He just couldn’t keep his caveman hatred in check any longer.
BREAKING: President Trump mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, during a rally in Mississippi. https://t.co/yjrqDceYv6 pic.twitter.com/iv22aHRwhn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2018
There’s no one I loathe more in this country than that man.
Murkowski and Collins can kill the entire MeToo movement by voting yes.
Enough is enough, they better vote no.
re: #1 HappyWarrior
There’s no one I loathe more in this country than that man.
I’m a peaceful person, but he has me so wound up, that had I been there when Trump announced his sympathy for the young men who may be rapists, I would have been covered by a pile of Secret Service agents.
I’ve read too much about what women go through to be able to deal with that shit anymore.
Poor Cocaine Mitch:
Trump Restrained lasted until today, save for a few tweets that McConnell and WH aides didn’t like. It ended about 30 minutes ago on a stage in MS, where he openly mocked Ford, to cheers.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 3, 2018
So I see Kristy Swanson has come out as full-on MAGA troll. thedailybeast.com
Kristy should be very, very careful.
There are a LOT of skeletons in her closet.
There are also tapes.
She used to call my friend up while they were working on a movie together, and leave incoherent, howling messages on his voicemail box until it filled up. Day after day.
Even Charlie Sheen (who she was on the movie with) used to describe her as “Batshit crazy.”
re: #4 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I’m a peaceful person, but he has me so wound up, that had I been there when Trump announced his sympathy for the young men who may be rapists, I would have been covered by a pile of Secret Service agents.
I’ve read too much about what women go through to be able to deal with that shit anymore.
This from our President. Ideological disagreements are natural. Trump has a fundamental problem with what it fucking means to be a decent human being and shame on George W Bush too for whipping votes for his protege.
Republicans are neither surprised nor outraged that Trump is openly attacking Dr. Ford tonight. They knew he would. Some have mild qualms, but most of them are totally OK with it. https://t.co/BZRZ6N0MKm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #6 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
So I see Kristy Swanson has come out as full-on MAGA troll. thedailybeast.com
Even Charlie Sheen (who she was on the movie with) used to describe her as “Batshit crazy.”
Not sure how to parse this thought.
re: #5 b.d.(i like beer)
Trump found his level in society, with the people who think men have a right to force themselves on women, and to further abuse the victims of abuse.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
I also recall Republicans chanting let them die regarding sick uninsured people.
How is a diagnosis of Conservative different than that of a sociopath?
re: #2 b.d.(i like beer)
Murkowski and Collins can kill the entire MeToo movement by voting yes.
Enough is enough, they better vote no.
Murkowski might. She needs the Native vote, and they’ve made it clear Kavanaugh is a hard no. Flake will vote no before Collins does.
re: #6 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
So I see Kristy Swanson has come out as full-on MAGA troll. thedailybeast.com
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Kristy should be very, very careful.
There are a LOT of skeletons in her closet.
There are also tapes.
She used to call my friend up while they were working on a movie together, and leave incoherent, howling messages on his voicemail box until it filled up. Day after day.
Even Charlie Sheen (who she was on the movie with) used to describe her as “Batshit crazy.”
What a fucking twat.
It’s October which means THE SPICE MUST FLOW!
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
Several moments after Trump describes Kavanaugh’s treatment as “abuse” and decries guilty until proven innocent, the crowd goes into “Lock her up!”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 3, 2018
No one has to pretend that these people care about due process, anymore than you have to pretend they care about free speech. https://t.co/mEqA6XF4RJ
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) October 3, 2018
John Kerry defends Ted Kennedy: “He stepped up and owned moments where he knew he stepped over the line.” pic.twitter.com/5rNFMrKGY9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 2, 2018
Dems are gonna have to learn to admit that some of their prominent heroes got away with shit they should not have gotten away with. https://t.co/8thL6r38h4
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 2, 2018
Contrarians like Matthew Yglesias are gonna have to admit he’s a sucker for the GOP’s whataboutism game. https://t.co/nAu8ytXTkQ
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) October 3, 2018
Blasey Ford yet to be contacted by FBI while Senate GOPs say they understood investigation will be done tomorrow https://t.co/BS9qU52dXf via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2018
re: #15 goddamnedfrank
Yglesias has a point. We don’t know how to deal with folks like Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton - guys who said all the right things and supported the right things and did a lot of the wrong things.
re: #1 HappyWarrior
There’s no one I loathe more in this country than that man.
The people that voted for him rather than Clinton. They knew exactly what the result would be and their little personal points were more important than sending the US down the sewer.
I don’t want to listen to the Orange Troll. Can someone summarize what he said?
Charlie Pierce is smiting ‘em hip and thigh this week, but these two I thought were important:
A High-End Legal Ratf*cker Is Still a Ratf*cker about Brett Kavanaugh.
and this one made me physically ill:
Outrage Is Insufficient. Rage Is Inadequate.
The United States government is shipping children to the Texas desert in the middle of the night.
re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White
Yglesias has a point. We don’t know how to deal with folks like Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton - guys who said all the right things and supported the right things and did a lot of the wrong things.
It is so tough especially with Teddy since I think having read both his auto and biography, I think he definitely had a lot of guilt about what happened that night. I don’t know about Bill since I haven’t read him in his own words.
re: #19 SpikeDad
The people that voted for him rather than Clinton. They knew exactly what the result would be and their little personal points were more important than sending the US down the sewer.
True but I’m talking an individual not a mass but point made.
None of the guys the Republicans whatabout were being appointed to a lifelong seat too btw.
PROBABLY TRUE
Ruth Bader Ginsburg never got into a bar fight at a ub40 concert.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 2, 2018
That. We. Know. Of. https://t.co/LRNmRv0ydY
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 2, 2018
re: #11 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Murkowski might. She needs the Native vote, and they’ve made it clear Kavanaugh is a hard no. Flake will vote no before Collins does.
I expect lots of secret money deals flowing Federal funds to Alaska. Money soothes pretty much any character or integrity issue.
So the NYT and MNSCB via Rachel - have announced that trump was nothing but a conman who cheated on his taxes - as did his father.
But the NYT and all other media helped him get elected. Well done America - you have reached peak wingnut and been conned by much worse than Nigerian scammers.
re: #9 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Not sure how to parse this thought.
This was before Charlie totally went off the deep end. He was always a bit twitchy - all of Sheen’s kids were kinda traumatized by their mom, who would do things like take the kids on picnics in Malibu while wearing a sheer nightgown, and then just stand up and walk into the ocean.
But Kristy was a special case.
She is a mean drunk. I personally witnessed her getting a guy fired from a set for “breathing too loud.”
Trump is now attacking Christine Blasey Ford’s account on stage in Mississippi, reminding the crowd that she didn’t know how she got home & other details.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 3, 2018
“How’d you get home? I don’t remember. How’d you get there? I don’t remember…What neighborhood? I don’t know. Where’s the house? I don’t know… upstairs, downstairs, where was it…but I had one beer, that’s the only thing I remember.” https://t.co/dOMdiEHf0e
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) October 3, 2018
Remember when a tape was found where Trump openly boasted about sexually assaulting women on tape and it got a day or two of coverage and then the media was back to “what about Hillary’s compliance with email server management best practices” and “how does Podesta make risotto?” https://t.co/Mc8jC6Y6tZ
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 3, 2018
re: #25 I Would Prefer Not To
PROBABLY TRUE
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Nah but her and Scalia did some serious Stalter and Waldorf stuff at a really bad Wagner performance they saw once.*
*No disrespect intended to either Justice even Scalia who I didn’t like but a joke about their shared love of opera and the idea for a funny visual of them making jokes about it together.
re: #22 HappyWarrior
It is so tough especially with Teddy since I think having read both his auto and biography, I think he definitely had a lot of guilt about what happened that night. I don’t know about Bill since I haven’t read him in his own words.
Someone mentions Kennedy and Democrats feel the guilt of 40 plus years ago.
Someone mentions Clinton and Democrats feel the guilt of 20 plus years ago.
Meanwhile the Republicans laugh at all that and have such fine upstanding individuals like Trump, McConnell, Ryan, Nunes, Cruz, King, and now Kavanaugh and so, so many more.
And it’s party on!
It all makes me sick. It’s tough fighting evil. There are no rules…
re: #29 gocart mozart
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Might I remind the Asshole in Chief, his guy cried on the stand about how much he likes beer but yeah go ahead and mock her Donald. Uneducated white people will be the only people that support you by the end of this and it finally won’t be enough because even Papa Vlad won’t be able to save you.
re: #31 ObserverArt
Someone mentions Kennedy and Democrats feel the guilt of 40 plus years ago.
Someone mentions Clinton and Democrats feel the guilt of 20 plus years ago.
Meanwhile the Republicans laugh at all that and have such fine upstanding individuals like Trump, McConnell, Ryan, Nunes, Cruz, King, and now Kavanaugh and so, so many more.
And it’s party on!
It all makes me sick. It’s tough fighting evil. There are no rules…
I know. I definitely think Clinton-Lewinsky could have been handled differently and I think Bill deserves criticism for that even if it was consensual.
re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White
Yglesias has a point. We don’t know how to deal with folks like Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton - guys who said all the right things and supported the right things and did a lot of the wrong things.
Were FDR to rise from the grave (he wouldn’t be bound by term limits) he would not get the nomination due to Japanese internment. Ted Kennedy would not get elected, and Bill would not be a nominee.
But here’s the thing: only one party is moving forward, not backwards. One party isn’t trying to justify the lying of their SCOTUS nominee.
re: #32 HappyWarrior
Might I remind the Asshole in Chief, his guy cried on the stand about how much he likes beer but yeah go ahead and mock her Donald. Uneducated white people will be the only people that support you by the end of this and it finally won’t be enough because even Papa Vlad won’t be able to save you.
Hope so. My fear is that soon, only uneducated white people will be allowed to vote.
The blasé attitude of young people really is getting under my skin right now.
President Obama was attacked by every side of the media for saying it was stupid that a policeman would arrest someone for getting in their own home.
trump attacks individuals again and again - and the media reports it - with ZERO commentary as to right and wrong.
re: #35 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Today is our first #TurnoutTuesday! Knock on 25 doors in your community and help them register to vote! Plus voting feels great. Just ask these guys ↓ pic.twitter.com/8yQOR4preA
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) October 2, 2018
re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White
Yglesias has a point. We don’t know how to deal with folks like Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton - guys who said all the right things and supported the right things and did a lot of the wrong things.
It’s interesting that he has to skip over Al Franken, Eric Schneiderman, and even Keith Ellison who Dems support an investigation of to get to that point. Yes, there’s not a lot to do about guys who haven’t been in office in decades, which is why it feels weird to bring them up as some sort of relevant counter balance against the GOP’s staunch support for Jim Jordan, Donald Trump, and the sham Kavanaugh investigation. It also feels really disingenuous coming from a Bernie Bro like Yglesias, whose I see as having a cynical tendency to want to tear down “establishment” Democrats by making these unsubtle false equivalences with Republicans whenever possible.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
I know. I definitely think Clinton-Lewinsky could have been handled differently and I think Bill deserves criticism for that even if it was consensual.
He stupidly had a consensual affair with an intern - and over 20 years later the media - and the GOP are still attacking him for it. trump has been attacking women since forever. The media laugh with him.
re: #35 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Hope so. My fear is that soon, only uneducated white people will be allowed to vote.
The blasé attitude of young people really is getting under my skin right now.
Tell me about it. Old people vote like they’re the ones that are oging to be living in the consequences of their votes. I’m frustrated by younger voters mostly because I am one.
re: #39 fern01
He stupidly had a consensual affair with an intern - and over 20 years later the media - and the GOP are still attacking him for it. trump has been attacking women since forever. The media laugh with him.
Yep.
re: #36 fern01
President Obama was attacked by every side of the media for saying it was stupid that a policeman would arrest someone for getting in their own home.
trump attacks individuals again and again - and the media reports it - with ZERO commentary as to right and wrong.
He got attacked for saying if he had a son, he would look like Treyvon.
Currently trying to resist the urge to go to a bar, get drunk, and punch a random stranger in a fight.
(Sarcasm alert.)— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #34 Belafon
Were FDR to rise from the grave (he wouldn’t be bound by term limits) he would not get the nomination due to Japanese internment. Ted Kennedy would not get elected, and Bill would not be a nominee.
But here’s the thing: only one party is moving forward, not backwards. One party isn’t trying to justify the lying of their SCOTUS nominee.
That’s the thing. We seem to be learning from the past.
President Trump: “It’s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. This is a very difficult time.” https://t.co/SJWR7w1n2h pic.twitter.com/z5hQq8giLQ
— CNN (@CNN) October 2, 2018
Like, you could be falsely accused of rape in Central Park, and then a racist, brain-damaged businessman could take out full-page ads in the NY Times demanding your execution. Scary times, indeed. https://t.co/8BP8H9L3TU
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 2, 2018
re: #45 gocart mozart
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He’s becoming my favorite comedian. He’s one of the few comedians who I really like for their work but probably isn’t a raging dingus either.
re: #47 HappyWarrior
He’s becoming my favorite comedian. He’s one of the few comedians who I really like for their work but probably isn’t a raging dingus either.
re: #39 fern01
He stupidly had a consensual affair with an intern - and over 20 years later the media - and the GOP are still attacking him for it. trump has been attacking women since forever. The media laugh with him.
He probably did a lot more than just have that one affair. Bill was an absolute lout and I can mentally divorce his performance as President from how he conducted himself around women. I’m absolutely done defending him but that doesn’t mean I’m going to entertain the idea that those bringing his bullshit up now are doing so in good faith. They’re cynically deploying him as chaff, to distract from the current bullshit that they are actively enabling.
re: #45 gocart mozart
My god. That accordion video of Trump is the most gut busting thing I had ever seen 🤣. I couldn’t breathe at some points. https://t.co/rORD541Gmr
— The Lookie Loo (@TheLookieLoo) October 3, 2018
re: #42 HappyWarrior
He got attacked for saying if he had a son, he would look like Treyvon.
I know, but I was thinking about the one time he said an individual person should have known better - and was widely attacked for picking on an individual (despite the guy deserved it) - trump attacks individuals all the time and the media just report and/or laugh. He attacks anyone who says anything against him, regardless as to who they are and what they do. He is evil. He is fermenting hatred. He encourages the worst in people to come to the fore - whether they are friend or foe. I hate who I am when even thinking about this imbecile.
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
He probably did a lot more than just have that one affair. Bill was an absolute lout and I can divorce his performance as President from how he conducted himself around women. I’m absolutely done defending him but that doesn’t mean I’m going to entertain the idea that those bringing his bullshit up now are doing so in good faith. They’re cynically deploying him as chaff, to distract from the current bullshit that they are actively enabling.
He fueled their bullshit because he let Little Bill get in the way of Big Bill. But meanwhile you have guys like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama who have never had a serious accusation of adultery or mistreating women who get treated like shit by the right still.
re: #51 fern01
I know, but I was thinking about the one time he said an individual person should have known better - and was widely attacked for picking on an individual (despite the guy deserved it) - trump attacks individuals all the time and the media just report and/or laugh. He attacks anyone who says anything against him, regardless as to who they are and what they do. He is evil. He is fermenting hatred. He encourages the worst in people to come to the fore - whether they are friend or foe. I hate who I am when even thinking about this imbecile.
No, I know you’re talking about Dr. Gates. But I do see what you’re trying to say now.
re: #39 fern01
He stupidly had a consensual affair with an intern - and over 20 years later the media - and the GOP are still attacking him for it. trump has been attacking women since forever. The media laugh with him.
Your post triggered a thought.
Trump is crying how the Democrats have ruined the life of Brett Kavanaugh.
Oh woe is me!
If he makes it onto the Supremes, he gets what he expects.
If he doesn’t, two minutes after America goes back to sleep he will be forgotten and probably stay a judge. Books, Crying on Fox. He’s got a future.
And so I am reminded of one Billy Bush.
He got swept up in the Hollywood Tonight Tape as a silly frat boy goof giggling at Trump’s boasting of grabbing anything.
If I remember, Billy had just gotten a gig with The Today Show(s). Billy lost that a few days after the tape came out before the election. Not sure what he doing now, but it really seems he got the brunt of that deal. His name got dinged, and he is paying for it.
Anyone ever hear Trump feel sorry for Billy?
His life had some ruination.
re: #54 ObserverArt
Your post triggered a thought.
Trump is crying how the Democrats have ruined the life of Brett Kavanaugh.
Oh woe is me!
If he makes it onto the Supremes, he gets what he expects.
If he doesn’t, two minutes after America goes back to sleep he will be forgotten and probably stay a judge. Books, Crying on Fox. He’s got a future.
And so I am reminded of one Billy Bush.
He got swept up in the Hollywood Tonight Tape as a silly frat boy goof giggling at Trump’s boasting of grabbing anything.
If I remember, Billy had just gotten a gig with The Today Show(s). Billy lost that a few days after the tape came out before the election. Not sure what he doing now, but it really seems he got the brunt of that deal. His name got dinged, and he is paying for it.
Anyone ever hear Trump feel sorry for Billy?
His life had some ruination.
I think if somehow Kavanaugh gets rejected for SCOTUS and or is forced to resign his current position, he’s going to be the Wingnut judge for FNC. Napalitano is too independent minded for them if they have someone like Kavanaugh waiting in the wings. BTW did you see my question regarding Guyer? Is he on the Tribes’ playoff roster? I haven’t paid attention at all to baseball this year since the O’s are historically bad. Like Trump bad.
re: #54 ObserverArt
Your post triggered a thought.
Trump is crying how the Democrats have ruined the life of Brett Kavanaugh.
Oh woe is me!
If he makes it onto the Supremes, he gets what he expects.
If he doesn’t, two minutes after America goes back to sleep he will be forgotten and probably stay a judge. Books, Crying on Fox. He’s got a future.
And so I am reminded of one Billy Bush.
He got swept up in the Hollywood Tonight Tape as a silly frat boy goof giggling at Trump’s boasting of grabbing anything.
If I remember, Billy had just gotten a gig with The Today Show(s). Billy lost that a few days after the tape came out before the election. Not sure what he doing now, but it really seems he got the brunt of that deal. His name got dinged, and he is paying for it.
Anyone ever hear Trump feel sorry for Billy?
His life had some ruination.
He’ll ride that wingnut gravy train off into the sunset.
Even the news of the masses is on this, not good for Donnie or Brandt.
Donald Trump Mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Rally in Mississippi https://t.co/EX6uJKbbND
— TMZ (@TMZ) October 3, 2018
Simon is all out of the good profanity
Donald Trump is a pig.
People at that rally laughing as he mocks a woman who calmly, deliberately recounted being sexually attacked? All pigs.
The trolls who are about to reply to this message by smearing her further? Pigs.
None are worth the good profanity. Just pigs in shit..— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 3, 2018
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
He probably did a lot more than just have that one affair. Bill was an absolute lout and I can mentally divorce his performance as President from how he conducted himself around women. I’m absolutely done defending him but that doesn’t mean I’m going to entertain the idea that those bringing his bullshit up now are doing so in good faith. They’re cynically deploying him as chaff, to distract from the current bullshit that they are actively enabling.
There shall be no more greater political chaff than the name Kennedy and Clinton. They will be good to use for a few more generations. Legend.
And you don’t even have to be a politician to use it.
re: #54 ObserverArt
Your post triggered a thought.
Trump is crying how the Democrats have ruined the life of Brett Kavanaugh.
Oh woe is me!
If he makes it onto the Supremes, he gets what he expects.
If he doesn’t, two minutes after America goes back to sleep he will be forgotten and probably stay a judge. Books, Crying on Fox. He’s got a future.
And so I am reminded of one Billy Bush.
He got swept up in the Hollywood Tonight Tape as a silly frat boy goof giggling at Trump’s boasting of grabbing anything.
If I remember, Billy had just gotten a gig with The Today Show(s). Billy lost that a few days after the tape came out before the election. Not sure what he doing now, but it really seems he got the brunt of that deal. His name got dinged, and he is paying for it.
Anyone ever hear Trump feel sorry for Billy?
His life had some ruination.
Yep - Billy Bush paid for having a laugh with trump - that trump was the one attacking women was deemed nothing - women and Billy Bush were expendable.
Everyone he comes near end up as trash. If Kavanaugh had stayed away he would be happily producing lousy decisions on the bench and not have his early life being shown for what it was. Even if he ends up on the SC, what he did in his youth will not be forgotten. If he doesn’t get on the Court - he may not even keep his current job.
Well I figured I’d give some good news but I officially began the first step of gaining my masters in genealogy today.
URGENT: Below please find an email just sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, together with a declaration from another witness who confirms a number of Ms. Swetnick’s claims. These women deserve to be heard & interviewed by the FBI before any vote on the nomination. pic.twitter.com/upkoIWfKxz
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) October 2, 2018
re: #62 HappyWarrior
Well I figured I’d give some good news but I officially began the first step of gaining my masters in genealogy today.
Neat.
re: #58 b.d.(i like beer)
Even the news of the masses is on this, not good for Donnie or Brandt.
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trump mocked a gold star father - paid nothing for doing same. Bit of bad press - he laughed.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
Well I figured I’d give some good news but I officially began the first step of gaining my masters in genealogy today.
So, you’ll officially know who started all this shit.
re: #63 Belafon
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Spiking with Quaaludes and grain alcohol?!!?!? Oh fucking Christ.
re: #56 HappyWarrior
I think if somehow Kavanaugh gets rejected for SCOTUS and or is forced to resign his current position, he’s going to be the Wingnut judge for FNC. Napalitano is too independent minded for them if they have someone like Kavanaugh waiting in the wings. BTW did you see my question regarding Guyer? Is he on the Tribes’ playoff roster? I haven’t paid attention at all to baseball this year since the O’s are historically bad. Like Trump bad.
Happy, I answered it back on that thread, two back…and made a note to check it out on the last one.
