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To another year of Robert Mueller making the Trumpers squirm.
Join us live from @JHUAPL at 12:15am ET as we mark the historic #NewYearsEve flyby of #UltimaThule. @NASANewHorizons is scheduled to perform the most distant planetary flyby ever at 12:33am. Tune in: https://t.co/oJKHgKpQjH pic.twitter.com/shC3qD2blM
— NASA (@NASA) January 1, 2019
Please let this be a better year. We’ve been in a rather ugly spiral.
Even with the rain I am still hearing fireworks going off. At least I hope that is what I am hearing.
We are all having a better New Years Eve than the most powerful man in the world…
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) January 1, 2019
From downstairs.
re: #395 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
What kind of dog? Discovered that dogs really help my daughter and so I need to get her a dog. Just got the go ahead from the landlord. I’ve always had big dogs, but being in a rental and with two kids and then a dog to fit into a car to travel, we need a small dog. So, I’m looking for a hypoallergenic dog that is great with kids and not aggressive. Any suggestions anyone has on that would be great! I’m thinking of a miniature poodle or miniature poodle mix.
Dog “breeds” to consider:
Bichon Frise. Havanese/Havipoo. Maltipoo. Cavichon/Cavipoo.
I skied to Gnarly Knob four times today. So. Fucking. Fun. Steep ‘n’ deep!
Nancy Pelosi’s newest funding proposal doesn’t represent any serious attempt to secure our border or find a compromise. A $1.3 billion Democrat wish list that includes zero money for a border barrier is a non-starter and will not be a legitimate answer to this impasse.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) December 31, 2018
Mark Meadows can just take a seat
Welcome to the minority Mark Meadows. Your extortion has come to an end. New sheriff in town. Happy new year! https://t.co/JN3DSSwnFQ
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 1, 2019
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mark Meadows can just take a seat
You’re lecturing about compromise. GFY Freedumb Caucus fuck.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see the Wall is now a “barrier”. It’s not even capitalized!
re: #1 Targetpractice
To another year of Robert Mueller making the Trumpers squirm.
Everyone seems to be saying he may have his report ready to roll in February.
Let’s hope that makes for a good New Year.
And I’m out, have a Good & Happy New Year Lizards.
This place is the best on the ‘net.
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mark Meadows can just take a seat
“Compromise,” that word that a Republican uses when they really mean “giving into our demands.”
Rep. Meadows seems to think he’s got anything to offer to this discussion aside from hot air.
Go into 2019 knowing that the guitarist for Queen is also a published astrophysicist 💫 https://t.co/PhcExmjKyY
— Andrés Almeida (@andresdavid) January 1, 2019
A grandfather 40 years from now: “Gather round kids and let me tell you about the wall that nearly destroyed America…”
OK, Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen are no Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin
Rudy, a moron’s moron:
I am looking forward to 2019 so we can end the Mueller Witch Hunt before he starts his unpaid traffic ticket investigation. Happy 2019 to all.
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) January 1, 2019
The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto, are riding aboard New Horizons. They are about to pass Ultima Thule & head out to the stars. — @DrFunkySpoon at #UltimaLive pic.twitter.com/sRnHgAvHwn
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) January 1, 2019
CLd
Teukka, re 447: I grew up ( and still now live) downwind from the Dakota silo fields. Massive fallout guaranteed.
Happy New Year!
Drunk gymnastics. pic.twitter.com/wh2keMJVyT
— Dumb Drunk People (@dumbdrunkpeople) December 31, 2018
The boxer is hiding behind me, wedged into a corner. The beagle is trying to sleep on the couch.
Happy New Year to my fellow Lizards. And I hear fireworks. At least I hope they are fireworks.
re: #27 PhillyPretzel
Sometimes they aren’t fireworks in our neighborhood.
Oh crap, look at the damn mess we dragged into 2019.
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 1, 2019
re: #4 PhillyPretzel
Even with the rain I am still hearing fireworks going off. At least I hope that is what I am hearing.
Fireworks, guns and M80s have been going off here in Koreatown since right past 5PM. And already heard sirens twice so we got some Darwin Award winners…
Happy New Year, east coasters! Btw, Brian May is at NASA in Maryland to premier his new song for the New Horizons missions.
Happy New York, my fellow lizards. Wow, what’s that bright lig…
Just turned midnight here in Toronto.
Happy New Year to all the lizards!! May the coming year be less of a shitshow than this one.
And, just like that, Mattis is out of a job
Effective January 1st, the Honorable Patrick M. Shanahan assumes the responsibilities of the Acting Secretary of Defense.
— U.S. Dept of Defense (@DeptofDefense) January 1, 2019
re: #28 plansbandc
Sometimes they aren’t fireworks in our neighborhood.
Yeah, I just heard a shotgun blast. But this is NW PA farmland.
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rudy, a moron’s moron:
That guy really doesn’t strike me as a L33T H4XOR
Happy New Year to the East Coast. About two more hours to go here at Chez Tumbleweed.
Seems like a good time to go off to bed and wake up next year.
So since the ball has dropped in Times Square, it’s all completely official now, so Happy 2019 to all good Lizards - OK, and the bad ones, too….;)
Your 2018 Legislative Shitmuffin Of The Whole Entire Year Is … JIM JORDAN! https://t.co/hNbs7OyTb9
via @EvanHurst— Wonkette (@Wonkette) January 1, 2019
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s a polite comment in response to Meadows’ stupid tweet which deserves scorn and derision. Pelosi should rescind the $1.3 billion for border security. Don’t give them an inch.
A fusillade of fireworks just erupted over downtown Jacksonville., 10 minutes late
I hope that isn’t a metaphor on the upcoming 2019…
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dr May is going for the Isaac Newton look.
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
That’s a polite comment in response to Meadows’ stupid tweet which deserves scorn and derision. Pelosi should rescind the $1.3 billion for border security. Don’t give them an inch.
“Sorry folks, you had your chance. That offer expired at the end of the last Congress.”
re: #42 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Bit o’ trivia about Newton: While it was the fashion then for men to wear powdered wigs, Newton never did, preferring his own flowing locks over fake hair. Not sure how he kept it clean, though, since shampooing hair was not quite in fashion back in those days.
OK, who else realizes it’s been 2019 in the USA for over an hour now?
So home now. Punched out at 11:00 CST after 2 hours of overtime at the hotel. Fun night overall. Found a package on the stoop with my new set of star gazing binos (Bushnell 7x35, cheap enough for my $50 bonus) waiting for me. I remember that something like these when I was about 12 would have been several hundred in 1975 dollars. Now I just need a nice clear night with Orion climbing up into the sky…
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, who else realizes it’s been 2019 in the USA for over an hour now?
Pfaw! You’re behind the curve. It’s been 2019 for 13 hours here already.
I’m marveling that a former rock star is on the TV as part of the science team behind a interplanetary space probe.
re: #47 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Pfaw! You’re behind the curve. It’s been 2019 for 13 hours here already.
I’m marveling that a former rock star is on the TV as part of the science team behind a interplanetary space probe.
It has not. There’s over an hour and a half to go.
re: #49 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s all relative, man.
Don’t bring family into this…
I can’t wait to see what data New Horizons sends back from Ultima Thule.
Now I wonder where it will go next!
I’m in the central time zone. 2018 still sucks.
re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m in the central time zone. 2018 still sucks.
Sorry to tell you, 2019 isn’t a picnic over here either
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
A relative to you two maybe. I’m not related to it at all.
Poor relation, perhaps.
Hole in one! pic.twitter.com/SMt3URxBxs
— Meow Meow BEAAAAAMMMMMZZZ (@MeowMeowBeamz) January 1, 2019
Do good in #2019. We’re all in this boat together. pic.twitter.com/pkLG7H9Kxm
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) December 31, 2018
Damn, that half a bottle of California champagne hits ya fast…
re: #8 MsJ
From downstairs.
Dog “breeds” to consider:
Bichon Frise. Havanese/Havipoo. Maltipoo. Cavichon/Cavipoo.
Thanks so much! I got CL’d downstairs.
Closest approach has come and gone. Now we gotta wait at least 6 hours to see New Horizon’s photos of Ultima Thule.
re: #66 teleskiguy
all I know is that rear tire needs some damn air.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹
That guy really doesn’t strike me as a L33T H4XOR
Happy New Year to the East Coast. About two more hours to go here at Chez Tumbleweed.
Seems like a good time to go off to bed and wake up next year.
Happy New Year! I don’t think I can wait for another two and a half hours until midnight.
re: #47 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Pfaw! You’re behind the curve. It’s been 2019 for 13 hours here already.
I’m marveling that a former rock star is on the TV as part of the science team behind a interplanetary space probe.
Former? I was thinking of trying to get tickets for one of their shows in Phoenix or LA later this year.
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Still have over an hour of 2018 suckage here.
Well, where I live, if someone starts World War Last by Twitter, I have no chance of surviving it at all. Thanks, SAC.
me on december 31: next year i resolve to get out of the house more
me on january 1: pic.twitter.com/2saQ6NKXGh— Ian Laking (@IHLaking) January 1, 2019
My wife just said thanks to all the people here who offered to visit when we take our next trip to Canada and Massachusetts in May.
As a peace offering, she offered to make her favourite comfort food dish: She makes a homemade pizza with pineapples and canned clams. (I suspect that would be hated both here and at Wonkette.)
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
Pineapples and clams?? I am concerned…yet also intrigued.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹
I wish to try clams on pizza. I like anchovies. Seriously. :D
Two hours of 2018 to go here. Happy New Year from the trailing edge to the leading edge (and everything between).
re: #78 plansbandc
I wish to try clams on pizza. I like anchovies. Seriously. :D
She likes anchovies as well. I think of them as either cat food or bait.
USA Today gets it.
4 terrible things you know will happen in 2019
All your suspicions about Trump will be confirmed
Someone will take Paul Ryan seriously
Mitch McConnell will do everything he can to destroy democracy
The GOP will be pro-life, except in cases of lifehttps://t.co/tw38vrTE8Z— LOLGOP👀 (@LOLGOP) December 31, 2018
re: #81 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Meanwhile, my generation’s retirement homes will start with Nirvana and end up at Linkin Park. Yegods.
Happy 2019 from the DFW area. They are shooting fireworks up and down Reunion tower (I’m watching on tv). There are people on the inside as well, including a reporter, Nancy Leal, from Telemundo who was very excited.
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It only took 20 or so years to find a real home on the internets. Good things come to those who wait, right? Happy New Year!
re: #85 Belafon
That was a cool fireworks show!
Happy New Year in Central Time. One hour to go.
Wonkette named their Legislative Badasses of the Year: Pramila Jayapal for the US House, and Kamala Harris for the US Senate. Runner up is Nancy Pelosi.
(I cross-pollinate between them and LGF because they are the two sites I support with cash money, though this year a Secret Santa kindly reupped me here this year. I hope to pay that forward in a couple months to another person here.)
OTOH, the people shooting fireworks in my neighborhood need to stop.
The late great Roger Ebert on John Prine, in 1970:
Prine’s lyrics work with poetic economy to sketch a character in just a few words. In “Angel from Montgomery,” for example, he tells of a few minutes in the thoughts of a woman who is doing the housework and thinking of her husband: “How the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come back in the evening, and have nothing to say?”
Prine can be funny, too, and about half his songs are. He does one about getting up in the morning. A bowl of oatmeal tried to stare him down, and won. But “if you see me tonight with an illegal smile - It don’t cost very much, and it lasts a long while. - Won’t you please tell the Man I didn’t kill anyone - Just trying to have me some fun.”
I remember all the New Years day suppers at home where Mom cooked sauerkraut and pork. Seemed like it was a tradition in Western PA that eating these dishes would bring good luck for the New Year.
Now I just hit a deli every New Years…
Happy new year people. May you have a good 2019. May the Mueller be with us all.
AND. Someone should get a dog. Truly believe this. Consider a rescue dog. Some agencies let you foster animals to see if its a good fit.
Love and Tequila.
Good night
re: #78 plansbandc
I wish to try clams on pizza. I like anchovies. Seriously. :D
I loved traveling the Pennsylvania turnpike as a kid because Howard Johnson’s was at all the rest stops and I could never get enough of their Tendersweet® Fried Clams.
I don’t think I can handle clams on a pizza. I could barely handle them in Manhattan Clam Chowder. Mom loved that soup and she’d gobble the whole pot.
