Stephen Colbert Weighs in on Trump’s Pathetic Oval Office Speech [VIDEO]
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I guess hunting is now “essential.” They should all call in sick.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb) January 9, 2019
re: #457 wrenchwench
Hunting in a wildlife refuge?!? That doesn’t seem fair.
That happens here, but it’s only kids with bows and arrows (one of my customers, when she was 15, got an elk).
According to FWS, more than 370 wildlife refuges permit hunting, the practice dating back to the early XX Century.
Links to Raw Story:
Trump AG nominee has been friends with Mueller for years.
“I asked Mr. Barr directly, ‘Do you think Bob, Mr. Mueller’s, on a witch hunt?’ He said no. ‘Do you think he would be fair to the president and the country as a whole?’ He said yes,” Graham recalled, according to Bloomberg News.
Graham said that he learned that Mueller and Barr have been friends for decades.
“They’ve been personal friends for over 20 years,” Graham noted, explaining that the two had worked together at the Justice Department. “His opinion of Mr. Mueller is very, very high in terms of ethics and character and professionalism.”
re: #4 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Links to Raw Story:
So, isn’t this a “conflict of interest”, according to president Maga? THEY KNOW EACH OTHER
re: #5 Sir John Barron
So, isn’t this a “conflict of interest”, according to president Maga? THEY KNOW EACH OTHER
Yeah, I don’t think Drumpf knows this tidbit.
Jeff Bezos is getting divorced after realizing that marriage counts as a union.
— River Clegg (@RiverClegg) January 9, 2019
‘We’re going to trust the doctors.’ Lawmakers push for medical marijuana in Kentucky.https://t.co/qWPdw7C8yq pic.twitter.com/thdOx0TAcp
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 9, 2019
Excellent! Now — let’s take a second and remember that gynecologists are doctors too! And a person’s personal health care decisions need only to be discussed with said doctor. And government needs to get out of the convo. https://t.co/amYN6eacmw
— theKYInitiative (@KYinitiative) January 9, 2019
re: #6 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Yeah, I don’t think Drumpf knows this tidbit.
What’s this? But I read his memo about me being able to obstruct justice! I wouldn’t have nominated him if I knew he knew and friended Mueller!
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Took me a couple of secs….
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m afraid I don’t get the joke, and no one on that thread explained it. Apparently I’m too slow.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹
Okay, my wife explained it to me. “Labour union.”
Big Trump contingent set for Davos amid shutdown https://t.co/RFtuMWEq5K
— Eric Demamp (@ericdemamp) January 8, 2019
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen planning to go to Davos during a national emergency crisis at the border —> https://t.co/bV3XTvKeNV
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) January 8, 2019
It’s almost like…there is no crisis. https://t.co/aBhOAbdLUC
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 9, 2019
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow, that’s going to be a big ass settlement.
Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019
“Training has been halted for thousands of western firefighters. The U.S. Forest Service can’t let contracts for needed equipment. In forests across the West, no federal employees are doing work to reduce dry ‘fuel’ that feeds catastrophic blazes.”https://t.co/a8qr490grz
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) January 9, 2019
re: #14 Single-handed sailor
“There’s a crisis, terrible crisis, only national security emergency order will fix, but first to Davos.”
Interesting. Someone has edited the Wikipedia article on US Goverenment shutdowns to make it less aggressive against his Orangeness.
Among other things it now states there were only 2 shutdowns in 2018 instead of 3.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Interesting. Someone has edited the Wikipedia article on US Goverenment shutdowns to make it less aggressive against his Orangeness.
Among other things it now states there were only 2 shutdowns in 2018 instead of 3.
Well, if they mean fiscal years…
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re: #11 Anymouse 🌹
I’m afraid I don’t get the joke, and no one on that thread explained it. Apparently I’m too slow.
Bezos is quite against unions.
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President Trump following Senate Republican Policy Lunch: “The Republicans are totally unified.” pic.twitter.com/eOMvrVfj97
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 9, 2019
.@maziehirono: “This shutdown is not a negotiation situation, this is a hostage situation. The president of the united states has taken 800,000 federal workers, tens of thousands of federal contractors & thousands of small businesses hostage to extort money for his vanity wall.” pic.twitter.com/KWEEfMejoT
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 9, 2019
Bolsonaro is still “officially” Catholic but he attends a Baptist church.
“Prophets” Cindy and Mike Jacobs say Brazil’s new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is an answer to prayer, and urge people to keep praying so he can begin to “establish God’s kingdom” in Brazil https://t.co/zyLA1DVcQf
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 9, 2019
re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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If there is any way California can stop paying Federal taxes - they should do it now. trump is evil - no other word so defines who he is.
The misspellings get his tweets attention
— How to respond to FSB offer of employment? (@plasticpig) January 9, 2019
Stop it with this.
1. He’s not that clever.
2. His staff will likely retweet his comments with corrections any minute now, as usual.
3. He HATES criticism. He’s not going to make deliberate errors and open himself up to more.
4. He’s not that clever. https://t.co/gQ5sZAlcb0— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 9, 2019
re: #22 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Seems this is a good response:
Link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism established by scientists.
WARNING
It’s going to get very dusty where you’re sitting
This is Clyde. He was born with Cerebellar Hypoplasia. There’s no pain associated, he just has to work a little harder to get where he wants to go. 14/10 would wibble wobble with pic.twitter.com/p0MOktp1Or
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 9, 2019
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do yourself a favor and don’t look at the comments on that second tweet.
re: #22 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Bolsonaro is still “officially” Catholic but he attends a Baptist church.
We need to tell evangelicals that Brazil is trying to steal God from them.
re: #22 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Bolsonaro is still “officially” Catholic but he attends a Baptist church.
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Sick of these Pulpit Pimps.
Tax the Churches!!!!!!!!
re: #13 sagehen
If not, he’s going to be writing a check with a whole lot of numbers on it.
Lunch: Chickpea Tacos pic.twitter.com/DsgurZCRtB
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 9, 2019
If you are currently working without pay during the shutdown, or are furloughed and willing to share please comment and let people know what you do. I think it is important for everyone to understand the families and services that are currently impacted. It is VAST.
— Amanda Deibert🏳️🌈 (@amandadeibert) January 6, 2019
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Republicans are totally unified, why didn’t they do wall when they still had control of all three branches?
Things are gonna get interesting after Friday, because after then the whole “It’ll be okay, this will all be over soon” bit no longer becomes tenable. Tens of thousands of federal employees who’ve been working without pay for 3 weeks are gonna flip the fuck out because there’s no end in sight and they can’t keep spending money to keep a job that’s not paying them anything.
And then we all burned a cross https://t.co/QA5TSQpMHR
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) January 9, 2019
re: #33 Flying Squirrel Girl
If Republicans are totally unified, why didn’t they do wall when they still had control of all three branches?
Because, as has been noted earlier, a lot of Republicans don’t want it, especially those on the border states. They know that it will be expensive, unpopular and generally useless.
But it is not about building a wall, it is about the symbolism of The Wall
re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because, as has been noted earlier, a lot of Republicans don’t want it, especially those on the border states. They know that it will be expensive, unpopular and generally useless.
But it is not about building a wall, it is about the symbolism of The Wall
As somebody put it, “You know, any section of a steel barrier wall that wasn’t closely guarded around the clock would quickly be cut up and trucked away to be sold for its scrap metal value.”
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I recognize Conway, Sanders, Miller and the Kushners; who are the other three?
NEW TODAY: Coast Guard families told they can have garage sales to cope with government shutdown.
The suggestion — and others like it — came in a five-page tip sheet published by the service.#ShutdownStories #shutdownsidehustles #CoastGuard https://t.co/CA41MuSLF7— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) January 9, 2019
Here we go…
Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019
table set for emergency declaration https://t.co/K96C7H4kI9
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 9, 2019
WORLD’S GREATEST NEGOTIATOR (LOL)
Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019
World’s Greatest Negotiator pic.twitter.com/9FttS9P4Dg
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 9, 2019
re: #33 Flying Squirrel Girl
If Republicans are totally unified, why didn’t they do wall when they still had control of all three branches?
The argument I’ve seen is that was pointless, as they didn’t have enough votes to override a filibuster in the Senate: in other words, an excuse.
The real answer is conservatives cannot govern. Not today, not last month, not ever.
re: #38 gwangung
The Border Patrol had issues with a concrete wall, because it made it impossible to see actions on the other side, which is why wall became a fence. Any wall would require constant patrols and manpower, which is a cost that Trump ignores when he claims that it’ll pay for itself (it wont, just like the tax cuts didn’t pay for themselves).
re: #33 Flying Squirrel Girl
If Republicans are totally unified, why didn’t they do wall when they still had control of all three branches?
Because it was Trump’s hill to die on, not theirs. They went along with the whole “BUILD THE WALL!” malarkey because it won them the presidency. But they had bigger fish to fry, whether it was launching an ultimately fruitless attempt to repeal the ACA or passing a massive tax giveaway. They always had something more important to get through the Senate than getting wall funding, because they knew that the time and political capital spent trying to get that funding would be a total waste in the end.
Now? Now the bill has come due and they have no fucking clue how to get out of it. They’d hoped that the base would be happy with $1.6B and assurances that the wall was being built, but Fox News called them on it and Donny freaked out before the bill could be signed. So they’ve got no Plan B, no exit strategy, just a shutdown they didn’t want over a wall they never wanted to fight over.
re: #39 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I recognize Conway, Sanders, Miller and the Kushners; who are the other three?
Bill Shine and Dan Scavino. I don’t know who the woman is at far right.
Chuck Schumer describes a meeting he just had with President Trump: “Unfortunately, the president just got up and walked out. He asked Speaker Pelosi, ‘Will you agree to my wall?’ She said no. And he just got up and said, ‘Then we have nothing to discuss,’ and he just walked out” pic.twitter.com/vFigwieLYL
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 9, 2019
re: #48 Charles Johnson
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Was Schumer’s orange tie a factor?
We can only speculate.
re: #42 The Vicious Babushka
Any negotiator with even moderate skill could find a compromise position here.
But that requires giving something up to get something.
We’ve seen various kinds of deals proposed - DACA for a few billion dollars for the wall. Heck, you could propose $1 billion for border security initiatives in exchange for VAWA, DACA, and VRA updated. He can call that $1 billion whatever he wants (not like he isn’t already lying about everything else), but we get actual advancements on women’s rights, voting rights, and immigration issues despite Trump’s insolence and tantrums. And once we see that the money isn’t being spent, reappropriate it back to social programs and to help clear the immigration backlog (where the money really should be going - not to some private prison complex).
Thing is that Trump is so egotistical and reactionary that any deal could be undone at a moment’s notice by the Fox crowd shouting in his ear. That’s how we got this shutdown too - because Trump heard that he was getting whacked by Pelosi and Schumer and got nothing in return.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump doesn’t understand financial insecurity that federal workers face during the shutdown: “He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can’t” pic.twitter.com/PwcUykCXrp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 9, 2019
re: #48 Charles Johnson
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Is anybody surprised that Trump can’t seem to hear a woman repeatedly telling him no?
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 9, 2019
LOLWUT?
16,000 Hispanic CHILDREN & 18,000 Hispanic WOMEN have been victims of human trafficking at the US-Mexico border.
WHY is the DNC refusing to work with the administration to fix this?
This is not a political issue!
Stop letting your hate for the president affect innocent lives.— Anna Paulina (@realannapaulina) November 23, 2018
Yes we need a wall. We need to also make this argument in the same breath when we talk about the need for securing our border.
No one can argue that it’s okay to have over 30,000 Hispanic women & children become victims of sex trafficking
Thank you @realannapaulina for sharing https://t.co/2X0ymS3dqS— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) November 24, 2018
Let’s build a wall around the atheists and make the protestants pay for it. https://t.co/EFNkuVHZY4
— Fr. Phlox, GG (@FrPhlox) November 24, 2018
ICE isn’t even the agency that patrols the border. https://t.co/6vX7P8VDhG
— Roque Planas (@RoqPlanas) January 9, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump doesn’t understand financial insecurity that federal workers face during the shutdown: “He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can’t” pic.twitter.com/PwcUykCXrp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 9, 2019
sick burn o’ the day https://t.co/cJcIIJmYVK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 9, 2019
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹
LOLWUT?
