CNN’s Kaitlan Collins presses President Trump on his promise that Mexico will pay for a border wall on the US-Mexico border.
To me, the craziest Q&A from yesterday was Trump’s response to a question about a safety net for the unpaid/furloughed federal employees being that they’ll have “greater security” due to his wall. Marie Antoinette is in the afterlife going “Even I wasn’t this clueless when they hauled me to the guillotine!”
You can tell from his explanation that he only recently learned about the need to be able to see through a barrier.
re: #2 jaunte
You can tell from his explanation that he only recently learned about the need to be able to see through a barrier.
Like most shit he’s said/done, he had no fucking clue what he was talking about until somebody with actual experience spoke up. I’m surprised he didn’t due his standard “Not many people know this…” bit.
so fucking clueless
We are working hard at the Border, but we need a WALL! In 2018, 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized, 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records, and 6000 gang members, including MS-13, apprehended. A big Human Trafficking problem.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
The Democrats want Billions of Dollars for Foreign Aid, but they don’t want to spend a small fraction of that number on properly securing our Border. Figure that one out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
more #MoronWinning:
Drug makers and companies are not living up to their commitments on pricing. Not being fair to the consumer, or to our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
more #MoronWinning:
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Translation: “WE HAD A DEAL! YOU DON’T RAISE PRICES UNTIL I’M REELECTED!!!”
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
so fucking clueless
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I imagine if I checked the numbers, I’d find that the DNC are not asking for any more in foreign aid that what was allocated the last go around. Money that the GOP had no problem with until they needed yet more shit to sling against the wall in the hopes of finding something that voters outside their shrinking base would get outraged over.
re: #8 Targetpractice
Translation: “WE HAD A DEAL! YOU DON’T RAISE PRICES UNTIL I’M REELECTED!!!”
Someone needs to hang a list in the White House that says “Thing’s Nixon did” and put a T next to them when Trump does it.
the Democrats will choose who they want through the primaries. Worry more about the candidate being a good candidate than about being male/female/black/white/trans/whatever.
— Art Zook (@Charlieblizz) January 5, 2019
Trump missed his calling selling kitchen gadgets on the boardwalk.
Trump is the #1 expert on…
- Taxes
- Construction
- Campaign finance
- Drones
- Technology
- U.S. History
- Infrastructure
- ISIS
- Renewables
- Polls
- Courts
- Steel workers
- Golf
- Banks
- Nuclear arms
- The system
- Debt
- Politicians
…according to Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/gExCCRD5Hb— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 5, 2019
re: #11 Belafon
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It’s over a year until the party convention, weeks to months before anybody formally announces their intent to run…and already the concern trolls are suggesting we need to nominate another white guy.
You know, it rather kills the whole “Hillary was uniquely unpopular and the DNC were wrong to nominate her” talking point if you then spin around to suggest that the DNC would be wrong to nominate another woman in ‘20.
re: #343 PhillyPretzel
That is nice. This is better.
amazon.com
Well I posted my answer way after the last thread went dead, so let’s try again.
That would be, but this was a gift. I don’t think she’s going to tell him “why didn’t you send the whole set, you cheapskate?”
Dems are apparently standing firm
V.P. Mike Pence and team just left the White House. Briefed me on their meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives. Not much headway made today. Second meeting set for tomorrow. After so many decades, must finally and permanently fix the problems on the Southern Border!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
We started a new LLC January 1st, but since the IRS is closed we can’t get an EIN. That means no bank account, so we are working entirely in cash, had to do payroll in cash on Friday, and are scrambling to figure out how to accept payments going into week two of 2019.
— Chelsea Rae (@chelsearae813) January 5, 2019
Remember when the GOP was the party of business? https://t.co/A0jXjI3ru9
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) January 5, 2019
re: #9 Targetpractice
I imagine if I checked the numbers, I’d find that the DNC are not asking for any more in foreign aid that what was allocated the last go around. Money that the GOP had no problem with until they needed yet more shit to sling against the wall in the hopes of finding something that voters outside their shrinking base would get outraged over.
Conservatives have been outraged over foreign aid for generations (when Democrats are in charge).
They don’t seem to have problems shoveling tons of it toward dictatorships, autocrats, and paying for Israel’s socialised medical system which includes state coverage of abortion though.
It’s almost as if conservatism is about power and hypocrisy, rather than some principle.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
so fucking clueless
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The problem is, a bunch of people are taking that as the truth. Some of them are decent people, but they believe that shit! Drives me absolutely round the twist.
re: #11 Belafon
The party whose representation in the House is nearly 50% women and only 38% white men needs to consider picking a man to play it safe? I don’t think so. If we pick a man, it will be because he does the best at representing the party’s values.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 5, 2019
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dems are apparently standing firm
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I doubt this is what he means, but I’m going to write it anyway:
Great, create a work visa those south of the border can use to enter our country, work, and go home. Them make it easier for them to travel.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 5, 2019
Was going to photoshop a picture, but MAD Magazine beat me to it last year:
re: #11 Belafon
Concern trolls, specifically a reporter for the New York Times, employers of such luminaries as Russ Douthat and Trump Whisperer Maggie Haberman.
I think I need zero input from the newspaper which has yet to apologise for endorsing Hitler telling me what I should think about candidates of the party I am a member.
re: #10 Belafon
Someone needs to hang a list in the White House that says “Thing’s Nixon did” and put a T next to them when Trump does it.
Someone tweet that at Trump.
Driftglass did an extended rif on our Never Trumpers who are feeling the tingle as soon as Romney spoke up.
I know the tradition of presidents referring to the press by their first names goes back a ways, but it just seems vulgar and pushy when Trump does it.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
so fucking clueless
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Rest assured that these Frank Luntz tested talking points will be recited in thousands of churches tomorrow by Pulpit Pimp Preachers and Priests.
re: #27 AaronFromToronto
Especially when he calls them the wrong name.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
more #MoronWinning:
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You know what has historically been used to make sure companies aren’t just hoovering up all the money and being good corporate citizens - regulations and the tax code. But you and your Republican creatures gutted regulations and use the tax code to redistrubute money to the 1%. In other words, you can fuck right off.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
“…Customs and Border Protection data counts nearly 17,000 criminal aliens “encountered” by the Office of Field Operations and the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2018. But it should be noted that large portions of the immigrants being arrested at the Southwest border committed nonviolent crimes, like illegal entry or re-entry — the act of crossing into the US illegally — and driving under the influence of alcohol.”cnn.com
Like Matt Gaetz!
“…the majority of the heroin flow on the southern border into the US is through privately owned vehicles at legal ports of entry, followed by tractor-trailers, where the heroin is co-mingled with legal goods, according to the DEA’s 2018 annual drug threat assessment.”
cnn.com
A CARTOON ABOUT DANCING https://t.co/CL7EBXz9Yw
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 5, 2019
Trump in Rose Garden: “Drugs are pouring into this country. They don’t go through the ports of entry.”
DEA 2018 report: “Majority of the flow is through… legal ports of entry.”
CBP to me: “Drug smugglers feel there are opportunities to mix in” at POEs. https://t.co/6leAXPVeLN— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) January 5, 2019
re: #27 AaronFromToronto
I know the tradition of presidents referring to the press by their first names goes back a ways, but it just seems vulgar and pushy when Trump does it.
Everything Trump does seems vulgar and pushy.
Trump did the same thing in New York and in Atlantic City. He doesn’t pay workers nor contractors and brags about paying cents on the dollar when he had to. He has been sued more than a 1500 times. US Banks would not lend him money. All this and more reported before 2016 election
— Sacagawea (@TrailblazerLady) January 5, 2019
Trump confidant tells me he’s still talking today about declaring a national emergency if talks collapse… and he’s getting encouraged by several of his friends on hard right to do just that, knowing it’d be challenged immediately
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 5, 2019
Mfing loon is going to do it.
re: #39 jaunte
Mfing loon is going to do it.
No doubt it will be a very carefully thought out and planned national security emergency.
Chuck Grassley gets a clapback:
Somehow when I visit modern art museums I see a lot of current artistic expression, and none of it has anything to do with Peggy Noonan - or you, for that matter.
— Tom Tilley (@ttilley64) January 5, 2019
re: #39 jaunte
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Mfing loon is going to do it.
I would not be surprised to see Trump declare a national emergency and use Article 2 section 3 which says “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
He may have McConnell adjourn the Senate sine die and then try to shut the House down with this provision.
re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹
I would not be surprised to see Trump declare a national emergency and use Article 2 section 3 which says “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
He may have McConnell adjourn the Senate sine die and then try to shut the House down with this provision.
It’s odd, that’s the one thing McConnell has not done: Shut down the Senate. He has kept it open to keep Trump from doing some of the things we know he would like to do, like making recess appointments.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
having a hard time understanding what Grassley was saying. funny how he was all about limiting artistic expression when it came to Piss Christ
re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹
I would not be surprised to see Trump declare a national emergency and use Article 2 section 3 which says “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
He may have McConnell adjourn the Senate sine die and then try to shut the House down with this provision.
If McConnell goes along with that, I would really like to find out the Kompromat the Russians have on McConnell before I die.
Sanity break
Silly wabbit.
Should have bought a Lotus pic.twitter.com/WniXYgfj7O— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 5, 2019
re: #43 Belafon
It’s odd, that’s the one thing McConnell has not done: Shut down the Senate. He has kept it open to keep Trump from doing some of the things we know he would like to do, like making recess appointments.
TBH, McConnell has basically shut down the Senate from time to time for specific reasons (hello Merrick Garland we hardly knew ya).
OK, back to…
WINNING ! ! !
US Steel’s stock price is down 47% in the last year.
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) January 4, 2019
re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹
I would not be surprised to see Trump declare a national emergency and use Article 2 section 3 which says “in Case of Disagreement between them [the houses of Congress], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he [the President] may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
He may have McConnell adjourn the Senate sine die and then try to shut the House down with this provision.
Well, I’m sure that if Congress gets any hint that Trump has made any serious plans along these these lines, any “Case of Disageement” about adjourning is going to be resolved in pretty short order. And likely not in your scenario…
Mrs. Jay and I were discussing current events (I.e. what a disgrace to the country The Idiot is) last night, and she raised the question if Trump really doesn’t want to leave office - one way or another. I said I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but after a bit of thought, I’m not so sure any more.
