Trump Drives His Lawyers Crazy Again by Admitting on Twitter He Lied About Russian Business Interests

“Very legal & very cool”
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The Narcissist in Chief is his own worst enemy. He can’t shut up when his fragile ego is in peril, and today on Twitter he did it again, while at the G20 meeting in Argentina; he admitted outright that every time he claimed he had no business interests in Russia — and that was a lot of times — he was simply lying through his teeth.

When Trump says he “talked about it on the campaign trail,” what he actually means is that he shamelessly lied about it on the campaign trail, over and over, and his family and cronies lied about it to the media and to Congress.

Hey, he was only “lightly looking” at it, and it was “very legal & very cool,” so what’s the big deal, anyway? What’s a little light treason among friends?

But if this was so innocent, legal and cool, why all the lies and coverups?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:27:34am

When does he admi everything and insist we should be thankful because no one liked HRC not even Democrats.//

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:28:37am
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jaunte  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:29:11am

Let me just throw this one up again on a fresh thread.

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:30:00am

The Pantsonfire Administration.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:30:40am
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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:32:11am
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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:32:15am

Light treason is still treason.

There’s no light criming here either.

He engaged in criminal acts. He engaged in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts. He furthered the conspiracy. One of those co-conspirators admits to committing crimes, which means that Trump is also in jeopardy for those criminal acts as a co-conspirator.

It doesn’t matter that Trump never succeeded in getting a deal for the Trump-Russia building just as it doesn’t matter that he didn’t get emails/dirt from the Russians at the June 2016 meeting.

It was the act of meeting to seek out the materials that was improper. Lying about the meeting and the coverup was a separate conspiracy/obstruction of justice.

Each successive act of lying/covering up proves the obstruction case.

Trump doesn’t know or care and is betting that the GOP doesn’t care either. They’re all too happy to let this continue.

That makes them complicit as well, since they know and have an obligation to protect the nation from threats foreign and domestic and to uphold the Constitution and right now the GOP is ignoring all that for the sake of party politics.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:33:35am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:36:39am

re: #7 lawhawk

Light treason is still treason.

There’s no light criming here either.

He engaged in criminal acts. He engaged in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts. He furthered the conspiracy. One of those co-conspirators admits to committing crimes, which means that Trump is also in jeopardy for those criminal acts as a co-conspirator.

It doesn’t matter that Trump never succeeded in getting a deal for the Trump-Russia building just as it doesn’t matter that he didn’t get emails/dirt from the Russians at the June 2016 meeting.

It was the act of meeting to seek out the materials that was improper. Lying about the meeting and the coverup was a separate conspiracy/obstruction of justice.

Each successive act of lying/covering up proves the obstruction case.

Trump doesn’t know or care and is betting that the GOP doesn’t care either. They’re all too happy to let this continue.

That makes them complicit as well, since they know and have an obligation to protect the nation from threats foreign and domestic and to uphold the Constitution and right now the GOP is ignoring all that for the sake of party politics.

Come on attempted murder, do they give an award for attempted chemistry! Simpson’s Law strikes again.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:37:05am

Yeah, I recall that photo of Murdoch on his way to meet with McConnell.

Could be - maybe the GOP’s donors and high-level supporters are now reckoning that Trump is more of a liability than an asset. The problem, of course, is that the base pretty much belongs to Trump; if the GOP leadership decides to turn on him, the base is going to vent their rage at the GOP leadership…..and they’ll do that by simply not showing up at the polls.

The GOP is in one helluva dilemma - and they have no one to blame but themselves.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:38:38am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:38:54am

re: #8 Scottish Dragon

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Yeah. That’s definitely plausible but I think Rupert and Mitch may underestimate the backlash to GOP elected officials by GOP voters if they’re seen abandoning Trump. Then again I saw the same people who defended everything Bush did dub him a liberal after his failings were apparent to all.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:43:08am

I see FNC is using bitter because no one in the Democratic Party listens to him Mark Penn to discredit Mueller’s investigation.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:43:14am

re: #12 HappyWarrior

Yeah. That’s definitely plausible but I think Rupert and Mitch may underestimate the backlash to GOP elected officials by GOP voters if they’re seen abandoning Trump. Then again I saw the same people who defended everything Bush did dub him a liberal after his failings were apparent to all.

True.

I think the report may be so devastating that GOP leadership may well have to dump him, base be damned. We will see.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:45:04am

re: #14 Scottish Dragon

True.

I think the report may be so devastating that GOP leadership may well have to dump him, base be damned. We will see.

I just don’t see how they let him be removed without some damage they’re unwilling to take. It’s an interesting thought tho and I definitely agree Rupert has a plan for a narrative should Trump be removed.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:45:52am

re: #14 Scottish Dragon

True.

I think the report may be so devastating that GOP leadership may well have to dump him, base be damned. We will see.

They may be counting on the base’s amnesia - that by the time 2020 rolls around, they’ll have forgotten about Trump, or at the very least, disavowed him as an aberration, like they did with Dubya.

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:46:28am

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not sure how much it says about me that when someone talks about a trashed house in Wasilla, my mind immediately turns to one of Palin’s kids on a meth-fueled bender.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:46:29am
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BlueSpotinAL  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:46:31am

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:46:37am

Once I see the GOP base turning against Trump I.e. how Bush lost a lot as Iraq was too big a fuckup for them to deny or Bush not being a jerk on immigration reform. Till then I think Mitch remains as helpful as possible to Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:46:46am

re: #14 Scottish Dragon

True.

I think the report may be so devastating that GOP leadership may well have to dump him, base be damned. We will see.

That is what it has to be or the GOP will simply take the chance of ignoring its findings, thus making themselves complicit.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:47:45am

re: #7 lawhawk

Light treason is still treason.

There’s no light criming here either.

He engaged in criminal acts. He engaged in a conspiracy to commit criminal acts. He furthered the conspiracy. One of those co-conspirators admits to committing crimes, which means that Trump is also in jeopardy for those criminal acts as a co-conspirator.

It doesn’t matter that Trump never succeeded in getting a deal for the Trump-Russia building just as it doesn’t matter that he didn’t get emails/dirt from the Russians at the June 2016 meeting.

It was the act of meeting to seek out the materials that was improper. Lying about the meeting and the coverup was a separate conspiracy/obstruction of justice.

Each successive act of lying/covering up proves the obstruction case.

Trump doesn’t know or care and is betting that the GOP doesn’t care either. They’re all too happy to let this continue.

That makes them complicit as well, since they know and have an obligation to protect the nation from threats foreign and domestic and to uphold the Constitution and right now the GOP is ignoring all that for the sake of party politics.

Well if you want to get all—- there are rules on this stuff…sure

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:48:02am

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

They may be counting on the base’s amnesia - that by the time 2020 rolls around, they’ll have forgotten about Trump, or at the very least, disavowed him as an aberration, like they did with Dubya.

Dubya actually did things to create their bad will though. What can Trump actually do to alienate the GOP base? I don’t know and tbh I don’t think Rupert or Mitch do either.

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:49:08am

re: #19 BlueSpotinAL

I would wear that hat.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:50:14am

re: #14 Scottish Dragon

True.

I think the report may be so devastating that GOP leadership may well have to dump him, base be damned. We will see.

Yes please

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:50:18am

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Dubya actually did things to create their bad will though. What can Trump actually do to alienate the GOP base? I don’t know and tbh I don’t think Rupert or Mitch do either.

That’s a good point. There’s not much Trump could do that would actually infuriate the GOP base to the point where they’d quit supporting him. The only thing I can think of is Trump supporting some kind of significant gun control legislation.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:51:48am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good point. There’s not much Trump could do that would actually infuriate the GOP base to the point where they’d quit supporting him. The only thing I can think of is Trump supporting some kind of significant gun control legislation.

Yeah that’s my guess too. Being more conciliatory in tone could do it but I don’t think it’s realistic or believable. The R base loves this shitbird.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:54:07am

re: #6 Scottish Dragon

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No. Just call them what they are: evil.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:54:46am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good point. There’s not much Trump could do that would actually infuriate the GOP base to the point where they’d quit supporting him. The only thing I can think of is Trump supporting some kind of significant gun control legislation.

Actually carry through on his infrastructure plan and spend money in blue states.

That’d be the tipping point.

Otherwise, Trump’s doing exactly what the bigot brigade/deplorable base wants: white nationalist immigration policy? check. white nationalist civil/voting rights policy? check.

Gut the safety net? He keeps trying, so check.
Maximize tax cuts for millionaires? Check
Screw those in need of safety net? Check

Trump is more closely aligned to the base than GOP leadership is, and that’s why the leadership wont speak out when Trump does something so atrociously wrong. They know how to stay in office - let the bigots win.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:54:59am

re: #28 William Lewis

No. Just call them what they are: evil.

And as much as I know this is hated by some, these ain’t Christian values either.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:56:11am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:56:56am

re: #29 lawhawk

Actually carry through on his infrastructure plan and spend money in blue states.

That’d be the tipping point.

Otherwise, Trump’s doing exactly what the bigot brigade/deplorable base wants: white nationalist immigration policy? check. white nationalist civil/voting rights policy? check.

Gut the safety net? He keeps trying, so check.
Maximize tax cuts for millionaires? Check
Screw those in need of safety net? Check

Trump is more closely aligned to the base than GOP leadership is, and that’s why the leadership wont speak out when Trump does something so atrociously wrong. They know how to stay in office - let the bigots win.

The GOP base has always been more paleocon than the leadership so in that sense I’m not surprised Trump’s xenophobia and attacks on trade worked. I am that he got so many to believe that their best interests at heart so easily. Makes me think David Duke ran for a GOP nomination way too early.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:57:09am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good point. There’s not much Trump could do that would actually infuriate the GOP base to the point where they’d quit supporting him. The only thing I can think of is Trump supporting some kind of significant gun control legislation.

Which he might do because 1) he doesn’t care about guns and 2) it’d be an easy deal (to him in his dementia) to make with the dems to get his wall or some other thing he wants.

See the trial balloon about banning bump stocks.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:57:30am

re: #18 Scottish Dragon

In other news, have you seen those Genestealer bikers yet?

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:57:37am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 11:57:39am

re: #31 Charles Johnson

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Knickers is the Maunte Bol of cows.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:00:20pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:00:59pm

re: #29 lawhawk

Actually carry through on his infrastructure plan and spend money in blue states.

That’d be the tipping point.

Otherwise, Trump’s doing exactly what the bigot brigade/deplorable base wants: white nationalist immigration policy? check. white nationalist civil/voting rights policy? check.

Gut the safety net? He keeps trying, so check.
Maximize tax cuts for millionaires? Check
Screw those in need of safety net? Check

Trump is more closely aligned to the base than GOP leadership is, and that’s why the leadership wont speak out when Trump does something so atrociously wrong. They know how to stay in office - let the bigots win.

Yep, pretty much, he would need to do something that is seen as such a huge “betrayal” that the base feels he has totally compromised his brand and thus ceased to be their messiah. Which in the current circumstances means signing onto something that Dems want, even if it is to get something he wants in return. I consider the odds of that happening as pretty good in the next two years, as he will be so desperate for a “win” going into reelection that he will be tempted to agree to something he considers “minor” in exchange for getting a feather to put in his cap. Infrastructure would be a good bet, but don’t be surprised if he considers an immigration reform bill that gets him even a few dineros for The Wall in exchange for (say) granting citizenship to all Dreamers.

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Weaselone  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:01:25pm

Alienating the base from Trump is where Knecht Rupert would be essential. Fox would be essential in any plan in which the establishment breaks from Trump. Fox would need to drive the wedge between the base and Trump prior to and following any such break. They would do so by riding things like.

1. The current proposal to ban, seize and destroy bump stocks
2. Cheating US soldiers out of the funds owed them
3. Actually showing how cowardly of a shitweasel Trump is on the global stage

It’s still a question as to whether this could succeed with even Foxes help. There’s simply too many other organizations involved in maintaining the Conservative bubble to know whether Fox could pop it.

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mmmirele  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:01:37pm

Amber Guyger has been indicted in the death of Botham Jean.

A Dallas County grand jury on Friday indicted former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger on a murder charge in the shooting death of an unarmed neighbor, county records show.

There will be a press conference at 1430 CST.

nbcdfw.com

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:01:44pm

re: #34 Kragar

In other news, have you seen those Genestealer bikers yet?

Narrators voice

Show me….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:02:05pm

re: #27 HappyWarrior

Yeah that’s my guess too. Being more conciliatory in tone could do it but I don’t think it’s realistic or believable. The R base loves this shitbird.

He had children gassed in Mexico and they would have cheered even louder if he had been there firing the canisters in person.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:03:16pm

re: #39 Weaselone

Alienating the base from Trump is where Knecht Rupert would be essential. Fox would be essential in any plan in which the establishment breaks from Trump. Fox would need to drive the wedge between the base and Trump prior to and following any such break. They would do so by riding things like.

1. The current proposal to ban, seize and destroy bump stocks
2. Cheating US soldiers out of the funds owed them
3. Actually showing how cowardly of a shitweasel Trump is on the global stage

It’s still a question as to whether this could succeed with even Foxes help. There’s simply too many other organizations involved in maintaining the Conservative bubble to know whether Fox could pop it.

Yeah ten years ago I’d tell you that I think FNC could get you against a GOPer alone but it’s going to take more now. And I’ve seen plenty of cons say they find FNC too liberal.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:03:56pm

re: #41 Scottish Dragon

Narrators voice

Show me….

spikeybits.com

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:04:44pm

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He had children gassed in Mexico and they would have cheered even louder if he had been there firing the canisters in person.

What’s going to turn them off him isn’t him being revealed to be a shitty person. It’s him doing something they hate or see as betraying MAGA, gazing migrant kids ain’t it.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:04:55pm

re: #44 Kragar

spikeybits.com

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Dirt bikes and a quad wheel ATV!!!

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:05:49pm

re: #46 Scottish Dragon

Dirt bikes and a quad wheel ATV!!!

And this guy.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:06:05pm

The new genestealer cult stuff has a strong Mad Max vibe. OMG I love it!

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:07:38pm

re: #39 Weaselone

Alienating the base from Trump is where Knecht Rupert would be essential. Fox would be essential in any plan in which the establishment breaks from Trump. Fox would need to drive the wedge between the base and Trump prior to and following any such break. They would do so by riding things like.

1. The current proposal to ban, seize and destroy bump stocks
2. Cheating US soldiers out of the funds owed them
3. Actually showing how cowardly of a shitweasel Trump is on the global stage

It’s still a question as to whether this could succeed with even Foxes help. There’s simply too many other organizations involved in maintaining the Conservative bubble to know whether Fox could pop it.

Do you think Hannity and Ingraham will do that? I don’t. This would splinter Fox as well.

Which I am perfectly ok with.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:08:13pm

re: #48 Scottish Dragon

The new genestealer cult stuff has a strong Mad Max vibe. OMG I love it!

I picked up some neophytes a while back, thinking I could use them as Chaos Cultists, but now working on using them for Killteam. Now I’m thinking about picking up enough so I can run them with my Guard using the Brood Brothers rules.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:08:19pm

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

They may be counting on the base’s amnesia - that by the time 2020 rolls around, they’ll have forgotten about Trump, or at the very least, disavowed him as an aberration, like they did with Dubya.

63 million folks will help them rememberre: #45 HappyWarrior

What’s going to turn them off him isn’t him being revealed to be a shitty person. It’s him doing something they hate or see as betraying MAGA, gazing migrant kids ain’t it.

Look at us
We can’t come up with one plausibly possible scenario that would alienate his base

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:08:30pm

re: #43 HappyWarrior

Yeah ten years ago I’d tell you that I think FNC could get you against a GOPer alone but it’s going to take more now. And I’ve seen plenty of cons say they find FNC too liberal.

Yeah, this will only reduce viewership.

Which I am perfectly ok with. (Not to repeat myself or anything.)

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:09:37pm

re: #45 HappyWarrior

What’s going to turn them off him isn’t him being revealed to be a shitty person. It’s him doing something they hate or see as betraying MAGA, gazing migrant kids ain’t it.

Last night on Twitter I saw something about bump stocks becoming illegal and people having to turn them in…and his supporters went absolutely batshit insane.

I somehow doubt it was real but whoeeee, the response was delicious.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:09:53pm

re: #49 MsJ

Do you think Hannity and Ingraham will do that? I don’t. This would splinter Fox as well.

Which I am perfectly ok with.

That’s why they won’t do it imo. FNC has too many true Trump believers these days. Lumpy would be loyal to any gop President but he definitely loves Trump and wouldn’t play nice to FNC throwing him under the bus. Ditto Laura.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:10:18pm

re: #51 dangerman

63 million folks will help them remember

Look at us
We can’t come up with one plausibly possible scenario that would alienate his base

I did. See my re: #53 MsJ

Last night on Twitter I saw something about bump stocks becoming illegal and people having to turn them in…and his supporters went absolutely batshit insane.

I somehow doubt it was real but whoeeee, the response was delicious.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:10:28pm

re: #53 MsJ

Last night on Twitter I saw something about bump stocks becoming illegal and people having to turn them in…and his supporters went absolutely batshit insane.

I somehow doubt it was real but whoeeee, the response was delicious.

