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This is a test of the Presidential Alert System. If there has been an actual alert, you would have been informed of the latest crazy shit the President has gotten up to.
This is only a test.
Wtf is this pic.twitter.com/dqbxnL71mj
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 3, 2018
Had it been a real emergency, it just would have been Trump declaring “Not good, folks!” pic.twitter.com/Cof4RXnvzi
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 3, 2018
Did you get the POTUS alert on your phone?
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 3, 2018
Did you get the POTUS alert (other carriers)?
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 3, 2018
— Lt. Ripley ‘naked tweeter’ 🇫🇮 (@Nostromo147) October 3, 2018
I have the sound turned down on my phone because (a) I’m sensitive to noises and (b) if I’m playing a game on my phone in the office, I don’t want anyone to know. So, I got the alert but I had to look at my phone, because it did not have an audible noise. It was a Samsung Galaxy S8+, for the record.
No alert on this phone. I think I turned it off back when I got it.
P.P. Arnold is 72 today, born 3rd October 1946 in Los Angeles, California, US.
Started out singing at 4 years old in a family of Gospel singers; joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1964 aged 18; quit the revue in 1966 while on tour in the UK to launch a solo career: pic.twitter.com/xTcjk4Xf9Z— Music History (@RockWalkLondon) October 3, 2018
re: #6 mmmirele
I have the sound turned down on my phone because (a) I’m sensitive to noises and (b) if I’m playing a game on my phone in the office, I don’t want anyone to know. So, I got the alert but I had to look at my phone, because it did not have an audible noise. It was a Samsung Galaxy S8+, for the record.
I thought it would override volume setting for sure. I used to get Amber Alert alarms even with my volume down.
I have not been alerted.
Is that good, or bad?
I know a lot’s going on but this is notable news that won’t cut through the noise:
UK’s data cops are proceeding with criminal prosecution from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Trial set for early January 2019.— David Carroll 🦅 (@profcarroll) October 3, 2018
re: #7 William Lewis
No alert on this phone. I think I turned it off back when I got it.
You can’t turn off Presidential Alerts. it’s not an option. It’s a national emergency system.
Now that the #PresidentialAlert test has been successful, we can all expect to get an official Trump dick pic in the near future. pic.twitter.com/dCP470FU6N
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2018
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Bad. It means the system failed. I guess that should be expected for the first test.
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I have not been alerted.
Is that good, or bad?
Just got the alert . 30 minutes late. I am now part of a mushroom cloud.
Tiffany Trump Receives First Ever Text From Father https://t.co/GRuTbsKfTF
— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) October 3, 2018
Well, this is comforting ///
Imagine if someone hacks and weaponizes the #PresidentialAlert. Nationwide panic, misinformation.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) October 3, 2018
That presidential text is like getting an Amber Alert from the guy who did it
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) October 3, 2018
re: #18 Interesting Times
Well, this is comforting ///
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We could always experience at a national level the error that happened in Hawaii. No malice, just human incompetence.
re: #18 Interesting Times
Well, this is comforting ///
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eh, nobody believes him anyway.
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
I wonder how many people had the living shit scared out of them when their phone suddenly started making that extremely loud noise.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #18 Interesting Times
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I try not be upset by another man’s imagination. Trump didn’t build this himself, and we’ve seen no indication that it’s insecure.
re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I try not be upset by another man’s imagination. Trump didn’t build this himself, and we’ve seen no indication that it’s insecure.
Any system created by human beings can be hacked.
re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I try not be upset by another man’s imagination. Trump didn’t build this himself, and we’ve seen no indication that it’s insecure.
We already have an alert service that goes over our TVs.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
I expect some Conservatives and Libertarians will go berserk. Trump is driving you nuts, and you’re not alone. He’s given me rage issues.
MEMPHIS — Just interviewed Trump voter/volunteer who tells me she’s attended more than 30 MAGA rallies. Explains it’s a network of people who’ve met there & become friends. “You have your regulars & your first-timers.” #TNSEN
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) October 3, 2018
30 rallies? So they’re bringing in people from other states to try and push up attendance at these things? https://t.co/WjCnKdpfFL
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2018
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
We get local alerts on TV all the time for weather related events. So far, this doesn’t seem really different in kind from those.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Any system created by human beings can be hacked.
We couldn’t have banking if having secure systems hacked was more likely than not.
The Mate also got the alert at the same time I did. Her phone was on mute and it didn’t override the setting, so she never heard it arrive.
Making sure this works. https://t.co/L6NQrWNoaN
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 3, 2018
If you call receiving the alert 30 minutes late working. Hey @fema you got some bugs to work out here. https://t.co/SyS5sQv08n
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) October 3, 2018
re: #26 Belafon
We already have an alert service that goes over our TVs.
Maybe you didn’t notice, but many of us moved off of TV to the Internet in recent years, so we needed a new system. Cell-phones are a much easier way to do it than adding an alert system to the Internet, which would mean changing every operating system.
re: #27 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I expect some Conservatives and Libertarians will go berserk. Trump is driving you nuts, and you’re not alone. He’s given me rage issues.
Libertarians, yeah: I’m guessing only the remaining fringe of intelligent Conservatives might have objections to this sort of intrusive system: the real wingers are probably going assume Trump will be using it to signal them to start the “Three-Percenter Revolution” or whatever…
re: #33 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Maybe you didn’t notice, but many of us moved off of TV to the Internet in recent years, so we needed a new system. Cell-phones are a much easier way to do it than adding an alert system to the Internet, which would mean changing every operating system.
I agree. I was just commenting on the freakout over a new system.
re: #34 Jay C
Libertarians, yeah: I’m guessing only the remaining fringe of intelligent Conservatives might have objections to this sort of intrusive system: the real wingers are probably going assume Trump will be using it to signal them to start the “Three-Percenter Revolution” or whatever…
Sigh…probably, but that’ll be on hate-radio like it was in Rwanda.
re: #28 Kragar
David M. Drucker
✔
@DavidMDrucker
MEMPHIS — Just interviewed Trump voter/volunteer who tells me she’s attended more than 30 MAGA rallies. Explains it’s a network of people who’ve met there & become friends. “You have your regulars & your first-timers.” #TNSEN1:46 PM - Oct 3, 2018
Sounds like DeadHeads. So they are devoted fans following him wherever he goes hoping to hear the latest hits
re: #13 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can’t turn off Presidential Alerts. it’s not an option. It’s a national emergency system.
You can’t write back either. Too bad, I was going to tell him, “Resign! And then go &%$# yourself you big fat orange shart!”
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
We get local alerts on TV all the time for weather related events. So far, this doesn’t seem really different in kind from those.
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I try not be upset by another man’s imagination. Trump didn’t build this himself, and we’ve seen no indication that it’s insecure.
Just like our nuclear response infrastructure this system is insecure simply by virtue of having a single man who can trigger usage. Remember, this happened last year because a single HEMA employee freaked out and mistook a drill for a real attack:
re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White
Like Deadheads, but racist scumbags.
Or just morons glad to find other morons to hang out with. These people have not been welcome at mainstream concerts.
re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White
Like Deadheads, but racist scumbags.
GMTA!! Posted mine before seeing yours.
I tell my kids that their phones were designed as a method for parasites to bleed their bank accounts. Now Pres Grifter has figured out a way into the system, too.
Not freaking out at all, but I really think this is a bad idea for many reasons.
re: #41 goddamnedfrank
Just like our nuclear response infrastructure this system is insecure simply by virtue of having a single man who can trigger usage. Remember this happened last year because a single HEMA employee freaked out and mistook a drill for a real attack.
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Does it have a single man that can trigger usage? Everything I’ve read says it’ll be a FEMA Message. Hawaii added checks to their system for this reason. No one person can fire off the Hawaiian alert.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
How, other than turning off your tv?
re: #41 goddamnedfrank
Just like our nuclear response infrastructure this system is insecure simply by virtue of having a single man who can trigger usage. Remember this happened last year because a single HEMA employee freaked out and mistook a drill for a real attack.
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Exactly - we’ve already seen one example of how it can go horribly wrong.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
At least it appears that if your phone is muted, you don’t hear the alarm.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
Not freaking out at all, but I really think this is a bad idea for many reasons.
It might be, but it might be a useful tool to notify people during disasters. I see no reason this is anything beyond the alerts we see on TV if we still watch TV, and the TV system was vulnerable to hackers.
re: #38 Hecuba’s daughter
Sounds like DeadHeads. So they are devoted fans following him wherever he goes hoping to hear the latest hits
The Trump WH doesn’t care: as long as they have enough bodies to jam into the front rows at whatever venues they book, they’ll assume (correctly) that no one is going to notice (or care) that it’s the same cast of familiar faces rally-to-rally. They’re probably happy that a consistent turnout means they don’t have to pay for as many ringers.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Exactly - we’ve already seen one example of how it can go horribly wrong.
Everything will calm down after the 1st week or so of Trump using it instead of Twitter
If countries like Russia, China and Iran aren’t already working hard to find ways to hack this alert system I’d be very surprised.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
Also, those kinds of extreme weather / natural disaster alerts are actually helpful. Trump hypothetically telling me he’s just launched a nuclear attack is only going to make my last few minutes of life stressful, and that’s probably the best use for this.
re: #51 makeitstop
Brain-deadheads.
Some of the Deadheads were braindead. I remember a guy with a blank stare that had a sign saying “veggie spaghetti”. We weren’t sure if it described him, or he was selling food. I also remember an empty-eyed beautiful blonde girl who didn’t speak.
Other Deadheads were really cool people.
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
Also, those kinds of extreme weather / natural disaster alerts are actually helpful. Trump hypothetically telling me he’s just launched a nuclear attack is only going to make my last few minutes of life stressful, and that’s probably the best use for this.
Luckily, this is FEMA, not Trump. He also controls the National Weather Service.
re: #53 Jay C
The Trump WH doesn’t care: as long as they have enough bodies to jam into the front rows at whatever venues they book, they’ll assume (correctly) that no one is going to notice (or care) that it’s the same cast of familiar faces rally-to-rally. They’re probably happy that a consistent turnout means they don’t have to pay for as many ringers.
Some enterprising photo analyst should compile shots of Trump at the podium of his mini-Nurembergs and try to spot how many people show up in multiple states…
besides the state of delusion, of course.
“Coat rack! Can you see what’s taking the lobster tail so long?”
Republicans may claim you’re winning, but their harmful economic agenda is all about corporate giveaways & tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Tired of Republicans putting people last?
VOTE. THEM. OUT. #TakeItBack pic.twitter.com/9VATKozOw2— DCCC (@dccc) October 3, 2018
re: #57 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Some of the Deadheads were braindead. I remember a guy with a blank stare that had a sign saying “veggie spaghetti”. We weren’t sure if it described him, or he was selling food. I also remember an empty-eyed beautiful blonde girl who didn’t speak.
Other Deadheads were really cool people.
Oh, you don’t have to tell me. I know people who went out to follow a Dead tour and came back with their brains less than intact.
re: #60 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Another one
MUST-WATCH: Check out how CEOs and executives feel about the Republican tax bill. Who was the GOP tax scam really for? #GOPTaxScam
Volunteer >> https://t.co/lKya9vq9mOpic.twitter.com/j4ON77q1UW— DCCC (@dccc) October 3, 2018
I mean, honestly I’m kind of beyond giving an actual fuck about this message shit just because there are still immigrant kids being held in concentration camps, our country is now hated around the world and we’re about to put a violent, serial lying, misogynistic drunk on the Supreme Court.
Still, and I know this is so goddamned tired, but just ask yourselves what the response would’ve been if this test had occurred while Obama was President.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
You can turn off those alerts in exactly the same way you turn off Presidential alerts, turning off the device. This is the TV alert system updated for the 21st century, and I’d be really surprised if Trump had anything to do with it. Work will have been done by civil servants planning this for years.
re: #42 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Or just morons glad to find other morons to hang out with. These people have not been welcome at mainstream concerts.
the dead didnt livestream
they could watch/listen from home
this is to pump up the visuals
and to give themselves a sense of connecting and belonging to ‘something’
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
I mean, honestly I’m kind of beyond giving an actual fuck about this message shit because there are still immigrant kids being held in concentration camps, our country is now hated around the world and we’re about to put a violent, serial lying, misogynistic drunk on the Supreme Court.
Still, and I know this is so goddamned tired, but just ask yourselves what the response would’ve been if this test had occurred while Obama was President.
The wingnuts would have gone crazy, because they’d been consumed by racism. I think hatred of the message when a pig is President is based on revulsion at that pig.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
I dunno; when I first heard of reverse-911 it sounded intrusive too, but for fire evacuations it sure saved a lot of lives.
re: #66 dangerman
the dead didnt livestream
they could watch/listen from homethis is to pump up the visuals
and to give themselves a sense of connecting and belonging to ‘something’
That “something” being a cult.
re: #65 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can turn off those alerts in exactly the same way you turn off Presidential alerts, turning off the device.
You’ll still get the message the second you turn the phone back on.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The critical difference is that you can turn off those alerts.
Actually you can. The Mates phone was on mute. She never heard it.
re: #65 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Work will have been done by civil servants planning this for years.
Honestly, I don’t find this very reassuring at all.
re: #71 goddamnedfrank
You’ll still get the message the second you turn the phone back on.