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The sheer amount of utopian thinking around the wall, literally treating it as some cure-all for all crime, is just….wow.
What exactly about the wall would fix human trafficking, even specifically that on the southern border? They seem to literally believe that there’s just masses of people streaming across every mile of the border like it’s the world’s longest finish line and they’re on the final 5 meters of a 100m dash.
re: #46 Joe Bacon 🌹
Trump wants furloughed employees to quit.
I imagine Libertarians do too. They’ve been after the FDA forever, claiming it should be shut down because it interferes with the “free market.” Get poisoned by a bad drug or food, then you sue. Of course, you can’t do that if your dead.
re: #54 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
….I’m packed
and on the road
Yay!
I’m glad you remembered to pack.
“The president wants to solve this problem,” says the scum-sucking leech now talking. Which is why Donny got up and left the meeting the moment he was told he’d get no guaranteed money in 30 days.
McCarthy says Schumer mischaracterized meeting.
“When we entered the room, the president, again, calling all of the leaders together to solve this problem—he even brought a little candy for everybody.” pic.twitter.com/YDD7K7AOzO— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) January 9, 2019
TRUMP BROUGHT CANDY https://t.co/WB3HWDU0Sp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 9, 2019
gaaaaaah
REPORTER: But these people are going w/o paychecks. They can’t wait for a comprehensive immigration bill.
TRUMP: “If you take a look at social media, so many of those people are
saying ‘it’s very hard for me & my family, but POTUS, you’re doing the right thing. Get it done.’” pic.twitter.com/RhuQivsdHN— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 9, 2019
Schumer hadn’t exactly covered himself in glory towards the end of the last legislative session, but I feel like he’s doing a good job in these negotiations and the post-“negotiation” pressers. Maybe Pelosi lent him a spine?
“he even brought a little candy for everybody.”
…he then told everyone to get in the fucking van https://t.co/Q1yx8LlKwh— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 9, 2019
re: #63 Charles Johnson
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Dr. Bernice Sandler, ‘Godmother Of Title IX,’ Dies At 90
RIP.
Mr. w is taking a nap on the couch, heard the above announced while he’s half asleep, and called me out there to tell me, ‘Bernie Sanders died! Was he 90?!?’
Negotiations in “good faith” or at least trying to maintain the illusion of such would involve lowering the demands, not raising them while screaming the other side won’t put a counter-offer on the table.
And puppies! Straight out of a windowless van.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 9, 2019
I have solved the problem of the tortilla falling apart while I eat it. If I fry the tortillas for about 1 minute in a drop of olive oil they hold together much better.
The other issue with this BS about the GOP negotiating in “good faith” is they’re not saying “We’re open to negotiating the figure,” they’re digging in by claiming that’s the figure “necessary” for border security. When you say (in effect) “Our demands are non-negotiable,” then the only thing you’re signaling an interest in negotiating is the terms of the other party’s surrender.
re: #62 The Vicious Babushka
Bogus! The avocado is not mentioned, not even as a ‘serving suggestion’.
Another formulation of negotiating to a solution:
The House should stand up and pass a bill authorizing wall construction — using money sent by the Mexican government, and earmarked for the purpose. There’s your compromise.
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) January 9, 2019
Specifically, have the authorization caveated so that no construction can begin until the Treasury has been able to pinpoint and specifically collect $5 billion worth of extra tax revenue derived from trade with Mexico. https://t.co/vXRDHBYzHB
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 9, 2019
re: #58 Citizen K
The sheer amount of utopian thinking around the wall, literally treating it as some cure-all for all crime, is just….wow.
What exactly about the wall would fix human trafficking, even specifically that on the southern border? They seem to literally believe that there’s just masses of people streaming across every mile of the border like it’s the world’s longest finish line and they’re on the final 5 meters of a 100m dash.
Then there’s all the Christian love (there are literally thousands of tweets from conservative Christians blaming lack of WALL on atheists, or calling migrants atheists, or whatnot):
This proves how these atheist disease-carrying migrants infect TSA workers to call in sick; but Donald says if we build the wall, the migrants would be too busy climbing over the wall to have time to spread disease at airports.
— The Mad Guesser (@MadGuesser) January 9, 2019
Gotta think Trump is trying to work himself up to that national emergency he so clearly wants to declare. Will he have the cojones?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 9, 2019
re: #75 wrenchwench
Bogus! The avocado is not mentioned, not even as a ‘serving suggestion’.
Nevermind. I just rtwt.
Commie NYC Mayor @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio announced free healthcare for all to open the new year. De Blasio just made New York City the Number 1 destination for sick foreigners and pregnant women. …
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) January 9, 2019
SMOTI thinks that improved health care access for residents of NYC is a bad thing.
NYC is already a destination because of our world class health care providers. He’s making it so people don’t get a medically induced bankruptcy because they need medical care. https://t.co/T415UPVzLx— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 9, 2019
If our national “mainstream” media were doing its goddamn job, they’d be searching out actual Federal employees working without pay, and ask them if they agree with the Idiot-in-Chief’s opinion that they are all doing it/enduring it happily in order to ensure funding for The Wall.
But that probably wouldn’t be accepted, as it would violate the seemingly sacred journalistic principle of Bothsiderism.
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Gotta think Trump is trying to work himself up to that national emergency he so clearly wants to declare. Will he have the cojones?
Seeing as how his Big Speech tanked and Pelosi and Schumer bested him in the ratings, I’d say he’s probably almost pissy enough to go ahead and do it.
Pelosi’s crack about asking Dad for more money might just send him over the edge.
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Who’d talk him out of doing so?
I can imagine Miller in the lower levels of the West Wing wringing his hands in glee at the prospect of using those emergency powers to go after those nonwhites all around the country. Same as Trump.
It’d be an excuse to try and cram as much anti-American crap into as short a window as possible before the courts stay any of his actions (as if he’ll listen to what the courts say).
re: #86 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Why not “ComSymp?” How old is this guy?
Not as old as those tired trite Red-baiting slurs the SMOTI likes to trot out…
re: #82 Jay C
If our national “mainstream” media were doing its goddamn job, they’d be searching out actual Federal employees working without pay, and ask them if they agree with the Idiot-in-Chief’s opinion that they are all doing it/enduring it happily in order to ensure funding for The Wall.
But that probably wouldn’t be accepted, as it would violate the seemingly sacred journalistic principle of Bothsiderism.
If they were doing their job, they’d be asking McConnell why he won’t bring up funding for a vote and have Congress do its job. And if he says “because the president won’t sign it” then ask him why he won’t let Congress override that veto.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹
I’m afraid I don’t get the joke, and no one on that thread explained it. Apparently I’m too slow.
He’s anti-union. Therefore he can’t be part of a union.
re: #85 Jay C
You expected something different? Like a principled discussion of the costs of doing so?
Thing is that when you start doing a prinicpled analysis, you’d also have to point out that NYC delivers more money to the federal government than it gets back, and if you equalized the value back and forth, the NYC tax burden would drop significantly - freeing up even more money to do things like infrastructure and health coverage but places like Missouri would lose since they’re one of the bigger net takers.
re: #79 Charles Johnson
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Let him. He’s fucked if he does. Not being able to negotiate a deal doesn’t make something a national emergency. Well, not to anyone other than my almost 5 year old and President Man Baby.
Even my right-leaning regional newspaper is putting the word “crisis” (referring to the border) in scare quotes.
Dems say Trump walked out of shutdown meeting (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, updated about five minutes ago)
re: #87 Jay C
Not as old as those tired trite Red-baiting slurs the SMOTI likes to trot out…
Yeah, that was my point. He keeps using this Frank Burns Korean War terminology. Didn’t he say “ChiCom” a while back?
re: #82 Jay C
If our national “mainstream” media were doing its goddamn job, they’d be searching out actual Federal employees working without pay, and ask them if they agree with the Idiot-in-Chief’s opinion that they are all doing it/enduring it happily in order to ensure funding for The Wall.
But that probably wouldn’t be accepted, as it would violate the seemingly sacred journalistic principle of Bothsiderism.
Really. How many trump supporting yokel stories did we get? From every corner of the country, how hard it is for them to date, etc, etc, etc.
But working Americans dedicating themselves to public service… Fuck them.
The next stories will be trump supporters who are public service employees who still support him, a la the father stories we saw. Because that’s apparently the only qualifier that matters.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
Even my right-leaning regional newspaper is putting the word “crisis” (referring to the border) in scare quotes.
Dems say Trump walked out of shutdown meeting (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, updated about five minutes ago)
No comments. Too bad. I like to see what locals are saying.
Chuck Schumer describes a meeting he just had with President Trump: “Unfortunately, the president just got up and walked out. He asked Speaker Pelosi, ‘Will you agree to my wall?’ She said no. And he just got up and said, ‘Then we have nothing to discuss,’ and he just walked out”
I think I see the problem…
The Coast Guard told families to consider having garage sales and acting as “mystery” shoppers to cover lost wages from shutdown. The Coast Guard removed this tipsheet after inquiry from @DanLamothe https://t.co/NCZZEAPH3D
— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) January 9, 2019
The hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will be missing a paycheck this week do not appreciate political stunts. These juvenile games do not help a single American or solve a single problem. Just end this stupid shutdown. https://t.co/8edzfRq0IX
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) January 9, 2019
Schumer should announce on the Senate floor that since McConnell is abdicating his duty, Schumer will be leading the senate in a vote to end the shutdown.
President Trump acknowledges that illegal immigration at the border has in fact gone down, and says it is “because of me and my people” https://t.co/jKtBu6rkzC pic.twitter.com/RzK57luapN
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 9, 2019
Donald Trump is once again foiled by his arch-nemesis Donald Trump.https://t.co/yrHSKncYbN
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 9, 2019
Listening to Nicole Wallace’s show…and watching the progress of a big ol’ pot of chili.
Her guest Matthew Miller was talking about how the GOP Senators don’t want the wall and they are realizing the only way to get anywhere with the Orange Monster is to somehow let him declare a military emergency and give him his way, it won’t cost too much. He closed saying they are all loyal to the Republican Party.
Nicole quickly jumped in and said:
There is no Republican Party
The Republican Party is Dead
They are loyal to Trump
Music to my ears. And I know she is a Republican and nothing like that is probably going to happen. But music to my ears anyway.
(I put her comment in three lines…because is is poetic)
By the way…much discussion also on how Trump wanting to use the military to do something that polls show is not popular and use the military to go over and ignore the political process is 100% the move of an autocrat.
Yep…we got to get this ass out of the White House.
And I burned another contact to my buddy Rob Portman. Real sick of this shit.
re: #96 MsJ
Really. How many trump supporting yokel stories did we get? From every corner of the country, how hard it is for them to date, etc, etc, etc.
But working Americans dedicating themselves to public service… Fuck them.
The next stories will be trump supporters who are public service employees who still support him, a la the father stories we saw. Because that’s apparently the only qualifier that matters.
We’re still getting them.
Jane Kleeb (Nebraska Democratic Party chairwoman):
“Trump lied. Again. He promised during his campaign that Mexico would pay for his wall. Now he wants to saddle American taxpayers with the bill. His administration continues to lie and obfuscate the facts over border security to fan the flames of hysteria.
“And he seems content with shutting down much of the federal government because of his temper tantrum, which hurts the more than 800,0000 federal workers who are not being paid and denies vital services to the American people.
“It is, in a word, unconscionable. And Nebraska’s GOP congressional members — Sens. (Ben) Sasse and (Deb) Fischer and Reps. Bacon, (Jeff) Fortenberry and (Adrian) Smith — are in lock-step with Trump and follow along without making a peep.”
Five of the nine countries Pompeo is visiting in the Middle East still have no U.S. ambassadors. https://t.co/SETwqsGo1g
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) January 9, 2019
Billionaire Tom Steyer announces he’s not running for president in 2020 and will focus on Trump impeachment campaign https://t.co/7VBFBx9b0J
— Politics Insider (@Politicsinsider) January 9, 2019
re: #107 lawhawk
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re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ambassadors are there to make the job of Sec. State easy and guide the process. Trump’s gutted State and sabotaged their ability to do basic diplomacy.
