers that he committed sexual assault or witnessed gang rapes while in high school (7/7)
— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018
re: #553 HappyWarrior
Ha, thanks. Not really about being nice. It’s just a matter of “Who the fuck wants to see that?”. I mean I can get sleazy sounding flirting almost but dick pics to me are a really fucked way of trying to get someone to like you.
It’s great way to announce “I have no idea what you might want to see, so here’s something I like.”
re: #546 calochortus
Why, oh why, do these idiots think women want to see dick pics?
Many men make the mistake of assuming women are highly turned on by visual rather than emotional stimulus. Men and women are wired very different when it comes to sex.
Also probably from watching way too much Porn and thinking most real women work the same way porn stars do.
I say this as a man who fell into this same stupid trap when I was younger.
Also, fun fact: Most porn is made by men for men and that includes straight, gay and lesbian categories.
re: #551 Dizzy
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Even when I was 11, 20 years ago, it was obvious to me that the Republicans crying about how Bill was why their kids had found out about sex were full of shit. Hastert btw IMO turned out to be the most despicable of them all and they brought him after Newt and Livingston who were just mere hypocritical douchewads were forced out.
Anything to avoid getting reBeto’d.
Ted Cruz wants to hear from latest Brett Kavanaugh accuser; Sunday’s debate may be at risk https://t.co/0gk3WviuPj via @elpasotimes
— Santa Teresa News (@SantaTeresaNews) September 27, 2018
re: #555 jaunte
It’s great way to announce “I have no idea what you might want to see, so here’s something I like.”
I’m so glad I didn’t have a mouthful of liquid when I read that. All the updings for you.
re: #555 jaunte
It’s great way to announce “I have no idea what you might want to see, so here’s something I like.”
I’d show one of my tats if that’s what I was trying to do lol. A lot of people are surprised that I have four of them because I’m a pretty quiet, low key guy.
re: #558 wrenchwench
Anything to avoid getting reBeto’d.
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re: #547 Blind Frog Belly White
I know Fred was a Rich Asshole, but I don’t know if he was born to richness and assholery, or acquired it.
I was going with the old thinking that third generation family businesses are always a drop off and many times a failure.
Not sure how true it really is.
But I needed that third family member for it to work.
re: #554 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Is it just me, or do these lists remind you of that song where the refrain is…
They were all in love with dying they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain
Hiding out like a coward, and refusing to speak to the FBI and the Judiciary Committee — although Mark Judge may be a recovering alcoholic, he certainly has not recovered from his own ethical bankruptcy and moral turpitude. #maddow @maddow
— Bill Madden (@activist360) September 27, 2018
Mark Judge’s former girlfriend, Elizabeth Rasor is ready to talk to the FBI and the Judiciary Committee, her lawyer says https://t.co/zQok8eav1q #maddow @maddow https://t.co/OUURlPDlik
— Bill Madden (@activist360) September 27, 2018
re: #511 Charles Johnson
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re: #557 HappyWarrior
Even when I was 11, 20 years ago, it was obvious to me that the Republicans crying about how Bill was why their kids had found out about sex were full of shit. Hastert btw IMO turned out to be the most despicable of them all and they brought him after Newt and Livingston who were just mere hypocritical douchewads were forced out.
I must admit, to this day, I cannot fathom the depravity and hypocrisy of the Republicans. I mean, I new they were scumbags, but JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST!
re: #558 wrenchwench
Anything to avoid getting reBeto’d.
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re: #528 Blind Frog Belly White
But even leaving corruption to the side, the problem with charities is that they’re unreliable. Their donations dry up when they’re needed most, during economic downturns.
Heh. Majority of social service foundations rely on….government grants.
re: #566 Dizzy
I must admit, to this day, I cannot fathom the depravity and hypocrisy of the Republicans. I mean, I new they were scumbags, but JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST!
Yeah I’ve never liked the GOP. I remember when I was even younger visiting my grandparents and she had CSPAN on a lot and we did not like the Republicans. Haha she still doesn’t. I just helped her get her absentee ballot today. As far as I know, she’s voted Democratic every Presidential election since Truman beating Dewey. She didn’t like Obama at first but eh grew bigly on her.
re: #475 Single-handed sailor
Nancy Pelosi
✔
@TeamPelosi
US House candidate, CA-12
WE REPEAT: all of this is happening while…-Thousands of helpless children are being caged;
-Republicans are trying to steal $2 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security;
-The already-rich are further rigging the system in their favor.
