Seth takes a closer look at President Trump threatening a government shutdown over funding for his border wall just as he faces the most serious legal peril of his presidency.
Oh… and remember this? Trump’s Epic Meltdown in the Oval Office: “I’m Proud to Shut Down the Government.”
So predictable:
The Democrats now own the shutdown!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
Lol, even Erdogan was like, “whoa slow down there you dumb weirdo!” https://t.co/GmxM7DGs2t pic.twitter.com/ioWBRjDAzJ
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) December 21, 2018
#tRumpShutdown #tRumpResign
I guess tRump forgot what he said about a government shutdown in 2013.
Here, @realDonaldtRump… Please have someone read this to you. pic.twitter.com/lhCctRhKun— McSpocky™ 👽🖖 🌀 (@mcspocky) December 21, 2018
it’s bedtime and steve has been bitching for food for 45 minutes and I will not give him any so he went to the litter box, took an enormous foul smelling shit, and then made a huge production of kicking litter five yards outside the box
all my animals are fucking assholes— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) December 21, 2018
Today, it was my honor to sign into law H.R. 7213, the “Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 2018.” The Act redesignates the @DHSgov Domestic Nuclear Detection Office as the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office. Read more: https://t.co/XCkyc8pGZF pic.twitter.com/TTvGxBww5n
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban for immigrants who illegally cross US-Mexico border.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 21, 2018
Stand by for tantrum. https://t.co/u7WoxlRuSc
— Karoli (@Karoli) December 21, 2018
The “Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office?” For Pete’s sake, now he’s giving clumsy illiterate names to existing agencies so he can claim some kind of win. This is sofa king weird.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
Just out from the Supreme Court:
Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules (Washington Post)
Four justices supported the maladministration: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh.
Guess whose birthday it is today?
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re: #4 Charles Johnson
No Post Offices for the GOP to rename this week.
The Dow falls to Sept 2017 levels: -327.29 (-1.43%) as of 3:17PM EST.
re: #9 nines09
Guess whose birthday it is today?
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On Maggie Haberman:
Would be nice if she wasn’t his #1 stenographer!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) December 21, 2018
re: #11 Dr. Matt
The Dow falls to Sept 2017 levels: -327.29 (-1.43%) as of 3:17PM EST.
300 plus point drops every single day. That can’t be sustainable for long.
Alright. Another clarification: This vote could actually fail. Corker and Flake might not vote for it.
That’d be something.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 21, 2018
re: #15 Single-handed sailor
Alright. Another clarification: This vote could actually fail. Corker and Flake might not vote for it.
A one last final fuck you to donnie would be great.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
300 plus point drops every single day. That can’t be sustainable for long.
What astonishes me is that the markets fell off a cliff when the Fed announced the rate hike earlier this week. It wasn’t like it was some sort of secret that they were almost certain to do it.
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re: #6 Charles Johnson
Is this part of the Space Force Office of Military Winning?
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
300 plus point drops every single day. That can’t be sustainable for long.
No, it can’t.
At this rate (if maintained consistently) the DJIA will hit zero sometime around March 15th.
Turnaround opportunity!!!
re: #16 Dr. Matt
Could Flake object, and kill it like Mitch did to his Mueller bill?
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹
Just out from the Supreme Court:
Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules (Washington Post)Four justices supported the maladministration: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh.
Justice Roberts screwed the wingnuts again.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
300 plus point drops every single day. That can’t be sustainable for long.
Isn’t a bear market defined as a 20% drop in a two or three month period? Because we’re at about a 10% loss in the last 2-3 months.
re: #3 Single-handed sailor
They’ll learn you yet
I’ve never understood how the anti-immigrant hate group called the Center for Immigration Studies gets a complete pass for their white supremacist origins and continuing connections.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
re: #20 harlequinade
Could Flake object, and kill it like Mitch did to his Mueller bill?
He could vote Yes then change his vote to No giving him control of the bill by tabling it.
re: #22 KGxvi
Isn’t a bear market defined as a 20% drop in a two or three month period? Because we’re at about a 10% loss in the last 2-3 months.
It’s a correction!
re: #22 KGxvi
Correction: 10%
Bear market: 20% over 2 month period across multiple indices.
There’s been a couple of corrections since midyear. The current one seems to have a different feel to it, and for it to become a bear market, we’d probably have go to 20,660 or by end of next month.
re: #15 Single-handed sailor
Of course they’ll vote for it, then do some heavy duty tweeting criticizing it.
Leadership in a nutshell.
There’s more leadership in a nutshell than exhibited by Trump or the GOP. They wont lead, govern, or legislate. This shutdown is entirely on them and no one else.
There was a clean CR. Trump made it clear the shutdown is on him. Hold him accountable.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 21, 2018
re: #25 Joe Bacon 🌹
Someone needs to slide that into his DMs
re: #9 nines09
Guess whose birthday it is today?
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Richard Nixon went to Mar-a-Lago a month before he resigned the Presidency, July 1974: pic.twitter.com/gtetmj1AJu
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 20, 2018
re: #16 Dr. Matt
A one last final fuck you to donnie would be great.
I heard Flake is a no and Corker…well, he’s undecided.
Anyone surprised?
re: #19 Jay C
No, it can’t.
At this rate (if maintained consistently) the DJIA will hit zero sometime around March 15th.
Turnaround opportunity!!!
Dow now down over 460.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
Dow now down over 460.
Could be what I’ve been predicting that foreigners are dumping US stocks!
On my way back to work after lunch I saw a car with a bumper sticker that read “BILLIONAIRES CAN’T BUY BERNIE.” I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
Dow now down over 460.
Cracking into the 21K floor would be great right before Xmas.
re: #21 Sir John Barron
Justice Roberts screwed the wingnuts again.
He’s an institutionalist.
As much as he likes conservative rules, he cares even more that “The Roberts Court” should be seen as protecting the independence of the judiciary.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
More like anyone tracking their 401k over past month: pic.twitter.com/TYwI08tzy4
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 21, 2018
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Could be what I’ve been predicting that foreigners are dumping US stocks!
Wouldn’t be surprising: they’ve supposedly been buying into the US market for years (y’know, attracted by that slow-but-steady growth): even bailing now at these levels has got to still be ahead of the game.
re: #35 ObserverArt
I heard Flake is a no and Corker…well, he’s undecided.
Anyone surprised?
Corker’s no undecided; he’s in Tennessee.
The GOP watch as every bit of “good” that was to come out of their tax bill is ignited in a temper tantrum from the asshole they propped up for months to make it happen.
On that Supreme Court vote to turn down Trumper today. Ruth Bader Ginsburg enthusiastically voted no from her hospital bed. Per NBC’s Pete Williams.
You go Ruth!
And good health to you.
They just went into Schumer’s office.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 21, 2018
Donnie has promised this fucker something.
