Samantha doesn’t mention it in this bit, but for years “Fox Nation” was the absolute bottom of the Fox News cesspool, full of conspiracy theories, invented anti-liberal stories, and thousands of blatantly racist cavemen in the comment sections.
Get to know our expanding state media, um, we mean, Fox News’s newest endeavor: Fox Nation.
The wild beast attacks its prey pic.twitter.com/Fbok88fuRk
— Mango The Doxie (@mangothedoxie) December 15, 2018
My Congressman just tweets about rural High School Football games now.
@RepRWilliams Shouldn’t you be strutting around like a banty chicken not that one of your activist judges is kicking hard working Texans off their @healthcare? This is what you wanted. I personally have a broken back that’s I’ve been dealing with for over 30 yrs. @JohnCornyn
— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 15, 2018
Neither did the Nazis at first.
— David Leyonhjelm (@DavidLeyonhjelm) December 15, 2018
Apparently the Holocaust began with the Nazis asking advertisers and social platforms if they knew what they were supporting.
You learn something new everyday. https://t.co/B68C2oA8g6— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) December 15, 2018
Where did this weird idea come from that Nazis and white supremacists have to be allowed to spew their hatred without consequences or criticism, but people who try to shut them down are the real Nazis? Empty headed BS.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2018
re: #3 Dave In Austin
My Congressman just tweets about rural High School Football games now.
On a search for “People” named Adrian Smith, mine comes up thirteenth on the list, after a wine and TV columnist on Amazon Prime, a Webcam model, a writer, and Iron Maiden.
My congressman doesn’t seem to be very important in the Twitterverse.
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
You might want a screen shot of the stupidest climate denial argument of all time, cuz Steve Milloy might take it down once he learns the surface temperature of Venus is over 800 degrees F. https://t.co/oYpFMRJftl
— Michael Noble (@NobleIdeas) December 15, 2018
I don’t know about the “stupidest” but it’s definitely in the top 5. Or bottom 5 as the case may be. Also funny as hell. https://t.co/hTLDMZfqIT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2018
re: #4 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, Nazis were not known for wanting to shut people down for spewing hate. That’s generally because they were the ones spewing the hate.
Who’s the prime target for Fox Nation?
The ass at my gym who wears a MAGAt hat and a Diamond and Silk Fan Club T-shirt!
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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Fucking idiots. Earth will survive a hell of a long time regardless what happens with climate change.
Humans, on the other hand…
re: #7 Targetpractice
Yeah, Nazis were not known for wanting to shut people down for spewing hate. That’s generally because they were the ones spewing the hate.
Though they were quick to shut down, legally or otherwise, anyone who complained about them and their hatred. Sort of like what the Orange Foolius wants to be able to do.
re: #8 Joe Bacon 🌹
Who’s the prime target for Fox Nation?
The ass at my gym who wears a MAGAt hat and a Diamond and Silk Fan Club T-shirt!
Let me guess: Middle aged white guy? Drives a pickup truck?
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: Middle aged white guy? Drives a pickup truck?
The same ass who approached me before the election and said he knew I woul vote for my race and support Trump.
The look on his face when I said I was Jewish…PRICELESS!
re: #10 William Lewis
Though they were quick to shut down, legally or otherwise, anyone who complained about them and their hatred. Sort of like what the Orange Foolius wants to be able to do.
Ayep. One of the things that men like Hitler raged against was efforts by the Weimar gov’t to prevent groups like theirs from “speaking their minds,” silencing hate groups like the Nazi Party for the sake of “peace” when all they were doing was promoting the “truth” about the situation in interwar Germany.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
You might want a screen shot of the stupidest climate denial argument of all time, cuz Steve Milloy might take it down once he learns the surface temperature of Venus is over 800 degrees F.
not the existence of the plant
the future of the planet
no one’s saying the earth would ‘disappear’
the people, the animal life, the plant life - what would happen to all that?
oh, and btw, is there any plant or animal life on venus?
asinine
My wife and I went last night to the Mexican restaurant in the county seat. (When we walk in, they normally turn off the television which plays FOX but leave on the one set to Mexican television.)
Interestingly, when we walked in, we were the only customers, and the television was set to MSNBC. I’m not sure Lawrence O’Donnell is good for the digestion though.
.@kyoag holding presser Monday morning to announce plans to oppose the Texas judge’s ACA ruling. pic.twitter.com/rSYsCczU15
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) December 15, 2018
Our AG, Andy Beshear, is running for governor.
Pro-Life Party Shrugs Off Death Of 7-Year-Old Girl (Goes to Wonkette)
We all know that Republicans are, generally speaking, heartless monsters who don’t care about anyone but themselves, but you’d naively hope multiple airings of It’s a Wonderful Life combined with the tragic death of a seven-year-old girl might cause their hearts to grow three sizes at least.
Not so much! Because the little girl wasn’t a fetus competing with a woman’s autonomy and was also a Guatemalan migrant who died in the custody of US Border Control. Republicans have since turned up on our TVs telling us why the death of Jackeline Caal was entirely her own fault.
Jason Chaffetz appeared on Fox News last night to inform its sociopathic viewers of the true “message” of Caal’s death, which is that a seven-year-old girl should not have chosen to “make this journey” to America with her parents. Chaffetz also probably believes that Tiny Tim shouldn’t have chosen a dead-ass broke father. What was he thinking?
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re: #18 Anymouse 🌹
Pro-Life Party Shrugs Off Death Of 7-Year-Old Girl (Goes to Wonkette)
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not even the parents, but the 7 year old herself?
that’s some pretty stunning idiocy
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹
Pro-life when it applies to women carrying babies not to actual people.
Any journey undertaken without access to drinking water will not end well.
It has NOTHING to do with who she is or where she’s from.
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
Fucking idiots. Earth will survive a hell of a long time regardless what happens with climate change.
Humans, on the other hand…
Yes, but that’s how this tool will defend his idiotic comment, by saying he was referring to the PLANET, so CHECKMATE LIBTARDS!
Milloy has been at this kind of dumbass climate change denial for years and years.
And we all know that Jesus wants to go to Venus and leave Donald far behind…….
— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 15, 2018
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Any journey undertaken without access to drinking water will not end well.
It has NOTHING to do with who she is or where she’s from.
sadly for her ending, her journey without access to drinking water occurred while she was in US custody.
No thanks, not in the mood to be lectured about how important it is to let Nazis run amok on social media. It’s blockin’ time.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2018
re: #26 Charles Johnson
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It’s funny how quickly the Nazis go quiet when they don’t have access to social media. Let’s ask Milo how successful he’s been since Twitter banned his ass.
re: #27 Targetpractice
It’s funny how quickly the Nazis go quiet when they don’t have access to social media. Let’s ask Milo how successful he’s been since Twitter banned his ass.
Milo gets deeper in debt every day. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving asshole!
re: #20 PhillyPretzel
Pro-life when it applies to women carrying babies not to actual people.
they think women carry ‘babies’
they arent babies
re: #27 Targetpractice
It’s funny how quickly the Nazis go quiet when they don’t have access to social media. Let’s ask Milo how successful he’s been since Twitter banned his ass.