Register to vote. #KavaNO
I called my senators about those first two issues today, along with giving them a big thanks for fighting so well against Kavanaugh. My senators are Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith so it always feels like preaching to the choir when I call them about stuff, but they appreciate the calls.
re: #567 Belafon
CNN was talking at lunch about Cruz being caught looking at a Beto picture. One of the replies was “Swipe left, or swipe right?”
My flip phone would like to know what that means.
re: #570 stpaulbear
I called my senators about those first two issues today, along with giving them a big thanks for fighting so well against Kavanaugh. My senators are Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith so it always feels like preaching to the choir when I call them about stuff, but they appreciate the calls.
It’s a shame that Franken is gone but I trust that Tina Smith is doing a great job and will likely run for her own term?
Yes, that is Putin’s official Twitter account
I feel sorry for Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC , I think he is being used by @PutinRF_Eng and/or @realDonaldTrump
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 27, 2018
re: #571 wrenchwench
My flip phone would like to know what that means.
Tinder, you swipe left for no and right for yes.
This #JaredPolis stuff is going to lead to a landslide loss.
I REALLY wish more people had been like me and voted for Cary Kennedy this July.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) September 27, 2018
re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White
Is it just me, or do these lists remind you of that song where the refrain is…
They were all in love with dying they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain
re: #477 HappyWarrior
We continue to see on paper growth but little wage growth. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a “Marxist” or not, worker wage growth should always be positively correlated with management wage growth. I don’t mind the bastards growing wealthy. I mind them growing more so while other people get left behind.
Wage growth should be tied to GDP growth
re: #573 gocart mozart
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Hey Lindsay, she made the allegation when you guys were still bitching about the Obama. I feel sorry for you. You used to be okay and now Joe Walsh is a better man than you are when it comes to standing up to Trumpism.
NEW: Seven alums of Holton-Arms, where Christine Blasey Ford went to school, shared their own accounts of sexual assault with me, describing a culture where that behavior was pervasive and a community that is now rallying together and speaking up. https://t.co/WnUGhsyuKy
— Emily Jane Fox (@emilyjanefox) September 26, 2018
Hanoi Jane shares “radical kinship” with Moscow Don.
Jane Fonda urged Americans to express “radical kinship” for Donald Trump and his supporters.
“This is a man who was traumatized as a child by his father, who had a mother that didn’t protect him. And the behavior is the language of the wounded,” she said https://t.co/Iw7nrcM7Qc— POLITICO (@politico) September 26, 2018
re: #577 dangerman
Wage growth should be tied to GDP growth
For a moment I misread that as “GOP growth” and I was like ummmm…
re: #572 HappyWarrior
It’s a shame that Franken is gone but I trust that Tina Smith is doing a great job and will likely run for her own term?
It seems that way. I haven’t heard anything bad about her yet.
re: #579 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #580 DodgerFan1988
Hanoi Jane shares “radical kinship” with Moscow Don.
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Jane, a lot of men and women are abused by their parents. A lot of them become great people. Sorry, I don’t have empathy for him. It sucks his father was an asshole to him but that doesn’t excuse anything.
re: #580 DodgerFan1988
Ummm… okay Jane, that is a nice bit of armchair psychology.
But that is a luxury we cannot afford.
re: #560 HappyWarrior
I’d show one of my tats if that’s what I was trying to do lol. A lot of people are surprised that I have four of them because I’m a pretty quiet, low key guy.
There are lots of people who are shocked that I got a tattoo for my 50th. I don’t look like a tattoo person…and I’m not, but I wanted one and one only.
Why is there a weird sub-sect of the left that looks to justify or rationalize Trump? Granted I haven’t seen it yet guys and I’m only going by what my boss told me but he said that Michael Moore’s new documentary almost glamorized Trump. My boss btw is a staunch liberal Democrat and chair of a local Dems group.
re: #586 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
There are lots of people who are shocked that I got a tattoo for my 50th. I don’t look like a tattoo person…and I’m not, but I wanted one and one only.
