Meet Brambi Streeter, the latest in a line of near-identical blonde conservative pundits.
Starring: Sarah Silverman as herself; Lawrence O’Donnell as himself; Milana Vayntrub as Brambi Streeter; Steve Tom as Scientist #1; Raj Desai as Scientist #2; and Andrea Anderson as Retired Brambi Clone.
Brambi Streeter was OK, but I’m looking forward to what Sluzi Guggle says.
I saw this the last time it was posted, and it turned out to be better than, and to have more to it, than I expected.
This is a real radio ad currently running in Arkansas in support of Republican Congressman French Hill on radio stations targeted to the African American community. I don’t even have words to describe it. pic.twitter.com/vpzt1nGPlc
— (((Ben Tribbett))) (@notlarrysabato) October 18, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2018
re: #1 Charles Johnson
This bit actually made me laugh out loud.
I posted this before. Saw it on Ari Melber’s show, late last week. Can’t remember now, time is bent.
Is that Cubic Zirconia and Burlap doing the voices?
From downstairs downstairs…which I am catching up on. Reposting here.
re: #313 jaunte
Years and years of disinvestment in Latino communities is hurting TX Democrats.
Here’s what the former mayor of Del Rio told us:
“A lot of people are like, ‘Why do I vote? Nothing changes.’ As a result, it’s getting harder & harder to turn people out.
This is the problem worldwide. The far right in most countries keeps things from happening that are positive for that nation’s citizens. This is why Brexit happened. Explicitly why (along with a massive disinformation campaign)…because citizens do not see anything changing that helps them.
This is by design.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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I have a hard time imagining it will sway too many Black voters. Is it supposed to make Whites feel good about voting for jerks?
“[Trump] has degraded the culture, more impact-fully, more quickly than any person in the history of this country. Bar none” - @SteveSchmidtSES w/ @NicolleDWallace + @Rosie @Eugene_Robinson pic.twitter.com/QvUSlP9tIp
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) October 18, 2018
re: #10 jaunte
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I don’t know how to take Schmidt. Yeah, he says a lot of good stuff, but then he slips into standard Republican too.
He said today he is holding Democrats responsible for not holding Trump to the high standards of this country or some such crap. My ears began shutting down.
As far as my thinking goes, he and Nicole have as much to do with today’s Republicans than anything the Democrats did. To criticize Democrats for not being tougher on Trump is bullshit coming from Schmidt.
He slinks out of the party, calls himself an independent to wipe his hands clean, and then holds the party he always bashed responsible?
Fuck that noise.
re: #11 ObserverArt
Yes, unless he adds the massive GOP hypocrisy over birtherism, deficits/tax cuts, and eliminating the ACA into the pile of things degrading the culture, take his statements with a massive bag of salt.
re: #11 ObserverArt
I don’t know how to take Schmidt. Yeah, he says a lot of good stuff, but then he slips into standard Republican too.
He said today he is holding Democrats responsible for not holding Trump to the high standards of this country or some such crap. My ears began shutting down.
As far as my thinking goes, he and Nicole have as much to do with today’s Republicans than anything the Democrats did. To criticize Democrats for not being tougher on Trump is bullshit coming from Schmidt.
He slinks out of the party, calls himself an independent to wipe his hands clean, and then holds the party he always bashed responsible?
Fuck that noise.
GODDAMNED right. They who fucking trained Palin deserve to never, ever be allowed to live that down. Never.
Had they said something before election night 2008 they could be forgiven. They didn’t. So they don’t get to just forget.
Fuck that noise, indeed.
And you think you’ve got it tough.
In audio captured by an NPR reporter, Republican Rep. Dave Brat tells an addict in jail—who said she worried about life after release—that his life is also difficult: “I’ve got $5 million worth of negative ads coming at me. How do you think I’m feeling?” https://t.co/HVXSvH6mSW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 18, 2018
Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected. #Trump2016
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2015
Some may have heard an appalling ad on the radio. I condemn this outrageous ad in the strongest terms. I do not support that message, and there is no place in Arkansas for this nonsense.
— French Hill (@ElectFrench) October 18, 2018
I see French Hill’s now scrambling to put the white sheets back on the bed. https://t.co/82dlWQYaDn
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) October 18, 2018
And again today …
Black While Shopping. “Gas Station Brenda” Calls Police on People Shopping In Her Convenience Store. (Goes to Daily Kos)
After the end of an anti-violence march in South Carolina, about thirty people stopped at a gas station convenience store to buy drinks.
The manager (a woman) pulled out her cell phone and called the police, claiming they were shutting off the gas pumps, damaging the store, &c. When the police arrived, she demanded they take the cell phone of one of the marchers who was recording her.