Fried clams have to have a big dish of Cole slaw on the side.
re: #92 Joe Bacon 🌹
I loved traveling the Pennsylvania turnpike as a kid because Howard Johnson’s was at all the rest stops and I could never get enough of their Tendersweet(r) Fried Clams.
I don’t think I can handle clams on a pizza. I could barely handle them in Manhattan Clam Chowder. Mom loved that soup and she’d gobble the whole pot.
Fried clams have to have a big dish of Cole slaw on the side.
I did too when my parents would travel from Norfolk to Michigan.
There is one Howard Johnson’s restaurant left, but they’re having trouble:
Owner of America’s Last Howard Johnson’s Charged With Sexually Abusing Employees (Eaters, 2017)
The last one standing is in Lake George, New York, but when he started serving his jail sentence, he put in a different manager to keep the restaurant from closing. That manager put the restaurant on limited hours (breakfast and lunch only) and changed the menu from HoJo’s traditional menu, so it’s starting to slide.
re: #91 I Would Prefer Not To
Happy new year people. May you have a good 2019. May the Mueller be with us all.
AND. Someone should get a dog. Truly believe this. Consider a rescue dog. Some agencies let you foster animals to see if its a good fit.
Love and Tequila.
Good night
Did you read my post on the other thread? Looking right now to get a dog!
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹
I did too when my parents would travel from Norfolk to Michigan.
There is one Howard Johnson’s restaurant left, but they’re having trouble:
Owner of America’s Last Howard Johnson’s Charged With Sexually Abusing Employees (Eaters, 2017)
The last one standing is in Lake George, New York, but when he started serving his jail sentence, he put in a different manager to keep the restaurant from closing. That manager put the restaurant on limited hours (breakfast and lunch only) and changed the menu from HoJo’s traditional menu, so it’s starting to slide.
HoJo goes the same way as White Castle…
re: #96 Joe Bacon 🌹
HoJo goes the same way as White Castle…
I only went to White Castle once, when I was stationed in Memphis centuries ago. Are they still in business?
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
I only went to White Castle once, when I was stationed in Memphis centuries ago. Are they still in business?
They’re still out here on LI. They expanded the brand by packaging ‘sliders’ for sale in supermarkets.
For the record, I personally never ate WC unless I was really drunk. They just taste better after about a dozen beers.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
I only went to White Castle once, when I was stationed in Memphis centuries ago. Are they still in business?
I remember late 50s, the dominant burger chain in Western PA was White Tower. Then McDonald’s started in 1961 undercutting White Tower with their “All American Meal for 47¢ (burger, fries & chocolate shake). White Tower collapsed and wound up with only a half dozen places still operating in the mid 70s when I was an undergrad at Pitt. By 1980 they were all gone…
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹
I only went to White Castle once, when I was stationed in Memphis centuries ago. Are they still in business?
Yeah, according to Wikipedia there are more than 420 of them. But they are regional, mainly in the Midwest and NJ/NY area.
re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember late 50s, the dominant burger chain in Western PA was White Tower. Then McDonald’s started in 1961 undercutting White Tower with their “All American Meal for 47¢ (burger, fries & chocolate shake). White Tower collapsed and wound up with only a half dozen places still operating in the mid 70s when I was an undergrad at Pitt. By 1980 they were all gone…
Did you guys have Burger Chef out there? They were pretty good but folded when McDonald’s started popping up everywhere.
re: #88 Belafon
OTOH, the people shooting fireworks in my neighborhood need to stop.
Yes, this. Kids down the street from me have been firing off ones that are as loud as a shotgun blast for the past 45 minutes or so.
On stories women might want to read rather than what Romance houses seem to put out so much:
New Erotica for Feminists (McSweeney’s, second-most read article of the year there)
re: #102 makeitstop
Did you guys have Burger Chef out there? They were pretty good but folded when McDonald’s started popping up everywhere.
We had a Burger Chef in central Michigan when I was a teenager. They’re gone, but there’s a Tim Horton’s in that town now.
re: #102 makeitstop
Did you guys have Burger Chef out there? They were pretty good but folded when McDonald’s started popping up everywhere.
Burger Chef popped up just after McDonald’s. There were three other chains that appeared at the same time, Red Barn (Mainly in Ohio) and Sandy’s (Scotch themed burger stand). Burger Chef went out of business in the 80s. Sandy’s merged with Hardees (And they merged with Carl’s Jr). Red Barn went out of business in the late 70s. And then there was WInky’s with the immortal, “No Winky’s in Wilmerding”. Winky’s folded when Michael Millken junk bonded them out of business.
Dr Hook’s Ray Sawyer dies aged 81 https://t.co/GP8AcY0OuG
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 31, 2018
re: #102 makeitstop
Did you guys have Burger Chef out there? They were pretty good but folded when McDonald’s started popping up everywhere.
I remember Burger Chef when I was a kid in the 70s, in the Baltimore suburbs.
re: #92 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hojo’s clams. Yep. It was definitely a thing. : )
On another note: Happy New Year to the Lizardim. Thanks for putting up with me.
The Cover of the Rolling Stone is one of my go to jukebox songs.
re: #110 Mattand
I remember Burger Chef when I was a kid in the 70s, in the Baltimore suburbs.
Did some digging on Google. Found out that Hardees bought out Burger Chef. Then Hardees was bought out by Carl’s Jr.
Earplugs are in and they are trying to dull the noise from the idiots outside…
Good night all…10 minutes to go to midnight here in Los Angeles when the nuts will kick the noise up to 11…
Wind is howling and it’s starting to snow. Allegedly the big snow isn’t starting until 4:00 AM. Oh joy.
Waiting on Alaska and Hawai’i to weigh in on the New Year.
Starting the New Year in an icebox.
Overnight
A 20 percent chance of snow before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -4. Wind chill values between -10 and -15. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
New Year’s Day
Mostly sunny, with a high near 20. Wind chill values between -5 and -15. West northwest wind around 5 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around -2. Wind chill values between -5 and -15. South southwest wind around 5 mph becoming west after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 38. Wind chill values between -10 and -20. West northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹
Waiting on Alaska and Hawai’i to weigh in on the New Year.
So far, big whoop. My wife who was gung ho to stay up, who told me to nap earlier, is fast asleep on the couch.
re: #120 BigPapa
So far, big whoop. My wife who was gung ho to stay up, who told me to nap earlier, is fast asleep on the couch.
Wake her up. I’m sure she’ll appreciate your concern she not miss out.
This and the mountain lion making noise outside my house means I’m staying inside tonight.
…WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM MST TUESDAY…
* WHAT…Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as
35 below zero expected.
* WHERE…Southeast Wyoming and the Western Nebraska Panhandle.
* WHEN…Until 8 AM MST Tuesday.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…The dangerously cold wind chills could
cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
Happy New Year to us all… and to the remaining time zone in 2018.
Let’s hope 2019 is a better year.
Sheriff’s department suggestion on the mountain lion outside my house:
Stay inside.
Duh.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
Really cold here, too. Mid 40s!
Someone has to be the wise ass. Oh, this new computer is amazing. I tortured the hell out of it with overclocking and stress benchmark testing, got every core to 100C for a half an hour, it’s a tank.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
Dennis Prager: Saying Merry Christmas is a form of patriotism.
Hey you wingnut, go find your own theocracy to be a wingnut radio host in.
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re: #129 Single-handed sailor
… and Happy Hanukkah is a form of treason!
And Dennis Prager is Jewish.
As they note in the clip, due to the persecution that Jews have suffered from religious societies throughout history, he should be out front demanding a secular government.
As for Merry Christmas, Christmas is a holiday in many nations and is not exclusive to the USA. But you don’t say the magic words, you’re a dangerous radical.
No, Mr. Prager, you are a dangerous theocrat.
And in the government, Utah Outcasts weighs in on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holding forth that Muslims seek to slaughter all Christians, and atheists being enemies of the state.
(Caution for coarse language and disparagement of Christian theocrats, 12:33)
I’m going to bed. Happy New Year, y’all.
I did it. Stayed awake to wake wifey and mom up, now they’re buzzing about.
My mom moved to HI and now lives 40 min away. Her little doggos are terrified. Kona is a war zone, people love their fireworks. It’s quiet where I live.
Morning Lizards. May you all have a Happy New Year.
Hope all is well with everyone this first morning/day/evening of 2019. Wish I could be around more, life isn’t letting me right now. Hugs to all who need one and even if you don’t, I have one waiting here for you when you do. 💕
Today is Day 11 of the partial government shutdown.
Republicans still control the White House, the Senate, and the House.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 1, 2019
JFC.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
re: #138 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
JFC.
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i refuse to believe that is real
re: #139 bd(Redacted)
i refuse to believe that is real
It’s lucid prose, so maybe a flunkie wrote it for him.
re: #139 bd(Redacted)
Same here. Everything is in caps and that phrase “trump derangement syndrome.” Someone else has his phone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
Words rapist use. “JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE.” https://t.co/0eTtUb1J91
— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 1, 2019
About a half hour to New Horizons signal acquisition time.
Right now they’re showing earth from the ISS, and Hurricane Florence is one giant system!
Don’t know why I’m awake this early, will undoubtedly collapse for a long nap later. Fed the little old mother, waiting on the hubs to make the traditional Texas black-eyed pea breakfast, so I can’t eat till he drags up. (Coffee doesn’t count as ‘eating,’ right?) Then it’s back to the salt mines to finish the last twenty or so Christmas/holiday cards, on the long-standing theory that if you mail them before Twelfth Night, it counts.
Eyeing the New Year with an uneasy mix of dread and anticipation, hoping the House can slow some of the damage the rats of the listing Trumptanic will continue to inflict. What I want most for next Christmas is McConnell out of power, preferably well before Christmas.
Here’s to survival, and the best possible luck I can wish for the lizards in 2019
Happy Tuesday. I slept with the dead last night.
Morning!
I see there was talk of the fast food burger stands overnight.
Yes, White Castles are still around. Being Columbus is hometown for them since the 30s, I can say we have about 16 of them around here.
And I still do not go there!
Also, Columbus is home base of Wendy’s. I do grab a Spicy Chicken a couple times a year.
I saw a reference to Sandy’s. My brother worked at one of those in my old hometown. I remember in the 60s we had McDonald’s, Sandy’s, Burger Chef and Burger King all in a city of 70,000 people. Ugh. I guess there were never enough cheap burgers and fries.
He’s got only one thing on his mind, it seems.
OK, maybe something else, like Mueller or Pelosi.
The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative! The problem is, without a Wall there can be no real Border Security - and our Country must finally have a Strong and Secure Southern Border!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
re: #150 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I forget who said it originally but thoughts about being hanged centered one thoughts perfectly. DT is in hot water and it is about to get even hotter for him especially with Mueller and Pelosi going after him.
This op-ed in the NYTimes is trending this morning. Basically, it discusses the penchant among the Christian Right to describe Donald Trump as the modern-day equivalent of Cyrus the Persian. We might think this is amusing, but they’re dead serious about it. And the reason we need to be serious about it is this:
I have attended dozens of Christian nationalist conferences and events over the past two years. And while I have heard plenty of comments casting doubt on the more questionable aspects of Mr. Trump’s character, the gist of the proceedings almost always comes down to the belief that he is a miracle sent straight from heaven to bring the nation back to the Lord. I have also learned that resistance to Mr. Trump is tantamount to resistance to God.
This isn’t the religious right we thought we knew. The Christian nationalist movement today is authoritarian, paranoid and patriarchal at its core. They aren’t fighting a culture war. They’re making a direct attack on democracy itself.
They want it all. And in Mr. Trump, they have found a man who does not merely serve their cause, but also satisfies their craving for a certain kind of political leadership.
(emphasis added)
The paranoid style in American politics, but with extra religion. That’s all we need! //////
The op-ed is short and easily readable. Katherine Stewart is no friend of the Christian Right; she wrote a book on how the so-called “Good News Clubs” were infiltrating elementary schools.
re: #151 PhillyPretzel
I forget who said it originally but thoughts about being hanged centered one thoughts perfectly. DT is in hot water and it is about to get even hotter for him especially with Mueller and Pelosi going after him.
This week is going to be bad for him, because Pelosi and Schumer will show no mercy. Not sure if Trump has ever had such formidable opposition in his life. He won’t know what to do.
Then, there’s Mueller, the SDNY, and the NY AG investigations still ongoing.