My cousin just turned 50 and has several lol. She’s the one who really pushed me to get my first then my second then my lol you get the picture.
re: #572 HappyWarrior
It’s a shame that Franken is gone but I trust that Tina Smith is doing a great job and will likely run for her own term?
Tina is good. They’re both up for election this year because Tina was appointed. Her term will only be two or four years though so that MN can get the senate elections back to the regular schedule.
I don’t doubt Trump had a shitty childhood probably but I don’t think it’s right to use that to treat him like a victim either.
re: #584 HappyWarrior
Jane, a lot of men and women are abused by their parents. A lot of them become great people. Sorry, I don’t have empathy for him. It sucks his father was an asshole to him but that doesn’t excuse anything.
Brock Kavanaw was an altar boy. He could have been abused too. So he can blame the Church for his transgressions, but at some point he needs to take ownership of his own.
re: #591 wrenchwench
Brock Kavanaw was an altar boy. He could have been abused too. So he can blame the Church for his transgressions, but at some point he needs to take ownership of his own.
But the GOP is the Party of “Fuck Personal Responsibility”.
re: #589 stpaulbear
Tina is good. They’re both up for election this year because Tina was appointed. Her term will only be two or four years though so that MN can get the senate elections back to the regular schedule.
Are their campaigns coordinating together? The awesome thing Kaine is doing here in VA is coordinating with the Congressional Dem candidates and incumbent. When I was out on the field the other day, I saw plenty of Kaine-Wexton signs in yards, way cool! You’re not seeing that with Stewart and Comstock which is part of why they’re both going ot lose.
re: #591 wrenchwench
Brock Kavanaw was an altar boy. He could have been abused too. So he can blame the Church for his transgressions, but at some point he needs to take ownership of his own.
You know, I’ve been thinking about that and I defintiely think his buddy Judge was. I don’t know about him but I definitely think Judge was.
re: #590 HappyWarrior
I don’t doubt Trump had a shitty childhood probably but I don’t think it’s right to use that to treat him like a victim either.
There’s a difference between an explanation and an excuse. You can feel sorry for someone who didn’t grow up in a functional family, but they still don’t get to do whatever they’d like with impunity.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Reward hard work? Fine. But the question I have is what determines someone’s worth. What makes someone’s work worth 100 million versus minimum wage?
Nothing - there is nothing that makes someone’s job worth 100 million - and those that think they earn it - support Kavanaugh.
re: #596 fern01
Nothing - there is nothing that makes someone’s job worth 100 million - and those that think they earn it - support Kavanaugh.
An old aquaintence posted something to the effect of “I don’t get why there are billionaires” and a lot of people got really snippy about it but yes.
re: #577 dangerman
Wage growth should be tied to GDP growth
How about a program where a company that meets that growth rate gets the benefit of no additional tax and maybe a cut in taxes if they surpass it. Companies that don’t meet it pay a tax on percentage they fail to match.
The money from the tax can go to social services to help cover the shortfall in folks wages. They get to make up by qualifying for those programs.
And maybe a minimum wage should also have some of the same in it too. That can vary to a company’s value and be tied to a company’s growth. Also adds incentive. A base minimum wage that a local small business would pay. A larger and more valuable business would have a higher minimum.
Just crazy thinking while listening a bit to Rachel. I am no economist.
re: #580 DodgerFan1988
She’s been doing shrooms again, hasn’t she?
re: #598 ObserverArt
I’m afraid that any formula is going to be a formula for serious inflation.
The detrimental effects of the Republican tax-gift to their rich buddies has yet to be felt.
The ballooning national debt will have to be addressed, and as usual it will be addressed by paying it back with much cheaper money.
Which means us retirees are going to be screwed royally, except for the few who are multi-millionaires.
re: #599 Single-handed sailor
She’s been doing shrooms again, hasn’t she?
TBH I think just misplaced sympathy. If I recall, Jane and Peter had a distant relationship with Henry.
So a thing that happened tonight. At the studio where I was for tonight’s spot they were, as affiliates do, broadcasting other unrelated spots. Before me was a guy, there to talk about what I don’t know but he looked serious
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 27, 2018
One of six
re: #586 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
There are lots of people who are shocked that I got a tattoo for my 50th. I don’t look like a tattoo person…and I’m not, but I wanted one and one only.
This is my next tattoo. Ankle or calf, I can’t decide.