She’s been fired by her company.
One thing cell phones have done is expose the ugly underbelly of racism in the nation. Before they and the Internet were invented, such stories were not believed or people thought they were blown out of proportion.
re: #8 MsJ
From downstairs downstairs…which I am catching up on. Reposting here.
This is the problem worldwide. The far right in most countries keeps things from happening that are positive for that nation’s citizens. This is why Brexit happened. Explicitly why (along with a massive disinformation campaign)…because citizens do not see anything changing that helps them.
This is by design.
Part of it is also that change is typically slow, and so we don’t necessarily notice it. More often than not, you wake up one day and realize that things have changed rather than having the Big Thing happen and suddenly everything’s different.
re: #14 Skip Intro
And you think you’ve got it tough.
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It’s amazing how GOP officials never think of anyone but themselves. They are selfish to the core. But then these aren’t his voters. He was the candidate who defeated Eric Cantor even though Cantor outspent him by 40 to 1, but he did have the support of the usual suspects Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Mark Levin. They certainly can sway Republican primary voters.
The cost for purchased ads is deceptive — having endorsements from RW heavy hitters and free media provided by them can be far more valuable than traditional ads. That certainly was a lesson from 2016: the media provided Trump a couple billion dollars of free time, which was enough to offset expenditures by the other competitors.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
And again today …
Black While Shopping. “Gas Station Brenda” Calls Police on People Shopping In Her Convenience Store. (Goes to Daily Kos)
After the end of an anti-violence march in South Carolina, about thirty people stopped at a gas station convenience store to buy drinks.
The manager (a woman) pulled out her cell phone and called the police, claiming they were shutting off the gas pumps, damaging the store, &c. When the police arrived, she demanded they take the cell phone of one of the marchers who was recording her.
She’s been fired by her company.
One thing cell phones have done is expose the ugly underbelly of racism in the nation. Before they and the Internet were invented, such stories were not believed or people thought they were blown out of proportion.
I sure as heck wouldn’t have believed it 10-15 years ago.
It’s a shame Joni Ernst isn’t up this cycle (but she will be in 2020!):
China eats 123 billion pounds of pork a year, more than anyone else. Because of tariffs, the U.S. is getting shut out of that market. https://t.co/hwbedF7Iia
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 18, 2018
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
And again today …
Black While Shopping. “Gas Station Brenda” Calls Police on People Shopping In Her Convenience Store. (Goes to Daily Kos)
After the end of an anti-violence march in South Carolina, about thirty people stopped at a gas station convenience store to buy drinks.
The manager (a woman) pulled out her cell phone and called the police, claiming they were shutting off the gas pumps, damaging the store, &c. When the police arrived, she demanded they take the cell phone of one of the marchers who was recording her.
She’s been fired by her company.
One thing cell phones have done is expose the ugly underbelly of racism in the nation. Before they and the Internet were invented, such stories were not believed or people thought they were blown out of proportion.
When I was a deputy I took a call from a store clerk who was frightened that a young man had come in wearing an Arab-style headdress. I caught up with the fashion vandals and asked them what they were doing. The one in the pseudo-keffiyeh said he had just learned how simple it was to make one and wanted to try it out. This was the middle or summer, in the Mojave desert, so you could do considerably worse in a selection of head gear. They were polite and respectful, and a bit surprised that the woman had freaked out, since this was California and MUCH stranger things were a routine occurrence. I sent them on their way, then went to the clerk and explained to her that it was not illegal to wear ethnic headgear of any kind, unless there were weapons or obscene pictures attached to it, and she should probably not call again unless the offenders had something more substantial to offer in the way of threats.
re: #14 Skip Intro
And you think you’ve got it tough.
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Brat is in a very tight race; sure hope he loses.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson
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@Green_Footballs
JFC!(((Ben Tribbett)))
@notlarrysabato
This is a real radio ad currently running in Arkansas in support of Republican Congressman French Hill on radio stations targeted to the African American community. I don’t even have words to describe it. pic.twitter.com4:44 PM - Oct 18, 2018
They have already marketed the non-racist version of this message to white America: women cannot be trusted because they always cry rape. We have to protect our sons, fathers, and husbands because some evil woman like Dr. Ford will ruin their lives.
My sister said that one of the beauticians at her salon was decrying some Philadelphia case — which I never heard of so don’t know if there is any validity to it - in which supposedly a woman said she was assaulted, her friends backed her up, the assailant was convicted and sent to prison, and then 2 years later it was revealed to be a setup. Women are evil; the men must be protected.