Here it is: littlegreenfootballs.com
A standard right wing argument. “We’re the real victims, you’re the real racists, you’re the ones waging a war on women.” Kindergarten-level rhetoric that too many people fall for.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #66 Belafon
So, you’ll officially know who started all this shit.
Hahaha I have this weird habit of being curious about other people’s genealogy so I was curious about Kavanaugh and Judge’s. Judge’s family comes from the same part of Ireland as my Nana’s maternal grandfather unfortunately but we don’t have that name in our family. I did see that Judge’s paternal grandfather was a professional baseball palyer of some fame who played with Walter Johnson who curiously enough has a middle school named after him in Bethesda.
re: #68 Varek Raith
My money is on Obama.
Close, it was Saul Alinsky in the kitchen with the Burnetts.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
Well I figured I’d give some good news but I officially began the first step of gaining my masters in genealogy today.
I’ve been a fanatic on the genealogy/family history scene for almost 20 years. I’ve thought about studying same but found it all too expensive at this stage of my life. Congrats on getting there - is it online study or brick building place?
re: #70 Charles Johnson
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His life is in tatters? Last I saw. He still might get fucking confirmed and even if he doesn’t, it’d be tough as hell to remove hi from his current job and you know what, maybe his life should be in fucking taters. He’s never faced any real damage for what he’s done to women and people over the years because he like yourself is a spoiled brat who never got told no.
re: #73 fern01
I’ve been a fanatic on the genealogy/family history scene for almost 20 years. I’ve thought about studying same but found it all too expensive at this stage of my life. Congrats on getting there - is it online study or brick building place?
Online. There’s only really one program out there for a masters in this and it’s in Glasgow. Moving to Glasgow would be awesome but I wouldn’t be able to afford it. I do plan to visit once though and it turns out I do have a family member who was born there too and I have first cousins in England and Wales that it would be awesome to meet up with abroad
re: #76 HappyWarrior
Online. There’s only really one program out there for a masters in this and it’s in Glasgow. Moving to Glasgow would be awesome but I wouldn’t be able to afford it. I do plan to visit once though and it turns out I do have a family member who was born there too and I have first cousins in England and Wales that it would be awesome to meet up with abroad
Terrific!
re: #77 retired cynic
Terrific!
It took me nearly 7 years after getting my BA but I finally figured out what I want to do in my life. I think this would be a dream opportunity because I genuinely cherish the ability to help people out and learn their stories but also help them understand the world their families lived in. I think it’s much more fascinating to imagine what second and third great grandma and grandpa were up to in the Industrial Revolution than Andrew Carnegie.
re: #61 fern01
Yep - Billy Bush paid for having a laugh with trump - that trump was the one attacking women was deemed nothing - women and Billy Bush were expendable.
Everyone he comes near end up as trash. If Kavanaugh had stayed away he would be happily producing lousy decisions on the bench and not have his early life being shown for what it was. Even if he ends up on the SC, what he did in his youth will not be forgotten. If he doesn’t get on the Court - he may not even keep his current job.
Remember Doctor Ronny…future head of the VA?
That was another Trump crash and burn.
Wonder what he has been reduced to now after being glib for Trump?
I see a book for someone to create.
I Met President Trump
My Life Before and After..
re: #76 HappyWarrior
Online. There’s only really one program out there for a masters in this and it’s in Glasgow. Moving to Glasgow would be awesome but I wouldn’t be able to afford it. I do plan to visit once though and it turns out I do have a family member who was born there too and I have first cousins in England and Wales that it would be awesome to meet up with abroad
I’m about 33% Scots - so Glasgow is a good choice. Really good access online to Scots ancestors. Amazingly our line has almost died out in Scotland, but branches exist in Australia, Canada, the US and England. They had a tough life in the early 19th century and many of them immigrated.
Enjoy the course - I’m a little envious but not strong enough to try it.
re: #79 ObserverArt
Remember Doctor Ronny…future head of the VA?
That was another Trump crash and burn.
Wonder what he has been reduced to now after being glib for Trump?
I see a book for someone to create.
I Met President Trump
My Life Before and After..
Maybe Mike Flynn will write a chapter from prison.
Happy dagnabit…I’m leaving comments all over for you. Look up!
re: #80 fern01
I’m about 33% Scots - so Glasgow is a good choice. Really good access online to Scots ancestors. Amazingly our line has almost died out in Scotland, but branches exist in Australia, Canada, the US and England. They had a tough life in the early 19th century and many of them immigrated.
Enjoy the course - I’m a little envious but not strong enough to try it.
Ah! I’m actually 25% Irish but the Muldoons went from Fermanagh to Glasgow during the Famine time. I’m not sure if they had any family accompany them. I did a little research on the part of Lanark where second great grandnana and her siblings were born. Coatbridge. Most Irish part of Scotland and your idea of an industrial hellhole during those years. And then they went to Cleveland after third great granddad died where second great grandnana met second great granddad where Great Nana was born and then on to the Burgh. And that sorry OA is why I’m not a Browns fan lol but while I’ll always have a soft spot for Cleveland.
re: #82 ObserverArt
Happy dagnabit…I’m leaving comments all over for you. Look up!
Huh? :) Yeah gotcha.
CL’ed
Which man’s life is in tatters? Who? How? Is he in jail for life? Is he swinging by the neck from a tree?
I wish things weren’t so fucked up, so I could enjoy the media talking about “prolific pukers.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
But as I go on this I’ll leave my four favorite discoveries from each grandparent’s side
Dad’s Dad: Not really anything too groundbreaking but discovering that they were Lutherans was pretty surprising. My surname is German so really not too surprising but both my dad and grandfather were brought up RCC so I always figured.
Dad’s Mom: I had always thought she was all Irish but not only was she not all Irish but her roots in the US go back to the early WAshington years.
Mom’s Dad: Talking to a Slovenian cousin and uncovering that Grandpa was right, we did have relatives that were Partisans in WWII. Sort of complicated figures in the greater history of Yugoslavia but I do take some pride in knowing they didn’t collaborate at least.
Mom’s Mom: Having tons of relatives still in the village where her dad was from. That’s where I was this summer. There were descendants of four siblings among us that all met. All from one couple, my great grandfather’s parents.
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CL’ed
Which man’s life is in tatters? Who? How? Is he in jail for life? Is he swinging by the neck from a tree?
Judge Beer.
Following up pic.twitter.com/UnUaX7bhhN
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) October 3, 2018
re: #89 gocart mozart
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You know someone should clue Keith into the fact that Ben actually knows Kavanaugh and Keith wouldn’t know him from the UB40 guy. I was annoyed by his excuses for him before the Ford allegation but he didn’t let his friendship with the guy and his own conservative beliefs get in the way here. And I got a good chuckle at that. Maybe guys like him and Rick Wilson should leave politics and try comedy. They’re not bad at comedy.
The GOP tax bill’s bringing out my inner socialist. The sex scandals are bringing out my inner feminist. Donald Trump and Roy Moore are bringing out my inner liberal.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 21, 2017
The history of the Trump family business is bringing out my inner socialist. Some defenses of Kavanaugh are bringing out my inner feminist. The Trump-era degradation of American conservatism is bringing out my inner liberal.
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. https://t.co/bdCQ20o0gR— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 3, 2018
And tweets like this are bringing out my inner cynical skeptic. https://t.co/ediB2AhiNJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in to the Supreme Court on this day in 1967, becoming the first Black American to sit on the Court. He would go on to serve for 24 years, becoming a powerful voice for civil rights and social justice.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 2, 2018
re: #91 Charles Johnson
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Maybe things would have been better off if your dad instead of being “mugged by reality” got mugged by the fact that the right wing movement sucked regardless of his shared views with them on Vietnam.
Woke Bill Kristol is a fraud. I’m not buying it for a fucking second.
re: #94 Charles Johnson
Woke Bill Kristol is a fraud. I’m not buying it for a fucking second.
Yeah I’m not either. They all deserve skepticism.
I’m so pissed off at what’s going on that I should probably just sign off Twitter tonight. This shit is fucked up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
If Trump mocking a survivor of sexual assault in front of a cheering crowd doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach and also make you mad as Hell, you’re a very damaged human being.
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 3, 2018
President Trump repeatedly mocks Dr. Ford during rally. https://t.co/K3o7ygKLBn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2018
A vote for Kavanaugh= acceptance & endorsement of this. @SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski https://t.co/TBsDhqrO88
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) October 3, 2018
Kids are cool and a great way to turn a history lesson into something fun. I usually don’t dress up for Halloween but with my niece back in town, I just might do it. I decided Abraham Lincoln might be a cool costume idea. I’ve grown my beard back for the winter months. So I was telling her that I had decided on it. She’s four so I explained to her about Lincoln and how he was a President. She’s like oh like Trump and then mocked how Trump talks. I said but better because he freed the slaves and yada yada. Showed her a picture and she agreed it was a good idea.
re: #99 jaunte
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A vote for any Republican is acceptance of this. Fuck Turmp and his pathetic cult.
re: #99 jaunte
Flake and Manchin need to be included.
Lindsey Graham says Amy Klobuchar should apologize to Brett Kavanaugh.
— 🐝john sepulvado🐝 (@JohnLGC) October 3, 2018
they don’t have the votes.
keep calling. https://t.co/2OZADvaFX4— zeddy (@Zeddary) October 3, 2018
re: #103 Belafon
Flake and Manchin need to be included.
They do. Those are the 4 that are going to decide this thing. I’d add Heidencamp too but I think she’s probably leaning no after how shitty her opponent has responded to this.
amazing facts from the bizarro universe
Google falls. (post mid term - Anti trust)
Facebook falls. (post mid term - Anti trust)
Amazon may fall (same)
Comey and McCabe get indictments. (post mid term )
re: #105 jaunte
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Yeah Lindsay, she should apologize to a man who according to many credible sources was a black out drunk. You said once that your party was doomed if you nominated Trump. Turns out they were and you joined them. It’s too bad really. Wasn’t a fan of yours before this but at least I thought you had maybe something resembling a moral compass that worked some of the time, turns out that was just a stopped clock.
So, about that cult of personality thing going on in China: a quiz show about the life of Xi Jinping.
I watched the whole 40 minutes of China’s new quiz show on #XJPThought, so you don’t have to. https://t.co/NDVSJ2GdTC
Sample Question: 16-year-old Xi walked 15 km of mountain roads in Liangjiahe to borrow which of the following books?
A. Faust
B. War and Peace
C. Ordinary World pic.twitter.com/8t1IccwCbZ— Nectar Gan (@Nectar_Gan) October 3, 2018
re: #109 wheat-dogg
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Is it B? And what did I win? BTW is FNC going to get a Trump trivia show because I believe the answer to what STD he got at Studio 54 was Syphilis.
BTW regarding Klobuchar, her father is a recovering alcoholic. Don’t doubt for a minute she didn’t see the signs in Kavanaugh. People who have dealt intimately with alcoholics know.
Viciously Mocks
i want to make a snarky joke but words fail me and i am overcome with sadness
BREAKING: President Trump mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, during a rally in Mississippi. https://t.co/yjrqDceYv6 pic.twitter.com/iv22aHRwhn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2018
He didn’t mock Professor Ford. He pointed out many of the inconsistencies in her account - something the MSM won’t do, because they’re too invested in attacking Brett Kavanaugh. If the press were balanced, they would have raised the same issues Pres. Trump raised here. https://t.co/qsUAZeGWkl
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 3, 2018
Or are we arguing about what “mocking” is now? IF YOU INSIST: what the rhetorical tool did Trump use to “point out inconsistencies”? Simple, cruel sarcasm, which then *got laughs.* A third-grader would recognize that as “mocking” —which is also what that comparison is, btw. https://t.co/a8bj6soQU2
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) October 3, 2018
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 3, 2018
A vicious, vile and soulless attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Is it any wonder that she was terrified to come forward, and that other sexual assault survivors are as well? She is a remarkable profile in courage. He is a profile in cowardice. https://t.co/UJ0bGxV1EZ
— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) October 3, 2018
re: #114 jaunte
I see the problem, Republicans aren’t as smart as a 3rd grader.
re: #114 jaunte
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Ari, can you please quietly go fuck yourself with Brett Kavanaugh’s beer mug in the corner please? He definitely mocked her. But I get it, this piece of shit is who you want to go on record defending. It makes you look even more pathetic than the lying you did for Iraq.
re: #107 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
amazing facts from the bizarro universe
Google falls. (post mid term - Anti trust)
Facebook falls. (post mid term - Anti trust)
Amazon may fall (same)
Comey and McCabe get indictments. (post mid term )
The only universe the first three happen is a universe they wouldn’t exist in.
I’m ready for Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck With a screeeeeeeaaaaaaammmWave upon wave of demented avengersMarch cheerfully out of obscurity Into the dreeeeeeeeaaaaaaammm
— Jesus Hidalgo Christos (@JesusHCristos) October 3, 2018
9 protesters arrested at Sen. Manchin’s Charleston office
CHARLESTON, w.va. (WSAZ) - UPDATE 10/2/18 @ 1:34 p.m.
Nine protesters were arrested at U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s office in Charleston early Tuesday morning.Charleston Police Lt. Autumn Davis said officers responded to the office just after midnight Tuesday for a trespassing complaint. Protesters gathered at the office earlier in the day, both inside and outside of the building. They had signs urging the Democratic senator to vote no on confirming U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Police say the protesters were asked to leave, but most refused. Two left after police told the group they could be charged with criminal trespassing. Nine remained and were arrested for trespassing. Police escorted them off the property.
The protesters were issued summonses to appear in court and were released at the scene.
Perfect use of this poem:
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.” pic.twitter.com/sLjGlfUm8N— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 3, 2018
…
“Remember us — if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.” pic.twitter.com/KOcjzg6RCH— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 3, 2018
Read the whole thing.
re: #114 jaunte
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And the inconsistencies in Kavanaugh’s account? Oh, and saying “I don’t remember” isn’t a fucking inconsistency. It’s an honest response. It’s not surprising that fucking shell of a human being like Fleischer wouldn’t know the difference.
Joe Manchin says if the FBI discovers Kavanaugh has lied about anything, “that finishes everything.”
“If they can corroborate and there’s lying I think everyone’s said that. Democrats, Republicans, even the president. So I don’t think that’s a question.”https://t.co/UWKRFnMcuB— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 3, 2018
“We have differing views about the other qualifications of Judge Kavanaugh. But we are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that [he] did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court” pic.twitter.com/0t3Sq5X9Kg
— Anil Kalhan (@kalhan) October 3, 2018
re: #27 fern01
So the NYT and MNSCB via Rachel - have announced that trump was nothing but a conman who cheated on his taxes - as did his father.
But the NYT and all other media helped him get elected. Well done America - you have reached peak wingnut and been conned by much worse than Nigerian scammers.
A really frustrating thing for me is that neither party goes after wealthy white collar criminals anymore.
Bernie Madoff being an exception in the past decade, but he stole from the rich.
Trump should have been in prison for tax evasion and money laundering, but stop and frisk Rudy gave him a pass.
Bill Clinton gave those guys a pass and even pardoned Marc Rich.
Obama’s DOJ didn’t even attempt to prosecute any of the guys who caused the 2008 crash.
Hell, the last administration that went after white collar criminals hard core was Bush 41 after the S&L crisis.
Democrats should adopt a though on white collar crime stance.
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
Manchin will lose if he votes Yes - he will get ZERO votes from republicans for voting Yes - they will still vote for the one with R next to his name. He will LOSE many democratic women’s votes and some men’s if he votes Yes. They will just not vote at all.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
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*Ron Howard* There was lying and the President doesn’t care.
Kavanaugh is getting swirlies decades after he was a teenager. His nom is going down the toilet, and potentially his seat as a federal judge.
re: #130 wheat-dogg
Kavanaugh is getting swirlies decades after he was a teenager. His nom is going down the toilet, and potentially his seat as a federal judge.
I think you’re right.
re: #109 wheat-dogg
So, about that cult of personality thing going on in China: a quiz show about the life of Xi Jinping.
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Great podcast last week on Sinica. It touched on some potential blowback from the old guard on the dangers of a growing “cult of personality of Xi” as this was explicitly banned after Mao.
.@Dahlialithwick nailed it on @Lawrence: Why did Kavanaugh lose it when Sen. @amyklobuchar asked him whether he’d ever gotten so drunk that he blacked out? Maybe it was his realization that ADMITTING blackouts would’ve meant he MIGHT NOT RECALL trying to rape Dr. Blasey Ford.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 3, 2018
This was 4 days ago: Trump called Ford “certainly a very credible witness.” https://t.co/CwlQLMO7BJ
— Sarah Mimms (@SarahMMimms) October 3, 2018
The Second Law of Trump Dynamics:
Every well-behaved action has an equal and opposite reactionary batshit meltdown https://t.co/03ODIa86qT— Emily Crockett (@emilycrockett) October 3, 2018
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I definitely think that’s it and you know what, that’s perjury no matter what happened with Ford. Republicans can cry all they want but they’re the ones who in fact did impeach Clinton over perjury.
re: #134 jaunte
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He still thinks she’s a credible witness but she’s in the way of his protector errr SCOTUS frat judge.
re: #136 HappyWarrior
The strain of trying to act even 10% like a normal human is too much for Trump; his slimy larval insect form always pops out later.
Kavanaugh needs to be defeated obviously but he needs to lose his current position too and you know what, yeah disbar the bastard. I’m sure he can fall on his feet crying about how hard he now has it on FNC for a nicer penny than he’d get as a justice.
re: #137 jaunte
The strain of trying to act even 10% like a normal human is too much for Trump; his slimy larval insect form always pops out later.
He is one of the most ugly people I have ever seen rise to such political power in a democracy in my lifetime.
re: #132 Barefoot Grin
Great podcast last week on Sinica. It touched on some potential blowback from the old guard on the dangers of a growing “cult of personality of Xi” as this was explicitly banned after Mao.
Yes. There are old guard party members who fear Xi will become the next Mao. Eliminating the term limits on the presidency was one disturbing step toward a lifetime in office. If Xi can manage not to tank the Chinese economy or antagonize the PLA, he may just become the new Supreme Leader. His administration’s moves toward controlling the Internet, religion and free expression — even in Hong Kong — suggest he wants to suppress dissent against him early on as much as possible. OTOH, he will be blamed if the economy goes south, so his position is still precarious.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 3, 2018
Thanks, @FLGovScott. https://t.co/zKys7zXFMS
— Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) October 2, 2018
We can only hope Trump knows nothing about L. Ron Hubbard’s plan to become rich by starting a religion.
re: #143 wheat-dogg
We can only hope Trump knows nothing about L. Ron Hubbard’s plan to become rich by starting a religion.
Oh God, Trumpism makes even sense than Scientology does.
re: #141 gocart mozart
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Here’s your nightly reminder that some turtles weigh more than grizzly bears. pic.twitter.com/37sHy653BQ
— Jason Bittel (@bittelmethis) October 3, 2018
niterz lizardz…
There’s a gif for everything you just have to find it
Squi ?? pic.twitter.com/VqYPQqA186
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
Dinner tonight was just 2 cups of Beer Nuts and a Diet Dr. Pepper. Just to wound up to cook anything.
5 more days in Twitter jail thanks to Falwell and now I have an admonishment from Twitter that I cannot “defame” Conservatives…Oh and they will no longer allow me to report Russian trolls.
Yet the Conservatives endlessly bullshit about the “liberal bias” in Twitter…
He knows how to knock a bad story off to the side. Though in this case, I think that might be a short lived victory. pic.twitter.com/Vk54rQSnQ6
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 3, 2018
re: #143 wheat-dogg
We can only hope Trump knows nothing about L. Ron Hubbard’s plan to become rich by starting a religion.
Why should he have to do it when these assholes are doing it for him?
You’re stranded on a desert island. Your phone has charge for just one final Tweet. Go!
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 3, 2018
Die of boils, @Twitter. https://t.co/aC5csXv5MK
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 3, 2018
Conservatives aren’t putting up with all of this gross misogyny in order to ban abortion.
This gross misogyny is precisely why they want to ban abortion.— David Atkins #11Justices (@DavidOAtkins) October 3, 2018
re: #150 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dinner tonight was just 2 cups of Beer Nuts and a Diet Dr. Pepper. Just to wound up to cook anything.
5 more days in Twitter jail thanks to Falwell and now I have an admonishment from Twitter that I cannot “defame” Conservatives…Oh and they will no longer allow me to report Russian trolls.
Yet the Conservatives endlessly bullshit about the “liberal bias” in Twitter…
The continued dark miracle is how easily GOP cries of ‘liberal bias’ are taken at face value, no matter how many times it’s been proven to be BS.
It’s not just the ability to work the refs but how willingly the refs allow themselves to be worked.
re: #155 dangerman
If I’m on a desert island how is there cell service?
Gosh, with Gawd® all things are possible…gotta have that faith the size of a mustard seed to make that mountain move…
re: #156 Citizen K
The continued dark miracle is how easily GOP cries of ‘liberal bias’ are taken at face value, no matter how many times it’s been proven to be BS.
It’s not just the ability to work the refs but how willingly the refs allow themselves to be worked.
Some of the refs are in on it
re: #158 dangerman
Some of the refs are in on it
Not just some, Dangerman. More like Ivory Soap time—99 44/100%…
This @nytimes investigation - wow.
“Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire….Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes.” https://t.co/uESjTUdnYc— Matea Gold (@mateagold) October 2, 2018
The reason this story isn’t a bigger deal, even though it is the largest scandal in Presidential history, is because it is so unsurprising.
Everyone knows his brand is a myth, his business is a lie, and corruption is his North Star.
Sadly this is just another data point. https://t.co/QwTdXuZqLi— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) October 3, 2018
UB40 gives their side of the story
Ali Campbell on UB40, Brett Kavanaugh and an ugly bar brawl https://t.co/UNzTCe3Xhr
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
re: #160 jaunte
The only way it will become bigger is if Democrats get control of at least one chamber.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is on TV. I love watching Jack Black playing a teenage girl in a middle-aged man’s body.
re: #127 JC1
A really frustrating thing for me is that neither party goes after wealthy white collar criminals anymore.