Which is why they and their followers pitch a bitch when they get timeouts or bans, because that’s how they get their oxygen; otherwise, they’re largely relegated to the pre-Internet path of word-of-mouth from others.
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
One more “Eagle Scout” who learned nothing useful about conservation from the experience.
re: #27 Targetpractice
It’s funny how quickly the Nazis go quiet when they don’t have access to social media. Let’s ask Milo how successful he’s been since Twitter banned his ass.
or we could continue to completely ignore him as an irrelevancy
that’s been working good for me
re: #31 jaunte
One more “Eagle Scout” who learned nothing useful about conservation from the experience.
yeah…I figured that pointing out the Eagle Scout mention was redundant.
I’ve been getting overly sharp elbowed on twitter I guess, since Aravosis blocked me yesterday.
He was complaining about pro trans groups that use phrases like ‘deadnaming’:
Misgendering and deadnaming TGNC people is violence. TGNC employees deserve better workplace conditions to do their jobs. Read more at https://t.co/Z1Zuzi5NWM pic.twitter.com/zmFlkaUdff
— AVP (@antiviolence) December 14, 2018
1. No idea what “deadnaming” is.
2. Had to guess what TGNC is, never saw it before, guarantee most of my followers have zero clue.
3. Not sure how something that’s an accident is also intentional.
This is bad messaging, starting with the assumption people know your buzzwords. https://t.co/LlNztPZ6g4— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 14, 2018
Then this..
Misgendering and deadnaming TGNC people is violence. TGNC employees deserve better workplace conditions to do their jobs. Read more at https://t.co/Z1Zuzi5NWM pic.twitter.com/zmFlkaUdff
— AVP (@antiviolence) December 14, 2018
1. No idea what “deadnaming” is.
2. Had to guess what TGNC is, never saw it before, guarantee most of my followers have zero clue.
3. Not sure how something that’s an accident is also intentional.
This is bad messaging, starting with the assumption people know your buzzwords. https://t.co/LlNztPZ6g4— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 14, 2018
I tweet this because it goes to a larger critique I have of many groups on the left. They just assume that everyone knows their issues, their buzzwords, and thus they don’t bother actually explaining anything, and their message falls flat. https://t.co/tL3THIe1M6
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 14, 2018
Okay, I understand that but…
I’m sorry but that’s an idiotic take, and it’s typical of millennial activists. You think people will be won over to your side by magic, so it’s not your job to convince them. I’m sorry, that’s lazy, privileged, arrogant, and a recipe for losing. That’s not how we won gay rights.
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 15, 2018
No, fuck that. I am old enough to remember when mainstream gay rights groups either ignored the trans community or were actively hostile. I don’t need you coming into a conversation and insulting people who didn’t ask your goddamned advice to begin with.
I’m sorry but that’s an idiotic take, and it’s typical of millennial activists. You think people will be won over to your side by magic, so it’s not your job to convince them. I’m sorry, that’s lazy, privileged, arrogant, and a recipe for losing. That’s not how we won gay rights.
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 15, 2018
If you’re waiting for people to Google why they should embrace your civil rights or other cause, then you’re going to lose. Successful advocacy is part in-your-face pressure and part marketing/salesmanship. It’s not your target’s job to just accept that you’re right. https://t.co/iU1fJq68Mc
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 15, 2018
Well, he is gonna ‘splain it out to us silly dumb trannies anyway.
I had thoughts:
Fine. I will get in your smug face: DEAD NAMING IS DELIBERATELY USING MY OLD NAME INSTEAD OF THE NEW NAME I HAVE LEGALLY CHANGED TO FOR MY NEW GENDER. MISGENDERING IS A SHAMING PRACTICE TO KEEP USING THE WRONG PRONOUNS WHEN TALKING TO ME. THESE THINGS SUCK. DON’T DO THIS!
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) December 15, 2018
He blocked me.
I don’t know…was I overly bitchy? I honest to God don’t know what the fuck he was thinking if he didn’t expect somebody to bite back. That was some serious privilege shit IMHO and the trans community has had to fight for survival without a lot of help for decades. We didn’t ask and don’t want his savior input at this point in the game, and especially not with a crumbly insult topping.
re: #31 jaunte
One more “Eagle Scout” who learned nothing useful about conservation from the experience.
From one Eagle Scout to another, I’d love to punch Milloy right in the solar plexus to demonstrate the effects of allowing more air pollution.
/sorta
Fucking moron heard from.
It’s literally the First Amendment
— American Fact-Net (@AmericanFactchk) December 15, 2018
re: #35 TedStriker
My brother-in-law would join you in doing that. :)
we’re watching Skyscraper.
I love The Rock, but this is a total timewaster.
Honest reactions guys: Should I have toned that down?
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Fucking moron heard from.
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Wingnuts and moonbats alike will never be able to wrap their heads around the idea that the 1A only means the government cannot take action to silence you.
re: #39 Scottish Dragon
Honest reactions guys: Should I have toned that down?
You were a mite soft, TBF.
good grief, the moron is stupid
Never in the history of our Country has the “press” been more dishonest than it is today. Stories that should be good, are bad. Stories that should be bad, are horrible. Many stories, like with the REAL story on Russia, Clinton & the DNC, seldom get reported. Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2018
The pathetic and dishonest Weekly Standard, run by failed prognosticator Bill Kristol (who, like many others, never had a clue), is flat broke and out of business. Too bad. May it rest in peace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2018
Wow, 19,000 Texts between Lisa Page and her lover, Peter S of the FBI, in charge of the Russia Hoax, were just reported as being wiped clean and gone. Such a big story that will never be covered by the Fake News. Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2018
re: #41 gwangung
You were a mite soft, TBF.
OK, thanks. There have a couple times when I said something on twitter and deserved a block, but I didn’t think this was one of those times.
re: #43 Scottish Dragon
I think he was being a complete asshole and you were absolutely right to call him out.
Jason Chaffetz, speaking about Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7 year old girl who died in the custody of US Border Patrol: “That should be the message, don’t make this journey, it will kill you.” pic.twitter.com/qXNsAWFyBE
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) December 15, 2018
Now, it’s been a while since Sunday school, I can’t remember which book of the Bible this fine Christian Conservative is quoting, was it Matthew, Mark, or Glock? https://t.co/0lXuOqylhX
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 15, 2018
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Fucking moron heard from.
Was he agreeing or disagreeing with you? I can’t tell from the shortness of his response.
re: #34 Scottish Dragon
I’ve been getting overly sharp elbowed on twitter I guess, since Aravosis blocked me yesterday.
He was complaining about pro trans groups that use phrases like ‘deadnaming’:
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He blocked me.