That my recent experience.
re: #54 b.d.(sober as a judge)
Everything will calm down after the 1st week or so of Trump using it instead of Twitter
kind of like when they got the idea to blast the firehouse siren every single day at noon
what about the russians:
“we bomb at 12 o’clock, igor. they dont know. they think it’s lunch”
(h/t robert klein)
Rick Wiles speculates that Christine Blasey Ford was brainwashed by the CIA and had her mind-control “triggered” by the word “lodestar” in the anonymous NYT op-ed. https://t.co/6GEf7gCzN4
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 3, 2018
re: #28 Kragar
30 rallies? So they’re bringing in people from other states to try and push up attendance at these things?
They’re like Deadheads.
They pre-game in the parking lot, somebody’s making a good living following the tour and selling bootleg merch… I wonder if they trade bootleg tapes.
Wow the presidential alert got real pic.twitter.com/Peq3gw7HyL
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) October 3, 2018
re: #66 dangerman
the dead didnt livestream
they could watch/listen from homethis is to pump up the visuals
and to give themselves a sense of connecting and belonging to ‘something’
It’s a shame we didn’t have streaming when Jerry was alive and the band was together. I had a fantastic time attending the weekend jam-band festival that was posted here some time ago in my home theater.
re: #76 Kragar
Rick Wiles speculates that Christine Blasey Ford was brainwashed by the CIA and had her mind-control “triggered” by the word “lodestar” in the anonymous NYT op-ed.
Good grief, how does Rick Wiles remember to breath.
re: #77 sagehen
They’re like Deadheads.
They pre-game in the parking lot, somebody’s making a good living following the tour and selling bootleg merch… I wonder if they trade bootleg tapes.
This one has some really classic hate on it. You have to have it.
Rick Wiles either has a serious disability, or he’s grifting the Alex Jones crowd.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
I posted this on FB, where probably nobody who should see it will see it, because they’ll all have unfriended me by now.
Points to consider vis a vis Kavanaugh:
1) The appointment is for life, which ON AVERAGE would be 27 years for a man his age.
2) Kavanaugh was chosen from a list of jurists acceptable to the Federalist Society. He’s not the only one available.
3) It’s a job interview, not a criminal trial. There’s no presumption of getting the job, and he doesn’t lose his current one if he doesn’t get this one.
4) If you think getting him confirmed is tough, getting rid of him should the accusations be substantiated or further, more easily proven accusations arise, is much, MUCH harder.
5) Kavanaugh allowed himself to be put forward for this nomination, and he knows his own history. It’s not a game.
6) There’s no time limit on the confirmation, and after Merrick Garland, the GOP doesn’t get to pretend there is one. They’re the ones who said a seat could be held open indefinitely. Because there’s no time limit, there’s no such thing as a ‘late hit’ while the nomination is still in committee.
7) When you have a credible accusation and a credible denial, you investigate. Put the shoe on the other foot, and tell me if Obama had nominated someone who had a similar credible accusation, that you’d have been okay with no investigation, or a half-assed investigation.
re: #72 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Actually you can. The Mates phone was on mute. She never heard it.
Sure, if your phone happens to be on mute you won’t hear the extremely loud beeping. But you can’t opt out of these messages.
re: #82 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #76 Kragar
Rick Wiles speculates that Christine Blasey Ford was brainwashed by the CIA and had her mind-control “triggered” by the word “lodestar” in the anonymous NYT op-ed.
totally possible
absolutely coulda happened
prove it didnt
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this is why you dont respond to crackpot thinking. dont waste a breath, keystroke or pixel except a simple “shoo”.
you leave this out there all by itself and let anyone who is that moranic to glom onto it
the rest of the world goes on about its business. serious and otherwise. none of it crackpot
If you just throw your phone into a volcano …
re: #84 Charles Johnson
Sure, if your phone happens to be on mute you won’t hear the extremely loud beeping. But you can’t opt out of these messages.
Just like with the TV alert system. I got lucky that my headphones were plugged in and not in my ears. I have been freaked out by an Amber Alert, but we’ve already accepted these alerts in our lives since long before I was born.
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
Still, and I know this is so goddamned tired, but just ask yourselves what the response would’ve been if this test had occurred while Obama was President.
Actually, probably not much different - though I’m guessing the Obama Admin would have done a more thorough job informing and alerting the citizenry - the wingnuts would have freaked, of course, assuming Obama was going to be sending the signal for the Night Of The Long Knives or whatever, but in the end, the same level of nothing would have happened, and the nuts would have moved on to something else.
Same as now, just with a different cast of nuts…
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
You’re not. I understand the why but I prefer to have complete control over my devices wherever possible.
re: #79 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It’s a shame we didn’t have streaming when Jerry was alive and the band was together. I had a fantastic time attending the weekend jam-band festival that was posted here some time ago in my home theater.
tech of the times
they let the audience record and they shared…
early sneakernet
re: #88 goddamnedfrank
How to stop getting #PresidentialAlert texts… pic.twitter.com/xGavIbqQBE
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2018
re: #87 dangerman
totally possible
absolutely coulda happened
prove it didnt
///this is why you dont respond to crackpot thinking. dont waste a breath, keystroke or pixel except a simple “shoo”.
you leave this out there all by itself and let anyone who is that moranic to glom onto itthe rest of the world goes on about its business. serious and otherwise. none of it crackpot
Oh yeah, why do you think the rest of us were so careful to not use that word for years so she would not be triggered early, Libtard?
/
re: #84 Charles Johnson
Sure, if your phone happens to be on mute you won’t hear the extremely loud beeping. But you can’t opt out of these messages.
Correct. But the way some people were seeing the system was that it would/could override your phones settings. It can’t. And as I pointed out earlier, the test was probably only partially successful. We got the alert 30 minutes late. Not good.
I can’t believe 63 people have bought this.
Somehow, I also find it hard to believe that ONLY 63 people have bought this. pic.twitter.com/0RIRRl0QsO— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 3, 2018
I have an old, dumb phone. It’s for travel, to call my wife or 911 if I hurt myself walking, and for occasional texts. I do other stuff on a tablet; I mean, I’m mostly home.
So I didn’t get #FluffMussolini’s text. Neener, neener, neener!— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) October 3, 2018
re: #92 dangerman
tech of the times
they let the audience record and they shared…
early sneakernet
Yeah, that was cool. Most bands were having fans frisked at the door for recording devices, and the Dead allowed them to plug into the soundboard.
I would for laughs, but the money will wind up in the hands of Conservatives, who will use it to make America worse.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #94 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Oh yeah, why do you think the rest of us were so careful to not use that word for years so she would not be triggered early, Libtard?
/
i’d have bought into it if he said the trigger was “afghanistan bananastan”
Still counts, though. #DontHateThePlayer pic.twitter.com/q19Zw4ve7P
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 3, 2018
re: #95 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Correct. But the way some people were seeing the system was that it would/could override your phones settings. It can’t. And as I pointed out earlier, the test was probably only partially successful. We got the alert 30 minutes late. Not good.
It should override the settings, if FEMA considers these alerts to be important, but it looks like it doesn’t.
These people are fucking morons.
One group of people is REALLY excited about the presidential alert: QAnon fans also noted that the test message was 17 words long — a significant number for believers in the conspiracy theory, because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet. https://t.co/Z4U07sUmNH
— Josh Dorner (@JoshDorner) October 3, 2018
Pretty amazing. Kavanaugh represents the peak of teenage binge drinking the last 50 years.
I don’t think people understand how much more teen binge drinking there was 30-40 years ago compared to today. pic.twitter.com/5Sq6kxLpgJ
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 3, 2018
re: #106 Blind Frog Belly White
Pretty amazing. Kavanaugh represents the peak of teenage binge drinking the last 50 years.
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It’s just from FEMA. Your phone will have syphilis if you get an alert talking about fake-news.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #103 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
It should override the settings, if FEMA considers these alerts to be important, but it looks like it doesn’t.
The only way that is ever going to happen is if the OS is (re)written to allow such an alert to override. Not going to happen on a voluntary basis.
Trump needs Collins, Flake, Murkowski to vote for Kavanaugh. But all three have condemned his comments about Christine Blasey Ford. Further proof there is not always a broader strategy to his comments.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 3, 2018
Yet Flake tells me Trump’s comments last night will NOT affect his thinking on the nomination. “You can’t take it like out on other people the president’s insensitive remarks.” https://t.co/41USR4NmMr
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 3, 2018
Flake is going to vote yes. https://t.co/7oiTibDjHH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #105 Kragar
These people are fucking morons.
One group of people is REALLY excited about the presidential alert: QAnon fans also noted that the test message was 17 words long — a significant number for believers in the conspiracy theory, because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet.
wanna bet they didnt have like 30 different responses ready to go depending on the word count
re: #106 Blind Frog Belly White
Pretty amazing. Kavanaugh represents the peak of teenage binge drinking the last 50 years.
Not only did you have the Cold War and possible nuclear annihilation, but gaming graphics sucked.
re: #109 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
The only way that is ever going to happen is if the OS is (re)written to allow such an alert to override. Not going to happen on a voluntary basis.
Because Americans don’t know how to cooperate anymore, consumers would go crazy, saying something like “It’s my phone bought with money that I earned”, upset that they might find out about a disaster early because people worked together.
re: #109 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
The only way that is ever going to happen is if the OS is (re)written to allow such an alert to override. Not going to happen on a voluntary basis.
Pretty sure it does override the volume setting because I have my ringer set very low and that alert was at top volume.
re: #112 Belafon
Not only did you have the Cold War and possible nuclear annihilation, but gaming graphics sucked.
They did not suck at the time. We went from passively watching TV to making big dots move around with a controller and making things beep and change colors!
re: #76 Kragar
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Rick Wiles can’t be brainwashed because he’s been brain dead for years.
re: #114 Charles Johnson
Pretty sure it does override the volume setting because I have my ringer set very low and that alert was at top volume.
That was my experience with Amber alerts, and part of why I jumped the first time, not knowing where the new noise was coming from, but people are saying they muted it.
re: #112 Belafon
Not only did you have the Cold War and possible nuclear annihilation, but gaming graphics sucked.
When I was that age, in 1975, ‘gaming graphics’ was pretty much Hangman - hand drawn.
FBI doesn’t have approval to talk to Ford or Kavanaugh for investigation: report
thehill.com
The investigation was a complete sham….
Not shocked
re: #115 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
They did not suck at the time. We went from passively watching TV to making big dots move around with a controller and making things beep and change colors!
You obviously only enjoyed them because of a large amount of beer. :)
re: #119 Kilroy was here
FBI doesn’t have approval to talk to Ford or Kavanaugh for investigation: report
thehill.comThe investigation was a complete sham….
Not shocked
“Investigate the matter, but do not question the accuser or the accused at all!”
re: #118 Blind Frog Belly White
When I was that age, in 1975, ‘gaming graphics’ was pretty much Hangman - hand drawn.
We had a lot of video games in the 70s, but 1975 was a few years before the Atari 2600.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Exactly - we’ve already seen one example of how it can go horribly wrong.
In theory it could come in handy, if, for example, there is an incoming tsunami like the one that just hit Palau.
re: #122 Targetpractice
“Investigate the matter, but do not question the accuser or the accused at all!”
If they questioned the accuser, they’d have to question the accused, and if they did they might discover that he’d lied to Congress, which the WH and the Senate Republicans know he did.
re: #117 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That was my experience with Amber alerts, and part of why I jumped the first time, not knowing where the new noise was coming from, but people are saying they muted it.
Correct. The Mates phone was muted. She did not receive the tonal alert, though she did receive the message. My phone wasn’t muted and the the tonal alert was full volume even though I had it set to about 50%. So it will override some, but not all settings
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Flake is going to vote yes.
- if flake + 2 arent prepared to vote no now, the fbi report likely wont convince them of anything
- if they are ready to vote no now, what could possibly turn them back into a yes? (bribery/blackmail/payoffs aside)
re: #120 Belafon
You obviously only enjoyed them because of a large amount of beer. :)
Maybe a sip of my dad’s.
re: #114 Charles Johnson
Pretty sure it does override the volume setting because I have my ringer set very low and that alert was at top volume.
My phone was muted and I didn’t get. Maybe if your volume is at any level you get the full blast on the alert.
re: #112 Belafon
Not only did you have the Cold War and possible nuclear annihilation, but gaming graphics sucked.
what awe we were in when we were finally able to program a monochrome monitor at the individual pixel level
re: #113 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Because Americans don’t know how to cooperate anymore, consumers would go crazy, saying something like “It’s my phone bought with money that I earned”, upset that they might find out about a disaster early because people worked together.
you may own the phone
who owns your phone’s o/s?
i think not you
re: #105 Kragar
These people are fucking morons.
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They’re too brain dead to realize that Trump doesn’t control that system!
re: #117 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That was my experience with Amber alerts, and part of why I jumped the first time, not knowing where the new noise was coming from, but people are saying they muted it.
the first amber alert i got was at 3am or so
turned that shit right off forever
and my phone is from a different area code so it wasnt even relevant to me
re: #110 Charles Johnson
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I don’t understand that quote from Flake. I think he’s saying that you can’t hold Kavanaugh accountable for what Trump says. Of course, Flake could actually hold Kavanaugh accountable by voting down his nomination.
re: #131 dangerman
you may own the phone
who owns your phone’s o/s?
i think not you
You can replace the main OS yourself, though I haven’t. It’s messing with the radio’s code that makes the carrier ban your device, which is understandable. The cell networks are not open systems like the Internet.
re: #124 Big Beautiful Door
In theory it could come in handy, if, for example, there is an incoming tsunami like the one that just hit Palau.