JUST IN: Graham backs Trump’s border wall demand: “Dig in!” https://t.co/KkcjxvQAxs pic.twitter.com/bjiMxMLf0V
— The Hill (@thehill) December 21, 2018
re: #44 sagehen
Corker’s no undecided; he’s in Tennessee.
It is my understanding all of the Senate members are scrambling to head back for the voting. That was the word earlier anyway. That is one of the reasons for the holdup on the votes.
And if true, I bet the senators are really enjoying this Trump Show.
re: #48 Dr. Matt
Donnie has promised this fucker something.
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re: #47 Barefoot Grin
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Perhaps this is why I’m too petty to be a Senator, or even on a staff, because I’d have every TV cued up with Trump taking credit for the shut down on a loop.
And then kindly tell them to fuck off on anything that wasn’t a clear CR.
re: #52 Single-handed sailor
Secretary of Defense?
Every Senator who’s taking a job in Trumpworld has ended up ceding the seat to a Democrat.
So… go for it?
re: #52 Single-handed sailor
Secretary of Defense?
Graham is 63, and while he’s up again in 2020, last time he won 54-38 in the general (and wasn’t really challenged in the primary). He could have this gig for another 30 years, if he really wanted to. Why go be Secretary of Defense for Trump of all presidents?
re: #49 ObserverArt
It is my understanding all of the Senate members are scrambling to head back for the voting. That was the word earlier anyway. That is one of the reasons for the holdup on the votes.
And if true, I bet the senators are really enjoying this Trump Show.
Enjoy it or hate it (and I’m guessing the latter isn’t much of a minority position), the GOP are probably going to try to pull all the stops out to try to pass the “Wall Budget” before adjourning - any opposition notwithstanding. Flake and Corker are obvious NFLTG, but the rest of them probably don’t want to have to spend their holiday break listening to the wingnuts roast them over the stupid fucking Wall. Going home with a “win” for President Big Damn Hero is a positive for Flyover Country. And beside, they (most of them) will just have to come back and start all over again in January.
Which, Dem House aside, is still going to be Mitch McConnell’s private shitshow over on the EastNorth Side.
re: #48 Dr. Matt
Donnie has promised this fucker something.
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Syria turnaround - more war.
re: #54 lawhawk
Every Senator who’s taking a job in Trumpworld has ended up ceding the seat to a Democrat.
So… go for it?
In South Carolina, though?? SRSLY??
Watching Nicole Wallace MSNBC. She just said a Trump loyalist just told her (paraphrasing) “He’s scared. He’s scared of Mueller. He is scared of his base. He sees everything crumbling down around him.”
Good. Fucker!
re: #59 Jay C
Doug Jones beat Roy Moore… so it’s possible. Given that the GOP keeps putting up the worst kind of people, you could do worse.
And Graham will be gone because he’ll have sold out to Trumpworld and sucked into that morass of criminality and complicity entirely.
Last night, while America was distracted by a potential government shutdown, the GOP quietly passed a tax bill that gutted the Johnson Amendment, which could give billionaires a tax break for funneling secret money into our elections through charities and churches. pic.twitter.com/ExC3vNGHZb
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) December 21, 2018
re: #60 ObserverArt
Watching Nicole Wallace MSNBC. She just said a Trump loyalist just told her (paraphrasing) “He’s scared. He’s scared of Mueller. He is scared of his base. He sees everything crumbling down around him.”
Good. Fucker!
“A rogue presidency” from the commentator
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹
The only Republicans who voted against it are Amash (MI), Rokita (IN), and Sanford (SC).
re: #60 ObserverArt
Watching Nicole Wallace MSNBC. She just said a Trump loyalist just told her (paraphrasing) “He’s scared. He’s scared of Mueller. He is scared of his base. He sees everything crumbling down around him.”
Good. Fucker!
May he suffer every bit as much as those he’s made suffer. The pig.
Heh.
BREAKING: Authorities have intercepted a suspicious package addressed to Donald Trump containing a dictionary and US Constitution.
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) October 27, 2018
A perfect tweet for the Solstice 🙃 https://t.co/3VqMEs8H79
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 21, 2018
The words “Merry Christmas” have been absurdly politicized - and weaponized - in a decades-long grievance campaign by the right. I still say it, and don’t mind when people say it to me, but the experience has been tainted by all that religious right whining.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
Poll from YouGov … a quarter of non-voters now say they wish they’d cast a ballot in 2016 for President. (Those are the people we should be working hardest on winning over.)
In other parts of the poll, conservative voters are still confused about every sort of thing Trump has or hasn’t done.
re: #68 Charles Johnson
All the way back to Henry Ford and the International Jew. That’s how long it’s been weaponised.
Granpa Pig is gonna be even more cranky…
News: Trump’s travel to Mar-a-Lago today has been officially canceled, per internal WH e-mail.
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) December 21, 2018
Fuck. Get ready for more of this. Thread.
1. On the topic of the “defeat” of ISIS: Today, the Norwegian government confirmed the authenticity of a brutal execution video showing a man decapitating a Scandinavian tourist in Morocco. The men who killed the tourists pledged allegiance to ISIS: https://t.co/OfvExLAzkf
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) December 21, 2018
To me… it’s simple.
I’m not Jewish, and I don’t assume everyone I encounter is Jewish, so I say Happy Holidays.
Maybe that’s just because I live and work in NYC metro, and I’m going to come across people from every kind of religious background and experience… but it’s not disrespectful to say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, especially when most people aren’t religiously Christian and see it as a secular holiday.
The commercialization means the so-called war is even more BS, especially since commercial interests start spewing Christmas stuff beginning around…. checking calendar December 26 of the prior year, and in earnest from Labor Day forward.
A Very Merry XMas, Happy Holidays and a Joyous Winter Solstice to @JerryFalwellJr @Franklin_Graham and @CTmagazine
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) December 21, 2018
re: #61 lawhawk
re: #62 sagehen
No expert on SC politics (and will be glad to be proved wrong here), but ISTR that Roy Moore got the GOP nom in Alabama because he was already a big player in the state (Ten Commandments and all) and had a “base” hopped up to see him run. AFAIK, the SC GOP has a much tighter handle on who they are likely to bring forward to nominate and (it being SC). elect.
Like I said, I hope I’m wrong.
re: #71 makeitstop
Granpa Pig is gonna be even more cranky…
Too bad, chowderhead. You had a deal on the Continuing Resolution and you blew it up.
I’m sure people in Palm Beach will be happy though.
Just sent a terse message to my buddy Rob Portman.
Busting him for the shutdown and Trump’s threat of withdrawls in the ME and the great tax cuts and stock market.
I won’t bother you with the comments. But I closed with:
Don’t have a Merry Christmas. You don’t deserve one.
But I will give you a lump of beautiful clean coal.
People have been celebrating the winter solstice since long before Christianity.
I have no problem with “Peace on Earth and Good Will to Everyone”
I do have a problem on Christians claiming some exclusive rights to the season.