Republicans hate being reminded of the Dennis Hastert crimes because it shows that everything they are claiming today is impossible IS possible.
Seemingly good men can do horrible things and a culture of silence that shames victims can keep them quiet for decades.— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) September 27, 2018
re: #603 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
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That’s beautiful. You’re friends with me on FB so you’ve probably seen my work especially my latest.
re: #604 MsJ
This is my next tattoo. Ankle or calf, I can’t decide.
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Gut here but ankle.
re: #606 HappyWarrior
No, I’m going to have to go look!
re: #581 Eclectic Cyborg
For a moment I misread that as “GOP growth” and I was like ummmm…
Actually I meant correlated to not tied to as in result of
re: #605 jaunte
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It’s just such an absurd argument. TBH I don’t think Kavanaugh deserved his previous reputation they were giving him but that’s beside the point here, the point is sexual abusers aren’t going to be wearing a shirt that says “Shitty person, keep me way from your loved ones.”
The sadly ironic thing about all those old white folk who are Trumpers is that the Republican tax gimmick will hurt them the most.
Retired folk are the most vulnerable to inflation.
If someone is on a fixed pension then they are locked into a financial future from which they probably won’t be able to escape.
re: #610 HappyWarrior
And “why didn’t they report” when there are a million stories around demonstrating why not.
re: #612 jaunte
And “why didn’t they report” when there are a million stories around demonstrating why not.
Ford has gotten death threats ffs and people still wonder. Goddamn.
We need to be reminded - civilizations come, civilizations go.
New article today on National Geographic:
Lost Civilization in the Congo Basin by Mike Fay and Richard Oslisly
“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 26, 2018
re: #615 gocart mozart
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re: #606 HappyWarrior
Just looked. I couldn’t see them all clearly, but I see you have a bunch!
re: #600 freetoken
I’m afraid that any formula is going to be a formula for serious inflation.
The detrimental effects of the Republican tax-gift to their rich buddies has yet to be felt.
The ballooning national debt will have to be addressed, and as usual it will be addressed by paying it back with much cheaper money.
Which means us retirees are going to be screwed royally, except for the few who are multi-millionaires.
I was just thinking ideally. A goal. I’m not even sure of implementation.
You would have to inch your way into any change.
re: #617 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Just looked. I couldn’t see them all clearly, but I see you have a bunch!
Yep! Four. I never thought I’d be that guy but I love it. I love talking to the artists and the whole process. Look up the Carpatho-Rusyns if you’re curious about the latest (the one with the bear). The ship is also a very personal one to me since it’s based on an image of the shpi that brought my father’s paternal grandfather to the US as a boy.
re: #618 ObserverArt
There is no permanent solution.
However, a hundred years ago some pretty smart people figured out that the richer a person is the more tax they ought to pay .
That idea has been attacked for four decades now by an atavistic Republican party, since it was taken over by the creationists and confederate sympathisers.
re: #613 HappyWarrior
Ford has gotten death threats ffs and people still wonder. Goddamn.
The SAME people.
re: #616 HappyWarrior
I hope someone lets him know that the Presidency isn’t for him but he can keep his current job as the guy renting space in Trump’s head.
Avenatti would be 5000% better than trump and if he wants to run in the primaries - good luck to him. The attacks by republicans would run down his back and out the door - he is an open book as regards to who he is and what he does.
I doubt he would win a dem primary - but would make for some interesting debates - and at the end of the day - he would 100% support the winner, unlike some others who want to be President.
re: #622 freetoken
There is no permanent solution.
However, a hundred years ago some pretty smart people figured out that the richer a person is the more tax they ought to pay .
That idea has been attacked for four decades now by an atavistic Republican party, since it was taken over by the creationists and confederate sympathisers.
I’m one of the younger ones here but when y’all were growing up was the now fairly mainstream GOP/right wing idea about doing away with the direct election of senators common? Granted I didn’t know until high school that Senators had once been elected by legislatures but still I thought the idea of “Yeah the people should be electing their senators” was something that was pretty much universally agreed on. It’s obvious to me now why Republicans want the legislatures to do it because they know gerrymandering favors them if that were to ever happen. Much the same way there was talk after Obama won to divide EVs by district which would have meant despite the fact that Obama won here in VA that Romney would have gotten more ECs.
re: #621 HappyWarrior
Guys FYI.