No tsunami is going to hit both the East and West coasts, so the current regional emergency alerts already cover that. This system is for nuclear attacks, giant meteors, and mass Kaiju invasions.
re: #135 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can replace the main OS yourself, though I haven’t. It’s messing with the radio’s code that makes the carrier ban your device, which is understandable. The cell networks are not open systems like the Internet.
oh sure
i was just focusing in on “It’s my phone bought with money that I earned”
for the majority who also dont realize they own their computer but not most of the software they paid for and think they “bought”
re: #133 dangerman
the first amber alert i got was at 3am or so
turned that shit right off forever
and my phone is from a different area code so it wasnt even relevant to me
Irrelevant alerts got it turned off on a lot of phones. If you’re going to make a noise that loud, you should have a good reason. Now that I think of it, I haven’t heard an Amber Alert at work, so either they stopped using it, no kids are kidnapped anymore, or everyone disabled it because of inappropriate alerts.
If the Presidential alert goes off at 3am, it’s to tell you to kiss your ass goodbye.
re: #134 Mike Lamb
He’s talking about Trump’s comment from last night in particular.
re: #138 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If the Presidential alert goes off at 3am, it’s to tell you to kiss your ass goodbye.
In which case I’d prefer to stay asleep.
re: #65 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You can turn off those alerts in exactly the same way you turn off Presidential alerts, turning off the device. This is the TV alert system updated for the 21st century, and I’d be really surprised if Trump had anything to do with it. Work will have been done by civil servants planning this for years.
I still fail to see why presidential alerts are even necessary, other than giving the moron-in-chief another ego-stroking perk.
What do presidential alerts accomplish that we don’t already have with national alerts for weather, disasters, national emergency?
Not. A. Damned. Thing.
re: #137 dangerman
oh sure
i was just focusing in on “It’s my phone bought with money that I earned”for the majority who also dont realize they own their computer but not most of the software they paid for and think they “bought”
True, but with traditional licenses it was indistinguishable from buying from the user’s perspective. Now with annual license renewals on some software, you are fully renting your software.
re: #97 gocart mozart
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Yeah, my dumbphone didn’t alert me, either. Another thing in favor of old technology.
re: #106 Blind Frog Belly White
Pretty amazing. Kavanaugh represents the peak of teenage binge drinking the last 50 years.
I don’t think people understand how much more teen binge drinking there was 30-40 years ago compared to today.
When I was that age, binge drinking was only for people who didn’t know where to score pot.
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
I still fail to see why presidential alerts are even necessary, other than giving the moron-in-chief another ego-stroking perk.
What do presidential alerts accomplish that we don’t already have with national alerts for weather, disasters, national emergency?
Not. A. Damned. Thing.
This is for natural disasters and such. It’s really a FEMA alert, which is part of the executive branch. They may have renamed it to stroke Trump’s ego, but it’s not Trump’s system.
Kangaroo standing by the side of the road in Victoria, Australia pic.twitter.com/qFfdPEqZZu
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) October 3, 2018
IT BEGINS https://t.co/quaQzHhckr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #144 sagehen
When I was that age, binge drinking was only for people who didn’t know where to score pot.
California?
In the Midwest, we mostly drink, then water-down, our parent’s booze.
I discovered pot pretty early and switched over since combining them gave me the spins.
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
I still fail to see why presidential alerts are even necessary, other than giving the moron-in-chief another ego-stroking perk.
What do presidential alerts accomplish that we don’t already have with national alerts for weather, disasters, national emergency?
Not. A. Damned. Thing.
“just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing…”
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
I expect that he will soon be sending us a message to ignore that man behind the curtain…
re: #113 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Because Americans don’t know how to cooperate anymore, consumers would go crazy, saying something like “It’s my phone bought with money that I earned”, upset that they might find out about a disaster early because people worked together.
Or that their privacy was being invaded
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I expect that he will soon be sending us a message to ignore that man behind the curtain…
If he uses it for anything but real emergencies, his polling will drop 10 points.
Most Conservatives do not want to hear a loud alarm they can’t control, even if it’s from a nut they relate to, and Liberals despise the guy.
New letter from Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers to @ChuckGrassley. pic.twitter.com/ORBaLPiAw2
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 3, 2018
re: #150 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Or that their privacy was being invaded
Yep, even though there’s no privacy involved. Humans are stupid. I’m amazed that we’ve come as far as we have without collapsing into chaos.
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
No tsunami is going to hit both the East and West coasts, so the current regional emergency alerts already cover that. This system is for nuclear attacks, giant meteors, and mass Kaiju invasions.
So its pretty much pointless.
Oh, spammers…
As if the ‘plastic wrap’ spams earlier weren’t bad enough - I just got spam with the header
‘Jesus Molecule’ Brings Dead Cells To Life
It says some doctor is ‘risking her neck by sharing this information with the public - and there’s no guarantee how long it will remain on the web.’
Sheah, I’m totally gonna click on that link.
/
If you were wondering…No, Trump shouldn’t be able to use the system to broadcast his tweets.
The law explicitly states, “The public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”
buzzfeednews.com
It could legally be used to report on Trump (by the letter of the law anyway), but not by Trump for his propaganda.
re: #146 Charles Johnson
Next year prollyhttps://t.co/DGiwJrg3qQ
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
re: #155 makeitstop
Oh, spammers…
As if the ‘plastic wrap’ spams earlier weren’t bad enough - I just got spam with the header
‘Jesus Molecule’ Brings Dead Cells To Life
It says some doctor is ‘risking her neck by sharing this information with the public - and there’s no guarantee how long it will remain on the web.’
Sheah, I’m totally gonna click on that link.
/
That would be a terrifying zombie molecule, and Jesus wasn’t a zombie, he was a reverse-zombie-vampire that wants others to eat his flesh and drink his blood. At least if you’re Catholic.
Multiple people shot at Philadelphia shopping mall: report https://t.co/ShR8LY8LRF
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 3, 2018
re: #144 sagehen
When I was that age, binge drinking was only for people who didn’t know where to score pot.
yes, alcohol was always a drug of last resort when all other means of getting stoned were unavailable
by the way i see you dont like taking about labour record , your doing what they did in germany in the 1930s shut anyone that does not agree with wether they are facts or not
— rob garde (@robgarde) October 3, 2018
As my wife lived as child in Germany in the 1930s & her dad was chucked in the clink on many occasions by the Nazis for his socialist tendencies-do fuck off. I also don’t understand how trolls don’t seem to have any spell checking on their mobile devices. Can’t Putin pay for it? https://t.co/PDLtnc7UVa
— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) October 3, 2018
re: #153 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Yep, even though there’s no privacy involved. Humans are stupid. I’m amazed that we’ve come as far as we have without collapsing into chaos.
Looks around. Republicans control both Houses, tRump is POTUS, sexual assault victims are being ridiculed and slut shamed while an accused sexual predator is poised to become a sitting member of the SCOTUS and White Nationalism is be openly flaunted . If this isn’t chaos, it’s the frigging event horizon of chaos.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, alcohol was always a drug of last resort when all other means of getting stoned were unavailable
I lived in rural PA, where the drinking age was 21, about 16 miles from Maryland, where the drinking age was 18. We drank. When I tried pot, it was because friends I drank with had some.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, alcohol was always a drug of last resort when all other means of getting stoned were unavailable
Which is why it had to be propped up by prohibiting every better drug.
— Little Hans (@GreatDeceiver66) October 3, 2018
God, Lindsay Graham and Brett Kavanaugh were so overwrought and hyper-emotional the other day! They had blood coming out of their whatevers!
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) October 3, 2018
On Curing the Disability and Disease of Left-Handedness - 1935 pic.twitter.com/IqxISzLQUl
— Mood:Vintage (@moodvintage) October 3, 2018
re: #169 gocart mozart
With musical accompaniment by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
re: #164 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Looks around. Republicans control both Houses, tRump is POTUS, sexual assault victims are being ridiculed and slut shamed by the president himself as well as other members of the administration and congress, while an accused sexual predator is poised to become a sitting member of the SCOTUS and White Nationalism is be openly flaunted . If this isn’t chaos, it’s the frigging event horizon of chaos.
just helping out
Maybe you should have someone who can write in English operate this propaganda account. As it is, you’re obviously foreign interference, so you’re entirely wasting your time. Go outside and do something fun instead of wasting your time. Life is short.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
Wikipedia bans right-wing site Breitbart as a source for facts https://t.co/xNMkqDzidI pic.twitter.com/bTqoAsQSE8
— Motherboard (@motherboard) October 3, 2018
re: #164 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Looks around. Republicans control both Houses, tRump is POTUS, sexual assault victims are being ridiculed and slut shamed while an accused sexual predator is poised to become a sitting member of the SCOTUS and White Nationalism is be openly flaunted . If this isn’t chaos, it’s the frigging event horizon of chaos.
Keeper phrase.
re: #167 gocart mozart
This is entirely normal for a narcissist. Trump thinks he’s the smartest man in the world, when he obviously has an age-related disability.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
That NYT Trump story is like telling people there’s no Santa, the myth is too big to fail now.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 3, 2018
re: #172 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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Rob Garde? Sounds like a fake name. “Garderobe” was another term for privy.
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
It doesn’t matter who you are, what party you belong to, who you voted for, where you live, what religion you are, or whether you’re a man or woman: mocking someone like this is inhuman. https://t.co/8L99s7dBF8
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) October 3, 2018
re: #173 Kragar
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Because those sites just became questionable after years of accurate reporting.
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They should never have been considered reliable sources.
Trump’s a rare kind of human. Someone who was an asshole all his life, then got dementia, but was not put in a facility. It’s rare to encounter someone like this if you don’t work in memory-care.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
Considering all the talk on Faux, the impression being made is the FBI is not working to release the report today because its investigation has concluded, but because the only way Mitch can keep his promise of a vote this week is to invoke cloture by 11:59pm EDT.
As she makes her first big solo trip abroad, Mrs. Trump seems ready to show another side of herself: the happy one. https://t.co/S9QAUw0hXl
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) October 3, 2018
And all it took was having the entire planet Earth between herself and Donald. https://t.co/7NhhrSHzfP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #178 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
They don’t understand that getting what you think you want when you’re stupid does not work out well. This idea that angry stupidity is more valuable than intelligence and experience will be the end of us.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #171 dangerman
Thanks. You defiantly improved on my post.
RoK urging us to water down our denuclearization demands. Key point - we still don’t have an inventory of North Korea’s nuclear assets. And they’re still producing more of them. https://t.co/VMGihw08am
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) October 3, 2018
Just as I’ve feared. Whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed, I think this episode has fired up the GOP.
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
re: #180 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
“Memory care facility” makes me think of a discussion my sister told me about. What you need to understand about my sisters is that the one who actually controls Dad’s finances and living situation is pretty Zen about things, while the other one is an anxiety-riddled control freak.
Control Freak Sister asked Zen Sister what they’d do if Dad needed to go into a memory care facility.
Zen Sister said, “He’s got enough money, between savings, pension, and Social Security, for 5 years.”
Control Freak Sister then said, “But what about after that?!?”
Dad just turned 100….
re: #186 thecommodore
Just as I’ve feared. Whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed, I think this episode has fired up the GOP.
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
The party of rape. Anyone who still self-identifies as Republican is extremely likely to be entirely hopeless and beyond redemption. It’s the people who are not interested in politics that have to realize how destructive having a mad President is, and turn things around.
re: #169 gocart mozart
On Curing the Disability and Disease of Left-Handedness
I do everything left-handed except for playing guitar.
My dad, brother and three uncles all played, righties all. I just figured that was the way it was done. When Hendrix hit the scene, I was completely confused.
re: #186 thecommodore
Just as I’ve feared. Whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed, I think this episode has fired up the GOP.
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
That kind of “coming home to roost” is exactly what GOPers did in 2016, as well. Counting on depressed GOPer turnout was never a winning strategy - Dems have to boost their own.
re: #158 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
If you were wondering…No, Trump shouldn’t be able to use the system to broadcast his tweets.
The law explicitly states, “The public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.”
buzzfeednews.comIt could legally be used to report on Trump (by the letter of the law anyway), but not by Trump for his propaganda.
Threat to public safety is a broad category and Trump views immigrant related crime as being exactly that. FEMA is run by DHS, and the head of DHS flagrantly lied recently saying DHS had no child separation policy when she had explicitly signed off on exactly that.
So, frankly I have no idea where the credulous acceptance that this system can’t or won’t be politically abused comes from. What exactly is stopping him from ginning up some intelligence report of an imminent terrorist attack and “warning” us all about it just before an election if everyone responsible for sending these messages works directly for him?
re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White
“Memory care facility” makes me think of a discussion my sister told me about. What you need to understand about my sisters is that the one who actually controls Dad’s finances and living situation is pretty Zen about things, while the other one is an anxiety-riddled control freak.
Control Freak Sister asked Zen Sister what they’d do if Dad needed to go into a memory care facility.
Zen Sister said, “He’s got enough money, between savings, pension, and Social Security, for 5 years.”
Control Freak Sister then said, “But what about after that?!?”
Dad just turned 100….
Damn. My mom died in her early 40’s, and my dad is showing his age at 75.
If he’s lived to 100, I would not assume he’ll die in 5 years. He might be immortal.
re: #191 Interesting Times
That kind of “coming home to roost” is exactly what GOPers did in 2016, as well. Counting on depressed GOPer turnout was never a winning strategy - Dems have to boost their own.
Which is about all most Democrats have been doing. GOTV is pretty much the majority of what they do.
re: #192 goddamnedfrank
Threat to public safety is a broad category and Trump views immigrant related crime as being exactly that. FEMA is run by DHS, and the head of DHS flagrantly lied recently saying DHS had no child separation policy when she had explicitly signed off on exactly that.