Yeah I saw that too.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:10:47pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:11:55pm

re: #56 HappyWarrior

Yeah I saw that too.

Any validity to it? I would have thought it would have made a much larger news footprint.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:12:03pm

re: #57 Kragar

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It’s very legal to throw you in jail and ADA Florence is mostly “very cool” just in a different way.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:12:17pm

oh.my.GOD.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite some time.

Just read the thread.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:12:42pm

re: #58 MsJ

Any validity to it? I would have thought it would have made a much larger news footprint.

No idea. I don’t know many hardcore Trumpers thank goodness.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:13:47pm

re: #57 Kragar

Trump defends potential 2016 Russia deal: “Very legal & very cool”

I think the spin is turning out to be “It was cool and no big deal, but the Fake News Press would have made a big deal out of it, so that is why we er, um, un-truthed about it for so long!”

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:14:40pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:14:50pm

re: #58 MsJ

Any validity to it? I would thought it would have made a much larger news footprint.

And I lie like a cheap rug. NYT, CNN, more…

google.ca

It is real and his peeps are definitely turning on him.

O.M.G. Trump is definitely going to lose his base.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:15:34pm

re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the spin is turning out to be “It was cool and no big deal, but the Fake News Press would have made a big deal out of it, so that is why we er, um, un-truthed about it for so long!”

Sure that’ll be the spin but he’s not fooling anyone who wasn’t fooled before.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:18:10pm

re: #60 Blind Frog Belly White

oh.my.GOD.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite some time.

Just read the thread.

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I really like reading popehat. At the same time, he is a bit of a thin skinned jerk and he does not take criticism well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:20:06pm

re: #66 Scottish Dragon

I really like reading popehat. At the same time, he is a bit of a thin skinned jerk and he does not take criticism well.

But he’s still better than 50% of Twitter.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:20:35pm

re: #60 Blind Frog Belly White

I found that this morning and pulled up the cozy couch:

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:21:57pm

re: #51 dangerman

63 million folks will help them remember

Look at us
We can’t come up with one plausibly possible scenario that would alienate his base

Sure we can.

Support Gun Control. He’s never cared about guns but the base would go apeshit.

Citizenship for DREAMERS.

Legalize Pot nationwide (the bible belt would never tolerate black people’s drug being legal). Tell him the tax $$$ will pay for his wall ;)

Convince him that all three will get the Dems to back off the investigation (true or not) and he’d sign on in an instant and lose 90% of his base.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:23:12pm

re: #51 dangerman

63 million folks will help them remember

Look at us
We can’t come up with one plausibly possible scenario that would alienate his base

Indeed.

OT, but I was briefly away trying to explain via Messenger that Dale Bozzio was the original Lady Gaga back in the 1980’s to a student of mine who’s just discovered Missing Persons.

Heh.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:23:42pm

re: #69 William Lewis

Sure we can.

Support Gun Control. He’s never cared about guns but the base would go apeshit.

Citizenship for DREAMERS.

Legalize Pot nationwide (the bible belt would never tolerate black people’s drug being legal). Tell him the tax $$$ will pay for his wall ;)

Convince him that all three will get the Dems to back off the investigation (true or not) and he’d sign on in an instant and lose 90% of his base.

I think we found our recipe but the question is would he believe the leadership if they told him that? Because yeah he’s dumb but he can’t be that dumb.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:24:02pm

re: #60 Blind Frog Belly White

oh.my.GOD.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite some time.

Just read the thread.

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that was awesome!!! These two lines from popehat had me LOLing.

“I am Ken from Los Angeles. I do the RICO”

“Grant I feel I don’t have your full attention here”

EL OH FUCKING EL.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:24:47pm

re: #69 William Lewis

Sure we can.

Support Gun Control. He’s never cared about guns but the base would go apeshit.

Citizenship for DREAMERS.

Legalize Pot nationwide (the bible belt would never tolerate black people’s drug being legal). Tell him the tax $$$ will pay for his wall ;)

Convince him that all three will get the Dems to back off the investigation (true or not) and he’d sign on in an instant and lose 90% of his base.

Hell, you’re right, citizenship for DREAMERS would instantly alienate the vast majority of his supporters. Don’t know why that didn’t occur to me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:24:57pm

re: #60 Blind Frog Belly White

oh.my.GOD.

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite some time.

Just read the thread.

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my fave part is when Grant starts yelling Alaye.

I looked it up: alaye is Lagos for area boy/street gang ruffian

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:25:54pm

re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg

But he’s still better than 50% of Twitter.

More like 90%.

But not everybody can be an Officer Edith.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:28:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:30:51pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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Didn’t know that about Castro TBH. Wonder if that’s why he didn’t run for office this year in Texas. A few years back between him and his brother, I’d say that Julian had the brighter long term future but right now it’s gotta be Joaquin.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:33:14pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

What did Julian Castro do?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:34:30pm

re: #78 MsJ

What did Julian Castro do?

I think he did something at HUD that involved supporting a candidate perhaps.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:34:31pm

re: #78 MsJ

What did Julian Castro do?

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro violated a federal law against politicking on the job earlier this year when he fielded a journalist’s questions about the presidential race and his own chances of being chosen as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, a federal ethics watchdog agency has found.

The Office of Special Counsel determined that Castro ran afoul of the Hatch Act during his April 4, 2016, interview with Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric, even though he stressed that he was answering her political questions in his personal capacity.

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:34:39pm

re: #78 MsJ

What did Julian Castro do?

Answered question about the possibility of him being Hillary’s running mate at a government event.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:35:14pm

re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro violated a federal law against politicking on the job earlier this year when he fielded a journalist’s questions about the presidential race and his own chances of being chosen as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, a federal ethics watchdog agency has found.

The Office of Special Counsel determined that Castro ran afoul of the Hatch Act during his April 4, 2016, interview with Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric, even though he stressed that he was answering her political questions in his personal capacity.

Ahhhh okay. Fairly small compared to the stuff SHS does on a daily basis.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:36:12pm

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:36:14pm

re: #78 MsJ

What did Julian Castro do?

ok, i see…

The Office of Special Counsel wrote: “Although he stated during the interview that he was ‘taking off my HUD hat for a second and just speaking individually,’ to indicate he was answering questions in his personal capacity, that disclaimer could not negate the fact that he was appearing in his official capacity for the rest of the interview, as the official HUD seal remained behind him and his political comments were bracketed by statements concerning official HUD policies and programs.”

Castro acknowledged that he’d violated the act in his response.

“In responding to a journalist’s question about the 2016 election, I offered my opinion to the interviewer after making it clear that I was articulating my personal view and not an official position,” Castro wrote. “At the time, I believed that this disclaimer was what was required by the Hatch Act. However, your analysis provides that it was not sufficient.”

The trump cabal would fire him for not being criminal enough.

Ah, those were the times that things actually mattered.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:37:01pm

re: #84 MsJ

ok, i see…

The trump cabal would fire him for not being criminal enough.

Ah, those were the times that things actually mattered.

Yep now we have a Press Secretary that uses Infowars to attack journalists.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:37:36pm

re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg

But he’s still better than 50% of Twitter.

Oh no doubt.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:38:28pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:39:00pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Not so fast
On September 13, 2012, the OSC charged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with violating the Hatch Act by making a political speech during an official government event. Sebelius later said she had made a mistake and that the error was “technical” in nature.
On July 18, 2016, the OSC concluded that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro violated the Hatch Act during an interview with Katie Couric. Castro admitted the violation, but denied any intent to violate the act.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:39:10pm

re: #87 MsJ

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I apologize. You might be on to something about there being goods on Mitch.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:40:11pm

re: #88 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Not so fast
On September 13, 2012, the OSC charged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with violating the Hatch Act by making a political speech during an official government event. Sebelius later said she had made a mistake and that the error was “technical” in nature.
On July 18, 2016, the OSC concluded that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro violated the Hatch Act during an interview with Katie Couric. Castro admitted the violation, but denied any intent to violate the act.

Difference between Charles and a lot of other bloggers is he’ll own up to this and this is why I appreciate our community. We not only try to get facts right but we don’t get pissy when we’re pointed out our facts are wrong. Good work though.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:40:18pm

re: #88 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Sorry, was just scrolling down, didn’t see Castro had been already addressed

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:41:10pm

re: #91 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Sorry, was just scrolling down, didn’t see Castro had been already addressed

Nah you’re good. You brought up the Sebeillus incident. It’s good to point out that Obama’s administration was more ethical by far but it’s also to get facts correct or else the argument loses credibility.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:42:55pm

re: #53 MsJ

Last night on Twitter I saw something about bump stocks becoming illegal and people having to turn them in…and his supporters went absolutely batshit insane.

I somehow doubt it was real but whoeeee, the response was delicious.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:46:11pm

re: #93 Belafon

DONNIE IS A GUN GRABBER!!11!!!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:46:59pm

sparing no expense…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:47:43pm

so full of shit, again…

NOBODY is giving this “great reviews” you orange shitweasel

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:48:02pm

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

sparing no expense…

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So we won’t be hearing about the big ocean that separates Alaska from the rest of the country like we did with PR.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:48:33pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

so full of shit, again…

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NOBODY is giving this “great reviews” you orange shitweasel

It’s all about popularity for him. Stupid scumbucket.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:48:55pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

so full of shit, again…

NOBODY is giving this “great reviews” you orange shitweasel

Lumpy?

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sagehen  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:49:06pm

re: #20 HappyWarrior

Once I see the GOP base turning against Trump I.e. how Bush lost a lot as Iraq was too big a fuckup for them to deny or Bush not being a jerk on immigration reform. Till then I think Mitch remains as helpful as possible to Trump.

It was Katrina that really did it for Bush.

No matter how bad things got in Iraq, the base could choose to believe what the admin said at press conferences, or what Fox decided to show. But Katrina — they’d have to believe their own destroyed home dead neighbors empty stores missing pets over whatever Fox had to say. Assuming they had enough electricity to even have any idea what Fox was saying.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:49:40pm
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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:49:40pm

re: #87 MsJ

BREAKING: The Robert Mueller Protection bill now has enough votes to pass the Senate & move to the House, according to Jeff Flake just moments ago

The problem is Mitch McConnell refuses to allow them to vote.

I seldom use the word hate about a person, but I’m getting very close

yesterday jeff flake was trying to block a vote on a judge
one man
by himself
he couldnt do it alone
he tried to to convince others to join him
apparently they did

mcconnell is different
this bill can pass
he is holding it up entirely and totally on his own because he has the power
he doesnt need anyone, doesnt have to convince anyone
no one can stop him as he all by himself defies the will of the senate

he is the leader of the senate

he is not “the senate”

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mmmirele  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:49:55pm

The NYTimes has an article about John Chau. It certainly didn’t change my mind about the utter foolhardiness of his mission. But it does make it clear it was rather well planned. He knew he was breaking the law.

Mr. Chau landed in Port Blair on Oct. 16, traveled to another island in the Andamans and then returned to Port Blair.

There, he holed up for 11 days in a small apartment that he referred to as a “safe house” in a long note that the police found after his death. He wrote that he never saw sunlight that whole time.

The police say he was doing this to avoid being spotted; his friends say he was trying to prevent himself from getting sick to protect the islanders, whose immune systems have been isolated so long that some experts say they could be wiped out by the common cold.

nytimes.com

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:49:59pm

re: #100 sagehen

It was Katrina that really did it for Bush.

No matter how bad things got in Iraq, the base could choose to believe what the admin said at press conferences, or what Fox decided to show. But Katrina — they’d have to believe their own destroyed home dead neighbors empty stores missing pets over whatever Fox had to say. Assuming they had enough electricity to even have any idea what Fox was saying.

Yeah you’re right actually. I had forgotten how much hype General Petraeus got.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:51:00pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:51:39pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:51:58pm

re: #101 MsJ

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I gotta admit I have a soft spot for little girls interacting with their Dads given my brother and his daughter. We spent part of Thanksgiving night trying to convince her it was him as Kevin McAlister. Dunno if it worked though. I’ll find out when we watch HA2.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:52:06pm

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:52:35pm

re: #87 MsJ

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McConnell won’t allow a vote on it because it would basically be the beginning of the end, not only for Donny’s presidency but also the GOP’s chances of holding on to the Senate in 2020. Why? Once Trump vetoes the bill, the GOP would be left with a dilemma: Override the veto and thus incur the wrath of the base or allow the veto to stand and make it clear to the rest of the nation they are cool with whatever criminal acts he commits going forward? They would no longer be able to hide behind the excuse that such acts are beyond their control and mumble that they don’t think the bill necessary because Donny would never fire him.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:52:51pm

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

sparing no expense…

Richard Hammond spared no expense.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:53:07pm

re: #102 dangerman

yesterday jeff flake was trying to block a vote on a judge
one man
by himself
he couldnt do it alone
he tried to to convince others to join him
apparently they did

mcconnell is different
this bill can pass
he is holding it up entirely and totally on his own because he has the power
he doesnt need anyone, doesnt have to convince anyone
no one can stop him as he all by himself defies the will of the senate

he is the leader of the senate

he is not “the senate”

Aaaaand….flake cast his vote nonetheless.

Shitheels, every freaking one of them.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:53:25pm

re: #101 MsJ

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cute as can be and that’s exactly how donnie thinks:
“i dont care what you know, it’s what i say it is”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:54:07pm

re: #106 MsJ

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The Treaty of Ghent is a 4 okay. It’s not good. It doesn’t let me get a Trump Tower in Windsor. It’s awful. We are being ripped off!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:54:10pm

I’m shocked to learn that in Dallas police officers are not allowed to wander into peoples homes and shoot them to death

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:54:43pm

re: #111 MsJ

Aaaaand….flake cast his vote nonetheless.

Shitheels, every freaking one of them.

He did block one judge, and when Scott from South Carolina blocked the nominee as well, it was over. He did cave on the second one though.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:55:22pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:56:08pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:57:17pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:57:47pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:57:48pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:57:52pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 12:58:56pm
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:02:30pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:02:43pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:03:01pm

re: #122 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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They can handle it. Not everyone celebrates Christmas and New Years but we are saying Merry Christmas again!

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:03:02pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:03:40pm
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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:04:21pm

re: #122 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:04:47pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

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Sosa telling Tony Montana not to fuck him over in Scarface.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:06:07pm

re: #128 Kragar

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Yeah that’s just gotta kill morale. I mean one thing being deployed overseas to deal with hostiles but confronting asylum seekers?!?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:07:05pm

re: #120 lawhawk

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:07:53pm

Here is what I have been doing all day.
My youngest son (from Florida) is here for the weekend and he brought my 8-year-old granddaughter so she is my pie apprentice.

Also we made this:

And this:

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:09:13pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

Oh my goodness. I want you to adopt me so badly right now.

I am drooling.

It is not a good look.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:10:17pm

re: #105 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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When major networks report a random small plane crashing it always seems to be someone famous later?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:10:29pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

Here is what I have been doing all day.
My youngest son (from Florida) is here for the weekend and he brought my 8-year-old granddaughter so she is my pie apprentice.

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Your apprentice is off to a great start. My Mom’s baking apprentice helped out with the banana bread and I complimented her twice on it. First response- “I know.” I had said it was delicious. Did it a second time the next morning since she had a mild fever. “You said that already.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:11:40pm

I’m not sure if I should laugh, or cry.

“You know you are from flyover country when you are applying for a marriage license, give them your New Mexico driver’s license, and they come back and say: ‘My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver’s licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?’” Clarkson said in a Facebook post after the incident.

Clarkson told the newspaper the clerk eventually went back to check another time with other staff about whether she could accept his New Mexico driver’s license as proof of identify.

“She thought New Mexico was a foreign country,” he said of the clerk. “All the couples behind us waiting in line were laughing.”

The clerk also reportedly complimented Clarkson on how well he spoke English.

Clarkson said the clerk and staff concluded that New Mexico is indeed a U.S. state after the clerk checked for a second time and accepted his license as proof of identity.

We really need to do better educating the masses

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:12:07pm
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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:12:39pm

re: #122 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

BREAKING: DHS submits a request for assistance to DOD to extent its support of the border mission through Jan. 31.

This means troops will be spending their Christmas AND New Years away from home.

— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) November 30, 2018

*Womp Womp*: If any of those troops enlisted on or after Nov 9, 2016.

Sorry brothers and sisters for the rest.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:13:14pm

re: #129 HappyWarrior

Sosa telling Tony Montana not to fuck him over in Scarface.

LOL my girlfriend and I are watching that film right now. She’s never seen it before.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:13:18pm

re: #133 MsJ

Oh my goodness. I want you to adopt me so badly right now.

I am drooling.

It is not a good look.

Seriously VB is the baking grandma I never had and I think it’s wonderful how special she treats all of individual grandchildren which was my own Nana’s great gift that I still remember her for.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:15:02pm

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

LOL my girlfriend and I are watching that film right now. She’s never seen it before.

I always think of the South Park spoof scene now first lol with Cartman as Tony and Colonel Sanders as Sosa. Never seen it though?!? I mean it’s not my favorite but it’s a must watch once experience imho.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:15:07pm

What is happening to this world!??

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:15:49pm

re: #140 HappyWarrior

Seriously VB is the baking grandma I never had and I think it’s wonderful how special she treats all of individual grandchildren which was my own Nana’s great gift that I still remember her for.