The #GoFundtheWall campaign is a scam. Here’s why. https://t.co/8D7S8ESivK
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) December 21, 2018
Suckers!
re: #73 lawhawk
Folks who are aggressively Christian and know I’m an atheist weaponise “Merry Christmas” when spitting it out in my direction.
I usually respond with “thank you, and you too” or “and a Happy New Year to you.”
Fortunately here there aren’t many people like that to me. It was far worse when I was in the Navy.
Trending on Twitter is still the hashtag TrumpResign with 458,000 tweets… .
Mitch McConnell now on the senate floor blaming the opioid epidemic on the lack of a border wall. 🙄
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) December 21, 2018
Hey, why not? We’re in cloud cuckoo land already. https://t.co/306LIO2T1e
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
re: #73 lawhawk
This. Saying “Happy Holidays” is a just a minor shout out to the fact that there are multiple, generally overlapping, holidays for different cultural backgrounds. That people get offended by it is insane.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
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I didn’t know the pharmaceutical companies were all in Mexico.
Funny that.
re: #83 ObserverArt
I didn’t know the pharmaceutical companies were all in Mexico.
Funny that.
Or that the majority of opioids are coming via ports of entry and legal procurement. Or that the illegal source of opioids is coming from China in small quantity shipments that are easily distributed by mail.
Mexico isn’t the cause, or solution to, the opioid crisis. And the wall certainly wont solve it, when Purdue and other pharma companies repeatedly were caught lying about how addictive their new opioids were.
re: #79 DodgerFan1988
Suckers!
Why hasn’t GoFundMe shut down this scam yet? I would think they would care about their reputation.
LOL
New - While POTUS hangs back for now, FLOTUS will go to Mar-a-Lago: “It has long been the family’s tradition to spend their Christmas holiday at Mar-a-Lago. Her plans to travel with her son to their Florida home for his winter break have not changed this year.” - @StephGrisham45
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) December 21, 2018
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹
Costing even more - because instead of all of them flying down together, they’ll have to fly separately.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹
And who, given the choice, would stay in the WH with trump at the minute.
re: #48 Dr. Matt
Donnie has promised this fucker something.
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Trump will, of course, screw him on the deal.
re: #55 KGxvi
Graham is 63, and while he’s up again in 2020, last time he won 54-38 in the general (and wasn’t really challenged in the primary). He could have this gig for another 30 years, if he really wanted to. Why go be Secretary of Defense for Trump of all presidents?
Oh I don’t know about that. Have you seen the about-face Graham has made shortly after Mccain died? I mean, might be that that was the one factor holding up his (pretense of a) spine, but TBH given the enthousiasm with which he’s turned trumpist frankly I’m going with the theory there’s both a live boy and a dead girl and something probably much worse someone’s got over him, and since that wouldn’t be going away any more ever again I’m fairly sure he’s going to fade away in a few years and hope he can live out his years in quiet.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I really don’t think Graham will be around in 10 years time.
OTOH taking secdef wouldn’t exactly be the most risk-averse move either so he might well stay put under my theory just the same.
re: #91 ThomasLite
Oh I don’t know about that. Have you seen the about-face Graham has made shortly after Mccain died? I mean, might be that that was the one factor holding up his (pretense of a) spine, but TBH given the enthousiasm with which he’s turned trumpist frankly I’m going with the theory there’s both a live boy and a dead girl and something probably much worse someone’s got over him, and since that wouldn’t be going away any more ever again I’m fairly sure he’s going to fade away in a few years and hope he can live out his years in quiet.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I really don’t think Graham will be around in 10 years time.
OTOH taking secdef wouldn’t exactly be the most risk-averse move either so he might well stay put under my theory just the same.
That about face occurred right after Trump had his private golf outing with Graham, away from the press and microphones.
Remember, the RNC was hacked by Russia as well.
I’m out. The Sailor Jerry rum won’t finish itself and I’m way past bedtime.
the first draft of the Mattis resignation letter simply read “fuck this”
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 20, 2018
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
300 plus point drops every single day. That can’t be sustainable for long.
You’d think that.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
That about face occurred right after Trump had his private golf outing with Graham, away from the press and microphones.
Remember, the RNC was hacked by Russia as well.
I’m out. The Sailor Jerry rum won’t finish itself and I’m way past bedtime.
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Oh now you mention it, that’s right. I couldn’t quite remember what it was that really set off the blackmail-dar but that’s it.
A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
no he didn’t please make it stop https://t.co/bqQnHdmHc8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
Notice the effective and beautiful sharp spikes, on which to impale the rapists and criminals as they attempt to scale the dreaded Steel Slat Barrier.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
NOT WALL NO MORE
STEEL SLAT BARRIER— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 21, 2018
re: #95 Charles Johnson
Depending on how wide those slats are, I could get through them. (I can get through the space left by one cinder block.)
Plus no one would think to pass things through that.
So, for those playing the home game, the DHS wasted millions on wall prototypes that Trump has now totally forgotten about in order to bullshit voters into believing that all he wants is steel slates…you know, after spending the better part of three years insisting it would be a concrete structure that would be impossible to climb over or tunnel beneath.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
I know it’s just a dumb graphic but by inference it’s implying a wall about 50 feet tall.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
You can always tunnel UNDER it.
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
I know it’s just a dumb graphic but by inference it’s implying a wall about 50 feet tall.
He did mention they make precast concrete slabs 50 feet or more in length.
So, the taller the better to Trump.
It makes up for mushroom shortcomings…if you know what I mean.
re: #100 Skip Intro
You can always tunnel UNDER it.
We build The Great Artistic Slat Wall…and they build something like the El Chapo Tunnel system.
Was the goal here to invent the most physically attackable structure possible? One man using a come-along winch will be able to break that apart.
— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 21, 2018
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve been in and out all day. You had posted about Sailor Jerry Rum earlier. Did you know about the stickers on the back of the label?
There’s a Secret Sticker on Every Label of Sailor Jerry Rum
Warm water and patience. For the old ones. Maybe the newer are more easily opened.
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
Hell you could barrel an SUV into that wall and create a huge hole in it.
re: #103 goddamnedfrank
I don’t think Trump knows shit about building.
The URL for the GoFundMe page for Trump’s wall is trending so high among accounts linked to Russian influence operations that the domain itself (GoFundMe) is now the 2nd most popular domain being shared within this network, per @SecureDemocracy’s Hamilton 68 dashboard. pic.twitter.com/wVqwbGyg1X
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) December 21, 2018
Didn’t we have a right winger who showed up to give a running commentary every time the market hiccuped late in the Obama administration?
I guess he isn’t such a faithful Dow watcher with Trump in office.
Taliban greets Pentagon’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan with cries of victory. https://t.co/FniypD4YSI
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 21, 2018
But…but…but…Sarah Sanders told me that this was the LAST thing that our enemies wanted, for us to tuck tail and run!
You mean she wasn’t being completely honest with me? I CAN’T believe THAT!!