So, frankly I have no idea where the credulous acceptance that this system can’t or won’t be politically abused comes from. What exactly is stopping him from ginning up some intelligence report of an imminent terrorist attack and “warning” us all about it just before an election if everyone responsible for sending these messages works directly for him?
Because it’s not from Trump.
If FEMA uses it to send a fake terrorist warning, at least half of the country will consider it a terrorist act by FEMA against America, and it will be the end of the Trump administration.
Can report all the key senators are sick of the media
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) October 3, 2018
So what you’re saying is … they don’t like the fact that a bunch of people are screaming at them about a choice they have the right to make? https://t.co/bpxJbzFYpa
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 3, 2018
.@marcorubio reacts to NYT story on Trump tax fraud: “It’s obviously — I think it’s a testament to how crazy and complicated the tax code is in general.” (via @maritavlachou)
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) October 3, 2018
Rubio 10/2016: I will be a check and balance on Trump, mark it down sirs
Rubio 10/2018: I mean, if you think about it, it’s only “tax fraud” if you expect the president to “follow” the “laws” https://t.co/SKLxV030pa— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) October 3, 2018
re: #190 makeitstop
I do everything left-handed except for playing guitar.
My dad, brother and three uncles all played, righties all. I just figured that was the way it was done. When Hendrix hit the scene, I was completely confused.
Mrs. FBW’s Mom was lefthanded, but she was a child just when that came out, and they tried to ‘cure’ her. Might have made her dyslexic.
Mrs. FBW is righthanded, but sufficiently adept with her left hand* that she was able to train herself to write upside down and backwards with her left hand, nearly as neatly as she writes upright with her right hand.
*[small] And bored as fuck in high school[/smal]
How do they feel about betraying American women to please the radicalized-right, that resents the freedom that comes with living in America? This is my concern.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #176 jaunte
That NYT Trump story is like telling people there’s no Santa, the myth is too big to fail now.
too big to fail, my ass
anyone over eight years old knows there’s no santa
if that’s the measure…
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
We get local alerts on TV all the time for weather related events. So far, this doesn’t seem really different in kind from those.
They had the monthly test of the Capital Area Emergency Response Network today on KUT (our NPR radio station). Matty McConaughey narrated it.
re: #192 goddamnedfrank
What’s to stop him from doing it on the already existing one on television?
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
I still fail to see why presidential alerts are even necessary, other than giving the moron-in-chief another ego-stroking perk.
What do presidential alerts accomplish that we don’t already have with national alerts for weather, disasters, national emergency?
Not. A. Damned. Thing.
I dunno…that’d be a question for every president since Eisenhower.
Fox confirms via 2 Sr Senate sources the FBI is expected to send a single copy of the supplemental report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Hill. All 100 Senators and 9 staffers will be authorized to read it. It will be kept in a Safe in the Sen Judiciary Cmte, per @MikeEmanuelFox
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) October 3, 2018
“single copy” “kept in a safe”
“Many calls”:[no phone numbers allowed] https://t.co/p4URtMZtV9— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 3, 2018
This is nuts.
re: #186 thecommodore
It could also mean that even fewer people identify as Republican now, so the rabbid base makes up a larger percentage of the GOP.
re: #197 Kragar
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It’s probably a good thing that I’m not a Senator. I would probably have punched Rubio in the face a thousand times by now. That fucking coward.
After Christine Blasey Ford testified at Senate hearing, WH Counsel Don McGahn cleared holding room of aides and spoke privately to Brett Kavanaugh and his wife. McGahn advised that he not hold back and show some emotion when testifying before committee. https://t.co/Bd5BOJheKr
— Peter Nicholas (@PeterWSJ) October 3, 2018
and after Kavanaugh testified, McGahn took oversight of the FBI investigation https://t.co/s3SNTfDJaP
— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) October 3, 2018
re: #201 austin_blue
They had the monthly test of the Capital Area Emergency Response Network today on KUT (our NPR radio station). Matty McConaughey narrated it.
Sorry, but the Canadians beat them to it.
acronyms.thefreedictionary.com
re: #208 KGxvi
It’s probably a good thing that I’m not a Senator. I would probably have punched Rubio in the face a thousand times by now. That fucking coward.
Caning is the more traditional rebuke….
re: #148 dangerman
“just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing…”
Ooooh, nice…a stealth Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country quote.
Republicans told the man to act completely crazy so Trump would relate to him. The Republicans are so lost. You don’t change to please a madman, you remove the madman.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #211 Blind Frog Belly White
Caning is the more traditional rebuke….
I’m a professional wrestling fan, so steel chair to the head and powerbomb through a table.
re: #212 TedStriker
Ooooh, nice…a stealth Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country quote.
Old Vulcan saying, only Nixon could go to China.
re: #211 Blind Frog Belly White
Caning is the more traditional rebuke….
I think I can take him in a duel, but most of my experience is in VR, so I may be mistaken.
re: #195 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Because it’s not from Trump.
If FEMA uses it to send a fake terrorist warning, at least half of the country will consider it a terrorist act by FEMA against America, and it will be the end of the Trump administration.
DHS kidnapped children in an explicit effort to terrorize immigrants seeking asylum. Then, after literally announcing it as a new policy they flagrantly lied about it even being a policy at all. Then they tried to blame their new on a non-existent “Democrat law.” Then they deported parents, keeping some kids, and after they were ordered by the courts to stop they missed several reunification deadlines and are now steadfastly refusing to reunite the remaining families they tore apart. And Trump’s poll numbers have barely budged.
So, again, I have no idea where your belief that somehow abusing this system would finally be the bridge too far comes from. If his administration has learned anything it’s that they don’t have to follow the rules.
Fox confirms via 2 Sr Senate sources the FBI is expected to send a single copy of the supplemental report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Hill. All 100 Senators and 9 staffers will be authorized to read it. It will be kept in a Safe in the Sen Judiciary Cmte, per @MikeEmanuelFox
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) October 3, 2018
Three days is PLENTY of time to do a thorough, complete investigation of the allegations against Kavanaugh.
[cough] https://t.co/qnciZp8T7B— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #207 JC1
It could also mean that even fewer people identify as Republican now, so the rabbid base makes up a larger percentage of the GOP.
We know this is the case. The sane Republicans got called RINOs and run out by complete lunatics who think far-right propaganda is “the news”.
re: #206 jaunte
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This is nuts.
Ah, gotta love that “transparency” that the GOP are so big about…
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re: #218 Charles Johnson
The Thomas/Hill investigation took about three days. They’ve got enough agents that they can get these investigations done pretty quickly.
It is, but only if they found something so disqualifying that they didn’t have to continue. Unfortunately I can’t assume that’s the case due to Trump’s swamp getting everything stinky.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #190 makeitstop
I do everything left-handed except for playing guitar.
My dad, brother and three uncles all played, righties all. I just figured that was the way it was done. When Hendrix hit the scene, I was completely confused.
i am definitely lefty dominant
as a child, they tried to fix my handwriting. i resisted.
i throw and catch lefty
i bat and kick, play pool righty
fence lefty (there are very few of us)
when i started guitar lessons in like 4th grade (1960’s) the guy asked if anyone was left handed. i was afraid to say yes. he said good, i didnt want to have to restring this thing anyway. i remember it to this day.
it wouldnt have matter - lefty or righty - i wasnt so hot. i play a mean stereo though
re: #217 goddamnedfrank
DHS kidnapped children in an explicit effort to terrorize immigrants seeking asylum. Then, after literally announcing it as a new policy they flagrantly lied about it even being a policy at all. Then they tried to blame their new on a non-existent “Democrat law.” Then they deported parents, keeping some kids, and after they were ordered by the courts to stop they missed several reunification deadlines and are now steadfastly refusing to reunite the remaining families they tore apart. And Trump’s poll numbers have barely budged.
So, again, I have no idea where your belief in this finally being the bridge too far comes from. If his administration has learned anything it’s that they don’t have to follow the rules.
Kidnapping children did not inconvenience Americans. It’s like you’re not looking at this from the perspective of an American.
re: #206 jaunte
Fox confirms via 2 Sr Senate sources the FBI is expected to send a single copy of the supplemental report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Hill. All 100 Senators and 9 staffers will be authorized to read it. It will be kept in a Safe in the Sen Judiciary Cmte, per
This is nuts.
how dare the people believe they have a right to know what their senator is voting on (in their name)
re: #226 Mike Lamb
Fake news. That shit has been solved.
It’s true. Trump and Kim are lovers now, and talked it through. I’m 99% sure Trump said so.
re: #227 dangerman
how dare the people believe they have a right to know what their senator is voting on (in their name)
Senators don’t want little-people telling them what to do. Do you know who they are!!!
his teeth gritted and his eyes fixed adoringly on the small hands of the grifter working the throttle, he see’s two American heroes, Trump and his faithful sidekick working to make the world better with their smears, cruelty and just plain idiocy. Lindsey- a man for all seasons
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 3, 2018
“Raise serious concerns”? I’ll say! This Kavanaugh “investigation” was 100% BS from day one. It’s nothing but a cover-up. pic.twitter.com/cq9wPYvukO
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 3, 2018
re: #230 gocart mozart
I’d forgotten this. I’m old, and my mind is going.
29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018
re: #233 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I’d forgotten this. I’m old, and my mind is going.
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He has some integrity to him I’ll grant that.
How did Chris Cillizza ever manage to fail upward into a very lucrative job with CNN, and then churn out these asinine pieces every single day? Doesn’t anyone there ever notice how fatuous and pathetic this guy is?
re: #73 Charles Johnson
Honestly, I don’t find this very reassuring at all.
I have mixed feelings. If I think Obama Presidential Alert 3 years ago I think okay fine. Good idea if run well. Now with Trump I’m caught between the utility of emergency alerts and the chaotic shitshow that passes for presidential. California is building an earthquake alert system, tsunami alerts are real. If a cyber attack on certain infrastructure were underway an alert could be helpful to buy people some time against power outages or an incipient deliberate internet attack and take down by the government with a kill switch similar to an aircraft ground stop in the event of terror.
…the fuck??
INSANE: A dark money group posted a solicitation looking for a voiceover artist to pretend to be Hassan Rouhani for an ad in which the Iranian president endorsed Beto O’Rourke https://t.co/J3xy31iABC
Via @GideonResnick— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 3, 2018
re: #235 Charles Johnson
How did Chris Cillizza ever manage to fail upward into a very lucrative job with CNN, and then churn out these asinine pieces every single day? Doesn’t anyone there ever notice how fatuous and pathetic this guy is?
He should have been laughed out of class after the best Trump insults listicle.
re: #186 thecommodore
Just as I’ve feared. Whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed, I think this episode has fired up the GOP.
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
If/when the (apparently) inevitable confirmation comes to pass, it will be interesting to see if their enthusiasm keeps up with the anger from the left…
re: #237 makeitstop
…the fuck??
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Cruz again is showing why he didn’t deserve Beto’s defense.
What an awesome catch: The NYT’s bombshell came about because Susanne Craig found a tiny little thread in an old Senate disclosure and started pulling pic.twitter.com/YQIiZGPe4I
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 3, 2018
re: #235 Charles Johnson
How did Chris Cillizza ever manage to fail upward into a very lucrative job with CNN, and then churn out these asinine pieces every single day? Doesn’t anyone there ever notice how fatuous and pathetic this guy is?
I think they give him an A for effort and an F for execution, averaging to a C.
re: #237 makeitstop
…the fuck??
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This is along the lines of the ads being run against Antonio Delgado that are straight race baiting.
re: #239 Mike Lamb
If/when the (apparently) inevitable confirmation comes to pass, it will be interesting to see if their enthusiasm keeps up with the anger from the left…
I dunno. Man this pisses me off. Why can’t we galvanize to REJECT a sexual predator while they are uniting to PROTECT one. If he gets confirmed and they keep the House, I just may be about done. WTF left. Unite!
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
Donald Trump will have to pay back any money he “owes” New Yorkers from dodging taxes, mayor declares https://t.co/QZCiHpsHw3
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) October 3, 2018
re: #247 jaunte
Donald Trump will have to pay back any money he “owes” New Yorkers from dodging taxes, mayor declares
Hand it over to the AG, Mr. Mayor.
re: #247 jaunte
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Not going to happen Bill. You’ll get video of Trump with Ivanka before he pays a dime.
re: #247 jaunte
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can he not just give himself a presidential pardon or executive exemption? i am sure kavanaugh would support him on that
re: #186 thecommodore
Just as I’ve feared. Whether or not Kavanaugh is confirmed, I think this episode has fired up the GOP.
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
it’s either an outlier or merely a single data point
the earlier 12 point (or so) lead was from back in the first week of september
the late september polling was about +7
so now the r’s are more energized about kav
and the d’s are more pissed off about kav
so? because i dont think any dems have recently decided not to vote
So one of the local condo board members is THAT GUY, just super anal. So one of my neighbors just started fucking with him, made it look like she was planning to build a chicken coop.
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
re: #251 dangerman
Also, isn’t the republican party now down to being just the base?
The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. https://t.co/Ekgat3cxbu pic.twitter.com/Nd4o77bJru
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) October 3, 2018
Pretty spot on.
The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. https://t.co/Ekgat3cxbu pic.twitter.com/Nd4o77bJru
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) October 3, 2018
going for a walk with mrs dm
she never got the alert so as far as she knows, everythings’ right with the world
Happy Anniversary, @MichelleObama. For 26 years, you’ve been an extraordinary partner, someone who can always make me laugh, and my favorite person to see the world with. pic.twitter.com/s8xoZ9j2YR
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 3, 2018
I wasn’t ready to laugh this hard pic.twitter.com/OZWaV6e8hP
— dylan (@dyllyp) October 3, 2018
Just got back in and I haven’t read any of the threads since I left in early afternoon.
