Seth takes a closer look at the explosive devices sent to top Democratic politicians and CNN, and at the president lying about immigration to scare people.
Democrats and Media targeted by terrorist, Republicans quick to portray themselves as victims.
In other news: DOJ To SCOTUS: Make Anti-LGBT Discrimination Legal (goes to Joe My God):
The Justice Department today told the U.S. Supreme Court that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity without violating federal law. Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the high court that a civil rights law banning sex discrimination on the job doesn’t cover transgender bias. That approach already has created a rift within the Trump administration, contradicting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s view of the law it’s tasked with enforcing.
A Michigan funeral home wants the high court to overturn a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision finding that the company violated federal workplace discrimination law when it fired Aimee Stephens, a transgender worker. The EEOC successfully sued on behalf of Stephens in that case, but the Justice Department has the sole authority to represent the government before the Supreme Court. The DOJ told the high court that the Sixth Circuit got the case wrong.
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The modus operandi of the right wing is brilliantly simple: flip everything, anything, to win over libs, to torment them. That’s it.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹
We are so fucked. Now that the fix is in the administration will be bypassing lower courts to go directly to the SC where a 5/4 win is all but guaranteed.
re: #4 Skip Intro
We are so fucked. Now that the fix is in the administration will be bypassing lower courts to go directly to the SC where a 5/4 win is all but guaranteed.
Now you see why I am pissed off at my friend who is proud of himself for not voting.
re: #4 Skip Intro
We are so fucked. Now that the fix is in the administration will be bypassing lower courts to go directly to the SC where a 5/4 win is all but guaranteed.
They didn’t bypass the lower court. They weighed in on an appeal from the Sixth Circuit. That is allowed.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Now you see why I am pissed off at my friend who is proud of himself for not voting.
And I am pissed off at my cousin who voted for Stein in Michigan. (She bought into thirty years of conservatives demonising Hillary Clinton and believed it, because the press never actually said “those are lies.”)
1. In 2009, the Dept. of Homeland Security issued a report warning of a resurgence in domestic right-wing terrorism — white supremacist groups & anti-gov’t militias triggered (if you will) by the election of America’s first black president (among other things).
— David Roberts (@drvox) October 25, 2018
3. As Daryl Johnson, the lead author of the report at DHS, pointed out in 2016: the report was right. Right-wing domestic terrorism has steadily increased ever since. https://t.co/NFNNETyKvi
— David Roberts (@drvox) October 25, 2018
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹
In this case I know. But that’s the plan whenever they can, or until they pack the lower courts with Trumpers.
Bigot says what?
Kim Davis on the campaign trail: ‘I did not treat anybody unfairly’ (Goes to LGBTQ Nation, more at the link):
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who got national attention in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the Obergefell Supreme Court decision, is up for reelection, and she is defending her homophobia on the campaign trail.
Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional in 2015, Davis was caught on video denying a marriage license to David Ermold and David Moore.
She announced that her policy was to stop issuing marriage licenses altogether because she was “asked to violate a central teaching of Scripture and of Jesus Himself regarding marriage.”
A judge ordered her to issue marriage licenses and sent her to jail for five days for contempt of court when she refused.
Related: Vatican admits Pope lied about meeting anti-gay clerk Kim Davis. He knew who she was.
Stocks now falling sharply on overseas stock markets after selloff in New York.
Well at least we finally stopped talking about the lottery.
Zahid says Indonesia quake was divine retribution for LGBT activities (Goes to the Malay Mail [Malaysia], more at the link):
Explain why we need religion again?
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 ― Opposition leader Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi expressed concerns about efforts needed to stem lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activities in the country, saying a recent earthquake in Indonesia was caused by such behaviour.
Speaking at the Dewan Rakyat today during Question Time, Ahmad Zahid said he was worried that Malaysia might similarly incur the wrath of Allah due the LGBT community’s activities here.
“We look at the situation in Malaysia, we are worried because we know what happened in Palu recently where there was an earthquake and tsunami. It was reported that there were more than 1,000 members of their community who were involved in such (LGBT) activities.
“As a result the entire area was destroyed. This is the punishment of Allah. My question is whether Jakim’s programmes (to rehabilitate the LGBT) is successful because data shows that in the middle of the year more than 1,000 (LGBT) joined these programmes.
“We need to ensure that Malaysia and those who are against LGBT are spared Allah’s punishment,” said Ahmad Zahid.
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re: #15 Anymouse 🌹
Zahid says Indonesia quake was divine retribution for LGBT activities (Goes to the Malay Mail [Malaysia], more at the link):
Explain why we need religion again?
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Hmmm who do we know that talks like that in this country. Gee every Fundamentalist asshole with a soapbox.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
Bigot says what?
Kim Davis on the campaign trail: ‘I did not treat anybody unfairly’ (Goes to LGBTQ Nation, more at the link):
Yeah you did lady. You let your anti gay biases get in the way of doing your job and a bunch of people made you into a martyr and hero even though if you had cited religious objections to denying someone a concealed carry eprmit, you would have been blasted by those same people.
If you have any of these #PreExistingConditions:
☑️ cancer
☑️ diabetes
☑️ arthritis
☑️ heart disease
Or many more - last year’s health care bills would have meant skyrocketing premiums for you & millions more. This Election Day, hold Congress accountable. #Midterms2018 pic.twitter.com/N3DyT0dEiM— AARP Advocates (@AARPadvocates) October 24, 2018
Oh wow. AARP is now weighing in to repeal the GOP Congress. It’s accountability time! https://t.co/n9n2CgsvRK
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) October 24, 2018
re: #18 HappyWarrior
Yeah you did lady. You let your anti gay biases get in the way of doing your job and a bunch of people made you into a martyr and hero even though if you had cited religious objections to denying someone a concealed carry eprmit, you would have been blasted by those same people.
Not to mention both her serial marriages and adultery, but those are okay to Conservajesus.
re: #16 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s see where it goes. You cannot predict how the market will end up for a day based on the early performance.
True, but with today’s peformance, all of 2018’s gains have gone poof.
For MidClass workers w/ IRAs, this is a fine thing to attack the Tarriff decisions the Admin has made.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
Not to mention both her serial marriages and adultery, but those are okay to Conservajesus.
Yeah she’s a fucking hypocrite. But that didn’t stop Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee from treating her like this holy lady who was being persecuted.
Megyn Kelly dropped by her talent agency. Her bio at their Website now gives a 404 page.
I guess I sure picked a good day to ignore the news and put my head down and work. Sheesh. Turn my back for a minute, and my stocks are wiped out and bombs fly and DT pretends to be serious…. and as Stonekettle says, Dana Loesch put on her eyeglasses and pretended to be a gun-toting nun….
Nice try deleting it but we know how you REALLY feel pic.twitter.com/beAWF5OR7D
— Jeff Robinson (@Threshstar) October 25, 2018
Candace had to delete her first tweet, but the internet never forgets.
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹
Wow. If the GOP has lost the AARP, that’s pretty big.
I’ve made some contributions to candidates via Act Blue and I am now getting about 100 email messages a day telling me how every candidate is in absolute dire straights with their blue wave advantages crumbling before our eyes. I’m afraid that my budget is maxed out for donations and this constant bombardment of horrible news is making me feel like crap. I’ve got my sample ballot researched and filled out, but in-person early voting here doesn’t start until a week before the election. Despite all the news about early voting crowds, I’m horribly anxious about how this is going to end.
From The Slowly-Boiled Frog:
In short order we are going to find out what the current Supreme Court thinks of laws protecting gay people from discrimination in public accommodations. Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa have appealed their $135,000 fine for discrimination to the Supreme Court. The Kleins, by the way, have raised more than $500,000 through crowdfunding as supposed victims of persecution.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
well good for her, now she can enjoy privately being a racist in the privacy of her own home….
re: #25 Ace-o-aces
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Candace had to delete her first tweet, but the internet never forgets.
She’s going to wake up one day and wonder what the fuck she was thinking helping Charlie Kirk.
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹
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Remember folks, AARP is a glorified insurance company and they don’t want to lose the Medicare business that ol’ Mitch has promised!
re: #28 piratedan
well good for her, now she can enjoy privately being a racist in the privacy of her own home….
Her shit is so stupid. I don’t care if it was acceptable when you were a kid. That doesn’t mean it was right but that rang like bullshit to me. Kelly is around the same age as many of my cousins and blackface in the late 70’s and early 80’s would have gotten the same WTF reaction it does now. She’s full of shit. Not only a bigot but a liar too.
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹
From The Slowly-Boiled Frog:
In short order we are going to find out what the current Supreme Court thinks of laws protecting gay people from discrimination in public accommodations. Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa have appealed their $135,000 fine for discrimination to the Supreme Court. The Kleins, by the way, have raised more than $500,000 through crowdfunding as supposed victims of persecution.
Grift baby grift.
re: #32 HappyWarrior
Grift baby grift.
We know it will be a 5-4 vote in those bigot’s favor.
Which is why the Democrats need to pack the Court when they get back in power.
re: #25 Ace-o-aces
its always projection with these people, it’s like Crash Davis sitting behind the plate telling the media what pitch is coming because he’s called the fucking pitch…
damn near everything out of the mouths of the GOP and their media lackeys is nothing more than the designated narrative du jour to be propagated amongst the gullible… every single time.
Their unhinged followers send bombs in the mail, must be a false flag…
run over people protesting the white nationalists, why do you have to be so uncivil
calling for journos to be harassed, hung, killed, assaulted… why are your repeating fake news?
etc etc etc…
not only do we have to remove these people from power, we must punish them for their abuse of it.
Brief respite of good news:
WATCH: Kindergarteners in Tennessee learned how to sign “Happy Birthday” to celebrate the 60th birthday of their beloved elementary school custodian, who is hard of hearing. His incredible reaction to the surprise says it all. 💛 💛 https://t.co/bsYEkAQkPN pic.twitter.com/96rAXp3Bgc
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 25, 2018
This is peak Ben Shapiro…
Might want to check on your staff, Ben pic.twitter.com/qBy4HI6Gay
— Scare-ed Holt 👻 (@jaredlholt) October 24, 2018
re: #33 Joe Bacon 🌹
We know it will be a 5-4 vote in those bigot’s favor.
Which is why the Democrats need to pack the Court when they get back in power.
I never thought I’d say this but I’m in favor of that. McConnell’s sick games with Garland and Kavanaugh have me very angry and what should be a slim center-liberal majority has instead become the most conservative court since what FDR dealt with his first term.
This is the most weirdly consistent obvious lie I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/CE2RjmO1AJ
— Alex Griswold, but Halloween-themed I guess (@HashtagGriswold) October 24, 2018
I just left a hipster coffee shop where a whole group of liberal women were talking about how badly the wanted to sleep with “Sexy Jacob,” and how he had the “Wohl package.” The barista chimed in that he wishes Jacob was his son.
— Alex Griswold, but Halloween-themed I guess (@HashtagGriswold) October 24, 2018
re: #33 Joe Bacon 🌹
We know it will be a 5-4 vote in those bigot’s favor.
Which is why the Democrats need to pack the Court when they get back in power.
Which would instantly die on the vine. The Judiciary Act of 1869 would need to be repealed first.
Moreover, if the Dems could somehow do that, the GOP could too.
The Dems would better spend their capital trying to repeal the latest tax scam and working to fix the inanity with the ACA from the GOP.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
Ooops!
Extremely Ben Shapiro to say anyone talking false flags is deranged while his hero, colleagues, and employees are doing so. Extremely Ben Shapiro to scold claims that rhetoric influences when he writes about rap turning kids into gang members. It’s an extremely Ben Shapiro day.
— Some More News w/Cody Johnston (@SomeMoreNews) October 24, 2018
Well, that’s just twitter blasphemy:
occasional reminder that just because a thing is happening does not mean that you need to immediately come up with a theory, write it down, and share with with hundreds or more people in an enduring, publicly searchable format
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) October 24, 2018
re: #41 Ace-o-aces
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He’s such a pathetic hack. One of the most intellectually dishonest people out there. He’s like Buckley in that regard.
After the despicable both-sides bullshit you spouted this morning on television, this tweet rings awfully hollow.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
re: #37 HappyWarrior
I never thought I’d say this but I’m in favor of that. McConnell’s sick games with Garland and Kavanaugh have me very angry and what should be a slim center-liberal majority has instead become the most conservative court since what FDR dealt with his first term.
Back when Andrew Jackson was President, liberals in Congress passed a law to reduce the size of the court, to prevent Jackson from appointing justices during his term. The court shrank from 10 to 8.
After he was gone, the Judiciary Act of 1869 added one justice to end deadlocks of 4-4 on the court. All attempts at court-packing have since been stopped before they could occur (the last attempt was FDR).