A couple of follow up tweets on the whole Trump/Cyrus issue. I think the second tweet is important.
I’d also note, and this is something Stewart didn’t mention, that the use of Cyrus to describe Trump also gives Trump followers a way to excuse Trump’s many, many bad actions. He’s an instrument of God, but he’s not really one of God’s people. It’s kind of backhanded.
— Deana “Have a Gritty New Year!” Holmes (@mmmirele) January 1, 2019
re: #154 mmmirele
A couple of follow up tweets on the whole Trump/Cyrus issue. I think the second tweet is important.
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I wonder if there were similar attitudes among RW Christians about Hitler.
Actually, I probably know the answer already.
re: #13 retired cynic
I see the Wall is now a “barrier”. It’s not even capitalized!
Cool. We’ve already got a river barrier there. Done.
Ah, I was off by a half-hour on the New Horizons coverage. The signal acquisition festivities are to begin at 10:15 EST.
re: #28 plansbandc
Sometimes they aren’t fireworks in our neighborhood.
Ditto
I’m surrounded by Florida man
Is this a Trump thing?
The United States and Israel officially left UNESCO at the stroke of midnight, a blow to the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency that was co-founded by the U.S. after World War II to foster peace. https://t.co/I840Sa6kEa
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 1, 2019
I missed it somehow.
re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Time is
relativefleeting
re: #161 dangerman
Madness takes its toll
re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
all I know is that rear tire needs some damn air.
its on purpose
makes a wider and mushier/springier contact patch
makes it much easier to drive slow on one wheel
re: #98 makeitstop
They’re still out here on LI. They expanded the brand by packaging ‘sliders’ for sale in supermarkets.
For the record, I personally never ate WC unless I was really drunk. They just taste better after about a dozen beers.
no one ate that stuff sober
at 2am on the way home, lynbrook was the stop
until jack in the box came along (what the hell did we know? we were young and foolish)
then again, only ever being in the castle after midnight, i have no idea what the day crowd looked like
re: #137 bd(Redacted)
We’ve gone from WE CAN SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS AGAIN! to YOU MUST SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! awfully fast.
That was the plan all along. What a stupid take. Christmas isn’t an American holiday.
re: #95 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
Did you read my post on the other thread? Looking right now to get a dog!
Yes. That was the point. Also I miss my dog. He stayed with ex. Don’t miss the ex.
happy 2019
re: #102 makeitstop
Did you guys have Burger Chef out there? They were pretty good but folded when McDonald’s started popping up everywhere.
Burger Chef were pretty good burgers. My girlfriend in high school worked at one. As it happened, it was right across the street from the old Howard Johnson’s (which is an Applebee’s now)..
re: #164 dangerman
no one ate that stuff sober
at 2am on the way home, lynbrook was the stop
until jack in the box came along (what the hell did we know? we were young and foolish)then again, only ever being in the castle after midnight, i have no idea what the day crowd looked like
My former MIL loved White Castle, and as long as I can remember would stop by Whities on her way home from work once a week. If we happened to be visiting, we would get served some, too.
I ate them, and the soggy fries, but White Castle is not a place I would willingly visit while sober.
Signal acquisition event now scheduled for 10:20 am
re: #150 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
He’s got only one thing on his mind, it seems.
OK, maybe something else, like Mueller or Pelosi.
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re: #169 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Signal acquisition event now scheduled for 10:20 am
The feed (talking head) doesn’t seem able to keep up—probably slammed.
It’s a day ending in “Y,” so here’s out good pal Derpowitz to remind the Martha’s Vineyard crowd why they voted him off the island:
Alan Dershowitz: Anyone who compares Trump to Hitler is a Holocaust denier https://t.co/JfEr5vfwbY
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 1, 2019
“Everybody is compared to Hitler. Everybody is compared to the Holocaust. Israel defending itself against Gaza rockets — oh, they’re Nazis. Anybody who compares Trump or anybody else to Hitler essentially is a Holocaust denier, because what they’re saying [is] well, there were no gas chambers, there was no Auschwitz, there was no plan to kill six million Jews. They minimize it,” he explained.
“To say that anything that happened since then is comparable to the Holocaust and certainly to compare the American political system to anything that happened in the Holocaust is just outrageous,” Dershowitz added.
Now to be fair, he started off with a valid point that the comparison to Hitler is way overused in our political dialogue today. It’s pretty rich coming from a conservative after 8 years of “ZOMG, OBAMA IS JUST LIKE HITLER!!!” and all the comparisons of everything that admin did to fascist regimes.
But he then stays true to form by falling flat on his face, minimizing the comparison by…well…minimizing the Third Reich to just the Holocaust. But it’s par for the course, wingnuts only defense when someone they support is compared to Hitler tends to be “Well, he’s not killing Jews!!!” And in 1935, Hitler wasn’t executing Jews either. He was just systematically robbing them of their rights and isolating them so that, when the time came to toss them in the camps, people like modern wingnuts took it as their “patriotic duty” to help with the round-ups.
Follow live: @gretchenwhitmer to be sworn in as Michigan’s 49th governor. https://t.co/ze1QqLjpxR pic.twitter.com/2RazwzWdcc
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) January 1, 2019
re: #173 Targetpractice
It’s a day ending in “Y,” so here’s out good pal Derpowitz to remind the Martha’s Vineyard crowd why they voted him off the island:
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Now to be fair, he started off with a valid point that the comparison to Hitler is way overused in our political dialogue today. It’s pretty rich coming from a conservative after 8 years of “ZOMG, OBAMA IS JUST LIKE HITLER!!!” and all the comparisons of everything that admin did to fascist regimes.
But he then stays true to form by falling flat on his face, minimizing the comparison by…well…minimizing the Third Reich to just the Holocaust. But it’s par for the course, wingnuts only defense when someone they support is compared to Hitler tends to be “Well, he’s not killing Jews!!!” And in 1935, Hitler wasn’t executing Jews either. He was just systematically robbing them of their rights and isolating them so that, when the time came to toss them in the camps, people like modern wingnuts took it as their “patriotic duty” to help with the round-ups.
I compare him to Hitler yes but I also compare him to others who may not have committed genocide but scapegoated minorities for political gain. Dershowitz is being deliberately obtuse.
I sure hope 2019 can bring an end to having to come across Trump and jagoffs* like Dershowitz and Giuliani tweet and yak.
So freakin’ sick of the mendacity and overall bad character of these fools.
*for the Pittsburgh and Western PA types!
filling in my run log and already i typed 2018 for 2019
as sunday morning lizards know, as a consequence of the Dopey training, i got on a bit of an unintended streak
today’s run marks 70 days in a row. about 610 miles or so
the last time i had a streak like this was 2014. 85 days and a mere 479 miles.
i used to actually track this stuff.
I am quite different than i was then. in how i run. how well, and why.
i am not trying to do this - it’s just a data pattern that popped up from the log
with the Dopey just a week away, i dont know if this will continue or not.
and if it doesnt, im certainly not going to ‘try’ again. it just sorta…happened
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
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from electoral-vote.com today
Note that there is no agency where a majority is pro-shutdown, and the ones where shutdown support is the highest are, not coincidentally, the ones where employees are not currently missing paychecks. In any case, the next time Trump claims federal employees are behind him, you’ll know for sure he’s lying, as opposed to merely strongly suspecting he’s lying
A new poll also makes clear that federal employees are broadly opposed to what’s happening. Nearly 80% oppose the shutdown. Only 30% think a wall is a good idea, and among those, more than a third think that the wall is not important enough to justify closing down the government. The poll also broke things down by agency:
(CNN)Four physicians — experts in pediatrics, infectious diseases and health policy — have a message for White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders: Contrary to what she says, it’s not clear that the federal government is doing everything it can to care for children crossing the border.
And they’d like to help her understand what the government could do better so more children don’t die.
Top of my unforgivable list of Trump actions.
Good morning and Happy New Year. We celebrated at 9 pm last night (hey, it was the new year on D.C. time-welcome Democrats!) and went to bed 10-ish. Just as well, a couple of great horned owls were celebrating something in the tree right outside our bedroom at 6:00 am.
We’ll probably head over to Año Nuevo beach in a while, because, well New Year. That means the ceremonial taking down of the ChristmasPatriotic decorations will have to wait, but so be it.
re: #181 Unshaken Defiance
Top of my unforgivable list of Trump actions.
i read the article and applaud their sentiments
though i think they accepted the premise a little to easy
- it’s not “the federal government is doing everything it can”, maybe it could do more
- this speaks to a good effort that needs some tweaking
-it’s that the federal government is doing almost nothing at all
-the situation is obvious, preventable, predictable
-it’s totally unnecessary in the first place
-and the outcome is likely what some in the admin wanted (may have ghoulishly hoped for)
- they’re certainly assessing “blame” that way
The wall is a loser. And everyone but Trump knows it.
again, dogs aren’t known for being gainfully employed. AND even if they were, they’d most definitely make it to retirement
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 1, 2019
re: #185 jaunte
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Wow I pretty much called it. And supporting HRC over you doesn’t make him a Hillary lover. It just means he’s a majority of the country which you forget didn’t want your ass.
My son and his German shepherd overnighted with us, which meant dog activity all night long, with my dog establishing repeatedly that she was the ruler in this house, and son’s dog Cash barking every time he heard armadillos, owls or coyote outside. My new year wish is a full night’s sleep tonight.
He’s still drunk-Tweeting even though he supposedly never drinks alcohol. That would make him a “dry drunk” (someone who acts intoxicated all the time even without alcohol)
Media Didn’t Like McChrystal Until He Started Bashing Trump https://t.co/lSlkxCaqG1 via @LifeZette
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 31, 2018
“General” McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama. Last assignment a total bust. Known for big, dumb mouth. Hillary lover! https://t.co/RzOkeHl3KV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
re: #184 HappyWarrior
The wall is a loser. And everyone but Trump knows it.
he knows it will never come to pass; likely never even get started except in spots
he also knows it’s great pr
a great fund raiser
attention getter
and rallying cry to the pigheaded* base
* remember back to those halcyon pu**y grabbing days?
i said a lot back then:
- trump’s a pig
- you support a pig, you’re a pig
now he’s the head pig
Laura Ingraham lost her Fox show and now has only her lame website.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
Yes we are the ones suffering from derangement. Sure. https://t.co/JtJ9O74M5V
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 1, 2019
Dry drunk capitalization.
re: #185 jaunte
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
* 42m
“General” McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama. Last assignment a total bust. Known for big, dumb mouth. Hillary lover!
- the man who wrote this has serious problems
- oh, he’s the president of the united states?
- a country that lets a man write this has serious problems
Good morning from Battlefield Koreatown.
The guns, M80s and fireworks continued full blast until the police sirens arrived around 3AM. Multiple cars came around along with yet another paramedic truck since we had another Darwin Award winner.
Just the usual start of a New Year here…
In 2018 people stepped up and showed up like never before. Keep it up in 2019. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and I’ll be right there with you. Happy New Year, everybody!
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 1, 2019
re: #191 The Vicious Babushka
Laura Ingraham lost her Fox show and now has only her lame website.
I read her radio show was canceled; did they cancel her TV show as well? Hope so; you’re next Carlson!
re: #192 jaunte
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA!
Dry drunk capitalization.
Just the thought of Diamond and Silk replacing Ingraham on 19th Century Fox…
re: #195 The Vicious Babushka
Obama is absolutely correct. We have to keep on fighting.
re: #199 PhillyPretzel
Obama is absolutely correct. We have to keep on fighting.
Except maybe this year we’ll have tail winds instead of head winds.
Catch you all later. Time to get moving.
re: #189 The Vicious Babushka
He’s still drunk-Tweeting even though he supposedly never drinks alcohol. That would make him a “dry drunk” (someone who acts intoxicated all the time even without alcohol)
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Laura seems to have forgotten that Stan McChrystal was the wingnut media’s darling when he was leaking to the press recommendations for upping troop levels and his staff were knocking on everybody in the White House. And they treated it as the height of outrage when he was called on the carpet and ended up resigning, accusing Obama of silencing a “critic” because the war in Afghanistan was being “lost.”
Of course, then McChrystal became a civilian, he started voicing his opinion about guy control laws to the press, and suddenly the wingnuts declared him not only a “liberal,” they declared he deserved to be fired by Obama.