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re: #95 Charles Johnson
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He really thinks “Steel Slat Barrier” is a winner? Truly?
re: #112 Mike Lamb
He really thinks “Steel Slat Barrier” is a winner? Truly?
“We’ll build a wall of steel slats, and Mexico will pay China for it!”
or,
“We’ll build a wall of steel slats, and Mexican scrap dealers will profit from it!”
re: #112 Mike Lamb
He really thinks “Steel Slat Barrier” is a winner? Truly?
He doesn’t think - take away how normal people talk, think, act - and you have trump.
So are those steel piles that will be driven into the ground? That makes them something like 80+ feet long, depending on how deep they have to be driven and assuming ground conditions are such that they can be driven at all. Then welders will come along to put the points on. I think that raises the cost around 10 times higher than Trump claims, at a minimum.
Just to be clear many of us are cheered by the departure of Tillerson and now Mattis. Neither could ever seem to grasp that Trump won the presidency nor the dangers of the swamp.
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) December 21, 2018
This guy https://t.co/HwX6AnxFaS
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 21, 2018
“It’s good that you done that, Anthony Donald! REAL good! Isn’t it good that he done that?”
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People have been celebrating the winter solstice since long before Christianity.
I have no problem with “Peace on Earth and Good Will to Everyone”
I do have a problem on Christians claiming some exclusive rights to the season.
No one owns the season..or any season
If you want specific recognition of the holiday you celebrate tell me how I’m supposed to know by looking at you
re: #115 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
You are truly history’s greatest monster.
The senators basically just agreed to continue talking and negotiating. Had they not have voted to proceed, there would have been no obvious legislative vehicle. And it would have kicked a short-term CR back to the House to consider. Jones, Flake, Corker all voted yes https://t.co/I4DTYXXESk
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 21, 2018
Hear, hear!
“An unreliable customer that is capable of murder and capable of leaving 14 million people in Yemen of starving to death – this is not the kind of customer that we want to deal with as a nation,” https://t.co/17kPe6ylqp #cdnpoli— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) December 21, 2018
re: #118 dangerman
No one owns the season..or any season
If you want specific recognition of the holiday you celebrate tell me how I’m supposed to know by looking at you
When people wish me “happy,” “merry,” “good,” anything I take that as a kind wish for good things. I don’t reprimand them for wishing me the wrong type of joy.
The evolution of steel slat wall design 1280 CE to 2020 CE pic.twitter.com/949Mcp1qOy
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) December 21, 2018
Baltics after Mattis leaves.
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) December 21, 2018
I don’t understand these Right Wingers. They hate refugees, yet they support Putin’s expansion foreign policy. What do think will happen when Russian troops invade Ukraine, Poland, The Baltics, and the rest of Eastern Europe? More refugees.
Corker and Flake say they switched their vote on the motion to proceed with the understanding that the next vote they take will be on an agreement that can pass the Senate and the House.
“There is no path forward for the House bill,” Flake says.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 21, 2018
re: #68 Charles Johnson
re: #73 lawhawk
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹
My rule of thumb is that if you have even the faintest odor of War on Xmas on you, I will carpet bomb you with “Happy Holidays” until you’re crying in a corner of your manger display, cuddling a Bill O’Reilly book for support.
This fucking War on Xmas shit is, without a doubt, what has ruined Christmas for me over the last 15 years. What really rubs my reindeer the wrong way is that people have been saying “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” since I was a kid. That’s 52 goddamn years on this mud ball.
This crap didn’t start until white Christians realized people weren’t going to let them monopolize December with this “Love Christmas or get out of the country” horseshit anymore.
re: #126 DodgerFan1988
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Ah - but these refugees are different to the ones from Africa - I’m just trying to determine what makes them different.
re: #123 calochortus
When people wish me “happy,” “merry,” “good,” anything I take that as a kind wish for good things. I don’t reprimand them for wishing me the wrong type of joy.
When I was a little kid—so like 60 years ago—my Mom would buy Christmas cards in boxes with stacks of four different kinds. Only one would say “Merry Christmas”. The others would be “Seasons’ Greetings”, “Happy Holidays”, maybe a “Jouyeux Noel”—it varied. The War on Christmas™ has been going on for a looooong time!
Look at this asshole pic.twitter.com/lhesoPeA5x
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 21, 2018
Fuck off Bill!
re: #126 DodgerFan1988
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Thinking ahead is not a wingnut feature.
Actually thinking isn’t a feature.
Now knee-jerking responses is right up their alley.
re: #132 DodgerFan1988
I’m guessing this tweet is my fault for mentioning him in my previous post.
I basically Beetlejuiced Bill O’Reilly.
Happy Holidays!!!
re: #132 DodgerFan1988
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Fuck off Bill!
I’ve got a feeling Donny’s gonna go like Elvis—before RBG does….
Lordy did @KFILE find a tape — Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s new White House chief of staff, said during the campaign that Trump’s border wall idea was “simplistic” and “absurd and almost childish.” https://t.co/BEqCuS5qUT
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) December 21, 2018
Thanks to the tax cut, investors will be able to keep more of the money they are not making.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 20, 2018
Petri snark
apparently there were rails? https://t.co/RIlBez7GpA
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) December 21, 2018
re: #132 DodgerFan1988
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Fuck off Bill!
You’re a sick asshole Bill. Hopefully RBG outlives you and has the last laugh.
Guys guys guys, calm down
Susan Collins is Concerned
Bob Corker is Troubled
Ben Sasse will send out a press release
Jeff Flake will be on the news sharing his disappointment
Marco is going to lay down one hell of a bible verse any minute
We’re all going to die@NYinLA2121 pic.twitter.com/tiGcj85k7I— Maggie Jordan (@MaggieJordanACN) December 21, 2018
re: #128 Mattand
My rule of thumb is that if you have even the faintest odor of War on Xmas on you, I will carpet bomb you with “Happy Holidays” until you’re crying in a corner of your manger display, cuddling a Bill O’Reilly book for support.
This fucking War on Xmas shit is, without a doubt, what has ruined Christmas for me over the last 15 years. What really rubs my reindeer the wrong way is that people have been saying “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” since I was a kid. That’s 52 goddamn years on this mud ball.
This crap didn’t start until white Christians realized people weren’t going to let them monopolize December with this “Love Christmas or get out of the country” horseshit anymore.
I remember helping my mom decorate back in the early 60s when I was like 7 or so. One of the things we put up were those cardboard with color foil overlaid letters that hung on a string over a doorway or whatever that said both Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings.
And my parents were very much practicing Catholics.
But then, many fundamentalists don’t think Catholics are Christians. So…
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I bet nearly every Republican did but they’re all clearly enablers.
Yeah Vlad the Impaler would be proud. https://t.co/49dyO4otmX
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 21, 2018
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…everywhere but here! pic.twitter.com/PTtqqX0FeS
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 21, 2018
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump wants to make them with Cor-Ten steel so they get nice and rusty…
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
CLIMB Assist enables emergency personnel to scale wrought iron fences with spikes.