As good as that pie looked (key lime is my personal favorite), it was the soup that made me drool. Kreplach and matzo ball soup both…mmmmmmmm!!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:18:33pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m not sure if I should laugh, or cry.

We really need to do better educating the masses

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Sorry but Simpson’s Law must be invoked again here.

There’s a New Mexico?


I swear. I need to submit this thesis that everything that happens in this world can be explained by a Simpsons quote or scene.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:18:41pm

First Frum now Kristol.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:20:22pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:21:56pm

Fuck these people. Sideways with a goddamned rusty chain saw.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:22:00pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

DC agency apologizes for asking out-of-town couple seeking marriage license to prove New Mexico is a state

And when you ask these people if Puerto Rico is part of the USA…

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Kragar  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:22:37pm

re: #147 MsJ

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ObserverArt  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:22:54pm

re: #101 MsJ

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1…2…3…5!

She is a cutie…and determined.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:23:11pm

re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And when you ask these people if Puerto Rico is part of the USA…

That goes without saying but this for one of the states is even worse with apologies to PR.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:23:22pm

mooch is triggered about something….

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:24:35pm

re: #149 Kragar

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As I’ve said, why worry about Shariah Law with this shit and with Kennedy gone on SCOTUS, I’m less sure of this being overturned than I would if Barf O’Kavanaugh hadn’t got his due rejection.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:24:59pm

re: #152 Dr. Matt

mooch is triggered about something….

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LOL.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:25:20pm

OK, I need to drag my ass up to the office, and drop off my rent check

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:26:04pm

And yes I know I’m known for my funny accidental typos but Barf O’Kavanaugh is deliberate.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:26:15pm

re: #150 ObserverArt

1…2…3…5!

She is a cutie…and determined.

Poor kid…she’s gonna grow up to be me. :-D

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:26:21pm

re: #147 MsJ

Fuck these people. Sideways with a goddamned rusty chain saw.

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This is the forced-birth crowd trying to get an abortion case before SCOTUS in the hopes that Kavanaugh will join the other 4 conservatives on the bench in striking down RvW.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:27:17pm

re: #158 Targetpractice

This is the forced-birth crowd trying to get an abortion case before SCOTUS in the hopes that Kavanaugh will join the other 4 conservatives on the bench in striking down RvW.

I had the same worry. Kennedy wasn’t great but he did protect choice. Not feeling it with Kavanaugh in their especially since he’s going to be eager to take out his anger on his nomination opponents.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:30:50pm

Current Fox News headline:

TRUMP IS WINNING ON TRADE - DON’T LET THE ‘EXPERTS’ FOOL YOU

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ObserverArt  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:31:09pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

LyJrLfsnJ+RwqVqe85zdrG8334AoPIuvMW/awp0iBoYGe+EqaUg285i0hHpSqbGey1VkYV+/t4JZ0DG6Q8ripzc6Rb+/CGPrdjqqmOV0DjReIhLZMUTpFvkurOh0AFTznTgEMBQjAcSufHZrQRRCVnRwnpEE7Lmg6fco8n1cX/L6BPQY7pGv6APvFlF6vI0EOVdcrIVeKKoyBZHJlWH44b0biOkmdsonfIec7C5IucRW7zik3n5n81z+n+RXe/9YvZcmUmf9xSotmJV6u1rX9g==

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:32:41pm

re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg

Current Fox News headline:

TRUMP IS WINNING ON TRADE - DON’T LET THE ‘EXPERTS’ FOOL YOU

Spoken like a true independent and not a propaganda outlet at all.

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Varek Raith  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:34:07pm

Good afternoon.
There are 1,2,3,5 lights!

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:34:32pm

re: #141 HappyWarrior

I always think of the South Park spoof scene now first lol with Cartman as Tony and Colonel Sanders as Sosa. Never seen it though?!? I mean it’s not my favorite but it’s a must watch once experience imho.

Roger Ebert put Scarface on his Great Movies list.

rogerebert.com

Yeah, it’s definitely one of those iconic films.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:35:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:35:42pm

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Roger Ebert put Scarface on his Great Films list.

rogerebert.com

Yeah, it’s definitely one of those iconic films.

I used to like it and then not like it now I probably like it more than I don’t but it’s iconic and a good take on the 80’s as a whole.

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:39:40pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m not sure if I should laugh, or cry.

We really need to do better educating the masses

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There are times when I’m rather convinced you need a passport to go to/from certain parts of the country. New Mexico wasn’t on the list… though it’s neighbor to the east is.

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:40:14pm

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Roger Ebert put Scarface on his Great Films list.

rogerebert.com

Yeah, it’s definitely one of those iconic films.

Ugh, bunch of Italian guys doing bad Cuban accents.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:40:59pm

Well, THAT was certainly a disappointing tangerine. Bleah.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:41:19pm

re: #169 Blind Frog Belly White

(lunch blogging)

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:41:27pm

re: #157 MsJ

Poor kid…she’s gonna grow up to be me. :-D

i was gonna joke with that kind of math and determination she could be president right this minute

i have higher hopes for her actual education

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Jay C  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:41:53pm

I realize it’s blatant link-flogging, but a nice piece by Cheryl Rofer at Balloon Juice about the New York Times’ - *ahem* - coverage of the Trump campaign’s Russian connections back in 2016.

TL;DR version: BUT HER EMAILS!!11!!!!!1!

RTWT

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:41:58pm

re: #168 KGxvi

Ugh, bunch of Italian guys doing bad Cuban accents.

I concede that point but where I appreciate it as about the excesses of the 80’s. You ain’t wrong about Pacino especially tho. It’s not his best work.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:42:45pm

re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg

Current Fox News headline:

TRUMP IS WINNING ON TRADE - DON’T LET THE ‘EXPERTS’ FOOL YOU

did i JUST say this above:

“i dont care what you know, it’s what i say it is”

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:43:23pm

re: #174 dangerman

did i JUST say this above:

“i dont care what you know, it’s what i say it is”

If I wanted your opinion, I’d have given it to you, and I just did.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:43:30pm

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cheeky Smooth Knob Tailed

i’ve got an idea for an insurance company

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:46:39pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:46:54pm

re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg

Current Fox News headline:

TRUMP IS WINNING ON TRADE - DON’T LET THE ‘EXPERTS’ FOOL YOU

(rolls eyes)

Yeah, what would experts, with their numbers and facts and reason and empirical observation know?

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:47:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:47:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:50:32pm

re: #178 Blind Frog Belly White

(rolls eyes)

Yeah, what would experts, with their numbers and facts and reason and empirical observation know?

Well we have Jesse Walters here who knows shit little on trade, then we have Laura Ingraham who knows even less, & here’s Sean Hannity to tell you how Hillary and George Soros bribed trade experts to criticize Trump.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:50:53pm

re: #178 Blind Frog Belly White

(rolls eyes)

Yeah, what would experts, with their numbers and facts and reason and empirical observation know?

“well we did put ‘experts’ in quotes”…

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:51:42pm

re: #178 Blind Frog Belly White

(rolls eyes)

Yeah, what would experts, with their numbers and facts and reason and empirical observation know?

my doctor said I need surgery, but I’m going to get a second opinion from my mechanic. The worst part is my doctor wouldn’t tell me if my engine block was cracked

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:52:55pm

re: #144 HappyWarrior

Sorry but Simpson’s Law must be invoked again here.

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I swear. I need to submit this thesis that everything that happens in this world can be explained by a Simpsons quote or scene.

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:53:00pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:53:04pm

re: #183 KGxvi

my doctor said I need surgery, but I’m going to get a second opinion from my mechanic. The worst part is my doctor wouldn’t tell me if my engine block was cracked

My accountant told me to try that cocktail but I couldn’t afford it since my bartender is giving me really bad financial advice.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:53:11pm

We may have the winner

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:54:03pm

re: #179 MsJ

That seems like a big fucking deal

Biden Drops F-Bomb at Historic Signing - New York Post

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:54:17pm

re: #184 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Thanks. That could be a fun and lighter read after I complete the USA trilogy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:54:39pm

re: #163 Varek Raith

Good afternoon.
There are 1,2,3,5 lights!

Evolution and Global Warming are just…theories!

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:55:49pm

re: #173 HappyWarrior

I concede that point but where I appreciate it as about the excesses of the 80’s. You ain’t wrong about Pacino especially tho. It’s not his best work.

One of the more frequent critiques I hear about Pacino’s performance as Tony Montana is that it’s so over-the-top.

And it is - but then again, Tony Montana is very much an over-the-top character…..there’s really no other way to play it. All that character has is sheer bravado and ruthlessness; there’s really nothing else there.

He’s sorta like Trump in that sense - Trump can whip up a Cat 5 hurricane of bullshit, but really, that’s all there is to him. Imagine a much younger Trump as a Miami cocaine cowboy in the early 1980’s, and he’d probably be not much different from Pacino’s portrayal of Tony Montana.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 1:58:49pm

re: #183 KGxvi

my doctor said I need surgery, but I’m going to get a second opinion from my mechanic. The worst part is my doctor wouldn’t tell me if my engine block was cracked

“I’m sorry, Mr. White, but the tests confirm you have lung cancer.”

“I want a second opinion!”

“Okay. You’re ugly, too.”

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:00:26pm

Without further comment.

Far - Pony - Animated Video

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:00:42pm

re: #191 Dr Lizardo

One of the more frequent critiques I hear about Pacino’s performance as Tony Montana is that it’s so over-the-top.

And it is - but then again, Tony Montana is very much an over-the-top character…..there’s really no other way to play it. All that character has is sheer bravado and ruthlessness; there’s really nothing else there.

He’s sorta like Trump in that sense - Trump can whip up a Cat 5 hurricane of bullshit, but really, that’s all there is to him. Imagine a much younger Trump as a Miami cocaine cowboy in the early 1980’s, and he’d probably be not much different from Pacino’s portrayal of Tony Montana.

Ysah that’s a legit point. KG tho being of a Cuban background may have better observations on whether or not it was an authentic portrayal of Cuban body language and that sort of thing tho. I just don’t find Tony as fascinating as I do Michael Corleone. Michael going from idealistic war hero to dying alone in Sicily is perhaps my favorite character arc in film. Literally 18 years in the making! And man Pacino portrays it so so well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:02:43pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:03:41pm

re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

OK, I need to drag my ass up to the office, and drop off my rent check

I got asked by three separate people where my dogs were while going up and back.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:05:09pm

re: #194 HappyWarrior

Ysah that’s a legit point. KG tho being of a Cuban background may have better observations on whether or not it was an authentic portrayal of Cuban body language and that sort of thing tho. I just don’t find Tony as fascinating as I do Michael Corleone. Michael going from idealistic war hero to dying alone in Sicily is perhaps my favorite character arc in film. Literally 18 years in the making!

Pacino’s Michael Corleone is one of the greatest performances in cinema history. And the polar opposite of Tony Montana.

It’s one of the things I respect about Pacino; he can play a wide variety of characters and he’s believable. He has a new film out next year, The Irishman, with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese. I’m looking forward to that one. Pacino’s playing Jimmy Hoffa.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:05:45pm

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gingerbread souls of the damned.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:06:34pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:06:51pm

re: #197 Dr Lizardo

Pacino’s Michael Corleone is one of the greatest performances in cinema history. And the polar opposite of Tony Montana.

It’s one of the things I respect about Pacino; he can play a wide variety of characters and he’s believable. He has a new film out next year, The Irishman, with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese. I’m looking forward to that one. Pacino’s playing Jimmy Hoffa.

Yeah I can’t wait to see that. Speaking of Hoffa, was talking with one of my cousins the other day. He had a job in Detroit recently which made him dream about asking our late grandfather where Jimmy Hoffa was buried and who killed JFK. Our grandfather was in the NLRB so I asked him since he knew our grandfather whereas I did not if he knew Jimmy Hoffa and apparently he did.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:10:10pm

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

Gingerbread souls of the damned.

The Older Boy has always had a unique sense of humor. Years ago, he was wearing a shirt that had some spots on it. Someone asked, “What are those?”

He said, totally deadpan, “Souls of the damned.”

Years before that, he had some odd scratch marks on his back which someone saw while he was at a swimming pool. “How’d you get those?”

He said, “Badgers.”

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:11:17pm

re: #194 HappyWarrior

Ysah that’s a legit point. KG tho being of a Cuban background may have better observations on whether or not it was an authentic portrayal of Cuban body language and that sort of thing tho. I just don’t find Tony as fascinating as I do Michael Corleone. Michael going from idealistic war hero to dying alone in Sicily is perhaps my favorite character arc in film. Literally 18 years in the making! And man Pacino portrays it so so well.

I think my main problem with it (and to be fair, even going back to high school when I first saw the movie and didn’t really think/care about this sort of thing, I wasn’t a fan) is that it’s theoretically a Hispanic/Latino movie, and there’s like maybe three actual Latinos in the entire movie.

I do agree about Michael Corleone, for what it’s worth.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:14:05pm

I think regarding Michael Corleone and Tony Montana though. You see his human and vulnerable side right form the start of the film. You see Michael even though he’s seen hell in battle is still idealistic a bit. “That’s my family Kay, not me.” And you know ultimately he’s right. Michael isn’t his father or brothers. He’s his own man that has some of their worst qualities but few of their more admirable ones. With Tony Montana, you know he’s a crook already from the minute of the Mariel Boatlift. Perhaps Scarface would work a little better if we don’t know that Tony had been in prison in Cuba though. I think that would have made his rise and fall a bit more tragic in a way IMO but I know Scarface is a remake of the older film which in turn is based off Al Capone loosely and Capone ‘s lifestory is ironically more like Tony’s than a fictional character like Michael’s. And ultimately it’s my preference in how I like stories told.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:15:06pm

re: #200 HappyWarrior

Yeah I can’t wait to see that. Speaking of Hoffa, was talking with one of my cousins the other day. He had a job in Detroit recently which made him dream about asking our late grandfather where Jimmy Hoffa was buried and who killed JFK. Our grandfather was in the NLRB so I asked him since he knew our grandfather whereas I did not if he knew Jimmy Hoffa and apparently he did.

I’ve wondered from time to time what happened to Hoffa, aside from the fact that he obviously bumped off.

I doubt they’ll ever find a body. I’d imagine his body was probably incinerated or something.

Much like I doubt we’ll ever find out the identity of the Zodiac Killer or who really murdered Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) or who was Jack the Ripper. There are - or were - suspects, to be sure, but most likely, it’s a guessing game for the ages.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:16:29pm

re: #202 KGxvi

I think my main problem with it (and to be fair, even going back to high school when I first saw the movie and didn’t really think/care about this sort of thing, I wasn’t a fan) is that it’s theoretically a Hispanic/Latino movie, and there’s like maybe three actual Latinos in the entire movie.

I do agree about Michael Corleone, for what it’s worth.

Yeah I hear ya. That’s definitely a fair point. I think were it made now that someone of Hispanic/Latino ancestry would have been definitely wanted for the role. And yeah see my point above about how Michael goes wanting to separate himself from his family name to ultimately I think proving to have a lot of the worst elements of his siblings and father but none of their best which resulted in their deaths being mourned while his is lonely and alone although two of his brothers died violent deaths.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:17:17pm

re: #202 KGxvi

I think my main problem with it (and to be fair, even going back to high school when I first saw the movie and didn’t really think/care about this sort of thing, I wasn’t a fan) is that it’s theoretically a Hispanic/Latino movie, and there’s like maybe three actual Latinos in the entire movie.

I do agree about Michael Corleone, for what it’s worth.

IIRC, Steven Bauer was the only actual Cuban in the entire film.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:17:33pm

It was either the Sharpie, or use one of those big-ass pencils they give kindergartners….

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:18:00pm

re: #204 Dr Lizardo

I’ve wondered from time to time what happened to Hoffa, aside from the fact that he obviously bumped off.

I doubt they’ll ever find a body. I’d imagine his body was probably incinerated or something.

Much like I doubt we’ll ever find out the identity of the Zodiac Killer or who really murdered Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) or who was Jack the Ripper. There are - or were - suspects, to be sure, but most likely, it’s a guessing game for the ages.

Or who killed my second great grandfather, the same grandfather’s grandfather which is our family’s JFK. But yeah I don’t think we ever will either. If we would have found it, it would have been years ago and the time is running out on living witnesses if any to the event and these certainly didn’t leave a written record likely. Not like they were obsessed with that sort of thing like the Nazis were.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:18:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:19:50pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:19:53pm

re: #209 gocart mozart

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To be fair, Alexandria by being a Latina Millenial Dem Socialist, you trigger them just being by yourself.

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:20:10pm

re: #206 Dr Lizardo

IIRC, Steven Bauer was the only actual Cuban in the entire film.

Yeah, there were a couple of other Latino actors that had smaller roles, but I think you’re right about Bauer being the only Cuban in the film.

re: #205 HappyWarrior

Yeah I hear ya. That’s definitely a fair point. I think were it made now that someone of Hispanic/Latino ancestry would have been definitely wanted for the role. And yeah see my point above about how Michael goes wanting to separate himself from his family name to ultimately I think proving to have a lot of the worst elements of his siblings and father but none of their best which resulted in their deaths being mourned while his is lonely and alone although two of his brothers died violent deaths.