Israeli officials have expressed alarm that a swift withdrawal of the roughly 2,000 troops could enable Iran to expand its influence and presence in Syria. https://t.co/SpsVnL7Ihe
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) January 5, 2019
Next week, @HouseDemocrats will begin passing individual appropriations bills to re-open all government agencies, starting with the Department of the Treasury & IRS – an action necessary to make sure working families receive their tax refunds on schedule. #TrumpShutdown
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 5, 2019
re: #49 Jay C
Well, I’m sure that if Congress gets any hint that Trump has made any serious plans along these these lines, any “Case of Disageement” about adjourning is going to be resolved in pretty short order. And likely not in your scenario…
Mrs. Jay and I were discussing current events (I.e. what a disgrace to the country The Idiot is) last night, and she raised the question if Trump really doesn’t want to leave office - one way or another. I said I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but after a bit of thought, I’m not so sure any more.
Trump tries to do this…OMG. My brother is no liberal or progressive but he is pissed off. He told me earlier this afternoon he would go to D.C. armed if Trump tried to shut down Congress. And being me, the first thing I asked him was if he had an approved lockbox for his Glock so it could be transported on a plane. His response: “Of course.”
My brother voted for Trump but the short fingered vulgarian has him really ticked.
One of the many troubling things about the Trump regime is that it exposed how much our governmental institutions rely on people acting in good faith. (My first attempt to maket a longish quote as a private comment.)
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re: #14 Targetpractice
It’s over a year until the party convention, weeks to months before anybody formally announces their intent to run…and already the concern trolls are suggesting we need to nominate another white guy.
You know, it rather kills the whole “Hillary was uniquely unpopular and the DNC were wrong to nominate her” talking point if you then spin around to suggest that the DNC would be wrong to nominate another woman in ‘20.
like i keep saying
the dems will nominate whoever wins the primaries
you know, that’s the person who demonstrated they:
- have the highest approval from those in the party
- are best capable of taking on whoever the R is (from the field of candidates)
there’s a process
you don’t pre-ordain these things (any more)
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dems are apparently standing firm
V.P. Mike Pence and team just left the White House. Briefed me on their meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives. Not much headway made today. Second meeting set for tomorrow. After so many decades, must finally and permanently fix the problems on the Southern Border!
of course nothing happened
from wapo:
“Expectations for the meeting at the White House, led by Vice President Pence but lacking lawmakers whose sign-off would be needed to secure a deal, were low. While assigned by President Trump to oversee the meeting, Pence did not have the president’s blessing to float new or specific numbers…
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Putting down the markers right away about which side is responsible. Good work.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹
Grassley is part of the religious right, whose political existence the past century or so is embroiled exactly on prohibiting certain artistic expressions.
re: #49 Jay C
Mrs. Jay and I were discussing current events (I.e. what a disgrace to the country The Idiot is) last night, and she raised the question if Trump really doesn’t want to leave office - one way or another. I said I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but after a bit of thought, I’m not so sure any more.
Outside of the emoluments, I’m pretty sure he hates his life these days. After two years of House Dems coming at him, I wouldn’t be surprised if he announced he was stepping down.
re: #48 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, back to…
WINNING ! ! !US Steel’s stock price is down 47% in the last year.
of course a buy opportunity
re: #57 dangerman (not steve)
of course nothing happened
from wapo:
In other words, it was yet more political theater from an administration that sees a shutdown as a “ratings booster.”
Late Novemember or early December someone here posted a link to a website where you could see if you were owed any unclaimed money. Yesterday, I received a check for $300. So, thank you to the lizard who provided this information.
re: #64 Teddy’s Person
Late Novemember or early December someone here posted a link to a website where you could see if you were owed any unclaimed money. Yesterday, I received a check for $300. So, thank you to the lizard who provided this information.
(blushes)
re: #64 Teddy’s Person
Was that the government website?
re: #67 dangerman (not steve)
you start at missingmoney.com
there are also some (not all) state sites
florida’s for example is www.fltreasurehunt.org
re: #68 dangerman (not steve)
there are also some (not all) state sites
florida’s for example is www.fltreasurehunt.org
if you want to dig deep there are also sites for lost wages (if they werent turned over to the state), lost pensions and more
While @realDonaldTrump threatens to continue the #TrumpShutdown for “years,” Democrats are taking further action to re-open government in order to meet Americans’ needs, protect our borders & respect our workers. https://t.co/xo55gDKy3y pic.twitter.com/0tGVojLCRP
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 5, 2019
re: #65 dangerman (not steve)
I tried. They sent me to PA State website. PA says my name is not on the list.
I came I saw I left with empty hands.
Days of the week socks are cute until you get to Saturday. pic.twitter.com/YR7c1Ledji
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) January 5, 2019
So the wife goes shopping and I look in the fridge to see a lot of leftover meats and veggies. Grabbed the slow cooker, sliced up beef and pork, cooked the last bacon, threw in fresh herbs carrots onions and garlic. No potatoes so rice went in. Beef stock, wine, leftover gravy.
Calling this “Fridge Broke stew”. It ain’t broke but the recipe would be the same.
re: #64 Teddy’s Person
Late Novemember or early December someone here posted a link to a website where you could see if you were owed any unclaimed money. Yesterday, I received a check for $300. So, thank you to the lizard who provided this information.
Dare I say it… Hit the tip jar?
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is what I was hoping for, just continuing to apply the pressure until something snaps. If Mitch ever allows a vote, that’s pretty much the end. The bills will pass with veto-proof majorities and Trump will no longer be able to say that Senate Democrats are holding up the reopening of the gov’t. Well, okay, he’ll be able to say it, but only the truly stupid (i.e. his base) will believe it anymore.
And now, WET SLOTHS.
Wet Sloths pic.twitter.com/sHU1WIi4lI
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 5, 2019
3,000 “special interest aliens” have been stopped because they have terrorist travel patterns or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says https://t.co/YYa34PeSTf pic.twitter.com/tR5gzS2gyp
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 4, 2019
I worked at the National Counterterrorism Center, the CIA, and the Pentagon. @SecNielsen can’t possibly be telling the truth with these numbers. https://t.co/aHUmezfujx
— George Little (@georgelittledc) January 4, 2019
She isn’t. @SecNielsen is almost as big a liar as her boss. Orders of infinity, basically. Next question? https://t.co/jrOlglBlgE
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 5, 2019
Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy by Italian painter and poet Francesco Scaramuzza (1803 – 1886) pic.twitter.com/TRFWEsimhY
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 5, 2019
re: #66 freetoken
Was that the government website?
I started at missingmoney.com. They directed me to a state website (VA)* where I had to enter some information to verify it was my money. I had to send them copies of some documents and in about 4 weeks had my check. In my case, I didn’t know how much money it was going to be.
* I had paid a little bit into Virginia State retirement either when I taught full-time as an adjunct for 2 semesters during grad school or when I had a visiting teaching gig after grad school. I need to dig through some paperwork to see which one.
That’s not at all what @JillAbramson says in Merchants of Truth. She actually praises the @nytimes for their harsh coverage of you, and anyone who buys the book will see that. In fact, she thinks you’re despicable, as do I. https://t.co/doEKaIj10M
— Eliza Orlins (@eorlins) January 5, 2019
Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2018
Questions for POTUS: How can you falsely blame fellow countrymen for the deaths of innocent children but not have the courage to publicly blame the Saudis for Khashoggi’s death? Or did you misplace your backbone again? @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/lx2o6ibjmi
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 30, 2018
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
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She’s basically under orders to give cover to her boss’ bullshit. Which should make it all the more amusing when she shows up for her public humiliation by House Dems.
re: #82 Patricia Kayden
I love that question:” … did you misplace your backbone?”
re: #75 Unshaken Defiance
Dare I say it… Hit the tip jar?
Thanks for the suggestion and done. I wish it could have been more, but I’m in the middle of some expensive dental work.
I always find it weird how Gun Perm hates New York so much, yet seems to be there constantly shoving her face into trash bags and keeping tabs on closed restaurants https://t.co/0BQCTYlrSk
— hallmark’s countdown to christmas in july (@jesseltaylor) January 5, 2019
When I discuss #SchumerShutdown, lefty pals reply “@realDonaldTrump said Mexico would pay for the wall,” which is like pointing out @HillaryClinton won popular vote. So what? There’s a shutdown. Ds won’t negotiate or compromise b/c they oppose border security. Simple stuff.
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) January 4, 2019
So what? Trump is asking Americans to spend $5 billion on a wall he said Mexico would pay for and has proudly owned shutting down government over it. Simple stuff indeed. https://t.co/pyQDATGrWb
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) January 4, 2019
The voters spoke. They elected a House of Representatives who do not want a wall. That is the people’s will. Trump is blackmailing the government and our citizens to get something which people clearly do not want. Democracy spoke. https://t.co/J7dcRCGwzb
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) January 5, 2019
re: #73 Unshaken Defiance
So the wife goes shopping and I look in the fridge to see a lot of leftover meats and veggies. Grabbed the slow cooker, sliced up beef and pork, cooked the last bacon, threw in fresh herbs carrots onions and garlic. No potatoes so rice went in. Beef stock, wine, leftover gravy.
Calling this “Fridge Broke stew”. It ain’t broke but the recipe would be the same.
Just so
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This makes no fucking sense. Every restaurant in town has the same wage, some prosper others don’t. The free market how does it work?
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
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Elections only have meaning when Repubs win. When they lose, you’re supposed to assume the public still supports the positions that they “won” on in a prior election. Hence the constant reverb that Donny won on building a wall in 2016 and so is keeping that “promise,” despite Dems winning just two months ago on promises to prevent that wall’s construction and the polls showing the public hates the idea of a wall right now.
Yellow West shenanigans in Paris…
Devant l’ambassade de @SuedeenFR et l’ambassade de #Tunisie @ambtunfr des #GiletsJaunes mettant des feux!! Et la #police est où??? Grâce aux voisins solidaires nous avons su éteindre les feux… @mairie7 @datirachida #Acte8 @francediplo @SweMFA pic.twitter.com/lBc4ziA4ul
— Ambassadeur de Suède (@AmbassadeurSE) January 5, 2019
The same yellow wests the reich wingers thinks are fine upstanding citizens…
Also, Vienna Convention anyone?
Edit, Swedish Newspaper on the incident, with video: aftonbladet.se
By the way, Hugh, I never want to hear “Obama promised you could keep your doctor!” bullshit ever again from you or any wingnut who now wants to argue that promises to make Mexico pay for the wall don’t matter.
re: #93 Targetpractice
By the way, Hugh, I never want to hear “Obama promised you could keep your doctor!” bullshit ever again from you or any wingnut who now wants to argue that promises to make Mexico pay for the wall don’t matter.
But you will. It will never die.
re: #95 makeitstop
Wet Sloths is my new band name.
The Wet Sloths can open for my band The Penguin Air Force.