Is your bounty for the year Rubles, Marco? “Marco Rubio’s Conservative Solutions PAC and his Florida First Project received $1.5 million through Blavatnik’s two holding companies.” #Shameful GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia https://t.co/cMr3IQGCPb
— Rem2000 & 2016 (@Rem2000) January 1, 2019
Someone should make a quick timeline of when Hitler took power, when he started restricting freedoms of various groups, when events like Kristallnacht occurred, when the first concentration camps opened, and when the final solution began.
I was wondering how long it would take to get the first stupid Trump tweets of 2019.
That all caps one, holy hell.
Five minutes of Fail Army.
- i hope ,,
everything will be more beautiful in 2019 👍🙏 pic.twitter.com/l54k42WFiw— Köksal Akın (@Koksalakn) January 1, 2019
re: #199 PhillyPretzel
Obama is absolutely correct. We have to keep on fighting.
Now that Pelosi is going to be Speaker, rather than sending me DOOM! emails, just get in front of the cameras.
re: #205 Belafon
Someone should make a quick timeline of when Hitler took power, when he started restricting freedoms of various groups, when events like Kristallnacht occurred, when the first concentration camps opened, and when the final solution began.
re: #189 The Vicious Babushka
He’s still drunk-Tweeting even though he supposedly never drinks alcohol. That would make him a “dry drunk” (someone who acts intoxicated all the time even without alcohol)
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Laura you are the media. Stfu. And he’s right about Trump you ignorant fuckwit. You and Trump know nothing about anything except being bigots.
re: #203 Barefoot Grin
You are not far off. The Year of the Pig starts February 5, 2019.
The #TrumpShutdown will continue until Wall Street & other key constituents of GOP Senators are inconvenienced enough to force a deal. In meantime Trump’ll keep bragging about the money being saved, the DEMs being hurt & his wall promise being kept—albeit w/US taxpayer dollars.
— Joseph Barri (@JoeBarri) January 1, 2019
Am I a bad person for finding this funny?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders 2 years after leaving Trump’s administration 😂😂😂
Volume up 🔊🔊🔊 pic.twitter.com/2Jrqjqj74E— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) December 31, 2018
Democrats should use the old Newt Gingrich trick of making late-night speeches on C-SPAN. Every single House Democrat should be required to give a speech on the evils of the Republican tax give-away. Creative arguments should be rewarded by the leadership.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 1, 2019
re: #216 MsJ
Sarah Huckabee Sanders right now.
re: #216 MsJ
No. You are not a bad person. It is funny in a NSFW way.
50 year old German man ploughed car into crowd that included Syrians & Afghans. After a previous attempt to hit people waiting at a bus stop failed.
A man has been arrested in Germany after ploughing his car into a crowd of people early Tuesday, injuring at least four in what appears to have been an intentional attack directed at foreigners, police said Tuesday.https://t.co/SRYIfS3yDO
— Frank Jordans (@wirereporter) January 1, 2019
Season three of a Series of Unfortunate Events is out on Netflix.
re: #223 PhillyPretzel
In Philly we have this: mrmummer.com
A New Years Day parade Philly style.
Cool.
Morning Lizardim and Happy New Year from the bitterly cold (-2 degrees F / -18.9 degrees C) wild north country. It’s partly cloudy and beautiful… just COLD. How go things among the lizardfolk as the calendar turns to a new page?
re: #189 The Vicious Babushka
He’s still drunk-Tweeting even though he supposedly never drinks alcohol. That would make him a “dry drunk” (someone who acts intoxicated all the time even without alcohol)
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“Fired like a dog”? What the actual fuck does that even mean?
re: #227 Blind Frog Belly White
DT is coining his own phrases. Your guess is as good as mine.
re: #228 PhillyPretzel
DT is coining his own phrases. Your guess is as good as mine.
I think he’s got something against dogs. I remember reading that he was embarrassed that the Pence family brought their dog to the VP’s residence when they moved.
Doesn’t like dogs or understand others liking them. Says everything you need to know about him.
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 1, 2019
re: #227 Blind Frog Belly White
“Fired like a dog”? What the actual fuck does that even mean?
He really doesn’t understand dogs.
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
I think he’s got something against dogs. I remember reading that he was embarrassed that the Pence family brought their dog to the VP’s residence when they moved.
Doesn’t like dogs or understand others liking them. Says everything you need to know about him.
Yeah he hates dogs. I told my niece about that and she found that weird. It’s one of the weirdest things about him imo.
re: #230 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE
Anyone looking for a sign that this is an abuser, look no further.
re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White
They probably understand him.
That’s probably why he doesn’t like them. Dogs are scary perceptive. Trump as an abusive asshole would set off most dogs’ warning bells and cause them to be defensive and “angry” (his perception of them).
So I woke up to take Scout out this morning, then came into my office and fired up the laptop to find that one of the cats figured out how to flip my display upside-down. My cats know Windows shortcut keys better than I do.
Also - it feels like the middle of March outside today. Did I like really, really oversleep or something?
Happy New Year, errybody!
Is “impeach like a dog” a thing?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 1, 2019
re: #231 HappyWarrior
He really doesn’t understand dogs.
Nor does he like them.
Which is a major red flag and personality flaw.
re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White
They probably understand him.
Animals hate him because he is a fearful man-child. Witness the video of him with the eagle. I’d bet (even nice) dogs growl at him just because.
re: #239 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Dogs have great radar for poser bullies.
We feel your loss. We donut know what else to say. 🍩😰🍩
— UK Police (@UKPolice) January 1, 2019
Sending Thoughts & Prayers from Calgary, Alberta (Canada) #LexingtonStrong pic.twitter.com/98aHJnB3Kc
— RegJoeYYC (@RegularJoeYYC) January 1, 2019
Happy New Year, Lizardim!
I don’t drink any more so I watched the festivities around me sober. They consisted of people trying to play Spades wasted (not pretty, they were trying to partner with the least drunk of each other), screaming “X my balls!” at top volume, and one coach calling my husband, drunk off his ass, to tell him he’s in love with his wife. He is not in love with me. He was regret-building drunk.
So, you know, sober New Year is not to be missed.
Speaking of dogs, we went over to a neighbor’s house for NYE. They’d invited us and both dogs, which sounded like a better idea than it turned out to be - food on coffee tables and Greyhounds do not make for a relaxing time, so I ended up walking Rango around the block and then home.
Dory, meanwhile, wore herself out playing with their dog Pepper, who’s a similar sized dog. They were tussling and chasing all over the couch. Dory won, I think. She just doesn’t give up!
BTW, she handled her first night of random fireworks with aplomb. Slept right through them. Thank goodness!! Poor Kyoko used to spend 4th of July and NYE shivering under the bed!
He doesn’t seem to like any animals. It’s bizarre and as the Pence story get why others do as well.
“Like a dog” is a description Trump goes back to again and again.
I’m not sure it has anything to do with dogs in particular. He just likes certain phrases and repeats them over and over.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
He doesn’t seem to like any animals. It’s bizarre
Critical tell. Animal haters are cruelty in waiting.
re: #243 BlueGrl21
Happy New Year, Lizardim!
I don’t drink any more so I watched the festivities around me sober. They consisted of people trying to play Spades wasted (not pretty, they were trying to partner with the least drunk of each other), screaming “
my balls!” at top volume, and one coach calling my husband, drunk off his ass, to tell him he’s in love with his wife. He is not in love with me. He was regret-building drunk. So, you know, sober New Year is not to be missed.
You know, there’s something to be said about watching drunk people while sober. It’s actually more of an incentive to stay sober most times. Very rarely do I watch drunk people and think, “Yeah, I wanna be like that.”
The American man who was arrested last week in #Russia on a spying charge is a Marine Corps veteran who was in Moscow to attend a wedding, his family said on Tuesday. https://t.co/zHn18fkLXX
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 1, 2019
Old Lang Sign. pic.twitter.com/APZsRWuqHP
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) December 31, 2018
re: #191 The Vicious Babushka
Laura Ingraham lost her Fox show and now has only her lame website.
What?
I thought she lost her radio show, but still has her nightly FOX News “entertainment” show.
re: #180 dangerman
Thanks for the graphic. I would assume that most federal employees don’t like being used as pawns and being without pay checks for a useless political objective.
re: #180 dangerman
I note the Air Force, which Christian wingnuts have worked hard to infiltrate, has the strongest support for Trump’s policies.
It makes sense the wingnuts would try to take over the part of the government that has the most and longest ranging nukes. They figure when The Apocalypse comes their place in Heaven is determined by the body count they inflict on heathens, heretics and blasphemers.
Entirely different take than what I just said, but…”like a dog” seems to be something very bad to Trump, and it badness comes from “dog” being associated with weakness or inferior status. It’s more like “die like a dog” where the suggestion is shaming and demeaning than “work like a dog.”
Which follows with his general pattern of being a narcissistic bully: the worst thing possible is to be shameful, so he inflicts the language of shame on people when he’s feeling down-power.
Likely self inflicted and/or negligent discharge
“… Officials reported the shooting was confined to the Marine Barracks and that no additional threats exist. …”
Marine on duty dies from gunshot at Marine Corps Barracks in DC https://t.co/BvXuJJNvLx pic.twitter.com/WdLC3fvAoW
— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) January 1, 2019
re: #242 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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these cinnamon sinkers just came out of the danger oven
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
I think he’s got something against dogs. I remember reading that he was embarrassed that the Pence family brought their dog to the VP’s residence when they moved.
Doesn’t like dogs or understand others liking them. Says everything you need to know about him.
Probably it’s that dogs don’t like him.
Dogs are excellent judges of character.
re: #255 Patricia Kayden
Thanks for the graphic. I would assume that most federal employees don’t like being used as pawns and being without pay checks for a useless political objective.
Same for walls. Except the pay check part. They don’t expect much.
re: #246 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
“Like a dog” is a description Trump goes back to again and again.
I’m not sure it has anything to do with dogs in particular. He just likes certain phrases and repeats them over and over.
it’s a put down
‘dogs’ are ‘them’, not ‘us’
re: #257 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
The other thing I’d point out is that he uses the phrase with no pity or sorrow for the “dog,” nor as a complaint or protest (that someone should be treated “like a dog”).
Contrast to the most famous use of the phrase at the end of The Trial, in which the phrase is used to evoke shame, indignation, and protest.
Trump never uses the phrase with sympathy. He’s always the third party taking gleeing that someone else is degraded “like a dog.”
It’s pretty fucked up.
re: #256 Romantic Heretic
I note the Air Force, which Christian wingnuts have worked hard to infiltrate, has the strongest support for Trump’s policies.
It makes sense the wingnuts would try to take over the part of the government that has the most and longest ranging nukes. They figure when The Apocalypse comes their place in Heaven is determined by the body count they inflict on heathens, heretics and blasphemers.
and as the story said: the ones where shutdown support is highest, “not coincidentally, the ones where employees are not currently missing paychecks”
re: #262 dangerman
it’s a put down
‘dogs’ are ‘them’, not ‘us’
‘Inferior race’ has gotten so cliché . He’s moved on to ‘inferior species’.
re: #255 Patricia Kayden
Thanks for the graphic. I would assume that most federal employees don’t like being used as pawns and being without pay checks for a useless political objective.
I predict a photo op this week with Trump and some “Federal workers” who support his shutdown.
re: #265 wrenchwench
‘Inferior race’ has gotten so cliché . He’s moved on to ‘inferior species’.
What dogs and Democrats understand is the Trump is an damnably inferior person.
From my Q&A with @LibertyU President Jerry Falwell Jr.
Is there anything President Trump could do that would endanger that support from you or other evangelical leaders?
“No.”
https://t.co/tQY4ugmw1u— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 1, 2019
re: #257 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
This was also my take.
One of the floats caught on fire at the Tournament of Roses parade.
re: #270 Dr Lizardo
One of the floats caught on fire at the Tournament of Roses parade.
Welcome to 2019.
Got to love a government shutdown right as tax season is coming again.
re: #227 Blind Frog Belly White
“Fired like a dog”? What the actual fuck does that even mean?
It is obvious Trump does not like doggys.
And to make it worse, he apparently associates dogs as lowly useless and dirty animals. So any human he calls a dog shares the same characteristics.
I’d take a mangy mutt that’s been on the streets for a year over Trump. The mutt can be nursed back to health, will be thankful to have someone care for it and will be a loving and dedicated friend because of what you did for it.