I got that National Wireless Alert Message at 2:18, so that works.
But about two and a half hours later I got this text message
“Newt texted. Karl Rove texted. Even President Trump texted. Help us protect Trump’s majority. It’s urgent: (followed by a link to bit. ly website).”
I have never, ever ask for any contact from a Republican. I have never been contacted by a Republican.
Do I think I got this just after the national alert because the Republicans somehow got to use the call list???
It sure makes me wonder. And no matter what, it pisses me the hell off.
Did anyone else have the same happen?
.@marcorubio reacts to NYT story on Trump tax fraud: “It’s obviously — I think it’s a testament to how crazy and complicated the tax code is in general.” (via @maritavlachou)
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) October 3, 2018
There is nothing complicated about hiring your underage kids as “landlords” so you can illegally “gift” them your income while avoiding millions of dollars in taxes by calling the transfer a “business expense.” https://t.co/S2vE1Xq9Sd
— scarinscafe (@erinscafe) October 3, 2018
re: #253 harlequinade
Also, isn’t the republican party now down to being just the base?
Based on this tally from Rasmussen, nationally the registration numbers are 40/29/28 D/R/I, at least in states that register by party. The self-identification numbers in polls might be better indicators, but then you have to look at other things like party lean of independents.
re: #260 ObserverArt
Just got back in and I haven’t read any of the threads since I left in early afternoon.
I got that National Wireless Alert Message at 2:18, so that works.
But about two and a half hours later I got this text message
“Newt texted. Karl Rove texted. Even President Trump texted. Help us protect Trump’s majority. It’s urgent: (followed by a link to bit. ly website).”
I have never, ever ask for any contact from a Republican. I have never been contacted by a Republican.
Do I think I got this just after the national alert because the Republicans somehow got to use the call list???
It sure makes me wonder. And no matter what, it pisses me the hell off.
Did anyone else have the same happen?
I think it’s just the next step in direct calling. Every once in a while I get a text message that is someone trying to sell something, very rare, but I suspect that text spam is coming. Almost as annoying as the thing they do now where they mask calls and your call ID shows a number similar to yours, same area code and three digit prefix.
re: #260 ObserverArt
I’d guess that was coincidence. I have another take…
1/2 Honestly the last worry I have about my cell phone is an alert from the “president”, it’s really FEMA. Can we talk about the number spoofing robo calls, the ads between every app, sms spam, the feds can clone it all no warrant within 100 miles of the border, every app,
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 3, 2018
2/2 vendor, and isp is selling my personal data and please about that net neutrality thing. Cause I have seen one alert and thousands of the things listed above that just keep coming.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 3, 2018
re: #262 jaunte
I’m sure plenty of very wealthy people do things like what Fred Trump did. But the thing is, Fred Trump did it in a very hamhanded and clumsy way (at least we know where Donnie got it from). This would have drawn much less attention if he’d simply created some businesses and trusts, where the kids were beneficiaries under the trust, and the trust held the shares of the businesses. But having five year olds on the payroll, and engaging in what is effectively money laundering by upcharging costs (though I think that might have been Don rather than Fred), that’s the sort of shit that should get you into trouble.
re: #264 KGxvi
But in terms of “the party is galvanized” isn’t this going to matter in places that are gerrymandered? They can be galvanized. There’s more of Us…you, I’m overseas..you get what I mean :)
Yowza — Senate Dems say in new letter that there is information in Kavanaugh’s past FBI background checks that involve either inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse (aides won’t elaborate which) https://t.co/BvmLewl1OX
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 3, 2018
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
GMTA!! Posted mine before seeing yours.
Wrong-o!
I made the Deadhead comment back when Trump was in the Columbus area to support Troy Balderson’s run against Danny O’Connor for Ohio District 12 House Rep primary election in May.
Local NBC TV did a report of a group that rents buses and goes to Trump rallies. I think I put up a video of the interview.
(And someone probably made the same comment earlier…it’s the way things work on the ‘net.)
re: #237 makeitstop
…the fuck??
INSANE: A dark money group posted a solicitation looking for a voiceover artist to pretend to be Hassan Rouhani for an ad in which the Iranian president endorsed Beto O’Rourke https://t.co/J3xy31iABC
Via @GideonResnick— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 3, 2018
Intern: “You know it should be easy to cobble up a fake commercial with Fidel Castro endorsing Ted Cruz. “
Campaign manager: “NO”
Intern: “Why not? Oh, because Castro is dead?”
Campaign manager: “NO, BECAUSE IT IS FUCKING UNETHICAL AND WE ARE NOT REPUBLICANS! By the way, you’re fired.”
re: #270 Charles Johnson
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“He’s had six background checks and nothing turned up!”
No, something turned up, just nothing relevant to his job at the time.
re: #254 jaunte
This is so well-written. Yes. The cruelty is the point. When people say, “He tells it like it is,” they mean: He says and does the cruel things I imagine, but don’t dare act on.
— Alice Engelmore (@AliceEngelmore) October 3, 2018
re: #270 Charles Johnson
Senate Dems say in new letter that there is information in Kavanaugh’s past FBI background checks that involve either inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse
That’s pretty damned smart.
If they won’t let you see the new stuff, go looking at the old stuff.
re: #260 ObserverArt
Just got back in and I haven’t read any of the threads since I left in early afternoon.
I got that National Wireless Alert Message at 2:18, so that works.
But about two and a half hours later I got this text message
“Newt texted. Karl Rove texted. Even President Trump texted. Help us protect Trump’s majority. It’s urgent: (followed by a link to bit. ly website).”
I have never, ever ask for any contact from a Republican. I have never been contacted by a Republican.
Do I think I got this just after the national alert because the Republicans somehow got to use the call list???
It sure makes me wonder. And no matter what, it pisses me the hell off.
Did anyone else have the same happen?
My family stuck me on GOP e-mal lists. They all go straight to trash.
It’s probably the mismatched priorities that offend me the most.
Almost three thousand Americans died in Puerto Rico on Trump’s watch, but instead of dealing with that FEMA is trying to force everyone into receiving text messages from him
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
Things could have been worse.
Trump could have matched you on Tinder!
re: #277 goddamnedfrank
It’s probably the mismatched priorities that offend me the most.
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Had this system been in place, the people of PR could have been warned that Trump was about to let 3,000 of them die from neglect.
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re: #277 goddamnedfrank
It’s probably the mismatched priorities that offend me the most.
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speaking just for myself: no, FEMA, I will not tell you I didn’t get the text…
re: #268 KGxvi
I’m sure plenty of very wealthy people do things like what Fred Trump did. But the thing is, Fred Trump did it in a very hamhanded and clumsy way (at least we know where Donnie got it from). This would have drawn much less attention if he’d simply created some businesses and trusts, where the kids were beneficiaries under the trust, and the trust held the shares of the businesses. But having five year olds on the payroll, and engaging in what is effectively money laundering by upcharging costs (though I think that might have been Don rather than Fred), that’s the sort of shit that should get you into trouble.
ding!
re: #260 ObserverArt
Just got back in and I haven’t read any of the threads since I left in early afternoon.
I got that National Wireless Alert Message at 2:18, so that works.
But about two and a half hours later I got this text message
“Newt texted. Karl Rove texted. Even President Trump texted. Help us protect Trump’s majority. It’s urgent: (followed by a link to bit. ly website).”
I have never, ever ask for any contact from a Republican. I have never been contacted by a Republican.
Do I think I got this just after the national alert because the Republicans somehow got to use the call list???
It sure makes me wonder. And no matter what, it pisses me the hell off.
Did anyone else have the same happen?
Sounds like a hell of a coincidence…the alerts are sent through a federal clearinghouse as a general (or targeted, for local and regional alerts) broadcast over cell networks, not as text messages to specific numbers.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed and adopted the network structure, operational procedures and technical requirements in 2007 and 2008 in response to the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act passed by Congress in 2006, which allocated $106 million to fund the program.[3] CMAS will allow federal agencies to accept and aggregate alerts from the President of the United States, the National Weather Service (NWS) and emergency operations centers, and send the alerts to participating wireless providers who will distribute the alerts to their customers with compatible devices via Cell Broadcast, a technology similar to SMS text messages that simultaneously delivers messages to all phones using a cell tower instead of individual recipients.[4][5]
The government issues three types of alerts through this system:
Alerts issued by the President of the United States.
Alerts involving imminent threats to safety of life, issued in two different categories: extreme threats and severe threats
AMBER Alerts.[4]
When the alert is received, a sound is played if the ringer is on. On nearly all devices, the Emergency Broadcast System radio/TV attention signal sounds in a predetermined pattern.[6]The system is a collaborative effort among the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA),[7]
A thread-appropriate story from last Wednesday:
35 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. By Dylan Matthews
re: #260 ObserverArt
I have never, ever ask for any contact from a Republican. I have never been contacted by a Republican.
Maybe it’s Rob Portman replying to your letters after all…
In case you missed it… Today’s Word of the Day: MUNDUNGUS (n.) rubbish, refuse; poor quality tobacco, or bad-smelling tobacco smoke
— Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks) October 3, 2018
“I think we saw why this White House so rarely does press briefings,” says @acosta on CNN. “They’re in a losing battle with the truth it seems on many days.”
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) October 3, 2018
re: #269 harlequinade
But in terms of “the party is galvanized” isn’t this going to matter in places that are gerrymandered? They can be galvanized. There’s more of Us…you, I’m overseas..you get what I mean :)
It really depends. GOTV efforts can still overcome gerrymandering and registration advantages (Obama did win North Carolina in 2008 and we do have Democratic Senators from North Dakota and Montana). The population of districts is always changing, people move in, people move out, young people become eligible, old people die, and we’re half way through this districting cycle, there will be a census in two years and new maps in four years.
re: #284 Interesting Times
Maybe it’s Rob Portman replying to your letters after all…
Good point, and you may be spot on.
Maybe a staffer did it.
Robby be wasting his time…that effort for a known hater?
And a good clue you are right…I just checked the link from the text message online and guess where it goes?
To the NRSC (National Republican Senate Committee) and asks for donations for Trump.
Grrrrrr. I of course asked for no contacts or further info from Portman.
You wanna play this game, Donny?
“Diaper Don would wake up in some stranger’s dorm room or off-campus apartment or bedroom in his frat house, covered in piss, walk back to his own room, and get blitzed that evening or the next anew,” https://t.co/0UWdEjZmhM
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 3, 2018
Man it’s so fucking hard to keep up with the news. I can’t even find out what the fuck is going on with the whole Cristiano Ronaldo rape allegations.
BREAKING: Reports say that several law enforcement officials have been shot in Florence, SC. Local officials say the suspected shooter is believed to be in custody. pic.twitter.com/vGwgjuZomH
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2018
Another tragic reminder that the 393,000,000 firearms that are in civilian hands pose a major threat to our law enforcement officials. https://t.co/RcFmwE7lPl
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) October 3, 2018
That’s a lot of guns.
Honestly tho, if the system was used for stuff like this I could probably get on board. pic.twitter.com/ocpabnxpdx
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2018
re: #292 jaunte
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That’s a lot of guns.
If it’s a white guy as the suspect, the #BlueLivesMatter crowd will be silent yet again.
One thing that is easier for us to judge is whether the GOP is likelier to turnout. We have absolutely zero increase in GOP intention to turnout, relative to Dems, since the hearing
We do have a slight overall uptick though— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 3, 2018
This is what I was getting at. What we want to know is which voters are most likely to turn out. To be a bit reductionist, what’s the difference between likely voters and registered voters, or likely voters and all eligible adults? That’s a good measure of the “enthusiasm gap”. https://t.co/HrkckTKJbX
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 3, 2018
Runoff from the tail end of a tropical storm threatens to break through an earthen dam and flood a tiny tribal village in southern Arizona. Officials say they’re leading evacuations. https://t.co/Wr5NUpeSlZ
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) October 3, 2018
PHOENIX (AP) — An earthen dam in Arizona’s southern desert could fail and flood a small village because the lake behind it is swollen with runoff from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa, officials said Wednesday.
Ali Chuk, a Native American community with 162 people on the Tohono O’odham (TOH’-oh-no OH’-tum) Nation reservation, was being evacuated Tuesday night, the tribe’s public safety department said in a statement.
No further details were available Wednesday on the evacuations. Tribal officials planned to inspect the dam and lake by helicopter.
Water levels were within a foot (0.3 meters) of topping Menagers Dam, which could give way and flood Ali Chuk, the National Weather Service said.
The area near the Mexico border got between 3 and 5 inches (8 to 13 centimeters) of rain on Tuesday. Flooding from runoff made roads impassable.
There were no reports Wednesday of additional rain.
This explains the stupidity. DJ decided to pickle his brain to the point where he smelled like a wino, instead of getting an education.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #235 Charles Johnson
How did Chris Cillizza ever manage to fail upward into a very lucrative job with CNN, and then churn out these asinine pieces every single day? Doesn’t anyone there ever notice how fatuous and pathetic this guy is?
Fatuous and pathetic is big these days and it sells.
re: #293 goddamnedfrank
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re: #302 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Gamera is a friend to all children, and must not be eaten.
Exactly. He put Guillon in his place 50 years ago.