This is a goal of GOP to sabotage functioning government. Trump’s doing what the GOP has sought to do for years. And they’re cheering him on still.
re: #81 lawhawk
SMOTI thinks that improved health care access for residents of NYC is a bad thing.
NYC is already a destination because of our world class health care providers. He’s making it so people don’t get a medically induced bankruptcy because they need medical care.
Commie NYC Mayor @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio announced free healthcare for all to open the new year. De Blasio just made New York City the Number 1 destination for sick foreigners and pregnant women. …
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) January 9, 2019
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 9, 2019
re: #85 Jay C
“Commie???” SRSLY??
re: #86 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Why not “ComSymp?” How old is this guy?
re: #87 Jay C
Not as old as those tired trite Red-baiting slurs the SMOTI likes to trot out…
Hoft is a real-life Frank Burns/Colonel Flagg; I’m surprised he hasn’t said “better dead than red” yet.
Holy crap
I knew this guy for years. He was with the OPFOR platoon when I was an instructor at Ranger School, and he was one of my squad leaders when I was a First Sergeant with the 173rd in Italy. I saw that image a few times, and it didn’t connect. But, someone from back in the day sent me word that he was hearing it was Rod’. Then I saw the second image in the article, where you can actually see some of his face.
Rick Rodriguez, a 20-year Army veteran and Green Beret, was wounded in a “physical altercation” on New Year’s Eve in Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. https://t.co/380eZxyz8a
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) January 9, 2019
re: #110 TedStriker
Hoft is a real-life Frank Burns/Colonel Flagg; I’m surprised he hasn’t said “better dead than red” yet.
Those sick foreigners and pregnant women have money. They’ll spend it in New York. Thanks SMOTI for showing how to shoot your argument in the foot.
A Utica, New York man was arraigned in court for chopping up his grandmother and landlady, as they were atheists.
re: #110 TedStriker
Hoft is a real-life Frank Burns/Colonel Flagg; I’m surprised he hasn’t said “better dead than red” yet.
Republicans have moved on, now Better Russian than Democrat.
re: #110 TedStriker
Hoft is a real-life Frank Burns; I’m surprised he hasn’t said “better dead than red” yet.
“Now, if you would offer tax breaks, then you’d get the very best foreigners and Americans and not pregnant womenz.”
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bill Shine and Dan Scavino. I don’t know who the woman is at far right.
Probably answered already…but that is Mercedes Schlapp.
re: #74 Targetpractice
The other issue with this BS about the GOP negotiating in “good faith” is they’re not saying “We’re open to negotiating the figure,” they’re digging in by claiming that’s the figure “necessary” for border security. When you say (in effect) “Our demands are non-negotiable,” then the only thing you’re signaling an interest in negotiating is the terms of the other party’s surrender.
How come Dems won’t negotiate or compromise with Donnie’s non-negotiable demands?
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Something to help you sleep tonight.
Gonna be fun when we learn how much public corruption Trump’s shutdown spawned, as thousands of desperate unpaid investigators and regulators just became much more prone to taking bribes. An underfunded public sector is one key reason for endemic graft in many poorer countries.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 9, 2019
UPDATE: Mt. Airy’s castle-like water tanks and the Manse Hotel, which was owned by and for African Americans during segregation, became Cincinnati historic landmarks today. @Enquirer https://t.co/3zQNOm3HNy
— Sam Rosenstiel (@SamRosenstiel) January 9, 2019
I have CONFIRMED that Trump said “bye bye” and in fact offered Butterfingers, M&Ms, and Baby Ruths. “We think skittles too,” per source, who added Trump “constantly spoke over Pelosi.”
— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) January 9, 2019
Why am I not surprised that the misogynist Trump spoke over Pelosi repeatedly?
He is threatened by women who are strong and stand up to his baffling BS.
re: #103 ObserverArt
I’m a first class c**t. I will never forgive these people. Not Nicole. Not Steve. Not Rick. Not Bill. Not David. Not Jennifer. Not Michael. Not any of the ones I didn’t mention.
They built this.
They supported this.
They lied about us. About everything.
They made us The Enemy.
They went on Fox and built THAT.
This is their disaster to own like a boss.
And what’s the cherry on top of the two-slice shit pie? When given the chance, they still do it.
They fucking broke America.
re: #63 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
TRUMP BROUGHT CANDY4:01 PM - Jan 9, 2019
McCarthy is, again…a lightweight.
And he is the Republican Minority Leader.
That tells you the state of the Republicans.
The idea it’s just Evangelicals who supported Trump over Clinton is debunked by polling.
All faiths (except Jews and Mormons) have steadily increased their support for Republicans, including Trump. Evangelicals didn’t even have the largest shift. That went to “other faiths” (-12 for Clinton) and “Hispanic Catholics” (-8 for Clinton).
re: #119 lawhawk
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Why am I not surprised that the misogynist Trump spoke over Pelosi repeatedly?
He is threatened by women who are strong and stand up to his baffling BS.
Reminds me of his little tantrum with Merkel where he threw starbursts at her. Man he’s an embarrassment not just as our President or even as an American but man to man.
Hard pass. https://t.co/4vkrLFI91K
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) January 7, 2019
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 was Boston’s strangest disaster https://t.co/woOCRxId7Q
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) January 9, 2019
He’s so obssessed with that stupid wall. At this point he’s practically daring the GOP to step up and stop him.
In the meeting, Trump said “wall.” He did not say “border security.” https://t.co/9YN4UO3gVh
— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) January 9, 2019
re: #66 Mike Lamb
Schumer hadn’t exactly covered himself in glory towards the end of the last legislative session, but I feel like he’s doing a good job in these negotiations and the post-“negotiation” pressers. Maybe Pelosi lent him a spine?
You mean the last legislative session that was controlled by the Republicans because they had overwhelming voting numbers to ignore Schumer?
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He has no idea about the border. He’s obsessed with his view of immigration being the only right one. And he’s a man we know doesn’t read and likes having his biases reenforced. Impeach the motherfucking son of a bitch.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Many years ago, I had a cool summer job as a tour guide at the Old North Church. The sexton was well into his 80s even then, and had lived through the molasses disaster as a young man. The stories he told were amazing.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
The idea it’s just Evangelicals who supported Trump over Clinton is debunked by polling.
All faiths (except Jews and Mormons) have steadily increased their support for Republicans, including Trump. Evangelicals didn’t even have the largest shift. That went to “other faiths” (-12 for Clinton) and “Hispanic Catholics” (-8 for Clinton).
I’ll have to look later, but is that taking into account how much those groups are shrinking?
re: #130 ipsos
Many years ago, I had a cool summer job as a tour guide at the Old North Church. The sexton was well into his 80s even then, and had lived through the molasses disaster as a young man. The stories he told were amazing
It’s neat when you can talk to people who were eyewitness to history like that. My moms parents survived the second Johnstown flood. It’s not as famous as the 1889 one but they survived it. And according to my Dad’s cousin, their grandmother’s aunt survived the great one.
No President in history has managed to piss more people off at the same time as Trump has.
re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg
No President in history has managed to piss more people off at the same time as Trump has.
His supporters think that’s a positive not a negative as do he and his advisers.
Radicalized religious extremist James Dobson urges fasting to protect Trump from impeachment.
While I seldom (ok, never) agree with Dobson, I do think America would be helped enormously if all the people who listen to him fasted.
For a really long time.https://t.co/LpC5GDTKzS— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 9, 2019
Iran confirms it has detained US navy veteran Michael White: https://t.co/VDlogSUbvQ
— Saeed Kamali Dehghan (@SaeedKD) January 9, 2019
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We need a wall to get our sailor back!”
re: #131 Belafon
I’ll have to look later, but is that taking into account how much those groups are shrinking?
Just looking at it now, it’s interesting.
The Mormon improvement is a bit more complicated than “+4” to Clinton. Romney won Mormons 78-21 in 2012, Trump won them 61-25 (I suspect a lot of that has to do with McMullin getting 21% of the vote in Utah.
It does include a percentage of the electorate chart, which shows unaffiliated grew by 3% from 2012. Interestingly, 51% of respondents attend religious services less than monthly (either “never” or “a few times a year”); and the more often you attend religious services, the more likely you were to vote for Trump.
Goddamn insanity.
Majority of House votes to approve bill reopening Treasury Department, several other agencies without border wall money; voting continues pic.twitter.com/c0r6kPxCgl
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) January 9, 2019
re: #140 KGxvi
Also worth noting the “other faiths” number that shows a -12 for Clinton, Trump only improved by 6 points from Romney, the other half apparently went to third party candidates.
re: #128 ObserverArt
You mean the last legislative session that was controlled by the Republicans because they had overwhelming voting numbers to ignore Schumer?
Yeah, Schumer gets an incredible amount of flak for being able to count. He got a few very small concessions in return for not making things as difficult as possible on some issues, which was all he had the power to do.
Four years ago today, a Guantanamo Navy base commissary worker went missing, then drowned. The base commander has just been charged with impeding the @RealNCIS and @TheJusticeDept investigations of his death. Story, indictment: https://t.co/8GQW19xAn6 @PulitzerCenter @McClatchyDC
— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) January 9, 2019
re: #144 MsJ
Wait, isn’t that the plot to A Few Good Men?
I got nothing…
Man brings dead raccoon into SF McDonald’s, forcing closure https://t.co/udjV6iB2EH pic.twitter.com/B6TbJwhOVE
— SFGate (@SFGate) January 9, 2019
re: #145 KGxvi
Wait, isn’t that the plot to A Few Good Men?
Is it? Really? I never saw that.
If not, it’s a story right out of a NCIS script.
re: #131 Belafon
I’ll have to look later, but is that taking into account how much those groups are shrinking?
I presume no. It was exit polling which asked what faith each voter adheres to.
US special forces soldiers were caught smuggling large quantities of cocaine from Colombia into the US aboard a military transport plane, and then selling it to a distributor in Floridahttps://t.co/28tptCQ6Fo
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 9, 2019
re: #143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Yeah, Schumer gets an incredible amount of flak for being able to count. He got a few very small concessions in return for not making things as difficult as possible on some issues, which was all he had the power to do.
I prefer Pelosi but Schumer is all right. I’m willing to give him a shot to govern as Majority Leader hopefully starting in 2021.
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #147 MsJ
Is it? Really? I never saw that.
If not, it’s a story right out of a NCIS script.
Iirc AFGM involves a murder cover up by Nicholson’s character.
re: #128 ObserverArt
You mean the last legislative session that was controlled by the Republicans because they had overwhelming voting numbers to ignore Schumer?
Yes, the last legislative session where he cut deals to allow judges to be confirmed, as an example, because he and others wanted to be able to go home.
With a Democratic majority, the House has passed a bill to fund the IRS, so Americans can start getting their tax refunds on time. The bill does not include money for Trump’s wall. Democrats plan to re-fund food stamps next. pic.twitter.com/9VwUF47Zye
— Buzz Burbank (@MichaelJElston) January 9, 2019
This also happened today:
Representative reintroduces impeachment articles against President Donald Trump
Pelosi will probably want to hold off until Mueller is ready to report more.
re: #156 freetoken
This also happened today:
Representative reintroduces impeachment articles against President Donald Trump
Pelosi will probably want to hold off until Mueller is ready to report more.
Or until trump tries to declare a national emergency.
Apparently you are all correct because there’s a ton on YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH responses to that tweet.
I’m so culturally challenged sometimes.
re: #156 freetoken
This also happened today:
Representative reintroduces impeachment articles against President Donald Trump
Pelosi will probably want to hold off until Mueller is ready to report more.
Yep and she’ll take flak for that but it’s the right move.
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Holy crap
I knew this guy for years. He was with the OPFOR platoon when I was an instructor at Ranger School, and he was one of my squad leaders when I was a First Sergeant with the 173rd in Italy. I saw that image a few times, and it didn’t connect. But, someone from back in the day sent me word that he was hearing it was Rod’. Then I saw the second image in the article, where you can actually see some of his face.[Embedded content]
My God….
Update on this story from the other day:
re: #154 Mike Lamb
Yes, the last legislative session where he cut deals to allow judges to be confirmed, as an example, because he and others wanted to be able to go home.
