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He’s already lying like a rug, boasting wildly, and repeating himself again and again. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/T98LolP4a8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
“You’ll see vast numbers of vehicles driving through the desert and entering where you don’t have a very powerful fence or a wall.” He’s just making this shit up. pic.twitter.com/A2GjC1fcve
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
working from home while dealing with docs for my thumb and the orange shit gibbon is on MSNBC and ranting like a damn moron.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
If they were driving, they would have gotten here before the election.
Today on the Pathetic Needy Manbaby Show:
Manbaby comes up with plot to get people to stop looking at Nancy Pelosi.
re: #6 jaunte
Today on the Pathetic Needy Manbaby Show:
Manbaby comes up with plot to get people to stop looking at Nancy Pelosi.
I suspect that’s why Mitt did his oped.
This is wild. Some of the most incoherent babbling I’ve seen yet from this loon. pic.twitter.com/kNiYTFTyp9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
I will never get used to the creepy way Pence stares at the back of Trump’s head pic.twitter.com/w8I42eJ4sM
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) January 4, 2019
Pence is a wax statue or a cardboard cutout, yes?
He doesn’t move and his facial expression is exactly the same in every screen grab
Yall do realize if you impeach Trump, Pence becomes president. And yall don’t realize how much worse Pence would be. Look up his opinions… Or we can just kill everyone before Mad Dog Mattis and let Mattis be president. We have until Feb. All us, Marines, can vouch for him.
— Dani Gengler Rice (@danigrock) January 4, 2019
Yes, I realise that fully. I also feel that there has to be some tree we can shake to make an impeachable offense against HIM fall out as well, since Manafort was directly responsible for placing him in his position, which likely means he’s as beholden to Russia as #Dotard. https://t.co/7hlLb9Mf7o
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) January 4, 2019
re: #4 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
working from home while dealing with docs for my thumb and the orange shit gibbon is on MSNBC and ranting like a damn moron.
Hoping you’ll feel better soon!
I feel like I’m being read a book report by the dumbest kid in my daughter’s third grade class, except they didn’t do the report and are pretending to read from a blank sheet of paper.
— Better than Ezra Klein (@Yeggo) January 4, 2019
steel walls are good and they are strong and steel what is good is good and theres so much steel which is good and i made the steel and its beautiful and we want the steel for the border and its great how i made all the steel thank you https://t.co/WGZsSLt0LV
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 4, 2019
Putin is really yanking Orange Anusface’s chain!
This week’s insane photos include a very happy Pelosi and Pope Francis playing with a ball https://t.co/QnqOurig7S pic.twitter.com/Nhr1G8UIkG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 4, 2019
I was waiting for a picture of Pelosi and the pope playing with a ball together, but sadly this is just a case of a missing oxford comma. #fail https://t.co/bwUTgkJxE7
— Civil Frank (@fvdlfvdl) January 4, 2019
re: #13 Chrysicat
Yes, but you have to actually uphold the rule of law. You still go after the cartel boss even if the gang is threatening you.
re: #13 Chrysicat
Yes, I realise that fully. I also feel that there has to be some tree we can shake to make an impeachable offense against HIM fall out as well, since Manafort was directly responsible for placing him in his position, which likely means he’s as beholden to Russia as #Dotard.
Exactly. After Reagan was impeached, convicted, removed from office, tried for treason, and shot for the Iran/Contra crime, Bush was impeached, convicted, removed from office, tried for treason, and shot. Well, that’s what should have happened….
re: #18 Belafon
Yes, but you have to actually uphold the rule of law. You still go after the cartel boss even if the gang is threatening you.
I’d honestly prefer to get Pence first—that would mean no VP to succeed Trump, and that in turn would mean Pelosi46.
Whereas if we got Trump and then immediately convicted Pence46, he’d have a VP to step up.
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Trump is doing a lengthy Trump monologue about immigration. Sample: “Children are the biggest beneficiaries of what we want to do.” “Three or four women with tape on their mouths, and they’re tied up…” “Brand new walls. Beautiful walls. Steel walls.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
re: #19 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Exactly. After Reagan was impeached, convicted, removed from office, tried for treason, and shot for the Iran/Contra crime, Bush was impeached, convicted, removed from office, tried for treason, and shot. Well, that’s what should have happened….
With Supreme Court Justice Cormac McCarthy in charge…
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Trump on human traffickers’ routes: “They get off the road, and they drive out into the desert and they come in, they make a left turn - usually it’s a left, not a right.” After getting distracted, he resumed: “They make a right turn before they get to the port of entry.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
re: #22 The Vicious Babushka
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I like having a President who doesn’t talk like a Bimd villain.
A rat fires at a cat with a miniature gun in ‘Now You Tell One’ (1926) directed by Charles R. Bowers and Harold L. Muller pic.twitter.com/9rtWMoXZec
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) February 17, 2018
Real test for press. Is a freshman cussing more newsworthy than another deranged rant from the president of the United States?
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 4, 2019
re: #21 Chrysicat
I’d honestly prefer to get Pence first—that would mean no VP to succeed Trump, and that in turn would mean Pelosi46.
Whereas if we got Trump and then immediately convicted Pence46, he’d have a VP to step up.
I’m sure the only way we’d get Republicans on board with impeachment is to have a new VP first, meaning a Republican nominee.
re: #28 jaunte
Both Morning Joke and CNN had that clip on this morning.
Trump just said he’d have no problem with keeping the government shut down for years. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/6pOprRLXoY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #32 Charles Johnson
It is kind of the GOP dream, isn’t it?
Trump audibly said “Thank you Steve to Kevin McCarthy after he finished speaking.
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 4, 2019
The new Congress will include at least 38 House members and four senators who are Latino — including a few others who are newcomers — according to the official count of the National Association of Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund. NALEO still is working to confirm the tally.
The link is in one of the tweets I posted on the previous thread.
38 and four. No wonder they’re running scared and trying to slam the borders shut.
“A lot of people don’t know this, but we have terrorists coming in from the southern border.”
The “people who don’t know this” apparently includes DHS because they say absolutely ZERO terrorists have been caught at the southern border. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/sWRx7KhNoO— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #32 Charles Johnson
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Keeping the government shut down is an impeachable offense.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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A lot of people don’t know this but I make up shit on the go.//
No journalist pointed this out, of course.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
Sure, Jan. https://t.co/ZVAHdgAh5Y
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 4, 2019
Suddenly Trump is waffling like crazy when he’s asked if he’s still proud to own the shutdown (a direct quote). https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/77lsvUbbyo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #37 Charles Johnson
“A lot of people don’t know this, but we have terrorists coming in from the southern border.”
So, maybe he should try stopping them with the tools and resources he has. Maybe ICE should focus on “terrorists” rather than law-abiding visa expired persons.
“We’ve done a lotta miles of wall already, so we’re not just starting off fresh.”
This is an obvious, easily checked lie, of course. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/5NhDeKXmFp— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #29 Belafon
I’m sure the only way we’d get Republicans on board with impeachment is to have a new VP first, meaning a Republican nominee.
You’re probably right, but the problem is I’m no longer sure if there’s a single R with a political career who isn’t bought by Tsar Vladimir.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
George H.W. Bush said before he died, and Gerald Ford said it before he died, and Lyndon Johnson said it before he died and….
re: #32 Charles Johnson
There will be zero reason to file taxes if the government stays shut down.
I think the “Pocahontas” slur against Warren plays so well with the GOP base because few of them are aware that Pocahontas was a real, historical person rather than just a cartoon character.
My Spidey Sense is telling me Frito Bancheeto is going to try to declare a state of emergency and dissolve The House.
re: #50 Joe Bacon 🌹
My Spidey Sense is telling me Frito Bancheeto is going to try to declare a state of emergency and dissolve The House.
And everyone will laugh and go back to work.
re: #50 Joe Bacon 🌹
My Spidey Sense is telling me Frito Bancheeto is going to try to declare a state of emergency and dissolve The House.
Let him try.
Also, Trump can’t even fire one person to their face. How’s he going to pull of shutting down the House?
re: #21 Chrysicat
I’d honestly prefer to get Pence first—that would mean no VP to succeed Trump, and that in turn would mean Pelosi46.
Whereas if we got Trump and then immediately convicted Pence46, he’d have a VP to step up.
Or if Pence was to go down, a new VP would be nominated and there would be discussions between the GOP and Dems on who they would accept.
The Reich wing would lose their collective minds if Nancy Pelosi ascended to the presidency through impeachments.
“You can’t see through a concrete wall.” https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/taLS5B4Dmr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
i’ve been mentioning it for two years.
Trump has lifted this strategy straight from Putin’s Moscow. it’s a deliberate, disciplined approach to lie abt everything, always.
but too many people still pretend Trump’s just misinformed, confused.— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 4, 2019
re: #48 Belafon
I was just thinking that. Also, if that piece of shit keeps the shutdown going, dude and I are totally fucked. We are counting on our return.
re: #50 Joe Bacon 🌹
My Spidey Sense is telling me Frito Bancheeto is going to try to declare a state of emergency and dissolve The House.
There is no constitutional mechanism for that. That would have the entire Democratic House demanding impeachment (and possibly a few GOP as well).
Plus, that would have the streets filled with millions of people.
If my Wobblie Great Grandpa was still alive he’d be calling for a General Strike to shut the whole country down…
Watching this Trump presser really drives home the polling about how Fox viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all. I feel like I’m getting dumber every minute.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 4, 2019
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹
True. DT will have everyone against him.
He’s sounding more and more like an appliance salesman from Long Island.
— Jackie Banyasz (@garwoodgal) January 4, 2019
Trump today: I never said I’d build a concrete wall.
Also Trump: pic.twitter.com/cxLX3vuG0b— Liz Gumbinner 🌊 (@Mom101) January 4, 2019
Now he’s rambling incoherently about eminent domain and taking away land from people for his stupid fantasy wall. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/LAj7L3MoM1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #66 Charles Johnson
There are still court fights over GW Bush’s fence.
He would have to do it with the Army. At that instant there would be a real constitutional crisis.
And now he’s threatening to declare a national emergency over his stupid fantasy wall. https://t.co/tkV1t64mdw pic.twitter.com/PUdoS7Z0X3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #66 Charles Johnson
Freedom, less government, liberty….
C’mon Texas you can do better than this:
Former Russia Today America anchor who announced she was quitting the Putin propaganda network on the air in 2014 running against #TX23 GOP Rep. Will Hurd https://t.co/iQdsBmz6IC
— Daily Kos Elections (@DKElections) January 3, 2019
Liz Wahl, who discovered, after three years, that she had been working for a Kremlin propaganda outlet…for three years. https://t.co/JPN0Ju1khr
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 4, 2019
He used to repeat his talking points two or three times — nowadays he repeats stuff over and over and over like a skipping record.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
Donnie found out that he can do even less work (if that’s possible) when the government is shut down.
I’m among the “experts” quoted as agreeing that any sitting president can be indicted if it’s done the right way. Just saying. https://t.co/Z7Z0eLO75I
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 4, 2019
Asked about a “safety net” for federal workers who are going without pay and need the money, Trump says, “The safety net is going to be having a strong border.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
Trump repeats his regular lie that the U.S. loses “close to $100 billion a year with trade with Mexico for many years.” Ignoring his description of trade deficits as losses, the U.S. has never once had even close to a $100 billion deficit with Mexico.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
So Donny threatens to keep gov’t partially shut down for months or years…and Mitch is totally silent. I’m sure this will do wonders for those at-risk Republicans that the media thinks he’s trying to protect in 2020.
Ok. Yelled fuck you so many times now I’m practically hoarse. Might be time for a walk break.
re: #77 Targetpractice
So Donny threatens to keep gov’t partially shut down for months or years…and Mitch is totally silent. I’m sure this will do wonders for those at-risk Republicans that the media thinks he’s trying to protect in 2020.
We have to wait until fucking 2020? Hell no.
re: #80 Skip Intro
We have to wait until fucking 2020? Hell no.
Someone should flip the breaker on the Social Security office on the way out. That would end this pretty soon.
Trump considering declaring national emergency in an effort to secure wall funding: Sources - ABC News https://t.co/nTWVeYHNEs
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 4, 2019
FYI pic.twitter.com/2ZrOJHa5bM
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) January 4, 2019
And that 37% solid base will still hold.
He could walk out and punch that meme lawnmower kid in the head, and that base wouldn’t move— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 4, 2019
re: #80 Skip Intro
We have to wait until fucking 2020? Hell no.
I’ve had enough of this fucking dystopia.
Wish somebody would ask Mitch if he’s prepared to drive 800K Americans into poverty over a vanity project. And if Donny’s prepared to hold out for months, just how does Mitch avoid a default on the nation debt in March?
re: #81 Belafon
Someone should flip the breaker on the Social Security office on the way out. That would end this pretty soon.
Well, it would end me and my gf pretty soon, all right.
Donnie is days away from fulfilling his 5th avenue shooting spree.
re: #86 Dr. Matt
Donnie is days away from fulfilling his 5th avenue shooting spree.
That would just boost his evangelical support.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
A NYC subway rat…. from the 1970s no doubt. /
What was Trump saying about the American steel industry?
US Steel stock at multi-year low despite tariff boost https://t.co/hM9CVSKZiZ— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 4, 2019
re: #82 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Put another way, it’s at multidecade lows.
Border crossings are at multidecade lows.
The number here illegally is at multidecade lows.
The only ones thinking this is a crisis are the white nationalist GOPers who are freaked out that nonwhites are an increasing percentage of the American population and angry privileged white guys are reverting to their misogynistic/bigoted type - being racist scum.