Gee I sure hope the Mexicans don’t have access to the internet 🤦♂️https://t.co/Kb4ksYAneH— Brett Flower (@au_bizcoach) December 21, 2018
THE WORST THING EVER
2 has-been con artists desperately trying to provide cover for & minimize the crimes committed by the crook in the Oval Office.
Video by @ManInTheHoody (a must follow) pic.twitter.com/CH3y2IBoEF— Ryan Knight 🇺🇸 (@ProudResister) December 21, 2018
re: #126 DodgerFan1988
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I don’t understand these Right Wingers. They hate refugees, yet they support Putin’s expansion foreign policy. What do think will happen when Russian troops invade Ukraine, Poland, The Baltics, and the rest of Eastern Europe? More refugees.
You think they care? Any refugees created by a Russian invasion of anyplace is just going to be assumed to be Someone Else’s Problem - and I’m certain they won’t be wanting to settle any of them here - and they’ll probably just blame Obama anyway, so what’s the big….?
Can we get Alex Jones committed for insanity?
re: #106 Skip Intro
I don’t think Trump knows shit about building.
No, but the Polish immigrants that built his tower that he stiffed sure do.
re: #151 Ace Rothstein
No, but the Polish immigrants that built his tower that he stiffed sure do.
I went to one of his first rallies in Derry, NH in 2015. His whole schtick was “I’m a builder, I know how to get these things done. I’m gonna build it 40 feet high and you know what, maybe I’ll even put my name on it!” [This is pretty close to what he actually said and the crowd went wild. After seeing that horror I started to tell liberal colleagues that the shit was real and that he could win. I got laughed at.]
he’s busy busy busy
Some of the many Bills that I am signing in the Oval Office right now. Cancelled my trip on Air Force One to Florida while we wait to see if the Democrats will help us to protect America’s Southern Border! pic.twitter.com/ws6LYhKcKl
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Man. It’s not every day that you see CTV (which tends to ‘conservatism’ in its news) quote somebody from the NDP favourably.
welp pic.twitter.com/ISOeVjlLyY
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) December 21, 2018
re: #150 ObserverArt
Can we get Alex Jones committed for insanity?
He lives in Texas. They’d be more likely to elect him to the school board.
A car was launched into the air off a concrete barrier on one side of a tunnel entrance, hitting the top of the tunnel before crashing down. Police said that the driver did not have serious injuries and passed a breathalyzer test.
A U.S. increasingly hostile to immigration, as well as escalating living costs, have prompted an exodus of Indian technology workers to Canada, where open tech positions are forecast to reach 200,000 by 2020. Key destinations include Toronto, which plays host to artificial intelligence (AI) development efforts, along with startups like the popular Wattpad storytelling platform. Other attractive Canadian AI centers include Ottawa, home to the Shopify e-commerce platform, and Montreal, where the deep learning Element AI laboratory is located. To become more competitive in emerging tech industries, Canada has modified its permanent and temporary immigrant programs, with tech-skilled applicants in the former program receiving additional perks. The number of Indian nationals applying for permanent Canadian residency boomed between 2016 and 2017—up by 83% for those entering under a federal skills program, 122% for those selected by provinces to fill specific vacancies, and 538% for those who entered based on work experience.
re: #161 Belafon
This is exactly what Bannon wanted. He thought that if he could create conditions to get Asians to move on then white workers would finally get the jobs they had usurped. How such shit heads get access to power is the real problem.
So… not quite sure who to root for here. Needless to say, if Dershowitz brings a suit against Taylor, it opens the door to all kinds of discovery, and that might not be what he wants. In fact, Dershowitz would/should know that as a public figure, the claims are even higher.
Why don’t you have the guts to directly accuse me so I can sue you for defamation and prove that you’re lying. Coward!
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) December 4, 2017
I accuse you directly. You had sex repeatedly with minor victims provided to you by Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/xPatwTaXZB
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) December 21, 2018
Sit back and grab the popcorn, because someone is going to end up spending a lot of money on lawyer fees… and I don’t think Taylor loses on the defamation claims (Dershowitz is a public figure… and there’s some evidence around Epstein’s behavior that’s substantiated). https://t.co/HyYtbrWqIi
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 22, 2018
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) December 22, 2018
re: #163 lawhawk
So… not quite sure who to root for here. Needless to say, if Dershowitz brings a suit against Taylor, it opens the door to all kinds of discovery, and that might not be what he wants. In fact, Dershowitz would/should know that as a public figure, the claims are even higher.
Either way, discovery’s gonna be a bitch for Dersh.
re: #163 lawhawk
So… not quite sure who to root for here. Needless to say, if Dershowitz brings a suit against Taylor, it opens the door to all kinds of discovery, and that might not be what he wants. In fact, Dershowitz would/should know that as a public figure, the claims are even higher.
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Isn’t Claude a left-wing grifter? I fell victim to the Menschians in 2016 but soon realized how full of shit they often were.
re: #166 Barefoot Grin
Isn’t Claude a left-wing grifter? I fell victim to the Menschians in 2016 but soon realized how full of shit they often were.
If so, both of them need to lose.
re: #163 lawhawk
So… not quite sure who to root for here. Needless to say, if Dershowitz brings a suit against Taylor, it opens the door to all kinds of discovery, and that might not be what he wants. In fact, Dershowitz would/should know that as a public figure, the claims are even higher.
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Now, that is throwing down the gauntlet. Dersh has to respond.
Some of the many Bills that I am signing in the Oval Office right now. Cancelled my trip on Air Force One to Florida while we wait to see if the Democrats will help us to protect America’s Southern Border! pic.twitter.com/ws6LYhKcKl
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
Uh, that’s a blank sheet of paper he’s signing. https://t.co/3m85ZqKgiE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
re: #167 TedStriker
They will lose. Lots and lots of money.
re: #166 Barefoot Grin
That’s quite my point. There are no winners here - except the lawyers who’ll be repping the sides and raking in considerable sums in the process.
Look at Donnie trying to give the “Resolute Stare” from behind the “Resolute Desk.”
re: #171 lawhawk
That’s quite my point. There are no winners here - except the lawyers who’ll be repping the sides and raking in considerable sums in the process.
Thanks. I was never quite sure about Claude. But I seem to remember him getting money for his car projects based on his “hero for the cause” status.
re: #166 Barefoot Grin
Isn’t Claude a left-wing grifter? I fell victim to the Menschians in 2016 but soon realized how full of shit they often were.
Claude and Louise are the left’s counterpart to the right’s gibbering lunatic preacher/prophets.
re: #160 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Perfect video to illustrate the Trump admin.
re: #169 Charles Johnson
Stack of props alongside him.
And the thing is that there’s probably a bunch of post offices namings that have to be signed into law. Or like earlier today, renaming an office of the DHS to WMD from nuclear.