I can’t tell if this is the President of the United States or my 2-year-old nephew who loves to watch cement trucks in action. https://t.co/tmXypN1jGn pic.twitter.com/Jo5DNDbmip
— Sasha Samberg-Champion (@ssamcham) January 5, 2019
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trying to get on Fox again, I see. She’s the Rupert Pupkin of Ann Coulters.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I find myself extremely suspicious these days of broad-cheekboned blue-eyed girls with awkward over-the-top hair who like guns and trolling a little too much. NRA’s social media wing is in danger of evaporating after people started following the Putin Funny Money flowing in, and her schtick smells like borscht. I could believe either way that she gets her scripts from overseas, or if she’s just imitating to get attention.
I could see her as a Hot-Pockets-and-Cheetos version of Butina (edit: Ramen Butina?), although I’m pretty sure she’s home grown.
Motherfucker
“As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate — who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder — would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was to be a signature issue in his nascent campaign,” The Times reported.
Source: Raw Story since I don’t subscribe to the Times
re: #96 William Lewis
The Wet Sloths can open for my band The Penguin Air Force.
You’ll forgive us if we’re a little slow getting off stage…
re: #71 PhillyPretzel
I tried. They sent me to PA State website. PA says my name is not on the list.
I came I saw I left with empty hands.
that means you were smart enough not to lose anything
re: #101 makeitstop
You’ll forgive us if we’re a little slow getting off stage…
Is it like live 70’s prog rock where the guitar & drum solo takes foooooreeeeeverrrrrrrrrrr?
re: #98 makeitstop
Trying to get on Fox again, I see. She’s the Rupert Pupkin of Ann Coulters.
Aww, nobody got my Kings of Comedy ref?
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy by Italian painter and poet Francesco Scaramuzza (1803 - 1886)
wasnt he briefly….like for 10 days or so….
re: #103 Pawn of the Oppressor
Is it like live 70’s prog rock where the guitar & drum solo takes foooooreeeeeverrrrrrrrrrr?
Extreme legato, baby! Watch me hold this note while I take 45 seconds to move my finger!
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
When I discuss #SchumerShutdown, lefty pals reply “@realDonaldTrump said Mexico would pay for the wall,” which is like pointing out @HillaryClinton won popular vote. So what? There’s a shutdown. Ds won’t negotiate or compromise b/c they oppose border security. Simple stuff.
so what?
SO WHAT?
- it was a PROMISE he made (promises made promises kept) to the american people - over and over again
- in EXCHANGE for their vote for him as president, if he won, he PROMISED to build a wall that wouldnt cost us a dime because mexico would pay for it
Paul Krugman says that AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich is “in line with serious economic research.” He couldn’t be reached for comment about her dancing.
“Democrats are trying to prevent the President from fulfilling his campaign promise to the people to build a wall!”
“What about the promise that that wall would not cost them a cent because he’d make Mexico pay for it?”
“YOU CAN’T HOLD HIM TO THAT PROMISE!!!”
re: #104 makeitstop
Aww, nobody got my Kings of Comedy ref?
I did—and I don’t think I’ve ever watched that all the way through.
re: #101 makeitstop
You’ll forgive us if we’re a little slow getting off stage…
Wet Sloths’ lead singer dies from poorly grounded PA system….
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
We need the real numbers, so we can fight back!
re: #110 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I did—and I don’t think I’ve ever watched that all the way through.
One of my favorite movies. So dark. Even Jerry Lewis plays an asshole in that movie.
re: #108 Teddy’s Person
Paul Krugman says that AOC’s 70% tax rate on the rich is “in line with serious economic research.” He couldn’t be reached for comment about her dancing.
Conan O’Brien has some thoughts about Paul Krugman dancing:
(jump to 1:25)
re: #107 dangerman (not steve)
so what?
SO WHAT?- it was a PROMISE he made (promises made promises kept) to the american people - over and over again
- in EXCHANGE for their vote for him as president, if he won, he PROMISED to build a wall that wouldnt cost us a dime because mexico would pay for it
He was promising it on all of those “campaign” rallies he had before the 2018 election. So the people voted!
If only Weimar Germany’s non-Nazi parties had been more civil….
re: #48 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, back to…
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Trump’s tariff war was such a genius move. MAGA!!
“Best friends ❤️” <- that’s a huge dog pic.twitter.com/vIV1CDuw0K
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) January 5, 2019
Trump’s wall was a gimmick cooked up by advisers so he would remember to bash immigrants in speeches: report (Raw Story)
He had to be reminded of that?
President Donald Trump’s promised border wall — that Mexico would pay for — was the signature policy issue of his 2016 campaign.
The idea for the wall actually dates back to 2014 and started as a trick by his campaign advisors to keep Trump from forgetting to bash immigrants in speeches, The New York Times reported Saturday.
“As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate — who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder — would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was to be a signature issue in his nascent campaign,” The Times reported.
Advisors Sam Nunberg and Roger Stone created the idea of the wall as a memory trick used to manage the candidate.
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Trump confidant tells me he’s still talking today about declaring a national emergency if talks collapse… and he’s getting encouraged by several of his friends on hard right to do just that, knowing it’d be challenged immediately
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 5, 2019
Like check out this actual campaign ad from 2010 https://t.co/Ir251Bv26e
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 5, 2019
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
@realDonaldTrump Anyone who reads my book, Merchants of Truth, will see that I revere @nytimes and praise its tough coverage of you.
— Jill Abramson (@JillAbramson) January 5, 2019
Monster line for Warren in Des Moines. Venue is that airline hanger-y building on far left. Line wraps around the block, too. pic.twitter.com/rqmkRLpgOO
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 5, 2019
CNN spoke to numerous TSA & union officials & cited data provided by unions for our report. TSA itself put out a statement acknowledging increased call-outs after we published. @spoxdhs & @realdonaldtrump may not like the truth but that won’t stop us from reporting. #FactsFirst
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) January 5, 2019
I started listening to that video that is on top of the page. I could not get past 2 minutes. I hate that whining, nasal voice repeating lies and bullshit over and over and over.
This “women should never swear” thing is really making me rethink what comes next for us, I’ve said to @SherrodBrown exactly never. Hi, Franklin. pic.twitter.com/muSSv0cNQz
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) January 5, 2019
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’re actually concrete trucks. Why is this so hard? They say Concrete right on the side?
re: #123 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I hope Rick Barber lost.
re: #127 The Vicious Babushka
I started listening to that video that is on top of the page. I could not get past 2 minutes. I hate that whining, nasal voice repeating lies and bullshit over and over and over.
I’ve had the displeasure of hearing Trump as background noise in certain public locations and when I can’t find the remote control fast enough to mute him. I try to keep the remote at arms length at all times these days. I just can’t stand to listen to him or even watch his swaying and gestures that he does over and over.
I sense I’m not the only one.
re: #132 Barefoot Grin
I sense I’m not the only one.
No you are not. I usually search out transcripts.
I thought DeSantis was going to try to stop this from being implemented. Good to see I was wrong.
FLORIDA: It’s a new day! 1.2M people who were formerly disenfranchised because of a criminal conviction are eligible to register to vote starting Tuesday, January 8, 2019.https://t.co/MMHcfSpx3C
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) January 5, 2019
re: #131 retired cynic
I hope Rick Barber lost.
You’ll love this one
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(yes, he lost in the primary. Martha Roby (R-AL 2) still holds the seat)
I made it to the 2:23 mark and had to shut it down. Would someone, anyone slip him a mickey and transport him to a secure undisclosed location for his own personal protection?
Kinda wild how the federal government has decided to not pay several hundred thousand of its employees and shut down most of its services and the news has mostly got bored and moved on to other stories already
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) January 6, 2019
The government has been shutdown for 14 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes but who’s counting. https://t.co/RafPaT5ulR
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 6, 2019
re: #136 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
I made it to the 2:23 mark and had to shut it down. Would someone, anyone slip him a mickey and transport him to a secure undisclosed location for his own personal protection?
You lasted 30 seconds longer than I did.
re: #137 Patricia Kayden
It’s always that way with disasters Trump causes. I guess the media worked so hard to get him elected they don’t want to dwell on his thousands of total failures over the last two years.
O_o
#Russia’s state media complains about “revenge of the Democrats,” who want to “prohibit Trump from communicating with Putin.”
“Just like in prison,” commiserates Vitaly Tretyakov, Dean of Moscow State University’s School of Television. ©️ pic.twitter.com/5GrbX0S0J3— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 5, 2019
Oh that article on NPR is here: How A Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Got Millions Of YouTube Views
that always reliable new source…
“Jobs up big, plus 312,000. Record number working. Manufacturing best in 20 years (Previous administration said this could not happen). Hispanic unemployment lowest ever. Dow plus 747 (for day).” @DRUDGE_REPORT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
I didn’t know this idiot was even still alive.
Slavery is when your owner takes 100% of your production.
Democrat congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wants 70% (according to CNN)
What is the word for 70% expropriation?— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) January 5, 2019
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
I didn’t know this idiot was even still alive.
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If I were on twitter the answer would be “Civilization”.
COUNTERPOINT: the fuck she should https://t.co/nthHs0tX56
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) January 6, 2019
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
I didn’t know this idiot was even still alive.
Wow. The concept of marginal tax rate really does not compute with these fuckers, does it.
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
that always reliable new source…
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Amazing numbers! Of course this is precisely what #MAGA Nation knew would happen when we put a brilliant businessman in office.
Even liberal Dems - who love this great economy - are quietly high-fiving each other at coffee houses nationwide!— David Wohl (@DavidWohl) January 6, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But if she apologizes Trump will graciously accept it, the wingnuts will be pleased and like her and it will never be brought up again.
Hey @TheMerl, here’s a quacking duck that’s got to be at the top of the bill✨
It’s a cosmetics container made around 1300 BC in ancient Egypt🦆 https://t.co/XJPetqlnRQ pic.twitter.com/CU1N0iMuLD— British Museum (@britishmuseum) January 4, 2019
We see your cosmetic containers and planes and we raise you a 20th century hooked rug duck made from burlap and cottonhttps://t.co/CDuAGXFIQc pic.twitter.com/NX9iSzHRT4
— Textile Museum (@TMCtoronto) January 4, 2019
re: #149 Teukka
Some information relating to fuckery:
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— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) May 1, 2016
re: #151 bd(Redacted)
But if she apologizes Trump will graciously accept it, the wingnuts will be pleased and like her and it will never be brought up again.
hahahahahahahahaahahahaaaaaa
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
I didn’t know this idiot was even still alive.
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That’s 70% of the next billion.
We repeat: nothing for the ineffective, immoral and costly ‘border wall’. #TrumpShutdown pic.twitter.com/0MoSry6LOv
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) January 6, 2019
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
Ocasio-Cortez must really have their dark money donors in a panic.