To go home and campaign for election. McConnell specifically said he wanted to keep Democrats from campaigning against Republicans.
Context is important.
We’re only about 48h away from Trump administration officials telling families of government workers that cheaper organ meats like liver, kidney and brain can also be turned into gourmet, nutritious meals. https://t.co/IZES1xUszV … HT: @rickperlstein https://t.co/aS0wgo5NsM
— Adam Bonin (@adambonin) January 9, 2019
re: #161 freetoken
Update on this story from the other day:
If that guy had any brains, he’d left the party as soon as this was announced. What a pile of dicks. I’m sure he’s no prize either obviously but still.
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
But do any of these bills stand a chance in the Senate??
So I tweet about twitchy.com being a wretched sewer that exists only to incite harassment, immediately get barraged with insults and dumbass comments from Twitchy fans, proving my point. This is how a Trump fan finds amusement, I guess.
re: #164 HappyWarrior
If that guy had any brains, he’d left the party as soon as this was announced. What a pile of dicks. I’m sure he’s no prize either obviously but still.
Obviously.
re: #166 Charles Johnson
So I tweet about twitchy.com being a wretched sewer that exists only to incite harassment, immediately get barraged with insults and dumbass comments from Twitchy fans, proving my point. This is how a Trump fan finds amusement, I guess.
It’s essy to forget Malkim sometimes because of all the other horrible people who have risen to prominence in that movement in recent years but I’ll always remember her as an apologist for interning Japanese Americans during WWII.
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
But do any of these bills stand a chance in the Senate??
Maybe. Republicans know they’ll be crushed of refunds are withheld. Crushed. Decimated. Destroyed.
At some point out has to get through that government matters. Perhaps we all have to have garage sales for that to happen.
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
But do any of these bills stand a chance in the Senate??
That depends. As each bill (simply cut out from the Senate bill passed in the last election 100-0) comes up and McConnell refuses to put it on the floor, another Democratic talking point and advert is born.
FAA: The Republicans don’t want you to travel safely.
FDA: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe food and drugs.
FTC: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe consumer products.
Coast Guard: The Republicans don’t want you to have water safety, drug interdiction, and less crime.
&c
There are now four Republicans who say they are on-board with re-opening the government in the Senate. In theory, that’s enough to force votes.
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹
That depends. As each bill (simply cut out from the Senate bill passed in the last election 100-0) comes up and McConnell refuses to put it on the floor, another Democratic talking point and advert is born.
FAA: The Republicans don’t want you to travel safely.
FDA: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe food and drugs.
FTC: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe consumer products.
Coast Guard: The Republicans don’t want you to have water safety, drug interdiction, and crime.
&cThere are now four Republicans who say they are on-board with re-opening the government in the Senate. In theory, that’s enough to force votes.
That’s already happened.
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
But do any of these bills stand a chance in the Senate??
1. McConnell isn’t bringing them up for a vote.
2. Right now, we’re playing in the court of public opinion against Trump. If his numbers start tanking, he’ll either give up or the rest of the GOP will. It’s good to have the House, meaning Democrats, go on record showing they want to reopen the government.
They daily NYT Democrats-are-divided story:
Democrats Focus on Shutdown’s Cost and Steer Away From Trump’s Wall
[…]
But while they are almost all opposed to the idea of a wall between the United States and Mexico — which is unpopular among a majority of Americans and strongly opposed by Democratic voters, and which has been dismissed as ineffective by border security experts — Democrats are less united about what form of border security they do support.
[…]
re: #172 MsJ
That’s already happened.
And they’ve expired since the new session of Congress started.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹
To go home and campaign for election. McConnell specifically said he wanted to keep Democrats from campaigning against Republicans.
Context is important.
He’s actually done that more that once. And I’m pretty sure McConnell kept them in session anyways.
re: #170 MsJ
Maybe. Republicans know they’ll be crushed of refunds are withheld. Crushed. Decimated. Destroyed.
At some point out has to get through that government matters. Perhaps we all have to have garage sales for that to happen.
Moreover, Republican supporters in unfunded departments are being reminded who’s withholding their paychecks.
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹
That depends. As each bill (simply cut out from the Senate bill passed in the last election 100-0) comes up and McConnell refuses to put it on the floor, another Democratic talking point and advert is born.
FAA: The Republicans don’t want you to travel safely.
FDA: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe food and drugs.
FTC: The Republicans don’t want you to have safe consumer products.
Coast Guard: The Republicans don’t want you to have water safety, drug interdiction, and crime.
&cThere are now four Republicans who say they are on-board with re-opening the government in the Senate. In theory, that’s enough to force votes.
hi i just got here
it’s up to eight
re: #176 Mike Lamb
He’s actually done that more that once. And I’m pretty sure McConnell kept them in session anyways.
Yes he has. So you’re left with this situation:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Friday that he could keep lawmakers in Washington until the end of October if Democrats seek to slow or block the confirmation of President Trump’s judicial nominees.
Stay and oppose them and bring up their flaws, or go campaign but give the Republicans a super-majority while you’re out campaigning.
Couple that with McConnell removing the blue slip process they abused during the Obama Presidency, and there’s not a whole lot the minority party can do.
With the worst Senate map in a century, Democrats were able to hold losses to two seats. Imagine what might have happened without the ability to campaign and meet constituents.
McConnell was going to get his judges in any case. How would Schumer stop that?
re: #147 MsJ
Is it? Really? I never saw that.
If not, it’s a story right out of a NCIS script.
A Few Good Men is about the court martial of two Marines stationed at Guantanamo Bay because another Marine mysteriously dies. I’ll put the rest behind the spoiler tag, even if I’m not sure you can spoil something that is 27 years old
Turns out there’s a cover up because the commanding officer (played by Nicholson) ordered a “code red” - basically hazing, that resulted in the Marine dying. Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Kevin Pollak are the rag tag defense team that uncover the conspiracy, leading to the famous “you want the truth? you can’t handle the truth” scene
This would never happen, but oh, if only it did:
A walkout by the Secret Service would buckle Trump’s knees in ten minutes. Shutdown would end before he could even put on dry boxers.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 9, 2019
re: #178 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
hi i just got here
it’s up to eight
Yeah, well we’ll have to wait and see. And I wouldn’t hold my breath until I see/hear any solid news from Mitch McConnell: I think it’s going to take more than just eight waverers to get him to move squat in the Senate.
I think.
ADD : posted before I saw #182
re: #97 MsJ
No comments. Too bad. I like to see what locals are saying.
Comments in my newspaper are only by Letter to the Editor.
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
The Democrats up in 2020 are (mostly) in safe seats. Doug Jones is the only one in a +R PVI rated state. New Hampshire is even, Virginia, Minnesota, and Michigan are D+1; New Mexico is D+3; Oregon is D+5. Republicans have to defend 6 seats that are rated R+5 or more Democratic (including two that are rated +D)
He’s got the occasional bad habit of saying the quiet part out loud. https://t.co/r8fGbGXYDg
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) January 9, 2019
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
Yes he has. So you’re left with this situation:
Stay and oppose them and bring up their flaws, or go campaign but give the Republicans a super-majority while you’re out campaigning.
Couple that with McConnell removing the blue slip process they abused during the Obama Presidency, and there’s not a whole lot the minority party can do.
With the worst Senate map in a century, Democrats were able to hold losses to two seats. Imagine what might have happened without the ability to campaign and meet constituents.
McConnell was going to get his judges in any case. How would Schumer stop that?
Not every Dem was running for re-election. And there being less Dems present doesn’t give the GOP a super-majority.
Fucking hypocrites, goddamned conservatives.
For those acting like $5 billion is a trivial sum to flush down the toilet: two of Obama’s top priorities for all of 2016 were $1 billion for Zika precautions & $2 billion for the opioid epidemic.
House and Senate Republicans both refused all year, calling it wasteful spending.— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) January 9, 2019
re: #188 Mike Lamb
Not every Dem was running for re-election. And there being less Dems present doesn’t give the GOP a super-majority.
Good point, and more Republicans are up in 2020 than Democrats. At least some of them will probably want to go home to campaign, especially in a presidential cycle when turnout will be higher.
My other kink is watching morbidly obese Trump supporters worry about gang violence.
— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) January 9, 2019
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The reason CIA/NSA types (and I suppose probably some military) got away with that sort of thing in the 80’s is because they had their own dedicated airfields, never had to go through customs.
re: #187 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The master negotiator, ladies and gentlemen.
re: #186 KGxvi
The Democrats up in 2020 are (mostly) in safe seats. Doug Jones is the only one in a +R PVI rated state. New Hampshire is even, Virginia, Minnesota, and Michigan are D+1; New Mexico is D+3; Oregon is D+5. Republicans have to defend 6 seats that are rated R+5 or more Democratic (including two that are rated +D)
Virginia should be fine. Warner won’t mess up like he did in 2014.
Also, likelihood of Doug Jones losing his next election? High.
Maybe girly stuff but this interview with Melissa McCarthy is great.
Melissa McCarthy 4eva. “Badass, to me, means doing what should be done in a situation because it’s what’s needed and…not needing to be liked or think you need to be liked so much. I was likable, and [now] I don’t really give a shit about that.” https://t.co/KyT1nnLJEx
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) January 9, 2019
And she looks mah-velous!!
For the four Republican senators who claim they are interested in opening the government again, I would be more impressed if one of them lead a leadership fight to remove McConnell.
I wouldn’t expect the GOP to support a Democrat in that position, but Collins, Murkowski, Isakson, and Capito (the ones who are calling for the government to be reopened) could put one of themselves forward.
I suspect if this goes on long enough they might, though you might wind up with a split between GOP senators who support McConnell or one of the others.
This is it guys pic.twitter.com/6kPcDNF5sO
— Paul Owen (@PaulTOwen) January 9, 2019
Boy, those are going to be some very disappointed aliens. wait, till they see how dumb we are. https://t.co/darnDJjWji
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 9, 2019
re: #28 Belafon
We need to tell evangelicals that Brazil is trying to steal God from them.
No! Tell them they need to all move there and help him.
That way we can make America into a much better place without them.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, likelihood of Doug Jones losing his next election? High.
We got lucky there.
re: #199 Anymouse 🌹
For the four Republican senators who claim they are interested in opening the government again, I would be more impressed if one of them lead a leadership fight to remove McConnell.
I wouldn’t expect the GOP to support a Democrat in that position, but Collins, Murkowski, Isakson, and Capito (the ones who are calling for the government to be reopened) could put one of themselves forward.
I suspect if this goes on long enough they might, though you might wind up with a split between GOP senators who support McConnell or one of the others.
I’d love to see Mitch have to worry about losing his position.
re: #200 teleskiguy
I tried to read that article but my app crashed and I can’t get it back. Sounded very interesting.
Evening Lizardim from the windy and bitterly cold wild north country. I see the government is still shut down, but the Shitgibbon-in-Chief has not blown the country to smithereens, so… yay us? How go things among the lizardfolk on this truly wintry day?
Bet you Trump will declare the national emergency late on Friday or Saturday.
FRIEND: [something i cant hear because the music is too loud]
ME: https://t.co/wxogiGCUny— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) January 9, 2019
“Crying Nazi” Chris Cantwell is planning a “family friendly” version of his racist and anti-Semitic podcast.
He hopes he can use it as a cover to plug back into the various online financial processing platforms he needs to stay afloathttps://t.co/u3KYguNVZl— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 9, 2019
More: House passes bill to reopen some government agencies, with 8 Republicans bucking leadership https://t.co/LR3G33eAAm
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 9, 2019
re: #188 Mike Lamb
Not every Dem was running for re-election. And there being less Dems present doesn’t give the GOP a super-majority.
That’s true as far as it goes (not a super-majority). The Senate before the election was R-52, D-46, I-2.
Democrats had 24 seats up for reëlection. Both independents were also up.
If those 26 had taken off with the Senate in session to campaign, that would be R-52, D-22, I-0 in the Senate during the campaign.
And again, Schumer couldn’t stop anyone Mitch McConnell wanted to put up. He traded campaign time for what McConnell already had. All it would have done is increase the Republican majority when they were passing votes on simple majorities.
re: #210 MsJ
The Democratic-led House approved a bill Wednesday to reopen the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and Small Business Administration, among other federal agencies.