I don’t know…was I overly bitchy? I honest to God don’t know what the fuck he was thinking if he didn’t expect somebody to bite back. That was some serious privilege shit IMHO and the trans community has had to fight for survival without a lot of help for decades. We didn’t ask and don’t want his savior input at this point in the game, and especially not with a crumbly insult topping.
two comments:
If you’re waiting for people to Google why they should embrace your civil rights or other cause, then you’re going to lose. Successful advocacy is part in-your-face pressure and part marketing/salesmanship. It’s not your target’s job to just accept that you’re right.
this is just plain wrong.
no one needs to ‘embrace’ my civil rights
they are mine
everyone has these rights.
what is true is that in some cases they are deliberately suppressed by ‘the state’ who also doesnt discourage their suppression in the workplace and public square
the rest of society’s job is to recognize and respect all my civil rights exactly the same way i am required to respect theirs
“liberty and justice for all” means all or it means nothing
w/r/t to ‘deadnaming’ (a term i just learned) - people change their names for all kinds of reasons. sometimes legally, sometimes more informally.
imo you call people by their name regardless of the reason for the change carries more weight than focusing on any specific reason why someone changed
re: #46 jeffreyw
I think the all caps part might have been a bit overtop-ish.
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Didn’t birds used to migrate somewhere warmer when there’s snow on the ground?
A) You have to be in this country to apply for asylum. B) Mighty fucking white of a former Congressman to spout shit like that who lucked into being born here. C) We want people to come here despite what imbred racists like Chaffetz, Nielsen, & Trump want.
re: #39 Scottish Dragon
Honest reactions guys: Should I have toned that down?
He did say it was part advocacy and part get in your face. You did the Twitter equivalent of get in your face.
I don’t know what his problem is when you responded exactly as he said you should.
(I ran into a trans issue last month in Wyoming with our dine-out group which probably isn’t much interest to anyone here, other than to say we are no longer part of that dine-out group and it will be published next month in a magazine.)
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Fucking moron heard from.
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he read your comment the same way they read the 2A. selectively and leaving out a whole clause
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief, the moron is stupid
Never in the history of our Country has the “press” been more dishonest than it is today. Stories that should be good, are bad. Stories that should be bad, are horrible.
dude should read some history from say just pre-revolution to just after the civil war
the kinds of things were printed about presidents and candidates…..
re: #51 sagehen
Didn’t birds used to migrate somewhere warmer when there’s snow on the ground?
Some migrate and some don’t. The cardinals are here all year.
re: #55 dangerman
dude should read some history from say just pre-revolution to just after the civil war
the kinds of things were printed about presidents and candidates…..
Trump would never read unless he was reading praise of him.
re: #50 dangerman
w/r/t to ‘deadnaming’ (a term i just learned) - people change their names for all kinds of reasons. sometimes legally, sometimes more informally.
imo you call people by their name regardless of the reason for the change carries more weight than focusing on any specific reason why someone changed
My wife changed her name before I met her, and would be highly offended if I (or anyone) called her by her old name. It has nothing to do with her gender and everything to do with how her old name was used (as abuse).
That would be deadnaming for her too.
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
This is genuinely the stupidest thing I’ve seen on the Internet in quite some time, and need I remind you that the Internet is 96.5% made out of stupid. https://t.co/ZfEoQe3EC7
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 15, 2018
I won’t say it’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen, but it’s definitely in the top 5. https://t.co/9GSsKb8b32
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 15, 2018
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
My wife changed her name before I met her, and would be highly offended if I (or anyone) called her by her old name. It has nothing to do with her gender and everything to do with how her old name was used (as abuse).
That would be deadnaming for her too.
exactly so, and just as rude/nasty
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Afternoon Lizards.
I am deeply disappointed in the wingnuts that not a one of them decided to record a version of Baby it’s Cold Outside and convince other wingnuts to buy it & put it on the charts……just to own the libs.
LOL, what a poseur
I love working for the President and am incredibly proud of all the good work we’ve accomplished together. However, after 30 years of public service, I cannot justify spending thousands of dollars defending myself and my family against false allegations. Full statement attached. pic.twitter.com/gwo75SA6bM
— Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) December 15, 2018
re: #64 bd(Redacted)
Afternoon Lizards.
I am deeply disappointed in the wingnuts that not a one of them decided to record a version of Baby it’s Cold Outside and convince other wingnuts to buy it & put it on the charts……just to own the libs.
You really don’t want to hear Wayne Newton’s version.
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
You really don’t want to hear Wayne Newton’s version.
I bet Kid Rock’s got a good one.//
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Says a guy comparing Venus which doesn’t have human life to Earth which you know has human life.
And…um…isn’t the reason Venus is at 800F is because of the CO2?
re: #69 gwangung
And…um…isn’t the reason Venus is at 800F is because of the CO2?
You and your inconvenient facts can just bugger off.
Venus iirc is even hotter than Mercury despite Mercury being closer to the sun.
re: #64 bd(Redacted)
Afternoon Lizards.
I am deeply disappointed in the wingnuts that not a one of them decided to record a version of Baby it’s Cold Outside and convince other wingnuts to buy it & put it on the charts……just to own the libs.
Several women I know have come out in defense of that song.
Hannity and BillO commiserate about being “emotionally” hurt by “accusations” against them.
re: #68 HappyWarrior
I bet Kid Rock’s got a good one.//
It would probably be better than Ted Nugent’s version…or Jon Voight’s
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Venus iirc is even hotter than Mercury despite Mercury being closer to the sun.
You are correct, because Mercury has essentially no atmosphere while Venus has a thick hazy atmosphere and a rotation that basically bakes one side of the planet at a time, while the gas movement distributes the heat around the planet.
re: #74 thecommodore
Hannity and BillO commiserate about being “emotionally” hurt by “accusations” against them.
Poor snowflakes. Didn’t Billo keep all the money in his contract?
re: #73 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Several women I know have come out in defense of that song.
…WHY?!?!
As already noted, the planet doesn’t give a flying fuck if its a hospitable garden planet or a pollutant-choked ball of radioactive cinder and ash. But we do because humans as a species can only exist in a narrow band of environmental conditions. Our ability to adapt our environment to suit our needs is limited, and once the environment breaks down entirely, our days on this planet are numbered. But the Earth will continue on, it will clean itself up and perhaps one day support life again. And it won’t give a flying fuck that we’re gone.
re: #76 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
You are correct, because Mercury has essentially no atmosphere while Venus has a thick hazy atmosphere and a rotation that basically bakes one side of the planet at a time, while the gas movement distributes the heat around the planet.
Ah that makes sense.
Be a nice day when conservatives start caring more about the planet than corporations.
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #63 HappyWarrior
Says a guy comparing Venus which doesn’t have
humanany life to Earth which you know hashumanlife.
re: #74 thecommodore
Hannity and BillO commiserate about being “emotionally” hurt by “accusations” against them.
What was that t-shirt Trump supporters were wearing again?
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹
I know. But we’re the ones who are going to solve this problem. Had to emphasize humanity.
re: #85 HappyWarrior
I know. But we’re the ones who are going to solve this problem. Had to emphasize humanity.
I dunno. We could always ask the dolphins, hopefully before they start making glass fishbowls.
re: #86 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I dunno. We could always ask the dolphins, hopefully before they start making glass fishbowls.
Gotta learn Dolphin. I’ve tried learning Slovene and Irish. Tough enough. But *dolphin sound* you can try.
re: #39 Scottish Dragon
Honest reactions guys: Should I have toned that down?
I wouldn’t have used the all caps…but the message was spot on. You were just educating him on something he was being coy about.
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Says a guy comparing Venus which doesn’t have human life to Earth which you know has human life.