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First one is the Irish themed one and last is the Bear. Rusyn not to be confused with Russian but even if I were part Russian, I wouldn’t let an asshole like Vlad get in my way.
You’re a terrifying tattooed gangster.
I like the textured colors on the stripes on the shield.
re: #626 fern01
Avenatti would be 5000% better than trump and if he wants to run in the primaries - good luck to him. The attacks by republicans would run down his back and out the door - he is an open book as regards to who he is and what he does.
I doubt he would win a dem primary - but would make for some interesting debates - and at the end of the day - he would 100% support the winner, unlike some others who want to be President.
True, true.
Hey, on the bright side, new season of South Park starts tonight.
I was just channel surfing and I read the info on the TV show Catfish. It has 80 episodes. WTF?
re: #630 teleskiguy
Hey, on the bright side, new season of South Park starts tonight.
I’m so many seasons behind. I need everyone to stop making TV for a couple of years so I can get caught up.
re: #628 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You’re a terrifying tattooed gangster.
I like the textured colors on the stripes on the shield.
Hahahaha. And I’ve grown my beard back for the coming cold season. But yeah, I like symbolism in my work.
Blue is the colour of the deep skies, a perspective representation of the Carpathian mountains, hope for a better future, the colour of rational reasoning, freshness of the spirit and the body and undying diligence.
White is the colour of traditional peacefulness, hospitability, kindness, tolerance, peace, moral and physical purity, high culture and the natural pacifism of Rusyns.
Red associates with all that lives and is beautiful, with the aesthetic ideal of Rusyns, and it symbolises energy and health in man.
Description: in the left half there are three golden stripes on a blue background, in the right half, in dark red, there is a Carpathian bear standing on hind legs with an open mouth on a silver background. The bear symbolises the Carpathian mountains, the three golden stripes (according to some researchers) symbolise three rivers: Uh (Už), Latorica and Tisa.
Rusyns are a fascinating bunch. I’d say the most famous Rusyn-American is Andy Warhol followed by my cousin Mike Strank, who is in the famous Iwo Jima flag photo and was an immigrant.
re: #630 teleskiguy
Hey, on the bright side, new season of South Park starts tonight.
Always Sunny in 8 for me! I still do like South Park but I’m a couple seasons behind.
I’ve been talking to some of the most reasonable and intelligent people on the right. Almost none of them supported Trump. All of them are furious about this transparent smear campaign.
I don’t think the left and their media allies realize what they have done.— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) September 24, 2018
Thread filled with angry people who believe Kavanaugh was a choir boy and they’re so mad they might just vote for Trump now https://t.co/auIvd3R8M7
— Doremus Jessup (@DoremusJ) September 27, 2018
re: #627 HappyWarrior
Returning to appointed Senators is a relatively new concept. Very new in mainstream thought.
Fox is just out of control tonight. Completely hysterical. They are accusing the women and the Democrats of being totalitarians, assassinating the characters of good men like Kavanaugh with an unslakable lust for power by the most radical crazies in their party.
— digby (@digby56) September 27, 2018
re: #635 jaunte
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You mean the guy who is even less popular than Bork was? You mean the guy whose Fox stunt lost him 18 points with GOP women? Yeah they’re just furious. // The only people who think Kavanaugh is gettign a raw deal are GOP partisans and sex creeps but Irepeat myself.
re: #636 calochortus
Returning to appointed Senators is a relatively new concept. Very new in mainstream thought.
Yeah i thought so. I first heard it about 10-15 years ago.
re: #637 jaunte
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Kavanaugh is the one who has lied repeatedly. I keep on hearing about his good character. Where the hell is it?
re: #635 jaunte
That’s not news - it’s exactly how they behaved according to the 2016 election results. Cheeto Benito got millions of votes from these so-called “reasonable” and “intelligent” people on the right who merely pretend to oppose him when they don’t have the nerve to admit who they really are.
Republicans can say Augh has good character but there’s very little to be shown that he actually does. Where’s him helping the less well off? Where’s him showing concern to victims of sexual assault? Just saying he’s a good guy! does not in fact make him a good guy.
re: #642 Interesting Times
That’s not news - it’s exactly how they behaved according to the 2016 election results. Cheeto Benito got millions of votes from these so-called “reasonable” and “intelligent” people on the right who merely pretend to oppose him when they don’t have the nerve to admit who they really are.