None other than Mitch McConnell owes his political career to felon disenfranchisement. McConnell won first election to Senate in 1984 by 5,000 votes but roughly 8,000 disenfranchised ex-felons in Kentucky would have been expected to vote for his Democratic opponent pic.twitter.com/k156Ee7NZD
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 3, 2018
President Trump has sold himself as a self-made billionaire but a Times investigation found that he received more than $400 million from his father’s empire, much of it through dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud. https://t.co/CciVkq5mDU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump’s days of defrauding Americans are coming to an end.I welcome the NYS Department of Taxation & Finance’s inquiry & call on any agency with jurisdiction—from the IRS to the NY AG—to follow the facts wherever they may lead.no stone should be left unturned. https://t.co/8OskQ87Gs3
— Tish James (@TishJames) October 3, 2018
re: #268 KGxvi
I’m sure plenty of very wealthy people do things like what Fred Trump did. But the thing is, Fred Trump did it in a very hamhanded and clumsy way (at least we know where Donnie got it from). This would have drawn much less attention if he’d simply created some businesses and trusts, where the kids were beneficiaries under the trust, and the trust held the shares of the businesses. But having five year olds on the payroll, and engaging in what is effectively money laundering by upcharging costs (though I think that might have been Don rather than Fred), that’s the sort of shit that should get you into trouble.
The up charging costs wasn’t ONLY about money laundering and tax fraud; it was also about creating documentation to convince the rent control board to let him raise rates on fixed-income seniors who were supposed to have special protection even beyond what’s due ordinary rent-controlled tenants. So he wasn’t just stealing from “the gov’t” or “the taxpayers”, he was stealing from people’s grandmas.
OK…I have my (super)dumb flip-phone turned off unless I’m leaving the house, because I don’t want to charge it every three days. I turned it on now to see if I got the famous tRump text, and nada.
I get text messages—a few accounts when I change the password (“If you didn’t do this, blah, blah, blah”) and somebody texts me in Romanian a few times a year (dunno what that’s about)—so I was expecting to see a text when I turned the phone on, but nothing, and nothing in the inbox.
Does it only work for “smart” phones? That’s Harry Turtledove’s theory, I notice above.
Dozens of witnesses. Dozens.
Current and former FBI officials confirmed to NBC News that dozens of witnesses have come forward to FBI field offices who say they have information on Brett Kavanaugh, but agents have not been permitted to talk to many of them. https://t.co/qE63ba9pyq
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 3, 2018
re: #308 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
OK…I have my (super)dumb flip-phone turned off unless I’m leaving the house, because I don’t want to charge it every three days. I turned it on now to see if I got the famous tRump text, and nada.
I get text messages—a few accounts when I change the password (“If you didn’t do this, blah, blah, blah”) and somebody texts me in Romanian a few times a year (dunno what that’s about)—so I was expecting to see a text when I turned the phone on, but nothing, and nothing in the inbox.
Does it only work for “smart” phones? That’s Harry Turtledove’s theory, I notice above.
Yes. It was an alert, not a text message.
re: #309 makeitstop
Dozens of witnesses. Dozens.
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Either because they already have enough on him, or because it was a sham, and we need to work harder to drain the Republican swamp.
“After today’s ratings changes, there are 15 GOP-held seats in Lean or Likely Democratic (including seven incumbents) and Democrats would only need to win 11 of the 31 races in the Toss Up column to flip the majority. There’s still time for political conditions to change, but today the likeliest outcome appears to be a Democratic gain of between 25 and 40 seats (they need 23 for House control).”
re: #308 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
OK…I have my (super)dumb flip-phone turned off unless I’m leaving the house, because I don’t want to charge it every three days. I turned it on now to see if I got the famous tRump text, and nada.
I get text messages—a few accounts when I change the password (“If you didn’t do this, blah, blah, blah”) and somebody texts me in Romanian a few times a year (dunno what that’s about)—so I was expecting to see a text when I turned the phone on, but nothing, and nothing in the inbox.
Does it only work for “smart” phones? That’s Harry Turtledove’s theory, I notice above.
I have a flip-phone that doesn’t hold its charge as long as it used to, but it’s always on, on my belt, with some onions. I got no alert.
re: #307 sagehen
The up charging costs wasn’t ONLY about money laundering and tax fraud; it was also about creating documentation to convince the rent control board to let him raise rates on fixed-income seniors who were supposed to have special protection even beyond what’s due ordinary rent-controlled tenants. So he wasn’t just stealing from “the gov’t” or “the taxpayers”, he was stealing from people’s grandmas.
Not surprising at all. I haven’t read the story and have only got bits and pieces from various sources that I wasn’t necessarily completely focused on listening/watching.
What really gets me about Trump is that he had to know all this less than legal shit had to have happened. And that if he ran for (and on the off chance became) president, it would all come out. How dumb/full of hubris must one be to figure “fuck it, let’s do it anyway”?
re: #305 jaunte
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This is where their lying may catch up with them. The base refuses to believe in Republican voter suppression and intimidation and gerrymandering, so I read that the MI redistricting and automatic registration initiatives and the FL felon reenfranchisement initiative, to name three, are way ahead in the polls.
re: #313 wrenchwench
I have a flip-phone that doesn’t hold its charge as long as it used to, but it’s always on, on my belt, with some onions. I got no alert.
mrs dm has the same phone as i do
we were 15 feet from each other all day (as were our phones)
i got the alert about 20 minutes late
she hasnt yet (im assuming wont)
re: #314 KGxvi
Not surprising at all. I haven’t read the story and have only got bits and pieces from various sources that I wasn’t necessarily completely focused on listening/watching.
What really gets me about Trump is that he had to know all this less than legal shit had to have happened. And that if he ran for (and on the off chance became) president, it would all come out. How dumb/full of hubris must one be to figure “fuck it, let’s do it anyway”?
i’ve been saying this for months
and either up thread or the last
- i cant understand how no one in his orbit said dont do this
- if they did then he owns the decision to ram full speed ahead
re: #316 dangerman
mrs dm has the same phone as i do
we were 15 feet from each other all day (as were our phones)
i got the alert about 20 minutes late
she hasnt yet (im assuming wont)
Any discontinuities in Space/Time in those 15 feet? If you make a joke, does she laugh 20 minutes later? Do you find yourself laughing at jokes she hasn’t made yet?
re: #314 KGxvi
Not surprising at all. I haven’t read the story and have only got bits and pieces from various sources that I wasn’t necessarily completely focused on listening/watching.
What really gets me about Trump is that he had to know all this less than legal shit had to have happened. And that if he ran for (and on the off chance became) president, it would all come out. How dumb/full of hubris must one be to figure “fuck it, let’s do it anyway”?
It’s his narcissism, and it’ll be his undoing. There’s been an darkly entertaining element to watching this tragedy play out pretty much as expected. It would be fun if people weren’t being hurt and killed.
re: #318 Blind Frog Belly White
Any discontinuities in Space/Time in those 15 feet? If you make a joke, does she laugh 20 minutes later? Do you find yourself laughing at jokes she hasn’t made yet?
Pane of slow glass between you?
re: #312 dangerman
538 has Rohrabacher and Walters losing. And they’re showing the 39th District to be a coin flip. The GOP losing three House seats in Orange County is kind of a big deal (two are completely in the county, the third is about half in Orange County)
Unfortunately Nunes and Hunter are both still heavy favorites in their districts.
re: #318 Blind Frog Belly White
Any discontinuities in Space/Time in those 15 feet? If you make a joke, does she laugh 20 minutes later? Do you find yourself laughing at jokes she hasn’t made yet?
I sometimes tell Mr. w that, ‘Just because I didn’t laugh does not mean I didn’t hear you.’ Now I say a weak ‘heh’. That’s short for, ‘heard, but no laugh’.
Friend Rejects Claim That Blasey Ford Coached Her On Taking Polygraph Test https://t.co/sb9KJ8uz3q via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2018
..as if this was ever in doubt.
re: #318 Blind Frog Belly White
Any discontinuities in Space/Time in those 15 feet? If you make a joke, does she laugh 20 minutes later? Do you find yourself laughing at jokes she hasn’t made yet?
- If you make a joke, does she laugh 20 minutes later?
if i dont get the eyeroll i may get the laugh, though sometimes i wait way more than 20 minutes
- Do you find yourself laughing at jokes she hasn’t made yet?
moreso ones she has made, when i think back….. my wife it turns out is a stealth wit. its not often, just enough. she come out with stuff so incisive and out of her normal character that i bow at the feet of greatness
meanwhile i’m telling and retelling the same puns muffin jokes and a grasshopper hops into a bar….
Turns out that Republicans lied again. I wonder what happens when they find themselves unable to lie their way to power anymore. It won’t be pretty.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 3, 2018
re: #317 dangerman
i’ve been saying this for months
and either up thread or the last- i cant understand how no one in his orbit said dont do this
- if they did then he owns the decision to ram full speed ahead
IMO, he never imagined, not even for one second, that he’d actually win. He was angling for an eight-year gig on the Sunday shows as President-in-Exile, like John McCain had….
re: #326 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
IMO, he never imagined, not even for one second, that he’d actually win. He was angling for an eight-year gig on the Sunday shows as President-in-Exile, like John McCain had….
But then why not run as an independent/third party candidate like he tried in 2000? He probably would have done better than the 7% he was supposedly polling back then.
One copy of the FBI report. No more than an hour to review it. No ability for any follow up. Then a rushed vote.
For 2 years, McConnell has been carefully and purposefully breaking the Senate. This is the final blow. No comity or tradition left. It’s just about power politics.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 3, 2018
Welp, I read the NYT story on the Drumpf family finances on hard-copy today and it is just amazeballs.
It’s crime-family level financial fiddling and appears to have put north of $430 million dollars into DJT’s pockets without being declared and/or taxed at actual value.
He’s been a shyster since he was Three. Fucking. Years. Old because of the trusts his father set up for his kids.
It’s actually a breathtaking level of graft.
re: #325 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #330 austin_blue
Welp, I read the NYT story on the Drumpf family finances on hard-copy today and it is just amazeballs.
It’s crime-family level financial fiddling and appears to have put north of $430 million dollars into DJT’s pockets without being declared and/or taxed at actual value.
He’s been a shyster since he was Three. Fucking. Years. Old because of the trusts his father set up for his kids.
It’s actually a breathtaking level of graft.
But he’s good old-fashioned American, pulled himself all the way up with his own bootstraps. How DARE you criticize the second coming of White American Jesus?!
Sources of today’s top performing Facebook posts about Kavanaugh, per @crowdtangle:
1. Fox News
2. Ben Shapiro
3. CNSNews (“News the Lefty Media Doesn’t Want You to Have”)
4. Breitbart
About Dr. Ford:
1. Fox News
2. CNN
3. Daily Caller
4. Breitbart— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) October 3, 2018
This is why America can’t have nice things. https://t.co/0TWLk6Nj3j
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #326 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
IMO, he never imagined, not even for one second, that he’d actually win. He was angling for an eight-year gig on the Sunday shows as President-in-Exile, like John McCain had….
i get that part
though up until this last election the press tore into everyone’s background long before they even declared
and well before anyone was singled out by winning the nomination
in foresight, the risk should have been there when he started to run - even if he lost the primaries
in hindsight, the press quit the job
re: #328 KGxvi
But then why not run as an independent/third party candidate like he tried in 2000? He probably would have done better than the 7% he was supposedly polling back then.
Would that feed narcissism like taking over the entire Republican party?
re: #328 KGxvi
But then why not run as an independent/third party candidate like he tried in 2000? He probably would have done better than the 7% he was supposedly polling back then.
If John McCain had run as a third party candidate in 2008, would he have been on Press the Meat every Sunday for eight years?
re: #333 Charles Johnson
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I suspect a lot of that is that the Right has a much more limited number of sources of news, so everyone on the Right hits all of those, whereas the rest of us get news from a much broader range of sites.
It’s like how Fox News is simultaneously the most trusted and least trusted news source - all the wingnuts say they trust it most, while everyone else spreads ‘most trusted’ over a number of different sources. Then when asked which source they trust least, everyone who isn’t a wingnut says Fix, and wingnuts split their votes among MSNBC, CNN, broadcast news sources, the NYT, Washpost, etc.
re: #336 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If John McCain had run as a third party candidate in 2008, would he have been on Press the Meat every Sunday for eight years?
No, of course not. But that’s because McCain was a life long Republican. Of course, if he would have gone independent in say 2005, as a protest against treatment of POWs, it might have gone differently (see: Lieberman, Joe). Point is, McCain was already in the system at that point, and had been for decades.
Trump was getting on Larry King all the time back in the day, and a third party/independent run would have cemented his standing as not your typical politician.
re: #335 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Would that feed narcissism like taking over the entire Republican party?
It all depends on how you frame it after the inevitable loss. He could tell the story of being his own man and how the corrupt two party swamp worked together to keep this true voice of the people out. He then has the ability to throw turds at both sides, while being used as a figurehead for the alt-right.
Is there any such thing as an IRS audit being “routine”?
BTW, Nate Cohn and Nate Silver both say that they don’t see any increase in how likely GOP voters are to vote, relative to before Kavanaugh.
One thing that is easier for us to judge is whether the GOP is likelier to turnout. We have absolutely zero increase in GOP intention to turnout, relative to Dems, since the hearing
We do have a slight overall uptick though— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 3, 2018
The Right always votes. It’s the Left that tends not to show up. It’s an article of faith on the Right that Romney lost because Conservatives didn’t show up at the polls, but Im not sure there’s data to back that up. If they were going to show up anyway, increased enthusiasm isn’t gonna do much.
re: #332 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
But he’s good old-fashioned American, pulled himself all the way up with his own bootstraps. How DARE you criticize the second coming of White American Jesus?!