It seems miraculous. Justice Ginsburg’s broken ribs allowed the malignant nodes to be found and removed before they could spread. Amazingly, no further treatment is required. Wow! pic.twitter.com/4MRQjn7A0h
— Bob Loeb (@BobLoeb) December 21, 2018
re: #177 gocart mozart
God be like: RBG ain’t going nowhere. Sorry, nutjobs.
re: #177 gocart mozart
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Why does Tweety think the SecDef’s name is “Mantis”?
WHY AM I WATCHING TWEETY?
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
God be like: RBG ain’t going nowhere. Sorry, nutjobs.
Tide comes in; tide goes out; you can’t explain it. ///
re: #180 ipsos
Why does Tweety think the SecDef’s name is “Mantis”?
WHY AM I WATCHING TWEETY?
Why am I now watching Tweety in my mind saying this and knowing it’s true?
Bonus points if you can name the band and the one hit wonder.
A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! pic.twitter.com/DEWu7xAIuq
— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 22, 2018
re: #183 goddamnedfrank
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re: #164 gocart mozart
And if it were fields of candy canes south of us, would you buy them by the pound or the bushel?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) December 22, 2018
re: #186 Belafon
The Maginot Line worked so well in protecting France against a German invasion.
hmmm
Wishing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a full and speedy recovery!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018
re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter
The Maginot Line worked so well in protecting France against a German invasion.
Agree, but his hypothetical is really stupid. History would be so different.
Seriously now. What is going on here?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
re: #191 Charles Johnson
What I think whenever I see the news these days.
Guess he’s not taking responsibility after all.
Big shocker. https://t.co/CBTM8EjQXr— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 22, 2018
Schumer Tells Mike Pence And Jared Kushner To Their Faces No Wall https://t.co/ky2lkmAi2E via @politicususa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 22, 2018
Don’t make me turn this car around.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
Senate stands adjourned until 12 PM Saturday.
re: #196 Single-handed sailor
Senate stands adjourned until 12 PM Saturday.
Merry Christmas federal workers!
You’re not getting paid because we want a damn steel fence.
Sincerely,
Republicans
Just discovered that never-Trumper Charlie Sykes has blocked me on Twitter. He used to follow me! Weird, I never interacted with him; maybe he got pissed at me for expressing my opinion about the Weekly Standard. In which case, fuck him.
We need a law that says members of Congress don’t get paid during Shutdowns.
Also of note: This will be the 3rd shutdown under Trump, which I believe is a first for any President.
I keep ASKING and ASKING them to just adopt the #SouthernSwastika as the national flag until this mess is over, because if it’s still the #StarsAndStripes at the point the government falls, the former “symbol of freedom” will have to become a banned image due to its connections.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 22, 2018
Trump is messing up all the Senator’s holiday plans. This will make them thrilled with their Donny.
Hahahahaha.
Everyday he makes more and more people sick of his Fake President Act®.
But the real conservative government is happy for so many reasons.
Who is the real conservative government you ask?
Why that would be Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham.
Yeah…no one elected them, but they are running this show.
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
Also of note: This will be the 3rd shutdown under Trump, which I believe is a first for any President.
It’s a record.
It’s the third time there’s been a shutdown under the same president.
It’s the third shutdown in which the same political party holds House, Senate, and WH. That’s unprecedented and a record not likely to ever be broken.
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
We need a law that says members of Congress don’t get paid during Shutdowns.
You know who would have to write that law right?
re: #199 Charles Johnson
Just discovered that never-Trumper Charlie Sykes has blocked me on Twitter. He used to follow me! Weird, I never interacted with him; maybe he got pissed at me for expressing my opinion about the Weekly Standard. In which case, fuck him.
I saw a couple minutes of Charlie today saying he is real scared of Trump and what he might do now that Mattis is gone. He fears an unbridled Trump.
Hey Charlie, you ass…you should have feared him about three or more years ago. But no, you like so many on the right were drunk on the conservative whine.
re: #176 lawhawk
Ayup… the majority of that stack of bills to sign were…
POST OFFICE NAMING.
Fun fact: 27 out of the 34 bills sent to his desk for signature yesterday were just renaming post offices. https://t.co/SW7ajrt3aT pic.twitter.com/nxkvjq3BnI
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 22, 2018
The Oval Office has gotta be like the Bunker Scene in ”Downfall”, but with ”Yakkity Sax” as the soundtrack
— Soxtomistic18 (@mab8663Panto) December 20, 2018
re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter
The Maginot Line worked so well in protecting France against a German invasion.
Reasonably certain the migrants won’t be driving tanks.
That said, Wall is solution to a problem that only racists believe in.
NYT dumped an amazing piece of reporting on the Trump family’s generational crimes a few weeks ago and no one noticed. They need to do a “Slow Burn” or “Bag Man” style multi-part podcast on it.
A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
Sure, you may laugh, but it’s a modular design, allowing all kinds of future extensions such as electrification, moat infrastructure, computer-controlled micro-darts with a curare payload, etc. etc. https://t.co/bqQnHdmHc8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
re: #209 lawhawk
All three Trump shutdowns occurred in 2018.
It doesn’t appear to me that he’s learning how to do his job.
re: #123 calochortus
When people wish me “happy,” “merry,” “good,” anything I take that as a kind wish for good things. I don’t reprimand them for wishing me the wrong type of joy.
Of course.
Only a small person would think “you didn’t wish me the right way”re: #137 Blind Frog Belly White
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Going broke from all that winning
re: #215 Charles Johnson
That’s all well and good, but where’s the sharks with friggin’ laser beams?
Presidents lawyer sent to Prison
Flynn accused of Treason
Giuliani losing his fucking mind
The Chief of Staff job no one wants
Troops out of Syria
Troops out of Afghanistan
Dow Jones has worst December since 1931
Mattis Quits
And now another government shutdown
This all in ONE MONTH. Most Presidencies don’t see this much crazy shit in a year.
Merry Fucking Christmas America!
re: #215 Charles Johnson
Not to mention the metal points will be excellent lightning rods.
I don’t know why the whole world is so worried about Mattis bailing out. After all, Trump still has John Bolton to be “the adult in the room.”
This is fine.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
re: #220 freetoken
Not to mention the metal points will be excellent lightning rods.
“Mr. Trump, for this next photo, we need you leaning imposingly against the wall. Put your hand on it and look Presidential.”
“Like this? Wow, those clouds are dark. Good thing there’s no global warming.”
“That’s perfect, sir. Any minute now.”
re: #213 Blind Frog Belly White
Reasonably certain the migrants won’t be driving tanks.
That said, Wall is solution to a problem that only racists believe in.
Except — didn’t the Germans try going around the line? It’s not as though this ridiculous wall is going to extend around our entire southern border.
I kind of really want one of these! “The Skizee” 4 Stroke Powered Ski Machine Available For Pre-Order https://t.co/9pQCeKG0MR via @UnofficialNet
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 22, 2018
re: #221 Charles Johnson
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On the plus side, he’s not listening to Bolton.