If it were remade today, I think it’d be as different from the 80s version as it was from the original. Different location, different vice, different ethnic make up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:20:35pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Or your boss says, “Do you have a minute? Let’s go to my office….”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:20:36pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I was close, “When your handler threatens to expose you if you don’t get your act together.”

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:22:13pm
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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:22:36pm

re: #209 gocart mozart

Ok, we need a Democrat to win in 2020, have them appoint Schumer to run some department or other, and get Ocasio-Cortez into the Senate.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:22:48pm

re: #212 KGxvi

Yeah, there were a couple of other Latino actors that had smaller roles, but I think you’re right about Bauer being the only Cuban in the film.

If it were remade today, I think it’d be as different from the 80s version as it was from the original. Different location, different vice, different ethnic make up.

Yeah I think you’re right. As I said, it’s perfect for its era. Godfather is a period piece too as you know but I think it transcends time better IMO. Coppolla says he intended it as an allegory for Capitalism. I dunno if I see that but I always saw the Godfather as being about how families rise and fall. And I guess maybe that’s perhaps why Coppolla who isn’t really a crime guy really in his films was better fit to tell the tale than say someone like Scorsese who is my absolute favorite director along with the Coens.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:23:06pm

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Or who killed my second great grandfather, the same grandfather’s grandfather which is our family’s JFK. But yeah I don’t think we ever will either. If we would have found it, it would have been years ago and the time is running out on living witnesses if any to the event and these certainly didn’t leave a written record likely. Not like they were obsessed with that sort of thing like the Nazis were.

They did find the identity of the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer a few months back and arrested him; it’s been suggested that similar methods might be used to find out who the Zodiac was. It was the result of a DNA match.

Sadly, there’s a not-insignificant percentage of homicides that go unsolved, as in the unfortunate case in your family.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:25:50pm

re: #211 HappyWarrior

To be fair, Alexandria by being a Latina Millenial Dem Socialist, you trigger them just being by yourself.

One of my friends on FB is a “Trump is a pig but I like his policies”-type Republican. He posted something about AOC’s dismissive shutdown of Shapiro’s “Debate Me, Libtard!”, and when I said if Shapiro wanted to debate AOC, he should run as a candidate from her district, he said, “But don’t you think her ideas should be debated?”

I pointed out she’d be 1/435th of the House, its most junior member, and that her ideas would certainly be debated there.

But, you know, he couldn’t really let it go. Something about her youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism really, REALLY bothers them.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:26:16pm

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

They did find the identity of the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer a few months back and arrested him; it’s been suggested that similar methods might be used to find out who the Zodiac was. It was the result of a DNA match.

Sadly, there’s a not-insignificant percentage of homicides that go unsolved, as in the unfortunate case in your family.

Yeah I heard about that. Got a lot of talk in the genealogical community. There’s also hope those same tests can help families find missing people. But yeah, it was actually something I didn’t know about it until later. We always had the photo of his blacksmith shop but no idea he was murdered until my Dad’s cousins that still live in Pittsburgh re-enacted the photo and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did a feature on them.

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:27:45pm

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

They did find the identity of the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer a few months back and arrested him; it’s been suggested that similar methods might be used to find out who the Zodiac was. It was the result of a DNA match.

Sadly, there’s a not-insignificant percentage of homicides that go unsolved, as in the unfortunate case in your family.

Apparently they tried to get his DNA from the back of stamps on the letters he sent. But getting the Zodiac’s DNA is only half the battle. They still have to find matches within the limited DNA databases

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:28:17pm

re: #219 Blind Frog Belly White

One of my friends on FB is a “Trump is a pig but I like his policies”-type Republican. He posted something about AOC’s dismissive shutdown of Shapiro’s “Debate Me, Libtard!”, and when I said if Shapiro wanted to debate AOC, he should run as a candidate from her district, he said, “But don’t you think her ideas should be debated?”

I pointed out she’d be 1/435th of the House, its most junior member, and that her ideas would certainly be debated there.

But, you know, he couldn’t really let it go. Something about her youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism really, REALLY bothers them.

Her ideas were debated first by her primary opponent, the former Rep Crowley and then her Republican opponent. She didn’t owe Shapiro shit. If he wants to debate people and actually be taken as something other than the GIsh Galloping ass he is, he can run for office but he knows he’d never win since he’s as likable as Ted Cruz and unlike Cruz was stupid enough to have a lot of his stupid shit easy to access by the public.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:28:25pm

I’m openly wondering if Trump is a bigger fucking idiot than Putin even thought he was.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:28:37pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:28:49pm

re: #221 KGxvi

Apparently they tried to get his DNA from the back of stamps on the letters he sent. But getting the Zodiac’s DNA is only half the battle. They still have to find matches within the limited DNA databases

Exactly.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:29:19pm

re: #211 HappyWarrior

To be fair, Alexandria by being a Latina Millenial Dem Socialist, you trigger them just being by yourself.

I never cared one way or another about her, she’s not my representive, but I really like her now. She’s sharp and dedicated and I appreciate that.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:30:02pm

re: #224 Charles Johnson

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Military tribunals rule on military matters, Sean. You would have known this if you went to college instead of becoming New York flavored Limbaugh weak crack.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:30:15pm

re: #224 Charles Johnson

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Something about democracy really gets under his skin.

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:10pm

re: #219 Blind Frog Belly White

Something about her youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism really, REALLY bothers them.

Regular youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism probably would have been OK, but her feminine youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism was just too much.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:30pm
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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:33pm

re: #219 Blind Frog Belly White

But, you know, he couldn’t really let it go. Something about her youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism really, REALLY bothers them.

It’s because deep down, she’s the things that they want to be. They (the Republican Baby Boomers and older GenXers) know that the bridges they crossed burned up behind them, and they desperately fear/know that their brand of Fuck You I Got Mine politics won’t last.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:55pm

re: #228 Blind Frog Belly White

Something about democracy really gets under his skin.

Yeah, because he wants to fucking control everything.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:31:58pm

re: #227 HappyWarrior

Military tribunals rule on military matters, Sean. You would have known this if you went to college instead of becoming New York flavored Limbaugh weak crack.

The other obvious point is that they LOVE the military and LOVE the Generals, right up until the retired ones start criticizing Dear Leader. Then, decades of service vanish from their consciousness.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:33:12pm

re: #226 MsJ

I never cared one way or another about her, she’s not my representive, but I really like her now. She’s sharp and dedicated and I appreciate that.

Yeah I think a lot of people were honestly a little dismissive since she had supported Bernie but I was struck by the fact that A) she decided to run for office and B) she’s definitely intelligent. and C) she knows how to stand up for herself and what she believes. Plus we need more people in public life with her perspective. No disrespect to Crowley who I hear is a good guy but we’ve had a lot of middle aged white boomers in office too. AOC is a voice of a group that doesn’t have as much voice in public life so making her 1 of the 435 was a welcome addition for me even if I think she’s a little mistaken pushing the Dem socialist stuff but I don’t think she’s an idiot or anything like that.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:34:24pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

Here is what I have been doing all day.
My youngest son (from Florida) is here for the weekend and he brought my 8-year-old granddaughter so she is my pie apprentice.

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I don’t think I am a bad cook but what I’d give for a master like you teaching me more.

Have a blessed sabbath!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:34:36pm

re: #229 wrenchwench

Regular youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism probably would have been OK, but her feminine youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism was just too much.

Can’t forget about her being Latina and unashamed to criticize the economic status quo. I don’t consider myself a Dem Socialist but she’s A) Right to do that and B) It definitely inspires a lot of the ugly attacks on her. You know if she talked like Paul Ryan on economics, she’d be a GOP wunderkid and someone they’d talk about running in 2028. I have no idea what Alexandria’s future is but I’m encouraged with its genesis.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:35:53pm

re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White

The other obvious point is that they LOVE the military and LOVE the Generals, right up until the retired ones start criticizing Dear Leader. Then, decades of service vanish from their consciousness.

Yep. If those generals refused to do it because you know not their job, Lumpy and Hannity would attack them as DEEP STATERS!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:36:56pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:38:05pm

re: #239 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Hey we did need a NC gain . That’s a state I want to win back.

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:39:23pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

Can’t forget about her being Latina and unashamed to criticize the economic status quo. I don’t consider myself a Dem Socialist but she’s A) Right to do that and B) It definitely inspires a lot of the ugly attacks on her. You know if she talked like Paul Ryan on economics, she’d be a GOP wunderkid and someone they’d talk about running in 2028. I have no idea what Alexandria’s future is but I’m encouraged with its genesis.

My new, Latina rep-to-be does not support Pelosi. I’m giving her slack, so far. She’s no Bernie-bro. She worked in Senator Udall’s office. She knows which end is up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:39:56pm

re: #238 HappyWarrior

Yep. If those generals refused to do it because you know not their job, Lumpy and Hannity would attack them as DEEP STATERS!

They are not Of The Body!

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TedStriker  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:42:06pm

re: #219 Blind Frog Belly White

One of my friends on FB is a “Trump is a pig but I like his policies”-type Republican. He posted something about AOC’s dismissive shutdown of Shapiro’s “Debate Me, Libtard!”, and when I said if Shapiro wanted to debate AOC, he should run as a candidate from her district, he said, “But don’t you think her ideas should be debated?”

I pointed out she’d be 1/435th of the House, its most junior member, and that her ideas would certainly be debated there.

But, you know, he couldn’t really let it go. Something about her youth, enthusiasm, charisma, and unashamed Progressivism really, REALLY bothers them.

Because she’s so young, there’s a possibility she could be in Congress for the next 40-50 years (or higher, depending on how she does and how popular she gets/stays, especially nationwide).

She is conservative Republicans’ worst nightmare writ large: she’s a very public reminder of the browning of America and that old white guys running the country are still on-track to become an endangered species..

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:42:12pm

re: #240 HappyWarrior

Hey we did need a NC gain . That’s a state I want to win back.

Somethings afoot
From Ballotpedia

November 30, 2018: The North Carolina State Board of Elections reconvened and voted, 7-2, for an evidentiary hearing on the irregularities before December 21, 2018.[3]
November 28, 2018: Bobby Ludlum, the chairman of the Bladen County Board of Elections, said that the chief investigator for the North Carolina Board of Elections collected absentee by mail ballot request forms and their return envelopes from Bladen County, which partially sits in the 9th District, after the election.[4]
November 27, 2018: The North Carolina State Board of Elections, which is comprised of four Democrats, four Republicans, and one independent member, voted unanimously not to certify the results in the 9th Congressional District. Vice Chairman Joshua Malcolm, who made the motion to delay certification, cited a law saying the board could “take any other action necessary to assure that an election is determined without taint of fraud or corruption and without irregularities that may have changed the result of an election.”[5][6]

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:43:24pm
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mmmirele  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:44:56pm

re: #158 Targetpractice

This is the forced-birth crowd trying to get an abortion case before SCOTUS in the hopes that Kavanaugh will join the other 4 conservatives on the bench in striking down RvW.

And as I tell forced birthers every opportunity I can, overturning Roe v. Wade does not mean abortion will stop. What it does mean is that abortion will go underground and could become dangerous. But they don’t care, because they fetishize the fetus over the already-here living woman.

In fact, there’s an outfit that regularly pickets a Planned Parenthood over in Tempe. I’m sorely tempted to go over there and stand across the street from their signs (which really do say “Planned Parenthood Kills Babies”) with my sign, which would say, “Jesus didn’t die so you could harass women.” Because I am tired of mostly men telling us women what we can do with our ladyparts.

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Varek Raith  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:45:26pm

re: #245 gocart mozart

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Why in the hells would you stick a loaded gun down your pants?!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:46:49pm

re: #243 TedStriker

Because she’s so young, there’s a possibility she could be in Congress for the next 40-50 years (or higher, depending on how she does and how popular she gets/stays, especially nationwide).

She is conservative Republicans’ worst nightmare writ large: she’s a very public reminder of the browning of America and that old white guys running the country are still on-track to become an endangered species..

I cannot easily explain how unconcerned this old white guy is about that eventuality. It’s about fucking time.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:48:07pm

re: #245 gocart mozart

Trading in the hot dog for a Vienna sausage, you might say.

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TedStriker  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:48:31pm

re: #248 Blind Frog Belly White

I cannot easily explain how unconcerned this old white guy is about that eventuality. It’s about fucking time.

As a 43-year-old, I agree.

Give me the most qualified for the job, whoever they are.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:48:42pm

re: #247 Varek Raith

Why in the hells would you stick a loaded gun down your pants?!

They do it in the movies!

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:48:43pm

re: #245 gocart mozart

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that reminded me to dig this one out:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:48:47pm

In Oakland, CA

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:50:29pm

re: #241 wrenchwench

My new, Latina rep-to-be does not support Pelosi. I’m giving her slack, so far. She’s no Bernie-bro. She worked in Senator Udall’s office. She knows which end is up.

Yeah I hear that.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:53:39pm

re: #243 TedStriker

Because she’s so young, there’s a possibility she could be in Congress for the next 40-50 years (or higher, depending on how she does and how popular she gets/stays, especially nationwide).

She is conservative Republicans’ worst nightmare writ large: she’s a very public reminder of the browning of America and that old white guys running the country are still on-track to become an endangered species..

Yeah I definitely think it’s that but it’s also that old white guy view too. They’re so threatened by the changes this country is experiencing and Obama and Clinton’s success in the Democratic Party threatened them big time. It’s sad because as one part of the country is embracing our changes. Another is threatened by it.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:54:48pm

re: #246 mmmirele

And as I tell forced birthers every opportunity I can, overturning Roe v. Wade does not mean abortion will stop. What it does mean is that abortion will go underground and could become dangerous. But they don’t care, because they fetishize the fetus over the already-here living woman.

In fact, there’s an outfit that regularly pickets a Planned Parenthood over in Tempe. I’m sorely tempted to go over there and stand across the street from their signs (which really do say “Planned Parenthood Kills Babies”) with my sign, which would say, “Jesus didn’t die so you could harass women.” Because I am tired of mostly men telling us women what we can do with our ladyparts.

They don’t care. They want to punish women. They want to punish women who get pregnant. They want to punish women who have sex. They want women out of the workforce barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. They want women reliant and dependent on men…no matter the circumstance.

They want to control women. Plain and simple.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:56:40pm

re: #243 TedStriker

She is conservative Republicans’ worst nightmare writ large: she’s a very public reminder of the browning of America and that old white guys running the country are still on-track to become an endangered species..

We’re at a place similar to when the Soviet leadership was all doddering old men terrified of everything—each other, because they were all Stalin Pals, the rest of the world, because things weren’t going according to dogma—and there was a lot of talk about whether they’d set fire to the Cold War just because they couldn’t imagine a world in which (1) they had to concede they were wrong, (2) someone younger replaced them and made different choices.

That’s the background to which Gorbachev was reacting when he opened talks with Reagan.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:57:51pm

Not sure if this was posted, but you can click and move for panoramic view of Mars:

360cities.net

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:59:41pm

re: #257 The Ghost of a Flea

We’re at a place similar to when the Soviet leadership was all doddering old men terrified of everything—each other, because they were all Stalin Pals, the rest of the world, because things weren’t going according to dogma—and there was a lot of talk about whether they’d set fire to the Cold War just because they couldn’t imagine a world in which (1) they had to concede they were wrong, (2) someone younger replaced them and made different choices.

That’s the background to which Gorbachev was reacting when he opened talks with Reagan.

So then, this is the time we do it as farce?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 2:59:43pm

re: #257 The Ghost of a Flea

We’re at a place similar to when the Soviet leadership was all doddering old men terrified of everything—each other, because they were all Stalin Pals, the rest of the world, because things weren’t going according to dogma—and there was a lot of talk about whether they’d set fire to the Cold War just because they couldn’t imagine a world in which (1) they had to concede they were wrong, (2) someone younger replaced them and made different choices.

That’s the background to which Gorbachev was reacting when he opened talks with Reagan.

That’s actually a great analogy. Never thought of it that way but yeah. Basically there’s this fear “things are different now than when I was younger and I’m scared.” And that really I think is the crux of what Trump tapped into and a lot of that was really ugly stuff including yes racism, sexism, etc.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:01:26pm

re: #259 KGxvi

I hope so.

Better a farce than a Jacobian drama or a Grand Guignol.

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:01:40pm

re: #260 HappyWarrior

That’s actually a great analogy. Never thought of it that way but yeah. Basically there’s this fear “things are different now than when I was younger and I’m scared.” And that really I think is the crux of what Trump tapped into and a lot of that was really ugly stuff including yes racism, sexism, etc.

That bolded bit more or less sums up all of human history.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:02:15pm

re: #262 KGxvi

That bolded bit more or less sums up all of human history.

Yep. So true.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:02:59pm

re: #252 wrenchwench

that reminded me to dig this one out:

“Remember when you had me “fixed”” all those years ago? Well, how’s it feel, asshole?”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:05:05pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

“Remember when you had me “fixed”” all those years ago? Well, how’s it feel, asshole?”

“You didn’t take my mother to a farm upstate. You had her put down. I heard you on the phone, you son of a bitch.”

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:05:46pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

“Remember when you had me “fixed”” all those years ago? Well, how’s it feel, asshole?”