The other foot:
Caller: “HELP! A man just came in dressed like a Republican! Red cap, khaki pants, white polo, the whole ugly rig! I’m afraid he might steal my purse or try to molest some kids!”
Dispatcher: “Does he have a gun?”
Caller: “Not this time, but I think I saw a Tiki torch in his pickup.”
Dispatcher: “Hang on! We’ll send the SWAT team.”
re: #23 Big Beautiful Door
Brat is in a very tight race; sure hope he loses.
I am going to donate to his opponent. Hopefully she can send him packing.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
And again today …
Black While Shopping. “Gas Station Brenda” Calls Police on People Shopping In Her Convenience Store. (Goes to Daily Kos)
After the end of an anti-violence march in South Carolina, about thirty people stopped at a gas station convenience store to buy drinks.
The manager (a woman) pulled out her cell phone and called the police, claiming they were shutting off the gas pumps, damaging the store, &c. When the police arrived, she demanded they take the cell phone of one of the marchers who was recording her.
I say again… there’s got to be some kind of contest going on. Racist Pokeman. I don’t know what the prizes are, but there’s somebody hoping to piss off enough black people to reach critical mass and somebody sometime is going to respond in a way that makes for wingnut viral video to justify all of it.
re: #24 Hecuba’s daughter
They have already marketed the non-racist version of this message to white America: women cannot be trusted because they always cry rape. We have to protect our sons, fathers, and husbands because some evil woman like Dr. Ford will ruin their lives.
My sister said that one of the beauticians at her salon was decrying some Philadelphia case — which I never heard of so don’t know if there is any validity to it - in which supposedly a woman said she was assaulted, her friends backed her up, the assailant was convicted and sent to prison, and then 2 years later it was revealed to be a setup. Women are evil; the men must be protected.
It’s not common, but it has happened occasionally. Here’s one of the more well-known cases:
I am probably saying too much here, but…
I guess I have a bit more mixed thoughts on Schmidt (and Rick Wilson and, possibly, Nicole Wallace)
Yes, as a ‘former’ Republican there are many policies he supported that I vehemently disagree with.
Yes, beyond those policies he was complicit in part of the gop slide into the cesspool.
I do believe that he is sincere in rejecting the current Republican slide to authoritarianism. That the Republican Party is organizationally unable to correct itself, so it must be removed from power. And that he has shown he has limits on what criminality he will tolerate.
I do think he can be an ally in _some_ very important tasks. Such as removing the gop talons from our government and restoring a Constitutional government. And I think that it benefits us to try to work with him on those tasks.
I also believe that he has a lot of good insights and appreciate his sharing them.
He will never become a liberal Democrat. I would not believe him if he said he was.
I fully expect him, at some point to return to siding with policies that I disagree with. And fully expect to oppose him on those points.
I believe the same about Rick Wilson.
re: #31 ckkatz
I am probably saying too much here, but…
I guess I have a bit more mixed thoughts on Schmidt (and Rick Wilson and, possibly, Nicole Wallace)
Yes, as a ‘former’ Republican there are many policies he supported that I vehemently disagree with.
Yes, beyond those policies he was complicit in part of the gop slide into the cesspool.
I do believe that he is sincere in rejecting the current Republican slide to authoritarianism. That the Republican Party is organizationally unable to correct itself, so it must be removed from power. And that he has shown he has limits on what criminality he will tolerate.
I do think he can be an ally in _some_ very important tasks. Such as removing the gop talons from our government and restoring a Constitutional government. And I think that it benefits us to try to work with him on those tasks.
I also believe that he has a lot of good insights and appreciate his sharing them.
He will never become a liberal Democrat. I would not believe him if he said he was.
I fully expect him, at some point to return to siding with policies that I disagree with. And fully expect to oppose him on those points.
I believe the same about Rick Wilson.
Fair and reasonable.
I’m also hopeful that when the nightmare that is Trump and the TrumGOP finally comes to an end, that we can recognize that disagreement on issues doesn’t mean the other side is evil. That we can have a civil society where even if we disagree on big issues, we can still recognize our mutual humanity.
re: #31 ckkatz
A functioning opposition party to the Democrats will be conservative, no matter what some people want to think. And Schmidt would be part of that.
re: #31 ckkatz
he’s one of those folks that will have to be at the forefront of taking back the Republican party from the extremists and the financiers that currently control the party. I don’t expect to agree with them on policy, but in how policy is decided, elections run, the rule of law and the country itself, I think we can tend to believe in the same things.
I still believe that there needs to be a two party system, because no one has a franchise on the truth, but right now, I’m looking for any and all allies to defeat the fascism that has gripped the GOP and at this point, its stupid to turn down any type of assistance from any type of ally. I can disagree on policy, that’s what politics are about but I’m not about to turn these guys away from helping us rebuild the country politically because it will take a lot of hands to finish that work, even conservative ones.