OTOH, he’s not listening when Bolton makes sense, either.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Except — didn’t the Germans try going around the line? It’s not as though this ridiculous wall is going to extend around our entire southern border.
Yes, that’s true. The Maginot Line was effective in deterring the German Army - so much so that they did an end run around it, turned around and attacked it from the rear, and some fortresses still held out for over a month after Paris fell. But the border wall won’t even be as effective as that, let alone the fact that it won’t completely seal off the border.
re: #218 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s all well and good, but where’s the sharks with friggin’ laser beams?
That’s an optional add-on to the moat infrastructure extension. Only $28 billion per year.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Except — didn’t the Germans try going around the line? It’s not as though this ridiculous wall is going to extend around our entire southern border.
Well, yeah. The French figured the Ardennes was impenetrable, so they anchored one end of the wall there and figured they were good.
Oops.
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
We need a law that says members of Congress don’t get paid during Shutdowns.
For the obvious reasons, never gonna happen
re: #227 Charles Johnson
That’s an optional add-on to the moat infrastructure extension. Only $28 billion per year.
It’s a power-up in Kashing in on Klash of Klans.
re: #226 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yes, that’s true. The Maginot Line was effective in deterring the German Army - so much so that they did an end run around it, turned around and attacked it from the rear, and some fortresses still held out for over a month after Paris fell. But the border wall won’t even be as effective as that, let alone the fact that it won’t completely seal off the border.
“Classic crust defense - punch through at any point and the whole thing fails.”
re: #228 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, yeah. The French figured the Ardennes was impenetrable, so they anchored one end of the wall there and figured they were good.
Oops.
Cubans certainly found alternative routes to reach the US — and not through Mexico.
re: #204 lawhawk
It’s a record.
It’s the third time there’s been a shutdown under the same president.
It’s the third shutdown in which the same political party holds House, Senate, and WH. That’s unprecedented and a record not likely to ever be broken.
And they managed to do it in less than two years
some of the others had eight and couldnt
re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White
“Classic crust defense - punch through at any point and the whole thing fails.”
Ironically, the French Army’s defense in depth wasn’t actually that bad. The problem was that they committed their best units to a fight on the wrong front, and put their weakest units at the hinge. If the 1st French Army had been held on the border and been available to counterattack against the bridgeheads once the aerial assault had failed, it probably would have been game over for the Germans. But as mentioned upthread, the French believed the Ardennes were impassable, and ignored intelligence reports suggesting that the Germans were coming that way.
re: #237 ObserverArt
Remember when #InfrastructureWeek was an actual thing?
— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 22, 2018
re: #239 dangerman
How many mulvaneys in a scaramucci?
I believe it’s 12 Scaramuccis to the Mulvaney, but my reckoning of time may be altered slightly.
re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I believe it’s 12 Scaramuccis to the Mulvaney, but my reckoning of time may be altered slightly.
It may be different south of the equator
re: #241 dangerman
It may be different south of the equator
Yeah, they swirl the other way going down the drain.
re: #224 teleskiguy
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I love machines, so I had to check out the video. Pretty cool idea. Motorized cross-country skiing…and your own way up the hill.
One question though. Will the ski resorts allow these everywhere on their slopes, or will they regulate them to certain areas?
I’m not a skier, but I do know some skiers and had a local ski shop as an advertising client for years. Some skiers can be pretty tough on anything new. I still remember when snow boards came out. There was some resentment and criticism.
re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter
Cubans certainly found alternative routes to reach the US — and not through Mexico.
That’s simply impossible. Every illegal immigrant and all illicit drugs enter through Mexico, in the middle of the desert, walked in by Bad Hombres.
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Funny thing is, I had almost forgotten about the incredibly brief career of Anthony Scaramucci. We’ve stopped using him as a unit of measure for too long. Too many Scaramuccis have passed since we last measured something by a Scaramucci.
re: #244 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s simply impossible. Every illegal immigrant and all illicit drugs enter through Mexico, in the middle of the desert, walked in by Bad Hombres.
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If Trump only knew how bad Florida is, he might do a Bugs Bunny.
Working swing through the weekend but off on Tuesday and Wednesday. I get a pass on a party at a wingnuts house Saturday. Sometimes my shitty schedule pays off.
re: #245 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Funny thing is, I had almost forgotten about the incredibly brief career of Anthony Scaramucci. We’ve stopped using him as a unit of measure for too long. Too many Scaramuccis have passed since we last measured something by a Scaramucci.
These last two years have been one hell of a decade or two.
re: #236 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Ironically, the French Army’s defense in depth wasn’t actually that bad. The problem was that they committed their best units to a fight on the wrong front, and put their weakest units at the hinge. If the 1st French Army had been held on the border and been available to counterattack against the bridgeheads once the aerial assault had failed, it probably would have been game over for the Germans. But as mentioned upthread, the French believed the Ardennes were impassable, and ignored intelligence reports suggesting that the Germans were coming that way.
Not to mention the biggest problem with the Maginot Line was that it stopped at the Belgian border: and the French didn’t complete it because:
1) They didn’t want to spend the money, and
2) They didn’t want to offend the Belgians by fortifying their “peaceful” border, so they went with Plan B; i.e. wait til the Germans attacked through Belgium, then rush in with an armored force.
Would have worked, too, maybe: except the Belgians also abandoned the Ardennes sector. Ooops….
re: #246 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If Trump only knew how bad Florida is, he might do a Bugs Bunny.
If he believed in climate change, he’d just wait a few years.
re: #244 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s simply impossible. Every illegal immigrant and all illicit drugs enter through Mexico, in the middle of the desert, walked in by Bad Hombres.
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With calves like cantaloupes.
You can never forget the calves like cantaloupes.
re: #249 Jay C
Not to mention the biggest problem with the Maginot Line was that it stopped at the Belgian border: and the French didn’t complete it because:
1) They didn’t want to spend the money, and
2) They didn’t want to offend the Belgians by fortifying their “peaceful” border, so they went with Plan B; i.e. wait til the Germans attacked through Belgium, then rush in with an armored force.Would have worked, too, maybe: except the Belgians also abandoned the Ardennes sector. Ooops….
To be fair, the Belgians got surprised by getting their asses kicked at Eben-Emael. A handful of paratroopers with top-secret shaped charges really altered the landscape of the war.
Wishing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a full and speedy recovery!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018
Can’t you just smell the sincerity? https://t.co/zea0usKSUx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 22, 2018
Senior DOJ lawyers advised acting AG Whitaker not to sign a gun regulation change, warning him that doing so could lead to a successful legal challenge to his appointment. He signed it on Tuesday @DevlinBarrett https://t.co/uM5mvEBJEf
— Brooke Anne Lorenz (@BrookeLorenz) December 21, 2018
re: #243 ObserverArt
Will the ski resorts allow these everywhere on their slopes, or will they regulate them to certain areas?
I’m going to say no, too much liability.
Some skiers can be pretty tough on anything new. I still remember when snow boards came out. There was some resentment and criticism.