Does anyone know when the English translation will be made available?
There’s now an entire account putting songs behind the now-famous AOC dancing clip.
My fave so far, because of the theme: Guillotine
The Coup - The Guillotine pic.twitter.com/358KyFCLC4
— AOC Dances To Every Song (@aoc_dances) January 4, 2019
I just spit the dope lines, I don’t snort ‘em
Tell the boss to call police to escort him
You don’t write all them lies, you just quote ‘em
Get offline, plug in to this modem
No, you can’t out-vote ‘em
The rules is still golden
Only jewels we holding is if we guarding our scrotum
If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen
You can hear the sound of limitations exploding
Please sir, may we have another portion?
We’re children of the beast that dodged the abortion
Neck placed firm ‘tween the floor and the Florsheim
We’ll shut your shit down, don’t call it extortion
Caution — we’re coming for your head
So call the Feds and get files to shred
Every textbook read said bring you the bread
But guess what we got you instead?
[Hook]
We got the guillotine
We got the guillotine, you better run
re: #90 lawhawk
Put another way, it’s at multidecade lows.
Border crossings are at multidecade lows.
The number here illegally is at multidecade lows.
The only ones thinking this is a crisis are the white nationalist GOPers who are freaked out that nonwhites are an increasing percentage of the American population and angry privileged white guys are reverting to their misogynistic/bigoted type - being racist scum.
I was composing a reply in my head, until I realized, in its essence it would be:
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
yeah.
And one more Yeah.
Asked if he’d ask landlords to go easy on federal workers not getting paid right now, Trump says, “I think they will…I think that happens. Hey, I’ve been a landlord for a long time…they work with people.” Pressed, he eventually says he would indeed tell them to go easy.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
Earlier, Trump said he’d been called by tech companies who complain that they can’t keep highly educated foreign workers schooled in the US. He says this is a “ridiculous” policy. *His own policy* has been to make it harder for such people. https://t.co/Eqg8wm4nZk
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019
Locker room talk is only for menfolk. “Grabbing pussy” is manly man talk. Wimmenfolk should just do as they’re told. https://t.co/pRveGlg1zg
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 4, 2019
“As (Anderson Cooper’s) butt plug dislodges during a newscast”5.11.17
“Go fuck yourself.” 9.18.18
“Think it’s safe to say she has sucked at way more than two things” abt @chelseahandler 8.28.18
“shut your cock holster of a mouth” 10.30.18
“this pussy” -abt @johnlegend 6.27.18 https://t.co/OvC9EDzB7R— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 4, 2019
Trump claims that in California, the government has just finished building “new walls, beautiful walls, steel walls.”
Congress has not appropriated a single cent for him to build “new walls.” He’s untethered from reality. pic.twitter.com/fC1HR9PTwN— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 4, 2019
All the presidents. They visited him in his dreams.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
He should just declare all the Walls built already
Build the wall out of soy. There’s plenty of it sitting around.
A beautiful breather:
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— Braemar Media (@BraemarMedia) January 4, 2019
We now return to our regular programming:
Trump’s a fucking liar who knows landlords and banks don’t care about excuses for not making rent or mortgage payments:
Trump as a landlord would throw people out on the street if they were late. He and his dad didn’t care about excuses.He’s a liar. And he also discriminated against minorities while working for his dad.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 4, 2019
And none of those people would be saying it because they’d be losing their homes, get assessed penalties, and otherwise be thrown into debt thanks to Trump’s malicious nonsense.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 4, 2019
What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency (The Atlantic, more at the link):
It would be nice to think that America is protected from the worst excesses of Trump’s impulses by its democratic laws and institutions. After all, Trump can do only so much without bumping up against the limits set by the Constitution and Congress and enforced by the courts. Those who see Trump as a threat to democracy comfort themselves with the belief that these limits will hold him in check.
But will they? Unknown to most Americans, a parallel legal regime allows the president to sidestep many of the constraints that normally apply. The moment the president declares a “national emergency”—a decision that is entirely within his discretion—more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power. For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States or freeze Americans’ bank accounts. Other powers are available even without a declaration of emergency, including laws that allow the president to deploy troops inside the country to subdue domestic unrest.
Just got messaged by a MAGAT that the video of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez dancing is inappropiate for a young lady, especially one in office. I responded by sending her the pic of the 1st Lady nude with another woman. I was quickly blocked!!! LOL 🤦🏻♂️
— Barney’s Nose (@BarneysNose) January 4, 2019
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹
What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency (The Atlantic, more at the link):
DJT declaring a state of emergency is no big deal even though Obama was a tyranny with his FEMA death camps and Executive Orders.
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re: #100 Sir John Barron
He should just declare all the Walls built already
It worked with the ISS. It was about 40% finished after the Columbia disaster, they just declared it complete…
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Keeping the government shut down is an impeachable offense.
So should addressing the American people like a lunatic.
I can’t believe what I am reading in Charles’ tweet comments regarding his off-the-rails rambling.
He is suffering from all the pressures on him. And it is coming out of his mouth in complete garble.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹
Has the Tea Party revolted at this proposed declaration yet?
re: #92 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
My favourite:
Super Mario World - Overworld Theme pic.twitter.com/OTDTWUgHQR
— eric koeppel (@kepilepsy) January 4, 2019
Between yesterday’s surprise appearance at the “briefing” and this nonsense today, it’s apparent that he wants to knock Pelosi off the front page and keep his base in a froth (as if they had a different state) because he’s terrified of the coming investigations.
re: #111 Mike Lamb
Yes. That is exactly what it is.
re: #110 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
From there:
According to a report by E.J. Montini of the Arizona Republic, GOP Chairman Jonathan Lines fired off an email demanding allegiance to the embattled president while at the same time saying the party is a “big tent” that allows for differences of opinion.
‘Now get in the back of the tent and shut up!’
The core operating principle behind Trumpism.
If it pisses off the leftists, do it
— Larry Johnson (@lbjp73) January 4, 2019
re: #108 Sir John Barron
Has the Tea Party revolted at this proposed declaration yet?
Of course not. They would cheer it if it occurred.
Considering how many wingnuts howled over Justice Antonin Scalia dying (but how little they did about it), I am not terribly concerned about them now.
Possibly the best outcome here is if Trump figures he has a better chance if he flees the country. Aside from him being gone, that would absolutely destroy the GOP.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The core operating principle behind Trumpism.
And if it starves old people, bonus!
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The core operating principle behind Trumpism.
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‘Whatever you say I can’t do, Imma have the military do it!’
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The core operating principle behind Trumpism.
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Wouldn’t piss me off. I’d actually laugh the stupid fucking Trumpers that had their land snatched up.
re: #118 Mike Lamb
Wouldn’t piss me off. I’d actually laugh the stupid fucking Trumpers that had their land snatched up.
Some of them aren’t stupid Trumpers. In fact, some of them are butterflies, others are the occasional Jaguar.
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
Do it?
Seize the property of American taxpayers who have property adjoining the US border with Mexico?
Do these fuckers even realize that a good number of the people living along the border are:
1) GOPers
2) actually oppose Trump’s wall bulkshit because they know better and that this isn’t anywhere approaching a crisis?
This policy is about value signaling to the white nationalist base that he’s for them. It’s also signaling to the GOP base that they have someone who is intent on sabotaging functioning govt, which has long been one of their goals.
According to the Atlantic article above, there are a number of emergency powers in force right now.
However, the act which covers those requires that Congress review those declarations every six months to see if they are still needed, and any new powers must declare their scope and time.
Congress has not reviewed any of those declarations in many years.
I am not a lawyer, but it would seem every one of them is in violation of the law now, and could be struck down as unlawful. I don’t know how one would go about that though.
re: #119 wrenchwench
Some of them aren’t stupid Trumpers. In fact, some of them are butterflies, others are the occasional Jaguar.
Plus a lot of the land along the border is in liberal districts (such as El Paso).
re: #114 goddamnedfrank
The core operating principle behind Trumpism.
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Imagine if Obama forcibly took…nevermind.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
According to the Atlantic article above, there are a number of emergency powers in force right now.
However, the act which covers those requires that Congress review those declarations every six months to see if they are still needed, and any new powers must declare their scope and time.
Congress has not reviewed any of those declarations in many years.
I am not a lawyer, but it would seem every one of them is in violation of the law now, and could be struck down as unlawful. I don’t know how one would go about that though.
So, another task for House Democrats.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
Plus a lot of the land along the border is in liberal districts (such as El Paso).
Which has a lot of bridges, with much commerce. Moveable walls? Or just do without a billion dollars per day* crossing that border?
*represents entire US/Mexico border
re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine if Obama forcibly took…nevermind.
Mr. Johnson is not the only one who noticed that “emergency powers” crap. Lawrence Tribe cites the same Atlantic article I did above in a tweet just now.
To seize that land and enforce any putative emergency order, he would have to use the Army (which is allowed under the emergency powers act in question). At that instant, we would have a constitutional crisis. A) The Army refuses orders (sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President), and we have a de facto military dictatorship, B) Some elements of the Army comply and others do not, effectively pitting Army formations against each other (Civil War Part Deux), C) The whole Army complies and landowners revolt and the streets are filled with millions of protestors.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump just threatened to use his “emergency powers” to deploy the military to build his Great Wall without permission from Congress. This deserves much more attention than it’s getting — so far. Watch this space.https://t.co/gJQhxk5pUB
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 4, 2019
Nihilist Garfield has nothing on this:
Vet: your cat is extremely overweight, what are you feeding him
Jon Arbuckle: an entire lasagna every day
Vet: you need to stop that immediately
Jon: but he hates Mondays lol
Vet: he’s going to die, Jon— elvish presley (@_elvishpresley_) December 10, 2018
re: #125 wrenchwench
Which has a lot of bridges, with much commerce. Moveable walls? Or just do without a billion dollars per day* crossing that border?
*represents entire US/Mexico border
Mexico is the second-largest trading partner to Nebraska. Closing the border with Nebraska would instantly crush my state’s economy.
There has been noise here from Republican legislators about that, and even Gov. Ricketts put out a statement reminding everyone how important Mexico is to Nebraska agriculture.
Trump has a ton of supporters here, but I don’t think most of the ranchers and farmers in this state want to see their generational family farms and ranches destroyed for Trump’s monument to racism.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
I assume the largest is Canada?
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹
Fixed c) in above comment, which I did not fill in.
C) The whole Army complies and landowners revolt and the streets are filled with millions of protestors.
I would also note the Navy is not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act. That said, most of the Navy is involved in doing things like maintaining ships and driving aircraft. I doubt the Navy and Marine Corps could free up enough personnel to be meaningful for an 1,100 mile land seizure, and certainly not for nationwide protests.
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
I assume the largest is Canada?
Yes.
Note Trump is after all our state’s top trading partners overseas.
Home Global Insights By State Nebraska Trade Statistics
Nebraska: Trade Statistics
Exporter Rank
34 / 50
Importer Rank
42 / 50
Trade Balance Rank
6 / 50
Note: USA Trade Online Data 1 (2017) are used for computing ranks.
Total Trade [1]
Total Exports (2017) (Origin of Movement) $7,206,415,361
Total Imports (2017) $3,754,491,843
Trade Balance (2017) $3,451,923,518
Impact of Trade [2]
Total Export-Supported Jobs Related to Manufacturing 31,962 (2016)
No. of Businesses Selling Products Overseas 1,821 (2015)
Percentage of Exporters Classified as Small and Medium-size Companies 79% (2015)
Percentage of Exports by Small and Medium-size Companies 26% (2015)
Trade Partners [1]
Export Partners
Top 10 Export Countries
Country Export USD$
Canada $1,583,364,002
Mexico $1,511,836,528
Japan $775,232,314
China $483,177,284
Korea, South $441,729,483
Australia $253,965,055
Hong Kong $188,691,052
Netherlands $170,099,579
Belgium $138,996,431
Germany $135,673,352
globaledge.msu.edu
Gov. Ricketts, Nebraska Delegation Complete Successful Trade Mission to Mexico (Goes to the Nebraska State Government).
A couple days later, Trump cut Ricketts’s legs out from under him with his threats against Mexican trade.
In Charlotte, Kidnapper Chases A Victim… Into a Karate Dojo. You Know How This Ends :-).
And now for something completely different.
On Wednesday, a woman was walking down Statesville Avenue in North Charlotte at around 9:00pm, with her hands holding shopping bags, when a man pulled-up next to her and jumped out, grabbed her by the throat and arm and tried to pull her into his car.
The would-be victim struggled to get free and ran down the street with her attacker in pursuit.
She ran into the first place that was open.
The clearly marked Bushiken Karate Charlotte Dojo.
Said Randall Ephraim, the owner and karate master, “There were still some kids in the dojo being picked up by parents and a couple of adult students cleaning up when a young lady came through our doors and stated that someone was trying to harm her.”
She ran behind Randall.
“A big male entered the building. I asked how i could assist him and he stated that he was there for the lady. She insisted that she did not know him and tried to kidnap her.”
Randall instructed the man to leave. At this point four of his students with black belts clearly visible stood in front of the woman and got into position.
The man, a possible Nobel Prize nominee, still tried to get to her “aggressively pushing and swinging.”
Randall effortlessly put him in submission, picked him up, and escorted him outside.
Instead of leaving, the man tried to attack Randall.
It didn’t last long.
“Once outside he attempted to attack again…. and was dealt with accordingly.”
Indeed.
He was taken away unconscious and on a stretcher to the hospital.
The grateful woman has since signed-up for classes.