Republicans: Let Americans keep more of their own hard-earned money
Democrats: Take away 70% of your income and give it to leftist fantasy programs https://t.co/NxJPSCqvrt— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) January 5, 2019
You loopy bolus of submoronity. You’re the minority whip and you don’t know that a marginal rate means taxing 70 cents on the dollar AFTER the first $10 million of income? Or you do know and you’re out here on the internet like a lying fuckmook? One or other has to be true. https://t.co/Th1EQB3BHR
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 5, 2019
re: #158 jaunte
Ocasio-Cortez must really have their dark money donors in a panic.
Oh, he knows, alright. Contrary to their public image, they’re not entirely stupid. They just say the stupid shit because the people who don’t know any better lap it up, repeat it, and then it becomes the truth.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
Hang tough, Speaker Pelosi. Not one penny.
I’ve honestly been up-and-down on her over the years, but right now I am SO up. You go, girl.
“The president does not want border security. He wants border theater.” @RepSwalwell on the government shutdown. pic.twitter.com/j9yoWgbP6A
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) January 5, 2019
#RuinABandNameWithOneLetter
Supertrump— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) January 5, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She didn’t curse out Trump. Is ABCNEWS demanding that Trump apologize for all of his insults, bullying and bigotry? If not they need to shit the hell up.
The nerve.
re: #159 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh, he knows, alright. Contrary to their public image, they’re not entirely stupid. They just say the stupid shit because the people who don’t know any better lap it up, repeat it, and then it becomes the truth.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ~ Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
I am the first, and I will be the last. pic.twitter.com/QzQgrKRZgx
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) January 4, 2019
NBC reporting the Pentagon Chief of Staff has resigned. This within 24 hours of Trump claiming he can call national emergency and direct DOD to build a wall.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 5, 2019
re: #167 jaunte
How anyone with a conscience can work for Trump is beyond me. Trump needs to be isolated and then flushed down the drain of history.
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 6, 2019
An insight into America:
“So many clamor for formal spaces is because they are a sign of having ‘made it.’” - @mcmansionhell. https://t.co/Vi8rYxP9Nc
— Curbed (@Curbed) January 6, 2019
Russia picked Donald Trump and ran him for president, former Israeli intelligence officer says https://t.co/NBZAeWk9NO
— M&M (@GWPLady) January 5, 2019
First
Swallow,
Put down any fluid containers, or any objects for that matter.
Promise to maintain your composure.
Open the clicky
“Airports struggling with manpower issues could also opt to loosen standards for checked baggage based on a theory that people would not bring a bomb onto their own flights because the explosion would kill them, too. Known as positive passenger bag match”https://t.co/SkLFkffVzd
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) January 4, 2019
re: #173 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I think I see a flaw in their reasoning.
I have to make this!
The Most Mesmerizing Pie Crust You’ll See All Day pic.twitter.com/Prfbtb5tCb
— Tasty (@tasty) January 6, 2019
I know this is radical, but I think it’s possible to be offended by Trump’s profanities AND by Tlaib’s profanities. That’s my super hot take for the day.
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 4, 2019
With apologies to Will fucking Rogers, I never met a profanity I didn’t like. But weirdly, kids in cages, furloughed civil servants & Americans dying because they can’t afford insulin leave me thinking that people focused on naughty words are cheap, scrotelicking outrage pimps. https://t.co/3gkfXEEdxS
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 5, 2019
re: #178 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
..
The secret to these complicated braided pie toppings is: Crisco!
Pie dough made with butter is too delicate to withstand too much handling and will fall apart if you try to get fancy with it.
Crisco shortening will keep its shape. The problem is that if you handle the dough too much it will get tough and not flaky.
I have not tried coconut oil in a braided pie topping.
re: #181 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
We all make mistakes. We are human beings. :)
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
“Scrotlicking outrage pimps”
Ooh, that’s getting added to my insult vocabulary!
Right up there with “tangerine shitgibbon”, I think.
re: #182 The Vicious Babushka
My mother used to make good apple pies, which I think she probably learned from her grandmother.
Yes, she would use hydrogenated vegetable oils (e.g. Crisco), but that was after the real prime ingredient - lard - was replaced.
Animal fats (lard) have a higher melting point than the liquid fat in milk (which is turned into butter.)
Good thing I read down to see if anybody came up with this:
Steely Don #RuinABandNameWithOneLetter pic.twitter.com/IMr7zFpiIH
— Shades Of Vinyl (@ShadesOfVinyl) January 5, 2019
I just started following this guy cause his bio is cool.
We’ll stop saying motherfucker when motherfucking border patrol stops letting kids die and Flint has clean motherfucking water and teens stop getting shot at motherfucking school and motherfucking big banks are held accountable and we actually fight motherfucking climate change.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) January 5, 2019
Adam Best Verified account
@adamcbest
@TheLeft newsletter (subscribe via link). Filmmaker. Ex-@FanSided CEO. A judge made Trump unblock me. Be Best is not my fault. One letter away from being Batman
re: #184 PhillyPretzel
We all make mistakes. We are human beings. :)
Yep, at least deleted mine before (I hope) it became a faux paux (siq).
Broken record (my specialty) that I am, I want to state again that the ugliness of Trump is manifestation of a lot of ugliness that is resident in America.
My latest fascination - the problems with real estate and house flipping and TV shows which promote such - is revealing to me that a deep need to be “better” than the next guy is driving so much of our choices.
Resentment is a key ingredient in the revanchism upon which Trump draws his support.
And the young hip professionals are as guilty of this as the hate-bigot-preachers.
The need to impress others with one’s riches really is one of the great foibles of us humans. This is probably why so many religious warn of these things.
re: #188 freetoken
My mother used to make good apple pies, which I think she probably learned from her grandmother.
Yes, she would use hydrogenated vegetable oils (e.g. Crisco), but that was after the real prime ingredient - lard - was replaced.
Animal fats (lard) have a higher melting point than the liquid fat in milk (which is turned into butter.)
I freeze the butter and then grate it like cheese, gently fold it in, and of course replace half the water with vodka, because glutenin and gliadin are not alcohol-soluble, so you have more liquid to make it workable without adding more water.
With love.
Dear Neighbours,We have kidnapped your bird. He’ll be safely returned to you on impeachment day. We believe this is in everyone’s best interest. With love, Canada#NationalBirdDay #Mueller #ImpeachTheMF pic.twitter.com/4g9HOe0xOc
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 5, 2019
re: #182 The Vicious Babushka
The secret to these complicated braided pie toppings is: Crisco!
Pie dough made with butter is too delicate to withstand too much handling and will fall apart if you try to get fancy with it.
Crisco shortening will keep its shape. The problem is that if you handle the dough too much it will get tough and not flaky.
I have not tried coconut oil in a braided pie topping.
I’ve seen recipes with various proportions of Crisco and butter, probably from J. Kenji Lopez Alt. I think he’s still my piecrust god. I don’t know much about kosher, but I understand Crisco is.
re: #195 Dizzy
With love.
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Doug: “What’s our topic for tonight, eh?”
Bob: “Impeaching the motherfucker.”
re: #179 jaunte
A good take:
Pleas for civility in the midst of revolution can be such a delicious kind of amorality, clothed as they are in the appearance of virtue.
— Aaron Campos (@aacampos86) January 5, 2019
And the funny one:
My first thought with this asinine nontroversy was “She shoulda said fucksquib instead.”
— Gabe Levy (@GabeLevy) January 5, 2019
re: #194 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That is the Cooks Illustrated fool proof pie crust. They also have an all butter pie crust.
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re: #197 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Doug: “What’s our topic for tonight, eh?”
Bob: “Impeaching the motherfucker.”
Koo-roo-kookoo-koo-roo-kookoo!
re: #194 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
… of course replace half the water with vodka, because glutenin and gliadin are not alcohol-soluble…
I detect Kenji influence. Or did you have that before he did?
And I also just added the Winnie the Pooh/Piglet image to the Classic Pics popup.
Does anyone know if there is a way to assess the total “tax rate” for each state, and what I mean by total is not only income or sales taxes, but property taxes and the fees people pay?
re: #202 wrenchwench
I detect Kenji influence. Or did you have that before he did?
I got the vodka idea from America’s Test Kitchen like PhillyPretzel linked to. Freezing and grating the butter I came up with independently—if anybody else did it first, apologies.
re: #165 Teddy’s Person
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ~ Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
But Socialism *did* take root in America… Homesteading, federally funded railroads and highways and city mass transit and colleges and early education and farm subsidies, libraries, national parks, city parks, housing subsidies, every policy pushed by either Roosevelt, etc etc etc
Socialism held on really well as long as everybody paid into the pot, but only white people could get the benefits. As soon as there was a law that said it’s for everyone… that’s when white “christians” suddenly became “conservative” and didn’t like “socialism” anymore.
Who is motherfucker a slur against exactly? People who fuck their mothers?
Are we really worried about offending these people?
What is even happening?
I can’t feel my legs— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 6, 2019
re: #188 freetoken
My mother used to make good apple pies, which I think she probably learned from her grandmother.
Yes, she would use hydrogenated vegetable oils (e.g. Crisco), but that was after the real prime ingredient - lard - was replaced.
Animal fats (lard) have a higher melting point than the liquid fat in milk (which is turned into butter.)
I get most of my pie recipes from Rose Berenbaum’s “Pie Bible” but she warns readers that pies made with shortening instead of butter are “inferior” they are Untertorten. She is a pie racist. But the fact is if you try to do any kind of complicated pie crust braiding with a butter crust it will just fall apart.
Taxation=slavery?
Are there any taxpayer auctions scheduled soon? I know some fatcats I’d like to round up and sell to the Canadians or the Dutch. How much will they offer? Come to think of it, the Russians seem pretty happy with that big consignment they bought a while back.
re: #193 freetoken
Broken record (my specialty) that I am, I want to state again that the ugliness of Trump is manifestation of a lot of ugliness that is resident in America.
My latest fascination - the problems with real estate and house flipping and TV shows which promote such - is revealing to me that a deep need to be “better” than the next guy is driving so much of our choices.
Resentment is a key ingredient in the revanchism upon which Trump draws his support.
And the young hip professionals are as guilty of this as the hate-bigot-preachers.
The need to impress others with one’s riches really is one of the great foibles of us humans. This is probably why so many religious warn of these things.
I really want to see if some of these mofos will go through the eye of a needle….
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!
TRUMP SAID MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 6, 2019
Nancy Pelosi
• Won her district with 87% of the vote
• Won the Speaker vote with 93% of her party
Trump can’t vote her out, can’t tweet her out, can’t insult her out, can’t bully her out, and sure the hell can’t outthink her.