A news clip from the 1980s.
I know 80-year-old snowboarders. The sport has come a long way. And yet snowboarding is still not allowed at Deer Valley, Alta, or Mad River Glen to this day.
re: #257 teleskiguy
I know 80-year-old snowboarders. The sport has come a long way. And yet snowboarding is still not allowed at Deer Valley, Alta, or Mad River Glen to this day.
A former relative of mine (ex-husband of a niece) was an Olympic skier who was in the first Games to feature skiing halfpipe. She snowboards, as do her brothers. I wish they would compete, they could make a name for themselves.
re: #252 ObserverArt
With calves like cantaloupes.
You can never forget the calves like cantaloupes.
Wait - are we talking the small, grocery store-type cantaloupes? Or the big Eastern Shore Lopes?
re: #246 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If Trump only knew how bad Florida is, he might do a Bugs Bunny.
He knows.
He also knows his marks and how easy it is to make Mexicans enemies and ripe for hate.
I have a very conservative, but not nutty, brother out in Arizona.
Originally from Ohio of course he was out at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the mid 60s and like it. So in the 70s he moved his family there. He is retired and lives south of Tucson. I also have two nieces from his family out there. And, I have two nieces from my wingnut oldest brother in the Phoenix area. All Ohio roots.
I don’t talk about Mexicans with many of them. Why? Because they are Ohioans that moved to Arizona and complain about a group of people that have lived in that area forever.
I don’t get it. But I am the know-nothing youngest brother that was never close to them because there are many years between us.
re: #258 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I competed when I was a teenager, got out of serious competition my senior year in high school. Even being a hot shot 17-year-old who was placing in the top third in most of the races I competed in (I trained with Tommy Moe and Daron Rahlves, I had a French coach from Chamonix take me under his wing when I was 14) I knew I wasn’t as good as your Lindsey Vonns and Ted Ligetys of today. And the racing life started to make skiing less fun for me, and I could never abide by that because since I was a little kid I’ve know skiing as one of the funnest fucking things ever.
re: #261 teleskiguy
My would-be nephew narrowly missed a bronze medal in his inaugural Games. He’s too old now to be a serious competitor, but I have a feeling his younger brothers might yet make some noise in the skiing halfpipe in the coming winter Games. It is bittersweet to me, because I love the niece and I am deeply angry at his family for the way he treated her, but… OLYMPIC PARTICIPANTS.
Continental U.S. would look like this, if all the ice melted. Source: https://t.co/mjzFQLcfM5 pic.twitter.com/QpPIwqsJ8z
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) December 22, 2018
Bye bye Central Valley, only one of the world’s most productive agricultural lands.
re: #256 teleskiguy
I’m going to say no, too much liability.
A news clip from the 1980s.
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Yeah, that is what I remember.
And that is the time period I worked with the ski shop. I did his ads and newsletters all the way up to about 98 when he retired and closed the shop.
I got a kick out of the news reporter saying “a fad from California” almost saying it would not last.
Ha. Humans.
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
he’s busy busy busy
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Got a big bad thick Sharpie and I’m shutting down the Government today…— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) December 22, 2018
re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - are we talking the small, grocery store-type cantaloupes? Or the big Eastern Shore Lopes?
I dunno. You’d have to ask Steve King from Iowa.
She’s already taking leave? Really?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces ‘self-care’ break before congressional session even starts
re: #266 ObserverArt
I dunno. You’d have to ask Steve King from Iowa.
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Or Jimmy the Greek “bred for bigger thighs”. (I’m paraphrasing but only a bit)
re: #267 GlutenFreeJesus
We don’t know what this is about. I’m willing to give her a pass at this point.
re: #267 GlutenFreeJesus
She’s already taking leave? Really?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces ‘self-care’ break before congressional session even starts
why not? She hasn’t been sworn in yet.
re: #267 GlutenFreeJesus
She’s already taking leave? Really?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces ‘self-care’ break before congressional session even starts
Well, considering she hasn’t actually started, she can’t be leaving anything. OTOH, how many other newly-elected reps have had to deal with what she has?
If you read the article, what she’s trying to do is figure out how to continue to take care of herself before she actually starts. She can’t quite do the same routine she used to do. She said she did yoga 3-4 times a week. Probably not going to be keeping the same schedule with Trump in the White House.
The American government is shutting down and, if I were any good at My job, so would its leader’s circulatory system.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) December 22, 2018
re: #267 GlutenFreeJesus
She’s already taking leave? Really?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces ‘self-care’ break before congressional session even starts
Technically, she’s not even on the job until Jan. Taking leave for a break (and a Christmas break at that) ain’t even a blip.
re: #265 Joe Bacon 🌹
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good fucking grief
OUR GREAT COUNTRY MUST HAVE BORDER SECURITY! pic.twitter.com/ZGcYygMf3a
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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OUR GREAT COUNTRY MUST HAVE BORDER SECURITY
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re: #273 gwangung
Technically, she’s not even on the job until Jan. Taking leave for a break (and a Christmas break at that) ain’t even a blip.
We didn’t even know who she was a year ago.
She has had her life make quiet a turn in that time.
She has had a lot of crap thrown at her already by a lot of the media. That has got to be unsettling.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
A Steven Miller production.
New - Trump has been venting his frustrations about SDNY at Whitaker since explosive Cohen revelations - CNNPolitics https://t.co/bFFhqWtFUc
— Laura Jarrett (@LauraAJarrett) December 22, 2018
This is shocking. “Trump pressed Whitaker on why more wasn’t being done to control prosecutors in New York who brought the charges in the first place, suggesting they were going rogue.” https://t.co/yzKEkOkPfh
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) December 22, 2018
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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Big Brother speaks.
Orwell would have loved it.
Be sure to vote for Big Brother Trump.
(Where I was going with this ‘shop from the other day.)
re: #277 ObserverArt
We didn’t even know who she was a year ago.
She has had her life make quiet a turn in that time.
She has had a lot of crap thrown at her already by a lot of the media. That has got to be unsettling.
The other thing she is doing is broadcasting what it’s actually like to be a rep. She says in the article that she wants people to see that she isn’t perfect, and to see that none of the Congresspeople are. Just as she told us about the orientation training that only involved business, she’s letting us know the other side.
It’s like what you’d find on one of the cheaper stock photo sites under “businessman” pic.twitter.com/stwp9EMgwl
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 22, 2018
re: #281 Belafon
The other thing she is doing is broadcasting what it’s actually like to be a rep. She says in the article that she wants people to see that she isn’t perfect, and to see that none of the Congresspeople are. Just as she told us about the orientation training that only involved business, she’s letting us know the other side.
We can admire that. It will soon be used against her though.
It will be made a sign of weakness and she isn’t ready for prime time. That is how it works in politics with a dedicated right thinking media.
She’ll handle it. But being honest also means opening up for attacks. She will learn that.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I still think that first one against the overly decorative wall pattern looks like it is at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
He is that fake.
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