We call people like those chickenshits.
I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 26, 2018
I have a difficult time believing that hundreds of gymnasts could be molested by a single osteopathic physician over decades, and not report it https://t.co/DxgQoJ5DrR
— Kerry Howley (@KerryHowley) September 26, 2018
re: #638 HappyWarrior
You mean the guy who is even less popular than Bork was? You mean the guy whose Fox stunt lost him 18 points with GOP women? Yeah they’re just furious. // The only people who think Kavanaugh is gettign a raw deal are GOP partisans and sex creeps but Irepeat myself.
I’m thinking this is pretty much a good sign- good in that Kavanaugh’s nomination is likely to be toast. The attempts at deflection seem to be getting more and more “outraged”, which AFAICT, is usually proof that there IS something to the allegations against K, and that sputtering about “leftist” “smears” is about their last talking-point.
I hope.
re: #626 fern01
Avenatti would be 5000% better than trump and if he wants to run in the primaries - good luck to him. The attacks by republicans would run down his back and out the door - he is an open book as regards to who he is and what he does.
I doubt he would win a dem primary - but would make for some interesting debates - and at the end of the day - he would 100% support the winner, unlike some others who want to be President.
I’m all for him running in the primary. My only fear is that his ego couldn’t let him lose. But I do enjoy where he is now.
re: #646 Jay C
I’m thinking this is pretty much a good sign- good in that Kavanaugh’s nomination is likely to be toast. The attempts at deflection seem to be getting more and more “outraged”, which AFAICT, is usually proof that there IS something to the allegations against K, and that sputtering about “leftist” “smears” is about their last talking-point.
I hope.
I hope so. I think FNC will and he will be happy to play along if he’s rejected or withdrawn try to portray him as a victim and FNC will make him the 21st century Bork but obviously rather that than this scum bucket on scotus.
Kavanaugh is a good man say the guys who overlooked grab em by the pussy, confirmed Sessions, etc.
So apparently that boat thing from earlier tonight has been recanted.
I did my best to upding everyone that watched the news conference. Not enough drugs in the world for me to view.
Are they ever going to let him do another?
I know they don’t look the same, but Trump should be played by Jack Nicholson in the movie. call it A Few Angry Men.
re: #651 I Would Prefer Not To
a fI did my best to upding everyone that watched the news conference. Not enough drugs in the world for me to view.
Are they ever going to let him do another?
I know they don’t look the same, but Trump should be played by Jack Nicholson in the movie. call it A Few Angry Men.
If Jack were taller and younger, I think it’d be perfect.
Who plays Kavanaugh? I’m thinking of someone who made a great antagonist in a John Hughes movie or any 80’s movies.
re: #649 HappyWarrior
Kavanaugh is a good man say the guys who overlooked grab em by the pussy, confirmed Sessions, etc.
Kavanaugh is a good man means all the women are lying
If that’s what you believe
Don’t equivocate
Don’t explain why it’s a conspiracy
Say “all those women are flat out lying”
re: #627 HappyWarrior
I’m one of the younger ones here but when y’all were growing up was the now fairly mainstream GOP/right wing idea about doing away with the direct election of senators common?
When I was a teenager, EVERYTHING was different about the parties.
Just for example — women’s issues. who was the party for women?
It was President Nixon who signed Title IX, Title X and affirmative action into law. He was sort of begrudgingly conditionally okay on abortion, but President Ford and his family were vehemently, publicly, loudly pro-choice. The only woman senator was Margaret Chase Smith of Maine — the first woman who’d ever been elected in her own name (not just a widow filling hub’s seat) and the first to push back against McCarthy. Reagan wasn’t hugely feminist, but he did put the first woman on the supreme court (Sandra Day O’Connor) and his wife had a lot more involvement in policy and authority over staff than previous first ladies had had.
The Democrats at that time — their view of women and treatment of women was personified by Ted Kennedy.
re: #655 sagehen
When I was a teenager, EVERYTHING was different about the parties.
Just for example — women’s issues. who was the party for women?