“Like you made me a new one, Charlie.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:06:29pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:07:35pm
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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:08:17pm

Hmm. Lets see. Found some penne pasta.

Got a jar of middle to higher quality marinara.

A half dozen breakfast sausage links.

No Parmesan or Mozzarella but I did find 3 string cheese packs in the fridge.

Cook and then cut up the sausage. Line the bottom of pan with them. boil the pasta and pour over sausage. Pour marinara over that. Cut mozzarella er string cheese into small chunks scattered over top. 350 oven for 15 minutes to make sure everything is warm and cheese is melted. Actually looks and smells decent. We’ll see…

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Varek Raith  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:09:55pm

re: #269 William Lewis

Hmm. Lets see. Found some penne pasta.

Got a jar of middle to higher quality marinara.

A half dozen breakfast sausage links.

No Parmesan or Mozzarella but I did find 3 string cheese packs in the fridge.

Cook and then cut up the sausage. Line the bottom of pan with them. boil the pasta and pour over sausage. Pour marinara over that. Cut mozzarella er string cheese into small chunks scattered over top. 350 oven for 15 minutes to make sure everything is warm and cheese is melted. Actually looks and smells decent. We’ll see…

You could always email to us if it doesn’t work out.
:P

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:10:25pm

re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Lovely

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:10:31pm

very legal and very cool seems like ti’s going to be a “thing” for a while

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:11:58pm

re: #272 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

very legal and very cool seems like ti’s going to be a “thing” for a while

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It’s very legal and very cool to obstruct justice, believe me.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:16:32pm

re: #270 Varek Raith

Paid a lot more in fancy restaurants for worse. Not great but decent enough for me.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:19:48pm

re: #260 HappyWarrior

That’s actually a great analogy. Never thought of it that way but yeah. Basically there’s this fear “things are different now than when I was younger and I’m scared.” And that really I think is the crux of what Trump tapped into and a lot of that was really ugly stuff including yes racism, sexism, etc.

I use the analogy because in both cases it’s about becoming insulated from perspective by having power. “What is right” becomes fused with “what I want” because no one’s allowed to contradict them. Faced with the possibility that they are not essential to the world, and that their wants are, in fact, not objectively Good, they…um…freak the fuck out and considering smashing everything.

I keep saying, what unites the various incoherent bits of “conservatism” is narcissism and a worldview in which there’s an a priori assumption that they are Right (correct) and Right (moral) such that all subsequent findings about the world hinge on the distinction of Us* versus Not Us.

*more accurately: “Me and people that temporarily serve my interests but who can be discarded when they fail to have utility to me.”

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ObserverArt  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:23:17pm

re: #252 wrenchwench

that reminded me to dig this one out:

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As the judge in this lawlessness, I hereby forgive Charlie the lab rottweiller mix doggo and apologize on behalf of the court that he was mixed up in this.

You are free to go Charlie.

However, I will take you home with me because I am having your owner arrested for being a danger to society, animals, and himself.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:24:33pm

I’m confused by the world we inhabit.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:25:46pm

re: #277 MsJ

I’m confused by the world we inhabit.

Mr. Deadbeat Dad, you might want to put out an APB. The last few marbles in your head have been kidnapped.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:26:43pm

re: #277 MsJ

I’m confused by the world we inhabit.

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I am too. I’m scared. Was Joe Walsh kidnapped by the deep state and replaced by a reasonable imposter. Okay I kid but seriously he ain’t wrong there.

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ObserverArt  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:26:49pm

re: #258 Barefoot Grin

Not sure if this was posted, but you can click and move for panoramic view of Mars:

360cities.net

Nice. Thanks for that mars rover image. The surface is pretty wild. I’m trying to understand the erosion (?) in the surface rocks, etc.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:27:37pm

re: #278 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Mr. Deadbeat Dad, you might want to put out an APB. The last few marbles in your head have been kidnapped.

Look at it again.

That’s what makes it so weird.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:27:45pm

re: #278 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Mr. Deadbeat Dad, you might want to put out an APB. The last few marbles in your head have been kidnapped.

No he’s pointing out how absurd Trumps defense is. Deadbeat Dad is an asshole but he’s not wrong here.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:29:22pm

re: #281 MsJ

Look at it again.

That’s what makes it so weird.

Hate to give him credit but he’s strikingly consistent in how critical of Trump’s actions. You can argue he’s trying to protect the conservative brand but his take ain’t wrong.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:29:23pm

re: #224 Charles Johnson

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What Kompromat does Putin have on Hannity?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:29:51pm

re: #282 HappyWarrior

No he’s pointing out how absurd Trumps defense is. Deadbeat Dad is an asshole but he’s not wrong here.

No, that’s the point. He’s not wrong. How the FUCK did that happen?

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:29:51pm

re: #277 MsJ

I’m confused by the world we inhabit.

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*checks his chin for a goatee* Did I fall into the mirror universe while I wasn’t watching?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:30:23pm

re: #284 Joe Bacon 🌹

What Kompromat does Putin have on Hannity?

He was the cameraman for the pee tape.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:31:01pm

re: #285 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

No, that’s the point. He’s not wrong. How the FUCK did that happen?

I dunno. Sorry I misinterpreted you. It’s so surreal.

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Teukka  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:31:06pm

re: #284 Joe Bacon 🌹

What Kompromat does Putin have on Hannity?

The kind which is only a problem with the GOP base?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:31:25pm

re: #288 HappyWarrior

I dunno. Sorry I misinterpreted you. It’s so surreal.

No, it’s okay. I was actually confused about it. My post, thankfully, managed to serve a dual purpose.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:32:02pm

re: #286 Targetpractice

*checks his chin for a goatee* Did I fall into the mirror universe while I wasn’t watching?

One of my Minions was talking about the lack of opportunities for promotion, and joked that to get promoted he’d have to kill me.

I said, “As long as you don’t grow a goatee, I’m probably safe.”

He laughed. He knew what I mean.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:32:18pm

re: #289 Teukka

The kind which is only a problem with the GOP base?

Ah! Footage of him being saying Hillary would make a great president!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:32:34pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:33:03pm

re: #291 Blind Frog Belly White

One of my Minions was talking about the lack of opportunities for promotion, and joked that to get promoted he’d have to kill me.

I said, “As long as you don’t grow a goatee, I’m probably safe.”

He laughed. He knew what I mean.

You should be careful. That makes him dangerous. He is genre savvy.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:33:17pm

re: #283 HappyWarrior

Hate to give him credit but he’s strikingly consistent in how critical of Trump’s actions. You can argue he’s trying to protect the conservative brand but his take ain’t wrong.

I don’t know what he’s doing. He’s def anti trump. But it’s just bizarre seeing woke every single GOP fucktard who spent years and sometimes decades tearing America down over Republican orthodoxy.

It’s bizzaro world.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:33:42pm

re: #290 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

No, it’s okay. I was actually confused about it. My post, thankfully, managed to serve a dual purpose.

Yeah it’s weird. I think it helps he’s out of office but that doesn’t explain everything. He wouldn’t be acting out of character to engage in IOKIYAR

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:34:03pm

re: #277 MsJ

I’m confused by the world we inhabit.

Basically, the bar is so fucking low that even people that once seemed entirely without scruples are suddenly, by comparison, reasonable.

Like, imagine one of those old dating games where you question three dates and pick one.

Except one of them is Count Orlock from Nosferatu, and he’s completely open about he’s only on a dating game to find a female victim to drain of her blood and convert her into his eternal slave.

And the second contestant is merely an MRA type wearing a ridiculous hat who’s like, “hey maybe that sexy lady doesn’t want to be a night creature reeking of grave dirt…but also hey baby do you put out on the first date because you’re not so hot you can get away with leading a guy on”

Reasonable…by comparison.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:34:17pm

re: #293 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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This is fine.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:35:11pm

re: #297 The Ghost of a Flea

Basically, the bar is so fucking low that even people that once seemed entirely without scruples are suddenly, by comparison, reasonable.

Like, imagine one of those old dating games where you question three dates and pick one.

Except one of them is Count Orlock from Nosferatu, and he’s completely open about he’s only a dating game to find a female victim to drain of her blood and convert her into his eternal slave.

And the second contestant is merely an MRA type wearing a ridiculous hat who’s like, “hey maybe that sexy lady doesn’t want to be a night creature reeking of grave dirt…but also hey baby do you put out on the first date because you’re not so hot you can get away with leading a guy on”

Reasonable…by comparison.

Iunno. Given the choice between the two of them, I think I’d pick the vampire. At least he’s up front about wanting to suck the life from you.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:36:23pm

re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That occurred to me right after I hit “post it.”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:37:01pm

re: #295 MsJ

I don’t know what he’s doing. He’s def anti trump. But it’s just bizarre seeing woke every single GOP fucktard who spent years and sometimes decades tearing America down over Republican orthodoxy.

It’s bizzaro world.

TBH I dunno much about Walsh but my understanding is he was fairly moderate by the standards of his district before he ran so maybe the whole TP act was political opportunism. I’d gladly have him directing his justified ire Trump’s way tho even if he is a cynical asshole.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:37:55pm

re: #293 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Shorter version of DOJ filing: President Talks out of his ass doesn’t know what he’s talking about and therefore can’t be taken at his word on anything.

This is extremely worrisome as the DOJ position is now that you can’t take Trump at his word essentially every time he talks or tweets, which is extremely dangerous and shows that he’s not in the right frame of mind. Yet the GOP continues backing the tangerine toddler because of the R after his name, and that the GOP bigot brigade deplorable base is in lockstep with Trump’s white nationalist agenda.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:37:57pm

re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Iunno. Given the choice between the two of them, I think I’d pick the vampire. At least he’s up front about wanting to suck the life from you.

Why I can tolerate the far right senators more than I can the fakes like Sasse, Rubio, & Collins and Flake too.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:38:01pm

re: #300 The Ghost of a Flea

That occurred to me right after I hit “post it.”

Great minds, etc., etc.

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Teukka  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:38:07pm

And the excitement of the night on this side of the pond. Nazis from “Nationell Ungdom” (Nordic Resistance Movement youth wing) clash with counterprotestors in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. Them Nazis were commemorating Karl XII who died 300 years ago. Every 30th November…

Iframe

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:39:32pm

re: #293 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Jimminy H. Cricket! “Pay no attention to what the President of the United States says. he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”, says the Department of Justice.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:40:23pm

re: #306 Blind Frog Belly White

Jimminy H. Cricket! “Pay no attention to what the President of the United States says. he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”, says the Department of Justice.

Pretty awesome message to be sending everybody. “The President of the United States is a blithering buffoon and should not be heeded.” Oo-kay, well, just another day ending in -y to me!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:41:09pm

re: #306 Blind Frog Belly White

Jimminy H. Cricket! “Pay no attention to what the President of the United States says. he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”, says the Department of Justice.

And the GOP wants us to think this is acceptable.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:42:41pm

re: #307 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Pretty awesome message to be sending everybody. “The President of the United States is a blithering buffoon and should not be heeded.” Oo-kay, well, just another day ending in -y to me!

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…”

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:42:48pm

re: #301 HappyWarrior

TBH I dunno much about Walsh but my understanding is he was fairly moderate by the standards of his district before he ran so maybe the whole TP act was political opportunism. I’d gladly have him directing his justified ire Trump’s way tho even if he is a cynical asshole.

That’s neither my understanding or my recollection of him. At all. He was a TPer, big time… Freedom Caucus, Gadsden flag, the whole bit.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:43:18pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:43:23pm

re: #309 Blind Frog Belly White

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…”

Except in this case, there is no man behind the curtain. It’s a petulant 3-year-old child with a dirty diaper.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:44:16pm

re: #310 MsJ

That’s neither my understanding or my recollection of him. At all. He was a TPer, big time… Freedom Caucus, Gadsden flag, the whole bit.

Yeah, he was a full right-wing asshole. There’s a reason why his tweet is breaking all our brains.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:44:37pm

re: #310 MsJ

That’s neither my understanding or my recollection of him. At all. He was a TPer, big time… Freedom Caucus, Gadsden flag, the whole bit.

I’m talking before he got elected to Congress. Not sure what he did in Illinois before 2010.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:46:00pm

re: #313 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Yeah, he was a full right-wing asshole. There’s a reason why his tweet is breaking all our brains.

Oh I know he was in Congress but what was he doing before then? He wouldn’t be the first politician to pander like that for political gain.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:47:29pm

re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Come the fuck on and I got news for people who don’t like talking the Nazis but the Nazis became the Holocaust through a process not a singular event.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:48:31pm

I should probably be less petty, but—

did he make a comment about “blending in” with that fucking obvious rug on?

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:49:20pm

re: #316 HappyWarrior

Also that process was not unique or isolated such that it could not be compared to what came before or after.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:51:03pm

re: #314 HappyWarrior

I’m talking before he got elected to Congress. Not sure what he did in Illinois before 2010.

Nothing. He was a nothing.

Also, WHY DOES MY PHONE HATE THE WORD NOR? Fucking stupid thing.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:51:53pm

re: #317 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

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I should probably be less petty, but—

did he make a comment about “blending in” with that fucking obvious rug on?

Okay Generic White Guy 456789

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:52:35pm

re: #319 MsJ

Nothing. He was a nothing.

Also, WHY DOES MY PHONE HATE THE WORD NOR? Fucking stupid thing.

Thought he may have been a state delegate or something tbh.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:53:24pm

re: #318 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

Also that process was not unique or isolated such that it could not be compared to what came before or after.

Right. Certainly repeated itself in the Balkans and Rwanda.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:53:56pm

re: #280 ObserverArt

Nice. Thanks for that mars rover image. The surface is pretty wild. I’m trying to understand the erosion (?) in the surface rocks, etc.

Yeah, you can zoom in and it’s quite noticeable. Wind?

Oh, and I just saw Col. Ralph Peters on Ari as a young rock guitarist—looked a bit like a young Joe Perry.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:57:00pm
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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:57:33pm

re: #322 HappyWarrior

Shit, look at what Britain did in Kenya just seven years after WW2.

Setting out Nazi Germany’s as different from colonialism rather than a natural extension of colonizer “logic” was a cynical move.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:57:56pm

re: #323 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, you can zoom in and it’s quite noticeable. Wind?

Oh, and I just saw Col. Ralph Peters on Ari as a young rock guitarist—looked a bit like a young Joe Perry.

Yes, wind. Mars gets vicious sand storms on occasion. These have been known to temporarily disable the rovers (until another wind storm comes along to clean their solar panels off).

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 3:59:57pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:00:58pm

re: #321 HappyWarrior

Thought he may have been a state delegate or something tbh.

Nope. He was a teacher or social worker (neither job which screams tea party) or something. He ran on stunts and managed a win over the Dem by less than 300 votes. I liked Bean, the incumbent, too.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:02:53pm
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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:03:03pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

“Thank God the police arrested this prostitute I was fucking…”

“…and those other prostitutes who were paying me for room rental and security.”

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:03:41pm

re: #329 gocart mozart

Wtf was that I just read?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:04:32pm

re: #331 MsJ

Wtf was that I just read?

Covfefe.

Also, it appears that the distinguished Mr. Giuliani has been hitting the sauce. Heavily. I hear it’s endemic among current and former Trump staffers and confidantes.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:05:34pm
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BigPapa  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:05:46pm

I remember when I thought Ghouliani was one of the Reasonable Conservatives.

WTF was wrong with me? Yikes. Ick. Yech.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:06:16pm

re: #334 BigPapa

I remember when I thought Ghouliani was one of the Reasonable Conservatives.

WTF was wrong with me? Yikes. Ick. Yech.

Oh, relax. It could be worse - you could be me… I once thought Sarah Palin was smart.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:06:29pm

re: #332 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Covfefe.

Also, it appears that the distinguished Mr. Giuliani has been hitting the sauce. Heavily. I hear it’s endemic among current and former Trump staffers and confidantes.

That’s what I thought. 🙄

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:09:57pm

re: #329 gocart mozart

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This is “glasses really askew” Rudy.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:11:05pm
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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:15:32pm

LMAO!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:16:02pm

re: #339 MsJ

Ohhhh Myyyy…

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:16:12pm

Trump has no idea that in exchange for losing manufacturing we exported our pollution to China.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:16:38pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:17:41pm

The last president who trusted his gut more than reason got us into our forever war.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:18:04pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:18:59pm

re: #343 Barefoot Grin

The last president who trusted his gut more than reason got us into our forever war.

To be fair, similar to our current President*, that President had more guts than brains. It’s kind of a (heh) no-brainer.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:20:05pm

re: #328 MsJ

Nope. He was a teacher or social worker (neither job which screams tea party) or something. He ran on stunts and managed a win over the Dem by less than 300 votes. I liked Bean, the incumbent, too.

I see.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:25:33pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:27:44pm
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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:30:25pm

re: #341 Barefoot Grin

Trump has no idea that in exchange for losing manufacturing we exported our pollution to China.

We also got jobs in service industries that take a much less physical toll on the body, allowing people (combined with the exported pollution) to live longer, healthier lives.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:32:32pm
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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:34:27pm

re: #339 MsJ

LMAO!

Dominatrix specializes in turning ‘white, right-wing men’ into socialists -

They would do anything for love.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:35:07pm

re: #351 Decatur Deb

They would do anything for love.

But they won’t do that.