This is Trump realizing he got beat by a girl. pic.twitter.com/NVU0AcWYz6— JRehling (@JRehling) January 6, 2019
re: #213 Joe Bacon 🌹
Spoiler: Hewitt has no “lefty pals.”
re: #211 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
When someone says “taxation equals slavery” what they really mean is “I don’t like Democracy.” And they can go find another country to live in.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 6, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reminder—You liars gave Cheney a pass when he told Leahy to go CENSORED himself.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 6, 2019
re: #215 jaunte
Spoiler: Hewitt has no “lefty pals.”
He’s got plenty of lefty acquaintances, from the green room at MSNBC.
re: #206 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I got the vodka idea from America’s Test Kitchen like PhillyPretzel linked to. Freezing and grating the butter I came up with independently—if anybody else did it first, apologies.
Never apologize for grating butter. Just don’t hang on to it too tightly.
Kenji lost control of his recipe because he was signed to some publisher when he invented it and they owned the rights. I was going to say they took it from him, but I guess it was legal. Kenji started his own thing after that. At least that was the story I read.
Do we have to call it the m-word now?
Can only literal mother fuckers say “motherfucker”?
I need some guidelines https://t.co/7QgPtsHVfg— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 6, 2019
re: #218 Joe Bacon 🌹
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And didn’t they give one of their own a pass when he called Obama a dick?
Well if you want to be pedantic, Trump is a daughterfucker, not a motherfucker.
Perspective: Rashida Tlaib’s slur about Trump is wrong — it harms the Democratic Party’s policy and political objectives https://t.co/0ryG4FP8EM
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 6, 2019
Confession: Despite serving nearly a full career in the US Navy, it is extremely rare that I use vulgarities outside my home (hence you see me do things like put cautions when I link something with them, use euphemisms, put vulgar memes behind the privacy or hide bar, &c).
That is my choice, and I am not offended when someone else uses them, particularly to describe an intolerable situation.
This pearl-clutching by the media to magic balancefairy what Rep. Tlaib said at a private party with the torrent of abuse that Donald Trump has heaped on everyone who crossed his path (including the same phrase) has gone into the theatre of the absurd.
Matthew Dowd is being deservedly roasted for his hot take.
OPINION: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib should apologize for cursing out Trump…and here’s why. Via @ABC’s @matthewjdowd. https://t.co/Z1CciFRraP pic.twitter.com/LpPZuFSOx7
— ABC News (@ABC) January 5, 2019
Who the fuck died & made @MatthewJDowd the fucking Pope of Civility?! Leave @RashidaTlaib alone, you snowflake nincompoop! 🤬 She has nothing to apologize for. #FuckCivility https://t.co/1hMpLouRSF
— Kausik (@kausikdatta22) January 6, 2019
As for Mr. Dowd and his (and they are all men) cohorts in the press and their endless fake outrage:
re: #219 sagehen
He’s got plenty of lefty acquaintances, from the green room at MSNBC.
And he’s lying about their attitudes to border security, which means they aren’t his pals.
re: #158 jaunte
Ocasio-Cortez must really have their dark money donors in a panic.
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You gave away $1.5 trillion to the Wall Street Pimps and now you want to kill Social Security and Medicare.
You liars lost 40 seats in November.
You will lose 40 more in 2020.— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 6, 2019
re: #196 wrenchwench
I’ve seen recipes with various proportions of Crisco and butter, probably from J. Kenji Lopez Alt. I think he’s still my piecrust god. I don’t know much about kosher, but I understand Crisco is.
Kosher does not allow mixing milk and meat products or even eating them together at the same meal. I avoid using butter for baking, unless it is something that is obviously dairy like cheesecake. I have used coconut oil as a butter substitute and it has a better (flakier) texture than Crisco but I haven’t tried a braided topping with it.
I have a sure-fire defense when the 99%ers have finally had enough. Alice Walton and David Barton live close by.
“Hey, don’t waste your pitchforks and torches on me! There’s a Walton heir and a rich pulpit pimp just over the hill!”
re: #227 Joe Bacon 🌹
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I think I keep coming up with something new every time I see this tweet from Steve (and he’s definitely a Trump Steve):
Tell me how that guy who put his money into Wall Street actually earned it. Did he work? Did he save a life, write some code, pick up garbage, or flip a burger? Nope. He didn’t actually contribute anything of value.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 6, 2019
re: #146 William Lewis
If I were on twitter the answer would be “Civilization”.
That’s exactly how I answered the taxation question in my county newspaper’s candidate questionaire - I don’t like taxes, no one does, but with them we buy ciivlisation. (The question was whether I would vote to raise property taxes or impose a village sales tax. I led a defeat to a village sales tax a year ago when I served on the village board.)
Since Democrats are thankfully in full control of the House, this question must be asked again…
Who paid all of Kavanaugh’s debts whilst he was on the bench and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat?— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 6, 2019
This is Shoushi Bakarian:
- Grew up in Syria
- War broke out, schools were shut
- Canadians sponsored them
- Got a job at McDonalds + studied French
- Enrolled in Engineering at @Concordia
At 21, she just invented a charger that uses a plane’s air vents to power devices pic.twitter.com/oQFnAjbYev— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) January 5, 2019
True to form all these “liberal” media outlets are reverting to style over substance, clutching their motherfucking pearls over the word motherfucker while President Brainworms throws a tantrum and literally holds millions of Americans hostage.
— New Year’s Frank (@goddamnedfrank) January 6, 2019
re: #158 jaunte
Ocasio-Cortez must really have their dark money donors in a panic.
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Not to mention that you can dodge the 70% rate entirely by investing in something, anything, that will actually create jobs.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
I didn’t know this idiot was even still alive.
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You should check out the ratio on that one now.
re: #229 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I have a sure-fire defense when the 99%ers have finally had enough. Alice Walton and David Barton live close by.
“Hey, don’t waste your pitchforks and torches on me! There’s a Walton heir and a rich pulpit pimp just over the hill!”
You poor devil, both of them live near you? My condolences.
If you’re that wealthy, you could be saved for later. /s
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 6, 2019
Feel free to retweet.
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
That’s exactly how I answered the taxation question in my county newspaper’s candidate questionaire - I don’t like taxes, no one does, but with them we buy ciivlisation. (The question was whether I would vote to raise property taxes or impose a village sales tax. I led a defeat to a village sales tax a year ago when I served on the village board.)
Sales taxes are the least efficient tax to collect, if you count the labor of the retailer, which goes completely uncompensated in most states. Good job.
re: #188 freetoken
My mother used to make good apple pies, which I think she probably learned from her grandmother.
Yes, she would use hydrogenated vegetable oils (e.g. Crisco), but that was after the real prime ingredient - lard - was replaced.
Animal fats (lard) have a higher melting point than the liquid fat in milk (which is turned into butter.)
Thing is, lard (and butter, for that matter) are, by and large, not any worse for you in the quantities typically used in things like baked goods than the synthetic alternatives, like margarine and shortening (which have their own problems).
re: #240 TedStriker
Thing is, lard (and butter, for that matter) are, by and large, not any worse for you (in moderation) than the synthetic alternatives, like margarine and shortening (which have their own problems).
My mother’s mother, a Depression-era grandmother, kept a can of bacon grease on the stove. Whenever she would cook bacon, the grease went in the can. Whenever she cooked anything else… bacon grease went into it.
re: #236 Belafon
You should check out the ratio on that one now.
All I’m saying—the Venn Diagram of people okay with actual fucking slavery and people that say “taxation is slavery” has considerable overlap.
re: #216 Belafon
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I remember 45 years ago as an undergrad at Pitt debating with a member of the Young Libertarian Alliance about taxation. Yes, that ass did repeat the “taxation is theft” mantra over and over again.
I had to remind that ass that if his tuition wasn’t subsidized by the Commonwealth he wouldn’t be able to attend college. Also he’d have a major problem trying to get to Pittsburgh from Paoli without any roads.
Then he replied that people can make “voluntary contributions” for services.
I replied that since he believed in Ayn Rand and he wanted her gospel to be the American playbook those “voluntary contributions” would wind up in a till with nobody overseeing it making it real easy to steal those gold coins.
His reply, “God will intervene to make sure that nobody would pinch the coins”.
I then said, “Just like God will intervene to make sure nobody dies from contaminated food and water”.
His reply, “God will always protect his flock.”
BTW, he eventually wound up on Medicaid and SSI, just like his God Ayn Rand did…
re: #240 TedStriker
Thing is, lard (and butter, for that matter) are, by and large, not any worse for you (in moderation) than the synthetic alternatives, like margarine and shortening (which have their own problems).
Is “real” margarine (!) still supposed to go away forever next October, or has the tRump administration* rescinded that?
re: #73 Unshaken Defiance
So the wife goes shopping and I look in the fridge to see a lot of leftover meats and veggies. Grabbed the slow cooker, sliced up beef and pork, cooked the last bacon, threw in fresh herbs carrots onions and garlic. No potatoes so rice went in. Beef stock, wine, leftover gravy.
Calling this “Fridge Broke stew”. It ain’t broke but the recipe would be the same.
I bought some veggies to use with the bag of Red Mill vegi soup I got on a whim. decided instead to have a leq quarter with rice instead. now, of course, I’m thinking how delicious vegi soup combined with the meat from the other leg quarter would be. :-)
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The distance from Aleppo to the lab at Montreal’s Trudeau airport where a young engineer-in-training is perfecting her first invention is 8,580 kilometres, but Shoushi Bakarian’s trajectory might better be measured in light speed.
Three years ago, Ms. Bakarian was sitting in Lebanon, part of a family of four Syrian refugees facing an uncertain future with hope of making a new start in Canada. Fast-forward those 36 months: Ms. Bakarian is in her third year of aerospace engineering at Montreal’s Concordia University. She has learned her fourth language, French - in addition to English, Arabic and Armenian. She’s got two part-time jobs with promising prospects in her field: one in the parts department at Bombardier Aerospace and another at Stratos Aviation, a small aviation and flight simulation firm. There, she’s co-created her first invention in the lab she’s building. Oh, and she leads a Scout troop where she hopes to influence her young charges. […]
Was in Harlem today helping a friend move and for lunch I had some “Mama’s Breakfast Pie” & a side of cornbread at the Red Rooster around the corner.
Red Rooster, Harlem pic.twitter.com/iarV9Dp2KC
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 5, 2019
The ride home
Willis Ave Bridge pic.twitter.com/8dcCdFd1QF
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 5, 2019
re: #241 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My mother’s mother, a Depression-era grandmother, kept a can of bacon grease on the stove. Whenever she would cook bacon, the grease went in the can. Whenever she cooked anything else… bacon grease went into it.
My mother did the same thing. When I starting ordering breakfast in restaurants, I was confused by combos that had eggs but no bacon. How do you cook the eggs without bacon grease?
Sorry for quoting the wrong post the first time.
re: #237 Anymouse 🌹
You poor devil, both of them live near you? My condolences.