All the things Trump is not.
re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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So long as the checks keep clearing, Trump will be saintly in their eyes.
re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Of course the unquestioningly accept Trump. They already accepted Jerry Falwell Sr.
re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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a lot of delusion in that article besides “no”
In 2016 you wrote in a Washington Post editorial that voters in the 2010 and 2014 midterms sent a message they were “tired of the leftist agenda.” What message did voters in the 2018 midterms send?
This midterm, the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms. So I think the message is that the American people are happy with the direction the country is headed and happy with the economy, happy with our newfound respect in the world. It’s a better result than you normally see in the first midterms.
You and other white evangelical leaders have strongly supported President Trump. What about him exemplifies Christianity and earns him your support?What earns him my support is his business acumen. Our country was so deep in debt and so mismanaged by career politicians that we needed someone who was not a career politician, but someone who’d been successful in business to run the country like a business. That’s the reason I supported him.
The deficit and debt have increased during his first two years.Yeah, Congress, the spending bill that they forced on him
so his business acumen is what exemplifies his christianity? ok, um….
and yet congress played him like a fiddle so he’s a lousy politican, a loser and a wimp?
jerry, you are a dissembling ass hat
re: #278 dangerman
a lot of delusion in that article besides “no”
In 2016 you wrote in a Washington Post editorial that voters in the 2010 and 2014 midterms sent a message they were “tired of the leftist agenda.” What message did voters in the 2018 midterms send?
This midterm, the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms. So I think the message is that the American people are happy with the direction the country is headed and happy with the economy, happy with our newfound respect in the world. It’s a better result than you normally see in the first midterms.
so his business acumen is what exemplifies his christianity? ok, um….
and yet congress played him like a fiddle so he’s a lousy politican, a loser and a wimp?
jerry, you are a dissembling ass hat
I bet he thinks the money changers Jesus whipped had good “business acumen” too.
re: #252 dangerman
a couple of years ago we woke to this on our deck (the peacock, not monster the cat)
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Just picked the first dandelion of Summer.
re: #256 Romantic Heretic
I note the Air Force, which Christian wingnuts have worked hard to infiltrate, has the strongest support for Trump’s policies.
It makes sense the wingnuts would try to take over the part of the government that has the most and longest ranging nukes. They figure when The Apocalypse comes their place in Heaven is determined by the body count they inflict on heathens, heretics and blasphemers.
re: #274 Blind Frog Belly White
Yes, we’re off to a flying start.
wingnuts———>Air Force. How could they not?
/I decided not to type that, until I saw Frog Belly’s comment. Blame him.
re: #273 ObserverArt
It is obvious Trump does not like doggys.
And to make it worse, he apparently associates dogs as lowly useless and dirty animals. So any human he calls a dog shares the same characteristics.
I’d take a mangy mutt that’s been on the streets for a year over Trump. The mutt can be nursed back to health, will be thankful to have someone care for it and will be a loving and dedicated friend because of what you did for it.
All the things Trump is not.
Loyal, loving, dedicated, empathetic - all things he isn’t.
re: #246 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
“Like a dog” is a description Trump goes back to again and again.
I’m not sure it has anything to do with dogs in particular. He just likes certain phrases and repeats them over and over.
Thinking a bit more about that phrase further.
Is that used on the streets by the mob types? I have a feeling that is where he may have heard it used and thought it sound tough.
re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet he thinks the money changers Jesus whipped had good “business acumen” too.
I’m not even sure that better than average midterm nonsense is true
If not, Jerry’s a liar
re: #286 dangerman
I’m not even sure that better than average midterm nonsense is true
If not, Jerry’s a liar
Doesn’t Jerry have a date with the pool boy or am i mixing up my “Christian” conservative leaders?
#MeanwhileinCanada pic.twitter.com/bP3c26JQkb
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 1, 2019
re: #287 I Would Prefer Not To
Doesn’t Jerry have a date with the pool boy or am i mixing up my “Christian” conservative leaders?
Yup
Maybe that’s why his “support” of the president is absolute
Impeach. Indict. Try. Imprison. Fines in the area of every thing he owns.
If treason is proven, execute.
There must be consequences. Without consequences the next trump will be even worse.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 1, 2019
re: #267 Unshaken Defiance
What dogs and Democrats understand is the Trump is an damnably inferior person.
I will never forget him calling Omarossa a dog. That made me sick to my stomach.
How did the Peace, Love, Kindness and Acceptance hippies of the 1960s become the hateful people they are today?
I do not understand a shift in thought of that magnitude. pic.twitter.com/F8yNfikLJR— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 1, 2019
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
I predict a photo op this week with Trump and some “Federal workers” who support his shutdown.
Ahhh, yes! The “many” he often talks about.
And if he can’t find them, he’ll write some checks from The Trump Reelection Committee and hire some actors to say they do support it.
Gotta remember, it’s all a show, all an act.
one last thought before I get back to writing
gooooob morning. i was told that this year. is the year of the belly rub. please don’t look that up. you can trust me
— ♡ Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) January 1, 2019
It’s the law people.
re: #292 MsJ
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I think they didn’t. I suspect what happened is that in the 1960s, people mistakenly assumed all boomers became hippies, and now they mistakenly assume all boomers became Trumpkins.
re: #286 dangerman
I’m not even sure that better than average midterm nonsense is true
If not, Jerry’s a liar
I’m sure it’s not true. There’s been times when a midterm swung more seats, back before ultra-gerrymandering when there were a lot more purple districts.
But the actual D v R vote differential in this mid-term (53% to 45%) is the biggest since Watergate. It’s bigger than 1994, 2006, 2010, 2014…
re: #285 ObserverArt
I tried looking it up with Google and none of the versions of “…like a dog” pop up as coming from a particular vernacular, but who knows with these assholes.
re: #293 ObserverArt
Ahhh, yes! The “many” he often talks about.
And if he can’t find them, he’ll write some checks from The Trump Reelection Committee and hire some actors to say they do support it.
Gotta remember, it’s all a show, all an act.
that’s why “wall”, “maga”, “dog”, fake news”, “sad”, “winning” and so on all work
they are short, sweet and sort of resonate on some level
and mostly they mean nothing specific
so the listener is forced to fill in what it means
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
I think they didn’t. I suspect what happened is that in the 1960s, people mistakenly assumed all boomers became hippies, and now they mistakenly assume all boomers became Trumpkins.
The hippies were a little before my time (I was born in 1969) but I’d imagine that the hippies were most likely not a majority of the baby boom generation.
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
I think they didn’t. I suspect what happened is that in the 1960s, people mistakenly assumed all boomers became hippies, and now they mistakenly assume all boomers became Trumpkins.
back in the hippie days, the future trumpers were known as the Republicans’ “Best and Brightest”.
re: #268 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Though still an asshole, Falwell Jr.’s admiration for Trump’s “business acumen” is fairly understandable. After all, since he ran his casino businesses into the ground, Trump’s “acumen” has basically consisted of pressure-marketing a bunch of gullible rubes into forking over their money for what they imagine to be marks of prestige. And the whole image bolstered by carefully-scripted presentations on (the misnamed) “reality TV”.
Just the sort of skill set Falwell might admire….
re: #301 Jay C
Though still an asshole, Falwell Jr.’s admiration for Trump’s “business acumen” is fairly understandable. After all, since he ran his casino businesses into the ground, Trump’s “acumen” has basically consisted of pressure-marketing a bunch of gullible rubes into forking over their money for what they imagine to be marks of prestige. And the whole image bolstered by carefully-scripted presentations on (the misnamed) “reality TV”.
Just the sort of skill set Falwell might admire….
+1
re: #298 dangerman
that’s why “wall”, “maga”, “dog”, fake news”, “sad”, “winning” and so on all work
they are short, sweet and sort of resonate on some level
and mostly they mean nothing specific
so the listener is forced to fill in what it means
Well put.
re: #292 MsJ
How did the Peace, Love, Kindness and Acceptance hippies of the 1960s become the hateful people they are today?
I do not understand a shift in thought of that magnitude.
Because the Peace, Love, Kindness and Acceptance was always just a cover story. A euphemism for “please don’t draft me, not me, send someone else not.me!!”
re: #299 Dr Lizardo
The hippies were a little before my time (I was born in 1969) but I’d imagine that the hippies were most likely not a majority of the baby boom generation.
They also ran to the self-indulgent and fickle, with none of the gravitas of the Beats.
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
I think they didn’t. I suspect what happened is that in the 1960s, people mistakenly assumed all boomers became hippies, and now they mistakenly assume all boomers became Trumpkins.
Certainly not all of anyone but enough were.
Every generation has its rebellion, whether it was the greasers, the hippies, the punks, or the emos. And they all eventually grew up, cut their hair, and became part of the mainstream in time for the next generation to rebel against “the norm.”
re: #292 MsJ
The ones I know haven’t changed much.
re: #298 dangerman
that’s why “wall”, “maga”, “dog”, fake news”, “sad”, “winning” and so on all work
they are short, sweet and sort of resonate on some level
and mostly they mean nothing specific
so the listener is forced to fill in what it means
Bannon and Miller taught Trump to say ‘wall’ because it was so much easier to accomplish than getting him to say, ‘We must limit immigration to the people I want.’
Some hippies became hardcore right, though—David Horowitz, Michael Savage, etc. Not sure how they got so screwed up.
I’ve played this lots since 11/16. Scot/Armenian/Jew, son of a diplomat, raised in Egypt/Mexico, rooted in Woody Guthrie & rockabilly, singing about people from everywhere on Earth living together in humble neighborhoods. No greater repudiation of Trumpism https://t.co/vcRLQi47s4
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 1, 2019
but, of course…
Congratulations to President @JairBolsonaro who just made a great inauguration speech - the U.S.A. is with you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
The Washington Post title about Trump’s Claim: Trump claims there’s a 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ D.C. home. He is wrong.
About the house itself:
The former president and first lady purchased the nine-bedroom mansion for $8.1 million in 2017, The Post previously reported. It’s located in the affluent D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama, which is also home to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, who owns The Post, bought the former Textile Museum in the neighborhood for $23 million; it is being converted into a single-family home. Previous residents of the neighborhood have included former presidents Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover.
re: #301 Jay C
Though still an asshole, Falwell Jr.’s admiration for Trump’s “business acumen” is fairly understandable. After all, since he ran his casino businesses into the ground, Trump’s “acumen” has basically consisted of pressure-marketing a bunch of gullible rubes into forking over their money for what they imagine to be marks of prestige. And the whole image bolstered by carefully-scripted presentations on (the misnamed) “reality TV”.
Just the sort of skill set Falwell might admire….
Trump, Falwell, Graham and really so many others involved in The Trump Show…all are Elmer Gantry.
(One of my favorite classic movies. Learned a lot from it. This was the trailer for it.)
re: #315 Belafon
The Washington Post title about Trump’s Claim: Trump claims there’s a 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ D.C. home. He is wrong.
About the house itself:
Even when it’s the Washington Post which has been good about calling out Trump, they still cannot use the word “lie” in their headlines.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
They also ran to the self-indulgent and fickle, with none of the gravitas of the Beats.
That’s what Mr. w says. So many people think he’s an old hippie, just because he hasn’t shaved since 1969. But before he went in the Navy, he was a Beat.
How Japanese students multiply
By didyouknowpage1 pic.twitter.com/daHfxLtz4R— Mind blowing (@TheMindsDevelop) November 26, 2018
re: #319 MsJ
Doesn’t Falwell Junior have a Rentboy problem?
Pool boy, rent boy, WhatEv’s.
“Falwell Jr. and his wife were guests at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in 2012, they developed a “friendly relationship” with the pool attendant, Giancarlo Granda; flew Granda in a private jet; and eventually backed him in a business venture.” https://t.co/QfrLNZuVKh
— andy lassner (@andylassner) December 10, 2018
re: #304 sagehen
Because the Peace, Love, Kindness and Acceptance was always just a cover story. A euphemism for “please don’t draft me, not me, send someone else not.me!!”
re: #310 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Again, does not match my experience.
Mine either. I recall that while the Vietnam War was still ongoing, it (and the draft) were always there as an ongoing backdrop to social upheavals; draft avoidance, and/or actual draft evasion was usually framed as a matter of individual conscience, or else an issue of collective action (I.e. protest and pressure). Maybe there were some folks who thought of the issue in a “please not me” manner, but as best I can remember, that attitude was far from common.
re: #307 Targetpractice
Every generation has its rebellion, whether it was the greasers, the hippies, the punks, or the emos. And they all eventually grew up, cut their hair, and became part of the mainstream in time for the next generation to rebel against “the norm.”