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BigPapa  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:38:14pm

Doggo got gamez

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KGxvi  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:40:35pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

Let me translate that for you:

it is possible that Bob Mueller is doing conservatives a favor by rounding up so many of the charlatans and grifters within the conservative movement.

What he means is:

Bob Mueller is helping me and some other conservatives by locking up guys who aren’t as good at this as I am, meaning there are more marks, er, conservative consumers of information, that I can sell my wares to.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:43:24pm

re: #354 KGxvi

Let me translate that for you:

it is possible that Bob Mueller is doing conservatives a favor by rounding up so many of the charlatans and grifters within the conservative movement.

What he means is:

Bob Mueller is helping me and some other conservatives by locking up guys who aren’t as good at this as I am, meaning there are more marks, er, conservative consumers of information, that I can sell my wares to.

Sounds right.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:50:08pm
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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:52:40pm

re: #353 BigPapa

Doggo got gamez

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The “blur” made me laugh because goodness knows we can’t have them showing!

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:56:43pm

BOOM. Now if the Flyers could only be as good…..

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 4:58:12pm
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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:01:12pm

re: #280 ObserverArt

Nice. Thanks for that mars rover image. The surface is pretty wild. I’m trying to understand the erosion (?) in the surface rocks, etc.

I’m not saying it was aliens …

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:02:29pm

re: #284 Joe Bacon 🌹

What Kompromat does Putin have on Hannity?

Cohen knows.

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:06:31pm

re: #357 William Lewis

The “blur” made me laugh because goodness knows we can’t have them showing!

Thought it was my glasses

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:10:05pm

re: #284 Joe Bacon 🌹

What Kompromat does Putin have on Hannity?

What makes you think Hannity needs kompromat to be driven to lick authoritarian boots?

A lot of these folks want an authoritarian system, so long as it enforces their whims and doesn’t gore their oxen.

Same with Trump people in general. They aren’t deluded, they literally think the ideal system is one where they get to do whatever they want…hurt who they want, fuck how they want…while “other” people are tightly controlled.

There’s no depth. It’s basic power/sex stuff tarted up with a coating of cultural tropes in hues of “tradition.” The stuff they believe in, they alter at will to suit what they want in the moment. Which is why all of their explanatory constructs—their religion, their economic models, their social models—deliberately include a contempt for critique or analysis.

Hence the endless self-contradiction that they refuse to acknowledge as such.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:12:05pm

re: #363 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

What makes you think Hannity needs kompromat to be driven to lick authoritarian boots?

A lot of these folks want an authoritarian system, so long as it enforces their whims and doesn’t gore their oxen.

Same with Trump people in general. They aren’t deluded, they literally think the ideal system is one where they get to do whatever they want…hurt who they want, fuck how they want…while “other” people are tightly controlled.

There’s no depth. It’s basic power/sex stuff tarted up with a coating of cultural tropes with hues of “tradition.” The stuff they believe in, they alter at will to suit what they want in the moment. Which is why all of their explanatory constructs—their religion, their economic models, their social models—deliberately include a contempt for critique or analysis.

Hence the endless self-contradiction that they refuse to acknowledge as such.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:17:27pm

Do I win the obscure reference award?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:18:22pm

re: #365 lawhawk

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:20:17pm

re: #365 lawhawk

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:21:43pm

re: #363 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

What makes you think Hannity needs kompromat to be driven to lick authoritarian boots?

A lot of these folks want an authoritarian system, so long as it enforces their whims and doesn’t gore their oxen.

Same with Trump people in general. They aren’t deluded, they literally think the ideal system is one where they get to do whatever they want…hurt who they want, fuck how they want…while “other” people are tightly controlled.

There’s no depth. It’s basic power/sex stuff tarted up with a coating of cultural tropes in hues of “tradition.” The stuff they believe in, they alter at will to suit what they want in the moment. Which is why all of their explanatory constructs—their religion, their economic models, their social models—deliberately include a contempt for critique or analysis.

Hence the endless self-contradiction that they refuse to acknowledge as such.

Scary to say that that was very well said.

Sadly, that personality type seems to be the most driven and has the ability to appeal to the emotional urges of others, take over and seize power. Goddamn the rules, hence our violent history.

All good democracies die with a populist emperor taking over.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:23:26pm

re: #365 lawhawk

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re: #365 lawhawk

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:33:20pm

re: #365 lawhawk

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:33:38pm

re: #344 Dave In Austin

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KerFuFFler  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:34:57pm

re: #215 MsJ

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Don’t they call this “death by chocolate”?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:35:05pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:35:49pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:37:06pm

re: #378 Charles Johnson

Louis Farrakhan has always been somewhat of a Louis cannon, to be perfectly blunt. He doesn’t seem to be so much of a political partisan as a political opportunist, or perhaps a political leech, even.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:38:14pm

re: #376 Charles Johnson

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I never looked up to him even in my most left wing years. He’s always been seen as a kook especially in mainstream left wing circles.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:38:57pm

re: #380 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Louis Farrakhan has always been somewhat of a Louis cannon, to be perfectly blunt. He doesn’t seem to be so much of a political partisan as a political opportunist, or perhaps a political leech, even.

What the right won’t tell you is the NOI actually advocated for a capitalist like approach in contrast with MLK’s more socialist beliefs.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:40:44pm

re: #379 Charles Johnson

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Yep a two minute Huff Post video has them furious even though I’ve been wondering why Santa was a jerk in that story for awhlie. I guess they needed conflict but Andy Rooney’s Santa Claus in Santa Claus Is Coming to Down or the Santa in Frosty the Snowman is more in line with the big fella I imagine. FNC really needs to stop doing this shit. The phrase tongue in cheek means nothing to them. I love the Rankin Bass cartoons btw even if they are a little dated.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:41:00pm

re: #380 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I once worked with a drummer who shall remain nameless, but he was a really good drummer, and seemed like a good guy in general. We were out to dinner with one of the sound engineers who was Jewish and this drummer suddenly came out with a whole bunch of antisemitic shit, citing Louis Farrakhan.

That dinner really sucked, and I never saw that drummer the same way again.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:42:01pm

Funny thing though 80 years ago when Montgomery Ward devised Rudolph, I bet there were plenty of Christian conservatives who accused Ward of “politicizing” Christmas by having a story about a bullied reindeer who ends up a hero.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:42:11pm

re: #364 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I’d say it’s more “If I can’t have you, no one will!”

Basically, the narcissist shit that on the surface can look like love or principles, because it structures relationships on other people, but is ultimately about the “leader” figure refusing to see his family/followers/subjects as beings separate from himself who deserve autonomy and should be loved even as they make their own, different decisions. It’s a power dynamic…purely vertical… disguised as an emotional exchange…generally more horizontal.

In people with severely impaired empathy (or who kill their empathy) this base assumption leads to turning on and hurting one’s “loved ones” if they fail to obey…or fail to succeed at whatever insane shit is demanded of them, which is seen as a failure to obey…because other people only matter in that they are functioning as subordinates and proxies. It’s easiest to provide examples for the most extreme cases because they’re so well documented—family annihilator John List; cult leader Jim Jones; Hitler’s ranting, self-pitying finale that resulted in the Nero Order—but what we’re talking about is the basic drive of every abusive shit husband/partner/parent out there. This is why I keep referencing domestic abuse tactics when talking about Trump and the coterie of people that back him.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:43:38pm

re: #384 Charles Johnson

I once worked with a drummer who shall remain nameless, but he was a really good drummer, and seemed like a good guy in general. We were out to dinner with one of the sound engineers who was Jewish and this drummer suddenly came out with a whole bunch of antisemitic shit, citing Louis Farrakhan.

That dinner really sucked, and I never saw that drummer the same way again.

A different experience but I went out drinking one night with a friend and some of his cowokers. I remember this because I ordered a Leffe and we had a conversation about how we liked the Belgians brews. Seemed like a nice enough guy and then we became social media friends and he showed himself to be a kook.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:44:35pm

re: #373 Eventual Carrion

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:44:39pm
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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:45:10pm

These past few days, Charlie has been live Tweeting old Star Trek episodes

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:45:10pm

Their whole argument against liberals is that we push diversity. That seems kind of the opposite of what Farrakhan wants. I’m not saying he’s right wing necessarily but he uh is more closer to their worldview than he is ours.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:45:12pm

re: #378 Charles Johnson

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Farrakhan is like PETA, something that every wingnut thinks we love but most liberals are totally ignorant of or against.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:45:45pm

re: #384 Charles Johnson

I once worked with a drummer who shall remain nameless, but he was a really good drummer, and seemed like a good guy in general. We were out to dinner with one of the sound engineers who was Jewish and this drummer suddenly came out with a whole bunch of antisemitic shit, citing Louis Farrakhan.

That dinner really sucked, and I never saw that drummer the same way again.

And that’s exactly the angle the Right uses to try to pin Farakkhan on the Left, because then they can claim that WELL LIBRULS ARE THE ANTI-SEMITIC PARTY BECAUSE WHARRGARBL LOUIS FARRAKHAN WORD SALAD DERP.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:45:59pm

re: #389 MsJ

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:46:53pm

re: #381 HappyWarrior

I never looked up to him even in my most left wing years. He’s always been seen as a kook especially in mainstream left wing circles.

Never. And I’m a life long leftie. Farrakhan had always been an asshole. From the first time I’d ever heard of him.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:47:18pm

re: #384 Charles Johnson

I once worked with a drummer who shall remain nameless, but he was a really good drummer, and seemed like a good guy in general. We were out to dinner with one of the sound engineers who was Jewish and this drummer suddenly came out with a whole bunch of antisemitic shit, citing Louis Farrakhan.

That dinner really sucked, and I never saw that drummer the same way again.

Story of my life.

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retired cynic  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:47:36pm

An artist named Vernessa Himmler draws the funniest cat cartoons!

buzzfeed.com?

from Buzzfeed but just fun.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:48:38pm

re: #392 bd(soros funded)

Farrakhan is like PETA, something that every wingnut thinks we love but most liberals are totally ignorant of or against.

Shit, I know plenty of animal rights people who hate PETA. These people also think the more flashy gay pride people are representative of every gay person too. I don’t mind them tbh but the idea that every gay person is the same is very prevalent in right wing circles especially because they think forcing “manly” and “macho” activities on gay men will “cure” them of being gay. Now I’m not gay but I would think activities that forced me to me to be in close proximity with other men especially men who would have more flesh exposed than normal would kind of mess with my hormones but I’m only saying.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:49:56pm

re: #388 Barefoot Grin

I LOL’ed. Last week I picked up my dog’s poop with parts of his cheap tug rope a friend gave us. Fiber!

Literally!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:50:05pm

re: #395 MsJ

Never. And I’m a life long leftie. Farrakhan had always been an asshole. From the first time I’d ever heard of him.

Ditto. I think this is coming out a desperate need to vindicate that Trump is beloved by David Trump. Farkahhan hates the mainstream left in this country. These dumbasses can’t think he would seriously associate himself with a party that made Debbie Wasserman Schultz its party chair.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:50:31pm
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A Mom Anon  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:50:53pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:51:04pm

re: #365 lawhawk

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:51:30pm

re: #393 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

And that’s exactly the angle the Right uses to try to pin Farakkhan on the Left, because then they can claim that WELL LIBRULS ARE THE ANTI-SEMITIC PARTY BECAUSE WHARRGARBL LOUIS FARRAKHAN WORD SALAD DERP.

I liked when they accused us of using Alinsky tactics. I honest to God because I’m a former English minor got him mixed up with Saul Bellows. I’m aware that both HRC and Obama studied him but Saul Alinsky has had no impact on my philosophy and approach.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:51:32pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:52:29pm

re: #403 teleskiguy

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:53:01pm

re: #406 HappyWarrior

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:53:17pm

re: #405 Charles Johnson

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Mikey found out that Donald Trump is loyal only to Donald Trump in the end. Well Trump and whoever is kissing his ass hardest at the moment with money.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:53:40pm

re: #398 HappyWarrior

Shit, I know plenty of animal rights people who hate PETA. These people also think the more flashy gay pride people are representative of every gay person too. I don’t mind them tbh but the idea that every gay person is the same is very prevalent in right wing circles especially because they think forcing “manly” and “macho” activities on gay men will “cure” them of being gay. Now I’m not gay but I would think activities that forced me to me to be in close proximity with other men especially men who would have more flesh exposed than normal would kind of mess with my hormones but I’m only saying.

Everyone who knows about PETA, what they really stand for, hates them. People ignorant of their agenda and think they’re supporting animals in any way (other than killing them) are like HELL YEAH PETA!

Fucking evil organization.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:54:29pm

re: #302 lawhawk

…the GOP bigot brigade deplorable base is in lockstep goose step with Trump’s white nationalist agenda.

I think this is a more appropriate word.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:54:40pm

re: #407 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:54:50pm

I joined AO (After Obama)

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:56:04pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:57:23pm

re: #412 Dave In Austin

I joined AO (After Obama)

I think that was the case with a lot of us who have been more lifetime liberals.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:57:33pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:57:55pm

re: #379 Charles Johnson

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:58:23pm

re: #409 MsJ

Everyone who knows about PETA, what they really stand for, hates them. People ignorant of their agenda and think they’re supporting animals in any way (other than killing them) are like HELL YEAH PETA!

Fucking evil organization.

What I hate though is how people use PETA to belittle the legitimate cause of animal rights. I don’t feel anything hypocritical about eating meat and thinking the meat industry has problems.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:59:05pm

re: #342 Charles Johnson

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Putin looked into Trumps eyes and saw a sucker ready to be used.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:59:19pm

If the Trump admin were played to the tune of “In the air tonight” we’re currently at the point right before the drum break when shit gets real.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:59:38pm

re: #416 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 5:59:58pm

re: #398 HappyWarrior

Shit, I know plenty of animal rights people who hate PETA. These people also think the more flashy gay pride people are representative of every gay person too. I don’t mind them tbh but the idea that every gay person is the same is very prevalent in right wing circles especially because they think forcing “manly” and “macho” activities on gay men will “cure” them of being gay. Now I’m not gay but I would think activities that forced me to me to be in close proximity with other men especially men who would have more flesh exposed than normal would kind of mess with my hormones but I’m only saying.

Most people don’t realize the chasm between animal rights orgs (PETA for example) and animal welfare orgs (like the SPCA). PETA is death on animal welfare—that was the first plank of their platform at one of their conventions I read about: No compromise with animal welfare!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:00:23pm

re: #418 nines09

I wonder if W is thankful to Trump for making him seem like a very competent President?

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:00:57pm

re: #416 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:01:29pm

re: #422 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if W is thankful to Trump for making him seem like a very competent President?

You bet he is. He’s had me missing W and if you knew me from 2001-2005 especially, you’d be shocked since I had a couple years where I refused to call him President Bush because I was and TBH I still am disgusted by the shitnaggians pulled in Florida in 2000.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:02:19pm

re: #422 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if W is thankful to Trump for making him seem like a very competent President?

If Nixon was still alive he’d be doing victory laps.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:03:26pm

re: #425 nines09

If Nixon was still alive he’d be doing victory laps.

“Okay, I was a crook, but I wasn’t a crook like this guy!”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:03:39pm

re: #421 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Most people don’t realize the chasm between animal rights orgs (PETA for example) and animal welfare orgs (like the SPCA). PETA is death on animal welfare—that was the first plank of their platform at one of their conventions I read about: No compromise with animal welfare!

It’s frustrating because PETA if they grew the hell up could bring attention to some legitimate causes. But they’re intolerant towards anyone who doesn’t treat eating meat like murder. And because of that, it allows idiots like FNC to label every vegetarian or vegan in with them even though most of the ones I’ve known are pretty cool about me eating meat. I obviously try to respect if I’m treating for dinner and don’t go with someone heavy in meat but they never make me feel bad if I get a meat entree or app.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:03:48pm

re: #381 HappyWarrior

I never looked up to him even in my most left wing years. He’s always been seen as a kook especially in mainstream left wing circles.

Malcom was an interesting man. Louis? Not so much.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:04:28pm

re: #426 Eclectic Cyborg

Chuck Todd would have him on speed dial.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:04:47pm

re: #380 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Louis Farrakhan has always been somewhat of a Louis cannon, to be perfectly blunt. He doesn’t seem to be so much of a political partisan as a political opportunist, or perhaps a political leech, even.

Wince. I just now saw what you did there. Boo Hiss because I should have thought of it :D

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:04:49pm

re: #425 nines09

If Nixon was still alive he’d be doing victory laps.

“Mr. Trump? I’m your, uhh, biggest fan, sir. Thanks to you, I can now tell the American people that truly, I am not a crook.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:05:21pm

re: #430 William Lewis

Wince. I just now saw what you did there. Boo Hiss because I should have thought of it :D

Held back a little bit because as far as I know, his first name is pronounced in the French style.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:05:24pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:05:34pm

re: #426 Eclectic Cyborg

“Okay, I was a crook, but I wasn’t a crook like this guy!”

“I was a crook but I was a competent crook goddamn it and I actually had ideas.” The thing about Nixon is as wrong as he was in how he acted I do think he wanted to advance not only American interests but interests that would prepare the world for a world after the USSR. He fucked up often than not because he and Kissinger were short-sighted but he was right to see China as a place to watch in the future and he was one of the first people to see that.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:05:47pm

re: #428 William Lewis

Malcom was an interesting man. Louis? Not so much.