Bernie Madoff being an exception in the past decade, but he stole from the rich.
Trump should have been in prison for tax evasion and money laundering, but stop and frisk Rudy gave him a pass.
Bill Clinton gave those guys a pass and even pardoned Marc Rich.
Obama’s DOJ didn’t even attempt to prosecute any of the guys who caused the 2008 crash.
Hell, the last administration that went after white collar criminals hard core was Bush 41 after the S&L crisis.
Democrats should adopt a though on white collar crime stance.
In fairness, W’s DOJ did go after Enron, and they had a few other high profile cases, like Martha Stewart. But, yeah, mostly there isn’t any real effort to go after the master of the universe types when they do real and horrible shit.
re: #166 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I am hoping for an Athletics vs. Brewers World Series
That’d be cool. Just no Cubs, Yanks, or Sox.
re: #160 jaunte
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I’ll take “Stories That Would Have Been More Helpful In 2016” for $200, Alex.
You know, instead of yet another breathless speculation piece on how the Clinton Foundation was being used to launder money to the Clintons and they needed to shut it down to put everybody’s worries at ease.
BREAKING NEWS: The floor mounted, heated, six roller shiatsu foot massager was a GOOD BUY!
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
re: #169 Targetpractice
I’ll take “Stories That Would Have Been More Helpful In 2016” for $200, Alex.
You know, instead of yet another breathless speculation piece on how the Clinton Foundation was being used to launder money to the Clintons and they needed to shut it down to put everybody’s worries at ease.
Was this information available in 2016?
re: #169 Targetpractice
I’ll take “Stories That Would Have Been More Helpful In 2016” for $200, Alex.
You know, instead of yet another breathless speculation piece on how the Clinton Foundation was being used to launder money to the Clintons and they needed to shut it down to put everybody’s worries at ease.
Seriously and that’s what gets me the most when he and his supporters complain about the media.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
That’d be cool. Just no Cubs, Yanks, or Sox.
I am always in the ‘No Yankees’ club
re: #167 KGxvi
In fairness, W’s DOJ did go after Enron, and they had a few other high profile cases, like Martha Stewart. But, yeah, mostly there isn’t any real effort to go after the master of the universe types when they do real and horrible shit.
Only one guy was convicted following the subprime mortgage meltdown of 2007-08. CEOs of those investment banks got fat bonuses.
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I am always in the ‘No Yankees’ club
Always even if this bunch is more likable than post ones.
Your so funny with no evidence
— Spleeto (@Copier_Master) October 3, 2018
The other bots make fun of your 2009 algorithms behind your back. https://t.co/zStfBktAjx
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 3, 2018
Your so funny with no evidence
— Spleeto (@Copier_Master) October 3, 2018
The other bots make fun of your 2009 algorithms behind your back. https://t.co/zStfBktAjx
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 3, 2018
In the At Least Here’s Some Good News file:
Four California men who allegedly shared white supremacist views and trained together on boxing and street-fighting techniques were arrested by federal authorities Tuesday on charges that they traveled to Virginia with the intent to incite a riot and commit violence at last year’s deadly far-right rallies in Charlottesville.
White nationalists are still getting busted for Charlottesville. Looking at up to ten years in federal prison on counts of conspiracy and violating the federal riots statute.
CNN: The FBI is expanding their interviews of people regarding Brett Kavanaugh beyond the initial four. More interviews are happening with a focus on other Kavanaugh high school friends who are listed as attending a July 1, 1982 party.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) October 3, 2018
This is some Venus In Furs shit right here. I can see it.
— Little Miss Anominissss (@MrsPeel67) October 3, 2018
I got fired from the sperm bank for always saying “Get a load of this guy” whenever someone came in. #oneliners
— harDCore Chef 🌊 🇺🇸 (@CsnowflakeD) September 29, 2018
the trumpskyites are telling me that the new nafta deal contains this provision:
Canada and Mexico must seek US approval for any 3rd party trade deal in the future
????
specifically, they believe this is aimed at china
in any case, here is a link to the full text of the agreement. i haven’t been able to find any such above specified provision in it so far:
re: #178 HappyWarrior
Always even if this bunch is more likable than post ones.
They’re all bad teams Brent
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Maybe she means the David Duchovny, Orlando Jones movie.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
re: #182 thecommodore
Yup. Kavanaugh is toast now. If the FBI is pursuing more inquiries, they found something that requires corroboration from other witnesses. This is not going to be wrapped up by tomorrow.
And the GOP knows it. That’s why the RW Noise Machine is running at 10,000 lies per minute to try to salvage their disaster of a nominee.
re: #188 gocart mozart
Which still cracks me up, the movie, that is.
BREAKING: President Trump mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, during a rally in Mississippi. https://t.co/yjrqDceYv6 pic.twitter.com/iv22aHRwhn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2018
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me with this? What is the purpose of this? Was there no other vitriol you could spew to rile up your base and deepen this country’s divide? You used THIS?? Do you even understand the message you’re sending? Where is your sense of human decency? https://t.co/SdEh7fFLtL
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) October 3, 2018
So today’s conservative excuse for Kavanaugh’s behaviour seems to be “who amongst us men haven’t been in bar fights?” Wow, I gotta say, that’s some (brain dead) defence (and also a lie).
I was involved in exactly one bar fight in my entire life.
I wasn’t one of the fighters. I was on Shore Patrol.
My ship was in port in Naples, and a Soviet naval vessel also pulled in for liberty and replenishment. Shore Patrol as usual was tasked with making sure sailors didn’t get out of hand and if they did, cancel their liberty and send them back to the ship. I assume the Soviet Union’s version of Shore Patrol was tasked with the same thing.
Several of us from both ships were stationed in a popular Naples bar on the waterfront, where both American and Soviet sailors were drinking. Don’t know who started it, but someone flung an insult at the other’s country and the bar fight was on.
Both American and Soviet Shore Patrols were dragging anyone they could get their hands on out of the bar (grab ‘em now, we’ll sort them out later) before the Carabinieri got there and arrested the whole lot and threw them in an Italian jail.
Later, both the USA and the USSR settled up payments to the bar owner.
re: #189 wheat-dogg
Yup. Kavanaugh is toast now. If the FBI is pursuing more inquiries, they found something that requires corroboration from other witnesses. This is not going to be wrapped up by tomorrow.
And the GOP knows it. That’s why the RW Noise Machine is running at 10,000 lies per minute to try to salvage their disaster of a nominee.
Yeah something is up.
My Russian troll girlfriend is back
That is mean! WTF you saying that about my family when I never doing any thing to you????? 😭😭😭
— DonnaTrumplova (@DonnaTrumplova) October 3, 2018
And you know this how? Is this another one of those mystery tales, hoping someone will believe it?…Oh, I forgot, it was in the NYT, or snoring pic.twitter.com/ZidgAbyHG8
— Donald J. Mouse (@MrDonaldMouse1) September 18, 2018
I never trust @CNN or other MSMs which is why I all ways get my American news from @RT_com!!!! Is hella important to get real truth like what @JulianAssange or Oliver Stone saying plus all research checked by experts in my countrys government. ❤️🇷🇺😎 https://t.co/wkV0BNbYf9
— DonnaTrumplova (@DonnaTrumplova) September 18, 2018
re: #193 Anymouse 🌹
So today’s conservative excuse for Kavanaugh’s behaviour seems to be “who amongst us men haven’t been in bar fights?” Wow, I gotta say, that’s some (brain dead) defence (and also a lie).
I was involved in exactly one bar fight in my entire life.
I wasn’t one of the fighters. I was on Shore Patrol.
My ship was in port in Naples, and a Soviet naval vessel also pulled in for liberty and replenishment. Shore Patrol as usual was tasked with making sure sailors didn’t get out of hand and if they did, cancel their liberty and send them back to the ship. I assume the Soviet Union’s version of Shore Patrol was tasked with the same thing.
Several of us from both ships were stationed in a popular Naples bar on the waterfront, where both American and Soviet sailors were drinking. Don’t know who started it, but someone flung an insult at the other’s country and the bar fight was on.
Both American and Soviet Shore Patrols were dragging anyone they could get their hands on out of the bar (grab ‘em now, we’ll sort them out later) before the Carabinieri got there and arrested the whole lot and threw them in an Italian jail.
Later, both the USA and the USSR settled up payments to the bar owner.
Shit it’s not even the bar fight, it’s what he got in a fight over.
re: #186 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
the trumpskyites are telling me that the new nafta deal contains this provision:
Canada and Mexico must seek US approval for any 3rd party trade deal in the future
????
specifically, they believe this is aimed at china
in any case, here is a link to the full text of the agreement. i haven’t been able to find any such above specified provision in it so far:
I read this from an angry canadian yesterday. It mentions clause 32
re: #167 KGxvi
wonder how much white collar crime would be uncovered with even 1/100th this level of scrutiny
— 17 Spooky Years Of Forever War (@AthertonKD) April 13, 2018
One of the reasons I was ambivalent about the end of #Leverage is that I was one more season away from car bombs. All our episodes were based on real white collar bad guys, and the worst they ever suffered was being mocked on our little cable show. https://t.co/CJCcuVRmGM
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) October 3, 2018
FOR GOD’S SAKE, KEEP TOM HANKS AWAY FROM THEM ! ! !
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) October 3, 2018
re: #6 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
So I see Kristy Swanson has come out as full-on MAGA troll. thedailybeast.com
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Kristy should be very, very careful.
There are a LOT of skeletons in her closet.
There are also tapes.
She used to call my friend up while they were working on a movie together, and leave incoherent, howling messages on his voicemail box until it filled up. Day after day.
Even Charlie Sheen (who she was on the movie with) used to describe her as “Batshit crazy.”
Well, now I’m conflicted about my copy of the first “Buffy” movie. I like that movie for being over-the-top silly. Crap.
re: #192 gocart mozart
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When they put Frank Capra in charge of propaganda in WWII, he never shot a foot of film. He just showed German and Italian and Japanese propaganda footage knowing it would disgust everybody over here.
That’s all tRump’s challenger in 2020 (assuming he’s still here) will have to do—make their commercials nothing but tRump speeches all the time.
re: #127 JC1
A really frustrating thing for me is that neither party goes after wealthy white collar criminals anymore.
Bernie Madoff being an exception in the past decade, but he stole from the rich.
Trump should have been in prison for tax evasion and money laundering, but stop and frisk Rudy gave him a pass.
Bill Clinton gave those guys a pass and even pardoned Marc Rich.
Obama’s DOJ didn’t even attempt to prosecute any of the guys who caused the 2008 crash.
Hell, the last administration that went after white collar criminals hard core was Bush 41 after the S&L crisis.
Democrats should adopt a though on white collar crime stance.
The problem is that white collar crimes involving involving complicated financial transactions are often very difficult to investigate and expensive to prove. 10-15 years ago I listened to a radio report concerning an accountant for a large firm who marketed a complicated tax evasion scheme that they assured their clients could never be unraveled by the government because the government lacked the expertise. The government may prefer to go after simpler cases, rather than the big case with potentially huge payoff.
re: #201 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That’s all tRump’s challenger in 2020 (assuming he’s still here) will have to do—make their commercials nothing but tRump speeches all the time.
HRC did that with trump quotes during the 2016 campaign, and it sadly backfired because GOPers love that shit :/
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹
Well, now I’m conflicted about my copy of the first “Buffy” movie. I like that movie for being over-the-top silly. Crap.
You can throw out 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, though. On second thought, do that anyway.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
Shit it’s not even the bar fight, it’s what he got in a fight over.
And the fact that he told the police at the scene that he had started it. His drunken recklessness directly resulted in his friend going to jail and another man’s head injury. It’s simply impossible to believe that a responsible adult auditioning for a seat on the Supreme Court, under oath, would have replied the way he did, dismissing the severity of his past drinking given that documented experience.
We all know now that Kavanaugh is a violent, angry drunk and a liar. Flake, Collins and Murkowski have no excuses.
re: #189 wheat-dogg
Yup. Kavanaugh is toast now. If the FBI is pursuing more inquiries, they found something that requires corroboration from other witnesses. This is not going to be wrapped up by tomorrow.
And the GOP knows it. That’s why the RW Noise Machine is running at 10,000 lies per minute to try to salvage their disaster of a nominee.
You mean like the letter from an ex-boyfriend that Faux is waving around as “proof” that she committed perjury?
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
The problem is that white collar crimes involving involving complicated financial transactions are often very difficult to investigate and expensive to prove. 10-15 years ago I listened to a radio report concerning an accountant for a large firm who marketed a complicated tax evasion scheme that they assured their clients could never be unraveled by the government because the government lacked the expertise. The government may prefer to go after simpler cases, rather than the big case with potentially huge payoff.
If I’m not mistaken, at the end of 2008, one of the state courts (NY?) DID go after one of the more egregious greedy bankers. What should have been an easy conviction ended up as an acquital…the defense was quite successful in muddying the waters and confusing the jury.
That might have influenced future prosecution, if even your stronger cases end up in acquittals.
re: #198 gwangung
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re: #206 Targetpractice
You mean like the letter from an ex-boyfriend that Faux is waving around as “proof” that she committed perjury?
What are they doing sigh?
re: #189 wheat-dogg
Yup. Kavanaugh is toast now. .
If there is any justice left in the world, Kavanaugh will wind up as a charred crouton…and the Republicans will still believe he’s a piece of deluxe avocado toast…
re: #206 Targetpractice
You mean like the letter from an ex-boyfriend that Faux is waving around as “proof” that she committed perjury?
Yup, the same one that Jim Hoft is crowing about. Thing is, the FBI will probably turn up more than just Dr Ford’s attack, so it’s only a smokescreen - a distraction for the base to latch onto.
re: #27 fern01
So the NYT and MNSCB via Rachel - have announced that trump was nothing but a conman who cheated on his taxes - as did his father.
But the NYT and all other media helped him get elected. Well done America - you have reached peak wingnut and been conned by much worse than Nigerian scammers.
There is no such thing as peak wingnut. It is a myth.
re: #212 wheat-dogg
Yup, the same one that Jim Hoft is crowing about. Thing is, the FBI will probably turn up more than just Dr Ford’s attack, so it’s only a smokescreen - a distraction for the base to latch onto.
I’m not really worried about the FBI but I am about Fox doing everything to make her life hell.
re: #209 HappyWarrior
What are they doing sigh?
JUST IN: Christine Blasey Ford ex-boyfriend says she helped friend prep for potential polygraph; Grassley sounds alarm https://t.co/4ZkYyx9lDB pic.twitter.com/AjqJ9K2vsz
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 3, 2018
The American North West is a strange place
FBI agent shot by booby-trapped wheelchair in fortified home https://t.co/CR4oS1hlJW pic.twitter.com/ztzZI3GhIQ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2018
PORTLAND, Ore. — A former southern Oregon property owner has been charged with assault on a federal officer after, authorities say, an FBI agent sent to the property was shot from a booby-trapped wheelchair.
Law enforcement officers responded to the home in the small town of Williams on Sept. 7 at the request of a real estate lawyer tasked with selling the property, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Monday.
A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Medford said officers found traps throughout the property from spike strips to a circular hot tub turned on its side and rigged to roll over anyone who triggered a tripwire.
“(It was) much like a scene from the movie ‘Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark’ in which actor Harrison Ford is forced to outrun a giant stone boulder that he inadvertently triggered by a booby trap switch,” the complaint said.
To everyone thinking this is somehow meant to minimize journalists’ hard work: take it easy. It’s a joke.
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 3, 2018
re: #213 Anymouse 🌹
There is no such thing as peak wingnut. It is a myth.
Never forget how the Screw York Times conspired to push the Clinton Cash book while totally ignoring Trump’s shady finances.
Now they decide to disclose what they found about President Manger Merde…after the barn door was left open and the elephants all got loose to trample the Constitution to death!
re: #216 Targetpractice
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re: #216 Targetpractice
Uh, having been subjected to several polygraph tests I can tell you from experience that there is no F’n, G’n, HIJKLMNOP’n way to “prepare” for them!
re: #218 HappyWarrior
And he’s credible why? Oh I know why. He’s got a penis.
Same excuse as was given for the “I didn’t see nothin’” statements: “Made under penalty of perjury.”
The right wing is screaming for her blood right now. As in arrest that bitch for perjury NOWWWWWWWW!!!!
Dr Ford was right. They are going to destroy her for coming forward.
re: #222 Joe Bacon 🌹
Uh, having been subjected to several polygraph tests I can tell you from experience that there is no F’n, G’n, HIJKLMNOP’n way to “prepare” for them!
I suspect FNC knows that but they know their viewers don’t.
re: #224 Scottish Dragon
The right wing is screaming for her blood right now. As in arrest that bitch for perjury NOWWWWWWWW!!!!
Dr Ford was right. They are going to destroy her for coming forward.
I want the right wing in this country politically castrated.
re: #220 Joe Bacon 🌹
Never forget how the Screw York Times conspired to push the Clinton Cash book while totally ignoring Trump’s shady finances.
Now they decide to disclose what they found about President Manger Merde…after the barn door was left open and the elephants all got loose to trample the Constitution to death!
Again, it’s because no one really thought Trump could win the election, so they slacked off on investigating him and focused on Hillary as the presumptive winner. Whether the NYT and WaPo and other MSM outlets have learned anything from the 2016 campaign, is doubtful, but they really dropped the ball by ignoring Trump’s fairly well known (in NY) shady past. The Dems also share in the blame, because they also assumed that HRC would be the clear winner. No one prepared for the worst.
Surprise attack!
📹: goose_bear_ pic.twitter.com/r1wpRIgRE0— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) October 3, 2018
re: #218 HappyWarrior
And he’s credible why? Oh I know why. He’s got a penis.
Attached to a white body.
Here is the letter itself:
BREAKING: Fox’s @johnrobertsFox obtains letter from Ford ex-boyfriend alleging: dated for 6 yrs, never told of sex assault, Ford coached friend on taking polygraph, flew frequently w/o expressing any fear of flying/tight spaces/limited exits. Doesn’t want to b/c “involved”. pic.twitter.com/jVeW0qaJD0
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) October 3, 2018
The guy starts out by saying he holds no animus towards Dr. Ford…and then ends the letter by saying he dumped her after he found out she’d cheated and accuses her of credit card fraud (but never reported it).
I just have to ask, you honestly believe a woman kept going to parties where rape was a regular occurrence. She never reported this to anyone and let her friends keep going even after she was raped herself. One of you i think is lying and the other a moron.
— Rodney Shaver (@RodneyShaver2) October 2, 2018
By this same logic, why did people keep going to church?
— admittedly blacked out (@ibrokemyserious) October 3, 2018
re: #65 fern01
trump mocked a gold star father - paid nothing for doing same. Bit of bad press - he laughed.
Carl Paladino (his New York campaign manager) implied we Gold Star Families were terrorism supporters for coming to the defence of Mr. and Mrs. Khan.
re: #227 wheat-dogg
Again, it’s because no one really thought Trump could win the election, so they slacked off on investigating him and focused on Hillary as the presumptive winner. Whether the NYT and WaPo and other MSM outlets have learned anything from the 2016 campaign, is doubtful, but they really dropped the ball by ignoring Trump’s fairly well known (in NY) shady past. The Dems also share in the blame, because they also assumed that HRC would be the clear winner. No one prepared for the worst.
Bernie was too stupid to realize that Manafort was having his pal Tad Devine pull his strings.
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹
Carl Paladino (his New York campaign manager) implied we Gold Star Families were terrorism supporters for coming to the defence of Mr. and Mrs. Khan.
The tenth level of hell is awaiting Paladino’s arrival.
re: #233 Joe Bacon 🌹
Bernie was too stupid to realize that Manafort was having his pal Tad Devine pull his strings.
Bernie isn’t a smart politician.
re: #230 Targetpractice
Here is the letter itself:
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The guy starts out by saying he holds no animus towards Dr. Ford…and then ends the letter by saying he dumped her after he found out she’d cheated and accuses her of credit card fraud (but never reported it).
JFC.
re: #79 ObserverArt
Remember Doctor Ronny…future head of the VA?
That was another Trump crash and burn.
Wonder what he has been reduced to now after being glib for Trump?
I see a book for someone to create.
I Met President Trump
My Life Before and After..
Such a book has already been written
by Rick Wilson
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
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I’m watching something on Jeffrey Dahmer right now. Apparently he raped two fellow military members who kept quiet about it for years. Point is I understand completely why someone would be quiet.
By the way, “under penalty of perjury” doesn’t really mean much if you know that the guys running the inquisition will never actually refer the matter to the proper authorities to prosecute. Does anyone really believe that this bitter ex-boyfriend is afraid that Chuck Grassley will have him charged with perjury if he can’t corroborate his story?
re: #91 Charles Johnson
The history of the Trump family business is bringing out my inner socialist. Some defenses of Kavanaugh are bringing out my inner feminist. The Trump-era degradation of American conservatism is bringing out my inner liberal.
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN.The GOP tax bill’s bringing out my inner socialist. The sex scandals are bringing out my inner feminist. Donald Trump and Roy Moore are bringing out my inner liberal.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 21, 2017
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 3, 2018
Hey Bill, come over to the Dark Side. We have cookies.
re: #239 Targetpractice
By the way, “under penalty of perjury” doesn’t really mean much if you know that the guys running the inquisition will never actually refer the matter to the proper authorities to prosecute. Does anyone really believe that this bitter ex-boyfriend is afraid that Chuck Grassley will have him charged with perjury if he can’t corroborate his story?
The whole thing seems petty as hell but of course, it will be right wing canon by this morning that she perjured herself and is a criminal.
I don’t know one woman, including myself, who hasn’t found owl bones in her stool after a night of heavy drinking.
Not a single one.— Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) October 2, 2018
Ask Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She might try to deny it but I guarantee she’s been out there in the night with feathers in her teeth.
— Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) October 3, 2018
The White House considered weaponizing student visas to punish China, and coincidentally the universities benefiting from that influx of Chinese cash.