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Back when Andrew Jackson was President, liberals in Congress passed a law to reduce the size of the court, to prevent Jackson from appointing justices during his term. The court shrank from 10 to 8.
After he was gone, the Judiciary Act of 1869 added one justice to end deadlocks of 4-4 on the court. All attempts at court-packing have since been stopped before they could occur (the last attempt was FDR).
I’m aware of the precedent and I’m aware of how FDR’s court packing scheme backfired terribly but as I said it’s something that I think ought to be considered A) because I think the court being stagnant at 9 isn’t good. Related, I favor expanding the size of Congress too. We have less members of the House than Britain does in the House of Commons and B) I want McConnell to know that payback is a bitch.
I think we’re in for a wild two weeks heading into this election, folks.
I just don’t have any faith in SCOTUS at this point. Roberts may temper some of the more extreme stuff that Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Thomas would want to become the new precedent but Roberts handling on voting rights act shows me the man doesn’t have a damn clue or care about why that legislation was necessary in the first place.
As of 12:22 a.m. MDT Colorado has received 257,874 returned ballots. Broke down by party affiliation: 91,580 Democrats, 91,190 Republicans, 72,154 unaffiliated.
Turnout will be high in Colorado. But that’s ‘cause we’re one of the easiest states to vote in in the whole country.
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
I think we’re in for a wild two weeks heading into this election, folks.
History of election violence in the USA. The idea that elections have been peaceful is a myth.
It would be comforting to conclude that the menace of violence surrounding the 2016 presidential election is unique. But my research on the history of voting rights in the United States suggests that this is far from the case. Indeed, the threat and execution of violence around elections has a long, sad history in American politics.
re: #51 teleskiguy
As of 12:22 a.m. MDT Colorado has received 257,874 returned ballots. Broke down by party affiliation: 91,580 Democrats, 91,190 Republicans, 72,154 unaffiliated.
Turnout will be high in Colorado. But that’s ‘cause we’re one of the easiest states to vote in in the whole country.
As it should be. Voting shouldn’t be complicated.
re: #53 HappyWarrior
As it should be. Voting shouldn’t be complicated.
No, but there are minorities we got to disenfranchise now.
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Wow, her tweet was too stupid for even Turning Point to tolerate. That’s some achievement.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 25, 2018
I’m off to bed. Last one… .
WATCH: Trump nearly heads out of room before being reminded by Melania to sign opioid bill https://t.co/MNAS1FBany pic.twitter.com/uZGs0PaqiW
— The Hill (@thehill) October 25, 2018
Remember when Reagan was slipping into dementia and Republicans told the nation he was just a little “forgetful?” https://t.co/ULE2LZrEp2
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 25, 2018
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
I’m off to bed. Last one… .
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That wouldn’t be the same bill that he lied about having no Democratic support on would it? God, he’s a fucking disgrace. He’s less intelligent than Bush, more senile than Reagan, and more of an asshole than Nixon. And yet he thinks we should be grateful for having him. He makes me sick.
Based on the method used (pipe bombs either hand delivered or sent via the mail) and the intended political targets (Clintons, Obama, Holder, Brennan, Waters, and Soros,) I’m comfortable calling this an act of domestic terrorism.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 24, 2018
Do I even want to look at the PowerBall numbers tonight?
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
Donald Trump telling America to unite during a time where Democrats are being sent bombs is like an abusive husband telling his wife to stay for the sake of the kids
— Born Miserable (@bornmiserable) October 24, 2018
re: #59 freetoken
Do I even want to look at the PowerBall numbers tonight?
Did anyone win? That’s all I care about. Until I check my numbers I might be a winner!
I’ll check them in a week or two. 🤣
re: #61 MsJ
I’ll check later.
One thing about these big jackpots is that they set up our society for certain types of expectations and habits.
They are also diversions from the real problems (read: Trump) of the day.
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
Hmmmm…
Think the use of the word , or misspelling of the word Florida was deliberate ? Florids is apparently a term used by racists, which I didn’t know till I googled it. It’s not hard to spell Florida correctly.
— Acdcnut (@Acdckcnut) October 25, 2018
florid: An alternative form of the word “n*****” spoken by caucasian individuals while talking amongst themselves. It is used for free usage of a derrogetory term without alarming or offending those around them.
re: #63 Belafon
Hmmmm…
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Stupid racist ashsoles and their stupid slang.
re: #63 Belafon
Note: this defnition was entered back in 2008.
re: #64 HappyWarrior
Yep, but when someone wants to talk about this being a left wing plant, point out those clues.
re: #66 Belafon
Yep, but when someone wants to talk about this being a left wing plant, point out those clues.
Yep. Good detective work seeing that UD definition has been there a decade.
re: #63 Belafon
Red Hat Twitter is convinced that “Florids” means it’s a Dem HOAX!
twitter.com
re: #66 Belafon
Yep, but when someone wants to talk about this being a left wing plant, point out those clues.
Also, I’m rather stunned that (as far as I’ve seen), no one has bothered to mention this:
The Austin serial bombings occurred between March 2 and 20, 2018, mostly in Austin, Texas. In total, five package bombs exploded, killing two people and injuring another five. The suspect, 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt of Pflugerville, Texas, blew himself up inside his vehicle after he was pulled over by police on March 21, also injuring a police officer.
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Mark Anthony Conditt, born in June 1994 (age 23), lived in Pflugerville, Texas, outside Austin. He grew up in a very religious Christian family. The eldest of three children, he attended Austin Community College from 2010 to 2012, leaving without graduating but in good academic standing.[35] He was home-schooled by his mother, who in February 2013 “officially graduated” him from high school. He wrote blog posts in 2012, where he identified as a conservative who was “not that politically inclined”; he argued for the death penalty, and argued against same-sex marriages and sex offender registries. He reportedly was part of a club called Righteous Invasion of Truth (R.I.O.T.), apparently named after a Carman song. The club’s members, home-schooled kids, practiced survivalism and held Bible studies.
Nothing makes me want to vote Dem more than John Brennan being targeted!
re: #69 Interesting Times
Also, I’m rather stunned that (as far as I’ve seen), no one has bothered to mention this:
And Limpballs lies yet again about right wing domestic terrorism being a thing.
re: #68 jaunte
Red Hat Twitter is convinced that “Florids” means it’s a Dem HOAX!
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On the one hand, “s” is right next to the “a” key, so it’s possible it’s a careless typo…but given all the racist attacks Andrew Gillum has faced, I could easily see a white supremacist crackpot thinking of that nasty slang term in the context of that particular state.
re: #69 Interesting Times
Also, I’m rather stunned that (as far as I’ve seen), no one has bothered to mention this:
That was when that very talented young cellist was killed.
re: #72 Interesting Times
If you’re going to take the tme to make that bomb, you’re only going to make up to four spelling errors on purpose.
When I see people twisting themselves into pretzel logic, I am reminded of this simple principle.
Occam’s razor
Occam’s razor (also Ockham’s razor or Ocham’s razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae “law of parsimony”) is the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. When presented with competing hypotheses to solve a problem, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions. The idea is attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
If it waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is in all probability a goddamned fucking duck.
Alex Jones and many conservative pundits reject this fundamental concept.
Post from @NCGOP vice chair on Instagram features black power fist to represent Democrats’ “mobs.” https://t.co/hJWEihwdSR#ncpol pic.twitter.com/wMAQ9bM7ww
— Colin Campbell (@RaleighReporter) October 23, 2018
Uhh, yeah, and a white power symbol. The Republican Party is irredeemable. https://t.co/YAQlvrG19R
— Jordan Meehan 🏳️🌈 (@JordanMeehan) October 25, 2018
I wasn’t aware of the ’OK’ sign’s recent use by white supremacists before this week, but about 300 of y’all informed me about after I initially tweeted about thishttps://t.co/qgqNDdTtPg #ncpol
— Colin Campbell (@RaleighReporter) October 25, 2018
re: #75 austin_blue
When I see people twisting themselves into pretzel logic, I am reminded of this simple principle.
Occam’s razor
Occam’s razor (also Ockham’s razor or Ocham’s razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae “law of parsimony”) is the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. When presented with competing hypotheses to solve a problem, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions. The idea is attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
If it waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is in all probability a goddamned fucking duck.
Alex Jones and many conservative pundits reject this fundamental concept.
I can’t stand the right but I can’t imagine any scenario committing a crime to make them look bad. Besides they don’t need my help for that.
to be honest, this projection business and the outright lying about what is going on is the absolute crux of the issue….
The Democratic Party realized that they had supported some really shitty positions in the past, going back to the civil war, mostly dealing with racism and Jim Crow and with the death of Kennedy and the politicking of LBJ, did their best to be more inclusive and deal with their racism by attempting to put real legislative measures in place to start treating POC as equals.
was it perfect, hardly, but it was a step towards righting a wrong. the public evolution of people like Robert Byrd and actual policy to make improvements in the lives of POC showed a genuine attempt to try and heal what was still at the root of our issue as a country.
the GOP instead chose to continue to wrap themselves in the legacy of Lincoln in public but in Private made their own deal with the Devil in adopting the Southern Strategy and have been in denial about their own problem with racism ever since. They will continue to deny it as if they were the damn Bene Gesserits confronted with their own Kwisach Sadderach (Obama) whose very existence caused them to lose their ever loving minds and deny all of his accomplishments and to undermine him (and the Dems) at every waking turn.
I honestly believe that until they face and reconcile their own racism and misogyny, they’ll never be able to function as a political party ever again, instead they’ll simply devolve into nothing like the Whigs as more and more people come to their senses… I almost wish that they would have their fucking Lee J Cobb moment in 12 Angry Men but it seems like they want to come back to the judge with a hung jury instead…..
they refuse to eat their political broccoli and we all have to suffer because the dog keeps on eating all the shit they drop on the floor even though they already have a bowl of kibble….
1,600 Rare Color Photographs Depict Life in the U.S During the Great Depression & World War II https://t.co/0no68gT78d pic.twitter.com/XZljbmubSZ
— Open Culture (@openculture) October 25, 2018
re: #80 piratedan
to be honest, this projection business and the outright lying about what is going on is the absolute crux of the issue….
The Democratic Party realized that they had supported some really shitty positions in the past, going back to the civil war, mostly dealing with racism and Jim Crow and with the death of Kennedy and the politicking of BJ, did their best to be more inclusive and deal with their racism by attempting to put real legislative measures in place to start treating POC as equals.
was it perfect, hardly, but it was a step towards righting a wrong. the public evolution of people like Robert Byrd and actual policy to make improvements in the lives of POC showed a genuine attempt to try and heal what was still at the root of our issue as a country.
the GOP instead chose to continue to wrap themselves in the legacy of Lincoln in public but in Private made their own deal with the Devil in adopting the Southern Strategy and have been in denial about their own problem with racism ever since. They will continue to deny it as if they were the damn Bene Gesserits confronted with their own Kwisach Sadderach (Obama) whose very existence caused them to lose their ever loving minds and deny all of his accomplishments and to undermine him (and the Dems) at every waking term.
I honestly believe that until they face and reconcile their own racism and misogyny, they’ll never be able to function as a political party ever again, instead they’ll simply devolve into nothing like the Whigs as more and more people come to their senses… I almost wish that they would have their fucking Lee J Cobb moment in 12 Angry Men but it seems like they want to come back to the judge with a hung jury instead…..
they refuse to eat their political broccoli and we all have to suffer because the dog keeps on eating all the shit they drop on the floor even though they already have a bowl of kibble….
You’re so right. There’s no introspection at all.
re: #81 jaunte
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I got some of my ancestral photos colorized. Some people prefer the original b/w photos but color photos bring the long gone back to life.
re: #75 austin_blue
When I see people twisting themselves into pretzel logic, I am reminded of this simple principle.
Occam’s razor
Occam’s razor (also Ockham’s razor or Ocham’s razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae “law of parsimony”) is the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. When presented with competing hypotheses to solve a problem, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions. The idea is attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
If it waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is in all probability a goddamned fucking duck.
Alex Jones and many conservative pundits reject this fundamental concept.
Also sometimes expressed as “when you hear hoofbeats, don’t look for zebras.”
And he thinks it’s funny. TOTALLY OWNED THAT LIBTURD HURR DURR
re: #80 piratedan
…..
I honestly believe that until they face and reconcile their own racism and misogyny, they’ll never be able to function as a political party ever again, instead they’ll simply devolve into nothing like the Whigs as more and more people come to their senses…
I would love for you to be right — that if the GOP doesn’t reform, they will vanish. But, unless the November election is a vast blue wave on all levels of government, it is truth and decency that will wither. The Trump SC will vote to uphold any manner of voter suppression, as long as its use of race is implicit. We are facing the abyss unless we win in 2 weeks.