Ditto.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:07:27pm

Mental health clinic opens inside a Walmart in Texas

Other medical services are already available at Walmart, such as eye exams. But is a retail setting appropriate for mental health care?

You can go to Walmart to buy toothpaste and shampoo, order glasses or fulfill a drug prescription. Now, some customers can also get therapy.

A new outpatient mental health clinic has opened inside a Walmart store in Carrollton, Texas, north of Dallas. People can walk in, call or make an appointment online to see a licensed mental health professional about problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles or the stresses of everyday living.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:08:32pm

re: #432 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

“Mr. Trump? I’m your, uhh, biggest fan, sir. Thanks to you, I can now tell the American people that truly, I am not a crook.”

Nixon on a phone in…..
“I’d like to thank you Mr. President for making all my crimes seem so………..small by comparison. Again, thank you.”
Muffled laughter in the background, car doors slamming, peeling rubber with Satisfaction by the Stones playing off in the distance.

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MsJ  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:08:45pm

re: #427 HappyWarrior

It’s frustrating because PETA if they grew the hell up could bring attention to some legitimate causes. But they’re intolerant towards anyone who doesn’t treat eating meat like murder. And because of that, it allows idiots like FNC to label every vegetarian or vegan in with them even though most of the ones I’ve known are pretty cool about me eating meat. I obviously try to respect if I’m treating for dinner and don’t go with someone heavy in meat but they never make me feel bad if I get a meat entree or app.

It’s more than that. They’d rather see dead pets than anyone owing pets. They steal pets from yards and kill them (they killed some little girls Chihuahua, took it from the yard right near their own office). They release dogs from their crates at dog shows (one got run over and died). They’re absolutely terrorists.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:09:00pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:09:22pm

Trump: He lacks Nixon’s intelligence, lacks Reagan’s charm, and W’s ability to be misunderestimated.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:09:53pm

re: #440 MsJ
blockquote>It’s more than that. They’d rather see dead pets than anyone owing pets. They steal pets from yards and kill them (they killed some little girls Chihuahua, took it from the yard right near their own office). They release dogs from their crates at dog shows (one got run over and died). They’re absolutely terrorists.

Yep that too. They are. And they tarnish a good cause with their shit fits.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:10:46pm
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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:10:52pm

re: #437 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Mental health clinic opens inside a Walmart in Texas

Bogus Psychiatrists

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:11:00pm

re: #439 nines09

Nixon on a phone in…..
“I’d like to thank you Mr. President for making all my crimes seem so………..small by comparison. Again, thank you.”
Muffled laughter in the background, car doors slamming, peeling rubber with Satisfaction by the Stones playing off in the distance.

It is interesting though because Trump loves to tell about the time Nixon wrote him that Pat said nice things about him. Nixon is an interesting one for sure.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:11:31pm

re: #444 gocart mozart

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:12:36pm

re: #447 HappyWarrior

Trump loves to tell.
About sums it all up.

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gocart mozart  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:13:15pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:14:16pm

re: #450 gocart mozart

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:14:35pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

But of course, the FBI statistics are from The Gubmint, and thus untrustworthy.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:15:45pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

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Bullshit Dana. And I’d like to see you in an actual situation with a real active shooter and not some NRA fantasy where you’re the good gal with the gun rather than the stupid moron who knows nothing about guns but is just a spokesmodel for a shitty organization. BTW why aren’t you defending the poor guy that got killed in Alabama? Oh right. Your organization doesn’t care when responsible black gun owners get killed by the cops because you’re a bunch of racist assholes who need scary black men to keep your coffers flowing.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:17:15pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:17:55pm

When my first son graduated from middle school I took him to a U2 concert in Boston because he wanted to go and I really wanted to go (sorry, U2 haters). When my second son graduated last year the whole family went to see Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell on a double bill. He thought it was fine, but that wasn’t his thing. His equivalent now of U2 would be Bob Dylan, but he found out that Lindsey Buckingham will be playing nearby soon. So I’m taking by son to a Lindsey Buckingham concert, that I can’t really afford right before Christmas, but hey…..

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:19:38pm

re: #455 Charles Johnson

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Uh no I’d rather watch Doc McStuffins. It’s more believable than anything Hannity has ever had to say.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:19:49pm

re: #455 Charles Johnson

1984 - Crazy Eddie

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:20:23pm

Oh my fuck. QAnon freakazoid nut sandwiches are freaking out tonight.

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Jay C  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:20:51pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

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Hey, maybe Dana Muhgunz is right - if you classify police, sheriffs, troopers, etc. as “ armed citizens”, her figures might be close to correct!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:21:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:22:17pm
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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:22:51pm

Throwback.

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:22:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:23:16pm

re: #462 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He doesn’t like dogs. Not a surprise that killing dolphins would be cool with him too.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:23:49pm

re: #464 Charles Johnson

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Ah is that what the New American is. Thanks. Good to know if I see in my FB feed in the future.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:24:23pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:24:24pm

re: #461 Backwoods_Sleuth

Got to love a good bit of racist retaliation.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:24:42pm

re: #460 Jay C

Hey, maybe Dana Muhgunz is right - if you classify police, sheriffs, troopers, etc. as “ armed citizens”, her figures might be close to correct!

Wait, wait people not only properly trained with guns but how to deal with crisis’s know how to handle guns more responsibly than some guy who deemed himself a militia. What kind of nonsense is that!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:25:35pm

re: #467 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Remember this the next time some RWer calls the French “pussies” and remind them that Trump has had his lips firmly planted on the prince’s royal ass.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:25:35pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:26:31pm

I hope the next Democratic President kills those fucking Tarifffs on Day 1.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:26:33pm

re: #471 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You can tell he doesn’t respect him. He’d call him Mr. President if he did and I’m glad because Trump doesn’t deserve Trudeau’s respect at all.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:27:08pm

re: #472 Eclectic Cyborg

I hope the next Democratic President kills those fucking Tarifffs on Day 1.

All the more reason why Bernie shouldn’t be nominated and why while I like him Sherrod Brown wouldn’t be a good idea either.

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ipsos  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:28:11pm

Since lawhawk is hanging ‘round these parts, maybe he can answer the question I’ve been pondering:

If the president and VP both get tossed out of office, does the then-current Speaker fill the full remainder of the term? Or is it that the duties of the presidency go to whoever’s in the speaker’s chair?

Which is to say… if Cheeto REALLY fucks up in the next few weeks in a way that would also take Pence with him, is there any incentive for Republicans to get him gone before 1/3/19 so they can install Ryan instead of putting Pelosi in the big chair?

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:28:56pm

Gahhh! A cousin who is a confirmed BernieBro had a FB conversation on the 2020 election. She was enthusiastically promoting Bernie, when a friend of hers intervened and suggested that Bernie was too old and would be defeated because of age and the association of socialism with communism. I supported the age contention — saying that the Democrats need someone younger. The younger person that then came up for 2020? Tulsi Gabbard!! What is wrong with these people? They are not in their 20’s or 30’s — but in their 40’s or 50’s. Tulsi?????

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:29:49pm

It would be rather poetic justice if Trump and Pence get the boot and we end up with a woman President.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:30:35pm

re: #476 Hecuba’s daughter

Gahhh! A cousin who is a confirmed BernieBro had a FB conversation on the 2020 election. She was enthusiastically promoting Bernie, when a friend of hers intervened and suggested that Bernie was too old and would be defeated because of age and the association of socialism with communism. I supported the age contention — saying that the Democrats need someone younger. The younger person that then came up for 2020? Tulsi Gabbard!! What is wrong with these people? They are not in their 20’s or 30’s — but in their 40’s or 50’s. Tulsi?????

Ask your cousin what stands out about Tulsi without mentioning she supported Bernie and her military record. Tulsi is really unimpressive to me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:30:59pm

re: #476 Hecuba’s daughter

I really think Beto could do it. A ticket with him and Kamala Harris would be awesome.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:32:02pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:32:12pm

re: #479 Eclectic Cyborg

I really think Beto could do it. A ticket with him and Kamala Harris would be awesome.

I really like the idea too. For some reason the self fancied progressive than thou have a stick in their ass about Kamala. I guess because she’s actually liked by a lot of establishment forces because she’s not a totally self promoting ass like a certain guy from Vermont.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:32:30pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:33:27pm

Oh yeah.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:34:00pm

One of my least favorite phrases: “Everyone is so offended easily these days.” Usually uttered by people who grew up when it being showed that couples shared the same bed was too controversial.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:34:55pm

re: #483 Charles Johnson

Oh yeah.

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Yeah okay keep on telling yourself that chief and that FNC is anything but a suck on Trump’s teat network. BTW are these people going to want a Deep State when we get a Democratic President?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:36:30pm

re: #458 nines09

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There’s a whole cohort of us for whom “Crazy Eddie” has a whole other meaning….

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:36:46pm

re: #401 Charles Johnson

I think there’s a bunch who see a chance at derivative opportunities to do their own using and abusing.

They imagine they’ll never be on the down side of an abuse dynamic because they’re (1) sheltering under someone “strong” that they please enough to not get punished; (2) they’re one of the smart people that will eventually rise in the use/abuse org chart and thus be even less vulnerable. Basically, they’re the Druges in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange; schemers, idiots, and cowards girding themselves by following someone especially cruel, gambling that the cruelty won’t point towards them as long as there’s easier prey, as long as they perform deference enough.

This is most naked in the people who delight in Trump’s rudeness, proud ignorance, and bald lying. They want that. License—doing stupid, or cruel, or random shit because people can’t stop you—is an assertion of power. That’s why rebellious cultural movements can bend reactionary…smashing and misbehaving to punch up simply becomes smashing and behaving to punch at whoever you get away with punching.

Look at Chris Cantwell the crying Nazi in specific and Charlottesville in general. These are people who are too weak to be true libertines—just do the shit they say damn the consequences, as de Sade did—so they develop social groups based around a hierarchy of perceived license…the dudes that rise are the ones that seem to get away with shit, to say the worst things and act like bastards freely, while they’re orbited by suckups and goons. How the ralliers behaved en masse, but with no audience, was bolder than how they behaved, en masse, but face to face with protesters. How they behaved faced with real pushback…from people fighting back, from the law…shows how their fragiity defines their activity.

(note: the Youtube video linking includes material alt-right broadcasters scrubbed after Charlottesville got them intense pushback. It depicts the distinct gulf between what was said at the points in the rally where no outsiders were present versus at other times. That the edgelords are at their boldest when “safe” should say something pretty damning about how they view “safe spaces”…but these are people who live by not engaging in introspection.)

Same thing with the Proud Boys. They exist to create license for one another: a homosocial group of dudes encouraging each other to be transgressive while claiming that its essentially masculine and right (correct and moral) because it’s essentially masculine. Yet each time it comes to the crunch, they makes choices that show how afraid they are, how dependent they are on a central figure that inspires that sense of what is permitted. Shit gets reals…a bunch hide…a bunch others attempt to “amend” the group’s behavior in a way that mimics the very social norms they’re putatively rejecting.

They’re cowards, and cowards are dangerous in their own way. These are men looking for an opening to do what they want…cruel, transgressive things they perceive they can’t get away with…and they make a choice to get under an individual or organization that allows and justifies that want. It’s not banality of evil, it’s opportunism of evil.

(This reflects what I said about ISIS awhile back, btw: at what point does the freebooting…the opportunity to rape, steal, and murder so long as it occurs within a minimally-constructed Islamic jurisprudence…become a draw, such that it’s not about religion but about free zone antisocial impulses?)

Thing is…all of the above applies to the Trump cronies in boardrooms and government offices. They’re smart enough to not lash out physically, but ultimately they’re still playing the same upwardly-mobile goon gambit: get in behind the bigger, crueler bastard and get what you can. There’s no loyalty, and not even a real coherent ideology. Hence the constant interpersonal intrigue and drama…everyone’s fighting for more scraps, and the best strategy is by managing the central figure who grants license. And you can see the ones shut out of the spoils system try and overturn the central power pyramid, but not the basic premise of a hierarchy of license and opportunism.

Case in point—Lindsey Graham. Unmoored from John McCain, you can watch Graham attempt to position himself under Trump, fail, and turn on Trump. There’s no guiding principles, just power calculations.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:38:52pm

re: #483 Charles Johnson

Damn, boss. You found another rich vein of derp! Block party!

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:43:16pm

re: #475 ipsos

Since lawhawk is hanging ‘round these parts, maybe he can answer the question I’ve been pondering:

If the president and VP both get tossed out of office, does the then-current Speaker fill the full remainder of the term? Or is it that the duties of the presidency go to whoever’s in the speaker’s chair?

Which is to say… if Cheeto REALLY fucks up in the next few weeks in a way that would also take Pence with him, is there any incentive for Republicans to get him gone before 1/3/19 so they can install Ryan instead of putting Pelosi in the big chair?

The Speaker would only become the President if there was no Vice President in place, after the President would presumably not finish their term. Basically, Pence would become President if Trump were to be gone, and Pence would nominate a replacement VP, to be confirmed by the Senate. Then in Pence were to be removed, this new VP would become President and would nominate a new VP to reconfirmed by the Senate. Pelosi only becomes President if Trump and Pence were gone in short order with no possible replacement named.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:43:47pm

re: #487 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

They imagine they’ll never be on the down side of an abuse dynamic because they’re (1) sheltering under someone “strong” that they please enough to not get punished; (2) they’re one of smart people that will eventually rise in the use/abuse org chart and thus be even less vulnerable. Basically, they’re the Druges in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange; schemers, idiots, and cowards girding themselves by following someone especially cruel, gambling that the cruelty won’t point towards them as long as there’s easier prey, as long as they perform deference enough.

Scut Farkas has been elected President and the Grover Dill Party supports him…

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:44:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:44:19pm

re: #490 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Scut Farkas has been elected President and the Grover Dill Party supports him…

You know Trump looks a little like Scut.

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Unshaken Defiance  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:45:06pm

Hey guys just celebrating a small success. I have been working on a new gold alloy in 12kt, 50% gold, 48 % silver and 2% proprietary stuff to harden it. The first prototype has been holding up well, now I have the second on. We inlaid pure gold and pure silver to symbolize the ingredients in the alloy. Great work by some friends here, pic at the link.

Posted here at my FB

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:45:30pm

re: #492 HappyWarrior

You know Trump looks a little like Scut.

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nines09  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:46:22pm

No sure if this was posted or not.
I’m going out to see a friends band handle the drunks.
Make sure you have the sound all the way up for full effect.
Still makes me laugh.
I’m easily amused I guess.
Later.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:46:44pm

re: #494 Eclectic Cyborg

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I want to see someone photoshop Donald’s head on Eric Cartman and HRC or Pelosi’s head on Wendy from South Park.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:48:14pm

Whoa Chiefs released Kareem Hunt after an assault allegation. Contrast that with the Washington team claiming the guy several times accused of domestic violence.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:49:19pm

re: #357 William Lewis

The “blur” made me laugh because goodness knows we can’t have them showing!

It’s on the camera. It doesn’t move with her and she has a top on.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:51:12pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:51:47pm

re: #499 teleskiguy

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And Torrey btw is a former teammate of Ray Rice.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:52:16pm

re: #459 teleskiguy

Oh my fuck. QAnon freakazoid nut sandwiches are freaking out tonight.

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The good sergeant is also sporting a “morale patch” incorporating a crossed axe and sickle. I can’t find it in a search of RWNJ symbolism.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:55:07pm

re: #459 teleskiguy

HappyWarrior, something for your Simpsons thesis.

Perhaps a prompt to prod the media into asking the damn question?

Important moment in time.
The picture will be the signifier.
The signifier will ‘force’ the Q.
The Q will be answered (((# WWG1WGA))).
Q# GreatAwakening # QAnon # QArmy # MAGA # Pence # Trump

The Simpsons: Jade Monkey

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:55:12pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:57:21pm

re: #502 teleskiguy

HappyWarrior, something for your Simpsons thesis.

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Video

Yeah works perfectly

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:57:29pm

re: #459 teleskiguy

Oh my fuck. QAnon freakazoid nut sandwiches are freaking out tonight.

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I BETTER PUT THE LOGO OF THIS SUPER SECRET UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT RIGHT ON THE FRONT OF MY UNIFORM!

At least Linus had a girl hang out with him when he was waiting on the Great Pumpkin.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:58:18pm

re: #503 Charles Johnson

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What the stupid Trump cultists don’t get is that kind of shit is why they don’t like him. Not some deep state conspiracy bullshit but being undermined constantly by him.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 6:59:20pm

re: #486 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

There’s a whole cohort of us for whom “Crazy Eddie” has a whole other meaning….

But on the gripping hand?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:00:36pm
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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:00:43pm

re: #459 teleskiguy

Oh my fuck. QAnon freakazoid nut sandwiches are freaking out tonight.

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If the Deep State was such a real threat then wouldn’t that deputy be scared to sport his Q in public?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:01:33pm

re: #501 Decatur Deb

The good sergeant is also sporting a “morale patch” incorporating a crossed axe and sickle. I can’t find it in a search of RWNJ symbolism.