Well, of course you are correct. I shall now hie me hence to Big Brother’s re-education center so that I can get a check-up from the neck up and a modification of my synaptical response to outright theft by a family which should be up for RICO prosecution, or at least recovery of several hundreds millions of $s of back taxes.
I’ll be back with a cheerful “Nothing to see here, folks! Can we just move on, now?”
Oh, and by the way, Drumf’s sister, a Federal Judge was in in it up to her judicial neck.
re: #339 Ace Rothstein
Is there any such thing as an IRS audit being “routine”?
Hasn’t it been since Nixon that the president’s tax returns are automatically subject to audit?
And, I suspect once you’ve been audited, you’re probably more likely to get audited 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
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
By this time next year, @BillKristol will be drafting an update to the Port Huron Statement! ;) https://t.co/A9o59aE8UG
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) October 3, 2018
The original Port Huron Statement, not the compromised second draft. https://t.co/klWPqXoByw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
re: #339 Ace Rothstein
Is there any such thing as an IRS audit being “routine”?
Technically, yes. However, considering that audits are driven by irregularities in the paperwork, the instigation of an audit is always, by definition, “not routine”. That doesn’t mean that the audit itself can’t just be a simple matter of clarifying some questions and resolving accidental discrepancies.
re: #340 Blind Frog Belly White
BTW, Nate Cohn and Nate Silver both say that they don’t see any increase in how likely GOP voters are to vote, relative to before Kavanaugh.
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The Right always votes. It’s the Left that tends not to show up. It’s an article of faith on the Right that Romney lost because Conservatives didn’t show up at the polls, but Im not sure there’s data to back that up. If they were going to show up anyway, increased enthusiasm isn’t gonna do much.
All numbers from wikipedia (because I am lazy), so take it for what you will:
2012 - 55% turnout, Obama 65.9m, Romney 60.9m
2008 - 58% turnout, Obama 69.5m, McCain 59.9m
2004 - 56.7% turnout, Bush 62m, Kerry 59m
2000 - 51% turnout, Bush 50.4m, Gore 50.99m
2016 - 55.7% turnout, Trump 62.9m, Clinton 65.8m
Obama was able to turn out way more voters than anyone else since 2000. Trump, Romney, and McCain’s numbers are all, more or less, in line with Bush’s turnout in 2004, when factoring in things like the state of the economy and population growth. For Romney to have beat Obama (at least in the popular vote), he’d need to have turnout up about 5% and it all go to him - highly unlikely.
I knew as soon as Jeff Flake started talking about an FBI investigation that it was going to be a sham. The only purpose of this fake investigation is to give him and the rest of the GOP feeble cover to ram Kavanaugh’s confirmation through. It’s a disgusting charade.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
If I could create the world again I’d do it sober.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 3, 2018
Well, can’t you? https://t.co/xj3hrzkTUC
— Fernanda Santos (@ByFernandaS) October 3, 2018
note that Ford, via her attorneys, is insisting to be interviewed by FBI. Kavanaugh definitely is not….
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 3, 2018
BREAKING: FBI hasn’t interviewed Kavanaugh or Ford because White House hasn’t given investigators clear authority to do so, sources tell @cstrohm & @spettypi
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) October 3, 2018
Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports, which the committee has reviewed on a bipartisan basis, was there ever a whiff of ANY issue – at all – related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse. 2/2
— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) October 2, 2018
This tweet is not accurate. Committee Republicans must correct it. See our letter here: https://t.co/trJ9ymDjee https://t.co/cCVpAwCzEI
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) October 3, 2018
Narrator: They’re not going to correct it. https://t.co/U6Ryzkutvf
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2018
I’m convinced Trump’s efforts to get his base to “buy in” to more and more blatantly toxic behavior - like insulting that reporter and laughing at Ford - increases their dependence on him. If they begin to doubt him, they’d have to face themselves and the mess they’ve made.
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 3, 2018
They’ve always been deplorable. They finally removed their mask.
Key Red State Paper Urges Republican Senators to Vote Against Kavanaugh @alternet https://t.co/PZ5fMf540J | We hired a pathological liar to be our President. Let’s not double down on crazy by hiring another to sit on the Supreme Court.
— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) October 4, 2018
re: #348 Single-handed sailor
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Wait, what?
Nobody asked him how a house down-payment, $200 large in “baseball tickets”, and a $90 large country club membership payment magically disappeared?
Boy, howdy, this Drumpf Admin has taken Extreme Vetting to new heights, eh?
The fix has been in from the start.
And there will be a backlash where people lose all confidence in the court system.
re: #353 Joe Bacon 🌹
The fix has been in from the start.
And there will be a backlash where people lose all confidence in the court system.
Hell, in the whole federal government apparatus. I mean, the executive branch appointed him, the legislative branch confirmed him, and all over the objections of We, the People. What’s that say about the way our country is run?
The Senate expects to get the FBI report on Kavanaugh late tonight and, per person briefed, each party will *alternate* between having access to it tomorrow a.m. (versus only 1 hour total):
GOP can access 8-9am
Dems from 9-10am
GOP from 10-11am
“It alternates and continues.”— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 3, 2018
Idiotic. https://t.co/M1Dki4KwWE
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) October 4, 2018
I’m convinced Trump’s efforts to get his base to “buy in” to more and more blatantly toxic behavior - like insulting that reporter and laughing at Ford - increases their dependence on him. If they begin to doubt him, they’d have to face themselves and the mess they’ve made.
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 3, 2018
Exactly. Debasing and degrading everyone he sucks into his orbit is one of his most effective con man tools. It’s a vicious cycle that establishes his dominance and diminishes his followers. This is how fascism takes root. https://t.co/bfOZxI48H1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
THREAD #1: A point-by-point breakdown of Judge Kavanaugh’s claims about the Manny Miranda email theft scandal.
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) October 3, 2018
Before allegations of sexual assault, there was evidence Kavanaugh lied about using stolen emails in connection with judicial confirmation proceedings he was involved in. Somehow, it didn’t catch public attention. @senatorleahy lays it out in this thread & it’s disqualifying. https://t.co/O1ba778sGk
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 4, 2018
I hope there are large scale protests planned if Kavanagh gets confirmed.
UH-OH…Does Trump have a twin? Last thing we need…. pic.twitter.com/TM5nTtfmtd
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 3, 2018
Why do I get on FB arguments? Total trump supporter is ok with putting kids in prison because their parents committed a crime. Plus Obama did the same thing. The usual BS. Why?
One copy of the FBI report. No more than an hour to review it. No ability for any follow up. Then a rushed vote.
For 2 years, McConnell has been carefully and purposefully breaking the Senate. This is the final blow. No comity or tradition left. It’s just about power politics.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 3, 2018
Senators get one hour to review Kavanaugh’s fbi report, that’s it. Then a rushed vote before the report leaks. McConnell has destroyed the Senate. https://t.co/IHRYQrOszf
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) October 4, 2018
re: #361 I Would Prefer Not To
Because we can sew consternation among our opponents and enemies.
re: #350 Single-handed sailor
I’ve said before that the hardest thing for people to do is admit they are wrong, and, like he said, the worse he gets, they more they’re willing to put up with so they don’t have to admit it.
re: #363 Unshaken Defiance
Because we can sew consternation among our opponents and enemies.
I don’t think I did that. I only annoy myself. conservatives never give on anything.
re: #361 I Would Prefer Not To
Why do I get on FB arguments? Total trump supporter is ok with putting kids in prison because their parents committed a crime. Plus Obama did the same thing. The usual BS. Why?
“Obama did it, too.”
“So now you agree with him? Is it right because two presidents did it?”
re: #351 jaunte
Big city paper in Red State says no on Kavanaugh.
Is it heard at all in the state?
Good of them to write that though. Wish there would be more.
How do you deal with a loved one who is a devout BOATHE SEIDES!!!1!!!!!
re: #366 Belafon
“Obama did it, too.”
“So now you agree with him? Is it right because two presidents did it?”
of course,
but Obama didn’t do it, but that doesn’t matter.
The nation’s largest group of Christian churches on Wednesday called for the withdrawal of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court.The National Council of Churches, which represents 38 denominations in the US, wrote in a statement on their website that they believe Kavanaugh has “disqualified himself from this lifetime appointment and must step aside immediately.”
re: #361 I Would Prefer Not To
Why do I get on FB arguments? Total trump supporter is ok with putting kids in prison because their parents committed a crime. Plus Obama did the same thing. The usual BS. Why?
Ask them if they think children should be incarcerated if their parents have a speeding ticket to any other misdemeanor. There’s so much ignorance on immigration law from the right and Trump and FNC are directly responsible for a lot of it.
Trump Tower: “The value of the tower was estimated at $450 million in 2017. Trump took out a $100 million mortgage on the building in 2012.”https://t.co/D37EcjdvKyhttps://t.co/XbjDeleA4y
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) October 4, 2018
re: #369 I Would Prefer Not To
of course,
but Obama didn’t do it, but that doesn’t matter.
I was originally going to go with “No, Obama didn’t do it” but I thought “you’re agreeing with Obama?” would be a more interesting route.
re: #373 Belafon
I was originally going to go with “No, Obama didn’t do it” but I thought “you’re agreeing with Obama?” would be a more interesting route.
It is. Yes, it is.
re: #373 Belafon
I was originally going to go with “No, Obama didn’t do it” but I thought “you’re agreeing with Obama?” would be a more interesting route.
Forget that, I want to know why punishing kids over their parents committing something akin to a speeding or parking violation is acceptable to the same people who think they shouldn’t have to vaccinate their kids.
All these great cuts from P.P.!
Haven’t heard them in years. But it’s nice to hear singing that puts a glide in my stride and a dip in my hip!
re: #376 HappyWarrior
Forget that, I want to know why punishing kids over their parents committing something akin to a speeding or parking violation is acceptable to the same people who think they shouldn’t have to vaccinate their kids.
Because “the sins of the father will be visited onto the son, even to the seventh generation.” Or whatever that kooky borderline OT bullshit that they quote is that they use to justify whenever they punish kids for something their parents have done.
re: #378 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Because “the sins of the father will be visited onto the son, even to the seventh generation.” Or whatever that kooky borderline OT bullshit that they quote is that they use to justify whenever they punish kids for something their parents have done.
Yeah you’re probably right. Sigh I hate these retrograde bastards.I really lost my temper bad today with a loved one because I think so much of Trump’s bullshit is getting to me.
re: #372 gocart mozart
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Tucker Carlson says backlash against Kavanaugh is a “revolution … waged against the working class” pic.twitter.com/aNPAECtnKu
— Mad Online Peltz (@peltzmadeline) October 4, 2018
Who knew “working class” meant going to one of the nation’s most expensive prep schools, then to Yale? https://t.co/zMeFux7GNr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
Yes I understand there are “protocols.” Anyone who thinks this POTUS abides by “protocols” is a fool.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 3, 2018
re: #381 Charles Johnson
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re: #381 Charles Johnson
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Who knew that Tucker was a Marxist? But who also knew that the Swanson frozen food heir who is going to bat for a guy whose actions happened literally when he went to a school called Georgetown Prep working class. And I see Lou Dobbs and his Ivy League background is tehre too. WTF do these guys actually know about the working class. I admit. I’ve never been working class but I’ve known a hell a lot more people who lived that life than they have.
re: #381 Charles Johnson
When Kavanaugh joins the majority in declaring Medicare and Social Security unconstitutional, it’ll all be for the working class, right, Lou?
re: #381 Charles Johnson
Who knew “working class” meant going to one of the nation’s most expensive prep schools, then to Yale?
“Working Class” means Republicans, because only they have jobs—DemonRats live on Free Stuff™ they provide.
re: #385 Belafon
When Kavanaugh joins the majority in declaring Medicare and Social Security unconstitutional, it’ll all be for the working class, right, Lou?
That’ll be different. // Because something something. Really, it’s hilarious to see Tucker using a dumb man’s Marxist analysis of this story. Kavanaugh is literally an alumni of a school called Georgetown Prep. Georgetown for those of you who don’t know is the most affluent part of D.C. Remember the Exorcist? Yep that’s Georgetown. And prep? I don’t even need to explain that. There is nothing working class about Brett Kavanaugh at all. The man’s grandfather went to Yale. Meanwhile my own grandfather didn’t graduate high school but because I’m a liberal, I’m an “elite” to a network owned by an Aussie billionaire.
I don’t even think conservatives like Tucker, Dobbs, Hannity, etc believe in anything anymore. They just hate the left and whatever we don’t like or like, they either like or hate.
Attorneys for Dr Ford say they won’t be providing @ChuckGrassley with the materials and documents he requested, but that they are prepared to provide them to the FBI, if they reach out to her: pic.twitter.com/Ek8ULfQoqT
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 3, 2018
re: #387 HappyWarrior
My grandfathers, I don’t know their educational history, but I know they didn’t even enter college, let alone graduate. If you want to talk about bootstrapping, my family is the epitome of the American Dream (helped along by a generous serving of white privilege, of course). But like you, I’m a “liberal elitist”.
re: #388 HappyWarrior
I don’t even think conservatives like Tucker, Dobbs, Hannity, etc believe in anything anymore. They just hate the left and whatever we don’t like or like, they either like or hate.
They only believe in maintaining power.
How the “meritocratic” system works to auto-legitimate the elite: by creating ever more finely graded social hierarchies at the very top, everyone feels someone else is the real incumbent elite & that their own success is the result of their own striving https://t.co/VLHru056kS pic.twitter.com/NzlukzAxMl
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) October 3, 2018
re: #392 jaunte
The tl;dr of Douthat’s piece is that the other kids are just jealous of Bart.