Sarah Silverman is sorta in her own class. I’m a fanboi.
re: #34 Belafon
A functioning opposition party to the Democrats will be conservative, no matter what some people want to think. And Schmidt would be part of that.
As I’ve said ad nauseam, we need to get to the point where the GOP, or whatever supplants it, is just wrong about everything and not actually fascist. That’s where I see the NeverTrumpers playing a role - the ones who actually MEAN ‘never’, not just ‘maybe’.
Honestly I feel bad for everyone else right now. pic.twitter.com/2vr5pRDJ5m
— goddamnedfrank already voted (@goddamnedfrank) October 18, 2018
Forget astrology. The tagline of the #1 movie at the box office the day you were born, that determines your fate from now on
— The Dad (@thedad) October 15, 2018
Mine’s “Pal Joey”, which I’ve never seen. NOT ONE of the images for the movie posters for it has a tagline.
I guess that means I’m fucked.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Straight Time starring Dustin Hoffman, tagline:
Please God, don’t let him get caught.
Yeah, that’ll work.
re: #33 KGxvi
Fair and reasonable.
I’m also hopeful that when the nightmare that is Trump and the TrumGOP finally comes to an end, that we can recognize that disagreement on issues doesn’t mean the other side is evil. That we can have a civil society where even if we disagree on big issues, we can still recognize our mutual humanity.
You bring up an important point that I had intended to mention two threads ago. It seemed to me that much of that thread was devoted to discussing the underlying humanity of folks being turned into bloodless symbols.
The discussion seemed to start when someone posted the video about Peter Jackson’s colorizing World War 1 films. Jackson mentioned that he felt it would restore the soldiers humanity. (Fascinating video and project! Thanks to the lizard who found and posted it!)
Which reminded me of John McDermott’s “The Green Fields Of France”. In which the singer happens upon the grave of a soldier killed in 1916, and wonders who that person was and what they had experienced and thought and hoped.
“Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined
Although you died back in 1916
In that faithful heart are you forever 19
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed then forever behind a glass frame
In an old photograph torn, battered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.”
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was #1 when I was born.
My birthday was also the 1st day of the assault on Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley in Viet Nam, AKA Hamburger Hill.
re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White
As I’ve said ad nauseam, we need to get to the point where the GOP, or whatever supplants it, is just wrong about everything and not actually fascist. That’s where I see the NeverTrumpers playing a role - the ones who actually MEAN ‘never’, not just ‘maybe’.
This can work only if
(1) the Koch Bros do not succeed in rewriting the Constitution. 34 states are needed to call a convention and it looks like at least 31 have submitted requests over the years.
(2) the Trump SC does not overturn all decent legislation or prior rulings.
(3) Voter suppression does not become so pervasive that a majority of people in effect lose their right to vote.
(4) The Democrats need to take control of the entire government; if not, there is no reason for the current GOP to modify its behavior.
The Democratic nominee for Governor in IL appears to be a really uncaring guy at best.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
This can work only if
(1) the Koch Bros do not succeed in rewriting the Constitution. 34 states are needed to call a convention and it looks like at least 31 have submitted requests over the years.
(2) the Trump SC does not overturn all decent legislation or prior rulings.
(3) Voter suppression does not become so pervasive that a majority of people in effect lose their right to vote.
(4) The Democrats need to take control of the entire government; if not, there is no reason for the current GOP to modify its behavior.
Everything depends on #4.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
The King and I, and the closest thing to a tagline was “Cinemascope 55 more than your eyes have ever seen”.
re: #33 KGxvi
Fair and reasonable.
I’m also hopeful that when the nightmare that is Trump and the TrumGOP finally comes to an end, that we can recognize that disagreement on issues doesn’t mean the other side is evil. That we can have a civil society where even if we disagree on big issues, we can still recognize our mutual humanity.
I’m not sanguine, and don’t think reconciliation with Trumpers is possible without them engaging in truthful introspection. The few reasonable never-Trump Republicans mentioned above who refused to normalize this shit or become part of his nihilistic, racist cult are have proven themselves to be redeemable and basically good. The rest are just malignant, militantly ignorant, unprincipled, abject monsters. Maybe it’s wrong to view them in such stark, abstract terms, but it’s how I feel and I don’t see that changing because there isn’t a single decent motive that I can identify as part of their decision making process.
re: #11 ObserverArt
He slinks out of the party, calls himself an independent to wipe his hands clean, and then holds the party he always bashed responsible?
Fuck that noise.