Didn’t that Milo guy come from Venus?
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re: #74 thecommodore
Hannity and BillO commiserate about being “emotionally” hurt by “accusations” against them.
- no one has an inherent right to not be accused
- no one has an inherent right to not be falsely accused
- if you are maliciously or frivolously accused, there are remedies
- otherwise you defend yourself
- like the rest of us
- after accusal - you have rights to recourse if the accusation was abusive
- otherwise it’s the system at work
- no one has protection from vilification in the media
- forming opinions from media ‘info’ - is not the same as one’s obligation as a juror
- nor does it reflect on the basic rights given to you by the system - ie still innocent till proven….
- unless it’s some other venue -and specific different rules apply. like a senate judiciary committee, or workplace accusations, nlrb or whatever
.@repjohnlewis ” I must view a vote for me as Speaker as a vote for the Republican nominee, who would lead a Democratic House majority. We must unite against this possibility at all costs.” pic.twitter.com/ta13jiKFD6
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 15, 2018
lol, keep winning Donald
Missed point about the @MickMulvaneyOMB pick:
By installing a Senate confirmed official as CoS (who is not quitting as OMB chief) Trump blunders into being the first POTUS to have a CoS who can be called to testify before Congress.— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) December 15, 2018
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹
Was he agreeing or disagreeing with you? I can’t tell from the shortness of his response.
He’s a typical wingnut - retweets Posobiec, Fox News, etc.
On Thursday night, Tucker Carlson did what Tucker Carlson always does and repackaged some neo-Nazi talking points for all his viewers at home. This time, however, some people besides those of us whose job it is to go “Hey! Look at this Nazi thing Tucker Carlson said!” all the time, caught on, and now he’s lost another advertiser. Poor Tucker!Pacific Life, an insurance company, has pulled it’s advertisement’s from Carlson’s show following an extra gross rant he went on about how immigrants make the country “dirtier.”
“We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.
Immigration is a form of atonement. Previous leaders of our country committed sins ― we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans. That’s the argument they make.”
re: #96 Charles Johnson
He’s a typical wingnut - retweets Posobiec, Fox News, etc.
Ugh, those stupid fuckers. The First Amendment does not mean that anyone anywhere gets to say whatever the hell they want.
re: #98 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Ugh, those stupid fuckers. The First Amendment does not mean that anyone anywhere gets to say whatever the hell they want.
That’s what Twitter is for. //
re: #86 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I dunno. We could always ask the dolphins, hopefully before they start making glass fishbowls.
You think that Dolphin is hard, try speaking Humpback Whale…
*arches eyebrow in a particular Vulcan’s manner*
re: #6 Charles Johnson
I’ll just quote Michael Crichton at him.
No. You don’t understand. The planet is not in danger. We are in danger. We don’t have the power to destroy life on this planet, We don’t have the power to save it either.
We might have the power to save ourselves.
re: #95 bd(Redacted)
lol, keep winning Donald
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re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This comes as a bit of a surprise to me. I wasn’t even aware that Lewis was being suggested for Speaker.
re: #101 Romantic Heretic
I’ll just quote Michael Crichton at him.
Likewise with George Carlin and his “The Planet is Fine, The People Are Fucked” bit.
re: #95 bd(Redacted)
lol, keep winning Donald
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How is he going to do both jobs? Or is CoS just a title for his resume? Because we all know Trump is his own CoS
re: #103 Targetpractice
This comes as a bit of a surprise to me. I wasn’t even aware that Lewis was being suggested for Speaker.
He’s gotten votes the last few times, despite asking people not to do it
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
Carlson? Is that Apache, Soiux, or Navajo?
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
For comparison, the ratio of replies to anything else on this tweet far exceeds the ratio of CO2 on Venus to CO2 on Earth. https://t.co/tTz81uwIP1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2018
re: #81 HappyWarrior
Be a nice day when conservatives start caring more about the planet than corporations.
I’m not holding my breath.
re: #78 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
…WHY?!?!
I grok this. I lived these times, embedded in the context. This feels right to me, although I not the author.
“Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!)
In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.
So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.”
re: #112 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
That … wow. I think I might favorite this post. Bloody well done.
re: #39 Scottish Dragon
Honest reactions guys: Should I have toned that down?
Not just no but fuck no according to this cisgender bi/pan boy.
Trump: Who wants to stick their dick in this here beehive
Ayers: No sorry
Newt: Nuh uh
Santorum: i asked god and he said no
Christie: PASS
Jared: sorry I have a thing
Mulvaney: HEY GUYS WHAT’S GOING ON WHAT R U TALKIN ABOUT— BigCrimeHat (@Popehat) December 14, 2018
A Chameleon fascinated by water tap … !! 😀😮🙄 pic.twitter.com/KEllMO77i8
— Stefano S. Magi (@StefanodocSM) December 12, 2018
re: #115 GlutenFreeJesus
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Doggy looks less than thrilled with Christmas time.
“Awww Really…”
— Sapientia🌬💨🎏 (@terrasapientiae) December 15, 2018
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
[A Chameleon fascinated by water tap …]
It’s trying to figure out how to do ‘transparent’.
Nancy Pelosi’s HR-1 is a good reform for democratic elections.
House Democrats’ big democracy reform package is good policy, and smart politics (Vox)
Fun fact: Due to its very high albedo (reflectivity) Venus actually absorbs LESS solar radiation than Earth and therefore its 864 degree F surface temperature is entirely due to the greenhouse effect. https://t.co/oDlKmdt3zE pic.twitter.com/W8qCjyPwRk
— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 15, 2018
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
Eeyup. More clouds mean more radiation is reflected into space, but also that heat on the surface stays on the surface. In the meantime, solar heating of the outer layers convects into the lower layers, turning Venus (and, eventually, Earth, if we’re not careful) into a giant oven.
A wonderful photo from the African Bird Club of an Arabian Bustard with two hitch hikers - Carmine Bee Eaters. pic.twitter.com/GEG675lyLR
— Great Bustard Group (@bustardgroup) December 15, 2018
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
I think it was Armalite Mk. 15.
re: #125 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Eeyup. More clouds mean more radiation is reflected into space, but also that heat on the surface stays on the surface. In the meantime, solar heating of the outer layers convects into the lower layers, turning Venus (and, eventually, Earth, if we’re not careful) into a giant oven.
Even if we clawed all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, in 500 million to a billion years Earth will go the way of Venus, as the Sun’s luminosity continues to increase, making it energetically favorable for CO2 to come out of limestone instead of atmospheric CO2 going into it, and leading to thermal runaway. So when you read that the Sun has 5 billion years left on the Main Sequence: True but irrelevant as far as life on Earth is concerned.
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
Come for the right wing junk science. Stay for the dragging and ration. Milloy does this regularly, showing he’s a shill for polluters and right wing outfits. https://t.co/0ee1HiuoMO
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 15, 2018
The ratio on Milloy’s dumbfuck tweet is continuing to grow. So much winning.
re: #128 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Even if we clawed all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, in 500 million to a billion years Earth will go the way of Venus, as the Sun’s luminosity continues to increase, making it energetically favorable for CO2 to come out of limestone instead of atmospheric CO2 going into it, and leading to thermal runaway. So when you read that the Sun has 5 billion years left on the Main Sequence: True but irrelevant as far as life on Earth is concerned.