Sources told @FT that Stephen Miller said the proposed policy had a bonus: It would hurt elite universities where staff and faculty had been critical of Trump. https://t.co/ebGDHwIaDx
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) October 2, 2018
The article quotes the ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, who used to be governor of Iowa, as telling Trump that the ban would hurt small college and unis more than the Ivies. One of them would be Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, which has a pretty large Chinese student population for a school its size. So, Branstad knows what he’s talking about.
re: #243 wheat-dogg
The White House considered weaponizing student visas to punish China, and coincidentally the universities benefiting from that influx of Chinese cash.
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re: #241 HappyWarrior
The whole thing seems petty as hell but of course, it will be right wing canon by this morning that she perjured herself and is a criminal.
Of course. Faux happened to get a copy of the letter the same time that Grassley says that the SJC heard from the ex about the “coaching” and accuses her attorneys of “withholding evidence.”
re: #235 HappyWarrior
Bernie isn’t a smart politician.
Do we know that Bernie was unaware of these connections?
re: #243 wheat-dogg
This has made me ponder something. Part of the problem right now is that we’re in a system where, for two years, there’s almost nothing at the federal level in this situation to counter a single, corrupt party controlling the levers of power. And that’s a lot of time for the wrong people to swing sledgehammers. I have been trying to think of ways to change that.
re: #247 Hecuba’s daughter
Do we know that Bernie was unaware of these connections?
No but I meant in general. He’s being proven wrong big time on trade.
re: #246 Targetpractice
Of course. Faux happened to get a copy of the letter the same time that Grassley says that the SJC heard from the ex about the “coaching” and accuses her attorneys of “withholding evidence.”
It didn’t seem like Ford was coaching her friend to lie; it was more that the friend might have been apprehensive about the polygraph and Ford was helping her not to panic.
re: #248 Belafon
This has made me ponder something. Part of the problem right now is that we’re in a system where, for two years, there’s almost nothing at the federal level in this situation to counter a single, corrupt party controlling the levers of power. And that’s a lot of time for the wrong people to swing sledgehammers. I have been trying to think of ways to change that.
I honestly don’t know how to resolve that. There are those who prefer a Parliamentary system but in that case the majority has absolute power for more than two years.
re: #243 wheat-dogg
The White House considered weaponizing student visas to punish China, and coincidentally the universities benefiting from that influx of Chinese cash.
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The article quotes the ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, who used to be governor of Iowa, as telling Trump that the ban would hurt small college and unis more than the Ivies. One of them would be Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, which has a pretty large Chinese student population for a school its size. So, Branstad knows what he’s talking about.
Elite Ivies reject a lot more applicants than they admit; wouldn’t hurt them at all.
re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter
It didn’t seem like Ford was coaching her friend to lie; it was more that the friend might have been apprehensive about the polygraph and Ford was helping her not to panic.
That would be the reasonable assumption but remember you’re dealing with FNC trying to smear her not people acting in good faith. FNC is fucking disgusting. I look forward to the day where it goes out of business and hopefully Old Murdoch himself is penniless but I know that’s a pipe dream.
re: #248 Belafon
This has made me ponder something. Part of the problem right now is that we’re in a system where, for two years, there’s almost nothing at the federal level in this situation to counter a single, corrupt party controlling the levers of power. And that’s a lot of time for the wrong people to swing sledgehammers. I have been trying to think of ways to change that.
If the USA did not have a free press and uncensored Internet, the situation would be exponentially worse. Imagine if there were no sources of information besides state TV (Fox News) and state media (Drudge, GatewayPundit, InfoWars, etc.). Imagine if the public schools were required to teach a specific federally mandated curriculum, and universities were prohibited from teaching certain topics. That’s China now.
Americans need to learn more about (a) their own system of government and (b) how governments can be weaponized to destroy individual freedom and civil rights. An alarming number of Americans are complacent, and don’t even see the creeping autocracy threatening them.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
No but I meant in general. He’s being proven wrong big time on trade.
That doesn’t mean Bernie’s not a smart politician. Smart politicians can excel at lying and deceit and persuading voters to support their policies. Trump is living proof that even total ignorance can be accepted by voters.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
That would be the reasonable assumption but remember you’re dealing with FNC trying to smear her not people acting in good faith. FNC is fucking disgusting. I look forward to the day where it goes out of business and hopefully Old Murdoch himself is penniless but I know that’s a pipe dream.
It’s all about providing any wavering Republicans with a reason to disbelieve what their minds told them, and believe what their hearts want.
I truly doubt that Grassley intends to charge Dr. Ford with perjury based upon this letter. For one thing, unless her ex can provide a second witness to these events, then it’ll never stand up in court. What Grassley is doing is trying to pressure her lawyers into turning over documents he thinks will be instrumental in quashing the polygraph results and the therapy sessions. He’s fishing and he’s using this letter as bait.
re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter
That doesn’t mean Bernie’s not a smart politician. Smart politicians can excel at lying and deceit and persuading voters to support their policies. Trump is living proof that even total ignorance can be accepted by voters.
I’m just saying. The guy for someone who has been in the game for so long has an unbelievable track record of being naive or one track minded. A more savvy politician would have gotten more accomplished by now. What does Bernie have to really show for 28 years in Congress?
re: #257 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s all about providing any wavering Republicans with a reason to disbelieve what their minds told them, and believe what their hearts want.
Yep and it’s fucking vile.
re: #259 HappyWarrior
I’m just saying. The guy for someone who has been in the game for so long has an unbelievable track record of being naive or one track minded. A more savvy politician would have gotten more accomplished by now. What does Bernie have to really show for 28 years in Congress?
28 years in Congress!!
FNC who tried to make an innocent fist bump between Obama and his wife out to be terrorist. Those fuckers are evil and are responsible for so much damage in our system. Ultimately, yeah we have free will but they have poisoned so many minds.
re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter
28 years in Congress!!
Snicker. I think so many of his younger supporters have no idea how long he’s been there and how little he’s accomplished. Now I’m sure if he was pressed on that, he’d blame the establishment but there are others with just as liberal records that actually have legislative accomplishments.
re: #253 Big Beautiful Door
Elite Ivies reject a lot more applicants than they admit; wouldn’t hurt them at all.
Exactly. They get on average, tens of thousands of applications each, and from those only offer a couple of thousand, if that many, admission. Plus, they have multi-million dollar endowments, so losing Chinese tuition money is but a drop in the bucket. It’s the small schools that really need those international students, because they are full-pay students — they can’t get financial aid as US students can. Reliance on foreign students’ fees is one of the issues facing higher education, because many schools are unequipped to deal with the extra challenges those students present. Critics charge the schools are chasing that money without also preparing for the social, psychological and academic welfare of the foreign students.
I don’t know one guy, including myself, who wasn’t in a bar fight.
Not a single one.— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 2, 2018
Ex-cop states every cop he has ever known has been involved in drunken brawls.
We need a better class of cops. https://t.co/Db6a9nrkLx— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2018
Colorado advances to face Milwaukee in the NLDS. Tough choice here to as whom to go for. Have an aunt out in Colorado but Milwaukee has the longer Series appearance gap and I actually know more Brewers fans than I do Rockies. I’ll hope for the Rox in 5 I guess but I just want good baseball. As for the other NLDS. Braves no question. The Ex Orioles rule applies here. With Cleveland and Houston. Cleveland. Oakland over NY and if NY wins, I could care less about them and the Sox.
re: #265 Kragar
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re: #260 HappyWarrior
Yep and it’s fucking vile.
They are convinced that this is an unfair hit. Look, they don’t even see a problem if he did it, because boys will be boys, and it could happen to any guy, because women make false accusations all the time against rich, powerful men like Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, Bill Cosby… Well, maybe not Cosby, ‘cause he’s black. But still
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Time goes by and not one credible defense of Kavanaugh. Just “He’s a great guy, I like him, leave him alone.” It’s pathetic the lengths they’re going to save this shitbag.
re: #268 Blind Frog Belly White
They are convinced that this is an unfair hit. Look, they don’t even see a problem if he did it, because boys will be boys, and it could happen to any guy, because women make false accusations all the time against rich, powerful men like Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, Bill Cosby… Well, maybe not Cosby, ‘cause he’s black. But still
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I am so ready for a country where women and PoC have more of a say because enough of white guys like those you mentioned thinking that their shit doesn’t stink.
America is right and truly fucked. A moran (and criminal) at the wheel. A literal shitshow in both houses of congress. An obvious liar (under oath) being appointed to the supreme court. I fear even a blue wave won’t save us. is there no such thing as truth anymore?
I’m ready for more taco trucks and less right wing bullshit.
re: #253 Big Beautiful Door
Elite Ivies reject a lot more applicants than they admit; wouldn’t hurt them at all.
It won’t hurt them in terms of raw tuition income, but that’s only half the story. The Ivies are acutely conscious of raw talent, awards and research dollars and donations that talent and awards bring in. Maintaining themselves as the pre-eminent institutions in the World depends on proving their superiority, continually. They may not be hurt as much as smaller US colleges, but they cannot possibly be happy about this.
What is this wingnut letter circulating on Twitter claiming someone was a person who coached people on how to “pass” polygraphs, therefore Dr. Ford’s testimony about that is not credible?
re: #268 Blind Frog Belly White
“Boys will be boys” is basically a brood parasitism strategy. If fledglings that aren’t cuckoos starve, get eaten, or pushed out of the nest…who fucking cares? Cuckoo lives matter.
All this fuckery is like aggressive mimicry. There’s no real concern for “men” as a general group, or “fathers” as a general group: that’s just the crowd that the predators are using for camouflage.
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹
What is this wingnut letter circulating on Twitter claiming someone was a person who coached people on how to “pass” polygraphs, therefore Dr. Ford’s testimony about that is not credible?
Bitter ex sent a letter to Grassley claiming to have seen Dr. Ford “coach” McLean on what a polygraph involves, wingnuts are portraying that as “proof” that she committed perjury when asked by Mitchell if she’d ever talked with anyone on how to take a polygraph test.
re: #273 goddamnedfrank
Stanford, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, etc are going to be fucking furious.
Apropos of my remarks above about Xi Jinping’s challenges dealing with the Chinese economy, all of the stories linked on this page refer to China’s real estate boom heading into a bust cycle.
The debt crisis here is one China’s “open secrets,” little discussed but widely acknowledged. Mind you, some people who invested early in real estate can profit handsomely. One of my friends told me a few days ago that the flat she and her husband bought in Changsha (Hunan’s provincial capital) a few years ago has doubled in value since then. But she can only benefit if she sells it, of course. If they hold on during a bust cycle, all their money could go down the tubes. Multiply that situation a hundred-million-fold and you can see the problem facing China now.
re: #273 goddamnedfrank
It won’t hurt them in terms of raw tuition income, but that’s only half the story. The Ivies are acutely conscious of raw talent, awards and research dollars and donations that talent and awards bring in. Maintaining themselves as the pre-eminent institutions in the World depends on proving their superiority, continually. They may not be hurt as much as smaller US colleges, but they cannot possibly be happy about this.
Worth noting that the visa ban was only a proposal, and has not been instituted.
re: #150 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dinner tonight was just 2 cups of Beer Nuts and a Diet Dr. Pepper. Just to wound up to cook anything.
5 more days in Twitter jail thanks to Falwell and now I have an admonishment from Twitter that I cannot “defame” Conservatives…Oh and they will no longer allow me to report Russian trolls.
Yet the Conservatives endlessly bullshit about the “liberal bias” in Twitter…
Hashtag WalkAwayfromTwitter
re: #281 Anymouse 🌹
Hashtag WalkAwayfromTwitter
I haven’t joined Twitter. What is wrong with Jack? Is he just terrified of RW trolls who attack anyone who doesn’t worship Trump? Is he owned by the Russians too?
Regarding the pro-Kavanaugh forces and the Republican response to the facts as we know them:
Seems to me they are just deciding, at random, how much shit they can throw at at the wall and see what sticks, eh? The bottom line for them is that the people who oppose Kavanaugh are just liars. That’s all they’ve got.
He’s a disastrous nominee, but they keep supporting him. He was a drunk as a high-schooler and a drunk as a college student. There is no indication he has ever addressed the problem. He’s still a drunk. Do we need a drunk as a member of the SCOTUS?
Is there anyone in the US who says “Yes! That’s exactly what we need!”
Sadly, yes, because there is a huge cohort of idiots who think that’s exactly what we need, because they believe that this President is the Pied Piper who will lead us to a better future.
I’m disgusted, and I’m tired, and I’m going to sleep.
See y’all tomorrow.
re: #282 Hecuba’s daughter
Fifty percent too caught up in trying to monetize Twitter, fifty percent techbro pseudointellectual understanding of “the marketplace of ideas” and how things *should* work as opposed to what’s actually happening.
Facebook’s much the same, except even more sharklike because it’s basically a fucking intelligence operation wearing a greasepaint mustache.
They don’t need to be owned by Russia. They’re just dumb, greedy companies desperately trying to stay ahead of anything that causes investors and advertisers to get nervous. There’s no deeper level, which is exactly what makes them so stupid dangerous.
There is a bizarre and apparently widespread belief among fundies that twice as many girls as boys are born every year and that there are far more women than men in the world. I have never seen any documentation for this belief but I have heard it from a dozen or more fundamentalists over the years. Government statistics, of course, are dismissed out of hand as the usual cover-up.
This Brooklyn College professor compares “spin-the-bottle” to Kavanaugh’s alleged attack of Dr Ford, and is being rightfully raked over the coals for his remarks.
I, a “tutu-wearing pansy,” am off to buy a big pink cupcake in celebration of the soon-to-arrive moment when this creep, Brooklyn College associate professor Mitchell Langbert, deservedly loses his job for this blog post. pic.twitter.com/idgrJr6xq0
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) October 3, 2018
Maybe it was just my childhood, living in decadent Long Island, but spin-the-bottle was a game we only joked about as being a relic of our parents’ childhood. Kids haven’t played that game in at least a generation, AFAIK. Mostly, they just get right down to business.
The prof, who at his advanced age (close to mine) is still only an associate professor, got his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. I find this vaguely amusing, considering he’s calling Democrats “tutu-wearing pansies.” The scuttlebutt about guys going to Sarah Lawrence soon after it went co-educational in 1968 was that they were (in so many words) “tutu-wearing pansies.”
re: #285 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There is a bizarre and apparently widespread belief among fundies that twice as many girls as boys are born every year and that there are far more women than men in the world. I have never seen any documentation for this belief but I have heard it from a dozen or more fundamentalists over the years. Government statistics, of course, are dismissed out of hand as the usual cover-up.
That is amazing. About 51% of births in the United States are male. I’ve never heard of this fundie delusion before.
re: #283 austin_blue
Regarding the pro-Kavanaugh forces and the Republican response to the facts as we know them:
Seems to me they are just deciding, at random, how much shit they can throw at at the wall and see what sticks, eh? The bottom line for them is that the people who oppose Kavanaugh are just liars. That’s all they’ve got.
He’s a disastrous nominee, but they keep supporting him. He was a drunk as a high-schooler and a drunk as a college student. There is no indication he has ever addressed the problem. He’s still a drunk. Do we need a drunk as a member of the SCOTUS?
Is there anyone in the US who says “Yes! That’s exactly what we need!”
Sadly, yes, because there is a huge cohort of idiots who think that’s exactly what we need, because they believe that this President is the Pied Piper who will lead us to a better future.
I’m disgusted, and I’m tired, and I’m going to sleep.
See y’all tomorrow.
Our opposition is justification of his worth, and any bad thing that comes out is proof we’ll stop at nothing to take him down, so it makes him EVEN MORE worthy, and us EVEN MORE evil to stand in his way. Especially since the accusation are from women.
re: #189 wheat-dogg
Yup. Kavanaugh is toast now. If the FBI is pursuing more inquiries, they found something that requires corroboration from other witnesses. This is not going to be wrapped up by tomorrow.
And the GOP knows it. That’s why the RW Noise Machine is running at 10,000 lies per minute to try to salvage their disaster of a nominee.
In the final grasp for power, conservatives could take any report the FBI gives them and say, “we don’t care.”
Flake asked for an investigation; he got that. He can now vote “yes.”
McConnell said he would not release the report to the populace, in another move by the “most transparent government ever.”
re: #287 Hecuba’s daughter
That is amazing. About 51% of births in the United States are male. I’ve never heard of this fundie delusion before.
Where do they think the girls are going?
re: #285 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There is a bizarre and apparently widespread belief among fundies that twice as many girls as boys are born every year and that there are far more women than men in the world. I have never seen any documentation for this belief but I have heard it from a dozen or more fundamentalists over the years. Government statistics, of course, are dismissed out of hand as the usual cover-up.
They’re obvious just frustrated horny dudes looking to justify polygamy. The actual ratio, as I’m sure you know, is that there are slightly more males born every year than females. Historically it evens out and then shifts with slightly more females living to very old age, historically due to the disproportionate number of male deaths in dangerous occupations and war.
re: #238 HappyWarrior
I’m watching something on Jeffrey Dahmer right now. Apparently he raped two fellow military members who kept quiet about it for years. Point is I understand completely why someone would be quiet.
Yup. Just as hard for men, and until recently the military really didn’t want to hear such things. Never mind rape carries the death penalty in the UCMJ.
WTF is it with this whole crew of Conservatives who keep peddling that toxic masculinity is the norm AND normal.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) October 2, 2018
re: #201 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
When they put Frank Capra in charge of propaganda in WWII, he never shot a foot of film. He just showed German and Italian and Japanese propaganda footage knowing it would disgust everybody over here.
That’s all tRump’s challenger in 2020 (assuming he’s still here) will have to do—make their commercials nothing but tRump speeches all the time.
No. Ignore him. Just show us that we can be better. Put him into a white rage.
The bots are absolute swarming on twitter tonight.
VIDEO: Trump draws laughter and cheers at a rally as he mocks Christine Blasey Ford who has alleged that his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her; Trump had previously called her a credible witness. https://t.co/7Zr5samfST
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2018
Track Palin, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s oldest son, will be in court to find out if he must serve jail time after an assault arrest threw a previous case into question. https://t.co/ViX2tqWNZo
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) October 3, 2018
Republicans really don’t like women.
If you use things like credit cards and ATMs rather than cheques and real money, this might interest you. Is this the guy Trump says loves him?
Original release date: October 02, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have identified malware and other indicators of compromise used by the North Korean government in an ATM cash-out scheme—referred to by the U.S. Government as “FASTCash.” The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA.
NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Alert TA18-275A: HIDDEN COBRA - FASTCash Campaign, Malware Analysis Report (MAR) MAR-10201537, and the page on HIDDEN COBRA - North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity for more information.
Local election update, new candidate files:
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Peggy Sue, the Texas woman who inspired two Buddy Holly songs, has died in hospital https://t.co/kUnPrLAcGm
— CBC News (@CBCNews) October 2, 2018
Early voter information from the Nebraska Democratic Party:
The SOS has released their first set of early vote data for those whom have requested vote by mail ballots up to this point (this includes 10/1 as a list wasn’t released then). I am also including all early vote requests to date for reference.
Early Vote Requests for 10/2
Democrats: 1,970
Nonpartisan: 648
Republicans: 2,499
Unknown: 24
Total People: 5,141
Early Vote Requests to date:
Democrats: 17,780
Nonpartisan: 5,444
Republican: 20,118
Unknown: 176
Total People: 43,518
I hope the non-partisans are taking note of the Dumpster fire going on now.
The hunt for Planet X has turned up an extremely distant object dubbed “the Goblin.” Its elongated orbit suggests that it is shepherded by a massive planet, researchers say. https://t.co/UF2OLUmTIE
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2018
re: #302 Single-handed sailor
And immediately conservatives go in to that article to bash Dr. Ford.
Hillary Clinton was too kind.
DPRK will not hope for the end of the war on the Korean Peninsula if the United States does not want it, and the issue should not be used as a “bargaining chip” in denuclearization talks, the official DPRK news agency said Tuesday. https://t.co/8GZaFwwsI4 pic.twitter.com/wOAyVXIpgz
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) October 3, 2018
of course he did
Trump: ‘We protect Saudi Arabia’ https://t.co/6wkP9OarTA
— RT (@RT_com) October 3, 2018
Looking for shitty people? Come hang out for a while on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/owl60M27SS
— Shane Morris (@IamShaneMorris) October 3, 2018
@Stonekettle Missed you today, but I really hope you enjoyed Tuesday with your wife cuz you’re gonna need a bigger bottle to deal with today’s Twitter shit-show.
— Wally Walrus (@AmishByOsmosis) October 3, 2018
re: #306 Ace-o-aces
A Jim Crow lynching because a white woman in Dixie alleged a fourteen-year-old flirted with her (a death penalty offence to conservatives then) is exactly the same as a multi-millionaire not getting a Supreme Court seat.
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹
Report says only banks and ATMs in Africa and Asia have been compromised. None reported in the USA, as yet.
re: #302 Single-handed sailor
“The Goblin” is a proposed solution to the orbits of the growing collection of not-quite-big-enough-to-be-planets that have been discovered beyond Neptune.
The most famous of course is Pluto. But there is also Sedna. And the most recent discovery was published yesterday in a paper (on the Arxiv), also in a highly elliptical orbit, but it doesn’t have an easy to remember name.
Anyway, to explain why these bodies have the elliptical orbits they do (when the planets have nearly circular orbits), doing models of orbital mechanics brings about the idea that there is a more massive body also in a highly elliptical orbit even farther out, which is perturbing the orbits of the small bodies.
This “Goblin” would on its closest approach to the Sun still be over 65AU out (that’s 65x the distance the Earth is from the Sun), well beyond Neptune, and at its farthest distance it would really be way out there.
re: #310 wheat-dogg
Report says only banks and ATMs in Africa and Asia have been compromised. None reported in the USA, as yet.
I imagine if North Korea thought they could do it, they would be deploying it in North America.