Here’s a news link: fox13now.com
re: #134 Belafon
In Charlotte, Kidnapper Chases A Victim… Into a Karate Dojo. You Know How This Ends :-).
Here’s a news link: fox13now.com
How was that possible without the good guy having a gun?//
re: #134 Belafon
In Charlotte, Kidnapper Chases A Victim… Into a Karate Dojo. You Know How This Ends :-).
Here’s a news link: fox13now.com
Spoiler:
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Good read.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹
It’d also crush the economy of California (he’d actually probably like that), Arizona, Texas, and many others.
Just to go on record. I’m for *more* dancing in politics not less. pic.twitter.com/aCu9xofwM0
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 4, 2019
re: #11 jaunte
That’s the look of a man who wishes he knew where in the Naval Observatory Johnson hid the plans for Kennedy’s assassination!
(Also, no, I don’t actually believe Johnson was responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, I think Oswald acted alone)
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹
Fixed c) in above comment, which I did not fill in.
I would also note the Navy is not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act. That said, most of the Navy is involved in doing things like maintaining ships and driving aircraft. I doubt the Navy and Marine Corps could free up enough personnel to be meaningful for an 1,100 mile land seizure, and certainly not for nationwide protests.
And the Coast Guard, which we created to do the real work that the Navy considers itself too good to do*, is shut down….
*Sorry—I know you’re a Navy man.
re: #138 Belafon
The al-Qa’ida mufsidin I fought in Iraq also thought it shameful for women to dance.
— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) January 4, 2019
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #139 KGxvi
That’s the look of a man who wishes he knew where in the Naval Observatory
JohnsonStanton hid the plans forKennedy’sLincoln’s assassination!(Also, no, I don’t actually believe Johnson was responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, I think Oswald acted alone)
Fixxed.
Rand Paul called me “this idiot” and “partisan hack” because I noted all the founding father quotes in his book were fake. https://t.co/yX5hl8DiNE
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 3, 2019
my shocked face…
re: #143 HappyWarrior
I’m sure they’re also confused as to why they agree with the wingnuts that electing those two Muslim ladies was bad.
Pretty sure it goes like this:
something something something… or the terrorists will win!
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
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my shocked face…
I’m so sorry you’re stuck with him and McConnell. I think Rand and Mitch may be one of the worst Senate duos.
Flipped on MSNBC - had the day off because I was getting a new couch delivered, so spent most of the morning cleaning - just saw that Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks Russian. So, does that mean we are once again part of England?
Or do we on the West Coast with a significant number of Spanish speakers get to be part of Spain? (An EU passport would be pretty cool)
re: #146 KGxvi
Pretty sure it goes like this:
something something something… or the terrorists will win!
It’s amusing to me how much overlap they have with each other. Fucking Pompeo was running his yap about the rapture the other day.
JUST IN: Supreme Court to hear North Carolina and Maryland cases challenging congressional maps drawn for partisan advantage pic.twitter.com/k9WXsfE0v8
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 4, 2019
re: #148 KGxvi
Flipped on MSNBC - had the day off because I was getting a new couch delivered, so spent most of the morning cleaning - just saw that Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks Russian. So, does that mean we are once again part of England?
Or do we on the West Coast with a significant number of Spanish speakers get to be part of Spain? (An EU passport would be pretty cool)
OFFS. Fucking Kremlin errand boy.
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
Incredibly important case, we are just 4 years away from new Congressional and state legislative district lines. We get one more presidential election with the current electoral college alignment.
re: #148 KGxvi
Flipped on MSNBC - had the day off because I was getting a new couch delivered, so spent most of the morning cleaning - just saw that Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks Russian. So, does that mean we are once again part of England?
Or do we on the West Coast with a significant number of Spanish speakers get to be part of Spain? (An EU passport would be pretty cool)
Of course everyone there speaks Russian because Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia….
re: #32 Charles Johnson
Trump just said he’d have no problem with keeping the government shut down for years.
hey donnie,
i know im late to today’s party. here’s my question
if you have no problem keeping the govt shut down for years, until you get your wall funding, and it would appear you’re not, then how do you and your admin control the current situation status quo?
- the wall as it is
- the staff cuts because a lot of dhs (ie border patrol and the courts) wont be paid
- are you saying you cant? i mean you guys arent that good?
- or you can control the border the way it is?
and if it’s the first, then wouldnt you be derelict if you didnt make some deal, do something?
oh, and you just put appx 1/4 of the govt out of work
Toenail Lowrent haz questions…
— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) January 4, 2019
I love how people have just stopped correcting him. https://t.co/9habijskwz
— Pesach ‘Pace’ Lattin (@pacelattin) January 4, 2019
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
Toenail Lowrent haz questions…
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Desperate ditz is desperate.
re: #156 dangerman
hey donnie,
i know im late to today’s party. here’s my question
if you have no problem keeping the govt shut down for years, until you get your wall funding, and it would appear you’re not, then how do you and your admin control the current situation status quo?
- the wall as it is
- the staff cuts because a lot of dhs (ie border patrol and the courts) wont be paid- are you saying you cant? i mean you guys arent that good?
- or you can control the border the way it is?and if it’s the first, then wouldnt you be derelict if you didnt make some deal, do something?
oh, and you just put appx 1/4 of the govt out of work
If it’s true that multiple Republican Senators are telling McConnell it’s time to fold, I suspect we are looking at another day or two of Trump screaming and then seeing a continuing resolution passed with a veto proof majority.
And I’m not entirely convinced Trump wouldn’t veto it anyway. Watching it getting overruled would be fucking magical.
re: #79 plansbandc
Ok. Yelled fuck you so many times now I’m practically hoarse. Might be time for a walk break.
or bourbon
re: #148 KGxvi
Trump’s spewing Russia-approved lines about everything around the world these days.
He might not be on the payroll, but he’s certainly compromised and pushing the Putin line.
re: #68 Charles Johnson
And now he’s threatening to declare a national emergency over his stupid fantasy wall.
wont get you a dime of funding
re: #100 Sir John Barron
He should just declare all the Walls built already
i have no doubt he eventually will
Today Trump said he might keep the gov’t shut down for YEARS, then threatened to declare a national emergency and use the military to seize land along the border.
But hey, let’s talk about the Democrat who said “motherfucker.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #160 KGxvi
If it’s true that multiple Republican Senators are telling McConnell it’s time to fold, I suspect we are looking at another day or two of Trump screaming and then seeing a continuing resolution passed with a veto proof majority.
And I’m not entirely convinced Trump wouldn’t veto it anyway. Watching it getting overruled would be fucking magical.
I would assume he’ll sign it, lying that it includes wall funding so he can declare victory.
WATCH: @HallieJackson challenges President Trump on how his threat of a years-long government shutdown would impact government workers, and on reports that Cabinet members will be getting a raise. pic.twitter.com/zXCCcvB9jF
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 4, 2019
re: #111 Mike Lamb
Between yesterday’s surprise appearance at the “briefing” and this nonsense today, it’s apparent that he wants to knock Pelosi off the front page and keep his base in a froth (as if they had a different state) because he’s terrified of the coming investigations.
the first is true
the second is true
the third is likely also
still, this is not helping him or his image
quietly the GOP is going “oh my effing g” . you know they are
He’s going to lose it if he loses reelection if it gets to that point.
re: #170 dangerman
I said that when DT was nominated by the GOP and have not stopped since.
Nixon won 49 states. House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach him 18 months later. https://t.co/iBqgE6x6Ud
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) January 4, 2019
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Johnson is not the only one who noticed that “emergency powers” crap. Lawrence Tribe cites the same Atlantic article I did above in a tweet just now.
To seize that land and enforce any putative emergency order, he would have to use the Army (which is allowed under the emergency powers act in question). At that instant, we would have a constitutional crisis. A) The Army refuses orders (sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President), and we have a de facto military dictatorship, B) Some elements of the Army comply and others do not, effectively pitting Army formations against each other (Civil War Part Deux), C) The whole Army complies and landowners revolt and the streets are filled with millions of protestors.
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the people in the military, the individuals, the boots on the ground taking other peoples land away etc, ….they’re still gonna wanna get paid
re: #74 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Rango does Zoomies either by running full tilt around a circular track he’s generated in the yard - 5-6 times one way, then 4-6 times the other way - or by jump-spinning on the living room floor. Dory bounds from floor to ottoman to couch to chair to chairback to chair to floor, and repeat.
re: #173 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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He’s such a narcissistic fucker if he thinks his “historic win” means he can’t be impeached. His victory really was unspectacular at best.
re: #148 KGxvi
Flipped on MSNBC - had the day off because I was getting a new couch delivered, so spent most of the morning cleaning - just saw that Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks Russian. So, does that mean we are once again part of England?
Or do we on the West Coast with a significant number of Spanish speakers get to be part of Spain? (An EU passport would be pretty cool)
And Portugal gets Brazil, France get Quebec.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 4, 2019
And winning has nothing to do with impeachment. It’s high crimes and misdemeanors not high crimes and misdemeanors* but if you won election, it’s okay. Who can forget Tomi Lagren insisting his winning meant he couldn’t be impeached. That alone should have gotten her ridiculed forever.
OT, but a Vietnamese restaurant in nearby Keene, NH set to open in March has been told by the city to change its planned name:
Pho Keene Great!
The owner is trying to negotiate.
The U.S. Treasury Department has confirmed that the national debt has increased by $2,000,000,000,000 ($2 trillion) since Trump took office
Republican greed knows no bounds. They now want to screw over the poor & sick by cutting Medicare — not their own tax cuts for corporations— The Hummingbird 🐦 (@SaysHummingbird) January 4, 2019
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
OT, but a Vietnamese restaurant in nearby Keene, NH set to open in March has been told by the city to change its planned name:
Pho Keene Great!
The owner is trying to negotiate.
That’s Pho’keene lame.
re: #160 KGxvi
If it’s true that multiple Republican Senators are telling McConnell it’s time to fold, I suspect we are looking at another day or two of Trump screaming and then seeing a continuing resolution passed with a veto proof majority.
And I’m not entirely convinced Trump wouldn’t veto it anyway. Watching it getting overruled would be fucking magical.
yup
and there wasnt a lot of high dimensional chess for team nancy to do
all the d’s had to do was show up, pass the bill and sit down quietly
re: #175 Blind Frog Belly White
My Ridgeback/Lab mix loves to fetch a tennis ball from the backyard, run back inside and around the dining room table before he will give up the ball again. We call it his “victory lap,” and he does it every single time.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Most people just stop correcting people with obvious dementia. He’s Steve, unless Trump has a ‘good’ day.
re: #183 dangerman
yup
and there wasnt a lot of high dimensional chess for team nancy to do
all the d’s had to do was show up, pass the bill and sit down quietly
Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership have been planning this out for two years. It’s all going to go like that guy’s domino-style garden wall.
The best memory ever so Kevin McCarthy will now go by Steve.//
Judge extends the grand jury empaneled for Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation beyond its initial 18-month term - @CharlieGileNBC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 4, 2019
re: #172 PhillyPretzel
I said that when DT was nominated by the GOP and have not stopped since.
he had a facade then - the appearance of a serious (if not successful) business man (and adult). it allowed them to plausibly admit it and support him.
that has slipped far these last two days and it’s gonna get harder.
everything he ranted about yesterday and today they’re gonna ask the senators and reps
Afghanistan for starters
are you ok with the gov’t shut down for years….
re: #188 lawhawk
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As it should have. Despite what Rudy and Trump say, it’s not a witch hunt.
re: #190 HappyWarrior
As it should have. Despite what Rudy and Trump say, it’s not a witch hunt.
“What else do you burn?”
“MORE WITCHES!!!”
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
OT, but a Vietnamese restaurant in nearby Keene, NH set to open in March has been told by the city to change its planned name:
Pho Keene Great!
The owner is trying to negotiate.
next door to the sofa king?
re: #178 Patricia Kayden
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After today, there should be fucking walk-outs and protests. Cheeto Benito has basically said these people will be expected to pay to work for months or years unless he gets a down payment for his vanity project. There has to be a point where “This will blow over” stops being enough to blot out the bills coming due.
re: #186 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership have been planning this out for two years. It’s all going to go like that guy’s domino-style garden wall.
yes please
re: #189 dangerman
I have never been okay with DT. When I voted I pushed the HRC button. I rather say Madame President than have DT.
This is exactly why you don’t get rid of Pelosi. Her experience is invaluable in times like this.
re: #186 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership have been planning this out for two years. It’s all going to go like that guy’s domino-style garden wall.
Infrastructure week!
After the unrelenting shitshow of the last two years, Republicans have some goddamned gall to complain about a Democrat saying “impeach the motherfucker.” This administration has no dignity to offend, and doesn’t deserve respect.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #187 HappyWarrior
The best memory ever so Kevin McCarthy will now go by Steve.//
its that meme from the other day about homosexuals vs gay and “helen”, but my name’s “susan” or whatever
sorry kevin steve. we all heard it. you didnt correct him.
re: #195 PhillyPretzel
I have never been okay with DT. When I voted I pushed the HRC button. I rather say Madame President than have DT.
He was always an obnoxious boob imo. Which I thought was consensus opinion but apparently not enough.
re: #199 dangerman
its that meme from the other day about homosexuals vs gay and “helen”, but my name’s “susan” or whatever
sorry
kevinsteve. we all heard it. you didnt correct him.
What’s funny is Trump does and has had a lot of obnoxious assholes named Steve in his entourage past and present.