Seen this up close and personal: the bullshit persona of the “principled independent” who used to be a Republican, yet somehow refuses to completely come to terms with what a shit hole his “former” party is.
I fucking guarantee you Schmitt has been voting straight GOP since he “left” them. Any claim that he hasn’t is a fucking lie. These assholes don’t change.
re: #50 Single-handed sailor
The King and I, and the closest thing to a tagline was “Cinemascope 55 more than your eyes have ever seen”.
But a really nice soundtrack! And Deborah Kerr!!
*posts photo next to a Nazi*
“At Disneyland today with Republican Jason Chaffetz.”— Tree Trunks (@efuseakay) October 18, 2018
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
I’m not sanguine, and don’t think reconciliation with Trumpers is possible without them engaging in truthful introspection. The few reasonable never-Trump Republicans mentioned above who refused to normalize this shit or become part of his nihilistic, racist cult are have proven themselves to be redeemable and basically good. The rest are just malignant, militantly ignorant, unprincipled, abject monsters. Maybe it’s wrong to view them in such stark, abstract terms, but it’s how I feel and I don’t see that changing because there isn’t a single decent motive that I can identify as part of their decision making process.
The best, the absolute BEST you can say of them is that MAYBE they’re too stupid to realize what they’re doing.
I live in this cretin’s district. #AR02 Luckily there is a fabulous candidate running. @clarketucker If you want to help a good man out: https://t.co/A3X59XdRom
— Jennifer K (@jkawatu) October 18, 2018
re: #58 Varek Raith
Saudi who arrived in Turkey day of Khashoggi disappearance dies in ‘traffic accident’
Cleaning up a la Putin.
First rule of assassination; Kill the assassins.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Whoa. Just heard the ad. It’s worse than I imagined. WTH??
re: #48 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Little is just looking for attention. Just trust me on this. He’s like the “walk away” guy.
re: #61 HappyWarrior
Jimmy the Gent in Goodfellas style too.
2 thoughts:
1) But with the apparatus of the Saudi State, so the remaining 14 Hit Squad members are now….
2) Maybe MBS can get them to kill each other….
re: #35 piratedan
he’s one of those folks that will have to be at the forefront of taking back the Republican party from the extremists and the financiers that currently control the party. I don’t expect to agree with them on policy, but in how policy is decided, elections run, the rule of law and the country itself, I think we can tend to believe in the same things.
I still believe that there needs to be a two party system, because no one has a franchise on the truth, but right now, I’m looking for any and all allies to defeat the fascism that has gripped the GOP and at this point, its stupid to turn down any type of assistance from any type of ally. I can disagree on policy, that’s what politics are about but I’m not about to turn these guys away from helping us rebuild the country politically because it will take a lot of hands to finish that work, even conservative ones.
Exactly. The two party system is the system. I don’t expect to agree with them on policy, but in how policy is decided, elections run, the rule of law and the country itself……..because no one has a franchise on the truth
We will disagree & fight, but the norms need to remain to make our coexistence er, Democracy work.
River of No Return
tag line, as far as I can tell, is either something about cinemascope or starring Marilyn Monroe.
It did have some good quotes though:
“One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care. “
“He can run but he can’t hide. “
“I supposed you never made a mistake.”
re: #33 KGxvi
Fair and reasonable.
I’m also hopeful that when the nightmare that is Trump and the TrumGOP finally comes to an end, that we can recognize that disagreement on issues doesn’t mean the other side is evil. That we can have a civil society where even if we disagree on big issues, we can still recognize our mutual humanity.
republicans in general but especially trumpskyites will never agree to treat democrats and progressives as fellow americans who simply disagree with them
any discussion i have with them inevitably founders on their passionate insistence that my heroes are stalin, mao, and castro, that i want to eliminate immigration control of any description whatsoever, that me and dianne feinstein want to confiscate all guns, and that the ultimate goal of the democratic party is to turn the united states into a (and i quote) “socialist hellhole” like canada, britain, or france, where, it seems, honest citizens die of easily curable diseases while languishing for years in socialist waiting lines, while the economy of their country has long ago slid into a terminal depression as muslim hoardes rape their women and outlaw the practice of christianity
and do you think it is possible to disabuse them of any single one of these beliefs?
re: #66 Stanley Sea
Exactly. The two party system is the system. I don’t expect to agree with them on policy, but in how policy is decided, elections run, the rule of law and the country itself……..because no one has a franchise on the truth
We will disagree & fight, but the norms need to remain to make our coexistence er, Democracy work.