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
I also fear what will happen if we don’t restore some balance to the levers of power in government. Republicans continue to prove they are acting in bad faith.
Odds on retaking the house are good - enough to be hopeful about. Regardless (and sadly), voting tends to follow particular trends. Once the idiot administration starts to REALLY destroy the economy of the MAGA cultist, support will erode. I hope the US wakes up from this bad dream before then!
re: #90 Jason Munro
I also fear what will happen if we don’t restore some balance to the levers of power in government. Republicans continue to prove they are acting in bad faith.
Odds on retaking the house are good - enough to be hopeful about. Regardless (and sadly), voting tends to follow particular trends. Once the idiot administration starts to REALLY destroy the economy of the MAGA cultist, support will erode. I hope the US wakes up from this bad dream before then!
You and me both!!
re: #84 sagehen
Also sometimes expressed as “when you hear hoofbeats, don’t look for zebras.”
Except if you are on the plains of the Serengeti!
US military suspends face-to-face contact with Afghan allies in aftermath of recent insider attacks. Not a good sign. https://t.co/6vIbz2zvXD
— Craig Whitlock (@CraigMWhitlock) October 24, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: @FBI Arrests White Nationalist Robert Paul Rundo Who Fled the Country https://t.co/egQp81TysX with @awinston
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) October 24, 2018
Well, Saturday is going to be another frenzy, as no one won tonight’s PowerBall jackpot. So the Saturday jackpot is estimated to be a $750M annuity.
That’s only an increase of $130M in the annuity, or only $75M for the cash-out option. PowerBall must think that Americans are exhausted at buying tickets this week, or perhaps it’s the end of the month and the customers have run out of money.
re: #96 freetoken
The work on my transporter has fallen to the wayside.
Well, holy shit:
The FBI arrested a man in Town of Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday for “trying to buy radioactive material with the intent to kill someone,” local news station WKOW reports. Jeremy Ryan, 30, allegedly attempted to buy a “lethal dose of a radioactive substance” online between March and October 2018. The Town of Madison Police Department confirmed to The Daily Beast that the man arrested was the same Jeremy Ryan who lost the August Republican primary while running for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives. Agents reportedly searched Ryan’s home, and officials said there was no danger to the public. Ryan’s alleged target was not identified by officials, and he reportedly faces up to a life sentence in prison.
*wakes up*
First thought;
Fuck— Depression Notes™ 📄 (@depressionnote) October 25, 2018
There’s only two months left in the Christmas shopping season. Where does the time go?
@jaredpolis follows me on Twitter. He held a rally in Boulder today with Bernie Sanders. Maybe he sees these tweets o’ mine?
“He touched my hand!”: Bernie Sanders gets rock-star welcome in Colorado visit https://t.co/9BmUKHfKKj
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) October 25, 2018
Oh for fuck’s sake… https://t.co/cc5xsLDQ1e
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
Bernie Sanders needs to go away.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹
Wow. So now we have a Justice Department which supports discrimination. This is outrageous. Now it’s trangender people. Who’s next?
re: #103 Patricia Kayden
The demons are not outside the gate, they’re well inside the castle, running amok…
This is a leader.
HRC just now at a fundraiser for Shalala in Coral Gables: “We are fine thanks to the men and women of the Secret Service…But it is a troubling time isn’t it? It is a time of deep divisions, and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together.”
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 24, 2018
Buttery males.
So, you think you’re good at Tetris?
Bruh this was dope af to watch, the Tetris world Championship 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/DdIb6hMzbO
— Niko Wavy (@NikoNotWavy) October 22, 2018
Just a brief news blurb here, but the Czechs are doing the right thing in response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
The Foreign Ministry withdrew a Czech diplomat from the embassy in Riyadh in response to the botched killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul earlier this month. Minister Tomáš Petříček announced to reporters that other sanctions would be coordinated at the European level, and that he had summoned the Saudi ambassador to inform him of his decision.
#NowPlaying Nirvana > In Utero - 20th Anniversary - Deluxe Edition > I Hate Myself And Want To Die https://t.co/1gH2UoQLGg
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
Funny thing about this song is it never mentions suicide. And it has a barely audible Jack Handey gag about attaching pieces of coral to a child’s head to make them look like a deer.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
My late night twitter feed is extremely random.
“Help yourself to one of the guest towels. They’re the ones with Louis Pasteur’s enormous face.” pic.twitter.com/TuVY9apvek
— Grr. Argh. (@gray) October 25, 2018
“…y “Frankenfoods,” “frankenscience” and other scary “frankenwords”) has become something of a rhetorical …” occurred in: https://t.co/2cOiYppULc
— NYTfirstsaid Context (@NYT_said_where) October 25, 2018
It has been reported that two black people were killed in a Kroger in Kentucky today. Listen to this interview with the son of the man who confronted the shooter. #ThisIsAmerica. 2018. https://t.co/pZMLJz60bx pic.twitter.com/ed2z3I2ptx
— deray (@deray) October 25, 2018
Interview of a man on the scene. https://t.co/dzkwGiMeVJ
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 25, 2018
Looks like the tape is real, should be interesting to see what kind of deal Erdogan cuts with MBS and Trump to keep it from going public.
JUST IN: CIA Director Gina Haspel heard audio recording of killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi during visit to Turkey - sources pic.twitter.com/9aXIunv6h1
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 25, 2018
I think this is appropriate in light of all this lottery fever.
In this day and age you have to seek out good news. https://t.co/uszkz1D5qs
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 8, 2017
JFC. Let’s hope this turns out to be a false alarm.
A suspect package similar to those sent to CNN and senior Democrats has been sent to a New York restaurant owned by the actor Robert De Niro, US media say.
Citing law enforcement sources, NBC said a device arrived at the Tribeca Grill early on Thursday local time.
If linked to previous packages, this would be the eighth explosive device sent to a perceived critic of President Trump.
De Niro is a vocal Trump opponent, and once called him “a national disaster”.
New York Police Department said the restaurant building was empty at the time the suspicious device arrived, NBC reports.
re: #117 Dr Lizardo
JFC. Let’s hope this turns out to be a false alarm.
This. Fucking. Guy.
The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
re: #118 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
JFC. Let’s hope this turns out to be a false alarm.
All over MJ this am - seems to be real
re: #120 fern01
All over MJ this am - seems to be real
That was Dr. Lizardo. I linked to the Rude Pundit’s post from yesterday.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
I’ve gotta wonder if this assclown would-be bomber lives in the NYC metro area or something.
Did I hear one was supposed to be a courier delivery? That seemed to part of the reason some thought NYC might be the place - but that was before the De Niro bomb I think. It is unbelieveable that trump is saying nothing to stop this & some dude on MJ was complaining about a democrat add that involved children.
Republicans have only one priority - getting elected - like trump none of them know how to govern.
re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That was Dr. Lizardo. I linked to the Rude Pundit’s post from yesterday.
And I just read that - too close to the truth
re: #123 fern01
Did I hear one was supposed to be a courier delivery? That seemed to part of the reason some thought NYC might be the place - but that was before the De Niro bomb I think. It is unbelieveable that trump is saying nothing to stop this & some dude on MJ was complaining about a democrat add that involved children.
Republicans have only one priority - getting elected - like trump none of them know how to govern.
But do we know if the suspicious device sent to De Niro’s restaurant was also sent by courier? Has that been reported yet?
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
But do we know if the suspicious device sent to De Niro’s restaurant was also sent by courier? Has that been reported yet?
I don’t know, I turned off MJ when they started the RW b.s. so all I saw were pictures of the police and other first responders in the NY streets. No reporting other than breaking news - but we don’t know who is responsible for all these bombs.
I can’t find it on WaPo and I refuse to read the NYT - not even the free clicks.
Good morning Lizards,
I hope everyone remembered to mail some bombs to themselves before they left for work.
//
The MAGA crowd is insane, I can’t believe that they already know for sure that the Dems are sending bombs to themselves. Not sure but I think this is how one becomes batshit crazy.
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
But do we know if the suspicious device sent to De Niro’s restaurant was also sent by courier? Has that been reported yet?
Why do I get the idea that f*cking with DeNiro is more dangerous than f*cking with an ex-POTUS?
re: #127 b.d.(soros funded)
Good morning Lizards,
I hope everyone remembered to mail some bombs to themselves before they left for work.
//
The MAGA crowd is insane, I can’t believe that they already know for sure that the Dems are sending bombs to themselves. Not sure but I think this is how one becomes batshit crazy.
“nobody was harmed because they all have people screening their mail”
really
re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“nobody was harmed because they all have people screening their mail”
really
“Well, your Honor, I know I entered that bank with a 9 mm and an AK-47 and a couple of grenades, but wouldn’t you know it, the 9 mm jammed when I tried to shoot that pregnant lady that wouldn’t stop screaming and then the alarm went off and then……then I find out the money’s all locked into a time vault and I can’t get to it so I guess I’m totally not guilty of armed robbery because I didn’t get anything.”
MAGA logic.
Such a very nice “they had it coming to them” tweet from the uniter in chief.
A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
“Well, your Honor, I know I entered that bank with a 9 mm and an AK-47 and a couple of grenades, but wouldn’t you know it, the 9 mm jammed when I tried to shoot that pregnant lady that wouldn’t stop screaming and then the alarm went off and then……then I find out the money’s all locked into a time vault and I can’t go to it so I guess I’m totally not guilty of armed robbery because I didn’t get anything.”
MAGA logic.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
“Well, your Honor, I know I entered that bank with a 9 mm and an AK-47 and a couple of grenades, but wouldn’t you know it, the 9 mm jammed when I tried to shoot that pregnant lady that wouldn’t stop screaming and then the alarm went off and then……then I find out the money’s all locked into a time vault and I can’t go to it so I guess I’m totally not guilty of armed robbery because I didn’t get anything.”
MAGA logic.
I still remember the anthrax letters after 9/11. Republicans controlled every branch of government, the letters were all sent to Democrats, so obviously…Osama was to blame!
re: #133 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
IIRC, that’s still technically an unsolved crime, isn’t it? Much like the Chicago Tylenol murders back in the day.
re: #134 Dr Lizardo
IIRC, that’s still technically an unsolved crime, isn’t it? Much like the Chicago Tylenol murders back in the day.
I didn’t realize the Chicago case was unsolved. They got our local copycat, Stella Nickell, pretty quick.
re: #135 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Anyway, since I know her name, she’s the one I like to cuss out when dealing with “tamper-proof” containers.
re: #135 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I didn’t realize the Chicago case was unsolved. They got our local copycat, Stella Nickell, pretty quick.
The Chicago case is definitely one of those notorious unsolved crimes; there was a strong suspect, but apparently, there wasn’t enough evidence to make a case in court, though he was found guilty of extortion in regards to the Tylenol murders.
re: #113 teleskiguy
Of course the only thing the gun nuts will hear is GOOD GUY WITH A GUN.
re: #131 b.d.(soros funded)
Such a very nice “they had it coming to them” tweet from the uniter in chief.
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He just hates that people tell the truth about him - on odd occasions.
re: #131 b.d.(soros funded)
Such a very nice “they had it coming to them” tweet from the uniter in chief.
Yes, it was violent rhetoric from the Left that led to these attempted murder…
I keep reading from RWNJs that all of the bombs have been duds, that they wouldn’t explode. Is that true or not?
*not that it makes any difference to me. A bomb is a bomb. I’m just trying to suss out the facts.
Looks like another bomb was sent to Joe Biden.
re: #143 Scottish Dragon
Looks like another bomb was sent to Joe Biden.
One word went through my brain - starts with f.
re: #10 jaunte
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Here is a great thread by David Neiwert, who I strongly recommend following:
1) For some reason, folks on the right have extremely short memories when it comes to acts of right-wing political violence. This is especially the case when they are in the middle of a propaganda campaign to make “the left” look violent. A long thread with lots of pix follows. pic.twitter.com/D6MtFP4k65
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) October 15, 2018
re: #142 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I keep reading from RWNJs that all of the bombs have been duds, that they wouldn’t explode. Is that true or not?
*not that it makes any difference to me. A bomb is a bomb. I’m just trying to suss out the facts.
This is a net win for the GOP. Everybody is talking about bombs and bombers and not about how Trump is out to blow up the economy, foreign policy and democracy in America.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
Megyn Kelly dropped by her talent agency. Her bio at their Website now gives a 404 page.
$18 million contract, and she’s totally clueless about the history of blackface in this country, or really, has any understanding at all about the racial issues this country faces. She just floats in a cushy bubble of privilege. Terrible hire by NBC.
re: #145 Big Beautiful Door
Here is a great thread by David Neiwert, who I strongly recommend following:
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I would not say they have short memories. They have selective ones. It’s how they convince themselves that the Nazis were of the left.
re: #147 Big Beautiful Door
$18 million contract, and she’s totally clueless about the history of blackface in this country, or really, has any understanding at all about the racial issues this country faces. She just floats in a cushy bubble of privilege. Terrible hire by NBC.