The Hispanic unemployment rate reached a RECORD LOW of 4.4% this past December! Thank you, @realDonaldTrump for your pro-growth agenda that empowers our community! #Graciashttps://t.co/P3f1Ad01lL
— RNC Latinos (@RNCLatinos) January 4, 2019
Another record from the Trump admin: the 15,000 migrant kids detained in a Texas prison camp and child detention facilities all across the US. https://t.co/ynh7CMZhg1
— Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) January 4, 2019
re: #195 PhillyPretzel
I have never been okay with DT. When I voted I pushed the HRC button. I rather say Madame President than have DT.
oh i know
i dont mean us (or anyone with a working brain)
i mean the R’s who up to now have been getting away with supporting every maniacal thing he says and does
I think every one of these pasty bastards should be addressed as “Steve” at all times.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
He was always an obnoxious boob imo. Which I thought was consensus opinion but apparently not enough.
new yorkers and ex new yorkers knew
re: #201 HappyWarrior
What’s funny is Trump does and has had a lot of obnoxious assholes named Steve in his entourage past and present.
maybe when he says “people say” and “i’ve heard a lot” he means steve
re: #204 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think every one of these pasty bastards should be addressed as “Steve” at all times.
You know how Sarah Silverman nailed the blonde Trump fembot. She needs to don a bald cap and go as “Steve Stevenson, adviser to the President.”
re: #206 dangerman
maybe when he says “people say” and “i’ve heard a lot” he means steve
My Nana had an uncle Steve. He really deserved better to be with these guys.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
What’s funny is Trump does and has had a lot of obnoxious assholes named Steve in his entourage past and present.
I read an article by Steven Pinker (yeah, I know he’s an asshole) about the decline and fall of the Steves. Apparently about the time I was born and a few years after, there were a huge surge of Steves which then died away till it’s down to almost nothing.
I didn’t really notice that growing up, but I remember five Lindas in my 5th grade class.
re: #209 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I read an article by Steven Pinker (yeah, I know he’s an asshole) about the decline and fall of the Steves. Apparently about the time I was born and a few years after, there were a huge surge of Steves which then died away till it’s down to almost nothing.
I didn’t really notice that growing up, but I remember five Lindas in my 5th grade class.
I was one of three Johns in my chemistry class but I have a memorable last name so that was never a problem.
By the way, mark this up as another abuser tactic writ large:
…letting everything get worse, to the point of real danger (whether fiscal or physical), relying on the estimate that the other party will—being sane and seeing the long-term consequences of the approaching danger—give in.
re: #178 Patricia Kayden
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Great. I’m supposed to fly to LA in two weeks. At least I got my Trusted Traveler card, maybe that’ll help some.
Brain drain is a serious problem in this country. Looked at what happened to the office of president of the US.
re: #211 wrenchwench
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That was my first use of the LGF Meme Machine, and I didn’t find that image in the otherwise-handy Classic Pics list, so I saved one from Google which was evidently suffering from a pixel deficit. Shouldn’t that be a Classic Pic? Seems like that list would need a monthly overhaul. Classics just don’t keep like they used to.
re: #174 dangerman
the people in the military, the individuals, the boots on the ground taking other peoples land away etc, ….they’re still gonna wanna get paid
Payroll is the issue that will break this stalemate. January 11. If they don’t make the direct deposit on the payroll things will get messy. “Nine Meals Away from Anarchy” as the saying goes…
a lot of lizards have fun regularly changing their display handles
i’m having a hard time remembering who is who (who was who)
and keeping the few personality characteristics i thought i’d figured out tied to the right name
somehow this relates to “steve”
re: #212 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
By the way, mark this up as another abuser tactic writ large:
…letting everything get worse, to the point of real danger (whether fiscal or physical), relying on the estimate that the other party will—being sane and seeing the long-term consequences of the approaching danger—give in.
He’s a kid at the store screaming about not getting his toy.
re: #202 Patricia Kayden
LOL. Guarantee you the RNC Latinos account is run by two white guys.
re: #209 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I read an article by Steven Pinker (yeah, I know he’s an asshole) about the decline and fall of the Steves. Apparently about the time I was born and a few years after, there were a huge surge of Steves which then died away till it’s down to almost nothing.
I didn’t really notice that growing up, but I remember five Lindas in my 5th grade class.
Captain America = Steve Rogers.
Debuted 1941.
re: #217 dangerman (not steve)
scorecards are available for a nominal fee at the site store…..
re: #219 Belafon
He’s a kid at the store screaming about not getting his toy.
Bingo. And he’s ready to start crayoning the walls and breaking stuff if mommy and daddy don’t give him what he wants.
re: #217 dangerman (not steve)
a lot of lizards have fun regularly changing their display handles
i’m having a hard time remembering who is who (who was who)
and keeping the few personality characteristics i thought i’d figured out tied to the right name
somehow this relates to “steve”
Hi steve. Me too.
Now I don’t know whether it’s head injury or age. We only share the age, right?
re: #214 BlueSpotinAL
Brain drain is a serious problem in this country. Looked at what happened to the office of president of the US.
I’ll only say this once. I think it every day.
Brain drain—I had one of those. Took the pressure off. Saved my life.
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
OT, but a Vietnamese restaurant in nearby Keene, NH set to open in March has been told by the city to change its planned name:
Pho Keene Great!
The owner is trying to negotiate.
Talk about no sense of humor on the part of the city.
My real name is Steve.
This worries me.
/
re: #183 dangerman (not steve)
yup
and there wasnt a lot of high dimensional chess for team nancy to do
all the d’s had to do was show up, pass the bill and sit down quietly
To use a poker analogy, it was basically an insta-call of a bluff. Which is about the worst thing that can happen to you if you’re bluffing. The whole point of which is to try and convince your opponent that you have a better hand than they do, when they insta-call it’s because they’ve got the stone cold nuts (or close) and you’re fucked.
re: #214 BlueSpotinAL
Brain drain is a serious problem in this country. Looked at what happened to the office of president of the US.
That was absolutely unprecedented brain drain on 1/20/17!
re: #222 piratedan
scorecards are available for a nominal fee at the site store…..
way back i thought of keeping track of some info
just to sort every lizard out
then i thought it would be creepy
even if no one but me knew
now someone will reveal something and ill say “right i new that” because i forgot that i knew or who it was attached to
keeps things fresh
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
Toenail Lowrent haz questions…
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Heh, that larger blow up of the little figurine in question makes it even clearer it is not the same thing as the questionable one.
It looks like a little sugar bowl or something like that maybe with two handles and a knobby top.
re: #224 wrenchwench
Hi steve. Me too.
Now I don’t know whether it’s head injury or age. We only share the age, right?
I’ll only say this once. I think it every day.
Brain drain—I had one of those. Took the pressure off. Saved my life.
i’ve hit the age where i have to do the math to be sure
there was a time we knew. down to the day. and could do it with fractions too
re: #219 Belafon
He’s a kid at the store screaming about not getting his toy.
Gentle disagreement: the “kid at the store” has no real power to hurt other people, though he can get his way by creating a scene, being loud, and hoping that other’s annoyance and embarassment compels action before he wears out.
This is a grown man who knows the shutdown is hurting people and that the harm will snowball. His language today specifically incorporated invocation of the use of force (“military version of eminent domain”), so he’s further doubling down on the idea of hurting more people.
re: #230 ObserverArt
Heh, that larger blow up of the little figurine in question makes it even clearer it is not the same thing as the questionable one.
It looks like a little sugar bowl or something like that maybe with two handles and a knobby top.
But, you know where Toby Larue’s mind went instantly.
re: #221 sagehen
Captain America = Steve Rogers.
Debuted 1941.
And people came back from WWII and started naming their kids Steve. Makes sense.
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
My real name is Steve.
This worries me.
/
say you just changed it from “Steve” to “Steve”
if anyone asks why, say different spelling
re: #229 dangerman (not steve)
way back i thought of keeping track of some info
just to sort every lizard out
then i thought it would be creepy
even if no one but me knewnow someone will reveal something and ill say “right i new that” because i forgot that i knew or who it was attached to
keeps things fresh
Lizards are pretty much interchangeable.
/to the unregistered user
I will call everyone Dave when I’m president so there will be more Monty Python references.
re: #237 Belafon
I will call everyone Dave when I’m president so there will be more Monty Python references.
dave’s not here
(and heeeeeere we go….)
re: #237 Belafon
I will call everyone Dave when I’m president so there will be more Monty Python references.
All Australians are “Bruce” then?
refresh that
re: #235 dangerman (not steve)
re: #239 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
All Australians are “Bruce” then?
That’s Rule #2, right? “Nobody not named Bruce”?
re: #239 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
All Australians are “Bruce” then?
philosophically speaking, they might be
re: #217 dangerman (not steve)
a lot of lizards have fun regularly changing their display handles
i’m having a hard time remembering who is who (who was who)
and keeping the few personality characteristics i thought i’d figured out tied to the right name
somehow this relates to “steve”
That’s why I’ve never changed my nic. Nobody would know who I am.
re: #244 makeitstop
That’s why I’ve never changed my nic. Nobody would know who I am.
The trick is to also have a distinctive avatar. If I changed names my Maple Leaf would still give me away.
re: #243 dangerman (not steve)
I’m not up enough on my Bruceology to respond intelligently.
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
That is why I have my pretzels. :)
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
My real name is Steve.
This worries me.
/
If you went by Eclectic Cyborg (is steve) then you and dangerman each upding the same comment, then the lizard who checks who did the updings* will see
dangerman (not steve) (dangerman), Eclectic Cyborg (is steve) (Eclectic Cyborg)
Wouldn’t that be, um, something?
*there’s often a hatchling who doesn’t know you can do that
re: #238 dangerman (not steve)
dave’s not here
(and heeeeeere we go….)
Super Dave Osborne just left the building a couple of days ago…I loved his cable show back in the 80s.
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
The trick is to also have a distinctive avatar. If I changed names my Maple Leaf would still give me away.
I’ve got my cat Bean, but to a lot of people most cats look alike.
re: #250 makeitstop
I’ve got my cat Bean, but to a lot of people most cats look alike.
No mistaking my avatar….just sayin’
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re: #215 wrenchwench
That was my first use of the LGF Meme Machine, and I didn’t find that image in the otherwise-handy Classic Pics list, so I saved one from Google which was evidently suffering from a pixel deficit. Shouldn’t that be a Classic Pic? Seems like that list would need a monthly overhaul. Classics just don’t keep like they used to.
You’re right, I’ve been meaning to add it.
re: #248 wrenchwench
If you went by Eclectic Cyborg (is steve) then you and dangerman each upding the same comment, then the lizard who checks who did the updings* will see
Wouldn’t that be, um, something?
*there’s often a hatchling who doesn’t know you can do that
a literal lol i just did there
re: #251 TedStriker
No mistaking my avatar….just sayin’
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so thats who you are!
i knew you looked familiar
In other news:
Antarctic ice melts to January record low
As of January 1, there was 2.11 million square miles of sea ice around the continent, the smallest January area since records began in 1978, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The story in the New York Times regarding Jim Webb being considered as the next Secretary of Defense is FAKE NEWS. I’m sure he is a fine man, but I don’t know Jim, and never met him. Patrick Shanahan, who is Acting Secretary of Defense, is doing a great job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2019
moron
re: #204 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I think every one of these pasty bastards should be addressed as “Steve” at all times.
Do you mind if we call you ‘Bruce’? It will avoid confusion.
re: #207 HappyWarrior
You know how Sarah Silverman nailed the blonde Trump fembot. She needs to don a bald cap and go as “Steve Stevenson, adviser to the President.”
Late on that, but that was Milana Vayntrub doing the actual impression of Toby Loofah.
A headline written just for web hits:
A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely
The problem with headlines like these, even though the body of the article points out that sea level rise is real, that the best estimates currently are far scarier than even those from a few years ago, is that the typical person never really reads articles.
But the headline will live on in the denier circles.
re: #111 Mike Lamb
Between yesterday’s surprise appearance at the “briefing” and this nonsense today, it’s apparent that he wants to knock Pelosi off the front page and keep his base in a froth (as if they had a different state) because he’s terrified of the coming investigations.
Seems likely to me. Now will someone tell Tlaib and Ocasio to stop doing Donny’s job for him?
re: #257 Romantic Heretic
Do you mind if we call you ‘Bruce’? It will avoid confusion.
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I think I got my reference wrong earlier. I remembered Dave for some reason.
re: #260 Brian J.
Seems likely to me. Now will someone tell Tlaib and Ocasio to stop doing Donny’s job for him?
Nope. They’re doing just fine.
re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg
LOL. Guarantee you the RNC Latinos account is run by two white guys.
Or Jacob Wohl.
re: #87 Skip Intro
That would just boost his evangelical support.
King David murdered his own friend and he was still a Man of God!
re: #262 Belafon
Nope. They’re doing just fine.
Ocasio sure as hell isn’t, not with her “Let’s jack up the income tax to 70 percent!” interview as her latest installment of her never-ending attacks on the Democratic Party. Tlaib’s cursing I can live with, but it might be a better idea to keep attention on what you do rather than what you say.
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— United Nations (@UN) January 4, 2019
Brett Kavanagh: here’s my high school calendar where I wrote “don’t do sex crimes” on my daily schedule for an entire year
Conservatives: that’s normal
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: here’s a video of me dancing with my friends in high school
Conservatives: what the fuck— michael lutz (@WarrenIsDead) January 3, 2019
re: #261 Belafon
I think I got my reference wrong earlier. I remembered Dave for some reason.
dave’s not here, man
I endorse this reaction:
Rashida Tlaib to a crowd of cheering supporters in DC: “We’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker!”
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) January 4, 2019
So, I walk out the office and the world is on fire because Rashida Tlaib said this.
Huh.