If you’re that wealthy, you could be saved for later. /s
I’ll be poor again by the time they run out of sacrifices in DFW-land.
re: #251 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
My mother did the same thing. When I starting ordering breakfast in restaurants, I was confused by combos that had eggs but no bacon. How do you cook the eggs without bacon grease?
Sorry for quoting the wrong post the first time.
It’s funny, but now that I think about it, my mom’s mom always did have a flavor to her homemade fried stuff that I never could find anywhere else. Bacon grease would go a long way toward explaining that. By the time I was a child/teenager, nobody used bacon grease anymore in a commercial kitchen.
re: #230 Belafon
Tell me how that guy who put his money into Wall Street actually earned it. Did he work? Did he save a life, write some code, pick up garbage, or flip a burger? Nope. He didn’t actually contribute anything of value.
Tell me how the guy whose income is mostly dividends from stock he inherited actually earned it. Did he have invent something useful, write a best-seller, direct his staff to build and sell something he designed?
Noen of the living Waltons or Kochs or Fords or Rockefellers ever “earned” anything. They’re coasting on dad’s or grandpa’s work, long after dad and grandpa have turned to mulch.
Rain now just starting in Koreatown. Looking at the Weather Channel radar and see a big orange and yellow blob on the way as well.
Beats being in Chicago during the blizzards on 78/79 when I couldn’t get out of the apartment building and the streets weren’t plowed…
re: #191 Teddy’s Person
David Simon takes no fucking prisoners.
I’ve written somewhere beyond 2 million words — some of which were of the four-letter variety — in my career as a journalist and author.
By far, though, the two most obscene have been these: “working poor.”— Wordslinger (@EricPoole0704) January 6, 2019
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
Rain now just starting in Koreatown. Looking at the Weather Channel radar and see a big orange and yellow blob on the way as well.
Beats being in Chicago during the blizzards on 78/79 when I couldn’t get out of the apartment building and the streets weren’t plowed…
Minnesota still tells stories of the blizzard of 1978.
barf
AP-NORC POLL: “Immigration among the top concerns in 2019.” People want to stop drugs and criminals at the Border. Want Border Security! Tell the Dems to do the inevitable now, rather than later. The wait is costly and dangerous!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
Will be going to Camp David tomorrow morning for meetings on Border Security and many other topics with @WhiteHouse senior staff.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
re: #253 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
For a change of pace, our new maltipoo puppy. His name is Oliver and he is about 10 weeks old!
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SQUEEEE!!!
Things that are coming:
—Subpoenas
—Indictments
—Your impeachment
—The end of your lifelong crime spree
—Your exposure as an agent of Russia
—The fall of the Republican Party
—The removal from office of EVERY SINGLE ONE of your enablers
Things that are not coming:
—The wall https://t.co/ocWjpg4ezb— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) January 6, 2019
I went by the TV to let the dogs outside and saw the Cowboys scored a touchdown right before the half. Went to tell my wife and she showed me a story about one of their players breaking his ankle. It was so bad that the still image they used in the story of him had the whole foot and ankle area blocked out. Probably pointing in a direction that will make you sick. As someone who just broke his fibula rolling his ankle and nearly passing out trying to make it to the house earlier this year, all I can say is OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!
re: #235 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Not to mention that you can dodge the 70% rate entirely by investing in something, anything, that will actually create jobs.
Or create a foundation that will eliminate polio and malaria. Or build and stock a few thousand libraries. Or sponsor a food bank, or subsidize an under-funded high school.
re: #89 I Would Prefer Not To
This makes no fucking sense. Every restaurant in town has the same wage, some prosper others don’t. The free market how does it work?
the chik fil a here in Clemson starts workers at 12 bucks an hour, which is basically middle-class money for our standard of living. They have four hours every day where they have to have two employees out in the drive thru taking orders because the store is so busy. Somehow, paying far above minimum wage has not driven the poor franchisee out of business.
re: #263 Belafon
I went by the TV to let the dogs outside and saw the Cowboys scored a touchdown right before the half. Went to tell my wife and she showed me a story about one of their players breaking his ankle. It was so bad that the still image they used in the story of him had the whole foot and ankle area blocked out. Probably pointing in a direction that will make you sick. As someone who just broke his fibula rolling his ankle and nearly passing out trying to make it to the house earlier this year, all I can say is OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!
Joe Theismann’s leg break pics still make me want to hurl…
JUST IN: Pentagon Chief of Staff has resigned. “After two years in the Pentagon, I’ve decided the time is right to return to the private sector. It has been an honor to serve again alongside the men and women of the Department of Defense,” said Rear Adm Kevin Sweeney, USN (Ret.)
— HansNichols (@HansNichols) January 5, 2019
This is possibly related to Trump wanting to use the military to ‘eminent domain’ people’s property, and cause an immediate constitutional crisis.
re: #266 TedStriker
This one is pretty bad. Thing snaps like a twig.
Update as of a few minutes ago: the officer has been fired. But Reeses lives! 🐶 pic.twitter.com/7uDGuTbd6V
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 6, 2019
re: #243 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember 45 years ago as an undergrad at Pitt debating with a member of the Young Libertarian Alliance about taxation. Yes, that ass did repeat the “taxation is theft” mantra over and over again.
I had to remind that ass that if his tuition wasn’t subsidized by the Commonwealth he wouldn’t be able to attend college. Also he’d have a major problem trying to get to Pittsburgh from Paoli without any roads.
Then he replied that people can make “voluntary contributions” for services.
I replied that since he believed in Ayn Rand and he wanted her gospel to be the American playbook those “voluntary contributions” would wind up in a till with nobody overseeing it making it real easy to steal those gold coins.
His reply, “God will intervene to make sure that nobody would pinch the coins”.
I then said, “Just like God will intervene to make sure nobody dies from contaminated food and water”.
His reply, “God will always protect his flock.”
BTW, he eventually wound up on Medicaid and SSI, just like his God Ayn Rand did…
If you want to see a real big huge pile of Derp, Google image “Muh Roads”
re: #239 wrenchwench
Sales taxes are the least efficient tax to collect, if you count the labor of the retailer, which goes completely uncompensated in most states. Good job.
All the retailers in my town thanked me. if that means anything. I opposed it on the grounds that flat taxes hurt the people with the least money and the rate we could legally charge really wouldn’t do much to raise funds anyway. (When I was on the board, I was the person with the lowest income.)
It was proposed by one of our Republican board members with the idea of taxing those who pass through town and stop at the general store, or seasonal hunters who come here and buy guns and ammunition at the gun shop. (The knock off effect would have imposed a sales tax on the beauty shop, co-op, lawn service, and art teacher/supply shop).
I managed to bottle up the ordinance for three months, and when it came up for a vote, it went down in defeat 1-4.
re: #265 steve_davis
the chik fil a here in Clemson starts workers at 12 bucks an hour, which is basically middle-class money for our standard of living. They have four hours every day where they have to have two employees out in the drive thru taking orders because the store is so busy. Somehow, paying far above minimum wage has not driven the poor franchisee out of business.
TBH though, I’ve never seen a Chick-Fil-A that hasn’t done steady business even during off-peak times.
re: #272 TedStriker
TBH though, I’ve never seen a Chick-Fil-A that hasn’t done steady business even during off-peak times.
Love them or hate them, their food is at least decent. I wouldn’t say it’s outstanding, but I do pick up food there regularly for myself and the fish family.
re: #253 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
For a change of pace, our new maltipoo puppy. His name is Oliver and he is about 10 weeks old!
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re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
“…while it appears no policies were violated…”
Maybe they need a policy to tell armed K-9 handlers that they don’t need a German shepherd and a gun to deal with a chihuahua barking because they’re standing next to his territory.
re: #127 The Vicious Babushka
I started listening to that video that is on top of the page. I could not get past 2 minutes. I hate that whining, nasal voice repeating lies and bullshit over and over and over.
I had to bail. too. Once he started going on about how steel is stronger than concrete (Twin Towers, hello?) and how the wall/fence/curtain would be built by US Steel and how he knows so much about construction (LOL!), I quit. He was mansplaining basic construction to a reporter who asked about his campaign promise, and evading the question entirely with a Gish gallop.
re: #234 goddamnedfrank
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Even fucking Bill Kristol can see how bizarre the bias is.
As a non-Democrat, I’m struck by how much the media seem obsessed by possible rifts among Democrats, narrow lines they’ll have to walk, stray utterances of their backbenchers, etc, than by the rather more massive fact that we have a president and administration in total meltdown.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 5, 2019
TV pundits on Ocasio-Cortez: https://t.co/Z12plP1Kaj pic.twitter.com/b5v5eCl2gY
— The Nib (@thenib) January 6, 2019
Merci beaucoup à toute l’équipe d’@infomantv pour ce nouveau chandail. pic.twitter.com/Mx8VVQvs6t
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) January 1, 2019
re: #278 The Vicious Babushka
A Trump-supporting protester was arrested outside an Elizabeth Warren event after allegedly hitting an attendee with a selfie stick. https://t.co/7Sm7IkuONG
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 6, 2019
Why Are Both Sides So Divisive? https://t.co/rnysP98AVx
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 6, 2019
re: #271 Anymouse 🌹
I opposed it on the grounds that flat taxes hurt the people with the least money
The regressivity of a sales tax is the most important reason for opposition. There are several other reasons, which need not be ranked here: Sales taxes suck.
re: #243 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yup. My poor ex-Libertarian wife; I’ve corrupted her.
Well, to avoid people grifting from your local voluntary pool which submits donations for things like the fire brigade or policing to protect your property rights, you could select people who would oversee these things in your town. You might also select or hire an auditor and require those handling the gold coins or community property like fire trucks or police equipment to keep books and records.
Because it’s difficult to find people who would be willing to give up time for free to do all that stuff, and local businesses would be competing for the same people, you could pay them at competitive rates for the work they do.
Since there are those who would simply mooch off the system and not pay anything, you could impose other penalties (ostracise them, deny them those services, &c).
Congratulations, libertarians, you just reinvented government.
re: #267 Danack
Can we all please learn how the Pentagon works?
(There is no Chief of Staff. There is the Secretary’s chief of staff, who typically transitions with a new secretary.) https://t.co/ed4fFIW6MA— EM Simpson (@charlie_simpson) January 6, 2019
— GloriaTeacher (@Gloria4Educ) January 6, 2019
Ross Douthat, of all people, skewers the GOP agenda.
There are plenty of reasonable critiques of the @TuckerCarlson manifesto but none of them add up to a defense of the rusted upper-bracket-tax-cuts-forever junk that passes for an establishment-GOP agenda.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 5, 2019
re: #274 wrenchwench
Maltese Falcon/poodle?
Yes! Exactly. However, because he’s mixed with a poodle, he has lost his flying capabilities. He can run like the wind, though.