The chamber voted 240-188 to advance the measure, with eight Republicans bucking party lines to back the bill, which is the first of four bills expected to be brought to the floor by Democrats.
The Republicans who voted to advance the measure Wednesday included Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Will Hurd (Texas), Fred Upton (Mich.), John Katko (N.Y.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Greg Walden (Ore.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) and Herrera Beutler (Wash.).
re: #204 MsJ
I tried to read that article but my app crashed and I can’t get it back. Sounded very interesting.
re: #120 MsJ
I’m a first class c**t. I will never forgive these people. Not Nicole. Not Steve. Not Rick. Not Bill. Not David. Not Jennifer. Not Michael. Not any of the ones I didn’t mention.
They built this.
They supported this.
They lied about us. About everything.
They made us The Enemy.
They went on Fox and built THAT.
This is their disaster to own like a boss.
And what’s the cherry on top of the two-slice shit pie? When given the chance, they still do it.
They fucking broke America.
Awww…c’mon MsJ.
I hate them too, but can’t you appreciate what fun it is to hear some of these former Republicans saying stuff like their party is dead?
That is all I meant.
I’ve never heard Republicans talk like this. And if what you say is correct (not doubting) then this is actual Republicans saying their party is dead.
I love it!
And I’d like to help further make sure we can stick some stakes in it so it does die.
re: #214 ObserverArt
Awww…c’mon MsJ.
I hate them too, but can’t you appreciate what fun it is to hear some of these former Republicans saying stuff like their party is dead?
That is all I meant.
I’ve never heard Republicans talk like this. And if what you say is correct (not doubting) then this is actual Republicans saying their party is dead.
I love it!
And I’d like to help further make sure we can stick some stakes in it so it does die.
I was going to say. I won’t empathize with them, but I sure as hell will indulge in the schadenfreude. More please. Wingnut tears are the perfect chaser for the bourbon Mrs. Fish brought home.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
The idea it’s just Evangelicals who supported Trump over Clinton is debunked by polling.
All faiths (except Jews and Mormons) have steadily increased their support for Republicans, including Trump. Evangelicals didn’t even have the largest shift. That went to “other faiths” (-12 for Clinton) and “Hispanic Catholics” (-8 for Clinton).
I bet those Hispanic Catholics are considering those voted now, because what is going on is not supported by the Catholic Church. That is unless they are fine with Hispanic mothers being separated from their children and having some of those kids die. Nothing Catholic/Christian about it.
re: #213 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Thank you.
George the lonely tree snail has died. They’re now extinct. 😢😢
Neither the White House nor FEMA provided clarification about whether Trump’s threat was bluster… or if he has actually ordered a funding cutoff to thousands of Californians trying to rebuild after the devastating fires that hit the state late last year. https://t.co/MaTXD8tnBX
— Sarah D. Wire (@sarahdwire) January 9, 2019
It’s an extraordinary situation where the president says he ordered something and no one can explain whether it actually happened https://t.co/MtuToaox0w
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) January 9, 2019
Did Trump actually order FEMA to stop sending disaster relief money to CA or not? Neither WH nor FEMA seems able to answer that question. https://t.co/1AaewnmFvD
— David Lauter (@DavidLauter) January 9, 2019
Narrator’s Voice: He just pulled that lie out of his ass to look “tough”.
re: #214 ObserverArt
Awww…c’mon MsJ.
I hate them too, but can’t you appreciate what fun it is to hear some of these former Republicans saying stuff like their party is dead?
That is all I meant.
I’ve never heard Republicans talk like this. And if what you say is correct (not doubting) then this is actual Republicans saying their party is dead.
I love it!
And I’d like to help further make sure we can stick some stakes in it so it does die.
I know. And I can appreciate the sentiment. I just hate them so intensely for all their destruction I can’t get past it.
Maybe in remembrance of poor George (noted above, RIP 14 year old tree snail) we could salt the hell out of the Republican party. Although staking it through the heart is probably more apropos since they are all fucking bloodsuckers.
Met with Acting Sec. Defense Shanahan today. I cautioned him that if President Trump chooses to declare a national emergency & attempt to use DoD funds to pay for his beloved wall, that it would be a major breach of relations between DoD & Senate oversight committees.
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) January 9, 2019
This is the biggest bunch of horseshit you will see all day==>
Pretty cool: A good friend is studying in Yeshiva in Israel. His rabbi told him he liked my beard, elaborating “It gives Cruz a Talmudic & Rabbinic look & presence that will put the fear of the Lord into Israel’s enemies & promote Middle East peace.” Wow. Perhaps a bit much….
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 9, 2019
NEW: Treasury Sec. Mnuchin agrees to deliver a classified briefing to US House lawmakers on Thurs. on his decision to lift sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch and Putin ally Oleg Deripaska,, according to two top Democratic aides. https://t.co/67ekgqMrJK - @HeidiNBC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 9, 2019
The incumbent Democratic mayor of Lincoln, Nebr., is in an interesting position.
Republican politicians spearheaded a drive in Lincoln to term-limit the mayor of Lincoln to two terms, with no retroactive clause. That passed, meaning Mayor Chris Beutler cannot run for reëlection.
As such, he is now considering a run against Senator Ben Sasse. Republican Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE1) is considering running a primary against Sen. Sasse.
Elections are already heating up here. Farmers and ranchers getting pounded by Sasse’s lock-step position on keeping the government shut will hurt him (and Fortenberry is also all-in on keeping the government shut as well).
House Democrats believe Sec. Mnuchin should be a focus of, and source of information for, several planned investigations both related and unrelated to the Russia investigation, according to the aides. https://t.co/ggP4gJTrCx
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 9, 2019
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
“My physical appearance is so impressive it could change world history, but I don’t want to look vain, so I’ll say a friend told me.”
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This decision looks different in light of the new information that Deripaska was a conduit through which Manafort delivered campaign data to Russian Intelligence.
JFC - to both.
We need some type of wall in order to slow down illegals folks! Overdevelopment of the US., means less space & more CO2!
— Dave Kosar (@Davekosar2) January 9, 2019
Using the DOJ account for politics pic.twitter.com/njXM9XX3ol
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 9, 2019
The way that Democrats just behaved in our meeting at the @WhiteHouse is embarrassing. They need to get back into the room and get serious about solving the crisis at the border. pic.twitter.com/yC0FQ3Y2xG
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) January 9, 2019
Kids are in cages in the desert. Mothers have been deported back to sexual assault. Fathers have been torn from their sons.
That’s the only crisis at the border—the humanitarian one.
Kevin McCarthy is a joke. History will judge his servility to Trump & his policies. https://t.co/H4Doppd5Q6— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) January 9, 2019
re: #225 jaunte
“My physical appearance is so impressive it could change world history, but I don’t want to look vain, so I’ll say a friend told me.”
There is nothing Cruz could do to not look like the little shit weasel that he is.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: Treasury Sec. Mnuchin agrees…
“Agrees”, his ass! Who is he to “agree”? They want him to testify he goddamn well testifies! The fucking arrogance of these vermin is absolutely infuriating!
re: #178 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
hi i just got here
it’s up to eight
Dangerman…it’s all good.
But, ‘mouse was talking about 4 Senators. Your link discusses House members.
We need more of both to start to show Trump up and put McConnell and McCarthy in tough spots.
And good luck on your Goofy Runs!
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹
Yes he has. So you’re left with this situation:
Stay and oppose them and bring up their flaws, or go campaign but give the Republicans a super-majority while you’re out campaigning.
Couple that with McConnell removing the blue slip process they abused during the Obama Presidency, and there’s not a whole lot the minority party can do.
With the worst Senate map in a century, Democrats were able to hold losses to two seats. Imagine what might have happened without the ability to campaign and meet constituents.
McConnell was going to get his judges in any case. How would Schumer stop that?
I’m thinking Mike just wanted to see more public fight, maybe some more anger and going on the attack in a public way.
That may not be Schumer. He is not the angry display type.
re: #200 teleskiguy
Too far away: 1.5 billion light years from here. Not even in our galaxy or any neighboring ones. The signal was sent before there was any life on Earth.
McConnell also said his chief concern is Democrats blocking action in Senate over shutdown: “What I’m interested in is there’s no rationale for shutting down the Senate. .. No matter how you feel about the border dispute there’s absolutely no basis for shutting down the Senate”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 9, 2019
take a seat, mitch
re: #229 jaunte
Kevin McCarthy
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@GOPLeader
The way that Democrats just behaved in our meeting at the @WhiteHouse is embarrassing. They need to get back into the room and get serious about solving the crisis at the border.
It’s not the Dems that walked out of the room.
re: #229 jaunte
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The President* just stormed out of the meeting after being told he’s not getting funding for his wall, declared the meeting a waste of his time, and declared that he won’t reopen the gov’t unless he gets what he wants.
To call Kevin McCarthy a scumbag would be an insult to bags of scum.
Dear Acting AG @MattWhitaker46: Hi. https://t.co/7xMzezxWyQ
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 9, 2019
Democrats need to shut down the Senate completely until government is funded and open.
Republicans are terrorists. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 9, 2019
re: #214 ObserverArt
Awww…c’mon MsJ.
I hate them too, but can’t you appreciate what fun it is to hear some of these former Republicans saying stuff like their party is dead?
That is all I meant.
I’ve never heard Republicans talk like this. And if what you say is correct (not doubting) then this is actual Republicans saying their party is dead.
I love it!
And I’d like to help further make sure we can stick some stakes in it so it does die.
Yes — the old Republican party is dead; in its place is the new fascist white nationalist Putin-loving party — which seems to be very alive and headed by Trump, the Putin-toady-in-chief .
In my inbox:
A DM from a federal worker who WASN’T furloughed explaining that the workers responsible for timekeeping - which is needed to produce paychecks - WERE furloughed…
So, even people “unaffected” by the shutdown are facing potentially going unpaid.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 9, 2019
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Too far away: 1.5 billion light years from here. Not even in our galaxy or any neighboring ones. The signal was sent before there was any life on Earth.
Multicellular life anyway.
But back to the story - the lay person probably does not realize how much energy it takes to make an emission that can be detected even a light year away, not to mention a million, or a billion, light years away.
Hey Republicans, someday soon there will be a Democratic president. And once you open the “national emergency” bottle, the genie doesn’t go back in.
Betcha you could build a single payer health care system faster than a wall with Mexico. Just sayin.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 9, 2019
It never seems to go as planned these days.
#LDTPoll: Do you agree with President Trump when he says, “If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country”?
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) January 9, 2019
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
This is the biggest bunch of horseshit you will see all day==>
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No your beard is just a beard you stupid fuck.
re: #192 MsJ
It doesn’t matter. Can anyone but McConnell bring it to the floor?
This is Republican cover. Sounds good but doesn’t matter at all.
Pressure on McConnell none-the-less. Eventually if enough people turn on him it puts him a place where they may want to remove Mitch as leader.
I know that is a stretch. but it is something to consider if this gets to a point where the Republicans in the Senate find it really is costing them.
And we really are seeing a unique time in politics. Unprecedented for our times, maybe even heading for first time history what could happen. At some point the knives are going to come out.
Not all of them have a state like Kentucky backing them. Mitch might not get much pressure from Kentuckians…though I don’t know why. He doesn’t so shit for them.
What needs to be done is to keep the heat on. That is why I contact Rob Portman so much and why I suggest we all contact Republican Senators in the states we reside.
Mitch needs to be feeling the heat. They all do.
re: #243 freetoken
Multicellular life anyway.
But back to the story - the lay person probably does not realize how much energy it takes to make an emission that can be detected even a light year away, not to mention a million, or a billion, light years away.
You’re right — single cell organisms apparently evolved about 3.5 billion years ago; multi-cellular ones less than a billion years ago. The repeated burst is probably some natural phenomenon that we haven’t yet identified rather than little green men (and women).
re: #199 Anymouse 🌹
For the four Republican senators who claim they are interested in opening the government again, I would be more impressed if one of them lead a leadership fight to remove McConnell.