Hang on minute, let me finish my first cup of coffee and then I’ll dig up those pictures of Trump supporters at Trump rallies wearing “FUCK YOUR FEELINGS” shirts. https://t.co/bBKqpfFZwy— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 4, 2019
re: #260 Brian J.
Seems likely to me. Now will someone tell Tlaib and Ocasio to stop doing Donny’s job for him?
Dude, untie the knots in your panties. You warned that nominating people like AOC would lose us the midterms. How’d that prediction work out for you?
Where is McConnell amid all this b.s. He could end this instantly - but he seems to live in trump’s world of hurting people - because pain.
re: #260 Brian J.
Seems likely to me. Now will someone tell Tlaib and Ocasio to stop doing Donny’s job for him?
Your concern is noted.
re: #260 Brian J.
Seems likely to me. Now will someone tell Tlaib and Ocasio to stop doing Donny’s job for him?
I want more of what she said, not less. Less dissembling. More being upfront and ready to fight.
Me, the other day thinking semi-serious thoughts about how incompleteness props up fictional worlds, because there are a lot of small mundane things that have unexamined implications. And thus in turn how the continuous expansion of settings-as-brands results in something initially compelling becoming at best flat, and more often ridiculous.
Today:
Hogwarts didn’t always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence. #NationalTriviaDay
— Pottermore (@pottermore) January 4, 2019
re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White
Dude, untie the knots in your panties. You warned that nominating people like AOC would lose us the midterms. How’d that prediction work out for you?
Funny that….
So I see there someone has a huge concern over AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich.
I fail to see the problem with her suggestion.
I had no idea that the super wealthy were in such dire financial straits.
re: #259 freetoken
It’s only going to rise 37 feet instead of 43.
See? See? The libtards are blowing it all out of proportion!
“Motherf—-er,” in short, is about civility. “Shithole countries” is about character. Democrats who conflate the two weaken themselves. They minimize the abuses of the Trump administration, and they invite the president to go on committing them without expecting anything more than an anemic reprimand. Democrats, he understands, won’t ever really fight back.
re: #261 Belafon
I think I got my reference wrong earlier. I remembered Dave for some reason.
Kids in The Hall, I’m betting.
re: #275 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
In Douglas Adams hands, this would become the excrement not actually vanishing, but only being sent someplace else, probably somebody’s front yard.
re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White
Dude, untie the knots in your panties. You warned that nominating people like AOC would lose us the midterms. How’d that prediction work out for you?
Governor Gillum says “Hi,” along with Governor Abrams, Senator Donnelly, Senator Graham, Senator Heitkamp, Senator McCaskill, Senator O’Rourke…
The Democrats left a lot of money on the table in November, along with Trump’s ability to nominate anyone he chooses and get them to the bench or the Cabinet, and Democrats don’t seem to be willing to fix the problem of the constant anti-advertising on their left. We didn’t win nearly enough, and we need to do better.
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I see there someone has a huge concern over AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich.
I fail to see the problem with her suggestion.
I had no idea that the super wealthy were in such dire financial straits.
it’s a marginal rate
it was 91% in my lifetime (and im sure others here, though we didnt pay it….)
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I see there someone has a huge concern over AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich.
I fail to see the problem with her suggestion.
I had no idea that the super wealthy were in such dire financial straits.
As a reminder, the Right love to talk about Kennedy’s tax cut, but 70% is what the eventual bill cut the top marginal rate DOWN TO.
And this was ‘the economy I grew up in’ for all those folks who bitch about the current economy.
gee, it’s like in-your-face election shenanigans played absolutely NO ROLE in some election results.
re: #286 Blind Frog Belly White
As a reminder, the Right love to talk about Kennedy’s tax cut, but 70% is what the eventual bill cut the top marginal rate DOWN TO.
And this was ‘the economy I grew up in’ for all those folks who bitch about the current economy.
Of course, that’s the nostalgia filter at work. The US GDP was $4,803 in 1969 according to the World Bank; the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes that equal to about $34,000 in 2018 money, barely half our current GDP and about even with Spain and South Korea.
Irony jumps the rails, careens down the embankment, slams into a circus bus, drives through a mink farm, and plows into the river, where it catches fire and explodes, raining down a terror of screaming clowns and burning weasels upon the countryside. https://t.co/HYV6RiA18a
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 4, 2019
re: #284 Brian J.
And maybe you should stop worrying about propriety and worry about cleaning up the shit show that has been inflicted on your country by the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives.
Saying, “Such things are not the sort of things proper young ladies do,” makes you sound like like your priorities are kind of screwed up.
That’s more like it, @AOC! pic.twitter.com/Jg1XkAl8bo
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 4, 2019
Kind of ironic The Daily Caller is mocking the AOC dance-off with the Russian/Soviet National Athem, when it’s them that admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and defended the FSB of poisoning it’s critics, banning protests, and jailing LGBT citizens.
This nation – the greatest nation on earth – looks like a laughingstock because the President’s fragile ego is leading him to shut everything down to get his way. It’s a temper tantrum more befitting a playpen than the Oval Office.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) January 4, 2019
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I see there someone has a huge concern over AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich.
I fail to see the problem with her suggestion.
I had no idea that the super wealthy were in such dire financial straits.
Its their emotional support money; they would be bereft without it.//
re: #284 Brian J.
Governor Gillum says “Hi,” along with Governor Abrams, Senator Donnelly, Senator Graham, Senator Heitkamp, Senator McCaskill, Senator O’Rourke…
The Democrats left a lot of money on the table in November, along with Trump’s ability to nominate anyone he chooses and get them to the bench or the Cabinet, and Democrats don’t seem to be willing to fix the problem of the constant anti-advertising on their left. We didn’t win nearly enough, and we need to do better.
Sorry to shine sun on your pity party, but Democrats actually did fucking GREAT in 2018.
re: #52 Belafon
And everyone will laugh and go back to work.
I stopped laughing when he got elected.
re: #288 Brian J.
Of course, that’s the nostalgia filter at work. The US GDP was $4,803 in 1969 according to the World Bank; the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes that equal to about $34,000 in 2018 money, barely half our current GDP and about even with Spain and South Korea.
You understand that the marginal rate is calculated as a percentage of income, not an absolute dollar amount, yes? Because what you just posted is irrelevant hogwash.
If you voted for Trump, you forfeited your right to be outraged by language, especially considering how Trump declared an end to political correctness. pic.twitter.com/AF304kV578
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 4, 2019
The “Fuck Your Feelings!” crowd who hailed Donny’s election as a victory of “PC culture” is up in arms over the word “motherfucker”?
FFS, is it really that slow a news week?
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, but Trump’s an old white guy, so when he uses obscenities he’s being ‘politically incorrect’, but when a woman, especially a younger woman of color does, it’s ‘demeaning herself’.
//
re: #265 Brian J.
Ocasio sure as hell isn’t, not with her “Let’s jack up the income tax to 70 percent!” interview as her latest installment of her never-ending attacks on the Democratic Party. Tlaib’s cursing I can live with, but it might be a better idea to keep attention on what you do rather than what you say.
You sure have a thing against her don’t you?
Do you want to put that 70% in context?
As far as I know that is her talking about the rate for the super-rich. It has been done before. It was at 90% at one time in the 50s. But it really figured out to be around 50%
There are members here that have mentioned that before. Probably others in Congress that think that way. Do you dislike them for talking about it too? Are they all attacking the Democratic Party?
If you strip out your dislike of her we could discuss the tax rates in general.
re: #299 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but Trump’s an old white guy, so when he uses obscenities he’s being ‘politically incorrect’, but when a woman, especially a younger woman of color does, it’s ‘demeaning herself’.
//
tRump doesn’t need to be a “credit to his race”, but all those other people do….
re: #301 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
tRump doesn’t need to be a “credit to his race”, but all those other people do….
Lucky for him, because he’s not.
re: #294 Blind Frog Belly White
Sorry to shine sun on your pity party, but Democrats actually did fucking GREAT in 2018.
Except for the Senate (53-47 R majority), and the state legislatures aren’t looking good either (Rs still control 62/99 chambers and hold 22 trifectas, including the nation’s 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th most populous states). Let’s be realistic about how high a hill we still must climb.
re: #227 KGxvi
To use a poker analogy, it was basically an insta-call of a bluff. Which is about the worst thing that can happen to you if you’re bluffing. The whole point of which is to try and convince your opponent that you have a better hand than they do, when they insta-call it’s because they’ve got the stone cold nuts (or close) and you’re fucked.
Trump’s got 7-2 off suit and thinks he’s got a royal flush.
re: #304 Brian J.
Except for the Senate (53-47 R majority),
So, you’re ignoring the fact which everyone else noted, that the 2018 election for Senators was heavily against Democrats because of the overwhelming share of the seats were already held by Democrats, including two seats known to be in trouble in heavy Republican states (ND, IN)?
re: #298 Targetpractice
The “Fuck Your Feelings!” crowd who hailed Donny’s election as a victory of “PC culture” is up in arms over the word “motherfucker”?
FFS, is it really that slow a news week?
She just needs to put on this coat and everything will be fine:
re: #300 ObserverArt
You sure have a thing against her don’t you?
Do you want to put that 70% in context?
As far as I know that is her talking about the rate for the super-rich. It has been done before. It was at 90% at one time in the 50s. But it really figured out to be around 50%
There are members here that have mentioned that before. Probably others in Congress that think that way. Do you dislike them for talking about it too? Are they all attacking the Democratic Party?
If you strip out your dislike of her we could discuss the tax rates in general.
It’s one thing to think it. It’s another thing to say it as another of the endless left-wing litmus tests. Mondale got blown out by asking for an increase literally a tenth of that size.
re: #304 Brian J.
Except for the Senate (53-47 R majority), and the state legislatures aren’t looking good either (Rs still control 62/99 chambers and hold 22 trifectas, including the nation’s 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th most populous states). Let’s be realistic about how high a hill we still must climb.
And if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ primary opponent had retained his seat we’d hold the Senate and a majority of State Legislatures? Why, that bitch!
re: #296 Blind Frog Belly White
You understand that the marginal rate is calculated as a percentage of income, not an absolute dollar amount, yes? Because what you just posted is irrelevant hogwash.
I’m an accountant; of course I understand! I’m just pointing out that the 1960s were not as great economically as the left would like to think. (And that’s without pointing out all of the things we take for granted that didn’t exist then. The internet, for instance…)
re: #229 dangerman (not steve)
way back i thought of keeping track of some info
just to sort every lizard out
then i thought it would be creepy
even if no one but me knewnow someone will reveal something and ill say “right i new that” because i forgot that i knew or who it was attached to
keeps things fresh
I’m Joanne. Registered name JustJay. I sign all my emails J. Just J.
Nice to meet cha.
Smart take here:
1/ On the left is a teenage AOC dancing with her friends as part of a nationwide viral video craze. The Right called this proof she’s a “nitwit”.
Next is GOP Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Who thought this photo was a good idea AT AGE 42. He was considered a policy genius. pic.twitter.com/kulyY5jnf8— John Rogers (@jonrog1) January 4, 2019
Read it all.
re: #304 Brian J.
No, dude, we did fucking great. Look where we were last year, look where we are now. That was the point of the link - to show you how much swung our way. We made HISTORIC gains, but you think they weren’t HISTORIC enough? And all because we didn’t run more mealy-mouthed Centrists who could really get people engaged and enthusiastic?
Right.
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
No, dude, we did fucking great. Look where we were last year, look where we are now. That was the point of the link - to show you how much swung our way. We made HISTORIC gains, but you think they weren’t HISTORIC enough? And all because we didn’t run more mealy-mouthed Centrists who could really get people engaged and enthusiastic?
Right.
Weren’t three or four of the Senate seats we lost held by centrist types? And not particularly leftist or progressive?
re: #304 Brian J.
Except for the Senate (53-47 R majority), and the state legislatures aren’t looking good either (Rs still control 62/99 chambers and hold 22 trifectas, including the nation’s 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th most populous states). Let’s be realistic about how high a hill we still must climb.
You first.
re: #310 Brian J.
I’m an accountant; of course I understand! I’m just pointing out that the 1960s were not as great economically as the left would like to think. (And that’s without pointing out all of the things we take for granted that didn’t exist then. The internet, for instance…)
Uh, dude? It’s the RIGHT that talks nostalgically about The Economy I Grew Up In, while frantically tearing down all the things that we did that made it that way - high marginal tax rates, strong labor movement, infrastructure spending, actual spending on programs designed to expand the middle class.
We on the Left point out the hypocrisy of swanning over how great things used to be while destroying everything that made them that way.
re: #314 gwangung
Weren’t three or four of the Senate seats we lost held by centrist types? And not particularly leftist or progressive?
We did exceptionally well limiting losses to 2 seats, given the map we faced.
But the Senate is our biggest problem for the future, as it becomes less and less representative of America as a whole, and more and more representative of old white rural voters.
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
No, dude, we did fucking great. Look where we were last year, look where we are now. That was the point of the link - to show you how much swung our way. We made HISTORIC gains, but you think they weren’t HISTORIC enough? And all because we didn’t run more mealy-mouthed Centrists who could really get people engaged and enthusiastic?
Right.
In the Senate, we spelled those gains L-O-S-S-E-S! In the states, the Republicans still hold majorities in both chambers in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th most populous states. If 2018 is HISTORIC and the best you can imagine, you’re settling for too little.
Centrists got the great majority of those votes, by the way. BernieBros got hammered literally from Maine to San Diego, Miami to Seattle (and Alaska and Hawaii). Excitement don’t mean nothin’ unless it gets the votes.