Let’s see if it is possible to restore the norms which were undermined when Gingrich took over in 1994, almost completely destroyed with the McConnell response to the election of Obama, and have now been eliminated under the current occupant of the WH, basically again because of the McConnell complicity. Trump is evil but without McConnell, there is little he could have accomplished.
Oh great. My tagline:
Forget astrology. The tagline of the #1 movie at the box office the day you were born, that determines your fate from now on
— The Dad (@thedad) October 15, 2018
re: #63 GlutenFreeJesus
Little is just looking for attention. Just trust me on this. He’s like the “walk away” guy.
Does he have a history? The suit names people with a history of working on Democratic campaigns. Racism in Chicago Democrats is not unheard of.
Right now I have a reason not to vote for the Democrat, not to vote for the Republican, and not to vote for the Libertarian. What do you know about Little that I don’t?
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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I don’t know how to break it to everyone, but I have suspicions that the people behind that PAC are not, in fact, “Black Americans” for the President’s Agenda. pic.twitter.com/MeusaTW9zb
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 18, 2018
— J. L. Titus 🏳️🌈 (@ShallahGaykwon) October 18, 2018
U.S. intel officials: Inconceivable Saudi prince had no link to Khashoggi death https://t.co/raan43gx8w
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 19, 2018
Oh, I can think of somebody who can not only conceive of MBS not being involved, but will believe it to the depths of his soul, about 30 minutes after he says it the first time.
re: #68 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
republicans in general but especially trumpskyites will never agree to treat democrats and progressives as fellow americans who simply disagree with them
any discussion i have with them inevitably founders on their passionate insistence that my heroes are stalin, mao, and castro, that i want to eliminate immigration control of any description whatsoever, that me and dianne feinstein want to confiscate all guns, and that the ultimate goal of the democratic party is to turn the united states into a (and i quote) “socialist hellhole” like canada, britain, or france, where, it seems, honest citizens die of easily curable diseases while languishing for years in socialist waiting lines, while the economy of their country has long ago slid into a terminal depression as muslim hoardes rape their women and outlaw the practice of christianity
and do you think it is possible to disabuse them of any single one of these beliefs?
You’d think imagining that Democrats murder babies would have been enough for them, but they had to pile on all kinds of other crazy shit. These morons are clearly trying to talk themselves into doing something insane to the people they’re brainwashed to hate.
re: #75 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You’d think imagining that Democrats murder babies would have been enough for them, but they had to pile on all kinds of other crazy shit. These morons are clearly trying to talk themselves into doing something insane to the people they’re brainwashed to hate.
these “proud boys” incels are already attempting to turn themselves into blackshirts
re: #73 Blind Frog Belly White
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Oh, I can think of somebody who can not only conceive of MBS not being involved, but will believe it to the depths of his soul, about 30 minutes after he says it the first time.
He doesn’t believe anything he says — he knows he is lying and he doesn’t care. But in the alternative fact world he and Murdoch have created, he certainly succeeds in persuading his followers that he is telling the truth.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Forget astrology. The tagline of the #1 movie at the box office the day you were born, that determines your fate from now on
HE STRIPPED SOULS AS BARE AS BODIES!
OK, I’ll accept that.
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
He doesn’t believe anything he says — he knows he is lying and he doesn’t care. But in the alternative fact world he and Murdoch have created, he certainly succeeds in persuading his followers that he is telling the truth.
I disagree. I think he’s effective because he does come to believe what he says is reality. And why wouldn’t he? He’s never been effectively held to account for lying. Eventually, a disturbingly large number of people believe it, too.
re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White
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Mine’s “Pal Joey”, which I’ve never seen. NOT ONE of the images for the movie posters for it has a tagline.
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I guess that means I’m fucked.
Mine is “The Search,” which I’ve never heard of, and which was Montgomery Clift’s first picture and had the tagline “The Search is a wonderful motion picture.” Not much to go on as far as dictating my future…(and not much of a tagline.)
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s see if it is possible to restore the norms which were undermined when Gingrich took over in 1994, almost completely destroyed with the McConnell response to the election of Obama, and have now been eliminated under the current occupant of the WH, basically again because of the McConnell complicity. Trump is evil but without McConnell, there is little he could have accomplished.
Sigh. I guess we are fucked.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Forget astrology. The tagline of the #1 movie at the box office the day you were born, that determines your fate from now on
JUST WHAT WE ALL NEED…
A really good hit!
LOL - this is why we can’t have nice things in America, because too many people think it’s “off the rails” if you don’t believe in young Earth creationism. But they’ll never forget the moment when they realized I was a godless hell-bound science demon. pic.twitter.com/Y9Foj8fDUs
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2018
Hey, now I’m in lovely Washington, DC!