I wouldn’t expect the GOP to support a Democrat in that position, but Collins, Murkowski, Isakson, and Capito (the ones who are calling for the government to be reopened) could put one of themselves forward.
I suspect if this goes on long enough they might, though you might wind up with a split between GOP senators who support McConnell or one of the others.
I hadn’t seen your comment…a bit behind. Goes to my latest comment too.
re: #247 ObserverArt
I have no faith that the majority of the Republican Senators will put country above party.
A few here or there - especially those in swing states - may make noises… and huff and puff… but the GOP has over the past 10 to 20 years become more and more the white nationalist/Christian-nationalist party, as we can witness the effort to boot the Muslim Republican from the party down in Texas.
Confidence building session.
President Trump, with GOP senators in tow, after the weekly Republican Senate policy luncheon. pic.twitter.com/a5WG1lNQgQ— Steve Brodner (@stevebrodner) January 9, 2019
Accordion hands is one of his lying tells.
re: #251 jaunte
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Accordion hands is one of his lying tells.
the senators look so enthused…
re: #209 William Lewis
Just got back from celebrating my son’s 17th birthday.
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Time flies, etc, etc.
Looks snowy outside that window.
Here’s the facebook page of the Christian nationalist in Tarrant county who are trying to oust Shafi:
re: #254 freetoken
Here’s the facebook page of the Christian nationalist in Tarrant county who are trying to oust Shafi:
There’s a load of crazy there. RINOs=Dems. Sure. WhatEv’s.
Here’s a good summary of what is going on in Tarrant county GOP land:
Texas governor weighs in on push to remove Muslim from Tarrant GOP post
Mike Pence: “The president walked into the (meeting with Pelosi and Schumer) and handed out candy.” - What in the condescending patronizing fuck???
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 10, 2019
re: #219 MsJ
I know. And I can appreciate the sentiment. I just hate them so intensely for all their destruction I can’t get past it.
Maybe in remembrance of poor George (noted above, RIP 14 year old tree snail) we could salt the hell out of the Republican party. Although staking it through the heart is probably more apropos since they are all fucking bloodsuckers.
Bring the garlic bulbs and I’ll bring the silver Catholic-priest-blessed cross.
Let’s make it a real dead party!
Trump’s disapproval still has yet to hit the high it did last April:
Was wondering if POTUS’ storming out today was an actual fit of pique or just a staged spectacle and a Dem source familiar with what happened in the meeting said “it felt totally staged.”
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 9, 2019
West wing version of Pence at the Colts game. https://t.co/kWFUGK9F9s
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 10, 2019
Here’s a normal song about how Democrats want to cut your son’s dick off. https://t.co/Y9IZWHvwCn
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) January 10, 2019
Note that many more people are blaming the Democrats than blaming the Republicans in Congress:
re: #233 ObserverArt
I’m thinking Mike just wanted to see more public fight, maybe some more anger and going on the attack in a public way.
That may not be Schumer. He is not the angry display type.
I’m hardly a great political strategist, or I might be a senator (or at least a village board member).
All I can do is look at what’s being tried, and attempt to second-guess it.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Awww, look at poor Mitch getting all upset because the Democrats are using tough tactics.
Go fuck yourself McConnell. You are as big an ass and as much a problem in all this as anyone.
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Too far away: 1.5 billion light years from here. Not even in our galaxy or any neighboring ones. The signal was sent before there was any life on Earth.
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The evolutionary history of life on Earth traces the processes by which both living organisms and fossil organisms evolved since life emerged on the planet, until the present. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years (Ga) ago and evidence suggests life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga.
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The whole Manafort thing was almost completely absent from Twitter today. I saw nothing from news orgs.
Here is an interesting email. (Govt Exhibit 176) pic.twitter.com/U8m45LKM5c
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 3, 2018
Turns out the emails in this thread were anticipating payments from the oligarchs Manafort whom shared polling data with. https://t.co/U5jWsUUCDR
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 9, 2019
re: #262 freetoken
Note that many more people are blaming the Democrats than blaming the Republicans in Congress:
What? Did I read this wrong?
re: #262 freetoken
Note that many more people are blaming the Democrats than blaming the Republicans in Congress:
Is it multiple choice? I suspect you might see a similar breakdown for Democrats if Nancy Pelosi was put down as an option.
re: #262 freetoken
Note that many more people are blaming the Democrats than blaming the Republicans in Congress:
Nearly half are blaming Donald Trump in that poll tracker though. And the number is trending higher. The trend line for Democrats is going down. Republicans in Congress only get a small fraction of the blame and it’s constant.
I want to know who the 12% are who think “other reasons.” (That’s been pretty steady as well.)
re: #237 sagehen
It’s not the Dems that walked out of the room.
It appears to me all of the Republicans are resorting to Trump-like actions. They are all in and ready to go down with Trump.
McCarthy acting all pissed-off and tough. Lindsey is more entertaining.
Unbe…no, believable. I hope this costs all of them. And it sure does make you wonder how many really are bought and paid for by Vlad.
Joe Bacon, there must be a lot of Kompromat!
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mitch, please have this salty bag of dicks and this rusty spoon. Enjoy!
re: #267 jaunte
If you call that living.
LOL.
According to the timeline, God had not yet created sexual reproduction. Pretty boring if you ask me.
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹
Other could be : both sides! Or even Trump and Republicans.
re: #244 jaunte
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Ha. Way to go Senator Murphy.
I always say healthcare can be tied to strong defense.
re: #276 ObserverArt
Ha. Way to go Senator Murphy.
I always say healthcare can be tied to strong defense.
REPUBLICAN President Theodore Roosevelt thought so.
Can someone tell Tomi she forgot to collect her thingy 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/UcAxCew8sC
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) January 9, 2019
re: #260 jaunte
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Always the TV President.
Cheap reality TV stunts that have nothing to do with his job.
And the rest of them are going right along with the theatrics.
re: #119 lawhawk
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Why am I not surprised that the misogynist Trump spoke over Pelosi repeatedly?
He is threatened by women who are strong and stand up to his baffling BS.
He did it at the meeting that was televised - let Chuck speak but tried to stop Ms Pelosi. Calls her Nancy - time she started calling him little Donny.
re: #281 fern01
He did it at the meeting that was televised - let Chuck speak but tried to stop Ms Pelosi. Calls her Nancy - time she started calling him little Donny.
Baby Donny.
re: #120 MsJ
As soon as trump is gone - they will all crawl back and support the GOP - they will attack the democrats as they did for 8 years of the Obama Presidency and 8 years of the Clinton Presidency. Their reward - a place on pundit TV.
I agree with your sentiments.
re: #251 jaunte
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Accordion hands is one of his lying tells.
Especially when his mouth is open.
Right wingers like to pose as the greatest trolls and masters of the internets, but in truth they’re the ones who are comically easy to troll, and so gullible they’ll believe anything.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 10, 2019
re: #245 MsJ
It never seems to go as planned these days.
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We do have fucking borders. Lou Dobbs has no shame at all.
re: #286 Charles Johnson
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Trump trolls them into thinking he’s what a great American is. Nuff said. They’re idiots and should be derided as such.
re: #268 MsJ
What? Did I read this wrong?
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No. It has been reported elsewhere Trump is being blamed by 51%
37% Dems and other at 12%
If Hillary Clinton slammed a table and stormed out of a meeting with congressional leaders, the major discussion in the press would revolve around the state of her mental health and if it constitutes a national security issue.
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) January 9, 2019
re: #288 Skip Intro
We do have fucking borders. Lou Dobbs has no shame at all.
Yeah but because we’re not 1960’s East Berlin. Lou isn’t happy.
re: #286 Charles Johnson
[Right wingers like to pose as the greatest trolls and masters of the internets, but in truth they’re the ones who are comically easy to troll, and so gullible they’ll believe anything]
Projection, of the negative. Conjection?
re: #291 lawhawk
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Hell second hand stories about her “raging” at staff get treated as gospel.
re: #288 Skip Intro
No one is asking for a wall with Canada, despite actual terrorists crossing that border.
The difference? Canada has a lot of white people living there, but our Southern border has lots of nonwhites who want to come North.
There’s no interest in a wall with Canada, despite the same kind of threat.
re: #145 KGxvi
Wait, isn’t that the plot to A Few Good Men?
The one comment on your link picked up on that as well.
re: #287 teleskiguy
I vividly remember watching Hermann Maier crash in the Olympics on live TV in 1998. I thought I was watching a man die on live TV. He ended up winning gold in the Super G and Giant Slalom a few days later.
re: #295 lawhawk
Did I misread something? Dobbs says borders, not walls.
Take a trip to Colorado soon! Denver Psychedelic Advocacy Group Collect 9,500 Signatures To Decriminalize “MAGIC MUSHROOMS” https://t.co/vMqAQZAkVp via @UnofficialNet
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 10, 2019
re: #297 teleskiguy
I vividly remember watching Hermann Maier crash in the Olympics on live TV in 1998. I thought I was watching a man die on live TV. He ended up winning gold in the Super G and Giant Slalom a few days later.
Updinging but not watching, thank you.
re: #298 Skip Intro
No. You’re right. Dobbs said borders. His poll is about borders.
But the argument Trump’s making is that without the wall we don’t have borders. And specifically that without the wall on the border with Mexico that we’re dealing with a national security risk.
re: #293 wrenchwench
Projection, of the negative. Conjection?
Rejection?
Republicans could have had a wall with 0 Democratic votes any time in the last two years.
Trump doesn’t want a wall. He wants Democrats to not give him it.— LOLGOP👀 (@LOLGOP) January 9, 2019
re: #298 Skip Intro
Did I misread something? Dobbs says borders, not walls.
This is a standard RW argument about a nation needing strong borders; that if non-citizens can somehow get through a border and enter the country without approval, that a nation has no effective borders and isn’t really a nation. Therefore we need a wall. (Mere increased border security isn’t sufficient).
re: #298 Skip Intro
Did I misread something? Dobbs says borders, not walls.
Borders, walls, moats, landmines, spring machine guns like East Germany, barbed wire, sharks with lasers on their heads, it’s all the same to them.
As a matter of fact, except for the sharks, I’ve seen conservative arguments for all those.
re: #301 lawhawk
No. You’re right. Dobbs said borders. His poll is about borders.
But the argument Trump’s making is that without the wall we don’t have borders. And specifically that without the wall on the border with Mexico that we’re dealing with a national security risk.
Well, that’s a pretty stupid argument, isn’t it?
re: #297 teleskiguy
I vividly remember watching Hermann Maier crash in the Olympics on live TV in 1998. I thought I was watching a man die on live TV. He ended up winning gold in the Super G and Giant Slalom a few days later.
Who was the ski jumper in the titles of The Wide World of Sports for like 40 years? Czech, wasn’t he?
re: #307 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Who was the ski jumper in the titles of The Wide World of Sports for like 40 years? Czech, wasn’t he?
Vinko Bogataj. He’s Slovenian.
re: #199 Anymouse 🌹
Collins can’t be counted. She’ll swap back as soon as it is explained to her that she must support the president*.
‘wrench…did you catch this video at the beginning of the previous thread?
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Good news! Letters & Liquor is back after a year-long hiatus. I’m probably not the only one here who would find this history interesting:
Letters and Liquor illustrates the history of lettering associated with cocktails. From the 1690s to the 1990s, I’ve selected 52 of the most important drinks in the cocktail canon and rendered their names in period-inspired design. Each post features a detailed history plus photos and recipes.
So glad you can edit typos at LGF. Wish you could do that on Twitter.
Long-tailed Duck at dawn.
Island Beach State Park, NJ pic.twitter.com/ViuHwx5OUu— Jen Cross 🦉🕷🦖 (@7StellarJays) January 10, 2019
In this day and age, that means ensuring the elimination of unnecessary and prohibitive barriers to voting. I’m proposing we finally allow no-excuse absentee voting. #SOTC
— Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) January 10, 2019
Gateway pundit is a lefty false flag organization
— Eirik AK (@EirikAK49) January 10, 2019
Stepping away slowly from this one, no sudden moves…
re: #308 teleskiguy
Vinlo Bogataj. He’s Slovenian.
Was coming back from the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in ‘89. We were tired and planning on spending that Sunday night after the race, but decided to drive out of Canada first. So we came down through the tip of New York right down the side of Lake Champlain.