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looks like a Minecraft merit badge…

(that’s a joke)

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:02:15pm

re: #509 bd(soros funded)

If the Deep State was such a real threat then wouldn’t that deputy be scared to sport his Q in public?

Shhhh don’t let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:02:33pm

re: #508 Charles Johnson

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I thought that we got rid of that John Birch Society when Queen Elizabeth ordered the downing KAL 007?

//?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:03:34pm

re: #512 bd(soros funded)

I thought that we got rid of that John Birch Society when Queen Elizabeth ordered the downing KAL 007?

//?

Guess she didn’t get them all. The Council on Foreign Relations’ hitmen slacked off.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:04:15pm

re: #513 HappyWarrior

Guess she didn’t get them all. The Council on Foreign Relations’ hitmen slacked off.

No wonder Soros is so pissed

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:05:15pm

re: #514 bd(soros funded)

No wonder Soros is so pissed

That’s because the Illumanti’s children flavored pizza from Comet Pizza is taking forever to arrive.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:09:42pm

re: #501 Decatur Deb

The good sergeant is also sporting a “morale patch” incorporating a crossed axe and sickle. I can’t find it in a search of RWNJ symbolism.

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THe only thing close I’ve found is a ax and sickle t-shirt ala hammer and sickle communism symbol That seems … unlikely. I wonder about Norse neopaganism though? Down another rabbit hole….

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:10:27pm

re: #515 HappyWarrior

That’s because the Illumanti’s children flavored pizza from Comet Pizza is taking forever to arrive.

That’s because Travis Kalanick of Uber was going to expose the Dem and RINO pedophile ring if he didn’t get a favorable IPO and big check from the Clinton Foundation, it is a miracle he is still alive

Obviously

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:11:51pm

re: #516 William Lewis

THe only thing close I’ve found is a ax and sickle t-shirt ala hammer and sickle communism symbol That seems … unlikely. I wonder about Norse neopaganism though? Down another rabbit hole….

It could be a special award from Sheriff Clarke?

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:12:17pm

This is a fucking travesty. Reminds me of Lisl Auman, a gross miscarriage of justice.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:13:29pm

re: #513 HappyWarrior

Guess she didn’t get them all. The Council on Foreign Relations’ hitmen slacked off.

I remember when the Birchers junked the CFR and then went after the Trilateral Commission going so far as to allege that Carter’s election to the Presidency was rigged by David Rockefeller…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:14:42pm

Yes, the Qwazy Qanons are out in full force on Facebook & Twitter.

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Single-handed sailor  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:15:45pm
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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:16:23pm

re: #501 Decatur Deb

The good sergeant is also sporting a “morale patch” incorporating a crossed axe and sickle. I can’t find it in a search of RWNJ symbolism.

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Down the Rabbit Hole!

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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:16:27pm

re: #510 Backwoods_Sleuth

looks like a Minecraft merit badge…

(that’s a joke)

Actually thought it might be some kind of gamer or cosplay bling. There is some use of axe and sickle in North Korean shtick, but wearing that would make no sense at all.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:18:28pm

re: #521 Joe Bacon 🌹

Yes, the Qwazy Qanons are out in full force on Facebook & Twitter.

Do you think I’m off in my theory that the only reason why Buckley distanced himself from them is because he was obsessed with conservatism’s image being as clean as possible?

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:18:52pm

When Jonah Goldberg is singing NPR’s praises…

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:18:59pm

re: #523 bd(soros funded)

Down the Rabbit Hole!

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Wonder what Pence thinks of that one Florida cop convicted of framing innocent people.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:19:12pm

re: #523 bd(soros funded)

Down the Rabbit Hole!

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Pence tweets and then deletes proof of Q! That was an obvious nod to us believers! Everything is right on track!!!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:21:26pm

re: #526 teleskiguy

When Jonah Goldberg is singing NPR’s praises…

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NRO and Jonah is smart enough to know Trump is probably done for at some point sooner rather than later. Sean and the Federalist just kiss Trump’s ass and believe everything he says.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:23:31pm

re: #529 HappyWarrior

Sean and the Federalist just kiss Trump’s ass and believe everything he says.

And for all we know are funded by the Saudi Royal Family and Vladimir Putin’s best oligarch friends.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:23:48pm
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freetoken  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:24:33pm

Here will be my nightly lament about what “flippers” are doing to San Diego…

And my increasingly sure belief that networks like HGTV are as responsible for our Trump-electing maladaptation compared to Fox News.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:24:33pm

re: #526 teleskiguy

To be fair, Jonah Goldberg appears on NPR from time to time, he’s got skin in the game.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:26:20pm

re: #533 teleskiguy

To be fair, Jonah Goldberg appears on NPR from time to time, he’s got skin in the game.

Gotta keep one foot in reality.

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gwangung  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:26:22pm
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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:27:15pm

I wonder if the patch could be Ono & Kama - ax and sickle as used in Japanese martial arts?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:28:54pm

re: #535 gwangung

Hm.

politico.com

Yeah but she said we’re capitalists deal with it so she’s awful. // Seriously, Nancy’s a genius at finding positions for people. She wants to build a strong caucus and I think she’s off to a great start.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:29:36pm

re: #534 bd(soros funded)

Gotta keep one foot in reality.

I follow him on Twitter, been reading his columns since I was a teenager. These days I ignore everything he publishes in National Review, where he’s editor-at-large. His stupid column still gets published from time to time in my local paper Vail Daily. But he has A+ dog and cat (but mostly dog) content on his Twitter, I’ll give him that.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:29:52pm

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dangerman  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:31:01pm

re: #519 teleskiguy

This is a fucking travesty. Reminds me of Lisl Auman, a gross miscarriage of justice.

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But what trump et al did, is “cool”. No big deal

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:32:12pm

re: #532 freetoken

Here will be my nightly lament about what “flippers” are doing to San Diego…

And my increasingly sure belief that networks like HGTV are as responsible for our Trump-electing maladaptation compared to Fox News.

Dunno how I linked to the wrong comment:

Even when Bob Vila left This Old House (Don’t get me wrong, Bob was pretty much a jerk), he was right that it had degenerated into Home Renovation with the Rich and Famous.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:32:32pm

re: #536 William Lewis

I wonder if the patch could be Ono & Kama - ax and sickle as used in Japanese martial arts?

Sickle is very eastern. Is an ono double-headed?

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:35:03pm

re: #542 Decatur Deb

Sickle is very eastern. Is an ono double-headed?

Usually it’s one big head and one more spike/hammer. So probably not. Ono

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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:35:12pm

re: #535 gwangung

Hm.

politico.com

Pelosi was organizing tiny caucuses when the other little girls were doing Barbie’s social calendar.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:35:20pm

re: #538 teleskiguy

I follow him on Twitter, been reading his columns since I was a teenager. These days I ignore everything he publishes in National Review, where he’s editor-at-large. His stupid column still gets published from time to time in my local paper Vail Daily. But he has A+ dog and cat (but mostly dog) content on his Twitter, I’ll give him that.

I do remember when he called out Coulter for equating post WWII Dems with Communists but then he wrote that stupid liberal fascism book.

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freetoken  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:37:31pm

re: #541 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Still, This Old House is light years closer to reality than HGTV shows, which are mostly a work, I think. And TOH still attempts to be educational, and the producers push high-quality work by professionals.

HGTV exists to keep people running to Home Depot and Lowes and similar stores, in the never ending cycle of buying a larger house because we need more stuff… and more stuff.

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Teukka  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:38:17pm

Early morning musics in this lizards lair:

Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:39:24pm

re: #529 HappyWarrior

NRO and Jonah is smart enough to know Trump is probably done for at some point sooner rather than later. Sean and the Federalist just kiss Trump’s ass and believe everything he says.

Jonah is working very hard pretending he was not part of the conservative Moonchild ceremony that created Trumpism.

It’s s a countdown until he starts shitting thinkpieces claiming that left fucked up and Real Conservatives don’t know how all these hybrid fish people social conservative nationalists took over the Republican Party and conservative groups worldwide.

All he knows is it didn’t have a thing to do with a systematic program of making deals with the fish people that live on the coast off Innsmouth where they provide larger catches in exchange for mating with humans the absolutely quackiest social conservative organizations so that their raving base could be convinced that tax cuts are what are required to keep White Jesus filled with sacred energy so he can fight off the Black Communazi Hippy hordes.

That his story and he’s sticking to it.

Also, I’m contractually required to observe that Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism and absolutely no posturing as a reasonable person now can compensate for his utterly cynical, counterfactual pornography in which nothing is the fault of conservatism and all liberalism is inherently tyrannical.

He wants to fuck Innsmouth fish people and have his outrage about the degenerate practice of fucking fish people in Innsmouth, yet continue to fuck fish people while blaming others for his own fish people fucking have his cake and eat it too.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:39:35pm

re: #545 HappyWarrior

I do remember when he called out Coulter for equating post WWII Dems with Communists but then he wrote that stupid liberal fascism book.

I read that stupid Liberal Fascism book thinking it was some sort of serious scholarly work. Read every page, some chapters twice. It’s a fucking overlong pamphlet for reactionary politics against *anything* liberal. It fucking compared vegan/vegetarian diets to NAZISM! And that Hillary Clinton was almost like HITLER! A disgusting book. Next time I shoot my rifles I’m going to use my copy for target practice, if I can find the piece of shit.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:40:19pm

re: #548 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

Jonah is working very hard pretending he was not part of the conservative Moonchild ceremony that created Trumpism.

It’s s a countdown until he starts shitting thinkpieces claiming that left fucked up and Real Conservatives don’t know how all these hybrid fish people social conservative nationalists took over the Republican Party and conservative groups worldwide.

All he knows is it didn’t have a thing to do with a systematic program of making deals with the fish people that live on the coast off Innsmouth where they provide larger catches in exchange for mating with humans the absolutely quackiest social conservative organizations so that their raving base could be convinced that tax cuts are what are required to keep White Jesus filled with sacred energy so he can fight off the Black Communazi Hippy hordes.

That his story and he’s sticking to it.

Also, I’m contractually required to observe that Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism and absolutely no posturing as a reasonable person now can compensate for his utterly cynical, counterfactual pornography in which nothing is the fault of conservatism and all liberalism is inherently tyrannical.

He wants to fuck Innsmouth fish people and have his outrage about the degenerate practice of fucking fish people in Innsmouth, yet continue to fuck fish people while blaming others for his own fish people fucking have his cake and eat it too.

Yep.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:41:13pm

More reason to hate NRO. They hated on the Coens latest project which I found hilarious and called it anti American.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:42:27pm

re: #549 teleskiguy

I read that stupid Liberal Fascism book thinking it was some sort of serious scholarly work. Read every page, some chapters twice. It’s a fucking overlong pamphlet for reactionary politics against *anything* liberal. It fucking compared vegan/vegetarian diets to NAZISM! And that Hillary Clinton was almost like HITLER! A disgusting book. Next time I shoot my rifles I’m going to use my copy for target practice, if I can find the piece of shit.

If you ever find yourself needing toilet paper, it could prove useful. It wouldn’t be right to use it for rolling papers.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:42:37pm

re: #548 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

You fuckin’ have a way with words. I value your words.

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prairiefire  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:42:38pm

Happy Civilization in the Balance Friday, lizards!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:44:18pm

Liberal fascism written by the same people who accuse the left of being hysterical.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:47:26pm
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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:48:29pm

Liberal Fascism came out in January 2008. At that time I’d been a lurker at LGF for a number of years, I think I started reading in 2004, didn’t get an account until December 2008. Those early days were… different. More conservative. More religious. More reactionary in some ways. But I kept coming back, I’ve visited LGF everyday for almost 15 years. And in those days the *conservative* world view at LGF was much more prevalent, and better argued. It was that background that I thought Liberal Fascism would be some kind of good book. Alas…

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:48:41pm

re: #556 Charles Johnson

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Hugh Hewitt, a Trump lackey accusing anyone of vanity is funny shit.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:50:23pm

re: #557 teleskiguy

Liberal Fascism came out in January 2008. At that time I’d been a lurker at LGF for a number of years, I think I started reading in 2004, didn’t get an account until December 2008. Those early days were… different. More conservative. More religious. More reactionary in some ways. But I kept coming back, I’ve visited LGF everyday for almost 15 years. And in those days the *conservative* world view at LGF was much more prevalent, and better argued. It was that background that I thought Liberal Fascism would be some kind of good book. Alas…

I never read it but as an avid student of WWII and its lead up I knew it was bs and Jonah’s inability to deal with honestly dealing with that conservatism has far more in common with fascism than liberalism.

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:50:35pm

Jonah is very angry that his mistress bore his bastard.

That slut.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:52:06pm

re: #560 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

Jonah is very angry that his mistress bore his bastard.

That slut.

As Charlie said you and your way with words.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:53:42pm

The Qurious swat team sergeant has been left in the shit with his LE shop.

thedailybeast.com

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:54:05pm

re: #560 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea

Some of these conservatarians are really wishing a quick aborsh was an option. ie: William Kristol, Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson et al.

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:54:05pm

Wonder what would have been the world today if Hillary would have acted like Trump on:

BENGHAZI - It would have been WW3 without me, I saved the day

EMAILS! - Comey is a crook, I didn’t trust his email system so I got my own

Bill’s Affairs! - Bill is an Alpha male it’s cool, you should be more like him

Cattle Futures - It was a great investment for me becuase I’m smart, lots of losers lost money

Whitewater - It was a great investment, lots of stupid people didn’t make money

Vince Foster - Weak, loser surprised he didn’t kill himself sooner frankly.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:55:24pm

re: #564 bd(soros funded)

Wonder what would have been the world today if Hillary would have acted like Trump on:

BENGHAZI - It would have been WW3 without me, I saved the day

EMAILS! - Comey is a crook, I didn’t trust his email system so I got my own

Bill’s Affairs! - Bill is an Alpha male it’s cool, you should be more like him

Cattle Futures - It was a great investment for me becuase I’m smart, lots of losers lost money

Whitewater - It was a great investment, lots of stupid people didn’t make money

Vince Foster - Weak, loser surprised he didn’t kill himself sooner frankly.

File not found, political career dead, lost to one term senator Rick Lazio in 2000.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:56:26pm

re: #563 teleskiguy

Some of these conservatarians are really wishing a quick aborsh was an option. ie: William Kristol, Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson et al.

Some I respect more than others because they’re capable of introspection. Max Boot gets more points from me than say Kristol.

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teleskiguy  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:57:17pm

re: #566 HappyWarrior

Jennifer Rubin is my favorite. I could be wrong but I think she’s a Democrat now?

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bd(Redacted)  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:58:08pm

re: #565 HappyWarrior

File not found, political career dead, lost to one term senator Rick Lazio in 2000.

Former First Lady Clinton is still doing fine in her padded cell, thank you.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2018 • 7:59:35pm

re: #531 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The 40 Most Insane Things That Happened In Florida In 2018

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37. Florida Doctor Removes Woman’s Kidney after Mistaking It for Tumor during Back Surgery.

….

Holy Christ. That’s one hell of a malpractice suit.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:00:36pm

re: #567 teleskiguy

Jennifer Rubin is my favorite. I could be wrong but I think she’s a Democrat now?

Not sure. I like her tho. She criticizes the entire party not just Trump. That’s also a mark on who I take seriously and who I don’t. More excuses for the Republicans and right wing movement, see Shapiro Ben, the more I tune out.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:04:01pm

Re the breathless MSNBC/CNN segments about the problems Cohen’s agreement may bring to Trump:

I haven’t seen any recent pro-Trump diatribes from my Trumpster FB friends, but based on their previous FB discussions, I don’t think they care at all about Trump’s affiliation with Putin. They would justify Trump’s behavior and dismiss his lies.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:04:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:08:01pm

re: #572 Charles Johnson

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Hey they found a magazine she read.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:14:14pm

re: #562 Decatur Deb

The Qurious swat team sergeant has been left in the shit with his LE shop.

thedailybeast.com

If he can wear Q on his uniform, can I wear Sabokitty on mine?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 30, 2018 • 8:18:43pm

re: #531 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The 40 Most Insane Things That Happened In Florida In 2018

….

37. Florida Doctor Removes Woman’s Kidney after Mistaking It for Tumor during Back Surgery.

….

To be fair, it was a distended kidney. It was located low in her pelvis, and her medical records didn’t annotate that fact

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Dec 1, 2018 • 6:15:48am

re: #483 Charles Johnson

Oh yeah.

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Fox News is the only major news outlet dedicated to 2% of the world population’s myopic worldview.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 1, 2018 • 7:33:19am

re: #506 HappyWarrior

What the stupid Trump cultists don’t get is that kind of shit is why they don’t like him. Not some deep state conspiracy bullshit but being undermined constantly by him.

Or pretty much just knowing, from their investigations, what a scumbag crook (possibly traitor), that he really is.

Like for example, a detective that knows this guy. He seems nice enough, says hi and never causes a fuss. Detective figures this person is ok. Then a case comes across the detectives desk of a child sexual predator. In his investigation he discovers all evidence points to this seemingly ok guy. The detective is bound to start thinking differently of the guy, like maybe thinking he is a scumbag and felon.

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Dec 1, 2018 • 3:08:20pm

This behavior is endemic to people who have never had to be held responsible for anything they’ve ever done in their lives.

They’ve always gotten away with it. Why should now be any different?


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