In the meantime, we should be trying to find ways to do all we can to reverse the damage we’ve done before we get a billion years ahead of ourselves.
re: #112 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
re: #126 wrenchwench
He looks a wee bit roadrunneresque.
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
Very good point, twin beds and all.
I think that may be the America that the wingnuts want back, they are already doing the abstinence part.
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
My generation invented sex—we’ll always have that going for us.
But man, that stork was busy bringing all us Baby Boomers here!
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
Sex was rationed, due to the war.
Steve Milloy is a long-time tool of the tobacco and oil industries. Been pushing anti-science propaganda to benefit corporations since the 90s.
re: #132 bd(Redacted)
DEADBEAT SOCIALIST BIRDS
I just realized I posted Bee Eaters on a Samantha Bee thread. How rude. Sorry.
re: #140 goddamnedfrank
… also, white belt onions.
And women with a supply of aspirin to keep between their knees.
re: #121 plansbandc
Pat Toomey, my damn GOP senator, personally added repealing the individual mandate to the GOP tax bill.
Must be a proud moment for him.
#NotEnoughExpletivesInTheWorld
re: #144 cat-tikvah
Pat Toomey, my damn GOP senator, personally added repealing the individual mandate to the GOP tax bill.
Must be a proud moment for him.
#NotEnoughExpletivesInTheWorld
Pat Toomey has already proven himself a USDA Grade A Prime Douchecanoe already. This is just another notch in his wingnut belt.
re: #145 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Pat Toomey has already proven himself a USDA Grade A Prime Douchecanoe already. This is just another notch in his wingnut belt.
Are there onions on that one too?
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re: #146 Eclectic Cyborg
Are there onions on that one too?
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I don’t know. I mean, on the one hand, white male wingnut assholes seem to be all about sexual purity. On the other hand, HOW many times have they been caught doing little girls (or boys)…?
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
[scratches head, wonders where parents came from in 1938 and 1940.]
I think there’s a cat hiding here…
Glittering prize: a beautiful drake King Eider photographed in Batsfjord, Varanger, #Norway on our annual @ShetlandWild pho-tour. pic.twitter.com/s1lumKkT9q
— Hugh Harrop Wildlife (@HughHarrop) December 15, 2018
Fox News doubled down on Tucker’s comments.
Pacific Life dropped.
What about his other advertisers?@ask_progressive@subaru_usa@mitsucars@expedia@CapitalOne@indeed@LibertyMutual@Varidesk@JennyCraig@Bowflex@AstraZeneca@Nutrisystem@WeatherTech@GSK@pfizer@Allergan pic.twitter.com/9WZ1LIj6sw— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 14, 2018
Oh no what’s next a female Captain Crunch
They’re destroying our culture, send help— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) December 15, 2018
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹
[scratches head, wonders where parents came from in 1938 and 1940.]
‘38 & ‘40? Grandfathered in.
re: #151 wrenchwench
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lol a female Captain Crunch would be ok but I’d buy a box female Frankenberry
re: #154 bd(Redacted)
lol a female Captain Crunch would be ok but I’d buy a box female Frankenberry
Countess Chocula ftw.
re: #154 bd(Redacted)
lol a female Captain Crunch would be ok but I’d buy a box female Frankenberry
That’ll be Frances N. Berry, if you please.
I will always remember when Julian (Australian fleeing investigation in Sweden) tweeted that Sweden was surpressing statistics of crime by refugees.
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) December 15, 2018
re: #157 Patricia Kayden
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Remember when some people on the left thought WikiLeaks was a good thing?
It’s all over the wingnut alternate fact sites: “MUELLER DELETED THOUSANDS OF MESSAGES FROM STRZOK’S PHONE!”
And now President Mendacious Manbaby is jumping on it too, of course.
Everybody realizes this is a completely invented claim with no validity, right?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
re: #161 Charles Johnson
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All about discrediting the investigation. More obstruction of justice.
re: #161 Charles Johnson
Everybody with a brain, Charles. The problem with the wingnutosphere is that in order to join the community, you have to mortgage your brain.
One of the lame duck bills signed by Scott Walker today prohibits Wisconsin’s newly elected Dem AG from withdrawing from GOP lawsuit challenging Obamacare https://t.co/ys87RqjBhH pic.twitter.com/NnNZm6t6Jf
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) December 15, 2018
An accurate report on what the wingnut sites are distorting like crazy:https://t.co/w6eriEW02N
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
re: #161 Charles Johnson
Everybody realizes this is a completely invented claim with no validity, right?
Perfect for our completely invented president that has no validity.
These days looking around right wing news sites and blogs is a nightmarish fun house mirror experience.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
re: #167 Charles Johnson
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DOJ Destroyed Missing Strzok/Page Texts Before IG Reviewed Them https://t.co/LXO2sNFVzf
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2018
The OIG has recovered those texts. That was the whole point of the report they just released. Assistant AG Stephen Boyd, a Trump appointee, attributed it to “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades.” https://t.co/N1ev2Y9WJ3
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 15, 2018
re: #154 bd(Redacted)
lol a female Captain Crunch would be ok but I’d buy a box female Frankenberry
I want a female Snap! and a Black Crackle!
re: #170 Barefoot Grin
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Wingnuts:
The Department of Justice wiped text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk from their cell phones!!!!
99% of America:
Who is Lisa Page or Peter Strozk?
re: #163 HappyWarrior
All about discrediting the investigation. More obstruction of justice.
My RW brother asserted today that the Mueller report will completely exonerate Trump. These people are delusional to the nth degree.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
Remember when some people on the left thought WikiLeaks was a good thing?
Not me but yes I do remember that. His support of Trump was probably shocking to many of them.
re: #171 The Vicious Babushka
I want a female Snap! and a Black Crackle!
We were talking about fictional cereal characters only….
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re: #6 Charles Johnson
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
It’s fun to laugh a Steve Milloy’s idiocy, until you remember he was a science advisor to Trump’s EPA transition team. Then it’s terrifying. https://t.co/fT41FiqwWI
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 16, 2018
re: #151 wrenchwench
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Hi I fixed this for you @DailyMirror, your ‘journalist’ seems to have omitted some pertinent details. pic.twitter.com/izY3ByWuM7
— Leo O’Shaughnessy🌈 (@leoie) December 15, 2018
re: #176 Ace-o-aces
Steve Milloy
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@JunkScience
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. politi.co via @politico
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Isn’t Steve Milloy living up to his site and promoting only junk science? He’s just another liar par excellence.
Your boy in Fort Worth just tried to take away 20 million people’s healthcare, including my son’s, so you can take your merry Christmas and shove it. #2020 is coming. pic.twitter.com/OorEXUD1gs
— Never Offered Vlad a Penthouse (@ElaineEdwards5) December 16, 2018
re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter
My RW brother asserted today that the Mueller report will completely exonerate Trump. These people are delusional to the nth degree.