Nothing happened while I was on the train, right?
re: #84 makeitstop
Hey, now I’m in lovely Washington, DC!
Nothing happened while I was on the train, right?
Have fun. Take pix
re: #33 KGxvi
Fair and reasonable.
I’m also hopeful that when the nightmare that is Trump and the TrumGOP finally comes to an end, that we can recognize that disagreement on issues doesn’t mean the other side is evil. That we can have a civil society where even if we disagree on big issues, we can still recognize our mutual humanity.
I will put it this way knowing full well what I am saying:
It is 100% dependent on the other side
They have fosterd the idea that Dems/the left/liberals AND ONLY the Dems etc are capable of and do nothing else but act despicably
…While they themselves are pure
re: #30 sagehen
It’s not common, but it has happened occasionally. Here’s one of the more well-known cases:
re: #85 Stanley Sea
Have fun. Take pix
Yes, ma’am! :)
DC station is beautiful, but that’s pretty much all I’ve seen so far. That, and the local market where I bought beer.
But tomorrow…there will be photos.
re: #84 makeitstop
Hey, now I’m in lovely Washington, DC!
Nothing happened while I was on the train, right?
Was DC still there when you got off the train? That’s something, anyway….
//
I honestly don’t know who to trust in the Khashoggi murder story, and I’m waiting for things to get clearer before jumping in. I don’t like that the main sources for the most lurid stories seem to be anonymous Turkish officials, in a country that routinely imprisons journalists and dissidents. All parties involved in this have a host of possible ulterior motives, including President Bigoted Dipshit.
Khashoggi vanished, so there’s not much doubt something bad happened to him. But there’s a blizzard of propaganda going on around it.
Is Trump making those around him more dishonest & corrupt or is it that corrupt & corruptible people are more likely to ally with him?
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 19, 2018
*insert why-not-both.jpg here*
And in Saudi Arabia, a country that routinely beheads convicted criminals IN PUBLIC SQUARES, it’s probably not hard to put together a team experienced in dismembering bodies. So yeah.
Putin: US has “certain responsibility” for missing Saudi journalist https://t.co/2BFR64uJDS pic.twitter.com/KAvjODu1U0
— The Hill (@thehill) October 18, 2018
Trollmaster General https://t.co/zYaPyiL5cT
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2018
re: #80 BeachDem
Mine is “The Search,” which I’ve never heard of, and which was Montgomery Clift’s first picture and had the tagline “The Search is a wonderful motion picture.” Not much to go on as far as dictating my future…(and not much of a tagline.)
Mine is Earthquake which apparently had 2 taglines:
An Event…
and
When the big one finally hits L.A.
Not sure what that means for me, maybe I should continue to avoid L.A.
He’s the most militaristic guy in the room. In any room. Just ask him, he’ll tell you! And he loves nothing in this world more than a good hangar.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2018
re: #91 Interesting Times
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Trump’s super power is discovering the evil in people and bringing it to its full potential.
Trump on military planes: “You have F-35s, you have the F-18s, the Super-Dupers — the Hornets. We have them all.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 19, 2018
Nate Silver and the 538 crew must be seeing some kind of movement towards Ds in either polls or enthusiasm or something. His ratings in the past week have take a strong turn towards Team D. Stronger than the movement on Cook Report. Both were similar base on a D wave of about 230 seats last week but today’s 538 has Ds up to 234.
That’s a lot of seats since I looked just six days ago!
The odds of Ds winning the House based on 538’s current numbers is 99.999%. Ran 100,000 random trials and the Democrats won the House in 99,999 of them. The odds aren’t that high on the 538 site because they add lots of leeway for other events.
But 99.999% and 234 seats seems pretty good, no?
re: #64 BigPapa
Roy DeMeo, the Gemini Method
Roy DeMeo’s boss in the Gambino family was Paul Castellano.
Paul Castellano was instrumental in the construction of Trump Tower.
Getting very anxious at reports that Mueller might be getting ready to file his recommendations.
re: #99 guachi
Nate Silver and the 538 crew must be seeing some kind of movement towards Ds in either polls or enthusiasm or something. His ratings in the past week have take a strong turn towards Team D. Stronger than the movement on Cook Report. Both were similar base on a D wave of about 230 seats last week but today’s 538 has Ds up to 234.
That’s a lot of seats since I looked just six days ago!
The odds of Ds winning the House based on 538’s current numbers is 99.999%. Ran 100,000 random trials and the Democrats won the House in 99,999 of them. The odds aren’t that high on the 538 site because they add lots of leeway for other events.
But 99.999% and 234 seats seems pretty good, no?