That said, deploying the malware in Africa (thousands of kilometers away) also gives them a test bed to improve the malware prior to attempting the North American ATM and retail payment systems.
For what it’s worth, my wife the software engineer/librarian has always distrusted ATMs. She doesn’t have an ATM card for our checking account and is unhappy with me any time I use it. (She prefers we walk in the bank and fill out a withdrawal slip or cheque.)
re: #311 freetoken
CNN would be wrong for one reason: Pluto was demoted.
Therefore it would be the hunt for Planet IX.
Not to be confused with “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Cue the Nibiru conspiracy theorists again (a slap-fest between them and the flat earthers would be fun).
re: #313 Anymouse 🌹
Planet X is “planet eks” not planet 10.
re: #312 Anymouse 🌹
I imagine if North Korea thought they could do it, they would be deploying it in North America.
That said, deploying the malware in Africa (thousands of kilometers away) also gives them a test bed to improve the malware prior to attempting the North American ATM and retail payment systems.
For what it’s worth, my wife the software engineer/librarian has always distrusted ATMs. She doesn’t have an ATM card for our checking account and is unhappy with me any time I use it. (She prefers we walk in the bank and fill out a withdrawal slip or cheque.)
Cards with the mag strips are notoriously insecure, which is why most Chinese and EU banks have switched to the “chipped” cards. Many American ATMs are behind the times, so I can’t use my newest Chinese bank card in them (it has no mag strip). ATMs can be hacked, but it is difficult to do remotely. As I understand that alert, the package gains access to the ATMs through the bank’s servers, not directly to the ATMs, but I could be wrong. It is a common practice for ATMs to use some version of Windows, which is already a security event waiting to happen. Older ATMs in Africa and Asia probably run earlier or unpatched versions of Windows, which would be even more vulnerable to an attack.
The weakest link in ATMs is the card. If someone sees you enter the PIN and steals your card, there goes your money. Happened to me once in South Africa. Two guys working in tandem: one distracted me with a question while the other snagged the card from the ATM slot while I wasn’t looking.
re: #314 freetoken
The remnants of Hurricane Rosa are moving through Utah tonight, and whatever’s left will affect the weather in Colorado and the Nebraska Panhandle in a few days.
re: #317 wheat-dogg
Cards with the mag strips are notoriously insecure, which is why most Chinese and EU banks have switched to the “chipped” cards. Many American ATMs are behind the times, so I can’t use my newest Chinese bank card in them (it has no mag strip). ATMs can be hacked, but it is difficult to do remotely. As I understand that alert, the package gains access to the ATMs through the bank’s servers, not directly to the ATMs, but I could be wrong. It is a common practice for ATMs to use some version of Windows, which is already a security event waiting to happen. Older ATMs in Africa and Asia probably run earlier or unpatched versions of Windows, which would be even more vulnerable to an attack.
The weakest link in ATMs is the card. If someone sees you enter the PIN and steals your card, there goes your money. Happened to me once in South Africa. Two guys working in tandem: one distracted me with a question while the other snagged the card from the ATM slot while I wasn’t looking.
Most ATMs in the USA still use Windows XP, which Microsoft discontinued support for in 2014. It’s not the bank’s problem if someone takes your money, so they really don’t care to spend the money to upgrade the ATM.
India passed a law requiring all banks to get rid of ATMs running Windows XP by the start of 2019.
As for Chinese cards which only have chips, my understanding is in most countries you can request from your financial institution a card with an American magnetic strip. (That also is a problem for Canadians, particularly at point-of-sale pads where the system asks you to enter your Zip Code.)
We requested from our credit card company chipped cards for our trip to Poland (they still have magnetic strips on them though).
Canada’s ATMs seem to be fine with strip-only cards (at least the banks at which we withdrew money on our bank ATM card).
Crowd laughed tonight when Trump went on his lengthy riff attacking Christine Blasey Ford.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 3, 2018
The laughter — the uproarious laughter https://t.co/omIhKIuLyu
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) October 3, 2018
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹
My older card has the strip, but no chip. So, in a pinch, I can use that in an older ATM. I just have to move money from one bank to the other. Most bank ATMs and major store POS systems have been upgraded, though. It’s the random ones sitting in convenience stores and gas stations that can be a problem.
re: #321 wheat-dogg
My older card has the strip, but no chip. So, in a pinch, I can use that in an older ATM. I just have to move money from one bank to the other. Most bank ATMs and major store POS systems have been upgraded, though. It’s the random ones sitting in convenience stores and gas stations that can be a problem.
You can come here! None of the ATMs have chip systems, and for the few point-of-sale credit card systems in big cities like Scottsbluff, the chip system is disabled (despite the law all businesses were required to adopt chip systems by the end of 2017).
Trump now mocking Ford testimony at MS rally. Asks repeated questions, answers to laughter, “I don’t know,” over and over.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 3, 2018
This is gross and sickening behavior. It is also completely unacceptable.
All GOP members of Congress should be asked if this is ok, especially @SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski and @JeffFlake. https://t.co/G4LChpogNR— VoteVets (@votevets) October 3, 2018
Another article about the ambitions of China in the near future. Quite alarming, given the willingness of the current administration to cozy up to authoritarian leaders — when it’s not waging trade wars with them.
If Xi’s “Dream” is realized, we can envision a world where by the mid-21st century, democratic governments survive in the West, but Beijing’s political model will have the upper hand in the international system. As with the Cold War, the struggle is material — economic and military power matter — but will also and ineluctably be ideological. Certainly, its course will pose, and its outcome answer, an ideologically dispositive question: Will egalitarianism remain the dominant ideal in international politics, or will it cede leadership back to authoritarianism? However lamentable, due to the expansion of China’s power and influence, it is likely that authoritarian politics will be the norm without serious challenge from the West. It is probable that China will advance this new wave of authoritarianism to augment its legitimacy. Touting its superiority, Beijing will also advance arguments not dissimilar from “The End of History” arguments made in the West in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In contrast to the liberal democratic and free market principles of the Washington Consensus, Beijing’s political model is offering the developing world a regime-type neutral investment model based on “noninterference” in domestic affairs and the promise of “no strings attached” loans and other forms of financial assistance. This business model is part of China’s “charm offensive” and appears to be growing in popularity, as many around the world see the Chinese way of doing business as a better alternative to the structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund or the push for democratic reform often associated with Western aid.
During the Cold War, the United States served as a global beacon for political elites who embraced certain values and ideas. Today, China is offering authoritarian values that are appealing to governments whose hold on power is threatened by U.S. principles such as the rule of law, free speech, democracy, and transparency and accountability in government.
As a reminder, Duncan Hunter is alleged to have stolen money raised for a wounded veteran’s charity … .
Possibly one of the worst charges against Hunter, a Marine artillery officer who served in Iraq and left the Reserve as a major, was that he tried to pass off the use of campaign funds as a contribution to wounded veterans.
Grifting conservatives gotta grift.
re: #324 wheat-dogg
Mattis cancels China trip after Chinese, US Navy destroyers nearly collide (Stars and Stripes, more at the link):
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that U.S.-Chinese relations have not worsened despite canceling his visit to the rival nation one day after a Chinese ship veered within 45 yards of a U.S. Navy destroyer.
The Navy described the encounter Sunday in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea as “an unsafe and unprofessional maneuver.” The USS Decatur, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol about 8:30 a.m. near Gaven Reefs when the People’s Republic of China destroyer Luyang approached the ship, the Navy said in a statement.
“The PRC destroyer conducted a series of increasingly aggressive maneuvers accompanied by warnings for [the] Decatur to depart the area,” Lt. Cmdr. Tim Gorman, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in the statement. “The PRC destroyer approached within 45 yards of [the] Decatur’s bow, after which [the] Decatur maneuvered to prevent a collision.”
On Monday, Mattis scrapped plans to visit China later this month, a U.S. defense official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm the trip, which had not been officially announced by the Pentagon.
Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were planning the joint security talks with their Chinese counterparts, the official said. It would have marked the second visit to China for Mattis, who visited Beijing in June.
The Tories are imitating the Trump immigration policy.
Theresa May announces an end to low-skilled migration for jobs that pay less than £50k a year. Great news! Except for pubs, restaurants, cafes, factories, shops, petrol stations, train stations, farms, construction, hospitals, refuse collection
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) October 2, 2018
re: #313 Anymouse 🌹
CNN would be wrong for one reason: Pluto was demoted.
Therefore it would be the hunt for Planet IX.
Not to be confused with “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Cue the Nibiru conspiracy theorists again (a slap-fest between them and the flat earthers would be fun).
Mike Brown (Of How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming fame) and Konstantin Batygin do in fact call it “Planet 9”.
re: #326 Anymouse 🌹
The latest of several near misses. The Chinese are playing chicken with the US Navy. If it gets airtime on Fox News, hold on to your hats, boys and girls. Trump’s trigger finger will be itching.
re: #326 Anymouse 🌹
I thought China canceled that meeting last week.
re: #315 freetoken
Planet X is “planet eks” not planet 10.
But, Anymouse’s joke is better than it being an ex.
re: #329 wheat-dogg
The latest of several near misses. The Chinese are playing chicken with the US Navy. If it gets airtime on Fox News, hold on to your hats, boys and girls. Trump’s trigger finger will be itching.
When I was in the Navy, we had the same issues with Soviet ships. (When I was aboard America CV-66, we had a Soviet trawler intelligence ship cut across our bow and attempt to divert an aircraft carrier.
A Soviet submarine collided with the USS Kitty Hawk while I was in the Navy as well.
The US Navy has also dealt with issues with China’s PLA Navy as well:
On 11th November 2006, the Commander of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet at the time, Gary Roughead, made a historic visit to China in a hope of improving the relations between the two countries. His visit was intended to organize a joint military exercise that emphasized the search and rescue role of the Navy and was to take place on 19th of November that year.
However, the visit was overshadowed by the incident that occurred during an American naval exercise near the island of Okinawa. On 26th of October, a Chinese Song-Class submarine surfaced within five miles of the USS Kitty Hawk airplane carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Several weeks before the US delegation met with their Chinese counterparts, ships from the Pacific fleet were stationed in international waters between Taiwan and South Japan.
The carrier was surrounded by a dozen of ships in a protective formation, but nevertheless, the Chinese sub managed to slip through unnoticed. It came as a surprise that the Americans were unable to detect the lone submarine earlier, for their extensive defense screen included a submarine and anti-submarine helicopters, all responsible for protecting the battle group from an underwater attack.
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.@LindseyGrahamSC had a lot to say to reporters as he came out of policy lunch today, including this warning: “Taking Kavanaugh down would unleash forces from the darkest side of politics in perpetuity. And if you think only one side is capable of doing this, you’re mistaken.”
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) October 2, 2018
That sounds like a threat. That sounds like @LindseyGrahamSC has been spending time with a mob boss and determined to show off what he learned. https://t.co/D6Z6ahWVC9
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) October 2, 2018
Interesting. While the IRS doesn’t normally chase down tax fraud over six years, statutes allow them to chase it down any time.
re: #334 Anymouse 🌹
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Okay Lindsay, be remembered as the guy who did all he could to get a drunken sexual predator on the court. That’s your legacy pal not any of the Senate Dems.
re: #334 Anymouse 🌹
Lindz sounds like he’s been studying the texts of the Sith.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
Okay Lindsay, be remembered as the guy who did all he could to get a drunken sexual predator on the court. That’s your legacy pal not any of the Senate Dems.
I don’t know what Trump talked about with Graham at that private golf game at Trump’s course, but it sure looks like he has something devastating on Lindsay Graham. Something so devastating he doesn’t care how he looks to the rest of the public.
Give women a voice. Vote for candidates that support women and diversity. #VoteBlue 🌊🌊 pic.twitter.com/bi0mwKHsCv
— Lana Grove (@girlgeenius) October 3, 2018
re: #338 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t know what Trump talked about with Graham at that private golf game at Trump’s course, but it sure looks like he has something devastating on Lindsay Graham. Something so devastating he doesn’t care how he looks to the rest of the public.
I honestly do believe the compromat theory now. I think Lindsay is and always has been an opportunist but he did a very quick about face on Trump.
re: #340 HappyWarrior
I honestly do believe the compromat theory now. I think Lindsay is and always has been an opportunist but he did a very quick about face on Trump.
It might not even be kompromat in the Russian sense. Since Lindsay Graham ran against him in the primaries, Trump’s campaign or his business might have dug up something that would tank Sen. Graham’s career or send him to jail if it was exposed.
As I recall, Senator Graham himself reported hacking against his own campaign to the Federalis.
Swedish road covered in herring after elk accident https://t.co/ix0woM9oxE pic.twitter.com/xahNl57W0X
— The Local Sweden (@TheLocalSweden) October 3, 2018
The competition for ‘most Swedish headline you could imagine’ is fierce this year. https://t.co/RMYQX0Crt6
— NickdMiller (@NickdMiller) October 3, 2018
re: #340 HappyWarrior
I honestly do believe the compromat theory now. I think Lindsay is and always has been an opportunist but he did a very quick about face on Trump.
In Woodward’s book, he relays the suspicion that Lindsay has been angling to be Majority Leader, and maybe he thinks sucking up to the Supreme Leader will make it happen. Mitch is apparently not as “loyal” to The Donald as the The Donald would prefer.
re: #343 wheat-dogg
In Woodward’s book, he relays the suspicion that Lindsay has been angling to be Majority Leader, and maybe he thinks sucking up to the Supreme Leader will make it happen. Mitch is apparently not as “loyal” to The Donald as the The Donald would prefer.
re: #343 wheat-dogg
In Woodward’s book, he relays the suspicion that Lindsay has been angling to be Majority Leader, and maybe he thinks sucking up to the Supreme Leader will make it happen. Mitch is apparently not as “loyal” to The Donald as the The Donald would prefer.
Now that makes more sense to me than AG and AM yeah it could have been something they themselves got in him. Remember when he leaked his phone number?
re: #341 Anymouse 🌹
It might not even be kompromat in the Russian sense. Since Lindsay Graham ran against him in the primaries, Trump’s campaign or his business might have dug up something that would tank Sen. Graham’s career or send him to jail if it was exposed.
As I recall, Senator Graham himself reported hacking against his own campaign to the Federalis.
There definitely is something up.
re: #287 Hecuba’s daughter
That is amazing. About 51% of births in the United States are male. I’ve never heard of this fundie delusion before.
I lived with that BS back in the late 60s/early 70s when I was in High School Hell. Strangely enough, my graduating class of 345 had a 3:1 girl to boy ratio.
re: #334 Anymouse 🌹
“But, if you don’t take him down, we’ll have the market on that evil.”
How state of the art are Social Security systems?
We just started migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
So who thinks Stephen Miller had his hands all over that Mississippi shit stream last night?
re: #329 wheat-dogg
The latest of several near misses. The Chinese are playing chicken with the US Navy. If it gets airtime on Fox News, hold on to your hats, boys and girls. Trump’s trigger finger will be itching.
We know what Trump will do.
He will always back down to the Chinese because they have him by the CENSORED!
re: #350 Joe Bacon 🌹
How state of the art are Social Security systems?
We just started migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
Had to make sure all the bugs are out of the upgrade.
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God, could you just imagine managing that migration? JFC!
re: #351 Dave In Austin
So who thinks Stephen Miller had his hands all over that Mississippi shit stream last night?
Of course. Trump is bad without him but Trump at his worst has Miller’s fingerprints on him.
Orrin Hatch and other Republicans in the Senate released this letter from a Dennis Ketterer, a former weatherman now resident in Utah. Ketterer alleges that Julie Swetnick…well hell, it’s a slut-shaming letter, let’s just get right to the point.
I am frankly furious. The letter came to Hatch’s attention because it was passed from Ketterer to a former Mormon bishop who had connections to Hatch’s office. And I am sure that Hatch was on the lookout for such dirt.
First of all, it doesn’t matter if Julie Swetnick slept with five men a night for the last 25 years. What matters is that in this one incident, it was NOT CONSENSUAL. Second, Hatch and the anonymous former Mormon bishop are fucking hypocrites. I have no doubt that they asked children sexually explicit questions when they were bishops as part of “worthiness” interviews, conducted one-on-one in the bishop’s office. How the hell can you complain about a woman being sexually active when you’re asking 11 year old boys if they masturbate so you can determine if they can be advanced to the priesthood?
Yeah, I’m pissed off.
re: #355 mmmirele
Orrin Hatch and other Republicans in the Senate released this letter from a Dennis Ketterer, a former weatherman now resident in Utah. Ketterer alleges that Julie Swetnick…well hell, it’s a slut-shaming letter, let’s just get right to the point.
I am frankly furious. The letter came to Hatch’s attention because it was passed from Ketterer to a former Mormon bishop who had connections to Hatch’s office. And I am sure that Hatch was on the lookout for such dirt.
First of all, it doesn’t matter if Julie Swetnick slept with five men a night for the last 25 years. What matters is that in this one incident, it was NOT CONSENSUAL. Second, Hatch and the anonymous former Mormon bishop are fucking hypocrites. I have no doubt that they asked children sexually explicit questions when they were bishops as part of “worthiness” interviews, conducted one-on-one in the bishop’s office. How the hell can you complain about a woman being sexually active when you’re asking 11 year old boys if they masturbate so you can determine if they can be advanced to the priesthood?
Yeah, I’m pissed off.
Pissed off doesn’t begin to cover it. They’re doing anything possible to slut-shame these women. And then they have the nerve to cry McCarthyism. It’s about consent, assholes.
re: #259 HappyWarrior
I’m just saying. The guy for someone who has been in the game for so long has an unbelievable track record of being naive or one track minded. A more savvy politician would have gotten more accomplished by now. What does Bernie have to really show for 28 years in Congress?
Never having to get a real job
re: #355 mmmirele
Orrin Hatch and other Republicans in the Senate released this letter from a Dennis Ketterer, a former weatherman now resident in Utah. Ketterer alleges that Julie Swetnick…well hell, it’s a slut-shaming letter, let’s just get right to the point.
I am frankly furious. The letter came to Hatch’s attention because it was passed from Ketterer to a former Mormon bishop who had connections to Hatch’s office. And I am sure that Hatch was on the lookout for such dirt.
First of all, it doesn’t matter if Julie Swetnick slept with five men a night for the last 25 years. What matters is that in this one incident, it was NOT CONSENSUAL. Second, Hatch and the anonymous former Mormon bishop are fucking hypocrites. I have no doubt that they asked children sexually explicit questions when they were bishops as part of “worthiness” interviews, conducted one-on-one in the bishop’s office. How the hell can you complain about a woman being sexually active when you’re asking 11 year old boys if they masturbate so you can determine if they can be advanced to the priesthood?
Yeah, I’m pissed off.
Screw those guys. And another anonymous letter from a supposed ex of Dr. Ford has emerged claiming that she told a friend what a polygraph test would be like, that she cheated on him while they were living apart (“I write with no animus” he says), and that he used his credit card after he had told her to stop. It’s all BS, but this is the kind of dirty crap we’ve come to expect from the “Christian” right.
The religious right needs to go away. Tax the bastards.
re: #282 Hecuba’s daughter
I haven’t joined Twitter. What is wrong with Jack? Is he just terrified of RW trolls who attack anyone who doesn’t worship Trump? Is he owned by the Russians too?
There’s all that Russian cash invested in Twitter.
And if you dare go after Republican superstars you get silenced like me.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
The religious right needs to go away. Tax the bastards.
That’s Joe Bacon’s line, not yours… :o
re: #29 gocart mozart
“How’d you get home? I don’t remember. How’d you get there? I don’t remember…What neighborhood? I don’t know. Where’s the house? I don’t know… upstairs, downstairs, where was it…but I had one beer, that’s the only thing I remember.”
— ana marie cox
Almost as if Biff just wants to distort stuff and not take things seriously.
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re: #98 jaunte
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re: #350 Joe Bacon 🌹
How state of the art are Social Security systems?
We just started migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
Fine, brag. You’re getting Windows 10 but not our office yet.
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Oh God. I finally heard what he said last night. What an unbelievably vile thing to do. He’s a stain on our country forever.
re: #366 plansbandc
Oh God. I finally heard what he said last night. What an unbelievably vile thing to do. He’s a stain on our country forever.
Oh, that’s only about item #246 on a list of thousands.
re: #350 Joe Bacon 🌹
How state of the art are Social Security systems?
We just started migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
What browser do you guys use? We’re still with Explorer something. Not Chrome or anything modern like that.
re: #250 HappyWarrior
You stayed up for the rest of the game? I had to turn in after the 6th, 10 pm is past my bedtime.
re: #369 Sir John Barron
You stayed up for the rest of the game? I had to turn in after the 6th, 10 pm is past my bedtime.
Yeah I was following on my phone.
re: #362 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That’s Joe Bacon’s line, not yours… :o
Ha, Joe is it okay I used your line?
re: #370 HappyWarrior
Yeah I was following on my phone.
Hey have you given the new Humphrey biography a look yet?
re: #372 Sir John Barron
Hey have you given the new Humphrey biography a look yet?
Oh? No I hadn’t heard. My monicker is 1/2 HHH and 1/2 Al Smith. I’ll definitely read. I always obviously thought he got a raw deal in ‘68 tho I’d been with RFK.
re: #365 Sir John Barron
Fine, brag. You’re getting Windows 10 but not our office yet.
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I was on xp till three years ago
I’m on win 7 now and will happily stay here unless forced off
So what have you done to #UnifyAmerica today?? #FailedPresident #RepairAmerica #EvilDems
— 🦈Dave’s Now Evil🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) October 3, 2018
re: #355 mmmirele
This is why I refer to Mormons as ZIONTOLOGISTS!
re: #266 HappyWarrior
Colorado advances to face Milwaukee in the NLDS. Tough choice here to as whom to go for. Have an aunt out in Colorado but Milwaukee has the longer Series appearance gap and I actually know more Brewers fans than I do Rockies. I’ll hope for the Rox in 5 I guess but I just want good baseball. As for the other NLDS. Braves no question. The Ex Orioles rule applies here. With Cleveland and Houston. Cleveland. Oakland over NY and if NY wins, I could care less about them and the Sox.