The Pentagon Chief Of Staff is the assistant to the Marshall of the Supreme Court, I take no pleasure in reporting this
— Paul Musgrave (@profmusgrave) January 6, 2019
Slavery is when your owner takes 100% of your production.
Democrat congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez wants 70% (according to CNN)
What is the word for 70% expropriation?— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) January 5, 2019
If you make $11 million in a year, and the government takes $700,000, then you’re the majority of the way toward slavery?
We’d call this stupid if you didn’t get this, but you do, so a better definition is manipulative, morally bankrupt con artistry.
Norquist is cancelled. https://t.co/a2av73mOIv— Indivisible Houston (@indivisibleHOU) January 6, 2019
re: #288 jaunte
Ratiowise, it would appear you’re 90% owned at the moment
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 6, 2019
Einstein was a socialist, Einstein.
— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) January 6, 2019
Manchin apologizes to “all Americans, any sitting Congress person” for Tlaib’s profane call for Trump’s impeachment https://t.co/lFlgrh5332 pic.twitter.com/5B2AYG1yVE
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2019
Did alleged @SenateDems @Sen_JoeManchin ever apologize for his daughter jacking up the price of EpiPens, pocketing tens of millions of dollars, and moving her company out of the U.S. to evade paying taxes? https://t.co/qwwuLgkMA4
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) January 6, 2019
re: #290 jaunte
And where does this man have the right to apologize for her? Did she ask him?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 6, 2019
re: #253 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
For a change of pace, our new maltipoo puppy. His name is Oliver and he is about 10 weeks old!
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re: #292 I Would Prefer Not To
good choice. He will bring joy into your house.
He’s really adorable. He has moments when he’s incredibly active and chewing and it has to get out of his system, then he calms down and likes to be cuddled or he’ll sleep. My eldest is having a hard time getting used to the very active side of him. I got a book on the breed that goes through all the stages, what to expect, and how to train them. She is overwhelmed when he’s like that, but I just keep encouraging her that she can handle it. LOL.
Created with the LGF Meme Machine https://t.co/yGqhznAIAs pic.twitter.com/NwnoRnQnLO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #253 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
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re: #215 jaunte
Spoiler: Hewitt has no “lefty pals.”
Maybe he could may some at a hipster coffee shop.
re: #291 Belafon
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Would you name the Republican Congressman or Senator who apologized for Profane Cheney when he told Leahy to go CENSORED himself?
Gosh, I don’t think any of them did!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 6, 2019
Fuck himself. Cheney told Lehey to go fuck himself.
Say out loud and proud. Dick Cheney did.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 6, 2019
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #259 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Minnesota still tells stories of the blizzard of 1978.
Across Lake Michigan, it was the ice storm of the century. My whole town was without power for over three weeks. School was closed, roads were impassible, &c.
The National Guard brought in a water tanker truck to provide water, but the water was this brown ick that almost no one could drink. On the edge of town, a farmer allowed people to use his windmill to get water.
That was not a fun winter.
Watched the video. The president* is a fucking moron. Ugh.
Yes.
Senate Democrats should block consideration of any bills unrelated to opening the government until Sen. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans allow a vote on the bipartisan bills the House passed to open the government. Mitch, don’t delay. Let’s vote!
— Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) January 5, 2019
Interesting suggestion: https://t.co/j6twKSBWgm
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 6, 2019
re: #298 MsJ
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #230 Belafon
I think I keep coming up with something new every time I see this tweet from Steve (and he’s definitely a Trump Steve):
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #289 Belafon
What the heck is Grover Norquist even trying to say there? “The thousand socialists who rebutted Einstein’s theories?” I’m pretty sure the people who went after Einstein’s theories were physicists and mathematicians, not socialists. I’m pretty sure Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity had to do with physics, not politics.
TL:DR, Norquist is an idiot.
[whimper, how did douchecanoes like him graduate from college and I never got to go at all]
I am trying to explain how the First Amendment works vis a vis Twitter and YouTube with right wingers, and not sure they get it.
Maybe the reason so many on the right are losing their accounts is that they more often violate the TOS of a particular platform than others do, not because the Left is targeting them.
They all want consequence-free free speech.
re: #300 Anymouse 🌹
Across Lake Michigan, it was the ice storm of the century. My whole town was without power for over three weeks. School was closed, roads were impassible, &c.
The National Guard brought in a water tanker truck to provide water, but the water was this brown ick that almost no one could drink. On the edge of town, a farmer allowed people to use his windmill to get water.
That was not a fun winter.
Myself, I was a victim of the March 1998 snow and ice storm that knocked out power to the Northwest Indiana counties for nearly a week. We spent our nights on our enclosed porch with an independent gas stove, and my dad ran the generator to keep the pipes unfrozen and added an increasing load as we gained confidence in its ability to keep up. 3 days in, I had to run our 24” snowblower through a snow drift nearly 3.5’ tall to knock it down far enough for my dad to punch the truck through to go into town and get supplies. It was a crazy time.
re: #308 Anymouse 🌹
What the heck is Grover Norquist even trying to say there? “The thousand socialists who rebutted Einstein’s theories?” I’m pretty sure the people who went after Einstein’s theories were physicists and mathematicians, not socialists. I’m pretty sure Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity had to do with physics, not politics.
TL:DR, Norquist is an idiot.
[whimper, how did douchecanoes like him graduate from college and I never got to go at all]
It wasn’t socialists. It was the National Socialists in the Reich who classified Einstein’s theories as “Jewish science,” and therefore unworthy of consideration.
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #253 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
For a change of pace, our new maltipoo puppy. His name is Oliver and he is about 10 weeks old!
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Congratulations!! He’s adorable!!
How is the daughter? She loving him?
re: #303 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have been curtly informed by Twitter that if I use any one of the Seven Naughty Words that you cannot say on television I will be permanently banned.
President Trump on Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s call to ‘impeach that motherf*****’: “I thought her comments were disgraceful…I think she dishonored herself, and I think she dishonored her family.” pic.twitter.com/HxzZr2cF1i
— Axios (@axios) January 4, 2019
So the guy who had sex with an adult film actress while his wife was taking care of their newborn thinks the lady who cursed once “dishonored her family.” https://t.co/7qffxrJK6R
— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) January 4, 2019
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #310 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Myself, I was a victim of the March 1998 snow and ice storm that knocked out power to the Northwest Indiana counties for nearly a week. We spent our nights on our enclosed porch with an independent gas stove, and my dad ran the generator to keep the pipes unfrozen and added an increasing load as we gained confidence in its ability to keep up. 3 days in, I had to run our 24” snowblower through a snow drift nearly 3.5’ tall to knock it down far enough for my dad to punch the truck through to go into town and get supplies. It was a crazy time.
Wow. In ‘98 I was safely homeless in Ocala. That’s a lot of snow.
During the ice storm when I was a teenager, we just did without electricity. We had a gas range in the kitchen, so we blocked off the rest of the downstairs and lived in the kitchen and dining room. (Still had to sleep in my bedroom upstairs with no heat though.)
Please enjoy 11 minutes of disco Here Comes the Night by The Beach Boys. This is the best Shamelessly Awful Disco Song by a Rock Band—worse than Shakedown Street, worse than I Was Made for Loving You, etc. https://t.co/aYubGggMxu
— Ben Towle (@ben_towle) January 6, 2019
Not sure it’s been talked about, but on Trump’s claim that he can declare a national emergency to build the wall, legally speaking, he’s likely completely fucking full of shit.
This is basically the Youngstown Steel case. During the Korean War, there was a steelworker strike. This let to a shortage of steel. So Truman tried to nationalize the steel industry. The Supreme Court said that he couldn’t. The most famous bit of the case is from the concurring opinion which said there are three types of executive action: those which are expressly in line with congressional action (laws passed saying the executive can do something); a “twilight” area where Congress has not expressed an opinion on an issue; and a third where the president would be acting in direct conflict with the laws passed by Congress. It’s fairly clear that Congress, through repeated appropriation bills has made clear that there’s no support for the law. If he does attempt to exercise emergency powers, that’s an impeachable offense and should be treated as such
re: #308 Anymouse 🌹
What the heck is Grover Norquist even trying to say there? “The thousand socialists who rebutted Einstein’s theories?” I’m pretty sure the people who went after Einstein’s theories were physicists and mathematicians, not socialists. I’m pretty sure Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity had to do with physics, not politics.
TL:DR, Norquist is an idiot.
[whimper, how did douchecanoes like him graduate from college and I never got to go at all]
People like Johannes Stark and Philipp Lenard who created “German Physics” to counter Einstein et. al.’s “Jewish Physics” and labeled Werner Heisenberg a “White Jew” for contributing to Quantum Mechanics, putting him in danger of arrest, were uniformly not Socialists.
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
Trump is going to be pissed!! Lol
BACKFIRE: Pelosi’s popularity surges in polls and she now tops Trump for first time during his presidencyhttps://t.co/ESpXwwdjQy
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 6, 2019
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— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 6, 2019
re: #311 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It wasn’t socialists. It was the National Socialists in the Reich who classified Einstein’s theories as “Jewish science,” and therefore unworthy of consideration.
Oh, I get it now. Norquist is trying the old standby of Nazis were really socialists bit.
— New Year’s Frank (@goddamnedfrank) January 6, 2019
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #318 gocart mozart
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— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 6, 2019
re: #319 KGxvi
Not sure it’s been talked about, but on Trump’s claim that he can declare a national emergency to build the wall, legally speaking, he’s likely completely fucking full of shit.
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If he does attempt to exercise emergency powers, that’s an impeachable offense and should be treated as such
Now convince conservatives to have that trial in the Senate.
In the meantime, impeachment takes a long time. In that time Trump could do a lot of damage if he went through with this. Then there’s that pesky article in the Constitution that allows him to adjourn Congress and set a new time to open it if they don’t agree (Article 2, Section 3, Clause 3). If he chooses the time “never,” that still meets the qualification.
re: #65 dangerman (not steve)
I had meaning to check that site ever since you posted it, and finally remembered to check it today. Turns out KY has some unclaimed property for me and my ex worth over $100. So I got that going for me.
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
“Not your turn yet!” pic.twitter.com/TKcChUWkEW
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) January 6, 2019
re: #324 Charles Johnson
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re: #332 Anymouse 🌹
The court of public opinion — or actual criminal charges — is going to be more effective than impeachment in ridding us of Trump. He thrives on public adulation. He’s getting less of that now. Sooner or later, man baby is going to take his ball and go home.
re: #92 Teukka
Yellow West shenanigans in Paris…
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The same yellow wests the reich wingers thinks are fine upstanding citizens…
Also, Vienna Convention anyone?Edit, Swedish Newspaper on the incident, with video: aftonbladet.se
Ha! As I understand it, as they passed by the Swedish Embassy, vandals from the anti-government were throwing trash and set a pile of it in the middle of the street on fire. (Impressive fire, too!)