That’s alright, I just saw an NPR report earlier whose argument was “Yeah, all this Cohen business is really damaging to Trump and is totally felonious, but it’s not ‘collusion’ and so Trump could claim the whole things political!”
That’s what they’re setting up for, preparing to argue that unless Mueller puts Trump and Putin in the same room, mugging for a picture while holding a folder labeled “Plans to steal the presidency!” on it in full view, then the whole investigation is a failure and Trump comes out looking “vindicated.”
re: #180 Targetpractice
That’s alright, I just saw an NPR report earlier whose argument was “Yeah, all this Cohen business is really damaging to Trump and is totally felonious, but it’s not ‘collusion’ and so Trump could claim the whole things political!”
That’s what they’re setting up for, preparing to argue that unless Mueller puts Trump and Putin in the same room, mugging for a picture while holding a folder labeled “Plans to steal the presidency!” on it in full view, then the whole investigation is a failure and Trump comes out looking “vindicated.”
I hope they all get overconfident thinking there is nothing there as Mueller continues to work. It might free up some mouths to start talking about “things.”
re: #181 ObserverArt
I hope they all get overconfident thinking there is nothing there as Mueller continues to work. It might free up some mouths to start talking about “things.”
Loose lips sink ships.
The 2018 midterms reinforced to me the idea that Democrats have hit their cap with this current set of white voters and current voter suppression laws.
Democrats must work with what we have instead of trying to flip or persuade some white voters
This is it.— Amene (@Ange_Amene) December 15, 2018
re: #181 ObserverArt
I hope they all get overconfident thinking there is nothing there as Mueller continues to work. It might free up some mouths to start talking about “things.”
All I can say is I’m personally just shaking my head at the media who once spent years portraying Bill Clinton’s every move as suspicious and Monicagate as one of the greatest political scandals of our era despite it being a continent away from where the investigation began…now want you to believe that Donald Trump is totally in the clear if he’s only implicated in multiple felonies including campaign fraud and obstruction of justice.
Kent State Gun Girl seems headed for a career in porno
Rifles and heels. My two favorite things 👠💎 pic.twitter.com/n9pQqI1AE4
— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) December 15, 2018
VA secretary gave inaccurate answers on pro-Confederate ties during confirmation process @CNN https://t.co/zUSlmqdz2c #Confederacygate
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) December 15, 2018
so a delivery robot caught fire on berkeley’s campus and students set up a candlelight vigil for it pic.twitter.com/alen7vF7Ho
— James Wenzel 🦊 (@ratherbright) December 15, 2018
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
Kent State Gun Girl seems headed for a career in porno
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AAAKKKKKKK!!!!
The replies to this are so funny.
re: #176 Ace-o-aces
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Just to put those percentages into perspective:
CO2 is an asphyxiant gas and not classified as toxic or harmful in accordance with Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals standards of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe by using the OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals. In concentrations up to 1% (10,000 ppm), it will make some people feel drowsy and give the lungs a stuffy feeling. Concentrations of 7% to 10% (70,000 to 100,000 ppm) may cause suffocation, even in the presence of sufficient oxygen, manifesting as dizziness, headache, visual and hearing dysfunction, and unconsciousness within a few minutes to an hour. The physiological effects of acute carbon dioxide exposure are grouped together under the term hypercapnia, a subset of asphyxiation.
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There are few studies of the health effects of long-term continuous CO2 exposure on humans and animals at levels below 1%. Occupational CO2 exposure limits have been set in the United States at 0.5% (5000 ppm) for an eight-hour period. At this CO2 concentration, International Space Station crew experienced headaches, lethargy, mental slowness, emotional irritation, and sleep disruption. Studies in animals at 0.5% CO2 have demonstrated kidney calcification and bone loss after eight weeks of exposure. A study of humans exposed in 2.5 hour sessions demonstrated significant effects on cognitive abilities at concentrations as low as 0.1% (1000ppm) CO2 likely due to CO2 induced increases in cerebral blood flow. Another study observed a decline in basic activity level and information usage at 1000 ppm, when compared to 500 ppm.
Source: Carbon dioxide: Toxicity
Yeah, you read right. Current CO2 levels are at half of what research clearly suggests has a detrimental effect on human cognition…
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
Kent State Gun Girl seems headed for a career in porno
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Nah, she’s getting her resume ready for application to a job as a Faux talking head.
re: #189 bd(Redacted)
AAAKKKKKKK!!!!
My thoughts exactly. She … really doesn’t look very good in that pic.
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
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Inevitable. Know her type. I flunked out of Kent in 1967, came back and finished in 1973, she was there the whole time. She is all over that part of Ohio. Mostly more rural, but definitely on campus.
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
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That’s kinda what she is doing now.
If you can call it a career, her 15 minutes are about up.
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
I’m afraid I’ll have to simply say that neither gun nor girl is interesting to me.
re: #195 William Lewis
I’m afraid I’ll have to simply say that neither gun nor girl is interesting to me.
*COUGH* *SPUTTER* HOW DARE YOU SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF THE AMERICAN RACE!!!1!111 AND THE GIRL IS PRETTY TOO!!!!!!
re: #180 Targetpractice
That’s alright, I just saw an NPR report earlier whose argument was “Yeah, all this Cohen business is really damaging to Trump and is totally felonious, but it’s not ‘collusion’ and so Trump could claim the whole things political!”
That’s what they’re setting up for, preparing to argue that unless Mueller puts Trump and Putin in the same room, mugging for a picture while holding a folder labeled “Plans to steal the presidency!” on it in full view, then the whole investigation is a failure and Trump comes out looking “vindicated.”
As if Mueller’s an idiot
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
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If you could kill off the bots, I’m sure she’d have about 10 likes. I did like what one of the tweets said: “A gun is not a personality.”
re: #196 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
*COUGH* *SPUTTER* HOW DARE YOU SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF THE AMERICAN RACE!!!1!111 AND THE GIRL IS PRETTY TOO!!!!!!
Behave or I’ll wax romantic about glossy walnut stocks and color case hardening and old time hot acid blued steel ;)
re: #199 William Lewis
Behave or I’ll wax romantic about glossy walnut stocks and color case hardening and old time hot acid blued steel ;)
Behave? Why, sir, you wound me. As if I would ever play nice.
[Ducks.]
re: #190 Teukka
Yeah, you read right. Current CO2 levels are at half of what research clearly suggests has a detrimental effect on human cognition…
Global Stupidening. It has begun.
She’s like so many other wingnut “celebrities,” having destroyed her life for 15 minutes of fame. Now that she’s no longer of any use to them, they’ve abandoned her and left her looking for some way to regain the attention she received for a fleeting moment. Eventually she’s going to get so desperate that she says or does something so over the line that Jack has to pull the plug, then she’ll join Milo in the bin of “Hey, do you remember that crazy woman with the rifle?”
re: #202 Targetpractice
She’s like so many other wingnut “celebrities,” having destroyed her life for 15 minutes of fame. Now that she’s no longer of any use to them, they’ve abandoned her and left her looking for some way to regain the attention she received for a fleeting moment. Eventually she’s going to get so desperate that she says or does something so over the line that Jack has to pull the plug, then she’ll join Milo in the bin of “Hey, do you remember that crazy woman with the rifle?”