It a side effect of living in Britain during the 80s with Nazi punks, but…there is frequently far less to “rebellion” than the great meaning it is retroactively assigned when people craft generational narratives.
Mostly its people experimenting with transgression of norms, and you don’t actually know what those transgressions mean to the transgressor.
Think about how “hippy” is now a blanket term covering a mix of drives and motives that might overlap, but might not, but primarily uses externalities—consumption habits, aesthetics—to define the collective. Some of those people deeply believed in something. Some believed vaguely in a lot of things, not knowing what the change they wanted was. For some their rebellion was against norms of temperance and appearance, purely personal.
…And some never cared about any of the ideas beyond their utility to get what they wanted.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Interesting graphic version of the standard multiplication. Now, let’s see 186282 * 86400. Joking aside, that might be a good way for visual people to see long multiplication.
re: #304 sagehen
Because the Peace, Love, Kindness and Acceptance was always just a cover story. A euphemism for “please don’t draft me, not me, send someone else not.me!!”
I think that is a little harsh and simple. There were a lot of young American men sacrificed for what again?
It also was a group thing. There were a lot of peaceniks that didn’t want to see anyone go to Vietnam. It wasn’t all about saving one’s own butt.
And I know mothers and fathers that didn’t want their sons going too. I know, I had brothers that graduated high school in ‘63 and ‘64, Prime candidates. I still remember seeing my mother crying when my one brother was drafted in early ‘65. She wanted her son to be a “not him.”
And by the end of the war, even those that went became “not me” types. Ask John Kerry.
#BREAKING: Federal workers union sues Trump admin over government shutdown https://t.co/nnSe7vMLSG pic.twitter.com/wsmGgq4Q1j
— The Hill (@thehill) December 31, 2018
re: #327 MsJ
Perfect. It is just what DT needs another lawsuit.
re: #319 MsJ
Doesn’t Falwell Junior have a Rentboy problem?
Uh, the proper nomenclature is ‘infusion of Series A working capital for a start up’ boy.
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
I predict a photo op this week with Trump and some “Federal workers” who support his shutdown.
And, all federal employees will know that it’s BS.
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
I predict a photo op this week with Trump and some “Federal workers” who support his shutdown.
Staffers qualify as “federal employees”, right? *wink wink nudge nudge*
re: #285 ObserverArt
Thinking a bit more about that phrase further.
Is that used on the streets by the mob types? I have a feeling that is where he may have heard it used and thought it sound tough.
Not sure why he uses it, but he uses it a lot.
…a scroll through his extensive and toxic list of dog tweets shows that Trump clearly means “dog” as a vicious insult, one that he deploys against enemies he particularly wants to malign.
thecut.com
re: #325 MsJ
I don’t get it. 😢
If you think in terms of long multiplication, the set of lines represent each number. You go top-down for one number, and left to right with the second. Each intersection is the multiplication of the two numbers whose line groups meet. When the writer does the curves, that represents each column where you add in your long division.
Take 23 * 41. Draw 2 horizontal lines to represent the 2, leave a gap, and then draw three horizontal lines to represent the 3. Now, draw four vertical lines over the others, leave a gap, and then draw one vertical line; this represents the 41.
Starting from the bottom right, the number of dots, which is the number of intersections between the three lines from 23 and the one line from 41, which is four. Thus the last digit in the multiplication is four. If you continue the diagonal separation, you get the familiar multiplication and addition we are used to:
023
x41
———-
023
920
———-
943
Trump Gallup:
A derivative of the Gish Gallup as applied to criminality and social media strategy;
commit so many crimes it’s hard for investigations to keep up; incessantly make conflicting statements of denial and victimhood by opponents as a scorched earth political strategy; erratic reactionary decision making in lieu of steady leadership that takes the focus on criminal investigations by media.
I could go on.
My NY resolution… Unfollow Raw Story (done) and don’t RT them again.
re: #326 ObserverArt
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And by the end of the war, even those that went became “not me” types. Ask John Kerry.
Also maybe harsh and simple. There’s a big difference between not wanting to be in the military, and having been in the military before, but then afterward taking a stand against a particular war.
re: #318 wrenchwench
That’s what Mr. w says. So many people think he’s an old hippie, just because he hasn’t shaved since 1969. But before he went in the Navy, he was a Beat.
I fell into the Village between the Beats and the early Hippies. “Hippie” was a slur for weekenders from The Bronx.
re: #307 Targetpractice
Every generation has its rebellion, whether it was the greasers, the hippies, the punks, or the emos. And they all eventually grew up, cut their hair, and became part of the mainstream in time for the next generation to rebel against “the norm.”
we seem to have reached a point where the metaphorical mainstream has forked into two smaller streams and everyone has to choose which fork they want to take
unfortunately predominantly one side has decided it should be to the exclusion of any consideration or empathy for those who took with the other stream
re: #311 wrenchwench
Bannon and Miller taught Trump to say ‘wall’ because it was so much easier to accomplish than getting him to say, ‘We must limit immigration to the people I want.’
a shorthand. exactly
I just wish our facts reached those still supporting Trump. That’s why I favor public hearings covered by all media from start to end without commentary or distorting selections so citizens can judge the evidence and see real truth. Giuliani and Trump are wrong. Truth is truth.
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) January 1, 2019
.@JillWineBanks is absolutely right about the need for public hearings & release of information so people know the facts & can make up their own minds about what they mean. Trump has damaged our national discourse by bombarding people with fake “truths.” It’s time to fix that. https://t.co/f2sWJrnX1D
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 1, 2019
re: #326 ObserverArt
I think that is a little harsh and simple. There were a lot of young American men sacrificed for what again?
It also was a group thing. There were a lot of peaceniks that didn’t want to see anyone go to Vietnam. It wasn’t all about saving one’s own butt.
And I know mothers and fathers that didn’t want their sons going too. I know, I had brothers that graduated high school in ‘63 and ‘64, Prime candidates. I still remember seeing my mother crying when my one brother was drafted in early ‘65. She wanted her son to be a “not him.”
And by the end of the war, even those that went became “not me” types. Ask John Kerry.
re: #341 jaunte
“The public” in America, at least a fourth of them, still believe the universe is just 6000 years old.
Public hearings don’t sway these people.
re: #328 PhillyPretzel
Perfect. It is just what DT needs another lawsuit.
they won last time
they should easily win again
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #337 wrenchwench
Also maybe harsh and simple. There’s a big difference between not wanting to be in the military, and having been in the military before, but then afterward taking a stand against a particular war.
there’s also nothing wrong with being against a war and still going when drafted
New Year’s brekky:
Fresh papaya and Kona coffee
Mom just fried up fresh lumpia
Getting my LGF on
re: #254 ObserverArt
What?
I thought she lost her radio show, but still has her nightly FOX News “entertainment” show.
She does. She “quit” doing the radio show so she could “spend more time with her family.”
re: #343 freetoken
“The public” in America, at least a fourth of them, still believe the universe is just 6000 years old.
Public hearings don’t sway these people.
You don’t need to sway everyone. But the only way the congressional, and particularly the Senate, GOP is going to move from protecting Trump to doing their damn jobs, is if his approval ratings drop below 40 and stay there for an extended period of time. That’s ultimately what did GW Bush in. The closer we get to 2020, and the greater the albatross that Trump becomes, the more likely they’ll be to say “fuck that guy.”
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 1, 2019
re: #346 dangerman
there’s also nothing wrong with being against a war and still going when drafted
After ETS I could protest and know what I was protesting.
re: #312 Barefoot Grin
Some hippies became hardcore right, though—David Horowitz, Michael Savage, etc. Not sure how they got so screwed up.
I’d say that they were extremists looking for an ideology.
re: #341 jaunte
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two of the problems are:
- those people dont want to be reached. they arent receptive to listening, engaging, understanding, learning, changing their minds or views
- yes. truth is truth. and truth doesnt matter to these people. it’s irrelevant.
re: #350 gocart mozart
He really took that ‘Dick in a Box’ song a little too literally.
re: #352 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d say that they were extremists looking for an ideology.
A bunch of them were just trying to get laid.
re: #348 Ace Rothstein
She does. She “quit” doing the radio show so she could “spend more time with her family.”
Funny, I thought she quit the radio show because the unseen hand of the market gave her the bird
re: #352 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d say that they were extremists looking for an ideology.
Radical leftists who became radical rightists.
re: #353 dangerman
two of the problems are:
- those people dont want to be reached. they arent receptive to listening, engaging, understanding, learning, changing their minds or views
- yes. truth is truth. and truth doesnt matter to these people. it’s irrelevant.
I think we should have public hearings for the majority of the world who aren’t Trump supporters.
re: #337 wrenchwench
Also maybe harsh and simple. There’s a big difference between not wanting to be in the military, and having been in the military before, but then afterward taking a stand against a particular war.
That’s the problem a lot of the previous generations had understanding the protests - they’d fought in WWII or Korea, and here were these privileged kids not wanting to do their bit.
Meanwhile, we were engaged in a stupid, unwinnable war which could only serve as a meatgrinder for the young.
Interestingly, we’re STILL in stupid, unwinnable wars which serve as meatgrinders for the young, but now they’re not draftees, and there aren’t as many of them.
re: #358 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Radical leftists who became radical rightists.
Because it was never about the ideology. It was about absolutism.
re: #358 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Radical leftists who became radical rightists.
My AP government teacher, lo those many years ago, introduced me to the idea that the political spectrum isn’t so much a straight line as it is a horseshoe. The far left and far right, Leninism and fascism (for lack of better terms), while based on very different philosophical differences, on a day to day basis, are basically the same thing. So it’s probably easier to go from extreme left to extreme right, or vice versa, than it is to go from either of them to the middle where most of us live.
Late ToThe Party pic.twitter.com/oJH94wzU6B
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) January 1, 2019
re: #362 KGxvi
My AP government teacher, lo those many years ago, introduced me to the idea that the political spectrum isn’t so much a straight line as it is a horseshoe. The far left and far right, Leninism and fascism (for lack of better terms), while based on very different philosophical differences, on a day to day basis, are basically the same thing. So it’s probably easier to go from extreme left to extreme right, or vice versa, than it is to go from either of them to the middle where most of us live.
I think of it as the far-right and the far-left meet around back by the trash cans. I guess I’m exposing myself as a ‘trash cans belong around the back’ person.
BTW, a 4k 43” TV is an awesome computer monitor. I’ve had about a week to play with it, and not having to move stuff around on the screen to see things is great. I did rearrange my work area so I could stare at it straight-on rather than at an angle, but that also opened up the floor in my office.
re: #363 jeffreyw
He was sleeping off last night party.
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s the problem a lot of the previous generations had understanding the protests - they’d fought in WWII or Korea, and here were these privileged kids not wanting to do their bit.
Meanwhile, we were engaged in a stupid, unwinnable war which could only serve as a meatgrinder for the young.
Interestingly, we’re STILL in stupid, unwinnable wars which serve as meatgrinders for the young, but now they’re not draftees, and there aren’t as many of them.
Further complicating the fact that the argument for fighting in Vietnam was the same as fighting in Korea - the old domino effect. The problem was, there was no clear strategy for actually winning in Vietnam, or even fighting to a Korean style stalemate.
As for the wars we are fighting today, I’d disagree slightly. We won the wars - we toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan and ousted Saddam in Iraq. The problem that we had in both places is that we had no plan to “win the peace.” If you’re going to invade a country and depose it’s leadership, you need to be ready to engage in nation building (and also recognize that it’s probably going to take a generation to get right). That was supposed to be a lesson we learned after WWI.
And Mercury. Don’t forget the Mercury!
Trump EPA orders rollback of Obama mercury regulations https://t.co/erqCpdcvKe— 🦈Smock-a-Bolla-Holla🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 1, 2019
StratCom posts wildly offensive video and tweet on NYE.
WINGNUTS: America! Fuck yeah! Are you triggered, snowflakes?
StratCom deletes tweet, says it “does not reflect our values.”