I’m seeing 538 giving the Dems an 84.5% chance. still pretty good, but where are you seeing 99.999%
John Bolton and John Kelly get into profanity-laced screaming match at White House: pic.twitter.com/ibC6Yl4YQv
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 18, 2018
Very reliable sources tell me that @AmbJohnBolton caught Kelly trying to prank him by replace his mustache cream with Nair.
cc: @BoltonMustach https://t.co/7hQTxMhDYA— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) October 18, 2018
re: #101 Charles Johnson
That sounds good. I would think that a release should be closer to the general election date. So it will be fresh in everyone’s mind when they vote.
re: #101 Charles Johnson
Getting very anxious at reports that Mueller might be getting ready to file his recommendations.
i think it’s a headfake. Also the trump admin and its followers hear what they want to hear. They want it to be over.
Thank you for asking! The real story is that these are people receiving either money or chits for food/clothing at a shelter in Guatemala (not Honduras) during the annual Caravana event. They are helped by volunteers along the way because they are in a lot of danger.
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) October 18, 2018
Hey guys, the President of the US posted a fraudulent video to advance a racist cause today. I know, right? https://t.co/yrAxNBLKjB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2018
re: #102 danarchy
I’m seeing 538 giving the Dems an 84.5% chance. still pretty good, but where are you seeing 99.999%
If you run random trials based on the win percentages listed for each House seat (which I mentioned I ran 100,000 trials) you get a 99.999% chance.
It’s not that high on the 538 site because they add a very large fudge factor for outside events. The average is still the same, 234 seats, but 538 adds very wide error bars, so to speak.
Has anybody seen that ad with Skeery Nancy Pelosi wielding the gavel, talking about how if you vote for ‘any Democrat’ will cause locusts, raining fire and a grinding halt to our booming economy?
Whoever made that ad sounds scared as fuck.
re: #109 makeitstop
They are scared. They have power and are very scared to lose it because there is an excellent chance they will not get it again.
re: #109 makeitstop
Has anybody seen that ad with Skeery Nancy Pelosi wielding the gavel, talking about how if you vote for ‘any Democrat’ will cause locusts, raining fire and a grinding halt to our booming economy?
Whoever made that ad sounds scared as fuck.
they are laying the groundwork for blaming the recession of 2019-2020 on the democratic congress
when trump causes the economy to fall
we will be fucked all
(apologies to the new england primer)
re: #83 Charles Johnson
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They really hate it when I tell them Young Earth Creationism is blasphemy because it places human limits on what God can do.
re: #101 Charles Johnson
Getting very anxious at reports that Mueller might be getting ready to file his recommendations.
The story I saw at Daily Kos is that he’s waiting until after the election so as not to pull a Comey. But his report will be released to the DOJ, specifically Rosenstein at this point. There’s talk that Sessions will be gone right after the election, and I’m sure Trump is hoping to get someone in that can squash it.
re: #111 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
they are laying the groundwork for blaming the recession of 2019-2020 on the democratic congress
when trump causes the economy to fall
we will be fucked all(apologies to the new england primer)
Which has never worked.
re: #90 Charles Johnson
I honestly don’t know who to trust in the Khashoggi murder story, and I’m waiting for things to get clearer before jumping in. I don’t like that the main sources for the most lurid stories seem to be anonymous Turkish officials, in a country that routinely imprisons journalists and dissidents. All parties involved in this have a host of possible ulterior motives, including President Bigoted Dipshit.
Khashoggi vanished, so there’s not much doubt something bad happened to him. But there’s a blizzard of propaganda going on around it.
As you say, none of the parties involved are trustworthy. First we need confirmation that Khashoggi is dead and the Saudis must provide us whatever remains exist. Second, we need to find out if Trump were aware of any Saudi plans involving Khashoggi, in advance of his visit to the embassy. I would not put it past Trump to pre-approve of this crime in exchange for money.
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That’s heartbreaking.
re: #97 Skip Intro
Trump’s super power is discovering the evil in people and bringing it to its full potential.
Lol!! True though. He attracts the worse kind of people.
re: #99 guachi
The trend is positive. But I still have memories of Predictit showing Fuckface von Clownstick selling for 20 cents at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2016.
re: #67 ckkatz
River of No Return
tag line, as far as I can tell, is either something about cinemascope or starring Marilyn Monroe.It did have some good quotes though:
“One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care. “
“He can run but he can’t hide. “
“I supposed you never made a mistake.”
ditto…
re: #120 nicdanger
ditto…
Well,I screwed that up.#1 move for me is “The High and the Mighty”,a John Wayne flick.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
I was born August of ‘81 and it just so happens Raiders of the Lost Ark was #1.
That would make my tagline: The return of the Great Adventure.
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