I am bemused by the kind of people that find “internment camp” perfectly acceptable but “motherfucker” obscene.
I am bemused by the kind of worldview where naughty words are a sign of poor discipline but constant deceit and emotional incontinence are just “normal.”
House Democrats will introduce their proposal to require universal background checks for gun sales on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of Gabby Gifford’s shooting, Democratic lawmakers and aides tell Politico.https://t.co/YwqNi6I0o6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 4, 2019
re: #304 Brian J.
Except for the Senate (53-47 R majority), and the state legislatures aren’t looking good either (Rs still control 62/99 chambers and hold 22 trifectas, including the nation’s 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th most populous states). Let’s be realistic about how high a hill we still must climb.
Let’s look at one state legislature - Wisconsin. EVERY statewide office went Democrat. The GOP received fewer votes for assembly and state senate but hold a majority in both houses - Gerrymandering! So for now we won’t be able to accomplish as much as we’d like.
HOWEVER!
In 2020 is a census. That leads to reapportionment. Which will happen WITH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR.
See, son, this is what is referred to as “Elections have consequences”. And they work both ways.
We will have a non-gerrymandered reapportionment before the 2022 elections. At that time, the people of Wisconsin will get a government that reflects how they vote. I’ll bet other states will be the same. So just because you didn’t see the progress happening in front of your nose does not mean that said progress didn’t happen. It did happen and will continue to happen by all the means available to real patriots fighting for (dare I go there? Yeah, why not?) “Truth, Justice & The American Way”
This statement didn’t give a reason why, but came after growing criticism on Capitol Hill of the proposed visit, given he was sanctioned by the US government.
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) January 4, 2019
Well, I guess it’s been proven false, you actually can argue with success.
*rolls eyes*
re: #318 Brian J.
In the Senate, we spelled those gains L-O-S-S-E-S! In the states, the Republicans still hold majorities in both chambers in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th most populous states. If 2018 is HISTORIC and the best you can imagine, you’re settling for too little.
Centrists got the great majority of those votes, by the way. BernieBros got hammered literally from Maine to San Diego, Miami to Seattle (and Alaska and Hawaii). Excitement don’t mean nothin’ unless it gets the votes.
It must suck to be you, and have to find the cloud in every silver lining.
re: #318 Brian J.
In the Senate, we spelled those gains L-O-S-S-E-S! In the states, the Republicans still hold majorities in both chambers in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th most populous states. If 2018 is HISTORIC and the best you can imagine, you’re settling for too little.
Centrists got the great majority of those votes, by the way. BernieBros got hammered literally from Maine to San Diego, Miami to Seattle. Excitement don’t mean nothin’ unless it gets the votes.
Politics is like big ship. It takes time for a turnaround.
You want a speedboat.
Lots of times speedboats crash. Big ships can sink, but it takes time.
Also, Alexandria is one member of a party. She’s young and gung-ho I get that. She will learn and grow. You seem to want to gag her.
re: #310 Brian J.
I’m an accountant; of course I understand!
Hey, I’m an accountant too! And put me down as one of those accountants who think the top tax rate should be a HELL of a lot higher than it is now. 70%? Maybe. It’s never an absolute number due to the various deductions/limitations/alternative investments, but, come on. Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
It’s funny: the very-wealthy people that I work for (the individuals, anyway) loooove Trump, but they are pissed at him now because they saw their tax projections for 2018, and they are getting clobbered! All of those limitations (especially SALT) really burned wealthy individuals. Corporations — not so much.
(First post! Hi all — 9 year lurker here!)
This president is making “America all of North America” very vulnerable to Russia and China with the way he is conducting himself and he has no problem in keeping government shutdown for years! Russia and China see weakness right now! More than any other time in US history!
— A12LOH (@A12Loh) January 4, 2019
Hadn’t even thought about that, but you’re right. If he plans to #GiveBackAlaska—and it’s starting to look that way—then he’ll #SellOutCanada as well with an easy-to-attack land border! https://t.co/2bfSdMDwFH
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) January 4, 2019
re: #326 Marsupial
Hey, I’m an accountant too! And put me down as one of those accountants who think the top tax rate should be a HELL of a lot higher than it is now. 70%? Maybe. It’s never an absolute number due to the various deductions/limitations/alternative investments, but, come on. Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
It’s funny: the very-wealthy people that I work for (the individuals, anyway) loooove Trump, but they are pissed at him now because they saw their tax projections for 2018, and they are getting clobbered! All of those limitations (especially SALT) really burned wealthy individuals. Corporations — not so much.
(First post! Hi all — 9 year lurker here!)
Hi! Good to have you contributing.
re: #312 gwangung
Smart take here:
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Read it all.
That’s a heck of a thread.
It made me kinda sad. But it’s spot on.
re: #312 gwangung
Smart take here:
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Read it all.
that is good
12/ Cue Ben Shapiro’s “how DARE she not debate me, she has to, why else did Daddy pay for my fancy degrees if I can’t use them to prove I’m better?”
I mean holy shit what kind of world do we live in if we live in a world where HARVARD. DOESN’T. MATTER?— John Rogers (@jonrog1) January 4, 2019
re: #326 Marsupial
Welcome! Thanks for finally chiming in. We were starting to wonder about you. 😉
Andre Leon Talley (fashion journalist) on with Peggy Noonan, doing his Fallback Friday.
That is what I would call an odd couple!
Yikes! I forget to put Ari Melber in the sentence. It’s his Fallback Friday bit.
re: #325 ObserverArt
Also, Alexandria is one member of a party. She’s young and gung-ho I get that. She will learn and grow.
This. I don’t necessarily agree with everything she says, and I’m definitely not a Alexandria-Bro for lack of a better term at all, but I really don’t expect 39 year old or 59 year old AOC to have all the same positions, knowledge/ignorance, or opinions, as 29 year old AOC does.
That and unlike other popular people more to the left, she’s actually a member of the Democratic Party and not a carpetbagger that wanted all the advantages but none of the responsibilities that come with it.
re: #328 Chrysicat
As a Canadian I’m not worried. I know how Canada can beat the US in a war.
In fact the GOP implemented my strategy without any help from me.
re: #326 Marsupial
Welcome, hatchling. Good to have you here.
re: #289 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
The problem isn’t that someone called the President a Mother******, the problem is some people call that MF a President.
— Pratt Falls (@PrattFalls) January 4, 2019
re: #338 gocart mozart
You had to include the Jersey Whale.
Among musicians, being called a “motherfucker” is considered a high compliment.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #343 Charles Johnson
Among motherfuckers, being called Mr. President probably is too.
re: #326 Marsupial
Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
I’ve always called taxes the membership dues for living in a civilized world, but that’s good too.
Welcome!
re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White
We did exceptionally well limiting losses to 2 seats, given the map we faced.
But the Senate is our biggest problem for the future, as it becomes less and less representative of America as a whole, and more and more representative of old white rural voters.
There’s a real question as to what happens when those old white rural voters age out of the employment market. Either the economy crashes in those areas, or younger, less white, more liberal/progressive/not-ass-backwards people will have to move into those areas. In either case, I suspect that the politics of those locations will likely change.
foul language is, of course, right out https://t.co/j5CMIs5csW
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) January 4, 2019
re: #345 William Lewis
I’ve always called taxes the membership dues for living in a civilized world, but that’s good too.
Welcome!
And I’ve suggested high marginal rates should be thought of as Guillotine Insurance.
re: #328 Chrysicat
Wait, he’s seriously considering giving Alaska to Russia? How would that even work?
re: #343 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
Among musicians, being called a “motherfucker” is considered a high compliment.6:53 PM - Jan 4, 2019
That motherfucker can wail!!!
That drummer is a bad motherfucker!
And with that I am heading down to turn on all the Friday night jam machines to warm up.
I’m the other type. I sometimes fall into that was bad motherfucker. But I love to wail.
re: #350 ObserverArt
Maybe that is why Samuel L Jackson has that on his lightsaber. A bit of Star Wars trivia.
re: #311 MsJ
I’m Joanne. Registered name JustJay. I sign all my emails J. Just J.
Nice to meet cha.
friends call me danger
re: #246 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I’m not up enough on my Bruceology to respond intelligently.
“Immanuel Kant was a real pissant….”
re: #326 Marsupial
Hey, I’m an accountant too! And put me down as one of those accountants who think the top tax rate should be a HELL of a lot higher than it is now. 70%? Maybe. It’s never an absolute number due to the various deductions/limitations/alternative investments, but, come on. Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
It’s funny: the very-wealthy people that I work for (the individuals, anyway) loooove Trump, but they are pissed at him now because they saw their tax projections for 2018, and they are getting clobbered! All of those limitations (especially SALT) really burned wealthy individuals. Corporations — not so much.
(First post! Hi all — 9 year lurker here!)
there are enough accountants here to call out bs when we see it
didja bring snacks?
re: #346 KGxvi
There’s a real question as to what happens when those old white rural voters age out of the employment market. Either the economy crashes in those areas, or younger, less white, more liberal/progressive/not-ass-backwards people will have to move into those areas. In either case, I suspect that the politics of those locations will likely change.
I think it just continues the economic decline. If you’re a company, why would you build a factory in Lower Cousinfuck WV? It’s expensive to get materials IN, it’s expensive to get finished goods OUT. The labor force is older and uneducated, largely only good for unskilled labor. Meanwhile, the world is chock full of unskilled labor you can get for a lot less. So much less, in fact, that it more than covers the extra cost of shipping. Plus, your market is now the world, not just the US, and you can’t build stuff in small towns in the US cheaply enough to sell worldwide at a profit.
Larger population centers, sure - hence making BMWs in South Carolina for the rest of the world. But all those small towns? Nah.
Random tech moment. Here’s a super-compact ES6 “diff” function - produces an array with the values that are in array1 but not array2.
const diff = array1.filter(value1 => !array2.some(value2 => value1 == value2))— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2019
re: #354 Barefoot Grin
Nick Danger.
that’s man. danger man.
nic(danger) is a lizard of a different color
re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White
We did exceptionally well limiting losses to 2 seats, given the map we faced.
But the Senate is our biggest problem for the future, as it becomes less and less representative of America as a whole, and more and more representative of old white rural voters.
Which is why, if the Democrats gain control of the Senate in 2020, they need to grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, at least. I’d add Pacific Islands as well; their very existence is threatened by climate change.
re: #346 KGxvi
There’s a real question as to what happens when those old white rural voters age out of the employment market. Either the economy crashes in those areas, or younger, less white, more liberal/progressive/not-ass-backwards people will have to move into those areas. In either case, I suspect that the politics of those locations will likely change.
On alternatively, the old white conservative ass-backward power structures in those states makes sure to promote (and, more importantly, finance) reactionary young assholes - of which, sadly, there seems to be an inexhaustible supply - to take and keep their places. “Progressive” populations notwithstanding.
re: #354 Barefoot Grin
Nick Danger.
“…and reading my name on the glass door of my office: ‘regnaD kciN’.”
Trump made his most robust case yet for a wall Friday, filled with questionable and false statements. Allies say he sees it as a cultural war key to getting re-elected and is more committed than ever. Latest w/@DavidNakamura: https://t.co/0NHzKXAQKX
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 5, 2019
No, he did not make a “robust case” at all. He sounded completely nuts, and lied his ass off throughout. https://t.co/S3UUqvYdPa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2019
JFC, a “robust case??!”
What the fuck was this guy watching?
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Its great that the House is going to pass some terrific legislation, and tragic that it will be DOA in the Senate.
re: #333 MsJ
Welcome! Thanks for finally chiming in. We were starting to wonder about you. 😉
Yeah, well… most people do!
re: #363 Charles Johnson
JFC, a “robust case??!”
What the fuck was this guy watching?
Well, for Trumpo it was a robust case. For someone sane? Not so much.
re: #340 wrenchwench
Intimidating shell! I’m usually at Wonkette (hanging with my Wonket peeps)! It seems a bit more serious over here…
After all the contests, queries, on the perfect name for that asshole, it end up being the one name that’s always underlying the whole ball o wax.
“MotherFucker”
So it shall be going forward.
re: #368 Marsupial
Intimidating shell! I’m usually at Wonkette (hanging with my Wonket peeps)! It seems a bit more serious over here…
Serious? Us? Surely you jest.
re: #358 dangerman (not steve)
why,thank you sir
re: #361 Blind Frog Belly White
“…and reading my name on the glass door of my office: ‘regnaD kciN’.”
“You’re lucky we didn’t burn you on the Anselmo pederasty case!”
re: #349 KGxvi
Wait, he’s seriously considering giving Alaska to Russia? How would that even work?
No, he’s not.
re: #355 dangerman (not steve)
there are enough accountants here to call out bs when we see it
didja bring snacks?
Are you kidding — we’re starting tax season. It’s wall-to-wall snacks in here!
re: #363 Charles Johnson
JFC, a “robust case??!”
What the fuck was this guy watching?
I read it not as saying Trump had made a robust case, but that he’d made as robust a case as he ever has, which doesn’t mean it’s actually robust by any stretch.
Oklahomophobia:
“Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in Oklahoma”
re: #376 Barefoot Grin
Oklahomophobia:
“Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in Oklahoma”
Who will pay the lawyers???
Come to think of it, I’m kind of partial to that second-last option…
Forms of border security:
- a fence
- a moat
- unicorns with lasers
- patrolling emus wearing GoPros
- a wall
One need not support the stupidest of them to support border security… and by stupidest, I mean a wall.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 4, 2019
re: #374 Marsupial
Are you kidding — we’re starting tax season. It’s wall-to-wall snacks in here!