Be fun to see the Brewers win the series. I didn’t think they’d recover from the Selig’s incompetence for another generation if not longer.
re: #347 Dave In Austin
Good morning!
Stunning creatures. Texas Coral Snake ( Micrurus tener)
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re: #371 HappyWarrior
Ha, Joe is it okay I used your line?
Feel free to join me in kicking those parasites off of their tax exempt Gravy Train!
re: #287 Hecuba’s daughter
That is amazing. About 51% of births in the United States are male. I’ve never heard of this fundie delusion before.
I have, and not just from Fundamentalists.
re: #377 William Lewis
Rockies fan since day one of the franchise. Important wins like the one last night have been very rare. Only bummer is they had to eliminate my second favorite team.
Very little sleep last night.
This one’s for all of the knuckle dragging ignorant shits chanting “Lock Her Up” as Trump mocked Dr. Ford during last night’s klan rally. #magaisformorons #stopkavanaugh #thedailydon pic.twitter.com/bxPrPYjvHP
— TheDailyDon (@JRDuquette) October 3, 2018
re: #368 Sir John Barron
What browser do you guys use? We’re still with Explorer something. Not Chrome or anything modern like that.
Stlll using IE. Chrome was tested and rejected.
re: #353 Dave In Austin
Had to make sure all the bugs are out of the upgrade.
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God, could you just imagine managing that migration? JFC!
Just doing it on my laptop was a nightmare (along with importing files I wanted to save from my old XP computer).
re: #139 HappyWarrior
He is one of the most ugly people I have ever seen rise to such political power in a democracy in my lifetime.
Berlusconi and Boris Johnson are definitely in the mix. Hell, Berlusconi was having sex with a 15 year-old while he was in office and the Italians mostly loved him, so it isn’t just Americans who are morally vacuous.
I don’t want to hear ever about how mean and condescending we are to the Trumpists after last night’s shit show.
re: #385 steve_davis
Berlusconi and Boris Johnson are definitely in the mix. Hell, Berlusconi was having sex with a 15 year-old while he was in office and the Italians mostly loved him, so it isn’t just Americans who are morally vacuous.
Oh of course not. They’re awful too.
I had to change my Twitter Handle. I was told I’m evil last night. I work, I pay my taxes willingly. I’ve never been arrested. And I’ve served my country in the #USArmy. He now says I’m #EVIL.
I’m just at a loss for words anymore— 🦈Dave’s Now Evil🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) October 3, 2018
re: #355 mmmirele
Orrin Hatch and other Republicans in the Senate released this letter from a Dennis Ketterer, a former weatherman now resident in Utah. Ketterer alleges that Julie Swetnick…well hell, it’s a slut-shaming letter, let’s just get right to the point.
I am frankly furious. The letter came to Hatch’s attention because it was passed from Ketterer to a former Mormon bishop who had connections to Hatch’s office. And I am sure that Hatch was on the lookout for such dirt.
First of all, it doesn’t matter if Julie Swetnick slept with five men a night for the last 25 years. What matters is that in this one incident, it was NOT CONSENSUAL. Second, Hatch and the anonymous former Mormon bishop are fucking hypocrites. I have no doubt that they asked children sexually explicit questions when they were bishops as part of “worthiness” interviews, conducted one-on-one in the bishop’s office. How the hell can you complain about a woman being sexually active when you’re asking 11 year old boys if they masturbate so you can determine if they can be advanced to the priesthood?
Yeah, I’m pissed off.
That letter was something else…slut shaming, accusations of emotional problems…it runs the full gamut.
re: #385 steve_davis
Berlusconi and Boris Johnson are definitely in the mix. Hell, Berlusconi was having sex with a 15 year-old while he was in office and the Italians mostly loved him, so it isn’t just Americans who are morally vacuous.
Let’s not forget people like Hugo Chavez and Erdogan who rose to power in democracies and managed to turn them into dictatorships.
im wondering about flake, collins, murkowski et al:
flake isnt running (yeah wants to be president)
collins very likely doesnt run in 2020 (or might, not sure it matters)
here’s the thing:
it is clear to anybody but an ‘i dont care’ that kavanaugh:
- at best has demonstrated he isnt suitable (temperament, threats, not impartial)
- at worst is disqualified on several fronts (perjury, personal finances)
- has credibly and seriously been accused of crimes
there is more than enough out there to fairly and honestly vote no right now
we’ve passed ‘controversial’ and ‘hyper-conservative’
the man is objectively toxic and anyone who votes for him will *never* be able to wash that off
if they end up voting yes, they were looking for cover and they found enough to make them comfortable
they didnt start at yes, move to no last week, then be persuaded back to yes (unless bought off)
so a typical R votes R, dog bites man, its what we all assumed and expected.
even if they are waiting to factor in what the wobbly dems might do, that just gives them a different kind of cover to still vote yes
how can they really still, today, not be a sure yes and also not have enough information to vote no that they have to have more?
and if they dont get it move back to yes?
so if they have already concluded he’s a bridge too far, then why not say it now?
the kabuki isnt fooling *anybody* in this particular case
they say it now or vote no next week. everyone will still know it was them. what do they gain?
nothing with the party
little to nothing with voters (the mask is off them all)
sure the procedure changes a bit
he gets withdrawn now rather than loses the vote which makes all the r’s and the president look even worse
why would any of them do that?
re: #378 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Red on yellow will kill a fellow
red over white you’re alright (vasi)
then there’s the flagon with the dragon…
Mitch is spewing…… He still doesn’t have the votes. He’s evilating the #EvilDems
re: #377 William Lewis
Be fun to see the Brewers win the series. I didn’t think they’d recover from the Selig’s incompetence for another generation if not longer.
Not sure who I’m rooting for now. My teams—Nationals, Royals, Mariners—didn’t make it. I like the Red Sox but they’ve won 3 times now this century so I’m a free agent this WS.
Probably rooting for Cleveland for now. Milwaukee a close second.
re: #373 HappyWarrior
Oh? No I hadn’t heard. My monicker is 1/2 HHH and 1/2 Al Smith. I’ll definitely read. I always obviously thought he got a raw deal in ‘68 tho I’d been with RFK.
Dunno if this was posted. Even his former clerks are bailing.
In related news, three former Kavanaugh clerks who previously said he was great just wrote to the Judiciary Committee to clarify that they are “deeply troubled” by the allegations against him. pic.twitter.com/9s8Bb7Uhtx
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 2, 2018
re: #245 teleskiguy
My karma at this moment. Nice not round number.
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re: #332 Anymouse 🌹
When I was in the Navy, we had the same issues with Soviet ships. (When I was aboard America CV-66, we had a Soviet
trawlerintelligence ship cut across our bow and attempt to divert an aircraft carrier.A Soviet submarine collided with the USS Kitty Hawk while I was in the Navy as well.
At the height of the Cold War, around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the local TV news in Colorado Springs included a “NORAD report” along with the weather. They would give a synopsis of Soviet activity near the US, especially including the positions of the AGI trawlers. When my dad was at Shemya in the Aleutians, a TU-16 Badger crashed into the water just outside the territorial limit. They sent out a rescue boat and recovered a crewman’s body along with assorted debris and documents. A Soviet plane landed a couple of days later to pick up the body, which was transferred with full honors. A mysterious ship operated around the crash area for quite a while but the base staff heard no more about it.
re: #303 Anymouse 🌹
And immediately conservatives go in to that article to bash Dr. Ford.
Hillary Clinton was too kind.
You mean the article on Planet X? Wingnuts are making that about Ford and their Dear Leader?
re: #320 Single-handed sailor
Lovely people, just lovely.
re: #393 dangerman
im wondering about flake, collins, murkowski et al:
flake isnt running (yeah wants to be president)
collins very likely doesnt run in 2020 (or might, not sure it matters)here’s the thing:
it is clear to anybody but an ‘i dont care’ that kavanaugh:
- at best has demonstrated he isnt suitable (temperament, threats, not impartial)
- at worst is disqualified on several fronts (perjury, personal finances)
- has credibly and seriously been accused of crimesthere is more than enough out there to fairly and honestly vote no right now
we’ve passed ‘controversial’ and ‘hyper-conservative’
the man is objectively toxic and anyone who votes for him will *never* be able to wash that offif they end up voting yes, they were looking for cover and they found enough to make them comfortable
they didnt start at yes, move to no last week, then be persuaded back to yes (unless bought off)
so a typical R votes R, dog bites man, its what we all assumed and expected.
even if they are waiting to factor in what the wobbly dems might do, that just gives them a different kind of cover to still vote yeshow can they really still, today, not be a sure yes and also not have enough information to vote no that they have to have more?
and if they dont get it move back to yes?so if they have already concluded he’s a bridge too far, then why not say it now?
the kabuki isnt fooling *anybody* in this particular case
they say it now or vote no next week. everyone will still know it was them. what do they gain?
nothing with the party
little to nothing with voters (the mask is off them all)sure the procedure changes a bit
he gets withdrawn now rather than loses the vote which makes all the r’s and the president look even worse
why would any of them do that?
Could go this way.
Flake’s not really running any more for anything but Wingnut Welfare.
Collins deciding to bow out in 2020 (maybe run for governor of Maine or something)
Murkowski also bowing out but hasn’t said so yet.
GOP holds the vote, Kavanaugh goes down in defeat if those three vote against him, and that’s that. The GOP says “well, what can ya do, when you have RINOs in the party? Make sure you vote for True Conservatives next time.”
Meantime, other women who are up for election (such as my senator Deb Fischer) are all in on Kavanaugh. The other three give her cover as a True Conservative.
I really hope Jane Raybould slings Kavanaugh all over Deb Fischer for November.
Guessing 1920s.
re: #114 jaunte
1. Not ‘mocking’
2. Mocking is OK, although DJT didn’t do it.
3. Mocking Ford is OK since she lied and Dems are bad.
4. OK, so DJT mocked Ford, so what, shut up libtards.
re: #297 Single-handed sailor
VIDEO: Trump draws laughter and cheers at a rally as he mocks Christine Blasey Ford who has alleged that his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her; Trump had previously called her a credible witness.
Republicans really don’t like women.
if any thinking at all is going on, im guessing it is that now dr ford must be totally discredited
- this is not a court - innocent till proven guilty, reasonable doubt, preponderance of the evidence - none of that matters
- there is no articulated ‘standard’ at play here against which everything can be more or less objectively measured
- they tried “she’s probably telling the truth but it was someone else”. it’s a joke, everybody knows it, and nobody bought it
- if dr ford is not totally discredited, then it’s *possible* it actually happened
so dr ford must be totally discredited
re: #412 Sir John Barron
1. Not ‘mocking’
2. Mocking is OK, although DJT didn’t do it.
3. Mocking Ford is OK since she lied and Dems are bad.
4. OK, so DJT mocked Ford, so what, shut up libtards.
They should just admit that they’re Conservative trash, and mocking decent people is how their subculture scoundrel-signals to each other to make each other comfortable.
re: #405 Sir John Barron
You mean the article on Planet X? Wingnuts are making that about Ford and their Dear Leader?
Yup. They are spewing that toxin everywhere.
I’m off to bed … got to go into town later.
So, the limit on Republicans treating sexual assault victims with respect is roughly one week. Got it.
re: #416 makeitstop
So, the limit on Republicans treating sexual assault victims with respect is roughly one week. Got it.
That’s only in public. It never happened in private.
re: #230 Targetpractice
Here is the letter itself:
…and (to no sane person’s surprise), that “ex-boyfriend” (if he even exists) is a lying piece of crap:
New: Ford’s team releases statement from Monica McLean, the Ford friend cited in an ex-boyfriend’s anonymous statement to senators.
Story tk at @politico pic.twitter.com/7SRpHhGprx— Elana Schor (@eschor) October 3, 2018
re: #416 makeitstop
So, the limit on Republicans treating sexual assault victims with respect is roughly one week. Got it.
Not even. He had already taunted her with the tweet below on September 21, and I only mention it because a big part of the problem with Trump is how the non-stop horrors continually reset our collective frame of reference.
I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
re: #419 goddamnedfrank
I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!
— Donald J. Trump
Yeah because all victims of assault are eager to notify police, especially they were back in the ‘80’s, because they know everyone will believe them and take their claims seriously.
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re: #420 Sir John Barron
Yeah because all victims of assault are eager to notify police, especially they were back in the ‘80’s, because they know everyone will believe them and take their claims seriously.
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Trump is MRA (Men’s Right to Assault) trash.
re: #419 goddamnedfrank
Not even. He had already taunted her with the tweet below on September 21, and I only mention it because a big part of the problem with Trump is how the non-stop horrors continually reset our collective frame of reference.
September 21, 2018. How many years ago was that?
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re: #409 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Guessing 1920s.
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I have finished the Woodward book on Trump. Most of the highlights have already been shared online, so I don’t feel like I need to repeat them. It is important to note, however, that the book ends with the resignation of John Dowd as Trump’s personal lawyer, so there is no mention of all the other resignations that have happened since. The common theme among all of them was complete and total frustration with Trump and his obstinate refusal to listen to anyone who told his something different from what he already believed to be true at that moment. There was also frustration with the chaotic nature of the White House, with people coming and going to the Oval Office without following normal protocols — and that includes Jarvanka. Central to all of it is the capricious leader, who at age 71+ is very set in his ways and his beliefs and as CEO of a private company very used to barking orders and having them put into effect. Trump refuses to learn the duties and limitations of his job, and refuses to understand the complexities of nearly anything. We know all this, but the Woodward book corroborates most of what appeared in Fire and Fury and that anonymous essay in the Times. It’s a wonder we have not already gone to war, or precipitated a major financial meltdown with this ignorant, emotionally immature clown in office.
I need a drink.
Rat fuckers will be rat fuckers
Facebook’s new “group history” tool is amazing. You can see, for example, that one of the largest pro-Kavanaugh groups on FB was previously called “ISIS SUPPORT GROUP” and “WHO FARTED? !!!!” pic.twitter.com/oCFFcl1wuz
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) October 3, 2018
When FB decided to promote “meaningful social interactions” by prioritizing groups over public pages, I’m not sure they accounted for scammy group-hoppers who just change their groups to whatever will get them the most engagement that week.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) October 3, 2018
re: #396 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #419 goddamnedfrank
Not even. He had already taunted her with the tweet below on September 21, and I only mention it because a big part of the problem with Trump is how the non-stop horrors continually reset our collective frame of reference.
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kanye really came to our little art school and told us to leave elon musk alone pic.twitter.com/Y9ujjprUNS
— josh (@jkhco) October 2, 2018
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We can’t believe this website is free
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 1, 2018
Burn level: Mad Max Fury Road flamethrower guitarist pic.twitter.com/18eSt4AyXa
— Stephen Losey (@StephenLosey) October 3, 2018
re: #427 dangerman
this cannot be emphasized enough
Trump loves chaos. That’s clear in all the exposés written so far. It’s his mechanism for staying on top: keep everyone else off balance with a constant, ever changing barrage of statements and decisions. Sarah Kendzior has also noted that autocratic regimes also love chaos, because it makes it easier to control the population. It comes naturally to Trump, but his weakness is his inability to see he is his own worst enemy. His reflex to attack, attack, attack may endear him to his loyal base of knuckle-draggers, but it loses the allies he needs to function in Washington, DC.
And when we’re in the mood for re-fighting the Vietnam War again (early-days-missed-opportunities version), this fascinating article at The American Conservative* illuminates the little-known odd-couple relationship between Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy. Raises more “might-have-been” questions than it answers, but interesting nonetheless.
*yeah, I know: but (Rod Dreher excepted) it’s not quite the RW cesspool it might be: they publish occasionally informative pieces like this one.
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #347 Dave In Austin
Good morning!
Stunning creatures. Texas Coral Snake ( Micrurus tener)
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Handle with EXTREME care.
They aren’t biters, usually, unless you scare them or piss them off. Short, fixed fangs, unlike a pit viper. Here’s an interesting article on the lethality of the Texas Coral Snake, which is much smaller than its eastern cousin:
Beautiful creatures, though. Saw a three-footer (big for this species) in the Barton Creek Greenbelt on a hike once. Got within a few feet and checked it out. An absolute jewel tone of a snake. Gorgeous.
As for the @nytimes report alleging “dubious tax schemes” by @realDonaldTrump and his family, @KellyannePolls calls it “100% false.” Says Trump family attorneys, CPAs and real estate experts, signed off on everything, and the report is another effort to undercut the president. pic.twitter.com/ePw0utlS20
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2018
Hmmm, this was Paul Manafort’s defense too before he pleaded guilty, that the lawyers and accountants had vetted everything —-> https://t.co/CmVDrgr0Sw
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 3, 2018
She knows that the Trump family is corrupt, and would of course hire corrupt accountants. Why does anyone report on what this awful liar says?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #437 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Did Kellyanne have some Botox treatment? She doesn’t look as much like the crone we all know.
re: #438 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Notably, they used a property assessor with a track record of lowballing his clients’ property values. If I were a New York City civic official, I’d be looking into that guy’s background and records bigly.
re: #439 The Vicious Babushka
Did Kellyanne have some Botox treatment? She doesn’t look as much like the crone we all know.
Na, just recently sucked the soul out of an orphan child.
re: #439 The Vicious Babushka
Did Kellyanne have some Botox treatment? She doesn’t look as much like the crone we all know.
She had a good meal the previous night.
re: #438 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
“Also, this is just stuff about decades old real-estate deals that no one cares about and are never investigated like White Water.”
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re: #438 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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George is probably on beer #4 right now…
re: #439 The Vicious Babushka
Better makeup artist?
re: #439 The Vicious Babushka
Did Kellyanne have some Botox treatment? She doesn’t look as much like the crone we all know.
Maybe she is eating human food now, instead of sucking out salt from living creatures.
I’m sure David Kaye Johnston is reading the NYT piece on Trump fraud and saying to himself: I wrote about this years ago!
Maybe he didn’t know the detail or level of corruption….
re: #437 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Yeah, OK: that settles it, I guess: nothing to see here…
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The move follows a ruling by the UN’s highest court ordering the U.S. to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods. https://t.co/2iqPJgPYTP
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2018
re: #448 Barefoot Grin
I’m sure David Kaye Johnston is reading the NYT piece on Trump fraud and saying to himself: I wrote about this years ago!
Maybe he didn’t know the detail or level of corruption….
Johnston and others knew bits and pieces of the puzzle, and probably suspected more but couldn’t prove it. The Times had a treasure trove of hard evidence to comb through, and they did a masterful job of following the money. Nothing in the Times article is news to any knowledgeable New Yorkers, I’m sure. The Trumps were tax cheats and slumlords.
“…And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.”
esquire.com
re: #452 jaunte
“…And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.”
esquire.com
Sounds like something written by Rod Serling.
re: #441 CongoJack
Na, just recently sucked the soul out of an orphan child.
She prefers her “orphan” children to come straight from the cages of Texas…
re: #410 Anymouse 🌹
It’s my line as well: Tax anything that isn’t actual charity, and make ‘em all open their books and file Form 990.
Who’s Line Is It, Anyway?
There needs to be a few other exceptions — can you imagine what the property tax would be on St Patrick’s Cathedral?
It takes up most of a block on 5th Avenue, between 50th & 51st Streets.
re: #437 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Says Trump family attorneys, CPAs and real estate experts, signed off on everything, and the report is another effort to undercut the president.
doesnt matter who “signed off” - as if that makes something legal that otherwise isnt
- at most it’s an opinion about strategy and tactics of how much and how hard you’ll have to fight if audited
(remember not being audited doesnt mean it was right, legal or, allowed - just that you didnt get caught)
doesnt matter who signed the return as paid preparer - just makes them complicit and subject to all kinds of penalties themselves (depends on years and specific rules for those years)
re: #456 dangerman
doesnt matter who “signed off” - as if that makes something legal that otherwise isnt
- at most it’s an opinion about strategy and tactics of how much and how hard you’ll have to fight if audited
(remember not being audited doesnt mean it was right, legal or, allowed - just that you didnt get caught)doesnt matter who signed the return as paid preparer - just makes them complicit and subject to all kinds of penalties themselves (depends on years and specific rules for those years)
THEY WERE SIGNED OFF ON—CHECKMATE LIBTARDS
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #456 dangerman
doesnt matter who “signed off” - as if that makes something legal that otherwise isnt
- at most it’s an opinion about strategy and tactics of how much and how hard you’ll have to fight if audited
(remember not being audited doesnt mean it was right, legal or, allowed - just that you didnt get caught)doesnt matter who signed the return as paid preparer - just makes them complicit and subject to all kinds of penalties themselves (depends on years and specific rules for those years)
Remember what got Al Capone arrested.
The White House just announced Sarah Sanders will brief reporters this afternoon. It is the first formal press briefing since September 10, which was the only one for the entire month of September.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 3, 2018
re: #450 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m not quite up on my rules, but (yes, within the normal US rules, not Trump’s) can the president cancel a treaty?
re: #458 Sir John Barron
THEY WERE SIGNED OFF ON—CHECKMATE LIBTARDS
were they signed off on often? ;-)
the logic of this is:
you’re in the left lane speeding at 90 MPH
your lawyer’s sitting next to you telling you “it’s ok”
he may even be saying “don’t worry. if you get caught, i’ll get you out of it”
he most definitely is not saying “90 MPH is legal”
maybe there arent enough cops around
maybe you dont get stopped
well you got lucky
you still did it
re: #461 jaunte
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Please please PLEASE let her start her briefing at 2:15 ET so it can be interrupted by the national emergency alert test a few minutes in!!!