I’m pretty optimistic (with a healthy dash of cynicism) naturally, but I’m finding it really difficult to maintain that right now. This country is in deep shit and right now I don’t know how we’re going to dig our way out.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
re: #390 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My grandfathers, I don’t know their educational history, but I know they didn’t even enter college, let alone graduate. If you want to talk about bootstrapping, my family is the epitome of the American Dream (helped along by a generous serving of white privilege, of course). But like you, I’m a “liberal elitist”.
Now my dad’s father did graduate but he’s the only of my four grandparents who did. But he still worked his way from the ground up at the NLRB.
I know a lot of you don’t want TV much any more, but I can tell you there’s something that’s happening on there that I’m sure is driving the GOP mad. You need to watch a lot of TV commercials. For a long time, the commercials were generally only white people. After a while, they started putting whites and blacks together - a white couple and a black couple at a restaurant, or maybe the black family is visiting their white friends. Now, though, a large percentage, way larger than the population at large, features couples, and sometimes families, where one adult is white, and the other black (the SlingTV one with Dr. Ruth is the most recent one I saw). Amazon even had two commercials last Christmas featuring the same family, with a (goofy) white dad, a black mom, and their kids.
I’m sure this is eating at a lot of Republicans. And no matter what they try, we’re not going back.
In other words the FBI is the Wu Tang Clan and Senate Republicans are Martin Shkreli.
— Captain Pumpkin Spice (@goddamnedfrank) October 4, 2018
Pro tip: come at me with some garbled idiocy about your brainless QAnon delusion, get instantly blocked. And muted. Then blocked again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
The DEA’s ranking official in Colombia has been accused of hiring prostitutes, according to records obtained by @AP. Richard Dobrich denies the claim but is retiring amid the probe w/ @APjoshgoodman https://t.co/FCaRhmy6p7
— Jim Mustian (@JimMustian) October 3, 2018
I’m pretty sure there is a presidential precedence for hiring prostitutes. Move along nothing to see here.
re: #397 Belafon
I know a lot of you don’t want TV much any more, but I can tell you there’s something that’s happening on there that I’m sure is driving the GOP mad. You need to watch a lot of TV commercials. For a long time, the commercials were generally only white people. After a while, they started putting whites and blacks together - a white couple and a black couple at a restaurant, or maybe the black family is visiting their white friends. Now, though, a large percentage, way larger than the population at large, features couples, and sometimes families, where one adult is white, and the other black (the SlingTV one with Dr. Ruth is the most recent one I saw). Amazon even had two commercials last Christmas featuring the same family, with a (goofy) white dad, a black mom, and their kids.
I’m sure this is eating at a lot of Republicans. And no matter what they try, we’re not going back.
This is why they’re all babbling about “white genocide.” Their power is slipping away and they’re getting desperate.
BREAKING: National Archives Confirms Existence of Numerous Kavanaugh Records on Surveillance Programs https://t.co/szDt9oSid3 cc @EPICprivacy
— Alan Butler (@AlanInDC) October 3, 2018
Republicans are determined to put him on the Supreme Court before the public can discover what he’s done in the past. https://t.co/d1SIQPMT9X
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) October 4, 2018
re: #402 jaunte
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The more I learn about Kavanaugh the more furious I am that he rose through the ranks and had the influence he did. He’s like if Forrest Gump had a negative impact on US history.
re: #402 jaunte
Pretty sure that horse has already left the barn. The Republicans are just determined to put him on the Court to prove that they can, and that no matter what we want, they have all the power and we don’t. The funny thing is, it may wind up costing them every bit of that power because they’re too short-sighted to see the damage that this fight is doing to them.
re: #397 Belafon
I know a lot of you don’t want TV much any more, but I can tell you there’s something that’s happening on there that I’m sure is driving the GOP mad. You need to watch a lot of TV commercials. For a long time, the commercials were generally only white people. After a while, they started putting whites and blacks together - a white couple and a black couple at a restaurant, or maybe the black family is visiting their white friends. Now, though, a large percentage, way larger than the population at large, features couples, and sometimes families, where one adult is white, and the other black (the SlingTV one with Dr. Ruth is the most recent one I saw). Amazon even had two commercials last Christmas featuring the same family, with a (goofy) white dad, a black mom, and their kids.
I’m sure this is eating at a lot of Republicans. And no matter what they try, we’re not going back.
Did you watch Apple’s iPhone/Watch event last month? Every picture they showed seemed calculated to do the bigots one in the eye—on direct orders from Tim Cook, I’m willing to bet.
re: #397 Belafon
I know a lot of you don’t want TV much any more, but I can tell you there’s something that’s happening on there that I’m sure is driving the GOP mad. You need to watch a lot of TV commercials. For a long time, the commercials were generally only white people. After a while, they started putting whites and blacks together - a white couple and a black couple at a restaurant, or maybe the black family is visiting their white friends. Now, though, a large percentage, way larger than the population at large, features couples, and sometimes families, where one adult is white, and the other black (the SlingTV one with Dr. Ruth is the most recent one I saw). Amazon even had two commercials last Christmas featuring the same family, with a (goofy) white dad, a black mom, and their kids.
I’m sure this is eating at a lot of Republicans. And no matter what they try, we’re not going back.
There are subtle same sex relationships in some commercials too. It has all been going on for some time.
I ran screaming away from the right before it was cool to run screaming away from the right. And got slimed by the New York Times for it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
re: #404 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Pretty sure that horse has already left the barn. The Republicans are just determined to put him on the Court to prove that they can, and that no matter what we want, they have all the power and we don’t. The funny thing is, it may wind up costing them every bit of that power because they’re too short-sighted to see the damage that this fight is doing to them.
Because they’re counting on Kavanaugh to help them retain power.
re: #407 Charles Johnson
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Some of us were here to watch you do it, too. In case anyone doubts your CSB.
re: #409 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Some of us were here to watch you do it, too. In case anyone doubts your CSB.
The GOP will make sure the FBI avoids all of us.
re: #407 Charles Johnson
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The Times, eh?
I don’t think I’ve read that part of the story. Hint.
I let a Times reporter interview me in my home, and then he went to Pamela Freaking Geller for a derogatory quote about me. And he wanted to use false accusations from outright stalkers until I threatened to sue if he did.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
Yes, I am still seriously pissed off about that. It was a sleazy hit job, promoted to me as a sympathetic profile.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2018
re: #412 Charles Johnson
And for all that, the right wing still complains about how “left-biased” the mainstream media is. I mean, look at how they have treated Trump and Kavanaugh - with fucking kid gloves. If this were truly “fair and balanced” media? Those two would have been thrown through the fucking wringer by now.
re: #400 Single-handed sailor
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I’m pretty sure there is a presidential precedence for hiring prostitutes. Move along nothing to see here.
well, there’s certainly Secret Service precedence for that.
and in Colombia, too.
re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I have not been alerted.
Is that good, or bad?
Nor was I (AT&T).
I call that a good day.
re: #412 Charles Johnson
I let a Times reporter interview me in my home, and then he went to Pamela Freaking Geller for a derogatory quote about me. And he wanted to use false accusations from outright stalkers until I threatened to sue if he did.
Not sure if it was he same article, but I learned about LGF from a Times article. Thank you NY Times. Without LGF I would be in a political desert arguing trump supporters on FB.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only person in America who thinks it’s pretty fucking outrageous that the government can send messages to our phones that we can’t turn off.
I assure you that you are not the only one.
But I didn’t get it so there’s that. I’m not sure if I should be happy or pissed at the incompetence. I’m going with both.
re: #416 I Would Prefer Not To
Not sure if it was he same article, but I learned about LGF from a Times article. Thank you NY Times. Without LGF I would be in a political desert arguing trump supporters on FB.
In those days, LGF and Charles specifically were mentioned a few times in the NYT, mostly due to the ongoing kerfuffle about the Throbbing Memo.
I am still not sure why I didn’t get the stupid alert message.
re: #418 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In those days, LGF and Charles specifically were mentioned a few times in the NYT, mostly due to the ongoing kerfuffle about the Throbbing Memo.
I think it was a profile of LGF. Don’t remember it being negative of Charles. I registered in 2011, but was a lurker for a while prior. (In the olden days we wore onions on our belts and to wait to register).
re: #419 William Lewis
I am still not sure why I didn’t get the stupid alert message.
All smart phones should have gotten it. The next time it’s used, to warn us about the giant radioactive ants, you’re not going to know why people are running and screaming.
Rachel Maddow just said the Portland ME newspaper wrote an editorial asking for a no to Kavanaugh as a Supreme.
Message sent to Susan Collins.
Also 650 of the nation’s law professors sent a letter to the Senate urging a no on Kavanaugh.
Mitch is going to be pissing off a lot of organizations with his shove-through of their Brett.
re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter
At least it appears that if your phone is muted, you don’t hear the alarm.
Why I didn’t get it in AT&T perhaps is that I’m roaming in Canada (as always). I’m on CDN WiFi.
I did get one from Canada the other day. It made an ungodly sound. My phone was on mute at the time. It scared the crap out of me.
re: #417 MsJ
I assure you that you are not the only one.
But I didn’t get it so there’s that. I’m not sure if I should be happy or pissed at the incompetence. I’m going with both.
Back in 2011, when they tested the switchover to the Emergency Alert Service on TV and radio, DirecTV was using an unused channel to broadcast their signal, which also happened to be carrying Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi at the same time, so people heard that song as well: en.wikipedia.org.
re: #424 Skip Intro
I didn’t get it either.
When you see people running and screaming, run with them. They got the message.
OMG OMG OMG OMG THEY YELLED AT US AT THE AIRPORT & CALLED US MEAN NAMES!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG
My husband, Rand Paul, and our family have suffered intimidation and threats | By Kelley Paul via @CNNOpinion https://t.co/IWCzm5JpGm pic.twitter.com/IVAw27xd1Z
— CNN (@CNN) October 4, 2018
re: #422 ObserverArt
Rachel Maddow just said the Portland ME newspaper wrote an editorial asking for a no to Kavanaugh as a Supreme.
Message sent to Susan Collins.
Also 650 of the nation’s law professors sent a letter to the Senate urging a no on Kavanaugh.
Mitch is going to be pissing off a lot of organizations with his shove-through of their Brett.
And, the National Council of Churches also urged a no vote: #370.
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
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“Brett Kavanaugh attacked you, too?!!”
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
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Aren’t you the people who don’t want the government to do anything> Maybe your husband shouldn’t be a fucking Russian stooge if he doesn’t want to get yelled at. Oh and maybe you forgot but your husband was part of something called the Tea Party wave when Democrats got much more shit than your husband ever has all because they wanted to make health care more affordable.
re: #426 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I like that I didn’t get the message. I was thinking of getting a new phone but now I’m keeping the one with TrumpBlock.
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
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But fuck that crazy Muslim Obama guy and his family.
Voter Suppression Is Deeply Embedded in the Republican Party. Brett Kavanaugh Helped Put It There.
So did Don McGahn. There’s a reason one is shepherding the other onto the Supreme Court.
So the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary committee is taking advantage of confidentiality requirements to lie to the entire US citizenry about no hint of alcohol or sexual abuse appearing in the earlier six FBI background checks.
And the Democrats are still playing by the rules.
re: #435 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Voter Suppression Is Deeply Embedded in the Republican Party. Brett Kavanaugh Helped Put It There.
It seems like he’s been everywhere that I was reminded “Yeah I’m glad I’m not a fucking Republican.”
re: #436 jaunte
You mean the letter Durbin released:
Yowza — Senate Dems say in new letter that there is information in Kavanaugh’s past FBI background checks that involve either inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse (aides won’t elaborate which) https://t.co/BvmLewl1OX
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 3, 2018
re: #432 Skip Intro
I like that I didn’t get the message. I was thinking of getting a new phone but now I’m keeping the one with TrumpBlock.
You’re taking a chance there. I hope the ants don’t get you.
So far this is just a professional message from FEMA to test a system. If I get even one alert that abuses the system, I’ll join the outraged people, and also flash the ROM on my phone to shut that shit down.
Think about how dumb in business Trump has to be to get a huge fortune by inheritance, defraud the gov’t of maybe a half billion dollars, and he _still_ ended up indebt to the crime syndicate that runs Russia.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 3, 2018
I figure he was a playboy who spent daddy’s money, showing off, and turned to some shady deals with some bad people to maintain that lifestyle when the money ran out.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) October 4, 2018
Thinking about the mid terms, #metoo, and where Trump is trying to take us. Anthem with an edge. Just for us commie progressives that dare to make an issue of empathy for our fellow human beings.
Lyric sheet hidden to not clutter up the thread.
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re: #371 HappyWarrior
Ask them if they think children should be incarcerated if their parents have a speeding ticket to any other misdemeanor. There’s so much ignorance on immigration law from the right and Trump and FNC are directly responsible for a lot of it.
Ask them if they think they should go to jail for something their parents did
re: #427 The Vicious Babushka
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Hey Mrs Paul,
Talk to Dr ford
re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White
Mrs. FBW’s Mom was lefthanded, but she was a child just when that came out, and they tried to ‘cure’ her. Might have made her dyslexic.
Mrs. FBW is righthanded, but sufficiently adept with her left hand* that she was able to train herself to write upside down and backwards with her left hand, nearly as neatly as she writes upright with her right hand.
*[small] And bored as fuck in high school[/smal]
I am right-handed, so much so I almost can do nothing with my left hand. My sister is left-handed, and was constantly bashed by our grandparents for religious reasons to eat with her right hand. I was as well, because I also eat in the same fashion.
Our public schools also did the same thing at lunch, and for the same reason (religion).
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