It was President Nixon who signed Title IX, Title X and affirmative action into law. He was sort of begrudgingly conditionally okay on abortion, but President Ford and his family were vehemently, publicly, loudly pro-choice. The only woman senator was Margaret Chase Smith of Maine — the first woman who’d ever been elected in her own name (not just a widow filling hub’s seat) and the first to push back against McCarthy. Reagan wasn’t hugely feminist, but he did put the first woman on the supreme court (Sandra Day O’Connor) and his wife had a lot more involvement in policy and authority over staff than previous first ladies had had.
The Democrats at that time — their view of women and treatment of women was personified by Ted Kennedy.
I always admired how President Ford treated Mrs. Ford.
re: #642 Interesting Times
That’s not news - it’s exactly how they behaved according to the 2016 election results. Cheeto Benito got millions of votes from these so-called “reasonable” and “intelligent” people on the right who merely pretend to oppose him when they don’t have the nerve to admit who they really are.
Trump voters—stupid or hateful or both. (I will not change my mantra)
This is the face of an insect about to ask if he can borrow one of my tools. But just for an hour, maybe two, tops.
(Proscopiidae jumping stick, Ecuador.) pic.twitter.com/E7EJzO5AbQ— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) September 27, 2018
re: #658 BeachDem
Trump voters—stupid or hateful or both. (I will not change my mantra)
I get really tired of their blaming us for their shitty judgment.
I posted the “man’s” name
Senate investigators in the transcript claim they’ve somehow connected the anonymous Rhode Island allegation to a (pretty crazy) egg account with 17 followers (which claimed 22m ago to have recanted). In doing so, they’ve effectively revealed the man’s name. I won’t post it here. pic.twitter.com/jgveezhFVq
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 27, 2018
A question, WHEN will the UNITED STATES MILITARY decided to do what they have vowed, and remove the domestic threat to the CONSTITUTION that lives in the White house?
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) June 27, 2018
Here it ishttps://t.co/AbBHWQ0epR
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 27, 2018
I’m officially announcing that I am the President of the Deep State. I am the them. I am the anti Trump. Hey now what’s that sound…………
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) July 25, 2018
Born in June 2018, it’s first language is not Englishhttps://t.co/7Oa60LNvA0
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 27, 2018
Obvious Russian bot is obvious
Do everyone who is going crazy about what I had said I have recanted because I have made a mistake and apologize for such mistake
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) September 26, 2018
This is not an American human
I get the feeling that the Republicans want The days of goldThe days of old The days of 49That is 1849
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) September 24, 2018
11 men should consider making condoms the law of the land. Then you can try to tell women what they can do with their bodies. Then men will know how it feels.
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) September 22, 2018
re: #660 HappyWarrior
I get really tired of their blaming us for their shitty judgment.
True, but do you really think they’ll ever take responsibility themselves?
The bottom line for most of today’s RW is “it’s always somebody else’s fault”…..
Time for a food break!
Chile en nogada consists of a large roasted and peeled chile poblano stuffed with a sweet and savory picadillo made with a combination of ground pork, chicken, and beef mixed with seasonal fruit. Peaches, apples, pears, raisins, almonds, English walnuts, and garlic mixed in with the three ground meats for the stuffing inside the chile poblano. Many cooks are divided over whether to apply an egg batter—before finishing the dish with nogada
Trump, who once called for the execution of black teens for a murder they did not commit, ends with this: “In [Kavanaugh’s] case you are guilty until proven innocent. I think that is a very, very dangerous standard for our country.” pic.twitter.com/hcKQfAiWV2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 26, 2018
My poor iPhone is not happy with the size of this thread. 😢
Or the children molested by Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
Is Republican Hastert or of prison yet?— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 27, 2018
re: #667 Kragar
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Trump who also brought Juanita Broederick to a debate to attack her accused’s wife. Trump who wanted to “lock her up.” Fuck oyu SHithead.
I was just asked “did you watch the Trump news conference?” No I said. “Why not?” Because there is not enough indica in the world to get me through 90 minutes of Trump.
Holy mangled metaphors
He is what we use to say, he is a six pack short, problem is it possible that the president is 2 six packs short.
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) July 7, 2018
I don’t know what to make of this
I wonder if Donald’s best friend is bisexual. It seems all his videos must show he has balls, why?
— Jeffrey Catalan (@JeffreyCatala16) July 5, 2018
re: #671 gocart mozart
Holy mangled metaphors
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Do they not teach English at bot school?
No matter how nasty things get, they will find a way to get nastier.