WINGNUTS: America! Fuck yeah! Are you triggered, snowflakes?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 1, 2019
Here’s your wall! #TrumpResign pic.twitter.com/i6h9g75yeJ
— Emanuel Rodriguez (@emanny9) January 1, 2019
re: #369 Charles Johnson
Yeah, I’d rather not have StratCom be “triggered.”
re: #362 KGxvi
My AP government teacher, lo those many years ago, introduced me to the idea that the political spectrum isn’t so much a straight line as it is a horseshoe. The far left and far right, Leninism and fascism (for lack of better terms), while based on very different philosophical differences, on a day to day basis, are basically the same thing. So it’s probably easier to go from extreme left to extreme right, or vice versa, than it is to go from either of them to the middle where most of us live.
A horseshoe or a circle. Again, the handy-dandy Circle of Derp graphic.
re: #362 KGxvi
My AP government teacher, lo those many years ago, introduced me to the idea that the political spectrum isn’t so much a straight line as it is a horseshoe. The far left and far right, Leninism and fascism (for lack of better terms), while based on very different philosophical differences, on a day to day basis, are basically the same thing. So it’s probably easier to go from extreme left to extreme right, or vice versa, than it is to go from either of them to the middle where most of us live.
i think even two dimensions are too restricting wrt ‘politics’
i have long worked with the idea that the political compass/spectrum is in fact three dimensional
re: #370 The Vicious Babushka
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I’m imagining Mueller as Wall-E, scraping up the crap that Trump is leaving around and piling it up.
re: #364 wrenchwench
I think of it as the far-right and the far-left meet around back by the trash cans. I guess I’m exposing myself as a ‘trash cans belong around the back’ person.
Except for the day you have to roll them out to the front curb for pickup by the trash service techs!
re: #370 The Vicious Babushka
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The more he and Republicans talk about “deals,” the more desperate they sound. Remember two weeks ago, when it was “Give us the funding or be held responsible for this shutdown!”?
re: #370 The Vicious Babushka
Border Security and the Wall “thing” and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker! Let’s make a deal?
oh, i think it is
re: #352 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d say that they were extremists looking for an ideology.
My standing theory on people that flit from extreme view to extreme view is that it’s all about their self-perception. All ideologies are equally valid, as long as they provide fuel for the ego…but when an idea “fails” by demanding humility or deference, or “fails” by not achieving its goals with a level of speed and pageantry that’s gratifying, it has to be denigrated and cast aside.
The power trip…the feeling of being morally Right and intellectually Right (correct) is the end goal.
Crank magnetism, but inside the boundaries of “normal” discourse.
re: #377 ObserverArt
Except for the day you have to roll them out to the front curb for pickup by the trash service techs!
Don’t make me wait for a ‘curb’ to be installed!
re: #379 dangerman
oh, i think it is
Nancy wants to play offense, will trumps attempts to defend. It’s a mismatch.
re: #381 wrenchwench
Don’t make me wait for a ‘curb’ to be installed!
Okay. In your case…out front.
(I hope you have a front…maybe a side?)
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re: #383 ObserverArt
Okay. In your case…out front.
(I hope you have a front…maybe a side?)
We have a front. We don’t have much of a back. The trash cans are on the side. Don’t tell anyone.
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s the problem a lot of the previous generations had understanding the protests - they’d fought in WWII or Korea, and here were these privileged kids not wanting to do their bit.
Meanwhile, we were engaged in a stupid, unwinnable war which could only serve as a meatgrinder for the young.
Interestingly, we’re STILL in stupid, unwinnable wars which serve as meatgrinders for the young, but now they’re not draftees, and there aren’t as many of them.
Now, a lot of them are National Guard
re: #377 ObserverArt
Except for the day you have to roll them out to the front curb for pickup by the trash service techs!
where i grew up (out makeitstop’s way)
the trash cans were sunk into the ground at ground level with a heavy metal lid and pedal
by the back door of the house
the ‘garbage men’ would walk around to the back door, open the lid, pull out a full metal can and dump it into their large round plastic bin
they’d do once of each of three cans
then heave the bin onto their shoulder and walk to the truck at the front of the house
dump the bin and walk to the next house
something like this:
the lid looked like this
Statement (attached) from FBIAA’s @tfoconnor83: “As the country celebrates the New Year, the American public can be assured that the FBIAA’s membership—which includes nearly 13,000 Special Agents of the FBI are on the job 24-hours a day, 7 days a week to protect our country…” pic.twitter.com/D0gIj8pcAV
— FBI Agents Assoc. (@FBIAgentsAssoc) January 1, 2019
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 1, 2019
re: #373 ObserverArt
A horseshoe or a circle. Again, the handy-dandy Circle of Derp graphic.
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The reason I dislike that diagram is that is fails to convey how many “centrists” bathe in the same rhetorical latrines as the far right/far left.
re: #382 I Would Prefer Not To
Nancy wants to play offense, will trumps attempts to defend. It’s a mismatch.
nancy is a consummate politican
trump is a self professed ‘deal maker’ - and objectively many times a failure at that
he does not understand (or really care) about politics
re: #387 dangerman
where i grew up (out makeitstop’s way)
the trash cans were sunk into the ground at ground level with a heavy metal lid and pedal
by the back door of the housethe ‘garbage men’ would walk around to the back door, open the lid, pull out a full metal can and dump it into their large round plastic bin
they’d do once of each of three cans
then heave the bin onto their shoulder and walk to the truck at the front of the house
dump the bin and walk to the next housesomething like this:
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There is no way to pay a person for doing that much work. A start: Do it for five years and receive a pension for the next 60.
Donny is such a dealmaker that 2 weeks later, he’s the guy basically begging the DNC to give him a “win” by this point by agreeing to wall funding.
This “walls & wheels “ thing was bothering me it seemed out of left field. Maybe you know this already but it links back to an early morning tweet by trump on December 21 where he makes the argument that just like the wheel has never become obsolete, border walls are never going to become obsolete. Stupid argument but that is the “walls & wheels” thing.
Good discussion started by commenting on hippies.
The one clear thing…like in everything…there are no easy answers and no one stance or opinion.
That is why group names like “hippies” fail to cover all the differences.
And that holds true mostly, except for when we get into periods like now where groups do tend to grow monolithic in thought. Say 1930s Germany, or 2016 USA.
And monolithic thinking is often dangerous. In politics and religion especially.
re: #373 ObserverArt
A horseshoe or a circle. Again, the handy-dandy Circle of Derp graphic.
I suspect that this circle serves as a roadmap for the Russian disinformation strategy.
re: #384 Blind Frog Belly White
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re: #389 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
The reason I dislike that diagram is that is fails to convey how many “centrists” bathe in the same rhetorical latrines as the far right/far left.
The other thing it fails to convey is the asymmetry. There’s more crazy on the Right than the Left, at least these days, and that’s skewed our discourse considerably. For example, 4 years ago, nobody’d bat an eye at the idea that punching Nazis is as American as apple pie.
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now, a lot of them are National Guard
And reservists. That’s a consequene of a conscious decision by Colin Powell. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he restructured the force, moving certain critical skills like Medical Corps largely into the Reserve. His outspoken intent was to make it impossible ever to go to war without the investment of the entirety of the population. He didn’t come up with a cure for bone spurs, however.
WELCOME TO CRAZYTOWN!
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
-General George S. Patton— New Year’s Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 30, 2018
So, Patton is also a flawed human. Be careful who you idolize. Heaven has 4 walls with 12 gates and rule of law to follow to gain entry as well as allegiance to its government. Hope your offspring doesn’t pay that ultimate price for your lack of true compassion. https://t.co/y6RTBQzbPu
— x Jim Craven x (@JimCraven9) January 1, 2019
re: #392 wrenchwench
There is no way to pay a person for doing that much work. A start: Do it for five years and receive a pension for the next 60.
and oh gosh, when the town decided to switch to rolling carts you dragged to the curb/street/road, omg the uproar that the homeowner would have to do anything wrt garbage and not totally be waited on….
50-60 years ago now
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
Hope your offspring doesn’t pay that ultimate price for your lack of true compassion.
Must be the new Mafia Vendetta Heaven.
re: #399 Decatur Deb
And reservists. That’s a consequene of a conscious decision by Colin Powell. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he restructured the force, moving certain critical skills like Medical Corps largely into the Reserve. His outspoken intent was to make it impossible ever to go to war without the investment of the entirety of the population. He didn’t come up with a cure for bone spurs, however.
Probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference: I doubt whether that storefront podiatrist in Queens was old Fred Trump’s only medical tenant….
“We tried burning sinners for eternity but it just wasn’t enough. Now we’re throwing in the offspring!”
re: #398 Blind Frog Belly White
The other thing it fails to convey is the asymmetry. There’s more crazy on the Right than the Left, at least these days, and that’s skewed our discourse considerably. For example, 4 years ago, nobody’d bat an eye at the idea that punching Nazis is as American as apple pie.
Yep.
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
WELCOME TO CRAZYTOWN!
All of them hear a God that lets them do what they want, with revisions in real time, and sets fire to anyone they’re uncomfortable with.
It’s almost like the voice in their head that says “it’s a holy act to fuck Bob’s wife” is actually their own.
re: #404 jaunte
“We tried burning sinners for eternity but it just wasn’t enough. Now we’re throwing in the offspring!”
I could be wrong but I think this person is saying I hope your kids arent killed by an “illegal”. But it’s hard to be sure. This person is not ok.
re: #404 jaunte
“We tried burning sinners for eternity but it just wasn’t enough. Now we’re throwing in the offspring!”
“And a float in the Rose Parade!”
re: #397 dangerman
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re: #406 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
All of them hear a God that lets them do what they want, with revisions in real time, and sets fire to anyone they’re uncomfortable with.
It’s almost like the voice in their head that says “it’s a holy act to fuck Bob’s wife” is actually their own.
(when bob’s not home, won’t know and won’t find out)
re: #407 Old Liberal
Funny how that works.
— the realbman (@therealbman5) January 1, 2019
CANCER kills. Socialism is a cancer. Cali is in its death throws. https://t.co/LsygT1CKBJ
— x Jim Craven x (@JimCraven9) January 1, 2019
He’s certainly living in an alternate reality.
re: #411 jaunte
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He’s certainly living in an alternate reality.
He may never get threw.
Regarding the Counterculture and the “hippies,” see The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. by Thomas M. Frank.
While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined—and even anticipated —by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men’s clothing business.
“[Thomas Frank is] perhaps the most provocative young cultural critic of the moment.”-
-Gerald Marzorati, New York Times Book Review
“An indispensable survival guide for any modern consumer.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Frank makes an ironclad case not only that the advertising industry cunningly turned the countercultural rhetoric of revolution into a rallying cry to buy more stuff, but that the process itself actually predated any actual counterculture to exploit.”
—Geoff Pevere, Toronto Globe and Mail
Frank, you may recall, also wrote What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. This answered the question of why and how middle and working class Americans were persuaded to vote against their own interest, and it did so 12 years before the Trump disaster.
re: #411 jaunte
Yes he believes if heaven has a literal walk, not steel or concrete I assume but solid gold, well if almighty god needs a wall then so do we.
re: #411 jaunte
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He’s certainly living in an alternate reality.
First off, don’t call it ‘Cali’. I fucking hate that. Secondly, people have claimed there’s an exodus from California ever since I got here, and STILL housing prices keep rising because people keep moving here.
The death of California is a dream for these people. Meanwhile, what’s actually dying is Trump Country, the little towns with their little factories that can’t compete globally.
re: #414 Old Liberal
Naturally an all-powerful, all-seeing, never sleeping presence would need a wall to keep stuff out.
re: #417 jaunte
Naturally an all-powerful, all-seeing, never sleeping presence would need a wall to keep stuff out.
With 12 doors. For kicking out those who already snuck in.
re: #413 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Regarding the Counterculture and the “hippies,” see The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. by Thomas M. Frank.
Frank, you may recall, also wrote What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. This answered the question of why and how middle and working class Americans were persuaded to vote against their own interest, and it did so 12 years before the Trump disaster.
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”
― Kenneth Rexroth, called “The Father of the Beats”, though he denied it and insisted on a paternity test.
re: #417 jaunte
Naturally an all-powerful, all-seeing, never sleeping presence would need a wall to keep stuff out.
Probably still uses wheels too.
re: #409 Blind Frog Belly White
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re: #415 Blind Frog Belly White
The death of California is a dream for these people. Meanwhile, what’s actually dying is Trump Country, the little towns with their little factories that can’t compete globally.
More like the Little towns that used to have factories but no longer do. Like bringing good paying coal jobs back, these small towns (which used to be company towns where one company employed almost everyone in town) want their company back.