It’s a stupid comment too. Blackface was seen how it is now by most people in the 70’s and 80’s especially in the New York burbs she grew up in. She just did what she did at FNC. Give people who think this is okay an out. IDGAF if it was once acceptable. When my Dad’s parents were kids, lynching post cards were a thing and they never tried to justify the treatment of African Americans because of that. Kelly is a creep selling bigoted nostalgia to people who refuse to get with reality.
re: #31 HappyWarrior
Her shit is so stupid. I don’t care if it was acceptable when you were a kid. That doesn’t mean it was right but that rang like bullshit to me. Kelly is around the same age as many of my cousins and blackface in the late 70’s and early 80’s would have gotten the same WTF reaction it does now. She’s full of shit. Not only a bigot but a liar too.
When I was about five in England, I played a doll called a “Gollywog” (yes really) in a school play in blackface. I was of course clueless about racism; there were literally no people of color in the small town in England I was living in, and I knew nothing about the civil rights struggles in the US at the time (the sixties). Megyn Kelly isn’t five.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
It’s a stupid comment too. Blackface was seen how it is now by most people in the 70’s and 80’s especially in the New York burbs she grew up in. She just did what she did at FNC. Give people who think this is okay an out. IDGAF if it was once acceptable. When my Dad’s parents were kids, lynching post cards were a thing and they never tried to justify the treatment of African Americans because of that. Kelly is a creep selling bigoted nostalgia to people who refuse to get with reality.
There is a big fucking difference between what was accepted at one time and what is acceptable now.
re: #150 Big Beautiful Door
When I was about five in England, I played a doll called a “Gollywog” (yes really) in a school play in blackface. I was of course clueless about racism; there were literally no people of color in the small town in England I was living in, and I knew nothing about the civil rights struggles in the US at the time (the sixties).
That comes up as a theme in a Ricky Gervais series Extras
NBC our with an article exposing how gullible Pamela Gellar is, thinking these bombs are ISIS related. Get Er Done!
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a big fucking difference between what was accepted at one time and what is acceptable now.
That’s what I mean. Casual homophobia was much more acceptable when I was a kid than it is now. Times change. Kelly’s defense is lame.
re: #153 GlutenFreeJesus
NBC our with an article exposing how gullible Pamela Gellar is, thinking these bombs are ISIS related. Get Er Done!
Remember the ISIS dildo flag outrage?
re: #150 Big Beautiful Door
When I was about five in England, I played a doll called a “Gollywog” (yes really) in a school play in blackface. I was of course clueless about racism; there were literally no people of color in the small town in England I was living in, and I knew nothing about the civil rights struggles in the US at the time (the sixties). Megyn Kelly isn’t five.
Right. She knows better. Even if her memory is right, black face isn’t acceptable.
Better yet why the hell is Kelly being so defensive of it now? She’s been in the public spotlight for awhile now and knows how unacceptable it is. Guess though she may have left FNC and was definitely victimized by that asshole Ailes, she’s still carrying that bigoted flame they love there.
re: #156 HappyWarrior
Right. She knows better. Even if her memory is right, black face isn’t acceptable.
She must be older than she looks, because when I was in grade school, 55 and 60 years ago, blackface would have been completely unacceptable—at least where I lived.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹
Which would instantly die on the vine. The Judiciary Act of 1869 would need to be repealed first.
Moreover, if the Dems could somehow do that, the GOP could too.
The Dems would better spend their capital trying to repeal the latest tax scam and working to fix the inanity with the ACA from the GOP.
But the current court will strike down any new healthcare law on a 5-4 vote. The Republicans have already smashed the norms around SCOTUS; if we let them keep their ill-gotten gains, this Court will continue to roll back much of the progress we’ve made in civil rights and environmental protection over the last 50 years.
re: #158 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
She must be older than she looks, because when I was in grade school, 55 and 60 years ago, blackface would have been completely unacceptable—at least where I lived.
She’s 48. Nearly all my first cousins are older than her and who grew up south of her would share your accessment. I’m sick of her always going to bat for bigotry and then trying to act like she’s this virtuous person that she ain’t.
Notice the hand gesture.. He isn’t even trying to hide it anymore..
His base must love this secret signal crap.
“God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot chand, courage to chand the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
— Magnificent Bitch ™ (@MagsBitchs) October 25, 2018
re: #161 Kilroy was here
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Trump: ‘I am bringing out the military’ to stop border crossingsNotice the hand gesture.. He isn’t even trying to hide it anymore..
His base must love this secret signal crap.
“Rinky dinky habla-oo!”
I didn’t realize you joined the military to intimidate refugees for Trump.
re: #162 Dave In Austin
plus ça chande, plus c’est la même chode!
re: #103 Patricia Kayden
Wow. So now we have a Justice Department which supports discrimination. This is outrageous. Now it’s trangender people. Who’s next?
Homosexuals, muslims and racial minorities.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
Looks like the tape is real, should be interesting to see what kind of deal Erdogan cuts with MBS and Trump to keep it from going public.
I don’t have the time to think through all of the possibilities, (or enough information to make it worth even attempting to do that), but I have a suspicion that Turkey might not be interested in a deal with MBS.
Normally, we don’t see how intelligence agencies gather information, as exposing that information makes it much easier for foreign nations to counter those information gathering procedures.
Right from the start Turkey has been revealing much more about their information gather abilities than you would expect including:
* They have audio recording capabilities inside the consulate’s most protected office.
* The ability to track individuals throughout Istanbul via CCTV.
* Given how quickly the Turkish authorities responded to the event, a very high chance that they had an information source that the murder was going to take place before it was going to take place.
If they were looking to do a deal with MBS, I’m pretty sure they could have done it via private channels that didn’t broadcast all of that information to every intelligence agency in the world.
I think there is a much higher chance that Turkey thinks that the current Saudi Regime is far too unstable, and is gambling that putting this information public is going to either put enough pressure on the Saudi regime to remove MBS, or would at least make his position be more tenuous, so that he’s not as likely to start any more wars.
Of course, if the Turkish intelligence services _do_ have audio of MBS overseeing the murder in realtime via skype (which is not impossible) then what I said might be completely moot, as that would still be a thing worth bargaining for, even after the cost of what info they have given away already.
re: #169 Danack
Turkey has long sought to position itself as a leading political force in the Middle East, and anything it can do to discredit Saudi Arabia helps them in that direction.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
I’ve gotta wonder if this assclown would-be bomber lives in the NYC metro area or something.
I said that yesterday. The fact that the CNN bomb was sent by courier instead of USPS raises my suspicions.
re: #145 Big Beautiful Door
Here is a great thread by David Neiwert, who I strongly recommend following:
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Now we can add to this list yesterdays murder of two African-Americans by a white supremacist in Louisville.
re: #153 GlutenFreeJesus
NBC our with an article exposing how gullible Pamela Gellar is, thinking these bombs are ISIS related. Get Er Done!
Gullible is not the correct word. She was being deliberately malicious.
good morning
eye on the ball for the next two weeks:
caravan: vote
letter bombs: vote
hate rallys: vote
white house lies: vote
10% middle class tax cut: vote
media is the enemy: vote
gerrymandering: vote
voter suppression: vote
racist campaigns: vote
do not forget jamal khashoggi: vote
October 25, 1854, Lord Cardigan’s Light Brigade of cavalry charged against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava…
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
As French Marshal Pierre Bosquet would state: “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre. C’est de la folie”
Stock market recording big gains today; soon Trump can tweet in celebration of Dow 25k!
re: #149 HappyWarrior
It’s a stupid comment too. Blackface was seen how it is now by most people in the 70’s and 80’s especially in the New York burbs she grew up in. She just did what she did at FNC. Give people who think this is okay an out. IDGAF if it was once acceptable. When my Dad’s parents were kids, lynching post cards were a thing and they never tried to justify the treatment of African Americans because of that. Kelly is a creep selling bigoted nostalgia to people who refuse to get with reality.
When I was in high school, a bunch of Black kids put on whiteface as a promotion for a school production of the play Day of Absence. This was 50 years ago. We knew that for white kids to go in blackface was bad, mmkay.
re: #26 stpaulbear
Wow. If the GOP has lost the AARP, that’s pretty big.
I’ve made some contributions to candidates via Act Blue and I am now getting about 100 email messages a day telling me how every candidate is in absolute dire straights with their blue wave advantages crumbling before our eyes. I’m afraid that my budget is maxed out for donations and this constant bombardment of horrible news is making me feel like crap. I’ve got my sample ballot researched and filled out, but in-person early voting here doesn’t start until a week before the election. Despite all the news about early voting crowds, I’m horribly anxious about how this is going to end.
i wont join aarp
re: #177 The Vicious Babushka
When I was in high school, a bunch of Black kids put on whiteface as a promotion for a school production of the play Day of Absence. This was 50 years ago. We knew that for white kids to go in blackface was bad, mmkay.
Exactly. She talks as if she grew up in the early 1900’s with Al Jolson on her radio FFS. I get that she’s a retrograde but still.
re: #103 Patricia Kayden
Wow. So now we have a Justice Department which supports discrimination. This is outrageous. Now it’s trangender people. Who’s next?
Get ready for an outrageously, “makes everyone dumber” argument like “This isn’t discrimination based on sex because they’ve chosen to forego their biological gender.” It will be similar to the “Homosexuals aren’t being discriminated against…they can marry anyone of the opposite sex they choose, just like everyone else.”
re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter
Except if you are on the plains of the Serengeti!
Occam was all about context
I’ve known things were dangerous for awhile, but today is the first time I truly felt the menace in the air. Things are really dangerous.
A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
Or what? https://t.co/06xfFUDkf2
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 25, 2018
Look to the sky — the triumphant return of the sky penis is upon us (Marine Corps Times, more at the link):
The Navy may never reach its goal of 355 ships, but by George if the service’s pilots didn’t motivate the hell out of aviators everywhere last November to deliver what the admiring earth-bound public most craves: The most artistically crafted sky penises in the Western Hemisphere.
Today, high over the Mad Max-ian wasteland that is California’s Salton Sea, a T-34C aircraft belonging to the Miramar-based Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing appeared to be in a holding pattern, looping effortlessly over the San Andreas Fault-based rift lake before continuing on its merry way toward Palm Springs International Airport.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
Megyn Kelly dropped by her talent agency. Her bio at their Website now gives a 404 page.
Megyn, if you had any brains you’d have realized that your Fox News schtick wouldn’t go over well with normal people.
You can take the gal off of Fox, but you can’t take the Fox hatred out of the gal.
Go away, Megyn. @nbchttps://t.co/yn7KN16K9m— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 25, 2018
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a big fucking difference between what was accepted at one time and what is acceptable now.
as if this needs to actually be said…..
re: #185 dangerman
as if this needs to actually be said…..
There are people who really want to turn back the clock on all that
I’ve been on the beach and on the water at the bottom of Texas. I’m seeing #MagaBomber is trending.
Fuck!
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹
Look to the sky — the triumphant return of the sky penis is upon us (Marine Corps Times, more at the link):
I’m just surprised the Salton Sea is still there. I had thought years of drought and no inflow had returned it to its original state of “salt flats”.
re: #184 MsJ
Megan Kelly dropped by her talent agency
Why? Is she trying to find some? (she should give up that quixotic quest!)
re: #188 Jay C
Salton Sea gets farm runoff… which makes it even saltier.
re: #184 MsJ
MsJoanne
@MsJoanne
Megyn, if you had any brains you’d have realized that your Fox News schtick wouldn’t go over well with normal people.You can take the gal off of Fox, but you can’t take the Fox hatred out of the gal.
Go away, Megyn. @nbchttps://apple.news/AviPrjbQyQ-urks9xeCO3Ug …
The NBC executives who are directly responsible for the Trump Presidency (no Apprentice, no Trump) thought exactly that: Megyn’s Fox routine would appeal to the NBC viewers plus she would bring in her Fox fans. As it turned out, it was a lose/lose proposition for NBC. Let’s just hope that the media does not cave in to the continuing assaults by our dictator wannabe.
re: #184 MsJ
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re: #182 Barefoot Grin
I’ve known things were dangerous for awhile, but today is the first time I truly felt the menace in the air. Things are really dangerous.
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Brennan yesterday had it so right cnn.com
Trump’s goal is to cower the press and reign supreme, like the dictators he so admires.
TL;DR: guy takes his girlfriend to see Jordan Peterson speak, she immediately tells him she wants to see other people, he doesn’t understand why. pic.twitter.com/CSQjGyNUrX
— Sturgeon’s Law (@Sturgeons_Law) October 18, 2018
Or, alternately, you could stop f*king lying.