We saw a sign pointing to Lake Placid and decided why not stay in Lake Placid. It was June. So, off season…not many people.
We went to the top of the mountain that had the ski jumps on it. Took the elevator up to the top and looked out of the building the skiers gather prior to their jumps.
Pretty cool. Damn steep at first before curving out over the rest of the hill.
The US Team was there that day practicing jumps off a mini-ramp into a pool.
We also took a ride to the top of the bobsled run. That really gave you perspective of how nuts all that is. You see all the concrete runs, curves and shoots and how high up on the run they can get. All that gets’ covered in ice. And steep. It was a little hard to walk down the path next to the run even in summer.
Kye Petersen demonstrating the importance of proper spine alignment. pic.twitter.com/A3UaEWnzyY
— Patagonia (@patagonia) January 8, 2019
re: #307 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Who was the ski jumper in the titles of The Wide World of Sports for like 40 years? Czech, wasn’t he?
re: #308 teleskiguy
Vinko Bogataj. He’s Slovenian.
Bogataj competed as a Yugoslav entrant at the ski flying event in Oberstdorf, West Germany on 7 March 1970. A light snow had begun falling at the start of the competition, and by the time Bogataj was ready for his third jump on the Heini Klopfer hill, the snow had become quite heavy. Midway down the inrun for his jump, Bogataj realised that the conditions had made the ramp too fast. He attempted to lower his center of gravity and stop his jump, but instead lost his balance completely and rocketed out of control off the end of the inrun, tumbling and flipping wildly, and crashing through a light retaining fence near a crowd of spectators before coming to a halt. Bogataj suffered a mild concussion and a broken ankle.[2]
A film crew from Wide World of Sports was recording the event in which Bogataj crashed. The show featured an opening narration by host Jim McKay over a montage of sports clips, and co-ordinating producer Dennis Lewin inserted the footage of the crash to coincide with the words “…and the agony of defeat.” Throughout the show’s long history, various images were used for the other parts of the narration, including for “the thrill of victory…”, which directly preceded the above phrase and was often accompanied by images of the celebrating team at the most recent Super Bowl or World Cup, but after that point, the “agony of defeat” was always illustrated by Bogataj’s failed jump.[1] Later on, other clips were added to the “agony of defeat”, but Bogataj’s crash was always featured and always the first played.
I loved this part:
The melodrama of the narration—which became a catchphrase in the US—transformed the uncredited ski jumper into an American icon of bad luck and misfortune. Meanwhile, having retired to his quiet, private life in Slovenia, Bogataj was unaware of his celebrity, and so was surprised to be asked to attend the 20th anniversary celebration for Wide World of Sports in 1981.[2] He received the loudest ovation of any athlete introduced at the gala,[2] and attendees such as Muhammad Ali asked him for his autograph.[1]
They just can’t forget me.
I’m not a fan of Twitchy, but you’ve been a massive bitch since you started banning everyone with even the slightest variation of opinion to yours on your blog ages ago.
— Ranba_Ral (@Ranba_Ral) January 10, 2019
In a cab en route to the Capitol. The driver, like every driver this week, says the shutdown has devastated business. She tears up talking about it. “We are poor people. They are killing us.”
— Elise Viebeck (@eliseviebeck) January 9, 2019
There is a Tweet (or in this case a video) for everything.
Oh man, once Trump gets his wall he better hope no one shows Mexico this old video we found. pic.twitter.com/FtzeGlmecz
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 10, 2019
Couldn’t agree more*.
Forest fires? Rake the floor.
Earthquakes? Rake the tectonic plates.
Hurricanes? Rake the clouds.
Tsunamis? Rake the sea.
Volcanos? Rake the lava.
*sponsored tweet by our partner ‘Billy Bob’s Rake Emporium.’ https://t.co/rOUPomEAuX— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) January 10, 2019
re: #320 Charles Johnson
They just can’t forget me.
Living rent-free in their heads for so long has to be pretty good for your budget, Charles.
re: #320 Charles Johnson
They just can’t forget me.
Since when did you ban anyone with a slight disagreement with your opinions?
Granted I’m relatively new here, but those I’ve seen you ban are trolls, overt racists, &c. As far as I can tell, the majority of people now not here flounced, they weren’t banned.
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot about my political positions we don’t agree on. Shortly after I came here, I even asked you to ban me (you didn’t and I later apologised for being a jerk).
re: #256 freetoken
Here’s a good summary of what is going on in Tarrant county GOP land:
Texas governor weighs in on push to remove Muslim from Tarrant GOP post
I’m sorry I really don’t understand how a Muslim could be a Republican in the first place.
Yesterday I taught over 100k people how to fold a thong. What should I do today…? Guess you’ll have to wait and see!
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) January 9, 2019
“I alone can fix it.” https://t.co/pA79p4EtMR
— Jon Meacham (@jmeacham) January 9, 2019
re: #316 Charles Johnson
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Stepping away slowly from this one, no sudden moves…
The dancing thing was a BFD to wing nuts. He helped lead the charge in making them look like the fools they are. Footloose, ancient, out of step and unable to enjoy anything.
They’re turning on him because of that.
re: #328 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry I really don’t understand how a Muslim could be a Republican in the first place.
Or someone LGBTQ, or Hispanic, or African-American, or female, ftm.
‘Tis a conundrum.
The American people are not bargaining chips, @realDonaldTrump. #EndTheShutdown #TrumpShutdown https://t.co/X8at8UhtF3
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 9, 2019
re: #287 teleskiguy
One of the great crashes of ski racing, right up there with Hermann Maier in the Olympics.
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Reminds me of Wide World of Sports. I wish we still had that kind of programming because I was introduced to so many different sports and competitions world-wide. It was awesome. Can’t find anything like it now.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seriously, Stormy could have a regular feature of her sitting on her bed in her undies folding clothes, and get at least 100K viewers every time.
re: #334 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
Reminds me of Wide World of Sports. I wish we still had that kind of programming because I was introduced to so many different sports and competitions world-wide. It was awesome. Can’t find anything like it now.
As a kid, I was not a sports lover, exactly, but I watched WWoS every Saturday afternoon, and got a little taste of why people get so worked up about them. Plus, I discovered there were more sports than just baseball, football and basketball.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
DT reminds me of a toddler going through the terrible twos.
A group of geese is called a “gaggle”. What do you call a group of Nazis?
— Individual 1 (@Unabogie) January 10, 2019
And I don’t mean anything personal by that. I just think you’re all the personification of evil and you’ve killed toddlers because you’re racist.
— Individual 1 (@Unabogie) January 10, 2019
Again, nothing personal.
— Individual 1 (@Unabogie) January 10, 2019
re: #336 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
As a kid, I was not a sports lover, exactly, but I watched WWoS every Saturday afternoon, and got a little taste of why people get so worked up about them. Plus, I discovered there were more sports than just baseball, football and basketball.
I remember watching surfing on WWoS, and every time they’d show an old-fashioned pointed surfboard and laugh about what idiots people used to be. Now I notice all the surfboards are pointed again….
I looked at this tweet and thought “you know, The Hill does have a habit of ‘click-baiting’ their headlines…”
Well, not this time.
“… Republican Dorrie O’Brien is leading a group of colleagues in an attempt to unseat Shahid Shafi, a trauma surgeon in Forth Worth, the largest city in Tarrant County.
“We don’t think he’s suitable as a practicing Muslim to be vice chair because he’d be the representative for ALL Republicans in Tarrant County, and not ALL Republicans in Tarrant County think Islam is safe or acceptable in the U.S.,” O’Brien wrote in a Facebook post. …”
Texas county GOP to vote this week to remove leader because he is Muslim https://t.co/o4dPPw9Suh pic.twitter.com/twY73GSJe9
— The Hill (@thehill) January 10, 2019
re: #327 Anymouse 🌹
Since when did you ban anyone with a slight disagreement with your opinions?
Granted I’m relatively new here, but those I’ve seen you ban are trolls, overt racists, &c. As far as I can tell, the majority of people now not here flounced, they weren’t banned.
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot about my political positions we don’t agree on. Shortly after I came here, I even asked you to ban me (you didn’t and I later apologised for being a jerk).
Some got banned for being abusive assholes, but most of the old conservative guard left because they couldn’t deal with people bringing real arguments to them.
re: #328 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry I really don’t understand how a Muslim could be a Republican in the first place.
I wondered that myself when my sister converted to Islam and married a Muslim man. She is no longer a Republican because she sees just how horrible they are to everyone not male and white.
Every once in a while it just hits me all over again how insanely dishonest Donald Trump is. How many lies he’s told. How many lies his cronies have told, including the ones now convicted of felonies. This repulsive egomaniac is a nexus of chaos, and he’s in charge of the US.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 10, 2019
Food for thought
Adderall is an amphetamine which makes your pupils dilate. This is a person sitting in front of bright TV lights whose pupils should be contracted.
Side effects of Adderall addiction include aggression, memory loss, mania, impulsivity and disorientation. pic.twitter.com/VYrn9WDNpX— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) January 9, 2019
re: #344 jaunte
Some got banned for being abusive assholes, but most of the old conservative guard left because they couldn’t deal with people bringing real arguments to them.
Yeah, but they WOULD have gotten banned if they had stayed, and they definitely felt unwelcome so it’s as good as getting banned, so there!
re: #336 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
As a kid, I was not a sports lover, exactly, but I watched WWoS every Saturday afternoon, and got a little taste of why people get so worked up about them. Plus, I discovered there were more sports than just baseball, football and basketball.
Yes! I really loved the figure skating, gymnastics, skiiing, weight-lifting, and my mind is now going blank on all the others. It was fun and exciting. I’m more of an individual sports person instead of team sports, and they showed it all. Plus, it didn’t focus on just Americans. It’s why I can’t watch the Olympics anymore. If an American isn’t competing right then, they don’t show it. We miss so much!
re: #341 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I remember watching surfing on WWoS, and every time they’d show an old-fashioned pointed surfboard and laugh about what idiots people used to be. Now I notice all the surfboards are pointed again….
If you wait long enough, old styles just become new styles. I remember young women used to wear short skirts and thigh-high boots, back in the 1960s and early ’70s. Now I see the same fashion here in China in the 2010’s.
re: #251 jaunte
His open mouth is a lying tell.
re: #327 Anymouse 🌹
Since when did you ban anyone with a slight disagreement with your opinions?
Granted I’m relatively new here, but those I’ve seen you ban are trolls, overt racists, &c. As far as I can tell, the majority of people now not here flounced, they weren’t banned.
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot about my political positions we don’t agree on. Shortly after I came here, I even asked you to ban me (you didn’t and I later apologised for being a jerk).
TBH, I remember that and have to admit I did consider banning you. But I had a feeling you were OK and just testing the water, so to speak, and not malicious about it.
re: #348 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, but they WOULD have gotten banned if they had stayed, and they definitely felt unwelcome so it’s as good as getting banned, so there!
I’m certain they were all big proponents of private property rights except for when they were the ones getting thrown out of the bar.
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I looked at this tweet and thought “you know, The Hill does have a habit of ‘click-baiting’ their headlines…”
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Dorrie O’Brien is a nutcase. Seriously.
re: #351 plansbandc
Yes, I thought about that after I posted. He lies all the time, so everything he does has to be included.
re: #344 jaunte
Some got banned for being abusive assholes, but most of the old conservative guard left because they couldn’t deal with people bringing real arguments to them.
The first big round of flounces came when I revealed myself as a godless Darwinist who believed in evolution.
re: #356 Charles Johnson
The first big round of flounces came when I revealed myself as a godless Darwinist who believed in evolution.
If a Christian doesn’t have some non-Christian friends to keep them honest and grounded, they turn into wingnuts. Exhibit A, speaking.
re: #341 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I remember watching surfing on WWoS, and every time they’d show an old-fashioned pointed surfboard and laugh about what idiots people used to be. Now I notice all the surfboards are pointed again….
TIL that Howard Cosell, after serving in the Army during WWII, was a practicing lawyer for about 7-8 years before getting his first host gig on the radio:
After the war, Cosell began practicing law in Manhattan, primarily union law. Some of his clients were actors, and some were athletes, including Willie Mays. Cosell’s own hero in athletics was Jackie Robinson, who served as a personal and professional inspiration to him in his career.