So the Swedish Ambassador Veronika Wand-Danielsson went out into the street, confronted the vandals, and yelled at them to stop it.
She said that she did not feel threatened; Some passerby started to help clean up the mess; And the police finally showed up. The biggest concern was that the embassy (and the Tunisian Embassy nearby) did not have any host country police nearby for a time.
re: #259 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
-81 degrees in Chicago. Not to mention about 12’ of snow. It was a bad winter.
re: #340 MsJ
-81 degrees in Chicago. Not to mention about 12’ of snow. It was a bad winter.
Pictures of cars buried completely on Lake Shore Drive. I wasn’t alive then, but I saw the images.
Trump said he preferred the word “‘strike” over “shutdown” in profanity-laced meeting with lawmakers: reports https://t.co/iqtFgcWF5O pic.twitter.com/PdBPex0s4C
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2019
This ratio is now visible from space. pic.twitter.com/RdN91EhGyY
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 6, 2019
Just getting back to reading from this morning. Been busy on a web site.
Anyway, that video on the thread topic is 100% pure bullshit.
I think there are tweets and videos that refute just about everything he said about his stupid wall. And everything else that leaked out of his trap.
I think he made a quite a few people very scared and angry with that crap. All the people that he is threatening to take their property. And he claims it can be done by the military and DHS. Whut?
I’m thinking his “good friend” Tim Cook will be wanting to choke him for the stuff he was saying about their earnings, tariffs, stock and where they should build their products.
Steel is better than concrete now. What happened to all that beautiful precast concrete he talked about during his campaign and at some of his loony rallies? Steel is in such great shape now. I guess that is why all the people that use it are seeing the prices for their products going up. And it is killing their businesses.
Now he is not worried about the stock market because he has a wall to build. Couldn’t stop talking about it until it started to go down.
And the government workers safety shield…pffft. They understand and they all want that wall. Fuck buying food, paying bills and saving.
And lastly…can we see an accounting of the billions of dollars that are coming in from both the new Mexico/Canada trade deals and also from all those tariffs?
What a fucking moRan!
Oh yeah…Kevin McCarthy sucks. Just stands there listening to that crap and nodding a bit from time to time. But who knows, McCarthy might not know how much of it is bullshit. He’s just as stupid as Trump.
Sorry for the long post. I needed to do it to wrap my mind around this insanity.
re: #329 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hot Stuff is the only Rolling Stones sing I like.
Don’t @ me. I’ve never been a fan.
Sometimes I forget that not everybody memorized the first six Firesign Theatre albums.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2019
re: #332 Anymouse 🌹
I suspect there will be multiple lawsuits to stop his actions. Just as there was in the Youngstown Steel case. That will slow him down. And as has been discussed above, McConnell hasn’t been too keen on adjorning the Senate, and I doubt he would go along with any attempt by Trump to trigger his adjournment power. As for the potential of no trial, I don’t think McConnell and team would be on board with that kind of political suicide
re: #342 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember the first time this came on the radio, Mom laughed all the way through it saying it was the stupidest disco song of all time.
I’m kind of partial to “Disco Duck” for that prize myself.
re: #348 KGxvi
It depends on how hard Putin pulls their chains!
re: #349 Anymouse 🌹
I remember the time Rick Dees went on Wally George’s Hot Seat. Now this was a hoot!
Start at the 29 minute mark.
Wally George was the forunner of Morton Downey, Jr and Rush Limbaugh
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought HBO told him to knock it off with that shit.
re: #356 Ace Rothstein
I thought HBO told him to knock it off with that shit.
I doubt they own lines in Os.
re: #343 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump said he preferred the word “‘strike” over “shutdown” in profanity-laced meeting with lawmakers: reports https://t.co/iqtFgcWF5O pic.twitter.com/PdBPex0s4C
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2019
It’s not a strike you moron.
If you put it in your ignorantass “business” terms (side note, government isn’t a business) it’s a lockout. https://t.co/yg9HdSQc2S— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 6, 2019
re: #356 Ace Rothstein
I thought HBO told him to knock it off with that shit.
You really think that would stop His Ass-Holeyness?
re: #358 MsJ
Yeah, a strike would be if the government workers walked out. It’s the management what walked out on the workers, because the tangerine shitgibbon decided he wanted his penis compensation more than he wanted a functional government.
Dear Neighbours,
We have kidnapped your bird. He’ll be safely returned to you on impeachment day. We believe this is in everyone’s best interest.
With love, Canada#NationalBirdDay #Mueller #ImpeachTheMF pic.twitter.com/4g9HOe0xOc— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 5, 2019
Out fucking standing.
#BREAKING: Arrest has been made in the slaying of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, multiple sources tell KPRC2. https://t.co/SIVPe1a84b pic.twitter.com/q1SsomO7ay
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) January 6, 2019
GREAT NEWS!!! https://t.co/C92Og4GS4C
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) January 6, 2019
re: #197 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Doug: “What’s our topic for tonight, eh?”
Bob: “Impeaching the motherfucker.”
Followup:
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re: #362 MsJ
Out fucking standing.
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All I can feel is heartbreak that a precious little girl died.
re: #365 NO SMOCKING GUN!
All I can feel is heartbreak that a precious little girl died.
For no damn reason other than hate.
One good thing, it’s TX. That fuckers going to die. No tears from me.
re: #351 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Just 346 more updings to 700k!
That gets an upfist from me. Hope it helps.
re: #366 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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She takes no prisoners.
Republicans: Let Americans keep more of their own hard-earned money
Democrats: Take away 70% of your income and give it to leftist fantasy programs https://t.co/NxJPSCqvrt— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) January 5, 2019
You’re the GOP Minority Whip. How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?
Oh that’s right, almost forgot: GOP works for the corporate CEOs showering themselves in multi-million💰bonuses; not the actual working people whose wages + healthcare they’re ripping off for profit. https://t.co/R1YIng2Ok1— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 6, 2019
re: #353 teleskiguy
I want in on this action!
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I got a kick out of the “overly attached girlfriend” videos.
She doesn’t do those any more, but she still does videos and still puts on that “leave me and I’m going to put a kitchen knife in your back” look.
re: #367 MsJ
For no damn reason other than hate.
One good thing, it’s TX. That fuckers going to die. No tears from me.
How can anyone hate a little girl. Its beyond comprehension.
HOLY FUCK! Trump is running Build the Wall commercials— on @CNN! ! With
some Rambo narrating. When in the hell did this start????
It ends with: “I’m Donald Trump and I approved this message.”
I got chills. Seriously. This is coming off the rails, folks.— Shoqqed That You’re Not (@Shoq) January 6, 2019
re: #369 teleskiguy
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I had my first real life sighting of our local Proud Boys (who are actually old white men) wearing they’re yellow jackets right here in my own little town, holding anti-immigrant signs.
Wild.
re: #374 MsJ
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re: #373 jaunte
My Spidey Sense is telling me that His Ass-Holeyness wants out and he’s going to feign a nervous breakdown or feign insanity.
re: #378 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Bombs away! Don’t miss.
I skied that pitch four times that day. I got my uphill ski stuck the first run and I somersaulted on the last run. Fortunately both times, the snow was soft and deep, and I skied away uninjured.
re: #324 Charles Johnson
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So Charlie is perusing the site I see.
Welcome Hatchling! Spliff, Pie, Coffee, and beerz are welcome!
re: #380 teleskiguy
I skied that pitch four times. I got my uphill ski stuck the first run and I somersaulted on the last run. Fortunately both times, the snow was soft and deep, and I skied away uninjured.
I really need to go skiing again. The one time I made a run at Hyland, I ran off-course and wound up sliding under a fence. Uninjured, but I freaked the fuck out.
re: #382 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I really need to go skiing again. The one time I made a run at Hyland, I ran off-course and wound up sliding under a fence. Uninjured, but I freaked the fuck out.
It’s not for everybody. Heights are a big issue, a lot of times your’re pretty high off the ground on chairlifts. And it’s a sport where speed is your friend. Speed as in forward movement *and* reaction time. All that said, it is the funnest funnest funnest thing that I know of. There is no better fun.
re: #313 MsJ
Congratulations!! He’s adorable!!
How is the daughter? She loving him?
She is loving him, but she’s worried that she isn’t as good with him as her sister and I. I keep telling her it’s okay, that she’ll get used to his rambunctiousness and laugh at his antics instead of getting frustrated because she doesn’t know how to handle it. The book I got should help her as well. Her original plan was to try to train him as a therapy dog. I think he’d be really good at it once he is trained properly. We are working to make sure that he doesn’t think he rules the house. No “small dog syndrome” in our house!
re: #383 teleskiguy
It’s not for everybody. Heights are a big issue, a lot of times your’re pretty high off the ground on chairlifts. And it’s a sport where speed is your friend. Speed as in forward movement *and* reaction time. All that said, it is the funnest funnest funnest thing that I know of. There is no better fun.
I managed to deal with the chairlift (at the time, my biggest hangup). I have decent reaction time, if I could just afford to get on the slopes to get some practice and get my confidence up. I would never be a world-class skier, but I would have fun on the slopes if I spent some time there.
re: #385 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I managed to deal with the chairlift (at the time, my biggest hangup). I have decent reaction time, if I could just afford to get on the slopes to get some practice and get my confidence up. I would never be a world-class skier, but I would have fun on the slopes if I spent some time there.
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re: #136 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
I made it to the 2:23 mark and had to shut it down. Would someone, anyone slip him a mickey and transport him to a secure undisclosed location for his own personal protection?
Like this?
re: #371 Anymouse 🌹
I got a kick out of the “overly attached girlfriend” videos.
She doesn’t do those any more, but she still does videos and still puts on that “leave me and I’m going to put a kitchen knife in your back” look.
Thank you! I had not recognized the meme. Now I have another rabbit hole to go down. :)
re: #309 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I am trying to explain how the First Amendment works vis a vis Twitter and YouTube with right wingers, and not sure they get it.
Maybe the reason so many on the right are losing their accounts is that they more often violate the TOS of a particular platform than others do, not because the Left is targeting them.
They all want consequence-free free speech.
Just for themselves.
re: #205 Belafon
Does anyone know if there is a way to assess the total “tax rate” for each state, and what I mean by total is not only income or sales taxes, but property taxes and the fees people pay?
Interesting question. I found this:
2018’s Tax Burden by State
They slice and dice the data a few ways.
Michigan is 26th in overall state tax burden. 8.53%
New York has the highest state tax burden at 13.04%.
Alaska has the lowest. 4.94%
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