Neither are realistically going to happen. Coal ain’t coming back and some big company isn’t going to resurrect their town.
re: #418 wrenchwench
Yes the sinners somehow crossed that chasm that Jesus said couldn’t be bridged. Maybe they used wheels to jump it like Knievel.
Lindsey Graham on wall: “I’m not asking Mexico to pay for it. I’m asking the American people to pay for it.” https://t.co/wFMk1x6Q3d pic.twitter.com/dLplwZLXMV
— The Hill (@thehill) January 1, 2019
re: #411 jaunte
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He’s certainly living in an alternate reality.
there is so much wrong with that tweet, beginning with the word “when”
and the poverty and homeless claims are flat out wrong
(i know….doesnt matter..)
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Lindsey Graham on wall: “I’m not asking Mexico to pay for it. I’m asking the American people to pay for it.”
No. Now fuck off.
What Trump will accept, don’t fund the wall but tell people that we did.
He wants a good headline, he doesn’t give a crap if the wall actually gets built.
re: #411 jaunte
In Real Life, California has the 5th largest economy in the world. (I can’t Tweet that because I blocked the wingnut who posted that meme) cbsnews.com
Elizabeth Warren Launches Exploratory Committee for President https://t.co/kVl1PuKDtP via @YouTube
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 1, 2019
re: #426 dangerman
there is so much wrong with that tweet, beginning with the word “when”
and the poverty and homeless claims are flat out wrong
(i know….doesnt matter..)
Yes but the smug self assurance permeates. This is a person who knows they are right in everything and yet stoops to warn the unwashed.
re: #424 Old Liberal
Yes the sinners somehow crossed that chasm that Jesus said couldn’t be bridged. Maybe they used wheels to jump it like Knievel.
Evel? Evel sinners?
re: #429 The Vicious Babushka
One more rural Oregon wingnut longing for the State of Jefferson.
re: #423 MsJ
More like the Little towns that used to have factories but no longer do. Like bringing good paying coal jobs back, these small towns (which used to be company towns where one company employed almost everyone in town) want their company back.
Neither are realistically going to happen. Coal ain’t coming back and some big company isn’t going to resurrect their town.
• Number of new jobs added: 2.28 million
• Number of those jobs that are in coal mining: 1,100 (.04%)
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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And the American people are telling you to shove your demands up your ass…sideways!
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Lindsey Graham is all over T.V., much like failed 47% candidate Mitt Romney. These nasty, angry, jealous failures have ZERO credibility!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2016
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Lindsey Graham on wall: “I’m not asking Mexico to pay for it. I’m asking the American people to pay for it.”
oh, then not just “no way”; “no fucking way”
re: #431 Old Liberal
Yes but the smug self assurance permeates. This is a person who knows they are right in everything and yet stoops to warn the unwashed.
he picked some cool colors and a nice wavy background
Ever since Cali ceased being a reliable red state, wingnuts have been predicting its economic (if not geologic) doom. And yet, in the last 2 decades the state suffered the worst under Republican governors. Go figure.
re: #407 Old Liberal
I could be wrong but I think this person is saying I hope your kids arent killed by an “illegal”. But it’s hard to be sure. This person is not ok.
I think you’re right. Getting killed by an immigrant is a major theme, right up there with “why don’t you have them come stay in your house, then?!?”
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
Since you quoted Patton you obviously idolize him. Derp.
Dead 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/H30xBLYo9p
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) January 1, 2019
You are courting a fascist. This is the least American thing a Secretary of State can do. Your trip is a disgrace.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 1, 2019
Ironic that Fox still had this article up.https://t.co/oOfpd0UB3D
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 1, 2019
re: #421 jaunte
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U.S. Census Bureau information, a.k.a. Socialism.
According to 2017 statistics, my county in Wisconsin is 17.7% below the poverty line. The past year has been harsh and I’ll bet it’s at least 20% once the new numbers come out. Currently $11.50/hr and averaging 25 ~ 30 hours a week so yours truly is in that percentage.
Why did Chuck Grassley help pass a C.R. without $5 billion ‘wall’ $$ then?
This #TrumpShutdown isn’t about ‘wall’. It’s Trump using taxpayer $$ to shore up his shrinking base.— John Dodge (@Sanityreturn2us) January 1, 2019
re: #344 dangerman
they won last time
they should easily win again
Losing lawsuits hasn’t slowed Trump down thus far.
re: #389 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
The reason I dislike that diagram is that is fails to convey how many “centrists” bathe in the same rhetorical latrines as the far right/far left.
I don’t like it because it has “Centrists” between “Democrats” and “Republicans” when actually both parties are right-of-center.
re: #446 William Lewis
According to 2017 statistics, my county in Wisconsin is 17.7% below the poverty line. The past year has been harsh and I’ll bet it’s at least 20% once the new numbers come out. Currently $11.50/hr and averaging 25 ~ 30 hours a week so yours truly is in that percentage.
My county (population a little over 13,000) in Kentucky is 28.2%.
In the county seat (population ~1,400) it’s 42.6%.
2018 was a year of WINNING thanks to @realDonaldTrump.
Here are just a few of the highlights. ⬇️https://t.co/6TiMjGlBew— GOP (@GOP) January 1, 2019
- Worst stock market year since Great Recession in 2008
- Worst December for stocks since Great Depression in 1931
- 800K fed workers (including >200K Vets) with no paychecks
- Record trade deficit with China
- Budget deficit nearing $1T a year
- Nat’l debt approaching $22T
👍🏼 https://t.co/8c1CXV9Z9t— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) January 1, 2019
re: #401 dangerman
and oh gosh, when the town decided to switch to rolling carts you dragged to the curb/street/road, omg the uproar that the homeowner would have to do anything wrt garbage and not totally be waited on….
50-60 years ago now
I grew up in a hole in the ground. When I was a little kid, the garbagemen would come down and get our cans from next to the kitchen door. By the time I was a teenager, I (It was always me) had to carry them to the top of the driveway.
Breaking news from our local ganja shop here on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula: there is a widespread shortage of rolling papers (for joints) on the West Coast. Apparently those greedy bastards in Oregon have used up much of the supply. We recreational consumers are having to buy our marijuana in bud form, or put up with packs of pre-rolled joints that are a mix of brown hemp and regular white papers, completely destroying the aesthetic. It is a travesty, I say!
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 1, 2019
Ohio doctor fired by hospital after saying she would give Jews “the wrong meds” https://t.co/K7fvk2oelr pic.twitter.com/qUQXLtjasy
— The Hill (@thehill) January 1, 2019
Tradition, It’s What’s For Dinner pic.twitter.com/ICn6wVelov
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) January 1, 2019
New Year’s Sausage Slider - Brings Back Memories! pic.twitter.com/gcru9NRvQ5
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) January 1, 2019
re: #454 Ferdinand
Breaking news from our local ganja shop here on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula: there is a widespread shortage of rolling papers (for joints) on the West Coast. Apparently those greedy bastards in Oregon have used up much of the supply. We recreational consumers are having to buy our marijuana in bud form, or put up with packs of pre-rolled joints that are a mix of brown hemp and regular white papers, completely destroying the aesthetic. It is a travesty, I say!
Go shake down the flautists. The greedy bastards suck up all the papers to dry and clean their pads.
(Daughter2 tried to buy a pack of Zig-Zags in Alabama when she was 12.)
re: #456 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Which is why we have doctors in our families. So they can use their PDR’s and look up the meds. Either that or a pill book.
“I was bred and born in the briar patch, Brer Trump,” Nancy Pelosi called. “Born and bred in the briar patch.”
— New Year’s Frank (@goddamnedfrank) January 1, 2019
Also in Washington cannabis news, the state department of agriculture folks deserve high praise in a number of areas, including their embrace of the Clean Green certification program for cannabis products:
“Clean Green Certified is the number one certifier nation-wide for cannabis cultivated using sustainable, natural and organically based practices. Legally, marijuana cannot be called organic — no matter how environmentally friendly the cultivation practices used to grow it — because the term is federally regulated and the USDA does not recognize cannabis as a legitimate agricultural crop. The Clean Green Certified program was created in 2004 as a way to regulate legal cannabis-products that called themselves “organic.” Consumers can rest assured when they buy a Clean Green Certified cannabis product that it has met all of the requirements of the rigorous program.”
However, they get points taken away in my book for their efforts to crack down on the use of marketing that might be considered “kid friendly.” Our local tribal-owned and operated MJ store has had to remove all their promos (lighters, t-shirts, etc.) featuring their cool Bigfoot with sunglasses mascot, named Doobie Cooper. Today I bought one of the last shirts they’ll have as a collector’s item. My wife made the comparison to some old Joe Camel gear she had back in the heady days before the landmark 90s anti-tobacco legislation.
I get the reasoning. I quit tobacco via vape a few years ago, but support cracking down on fruit flavors and youth-targeted marketing. But if you can’t market your premium legal weed in Washington using a sunglass wearing Bigfoot logo, I believe our Republic has truly lost something. YMMV.
re: #456 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Damn. And at the Cleveland Clinic too.
Makes you wonder how many of our care givers and safety and emergency people harbor such hatred and would actually allow that hatred into their jobs.
A reminder, Doctor Who Christmas New Year’s special is on tonight, 8 PM EST
(also, after tonight, no new Who until 2020)
Doctor Who: Resolution review – old foes and Brexit gags in spectacular satire https://t.co/AOiVi1BxOn
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 1, 2019
Happy 2019 — the year BLADE RUNNER, AKIRA and THE RUNNING MAN are all set in. Three wonderfully positive portrayals of the future!!! pic.twitter.com/57HALAw59O
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) January 1, 2019
re: #463 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
A reminder, Doctor Who
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How has the new season been received?
Had it been renewed with her as the doctor?
re: #400 goddamnedfrank
Compassion, eh? Let’s take a peek at what he believes in:
WARNING: If you are not a full Trump supporter, go away you have nothing of value to say or listen to. 5L’sSM=LAZY LYING LUNATIC LIBRITARD LAME STREAM MEDIA
I Have No Brain and I Must Tweet pic.twitter.com/ZpL9gRvlSV
— Julius Goat 🦆(Read Pinned Tweet!) (@JuliusGoat) January 1, 2019
re: #465 MsJ
How has the new season been received?
Had it been renewed with her as the doctor?
Yes, it’s been renewed. I think she’s been accepted, but the writer needs a little work. Broadchurch was great, but the universe is a little bit bigger which just means he needs to learn to make the stories a little bigger.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just arrived in #Brasilia for the @jairbolsonaro inauguration. Looking forward to witnessing the peaceful transfer of power in one of Latin America’s strongest democracies.
do you think he’ll ever give it up?
re: #454 Ferdinand
Breaking news from our local ganja shop here on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula: there is a widespread shortage of rolling papers (for joints) on the West Coast. Apparently those greedy bastards in Oregon have used up much of the supply. We recreational consumers are having to buy our marijuana in bud form, or put up with packs of pre-rolled joints that are a mix of brown hemp and regular white papers, completely destroying the aesthetic. It is a travesty, I say!
Are there no bongs in your city? No pipes? No cigarillos you can slice open to reuse those papers?
re: #450 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I don’t like it because it has “Centrists” between “Democrats” and “Republicans” when actually both parties are right-of-center.
re: #389 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
The reason I dislike that diagram is that is fails to convey how many “centrists” bathe in the same rhetorical latrines as the far right/far left.
it also doesnt begin to recognize that one person can hold disparate opinions on different subject
where does even the simplistic - “liberal on social issues, conservative on fiscal ” fit?
and where do you stick ‘moderate’?
to be continued in a moment…
re: #384 Blind Frog Belly White
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Okay…I will never post the Circle of Derp image again!!!
re: #465 MsJ
How has the new season been received?
Had it been renewed with her as the doctor?
It’s average episode viewership in the UK is better than any season with Matt Smith and a significant improvement over Peter Capaldi as the Doctor. Including a 46% improvement in viewership over last season.
But, this season did show a decrease in viewership with each subsequent episode until a slight bump with the last episode
Today’s 11th album: Camera Obscura, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fihttps://t.co/tmPY4RPf8Y
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) January 1, 2019
re: #468 Belafon
Yes, it’s been renewed. I think she’s been accepted, but the writer needs a little work. Broadchurch was great, but the universe is a little bit bigger which just means he needs to learn to make the stories a little bigger.
I think the ‘mob’ of companions were a bit of a burden.
re: #472 b_sharp
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