But, like the scorpion, you just cannot change your nature.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 25, 2018
MORE: Package and contents delivered to Robert De Nero this morning on Greenwich Street was same as devices discovered yesterday, mailed to top Democrats per PD source. @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/KrJvXSY61c
— Anthony DiLorenzo (@ADiLorenzoTV) October 25, 2018
re: #198 MsJ
A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!
if trump lies and the media doesnt report it, is he still a liar?
yes. yes he is.
re: #196 Big Beautiful Door
There will be nowhere to hide when Skynet wakes up.
Eh. Skynet’s probably not going to use door opening bots to off everyone. It’ll probably use biotoxin containing nanobots programmed for simultaneous release hitching a ride on everyone’s junk mail.
The MAGA Nazis are all over the librul MSM spewing their “both sides” bullshit.
re: #201 Weaselone
Eh. Skynet’s probably not going to use door opening bots to off everyone. It’ll probably use biotoxin containing nanobots programmed for simultaneous release hitching a ride on everyone’s junk mail.
Don’t give it ideas!
re: #142 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I keep reading from RWNJs that all of the bombs have been duds, that they wouldn’t explode. Is that true or not?
*not that it makes any difference to me. A bomb is a bomb. I’m just trying to suss out the facts.
I’m playing catch up to the thread, but last night it was being reported by some of the ex-FBI guys on MSNBC the bombs were completely real and had they gone off could have been very dangerous…maybe deadly.
However, the question was why didn’t they go off?
The thinking was maybe the bomber is just at the terrorizing point where he wants to send a message that he can get to the people if he wants and the next time maybe the bombs are set to actually work.
re: #195 Hecuba’s daughter
Brennan yesterday had it so right cnn.com
Trump’s goal is to cower the press and reign supreme, like the dictators he so admires.
I would think the only thing it does is really piss them off making them that much more aggressive.
Alas, I have thought that before, too…and that did not come to pass.
re: #164 jeffreyw
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What kind of bird is that on top of the Fly-in diner?
So, WWE announced today that they are going ahead with their Saudi show next month.
Last year they ran, explicitly, propaganda from the KSA in their inaugural show from the KSA.
Like his buddy Trump, McMahon loves money more than doing what is right.
re: #206 ObserverArt
Or that he’s starting out doesn’t know how to do it correctly…yet.
I recall hearing somewhere that most bombers either fail to detonate, or they blow themselves up. I am NOT certain about the validity of that.
re: #209 freetoken
So, WWE announced today that they are going ahead with their Saudi show next month.
Last year they ran, explicitly, propaganda from the KSA in their inaugural show from the KSA.
Like his buddy Trump, McMahon loves money more than doing what is right.
None of them *know* what doing right is. Not a one of them. Narcissistic personality disorders across the board. They have no barometer for right and wrong.
re: #206 ObserverArt
I’m playing catch up to the thread, but last night it was being reported by some of the ex-FBI guys on MSNBC the bombs were completely real and had they gone off could have been very dangerous…maybe deadly.
However, the question was why didn’t they go off?
The thinking was maybe the bomber is just at the terrorizing point where he wants to send a message that he can get to the people if he wants and the next time maybe the bombs are set to actually work.
Or:
a) They weren’t constructed well,
b) They were not triggered
c) Most mail bombs don’t actually explode. The Unabomber’s bombs mostly didn’t explode.
re: #145 Big Beautiful Door
Here is a great thread by David Neiwert, who I strongly recommend following:
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For the leftish side of that list, I would add the time some guy from Baltimore came up to NYC and killed two cops sitting in their patrol car (the same summer as the Miller case in Vegas, almost the same scenario, but of course HUGELY different amount of news coverage. The black guy doing it in NY got all-day coverage on the networks, airlines donated seats for thousands of cops from other jurisdictions to come to the funeral, the funeral was broadcast live, all the Republicans and NYPD union boss made a huge stink that it was Black Lives Matter to blame. Two white people off the Bundy ranch doing the exact same thing in Vegas… was a one day story and dropped off the radar).
Also, the sniper that killed 5 Dallas cops. Obama spoke at the funeral.
re: #206 ObserverArt
The thinking was maybe the bomber is just at the terrorizing point where he wants to send a message that he can get to the people if he wants and the next time maybe the bombs are set to actually work.
Moreover, the first bomb discovered (the one delivered to George Soros) was discovered by one of his employees, and that person alerted the police rather than touch it.
The politicians who received them all have mail screening and/or Secret Service protection. They were intercepted by authorities.
My concern is if the agitprop from Trump and FOX and other GOP politicians, coupled with the visibility of this campaign, causes other wingnuts to go into “copycat” mode against local people in their areas.
Terror campaigns don’t have to kill people or injure them; the point is terror and they are doing a very good job at that right now. It doesn’t matter if it’s the intended target or a bystander: In that way it’s pretty much like a mass shooter. They don’t care who they kill or injure.
A package I didn’t expect turned up on my front porch yesterday. I checked with my wife before touching it (though it was raining); she was expecting it. I will be checking under my car and such before moving it. &c.
Absolutely fucking scum. I pray and hope he gets stage IV colon cancer.
re: #169 Danack
I think there is a much higher chance that Turkey thinks that the current Saudi Regime is far too unstable, and is gambling that putting this information public is going to either put enough pressure on the Saudi regime to remove MBS, or would at least make his position be more tenuous, so that he’s not as likely to start any more wars.
Or maybe, Turkey is just happy to have a chance to redirect attention from all the shitty things they’ve done and are still doing to all the journalists, cops, teachers, politicians etc of the non-Erdogan party — firing (and in some cases locking up and/or killing) anybody who could provide any opposition leadership.
“Saudis did this to somebody Americans and Europeans know by name and care about. Look at that, ignore us.”
re: #216 Dr. Matt
Whatever he gets, I hope Callista brings in her new boyfriend while he’s on his death bed.
Brennan, BTW, is having none of Trump’s shit.
A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your act….try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence. https://t.co/cS5qNiuU7o
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) October 25, 2018
Didn’t they do this once before, and the soldiers ended up standing around with nothing to do?
BREAKING: AP source: Defense Secretary Mattis expected to sign order to send at least 800 troops to US-Mexico border.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 25, 2018
re: #219 makeitstop
Brennan, BTW, is having none of Trump’s shit.
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re: #219 makeitstop
Brennan, BTW, is having none of Trump’s shit.
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You’re part of that anger you fucking constant liar. The media is just doing their job when they call you out on it. Stop fucking whining.
re: #222 HappyWarrior
You’re part of that anger you fucking constant liar. The media is just doing their job when they call you out on it. Stop fucking whining.
Its not a whine; its a threat.
re: #220 makeitstop
Didn’t they do this once before, and the soldiers ended up standing around with nothing to do?
Donnie is using our troops as a desperate attempt for a political gain.
1. This story is false. Never happened.
2. Okay, it happened. It was a fist fight that got out of hand. We didn’t plan any of this.
3. Actually, we planned it.
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Thursday that the death of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been “premeditated,” the latest change in the kingdom’s official story of how he was killed.
https://t.co/6zv0ATvzwx— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 25, 2018
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is shifting its story as slowly as possible so that news alerts like this don’t get as much attention. https://t.co/0s5LqfcBOF
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 25, 2018
Because a razor-thin margin of the people dumb enough to approve of trump but smart enough to know where their healthcare bread is buttered just might be enough (depending on the area, of course):
Some strategy math:
Around 45% of people approve of Trump
Only 30% think Repubs are better on healthcare
So, 15% of the pop agrees with us on healthcare but disagrees about Trump.
Talk about healthcare not Trump.
Even a 1% swing in voting equals about 15 more House seats.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 25, 2018
re: #206 ObserverArt
I’m playing catch up to the thread, but last night it was being reported by some of the ex-FBI guys on MSNBC the bombs were completely real and had they gone off could have been very dangerous…maybe deadly.
However, the question was why didn’t they go off?
The thinking was maybe the bomber is just at the terrorizing point where he wants to send a message that he can get to the people if he wants and the next time maybe the bombs are set to actually work.
Thanks!
re: #223 Big Beautiful Door
I think it’s time that became the go to response. Every time this evil orange nutsack opens his yap it’s either a bunch of fucking lies or threats. Or both. Anyone still on the trump train needs to be written off. Fuck this bullshit.
Mencken warned us about people like you.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 25, 2018
re: #216 Dr. Matt
Absolutely fucking scum. I pray and hope he gets stage IV colon cancer.
Colon cancer isn’t really painful, at least not for my grandmother who died of the disease.
Lou Dobbs is a disgrace.
Absolutely disgusting. I’ve asked Fox Business for comment on this. pic.twitter.com/GO2M1rcxOQ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 25, 2018
He’s since deleted the tweet.
re: #229 freetoken
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We have something that has worked. People like Albert there just can’t handle that most of the new immigrants don’t look like him.
re: #231 makeitstop
Lou Dobbs is a disgrace.
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He’s since deleted the tweet.
Cowardly shit bird.
re: #230 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Colon cancer isn’t really painful, at least not for my grandmother who died of the disease.
Metastatic colon cancer usually spreads to the liver…..liver failure is slow and painful.
re: #226 Interesting Times
Because a razor-thin margin of the people dumb enough to approve of trump but smart enough to know where their healthcare bread is buttered just might be enough (depending on the area, of course):
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The Senate forecast at 538 indicates an increasing likelihood that the GOP will pick up one or more seats (though a Democratic majority is still possible!). This makes it even more critical than ever to win the House, because if the GOP controls Congress and has 52 or more seats in the Senate, then next year they will have the votes to repeal Obamacare.
Obama slogan: Hope and Change
Trump slogan: Grope and Chand
Say what you will about the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry, and whether or not they’re destroying the NBA somehow, you can’t say that their dominance isn’t earned. Steph Curry is just on another level and on an actual team rather than bit players surrounding a ‘superstar’.
lmao Steph turned a botched alley-oop into a four-point play
🎥 @NBApic.twitter.com/QRVKRr60Yg— SB Nation (@SBNation) October 25, 2018
My favorite quote regarding his last game (51 pts, 11-16 behind the line, in 3 quarters):
Curry shot 11-of-16 from three-point range. He joins himself, himself, himself, himself, himself, Klay Thompson, and Deron Williams as the most efficient players to ever make 11 or more threes in a game.
re: #236 BlueSpotinAL
Obama slogan: Hope and Change
Trump slogan: Grope and Chand
Trump 2018: I can sell you my shit on a ice cream cone and you’ll buy it.
re: #237 Citizen K
Say what you will about the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry, and whether or not they’re destroying the NBA somehow, you can’t say that their dominance isn’t earned. Steph Curry is just on another level and on an actual team rather than bit players surrounding a ‘superstar’.
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My favorite quote regarding his last game (51 pts, 11-16 behind the line, in 3 quarters):
That’s crazy.
As much as I want to hate on GSW, I just can’t. They’re so goddamned good.
NOW Cannon House Office Building being evacuated. Audible alarm. No reason given.
— Joe Gould (@reporterjoe) October 25, 2018
re: #237 Citizen K
Say what you will about the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry, and whether or not they’re destroying the NBA somehow, you can’t say that their dominance isn’t earned. Steph Curry is just on another level and on an actual team rather than bit players surrounding a ‘superstar’.
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An actual team? What is that supposed to mean?
They were lucky in that they had the salary cap space to add all those players to the team.
Enjoy them this year, because several of those players will be looking for bigger contracts and most likely will go to other teams.
And then you can see Steph Curry in a similar situation as to LeBron with the Cavs. A superstar surrounded by bit players. He’ll be rich though. Just like LeBron.
Cannon House Office Building being evacuated right now. No details. Alarms went off and we were told to evacuate immediately.
— Matt Bonaccorsi (@MattBonaccorsi) October 25, 2018
Here’s the email we received about 10 minutes ago. Fairly standard evacuation notice. Several large trucks escorted by police cars just drove by the lot. pic.twitter.com/DGQAo5YXWP
— Matt Bonaccorsi (@MattBonaccorsi) October 25, 2018
re: #239 makeitstop
That’s crazy.
As much as I want to hate on GSW, I just can’t. They’re so goddamned good.
At least we know they won’t be playing King James and the Cavs in the NBA Finals again this year; maybe the Celtics or somebody can give them a good series.
re: #235 Big Beautiful Door
The 538 Senate model has a very marginal (+.6 seat) gain for the GOP.
It really is very close.
The (D) seat that might be lost is in ND, where I guess the locals are quite fine with Trump’s racism. It’s an extremely white state with new-found riches in hard-to-produce oil.
re: #206 ObserverArt
….