The sad thing is, she might actually wind up in the pornography industry, the only thing left to sell being her dignity (and her body) because the people she believed in all abandoned her.
re: #201 wrenchwench
Global Stupidening. It has begun.
I’m on the cutting edge. Just look at that word.
Many people have asked how we are doing in our negotiations with North Korea - I always reply by saying we are in no hurry, there is wonderful potential for great economic success for that country….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2018
Trump came into office saying the Obama policy of “strategic patience” with North Korea was over. Now we’re being told there is “no hurry” even as the North Korean arsenal grows and the multilateral pressure erodes.
What should we call this policy, “nonstrategic patience”? https://t.co/7F9qI0PAJz— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) December 14, 2018
Trump once said US troops would leave Syria when ISIS was defeated. Now he says they will stay there indefinitely to counter Iran.
Read this fantastic report by @LizSly on the complexities they face as they pursue this open-ended mission. #ForeverWar https://t.co/u962d1doiw— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) December 15, 2018
Our foreign policy is being run by people who are not as smart as a fifth grader.
re: #74 thecommodore
Hannity and BillO commiserate about being “emotionally” hurt by “accusations” against them.
How quickly they forget what the Obama family had to face because of their lies - now they are sad because the truth about them comes to the fore.
Poor little me seems to be the GOP way when the hand is caught in the cookie jar.
WTFITS
Children, with numbers on their arms & their lives on the line wait to cross into the US from Juarez, Mexico. More tonight with @Lawrence on @TheLastWord #MSNBC pic.twitter.com/J4k7NWwNzP
— Cal Perry (@CalNBC) December 15, 2018
ManBearPig IS REAL https://t.co/DnCIQOFgc2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
re: #207 The Vicious Babushka
WTFITS
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When that came out about a month or so ago, I posted it to facebook with the comment “Imagine being from a country where they write numbers on people’s arms.”
re: #207 The Vicious Babushka
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That had better be some kind of elaborate fake.
re: #207 The Vicious Babushka
“…While the photograph is legitimate, it is unclear exactly who wrote the numbers on these people’s arms, with Yahoo reporting that:
According to various advocates and others who observed the situation on the bridges over the summer, it was volunteers with the Mexican Red Cross who first created a waiting list to help maintain order within the encampments as asylum seekers waited for their turn to cross. The list was then transferred to the Casa del Migrante along with the asylum seekers when they were forced to move there in November. Accounts vary on when, exactly, and with whom the practice of tracking migrants with numbers on their arms originated, but it has now become a part of the process for all who wish to seek asylum at one of the U.S. ports of entry in El Paso.
I used to think Al Gore was about as stiff as a human being could be, even though I voted for him for president. But he’s really loosened up recently.
What the right wing noise machine did to him was a crime. A prototype for even more effective smear campaigns.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
DeFazio on climate: “This is the existential threat to the future of the planet.”
Insanity.
For comparison, the atmosphere Venus is 96.5% CO2 — and the planet is still there.
In contrast, Earth’s atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2. https://t.co/SvScU32iZG via @politico— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 15, 2018
I, um, yeah.
Charles, I have an idea for you, based on something they do in Duolingo (which I wish they would do more of): Allow us to “spend” karma to “buy stuff” for the site. At duolingo, you can spend points you earn on an outfit for the little avatar, buy extra lessons, and things that allow you to keep streaks alive if you’re not able to make one lesson.
What if we could spend karma on things like having a background image, changing the color of our comments or those of others, and other related things?
re: #213 Charles Johnson
To be fair to you, Charles, back in the day, Al Gore was a bit of a Mitt Romney. That he’s loosened up and laughed a little later in life is definitely very good for him.
re: #212 jaunte
We are dealing with some brain-dead motherfuckers.
re: #216 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To be fair to you, Charles, back in the day, Al Gore was a bit of a Mitt Romney. That he’s loosened up and laughed a little later in life is definitely very good for him.
Well, other than Al actually giving a shit about people.
re: #216 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To be fair to you, Charles, back in the day, Al Gore was a bit of a Mitt Romney. That he’s loosened up and laughed a little later in life is definitely very good for him.
Back then, all Democrats were Mitt Romneys, though, weren’t they?
re: #210 Decatur Deb
That had better be some kind of elaborate fake.
They’re in Juarez. Waiting to get into El Paso. More real than that is difficult to achieve.
re: #215 Belafon
Charles, I have an idea for you, based on something they do in Duolingo (which I wish they would do more of): Allow us to “spend” karma to “buy stuff” for the site. At duolingo, you can spend points you earn on an outfit for the little avatar, buy extra lessons, and things that allow you to keep streaks alive if you’re not able to make one lesson.
What if we could spend karma on things like having a background image, changing the color of our comments or those of others, and other related things?
Good idea! I’ll give it some thought.
re: #219 Charles Johnson
Back then, all Democrats were Mitt Romneys, though, weren’t they?
There is that, as per #218 above. The major differentiating factor between Republicans and Democrats in my early years really was more their political stance than their public persona. Nowadays, it seems that Democrats are much more human than Republicans, in addition to believing in the right causes.
re: #219 Charles Johnson
Back then, all Democrats were Mitt Romneys, though, weren’t they?
Except for Bill the Horndog and Shrillary.
re: #220 wrenchwench
They’re in Juarez. Waiting to get into El Paso. More real than that is difficult to achieve.
I was thinking someone might have sharpied them as a deliberate evocation of the liberated camp children. Jaunte says “no”.
re: #215 Belafon
Charles, I have an idea for you, based on something they do in Duolingo (which I wish they would do more of): Allow us to “spend” karma to “buy stuff” for the site. At duolingo, you can spend points you earn on an outfit for the little avatar, buy extra lessons, and things that allow you to keep streaks alive if you’re not able to make one lesson.
What if we could spend karma on things like having a background image, changing the color of our comments or those of others, and other related things?
Could I then “pay” to have it changed back?
re: #225 wrenchwench
Could I then “pay” to have it changed back?
Begun, the Comment Color Wars have.
re: #215 Belafon
Charles, I have an idea for you, based on something they do in Duolingo (which I wish they would do more of): Allow us to “spend” karma to “buy stuff” for the site. At duolingo, you can spend points you earn on an outfit for the little avatar, buy extra lessons, and things that allow you to keep streaks alive if you’re not able to make one lesson.
What if we could spend karma on things like having a background image, changing the color of our comments or those of others, and other related things?
My wife used points at duolingo to get the lessons on “Spanish pickup lines.”
Those three lessons were possibly the lamest lines I ever heard, and I imagine if you used some of them you’d get clocked.
Scoop: Ryan Zinke has notified the White House he intends to step down as interior secretary.
Concern about legal costs and scrutiny of his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest were factors in Zinke’s decision, I’m told.
Plan is to announce Wednesday.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 15, 2018
I served with Ryan Zinke in Congress. He had a bright future.
But then he entered the world of @realDonaldTrump, and allowed its corrupting influence to destroy his reputation. Zinke is now facing multiple investigations and mounting legal bills. Sad. https://t.co/b4dXNYTKiq— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 15, 2018
Rep. Lieu is more charitable than I’d be.