It certainly explains a lot about his style…
re: #347 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Food for thought
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Certainly explains why he was squinting to the entire time. If one’s pupils are dilated that much, those bright lights have got to hurt.
re: #356 Charles Johnson
The first big round of flounces came when I revealed myself as a godless Darwinist who believed in evolution.
I came along after that, but I can just imagine their minds ‘asploding from that reveal. Makes me laugh every time.
re: #359 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
Certainly explains why he was squinting to the entire time. If one’s pupils are dilated that much, those bright lights have got to hurt.
Heh. I made that same comment earlier today in the other thread.
re: #335 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Seriously, Stormy could have a regular feature of her sitting on her bed in her undies folding clothes, and get at least 100K viewers every time.
$1 entry fee - she would do well.
re: #358 TedStriker
TIL that Howard Cosell, after serving in the Army during WWII, was a practicing lawyer for about 8-10 years before getting first host gig on the radio:
It certainly explains a lot about his style…
Howard Cosell drove me nuts. I really didn’t like him and I was just a kid.
re: #359 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
Certainly explains why he was squinting to the entire time. If one’s pupils are dilated that much, those bright lights have got to hurt.
He refuses to wear glasses, and dilated pupils make it that much harder to focus, since if your pupils are contracted, your eyes work like a pinhole camera, not so dependent on lens and cornea.
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I looked at this tweet and thought “you know, The Hill does have a habit of ‘click-baiting’ their headlines…”
Well, not this time.[Embedded content]
That’s click bate for every republican in Texas
re: #359 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
Apologies: Minor fix:
Certainly explains why he was squinting to the entire time. If one
’s pupils are dilatedis hopped up on drugs that much, those bright lights have got to hurt.
re: #358 TedStriker
TIL that Howard Cosell, after serving in the Army during WWII, was a practicing lawyer for about 7-8 years before getting first host gig on the radio:
It certainly explains a lot about his style…
No shit. I never knew Cosell was a lawyer. It does explain his interviewing technique and delivery, though.
IIRC Cosell was sympathetic to Muhammad Ali’s refusal to serve in the military on religious grounds, when Ali was getting a lot of shit for it.
This is Bear. It’s his nap time. He takes it very seriously. Hoping the blood rushes to his head so he has vivid dreams. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/PAEKwI5rnC
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 8, 2019
obviously, Bear went to the Rango School of Sleeping
re: #328 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry I really don’t understand how a Muslim could be a Republican in the first place.
Think of Log Cabin Republicans. Same reason.
re: #362 fern01
$1 entry fee - she would do well.
Really. If I could make money that easy, I’d do it.
re: #372 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Really. If I could make money that easy, I’d do it.
But do you have Stormy’s attributes and skills?
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
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obviously, Bear went to the Rango School of Sleeping
LOL! I’ve caught Oliver sleeping like that, too. We have only had him one week today. I will have to start taking more photos and posting them. He is way too stinkin’ cute!
re: #319 TedStriker
Wide World of Sports was must see TV for me and my best friend. Demolition Derby, ski jumping, Sumo Wrestling, Winston Cup Racing, Bowling, Croquet, Volleyball, Oh the “constant variety”. But the one thing we loved above all else was the Harlem Globetrotters.
Sometimes it would be nice to be able to go back to that time, just for a little bit.
re: #310 ObserverArt
‘wrench…did you catch this video at the beginning of the previous thread?
Thanks! I missed it before! And I’m being called away again!
re: #328 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry I really don’t understand how a Muslim could be a Republican in the first place.
“Tax cuts and limited government.” I imagine right up until they came after him, that’s pretty much all he cared about. See also Log Cabin Republicans. Hispanic Republicans. Female Republicans.
re: #367 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
No shit. I never knew Cosell was a lawyer. It does explain his interviewing technique and delivery, though.
IIRC Cosell was sympathetic to Muhammad Ali’s refusal to serve in the military on religious grounds, when Ali was getting a lot of shit for it.
I’m 44 as of this past Sunday, so I don’t have a lot of memories of Cosell on-the-air, but those I do have (combined with clips I’ve seen on YT over the years) jibes with my newfound knowledge; Cosell didn’t interview as much as quiz subjects like they were on the witness stand.
I make no secret of my Christian beliefs but I don’t feel as though I have ever been treated unfairly here because of them.
And that’s why I love this place. We got Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists and Atheists and we all get along.
A Republican is going to primary Rep. Steve King (Confederate District IA-4). That might be interesting to watch safely from my side of the river.
Big news from Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. Republican State Senator Randy Feenstra announces run for Congress. 9 term Congressman Steve King currently holds that seat. Sets up interesting potential primary matchup for 2020. pic.twitter.com/ilQCdEeCgd
— Dave Price (@idaveprice) January 9, 2019
re: #380 Eclectic Cyborg
I make no secret of my Christian beliefs but I don’t feel as though I have ever been treated unfairly here because of them.
And that’s why I love this place. We got Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists and Atheists and we all get along.
No love for Wiccans or Jains? /s
DISTURBING VIDEO: Prowler spends 3 hours licking doorbell at California home https://t.co/rgQ1ozUly1 pic.twitter.com/jzr8dq0I6h
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) January 8, 2019
AP FACT CHECK: The homeowners blame the prowler for licking their doorbell, but it takes two to tango. They own an attractive doorbell and left it unattended. https://t.co/2rBlmuvgyT
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) January 10, 2019
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“We don’t think he’s suitable as a practicing Muslim to be vice chair because he’d be the representative for ALL Republicans in Tarrant County, and not ALL Republicans in Tarrant County think Islam is safe or acceptable in the U.S.,” O’Brien wrote in a Facebook post. …”
So much for freedom of religion in the Tarrant County Republican Party.
And ALL? If they’re looking for a unanimous vote on even what religious belief Texas Republicans think acceptable, they’ll be looking for a long time.
Rachel @maddow: the Trump team has now hired SEVENTEEN new lawyers.
The excretory matter is on final approach to the rotating blades.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 10, 2019
re: #383 goddamnedfrank
“The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!”
Congratulations to @maddow and the #BagMan team on hitting 10 million downloads.
All 7 episodes of the series are available for free wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/NpaU2UEZ8k pic.twitter.com/4DvlZoUoSC— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 9, 2019
Ten million downloads — holy cannoli.
Thanks to everyone who has checked out bagman! https://t.co/bXEXu8im6Z https://t.co/jxKH0RiIbJ— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 10, 2019
Howard Cosell chose which game highlights he would show at halftime on Monday Night Football. This was at a time when there wasn’t any ESPN, so highlights were rare. (Sports Machine was the other place to see highlights once a week)
Bronco fans hated Howard for ignoring their games and hated ABC for never putting the Broncos on MNF. It was a huge deal when they finally started scheduling them, but Howard’s hate for the Broncos was always evident.
A bar in Denver started having a raffle on Monday Nights to throw a brick through a TV when Howard appeared on the screen. LOL Later, some enterprising company started making foam Bronco Bricks for fans to toss at their home TVs.
Ah, memories.
re: #385 Charles Johnson
White House Hires 17 New Lawyers.
Lemme tell you what…it won’t matter. That makes 17 new lawyers who also have a dipshit pathological liar treasonous fuckwit for a client.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 10, 2019
re: #385 Charles Johnson
And, let us hope that they’re all third-rate, like his previous and current lawyers.
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
Excellent podcast. Some fascinating history.
re: #385 Charles Johnson
I’m kind of surprised they could find that many lawyers who would work with them.
re: #356 Charles Johnson
The first big round of flounces came when I revealed myself as a godless Darwinist who believed in evolution.
Oh my stars and garters.
I recall someone linking the creationist thread here (I didn’t save the link, alas) which seemed to be the longest thread on your Website. Reading through it was quite interesting. Is there someone around here who can give me that link again, so I can save and savour it?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 10, 2019
re: #392 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m kind of surprised they could find that many lawyers who would work with them.
Remember how the lawyers from his “successful businessman” days always wanted to have another lawyer in the room to provide cover from his lies?
So maybe it’s the same principle here - they hired one new lawyer who wanted another lawyer to cover for him, and then that lawyer wanted a backup, and the backup wanted a backup and…
turtles lawyers all the way down.
re: #390 TedStriker
And, let us hope that they’re all third-rate, like his previous and current lawyers.
I imagine so. It would seem at this point, a lawyer signing up to defend Mr. Trump will kill his or her career.
re: #384 Anymouse 🌹
So much for freedom of religion in the Tarrant County Republican Party.
And ALL? If they’re looking for a unanimous vote on even what religious belief Texas Republicans think acceptable, they’ll be looking for a long time.
Fort Worth. Ground Zero of Texas Wingnuttery.
They’re having some emotional problems right now. Tarrant County went blue in the last election and they now have a Democratic representative.
I can’t remember if I saw the comment from someone here or someone on twitter, but it was to the effect of, not only does AOC rebut GOPer idiocy, but - in the very same breath - reinforce her own message. Case in point:
For those out of the loop, Republicans began to circulate a fake nude photo of me. The @DailyCaller reposted it (!) and refused to indicate it was fake in the title as well.
Completely disgusting behavior from Conservative outlets.
No wonder they defended Kavanaugh so fiercely.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 10, 2019
re: #392 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m kind of surprised they could find that many lawyers who would work with them.
probably mostly shiny new Liberty U grads
re: #396 Anymouse 🌹
I imagine so. It would seem at this point, a lawyer signing up to defend Mr. Trump will kill his or her career.
There might be a lot of little Roy Cohn types running around.
Don’t worry, we’re still inspecting 31% of our food.
THREAD: Food Safety During Shutdown: We’re taking steps to expand the scope of food safety surveillance inspections we’re doing during the shutdown to make sure we continue inspecting high risk food facilities. 31% of our inventory of domestic inspections are considered high risk
— Scott Gottlieb, M.D. (@SGottliebFDA) January 9, 2019
re: #383 goddamnedfrank
Look.
None of us can completely judge until we know how well that doorknob was seasoned.
Again, sorry internet assholes used my photo to try to make you look bad!
— Sydney Leathers (@sydneyelainexo) January 10, 2019
William Morgan Sheppard died on Sunday. He’s the father of Mark Sheppard, and for you Doctor Who fans, played the older Canton Everett Delaware III. He was also in the Elvira movie, Max Headroom, and a billion other things according to his IMDB page.
re: #403 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
Look.
None of us can completely judge until we know how well that doorknob was seasoned.
Liberal hypocrisy! Why are liberals bagging on the doorknob’s lifestyle choice?
re: #337 PhillyPretzel
DT reminds me of a toddler going through the terrible twos.
There was an article in WaPo about just that thing, specifically.
re: #406 Belafon
William Morgan Sheppard died on Sunday. He’s the father of Mark Sheppard, and for you Doctor Who fans, played the older Canton Everett Delaware III. He was also in the Elvira movie, Max Headroom, and a billion other things according to his IMDB page.
Never saw the “William” before, but I remember him from the “Soul Hunter” episode of Babylon 5.
re: #357 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If a Christian doesn’t have some non-Christian friends to keep them honest and grounded, they turn into wingnuts. Exhibit A, speaking.
Fuck yeah to this. And can I get an amen too?
re: #382 Anymouse 🌹
No love for Wiccans or Jains? /s
Sure, not problems at all. Now, I have known a few white supremacist Norse Pagans who were asshats but that might have had more to do with the supremacist part than the Pagan part.
re: #356 Charles Johnson
The first big round of flounces came when I revealed myself as a godless Darwinist who believed in evolution.
I call it The Great LGF Creationst Purge, have for years. 😋
re: #360 Sionainn, Fierce Mother
I came along after that, but I can just imagine their minds ‘asploding from that reveal. Makes me laugh every time.
This LGF article is the genesis. The comments section is insane.
re: #404 Hecuba’s daughter
There was a discussion on the topic of dilated eyes regarding a Stormy Daniels interview: apparently there are other possible reasons:
Aha! So instead of drugs, it could have been because he was askeered!
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Views: 372 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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Views: 559 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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