However, the question was why didn’t they go off?The thinking was maybe the bomber is just at the terrorizing point where he wants to send a message that he can get to the people if he wants and the next time maybe the bombs are set to actually work.
Maybe they didn’t go off because they were
(1) Sent to people who don’t open their own mail but have experts screen it first
(2) After the Soros package, these experts were on the alert for bombs
Is it possible that if these packages were sent to ordinary people, as in Austin, there would have been several fatalities by now?
re: #242 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This seem dangerous. How secure is the lot itself?
re: #243 Big Beautiful Door
At least we know they won’t be playing King James and the Cavs in the NBA Finals again this year; maybe the Celtics or somebody can give them a good series.
Toronto is actually looking pretty good - they haven’t lost a game yet.
Good news for Beto.
BREAKING: The Dallas News, which leans right, just endorsed @BetoORourke over @tedcruz. This is huge.
https://t.co/rz9itO6zP3— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) October 25, 2018
re: #244 freetoken
The 538 Senate model has a very marginal (+.6 seat) gain for the GOP.
It really is very close.
The (D) seat that might be lost is in ND, where I guess the locals are quite fine with Trump’s racism. It’s an extremely white state with new-found riches in hard-to-produce oil.
As Nate Silver goes to pains to point out, an 80% probability is not a 100% probability, and there is a very real chance (40%) that one of the parties will control both Houses of Congress. If the GOP does, we’re screwed; its critical that the Democrats at least win control of the House, and if we’re lucky, they’ll win all the toss-up Senate seats, and maybe pull off an upset in Texas and/or Tennessee.
re: #237 Citizen K
Say what you will about the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry, and whether or not they’re destroying the NBA somehow, you can’t say that their dominance isn’t earned. Steph Curry is just on another level and on an actual team rather than bit players surrounding a ‘superstar’.
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My favorite quote regarding his last game (51 pts, 11-16 behind the line, in 3 quarters):
My view of Steph Curry is what it’s always been…
“I wish he was a Laker. It feels like cheating to like and admire a player who isn’t a Laker. Please move to be a a Laker.”
It’s been a huge relief to no longer have to deny my feelings for LeBron.
re: #180 Mike Lamb
Get ready for an outrageously, “makes everyone dumber” argument like “This isn’t discrimination based on sex because they’ve chosen to forego their biological gender.” It will be similar to the “Homosexuals aren’t being discriminated against…they can marry anyone of the opposite sex they choose, just like everyone else.”
Yet people are not born (I know some may argue otherwise) Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. You CHOOSE to follow that religion or not. But we protect your decision even though you were not BORN that way.
EXCLUSIVE: Megyn Kelly is OUT at NBC just 48 hours after defending blackface and the network will be forced to pay out her entire $69M contract https://t.co/yVSmw9c9Zr
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 25, 2018
re: #244 freetoken
The 538 Senate model has a very marginal (+.6 seat) gain for the GOP.
It really is very close.
The (D) seat that might be lost is in ND, where I guess the locals are quite fine with Trump’s racism. It’s an extremely white state with new-found riches in hard-to-produce oil.
Cramer’s sexism too. But yeah. That said, I appreciate Heitcamp doing the right thing on Kavanaugh.
re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
EXCLUSIVE: Megyn Kelly is OUT at NBC just 48 hours after defending blackface and the network will be forced to pay out her entire $69M contract dailymail.co.uk
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 25, 2018
Fox, Breitbart, and Storm Front will welcome her with open arms.
It looks like the period for comment has been extended: https://t.co/5ZgNkmbSJa
— Julia Brock (@juliakbrock) October 25, 2018
re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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This is my favorite Tweet of all time
Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yah.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 25, 2018
re: #241 ObserverArt
An actual team? What is that supposed to mean?
They were lucky in that they had the salary cap space to add all those players to the team.
Enjoy them this year, because several of those players will be looking for bigger contracts and most likely will go to other teams.
And then you can see Steph Curry in a similar situation as to LeBron with the Cavs. A superstar surrounded by bit players. He’ll be rich though. Just like LeBron.
I mean in that, as good as he is, as indispensable as he is, he’s not the be all, end all of the team in the way many other ‘superstar’-led teams were (and yes, I speak of LeBron Cavs especially there). And outside of the Durant pickup, it’s not like they were high end names or superstars in their own right before finding cohesion in Oakland, especially Klay Thompson.
I mean, yes, if key pieces move out, you’ll see a much different (and much worse) team. Thunder really haven’t been much the same since Harden left, after all, and having really found a working core yet. That doesn’t change that Golden State is a very complete team that shows they can still win even when their ace has a bad night, or worse, the night off.
re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 25, 2018
Annoying start to the day — now that I’m retired, I try to sleep in (really late!) but got an 8AM call on my cell from a 619 number. The person at the other end identified themselves as being from Medicare, told me that I was going to receive an updated card, and then started asking me to confirm information to ensure card was correct; they had correct name, address — all publicly available. I realized this was too suspicious and finally said my information has not changed from the last card they sent and hung up. Even that was probably too much to provide them, but at least I did not reveal anything other than what was already public knowledge — in any case I went online and discovered that these were telemarketers.
I should have known better.
re: #147 Big Beautiful Door
$18 million contract, and she’s totally clueless about the history of blackface in this country, or really, has any understanding at all about the racial issues this country faces. She just floats in a cushy bubble of privilege. Terrible hire by NBC.
I look for her to star in Fox’s new “Megyn Kelly’s Minstrel Hour” on Fox, where the white only guests all appear in blackface.
re: #255 Dr. Matt
Sixty nine fucking million dollars to her. Fuck. It sure pays $$$$$$$ to be a racist blonde news hack lady.
re: #263 plansbandc
Comcast/NBCU are run by people who are the same ones who sent millions of dollars to Trump (remember his show on NBC?)
There is no reason to believe that the upper management of that corporation has any real differences with the upper management of Fox.
re: #220 makeitstop
Didn’t they do this once before, and the soldiers ended up standing around with nothing to do?
That was Governor Abbot of Texas, who sent the National Guard.
More than nothing to do, the state didn’t set up logistics properly for keeping troops in the desert, and many of the Guardsmen/women were dependent on donations of food and water from local residents.
They were also useless to Customs and Border Protection, not being trained in customs or border protection - they were largely relegated to make-work administrative tasks.
re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter
Annoying start to the day — now that I’m retired, I try to sleep in (really late!) but got an 8AM call on my cell from a 619 number. The person at the other end identified themselves as being from Medicare, told me that I was going to receive an updated card, and then started asking me to confirm information to ensure card was correct; they had correct name, address — all publicly available. I realized this was too suspicious and finally said my information has not changed from the last card they sent and hung up. Even that was probably too much to provide them, but at least I did not reveal anything other than what was already public knowledge — in any case I went online and discovered that these were telemarketers.
I should have known better.
We should take this as a valuable caution: Medicare has replaced/will be replacing everybody’s cards, but AFAIK, does this only by mail - not the telephone. Investing in an answering machine to screen out telemarketing calls (I’ve noticed very few leave messages on an automated system) might be a wise retirement-account decision.
There are also, depending on what state you live in, “official” “Do Not Call” registries - which are *supposed* to keep your numbers off telemarketers’ lists: but which I’ve found (in NY anyway) is a supposition not supported by reality….
Did Haberman just out the source of the cell phone story?
Multiple West Wing aides say Jordan Karem, who has taken over as lead of Oval Office Ops, tells colleagues about screening the call logs on the non-cell phone for Kelly. Trump uses cell to try to avoid the Kelly screenings https://t.co/e5HI5dbYi7
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 25, 2018
Oh @maggieNYT you are just upset your name never appears on the call log 😢 I anxiously await the next edition of Fairytales by Maggie. #sad #false #tryusingfacts https://t.co/Uf5E5B9RKj
— Jordan Karem (@JordanKarem1) October 25, 2018
Head of Oval Office Ops denying what multiple West Wing officials report her said >>>>>> https://t.co/URftInI40p
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 25, 2018
re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter
Annoying start to the day — now that I’m retired, I try to sleep in (really late!) but got an 8AM call on my cell from a 619 number. The person at the other end identified themselves as being from Medicare, told me that I was going to receive an updated card, and then started asking me to confirm information to ensure card was correct; they had correct name, address — all publicly available. I realized this was too suspicious and finally said my information has not changed from the last card they sent and hung up. Even that was probably too much to provide them, but at least I did not reveal anything other than what was already public knowledge — in any case I went online and discovered that these were telemarketers.
I should have known better.
I no longer answer my telephone. I let my answering machine answer it. If I recognise who it is (or they identify themselves as someone I need to talk to) then I pick up.
If I’m in bed, it can wait. Unless I hear something like an emergency (for example, the water system alarm calling my house), they can wait.
— TitusWelliver (@welliver_titus) October 25, 2018
Four-tweet flamethrower:
You can’t even spell unabomber correctly dumb ass.
And of course you forgot about, never knew about, couldn’t care less about 4 little African American girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham,Al - an act of white supremacist terrorism.
Dumb & mean. pic.twitter.com/wGqAd8lzET— Kevin Heldman (@kevinjayheldman) October 24, 2018
Bill Mitchell (noted idiot) is up on his Twitter feed with an hour-long video called “Fake Bomb Gate.”
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BREAKING Good news for a change: confirming that #JamalKhashoggi son Salah and his family are finally out of Riyadh and on their way to US, travel ban lifted. Too bad Salah had to endure that cruel and bizarre greeting with MBS first.
— Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) October 25, 2018
Right-wing pastor Rodney Howard-Browne says that Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be removed from the Supreme Court and shot for treason.
https://t.co/phe6wGJJjk— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 24, 2018
But it’s the Left that’s threatening violence.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders emerged from hiding this morning to catch up with the usual gang of idiots at “Fox & Friends” and discuss how the disturbing number of suspicious explosive items sent to prominent Democrats and members of the press is all the fault of Democrats and members of the press.
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt reminded viewers about the shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and “what happened” to Sanders and her family at a Lexington, Virginia, restaurant. I’m gonna put Earhardt’s selective memory on a brief hold and clarify that “what happened” to Sanders was not at all violent or life-threatening. She was politely asked to leave the Red Hen on the same legal principle Christian bakers politely refuse to bake wedding cakes for gay couples. Although the Red Hen’s moral exception to Sanders had nothing to do with her sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity or even her politics in general. The staff didn’t want to serve Sanders because she is a professional advocate for and enabler of fascism. She’s free to practice that alternative lifestyle, but she’s not entitled to pan-seared scallops.
more: Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Trump Won’t Tolerate Heinous Violence That Kicks Her Out Of Restaurants
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹
Four-tweet flamethrower:
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Eric Rudolph? You’re a stupid person, Ann.
re: #272 Skip Intro
Exhibit A for reopening insane asylums.
re: #275 DodgerFan1988
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But it’s the Left that’s threatening violence.
This pastor should get a nice visit from the Secret Service but he won’t. Ignorant inbred pig fucker.
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Don’t bother trying the link, it appears to be access controlled.
Somewhat surprisingly, Rod Dreher is up this morning with an article against the MAGA mobs. It’s still 80% clueless “both-siderism” but I’m sure it will illicit howls of protest from his troglodyte readers.
Among Weimar America’s Thugs
This morning, over my first cup of coffee, I saw a TV report that mentioned a Trump rally crowd in Wisconsin last night chanting “Lock her up!” when Hillary Clinton’s name was mentioned by a local Republican candidate at the podium. It bothers me that two years after she lost the election, Trumpist crowds are still vilifying Clinton by calling for her imprisonment. But the fact that they did that on the same day that someone sent a pipe bomb to her home — that’s just a fascist mob mentality, and it’s tearing this country apart.
Don’t come at me with your whataboutism. I frequently denounce left-wing mobs in this space, most recently the lunatics who were clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court when Brett Kavanaugh was inside being sworn in. Anti-civil political mob behavior needs to be called out and repudiated no matter who does it, because as Jordan Perkins says, its normalization will destroy us all. …
In his talk, Gingrich said that the polarization is “everyone’s fault,” which, okay, but the term “enemy of the people” is utterly unworthy of an American, especially a conservative American who is old enough to remember the Cold War, and what communism was, and is. And to use that phrase a day after someone sent a pipe bomb to CNN! What is wrong with him?
Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler, or even close. I can’t think of a left-wing US leader who is either, nor can I think of a left-wing leader who is even as effective at mobilizing these sentiments as Donald Trump. But we Americans — all of us, left and right — are getting ourselves used to thinking in the kinds of categories, and unleashing the passions, that a truly gifted demagogue will be able to marshal with ferocious effectiveness.