That is what will end the shutdown; millions of taxpayers screaming at their Congress critters for their refunds.
re: #378 Interesting Times
Come to think of it, I’m kind of partial to that second-last option…
How about “patrolling emus wearing GoPros and lasers”?
re: #352 dangerman (not steve)
friends call me danger
You’re keeping a log on yourself? Do you often forget who you are?
/
re: #368 Marsupial
Intimidating shell! I’m usually at Wonkette (hanging with my Wonket peeps)! It seems a bit more serious over here…
Huh. I’m not sure I’d ever see this place as serious. Here, let me lighten up the place with this picture of Dory sitting on the back of a chair, as if she were a cat….
re: #326 Marsupial
Hey, I’m an accountant too! And put me down as one of those accountants who think the top tax rate should be a HELL of a lot higher than it is now. 70%? Maybe. It’s never an absolute number due to the various deductions/limitations/alternative investments, but, come on. Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
It’s funny: the very-wealthy people that I work for (the individuals, anyway) loooove Trump, but they are pissed at him now because they saw their tax projections for 2018, and they are getting clobbered! All of those limitations (especially SALT) really burned wealthy individuals. Corporations — not so much.
(First post! Hi all — 9 year lurker here!)
Welcome, long-toothed hatchling. :) About time you spoke up! Did you bring beer?
re: #326 Marsupial
Hey, I’m an accountant too! And put me down as one of those accountants who think the top tax rate should be a HELL of a lot higher than it is now. 70%? Maybe. It’s never an absolute number due to the various deductions/limitations/alternative investments, but, come on. Taxes are the buy-in to a functioning society.
It’s funny: the very-wealthy people that I work for (the individuals, anyway) loooove Trump, but they are pissed at him now because they saw their tax projections for 2018, and they are getting clobbered! All of those limitations (especially SALT) really burned wealthy individuals. Corporations — not so much.
(First post! Hi all — 9 year lurker here!)
Hey long time first time!
You’ve summed up the difference between effective tax rates and marginal tax rates.
The marginal rate could start at 37%, but with the deductions and credits, the effective tax rate for someone whose income would otherwise qualify for the top tax rate, could end up with a far lower rate. Depending on carryovers, credits, and other deductions, you could conceivably end up paying less than most middle class folks - making your effective rate far lower.
This is the game that the GOP plays. They demand that not only the top tax rate be dropped (marginal rate), but that very specific kinds of credits and deductions be made available to the rich, so that their effective rate would be far lower.
“I don’t mean to be an alarmist but…POTUS is echoing directly the line of the Kremlin on a whole bunch of things…. this is something U.S. Intel officials have to understand: why is the Pres. saying what hes saying?”- Chuck Rosenberg w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/8sLcnhRBIW
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) January 4, 2019
Our friend Chuck Rosenberg blew my mind today- must watch: https://t.co/JhHtS3ebQL
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) January 4, 2019
What’s happening to Trump re spouting Kremlin talking points is called Metanarrative Framing … Trump sees everything through Moscow’s worldview because they crafted a Moscow centric worldview for him. He makes all decisions within a bubble crafted by Putin. See @Plot2Destroy https://t.co/d4WtO9PX5P
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 4, 2019
re: #373 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No, he’s not.
I’m no longer 100% sure he isn’t. That’s noise Putin’s been making since 2014, and we all know that Trump eventually echoes anything Putin says. Catch him on the right day and he may well try to sell it back and hope that the Rs still won’t vote to convict.
The good news is, it would probably take a treaty to pull off and even this senate isn’t likely to ratify.
re: #382 Blind Frog Belly White
Huh. I’m not sure I’d ever see this place as serious. Here, let me lighten up the place with this picture of Dory sitting on the back of a chair, as if she were a cat….
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My cavalier King Charles spaniel does that. Actually, that’s kinda how she lives her entire life. (Laziest dog EVER.)
How much does Dory weigh now?
re: #385 jaunte
And we can trace it back to the GOP platform switcheroo where they went from supporting Ukraine to basically throwing it under the bus.
There was little discussion, little in the way of media curiosity, and that has still never been answered satisfactorily.
re: #387 MsJ
My cavalier King Charles spaniel does that. Actually, that’s kinda how she lives her entire life. (Laziest dog EVER.)
How much does Dory weigh now?
About 10#. Sometimes I look at her and she seems so BIG, because of how small she was when we got her (2.5#), but then Rango comes along and she looks tiny again!
re: #376 Barefoot Grin
Oklahomophobia:
“Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in Oklahoma”
Sounding like the laws that made the Loving marriage illegal.
re: #379 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That is what will end the shutdown; millions of taxpayers screaming at their Congress critters for their refunds.
I pointed this out to a (pro tRump) Co-Worker today. With the IRS shut down, her tax return will not be processed and she will not be getting anything back until the Gov. is back and running. She was NOT happy.
Yes, it would. That would be because they managed to install that officially-hidden backchannel that so many people became notorious for trying-to-install while Obama was still in office. Which, BTW, is at least a #HatchAct violation and most likely GARDEN-VARIETY treason.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) January 5, 2019
re: #326 Marsupial
Hey, welcome to Mr. Johnson’s Support Centre for Sane People.
re: #368 Marsupial
Intimidating shell! I’m usually at Wonkette (hanging with my Wonket peeps)! It seems a bit more serious over here…
I thought I’ve seen you around before. /s I don’t go by the same name there, but do use the same avatar.
re: #378 Interesting Times
Come to think of it, I’m kind of partial to that second-last option…
Or we could become such a shithole country that no sane person would ever want to come here, so no border wall would be needed. Not by us, anyway. //
Three dead in national parks as shutdown wears on https://t.co/v64ZovT6Lg
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 4, 2019
re: #386 Chrysicat
I’m no longer 100% sure he isn’t. That’s noise Putin’s been making since 2014, and we all know that Trump eventually echoes anything Putin says. Catch him on the right day and he may well try to sell it back and hope that the Rs still won’t vote to convict.
The good news is, it would probably take a treaty to pull off and even this senate isn’t likely to ratify.
I am. C’mon Trump is an incoherent, dangerous idiot, and a criminal to boot, so we don’t have to exaggerate. He can’t sell a state in the union to Russia, and even Trump isn’t demented enough to try, especially since Alaska is one of those small rural population red states that reliably send Republicans to the Senate and will provide 3 critically needed electoral votes to Trump in 2020, if he runs again.
re: #388 lawhawk
And we can trace it back to the GOP platform switcheroo where they went from supporting Ukraine to basically throwing it under the bus.
There was little discussion, little in the way of media curiosity, and that has still never been answered satisfactorily.
Part of Manafort’s paying down the debt he owes to Russia.
re: #398 Decatur Deb
Now there is no making fun of my late mom’s first name.
my favorite way to listen to the president is slowed down to 1/2 speed because it reveals how often times his logic is indistinguishable from that of a drunk person: pic.twitter.com/EJPy3t6Axv
— Arlen Parsa (@arlenparsa) January 4, 2019
this. is. genius. https://t.co/rm0fVFPDAo
— Red™️ (@Redpainter1) January 4, 2019
re: #394 unproven innocence
Or we could become such a shithole country that no sane person would ever want to come here, so no border wall would be needed. Not by us, anyway. //
I’ve said before and I’ll say again, particularly when Trump was trying to re-construct the Inner German Border on our southern one, it was never primarily intended to keep anyone out, but to keep the targeted minorities in until they could dispose of us more permanently.
re: #386 Chrysicat
I’m no longer 100% sure he isn’t. That’s noise Putin’s been making since 2014, and we all know that Trump eventually echoes anything Putin says. Catch him on the right day and he may well try to sell it back and hope that the Rs still won’t vote to convict.
The good news is, it would probably take a treaty to pull off and even this senate isn’t likely to ratify.
Well, at least it would make it easier for Sarah Palin to see Russia from her front porch.
V just called Trump the biggest idiot in the world.
He’s so impressive he excels at being an idiot.
re: #402 Chrysicat
I’ve said before and I’ll say again, particularly when Trump was trying to re-construct the Inner German Border on our southern one, it was never primarily intended to keep anyone out, but to keep the targeted minorities in until they could dispose of us more permanently.
Pat Robertson ran on that very idea when he ran for President.
The “Anti-Fascist Rampart” as it was promoted in the DDR was never really about keeping fascists out either.
re: #391 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
I pointed this out to a (pro tRump) Co-Worker today. With the IRS shut down, her tax return will not be processed and she will not be getting anything back until the Gov. is back and running. She was NOT happy.
re: #396 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I am. C’mon Trump is an incoherent, dangerous idiot, and a criminal to boot, so we don’t have to exaggerate. He can’t sell a state in the union to Russia, and even Trump isn’t demented enough to try, especially since Alaska is one of those small rural population red states that reliably send Republicans to the Senate and will provide 3 critically needed electoral votes to Trump in 2020, if he runs again.
Not to mention the fact that even if Trump wanted to sell Alaska back to the Russians, they would never be able to afford it.
(We have made a few improvements to the place since 1867…)
re: #407 Jay C
Not to mention the fact that even if Trump wanted to sell Alaska back to the Russians, they would never be able to afford it.
(We have made a few improvements to the place since 1867…)
Do they get Don Young and all the Palins? Russia might consider them blight on the property.
re: #375 Blind Frog Belly White
I read it not as saying Trump had made a robust case, but that he’d made as robust a case as he ever has, which doesn’t mean it’s actually robust by any stretch.
Ayeah, that was my read, that he made the most robust case he could. Granted, it’s batshit insane bullshit, but it’s the most robust case he’s made so far.
re: #402 Chrysicat
, but to keep the targeted minorities in until they could dispose of us more permanently.
Ding Ding Ding Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
Yet another explanation of why the left needs to arm itself. It won’t stop them any more than it could have saved the Jews of Germany but damn if it isn’t good to take an honor guard with you to hell.
Collins has to go. I hope this bullshit she’s pulling is realized by her voters. Gah.
Uh-oh, Donnie. https://t.co/ICLwGVPjKb
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 5, 2019
re: #363 Charles Johnson
JFC, a “robust case??!”
What the fuck was this guy watching?
He’s a “journalist” who must find something positive to say about all Republians, unless “robust” now means insane and no one told me.
Trump Says He’s Considering Declaring National Emergency to Build Wall https://t.co/qTMOvCjMyH pic.twitter.com/TPyz2aatQF
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 4, 2019
Can a national emergency declare a national emergency https://t.co/AJNFQB4ncD
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) January 4, 2019
— JacloPac (@JacloPac) January 4, 2019
re: #411 MsJ
Collins has to go. I hope this bullshit she’s pulling is realized by her voters. Gah.
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LOL, Collins will be anti-wall until McConnell makes a “Honest I won’t screw you over THIS time” promise to give her something she wants. She’ll fall far it and he’ll fuck her over again.
re: #407 Jay C
Not to mention the fact that even if Trump wanted to sell Alaska back to the Russians, they would never be able to afford it.
(We have made a few improvements to the place since 1867…)
We fixed the heating system, fer instance.
re: #368 Marsupial
Intimidating shell! I’m usually at Wonkette (hanging with my Wonket peeps)! It seems a bit more serious over here…
True LGF membership requires fulfilling at least one sinister-yet-opaque request involving a suitcase full of panda meat and a minimum of one radical relocation while drugged with scopolamine.
We can joke and have fun, but ultimately we’ve all agree to gouge the same hole in our spirit and conscience.
re: #418 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
True LGF membership requires fulfilling at least one sinister-yet-opaque request involving a suitcase full of panda meat and a minimum of one radical relocation while drugged with scopolamine.
Wait, what? Is this why I’ve been skipped over for promotion so many times?
I actually agree with the tactic of letting Mueller play on, as painful as the wait is. But I loved this, nonetheless:
This is a red hat I would wear! #ImpeachTheMF pic.twitter.com/EADvrOV9LU
— Abed A. Ayoub (@aayoub) January 5, 2019
re: #407 Jay C
Who said anything about selling?
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re: #418 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
True LGF membership requires fulfilling at least one sinister-yet-opaque request involving a suitcase full of panda meat and a minimum of one radical relocation while drugged with scopolamine.
We can joke and have fun, but ultimately we’ve all agree to gouge the same hole in our spirit and conscience.
Or at least post a Page.
re: #419 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait, what? Is this why I’ve been skipped over for promotion so many times?
Look, I’m just the front desk manager of this conspiracy network. I have absolutely no clue by what criterion we are all judged. To be honest, it all seems to be a bit ramshackle and running on a thin budget. For awhile there we had to switch over to lemurs in a duffle bag, and the druggings are so haphazard that sometimes the targets just have a really good time.
Yesterday, Congress voted to lift a 181 year ban on headwear to make the #116thCongress more inclusive for all.
I thank my colleagues for welcoming me, and I look forward to the day we lift the Muslim ban separating families all over the U.S. from their loved ones.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 4, 2019
re: #421 Skip Intro
Who said anything about selling?
Oh right, it’s Donald Trump: he wouldn’t just try to sell Alaska to Russia, he’s more likely to structure it as a nominal “sale” with elaborate lease-back arrangements, naming rights and trademark provisions: the debt allocated out among a host of third-world tax-haven shell companies, and all expenses written off (except for a multi-billion-dollar “commission” payable to the Barron Trump Foundation). Trump is pathetically poor at anything approaching normal “diplomacy”, but if it’s structured along the lines of a shady real-estate scam, I’m sure he’d come up with a dandy plan….