(And as someone who works in that emergency alerting field, can I say how happy I will be to get today’s testing over with? It’s so not a big deal. It has nothing to do with the Trumpthing. It’s just a routine test of a “presidential-level” alert, which isn’t actually originated by the President or even by the White House. It’s a bureaucrat at FEMA pushing a button. That’s all.)
re: #452 jaunte
“
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The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.”
esquire.com
Great article!
re: #460 wheat-dogg
Remember what got Al Capone arrested.
that is true and is what’s in play here, though the dynamic is now different
capone didnt have advice or the benefit of hindsight because (i think) it was the first time it was done
since capone, anyone with a brain knows that kind of tax case is possible
so smart people do get opinions, make plans, weigh the various risks
- of being audited
- if audited, of how much time and $ it’s gonna take to prevail, or the costs if you lose
re: #462 Belafon
I’m not quite up on my rules, but (yes, within the normal US rules, not Trump’s) can the president cancel a treaty?
Bush did it when he withdrew from the ABM treaty.
re: #466 Hecuba’s daughter
I really appreciate Charles Pierce and David Simon for giving voice to a lot of the thoughts I’m having lately.
The Mark Judge videos have been deleted.
“Brett Judge’s” videos have been deleted from YouTube. Did you download them before deletion?
— Mima Rogers (@RogersMima) October 3, 2018
A Mark Judge Production https://t.co/i7qBx50Qc1
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 19, 2018
I Tweeted a bunch of them but the links go to YouTube and they all now say “video unavailable”.https://t.co/DoejU24XjN
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
Graham defends Trump’s insulting of Dr. Ford last night. “Everything he said was factual,” he says. “This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.” Audience gasps. Somebody in my row: “Are you fucking kidding me?”
— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) October 3, 2018
When they go low, Lindsey goes lower. https://t.co/rjwvAIHsGG
— Ed Bott (@edbott) October 3, 2018
re: #465 ipsos
Please please PLEASE let her start her briefing at 2:15 ET so it can be interrupted by the national emergency alert test a few minutes in!!!
Isn’t it supposed to be ar 2:30 pm? So, unless they have a plan to incorporate the alert in to the propaganda fest, it’s just another proof that the administration is run by ill-planning half-wits.
re: #461 jaunte
Great. Here’s the agenda:
- Deny the NYT story repeatedly
- Weep openly how Kavanaugh’s life has been shattered and his children and their children’s children will be forever traumatized
- Berate the reporters and ignore their questions
- Announce that she’s had enough of this toxic partisanship and hateful liberal media and stomp off to have another sammich
re: #471 jaunte
This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.”
Today’s hands-down winner of the ‘needs a punch in the throat’ sweepstakes.
Extra points deducted for recycling an old James Carville line.
re: #467 dangerman
that is true and is what’s in play here, though the dynamic is now different
capone didnt have advice or the benefit of hindsight because (i think) it was the first time it was donesince capone, anyone with a brain knows that kind of tax case is possible
so smart people do get opinions, make plans, weigh the various risks
- of being audited
- if audited, of how much time and $ it’s gonna take to prevail, or the costs if you lose
Fred never counted on his heir apparent being elected to political office. If Trump had remained a private citizen, he and his family could have skated free for decades more.
re: #471 jaunte
“I called him every name I could think of and literally ran out of names,” Graham says of his lining up with Trump after the election. Defines his job WRT Trump: “To counsel the president when he asks for my advice, help him where I can and say no where I must.”
and here i though graham’s job was senator who represents his state
re: #471 jaunte
Who’s going to have a complete breakdown first, Trump or Graham? I’m going with Graham. He doesn’t have the practice that Trump does.
And they call us elitist snobs. Of course, Lindsay didn’t even need to be paid to be Kavanaugh’s attack dog. He’s just a hack.
Graham defends Trump’s insulting of Dr. Ford last night. “Everything he said was factual,” he says. “This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.” Audience gasps. Somebody in my row: “Are you fucking kidding me?”
— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) October 3, 2018
“Lindsey Graham is, to my mind, one of the five best senators in the world’s greatest deliberative body.” - @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/fU71ym1ysY
— Atrios (@Atrios) October 3, 2018
re: #424 wheat-dogg
Yet in John Dowd’s departure from Trump, he could never utter the final words in Woodward’s book. “You’re a fucking liar!”
re: #478 Belafon
Who’s going to have a complete breakdown first, Trump or Graham? I’m going with Graham. He doesn’t have the practice that Trump does.
Graham easily.
re: #454 Kilroy was here
She prefers her “orphan” children to come straight from the cages of Texas…
Is there anything that Trump can do that will finally lead Kellyanne to say enough?
She was doubtless already aware of his financial wrongdoings and certainly wouldn’t care. But after his performance last night, does she have a shred of humanity that will lead her to resign for the good of her family?
Silly me. Why am I wasting good pixels typing such a foolish note? Of course not.
— mark john junor (@markjunor3) October 2, 2018
At rally, Trump openly mocks Dr. Ford’s account of her alleged sexual assault, imitating her testimony, “I had one beer, right, right, well, nope it was one, how did you get home, I don’t remember, where is the place, I don’t remember.”
Meanwhile, the crowd cheers.— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 3, 2018
NOW: A White House official, defending the president’s comments mocking Dr. Ford’s account, tells me: “Factual gaps and inconsistencies [in Ford’s account] are fair game.” https://t.co/I9lEWwyy1o
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 3, 2018
*The White House* is attacking someone for factual gaps and inconsistencies in recounting a traumatic event that allegedly happened 30+ years ago.
Trump has made over 5,000 false or misleading claims just since taking office: https://t.co/vVa0MqcCRJ https://t.co/GFAocoCnGm— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 3, 2018
re: #483 Hecuba’s daughter
Not that I’m seeing. She’s eager to go down with the ship and I’m fine with that.
re: #476 wheat-dogg
Fred never counted on his heir apparent being elected to political office. If Trump had remained a private citizen, he and his family could have skated free for decades more.
this is the unfathomable (to me) calculus
ive read enough that im convinced he didnt want to and didnt expect to win
even today i read (cant find it) that his high point was the phone call when clinton conceded. that he hates actually being president and governing
but he had to figure the press would normally have been digging all along once he announced and certainly after he won the nomination (in the past they always did)
as actual president, no one was going to stop
why take that monumental and uncontrollable risk?
its more than hubris
maybe they were all too dumb to even recognize it?
re: #485 jaunte
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And Kavanaugh’s lies? I’m not seeing Schumer and Durbin mock his performance on the stand because of that. Trump is a pathetic little man who is the best argument for a strong inheritance tax I’ve ever seen. Thank goodness we don’t have baronies like the UK does.
re: #487 dangerman
I think he’s been so insulated by money throughout his life, he doesn’t have any real need to recognize risk. Or other people.
Judging by the abject nastiness all of these sons of bitches are rolling out over Dr. Ford, I’ve got to wonder if they’ve even got the votes to confirm at this point.
They sound downright desperate.
re: #488 HappyWarrior
And Kavanaugh’s lies? I’m not seeing Schumer and Durbin mock his performance on the stand because of that. Trump is a pathetic little man who is the best argument for a strong inheritance tax I’ve ever seen. Thank goodness we don’t have baronies like the UK does.
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re: #490 makeitstop
Judging by the abject nastiness all of these sons of bitches are rolling out over Dr. Ford, I’ve got to wonder if they’ve even got the votes to confirm at this point.
They sound downright desperate.
That’s my estimation, as well. They must know the FBI has some dirt.
re: #489 jaunte
I think he’s been so insulated by money throughout his life, he doesn’t have any real need to recognize risk. Or other people.
That’s why his fall was predictable from the moment he accidentally won the primary because Republicans are crazier than anyone imagined.
re: #471 jaunte
This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.”
Again, literally grew up in the neighborhood she came from. It’s not even a good insult, let alone being stolen. Holton Arms, where she went to school, $25k/yr tuition.
re: #481 terraincognita
Yet in John Dowd’s departure from Trump, he could never utter the final words in Woodward’s book. “You’re a fucking liar!”
But Dowd supports Trump to the last and has nothing good to say about Mueller. I wouldn’t put trust in his view of the situation — except for his realization that Trump is a liar.
re: #472 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Isn’t it supposed to be ar 2:30 pm? So, unless they have a plan to incorporate the alert in to the propaganda fest, it’s just another proof that the administration is run by ill-planning half-wits.
2:18pm (14:18 ET). That’s the time they been announcing the test for for several weeks now, so I’m assuming they will at least try to make their schedule. (I’m also guessing it’s Sarah Huckster’s presser that was badly-timed/planned, like everything else in the Trump WH).
And no matter how much advance notice FEMA has put out: I’m still sure that somebody, somewhere (my bet is “Florida Man”) will freak out over it.
Lindsey Graham is talking out of both sides of his repulsive mouth.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he “didn’t particularly like” President Donald Trump’s mockery of professor Christine Blasey Ford Tuesday night, saying he’d like to tell the President to “knock it off” since “you’re not helping.”
I’m not sure if this was before or after that ‘trailer park’ comment.
Graham’s a piece of shit either way.
Graham defends Trump’s insulting of Dr. Ford last night. “Everything he said was factual,” he says. “This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.” Audience gasps. Somebody in my row: “Are you fucking kidding me?”
— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) October 3, 2018
Lindsay Graham is a greasy, malignant, slithering turd. https://t.co/RbLMSMdOdu
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
re: #496 Jay C
Oh, even smaller time gap. Morons, but I repeat myself.
re: #497 makeitstop
Lindsey Graham is talking out of both sides of his repulsive mouth.
I’m not sure if this was before or after that ‘trailer park’ comment.
Graham’s a piece of shit either way.
Lindsay just go fuck off already.
#Biff pic.twitter.com/Z2Eciam3ts
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 3, 2018
re: #499 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Oh, even smaller time gap. Morons, but I repeat myself.
Do we even know what time the presser is at?
re: #497 makeitstop
Lindsey Graham is talking out of both sides of his repulsive mouth.
I’m not sure if this was before or after that ‘trailer park’ comment.
Graham’s a piece of shit either way.
Yeah, Donald isn’t “helping the cause”.
I see it each time I go out to Rallies in order to help some of our great Republican candidates. VOTERS ARE REALLY ANGRY AT THE VICIOUS AND DESPICABLE WAY DEMOCRATS ARE TREATING BRETT KAVANAUGH! He and his wonderful family deserve much better.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2018
VOTERS ARE REALLY ANGRY AT THE VICIOUS AND DESPICABLE WAY YOU & YOUR THUGS ARE TREATING CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD! I hope you go to jail forever for tax fraud. #resist https://t.co/kcWK9rk6Ir
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 3, 2018
I’m signing off for now. Past midnight here. Later on!
re: #471 jaunte
Everything DJT touches dies.
re: #490 makeitstop
Judging by the abject nastiness all of these sons of bitches are rolling out over Dr. Ford, I’ve got to wonder if they’ve even got the votes to confirm at this point.
They sound downright desperate.
Maybe they’re just assholes, because if they don’t have the votes I don’t see how this helps them get the votes.
re: #471 jaunte
Which trailer park? When? Who had the $100?
re: #509 Sir John Barron
The utility of a smear is that you don’t need to define anything.
re: #504 The Vicious Babushka
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And Dr. Ford deserves better than to mocked by Queens trash like you and cheered on by a bunch of right wing yokels who you and Kavanahgh would never give the time of day if not for your shared hates.
And speaking of allegations purportedly made without evidence, where, exactly, is the support for this contention that Dr. Ford was paid?
I see Goober Graham has just lost the trailer park vote for the GOP. Goober’s parents owned a liquor store in a small town so naturally they would think of themselves as high class compared to the trailer dwellers. They also had a restaurant, called the Sanitary Cafe, which may say something about local standards. As I’ve mentioned several times, I grew up in a trailer park, actually more than one.
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Stupid fucking machine at faceplant just suggested that my dead father would be a good match as a friend. Fuckers. Just to be clear, it’s not painful or anything like that, just disrespectful.
The whole party is lost. We have three Republicans in the Senate that pretend to be decent people. The rest are full-steam ahead on enslaving women, starving the poor, and protecting a mad President who has betrayed the country.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #504 The Vicious Babushka
I see it each time I go out to Rallies in order to help some of our great Republican candidates. VOTERS ARE REALLY ANGRY AT THE VICIOUS AND DESPICABLE WAY DEMOCRATS ARE TREATING BRETT KAVANAUGH! He and his wonderful family deserve much better.
— Donald J. Trump
So your cult followers are unhappy about how Kav is being “treated”, is what you’re saying.
re: #350 Joe Bacon 🌹
How state of the art are Social Security systems?
We just started migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
Afternoon!
Actually that isn’t too bad really. Windows 7 is a good system and still has security threat support. I think that goes until early 2020.
The fact they have you running 10 now shows they are keeping up which is something considering the size of the Fed.
re: #509 Sir John Barron
Which trailer park? When? Who had the $100?
He was cynically paraphrasing James Carville’s comment about Clinton accusers so that he can deflect criticism with “but the Dems are the real monsters.”
re: #516 Sir John Barron
So your cult followers are unhappy about how Kav is being “treated”, is what you’re saying.
But in his mind, his cult is the majority of the country.
re: #517 ObserverArt
FDA is slowly migrating to Windoze 10; we are running a 7 desktop, but a lot of the apps are from 10. We only have to use exploder to get on to a couple of our in-house databases; Firefox and Opera work for pretty much everything else.
re: #509 Sir John Barron
Which trailer park? When? Who had the $100?
The trailer park in the highly affluent Maryland suburb, obvs.
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Really good point.
Sen. Feinstein: “President Trump’s attacks are even more cruel when you consider that Dr. Ford specifically recalled the pain of Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge laughing at her.” pic.twitter.com/TSFe5OaGTD
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) October 3, 2018
Isn’t talking about a police matter while the investigation is ongoing obstruction of justice?
re: #508 goddamnedfrank
Maybe they’re just assholes, because if they don’t have the votes I don’t see how this helps them get the votes.
I think they’re still waiting on the FBI’s “final” results from their latest “investigation” - but it could be for either option:
A) An excuse to go ahead and ram a Senate vote through.
B) An excuse to dump Kavanaugh.
Though I’m guessing option B) - much as I’m sure it would make more than a few GOP Senators breathe easier - is getting less-and-less viable the more Trump, Graham, and the rest of the buffoon circus keep running their yaps.
I’m also thinking the [Senate] “votes” are going to be what they are: Trump’s speeches, etc. are now all about ginning up outrage among the “base” pre-elections. That the whole mess is also ginning up outrage among the Opposition never seems to occur to them.
re: #524 Jay C
I think they’re still waiting on the FBI’s “final” results from their latest “investigation” - but it could be for either option:
A) An excuse to go ahead and ram a Senate vote through.
B) An excuse to dump Kavanaugh.Though I’m guessing option B) - much as I’m sure it would make more than a few GOP Senators breathe easier - is getting less-and-less viable the more Trump, Graham, and the rest of the buffoon circus keep running their yaps.
I’m also thinking the [Senate] “votes” are going to be what they are: Trump’s speeches, etc. are now all about ginning up outrage among the “base” pre-elections. That the whole mess is also ginning up outrage among the Opposition never seems to occur to them.
I’d hope that for A, they’d take longer to try to make it look like a serious investigation.
DJT acts an awful lot like he doesn’t believe there’s ever a reckoning coming, in this life or the next.
And I happen to think a reckoning will come in this life, soon. A favorable election map might save him this November. But there’s a reckoning coming for him all the same.
re: #524 Jay C
I’m also thinking the [Senate] “votes” are going to be what they are: Trump’s speeches, etc. are now all about ginning up outrage among the “base” pre-elections. That the whole mess is also ginning up outrage among the Opposition never seems to occur to them.
They don’t care about non-Republicans. They don’t have a chance if they can’t rally their core.
MURKOWSKI on her Kavanaugh vote: “I am taking everything into account and I think the comments by the president yesterday mocking Dr. Ford were wholly inappropriate.” (via @elwasson)
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 3, 2018
Do the right thing, Senator.
My Twitter seems to be down. Anybody else having problems?
re: #233 Joe Bacon 🌹
Bernie was too stupid to realize that Manafort was having his pal Tad Devine pull his strings.
I don’t think Bernie is that stupid. He has however showed he can be devious and power hungry. I still would like to see his finances.
re: #524 Jay C
…
I’m also thinking the [Senate] “votes” are going to be what they are: Trump’s speeches, etc. are now all about ginning up outrage among the “base” pre-elections. That the whole mess is also ginning up outrage among the Opposition never seems to occur to them.
Let’s hope our side is angry enough to actually get out and vote. In general, it hasn’t been a stellar performance, especially in off-year elections. Certainly there have been a few bright spots in the age of Trump — but our side tends not to have the staying power of Fox and Tea Party inspired voters. And young people have proved to be a disappointment every election period.
re: #524 Jay C
I think they’re still waiting on the FBI’s “final” results from their latest “investigation” - but it could be for either option:
A) An excuse to go ahead and ram a Senate vote through.
B) An excuse to dump Kavanaugh.Though I’m guessing option B) - much as I’m sure it would make more than a few GOP Senators breathe easier - is getting less-and-less viable the more Trump, Graham, and the rest of the buffoon circus keep running their yaps.
I’m also thinking the [Senate] “votes” are going to be what they are: Trump’s speeches, etc. are now all about ginning up outrage among the “base” pre-elections. That the whole mess is also ginning up outrage among the Opposition never seems to occur to them.
I just don’t see the GOP leadership dumping Kavanaugh without a final floor vote, that would be seen as admitting defeat and risk massively depressing GOP midterm turnout by enraging the far right. They’re playing chicken with a brick wall now, they know there are no “good” outcomes but feel a need to be seen as fighting for a win.
re: #525 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I’d hope that for A, they’d take longer to try to make it look like a serious investigation.
I’d think so too, but the GOP seem to be wanting to get this out of the way ASAP.
re: #513 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I see Goober Graham has just lost the trailer park vote for the GOP. Goober’s parents owned a liquor store in a small town so naturally they would think of themselves as high class compared to the trailer dwellers. They also had a restaurant, called the Sanitary Cafe, which may say something about local standards. As I’ve mentioned several times, I grew up in a trailer park, actually more than one.
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re: #521 makeitstop
The trailer park in the highly affluent Maryland suburb, obvs.
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Make that Palo Alto…
re: #529 Sir John Barron
My Twitter seems to be down. Anybody else having problems?
Nope. Mine is working just fine.
re: #455 sagehen
There needs to be a few other exceptions — can you imagine what the property tax would be on St Patrick’s Cathedral?
It takes up most of a block on 5th Avenue, between 50th & 51st Streets.
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re: #529 Sir John Barron
My Twitter seems to be down. Anybody else having problems?
That’s not a problem. Twitter’s working here, so I have a problem.
You know that bear question… it has finally been answered… pic.twitter.com/fHVofMkyXd
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³º¹ (@th3j35t3r) October 3, 2018
re: #528 makeitstop
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Murkowski risks the most by voting yes, alienating the native Alaskans who carried her over the line in her last election, so she’s the easiest no vote. Collins’ self interest flows in the opposite direction. Flake is a fucking crapshoot, mostly he just wants a cushy job and a track record that’s conducive to a political comeback in some hypothetical post-Trump GOP future.
re: #535 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #526 Sir John Barron
DJT acts an awful lot like he doesn’t believe there’s ever a reckoning coming, in this life or the next.
And I happen to think a reckoning will come in this life, soon. A favorable election map might save him this November. But there’s a reckoning coming for him all the same.
He’s never experienced a reckoning. And the craven Republicans have no interest in imposing one. Our last chance is this November; if we fail then, I don’t see how a reckoning will ever be possible. A GOP election victory in November (i.e. House and Senate remain in GOP hands, even if a smaller margin) guarantees him full rein to do whatever he wants.
re: #514 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Stupid fucking machine at faceplant just suggested that my dead father would be a good match as a friend. Fuckers. Just to be clear, it’s not painful or anything like that, just disrespectful.
i sometimes still get business calls for my grandfather, who died in 1985.
the company name was his name - like “john smith and sons”
they call and ask for “john” like they know him personally
not painful either
just….clueless
re: #515 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The whole party is lost. We have three Republicans in the Senate that pretend to be decent people. The rest are full-steam ahead on enslaving women, starving the poor, and protecting a mad President who has betrayed the country.
as i said above, if they were actual decent people, they would have already, publicly, declared their no votes
re: #535 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #399 Sir John Barron
Not sure who I’m rooting for now. My teams—Nationals, Royals, Mariners—didn’t make it. I like the Red Sox but they’ve won 3 times now this century so I’m a free agent this WS.
Probably rooting for Cleveland for now. Milwaukee a close second.
Yay!
Another Cleveland fan. Good to have you aboard.
If they have hot bats they will be tough this playoff season. They may have the best full pitching staff in the American League this year…especially if Trevor Bauer is fully healed and good to go.
re: #534 Mike Lamb
You’d think that there would be certain critical demographics to GOP success that would be offended by Graham’s comments, but alas…
They seem to have some kind of magical immunity. You would think, for example, that Trump would already have alienated a sizable part of the base base by continuing to assert that the Moon landings were real, and by failing to order NOAA to stop claiming that the Earth is round or order a halt to chemtrail operations. Yet, these important GOP constituencies continue to support him despite the snubs.
Showalter out as Orioles manager. Makes me sad. I didn’t catch a game for the first time since 2004 year. Terrible year but that wasn’t Buck’s fault. Time to start all over again.
re: #538 makeitstop
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Before everyone goes too overboard on the Graham quote, he is quoting James Carville, who said it about Paula Jones. Wasn’t right then, not right now.
re: #402 makeitstop
Dunno if this was posted. Even his former clerks are bailing.
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We are now in a race to get the fast eroding career of questionable judge into the nations highest court before everyone that initially backed him begs off.
If what is said that Mitch really doesn’t care, yet is still pushing this through it tells me Mitch is compromised and he is backing Trump not Kavanaugh.
We must remember, Mitch was said to have gotten one of the largest campaign contributions from Russian oligarchs back two years ago.
We might even be in a race to see what the entire GOP can get away with before Mueller blows the lid off the whole Russian connections through oligarchs and funny money through NRA PAC help.