Trump is not the problem. The problem is who comes after Trump. Trump, and Trumpism, didn’t come from nowhere. On this blog, I point out over and over how left-wing transgression of norms, on campus and elsewhere, feeds Trumpism. Jordan Perkins explains how it works. It is also true that Trumpist transgressions feed the left.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. More suspected bombs identified before detonating at their intended targets: De Niro and Biden?!
The targets are all people Trump identifies as enemies and rivals. This is not a coincidence, not with Trump’s inciteful attitudes and behaviors.
Someone is pursuing a political agenda with these terrorist acts. The bombs were designed to cause death and destruction. But for sheer luck, no one has been injured so far.
Authorities warn there may still be other devices in play.
Meanwhile, investigators found some interesting details in the wrappings of at least one of the devices:
Here’s an important thing to note about the meme on this device.
It is not a well-traveled work of Photoshop. It’s from an early-2010s era Tea Party-style, old-school HTML blogroll parody news site.
It’s a really obscure meme from a specific ecosystem.https://t.co/4JvKuTPmlA— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 25, 2018
Whoever created these devices was familiar with a very particular right wing site/meme.
re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Don’t bother trying the link, it appears to be access controlled.
Looks like he deleted it, still showing on my tweetdeck though
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹
I no longer answer my telephone. I let my answering machine answer it. If I recognise who it is (or they identify themselves as someone I need to talk to) then I pick up.
If I’m in bed, it can wait. Unless I hear something like an emergency (for example, the water system alarm calling my house), they can wait.
re: #266 Jay C
We should take this as a valuable caution: Medicare has replaced/will be replacing everybody’s cards, but AFAIK, does this only by mail - not the telephone. Investing in an answering machine to screen out telemarketing calls (I’ve noticed very few leave messages on an automated system) might be a wise retirement-account decision.
There are also, depending on what state you live in, “official” “Do Not Call” registries - which are *supposed* to keep your numbers off telemarketers’ lists: but which I’ve found (in NY anyway) is a supposition not supported by reality….
I seldom answer my landline unless I recognize who is calling; but there have been so many family emergencies over the years, I usually answer my cell, since that’s the number friends and family have if there is a need to contact me. Unfortunately, unlike the landline, the cell only shows number not name, unless it’s a name I previously saved to my contact list.
re: #272 Skip Intro
Put behind the private tag … for goodness sake.
re: #284 Ferdinand
On this blog, I point out over and over how left-wing transgression of norms, on campus and elsewhere, feeds Trumpism.
Yes, why do left-wingers keep preventing Trump from appointing ambassadors, adequately staffing government agencies, divesting from his emoluments-clause conflicted businesses?
re: #286 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Looks like he deleted it, still showing on my tweetdeck though
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King just needs to wear a white robe to Congress. We know how you think Steve.
re: #285 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. More suspected bombs identified before detonating at their intended targets: De Niro and Biden?!
The targets are all people Trump identifies as enemies and rivals. This is not a coincidence, not with Trump’s inciteful attitudes and behaviors.
Someone is pursuing a political agenda with these terrorist acts. The bombs were designed to cause death and destruction. But for sheer luck, no one has been injured so far.
Authorities warn there may still be other devices in play.
Meanwhile, investigators found some interesting details in the wrappings of at least one of the devices:
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Whoever created these devices was familiar with a very particular right wing site/meme.
circumstances aside, good to see you
re: #289 jaunte
Yes, why do left-wingers keep preventing Trump from appointing ambassadors, adequately staffing government agencies, divesting from his emoluments-clause conflicted businesses?
We uppity liberals, wanting a well-run and staffed efficient, effective government that is always striving to better serve all Americans. That was obviously provocation enough. But then we foist on them a black President and work to provide health care to all the states. That was just a bridge too far.
re: #294 Ferdinand
We uppity liberals, wanting a well-run and staffed efficient, effective government that is always striving to better serve all Americans. That was obviously provocation enough. But then we foist on them a black President and work to provide health care to all the states. That was just a bridge too far.
i live in the fantasy world of west wing reruns
re: #272 Skip Intro
“Listen. Strange men inserting objects into their bodies is no basis for demonstrating their tolerance. Liberal, accepting attitudes derive from an open mind, not from the other end.”
Be on the look out for the #HoldMyBeerBomber Git er done? really?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) October 25, 2018
I didn’t blame Bernie Sanders when a Bernie supporter shot Congressman Steve Scalise. And I’m not going to blame President @realDonaldTrump for this nut job.
I blame the individual(s) responsible –- not someone else.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 25, 2018
I, too, remember all of Bernie Sanders’ vitriolic speeches and tweets about Steve Scalise. And his incessant calls for violence against his opponents.
Oh wait—that never happened.
You’re a jackass. https://t.co/17R40Hbu1T— Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@AngryBlackLady) October 25, 2018
Chuck Grassley’s letter referring @MichaelAvenatti and Julie Swetnick to the DOJ for a possible criminal probe over allegedly false statements to Congress https://t.co/mkXWBrM5bG
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 25, 2018
So Grassley is doing false statements referrals now, huh? Will keep an eye out for one on Trump Jr. telling the Judiciary committee he was unaware of foreign governments offering to help his dad’s campaign. Or Sessions saying he had no contacts with Russians. https://t.co/WEwZ1RxWDJ
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 25, 2018
re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Linsey is a full throated Donnie Cultist now that McCain is dead.
— Lil’ Vote November 6th (@originalgriz) October 25, 2018
re: #302 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Do you think the Chinese are listening in on his tweets?
Because, of course.
EXCLUSIVE: Mueller investigated a series of meetings between the Saudi general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn. https://t.co/LGwRj0A7BA
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 25, 2018
JUST IN: Investigators believe all suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats went through U.S. Postal Service; investigation focusing on Florida - law enforcement source https://t.co/Mw16Q2VMcF
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 25, 2018
re: #305 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Ah, Flori-duh. No one is surprised.
re: #305 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Florid(a or s) man upping his game? Not content to just chew on random peoples faces anymore.
Anyone seen or heard from George Killerman lately…..?
Thread…
Let me clarify something here:
In normal times, the US military is prevented from being used for law enforcement against US Citizens or on US soil as described by Title 10 of US Code.
1/— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 25, 2018
re: #285 lawhawk
Why put a meme sticker on something that will explode in a million pieces and probably never be found?
re: #304 makeitstop
Because, of course.
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So the discussions were about regime change in Iran. Isn’t that how our difficulties with Iran originated— through our involvement in the 1953 coup overthrowing the legitimately elected Iranian government?
re: #305 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Florida Man strikes again!
Though I read somewhere that it was probably obvious: only someone from Florida would be likely to misspell “Florida” on the return labels…
re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
About the nut-job sending bombs in the mail — Simply put, this is NOT the way we do business in America.
lindsey.. you moran
it was probably an american
who did this in america
so yes, this is how ‘we’ do business in america
re: #309 makeitstop
Worth remembering as the president orders soldiers to the border: Apprehensions remain near a 50-year low. In FY18, the average Border Patrol agent on the Southwest border made 2 apprehensions per month of crossers.
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) October 25, 2018
re: #306 Dr. Matt
Ah, Flori-duh. No one is surprised.
Might be a head fake. The package that went to CNN was reported to have been delivered via courier, which contradicts the report.
I still think the MAGAbomber is from New York.
re: #306 Dr. Matt
Ah, Flori-duh. No one is surprised.
hey!
i, mrs dm, and danger mom all voted full on D yesterday
just handed three envelopes to our postal carrier
we are trying to wipe out florida man
re: #315 dangerman
Part of the business of America is a rolling revisionism so that we don’t have to confront how often “you threatened our sense of being in power, now we get to hurt you disproportionately” plays out.
I hate to focus on a single detail, but…this is why they’re such assholes about the story of Columbus Day versus what Cristobal Colon actually did. It informs their entire understanding of history and action.
re: #313 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
New from daughter:
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‘edgar’ is a female, right?
re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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In some ways I hope this costs Andy Lack his job, He just blew a big hole in the NBC News budget with this booting of Megyn Kelly.
He was foolish for thinking she would ever work out at NBC.
Lots and lots of clues.I would be very surprised if the MAGA-bomber is not in custody by this time tomorrow.
re: #322 ObserverArt
In some ways I hope this costs Andy Lack his job, He just blew a big hole in the NBC News budget with this booting of Megyn Kelly.
He was foolish for thinking she would ever work out at NBC.
The hole was already blown the moment she was hired, although I would have personally given her the crappiest job I could have while meeting the obligations of the contract instead of canning her, letting her pocket the loot and go off and get another job and more cash spewing her BS.
re: #323 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Lots and lots of clues.I would be very surprised if the MAGA-bomber is not in custody by this time tomorrow.
Or at least identified (with swarms of LEO going over his suddenly-vacated dwelling with molecular-level thoroughness).
Cap police say the Cannon evacuation alarm was due to “malfunctioning electrical panel.” Building’s all clear
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) October 25, 2018
re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter
Annoying start to the day — now that I’m retired, I try to sleep in (really late!) but got an 8AM call on my cell from a 619 number. The person at the other end identified themselves as being from Medicare, told me that I was going to receive an updated card, and then started asking me to confirm information to ensure card was correct; they had correct name, address — all publicly available. I realized this was too suspicious and finally said my information has not changed from the last card they sent and hung up. Even that was probably too much to provide them, but at least I did not reveal anything other than what was already public knowledge — in any case I went online and discovered that these were telemarketers.
I should have known better.
That is both a huge phone and email scam going on. I get both, though I am not on Medicare yet. I just turned 64 in August.
The individual needs to initiate all contact with insurance and banks and the like, or if someone is unable, have their caretaker do the contacts.
Even if it is a legit call, say you will call or visit their office. You make the contacts. It is best just to never trust anything like a phone call or email coming to you.
re: #321 dangerman
‘edgar’ is a female, right?
Actually a male, named for my late father-in-law. My daughter has apparently subjected him to some feminist indoctrination though.
re: #319 dangerman
I’ll be early voting here as well to get rid of the GOP scum.
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re: #323 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Lots and lots of clues.I would be very surprised if the MAGA-bomber is not in custody by this time tomorrow.
NOT A MAGABOMBER NO EVIDENCE PROOF ARRGGHGHG FAKE NEWS ALSO HERE IS SIX YEAR OLD PHOTO OF CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS IN CARAVAN ASSAULTING POLICE!!!
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Why put a meme sticker on something that will explode in a million pieces and probably never be found?
Perhaps because it will explode in a million pieces, because let’s face it, a meme like that is a bit of a giveaway. And/Or, perhaps in the bomber’s tiny mind,, he (Assuming it’s a he.) hopes it will be the last thing the intended victims will ever see. A lot of these right-wing domestic terrorists seem to be big on symbolic gestures.
re: #333 Anymouse 🌹
The Ark Encounter suffers another drop in attendance (with data from Utah Outcasts, 8:28):
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all things considered, who would want to go there twice?
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Why put a meme sticker on something that will explode in a million pieces and probably never be found?
Even bombs which explode leave clues and evidence. Not all bombs explode (whether poorly made or never triggered).
re: #333 Anymouse 🌹
The Ark Encounter suffers another drop in attendance (with data from Utah Outcasts, 8:28):
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Maybe Penn and Teller can buy it at the upcoming bankruptcy sale. It would be the perfect centerpiece for a new Museum of Bullshit.
re: #334 dangerman
all things considered, who would want to go there twice?
Or once, for that matter?
I was watching that TV show where Ozzy and Jack Osborne travel around in an RV and they went there. It was pretty funny to see people reacting to Oz being in the building. And a couple of people even knew who he was.
re: #335 Anymouse 🌹
Even bombs which explode leave clues and evidence. Not all bombs explode (whether poorly made or never triggered).
Also, did we ever get confirmation about whose photo appeared next to the y’all queda isis meme? Some claimed it was trump, but to me, it looked more like Brennan (which would make sense, since he was the intended target). So maybe the MAGABomber’s MO was to wrap the bombs in that meme and a photo of the would-be victim.
re: #336 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Maybe Penn and Teller can buy it at the upcoming bankruptcy sale. It would be the perfect
centerpiecehome for a new Museum of Bullshit.
re: #336 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Maybe Penn and Teller can buy it at the upcoming bankruptcy sale. It would be the perfect centerpiece for a new Museum of Bullshit.
That would make for a lot of firewood for low income folks this coming winter.
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Why put a meme sticker on something that will explode in a million pieces and probably never be found?
Because it is sort of telling the bombs never went off. Not a fizzle and some smoke. Nothing.
So to me it is about scaring everyone and putting on the fake ISIS crap might be a way another way to throw the ATF and FBI off track.
I think we have someone that is screwing with heads…pure terrorism.
Also, they might be able to afford the time and costs to have traveled to New York and did what they did there to also throw people off track. A lot of people thought he was from New York.