It’s funny, though. In the 1990’s, politicians were expected to be stiff and formal, the spitting image of the board-like Mitt Romney that we mocked just a few short years ago. I mean, hell, people made fun of Bill Clinton because he was a jazz musician and a popular man who appealed to baser instincts. Nowadays, it seems unfathomable that we would vote for someone who holds himself or herself in that kind of rigor, like a freaking political robot. Amazing how the times change.
Speaking of Duolingo: You can learn Klingong and High Valyrian (Game of Thrones) from it.
The first probe to touch down on another planet was Venera 7, which the Soviets landed on Venus #OTD in 1970. What timing! Anyway, it was built like a thick metal cauldron and it only lasted 20 minutes BECAUSE IT IS 460 C ON THE SURFACE OF VENUS.
Image: Stanislav Kozlovskiy pic.twitter.com/H9pxuwNAev— Robert McNees (@mcnees) December 16, 2018
Venus: not even once. https://t.co/lZlPfXawPA
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) December 16, 2018
re: #229 Belafon
Speaking of Duolingo: You can learn Klingong and High Valyrian (Game of Thrones) from it.
If I can’t learn Quenya, then it’s useless. USELESS!
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹
Yes, when I saw that tweet I thought: “he was the same person back then, we just hadn’t seen him in full blossom.”
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹
My wife used points at duolingo to get the lessons on “Spanish pickup lines.”
Those three lessons were possibly the lamest lines I ever heard, and I imagine if you used some of them you’d get clocked.
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Rep. Lieu is more charitable than I’d be.
I went through them, don’t remember any of them, but I do remember laughing at them.
re: #232 jaunte
Yes, when I saw that tweet I thought: “he was the same person back then, we just hadn’t seen him in full blossom.”
Maybe he and Tipper are better apart.
re: #186 The Vicious Babushka
Kent State Gun Girl seems headed for a career in porno
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Who didn’t see that coming? I mean really.
True. And South Park played a very big part in making that happen, even though they’re seeing the light now. The “ManBearPig” meme was HUGE on right wing sites and media.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 16, 2018
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
Do you know the @RealRonJeremy
— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 16, 2018
re: #239 Belafon
I think the topic threads have crossed streams.
RAY! If someone asks if you’re a god, the answer is YES!
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a song about sex at all. It was written in 1944. No one had sex in 1944.
I call shenanigans.
If nobody was having sex in 1944, then my mom was born in 1945 as a result of….
…um, parthenogenesis?
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re: #233 Belafon
I went through them, don’t remember any of them, but I do remember laughing at them.
That’s my handy cognition process for most subjects.
re: #240 Dave In Austin
Dude, Ron Jeremy is too classy for her. She might have a future on xhamster.
re: #231 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If I can’t learn Quenya, then it’s useless. USELESS!
re: #245 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And of course, the inner nerd in me comes through when I say that I already have that one bookmarked.
re: #242 ipsos
I call shenanigans.
If nobody was having sex in 1944, then my mom was born in 1945 as a result of….
…um, parthenogenesis?
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I’m 74. Keep scrolling.
re: #244 teleskiguy
Dude, Ron Jeremy is too classy for her. She might have a future on xhamster.
She seems like a BangBros type of girl.
/sorta
re: #112 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
OK, I will take that explanation, and the ending.
Kent State Gun Girl thinks she is so hot. She’s not that hot, she’s pretty average.
re: #187 Patricia Kayden
VA secretary gave inaccurate answers on pro-Confederate ties during confirmation process
Perchance - do they mean he LIED? To Congress?
Bill Clinton lied, republicans give inaccurate answers.
Nailed it. Thx @Sh00pZ pic.twitter.com/SX4RScHOR1
— Covfefe Jones, King of Smocking Guns👑 (@PromoteMyCause) December 16, 2018
re: #253 fern01
Perchance - do they mean he LIED? To Congress?
Bill Clinton lied, republicans give inaccurate answers.
Or they “don’t recall”.
re: #222 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
There is that, as per #218 above. The major differentiating factor between Republicans and Democrats in my early years really was more their political stance than their public persona. Nowadays, it seems that Democrats are much more human than Republicans, in addition to believing in the right causes.
My observation in general,
dems are inclusive
yeah they want some of your money for taxes- not a lot for most people
There are social goods that everyone should participate in and may need
Republicans are exclusive
they want to kick people off of things
make them not anyone elses problem
i have / we have, and if you dont - tough - were not gonna help
re: #257 William Lewis
::: sending brain bleach to William :::
*Note to self, start reading comments at top of thread before posting*
:P
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹
Rep. Lieu is more charitable than I’d be.
He is also more charitable than those who replied to his tweet. Trump brings out the worst in everyone - but the hint has to be there to start the rot.
re: #254 Dave In Austin
Yanno what’s funny. Even my whiskey goggles aren’t making her any more appealing. That girl needs a serious reality check.
re: #254 Dave In Austin
Kaitlin is an attractive young woman; the problem is that she is an ignorant imbecile who understands nothing about our history or economics or society. She majored in biology; maybe she should stick to that field and explore career opportunities there instead yapping about concepts she doesn’t understand.
re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter
Kaitlin is an attractive young woman; the problem is that she is an ignorant imbecile who understands nothing about our history or economics or society. She majored in biology; maybe she should stick to that field and explore career opportunities there instead yapping about concepts she doesn’t understand.
The thing is, I can’t agree. She may be attractive to some, but she shouldn’t rely on that as her sole draw when she is trying to find her place in the world. I, for one, do not find her attractive, and while my opinion means nothing as an already-married older man, the fact is that a young woman such as herself should not be trying to use her looks to make her mark. Find another way that will impress more people for a longer time.
re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter
She has to trigger libs and pose scantly clad with her guns because she’s actually very ugly on the inside and a fucking moron.
re: #254 Dave In Austin
It’s astonishing how much she looks like Jethro in a dress. hahahaha!
re: #265 teleskiguy
She has to trigger libs and pose scantly clad with her guns because she’s actually very ugly on the inside and a fucking moron.
I agree that she’s a f..ing moron; but she is empty inside and is desperately trying to find people who would accept her. It was her ignorance that allowed her to be seduced by the gun cult; she needs someone to help her come to her senses. An acquaintance who lost his wife similarly was inducted into this cult; it provided him a community of support and friends after his loss; everything is now seen through the prism of gun madness.
re: #240 Dave In Austin
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I’ve never seen someone try so hard and fail.
— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 16, 2018
re: #267 Hecuba’s daughter
She is still very young. I share your attitude, that she see’s the light and comes to her senses. Her science background at Kent State is so confounding, right now it’s like all that logic and reason part of her biology degree just went by the wayside because she loves guns too much. She chose a dark path after she got her bachelor’s degree, her moronic choices are playing out on Twitter, she’s gotten hundreds of replies today suggesting she go into porn. Obviously she has no shame at this point, she’s going to keep doing her gun fetish thing right now in the age of Fuckface Von Clownstick. She is still very young, she could change her ways, I have hope.
re: #270 goddamnedfrank
For me it’s an infinite seesaw of pity and scorn.
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