The swamp is alive with vermin.
re: #413 dangerman
if any thinking at all is going on, im guessing it is that now dr ford must be totally discredited
- this is not a court - innocent till proven guilty, reasonable doubt, preponderance of the evidence - none of that matters
- there is no articulated ‘standard’ at play here against which everything can be more or less objectively measured
- they tried “she’s probably telling the truth but it was someone else”. it’s a joke, everybody knows it, and nobody bought it
- if dr ford is not totally discredited, then it’s *possible* it actually happened
so dr ford must be totally discredited
And the women of America…watch with much interest.
I just hope the younger women are fully motivated. They can be the biggest difference.
Heritage!
The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago
In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout
A cartoon from a U.S. newspaper from 1880 reads: ’Terrorism in the South. Citizens beaten and shot at.” (Grange)“But it was the Democrats!” GOPers will yelp. The whole concept of change, especially positive change, is alien to these people.
re: #428 electrotek
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We have a Too Much Kayne At This Time problem in this country.
All of a sudden he is all over. I guess coming in late as SNL’s music act for the season opener was not a good thing.
re: #404 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At the height of the Cold War, around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the local TV news in Colorado Springs included a “NORAD report” along with the weather. They would give a synopsis of Soviet activity near the US, especially including the positions of the AGI trawlers. When my dad was at Shemya in the Aleutians, a TU-16 Badger crashed into the water just outside the territorial limit. They sent out a rescue boat and recovered a crewman’s body along with assorted debris and documents. A Soviet plane landed a couple of days later to pick up the body, which was transferred with full honors. A mysterious ship operated around the crash area for quite a while but the base staff heard no more about it.
I flew in and out of Shemya (aka The Rock) a couple times. Awful, awful place. Greenland is a better remote tour.
Frivolous fountain fun pic.twitter.com/YLXDVX0dVc
— HUMOROUS ANIMALS (@CUTEFUNNYANIMAL) October 3, 2018
re: #555 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Heritage!
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“But it was the Democrats!” GOPers will yelp. The whole concept of change, especially positive change, is alien to these people.
The party label matters not but the intention behind it. If you seriously believe those murderers were liberals, you’re a fucking moron.
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #555 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Heritage!
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“But it was the Democrats!” GOPers will yelp. The whole concept of change, especially positive change, is alien to these people.
It was the “conservatives” who did this, regardless of the party name.
re: #535 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #448 Barefoot Grin
I’m sure David Kaye Johnston is reading the NYT piece on Trump fraud and saying to himself: I wrote about this years ago!
Maybe he didn’t know the detail or level of corruption….
Oh, he did know. No one paid him any attention.
re: #553 ObserverArt
We are now in a race to get the fast eroding career of questionable judge into the nations highest court before everyone that initially backed him begs off.
If what is said that Mitch really doesn’t care, yet is still pushing this through it tells me Mitch is compromised and he is backing Trump not Kavanaugh.
We must remember, Mitch was said to have gotten one of the largest campaign contributions from Russian oligarchs back two years ago.
We might even be in a race to see what the entire GOP can get away with before Mueller blows the lid off the whole Russian connections through oligarchs and funny money through NRA PAC help.
The swamp is alive with vermin.
I’ve always said that Trump’s campaign, and now his presidency, seemed like a dead sprint to outrun the law.
If they get things in place to shield them from the law, they’re home free. If not, hell awaits.
Ya know if Kavanaugh were the man of high character, they insist he is. Would be a good time to show it.
BlueGrl21, is this someone you know?
Take this for what it’s worth - I used to work security at bars and nightclubs, have broken up dozens of fights, and ejected dozens of people. And I’ll tell you, rich white boys showing up in a group of four or more was a guarantee for a bad night.
— Last House Andray Left (@andraydomise) October 2, 2018
re: #418 Interesting Times
…and (to no sane person’s surprise), that “ex-boyfriend” (if he even exists) is a lying piece of crap:
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re: #556 ObserverArt
We have a Too Much Kayne At This Time problem in this country.
All of a sudden he is all over. I guess coming in late as SNL’s music act for the season opener was not a good thing.
He is easily and best ignored
Sarah Sanders starts the White House press briefing with praise: “The president continues to donate his salary on a quarterly basis”
— Courtney Norris (@courtneyknorris) October 3, 2018
According to the NYT his family owes about half a billion to the government. And that’s probably lowballing it. https://t.co/GSDEPViIfZ
— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) October 3, 2018
re: #569 The Vicious Babushka
Sarah Sanders starts the White House press briefing with praise: “The president continues to donate his salary on a quarterly basis”
10:12 AM - Oct 3, 2018
So, that’s what they’re calling “garnishing your wages to pay back taxes” now a days.
re: #471 jaunte
That tweet about Graham is a new low.
That made me fire off another message to Rob Portman. Even if ignored it feels good.
It’s behind the private button.
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Seeing the Republicans go all-in on another abuser makes me wonder how much of the anti-feminism on the right is due to not wanting a victim to feel safe enough to come forward about the anti-feminist’s abuse.
re: #572 ObserverArt
Speaking of Graham, I think Steve Schmidt wins the internets for most evocatively accurate imagery:
It turns out Lindsey is a titanic fraud. A fraud of Pence-ian dimensions. A small man lacking integrity and principals. He is a professional sidekick, The type of man who likes motorcycles but lacks the upper body strength to control one and thus is consigned to the side car. https://t.co/t0yEJEX3CP
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 3, 2018
re: #508 goddamnedfrank
Maybe they’re just assholes, because if they don’t have the votes I don’t see how this helps them get the votes.
I go with assholes.
Assholes that have ramped up being assholes.
I’m guessing all the Russian oligarch money is the fuel for assholes.
re: #574 Interesting Times
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It doesn’t take a lot of strength to steer a motorcycle. A rider just needs strength to pick up the bike when they inevitably lay it down.
re: #534 Mike Lamb
You’d think that there would be certain critical demographics to GOP success that would be offended by Graham’s comments, but alas…
Trump could just say out loud at his rallies “You are the dumbest, most pathetic sacks of shit I’ve ever seen” and they’d give him a standing ovation.
re: #577 Skip Intro
Trump could just say out loud at his rallies “You are the dumbest, most pathetic sacks of shit I’ve ever seen” and they’d give him a standing ovation.
HE MEANS DA LIBZ!!! Yay Trump tell us we’re inbred morons next!
re: #576 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It doesn’t take a lot of strength to steer a motorcycle. A rider just needs strength to pick up the bike when they inevitably lay it down.
He couldn’t get it up off the side stand
Asked if indeed she has no problem at all with Trump’s performance last night, Sanders says, “I don’t have a problem stating facts, no. I know that’s something you probably do have a problem with, but I don’t.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2018
Rhymes with ‘witch.’
Looks like I called it this morning…
A very contemptuous, evasive and unhelpful performance even by Sanders standards.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2018
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re: #563 ObserverArt
Oh, he did know. No one paid him any attention.
Yeah, and I just saw a post elsewhere reminding us that HRC called him a liar over his $1million claim in a debate. I think it will mostly matter if there are legal repercussions. Hopefully, at the very least, the Trump Foundation gets banned.
re: #569 The Vicious Babushka
“The President continues donating his kidneys week after week and none of you liberal press people notices.”
re: #580 makeitstop
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“Stating facts” with a tone and atittude is……
Mocking
Kinda what you’re doing Sarah
Mocking the question by pretending to answer it with reverse tone and attitude
re: #579 dangerman
He couldn’t get it up
off the side stand
I was gonna be nice and then said to myself, why the hell not…
Gotta run out and do some work with a client. I hope when I get back in there are piles more evidence against Kavanaugh.
I think Trump stepped in it last night and it is only going to bring more out.
re: #587 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was gonna be nice and then said to myself, why the hell not…
That was just me being the..er. straight man
Not to get anyone’s hopes up but:
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, leads Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by 3 percentage points in the race for a U.S. Senate seat, according to a Ipsos online poll released Wednesday in conjunction with Reuters and the University of Virginia. O’Rourke has been closing the gap over the last several months, but this is the first poll that puts him ahead of Cruz.
Of the 2,000 Texas adults surveyed between Sept. 6 and 14, 39 percent would vote for O’Rourke and 36 percent for Cruz if the election were held today, the poll said. Twenty-one percent said they wouldn’t vote for either candidate, and 4 percent said they’d vote for someone else. The poll’s margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.
O’Rourke is essentially within the margin of error - it’s a dead heat.
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re: #590 Dr Lizardo
Not to get anyone’s hopes up but:
O’Rourke is essentially within the margin of error - it’s a dead heat.
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Fwiw electoral-vote.com has the senate at a 50/50 tie
I think 538 has the odds at 2/7 the Dems take the senate
re: #590 Dr Lizardo
I live in far south Texas, and it’s very strange to see so many TV ads for candidates leading up to the election. Usually it’s so deep red here that very little money is spent on ads. I feel like I live in a swing state!
re: #592 Flying Squirrel Girl
I live in far south Texas, and it’s very strange to see so many TV ads for candidates leading up to the election. Usually it’s so deep red here that very little money is spent on ads. I feel like I live in a swing state!
Welcome to hell. The CO advertisements are painful.
Here’s a fact, SHS’s father lectures about morality despite raising an animal abuser and liar for hire.
re: #594 HappyWarrior
Here’s a fact, SHS’s father lectures about morality despite raising an animal abuser and liar for hire.
Her father also lies to Conservatives for a living, though it’s possible that he’s so delusional that he doesn’t know he’s lying.
re: #574 Interesting Times
Speaking of Graham, I think Steve Schmidt wins the internets for most evocatively accurate imagery:
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Sidecar Graham.
re: #577 Skip Intro
Trump could just say out loud at his rallies “You are the dumbest, most pathetic sacks of shit I’ve ever seen” and they’d give him a standing ovation.
I so wish this would happen to Trump.
Asked by reporters about Trump’s comments last night in MS, WH official Kellyanne Conway complains Christine Blasey Ford has been treated like a “Faberge egg.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 3, 2018
For the record, Faberge eggs are Russian.
If Dr. Blasey Ford was a Faberge egg, half of Trump’s cabinet would have already met with her and 2/3 of Republicans would be asking her for covert donations. https://t.co/mlETb2YjtZ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 3, 2018
re: #590 Dr Lizardo
Not to get anyone’s hopes up but:
This part seems odd to me:
Of the 2,000 Texas adults surveyed between Sept. 6 and 14, 39 percent would vote for O’Rourke and 36 percent for Cruz if the election were held today, the poll said. Twenty-one percent said they wouldn’t vote for either candidate, and 4 percent said they’d vote for someone else. The poll’s margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.
I mean, I think the bottom-line on TX-Sen is that now it’s basically a tossup: but 21% “wouldn’t vote” seems pretty high.
I wonder if Beto is going to win by an LBJ ‘48-style “landslide” (87 votes)?
I see it each time I go out to Rallies in order to help some of our great Republican candidates. VOTERS ARE REALLY ANGRY AT THE VICIOUS AND DESPICABLE WAY DEMOCRATS ARE TREATING BRETT KAVANAUGH! He and his wonderful family deserve much better.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2018
BREAKING: President Manbaby cites his delusional cult members to claim people are angry at the poor treatment of Judge Drinky. https://t.co/SYcEpX8h7q
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #593 CongoJack
Oh I’m getting a taste of it! The thing I’ve noticed is that all of Beto’s ads feature Beto talking about coming together as Texas, as Americans, to address our problems, while Ted’s ads don’t show him at all. All of the Cruz ads attempt to use Beto’s words against him.
And as far as ground game…no comparison. I’ve had canvassers come to my door 3 times (I finally told them to stop wasting their time on a reliable vote and try to get a new vote for Beto instead), and there are at least 10 times as many Beto signs as Cruz signs.
re: #595 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Her father also lies to Conservatives for a living, though it’s possible that he’s so delusional that he doesn’t know he’s lying.
No — he’s not delusional. He’s just a liar. I have no doubt that he understands the difference between lies and the truth; he doesn’t care
Ur an idiot
— peter baker (@peterbaker1973) October 3, 2018
“You are” https://t.co/iSKtBHlQi9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #600 Jay C
Maybe that number is made up of Republicans who refuse to vote for Cruz. I hope it is, anyway.
re: #592 Flying Squirrel Girl
I live in far south Texas, and it’s very strange to see so many TV ads for candidates leading up to the election. Usually it’s so deep red here that very little money is spent on ads. I feel like I live in a swing state!
you’re about to
re: #601 Charles Johnson
Upding for Judge Drinky
There’s a lot we don’t know about @GOP Kavanaugh’s sketchy finances https://t.co/Stsxx12aqj
— dwayne cobb (@dwaynecobb) October 3, 2018
We’re in Trump Time, where a SCOTUS judge being a crony of the people with the most to gain from his rulings isn’t such a scandal.
“…Neil Gorsuch came the closest to financial scandal when he disclosed that he owned a mountain fishing lodge in Colorado with two men who are top deputies to the billionaire Philip F. Anschutz, who had championed Gorsuch’s nomination.”
re: #494 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Again, literally grew up in the neighborhood she came from. It’s not even a good insult, let alone being stolen. Holton Arms, where she went to school, $25k/yr tuition.
And her dad is going to be just fine with Lindsey saying that I guess. If it were my daughter and he said that about her I would be on the phone to him calling him a worthless low life motherfucker that should die a slow, painful death with festering boils. And after that I would really get started bad mouthing the little fucking shitstain.
re: #599 jaunte
Asked by reporters about Trump’s comments last night in MS, WH official Kellyanne Conway complains Christine Blasey Ford has been treated like a “Faberge egg.”
so? i dont care how she’s been ‘treated’
dr ford has more than passed the credibility test.
that makes the accusation serious and not frivolous.
that’s why your only hope is to totally discredit her
because anything less and yes, it’s at least possible, if not likely, that this happened
and then where are you and kav?
re: #599 jaunte
Relevant term - ‘has been.’
Note how they’re pointing out how she was treated in the past to justify how they’re treating her now.
I just turned my #PhoneOff. Everyone should. Let President Bone Spurs talk to the hand.
— JRehling (@JRehling) October 3, 2018
re: #602 Flying Squirrel Girl
…
… there are at least 10 times as many Beto signs as Cruz signs.
Funny but true story: over 20 years ago there was a very heated election for mayor in my community where the controversy was about a local issue; the office was officially non-partisan but the battle was between the incumbent Democrat and a Republican member of the city council (also officially non-partisan). The Democrat did not believe in yard signs so it appeared that he had no support. When votes were counted, the Republican (whom I supported) won. I don’t know if the yard signs influenced voters but they certainly didn’t help the incumbent.
Next time around, the Democrat didn’t make the same mistake and won election.
Again, the battles there were all about local property/development related issues; nothing that would appear on the national scene. The community was the epitome of fiscally conservative/socially moderate.
Had this been an actual emergency, this tone would have been followed by information from an actual president.
— RidingWithRobots (@ridingrobots) October 3, 2018
re: #617 Kilroy was here
Emergency Alert just arrived
Still waiting for it to hit my phone. Nothing yet.
re: #614 Single-handed sailor
Yo, Presidential Alert!
Yep. Way overdue to have this kind of communication for contacting citizens in case of emergencies
I just got a text that says my bill is due in two days. Is that the one?
re: #613 jaunte
[Embedded content]
I just got it. It reads:
THIS IS A TEST of the Natioanl Emergency Alert system. No action is needed
Type: Presidential alert
And at the very same time, I got a flash flood warning for my area, in effect until 8:00 tonight.
Guess which one I’m going to pay attention to…
re: #623 wrenchwench
I just got a text that says my bill is due in two days. Is that the one?
did it say where to send the money?
re: #621 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Still waiting for it to hit my phone. Nothing yet.
Just a message that it is a test. Nothing of concern.
She says she’s been abused too, but something is wrong with Conservative women that makes them accept abusive men.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #614 Single-handed sailor
Yo, Presidential Alert!
I had headphones plugged in, and fortunately not in my ears.
Did anyone else get this? #PresidentialAlert pic.twitter.com/BXiuLoVgGj
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) October 3, 2018
The message you can’t ignore or turn off or mute or opt out of.
America 2018.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #626 dangerman
did it say where to send the money?
I can ‘dial’ 3 letters or go to their website.
I was hoping for some sort of hacked Presidential alert.
“No action is needed, except the impeachment and resignation of this miserable orange baboon and his evil minions.”
re: #627 Hecuba’s daughter
Just a message that it is a test. Nothing of concern.
Oh, I am aware of that. Since this is the first time the wireless system has been tested, I wonder if they are going to have a feedback channel to see how well it worked. Still waiting for it to hit my phone.
re: #616 Eclectic Cyborg
And the nationwide freakout starts…now.
Hopefully the people who freaked out over this now realize that their fears were imaginary. We got a professional message with no propaganda in it.
re: #628 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
[Embedded content]
Okay Kellyanne, tell us who assaulted you and what should be done or are you just trying to trash Ford because she’s actually calling out a right wing dipshit that you enable.
re: #634 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Oh, I am aware of that. Since this is the first time the wireless system has been tested, I wonder if they are going to have a feedback channel to see how well it worked. Still waiting for it to hit my phone.
It should have hit your phone when everyone else got it.
Got the test Presidential Alert right on time.
Though I thought the “no action required” notice was a bit off.
AFAIC, there is action required: an eleven-letter word with “peach” in the middle…..
re: #632 wrenchwench
I can ‘dial’ 3 letters or go to their website.
i was going for did the president say to send the payment to him
re: #634 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Oh, I am aware of that. Since this is the first time the wireless system has been tested, I wonder if they are going to have a feedback channel to see how well it worked. Still waiting for it to hit my phone.
I think they missed the mysterious Mountain time zone. We may be an hour behind. Or a decade.
re: #638 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It should have hit your phone when everyone else got it.
Cannot reach everyone at once: Speed of light is too slow and the bandwidth is too narrow.
So, the spammers have decided that a ‘revolutionary alternative to plastic wrap’ is a thing that I’d be interested in enough to click their bogus link…
re: #639 Jay C
Got the test Presidential Alert right on time.
Though I thought the “no action required” notice was a bit off.
AFAIC, there is action required: an eleven-letter word with “peach” in the middle…..
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, the tone would be followed by a blinding flash, a deafening roar, and the end of civilization as we know it.
re: #636 HappyWarrior
Okay Kellyanne, tell us who assaulted you and what should be done or are you just trying to trash Ford because she’s actually calling out a right wing dipshit that you enable.
that would be a thing:
did you come forward at the time?
why not then?
why not now?
how are we to believe you…..
i know it plays into the problem but, gah……
re: #631 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]
You got a different Tweet than I did then. I got something normal from some civil servant.
re: #641 wrenchwench
I think they missed the mysterious Mountain time zone. We may be an hour behind. Or a decade.
Got it here in Northern CO at the predestined time.
re: #638 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It should have hit your phone when everyone else got it.
not me or mrs dm yet
im wondering if florida is too far away
re: #640 dangerman
i was going for did the president say to send the payment to him
I knew I was being no help there. When in doubt, stay in character (I’m playing stupid. I think I’m playing.)
re: #643 makeitstop
So, the spammers have decided that a ‘revolutionary alternative to plastic wrap’ is a thing that I’d be interested in enough to click their bogus link…
tin foil, of course
re: #642 Hecuba’s daughter
Cannot reach everyone at once: Speed of light is too slow and the bandwidth is too narrow.
It reached everyone at my office at once for human timescales. There was a sub-second gap between my notification and the last buzz I heard. This takes very little bandwidth.
My question: if, for whatever reason, your phone is in Airplane mode, the message won’t be delivered, right?
re: #646 dangerman
that would be a thing:
did you come forward at the time?
why not then?
why not now?
how are we to believe you…..i know it plays into the problem but, gah……
This whole thing is maddening. Because if Kavanaugh were a Democrat appointee, FNC would have already sharpened the pitchforks.
re: #641 wrenchwench
I think they missed the mysterious Mountain time zone. We may be an hour behind. Or a decade.
I you live in Idaho, try 5 (decades that is).
re: #649 dangerman
not me or mrs dm yet
im wondering if florida is too far away
It sounds like the test just failed. They all would have gone off within seconds of each other if it worked. You’re dead if this was a real duck and cover situation.
/The people who ducked and covered are also dead.
re: #648 CongoJack
Got it here in Northern CO at the predestined time.
I think they’re still working on the fiber optics, here. Installing them.
re: #649 dangerman
not me or mrs dm yet
im wondering if florida is too far away
florida is in the loop
just a bit behind the times
as always
My husband got his. He said they must be doing the men first.
re: #653 Hecuba’s daughter
My question: if, for whatever reason, your phone is in Airplane mode, the message won’t be delivered, right?
Right. No network, no message. Headphones plugged in will make you miss it too. I can’t think of any national message that I could use to protect myself.
re: #660 wrenchwench
My husband got his. He said they must be doing the men first.
They’re warning us in case we get accused.//
re: #660 wrenchwench
My husband got his. He said they must be doing the men first.
Men will tell the womenfolk what to do. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.
///////
re: #662 HappyWarrior
They’re warning us in case we get accused.//
Should have listened to Dear Leader.
Do not listen to Dear Leader.
re: #631 Charles Johnson
I can’t ignore the warnings that come over my tv either.
re: #634 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Oh, I am aware of that. Since this is the first time the wireless system has been tested, I wonder if they are going to have a feedback channel to see how well it worked. Still waiting for it to hit my phone.
it never arrived here in TheBackwoods, either.
OTOH, nothing ever does…I have to drive several miles to get a signal or climb to the top of the mini-mountain.
Not gonna do either for a “presidential” anything.
re: #666 Backwoods_Sleuth
it never arrived here in TheBackwoods, either.
OTOH, nothing ever does…I have to drive several miles to get a signal or climb to the top of the mini-mountain.
Not gonna do either for a “presidential” anything.
No network, no alert.
It’s OK, you’ll survive the initial attack in the backwoods.
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
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