The game is on.
Edit: Afford…not avoid.
re: #310 Shropshire Slasher
Why put a meme sticker on something that will explode in a million pieces and probably never be found?
Bombers frequently have tells/marks that they use. They also put these things in because of ego and as their signature.
Or, they aren’t thinking that their bombs wont detonate into a million pieces. Or that the FBI can’t reconstruct bombs from their component parts.
Let’s remind folks that the 1993 WTC bombing was cracked because of a VIN on an engine component and the bomber went to the rental truck company seeking a refund. FBI matched those things up and broke up that terror group.
“‘Cuz if a REPUBLICAN made those bombs you can bet yer bottom dollar they’d explode and kill people!” — Scott Adams For The Defense, Sundays on CBS pic.twitter.com/6eQYLEbBUP
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 25, 2018
re: #334 dangerman
all things considered, who would want to go there twice?
He notes other things in the video, like what happens when you have conservatives in charge of a government (any government).
Williamstown took out $90 million in bonds to help finance that, improve roads to the park, &c.
Those bonds are now junk. Ken Ham grifted a ton of money from clueless city councilmembers and Christian townspeople who thought “this would be a great idea.”
The city actually donated land to Ken Ham’s not-for-profit Answers in Genesis to build the thing.
re: #343 lawhawk
Funny thing is, if you follow people who cover political violence (like JJ McNab), right-wing assholes are constantly fucking up their bomb plots and getting busted.
re: #344 Anymouse 🌹
He notes other things in the video, like what happens when you have conservatives in charge of a government (any government).
Williamstown took out $90 million in bonds to help finance that, improve roads to the park, &c.
Those bonds are now junk. Ken Ham grifted a ton of money from clueless city councilmembers and Christian townspeople who thought “this would be a great idea.”
The city actually donated land to Ken Ham’s not-for-profit Answers in Genesis to build the thing.
so they got their kickbacks…
re: #341 ObserverArt
Because it is sort of telling the bombs never went off. Not a fizzle and some smoke. Nothing.
So to me it is about scaring everyone and putting on the fake ISIS crap might be a way another way to throw the ATF and FBI off track.
I think we have someone that is screwing with heads…pure terrorism.
Also, they might be able to avoid the time and costs to have traveled to New York and did what they did there to also throw people off track. A lot of people thought he was from New York.
The game is on.
The only thing telling about the bombs not going off is they didn’t go off. They were all intercepted first. Mail bombs normally go off when they are opened.
This might be the most succinct summary ever:
Left: Punch Nazis!
Right: Punch Journalists!
Left: Yell at Senators
Right: Bomb Democrats
Left: What?
Right: The Jews will not replace us
Left: JFC dude
Flake: Both sides need to calm down
Trump: Civility is important you enemies of the state.— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 25, 2018
re: #343 lawhawk
Isn’t the Scott Adams “joke” that Democrats don’t work? We are all on welfare.
re: #342 lawhawk
Bombers frequently have tells/marks that they use. They also put these things in because of ego and as their signature.
Or, they aren’t thinking that their bombs wont detonate into a million pieces. Or that the FBI can’t reconstruct bombs from their component parts.
Let’s remind folks that the 1993 WTC bombing was cracked because of a VIN on an engine component and the bomber went to the rental truck company seeking a refund. FBI matched those things up and broke up that terror group.
Similar to how they figured out McVeigh/Oklahoma bombing. Serial number on the rear drive shaft of the rental truck led them to the rental office.
re: #343 lawhawk
IIJM, or does Scott Adams seem to be devolving down to Jack Posobiec/Bill Mitchell/Jacob Wohl territory in the Lamest Wingnut Online competition - pretty much in real time?
re: #351 Jay C
IIJM, or does Scott Adams seem to be devolving down to Jack Posobiec/Bill Mitchell/Jacob Wohl territory in the Lamest Wingnut Online competition - pretty much in real time?
Hasn’t this been true ever since he showed his true colors in supporting Trump?
A domestic abuser with a criminal record who said he suffered from paranoid-schizophrenia was able to gain access to guns over and over again… Yesterday’s shooting at a Kentucky Kroger was the tragic - but logical - outcome of our nation’s lax gun laws.https://t.co/hFS8TmEFzu
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 25, 2018
re: #352 Hecuba’s daughter
Hasn’t this been true ever since he showed his true colors in supporting Trump?
Naaah, back in the day (say, last year) he used to at least try to express his views with some sort of “argument” or “point”: now he seems to have given up and retreated into posting dumb snarky one-liners - usually with some lame-ass insult included.
But which will still be admired as slick “gotchas” by Wingnuttia.
re: #347 Anymouse 🌹
The only thing telling about the bombs not going off is they didn’t go off. They were all intercepted first. Mail bombs normally go off when they are opened.
I don’t think that is clear yet. There have been an awful lot of ex FBI/ATF types saying the bombs for some reason did not go off.
Look at the bomb images. Do you see anything that would trigger them to go off when the envelope was opened?
Most exploding mail bombs are in some kind of a box or container that allows for the container to be the trigger, like a lid or flap.
The images show a funky cheap digital clock that looks to be the trigger.
Until we know for sure, I am going to not believe anything other than it was a pure terrorist result they wanted and got. I keep open the idea they were not meant to work.
I think whoever is behind it is in messing with heads at this point. Sending a message seems to be the goal.
re: #347 Anymouse 🌹
Looks like the bomb had a cell phone attached, maybe the bomber didn’t understand how mail bombs work?
re: #351 Jay C
IIJM, or does Scott Adams seem to be devolving down to Jack Posobiec/Bill Mitchell/Jacob Wohl territory in the Lamest Wingnut Online competition - pretty much in real time?
He’s been that way for a long time.
re: #339 Jay C
I was thinking about a whole theme park devoted to bullshit. It would take the whole ark just to house the Evangelist Hall of Shame and the MLM Quack Supplement exhibit. A geodesic dome might be appropriate for an inter-active Climate Change Denial museum with outdoor venues for animatronic witch-burning and the Lost Cause re-enactment.
re: #351 Jay C
IIJM, or does Scott Adams seem to be devolving down to Jack Posobiec/Bill Mitchell/Jacob Wohl territory in the Lamest Wingnut Online competition - pretty much in real time?
I don’t know, that’s a pretty tight competition. Tami Lowrent, Laura Southern, SMOTI, James Woods, Chuck Woorley, &c &c &c
re: #358 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I was thinking about a whole theme park devoted to bullshit. It would take the whole ark just to house the Evangelist Hall of Shame and the MLM Quack Supplement exhibit. A geodesic dome might be appropriate for an inter-active Climate Change Denial museum with outdoor venues for animatronic witch-burning and the Lost Cause re-enactment.
Sounds fuckin’ brilliant! I’d visit!
re: #358 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I was thinking about a whole theme park devoted to bullshit. It would take the whole ark just to house the Evangelist Hall of Shame and the MLM Quack Supplement exhibit. A geodesic dome might be appropriate for an inter-active Climate Change Denial museum with outdoor venues for animatronic witch-burning and the Lost Cause re-enactment.
re: #359 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t know, that’s a pretty tight competition. Tami Lowrent, Laura Southern, SMOTI, James Woods, Chuck Woorley, &c &c &c
Would Lindsey Graham be joining this competition?
re: #362 ObserverArt
The very first image we saw was the Soros bomb laying on a table outside the envelope and in a complete state.
How did they get it out of the envelope if the envelope was the trigger mechanism.
I go with what former FBI guy Clint VanZandt says in this video until more is known.
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That’s kind of what bomb squad people do. Clint van Zandt is a psychological profiler, not an explosive ordinance specialist.
re: #305 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
JUST IN: Investigators believe all suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats went through U.S. Postal Service; investigation focusing on Florida - law enforcement source
Maybe from a Palm Beach golf resort …
Breitbart Wants To Sue Activists For Telling Companies They’re Advertising On Breitbart
wonkette.com
The Sleeping Giants Twitter campaign has cost Breitbart 90% of its advertisers.
re: #362 ObserverArt
Experts were also struck by the use of just a single penlight battery, hardly a reliable way to ensure the bomb would detonate when it finally got to where it was intended.
Otherwise, the devices were constructed in keeping with pipe-bomb tradition.
“It is put together in the proper way,” the NYPD investigator said.
re: #362 ObserverArt
The very first image we saw was the Soros bomb laying on a table outside the envelope and in a complete state.
How did they get it out of the envelope if the envelope was the trigger mechanism.
I go with what former FBI guy Clint VanZandt says in this video until more is known.
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Seriously, what’s the difference? If, perhaps, the things had been “fake” to begin with (i.e., a piece of PVC pipe full of cornstarch with some wires and a clockboard taped on for show), it’s one thing: but AFA we know, these bombs were - however poorly-made - potentially functional, so still terrorism.
The “but they didn’t work!” dodge is BS, IMO: A sniper on a roof with a rifle who pots away at a crowd shouldn’t get off by claiming he “didn’t aim at anyone on purpose” *, a would-be bomber should get the same (lack of) consideration.
*though I’m sure that “defense” has been tried - somewhere
So, the question is not “if”, it is “when” will Donnie’s rhetoric get someone killed?
re: #370 Unshaken Defiance
Good link. And this part from it:
The absence of any obvious triggering device makes some experts who have only seen the X-rays of the devices wonder if they were meant to detonate. But the NYPD investigator notes that any one of the devices could have been detonated had somebody jostled it or fiddled with it in an unfortunate way.
After seeing a news photo of one of the packages, a private security executive realized that he had chanced to playfully toss an identical package in the air without realizing what it was. He immediately notified New York police, who determined that it was indeed one of the bombs.
re: #372 Dr. Matt
So, the question is not “if”, it is “when” will Donnie’s rhetoric get someone killed?
IMO, Heather Heyer fits that description.
Sarah Sanders: Don’t make daddy hit you again, baby.
Right: We’ll eat your liver
Left: What the fuck is wrong with you
MSNBC: language please, hippy
Left: What the fuck?
Joe Scarborough: Third Way! Third Way!
Trump: These motherfucking Demoncrats need to be more civil.— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 25, 2018
re: #371 Jay C
Seriously, what’s the difference? If, perhaps, the things had been “fake” to begin with (i.e., a piece of PVC pipe full of cornstarch with some wires and a clockboard taped on for show), it’s one thing: but AFA we know, these bombs were - however poorly-made - potentially functional, so still terrorism.
The “but they didn’t work!” dodge is BS, IMO: A sniper on a roof with a rifle who pots away at a crowd shouldn’t get off by claiming he “didn’t aim at anyone on purpose” *, a would-be bomber should get the same (lack of) consideration.*though I’m sure that “defense” has been tried - somewhere
Are you saying I am downplaying all this? I don’t think I said that…so who is saying “but they didn’t work?”
I think it is pure terrorism. I just have a feeling they were sent as a message that had they been set to do their thing look at who all would have been involved.
Maybe they didn’t want the deaths or injuries. They certainly wanted the terror. And they certainly wanted everyone talking about it all.
re: #371 Jay C
Seriously, what’s the difference? If, perhaps, the things had been “fake” to begin with (i.e., a piece of PVC pipe full of cornstarch with some wires and a clockboard taped on for show), it’s one thing: but AFA we know, these bombs were - however poorly-made - potentially functional, so still terrorism.
The “but they didn’t work!” dodge is BS, IMO: A sniper on a roof with a rifle who pots away at a crowd shouldn’t get off by claiming he “didn’t aim at anyone on purpose” *, a would-be bomber should get the same (lack of) consideration.*though I’m sure that “defense” has been tried - somewhere
the intent (to terrorize) is more important than whether the thing was a) functional or b) at all even ‘real’ (ie corn starch)
as i understand it, armed robbery with a toy gun is still ‘armed’ if the victims reasonably believe it’s real
re: #362 ObserverArt
The very first image we saw was the Soros bomb laying on a table outside the envelope and in a complete state.
How did they get it out of the envelope if the envelope was the trigger mechanism.
I go with what former FBI guy Clint VanZandt says in this video until more is known.
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re: #322 ObserverArt
In some ways I hope this costs Andy Lack his job, He just blew a big hole in the NBC News budget with this booting of Megyn Kelly.
He was foolish for thinking she would ever work out at NBC.
They were eyeing those Fox News ratings with $$ in their eyes. Obviously no-one thought about the fact that obviously racist punditry which doesn’t cause a ripple at Fox News would be problematic on an NBC news show.
re: #336 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Maybe Penn and Teller can buy it at the upcoming bankruptcy sale. It would be the perfect centerpiece for a new Museum of Bullshit.
It would be so fitting if Larry Flynt turned it into Hustlerworld!
re: #272 Skip Intro
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