Here’s the letter to Cory Gardner that anonymously accuses Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 1998. Senate Judiciary Committe spokesperson said they have “no reason to assign the letter credibility.” pic.twitter.com/EZGfOuSk68
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 27, 2018
Republicans are clearly trying to dilute the power of the credible allegations by leaking any claim no matter how unsubstantiated or spurious to try to make them all seem bogus. It’s sickening. https://t.co/tLdDFmwBh1
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 27, 2018
re: #673 jaunte
No matter how nasty things get, they will find a way to get nastier.
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They just don’t give a fuck. They want him on SCOTUS at all costs. I would encourage voters especially women voters to castrate the GOP politically. They can’t stay in power if you don’t vote for them.
“White House aides seized on the days of uncertainty about Mr. Rosenstein to try to place a trusted loyalist at the top of [the Dept of Justice], whose traditional independence has long frustrated the president…” https://t.co/8tqa5BnCAi
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 27, 2018
re: #675 MsJ
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It’s all about who can kiss Trump’s ass the most. Not who can be the best person for the job.
But how does a journalist cover in good faith an event that is at its core *in bad faith*
I’m working on that— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 27, 2018
Judiciary is also talking to someone who thinks he forced himself on Dr. Ford not Judge Kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/NJGRyMiW47
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 27, 2018
The insanity will go to levels we haven’t contemplated https://t.co/MFStdQsIEs
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) September 27, 2018
re: #676 HappyWarrior
It’s all about who can kiss Trump’s ass the most. Not who can be the best person for the job.
Trump’s only criteria.
re: #678 jaunte
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This whole thing just gets stranger and stranger. What the fuck is it about Kavanaugh that makes these guys so eager to deny these allegations? Oh right. He’s the poster child for Nixon’s wet dream of unregulated executive power.
re: #680 HappyWarrior
This whole thing just gets stranger and stranger. What the fuck is it about Kavanaugh that makes these guys so eager to deny these allegations? Oh right. He’s the poster child for Nixon’s wet dream of unregulated executive power.
He’s bought and paid for.
re: #681 MsJ
He’s bought and paid for.
Calling yourself a rapist to own the libs? That’s a new one even for them. Oh you meant Kavanaugh but surely there are otehrs.
re: #666 Joe Bacon 🌹
Time for a food break!
Chile en nogada consists of a large roasted and peeled chile poblano stuffed with a sweet and savory picadillo made with a combination of ground pork, chicken, and beef mixed with seasonal fruit. Peaches, apples, pears, raisins, almonds, English walnuts, and garlic mixed in with the three ground meats for the stuffing inside the chile poblano. Many cooks are divided over whether to apply an egg batter—before finishing the dish with nogada
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I’m not a huge fan of rellenos, no matter what’s inside ‘em or how pretty they look. I just don’t like poblanos.
Now, if you had a picture of Cochinita Pibil, we’re be talkin’.
Love/Hate the new economy local boom cycle. Just earned a few neighborly favors by reviewing the latest cannabis concentrates for a store and the best pairings with spirits. Oh my.
This is interesting and scary. Opportunity sure, but local inflation is nutz. Rents high, housing scarce, commutes brutal. LA shallow, you better have a really good pro network. It’s easy to fall off into poverty of homelessness. How did the lyrics go in the Sopranos theme? If you stumble, you may fall.
re: #678 jaunte
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“Judiciary is also talking to someone who thinks he forced himself on Dr. Ford not Judge Kavanaugh”
He had better know corroborating details, such as the floor plan of the house, in order to be credible. I know a guy who can help, Ed Whalen. ///
Okay that’s TWICE today I CL’d a thread. LOL @ myself
re: #682 HappyWarrior
Calling yourself a rapist to own the libs? That’s a new one even for them. Oh you meant Kavanaugh but surely there are otehrs.
Because politics is win or lose to them. Country, norms, standards, morals, ethics don’t matter.
Did you all see Jared Kushner after the #TrumpPressConference ? pic.twitter.com/yLSScxRsd8
— The Daily Angle (@thedailyangle) September 26, 2018
If you find any 1970s porn laying around, it belongs to Stephanie in the research department. Swear. Also, the granolas aren’t mine. Trail mix and chocolate-covered coffee beans, yes.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 27, 2018
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