I find it absolutely baffling that Trump’s comments about declaring a state of national emergency and using the military to seize land at the border haven’t caused a MUCH bigger outcry. This is one of his most disturbing threats yet.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2019
re: #429 Decatur Deb
Didn’t Bella Abzug blow the no-hat rule to hell?
She ignored the rule when she was in the House.
Rep. Ilhan notes the rule was eliminated yesterday.
re: #431 Charles Johnson
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The national emergency is real, but should resolve itself by Fall of 2020.
National emergency because of southern border bringing massive troops: let’s call it, I dunno, Jade Helm.
1/ I love how @eliseviebeck captured this moment of symbolism, as the 116th Congress began: “Women lawmakers had to wait until 2011 to get a restroom off the floor of the House. On Thursday for the first time, there was a line to get in.” https://t.co/spOfDizi9E
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) January 4, 2019
re: #434 Barefoot Grin
National emergency because of southern border bringing massive troops: let’s call it, I dunno, Jade Helm.
“Operation Enduring Derp” is in the rotation.
re: #435 Anymouse 🌹
I am sure there are a few mothers and possibly grandmothers in that group who should take the terrible toddler to task on his decision to declare a national emergency to get a wall.
You shut down govt. That means no E-Verify. That means undocumented persons can get hired by companies and no one could tell.
And here you are on Friday night shilling books.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 5, 2019
Trump is now playing out the bad ideas of autocrats down through history. A completely phony “crisis” with heavily racist overtones, leading to a massive power grab under the guise of an emergency.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2019
Oh. My.
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Madonna is feeling ‘proud’ of how she’s looking at 60! A source close to Madonna told HL EXCLUSIVELY how she feels about all of the butt implant rumors surrounding her!Madonna is looking as amazing as ever — and she’s proud of it! A source close to Madonna told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that amid rumors that she has had butt implants, she’s “loving” breaking down stereotypes.
If you feel the need, the article is here: hollywoodlife.com
Rolling Stone has a slightly less breathless take here: rollingstone.com
Today Trump said he might keep the gov’t shut down for YEARS, then threatened to declare a national emergency and use the military to seize land along the border.
But hey, let’s talk about the Democrat who said “motherfucker.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 4, 2019
re: #439 plansbandc
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That is a great song but I have to admit I have a weakness for the Fugees version.
— Julian Aguilar (@nachoaguilar) January 5, 2019
Maybe it’s just me, but I think we should take the guy who has the ability to launch nuclear war seriously.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 5, 2019
“…Larger, wealthier property owners who could afford lawyers negotiated deals that, on average, tripled the opening bids from Homeland Security. Smaller and poorer landholders took whatever the government offered — or wrung out small increases in settlements. The government conceded publicly that landowners without lawyers might wind up shortchanged, but did little to protect their interests.”
texastribune.org
“…On occasion, Homeland Security paid people for property they did not actually own. The agency did not attempt to recover the misdirected taxpayer funds, instead paying for land a second time once it determined the correct owners.”
Katie Porter (D, Calif.-45) turned 45 on the day of her swearing in as a new representative.
With Nancy Pelosi’s hit the ground running strategy on the first day of the new session, she got home very late. Her family saved the birthday party for her when she got home.
Voice of America is doing a series on her and Pete Stauber (R, Minn.-8) as they learn the ropes of being new representatives.
re: #379 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That is what will end the shutdown; millions of taxpayers screaming at their Congress critters for their refunds.
I’m thinking more along the lines of millions of taxpayers, expecting Trump-promised refunds but getting big bills instead, taking to the streets — torches and pitchforks style. (Of course, they will blame Obama/Pelosi/Schumer/AOC/Clinton (both)/etc.)
re: #443 William Lewis
Just found out she wrote it about Don McLean. How did I not know that? I’m gonna have to light my music knowledge card on fire.
re: #383 makeitstop
Welcome, long-toothed hatchling. :) About time you spoke up! Did you bring beer?
More of a gin person, myself!
Why is everything OK if you are a Republican? It’s fucking bullshit every damn day.
re: #441 William Lewis
Oh. My.
If you feel the need, the article is here: hollywoodlife.com
Rolling Stone has a slightly less breathless take here: rollingstone.com
Did you see the pictures? They weren’t in either article.
First, she’s gained weight. Her thighs were…thick. No biggie, just an observation.
Second, I don’t know what was in her butt but it was weird. Like imagine a bra for a woman that’s a 38FF (which is pretty big!) and that’s what her butt looked like.
No one does that on purpose.
It’s like lip enlargement that’s gone wrong (Lisa Rinna wrong).
re: #445 Charles Johnson
With 699,442 karma chameleon points here, it should be no trouble to push our esteemed host over 700,000 in short order.
Is this like a mechanical odometer, where after reaching 999,999 it goes to 0?
re: #451 Marsupial
More of a gin person, myself!
Gin? You have my sympathy child. I will pray that you are born again into the faith of the true brown spirit, distilled from barley and aged in oak, that gives us the true meaning of “Water of Life” …
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SHOCKED!!!!
FORT WORTH
A pastor known for calling Orlando shooting victims at a gay nightclub “scum” in 2016 has been ousted from his Fort Worth church for “sleeping with prostitutes,” marijuana possession and gambling, according to a fellow pastor.
The sooner Christians take back the Christian Church the better
re: #441 William Lewis
Oh. My.
If you feel the need, the article is here: hollywoodlife.com
Rolling Stone has a slightly less breathless take here: rollingstone.com
Madonna needs to fade away.
re: #453 MsJ
Did you see the pictures? They weren’t in either article.
First, she’s gained weight. Her thighs were…thick. No biggie, just an observation.
Second, I don’t know what was in her butt but it was weird. Like imagine a bra for a woman that’s a 38FF (which is pretty big!) and that’s what her butt looked like.
No one does that on purpose.
It’s like lip enlargement that’s gone wrong (Lisa Rinna wrong).
Ah, no I will admit I did not google for pics. I was expecting somthing less … unusual? She was never someone bad looking so why presume otherwise?
(googles.) (Oh. My.)
Weight is expected at 50+. My high school GF at 50+ & two children later is 200 lbs (6’ helps her - I wish I carried my fat ass that well) but I see what you mean.
I’m going to have to take down the town flags Monday.
A widespread strong wind event looks to be taking shape across southeast Wyoming and Nebraska Panhandle for the start of the next work week. Winds begin increasing in the wind prone areas of southeast Wyoming (Arlington, Bordeaux, south Laramie Range) Sunday evening, becoming widespread Monday afternoon. Wind gusts in excess of 75 to 80 mph in our wind prone areas Monday afternoon with the lower elevation areas seeing gusts in excess of 60-65 mph across southeast Wyoming. Gusts could approach 60-65 mph in parts of the Panhandle Monday afternoon and evening. Stay informed of the wind forecast if you’re planning travel through southeast Wyoming Sunday night through Monday night. Expect travel delays and possible road closures as wind gusts of 80 mph will likely close parts of the interstates. Blowoff/Blowover risk likely to be EXTREME during this time, especially for high profile and light weight vehicles and those towing campers.
That ought to do something for the wind chill around here.
re: #455 William Lewis
Gin? You have my sympathy child. I will pray that you are born again into the faith of the true brown spirit, distilled from barley and aged in oak, that gives us the true meaning of “Water of Life” …
My wife & I bought a house earlier this year. Didn’t intend to get a fixer-upper, but… cheap-shit mid-90s construction & years of poor maintenance. Woke up at 5am a couple of weeks ago to a hellish crashing sound. Discovered that our “liquor shelf” in the pantry collapsed and sent booze and glass everywhere. The ONLY (glass) thing to survive was my bottle of Sapphire. It was a sign. Berries of enlightenment.
I’m proud to announce that the Trump lawnmower boy photo is now included in the Meme Machine’s “Classic Pics” because it never gets old.
Undocumented Workers say Trump resort shielded her from Secret Service: https://t.co/r9dy3LUZFz #inners
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) January 5, 2019
Two women who worked directly for Trump and Flotus.
re: #461 Marsupial
My wife & I bought a house earlier this year. Didn’t intend to get a fixer-upper, but… cheap-shit mid-90s construction & years of poor maintenance. Woke up at 5am a couple of weeks ago to a hellish crashing sound. Discovered that our “liquor shelf” in the pantry collapsed and sent booze and glass everywhere. The ONLY (glass) thing to survive was my bottle of Sapphire. It was a sign. Berries of enlightenment.
Hah! You’ll do well around here.
re: #459 William Lewis
Ah, no I will admit I did not google for pics. I was expecting somthing less … unusual? She was never someone bad looking so why presume otherwise?
(googles.) (Oh. My.)
Weight is expected at 50+. My high school GF at 50+ & two children later is 200 lbs (6’ helps her - I wish I carried my fat ass that well) but I see what you mean.
So when do I start? /s
A lot of it I guess depends on your genetics … my mother and I are both 115#
re: #465 Anymouse 🌹
So when do I start? /s
A lot of it I guess depends on your genetics … my mother and I are both 115#
Well, Wisconsin farm kids put on weight as parents :D
re: #463 jaunte
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Two women who worked directly for Trump and Flotus.
Did anyone else think that this is a massive security breach?
re: #437 PhillyPretzel
I am sure there are a few mothers and possibly grandmothers in that group who should take the terrible toddler to task on his decision to declare a national emergency to get a wall.
Grandmothers will be our salvation.
Cussy Congresswoman Badass Making Chris Cillizza Cry :(
Chris Cillizza leading the parade!
(Wonkette, more at the link):
The word on everybody’s lips today is “motherfucker,” which everyone hears at least once each Christmas while watching Die Hard. Brand-spanking new congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan used the word in public last night, and it’s apparently an affront to common decency. Speaking of which, Donald Trump, the subject of Tlaib’s scorn, uses foul language all the time. He’s dismissed countries as “shitholes.” He’s been caught on tape boasting of grabbing women by their “pussies” and called Sally Yates a “****.” There’s also definitely, maybe recordings of Trump using a particular slur for black people that the editrix won’t let me type here. It’s possible that in the future, historians won’t even bother referring to the 45th president by his birth name but will just call him “that motherfucker.”
However, you can’t beat Trump by joining him. That’s the savvy political advice Chris Cillizza offered today. There are so many mediocre white guys out there coming for Rep. Tlaib that Cillizza’s piece is a convenient one-stop shop for all the dumbest of dumb takes. When CNN wises up some wonderful day and fires his ass, Cillizza can just open up a “dumb take shop” in a small town where women don’t swear or dance. Seriously, this motherfucker is always wrong, as we shall now demonstrate.
re: #470 gwangung
There’s no telling who else his complicit staff gave out fake papers to, or helped conceal from the Secret Service.
re: #469 dangerman (not steve)
nobody puts baby in a corner (Squeak, actually)
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Who dat?
re: #470 gwangung
Did anyone else think that this is a massive security breach?
Everything about him is. Unsecured wifi. Unsecured mobile. Everything.
re: #431 Charles Johnson
Agreed, but right on they go, just treating this as close to normal.
Shutdown spares federal park rangers at site in Trump hotel https://t.co/0fMAftEOWQ
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) January 5, 2019
Because of course.
Federal workers may get evicted and go bankrupt, but the Emoluments must roll on.
re: #479 jaunte
Federal workers may get evicted and go bankrupt, but the Emoluments must roll on.
So fucking blatant.
Charles got a Sarah Kendzior retweet:
Thread https://t.co/JBdLZOSTQ9
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 5, 2019
If you live in a GOP district, particularly those who are looking at 2020 (Gardner, Collins), today is a very key opportunity for you to ask, “are *you* okay with the government being shutdown for months or years?”
— Celeste P. (@Celeste_pewter) January 4, 2019
Basically, this stalemate ends when one side feels the pressure so much, they can’t take it anymore. And we can, and should, force the GOP to capitulate. But that requires 📞📞📞
— Celeste P. (@Celeste_pewter) January 4, 2019
Britney Spears has cancelled her concert tour, saying her father almost died and she needs to be with her family. She says ticket refunds can be obtained from the original seller.
re: #476 MsJ
Trump swears like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
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Drunken sailor on shore leave libelz. I knew plenty of drunken sailors on shore leave who did no such thing.
The new congresswoman who took Beto’s seat, Veronica Escobar, has hired to her staff a woman who co-authored a book with Beto, and served alongside Beto on the El Paso city council, Susie Byrd, who has continued with her own career in between. Makes me think Veronica Escobar is one to watch, and so is Susie Byrd.
Escobar’s husband, Michael Pleters, is an immigration judge.
Ooh, too late to qualify as a CL!
/I am not worthy anyway…
re: #176 HappyWarrior
He’s such a narcissistic fucker if he thinks his “historic win” means he can’t be impeached. His victory really was unspectacular at best.
That will be my favorite melt down ever. And you know me I do photograph melt downs a couple times a month.
re: #486 Eclectic Cyborg
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Do you know what this typeface is called? I try to add text to photos in Preview, and go through the umpty-jillion faces they’ve got and can’t find exactly what I want….
re: #455 William Lewis
Gin is whiskey for people who like flavors other than “oak.”
re: #139 KGxvi
(Also, no, I don’t actually believe Johnson was responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, I think Oswald acted alone)
The Warren Commission got it right. Oswald was a frustrated 23 year old radical leftist who learned to shoot in the Marines and saw a golden opportunity to change the world and he took it.
re: #473 jaunte
There’s no telling who else his complicit staff gave out fake papers to, or helped conceal from the Secret Service.
Couldn’t keep their Russian sounding names. So here you go Dmitry, you are now Bob.
re: #490 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
Gin is whiskey for people who like flavors other than “oak.”
There are people that unlucky in this life?
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